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: WILLIAM J. BROWN, Editor. 3 TÄT Tl "F! "K Tl "V $ SEMI-WEEKLY, $1 OO AUSTIN II. BROWN, Publisher. 5 WV " WEEKLY, 2 OO ArOL. X. : INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1850. NO. 13.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL: A GAZETTE OF THE PEOPLE, 7-Office in THE SENTINEL HUILDINC:SC3 North Side Washington, n:ar Meridian St. AUSTIN H. BROWN, PUBLISHER. THE SE.HI-ri:EIlLY EDITION Is published every Wednesday and Saturday and Daily during the session of the Legislature, at F0T73 DOLLARS A TEAS, Invariably in Advance. TIIK WEEKLY EDITION Is published every Thursday, and is furnished to subscribers at the following very low rates: One Cpy, one year, $2.00 Three Copies, one year, 5.00 Five Copies, one year...... 8.00 Ten Copies, (in Clubs) one year, 15.00 One Copy, six months, 1-00 One Copy, three months, 50 ZJTht Money, in all casts, to accompany subscription. O "Any person sending us a Club of 7Vn,with cash, at the rate of $1.50 each, shall have a copy gratis for oni year. For a rreater number than ten, the gratuity will be increased in proportion. 0A11 Post Masters are requested to act as Agents, and, as such, by a recent decision of the Department, they aro authorized to frank letters for the benefit of subscribers. CT All papers will be stopped at the end of the term paid for, unless the subscription is renewed, except to those with whom wc have unsettled business accounts. K7-Drp Letters, addressed to this office, tc'dl not be taken out unless the postage is paid. CyTransient Advertisements must be paid for when presented, or they will not appear. C7No Anonymous Communication will receive attention at this office. TO" Advertisements must be handed in by 10 o'clock, A. M., on Tuesday and Friday, to insure insertion in the fcTmi-weeklv. PJ'This l'aper offers inducements to Advertisers equal to any other establishment in the State RATES OF ADVERTISING. Wc will advertise at the following rates in our respective weeklies: Patent Medicines at $150 00 per column. Business Advertisements, 25 00 per qr. col.

Legal and other advertising at 50 cents per square of 2j0 ems, lor first insertion, and 2. cents lor each snlse ciuent insertion. AUSTIN II. BROWN, JNO. D. DEFREES. Iowa Elections. ' The Iowa Capitol Reporter, published at Iowa City says, that the election has resulted in favor of the entire Democratic Stale Ticket by over 2,000 majority, both Democratic Congressmen, and 38 Democratic majority on joint ballot in the General Assembly. The large.it Democratic majority ever given in Iowa was at the last Presidential election between 1400 and 1500. At the last cession of the Legislature 2G majority now 3S majority. Clark's majority for Congress in the Northern District is about 800 votes. Hcnn's majority over Wright, it is said, will be over 400. Iowa is a sound Union State to the cere. Her delegation in Congress Lave stood up manfully during the present session, and nobly have the people responded to their efforts. The Des Moines Republic, after invoking the spirits of Washington, Jefferson, Marion, Henry, Jackson, and the many thousands of others of the great and good of the South, and of Franklin, Hancock, Adams, Jay, Warren, Montgomery, and the many thousands of other equally great and good men of the North, remarks : "The Union of these States dissolved! It cannot be. There in a sacreducss connected with the illustrious dead, which connects the North and the South together, with chains of adamant! Dissolve the Union! Dissolve the American Congress. Force Clay, Berrien, Benton, Manguru, King, Crittenden, Houston, and other noble and patriotic Senators and statesmen of the South to strike hands in a long and final national adieu with Cass, Webster, DU-kinson, Douglass, the Dodges, Bradbury, WLitcomb, Buchanan, and other patriotic and noble Senators and statesmen of tho North! It never can be. It never can. Although we arc a young and unpretending public journal in a far oil" Western State, vet we may bo allowed, to call upon our Senators and Representatives and when wc say "our Senators and Representatives," we mean not those from Iowa alone, but those of the whole country to lose sight of party, State or place to look beyond party or party considerations and unite heart and hand, mind and voice, in consummating some just plan by which the present dangers which impend this Union may be averted, and that for all timo to come. Let the Northern and Southern Senators and Representatives forget that they have "local habitations," let them cease to demand anything unjust, or withhold anything just and constitutional, but let them do justice to each other and thus restore to the country internal quietude, once more, and forever." Missouri Election. The Boonville Democrat of the luth inst. says, that enough is known for it to state with certainty, that but one of the old members of Congress will be re-elected Major John S. Phelps, democrat. The whigs lave gained four out of the five Congressmen Darby, Miller, Porter and Bowman. The Jefferson City Enquirer of the 17th inst. says, that the election of Miller is still doubtful, having only a reported majority of eight voles. Missouri Election. Whig. Benton. 12 12 52 42 Anti Tenton. 4 23 Senate, House, 64 54 29 We are indebted for the alove election returns to the St. Louis Republican. The Union differs from this statement, br increasing tho number of memlers of the Legislature' favorable to Benton. New Albany Ledjer. Hon. John Icttit. The Lafayette Courier of Monday, says: " So far as Mr. Pettit is concerned, wc can assure the State Sentinel that it is perfectly correct in its view of the matter; for we arc confident that Mr. Pettit 'will still, as he Las heretofore done, submit his claims in accordance with the usages of the democratic par ty " We knew the ' Old Brass Piece" would be right side op. fXfSomc weeks since we published a communication signed "Mississippian." The author re quests as to state that, in his allusions to Northern fanatics und Dis unionists, he had reference only to AboüüonliU of the Seward school. 07" We learn by a telegraphic dispatch that lhe Hon. Jons W. Davis, of Indiana, U. S. Commis sioner to China, arrived in Washington City on the lSlhint. ! CtrWe have been Informed by a gentleman just i "turned from Jeffcrsonville, that there have been twenty-four deaths from cholera in the Slate Prison We regret also to learn, that in every cae of attack from the disease, death kzs endued.

Watchman, what of the Night ! This has no doubt been an important week at Washington. Our readers are already advised, that the important bills, contained in Mr. Clay's Omnibus have already passed the Senate as single or isolated propositions. This is the most correct manner of legislation, and the celebrated Omnibus bill never would have had a being but for the non-action policy of the Galj hin Cabinet. But hen Mr. Clay saw that this conclave of rascally politicians were determined to risk every thing the peace, the happiness and the very safety of the Union itself, to keep open the abolition excitement, he, and many others, both whigs and democrats, threw themselves into the breach, and by combining certain measures together, were determined, as far as in their power, to settle the question.

The policy of the Galphin Cabinet, it is well known, was to admit California, and leave the Territories and Texas to take care of themselves. Our readers know, that .against this wretched, do-nothing policy, we early entered our most solemn protest. Not that we opposed the admission of California far from it. She was coming into the Union in the right way, Congress having refused to give her a territorial government. We were prepared to see her admitted at once. The object of of the Galphin Cabinet, in opposing Territorial governments and refusing to settle the Texas boundary question, is well known. General Taylor was committed in the South, a3 opposed to the Wilmot proviso, and in the North as in favor of it; or, at least he was solemnly pledged in the North, to sign any bill with that provision contained in it. A Territorial bill would commit the President on this question. He would be compelled to sign or veto it, it being his duty lo do so under the Constitution. The cheat practised upon the American people, by designing politicians, would have been discovered. Another object of that Cabinet was, to keep up agitation on the slavery question, in order to re-elect General Taylor to the Presidency, or some other of the Cabinet's friends. They had obtained power, by a fraud upon the people, and they were determined to perjetuate it in the same manner. The Seward organ in New York, the Albany Evening Journal, was alrcaly declaring that no other whig but General Taylor could be elected, or should be thought of, for the next Presidency. The whole power and patronage of the Galphin administration, it will be therefore perceived, was used against the settlement of the slavery question. Mr. Clay opposed tins wretched and ruinoui policy, and the whole efforts of Lis great intellect were devoted to this object. As he Idmself expresses it, he took counsel with distinguished democrats, and men of the two great political parties, wide asundor almost as the poles, on many questions of political policy, were found acting together for the purpose, as they thought, of saving the Union. Mr. Webster united with Mr. Clay in his opposition to the administration on this question. He took the ground that the Wilmot proviso, the great obstacle to the passage of Territorial bills, was a useless appendage. He said, in his first speech, taking ground against the proviso, "I hold slavery to be excluded from these Territories New Mexico, &c., by a law even superior to that which admits and sanctions it in Texas: I mean the law of nalurey of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth." In addition to this, Mr. Benton, who has always been found in opposition lo the Wilmot proviso, proved most conclusively, by an unanswerable speech, that, as slavery did not exist in the territories, it cculd not be brought there without positive law. Tliis position was also taken by Mr. Clay, Gen. Cass and others. It is the position of the In diana Democracy. It was the petition of the Hon. Robert Dale Owen, taken throughout the whole State, as State elector in 1343. A position that en abled hint to quiet the fears of the opponents of sla very extension in the Northern part of the Slate and made his speeches so popular in Northern Indiana, during that canvass. It is a position that makes the Wilmot a perfect humbug, even did not the barrier brought to light in Mr. Webster's speech "As law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth," not exist. There are now two clogs to legislation in Congress, in the House of Representatives one is the movement of the Southern Representatives and the other the friends of the Wilmot proviso. It is well known that no bill, containing the Wilmot proviso, can pai3 lhe Senate. A mighty struggle will shortly take place to append the Wilmot proviso to the territorial bills of Utah and New Mexico. If successful, no territorial governments will be formed and the whole distracting question will be thrown over to another Congress. It is true that the passage of the Texas boundary bill will, if accepted by Texaj, prevent a collision in that quarter; but lhe failure of the Territorial bills will do great injustice to the people of Utah and New Mexico, who will be surrounded with innumerable difficulties without some kind of civil government. No one can sit down and candidly urge the present admission of New Mexico as a State government; neither would any one be willing to see Utah admitted, without some territorial trail ing. We do not hesitate to say, that were lhe question submitted to the unbiassed judgment of the people of Indiana, to-morrow, at the polls, three-fourths of the votes cast, would be found in favor of territorial governments without the Wilmot proviso, and for the settlement of the whole slavery question. The present Cabinet, unlike that of General Tay-, lor, stands committed, with perhaps one exception, in favor of territorial governments without the pro viso. This makes it much easier to pass them, in this manner, than under Gen. Taylor's administra tion, where the Cabinet- the unscrupulous Galphin Cabinet were opposed to any territorial governments at all. Mr. Benton's plan of taking up lhe bills singly is now the true policy, should faction not be again arrayed in some other form, to prevent their passage. We hope that such will not be the case, but that the bills will all be passed. If these bills are passed, with judicious amendments to the law on the subject of fugitive slaves, lhe South may rail on with regard to the admission

of California. The hot-heads who arc for disunion measures on this question, will soon, in our opinion, settle down to a corporal's guard. But refuse to pass the Texas boundary bill and the bills for territorial governments, and we will have cause for alarm for the safety of the Union. Agitation will go on, like a rolling flood, sweeping all before it. The scene of ruin and devastation no pen can describe, and wc trust in God it will never be the mournful task of any one to describe. Since the above was in type, we have received the Washington Union of last Sunday, the 18th inst. The editor gays he had conversed freely with members of Congress for the two days previous. In a long article on the Wilmot proviso he takes the ground, that the passage of this measure, will unite

the South in resistance and that "if the Wilmot proviso is adopted, the Union is prostrated." He says, speaking of the position of some Representatives, who are personally opposed to the proviso, but who are trusting to the Senate to kill it: " Wc beg the friends of the Union ia the House not to trust to others to save it, but do their own duty, and save it for themselves look not to the Senate to screen them ; for already it is said that if tho Wilmot Proviso goes up to them, men will Iks found there extreme enough to leave it to the Northern Senators to kill it. The votes of the extremists will not be given to extricate tho provisoists from the dangers they have provoked."' The amount of this is, that a sufficient number of ultra Southern Senators will withdraw and suffer the Proviso to pas3, for the purpose of accomplishing a dissolution of the Union. General Joseph Lnne. General Joseph Lane, the Marion of the Mexican War, has gained no less fame in his far distant home in Oregon, than he did on the battle-fields of Mexico. His course, as Governor of that rising territo ry, has reflected honor on the State of Indiana; and we trust, after the publication of the following Joint Resolutions, the tongue of calumny w ill be mute One of the most outrageous acts of the Galphin Cab inet was the removal of this gallant officer. The people of Oregon feel that his place cannot be supplied. His appointment was most judicious. His talents were eminently suited to the slation. His fidelity and integrity was well calculated to endear him to the people of Oregon. During his short ad ministration, he has won the confidence and love of the numerous Indian tribes, who looked up to him as their great father, who would take care of Ids red children. The resolutions are full of deep feeling, and no doubt speak the sentiments of the people of Oregon: JOINT RESOLUTIONS. Es it resnlrcd In tlie Ij"AsLi'h-e AzsnrJiUi of tie Ttrr'Jo ry of Oregon, That the course of General Joseph Lane, as .superintendent ol Indian atluirs, meets with their fullest approbation: and that his extraordinary energy in that department, merits the thanks of the people of Oregon: That the just iolicv, coupled with the irreat ärmaess he has exercised towards tho numerous Indian tribes, within tho Territory, have secured tho most peaceful relations with them; and that few could have accomplished so successfully, what his kindness, integrity and lirmnes-s have done, to secure the bonds of lasting peace with the tribes surrounding us. Resolced, That in the discharge of his executive duties a9 Governor of Oregon, ho has uniformly acted with a view to the best interests of tho tc'.iole people, and that his demeanor in office has afforded no ground of just complaint, but on the contrary, has been such as to meet the best expectations and warmest wishes of the people. hesolced. That they regret sincerely that the Presi dent of the United States has deprived the Territory of urcgon, ol the luture services ol one so eminently useful, and whose usefulness was enhanced by the unbound ed confidence i f the people over whom he was ohtccd. MsoUf.i , mat lue conduct of ucncral Lano in his private life has been such as to secure the warmest friendship of tho people. And tho purity of his private relations has not been less than his energy has been great in the discharge of his official duties. Signed, A. L. LOVEJOY, Speaker. SAML. PAUKER, l'residcnt. Tased ISth May, 1S30. Civil War. No greater calamity could befall the people of the United States, than a civil war. No good citizen can contemplate such an event without horror. Hence it is, that we dldike lo hear Northern men talking of subjecting the South, by force of arms. It is all wrong, and only calculated to irritate lhe publie mind. Our voice is for peace peace upon hon ourable terms peace upon almost any terms, rather than strike a brother. But we confess that when we hear Southern men talk of resisting constitutional laws, by force of amis; when wc hear them threat ening to take California by force and make it slave ! territory; of blockading the Mississippi, merely because the people of California, in convention, have declared, as a part of their fundamental law, their opposition to slavery, we feel inclined to let loose "Dogs of war" upon them. Elwood Fiahcr, the editor of the Southern Press, who is a non-resistant a man of peace, has become valiant in the cause, and now, like Michael Cassio, "Is a soldier, Fit to stand by Ca;sar and give directions." Speaking of the admission of California, with thundering words, and pepper sauce arguments he says : We are as much opposed to war as any other people. We have a vivid sense of its evils, immediate and remote uf the vies it engenders, tho wrongs it perpetrates, the misery it inflicts the ruin that results. But in such a conflicts, the South would sot only have the right on her side; she could not decline it without dishonor and disaster. The scheme of wresting from seven millions of free people by the mere formula of a majority vote, their rightful share of the richest territory under the sun, and this with the avowed design of fixing eternal barriers against their future progress, is not surpassed in turpitude, and will not be surpassed in tho consequences it will bring on its authors, by any act of spoliation eoorded in history. These remarks may be regarded as threats or menaces. Supjosc they arc, We are threatened with a great outrage; shall we not return threat for threat, and repel menace with defiance? And if in this terrible and most nnequal struggle some should grow faint heartl or treacherous, and fall off by the way those who remain faithful to the last and achieve the triumph which riya must always finally attain, like the Sybil's books will be the more highly prized as their number decreases while the faithless will sink into a idough of scorn, whereas no kinclj hand can ever drag them forth savo to the pillory of public opinion. Now, we think, unless a majority of the members of Congess from the free States, are butchered in their eats, California will be admitted some time or other. Then General Fisher will sound the notes of readful preparation. There is only one hope left. It may be possiblo that, before that terrrrible event, his courage, like that of a distinguished citizen, named Robert Acres, mty ooze out at his finger Cods. Ltl Uj h?pc for tho Lest. '

Cincinnati Railroads.

Under the above head, we find an editorial article in the Cincinnati Gazette of the 15th inst., to which we desire to call the attention of our readers, at least to the following significant and instructive ex tracts: "Our citizens are fully informed of the efforts now making and successfully too, to push forward roads calculated and designed to draw from us the business we have enjoyed for years, and they should also be aware that the railroad leading northeast trom Indianapolis to Bellcfontainc is rapidly progressing, and that tho Madison road makes common cause with it, and has entered into an arrangement for supplying the locomotives and cars and running the road as fast as finished. Do not our citizens see great loss of business to result from this and from the completion of roads from Lexington to Louisville, and from the latter city to a connection with the Bellefontaine road at Indianapolis by way of Columbus, Indiana, and from the construction of the road from New Albany to Lafayette, connecting with Indianapolis by a branch lrom Uosport: ' Our neighbors of Cincinnati seem to have discovered that these great railways now in a rapid state of construction, as we admit they arc, are "calculated and desisnzd" to draw business from their ci ty, and of course to build up and benefit other cities, and other sections of country. Well, suppose they are right, is that any reason why the citizens of our city, and of the other cities and country, through which these great works pass, and who are to be greatly benefitted by them, should relax their efforts to construct lhe works? or is it not rather an argument in lavor of ti-.e use of every means, and in creased energy on the part of our people to construct them at the earliest possible day? If Cincinnati is to lose so much in her business by our works, as the Gazette supposes, will not Indianapolis, and other cities, on the lines, be in the same degree benefitted by the increase of their business? Our city is located in the centre of the Stale, and now contains over S,000 inhabitants, and is increasing rapidly in business and wealth, and we can see no special reason why wc should longer remain specially tributary to Cincinnati, or any other city situated as far from the sea-board as we arc, after our great connecting chains of railway shall be completed, as they most certainly will be in a very few years. We shall then be able, by establishing direct commercial relations with the Atlantic cities, without the intervention of intermediate profits at cities by the way, to give as much for the produce of our farmers, and to sell goods as low wholesale or retail, as can be done at Cincinnati. These tilings will yet find their true level, and be governed by the principles of commercial reciprocity. A connection direct between Indianapolis and Cincinnati by railway, however desirable, will certainly be quite as much SO to Cincinnati as to cur city Pittsburgh, Ohio River, Railroad. Wc clip some extracts from the Pittsburgh Gazette of the 15th instant, that may be interesting to our readers : THE CENTRAL RAIL ROAD. Pittsburgh, July 30, 1330. Having just reached Pittsburgh by the Central route from Philadelphia, I propose to say a few words respecting its position and prospects. Tho Railroad from Lancaster to Harrisburg has been mJch improved, and is now in fine order, with a heavy rail. At Harrisburg we stayed half au hour to dine. From Harrisburg to Huntingdon we had a most delightful ride on the new railroad. The scenery is splendid, the railroad first rate, and tho cars luxuriously comfortable. I inquired particularly as to the time when the railroad connection between Huntingdon and Hollidavs-

burgh would probably be made, and was gratified to powers, to defeat Pearce's bill in the House of lleplearn that there was every probability of its bcina ac-! . .. , r.

eomnlished bv tho first of September. 'Most of the track is already laid, and the company will be ready to run -I i . i r i i.i- .-lit- i. . iae loaa as soon as me iraps aro cioscu. l ins is a roai teroi tue nrsi importance to tue traue oc rimaueipnia, for tho coining fill. By connecting with the Portale Railroad, it will give us a continuous railroad of 275 miles from Philadelphia to Johnstown, and will do away with two of the three transhipments now required. 1 roin Johnstown to a point near Ulairsvule, wc had

tho pleasure of seeing that the new road was in active i yced, Mr. Seward '3 organ, commenting on this arprogress. The railroad distance lrom Johnstown to I . . Pittsburgh will lo seventy-eight miles, and the force cm, j tide, tays : ployed oil this part of the line is about three thousand Wc 0iiht wicti,cr ti,e wishes' of tho Administration. This shows that the work on the Western Dm-, tion are eonsulted, or whether its 'interests' are to be Mon is pressed with great energy. It is intended to j promoted, by the passage of a bill which puts $10,000,havo part of it in use early next .cason; but the deep , i(Uo thc 1HK.kets 0f 'Texas stock speculators.

cuts in Westmoreland county will necessarily require .Uta nij.H.vumHu .."j .-..x. more time than other parts of the line. As many men will be employed in thein as can work without being in each other's way Pittsburgh is a dull jdace now. Tho Ohio river is low, and when that is the case, Pittsburgh is always dull. How would the citizens of Philadelphia feci if there were but three feet of water in the channel of the Delaware. Every Uidy hopes for rain. Last year, lor three months, the Ohio river, nil tho way from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, was of very littlo use. At Cincinnati, the passengers left the river by railroad for Lake Liie, and so they do now. The remedy tor this is tho Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad, tho construction of which has been undertaken by the cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, in their corporate capacity, together w ith many citizens of Penn sylvania and Ohio. This road, with its branches, ill connect Pittsburgh and tho Pennsylvania llailroad with Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, and the vast west. It will bo 1S3 miles long, and where it will terminate in Ohio, two gre.it trunk lines will take oil', one leading to Indianapolis and St. Louis, and the other to Chicago. Western men. have nndertakca this work. Pittsburgh feels the necessity of it, and so would Philadelphia if her road was completed without it. It is almost as necessary to the Pennsylvania railruad as a tender is to a locomotive engine. The grading and bridging are g'ng on finely, and eleven thousand tons of rails have recently beeu purchased. Railroad Connections with St. Locis. The prospects now are that we shall have railroad connections with St. Louis sooner than the most sanguine could have anticipated a short time ago. Our readers are awaro that there is now a continuous lino of railroad constructing from this city to Tcrre Haute, on the Wabash. Such ample provision has ltcen made for the construction of this line, and it is going forward with so much energy, that it may safely be calculated that it will l3 finished in aliout two years; many portions of it much sooner. There only remains, then, the line across Illinois, from the Wabash to the Mississippi. This hiatus has been supplied. We learn from the Illinois pa pers, that the stockholders who recently assembled at Vanda'ia, organized tho Mississippi and Atlantic Railroad Company, by tho appointment of a very efficient board of Directors. W. S. Wait, of Bond, was elected President. More than $116,000 of tho stock was found to le subscribed, and ten per cent, on this amount was paid in, and all tho other requisitions of the law complied with. The Company will proceed at once in the organization of the business for which it was incorporated. Thus the line is complete from tho Atlantic to the Mississippi, passing through the heart of the great Ohio valley, and ia its wholo length through the richest agricultural region in the world. E7The State Sentinel boasts that its party has gained mneh in the Legislature "in counties hcretoforo whi;." Such boasts will do very well immediately after tho election, but they were carefully avoided before Madiso Banner. ' Exactly so. The whips do their lasting before elec tion j the democrats after. 'N. A. Lrdpet. ' Thank you, friend Ledger, for giving the Banner that rap over the kriuclilcJ. 5

Washington C?rrespondence. Washington City, August 17, 1S50. j The Omnibus, after being upset and uncoupled,

has gone through the Senate, a wheel at a time, un til all four of the wheels are now lying on the Speaker's table in the House of Representatives. An at tempt will be made, and I think with some show of success, lo couple the measures together again, which I consider unwise. A sort of two-wheeled concern might be made out of New Mexico and the Texas boundary, which would go very well together; they are kindred measures, and should be joined. If these measures, with the Territorial bill for Utah should pass; the South will be disarmed, and California will be admitted with but little opposition. But should an attempt be made to rush California ahead of these other measures, it will meet with such resistance that defeat will be almost certain. The most important measure is the Texas bound ary bill. Texas is now raising troops, commissioning officers, and unless Congress acts speedily, a collision will take place between our troops; and one drop of Texan blood shed by the United Slates army, will be the signal for the whole South to rise in arms There are thousands of persons who are distmionists per c, in all lhe Southern States, and they only de sire an excuse to boldly proclaim their sentiments, and suit their actions to their words. The bill making appropriations for the expenses of the civil and diplomatic service of the country, during the present year, is now under consideration. The appropriations this year, exclusive of the service of the Post Office Department, will exceed fortyfour millions of dollars. The expenses of the Government arc annually increasing, probably, howcyr, not more than the annual increase of population and wealth. f The bill granting bounty lands to the soldiers of the war of 1S12 has not been taken up in the Senate. It is a measure in which the country feel a deep interest, and I trust there will be no delay. Many a poor and decrcpii soldier is looking with deep anxiety towards Washington for this bounty, so just, and wliicli he needs so much. Every year carries thousands of them to that land where the sound of martial music, and the clashing of arms arc heard no more. Congress will adjourn in about a month. There is a feverish anxiety among the members to get away. The three remaining members of the Cabinet, Messrs. McKennan, Conrad, and Crittenden are at their posts. The Administration, so far, has been rather popular, except with the Southern hot-heads, including Whigs and Democrats, w ho denounce it in unmeasured terms, and the "Higher law" Seward whigs of the North, join in the cry with them. Thad. Stevens, who heads that band in the House, made a most sarcastic and ironical speech against the President, a few days since, and was answered in a most scorching and withering rebuke by Mr. Ducr, of New York. The election news from Indiana has made the whigs place her among the list of incorrigibles. XAVIER. Texas Boundary. The Whigs of New York have commenced a battle in relation to this question. Seward and his "higher law" backers are moving, with all their rcscnxatives. i ne ew i on. r.xpreos says : "There were five Whigs voted against the known wishes and interests of the Administration, as exin esscd , ,0 message, from mixed motives, it is probable: Bald, win ail, Upham lVom an Abolition proclivity : Evring as as the defunct representative of the GalpLin Cabinet: Sew ard to keep the pot boiling; and Underwood to be odd." The Albany Evening Journal, edited by Thurlow " It is certain that this Ten Millions will do nothing it is certain tnat tins icn .unions win uo i t0Wards healing the 1 gaping wounds' of which s ! has becn jj IIoW is tLo ooutrv to be bencf so much ncfitcd bv this bonus of Ten Millions of Dollars? , " The ' Galphin Claim' was certainly a had business. But the Texas Ten Million Swindle casts the ' Galphin speculation into deep shade." . Tho Washington correspondent of lhe New York Journal of Commerce, now a neutral, but formerly a Taylor paper, says: " As the matter now stands, twentv-five mem'jers from the State of New York arc supposed to be opposed to it, and a majority of tho New England members. About j forty Southern members will oppose it. The weight of the Administration has been brought to bear in favor ol the measure, and it is to be hoped that the New Yoik Whigs will listen, if not to the call of patriotism, to the admonitions of party and personal iuterests. " I notice that some of the Whigs think that they arc doing enough for the Administration in defending its alternative proposition of draw ing the sword, while they reject the milder proposition of drawing the line and paying for it. Such W hijrs as Mr. Thaddens Stevens, of Penn., prefer the resort to the sword to Compromise; and will pay millions for war, and nothing for peace. Sooner than" adopt Mr. Stevens's plan of using the bayonet first, and trying negotiation afterwards, we had better say to Texas you keep your territory as claimed by you, and we will keep our money. " On the whole, it is not to be doubted that the Texan Boundary bill will pass. It will go hard with those factious representatives of tho commercial States of the North, who shall take the responsibility of defeating it." Hail Stages to Santa Fe. The Iowa Reporter of the 14th of this month, says : " On Uw first instant, the contractors for the U. S. mail service, between Santa Fe and Independence, Mo., were to start their first stage from the latter point. A stage drawn by 6ix niulej is to leave Independence and Santa Fe cn the first of every month. The trip through is expected to be made in from twenty to twenty-nine days. A strong guard is to attend each stage, and several stations have been prepared for relays and provisions." - State University at Bloomington. The Commencement exercises of this Institution took place during the past week. A brief account is given in the Herald. That paper 6ays: " Early in the morning of last Wednesday tho "beauty and chivalry" poured into the Chapel, till" not a resting place could be found long before the exercises co?nmenccd. We shall not write of any particular address. We loath invidious" distinctions. Öuftico it to say that the twelve graduates who addressed the audience acquitted themselves in tin roost creditable manner, and by th matter of their addresses, more than the manner n dbv reflected great credit lipon their wVfrthv teaehcTsv' "

For lhe lihhona Slalu Sentinel. The Election. Mr Bp.owsr-The retHilt of our recent elections Las astonished not a few, and disappointed many, (Ixsidcs

the deieated candidates tnemselves.) especially niuong the fanners of the county of Marion. You have already presented the publie with one view of it, in an aggregaio result. I have taken it a little to pieces, that we nnv examine it more minutely, taking a view of a part oriy at a time, lour country Irscnds arc in tl.e habit of lih. away their papers, and especially those containing t':M election results. A recurrence to what h.:s taken place at previous conventions or elections, is often servit-cabM to tho members of subsequent conventions, as well us to tho voters themselves. Be so good as to present the f Ilowing aspect of the late election, as it vill savo many of your readers the trouble of making calculations and additions. It presents a view, from the official return.-, of the votes of the eight country townships in the a'jcre. Erate, apart from the city vote. Wc farmers like to sc how we btand as to the approaching Legislature and Convention, and officers elected. The vote is taken from tho official returns. It is as follows, viz., of the eight country townships: For tlu Contention. Eight Tj.s. Ctntrt Tp. To'at. 1. Levi IToilJ!. ..... .UtiO. ......... ,5H. lir-li 2. A.F.Morrison 1211 6157 r,'3 3. Jsnics Johnoon, IIH 639 4. J. P. Chupman, .... .". David Wallace, ..... C. UuuIih Maguire, 7. Kotiert Hanna 6. William Moore,... I 1 inrt in:? 1123 . ...7:j.... 4) .oLO. ..i-6:t ..ii-: ..V5 ..1ÖJ-J For the Leyitlature I. Benjamin Morean l-MO.... cr,7 720.... ......iwi. ... W9 1907 Mm 2. Percy Hoshrook,. 3. MaJiion Webb,.. 4. Jolin C'oburn, .... 5. J. W. L'.urhaivan,. 123. , 1122. mi9. JWl. : in-.': 6. Fielding liecU-r, 934 Fcr Auditor. John W. Hamilton II Isaac W. Hunter, 1120 For Trcanirrr. Jolm M.Talbott V:r2 Willi W.AVriht, Hö ForShrrif. Charles C. Campbell liS'.l Janica McCord Miarpe, l(.2t For Frobatr Jude A Jam Wright 12.17...".. John H. Oliver, Wl 91.. 3U.. ..err-0 . l'Sl.i ..i-r-4 ..i:pi . -lTtS ..IM tCT... ...-.2.. ..TtiO.. ..7:6.. ..ti'.S.. The vote of Centre Township, us is shown ;th-vo, changes the aspect of the vote of t!.c eight towushiVs rijht smartly, and in a curious way, to which I will i.sk your attention hereafter. A SUBSCRIBER. August IOtA, 1S50. The SeJtlemetit with Texas. The bill of Mr. Pcarce to settle the boundary of Texas, which has pasjed lhe Senate, gives to that State 16,200 square miles of Territory, more than the line proposed in the Omnibus bill. This ii explained by Mr. Pcarce thus : " The line which I propose gives to New M -xieo territory on the Pucrco river, a'.o.t the longitude ol" 1Ü3 1-2 deg., and on that rivcure numerous valieys susceptible of cultivation according t the testimony of the Senator from Missouri. (Mr. Benton.) generally a go.d authority on geography her?. I desire tt make .NewMexico strong- to give her these valieys, which, thouuh vacant now, may be tilled up with a population that vi'l give her respectapiütv as a State. 1 hat my line vi'l accomplish, and tLo line of the .Senator ficm Ohio (Mr. Ewinsr) düt's not. "Nor is that all. The territory which I propose to give to Texas north of the Senator's liie, is territory ii the head-waters of the Kcd river and the Canadian fork of the Arkansas river. Those arc net riveis cf New Mexico; they run from, not towa.ds it. But tin Sei:a tor does not propose to give that territory to New Mexico, but to the Indians. I apprehend tint in the vast extent of this country we have room ctiouh for them all. " Besides, the Indians arc disappearing rnpidly; thev aro dwindling away, until, I suppose, at last, there will not remain one red man on the lace of this continent that is the inevitable destiny of the race. Wc have seen its rapid progress so far, and we know eertaii.lv that &uch will continue to be its progress.. Bat be that as it may, it is not with me a question whether we give Tei.as so many acres or square miles of 1 ind, more or less, in view of arrangement, or purchase, or kirirain. It is not that. This line is more satisfactory to Texas. The land is a thing we can pai t wiih very well. "It will bo no lo.-s to us, and if it gratifies her, if it assists in the passage of thi bill, it is well worth the giving awny; it is far better to give it away for that purpose than to keep it, if it were ten times more v.ilu able than it really is, for any other purpose. For, a was said by the Senator from .Missouri, this is not a bill to deal oJt exact rights or to determine lilies: it is a bill of compromise a bill of peace a bill to rcconoilo conflicting opinions a bill to st.-.p agitation. It is a bill to extinguish discord a bill to discinharrass our legislation, which is incumbered till wo can scarcely pet along at all a bill to relieve the apprehensions of the people a bill to bind the Uuioii together more firmly. For, if bound together by cords ever so strong, you will know that constant wear and tear, repeated abrasion will nt l:if ilpktrnr t!iim. It iran nnf riooii'Millv aid in the other House that even the cable i?y which the man-of-war rides at anchor may le gnawed to pieces by a nibbling mouse. If the constant tension continues on the cord which binds our Union together, the time must come when it will give way. The ollcner yon repeat the strain, the greater the probability of a severance. And, sir, there is great tension at this time. We cannot shut our eyes to the fact, that, whether right or wrong, there is a condition of feeling in Texas likely to bring a direct collision between her citizens and the troops of the United States. I do not doubt the issue of a conflict of that sort ; I do not fear that the preponderance of the arms of the United States could not over whelm Texas by herself; but who would not shudder at such an issue) It is the conflict I fear, not the issue of the battle. It is those remote consequences of the conflict which cannot bo described or defined, but which every man knows must bring enormity of evil in time to come. That I fear. I cannot calculate the value of the Union, of harmony and fraternal attachment, and of that identity of interest which may bo broken up if we do not reconcile this matter. It is with these feelings and none other I disdain calculations of money and land it is the peace end harmony of the Union, with which its future glory and good, äiid the happiness of every part of it arc inseparaldy united, to which I look, and which induce me to appeal to the Sauatc to pass this bill, and to pass it speedily. Deplorable Condition of WhiJrcery ia riew Yorli. Bennett of the New York Herald gives the following graphic description of the present coatitioa of the whig party in New York : "The democrats havinsr thus determined to heal their feuds nnd settle their dilicultie. the next question is, what are the whigs going to do! They have an abolition tail trailing after them, as well as the democrats. They have got the "higher law" abolitionists hanging to their skirts. Are they, like the democrats, determined upon shaking this encumberance from them, and going into the contest divested of such unnatural and cumbersome company? As yet, we have seen no symptoms of any such action. If they do not so, it will be ia vain that they will attempt any organization. They have attached to them a party of abolitionists ard ismites whose support is defeat and death to any party, and whose conncc tion with them, heretofore, has injured thcin vitally. If they do not cut clear of the Seward clique, and render harmless tho poison which is daily emitted by the New York Tribune and the clique of rnurioriüe who turround that concern, the whig party in New York will rue it when it will le too htc 33 The "Democratic Pharo3," published at Logansport, since its enlargement, is one of the handsomest as well as the most spirited papers north of the Wabash. It is full of Democracy, and wiil give a good account of itself in future contests. The New London Pioneer, edited by Dr. Wieke rsham still complains of not having received the election returns from Howard county. The abolitionists of New London have received nothing from the whigs in return for ll4r vclej. terved tkta right.

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