Locomotive, Volume 43, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1858 — Page 2

THT LOCOMOTIVE.

Sr . SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1858. HjSat.irdayislhe daj of public.tinn of, the Locomotive whon it will alwayebe read yfor subscribers. In nocasewlll woletmoopyofthepaper go from theoltice before publica tlondnj. , LOCOMOTIVE STEAM PRESS BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE. would call the attention of Kullrond Men. Presidoiitaof W Colleges und Academies, the Medical Profession, and all olliers, to our assortment of Ni:V AND liliAUTIFUL TYl'K ! eust received from the besl Foundries in tho United Mutes, Jmbracins nil tbe Medical Sins, Aunt; Fractions, Ft ench Letter,. jtlifeiraical Si, Jivl nil th modern fiirllitiot for dolug work in tho best sula. All our Type and Macbinory is new, and in good order, including two or Adams-Improved STEAM PRINTING PRESSES which enables usto do our work In Hsnperiorslylo,on asshor time, and as (rood terms us my othur olllce. ' We have on hand a superior article of Hoolt nnd C ol. - orcd Papers, and the best of Inks, nnd as wo are practical workmen, we guaranty all work entrusted to us to be done in the neatest manner, with promptness and accuracy. Our Jot Vrpartncnt Is will supplied with all kinds of ?ew and Fashionable Type, and we are propared to do 7V11 XSLixxclei of Job Worlt ! on tho shortest notice, and at the lowest livinsr rates; and HLAIVKS OF EVEBY BKSCB1PTION! on Cap, Letter, Folio Post, Flat Cap, French, or Colored Papers. au"l Cards or Card Boards. For the character of our work we confidently refer to any Book or Job bearing on r imprint. Our prices are regulated at the lowest cash standard, so as to be regular and uniform, and equal to all; and contracts for work will be adhered to. without resort to extra charges. rrOrdors from a listance promptly attended to, and accu racy guarantied. TrOfllceon Meridian street, nnniouinieij opposm-me rosi Olllce. EL1IKR & HARKNESS.' PAY ALL JUST DUES. Mr. Thomas K, Hdi.brook will call on all against whom we have accounts for printing and advertising, for payment. Let all prepare to meellilm. All having unsettled accounts against us are requested to make them out at once, so tliattliey will be roady for settlement when called on. We want to pay every cent wo owe and we want all that owe us to do the same. - Our City Schools. A decision of tho Supreme Court, on the constitutionality of the city tax for Common Schools, announced last Friday, will be found in another column of this paper, carefully revised with the official record. This decision takes the same ground argued by our correspondent last week, and is tho view taken of the law by our late State Attorney, over two years ago. That this would be the result, whenever the question was brought before the Supreme Court, has been believed by some of our heaviest tax-payers for years, as their refusal to pay the school' tax, and the failure of the city officers to enforce it, testifies. The result of the decision will be to stop the schools for the present, as free schools. The amount now due for tuition will absorb all the tax derived from the State this year, leaving the Trustees with nothing to rely on, of public funds, to continue the schools. A meeting of the Council was held on Tuesday last, at which a proposition from tho Schooj Trustees to call a meeting of the citizens of each ward, to consult on tho best course to pursue under the cir- , cumstances, was concurred in, and that meeting fixed for Friday evening too late lor us to give the result in this paper. Under this decision, the only funds that can be applied to tuition is the tax levied by the State, of 10 cents on the $100 this will yield this year near $4,000. In addition to this, the Trustees have the power to levy a tax to build School Houses, keep them in repair, furnish them with light, fuel, and other necessary expenses, so that the State fund can be applied exclusively to tuition. Under a judicious management of this fund, our City Schools, as now organized, can be kept open four months in the year, and when the State Legislature provides for a no w valuation of property, the fund will be fully or more than doubled, at the same rate of taxation, largely increasing the time the schools can be kept open as free schools. After the fund is exhausted, the only way the schools can be kept open will be as pay schools. By the last report of the Superintendant, the average attendance at the City Schools is about 1,500The cost of tuition, for the 35 teachers employed, is $3,500 per quarter a fraction over $2,25 per schollar. The opinion is generally prevalent that the school fund of the city has not been managed economically that the expenses might be materially reduced, by wholesome economy, without impairing the usefulness or efficacy of the schools, so as to bring the cost per schollar, with the attendance above reported, down to $2,00 per quarter. It appears to us this is the only way the schools can be carried on, and we suppose this will be the plan adopted. No good citizen wishes to see our City Schools abandoned, nor do we imagine they will be, but the system adopted has been broken up by this decision, and until a new system can bo matured and arranged, under the law, the only plan we can see is to open the schools as pay schools, each citizen that is able helping any poorer neighbor that may require it to continue his children at school. , iSJiTIt will be seen by an advertisement in another column, that the Palmer House has changed hands, Mr. Cannichael being sole proprietor and manager. This popular house will lose nothing by the change, as Mr. C. combines all the elements of an accommodating and attentive landlord, and the old friends of the house will only be the gainers. This is now the largest public house in the city, and its accommodations are second to none in the west. There has been a most decided improvement in the main crossings of Washington street, during the muddy weather of the past week, produced by a long scraper, in the hands of Michael Shea. The Street Commissioner has faithfully followed the direction of the Council, in having them scraped daily. Lectures. We announced last week a lecture by Prof. Youmans before the Young men's Christian Association. It will be delivered on Tuesday evening next, at Masonic Hall. This lecture is part of the course delivered before this association, and the second lecture they give ticket holders more than at first promised. AVe anticipate a rich instructive lecture, judging by the notices of the press and by his previous lecture. . Subject "Chemistry of a Sun Beam, or Celestial origin of Terrestrial forces." Photographs. Mr. F. B. Baily, of the Metropolitan Gallery, of this city, has brought this new and beautiful art to a degree of perfection that, it appears to us, cannot be excelled by any artist in the Union. AVe have before us a pliotograph of Odd Fellow's Hallr that represents all the parts of the building in its true architectural proportions, even to the most minute details, including the signs over the stores, and the portraits of the persons standing iu the doors. Mr. B. invites a visit to his collection of photographs, at the Metropolitan Gallery. 68" See the advertisement of Charley Meyer, headed Garden Seeds.

IgaT AVebster says a Fool is " one destitute of reason, or the common powers of understanding. Some persons are born fools, and are called natural fools ; others become fools by some injury done to the brain." AVith this definition before us it is difficult to determine to which class of fools the local editor of the Journal belong. At times we think the fellow has had some

sense, at some time of his life, or else he never could have made even a passable tailor, as that honorable calling retoiires not only sense, but judgment and tasteBut when we read the editorials that his employers permit him to inflict on the community, wc are forced to the conclusion that it came to him in the natural way that no one but a "natural" could get off so many stupid nothings, in such a meaningless manner. His replies to the facts and figures we have presented in relation to the City taxes, and City debt, are in keepins with his other articles mere nothings. AVe have stated that the City Clerk, in his annual report to the Council, stated that the debt of the City, on Anril 1. 1857. was $8,002:86. The Journal says "this is the increase of the debt during tho year of the old line Coucil elected in 1856." AVell, that beats us there is something natural about that! If the local above alluded to, or any of his readers, will refer to the daily Journal of tho week ending May 16, 1857 they will find the report of the City Clerk. In that report you will find, under the head of "expenditures," . the item "City Indebtedness $11,006:25," which is the amount the city owed April 1, 1856, one year before ; this report was made out, and to this is added a ; list of all the City expenses. Then follows a list of receipts from all sources, which are $8,002:36 less than the expenditures, including the indebtedness, and that i is the amount the City owed at that time, if that report was correct. Of the correctness of that report we have nothing to say it is an official report, made by the proper City officer, to the City Council, accepted by that body, and ordered to be published. It is no n our place to go behind that report we have no means of doing so if we were disposed but. we must take it as correct, and that the debt of the city, at the time the present council came into office was, as that official report says, $8,002:36. . If the l-9th of the Journal wants something to talk about, let him tell his readers why the City taxes are higher this year, than the City, State, and County taxes of last year all added together ? New Cultivator. Mr. W. J. Forshee, of this city, has just obtained a patent for a new abjustable I Cultivator, that, it appears to us, is a most useful and : valuable improvement. The chief advantages it combines, are I 1st In its lightness, cheapness of construction, and strength combined with durability. , The points, when ' one end is worn out, may be reversed, placing the top ; downwards, thus immediately supplying, and saving I the cost of an entire new set of teeth. 2d. The Cultivator may be used with either three ; or five teeth in the same machine, and to cut any width ot strip desired. I 3d. lhe teeth may be arranged at such an angle as to throw the dirt either right or left, to or from the Corn. , ' (ST A number of Democrats have published a call for a Mass Convention, on the 22d of February, for the purpose, as is alleged, of supplying deficiencies made in the platform of the 8th, and to endorse more fully the squatter sovereignty idea. . It will be seen by the following, which we copy from the Sentinel of the 28th, that the time has been changed one day : Democratic Mass Meeting. Afier consultation with many Democrats throughout the State, the Committee of Arrangements, to accommodate those living at a distance from the Capitol, who cannot, conveniently, attend upon Monday, have determined to change the time of holding the Democratic Mass Meeting to Tuesday, tite 23d day of February, 1858. Speakers, distinguished for their ability and Democracy, have been invited and are expected. Arrangements are being made with the different railroads centering at Indianapolis to bring all who wish to attend, at reduced fares. , The meeting will be held ! Letters received from all parts of the State assure the Committee that the attendance will be large. Let the people come I : Jas. P. Drake, CnAS. Coulon, Austin H. Brown, Francis King, J.B. Kyan, Com. of Arrangements. IfiT The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune, under date of January 24, gives the following gossip in relation to Gov. AVright. We do not believe it: " The Southern Senators have agreed to oppose the confirmation of Gov. AVright of Indiana as Minister to Berlin, partly because of his Temperance demonstrations in Europe, which they look upon as casting ridiculo on the country, and partly because he is understood to be a friend of Senator Douglas. The ostensible ground of opposition will be his unfitness for office. ' Eggs. Mr. S. McCaw has left an egg at our office that measures 8 inches round, the long way. ; ; Mr. D. Stockwell brought five eggs the largest measures 8 inches round, and weighs 4J ounces. The five weigh one pound one ounce. Who can beat these. ' . Rev. Dr. C. B. Parsons, of St Louis, will deliver a Lecture before the Young Men's Sabbath School Association, at Wesley Chapel, on AVednesday evening, February 3. Subject National Unity ; or the American Confederation, with its fortunes and probable fate, as foreshtfHowed by Holy Writ. Admittance 25 cents. The public are invited to attend. l?ir Messrs. AVerdcn & Chamberlain have received the February number of the Atlantic Monthly. Price 25 cents. . The table of contents shows it to be an un- ' usually attractive number, containing a choice variety ..., 11..., o..i;l,, l,i:., 1 o c i a of excellent articles, including 12 pases from the Au-, .' p 1 . v " i tocrat of the Breakfast Table Go and get it early, before they are all gone. Judge Perkins has paid his City School tax this year, amounting to over $70,00. . ' Mrs. Mary Davidson, of Cincinnati, is wanted by her husband, John AV. Davidson. She is supposed to be in this city. . , :, ; i ' I SALARIES OF STATE AND CITY OFFICERSGovernor of State............;...; $1 500 Secretary of State! perquisites and. .' .' ' .' .' .' 800 Treasurer of State. 1 800 Auditor of Public Accounts. V.V.V. .V. 2,500 State Superintendent of Public Instruction . . . 1,300 , AA'arden of the State Prison 600 i State Librarian..... : 500 1 Private Secretary to Governor. 350 SupremeJudo-es .... . . 1 200 ' Attorney General.".'.'.'.'.'.'.'.".'.'.'.'.'.'.'.".".'.'.'.'.'.'. l'oOO Circuit Judges 1,000 ' Common Pleas Judges, from 300 to 800 Principal of the Deaf & Dumb Assylum 1,000 Principal of Blind Institute 800 i Superintendent of Hospital for Insane 1,200 Mayor of the City of Indianapolis 800 Marshal 500 City Clerk 600 : Civil Engineer 500 I Street Commissioner 400 Clerk of the Markets 800 Sexton of the grave-yard - 75 j Superintendent of City Schools 1,400

LATEST NEAVS FROM KANSAS. AAre subjoin the latest intelligence we have from Kansas. The following is the proclamation of the Governor and presiding officer's of the Territorial Legislature, announcing the vote on 4th of January: Proclamation. In accordance with the provisions of an act entitled "An act submitting the Constitution framed at Lecompton under an act of the legislative Assembly of Kansas Territory, entitled "An act to provide for taking a census and election of Delegates to a Convention," passed February 19, A. D. 1857, the undersigned announce the following as the official vote of the people of Kansas Territory on the questions as therein submitted, on the 4th day of January, 1858: Against the Constitution framed at Lecompton.. .....10,227 For the Constitution framed at Lecompton with slavery 138 For the Constitution framed at Lecompton with- - out slavery 24 Some precincts have not yet sent in their returns, but the above is the complete vote received to this date. J AV. Denver, Soc'y and Acting Governor. C. AV. Badcock, : President of the Council. G. AV. Deitzker, Speaker House of Representatives. AVhen all in the vote will be over 11,000. From the Lawrence Republican Extra. ' Lawrence, Kansas, Jan. 14, 1858 To the People of Kansas: The undersigned, in obedience to a polite invitation of Mr. Calhoun, attended and witnessed the opening of the returns, examined the poll-books, noted the number of votes for and against the single proposition submitted by the schedule of the constitution, and find the following to be the result : Constitution with slavery '. 6,143 Constitution with no slavery. 569 Majority .5,574 Nore than one half of this majority was cast at those very sparingly settled precincts in the Territory, two of them in the Shawnee Reserve, on lands not open for settlement, viz : Oxford, Johnson county .1,266 Shawnee, Johnson county 729 Kickapoo, Leavenworth county 1,017 Total ... .3,021 From our personal knowledge of the settlements in and around the above places, we have no hesitation in saying that the great bulk of these votes were fraudulent; and taking into view other palpable, but less important frauds, we feel safe in saying that, of the whole vote polled, not over 2,000 were legal votes, polled by the citizens of tho Territory. " On the State ticket, the vote as returned shows ma

jorities for t'.ie free State candidates ranging from 801 to 695. " Of the votes polled by the pro-slavery ticket, the three very prolific precincts above quoted polled as follows: " ' Oxford, Johnson county 738 Shawnee .889 Kickapoo, Leavenworth county. 952 Aggregate 25 79 To which, if we add the manifest frauds in other places, we shall have an aggregate of more than 3000: For the State Legislature, the vote elects as follows, counting as above all the fraudulent votes cast, viz; ' House of Representatives. F. St P. S. 29 15 In the Senate the vote stands as follows: Free State 13; Pro-Slavery 6, ' . In Linn county, at the Mound City polls, the ballotbox was forcibly taken and destroyed by a mob under the command of Montgomery, who professes to be a free State man, after about one hundred votes (all free State) had been cast, by which we lose two Representatives and one Senator. Thus it will be seen that we Iiave triumphed against a most miserable and wicked apportionment and an election law designed to open the door to frauds, and under which frauds the most manifest and unmistakable have been perpetrated to the extent of 3,000 or 4,000 votes. ' This triumph was accomplished by a party greatly distracted on the subject ot voting under a constitution that they hate and loathe and abhor to the centre of their hearts, with a very short and imperfect notice, that failed to reach many of the more distant districts. These causes together, it is safe' to say, reduced the Free State vote to the extent of 5,000 votes. C. AV. Baiscock, Pres't of Council. G. AV. Deitzler, Speaker of the House. AVASHINGTON ITEMS. ' AVashington, Jan. 26. According to official documents, the necessary expenses incurred in the suppression of Indian hostilities in AVashington Territory has amounted to nearly one and a half millions, and the total expenses unpaid in Oregon for similar purposes is 84,500,000, for maintaining the volunteer forces in the former, not including the pay of volunteers, which is $961,000, and in the latter over $3,000,000. The bill reported by Douglas to-day in the Senate from the Committee on Territories, declares that Minnesota shall be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever. It provides that the State shall be entitled to one representative in Congress and such additional representation as the population shall show they are entitled to according to the present rates of representation, leaving the House to ascertain the number 'when the returns of the census shall be received, presuming that the residue of returns will be received by the time the bill shall become a law. So far as ascertained, the population is 136,411, there being seven entire counties and part of another to hear from. Marion County Library. The following reso lutions were passed by the Trustees of the Marion County Library. They are worthy ot publication: ; Resolved, That the thanks of the Trustees of the Marion County Library be tendered to Lucian Barbour, late member of Congress from this district, for the munificent present made by him to our Library. : Resolved, That the books so presented by Mr. Barbour, (consisting of about 150 large volumes), be entered on the books of the Librarian as received from Mr. Barbour. Resolved, That, as a small acknowledgement of our gratitude, Mr. B. be tendered a perpetual family right to books from the Library. ::.'' Jiesolved, lbat a copy of the foregoing resolutions l 1 . i i x -sr.. -ri--- j ire memo uuii ami imnueu wj j.ur. jjaruour, anu luai i i . i e jthev be entered of record in nnr nrneeniiinnrs. r & TO CURE A COLD. -A Recipe that rarely ever fails. Now, while winter, with its burthen of Colds and Coughs, is with us, wc think a remedy that will relieve such visitatations filinillrl bo. liKrlilv nrivnrl mill nil wlin tnniv tho wM.ft, 0f this remedy, will do as we do prize it doubly. Take a double dose of Dr. Sanford's Invigor ator, and it will give greater relief than any other medicine we ever tried, for we have rarely to repeat the dose to be entirely free from Cough, and as soon as the lungs nave tunc t0 t',row ou? t'10 collected matter, the cure j? plotc. A family medicine, for the cure of "owe' diseases, AA onus, Derangement of the Stomach and Liver, .we can recommend it knowingly. (See advertisement) . . - ' T ' ' ' . , , ' Governor AA right Abroad. AA e give below another mterestjtig item in regard to Indiana's representatlve at t,ie Court of Berlin. M. Gaillardet, wntin" from aris t0.the Courier des El"t U, sa81 '; ' Thediplomatic record has been enlivened by the accounts given in letters from Berlin of the mode of llte ot Mr. AAr right, the new Minister of the United Sta'"8 at the Prussian Court. As he belongs to the Temperance Society, he gives nothing to drink but atcr to his guests when he invites them to dine. He sets DCfrc them dishes of maize, which is compared to the broth of the Spartans, and much amusement afforded by his going to market himself to purchase his simple food. .' ' The Marion Court of Common Pleas will commence its session on Monday, the 8th of February.

Remarks of Mr. Porter, in the City Council, on Saturday, the 23d inst., in relation to the City Finances. Mr. President. A misapprehension having been created by newspaper publications concerning the financial condition ot the city, and concerning the connection of this Council therewith, I deem it due to the tax payers that the facts should bo presented to them as they exist. The City indebtedness for the fiscal year ending April 1, 1854, was !?567,S3; for the year ending April 1, 1855, $11,006,25 ; for the year ending April 1, 1856, $13,992,78; and for the year ending April 1, 1857, $21,719,08. The indebtedness having been steadily increasing for several years, and the City warrants or " orders" having by reason thereof been constantly depreciating in value, a very general solicitude was expressed when the present Council came into office, that they should do something to rid the City of debt A consideration of the means proper to bo adopted to discharge this debt, engaged the attention of the Council at an early day. Some of the members were in favor of assessing such a tax as would discharge the whole debt in a single year; others (myself among the number) believed that such an assessment would be too burdensome, and that it would be well enough to carry

over about a third or a fourth of the indebtedness to another year. The value of the general taxables as reported by Mr. Stumph,thc assessor, was $9,922,075; tho number of polls as reported was 1,222, and the number of dogs 384. 1 These were three propositions only concerning the rate of assessment. I proposed 55 cents to the 100 dollars, which would have inado a revenue upon the general taxables of $54,571,42 ; Mr. Dunlap proposed 60 cents on the $100, which would have made a revenue of $59,532,45 ; and Mr. Vandegrift proposed 65 cents which would have marie a revenue of $64,493,48. Tho vote on Mr. Vandegrift's proposition stood thus : Ayes Messrs. Durham, Harvey and Vandegrift. Nays Messrs. Cottrell, Dunlap, Fletcher, Greenfield, Locke, McNabb, North and Porter. The vote on Mr. Dunlap's proposition stood thus : Ayes Messrs. Cotfrrel, Dunlap, Durham, Fletcher, Greenfield, Gcisendorff, Harvey, Locke, McNabb and Vandegrift Nays Messrs. North and Porter. So Mr. Dunlap's proposition was adopted. ' The revenue, therefore, upon the general list of taxables is $59,532,45 ; it is upon polls $1,222; and upon dogs $384 ; making a total of $61,138,45. The expenditures of the present fiscal year (commencing April 1, 1857,) were on the first of the present month $33,205,53, in which amount is reckened a debt of about $1,800 incurred by last year's Council, and the outlays upon the hospital undertaken by the last Council, and toward the completion of which (the same having been left in an unfinished condition,) this Council has been compelled to pay $3,500. . If the expenditures of the present year shall not exceed $40,000 (as they will not) the state of the city indebtedness will stand as follows : . : Indebtedness of the City, April 1, 1857... $21,718 08 Expenditures for year commencing April 1, 1857, and ending April 1, 1858, (say.) . 40,000 00 Total indebtedness April 1, 1858 $61,719 08 Revenue for general purposes, for year ending April 1, 1858 $59,532 45 Revenue on Polls 1,222 00 : " " Dogs i 884 00 '..;' $61,138 45 Indebtedness remaining April 1, 1858, $580:63. It has been charged that the present council has been guilty of extravagance in themanagement of the city finance ; but the charge is groundless. Unusual expenditures, have, indeed, been madefor street and bndge improvements, but these have been made in obedience to the will ot the people. The city, where street improvements are made, is liable for the expense of the grading and gravelling of the crossings; yet when citizens are willing to pay for such improvements in front of their own property, it would be niggardly, unless in extraordinary cases, for the city to oppose the improvement on account of the expensive crossings. Such improvements, by the increased value which they give to the property bordering on them, soon return to the city more than her expenditure, by the additional tax assessed. The improvements of the streets has, by changing of grades near Pogue's run and elsewhere, rendered necessary unusual expenditures for bridges. -. The increased expenditures for street improvements have been caused by the circumstance that it is not now necessary to wait before a street can be improved, as under the former charter, until a petition representing two-thirds of tho front feet on the line of the improvement ha3 been filed. That provison put it in tffe power of non-residents, and persons owning vacant property, indefinitely to prevent the improvement of some of our best streets. Yet, notwithstanding these necessary outlays for street and bridge improvements, and tor outlays imposed by proceedings of the previous council, the expenditures of the present fiscal year will be less than the last They were last year, including the Skeen loss, $41,889:05. They cannot exceed, this fiscal year, $40,000,00. These are the facts, impartiality furnished, and which are presented simply to preveut misapprehension. No notice has been taken in the above statements of the chool tax. The rate of assessment for school purposes is the same as it was last year. ' THE NEWS We have seven dayslaternewsfromEurope,bronght by the steamship Europa, which left Liverpool on the afternoon of the 9th inst, and arrived at this port yesterday morning. ' The London money market was easy, and the bank directors' had again reduced the rate of interest from eight to six per cent. About $3,500,000 in gold was on its way from Australia to England. The last return of the Bank of England shows an increase in bullion of 1,188,232, the total amount held being 12,643,193 an increase of over five and a quarter millions of pounds sterling in the space of five weeks. Notwithstanding this favorable state of the money market we have to report the following failures : Glasgow J. & AV. AVallace, sewed muslin manufacturers, 250,000; Mitchell, Miller & Ogilvie, warehousemen, 80,000 ; and Clapperton, Findlay .& Co.; merchants ; John Ewan, of Dundee, manufacturer, 50,000; and R.II. AVhitfieldSc Co., of London, AVest India merchants, 45,000. Cotton advanced one-fourth of a penny in the Liverpool market on the 8th inst., but it was not maintained to the close. There was a good demand, and the sales (four days) amounted to 49.890 bales. Flour declined from sixpence to one shilling per barrel on Friday,the 8th inst. Sugar had advanced, with an active demand in London. Later advices from India had been telegraphed from Suez to London, but the exact dates are not given. General Havelock died at Lucknow on the 25th of December, of dysentery, induced by mental anxiety and exposure. General AVyndham, with his division, consisting of a little over two thousand men, attacked a force of the Gwalior mutineers, numbering eight thou sand, on the 27th of November. The rebels were . marching from Calpee towards Cawnpore, and fought ! desperately, causing the English troops to retreat, with i the loss of nearly the whole of the Sixty-fourth regi- ! ment. Sir Colin Campbell, however, completely routed this body of mutineers on. the 7th of December, destroying all their ammunition, bullocks and grain, and 1 captuniiix sixteen ot their guns, lliese ttwahor mu tineers were the great obstacle to the tranquility of Central India. . AVe have to record the deaths of a number of celebrated personages. General Havelock, Madame Rachel, Field Marshal Radetzky, and Redschid Pasha, have been removed from b'fe. The Madrid journals state that no redress will be given to our government for the outrage on the steamship El Dorado, and that the mention of a purchase of Cuba is a national insult. N. Y. Herald, Jan. 25. fW The Washington Union this morning, (Tuesday) formally maintains the right of the people of the State to alter their constitutions without any regard to the provisions thereof touching the time and manner of their modification. This doubtless has been determined upon in connection with the policy of the adi ministration in reference to affairs in Kansas. The j Kansas question is being hedged in on all points, and the determination of the democratic party proper in , Conirress is intended to make the admission of Kansas, : according to the views of the administration, a test 1 question.

CORRESPONDENT'S TRAIN. For U10 Locomotive. OUR CITY SCHOOL TAX. The question of tho constitutionality of this tax was cided by the Supreme Court of this State on the 22d day of the present month. The case was brought up from Tippecanoe county I was not aware, until after my article of last week had been prepared, lianded in and published, that a case involving the question was before the Supreme Court ; but I felt confident that whenever it did come before that tribunal the tax would be declared unconstitutional and it was. Our City Schools have been carried on after a way of their own ever since the adoption of the new constitution, but little, if any, attention having been paid to law or economy. For four years our City Council has levied and collected a schooj tax in addition to that assessed by the State. It has

not all, however, been paid. While nearly all the small property owners, mechanics and laborers paid the school tax during all the time, many of the wealthiest and, therefore, the heaviest tax payers did not payt and never have paid the School tax assessed against them in 1854, and, possibly, that assessed prior to that, date. But the question is now settled ; and under this decision, the City, if required to do so, is liable to refund all the School tax collected by her during the past four years. The people can now put in operation a legal system of Common Schools in the City ; and one in which, it is to be hoped, a little more attention will be paid to economy. Our City Schools will be governed and carried on in the same manner that the Township Schools are. The City School Trustees will have to conform their action strictly to the law governing Township Trustees. The citizens of each ward will have the privilege of choosing a director for their respective Schools, who will act as Superintendent so far as a Superintendent is necessary ; and the Trustees will be bound by the wishes of the people in the employment and dismissal of teachers. The Schools will become emphatically the peoples Schools. It will put us of the City on the same footingas they of the Country. There will be fewer adopted children and AA'ards in the City, and, better than all, it will put it out of the power of any one man to lord it over our heritage. It is well that the decision has been made ; and it is right the question could not have been decided otherwise. The responsibility and the taxing power is fixed just where it ought to be, and where the constitution intended it should be, in tho State Legislature. - And although it may have the effect to throw things out of joint for a while, tho effect on the whole will be for the better. It establishes our constitutional rights ; it will give us economy for waste ; it will substitute a purely republican for a most despotic one sided system ; and I am not sure but that one of the good effects flowing from it will be the establishment, once more in our midst, of one or more private schools, such as we used to have under the care of such men as Kemper, Lang, and a few others, combining all the advantages of Common Schools and the highest Seminaries of learning. They did not teach for the mere pay. They labored to educate, and they instilled into the minds of their pupils a love of learning, a self respect, and a manliness of sentiment and bearing without which learning is of little use. They educated the morals as well as the intellect ; and we have seen some of the fruits of their labors. They Superintended, instructed and examined their own scholars, and had an exhibition whenever they thought proper ; and their schools have never been excelled in thoroughness and efficiency. The settling of this question will be the making of our Common Schools ; it is the salt that will preserve the system. AVith the power already given to the trustees by the statute, to levy a tax for the construction and repair of School Houses, and providing furniture and fuel, let the legislature at its next session amend the general School law of 1855, so as to levy and collect a tax for School purposes of twenty cents on each one hundred dollars of property assessed for State purposes, and a poll tax of fifty cents, and it will, with the income derived from the various funds, fines, &c, give enough, with any thing like reasonable economy, to pay for tuition in all the Schools in town and country throughout the. State during the entire year. AVe will then have a general and uniform system of public schools, without any balks or stops in it ; and the youth of the country can have and enjoy equal educational privilege with those of the City. But to the opinion of the Supreme Court It is pLain, satisfactory and to the point. It is as follows : The City of Lafayette v. William M. Jenners appeal from tho Tippecanoe Circuit Court. Application for an injunction. Injunction granted. Appeal to this Court " '. The facts of the case are as follows : ' ' In 1855, the Legislature passed anactentited "An act to authorise the establishment of Free Public Schools in the incorporated cities and towns of the State of Indiana." The first section of the act reads thus : ' " Be it enacted, &c. ; That the several incorporated cities and towns in this State be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to establish and support Public Schools within their respective corporate limits, and by an ordinance of such corporation, to levy and collect such taxes as may be necessary from time to time for the support thereof." . Under this section the city of Lafayette levied a tax for the support of Public Schools within the corporation, and was proceeding to collect it. Jenners filed his complaint in the Circuit Court, asking that the city be enjoined from collecting the tax so assessed against him. The injunction, as we have seen, was granted. . The only question presented in the case is whether the section of the Statute above quoted is constitutional, and we can scarcely regard it as an open one. The act of 1852, 1 R. S. p. 444, Sec. 130, authorized incorporated cities and towns to levy taxes for the support of Public Schools after the public funds had been exhausted, and this court, on all occasions, has held that portion of the act unconstitutional. But what is the difference between it, and the section of the act of 1852 which we have quoted? Simply this, and nothing more. The act of 1852 authorized incorporated cities and towns "to levy taxes for the support of their Schools after the public funds shall should have been exhausted." The act of 1855 authorizes "incorporated cities and towns" "to levy and collect such taxes as may be necessary from time to time for the support" of" Public Schools" within theircorporate limits. The distinction between the acts is without difference. If the Legislature cannot, under the Constitution, confer upon cities and towns the power to levy taxes to continue the Free Public Schools of the State, how can it confer upon them power to levy taxes to establish and support Free Public Schools? AVhat objection exists to the exercise of tho first, that does not exist to the exercise of the second act, of power 1 And what was the objection assigned against the first ? It was not that it was conferring upon cities and towns power that they were not adapted to exercise, but that it was attempting to confer upon them power forbidden to be so conferred by the constitution ; it was attempting to confer upon them power touching a subject as to which the constitution required all power to be exercised by the Legislature alone, viz : the subject, of furnishing tuition in Public Schools to the children of the State. In Adamson v. the Auditor, &c. 9 Ind. 1 74, this Court said, in speaking of the law of 1852 : "According to the decision in Greencastle, v. Black, 5 Ind. R. 557, the provision in that law authorizing township trustees to assess taxes for paying teachers of common schools, is unconstitutional, because the power of voting taxes for that purpose is vested by the Constitution in the Legislature alone. As to such taxes the law must be uniform throughout the State. Quick, v. White Water Township, 7 Ind. R, 570 Quick v. Springfield Township, id. 630. The new Constitution does not contemplate two systems of Free Public Schools in the State ; one under the control of the State, and supported by her trust funds and taxes, and another nnder the control of the various municipal corporations of the State, the cities, towns, townships, counties, school districts, and supported by taxation by them. This would be remitting us back, practically, to precisely the condition we were in under the old constitution and laws, when the State supported a system of Public Schools, and author-