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Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26
CORRESPONDENCE.
FAyETTE COUNTY,. Ia lime

FAYETTE COUNTY, Ia, June 20, 1915.
MEssRs. CHAPMANs IL take the liberty of sending
you a few lines on the subject of politics in this part
Of the State The cause of Democracy is on the
advance, and we have strong hopes that we shall send
two Democratic Representatives from this county to
the next Legislature, and also two from Union county.
If we can succeed in this it VIII render a Democratic
majority in the next Legislature certain.
We are yet in an usettled condition In regard to
the Congressional election, and | am sorry to learn
that a division exists among the Democracy as to the
.course to be pursued. am fully convinced that there
lis but one course by which the party can be saved
from the evils of divided councils and that is, to
bring out a Democratic candidate and give him the
full Strength of the party. If we are o~ut-numbered
10y the Wings, we at least fall honorably. A number
of Democrats are urging that we should take up John
Finley of Wayne county, and try to help what Wing
Friends he may have to elect him. Why we should
zvote for Mr.. Finley l cannot perceive. He is a ranl
Wing opposed to Texas and Oregon, in favor of a
United States Bank, a high Protective Tariff, and al
the other odious Wing measures. Shall we after
having so gloriously succeeded in electing Mr.. Polk,
now turn round and unite as a party In supporting
such ? man Shall we give our sanction to suct
principles by uniting in the support of a man whC
advocates them! There are many Democrats witt
awhorn | have conversed who are determined to 90 int
mo such arrangements. They are not struggling t
advance the interest of particular men, but to sustain
what they believe to be correct principles. If the
controversy is to be whether Smith or Finley shall ge
eeight dollars a day, they do not care which Of then
may get it. They are contending for important prin
dciples, and If they cannot get men to vote for VIII,
will sustain their principles, they will not vote at all
I'VE have many good Democrats in this District wis
would be an honor to the State as members of Congress
8 with such men to run why should we be hunting afte
kWhig candidates! For my part, | say give us
Democrat for a candidate or none. Democracy need
inc aid from Whigism, Abolitionism, or any othe
Hkind of ism. A DEMOCRAT OF 1910.
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We have just learned Of an awful murder and sui
eide, which took place near Palestine, some Is miles
|east of this place, a few days since. We were not
able to get the exact date.
The particulars as far as we can learn, are as fol-
low A German, by the name Of Nep, occasionally
i'm the habit of drinking to excess, had been drinking
in company with another individual, well known here,
and both left the doggery in Palestine for the Ger
mans home. After there, some difficulty arose, and
THE individual had his ribs broken by the German.
After getting sober, he threatened the German with a
suit, telling him that he would take away his proper
ty and farm, the latter having cost him Sl7O0 in
cash. This caused the German to Immediately trans
fer his property to his child. This operated on his
wife, who is represented as having been rather a 'hard
customer" She afterwards twitted her husband of
being a beggGr. The whole matters ~orerating on
him, he procured a barrel of whiskey, which he
brought home, when size told him be ought to have
purchased arsenic. While he was asleep, she let the
scontents of the barrel run out and when he awoke
and found what she had done, he Immediately attack
ed her, beat and killed her, and afterwards severed
her head from her body with an axe. He then DELHI
serately stood up before a looking glass, and cut his
Town throat.
4 These are the facts as we get them and from a
source entitled to credit. 1t may be proper to add,
that the husband and wife had occasionally separated
before the awful tragedy.
Young men these are the consequences of rum
drinking Would you desire your names heralded to
the world in such a connection +! Nothing but absti-
snence viii prevent it. Touch not taste not handle
not.
] P. S. We have since learned that the man did not
cut his weasand sufficient to produce death.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

DEMOCRATIC REvIEw.-The June number of this
work is illustrated with a portrait of MIRABEAU b
LAMAR, who has occupied so large a space in the
brief history of Texas. An interesting article on the
question-an argument on the American side
Iof the controversy, based on the history of the terri.
tory, and Of the treaties and Conventions which affect
it. This is the only political paper in the magazine
if indeed this should be styled political. The content.
are various and interesting. The Bridal of Pennacook
10y Whittier, is a poem of evident originality ant
merit the Faro Table, a story from the German, il
lof strong interest, and the brief essays and review
fare of that sterling worth that have earned for tn
4 Review its reputation.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26
Popular Lectures ON Rotany.

We are glad to learn that Mr.. J. C.. Mckinney,
Principal of the indianapolis High School, proposes
to deliver a course of twenty popular lectures at the
IVestry ofthe Second Presbyterian Church, on the de-
science of Botany. Here is a first rate
chance for some of that pleasurable mental i'm
iprovement, which our young men talked about in the
.papers last winter better than any thing then sug-
fgested, because the young ladies', and matrons, can
participate in it, with equal pleasure and profit. Let
our young friends, of both sexes, improve so good al
opportunity, and we shall hear less complaint hereaf
ter of a want of some rational method of spending
leisure hours.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26
Mr.. Van

The New York News, in referring to a very com
plimentary article in the Richmond Enquirer, says
"a great deal of Southern justice to Mr.. Van Buren,
has been done since his retirement to private life, un-
der circumstances placing him beyond the category of
men having a political future. The Charleston Mer-
,cury has recognized him as one of the soundest states
men in the Union, on all the cardinal principles Of
constitutional doctrines, dear to the South and even
no small number of his wing opponents have not been
backward to confess him one of the first and best of
Ethe public men our generation has produced. He
can never again be President-dificult as it is to i'm.
1agine any combination of circumstances which would
induce him to accept another nomination, and unlike.
sy as is any such combination to occur but he never.
stheless at this moment may be said to possess in q
higher degree than any other man living, the actua'
tried and tested confidence of the people in his wis
dom, prudence, patriotism and mental power.'
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

SINGULAR AND FATAL FREAK OF LIGHTN1NG.-A
imam named Stevens, in the town of Riga, near Ro-
chester, who was ploughing in a field when a storm
.arose, was struck by the lightning and killed instant
'ly. The fluid entered the top Of the head and came
out at the chin-making a hole about the size of an
ordinary bullet. 1t then passed down his limbs and
went through his foot, tearing off the sole of his
boot. One of the horses with which he was plough.
ing was killed also.
VAGAREs OF BIGHTNING.-The Pittsburg Arie
tells the following, and of course vouches for its truth
IA very singular freak of lightning occurred in Lee
Troy, Bradford county, last week. 1t struck the corner
of a chimney of Morse's Tavern, ran down the stove
3pipe into the bar-roomsw where all the tumblers sitting
on the bar fell ON their sides with the tops towards
THE stove, very much after the fashion of good Persian
Fire Worshippers. Thence it went through the floor,
drove down the outside of the cellar wall, made a
{hole through that, and demolished a barrel of beer,
land then stove in the head of a whiskey barrel, not
f~stopping to drink. A young man had just drawn
2some of the latter, and was filling a bottle with Q
tunnel. The bottle was the next object of attraction
and that was shivered into small ~paTtcels. The visit
or struck the young man above his knees, ran down
his pantaloons and got out at the toes of his boots
leaving some blisters. This rendered the gentleman
somewhat oblivious, and when his senses came bacl
the lightning had stepped out, but by what passage Ii
not known. A. I" strange streak of lightning,
that.
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ChiIlicothe Advertiser.

Messrs. Hough and Pine have sold this establish
'ment to Messrs. Halsey and Dowdall, by whom the
Advertiser will in future be conducted. The former
editors have earned a high reputation for talents and
Industry, and we hope their successors will be able,
I'm following in their footsteps, to sustain the high
the paper has acquired. To the former
editors, we tender, in their retirement, our best wishes
for their future happiness. and to the present ones,
Jour kindest wishes for their success IN their respon.
,si5le interchangeable Statesman.
We subscribe to every word of the above.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26
KeW hooks.

TURNER, has sent us a ''whole pile" of specimens
|of new and beautiful books, which he has just receiv-
led by express from the East. They absolutely make
eyes glisten and our mouths water. Delightful
We can't particularize just now-too much 0gitated
IShall dwell on them with epicurean deliberation here
,after.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

OF The whole Territory of Oregon is as Justly
and indisputably ours as the portion Maine which we
gave up TO Britain in the last treaty, and which was
.claimed by the British Cabinet with the clearest proofs
of our title before their eyes in the Foreign Office.
IF our Government is negotiating in regard to that
let it beware what it does. After what has
happened in regard to the Maine boundary, the nation
is not in a humor to give up a hand-breath of the
sOregon domain.
The satisfaction of having over-reached Brother
in adjusting the boundary Of the Oregon
<Territory, we earnestly hope, is not reserved for the
british Cabinet. Let 1t be adjusted, if you please,
mr.. Bull, but not quite SO satisfactorily to you as the
sother question.
Our Republic, we have seen it somewhere said, is
large enough already, or at all events will be big enough
when we have reduced to cultivation and filed with
inhabitants the mighty area already spriukled with
settlements, which is drained by the Mississippi and
its tributaries and it is not our policy to cucumber
our empire with an appendage lying beyond the barrier
2of the Rocky Mountains. Whatever may be thought
Eof this consideration, it has nothing to do with the
negotiation between the two countries. If we want
Enot the Oregon territory for ourselves, it is our duty
Ito hold it in trust for the republican communities
fairly our own, viii shortly spring up on the coast of
1.-THE Pacific. We should not allow an inch of it to be
Emerged in the great British Colonial Empire which,
lextending itself on all sides, already advances towards
|us from eastern Asia. If we cannot take the new
settlements into a political partnership, we may at
Eleast cherish their infancy until they are strong enough
flor self-protection. We may nourish the young eagle
suntil it is fedged.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26
The County Seminary.

Has just commenced a new session, under the aus
|pices of teachers who are highly spoken of. We
hope it will not only maintain, but increase the ex:
lcellent reputation acquired for it by Mr.. KEMPER
Such institutions as these, training and developing, a:
is their province, the minds of the rising generation
lare of inestimable Importance, and should attrac
much more attention than they have heretofore re
LceiVed.
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Mission TO London.

We congratulate the country on the appointment of
Louis McLane, as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
lPlenipotentiary to London He has been invited to
1.-THE public service without the slightest solicitation on
.hls part. lie has been for several years in retire,
:ment, if the successful management of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad company, as president of that In
.%stltution, can be considered as a retirement. First,
as a member of the House of Representatives, tn en-,
as minister to England, Secretary of the Treasury,
and Secretary of State, and as minister to London, he
has earned a name as a statesman and a patriot, of
which his country may be justly proud. He seems
Semlnently calculated to meet the present crisis be-
tween the two countries. This able and experienced
gentleman accepts the Office of minister at the most
distinguished court in the world, at one of the mos
Eeventful crises which could occur in the relations be-
tween the two countries, and when the most impor
stant interests of his own nation are involved in the
issue. He carries with him to the court of st. James
& great talents, extended experience, particularly al
THAT court, where he formerly repres ented the inter.
tests of the United States with great distinction. Pru-
dent, firm and sagacious, he will assert and maintain
the rights of his own country, without violating the
respect which is due to the British government. He
is orthodox on the great questions which now divide
the country and In none more so than on the impor
Etant questions Of Texas and Oregon.
We understand that Mr.. McLane will probably
kleave the United States as early as by the steamer OF
sthe 10Th July Washington Union.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26
Correction.

In our notice a few weeks ago, of the robbery of
the Catholic Churches, we inadvertently m%entionea
the Church at Lafayette as having been one of them
How we happened to do SO, we cannot remember. w
glad to learn, however, that it has not beer
robbed which fact re learn by a note from the Rev
I'M. J. Clarke, Pastor of the Church.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

TEXAS ELEcTfoN.-The last accounts from Texas
represent the people as engaged III electing member:
to the Fourth of July Convention. Many of the citi
Izens object to the call of such a convention, consider
ing Congress as competent to settle the subject of an
The Congress Of the Republic was to as
'semble on the 10th. Its proceedings viii be full of
Interest to this country, and intelligence Of its doing'
will be anxiously Looked for. 1t may settle the whole
matter at once, without the Intervention Of the con
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

CRIME IN MIcHIGAN.-There are at present IL
in the State Prison of Michigan, 10 of whom
sentenced for life. The Oldest prisoner is Il
years of age, the youngest ten years Since March
1889, when the prison was first opened, it has con
|tained 294 prisoners, which number has included bu
three females. SO have been pardoned, and but
have died.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26
Gen. Jacks0n,s fast Letter.

We understand says the Nashville Union, that Gen
~Jackson's last letter was written to President Polk OF
the 9th inst, and that it was in relation tt
our foreign affairs. The last time he signed his name
was on Saturday evening. the 18th inst. The Hon
|Thos. F.. Marshall had written to inquire into the sit
'%uation of his health-the letter was answered by hi
son, Andrew Jackson, jr, and tranked by Andrew
IJackson-that frank was his last signature.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

A DESTRUCTIVE LIANT SLIDE.-A land slide, carry
ing off sixty acres of land, occurred on the Sd inst.
lat Warsaw, Ulster Co., N. Y. In its postage i
CROSSED the Rondout stream, literally clearing the be-
of all distractions, and deposited its contents to thu
height of about Is feet in the bed of the stream 70
about 100 yards, forming a dam at one dash acros
the whole stream impervious as masonry.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

FAsTING.-There is a woman in the Vigo County
Poor House, who, according to the Wabash Express
has recently tasted forty days and forty nights, par
taking of nothing during the whole time, but colo
water and s~assafras tea without sugar. At the close
,of the period of fasting, she asked for food, and Il
now getting along as formerly, eating and enjoying
igood health. She is reputed insane.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26
Waiter bring pistols for two and coffee for one

"IMPoRTANT JUDICIAL DEcIsIoN.-We find in tn
Eastern papers the following statement of a decision
recently made by judge McLean:"
The above are the Introductory lines to an article il
the Wabash Courier, from a report, which original,
appeared in the State Sentinel, of a decision made a
THE last session of the u. S.. Circuit Court in this city
1t needed the Eastern " endorsement, we suppose, t
Jet the Courier into the secret of its Importance.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

0FMay a man marry his deceased wife's sister
If she says ''yes," when the question is popped, We
hold that he may-and more than this-if she b.
young, pretty, amiable and accomplished, and neces
,sary to his happiness, we think him a great fool if he
don't-maugre all the parsons may say to the contra
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

DEFENcEs OF THE ATLANTIC BoRDER.-A general
'order has been issued from the War Department to
mount the batteries of the various Notifications for
the protection of the Atlantic coast. We learn that
the officers and troops at Fortress Monroe are active
ly engaged in executing the order. The whole com.
l%pletement of guns-and among these are AZ Founders
for the fertilization of this garrison, amounts, we
believe, TO the number of nearly three hundred, con.
,stituting with the battery at Fort Calhoun, a weight
{of metal sufficient to resist any attempted invasion Of
THE fleets of the most formidable European powers
This is a precautionary measure of clear ~propriety
Indeed, the batteries should always be mounted. l
lis very questionable, moreover, whether there is any
ssaving, in an economical point of view, in the course
heretofore pursued by the Government. -Nortou
s Beacon.
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nIcNuIty.

The National Iutelligencer says that McNulty's
case has been decided in the Circuit Court. Judge
CRANcH pronounced the opinion of the Court, affirm
ing the suficiency Of the indictment. 1t is expected
a trial of McNulty will take place during the presen
term of the Criminal Court.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

FALLING INTO A FoRTUNE.-An Irishman, not long
!since, digging for lead in the district of Dubuque,
|Iowa, fell through the bottom of the hole into a large
|cayern. and on looking round found the inside cover
led with. very pure lead. 1t was one Of the richest
Veins ever discovered, and the 1fishman's fortune is
[inade.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

] We learn from the Lowell Courier, that at a meet
ing of the directors of the Merrimack Manufacturing
COMPANY holden the present week, it was decided t
.erect a large new mill. 1t will be, when completed
1.-THE largest in that cjty.-Boston Journal.
This is the ruin the election of Mr.. Polk is produ
I cling.
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From the WoskingfOa Union
The Mexican Republic.

Notwithstanding the degree of public attention
which late events have drawn TO the condition and
affairs of Mexico, there seems to prevail much mis-
conception in regard to. the form and nature of its
political organization. . Thus, in the discussion Of
the New York Historical Society concerning the pro-
posed change Of the designation of the United States,
1t has been assumed that Mexico also bears the title
of !. United States - and that, therefore, our name
is an equivocal one. So, also, In the new British
in council for the admission of certain descrip-
'tions of sugar from countries with which Great Brit
Jain has treaties of reciprocity, the United States Of
Mexico are spoken of, together with Venezuela and
the United States Of America. These expressions are
upon a very false idea of the Mexican Gov
I%ernment, which is not a confederation, and does not
Iconsist of LIMITED States, - or of States in any sense,
.but is a consolidated central Government, and is Off
:cially denominated the /" Mexican Republic"
8 According to the subsisting constitution of Mexico,
which was adopted and promulgated in June, lS43,
and is entitled Bases of political organization of
THE Mexican Republic the territory of the Republic
7comprehends what was, prior to the Revolution OF the
tSpanish American colonies
& L. The viceroyalty of New Spain.
4 2. The Capitdnia General of Yucatan. ?
] 3. The commandments of the internal provinces Of
the east and west.
] A. Upper and Lower California.
5. The Chiapas. !.
{ This territory-excepting the CALIFORNIA; and Texas
lis now divided by law into departments, with an
nomination for a oh &c follourc naualu.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26
APPOINTMENTS by dine President.

LOUIS McLANE, Of Maryland, Plenipotentiary and
Envoy Extraordinary to the United Kingdom OF Great
Britain and Ireland, vice Edward Everett, recalled.
SAMUEL w. SPENCER, Collector of the Customs Al
|Apalachicola, Florida, vice Hiram Nourse, resigned
EZRA CHEsEBRo, Collector of the Customs at Ston-
|ington, Connecticut, vice Giles r.. Hallam, removed.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26
semi-Weekiy Exchnnges.

We have endeavored to comply with our promise
IN exchanging with our ~cotemporaries in this State
the s~emi-weekly where they noticed or inserted oul
prospectus. If we have neglected any, on notice, w
will Immediately rectify the omission.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

G-The Wing Editors of the Tippecanoe Journal
land the Charlottesville Press, don't seem to ''hitcf
very comfortably. The last "friendly pas.
sage is the following from the Journal VS.. thu
Press
"Bdasmdn has proved himself in his last week
paper, what we have for sometime suspected him Il
be, a mean and ~dastardly puppy. Not only does h
deal in unworthy and dark insinuations, such as NJ
man would indulge in but he is guilty OF
the most palpable and downright lying. We there
fore cut his acquaintance, and strike his paper from
our exchange list"
I Waiter BRING pistols for two and coffee for one :
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

] The QUEBEC FIRE.-The committee of the investi-
7gation of the Quebec fire have made their report. The
total number of houses destroyed was l630-6 sts
being completely swept. The loss they put down al
50 ,OOO, 600 - forty-One persons having been found
4 dead, thus far, in the ruins.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

"FArHER, TAKE ME ma gentleman living in
cleveland, got up the other morning and found & nice
little baby, in a basket, at the door, with this inscrip-
|tion piuned to its cap:-"Father, take me in"
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

Since the first day of April last, more than ffee
Millions Of dollars worth of property has been de-
hroyed by fires, in the United States.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

Ellsworth the pedestrian, who has been walking
lon a wager at New Orleans, has completed his tasl
of walking 1000 miles in 1000 hours. He was en-.
gagged about six weeks in the journey.