Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1852 — Page 2

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INDimSTATE SENTINEL

VILLIAM J. BROWN, Editor. INDIANAPOLIS: MONDAY MORNING, NOV. ts, !. ewspaper Ftttifi ates. Under lh saw posUfe law, bow in operation, the Indiana Stau Snntl-IUilt and Wemly foea through the mails at Ae following low rate- Iba postafe to a paid quanerty or yearly, asanas at ihe oatce of mailing or delivey, ni advakcx Datlf. at a quarter of a eenl a copy ia the State of Indiana, or nineteen and a half eenu per qaartar, or seventy-eight eeBla per year; and at half a cent a copy in any part of the Union out of Indiana, or thirty-aine cents per qaartar. WtmUr, in the county of Marion, rat; oatatde of Marioa eonnly, in the State of Indiana, .area and one-fourth eeata per quarter, or thirteen eenu per year, and ix and a half eenu per quarter or twenty. Lx eenu per annum, to all other parU of the United Su es and Territories. Trtuttunt papers, are charged star cent to any part of the United States, where pre-paid, and Mso eenu when not pre paid. Sandwich Islands. By the late at rival from the Pacific we received a file of the Polynesian, an interesting newspaper published at Honolula, ia the Sandwich Islands. It is filled with interesting matter local to the Island, proceedings of agricultural and temperance meetings, etc. The Government is embarrassed in its financial operations, and will bare to resort to n loan. The treasury is empty ; the public works have been suspended ; and unless some relief is obtained, bankruptcy mast follow. The Sandwich Islands are ten in number, of which eight are inhabited. They contain an area of country as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and lie between the 1 7th and 21st degrees of north latitude, and in the neighborhood of the one hundred and sixty de. grees west longitude. The climate, for serenity, is unequaled by any spot on the globe. The soil is ferule. Coffee, sugar cane, and all the tropical fruits are produced ia great abundance and with but little labor. In 1850 the imports of the Island amounted to $1,000,000, and the exports of domestic produce to (600,000. The population ia estimated at two hundred thousand. These Islands are directly in the road to China, Japan, and the Indies, and constitute the depot from whence five hundred American whaling vessels are supplied with provision, clothing for seamen, etc. They would form a valuable acquisition to our possessions nn the Pacific. They would, in addition to their advantages as a resting place for our whaling ships and merchant marine engaged in the China trade, supply California and Oregon with sugar and coffee. Their future value to ns is almost beyond computation. The Government is weak ad feeble, and must seek protection somewhere. There is no difficulty in the way of their annexation to our country, except the squeamishness of certain men in power about the danger of further acquisition of territory. The people and the Government of this Island are anxious to have the protection of our stars and stripes. A treaty for their acquisition was negotiated fifteen months ago, but Mr. Fillmore has so Car failed to submit it to the Senate for confirmation. It sleeps quietly on the files of the State Department, whilst Russia and France are intriguing for the possession of these gems of the Pacific. A resolution waa adopted by the Senate calling for information on this subject. Mr. Fillmore refused to transmit the information desired, because, in his estimation, such information "would be incompatible with the public interest. "Ws sincerely hope that Mr. Fillmore may change his opinion, and submit this treaty for the advice of the Senate, as the Constitution requires. Now is the golden moment. We can, without difficulty, obtain this valuable acquisition, which, twenty years hence, may cost ns millions of money. It may even be too late when Mr. Pierce and the progressive Democracy assume the reigns of government. We want the territory. The Whigs may J have the honor of acacquiring it an honor which the party has never yet enjoyed. ETTbe newspapers say, no doubt by authority of the lady herself, "that the authoress of 'Uncle Tom's Cabn,' for the purpose of proving her sympathy with the oppressed, intends to devote the profits of her book to the redemption of slaves " She would belter prove her "sympathy with the oppressed," by devoting the profits of her romance to the relief of widows and children, of tor own etlor, who are starring and fretiiug to death within ten minutes walk of her own residence. If, how ever, she has 'sympathy with the oppressed" only when they ro black, she can find plenty such in the city of New York who need her sympathy and aid infinitely more than do their colored brethren in the South; who, although they are slaves, never starre or freese, as many very many, of the "panting fugitives" in the North do, every winter. Such a disposition f her ill-gotten gains, however, Mrs. Stowe will never make She would not thereby get her name in the papers, nor would she ren der hei self prominent aa a political agitator objects the lady no dqpbt has much more at heat t than the aid of humanity o( any grade or color She would rather spend her money to bring negroes from the Sooth to starve at the N rth, than to feed those who are already starving around her. The charity of abolitionists (what little they have) never begins at home. CT" We are informed that the following exhileratlag and important incident occurred Frida morning on the Indianapolis and Bellefontaina and Greeneville and Miami Railroads. The construction poney engine of the Bellefontaina road ran out to the end of the track about three miles this side of the Slate line, and blew ber whistle, which was immediately answered by the whistle of the Greeneville construction locomotive at the end of their track, about the same disttnee on the other side of the line. As neither party kaew the precise whereabouts of the other, the unexpected incident caused the bands to rend the air with their shouts. CTbe Electors for this State will meet in Indianapolis on the first Monday ia December next, according to the requirements of law, and vote by separate ballots for President and Vice President. The vote will be sent by a special messenger to Washington City to be delivered to the President of the Senate. On the second Wednesday in February next, these returns will be opened nod compared in the presence o" both Houses of Congress, aad the result officially announced. Canal Trustee. On the approaching Legislature will devolve the duty of electing a Trustee, on the part of the State, for the WabarW aad Erie Canal. The candidates are W. R. Nofsinger, the present incumbent, and Msj. Austin M. Puett, of Parke county; B. R. Edmonston, of Dubois; Jo. Riatioe, of Fountain; aad Isaac D. G. Nelson, of Allen. Free Megroaa in North Carolina. The Fayetleville North Carolinian states that in the House of Commons of North Carolina, on the 20th nit., Mr. Webb, of Ratherford, offered a resolution instructing the committee on Finance to inquire into the est eligible plan for gradually removing free negroes from the State, and that the resolution was adopted. Williasa Callea Bryant. The New York Evening Post announces that this gentleman left that city on Saturday in the Arctie, aad that he proposes to spend the next five er six months ia the "Old World." He will first visit Spain and Portagal, where be expects to spend sufficient time to enable him to visit the prominent points of interest in both those countries. It is also bis in ten1 ion to visit Greece. Egypt, aad the Holy Laad during bis absence, and to return to the United States some time in the month ef April or May aezt. He is to continue hit intercourse with the readers of the Post by letter.

Marion Coaaty Agricultural Socity.

The Marion County Agricultural Society met on Saturday, and elected the following officers for the en. suing year. Powell HowlanJ Pi jsident, E. N Shimer, Vice President, James Johnson Treasurer, Royal Mayhew Secretary. The followilg Directors were also electad. Center township, C. Fletcher Jr; Lawrence, Samuel Corey; Washington, Hiram Bacon; Pike, Isaiah Horniday; Wayne, Fielding Beeler; Warren, Henry Brady; Perry, 8. D. Baker; Franklin Jacob Smock and Decatur, James Marrs. Calvin Fletcher was elected Delegate to the State Board . The finances of the Society are in good condition and afford a prospect for a Fair the coming year. We ascertain there is about $270 in the bands of the County Treasurer subject to the order of the Society. The Society a!so voted a silver cup to R. Mayhew, Esq., for his services as Secretary of the Society. For the Dally Indiana State Sentinel. Cuba. There lies opposite the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico, an Island stretching from south-east to north-west through a spaee of nearly 700 miles, varying in breadth from 70 to 130 miles, and containing an area of about 50,000 square miles. A ridge of mountains runs through its entire length and divides it into two nearly equal parts. From these mountains numerous rivers descend, and more than one hundred are said to pour their chrystal floods over its plains into the sea. Its soil is fertile to the last degree, while its mineral wealth is almost exbanstless. Within its limits salt may be manufactured sufficient foi the wants of the world. There, all that we are want to attach to a tropic clime as beaitiful or valuable, have been lavished with an unsparing hand. As though Nature had determined to dower this Island with all the most enchanting gifts in her store-house, she has bestowed upon it all that may gratify the palate or minister to the wants of man, while she has adorned it with al! that is most beautiful in scenery and in vegetation. There, Spring comes close in the footsteps of a Summer that never dies. There, Oriental verdure and tropic bloom smile perennially under the rays of a southern sun. There " Strange bright birds on their golden wings Bear the rich hues of all glorious thiags," and the animal, with the vegetable kingdom, partakes the fulness of a glorious life. That Island is Cuba. We read that of old the wiles of the serpent made Eden desolate, and, to the shame of the new world be it spoken, the slime of an equally accursed reptile is upon the soil of Cuba. The air of her mountains is pure but it is not free ; the breath of her citron-groves is laden with the taint of despotism the hiss of the serpent is heard amid her orange bowers the Queen f the Antilles is in chains; nor has she since the dawn of her civilization known one hour of Freedom. For three centuries and more she has worn the fetters of Spain. The footsteps of the Spaniard are heard no more en his once broad North American domain South America I cast off his sovereignty long ago Cuba and her sister Islands are all that is left of that magnificent empire, which be purchased with livers of blood and long years of untold barbarity. As posessions after possessions has glided from bis sway, his tyrant grasp has tightened more and more upon unhappy Cuba, and he to-day-holds her with a more than miser clutch. And well he may for through ages of oppression, he has reaped (roin her a hai vest of uncounted wealth. But the hour of her liberation is at hand-lhe dawn of the morning of Freedom brightens in the horizon of Cuba. The death-knell of the hoary despotism which has so long crushed her energier and dwarfed her . . , t.. -"aj . progress has been sounded. That glorious mission to work out her redemption and regeneration, is ours. It is ours by position, ours from the verv nature of our institution, ours by destiny It is not so much that we have need of Cuba, as that Cuba has need of us. Hon her redemption is to be worked out, it matters not t.) indicate let us hope it may be peaceful. Those mole-: eyed politicians who contend that we have territory nniiih maw as w-H mnir tin (nir mim K tn it rinn as late." Cuba will be ours, and that at no distant day. God grant we be not called upon to be her avengers, or terrible will be her retribution. Huntsville, Nov. 26ih, 185. J. B L. The late Whig Party Every day we have evidences, of the truth nf the prediction of the dying Whig statesman, who said; ''after ihe second of November, the Whig party will only be known in history." Already we hear of the most active leaders of the dead party locking around them for principles and a name lor a new partv, which is to sonny up from the ashes of the old one. Horace Greeley, in giving up all hope of ever rallying bis mends again, under the name ol Whig ays: Gen Scott is overwhelmingly defeated, and the Whig party not merely discomfitted but annihilated We have no prophetic ken, and make no pretensions to reading the future ; but we do not see how the Whig party as such can ever he rallied again." The Baltimore Clipper, edited by an old and ardent Whig, utters the following: "We consider the Whig party, a such, dead and buried. It can never lie successfully revived under its

present title ; and it woulrt he lolly to attempt its reor- road 8tocks, aud every description of property will degaiiixation. .! profinte, bpcauP there is no money to purchase. This It goes on to state that political gamblers, corrupt ' ' . 3 . 1 leaders, and boisterous demagogues have brought tho vacuum will gradually be filled agnin by the precious party to this state, and adds; metals, but not in lasse to save hundreds and thousands "for tho sake of the country, then, Wt hope that there ; from bankruptcy and ruin. will be no effort made to resuscitate the defunct Whig , . . . party. The people have decided in fvor of theii oppt- T1,e cloods re r,s'"S Sasi SM storm is approaching. nents and in tht decision, have given also a signal re- We say to every man engaged in trade to prepare for buke to abolitionism. The Abolition influence which j lae eveni Two years more will find you in the midst nominated Gen. Scott, ruined both liim and the Whig r . , , .. . , party and yet he was probably as little tinctured with , f th" wretk Ho wbo ,cls h,s '"'"sC ,n and Pre" abohtionism as his opponent; bat the dread that he pres for the event will fare the best. For these remight be controlled by abolitionists settled hi fto." maiks we shall be called a croaker. We care notwe

How gratifying it must be to every true-hearted Dem ocrat, in reflecting upon this thing, to look back and see how the Democracy, in sunshine and storm in defeat and in the hour of victory cherished their good name, and clung to their principles, "as the shipwrecked mariner clings to the last plank when the storm and the 1 tempest are abut him." In fact, tho Democratic party j is the only body of men in this country who ever had I principles to contend lor ; rne opponents ol Democracy are men of expedients, who have changed their name and doctrines, and will continue to change them, as the chameleon changes its hues. Another Webb, now, has an opportunity to immortalise himself by standing god-father for the new party. Wbo aspires to the honor f Penn$ylvanian. Decisions of the Supreme Court. 1. Hamilton, Auditor of Marion county rt. the State on the relation of Bates. Appeal from the Marion Circuit Court. Judgment nffirmed, with costs. 2. The State vs. Clark. Error to the Boone Circuit Court. Judgment reversed, with costs. Cause remanded, Stc. 3. Mclntire rt Crosse ml. Error to the Tippecanoe Circuit Court. Judgment affirmed, with costs. 4. Do ex. dem. Clendenning ef ml. v. Olivers' Executors. Error to Franklin Circuit Court. Judgment affirmed, with costs. 5. Stale vs. Burger. Error to Owen Circuit Court. Judgment reversed cause remanded. 6. State v. Catron. Error to Monro? Circuit Court. Judgment reversed. Cause remanded. 7. State r Jones. Error to Owen Circnit Court. Judgment reversed, with costs. Cause remanded. 8. S'ate vs. Morris. Error to the Owen Circuit Court. Judgment reversed, and cause remandeJ. Reversal, with costs. 9. May vs. Johnson 8t Hardesty. Error to the Monroe Circuit Court. Judgment affirmed with cosra. Ordered to be certified. Ind. Journal. Caba. Under date of Havana, Nov. 1 1th, a correspondent of the New York Tribune writes as follows: "Immediately after tbe departure of the Crescent City for New Orleans, it was reported that the Captain General had determined that she should not enter the port again with Mr. Smith en board, and that should she at. tempt to enter the harbor, she would be fired int and sunk, if necessary; since then, I have heard that she will be allowed to communicate on her return, but not again in coming from New York should the obnoxious Purser Smith be on board. Whatever right the Spanish Governor may have in preventing foreigners from landing, I do not see that be bus any in dictating to Ameri cans what kind of crews they shall place in their ves sels. For my part, I consider the American Government has acted in the busiuess veiy tamely, and has Wt the respect of foreigners to a great degree, in acting the toady to the Spanish Government." Cen. Pierce not Going South. The Richmond Despatch, says the following ia an ex tract of a letter written by gentleman in Concord, New Hampshire. "The new Eagle tavern was opened yesnerday. A splendid dinner was given to about sixty invited gnests. among whom was Gen. Pierce. The General will board at at the Eagle during the winter. You will prr.b ably see various newspaper accounts of his intention to spend tbe winter in Portsmouth, N. H in Virginia, kw. They are all untrue I have it from his own mouth that he wik reside here this winter."

TUE8DAY MORNING, NOV. 30, 18a.

Free Banks. We have already alluded to the number of free batiks established or in the process of establishment, under the new Banking law of Indiana. In relation to these in-

stitotior.s we find the common opinion of the country, is i c'ly government, the wolves are fierce on your track, that thy are perfectly sale and sound, and that the bill y overhaul nearly the last man of you. ' r ' Bear with us, then, while we otter a few hints suggestholders are secured by ihe pledge of stocks, which at rd by your delicate and rather peculiar position, any lime will command the specie for the redemption of 1. Don't Tar TO propitiate THE NEW masters or the notes. This is trae so long as State stocks are at YoV "icial destiny Trying to hunt up some second cousin who is an influential Looofoco, and who mav par. On the other band we think it clearly demon- keep you in if he really tries, is a very saean business, strahle that no bauking institution is perfectly safe aud If he dees it, he thereby subjects himself to detestation sound, unless there is at all time, specie in its vaults to 1 ana tne lo8 f ni legitimate influence in his own party . . and what right have you t impose such a load apon redeem it .-.rculation. The puce of State securictes is him? Men in vuur .,;iuat;01, tannol we affor l0 de.

always fluctuating. The amount of State bonds now in the market exceeds two hundred millions of dollars tl. i j i f f .,, These bonds under the new system o free banking, will 3 " find their way into the vaults of the Sate Treasuries, pledged for the ledemption of paper money, issued by these State stock banks. This new facility for banking 3 will add two hundred millions to un already bloated paper currency- Its influence will soon be felt in the trade and business of the country. The price of real , state, of produce, of stocks, and every thing that is to be produced with money, will rise to a standard corresponding with the plethoric condition of the money mar1 . ket. The world has never yet learned that great truthtaught by political economy, that too much money always produces disease in the body politic, in a commer-

1 . . . un 1 .l . 10 tear uown int oniy nouse mat couiu nave repiuaoiy cial si nse, as certain as too much blood in the human vs- 1. j : . r . . 3 sheltered you, be wise enough to keep the fact to yourtem, will produce disease and death. Experience has selves, and not, by an avowal that you are knaves, justaught the lesson, but avarice blots it from the memory ' tify the convicvlon that you are also fools. oi man 3. Don't solicit compassion for tour misfortuns i in losing office. That only brings vou down to the Under this redundency of paper currency, pork has ! level of the rest of Mj and why should you be more already risen to six dollars a hundred, flour and every pitied for losing the offices you have enjoyed for three or other species of produce, are rapidly rising. The price four year lnan tne re,t of ut for never having had any f . . . 7. , , to lose? If it is hard to go out, must it not have been of real estate, labor, and every thing tobe purchased coinrortaoe to Jet in, and stay in so long? Some of with money, is increasing in a corresponding ratio. ' you are -cry worthy and well qualified ; for the country's When provisions rise beyond a certain standard they ! sake we rcret that they are to be displaced often, we , . . c l i. r i apprehend, by men less competent and deserving but cannot be sold bj a foreign market. The crops in Eng- eiin,t ,hJ tne fim buck t of tearf in it for lhe I 1 ail t 1 R al s a I. . ... -

lanu mis year nave Deen gooo. Aireauy unaer tne present prices, have butter and potatoes been imported from Ireland, and sold at a profit in New York. In 1837 wheat was brought from the districts bordering on the Black sea, and sold in the markets of this country. We predict that next year will witness a similar result. Prices will run up so high that we shall have no forign market for our surplus products. In tho meantime our imports will increase and our European debt increase. This debt cannot be paid by the produce of the country, because it cannot be purchased at prices which will justify its exportation. Bank paper will not pay it; but to discharge this debt the banks will have to disgorge their gold and silver. As this basis is drawn from their vaults, they will endeavor under the law of sell preservation, to replace it. They will draw on the free banks where circulation is based, not on specie, but on State fond.. If these free banks fail to redeem their notes , , .. . , ; ond" the constitution and the law, they must go into liquidation. The bonds must be sold for the precious ; mcta)s to redeem the bills issued on their credit, and the .. ... . . , , , M . res-ilt wi 11 be. that two hundred mil ions o( ctate bonds 1 ! will be forced into a market, to be sold for specie, at a time when the country is drained, to pay our annually j accrmng debt in Europe. These bonds must be sold at r ! nl tlien will conio the explosion and the crash. The banks must fail. The country will be drained of B.iecie and the paper currency will depreci1 te Dd becoiM worthless. In 1838 the suspension of j specie payments, by the banks, whilst tbey continued their operations had the effect to soften the blow. Under the new constitutions of most of the Stales this cannot again be done Where a bank suspends it must go into liquidation and be wound np under the operation of law. We make these remarks because we know that the laws which regulate currency, trade, and commerce, will pioduce these results, as certain as that black and i angry clouds will ob.cure the sun, or ihe killing frosts of November destroy the green and blooming vegetation. The world requires just so much money to answer the purpose of trade and commerce. If too much finds its way to any particular quarter of the globe, it will, like water, seek its leval, and flow to that point where it can be profitably invested. A redundency of paper currency will gradually draw out the specie. Where there is no specie to redeem the paper, it then becomes worthless and the country is without a circulating medium. The price of produce, real estate, and State securities, rail- ! believe what we say and will say what we believe. Two Brothci iu Congress. E. B. Washburn, Esq . just elected to Congress in Illinois, is a brother to Israel Washburn, recently elected it, Maine. They are the ous of Israel Washburn. Esq., of Maine. This is probably the first instance of two brothers meeting together in Congress. Iiom t wo extremes of ihe Union, both Whigs, and printers by trade, and both highly esteemed for their talents and moral worth. "These are my jewels," truly the lather might exclaim. Püttaurh Post. In the 31st Congress were the two King?, sons of Rufus King one from New York, and the other from New Jersey. In the same Congress, and in the present Congress, are the two Slautons, brothers oue from Kentucky, tbe other from Tennessee. In the Senate, arc the two Dodges, father and son, representing different Slates. Pittsburgh Post Office. We see it slated that L. Harpor, Esq., editor of the Pittsburgh Post, will be au applicant for the Post Office at the Iron city. We hope he may be appointed. In dispensing the patronage, wc trust that General Pierce may remember the hard working Democracy. Heretofore it has been too often the case that the parlour politicians, who, like the lillies of the field, neither work nor spin, when the battle is won, have been permitted to array themselves in all the power and glory of Solomon himself. To that mode ol dispcus ng public patronage we stand opposed. ILTHou. Walter Forward, of Pittsburgh Pa., died on the 24ih iust. He bad been member of Congress, Sec-re tary of the Treasury under Mr. Tyler, and represented our Government al Copenhagen, under Gen. Taylor. At the time of his death be was Judge ol one tbe Pennsylvania Courts. Indiana Central Railroad. This Company has already commenced, laying the iron on the track of this road at this city and at Cambridge city, and will prosecute tbe Work with vigor until it is completed. When finished, this will b- oue of the best paying toads in the west. Hon. John Sargeant, an eminent lawyur and statesman of Philadelphia, died at his residence on the 23d inst. He bad been a member of Congress and candidate fur Vice President with Henry Clay in 1832. He was 73 years of age ETThe last Rockville Whig, in a spirit of bitter partixauism, comments severely, upon a speech of Gov. Wright, recently delivered in that place, at a Democratic Jollification meeting. These malignant stricture, however, we don't think, will entirely demolish the Governor. He holds mo high a place in the affections of the people of Parke county, and of the State of Indiana, lo be in the least affected by such partisan missiles. Terrs Jfeafe Journal-

From the Sew York Tribune. To Whig Office-Holder: Boys ! the signs of the times clearly indicate that your time is short,; that you will very soon be "out;"

and il your mothers do not already realize that interesting fact, it ia evident that they very soon will. Whether your places pertain to the federal, State, or spise themselves. You have no right to forget that there was once a powerlul and high-toned Whig party, nose muiuciio ou luairu, uure aucceas uu claim- . . 3 . . 3 , ed to have promoted, and whose name you were proud 1 to bear. Don't sneak away from sharing its adversity ! as well, but wrap your robes around you and die, if not i wi0h Jj-0,'' at leaat with J 2. Don't claim exemption from the common lot eN xH assumption that toc sec ret lt worked and voted for PiEKCe. Some of you were base enough to jdo ii.but why should you be so silly as to avow it? Ton I will not be more than half believed, while you will in ; any cae be thoroughly despised by the new dispensers of patronage. They know full well that yon would bave kePl very ,had7 about tbi if 800X1 had been eIected, and shouted over the Whig victory as loudly as any of 'us p,aces they matt and wi nae( and the ffi. cushions ol the new dignitaries most be stuffed from 0UT hide 'there is no alternative. If vou have helped - l i u - i: losers. If a man is fit to hold an office ol any account, he is abundantly qualified to live without ofiice. He who says he knows not how he shall support his family if turned out, shows good reason why he should never have been put in. If the ofiice is worth having, the incumbent should have saved something from three or four years' enjoyment of its salary; if he might have saved, and did not, he must face the consequences of his improvidence. There is no help for that. 4. Finally, Set rova houses in order. Many of you have twenty dollars or over per week, and should save at least half of their earnings henceforth till they shall be called to their "taking off." The customhouse incumbents can hardly be started before April, and probably will not be till May, by which time each should have his nest-egg laid carefully by. A couple of hundred dollars is a sum by no means to be despised by a man in a quandary, as many of you are or soon will be. Look out employment ahead, and he ready, whenever the axe shall fall, te pick you respective heads out of the basket and carry them forthwith to the scenes of your future effort. There is nothing in decapitation after you get fairly used to it. " It is the firtt step that costs." 5. Resolve not to hang idlt about the cities If there be employment of business attainable here, you can surely ascertain the lact by next March. If there be none such, why loiter here? The great West has still room fcr you, and Mother Nature never discards and rarely disappoints those who rightly seek her bounties. She has not tutned off the first batch of rejected suitors for her favor since Adam. If no suitable employment can be found here, remember that there is boundless wealth in the bosom of the earth, and only labor is needed to bring it out. Men and brethren! help us to secure the adoption by Congress of the principle of free homes for all from the unappropriated public domain, and then the loss of office will cease to be ter rible to men willing to earn their living by honest work. There is "a good time coming" yet for those who deserve it, but it won't eeme soon enough to keep you honorably in office rest assured of that! Ho for Iree land and unfailing opportunity for every man to live by honest sweat, regardless of great men's favor and the mutabilities of politics! Independence forever! Dangers of Brandy Drinking. In the last number of the Irish Quarterly Review, tbe weakness of poor Maginn is thus alluded to: "He now tinned for comfort and inspiration to the foul fiend, Brandy, which has been the cause or misery and death to so many men of genins. We regret t e errors of Addison and Steele, we sigh at the recollection of poor Moreland, the painter, working at bis last picture, with th brush in one band, and a glass ot brandy in the other, for he had then arrived at the terrible condition in which reason could only visit him through intoxication ; and Maginn, although not so fallen as this sunk deeply. The weary hours of lonely watching brought no resource, but thai which copious drafts of the liquor conld supply. Health was fading away, the brightest years of life wire passed for ever, aud as the dim future low..r.. .1 I,.. ,,.,.....1 ,1 ., il... .(!.,.... ik.i .1.. r vt, i-7r- - mon wnicu eninrauea tne brilliant souls 01 Auoison. 01 Sheridan, of Charles Lamb, and which sent the once stalwart form of Theodore Hook, a miserable, wretched skeleton, to the grave. "Maginn, wc know, felt his position. He was neglected by his own party he was I' rotton by many of his former friends, and as we looked upon him in his pitiable condition, and compared what we then saw in him with what he might have, and as wo hoped would have been, we often recalled lite fearful passage of Charles Lamb: 'When you find a ticklish relish upon your tongue, disposing yon to a witty sort of conversation, especially if you find a preternatural flow of ideas set'.'ng in upon you at the sigut of a bottle aud fresh glasses, avoid giving way 10 it as you would th your greatest destruction. If you cannot crush the power of I fancy, or that within you which you mistake I r such divert it, give it some other play. Write an essay, pen a character of description but not as I do now, a tears trickling down my cheek. To be an object of compassion 10 friends, of derision to foes; to be suspected by strangers, stared at by fools: to be esteemed dull when you cannot be witty, to be applauded for witty when you know that you have been dull ; to be called upon for the extemporaneous exercise of that facnlty which no premeditation can give ; to be set on to provoke mirth which piocures the procurer hatred; to give pleasure, aad be paid with squinting malice: to swallow drafts of life destroying wine, which are to be distilled . J . . '. into airy breath to tickle vain auditors; to mortgage miserable morrows for nights of madness; to waste whole seas of time upon those who pay it back in little inconsiderable drops of grudging applause are the wages of buffoonry and death.'" Chmrleston Mercury. Daniel Webster. Guat's Elegy. The following is a portion of Gray's fine Elegy which came upon tbe lading memory of Mr. Webster in his dying moments. The singular appropri ateness of the poet's sentiments to the time and oc casion, will be at once recognized: "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. The lowering herd winds slowly o'er the lea, Tbe ploughman homeward plods his weary way. And leaves the world to darkness aad to me. " Now fades the glimmering landscape oa the sight. And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where tbe beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinkling lulls the distant folda. " Beneath tl.ose rugged elms, that yew tree's shade, Wber heaves th turf in many s mouldering heap. Each la his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. a ' The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power. And all that beauty , all that wealth e'er gave, Await alika the inevitahle hour: The path of glory leada but to the grave." ETAcdording to Webster, tbe Whig party exists only in history It is time they would get up a picture book to record the invented virtues of ihe departed; Like the leaves of the f .rest, wheu hammer is en. The Whigs with their baanrr that morning were seen; Like the leaven ef the forest, when Autumn hath blown. The Whigs, in l iNaisf, lay withered and etrewa! For a rich lrlh brogus was borne on the blast. And it breathed in the face ol the Whigs aa it paad; And tbe pulse of Slieve gammon wax'd deadly and chill. And b lied one more lie. and furever grew still. Billy Bowlecs ia New Yona" New York rather took Bil'y back. He says: "I saw plenty of sqnaws. They all looked very pretty, but they all l..oked alike. I went to New York. M v God! what a big place! So any people and wagons." Any children, Billy" sked I "My God Wl talkthere is iiothing but children I like Washington you have plenty of room to walk; in New York the roid is full ol people just like gras. The Great Fathei and everybody give me pieseou, but I could not bring half."

WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. 1, 1868. Madison and Hancock Senator. Andrew Jackson was elected Senator from the counties of Madison and Hancock on Saturday last. His majority in Madison was 75, and in Hancock al out 150.

Cuba and St. Domingo. The New Orleans Picayune disbelieves that there is any expedition fitting out in this country, except that connected with the sckeme for colonization iu St. Domingo. Th. Picayune says: Out of the suspicion that this project covers a seeret organization agaiust Cuba, and that it is designed to rendezvous only in St. Domingo, with the intention to make the attack from that quarter, has probably arisen ! the report that there is also a Cuban enterprise organized. We suspect there is but one, and that the St. Domingo movement is the only one on foot. Of the existence of that there is no room to doubt. Vessels are loading and clearing in several Atlantic ports for the ports in St. Domingo, and late arrivals from the island report that they are making extensive preparations there for the reception of several hundred men from the United States. There is no doubt such an arrangement has been made. CTA correspondent of the N. Y Tribune writing from Havana, thus speaks of the position tbe United States must assume and maintain in its foreign relations 1 The United Slates must make herself respected abroad, or worse things than this idle conversation will take place. Why so much talk, and so much morality preached about the annexation of Cuba. Spain saw, lately, "Join," with a covetous eye, and annexed it, because the inhabitants were accused of piracy. If importing slaves be piracy, then the United States, if it tcantt an excuse, can come against Cuba, foi the crime of still importing negroes from Africa, lays heavily at our doors. Why should an excuse be requit ed. Cuba belongs to the Cubans, not to the Spaniards, and the Cubans desire to et rid of the Spanish Govrnment, ana1 desire the people of the United Slates to assist them. Now this is perfectly true; it may be denied, and a thou sand deceptions may be practiced to make the assertion appear correct; but I swear it is so; and I trust I may be believed however, I gain nothing either way, and lose by the assertion which love of liberty prompts me to make. Sandwich Islands. A letter from an American in Lima, dated October 25, and published in the New York Journal of Com. merce, says: I am again becoming alarmed for tbe fate of the Sandwich Islands. The French question has never been settled, but has remained dormant for two years They have now a strong squadron coming rut, in which are two sixty-gun ships, destined, undoubtedly, to ii against the Islands, which have no protection but such as may be granted by the United States and England. This shoulc be seriously considered by our government. Those Islands in possession of a maritime nation would give it the control of California and Oregon, as much, or more, than the possession of Cuba controls tbe commerce of the Gulf of Mexico. The Sandwich Islands can Currish more good sailors to man a squadron than can Cuba; besides, it is not so easy to afford efficient protection to Oregon and California as to the States on the Gulf of Mexico. I trust the importance of preventing the Sandwich Islands from falling into the possession of any European power is sufficiently appreciated by our government. ST'The London Times, of the 9th instant, devotes a column to a notice of Mr. Webster's death. It says: "He was beyond all doubt an accomplished scholar, an acute lawyer, an experienced diplomatist, and a great statesman. In this last capacity his proceedings were occasionally opposed to our ideas of such a character, but it must be rcmebered that statesmen are adjusted to States, and a Minister who can secure tbe permanent approbation of his own countrymen with as fair a re nown abroad as was enjoyed by Daniel Webster has achieved as much glory as even the best politicians are likely to obtain." Kentucky Official. Tho Frankfort Yeoman of the 26th ult . has the official returns from this Stale, which are as follow: Soott 57,083 Pierce, 53,753 Hale, 266 Total vote, 111,102 Scott's majority 3,330. Wisconsin Official. The Presidential vote of this State is as follows: Pierce 32,531 Scstt 23,940 I . " . Haie 8,444 Total vote 64,965 Pierce's majority S. 641 . The whole vote of the State shows a large increase over that of 1848, when it was but 39,166. Mr. WcboterS Habits. Dr. Jeffries, the medical attendant upon Mr. Webster in his last illness, contradicts the r-.-port whieh has been circulating, to the effect that Mr. W. was under the influenee of intoxicating liquor on tbe occasion of his public address in Faneuil Hall in May last, and adds: " I am also assured thai be always practiced the greatest self-denial whenever especially called upou for the exertion ol his intellectual powers. The mifrhty productions of his pen exhibit the clearness of his intellect as much as the profoundness of his thought. The most rigid casuist may b defied to poin; to one line in bis voluminous works which indicates the weakness of the inebriate." j Another Territory in Process of formation, j The St. Louis Evening News understands that an ef. j fort wi be made at the eorumg session of Congress, to . , r , miraui.A n n.-u. iorriliirv liv im namn ril kin.it mil . . I our western possessions, wiih boundaries as follow: It will extend North to the Great Platte, South to the Arkansas, and West to the main ridge of the Rocky Mountains. The News further states that this will be one of the preliminary steps toward the con .tructiun of a grand line of telegraph and railroad to the Pacific. 0Phe Journal complains that "the sun has been hid, and ihe ky overcast with gloomy clouds" ever since the Presidential election, and intimates that the great Whig disaster on that day is the cause of it. It may be so. It is well known that the "prince f the powers ef the air" is not only a Whig, but, according to Dr. Johnson, the very first of all Whigs, and he may have been weeping in common with the rest of the party over the downfall of the r schemes, and the triumph of correct principles. C7"The official vote ol the city of New York is lor Pierce, 34.277; for Scott, 23.115; for Webster, 237; for Hale, 20. Pierce's majority ovci Scott is 11.162, and overall 10,719. The whole vote of the city was 57,835 New Hampshire Senator. Tbe Democratic Legislative caucus on last Wednesday evening nominated Hon. Charles O. Aihertou for United States Senator, in place of John P. Hale. This nomination is equivalent to an election. The Whigs nominal cd Ira Perkins, o! Concord. iLTDr. Jonathan Cowdeet, tho senior - eon in the United States N;tvv, died at his residence in Norfolk. Virgini.i, on the 2th h inst. He was 86 years old, and had been in the navy since January 1, IsOO nearly fifty-three years. Special Election iu Virxinia. The rlct ii- n held in the Thirteenth Congressional Dis'iict of Virginia to supply the vacMicy in Congress caused by ihe death of Mr Th mpson, has resulted ia the choice l Mr Clemens, Democrat, by a majority of 1.627 over Wiley. Whi . T TO ha of the gull? Sandwich L)ads of the Pa .-ifiut The Ayi-s have it; it is su ordered, and entered upon the minute.

The London Times.

The Indiana Journal says that "The London Tu rejoices over the election of Mr. Pierce, and counts largely oa the benefit to be derived by Great Britain ia consequence of his 'free trade doctrines."' That our readers may see the obliquity of moral perception which just now seems to be a constitutional defect ia Whig editors, we give below tbe at tide of the Times referred to by tbe Journal. It will be seen that the "rejoicing" of tbe Times over the election of Mr. Pierce is almost a lugubrious aa that of the Journal over the same event. From the moment at which the Democratic Convention of Baltimore proclaimed General Pierce to be tbe candidate of that party for the Presidency ol the United States, we have never entertained a doubt of his suc cess; and our conviction on this point has been ma ten rially strengthened by tbe divisions and blunders of American Whigs It was a blunder to make General Scott tbe candidate of that parly, but having once adopted him, it was another blunder to start Mr. Webster on th? footing of an independent competitor; although on this, as on former occasions, Mr Webster might justly be considered the foremost and ablest man of his country , yet bis discreditable attempts to court popularity on the questions of tbe fisheries and of the Loboa Islands have materially lowered hi political character. General Scott has also done himself harm by his own injudicious exertions, for even ihe laxity of American etiquette was startled by the exhibition ef a general officer, rilling the post of Commander-in-Chief of tbe forces, who contrived to combine his military tour of inspection, with the undignified canvass of an itinerant orator. General Pierce has shown more discretion and reserve, for the world has not learnt much more of bis abilities and intentions than it knew when be was nominated. But the result of several of the State elections has been decidedly favourable to the Democratic party, that the ascendency now possessed by those opinions throughout the greatest part of the Union may be said to be already demonstrated. As General Pierce is known to be favorable to low tariffs and liberty of trade, no doubt can be entertained that the period during which he may probably conduct the affairs of the United States will witness a vast and rapid extension of their own resources and of their rela tions with this country. On the score of the internal policy of the Government no apprehensions need lie entertained; but we eonfess that we do not feel equal confidence in tbe foreign policy of tbe American Government, and it will require an unusual amount ol firmness and prudence in the new President, whoever he may be, to reist the extreme pressure from without which seems ready to take the most extravagant and lawless enterprises under the sanction of popular omnipotence. Tbe Ameriean people are. no doubt, all-powerful at home, but when they proceed to mix in the affairs f other countries, they must be content to recognize and obey those general laws which ought alike to control tbe excesses of despotism and of freedom. Mr. Fillmore is, perhaps, as useful a man as could be found to rill the presidential chair under such circumstances, for he has acted under a strong sense of responsibility, and he seems to shsre neither the passions nor enthusiasm of bis fellow-citizens. He has quietly, but practically, awaited the consequence of many of their most dangerous ebullitions, and in spite of a vast deal of idle declamation, he has creditably adhered to the fundamental precepts of tbe founder of tbe Republic. A new President, elected at the very moment when tbe passion of conquest and aggrandizement seems to have possessed itself of the nation with increasing violence, will naturally find it more difficult to control these mischievous and unprincipled tendencies. Among ether circumstances that may tend to the gratification of these passions, it seems that the Navy Department under Mr. Fillmore has gradually formed a squadron of unusual strength, now laying ready for use in the harbors of the United States. The expedition against Japan is still the motive or the pretext for tbe equipment of this armament, and we have no doubt this sqaadroa does consist of a line-of-battle-ship, three or four steam frigates, and some sloops of war, equal in their respective kinds to the vessels of any navy in Europe. But, compared to tbe existing naval forces of some other countries, such a squadron is inconsiderable, and we should watch with interest, amounting to won der, the advance of such a force, numbering in all about 219 guns, against the unknown' but not inconsiderable j powers of resistance or the hmpne ot Japan In tbe present aspect of aflairs with spam, we are, by no means satisfied that Japan is the true destination of this little fleet; and it will certainly be extraordinary if this important detachment of tbe American navy be sent across tbe Eastern Archipelago, and entirely out of reach, at a time when the relatioas of the United States with any European Power arc unsettled or insecure. In the wars carried on with success by this country against some of the chief independent States of Asia, such as the Chinese and Burmese Empires, we have had several peculiar advantages. We have in the arsenals and armies of India a complete basis of operations, amply provided with supplies and reinforcements, within comparatively easy distance of the theater of war. We have explored rivers by means of steamers which took us into the heart of the enemy's country, and enabled us, when there, to carry on regular military operations. Without these means of warfare it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to conquer with a handful of men the vis inertia of an Asiatic monarchy; and we are by no means sure that the appearance of any American sqnadron off Nangasaki or Jeddo will produce more decisive effects on the Mikado or the Kubo of Japan than tbe ransom of Canton or the capture of Rangoon by our own forces did on the respective Courts of Pekin and Ava. If we know anything at all of the eharacter of the Japanese Government, the professions of pacific intentions contained in Mr. Fillmore's letter will be read with astonishment and resented as an indignity ; and not undeservedly so, for never did an expedition sail with a more downright intention to take by Corel what it cannot obtain by fav.tr. It is mainly in this sense, and as an expedition of prowess and maratime daring that the scheme is popular in the United Slates, for as the charges brought against tbe Japanese Goverment are, to say tbe most of them, negative, occasioned mainly by their churlish refusal of intercourse with the rej-t of the world, it would be hard to say on what principle, or by what right Commodore Perry is to be sent u instruct the Japanese in civilisation snd free trade with 10 inch mortars and one 100 gun ship. Tbe truth is, that the America Cabinet is prepared to deal with the coalfields of Japan just as it attempted to deal with the guano of Lobos and there is no defence against such a policy but the possession of superior strength. 0"The Wiliiara P Dennis, of Indiana, who was killed by the explosion of the Buckeye Belle, near Marietta, a few days ago, could not, of course, have lieen the editor of the Indiana Farmer. That gentle nan's name is William T. Dennis. (TlTThe Whig have a majority of from five to cijht in the Massachusetts Legislature, fans insuring tbe election of Mr. Clifford . the Whig candidate for Gov. ernor. It is said that a majority of the House is opposed to the "Maine Law." A Life Suddeul) shortened. A young man named Graham w as smothered to death last week by being covered wiih several hundred bushels of shorts, which fell in upon him iu a mill at Richmond. Virginia The Cherokee Nation. The message of their Chief. John Ross, to the Council, which recently convened, would do bon'-r to any of the Executives of the States. He en gratalatea the Council upon the general harmony and uausual prosper, ily of the Cherokee Nation ; recommends provision for the payment of tbe public debt; appropriations to public schools; the founding of a national library; encouragement to agricultural instruction; liberal salaries to the judges, in order to secure an enlightened and independent judiciary ; and finally, a judicious development of the resources of the country, and a wise improvement of the manifold social, intellectual and politicnl privileges they are permitted to enjoy, and by whifh the Cberokees have made wonderful progress in tbe pursuits and knowledge of civilized life. Another Ronte to the Pnciric. Colonel Ramsey has been recently exploring the route included in the grant made to bim by the Mexican Government, to navigate the river of Lacatnla or Mecala, from tbe sea to the boundary line af the State nf Puebla, a distance of four hundred and tili v miles the latter Cint being only about three hnndied and fifty miles m Acapulco, on the Pncific By ibis route the distance from New Orleans to San Francisco will be performed in twelve days. Lettee raoat General Pierce. The following is aid to be the reply of General Pierce to a committee of Democrats of Philadelphia, appointed to invite bim to vit.it that city, CoNCoao, N H November 18, 1852 Gentlemen: In reply to oor kind letb i of the 16th iast. I would state that I do not expect to leave New England for the South befote the first of February. Acept my thanks, gentlemen and believe me, veiy truly, jonrs FRANK PIERCE.