Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 November 1849 — Page 1

IXDI.1XAFOL.IS. NOVEMBER 3, 1819.

Circuit Court. Our Circuit Court commenced its session on last Monday, Judge Wies, presiding. This week has been mainly occupied in f reparing for business. On next week, we understand several important trials wi!l come up, among which are two for murder. We shall report the most important. The Late Robbert. In our statement of the robbery of Mrs. Gilligan's store, noted in our last, we over-est mated the loss by several hundred dollar. However, it is now unimportant, as the stolen goods have been found. They were secreted in the loft of a stable. It is unfortunate that ti e discoverer of them mad the matter public immediately, as with caution, the theives might have been taken. They are not unsuspected, however, and one more trial of the kind might lead tu their detection. Keep Warm! Among our numerous clothing stores, where every thing in the shape garments o protect the r.uter man, (nothing but cold water being allowable for the inner man.) we would call attention to the store of R. L. Ward, one door east of Totlage' Hardware store. We have Uten notice of his stock, and can say it is surpassed by none in or.r knowledge. Mr. W. does not depend on paint to attract custom; but on the quality and cheapness of his goods. Call and see for yourselves before purchasing; and do what you can for your own interests, and to help a new beginner. (7- R'iots. Quite an event took place in our city on Wednesday last, which has been settled, as our reports show. But that was a mere circumstance in numbers compared with the crowd attracted to TalBott's jewelry store, to see and purchase his beautiful and cheap wares. He is raking all the dimes, and that barely pays the costs. Go and see for yourself. A Lie Confessed. A correspondent of the LouisTille Courier recently stated that the late Jacob Medary, formerly postmaster at Columbus, O., died a defaulter to the government, and that his brother, the editor of the Ohio Statesman, was appointed to succeed him only on condition that he should make good the default. The Ohio State Journal, whig, now admits, on the best authority, that the state ment i3 a slanderous falsehood," against both the living and the dead. Illinois Legislature. The St. Louis Republican of the 27th, says the Committee on Internal Improvements in-the House have agreed upon the principal outlines of a bill for a general Law to incorporate c"mpauies for the building Railroads, and designating the termini cf certain routes, including the Vinctnnes and St. Louis line; with all others that have an equal claim upon the Legislature. Illinois Senator. On the 27th, the Legislature elected-Gen. Shields to the, U. S. Senate to succeed Jude Breese. The vote stood Shields 72 Cyrus Edwards 21 In the previous caucus Breese ran Shields vpry close. but on the twenty-first ballot . Shields was nominated - I by four majority. TnE Late Elections. The elections in October, as well aa those of August and September, were almost an unbroken series of signal triumphs to the democracy. The great States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia and Marvland. have rolled p democratic! majorities from couuties andlistricts which last year n - were overwhelmingly whig. These are triumphs in the face of a hostile administration, which exhibit the changed feelings of the people towards Taylor and his corrupt Regency, in the strongest light. A few more such elections and the game of Taylorism is completely blocked, and the administration rendered entirely powerless to change the settled measures of democratic policy in successful operation during the past four years. Elections are to be held in the present month as follows : In Massachusetts, In New York, In New Jersey, -In Delaware, In Mississippi, -In Louisiana, In Michigan, In Texas, -In Wisconsin, November 12. November 6. November 0. November III. November 5. November 5. November 5. November November If the democrats are all united and active, the last !

nail will bo driven into the co(Tin of Taylor whiggery. ism. Whaterer it may be, however, he has ccrtninly We bid them God speed, and hop for a glorious cured where pn!;nb!e remedies filled, and for all he jS9UC . hns done in the wny of alleviating pain and making ! cures, he has never charged a cent. That lie has Plane Road. One has only to take a ride on the'c,,reJ diseases, a we have sfated, we could eire the plank road to be thoroughly convinced of its immense nony. We should like -to hear from the ' . . , , . , Know-in?, upn wha t principle such marvellous things superiority, to far as pfrasnntnw is concerned, over aro pffpcted Wha, pay Jm J p c j any other kind. Our Macadamized rood is of thej y-We wer lmlf inrinfi to say nothing ; for all best quality, yet the noise which .t makes, soon be- ( tUt j .onl(, merft erecu,alioi. No comes very annoying; and you can converse only in 9tandard me,,jPJ, , hat we know of, pretends to a scream. But the moment yo touch the pl"k. ; di),cM ,he subject as if it were a reality. It is easier "How delightful!" exclaims the lady at your side. n di-m;M it by pronnncinir ,e sentence of A ; You can then talk as sentimentally as you please. ! r(J yn Wfi- t,,e tTirnony of llie very ablest without yelling; and any kind of extreme muscular w.0rk. from the Edinburg Encyclopedia down, that the motion, we may observe ly the way, is the arli of- iime wa whn the kings of England tmtched thousands sentimentality. Let our young friend try it, (we annually. This rtiMom, perhaps transmitted from mean the plank road, of course.) and sre. j the Romans, for C:rero rails the diaesseM struma civitatis," the "scrofula or king's evil of the Slate," 03-It sta'ed in a letter from Washington to the continocd f,r ,on? 8cric9 ()f yenrs; w,)icll j8 fmm N. Y.Courier and Enquirer that the Emperor of Rus-1 .j if , jjood cfTect appeared to be the result

i,a i.as oanisnea to sioena, iu. ixxusco. iaie uussi.n Minister at Washington. His wife is an American lady. The cause of his banishment is stated to be, that he owns property in this country I Bodisco was entrapped to' Russia, and the alleged crime was discovered through a spy. His property in this country consists principally in Government securities and amounts to about half a million of dollars. Tn a fight at Madison, a few days since, between two blacksmiths, one of them had an ear bitten olT. The Liter was held to bail in the turn of one thousand dollars. O-The Loudon correspondent of the National Era, in a late letter, ays: "To astonish the natives in the far West, who talk of raising cities in a day, I will just show you that we Londoners, too, hav been getting on like bricks ! It appears that Gl,l53 new houses have been erected in London, from January, 18o9, to the present time; and fbat 1,652 new streets, 2UO miles in lnngili, have been romoleted since that date. The increase f London population has been during that period, 323,904; and the total metropolitan population amounts now to 2,336,000. I find that 419 new churches have been completed the present year, and provision made for433,2T3 people; sud it is to be hoped that we shall grow in grace in the same ratio. A very considerable illage, truly! Death or Jacksoji's Door Keeper. Jimmy O'Neil, the well known doorkeeper of the Presidential Mansion, under General Jackson, died at Washington on Wednesday. Cave Johnson gave him a place in the Post Office Department, from which Ihe old man was ejected by Collnrner a few months ago, in that rulhless spirit of proscription which characterizes him. Mr. O'Neil hsd man warm friends in Baltimore, who will hear of his death with feelings of respect fur his memory. Bait. Rep. Titht. A New London, Conn., gold seeker, in letter to his friends, thus sums tip the condition of affairs, in California: "It Is the meanest place that atands out of doors, and the meanest climate not fit for a white man to live in blowy, dirty, hot, eld, and sickly. If you know when you are well off stay in old New Loudon.

Published every Thursday. Gen. Liinc. We find the following communication in the New York Globe and Union of Oct. 20. The writer asks some pithy questions as to Taylor's conduct at Buena Vista. We should be willing to change the form of the queries from "what rig fit," to irhy' General Taylor acted as he did. We said at the time that Taylor did but little, if any, of the fighting at Buena Vis'a, and our statement created some surprise ; but whoever will examine the subject, cannot fiil tongrce with us. History insy perpetuate a lie in Taylor's favor, but it will be but a lie after all. The history of Indiana, at least, should never endorse it. From the N. Y Glob and Union, Oct. 6. communicated. The removal nf Gen. Joseph Line, of Indians, from the Governship of Oregon, is m mailer for which a mtjoii'y of the Aoieiicsn people as well those who wiih much admiration I ok upn the dee-Is f our fellow-couotrymen on the plain i f Borna Viia, demand an immediate explanation. Gen. Lute was appviatd b the late President Polk, wiih the unsnimons rnnsent of Ihe Sena'e of the U. S , few days pre vi 'in to the teiminati n of the hfl session of ConCiet. at a tewaid for hit gallant deds and meiitnrious conduel in that hard-fought struggle the battle of ISuena Vista. . These drcdi ate fimiliar tn every Ameiiean Hehn been temved l-y Tieident Taylor, not on party grounds, in my opinion, hut f.t piivate pique, viz t Genual Lane, in hi despatch to Maj r-Gen. Wool, shortly after the battle, dated thai svbirh ni other officer probably dated, for fear of the disp1ranie of the Commander, nearly- the exact time in which Gen.Tayhir arrived at Buena Vita,and for which the whi party have tiied in vain to make him Ihe beio. Gen eral Tav lor, we find by leferting to this despatch, marched to Sellin with the Mississippi Riflemen under Colonel Jefferson Davis, and two companies of United States Dragoons, towards night of the previous day. At 2 o'clock, A. M.,on the following morning, the Amerirau pickets tu diiven in, and the battle commenced at 9 A. M., continuing with och unabated fury aa to rompl part of th 2t Indima Regiment to give war, not, however, till they had discharged twenty round of cartridge each man, and borne the brunt of the battle for several hours. Gen. Lane in his despatch says, at this moment CoL Dar is, with the Mississippi Rifles, rame on the ground and retticved the f tttunes of the d-ty. Now this brings General Taylor on tthe field at about 9 1-2 o'clock, A. M.,r7 1-2 hours after the commencement of the battle, and by this reinforcement claiming a ictoiy. What li'hi have the whig fi lends of Gen. Taylor to clain fur him Ihe Cirdit of this victory and commanding at this eneagment f V hat right had Gen. Taylor to take a full regiment and two companies of Dragoons f r m Genetal Lane's brigade fot seven hoors, at the same time knowing an enemy to be advancing, and leave him in neatly defenceless condition 1 What tiihX had Gen. Taylor to ceouie a itgiment, mote than half of whose numbers by his neglect lay dead and dying on that bl-x-rfy field, for reheating, when his own negligence and absence frtvn that field show plainly where lay the respnnsüälity ? Giving the time of Taylor's arrival, Gen. Lane ha dme his couuity 1 service and rhown satisfactorily ihat Gen. Wool was the planner, executor and victor on fiel i in which Tayloi's skirmishes elsewhere sink into insignificance- It i for this exposure of time that the brave Lane is removed from an office to which he is an honor. Rut what can be expected from a man who has violated every pledge, and especially the one in which he remark he ' ha no fr iends to reward or enemies to punish ?" Will the people of New Yoik. by their votes, uphold a man who ht grossly inputted a brother in arms and an associate in virtoiies, and by whose gallant behavior assisted htm in gaining victories which finally elevated him to the Presidency, where he is uing the rmst cntempirble means in his power to I 1. I 1 .. i t . v m - . . I yiui k mr lauiri- ni'iii rue uiuw or urirs min, nut ihiij fault was an exact slalemeut of affairs at BUENA VISTA. IIesult or Imigination. We mentioned, a few day agr- that an Irish woman railed at the City Marshal's nflio, and asked fir a piece of the rope with whieli man hunjj himself on a wharf near Charlee-town bridge, fur the purpose, as she o id, of curing the Kind's Evil. The ropo was civco her and she kept it tied around her body for the space of three days. Yesterday the rope was returned by the woman's husband, who stated that his wife had entirely recovered, and that the troublesome humor had entirely disappeared. Boston Courier. About the time the above caught our eye, we hid the following from the Wabash (Terra Haute) Express : Have Faith. A citizen gave us a singular narrative the other day, in whose word in any case we have the highest confidence. He had a lump coming upon his neck which wai very painful and grew worse daily, until he consulted a neighbor, who removed both the swelling and the pain by a touch ! We have since heard that the Fame person has removed and cured many obstinate cases of King's Evil or Scrofula and similar disease?, simply by rubbing or touching the place with his finger, and his reputation is such that prorrs come from a or rat distance to hint, to be

5 j tonched and cured ! As this genlleman is "the scß iventh "n" of the snme parent, this singular but

Wp) nrMnme tric inflnpn exrrtprl rnmPi from mao-nPt. important virtue in ins tonen i auriDnrea to mar, out of Ju ,f d m re8u ,he planation may le found in Ihe words which head the extracts above quoted : "Imagination" "Faith!" But who can fully dr fine the nature and powers of the qualities of mind, denoted by those terms, especially aa to their influence upon the body ! Who has ever even attempted the task satisfactorily to himself or others! When one seriously contemplates the subject, it appears to be as indefinable as space. The mind cannot comprehend either itself or its manifestations! The "doctors" admit tery freely, that the body may become dUeated in various ways, through the influences of t!,e imagination; the experience of the universal win Id tenches every body this lesson; and why should not different influences, through the same medium, operating powerfully, upon the nervous ystem, produce curative effects also ! We don't know, nor docs any body else. ire acted upon such an Idea in trying to keep away the chol ra during the summer, and think we did no harm, if we did no good. Information Wanted. The widow and children of Peter Davis, who served in Gen. Wayne's army against the Miami Indians, from 1792 to 1795, are. desirous uf obtaining proof of the fact that he did so serve, his discharge having been lost. He served under otficcrs Lockhart and Preston, and was discharged at Green Bay. He entered the army at four teen years of age and was discharged at seventeen, jle had red hair and light or grey eyes. Any person who knew said Davis, and krows him to have done such service, will confer a great favor by directing a note to Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, his widow, at New' Albany, Ind. Look 1 no for Sir John Franklin, Br Balloon. The New Orleans papers publish a ourteous letter from Lady Franklin to R. O. Davidson, of Columbus, Mis., respectfully declining, from inability, to fur nish the funds asked for, to enable him to mount his flying machine, and go in search of her huoband. Col. E. Dumont, df Lawrcnceburgh, is announced as a candidate for Agent of State. Mr. D. is not only well qualifie-d f rr the office, but a most worthy recipient. Yetaj Palladium

INDIANAPOLIS, SEWS OF Til la DAY, 03" A bill is now before the Legislature of Ten nessee, proponing n change the Constitution of that

State s,, as to elect Jude by the people. It requires pro sition t0 the Nat5onai Assembly. II will most two-third 4 to pass it and then when ratified by the'.., , , , , , people it will become a part of the Constitution. Iti llkp,J have t,,e honor U al,Bch hi name tn Srent is t!ioii(rlit ihnt tlio it f.ie it in tl... lxriJaturp will 1 act. As a metnlicr uf t!ie Republican onnosition h

' be nenrly unnnimous. The Constitution of Tennessee! ir'vioes lor soerinc amendments, so mat wiienpuonci opinion demands a reform, it can be mad without throwing the whole Constitution open to agitation. WiriG Editor in Limbo. The editor of the Fsy. ette County Whig was arrested at Uniontown, on the 4th inst., by ofiker Sha!lcros. ajrent of the P. O. Department, on a charge of robbing the post office 4 Uniontown. He was fully committed. No doubt this fellow hns discoursed long and loud about loeofoco defaulters," " locofuco thieves," the " Denbys," the " Moores," &.c. &c. While he was thus discoursing, it appears he was prowling about the post office, stealing letters and money. iY. A. Ledger. OCTIfs- Elizabeth Broomfield died at Centreville, in this State, recently, from the effects of etrvchnine. spplied to a diseased tooth by mistake for morphine. J hough medical assistance was instantly called, she died in about 15 minutes after the application of the drug. The Brooklyn Navy Yard. Orders have been received from Washinglon to finißh, launch, and rig the Steamship "San Jacinto." now on the stocks, with all convenient despatch. She will probably be ready for launching in the course of 30 days. Hogs. We are authorised to say that on yesterday two dollars and fifty rent per hundred pounds was offered for twelve hundred hogs, and it is supposed that even a higher price was paid. This looks like commencing operations, and wn think that those who have hoes on hand would do well to be in the market. Madison Banner, Oct. 31. A clerk employed in the Troy (Ohio) post oflice, named G. J. F. W. Firm.m, has recently been arrested for extracting $2.400 from a letter mailed by the bank in that place, for Louisville. He attempted to make his escape, but the telegraph got ahead of him, and when he was takeu, the money, except about $100 was f und in his possession. QrSenators Houston and Rusk seem to have fallen into very much the same kind of a difficuty in Texas ns Senator Benton has in Missouri, on account of their liberal course with regard to the slavery question. According to the NcwYork Mirror the property of the New York Hotel will realize sixty thousand dollars profit this year ; and this, too under a rent of twenty-four thousand dollars, and an investment in furniture of at least one hundred thousand dollars. The New York Journal of Commerce says "The patronage of the Executive may bo used in such a way as to strengthen an Administration, or in such a way as to weaken it. It has been, since the 4th of March last, skilfully used for the hitter purpose." It is announced in the State Sentinel that C. B. Bentley i9 a candidate for Principal clerk of the House of Representatives. Mr. Bcntley is a citizen of this place, and we commend him to our democratic friends as worthy their support. Richmond Palladium. Lakoe Inheritance. It is said that Lieut. Col. Gold, f H. B. Ms 4th regiment of fot, will come into possession of the enormous wealth left by Mr. Charles Bullen, the late Banker of Liverpool, amounting to nearly 6,000,000. Senator Chase, of Ohio, has written a letter to the Seneca Advertiser, defining his position. He is for non-intervention with the States on the question of slavery, but free soil as to territories ; as to the rest, he is democratic throughout. If ever a man was made illustrious by the untiring devotion of a wire. Sir John Franklin may assuredly claim that distinction, in addition to the renown he will probably acquire by the discoveries from his ex pedition. The strong conjugal affection Lady F. has shown hns elicited the admiration of all Christendom. 'Madison Banner. Horn, the vocalist and composer, died in Boston on Saturday, in his C2d year. He composed some of the most popnbtr songs of the day. His "Cherry Ripe," "Come Mariner down in the deep with me," and adaptations of several beautiful songs by Gen. Morris, will be remembered among scores of olhers- He also prod-iced two operas The quantity of Railroad iron recently purchased in burope. by Mr. otevenson. President of the Nssli ville snd Chattanooga Railroad, at $39:60 per ton. and delivered at Isew Orleans free of ail charges du ties included, was 10,340 tons. It is said that the saving on this purchase is 350,000 on the engineer's estimate, and upwards of $250,000 on the cost of the iron if purchased in the United States. 07-The Quincy (III.) Whig, m spesking of the appoinlmcnt or uamoie as rostmasler at ot. Jjouis, says : "Men evry way more deserving and more com pdent, have been thrust aside to make room for the nalvb." Illinois U. S. Senator. The contest for United Stales Senstor in Illinois is waxing warm, and if is difficult to say who will be elected. There are five candidates Shields, Breese, McClernand, Turcer and Campbell. Brecse's chances seem the best. The Madison, Indiana, papers publish no notices tor benevolent associations, nor obituaries, without charging for the same at half-price rates. Perfectly right, the fame should prevail every place. IV a bash Express. Montreal, Oct. 19, 1S49. The manifesto of the Montreal annexationists, has made annexation the snhject of agitation from one end of the province to the other: ihe columns of every newepaper in Low er Canada teem with it, as do those alo of Upper Canada, as far as they have yet come to hand, after the receipt ot the manifesto. t rotn the tone mam Tested by the press from both sections of the province, Lower Canada will declare in favor of a revolution and Upper Canada will go dead against it. The citizens of Indianapolis have had a meeting to take into consideration the establishment of a S ate Orphan Asylum. The object is one that commends itself by the strongest arguments to the favorable consideration of the people of the State. Such an institution is deserving a place among tne benevolent i"t r t 3 " enterprisers in wnicn inuiana is engageu, ana any steps takeu by the Legislature to promote the object. will merit and receive the approbation of every ci'i zen who regards the good of the unfortunate. Logansport Pharos. 0rThe Island of Cuba seem to have recovered its former state of tranauilitv. Our latest news from Yucatan intimated that dissensions had broken out among the chiefs of the insurgent Indians. It appears that the cause of discord among the Indians was the disinclination that was expressed by many of their leaders to the project of Jacmco Pat, who wished to levy a tax for the prosecution of the war. The lat ter, finding his project distasteful, had withdrawn in disgust from the league, followed by three hundred of his friends. The Yucatecö Legislature had met, and the first act of the session was the renunciation of the national constitution, and a declaration that the peninsula would reture in submission to the föderal compact. Harmony and Discord. At the Bethel Church, Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, as we learn from the Blue Hen's Chicken, an emeuts grew out of a dispute in the congregation whether the singing should be done by a choir or by the congregation generally ; the hostilities at last burst into a genera row, during which the singing books flew thick as hail, and the ladies pushed each other from one side of the church to the other, to the uMer destruction of artificials and the danger of natural charms. A general lawsuit for assault and batteries resulted, and several Indies (and ladict' garments) were ''bound over" to keep the peace. The matter, (jowcTcr, ha been amicably settled.

NOVEMBER 8, 1849. FORlalGX 1TC.11S. 07-Niipoleon Bonaparte, son of Jerome, and cousin of Louis, the President, has introduced the following will probt bly briny; over some of the party, and it is j Kta ! 1 a nnisai voKlalliaf lha T firriti micta ( r ton t 5 -it el I 1 uir v.'isvi I iiu I 1 11 r. 4-4 miitCiP a I vj ivuni j the Berryers, Moles, and Thiers would oppose such a moiion. 'Considering that generosity, grandeur, and justice ; are the best auxiliaries to f und and fortify the Republic; considering Ihat Government have never been saved by laws of proscription d violence ; the undersigned proposes the following decree : 1st. The laws of the Uhu of April, 1332. and of the 20th of May, 1848, whirh exile the family of the Bourbons, are abrogated. 2. The decree of the Constituent Assembly of the 27th June, in revoked. The insurgents of June, transported without trinl, shall be set at liberty. "Natoleon Bonaparte." 03The N. Y. correspondent of the Union thus compliments the Su'tan : , "Turkey, unchristian Turkey, is really the only government which so far ha lately stood boldly for ward the champion of th peace of the Bible of that flowing from the strict observance of the rights of others that peace wheih grows out of doing unto others as we would that others should do unto us ; which, in individual affairs, produces "the peace of mind which passet h all understanding" the condition of humanity nearest allied to the spirit of God." Newspapers in Europe are not quite as cheap as in this country. The London Times costs 15 a year. The same rate is charged for the Morning Chronicle, Daily New, Globe, Herald and Pist. lheIjondon Evening Mail is published three times a weefat $25, a year. The London semi-weeklies $9:50 per annum, and weeklies $12 and $9. The French daily papers, the large ones, are about the same price as the London prints; thoe about the same size as our penny papers, cost $20 per annum. The German dailies cost from $22 to $3G. Cheap postage is spreading. A Convention has been published between Spain and Belgium, by which the future charge f single letters between the two countries is reduced to a single franc. Complaints are mado Ihnt the new florin, coined at the mint in London, hears upon it the form of a cross. The master of the mint is a Catholic. A New Line of European Steamships. An American gentleman, in Sardinia, writes to his correspondent at Washington, the Intelligencer says, that the Sardinian government has favorably considered a plan fr the retnblihment of a line of steamers from Genoa, touching at Gibraltar, Cadiz, and Mcdeira, to the United State, under the auspices of the-Governmcnt, and with a iew, at the same time, of giving activity to Ihe trade of the Mediterranean and augmenting the maritime strength of the country. A company is being formed and the Government is occupied in making tho preliminary studies for the execution of the j.ropoKcd object. It will probably be decided to run the line to New Orleans, touching at the Havana in addition to the places befure mentioned. France. The budget for 1350 has been printed, and is about to be distributed to the members of the Assembly. The expenses of the year, those of the sinking fund being maintained, will amount to 1,591,332.077f. The receipts aro only estimated at 1,270,953,849f., leaving a deficit of about 320,000,000f. Sir Moses Moniefiore has founded at Damascus a large hospital and two primary echools for indigent Jews, among whom he has also distributed 160,000 Turkish piastres, (about 40,000 francs.) The Jews of Damascus, in order to testify their gratitude to Sir Mo9es Montifiore for these sets of benevolence; have bestowed on him the title of Nassi, (Prince) of the Israelites of Damascus. Sr. Loüis. Oct. ' 0. A few days since, two young French gentlemen calling themselves Count Gonzalez de Montcsquies and Count Raymond de Montesquies arrived here from Chicago and put up at Barnom's Hotel. They stated that they were on a hunting excursion through the West. Nothing particular was observed in their manners. About 11 o'clock last night, when Mr. Barnum and a servant, J.J. Macumber, were retiring to bed, one of the Frenchman came to the window on the gallery and tapped lightly. Barnum pushed the curtain aside, when the man outside fired a gun, the ball from which passed through Barnum and two buckshot took effect in the arm of Macumber. At the report of the gun, Albert Jones, a coach-maker on Third street, who lodged in an adjoining room, rushed to the door, when he was shot through the head and fell dead. Two gentlemen, who had also proceeded to the gallery, were struck with buckshot. The assailant was pursued to his room nnd after a severe struggle was secured. He is the younger of the two brothers. Both were arrested and now affect to be in-nne. A few days previous to this the same persons made an attempt up n the life of a landlord at Alton, Illinois. Barnum is still alive, but cannot recover. The trunks of the two brothers Montesquies were opened this evening, and letters were found proving them t be Parisians of wealth and family. I hey have splendid equipments nnd 1.500 in German gold. They are evidently insane. Both refuse counsel and say that they will plead their own cause that the acts, were committeo by the order ot uod. ine mayor lias or dered a strong police force to protect the jail. Alpert Jones was buried this evening. He was shot with on ounce ball and six buckshot. The others who were wounded, with the exception of Raruum, are doing well. The Susquehanna Bank Swindle. Large amounts of the notes of the Susquehanna Bank of Pennsylva nia, have been brought here recently by certain pro duce operators, and paid out to our farmers and met chants, and i&st Saturday a telegraph dispatch an nounced to our citizens that the bank had failed, and its issues were worthless. For several days some of our best business men have been cautioning the public against receiving this money, but their caution came too late to prevent the circulation of tho bills to the amount of several thousands throughout our com munity. Darticularly among the farmers. The total amount in circulation in this county m variously esti mated at from ten to twenty thousand dollars, iris is a total loss to our citizens, and the men with whom rests the responsibility of such an outrage upon the lioneei&nu unsuspecting portion 01 community, snouia be held up to the world in their proper character, and be permitted to spend tho remainder of their days in some public institution set apart for the reception of criminals of the worst character. Our exchangee in form us that other towns besides Lafayette, have been humbugged by this swindling concern. Several wheat markets on the Lakes and in Ohio, have been flooded with the paper. From what we can learn its circulation has been immense throughout the Western country ,Iifayetie Journal, Oct. SO. The Coolioge Arrant. It was recently stated by several papers in Maine, that the murderer, Valorus P. Coolidge, was not dead, but bad escaped, leaving the dead body of some other person in his cell frightfully disfigured. The Bangor Whig and Courier has revived the mat lor "by publishing sundry depositions of persons who knew Coolidge well, and who declare that the body exhibited at the State Prisou of Maine was not that of Coolidge. His own father deposed, in substance, as follows: "Dr. Coolidge was a man of effeminate appearance, with a very jiglit beard. The beard on this corpse was very heavy, and the eyebrows different from those of Coolidge. The face was too large and wide, the nose too much Roman to bo Coolidge's The hands upon the body were much too large for Coolidge's, and the hair was too black to be Coolidge's. And upon the whole examination of the body, I am fully confident that it was not tho body of Valorus P. Coolidge." ft?" A company of emigrants will start from Lafayi cUe, fcr California, some tiino in January next.

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Vkl MJ 1 Volume JX:::::::::Numl)cr 22. A new Fiscal Agency Wall Street mid IIiiiicoiiiIm: in the fluid. Whs d es not recollect the glorious times of the old United States Bank, when Wall street was but stipiudiary of Nick Biddle, and jobbers, editors, currency, commerce, nnd the elections, were ruled and directed by this m nstcr 1 Who does not remember the fierce, savage snd protracted war which it made ags-iost Old Hickory nnd the people, and the universal panic, ruin and distress which fallowed its ignominious defeat ! What became then, of the pensioners? They crept ititohole-t and corner they denied their master asbluntlv as St. Peter, and admitted that a bank was an obsolete idea," and a nu.sance. But with the election of Harrison, the lurches of the old bank were on tlu? ground the dried skeleton of the monster was galvanized, and wanted but the scrspc of a pen to return to its full vigor. But they could not bend Captain Tyler;" and bank, whigs, pensioners, ahd hucksters, all fell together. This time the monster was believed lo be dead and damned, son I and bodv, forever and ever. And so '.x is. But as half a loaf i better than no bread, a substitute has been proposed. Wall street and Buncombe arc in the field. The Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, in a letter first published in a paper without a circulation, proposes a new "scheme of a national currency" Reduced to its simplest form, he proposes to establish a free syFtem of banking throughout the United States, on the faith of the public stocks. Mr. CI ingmnn is from the Buncombe dis trict, famous for rocks of the secundary formation, its mineral springs, pinn shingles nnd buckwheat cake. Having secured his re-election to the House, and having the leisure of this summer upon his hands, Mr. Clingman, emerging from the woods of Buncombe, has been for some months engaged in the inspection of factories of cotton and politics in the North. He has been initiated into the mysteries of the Albany junto the secrets of the money changers the science of stock-jobbing and Buncombe is in the field. Mr. Draper, chief of the forlorn hope in behalf of Col. Webb at Washington, has found his man; and the topic of conversation over a bottle of wine has become a great national measure. Everybody is wondering that the wieacrest)f Congress did not think of it before. But the scheme of Mr. Clingman ItKiks suspicious. It has the sulphurous odor cf Wall s'reet nil over it. The hoofs of the old monster stick out, though his tail is coiled tip in his breeches. Feasting, feting and lionizing, a juicy dinner at ihe Astor House, and the tour of our public institutions in an Aid- rtnan's carriage to the Penitentiary, are hard to he resisted, though all for Buncombe. There is something of a plot at the boi loin. : The pensioners of the old bank, who, after betraying and murdering their master and benefactor, have pined away to ßkin and bone, cannot stand it any linger. Twelve years fast is long enough. It was the father of our present Secretary of the Treasury, who was President of the Schuylkill Bank when it broke down; it was Mr. Meredith's collector at Philadelphia who broke up with the Girard concern; it was this last appointment and others like it, that contributed to the late whig defeat in that city. But et ill this does not prevent ihe conspiracy. We may expect nil these men, and all those who fattened n the old Bank all wln were bought or sold, whether for five, ten or twenty thousand, or for $52,765 37i to go for the new scheme. Mr. Clingman only lifts the curtain. The scene-nhifter8 are behind. The Treasury is an old cow, whose milk is too rick to be lost. The scheme of Mr. Clingman is but tho first movement. .Pass it, and a bank comes next in order. Somehow or other the stock-jobbing brotherhood mu9t get into the Treasury. Let us have, then, the bill of Buncombe. Then the purlieus of Wall street will fcccome the valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin; the very side-walks will be richer in gold than the mines of the desert ; bank paper will increase by millions; everything will go up, up, until the explosion, when a bankrupt law will wind up the concern. Indian Curn Growing in England. By permission of the Commissioner of Woods and Forests, an experiment has been made in St. James's Park, London and, the Times will have it, successfully to ascertain whether Indian corn may not be advantageously cultivated in England. The Times gives a very flattering account of the experiment, and a very curious description or the plant, moreover, as it will doubtless appear to American readers: Notwithstanding all drawbacks, (says the Times,) the little maize crop has fully realized all that was anticipated. It was sown the latter end of Mv, and now in the beginning of September it is ripe for cutting. The appearance of the plant is peculiarly graceful, far more so indeed, than that of any ordinary corn-field. The stems, which run up perfectly 6trai2ht, are generally from four to five feet high, and aie much thicker than the larger wheat straw. They throw out from the tool upwards a succession of fl-ig-like lcavc-s, the stem terminating in a littlo ' tuft, from which spring the cars of corn, somewhat irregularly clustered; and, in this inetsncc, apparently not heavily laden. "Among6t thofe who are about to experiment on a larger t?calc next year, are his Roysl Highness Prince Albert, who proposes sowing a piece of land at Flemish Farm, hi G rare the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood, snd the Duke tf Norfidk, at Arundel." Qr-Will our whig farmers think we should have a protective tariff on com. to check English competition in our markets? The "Cuba Hunt" is at last explained by a Sergeant Major of the expedition. It was to establish a republican government, the money supplied by planters on the Island. General Lopez was the general manager. If ihe management is a fair specimen of his military rapacity, the Round Islanders should thank their stars that the Government interfered to thwart their plans, for by this time they would in all probability be taßting the delights of a Spanish prison. These attempt on the part of adventurers from this country to revolutionize Spanish governments have always proved abortions. The people generally have been too pusillanimous to carry them iuto successful accomplishment, and they would not be able to enjoy the benefits long even if achieved. Ppulationof Minnesota. The birth places of the members of the Minnesota Legislature may give an idea of the places whence the population is derived. We fiod the following record : From New England, 8 ; Canada, 4 ; New York, 3; Pennsylvania, 2; Michigan. 2; Ohio, 1; New Jersey, 1 ; Virginia, 1 ; Missouri, 1. . We may presume from this, that the population will be drawn, almost entirely, from the extreme North, corresponding in climate with that of Minnesota. Emigration, in the United States, with few exceptions, move on lines of latitude. The Nicaragua Question. A Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says, the course of tho Union with respect to the Nicaragua and Mosquito bii8iiicfs, has prevented a magnificent flnurih of trumpets from the State Department, respecting the Squier's treaty with tho supreme director and legislature of Nicaragua. It appears that the late United States charge, Mr. Hiee, who was turned out to make room for Mr. Sqtiier, concluded a belter treaty than Mr. Squier, which, when received by Mr. Clayton, he threw under the table, determined thatHise and Buchanan should reap none of the credit. ----- FROM SALT LAKE.—St. Louis, October, 26 1849.— News from Salt Lake, to September 18th, says 15.000 emigrants will winter there in conseqeence of the grass having been burned by previous emigrants. The Rifle Regiment hsd reached Fort Hall. Col. Parker was in command, by order of Col. Loving. Maj. Simonson had gone to Oregon. The Pawnees lately murdered Thomas and Packard, two mail carriers from Fort Leavenworth, half way between Forts Kearney and Laramie. Their remains were interred by Lieut. Donaldson. ----- Col. E. Dumont, of Lawrcnceburgh, is announced as a candidate for Agent of State. Mr. D. is not only well qualified for the office, but a most worthy recipient. Madison Courier.

Annexation of Cuba. . Astor House, Sept 21, 1849. To the Editor of the Journal of Commerce : Sik : Public attention has of late been much attracted to Cuban affairs. There are two distinct matters; one is an anticipated insurrection in Cuba to throw off the Spanish yoke ; the other is the annexation or incorporation ofthat island into the American Union. Annexation is doubtless regarded as one of the contingencies of a successful revolution. Though these two matters are thus connected, it suits my purpose to consider them separately, as my few remarks will be wholly devoted to the latter, to wit, the annexation of Cuba. It is true that the United States are bound by treaty not to take possession of Cuba, yet hitherto in the history of the world, treaty stipulations have formed no obstacle to acquisitions of territory by one Power from another; nor need we expect that our country will form an exception to the practice of nations. I regard then our treaty obligations as likely to interpose but a slight barrier to the annexation of Cuba ; I shall therefore consider it as a very possible contingency, and to be met as a practical question. The annexation of Cuba would be fatal jto the intrrcs of the Blave-holding States; and in different ways. The sugar planters of Louisiana and Texas would be immediately smitten with ruin. Cuba peaceably annexed to the United States, under the advantage of a stable government such as annexation ought to give it, would drive our southern sugars out of the market. What then would our planters do? Return to cotton with n total loss of the immense properties now invested in sugar planting 1 Cotton planting i already overdone, and in many districts of large extent, I speak of nearly all the northern cotton-growing belt of the Southern States scarcely affords remunerating returns. Cotton which may now be set down ss ruling at 7 or 8 cents, would fall to 3 or 4 cents; a frightful depreciation of Southern property, which would cause the complete ruin of a large pro

portion of the 6inall planters. Besides, the cotton crop has proved so uncertain in the Gulf districts of Louisiana and Texas, as to render these regions practically not well adapted to its culture. By the consequences resulting to the two great staples of cotton and sugar from the annexation of Cuba, sdave property in all the Northern clove-holding States, viz: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky, would at once be rendered nearly worthless; for their value in these States depends not little on the profitableness of their labor in more favored districts farther south. The annexation of Cuba would be more disastrous to the slaves even than their masters. The profits of their labor being greatly impaired, the slave would be worse fed, wors clothed, less cared for in picknes, and his habits of good conduct less attended to by the master, at first from inability of the master, and in time probably from disinclination. It is some three months since I left "my homo in Texas, during which time I have seen the Southern newspapers only occasionally. They are, I believe, silent on the annexation of Cuba ; but so far as I have conversed with Southern gentlemen here, I find thorn -very generally oppoeed to the measure. The feeling about Cuba annexation has been raised and fanned in this section of the Union. Tht Cuba being slaveholding would add to the political strength of tho South, is less than the dust of the balance; it is gros humbug. While thi Union lists, and every patriot must pray that it be perpetual, we must rely on tho justice of the North, to abide by the adjustments of the Constitution, not to interfere with slavery. The addition of a couplo of Senators at d a few Representatives will not materially strengthen us. If it seem to be pain at first, it will prove in the end utter weakness. The harmony f this nation, the strength of this Union, are not to be promoted by the incorporation of such materials as mike up the island of Cuba. It would be no injustice t expect facile corruptibility, in any delegation that may be elected hy a people on this side of the Atlantic of Spanish origin. I need not intimate in which section of our country are found the means to corrupt; it is sufficient that from such a delegation, we might anticipate the-commencement of a system of corruption which would rot our government to the core in our own day. The annexation of Cuba would furnish new occasions for abolition and snti-slavery excitements, and for the exercise of that baneful spirit of fanaticism and disunion, which may pcradventure be put down by the good and patriotic of nil parties on the settlement of the California questions, unless new disputable matter be hrown as fire-brands among us. Our right to carry our slaves over the seas in our vessels, between one slaveholding State and another, would be hotly contested, and continually interfered with. British cruisers powerfully supported would incessantly watch and annoy our intercourse with Cuba, and in the end would not fail to embroil us with England ; though I should not fear this, while a harmonious feeling shall subsist among ourselves. Nor do I make much account of the fact, that Spain being deprived of Cuba would naturally be arrayed and with sorest feelings, with other European power, against the Elave States of the South ; yet under som circumstances, it is a consideration of no meair weight. I set aside too the right asserted by Lorrl Wm. Bentinck snd affirmed by Lord Palmerston, In Parliament, of Great Britain to take Cuba in compensation of the Spanish debt duo British bondholders. With justice on our side, we do not fear Europe. Yet peace is indeed well worth preserving; and it is high wisdom to strengthen our relations of amity and interest wiih other nations, in tho view of poesibli wars. And it may not be out of place to slate here, that, some five years ago, when war seemed imminerbetween our country rnd Great Britain, the Brili?'i (Government was determined to ally France and Spain with itself against us: and that in the overtures tthe tw.t latter powers, a portion of Mexico was suggested for a prince of Louis Phillippe's d) nasty, at d the restoration of a portion of her former continental colonies was to be the reward of Spain. But I return to the simple question of the annexation of Cuba. It would be a Greek gift, fatal to the South ; it wouM be the shirt of Nessus to the Herculean strength if the American government. Should annexation take place peaceably, and r 1 1 seem to work well, it will hereafter stop the South from saying aught against the annexation of Canada, should the latter measure be deemed profitable to I'm North. We should have it thrown in our teeth, that the North had annexed Cuba for the South. If Cuba be annexed peaceably, its rich commerce becomes the almost exclusive property of the Northern merchants; its great home market will lo supplied by Northern manufacturers. Tho Northern merchants and manufacturers are thercfi-rc tempted to desire its acquisition. If Cuba I annexed, it complicates and embarrasses the el? re question among ourselves, and disembarrasses another great natron, Spain. The numerous abolitioni-: must, therefore, covet its acquisition, as a new fit rbrand. And thus, so far as 1 am informed, Cul "ti annexation originated, and has been favored in li e Northern section of the Union. Every sensiblo Southern man, every true pat'iot throughout the country, must deprecate the annexation of Cuba to our confederacy. Very truly, yours, A. S. Te Tehuantefec Route. The citizens of New Orleans are turning their attention to a communiration across the Isthmus of Tehtiantcpec, which will a ffordateady means of transit between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. The first step towards eenring the object has beeu a public meeting, held on the 5th instant, which was very largely attended, proving the interest that the mercantile men of that city take in the proposition. Gov. Isaac Johnson presided, and he opened the meeting with a reech, shewing that New Orleans having once taker, a stand in this matter, she could not recede, andybcing the rVpot of the great valley of the Mississippi, she vns bound in justice lo hereelf and the country to carry it out. The meeting instructed the delegates lo the Memphis Conventiou to advocate a railroad acrr this route, at the same time declaring its favoral le foeling for a similar undertaking within our own tcrritory. Popular Election of Judges. At the August election in Alabama, the vote of the people was taken n the question whether county aiid circuit judges shouM be elected by the popular voice. Tho result was fr electing county court judges by the people, yea 52,34( nay 11,397; electing circuit court judges, yea 40, IG 1, nay 17,351. The members of the Canada Legislature have published a protest against the purposed annexation of that country id the United Slates.