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INDIANA LEGISLATURE. APPORTIONMENT RIM.. Indian vrous, Dec. 29. On Thursday last, Mr. Dumont from the committee on that subject, repoi ted tbe following apportionment bill, which was read three several times and passed by a very large majority. S E X ATOM A L HIST 1UCTS. Knox, Davis and M irlin 1 ; Laurence 1 ; Greene and Owen I ; Vig, Sullivan and Clay 1 ; Putnam I ; Parke 1 ; Vermillion and Warren I ; Clinton and Carroll 1 ; Fountain 1 ; Mautg omciy 1 ; Tip pecanoe 1; Harrison I; Perry. Crawford and Spencer 1 ; Warrick, Vanderburgh and Poey 1; Gibson, Pike and Dubois 1 ; Orange 1 ; .M v roe l ; jonnson 1 ; Morgan 1 ; 1I ndru k 1 ; S'.u lby 1 ; Marion I ; Hancock and Madison I ; Hamilton and Boon 1 ; Cass, Miami and Fulton 1; Allen, Huntington. Wells, Adam?,Grant and Wabash t ; Likhart, Lagrange, Steuben. De Kalb ai.d Noble 1; Delaware and Randolph 1; tTr.ion and Fayette 1; Henry 1 ; St. Joseph, Marshall, Kosciusko and Stalk 1 ; Laporte, Porter, Newton, White, Jasper and Pulaski I ; Rush I ; Franklin 1 : Dearborn 1 ; Decatur I ; Switzerland 1 ; Jackson and Scott 1 ; Vwij ne 2; Ripley 1 ; Bartholomew and Jennings 1 ; Jefferson l;Claik 1; Floyd 1; Washington 1. RErRF.SEXTATlVE DISTRICTS. Rush 3, Dearborn 4, Wayne 4. Lawrence 2, Parke 3, Fountain 2, Tippecanoe 3, Henry 3, Union 2, Shelby t, Marion 2, Harrison 2, Franklin 2, J (V. rson 2, Washington 2,Claik 2. Vermilion 2. Bartholomew 2, Owen, Green, Warren. Clinton, Carroll, Monroe,Johnso:i, Moriran, Hendricks, Hancock, Hamilton, Madison, Boon, Allen, Elkhart, Delaware, Randolph, St. Joseph, Laporte, Decatur, Ripley, Switzerland, Orange, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Gibson, Cass, Floyd, Jackon, Scott, Jennings, and Clay, one each. 1836 Knox, Davis and Martin I each; 1837 Knox 2, Davis and Martin' 1 cadi; 1833 Knox, Davis and Martin 1 each; 1 837 Knox 2, Davis and Martin 1 ; 1 840 Davis, Martin and Knox 1 each; Sullivan and Vigo to elect 2 until I840nd in that year Vigo elects 3 and Sullivan ; 1; Putnam and Montgomery elect 2 each and one additional representative alternately, commencing with Putnam; 1836 Crawford, Perry and Spencer 1 each; Pike and Dubois I jointly; 1837 Perry, Spencer and Tike 1 each, Dubois and Crawford I jointly, 1838 Perry, Spencer and Crawford I each, Dubois and Pike 1 jointly; 1839 Perry and" Spencer 1 jointly, Pike, Dubois and Crawford 1 each; 1810 Crawford, Perry and Spencer 1 each, Pike and Dubois 1 jointly; Huntington, Adams and WelU 1 jointly; Grant and Wabash 1 jointly; Lagrange, Steuben, D Kalb and Noble 1 jointly; Marshall, Kosciusko and Stark 1 jointly; Porter and Newton I jointly; White, Jaspar and Pulaski one jointly; Miami and Fulton 1 jointly. Jefferson shall elect one additional representative in the years 1836, '39 and '10. Washington one additional representative in 1833. Clark one additional representative in 1839. In the afternoon of the same day the bill was reported to the House of Representatives, where, after being amended so as to provide for one additional senator in the district connected with Allen, it was passed without a call fir the yeas and nays. A concurrence of the Senate in this amendment is all that is nrcessary to dispose of that heretofore n.liicult subject. Journal. LEGISLATIVE. On the subject of internal improve merits, sundry resolutions containing instructions to the committee have been adopted in the House of Rcpresenla tives, and so far as developements have yet been made there would seem to be but little oppositon to a general system ol internal improvements. 1 lie com mittee of the House of Reprtseutatives have been in session on the subject, and we learn that their proceedings, eo lar, have been very harmoniout and unanimous. e are informed that it has been determined to constitute s Board of Internal Improvements, con fisting of nine members, to be appointed by the Governor, subject to the approval or rejection of the Senate, and to be removed by joint resolution of both Hou-cs. We have not under etood what works the committee pur pose to recommend to state patronage nut presume a good many wid be em braced, as the sum proposed to be bor rowed will be something like twelve millions of dollars. A bill on this sub ject will probably be reported in the House of Representatives on Monday or Tuesday next. lOsTsciur-T. Since the above was written we are informed that there was no disagreement of opinion as to the pro puciyoi continuing the Wabath and

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Flic Canal, and authorizing a speedy I commencement of the W hite river and I White water canals. Mr. Vawter, chairman of the com-j mittee on roads, yesterday, reported a bill, providing for a loan, for twenty I years, at 5 percent, per annum, in antiap ition of t!io three per cent, fund, of 500,000 dollars, to be divided equally between the several counties, which I will give about 6000 dollars to each county. The report accompanying the bill we shall give at length hereafter. The bill was t ice read when Mr. Vaw ter moved that it be committed to a committee of the whole lLu;e and made the special order of the day for Moi-il tv nt-xt. Mr. Davis moved to lay it im t;li'- AfiiT :i f'l-Miliorv dehate of some length, in which Messrs. w . i .. i . i . p . -.1. i... I v awur, uivis, avails, omiinuini ., uav, an J .lonnson panicipaieu, r.ii. - ili . - - . 1 Al - I I ;avis 'he tai le. Mr. r.wler then modihed his motion so as to make it the order of the d.iv for next Mond Mr. Riv moved to refer the bill to the com mittee en canals and internal improve ments, urged it on the ground that the committee might so connect it with the internal improvement bill as to provide for the improvement of roads in those parts of the state which cannot be ac commod it d bv the canals and rail re-aas. 1 h

le bill was finally committed thcir goods were safe!y deposited. Earittec of the whole House and y on Thursday, while the fire was yet order of the day f r to mor- r;,gi:ip? (hey contracted for the immedi-

to a com mi made the row. The whole of yesterday afternoon in the House was occupied in the consid eration of the case of Mr. Nave. The p ipers in the case having been read, -nr. Nave was permitted to make his defence, when William Quarles, Eq-, in his behalr, addressed the House be tween two and throve hours-and being able to complete his argument, the House adjourned. I he case will probably be resume! and finished this morning. Indium Journal. STATE HANK. Amongst the Legislative documents, which, for the want of room, we are as yet unable to 1 iy before our readers, is the interesting Report of Mr. Merrill, President of the State Bank of Indiana. By this document it appears, that "after paying all expenses of organizing, and incurred in managing the Bank and branches, and making a reservation of 35,179 35 cents for the surplus fund, a dividend ot three per cent on the cap-1 ;...! ; ,e ,i,a' i ,,, m ' Htl I'HIU tl o V4V.iIV c . iiij;a.VsV till- 1 7 I bcr session of the State Board. The . nr.n . c . i Mini .hiuiiil; iu iiie oiaie i v ., , ,i c- i n i h:! hrpn r:iil rtrpr l.i I'm SniL-mor kiinl has been paid over to the Sinking Fund, and 2,000, the tax on indiv iduul stock, sft apart as a portion of the permanent fund for common schools." By a cal culation made in the report from the best available data, notes and bills have been discounted, in the different branches, for 722 farmers, 339 merchants, drug gists, and grocers, 272 mechanics, 131 piodnce ai:d cattle dealers, 87 manufaclurers millers .and dtstulers, 121 persons of diflferent professions, 27 inn- ; . . was unknown to the otneers ol the branches. The loans from all the branches, on the 2 1st November, were .S 1,3 10,965 51 ;thc paper in circulation .$1,393,035 00; the specie in the vaults 797,81 1 97 and the cah on hand bank notes and specie 1,363,8-15 61; and that "the circulation obtained by ., . .I the paper, and the specie on hand, are i 1 , . c. j .i such as have not often appeared in the operations of banking.'' The Presi dent enters into an interesting detail ol the operations of the Bam;, and urges many useful and practical suggestions with regard to the interests and trade liiu iidue r ll . I. .1 1 .1 of the country. It annears that the individual deposites in all the branches, for the last half vear, have been, at the i .. l r ii - i er.d of each month, as follows, viz: June .S.9o. 42; Ju.y oOG,63 90; October 323,407 94; and November 379,543 00. "These accounts,' says the President, "do i.ot include the deposiles made by the Government, and arc lirger in proportion to the capital .1 .1 iman mose oi any country nan'.vs in me United States, or than most of the city banks. By the 109th section of the charter, the State reserves the pow er of investing its education and other funds in the bank, so as to "make them more productive," and by the 21st section the bank may receive deposiles on such

terms and conditions as may be agreed, franklin market, a cargo of indigo, yet liy the present charier the funds which we had observed in a blaze on of the State not subscribed as slock Thursday, was yet burning in bright cannot bemads productive nor can the yellow flame. The heap was, howevdeposiles, as they arc now made, be er, much reduced, and laborers were

pro.itaMe to the Depositor or an obiect of much consequence to the Bank. But if something like a Savins Fun J inslitution could be engrafted on the branches, if they were encouraged to pay a small interest on deposites that were lell lor lixed periods, and if these could be used in the purchase of business paper or otner sale transactions, many ol the wa:il3 and necessities which iucreas- . -. .

ing business requires would be supplied

bv means that are now without use or benefit. All experience is in favor of the happy influence of Savings Bank. 1 hey promote industrj and economy they encourage toaclion and enterprize and as the tendency of money is to flow to places of business, may not an amendment to the charier be devised in this respect that will add not less to the interest of the State than to the comfort and prosperity of individuals?"' Indiana Democrat. I NCI DOTS OF THE FIRE. New York, Dec. 19. In one of the stores consumed on Wednesday night, was a large quantity of saltpeter, which, while it was burning, kept up a succession of violent ex plosions rp?rmh me an arlillerv salute. ' D j . ' i ,oiih u-;,h a m,lrh ess oower u re O port. We mention this fact chiefly for the benefit of tbe Bostonians, who have never yet settled the question whether a certain vessel at the head of Central wharf could have exploded as it did, by the mere force of saltpeter. One of the largest firms who were burnt out, removed their goods, or a large part of them, to the store of a friend, w hich it was quite probable would ultimately share the same fate. They then went at midnight, and hired a new store, where by five o clock in the morning ate building of their own store, so that in about twelve hours after they were burned out, they had all their arrange ments made for repairing the damage. icsieiu.iy men were encaged m re moving the rubbish, preparatory to a new erection. The firm to which we allude, is Arthur Tappan & Co. We were incorrect yesterday in sav ing that not a building remained with in the limits of the fire. There is one, the brick store of Mr. Benson, dealer in ccrper, tin, ccc. It stands erect in the midst of surrounding desolation It is thoroughly fire-proof, witn walls sixteen inches thick. It would be na tural to ascribe its safely to this fact, were it not that four oilier stores be longing to the same owners, and built in the same manner, have shared the common fate of those around them. The number of stores and dwellings destroyed may probably be set down at ..!,.,! r i i i ii.. i r k- i i j .i c r, of which, independently of any of the m a I Jjj rnntnnta ha nctimaloJ nrvf nnrno. ::. T, ' ' """- " , aoiiiioiy ai ifircc TniiaoTis or aouws. in i n , , - .. aH these stores were deposited g I . r. . & goods and merchandize, varying in value per haps from ten to one hundred thousand dollars. Of this amount a portion more or less considerable will be saved, but still the absolute loss is very formidable though undoubtedly much below the exaggerated amount surmised in some of the papers. At this season, happily both the dry goods merchants and gro cers have comparatively little stock on handand Hlhoneu insurances are made in order to cover possible loss I in manv such rases, the amount to hp I , .. J , , , ... , , , actually demanded will be much less than the pohev'. W e have heard with in a few minutes of three such instances where one party was insured for one hundred thousand dollars, and will not claim more than twenty thousand, and two others of twenty thousand dollars .-n.ii, wiiuic iii ouu case live ar.u i ue ',, ,, , , J... , , , other three thousand only wi be asked, ,r.u nj Jmft r, ., each, where in one case Jive and the tual average loss, over and above what was saved from the flames, on the contents of each building destroyed, the aggregate would be eleven millions of . - , ,. . ii f UUII'HN IU TVIIlt.II rtUU IUI llIC UU1IUIII3 L. ' .... , . fa. '"ree ana naT l0f ?l fc.?. lhs ha i "I'll mis amount win raiuer execeu, ,u, r ,, , . f , ,, ' ' Av v . . I We paid another visit to the scene of the recent conflagration last evening, and walked thoroughly over the ruins, thinking of Cartilage and Pompeii. rIM- . I .... ue are was oy no means extinguished, and was smoking through hills of brick in one place, and blazing in another, in all directions. In all places where the heat would allow of labor, people were at work in digging for such remains of propeity as might be found worth preserving. Iear the site of Ihe late edeavorinr to save a nortion of the rrmainder. Along the line of South street, particularly where cotton had been stored, the fires were yet burning with considerable energy. From the ruins of one store, the owners had shovelled out udoii the pavement nethans a thousand bushels of coffee, mixed, of i . ' course, with sand and rubbish, but it is presumed thai considerable will he sav-

ed. We saw them taking out from below masses of bricks mingled with fire,

a number of bags of coffee uninjured. Near to this, and thoroughly on fire, we were pointed to the cargo of tea, which arrived up in the Paris, but a few days before the fire. The importer resides in Salem; and it was supposed that lie would realize a fortune from this single voyage. The fortune has disappeared in a night. But it is vain to continue the enumeration. On every hand, at every step, they were pulling bales and pieces of goods from among the rubbish; blankets, silks, linens, calicoes, every thing, some ruined by water, some by fire, some by being trampled in the mud ; some half burnt, and many yet on re, and blazing up as brought forth to the air. But we doubt not that some valuable merchandize will yet be recovered from the cellars and basements of many of the stores that have been destroyed. .V. Y. Commercial Adv. The N. Y. Commercial, giving an account of the great fire in that city, says: "The most revolting circumstance attending the calamity, was the infamous extent of plunder. Nearly a hundred scoundrels were seized in the very act of stealing valuable articles, even when the alarm and danger were at the highest, and yesterday about two hundred more were arrested for having ar ticles in their possession, stolen from the scene of the conflagration. Notwithstanding the vigilance exerted to pre vent tnese spoliations, the army of plun derers was so numerous, and they dis played so much boldness and dexterity, that a large amount of property was carried off. The rooms of the police office are crowded with goods of almost every conceivable description, taken from theivcs who had occn detected and brought up; probably ten thousand dollars worth of goods has in this way, been transferred to the custody of the police. "The devastated portion the city was the general resort, throughout the w hole of vcsteiday, for all the rogues and abatidoned characters of the metropolis; they hovered about like birds of prey, watching their opportunity for plut der; and we are ashamed to say that among them were numbers of women, not lets active in this evil doing than their competitors of the other sex. Many of them were seized, having concealed about their persons valuable silks, shawls, laces, and other costly articles of convenient bulk for hiding and carrying a way We are happy to learn by the New York Star of the I8lh inst. that the loss sustained at the conflagration iu New York, is not so great as was at first re presented. The Star estimates the loss at not over jytccn millions ; a large por tion of the merchandise consumed be longed to foreigners. The loss (says the Star) on French goods generally, will fall heavily on the Lyons manufac turers, as an immense amount destroyed was on consignment. Large sums were insured in other cities. Cm. RepuL PRIVATE L,oss....ruBrJic MOrVEYS. Immediately upon the receipt at Philadelphia of the intelligence of the terrible conflagration at New-York, a meeting was held by the sympathising citizens, to consider of the best way to assist the sufferers. Among other things, a resolution was passed recommending that Congress be petitioned to make a loan of ten millions of dollars to the city of New-York, or to those of its citizens who suffered loss of property by the conflagration. We are surprised to observe that this resolution is meeting with the general approbation of (he press; not that we see anything very objectionable in the resolution itself, or in the fact of the Philadelphians thus manifesting their sympathy; but because the recommendation is obviously the work of tbe excitement of the moment, and is calculated to delude the sufferers with hopes which it is clear can never be realized. Let Congress make an appropriation in this instance, and it will soon have applications of a similar kind enough to consume a goodly portion of its time. The loss in this case is certainly appalling, and the consequent suffering will be immense. The sympathy of the whole country must be awakened, and timely aid be rendered the afflicted ; but this must be altogether a work of individual exertion and munificence. It is folly, it strikes us, to talk of petitioning Congress in a matter of this kind. Let public meetings be held throughout the union, and those who have means will certainly be far from niggardly in drawing upon their purses in such a cause. Cin. Mirror. THE NEW YORK FIRE. It is with the greatest satisfaction we learn, that the late conflagration in New York is much less calamitous than was

supposed by those making the lowest estimates soon after its occurrence. We have seen a letter of a late date from a most intelligent source, which says: "The great loss by the fire in this city, falls on the stockholders of the Fire

Insurance Companies. The merchants were generally insured, and they will get all their pay. The Real Estate owner can sell his lot for as much as lot and store would have brought, with but few exceptions.1' With the energy and enterprise of the New York merchants, that part which was destroyed by the fire will, we doubt not, in a few months, be rebuilt with increased splendor and convenience; and with their industry ad ded, their losses so repaired. Globe. LATER FROM TEXAS. The last accounts from camp, re ceived by express at Brazoria, on the 11th, state on the morning of the 6lh, an attack was made on the town of St. Antonio, by the Texian army, headed by Capt. Milam, and after a hard tight of 18 hours, succeeded in getting possession of three stone houses, from which position they had silenced two or three of the enemy's cannon, commanding im portant points; and when the express ft at 4 o'clock on the 6th, the fight still continued. The loss of the enemy could not be ascertained, but during the first 12 hours of the fight, they car ried oil ail the dead, and when the courier lett, seventeen dead bodies couid ne counted around one ot the guns that was silenced. . t i -i Y. O. Bulletin. FUOM MEXICO. By private advices, says the New Or leans Bee, of the 19th ult. we learn that Mr. Daniel Pope, the American consul at Mexico, lias lately had his house violated by the government troops under command of Martinez, under the pretence of searching for the collector of customs; although Mr. Pope, strenuously deprecated and opposed this arbitrary act. lie has been obliged to return to his country. The Mexicans seems resolved to have a rupture with the government or the people of the United States. We learn also that the ships sailing from Vera Cruz to Tampieonre not permitted to carry letters or journals which is very prejudicial to the merchants. This order is now rendered general. Editors are forbidden (o treat on current circumstances; and all intercourse is prohibited as far as possible, to give information of the real state of things in the Mexican struggles. The stale of Tamaulipas is under the ban of centralism; and intercourse strictly prohibited with it so that it is in a state cf blockade. The Americans resident throughout Mexico arc subjected to daily vexations and dangers; and many of them have been shamefully assassinated by the agents of Santa Anna, who has his fiendlike myrmidons in all quarters. The Mexican journals intimate directly that several of the inferior chief towns have boldly declared against centralism, and resolved to support federalism. Pueblo and Moralia have joined the federal standard. Fatal Accident. On Christmas day, the middle span of the bridge over the Kentucky river, at this place, gave way, and fell to the water, a distance of about 60 feel, carrying with it two wood wagons with thcir teams and black drivers, together with two or three other persons. The wagons were mashed to pieces, and the drivers, and all the horses except one, were killed. The rest miraculously escaped. The bridge had just been repaired from a previous wreck, and had only been in use a few days. Its loss will be seriously felt by the community at large. Frankfort 4rgu. More than a hundred thousand dollars a month have been received at ths land i.flices of Chicago and Quincy, in Illinois, in payment for lands taken at the minimum price of 125 per acre, since the public sales in the summer. There is an immense tide of emigration settling into that as well a the other states cf the west. In Rochester, New York, there are 21 flour mills, with 96 runs of stones now in operation. These mills cost 540,000. They consume daily 20,000 bushels of wheat making 5000 barrels of flour. The annual value of flour manufactured there amounts to three millions of dollars. We learn from the Natchez Courier, that such is the flood there, that the planters are gathering their corn in skiffs, that the mud bridge over Old river has been carried away, and the water is running through the streets of Alexandria. The damage is immene, but not so great as was at first thought.,