Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1850 — Page 2

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Our Titiii. The following wül hereafter be ih permanent terms of the Wrek'y Indiana Slate Sentinel: CO" Payments to be made always in advance. One copy, one year, $'2 00 Three copies, i'iie year, 5.1)0 Five copies, one yea r, 8.00 One copy during the session, 50 Ten copies, in clutw, one year, 15.00 Sini-Weokljr. (Published three limes a week during the session.) One copy, ft LOO I Three copies,. .... $10.00 One copy during the session. l.uu All rapera will be stopped at the end of the term paid for, unless the subscription is renewed, except; to those with whom we have other unsettled business accounts. i Any peraon sending us a club of ten. with cash, at ( the rate of $1.50 each, shall have a copy gratis for j one year. For a greater number than teu, the gratu- . ity sl.all be increased in proxrtion. ! All potmaters are reqtwste,! to art as agen's, and as such, bv a recent decision of the department, they : are authorized to frank letters for the benefit of Sub-Tiber. tpbi rnti AnvF.RTtstXG PATENT MEDICINES. To prcwnt omiutfcM, nd lo mv ihoe, we etat our trnua for adVert eint P.I ml urdieiiiea, via : Fitly reiiu per rqmn in ihe semi-weekly edirion for Hie tint in- j Serin, and tweiiU-floe rent per square fur euch subsequent HisrrInA, hra) lor not leea than Ultra UMWilba- Ovrrlhrre it-tilha,50 centa prr Hp re it ihm Km. and 90 eeni per qur lor each Hknqurtil invertion. F.-ch aflvrrtuwinenl win nave ai wan one loscriiun a tha Weekly without add it -mal curt. Fi ifueitiona la tha Weekly eootinuoutly, double tha above wires. Cut, whea agreed I k Inserted, will bn charged doable fee lb space they occupy. Eight line of Nonpareil, or 250 tan, count a square. 31 A II 1 0 COIIÄTY DEMOCIIATIC TICKET. For Senatorial Delegate, A. F. MORRISON. ( JAMES JOHNSON, Fr Rep. Delegates, J. P. CHAPMAN, ( LEVI L. TODD. ( BEN J. MORGAN, For Representatives, MADISON WEBB, ( WM. ROBSON. For Sheriff, CHARLES C. CAMPBELL. Fur Treasurer, JOHN M. TALBOTT. For Auditor, ISAAC W. HUNTER. For rrobate Judge, ADAM WRIGHT. For Co. Com'r., MATTHEW R. HUNTER. For Coroner, PETER F. NEWLAND. O-The Stale Journal of Monday, attempts to mike "political capital" out of the fact of the sale of the State Sentinel to the Messrs. Browns. That is a very natural desire on the Journal' part, no doult; but we presume democrats, at least, will require some more authentic deve lopments, than any which can be made by the Journal, before they give credence to its suspicions or its declaration. The Journal says 'From the extraordinary price paid for the mere subscription Let of the Siate Sentinel, it is evident that other objects are in view than an investment for buineft purposes." We suppose that the Journal "judges of its heigh- , bors by itself- We object to the application of the rule in this case ; for there is as much difference in the "business" value of the Journal and Sentinel as there is and ever has been in their political character. Ours is th only paper in this Slate which is sustained on the cash principle, and no one has ever come near it in the value i f its advertising patronage. In these two feature alone, its intrinsic value is an hundred per cent, at least, more than the Journal. So, perhaps, in other particulars. This is av pure business poiut and would not be worth any at tention, were it not for the political inference which the Journal attempts to convey about ''other objecta' bad in view by the purchasers. Of those, we know nothing: but Mr. Brown will soon be able to speak for himself, when perhaps the solicitude of our neigh bor may be fully relieved. We should not have sold to any one else for a price less "extraordinary" than we obtained, whatever objects" might have been had in view by the purchaser. But the Journal immediately goes on to give other reasons for our retirement, by which il half confounds itself : First, that our sentiments on the subject of lavery differ from those held by certain "leaders" (in whic'i, we nearly agree with Benton;) secondly, that "Cass is determined, if possible, to bj the next Democratic candidate for the Presidency;" thirdly that we are opposed to that nomination, (about which our neighbor has no knowledge)-; and so on, winding up with a pathetic enquiry about what is to become of Gen. Joseph Lane, &c. "We shall be excused for refraining from comment upon these matters, being confident that our successors will execute justice upon them if they deem it expedient. It is not desirable fur us to lecume involved in new controversies, just as we are about leaving the tripod forever. OfUNGi axd Crawford. The democratic conven tion which assembled at Hartford on Saturday last nominated Dr. W. F. Sherrod, of Orange, as their candidate for Senatorial Delegate to the constitution al convention, and Col. Huston Miller, of Crawford as a candidate for Senator. These are good nomina tions. Dr. S. is a gentleman of fine talents and as a member of the last Legislature did good service for his constituents and for democratic principles. Col Miller has before occupied a seat in the Senate, aiJ proved himself a safo an attentive member. We hope the democracy of the two counties w ill lay aside all personal differences and elect these nominees by handsome majorities. .V. A. Ledger. The Eights or Married Womejt. The Legislature of Pennsylvania has just declared that tha true intent and meaning of the act of Assembly, to secure the rights of married women, passed the 11th dty of April, A. D. 1349, is and hereafter shall be, that the real estate of any married woman in that commonwealth hall not be subject to execution for any debt against her husband, on account of any interest he may have, or may have had therein, as tenant by courtesy, but the same shall be exempt from levy and sale for such debt during the life of the a&id wife. Liquors ros Medical Pc eposes. Charles Oarwer. No. 1, Drake House, has just imported some of the beat liquors ever brought to the west, such as Brandy, Wine, &e., which be proposes to sell at as low prices as articles of the same quality can be pur chased in the west. In no case will he sell less than a quart. We Lave the opinion of the best judges that these are of the best quality, and physicians es pecially are solicited to examine them. Our rwn opinion is, that nothing exceeding them has been offered in this market. frr The Free soilers in Ohio have nominated D. R. Tilden, of Summit eountly, as their candidate for Governor. Mr. Tilden was formerly the Whig mem ber of Congress from that district, but after the nom ination of Old Zack, he refused to act with the Tay lor Whig party. Affrat At Madiaon, on Taursday last, a eonsi&ble earned Howard was shot, and badly wounded by a young man named Hollzclaw, in th-J attempt of the former to arrest the latter for a misdemeanor of some kind ia one cf the churches. -

True to Iii Vocation. The editor of the Indiana Journal hat exhibited hi usual unfairness io endeavoring to ncatt lha imprtiii"0. thit tha lala purchaie of Iba Indiana State Sen i has tern made, for lha express puipoe if cxrlusively favoiing tha pretension of Gen. Cat lo the Pieiienry. and for Ilia purpose of tiaoafeiinic th hol drmocia ie put of Inditna, bod and bieechet, ovrr lo that gentleman at the pr-prtime. That the huh pi ira paid fur lha Sentinel (without ststing what thai price i) is pioof positive in faror uf thrse statements. That lha fiit im! of Gcneial Lane aie to be sold out or tienefeted, Le. As a fiiend of Geneial Lane, and ona who ha had at much t do wrh bringing hi name befoie the cnuniijr ai a candidate for the Pie.idenry as peibap any other citizen f Indiana, in the bence of the new editor and proprietor of lha Sentinel, I protest against inch unfair and ungentleroanly treatment, made too in the face of the propeetus of the new

erf i i ion of I he Sentinel at the time before tha eyes of the editor nf (he Journal. That ptopectui tht teadenof the Sentinel hare read, and the future coune of tha paper is thne laid down, and, I believe, will be faithfully adheied lo. and that it, thit the individual pretentions of no candidate for a Democratic nomination wül be advocated previous to a nomination bot when a nomination ia made the candidates of the Dcmnctatic party for all uffict i will be advocated to the utmost of Ihe ediloi'a ability. 1 his is all that lh friends of General Lane detiie, and it is as much as tha fiiends of any other candidate hould expect. I harden ! know omethmgof lha motives which induced young Mr. Brown lo purchase the Sentiuel. This young' feotlemao haa obtained a character foi perevering industry and close application lo business possessed by but few men of his yeais. The life of bis father has been one of many vicissitudes, and being under a solemn pledge not again t ba a candidate for the office he now bolda in Congiess, the clJer Mr. Brown has sgned to co-operate with his ion io a business which will brio; Ihe family together at one place, and which both tngethei are well calculated lo prosecute with ucccn the yonng Mr. Brown t numpe the financial soil business derailment of ihe nffica of which he is Ibe sole owner, and bia father, with competent aseiilanta, lo attend to the edit iial Drparmri.t. The prospectus breathe tha right spirit, and so long aa the propositions there laid down are faithfully adhered to, the piper must prosper. For a central otgn lo assume any other g'Ouod would be minous to the Democracy of tha Slate, becaue it would be encouraging divisions in out ranks. Mr. Brown, ihiough hi life, is known to have been a consistent and isdical Dt-mociat, and could pursue no othei course a an editor, without being inconsistent. The Journal has unwillingly paid a high comilimeot lo lha new editor, Mi. Brown, so far as his skill si s magician is concerned. He has given him abilities which throw lha mesmeric powers of Mr. Eeeley now figuiing in our city t lha wonder of our citizens completely int Ihe shadebeing no less tnau the power, by sums kiod of pass word, to ii'in every Democrat io tha Slate to support his favoiita candidate for the Pieiidency ! Tbe whole aiticle is uncalled fcr, unkind in the absenre of the cew publisher and editor, and just soch an article as could have only been expected ftom tbe editor of the Indiana Joumal. A DEMOCRAT. Central Knil I to; id Cincinnati Gazette. We notice in a late number of the Cincinnati Gazette, a skeleton map, with some pertinent editorial remarks directed to the citizens nf Cincinnati, wo suppose by way of reminding them of the railways that are being constructed north of that city, for the purpose of stimulating them to renewed exertions, to counter check such works. This is all very well, and not to he complained of. But we see by the skeleton map referred to, that the Editor either did not know, or neglected to place on the map, the moat alarming circumstance of the whole case, lie merely alludes to it in Ihe editorial, but omits it on the ' map, and that in, that there is at this very day, an entire line of continuous rail road, in dietinct links, being rapidly constructed, by different companies, from the city of Philadelphia, to the Wabash liver at Terre Haute, and that the road through the State of Illinois, will be surveyed and located this summer, extending the line to St. Louis, and the State of Missouri is about to extend it through the Slate. As this matter has been frequently adverted to, for the benefit of onr readers, and those of the Gazette, who may see the skeleton map referred to, and wish to examine the mattter, we again give the main line, and its branches. The line from Philadelphia to St. Louis will consist of seven links, or 'subdivisions, and that through the State of Missouri, of one link, the first extending from Philadelphia to Harrisburgh. This is a State work in operation. The accond extending from Harrisburgh to Pittsburgh. This is partly constructed, and the balance rapidly progressing by the Pennsylvania Rail Road Company. The third from Pittsburgh to Gallion west of Mansfield. A considerable portion of this section is under contract by the Pennsylvania and Ohio Rail Road Com pany. The fourth extending from Gallion to the Indiana State line. This has been located, with a heavy subscription, and a large part will be put under contract, as we learn, this month, by the Bellefontaine and Indianapolis Rail Road Company. The fifth extending from the Indiana Hue to Indianapolis. This section is all under contract, and Ihe iron will be ifion 34 miles of it to Anderson, as soon as it can be lad by the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Rail Road Company. The sixth extending from Indianapolis to Terre Haute on the Wabash. This link is all under contract, and a large portion of it graded, by the Terre Haute and Richmond Rail Road Company. The seventh from Terre Haute to St. Louis. This section is about to be surveyed, and located by the Illinois Company. We learn that $1000 a mile, has alrady been subscribed. Thia great line now rapidly being constructed may be traced on any of our maps. It passes, through Lancaster, Hamburgh, Huntington, Hollidaysburgh, Johnstown, Pittsburgh, Beaver, Salem, Canton, Wooster, Massillon, Mansfield, Gallion, Marion, Bellefontaine, Sidney, Win chester, Muncie, Anderson, Pendleton, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, Vandalia, Greenville and St. Louis, besides other intermediate towns. Its connecting links will be the following and many more. At Philadelphia it will be iutersected by all the rail roads centreing there. At Pittsburgh by the Cleveland road. At Mansfield by the Sandusky road. At Gallion. by the Cleveland and Cincinnati road. At the Indiana State line by the Columbus, Urban, and Piqua road, and the Dayton and Greenville road, and at Indianapolis by the Madison, Lafayette, Peru, New Albany, and Evansville roads. These facts would have given additional force to the article and map of the Gazette. Governor Crittenden's TIsit. Messrs. Chapman Sr Spann : The committee of arrangements concerning the visit of Governor Crit tenden of Kentucky, desire to make known through the bentinel to the public, that h will arrive in the cars at noon on Tuesday, the 28h instant, and be conducted by Goernor Wright, the committees of Reception and Arrangements, and citizens in car riages, to the Governor's House, which will be open at 4 o'clock, P. M., for the calls of hie friends. On Wednesday, at half past one o'clock, P. M., a procession will be formed in front of the Washington Hall, by the Marshals of tho day, the Hon. D. Wallace, Gen. J. P. Drake, and Col. A. W. Morris, and march to the State House square, where, at two o'clock. Governor Crittenden will bo introduced to the aesetnbly by Governor Wright After which a meeting of the friends of the Union will be held, and addresses delivered. At 8 o'clock, P. M., a public levee will be given at the Governor's mansion, in honor of the distin guished guest. Citizens from all parts of the Stats will be expected and welcomed. Papers throughout the S'ate are requested to pubnsn tins notice. H. J. BRADLEY, J. NICOLAI, J. COBURN, D. RYNOLDS, WM. SULLIVAN. WM. ROBSON. J. L. MOTIIERSHEAD, J. D. DEFREES, Ccmmitlet of Arrangements.

i:xccut:ou OiiIcitjT. The Boston lisl aaya that the Council, on the 17lh inet., unanimously vo ed that the sentence of Daniel II. Pearson, vho killed his wife and two children, should be carried into effect, and Friday, July 23,

fixed for the execution, which will take tlace in tue jail yard at East Ctmbridge. This criminakome u eels. ince. made the following confesion. ilia crime was certainty of the moat horrid character. Confession of Pear'o of the Murder of ma WrrE and Children, at Wilmington, Mass. Pear son states that on the night of the 10th of April, 18-19, having previously formed Ihe determination of potting away his wife, he proceeded to Wilmington by a new and different route from what he usually tool;, in order, first that he might not be recognized by the villagers, who were familiar with him; and. secondly, that the people on the ucual railroad route migt not sre him. lie approached his house by the way that has already been traced and identified by those tell-tale bx.ts he wore. There he snw his wife and father sitting together; one of his children upon trundle bed, and the other lying in the bed that the mother was to occupy, he skulked around the house until after his aged father took his leave, and then watched until the wife, wearied with the cares and labois of the d;iy, retired to reat by the side of her slet'piug innocent. Ho then raised the rear window, through whicli he entered the abode which was soon to be the scene of blood. As he entered the room his wife awoke. He spoke to her in his ordinary way, -and said he hid come out to stop with hir for the last time, leaving her to sup pose that a before contemplated separation had been agreed to by him. He undressed hiniFelf and lay down beside her first secreting tho knife wiih which he had come armed for the deed of blood, in a convenient spot, near the head of the bod. What transpired for a season we may not repeat, neither is it necessary that we should do o for a full understanding of the dread details we are about to give. Pearson states that after lying together about an hour, an altercation enaued between himself and wife, of a somewhat violent character, when he caught her by the throat with one hand, and reaching over, seized his knife with the other, and stabbed her furiously in the neck. She struggled fearfully, and during her death agonies, fell off the bed, his grasp yet upon her. The unconscious innocent, who lay in the bed, was awakened by the fall, and began to cry through fright. The now infuriated murderer seized the babe, aa he had bef re seized the mother, and by a succession of stabs killed it. Ihe other child, yet asleep, was taken from its low bed. and laid where the molher'a life blood had just been poured out, and there killed. 1 Pearson states Ihat it was not his intention at first to murder the twins, but he had not calculated upon their waking, to become witnesses against him as to the death of their mother. After his horrid pt-rpoe was accomplished, ho remained quietly sitting upon the bed for a short time. He then carefully wiped away all stains of blood from his hands, face wrists and feet, and arose to prepare a cover for the deed. He arranged everything in the room as they were found the pillows under his wife's head, the fati. knife in her hand, the bottle of, laudanum, the lei tern, &c, upon ihe table, pre cisely as they were found when morning revealed the crime to the light of day. In making a final dispo sition of Ihe Ixxly of his wife, his bauds became stained, but in his purturbation he did not notice it. He then blew nut tlie lig-ht and groped his way to the back entrance. He felt his way out of the house, which accounts for the stains of the bloody hands upon Ihe sides of the doors '' Ti.J murderer wandered about till morning dawned, when he took the first truin of cars for Botnn, at the Wobum watering place, on the Lowell road. Pearson had already made arracgcmenls lo prove an alibi by making it appear from circumstances and by positiv evidence that he passed the night of tu mur der in Providence. We give the foregoing as the actual truth in the case, which will be verified bv Pearson when the solemn situation in which he is placed is more strongly realized by him. UosUm Mail. March 7. The Boston Bee says facts have come to the ears of the Attorney General which will tend to interfere Ith that executive clemency to which Pearson was recom mended by the jury who tried him. These facts are that he had, previous to committing the murder, en gaged to marry a female with whom be had been for some time intimate; that this female wrote the note found uixm the table when the bodies were discovered, and further that Pearson, either before or immediately after the murder, wrote to a friend in Providence, giving him a minute description of the dress he wore, that through this means, if his friends would assist him, an alibi might be proved. The female whom he had engaged to marry was present in the court room on Fridsy, during Chief Justice Slmv'a charge to the jury. Itltiil Lettings. Washington, D. C, May 7, 1850. Messrs. Editors : Below you will find the names of the successful bidders for carrying the mail on most of the principal mail routes in Indiana, decided this day. From Indianapolis to Cincinnati, tm Brookville P. Campbell. Indianapolis to Cincinnati, via Lawrenceburgh, P. Campbell. Indianapolis to Paoli, R. McLaoe. Indianapolis to Montezuma, W. II. II. Lewis. Indianapolis to Lafayette, via Crawfordsville, P. Campbell. Indianapolis to Lafayette, via Lebanon, A. Boone. Indianapolis to Logansport, P. Campbell. Indianapolis l Peru, R. Earl. . Indianapolis to Greenville, O., R. McLane. Lawrenceburgh to Madison, via Aurora, Yevay, &c, So per & Johnson. Louisville to Vincenncs, W. b. Davidson. Vincennes to Terre Haute, T. C x. Terre Haute to Lafayette, P. Campbell. Crawfordsville lo Covington, P. Campbell. Loganaport to Niles, .Mich., P. Campbell. Indianapolis to l'endletun, W. A. Williamson. ' Yours, &c, AUSTIN H. BROWN. ßrA letter from Holt county. Mo., says : "The emigrants are rolling on by hundreds towards Cali fornia, from every quarter of the world, each striving to be foremost in the race. All modes of travelling are adopted. Yesterday we saw a sturdy Scotchman pushing a hundred pounds of baggage ahead on I something which bad the appearance of a wheel-bar row ; and, indeed, he passed up toe hills with rspid strides, far out-stripping the ox and mule teams. It was, perhaps, two o clock when he passed here, and he said he had left St. Joseph that morning, a dis tance of twenty-six miles well laid on, and two days drive for the teams, in the present state of the roads. It is supposed, by some who have made inquiry on the subject, that about 60,000 persons are now on their way overland for Oregon and California. Mabtland Editorial Convention. A convention of the editora of the State of Maryland was held at ' Baltimore on the 17th inst., at which they pasaed resolutions in substance as follows: In favor of two cents when pre paid, and five cents when not pre paid of letters of half an ounce weight, for any distance. In tavor of the circulation of newspapers free of postage within the Congressional district where they are published. Against gratuitous advertising of any kind. In favor of a general publication of toe laws. And against all ill-natured personalities towards each other. The MoNTEsquioua. The Brothers Montesqnious have been admitted t bail bv Jud?e Colt of the Crimiual Court of St. Louis. The security required in the rase of Gonzalve was fc'JO.OOO in each of the two I indictments, and that of Raymond ft 1 0,000 in each making in all $00,000. When the prisoners were discharged they were immediately conveyed to the Sisters' Hospital on the corner of Fourth and Spruce streets, where apsrtmente had been previously pre pared for their reception. Cunt de Ciseact, their I brclher-in-law, i to remain with lhm, and will be iu almost constant attendance. A destructive fire occurred at Huntsville, Ala., on I the nighl of the 2d inst. which destroyed $500,000 worth of property. Pure Juice ofthe Giape. See Mr. Norman's advertiiemeu'.

Evil Influences. The great amo.irtt of insanity in the agricultural portion of one if tha S:ats, has been aeerihed, in

part, t il.e want nf public amusement. We have .already olF-.-rrd a few remark upon the phvaical de pression pridu-td l v faint nm. ihn catse it ci"reell v connvcl. il with I lit-r aeaiiMied by medical witters, rcftil.-ivo and monotonous employment," - ' - d 'want of ,..,büc annuel... t:l," for fanaticism condemns and suppre a public nimticm nt, and the want of public hiiiuaement render any employment repulsive and inornitorrnrs. Fanaticism condemn" dam-inr. k t no amusement. within proper limits, physical and moral, is more sal utary to b'Mty and mind. It condemn" theatrical CX hibilions. Yet the minrhicf in these is in iheir abuBe, ai d in certain accom aniu cnts not n- evenly con nected ith them. Tiiey in ght be effjred in toWHS and village, free from all the. corruption so neces sarily connected with them in riti. The athletic games m carefully inaiutaiued among the ancients, and still preserved in many parts of Europe, are much needed among the adult population i f our towns and villages. They are very unwWcly confined to boys, and even discouraged among them. Musical and de bating societies ought to exist in every country town, and to include all who have the least talent for music, and all who can, as well as all who cannot speak. Debating societies are as advantageous to hearers, as to talkers. Every clergyman ought to give a seientine lecture lo his congregation, at leaf! once in a month, on a Sunday, in the form of a sermon, accompanied with the uual exercises. As God made the physical world, and made knowledge of it a part of moral duty, no clergyman could say that this would interfere with the appropriate duties of the Sabbath. Every physician in a country town should be required to give a periodical lecture upon science, to the people of such town, and should recti e payment for it from its treasury. And not only should public libra ries be establi-hed in each town, but each schoolmas ter should be required to give a monthly lecture to the people of his dial net, on some literary subject. lo the enlightened, no employment is more attrac tive than agriculture. Instead of being repulsive and monotonous, it affords, to cultivated minds, a most fascinating variety, l'.s repulsive features are found only in tlte ignorance of its pursuers; and hence so many leave it for professional, mercantile and me chanical life. Science, literature and rational public amusements would render agriculture the most at tractive of all employments. 1'a. ledger. The Saco Murder Investigation. We noticed some days since the discovery of the dead body of a woman at Saco, Me., and the arrest of Dr. James H. Smith, on suspicion of having killed her. An Extra Maine Democrat contains the following on the subect : The body was discovered last Saturday afternoon, April Io, between 1 and Z o clock, in a water course. A large brook crosses Storer st. On the eastern side nf the street the brook passes between house belong ing to Vr. Urooks and John Gaines. Ihe water course is some four feet wide and five or six feet in depth, the top covevered with plank, which serves as walk between the two bouses. Passing between the houses, the brook crosses the street diagonally, beneath a massive stone covering. It became necer sary to take up a part of the plank walk near the stone covering of the Ircet, and beneath it was found the body of a female. When found, it was confined to a plank about six feet in length, by a rope passing around the plank and the neck of the body. It had lodged against a log just where the plank road gives place to the stone covering of the street, and would have been beyond the reach of sight, had it drifted a few feet further down the stream. One end of the plank projected over ihe log, and the water having fallen, the head wan kept above the Water by the log. ' . - ihe Coroner s Inquest lasted nearly a week ; some 2) witnesses were examined. The verdict was that it was the body of Mary Bean, and that she had been killed about Dec. 22d last, by James M. Smith in procuring an abortion. The plank attached to the corpse was identified as having been taken from Smith's barn, tie is in cus'ody waitin? examination. Judge Law. The Rockville Whig says that this gentleman took his final leave of the members of the Bar, before leaving the Bench at the late session of the Parke Circuit Court. Judge L. intends removing to Evansville, we are sorry to hear, for as President of this circoit, he has acquired an enviable populari ty and has discharged his duties promptly and impar tially. We consider it a shame that the pittance as a salary should drive competent and worthy gentlemen from the Bench, and thus subject litigants to par tun. n judges who are likely to be totally unqualt fified for the important station. Of course, we cannot tell who will succeed to the ermine, but we venture to predict, that no one will be elected by the legisla ture, who possess more of the necessary requisites for a prompt and correct discharge of the duties than the present retiring incumbent. We wish Judge L. success and happiness in any vocation he may hereaf ter be called to engage. While upon this subject, (the salaries of tbe differ ent officers in the State,) we think something should be done in the Convention, to fix salaries at such a minimum as to secure able and efficient men for all the offices; under which the legislature should not go. We see no reason why the circuit Judges should be less paid than a supreme Judge, for their duties are as arduous and expenses greater. We should like to see the salaries of these Judges fixed in the new constitution at ten, eleven or twelve hundred dollars a year, which would secure talents of the best character for the Bench. Wabash Express. fX7"The opening article in the Law Reporter for May is on.the Webster trial. The writer takes decided ground against the verdict, and says "in conclusion, for, although there are many other points of interest to the profession connected with this case, our limits will not permit us now to recur to them, we feel that upon the evidence fairly before the jury, the prisoner ought not to have been convicted of the crime of murder. More than this we need not say. But it may not be deemed improper lo add, that this is a result which has been arrived at only after a careful examination of the evidence. Our impressions, upon first hearing the verdict, were decidedly otherwise. We greatly fear, now, that that verdict was the result of a preocupied public opinion. which was brought to bear most violently upon the jury, and that while not the slightest reproach can be thrown upon any concerned, the intensity of the pub lic excitement prevented a fair trial." Largs Locomotive. The largest locomotive in the world arrived at the railroad wharf last night, for the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad. This locomotive weitrhs, when on the track ready to run. about forty-three Urns; of over three" hundred horse power; built at the shop of the Baldwins, in Phila delphia, under the superintendence of Air. A. Calhcart; with five cylinders; and is intended for this end of the road. We are told this engine is called the "John Brough, on account of its great toeizht. nr.d for the great amount of business it is capable of doing. Madison Cour. African Slaver. An American brig, the Lucy Ann, of Boston, was captured on the 20 in of Febru ary and sent iulo St. Helena. She had on board 547 slaves. At the time of the capture the Lucy Ann was commanded by John Hamilton. He, with the crew, were permitted to go on shore on the coast There are now also at St. Helena the following American vessels, condemned for being n Ihe slave trade, barks Ann D. Robinson, Pilot, of Boston, and Chester. Liverpool, April 27th. For Indian Corn there has been more inquiry for England during the past few days at an advance of Is per quarter, yellow being worth 29 to 28s 0d, and white and mixed 23s. Flour continues in limited demand, without change in prices: Philadelphia and Baltimore 22a 6d to 23s. Western Canal 18 to 21s. The market having been cleared of inferior qualities of wheat, the quotations are 5 to 6s per 70 Ibe. Indian Meal 12s Od per brl. OT A statistical work, recently published in London, states that there were in England in 1770 two hundred and fifty thousand freehold estates in tie iianda of the same number of independent families. At the close of 1815 the whole of the land of England belonged to thirty-two thousand proprietors. " Under ordinary circumstances," says the London Times, "an English laborer has no more prospect of becoming a proprietor than he has of acquiring a kingdom.

1 Concessional. Washington, May 9. 1850. Conclusion of Senate on yesterday. 5th. That aUvery ought not to ba abolished in lha Dis

trict of Columbia. 6th. The majority of ihe committee report a bill for Ihe suppression of the alave trade in tha District of Co lumbia upon the model Ol Ilia law lataiy eniorceo Maryland. ihe report is very voluminous and occupied more man in hour in readingMessrs. Mason i f Virginia, Berrien of Georgia, Downs of Louisiana, Clemens of Alabama, Yulee of Florida, Torney of Tennessee, Borland of Arkansaa, all came out ia opposition In the proposed compromiae. Air. Clay, though taken by surprise, maintained ins ground with characteristic ability and energy, and an nounced bis determination lo stand by the report to tlia I nat. Mei'is. Caaa of Michigan, Maneum of N. C, Houston of Texas, Fool of Mississippi, and Dickinaon of New York, stood by him. - . i i ... i; r 1 1 :ur. imee cniiia up rue resolution itcKinj mr trurrrspondence between deputies and Generals Pe reifer F. Smith and KiUy, in relation to California affaire, with reference to constitutional convention of California. A copy of Journal of said Court, the ordinances passed, Ate and alluded to recent movements in lavor ol an innepen dent Government in California, implicating executive in failure of holding our Pncihe possessions in trust lot country, and subject to ullimale action of Congress. Reso lution was adopted. Air. foot read letter and presented certain documents relating to movements in Southern portions o( California, in favor of organization of a territorial Government : also, lntter from 1'reaidenl of Senate of Call torn I a, etaliug that old Californiane had held a meeting in lavor of same course. Mr. Turney objected to reception of papera, and they were .lot received. Censua bill waa received from lum, with amendments, and referred to select committee on census. On motion, Mr. Clay 'a bill, reported yesterday, ad mitting btate ol California, establishing territorial Gov ernmenta for Utah and New Mexico, making proposals to ieiaa lor establishment of her western and northern boundaries, waa teken up, read a second lime, and mad special order for Monday. Th Senat then r-sumed tha consideration of the bill to establish a board of accounts.' After debate and action upon various amendments o no general interest, the bill was reported to the Senate and ordered to a third reading. ilr. Houston opposed the bill. It was then passed ysas öb, nays 8. Tha Senat Iben went into executive aesaion and ad joutned till Monday. Hocsx. Mr. McWillie was appointed on Mr. Stan ley 'a investigating committee in place of Mr. Inge da dined. Mr. Richardson from tha committee nn territories, re ported m. bill to amend tha acta establishing the territorial Governments of Oregon and Minnesota, and Tues day, 2olh instant, was assigned for its consideration. Mr. Bailey moved lo take op Iba bill for anpplying tl . deficiencies in the previous appropriations for the sup port of the Government, and said thai every Deparlmen waa aunering lor want of money. No quorum voted. ' A point ot order was raised, and me members waa called lo ascertain tbe absentees. 1 n committee rosa. A quorum was now present. Tl House again went into committee of the whole, and im mediately rose, and afterwards adjourned. " V WatdiscToir, May 8. Senate. Mr. Smith -submitted a resolution inquirin into the expediency of providing thai the alloy of gold ! coins be ot silver only, or of copper and silver, in lha i proportion io Which it is lound in California gold ; also, into the cipediency of establishing a mini in California,' or depositee for the purchase of bullion adopted Washisotoit, May 10 Sisatt Not in session. i

Hocsc-The bill paying Nicol & Clinch, of New . 7. " J n- V r, V. ;? York, for supplying tea lo Ihe U. S. Navy w.s passed. "Charge of my duly. 1 his he literally did. Varioua privat biliar from the Senat war taken op See how he clung to this locality. When other and appropriately referred. '-" men would have f;lt themselves excused from Ilousn then went into committee of .the whole on the participation in the duties of public life in the very state oflh Union, and proceeded to the consideration of chamber to which his prostration of body had confined the Senate's amendments to the deficiency bill. him we find him preparing a speech embodying his A long debate enaued in relation to tha contingent ex- viewg of risia tnd ,he remedy t0 read f(J ,ha pen.es of lha two Houses. Nf murewe fi(Mj ,, a few day. in Washixqton, May.'4, 1850. . the Senate chamber, ir the very arena of debate, deBenton and Foote's committee have had a long ses- fending the poaitions which he had as.uo-td in his sion to-day. Francis J. Grund, letter-writer, was prepared speech. That, alas! was the falsi step. I examined." His cross-examination by Benton was aliud to bis oratorical skirmish with Mr. Foote. close and exacting as to the authority that Foote was j You will remember the scene Mr. Calhoun became in danger of assault! This witness being called to intensely excited. His cavernou, yet luminous eyes.

name the man, gave Senator Pratt aa authority upon the point, who advised Foote to arm himself. The witness understood it was an officer of the govern- , m.mt. Question What ofBcer ! Answer A high officer. Q. What particular officer 1 A. 'The Attorney General. Q. What 'is his name 1 A. Johnson. Q. What Johnson 1 A?-Reverdy Johnson. Here the committee adjourned. On Monday the Attorney General-and Senator Pratt will be examined on the subject. Among the witnesses examined already, are Father Ritchie, Dr. Bailey, of the National Era, and the boy that sold the pistol to Foote. All the questions and answers are taken down in writing, and the witness is cross-questioned by Foote and Benton, as the case may require. The whole, we suppose, will be printed with the committee's report. , NICARAGUA TREATY AND CANAL. According to the New York Tribune, the material provisions of the Nicaragua treaty are substantially as follows: .. - . 1. Ths United States aod Great Britain mutually and reciprocally plcdga their faith to either, that they will not take, use, hold, occupy nor exercise dominion over any part of Central America heuceforth and forevei. 2. They further agree not to establish nor maiotsia any fortifications nor military posts upon or within said country. 3. Each government pledges itself lo respect, and to use iti belt offices to cause to ba reipcded by other nations, tbe complete and perpetual neutrality of tha poits on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which shall be tba termini respectively of the pioposed ship canal through Ceutial Ameiica. v4. They will also respect, and use their beat offices to cause to be respected by others, the perpetua! neutrality of laid ship canal, the vessels navigatiug it, and everything per taining thereto. 6. Tliev further irree to reireet tbe neutrality of all vei sei within a reasonable diatance of e'uher tciminus of ssid cans

ial, no diaianee yet. agreed on. but tw deg.ers, or one or fanf.- we jjap substantial grounds for diesatiffacndred and twenty gengiaphicalnilei, have been lug.eiUd, ,. '. .... , , ,.P ,..., i..,

bu and met with no objection. and to endeavor lo procure a eeneral recognition of iuch Neutrality by all natiooi whatsoever. 6.. They mutually agtea t protect and secure the operations of such company ai, under the aoihoiity of ths State of Nicaragua, shall construct aod maintain tbe propoaed ship canal. 7. If the company now holding a contract with tbe State of Nicaragua, for the construction of Ihe ship caqal uniting tbe two oceans, shall within twelve mouths .demonstrate io the satisfaction of tbe two governmei tt, its ability to consliuct said canal, tha foregoiog stipulations shall enure I iti benefitt but if not, then any other company, duly authorized by Nicaragua, and who can satisfy the two .governments of its ability to make the canal, shall enjoy all the benefits which this tisaty it intended to guaranty to tba conitiuctrs of the canal. 8. The contracting paitiei reciprocally pledge themselves to aie their good t fScss respectively with the several State governments of Central America, 1 induce them to enter into sitpulations based upon aod according with lha foregoing. 9. Each party pledges lo the other that it ill ipteipoie its good offices for the amicable settlemenl of any disputes which may aiise respecting the eonsnuctiou of Ihe ship canal, or Us management theiealter. . 10. The two governments art not lo interfere with the construction or management of tbe canal, except that either government, should lolls ba levied an vessels passing through It which in its view ats exorbitant and oppressive, teseivei the right of withdrawing from lbs company all the protection and favor which this treaty pledges it to atfoid i but ibis will not affect Ibe international aiipalaiioui of tbe treaty. 11. By a pottocot lo tbe treaty, the two nation covenant with each other not to claim or exercise, under tha rover of e protectorate uf, or allegiance with any Cential American Stale or tribe, any power which tbey have diclaiir.ed or renounced ia the foregoing aiticle. 0 . An Elopement. The Natchez correspondent of the N. 0. True Delta chronicles the following elopement : Our city has been thrown into a terrible state of m a excitement, and the cauldrons of scan. mag. have been boiling over, like miniature JEnaa, for Ihe last few days, owing to an elopement iu the circles of up. per-tendom. The willing fair one, Miss S d, is a budding beauty of scarcely sixteen summers, and the pay LotharioJ. B , stands well up in the fifties. The father of the young lady was in your city at the time of the catastrophe, lie returned to Natchez on Monday last, am' lost no tune in pursuing the runaways to Woodville. vile was in, after the death. The indissoluble knot was tied before his arrival. The enraged father is about taking legal steps to break the matrimonial contract. The happy husband takes every thing coolly, lie I willing to submit the whole case to Ihe arbitration ot liie bride, ioeiing sure in her verdict, for she has already sworn to hang on to him while there is a button ou his shirt collar. Lawters !n the United States John Livingston, Esq., of New York, has published a small b-iok of 148 pages, containing the names, residence and post-office of every practising lawyer in the United States. The entire list shows thai there are nineteen thousand fire hundred. Th a probably would gie one lawyer to every 1C00 inhabitant.

Mrs.Swlstheiiti's Ettltmne of Daniel Webster. We copy the following from one of Mrs. Swisselm's letters from ' Waahington, published in the 'itUburg Saturday Visiter: Duiing the two hours I iemined in t ie gallery, the cues-

ion was ektd by members at least h.lf a dozen times. What i the motion trra lha Sraate i" D.niel Wrbatar inquired t thi rflVct twice. The ayei and nays were ta kes three or fuui times, and evriy i'it. he voted wi h ths South, Bai t o and lha two Delaware Senator roh lh INoitri. Eviry tim the north lot the qnction by hi vote. They were twcn'r-six to l we nly-eigl 1 1 bi would have made it a tie, and it is thou;l t. confident; t elieved by tho. wh-i ouhi t know, Hut Mr. iMmoi would have voted no the side of f.eedom. As the vmin. thickened and the tiife grew fist and fuiioii, 1 could see him grow nervous, change bis position, haodle his vest button, and tike bIJ of. theo relasse the arm of his chair. When tbey weie likely lo tske a final vote on Mr. Cly"a resolut iona no "amendment "laying Co. gre i had no piwer lo abolith tbe Slivt trade between the S ales and ouzht not ! ah .li.h it in IT. S. Arenal and Navy Yaids.or hi the Dutiict. be could not taod it Gov. Sewnd bad lern whupeting io bin and I guess ha must have begun to think ha had mused the track of ihe oruiual quirrel, and was getting too fai south oven to gat to the vYbiie House, so be brought himislf to a bait, and lisinr, diew bis velvet vest over his portly penon. changed his weight from one foot to the other, bowed te Mr. Clay, snd requested leave tu explain, Ihat he was not ytt prepared to voie, had not yet made up hu mind, wiibed for time to think, very grave subject, very important objet, great constitutional questions, and ever and anon a bow. Mr. Clay, ni cou'sr, 1 the lat to burry away gentlemen," and with bii usual urbanity of manner, and very pleasant smile and bow. tha gieal Daniel was allowrd to take lima U recover himself after his fatigue. When be takes breath be will be called upon to lay " aya or oiy." I do not thick it i prejudice that ttiakei mi think Mr. Webster's face disagreeable t bot to me it has aa expiession . of coarsenes, aa though his animal propensities were rstber stronger thin hi intellectual poweis. Iiis face speaks the sensualist by r.atore a nataial, innate vulgarity that would require a large amount el sinct training to elevate into voluptuousness, such a is condemned by our people when prescribed by Sue oi Bulwrr. 1 know this opinion of Mr. Webster will ba resented by his westein fiiend. I have oeter seen any uch expieaed of bim but neatly eveiy one knows that he lomrtimrs diinkt to excel?, and his fiiend, here, say he r quires to be excited with wine to make him approachable ci il. When qaite sober be ia as crufl as a grizzly bear. His mistresses are generally, if not always, culored women ome of them big Hark wenches n ugly and vulgar as himself. These will openly ma store bills on his account. Il is no wonder the curse of the Almighty ho on oi ai a union. Ths wicked lule and tbe people must mourn. The lawi of God are publicly set at defiance by those whom we choose to rule over us. Wi biter I bad always admired, evea after bis last speech. His fault appeared like excieiencei on hit greatueu and viilues. But since I have seen him and coma within the circle that surrounds him, I )ok upon his faults as the great component parti of hit natme the ensentiil ingredients. The good is only enough to preserve the unity of nature's plan to leava no creature on earth wholly eviL Tb lion has his courage to compensate for hit ferocity the tigien her faithfulaen ti her young to stone for cruelty the load his diamond eyes as a substitute for all other beauty, and Daniel Wstster baa hit gtcat intellect and occasional flaihvi of good feeling aod kindness to compensate for the total want of that spiritual puiity the nice peicef tion of the beautiful and true, which allies man to ihe angrls, and both to tha divine essence. I can never admire Danirl Webster again ! He is t k many removes down frnm tue buhei t oider of humanity. No mallei how much none his eloquence may make, in future I shall alwljs think a hippopotamus can make mote, and a whale blow haider than he. Theie will be r.o peruainn in bis woidi, no still small voice in bii courage, do balo about his name. lis is oglyt aod I never before taw but two "B1 m,n Mr. Calhoun's dying words were characteristic of the man: "Sir," said he to Hon. Abraham W. Yenable a short time before his eloquent tongue be1 ar-siBiäa rtsa 1 st i cA K V It A titPoL A artf rloalh .Vi F & ... ' , . r V ' i Hashed forth a learlul gleam. Ihe eniouut of vitali ty then consumed was so greatly dispro portioned to the supply, that his nervous system was unequal to the shock. He was evidently taktn by surprise. He did not expect so severe a thwart, especially from that quarter. He considered it unkind in Mr. Foote unkind beyond the purpose, doubtless, of Mr. Foo e. Had that gentleman been accustomed to estimate the influence of such a cause with medical eyes, or with the remotest suspicion of its calamitous effect, he would have been the last man to indulge in sarcastic severity towards Mr. Calhoun. In concluding, therefore, that scene served to hasten Mr. Caihouu's death. -. I, of course, mean lo make no charge against Mr.- Foote. That is far from my purpose. It is only with the probable facts that I am dealing. Wash. Cur. Ohio Statesman. The indomitable will, the iron resolution, the general soundness of views, and the wonderful grasp of intellect possessed by Thomas II. Benton, single him out as a man in the million. No miserable intrigue, no petty triumph of faction, no mere sectional success solicits his attention or commands his services. He has devoted himself with a few, a very few apparent aberrations, to Ihe one great purpose of his unwearied career at least it has always appeared so to us and that purpose is, to make of ibis Republic, a great, a powerful, a happy and a free Western Democracy. Regarding the West as the heart, tho soul, and the body of the republic, whatever contributed to the increase of her population, the cultivation of her soil, the enlargement and improvement if her facilities for internal or external trade, and the development of her resource, found in him a warm advocate. a devoted friend. We, as southern men, may have. V - clings with filial affection to the queenly est, to . , - . i whorri lie has given the labor of an arduoua life. How far he is culpable in this devotion, we cannot undertake lo say ; neither can we undertake to brand him as a traitor for wishing, contrary to our desires, to introduce California on her own merits, aa a sovereign and independent State, into the Union. We regard the new State and her claims with the most friendly feelings ; and, as editors of a southern paper, deem it a part of our duty to support the rights of a State, whose claims to our advocacy are founded no less in justice than in the earnest desire she has evinced, in the selection of her delegation, to maintain to the South her just position in the confederacy. N. 0. True Delia. Origin of the Name Wisconsin. General W. R. Smith, of Wisconsin, is stated in the correspondence of the Cleveland True Democrat, to have some curious suggestions in regard to the name of that State, in a lecture which he delivered before its Historical Society last winter. The early French missionaries to the Indians on what is now called the Wisconsin river, gave the name as the Meconxin, according to the Indian pronunciation. Hennepin, however, called it Ouisconsin, but upon what authority is not stated. The General gave the follow ng derivation, as that suggested by a friend as probably correct: The early F'iren'-h voyagers, he says, called the portage between the Fox and Ouisconsin rivers, "the place ichert it i thai tme descends, Ihat is, ou est qui on descends; the hasty speaking and elision of words by the Acadians he thought might well cause in this manner the word Ouisconsoii. But it is aid that Wisconsin in the Winnebago tongue means "windy country." And the correspondent of the Democrat suggests that nothing could be more applicable, for "rude Boreas" blows his bellows high -and stronj most of the time in that region. Cin. Gat. The Union Eloquent Extract. The following beautiful passage is from a 4th of July Oration delivered at Charleston in 1SO0, by the late Honorable Thomas S. Crimke, the.ii a young man : MTha Ameiirao, who can look forward with calmness I the day of separation, must l either more or leaa Ibaa a man. He mrtt be ths victim of ambition corruption a deluded enthuaiatt, or a prophet of good, which ihe most ssrguine dare not hope, and the keen-eyed ttat-smao cannot fieee. Thenceforward the American eagle shall diop lbs oliv branch of peace, and grap only tbe arrowi of war Tha hand which wii'es Ihe declaration of disunion shall feel tha blood curdle ia hi veins; ai-d tba tongue which read it I the wot 14 shall stifFca in tbe act. Tbe mountains that divile shsll ba " the daik mountain! of death " and tha itreima that flow between, like the waters of Egypt, ihall be turned lo blood. Conreivs the eventful etisii anivsd when lha drleptes of Ameiica meet ti lever our eotifedeisey. a la vain may they call up the spirit of Washing i to hallow their lights ! like ihe prophet at End-r he shall look bat lo Halt, ted peik but to cans."