The Wabash Courier, Volume 11, Number 33, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 April 1843 — Page 2

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f." MERCER'S TRIAL* Our readers are doubtless familiar with all ,* the'circumstance* attending the act of young

MXBCS*, in shooting Herberton. The lowing is the direci MWLimouy of Men»r's 'sister:

As soen as the Court was formally opened, I Miss Sarah Gardner Mercer was calked and sworn.—I am daughter of Thomas Mercer ^I%as ^xteen years of age last January

I am the sister of Singleton Mercer. Mr. Brown here said#? Sarah, I now want you to tell when you first saw Mr. Heberton,. and

us all yiur knowledge of him, 3|owly and deliberately." The witness then proceeded in Ba whisper, and sobbing all the while.* About the commencement of the new year, in

Chestnut street, above Fifth, Miss Osborn Jlnnd myself were walking, and meta gentleman whom I thought was Mr. Bastido I Iwas telling Miss Osborn it was Bastido Mr.

Heberton heard me, and passed up the street, and met another gentleman he then turncd|back and he and the other gentleman followed us, he followed us down Chestnut to, Second, down Second until we got '.o Birch's ^auction store, just above Walnut street* I said to Miss Osborn, they are following sua Mr. Heberton then laid hold of my cloak tend asked us where we were going? I said we were going on an errand we then turned up Walnut to Ninth we then turned back to Walnuf and Eighth, and then went up Eighth to George street, and they left us we then went to Mr. Opboro's, from whence "V gentleman saw me home the next evening I left home on an errand, and in coming home again I met Mr. Herberton at the corner of Third and Pine, he went tQ the corner ©f Third a*)d Queen with me I thought it |was Mr. Bastido the whole time he did not tell me that it was not his name he asked me if I would not meet him, and 1 said yes

Jthe next time I met him he told me then his xiame was Heberton, and not Bastido I had never heard of him before I met him three evenings after this on one of the evenings I $net him it came on a rain, and he stopped at ^Lawyer Vandj'ke's to get an umbrella Law?

Vandyke told him to tell me to come in, ul I would not go on one of the evenings I met him, he told me he would like to come to our house, but he did not know any one who would introduce him, he asked mo what gentleman came to our house, and mentioned one or two he said he knew one of the gen•lieman 1 had mentioned and the next time he met him be would ask him to introduce him the next time we met, he said he had Risked this gentleman, and thut this gentleman had refused to do so. The next time we met ^ve took a long walk together, and stopped before a house in Elizabeth street Heberton said a friend of his lived there, and asked mo if I would not go in until b© got warm I reifiised to go he said be would only set a few minutes ho rang the belt, and a mulatto woman came to the door she spoke to Mr. Heborton, called him by name. [Here the witness became much excited, and wept aloud.

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a pause she resumed.] I went in, and

(the woman,) showed us up Rtairs. [The witness was here violently agitated, and a •gdeep sensation was produced on all around Jf her. She continued in this state while giving jher testimony for some time. She resumed.]

The woman showed us into the room it °^had a bed in it, but 1 did not see that until l%fter I got in as s§on as Heberton got me in the woman. Ie0- and Heberton shut the door and locked it told him 1 would not stay he told me I could not help myself he said then if I did not comply with his wishes should never see my home again Iscrcnmed and he pulled out a pistol, and said I must

comply with his wishes he took off my bonnet and cloak. [Tho witness could scarcely utter a word here for sobbing and a long pa use ensued. After several efforts she resumed and said:] he then carried me' by force over to the bed another painful pause, ]—and threw me on it. Mr. Heberton then took off his coat, and while he was I doing so I got off the bed and ran to the other end of tho room Mr. Heberton carried me hack again I struggled to get awny from him but could not. [The witness was here so much agitated that she exclaimed, Oh,

I can't go on,M and wept bitterly. She continued after another pause.] He then vio* loted my person. He detained me no longer *Jin tho room, but I guoss 1 was an hour allocs gether in the room. He afterwards told me he loved me that he would marry me and take me away from this place. He told me if I was afraid to go home he would take me to some place to board until he could get ready for New Orleans. I told him I-would not, but that I would go home, ^1^5*

After we got out of the house ho asked me

to meet him again I told him I would not and that was determined to tell my father and mother ho said if I did he would tell his friends that I had taken him to the house after picking him up in the street he took me three times to that house, and once out by Thirteen street, by Walnut, and once in Pine "above Twelfth I never was with him at any other placet except these he brought two gentleman down at different times to the corner of Third and Carpenter streets, and introduced them to me in the street 1 know I were the last time I saw Mr. Hebertoiiijppvent to Alderman Palmer's with me the young lady was not at home, and I did not go in he then asked me to maet him the next Wednesday, and on the following

Wednesday, he proposed we should go and got married, and go off to New Orleans the last time I saw him was on the Sunday when this conversation took place tho next morning I went down to see my sister, Mrs. Quinn while 1 was there a servant girl came and informed me that my father heard I had had connection with Mr. Heberton, and said he wanted me to come home I did not know what my father would do to me, and 1 was afraid to go home, for fear of being confined in the house, and being prevented from seeing Heberton I then fled to the house of

Mrs. Elder, in Piue street, above Twelfth ©no «f the houses I before alluded to—and

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•taid there all night. Mr*. Elder sold she would goo •he could find Heberton, to tell mm where I was when the returned, f1® J** *e him My came to Mr*. EWert that night, and said there

The first f*enkn I told all this to was my toother I told her that bight when in bed ^wifb her I next told it to my brother it xwa» Tuesday night that I told itto my moth*er I toM it to my brother tbe next montinsn

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before he took me to the house in Elizabeth street, Heberton had told me while we were walking together, that he liked me better than any lady be had ever. seen. [Th® witness

here

became again deeply- affected, al

though she had been somewhftt^bompoaed for a,. tl,

a short time previously.]'

ACQUITTAL

OF MERCER.

We leatfb from the Philadelphia papers of yesterday that theVofyriq the^Ase of Stogieion Mercer,—under trial for the muffler of Heberton, the seducer of bis«i?ter,—returned a verdict of not guilty. W.e copy from the Enquirer's report of the trial the following notice of the closing scene: 4 Wooraimy, N. J. April 6, 5, P. M.

The Jury has just agreed upon a verdict after being out about twenty minutes. The Court Room is crowded in every fart. The excitement and confusion is so great that the Judge has deemed it necessary to caution those present against any outbreak of popular feeling, let the verdict be what it may. Gov. Vroom and Mr. Carpenter have also addressed the crowd to the same effect and order is restored.

C/frt.—Gentlemen of the Jury, have yon agreed upon a verdict 1 Juror***-We have. .* "Clerk.—-Who shall deliver your vercficl? ^Jurors.—The foreman.

Clerk.-*-How say yon, Mr. Foreman, is Singleton Mercer guilty, in manner tmd form as laid in indictment*or not gtiilty.

Foreman.—NOT GCILTY. a ."• '[Here there was another outbreak of anplause.] ,y

Mr. Broioft.~\ afrTnshamed of ydti, gentlemen. Have you no more respect for the Court 1

Judge Elmer.—Constables, bring any one before the Court whom you shall find concerned in this outrage. Such a thing has never before happened in New Jersey.

Mr. Jeffers here moved that Singleton Mercer be discharged from custody, and he was discharged accordingly, and left the Court House for the dwelling of the Sheriff. The crowd followed, and as he entered the apartments of that officer, gave

TBKKE CHEERS

SINGLETON MBHCBR!" The elder Mr. Mercer, Mrs. Mercer, and Miss Sarah Mercer, remained in Woodbury during the night, but were to return to their home in Southwark on Friday morning.

OCT Since the adjournment of Congress, the Administration has commenced a new line of policy. It is perfectly clear that John Tyler has abandoned the idea of building up a third party and has conceived that of buying up the Locos, to aid him in his.tosane attempt to secure his election to the Presidency. Ho is in various quarters of the country, turning out of office men put in by himself, without the shadow of a justifiable pretext and putting in their stead the deepest dyed Locos, in various instances the very men he had before removed. Can any candid man mistake the object of this line of conduct 1 That John Tyler, whope treacheries have made him cajlous, whoso weakness is pitiable and whose vanity is„ inflated to bursting, could be guilty of such ridiculous folly, looking merely at the policy of his movements, is not at all surprising but that his cabinet, however tempting their high offices, could lend themselves the williog-nools to feed tgs vain ambition, is marvellous strange.

It is a most amusing fact that Tyler has taken this new track-—thtft of attempting to buy up the Locos by office. The Madisonian expresses the belief that he will have three fourths of them in six months. He will indeed get a portion of them—your unprincipled hucksters, who are ever in the market ready for sale like beasts in the shambles. All this class Tyler can have by making a bid. They area set of politicians who are forever bargaining, buying bad political bargains and selling worse, (themselves.) It is only this portion of tho Locos whom Tyler can buy. They will sell themselves to his support and will defend his administration for the unprincipled removals lately made. Some of them have already commenced the defence in Kentucky(Ky.)Xojpmonwealth*

INDtAK SltrHDERS.

A correspondent of the Galena Gazotte writing from Prnirie-du-Chien, gives the following extract of a letter from Fort Atkinson, Iowa Territory, of the date ®f the 27th of March

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(feet oateiteaseiit about me, *od Mrs. ngtiatw Elder weat down to teU my parents that 11 ber boose.

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I^tst evening about 6 o'clock, Mr. Lowrjr and his •en Sylvanus came up hern, bringing the news of the murder of three whites, living in Wilcox's settlement nartteulara as follows:—Three Winnebagoes, belonging to Little Hilt's B*nd, went down on Thursday niaht or Friday morning after whiskey, as they said tun findings sufficient quantity on hand, they renamed until JrViday evening,—at which time one Banet arrived—they pretended to find fault with the price. Ac., ao ns to get up a quarrel. One of the Indians then wot a man by the name of Atwell they then bound the other And killed Mm with a tomahawk his name was Zcgardnear, (or T. Gardner.) They then tomahawked three children, (five persons, being all there was in the house) and supposed that they had killed thm. They then took possession ot the whiskey, then set the house on fire and left. Theetdest boy, ami 13, and ft liufo tifl w€T6 not killed—one received fife eteDe, the other three—the bo? so far recovered before the building burnt, as to be able to take his lather's watch over ami

and boots, and fifty dollars in g°ld, «nd also

his little sister, and then started towards Wtlcox* house, which was one mile distant. He was foand in the Morning, both feet htosen to the ankle. It is supposed that he and hissiMer will die soon. ,,

Captain Sumner, with his usual promptness, left the Fort with his moan ted men. within lorty minuwe after the news reached him determined that

vtaita for his maa. Tbe taker Had ao I.|Bsoosnh

My friends sttm and UwuistiadSil, and paid tbe wager.—N. O.

was

mammoth CMSN Nk* pi**,

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nor tbe darkness of the night should prevent him from bringing to jestra, the .parpstiatois of this horrible deed*

He returned this morning, about half past 3 o'dock, with nine Indians as hostages, and at 5 o'clock started aiain in parsmit of the murderers- He overtook them abeat Isnrmiles south ol tiieagewjy, (Winnebago) and returned hara at 10 o'clock, A.M. with them. He releaaed the hostages and pat balls and chains on tbe gailw: iheycanooi escape. Amors prompt movement was never made wnh troops they were out all nighi, and awry severe night it was.^

A* V«UT A wager was made a few days since oa board a steam boat, between a coapie of jokers, oas of whom, point i«g to an extremely ugly man, bet a bottle of wme that an aglier enstomer ewiW be prodacad. The other, who had seen one of the firemen as be pused oo board iba b©at-a maa wboae face was screwed oat of

bat be nevenMess soon made known his

bosinereto the fireman, and obtained his eonssnt to show himself to deode ttw wager. Whea he was ia: aids the social hall, the «fly saan, whose noae was on one aide of his (ace and his eyes o« tbe other, began to wrew and work thsaa about, to give bis face a greater

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onoe tojk ap ^tbe bet and started down

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t-at-and jest as the Lord

eMtttfeaf ."* Tbe Othersekoow!«d-

The dlevtl oT the Danville (Ky.) Mercorjr apntngism for the sotrcity of editorial matter on the plea that the editor has got married. and

waahamed that he crawled into tbe

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Frtm tht Ltmingtim Observer qf Afril 18U. Mr.

A S E E

On Monday last, agreeably to notice, Mr. dressed one of tbe largest assembtagss of have ever witnessed in the Court-Hi had the pleasure to see many .of o^r adjacent counties, drawn hitiier b)r theai that tbe -great Kentucktan would oace mora the people upon the state of the Nation

We have ohee beard Mr. Clayv bat never did he appear iivour estimation, to sach age as on this ocdasion. Tfere wasiKsrcely a national motneut that he did not touch, and a^ih a dparness sad ability that saugenshed esse h» old admmn.

Mr. Clay commenced bis speech by a btntibU knowledgemeat to all parties ou bis late trip Sooth-west for the bonots they had Showered bim, and he thought the proper place to make ackoowledgements was to the people where he

Jwed .and to whom ha aaid he

indebted for whatever distinction he had aeqaii whatever oppogjggntty had been afforded him of service to his country.

His connection with the Bsnk bills of the Extra assnon—his defence o( himself against tlm fhsnwi ing abandoned his old views in retard to a Bank «i« reference tothe twenty percent, dmuse intth« Birtribution act—tbeTanff—the Rinkrnpt act—were aU discussed, and aD imputations upon hint in reganJ to these several subjectf put at rest, we suppose foreva'-

We regret that we cannot present to oar readers whole of,Mr. Clay's speech bat there was ties past it, relating to the, administration of the patronageof the Government, so very important as to feqtrirt that it should be published, and we think we can

in the precise language of that gentleman. After having shown that the present administration had totally abandoned the principles snd thegptff which brought it into, power had identified itsefrtmh the Democratic party,, with which it was now oni and indivisible and was systematically and corruptlyadministering tbe patiomse of tlie Government to hay ap the people of the United Stat«s»*or ratber the Democratic party to the support of Mr. Tyler, Clay proceeded to say—"That he had no besMj **express bis opinion, as ah humble and private "that no man who had any feelings of self" "honor or patriotism could. a£e or kdi

"there were some, now in office, who disdained to "mit to any such disgraceful coadiiiona and ipey "ought, and he doubted not would receive' just and "full consideration, and be judged according to tpetr "capacity, honesty and fidelny to their country."

Mr. Clay went on further to say,—"That, in htS-O-"pinion, if a Whig President should be elecssd^ "would be his imperativeduty to do ample justice, HI "the administratian of the public patronage, to Me "great Whig party of the country—what he verily be"lieved for years had embraced a majority of tl%f^l "pie of the United States. That party for upwsros'ef "fourteen years past, with the exception of one (nseth, "had been systematically proscribed and exc!ude4g*|i "all public employments. Not only from originafag"pointments, but, when they held office, they have "Seen burled out to mske way, often for unworthy "persons, of opposite politics. Aiid ao fer is Mr. Ty"ler now pursuing this practice that he »di*nu0tng "men whom he put. in, not only without a cbai "without a fault, without any species of a t. "with a full knowledge that the duties of their "have been diligently. honestly and faithfully exi "and putting back men whom he had himself dismia"sed Every consideration of equality, of equity sno "justice demands, said Mr. Clay, that the most Tull "and complete Reparation of the injuries done to the "Whig party should be hereafter made. Nor woald "that be proscription. It would be the severest rebuke "oif proscription. On the contrary, to continue in of"fice men, who had been put there, by the dismission "of other and better men, for political reasons, wsuld "be to sanction, consummate and perpetual proscription. But if it could be regarded as-proscription, "who is to be justly reproached with beginning pro* "scription in this country^? "No man felt mere profoundly than he did theevris "which were likely to grow out of struggles for the "prise of Government, with the distribution of alt its "honors and offices exclusively confined to the successful party. He doubted whether our system could '•long enauie the consequences of such struggles. But "he hoped that a remedy would hereafter be found,, "either in the amendment of the Constitution or the "Law, to guard against these evils."

Mr. Clay'a noble appeal to the Whigs in concluMin to stand by their cause, was, we believe, respondmWo by every Whig in the vast crowd, and we doubt if every Whig did not leave the ground with his faith strengthened, and his seal renewed ten-lold in bclfuF of the glorious principles of his party, and the glorious chief who so nobly maintains them. •AASTMAWAYW finer health and spirits, and that he asauraa themol his unshaken confidence in the triumphant issue of the great struggle which is shortly to come on.

FROM TEXAS.

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"tenure ot which depended on Jhe President's "subject to the degrading and disgraceful coedi "whieh were imposed-upon its possession and if "would be the bounden doty of the next President

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The Steam Packet New York arnved#t New Orleans on the 2d inst.| Irttfiug lefttllfcl* ve8ton on the 29th ult* vT

In the Galveston papers is published Tetter from Judge Robinson, one of the Texian prisoners captured at San Antonio, and who hnd been liberated by Santa Ana. In thi# letter he slates that he has been entrusted with an official proposition from Santa Ana for on accommodadion between Texas send Mexico. The terms are as follows: 1st. It is proposed that Texas shouUU^cknowledge the sovereignty of Mexico. 2d. A general act of amnesty to be passed for past acts in Texas. 3d. Texas to form an independent department of Mexico. 4th. Texas to be represented in the General Congress. 5th. Texas to institute, or originate all focal laws, rules and regulations. 6th. No Mexican troops under any pretext whatever to be stationed in Texas.

The Civilian, which publishes the fo ing propositions, speaks of them in a dec! ly favorable manner, and demands for them a serious and respectful consideration, it ii understood that Santa Ana is willing to concede every thing to Texas, except the name of sovereignty. He is convinced of theater impossibility of reconquering the country, and is anxious to make terms while he c»n

A Galveston paper states that it leerns from undoubted authority that the siege-of Cam peachy is to be raised by the Meaiewa about the 1st April. They dread tho sieWv season, and have already lost one-fifth of their army.

Specimens of Texas sugar, said to be equal to that of Louisiana, have been nerved by the Editor of the Galveston Tano^t

The Telegraph states that it has r*c«f#a letter from Washington announcing Jhat Col. Butler, the Commissioner on the p«ft*«jf the United States, had arrive* with twenty men at the Waco village for the^purposed treating with the various tribes of Indtajis tn conjunction with tbe Commissioners of T«*

FROM FLORIDA.

We have news from St. Augmrtine to ihe

instant. Col. WORTH arrived there fretn pjiatka on the 1st. It instated that tho 14th instant is the day feed opon when tbe p#et at Pilatki to he finally abandoned and tl*t henceforth the head-quarters of the

U^quariB

The

officers accompanying

Seat. Colonel BEUHM?,

UJHIIHSHU

in Florida will be atSt Augustine. Companies A aod of tbe 8th Infantry arrived at St. Aogoetioe cm the 29th^alut Ma tvkh un Quarters at St« Fraocts

THE TARIFF.

it* importance to the Farmer.—Free Trade. Do th* peepie ef this ^te df«re a Protective Tmrift fa ether werde, FARMERS of Iltiaoia. do •on desire a fair market for the product of your farms, YES, is year reply. You live in an agricultural 8tate. tWronly dependeaea is upon the earth yea till, and earth woald be to yon a- treasure, if the administration el year government were properlycoo^

Do yen not see THIS Met? If the merchant, wheat yon owe for Iris coeds, woold take your

and wheat and corn ana beef, at its value. f«r what yoa ewe faun, that your farms would not only yield .. *n •f life, but that, Hi

thaTffey Wteid yield yoa also eUtkinjr, tea, e*f*r*nd And is not this other faet just as apparent »«MpW: tajte yoor prodxee for yoar ««t, instead of grinding yoti as he now does for the cash, If Aa eeald pay what keoma with

FARMER,

The merchant will not take your woducis for yoar Wt-*-bot why I The reasons WiA' be. in histum, owes a mfcrchai^ jo Ndw To*, who will net take tbe produce frttoi i'«- hy will wot the New Tsrk merchant take.gj^ace troeB tbewaetern merchant for his debt NHpe the New York merchant has bought his goods la -London, and be ewee a European merchant, and that Buropean tnerchant demands gold and. silver. That it is that alt difficulty originates in Great Britain.

The next question to be answered ts, whv the Bntiah jnercbant will not take -American produce taretufa for bis goods The answer is, that, by the laws of that country, the produce of the American farmer is taxed so high thai it cannot be admitted into British ports. If a bushel of yoar wheat goes there, it is taxed one hundred percent!—so that its price is made do an he re or it an no be so

If such were not theease in Great Britain—if the laws of that eountry would suffer yoar grain to enter ha markets free from the burdensome tax which tbey Impose upon it—the result would be that theRntisU merchant %voul^ receive it and sell it, and gladly give the gooda ia exchange for it. •. lie very moment that such a state of things waald brought about, you would at

And why should tills state of tfiings apf exist? Why is it that England should refuse to trade with as apoa equal terras Why is it that she shall not take oar corn for her brondcloths f_Wh*isit Jhst we shall BUY all from h?r and §ELL*»thihg to her 7 Why is it that the productions of her vast manufactories shall he bought in New York, aod sold in Illinois and be paid for in hard cash of our fatpters, while at the same time, the farmer's ham isjrroaning with the unsold surplus of his labor, which Great Britain, althefagh the needa it, refuses to receive Why should not that haaghty nation treat us as we treat her it we patronise hef cloths, why shall she not patronise oar farms Must we forever giVe her gold, wrong from tbe sales of your products atkalf their value, in exchange for her goods at their FULL value These sre questions which tbe jr/f«*A" Whigs as they are called, ask or the Farmers of Indiana and

The whigs think it is wretched policy indeed tobuy of

foreign

pork

tuck

a case.

yoar produce?

it is the tariff policy of the .whys to

bring about exactly this result and werwttt tsll yon AMP

once

behold the New

York merebant receiving and shipping prodnoe from the western merchant and TOO would also have the satisfaction to witness the western merchant saying to the farmer—"

Pmyme in. the products of your/arM:

A newatate of things exists: Great Britain has ao altered bar policy as to receive American staplea, on fair rates, in her markets: my New York merchant now adviaes me that he will receive Pork and Com io discbarge of my indebtedness to bim Pork, Corn, dee., therefore, will answer me the same purpose as cash, fot fair proportion ef your debts." This proposal you would gladly accede to and thus would the products ef the American soil find their way into the markets of Great Britain. Then the American Farmer would be blest with resources which the narrow limits of his own country woald no longer hem

countries, and pay them in owh, when

thorn countries refuse to buy of us. They think wrong, because, by such a course, gold and silver sre taken from our people to give to foreigners. By soch a policy, we sre doing violence to ourselves.

It is for these common sense reasons, that the whigs say—Let us have a tariff Or, in other words, they say this Pass a law to TAX the cloths of Great Britain, aa the taxes our cor*. Whenever this is done, and Great Britain becomes

tired

ket as America, we will find her

Pennsylvania

opening

H*aitiSBtmoB, April 8, 1943.

To-day, Mr. Sharswoed reported from

As SOM as older conld

MFMIKi

hattafioo are,

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Lieut. Colonel Cuu, Cipt, Uwrw, weolfc Las, Ltncout, Ha»sow,ai»d Joaiu*. The company of tbe 3d Artillery, statiooed at Fort Marion, left St. Aognsune on the 3d in a acbooaer bound to Ohark in order to take post at Fort Moultrie. place* as well as that of ibe company ncMh ly ordered to tbe Augasta Arstmal, tobe Applied by a detail from tbe 8th Infantry.

the Anoy, ar

rived at Savawnah oo Wedoeedey last

the

for

Immediately after copies of the paper containing the above article were distributed in the House, Mr. McGowan came up to Mr. Brattan, the publisher of the Gaxette, who was standing to the left of the Speaker's cha:r, back, near to the entrance of •he room of the Sergeant-st-Arms, and asked mm, if be was the author of that article! Mr. Bratton said he was Mr. McGowsn, it is aaid, swore at him—calling him ''d—d rascal, or some such term, snd spit in his face.at the same time throwing the paper at him. Before he had an opportunity to da anv thing more, Mr. Bratton caught nim by the vest collar, but npon losing his hold, McGowan raising a ehair, something of a scuffle ensued, and struck Bratton on the temple, inflicting a rather bad wound.

Mr. B. then seised hold of tbe ehair with both hands, aod was pressing Mr. back, when the latter relinquishing the chair, drew from an inner socket, on the left breast of hia frock coat, a dirk knife, raiding it suddenly and turning it quickly in his hand, tor a blow. Mr Bratton, atonce drooped the «»airaad flad behind th« Speaker's restrain, and around to the right of tbe Clerk'a desk, where Mr. Gowan caught up to him, and there, in the presence of the assembled representatives of he p*ppHft*»f Pennsylvania, dreve tlM uplifted knife into Ms baek. hot the blow alighting for»»natelv on the left shoulder blade*the-wound inflicted, thoogh sn ugly gash, was not serious. No second blow was srrack, we believe for the members rushed in and arrested the further progress of tbe ho-

Tbe knife was taken from McGowan and proved to have been bent into curse, by meeting with ihe restsfence of tbe shoulder booe. Tbe fbreeand good will with whiioh the blow WM given may be estimated from this firet—thmtgb. it is poasible that the «moetts of tbe motioa of runemg gave uuusaal force to tbe tllntf. "While this scene was going on, and after It had dosed. the greatest and moat intense excitement prevailed—the whole boose, waa inVommot'wm—the members raafced from their seats into tbe area before tbe Speakert chair—business for the time being wasslmaat suspended. After the knife was taken from MeGowan he proceeded to his seat and Mr Bratton was taken into the room of tbe Seneeaat-at-Anne.and the extent of Ka injuries examiaed

restored somewhat, Mr.

Deford ollwed a resolatien te appoint a committee

three to examine and report on (he eirevmstaness of the asandt. which was agreed to witbont debate, with

amendsswt. mcreanM the eomimttee to five, and

nawa giving it power to send for persons and pepera. The

giving Speaker aopmated tbe fbltowmg moethere aathe com nrfttss My. Daferd, Swell, Morris, Hahn and 8kmner.

Ah bonr after this, eonstuMeeame to tbe door of the Hoose,with magistrate** warrant fer McGewanis arrest, on the charge ai' "asaaolt sad batterv with intent to kilt There was no power to exesate the warrant en Mr. MeGowSn While be waa Hi the HDSSR bat st the sagtestion ef awns ef hia frienda, be cams osit and anrrendered himself, wben be w»i taken before Justice Snvder. and bound ovev in #1000. fortHsappaaranea to answer on tbe charge laid In the aramat. The above is a plain statement of the faeta aa thegroccerrad, githaft bias or prqudica of an$ Use.

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From tAs Bedtimnrs American.

CDVHANDER MACKENZIE AND THE SOMERS. We give below (from the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette) thejeharges ond^ specifit»tions brought against Commander Mackenzie* on account of the execution of the mutineers board the U. S. brig Somers, and we and the finding of the Court Martial in #11. It will be observed that the r^ult tar an .entire acquittal on every specificationA^^b Gaxette adds thai the PrSetidertt %lyitentJnited States has approved of the action of the Court. ..

We have not, for a moment, entertained* a doubt of tbe result, notwithstanding the ex ertions made to disturb liie proceedings, and to poison the public mind ift ihis i^Tair, and therefore we have only, leisure not prise, to express at the decision of tne Court: dititKifc Murder on the Mgi $edi on toari Umfed

Slates

lwrjwrts to

receive what we have to sell: and then the Farmers will come in for his share. The Locofbco Party eav that they oppose such notions. What say vou, FARMERS I They say, rass TRAPS. Of free trade, we shall speak in our next, Indiana Journal.

DISGRACEFUL FRACAS IN THE PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. A most disgraceful occurrence took place in the

House of Representatives,

on Saturday morning, while the House was Tn me"it«|fl7h Wiil»es« Before iu The persons concerned in it are of the same /t _t« Tka /lArHMnnnnnnl

political (Loco) part v. The correspondent of the Philadelphia North American thus states the particulars*

Commit

tee, articles of Impeachment against Wm. Overneld, one of the Canal Coirtmissiotwra, for attempting to bribe a Member of the Legislature. While this report was

under

consideration, an event occurred, without

its parallel in the history ol Pennsylvanrn-mi less than an attempt on the floor of the chamber of the House, snd in sight of the assembled law makers of Pennsylvania, to commit a homicide, to take life by violence and deadly weapons—by Mr. McGowan, a member of your county delegation from Moyamensing. Philadelphia. I proceed to give you an impartial history of the transaction.

This morning, the State Capitol Gazette wat issued, with the following articlef under its editorial hrea: "You shall both have office in the Custom House, if you vote tor the Tyler candidate

State Printer,

as Porter Brewley said to McGowan and Bacon.-1—

Agreed,' was the response—and thoy did vote for him sure enough.' In our next we shall hold up to the public gaze everv man who has been bribed.

To understana the sbove rightly, it will be necessary to state, that on the first dav^ trial in the Convention to elects State Printer, Mr. McGowan and Mr. Benton both voted for Mr Bratton. the caucus candidate for State Printer. When the Convention met on Friday, for another trial, they both, unexpectedly to every one, voted for Dtmock, the Governor's candidate. Charges that they were "bought ap" were then and have since been whispered about.

BaooscosM

that Commadore

Spedfieation 2nd alleges—same thing ta regard to Samdel Cromwell, Boatswain's male, and Specification 3d, in relation tp Elnha Small as°»

CHARGE

Oppresstotu

Under three specificatiObs, the same as tbe others, except that they allege he did without form of law, and without good and sufficiaot caure oppressive I ki tt by hMging, ac. &c. 'j,

CHAPTER

MAC-

Somers, did. On gh seas, in. lati

tude 17, deg. 34, mTn,*,aee. and loagitude STdeg. 57,min.45, sac. without form of law, wilfuHy, deliberately, "ahd with ntalkfe aforetlteoght, hang, and eaaaad to be han^sd, by the

,r2f

aaid brig, aatil he was dead Philip a»aesr, a Mtdsbipman, then swvingon board, thereby violating riie 81st art, of the lat sec. of the act of Congress, entitled an act for the better government of the Navy ol tbs tlnited States^ Amroved Ajfril 22d 1808.

ssa-

If.

-'.i- .IT

III.

Illegal Punishment.

Three specifications as above, except that they charge that ha did, ef his own authority, aod contrary to the act of Congress in such cases made and provided, kill, &c.

Sao.

CHARGE IV.

Conduct unbecoming an Officer.

CHARdS

Cruelty and Oppression. .*

£pee^Eoa(wn—In that be baWtually inflicted cruel ana unnecessary punishment upon his crew. Finding of theCourt in the case of Commander A* ixanderS. Mackenaie. r-^.t

Oo the

jirst charge

and its specificstioos, the Court

lads i— That the 1st specification 's not proven That the td specification is not proven ,,

That the 3d specification is not proven That the 1st charge is not prevent On the Sdchargo, and its specifications

That the 1st specifications is not proven That the 8d specification is not proven That the 3d specification is not proven: That the 3d charge is not proven On the 3d charge and its specifications ,,

That the 1st specification is not proven .. That the 3d specification is not proven That the 3d specification is not proven

?hat

of losing such a mar

hat the 3d charge is not proven the/oartt charge being waived by the Judge Advocate, and no testimony or evidence being ottered to sustain it, the Court took no action upon it.

The specification of the 5th charge beinjjjJoemed by the Jud No one

as the Department had no particular information. The Court therefore took no action. As far as evidence was offered under the 5th charge, the Gourt do find no proof of the mistreatment of the crew of the Somers, generally, by Commander Macken»e, nar of individual maltreatment, and therefore find it not proved.

The Court do therefore ACQUIT Commander Alexander a Mackenaie. ol the charges and specifications preferred igsintt hirn fry the Secretary of nw

At tbe celebration of St. Patrick Day, in, Washington City, young JR©£BAX TVUCR was tonsted by some hungry office-seeker, and, as usual, the youth made himself supremely ridiculous.

The President of the United

States," was the burthen of the speech which he delivered on the occasion. We extract a sentence or two, which will serve as a specimen for the whole, and exhibit the folly and vanity of this young upstart: Lexington

Intelligencer. The President has still additional reasons for encouraging a spirit of emigration to the United States, and for fostering and cherishing the emigrant when he has reached American ports in safety. They furnish a class of population peculiarly needed by the country. God forbid that he should make a remark calculated to be understood into a slur on native American industiy No one appreciated more than he did the ennobling traits of the American character, their enterprise and skill, indomitable fortitude, and unblenching bravery. He loved and respected all the people of tbe Republic, for he had reason to love and honor them. They had honored his family and name much beyond their deserts. They had repeatedly iven into their hands the emoluments and Jgnities of the most exalted office® of the State—offices of trust and power which could not fail to make them retpecied—stations for which Emperors and Kings might sigh in vain, for such honors were not heralded by flourishing ban nor* and the sound of windy trumpets nor were they gifts of puppets in pegeant thrones, nor were they tho inheri• tances of aristocratic succession where accident and not merit decides the point of success but such favors conferred dignity on their recipients because of the illustrious source from whence they are derived, being unsolicited, unpurchased and unpurchasabte gifts of a free people to a free citizen from among themselves. ,7.','.

HA*.—Fer

•ana tnai water will not remain oo long. _. Yours, J. BUNCH. Chmeiahidk, Pit., Feb. 8,1849.

P. 8^—1 had tdw to hava forgotten nrauft-^lel oampoaKwm it is tbe beat, biaek lead escemed of enyihm^l have ever .ured-it ia both7^T

ehsap. 1 ass new, and hsve been astng it ur seam trynbsforeyoaeondemn it. It2de.a wood asms, mixni with any kmd of eonunoo grease

trata-oiL, ff yoa pisses.

it ts

the lest three years

have

been in tbe habit of sowing tbe broom-eorn seed broadcast, mixed with tbe common field peas, which baa made an excellent bay, whan properly eared. Tbe sprifig ef 184S, through tbe middle of my pstcfa I sewed a strip of about ten feet wide with Indian corn tbe whole being managed precisely in tbe same wsy, and to my surprise, when ready to cat, the broomeorn on each sua of the Indian corn, looked like two walla—the broom-corn about five, feet bigb, while tbe Indian did not much exceed two feet. Of coarse, it was all seeded vary thick, and it moat be thick, or it will be too coarae fer food hay. So I conclude that broom-corn is much to to preferred. I have some of the hay on band that is now two resre old. My practice is to hvaae it my slock eat it kindly. I trr to sow it thick to prevent th* stalk befog large. I esteem it best when tbe stalks are aboat the sots of large out stalks, aad from three to four feet high itahould be eat jast after the broom or head makes its appeerepca that wtadi is cat ie the forepart of the day, sbooid be shocked ap after four o'clock it need not be spread the next day. bat (be day after, it may jast be apset aad opened-at evening it shoold be shocked op again, and if net too coaree, tn a few days it will be ready for the hoMa Yea need not fear rain while the.rfiocke. One word aboat tbe land and eeed. Very nd» land not so good land that will prod ftom four to fivebarrele of com per acre is rich enou if the land very rich, it win grow too large in spite oTyaa I think one basbel of broom seed and a half bote! ef pns, day-red or blaek-eyed, will make it

PLAMCWPHITORJAWL WMECTI

,» The extenf of to fefafettititf of Sbipman^ the brokers tfavelling agent between New York and Philadelphia, bas not been eorreetly ascertained, and ia variously estimated( from W(M)00to «10e,000. We copy the1 following from tbe Hair Tork Commercnl of Saturday:

GXSAT

Rosssmr —There was cemsderable excite-1

ment and some snxiety in We|!sii»et yesterday, relative to the fete of JscobShipman, Jr. lor maoy years the confidential messenger Of^be banks and brokers in this city snd Phtlsddphia. He was continually travelling between the two unties with large sums of j, money ta his posmaion. Bis last trip waa made from here o0 Tuesday, on Which occasion hi hsd sbout, 915^000 in French gofd. Mdeurfng'td tbe Union Bsnk of New York, to bp deiivsfei at the mint, and other property to a very tiraifiieiabfesaioeat, in his posses0|0{|v

He readied Philaiidel^bia in saTety, transacted such businesaaa suited his purpose, and, left that city in tbe raU-road train of Wediiseday. He-wasnoticeu in the cars aa far as Trenton, but -beyond that point nothing could be heard reiative'to him. His non appearance hereon Thursday wastfiomht to he strange, Ira when on Friday there were no tidings from him, snd lettera and packages Entrusted to bis delivery were received W through the post-offiee, stamped at Trentou and Philadelphia, his employers sad friends appeared to be pi unanimous in ta% opinion thathe had been decoyed from the care at Trenton, murdered "and thrown into jjU| tbe canal, and his money abetracted forea great^was m: the confidence in his integrity that no one appeared for a moment to suppose that he was unfaithful to hia trust, or that he woald have pkrted with the packages in his charge white life waa left to protect them. %M

Notwithstanding all this confidence, however, it bi was satisfactorily sscertained last evening, that there was no murder la the esse, bat that Sntpman waa merely a "treader in the footsteps of many illustrious predecessors"

It anpestathat he lefi theosrsat Trentoo,'obtainsd on a plausible pretences horse and vehiele, aqd posted to Philadelphia, where he arrived in Hmete take tbe night train for Harriaburg bat ae he was about td enter the Mrs he was accoeted by tbe Presidant of the Mechanics' BSnk of Pbiladelplmi, who asked ihim where he was going stihat time of night, to which hecarelemly replied that he wished to takes ride*

did not, however, proceed in thia train, bat Stayed over, as is supposed, till the next morning at 9 o'clock, snd then took the csre for Pittsburg, entering his name as

Speeification-^In that be used taunting, and insulting language to Spencer, at the moment-of his execution.

Johnson.

Instead of depositing the French gold hi carried from New York at the mint, he converted it into ITres' sury notes. That is all the loss tint falls upon psrtiet in this city, all the other packages entrusted to his care having been faithfully delivered, so fsr as we can as« j. certain, including vboet §5,000 in specie seat by one of tbe W«|| street bra&ere. Tbe leas of tboee on the other side of the line a not' ascertained, bat it is gener* ally supposed to be not very large. A number ef the packages sent by bim hava reached bars through the post oifice. There is no resson to summss that say specie was entrusted to him, and the atitoont pasaiog betwee® the cities in hand iMfeste at present urite small that if he has any large attfoat hy him it must be in drafts, which he oannot use.

The Philadelphia Gasette of last evening estimates the amount of property in his possesion at Urbnt f75,000 to $100,000, but these sums sre evidently an over statement, founded opon the sssumption that all the property brought on from New York, and that hs tooh charge of at Philadelphia* had been oonvertedto his own use. Thoee most likely to be correct in their calculations in the matter do net believe that the loss will exoeed 930,000, or at the very fnrthest 440.000.

What could have Induced Shipman to go off with comparatively «o small a sum, is a mystery. He has had, time altet time, fall as geed if not better opportunities of abeconding with much larger, amounts, snd doubtless would have had again. He has bsen entrusted, heretofore, by one institution, we Idsrn, with as much as $500,000 in bank notes at a time, a!

Butthie is bat esrt of ths sceoant. White other good pork wae sslling freely in the imtrkst for two and two and a half cents per pound, he was repeatedly or-

ed to take fourcente for these plge, butssys he can much better with them by peeking. He fstted some nparly ae good last season, aad whet wss not required for his family use, he readily reteiled at eight cente, on account of its superior quslity sad flavor, while other good pork wss selling st five sente. Mors dear, beautiful pork we never saw, and the only objection we could conceive to it, waa the totsl absence of, lean.~Such pork ie worth nearly the price of butler for food, and it might be tried into lard with but little waste.--were half or ihree fourtba Berkshire, and the Tbe pigs rctnainde

er Leicestershire.—-A sw'r Africuituritt ISAAC HILL

AND TIIE

OtOW—A

J. B.

Seuthtm Planter, Hi'

.AC.,

1 "1

I of which

had he beeii so disposed, he could have appropriated to hisownuss. What %dded to the estimation for integrity of Shipw man was a knowledge of the feet, thstne had more than once been attacked by robbers, and had defended his charge at the hasard of his life.

We are requested to say that the statement, In the Express of this morning, that the Bank of Commerce has suffered loss by Shipman, is an error. That ban It never happened to employ him at all, either to transport money or for any purpose whatever.

The Union Bank, it will be seen by an advertisement in snother column, have offered a reward or §2000 for ihe recovery ol the §15,000 of their property: in his possession, or a proportion for any part thereof.

No messuree for Shipman's arrsst had been taken in Philadelphia yeaterday. Mr. townds left New York on Friday evening in pursuit, but Trom the knowledge of tbe toutee possewwrl by Shipmsn. his capabilitV of eaduting fatigue and his 48 hours start, it is generally thought that the pursuit wM h* unsoccewfuV

RSSVLT

or 6ax«B iw ^wj'vg.—Mr. f- R- Wil !iam«, of

Buffed gave as- a stateoMnt a few day# .sines, by -ij which someof oar readers ay be. benefitted, ie illus

tratingiho diflwrenee in last

He bought two pirns

ring, about sir weeks old, for which he paid §3. His object in procuring them was for the breed, as tbey wereeosmslland indifferent st thst age, that both occupied I ere than half the space in the bottom of a flour barrel. He took good care of them from that time, and kept an accurate aeoount of the feed, which wae principally corn-meal! for which he paid 37# cts. a bushel, with an oeeasionsl addition of oats dcc all of which cost something less thsn $90. They were slanghtered in December last, st thsigeof nine months precisely. When dressed and hung ap for two days, they weighed in the praeenoe of several witnesses, 904 and 310 Iba., total 614 lbs, It will be Seen, after deducting the toll, one-tenth, for grinding, tbey returned one pound of pork for every four pounds ebt ounces of oorn consumed.

very pretty qosrrel

has been going on between Isesc Hill and the publish* ere of the Washington Glebe, respecting the share of public money thst sach receivee. Ia tbs course of some remarks On the New Hampshire election, iheCJfobe took occasion to say that "the potrssiage of the Poet Office Department, together with eome addition (ae wo understand) from the Treasury lparjm*m. b*f «eaveried Ieeec Hill to the Webster and Tyler Wth, and made this hitherto incorruptible New Hampshire rat» riot the mere tool of the adminiatration.

In reply to which charge Isaac lets outs foil broad' side against Blair and Rivee, in which, among ether es-

Wai?&^5^rtaye dene Jobsi to the sihount oT mure than two hundred tbonaand dollars wnceMr Vow Buren went out of ofliee. aod received prieee for

higher than are ehergSJy pnwtere

ofthe Union. One of their firm is

Ta*

LAST

Poles counted 9,000 lav, however, Warsaw of t'

try men to gaio the walls. killed and wounded. Next dei waa taken. This wss tbs end of that ardent straggle of tbe Pol Mi Revelation, which lasted for eight months. Daring this lime ths Poles foaaht fifty-five battles v420,000 Russians, with 300 artillery, had been sent aninst 70.000 Poles, aad 120 caaaoe 900,000 of the Raestans fell victims ia tbe Polish territoryCount Spfnienski'i' Poland.*

Bon RgrcwATwa IixoanuTEB.—VlTeliave for some time been looking for a familiar illostrailon of the hsnest§ of thoseStatee whkh gravely express their abhor* ranee of Repodtstfon, yst shrink from making any seerifices or laying aoy taxes for the payment even of ths iaterest doe the despairing creditors. The foilowiag, from the LsebniUe Jeernel, hitatbe nail exactly:— [TrSnm*. walkthe here are you frem, my fneedl' 'I'm from Illinois.* 'Well, sre you going to repudiate op their in lllinoia aa they do down beret* 'Why. no.' seid tbe old Seeker. 'I don't think tare shaft repoderate exsedy ss tbey do down here. We owe, Ussy fell me. abeat twenty millione, snd I reckesi. by waiting till ear-bends get to bs worth bet five eems in tbe dollar, we csn borrow millioo snd pey off the whole,

then*

now

a partner h»

ihe job of printing tbe Documentary History of the Revolution in twenty volumes, for whieb iCongracs basstipalsted ibspsymsnt of twenty.eeven tboassnd six hundred snd fifty dollars par v^raw-nmsking the whole sxpsass #ee hmmirsi ami ffotbm thousand isttmrt

9rsseexa rat Fotise Hio

fifty first struggle ws*ik»,s^Mof

WSHRW.

Tbe Ree-

sisn Army, composed of iWMO men sttemtHed twodays to taks possession of Warsaw, defended only by 25,000 Poles. Appalling and melancholy was the picture, when the eeburbe of Warsaw were consumed in flamee by the Hessian artHlery. Tbey opened batteries ef 500 pisses of cannon, which played like an Infernal orchestra around tbs tottering houses. That tremendous bombardment lasted two days it seemed like a canopy of destructive fire, which eerrounded and covered the devoted capital. The iatrenebessnt of the fortification waa filled ap with tbs desd bodies of Russians, who mounted upon &^00

tiMf

ri*'n

®"nm

t'irieam

friend of oora, travelling to NewOHesna, wm ed op fo a eariees lookieg ohTshspsitting slene ia bow of the boat, and reotsrked. 'Where are you fn

VMI than «se ddf

ham to»spuJsratt on-

lm tks mUbs». Wecaat think of stbitwaerepadenuing the whole twanqr million. Thank Ood, weSedwshewesowhooesiy.*'

X. A.* *,