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Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26
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ponded with these "givings out" and thus give
W-ebb's declarations weight which they otherwise
could not obtain. And all the circumstances go to
show conclusvely that the Whig leaders are acting
in conjunction if not in concert with the British Min
ister But notwithstanding this treason to the
try, rely with confidence the President and the
Cabinet as well as the Democrats in Congress TO cir
cumvent it, and maintain our rights at all hazards.
We know well that the Commercial press of the east
will be arrayed against them, and viii talk loud and
long enough to make those who do not know better,
suppose that the country is Mortified at the idea of
asserting our rights in the face of England But
however potentially they may talk they do not ex-
press any thing more than the sentiments of part
of the commercial classes. The mass Of the people
is not with them, and will not be- They regard the
proposition of arbitration with the which it de-
serves If Congress and our Government cannot set
tie the matter it ought to be settled, other
or set of men can do it, be they princes or poten-
tales, citizens subjects" And all the govern
ment and Congress have 10 do do in default OF just
settlement and the withdrawal of the untenable
claims of Great Britain, is to 'reer the matter back
10 the Pep'e!" Our words for it they viii settle the
question by different kind of arbitration from that
desired BY England.
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26
The License law.

Under the new law, which we publish in another
column the people of each township in this county
are authorized to vote, at the April election, on the
question of granting licenses to retail spirtous Ii
quors. For full information, we publish the law in
another column. We also publish communication
on the subject, strongly arguing against the pro-
priety of granting licenses, and urging the citizens to
vote accordingly. The writer seems particularly anx-
lous that we should occupy the same ground. We do
not see any necessity for this. Every voter is or ought
to be capable of judging for himself on such ques-
ton. But We have no objection to give our cores.
pondens on either sde reasonable scope to forward
their own views. With that view we to-day insert
the communication of "K"
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26

NATtv1sM.-Same of the Wing papers are publish
ing certain joint resolutions passed at the last Gen.
era Assembly, against the doctrines of the "Nativ-
ists," in the hope of making naturazed citizens be-
leve that they disapprove of those doctrines Occa-
sionally however. there is Whig paper honest
enough to avow its true feelings. Thus, the Salem
News of Jan. 80, says:
"When the Presidential contest was over. and we
found that Polk had succeeded by the illegal votes OF
foreigners. we said would 60 with the Natives,
understanding at that time their principal object TO
be to prevent unnaturalzed foreigners from voting
and electing Democratic Presidents and we take
this opportunity to say TO our neghbor that far as
that part of their principles is concerned, we are
still Native American"
This is what most Whg editors would say, II they
dared honestly express their real feelings.
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26

Wrpows IN WAsHINGToS.-An amusing cores
pondent of the Commercial Advertiser says, that
peculiar feature in Washington society is the abun-
dance of widows. 1t is delightful fact and the idea
Of it makes me laugh in my sleep. Without abatlng
anything in my devotion to charming maidenhood, l
am bound to confess that consider young widow
to hold the superative degree in tie comparison OF
female excellence She is the human adjective, IL
ustrating the quality of all that is good in nature
second, person singular number-at present-until
the first person. "a singular fellow too) can meet
with her, when with the help Of the copulatlve con-
junction called parson. viii parse her plural fol
/ the future. What wise man would climb tree tc
get an apple difficult of attainment. when one equal,
beautiful and good would fall into his hands by shak
! ing the bough'
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26

"AN EMPIRE ON WHICH THE Sun NEVER sEfs."=
This beautiful figure representing vast empire, wil
it seems, apply to the United States the moment
Oregon is annexed" The Newburyport HerOld
says: Should we ever extend our possessions over
North Oregon, as far as the Bonanzof Mountains,
near the SEVENTEEN parallel shall reach that lati;
tude where the sun does not set in summer. Near
the mountains, in summer, the sun appears 10 stand
as still as it did in the days of Joshua. In June it is
twenty five degrees above the horizon at midnight"
and the only mode of knowing that it is midnight, is
watching the sun when it begins TO ascend. 1t
n sad the sun never sets On the dominions of Queen
Vic. but Frenchman gives as reason that the
sun is never seen in England.
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26

JUDGE RICE GARLAND, THE FoRGER.-The New
Orleans Courier makes the following reply to the
charge that Rice Garland is locofoco. 1t will an
swer for other whg papers which have repeated the
slander, as we'll as the Courier and Enquirer. The
statement, by the way, made some time since, that
Garland had shot himself, was erroneous:
"The New York Courier and Enquirer, aluding 10
Judge Garland. says-''It is pretty we'll known that
the gentleman, who stands charged with gross crimes
in New Orleans, is very rank locofoco." This Is a
fair example of the veracIty OF that leading Wing
journal. To the people Of Louisiana it is totally un-
necessary to say that Rice Garland is, and has been
ever since he was known to them, of the most
bitter unchartable and scurrious Wings In the State
He was twice elected to Congress by the Wings of
the Fourth District. In Congress he wasdistlngulsh-
ed for his blind rancorous and undistnguishing op
position TO the democratic administration OF General
Jackson and Martin Van Buren, and was chairman of
the famous committee of correspondence appointed by
the Whir members of Congress in 1910, to sit at
Washington during the recess for the purpose of cir
cuatng handbils and pamphlets in favor OF the cleo
ton of General Harrison. While yet member of
Congress. he appointed Judge of the Supreme
Court of Louisiana, by Mr.. Roman, the Whig Gov
ernor, who was blamed at the time by some of his
own particular friends, for appointing so violent
partisan to high judicial station. There is no white
man in Louisiana who is not acquainted with these
facts The editors Of the Courier and Enquirer could
hardly be ignorant of the virulence of Judge Gar
land S course in Congress. We are not surprised
that they should endeavo to misrepresent facts-bnt
it is strange that they should not have tact and
prudence sufficient to guard them from the impatation
of wiful Misrepresentation, in a with which the
whole nation is acquainted"
The New York Correspondent of the Boston Post
Post says:
al yesterday gentleman who left Havana
about three weeks since, who informs me that he saw
Mr. Rice Garland of louisiana the forging judge, at the
Tsfro de Tleon the night that he left His honor ap-
peared very happy and contcnted. and was warmly
engaged in discussing the Oregon question. He was
decidedly of opinion that the order Of notice should
not pass and offered to bet odds that it would be de-
eated in the Senate. 1t was understood that he had
made up his mind to make Cuba his permanent resi-
dence."
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26
The State Journal.

We understand that the MORRIS family has pur-
chased the State Journal from Mr.. s. V. B. NOEL
This arrangement will give that talented fam
lily the potential influence in the management of the
Wing party, which for many years, previous to 1913
they exercised with great effect Tne Royal Fami-
lies of both parties having each its especial
gan, the interest of the people will doubt be well
cared for as heretofore.
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26

4 PALPABLE HIT.-The Columbus correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette, tells the following good
one :"
..When the bin 10 create the county of Cass, was
,rder consideration in the House yesterday, Mr..
Gall,ober before the name was changed from Coss TO
Mahoning, moved 10 strike out the letter from the
name. Mr.. Hibbard said this the most barefaced
attempt on the part of the member from Hamilton. TO
name county after himself. he had witnessed.
Thereupon our member, though netted, was quiet ior
short time''
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26

OrSome of the whg papers, the Evansville Cou-
rer, for example, speak of Mr.. Orth repudiaior
If this charge be true they will eventually be reduc
ed to the necessity Of embracing or practising the
same doctrine. There is alternative TO choose
They viii become repudiators in effect either by sup
porting him and his policy, BY repudidiing both.
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26

0yThe steamship Princeton, at the Charlestown
Navy yard has been ordered to be got ready for
with all possible despatch.
The United States sloop-of-war Boston, at New
York from the Brazil station, is being dismantled,
asd is TO be rehtsed for sea Immediately
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26

0SrA pilot boat was recently despatched from New
York for Liverpool. More than forty different sto-
res are told as to the business upon which she was
sent. Among others, that she was employed TO carry
dispatches for the British Minster another that she
was employed to carry and bring news for the New
York papers another, to oyertake an absconding
manufacturer of Long Island who has left his credi-
tors minus 100000; another that she was sent out
to purchase Indiana bonds, &c. &c. &c. Perhaps we
shall know her true errand when she returns 1t is
supposed she will beat the steamships out and out.
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26

6rSee Notice Of the Trustees Of the Indiana Asy'
lum for the education of the Deaf spd Dono In ouf
advertising coluuns.
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26

o..- Fifteen hundred applications have been made
for the Offices il the two mounted regiments, which
Congress has passed law to raise 1t IS an undeni'
able fact, that officers could be promptly obtained fol-
an army of 500, ,0D men.
Indiana State sentinel., 1846-02-26
Post OnTcc Department.

The Postmaster General has transmitted to the
House of Representatives letter, accompanied with
an estimate Of the appropriation necessary for the
Post Office Department for the fiscal year commencing
on the lst of July. 1S46, amounting to si4l6.OOO,
divided into the following items:
For transportation, S3.O5O. 900
For compensation Of pos.masters, LOCO 900
For ship, steamboat and way-ettcrs, 1900
. Wrapping paper, 10000
Furniture for the post Offices, 4.CO0
Advertising, 5000
Mail bags, 20,CO0
Blanks, 1900
Mail locks, 1000
Mail depredations and special agents, 13,CGO
Clerks for post Offices, 2C0,OOO
Miscellaneous, $4,000
sI,4I6.GO0
ihe expenditures of the Department for the year
ending June 80, ls45 were 8, ,320. 1872
The estimates for the Department for The years
ending June 20, 1s45 1876 1s47 as placed in COM
parison, are
For 1916, $3.50, eco
For 1876, 41I6 OOO
For 1917. 4l6 C00
The Postmaster General states that the expense of
tran sPortation in New York and New England was
reduced at tie lettings in the Spring past about 81 per
cent or about S25OO00, from the former prices and
that II Is probable there will be further reduction al
the lettings the ensuing spring, in the northwestern
SeNhOhs III tue Gust Vi OF OU
cent upon the amount now pad-naking in all re-
ducton of near S4CO,u00 in the of transporta-
ton Tor the next year. The estimates are, noiwh.
standing, continued the same as last year. because Of
the increased service required by the of the last
Congress, in putting into operation the new routes in
the new States, and the additional service that will be
required to extend the mail service to Texas which
will probably increase the cost of transportation as
much for the next year as the reduction expected
from placing the contracts under the act Of Sd March
last.
He further states that special agents, as regular
officers OF the Department have beer dispensed WITH
and the services required of them will hereafter be
performed by the principal postmasters and officers of
the Department. Yet there will be occasionally
necessity for the employment of special agents, but
their time will be limited TO the performance of the
particular service required. These agents and other
expenses cost the Department 81 $40 as each quarter
OF the last year, whilst the expense for that service
for the last two quarters ending Both September and
31st December last, averaged g, ,5S5 SO each quar-
ter The estimate for this service for the next wear
has been reduced to Sl3.C0O.
If 1t be the pleasure Of Congress TO continue the
Magnetic Telegraph between Washington and Balti.
more under the control of the Post Office Department
and the income received from it be applied its ex-
pendItures, the Postmaster General saws that the ap.
preparation required for its maintenance for the COM
ing year commencing lst February, 1916. and ending
3lst January. lS47, may be reduced TO S6UC0 being
$4,000 less than the preceding year.
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Neighbor Huddy with envy. How he
coveted the evident happiness he en-
joyed! ! will not say he also coveted
his goods and his wife, but whenever
he saw him dashlng by on his splendid
hunter, or dined at his mansion, as he
some times did, and witnessed his do
mestic felicity, he could not repress a
deep sigh nor the exclamation, IL wish
| was in Neighbor Huddy's pIacet'
This wish, at first constitutionally
expressed, soon grew into burning
desire, ane might possibly have led to
the commission of murder, and his SUBJ
sequent marriage with the widow, had
not the very result so desired been
brought bout in very strange and in
comprehensive manner. Septolemus
did become Neighbour Huddy!
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lustrade, enclosing space Of about
eight feet wrde and eighty or hundred
feet long. The balusters are about
four feet high and four inches thick in
the largest part; the hand-rail from six
to eight inches wide. Upon the top
of this hand-rail, at the distance of six
or eight feet apart, are human images,
beautifully wrought, and about two feet
high. All of these, the balustrade,
hand-rail and images are made of a
compound OF gold, silver and copper
mole valuable than silver. | was told
that an offer had been made to take this
balustrade, and replace it with another
Of exactly the same size and workman
ship Of pure silver, and to give half a
million of dollars besides. There is
much more OF the same balustrade IN
other parts Of the church, should
think in all of it moi less than three hun
dred feet.
AS you walk through the building,
on either side there are different apart
ments, all filled, from the floor to the
ceiling, with paintings, statutes, vases,
huge candlesticks, walters, made of
gold or silver. This, too, is only the
every day display Of articles of least
value; the more costly are stored away
in chests or closets. What must it be
when all these are brought out, with
the immense quantities Of precious
stones which the church is known to
possess? And this is only one of the
churches of the city Of Mexico, where
there are between sixty and eighty
others, and some Of them possessing
little less wealth Than the cathedral; and
it must also be remembered, that all
the other large cities, such as Puebla,
Gaudalajars, Guanajuato, Zacatecas.
Durango, San Louis Potosi, have each
a proportionate number ofcqualIy gor-
geous establishments"
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licious lips expressed a honeyeG kiss
upon his Tor rather neighbor Huddy's)
cneek. This was but prelude, how
ever to the operate performance that
ensued.
"My !oven' said Mistress Hubby
81 saw you come in, and thought you
must be just in the humor to do me
little favor. ] only want five hundred
to day"-and she held out her purse.
Sepiolemus dare not trust himself to
speak, lest the illusion should vanish;
and SO he looked her steadily in the
face, as much perhaps because he was
filled with admiration OF her exceeding
beauty, as from any other cause
However, it was probably the course
usually adopted by the real Mr.. Hud.
|dy under similar circumstances, for
finding that her auditor remained silent,
she resumed:
"So, sir, you refuse me, do you?.-
You had better not-I tell you, you had
better not. This house will be too hot
to hold us both if you do. Answer
me. sir, will you give me the money or
not?'-and she snatched up a heavy
hunting boot which Septolemus had
just kicked off.
She stood with the weapon raised.
and every feature Of her beautiful coun-
lenance became more and more dis
torted, until she looked like perfect
fury. Seploemus still gazed fxedly
cd her, but gave her no answer-crash
went the boot, and a splendid and cost
Iy mirror lay on the floor, shivered in
to n thousand atoms.
The amia6le Mistress Huddy made
her exit with a slam, and Septolemus
gave vent to another emphatic 'Whewr
which was incunceivabIy "long drawn
out"
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WHAT Is FAsHtoN?-AnsDer.--" An
effort to outvie exclusiveness--to be
more lonish than hdut ton itself. FASH
ion is wingless aspiration after ele-
gance; brazen usurpalion; baseless
pretension kept alive by quick changes
of aspect; an impertinent substitution
Of personality for principle; an lmposi-
ton of effrontry upon weakness; a car
feature Of beauty; restless prosaic
straining for an ideal; mock fiower,
bloomless, odorlcss and seedless."
The above brief ANALYSIS of Fashion
is not original with US, but il is most
true definition. Tie aspiring multitude
amongst us~-the pretenders to high
life, who mimic and charicature, read
elegance and are characterized as "the
fayhiondbles," will, we hope, under
stand from it something of the differ
ence between the real and the false
that which characterizes the vulgar
pdrvenu or nouueau richie from that
higher organization which developes
purity and simplicity of manners.
Boston Transcript.
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CHAPTER III.-Transfusion.

One fine morning, Septolemus was
lying under the shade of large tree,
from which position he could see the
house and grounds of Neighbor Huddy.
His reflections had all found their usual
termination, and with more than his
wanted energy, he calculated for the
thousandth time-"l wish was in
Neighbor Huddy's place!"
"Good morning, sir" said voice
near him.
Mr.. Trunco assumed an erect atti-
tude, and beheld stranger in omlnous
black, and evidently of foreign extrac-
ton. He returned his greeting, and
the stranger continued, In broken En-
glish--
"My name is M. Mesmer. hear
vat you say; you shall be Won vat you
call Neighbor Huddy, as Won lee,le
minute"
Septolemus stood aghast at the Ian.
guage of the stranger, and the singular
demonstrations he made, for NJ. Mes
mer threw himseIfinto an attitude, and
before Septoiemus could recover his
faculties, the rapid and powerful mani.
pulations had produced their effect, and
the unfortunate man could not move a
muscle. He felt himself falling asleep.
and when he awoke, he was indeed
Neighbor Huddy!
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The Age of Wonders.

Let US suppose ourselves carried
back sixty years in the stream of time,
and to live again, the youthful subjects
Of the young king George III. Let US
likewise imagine that in those days the
divine spirit ofprophecy had come up
on US, unveiling to our sights the events
of the future. In seven years from
this time the British empire will be rent
in twain, american war in l776.) In
fifteen years men shall rise from the
earth and fly through the air, Gnven-
ton of balloons, l780.) In twenty
years the French monarchy, the oldest
that ever was, and now SO furnishing,
shall come to an end. A vIrtuous
prince, (Louis XVI, 1793, not yet
king, shall in twenty.three years lay
down his life on the scaffold; his wife
and sister shall share the same fate. In
those same days news shall travel
with the speed of the wind, and what
was done at midday shall be known at
the farthest bounds of the kingdom ere
the setting of the sun, (the Telegraph,
l8049 In twenty-six years con-
queror shall rise (Bonaparte) who shall
water his horse in the Nile, the Jordan
the Tagus, and the Burythenes. This
conqueror shall restore The chair of St.
Peter. and throw down what he had
restored, (dethronement of Plus VlI.)
Finally, he whom the world could not
contain shall die captive on rocky
island, (St. Helena,) neither in Europe,
ASIA, Africa, nor America, but in the
midst of u vast ocean; few feet Of
earth his empire, willow his monu-
ment. In those days metals shall be
found which float on the water and
burn it, Sodium and potassium, discov-
cred by Sir Humphrey Davy.) Ships
shall stem the stormIest ocean without
sails or oars, (steamships.) ,riages
shall run without horses with the speed
ofthe wind locomotive engines. The
ordinary speed of the wind is 35 miles
an hour, that Of the engines on the
Great Western Railway is 39.] Men
shall be conveyed from India 10 the
mighty Babylon IN a month: from
America ten days, from one end OF
England to the other in eight hours.
Bridges shall hang by chain over the
sea, while roads shall be made under
it, 1.-THE Menal Bridge and the Thames
TunneI.] The very beasts in those
days shall have laws to protect them.
Those days shall be days of great light.
Men shall plough without horses. steam
plough j they shall spin without hands,
[power loom;] they shall calculate by
wheels, Babbages machine; ); the sun
shall engrave tor them, THE Daguerreo-
type;] j they shall write with the light
ming, Electric telegraph One ma
chine shall print in one hour many
thousand books, each of which shall
take man many days to read; man
may buy a book for penny, he may
send to the ends of the empire. They
shall read the rocks instead of books,
[geology.] and decypher the history OF
beings which lived and died ere man
existed. In the heavens new stars shall
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CHAPTER vII.--Conclusion.

Septolemus went to bed. When he
again awoke he found himself under
the old tree where had occurred the
interview with the stranger in black.
Rubbing his eyes TO be sure thai he
was awake. he murmured "my stars,
what an'escape."
Now, whether he had been merely
dreaming, or whether under powerful
mesmeric influence positive TRANSMISSION
had taken place, | cannot pretend to
say. The result is all can speak with
certainty about, which was that Sep
tolemus Trunco was never again heard
to murmur at his lot IN life.
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THAT OLD LADY. MY boy, cease
at that old lady. 1t is age that
makes her bend over. Sixty years ago,
when she was as young as you, she was
as straight and as spry; now she is in-
firm and ripe for the grave. Your mo.
ther. my lad, in few years may be as
decrepid as this old lady, and will you
laugh at her appearance9 This woman
has sons who love her as you love
your mother. What would be your
feelings to see your parent ridiculed
as she passed through the streets?-
Think and cease your laughter. You
too may live to be old and infrm. You
may totter and bend as you pass the
streets. Remember this and never
again make sport Of age and infirmity.
If there are persons we should respect
more than others, it is those whose days
are nearly ended, whose shadows are
heightened for the tomb.
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be discovered; some sisters Of the earth;
some brothers of the sun; the planets,
five in number. discovered since the
American war, and the double stars by
Sir VIM. Herschel; and of all the col
ors of the rainbow. In these days like
wise they shall read the Pyramids.
(Young's and Champollion's discove.
ries.) They shall find out the mouth
of the Niger and Magnetic Pole. The
way to every thing shall have been dis
covered but the way to be happy Ed
inburgh Picnic.