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Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-07-24
Indiana Univ rslty.

We have received the Catalogue OF this
Institution for the present year. II contains
a cut Of the new University building
beautiful specimen of architecture-and in
formation on matters Of public interest con
nected with the University. The list Of stu
dents is much larger than we have noticed
before on the Catalogue Of this Institution.
being. in all the departments. two hundred
and forty-two. The course of study Is full
and thorough, and the list of textbooks adj
mirably selected. The rules and regulations.
as presented in tho Catalogue, are remark
ably judicions, and exhibit ON the part Of
the Trustees and Faculty good judgment
and practical experience in College affairs.
The Commencement occurs this year ON
the 9Th Of August. There is a graduating
class of six young gentlemen, whose %orations
will be delivered on that cay.
Addresses will also he delivered before
the Literary Societies of the University a.
follows /: t-1for
By Prof BUTLER, of Wabash College, on
Monday evening, August 4th.
BY Hon. GEoEsE G.. WrIoHT, Judge OF
the Supreme Court Of Iowa, on Tuesday,
August 9TH, 10 O'Clock.
BY Prof. REAp. late Of the Indiana rn
versity, but now Of the UhivosNy ~ w,
c%onsin, on Tuesday evening, August 5th.
President DAILY viii deliver the Baccalau-
reate Address on Tuesday, August "a, at 3
O'Clock.
The exercises will I've unquesiionably in
teresting.
The New Albany and Salem Railroad
will furnish easy access to Bloomington
The Institution belongs TO the State. and is
admirably managed. We advise our friends
to visit IL on this occasion.
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or JAMES G. vEArcH, of Spencer county,
has been nominated in the first Congress
sioDsl District, by the Abolitionists, as their
candidate for Congress. Judge LocKHART
is the Democratic nominse in said District.
This Mr.. vEArcH is a real GARRISON,
BEEoHEr, WoolIy-headed Abolitionist, and
IS the individual, who at the Abolition Con-
v~ention, which met at indianapolis, on the
clst Of February last, introduced aresolution
TO create a Committee to raise men, money
and rides to go to Kansa, in support of the
free State Kansas agitators, which resolution
was passed by the Convention, and the Com
mittee thereon regularly appointed. He
would make but a poor representative of the
gallant, Un~ion-lovirG citizens Of Southern
Indiana and Of the first District in particular
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AN OLD LINER.
For the Slate Sentinel

INDIANAPOLIS, July 10Th, 1856.
EDITORS OF THE SENTINEL 1t has been
currently asserted about our streets, by
whom ! know not, that hired two negroes
TO march in the Black Republican process
sion on Tuesday last, and that the fact could
DO proved. The assertion is a naked LIE,
It's author, whoever he may be, is a will
full LIAR, and any person who may testify to
the contrary will be a pe1ured felon. i am
sorry TO be under the necessity of using this
language but my name shall not be ascot
aied with such a charge with IMMUNITY.
Yours, &c,
GORDON TANNER
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OF Among the most striking incidents in
the many thrilling and exciting scenes OF
Thursday last at the Ratification Meeting OF
the Democracy, was the procession from
Warren township. Marion county. In that
procession was an immense wagon, contain
ing some twenty-five or thirty men, carrying
flags, banners and hickory bushes, and drawn
by t~wenty-four horses. with riders on each
horse, two abreast. The long team" as it
was called, was ga full team" and the line
was headed by that old veteran and reliable
Democrat, Captain HENRY BRADY. Some
ter other wagons came from the same town.
ship besides a long train of horsemen. War
rcr is good for about 100 majority for the
Democratic ticket.
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GMr. C. X. HoLLIpAr, of Topeka, Kan
sas. formerly of Pennsylvania. on his arrival
in Cleveland, a few days since. furnished the
Herald. an opposition paper, with a full
account Of the dispensing ofthe Topeka Leg
i~=lature, on the 4th, by Col. SUMMIT.
Mr.. HoILIDAY's account does not materi-
ally differ from that which has already been
50 generally published. Among other things
furnished 20 the Herald by Mr.. II, is a state
ment Of the present general condition Of
Kansas, which will he Of general interest TO
our readers. The Hernld say
"Mr. Holiday reports matters in Kansas COM
paratively quiet at the time he left He SAYS il
is not true that the Free State men are leaving
Kansas. None have LEFT except a few on tenn.
porary absence. Business at Lawrence, To
peka, and other points had revived, aud was GO
ing on with undated energy, and the Free
State men generally were In the very best OF
spirits. At Lawrence the rebuilding of the
| Free State Hotel was about n be commenced.
and was to be enlarged Go double the dimen-
| sioDs Of the one destroyed by Sheriff Jones aud
| his mob.- The new hotel will be sixty feet by
one hundred and twenty-five. A fine Unitarian
church is also being completed. Tn border
and pro-slavery outrages and annoyanccs pre-
vented sowing and planting extensively, buf
the crops on the ground were coming on finely.
and would yield abundantly. He Says that
the charge that the Free State men had resisted.
! and would resist the United States authority,
is wholly untrue. Their resistance is only
against the Z" bogus" Territorial laws and lis
( officers.
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or The Lafayette Journal says that
DAN MACE one Of the Fusion members
Of ConsTcss, from this State, voted against
the expulsion Of BRooKs. This is q Settler"
upon his fellow Fusionists in the eighth Dis
trict, and exsspsrates them to the highest
pitch. With what consistency can they de-
nouncs Southern members Of Congress for
voting against the resolution of expulsion,
when their own Abolition Representative
does the same thing? This "kick'' Of the
Ms3sr against the put hobby Of sectional ag-
i~tators, sets the Lafayette Journal to storm
ing like an old fsh-woman. In this mat
ter we nave nothing to say. We can well
afford to leave the Journal alone to skin its
o-, .I..rIs
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ID OAoO.
JoHs M. T%ALsorr. Esq.. Chairman, DC.
Lkxlnorou. Ky. Lnne %. lss.

LEXINGTON, KY. June %, 1856.
DEAR Sra In answer to your letter on be-
half of the State Central Committee, inviting
me to attend a Mass Meeting of the Democracy
at Indianapolis ON the 18th Of July, i have TO
express my regret that I cannot be present. Ar.
engagements heretofore made to take a part Of my
family East, by the middle Of July. (rendered
necessary by private reasons win require my
attention at that time.
- need not assure you that we regard with
deep interest the noble efforts of the Northern
Democracy 10 harmonic the Country upon the
only lasting basis-the principles Of the Consti
tuition.
In this patriotic task ! believe they will have
the co operation Of every Southern State.
Very truly yours,
JOHN G. BRECKINRIDGE.
JOAN NJ. TALBOT,
QoRnoS TASNFR.
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Washington Cnr, July Ia. 1856.

ASHINGfON CIff, July II, 1870.
Ny DEAR Sir 1T is with sincere regret that
/ announce to you that ] shall not be able TO
attend your Mass Meeting Of the 18th. | have
been looking forward with much pleasure TO
this trip; and it is only at tbs late hour that |
abandon il. not from choice. but from unavoid.
able necessity.
In the great struggle in which we are en-
gagged | feel that much depends upon the pat
riotie masses Of the Great West. The issue, in
my honest judgment. is neither more nor less
than the =" Union" When I contemplate
such an issue, ! feel that | cannot make too
great a personal sacrifice in snch a cause. In
deed, there is none that / would not freely and
cheerfnlly make TO aid in the great work Of
preserving. untouched by the hand Of fausti-
cism or treason, the Constitution Of my coun-
try, and the noble Union it hslds together
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Great Democratic Meeting.

We learn that a monster meeting Of the
Democracy was held at Waverly, near the
line between johnson aud Morgan counties,
on Saturday last. The people came in long
professions with hickory wagons, hickory
and ash poles and bushes, flags, banners. &c.
1t is estimated nearly four thousand
persons were present, and they had ga
good and a happy time" Speeches were
made by Gov. WRIGHT, NJ. NJ. Ray and
RICHARD RYAN, Esqrs, which were greeted
with the greatest enthusiasm. The people
have taken the cause Of Democracy into
their wi hands in Indiana, and they will
see that it is well attended to, for il is their
own cause.
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MARRIAGE OF THE KISo or rHE SAND
have been received at San Francisco 10 the
oath June. To the House Of MOBILES, on the
10Th, Prince KANEHAMHA declared himself
the bearer Of a message from His Majesty,
announcing his intention to unite himself in
marriage with EMMA. the daughter Of DR.. Il.
C. RooKE, and grand daughter Of the late
JOHN YOUNG, Esq. The House returned a
message, assuring his Majesty that the an
nouncement was very agreeable to them,
and that they view the event as one Of
great importance 10 the nation.
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A hand of " shriekers'i

The editor Of the Maquokeia 0owa) SEN
tinel thus describes LAEE's company Of emf
grants for Kansas, whom he saw encamped
at Iowa city
On either side of the road on which they
were epcamped. conld be seen strewed oven
the ground, the very scum aud oh-scouring of
crcation-men who know no law-men who
have not the common decency Ct the brute-the
counterpart of desperadoes, robbers and vii
lains Of whom we read in history, and who
infested the Upper Mississippi Valley and
were known "a the banditti OF the prairie
Here on all sides could be seen the . pious "
teachings Of Henry Ward Beecher-men with
countenances bloated, eyes bleared cards,
those passports to hell" were seen in the
hands Of groups, accompanied with the yilest
Of blasphemy and as they turned their IT. Hmp
with a horrible oath, mingled with the dismal
yell of their debaucbed companions, the pois-
onous eXhalations rising from their ietid
breaths but too plainly told that these lovers
Of " Kansas freedom " were hut the licentious,
pot house ~loafers, raised in the worst purlieus
and sinks Of infsmy. They talk Of freeing
Kansas A more degraded, {" mfian > looking
band of beings who would claim themselves
to be human, our eyes never before gazed uyon
all armed to the teeth with a Sharpe's rifle,
bowie knife, six shooter, flask, &c.
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!. ID. G
WASHINGTON CRY, July .. 1856.

WASHINGTON CRY, July >, 1856.
Sal have received the invitation of the
State Central Committee, 10 attend the mass
meeting Of the Democracy Of Indiana, propos.
ed to lie held on the 18th inst, aud regret that
my public duties here will prevent its accept
ance. But though | cannot Join you, vet | fully
participate in the feelings which will animate
The assembling oipatrioiic freemen who will that
day convene together. The precious heritage
of freedom which we received from our fathers is
in danger. The Union and the Constitution are
encompassed with perils. Instead Of allowing
the various political divisions of our country,
State and Territorial, TO manage their local af-
fairs IN their own way, which is the first prin-
ciple of our institutions, there are sections,
which. not content with enjoying the right of
self.government for themselves. seek to extend
their power elsewhere, and to take from Amer.
lean citizens the privilege OF regulating their
domestic concerns, agreeably TO their views Of
duty and Of policy.
This Union cannot survive the establishment
and enforcement of such n doctrine. What
think the men of Indiana1 Are they not com
petent TO regulate their domestic affairs in their
own way Aud do they desire the interven-
ton of Massachusetts 10 teach them their rights
and also how they should exercise theml And
if a citizen Of Indiana should remove TO a Ter
ritory, is liberty less dear 10 him or is he less
able TO conduct his political affairs than before
his emigration. And these brief questions con-
tain the true point Of the controversy which
is now shaking the Union TO its center, and
which, il il is not terminated by the prompt and
efficient action of the Democratic party, will
proceed TO its fearful consumation. May that
God, who guided snd guarded our fathers in
their days Of trial aud trouble, guide and guard
their sons now. when profaneh hands are stretch
ed out to destroy the srk OF the Constitution.
am. Sir. respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
LEWIS CASS.
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Another Pull upon the Mariposa Grant.

H
Money, with our Fusion friends, appears
TO DO quite as Stree inst now, rs free dirt"
or @frse niggers." It comes, we suppose, I'M
der the catalogue Of substances, material and
immaserial, represented by the give Fs
which we see so conspieuousiy emblazoned
on their slectioneering banners. IL would he
astonishing to see how liberal Fusionists are
becoming. were it not that all "MARTPosA"is
laid at their feet. to use as becomes necessa-
~. They carry their liberality to the ex-
treme Of buying newspapers for "old liners''
to read. In proof of this, read the following
from the Cincinnati Commercial of Satur-
day
A friend writing from DaDyille. Indiana, I'M
der date Of July 18th. e~ncloses SO for the
Weekly Commercial for the campaign. and gives
a "P. g." Of Dews as follows:
The names for your paper were obtained
easily, and whenever an old liner said he would
he glad to read it, but hadn't the money, he
was told that If be would read the money would
bs advanced, and he could pay when he got
able. A friend, who is heart and soul, body and
breeches INFO the plight" furnishing the
needful. All"
"If "Mariposa'' can hold out indefinitely
against this system Of buying newspapers
and making Germans independently rich"
it must have a greater depth Of guage than
even the most credulous have been accnstom-
ed to attribute toit.
But there is another thing that zones I'M
H. fba n~ofact;no -;nn, &c H. aEr-r t.,
and that is "Free-Lying.r
Here, again, we clip from the Commercial
Of the same date:
BArS's ROADS, Psrke CO., Ind,
July 18th, 1856:
EDS. cOx.'-EnrlOsed you will find s.,
spare uopains 10 searching out the wrongs that
the Black Democracy have perpetrated for some
years past. And though we will look ouly fol
The truth in your paper, we will not care, or b
particular, II you should exaggerate it a lit
tie.
From this time henceforth,'' full license
is to be given the Fusion journals, to "exag
gerate the truth a little" The intimst;on il
very broadly given, in fact, that it would b.
better THAI they should do so; aud a very sa
~,lc.ous and timely one it is, too; for ever
ZANE man knows that the naked truth
would run the party forty feet under ground
before it was two months older. FREMosl
kept himself in tolerable condition for day
together CD "mule soup and "grassheppe
pie !" but his adherents would find plain
unadulterated truth" a species Of "fodder'
that would in no case, serve them as good
turn as "mule soup and "g~rasshopper pie
did FKENoNF. Their Jordan is peculiar
y "a hard road to travel - and unles
they "exaggerate" not only "a little,
but a good deal and GH he time, the,
will find themselves chosen candidates Is
the rolitieS. grave yard, before they pass tn
"half way house, on that much noted br
rather intricate thorOughfare.
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PnrLApELrHrA. July 9Th. 1850.
JoHS NJ. TALBOT,
0nRnnN Tanner.

JonS NJ. TALBOT, ESQ.
My DEAR Sm Present my regards to the
" Democratic State Central Committee Of the
State Of Indiana" with my regrets. on account
of my inability to be with them on the 18th
inst. Since the adjournment Of the National
Convention, l have labored almost necessarily
on the stump, and do not feel able. at this time.
to make the trip to indianapolis. At any other
time during the fall. ] shouid be pleased TO
meet. and feel henored in receiving an invita-
ton 10 address. the unwavering Democracy OF
Indiana. Pennsylvania looks with anxiety to
Indiana.
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CT IL the Journal editors would keep
themselves in a condition to understand the
force and meaning Of plain language, they
would not so frequently proclaim their own
ignorance. The two several paragraphs
which they strung together to convict the
Sentinel Of contradictions in its report Of the
professions Of Thursday, shows that they
had Dot sufficient capacity TO comprehend
the statement Of a common fact. The first
paragraph refers to the Marion county pro-
c~essioD, exclusively-the second, TO the va
rious other irregular professions which went
Immediately to the State House from the
cars, and bad no reference to the grand pro-
cession which paraded down Westinghouse
The language conveys no such an idea to
the minds Of sober men.
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For the State Sentinel.
More Docum ents.
IEmANTANs DEMOCRATIC CLUB ROoM,(
WASHINGTON Cry. July IL.

~IHmANIANs DENocRATIc CLUB Room,)
WASHINGTON CRY, July IL.
Editors Sentinel I'm addition to the doc
uments specified in my last communication
to the Sentinel, we are now receiving the fol-
lowing:
Douglas Report No. 2, recently made in
the Senate, on Toombs' bill, per loo, Scots.
The same Gn Germany with the bill at
tached, per 100, 81 25.
Toombs' bill to admit Kansas az q State,
as IL passed the Senate, will also soon be pub
lished in English, and will come, | think, at
Scots per 100.
Several OF our candidates for Congress and
county officers have sent us money, and or
dered spcechcs for their Districts and coun-
ties. Our Club viii eheerfully Gil all such
orders, and candidates for Office can rely
upon prompt attention on our part, TO such
requests. Send on the money. and we will
send yOu the documents.
r. 8. SPR0ULE, Secretary.
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to the Mark.

The Journal has, for several days, been
sorely grieved at the indignation exhibited
against a party which places negroes on an
equality with white men, and would like to
evade and Offset the conduct Of its party by
charging that the Democrats, too, had ne
groes in their procession. II also denies, by
indirection, that two gentlemen refused to
continue in the ranks of the Abolition
procession on Tuesday and to march in
company with negroes. IL assumes great
disgust at the charge, and boldly calls Tor
the names Of those gentlemen. To choke
its clustering, by and with the consent Of
these gentlemen, we herewith give their
names by their own desire. They arc as
follows
s. j. BrIGEE, of Middletown, Henry CO.
Indiana.
MICHAEL DEBoY, Of Delaware CO., Indiana
They came aud subscribed for the Demo
cratic Platform, at the Sentinel Office, and
said they had left the party for its nisgerisr1
on that day, and if God spared their lives
until the election. they would vote for BUcH
AxAN and BREoKISRIDGE, and ar. BULeEI
remarked that he felt that he and his family
were disgraced by his having ever belonse'
to such a party.
Now, Mr.. journal, are you easy on thi
point
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fFor the Indiana state sent,nen

We understand that Sol. MEREDITH has
been staggering around the hotels here
during the last week, and b~oasting that he
had deposited 5000 with somebody here,
to bet on Motions election. If he will sig-
Nifty where the money can be found it will be
promptly covered.
AN OLD LINER
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yours,
CHARLES w. CARDIGAN.
BIYeHAMroN, July Ia, IS5f

BiSsHANroN, July II, 1856.
GENTLEMEN A special professional engage
ment, prevents my acceptance Of your generous
and complimentary invitation, to attend the
Grand State Ratification Meeting Of the Democ
racy OF Indiana, at indianapolis, on the 18th.
But though absent, | shall be with you in the
support Of Messrs. Buchanan and Breckenridge;
! shall he with you in the support of, and adhe-
renee 10, those great and cherished eonstitu-
tional principles which lie at the foundation Of
our political aud social institutions, and adorn
and strengthen the symmetrical work
Of society I shall be with you in pre-
serving inviolate that equality Of right and
freedom Of conscience, which was guaranteed by
our fathers by a charter written in blood ]
shall be with you in guarding with sleepless
vigilance the rights Of sovereign States. and
the people Of Territories, from the assaults Of
any members of the confederacy orth encroaeh-
ments of Federal power I; i shall be with you
too, in unmasking and hunting from the abodes
OF rational freedom, at the licentious, bigcted and
destroying spirit ol sectional discord, which,
like its ~unclean predecessor. has returned with
others more wicked than itself. To curse the
abode from which IT had once gone out and,
finally. / shall be with you in maintaining and
upholding the beneficent principles of true De
mocracy, for which Indiana, that guiding star
OF Democratic hope, is so pre-eminently dlstin.
guished.
With sentiments of high consideration and
regard, ! have the honor to be
Sincerely, Yours.
ID. DICKINSON.
j. NJ. TALBOT, Chairman of Committee.
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Steam Boat Voting.

Our opponents are parading tho votes al
6med to be taken among the passengers on
Steamboats, and Railroads. This game has
been played for a long time; we recollect
it as long ago as the times Of JACKSON and
ADAMS, when the old hero uniformly came
taken on steamboats, and stage coaches
Being asked on one occasion how IL happen
ed that the vote on such occasions was always
against him, he answered that his friends
lived of on the cross roads, and when they
bad business abroad they travelled on horse
back oil 10 their own c~onveyancss.
Polk and PIERCE as we'll as JACKSON were
usually defeated in these travellers polls; but
when the people themselves came to vote
officially, the result was widely different
from that SO confidently heralded from
steamboat, stage and car.
Even on these occasions, however, the re-
suit is not always against the Democracy, as
will be seen by the following, handed us by
our friend, Col. D., lately returned from a
trip on the Ohio.
Votes for fhe Presidency on hoard NE Forest
Queen, daring her TRIP 10 Gosis0iie, July
liza, 1856.
Buchanan, %
Fillmore, AZ
Fremont, 10
Mr.. EDIrok The above votes were en-.
rolled by . Fillmore voter, and are positively
the correct sense Of the passengers. None bat
voters were taken-several declined voting.
FRAZER, of. bloomington, Ky