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WESTERN INDIANS. We have, for some time past, frad painful forebodings that the war spirit, and the conflicts with the Indians, in Florida, would have a contagious influence on the Indians west of the Mississippi; and that the people of that frontier might, sooner or later we hope the day is far distant be severely tried by the reaction produced by the removal of the reluctant Indians from east ol the Mississippi. From the west we received yesterday the subjoined intelligence ot hostilities between the aboriginals of the prairies and the traders and emigrant Indians, which can not, indeed, be traced to the Florida excitement, but which, by reviving and giving employment for the warrior feeling of the Indians, may prepare their minds and nerve their arms for other encounters hereafter. We hope the executive will think well before determining to send out

troops into the prairies again to Iook after roving Indians, whom they may never find, and, if found, had perhaps better be let alone; for in such wars few laurels can be won by civilized man. Nat. Intel. Near Fort Gibsox, Arkansas Ter March 14, 1836 Things in this quarter look as if we were to have trouble, ere long, with the Indians on the Grand prairie. An express arrived at head quarters, a few days since, announcing to Gen. Arbuckle that the Camanches and Pawnees had murdered all the traders at Coffee's trading house, on Red river, in the Pawnee country. One man only escaped ; he has arrived here, and dessribed the massacre as dreadful; fifty or sixty Americans, and some Creeks and Osages were butchered. It was near Coffee's trading houre that the treaty last year was mado with the Camanches and Pawnees, but owing to Col. Dodge not being there agreeably to promise, the treaty was torn up, and Tabaquina, a fierce and savage Camanche warrior, warned Gen. Coffee and his men to leave their country: his not complying has been fatal to them all. Our men who saw the Camanches last summer, describe them as a fierce and warlike race of men, well mounted, and armed with a lance and shield. They are a wandering tribe, and we may look for them all next summer without even crossing their trail. There is no doubt that the United States will resent these murders, and we will march from here as soon as the grass will admit ol our horses living on it. The whole regiment of Dragoons will concentrate and be joined by the 7th Infantry, now at Fort Gibson. Chili McIntosh, the Creek warrior, swears vengeance against the Pawnees and Camanches, and he will no doubt add six or seven hundred warriors to our command. We are making every preparation, and we shall get off, I suppose, by the 1st of May,or sooner. "Gen. Arbuckle has put Fort Gibson in good repair, and mounted field pieces in the block houses." Bait. Patriot. From France we have no inforjnation later than the 22d February. The reception of theu5pecial message" of the president of the United States to Congress had been made the occasion of some strictures by the rrench journalists, and is notic ed in letters from Americans in Pa ris in terms not altogether complimentary to its wisdom or policy. The French Government, however, having accepted the mediation of Great Britain in the dispute with the United States, waits of course to hear further from the U. S. The news of the withdrawal of the rec ominendations of the Special Message touching France, bv the Medi ation Message, will of course make all right between the two countries Meanwhile our readers will find our latest information from that quarter condensed m the iollowmg extrac from a mercantile letter received in New York: Nat. Intel April 11

Havre, Feb. 21. "The American question has been lost sight of during the ministerial crisis, but was brought into view two days ago by an article in the Journal des Debats, which blames the message of the 15th of January.

as taking away the good impression made by that of the 7th December. The opposition journals still consider the affair as if settled by the mediation ol lingland ; and so do most people. " I he w ar in Spain goes on with out any decided advantage on either side. England, you will notice, continues to increase her naval force in the Mediteranean." CONGRESS. Mr. Hannegan has politely favored us with a copy of the Globe, of April 19th, from which we extract the following: House of representatives, April 8. Mr. Hannegan asked the unanimous consent of the house to offer the following resolution: Resolved, that the bill providing for the graduation and reduction of the price of public lands, be made the special order of the day for Tuesday succeeding the day on which the special order concerning the ordinary appropriation bills shall be complied with, or so soon as the same stall have been disposed of, and for each succeeding day thereafter, Fiidiys and Saturdays excepted, until the questions involved in the finJ disposition of the public domain shall have been determined. Objection being made, Mr. Hannegan moved to suspend the rules for the purpose indicated; and as he wished to know distinctly what course gentlemen intended to take upon that important subject, lie asked for the yeas and nays on his motion; which were ordered. Mr. Cambreleng said if the gentleman would modify his resolution so as to include in it the bill regulating the deposites of the public moneys in certain local banks, he would most cheerfully vote for it. Mr. Hennegan had no objection, and would so modify his resolution. Mr. Sutherland moved to amend the resolution by including also the light-house and harbor bills. The chair remarked that until the resolution was in possession of the house, a motion to amend it was not in order; The question was then taken,- and the )ouse refused to suspend the rules for the purpose indie ated ; yeas 74, nays 75 Messrs. Boon, Hannegan, Kinnard, and Lane, voting favor of the mction,-and Messrs. Carr, Davis, and McCarty, absent.. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE OHIO STATE JOURNAL. Washington, April 9, 1836. The navy appropriation bill passed the louse on Thursday. It had been known, or a week before, that the hours and minutes of the debate were numbered,, orders having been given to bring it to a close without deay. The fact is, the high personages of the tate have become quite ashamed of their upporters in the house, and choose rather that they should hold their tongues, than in cur the certain defeat that awaits them if they dare to adventure on an encounter with even the second rate men of the opposition. There never was any large parly in this country so destitute of moral courage, and moral force, as the Van Burenites. They have the adantage of numbers and that is all. The listory of the North Carolina election case strikingly illustrates this. When,, by their relentless course," the party" had at last arroused the blood of even the most subdued and moderate of the minority there were "ew among them who did not cower and quail before the indignant resolves of our gallant and independent spirits.. There is not a master mind among them not one showed himself at that hour, who could ride on the whirlwind and direct the storm their own tyranny had excited. They are all en tirely made up ol low ambition, cunning, artifice, intrigue intermingled with not one article of noble daring or loity aspiration. Van Buren is wise to shut the mouths of suchase! of numb skullsl And though a number of them made a great flourish in ta king notes of Mr. Bell s speech, and half a dozen of the minor stars twinkled around Robettson, anxious to shed their illumination over the many subjects that were brought be fore the house, it was decreed that they should not be allowed the opportunity to blaze along the firmament of rhetorical glory! They were enraged but, as usual, were obliged to smoiher their wrath. When the Magician commands, all must obey. The house sat till ten o'clock on Wednes day night. Mr. Storer took the opportuni ty which the subject attorded,ot indulging in nreat latitude of remarks to vindicate the character of Gen. Harrison, from the as; aspersions and calumnies of Hawes fhe bill was then brought out of committe, and next day, after a very long sitting, the whole time of which, nowever, was occupied witli bnet and unimportant discussions on amendments, the bill was passed. The bill establishing the territorial government of Wisconsin, was passed yesterday, with some unimportant amendments, which will probably receive the concurrence of the senate. The bill, as you remember, origina ted in that body. Mr. Calhoun's bill to prohibit the trans mission of incendiarv publications by mail, was taken up on Thursday, and Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts, one of the minority of tho committee who reported the bill, opposed its provisions in a speech of considerable length.

His principal objections were founded on the discretionary power it proposed to vest in postmasters, and the necessary abridgement of the liberty of the press which it involved. After Mr. D. had finished his remarks, the bill was laid aside. There was another breeze of abolition in the senate yesterday but it did not last long. Mr. Ruggles presented certain resolu

tions of the legislature of Maine, denying the powers of congress to interfere with-it in the slates; censuring the movements of the abolitionists; but declaring that no act of the legislature of Maine is called for to suppress Ihem, inasmuch as the abolitionists published no paper in that state. From the Ohio State Journal. SHARP WORDS. It has been stated that the late John Randolph, alluding to Mr. Hardin's peculiar style ot oratory, compared it to "a butcher kuile, sharpened on a brick-bat!" The following extracts, taken from the latter gentleman's speech on the resolution offered by Mr. Adams, relative to the loss ot the rortihca tion bill, will show the justness of the simile. U he speech abounds with passages of the same description. Alluding to the relative merits and qualifications of Mr. Van Buren and Gen. Harrison, Mr. Hardin observes: "Is there any scene in this world so ridiculous as to see Van Buren's friends place him before the people as the war party candidate, and denounce Harrison, and his friends, as pusillanimous, cowardly, and ready to betray their country Harrison, who spent his youth, his manhood, and the prime of his life, in battles, in lire,- and smoke, combatting in his country's cause? As for Van Buren he never smelt gunpowder in his life. Many a bloody field can attest Harrison's achievements, and emblazon his fame and glory abroad. Kentucky has won laurels with him and under him; he always did her brave sons, living or dead, justice in the field, and justice in his reports to the war department. "In the approaching election the world will bear witness that Kentucky, amongst her other great virtues, boasts the proud on? K gratitude. I know that one of her sons, Th whom she is well pleased, has been selected to run on the Van Buren ticket for vice president. This is a New York manceuver; it is a sop to Jowler. Kentucky will not' bite at the bait. We would delight to do honor to the candidate for vice president; he has also won his fame in deeds of noble daring; but he must recollect that if a man marries a woman below him in the grades of society, he elevates her to his level; if above him, he brings her down to his own caste. So is the fate of the candidate for vice president." In the same speech also appears this very singular paragraph : "When the war is raging in Florida with all its horrors, and in the most frightful forms, and wre are in daily expectation of a war with France, what do we behold here, in this city, and in this hall? Day after day we are importuned to surrender this chamber to the secretary of the Department of War, to deliver a lecture on history: I suppose the ancient history of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, Carthagenians, and Grecians. Instead of studying the plans of campaigns, marches, and battles, he is poring over tho history of nations twenty-five hundred years gone by.. The General-in-chief of our army is president of the assembly balls, as our daily papers tell; us, and report says night after night waltzing with the little misses in their teens; and when not at that, writing miserable plays for the stage. There is no laudable spirit of enterprise and emulation in the army, navy, or any part of the public service: WThy this state of things? Because promotion to office does not now depend on merit, but by bowing and fawning, and cringing in the palace, for all power is there. When the chief there frowns and stamps his foot, the whole me nial pack fear and tremble." Speaking of Mr. Van Buren, Mr. Hani in says: "It has been visible to the whole Amer ican people, for some years past, that Gen. Jackson has been, and is now, ambitious of designating his official successor; and that all his power, influence, and patronage, have been directed to the elevation of this favorite, whose only recommendation is servility, sycophancy, and abject flattery of the president; one who weeps when he trowns, ana laugns atoua when he smiles; and who has no merit but what is reflected on him from Gen. Jackson. Like the moon, he shines by bor rowed light altogether. "Mr. Van Buren claims the presiden cy as a paternal estate, by descent; he ar rogates to mmseit, oy a magical Kina oi inheritance, the glories acnievea oy Jack son in the last war. 1 he party can not meet to do any thing for him, unless it be on the 8th of January, the day when the western hunters won the victory at New Orleans. I do not know whether it is most calculated to excite our laughter, or indignation and contempt, at seeing the glory obtained on that day transferred from the west to New York a state, du ring, our revolutionary war, only famed tor tones.7'

CRAWFORDSVILLE. SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 183G. Presidential election in 1S3G.

HARRISON ELECTORS. Makston G. Clark, of Washington county, Mili-un Stapp, of Jefferson Aust.n W. Morris, of Marion Johx G. C;. en den in, of Orange Evoch McCarty, of Franklin Albert . White, of Tippecanoe Achilles Williams, of Wayne Abraham P. Andrews, of Laporte Hiram Decked, of Knox VAN BUREN ELECTORS. Jonathan Williams, of Mrgan county, John Mvers, of Knox Wtilliam Rockiiill, of Allen George W. M-ore, of Owen William White, of Vermillion Jesse Jackson, of Scott Marinxs Willett, of Rush Elisha Long, of Henry Thomas C. Stewari, of Pike uQWe are authorized to say that Isaac Naylor, esq., is a candidate to represent Montgomery county in the next General Assembly of this state. 07 Wre have been requested to say that Dr. Thomas M. Currey is a candidate to represent this county in the next legislature of this state. 0-We are requested to announce Col David Vance and Henry Lee as candidates to represent this county in the next legislature of this state. The legislature of Maryland have instructed their senators in congress, to vote for the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands; and also to vote against the expunging resolutions. A bill providing for the admission of Arkansas into the union, has passed the senate of the United States. The Delaware state convention met on the 8th inst., and nominated William H. Harrison for the presidency, and' Francis Granger for the vice presidency. The citizens of Cincinnati, in a public meeting on the 16th inst., resolved to render all the aid in their power, not contrary to law, to suffering Texas; which they now regard as an independent government. The proceeds of an evening's entertainment, at the Cincinnati Museum, has been appropriated for the use of the volunteers from that city to Texas. 0iOur subscribers will please notice that five numbers more will close the present volume of the Record ; therefore such as are desirous of paying their subscriptions with less than three dollars, must attend to it previous to the 4th of June. It is our intention to enlarge, and otherwise improve our paper, after the expiration of the present volume to do which we must necessarily incur considerable expense; we therefore earnestly request ALL persons, indebted to us in any way, to help us now in this our time of need. We are anxious to make our sheet appear as respectable as any in the neighborhood, and if a liberal patronage is extended to us, we pledge ourself to do it. Our friends,

ana me menu i uui pa , cuu.u, ve place had promised him by certain are conscious, do much towards extending of the leadcrs. We have not the pleasthe circulation of the Record, lfthey ure ofan acquaintance with th

i ,i. J r n I wouiu use iuwe cvuiuuu, uuu ui iiiuichants, mechanics, and others, of our 11 : . .,,J I town, would render us essential service, and also profit themselves, by becoming liberal advertising customers. We are pleased to inform the traveling public that esquire May's hack arrived public mat esquire iuay here last evening, on its first trip. It is intended to run regular between this place and Lafayette, twice a week, during the summer. Persons who wish to pass and repass between the two places, will no doubt find this to be the cheapest and most convenient mode of conveyance as the hack appears to be a comfortable one. We understand it is the intention of the mail contractor to run a stage from Indianapolis to this place as soon as some im provement can be made in the road. The militia of the United States amounts 1o about one million and a half of men, of which Pennsylvania and New York have two hundred lious.md, Ohio 130,000, and Vir ginia 100,000. Mehem t Ali, the civilizer of Egypt and conqueror of the Arabs, is evidently backed by Russia. He derives tnirty-nve millions of francs tribute annually from the oppressed Syrians, over whom his son, lbraham, holds a rod of iron. The steamboat "Old Dominion" arrived a! Baltimore, from Norfolk, with specie for Nicholas Biddle said to be five hundred thousand dollars.

COMMUNICATED. The editor of the Wrabash Mercury, in a late editorial, employs his time very unprofitably in depreciating the character and standing of Col. Wallace, the lieutcn--ant governor. The article is precisely such as is calculated to defeat its own object; for detraction is never resorted to as an auxiliary in a good cause, and is. always certain to develope the true character of that which seeks its aid. It is not

my present purpose to reply to, or expose, the article referred to; my object is sim--ply to inquire into the why and where--fore of this attack. There evidently is something which is not apparent upon the face of it somethig behind the cur tain which prompts and directs the as-' sault. The election for governor is yet distant, and it is much too early to com--mence the canvass, or to investigate the' qualifications of those who may possibly be competitors for that office. No onehas, as yet, been nominated; no one hasannounced himself; and it is therefore unfair and improper to be dealing blows at random against all who the prolific ima gination of the editor suggests to him may possibly stand in the way of his favorites. He is evidently looking to another and a nearer contingency, and endeavors to attain his object by making his approach. The election of United States senator is looked to, and hence the attempt, covertly, to disparage the qualifications of the governor and lieutenant for that station, prepaiatory to announcing his own candidate; raid hence the attempts which have recently beer? made, to alienate, from one of the gentlemen specified, the support of his friends, by exciting their sectional jealousies, and arousing their resentment,, under the pretence that their personal interests have not been sufficiently consulted in the discharge ol a high official duty. It is well known that the candidate of theparty is already selected, and that he will be announced in due form as soon as, in the opinion of the leaders, sufficient dissension has been sown among their opponents to insure success. The Mercury can not deny that the convention at Indianapolis determined to put forward Dr. Jack son, of Lafayette, as their candidate and' the annunciation is only delayed until'the preliminary arrangements are completed... It is not my intention to retaliate upon the Mercury, by detracting from the merit of its candidate. Tho acknowledged' talents, and the personal popularity, of Dr. Jackson, would render him, under any circumstances, a formidable competitor; yet the Mercury evidently betrays its apprehension, that even he will not be ablc to avert the defeat which awaits the party upon that question; hence the attempt to depreciate, in advance, the character of his opponents; and hence the insidious-efforts which have been made, and1 arc still making, to divide and distract their friends. I trust that the friends of the constitution, and the foes of misrule,, will lay aside all petty differences, all sectional feelings, and imaginary grievances, and forgetting, in the importance of theobject to be attained, all personal predilections, unite in one great eflart to resist the mandates of the Baltimore nominee, as disclosed by his retainers in this state. United, vye are too strong to fear defeat,divided, it is manifest that the victory may be achieved by a minority, moved by one impulse, and acting with systematic, organization, and strict party drill. Q.. Our correspondent, it would' seem,, thinks that our friend Mercury had' not so much in view the next gubernatorial' election, as that of U. S. Senator, in his late attack upon Col. Wallace, &c. We were not fully aware that 'the party' intended putting forward Dr. Jackson as their candidate, next winter, for the important office of United States senator; although we have heard rumors that the and therefore can not say any thing with regard, to his fitness for the nlar-p? but j from what wc can Jcarn) .g h the most suitable person of the party, both as regards qualification and popularity; we' however, do not fear defeat, even should DlV Jackson be the opposing canr didate. DIED on Monday the 25th inst.. wife of Mr. JohnPursel, of this county. On the 27th, infant daughter of Mr. Thomas Campbell, of this town. On the 28th, infant child of theRev. T. C Griffith, of this place. A FEW barrels choice MACKEREL, just received, and for sale by GREFORY &, IIANNAS. Crawfordsville, Apr:127, 183G. A SMALL lot of FLOUR, bv the barr rel, for sale by J. VV. POWERS. (Jntwfurdsville, April 27, 183G STJZA VEM. FROM the subscriber, on the 8th day of February last , a dark brown or black horse, six or seven years old, well built, and has two winte spots between his. fore legs. r He was purchased by the subscriber, on the first day of January last, of Mr. Cobb, who lives on. the Michigan road, about forty miles below Indianapolis. Whoever will return the said horse to, the subscriber, or give information where lie may be found, shall boi liberally rewarded. WM. TEALL. Michigan City, April 14, 1836. 203-5. The Indiana Democrat will insert the, fbove 3 times, and charge Wm. Teall.

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