Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-05-14

TO relieve the State from her embarrassments Those
who have not only stopped the debt from increasing
upon us, as 1t did every year under Wing rule, but
have placed the whole debt in fair way of adjust
ment those who have not only dispensed with the
necessity of borrowing money 10 carry the State
government but have actually reduced our annual
expenditures some twenty-five thousand dollars per
annum Who doubt the result when such an
issue is presented
We shall hereafter speak of other scenes in the
history of Wing rule in Indiana This transaction
is but "a drop in the bucket
MExIco.-Accounts from Yucatan received at
Vera Cruz, state that at the last dates the people
were engaged in the elections for an extraordinary
assembly, which to meet on the Odd of April, to
decide upon the political POSITION of that peninsula.
According to the prevailing opinion, it is considered
highly probable that the Assembly will declare at
once for the absolute independence of Yucatan, and
total separation from Mexico. The hatred against
the general government Of Mexico has become in.
tense in Yucatan and increases every day it is the
prevailing and loudly expressed opinion of the Yucca
tanese people in general, 'that for many years past
every government which has had the ascen5ancy in
Mexico has been tyrant and oppressor of Yucatan.
The fall of the administration of General Herrera,
and of the constitutional Congress heard of with
pleasure in Yucatan, but without, however, any feel.
ing of interest affection for the government which
succeeded" This is strong language in Mexican
journal. The proceeds, in long article, to de-
scribe the people of Yucatan as subjected to few
wealthy individuals, to whom, it pretends, they
in complete subsection, and in condition Of pow
erty, ignorance and degradation very similar TO that
of the Indians even the rude savages the coast
of Africa.
The N o. Tropic of the 25th ut. says: "The
Mexican schooner Ventura, arrived yesterday from
Vera Cruz, but not word of news later than before
received, except that President Paroles, in mani
esto, tells the Mexican people that he has not the
power to declare war against the United States, but
that for the august Congress ofthe Nationas
as they assemble, to take into consideration all the
consequences of the conflict in which we (Nexico)
are involved-a conflict which was in no wise pro-
voked by this patient and magnanmous people,"
"MexicO," he continues, "never has committed and
nerer cM commit the least aggression upon the peo-
pie of the United States" The Government had
seized the two papers the "Contra TEMPO" and the
"Reforma," and imprisoned their editors. They were
open advocates of the policy of recalling Santa Anna.
e.FThe ''Unon' of the I'd inst. says it has seen
recent a date as the 18th uIt., from which it has
been permitted to take the following extract:
1.-The news from the camp is rery pacific at pres
ent. The report is that the Mexcans intend to post
pcne their operations until the lst of June in order
to allow the to arbtrate the matter but
no reliance is to be placed upon what they say
THE SECRET SERVICE FUxD.-There has been
much talk lately about the Secret Service Fund.- This
fund has always been appropriated by Congress, and
its application has been left, by the law, to the sole
discretion of the President
The New York Telegraph says that the largest ex-
penditure ever made by the American Government in
this way, since the Revolution, was in 1912, when
John Henry, supposed to be British agent, received
from Mr.. Madison $50 QUO in two drafts the trea-
sury. one of $4,000 and the other of $780, Before
he left the United States he purchased of the Count
de GIlloa, then at Washington, estate III Langue-
doc, France for 100000 francs of which the amount
received from our government supposed to have
been part.
Mr.. Madison sent message to Congress informing
them of the plot, and also with the message series
of letters between this George Henry and Sir Thomas
Craig. Governor General of Canada, and his Secre-
tary, MIR. Ryland.
Henry made these discoveries in consequence. as
he alleged of the per6dy and dshonor of those who
first violated the conditions which he received THEFT
COnuueuCts anu vi uC Siuuiiu VI Inv
papers he communicated voluninous, and Con-
gress thought them important to print 5000
pes appearing to believe in the authority of the do
cuments.
Henry was an Englishman, and had been captain
in our army of l79S.
The British Minister at Washington, Mr.. Foster, dis
avowed the whole affair in official letter to the Sc
cretary of State, who also made report to the Presi-
dent, that the department not in possession OF
any names persons in the United States who had
any way countenanced the project and views of MIR.
Henry.
The affair made great sensation at the time, but
the author Of it left the country in few weeks after
his communication had been made public, and sailed
from New York on the 10th of March, 1872, in the
ship Wasp for France. His subsequent career We
have not yet been able to trace.
During the Revolution large sums were expended
for secret services, and in 177 the amount apprupri
ated for those purposes was about f700,O0n.
OF late years the amount expended has been very
| trfing."
THE DocroRs-We are inclined to think that In
dianapolis can show long list of physicians a,
almost any town Of its size any where. Here they
are in alphabetical order:
Ackey, Bobbs, Bricket, (botanic,) Tullard, Coe
Dunlap, Evans Gaston Givens, Homburg, Jordan