Weekly Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1855 — Page 2
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tT"Our platform wouldbe better, beyond all question, if that portiou of the second resolution above alludeu to, was stricken out ; but let it ttand for the present, and the people will ttrike it out nexi year. We were never in favor of the
. 7 T- . .. " IT Z I7J I Missouri Compromise, and ve would, in ray es- -;-.'. At o th ..n-tiiuti'n as tho mariner eUnjrs I .. , r,- . . r-J . i ;.' -x ; :w!;vVa the nhtand the tem.K-st close 1 timatiou, be foolish to restore it now. Lorret"Irj? ' I iwnJene o Indianapolis Journal, of Friday.
r yc published the above caption on Satur'Cri.T 10 It XING, AUGUST 6, 1855 , . .. ? day in ita connection with the other para- ; ohnncn E7 -icted iuTeuneaaee North gph of the letter. But it is too good to be C.-rolica all right. lost; it deserves to be repeated until it sinks
The L-'.ulsviilo Courier ha? tho following: into the memories of the votera of ludiana. TtsxtssFE Election. For lo these many W admire the writer for his candor whatycari tho first election new? from Tennessee cver we raay tn. 0f j, discretion. He has Wen alw.-ivs to favorable to the Whigs as . , , . ... t lc: . v i , 4 i i boldlv proclaima that principle, ruled ot pol.tto excite tneif hiTies-t expectations and en- 1 r , thusiaw. But tho more the returns came in wal action, solemnly promulgated m large asth darker thirds looked, and frequently that semblios and through the recognized organs which rt first promised so fairly, resulted in 0f a numerous party, have no jennanence or dieter .md glooiiv The complexion of the fixedne. bnt are tblrjgs which, like articles news from tie distant counties often urset the , , . ,. , Uttat Calcuhtion.s a based UPOQ the VOte in of dr re be put oft and on according to
the hrst few ountic.-i. the season. The dii-ucche at noou yesterday an- It is true that Congres? meets next winter, Lf.ncccil th.it ia thirteen counties heard from Cl) person eVer imagined that the Missouri V?lry (K" La'1 iTnnW Compromise will be restored and the Nebras-Johns-ju, v.hi. was elected in 13o3 by only , ' , , . . ., T. i 2,261 majority. Of coursa K N. stoc'i went ka bill repealed with President Pierce and a up rapidly, and Know Nothings were exult- conservative Senate at the head of the gov-
a;.t and ju.bil.vnt in a h.gn degree. LASt ernment
The writer plainly confesses that the party
right's despatches, however, put another face
ou makers, uciirrv KAiu iu wuuwi-4 . . . us reduced to nnW 1.3O0L one-half of which had no intention of restoring the line , for
was iriiried in Davi.lon countv, in which long before that could be done, public opm
Nashville, tho ho: bod of Know Nothingism, . . i : . 1
v loratol. jioreover, several pnvaie ut--patches came through, stating that Johnson, w U youd nil doubt elected, some of them sta'ic'his majority at several thousand. Of cor.rs-r Know Nothing visages suddenly lor.-:.d an 1 the "owlV soon sought their Lidinsj p!acos. Ve were still, however, Tather iui lined tj think Gentry was elected, when we v.-ers favored with the following private despatch from a luuw Nothing at Nashtill, which "settles the hash." "We are catoLLig h 1 in West Tennessee. It 1 doultful who is elected, but Johnson haa the best charce." Th jig mav le considered as up. Sam ia dead in Ttnaesset. and he will le pretty apt to be bc.rie l deep, deep, deep in Kentucky, and especially in thin Congressional district, on UoTiday next. The Telegraph report are as follows: Tenne33S9 Election. John n" gains ooO in Smith and Macon, 1D2 in Marshal, X in Cameron, and a Tejx.rte 1 riin of "0 ia Warren county.
Gest&t pi:r -0 in Robertsou, 40 in Giles,
ard g-vnin $ in Diokwn, Benton, .ind Hum phrVs.
The returns iluctaaie very much; there
ar Ur !oos ar.d 'ius n both sides, and the remit is i o v very doubtful. Johvsos's chance stmJ the best. The net gain for Gentry, in 32 cunties, is 1,370. Election close. It is expected that the K. N. candidate for Congress from the First District is elected by 700 majority. Zc'-ijcoftek FL. X. in the Nashville District is elected by a h.rjo majority. tth Carolina Election. Tenth Congressional District of N. C. Halifax County, gives II. M. Shaw, Democrat, a majority of (XO over ParsE, K. N., for Con;rei'; in 2nd District, Kdgecombe and Wayne counties give Thos. Bctfix, Democrat 2,000 majority over L T. Latham, K. N. Whig, in Sd Dir-tric; VrrrT,ow, Democrat, has a very Vrge majority over David Keid, K. N. Fourth District, Granville county gives 650, Franklin 350, Warren 700, and Wake 450 majority f -.r L. L. Bbakch, Democrat. Im
pression is that Democrats have a majority of
Cocgi emen. Returns show large Democratic
fains. Hero an accident happened to the line, and furthr reports could not be obtained.
ion would have advanced so far in the antiSlavery direction that such restoration would
be condemned as a pro-slavery movement
He does not seem to be conscious that he is exposing his own shame and that of his par
ty by this cool declaration of duplicity.
Let it ataivl for the present; it may secure some
whig votes it may give an air of modera
tion to our platform, and enable our leaders
in certain localities to deny the charge of rad
icalism. And the peojJe win strile it out next
year, when they are sure of victory, when vo
ters htive become committed so as not to be
able to withdraw. What do they care for
consistency or honor if they can only have success? Bnt they may find themselves bad
calculators; they may have to say that the
clause about the restoration was worse than a
crime ; it was a blunder.
Kentucky. Tho election comes olY to-day in old Ken
tncSy, ana w natever may be the result, we earnestly hope that we shall not b compell
ed to record scenes of violence and Llood-
shc-d. We condemn such exhibitions as
strongly in Democrats as in Know-Nothings.
But to the honor of our party, be it said, sel
dom, very seldom, does contempt of the law at elections attach to tho Democracy. The
Presidential vot in Kentucky In 1Ro2 stood
ss follows:
Scott 57,0"3. Pieuce 53,807; giving
Scott a majority of four thousand two hundred and sixty-one, which the Democracy
would havo o overcome if things stood in stttu qix. But the new issues have, we hope,
worked for the benefit of our cause.
We learn from the Bardstown Oaictte that
the Cincinnati Time has been playing the game there as in Virginia and Tennessee. The G-ne'Je says: This pap?r, intended exclusively for Ken
tucky circidati'tt, we have had in our possession som day?, and we have now succeeded in getting hold of one of its issues, for Ohio asd NonTnERX cibctxatiox, of the SAME DATE AND NUMBER and the papers are as different as if emanating from different offices aiii edit?d by different men. The Northern number has nothing about the fifth district in it no article appealing to the "Citizer.3 of Kentucky' and nothing favoring the South or southern institutions. It speaks with pleasure of Chase's election being ecn-e gives anti-slavery platforms pats the Abolitionists familiarly on the back,
and oper.lv avows that "SAM IS A FREESOILER IN OHIO." The other number ia
made of quite different materials, goes against
tejjro-fteahng and under-ground railroad:
;ind hmva3 for Charley Wintorsmith. Both p-aper3 are numbered "Volume XII, No 52," and dsted "Thursday, July 10, 1655." They
are both m our possession, and can bo seen by any and every one.
Gentlemen of political experience say that
perhaps Mxp.jead, from hi3 personal popu
Icrity may b elected, bnt the State will be
fairly divided with the Democracy. McGof
ITS and Wool ley, loth Democrat?, will be
elected; and Prestos will be elected if the
voters of the first, seoond and eighth Wards
cf the city of Louisville are permitted to tote.
Eut on this point the CowriVr says:
It is cow reduced to a certainty that the
infamous scheme to produce not and blood
shed ail to disfranchise at least one thousand or fUVon hundred of the legal voters of the city, concocted in the secret councils of the Know Nothing' and faithfully carried out by their willing autjcts in the General Council and cn the judge's bench, is to be prosecuted to tho utt criMOit extreme. Under present arrargcrei:t3 it is entirely impracticable to lill the tntira vote in the First, Second or Eighth Wards. The onlr manner ia which
even anything like an approximation to a full vote can b taken is by concerted action in thwe wards, frr the bulk of the voters to cast their votes only for Governor, IV'entonant Governor, Congressman, Senator fti.d Representative, instead of for the entire ticket. Hexrt Clat o Fr?ioy. The following is an extract from a ppeech delivered by Henry Clay, in Nov. 10, 1850; and now both applicable and of intorest: "But if it (th? Whip; party) is to be merged into a contemptible Abolition party, and if Aboli "nis;n is to j engrafted upon the Whig creed, from that moment I renounce the party and cea to b ft Whig. I go yt a step further: If I am a'ive, I will give my humble support tj that man far the Presidency, who, to whatever party he may belong, is not contaminated by fanaticism, rither than to one who, frying out all tho time that he is a Whi, maintain Wtrir.es uferly subversive of the Constitution and the Union. ,
Mr. Wise.
To show the devices to which partizan
rancor will lead, the Know Nothing papers
have been trying to make capital and sow
dissension among Democrats by distorting
the meaning of a letter addressed by Mr.
Wise to the Ynvng Mm' Dewieratic Union
Club of Xew Torlc. They pretend that Mr. Wise, in his letter.
endorsed the soft shells of New York and
repudiated the hards. Now, in truth, we doubt whether he knew that he was addressvar the soft; certainly, he could not have
had any desire, to increase the split among! the Democrats of New York or to interfere
in their local quarrels. That our readers may judge for themselves, we give the whole
letter. Accomac, Va., J une 5, 1853. Gentlemen: I have receivod yours of the 26th nit, at this place from Washington City. It breathes so true a tone of patriotism and sound wisdom, that you almost tempt me to forget myself and make a promise which I could not worthily redeem. If anything is wanted, it is exactly what you propose to restore the Republic to a sense of the individual rights it must and shall defend, or cease to exist The issue is Shall the republic continue? It cannot, if intolerance, priestcraft, sectionalism, bigotry, higher law, are to reign in the elections. And if bad men will secretly combine for the purposes of political assassination, good men must openly band together to conserve the liberties and the inalienable righta which neither mobs nor legislation may assail without bringing death and destruction to our whole system of private rights and public property. Cordially, theu, with all my heart and all my heftJ, I devotedly unite with "the Yonng Men's Democratic Union Club" of New York, in the noble enterprise they undertake of restoring the old feeling the heroic revolutionary feeling of this blessed country and its happy people. We must recur to fundamental principles. We must revive the national sense of who we are of our origin of our fathers' faith and sacrifices of what we are and should be, tho necessities which constrain us as of old to be united, in order to remain free, and the ends we ought to aim at, and the Constitutions, State and Federal, whicb are the standards and the touch-stones of our political action. There must be a revival of the love of law, order, reverence for sound morality, and respect for private and public authority. Legislation must be so restrained as not to invade inalienable rights. Men must be educated not legislated to be good Christians and good citizens. Tho church must not lay its hands on political power, for the sake of persecution or any
other purpose. There must be no Popes
here, either Protestant or Catholic. No power
must dare to interpose between our conscien-1
ces and our God. The constitutions and law of the land must be obeved the union of the
States and tho rights and sovereignties of the
States must be preserved and perpetuated. To this end, we must revive a new national feeling in the fusion of conservatives of all parties against the destructives who would bring nothing but confusion upon us all by combining all the odds and all the ends of all the isms in one omnium-gathervm-tem of Know Nothingism. I beg pardon. I wish I could accept your call; I would gladly if I could; I cannot; my health ia shattered. I have been absent from home since the 1st of January. I am worn
down iu the late canvass; I must rest; my lungs are suffering, and I cannot for month
to come either labor or speak. My heart and soul are with you with all my might. I am, your obliged servant and friend, HENRY A. WISE.
Colored Men for Office in New York. 1 Two or three weeks since a call was made by the colored people of New York to meet in Convention at Troy, on the first Tuesday of September. The Neiv York Herald made some very severe comments on the affair, and the following letter from one of the signers to the call is tho consequence:1 Albant, July 24, 1S35. 7o tlte Rlitor of tlte Sew York Herald: .
I see by the Herald of this week, that you
have spoken of the Convention which is to
meet at Troy on the nrst luesdarin !ep
tember. Your notice, sir, of that Convention,
has, it art'oars, created a great deal of uneasi
ness mnon my white Abolition frieiuls. My
white Abolition friends charge mo with trying to make divisions in the Abolition ranks
of creating prejudice against color.
Now, sir, twenty-five years of experience
convinces me that if we, the colored people.
are to be anything, we must commence the
work ourselves; we can better the coudition
of one another by being united.
It is true that I did get up a call for a
Cvfored State Convention, and I am not
ashamed to call it a Colored Convention.
I want the colored ieople of this State to
meet toethor for the purpose of holding a po
ltical Convention. ewant to nominate col'
ored men for oftce. We have Me and intelli
gent colored vien among us, and we intend to
nominate t reaer.cK .uougias ior memuer o tho Assembly from the countv of Monroe
James W. Dufiin. from the county of On
tario, mid Vv llliam Rich, from the county of
Renssalaer, for the Senate Dr. J. McCune
Smith from his district in the City of New
York, and a number of other toorthy colored
nun; and tee want our white Abolition friends
to come vp amlsnvvort this tU het. I am very
sorrv that your article Las made our Inend
uneasy. We have a right to call a Nationa
or State Convention when we think it will be
for the best interost of our people. My only
object in writing this, is to give you an in
sight into our just meaning.
1 remain, vour humble servant, S. MYERS. This Colored Convention is but the legitimate offspring of Know Nothing Abolitionism. Let the Know Nothing Abolition party of Indiana succeed in the elections of this anil next season and it will not be five years until we shall see our Constitution changed, and Negroes made equal, in all things, with the whites. We shall then have Negro candidates for the Legislature, and for Congress, and other offices. Will the people of ludiana endorse a party which teaches such unnatural doctrines? "Down with the
poor white man, but up with the negro." This is '.he policy of Abolitionism this is
what it teaches. Citizens of Indiana, look to
the issue to which K. N. Abolitionism is fast
hastening you.
I. O. O. F. Statistics o? tiie Order is KE:nrcKT. During the year ending June 30, isr,3, the Independent Ordercf Odd Fellows report a membership of 5,556. The aggregate amount of receipts for the year wax $41,047. Of which there was tinont:
A
For trw rrlief r (.lowe-l famU.-t Tor the Mi-n.,n of orchfcM
...1,548 ... 376
relieved w 4.a
The number of wido.r! famUlee tallered was 75.
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Circulation of Indiana Papers.
Our citizens are grvatly to blame for not patronizing their own papers to a greater ex-1 tent We do not make tho remark in reference to ourselves, for we believe our circula- j tion is larger, certainly as large, as that of any other paper in the State. The complaint was suggested by reading a notice of the circulation of the Philadelphia Daily Ledger for the month of July. It averaged per day during that month, sixty thousand thret hundred and sevetity-tliree cojn'es. This is probably the largest edition, by at least tea thousand per day, of any daily newspaper in the world. Three thousand, one hundred and forty-four and a half reams of paper per month, rofc
something in the course of a year. We, of course, do not expect any such grand results as the But an approximation, even at a remote distance, may bo looked for as nothing more than what is due to the press from the two great parties which divide our State. It is a matter of equal interest to
insionists and Democrats to sustain their
own papers. MThe Press' said Mackintosh,
"is the whispering gallery of the world." But Indiana politics will be whispered to the
people in very inaudible tones unless thav
encourage their home pajrs. Patronage will
improve the character and merits of a paper
a very common-place truth, and yet one very
little regarded by Indiamans.
(Frightened and disgusted at the open speculation and hopeless bankruptcy of the finances of New Orleans, under it present K. N. administration, the Delta of that city suggests the expediency of letting out the city
affairs to "some half dozen capable men," to
pay its debts, receive and take care of its revenues, and perform the duties of govern-
fjFrom the St. Louis Intelligencer we
take the proceedings of the Chamber of
Commerce relative to the investigation of the
affairs of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
We leant that every facility has been and
will be furnished them by Mr. Bacon to scru
tiniza cverv matter connected with the road.
Chamber of Commerce Affairs of the
O. & M. Railroad
A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of St. Louis was held yesterday to take action on the affairs of the Ohio & Mississippi
Railroad
The meeting was well attended, and passed
on harmoniously'. Its results, we feel assur
ed, wiil depend only on the sincerity and earnestness with which the merchants and
other citizens are ready to co-operate in ac
compliahing the objects apparently desired on
all hands,
Wha this particular movement originated
with we are not advised; but, as citizens of
St Louis, wo most heartily wish that the ends
arrived at roav be achieved.
On calling the meeting to order, Mr. Lackland, President of the Chamber, stated that Henrj- D. Bacon, President of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, had advised him that all the books, papers, accounts and vouchers of the Company would be placed at the disposal of a committee of the Chamber, if such committee Should pioiuted,Jla''k?. fdl
investigation ol all the a flairs ot t no Company, from its first organization up to the present time; and that such investigation by tho Chamber was desired by Mr. Bacon. Mr. John Ilogan submitted a preamble and resolutions, and accompanied them with some remarks on the usefulness of the road, the necessity of its early opening, and the importance of an united effort to bring some degree of order out of the present chaos. Mr. Hogan well remarked that in all important public movements heretofore, St Louis had been a unit; and, as tho Ohio and Mississippi Railroad was, in his opinion, the most important work wo had cver yet been engaged in, we ouzht to be united now. Mr. John Leach said that he would not serve on the Committee, (having been named as one,) unless it was understood that the investigation was to bo searching and complete. Ho desired that provision should be made for Clerks and Book-keepers to assist the com
mittee. He did not desire the Committee to
take the ipse dixit of any man in regard to the affairs of the Company; but to examine
for themselves. It wa3 a labor of magnitude, but if he went into it, he wished to perform it thoroughly. He thought that, in default
of action by the City Council, the Chamber I Commerce was acting as a sort of provisional government on tho subject of the road.
This was a revolutionary sort of proceeding. The Chamber had no legal right to demand
the books cf this Company any more than
the books of the bt. Louis Insurance Com
prmy, or anv other Corporation. But as the
courtesy had been shown the Company to tender facilities for an investigation, he
thought that justico to all concerned, requii
ed that they should be taken advantage of to
the fullest extent. This was the substance of
Mr. Leach's remarks,
M. J. II. Alexander, the Trustee of the
Road, stated that all the vouchers of the Company for payments were numbered and that every facility would be afforded for the
proposed investigation. lie said the accounts
I were, and had bc-en open to investigation;
but that the difhculty had been to get any-
lodv to investigate. lie appealed to Mayor
King if tins was not the case, to his (the Mayor's) knowledge. Mr. King assented to
the correctness of the statement.
Some remarks were made by Mr. Mudd.
Mr. Hartnett, Gen. Rannev, and Mr. Kdgell,
concerning the investigation, the mode of
raiamg money, &c, but not effecting the pro
priety of tVe action proposed
The following preamblo and resolutions
were passed unanimously.
hereas, it is a public interest that the
conditioned the Ohio Sc Mississippi Railroad
company bnould be fully known, and the ac
counts thereof fully investigated; and whereas the public with propriety look to tho Cham
ber of Commerce to take some steps in this
matter, so that a full investigation of the accounts of said road be had. Therefore, dissolved, That a Committee of be appointed by this Chamber to make a thorough examination of the accounts of said Company, specifically showing the purposes for which the expenditures have been made. Paired unanimously, with James E. Yeatman, George Partridge, John Leach, John Hogan, Unit Rusin and John S. McCune, as committee, appointed by unanimous vote. AV.Wiyv, That it is all important to the trade and business of this city that tho Ohio & Mississippi Railroad be put in operation as speedily as osible; and as it is understood there ar some debts due along the road, which ii is necessary should be paid, that all hazard to the trains may be avoided therefore it is further .
Resolved, That a subscription be taken ud
il . . r r . ...
ior me purpose oi paying on tnese debts, one half payable in cash; one half in thirty days. r Resolvetl, That a Treasurer be now appointed for the fund. ' Sullivan Blood was appointed Treasurer, unanimously, by vote.
Jtesotved, That E. Wyman, and
Democratic Meeting at Broad Ripple,
Marion County- ' A large assemblage of .the truo National
men of Washington township, convened at
Broad Ripplo on Friday last Three boat loads of citizens of Indianapolis, with martial music and banneis, arrived about noon, in good
time to partake of an excellent dinner at
Robt. Earl's. At 2 o'clock a procession was
brmed and marched to a grove in the rear
of Mr. Earl's dwelling, near a fine spring of
pure cold water.
The meeting wa3 organized by electing Jo
nas Hcffmax, President, and A. B. Shaw, Secretary.
On motion, the following Committee was
appointed to report suitable resolutions: Ja
cob PvOberts, C. Vanlandinoham, W. A.
Earle, W. WrxPEXjrr, David Hrrp and
S. Vanlandinoham
William Stewart then addressed the
meeting in a sterling ana argumentative
speech.
W. B. Beach followed in a most effective
speech, decisive and unanswerable.
W. A. McKenzie, a National Whig, then
responded to an unanimous call, and in a
brief but concise speech, at times truly elo
quent, alluded to the changes which had ta
ken place in the political firmament. He
said he had beeu a Hekry Clat Whig, and
was a National Whig yet, but for the future
would act with the only national party in the
country the Democratic. But if it should
change to an Abolition party he would leave
it. His remarks were received with greaJ
applause, and expressions of "that's honest'
"good," "right," &c, &c,
David Vanlaninoram then briefly respon
dedto a call in a neat and spirited address.
Kilbt Ferguson, being loudly called for,
appeared and addressed the meeting in an
effective speech.
The Committo , on resolutions reported the following, which was unanimously adopted: Whereas, The history of the Democratic Party being the history c f the United States, and as no page of our Country's history ia yet stained by any civil war, and our Constitution and code of National laws are still preserved in their purity, and have resisted tho violent assaults made upon them by Abolition fanatics and Know-Nothing desperadoes, and are yet regarded as the very embodiment of civil liberty by all good men and are still reverenced by the oppressed of the Old World as a beacon light beaming with purity and shedding its lnstre over the civilized world, Iherefore, be it Jlesolved, By this assembled meeting, that the Union of these States and the perpetuity of our glorious Constitution
ought to be and is the controlling influence of
oi.r political actions, and that we have implic
it faith that the great National Democratic
Party of which we constitute a part will preserve them while it controls and guides the Ship of State.
Resolved, That this nation was brought into being and continued existence by the success
of the Democratic sentiment and principle, that our constitution is Democratic, as it declares that all power is in the hands of the people. Resolved, That a Constitution thus formed ought to be in the hands of its friends and supporters, and being armed with the sword of truth and encircled by the girdle of the Constitution, we will support it against all factions at presant known by different aliases, such as Know Nothings, Republicans, People's Party and other names which they have adopted to conceal their deformities. Resolved, That we extend the hand of cordial welcome to those Patriotic National Whigs, who, casting aside party prejudices for the sake of the Union, augment our strength in our contest against sectional fanaticism and religious bigotry. Resolved, That the principles of the Democratic party under which our government has prospered and grown to its present greatness, stretching out its arms to the oppressed of
every land and affording a home to every lover f fr0(lotn. ftt.il! rmmanr rmr
dence and support, and ttl all electluira
Itffeliltj Mt Initiitfl.
TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1655.
nected with State and National Government we will vote for such men as will carry out those great and fundamental principles.
Resoled, That from this good hour it
should be the duty of all lovers of liberty and good order, the Constitution of our fathers
and the liberties bequeathed to us by those pure patriots, to gird themselves anew, and
strengthened in faith by past defeats and the present cheering auspicies, give a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, till the last
remnant of the midnight foe be torn from its
usurped dominion and the party of right, jus
tice and truth, be restored to its wonted emi
nence upon the watch towers of our country.
The right sp:rit is aroused in old Washing
ton, and if the National men of that township continue as energetic as they have be
gun it will be redeemed from Abolition rule.
Let their motto be that of the immortal
Washington : "Beware of geographical ques
tions!"
The Managers of the Bellefontaiue
Railroad at Indianapolis refuse to receive the
paper of the Indiana Stock Banks in payment
for freights &c, arc. 1 his is right. At this
time tho people ate oppressed and abused
with bank paper. If the railroads centering
at the State capitol wouli all refuse to receive
bank paper of all descriptions, take noihing but the legal constitutional currency gold or
silver coin the people would soon have a
better currency. This policy, if pursued by the Railroad Companies throughout the State, and if they would pay out tho coin for labor
and materials on the line of their respective roads, it would have as good an effect on the
currency in the btate as Gen. Jackson's spe
cie circular had upon the currency of the
Lmled States
Instead of falling back upon this Jackson
policy, the State tkntinel faintly echoss tho
Journal which in tho now olden time was a
regular "British bought United States Bank paper" writes half column leaders in con
demnation of this specie circular of the Belle fontaine Railroad. Madiion Courier.
It is not particularly because the managers
of the Bellefontaine road refusj to receive the paper of the Indiana Stock anks, that we
have declared against it, hut because they dis
criminate in favor of foreign Banks, which
have not one-half tha amount of securities,
and are not one-half as well guarded as our
Free Bauks. We are for a hard money currency: this is in consonance with the views o; the Democratic party on the currency quea-
! tion; but as long as we are afflicted with
Banks, and until we have a metalic currency, we are for that system of Banking which promises the greatest security to the bill holder. As to the Sentinel faintly "echoing the Journal," this is only one of the Courier's stretches of imagination. When the Bellefontaine or any other Railroad, issues "specie circular,' we shall have naught to say against it That Road has never done anything of the kind, however.
Lewis D. Campbell. We received the following letter and the
remarks accompanying it, on Sunday morning
We present them to our readers at the earn-
est opportunity. It will bo observed mat Mr. Campbell has subiequenily written out what
he thinks he said. Those who were present say he spoke under high excitement and ex
temporaneously; and we are so confident of
the accuracy of the gentleman who gave us the information, that we cannot doubt that
his report was more correct than the present revision. Mr. Campbell's idea of modifying
matters, by placing himself on a level with
Striuofellow, and by magnifying a borderforay into a general plan of the whole south
for bloodshed, disunion and civil war, is evi dently an after-thought.
However, we are willing to give Mr. C. the
lienefit of sober second thought and cool re
flection. But we are compelled to say that his second thoughts aro not very sober, nor his reflections very cool even as they appear on paper after the excitement of debate bas
died away. The publication of his remarks
will furnish an example of the extravagance,
exaggeration and misrepresentation to which
partizan-rancor will lead men considered re
spectable in private life. We want no better argument to convert men to Democracy than
o give them an opportunity of reading just
Huch violent opinions as Mr. Campbell's:
Bates Hocse, f Indianapolis, Aug. 3, 1855.$ Kit. of the Sentinel:
Gentlemen You have misrepresented
the purport of mv remarks in Masomc Hal
on tho evening of the 27th ult., an inadver
tence, no doubt, as you 6ay you did not hear
me. 1 had designed to correct the error in my speech last night, but was suddenly taken
ill before I concluded my remarks. I have therefore written out the remarks
did make in reference to the threatened dis
union, and what 1 intended repeating last night. I have to request that you will insert
them in the Sentinel, and doubt not you wil do so. as I am unwilling to believe that, what
ever our political differences, you would to7
ful' misrepresent me. I certainly have no
dsue to avoid the just responsibilities of anything I may say or do on the subject of Slave
ry. All I wish is that I mav not be incorrect
ly reported. Very truly, yours, LEWIS D. CAMPBELL. ME. CAMPBELL'S REMARKS.
This Missouri Compromise thus proposed
by the South, and earned by her united vote,
brought immediately into tho Union another
slave State, in violation of the principles by which Jefferson and bis compeers were actua
ted when the Constitution was adopted.
Subsequently Arkansas was admitted because
it was alleged that the Act of 1820 gave
by implication the right to the peopl
of the territory south of ZG 30 to
adopt slavery. Much as the Free States dis
liked this arrangement, originally, they ac
quiesced in it for the sake of Union, looking
hopefully to the period when new States would epring up in Kansas and Nebraska,
from which slavery was forever excluded.
Thirty-four years rolled around, and no section sought to disturb the repose which that
Act had secured. But now how changed?
Within a single year the South ban spit upon
her own plighted faith and trampled in the dust the bond of her sacred honot ! Not sat
isfied with the privilege of voting slavery into
Fre Territory, she claims the right to fiqht it
in I Slavery has sent upon the unprotected
pioneers of Kansas, mobs from Missouri arm
ed with the weapons of death to fasten upon them, against the popular will, the institution
which even Henry Clay stigmatized as th
"greatest of human evils!" i hese lawless ac
are endorsed by the Slave States. Some of
them have already declared their purpose to
give aid to the Missounans, and to dissolve the
Union if, when slavery is secured to Kansas,
thus she is not admitted to occupy a positio
of sovereignity equal to that of every other llieilllier Of lm) - 1-rrmiy! Til nUort. wo
she could not attempt to do without dislurb-
ng tne peace and harmony of the Union."
v hat reliance, then, can bo placed on the
assertions of a man who thus ruthlesslv dis
regards the truth of history, and falsifies the
public records of the country?' Such men, if
it could, serve their selfish ends would call
Washington a tory and Jesus Christ animpoater. But what else could we expect from one who voluntarily places himself in the
same category with STRiNGFELLOw,,'-vho re
turns brag for bullying aud, threatens to become an outlaw in order to suppress a mob?
"TJwse lawless acts are indorsed ly the slave
Stales." '.. ;
How a man with any. remnant of respect
for truth left in him, could make this wlioletah
assertion is astonishing to ns.
To brand fifteen sovereign States as the ad
v oca tea of anarchy and misrule, because a few
hot-headed editors, badly informed of the
facts, have defended Strtnclellow, is
unworthy of any man who makes any claims
to fairness and justice.
What is the jmrport of Mr. C.'s tirade
about the black flag and crossing the Pwubicon. The Rubicon that is the Compromise line, is
already crossed, for the line has been established bv law.
' Is not the spirit which actuates Mr. Camp
bell the same which actuates Strinofel-
low blood and thunder? We should be very willing for tho Hon. Congressman from
Appointments by the President. Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana, to be Commissioner of the General Land Office, in the place of John Wilson, removed. Joiah Minot, of New Hampshire, to be
vxmimieMoner oi ; rensioua, in the place of
L.0REN r. alpo, resigned.
Murray, McCoxxel, of Illinois, to be
Fifth Auditor of the Treasury, in the place of
Joiah Mixot, appointed Commissioner of
Por.siotisv
Appointment bt the Governor. Fbax
eis L. Neff, Esq. of Sullivan County, Prose
cuting Attorney for the Sixth Judicial Circuit,
to fill the vacancy caused by tho resignation
of the present incumbent
Blackwood's
O " "
Ohio and the redoubtable General of the
border clans to settle their differences by single combat, provided no body was hurt but the
two. But it would be better for both gen
tlemen to keep cool. The Dempry acy will
not permit "this fair land to be drenched
with blood," they intend to abide by the Union and the Constitution, and strike down with impartial hand all the Campbells and Stbixufellows who attempt to disturb the peace and harmony of our common country. The Decatur Press and Gov. Wright. It is a pity to spoil eo rich a story as the on-j published in yesterday's Journal from the Decatur Press, upon the subject of the Temperance law, Gov. Wright and others. The editor of the Press must try again; all is false, every word, line and sentence. Judge Blackford never gave any opinion on the Bubject of the Temperance law. Gov. Weight never prepared any veto message. The Governor does his own thinking, writing and talking. Judge Blackford was appointed to his present office at Washington, by President Pierce,' aud not by the influence
of any man from Indiana, cither Senator or
otherwise. We should think after the number of mes
sages, veto messages, prepared by Gov.
Wright, and published during the last six years, upon the various interests of the country, that the Greensburgh editor must have known
that no one man in Indiana would believe his
story that Gov. Weight had other men to think for him. We think the public will
sustain us in tho remark, that Gov. Weight
is a man of labor, of industry, and but few
men in any community equal him iu the
amount of business which ho dispatches. - From the first inaugural which he deliver
ed in 1819, including some ten veto messages,
four annual messages, several special messages, addresses to Colleges, Agricultural As
sociations, &c, every reader will say
whether he does or does not believe the doctrine advanced, that the are Gov. Wright
all over that the same head, hand and heart
were the author of them all.
hear the blustering threat from some of the
Slave States that, their purpose is to carry their point by the bowie knife and revolver. Already has blood been shed. The "issue must be met" Shall Freedom be abolished by such mean3, and aha'l we of the North
west who enjoy so fully tho rich blessings of the Jefferson ordnance of 1787, fold our arms
in listless unconcern, when such a struggle is
at hand in regard to the territories which our posterity will occupy? I cannot depict the horrors of civil war and disunion of State
arrayed against State, and brother against brother, and American soil drenched with
American blood shed by American hands' Terrible as are these horrors, the Slave States seem disposed to press them upon us if we
refuse to pledge the powers of the Government to the extension and perpetuation of
that human slavery which our Revolutionary sires sought to eradicate from the land. I
am ready to defend i ivedom's cause against
these assaults, let the hazard be what it may.
It it has come to this, that the blave States, force on us the evil consequences of disunion, and purpose by the aid of arms to assist sla
very in running rampant over territory dedi
cated forever to Freedom by their own solemn act of 1820, for one, I am ready to meet the black flag when it attempts to cross the Rubicon, though in the conflict which must follow between the opposing elements of Freedom
and Slavery, this fair land bo drenched in blood. I would accord to slavery, in good faith, all which our common Constitution gives it; but when our neighbors of tho South attempt to force it into infant territories through civil war, I am pre pared to subscribe my share of stock in defence of Freedom's rights.
pay each instalment as it becomes due, and take my dividends whatever it may be. My
ancesters treely shed their blood for the pnn
ciples of Liberty on the battle fields of the Revolution. I have enjoyed the rich legacy they bequeathed, and I am unwilling, coward-
like, to transmit to my children the bitter
n ulls of any contact m de fence of those pnn ciples which it is my duty now to meet.
0" One of the "be aniraaU" that whips his wife is a Sag Nicht and lives in InduHapolia. Madison Courier. The "he" animal aforesjiid is as natural a Know Nothing as the Cour ier editor. It ia aid that he ia a particular farorite of the President of the Indianapolit Conncilj,
, - -j 1 audit the accounts along the road and draw on the Treasurer for the amounta. The name of John Hogan, was by unanimous vote, put on to fill np the blank in this resolution. Jlesolved, That a committee of three bo appointed to confer with the County Court, City Council, and Mr. Bacon, in order to obtain their concurrence to some plan for putting the road in operation, and reimbursing the above advances. Alfred Vinton, J. A. Brownlee and R. J. Lackland appointed said Commits br nnn. ,
Imomj rota.J
(7- Several pajers in this State are urging the claims of Hon. Dan Mace to the next Speakership of tho House of Representatives, lie is as capable for the position as any Republican in the North. More than that, he will gain credit for his honesty and uprightness, qualifications which speakers havenot always possoBsed. We hope he will be elected to that high position. Lafayette American. We imagine that this will be tirics to many Republicans!) in Hoosierdom. Dax Mace as speaker of the Houso of Representatives!
ill! na: nowever, wny notr ojan ts as
honest as arty of the Republican members elect, and his intellect is about of equal calibre. His
qualifications, however, are quite another
thing magnificent, superlatively excellent By
the way, will the American please explain its new-born admiration of Dajtixl? We thought that paper opposed Know Nothing principles and Know Nothing leaders. How is it, friend Dowx? ' . CCrOne day last week, no less than 250,0C0 bushels, of corn arrived at Buffalo,
So eutls Mr. Campbell. "Mammoth cave, oh what a In Summer cold. In Winter hot, V power above! great Oodn I wonder! General Jackson! blood and thunder."
" JJte Missouri Compromise thus projosel ly
tJtf South and eanied by her united votes."
Lot us see how this statement harmonizes with the truth of History. Hilpreth, (au
thor of the White Slave,) in his History of
the United States, (vol. G, p. 089,) says that
the Compromise was proposed by Thomas, of Illinois, a northern Senator; and it is well
known that the Legislatures of Virginia, Ken
tucky and Maryland, memorialized against
any prohibitory clause.
Jchs Rasdolph indignantly denounced
the Compromise "as a dirty bargain," by which the South had surrendered her rights. When the vote was finally taken, it appeared
that in the Senate out of twenty-two northern
vote, twenty were cast in favor of the Com
promise and only two against it ; while in
the House out of one hundred northern votes,
ninety-five were cast in favor of it, and only
five against it On the other hand, of twenty-
two southern Senators only fourteen, and of
seventy-six Representatives only thirty-nine voted for the Compromise. (Appendix to Congressional Glnbe, July Gth, 1850.) Speaking of the Compromise in 1848, Mr. Calhoux said: "After an arduous struggle of more than a year on the question whether Missouri should come into the Union with or without restrictions prohibiting Slavery, a compromise line was adopted between the North and South; but it was done under circumstances which made it no wise obligatory on the latteT. It ia true it was moved by one of her distinguished citizens, (Mr. Clat,) but it is equally so that it was carried by the almost united vote of the North against the vote of the South; and was thus imposed on the latter by superior numbers in opposition to her strenuous efforts. The South has never given her sanction to it, or assented to the power it asserted. She was voted down and has sim-
ly acquiesced in an arrangement which she
as not had the power to reverse, ana wnicn
Spain
It seems that l country which was sup-
jKaed to be proof against tho innovating spirit of the age, is becoming red-republican. The jf'tA .rMi;ht thw new of a rupture between
Stato 33cmocratlo
MASS CON VENTON ! !
We copy the following notices of the Mass
Convention to be held in this city on the 29th,
from our exchange. Let all Vie People come
up; the Democracy will have such a meetine
as has never brvn romlUil ;r .w..:.
j nuuiiaMu or numbers in Indiana:
Then- is to be a Grand Rally of th- j.U. at .ndianapoli 011 Ved
. . j ---afc rtu. x
ow 14 the time for action .his is no tim for dreaming ; l,;t eeTy man of national flin urautc aud cicukfn hirn.-.olf to til lrn iTrf tC
.K St:ninghiiI)Hlf iaU half of the ix MHtuaiioti
c none old
Rome and its most faithTuTcTi7Tdfan!Trti1s
rupture is said to be complete. The passage of the church-property bill is the cause of es
trangement We do not know tho particu
lar j of this bill; but an effort has long been! making by the bberals to destroy the inde
pendence of tho clergy, and make them as, in the English establishmer-t, the mero puppets' of the State. Whatever men may think of
the Roman Catholic religion, and however
great may be the abuses engendered by wealth
in the priesthood, no statesman will regard the wholesalo confsication of property designed
for and to a certain extent applied to charita
ble uses with approbation. Tho resources thus diverted from their legitimate channel are squandered by corrupt politicians among themselves.
The Engli.sh noblemen in tho days of Hekrt 8th who received the revenues of the
Church were no better, ieihaps not so good, as the abbots and monks whom they succeeded.
The Spanish government, it is said, is en
dangered by popular outbreaks ; and that socialism has spread rapidly among the working classes of the Spanish peninsular. The Journal of Commerce says:
"A correspondent from Paris of tho London Times, who is usually well instructed concerning Spanish affairs, expresses fears that a close union has been established between the Carlists of Spain and the Legitimists of Franco on one side, and the Mazzinian and Kossuth party on tho other, the whole cemented to gether by Russian mediation, for the purpose of overthrowing, at all hazards, the pres. ent Spanish government, no matter what other may spring up in its place. It is believed that whether Republicanism or Carl ism should be triumphant, the blow would be none the less deadly at the authority of Louis Napoleon, who from different caunos is equally hated by the Legitimists of Europe protected by the Czar, and by Red Republicans, against whose intrigues his firm rtde oiiose8 an in
superable barrier. The Times correspondent states that many days before the is?ue of the Ckas decreeing the general armament of the Russian Empire, it was announced by a Legitimist in the South of France to a friend, that
such a step was to be taken by the Russian Government, and that "the time was fast approaching for the overthrow of the present ruler of France, and for tho restoration of the legitimato sovereigns of both France and Spain!" These obselete aspirations will not be realized, but they may cause great future trouble, and even bloodshed. Italy is uneasy ; Portugal is not setted; Franco is divided into factions, which, though kept in awe by the Emperor, are none the less hostile to his sway; Prussia, the Rhine Provinces of Germany, Hungary, and Lorn bard y, are undermined by Red Republican intrigues; and all the prudence and wisdom of European statesmen is needed to avert a 6torm, more or less distant, the effects of which may be far more terrible than those w hich have been occasioned by the Eastern War.
Magaxiue on Russian
Policy.
Blackwood for Julv contains the first of a
scries of articles on the imperial policy 0
Russia. It takes the ordinary and hackneyed
ground of charging encroachment and aggression as a settled plan of the Czars. Every
sovereign and every government in the world
have shown a desire to increase their posses
sions, but great Britain and the United States
have manifested, perhaps, the strongest pas
sion for territorial acquisition. holesalc
abuse of Russian ambition comes with a very
bad grace from England.
The writer thinks that the very existence
of ' Sebastopol is a proof of guilty purposes.
that it was evidently built solely for th
shelter of an aggressive fleet. Its place on
the map, in his opinion, condemns it, so situ
ated that from it a blow could be struck most
quicklv and effectively on the vital parts 0
Turkey, and the fleet which struck the blow
most quickly and readily withdrawn into shelter before the avenger came.
This may be true, Sebastopol may have
been built against Constantinople; and yet it
is equally true the Czar has had several opportunities to seize tho city of the Golden
Horn, and has not done so. On the contrary when Syria and Egypt were in open rebellion against the Saltan, the Czar assisted him. Th writer alledges that until recently Russia has endeavored, by various means, to keep her policy out of sight; but her very reasonable refusal at Vienna to agree by treaty to limit her power and resources he regards as a throwing off of the mask; and intimates that she was encouraged to do this by the brave defence of Sebastopol, by the fault-finding tone ol the English press towards their own Government, and by Vie cltance of Vie assassination of Louis Xapolcon, the attempt at which (says this English writer) certainly took place under circumttanccs of great mystery. This insinuation
that Russia was jarticcps crimenis in that transaction is unjust, ungnerous aud wholly unfounded, and a singular illustration of the
violence of political and national quarrels,
Tho reviewer thinks Russia particularly dangerous, because her people are possessed with what he considers a Monomania of submission to their sovereign. His description
though, uo doubt, exaggerated is worthy of
quotation.
"If a dog, the most submissive of animals to legitimate power, is cruelly and unjustly beaten, he will turn sometimes on his master;
not so a Russiau he will kiss the knout that
flays him. If acting in obedience to orders, ho" is much more dangerous than a wild
beast "The Spanish bull in the arena mav be di
verted from his mark, by his attention being
turned away to some other source of persecu
tion; an Arctic voyager or sportsman, wheu he sees a wounded bear bearing down on him, may throw down bis weapon or his glove to
save himself from hugging; but woe be to him against whom a mass of Russian is impelled They are as passive and as merci
less as a locomotive. On they go, one over another, like the buffaloes in the Western
wail ie.s. - If tim Art4i nerLdi. .the hind
most will not turn back, but make a bridge
of their bodies, and thus the buffaloes get
over the rivers and the chasms, and the Russians over the obstacles in their campaigns. It is, certainly, a serious thing to fight with a nation with whom men are of no more account, than gabions and fascines: and it is well for us that it is not so much loss of men as by lo?s of money that the fortunes of the war will le decided." In this connection an anecdote of very doubtful authenticity is told that the Grandduke Cosstastise could, to show off the sub-mis-siveness of the Russian soldier to a stranger, while standing at a review, pass his sword through, the foot of an officer and withdraw it, without exciting remonstrance or cry of pain, or even, as is said, without his victim flinching. This is reported to have happened at Warsaw in the nineteenth century, and in the reign of the mild Alexander. Tho reviewer concedes one point which has been elaborated by Gcrowski, viz: that the natural teudency of Russia U eastward and that her conquests ia western Europe have been accidental. Writing of Ivan, he says: "Thus il seems that he wished to be recognized as the heir of the defunct Greek soverinty, and the master de Jure if not de facto, of Byzantium. These are important facts, bocause they show that the idea of the acquisi
tion of Turkey iloes not merely date from the time of Peter, but has been a fixed principle of action w ith Russian sovereigns ever since the fall of the Lower Empire. We canuot help considering the other encroachments of Russia on the map of Europe as in a measure incidental, brought about by an unforscen concurt ence of circumstances, at the same time eagerly caught at by the nation as a means to this one great end, the possession of Constantinople, and tho centralization of all the Russias and their dependencies in the great capital on the Bosphorus. This Iia been and is the one definite and distinct object of tho ambition of tho Czars, the avarice of tho courtiers, and the fanaticism of the ieople. That Russia or her sovereigns ever had any distinct design of conquering and absorbing the weft of Enrope we ean hardly believe, al
though such would doubtless be to her a consummation, devoutly to be wished. For instance, Germany was divided, bribed, and overawed, not with a view to immediate conquest, but with a view to silencing her protest against Russian asression; and here Russia has fully gained her oint. Only one thing wns wanted, the revival of the old an
tagonism between England and France a thing which seemed the easiest of all, but turned out, contrary to all expectation, the most difficult that Constantinople should be
once again the capital of the eastern world
b
oi civil and religious liberty.
DOuCe Will rVepolKl tn fK-. It I,. ..
the largest dl-tp.t ion thsi ever w'e.,t fnru this county. Lcnur Co v.! l'i4,t,ffT. We find in tc InJiatmpolis &rnf'ni of last Thursday, a call for a Democratic Mi-s Meeting, at lndian.:p..lis, ou Wednesday the 2)dj -of August, figt.od Ly eight hundred or a tLosand natuc. We will publish it next week. l he indomitable iX-inocracy are coming I "Behold the sun of Auterliti I" Dloomitctvm Keue LUtr. '
Democratic State Coxvivnox. We publish U-day the call for a mass meeting of the Democracy of Indiana at the Capitol on the of August. The time has arrived w hen it behoores the Dt-uioctaey lo thoroughly orunize for the purpose of combatting the dni-r.ua faction which now seek, by appealing to the worst passions, to obtain control of the Motional and state government. Ah- '.iooism and Enow Nothing NativUm aie c.etneiv through which our oppont uU seek to ot.ain office and power. The progrosn of AbolitiunUru at the North is alarming and threatens the ruost dieatrons conseqiu uces. Fanatic are endeavoring to kindle the flames of civil war, with ail it horrors. It becomes a, who live on the borders of the Slave Slates, and ho would be the worst fcufT.rers in kuch an t; natural contest, to put forth our arm to resist this alarming movemeiit We hope Southern Indiana ill be largely represented in thJ proponed Conveniiju. ..Vfi DrMOCRAiic 'Iai 'CoxrENTiOX. tn another column will be found a call for a utral Mas Convention of the Democracy at Indianapolis on the 23th of August. We know that Hancock, can, if she will send at least 503 delegates to the Convention. Let there be a e-iieral outpouring on that day show the 14 Wry heads, that we can and will gpt up a larger dt-nioostia-tion than they did on the l3ih of July. GrtemJidd Sentinel. Mass Convention at Isdianapolis. We pub
lish to-day a call for a Democratic 31as Convention at fYidianapolis, which appears in the State Sentinel, nigned by about fevin hundred
Democrat from all parts of the Mate. Uar limits wiil not permit us to publish the large list of names. U e hepe the Democracy of Carroll will respond to the call in the right spirit; and that every one who can will circ one day
to Lis country by coin,? up to Indianapolis t confer with his brother Democrats upon the im
portant questions now agitating the country.
Utlphi limes.
A conesponlert writing from KnijhU-
town, says:
We are all coming to the Convention on the
20th. I have not eo u one Democrat, but what
will be ou hand to swell the multitude. I know that we will hav a glorious time, for I feel it in my bones. There are some National Whigs, alo,iu this Abolition region, who will be 00 band. They say that they can't go for the woolley bead party, and swallow Sam and Sambo too. T think that negro who was on the Platform at Indianapolis on the 13th, 'was from Greensboio, in this county, as 1 seen him get on the cars at this place, with the Greensboro Delegation. His name is Harlow perhaps "Billy Barlow" he is known as a leading Aboliiiouist iu th se diggins." Mass Coxvf.stios. We publish below a call bv the people for a gad Democratic Mass Jisr.TiNo to be held at Indianapolis, on the 2'th inst. In the language of the Slate Sentinel, "we hope every n.an with a soul of his own will lespond to this call. We ask not what party Ue have heretofore held our citizens, for hat they have voted, or what political opinions they may have had on the issues of the past. Only let them love the Union as the ark of our national safety, and hate the darkness, wtcrecy, and bigotry which have teen imported froru tLe worst specimens of European tyranny. All the cherished memories of our revolutionary grefttitefls, and all the bright hopes of future progress, and for our country and oar children, exhort and warn every lover of republican institutions and religious liberty, to be up and aiirriug. Indiana is opposed to disunion, injustice and secret societies which destroy the freedom of elections. We know she is tpposed to tin -so iniquities, and we are anxious that she should pro- 1mm her opposition in tones of thunder." The Democracy of Indianapolis proffer their hospitality and a thrice-henn wi!cl:uic to th-? masses w ho may
visit tbein on the 2 :h, aud we desire to sor the Democracy of old Shelby roll up a delegation worthy of theirpalmiest days: bhtlbyrUle IVuntet r. Democratic Hass Cowextiox.A call il made in the State Srntintl for a grand turn out of the Democrats of Indiana, on Wednesday, Aug. 29ih. Lninent public men from several States will be prescDt. Arrangements will be made with the Railroad Companies to carry those wishing to attend tLe meeting for less than their regular fair. We boj that Home of our citireiiB will attend. IVray A"w. JEMocaATic CoNVEXTioY. It will be seen in another column that a call has teen made for a graud rally of the people of Indiana who are oppo-ed to Factionalism in politics, bounding their patriotism by geographical lints, and trammeling the votes and consciences of the masses bvdark lantern despotism and jnsuitical clubs, fn shoit, i; is a doiunnd for a irraud rally of Freeman, who have the love of country and confederacy, and the piido of Liberty and Nationality st heart, who by their open council may send forth a voice of wisdom, which fchall fortify and cheer the true lovers of our country, and guarantee the perpetuity of those rich blessings which we already enjoy, acd lay the foundation, if need be, of a still more radical Democracy, of a still greater devotion to true and abiding principles. We hope to see Lal'orte County, and th north generally well represented, and suggest the propriety of a previous tneetiug at Lal'orte for the purpose of appointing d legates, and inspiring that proper feciiiig of enthusiasm which should characterize all me:i who are in earnest. The oppos. tion is 1 lire and incessantly active. The daytime is not sr.tiiciLiit for their labors.
aud they consume the night alo in vigilance
ana iaur. jei u, too, he rp and clou.? Itt
e be ."jiassin:.ted while aleeo. What says
the Central Committee ". Lal'orte Timet.
Democratic Mass Meeting at Anderson. In view of the momentous ftruggle impending between the Democracy and the various factions, it has absolutely become necessary for the Democracy and national men to begin to show their strength. In view of the impending struggle, it is the request of every Democrat, who has .been, interrogated ujn the Bubject, to meet in Mass MccTixa at Asdebson on the 11th inst, to more effectually unite for the coming contest, and to organize so as to attend the grand rally at Indianapolis on the 29th inst. National Democrats, National Whig, in
short, all opposed to the unprincipled machinations of the Dark Lantern Oligarchy, and the treasonable efforts of disunion, fire-eating Abolitionists, are invited, yea, requested to attend upon tho appointed day. Let us make such preparations to attend the mass meeting as to render it a proud day for the Democracy of old Madison. No arrangement will be omitted to render the 11th a brilliant, toul-reviving time. Come every body, let apart one day for the ervice of your country. By request of )LkXT Dxmocbati.
"Ihl nmnii
Effiit u labor. Of the reforms of Peter the Great, he savs
" When he died, on the 28th January, 1825,
ot an innammatoty attack brought on by cx pnsure to the cold at the ceremony of lle-s
ing tho waters of the Neva, he left Russia
entirely a new country. 1 or this he has b icn
immoderately praised bv Voltaire and Lis
school, and their praises have become stereotyped in history. Doubts may arise at this day whether w hat he did for Itussia wxs e ven for her good. It was certainly not fr the good of mankind. Civilization, like religion, to be good for anything, must le part of the constitution of a nation or an individual; it must grow up in the common natural atmosphere, not be forced iu a hothouse. What is the consequence of Tet-.T's so-called reforms to Russia? Ilussia is like a sturdy boor who has become a millionaire by gold-digging, who bedizens hi outward man with pins, and chains, and ring, and is all barbarism and brutality within. Yet he expects to I treated like a gentleman, and is in consequence a great nuisance to society." The article has evidently been penned under the exasperation of feeling engendered by the war; but :t contiins tome interesting suggestions, and is worth reading. Or Governor Claek, of New York, has commuted the sentence of death passed on Mrs. Robikoc, the veiled murdere, to lmijiAoner for life In th Sing 6ing prison.
(From l! Cincinnati PrW Cnrrut J The Wheat Crop. It is a difficult matter to determine what an average crop, reduced to bushels, would amount to in any Stab, for the reason that statistics, collect I under tho authority of Government, have been exceedingly defective. The yield of 1850, according to the census return-., was, in round numbers, 54.-
000,000 bnshels, in the States of Ohio, Penn
sylvania, 2s ew lor and lrginia, but an average crop in those States is esumated at about 75,000,000 bushels. The crop of tht present year, however, is slightly below the latter. The severe douth of last summer and fall prevented fanners from sowing the usual amount of eeed, and it is generally admitted that the breadth of land planted ia less than usu 1. The increxsed yield or acre, and the improved quali:y, make up in jftrt, however, for this decrease, and it is safe i estimate tha yield of the fo tr States named at 05,'M,aO bushels, which, though ll.-w an average, is an increase as compared with lt yvr ot at least 15,000,000 bushels. In all the other S;.ste, l.vev-, tS? ar wheat to any extort, tlu-'c i t. 4- iriavvm some of them having produ'-ed t c? as much 89 in any )rriiou year. i'ali?. the p0ducts us stated in the c-u tvt fr ISJO, for the basis, and ct'i!iai:i 1 re Utile in. crease this yer oter tht, e have the followiiv rvo:!t: Ohio, 14 :,! lf,.ivk) lVtiiWi.t i i-vs,ii virgiM ... iijf:.,,tM n i.n VirV 13.? !.) 0.ior.,i AUttftma VVS.MW ki,i.w I iul .-4t.Mi 13.(i.lS litl. :..,4.l .4jl tMt .r lA.tl , ll.uA kealiK-lt... -.'.H.'.Mtl i,oine Mar land 4.4'M.mm t.KS.OS Mul.itrsn S.lVVrM) .itvki Vlmrl XSI.IJ ..( 0 TM-e IIS.Ii! M-onn 4.2-s.iio T.tOtuaS
Totals K.rjrto lM;.n,nuo The alxive figures show an increase- as compared with the crop reported in 150 of twenty-two million bushels. The aggn-gita yield in 1850 was doubllei much larger than indicated by the f ires above, as is also the crop of the present year; but the statement how the comparative yield. Last year the crop was smaller than "in 1850, by at least twenty-five per cent so that the increase this yer as compared with that cf laV, is over forty millions of bushels. Cheat Flooi. is White Hivrx. -Ws leam that immeiif destruction of Crops has been caused on the White Kivu bottoms by the overflow of the liver. The water is said to have been from 5 to T feat in many core fields cm Wednesday.
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