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Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01
TFor the State sentinel.l
The Union.
BY MRS. SARAH T. BOLTON.

By MRS SARAH T. BOLTON
THr UsIoS-It must Be preserved-AxDRrw J.oxsox
Dissolve the Union,-let the blush of shame
Hide, with its crimson glow, the brazen cheek
OF him who dares avow the tratorous sim.
Il is not the true, the wise, the good, who speak,
Words OF such fearful import; but the weak.
Drunk with fanaticism's poisonous wine.
And reckless of the future, madly seek
To hold their saturnalia at the shrine
That noble souls have held and still must hold divine
Dissolve the Union .-madmen, would We rend
The glorious motto from our eountry's crest7
Would ye despoil the stars and stripes, that lend
Home, food, protection to the worlds opprest
Have yen reverence for the high bequest
That our immortal sires bestowed erewhile7
Has sin defaced the image God imprest
On your humanity, that We could smile
To see the lurid flames of Freedoms funeral pile
Dissolve the Union lin the day, the hour
Ye rend the bood-cemented tie in twain.
The fearful cloud Of civil war will lower,
Ger every old blue hill and sunny plain,
From torrid Mexico to frigid Maine.
And men will arm, and strange new banners wave.
And paid women look on kindred slain;
Brothers viii battle and the life. blood lave
The thresholds noble sres and husbands died to save
Dissolve the Union !--no, We cannot part,
With idle words, the blessed ties that bind
In one, the interests of that mighty heart
That treasures up the hopes of all mankind.
Awhile, perchance, the blind may lead the blind,
And men may follow phosphorescent light,
From beaten paths to quagmires, they find
The ray that shone so beautiful and bright,
Was but phantom-lure to deeper, darker night.
Dissolve the Union never; We may SOW
The seeds of vile dissension Ger the land,
That men may reap in sorrow; ye may show
The world your disregard of all its grand
Eternal interests; but noble band
OF patriots, tried and true, will still remain,
With heart to heart and sinewy hand to hand,
To guard, from foul dishonors cankering stain,
The Jewels God has shrined in Freedoms holy fame.
Dissolve the Union mo, destroy the page
That gives to human sight the hdeous scrawl;
Let not the freemen, of future age,
Read these detested words; they would recall
Shame, madness, inbecility, and all
That the noontide glory Of our time.
True to the undivided, stand or fall;
To waver now, is little less than crime
To battle for the right is glorious, is sublime.
Indianapolis, july 1850.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01
They Crow too Soon!

The Wings had better give it up. Their Dragging
will do them no good. We have only to set jerks,
of the Lafayette Courier, at them. He car do them
up either in prose or poetry. His poetry, however,
generally has truth in it.. He says:
The fact ofthe mater is, that the peoples verdict is
already made up and there is single candidate
the whig ticket of whom with truth be said,
He'd better resign and save expense,
For his hides already on the fence"
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01
A Jews Opinion of Judas.

Major Noah, in his Sunday Times, gives some
weekly explanations and expoundingS of the scrip
lures In his latest issue he speaks of Judas Iscarot
to show that the wckedness of that arch traitor is
not generally understood He tells that Jesus
was not betrayed to the Jews, as is generally sup
posed, but to the Roman authorities, who were in
search of him and knew him not The Sanhedrim
of Jerusalem Gas illustrious a body our Senate,
and as quarrelsome too,) could not be supposed to
have paid the palry of thirty pieces OF silver
to betray Jesus, when they knew him well, for he
was in the daily habit of expounding his doctrines
in the temple the mountains and in the valleys?
He never concealed himself. he not an obscure
person. Why should the Jews pay for betraying
him? When the Roman soldiers were sent TO arrest
him by Pontius Plate not knowing which of the
twelve apostles was accused, they agreed TO pay
Judas thirty pieces of silver if he would point him
out. The apostles were all poor men, though Judas
was better off than the rest, having some means.
Being socialists, and having but one purse, Judas
was kind of treasurer, and kept the money He
was mean and araricious, as we have night TO be-
eve for his rebuking Mary for eXpending three hun
dred pence for box of spikenard 10 annoint the
feet of Jesus. Besides, Jesus and all his apostles
were Jews and by the Jewish law no bribe could be
offered as price of blood, and particularly by the
Sanhedrim, the true opponents of the law. Ii was
Roman bribe to designate the person; but it was
tirely unnecessary, for when the officers arrived,
Jesus said with the utmost irankneSS-''H We seek
Jesus of Nazareth, am he.'' There was no neces-
slty for betraying hun or selling HIM; Tor he had no
concealments, and always had predicted The event
The meanness of Judas tempted by the offer,
and he pointed him out. Although it is distinctly
and clearly said in the New Testament that the
priests bargained with Judas and gave him, upon his
own oer thirty pieces of silver to betray Jesus, yet
we think the tradition will one day sustain us in the
declaration, that the offer made TO the Roman
authorities, who granted to the Jews the warrant for
his arrest and paid Judas for finding him out. There
was not Jew in Jerusalem who did not know him,
and did not almost daily hear him preach
The writings of the apostles were memorandums
of events in their times subsequently enlarged,
diied and ampli6ed by the early fathers Of the
church. They wanted to make wrong case against
the Jews and adopted this version of having paid
the thirty pieces of silver, instead of the ruling
power of those times, the Romans. To betray,
there must be concealment. Nothing easier
than for Jesus to have escaped the arrest trial and
condemnation, had he been inclined; but he
rather courted the result than eyaded 1t. Conse-
quently there was motive in the Romans offering 10
paw Judas for designating him in the crowd, but
none for the Jews incurring the expense.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01
Letter of senator whitcomb.

The following letter of Governor Whitcomb TO the
editor of the National Era published in that pa
per in June last
TO the Editor ofths National Era:
SR-On seeing the article in your last paper touch
ing my the Senate's bill in relation Calor
and the Territories, first intended the
more material errors found in it, so far as the feeble
state of my health would permit in few remarks in
my place. the amendments the bill then and now
pendngbefore the Senate This was Unexpectedly pre-
vented from doing at the time desired and find it
late finish for publication, your number,
extended notice of that article. To prevent, how
ever, WRONG impression upon the public mind desire
and any other into which your article may be copied,
that you in in the statement that, drew up,
advised suggested lin conference with Gen.
Foote any other person) the amendment offered by
Gov. Pratt and adopted by Col. Davis; in error mate
rally affecting the the present controversy in
the extracts from my message and letter.
the alleged priority in time OF Mr.. Owens letter to mine,
and consequently all the nferences thence deduced
and statements thereon made; and in error to the
motives which induced me for raising the Com.
promise committee, il has been termed, and against
LAYING the bill reported from that committee upon the
table. far from charging you with intentional in
Justice towards me this matter and would hope
especially this distance of time and place, to
of the points involved that has existed the part
of others, through whom you must have derived your
information.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

0~We have received the proceedings of pub
lie meeting in Franklin, denouncing Mr.. Keely the
Mesmerizer, as an impostor, signed by large num-
Der Of citizens; also, letter from Mr. Keey threat
ening all parties with the law if said proceedings
are published All crowded out Cor want Of room.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

As-fn Brooklyn on the night of the 4th inst, a
rocket, measuring eight feet six inches in length ard
three feet in circumference, fired off, The head
yer stars, and five hundred serpenis. The entire
composition and filing weighed thirty-two pounds
II was entirely successful, and magnfcently grand
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

SEIF1sHsEss has no soul II is heart of stone
encased in iron 1t cannot see the miseries of the
word-it cannot feel the pangs and hrusts of hunger
1t robs its own grave-sells It's own bones TO The doc
tor and its soul to the devil.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

isS=Nlany deaths are occurring from intemperancc
under false idea The immoderaie use OF spirits /
no guard against cholera--Cin. Commercial.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

We never injurc our own character so much when
We attaek that Of others. Bear this in mind.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

e5r The new Post Master General appears to be a
Mr.. Hall Of Buffalo, and not Willis Hall, Of New
York City He is or was the law partner Of Mr..
Fillmore.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

ENSur--a French word for an English malady,
which generally arises from the want of want, and
constitutes the complaint Of those who have nothing
to complain Of
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

hg, ,ExcELLExcE sproverbially placed beyond
the reach Of incidence, that may be the
ward of industry, and that idleness may be punished
with obsctrity and disgrace. Cooper.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

UThc prosperity Of others is the alarm bell Of anb
tous neople
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

Esteem is the mother of love, but the daughter is
often older than the mother
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

We will advertise at the following rates our respec
tive weekes:
Patent Medicines at ........... $50 90 per column
Business Advertisements, $500. % 90 per or. col.
Legal and other advertising 80 per square of
$50 ems for first Insertion and 25 for each subse
quent insertion. AUSTIN III. BROWN,
JNO. ID. DEFREES.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

ez-The late Presidents family have left Wash
ington for Baltimore.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

There is no disunon between the thoughts the words,
and actions of the good; all agree.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

essThree persons may kccr secret, Il two Ct
them are dead.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01
INDIANAPOLIS, JULY e7, 1850.

To Correspondents.
}. L. b. Woodbury. Indiana.The money received
hv rs
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

The following letter of Governor Whitcomb TO the
editor of the National Era published in that pa
nor in Inn last.
Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-01

NEW YORK, July a.
The United States steamship Ohio arrived at this
port last evening, having left Havana ON the 18th
We learn that the United States steamer Vixen sailed
for Pensacola on the 16th with ortytwo of the Contoy
prisoners who had the day previous been liberated by
the Spanish authorities Ten are vet detained for trial.
The captain of the Georgia is reported being per-
fectly crazy.
On the receipt of the intelligence of the death of Pre-
sdent Taylor Havana, the flags of the shipping Of
different nations, were displayed at halfmast
LOUISVILLE, July 25.
cases 3.
Democratic banner., 1850-08-26
SHERIEF'S SALE.

BY virtue of writ of execution issued
from the Office Of the clerk Of the circuit
court Of Pike county, Mo-, bearing date
the 18th day of August, 1850, in favor OF
Henry Pollard and against Samuel Nalley,
have levied upon and seized. all the right
and title of the said Samuel Nalley in and
to the following real estate, being and lying
in said county of Pike, and bounded as fol-
lows, to wit I: Bounded by the lands Of Aus
tin Beasley on the north, by lands Of W.
G. Merriwether's heirs on the south, by
land of Strother ]. McGinnis on the east,
and by lands recsatly sold BY said Samuel
Nalley to Henry ]. Pollard on the west
containing two hundred and ninety-seven
acres, more or less, and viii offer the same
to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, be-
fore the court house door in the town of
Bowling Green, in said county, on the 9Th
day of September next, and during the sit
ting of the circuit court for ssid county, be-
tween the hours of 9 and 5 o'clock Of said
day, to satisfy said execution and Ell cost.
M. GIVEN6s sheriff, Z
ra7 5I Per VIM. 6. HAWKINS, n. n
August 18th, 1850. -a lsilrs az OF
Democratic banner., 1850-08-26

LOUISIANA PIKE COUNTY, MISSOURI.

gold had been discovered in Oregon in con.
siderable quantities. Since that time we
have heard from various other sources in.
formation of the same character, but we
scarcely dared give credence to the reports.
Letters have been in town some days, from
most respectable sources in Oregon, which
seem to confirm these reports. We have
been shown letter received a few days
since, by one of our most esteemed mer-
chants, from relative residing at Saint
Helens, formerly Plymouth, dated the 29tb
Of May, and after its perusal we can no ion
ger remain incredulous, as we conceive the
letter to have come from perfsc relia-
bic source. By permission, we make few
extracts:
ST. HELENs, Wednesday, May &c., go.
A great excitement prevails here; gold
is found everywhere and parties are con-
stantly forming for further explorations
A party of some of our most respectable
merchants left Portland few days since
for the Wallah- Wallah, tributary of the
Columbia. The movement proceeded from
a parcel of sand which was brought in by
the Indians, which yielded 80 per cent.
pure gold. And in consequence Of this
and many other similar reports, Flour has
risen from $ls to $40 per barrel in Ore
gOn City, and other articles of consumption
in proportion.
Reports from Rogus's River represent
gold as very abundant upon that stream
A large party, Mr.. - among the number,
start in few weeks, the water permitting,
for Mount St. Helena, which is we'll known
to be gold region. have seen a large
lot Of fine silver ore from that place. The
Indians represent it as very abundant.-
Mount St. Helena is about thirty miles due
north from this place Alta California.
Democratic banner., 1850-08-26
HERETHEYCuaEl

By Mr.. Ira J. Saunders, who arrived id
this city last evening, direct from Council
Bluffs in 55 days, we are informed that
there are about 700 wagons within three
weeks travel of this city, and that Dunsr-,
Gus small parties of emigrants Is may be ex-
pected to arrive during the coming week
The travel this season is performed msihly
with horses and mules, which will reduces
ths time Of the trip to about 60 or SO days.
Fears are entertained for those left behindi
ON account of the scarcity Of proEision.-
Women and cows are reported to be onthe
way numerously; "a Of the former in
charge of one hombre, and two or three
cows with every team. Grass was rstiieR
scarce, and snow pretty deep-say from
one to two hundred feet! Particulars in
our next.-[Sacramento Times, 2sth june:
Democratic banner., 1850-08-26
AGREAT COUNTRY.

The United States have afrontier line Of
IL 900 miles, a sea coast Of 5,340 and .
lake coast Of l,l6O. One Of its rivers Is
twice as long as the Danube, the largest RI
YER in Europe. We have single States lar
ger than England, and bayous and creeks
that shame the Tiber and Seine. New
York harbor receives the vessels, that
navigate the rivers, canals and lakes to
the extent of 5000 miles-equal to the
distance from America to Europe. From
Maine to New Orleans is 200 miles further
than from London to Constantinopla, a
route that crosses England, Belgium,
Prussia, Germany, Austria and Turkey
Truly this is "a great cOuntry'"', "a -s-.r
Democratic banner., 1850-08-26
HOME AND FRIENDS.
HY CHARLES swEIN.

Oh. there's power to make each hour
As sweet as heaven designed it,
Nor need we roam to bring il home,
Though few there be who find it!
We seek too high for things close by,
And lose what nature found US:
For life hath here no charms so dear,
As home and friends around US!
We oft destroy the present joy,
For future hopes -and praise them;
While flowers as sweet bloom at our feet,
If we'd but stoop to raise them;
For things afar still sweetest are,
When youths bright spell hath bound US:
But soon we're taught that earth hath naugh
Like home and friends around u.s.
The friends that speed in time of need,
When hopes last reed is shaken,
To show US sill, that come what will,
We are not quite forsaken.
Though all were night, if but the light
From friendships altar crowned US.
'Twould prove the bliss of earth was this
OF home and friends around US!
Democratic banner., 1850-08-26
From the New York Tribune, 9Th inst
Late News from California.

y
We are indebted to GREGoAY & Co.'s
Cslifornia Express, for full files of late San
Francisco and Sacramento papers, recei-
we'd by the Georgia. We take from them
the following extracts:
From Me Mines.-A few days ago, we
fell in with gentleman of excellent judg-
ment, who had Just returned from the head
waters of the North Fork-where he, in
company with FIVE others, passed the last
winter. This part were SO hemmed in
with snow that they could not well leave,
Notwithstanding the ravines and gulcbes
were bare, and could be worked. For four
weeks they lived almost entirely on veni-
son, after their winters provisions were ex-
hausted. This gentleman has been nearly
one year in the mines, and always one OF
the foremost in pushing toward the out
skirts. He is well acquainted with the
mining for miles around the locality where
he wintered, and from him we learned some
facts that may be interesting. The point
where he wintered, is about 100 miles from
this pIace-3O miles above Cold Spring, on
North Fork.
He states that all along the river, and for
an unknown distsnce back from the river,
the entire space between Cold Spring and
the point where he wintered, is auriferous.
The hills and valleys have the same ap-
pearance a. the country around Auburn
and the Pilot Hill Dry Diggings. The
whole country seems as if it had been
thrown from its original state BY eruptions,
and all tumbled into monstrous heaps, win
ding round among which are innumerable
raviues and small runs, in which gold is al
most always found.
The North Fork, in this region, is quite
small, and the gold in il coarse and lumpy,
like the gold obtained in dry diggings.
In irving to give an idea of the extent
of the auriferous country bordering on
North Fork, our informant said that 10000
men could all find room to dig for years, he
believed, with exhausting this single portion
: Of the mines. The country he describes
can best be worked In the rainy season
when water Is abundant. The North Forl
and tributaries, however, have been little
freauented 90 high up, and the Summer
digeings must be rich. This country i
very difScnlt Of accsss-goods can only bs
sent to it on pack animals, and it has con
;seqnsasly been little frequented. Wher
our informant left, which was sometime
c last week, the saow had not all disappear
ID from that region, and he thinks the va
ter vill remain 90 high as to prevent dig
g gag near the bed Of the river until the
II middle Of EMBELLISHMENTS Transcr:'
pit s si
70 q Tie Eastern Stops Of the Sierra yNspa
dd,Tho fact that gold ID found ell alonI
the western berders Of this chain Of noun
s.tsinj,5is stfeng svidencs that the easter
side possesses the sans rich deposits. WI
Democratic banner., 1850-08-26
From The Placer Times, July l7th.
Great Discoveries OF Gold..GOld Lake.


We we inclined to give only an average
degree Of credit 10 stories that have reach
ed us during the past few days of the un-
precedented richness which this locality
has developed. A few moments passed in
Marysville on Saturday, convinced US that
there is much more show Of reality in this
last eureka report than usually attaches to
the like. In a years experience of local
excitements from the same cause, we have
seen none equal to what now prevails in
that town. It has visited all the inhabi-
tsnts indiscriminately, lawyers, doctors and
judges, traders, teamsters, mechanics and
gamblers. Our readers know we are the
last to Justify the circulation of unfounded
or exaggerated reports, but we deem it right
to conceal nothing Of what may prove flor
sught that we can see to the contrary one
Of the most astounding discoveries in the
modern history of diggings. The speci-
mems brought into Msrysville are of avalue
from 81, 600 down. Ten ounces is report
ed as no unusual yield to painful, aud the
first partp of sixty, which started out under
the guidance of one who had returned sue
cessful, were assured that they would not
get less than $500 each per day. We were
told that the previous morning two hundred
had left the town with full supply of pro-
visions and four hundred mules. Those
who could not 60 were hiring others in their
stead. The length of the journey end the
quantity of provisions required, there be-
ing no stores in the region, rendered an out
fit rather expensive. Mules and horses had
doubled in value, and $400 was considered
no more than enough to furnish a proper
start.
The distance to Gold Lake was first re-
ported 200 miles; the best informed, how
ever, say that it is but little more than half
of that. 1t lies at very considerable ele-
vation among the mountains that divide the
waters of the South Fork Of Feather from
those of the north branch of the Yuba.-
The direction from .Marysville is little
north of east. The'story has, Of course,
spread ere this, far and wide among the mi
ners, high up on the Feather and Yuba, and
the spot will be as crowded as all other good
places are, ere the tardy adventurer from
thir distance could reach it. The region Of
the Gold Lake wonders is a new one, how
ever, and lies between what are establish
ed to be diggings of unsurpassed richness.
1t is our belief that it is better for one who
has got some initiation into the gold mystic
ries, (if there be any) not to be content in
old "used upn localities, but to push along
to the great field yet, unexplored; and that
though the search be long and laborious
the big kytis ultimately pretty sure for those
who are patient and persevering.
The same paper of July 18th, contains
additional particulars, having tendency TO
add Plausibility to the reports. Among 9th
er things, man by the name of McLeiiono' ooo
came into Marysvills on 18th, With S1'OVo'
the result of four days labor at Goia Lake.
Whstever may be the truth OF sne reports
there is no doubt of ons thing-the wnoio
population Of Msry,viIis and its vicinity
Democratic banner., 1850-08-26
AoUIETUs FOR CROSS BABIES.

By this we do not mean knocking their
brains out against the bedpost, nor any
thing of the sort. Nor do we mean, giving
them parsgoric, Dafy's elixer. Dalby's
carminative, black drops, or any other poi
son. The only requisite to quiet q squsll-
ing, squesling little baby is, that it shall
possess ose. Inthe midst Of its scream-
ing, press your finger gently and repeated
ly across the cartilage Of that useful organ
and in less than two minutes it will be
asleep.-Erchange Poper.Dai4 y su'-g3
Democratic banner., 1850-08-26

FIn Cole county, where all the official in
fuence of the Governor and Stats officers, was
brought to bear in favor of the Benton csndidatsS,
they only received majority Of eight. Mr..
Green beat John G. Miller IS. The Benton rep
was elected by l3 majority. The
Benton candidate for Senator fell behind bis Anti
Benton competitor 81 votes. d, u .sf 1oz-,O