The Wabash Courier, Volume 10, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 November 1841 — Page 2

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"fcftich is now being seuj oil over the p&un•Star the v»ry iotere?ting subject of specie iwwtnent. From wwiy tjUOflcrs pfronff pS:on*nendpt^n*^imI un***aoficfUone

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nature of things, HKI the drcfentftitnco* of the times* Howevwr agreeable it may be to talk «b^t*$r to %et /Upe# i* bqriatise* Ufi£ Qr «f a »n«t*er »u*of whwb tfamnfc* {w^tieiri 4^ piia I.—«UH t*ie«#ewtio4 recurs, can & te dot»e Ttat4Adliill b&ak^ We nixl there, owt tine .*ie pt*pMQed toreiume ttwire may be noqWMfrto*. would It be eefo fctfthewieeivefc, orW^eStajalio ttoeom#iwiwty ft wnd them to d**o. After «Hi tb« «pccak*wtis, Jinatotfrri difqu'ftflion#, impassioned bamngab, twA* kgtmed lefttee, we daily and tiosrly bear thw «ubjedi, vct %dbfi% thinking practical men of old onp fong experience, WHieve*tb«t return^c&rmot be gone ime» with safety to Iny pAttiOuUr section of .country.. Would it

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•. nnV|i| •'ftrrrnr more decidedly anxious fo^so happy a day* But, #e ferir that day ia only far distant, b|it that can never arrife, so long as nine hundred bdnks retrain in %x- ,» istence, stibject to tbe control of ai* and twenty different legislatures or until one National Institution, shall be egablished subject to the action and government of the National Legislature.

There are many banks, sound, and enpn ble,—and with vaults sufficiently supplied with specie to redeem their notes. But un fees all, or nearly jpU have the ability so to do, the experiment-would only prove injurious to an already ruined country. Suppose the banks of Indiana should resume, before those of other S'ates, were not only willing, but able what would be the consequence 1 why, that in a short time the state would be drained of its specie. You may talk as you please about bank conventions to regulate all

the banks of the country. It never can be done. Four, five, six or a dozen states might come into salutary financial regulations, as to their local banks, for one year, and what would it avail *£be legislature of each, subject to popular elections continually, there can be no security as to results for two years together^ One year a legislature will compel her ^nhks to specie payments, and the next give them four or five years of legalized suspension. And who is to control this matter Each state is a sovereignty, so far as regards chartered companies.

Mark our predictions!—That so long as nine hundred banks exist, a certain number of which, separately, subject to the government of separate states, through the whole alphabet of six and twenty legislatures, independent of each other so long will there be mutations and vacillations of resumptions and suspensions, continually over the country, to the utter ruin of every branch of business. And further, that this state of affairs will continue through the duration of all time, until a National regulator shall bo established. You must either subject the currency institutions of each state to the control of the *ffittiot)ftl legislature, or establish one National subject to that legislature. The first you cannot do, thesreond may be done.

If the whole of the states constituted but one great State or Nation, subject to but one legislature, does any one suppose there would be any such difficulty as to banks or currency 1 No,-—the whole affair would be adapted to the exfgoncies oF the business, and comimerco Qf the wholo community. And so it -might be at present Without any difficulty, it is not the geographical lines of each state, 'which bounds the action of its currency.— Commercial influence and currency operations, knew no degrees of latitude or longitude, in this country. It is the commercial and business atmosphere of the whole length and bredthof the nation that must regulate the health of the currency. And such being the case, all will be confusion and uncertainty, whilo this naturally extendod business influence shall be broken upon by twenty-six different impulsesy-no half dozen of uhich, can ever ensuro harmony of action, two yoars in succession^

While tho chances for suspensions and resumptions shall continue, (and they cunnot be controled short of a National Bank,) so long will the aflnirs of the country continue depressed. There will be no incentitive to enterprise or industry—no one will bo willing to buy land, or to improve it when purchased. We do think it is time for ihe whole country to think seriously on tho subject of the currency, without regard to political prejudices or party trammels. &

INDIANA LKCJISLATURE. W This body will assemble on Monday week. Matters of great importance are expected to come before our legislature this winter. The Bubjdfct of Internal Improvement, will probably come up in some shape or other. The payment ofStnte Bonds with the interest &c. will require consideration. A stay law is contemplated by tn|ny 4 and roundly objected to from various sources. No doubt there iwill bo an attempt at some action on that subject. Though we should think the weight of public sentiment, as at present expressed Ah rough tho papers, is decidedly against any further interference, in reference to stay ilaws. From what we see and hear, there •will no doubt be a move in favor of changing tho Wabash and Erie Land donation to some pther channel or purpose. This would be ouch a braaeh of faith, honor, and sound policy, that we cannot think it will be seriously •otei&ined beyond a passing moment. Several other matters are likely to come before it be legislature, of which we will endeavor to Jkeep our readers advised, as welt is their proceedings generally which rosy be deemed ]cf any interest.

!OHN Q. ADAMS, has announced to his ^constituents, that he declines a re-election,and

wishes to retire at the cloee of the present VCbogress.

t* ^t is statod, that Mr. Preston of Sooth Carnotifis, is undecided «i to his continueoce in the Senate. We hope his decision wilt finally be in fkvor of remaining in that body#

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The Louisana Chronicle oTNov. 6th, states, 4lhat a diaUructire fire had just occured at the «*ftooitentiary, located at Baton Rouge,—-one whole block of tbe buildings was consumed

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WABASH AND ERUS CANA Two or three papers ceme t«M*^With long articles on the subject of the "detention of the Wabash and Erie Canal.* And in seyfcral instances, so far as argument and go.wq-have boen puzzled to^know €f4lte question the mnl or» greet denl ip faul about Ute eaabnrra ditionoftbsirhoJe internal improvemc A ^matter, we believe not controve any one at this time". Mucii isal« kid ence to th%iaiportance, ami early conter? btd cohnexioa of Lake Erie and the Ohio rtver through the Wabash Valley.—Another proposition not likely to meet with opposition. We are referred to the surveys and examinations of the Wabash River, made from mm totirtifei and all this in a way whbh no body disputes* But the grand question of prs^HcAbiiity and expediene#* is admirably ADD INGENIOUSLY KEPT m\ OF VIEW.

In Il£$ an examination of the Wabntli wes m8tfe*by ft«tbority of Indiana and IlliItteie^ if^l a report rffade to the executives of itatee. Various modes of imjlroving the rtver submitted*but the estimates for the improve men t« considered beyond the means'of the states, and no further proceedings wer6 then had.

Other Engiueers have also considered the means of the States, inadequate to such an improvement of the Wabash, as would render the canal from Tippecanoe river of pg£ Imjgpent^ utility Alt these ex&rnjfoers have agreed, as to the importance of this connected chain of water communication between the Hudson and the Mississippi, and their commercial emporiums, the cities of New-York and New-Orleans.

A careful examination of these feports will satisfy any o#e that however d«sirable the object, in reference to this grand connection effld chain of communication,-^-still the difficulty and expense of making the river permanently navigable, wou?d be altogether too great^ Such is the inevitable inference to be drawn from the general tennor of the a a re

Then why urge this matter, or attempt to abuse the public ear, with the idea of slackwater navigation from Terre-Haute to Lafayette Let us meet the question in a tangable and practicable shape: Ought the improvement to be continued downward from Lafayette, so as to afford navigation or communication, the year round All admit the proposition at once. In order to make the canal above Lafayette available, and of its full utility to the community, the communication must be continued.

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GEN. HARRISON, POISONED. '*sA paragraph has been going the rounds of newspaper circulation, intimating that at the time General Harrison's body was disinterred at Washington, it was found that the head was swollen so large as to break the glass case fitted around it. And the inference was drawn that the deceased must have come to his end by poison-^as it is said no common disease will occasion the head to swell,

The report, however, appears to be entirely without foundation in truth or fact. The committee who were appointed by the citizens of Cincinnatti to remove the remains of President Harrison, say, that the statement above referred to, is entirely unfounded—That the glass case was not broken—That the head was not swollen,"nor was there any unnatural appearance whatever—neither was there any suspicion or intimation of poison, at any time, entertained by any of the committee, or physicians in attendance.

PRAlftlE FARM FOR SALE. By reference to our advertising columns, it will bo seeti, that Dr. Hitchcock offers for sale tl^o beautiful property, formerly known as the Dswees farm. This is very desirable property situated about one mile from town,—in fine state of cultivation with superior buildings and soil equal to any in the Prairie.

INDIANA JOlHUlfc!

The Indiana Journal will be published three times per week during the session of the Legislature—giving early and full Legislative news. Price one dollar the session or twelve copies for 910 or twenty copies for 915. Orders to be accompanied with cash.

"I will try," by "A School Miss," is quito clever.

WiBASII RIVER.

Our River is in fine order for Steamboating—shaving risen some eight or ten feet, and still on the rise and it is most likely will remain navigable until incommoded by ice.

*OUND«R STORMS.

^nce the middle of November, we nave had a great deal of rain, in Terre-Haute, with heavy, rolling thunder, and vivid lightning, for hours together, both by day awl by night—An occurrence, we presume, very unusual at this season of tbe year.

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.This can now only be

done by extending the canal itself.—That is the proper plan.—That is the mode already agreed upon, after full deliberation, by consent of minds fully adequate to a just conclusion of such a subject. The funds are provided and set apart for the very purpose, and will not be otherwise appropriated. If not fully sufficient, the deficit can easily be provided, connected as the object is, with so much benefit to many hundred miles of a rich country, besides commercial considerations of still more importance.

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fonnccted wiih»the first yeafr»f ion, so as not to break or divide the1 subscriber. We are hej-efore aujhon Mr. Dowling to publish the following

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PHENOLOGY.

Dr. Sim, late of the Western Athenaeum, is now delivering a course of Phrenological Lectures in this place. It is said Dr. Sim understands his subject well and that his lec. turesaro highly interesting and instructing.

A lecture will be delivered on Saturday evening, December 4th., at 7 o'clock on the merits of Phrenology, to be clased among the sciences. By E. DANIELS,.

The amusing article by Twig, seems to have something in view beyond our comprehension. It may be that his satire has a proper aim—Though we are not particularly aware of its application or direction. The style is not quite what wc admire, yet it may please the fancy of some readers.

Pork is selling in Lexingtap, Ky. for $250 per hundred. In South Carolina, hogs are said to be worth from 9350 to 9375 per hundred.

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WABASH COURIER ACCOTNTS. It was not the intvntion of the undersigned, in leaving J»h accounts with Agents, to have actual subscribers. owing fragment* of years sued *hd he requests hi# AgAis to act accordingly-

In the nec$ssitjr tinder which I labor of

hum net* promptly. I wish to do nothing calculated to irritate or wound| the frelintf of any aad therefore hope every subscriber will see the necessity of faSmg voluntarily without the intervention of 1 JOHN DOWLING.

Terre-llaute.Nov. 1842.

HON. R. VV. TDOMPSO.V.

On our firfst page will be found tbe Address of our highly respected representative in Congress from the 2d District. Mr. Thompson takes this mode, as he says, tflinform his constituents of his intention, to quit public life upon the termination of the present Congress. This annunciation, we presume, will be beard with regret by our citizens generitlly. Mr. Thompson's course in the first session of the present Congress is spoken of in the highest terms by those who had an opportunity of witnessing his various efforts during the sumf»rner. His present circular is a vtJy interestdocument, and will well rejNrf a perusal.

He enters critically into an examination of the principles and details of some of the bills passed, thereby laying before the public a great deal of instructing and useful information.

MASSACHUSETTS ELECTION. The election in Massachusetts has resulted handsomely in favour of the Whigs. We take the following from the Newark Sentinel of Freedom.

Old MASSACHUSETTS proves "right side up." The elec-

tion on Monday has resulted in there-election of Gov. Davis, by near two thodltafld majority, and a Whig majority in the Legislature, according to the Boston papen of last evening ff of tbe Whig vote, owing somewhat, it is said, to the inclement weather

There is a considerable ialling

Whig vote7compared with that of last year

In-Boston there is a small increase of the. Opposition vote, and a diminution of almost 1200 in the Whig vote.1' There will be a diminution of votes throughout the State some 15 or 20,000—tho Opposition vote is diminished by some thousands, but the Whig vote still more," according to the Times.

There can. h&wever, be no doubt, the £une paper says, but that Gov. Davis is elected by almost 2000 majority. The second edition of the Atlas gives returns from nearly the whole Stnte, and it is snid '.hey do not shew any material change of public opinion in reference to the political questions which divide the two parlies.

The Senate consists of 40 members, and the Whigs will have at least 27, being a majority of 13. The House will have a much larger majority. In Plymouth, Norfolk, and Middlesex, there is no choice or Senators. The Locos have elccted three in Bristol, two in Hampden, and two in Berkshire. ^£^£1

We take the following from the New York Tribune, but hope there may be some mistake as to the conclusion. At this time the Nation would surely sustain great loss in the absence of Mr. Clay from the Senate.

THE HON. HENRY CI-AT—"We believe rt is now morally certain that the Hon. Henry Clay will (eel constrained by the state of his health, which was impaired by his intense laboursand anxieties at ihe Extra Session, to tender his resignation upon the assembling of the Kentucky Legislature, with a view of spending the winter in a more Southern clime. He will, of course, be suoceeded by the Hon. John J. Crittenden, so long and worthily his colleague in the Senate, and Jate Attorney General of the United States. Mr- Clay is expected to spend the winter in Cuba or some other of the West India Islands. If the fervent aspirations of thousands could secure bis recovery, tliettJ^gbt we be sure Hut the service# of this peerless statesman would not sOon be lost to his country."

EIZURE OF AMERICAN VESSELS*

rom English papers we learn that some tetters have passed between Mr. Stevenson, our late Minister at London, and Lord Palmerston, relative to the seizure of American vessels. It appears that the American Brig Douglass, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, was seized by the Brig Termagant, commanded by Lieut. Segram, in the month of October, 1839. The Douglass was bound to the river Brass. She was boarded by Lieut. Segram off the African coast her papers overhauled, and the American Flag taken down. She was thus held in charge for five or six days, when thu Captain had his papers again delivered to him, and allowed to pursue his voyage. 4*7* ri

For this outrage Mr. Stevenson demands reparation in a letter from wnich we take the following extract: "The undersigned has therefore been instructed, in presenting this case to Lord Palmerston'a notice, again in the most earnest manner to assure his lordship that these continued violations of the flag of the U. States, and unprovoked wrongs inflicted by British cruisers upon the rights and property.of its citizens, under whatever color or pretext, cannot longer be permitted Dy the Government of the United States and that he has accordingly been instructed to express to his lordship the confident expectation of the President of the United States,that Her Majesty's Government will not only at once recognise the propriety, and justice of making prompt retribution, for the unwarrantable conduct of Lieut. Segram in the present case, btg that it will take suitable and efficient means to prevent the future occurrence of all sueh abuses, involving, as they often do, not only great private wrong and consequent injury to property and life, but calculated to interrupt that harmony which it is for the advantage, and it is no doubt the desire, of both Governments to preserve." in reply to which, Lord Palmerston amongst other things says: "With this view, indeed, Hef Majesty's Government, previously to the receipt of Mr. Stevenson's note of the 13th instant, had, on receiving from Lieut. Segram an account of the transaction referred to, called upon that officer to explain more fully and particularly the grounds upon which he had considered himself justified in detaining a ship under American colors, and with papers showing her to be American property.

Her Majesty's Government have now cfyected a prompt and searching inquiry to be made into,lite facts of tbe case, as stated in Mr. Stevenson's note and the undersigned will not fail to communicate farther with Mr. Stevenson upon the subject so soon as Her Majesty's Government shall have teamed the result of the inquiries instituted."

:t PUBLIC DEBT OF INDIANA. 1835, for the Wabash and Erie Canal 1834, for the stock to subscribe for State

Bank

!835, for the Wabash and Erie Canal 1835, for the State Bank 1*3$, for tbe Wabash and Erie Canal 1836, (or the general internal improvement system 1*36. for the LswrwKebuTgaod Indianapolis Railroad Company 1837, for the Wabash and Erie Canal 1837, for the general internal improvement system 1837, for the Lawnenceburg atrd Indiana

Railroad Company te general merit system

1538, for the internal improve-

1*39, for the Wabash and Brie Cabal 1839, for the general internal improvement system 1833. for the State Bank 1839, for the State iBank, instead el 4th instalment of snrplos revenue, which was to have been invested i« bank stock 1839, for tbe Indianapolis and Mwfisoa

Railroad Company 1839, for rbe amount advanced ky the Sate Bank «e pcbUc works 1840, for tbe Treasury notes issued to contractors of poWic worts

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sank the Whigs elected eight representatives do&ra on hc joo. Heretofore tbey have maintained in as tnaiw towns b^ooe majority in each.: *b«mw than xhm "linoa It »^jar It hM not Wl «oco that Sni. otertwl». Governor by a majority of one. let 'hm stodui go sny pnoe —C« G**.

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JO think, hat rcouhi sot prerwft m-- myself upon-a tr ed

untmHc:—1 betook tnjradc to a rimito refresh mv spirits, and calm tho pertur-

lon of roy thoughts. I turned my st«K4f#anlsth(L banks of a small rivulet that tneaadered Jts wajr through a delightful valley, and was bufihr en»phv«] in noting the several objects that presented themselves to mv View, and contemplating upon the many beau

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nature, when suddenly, my progress was arrest-. bv the cries of seme children that I had observed snorting by the side of the stream. Upon lorntng t* ascertain the cause of the cry, to my amazement FJ»eheld one of the smallest of the childreh struggling in the current of the rivulet. It seems that thechtld had be*n performingsoraejittlenautical f^apoaaijoart?, which he Had launched upon the hosem of the strea«f», when atfydentally loosing his balance hh Was precipitated W the water, and as his terrified companions were running to and fro, anfl exctaim.ng, h* will he drowned we cannot get hitri out!" I-observed a little lad more daring than the restoring from their midst and' exclaim, as he'darted towards the stream, "I will try' will try!" It| an instant he was in the stream bravely dashing through the waierv and e'er'tnysell and a number of others who had taken the ularm. reached the spot, the little sufferer had been extricaJ*! from his watery berth, by the heroic efforts of the noble child, who was greeted by his play-fellows with marks of the highest esteem, and as a hero indeed. And such methought, as I wended my way onward, is the effect of those three little words "1 will try"—what power! what magic! thev contain and when put in practice what obstacles will they not ovtimmipf it was rti» effect of those little words, "I will try!" that brought Columbus safely throuuh tho pttuiless ocean and had he disregarded this maxim, oUt beautiful continent would have remained undiscovered: forby thedifsntif faction of his crew, his courso would have been homeward, instead of onward. But "1 will try"«pnnuered, and to its magical cifects we are indebted not only for the discovery, but for the happiness, and freedom, of otir own delightful land. Yes freedom, for had not Washington in concert with our forefathers, acted upon the principle of "I will try," in doine whatever they thought necessary to be accomplished, but little, methinks, would have been done towards emancipating our country

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the galling chains of Britain. And

as I cast my thoughts about me, I beheld on every side illustrations of the magical power of "I will try.' What would have been the eloquence of our statesmen if

this motto

had not been heeded? Or, who would

have performed the deeds of valor which-we find recorded of our Heroes? Whose mind would.ever have been enriched by the writings of the Phwwopher anu the Historian? or-Jiave been thrilled the glowing descriptions of the Poet? Where would have been our Luminaries of learning—our Temples of worship—and Pillars of Fame?

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arrived at my abode and my meditations were therefore discontinued but, being fully determined that "I will try" should be my maxim, I sat about my task with a cheerful spirit, not doubtine in the least but that 1 should succecd beyond my former expectations. -A

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GBEAT ATTRACTION.

1. Prince Screwyourneckoff Arrived. The refined citizens of Terre-Haute, are invited to attend a lecture, to b%delivered in the Pork House, by this distinguished individual. Prince Screwyourneckoff, «while in one of the State's hotiseB near bt. Louis, became acquainted jvith Professor Lightfingera, who informed him that the organ of gulibilitiveness wns excessively developed upon the craniums of the good people of Terre-Haute, therefore, the gifted and highly intellectual Prince, concluded to make this a point in his passage to the Tongo Islands. The attractions at the Pork Houso will be highly unique. Prince Screwyourneckoff*8 upper structure alone, will be sufficient to fill the house, from cellar to garret. He possesses the most remarkable head ever exhibited—the height of his forehead is exactly half an inch this fact to the unlearned, might seem to indicate a want of brains a very erroneous idea however, for by the ingenions process of shaving the cranium by a line drawn^ fron the orificc of one ear to the other, his brains are increased to an indefinite degree, giving to his upper structure the the appearance of being all forehead. The organ of Comeitoveryoutivenoss projects several inches upon both sides of the exterior surface of his upper structure, giving him the

of a horned biped which is

undoubtedly the most curious animal known to naturalists. Illustrating the effects produced by the extraordinary developement of this organ, his highness who is a great traveler, relates the following anecdote: In the Celestial Empire lecturing to an audience composed of the nobi'.itjPand gentry,-he remarked that it was diffi-» cult to explain fuly the abstruce mvsteries of the sublime science^without a human skull for practical illustration —immediately the great Ching Chang arose and said—"That difficulty most worth Professor can bo easily obviated"—motioning to an officer of justice who was in wailing with a Buoie knife, he whispered something in his ear—theofficer departed, nnd inn few moments returned with a head reeking with blood from a common man% shoulders. The Professor's eye sparkled, his organ of comeitoveryoutiveness expanded, his whole soul (if he had any) was lighted up with scientific fire he wound his left hand round the coal black hair of the poor man's head, whose oyes were sunk in denth, and whose mouth grinned horribly a ghastly smile, and holding it up to the view of that refined audience, he detailed every act of that man's life from the time he was muling and puking in his nurses nrms, to the time, when for tne benefit of the sublime science, he met with the accident which sent him unannointed and unannealed, into the Eternal Presence. The Royal Ching Chang was so much edified, that he presented the Prince with seventy-five dollas, and accorded him the privilege of exerciseing his organ of walkintoyourpockiiiveness throughout the Celestial empire which in that country, owing to the hardness of the limes produced by the despotic and rascally SubTreasury, was equal to 035,000,000, United States Bank Shin piasters.

Prince Screwyourneckoff having maie his fortune in this manner, it is pateps unnecessary to state that the opening lecture be^rcfii. All are invited to sip of the

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ure scientific dew without monev, and without price, the evening the Prince will practically illustrate the inconccivable benefits of the sublime science, spplied to the propagation of the human species. By observing the unerring rules of the science, the Prince has succeeded in etherealisirig himself to such a degree, ns to be able at pleasure to exhibit the spectacle of a disembodied spirit, freed from the grossness of the flesh, with an eye tnat never sleeps, and a soul that never tires, soaring upward and upward, in the blue vault of science until his voice will be lost in the music of the spheres, and the radiance of his countenance eclipscd by the concentrated glories of the Upiverae.

TWIG.

"Vli'E TENNESSEE SENATOlfe. The thirteen members of the Tennessee beriaie who undertook to interrogate Mr Foster, a candidate for election as a Senator in the Congress of the U. States, take exception tr his answer which was published a few days since. They appeal to the people to decide whether "they shall be called npon to aid in placing in the National SenateJor four or six years, men whose opinions are unknown, and who refuse to give them when respectfully asked for them, or even to admit the right of instruction." This is unadnlterable Locofoco ism. The State is unrepresented in tho Senate, and has, by a latge majority, declared for the Whi®i. Mr Foster traversed the State, and bis sentiments on all great questions are familiar to every body. The Legislature when convened, has a majority of one locofocoin the Senate, representing a Whi^district under pledge to vote for a Whig Senator in Congress, according to the public will. If the two Houses assembled in Convention, the Whigs through their members in th« House, will have a majority on joint ballot, and elect who they please. Then come the caucus cate

vwer as they expected, they make titt pretext for postponing the election, and for leaving tbe State without a representative in the National Senate The appeal is trick, founded in tbe hope that delay will enable them in some way to obtain a majority in tbe Legislature and elect their own men.—Examiner.

Tbe Corrency in sew York City.%

I! what we Ijearn is correct, Baltimore stands not slone in relation to a deranged and depreciated currency. Our neighbors of New York, it would seem, by the following from the Tribune, have reason to sympathise with us.—Baltimore Patriot.

OB* CTTT Cca*£scv.—Tbe city of New York ought to have the best Currency ot any part of tbe Union, but practically die baa tbe worst- All our tears abed over tbe evils experienced by Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans from their depreciated Corrency, are wasted. Tbeir Currency is practically better iban ours.— Rot that it is intrinsically toon valuable— that is DO criterion. Tbe Currency of tboss Cities commands what it costs tbe man who sells bis day work or bis bushel of turnips for a dollar esc cet a dollar's worth of whatever he wants in turn. That is tbe true measure of its value to him. Bets be gets a dollar wbieh will probably buy labor or goodsagain, but which wdl •ot pay a note in bank, or his rent, or many ether obligations. Tims with some ot tbe soundest and best Banks in the world, all paying specie freely and uwting their notes in all tbeir own dealings, we have yet an irredeemable Currency for all tbe minor the million hand-to-hand transaction of every-day hSe.— Tbe consequences are infinite shaving, anions Ion to the many, oaiancsd by noadeqnategain to tbs shaven resulting in the saving up of unsafe paper to avoid nay ing tbe discount, sod the ultimate has ofmaay them sands annually by those who can I long shell this be enduredf

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LOCOFOCOISM AND THE OTATE DEBTS. Everything, Yot- some time past, has tended to sho1 that the leaders of the Lomfoco party in all garts the country, and in some cases the rank and nle, a opposed to the payment of she Stat® debts. The Wl on Globe, the Richmond Enquire^

Slbgftwt, the Nashville Union, other Locofoco otajLflhAMftW*^.

"»®d from dwel-Ja distrthetton law on -j.iiu tT »Hedged ground,, that,.if the, law go-into a mm- OMtfttlfin. tllA MAMAI4A

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the proceeds ot the aald of t]b*public-Otitis

wdHirtj into the handftjf British Capitalists.^ Thoa* orjntts meati, bv tbw, that jf the States, through thajl Uw^ ger t^asegsian of the prro«eds, they Will pay thdr wreiaiii debtsOhefewith. Th«y act natty make tt tlie^r

to^e hur' fiffee

w,t'enable

the Slates of .this Union' to save he fftww titter dSgrwje. by ^i_r_un(J,

e8,,0Dab^

fi^Sf»l:^.ft,rre*bhore,uVt^an

!k i-

allowed totakfc

liabilities. What could

,Hck an

of.a2-r mwi'^boee

*nt«n»«u, to

mind ia undeba9«d by

the belittling influence of Lonfocobmt ,,Th.e !,irlousopposition of the entire LocofbcBiam of Mississippi to the payment oi the foreign debt of that State is universally notorious. The whole or the late politRal bat-Hem Mississippi, it is well known, was fought, on the side of the Locofocos, from the Governor downward, upon the ground of opposition to the pay ment of the State .bonds. The Governor's proclamation that the bonds are not to be paid is before the world the support rendered him by his whole party, in his it^amous msition. is known to every cixjlized nation and, if he and his party have succeeded in carryiig the State, the forfeiture of her honor and faith and the consequent sacrifice of the character of the country are as inevitable as destiny.

Louisville JaWKal?

SPECIE PAYMENTS?

The New Orleans Banks are endeavoring to make arrangements to resumg instanter the payment of specie. Several of the Banks not being ready, the question wenis to have heetfT whether such as were ready should resume, and lenve the others to work out their own salvation, or whether thev should aid them, or not resume un till all were reaay. Currency conventions were being held at our latest dates, and the resumption seemed to be the nil absorbing topic. In our humble opinion, it would be folly for the banks any where to undertake it. unlos it can he dortBkv all, or at least a very large majority. Fo®.il some few only pay specie, they will not be able to make the currency a specie currency—but will be bought and sold as specie, leaving the notes of the non-specie paving banks still the currency. Public opinion begins, however, to call loud for some gjiange, and the sooner the banks prepare for a peremptory order for a resumption, the better for all parties. Some radical change is absolutely necessary, anc* the people will have it.—L*xingfpn

'"From (he Newark (AT. J) Sentinrl.

From the Newark (iSf. J) Sentinrl. THE CENSUS.

The enumeration of the inhabitants of the U. States which the Constitution directs to be made once tn ten years, for the purpose of apportioning Representatives and direct taxes among ihe several States, has of late been made the occasion of collecting amass of statistic cul information in the highest degree interesting, not only to the professed statistician, but to all lovers of knowledge, whether for its own sake, or as the means of securing health, happiness, and competence. Whut can be more interesting than the knowledge that enables the agriculturist to select the most fertile district for his residence—the vuletudinarinn tho most healthy —the professional man that in which his^owti profession seems the least overstocked, &c.f

While the patriot, viewing the rapid increase of our country in weaUti and population, exults in what it is, and in what, judging from the past, it is destined be, his exultation will be somewhat moderated by observing that some of the evils of more densely settled afterwards. Pigs have been known to live to tho age countries are beginning to overtake us—reminding us of thirty years the rhinoceros to twenty. A horse ha* that even the gigantic growth of our population must been known to live to tho age of sixty-twoj but averhave a limit, tliough it may not reach that limit till ages twenty-five to thirty. Cornels sometimes livo to

not only the present but several succeeding generations the ogo of one hundred. shall have passed £\vay. Owinir to the increasing seldom cxceoci the ago of ten. Cow® uvo about fifteen

—:l

in our favored country, yet ether causes, as and social pride, the necessity of maintaining acertain style ot living, the deleterious infiue ice of fashionable habits and dress on the female constitution, and the licentiousness that grows with the growth of large cities,

to, among others, a larger proportion of children die in

infancy. In 1800, when the children under 10 were

first distinguished in the enumeration, the proportion under that age among the white population was 34-6 per cent. In 1810 it was 34-4 per cent. In 1830 but 32-5 per cent., and in 1840 it ia onlv 31-6 per cent.— having deceased one-eleventh in 40 years. In the newly settled States this proportion is from 37 to 41 per cent., and in tho most densely settled, as Connecticut and Massachusetts, it is less than 28 per cent.

Another curious fact is that tho number of males now between 20 and 30, and the number of females now between 15 and 25, respectively exceed by many thousands the numbers of thoBe who 10 years ago were 10 years younger, all of whom now living in the country must be included in the former nnmbcrs. In 1830 the wholo white population was 10,526.348. In 1840 the white population over 10 is 9,693,976. Difference 832,272. which, howevor, is not the number of deaths in the 10 years, but the excess of deaths, and emlgratiofts over immigrations. Of this deficiency nearly one-fifth is in the number of those classed in 1830 as under 10, and in 1840 between 10 and 20, and the balance in the number of those who in 1830 were over 20. In 1830 the males born between 1810 and 1820 numbered 1,242,930. In 1840 they appear to have increased to 1,322,440. In 1830 there were 1,389,600 females between 5 and 15, or born between 1815 and 1825. In 1840 the same class, only grown 10 years older, would seem, by a lair estimation of the numbers between 20 and 25, to amount to 1,474,022. It does not appear very probable that tho whole of this singular increase can tie owing to nn excess of immigrations over deaths. It is likely that the classcs of middle aged persons and children have gained ns much by immigration as the class under consideration, and yet we have seen these classes have diminished hundreds of thousands in growing 10 years older: while the class growing from youth to maturity have gained more than 160,000, We must therefore conclude that maids would rather be thought between 15 and 25, and that bachelors prefer to pass for not under 20, nor over 30 and, as the head of a family cannot always tell as accurately the ages of his hired help as those of his children, it is easy to conceive that, while in regard to other ages tbe chances are that the errors on ea'ch side will pretty nearly balance each oth er, there must bJn constant tendency to increase the sum total under the ages in question.

We had more to say respecting the Census returns, particularly with reference to the number of Deaf and Dumb, ana of Blind but want of time compels us to defer the subject to another opportunity. J- R. B.

OUR RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND. The

Richmond

primanly omogat un Regulators together honorable wish to rid tbe community of tbe more invalerate of a large band of ktafors, rowdies and gamblers, who were residing in their mist, and sadly injuring tbe interests of tbe community by tbeir ongovqrnedand lawless conduct. The ftlsderaiora have risen into distinction by oppomti^sU tbe sets of tbe Regulators. In their ranks are jmb band of desperadoes. Both parties are large in numbers, and comprises great portion of the inhabitants. They have regularly chosen captains and commanders tbeir discipline, too, is based on aa arbitrary and miliianr code. Whenever a band of either party meet together,!* battle ensues, and tbe victors carry off their prisoners in trismph to their headquarters. Ser-has the battle been hitherto waging, and so it would continue, only increasing in the number of combatants, wem no stop put to it by

and his horse shot from under him and himself wound sd, As to the amount of citizens' taken from their pursuits in life, and made prisoners, it ia impossible to ascertain. There ha* been, however, rumor in town that tbe Moderators bad lately made a capture of thirteen. We hope that sufficient and ample proviaion will be made by the Texas Government for their entire extermination, and in the meantime we have (o wish every success to tbe petrietie eitisene of Sen An gust IDS county.

have operated a very perceptible diminution in propor- or $2,500 Dr Jones' buildings and horse $400— mnktion of children among our population. It has long ing the loss, upon the largest calculation, something, since been observed that as a population becomes crow- short of $53,000 Petersburg Intelligencer. ded, and the means of living less assured, fewer mar- CHANCIRV.—The number of cases now in Chancery riages take ace, and from the causcs above alluded

gum

Enquirer, which no doubt speaks by

authority, says, "that Mr. Stevenson has brought out important despatches with him. He had an interview with Mr. Webster on Tuesday in the city of N- York —and on Wednesday Mr. W. set out for Washington.

The most important correspondence which r. b. had in England, took place, we understand but a few days before his departure. Pretty hot shot was fired on both sides, but the correspondence waa conducted in good temper. Our Minister gave the last blow. His successor was. of course, expected every day to arrive in London.—Bait. Pat.

From the Nalckitockts Herald, Oct. VL & $ CIVIL WAR IN TEXAS. For some time pest the parties in Eastern Texas known as the Regulators and Moderators have been indulging in seditious broils and fends, committing retaliatory acts of outrage upon the lives and property of (be citizens, rendering toe peace and security of the community precarious tn tbe extreme- Tbe violent measures of each party have at length, we are informed, provoked the Government of Texas to active measures for their suppression, and the Colonel Commandant of tbe militia of San Augustine eounty has received orders to draught two bundled men to anell tbe traitorous factions. There will too doubt, be some Mood shed in the event of sn encounter. Tbe militia may be joined by the Regulators, but rt is believed that tbe Moderators will be routed oat. Tbe object which primarily brought the Regulators together was tbe

THE MEXICAN Kfe^oLTJTION. Tbe Water Witch, from Vei* CiW brings accounts three weeks later than before recetveJU.take from the Courier, new* as gives in iltierfciinii8fi*-.uuncea

be*or®

idat«d by the fortnidaWeat to leave the whole oT* convtoetion. This consis

ted ^M^wra.nta Ana's toHowera»and »t was readily decidedtr

A'klfwof thVlTthTWbm U^ty.saysAl^ "fiw governmtnt wmorganised on t^Soiria* theXoUovuqg persons were naitvea ^t'be miuistry, Geo. Toroell, minister ot wan Gomes Ftafrssa, mwnsterof foreign affairs, C- Castillon, miiMfter ofkindustry: France Garcia, minister of finance. .i

On tho 27th business was said to be entirely at stand in Vera Crux, except the forwaroing of gooos the interior. Stunta Ana was making gljf«t

reforms.—

Theeountrv generally bad boceme quieted.—Afieio C/r/fait* Bui. Nop. 10 a 1ENGT.ISH COTTON AMERICAN*^,

Wj have betore noticed the plans of the British Government to extend the cultivation of Cotton in their Colonies, particularly in India. The designs that were developed last year of substituting theinbwn production tor the production of this country, bf taxing the importation of ours while their own should be admitted free of duty, and by other means, are in a lair way of being accomplished,

Bv referring to the ^English and East India pejiers, we find many such statements as the annexed, which •how that the views expressed last year werecorreet. pur Southern friends may, before long? find ihat Eng. land is no their only market, and that tho homt i^mrArt, which takes 886,000 bales, is their most sure one. [Boston Atlas.

SUMMARY.

"J*

SAVINGS BANKS t.v ENGLAND.—According to an official statement recently madeby Sir Robert JPeel, tho depositee under £20Jiave been as follows for the last seven years:—-In 1833. jC1,500.000 in 1834, £1,604.000 in 1835, £1,733,000 in 1836, £1,863,000: in 1837, £1,951,000 in 1838, £2,163,000 in 1839, £2,248,000 in 1840, £2,904,000.

ENGLISH GAMS—Thesteam-ship Briinnnis brought out a fins lot of English game—consisting of pheasants, blackcock, and grouse, for ogp oT the puVlic hoyaes ia Boston.

Private letters from Engtafft state thht If McLeod's trial had ended in convictiub the (iovernmem would have found it difficult to remsTthe desire of the people for a war.— Pkila. Inquirtr.

AN ITIM FOK BACHELORST-STEAM ENOIOT TO* ROCKING CRADLES.—A correspondent of the Dublin Moni'tor writes—"I saw on Saturday a perfect little steam engine, of'a child of two year-old power.'to which a simple apparatus is fitted by the action of the steam engine, upon which a cradle containing an infant was rocked to and fro with infinitely more regularity than the toe of the moat experienced nurse could accomplish."

AGE OF ANIMABS—A bear rarely exceeds twenty vears a dog lives twenty years a wolfe twenty a fox fourteen or sixteen years lions are long lived. Pompey lived to the age of seventy. The average age of cat* is about fifteen years a squirril or hare seven or eight years rabits seven. Elephants have been known ts live to the great age of 400 years. When Alexander the Great had conquorod one Porus, king of India, he took a great elephant which had fought valiantly for the king and named him Ajax, dedicated him to tho Sun, and lei him go with this inscription, "Alexander the son of Jupiter hath dedicated Ajax to the Sun." this elephant was found with this inscription 350years

Owing to the" increasing seldom cxceoo tne age ot ten. Cows live about fifteen

stream of emigration from the over rapled countries yrsrs. Cuvisr considers it possible that whales someof Europe, our population would seeitTto havo main- times live one thousand years. .Mr. Mallerton has the tained nearly the same rate of increase for the past 50. skeleton of swan that attained the age of two hunyears but a comparison of the number of children un- dnd years. Pelicans are long lived. A tortoise has der 10 years shows that thounh as yet actual want of been known to live to the age of one hundred and food- the last greatcheck on'population—is hardly felt seven. ether caus

rfamily

Stags are long lived. Sheep

TIIK RECENT FIRE IN PtTstisBCRa.—AS near as it can be estimated by times conversant with the vnlunof property, the loss sustained is as follows: The hotel and furniture snv 25 or $30,000 the Presbyterian Church, from 16 to 020.000 the horsesin the hotel stRhle 2,000

Court of

]vjng

Engi^tl, is thirteen thousand six hundred, in

an amount 0

$810,000,000. A pretty good

Peter C. Crooks, of Boston, the father-in-law of Mr.. Evei%tt, our Ambaisadof to London, is tejftxl $5,000. Mr. John Parker, whose property is climated at about 91,400,000, pays $7,000.

The issue of Bibles by the American Bible Society for the month of September alone amounted to 23,000 copies. Stereotype plates have been made for an edi-: tion of the New Testament in the Spanish language.

Thanksgiving takes place in five of the New England States, Maine. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Ver-" mont, and New Hampshire, on the same dav, the 27th of November. It will forever be day to uato from, the enmm ncemont of anew era, in tne annals of tho turkey race.

While the table expenses of the English Sovereign are given at $300,000 a year, it is stated that in one manufacturing district there are 400,000 of that Queen's subjects, without work, in a state every hour verging nearer starvation, without the remotest prospect of relief.

GLANDERS lit HUMAN BEINGS.—Several cases of Glanders have rrc*ntly occurred in Dublin, among persons bavins been engaged in taking enre of horses attacked with tne disease. Death resulted in every case.

TRANSPLANTING TREES —Most nut bearing trees may be ns much improved by transplanting and grafting, as fruit treesare. The hockory and thechesnut mav thus be madeto bear nuts far better flavored and three times as large ns they produce in an uncultivated state. In a good soil, they will soon come to maturity and, for shade, fuel,or timber, thechesnut,butternut,and hickory are not inferior to the unproductive horse-chcsnut. bass-wood, elm, and mnple. Late in autumn or in spring, is the time for transplanting—for which, and for grafiing the same course is to be pursued as with the apple or pear tree—care being taken to place the roots about the same depth in the earth thattney naturally grew.

THE MILITARY Lire.—It is stated (hit of the first 500 pupils of the military school at Fontainbleau, 202 died on the fieldJof battle, five rose to the rank of Lieu-

tennet Generals 28 to that of Maior Generals 57 to those of Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels The major part of the remaining rose to points of eminence as servants of the Crown, or in otbercivil professions.

The New Jersey 8tate prison bas. during the past year boen made to realize a profit of $4,OOP, ami that: too. with but 151 convicts.

SPECIE TO ENOLAND—H. B. M. ship "Oreafcs," arrived at Rio Jsneiro on the 5th of September last, from the Pacific, bound to Englend. with $3,500,000 on' board in specie and bull ion. She sailed from Rio to England on tbe 13th September.

A TAKE-M—-At a race on the Cambden (N. J.) Course, last week, bets ran 100 to 5 in /avor of the celebrate racer Boston, snd so immense sum of money waa staked at that. The horses set off*, snd, oncoming out, Boston teat distanced! The "green ones" must' have thought the owner of Boston wasn't a fool.

In Sweeden they deprive a man of a veto who gets drunk a third time. Tbe New York papers stats that five hundred thoupounds of butter are on the way to New York, via Erie Canal, from Buffalo- The larger portion of this supply is hem Ohio. *'1

Some Bostonians were sitly enough to pay $216 for, the choice of seats at tbe theatre on Friday night last,,» the great attraction being Fanny Elssler.

LOVE er MARRIED Lira.—The aflection that linkslv together man and wife, is a far holier and more endur-' ing passion than the enthusiasm of young love] It may want its gorgeousness-- it may want its imagine-" tfve character, but it is far richer in holy and trusting attributes. Talk notions of the absense of love infe wedlock. What! because a man bas ceased to "sigh likes furnace," sre we to believe that ibe fire isfe'j extinct? No! it burns with a steady and brilliant flame# shedding a benign influence upon existence, a millionL times more nreoonsantWeligbUul than tbeeold drean»f: of philosophy. ,.?»•

EXTUOUVUIT

MAS.—John

some villa«e lyceum. He is an extraordinary y*'. ®**we snd unpretending in private life, but a Hercules tn his public cspacity. His whole career ia tntt of great incident, and interesting historical re-, membraneea. Recurring to these details, we find he. nas oftoufMed more public stations thsn any other citi«n in tbiseoontry. He has been sent officially to .the Courts of England, Netherlands, Ponugal. Russia, Prussia, and also one of the three Envoys 5?traordi«. Mryand Ministers Plenipotentiary, for. negotiating the rentyof Ghent. In addition to these diplomatic. missions, Mr. Adams hss also been a member of Congress, Secretary of State, and President of the United, states besides being Professor of Rhetoric and Oca to-,, ry in harvard University. His life of which he has a!«. ways kept a copious diary, will furnish .the world on* of the moat useful and instructive. lessons now'oo rs, eord, when ht dies ffoHAr American.

T-

Qnincy Adams

still retains bts mental ami physical rigor nn impaired. At one period we find htm startling the country by his eloquence, or by some eccentric exhibition of his splendid talenta. Again be appears in a remote public journal, aa tbe author of aome totfching production, in prow or poetry. Before sdmiratiott ecMee* he re•VPwrsinanot^r portion, of the Union, as a lecturer

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