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OF this specie one half came from England Now
did the specie come to carry away the iron did
the iron come 10 carry away the specie, states the
Argus The gross absurdity Of such statements is
selfevident- The present price of American rolled
iron is $95. Now told that the present exor-
btant tariff is to encourage production and by do
ing to make the price cheaper This policy has been
pursued for ffiy-fve years, and evidence of its
success we will turn back TO the report Of Alexander
Hamilton, In 179l He states follows:
"Iron works have greatly increased in the United
States, and prosecuted with much more advantage
than formerly The average price before the revolu-
ton was sirtyfogr dollars. AT present it is about
eighty "a rise which is chiefly to be attributed to
the increase of manufactures of the MATERIAL
So it appears now, that the price of iron is after
fftyye years of production, thirty dollars,
fifty per cent. dearer than before the revolution In
order to estimate the extent of the protection this
tcie has enjoyed, viii take the quantity of pig
iron imported and the duty paid it since 1921,
follows
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14


The CONDITION THE PooR IN LONDON = Mr.
Bryant of the New York Post, at present in England
writes home the following account of the poor in
London:
Begging is repressed by the new police regula-
tons, and want skulks in holes ant corners, and
prefers its petitions where it cannot be overheard by
men armed with the authority of the law There is
great deal of famine in London, said friend to
the other day. but the police regulations drive it out
of sight As | was going through Oxford street
lately, saw an elderly of small stature, poorly
dressed, with mahogany complexion, walking
slowly before me. As | passed him, he said in my
ear with hollow voice, Il starving to death with
hunger and these words ind that hollow vuice
sounded in my ear all day.
Walking in Hampstead Heath day or two since
with English friend, dccosted by two
laborers, who were sitting bank, and who said
that they had come to that neghborhood in search of
employment in hay making, but had not been able to
get either work food. My friend appeared to dis
trust their story. But in the evening, es we were
walking home, we passed company of some four or
five laborers in frocks with bludgeons in their hands,
who asked US for something to eat. You see how
we have come for work, and nobody will hire us;
have had nothing to eat all day.. Their tone was
dissatisfied, almost nenacing; and the EngllsIman
who was with referred to it several times after
wards, with an expression of anxiety and alarm.
81 hear it often remarked here, that the difference
of condition between the poorer and the richer classes
becomes greater every day. and what the end will be
the wisest pretend not to forsee"
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

OETFour of the convicts recently arrested at Lo-
gansport charges of larceny and sentenced to the
pententiary for the term of five years each, passed
through this city their way to Jacksonville on
Sunday morning last. Their names are called John
Murdoch, James Murdoch, Gould, and Williams alias
Carpenter
0--Since the above was in type, we learn that the
prisoners escaped from their keepers and the rail
road cars at the same time! Will not every one in
quire how this was done! The escape of such des-
peradoes is no small matter
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

The Royal Library of Paris now consists Of nine
hundred thousand printed volumes, and seventy thou
sand considerable manuscripts, besides numberless
maps, medals, engravings and antiquities of every
description. The vast edfce in which it is distribut-
ed becomes daily insufficient, but the immense
expense of removal and the construction of suita-
bic receptacle, arrests the government in what, ere
long, must be done. The practice of allowing vol
umes to be ''taken home, has occasoned the loss of
many thousands, (twenty more,) most of them We
~ precious. The collection is far too large for easy
reference to works In any particular department
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

''The retirement of Sam Medary is much regretted
by large body of the Locofoco party in Ohio. But
$4,000 is pretty good bonus to retire with; be-
Sides shall expect to Sam provided for by the
National Executive. TiPPecanOe Journal.
Nothing is more common than such sneers as the
above among editors of certain calibre. If 1t be
true that Medary has retired with $4,000 is 1t more
than he is Justly entitled to! He has labored with
out cessation for II years. and we think if he
has made as much stated that he has received no
more than he has fairly earned. In many kinds of
business, ten times that could have been made,
perhaps But this is the way that the ours of the ed
itorial fraternity set upon those more fortunate be-
cause more deserving than themselves.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

MISERABLE DEsTITUTIoN IN ScoTLAND.-The poor
laws of Scotland being overhaule6 by the British
Parliament, and the facts that stated Of the mis-
cradle condition of the poor in that country, show
greatly the need of such amelioraion. 1t appears
by statements made that the allowance to p9upers, in
different parts of the country, varies from fifty cents
five dollars year the highest sum being given in
cases of extraordinary distress, such blindness ex-
IRENE oldag weakness, &c. Beggary is very COM
The principal food of the poor is potatoes and
behring's; their lodgings are wretched the cottages
generally built of stone and turf mixed the roof
always being turf, covered with heather Most of
them have nothing but the bare earth Tor floor, and
other chimney than hole in the top, or in the end
of the hut As to food and clothing in all respects
the paupers in most miserable and destitute state
and Notwithstanding the number is rapidly increasing
The aboring people and tenants are very poorly Oft
their lots of land being generally too small to give
them full employment. In the county OF Sutherland
particularly the population Is decreasing, and agrl-
culture and manuf .ctsrcs almost extinct Such
state of things is truly dsgraceful to the country
where they exist.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

These were the rates after the Specie Circular had
been in operation time, and the present rates.
The prices of 1886 were sustained upon credits which
necessarily withdrawn when the Circular set the
of specie going West. Such state of things
does not exist. Prices are very low, and de-
pendent only upon the effective demand from Europe
unbiased by speculation. The withdrawal of specie
from the banks can in way affect prices unfavora-
bly, On the other hand by scattering it through the
interior in the shape of United States coin 1t will
mpart great activity to trade, and rather tend to
operate a rise in prices.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

HOME MANUFACTURES. -ST. LOUIS. = The city
council of St Louis have recently shown love for
home manufactures which leaves no doubt about their
sincerity in this respect They advertised for propo-
sons to furnish the city with 10000 feet of six inch
iron pipe for the water works, and received three
bids viz from Louisville 2 4-5 C. per b., Pittsburg
81 c., and by firm in St. Louis 81 c. Strange to
say, they have passed ordinance authorizing the
superintendent of the water works to accept the
highest BID Cincinnati Chronicle.
1t appears strange to us that the Chronicle should
think strange of the conclusion of the ST. Louis city
council 1t is exactly the policy which the Chronicle
advocates as applied to the nation; and if right or
wrong large SCALE it is precisely the same on a
small one 1t seems strange to us that the vision of
the Chronicle circumscribed that it only see
the truth when it touches its own immediate interest
The policy of the St. Louis common council is the
protective tariff policy to t.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

NATURAL. AND LEGAL JUsrIcE.--Among the con-
ictng interests of men, object occasions great
anxiety and trouble to the Legislation as the presera-
ton of both natural and equal rights. The natural
rights which are claimed by class of the people
often incompatible with the arbitrary privileges,
which have been guaranteed by the laws to another
class. Whenever natural justice comes thus in COM
petition with legal justice, it proves arbitrary
inequality in the laws of the commonwealth. If any
body of Legislators guarantee certain exclusive privi
leges to one portion Of the people; their successors,
when they called to legslate for the rights of
another class, have difficult task to perform. 1t is
their duty to protect the rights of the citizens and
the same time to observe the laws. Since certain
exclusive privileges have been guaranteed to class
they cannot take them away without violating legal
justice-and they cannot allow them to keep them
without violating natural justice. In either of these
they might be accused Of violating their obi
cations. In all such cases the legal right should
always be made to yield to the natural right on the
principle that no former body of legislators had the
constitutional power of violating natural justice.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14
[VOlume V:s;;i;s:;==NHmber {
Mexico.

We have news from the Mexican Capital to the
25th May, and from Vera Cruz to the 3D. June.
The Mexican papers are unusually silent on the
subject Of Texas and the position she holds present
towards the United States although the intention OF
the IT, s. Government to send troops 10 the frontier of
Texas was known in the Capital on the 10Th ult
The Mexican government had made a division
of the Republic into ten military departments--lhe
9Th comprises Nueva, Leon, Cohuila Tamaulipas and
1tras-thereby minimizing that she still intends TO
provide for the Texans as citizens Of the Mexican
Republic.
The candidates for the presidency are engaging the
attention of the public journals, and, judging from
their tone, Gen. Herrera seems TO he the favorite-
though, bad Gen. Bustamente arrived earlier in the
country, bis friends might have made some demon
STATIONS in his favor. OF the latter the Vera Cru
zana says: ave know that he has offered his sword
to the nation in defence Of her rights the terri
tory of Texas, aud we believe the supreme govern
ment will accept this noble offer"
The President has convoked the Congress for the
consideration of various internal improvements af-
feeling the tariff &c. add als1 to place before them
the proceedings taken by the Government on the
olutions concerning Texas, passed the last session
The resolutions empowered the President to make
terms with Texas on any conditions her annexa-
tion to the United States. We shall now see what
effect the contamination of this act will have on the
chambers.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14
IMPORT Am pUrr OK PIG IRON

In all this period tax equal to 10 100 per cent.
ad valorem has been paid iron, and the result is
that the price is at as high rate as was ever
before known viz. $50 per ton for pig iron. These
facts which destroy the absurd theory that "high
taxes make low prices" 1t is also observable that
the import the article in degree diminishes I'M
der high duty; it arrives freely ever because
the price to the consumer advances in ratio equal
to the duty, the foreign manufacturer is not injured
by the duty The only one who suffers is the farper
his purchase of ploughs the mechanic and aborer
their tools, and the housewife on her kitchen The
manufacturer of these latter in the United States su
fers immensely by being compelled to pay 100 per
cent. more for the material than does his Eng
lish competitor. "But," says the wise tariff man,
'we tax the foreign cutlery to counterfeit the tax on
the raw IRON" A ton of iron worth $50 cannot be
Struggled in mans hat, but the pockets of ind-
vdual hold SlO0 worth of fine cutlery, which comes
ashore in that mode any other that the sagacity of
the dealer may suggest free of duty to compete with
the manufacture of the American who pays 100 per
cent. on his raw material. This is sencourag ing
American industry :" Mr.. Hamilton, in the above
extract states that iron had advanced SIG under the
demand from manufacturers. This points out the
true mode of encouraging the production of iron, viz
promote its consumption lessen the cost of manufac
ture, and when the consumption of hardware has
doubled, the demand for the raw material will have
increased in proportion, and a healthy advance in
prices must necessarily result-N y Morn. NearS.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

SOUTHERN PRARIEs.-- We, find the following in
the Conoordia Integencer. The manner of gathering
and herding cattle will be read with some interest
OPELoUsAs PRAIR1Es-Those who keep cattle on
the prairies of Attakapas and Opelousas commence
gathering in June. They herd all the wild cattle
together spot selected called the herding ground
four or five horsemen viii drive up $4,000 head and
when once collected together fifty horsemen could not
drive them off. Some kind of instinct keeps them
together. They kept together two or three days
before driving to Brand The cows and their calves
sorted time is allowed that the may find their
calves. In driving, horses fall run over cows-cows
hook-buIls fight, sc. Twenty owners sometimes
get together; each man drives of his own to brand,
they take calves by the tail, whirl them over, jump
on them and brand them. Any bull over year old
is tied, head to post and heels TO another Wick
of, of Opelousas, brands several thousand calves
every year. He pays a called Yacker, stock
keeper, 5000 per annum. 1t is his duty to break
wild horses, to cattle to brand and alter calves
He collects them only during the branding season ;;
the general rule, in keeping ordinary stock of
cattle is to give the Vacher the sixth calf and fifth
colt Where the stock is very large, they give the
seventh or eighth calf. A quart is whip all raw
hide three feet long, with two Prones, to whip horses
alone-the whip for cattle is called foti, with
wopden handle 10 inches, and thong Of raw hide,
s feet long. A with it VIII cut corn-cob IN
two pricking SiicL is used mostly in gathering"
it is piece of ash, seven feet long, with point of
three square file made sharp; it is called s'Poae,
they drive il into beef at full speed behind the rump
bone, near the brand. The animal Immediately rolls
over, il tears the flesh and hurts badly 1t is only
used when the cattle are hard to manage, they are
when heated from running. When drove is started,
one of the " beeyes" gets ahead and keeps the lead
all the way generally keeps his position leader
day. At times, when starting with a drove, they get
stampede it requires four hands to drive 80 which
is the greatest number driven 10 market, account
Of the officially in getting pens. When beef will
not drive, they throw tn I'm by the tall jump them,
cut hole through the nose with sharp knife, pass
a cabras (bair rope) through, and tie them to the
horses tail creole horse viii pull much by the
tail, as the shoulders.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

The FRAMING PKrvILEGE To MEMBERS OF Con-
eREss.-By the construction of the new Post Office
law given by the p M. General, Members of Con-
gress are chargeable with postage all letters
ceiued by them until thirty days previous to the
gress. Individuals writing to members for purposes
not public viii do well to remember this.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

first voyage across the Atlantic, this country She
is the largest vessel ever built, being 322 feet In
length and soft. inches in extreme BREADTH register
ing $500 tons. She has four decks, the lowest of
iron for the reception of cargo. The upper deck is
flush from stem to stern, and 3c5 feet long. She has
three boilers containing 200 tons of water, and heat
ed by "a fires the four engines $50 horse power
EACH Fifteen hundred tons of iron were used in the
construction of the ship and her engines Her pro-
pelor (of the Archimedian screw pattern) is fifteen
feet and half in diameter, worked by platevian.
chain in four tiers, passing round iron drum of Is
feet diameter Fify-our revolutions per minute can
be made. Her cost of construction was near $780,
OOO
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

SHOCKING OccURRENcE.-The new Orleans Repub-
lican relates the following shocking incident which
recently occurred in that city
"a little boy, aged seven years, the only son of a
widowed mother, named Jacob Polhemus. who was a
scholar in the District Public School, bad committed
some fault for which his teacher, young lady, re-
sorted to the punishment of solitary confinement by
locking him up in dark place Immediately under the
vesbule of the church, used for dePositing lumber,
old boards bricks &C., and the only light admitted is
through two holes about ten inches wide by eight
inches long, cut in each of the PANELS Of the DOORS
about FIVE feet from the ground, and small grating
at the other end. The poor child had placed some
small boards against the door, to enable him to climb
up so as to reach these openings in the door, through
which he pushed lis little head 1t is supposed that
the boards on which he stood must have slipped from
under him, and losing his support he could not exri-
cate himself, and dreadful to relate, was thus hung
mill dead
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

ANTI-RENT.-The extent of the anti-rent difficult
ties in New York, may perhaps be partially estimated
by the extraordinary expenses which they have
stoned The Albany Atlas says that there has already
been paid from the treasury fifty thousand dol
lars for expenses in calling troops into service and
for posses organized to aid sherifs and protect the
jais. OF this nearly TWENTY THOUSAND dollars
to be assessed on the counties this fall the resi-
due comes out of the State Treasury.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

Now the operation of the Sub-Treasury is to draw
out this idle coin from the banks and pass it into Cir
cuation, by paying out in discharge of government
funds. BY thus pouring into the channels of actual
business, it will become active, and of
more useful. In june 1S35-about the date of the
Specie Circuar-the specie in the New Orleans banks
was 81 S24 O00 with circulation Of 50, ll40S2: a
of the state of things which exists. The
heavy extension of banking credits at the centres of
business produce an unhealthy rise in prices, which
now does not generally exist. We may compare a
farui frnrn he rric
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

TIE EXECUTION OF THE HoDGEs.-We find in an
exchange paper account of the execution Of the
brothers Hodges at Burlington, Iowa, who
vlcted of murder They were MOrmOns, and very
strong excitement existed against them They
told by their brother make confession and TO die
like men. This brother was killed on his way home
1t from the published that they followed
his; advice strictly. ~ ~ =
The gallows was placed in a dell surrounded byb
natural amphtheatre of hills, which were thou
Sands OF men, women and children. The conVicts
were placed in wagon and escorted BY three or
four companies of rifemen with n band Of music
The prisoners perfectly at their ease, quite
unconcerned = dressed in their usual babments-
cool and collected if they had made it business
study how to 60 through the parting scene With
out apparent fearfulness. They requested the 5lst
Psalm to be rcad and 1t clearly evident that eys
placed their entire reliance tins great and glorious
psalm, as Fertilization for refusing to make any
temporal confession and not for the sincerity piety
and force of the Requirements Of the Psalm itselEpar
ticularly they relied ON the 4ih verse:
against thee. thee only have sinned,
And dane this evil in thy sight,"
Stephen Hodges CAME forward to make his. speech,
beginning with Gentlemen and fellow citizens, you
see before you dying man. about to be launched into
eternity. | have not much TO say, and will not dctain
you long," He denied that they were tried as white
men, denounced the evidence, the court and jury.
wondering how the jury could 60 home and quietly
sleep, after condemning two innocent young men,
% years old the other D. Many murders they said
had been before committed, but no one was hanged
for them-but they Mormons and that was the
reason they executed. lie denied that there
any proof against then, and then went the
facts of the trial, became frantic and stormed with
rage and Madness until the froth issued from his
mouth. In conclusion and the utmost GOODNESS,
he thanked the audience for their polite attention,
said he ready, and respectfully retired and took
his seat ON the platform. Very little sympathy
felt for the cuprits for in the face of these public
denials they had made admissions which clearly
proved their guilt.
William Hodges then came forward, and in a more
subdued manner went the facts of his trial, and
sustained his brothers. statement Stephen made
additional remarks the insuciency of the evidence
and tried to create sympathy in tn, behalf Will
liam, also had few more words to say, when their
irons were knocked off, They conducted to the
Drop and both turned of. Every thing conducted
with decorum and propriety; but it is clearly appa
rent that the publicity of the execution afforded
opportunity to denounce their prosecutors; and ankle
ty to conceal their guilt, and die like heroes the
feeling at the place of execution, and not
a reliance ON a kind Providence for mercy and for
giveness.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

Oo.rNoticing the case of Peepaugh VS.. Carow,
which recently occurred here, the Cincinnati Chron
Gle of Aug. 2, has the following ommous remark:
'sWe understand that Mr.. Carow has friends in
Cincinnati who would be very happy % hear from
him."
If not improper we should be glad if the Chronicle
would give us little more light in relation to the
gentleman named
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

Losr MIAMI CorInna, Maine, there is man
about fifty years Of age, of large size and muscular,
and who is deaf and dumb came into that town about
six weeks since, and has been wandering about dur
ing that time, apparently in anxious search Of his
home and his family. He writes his name Joseph
attcaunck and if capital letter is placed at the be-
ginning of the last word, he invariably rubs it out
and replaces the small letter.
No one in the vicinity has been able to understand
him. but from his signs, they have come to the con-
clusion that he has wife and several cbidren-tlat
he lives at great distance, somewhere the lakes
that he has by some means lost his way, and APP
pears dstrcssingy aud almost franticay anxious to
find his home and lay his head down with his family.
He has been much exposed to the hardships Of the
weather. and is lame from the effects of the frost
His forlorn condition and his fruitless struggles
find his way, and his expression of despair, and yet
Of quenchess affection for his wife and lifte ones,
seem to have touched the hearts of those with whom
he is now stopping
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-14

LAKE SUPERIOR CoPPER.--TIe Western papers say
that the rush to the Lake Superior copper region
seems to be steadily increasing There is now every
indication that its valuable copper mines will be large
ly worked this year. In very short time the Amer
lean market will be fully supplied from that quarter,
supply the world cheaper than England. The ore is
SO rch-from 40 to 10 per cent.-that notwithstand-
ing the higher price of labor here, they think will
have an advantage over the English manufacturer,
who is compelled to work containing only from
to Is per cent. of copper.