Semi-Weekly Journal, Volume 3, Number 242, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1841 — Page 2

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I V 1 I A N A T O LIS: SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1841.

MARION COUNTY NOMINATIONS. Tlie Whigs of this couutv held a Convention on Saturday,' April 2-1, at ''which the following nomina nations were matie: Representatives Iscabl Hakding and Austin W IMoRRtsr" . .. . ' . -""v,. .:: : ' ', ' Treasurer and Collector J;. oh: Land;s. Recorder James Turnek. Auditor John V. liA.Mit.Tiix. Assessor John IU'Colj.v..;. Commissioner, it district -Hai.kis Tynku. :':;'"; ... Election on .first Monday, 2d of August, next. .

f'orrrspoinlriico or the Indiana Journal. Washington, July 23, 18-11. Gentlemen For the last two days the Senate

any other kind of note3 than those, on banks known to be solvent. When a general smash and blow up shall take place, which must inevitably be the resul t, they will suffer the most. Those who do a more extensive business, such as brokers, merchants, &c, do not permit notes of a precarious value to accumulate on their hands. And as the loss must fall some where, the farmers and

; laboring classes generally will find that they will i have to bear it, unless they take early, stfeps to avoid I it. Our advice is that they touch not, taste not the unclean things. If they refuse to take them a i stop will be put to their circulation. Merchants land brokers will not receive what they cannot

: put off - their hands. i A few days since one of our bankers brought

! from Cincinnati

time as at Madison, and at no greater cost or tax on freight or passengers. He says "It is the interest of Central Indiana to promote this wotk, and of the rich district of country all along the

So it is of Jeffersonville; but Louisville is

line.

world why he .should riot be appointed, particularly j in a Government, like ours, where public opinion alone can give strength and efficiency to the administration I

of otftirsJ Th.? Editors of the Journal; from a "slight j personal ncnunintanco.," think Mr. H. deserving and

well, qualified: nine-tenths of this community, the daily witnesses of that gentleman's actions and conduct for yenrs past, seem to think differently.. With this statement of -the relative position of the "Jour

nal" and "Courier, we rest:-satisfied, - leaving toe Ki.l.ll. . ',,!' u'his-li iwpss i f hp most, faithful evrto-

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,f public setiiiiiient, so lar as inuiana is concern- . iviuiuni which one can.ioi nope 101. , 11 uic wiw

iiiueil the pohliciu cuarac-i lino were constructed at the pxnense of Louis-

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peculiarly and deeplv interested in this thing. To secure permanently that vast and growing trade, would insure her a measure of prosperity

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ed. As to our liavniir de

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the Journal, it is a mistake. We did. however, de

fend his decision of the unoonxti-Htionahty of tho i on the stock, we veiily believe' her citizens could ... . i . ... ! I" . I T 1 ' . . "

iiiiiDDlinsr Acr," against Hie attacks or ine iimiana ,,.,.,, . . Ramft amount in anv mhr

I line were

ville alone, and if it should not vield any interest

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menu t ne same amount in anv other wav

or even t tie support, ot i - . . -r , ,

why we!1""1 woultl reoounu mure, 11 so uiucn, 10 ner cer-

Denvocrat. Is such defence,

his claims for a minor office, any reason

sJiould refuse to recognize his present, elevation as "compliment." to the Whigs of Indiana? v Wo tlirinht ht cnri,T ii fiHrlliuto tn llin nhlp Tvftitiii'

lam-e amount of Newtown inf the Journal any motive so unworthy as "personalise only from. Indiana brought to her by this

tain advantage.' If Louisville

will be thus benefitted by the

has been occupied with the bill -establishing a ! notes, purporting to be on the Hamilton county - W T T 7 '

uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the (Uluoj Dank. . l hey Dave ocen issue., uuuer an ((,nd fr) tjlefnscves, and other colomporarios. TheE.li-1 "Ml" '"' United States." It does not differ much from the i old act of incorporation for a Library, Lyceum, ; tor of the Courier not. on friendly term- wi-h Judge ; by a new route, that would pour into her lap the Mil sessions n(ro nassed .he Senate. 1 or other literary society, and are believed to bei"i. would scon, to take any advantage of ' merchandize for the south and west, and thus add

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On to-day, by a vote of 27 to 24 it passed to a entirely worthless. A lie way ine oauivei .duuucu jsonil !.;! i-oo.llnfr ! to nrnenred them was bv jrivitiii his note, paya-jtion,

The bank bill has also been ordered to be en-j ble at a future day in the same kind of funds, or j

grossed for its third leading, the opposition hav-j by exchanging the notes of his own wood-en coning at last become weary of their ineffectual Strug- cent for them. Now notice the speculation the gles to amend it to-death. Mr. Clay has watch- j gentleman will make in this transaction. II? ed over it, with the untiring wakefulness of a (pays out these notes at par; they soon become young mother over her first born. Indeed, his j depreciated in value; he then buys them up, profixedness of purpose his intensity of will his j bably with funds not much better, at ten, fifteen,

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making

invective. Ue lias refrained Irorn ail purticip.ia an Editor in the articles published in t.h:

Courier in regard to that: most unfortunate appoint

incut, and is nertectly willinar to settle lus (litticuiut

in a way more consonant with his views respect..

firm determination, not the less persevering, because it some times wears the disguise of carelessness or composure, have not only sustained his high reputation among his friends, but even wrunj; a reluctant tribute of admiration from his enemies. Mr. Calhoun, in a speech the other day, paid an involuntary compliment to this straight-forwardness of intention, when he said "the Senator from Kentucky has been, for many years riding this Bank hobby it has been his favorite hack, over good and bad roads and in all kinds of weather; and now, he expects to, and no doubt will, ride it successfully to the end of his journey." "Yes," retorted Mr. Clay, "I've found it a good horse, and a pleasant ride; and not many years ago, the Senator from South Carolina was of the same opinion." Mr. Calhoun made no answer, but it was evidently a

good hit, at one of the manifold inconsistencies of

this prince of abstractionists. The course of this gentleman is a most singular paradox, far beyond a plain man's comprehension. He seems to love distinction whether virtuous or infamous as an end, not as a means as a personal luxury not as an instrument of advantage to his country. He seems to treasure up his talents on all occasions where the use of them would be productive

rf (TPneral trnod. but nours them out v i'.li unex-

v. fc. O ampled profusion, whenever anarchy, confusion,

and misiule would be the result of the success of

his schemes. His course during this session would almost justify the nickname with which Blair of the Globe once christened him, of John Cataline Calhoun. The House, since my last, passed the bill making an appropriation of 700,000 dollars to the Home Squadron, only 8 voting against it. This vote shows that if any danger threaten from without, all party distinctions and party bickerings are forgotten in the one feeling of American citizens. During yesterday and to-day, a resolution ap

pointing a committee to sit during the recess of

1 o Congress, to visit all the cities, examine into the commerce of the country, and report at the next session, with a view to regulating the duties on imports, and remoddling the tariff, has been under discussion, and to-day it was passed by a majority of two votes. A motion was then made to re-consider, which is now pending. No rumors of any new appointments of any consequence. M. INDIVIDUAL AND COMPANY NOTES. We, on a former occasion, called the attention

of the public to the flood of "shin plasters" that

was flowing in on this community; and suggested that business men should discredit them by refusing to take them or recognizing them as any thing else than worthless pieces of paper. If this course had been pursued by all the mechanics, merchants, and others who were engaged in business, we would not now be cursed with "Wood's," Woodbum's," -'Lebanon," "New

town," "Circleville," and twenty other kinds of

currency, equally as fradulent and valueless. They have been taken and recognized as currency, by responsible men however, until they have driven out of circulation almost every dollar on good and solvent banks. They are now keeping cut of circulation the small notes of the State Bank. As long as they can be obtained to pay

debts and buy produce with from our farmers, no one will pay out any other kind of funds, consequently for all useful purposes the State Bank small notes might as well be locked in the vaults of the Bank as in the strong boxes of our business men, where they will be if this state of things continue. The farmers, laborers, and mechanics could do a great deal towards reforming the currency by refusing to receive for their produce and labor

twenty, or twenty-five per cent, discount, and pays off his original note with them. Of course there will be a loss, and it is not difficult to see where it will fall.

For the Indiana Journal.: CENTRAL CANAL No. 3. In the preceding number I endeavored to show that the farmers and owners of hnd would be materially benefitted by the completion of the Central canal, by the increased value of their land and its produce. I will now take a view of the profits that may be expected to result from the busi-

It becomes every good citizen to immediately j nesg 0r t,e canSi l)jr endeavoring to show its im

set his face against such a miserable currency It better be stopped now. It is increasing anc.

fastening itself upon us, and will shortly become j var-ous portions of our wide extended country.

so abundant that every man will have his pockets Viere the Central Canal finished to Indianapo-

full. Then will come the blow up, and the bro- iis m. ,.. :i in!1.i tn Mn,isor, ;t would be the

jportance as a link in the great chain-of internal I communications that are connecting together the

greatly to her business by this additional carrying trade. Thus while our own citizens are deeply interested in the completion of this canal, ma-

of personal i nv ei-izens of other States are nearly as much so.

1 he whole south-west would be greatly benefitted. The merchants of New '.York are but little aware of the immense trade that would thus be

'secured to them, particularly if the rail road was i completed to Louisville. The owners of large. ! tiacts of new land now entirely shut out from the emigrant, cannot otherwise expect to sell to proilit. Therefore if it would be to the interest of j Louisville to finish the Jeffersonville road to CoI lumbus, it would be equally to the interest of the merchants of New York, and the owners of new J land, to unite with our own citizens and finish the

northern part of the Central Canal. Philo Rustictjs.

kers and shavers will reap a full harvest. We are not done with the subject. We feel it to be our duty to lend our feeble aid in clearing the country of such trash. Let the law of last

most important route between the Lake and the Ohio River, and I will hazaid the opinion that ten tons of merchandize would go down the Rail Road to one coming up; and perhaps it would not

session be enforced, and let all these irresponsible j be ncommon to see pork coming up instead of

individual and company concerns in our own j going ,iovvn. We are but little aware of the great State be. swept out of existence; and then let the j changes that would be produced in the commerce citizens not only of this county but of every conn-j anj traje 0f our country. We should have a dity in the State refuse to take such issues of other jrect communication to New York by a route that States, and the small notes of our own State Bank would bring our merchandize cheaper than by will soon get into general circulation. j anv other, and on account of cheapness, and oth- , , . " , . . I er advantages, we should obtain . a large portion A correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot, writ- . , . . , T . . . , , ' , . , , . T i of the carrying trade. I noticed an article recent ing from Washington under date of June 24 says: i , , . , , ,. . . . , ,

"The Bank Bill will be brought up on Monday,

and there will be comolete harmonv UDon.it. ...

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among uie v nigs. i ne jnau ui igiu)iuimoc, mentioned some days ago in the Patriot has been agreed upon and the bill will be made to conform to it. Mr. Clay, himself will probably propose this modification. All doubts concerning the establishment of a National Bank may henceforth be dispelled.

ly taken from a Cleaveland paper,

that large quantities of merchandize was then in

and in progress of transportation from

Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, via New York, Erie Canal, Lake Erie, and thence by the Cross-cut Canal to Pittsburgh. The cause of its taking this round-about route was, that the expense of transportation was less than from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh direct. If goods can thus be transported cheaper to Pittsburgh, cannot they be transported to Madison by our route cheaper than by Pitts

burgh and the river route? The cost of deliverO ! ing to Maumee will be very trifling if any more I than at Cleveland; and I should suppose that the j cost from Maumee to Madison by canal and rail I road, would be less than from Cleveland by the

way of the Cross-cut Canal to Pittsburgh and the Ohio River, or by the Ohio Canal to Portsmouth, and thence by the river. I am not conversant

As we intimated in a late number of the Journal that the opposition of the Wabash Courier to the appointment of Judge Huntington sprung from personal hostility of its editors, justice requires that we publish the following article from the Courier in reply to a similar intimation of the Louisville Journal. Since the publication of the paper in which we made that intimation on the authority of a respectable gentleman', we have re

ceived other information which leaves no room to j with the Prines of fre'ght 011 t,ie different routes, doubt that a rupture of a very serious nature ex-1 aiul 1)ave not t,ie time or -meanj. of ascertaining, isted and still exists between Judge II. and the ! -t would be a matter of interesting inquiry for present principal editor of the Courier. How far some of onr merchants to devote a leisure hour; this difficulty -may have operated on the feelings i and I hope they will do so and publish the result, of a brother we cannot say, but it is natural to j If goods can thus be landed at Madison cheapsuppose that it influenced in some measure the er than by the Pittsburgh route, in the epiing tone and temper of the remarks he has from time 1 when the waters are high, our route would certo time made on the subject. j tainly possess advantages over all others that

strike the Ohio river above Madison, during those parts of the year when the waters are low. We might expect a fair portion of the carrying trade

THE LOUISVILLE JOURNAL. Our friends of the "Louisville Journal" have published two favorable notices of the appointment of Mr. Huntington-, in the first of which they snv, -'from a. slight personal acquaintance," they think him well qualified; and in the la-t they attribute the opposition of th.j Courier to "personal hostility of one of the Editors." Now, it so happens that, from motives of delicacy, the individual to whom they allude has refrained from writing at all on the subject; and as to the writer of this, one of the Editors of the Journal must know his relations to that gentleman were, as late as last win

ter, and. long after Mr. H. and the Junior Editor's misunderstanding occurred, far from being "hostile.-' But though this method of attempting to do away with facts by impuning the motives of those who promulge them, is an every day occurrence with the guilty, we had no reason to expect a resort to it by the Editors of the Journal, whose position should make them the advocates of great and fuudamental principles, and n-rt the apologists of political trimming and tergiversation. Unfortunately for Mr. Huntington's apologists, a defence founded upon his unfriendly relations with one of the Editors of the Courier, so far from establishing his qualifications and popularity among the people of Indiana who alone had a right to judge whether his elevation was a "compliment" to them or not must utterly fail, un

less they can prove that all the Whig Editors in the State, who have alluded to the subject, wrote under the influence of "personal hostility." Not only this, but they must prove that nine-tenths of this community, of the Wabash Vailey, and of the whole State, (a far as our information extends.) are governed by feelings of "personal hostility," in deprecating, as they do, the appointment. Can our worthy friends of the Journal prove the existence of this state of personal belligerency between the new incumbent and his neighbors and fellow-citizens of Indiana! If they can do so, is it not one of the best reason? in the

during the spring of the year, and during the summer and fall a large portion of goods destined for Madison and points below, would doubtless come this way, which would add greatly to the importance of the Central Canal. In this point of view, our canal will rank second in importance to no other work in the State,: that part of the Wabash and Erie Canal connecting it with the Lake, excepted. In an editorial article in the "Western World," entitled "Louisville and Indiana Trade," the importance to Louisville of the completion of the Jeffersonville & Indianapolis Rail Road is strongly urged, as thereby securing a large amount of the trade of the interior of Indiana. The editor remarks that Louisville is sleeping, while her highest interests are in jeopardy; when Cincinnati so highly vaiues the trade of even the few counties bordering on the White-water Canal, that they went promptly to work to build a canal from it to Cincinnati. The Jeffersonville and the Madison roads unite at Colnmbus; the distance from which to Madison is 45 miles, and to Jeffersonville 73, making a difference in the distanee to the river of 23 miles, but it strikes it fifty miles lower down, and below, or at the Falls, and without the inclined plane, on which account the editor thinks the river could be reached in as short a

Tin- late liai lf s Olo, of I'si. The fiendish malignity, says ..lie Richmond' Whig wit'h which the memory of this man is pursued by the Locofocos, would excite abhorrence in the bosoms of a savage people. He was scarcely cold ;n the grave, before with one nv.-.r.i. they opened upon; him. their batteries of vilifica.t.io:i and "traduction. .Some of them eypiVanfieipuied .that solemn and .melancholy e vent, and sought to embitter his last moments ; by heralding, in staring capitals, and with a spirit which could only actuatedemons. that "the infamous Charles Ogle was about to die," &c.i.. When the clod had fallen upon the coffin, the fact was announced with . a shout of triumph, accompanied by every opprobrious epithet which a copious Billingsgate vocabulary could supply. When Congress met, the game of detraction was removed from the newspapers to the Hall of Representatives These .honorable gentlemen seemed to take pleasure in blackening the name of the dead, and in harrowing; up the feelings of the living. The motion of a Mr. Snyder, wheti the bill fr the relief of '. Mrs. Harrison was pending, cannot have escaped the recollection of the reader. The severe and just castigat.ii 'iii which that individual received at. "lie hands of a colleague, would, we had supposed, base deterred all others from following in his footsteps. But it appears that it failed of that effect. We observe in the Washington papers, that (to borrow one of Col. Joe Wat.kins' phrases) "ablack mouth Locofoco from Tennessee, Mr. Watterson, had revived the subject., and introduced a letter published in this paper, to give countenance to his defamation. That same letter has . been a fruitful topic for Locofoco outbursts ever since , its publication. . It has been going the round of the whole Locofoco press with exclamation; "See what a Whig says to Ogle's lies!" Now, we have but, a word to say to Mr. Watterson and the rest touching this letter: It 'was ''not : ten 'lien My a Whig nnd if .it Were, there is no conflict between its. statements and thoc of Mr. Ogle. The 'difference, is only apparent, not real.' Mr. Ogle gave, from official .vouchers, the list t'f gorgeous articles purchased, by the late dynasty for the White House; The letter describes the present tattcred and dilapidated condition of those nr- ; tides.. The statement of the former referred to the purchase; that, i f the latter to the. had usage, which . had soiled and dinimed their lustre. And this so far from extenuating : the original prodigality, is an aggra ation of it We beg of these ja cl; alls of faction, if they p. re de

termined to persist in their atrocious attack upon the

dead,

or any

cos. in .

, that in future thev ...forbear to connect, Has paper.

its correspondents,; even thouph they be Lo-

iiny wise with their inhuman and unchristian

persecution.

llnwliiii tlic ISrfoi'mcd runknrl.

re. was educated by a ministlwavs had a high sense of

.tlr

. I was born in Bait ter oftho gospel, '-'a.

morali tv; tmt I nevertheless became a

became n. drunhard by 'drinking' littles T became a d-o"l;!rd by di irking swept, wines I became a drunkard bv drinking cider -I become a drunkard by drinking ale I became a drunkard by drinking beer. I commmenczd ut the ege of 14, and it took me 10 years to learn to be a drunkard. All the while I thought myself perftcilv free from danger. When I was twenty-one, there was not a young man in Baltimore who possessed higher advantages than myself. Little did I then think I should ever become a loathsome out-cast drunkard. Yet fcuch was the case. I was the hope of an aged and pious mother, who, I knew, never bowed the knee in prayer without breathing my name before the throne of grace. Sly family always treated me kindly. They would expostulate with me. and entreat me to leave it off. "I will." wbuld be my often reply "I have left it off, and always on the principle of total abstinence. And why? Because I could not take a little. A little! 'Tis the little that does the injury. During the last 20 years, I have got up out of the gutter many times, and have shaken myself from the filth and dirt of drunkenness. I would determine never to go back to my cups again; and I could never imagine the cause of my going back till a little more than a year since. 1 then saw the rock on which I had so frequently split. I would not now drink a glass of wine I would not drink a glass of cider I would not drink a glass of beer no, not for the whole world not for this house full of gold. I remember too much of the wormwood and the gall. If there is a poor drunkard here, he is my brother if there is a reformed drunkard here, he is my brother. Reformed drunkards, take care; there are nine chances and three-fourths out of ten against you. Take an illustration. A great political Convention was held in Baltimore on the 4th of May, a little more than a year since. I had been completely sober for months