Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 October 1849 — Page 2

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I.VDIANAl'OUS OCTOBKIC IS, 1819. To Corrcspoiidenls. B. B., 8tilville. Nrwr received iL Have made the entry, end charged Mi. D. Hope k wiO be satisfactory. F. C. fc. S. The Slate Debt Interest. Governor Dunning politely furnishes to as the following letter from the State Agent, on the suhject cr the payment of the interest on the State Debt. It is an important matter, and will be a subject f r the consideration of the next Legislature. We have no space fir comment, but it is hardly needed, as the letter fully explains itself. Ikdiaha Ace ict, ? New Turk, Oct. 8, 1849. $ To Hit Exetllencf, P. C Dunning, Governor of Indiana : Sib At the period approaches fir the prepara'im of the mtteiial fur your annual communication to the Legislature of ar Slate, I have thought that I might be of some service 10 yu, by throw ioit lofretltet such facia and suggestions, eonrecied wiih the public debt of the State iit piesent condition and prompten it will enable you to speak io detail upoo ibai inie resting branch of the public per vice. In 1S47. when the arrangement of the State's debt was made with her cteditois, the debt, txelaiiveof ioteieit, was $11,045.000. There has been surrendered snd -converted inte new stock to lit Jury last, $9,530.000 Since July 1st, .... 33,000 9 563,000 Leaving yet to come io, HSS bond, or $1,438,000 These bonds are held io Europe snd io this country, and re coming in gradually ! I bare little doubt that all will be suriendeied as soou as arrangement can be made by the holders to obtain the asrotof the patties interested in them. The inleiesl paid in July lat at this agency, was $95,300, being two pel cent on $4,755,000, the debt at that time, under the new airsgrment. In January we shall probably base to pay $!C0 000, a 235 bonds coming in from Jul to January w ill make up that amount. We commenced paving imeiest with July 1947, snd to the pi cent t me have made fire semi-annual payments, amount, i.g in Ihe aggtegate to near half a ill ion of dullais. Meantime the State Siork has been gradually riving in value until it has advanced to 70 cents 00 Ihe dollar it full value, taking six per cent, interest per annum as th ? standard. This fart miit be gratifying to the fiiends of our Slate, as it furnishes urmistakabie evidence of an increasing confidence in her resooices, as well a a firm reliance upnTi bei integrity. The laige amount of treasury notes which have heietofore been pail for titxes, has somewhat embarrassed Ihe Slate ttea-ury. We have consequently, at times, been without the means to pay our in'eresl as it btcame due. For the past dividends this deficiency has been supplied by borrowing the necessaiy s mount fiom our Bank. To save us the nece-si'y of boi rowing, ai d to make our diridend, both of ihem. payable af'er the annual revenues sie paid into the State Tieaury,the Legislature, by j"int resolution last winter, instructed me to negotiate an extension of the January payment to Match. In June last. I prepared a eiieular upon the subject and sent it 10 Ihe stockholders. In this circular I pm0-d that ur January dividend should be postponed until first Monday in Match, when it should be paid with ix per cen'um per annum inteiet from 1st of January. To the pr. sent time I have answer from 20S out of 549 holders, as shown by our July dhideod book. They, so far, almost unanimously agree to the postponement , some, however, consent on condition that all the others do the same, whilst several have refuted positively 10 eme into the meatoie. Others expressing an unwillingness to refuse to do any tbiog in reason that the Slate may desiie, reluctantly yield their assent. The proportion withholding their content though ample time has been affoided taiset a fear in my mind that the proposition will not be agreed to by even a majority of Ihem. Such state of things would not only be troublesome, but perplexing. If the money should not bt ready to pay the dividend in January, this agency would have to i-sue certificates for interest to those who declined the arrangement lo postpone, and would have to be prepared to pay in Match the dividend to those who had given their assent, and cd each one of the paymenta interett would inn againat Ihe Stale from the first of Jsnnary, thereby greatly increasing the complexity of the dividend and interest accounts. To avoid these evils, would it not be belter for tbe Slate to borrow of the Bank enough money for that pnrpote, and pay the January dividend in cash on tbe day it matures By doing so, tbe State will meet tbe expectations of her friends, which have been that she would make all her payments, under this arrangement, promptly in cash. Other contiderations, also, would serm to make this course preferable. At 1. The Slate stock is now at a price which places it by the side of the stock of Ihe regular dividend paying States, To withhold or postpone a dividend would inevitably depreciate it, and impair the re-established credit of tbe State. 2. Tbe State is now deeply interested in the completion of the Wabash and Erie canaL The funds now available for that purpose will haidly accomplish it. If our bondholders by onr conduct, are assured of the stability and resouicesof tbe State, by having their interest regularly paid them, they will not only be better prepared, but better disposed, to make up Ihe necessary sum under Ihe law, to bring that valuable woik in complete connection with tbe Ohio river at an early day. 3. There is hardly a neighborhood in the Slate that is not interested in some line of railroad in contemplation. These roadt are wanting aid, and teek it away from home. The roost certain method of securing this aid will be. to establish to the world that Ihe Strte is rich in icsouice and prompt in payment 4. In borrowing the money from our bank, we pay interest to an instirotion owned almost entirely within the State by the Slate herself and her citizens, who make all Ihe profits acctniDg from ihe loin when by paviug inteieit on the cer tincates, or on the ezienaion of lime, we send money oat of the State to persons abroad. 5. By paying in money the State avoids the expense and confusion necessarily growing out of iisuiog certificates many of them for ton dollars and twenty dollars and of keeping complex interest accounts. I am not aware that a feeling of indifference towards this debt existt io any part of tbe State. Tbe debt being now arranged, it would be unfortunate if inch were the fact. Tbe bondholders have taken tbe Wabash and Erie canal for one half their debt, tbe stock of which, with near three years of inteiest accumulated upon it, is now worth but 17 cents on tbe dollar. Tbey have advanced $300,000 to finish tbe eacal, and look to tbe State for but tbe other half of the original debt. Tbia debt, I may ssy, is one of cumpiomise. Favoiable to this State, for it eoables ber lo stand up firmly under all her liabilities. We are all, as citizens, parties to tbts compromise t for the Stale imposes a share of her liabilities as she sheds a portion of ber character upon each citizen. The world looks upon our new stock as being clear of all questions which hung about Ihe old bonds ; indeed, the Stale hat authmized them so lo be regaided. At the debt is without question, and tbe State equally without question able, I respectfully submit whether it would not be the belter policy to provide the money to pay the interest at it becomes due, rather than to postpone it io part. isue certificates for part, od at the end foot a heavy bill of interest and expenses. When I begtn 1 did not intend to run out in such length, but being familiar with the subject, I have ventured to ties, pats upon your attention, under a hope that I shall not incur tbe charge of obtiusiveness. What I have said here, is ia atpiiitof anxiety for our State's welfare, and entirety at your service, to be used as you may deem most proper. I am your very obi serv't, JAMES COLLINS, Jr. The Convention. We are indebted to France Kino, Eeq., chief clerk to the Secretary of State, for the following calculation, by which it appears there is a handsome majority in favor of a convention to revise the Constitution of this State, over both those voting in the negative and the silent votes : Total vote for Convention, - . -Total vote against Convention, Total vote polled in the State except Fayette and Warrick counties, not yet received, ...... Tjtal vote polled for Governor in Fayette, Total vote polled for Governor in Warrick, 81,500 67,415 146,399 1.923 1,419 149.740 Necessary to carry Convention, Total vote for Convention, Majority for Convention, clear. 74,870 81.500 6,630 Great Riot 1 Philadelfhia. By the Ledger cf the 10th, we have an account of another of those in fa moo's riots, so characteristic of the "city of bro therly love." The aggressors were the rowdies of Moyamcnsing, and the colored population in the neighborhood of St. Mary and Sixth streets, the sufferers. The riot raged some hours, wiih the great' est desperation. Several were killed and wounded on both sides, for fire-arm, as well as brick-bats, torn from the side-walks, were freely used. Three tav erns, one a four story building called the California House, were tet fire to by the rowdies, and together with several other buildings were burned to the ground, the mob fghting off the firemen. At 12 o'clock, the State House bell ran out the s'gnnl for the military, and at 2J o'clock four or five companies, with three fehl pieces, marched to the scene of turl.tiVnce. and terminated the disgraceful affair. A few arrests were mide during the night by the po lice.-

Died. On the 0th in?., at the residence of his son-in-law, James Rariden, Esq., near Cambridge city, Wayne county, Indiana, the Hon. John Test, after a lingering affliction. The deceased was formerly a member of congress from this State, and subsequently removed to Mobile, Alabama, where for some years he was held in high repute for his talents and learning as a lawyer. The deceased was the father of the Hon. Charles II. Test, the present Secretrry of this State. We deeply sympathize with the relations and numerous friends of the deceased, in their affliction. In the Fayetle Circuit Court, on the 9th iuet., the f dlowiog proceedings were had, in reference t this event. Meetiso or the Bail At the meeting of the court, Oct. 9th, 1849, 1 e'r.-c. P M On motion of S. W. Parker, Eq.j seconded ly Judge Peiry, the following pieamble and Older, after some veiy appropiiale remarks by the mover, and the lion. J. T. Elliot, President Judge, au Eulogy of the virtues of the deceased, was oideted to te spread upon the Recoid of this Coutt, under a copy of ihe seal of this Couit, attested by the clerk lo be forwarded as ordered, snd thai another be furnished lo the Elitor of tbe White Water Valley, with a request that it be published! Whereas, the Fayette Circuit Court, in Term Time, and the members of tbe bar of the 6th Judicial Court of the State of Indiana, now in attendance upon said Couit, are jui in receipt of the melancholly intelligence of the death uf Hon. Jorbt Test, at 20 minutes past 2 o'clock this morning, at Ihe residence of his son-in-liw, Jamet Rariden, Eq. near Cambridge City, W.yue county, ludiatia, after a lingering affliction; iheiefore. On motion, it it ordered by the Court that it be spiead upon the Record, that both Court and Bar, hold in profound and pleasing recollection ihe numerous and signal services and virtues of the deceased, not only as a former member of Congress from tbe District including this Circuit during several yeais in which capacity the deceased distinguished himself as profound, vigilant and indubious Statesman and as au honest im but also as a learned and accomplished presiding Judge of the coun'itt now composing this Circuit snd also as a member of thi Bar for many years in all which public stations, sod as a private citizen none knew the deceased but to love and revere him. It isfuither ordered, that both Court and Bar sincerely eondole with the family, Ihe nnmerous relatives and friends of Ihe deceased in whose recollection as well as Ibat of the country at Itrge, the mem.uy of Ihe departed Statetman and Juijat, will ever be held in fond and grateful recollection. And it it further ordered that the Clerk do make oar and transmit to the icspectrd widow and relative! of the deceased, a etitified copy of these proceedings. Central Plank Road. We learn that James Blake has resigned his place as President of the Central Flank Road C mpany, and also as a member of the Directory. T. R. Fletcher supplies the vacancy in the directory, and William Robson haa been elected President. Mr. Robson is a mail of (und 'udment and excellent practical business) capacity, and under his management we have no doubt the work will he pushed ahend rapidly, economically and successfully. A toll-gate will be very soon erected on the western division, and ifthe present rate of travel long continues, will immediately replenish the treasury of the company. By the way, how are our friends at the Greenfield division progressing! Will Mr. Templin, or some other friend let us know ?

Emigration. The number of emigrants passing over the National rood westward, has been much larger the present season, than for some years past. Hundreds of wagons pass through this city, on their way every day. The emigrants are chiefly substantial persons, the b dy of the pioneers having passed on in previous years. It would make a yankeeopen his eyes to witness the advance of the Army of civilization. Onward is the word with our people, mot emphatically; aud yet these are but the digits of the "great American Multiplication Table," of our departed friend, Andrew Kennedy; that multiplication and progress, which is periodically to astonish the whole world. Mr. Kendall writes under date of Paris, August 80th, to the Picayune: "How to get rid of the Republic is the question now asked on every side you hear it everywhere. Porters, chambermaids, waiters about the hotels, cab drivers all who have any industry, and are anxious to thrive by work, openly avow themselves sick and tired of the present institutions, and at the same time manifest their readiness to throw op their caps at the first member of a monarchical family who may come along." We have no doubt that Kendall may be tolerably well conversant with the sentiments of the Parisian chambermaids, waiters, and others of that class ; but we do not think that they regulate the opinions of the entire French nation. Kendall has made it his business to libel the liberalwts of Europe during his sojourn among them. Nothing better could be expected from a yankee whig, of the picayune, bluebellied breed, as he is. OCrA young rascal adroitly palmed himself off on Mr. Clay, (during the journey of the latter home from the east,) by representing himself as a brother of Winthrop the late Speaker of the U. S. House of Rep.. Through Mr. Clay's patronage, the fellow got into "good society," borrowed money, and cut up other pranks "like a gentleman." If he hadn't soon been blown, be would have married some heiress. 0OWe are informed that James Collins, Jr., Esq., the present whig incumbent of the office of Agent of State, is a candidate for re-election ! Modest man ! Business. One good evidence of the revival and increase of business in our city, is the increased business and travel on our Railroads. On Saturday last, the Madison freight train brought nearly double the amount of merchandize ever before brought in one day. All hands are busy, and prospects good. Let all be industrious and we must go on improving. fj-A good deal of damage, by a recent storm, which they call lht equinoctial, was recently done at New York, Boston, and other towns on the eastern coast. The British brig St. John, from Galway, Ireland, was wrecked near Cohaset, Me., and 99 out of 120 souls on board, were lost, men, women and children. The scene could be witnessed from land, but the surf ran so high, that no aid could be given. The particulars are awful. 07"The Louisville Journal establishment, the most infamous in the world, but heretofore pretty successful in making money, was recently sold out by the sheriff. If the editors of the Journal ever meet with their just desert, the same official will have another, little different job to perform upon their carcasses. The devil will then get his due. Madison and Indianapolis Railroad. Change of Time.' By. reference to our advertising columns, it will be seen that the time for the passenger trains leaving Indianapolis has been changed from 7i to 8 o'clock. Our exchanges, north, east and west, will benefit the public by noticing the change. OyGen. Taylor has again postponed his northern tour, reason not stated with certainty. The Union thinks he had better be thinking about his memge to Congress, if the Regency don't mean to concoct it without consulting him. fjT-Five steamboats, and a large quantity of goods were destroyed by fire, at New Orleans, on the evening of the 7th inst. Lass not less than $300.010. OOJbn Ewing, of the Crawf-irdavillo land office, denies tha charges which were recently made agninst him by Wni. M. Bryant of Morgsn county. OrTbe U. S. ship Ohio will sail for Boston, positively on the IÖ1I1 Sept., via Valparaiso and Rio de Janeiro. So eajs the Sin Francisco News of the 30th of August.

Oa Pennsylvania KetlcvemesJ. The election news frura Pennsylvania is cheering, Ph old Keystone, which mnde Tiylor President, i again wheels into line, and sotirns Tajlorixm. The returns received indicate a large majority for John AGamble, the regular denvtcratic candidate forcanal commissioner, over Henry M. Fuller the whig cundidit. His majority it is thought will be about 15,000! And thra is n dvubt that the State ia democratic to the core. In Philadelphia, where Taylor had 10,000 majority, now Gamble has 1,500! Judge Junes, independent democrat, beats Gilpin the regular whig candidate for Mayor, and Den l, dem., defeat Ru'dertnel, the whig candidate for shsrifL The whigs piraded the protective tarifT and free trade question, but they are beaten straight out, even on that issue. TlU is indeed a glorious ictory. In Alleghany county, where Taylor's mijority was 3,521, Fuller now gets but ab out 1000; and the average whig majority on as.seuiblyinen, &c. is still smaller, and one democrat elected ! In Lancaster coanty, Taylor's majority was 5,310, now Fuller gets but 2,500. Taylorism grows "small and beautifully lets.' Additional. The Baltimore correspondent of the Union, under date of Oct. 11, says, the election yesterday for members of the city council was, as I predicted in my letter, an unprecedented democratic victory. The members of the council elect, stand eighteen democrats to two whigs, which is a larger proportion of democrats than there has ever been before. The net democratic majority in the city is nearly 3,000. Ohio. There is some doubt about the exact state of parties in the Ohio legislature, thotigli all agree that whiggery is badly thrashed in the general result. Tho House is admitted to bi dem cratic; both parties claim the Senate. It is a clse shave, perhaps a tie. The Hamilton couuty difficulty is a source of infinite embarrassment. It will bo remembered tint two years ago, the whigs smuggled through the legislature, without a constitutional majority, a law dividing Hamilton county into two representative districts. This pretended law being illegally passed, unconstitu tional, and in conflict with every consideration of j honesty and right, the democrats refused to recognize it or vote under it. They voted as before, under the old law. for members of the legislature, by the entire county, while the whigs voted by districts. If the whigs have the p iwer, they will admit the senator thus elected (Broad well.) Ifthe democrats can command sufficient strength, Johnson, the rightful senator will be admitted. The following is the Cincinnati Enquirer's calculation of the State of parties in the legislature, so far as known : Dem. miff. 16 23 F. S. 7 7 Senate, House, 16 3G Total,. ..52 44 In Coshocton county there is a tic between the whig and democratic candidates for Representative, which is to be decided by lot. The Convention. The Statesman thinks there is no doubt that a majority of the votes are in favor of calling a convention to revise the constitution, though there was not a full vote on that question. JtT"Dr. Wood, dem., has been elected to Congress from tbe C;h district of Ohio, in place of Rudolphus Dickenson, deceased. Cotnting Johnson, from Hamilton county. Oporgisi. Macon, Oct. 8. We have heard from all the counties in the State. The Senate will stand 25 democrats and 22 whigs ; the House of Representatives 67 democrats and 63 whiga. Tbe majority for Towns, the democratic candidate for Governor, will be about 3,500. Agent of State. We learn from the New Albany Ledger that A. P. Willard, Eq., will not consent to become a candidate for this office. We see, since we recommended Mr. Willard, that General David Reynolds has been strongly recommended by a correspondent of the State Sentinel for this office. Mr. Willard whom we first named, having declined the canvass, we deem it a privilege as well as a duty we owe to the public, to urge the claims of Gen. Reynolds upon the favorable consideration of the Democracy of our State. We hazard nothing in saying that he is fully competent to the duties of that office ; snd the important interests of our State involved in the discharge of the duties of State Agent, could not be reposed in more faithful hands. The General has proved bis devotion to the public interests by the pecuniary services which he made as Adjutant General, in organizing five regiments for service in the Mexican war, and from the fact, that whilst the organization of the military forces of surrounding sister Sttes, cost them thousand of dollars, the organization of the whole five regiments of our State only cost us about three hundred dollars, which taken in connection with the fact that Gen. Reynolds was the financial agent who controlled all those matters, proves him to be a kil!ful and efficient financier. He Las proven himself competent; by his faithfulness he has shown himself worthy, and in view of his past faithfulness, we are constrained to say, and we trust that the Democracy of the State will join us in the sentiment: "Well done, good and faithful servant ; thou hast been faithful over a few things, we will make thee ruler over many things." JeffersontiUe Republican. Dr. Ellis, of the Goshen Democrat, Elkhart county, is a candidate for Auditor of State. We wish him success. The Chapmans' sre spoken of, with great unanimity by the Democratic press of the State, for the office of Stato Printer, and will no doubt get the office. Good! New London Pioneer. Nathanikl Bolton, Regit ter of the Land Office, at Indianapolis, has been removed by the powers that be, to make room fr Wm. II. L. Noble. This removal was certainly uncalled for, upon the principles that were to govern the Administration; as Mr. BoN ton is universally known to ba honest and capable. New London Pioneer. Annexation of Canada. The Montreal Herald, of Thursday week, in an article on the comparative advantage of Ctiiada. of annexation with the United Stales on the one band, and on the other of a federal union of the British provinces, with independ ence both of Great Britain and the United Slates, pro nounce Ute former to be only probably remedy For the evils of its present condition. The Herald is one of the ablest and most influential of the Canada journals. Death or Capt. Gwinm, U. S. Navy. Letters from Palermo, dated the 17th tilt., received, at the Merchant's Exc hange, by the last, steamer, announce tho decease of Captain John Gwinti, of the Mediter ranean squadron, which sad event took place on the 4th f Sfptember, on board the U. o. Dag ship Const 1 tutiou. Not a single case of cholera has occurred among the Jews of Loudon. This is attributed to their con formity to many sanitary regulations of their own law.

Proscription of Women. The Pennsylvanian truly says that nothing has marked the abandoned character of the present administration so much nothing has so completely established its dishonesty in making and breaking the most solemn phages aa its heartless removal of aged women from t.'io little tations secured to them undfr former administrations. The instances that occur to us arc as follows : Mrs. Schell, fr years the obliging postmistress at SdielUburg, Bedford county, Ta., was one of the first female victims of the present ultra moderate administration. The office was essential to her support, and its duties were well and satisfactorily discharged. Four hundred of her iuiitu-diale neighbors, of both political parties, recommended that the Postmaster General should retain her; but that gallant gentleman sent word to Bedford that the whigs should unite upon a candidate, and when this u as done Mrs. Schell had to go. The Widow of Gov. Reid. When the brother of the gallant Gen. W. O. Butler, who fought in the war of 1812 so bravely under Jackson, was removed from Ihe surveyor generalship of Florida, on account of his democracy, the widow of the late Gov. Reid, of Florida, and formerly a member of Congrexs from Georgia, was acting in his office in the capacity of clerk. She was thus enabled to support herself creditably with her own hand. The Jacksonville (Flur ida) News tells us that' she is now among the guillotined. President Taylor was remorseless to all entreaties in her behalf. The Aetcs puts the qustion 'Does Gen. Taylor pretend to say any thing against

her character ! or did he remove her on account of her political opinions !' Sarah F. Suerrett. Mrs. Suerrett was postmistress at Howard, Centre county. New York. The small proceeds of the office enabled her to eke out a ncanty subsistence. President Taylor removed her, and appointed in her place one of the most rabid whigs in the town. She receives the sympathies of all the chrietii n churches, of one of which she was a faithful and zealous member. The Westchester Republican says "it cannot be presumed that she took an active part in politics, and was a brawling locofoco" the charge generally preferred against democratic office-holders, when all others fail. Mrs. S. Earll. Mrs. Earll was postmistress cf the little village of Bloomington, Iowa. Against her capacity or honesty nothing could be alleged. It was the means of affording her a small support. She is represented as very poor, and needing the assistance of her neighbors. Mrs. Earll, however, is in mind a very superior woman, and capnble of adorning any station in life. The Erie Observer says 'Gallant, chivalrous Fitz Henry, what sin againut federalism, has poor Mrs. Earll committed, that her head must so soon be brought to the bl- ck 1 Had 6he a son among the Iowa volunteers in Mexico, and thus committed the unpardonable sin !' The old lady has been removed, N. L. Stout put in her place. Mrs. Dorcas Schoonmaker. The Ttlergaph, published at Sauguerties, N. Y., near where Mrs. Schoonmaker h?ld her little office of light-house keeper, 84)8 that she was 'a poor end highly respectable widow lady, and held the office of keeper of the light-house, at the mouth of the creek opposite Saugeritee. The Telegraph further states: "Under President Tyler's administration, in 1844, Abraham Schoonmaker was appointed keeper of the lieht-house at this place, lie had been a boatman for years, and was at lhat time unable to perlorm hard labor. Iiis appointment gave satisfaction to both parlies. The alary supported him and his family, lie was veiy at tentive to his duties, and continued lo hold his office to the time of his death, in 1846. During the last year of his life, while he was confined to his room, and the greater part of the time to his bed, the duties were performed by his wife, end with such marked regularity and attention as to receive the universal commendation of the boatmen of the river. So interested were the masters of vessels on the Hudson in behalt of this lady, then, as now, a widow wiih a family ol children dependent upon her for support, that a petition for her appointment to the office was at once drawn op, numerously signed, and forwarded lo the proper department, and she accordingly appointed. She haa held the office from lhat time until this week, when the was removed to make room for Joseph 11. Burhans, who was considered it see.ms best en titled to receive it from the hands of the present adminis tration being a blue-light federalist or the tlarllordtvon vention school. The Ttlegraph gives a touching account of the cn. lamities of this widow woman the loss of her husband her exertion to pay his debts the loss she incurred in the destruction of the light-house by the accidental explosion of one of its lamps. It de scribes the unavailing efforts which were made to save her from proscription by a remonstrance pre pared against her removal, signed by every steamboat captain and every sloop captain navigating the Hudson, to whom it was presented, whigs as well as de mocrats, being a large majority of the officers of boats on the river; all of whom bore testimony, that never since the establishment of the light-house, has the light been kept up with that care at all times of night, as during the time when Mrs. Schoonmaker had c harze of it. But all to no purpose. The axe has fallen upon her in the very face of all General Taylor's pledges, and of all the a-eu ranges of his friends. Every high-toned and true-hearted citizen will turn from this exhibition in disgust ; and when he turns to the men appointed, he will be 110 less chagrined and humiliated. The opponents of war the leaders of the movement to defeat the sovereign will of the people by buckshot and ball and the calumniators of the bravo men who have fought our country's battles. These have been the recipients of the confidence of General Taylor's ministers. It is not possible that an administration thus false to its own honor, and to all decency and propriety, can be sustained in its ap peals to the people. Another Case. The Rushville, Ind., Jackstmian says that the most shameful act of intolerant pro scription it has ever fallen to our lot to notice, oc cur red n few days ago in Rush county. We have possessed ourself (says the Jacksonian) of all the facts connected with this affair and shall proceed to state them. When Mr. Polk came into power in 1842, Benjamin R. Mitchell, a firm whig and ultra partisan, held tho office of Postmaster at Vienna,-in this county. He continued in that situation uutil 1947, when he resigned. The citizens of that vil läge, without distinction of party, then petitioned the President to appoint Robert Crawford, with the un derstanding that ihe proceeds of the office were to be given to Mrs. Bovard, a widow lady. Mr. Crawford, was appointed accordingly, and Mrs. Bovard, a most estimable lady we learn, attended to tbe office punc tually and reaped the benefits. Every thing went on smoothly until a few days ago the good people of that village and vicinity were astonished and surprised by the removal of Mrs. Bovard and the appointment of Samuel Durbin. No petition we hear had been car ried round no notice was given until the bloody ase of Fitz Warren descended upon the head of this pour woman. The men who could be guilty of such disgraceful conduct deserve the reproach and scorn of free and just people. . A remonstrance, demanding the restoration of Mrs Bovard, was immediately gotten up by the whigs and signed by about forty or fifty of their party the most of them leading men. It will not avail however. The remorseless man who could snatch the last morstl out of the orphan's mouth and deprive a poor widow lady of the small pittance of $20 a year, for that is all the office is worth, will pay no attention to the demands of an outraged and indignant

people. What cares he for the wishes f the people or the wants of the widow! It was enough for him to learn that her grandfather had fought under Washington throughout the whole Revolutionary war at Brandywine, Germantovvn, and all the principal battlesand that her father voted the democratic ticket. This was enough for Fitz Warren to know, We defy any man to say that the office was not well and punctually attended to. We challenge contradiction to ibis point. P. S. Since the above was written we learn that such has been the popular indignation that Mr. Dur-

bin was finally compelled to offer lo restore the office i to Mrs. Bovard. ' ft-7-The Tyrants of Europe cause women to be - .... , a. , r. 1 rp 1 OOGED for po itical offences; and General Taylor r J ixe:; takes the bread from widows because their husbirds were democrats! What is the difference 1 . The one is a physical, and the other a mental flog ging, li"tii disgraceful to the last extreme. Shame upon Taylor! Shame upon whiggery ! The New, York Herald (a Taylor paper) make some curious statements about ihe French correspondence. It asserts that the official details in rein t ion to M. Pousein were communicated by the Secretary of State to the favorite correspondent of the North American, and published in lhat paper, and that it was all a subterfuge to say that the story originally leaked out from one of the foreign legations. It states further, that on the 13ih September, the Herald t&ce"receiced a note from an agent of the Slate D'-p'irtment iiVosing, U a certain rxtent, the dijficw'lus vith France, and requesting us to puff the CABi.NETor its course in the matter, without knowing t'tt facts in the case. We declined the recommendation, and paid no further attention to the matter." "Itwascnmmunicattd to us wiih a requesl thai, we should publish a series of articles agninsl the foreign jmlicy of the French government, and in support if the cabinet." The Herald complains that "the manner in which it was communicated in the North American teas calculated, if not intended, to excite a commercial panic to disturb exchanges, and to arrest our commercial enterprise at home and abroad when, upon the publication of the correspondence itself, it appeared that the clamor for war was all moonshiuv, a od without the flimsiest shadow of a foundation. The facts had been falsified through the cgent if the Secretary of Stale, as the correspondent of the North American." We presume the North American will explain this strange transaction, if it can. Pittsburgh and St. Louis. Central Railway. The directors are pushing forward with great energy; the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railway in this State. Contracts have been let for constructing five miles from Wooster east, including all the heavy work between Vo.ster and Alassillon, and twenty-two intles from Mnssillon east, through Canton, to a point uear the crossing of the Cleveland mid Wellsville road. The contracts have been taken at low prices. The line from Woostr r west to Gallon, the western terminus will be prepared for contract by the 1st of January. The remainder of the whole line, that between Wooster and Messjllon, and that from the Pennsylvania line to the Stark county line, wiil be offered at an earlier period. For the latter 150,000 are required, and the people of Silem and along the line will subscribe 100,000. Pittsburgh is looked to for only 50,000. These people go to work in the right way. Cincinnati Gazette. Jo. Lane. Various papers, in various Mates, hav hoisted the name of toe gallant Gen. Joe. Lane, as a candidate for the Presidency in '52. He is one of the real Old Jackson stock and if nominated, with old Zack as a competitor, he would knock the sand from under him. old Wlritcy and all, iu short order. Fur he can head old Zack as Senator, Statesman, Stump Orator, and Letter Writer, put BlUs one side and as for fighting, he can tight two battles while old Zack is preparing for one. It is reported there was only one thing that old Zack could beat him at at Buena Vista, soldier's evidence, and that was swearing, the Chronicle to the contrary notwithstanding. Mississippi volunteer Evidence ond Taylor's Reports not current coin in Iiidiana! An impudent fellow at our elbow says that old Zack can head old Joe in another particular, "in making pledges to the people and then breaking them." Shelby Volunteer. This is a great administration it is! Like the Knight of La Mancha and honest Sancho, it sees a giant in every windmill. The performances of the President and cabinet havo presented a grotesque mixture of farce and melo-drama from first to last. First was Secretary Clayton's promise to Lady Franklin to lock up her husband, and from which he backed out after all the glorification of the whig press. Then we had the denial of a passport to a native born citizen because of his color. Then theolr" general was braucht up short in his speech-making tour, to ie?ue his famous pronunciamento against an imaginary Cuban expedition! Now we have the whole posse shaking fists and making faces at the pror little Minister from the frog-eating nation! Verily, this is a great administration dest ined to make a noise for a very long period the space of four years! Pitmouth Rock. Some of the federal papers are attempting to sustain the grammar of the President's late "be them democrat or be them whig" speech. We suppose they find their authority for it in Blackstone, "the king can do no wrong." It is to be hoped, however, that they will spare to the people tho English language. The whigs have surely cheated the masses sufficiently, without robbing them of their mother tongue. Broken pledges they can submit to for a season patiently, but broken English is the drop too much. Eastern (Afe.) Argus. Population -f London. The number of deaths registered in London last week (says a correspondent) was 3,183; that is exqual to 454 every day, 19 every hour, and one person every three minutes. This may appear very alarming to some readers, but they must bear in mind that the vaet extent and population of our metropolis. London and its surrounding districts contain nearly 3,000.000 persons. If this immense number if persons were placed in a line at a distance of 14 yards apart, they would reach to the extent of 25,000 miles, or more than the circumference of the globe; so that if persons died at the above rate, viz: one every three minutes, allowing 1000 births every week, it would then be 26 years before all the people in London were extinct. , Case of Nathaniel Childs. Jr. The case of this individual charged with embezzling the funds of the Bank of the State of Missouri, was called up before the proper Court in the city of St. Louis on the lllh ult. The prosecution not being ready to go to trial, the case was continued until the third Mouday in October. It is evident that it will be stoutly and keenly contested, for there are no less than seven lawyers f r the prosecution, and five for ihe defence. Mr. Childs stated that he was ready to meet the charge. Correspondence of Ihe Louisville Democrat. South Bend, Ia., Oct. 3d, 1849. As a Mr. Norris, of Boone county, Ky., as returning home with four runaway slaves which he had recovered in Ciss county, Michigan, on Friday last, by virtue of a writ of haben corpus, returnable before Probate Judge Egbert. Mr. Norris returned to town, under a pledge from these citizens that he should have a fair trial of the right to his property. But when the writ came to be returned, tho negroes were set at liberty with such hurry and trepidation on all hands, that Mr. Norris was in danger of having his anTifiiKen away irui iner-uu uns ..... - 1 I ST - I. a M.m A n llliikiil SI

lowing the slightest chance f submitting proot ol nisrather IOO ;ntjmite (erins with a married lady at Cam

claims upon them, althonvh by this time his ciuse was sustained by two of the ablest lawyers in tin s, m sk e a the place. At lhis juncture. Mr. IN orris and Ins mends exhibited their weapons, and so. for the time, retain ed possession f his negne8,"and they were lodged in the tail till Monday. Oo Mondsy morning, before nine o'clock, the habeas corpus was aeain returned wiih better effect, and the slaves were formally set at liberty by the said Judge Egbert, and escorted back to Michigan bv a larre number of their friends, white and black, which hid assembled, in the meantime, for their rescue Mr. Norris being prevented sgain frnm proving his property by his arrest and protracted trial upon a charge of riot. He was acquitted this morning, and proposes to retu'n to Kentucky to-moirow. Mr. Norris, I understand, will now have his rerneJ I .. . 1 r T TV.,:, rs..a.f ...t.tat . .attain in ur iu Ui Oi y stun vmii. ksiii . vtiwiu " " ver of this town, and other resUsible individuals concerned in the affair.

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Intf 11. pence from C-ntantinople to 13th September says the Emperor of Russia employs no srgument in court ror Ins demand for the delivery of the Polisk and Hungarian refugees, but says in letters, that he will consider the escape of one of them a ' CattJ-u Delii.'1 If the Sultan did not give a simple yes or no, he threatened to return to Warsaw. The Sultan persists in his resolution, but the great Majority of the continent is alarmed at the threatening tone of the Czar's noto. Consequently no otaal announcement of the decision ha been made. There is reason to bei ieve the Turkish rrovernment. urced on bv the English and French envoys, will reject the demand. l 's upposed the Emperor of Russia wilL put his r,r?, of war int0 execution, shoulj the answer be .in the negative Sixty thousand Turkish troops are f. . , a , . . . , ,, t ,. . concentrated around Constantinople, put the xJigliFh fleet rnuia tmt rpr.rli tl,. r.nl.lm Unm tl,.n fif. - - - s u v a a. a ' a as spw s s 1 11 teen or eighteen days, while ihe Russian fleet could be in the IJosphorus within twenty-four hours. The London News condemns Gorgey's conduct, and states that Kossuth, Bern and Dembinski are at Widden in a state of positive destitution. Letters from Vienna state, upon good authority, that Cornorn would surrender. Reports prevail that Bern had died of his wounds in Wallachia. The Austrian Government still detains Kossuth's wife and children in cuMody. The grenle?! excitement prevails among all clasves. British subjects are among the refugees confined in Wiriden. What's a Gentleman! We are constantly reading cards of thanks lo the gentlttnanly captain, the gentlrmmtiy Stewart, the gentlemanly clerk, the gentlemanly bar keeper, et celtra, et cetera, and we have often asked ourselves what constitutes a gentleman of the present age. In old times it was birth, manners, gentilify of appearance; then it was fortune, living without labor, and with ease and comfort; now, it appears to be a title only conferred in return for some favor, and indiscriminately bestowed. Thus, the caplain of a ship is termed gentlemanly if lie treats his passengers with courtesy; the clerk of a eteamboat who hands the printers some newspapers, is centlemanly; and the steward who pops your champaigneis called gentlemanly. We are the nation of all others for titles, and we confound them all. Whenever we talk with Dr. Francis he always calls us doctor; when the recorder is speaking to u he calls us judge ; the lawyer calls us counsellor ; the general never forgets to call us major; the countryman addresses us as. "capting," and the downeaster as "stranger." The tit 1; least heard among us is mister. We were once dining with our old consul at Falmouth, Mr. Fox, and were quite startled at a sweet Quaker girl asking us, quaintly and demurely, "Mnrdecai, what wine wilt thou drink!" Noah's Sunday Times. We are tolerably free from the sin above spoken of, and so are mo6t of our Indiana cotemporaries. We rt meraber, however, tha. a year cr two ago, the State Journal pretended much surprise, and seemed to infer some personal ill-feelings, because we spoke of our member rf congress as "the Hon. Mr. Wick,", instead of the Hon. Judge Wick." We thought our address the most appropriate, despite the cavilling. We Squire a man of function sometimes, but generally we try to remember to wy the simple Mister. Often we leave off that, and ndopt the plain and good usage f the quakeis. We take occasion to say this much at present, so that we may escape the suspicioa of the personal hostility, or want of courtesy, if we disuse the habit f 'squiring every man we speak of. Mr. Clifford's Departure from Mexico. T'e President of Mexico, previous to Mr. Clifford's departure on his return Imme, gave him an interview in the audience chamber of the palace, surrounded by his cabinet. In answer to the remarks of Mr. Clifford that Gen. Taylor expressed the kindest feelings towards Mexico, and announced his intention to do all in his power to strengthen the friendly relations now so happily existing between the two republics, President Herrcra answered Mr. C. that the Gn.ernment of Mexico cherished like sentiments towards the Uni ted Srntc, and that he saw with positive reijret the departure of so estimable a minister, who, in dis charging the functions f his mission, in cementing the actual relations of good understanding, and in causing to be forgotton tho motives of discord between both Republics, has fulfilled the duties of a diplomatist. philosopher, and lover of the peace of nations." Insanity and Death. Judge Jesse Birch, once a highly respectable and wealthy citizen of influence in Fountain county, terminated his existence at his residence nine miles east of Covington on the Newtown road, a few days since, by hanging. Reason was dethroned. He had been a member of the Insane Asylum at Indianapolis for some time previous ; and had recovered, it was thought, under the wholesome treatment of lhat institution. He returned to Lis home, and shortly after to hia insanity, as the melancholy end we chronicle but too plainly indicates. Covingtun People's Friend. The Round Islandeus again. The Washington Republic says communications bave been received at the Navy Department from Commander Randolph, with regard to the men assembled on Round Island, which are conclusive as to their illegal designs. The military organization, the term of enlistment, the nature of the service, the disposition of the arms, the character of the country to be attacked, are all clearly proved by the abundant testimony of persons found among the members of the expedition. Horrid Murder. M. Emile de Girardin, proprietor and editor of Jji Pree, who took a distinguished part in tho recent Peace Congress in Paris, has published in his paper an account of the various conscriptions in France beteween June 24, 1791, and November 15, 1313, from which it appears that within that period 4,555,000 human beings were tori? from their homes and families to engage in the trrdeof war. Whitney's Railroad. The Chamber of Commerce in New York city, having reported a recommendation for Whitney's Railroad, a Boston Committee has taken Ihe matter up. and attempted to turn the table tho other way. The Boston Committee animadverts upon the recommendation, and undertakes to cipher out the impossibility of that plan being executed in tbe way proposed in less than seventeen hundred years. Discharge of Edward H. C Griffin. Edward H. C. Griffin, the Poet Office Clerk, who was arrested on a charge of robbing the mails in the Rochester Post Office, ha been discharged by Mr. Farrar, ihe U. S. Commissioner. Upon a careful review of the whole evidence, the Commissioner said he found nothing to warrant him in holding the defendant for trial. He was therefore Discharged. Lady Byron's Regard for an American. Our 1 venerable countryman. Henry C dman, (the writer on rural matter.) who died within a few weeks, in Islington, England, had a warm friend in Lady Byron, who paid the expenses of a ceremonious English funeral, and ordered a monument to his memory. The Cunard steamer Canada, in her last pas vage to England, made eight hundred and ninety-two miles in three successive days a greater speed, we believe than was ever maintained for so long a period at one time by any of the line of steamers. I aas n - s . lARRED AND LEATHERED. Aman Was lOUtifJ It) deu, N. J., on the 30 ih ult., when t!i husband and friends seized htm, an -tax ing plentifully coated him with tar, then well feathered him, turned him loose. The New York .Morning Star states that upwards of seven hundred thousand dollars have been expend ed in fitting out the Cub, expeditions from New York and New Orleans. This money was raised from discontented Spaniards in Cuba. The amount of capital invested in manufacturing at Manchester, N. II., is $5,450,000. Number of hands employed 5,575. The frvlnff Family. This family of vocalists are about visiting our city . 1 n . Ti Clin' nd Wl11 n c Thursday evening, lhe 19t, For rJace meeting see bills.