The Indiana Herald from Huntington, Indiana • Page 2

0 TH IN I A.N A EK A J4 From 111 SouUt iWdRetfrter. jj. Infflanapolis Items. XmoTt Valuable Reform, proposed by Mr. Owen, is pending in the Legislature which we trust will be adopted.

It is in relation to Deeds and Mortgages. Without disturbing or invalidating the present long winding forms in use, it lays down form which it provides shall bo considered legal and shall be held as a good und sufficient warranty Mr. Ow cri had theklndhesS toshow us the forms. The one for deed commences Wokn Smith sells to Thomas Jones for the sum of one hundred dollars, Lot number four in the City of Indianapolis, and warrants the title for the same, We quote from memory, and have not the exact phraseology, but the substance.1) The jQuit claim reads John Smith quit claims, and the Mortgage. "John Smith mortgages.1 The legal effect and meaning of those words used are laid down wjth clearness iu the bill now pen ding and the ackow)dgement is qually brief.

There is prohibition against using any other forms if desired. The number of words in an ordinary deed and acknowledgment, after Mr. Owen's plan would be 77 in the usual form about 470 an abbreviation of a bout four fifths. In connection with this. the fee for Recording Deeds is reduced 10 fifty cents, or the Recorder may, if it is a long deed: charge at the rate of 30 ceiita for the first hundred words, and 10 cents for each additional hundred words, making about 70 cents for recording one of ordinary size in use at 1 present.

A good deal of exertion. has been made to reject this Reform, but thus far it has been sustained on every vote' by about 4 wo, to oiie Mr. Owen estimates that, if passed it will save the people enough to pay the expenses of their Legislature, if not more. Several years since, when our sol diem returned from Mexico, some of their officers brought as trophies, some.Cathpr lie relics, a portrait of one of their saints, Simon de Cassia, and other articles, evidently taken from churches and presented them with great parade, to the State, to be deposited in the Slate Library At the very moment of their, presentation, Mr. Meredith (now U.S.

Marshal, then a whig member from Wayne) opposed their reception, contending very properly that Churches should be sacred jn War, end that articles taken from their altars or their walls should not be the spoils of But it was in the hey day of the War lever, and his expostulations were hooted at, himself derided and the received. At the present session. Mr. Jlollowyay, the whig Senator from again protested against their being being kept by the State as. (he evidence of the prowess of its warriors, offered a transferring them to the Catholic Church at In Jianapolis.

For this he was denounced in the bitterest and severest terms by Lt.Gov. Lane, Senators Secrest, Hanna, and other Democratic Senators. Bat he made them' decidedly understand that the resolution dispher theirituperation not be withdrawn and at the warmest debate of the not da "fog to reject the resolution riot will 'to vote for it, they carried an amendment embodying the old 'declaration that "the war existed by act of and finally concluding with an evidently reluctant tender pf the relics to the Catholic Priest Indianapolis; which, having the pow er 'they adopted as a substitute for fhe original. Even its adoption is an eleventh hour confession that the Whigs did right in opposing their reception and that Sen ator Hollows? alio did his duty in taking steps for their turn to the officers "of that Church, from whose altars they had Jj beeh i We learn that several of the lawyers in the State had refused to be elected on the Law Reform Commission who are to revise and simplify the practice and plea 'dings of the on' account of the terms for the performance'of their duties being made so short by the Legislature. 1 Kyen the Democratic members who vo for and elected ihe present Board, are constantly poking fun at it.

We heard from several the remark that they bad elected two Re visors, (March and Lislon) and W.Cair 's who' is a tanner and a good one. of Law and they add that the course adopted by the Board is for March und. Liston to agree on a. section and read it to Carr. and when it became so simple that he could understand it.

it was considered, to be plain enoujjh for any citizen in the btate to comprehend. think this is not treating one of their own picked officers very respectfully. The reorganization of the Probate system seems, to baffle the assembled as they vote down every thai propned and vote up nothing in Us place, The New York Surrogate sys to our mind the best, appears to be Ifii most Unpopulaf lhererWhar will be 'iioally adopted, no one. attempts to pre Jict with Any certainty. i 't i (I Th Bombshell I.inf.

Somebodvi speaking of the faurryiog propensities of I snkees, says lf a mortafcould be conttnicted which' 1 would (hrow an immense b'inbsliell. cot fJleen passengers, from St, Louis iKmon. Hi five nunuiei, wiui bo bu0 Jute that fiHrten out of the would be killed by the explosion. tickHs far state rooms by tlie 'Express shell Line, wpnld at once be at a p'emium pwteQt ueine anxious 1 THEi INDIANA HERALD. BE JUST AND FEAR.

NOT. A. W. Editor. HUNTINGTON, IND.

Wednesday! Morning," February. Hi iISS? Whigs, Torn Oat We have been requested to state that there will be a Meeting of the Whigs of Huntington county: at the Court House in this place on Saturday, February 14th, for the purpose of appointing' delegates to attend the Whig State Convention at Indianapolis on the 26th day of this month. Let us see a good turn out of pur Whig brethren on that day. MR. DAWSON'S SPEECH.

We publish, in another part of this paper, the remarks of Mr. Dawson, in the Senate, on the Bill districting the State. The Senator's remarks are not exactly confined to the districting Bill, but are rather an exposition of the political character of Judge Borden, and his reasons for not supporting him at the late Congressional election. It may not, perhaps, be deemed out of place for us to give our reasons for publishing this speech, at this time, for Borden is no 'longer (and we hope never will be) a candidate for office, end therefore we can nave no "particular object (n It is well known that previous to the late election we took strong ground against Borden; and in the course of the campaign said, many some pretty hard things against him. Nearly all, 'and perhaps more, of the charges reiterated by Mr.

Dawson, Were made by us last Summer, and it to provelo our democratic, friends that the position we assumed was uat, we are' now induced to insert Mr, Dawson's speech. Mr. Dawson is a democrat has long en joyed the confidence of his party in 'the section of the State where he resides; and his history of Borden's political character may be set down as correct. He is welt Acquainted with Borden In all the relations of life, and on his revelations we' place the' utmost As we nayeion differentoccasiohe, said we believe Borden be morally and po litically' a dishonest man, and in'th'is be lief we are backed by the testimony of men, of his own political faith on the Bench, as every else, be practiced the most outrageous meanness upon ever one who differed with him in regard to political, But his day of reckoning finally ceme he fell and great was his fall. people would no longer submit to hie demagogueism and high handed oppression they rose in their majesty; and swept him His fall should be a warning to all time serv ing.

demagogues and trading politicians. Corruption of the vilest character may flourish for a short time, but it must and wilt eventually "fall before'the unerring force of Truth and Justice. Truth eniihed to Mrth will rise again, The sternal yean of God are hers." We are now done with James W. Borden. We feel certain "that, political ly, he is placed nothing but, the hand of.

the resurrection can exhume him, and we have no desire to follow him further. What of it Our rieighbor says that in our last paper we the final passage of Districting Bill when in reality it did not pass until two or three days afler our paper was issued The news of the passage of the bill was outainea. exchanges, recieveu the day our paper was put to press, and the statements in regard to its provis ions were correct, no matter if we were a little mistaken' as to the exact time 6 Wfiiial passagerTTfy agalnrPhred; 1 OCT An intelligent Writer in the Nation al Intelligencer estimates the bal ance ipf trade against the United States for last. yer (s four million four hundred and sixty two thousand eight hundred' and eighty 'Nor is this wsbeljVveia xaggerate(jl To meet'! this balancia will require eyery dollar of California gold that has iresched the country. OrThe Democratic Con 1 nra tin at at Tuesday, the 1st day of June.

OtTThere are bat few of wft know anything of the bitter feeling, or are prepared to' appreciate Ihe conditioti of many. of; our fellow creatures who are plodding their weary 'v way! rtropgh 'Utii colli and unfeeling world. An enquiry propounded by us to a friend, some time nee, in regard to his health, ed this ex'prossion Oh, I donH know manoge'toldra'g phe'bot after the oth er.M Such an answer struck us forcibly, and1 created an impression which it will require long years to erase from our It opened a flood of reflection upon the futility of mortal existence, which, as it upon mind, conveyed a great lesson, embodied in'the simple language of our friend we are' dragging one foot afler the other. he result of earthly toil seems but the cares ana pains wnica too existence or its blessings and perchance a hypocritical tear and a pompous buiial at the consequent premature end. Onward in the universal pursuit of wealth and hap piness, the very means destroy the ulti mate object and the poor mortal finds last, that while the phantom has elu ded his grasp, he has been dragging one foot after the other in his progress to.

the grave, in which' alone they meet, and are rest. And to him who has. secured lie glittering for which his days ave been sacrificed 'in the agony of anxiety, and feeble hope, the reflection but a wretched which teaches him that the ardent watchings of those ho hang upon his favors, and would be deemed his kindest friends, are upon the promptitude with which one foot follows the other in the great tramp of life. There lives not a votary of does not often turn with cold horror from the thought that his steps are watched with the ever vigilant eye of envy, whose efTorts. will be givon Jo, the filling up of his foot prints, when the toilsome jour ney is accomplished the land marks of which, he had vainly wonld be sougm out ana gazea upon, wnen ages should.

ha vo embalmed his Alas I to what a fickle end seem directed the steps of our Ceing as indicated by the prints left upon the sand.1 The world is'passing on to a common destiny, and as wa gaze, upon the crowds moving souls around us, and take note of their foolish" ploddings for that which ayaileth them 'nought; we can" but pity them in heir idle toils for the of their cares and labors is lost in their perseverance, and the sum of their great travel, would seem but the effort of dragging one foot after the (.0 I .1.: Qr A correspondent of the New York Commercial, writing' from says that tdd.000 has lately been deposited somewhere in Rome for the purchase of arms. $40,000, it is said were from the United States, and $30,000 from Liver pool. It is reported that. there are at east 13,000 muskets secreted in the city and in the RichI Smith, of the Decatur Gazette, is aown. on our democratic neignoor like.

thousand "o' and gives him jBome i punches that we mm wiii wound thvyhelinks of the sensitive crea ture. Smith, when he eels iffoine, is some and we expect the lD 'Israeli of the West" will lose eome of bis laurels before the fight endsTi t' What's Baoxfi The democracy of this county held a meeting at the Court House on Saturday last; and among the names of the gentlemen figured argely in its proceedings, we notice that of our old friend Henry Brown, We were under' the impression that Henry was a Whigi but perhaps he has wan dered off. to seek a more conjenial field wherein' to operate. with' him. i 1 'i i i The Weather, for everal days past, has very pleasant the sun: shone very warm and balmy, and forcibly reminded us oi tne near approaco oi, coring: i nose wno nave tneir sugar camps in readiness should be making proper, use of r', (: cf I.

i ffir Hon. Mace, member of Con gress, from he Lafayette District, nas mtroduoed a' Joint Resolution in the House for an amendment of the Consti tution of the United States making Sen ators in Congress elective by the people CirGov, Wood, of Ohio, strongly re commends the Whig doctrine of appro priations by the National Government for Lake and River The' Christian religion; is profes sed by' about one third of the human race. Of the 200,000,000 Cf the popu lation of Europe, all but 10,000,000 are nomiual Christians. Tn In is a Jr It' appears that' we wete in error in stating that Charley Reeve was guilty of puffing himself through the editorial columns of the Plymouth A friend of ours who is Well aqaainted' with the circumstances', informs us that the article we referred to, was written by a printer the offioe. Therefore be it known to all the world and the rest of mankind," that we hereby exhonorate the said Chas.

Heev'e trom the charges prefered against him by us "h' 1 LtJct. Wra. C.J'I)ougheTty,, formerly a drayman iri returned from California few days, since, bringing with him twenty seven thousand dollars as the product pf his labor the'mines; 'j OT Aceofing" to Kossuth, Hungary furnishes a market for $13,000,000 worth of cotton, Annually trzt Or Our democratic neighbor has discovered that. Kossuth, the distinguished Hungarian, is at present in the. United States.

No other paper has the news.1 Poetkt. We on our first page, a. nne piece toi poetry trom the pen of a female We shall be pleased to hear from her as often as she may find leisure to Richard Corbaley, has purchas ed the Plymouth Pilot office, and 'wjll hereafter publish a whig paper. I. I il Don't forget the Whig Meeting at he "Court Heuse on next Saturday! We have no news this week from the Capital by the under ground Eitravagauce and If ever fhere was a period in the history of Indiana that called more loudly than another for the exercise of the most rigid economy on the part of the Legislators and every State officer that time now." were" never so high.

They are literally weighingdown and eating up the substance of the people. We hear of nothing but grumblings and complaints from the people.5 Our farmers tell us, and with truth, that, although the year has' been' prosperous, and'pro duce command a fair price, they never fell tax so burdensome. The complaint is net local to this country; It is gener 1 end wide spread. welITKroun3ed we ask the attehtion Cf tax avers to the unheard or profligacy, ex travagance' shd recklessness of the pres ent Legislature. Ntrtwilhstanding the new Constitution takes away from the Legislature all local business, which formerly consumed full half the time they are calculating 'on a session of one riunareaaays at 3 aoiiars a will make the snug sum of forty five thousand dollars'foi the rtax payers of his State to foot up next winter.

The House employs eight clerks at fourdol ars a day, and the Senate seven at the 1 same price; besiaes host ot clerks to the different committees; which will make another bill of not less than twelve thou and Then there is a whole army "which no man has yet numbered" of door keepers and assistants at three to four dollars a day. who dress genteel and strut around the lobbies and hire honest hard working Dutchmen to do their work i for eiXu bits. a dayi Then they plunder the peoples p6ckets to supp ly themselves with 48 newspapers per week to each member and not satisfied with this they dip into, the, Treasury to buy stamps to pay the postage on the newspapers and electioneering, docu ments, which they send home to their 1' "Vl riiiii irienus. auu bs vrowuiug bcioi pruu cality and indifference 'tp ''ihe just com plaints of an outraged and abused peo pie, they adjourn over on hollidays end go home' on business and.pleasure at the three, dollars a day. Sharnel shame) is this the democratic economy of which we have heard, sd rpuch, end for The hig Legislature in 1844 cpst the people only 925,000.

It will take nearly that sum this winter to pay clerks, 1...... .1 .4 the whole cost will not fall, short of 1 0001 These are 'sober facts that ad dress themselves to the pockets of the Let. them look to it, If Vbur taxes are puraensome look for another year with such WiL ul, wanton, shameful arid outrageous ex travigance staring you in the Lafayette Courier, a Dertiocratic paper, does not have a very exalted pinion or the present UemocrSlto Legislature. It says: 'Our Legislature seem" to" have; but ope fdea rattling 'through'' their 'empty gourd shells; that of saving few cents at the while dollars are guggling iitlt knn. i k.

TaW' tUl lUt Clfc VIIO UU1IU. 'V A ftlO IBVI HBt ,1119 ni4V' gust assemblage of wiseacres have de cided to elect Law whose duty it is to revise the whole code of legal practice for the State of Indiana, and do it in the space ot GO days, and for al this labor, which i if done as it should be would require, the i "services of 'some our ablest meh for years, they are to be allowed the sum of four dollars a day; we say this fact ought to immortalized everv mother's sotf of them." 4 4 fTii. (h Tnillana HraH.1 i i THE NEW COURT HOUSE AGAIN." MB? D'LoNoi 1 will "not 'dare say thai your correspondent of, last week, on the Court House question i is not and if av Professional man, that he is not qualified for the discharge of his hich calling yet, with your permission; I will take the liberty to advise the gentleman, In all other efforts he may make twtth his pen for a public good, to, be more consistent. what he, says i'J this. is a question which more directly cou cerns the people of this county than any 'other ever before discussed, and 1 trust I feel as deep an interest in the welfare of the county as any other individual." So5 long as we remain inunion and may heaven "preserve it throngh all coming time we cannot separate the interests of one part of the county from those of another." If these were the true sentiments of the writer's heart, it would speak well for his But he now forgets what he has said above and in his first attempt at wit Bui sanasm, plainly tells your readers that he has neither love for the rood of the county in which he pre fends to feel so deep an interest 6r desire to see that complete union ot her ontiguous portions, for which he so ar ently prays.

A man ol principle Is characterized by a love Of truth, and if it he attempts lo miorm others, especially i body of which he is a constituent part, fraud and deception are not traced in the outward of the thinking! principle within. Your correspondent attempts to stir, up the worst feelings that can exist in a man's breast. He evi ently wishes to array the South against he North; end Farmers against Profes sionai men, Merchants ana iiecnanics and the people in general against the occupants, of the couhtyflices, He pretends to go for the Court House on the hill. let it cost what it will," and says hat wilt have it all to pay." Although accustomed to the farming bus iness myself, I regard a dastardly course calculated to prejudice the armers a gainst other individuals of the county, as mean and contemptible. If your cor espondent desired to have the Court ouse built on the old Public Square.

(which he evidently does,) why did he not come out and give some good reason why it should be so located, instead of his weak attempts to disguise his writing, retending to be interested for that part of the town North of the canal? Did he seek to prejudice one portion of the county. against the ether to accomplish his ends, because the great fountain of rgument calculated to subserve his cu pidity, had dried up I hope if he attempts to Write again, he will take an honest course "Let it cost what it may," the Farmers would much rather pay for truth than falsehood. Tv "7 Although living somewharremote from your village, I. have taken some interest in the. Court House discussion, and have anxiously desired to get at the truth and real merits of this, perplexed question.

have made inquiries of different men. rom all parts of the county iu relation to it, end, whenever have conversed With responsible men, who labor for the best interest of the county, their lan guage, like the patriotic Senator, is, "We pknow no North, no South, no East, no West," nothing but the i good the county; notwithstanding, some of your citizens have anxiously desired to create a. North and South party, wholly to subserve (elfish purposes. So for as the in terest of your town are at stake, stand untrammelled in the evenf of this coming election nothing to lose, or, nothing to gam. Although a citizen of the.

bouth erh part of the county, do not care one centi what part of the town of Hunting ton tne ioun uouse is locaieu, wnqmer North or Sputh of the canal, if the loca tion is a good obtained without ex pense to the county, and shove all other considerations, a good and sufficient ti tie. mv last communication, bavins heard much reference to the title of the Public Square ai numingion, oeuig resieu in inq coun Ti ty. Although fully satisfied in my own but since, there are many citizens of the county, who have resided with us but a lew, years, and lnasroijcri as they are equally interested with 1 will state in as concise a manner as posT sible, the early, history of the town and county, so far asI.have been able! to make myself acquainted. You are aware' the soil where Hun tington now stands, belonged. tdr Gen.

Tipton, of Logansport. lu the year 32 lien, lipton, by his Agent, employed a NIj Davis, Jo and make plat of the town' of Huntington, which 'was acordingiy aone apa recoruea, St Marion, Grant county, foe the good reason that our county was at that time' attach ed GrantTwo years subsequent to this transaction, the General Assembly of the, Indiana, appointed Moore, Joseph potman, Panie Kankin, fJsniel Bearsel and Berry locate a jcountyseat, for the' cpunty of I hese. appointedommis sioners were. by. the law io fix the most eligible and convenient place the permanent seat of Justice, takin into the greatest inducements made tp them by persons offering to donate lots or other landed this ar rangement they effected with with Capt Elias Murray A genu at the time, for tlje town, consideration, of, Uuntiog ton becoming the permanent seat of Jus tice, executed to them a bond for 38 lots I which are now to be seen on the county recorus out.

received no assurance of any other landed property in considers. tion thereof. These 38 lots it appears, did not embrace the Public Square, it being already deeded away, if reliance can be placed upon the language of the' statute law of Indiana. tTbe Statute plainly says on page 349, "that the Com missioners shall take bonds of security, for all donations made to. the and on page 350, it is made; the duty qT the county Agent, to receivegood and sufficient deed of conveyance for any land which may have been contracted for.

or given to the j'jAsJ before said, I state' agaip, Lhave'not been able to find any deed or conveyance, made to the county Agent, county Commissioners, for, the Pubjio Square, either have I heard ofany other "person that lias seen any title; arn well aware that every donation or grant, to the pub lic, to individuals, to a religious society. or to any town, or body recorded on the plat as such, operates as a war ranty conveyance. The framers of the Statute could not have considered a grant to the public, and a grant to the county, the same thing, or they would not have used the terms separately. And if the county of Huntington has a right to the fuDlio Square, situated in Huntingt6n, do not see why that same right does not extend to the Public Square laid off in the town of Mt 5tnabolh are recorded precisely the Same and to Convince all who may have any doubts" this subject, that it was not the inierition of the Agent to' Tve the Public Sduare to the eouDty, for: county VourDoseB. 'he also laid out the town of Lagro where there could not have been rany expecta tion of a county seat, and there you1 will nnd he reserved a similar piece of grbudd, and marked for the Publ ic Square.

And more than I have been informed that the heirs of Tipton say i was intended for the public, and not a body ponuc. i am anxious; laooring un der any mistake in5 regard to'this "irnpor tant subject, io be made right; and, if any individual interested can show anv deed, bond, or other, conveyance, other than what I have mentioned, have my friend, to point it out to us, in the next number of this paper, if there is any deed or title on record; that you are aware of, state book and; page or if you know any title the county nas 10 luis.ioi, pieaso name where it is to bo found, for unlike the "Professional man," we seek( truth, instead of deception. A JEFFERSON! AN. Jefferson Township, Feb. 6, 1852.

CALIFORNIA. The Steamer Promotheus arrived at New York, on the 30th ult.J JShe left several of Our National Ships at San Juan Del Sud, which had been stationed there in consequence of the difficulty she ex 7 rienced when she last left that port. We learn that the rnost perfect hannonyvand good feelingnow exists between our Vessels and the British vessels at that pdii. The PrdmolheutV brings California news to Jan; ItThey are not veryVlm portanL We publish the following items as a specimen. The news from the mines is encouraging, the yield in tho placer! diggings being very bountiful since the rain set in The survey of the railroad from San Francisco to San Jose has beencoinple ed, total cost is estimated at $1,539, 126 17.

We ear that considerable time will elspse before the Work can be commenced. No fqrther steps, that we have heard pCi been.taken with regard to other railroads proposed in this State. The Indian War in the Southern coun ties of California terminated, as we predicted in our last It turned put to oe merely one of those periodical preporaiory incursions, 91 sutui trequent occurrence in those and said to have been provoked, by an, illegal attempt by the Sheriff of San seize Indian cattle in payment, ate Taxes; as well as by cruel treatment by evil disposed white bettiers and Miners 1 Jonvention is proposed, to be held for the pur poss.or laning imo consideration tbB various questions1 affecting theirinterests, and takingsuch action uDon them aanaav be deemed most i neje nas oeen 01 late a marked diminution of crime the State and theff is little doubt hut California would, in this respectr compare favorably in its proportion to its population, wjth any other btate in the Union rev. (tj It exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that when the is wucnea wia soiieped Dy. some.tfSpquil happiness oru affectionate feelings the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly; J.t would almost seen as Jhougb pur better thoughts apd syrapathies were charmain yirtue of whictt the soul is enabled to hold sqme vague! and mysterious in tercourseJ with the spirits of those whom we dearly loved in this life.) A'M how often Wd bow long may hpse angels' hover watching for the spell which if 10 seldom uttered and sp soon Mit.

I is now generally conceded that the intensely, cold wather we have had thia winter has 'all peach There are, great fears, for, the apples, An informant states that be saw pple tre which wero actually by the cold; AVe fear, that, as the cold weather has been so uDiyersal; through vui mo vuuuiry, us iruu crop will be a general failure this year Ind, Journal..