Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1850 — Page 2

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All postmasters are requested to act as agents, and as such, by a recent decision of the department, they are authorized to frank letters for the benefit of subscribers. TERMS FOR ADVERTISING PATENT MEDICINES. To pntrnt ennfusioii and to mvs time, we Mate our terms for advertising P.Henl Äledicine, v : Fifty eenu per square in the emi-weekly edition for Ilia first inaerUon, and lwenly-fie rent rwi aiiuare for each tubaeqiienl inwrtioo, w hen tor not lea thn linee imiMha. Over three month. 50 cent per fqoare for the 6nK. and 20 renin per quare for each aurmeuent insertion. Kach advertisement will bave at leaal one ineerlion a the Weekly without adJiikmal coat. Fi Inaerttona in Iba Weekly eoatinaotwly, doubl Iba above ''cuW. whea agreed to be Inserte.t, will be charged double fi Ihe once Ihey occupy. Eight line of Nonpareil, or 250 em, count a square. THE WILMOT FltOVISO. The Wilmot Proviso never was a part of the Democratic creed. It never can be made a part cf that creed without a division and an utter destruction of the party. It had its origin during Sir. Polk's Ad ministration, in tbe train of a few disappointed poll ticians of the Van Euren School, who finding they could not rule, determined to ruin the party. In the firet instance, its object was to require the President, in any Treaty he should make with the Mexican Government, to insert a provision inhibiting Slavery in .any territory acquired. If it had been adopted in that form, no territory, as an indemnity, could have F f " " keen obtained the war would have terminated in dis grace, and California with hergoh'en treasures would now be a department of Mexico. For the mover wel knew that no Treaty, containing such a provislont could be ratified by the Senate ; besides, it would have been a contract with a foreign Government, which for all time to come, would have controlled and regulated an institution, in direct violation of State sovereignty and State independence. We do rot propose to argue the Constitutions power of Congress over the subject. It is not necea' sary for our present purpose. We design merely t chow that, if the object is to exclude slavery, the Wilmot Proviso is wholly .unnecessary ; if unneces sary, why should it be adopted, when its only practi cal operation can be to exasperate one section cf the country against the other, to produce sectional divis ions, and endanger the perpetuity of the Union Slavery in that country is already prohibited by .a least three controlling laws ; first, the law of climate soil and production, a law as fixed and immutable a the decrees of the Great Architect of Nature; second by the laws and ordinances of the Mexican Govern tnent, ordinances which remain in force in the con quered territory, until altered or repealed by Congrees or the Territorial Legislature a principle established by the Code cf Nations, and universally adhered to and third, by that principle of the common law whic prohibits tho enslaving of a human being, unless sanctioned by positive legislation. We do not intend to arjrue out any of these propositions. We will call to the stand disinterested witnesses, and let them speak for us. The Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Prig? vs. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (IGth Peters' Reports) fully sustains this tew of the case. Opinion of the Supreme Court. "The state of slavery is deemed to be a mere municipal regulation, founded upon and limited to the range of the Territorial laws. This was fully recognized in Somerset's Case, South Carolina Reports." . The next witness we shall call upon the stand is the lion. John McLean, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the U. S.' It will bo recollected that an effort was made by the Whig free soilcrs in 18-18, to nominate him as their candidate for the Presidency; but seeing nothing but defeat before him, he declined the honor. Judge McLean is a gentleman of high moral character, purity of purpose, and great legal attainments. In a letter addressed to a member of. the Buffalo Convention, dated July 28, 18 19, he uses the following emphatic language : Judge McLean's Ofinion. "Resting upon the principles of the Constitution as they have been judicially settled, the free states by moderation, vigilance and firmness may prevent the extension of slavery into the free territory lately annexed. Without the sanction of law, slavery can no more exist in a territory, than a man can breathe without air. Slaves are not property when they are not made so by the municipal law. The Legislature of a territory can exercise no power which is not conferred on it by act of CoEgrcss." No man in this country, has been more eulogized by the free soilcrs and Abolitionists than Col. Thomas II. Benton. Hear what bo says, in a speech delivered at Fayette, Missouri, September 1, 19-19: Col. Benton's Opinion or the Wilmot Proviso. Speaking of the Resolutions adopted by the Missouri Legislature, be says : The true objects of the resolutions are two-fold against the Union, and against me. The Wilmot Proviso is a pretext. It would have been a dead letter on the statute book, even if passed at tbe beginning, from the known fact of its utter inapplicability to New Mexico and California. No slavery was there fur it to operate on none for it to exclude. It was dead then : it is rotten now, when every breeze from the Pacific com freighted with the voice of indignant determination against slavery. It is dead there why keep it up here ! why this rage about nothing? Precisely for the purpose for which the agitation was contrived precisely for the purpose for which the abolition falsehood was invented, and the Wilmot Proviso howl instituted. For home effect. For alarm and agitation at home. To fire the people. To Btir them up. We shall next introduce the testimony üf Daniel Webster, the great Constitutional lawyer the idol of New England whiggery the man who charged David Wilmot with stealing his thunder, who is notorious for bis opposition to slavery, and in favor of free ter ritory. As a constitutional Lawyer and as a Statesroan be has taken bis stand, and ho "treads no step backwards." Mr. Webster's OriNio. ''Now, as to California and New Mexico, I hold, slavery to be excluded from those territories by a law even superior to that which admits and sanctions it in Texas I mean the law of ' nature of physical geography the law of the formation of the earth. That law 'scttles forever, with a strength beyond ail terms of buman enactment, that slavery cannot exist in California or New Mexico." "Again be fays: I look upon it, therefore, as a fixed fact, to use an xprexsion current at this day, that both California and New Mexico are destined to be free, so far as they are settled at all, which I believe, especially in regard to New Mexico, will be very little for a great length of time free by the arrangement of things by the Power above us. I lave therefore to ssy, in this respect also, that this country is fixed for freedom, to

as tnany persons as shall ever live there, by as irrepealable and a more irrepealable law, than the law that attarhes to the right of hldinr slaves in Texas ;

and I will say further, that if a resolution, or a law. were now before us, to provide a territorial government fur New Mexico, I would not vote to put any prohibition into it whatever. The use of such a prohibition would bo idle, as it reepecis any eil et it would have upon the territory ; and I would not take pains to re-allirm nn ordinance of nature, nor to reenact Ihe will of (od. And I would put in no Wilmot proviso, for the purpose of a taunt or a reproieli. I would put into it no evidence of the votes of su perior power, to wound the prided even whether a jtist pride, a rational pride, or an irrational pride to wound the pride of the gentlemen who belong to the southern Slates. I have no mch obiec. no such pur pose. They wuuld think it a taunt an indignity. Thev would think it to be an act taking away ftom them what they regard a protier equality of privilege : and whether they expect to realize any benefit frm it or not, they would think it a theoretic wrong ihat something more or less derogatory to their character and their right had taken place. 1 propose to inflict no such wound upon any body, nnles something es sentially imKrtant to the'rouutry, and efficient to the preservation of liberty and freedom, is to be effected. Therefore, I repeat, sir and I repeat it because I wish it to bo understood that I do uot propose to ad dress the Senate often on this subject. 1 desire to pour out all my heart in n plain a manner ns possible; and I say again, that if a proposition were now here lor a government for New Mexico, and it was uiuved to insert a provision for a prohibition of slavery, I would not vote for it. Gen. Cass's OriNtoN. On the2IsUnd22d of Jan uary last Gen. Cass made his great vpeech, mainly on the constitutional power of Congress to Legislate on the subject of slavery in the Territories, denying to them that right, with an array of authorities and arguments which have not been answered by any one in the Senate. In his concluding remarks he says: " For myself I do not believe that tho slightest good will result, under the most favorable circumstances, from this Congressional interference with Ihe rights of the people of the Territories. Tho object avowed, is to prevent the introduction of slavery. Can it go there even if left without this prohibition 1 1 believe it cannot : and I believe there aro very few here, or elsewhere, who think it can. The Wilmot proviso is urged upon the ground of its expediency. It is opposed on tho ground of its unconstitutionality. Thoso who urge it may well abandon it, when circumstances show that the niensure is dangerous in itself, or profitless jin iis results." Mk. Clay's Opinion. Resolved, That as slavery docs not exist by law, nnd is not likely to be introduced into any of the Territory acquired by the United Slates from Mexico, it is inexpedient for Congress to provide by law, either for its introduction into, or exclusion from any part of said territory, and that proper Territorial Governments ought to be established by Congress in all of said territory not assigned as the boundaries of the proposed State of California, without the adoption of any restriction or condition on the subject of slavery." This resolution was introduced into the Scnato by Mr. Clay on the 29;h of January last. It was one of the series of resolutions introduced by that distinguished man, which has since been made the basis, of the compromise bill now before that body. We might fill our paper with the evidence of distinguished statesmen against this measure against this fire brand which can do no good, but may do much harm. We might mention such names as James Buchanan, Governor Marcy, George M. Dallas Levi Woodbury, Louis McLane, James K. Paulding, and a host of others. Names that constitute the brightest stars in the galaxy of American patriots. The question will now be asked if the proviso is a mere abstraction, why do northern men adhere to it I The answer is easily given, Tkide of opinion. Having once adopted and advocated tbe measure they do not like to "tread backwards." Wo atk the people of Indiana to pause before they are further committed on this dangerous question. We now speak to all, both Whigs and Democrats, (not to abolitionists) who love their country, its laws and its institutions. Slavery is an evil. Under the constitution it is left to the control of the States whero it ex'ats. It was one of the compromises that originally l "und together these States. Our patriot fathers made it. Let no degenerate son disturb it. We received the following article from the editor of this paper more than a week since,' but out of mero pity to the editor of the Journal, we hove, until now, withheld it from publication, as -for several weeks past the Journal has adopted the principle of non-action. Cut, having in the last number given a new version of the slander commented on by the editor below, we will give the extract and the editor's remarks : The time for which Jesse D. Eright was elected to the U. S. Senate will soon expire. It is said he is very anxious to be re-elected, and is already arranging the wires to bring about that result. His hand in plainly discernible in the recent transfer of the Sentinel. Jesse, being rich, has the advantage of all other Democratic aspirants. Our old friend. Judge Chamberlain (who has worked harder, for less pay, than any Democrat in the State) might as well be content to remain on the bench. He cannot compete with Jesc Indiana Journal. What docs the sapient editor of the Journal mean by intimating that the hand of Hon. Jesse D. Eright "is plainly discernible in the recent transfer of the Sentinel 1" Does be mean that the editor is pledged to favor the re-election of Mr. Eright, or that Mr. Bright's money had any thing to do with the purchase of the Sentinel 1 If so, the statement is not only faldo in every particular, but moan and contemptible in spirit. How does this declaration tally with the statement that the" Sentinel was purchased for the purpose of defeating Gen. Lane, and securing the vote of Indiana to Gen. Cass as the next candidate for the Presidency 1 A liar should bave a good memory. We are the personal and political friend of Gov. Eright, and of Judge Chamberlain. We know their high moral worth, and their attachment to Democratic principles. Ihe Legislature must choose between them should they be rival candidates for the Senate, and their choice will meet with our support. The device is too shallow ; the veil is too thin. It won't work. Gov. Bright and Judge Chambcrlaiu are friends, and you, Mr. John Donkey Defrees, can't get up a quarrel between them. The people of Northern Indiana will understand your clumsey effort to bestow praise on your "old friend.' If you are the friend of Judge Chamberlain, well may lie exclaim "deliver me from my friends." The ar ticle, like the head of the editor, is weak, like his heart, it is malignant. Eut we have already said too much on this concern. We are now looking for higher game, and have no ammunition to spend on cuick-a-decs. The Baltimore Sun of tho 8th insf. observes, that it will be better, as Mr. Webster justly says, to Lny our peace with Texas, than to undertake to settle the controversy as to her boundary, by an appeal to leg islative, or judicial or military authority. It is a political question of high import, and as such, is a subject for compromise. Unless it be settled by compromise, and that very speedily, it will lead to great difficulties. The ad ministration plan is to let the matter alone until New Mexico shall become a State, when she can contest the question in the Supreme Court. It is doubted whether, even when New Mexico shall form a State Con stitution, she will be admitted into the Union. It is the opinion that she requires a long tutelage, under a territorial government. f

From Our Washington C'orrespondcnr. Washington City, June 12, 1S50. On yesterday in pur mi a nee of a Resolution previously adopted, Ihe debate in the rominitiee of the whole terminated. Governor McDowell of Virginia made tho last speech, and a splendid ' effort it was. Kind, conciliatory and forbearing. It was a patriotic appeal to the North, and in behalf of the Union.

The House was then brought to vote on the- amendments two days have passed, and strange to tell, not a vote has yet been taken. The Southern men who are determined to defeat the bill are banded together, and can prevent any vote, if they choose, for ! ft month. By a m!o of the House, in committee of ' the whole, when an amendment is ottered the mover I as a right in explanation of his amendment to speak ... . . fie minutes. Under that rule a member oilers an amendment and speaks to it his five minute. When the speaker's hammer announces that his time has expired, he withdraws his amendment, at the request of the next oua who gets the floor, and he renews it; and in this way, it is handed around until some one opposed to it gets l he. floor and refuses to withdraw it. A vote is then taken. Another amendment is then offered, and the same process is gone through until the day is exhausted. The Southern hotspurs and the Northern abolitionists seem tobe acting in I concert; under the five minutes rule, there is no chauce to lay down premises. The member rises with deep indignation in his countenance, and, in an instant, he is in a furious passion. If a northern Free Soiler he abuses the South, slavery, and slaveloldcrs. This is food for the Southern Iiot head, and he replies in the eame spirit, and so it continues. The quiet business, working men of Congress, sit

still, patiently awaiting the end of the conflict between Tho President. " How do you do Mr. Rcsshapthe ultras, without any power, under the rules, to ar- py to see you."

rest it. All practical business is suspended by this

miserable question of slavery. Not a single appro- Mr. President. "Fine weather ; it "ill fetch forpriation has been passed. On the first day of July red the garden sass very fast."

the Government will be without money, and the wheels must stop. Because the fanatics of both north nndsouth'are determined that nothing shall be done unless their peculiar views are adopted. It now looks as if Cungress would not aJjourn before December. There is a majority of the members who are determined, to do the business for which they were sent here. But under the rules one fifth may defeat every thing. The compromise bill is still under discussion in the Senate, its fate is doubtful. If an altempt is made iu the Houfc to pass the California bill alone, there are one fifth of the members, all southern men, who will call the ayes nnd noes until the end of Concress. If the compromise bill is sent from the Senate, unless the Wilmot Proviso is inserted the northern men can raise force enough to defeat it to all eternity; and whilst Congress is quarreling about the bone, California runs away with it, and forms an independent government, and we loose that golden land, and with it Oregon too. Let the pcoplo look to thjs; The Southern press under the auspices of Elwood Fisher will be issued in a few days. XAVIER. The' editor of the Journal is a real Taylor-man, except that ho will occasionally talk too much. Whenever he leaves the principle of-non-action he gets into difficulties. In his last paper, speaking of the management of the State Seutinel, under its late editors, he says : 'This did not, however, please W. J. Brown, Jesse D. Bright, R. D. Owen, and others of the leadersor the Uass democracy ot tne oiate, anu nence Li UUIClia.iu via luv umvw u,nuivt v.ia i as to piace it unuer nr m. i it--- i I When tlie editor ot me journal urst oecame ap- . . 4 . I T 1 S . I prised of the purchase of the Sentinel, by its I present owner, be said it was for the purpose of injunng General Lane and transferring the democracy over to Cass; ana ne was greatly amazeu , anu i I 1 knowing Robert Dale Owen to be a tricudot uenerai Lane, wondered what ho would think of it 1 The next version is the one commented upon by the editor, wuero ne says, me iniiu vi jtoou u. uhjui ' plainly disccrniDie in tue iransier. mo .aSl version : is, that W. J. brown, Jesse V. bright, K. V. uwen (!) and other democratic leaders are to blame ! We advise the editor of the Journal to fall back on 1. , r nniinniitin IT Auf motnnrv ir-oro na 1 r,u"' 1 0 " .-..v... - trcacnerous as ins, we wouiu never wrue anoiucr artide. We hope Dr. Patterson wilj keep a good room iu readiness for him. He needs medical attention. The alitor of the .Tournal.lavinrrnsidehis non-action principles, is loud in his abuse of Governor Whit- . r . . ... , . comn ior oueying .uairuci.o,., ..u .trug .01 .... . tt 1 11 1 .1 . -11 r wiimoi proviso, ne uau uopcu mat, our um uuicr nor, who has been preaching up the doctrine of the right of the people to instruct their Representatives all his life, would refuse to obey, well knowing that he takes the ground that slavery cannot be planted in the territories now free, without positive law, and ...... l . . 1. tliat tlifn-forn the nrnvmo is unnecessary but such was Governor Whitcomb a regard tor tho principle, . . . . ..... ."ll , j that he has obeyed the voice of the Legislature not witlutanilirii the instructions, so far as the whiff pariar as the whig parbeen got up by the . . .. p . I the editor ot the ty is concerned, we know to have operation of the party drill; and Journal himself, who was the chief instrument in gettine up the vote by the Legislature to embarrass our v!.n.m I..-nt,,..lnr,o.l thn r-rro-Ur. In firhmtinrr fien. .. ! 4ii. era. my ,or s ou-acwoi. pi.i.pie, aim u deny it. How strangely lunatic and wandering is the mind of this editor. In the same column he abuses Gov. Whitcomb, like a pick-pocket, for supporting tho com r 110 promise, aim appiuuu xur. viay us one oi uiu purest ' ' J , , j-,. . patriots oi mc age ior taxing me same course. The Whigs of Cass and Howard counties bavo united with the abolitionists, and a leading whig Howard, Mr. Charles D. Murray offered a rcsolu lion, in a whig Convention, nominating Dr. Wickershatn, an old abolition editor, well known in Indianapclis, as a candidacy for Senatorial Delegate ; which carried unanimously. In Wayne county tho Democrats openly held a Con vcntion, and believing it a hopeless task to electa full ticket, only nominated candidates for Senator, one Representative and two out of the four Delegates to the Convention all good and true Democrats. The Senatorial nominee is Mr. Elder the editor of the Jeffersonian, and his opponent is David Halloway, the man who denounced Taylor as a cut throat, and as Senator refused to give him a vote of thanks for his i mnrfca in ttm Miim n our hut whn rnrnaniit! r..,T.L.T.T,,liv.nt..,rw....l..Wtnrl tlt K . - r . r i .1 1 the promise of a good fat office under the Generali - txovernmeui, wjiicii in uue nine ue receiveu. ,vnein - . - ., e ,,, .,, , r nr rn er the free soilcrs of Wayne will vote for Mr. Elder .Ilall J lri .1 or not is none of our business ; but we should suppose ihv nl,l not be lonr in determining the mattrr uil.a..i thn rarneome- tin between him and Hollo,. - 0 r Union Countv. The Democratic Convention Union county has nomiuated James Usuorn as candidato for Delegate to the Convention, and Laban Hawokth for Representative. They will no doubt be elected. Jlxiiakt and JjAgbange. ine ueroocrais 01 jikt mi T . -.. hart and Lagrange counties at their Convention on the 8th inat. nominated Sylvester Webster for Sen tor, and John Moore for Senatorial Delegate to , Convention.

ISoyat Decree. In the Washington Repnblic, the organ of the Administration, par excellence, we find the following official bulletin, addressed to persons of both sexes who vinit the President's grounds, every Saturday evetnng, to hear the Marine band discourse sweet music. After describing Zachary Washington in such a

'manner, that the most unsophisticated of the. crowd may know him, without the trouMe and annoyance of an introduction, the editor says : Wilfwal meaning to be critical, we would suggest In those wh amverse with him, that neither his gratification ;ior the. just expectu (inn J those who dtsire to be intrtxluceJ, will admit prolra lci interviews."' Here is an ollicial notification that visitors may approsch the second Washington and speak to him, proI'll.!'. - ... - . I . T. ! viaeu mcir interviews are not " protracted, it is well known about these days that the General boasts that he Ins got nlng so far without any mau's knowling whether i.e is for or against the Wilmot proviso, nrl that they never shall know; and therefore, in these days of excitement, 'j retracted interviews" might be dangerous. Since this Royal ukase has been issued the visitors understand how to opproach this official dignitary. The salutations, and answers aro nearly always the same. J n these days ot steamboats and railroads, many of our Hooeicr friends may desire to visit Washington, and pay their retpects to the President. We will give them a history of one of iheae interviews. Without any introduction Mr. Ross of New York steps up and says, 1 " Good evening, Mr. President Mr. Ross of New York." Mr. Ross. " Warm weather, Mr. President." Hero the interview ends; Mr. Ross walks off in one direction, and old Zack waddles away in another. The same sei nations are passed without scarcely variation, as he passes through the crowd. A distinguished politician from Indiana recently isited Waehington. He had been an elector on the State ticket for Taylor. We haveYorgotten his name. Thoso who nre acquainted with us know this natural defect in our character. We never can remember name. Rut we recollect, that although a Whig, he s personally a very clever fellow. Ab might bo expected he very naturally desired to pay his respects to the President, to whose elevation he had endeavored to contribute something. The friend who wasubout to introduce him, and who had performed the same picasing office for many others, told hi to iu advance, that, as he was from Indiana, Gen. Taylor would talk about nothing but corn and bogs; that he had a Eet speech which he made to all Indianians. Tho two friends reached the White House were ushered into the presence of tho distinguished chief, when the iutroducer advanced and said, " resident, permit me lo introduce Mr. (forgot his name,) of Indiana; he was on the electoral ticket for you, at the last Presidential election.' Old Zack. " From Indiana have great country out there; raise a heap of corn and hogs." Here the interview ended, with the ietirement of the elector and his friend. The elector was fully coiivinced that all the speeches he had made for the Hero f Bucna Vista was time poorly spent, and returned home dotcrmiiied;for the rest of his life, to eschew .. . . ., pnnrllll,iori Mcctlnzr Iu favor of tho CoiiinromKc I w rursuan. lo caI, ,e IIlcmbora -nd offieers of the gl Constitutional Convention, now in Wion at Lnnsinr lho seat of Government of Michigan. frien(1 to ie Da8satrc of tho Compromise Bill under I ' a , u. S. Senate, met in the Hall uf u n f Representatives on the 10th infant. Mf 1Iantcmnbt from ie coratnillee on solutions, reported Uje fol,owiDfff wbich wer0 unanimousJ adopted: llcsoh(i That the great dnctrine of fjontrressional non-intcrventiou in the domestic legislation of the territories, harmonizes with the true spirit of our institutions, and is tho only platiorm upon which the democratic party or the Union can maintain its nalion(llity and its agCendancy. vc., Tnt thr iranornl nrn;.;nn. ni,;.,i ; the Compromise Bill, now under consideration in the U. S. Senate, ought to receive ihe sanction of Con gress. The bill is conceived in a spirit of harmony ita P'00" respect and preserve the rights of the . t;ir.,.Dii ..i'inn. ..r ik. tt..: . i . j .r -u ... ui .u u...o.. , ..u uio it.iucucy oi ninKu W1U ut- lu auay ngiiauon, secure peace and tranquility, and set at rest the onlv miestion .... - . -- . J wnicn tnrcaiens tne stability or tne union. Senator Whitcomb. We find the following in the Senate proceedings as given by telegraph toBome of the eastern papers. It is somewhat fuller than the report sent west : 1 xiAi. iv imtuuiu auuic9;u mu oeiiaie. coilLiaUlCllliif I .. . -"". T. U'l.!i .V. j ,t. o .: tne statement that he is the author of the amendment 8U?gCstcd by Mr pfatt and inodined and accepted by ....... - I Mr. Jefferson Davis. He was, 011 the contrary, opposed to that omendment because it specially pro - posea to mat omenament because it specially proftded for tho protection of slave property. He was opposed to any such action by Congress, as well as Q ()0 Wjimot proviso. He went into a history of I'll .1 f. ( TT his election to the Senate to show that ho was not elected as a proviso or free soil man, as had been cnargeu, anu oeciarca nimseu ueciueaiy tavoranie to , I me vAicij7iuii in mo uruiuancu 01 lot iu ine lern I tories. In conclusion, he said that he should travel along with this bill strive to amend it in accord ance with hia conviction, nnd if he could not get it n 11 shape justitying him in voting for it, he would - v.ote eTl "f desired to settle all these quesI t,n,ta . Im, in I tin. Isaf rnonrl .nt,l i.nlA C... tl. - .1 l ii'iin , uu iiiu mat, iveuifk nvuiu too. IUI llllj HU r r-.r,r.. ... ia I mission ot California as an independent measure. The correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Lcdgcr sums np Mr. Benton's arguments in bis late of speech as follows: - 1st. That the admission of California is just, and ought to be effected. 2J. That territorial governments ought to bo established in New Mexico and Utah without the Wilmot Proviso, (against which Mr. Benton himself has voted the other day.) 3d. - That the Texas boundary should be settled by all means; Mr. Benton having at the commencement of the session, introduced a bill for that purpose, giving Texas fifteen millions of dollars instead of ten, as tacitly agreed upon by the Committee of Thirteen. Mr. Benton, then, is for the same measure precisely as Mr. Clay, but for different reasons, and ne wants a the measures to pass separately, out of respect for California. This is his whole argument xuee.pn. i.mes oi me uiu insr. ys, mat the C"ard of Directors of the Frankfort Plank Road Com , ,. , . , . ... nn rt r i.a 1 inmw um i rt rw a r .i.n. , . , , . n . n ; .... ., .. . i. I l'uuJ O'U It". IHVVIIII" fc 11JW1I VUltv Jtl AIXUIIUU V lilU i" ,. ... . . . od mat. We understand that they adopted vigorous . . J measures for the prosecution of the road, and conlein "aw " "o." uiu present taw ..!.. :. r r :n- r ,1 - . ". ' ruau u ui' I -r- . .1., 1 ,t,. .u 1 .1 J ' I .:,. c;i..i : : l..N : i. c r. pui nun iwiiontvi, uic tuuvaj im ynj lug auuui 111 ICC II of per cent., ciear 01 tnq expenses 01 tne tou-gaie. a I rv-The Benton Democrats of the St. Louis District iave nominated Gen. F. A. Rozier as their can didate for Congress. Judge Dowlim would have been nominated, but he came out in favor of the comoroI uiio. m 1 ma on SoUTrt Carolina. lhe Hon. Robert W. Bas - well has been appointed United States' Senator in the the place of Mr. Elmore. Mr. Barnwell was a delegate to the Nashville Convention.

ICnilroad Mailers. OtUnion Track. The Union track running around the cast and south sides of our city, connectin r the four railroads that have lieeti located to this O place together, is now finished, and the locomotives and cars are daily passing from the Madison road over the traelt with rock for the bridge over White river for the Terre Haute road, and with lumber and iron for the Eellefontaine road. . O-Teeke Haute Road. The company aro prosecuting the prade- of this nrad witli energy. We learn that they purpose completing the entire grading and bringing this season, from this city to Terre Haute, preparatory lo laying the iron next year. O-Indianapolis and Bkllefontaind Road. This company are now laying their heavy T rail at the rate of one and a half miles per week. We learn that the road will be ready to receive" the northern business at Peudletoti early in October, and will

be pushed north to Anderson as soon thcrealter as the iron shall be received. . The balance of the line we learn will be pressed forward to the Ohio line in time to meet the Ohio roads at the common point of junction. (7 Peru and Indianapolis Road. The super structure of this road is now being laid from the north end of the Union track, and we are informed that the company expect to have the road in use to Noblesville this season, and to contract for the clear ing off the timber and grubbing the balance of the liuc to Peru. These ruads are all that at precnt are located to our city ; but several others no doubt will be at an early day. So much for tho prospects of our city CT-Lafatette and Indianapolis Railroad. The Lafayette Journal says, that there i a better prospect of the completion of this road than has been anticipated for some time past. The Directors were in session on tbe 13th instant, and resolved lo go on with the grading of the road from Lebanon to Indianapolis, the letting of which will bo given out in the course of two or three months. StU.UUU will complete the entire road sixty-two miles in length at the rate of 10,000 per mile and furnish forty freight cars, five passenger cars, I fire engines, &c. &c, inclusive. It is thought that two years will suffice for its entire completion. We understand that on yesterday the Supreme Court reversed the judgment of the Clark Circuit Court, in .1 e .1 o. . e r i- . wt the case of the State of Indiana against Win. Gross . , , , , , . . jk 1 for murder, who was to have been executed on the 19th uay or juiy, unuer the respite granted by Lrovernor Y t 1 1 -St Wright. The effect of the reversal will be, that a new trial will be had in the Clark Circuit Court at ,i.:. r.n ,. m; ...... . .. . . , . , . versed upon the ground that the allidavit tiled uy me defendant was sufficient to entitle him to a continuance, which was refused by the court below. ft7-The Circuit Court of the United States on Saturday, after argument, over-ruled the motion for ... ,. . .. .r a new ir.ai, acu ui arrest 01 juugu.e.u, in me ivirr.s case against Newton, Crocker and others, and rendered a judgment on the verdict of the jury in favor of Norris for S2.83G, and costs of suit, which it is The Court adjourned on Saturday afier a laborious session of four weeks, a number ot cases at issue being continucd ; Judje Iluntincton presiding tho first, and Judüe McLean the last two weeks of tho term. " w During the last three or four days the vegetable k; i . l.i - i rrs, lncrdom nnneara to he rnmnltptvr revived. rim .. . . .t - i-. r j ...-ii i " r 6iow warm rains oi uie laei tew uays win piace thousands ot dollars in the tanners pockets. Ihe prospects for on abundant harvest will be good throughout the State if the rains have been general, , , . . , willen we irusi nas peen me cae. U. S Monthly Law Magazine, and U. S. Lawyer's Direc iory, both publithed by John Livii.gton. Esq., Secretary of the American Legal Atsociation, have been recetved from the rrcorietor. We should esteem theae books almost inval IIa : . .t - . the imDOitant decisions in the English and American Court. with other matter of interest to the nraclUin-r f.awv.r. while the Directory furnithet the names and residence of all th. r,r,.f..inn lhr....-hn.lt Ik. r,.unt.T Tt ,,11 I,. any a.ldre.s, by Ihe publisher (No. 64, Wall st. New Yoik.) . ...w ..J. "... - ..... W for One Dollar. Accident. On last Friday evening a horse attach cd to a buggy, in which were Mr. Goble, Mrs. W. Campbell, and Miss Martha Campbell, became fright ened and ran away. Ahe three persons iu the buggy I .1 ..... 1 n i 1 m- . were mrown out, anu an severely injureo iuiss 1 uampoeu s ancie was Daaiy aisiocateu, and ner coi lr hnne hroken. Mr. Camnhell una rv hnrllv hrni. 1 ' - - . : j j. ed, and otherwise much hurt; and Mr. Goble was thrown with his head against a tree Ihe fall producing concussion of the brain. We are glad to learn, however, that neither is now thought to be in danger. v<Journal>. MR. PEARSALL'S CONCERT, on last Friday evening, was well attended by our citizens, and passed off with entire satisfaction to the audience. We have heard a number of persons, of good musical taste, express their unqualified approbation of the manner in which a number of pieces were performed. It in which a number of pieces were performed. It was astonishing to hear children, apparently from five to ten years old, singing so evidently "with the spirit and understanding." Their proficiency speaks well for Mr. Pearsall's capacity as a teacher.—<Jour nal>.. The Strawberry and Tea Party of the Baptist Church, on last Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. was well attended, and the net proceeds amounted to about $250. The room was handsomely decorated, the ladies in attendance looked beautiful, and every thing passed off pleasantly.—<Ib>. ----- A TRAVELLING COMPACT.—The South Valley <Register> learns by a letter from the frontier that seven-ty-three emigrants from Indiana and Illinois have formed themselves into a Union Temperance Society, to travel together across the plains. Their By-Laws prohibit the use of liquor except for sickness, card playing and gambling in every form, and travelling on the Sabbath except in extreme cases. They limit their company to twenty-one wagons, and pledge each other to mutual assistance in case of sickness, accident or misfortune. ----- ---->The Baltimore <Sun> learns by a dispatch from Washington that Senator Benton and Senator King of Alabama, had a personal difficulty on Thursday last, while in committee on the fracas between FOOTE and BENTON. Mr. KING had, on account of it, asked to be excused from further service on the committee, which was acceded to. ----- The Editor of the " People's Friend," Covington visited our city, a week or two since, and, in writing home, speaks of Indianapolis as follows: " Indianapolis has become quite a commercial city Her beautiful site is fast filling up with houses', and her commodious street daily present the appearance of a trading, prosperous city.' Oy-The Niles (Mich.) Reyublican learns that the colored man to whom was entrusted all the property of the colored settlement of Cass couuly, has fled the country with three or four thousand dollars leaving the settlement quite destitute. Books. See advertisement of A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, and H. W. Derby &. Co., Cincinnati, publishers of School Books. The communication of D., in relation to the admission of California into the Union, will be published in our next. .

The Thriving Family. . BT MBt, L. Si. ttOOCBSBT. Our father lifi in Washington, And hat a woild of raicn. But gives hi chilJien each a farm, Enough for ihem and lhii, Full lliirty wrll-giowii r-oui hn bp, A numerout rare indeed. Minted and tattled, all, d'ye tee, With boys and ghl to feed. And if we wely till tur lan.1i, We'te sure to earn a living. And havt a penny too, to paie, - Kor ipeiidinir, or for fifing. A thriving family aia we. No lot dime need deiide ui. For we know how to uie nor hands, And in our vit we pii.i ut Hail, brother. bailLet nought on earth divide ui. Some of ut dare the tbarp nnrih-eatt. Some, clover fir-Ida ate mowing; And otheri tend Hit eot'on plscti That keep the loom a-goinz; Some I'Uild and ater Ihe whita-wingM ahipa, 0 And few in tpeed can mate them; While otheri reir ths corn and wheat, Oi eiind the floor to freight them. And if oar neighbor o'er the tea Htvi e'er in empty larder, To send a loaf their babe lo cheer. We'll work a little haider. No old nobility have we, No tyrant-king lo tide 01; Our tige in the Capitol Enact Ihe law that guide a, flail, biothor, hail, Let nought on earth divide m. Some faalti we have we can't deny A foible, here end there; Cot other hJu.hold have the same, And o we'll not dpir. Twill do no giMid lo fume and frown, And call hard name, you ee, Ai'd 'twere a burning harne lo pait So fine a family. Ti but a watte f time to fret, Since nature ma'e u one. For every quarrel cat a thread That healthful love ha rpun. So draw the eotds of union fail. Whatever may betide 11, And closer cling through every blast, For many a ttoim tiai tried ui. . liaiL, brother, hail, Let nought on earth divide ut. n

Horaen Greelv. whn i. now t W.cJ.;t v.--j jiiiiivwi n9 made speculations both for and against the passage 0f the compromise. His last letter is dated the 9th instant, and contains the following reasons for the passage of the bill : 1. It is a very ceneral impression that all the other business of the session lies behind this adjust ment. L.and uetorm, Lheap l'ostage; I an ff Amendmeut, &c, have each and all their ardent advocates. Tet il is generally believed there is little hope for any these if the adjustment of the Slavery agitation , . 1111 1 C'J uoen inn miccecu. inueeu, many ueueve inai 11 will be difficult to pass even the appropriation bills. This - 1 ' . belief is strongly calculated to help the Compromise. ihe incongruity of the band which rallies the Compromise and of the reasons whereby they justify their opposition. First, a Northern rree boiler will rise and denounce the measure as one wJl;c, surrenders the Territories to Slavery and gives everything to the South ; next a Southern Propagandjst will assail it with equal vehemence as giving tne iortu an trie lerritories with halt ot Texas and taxing the South several Millions to buy Slave "V Ii. V . 8 , .? 1,ro"s,orm 11 ree Soil. Thus liutler and Hale. Chase and Clemens. ßa,dwi and & , , : denouncing the measure upon grounds ns inconsistent as possible. There is inconsistency, also, on the side of the champions of lue mil Dul 11 18 D? 10 l,,en1, 60 fIrililng R9 on 1,16 other. notoriously acting as their constituents would not have them, l or instance, Virginia's two Senators, Mason and Hunter, have strongly opposed the bill I I . ' t I .1 . 1 a . a ,DU "re eu" M" n mal siüe, while the people of uiai oiaie are cieariy me oincr way. X nave been 60TtW'. amon- ,"e,n dunn2 ,l,e ,lft hree days, nuu & itci very eure uiai nineteen oi every twenty .... . . . . . . - . ? J j W ln?s and a decided maioritv nr t Im .nrir,irna I. - - . m a?or of the Compromise. 4. I hear to-day that Gen. Shields, who I have set down as ami Compromise, will vole for the bill ; that mr" ""'T' 01 ew ""l"'. -'ke.y to do 0 ano uiai one or two more 01 my unrty-lwo naya ,r , n.. ,i. ,t.. ... 1 " no. vt.iui;i, . vu t lirz V'lIJtJC naiiu, ll, 19 sim Messrs. I earce, of Maryland, and Morton, of Flori ua cerininy yor me 0111. nine will ten. T!i0 followin-' extract is taken from a lecture deliv I a tn. tr. v t V f I ereu at cm. oiepiien s innren rxew x ork city, on 3d ult" Rcf J W Gumming: We IllUSt loVO Our Southern brethren. Slid they US 1 nd "an? our rmJ difficulties as brethren should. 'r '""' naiu, U. w II IUI Ol v ICUefUl UOIII IBCt, I , , , , I " U,J e T , V . Tre,Bn öiaie. are me . . . , .... . , . ' n , no restraiui dui uiu law. iiciax one oi uiese cnorus, or subject it to unequal tension, and the others will e untuned by the discordant sound of one. Take away a string and you destroy the harmony of the whole instrument. (Much applause.) This young republic ngain is like a beautiful machine invented by some of her ioeenious sons. Her State charters are ike so many wheels, one indenting the other, and all turned by the large wheel of lhe Federal Constitution. Site is in good working order, is this machine; a patent has been taken out for her; her wheels are well oiled, and she has got the steam pretty fairly up. Who proposes now to Btop one of tho wheels, or to take one or more of them out: If such an attempt be made, perhaps the machine will get out of order, and stop; but it is far more likely that tho imprudent adventurer who attempts such a thine will bo knocked on the head by the crank, or scalded with hot water from the boiler. (Laughter and cheers.) This young America of ours is a mountain maid. whose beauty is of the healthy and sunburnt order. She was brought into the society of nations when she was thirteen, but now he is thirty, each State count ing for a year. She has laid out her portion to good advantage, nnd sho wants for herself and her growing family all the property she has. Ihe West is her farm, the East her market, the North her workshop, nd the South her garden. She wants for her family. New England to go to school in Ohio, and Wisconsin to practice agriculture, Kentucky to hunt in, the Carolinas to provide sugar for her table and cotton for her clothes, California to get plenty of gold, and New York to take care of it, and put it out to good purposes when Bhe has got it. (Loud cheers.) lVabali Navigation Company. The Terre Haute Courier says, the improvement of navigation in the Wabash river will form an epoch in the history of trade in the Wabash Valley. Already has the improvement of the rapids by the Company greatly benefitted trade for hundreds of miles along the river. The subjoined preamble and resolutions, passed at a recent meeting of the stockholders, show a praiseworthy determination to secure a low-water navigation on the river . Whekeas, The further improvement of the Wabash, from the mouth to Lafayette, by the removal of logs and bars, would tend further to secure a good and constant low water navigation, and conduce largely to the increase of the commerce of the river, and consequently to the development of the vast agricultural and other resources of this extensive and productive valley, as well as to the receipts of the company : Therefore, Resolved, That the stockholders of this company recommend that the President and Directors of the Company adopt all proper measures, as speedily aa possible, with due regard lo economy, to cause aaid obstructions to navigation to be removed. "Well, neighbor, what's the most Christian news this morning 1" said a gentleman of Providence, to his friend. "I have just bought a barrel of flour for a poor woman." "Just like you ! who is it that you have made happy by your charity, this time !" "My wife !" V Good Advice for Everybody. If witdoru's ways you witely leek, Five things observe with caret Of whom you speak, to whom you speak And how, and wben od where. 05-IIe that is good may hope to become bett r ; he that is bad may fear that he will become worse ; for vice, virtue and time never eland still.