Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1851 — Page 1

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.

WILLIAM J. BROWN, Editor. WEEKLY. WEEKLY, Per Annum 1.00 DAILY, 6.00 AI'STIX II. BROWN, Tublishe VOL. XI. INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1851. NO. U.

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INDIANA STATE SENTINEL: A GAZETTE OF THE PEOPLE, O-Officc in THE SENTINEL HITLDINGSa North Side Washington, near Meridian St., OPPOSITE ODD FELLOW'S HALL, AÜST N It. BROWN, Publisher.

0E DOLLAR!! LET THERE BE MORE LIGHT! Chiap and (iood Rfiiums for Ihr Million! THE WEEKLY STATE SEN'TXEL V ill be sent to single subscribers at the low rate of 01! DOLLAR FEB AHUM II ADVAICE! ! Any person sending ten subscribers will be entitled to one copy gratis. From the first of July next subscribers in Marion County will receive their papers through the mail free of postage. At all Post Offices within -30 miles the postage will be five cents ft quarter, and all within three hundred miles ten cents per quarter. The State Sentinel will coutain the latest and most important news by telegraph, as well as the mails, and will contain more reading matter than any of the Eastern weeklies. The coming election is an important one. We hall have to fight 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 be stow more time and labor to make our paper inter esting A large circulation alone will enable us ot I - . I J I O J . I publish the paper t such cheap rates Send on the names and the rao.iey, and when the Sentinel comes you will have the smiles of your wife, and your children will rise up and call you blessed. WF.ONEMI V EVENING, AI'GI ST 27, 1851. U" We have witnessed nothing more unfair in the political contest of this summer, than the continued efforts of the Secession papers ami politicians at the South to misrepresent the position of the North on the Slavery question. In the whole State of Indiana there are not more Abolitionists than in Kentucky; yet these papers represent ns as a band of Abolitionists, who would entice their slaves to rnn away, and refuse to restore them again nnder the requirements of the law and the Constitution, and abolish Slavery in the States. Daring our recent contest, the Missisippian, a Southern Rights paper, only knew Julian among all the candidates for Congress in this State. His views were represented tobe the views of the Indiana Democracy. They secretly prayed for his success, and his defeat has no doubt been a cause of sore mortification. This paper, of the 15th instant, seems to have no news from Indiana, except from Julian's District, and the unfair manner in which it is heralded forth, will be obvious to every one, when they know that the issue bet wcn Julian and Parker were the Compromise measures, the former in opposition, and Ahe latter for sustaining them. We publish the extract 'without comment: " S. W. Parker, the Whig candidate for Congress in the Fourth District of Indiana, is an Abolitionist, going Vteyond Julian, the Free soil candidate. Parker says that if be had been in Congress at the last session, he should have voted as Julian did on the Slavery question, and with the Whigs, of course, on party questions." O The editor of the St. Loais Intelligencer is now in Washington. In a letter which he writes from the Capital, among other things, speaking of Gen. Scott's prospects for the Presidency, he says: " The General will find it necessary to define bis post J e 01 tion unequivocally before he can count upon the vot any Slaveholding State If the Freesoilers, without his ronsent. have taken the liberty to insinuate that he favors their views, be owes it u his own fame to put himself rectus in curia on this subject. But in doins this act of justice to himself, he will probably forfeit all c nance of support from the Freesoilers. who have thus sought to implicate him in their political heresies." This very reasonable request, our neighbor, the organ of the Whig party in Indiana, the Journal, takes in high dudgeon, and thus replies to his Missouri contemporary: " Now, this editor knows very well that the Freesoilers have not done any such thing. He cannot find a single declaration in any of their papers or by the adoption of a single resolution at any of iheii meetings, to justify the assertion. The design of the whole article is to create a prejudice against Gen. Scott, unbecoming, we must be permitted to say, a prudent Whig editor. To ask Gen. Sco-'.t to define his position upon great political questions, which agitite the country and engross the public mind, is, in the estimation of onr neighbor, 'unbecoming a prudent Whig editor." In this opinion we concur Whig editors have no basin. t ask such impertinent questions. Great Scott Demonstration at Pittsburgh. This great demonstration came off on the 20th inst. The Post says it " was, indeed, one of the meanest and most meagre demonstrations that we have ever witnessed ; tat we wonder not at it. The wire-workers in the affair, tried to get up a great demonstration in favor of Johnston, and they thought the name of Scott might help the thing to 'draw;' but it would not do. Either the name of Scott itself is like throwing cold water on any similar matter, or the people saw at once through the design of the original movers, and at once determined that they would not lend themselves to ft scheme so little in accordance with their real views. Gov. Johnston's reception was a cool one, and his stay among as has been marked by decided coolness on the pait of a large number of the oh'est and stannchest Whigs of the city and county." Sneaker to Consress. The House of Representatives will be Democratic by a large majority. The Democratic nominee for speaker will doubtless be elected. For the nomination we presume the names of David T. Disney, of Ohio, and Lynn fiovd. of Kentucky, will be presented. They are both , s w r. - i gentlemen f experience, and either would make a capital presiding officer, and what is more, they are both western men. Obsolete Ideas, i ! diana Journal is publishing a scries of articles from the pen of its editor in favor of a protective tartff, aud will no doubt follow them up with some strong arguments in support of a national bank, and the distribution policy. He is preparing the public mind for the grsat eoatcst in 1852 sowing the seed, looking to reap the harvest a xt year. Wc are inclined to think the ground is rather stony. iTT'We learn from the Tribuiu of yesterday, that the Hon. Caleb B. Smith, of Indiana, a member of the late Commission on Mexican Claim, is in New York, stopping at the Collamore House. The above is from the Washington Telegraph which says: Ve to-day havo a loiter from a friend in New York, which says: " C B. Smith is here from Indiana, and says all is O. K with LBS Gardiner Claim "

Onward. The Cincinnati Enquirer says:

We are pleased to learn that the law ol primogeniture j (by which the oldest son took the whole of the estate of i his deceased parent, leaving nothing ior the younger children) has been swept out of existence in Canada I In a list of measures to which the Governor General . gave the royal assent, a few days ago, was included the act to abolish the right rf primogeniture, in the succession of real estate. This is, perhaps, the most democratic measure that has been passed during the present Parliament ; and its influence on the future condition of the province cannot fail to be decidedly beneficial. What a wide contrast is here presented between far-short-sighted Sp: seeing and sagacious England, and the poor vain and anish authorities in Cuba. Great Britam, her. with the example of the old thirteen Colonies before is determined not to lose the Canadas for want of liberality. They quailed to the demands of the people. Spain, on the other hand, as Cuba has become restless under the rod, has tightened the cords and turned a deaf.ear to the petitions of an oppressed people. This act will lose to the Queen of Spain the last bright and glittering gem in her coronet. The President. President Fillmore ami the Secretary of the Interior both made speeches at their reception in Staunton, Vs., last week. Mr. Fillmore declared " My past acts are the only pledge I can give of what my administ ration is hereafter to ! I have no promises to make, except that in all I do I shall take tha Constitution for my guide, and will a snme all the responsibilities it imposes, whatever the sacrifice mar be; and while that flag floats (pointing to the national flag suspended from the hotel) I will maintain that Constitution and the Fnion it secures, at anv and every cost." (Great applause.) Oca Ticket. We have placed at the head of our columns the names of Millard Fillmore and John J. Crittenden as our choice of whig candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency in 1852 Dat. rille (Ki ) Tribune, tchig. Yes and you can haul it down, about May, 1852 Statne of Gen. Jackson. The Republic says that Mr. Mills, the artist, has completed the bronze statue of Gen. Jackson, and that he is now preparing to reproduce in brass the finely developed figure of the rampant sclf-poiscd plaster charger, which he hopes to complete by the fiist of January next. Poor Employment. A young lady in Vincennes has been for months employed in the manufacture of a beautiful bed-quiit, intended as a present to Queen Victoria. Sony she can't find some better work for her idle bands. CTJohn Law, Esq., of Evansville, has been appointed by the Governor of California, Commissioner of Deeds for that State. KT Isaac M. Harrington, Postmaster at Buffalo, died on the 20th instant, after a protracted illness. He was an old and highly respected citizen. The Knell of Spanish Rule in C aba. If the intelligence from Cuba is truthful, as reported to ns yesterday by telegraph and we are disposed to j credit it all we predict that the knell ol Spanish do- : minion in that island has sounded its first peal. The j fate of those men who were slaughtered will strike no I terror on this side the gulf; but thousands of incensed spirits will rush to a quick revenge upon the miserable government that has so outraged humanity, and placed itself outside the pale of Christian toleration, by the brutality with which it has distinguished that bloody execution of our countrymen. We can make no defence for the invrdcrs from this country. To do that we would have to counsel and commend the infraction of oar national laws, and justify the disruption of all friendly relations with a government with which we are at peace. All who have gone start..I .;,K - ' Kmmm im .k-!. k ,1. .... . k ... v yj will. I i.co I. men uaiiua ojr mo 1 bfici I'll' lawed themselves hum the possibility of defence from 'heir home government , and, comparatively, forfeited the sympathy of the people. But they have committed no offence which deserved sneh a terrible judgment. They forfeited life, if they were invaders of Cuban soil and conspirators against its political powers; hut they did not forfeit the respect which humanity claims for humanity. In the treatment of these victims to their superior power, Spanish authorities but emblazoned the chief phases of Spanish character poltroonery and brutal cruelty. Against the outrages which they perpetrated upon the bodies of their bleeding victims, Christianity, humanity, God's justice itself, revolt. Every impulse of enlightened nature makes an indignant protest against the infernal spirit exhibited. Every impulse of the American character will arouse for redress. And that we shall hear of movements towards the hostile point, which will bear down all opposition on this side of the Gull , and sweep through whatever formidable opposition the Island can concentiato, wc now cannot well flouht. The American character will not vindicate its own attributes if these things do not come to pass. We know the fiery spirit and the over-sweeping impulse of uur southern and western countrymen- We remember well how they rushed to the Texan struggle how, when subsequently Mexican forces rioted and reveled in the blood of those who contended for its freedom, they marched to the rescne of weakness and to the revenge o( cowardly cruelly. And how are the Powers it Washington to act in this exigency? An American vessel fired upon stopped ana boarded in a hostile manner by a Spanish man-of-war! Is that a trifle which a diplomatic note will gloze over' Will a simple cxp'anation suffice, and wilt that explanation be demanded? Wo will bide the time. An exciting future is before us. What the present bodes we can conjecture with confidence. In the meantime the public mind will wait impatiently for events as they come. Cin. Enquirer. Cholera. This dreadlul scourge broke out in our town some thing over a week ago, and has so far been extremely fa tal ; few cases have been cured. But present indications SDcak favorable for its disappearance. There has not been, to our knowledge, any new cases since Tuesday, last. Wc have every hope that a few days more will tind the usual jood henlth o! our town restored. !so le sirablo an event will be much listened if our citizens will be prudent and cautious in their diet, if you eat Teletahles at all, let them be fully ripe, and well seasoned. Pull np your encumber vines; green or ripe, they are not fit at any time for man or beast. If yon hav. green corn, let it ripen, and feed it to your hogs this fall, it will be much the wisest. 1he names of the persons who have died so far as we could ascertain, is as follows, to-wit: two young ladies by the name of Johnson ; the wife of John Hensley , Mr, Absalom Taylor; Mr. Gillcrist . an Irishman, name unknown; a child of Mr. French; Mr. Thomas Baily ; and Mr. Gonth. Bloomingtnn Reporter. IT7"Oiic gratifying feature in the r snlt of the Congressioual election in Indiana, is the defeat of George W. Julian, the " froc soil" candidate in the 4th district. Mr Julian owed his seat in the last Congress to democratic votes, but no sooner had he secured it, than he used his personal influence, and his vote on almost every occasion against the party which elected him. At the organization of Congress, he voted against every democratic nominee from Sjieaker to Doorkeeper. A man who thus openly disregards the wishes of those who place him in office, has no cause to complain if they refuse a second time to pot into his hands weapons to be nsed against themselves. As between Mr. Julian and his whig opponent (Par ker), democrats could have had no choice, on the score of political principle, while on the slavery question, the latter is entitled to preference, being, as ho is, openlv and avowedly in favor of the compromise, and against further agitation. In the defeat of Julian, the democrats lose nothing; in the eleotion of Parker another is added to the list of those who regard tbe Union as a thing too sacred to be made the sport of mountebanks ami dsmagogue Adrian (Mich) rV'atrhtower .

THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1851.

Appointment", by the Governor. William N. Syke, cf the county of Lake, agent on behalf of the State, to see that no waste or injury is committed on the lands or timber on what is known as the " Swamp Lands;' to co-operate with the officers of State in carrying out the Sixteenth Section of the Act of j the General Assembly, approved February 14, 1851. John Loweby, Jr., Recorder of the county of Lawrence, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, John Lowery. George Sangster. Sheriff" of the county of Fountain, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Thomas T. M 'Comas. South Carolina. If the friends of the Union at the North will second their faithful allies in Tennessee, North Carolina and Alabama, and will co-operate as earnestly and cordially to sustain the Compromise and put down Abolition in their section as the latter have co-operated to sustain the Compromise and put down Secession aud Revolution at the South, the perils which have menaced our institutions may yet be averted, and our glorious Republic preserved. But without a faithful adherer -e to that adjustment, by the Northern as well as the Southern States, there is no more reason than there was a twelvemonth since to believe or hope in ' maintaining inviolate the integrity of the Union.'' Republic. Thus speaks the organ of the Administration at Washington, yet we see no disposition on the part of the Whig party at the North to follow this good and wholesome advice. In Pennsylvania, Johnston, the Whig candidate for Governor, openly repudiates and opposes the Compromise measures. Vinton, in Ohio, is mum, but he voted in Congress against all of them, and as both he and Johnston are opposed to Fillmore, and in favor of Scott.it is not very probable that they will follow the advice of the Government organ. Presidential Election. In case the choice of the next President should devolve upon the House of Representatives, the votes of the several delegations thus far elected would be as follows: Whig. Missouri, Vermont, Florida, Michigan, Massachusetts, Democratic. Iowa, Maine, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tie. New York, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Kentucky. 4 States. O no. North Carolina, Wisconsin, 6 States. New Jersey, Delaware, Illinois, Connecticut, Indiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas. 15 States. The Democrats will doubtless elect a majority in Virginia and Mississippi. Louisiana, Georgia, Maryland, and California, doubtful. Each State has one vote neither more nor less, except when tied. Of course the Whigs must elect their candidate by means of the Electors, or they are gone coo as. CT A correspondent from Miami connty, Indiana, writes to the Albany Argus as follows: "Dr. Fitch is elected by a larger majority than before, notwithstanding, it is said, that Dr. Ellis, formerly editor of the Goshen Democrat, travelled through the northern part of the District electioneering against Dr. Fitch, before the election. Dr. Ellis, it will be recollected, was elected by the regular Democratic party two rears ago, Auditor of the State, and before his time has expired, he has started an abolition free-soil journal at the Capital, for the purpose of breaking down the party and the Indiana State Sentinel. Not a copy of his paper (the Statesman) is taken, I believe, in onr county (Miami.) His particular Inend, Geo. W. Julian, that well-known alwlitionist, is beaten hy Mr. Parker, National Whig. The Democrats are proud of our Hoosicr State. Wc havo a glorious Democracy a State that will rally for Cass, Dickinson, Murcy, Buchanan, Houson, Woodbury. Douglass, Cobb, or any other good Democrat, in '52. to tho lane of 10,000 majority. Mark that. Indiana, I trust, has given a good account of herself at at this election. Indiana, the fifth State in the American Union, will hoist her colors in '52 for no man except he be for the Union and the compromise. Mark that. Oregon. We have Oretron dates to July 4. A battle took place about the 17th Juno between tho Rogue River Indians and a part of the Mounted Rifles, 23 in number, under command of Major Kearney, at a place called Table Rock, on Rogue River. The Indians had i "mbled at this place in considerable force lying in ambush from which they commenced firing upon the riflemen. A conflict ensued, and some 20 or 25 Indians were killed and a number wounded. Lieutenant James Stewart was killed, and another officer, named Peck, was reported to have been mortally wounded. Gen. Lane's majority for Delegate is over 1800. The editor of the Oregon Statesman had been present ed with some stalks of wheat seven feet in length: stalks of oats measuring eight feet and one and a-lourth inches in length. The heads of some of them were eighteen inches long. Berries grow to an enormous sizo in Oregon. Wm . Torrance, of Milwaukee, plucked a gooseberry at Astoria, which measured six inches in circumference. . ITThe Washington correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, speaking of President Fillmore's recent tour in Virginia, says: "At the Whits Sulphur, he was received by a committee appointed from tho several Southern States, with the exception of South Carolina, the visiters from which State declined taking any part. Ho had, by the last accounts, been invited to the Hot Springs as the guest of the proprietor and visitors ; and also to Lynchburg, by the authorities of that place "The Virginia Whigs are almost universally in favor of Mr. Fillmore or Mr. Webster as their candidato for the next Presidency, in preference to General Scott; and they are not going into any Convention with the Ohio and Pennsylvania and New York Whigs, upon the platform framed by Gov. Johnson, Senator Wade, and Senator Seward." ttUnderhill, Williams and MeCarty's business houses are raising their heads heavenwards. Locomotive Does anvthin? point ' heavenurardx' when it starts at Indianapolis? Richmond Palladium. The Senator from Wayne never starts in that direction when be leaves here for home. CT It appears from the United States Censns recently taken, that there were published in New York city last year, 106 newspapers, exclusive of periodicals, whose nTfrerato circulation was 82.368,473' There were n n fourteen daily, and the same number of monthly news papers, and fifty-eight weekly. Tho daily circulation amounted to 153,621; weekly , 425,200 ; and the month y to 401 ,800. v A DVmi. One of the editors of the Nashville News fought a duel with Col. John Baxter on the 24th ult. The latter was badly shot in the right arm. The former was anlnjnrnd. The quarrel grew out of polities. rrDo yon pay for the newspaper yon read?

Cold Comfort. We clip the following from the New York Tribune. Our readers will see how the Editor accounts for the defeat of M'Gaugbey. He fails, however, to inform his readers that John G. Davis, the successful candidate for Congress, is also in favor of the Fugitive Slave law.

Iicdiawa. The Whigs arestill kept down in this State, but have two Representatives in the next Congress, against two in the last, and would have had three, but for the deplorable fatuity of running Mr. M'Gaoghey for re-election in the Seventh District, though he was one of the three Whigs from the Free States whose votes helped to pass the Fugitive Slave law. That District gave Mr. M'Gaughey 1,873 majority in 1849, and would have I given him one thousand now but lor that unfortunate ai.d we believe unpremeditated vote. As the case stood, he was safe to lose it, and should not have been nominated, since any other Whig could have carried it. Free Negroes. The New York Journal of Commerce of the 21st mst. contains some excellent reflections on the recent vote of Indiana for tho exclusion of free persons of color, from which we clip the following extract : What free soilers are in Indiana, they are elsewhere, allowing for a difference of circumstances. If the South should free its 3,000,000 slaves, and they should begin to arrive freely in the State of New York, we should expect the free soilers and abolitionists would be among the first to oppose them. Seward, Weed, Greeley fk Co., would probably lead the van. The fact is, that in no part of tho country is a large free colored population wanted. They are less desirable now than formerly, because then they were willing to tie useful and manifested some respect for their superiors. But the abolitionists have taught them that they are as good as am body, and have as good rights and as many. Accordingly in the railroad cars you will commonly find them occupying the best seats, and on the sidewalks you arc lucky if they do not crowd you off". Most of them are unfit for domestics, being too impudent to be endured. Many who used formerly to employ colored servants, do so no longer, for the aliove reason. There is one place in the world where they arc welcome, and can be independent and happy. It is their own fatherland. It is the Republic of Liberia. Every true friend of the colored race, or of the white race of Africa or America should endeavor to remove from the minds of our colored people the prejudices against the Colony which the abolitionists have labored so long and so successfully to inculcate. 0We find the following in our Cincinnati exchanges of Tuesday : Nashville, Aug. 23, P. M. One of the most enthusiastic and respectable meetings ever heid in Nashville assembled to-night at the Court House yard. R. G. Smiley was chosen President. Resolutions expressing the warmest sympathy with the movements of the Cuban patriots were introduced by Col. Boyers, one of the editors of the American, w hich were adopted amidst the most enthusiastic cheers. They alluded in terms of indignation to tbe barbarous murder of the party of Americans, and call upon the Government to inquire into the attack upon the Falcon. The fourth resolution is as follows: Resolved, That neither tho Constitution nor the laws of the land, nor the principles known to the usages of modern States, authorize the President to prevent individuals from leaving tho United States for Cuba, or any other country. A resolution appointing a committee of twelve to r aise contributions for the relief of the Cubans, was also pissed, and supported in a speech from the ed tor of the Gazette. A motion to reconsider the vote and postpone the consideration until the receipt of farther news from Cuba, voted down almost unanimously. When the meeting adjourned, a procession headed by a flag bearing the motto, GOD .iSD LIBERTYCUBA, paraded through the streets until a late hour. iTT We advise our democratic friends, who sympathize with Mr. Julian, to wait until he professes to be a democrat before they claim him; he has never made such a profession. Delphi Timet. Good advice, brother Applegate. Railroad Vote in Louisville. The following is the full vote of the city of Louisville on the proposition to subscribe to the stock of the Lou isville and Nashville, and the Jcffcrsonville and Columbus Railroads: For tht former road 2,115 Against it 942 For the latter road 2.076 Against it 952 Tbe Ba?ana Massacre. There aro different accounts respecting the number of persons captured and shot by the Havana authorities. The Now York Herald has an account l'r;m one of its correspondents, which classified them thus; Forty Americans, One Italian, Four Irish. One Philippine Islander, One Scotch, Two Havanvros, and Two Germans, Hungarians. In all fifty-one. Another correspondent says there were titty-1 wo. The Herald has several letters written early and late on the latal day, all ot which agree in representing that the captives were treated in the most brutal manner led out in numbers of ten, made kneel, shot from behind ; and after ail were thus massacred, " some hundreds of the very vilest rabble and negroes, lured for he purpose, commences! stripping the dead lodies, mutilMing their limbs, tearing out their eyes, cutting oil their noses and fingers, and some of the poor fellows, privates, these wretches brought to ihe city on sticks, and paraded them under the very walls of the palace." After being thus treated, one writer says, lliey were shoved, six or seven together, bound as they were, into hearses, which were used last year for cholera cases. No coffins were allowed them, and tho manner they were put into the hearses was equally as disgusting as the other acts; tho heads of some were almost dragging m s 'a n -ft f on the ground, ana it nati more tne appearance oi a laughtr-cart on its way to market from the slaughterhouse, than that of a bcarse conveying the dead bodies of human beings. Another letter in the lierald says that the patriot force on the 13th marched upon Cabanas with the inten tion of possessing themselves of the fort at the latter place, when, unfortunately, some fifty of them, who had, in the most daring manner, endeavored to get there by sea in four launches, with the intention of taking the Spaniards in tho fort "y surprise, were themselves, after a most desperate resistance, captured by the Spanish " . bar of men, s'necceded in taking them after a fight of fonr hours. All the American portion were the "over of the Mississippi yeomanry. Another lettei says: " The saddest portion oi tno nisiory w nicn i nave to relate is flic indifference of tbe American Consnl. This ircntleman is Mr. A. F Owen, late representative from Georgia in Congress, and nominated by Mr. Fillmore to replace Gen. Campbell, tho late Consul here- Mr. Owen was called upon by an American gentleman residing here, to see if he had mado any effort to ascertain those of his countrymen who were thus inhumanly to be shot; the Consul took the ground that they had been declared outlaws by Mr. Fillmore, and he should not interfere in the maltet." If he did not interfere afterwards, nothing was done. Tea men were captured at 1 o'clock, A. M.,aud shot at 11, same morning, without tho simplest formality of trial or tbe benefit of a prayer. Cin. Enquirer. Dr. Beeches , the Eides. The venerable Dr. Beecher is employing the leisure of his old age in preparing for publication his previously published works, and such sermons and other productions as ho desires to be associated with his memory am! name. The works will occupy some six or eight volumes, and are soon to he issned by Messrs. Jewett fc Co., of Boston. Dr. B. has done good to his generation not the least of which is to have reared six sons for the Christian ministry, all of whom arc faithfully perpetuating the views and influ. enee of their honorad father. The peach crop has been very good along the shores of tho Chesapeake this season, one grower haying received seven thousand dollars in one weak, and eight thousand dollars in the next, for the product of his orchard, of four hundred acre.

FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST , 1841.

Busiaess before Pleasure. One would suppose that, during the present critical state of affairs on our Southern coast, the men compos f n n ik. A ,, , . i VI' u : 1 I r I ...8 . .Hiiauuuiuu iiHimigiun, wuuiu ue louuu at their posts, in the active discharge of their duty. I But such is aot the case. The President and Cabinet seam to make pleasure trips tbeir chief business, and look upon the duties which they have sworn to discbarge and are paid to perform, as matters of secondary importance. The President left Washington on an electioneering tour through Virginia, since the news of the revolt reached there. Tho revolt was on the Fourth of July, and he was not to return to his post until the 29th inatant. Tho Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General, are all absent from Washington. Is it any wonder, then, that officers of lesser grade should neglect their duty, when such high examples are set them? Fifty Americans aro massacred in tbe most brutal manner in tho streets of Havana, and the American Consul does not demand the cause, or even interpose in thoir behalf! Humanity alone, would have prompted any other man to have pursued a different course. Agaia, an American steamer, bearing the Flag of our country, and carrying tbe United States Mail, is fired at three times, by a Spanish war-steamer, forcibly arrested on the high seas, boarded, and the officers and crew insuited, and yet thcro is no Government at Washington to demand an explanation. Will our people look idly upon such gross carelessness and negligence, and not condemn it? This Cuban insurrection and invasion has not happened unexpectedly to tho chief officers of Government. Had such been tho case, there would be no complaint of its inaction. But it has not been sudden. It has been brewing for months, and Mr. Fillmore could not have anticipated anything else but that serious difficulties would grow out of it. Then hy did he desert the White House? Tho New Orleans Delta of the 15th, gives an account of 'he seizure of the American schooner Helen Mar, and the imprisonment of her officers at Minatillan, in Mexico, and the final condemnation and confiscation of the vessel at Vera Cruz. We have had no American Minister at Mexico for near eight months, and there is no Consnl, at present, at Vera Cruz. The captain of the Helen Mar is now on his way to Washington, to lay his grievances before the Government. The Union very properly remarks: " He will be astounded when he reaches here, to find that there is no Government for him to address. He will find himself no better off than in Mexico, where there were no American Minister and no American Consul to assert his rights. He will find that in Washington there is no President, no Secretary of State, no Attorney General, no Secretary of the Interior, no Secretary of War no one, indeed, whose business it is to decide upon bis rights, or enforce them." I T Since Craighead &. Browning have extended and nlarged their Drug Store, and received their new stock of fresh Drugs, Medicines, Oils. Perfumery, Sic., 8ic.. tbey seem to bo overrun with customers. You can never step in without seeing both of the firm, and two or three clerks beside, all as busy as bees. Mr. Craighead went East a short time since, where he purchased the largest and best selected stock of Drugs, fkc., ever brought to any city in Indiana, and at snch rates as will warrant their being sold very low. Those desiring to purchase Drugs and Medicines by wholesale, need not send their orders to Cincinnati, for we arc satisfied they can do much better by patronising Craighead & Browning, who are untiring in their efforts to please all who have occasion to deal with them. Their advertisements appear in to-day's issue, and we advise country merchants, druggists and physicians, to look out for the sign of the Barrels and Kegs, when tbey visit Indianapolis. ZT" We find the following in the Madison Banner of this morning. Wo trust there is no truth in the rumored duel, and that tho affair has been amicably settled. It is said that Gen. Butler and Mr. Shrewsbury are the seconds of Mr. Bright, and Humphrey Marshall and T. W. Gibson those of Mr. Marshall: ;A rumor was current in the city last night, of a serious difficulty between Senator Bright and Hon. J. G. Marshall, which had been, or is about to lie, adjusted with rifles on Twelve-mile Island. We have no doubt as to the difficulty, but hope that it hat been, or will be, settled without bloodshed." Tbe Cholera. We learn by a letter from Bloominrton dated 26th instant, that the cholera is yet prevailing at that place with considerable violence, but hopes are entertained thst the disease is abating; at least it is more manageable by physicians than at first. There had been altogether some 25 or 30 cases, and 12 deaths op to the date of our correspondent's letter. This diseaso has entirely disappeared at Salem. $y The New York Mirror having asserted that Jacob Little, tho great banker, had lately cleared two hundred and fifty thousand dollars by the depression in stocks, the Wall Street Journal affirms that he has cleared half a million' State Fairs. New York, at Rochester, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th September. Michigan, 24th, 25th, and 26th September. Ohio, samo days as in Michigan. Vermont, 10th and 11th September. Maryland. ii,-.n ll.v.n.l.r Wane Whin-. h.s been nominated for . ' ' . " " ' ' .w , J " j Congress, and Hugh M'Cullough has been presented by the Democrats O D. S. Danalson has associated with him in the

publication of the Wabash Express, John E. L. Soule tj,c canvass upon the Compromise measures of the last and Isaac M. Brown, both of Terre Kaute. Mr Brown I Congress, freely endorsing all of them in every speech i i - -rlhe made during the summer On that ground, deterwas, some thtrieen years ago, employed in the office of !j oppo.uio- was raii)ed Qp n?minsi him in aU Fart, tho Indiana Democrat, then puhlishod by Livingston &-1 0f the District bv Freesoilers. His majority, being near I - a r 1 A

Bolton. Success to the trio. Will the Express send us its Daily, instead of the Tri-weekly sheet which wo now receive? CT Forty-four thousand acres of land have been taken up In Illinois during the second quarter of the present j year. Thirty-five thousand were claimed on Mexican Land Warrants. A Forger Decamped, Henry Belcher, a Shoe-dcaler of Boston, has decamped, having forged paper to tho amount of six thousand dollars. . IT From th- 15th to the 21st instant, both days exelusive, fivo thousand five hundred and fifty-five emigrants from Europe arrived at the port of New York. CT Archbishop Pnrcell, of Cincinnati, has returned homo from his trip to Europe. I7" A new Posf-onico has been established in Jeffcr son county, Indiana, called ' Millard "

Corrpcn!acfi of the Daily State Sentinel.; Life on the Border. BY COIA MONTGOMERY

Eagle Pass, Texas. July 8. J851 An evil genius seems to follow one of our servants He is a character in his wsr- Itnou n ih m. t . I . I f I a J. . S . wria mai is useless, ana much tnat is osclul too. lor a man in h" nnk of life. He can read Spanish like a padre and write it like a lover. He can talk nonsense by tbe hour in round, sonorous, hundred-fooled words, which fall from Spanish lips like heroic verse and seems the fitting language of poets and demigods. But even through this resounding spray sparkles up some unexpected bit of keen practical philosophy that would suit the pages of Plato, or at least would seem more natural there than on the lips of a Mexican who is almost a slave. Neither is Victor a Mexican, though (Mira in that world of marvellous beauty that glows along the line ol Tehanntepec. He has lived long on the eastern bank of tbe Rio Grande, and by the final treaty became a citizen of the United States. He is by right and by law a citizen and voter of Kinney county ; but that did not prevent his coming very near being e.islavcd for debt the other day in Mexico. It will surprise some American citizens to hear that you or I, or any one whose eye may rest on this sentence, is liable by the laws of Mexico, solemnly and officially endorsed by tbo American Secretary of State, may be sold for a slave, if they owe any thing to a Mexican and can be caught on Mexican soil. Nay, you may be seized on this side at your own door, and conveyed across the river, passed into tbe interior, and there live and die a slave. I have the law so set down under Mr. Webster's own infallible hand. He says this Government is not called upon to interfere if the kidnapping is not done by an officer of tbe Mexican Government. In the case of Rios, the question was pnl to the Secretary of State, whether our soil was free to Mexican kidnappers who like the pastime of man-hunting, and that was bis official answer, in good, clear, official language. If the kidnapper is an omciai, men indeed, as in the case o Kevin New Orleans ah! then, you you shall hear him roar as gently as a sucking dove, lor the said official to please bring I back the stolen man. The nnroly democrats arc 2etii"2 cross and talking peevishly perverse mob that they are of citizens' rights, and the majesty of republican law, and so said Spai.ish official is implored to consider the perplexity of the officials here and quietly send back the man. Well, our poor, poetical, warm-bcarted, weakheaded Victor gets himself in debt some three dollars (which his creditor makes ten) to a Shy lock on a sma 1 scale now living on the other side. The debt was co- -traded here on tbe American side, arid nearly paid or, tint this balance of three dollars run on for months, and the creditor has lieen laying in wait to catch the culprit on the Mexican side and enslave him. Victor is naturally fearless, and 1ms high ideas of the dignity of citizenship and of the omnipotent protection of the stars of ihe Union. We knew our Government better, and warned him to be careful, as even Englishmen and Fri-nchmcn, whose flags are so much better repiesenteo than ours, have been, and are now, in peonage in Mexico. But tho lady of bis love was bound to a ball on the other side, and the enamoured and jealous Victor w as not to bo prevented from following her to watch over his interests His creditor guessed as much, and hardly had Victor touched the Mexican ihore when l.e was caught, thrown into the calaboose, and told to prepare for bondage. He wrote to his employer to entreat his aid, and agreed to admit the whole charge of ten dollars if his creditor would but convey his letter to Eagle Pass. " Wo wiil bring this question to an issue, and compel both Governments to settle the print- pie whether an American citizen can he enslaved for d lit." was the response of his master, as he buckled on his five-shooter. " But Mr, Wel.Jter has settled it in his letter to Gen. Hugh McL'od, in which he says all persons from onr side, complaining of being unjustly held in bondage in Mexico, must submit to the decisions of the tribunals ol bat country." This I ventured to observe; for I am profoundly deferential to tbo fiat of the great jurist who owns the enlightened State of Boston yet alwmji saying with the Apostle, " Lord, help mine unbe lief." " Oh, that applied to persons kidnapped from our soil," was the reply: "and as even Mr. Webstci cannot nullity all our citizen powers, I think I shall brine Victor home this day." " I must lie of this party," said a friend, and forthwith another horte was saddled and another six-shooter buckled on by hands that perfectly understood its use. " I, too, have a curiosity,' added he, replenishing the while the neat flask and pouch that keep the six-shooter company, "a decided curiosity, to hear the opinion of the Mexican Commandante on the propriety of making slaves of our citizens." ,: And I, too, most be of this agreeable company," pu's in our gy. careless, good nntured friend, McG. "I liko my share in them when such interesting conversations arc on hand." With tho word be was armed and mounted as promptly as the others. " Victor himself might like a word to say on the occasion, and hero is a spare argument for his use," said one of the party, throwing, as ho poke, an extra pistol ever the saddle bow. In as brief time and as lightly as I have written it were armed in saddle and under spur to do their errand on tho soil of Mexico, and in the precincts of one of her military colonics. Tbey go as to a festival with smiles and words af courtesy tin their lips, but they are resolute and well armed men, accustomed to be altogether stiff eient unto themselves whenevor the government fails to be sufficient unto its duty to their rights. They feel that American citizens should not be enslaved in Mexico, and could not if tbeir public servants were not dcreliot. They go to claim him, and horn-ever they speak of peace they are not likely to return without their man. for thcro arc others who feel as they do about the custom of sell ing our citizens for debt. If blood should flow in stich a quarrel, as first or last it will, on whose head rest the guilt and the shame? Who shall condemn who ebastisc onr people for invading Mexico to rescue an enslaved fellow citizen? Onr Cabinet will not have the audr'ii Their Chief, in his letter to Gen. McLead of Dee 17 1850, lays down the law that any unofficial Mexican can ome on our soil and kidnap our residents with impanitv. and if tbe captured ones do not relish ibis, they must app3al to the Mexican laws, which law s settle ti c w hole matter by making them slaves for debt. Now it is to be hoped that as Mr. Webster can find no wav to punish Mexicans for coming on our soil to kidnap free American voters, he will not be as anxious to wring out one to punish our citizens for going on Mexican soil to rescne them. His long sweet dranght of Cuban tears ought to satisfy his magnanimous devotion to foreign and anti-republican interests for a short season. C. M. The Success ot" the Compromise Mcasnre. Indiana, in the late election, has taken a proud posi tion among the law abiding States of tbeLnion. She has. in unequivocal terms, given in her adhesion to the Constitution, and avowed her detei mination to maintain its compromises. We havo reason, therefore, to bo proud Of the result of that election. It speaks peace to the distracted portions of the I'nion, and nnqualiied condemnation to Disunionists of both extremes of tbe Republic. Especially does the election of Col W. A Gorman in the Sixth District, evidence ihe loyalty of the people of this section of Indiana fo that sacred instmnnt, the Constitution of the United Slates. Col. Gorman made j hve thousand, luuy evinces me success oi uis tow aufence of the great measures of concession and harmony, met with at the ballot-box. No higher encoraiom could be passed upon him. The measure of his glory is com pie to. Considering the many and si range appliances resorted to by his political and personal enemies, his election, bv such an overwhelming majority, over a decided Whig Rev E. P. Farmer is a triumph of which the friends of the Union and the Colonel may reasonably be proud . His warm advocacy of the Compromise measures, brought to his assistance the great body of the Union Whigs of the District, who feel it incumbent upon them to reward Ins untiriug exertions in procuring the passage of those measures, by returning him to tbe next Congress with their endorsement. His election may, therefore, be properly considered a test of tbe stale of public opinion in this latitude, on these questions Bloomvigton Reporter. O-The trial of tin persons charged with a conspiracy to destroy the property of the Michigan Central railroad company, has occupied the Wayne County Circuit Court fifty-six days, and is yet apparently far from a conclusion. Such prolixity would scarcely be permitted in any other tribunal in the world. The Court adjourned on the 13th to enable Mr. ChaflV. one of the jnmrs, to attend the funeral of one of h children

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