Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1850 — Page 2

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INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. "WILLIAM J. BROWN, Editor. INDIANAPOLIS, NOVEMBER 12, 1S50. Union Meeting. The gathering st im portends danger;, tho Union men mast be united. What are the old issues compared with the safety and glory of. our Union? When it was formed ourorefatbers counted not its cost. Let their children not count its value. Dollars and cents is tot tht standard by which-it should be estimated. We hall not favor tho rear or the party that favors disunion, or advocates or sanctions measures which'must lead to it. Ia a contest letween a Unijn Whig and Disunion DemocraT w support the Whig. If this be treason to Democracy make tae most of it. The friends of the Union, both north and south, are holding Union meetings and resolving to stand by the compromises of the Contilution, and sustain the peaeo measures of the late aession of Congress. Union Associations are being organized. The tone of the press in the interest of the disnnfonists, both north and south, shows that there is a Baity of feeling ami sentiment not in the means but in the end. Each faction uses the arguments best calculated to deceive and mislead the honest people of their respective sections. AH parties at the south sny, if the northern people disregard their Constitutional obligations, and refuse to deliver up oar fugitive slaves, we can no longer remain a part of this confederacy. And the abolitionists at the north, seize the cuo and raise the cry in favor of repeal, well knowing that repeal is disunion, whilst snch men as Greeley, Bryant, and Weed unite with EI wood Fisher in-sneering at the Union meetings. The former say there is no danger, the south will not and dire not resist. Whilst the latter says all their efforts cannot save the Union. They qnarrel over the means, yet sanctify the end. They ride in didercnt cars, but the locomotive, carries them to the same fearful and alarming destination. Forewarned of danger, let the people prepare for the crisis. Let meetings bo held, and societies bo organized. Let all good man sustain the President and his Cabinet in their efforts to breast the storm of fanaticism. When breakers are dashing against

the vessel, let as not enquire, what are fie politics of the pilot, bat let tbe inquiry b?, does ho manage the helm with skill and judgement? Let us not qnarrcl about the scats at the feast when the house is in flames. We have conqu:;ra.l all other nations that wo have battled with. Let ns now conquer ourselves. Adhere to the compromises of the Constitution. Preserve the Union, and a glorious destiny awaits us as a nation. The honest people must act and act effectively. Constitutional Convention. The Convention is progressing rapidly with their business. They have now resumed their afternoon sessions, and will proceed in regular order, to adopt the amendments. We shall continue to publish as mach of the debates as wo can ma'to room for. Oar general synopsis, with the reports of the committees, will be more satisfactory to our reaJcrs than the debates, and we shall in that way endeavor to keep np with the proceedings. Although wo may not be able to give nil that is said, we shall show what has been done. Our synopsis gives the facts, without comment, which we think much better than to fill our columns with editorial st.ictjres. D" After a protracted discussion of some f.-ur or five days an important principle was settled yesterday afternoon in the Convention, in relation to propcrtv takeu by corporations. Sec. Tho section as finally adopted by a decided majority, is as follows: " No man's particular services shnll be demanded without just compensation. No man's property shall be taken without compensation ; nor, except in case of the btne, without su.-h compensation first assessed and tendered to the owner." In addition to this, it has been decided that thero shall not be imprisonment for debt except for fraud. That in all cases of whatever amount or nature, the right of trial by jury shall be inviolate. The terms of service of Auditor, Secretary, and Treasurer qf, State, are fixed at two years, and said officers are only eligible four years in any term of six years. These comprise all the questions that have been defi nitely settled np to this time. Local Legislation ''The world Is governed too much." This motto is true, and its t. uth has been nowhere more fully illustrated than in the great amount of local legislation in Indiana. To remedy this most glaring evil, a section has been reported by Mr. Newman, chairman of that committee, which, in onr opinion, will to a great extent obviate the difficulty. Our laws are now in a wretched condition. The same laws are not in force in two counties in the State. The system first commenced by exempting certain counties from the operation of certain general laws, and it has even been extended to townships. All laws should be uniform in their operation throughout the State; the people can then understand and will respect them. Companies should not be incorporated with special privileges not enjoyed by every citizen in his individual capacity. The rights and interests of minors should not be left to the mercy of local legislation. We hold that roads may le made, churches built, man nfactorics established, and banks created, under general laws, of which all may avail themselves without let or hindrance. Equal rights and equal justice should be tho aim and end of all legislation. The people want few, plain, and simple laws, and those laws faithfully administered. Dr. Ullis and Free-Soilism. We stated in our last, that Dr. Ellis had always been a consistent frec-soiler. In that we were mistaken. He has not been consistent in anvtbing connected with the question. In 1?47, when the subject was first agi tated.he pronounced "THE W1LMOT PROVISO A nUMBUG POWERLESS FOR GOOD AND PREG NANT FOR EVIL." In the same article, he says: "SO FAR AS NEW TERRITORY IS CONCERNED, IT WILL BE TIME ENOUGH WHEN WE ACQUIRE IT, AND COME TO EXTEND TO IT THE PROTECTION OF OUR LAWS, TO FIGHT THE BATTLE OF SLAVERY AND ANTI-SLA-VERY, AND FOR ONE, WE SAY WHEN THAT TIME DOES CQME, THAT IF A TORTION OF THAT TERRITORY SHALL BE FOUND BETTER ADAPTED TO A SLAVE THAN A FREE POPULATION, INASMUCH AS A SINGLE LAVE WILL NOT BE ADDED TO THE AGGREGATE, WE SHALL HAVE NO SQUEAMISHNES3 IN SEEING SUCH EXTENSION." We yield the palm, and confess the corn. " Not a slave will he added to the aggregate." " WE SHALL HAVE NO SQUEAMISHNESS IN SEEING SUCH EXTENSION." This is from one f his serraot.s delivered before the fall. We shall hereafter give some extracts from his preicfclsg tfter a change cam over the spirit cf his dreams. It rill be good cross reading. " Oh that mine enem wo4J write a book." Property t Married Women. Tae special order on this subject iras postponed rtntil to-morrow, (Wednesday,) p JO o'clock. Mr. Owan is d titled to the floor. CT" Elder Alexander Campbell preached ta large congregations on Friday and Saturday cenings, and on Sunday morning, at Masonic Hall. ÜCT We learn from th annual mtsg of the Governor of Kentucky, that the public debt of that State is S4,247,CT7 81.

Constitutional Convention. Saturday,. Notimber 9, 1S50. The Convention was opened by prayer, by the Rev. Mr. Mills. . The Pa esi dent laid before the Convention a communication from the Judges of the Supreme Conrt, in relation to the manner of doing business in said court; which was referred to the appropriate committee. Mr. Folet presented a petition in favor of articles of American production being sold without license; referred. Mr. McFaslano presented tho proceedings of a meeting of the citizens of Lafayette, without distinction of party, in f.ivor of a clause in tho Constitution providing for a divorce between the State and all Banks and for a system of free banking, if any banks be permitted in this State. That no special charters be permitted; but that banks be organized under a general banking law; which was read and laid on the table, as the committee on currency and banking have already reported. Mr. Read, from the committee on State officrs, Ike, reported a section providing for the election of a Stata

Librarian, by the people of the State, to bold his office two years; which was read and passed to a second reading. Mr. Gibsox, from the committee on law reform reported against the expediency of making all debts contracted after 160 debts of honor; which was concurred in. Mr. Cookerly offered a resolution, that a committee, consisting of Messrs. Badger and Wolfe, bo appointed to wait on Elder Alexander Campbell, and request Lim to open the session by prayer on Monday next ; which was adopted. By Mr. McFaslavd, as to the expediency of placing all property now exempt from taxation on the tax list with certain exceptions, such as property used, for common schools, burying grounds, &c., and that there be no futuro exemptions permitted; adopted. By Mr. Kent, as to the expediency of appropriating the proceeds of the swamp lands, donated to the State by Congress, to tho benefit of common schools; adopted. Sir. Moore offered a resolution, as to the expediency of electing the Warden of tho Penitentiary by the people. By Mr. Hamilton, as to tho expediency of rendering officers inclligiblc to any other office during the term for which they are elected; adopted. By Mr. Chapmas, as to tho expediency of making a provision that there shall be no capital punishment except for treason and murder in l'c first degree; adopted. By Mr. Robissox, an imperative resolution, against granting licenses to vend liquors; lies over. By Mr. Read of Mmroe, as to the expediency of preventing the State from becoming a st)ckliolder in any incorporated company, either in this or any other Stite; adopted. By Mr. Read of Clark, as to the expediency of not permitting a change iu the Ju lieial Circuits, except on the first year after an enumeration, unless w here new circuits are made; adopted- By Mr. March, as to the expediency of adopting a Court of Conciliation; adopted. By Mr. Miller of Clinton, in relation to interest; adopted. By Mr. Magcire, in relation to a more equitable valution of property ; adopted. By Mr. Ke.vdall of White, as to tho expediency of allowing each county a repressntative; adopted. By Mr. Gregg, as to the expodiency of electing tho Chaplain of the Penitentiary by the people; adopted. By Mr. Holmax, a resolution of inquiry, whether the State University Funds can be diverted to any other purpose; and if so, the propriety of using its funds for the use of common schools; adopted. By Mr. Bracke.v, whether under the State debt law, canal trustee can be elected by the people; adopted. By Mr. Helm, as to tho expediency of extending the right of Su.Trngc to all tax paying Mulattocs and Indians who Lav only one sixt'i negro or Indian blood ; not adopted. By Mr. Prather, as to the expediency of chartering a State Bank, with a capital of $3,000,000, and the State to subscribe the school fund of the present bank as stock, &c; not adopted. Ry Mr. Kent, as to the expediency of permitting a majority of a jury to render a verdict of acquital; not adopted. Ey Mr. Robivsox , ns to the expediency of an article, that there shall be no licences required for American products; not adopted. Resolutions were adopted requesting the Superintendents of the institutions for the education of tho blind and deaf and dumb to give public exhibitions beforo the Convention. By Mr. Bipdle, as to tho expediency of securing to inventors the right of their inventions to themselves and heirs; adopted. By Mr. Sims, as to the expediency of impeachment of public officers by the Circuit Courts; adopted. By Mr. Terry, as to the expediency of making all laws uniform in their operations throughout the Stat?; adopted. By Mr. Dtwx, of Perry, as to the ex pediency of a thorough geological survey of the State; adopted. By Mr. Prather, as to the expediency of giving widows one-tbird of the real estate of their de ceased husbands, absolute, instead of a life estate, Sec ; adopted. By Mr. Graham of Miami, as t the expediency of preventing counties from borrowing money for investment in the Hock of private corporations; adopted. By Mr. Bascom, as to the expediency of electing the public Printer by the people; adoptd. Bv Mr. Tagtjt, as to the expediency of having impeachments of county and township officers tried before such tribunals as the Legislature may determine; adopted. By Mr Hardiv, as to the expediency of prohibiting the Legis lature from parsing any law for the purpose of unitin or consolidating companies incorporated previous to the adoption of the new Constitution. The Convention then resumed the consideration of tho section in relation to taking property, &.c, for public purposes. The question being on committing the section to a committee, with instuctions to insert thoproposition of Mr.NiLES, Mr. Bascom moved to lay the instructions on the table; which motion prevailed ayes 6, noes 62. Mr. Rarieex then moved to lay tue instructions of Mr. Berry on the table ; which motion prevailed. The question then being, on the amendment of Mr. Holmax to the original section, providing that " No man's property shall be taken by law, without just compensation ; nor, except, in case of the State, without such compensation first assessed and tendered to the owner," Mr. Dcx.v of Jefferson, moved that Mr. Holmax's a mendmcnt be laid on the table ; which motion did not prevail. Mr. Pettit moved to amend the amendment by inserting after the word "property" the words "or services." Mr. Raridex opposed the amendment, as calculated to entail a large and increasing expenditure to tho State, in payment of witnesses. Mr. Chapman supported the amendment, and gave his views at length in favor of tho section as originally reported by tho committee. Mr. Stete.isos thought the Convention should proceed cautiously. Provisions might be incorporated that would operate greatly to the injury of the country. It was dangerous to tie up the hands of the Legislature in too many particulars. Mr. Watts took the same ground. Mr. Walfole replied to the gentleman from Marion (Mr. Chapman.) Before the question was taken the Convention adjourned. Monday, November 11, 1850. The Convention was this morning opened by au able and interesting prayer from Elder Alexander Campbell, now on a visit to this city. Tne Convention proceeded, under a special order, .o the consideration of the sections in relation to the rights of married women; when, at the request of Mr. Gregg, who wished to take a vote on tbe proposition in relation to property taken for public use by corporations, Stc., befora leaving the city, on leave of absence, the eonsid eration of the sobject was postponed until Wednesday morning next, at ten o'clock. The Convention then proceeded to the consideration of the section in relation to private property taken by corporations, ' tc. The pending question being on Mr Pettit'8 amendment, it was not adopted. The ques tion recurring on Mr. Holman's amendment, Mr. Dunn of Jefferson moved to amend it, o as to read "No man's property shall be taken without just corapensa j tion" and striking out the balance of said amendment

An interesting discussion then sprung up, involving the whole merits of the matter at issue, Messrs. Dunn of JclTerson, Wolti, Niles and Kilgore contending on the one band, that corporations should not be required, by a Constitutional provision, to, make prepayments for property taken for improvements; but that the whole matter should be left, asunder the present Constitution, to legislative action. That it would bo bad policy to cripple the improvements of the State, by the provisions contended for. Messrs. Owek, Morrison of Ma

rion, Tacte and Kent, favored the amendment of Mr. ! Holman, as calculated to protect the rights of the citizen, and would result in no evil to corporations, when properly conducted. That it left the whole matter open to legislative enactment, with tho single exception, that where the property shall bo taken from the ci izen by corporations, be shall be paid for it at the time it is taken, or when the damages shall have been assessed by some properly constituted tribunal. Before the question was taken, the Convention adjourned until two o'clock. In tbe afternoon, the discussion was continued by Messrs. Smith of Scott, Edmonston, and Bracken, in opposition to the amendment of Mr. Dunn of Jefferson; and by Messrs. Steele and Nave in favor of it, in animated speeches; when the question was taken on the adoption of said amendment and decided in the negative, ayes 43, noes 74. Mr. Pettit being satisfied that there had been time enough consumed in the discussion of this subject, moved the previous question ; which being sustained, was put, to-wit: Shall Mr. Holmavs amendment be adopted ? It was decided in the affirmative, ayes 86, noes 33 being as follows: "No man1 property shall be taken without compensation; nor, except in the case of the Stale, frithout sveh compensation first assessed and tendered to the owner." The question then recurred on the motion of Mr. Niles to strike out the original section as just amended on motion of Mr. Holman, and insert bis substitute; when the vote was first taken on Mr. Ber ry's amendment to Mr. Niles' amendment, providing that property taken shall bo valued without extrinsic benefits; which amendment was not adopted, ayes 35, noes 83. The question was then taken on Mr. Niles' amendment being in effect the provision of the present Constitution, and decided in the negative, ayes 47, noes 72. This leaves the section as amended by Mr. Hol man. The next and last section of the Article being the one prohibiting negroes hereafter emigrating to the Stite from holding property being under consideration, Mr. Berry moved the previous question; which be ing sustained was, on tho engrossment of tbe w hole ar ticle, as amended, including this section. There being a misunderstanding ns to the nature of the previous question, on tho part of many members, Mr. Graham of Warick moved to re-consider the vote by which the previous question was ordered ; which motion prevailed. A motion was then made to adjourn; which motion dkl not prevail ayes 29, noes 85. A call of the Convention was ordered; when, on motion, the Convention ad journed. Election News. New Jersey. Fort, Democrat, elected Governor by about 5000 majority. The Legislature Democratic, which secures a Democratic United States Senatir in the place of Dayt in. Three Democrats and two Whigs elected to Congress. Illinois. The returns from Illinois indicate the election of Biascll, Allen, Ficklin, Malony, Richardson and Campbell, Democrats; and Yates, Whig. Michigan: E. J. Penniman, Froe Soil Whig, is elected by alout 300 majority over Buel, Democrat, in the Detroit District. Charles E. Stewart, Democrat, is probably elected in the Third District. Second doubtful. New Hooks. Petticoat Government, a Xorel, fcy'Mas. Trollope, Author of the Refugee in America, &c. W are indebted to Messrs. Ross & Rat, for this inter esting romance, which is written in the author's usual humorous and satirical vein. The story is a life-like picture of the social and domestic "world as it is," and we advise all advocates for the rights of women to peruse it. Genevive, or the History of a Servant Girl Translated from the French of Ar de Lamartine. Messrs. Ross & Ray have, also, favored us with this work. In its style, it resembles "Raphael" by the same author, and is dedicated to "Madamoiselle Reine Garde, Dressmaker, and formerly a domestic servant at Aix, in Provene." Admirers of poetical prose will be sure t3 read it. Letters from the Backwoods and the Adironpac, by the Rev. J. T. Headley. J. S. Taylor, New York, Publisher of Headley 's works has sent us the above. All who have read the authors Sacred Mountains, Napoleon and bis Marshals cannot fail to be pleased with this little sketch-book of nature. His descriptive powers are unsurpassed by any writer of the age. Knickerbocker Magazine, for November. Post & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, have sent us this periodical. Among other contributions, we find the following beautiful lines by our own talented poetess: LOVE. BT MKS. SAft&H T. BOLTOX. Sweet Tormentor! whe can tell How thy M'ken tie are wove? Magie cestui, wondrous pell, Winning, wintering, witching Love ! Hope and Memory, fear mid thonjht, Joy anl orrow, care an J pain, All mystcrioiwly iuwrougbl, Are the linklet of thy chain. Strong as life, and strong ai death, Yet as fragile as a flower, E'en a word, a look, a breath, May forever break tby power! Of thy presence none may know, Till the fetter of thy wings , Wakens muic, soil and law, From the hearts' most silent strings. f yren fair, for thee, erewhile, DeeiU of valor have been done ; t For the the (ruerdou of tby smile , r.t.npü-e have been lost and won. Thralled by tlice, the angels fell From the bright Elyian bowers, Ftom the plains of Heaven to dwell la this dreary world of our. With thy soui-enchaiffiug arts Thou djt lead n willing slaves ; Klares, with fetters on our hearts, From our cradle to our graves. Slaves, that sigh not to be free Slaves, that pine when thou bast flown; For this werlJ, uncliaiued by ihee, Is a desert, dark and lone. Sweet Tormentor! who can tell IIow thy s ikcu ties arc wove ! Magic cextus, wondrous pell, Winning, wiltlering, witching Lova ! Sort. The above, we are informed, was seut to the "Knicker hocker" about a year since; and as it did not appear, the authoress suppoeiur it to be lot. published it, somewhat altered, a few week since, iu the "Cutcnuiau Commercial." A Good Sign, The Abolition editor of tbe Lafayette Courier fills all tha space be can spare in abusing us. Tbe bile teems to be terribly stirred up. His skin, we are told, hai as sumed a green jaundice appearance, and that his physician bas put him on a course of dog-fennel tea. One oi his charges against us is. that we wish to "rule in hell." Of this ho complains most bitterly. This is not true. Ho can take command of the left wing if he u envious of dis tinction. His attacks on religion and tbe church entitle him to wear the livery of Satan with the infidel class of tigher law Abolitionists. We shall have no controversy rith them.. Their abnse is sufficient evidence of the correctness of our causo. Go it long toeli

Putnam Union Meeting. We commend to the- thoughtful consideration- of nr readers, the following resolutions adopted at a meeting recently held at GrecncastTe. We are rejoiced t3 sec that party distinctions were forgotten in the strong expressions of nationality which mark the resolutions. We rejoice to see such Whigs as R. N. Allen, A. Johnson, Higgins Lane, and A. D. Hamrick, uniting with such Democrats as D. R. Eckles, Judge Duckworth, J. F.

j Farley, and W. D. Allen, in snpport of the compromise measures. Indiana is one of the strong uniting links that must bind together this Union. We hope such meetings will be called in every county. Let the peple speak, and the spirit of treason will ho rebuked. May Heaven smile on all their efforts and nerve their arms in the great struggle for Constitutional lil.crty. Hon. Mr. MeGanghey addressed the meeting, and it will be seen that one of the resolutions compliments him for the vote he gave in favor of the fugitive slave law. This is but just, for he gavo that vote against a terrible Whig pres sure. Whilst "wo condemn bis course oa the Texas iKHindary, which was the great measure that led to the passage of the whole series, we will approve and defend his vote on the fugitive slaTo bill, which was the only measure necessary to secure Southern rights. As a party editor, we might omit this resolution which) approves of Mr. MGanghey's vote but our country first, our party next, shall ever be our motto. The resolutions which follow, speak tho language of patriotism. We hope our neighbor of tho Journal will publish them. It will aid to silence the Whigjiattcry which has Icen opening with Buch terrible noise on the lone star of Whig' gery from Indiana: Jleimlrei, That it was with pain we witnessed the fearful agita'.ions through winch we have just passed For ton months the national lepislatoo wns almost sus pended ; the wheels of government Ivecame nearly motionless; crimination and recrimination .was indulged in br the fanatics of the North and hnrled back bv the disunionists of the South, coadinj each other on to mad new, nrtil t h- crv of dlmnioi and treason disarrneed the halls cf the Capitol, and the wisest the best and the leidest of our patriots were made to fear for the safety of the Union. In these npitations we have taken part with neither the altolitionists of the North or the disu nionists of the South, bnt steadily regarding the perpetuation of our unparalleled system of government, and looking to the rizhtt of man and tho protection due eve ry section cf thf Usinn in the full cniovment of every sruaranty of the Constitution of the UnU?d States, as the surest and safest mode of soenrinjr to onrselves and our posterity, the blessings of civil and relisions liberty and as patriots we bail with just prida and reioicinjr, the svstem of compromise measures passed at t'i late ses sion of Congress, and approved by the President of the Unitd States ; and we declare onr intention to the ut. most, to ninint'iin the same whole aid entire; and do not. and will not, conntenance the bad f.-.ith manifesting itself in various parts of the northern States, to maintain only so much of the system of compromise measures ns suit the prejudices of the INortn only, and war against that portion intended as a protection to the South against the neirro stealin? citizens of the North. Resolved, That we will know -'no North no Sonth" nothing bnt the "freedom of the people, the rights of the States, and the union of the States." To t!iis course we are impelled by every recollection of the past every hope of the future every tie of kindred and interest and everv impulse of pntriotism, and imitation as far as we can tne example of our illustrious Senators, Hon. Lewis Cass, of Michigan, and Hn. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, we pleds-: ourselves, one to another, to forget party ism in our emulation to maintain the Union as it is, restore pence once more to the national councils and mutual confidence and brotherly regard to our fellow-citizens, whether they live North or South. Resolred, That wo regard all sectional agitations as prejudicial to our interest and dangerous to the perpetuity of our free inst'tutions, and we therefore appeal to the North as well as the Sout'i,tn respect the prejdiccs and feelings of each other, and cultivat? feelings of mutual forbearance and respect for the interests and rights of all, and to abandon now and forever, all agitation and interference by the citizens of one State with the institutions of another, and hush the crv of disunion and the thought of treason from the balls of Concrcss. Renolred, That we approve th decided and patriotic course tiken bv the President of the United States in favor of the compromise measures of the late session of Congress, and the firmness, prudence, and patriotism of the friends of the Union in Congress, nnd especially we tender the plaudit of "well done good and faithf.il servant" to onr immediate representative, Hon. E. W. McGanshcv, for bis efficient aid in the passajre of tho fugitive slave bill, with the firm conviction flint he w ill continue to guard and protect the same against the attacks mad a against it, come from whatever source it mav. Resolred, That vc have not permitted or countenanc ed the abduction of slaves from the slave States, and will not countenance negro stealing any sooner than horse stealing. Resolved, That editors friendly to the Union be re quested to publish the proceedings of this meeting. Abolition Platform. We copy the following resolutions, which were adopt ed at the late Abolition Convention at Centreville. Ind., not for the purpose of making any comments. Tho resolutions are of the most ultra character, and speak for themselves. The meeting wns addressed by the Hon Air. Julian and the celebrated infidel Abolition lecturer. C. F. Wright. It seems that these men are dctcrmined to agitate and keep the country in a constant state of turmoil. In this they are aided by a portion of the Whig press in the Eastern part of the State, who denounce the compromise measures, and charge their adoption to Democratic influence, whilst they excuse their President for approving them, on the ground that the will of the people as expressed through their representatives should be carried out. The Winchester Patriot, (Whig,) after excusing Mr. Fillmore for approving the fugitive slave bill, says of those who voted for it: "We say again mark tbe men, who, bv their votes in Conjress, have mnde nccro-catchers and man-stealers out of the entire Nort'j." The Abolitionists kindle the fire and the Whigs odd such light trash as the alove, to increase the flame. If the following resolutions are carried out, our glorious Union is dissolved: Resolred, That the blood-hound fugitive slave bill recently enacted by Congress, outrages humanity, violates the plainest provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and is without a parallel in the legislation of any civilized people. It denies the writ of habeas corpus; it repudiates the trial by jury ; it binds t!io officers created by it to enslave our citizens; it punishes by heavy fines, and by imprisonment, the exercise of the plainest duties of morality and religion ; it creates a whole army of officers, whose solo business is the hired service of slaveholders: it makes the people of the North slave-catchers, and at tho same time brings to the aid of the Southern man-hunter, the military power of the non-slave-holding States; it barters the liberty of a freeman for the oath of any wretch who may swear that he is a slave. It docs all this, whilst our citizens are thrown into Southern prisons without cause, and sold into perpetual bondage for their jail fcesj in violation of the clearest principles of the Federal Constitution. Resolved therefore, That whilst we desire no collision with the law in question, nnd do not intend rnhly or violently to oppose the public authorities; and whilst we mean, by all reasonable endeavors, to labor for its repeal, we hereby declare our purpose in the mean time, to make it powerless in the country by our absolute refusal to obey its inhuman nnd diabolical provisions. Resolred, That we will circulate among the people and 6end to Congress petitions for the repeal of said law, and that "agitation" cannot and shall not cease until our pravcrs shall be granted. Resolred, That the members of the next Legislature of this State be requested to memorialize the next Congress on the fugitive slave bill, instructing our Senators and requesting our Representatives, both by their votes and influence, to favor the repeal of that obnoxious enactment, the fugitive slave law. Resolved, That our motto shall ever continue to be "No more Slave Stutes," and we will use all honorable means to defeat any candidate for Congress or our State Legislature, who will under any pretence or any circumstances yield to the division of Texas into any more slave States, or who will not oppose the admission cf any new slave States, from whatever territory organized. New Paper. Wo have received the first number of the Howard Tribune, a new whig paper just commenced at Kokomo Indiana, by C. D. Murray, late a member of tho legislature. Its column manifest considerable editorial ability. ILTThe cars on the New Albany and Salem Railroad tare running, fo Mrs. Wells, within eight miles of Salem

Judge Crier's Letter. Tbe following letter is from Hon. R. C. Crier, erne of

the judges ol the Supreme Court of the United State, in reply to one from Charles Gibbons Esq., making cer tain inquiries on the subject of the fugitive slave law; Philadelphia, Octolcr 25, 1S50. Dear silt: My official encasements have hindered me from giving that prompt attention to the contents of vonr letter of the 22d instant which it would otherwise have raccived. Until informed by von, I was unable to apprehend what possible cause cculJ be assigned for the unmeasured denunciations with which the act concerning fugitrives from labor, passed at the last session of Congress, has been received by so many persons in the northern portion of our Union. Although it would he improper for me to volunteer extra-judicial opinions upon doubtful questions of construction of a public statute, yet, if any opinions expressed iy tne court on the late case ol Hen ry tarnett, or which, though not then expressed, seem to me incapable of dispute, can have anv tendency to correct misapprehensions and calm the public agitation on this subject, I am perfectly willing to statt them. In tho case of uamett, the warrant issued by the court was fouuded on the affidavit of the alleced owner of the fugitive. But "on the trial or hearing" before the court, after the arrest, this affidavit was not received in evidence ; nor did the counsel for the claimant insist that it should be received. Tbe claimant had wholly nesrlected to make the proper proof, before some court or judge in Maryland, to establish the fact that he was owner of a slave or person held to lalmr, and what was the name, age, size, and other marks of such person, and that the person so descriled had escaped. Not havinsr availed himself of the privilege and facilities given him by the act of Congress for this purpose, we decided that he must be bound by the common-law rides of evidence, as in other cases, where a title to property has to le established before a court. We refused to receive the parties in interest as witnesses, and wills and other documents of title, unless properly proven. The act contemplates & trial and a decision of the court or judre, involvinir questions both of law and fact; and unless the rules of the common law as to evidence bt followed, when not changed bv statute, the tribunal would le without rule, governed only by caprice, or undefined discretion, which would lie the exercise of a tyrannical, not a judicial power. It is the duty of the judge w-ho exercises it to render equal ir.stiee lioth to the claim ant and the person claimed. If evidence were heard on one side only, and that, too. without regard to any rule or principle known to the lnv, gross oppression and wronir would flow from it. Free men and citizens of Pensylvania might le kidnapped into bondage, under forms of law, and bv the action of a legal tribunal, sworn to do equal and exact justice to all men. This much-maligned law not only gives a "trial" lefore a le fral tribunal, before the claimant can be authorized to carry the alleged fugitive out of the State, but it takes away from the prisoner no right which be would have enjoyed before this act of Confess was passed. In all cases of extradition, the evidence establishing the ollcnce and escape of the person demanded is usually made in the country from which the person demandi-d has escaped, and is necessarily ex rarte; and the chief question to be decided by the tribunal before whom be is brought, previously to making an order lor his extradi tion, is only the question ot identity. lho party ue manded has a riuht, of t-ourse, to show that lie is not the pvrsrn described. But if he le the person descrilcd, he has no right to claim a jury trial, ns to the question of bis guilt, in the country to which ho has escaped. l he question of identity, and whether the person claim ed is such a one ns the treaty between the two countries requires to lie delivered up, Las always been tried summarily, and wit hout the intervention of a jury. No complaint has ever been made when tchite men have been sent to Europe, on a demand for their extradition, without giving them a jury trial ; and why greater privileges in this matter should be granted to colored persons is not easily perceived. The State of Pennsylvania guaranties a jury trial ti her own citizens, or to persons who are charged with commituns an otlence within her loruers Fugitives from another State have no such rights. The government to which tho fugitive belongs, it is to Ikj pre sumcd, will do justice to its own subjects or citizens; and m hetlicr they do so or not is no concern of ours However individuals mav fancy they have a mission to rectify all wrongs on the face of the earth, the State of Pennsylvania does not feel herself bound to the Quixotic enterprise of avenging the oppression of serfs in Russia or slaves in Georgia. This net of Congress does not require that a judge should, without trial, surrender a citizen or Pennsylvania to a kidnapper. The provision, "that in no trial or hearing under this act shall the testimony of such fugitive be admitted in evidence," is no more than the enactment of an established principle of the common law, that no man shall be witness in bis own cause. If this provision were not in the act, I would not receive the testimony of the prisoner to prove that be was not the person descrilied, or that he was a free man. It would be a temptation to perjury which no tribunal should permit to be presented to any man. No lawyer would urge before a court such an absurd construction of the act of Congress as that it means that no evidence should be heard on the part of the alleged fugitive. If such were the intention of the legislature, it was easy to express it in unequivocal terms. In truth, there is nothing equivocal in the language of the act: it forbids the judge to hear the testimony of the fugitive, but not the testimony of disinterested witnesses. It almost seems that nothing but a desire to render the law odious, for the sake of political agitation, could ever have led too gross a misconstruction and so great a libel on our national legislature. It has been object d also to this law that it suspends the habeas corpus act, inasmuch as it enacts that the cert'fioate of the Judge or Commissioner "shall be conclusive of the right of the persons in w hose favor grai.t 'd to remove such fugitive, and shall prevent all molestation of such person or persons by any process issued by any court, judge, magistrate, or other person whomsoever." But this is a mistake. The tuth is, that this provision of the law forbidding the testimony of the fugitive to be received, and forbidding interference by other process, after a certificate, is but an enactment of an established principle of the common law, added through extreme caution, but wholly unnecessary. " The writ of habean corpus is undoubtedly an immcdints remedy for every illegal imprisonment, but no imprisonment is illegal when the process is a justification of the officer, and process, whether by writ or warrant, is legal whenever it is not defective in the frame of it, and has isssued, in the ordinary course of justice, from a court or magistrate having jurisdiction of the suhinct matter." (Commonwealth r Lccky, 1 Watts, 67.) A person held as a fugitive, under the certificate of a judge or magistrate under this act, is legally imprisoned under process " from a court or magistrate having jurisdiction," and cannot be released by any other court or magistrate on a writ of habeas corpus or homine repleqü ando. The act of 1793 has no such provision as that which is the subject of complaint in the present case; vet in the case of Wright rs Deacon, (5 Sergeant and llawle, 2,) the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided that a certificate under that act was a legal warrant to remove the fugitive to tho State of Maryland, and no writ of homine replezando would lie from a State Court to try the question of freedom, and that a writ issued under such circumstances was " in violation of t!io Constitution of the United States." The chief difference between the fugitive act of 1350 and that of 1793 is, that the formor allows a warrant to be issued by a judge, and the arrest to be made by a public officer, and imposes more stringent penalties on those who interlere, liv violence, to prevent the execu tion of legal process. Those who believe that the Con stitution and laws of their country should be regarded and obeyed have no ground of complaint ; and those who do not will continue to rail at both, as usual. I am happy to say that my brother Kane fully concurs with tne in the views I here express. I am, very respectfully, yours, &.c, It, C. CRIER. To Charles Giebows. Esq. ' Inconsistency. Some of the Whig politicians, who are acting in con cert with the Abolitionists in denouncing Democrats who voted for the fugitive slave law, excuse President Fillmore for not vetoing ibe bill on the ground that "the will of the jcople as expressed through their representatives should lio carried out." It would be wrong for the President, in the exercise of a Constitutional right, to veto a bill ; yet these same politicians recommend the people to veto the same law which their own President, by his oath, is bound to see faithfully executed. Tbe President, in the clear exercise of his Constitutional power, could have prevented the passage of this mensuro. His friends excuse him for signing the bill, but at the some time recommend open resistance to its opera. tion. "Oh, consistency, thou art a jewel!" Another Marder in Greene County. The last .Bloomington Reporter says: We learned in Sprinpville last week that a woman in Greene county in the neighborhood of Bloomfi'ld, bung a child with thrums from a loom nnder these circumstances. The woman accused the child, a daughter of a neighbor, of stealing a quarter of a dollar from her, which tho child denied. The woman to extort a confession hung her np, but failed in her object, and then let her loose, when the child started home. The woman pursti d her and, as she says, only tied her to a tree. Some time afterwards she was found suspended by her neck and dead. The woman was arrested, and is now in jail, we learn. V. A. Le'dger.

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ITslegTapbsd for tbe Stale ter.unel By the Morse Line New York Election. CrsciriATi, Nov. 11th. The latest news fiora 5cw York leaves it in doubt who has been elected Governor. The Tribune thinks Hunt elected by one thousand majority. Nineteen whig Congressmen are elected to fourteen democrats. On District to hear from. Legislature whig. JAMES J. FARAN. New York, Nov. 11, 12 M. Tbe success of either Hunt or Seymour to the Gover. nor ship, still remains in doubt, and will not be positively ascertained until Jie official returns are announced. The Tribune is sanguine of Kent's success, and claims bis election by one thousand majority. Bennett of the Herald, while walking with his wife in Broadway on Saturday, was knocked down and borsewhipped by John Graham, the defeated Democratic candidate for District Attorney. Graham was in compa ny with two or three others, who have all been arrested. From tSa Madison Papers.) Arrival of the Steamship Africa. New York. Nov. 8. The steamship Africa, which sailed from Liverpool on the 26th ult., arrived here this morning a l.t:le after eight o'clock. From her advices we learn that the general state of trade throughout tbe country bas not been materially altered since our last notice. As usual, at ibis season of the year, there is only a moderate demand for foreign and colonial produce. Consumers buy sparingly, and there is almost aa entire absence of speculative demand. Denmark and the Dcchies, Advices from Hamburg, under date of Octoler 21, giveth official list of the loss sustained by the Schleswig Holstein army before Fredcrickstadt from the 2?th of September to the 5th of C-tolier, inclusive. According to an account which has just appercd, in addition to tho numler of officers, two surgeons are mentioned. The result of this nsele affair is that seven hundred officers atid men have been killed or placed hors de combat. The authorities are now hourly employed in recruiting their forces and preparing the army for a winter campaign, the result of which, under the most favorable cirenmstances, can hardly bring matters to a decisive issue: for, in the height of summer, when their forces were nearly on n par with those of Denmark when tbe town of Schleswig was in their possession and they were postsd on the mot adtantagcous ground they could not stand bclore the Danes. He?5E Cassel. Onr advices from Hesse Cassel are to th? 20;h Ootn!er. No change bas taken place in the Electorate of Hesse Cassel. Mr. Onvsing, who had retntred from Wilfcldstadt on tfie 13th, was again called to that place on the 19;h,for fie purpose it i said, of assisting Mr. Volnoar, the minister of finance, in his labors. Mr. Elvers has not succeeded in forming bis cabinet, and the Elector bas again declined accej t n? the proposals which were made to him. The ofTVers, too, who handed in their resignations, are left without a de cision as t3 their acceptance. New Orleans. Nov. R, R P. M. The Ohio has arrived and brings five hnrdred thousand dollars in gold dust from California and two hundred pasngers from Chagrcs. She reports te Cherokee and Empire City waiting for passengers at Giagrcs. New York, Nov. 8. Hunt, whig, elected Governor by 1.400 majority. Congress 19 wl.igs, 14 democrats, and I freesoiler. Whig majority on joint ballot in the Legislature 34. New York, Nov. 9, 8 P. M. The propeller steamer Telegraph, hence for Baltimore, collapsed a flue on Thursday night, when oppo. site New Castle, about forty miles lelow Philadelphia. There were alont fifty persons on lioard at the time. Six dend lodies were brought to the cify yesterday, cf which one died coming np. Nine were left at New Castle dead or fatally scalded. Eight or nine of the surviv.irs are at tbe hospittl here, some badly scalded. Among the latter is a woman who lost her child I y the catastrophe. The loat was not materially injured. Fourteen persons were killed. Some died immedietely, and others subsequently. New Orleans, Nov. 9, 8 P. M Fifty thousand dollars spurious money liss been sent here from California, mostly on the Bank of South Carolina and the Bank of Missouri. LortsviLLE,ov. 9, 8 P. M. Frederika Bremer bas arrived in St. Louis. Indiana Railroads. It is a subject of genera remark, that there is no State in the Union where railroad enterprise is more widely spread than in Indiana. Whether we look east, west, north or south, we see our enterprising citizens engaged in constructing railroads; while here at tha capital, all the roads seem to centre in noisy uproar upon our Union track, by which they are connected together as extensions of each other. We give for future reference, as well as to show how true the above remark is, a brief statement of our railroads, completed and in process of construction, from the best sources we have at command, and which we presume is nearly correct: Com- Con-. Length, pleted. struct int. Madison and Indianapolis, Shelbyville and Edinburgh, Shelbyvillc and Knightstown, S3 83 16 26 16 26 19 2S 27 8 Itushville and bhelbvville, 19 Indianapolis and Bellefontainc. 83 55 73 M 61 70 26 50 87 33 141 50 20 100 4 160 993 New Albany and Salem, 100 Jeflersonville, 66 Lafayette and Indianapolis, 61 Peru and Indianapolis, 70 Crawfordsvillo and Lafpyctte, 26 Evansville and Illinois. 50 Lawrence burgh and Indianapolis, 87 Junction, 33 Tcrre Haute and Richmond, HI Richmond and New Castle, 50 Martinsville and Franklin, 20 Southern Michigan, 100 Richmond and Ohio, 4 Cincinnati and St. Louis, 160 1205 212 Th rork Market. We bava not bad time tj notice this important branch of western trade for a day or two. Subjoined are two items cut from the Cincinnati Gazette of the 6th, and the Cincinnati Price Current of the 5tli, both of which should have appeared in the Courier of the 7ih. Wa have feeders now in the city. No sales hav ; been effected, however; $3 31 is offered, which docs not meet tha views of the feeders who, we understand, bold firmly at $3 50. We mav hear of sale lclre we go to press j if we do they will be inserted in this evening's issue. P. S. We have heard of a sale of 800 hogs at $3 35 nctt, delivered here, since writing the above. Pork Trade We learn that heavy operators from this city are making contracts for hogs in the region of Springfield and Yellow Springs, at $2 40 per hundred gross, to be delivered at given points on the line of tba railroad. This is alut equal to $3 00 per hundred, neat weight. Witliin the last few days tha attention of dealers has been directed to active preparations for the trade. Cta. Gautte, Cth. Hogs. There have been no contracts for hogs ia this market, notwithstanding the near proximity of the packing season, and of course there is nothing definite as re. gards prices ; but from t lie feeling evinced we think it quite probable that $3 50 will f paid for early lots. Thi i a 1.! rrh fi mir and w mar add a danrf jcrous prica to operate at. Cta. Price Current, 5th. From the Eastern ( Maine ) Argus.) Portrait of Gen. Foote. One Senator particularly attracted our attention. He bas a well developed bead, considerably bald. With a top-pieco, he would have appeared tobe about forty years old. Of small stature, mild eyes, scrupuously neat, but not dandyish in bis dress, we should anywhere else nave taken him for a Methodist preacher, of leading influence by tbe power of bis intellect for he would be a marked man in any position. One noticeable trait ia bis character, was bis singular restlessness. Now be would be iu bis seat, in an attitude of profound reverie; in a moment be would shoot across the room, and hol-, nob sociably with Clay over the everlasting; snuff-box. Take a long breath and look again, and you would find biro, intensely busy with some other Senator, in an opposite direction. He seemed to be everywhere j yet it wai evident he kept one ear open, and one eye at least watching the business; for he would jump op in the midst of a conversation, make a speech pat to the point ia band, and trip across to bold another talk. In spita of all this nervous excitement, there was a placidity of look that indicated anything in the world but the famous firerater, General Foot of Mississippi ; but Foote it was. He entered the Senate with a local reputation merely by his patriotic labors in behalf of the Unionj le baa made that reputstion utwngl.