Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-08-13
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assured she would DO, the interest winch t0llS due
on the first of August INST. in cash on that day.
| This she does notwithstanding unexpected diff
entities which were found to exist legally. preyen-
ting the aid which expected from the Phila.
deiphia banks. The PEOPLE ofPennsylvania have
Literally stepped forward, and voluntarily paid the
taxes before they we're due, in order to enable the
Treasurer to sustain the state credit on this occa-
sion. The amount was between eight and nine
hundred thousand dollars Future payments there
appears to be no doub. bout meeting. 1t will be
recoecied that The present Executive expressed
to the Legislature and very reasonably TOO, strcng
doubts of being ablelo meet the August payment.
But the legislature said it should be done, and
is done. Pennsylvania will pay for her public
works. and enjoy the benefit Of lhem-and SO will
Maryland hers also. A few years hence they
will both have their works flashed and paid for,
and the revenue Thereof coming in to relieve the
people from taxalion.-Niles Register
Will the Free Press do its readers the justice to
contrast this conduct OF Pennsylvania, with the
dongs of the Democracy of Michigan? We
opiue Dot-the Press has been engaged for months
past, in widely different task that of preparing
the public mind to relish and approve the doipgs
of its Democratic administration, in the hope of
being able, by its misrepresentation, to gull the
public to support the party 10 Nov. next.
To come out now, tell tie truth, and uDdeceive
IFS readers by stating the fact. that AN install
MENT OF OVER S 100000 became due on
our state debt, the first day ofJuly last and on
which not adoar has been paid or provided for
would present bad contrast with the case Of
the Pennsylvania Legislature, and would give the
lie direct to nearly every number ofthe Press that
ha been issued since April last. To have pro-
yded for paying onr debt by direct tax, (the on
ly way in which it could be done) would have ex-
hlbted the profigacy of our democratic rulers, by
an address to the pockets of the people that would
have been felt and understood, and could not have
failed to drive them from power. To admit the
disgracefu fact, that The debt was due. and that
not even effort made TO provide for its pay.
memt, during a three months session OF the Leg.
ture would be little less disastrous 10 the hopes Of
cliqueof corrupt rulers. The state paper Instead of
warning the public Of the truth. chooses the alter
native OF lieing it aud its readers that
there is not the remotest prospect present of any
necessity for direct taxation, for any such purpose;
(the payment of interest on our Internal improve
ment debt
The State paper evinces about The same regard
for truth in advising our citizens OF the financial
condition Of the state, that II did at the last election
IN representing Texas to be an Island" Texas,
and at the mouth of the Mississippi river about the
same as Bois Blanc Island does in Lake Erie and
at the mouth of Detroit River. This will give the
reader VERY CORRECT idea of The impor-
lance of Texas to the United States.
Voc roader, this ,r;!i give you just about as
rec: rn idea OF Texas, ne the Free Press articles
on our financial condition., does ofour state indebt.
edness and pecuniary condition. God save The
mark. il our destinies ase to be committed to such
guardianship. HONESIUS
| or The next term of the Ypsilan:i Seminary
will commence The first Monday in September, as
will appear by advertisement i'll next weeks paper.
LAKE AccIDENr--As our paper is going 10 press. we
learn that The Steamer Kent run down dy the Lon
! don Yesterday O'Clock z. ~ Among the lost are
mentioned J. Lowden, G. two ladies e. boy from Ups.
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Railroad Accidents. "Wednesday morning
last Mr.. George Westcot, train conductor on the
Saratoga and Schenectady road, having taken a
seat on The roof of the cars, was knocked by a
bridge, aud falling between the cars, had both legs
horribly naneled. Ampuatoh was hopeless and
| in about two hours he breathed his last
On the same day as the morning train fiom Sar
atoga TO Troy was coming down, the engine aud
tender were thrown eff: The track having spread
apart in marshy place; the engineer, josiah
Pamerton had his ann broken, and Gee. Long,
fireman, had his leg fractured. The broken limbs
were set, and the men were doing wei. The To-
comollve was much injured. but none OF the pas
sengers were at all damaged'-Pilot.
Tragedy at Hoboken. -Hoboken was yes'er.
day afternoon the scene of tragedy, though IN
Tins instance it was voluntary and sell Inflicted
one. Peter Rose, an optician and surgical insiru-
ment maker, who resided with his family at No.
4l2 Broadway, pot an end to his life by shooting
himself through The heart Beside hun was dis
covered card OIL which he had written as the
cause of his commission Of the fatal ACT, that his
sigh, was failing him and he was fearful of losing
it entirely and that he would be left without the
means of supporting his family. near relative
Of the deceased, who was at Hoboken, stated tina
some weeks previous Mr.. Rose returned from
Washington disappointed i'll his hopes IN refer
ence TO some invention connected with his art, u
which he was interested, and that he had beef
very melancholy siuce.-News-
I BRIrlsH OUTRAGE.--The British naval author
ihes have committed another outrage upon the
rights of our Coonists. II appears. by the Mon
royia Lumnary that the Colonial schooner, John
Seys owned by Stephen A. Benson. at Bassa Cove
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