Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1851 — Page 1
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.
111,1 A M J. BROWN, Editor. ) TTT p Tp T ""7" ( WEEKLY, Per iinom, l.OO AUSTIN II. BROWN, Publisher. S VV J-l J-J Ii JUJ J. . DAILY, .0O VOL. X. INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1851. NO. 5b
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THE WEEKLY STATE SEXTIMX
In December, 1840. he was appointed Secretary of State, and in the following February he was elected by tbe Legislature a Supreme Judge. In 1843 he was elected to Congress, and took bis seat at tin opening of the 28th Congress. His first effort was in support of the bill to refund the fine imposed on Gen. Jac kson for the declaration of martial law at New Orleans. He had not spoken before, and being young and almost unknown he at first attracted no particular attention, but as he began to warm with bis subject, tbe House became si-
Cheap aud Good Readiu for (he Miffiw! T iITT T: .'T..!
. a i i 3iu. iiw AUaun I " " j i ' iii : it - j uuu ivri i m. time enquired the name of the young man, and Immcdi-
toill be sent to aingl- subscribers at the low rate of j allv predicted for him a brilliant detiny. The scene is nun narr in nnn itwiti f i rtit a nn i now vivid before us at one moment he poured out the
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FRIDAY MORN I NO, MAY 16, 1851. O We learn, by a telegraphic dispatch from Cambridge City, that the Whig Congressional District Convention, which assembled in that town yesterday, nominated Hon. Sam'l W. Parker, of Fayette County, for Congress in the fourth District.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1851. South Carolina Convention Adjourned on the 7th inst. The following resolutions were adopted.
Fifth Congressional District.
The Democratic Convention for the Filth Congress
tonal
morning
On
was appointed President, Gen. John Milroy, of Han
cock, and William Garvek. Esq., of Hamilton, Vit
Overstreet and S. P. Oyler, Johnson; D. Thatcher
anu J . ivi. blcnn, blitlby : 1. U. Ue and W. F. Fid-
District, met in the Senate Chamber, Thursday j Pewn Bartholomew; John Hunt and John H. Cook, ag, 10 o'clock, A. M., May 15, A. D. Nil. Madison ; Thomas P. Butler and Jchn G. Burns, Hammotion, Col. T. G. Lee ol Bartholomew county, ilton ; N. J. Jackson and Svlvanus Turpin, Tipton,
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting the State
of South Carolina cannot submit to the wrongs and ag- i President, Jacob Vernon, of Shelby, and Royal S .... a a . n 1 1 r m T m n
gressions which have been perpetrated hy the federal Micks, oi Johnson, secretaries
Goverment and tbe Northern States, without dishonor
and ruin ; and that it is necessary to relieve herself therefrom, whether with or without co-operation of other
Southern States.
C7 The Statesman is in favor of Constitutional app .- priations to Rivers and Harbors, and opposed to certain obnoxious features in tbe Fugitive Slave Bill, but it measures no man's Democracy by his opinions on these
subjects. Mr. Robinson isa Democrat, and as such will our sister States of tbe South, whether through
support the general policy ol tbe party, and that's enough. He voted against tbe Fugitive Slave Bill, and if he now votes for it, that makes it exactly even. Indiana Statesman.
The following delegates thereupon appeared and took
their seats, on a call of their respective counties viz.Shelby County Col. Alexander Milier, Joseph Oilcll,
bamuel Harper, Stephen Kidlen, VVm. W. W ilson, V ni
Thos. M. Adams aud David Dcmaree. Brown.
M. Stewart, from tbe committee, reported the follow, lowing resolutions, which were adopted: Resolved, That this Convention fully endorse the nomination of Thomas A. Hendricks, this day made, and we recommend the nominee to tbe Democracy of the fifth Congressional District for their support.
Keolvcd, I hat while we have no ebjecttons to an ap-
Resohed. That concert of action with one or more of S. Briggs, Mr. Clayton, George B. McQueen, Isaac ' popriation by Congress, for the improvement of the west-
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Any person sending ten subscribers will be enti- ne P""lleu 10 lne PaTr!ot tn,e, w" ionea omy to t..e fled to one copy gratis. From the first of July next safety of the city, and the glory of his country, taking Subscribers in Marion County will receive their pa- Tor his guide that higher law, the law of necessity, pers Ifcrm.gh the mail free of postage. At all Post ; From this moment he stood first in the rank of able de-
Offices within 50 rmles the postage will be live cents a quarter, and all within three hundred miles ten
Now will the Auditor be kind enough to tell ns what he means by Constitutional appropriations for Rivers and
burning lava of bis indignation on tbe Judge; at the next Harbors, and what are the obnoxious features of the
Fugitive Slave Law, which he opposes? These declarations amount to the il general issue,' under which every thing may be given in evidence. But the editor tells us that he measures no man s Democracy by his opinions on these subjects. This is very liberal. His opinions on any subject would be a bad standard to measure Demoe-
baters in Congress. Ever ready and always prepared to . I 1 TT 1 II 1 I
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the latest and most important news by telegraph, as majority, ami served out tue rjth congress, and was "J "c S"ca) l,r rvoomson is in ia
well as the mails, and will contain more reading mat
ter than any of the Eastern weeklies. The coming election is an important one. We shall have to tight our old political enemies, as well as the new combination of abolitionism. Cannot every one of our subscribers procure another one ? This will double our circulation and enable us to bestow more time and labor to make our paper inter
esting. A large circulation alone will enable us ot
nsain elected to the 30th, but before taking his seat was elected to the United States Senate. His brilliant career is known to all our readers. As chairman of tbe Committee on Territories he has ever been active and zealous. But the limits of this notice, which was only intended as a brief history of bis early life, will not warrant us in a detailed review ol his course.
In H17 ha was married to Miss Martha Martin,
r X j ul ,l o , ÄJ : daughter of CoJ. Robert Mai tin. of Rockingham county, names and the money, and when the Sentinel comes " -'
ou will have the smiles of your wife, and your chil- . w ,r,ri Carolina. She is the cousin oi uavid s. Ueul,
dren will rise up and call you blessed. the present worthy Governor of that Slate. He now re-
sides at Chicago, Illinois. Such is the brief history of Stephen Arnold Douglass. His rise from obscuiity to eminence has been rapid, indeed. Indomitable energy and honorable ambition, were the seeds that produced tbe fruit.
vor of Julian, and particularly pleased with J. P. Milli-
gan. Oh, Consistency! thou art a rare jewel especially about the Statesman office.
T1U KSDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1851.
Hon. Stephen A. Douglass. The Q'iincy, III., Herald hoists tbe name of this distinguished Senator as a candidate for the Presidency, abject to the decision of the Nation! Convention. Whilst it is by no means probable that Judge Douglass would hi the first choice of Indiana, it is yery certain that should he receive the nomination, be would teceive the electoral vote of our State. He is a western man in feeling and in action. A citizen and Senator from an adjoining State. Whatever may be the result of tbe National Convention, we believe that should Judge Douglas live, he will at no very distant day, be President of tbe United Slates. Stephen A. Douglass was born in the town of Brandon, Rutland county, Vermont, on tbe 23 1 of April, 1813. and is consequently thirty-eight yeais of age. His father, an eminent physician, died when Stephen was only two months old, leaving t-ie mother and one other child, a
daughter, in rather limited circumstances. The mother shortly afterwards went to reside with an unmarried brother, on a farm in one of tbe valleys of the Green Mountains, where, by practicing a system of severe industry, and rigid economy, she was enabled :o cive her on the ordinary rudiments of an English education. In tbe mean time be worked on the farm with his uncle. His uncle not having the means of placing him in college, at fie age of fifteen be commenced learning tbe business of a cabinet maker. Being naturally of an ingenious turn of mind he made great proficiency in the new business, but at the end of two years he was compelled to abandon Iiis t adc on account of feeble health. AjaMM this time bis mother married G.tbezi Grainger, of Ontario county, New York. Stephen nccompanied bis mother thither, and shortly afterwards entered the Canandagua academy, under the direction of Professor Howe, where he remained some time. Whilst engaged in his classical studies, he spent a portion of bis time reading law in the otfice of Mr. Hubbell. He was a democrat, and although a minor, and not entitled to a vote, he defended the administtation of Gen. Jackson from the assaults of the Whig and anti-Masonic party, in a manner that astonished older heads. Indeed whilst an apprentice in Vermont on the day of tiie Presidential election in 1828, he headed a company of Democratic boys and tore down the coffin band bills that had been posted up by the opposite side.
In 1833 he set his face westward in search of a location where he might practice his profession when bis studies should be completed. His tirst stopping place was Cleveland, Ohio, where he entered tbe law office of Sherlock J. Andrews, Esq., as a student and clerk. He was soon 'lowever prostrated by sickness, which continued for many months. When be recovered, his mother urged him to return home, where a hearty welcome awaited him. But his purpose had been avowed he had set bis face westward in scare'., of a future home, an . be determined to u tread no steps backwards." He left Cleveland and travelled by the way of Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis to Jacksonville, Illinois, where hews compelled to stop. His funds by this time were reduced to thirty-seven cents. There he ou a youth ol twenty years of age, feeble in health, small iu stature, weighing not more than one hundreJ and twenty pounds, surrounded by strangers not a single person in the
county that he had ever seen before, his situation must have been embarrassing. But blessed with a temper
and disposition that never desponds he immediately startad in search of employment. He travelled on foot to the town of Winchester, about sixteen miles from Jackson
ville, where he found employment for three days as the clerk of a sale, at two dollars a day. He then engaged to teach the village school, and spent his evening reading some old law liooks which be borrowed from a citizen, tn March, H3 1, he was licensed to practice law. His first efforts iu bis new profession were remarkably successful, as may be judged from the fact that in less than a year he was elected Prosecuting Attorney over the late Col. John J. Harden, who fell much lament. -d on the bloody field of Beuna Vis'a. In 136 he was elected to the Legislature, s a roemlier from the county of Morgan, and took his seat the following December, the youngest man in the body. It was an unfortunate sea. ion for Illinois, and it fell to the lot of young Douglass
to breast the storm of speculation and the mania of
banking that swept not only over the Prairie State, but the
entire West. He opposed the extension of tho Bank capital, and tbe dangers which he so boldly pointed ont, although unheeded at the time, were sooa realized in the disastrous faiulre of the whols system In n3S he was nominated by the Democrats as a candidate for Congress in tbe third District, which embraced the whole northern half of Illinois. At the time of his nomination he was inelligible, but as be would become twenty-five years of age
before the election, he accepted the nomination and enterad on tbe canvass. The contest was a severe one. Thirty-six thousand votes were cast, and Mr. Douglass was defeated by Mr. Stuart, the old member, by five Totes. Tb election Icing over he returned to his profession. In 1840 he devote J the entire summer to the Presidential election, attending mee.ings and addressing the people thrOTgh-wu the satire State, and to his exertions ami tbe
DThe last Democratic Congress refused to appropriate money for the improvement of Western Rivers and Hai bors, but voted thousand for the Light Houses on the Atlantic eost. The people can now have no difficulty in determining who are the friends of the West. Let that be remembered in the approaching election for Congressmen. Indiana Journal. And let the people also know who voted these thousands for Light Houses. At tbe tirst session of the List Congress, on the passage of the Light House bill, the vote was: in favor of it, 86 W!.'gs and 21 Democrats ; against it, 49 Democrats and 3 Whis. Mr. Julian, who voted for the River and Harbor bill, was the onlv
member from Indiana who supported the measure at the
1 he bold and Tearless advocate or Democratic princi- last session. Tbe Light House and Fortification bills pies, he shuns no responsibility he fears no adversary. ! were defeated by Democratic votes.
ner ; and to the Legislature, to adopt the most speody and efieciual measures towards the same endIt must be remembered that this Convention is not
the pro- I Bishop, John Kern. George Hinds. Henry F. Hinds, ern rivers anu Dariers ot a sinctly national character,
ooseil Southern Ooiorress or in nnv other manner, is an i William Raster. Jeremiah Bennett. D. Tbacher. Wm. luat 'e earnestly deprecate any extensive svstem of in-
object worth many sacrifices, but not the sacrifice in-, H. Campbell, Jacob Vernon, Samuel McKenzcy, J.iraes ternal improvement by tbe General Government, upon a volvcd in submission. I M. Sleeth, Luke Davis, William Cleaver, Carey , legislative, log-rolling principle, which would inevitably Resoled, That we hold the right of secession to be ! Gwynne. j " n unconstitutional slandering of money, a disessential to the sovereignty and freedom of the States! Hamilton County G. M. Shane, E. L. Stone, M. reputable strife between the different sections of tbe of this Confederacy ; that the denial of that ri-rht would I Ravor, D. Moss, Saml. Dale, Jas. Cbitwood, T. Y. country for the public monies, and ultimately bankrupt
furnish to an injured State the strongest additional cause , Buller, N. Messick, Jas. Teters, Jos. Peck, Jacob for its exercise. Coliss, James Donthet, Wm. Harvey, Wm. Messick, Resolved, Thac this meeting looks with confidence . John McGuire. John W. Thompson, John Johnson, Jaand hope to the convention of the people, to exert the cob Fansclt, A. Tryberger, Thos. D. E. Moss, A. J. sovereign power ol the State in defence of its rights, at the : Myers, H. Duncan, John Chriswell, and Jonathan Col-
earhesl'praetaible period and in the most cnectual man-1 burn.
Bartholomew County Joseph Jackson, Aqiulla Jones, G. Gabbert, F. P. Smith, W. F. Pidgeon, Mr. Litel, T. G. Lee. Dr. Dye, Mr. Quick. R. Carter, W. C. Siatelnr S H Kri.l.l-ManrrU T CI V.ti v I, .in, R Hunlor
the Convention elected by the people, in pursuance of an j Enos Galbrcath, Henry C. Andrews. John C. Hubbard) act of the Legislature, which is to be convened on the i Charles Trentman. Samuel Rales Wm. Aibutbuott, call of the Governor, but a Convention composed of del- John Davis, Sam!. Sandifer, Saml. Taylor, Hosea Ford, . L -.... Dr. Doolitle.
egates irom the d.flercnt Mate Rights Associat ons. ri fa Tnaa. rf-t tu., P . Sn.-Unn Geo 1 government has been characterized bv prudence, sagac
And as none but the most ultra disunionists connect ' Baram, Robt. Woostr, John H. Davis, George Cooney i ny arK' profound statesmanship, and that, loa fidelity to themselves with these associations, of course the Con- i and John H. Cook. intert of tbe people justly entitles him to the' re- ... j r .i i 1 1 Marion CountuS Vanderrift, George Haverstick, snett an' approlation of the citizens of the State of Invention would be composed of tbe most ultra men, and ' ZslrVlb W . B. Chase, J s" Spann Wm'. diana. without distinction of pany. is not therefore a fair representation of tbe sentiments o1 R,,bson. S P Daniel. A H Brown E VV H Elli Rcsolrrd. That we fully recosnize as the fixed and un-
Wm. Biddle. J. M. W. Langsdale, Wm. Stewart, M. alterable creed ol the Uemocratic party ot tbe Union Filzgil.b n, Powell Howland, D. Leach, J H. Kenne- j ,hesc erca principles: dy. B. Lawhead, W. C. Thompson. John Bishop, G. G. A Strirt construction of the Constitution ; Holman. G. W. Kimberlev, C. Garner, II. B. Brown, Opposition to a National Brink; A. D. Rose. J. M. Talbott, C. C. Campbell, J. T. Bos- Opposition to a protective Tariff; w..rth. S. W. Nonis. E. B. Thorne, L. A. Hardesiv, ! " he restriction of all appropriations for Rivera and Thomas Perry. Madison Webb, Mathew R. Hunter, j Harbors, to works of a national character;
Samuel Cory. James L. Thompson. Benjamin Shenkle, INo assnmpnon of the State debts;
John Bolander, Smith Bates, a. D. linker, Morns How
the Treasurv of the nation.
Resolved, That whatever may be the opinion of individuals as to the wisdom, or the details of the Fugitive Slave law it is tue duty of all god citizens to conform to its requisiiions. and carry out in good faith the condi. tiont of that compromise on domestic slavery, which i$ co-eral u-ith the Fedtral Gortrnment. Resolved, That we unanimously approve the act of the Democratic memlers of the late Constitutional Convention and of the Legislature in the nomination ol Gen. Jos. Lane for the Presidency. Resolved, That we have undiminished confidence in the integrity and capacity of our worthy Chief Magis
trate. Joseph A. Wright, that his administration of the
the people. It is true, however, that every paper in the
State, with one or two exceptions, sustains tbe doctrines of these revolutions.
Judicial Convention -Fifth Judicial Circuit. A' a Convenlion of Delegates selected by the several counties c-omposin the Fifth Judicial Circuit, for the purpose of nominating a Democratic candidate for Pros-
c.cu.ing Attorney for said Circuit. hJd at Indianapolis Und. Henry P. Todd, John Snow,. I. W. Hunter. Juincs
on the aliernooii of the loth of May lS:)l.on motion Webb. Joseph Smith, Charles Oime, ISicholas Lllston,
Gcnl. Johv diLKOY ol Hancock was appointed Presi- i v oster W l.ulord. John S. Webb, R. Webb, D. L. McB a w n e aa a V . w a an w-i mar .n w a
A bright future awaits him.
0"Tbc Statesman copies an extract from an article siirned " Radical," from the Richmond JeflTersonian, which consigns us, and all who support the Compromise, into the ranks of the Whig party. We know tbe writer of this article. He is a new convert to Democracy, and like all such, is particularly zealous of good works, and hard words. When we were supporting the administration of Gen. Jackson, and, as a lawyer, stood almost alone in the Eastern part of t!ie State, in support of the measures of that great statesman and patriot, Mr. ' Radical'' was supioning " Clay, Webster, and Fillmore," whom he now denounces as old Whig polit
ical scoundrels." Whenever Mr. Auditor Ellis, and his co-worker, Mr. Elder, can induce the Democratic party lo adopt their anti-sl:ivery and anti-constitutional doc-
C7"The Providence Journal is calling on the Whigs of Rhode Isaaasl to organize on the old Whig platform, and to let all other qu.-stions alone. No other course can save it irom destruction. Let tolerance of opinion on all minor questions be adopted everywhere, and the old Wbi banner will wave triumphantly in the approaching elections. Indiana Journal. What is the old Whig platform? High Protective Tariff, National Bank, Union of State and Bank. Distribution of the Proceeds of the sale of the PublicLands. This was the Whig platform in 1844, and to this the indomitable Prentice would add, adherance to the Compromise Measures. If the old platform, alone, is to save the party from destruction, it is doomed.
dent, and ACstin H. Brown of Marion and Jacob Vernon of Shelby, Secretaries. Delegates were present Iro n the counties of Shelby, Marion. Johnson, Boone and Hancock.
On motion it was decided that each county in voting
Farland, Jesse Price, Merry McGuire, A. D. Cudding-
Economy in the public expenditures;
Acquiescence in the will of the majority; Non-interference with the subject of slavery within the States.
And that with these time honored princi pies emblazon-
for a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney be entitled to Lundy. Elias Culver, Percy Hosbrook, Luke Bryan, one vote for every one hundred votes and one vote fori David Huff. D. McDanald. Jacob Scott, Jacob Roberts,
very fraction ovei and aboe hfty voles yiven to Gov- Emsley Wrighr. James Scott. John McDanald, Kit-hard
ernor Wright in 14'J. Mr. W. B. Chase moved th ,t
ton, Thos. F. Armstrong Jesse Price, Jr., Harlfy ' ed upon our banner, we are ready, now and ever, to Price, Dr. Loitin, Dr. E. K. J .hnson, Joseph Klin- ! C've attle to tbe enemy, whatever disguise he may asijersinith, Thomas Morrow, Wm. Martin, Samuel Lake, sume. James Sodusky. Asa B. Strong, Thos. F. Stout, Benj. i Resolved, That every friend of the Union should depre
cate tne enous. wneinrr niaue ny ivontiern auoiiiioihsis or Southern Secessionists tending towards a dissolution
the Convention take no action in regard to nominating a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney, and that the selection of a suitable candidate Im said office be left to the democratic members of the bar of the circuit. On motion said motion was laid on tbe table. The Convention being orajiized, on motion, it adjourned to meet at 8 o'clock P. M-
No go. The great free soil Convention at. Plainville, Ohio, Was a lailtlre. Although in the dark nnil forrnrv rmrinn
nines, then they will have the right to turn us out of tbe LP t r 1 .. 7rl of New Connecticut, oriffina v known ns t in " fire
lands," where Abolitionism and Abby Kellyism once reigned triumphant, the meeting was a slim affair. Wade f-iiled to attend. He is not to be smoked out in that way. Giddings refused to speak, and soon vamosed. We congratulate the country on these cheering
signs. During Hie Administration ol Mr. Polk, and the
Mexican rVar, these meetings were well attended by Whins. Now thoy cannot paiticipatc without opposing
ibe Administration of Mr. Fillmore, and they therefore
stay away.
party for ibe crime of political heresy; and when that
is done, those gentlemen will find others going out with us, at the same door. The salt will have lust its savor.
Ciicicaco Harbor. The. Common Council of Chicago have autttoiized ibe Mavor to contract for Iredgiii'' a channel 300 feet wide and 12 feet sVcf across the bar at t ie mouth of the harbor at that place. This is an iiupoituit improvement. Tbe example of the Common Council of Chicago is worthy the imitation of other Common Councils on the Lakes. Toledo Blade. This is the true democratic doctrine, and we are jrlad the Toledo Blade advocates it. The Tolcdians glM to gel a dredging machine and clean out their harbor, instead of asking Congress to do it for them. Local improvements should always le made by those who profit by them. Fort Wayne S-mtinel.
Gov. Joseph Lane. We clip the following from the Oregon Spectator of the 6ih March last.
We have been kindly furnished, by Mr. R. R. Thompson with the liillowinrr cv1.:n r It, mm . luiior ....... I
Anu 11 any ining more is neeueu, congress win gram i,v him from Gov. Joseph Lane, in answer to the solicito them the right to levy tonage duty, by which they j lations of numerous friends asking his couscnt to lun for mav require every vessel coming intr the harbor to pav ' Dele.-ate to Congress:
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toll. By this means those who use the harbor will pay for its improvement, instead of taxing the whole people to construct works that are to benefit the few. This was the practice of the Government in the days of the "earlier Presidents" to use an expression of Gen. Taylor,
aud we are in favor of returning to it.
Another Daily. Before us is the Daily Wabash Express Terre Haute handsomely printed, and edited with spirit and ability. The Express is one of tbe best W?big papers in the State. It supports the administration of Fillmore, and sustains the Compromise. It ought to, and we trust will , receive a liberal support.
Cats. The California correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce says: The steamer O do, on her last trip from San Diego.
brought into port an importation of Cats, 96 in number. They cost at the place of embarkation altout 50 cents a bead, and sell here from ten to twenty dollars each according to size and general condition, A '"fellow passenger'' on tbe steamer told me they hail a rtry musical time of it. This is trey a novel article of traffic, but ne of the fruits of the const trade, just opening on the Pacific by our numerous little steamers, which run regularly every week up and down the coast. C7A hagcontaining newspapers was abstracted from the Western stage, about eight miles east of Washing
ton, Daviess county, Ind., one night last week. The
entirely to my friends. Oregon is, and shall be my home. Should I be elected, I will try to be useful to the Territory. I am not ambitious for office. If it is agreed that I am to run, I will perform my part promptly." It is expected, from the tenor of the letter alluded to. that he will reach Oregon in two or three weeks.
The Convention convened in the evening. Mr. R. A. Rilev offered a resolution that all persons present from the different coun'ies composing the Fifth Judicial Circuit act as Delegates. Adopted. Mr. W. B. Chase off'-red a resolution proposing that the selection of a candidate be left to the democratic members of the bar. Which, on motion, was rejected. The delegation from Johnson county asked leave to withdraw from tho Convention, many of the delegates from that county having left and those present not desiring to take the responsibility of casting the vote of their county, wliich leave was granted. Tbe Convention then proceeded to nominate a candi-
date for Prosecuting Attorney. The following is the result of the First Ballot: David S. Gooding, Boone, 9 votes. David S. Gooding, Shelby 14 votes. David S. Gcoding, Marion 19 votes. David S. Gooding, Hancock 8 votes.
50 Hendricks and Johnson counties were unrepresented.
David S. Gooding having received a majority of all the votes cast, he was declared duly nominated as the Democratic candidate for ProsecAing Attorney for the Fifth Judicial Circuit. Mr. S. P. Daniels offered the following resolution which was adopted. Reitolred, That inasmuch as two of the counties of this Judicial Circuit are not here represented we now present to them the nominee of this Convention, who is the choice of the other four counties, appealing to the Democracy of tbe whole Circnit to endorse it ; or if they are dissatisfied with it to call another Convention. On motion the Convention adjourned sine dis. JOHN MILROY President.
P BroWN ? Secretaries.
JACOB V J..BJION,
of this glorious Union. And as Democrats we are in favor of "A Union of hearts and s Union of hands, A Union of principles none may sever, A Union ot lakes and a Union of lands. The American Union forever." The thanks of the Convention were then tendered ter the olficers thereof and the Convention adjourned. T.G. LEE. President.
John Milrot, W. GARVEa.
iATjjm I Secretaries. H S. Hicks, v
Vice Presidents.
Watts. Isaac, Bumgardcn, A. Roberts, A. Hilton. A
Scott. G. W. Swift , David Buchanan, John Vausickle, Joseph McConnel Jr., and David Sloan. Johnson County G. M. Overstreet, John Slater, S. P. Oyler. R. S. Hicks. H. niyFox, David Dei bin. Jm'ge Price, George Bergen, Robert Jennings, P. B. Culver, Robert Fannsworth, M. M. Crone, Wm. H. Fitzpatrick, Daniel McLean. James Allison, Dr. Pcggs, L. P. Ritcbey, Gilderoy Hicks, Jas. H. McClellan, H. Logan McClellan, Robert Johnson, Wm. Harter, John Walsh, Wm. Clark. Hancock County D. W. Odell, Wm. Shaffer, Wm. Phil pratt, Shadric Arnott, D. Offenhacker, Dai.l. Doht.n.c Tiihn Kamitln Tuga rvf,L- Wm fM LI u rll fen
MilVov. R. H. Ross B. F. Cohlwell. C G. Sami.le! I Labelltsg Plakts. The importance ofhav-
James Masset, E. Drake, David Huntington, Judge ing all plants, including fruit trees, properly named, Bahcock, John Rynearson, Jas. Woods, "Jas. Duiin, even in small gardens, cannot be too clearly iointed Saml. Shockey. Reulien Barnard, A. Leming, L. , out. A plant may have beautilul foliage aud nowers, Sparks, J. W. Hervy. R. A. Riley. j but without a name it yields comparatively littli in-
liroim County D. V. Demaree, Lewis Frosser. terest. Every plant has a history ol its own. and the
a knowledge ol that lus-
its native country and year
gardens. A garden ol plants
without names is lik a library of books w itbout their exterior superscriptions. Numbers arc only useful to nurserymen. All garden plants should be properly named. The season of propagation is chiefly
when plants are out of bloom, and the want of diligent
Rochester knocking- donH Take. The Whigs of the eighth district seem to I dissatisfied with the manner in which W. B. Rochester has been hi ought forward " by consent" as a candidate for Congress, and are determined to have a convention.
ETThe Toledo Blade says tint Joe Bingham, who for some time past has edited the Lafayette Courier, caugh1 his democracy " alter the fashion that a man gets the itch," and adds, " we hope he will turn up before long a repentant sinner, a reclaimed Whig." We arc happy to inform our Toledo friend, who wields so keen a Blade, that Joe's attack has been a very slight one, and that he is now entirely convalescent. 0"A Whig meeting at Terre Haute adopted a rcsolution approving tho administration of Mr. Fillmore. This is a new move in Indiana.
Boone, Hamilton, nnd Tipton Counties.
At a meeting of several Democrats from the counties of Hamilton and Tipton, on tho 11th instant., the second Monday in June next was recommended to the Democratic voters of the Senatorial district composed of the said counties, as a suitable day to hold a Convention, in the town of Boxley. for the purpose of nominating a candidate to represent the said district in the State Senate.
Tipton County Newton J. Jackson, Sylvester Tur- I f,rst gtep towards obtaining pun Dr. Parker, Mr Ferguson. tory h ils name ,he next On motion, by I. W. Hunter all Democrats, who may o jntroduc(ion in(o our r
not ue delegates, anu are in aiienuance. were aunimeu and requested to participate in tbe proceedings of this Convention. The following resolution was offered by I. W. Hunter: Wurnr ä a Tn cnlortinrr t oanrli Jatn f .r f'ttnrrrncsi in
the htth Congressional dUiriet ii is rinht and tirnne.rihat care in retaining their names too frequently leading
each democratic voter in the district should be represenied j to a confused nomenclature. The vast numbers of .... . . I't 1 - . 1 ! . 1 1
in the Convention, by the delegates who have been se- new plants wuicn are Deing continually wirouuceu, Iceted in the several counties in the di-trict. to select a I as well as the boat of garden varieties every year suitable candidate for Congress so that each democrat in brought under the amateur's notice, are quite perthe district may feel a personal interest in the success of 1 plexing to him unless constant attention to correct l. . I . . aav . - . . . 1 . : r '1 o . . . . 1 .
ucn BjaaaHBBuu j and "mlhias, ai mc ciccuoi. .... i labelling is observed, then, again, wun regard to
Governor in 1S49, Joseph A. Wright, tbe democratic candidate for Governor, received in the county of Brown 545, in the county of Hamilton 833, in the county ol Hancock 800, in the county of Johnson 1243, in ibecountv of Madison 1018 . in the county of Tipton 227, in the connty of Shelby 1397, in the county of Bartholomew 1121. ami in the county of Marion 1917: Therefore,
Resolved, 1 hat each county in this Congressional dis
fruits, how much uncertainly would be removed by
keeping labels of a permanent kind to every tree? Small gardens cannot, or ought not, to find room for indifferent kinds of fruit or uncertain bearers; hence the importance and advantage of knowing- every kind wc cultivate. How much trouble is thereby
avoided; for it frequently happens that the difficulty
trict shall lie entitled to one vitc for every hundred dem- and expense of obtaining the name of a single fruit ocratic voters in said county, and one vote for every are much grater than the attention noccs-arv m keepli tot ion of a hundred over filty, which would give to the ing- the names loa small collection, which the limited county of Brown 5 votes, a the county of Hamilton 8 ; Space Gf a suburban garden admits. With respect votes, to the county of Hancock 8 votes, to the county of . the Darl;cular kind of label which is most desira-
A Coincidence. We met, a few days since, two individuals who are cousins, having the same name, whose fathers were brothers, whose mothers were sisters, and whose wives are sisters. We challenge '.he whole world for a similar coincidence. Bangor Mercury. There are two young men in ibe village of Ulica, In-
robber, finding he bad missed the letter mail, threw the diana, both ol whose names are John Prather, whose
papers into a briar thicket. The perpetrator has not lathers are brothers, whosr mothers were sisters, and
been discovered.
Counterfeiters Arrested. During Sunday evening three men were arrested in a skiff near Rome, la., who bad teen uttering counterfeit $5 Ohio bank notes, at New Albany, la. and at other places along tbe river. They were pursued and overtaken by officers Milain and Overbacker. who lodged them safely in Leavenworth
jail Louisville Courier.
Murderous Assault. Yesterday, Thos. Donne'ly.
Fact. No candidate has yet been Imld enough, in any District in Indiana, to express opposition to the compromise measures adopted by Congress, and sustained by such patriots as Clay, Cass, Webster, and others. There are some men. howevr:-, who will endeavor to sneakinto Congress by attacking those who voted for them without having the manliness to avow their own sentiments on the subject. That thing can't be done. Such men will be compelled to speak out.' While the noblest patriots of the land are trying to uphold this glorious Union, men of small minds ami smaller principles cannot play so foul a game as tnaf. H'ibash Express, Whig.
Johnson 12 votes, to the county of Madison 10 votes, to
the county of Tipton 2 votes, to the county of Shelby 14 votes, to the county of Bartholomew 11 votes, and to the county of Mai ion 19 votes. Which motion previled. Mr. Stewaii, of Marion, moved that the candidate receiving a majority of all the votes cast by this Convention, lie considered the nominee thereof. Which motion also prevailed. On motion, a committee of one from each county was appointed by the President to draft suitable resolutions expressive of the sense of this meeting. Said committee consists of tbe following named gentlemen, viz: Wm. Stewart of Marion county; Jas. M. Sl?eth of
Shclbv county: Mr. Balcock of Hancock county; G
M. Overstreet of Johnson county: N. J. Jackson ol
Tipton county ; Dr. Butler of Hamilton county ; A. Jones of Bartholomew county; Mr. Hunt of Madison county ;
D. V. Dcmaree of Brown county.
The Convention then proceeded to ballot for a nomi
nee, with the following result:
whose wives are
instance.
sisters. Here is exactly a similar
The Lafayette Couriffr is urging upon the enterprising citizens of that place to turn the waters of the Tippecanoe through the city by a canal, that the power for manufacturing purposes may be obtained. Madison Courier. The editor of the Lafayette Courier has not yet learned the eographyof the county. How are the wa-
a laboring man. was assaulted by Mr. Robinson nlout a . ters or the Tippecanoe to bo turned through the city of mile from the city near the Oakland, with a spade, and Lafayette?
bis life 'a despaired ol.
An altercation had taken place between them in re
gard tn wages, when Robinson seized a spade, and fraclured bis skull with it. His physician thinks he cannot survive. Louisville Courier.
The Girls are Coming. We leain from Capt. Endicott, of the ship Josiah Quincy, that while rounding Cape Horn, he spoke a French bark to the northward, bound ta this port. She had on hoard sixty young
ladies from France. As the two vessels came near to
each other, the ladies
cheered the passengers of the Quincy in a very enthu " a ä f si J
s'asue manner. an r ranewco courier
ETHon. C. B. Smith addressed the citizens of Fsyettc connty at the Whig mass meeting held at Connersville on the 10th inst. "He spoke of the topics which now agitate the country, and said had not tbe Compromise Bill, or something of a similar character passed, that a civil war would have been tbe result."
ITWeare glad to learn, from the Cincinnati Nonpar-
aired their handkerchiefs, and j iel, that there is some probability of the recovery of Mr.
Horaee Wells, who was accidentally shot at Oxford, O.
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Datton Railroad. -We were informed yesterday that there is every present prospect that the whole line of this road w'll be completed from this city to Hamilton in August next, and tn Dayton hy the mi. die ol September at farthest. What we have seen ol ti.f road in the neighbor!.. .od of this
city we must pronounce equal to any we have seen any where. Cin. Enquirer. BTThe Massachusetts railroads carried twenty-three millions rff pasnggra last year
QCTThe State Sentinel, published at Indianapolis, by Hon. Wm. J. Brown, late M. C. Irom that district, now appears daily, in a handsome new dress. It is an able national journa', and is, we hope, well supported by the Democracy of Indiana. Newark (iV. .) oI. ITA letter from London says: "Hon. G. W. Wright
and Gen. Walbridge from your sides, are making a stir
here with their specimens of California ores. They are.
as I understand, here for the purpnee of getting p mis'
jng companies in the nrw State."
Military Preparation in South Carolina. A friend informs the editor of the Wo-nsocket Patriot that "Messrs. Waters, of Milhury, Mass., have obtained the contract for the small arms, viz: 6,000 muskets, 3,000 rifles, and 2,000 pistols. The field artillery is to be made in South Carolina, and the authorities were very anxious that Messrs. Waters should manufac
ture the small arms there also; but this could not
be, and get the arms completed within the time allotted by the contract. Messrs Waters, however, have
contraeted to establish the armory in South Carolina,
after the completion of this order."
ETWe learn lhat it is the intention of the Postmaster
General to have ull the newspaper mail-bags recently contracted for closed by locks, instead of being merely tied, as has been the practice heretofore. This is an exccllent arrangement, and will insure greater security to
this class of mail matter. The cost to the Department will no doubt be greatly increased in the first instance, but the change is a very judicious cne, and the publicconvenience will certainly be greatly promoted by it. Baltimore American.
CTMajor Elston, Presided of the railroad company, returned from New York the first of the present week. He informs us that roil I' the iron for the railroad has been shipped from New York for Lafayette, where it will ar
rive in the course of three weeks. So soon as it arrives
it is the intention to commence laying it dowu. Cratcfordsville Review.
Jetfersonville and Columbus Railroad. We learn that the work on this road is proceeding rapidly.
It is said that about a quarter of a mile of railing is
nailed down every day.
If the work proceeds at this railroad speed, it will reach Rockford by tbe first of December. Brownstown
Observer.
ItyThe citizens of Racine, Wisconsin, have voted to raise a tax of six thousand five hundred dollars, for the
purpose of improving the harbor at that place.
rrTh Debt of St. Louis, ns we nerceive bv tbe
Daily Union, is $1,480 The tax in St. Lotus
make the tfcbyie sqae'al
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ble to employ, there is a good deal of uncertainty.
Some persons prefer some of the new kinds now in exiNlance, while others adhere to the old wooden labels which after all, have not been very satisfactorily superseded; whatever kind of material it employed, however, the names should be accurately and distinstly written. Adc iteration. Things have come to such a pass in commerce, that no man knows what he buys, or sells, or consumes. Every article capable of adulteration is made a chcaL Your wine is nearly all spurious; your brandy is nearly all colored whwky; your tea is mixed with sloe leaves, and colored by poisonous dies; your ground coffee is mixed with peas and chicory; vour tobacco is made of mullen, onk nnd cabbage leaf: vour beer is drugged with
coculus indicus; vour bread is made with alum, soap, lard, potash," and plaster of Paris; your salt is stone; your sugar is sand; your ground spices are anything that comes handy; your chocolate u starch; your olive oil comes fresh from the swine mills of "Cincinnati; your vinegar is sulphuric acid; your meat is blown up to make it look fat; your sausages are made of no matter what ; your medicines, according to the statements of the best druggists in New York, are adulterated and falsified; your isinglass is two-thirds gellalin, from tbe glue faclories; your silk and wollen are mixed with cotton; in short, there is not an article in which you can he cheated, which commerce lias not adulerated. How infamous, how shameful is this! What a wholesale robbery of the community ! What a deprivation of the moral sense! Is there no way by which these multitudious and prevading frauds can be prevented, or do they belong to the commercial system, as its outgrowth and natural consecpuences? Sunday Mercury. Farmers aud their Childrex. The paramount duly of the agriculturist is to elevate his class, and to which he is entitled. No idea more fatal to ihe supremacy of the farmer ever possessed him, than that of educating some one child in particular for what is denominated a learned Drofession.
Let agriculturists, educate thiir children thoroughly, regardless of any such partial, unfair, and unjust consideration. As agriculturists, let them educate their children for agriculturists. Let them not give bread to one and stones and serpents to the other. Let them bear
in mind that education adorns and improves the cultivator of the soil as much as it docs the lawyer, doc
tor or the divine. It is a false notion and unworthy
The Chair then declared Thomas A. Hendricks tbe nominee. Mr Spann offered the followine resolution:
Resolved, Thai there be appointed a committee, to
consist of two from each county in the fifth Congrestinnal Distrint tn mnt it an ndmcnrv rom not t pp or com .
mittee of vimiance, for said district, to serve for two , the citizens of a free republic, that education is not
vears. whose dutv it shall be to make such suircrestions ! necessary to the culture ol the soil. V ben wc re-
to the Democrats of the district, from time to time, as shall seem expedient to fix the time and place of the
meeting ot the next Congressional Convention, to nil vRcancies in their own body, and generally to do suchother duties as usually pertain to such committees Which was unanimously adopted. The chair thereupon appointed the following committee: Powel Howlw d aod Isaac. W. Hontei. of Marion ; Jtfha MyVr aad IÄfl W. Odell, Hkiflt; tr M
fleet that this is a free country, and that freedom can onlv be preserved by the pure light that is reflected by stnowledge, can th cultivator of the soil hesitate a moment to put bis shoulder to the wheel? If be loves his children, educate them It is a duty we owe both children and country.
A Good Maxim. Some one savs. M r irtihl ttrrVKt fa ftrinfÄ, rtrVfag atrrl hnsjmf.