Semi-Weekly Journal, Volume 3, Number 262, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1841 — Page 1

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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1841.

VOL. 3. NO. 262.

PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK DURING THE SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE TWICE A WEEK FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR. Tkrms. Four Dollars a year, payable in advance, and con,i,l.r,.d due at the date of the subscription. If not paid in ad

"vance, however, Fivk Dollars will be tlie price. Advertisements will be inserted at the following rates: Ten lines or less, for one or three insertions, one dollar, and twm ty-five centrfor each contimiMicc. Or, will be continued on contract one yeer, for $15, and will be altered occasionally It desired. On loiter advertisements, a reasonable deduction will be made. 0S1NGLE COPIES 6 Cents. THE ENGLISH CABINET. First Lord of the Treasury Sir Robert Peel This name is too well known to require parlicular notice. He is the eldest son of the celebrated cotton spinner. He has held various offices, and was premier in 1835. Leader of the Ministry in the House of Lords The Duke of Wellington. His grace is also well known the hero of a hundred fights, and the conquerer of Napoleon. He holds no office, but of course has a seat in the Cabinet. Lord Chancellor Lord Lyndhurst. The son of the eelebrated Sir John Copley, the American painter, and was himself born at Boston, Mass. He is particularly obnoxious to the Irish, having, in a speech in the House of Lords, stigmatized them as "Aliens in language in religion and in blood." His Lordship has been three times Lord Chancellor of England. 1 Lord President of the Council Lord Wharncliffe. His Lordship is better known as Mr. Stuart Wirtlev who was a very working man in the House of ' . . . t i - i n - .i::

Commons during me jjiverpoui mm turning ouuuiustrations. He is very distinguished for his humanity as a Judge, bnng Chairman of Quarter Sessions in Yorkshire. His son moved the amendment in the House of Commons to the address on the speech, and defeated Lord Morpeth in the late contest, for the West Riding of the county of Yorkshire. The office is a sinecure. . . Lord Privy seal The Duke of Buckingham. His grBce is not a very distinguished intellectual character, but he holds vast possessions, and is the selfelected champion of the Corn Laws. When Marquis of Chandos, he introduced the celebrated amendment in the Reform Bill to allow tenants-at-wili to vote for members of Parliament. His graae is "the last of the Pianta genets." Secretary of State for the Home Department Sir James Griifcam.--This is the ci-devant radical, and formerly First Lord of the Admiralty under Earl 'Grey and the Whigs. He is much hated by his opponents, and more feared than trusted by his friends. His ancestry were distinguished border freebooters. His abilities are unquestionable, and ho is in close personal alliance with Lord Stanley. He ratted from the Whigs at the same time that his lordship seceded. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs the Earl of Aberdeen. His lordship first distinguished himself as Ambassador to the Court of St. Petersbugh during the troublous times iff Napoleon. He has held the office previouslyis highly classical and is the 'Athenian Aberdeen' of the poet -Byron. His lordship is a great and especial favorite of the Duke of Wellington is much respected by Foreign Powers and is deemed a statesman possessing great decision of charsecretary of State for the Colonies Lord Stanley. The eldest son of the Ear! of Derby, originally attached to the Whigs and has held the offices, under them, of Secretary to Ireland and Secretary to the Colonies. Ke is very inveterate against O'Connell and his former friends possesses extraordinary abilities and is the best debater in the House of Commons. He is a man of violent polit ical passions, and 'has the reputation of doing himself and his parly the most deadly injury. It is this conviction which has induced Mr. O'Connell to brand him with the title of "Sorpion Stanley." Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Goulboume. This gentleman is one of the members for the University of Cambridge, and has held the same office in the Wellington Administration. His abilities are any thing tut first rate, but whatever they are, they will be terribly tested. First Lord of the Admiralty the Earl of Haddington. But little is known of his lordship save that ho is a violent partizan, and when he held the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, under the brief Peel Administration of 1835, he appeared at the theatre with an Orange flag unfurled over his box. President of the Board of Control-Lord Ellingborough His lordship has previously managed the Indian Affairs, which are confined to this department. He holds a patent office for life of ten thousand sterling a year, is the eldest son of the celebrated Mr. Law, afterwards a Judge, and was robbed of his wife some years back who was a very beautiful woman by Prince Swartenbourg. His lordship is a great dandy. Paymaster of the Forces Sir Edward Knatchbull. Until 1835 he was only known as a country gentleman, of large estate and little mind, at which time he was made a Privy Councillor by Sir Robert Peel. He has had the misfortune to have two brothers transported for picking pockets. President of the Board of Trade Earl of Ripon. Formerly Mr. Robinson, a Chancellor of the Exchequer, and subsequently Lord Godorich, the premier. He is a man of such moderate abilities that it is a matter of peculiar surprise how he coirld have held such stations. Secretary of War Sir Henry Hardinge, Baronet. A gallant General of the Peninsula War, of considerable abilities and a private friend of the Duke of Wellington. He was the second to his grace in the celebrated duel with Earl Winchelsea. Sir Henry was Secretary for Ireland, called out Dan O'Cunnel, and has the reputation of being a regular fire-eater. The above are the names, I believe, of all t he gentlemen who will form the Cabinet, and therefore I have pointedly drawn your attention to what they have been and what they are. The following are those not 'in the Cabinet. .'Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Lord De Grey. A "very amiable and moderate Conservative, and a bosom friend of the premier. "Secretary for Ireland Lord Elliot. A son of Earl St. Germans. Clever, but untried. Master General of the Ordnance Sir George Murray. This is the only member of the administration who advocates a fixed duty upon corn. The General contested Manchester at the late election. Lord Chancellor of Ireland Sir Edward Sugden. The greatest equity lawyer of his day. He has held the office before, and is the architect of his own greatness, being the son of a barber. Attorney General of England Sir Frederick Pollock. A very distinguished common law counsel and the son of a saddler. He held the same office in 1S35, Sir Frederick's defence of the Chartist traitors, Frost, Jones, and Williams, gained him great credit. Solicitor General ditto Sir William Follet.

He held the same office in 1835. and is at the very

head of the bar for practice. He is the son of an attorney. Attorney General of Ireland Mr. Blackburn. A liberal Conservativei but much denounced by O'Conne1.Vas first appointed to this office by the Whigs unler the Marquis of Anglesea. Solicitor General do. Mr. Sergeant Jackson. A veiy violent Orangeman, of great ability and success it '.he Irish bar. Queen's Sergeant Mr. Litton. An eminent member of the Irish bar, of moderate politics. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Lord Grenville Somerset. A brother to the Duke of Beaufort anl a very talented and business member in committees in the House of Commons. He is Recorder for I.mruniilIi

Commissioner of Woods and Forest Earl of Lincoln. The eldest son of that fiery Tory the Duke of Newcastle, so celebrated for his declaration that he had a right to do what he liked with his own. His son is not very brilliant only a shade above the father in mind. Lord Chamberlain Duke of Rutland. A mere farmer, and without abilities to be that with advantage. He is quite good enough to hold a white wand being himself a mere stick. Vice Chamberlain Lord Ernest Bruce. A son of the Earl of Elgin, and unknown to fame. Joint Secretaries of the Treasury Sir Thomas Freeniantle and Mr. Sidney Herbert. History is equally silent as to the merit of these gentlemen.

Under Secretary tor foreign Atiairs viscount. Canning. The son of the late wit, orator, statesman, and prime minister, Mr, Canning. His lordship has prominent abilities. Under Secretary for the Colonies Mr. Hope. A son of the wealthy Dutch merchant, and author of Anastatius.' An untried man. Under Secretary for the Home Department Lord Claude Hamilton. Not to be found in any previous ministry, and not familiar to the public. Master of the Mint and Vice President of the Board of Trade Mr. W. E. Gladstone. The great West India planter. A man of extensive mental powers. Postmaster General Lord Lowther with a peerage. Son of the Earl, of Lonsdale, and a thorough Tory hack of little mind,

WABASH AND ERIE CANAL. The survey and location of this route, is now in a state of progress from Lafayette to this place, We are informed by Mr. Wm. J Ball, the Engineer appointed by the board of -Internal Improvement, that about sixty miles is now located this side of Lafayette and that by the -middle of November, the whole will be completed to Terre-Hante. Wabash Courier.

ARREST FOR MURDER. In the latter part of last week, three individuals,

George Saxton, his son Ashford, (a boy of 14 years of

age,) and James Mowbray, who lived at the house' ot

Saxton, were arrested and brought to Kockvilleto be examined on the charge of having jointly murdered a young man by the name of Bennet Craig. The residence of all the parties was at Hoskin's Old Ferry on the Wabash, in the Western part of this county. They were examined on Friday and Saturday by a Magistrates' Court, and from the evidence adduced, the Court ordered Saxton to he committed to jail for trial at the next term of the Circuit Court. Mowbray and the boy were held to bail in the sum Of $500 each for their appearance, and were liberated. It appeared that a grudge had existed for some time between the families, and that on the morning of the

fatal affray,, as Craig was passing near the house of

Saxton, he was ordered by baxton not to come on his place. Some exciting words followed, when Saxton, taking up a stick, commenced beating him; but as Craig resolutely repelled the attack, Saxton being likely to get the worst of the conflict, was joined by his son and Mowbray. Before the affray among them was ended, Craig received a blow on the head from a square billet of wood which fractured his skull, and he died in eleven hours afterwards. He was a young

man nineteen years of age, and the son of a widow. Olive Branch.

Tn the Museum, at Dublin, there is a skeleton of

one Clarke, a native of the city of Cork, whom they call the ossified man, one of the greatest curiosities of nature. It is the carcase of a man. entirely ossi

fied in his life-time, living in that condition several years. Those that knew him before this surprising alteration, affirm that he had been a young man of great strength and ability. Hefelt the first symptoms

of this surprising change, some time after he had

lain all night in the fields, after a debauch, till, by slow degrees, every part gaew into a bony substance excepting his skin, eyes and intestines; his joints settled in such a manner that no ligament had its proper operation; he could not lay down or rise up without, assistance. His teeth were joined and formed into one entire bone, his tongue lost its use, and his sight failed him, some time before he expired.

The German Journal of Frankfort annnounces

the suicide at Baden of an extraordinary maniac,

named Rummer. It says: "For twenty years this

person had been in the habit every six months of or

dering a coffin, but always differed with the maker of

it as to the 'fit.' He would have the corhn pUced against the wall, and, getting in, would complain, like a dandy to his tailor, that it was too large here or too small there; that it was too tight over the arms, or too loose over the body. At length, a coffin having been made to his mind, he swallowed poison, having previously summoned his friends and acquaintances to attend him. When they were assembled, he informed them at the point of death that he died happy, as he had at length succeeded in obtaining a proper garment for his appearance in the next world."

Gallant. A Dutch woman with a large market basket on one side, a child on the other, and a quarter of a cord of wood on her head, tramping up street by the side of a big Dutchman, nothing in his hands but a pipe, from three to four feet long, puffing along like a locomotive engine. A lad running through the streets as though he were shot out of a cannon, was stopped short by his father "Here, Bill, stop! where are you going?" "Nowhere" "What after!" "Noffin." "What's your hurry, then!" "Cos I is." Sumptuous dining. "Well, Sambo, have you got a good place!" "Oh, Yes, tank ye misses, lib berry fine now!" "What did you have for breakfast this morning?" "Why, d'ye see. massa bile tree eggs for herself, and gib me de brosse." (broth.) On reference to the average prices of corn for fifty years from 1790 to 1839 inclusive, there were thirtysix good seasons, and fourteen indifferent-

MR. CLAY'S SPEECH,

On the Fiscal Corporation Bill. In the United States Senate, on Thursday, September 2, the bill to establish a fiscal corporation being underconsideratinn, and Mrr Archer and Mrr Buchanan having delivered speeches thereon Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, next addressed the Senate. Certainly said he, nothing was further from my expectations, when I came here to listen to the speech of rr.y worthy friend from Virginia, than to find myself placed in such a situation as to be called on to say one word in relation to this bill. But the Senator from Pennsylvania has indulged himself on this occasion in exercising a talent for wit and humor, at our expense, in which he does not often indulge. Let me, if he will allow me, make a suggestion to him,

that his appropriate province is logic, or grave debate, rathtr than wit. But if I should happen to catch, by contagion, somewhat of the same vein, he will, I am sure, excuse me, and receive it in the same good humor :hat we have taken what fell from him.

As to the bill before the Senate, 1 have not mucn tn m' Thorn nr tum irrpnt faculties which ordina

rily belong to banks; one is to deal in that sort of

commercial paper which is calieu promissory iiuies, the other to deal in bills of exchange also an ordina

ry coL.uiereial instrument. Bv the present hill, the

bank which is to be created is deprived ot one oi mese faculties, while the other is left to it, and there is no more danger of abuse in the exercise of the retained faculty, by this corporation, than in the ordinary banks of the country. Nor am I very familiar with all the proceedings at the Harrisburgh Convention. The honorable Senator seems to think that it contained abolitionists, against whom he appears, of late, to have taken up a peculiar hostility. I call upon him to name one Abolitionist who was a member. I believe there was not one. I defy him to the proof. He says that the gentlemen who composed that assemblage were men of all sorts of political principles: and to some extent that remark is certainly trhe. But there was one principle I am very sure was held bv none of them: there were none who went for low wages! A laugh. The Senator, t.o,Q0r tolls ne that, thev held all sorts of principles,

k,,t iKot ihou were Hfraid to nublish to the world any

Joni.roimn nf ihpir sentiments. Now I believe it is

ULVIUl U, 11 ' 1 - nort nf thp lni of nations that when war is made

ao-ainst pirates, there is no need of the ceremony of

any formal previous declaration or war, uu. u uuAaratnnA nn nil hnnns that vou are at liberty to attack

them without notice and without ceremony, and cut and slash as hard as you please. But if that same .,;., ot Worrlthnrir was anunorincioled col-

io,.t,nn nf nnlitir-al sectaries such an omnium gather

titrt nf nil kindrpfls and colors, what sort of a party

must that have been which could have been so utterly

prostrated and put down by such a heterogeneous cum hination? fA laugh. 1

Tho sipnntnr enmmenced bv saving that, among

,,;na Vip Whiirs "had done for themselves

t Ur, rrpnttpmpn not to "lav that flattering unction to

their souls." What! the Whigs of this country to be

annihilated by any thing which has occurred during cpQC;.,ni Never, never. Their principles are

as eternal as truth, and as sure to prevail as is the

cause of civil liberty to tnumpn. u wasjusuy re marked by my friend from Virginia that the restric F.YPrutivfi nower av. of the royal, the impc

.:! nnujpr nf spitinir the will of one man against the

united will of an entire people, stood highest on the

list of the principles avowen oy tne w mgs uunug late memorable contest; and let me tell gentlemen tha'., if we shall have a shower of vetoes, that principle will still be written in letters of light 'upon all the r banners. Let the Senator from Pennsylvania and his party was if they will, for executive supremacy; for the arbitrary principle that the will of one man shall prevail against the will of the whole country. We are willing to go before the people upon that issue; and, if I am not utterly mistaken in the inherent love of libtrty by them all, Whigs and Democrats, there will be a general condemnation of such an odious and detestable doctrine. Let the Senator and his friends go to he other wing of the Capitol, and look upon the Macedonian phalanx, standing shield to shield in a cor ipnct and impenetrable line, and, in defiance of all the difficulties which beset them, maintaining their position unmoved and their front unbroken; for, I will repeat, what I have often said with inexpressible pleasure, never no, never was there a House of Representatives more imbued with a lofty and generous soirit of patriotic devotion to liberty and to the disi,urrTP nf n hitrh nnhlir! dutv. Let them. I say, look

on that spectacle, and then ask themselves, how is ' . . i iT1 1 T..

such a party to be broken down.1 rsy wnoms xy nnt nna man t Where is he? If Napoleon were to

rise from the dead, and appear again at the head of . . .1 . ffllC 1 .

all his power, he could not ao it. ineoenawr nu prematurely yielded to feelings of exultation. He has stretched out his hand, and grasped, not the sceptre, but a fleeting vision. He has cried before he was out of the woods. An honorable Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Woodbury) proposed, some days ago, a resolution of inquiry into certain disturbances which are said to have occurred at the Presidential mansion on the nio-ht of the memorable 16th of August last. If any

such proceedings did occcur, they were certainly very wrong and highly culpable. The Chief Magistrate, whoever he may be, should be treated by every good citizen with all becoming respect, if not for personal character, on account of the exalted office he holds for and from the people. And I will here say that I read with great pleasure the acts and resolutions of an early meeting, promptly held by the orderly and respectable citizens of this metropolis, in reference to and in condemnation of those disturbances. But, if the resolution had been adopted, I had intended to move for the appointment of a select committee, and that the honorable Senator from New Hampshire himself should be placed at the head of it with a majority of his friends. And I will tell you why, Mr. President. I did hear that about eieht or nine o'clock on that same night of the famous 16th of August there was an irruption on the President s house of the whole Locofoco party in Congress; and I did not know but that the alleged disorders might have grown out of or had some connection with that fact. (A laugh. I understand that the whole party were there. No spectacle, I am sure, could have i. .nn.olo imiisintr and ridiculous. If I

urcn uiuic buh."v r . could have been in a position in which, without being

Senator from South Crrolina tall, care-worn, with furrowed brow, haggard, and intensely gazing, looking as though he were djssecting the last and newest abstraction which sprang from metaphysician's brain, .... "! tl . .i I J

a -wl . ntt tan n(T lfl rlfllH l Ill ai unacu nuuuurt.

"This is, indeed, a real crisis!" Loud laughter. Then there was the Senator from Alabama, (Mr. King,) standing upright and gracefully, as if he were

ready to settle in the most autnoruauve mamicr any question of order or etiquette that, might possibly arise between the high assembled powers on that new

and unprecedented occasion. Not fur off stood the

honorable Senators from Arkansas anu irom Missou

ri, (Mr. Sevier and ivir. cenron,; me luuer juu&mg -at the Senator from South Carolina, with an indig

nant curl on his lip and scorn in ins eye, miu punning his finger with contempt towards that Senator (Mr. Calhoun,) whilst he said, or rather seemed to say, "He call himself a statesman! why, he has never even produced a decent a decent humbug!" Shouts of laughter. o J hit. 1

Mr. Benton. The senator rrom ivmssoun wm nu

there. . . Mr r.Uv T stand corrected: I was only imagin

ing what you would have said if you had been there. Renewed laughter. Then there stood the Senator from Georgia, (Mr. Cuthlwrt,) conning over in hit mind on what point he should make his iiext attack r.r tko SpnHtnr frnin TCnntnckv. Laughter. 1 On

uuuu nn- - ------ j l j m yonder ottoman reclined the other Senator from Mis

souri on my lett, (Mr. JLinn,; indulging, witn smnes nn hi fnrp. in nlfiasino' meditations on the rie

growth, and future power of his new colony of Ore-

gon. The honeraDie senator rrom rennsyivaiim, u'"'

Buchanan,; I presume, stood forward as sponesman for his whole party; and, although I cannot pretend to imitate his well-known eloquence, I beg leave to make

an humble essay towards wnat i presume iu nave

been the kind of speech delivered by him on that august occasion: "Mav it please your Excellency: A number of

your present political friends, late your political op

ponents, in company wun my sen, nave cume iu ucpusite at your Excellency's feet the evidences of our loyalty and devotion; and they have done me the honor to make me the organ of their sentiments and feelings. We are here more particularly to present to your Excellency our grateful and most cordial congratulations on your rescue of the country from a flagrant and alarming violation of the Constitution, by the creation of a Bank of the United States; and also our profound acknowledgments for the veto, by which you have illustrated the wisdom of your Administration, and so greatly honored yourself. And we would dwell particularly on the unanswerable reasons and cogent arguments in which the notification, of the act to" the Legislature has been accompanied. We had been, ourselves, struggling for days and weeks to arrest the passage of the bill, and to prevent the creation of the monster to which it gives birth. We had expended all our logic, exerted all our ability, employed all our eloquence; but in spite of all our utmost efforts, the friends of your Excellency in tho Senate and House of Representatives proved too strong for us. And we have now come most heartily to thank your Excellency that you have accomplished for us that against your friends which we, with our most strenuous exertions, were unable to achieve." Roars of laughter. I hope the Senator will view with indulgence this

effort to represent mm, aitnougn i am our. tuu sensible how far it falls short of the merits of the original. At all events he will feel that there is not a greater error than was committed by the stenographer of theIntelligencer the other day, when he put into my

mOUth a part 01 me nuiiurouu; ociiami a special. rt . .alitor l T hnnp the honorable Senators on the

other side of the chamber will pardon me for having

conceived it possioie mai, annusi ure pupping ui cuawpagne, the intoxication of their joy, the ecstacy of their glorification, they might have been the parties

who created a aisiuroance, ui which icj nevt-r uuum have been guilty hid they waited for their "sober second thoughts." Laughter, loud and long. I have no doubt the very learned ex-Secretary of the Treasury, who conducted that department with such distinguished ability, and such happy results to the country, and who now has such an abhorrence of all the taxes on tea and coffee, though, in his own official reports he so distinctly recommended them, would, if appointed chairman of the committee, have conducted the investigation with that industry which so eminently distinguishes him, and would have favored the Senate with a report, marked with all his accustomed precision and ability, and with the most perfect lucid clearness. A laugh. There is one remark of the Senator from Pennsylvania which demands some notice. My friend from Virginia (Mr. Archer) threw out an intimation that very possibly the Senator from Pennsylvania knew more of the sentiments and purposes prevailing at the White House than he did. That Senator, in reply, denied that that was the case as yet. but said that he hoped and expected it soon might be so. Expected? Expected what? That a President of the Unned States, elected by the Whig party to a different station and having arrived at the Presidency under circumstances calculated to call forth his most profound gratitude, should abandon the party which elevated him; should commit an act not less than treason, and jom that party of which the Senator is a distinguished member, but to which the President has been diametrically opposed? Could that be what the Senator meant! If It was, then I say that the suggestion, the bare supnnsition of such a thing, is in the highest degree in

jurious to the President. I do not pretend to know J . i kiit cnin T m that T

what may be his reelings, " " ero x in his situation, and the possibility of such an act of treachery were affirmed of rne, the reproach would fill my heart to its inmost recesses with horror and loathing. But the Senator chose to assign the reason u hnnoA nd exc-ected this. It was that the

President differed from his party on almost every one

of its great and leaning points oi policy, nuw i intend for a moment to institute a comparison between the differences of the President from the policy and

principles ot the L.ocoioco party auu uis unegeu onfmm ih nnlicv and Drincioles of the Whirs.

And first and foremost I will place the act of expunping and mutilating the official records of this body. Did the President agree with the Locofocos in regard

to that act! Again, on the question of Executive

power and the extent and increase of Executive patronage, does the President agree with the Whigs, or

re-union, 1 should nave naa an enjoy mem .. j-...;,. norr.irmnrp could oossiblv communicate. I

think that I can now see the principal dramatis per

and distinguished Senator from South Carolina

Mr. Calhoun here instantly rose, and earnestly insisted on explaining; but Mr. Clay refused to be interrupted or lo yield the floor. Mr. lay. There, I say, I can imagine stood the

could nave oeen in a pi -.", .-(, i,unagc, - ir t j .l- i .l seen I could have witnessed that most extraordinary those on the other side! For myself, I do think that,

in ihp imnressive words of Mr. Dunning, "the power

nf tho Pirprntiv has increased, is increasing, and

outrht to be diminished!" And, then, on the one-

ifllDK mai i con n on ..it. r...r I- ; , , . . , sotub who figured in the scene. There stood the grave term principle what are the President s opinions!

Does not all the world know! Has he not put them

in writing; and declared, over and over, that no President ought to serve for more than one term! Has be not seen the effect of the opposite practice in leading a Chief Magistrate so to use his power as to n-