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Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-04-10
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DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES
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simple and frugal Government, confined within
strict Constitutional limits.
strict construction ofthe Constitution, and no as
sumption Of doubtful powers
No National Bank to swindle the la5oring popula-
ton
No connection between the government and banks.
diplomacy, asking for nothing but what is clear
" rlglf and submitting TO nothing wrong.
No public debt, either by the General Government,
or by the States, except for objects Of urgent neces
sity.
No assumption by the General Government Of the
debts Of the States, either directly or indirectly. bya
distribution Of the proceeds of the public lands.
Revenue tariff, discriminating IN favor Of the
poor consumer instead of Z c rich capitalist.
No extensive system Of Internal Improvement by
the General Government, or by the Sa1es.
constitutional barrier against inProvidert Safe
loans.
The honest payment Of cur debts and the sscred
preservation Of the public faith
gradual return from paper credit system.
No grants of exclusive charters and privileges, by
special legislation, to banks.
No connexion between Church and State.
No prescription for honest opinions.
Fostering aid to public education.
progressive" reformation Of ali abuses.
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The ATLANTIC AND Pacific CAxALs.-French and
English writer's Specializing the necessity and
probability Of canal being cut through the neck Of
land or isthnius dividing North and South America.
If this be undertaken by the English Government,
what security is there that exclusive privileges will
not be attached to the marine CT that nation, 10 the
detriment of our own! But we have long been Of
opinion that if canal be cut, /; should be at the joint
expense of Christendom leaving it highway for
tons. Respecting the most appropriate place for cut
ting the canal, there have been differences Of opinion
Iehuantepec was tie first place selected, and was
long considered the most eligible place, and BY de-
cree Of the Spanish cortes 1914 the work If con-
Meeting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was TO have
taken place at that point but the war of ndepend-
ence suspended the project. When the Mexican Gov
eminent resumed the project that point of land was
discredited as eligible for the purpose. But recent
Investigations have confirmed the original opinion.
The breadth of the isthmus, in straight line from
the mouth OF the Coazacoalcos, IS $50 miles. 1t is
ascerained that harbor be had on the Pacific
side, as well as the Atlantic The isthmus is but
scanty populated. Formerly lis population was dense,
but the buccaneers devastated 1t. The climate is fine.
Shp-tmbers grow in profusion. The latter consider
GtiOns all important TO North Americans and Eu-
ropeans. The maximum cost Of cutting the work is
set down at about twelve millions Of dollars
The late treaty with China, and the promise of an
indefinitely great trade with the East render the pre-
sent time specially proper for cur Government to en-
terrain the project. Our vessels have to double
either the African or the American Southern Cape, at
vast waste Of time and labor, compared with tie
short cut through camel recommended. And IL is
great consideration that such a work. which will
certainly be undertaken, should not become foreign
Governmental or corporate monopoly. Sagacious men
in England and France are recommending their Gov
to undertake it, and holding out TO capital
lists the value of the undertaking. We have no e,-
pectat0n that capitalists here would undertake it, but
it is incumbent upon our Government in regard TO
info Of toll
survey mate Of the land and haTbors either alone or
in connection with commissioners from other Govern
Then It viii be proper to entertain the carry
ing out Of the project Otherwise may be cut of
from the Pacific, hamPered with restrictions in
such a manner 10 render competition uncertain
or impossible with the British in the Pacific trade 1t
would be suitable matter for the next Congress to con-
sider-Pnlo. Ledger.
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Volume IV%%::iiiisNumbcr ~.
70 The Editor of The Mar York Tribune

To the Editor of The Mar York Tribune:
CLAIRvoYANcE.-rheTei Is in this place Clairvoy-
ant Jackson Davis, whose wonderful powers have for
a long time astonished many of our citizens. This
young man IS eighteen years OF age, Is uneducaed,
and has resided here fer the last six years. and very
generally known.
What is perfectly astonishing is; when in the Clair
vOyant state, he is complete master of tie general
sciences, such as physiology, pathology, anatomy,
geology, NEUROLOGY, chronology, astronomy, &c. He
is conversant with all these sceRces-dstincy points
out their fundamental truths and exposes their incl
dental errors. He hiss spoken also N many differ
ent languages, and whilst in that state is able and
willing to give instruction any subject which will
be of benefit to mankind. He has s'ready explained
many phenomena in nature which the 'earned have
been unable thom, such for instance he cause
Of the Udriation Of the Magnetic Needle
Of late, he has given US four Lectures On Animal
Magnetism. The theory of Magnetism, as given in
these lectures, Is entirely new, and beautiful beyond
description. He shows in clear and lucid manner
that Mesmersm is science, and that all its pheno-
u1ena are accounted for on natural principles thus
removing all the mystery in which the subject has
been shrouded, and completely reversing all former
theories which have been put forth and he has given
MesmeriSm new name, expressive CT this fact, that
of % C7GiTmGtirencsS.'
Within the last twelve months, this young man has
examined and prescribed for upwards Of one hundred
persons, and has restored them to health.
The names of these persons can be given if called
for Among the number | viii mention Dr. Charles
Thatcher, eminent physician Of ibis town. This
gentleman for four years past, afflicted with
liberation of the bowels, in consequence Of which he
was obliged to give up the practice Of medicine He
is now restored to health.
This young Ian has often as,onished and COMPOUNDED
me by revealing to my thoughts when have
been sitting beside him. in the trance State. And he
has frequently done the same with others, in the pre-
sence Of many witnesses.
He is still engaged in giving US lectures various
Subjects and these lectures in due time viii be given
to the public
By giving the above place in your paper, you viii
much oblgo myself and many of your readers in this
vicinity. Very respectfully, yours,
GIrsoN Smith,
Pdstor Of the First UairerSaliSt Socisiy.
PoUGHKEEPsIE, Feb. 10, 1916.
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ELEGANT HABITS OF BEEs-Did any one ever suf-
fciently admire-dd he, indeed ever notice-the en-
tire elegance of the habits and pursuits of the bees
their extraction of nothing but quinescence OF the
flowers their preference Of those that have the finest
and least adulterated odor their avoidance of every
thing squalid $50 unlike flies j Their eager election
or exclusion Of it FROM their hive, In the instance
Of carcasses of ntruders, which, if they cannot drag
away they cover up and cntomb; their love Of clean,
quiet, and delicate eighborhoodS-tlymy places with
brooks their singulary clean management of so IL
Guid and adhesive thing honey from which they
issue forth to their work if they had nothing 10 do
with it their combination with honey-nakng Of the
elegant manufacture Of wax, Of which they make
their apartments and which Is used BY mankind for
none but patrican or other choice purposes their or
derly policy their delight in sunshine; their atteE
ton TO one another; their apparent indifference 10
any thing purely regaring themselves, apart from the
common good. Ia the morning, the bee IS honey; IN
the evening, the waxen taper; in the sumner ncrn,
voice in the garden, or in the window; n the win
ter and at all other times, meeter Of Us in books.
She talks Greeks TO US in Sophocles and Theocritus
Virgls very best Latin in his Georges; we have Just
heard her in Italian; and besides AL her charming
associations with the poets in general, one OF the
Elizabethmen has made whole play in which the
whole dramatis persona are bees. = AtHsttOrth's
Magazine.
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From The Mercury.
EaRiC.

To notch thy letters on the yielding stone,
To carve them on the gnarled mountain eok
Ard find the rock tomorrow morning gone,
The tree consumed 10 ashes and to sH.Gkej
No vestige left of all thy toll to-day,
Which made thee bold and strong mock decay:
To hear a clAnor on the midday breeze
From which thy name like incense seems 10 Iise,
Then bTooding stiffness, StiTless the trees
That slumber in the calm Of airess skies
In which all sound Of echo is forgot
And thos myself left voeeess on the spot:
To feel thirst within thy hoping soul,
And have it fed with ever burning FIRE;
To be for many worshippers the goal
Where pilgrim feet at every half hour tire,
And leave thee, monarch Of thySeif alone,
The narrow grave thy empire, and thy throne;
And this is fame for which all heroes toll,
Kings, ConqueTOrS, Statesmen, Priests
SiTewing their bones, or smeaTing natures soil
With awful fragments Of their drunken feasts;
breath, bubble blown into thin air,
Which breaks and dies, and leaves record there.
New YoRK January, 1913. {. ID. S
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"Ox-pRrSK "A GOOD NAME FOR SMALL BESlENISGs
OF GREAT rHlXss.--At late public meeting IN this
CITY, the Rev. ]. Spaulding dwet few moments on
the deathless nature ana extent of moral influence.
Away mong the Aleghanies, said he, there IS a
spring SO small that single IN summers day
could drink 1t dry 1t steals its way among the hills,
till it spreads out IN the beautiful Ohio. Thence 1t
stretches away thousand miles, leaving on It's banks
more than a hundred villages and cities and many
tbousqnd cultivated farms; and bearing on It's bosom
more than half thousand STEAMBOATS, Then Joining
the Mississippi it stretches away some twelve hum
dred miles more till II falls into tie great emblem Of
eternity 1t is one of the tributaries of that ocean,
which, o5edieni only God, shsE ro and roar tn
the angel with foot on the sea and the other on
the land shall lift up his hand TO heaven and swear
that time shall be no longer. So with moral influence
Its rill-a rvuleS-an ocean, bundles and fAtbonl-
less as eternity.
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THE GRIEFs OF THE AGED.-There is always some
thing painfully touching In the grefs Of the aged.
The shaking Of the wasted hand with its sallow skin
and prominent veins which is now no longer pressed
upon the eye-lids, if weeping brought its own con-
ISOLATION, but wanders uneasily about the garments,
smoothing the folds and now pressed aganst the
loose girdle. The scanty supply Of tears, and the
sigh which longer if relief but deep and
heavy as become, in truth groan, wrung it WERE
from the vitals the foot is moved in quick restless
taps upon the floor, and the eyes turned as
expecting sympathy from others. Alas who is there
that is ready to lay the aged and stricken hand upon
his bosom. and smooth the gray locks, and kiss the
furrowed brow that has known the WEAKNESS and the
sorrow of many years. There is something awful in
the weeping of the aged. Trey are those that have
known too the full vanity of life have beeld the be-
loved of youth pass to the spirit land have known
the folly of earthly hOpes-havc found the canker at
the root of every promise and the golden fruit turned
to ashes of bitterness. Love, and youth, and hope
and glory, all the chmeras Of life have passed away
and yet they live on, like these ancient trunks whose
dry branches shiver in the Winds and the roots cling
to the SOIL although life and verdure shall visit them
No wonder, then, that we are prone to turn
fearfully away from the sorrows Of the aged-to feel
that there is something awful in the renewal Of hui
man passions, in those who supposed to have sur
vved their existence. No, no: it Is for the Young
the hoping, the beautiful TO weep, and find response
IN every heart; the brow of the aged can alone re-
pose upon the bosom Of its God.-Afrs. CaEes Smith
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Lamcnt Of a Household.
"a voice in every whisper

\ voice 10 whisper
or the wave, the boush Ire air,
Comes asking for the beautiful
And moaning Where, oh! where"
Thou art not here CD thou lost, loved one,
We hear not thy voice when the day is done,
We meet not the glance of thy beaming eye,
When the nom is up in the eastern sky
We remember thy place at the hour Of prayer.
And we weep when We see not the loved ono theIe.
We gather around the same dear hear h,
And we sometimes laugh with wonted mirth,
But We are not oft as we cnce were, Gid
Our thoughts are deep and our brows are sad,
When we think of her that has from u gone,
We sigh for the voice Of the DEAR lost one.
We have watched BY thy gave through the twilight hours
We have sown its turf withe summer flowers;
The cypress and willow waving there,
And the rose bTeathes so: on the scented air.
We love that spot the sacred shrine
or split all pure knew thine.
We remember the hour when the deaih-pang came
With an icy chill er thy shuddcrng frame;
We forget not the look that Frightening there,
When the darling pain fierce to bear,
And the rapture that shone in thy gllrng eye,
When the split SCARED to its native sky.
And we treasure the last lone words Of thine,
As priceless gem in cur hearts pgIe shrine;
We repeat to each other those accents DER,
With tear for her that We meet no more,
And we tell thy tale O the we love-
Dost thou MT hear it too in thy home above
The young go forth in their noisy miIth,
When the spring has beaihcd DER the glaidenng carh
To gather the flowers that blooming then
In the meadows green and forest glen,
And their notes Of Joy on the hills we hear,
But they make sad, for thou not here.
When the summer has gone with lis golden grain,
And the song Of harvest has come again,
18th the strange wild sourd that Swells and dies
In the solemn winds deep haImcnes,
As We jim in the dirge Of the waning year,
And We weep Tor The that is more here
When the winter is come thou here
To share thy part in our evening cheer;
When seats placed by The hearth fires blaze,
And we sing old songs of our fathers days,
There stands by the wall vacant one,
That tells our hearts Of sister gone.
But though weep will not complain,
We would not recall thee TO earth again;
Thou hast borne thy part in its many woes,
Aud now thou AIT gone to thy last repose-
We leave thee TO rest in thy quiet tomb
For we know that for thee there's better home.
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MEN OF GENIUS ARE DEFICIENT ~ CoxvElsA TON.
The student who may perhaps shine a uminary
of learning and genius, Is found not rarely to lie OBJ
secured beneath heavy cloud in coOqu,al discourse.
If you love Of letters seek him in the priva-
cies Of his study 1t is in tie hours Of confidence
and tranquility that his mind shall elicit rays of intel
gence tenOld more fervid than the labors Of polish
ed composition. SIakspeeres conversational powers
were very poor The Deficiencies of Addison in con-
verSation well known. Virgil was heavy and dull
in conversation, and appeared more like ordinary
man than an enchanting poet. Llfon.ane appeared
stupid and coarse he could not 6escrite what lie had
first SEEM but his writings were beautiful models Of
poetry The same may be said Of Goldsmith, Cheu-
Ger, and many other IF tie brightest planets in tie
armament Of literature. Isjcraes celebrated for
his splendid oraturca composition, was of so tmd
disposition in tbs point that he seldom ven;ured
make remark advance an opinion in public. The
great Dryden was in conversation slow and insipid,
never known break jest make refartee. Phi
osophers agree that in Of genus generally. tie
more gigantic the conceptions Of the mind the less is
the elegance of expression and the eloquence Of
speech. A certain author says tie mediocrty
talk so can fools and parrots but observe belongs
to genius alone.-D Isfaelrs CHriosities Of Lilera-
tire.
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BATTLE THE HoRsEs-Two of the Spanish regi-
ments which had been chartered in Feneu, were cava
ry mounted on fine black, long-taied Andalusian
horses. 1t mPractcable to bring off these horses
about !, 100 in number, and Romano was not a man
who could order them to be destroyed He was fond
of horses himself, and knew that every man at
tached to the beast which had carried HIM far and
faithfully. Their brides were taken off, and they
were turned loose upon the beach. a scene ensued,
such as probably was never before witnessed. They
sensible that they t'cre no longer under any
straint of human power. A general conflict ensued,
in which, retaining the discipline they had learned,
they charged each other in squadrons of twenty
together, then closely engaged striking with their
fore feet and biting and tearing each other with fero
cious rage, and trampng these which were beat
en- down. till the shore in the of hour,
strewn with dead and disabled. Part of them had
been set free OH q rising ground at distance they
no sooner heard the of the battle than they
laundering down over the intermediate hedges, and
catching the contagious madness, plunged into the
fight with fury. Sublime the was, it
too horrible to be long contemplated; and Romano,
in mercy, gave orders for destroying tem but it was
found too dangerous to attempt this; and after
the last boats quilted the beach, the few horses that
remained were still being engaged in the dreadful
work Of mutual destruction.
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Iove and FrienasTa d.

Ely WILLIAM LECGETT.
The binds, when winter shades the sky,
Fly DER the seas away,
Where laughing eyes in sunshine lie,
And summer bTCeZes play.
And thus the friends, that fDtter near
While fortunes sun is warm,
Are startled if 4 cloud appear,
And fly before the storm.
But when from winters bowling plains
Each other waTbler'S past,
The little snow-bird still remains,
Aud chiTrups midst The blast.
Dove-lke that bird, when friendships thTong
" it'll fortunes sun depart,
Still fingers with its cheerful song,
And neslles on the heart.
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RELATIVE DECAY OF THE SExEs.-Decay in the
male sex is much more rapid than in the female. In
the three years ending Iune 30, 1910, the total num-
Der of deaths among males throughout England and
Wales was 5lS,0O6, while the death among females
were only 49905S, giving an excess of male deaths
in three years Of lS,045. After this statement, II
cannot appear surprising that the number Of females
in any country should notably exceed the number CT
males. In the present time, In London, there are
996, 500 females to $4,000 males, or excess of
COO ladies. Coupled with this fact and obvious
y depending on it, is the superior longevity Of the
female sex. There died throughout England and
Wales, between first July, 1885, and 3Cth June, $40,
5247 females, aged 50 and upwards; whereas of the
same age, there died only 1854 gentlemen, leaving
what is called in the city "a balance in favor of the
cid ladies' Of 1898. Among the females who died, IL
had passed the age Of leo, but only 20 males.
There are only three diseases common to the sexes
which carry off more females than males, they are
consumption, cancer, and dropsy. The deaths by
childbirth form but very small fraction OF the NOR
tality Of the female sex. The proportion IS only s
per per 1000 of the total mortality and Us half q
million of children are born annually in England and
Wales, and scarcely 1000 deaths take place IN child
BIRTH so there is only one death to 10 confinemens.
The researches Of the registrargeneral have brought
to light singular results with reference 10 the
proportion in which acute diseases affect the two sex
In the Zymotic tribe the uniformity IS quite eX-
traordinary. Thus, out Of SI94 persons dying of
measles in 1910 throughout England and Wales,
4l43 were males, and 405l females-a difference Of
only 90. Again, out of 1882 persons dying Of
scarlet fever in the same year, 1927 were males,
$685. were females--a difference of only 6. On the
other hand, 1t appears that out of IA, sos dying OF
pneumonia, SIT were males, and only 6629 females
Out of %, 1871 dying of CONFUSION, 1859 were
males, and only l0,09S females The SUI erior value
of female life, which this and all statistical consider
atiods tend prove, and which insurance Offices.
by their variation of rates, acknowledge, is not ari
buta5le any differences in the original construction
of the body (or man is built of stronger materials
than woman } but first, to the smaller demand upon
her vital power during the middle period of life Sc
condy to the healthier condition and temperature of
the female mind and thirdly to the lesser amount Of
toll and anxiety which, in highly civilized country,
falls to the share of woman.-Dr. G. Gregory:
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TIE OBSTINATE AyIMAL.-A knowledge of the
habits of animals is sometimes of great service
the saving of cities James, in his recent history of
the Black Prince, gives amusing instance of this
in the defence of Rennes town Of Brittany, beslcg
ed by the duke of Lancaster. In order to eject the
surrender Of tie place, the duke enforced a strict
blockade which soon reduced the garrison TO great
straits bat be knew they would hold out to the last
extremity, and he determined to try trick Of war;
For this purpose he drew off his soldiers, if he had
left the place. and formed ambuscade In some bush
es behind the town. He then caused a number Of
hogs to be left loose the plain, in the hope thai the
starving garrison would rush out for the prize. But
they understood the trick, and turned it to their own
advantage. They opened the sally ports and hung
I'D Young sow to the Intel. she, of course, made
great QUERY, and the hogs rushing up to the
place from whence tie noise proceeded she was then
cut down and driven through one Of the streets, and
forced TO keep up her music. The soldiers sprang up
from the ambuscadc, in order to try, and If possible
prevent this unlocked for termination of their expert
ment but James says, the hogs with that intuitive
perception Of the way their masters do not wish them
to 90 which has ever marked their nature, went tu
multuousiy into the town. and afforded the garrison
very seasonabe relief