Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1849 — Page 1

INDIANAPOLIS. OCTOIIEII 30, 1819. Temperance Convention. The meeting of ihe Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance, and the State Temperance Convention, neld on Wednesday and Thursday, did not bring up as large a congregation as we had anticipated ; but the number, including the ladies of the Grand Union, wr 0 very respectable. Wc attended at the basement of Robert chapel on the afternoon of Thursday, to listen to the propositions to be made by the State Convention. They were simply these : that the legislature should be memorialized to repeal all laws authorizing the sale

of intoxicating drinks a- a beverage ; and to enact 1 - .i 1. . .i i i II laws increasing the penalty against those who s!a!I . entire in ihe traffic. j ..,K, .kK ,r .,1 k.....u. I.:. " r.:u ,1P minds of the propriety or utility of the measures which he proposed, and which had previously received the sanction of the Grand Division. But we have not time nor space at present, to state hin, nor to define our own position. It is possible he may be right, and we wrong; but if we do not mistake the philosophy of his position, it is nothing more nor less, than the correction of the passions, appetites and morals of the people by pumptnary laws ; and it seems to us, that sound reason, as well as all experience, has already fully demonstrated the futility and inutility of any such laws. Yon might as eil attempt to make men religious, by subjecting their opinious to legal constraint, as to make an r.ttempt toeradicale their appetites by statutory enactments. You may regulate and control by wise means, as you may tame a leopard, while you cannot change his spots. This is as far as we can go, and when more is attempted, we only invite re-action. These gentlemen, however, feel sure they are right, and are determined to go ahead. We admire their zeal, whatever we may think of their discretion, as the bullgine said to the bull. They will memorialize the next legislature for further legislation, and are determined to persevere until they attain it, even to the extent of voting for no man who does not agree with them in this matter. They consider the evil which they would eradicate, paramount to any political consideration. Well : this is a free country, and every man has a right to the full exercise of his opinions, whether they be rational or not. If they be wrong, time, the great corrector, will set them-right. In the evening of Thursday, a meeting was held at Wesley chapel, and a very amusing and effective speech was made by a blind gentleman, whose name we did not learn. Som-J graceless fellow at our elbow observed that this appeared to him to be "a blind leader of the blind." We rebuked him of course, and supposed that some of the blind man's hits had struck him. The proceedings of the convention will we suppose, be published at length. Or-The government of Cuba is an anomaly it has no counter-part. Essentially military in its character, with strength cqoal to the greatest emergency. In the various phases of its administration it would be difficult to find a ringle characteristic of republicanism. Its head is a governor general, with enumerated powers, to be sure, but with instructions to exercise all other authority not therein specified, as he may deem proper. lie is the military head of the Island, and the civil governor of the district of the Havana, to which, in the latter department, his authority is confined. There are also local governors at Matanzas, Trinidad de Cuba, Puerto Principe, and lieutenant governors for Cardenas and several other smaller jurisdictions. In a military point of view, these governors are all subject to the control of the captain general in the civil department their authority is absolute. This is but a general outline of the theory of administration there. It has the appearance of a judicious arrangement where, in the discharge of the minor aflairs of govornment, the military power is separated from the civil. But, in fact, this is not so; nor is it possible that it ever can be under this or any other strictly military power. Id the most trifling affairs, the military government, which is the strength of the Island, usurps authority. Murder will out. A skeleton was recently found in a swamp between Evansville and Boonville, in this State, and near it the fragment of a woollen coat,-which were identified as belonging to a man who was suddenly missing two years ago, and was never heard of, though great exertions wi re made to that end, as it was suspected he was murdered and robbed by two men, named Powers and Rice, with one of wtm the man had traded a horse. They had followed him, on pretence that his horse had been stolen, and returned home with the horse and tbe man's hat, stating that he had fled to the woods and left horse and hat behind. They were then suspected of foul play, and now they have been indicted for murder and will soon be tried. The Evansville Journal thinks that various circumstances confirm the guilt of the accused. Connecticut. The New Haven Register of the 4lh instant, continues to report the result of the town elections in that State. The democrats have carried 35, gaining 13 towns. The whigs have carried 19, training only 2. Four other towns are divided. The Register remarks, by way of moral : The reault of the town meetings, as far as heard from, must be highly satisfactory to the democracy of Connecticut, as showing a healthy state of political feeling among the masses. Everywhere are the peo ple sick of Taylorism and its deceptions, its opposi tion to a righteous war provoked by Mexico, and its present disposition to pick quarrels' on points of etiquette ! Never before did an administration run down so fast ; and with a majority of the States against it, how can it hope to stand ! We believe the next election in Connecticut will add her voice emphatically to the general denunciation. Maine. The canvass of votes for members of the Senate, in Maine, shows that 14 demociatic candidates are elected, 11 whig and abolition, and there are six vacancies. Boston Advertiser. We believe these vacancies will bo filled by the legislature itself. Of morse the democratic party will have a decithtl majority in both branches, so as to nil the seat in th Senate of the united States trm porarily occupied by Mr. Hamlin. Washington Union. C7"The fellow Robinson, who swindled sevcra postmasters by representing himself as the nephew of Major Hobbie and was at last detected by the Evans villa postmaster, hat been tried at that place, con victed, and sentenced to the Indiana penitentiary for two years. He is now at Jefiersonvillc. The Charleston Courier states that John L. Bar nett, of Dublin, Ind., charged with being engaged in the dissemination of abolition documents, at Spartan? burg, S. C, has been admitted to bail in the sum of one thousand dollars. His case will be continued un til the next term. Ladt Fbawklix, (besides addressing President Taylor,) ha written'a memmorial to the Emperor of Russia, in which she stated that there was some possibility that the expedition under the command of her hufband.Sir John Franklin, may have been thrown on the const of Siberia or Nova Zembla. The Emperor instantly resolved to make a strict search on those distant shores.

rri . 1 e j ' m.n r.uB, niey are rapuny repuuiatinv I he forThese propositions were very eloquently enforced ! , J. , . ' J 1 . . ,. e' racr favorite of their choice, uy Goodwin, lrom the south-western portion ot ... . . , ... ... - . I flie organization fir the purpose of makinir llie

mediate, uui umugn we give tie gentleman cue - . . j- I , , c , , , ., nominations of the whig party in the cilv. fr ir.eni rrprtit fr innnpficp. and alao. fur what we have i:n I 1 1 .

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Fnblished every Thursday. The Iltiriiioiiious Party in H'ew York. The whigs of New York, says the W. Union, appear to be more distracted at this time than the demmerat). They are divided between Fillmore men and - CV. ...-..! -. ---- - .11 t . I i , OCa:u llit.il, as wr ns uuiwtn'll I II OS? WHO have OD . uira-j imcuu .i. - .1 ..- ...... s lo ie 4 ayb. r ,;f t,e legislature and othf-r officers of the State and city, has caused the flames to break out. Iii et veral f the wards there were riots produced, and vio lence was employed. The New York Sun (an independent papor, with strong whig affinities) of the 11th instant, gives a brief sketch of these excitinscenes : The primary ele tioi.s of both parties have been held, and some most disgraceful exhibitions have been the conequeuce. The democrats, notwithstanding their "two factions," conducted themselves at least to avoid black eyes and bloody noses ; but the whigs in scune of the ward entered into a regular fi.'ht, and bowic knives were used to decide the quarrel. In the fifth ward, a gang of rowdies, led on by th"ce-ho!drs, attempted to force a ticket up"n the people, und to this end seized Ihe bnllot-txx, and wounih d several peaceable citizen. One man had his throat dangerously cut by a wretch who flourished a knife in each hand. The scene was most revolting, and the introduction of gangs of bullies to coerce the primary elections of Ihe people is an outrage upon Ihe freedom and safety of the franchise, and forever shameful to all engaged in it. Where were the police, that they did not break up the fighting gang, ond arrest their leaders? And do not such exhibitions prove that the people must come to the rescue of the ballot-box, by taking all caucuses and elections into their own hands! The New York Globe states that these whig ward meetings were held fjr the purpose of selecting delegates to attend the various city and county convent sns : During the day, mutterings of discontent and revenge were uttered loud and spirited, and the nearer the approach of the time when the meetings were to assemble, the more vociferous became the threatening!, and the more aident the combatants. The disturbance was not confined to any particular locality, ward. r district. It was universal throughout every portion of the city. The custom-house had stationed its "non-interventionists" in every ward, and scattered its emissaries in every direction. The Sewardites and the Youngites were arrayed in antagonistic positions in many of the wards ; and the deadly feud existing between the fictions frequently brought to aid bowie knives and other instruments of destruction. The fifih. Sixth, and Eleventh wards exhibited the most disgraceful scenes. Bludgeons, knives, stones. and other dangerous weapons were as. freely used njauist each other as if engaged in mortal combat, and the many wounded who. were borne from the scene of contention, many of them with battered lends and bleeding veins, told but too plainly the de termination of the regency fiction. Fashionable Amüsements. Bishops Uedding, Waugh, Morris, Hamlin and Janes, of the Methodist Episcopal durch, have addressed to the Conferences under their jurisdiction, a circular enjoining the observance of the Church discipline relative to partici pation in the prohibited amusements of dancing, etc. Church members are not allowed to permit dancing in their houses, even though they do not participate themselves. The Baptist Association of Philadelphia, which met on the 4th ins'ant, adopted the following resolu tion after a protracted discussion : Resolved, That we regard Ihe practice of dancing and attendance upon other worldly objects of amuse ments, as opposed to the spirit of the Gospel and preudiciul to the growth of grace in the soul, and should therefore be habitually discontinued by Christ ians in general, and Christian parents in particular. ffc7"We publish a communication in defence of dancing, in another column, although we have no personal interest in the matter. Unfortunately, per haps, we never learned to dance. We feel sometimes as if we should like to jump and kick up a lit tle ; but what would folks think if we did so ! The great objection against dancing is, that, being partially interdicted, men and women when they do engage in it having "broken Ihe ice," go the "whole figure," "dance all night, till broad di y light," and make a "regular spree" of their "rational amuse ment." As Byron pays in Beppo : The morning now was on Ihe point of breaking, A turn ol nine at which 1 would aduse Ladies who have ben dancing, or partaking In any otlur kind ol exercise, To make their preparations lor lornakin I lie ball-rrHira ere the sun begin to rue, Because when once the lamps and candles fail, Ilm biushc make them lKk a little pale. I've seen some hail and revels in my time, And staved them over lor some silly reason, And then I look'd, (I hope it wit no crime,) 1 1) nee what lady liest stood nut the neason : And though I've seen some th -us indi in their prime, Lovely and pleaaiug, and who still may please on. I never mi w hut one, (the atari withdrawn.) Whose bloom couM alter dancing dare to dawn. Liberal Bequests. -Elizabeth Demilt, who died in New York last week, left $30,00i) to her family and friends, and $92,000 lo the following charitable institutions of New York : To the Mechanics' Society, ... $5,000 To the same for the enlargement of the DeMilt Library, bequeathed to the society by her brother Benjamin, ... 5.000 To the Colored Orphan Asylum, - - 5,000 To the Olored Home, - 3,000 To the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, - . 5,000 To the Institution for the Blind, - 5,000 To the New York Dispensary, - - 5,000 To the Eastern Dispensary, - - . - 4,000 To Ihe Northen Dispensary, 4,000 To the Aged and Respectable Widow's Soc., 5.000 To the Home for tho Friendless, - - 3.000 To the New York Hospital, Broadway, 5,000 To the Bloomingdale Asylum, 5,000 To the New York Orphan Asylum, - 3,000 To the Mariner's Family Industrial Society, 2,000 To the New York Historical Society. - 5,000 To the Ne w York Society Library, - 5,000 To the Mercantile Library Association, - 3,000 To the S-cietv for the Relief of Widow with Small Children, - - - - 2,000 To the Association for Meliorating the Con dition of the Poor, - 3,000 $32,000 0-Oae of the most conclusive proofs, says the Dos ton rVnt, that the recent union of the two divi sions of the democracy in N. York was fair and just to both is, that about one-half of the whig papers are making very strenuous tffjrts to show that the "birnburri"rs got ihe advantage of the hunkers," and the I other half to make it clear that the "hunkers yielded everything to the barnburner! ' Ihe truth is that the union will "yield" nothing to whiggrry but dis may and defeat. i The suit of the Rev. John C. Green against John Pierce, for slander, is to take place in Brooklyn, early in October. This case it will be remembered, grew out of family difficulties of tho Rev. John N. Maffitt and hi wife, the Btep-daughter of Pierce, and will doubtless elicit some interesting particulars of the causes which led to the hostility of Mr. Pierce towards Mr. Maffitt and Mr. Green.

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INDIANAPOLIS, Letter from the Mediterranean. U. S. Faid ATE Cl)KTITCTIOI, Palermo, August, 1849 Peak F Amern : Since the lat letter that I bad Ihe pleapure of witting to you, we have again altered our position in I Iii wide and changeable world of out. On the 1 9tb of thu.fiunth we kft ibe city of Mesiia far tbi place. We hi1 a very fine atrge iuJeed, after dealing Ihe sti aits of Mei a. We had the group of island called Xolijo, lo pas thivugh. The most remaikabte of which is the bumiog Mount f Stnxnboli, which we ped wi hio tight or ten miles of. It n-es up very steep nJ anifoimly frum the watei's edsje lo the summit, from which smoke constant! hsues foith, and dining the riht flames are often seen. Notwithstanding the smallness of the island, which is but j nine miles in circomfeieoce, (merely the base of Iba moao- I taio.) and alo the imposMbiliiy of escape ia case of an erup- ' lion, still on a very small point on tbe N. W. fide of the island it situated a mall town, which I think ii rather nearer than I bould wish to live to so doubtful a place. Oo the 21st, we made the Bar of Pa lei mo. Ia approach ing this city from seawaid, It presents a most beautiful appearance ihe Bay forms a graceful sweep along Ihe shore; the dorne, turrets and spires rise conspicuously above the suironnding buildings t several of its building's being; Saraceoic, and a Chahlee inscription which was found within its wall, give stieni'th to the opinion that it was originally built by emigianis fium Chaldea and Damascus. Tbe adjacent plain exhibits convents, villas tod cottages, romantically interpeiaed among tbe luxuiiant foliage) while the beautiful valley in which the city i situated, i surrounded by an ampitheatre of majestic rnountaio scenery. The town lies in an uncommonly luxaiiant valley; in inhabitants, together with the suburbs, amount to about two hundred thousand, by lepott. The city is the most regular built place that we have yet been to in Italy. It has a splendid diive on tbe Bay, called Ihe Marina, planted with tiees, and has also a small edifice where a splendid band of musicians execute music every evening. It is astonishing what a taste the Italians have for music. Hundreds of the nubility and first classes collect around in carriages and on foot, Ihe annate the baud sluices op, and seem to note aud moreover to know, every part Tbe two pnncipal streets of tbe city are very respectable streets for au Italian city, vf tolerable food wiJth and good cariiage ssieets, but not so cemmudi ius fr walken as is the case with most places in Italy. J he two piincipal streets inter-ect each oilier at uht angles in tbe centie f the cilv, and are about a mile in length, lined wirb shops, veiy fine lor Italy, on the gioond floor of all the buildings, private a well as public. The bonus on these stieets are very good. corisilerin wbeie Ihey are. Iheiearea great many places in Palermo and its envi rons w hich make it very desirable for travellets to visit it. rbeie sie several very nice churches in the city. One. the Duomo, dedicated to Santa Rosalia, the patroness of Pater mo, is said lo have been erected in the 12th century by the Norman Prince Ktwgero. It i built bo'h in the Norman Gothic and Saracenic structure It 14 veiy 11c lily ornamented with all kind- if piecious tones, mosaic, &e . and Ihe altar of the chapel of S.ma Rosalia, is of solid silver, and preserves tbe it lie of the princess in a silver sarcophagus. 1 hey aie said lo be of gieat valie. Neither tbe altar nor sarcophagus are exhibited lo public view except when the Fete of the Santa is celebiated. Ihe Monte I'elegnno, just outside the city, and oveiltM king Ihe city and Sea, is celebrated for having been the relieat uf a young and amiable enthusiast, tbe niece of Wil'iam Ihe Good, Santa Rosalia, wo in tbe prime of youth and beauty withdiew from tbe world and devoted herself ti religious obeivinces. On tbe mountain, although not on ihe summit, is a giotto wbich contains a church const ei a cd tu Saoia R isalia, in which is ber statue, exhibiting a yi'Uog, beautiful female in a recumbent posture, resting her head on one hand and rrasuinz a ciucifix in the other. and covered with a splendid robe of solid gold. She is the stinted rrlectres of Palermo. There are several other nice chuiche. palaces, Universita degli Sludii, and picture p-'JUrfipC in fhf ritr. w nrlhv tit viifinir j , j !7 the vicini'y of tbe city are several very fine villas. mostly belonging to the noblemen of the kingdom. Tbe Duke of Seira di Kales has a beautiful villa, which I visit ed. It is profu-el and richly adorned with trees, shrubbery. fljwers and other vegetable pioductiocs of the four quarters of Ihe globe, of the most choice descriptions. It also has a very fine labyiinth connected with it, in which are several figures of monks placed in small hermitages, so that upon approaching them Ibe door flies open, and they seem to be alive. Tbe loyal villa is aho very splendid and bas seveial drives. I also visited Ihe convent of Cappaccini, in wbich the custom exists of drying the defunct brethren, and when dressed they are placed in niches belonging lo the catacombs under tbe church, that their fi lends may visit and piay by them annually. Others also, besides those belonging to the boly orders, are placed 10 glass cases, for preservation. You cau imagine what a giim spectacle the skeletons ol two or ihiee hundied old monks dressed up in the costume of their holy Oider, standing up in the niche of tbe wall, with their ghastly grins staring you in the face, would present to a stranger lo such scenes. (But no more of boneology 1 Tbe captain, who by the way, is quite sick, and has been so for some time on account of over excitement, icceived a letter from tbe consul at Naples, upon our arrival at this place, with a list of letters which have arrived there since we left; and it afforded me a great deal of pleasure to find one for me, which I have ieaon to believe is from you. It will te the first oue that I have received since we left Leghorn, which is now about four months ; a very long time without having received a letter from borne. We expect to sail from Ihi place in a few days for Na pies, flow long we shall remain there is more than I am able lo say 1 but I do not it-ink that 11 will be veiy long ; be cause we shall have to go to. our winter quarters in about one or two months, befoie which we will have to go to our depot at Snezzia lo fill a with provisions. Commodore Moigan, wbo came on in tbe steamship Mississippi. befoie we left Naples, says that he thinks he will make Aucona, a small place on the eastern coast of Italy, our winter quar tets. I should eieat deal rather that we would wuiter at Genoa, as it is a larger and pleasanter 1 lace. Kemem'-tr me lo all inquiring fiieudJ, and 1 should be veiy happy to hear from them. Wute soon, and always be' lieve me to be your affectionate son, GEORGE. The above letter was. detained on the w way several dated a ' ' weeks, for some reason. Another letter month later, thus alludes to the death of the Captain of the eh'p. " I regtet veiy much to say that Capt. John Gwinn of this ship, deputed it N life on the 4th Sept. at Palermo, after a long and evere illness. I bad attended anxiously apoo bim n ik. ik, i k. ith.A in thi hin m, ernuni nf vi, 1l. 1 1 f v,. IU, 11U WTJTM V, . m - -I ft ibe nervous excitement and anxiety he experienced, be be ing constantly in fear for the safety of the ship. He was loo old a man to tend to set, being uuable to Hand the hardships and leoponsibilities of an active sea-Irfe, He waa between 5"j and 60 eaia of age. Tni is the case with most of our naval Captains. An officer loses all his energy and activity before he gtls lo be commander of a vessel of war; wbich i not the care in other navies. Capt. Gwinn was very much regietted by ihe officers. He was very kin I and easy with us while he hid command of the hip. Tbe deah of Ihe Captain will be a very heavy stroke to his family, who reside in Philadelphia. But it was tbe will ol God, and it must be enfjiced." Communicated. Gen. Jo. Lane. The Indiana State Sentinel was, I believe, the first public journal that, a few months back, suggested the name of Gen. Joseph Lane, of our State, as the democratic candidate for the next presidency. I have observed, with feelings of a most gratifying character, the response that has been made by the de mocratic press, not only in our own State but in othera: not in the west alone, but in every quarter ot .a a the Republic, to this suggestion. I have not the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with General Lane; but I have been extremely unfortunate in the answers that my inquiries have elicited, if he is not a man of great honesty of heart, probity of purpose, and one.who, in the discharge of his official duties, will place himself far above the influence of wire-working, scheming, selfish, mercenary politicians: while he will, at the same time, be the last man to forget, in the hour of his own elevation, the friends whose votes, whose voices and whose pens, placed him there. If such be the leading traits of hi-s character, he is, in a very eminent degree, the individual for the presidency ; und, most especially. the candidate of the democratic party in the next canvass. Had the views of such men as Gen. Lane prevailed in republican council, I could point to many a victory, in days that are past, that federalism nevcr would have rejoiced over, but democracy would ; and to jione more certainly than the one that placid in power a caricature on Washington. G. W. K. 0A fellow named Rnxingtnn, at Cincinnati, late, ly deserted his wife and child, refusing lo live with, or provide for them. His brutal conduct has so ope rated on his wife's mind that she is now an inmate of the Insane Asylum. He is a music teacher, and the papers say that he has departed on a professional tour through Indiana. We hope the scamp won't be ah lowed to sing a nofe or earn a note in Hoosierdom Pass him round !

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OCTOBER 25, 1849. Later from California. The steamship Empire City arrived in New York on Tuesday last, from Chagres. She brings over half a million of dollars in specie and gold dust. Ine news by this arrival is, on the whole, highly favorable. The Alta Califomitn of August 31st has a -n; and able editorial on the present and tu ure prospects : of San Francisco and the gold region. Ihe editor gives a fair and impartial account of the state of things in that far-away land, and one that, if gener- ; "y read, would save thousands voting men fnm : a too precipitate abandonment of position and bust- j nes.s at home, tor the uncertain allurements ot an , emigration to the Pacific. It is claimed that there ; are advantages but they are exaggerated by letter- j writers. It is shown that the placers do not yield as I uuul'J a!i sea..,,, Ku.u oeing scarcer o.u requiring more labor in the digging The Placer Tiirws gives a more glowing account of mining. There was much sickness at the mines at last accounts. Tiie "sickly seaBon" comprises the months of July, August and September. lwo small steamers are plying on the waters oi the Sacramento. Women in California. During the month of August there arrived in San Francisco 87 females, of these 42 were Americans, mx married and 81 ta.narried. On the 25th of August there were two weddings in San Francisco. The total number of arrivals in August was 3.S90. In one day there arrived, by merchant vessels, Gö-1 male, and 27 female passengers The Constitutional Convention. The Conven tion for framing a Stale Constitution for California, assembled at Monterey on the 31st of August. No report is yet received of us session. A Merchant s Lxchange was contemplated, and met with much favor among the merchants. The Markets.- Dry Goods and provisions ruld low as low, on an average, as in the States. Tin ware and etoves were the only articles scarce in the market. The latter so d at 30 and 870 apiece. Among the delegates to the constitutional conven tion, from the district of Sacramento, is Capt. John McDougall, formerly of this city. Information was received at San Francisco on the 30th of August, that five hundred teams, (overland emigrants) were on their way crossing the plain or desert. This desert is sixty miles across, with but one spring of water, and that a hot sulphur one—that the emigrants were suffering intensely, particularly the women and children. Horses and mules were killed and eaten, but the want of water occasioned the greatest distress. A meeting was called to send immediate relief. ——————— From Nicaragua Laic and Important. We have hy the Steamer Empire highly important news from Nicaragua, dates having reached this city from the town of Grenada to the 20th August. The New York Company for the ship canal have obtained an absolute and unconditional grant from the Nicaraguan Government, and until the completion of the canal, the exclusive right of navigating the river San Juan and lakes Nicaragua and Leon. When the Vice Consul of the British -Government at Leon, ascertained the fact he wrote to the Nicaragua Government, complaining of them for having asserted that a revolution or insurrection in Nicaragua had been stirred up by British agents, and treated it as cause of offence to his government. The Nicara gua Government replied, that it had so asserted, be lieved it to be true, and reiterated the declaration. The Nicaragua Government in its prompt reply to the remonstrance of the British Vice Consul, no doubt re lied upon the protection of the United States Govern ment, if it should be deemed necessary. O-It is proper for ns to say, that the letters from the Mediterranean which we occasionally publish, are merely intended by the writer for our private informa tion, and not for the public eye. We published the first, for the gratification of the youthful acquaintance of the writer, and to satisfy their enquiries; and we have continued their publication, because they have been received approvingly by our readers. Some allowance will of course te mnde for defects of etyle, on account of the age of the writer, which ia only about 17. We do not correct these errors, because we wish the writer to barn to correct them himself. The Madison Daily Courier complains that the hotels don't advertise people where to find thtn. It is generally thought here that they are not eorth advertising. tatt beniinel. You are coming it a little too strong, Mr. Sentinel We have good hotels in Madison now. and will have in a very short time one of the best in the State. We know our hotel-keepers have been negligent in the matter of advertising but, then, rents are ao h'gh in consequence of . the rapid improvement of the city that, like some of our business men, they cant afford it! The large buiWing on I the corner of Mulberry and Second Streets will becomplele(j by the 1st of January next; and we hope to get a libo ral advertisement from the proprietor, hoever he may be We have carefully examined the taut number of the i , , - t'll oenunei, ana una uini ,ou .ae .....y vne ...... ... ......- I polls worth advertising. The Carlisle House on Washi T J ington alreef, ia a good house, and we can safely recommend it to stranger. You have not much to brag of, neighbor, alter all; particularly as the business of your village is principally in the hotel line. Madison courier, 63rThe Carlisle House, you know, has tecently changed hosls. That's the reason why it advertises, we suppose. We are glad to say it 13 doing a first rate business, as if deserves to do, and so are all the rest, and that g the reason, perhaps, why they don advertise. We hear you are eoon to have a new house, and are glad of it. When finished, we mean to come down upon you. You will be glad to see us vb kose. "Business of our village principally in the hotel line!" Pooh! tho Madison belles who have vis ited us, know a great deal better than that. Hanging. The following story is in Spooner's Vermont Journal of March 24, 1794. In the American army under Gen. Lincoln, in 1779 while he lay al the Three Sisters, on the south side of the Savannah river, to cover iNjuth Carolina from me British troops, who bad at that time reduced Georgia, an American soldier, having been apprehended in at tempting to join the British, was ordered to be hanged He was accordingly hanged to a tree. After remain jnir suspended a few seconds, the rope broke, and he fell to the grourd. Being restored to animation by proper assistance, he earnestly entreated to be forgiven. A Col. Mason, who commanded on this disagree' able duty, informed Gen. Lincoln of what had hap pened. The Geueral desired him to double the rope, and try if that would not hang him. Thts was done and he was hung up a second time ; when after swing ing about half a minute, to the astonishment of the spectators, first one strand of the rope gave way, and then the other, and he fell once more to the ground. Being brought to life again, he renewed his earnest entreaties to be pardoned; and upon a representation to the General that the rope was insufficient to hang the man. even doubted, tnd that there was no other to be had, he ordered the deserter to be drummed out of camp, with the noose of the rope about his neck Upon that two of the heaviest men of the guard who attended him, either ot whom was neavier man me prisoner, bezsed leave to try the strength of the rope and untwisting the double of it, each suspended him self by his arms to the single stranJ, while able to keep his hold, and the rope did not oreaK. . Mexican Claims. The board of commissioners which assemble at Washington next month, have al ready twelve millions of claims filed before them, and more to come. They have adjudicated about one Quarter of a million. The treaty provide for th payment of a sum not exceeding $3,230,000. iV.

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Volnme lX:::::::::Nnmber 20. ssmssssmtmmtMmsmsttttstsssmsmtmmmmmtsmtmtmmmmsmmmssmtm Nicaragua Hit; Mosquito Coast. Our Minister, Mr. Squier, has arrived at Nicaragua, and being the first fully authorized ambassador ever sent there, was received with great consideration. The official address of Mr. Squier, has a special signification, as it was probably made in pursuance of instructions when we consider Ihe pretended claims and aggressions of Great Britain upon the territory of Nicaragua, in the name of ihe famous "little negro boy" .the 4,Moqiiito King." In reference to the "American Continental Policy," Mr. Squier, in his official siteech, s-tid A cardinal principle in f Iii policy is a total exclusion ot foreign influence from the domestic and international affairs of tks American. Republic. And while we would cultivate friendly inrercourse, and promote trade and commerce with all the world, and invite to our shores and In the enjoyment of nur institutions the people of all the nations, we ehould proclaim, in language firm and diatinct, that the American continent belongs to Americans, and i snrred to Republican freedom. We should also let it bn understood that if foreign powers encroach upon the territories, or invade the rights, of any one of the American Slates, they inflict an injury upon all, tekich it is alike the duty and determination of all to see redressed. In reply, the Dikector, Nnrberto Ramirez, among other things said : Sir: The satisfaction which I experience in having the honor of receiving for Ihe first time a representative of the Republic of North America is only equalled by the

good desire and high hope with which I am animated. The gratitude with which jour words have inspired me, the extraordinary intervention of your Uovernmenl under the circumstances with which Nicaragua ia surrounded, impose on me Ihe agreeable duty of returning thanks to Divine rrnvidence lor its kind favors. Nicaragua has long felt the necessity of sheltering itself under the bright banner of the JS'orth American confederacy. The people of the two American continents are con templating us; it is possible that future generations shall cherish our memory; at least we shall have the conscious . . a. a atisiaction or naving negiecien no means, omitted no sacrifice, in securing the grand object eo ardently desired by two sister Kepublics, determined mutually to sustain their interests, their honor and their integrity. The Mosquito King, whom Great Britain has set up as her ally, is thus described by a correspondent of the New York Tribune. "The material of this 'kingdom' a small tribe of äqual lid Indians and Samboes, who have hitherto obtain ed a precarious subsistence by turlle-hshing. The 'King of this fimous people ia a little negro hoy, with a taste for 'the ardent' worthy of a veteran toper; and his eister, who in the otncial correspondence and in the documents transferring certain rights to England, calls Victoria her beloved aiater, is a dowdy negress, quite promiscuous in her intercourse with drunken sailors, and well qualified to shine at Ihe Five Points." After the reception of Mr. Squiers, a correspon dence tiok place between the representatives of Nica ragua and Great Britain, touching the forcible occupation of the mouth of St John, in which the British Consul General says "that any steps which Nicaragua may take militating with the Musquitn King will be visited by severe punishment from Great Britain." To this, Senor Salinas, on the part of Nicaragua replied, that this government will proceed to discharge its duty fully, and maintain her own rights, which Great Britain, as patron of a chief of a band of sava ges, has invaded. The Consul General of trance, in expressing his congratulation on occasion of the speeches above referred to, said "that a new era of prosperity and liberty has opened for the Republic of Nicaragua since the United States has extended to her a protecting hand." The Mosquito kingdom or country, is included within the limits of the State of Nicaragua, which has never recognized any such kingdom. And the occasion which has made thin matter of national concernment is this: "The State of Nicaragua has granted to an American Company the privilege of opening a communication between the Atlantic and tne racinc uy me mate or me ?an juan river ana me Lake Nicaragua. This fact having become known, the British Consul at New York gave notice to the Nicaragua Company that Great Britain had certain rights of sovereignity over the territory through which their projected route lay; that the Musquito country was under British protection ; and that he was instructed to inform the Company that "the boundary line of the Mosquito kingdom touches the St. John's river at the Mechuca rapid, about thirty miles below the lake Nicaragua, end that from thence to the mouth of the St. John's the navigation of that river belongs to Musquito." Our Minister in his speech said : "It i one of the object of my mission to assist in an enterprise so important to the whole world" the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus. And a letter in the New York Tribune says: "It is understood that a most important treaty has just been concluded between the American Minister, Mr. Squier, and this Government, embracing some provisions concerning the proposed canal. It is probably more favorable to our interests than any which ha yet been negotiated with any of the American States." The contract with the American Company for the making of this great inter-oceanic canal, is for 97 years, with a further extent of twenty years and secures to the Company the right to make a ship canal or railroad as they deem proper. It is said the Company will proceed at once to improve the present means of transit, making it a rival to the Panama r ute. Cin. Gazette. Duelling in Kordofan. A recent traveller gives the following method of settling an "affair of honor" in Kordofan. How much more rational and "satisfactory than the fashionable assassinations of our own country: "When a gentleman of that nation conceives himself aggrieved, he sends the offender a formal challenge, which, it is presumed, is always accepted. The duel takes place on some open ground, and all the friends of the combatants assemble as spectators. An angareb, or couch, is then brought forth, and the two combatants place each a foot close to the edge of the couch, the breadth of which alone divides them. A formidable whip, made of hippopotamus leather, is then placed in the hands of each, and renewed attempts are made by their friends to reconcile them. If, however, they are bent on carrying out the affair of honor, the signal for battle is at last given. He who is entitled to the first blow, then inflicts as hard a lash as he can on his opponent who stands perfectly still to receive the compliment, and then prepares to return it. They then continue, turn and turn about, to flog each other's backs and shoulders, (the head must on no account be struck,) while the blood flows copiously at every stroke. Not an acknowledgment of pain escapes the lips of either, and all the spectators remain equally mute. This continues until one of the combatants, generally from sheer exhaustion drops his instrument of torture, whereupon the victor immediately does the same. The rivals shake hands, declaring that they have received sufficient satisfaction, their friends congratulate them on their reconciliation, their wounds are washed, and sund-Tr itigs of merissa, the national beverage, provided beforehand, are produced, and emptied by the spectators in honor of the gallant opponents." Nepotism. James Watson Webb, of the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer, in allusion to the present administration, says: "We hazard nothing in saying, that, in the whole history of parties in the United States, never has there been such a total squandering of patronage without the slightest prospect of reaping fruit from it, as by the party now in in power. From Maine to Louisiana, we hear one universal complaint, that the recipients of office have filled up the subordinate places in their gift with their Bum, nephews, brothers, and family connexions of every conceivable degree of consanguinity." " When whigs thus denounce the administration, they may well hesitate to deprecate "locofoco abuse." (7The Chicago Democrat says It seems to be generally admitted that plank roads are the people' roads at the present day ; and the only roads for teams that can be constructed in the West.

Pacific Ilailrond Convention. The following are telegriphic despatches from St. Louis to the Ijouisville papers : The Railroad meeUngiwas organized with Judge Ellis in the chair. A committee of one from each State was appointed to designate the officers of the convention, after which they adjourned till 9 A. M. Second Despatch The Railroad Convention was organized by the election of A Douglass, of Illinois, President ; W L Totten, ol Pa., Samuel Farran, ot Ohio, Franklin Emerson, of Indiana, 11 J Easion, if Kentucky,

J Williams, of Iowa, C Bracken, of Wisconsin, Henry S Ueyer, ot Missouri. J Uiddle, ol Michigan, A K Williams of New York, W B States, of Illinois, and Brjre Stewart, of Tennessee, Vice Presidents; and W G Miner, A B Chambers, of Miftsouri, A Mitchell, of Kentucky, AT Stewart, of Illinois, and W 11 Wallace, ol Iowa, secretaries. The lion A Douglass as conducted to the chair, and delivered a brief and eloquent address. On a motion for the chair to appoint a committee, considerable discuiision arose, but whs finally carried. The ! chair appointed three (mm each State. i A reaoluiion was introduced railing on Congreeo to act ' promptly in relation to the Pacific railroad. i Mr Benton rose and read a letter just received from . Fremont, stating that the convention ahould designate no i route across the Rocky mountains. He believed the pass between the head-waters nf the Arkansas and Del Norte the most practicable and nearest. Perifr Smith had ! sent out exploring parties with view to report to Congress. He dwelt long and eloquently upon the importance and nationality nf the road. The convention is very large 4C4 from Missouri, 17 from Pennsylvania, 3 from New York, 20 Irom Ohio, 13 from Tennessee, 35 from Indiana, 4 from Kentucky, SG4 from Illinois, 47 from Iowa, 3 from Wisconsin, and 5 from Michigan. j Third Dispatch. The convention re-assembled and Mr. Luthrop was admitted and made a vice-president, as ' a delegate from Louisiana. j A resolution was adopted, that a committee of one j from each State draft a memorial to Congress, presenting the objects and designs of the convention, i Judge Price offered a resolution, recommending the , fortieth degree of latitude asthebest route for the rail road. Governor King, oi Missouri, spoke warmly upon the same, as the project was opposed to that of Colonel Benton. A political division ot the democrats of Missouri here manifested itself. General Clarke, of Missouri, inI terfered to quell alt dispute, and was lollowed by Judge Williams, wno delivered a very able and eloquent speech. Mr. Lathrop, of Louisiana, moved to lay ihe resolution on the table when harmony waa temporarily restored. Letters from various distinguished persons in various parts of the Union were ordered to be printed. The report of the topographical engineer, on various routes, was referred to the committee on resolutions. Convention adjourned. Counterfeit l'a on the State Bank of Ohio. Mr. M. A. Bradley, of the Phoenix Bank, handed us yesterday morning a base counterfeit $1 on the Ripley Branch of the State Bank of Ohio; the engraving, filling up, and signature of which approximate so nearly to the genuine as to deceive even good judges except upon the closest scrutiny. The ppecimen before us has the following 'marks and brands, Letter A. No. SSW Date Jan.l, 13-19, payable at Farmers' Branch in Ripley. Signatures, D. P. Evans, Cashier, andG. Swan, Pres't., both excellent. The engraving . . ....... . isnaruiyas tiiglily nmshed as the genuine, and the printing and paper a shade lighter. The red impres sion on the back of the counterfeit is also lighter than the genuine, and the best it not the only distinguish ing mark is that in tbe counterteit the star or areola at the end of the bar enclosing the words 'State Bake of Ohio,' is set in the centre of a square block which is not the cass in the genuine. The plate of the counterfeit is shorter than the genuine. We headed this 'a base counterfeit yet it is so well executed as to hve deceived several of our sharpest money men and bankers. Look out for it. Cin. Enouirer. The Cultcee of the Gräfe. We are glad to no lice a disposition on the part of citizens in various sections of the Union, to pay more attention to the culture of the grape. Vineyards are springing up everywhere. In the neighboring county of Berks, we are told that already OO.OOO gallons of wine are made per annum. At the Syracuse Fair, specimens of American champagne, manufactured in the immediate neighborhood also a specimen of port wine, so-called, manufactured from a native grape found in the vicinity of Columbu, Georgia, were exnibited. No spirits of any kind or coloring matter was mixed with it ; and the gentleman who submitted the speci men made two hundred gallons last year. But for the early frost wich killed much of the fruit, he would have made a thousand gallons. While on this sub ject, we may state that a few evenings since, we tast ed at the house of a gentleman in this city some very delicious American Champagne, manufactured from a vineyard (one of Mr. Longworth's,) near Cincinnati. A French gettleman present, who, we have reason to know is an admirable judge of wines, pronounced it to be very superior possessing the qualities of strength, richness of flavor, color and brightness. When prepared and bottled according to the most successful plans adopted in France, and a full age given to it, this wine will, in the opinion of the French gentleman, become an article of domestic consumption and foreign export of great value.-Philadelphia Inquirer. Editing a Paper. The majority of readers seem to think that nothing can be more easy or pleasant than to edit a paper; but of all the different employments by which men make their bread and butter, there is none, we firmly believe, that to taxes the mind, temper, and flesh, as that of editing a paper. There is none that requires a nicer tact, a sounder judgment, a more constant application, a quicker wit, or a kinder heart. A churlish temper could never succeed as an editor ; nor a narrow-minded man ; nor an ignorant one, nor hasty one, nor an unforgiving one. An editor must of necessity turn himself inside out to the public. He cannot be a hypocrite any more than a husband could be a hypocrite to his wife. He must expose himself in all that he does, as much in selecting the thoughts of others, as in publishing his own, and therefore the better way for him, in the outset, is to begin frankly to save himself from after contradictions and mortifications. Whoever succeeds tolerably well as an editor, is something more than an ordinary man, let Iii cotemporarics say or think of him as they will. Maiden's Magazine. Horse Shoes Without Nails. There have been many improvements attempted upon horse-shoeing, by attaching. the shoe to the foot without the use of nails, but all devices have hitherto fallen short of the de sideratum a method of shoeing without nails applicable to general service. Mr. William Parry has lately patented a new method which consists of a common fullered shoe, fastened on by mean of iron wire staples that have undergone the process of annealing introduced into the wall of the hoof, through holes bored into it, taking nearly the same direction and course that the nails do. The staples are turned downwards, so that the ends emerge within the canal of the fultering, where, by means of pliers they are brought into contact and twisted together, and the twist afterwards turned and beaten down snugly within the canal. The deeper the fullering, therefore, the better. The staples are introduced on either side, the number, as in the use of nails, being left to the judgment of the practitioner. London paper. An Unpleasant Reception. A widower, who lost his wife during tbe prevalence of the cholera, has since been very attentive to a widow living in the southern part of the city, who lost her husband about the period of the death of her admirer's wife. Though the gentleman waimly pressed his suit, and anxiously awaited a favorable answer to his oft repeated enquiry as to when he should be blessed with her hand and heart, the lady never could brace her mind to the ti-k of giving a decisive reply ; but she promised if he would call on Saturday night last, he should have his wish gratified. - Promptly at the appointed hour, the gentleman knocked at the door of the lady's residence, lie was ushered into the sitting room, where to hit surprise he found quite an assemblage, consisting of the lady's male relatives and also those of her deceased husband. The party quietly took the applicant for connubial bliss, and bedecked him with a fine coat of tar and feathers rode him on a rail, and then advised him to go home and he took their advice. St. Louis Union. OrThe total destruction of Bent'g Fort is confirmed by late intelligence received at Independence. The magazine had been blown up, and the rubbish of the building was all that was left. What has become of Mr. Bent, or any one connected with the concern, is not known. This is supposed to be the work cf the Indians.