Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1850 — Page 1

) The Cialpliiii Swindle. Under the administration of a Prejident who assumes the responsibility of the acts of Iiis cabinet; who understands what is done, and the reason why, the doings of his cabinet m not a matter of much importance; their acts are his acts. He is the responsible head of the government, elected by the people ; but under the administration of the present weak and imbecile President, who signs whatever is brought to tim without inquiry, whether it is a land patent or a Postmaster's comm.ssion ; who excuses himself in .

INDIANAPOLIS. JUNE 8, 18AO.

all cases of complaint, by saying that he wa. out. . practice of the Government, refused to allow or reToied by the cabinet; the acts ..fmh member of commend the payment of the interest. When Presi-

such administration becomes a matter of importance and should therefore be carefully scanned by the . American people, liiat our render may understand more fully this hoary-headed claim which contribut ed o largely to fill the pockets of George W. Crawford, Secretary of War, w propose to give a brief history of the whole transaction, 1 transaction which has mantled the cheek of every honest man everywhere, with the deep blush of mortification and shame. Th history of this claim is fully set forth in the report of the committee, signed by the democratic member-, and in the arguments of Messrs. Disney, J. Mann, and Featherston. But we have thrown all these aside, and taken the statement of a witness who cannot be charged with being prejudiced, we allude to the able and indepf odent speech of the Hon. James Brooks, a whig member of Congress from the city of New York, a.;d Editor of the Express, a leading whig journal in that city. Mr. Brooks, at great labor, has collected a mass of evidence, throwing a flood r.f light on this nefarious transaction. The claim had it origin in the colony of Georgia, lefore the revolutionary war, whilst that colony was under the British Crown. George Galphiri was an Indian trader from 1761 to 1773. He had sold goods to the Creeks and Cherokee beyond Jheir means to pay. By a treaty between the Indians and the British Crown, held at Augusta in 1773, they ceded to the British government a tract of land lying in Wilkes county, Georgia, for the purpose of liquidating thee claims. The claim cf Galphin then was originally against the British Crown. Its payment depended upon certain contingencies 1st, the sale of the land; 2d, the risk of their selling for enough to pay the claim; and, by the way, unless they were more successful in selling Georgia lands than Indiana has been, it would have paid but a small moiety of the original claim. The la pds were not sold; and the war of Independence having divested the Eritisli Crown of all control over them, tiie claim was not paid from their proceeds. The State of Georgia contended, that these lands were her properly by right of conquest, and she placed in her coffers the proceeds. Not one cent ever went into the National Treasury. George Galphin, the original claimant, died in 17S0. His heirs first presented their c!aim to the British government and urged its payment. Their claim was however rejected. In 1793 it was presented to the Georgia Legislature. The Senate made a favorable report, and placed the payment of the claim on its only just ground, that the State of Georgia had appropriated the lands to her own use, without regud to the Galphiu lien, and was, therefore, bound to pay the debt. There was no intimation that the General Government was liable for either principal or interest. But that report, like Legislative reports often are, was permitted to sleep the sleep of death, until resurrected by the hand of officious and interested agents. The Legislature took no action. In 1813, a committee reported that it was a good claim against Great Britain, but not against either Georgia or the United States. - In the mean time. Dr. Thomas Galphin, eon and administrator of the original claimant, died, and the duty of prosecuting this ancient and oft-rejected claim devolved on Milledgc Galphin, the grandson of George Galphin. Thus was this claim of an Indian pedler "bequeathed from sire to son." In 1833, a joint resolution pased the Legislature of Georgia, directing the Governor to institute a commission, to investigate this and other claims. The commissioners reported against its payment, and that report was concurred in by the Legislature. With all the facts before them, a resolution instructing their members in Congress to use their influence to procure the payment of this claim by the General Government was defeated by a large majority. After a struggle of half a century, with a zeal worthy of a better cause, they did not despair, and their final success, proves the value of that marked trait in the American character, perseverance. Afier several inetfactual attempts to procure its recognition by the State of Georgia, it was presented, to Congress ; but prior to this, in 1S35, wo believe, toe celebrated New Echot a treaty was made with the Cherokee. At this, as ot all Indian treaties, there was much figuring to pro. cure the recognition of old claims. The mot conspicuous among them was this celebrated "Galphin" claim. Mr. Forsyth, then Secretary of State, was the attorney. But how different was his conduct from that of Secretary Crawford ! To every one with whom he spoke, he said he spoke as the attorney of the parlies, and they must receive his statements, not as a cabinet officer, but as an interested attorney. At this treaty, John Ross, the head chief of the Cherokee, swear before Mr. Wise's edc' brated investigating committee, in 1837, that an attempt was made by Crawford, the present Secretary, and a Mr. Hunter, to bribe' him, to have a clause inserted in the treaty, binding the United States to pay the claim. Such was the attempt at tampering, that Ross refused to sign the treaty ; and a treaty was subsequently made and signed by John Ridge, in which, this claim wag recognized. The conduct of Ridge iu relation tu this treaty, caused a violent rupture between him and Ross, and resulted in a divi sion of the tribe, and finally in the tragical death of the former. But on the ratification of the treaty, the Galphin elauso wa stricken out in the Senate by a large majority. Bought into the treaty made with Ridge, the Senate refused to ratify the contract, and here ended their efforts to procure its payment by the Eritisli Government, the State of Georgia, or the Cherokee Indians. Rapndiated every where, the hulls of Congress are next beseiged. In 1343, M. Crawford, on his way to the Philadelphia Slaughter House Convention, made it convenient to stop a few days in Washington. In a short time, on the night before the adjournment, when the members were worn out and heavy with sleep, this Galphin claim was smugged through Congress. The law is brief, and we insert it entire : "That the Secretary of the Treasury 1m, and he is hereby authorized and required to examine and adjust the claim of the late Georjje Galphin, tinder the treaty made by the Governor of -Georgia with the Creek and Cherokee Indian, in the year 1773, at.d to pay the amount which may be found due to Milled j Galphin, executor of the said George Galphin, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated." Jo case can more clearly prove the impropriety of hasty legislation. Little did Congress suppose, that under this bill to examine and adjust this antiquated claim, they were paying out of the treasury a quarter of a million f dollars. At the close of the last d ministration, Mr. Walker, the Secretary of the Treasury, placed this claim in the hands of his accounting officers, who allowed the principal, amount-

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Published by Austin II. Brown. ing to $43,518 97. Mr. M'Cullough, the Comptroller of the Treasury, in conformity to law and ihe uniform dent Taylor came into office the claim had been set1 r " r 11 c -j t..t it... .... i .. '. a -...i i. :..i.t tv. King, t) whom a place had been assigned by public opinion in the South. It is but just to Mr. Crawford and t Gen. Taylor to state, that, soon after his appointment, Mr. Crawford called on the President an J informed him of his interest in this claim as attorney, but without informiug him of the character of lite claim, the amount, or that the principal had been paid. Gen. Taylor in his characteristic and lucid style, replied Well, Mr. Crawford, if Mr. Mere dtth trices Mr. Gathin any thing, I don't see that it makes any odds about your being the lawyer." These are said to be his exact words. The claim for the interest was presented to the new Secretary of the Treasury, and Elisha Whittlesey, the first Comptroller of the Treasury, a whig, and an able and honest man an incorruptible patriot, made an able report against the payment of interest. This opinion was overruled by the Attorney General, and interest on this claim from May 2, 1775, amounting to $191,352 69, was paid. Mr. Whittlesey, to his credit for firmness and honesty be it spoken, when he signed the treasury warrant, added this significant note "This is an administrative aßt." Interest is no part of an original debt. It is damages for the retention of the principal ; and as the Government is always presumed to be ready, at all times, to pay its debts, interest is never ailowed unless the law direct the accounting officer to pay damages. The following Attorneys General have so decided : Messrs. Wirt, Taney, Butler, Crittenden, Legare, and Nelson. In the case of Wood t. the United States, Governor Crittenden, as Attorney General, even reversed the judgment of a Court, and refused to pay interest because it had not been expressly authorized by law. In the Galphin case Congress never intended by the act to pay interest. There is nothing in the law to warrant the inference that any tiling more than the principal was to be paid. During Air. Monroe's administration, the Government owed him largo sums of money, on unliquidated claims. Such was the case with Gen. Ca.ss, whilst lie was in the War Deportment. Neither of these gentlemen would have their claim examined or receive a cent whilst they were in office. Gen. Jackson refused to permit any of his friends to move in Congress for refunding the fine illegally collected from him until after he had retired to private life. Of the firit amount paid, being the principal of the claim, Mr. Crawford received a hi fee one half $21,759 48 ; also, one half of the interest, amounting to $95,670 41. A very handsome fee and that pud to him whilst he is a cabinet o!5ccr, on a claim allowed by brother officers in the same cabinet. The whig papers tell us that the cabinet is a unit, and, if so, there is no doubt a unity of feeling to help each other. God help the country when such a state of things exists. Even if the practice of the Government, the law, and the decisions of the courts, had favored the payment of interest, it should only have been allowed from the presentation of the claim and the refusal of the Government to pay it. The Galphin claim was never presented for payment to the federal Government until 1387, yet interest is allowed and paid from 1775, one year before the Declaration of Independence. The whole case is monstrous, and shows the corruptions of the present ruling dynasty. Mr. Meredith and Mr. Johnson both swear that they did not know that their colleague, Mr. Crawford, had any interest in the claim. Having so sworn, we are bound to believe them ; yet strange to say, among the small bundle of papers in relation to the claim, which should have been carefully examined and read before they assumed the responsibility of allowing, and paying it, was found several letters from .Mr. Crawford showing hi interest, and the power of attorney from Milled .je Galphin, which authorized him to prosecute the claim. We have been thus concise in following this Galphin Ghost from the revolution, through the Indian forest, the wilds of Georgia, Iiis English Exchequer in London, the halls of legislation, the committee rooms, the New Echota treaty, the feted atmosphere of a dog-night session in Congress, to its final resting place in the national treasury, where it will remain a corrupt and loathsome thing, from which all honest men will shrink aghast. We cannot say a Shakpcaro stid of hi ghost in Hamlet ; "There i no speculation in lho eye, Wi'h which thuu duel glare." The speech of Mr. Brooks was a masterly party move. He determined, that so far as he was concerned, the dead carcass of this rotten and corrupt thing should not bo hung upon the whig party. Hear him : When from my studies, Mr. Speaker, there burst upon my vision the flagrant wrong of taxing the people of the United States to pay for this claim, I resolved, at all hazard to myself, "to cry aloud and to spire not." I know the responsibility I am assuming, and I shrink not from under it. I dare to do right, and to speak the truth, come what may of denunciation or threat. I exhort gentlemen on this side of the House (the Whig hide) to study well, and to fly from this claim. to fly from it, as from the fire that burnt John Hogers at the stake. I would rescue all my friends. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune siys, that Col. Fremont received official advires by the last California mail of the extent and richness of his mines, that even to him appear incredible. If he can hold the land upon which these diggings are, and in which the gold i said to be inexhaustible, and, comparatively speaking, of easy access, there will be no estimating his wealth. He is daily making leases to adventurers, the per centage upon which will make his income enormous. I learn that previous to his leaving California for Washington, he was working thirty men, and that the net monthly proceeds which were paid over to him were equal to one hundred pounds of pure gold a month. But this would be but a trifling income, in comparison with what it must be, if the accounts of the richness and extent of the veins of gold upon his land, which he received by last mail, are corroborated hereafter by actual receipt. ... Dr. Webstkr. It is now said that Dr. Webster and his funily entertain strong hopes of a full par don from the Governor of Massachusetts. A gentleman, 'who had visited the condemned man recently, observed to the editor cf the Boston Mail, that he never saw so cheerful and pleasant a man in his life, considering the the terriblenees of his position. It it stated that the Oregon bill now before the IIoue of Representatives, in Congress, grant a half section of land to a single man, and a full section to a married man. There is strong hope of the pal aage of the bill

INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 13, 1850.

Disunion at Hie South. It has heretofore been the boast of the people of this country that they are more attached to their Government than any other nation on earth. We think that feeling of attachment to the Government, as it i ; to the Constitution, and to Ihe union of the States, is even now more universal among the people, than the same feeling of attachment and loyalty under any form of Government in the universe. We regret to say that the evidence of the gradual decline of that feeling constantly forces itself upon our unwilling vision. Deep murmuring comes up from the South ; and always rind a willing and ready echo in the halls of Congress. That which was once a deep feeling of attachment to the Union, is now a mere entiinent. The time was, when no man calculated it value. Disunion was a sentiment not to I be tolerated, and the man who would have spoken I out such sentiments, would have won for himself an infamy as lasting a did Benedict Arnold or Aaron Burr. Now there arc men in the South who openly preach Disunion. This class, we hope, are not numerons ; yet we are convinced there are thousands I whose hearts are with the more bold, but who have not yet nerved themselves up to speak the words of TREAsoy. The latter class are those who are not satisfied with anything that comes from the North. I No concession no compromise will suit them. They ci u dir xicsaitJii, oim muni mr iceii"c, aim ,Bo .... " . . .. n n I. 1.. 1 . . r, .... I. ft ,LA ... - . .. . . C I. Tri- I let noiris. a 11 is iifiin- is vc ill 11a LiiitniiiiD eiaic. 0 J I uui is nisi mMiijj jorui ouu snope, anu we greatly fear that the Nashville Convention will breathe-into it the breath of life. We say feat, because we should regret to see a party of avowed disunionist organ- : .. i ... ;r : .. . i. I ' ' I they separate themselves from the two great political parties, and, like the northern abolitionists, whose al lies and co-workers they ore, form a distinct and sepa rate party, the better for the country. Let them take off tl .V.k and ooenlv wear .h h,w Th-t .eh peniy wear the badge monsters exisl, we submit the proof in the following extracts, ihe first from a letter dated at Port Gibm;. . ..;.i l. ,.,.;,, 1 . . . I son. Aliss . said to be written bv a ilr. Archer, a I wealth nlnnterof that irJnitv ' ' 1 ,.tv.. ..... . .1. ,- Uiiicont nt ftxmfa imonr the timet. rAftninir. rvnurhn I J r I men ; among the "real people." It is arriving at (hat point when thinking men look round lor a remedy. That I rruiruj 1 iiiiiik a nnve iuuna , uu 11 win. 11 carried oux. 1 be cotnDle.e-werlect: and none other in mv .minion ran be effectual and lasting. All others are quack paliniiives. Alna win sun agnation; agitation win lall men of the South, look this matter firmlv and calmlv in the lace, and make no more compromises. If perfect I equality of political power were offered you, reject it. alone be your plan ; for surely there is nothing valuable I in a Union of auch incoherent materials as theae northern and southern States." Another letter from a different nnrf rf Mifiaiüeinni contains ihfl f.,l!oWin tre,.nnM ontimpn! & "Sir, (he dissolution of ihe Union is not only growin j into favor, but already it is proposed that in the Southern Confederacy a clause shall be inserted prohibiting the abolition of slavery in any State in the conlederacy, unless withdrawn from the confederacy. We wish no aiitagonintio principles introduced into the new Union. The people of the South have been slow to dissever old ties, but thev fear not the consequences of dissolving thi Union. They recollect that thirteen poor ana sparrely populated states t-ucersrlully resisted the most powerful nation of the eieliteenth'centurv. w ith her I Canadian prorinces (not disaffected) on the border. lhey kno thoi exports, pecuniary resource, and not nfMiner no ml In! inn viva nalmnil rwitaraar Thaw L nAiai I that their cotton is indispensable to the free States, and to all the European powers, and that starvation will ensue on withholding it. It is not fear, then, but the force r I,.;, U1, , , ,, . . . . ' ... or habit, and the old love, which have preserved the Union. In ihe place of that "olJ love," a feeling of bitter lutred is fest growing on us. The Charleston Mercury of a late date, contains me louowmg paragrapn : iron im taarron Mercury. ,h.f sWh wi; elt "fro'tn t" o yesterday : I "Cam de 5, fS. C.) May IC. I "We are just waking Iroai the dteam of Union, and e ready nU for a Solthem Confederacy or any other are change that we can make. We have ceased to look Cougre.4, and are heartily sick of Compromises "Georgia, May 6. "There is not much bluster made in this section about the Nanhvitle Convention, but the people are right on the question. Whenever the test comes, this will be de monstralfd. Indeed, many would prefer a separation from the Jorth, and your subscriber is one ol them. We shall publish in our next number some ex fx i e tracts from Northern papers, showing the course of ,, . , , , .j j . - , ... that mlsrrnhl min.miirifrt ! rif nnrtliorn ahiilitirtn. , . u . j i- i .u- tt . l j I ists, who would dissolve this Union, trample under I fHt lhe constitution, burn the bible, and annihilate I th church of God. Willi snch fanatics and mad men, we desire to have do communion. The times are full of fearful omens. "Clouds, shadow and darknes," rest upon the future. Although we can-1 not see ahead, we will not be sceptical enough to believe ti at tho glorious sun of our Union has reached its culminating point. Let the people, without distinction of nartT or sect, stand bv and sustain snrh r J j men as Clay, Cass, Webster, Mangum, Bell, Dicken eon, Bright, W hitcomb, and a host of others who have taken their stand on the broad platform of constitutional liberty, and are determined to heal, instead of widening, the breach between the two sections of tne u ....... iveiiieniucr ...B warii.i.g voice oi me v. ... .uu....jr, .u..w ...a hut ice. uive these men no more fuel, and their cauldron will cease to boil and bubble. . Connecticut U. o. senator No Election. We received several Telegrapic Dispatches from New Haven y-wterday, from which we learn that five ineöt'Ctual balloitinjrs were taken by the Connecticut Legislature for a U. S. Senator, to serve for six years, from the 4th of March next, in place of Hon. Roger S. Baldwin, whose term expires on that day. The following table will show the result of the iKtiioitin; : Int. 2d. Sd. 4th 5th Iaac Toucey, Dem. --08 Roger S. Baldwin, Whig94 John M. Niles, Free Soil-17 Cleveland, sTt of Free Soil-10 Chapman, Whig 1

pre.ena to see ,n every proposition, nowever concilia- befofe fhe circuit C()url of je United Ji(J?e tory or conservative, nothing but -insult to the McLean prMir in which John Norris of Boone South," and talk fiercely of "resting to the last county. Kentucky, is plaintiff, and Leander B. New. extremity." They -have been wronged" by -North- E c . . , defendants.

93. 0:1 17. U. ö. fceyinour Ingham r Total 2-20 2-20 210 213 217 Further balloiting was postponed till Wednesday of next week. A. 1. Tribune. We were startled, the other day, by the sound of tne steam cars roiling over me lerre liaute roaa through the south-western part of our city, two or three enunres south of th Stata Uouse. The -team r in .tt Mrs im nrvw running it fir ti Whi o Rupf winr ing materials for the road. tXrThe Frankl inklin (Johnson county) 'Examiner of ,v . t ... ys, "the junction of the Marfinsville the 1st inst. ea and Franklin rail mad with the Madison and Indian apolis road we understand is' it last decided to be at this place."

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Anotlicr Senator Dead Hon. Franklin II. Elmore of South Carolina died at Wnshington on the 30th ult. He took hi seat J in the Senate on the 6th of May, tinder an appointment by the Governor of South Carolina, to fill the place made vacant - by the death of Mr. Calhoun. He reached Washington in feeble health, laboring' under a fatal malady, (disease of the lung) which: in the damp atmosphere of the Capitol soon termina- ; ted fatally. He was a gentleman of pure and exalted moral character, great intellectual endowments, of a calm and conservative temperament so necessary r in our Legislative Halls at this crisis. The Senators had scarcely divested themselves of the weeds of mourning fur Mr. Calhoun, before they were called to follow his successor to the tomb. "What ehadowb we are, and what shadows we follow." In read ing the eulogies pronounced in the Senate and House on the occasion of his death, we were forcibly struck with the beauty and simplicity of the closing remarks of Mr. Woodward of South Carolina. When he reached the point in his eulogy to speak of the dis consolate widow he said. "Upon the nearer social ties that have been broken, I choose not to make any remarks. The disconsolate heart shrinks from the gite of the woMd, and what our eyes may not look at, but our lips forbear to mention." A trial of considerable interest is now in progress Ipl - r.i rj r I This is a suit for the recovery of damages from de I fendants, for aiding and abetting the escape of elaves. 0 . . .1 . . .. 1 Some twenty or thirty witnesses are tu attendance and the trial will occupy several days. The alleged escape of the slaves was at South Bend in this State. Norris had captured his negroes, four in number, in the State of Michigan, some 30 mile from South IenI. and mi rptnrnu.rr with them nn hia mn tr KentuckVf lhey were token from his possession, at South Bnd, on a writ of habeas corpus, and dis charged by the Probate Judge of St. Joseph county t l .1 . j .t . Nom9 "bsequently arrested the negroee on a writ trom (he cler or the Circuit Court, when a scene 01 great confusion ensued, in which clubs, pistols and bowie knives were drawn, but no body hurt. The ' t c t? ..I l .. :i u ,t. B' W" "'""'J lU l"e CUUU,J J -1 : . i : rn . . .t. Tr. siieriu, mie in ids eienin?. itienexiaay tue iven J tucky party, tive or six in number, were arrested lor en assault, assault and battery and riot, and one of .1 1 j .1 .1 1 ll,em fined ftnd 0mo f ,he ,'thera bound ver t0 Court. Norris demanded his negroes from the sheriff but was refused, as a second writ of habeas corpus lmd been eued out and un wh,c" lhe neSroes were 4 second time set free Norris not appearing at the second trial. His effort seems to be to prove that ;re wa a settled design, on the part of many of the citizens of South Bend and Others, to rescue his rlllTr(iC, rr(im u.m . n.t 1. l,.a m ih .l.-ifF K county a defendant in the suit. As this is the point 00 W,,ith U,e fle f the Fuit " PI turn, it would be improper to say any thingon this part of tne Subject. Messrs. Li6ton and O. H. Smith are counsel for ,, . itr i it r .t i the VtifT, and Jernegan and Marshall for the defendant. At the Bumming up of the evidence there witl be a measuring of strength between at least two eiri- i -. .. r lhe K'a,,t r "ie Indiana bar, and considerable anxiety will be lelt to hear them. William Sheakeh, tried before the Circuit Court of lnQ tj. S. at its present sesuon, was, on Wed ndsy last, sentenced to four year's imprisonment in the State prison for robbing the Tost Office at v;-Kot 5 fl.; m-.. . i - u i Winchester in this Mate, shearer, on beiniT called ' "P for sentence, declared himself innocent of the crime charged against him. Judge Huntington pronounced the sentence of tho Court in a very I'eelin address to the prisoner, and declared his conviction of his guilt; but in consideration of his family, and M of a uvm. he would place the sen tence at tho lowest limit his duty to the country would allow him. Shearer is a man of food annear. . , . , ... . a.nce nnd h" P1 a respectable position in sotolciety. John D. J- nes was sentenced by Judge Hunting ton, at the same time, to eight year's imprisonment in the State prison, for robbing the United States mail. The Judge, in pronouncing the sentence said. that there -was evidence to induce him to believe, that the prisoner was in connection with an extensive company organized for robbing tho mail. The r r, prisoner was a young man of rather good spptar- ' r rr ance, well oressea anu one that would pass without - , F 1 I In order that our Whir frtendj and others, mar understand the bearing of Gen. Taylor's do nothing J policy, we publish the following extract from the New York Tribune. After noticing the effort of Texas to extend jurisdiction, the Tribune Pays Now it is in the face of. facts like these, that we are expected to keep quiet tru9t New-Mexico to winks and nod mat an win oe rigni wiwi ner ana rest content with hurrahing against Mr. Clay's Com We cannot do lU That Compromise is not to our taetowe want compromise at all unless we are forced to one for the rescue and security of New-Mexico. If those leading Members of Congress who aro nuW ß'1"? thunderbolt to hurl at the Ombe4,iuni Gf. lho Session, they might have dictated terms instead of submitting lo them. liut they have trifled, shuffled, dallied, trusted to the chapter of accidents. until it i quite probable that the f ruviso will I have to be waived and an exorbitant bonus paid to I Texas to rescue New Mexico from her clutches. I And still thev wait, and crumble, and let California I and New-Mexico be hustled aside for n. month at a time, and never bring the House to a vote on the Boundary which Texas has already overleaped, and is now busy forcing Slave Counties out of the Free Soil of New Mexico. If they mean anything, why not do something, or at least try ! Rely on it, whenever the question shall take this shape that cither New Mexico must be surrendered to Texas or theCompromise taken as a whole, the latter viu oe taKen. v e I have no doubt that, in that case, it should be. Now if 1 the leaders in the House who profess such anxiety to 8. defeat the Compromise bill are pincere, let them show 2 I it by their works. Let them past the. California bill, admit the Delegate from New-Mexico, or at least es3 1 tablish the Boundary between the latter and Texas. If they either cannot or will not do thee, or at all . a. i events the Iat of them, they render the passage of .... . the Omnibus plun if not inevitable, at least in our judgment oesiraoi Is Thu Rir-hmnad PaI. ... th(lt t,,e Wlrk on lMr lonff extected rajiroa(l wji be commenced in a short tune. Four teen miles from Dayton west is nearly completed From the junction west to Paris is under contract. I lieffrau Ot VO., eiucie n ana mrrgeue cuinrncmrs, . . . .... - .. . " I v. - tr. am . J will Diisli forward the work. The liirectora of the Indiana board have resolved to meet tue uaytnn uirec . . . . . . s W T-w-tors at Taris, and etXv-ts are making to r.ie th. means I of troinff on with the conti-iuation without delay, i . The nett profits of the Ladies' Fair held in the new Masonic Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, we understand to be $275.

Volume X:::::::::Numl)er 2. "It is siratlge thot certain Whig Editors cannot learn a littte prudence. There is no necesiiy for Buy ill-fYeling between those who beli've in Gen. Taylor's plan and those who believe in Mr. Clay's." 'Indiana Journal. The Albany Evening Journal thinks differently and denounces Mr. Clay iu no measured terms; and the organ f the Galphin Cabinet at Washington, the Republic, copies an article from the Richmond (Va.) Whig, which says of Mr. Clay that l,he is restless and uneasy, while another of the same party with himself occupies the first office in the Republic, and lie may imagine that he can tin-Whig General Taylor as easy as he did Mr. John Tyler. The material at present in hand, however, is very different from that on which he formerly operated, and the resuit will be that instead of Tylerizing Old Zack, he may find himself Tylerized." The manner, as well as the matter of Mr. Clay's late ep'?ech was offensive to the Galphin Cabinet, as will be seen by the following account, published in the New York Tribune: Mr. Cly was on his high hore again yeMeiday. II made a lulling, thundeiinif, tmashiti fpeech. He cme down upon the Arinaiiiitt ration liki a wolf upon the fold. Hit dec I a 'ti at ion was tuilliant, impudent and provoking. We know of no man who ran rxcite i'nultaneously the feeling r.f resentment and admiration o effectually ai Mr. tUy. Hi oratory trachet u to re how it is that an Lihmau can ei j y a thillilih fiht w ith Iii bet friend. la bis speech of yrtteidajr Mi. CUj would y something in one btealh for which one de'ned to intrre him. inj in another, something that would promt t a mm of any comtia'iveuess to wih to knock him down. He poitisyed ih I leing of fratetnal union, the deli'hU of c-ncoid, haimony ud peace; bu expiettud bis dethe to heal divisions and alia animosities and irritations; and I hen he challenged lhe Administialion to bring out a champion of it policy on the floor of the Senate, and he promised to grind him to powder. Mr. Clay became deeply excited. He bore hi eiet proudly. lie displayed the spirit and the fire of youth. Deep, pei wading pasfiun spoke in bis impetuous gestures and bis purple countenance. He became unusually voluble, and imp issione.l His voice was never finer or more flexible, or more tiumpettoned. He thundered and lightened and stormed amain. He shook his hoary locks, eray with Ihrre and seventy winlets, even as the ctorm-shaken mos that dr pern's from 'he stuidy biancbes of a venciable monaich of the forest sways apd tietnblet in the gale. His features gleamed with demoniac enory. Witheiiug blasts came fium his mouth. He rained down censutes and impiecatin. He seemed to wing his way through and over the Senate chamber like a hawk over the fiii;hoDed flick of a bain yard: self-poised, he pounced upon this argument and tht, and tore it in pieces s with the beak and talons of a vultuie. 01J as he i, hu eye was not dim nor his natural force abted. We gloiied in Hasit Clay ? He alluded to the policy of the Administiition nn the Territorial and Slavery question in terms cf mingled scorn, contempt, deri-i n, hate and ii flexible opposition. He denounced the plan iu whole and in detail. lie dated iDy Senator to rise in his place and defend it. lie derided and spit upon Ihe PiesiJei.t's scheme. We could have skinned Habby Clay ! .

The JefTersonian gives the following pood account of the Democratic Convention for old Wayne. The editor of the Jelfersunian was himself selected fcr State Senator ; but is too modest to praise himself in speaking of the other candidates. We trust, however, the voters of old Wayne will have the good sense to elect Mr. Elder, notwithstanding his modesty. Mr. Elder was a new member last winter; but none was more active or influential in the House of Representatives. Especially in the committee rooms were his services most felt and appreciated. He was a member of the Committee of Ways and Means and of the Committee on Benevolent and Scientific Institutions, and was of much service in both. The JefTersonian remarks : The democratic meeting at Contreville was largely attended by democrats from all parts of the county. Eery township was represented and general good feeling prevailed. The proceedings will be found on the outside of to-day's paper. It will be seen that Dr. Henry Carver and Othniel Beesnn were selected as candidates to the Convention, on the part of the Democrats. Better selections could not have been made. They are both men of talent and unimpeachable private character. Both are old citizens of the county and are true and genuine democrats. They will compare favorably with any of the candidates put in nomination by the Taylor convention, in any respect. Isaac X. Beard, who was a Representative in the last Legislature was nominated for re-election. We kuow Mr. Beard well and know him to be a man of sound judgment aod good 6ense. The interest of the county will be safe in his hand.-, as one of her Representatives. His standing-among his neighbors may be judged by the large vote he received last year in his own township. The candidates for Sheriff, Assessor, Commissioner and Treasurer are well qualified to fill the olEces for which they have been nominated. We shall speak more fully of the ticket hereafter. The Washington Union of the 31st ult. announces "the withdrawal of Mr. Burke from his editorial connexion with that paper. The Union will hereafter be edited by Mr. Ritchie and the late assistant editor. The following extract from Mr. Burke's valedictory will speak for itself: To prevent misconception with regard to the reasons of my withdrawal, it is proper for mo to take this occasion to state, (h it it is in conformity with the terms of the contract between myself and my respected colleague in the editorial uVpartrnont of this paper, entered into one year ago, which expires this day by its own limitation, and not on account of any misunderstanding between us, personally, or growing out of any difference of opinion respecting the principles upon which the paper should be conducted. As I am to retire to the pursuits of private life, and again to mingle, as an humble element, in tho mass of that great and powerful party to which, from my first entrance into active life, it has been my choice and pride to bolon, I can with propriety say to the readers of this paper, that I conscientiously believe that the safety and perpetuation of our glorious national Union, with all its splendid achievements, proud memories, and magnificent prospects, depend more upon the preservation of the unity and nationality of the democratic party than upon any other single cause; and, therefore, it will not be unbecoming in ne to invoke them to strive earnestly against the efforts of all who endeavor to bring about a division in its ranks upon sectional gronnd. The ppc6eut crisis wifl test its strength; yet I have an abiding faitb that it will emerge from the trial with principles purified, and with renuvated vitality and energy. Ohio Convention. The Cincinnati Gazette of the 3d instant says, that the Committee on the Executive Department have reported to the Convention. They propose: A Governor, to be elected for two year, with & salary of $2,500. Acts of the Legislature, before they become laws to be sent to him. If he approves of them he signs them, if he disapproves he returns them to the House in which they originated, with his reasons for disapproving. In that case they are to be reconsidered ; if again passed by a majority, they take effect, the Governor's objections to tho contrary notwithstanding. A Lieutenant Governor ,to be elected for two years, to preside in the Senate, at 5 a d.ty while so en gaged, and to discharge the duties of Governor in case of a vacancy, with his salary. Jen ks, of the Lafayette Courier, gives the Indiana State Journal credit for paying the following compliment to the members of Congress from this State: Delegation im Congress. Indiana never had so many great men in Congress as at the present time. They have not only immortalized themselves, but have conferred eternal renown on the State they reprecent. .

For the State Sentinel. The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Indiana assembled in Christ Church in this city on Thursday the 6th instant at half past 10 o'clock. Morning prayer was read by the Rev. I. C Talbot Rector of Sl Johns Church, Louisville, Ey., assisted by the Rev. C. A. Foster, Rector of St. Tauls4 Church, Eva nsville. The ante-communion service was , read by the Rt. Rev. George Upfold, D. D., Bishop of the diocese and afier singing the UUth Hymn, the convention sermon was preached by the Rev. R. B. Claxton. D. D., Rector of Christ Church, Madison, from 1 Corinthians I0:h Chapter and 22 and 33 vere"Givn nune offence, neither to the Jws, nor lo the Gentile, nor to the church of Gh : Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but tbj profit of many, that they may be saved." The Holy Communion was then administered by the Bishop assisted by the Rev. Myers, Talbot, and Foster, to 14 ministers and a number of lay-deJ.-gates from the different parishes and the memhers of the church. Tin Communion service was concluded by the Bishop with the recitation (in which the clergy and laity present most heartily joined) of that noble hymn the "Gloria in Excehis, ZW' which has boen used in the church for more than 1600 years. After the dismissal of the Congregation, the Bishop called the convention to order when the Secretary called over the list of the nam s of the clergyman entitled to seats when the following gentlemen answered to their names: The Rt. Rev. (ieorge Unfold D. D. Bishop of the

diocese and Rector of St. Johns Church. La Favette. The Rev. F. C. Brown Rector of Trinitv church. Michigan City. N lheKev. N. M. Camp. D. D. Rector of Christ church. Indianapolis. The Rev. R B. Claxton, D. D. Rector of Christ church, Madison. The Rev. George Fiske, Rector of St. Tauls church Richmond. The Rev. Benjamin Halstead, Rector of St. IWs church Mishawaka. The Rev. F. D. Harrison, assistant Minister of St. Johns, La Favette. The Rev. Joseph S. Large. Rector of Trinity church. Fort Wayne. Ihe Rev. Solon W. Manner Rector of St. Tauls church, La I'orte. The Rev. John Martin, Rector of St. Fauls church. New Albany. lhe Kev. Josiah Fhelps, Minister of St. Marvs church Delphi. The Rev. Homer Wheeler, Minister of St. Johns church, Bristol. The Rev. Andrew Wylie, D. D. President of the University of Indiana, Bloomington. lhe Lev, C. A. Foster was then re-elected Secreta ry of the convention when he appointed the Rev. F. D. Harrison as his assistant. The following resolutions were passed by a majority of the clerical and lay delegates. Kfsoced, That clergymen of this diocese not enti tled to teats in the convention and the clergymen from other dioceses and of the church of England be edmitted to scats in this convention. llesnfred, That when this meeting adjourns it will adjourn to meet in Christ church, Madison, on the first lhursday m June, 1851. The following gentlemen were then elected member of the Standing Commi;tee for the ensuing year : The Rev. Andrew Wylie D. D., Rev. N. M. Cütnp D. D., Rev. John Martin, G. W. Meats, M. D., J. E. McChesney, J. JI. Moore. The convention adjourned at C o'clock to meet on Friday at 9 o'clock. The religious exercises of the convention were continued in the evening, when the prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Frown assisted by tile Rev. Dr. Carrp, after which the Bishop preached from II Kings V chapter 12th verse. "Are rot Abana and Fharpcr, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel! may I not wash in them, and be clean!" The Bishop then administered the apostolic rite of confirmation to ten persons, this being the third time, in which he has administered confirmation in this church since his consecration in Dc. last. The labors of the gentleman in charge of the parish have not been without fruit, for 20 persons have been confirmed ßince Dec. 10. 1?49, and several persons have been admitted to the Holy communion, who had been already confirmed while some who have been baptic.d have been cnlled away to other sections of the country, without having had an opportunity to receive confirmation. One of these persons now on his way v to California was baptized a few weeks since by immersion in the pelucid waters of a stream, in the vicinity of this city, in the presence of several members of the church and some oL" the citizens. The ceremonies were performed in the most solemn and appropriate manner and every one present expressed their approbation of what they had seen and heard, and some their astonishment that the services of thu prayer book were so well adapted to the administration of the sacrament of baptism by immersion. On the 20th inst Mr. Chase introduced into tbs Senate of Maine the following resolutions, which have not yet been acted on. They contain the gist of the whole matter : Resolved, As the sense of this legislature, that tho safety of the union of the States requires an adjustment of the questions and disputes pending in Congress relating to the admission of California as a State to the providing of governments for the Territories to fixing the boundaries of States and Ter ritories to regulating slavery in the district of Co lumbia and to securing the rights to States under the constitution of the United States. Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be in structed, and our Representatives requested, to devcte their talents and influence to effect such adjustment or compromise, as shall be best calculated to ecura the safety of the Union, and restore harmony to ita different sections. Resolved, That there is now no authority or law for the existence of slavery in the Territories of the Uni-. ted States that slavery does not now in fact exist there, and that it cannot be extended into, or exist in. aid Territories, without laws being first made ti sanction and sustain it there. Therefore, in their dedeliberations and action iu effecting an adjustment or compromise as aforesaid, our Senators and Represen tatives in Congress will disregard the provisions of the "Wilmot proviso" as unnecessary for any good purpose. Mr. Seward's organ, the Albany Journal, edited by Thurlow Weed, is out upon Mr. Clay for his late f peech, and in praise of Gen. Taylor : The following are its remarks in reference to Mr. Clay : Mr. Clay, it will be seen, did not, on this occasion. cfine himself to the advocacy of his own Tlan of Compromise. The Plan of the President is arraigned, discussed and condemned in anything but a friendly spirit. The friends of the Administration are chal lenged to stand up in thenate and dclend its rimer. This Speech, we deepljr rejjret to say, though leu vehement against therrcsident personally, is kindred in temper, and we fear in design, to that which Mr. Clay delivered in 1S41, on the occasion of his open separation from John Tyler. Up to that day, Mr. Tvler's only offence against the Whig party consisted in his refusal to recommend or approve or a United States Bank. Capf. Tyler, a weak end treacherous man. when denounced by the great Whig Statesman, abandoned his principles and party. We have no fears that the Galphin administration will come over to the Democratic party. They will never be received. (7"The agent of the American Bible Society is now in this city and has opened books for subscriptions of stock in the Richmond and Terre Haute Railroad Company, the proceeds of which are to bo devoted to the benevolent objects of the Society. The subscriptions are in sums of $20 each, and his pr ent object is to obtain 20000. The friends of

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circulation of the scriptures will, by this means, only advance this great cause, but at the same time aid in the prosecution of a great State work. The majority against Palfrey, the Free Soil candidate for Congress in the 4th district of Massachusetts, is about 5(H). He runs ahead of the whig candidate about 300. The democrat . had no candidate, but there are 700 or 600 scattering votes. s . Oy-We are informed that a certain candidate in this coonty is eo much opposed to conventions, that he will not vote for any person to attend as delegate in the convention to revise the Constitution. Hetaya that he is opposed to all euch petty caucuses. Whet li Uarnum! Saltm Dem. .

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