Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 October 1853 — Page 2

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SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29, 1SS3.

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tar We see from the Lafayette papers,

that the packing season has already commenced in that place at two different hous

es. Nothing said as to prices.

Jt5T Horner, of the Boston Shoe and Boot store, says he has a little the finest article of Ladies shoes ever before offered

in this market. Call on him ladies, Abe.

wont fib!

1communication

moderate, and accommodations good.

anti-macassar having foresworn its allegiance to horse hair, and clung to her own

pretty ringlets.

ined carefully our exchanges for the pur

pose of ascertaining the condition of the markets and we find that Cincinnati is pay

ing 95 cts. per bushel for wheat, and selling

flour at §5@5,25, and dull,—Cleveland,

Ohio, the prices arc about the same,—Indianapolis, wheat is 00 cts. and tlour S5@

•'5,25 per bbl: Louisville, Ky.. the markets

arc the same.—At Terre Haute they are

paying for wheat t35 cts. per bushel, and selling tic a at §5,00 per bbl. Crawfordsvillc Millers pay 80 cts. for wheat and sell

flour at 65,50, anil we understand that in

some cases they have had the impudence

to ask §6 per bbl Our market will compare favorably with the N. Y. market, and sometimes we are a little ahead. There is

no justice in our Millers extorting such cx-

travagent prices as they are now doing from

X3T Dr. Ellis of Indianapolis is said to be the author of the Essay on Farming,

"which was read at the State Fair by one of our citizens, who pretends to claim the au

thorship. How is it, can any one tell?

JktT" Milage Greelv, alwav from New

"fifteen cts. per lb., fresh, none

PENNSYLVANIA.—TheDcmoci

tv iu this good old State will reach 3d,000,

Where is Whiggcry?

JCsT* Hon. Robert M. McLane has been

appointed Minister to China.

Agents for the Review. .not fight if she can accmoplish her ends.by E. W. CABR, U. S. Newspaper Advertising Ae*nt, diplomacy. If England and France perSvans'Buildintr.N. W. corner of Third and Wal-.

p3f~ We wish it distinctly understood, thru wo have now the HKST and the I.AKOEPT assortment of YF.W and FANCV Jon Tvrr ever brought to thi? place. Wo in.«ist on those wishing work done to call up, and we will show them ourassortmentof typs cuts. 1.1 in th* davs of her weak-

tie Sentinel, in speaking of the extravagant prince. If his successors are men of like

prices charged by the landlords of the dit- sagacity, and steadily march forward in the -ferent hotels in Lafayette during the State path which he has marked out, fifty years

Fuir, speaks thus of the Jones Hotel: will not elapse before Russia will stretch "The Jones House is a clean coinforta- forth her colossal arms, and gather in all

ble place, and its proprietor a gentleman. Europe. France, England, Austria, and His prices were, during the ./«'/•, just what all the smaller German States will be blot-

sihey had been. He did himself, his house, ted from the map of nations, and Europe and his favorite city credit." will be Russia. A united effort now may

The above is true, every word of it.— possible check her advancing and growing "We stopped at the Jones Hotel during the power. Turkey must fight, or lose her na-

i-fair, and must say that his charges were tional existence. England and France must

M3T Good old butter is now selling for in all the city cemeteries for the week end-

THE WAR QUESTION. I FKO.11 TEXAS.

Russia was rather premature. The declara-

Hon was signed by the Grand Council on

the 27th ult., but had not, at the latest

oy me ^.uuan. m. a»tuis OL,

ranee and England are using all their di-,

aPX or

the Danube and Black sea. Russia will

ness. She will not likely submit to such humiliation in the hour of her strength and

power. Iler march has been forward.—

She is the rising, growing, and collossal power of the Eastern, as the United States

is of the Western Continent. She first de

spoils Sweden of more than half her origin

al territory—then takes the lion's share in

the division of Poland—then she sweeps down on Turkey in Europe and Turkey in

Asia, and then on the old and decayed em

pire of Persia. As a nation she is full of resources—young and vigorous. Iler poj-

sessions now extend down to the Black Sea,

and she pressing forward for a foothold on the Meditcrcanean. When she desires to

exteud her dominions to the North Ocean, the kingdom of Denmark is an easy prey.

If England and France permit the Muscovite Czar to subjugate Turkey, then their fate

as nations will be scaled.

ifgr Some good naturcd individual in a It will only be a question of time. Em-

published in the Greencas- pcror Nicholas is a wise and an avaricious

ajJ

About the new fashions fur winter, of national annihilation will come next,

the New York Tribune says:—A fashiona- There may be no war but how it is to be ble lady, with a woolen tidy on her head, avoided we have not diplomatic knowledge

and a fashionable cloak over her shoulders, enough to divine. The next news from looks as if she hail ordered the carriage Europe will be looked for with interest. It

trimmings into the drawing room, and was war commences on the Danube, the conflataking an airing in her rocking chair, the gration will spread until all Europe will be in

We have for the last month exam

other's throats, we can feed their starving armies whilst they arc bleeding each other on

the battle field, we can drain their pockets. A war in Europe would open a rich and

fruitful market for the products of our rich and teeming soil. It would give confidence

to American investments, and add to the

stability and security of American stocks. War ought to be avoided, but like ampu

tation in surgery, it sometimes becomes ne

cessary. Phlebotomy, if the disease is desperate is the remedy for nations, as well as

individuals. In the bloated and plethoric condition of the old world, a little bleeding

will do them good. Let it flow. We shall

keep our readers advised of passing events.

rt ce

t'ic people for bread—they can well aflord Winter goods, which they intend selling off

to pay the present prices for wheat, and at remarkably low prices. Now is the time manufacture it into tlour and sell it at §4,'

50 per bbl. Farmers can realize more from jyse a bargain.- Look out! their wheat by having it made into flour and selling it at two dollars per cwt. than they can by selling wheat at i0 cts.

Read the advertisement of J. Lee, Co., in another column. They have just

ived their second arrival of Fall and

buy—strike while the iron is hot or you

JC3T Horace Greely saw a pumpkin at

the Slate Fair which weighed 185 pounds, and speaks of it in the Tribune as a squash.

What a pumkin-head!

"Ni:\v ORLEANS.—The New Orleans Bee

"York, is said to have sunt/ a most excellent has ceased issuing duilv reports, and the He is now thirty years of age—was with address to the "Farmers and Friends'' nt'mortality hardly exceeds the average pro-jour army in all the battles irom., \. era Cruz the Indiana Stale Fair. |portion when the city is exempt from an!to Mexico. epidemic visitation. The total interments

in market. ing on the 8»h inst., were one hundred and

thir:y-thrce. of which hliy-etght were of|

cratic majori- yellow tevor, inclu.hngas lever cases, the

small One

below '.he city mortality o'f May hist, when

no yellow lever existed.

,, ,, nonary pensioners, all of whom are draw-1 in- '^'1 J11-

'Stir city.'* Do you*? JEST When nothing is to be had, the king' and very fair abilities.jnu^t loose his rh'hUs.

The late news by the steamer Asia/says [From the wTIhingtoa Star'.] the State Sentinel, proves that the news of XUE RECENT KILLING OF MAJOR ARNOLD, the declaration of war by Ttftkey against

plomalic skill and influence to present a their respective quarters. Steiner then collision. Russia, apparently, manifests told A. that if he placed him under arrest

suade Turkey to submit to the loss of two

of "her most desirable provinces, there will be no war. The temper of the haughty

Mohammed is not now in a condition to submit to such a degredation. Russia will

take no stop backward. Such has not been

ncr

P01IC)

tcn

mm-uajs 01 ner vicaH

tl)e Sultan, or their turn in the business

a red blaze and the struggle will continue

until freedom or tyranny triumph. Let it

come. It can do us no harm whilst the

tyrants of the old world are cutting caoh

of the tenth says: It is scarcely worth while to continue our weekly summary of the sanitary condition born in Frederick, Md., and raised at Tifrin

of our city, inasmuch as the board of health Ohio, where lie has a large circle of triends.

number of deaths marked unknown.

hundred and ihirty-three deaths is' WvanJot

OF THE SECOND DRAGOONS, BY ASSISTANT (ARMY) SURGEON STEINER.

,, •. We have a history of this horrible affair,

by from Fort

jamj

dates, been approved and actually signed I thatSteiner and Lieut. Bingham, from drink-. bvthe Sultan The mediating agents of ing. fell to quarrelling, fo disturbing the

Texas, where it occurred. It seems

vn di garrison as to compel The commander, Ma-|cloak?- T?'*re

Arno]d tQ and order t])em

jor Arnoia to go

peace but the war spirit' he would kill him. This threat beine taken

IQ-

morp

as a mere ebullition of passion, Arnold took "ers went to next day, eir passion, Arnold sent the Adjutant of the post with an order to arrest both. They were found at Lieut. Bingham's quarters, apparantly about to renew the quarrel. Steiner, on reading the order for his arrest, gave himself up, and again remarked that he would kill any man who should arrest him, and desired to see Arnold. The Adjutant advised him not to go over to A.'s quarters, lest he might commit himself by using violent and insubordinate language. But he persisted in going there.

In a few minutes the Adjutant heard pistol shots there—six—and rushing over found Arnold lying weltering in his blood, in the passage between his two rooms.— Steiner had Bred four shots, each of which had taken effect, and Arnold had fired two, neither of which hit S. Arnold lived but fifteen minutes after being hit. Steiner had escaped when the Adjutant entered, but he re-arrested him a few moments afterward, saying that he was about to go and deliver himself up to the civil authorities. He is now in custody at the post. Mrs. Arnold was in the Major's quarters, and probably saw the whole affray. Steiner's offence is punishable with death, of course, under martial law, and we take it for granted, that he will be forthwith court-martialled, unless the civil authorities take him by a writ of habeas corpus out of the hands ot the military, and afterward, if the law courts fail to convict him.

Some years since Steiner cut a Texan citizen, with whom he quarreled in a bil-liard-room, almost to pieces with a bowieknife, his antagonist using a similar weapon, lie afterward cured the Texan's wounds. In that affair, he was thought fied. He is, proverbially, o»e skillful surgeons in the service, and so voted to his profession, that during the Mexican war, after he had sufficiently attended to the wounded on the American side, he was in the habit of going over among the Mexicans and dressing and operating on their wounded, con amore. He is a small man, of remarkably polished manners, but with an eye in his head which tells of the desperation of his character when aroused by passion. He is a native of Pennsylvania.

TIIE SHOOTING OF MAJOR ARNOLD, AT FORT GRAHAM, TEXAS, BY ASSISTANT SU P.GEON ST EL N ER.

The account of this melancholy affair,

as copied from the Washington Star into the Enquirer, of the 6th in3t., is so much color

ed, to the prejudice of Steiner, that justice to him and his many friends in Ohio, re

quires tJie publication of the following letter addressed by Dr. Steiner himself to his

brother at Augusta, G., and by that broth

er forwarded to his relation in Kentucky:

"FORT GRAHAM, TEXAS, Sept. 7, '53. "DEAR BROTIIKR—I hare but time to impart to you a piece of news which will cause you much grief. Yestertlay morning I was placed in arrest, by order of Maj. R. A. Arnold, for no other reason than having slapped Lt. Bingham's face, for using language toward me which no gentleman could tolerate. Arnold knew that I would demand to know why I was arrested, and, having armed himself with two of Colt's revolvers, determined to reply to my queries in such a manner as to force me to strike him, when he would be held excusable for taking my life. I did not strike him, however, but informed him that the reason he gave me was not in accordance with the facts. Whereupon he drew one of his pistols and shot, at me. 1 was standing about five feet from him at the time, but the ball missed me. With my small revolver 1 returned the fire, breaking his left arm above the elbow. He shot at me the second time, but again without success, when I shot him through the body. He fell and snapped at me in a sitting posture, when I shot him again. He died within twenty minutes. God only knows how far I have laid myself liable as an officer, but in other respects I have nothing to fear.— He had his plan matured to kill me, but lacked the nerve to shoot straight. An express has been sent at once to Gen. Smith, and I presume I will be tried by a General Court Martial. 1 can write no more at present. God bless you."

All who know Dr. Steiner will believe what he writes. He is a man of strict inteority and good moral habits. Dr. S. was

Wavne countv

Gov. WAI.KER OF NEBRASKA.—This gen- much of an out-law tleman is well known in Ohio, lie has In-

(}j b]ood jn lljs vcins

j,e

rirl

he was e(

itc

The Dailv Lafnvclle Courier, savs—We understand that there are now nation, the }ando^. In 1(313 ho in twn'sue a=coun re

,i/\v .1 isiirvivinT ibtvit fourteen hundred revo^i-i moved with tlu-m to their new norne, west arounu the neck to the hindmost car in the there is not a oil} in ihe est w.sere

Luaeticgs, UU»J U.U. T^.-^cs ha\c so .1 ,U, Tt..: oi tne present year, as our readers already of all care in his bc-n alt. tth a fellow a a 1 great a swing as in that city.

was orn

Mich., in 1000. His fath-

as captur when a

pti

child, bv the Wv-

landot Indians and married a half-blood The Governor is her son

at Ken von college," Ohio-

he was 17 years postmaster at Upper San-j

THE REVOLUTIONARY PEXSIOS- '"%•. IN" 1336 BE .U chosen chief OF upon a railroad train would nolbe nerleclly

diK1 uu

ted Sta'es Union know, was c.octcd prcv.nonrd govcrr.cr of such a position, tcr'v mue an nmn w.i

see as the above reflect* much crcdit on the| ... Nebraska. He is a man of good character soon relieve the passengers from any fear jrng

THE UNITED ADMINISTRATION AND THE UNITED DE'IOCRACY. The most disreputable feature in the warfare now being waged upon the Administration by disorgujiizing Democrats is in. their effort to keep up a show of friendship for the President whilst they denounce his Cabinet with unmeasured malignity. These are the friends who "smile and

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"f Jtl

car

-. *=,. eloaks. Thev are the men who are so im-i

,7 under their,

Uie

m?n

1.„ threats of a few infuriated agitators. to be justi-1. tthey succeed in disorganizing ti:c 01 t:ie most and 8 d^

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maculate that they cannot acknowledge fel-,

lowship with their late political associates because they are not sincere and honest in their professions of devotion to Democratic principles. Each hiatus in their denunciations of their late associates, for their hypocrisy and vanity, is filled up with protestations of confidence in the President, and abuse of his confidential advisers.— Such a mode of warfare is unmanly and cowardly in the extreme. The President knows how to respect a chivalrous foe, who unfurls his banner boldly and marches to open combat but for him who cloaks himself in pretended friendship, and yet uses the stiletto upon his political family, he can have no other feeling but one of sovereign contempt. With all the evidences of a cordial union of sentiment between the President and his Cabinet, it is dastardly hypocrisy in these disorganizes to profess ardent admiration for the former whilst they empty the vials of their malignant indignation upon the latter. The President disdains any such dishonorable exemption from responsibility, and freely bares his bosom, and defies the steel of his enemies.— The members of the Cabinet desire no exemption from accountability to the people, and cheerfully receive the blows aimed through them at their respected chief.— There is but one mind, one spirit, united and indivisible, in the counsels of the Administration. Every attempt to divide and separate them but draws the bonds of their union closer. The spirit which animates them is the name which warmed the bosom and enlisted the energies of every true Democrat in the late Presidential contest. They lean with unshaken confidence upon the strong arms and brave hearts of a united Democracy. So long as the thunder tone3 of Democratic victories come booming in from State after State, proclaiming the glorious results of union in our ranks, they look with mingled pity and contempt upon the impotent assaults and harmless

What trty the

Empire State, and in throwing

power into the hands of our common enemy—still, as much as it might be regretted, New York is not the Union. But amidst all the gloom that now darkens the political horizon of that powerful State, we have hope that the very madness and rashness of the disorganize:^ will arouse the gigantic power of the true-hearted Democracy, and yet snatch victory from despair. We scorn to believe that the Democracy which covered itself with so much glory in the last contest, is now capable of the suicidal act of dividing that their enemies may conquer. Where are all their proud recollections of past triumphs that they do not rise up to quell the spirit of factious dissension which reigns supreme? Let the drum leat, and make the roll-cali of the dead, as it were, like the old sergeant of the Egyptians, "to whom Napoleon cried before Acre, '11a! Old True Penny, wheve's your regiment?—advance, man Sire, the regiment, except this boy on the drum and myself, is there in the redoubt we took yesterday.' 'Advance, boy!'" And the old fellow advanced, stamping it gaily over the field, until the great soul of France threw its generous eagles and its battalions about him, and took again the great point d'appui of St. Jean Acre the redoubt of Ceeur de Leon. Lessons of chivalry like these are not unknown in the bright past of the EMpire State the Democracy of New York, in solid column, despite of faction, careless of opposition, can excel them. "Advance, boy!" let that be the new Democratic watchword, and the Empire State will be once more "redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled" fr^m the reign of faction and of terror.

Tims speaks the Washington Union—on behalf of the Administration. Its firm, dignified, and chivalric tone finds an echo in the heart of the Democracy everywhere.~ Ohio has certainly given the President and his policy a warm assurance of her continued approval and good faith. Look atomsplendid slate majority of forty thousand, if you would know what the Buckeye State think of disorganizes and factionists Cleveland 1'laindealer.

the \Ii--i«s^iri"i and on the ^6th of Julv 'train, and thus relieve the legal authorities I

Ul1'

CONVICTED OF RLACINCJ OBSTRUCTIONS ON!

A RAILROAD.—Charles Andrews, who was arrested in July last, for placing obstruc

tions 011 the Harlem Railroad, for the purpose of throwing the Albany Express Train

from the track, has recently had his trial in Westchester county, New York, and has! been sentenced to five years' imprisonment.! —Exchange jxqter.

This crime ought to be punished with imprisonment fur life, and the Legislature should so decree. There is no act in the catalogue of crime which shows more black-1 hearted malignity, and none which is likely to cause more wholesale slaughter. A villain, who, to gratify purposes of revenge,' and lay a trap which involves the lives of persons guiltless of any injury to him, is too for society to allow ever to go at large.—Philadelphia Ledger.

We agree with the Ledger, and hope the scoundrel now in jail in Muncie for placing1, a rail across the track of the Bellefontainu road the other night, may be placed where he may never have the opportunity to bur-' den his soul again with such a crime. In-1

deed we are not sure that the passengers!

r'"'|'*

n- w'Ti,

darnjcr from him.— Sentinel.,.

TIIE NEWS FliC)3Z EUROPE—V/AK. Advices, per Asia, from Constantinople, to the 27th September, confirm the news brought bv the Atlantic on Sunday. War had been decided upon by the Forte, and the Russians given four weeks time to evacuate the Principalities. From the extracts published elsewhere it will be seen that the Divan met at the request of the Anslrian Ambassador on the 25th, and reiterated its determination not to accept the Vienna note. On the following day, a grand council assembled to take into consideration the state of the country, and resolved that the time for negotiations had ended, and that the moment had arrived for making a declaration of war. An address was accordingly presented to the Sultan, requesting him solemnly to declare war. This last proceeding took place within a few hours of the departure of our last accounts from Constantinople. Telegraphic despatches, however, re-iterate the statement that war had been declared by the Sultan, and, in addition, report that the firmans announcing the outbreak of hostilities were expected by the Turkish army as early as the 27th.— The Turkish army, it appears, is eager for an encounter with the enemy and even without the Sultan's sanction, General Omer Pacha despaired of restraining them much longer. Their position is aggravated by the pecuniary embarassments of the Turkish government, and the prospect of straitened supplies, and possibly cholera during the winter. Meanwhile, Russia continues to concentrate large bodies of troops in the vicinity of the frontier, and is taking active measures to prepare for a campaign. Disease has made considerable havoc among the army in the principalities.

The result of the Olmutz Conference has not transpired. It was believed in Austria that the Czar was favorable to a pacific settlement of the difficulty but Austrian information on such a theme must be received with caution. So far as Great Britain and France are concerned, we know that they have ten war steamers now lying in the Bosphorus and a report had reached Paris that the whole fleet had moved from Besika Bay into the Dardanelles. The importance of this last step, if actually taken, is diminished by the lact that no safe anchorage for the winter could be found in Besika Bay. Cabinet ouncils were to be held, both in London and Paris, on the days when our advices left. The government organs in both countries advocate peace, though regarding war as a possible contingency.— The news of the decision of the Turkish council had the effect of knocking down both the consols and the French rentes, and cotton was of course dull. To these symptoms we may add the significant fact that the Bank of France, as predicted last mail, has raised the rate of interest from three to four and the step has been imitated by nearly all the other continental banks.

So long as the Russians occupy the Principalities, and the Turkish troops cannot, fire a shot across the Danube, a skirmish between two of the outposts, will not materially vary the complexion of matters. If, indeed, the rumor that thirty thousand French troops are to leave Toulon at once for Constantinople, to protect the south shore of the Danube, be true, that would put a new aspect on the case but the statement requires confirmation. Precipitation, folly, the pressure of circumstances at home, might possibly force Louis Napoleon into a course detrimental to his real interests but we shall require strong evidence of the fact to convince us that ekher he or Great Britain have resolved on active intervention at this stage of affairs. Nor can we—without further assurances—credit the assertion that Great Britain has resolved on the occupation of the Balkan passes. There is a strong war feeling in England, and the pressure on the government is very great but we are much mistaken if they lail to withstand it. —yew York Herald.

HAVANA.—A correspondent of the Diario de la J/arina, writing from Matanzas, on the second instant, states that from the beginning of the present month the cholera had been making sad ravages in that place and its vicinity, increasing in virulence and fatality from day today, till within the last few days, when a favorable change had been observed, and it was hoped the epidemic would cease. No account of the mortality caused given. The north wind had commenced 0:1 the evening of the first, and some rain had also fallen. It was hoped these meteorological changes would improve the sanitary state of the atmosphere.

SOMETHING STRANGE.—The question, 'can the Ethiopian change his skin?'—has been practically answered in the affirmative by a colored woman in Georgia. The Chatanooga Advertiser says:

Dr. Hood, of White-, ille, Ga., describes a white woman living near him, thirty-four years of age, the mother oi ten ebony children, whose skin since she was eleven years of age, has changed from a pure black to a white as fair as any Circassian blood. Her eyes and hair retain the African peculiarities. No diseased condition of the skin or system has been discovered to show for this change of color, which began on her forehead, in a small spot, and gradually affecting her whole body the black disappearing from her neck, downwards in a sin|!00d gle week after her face had become whitened. \J..

'John, come up with your lesson. What does g-l-a-s-s spell"?' 'Well, 1 knew once, but darned if I don't forget now.' 'Pshaw, what's in your mother's window sashes"?' 'There's so many things that darn rne if I can remember 'em ail. Let me see— there's the boss blanket in one place, broth-1 er Job's white hat in another, and sister Patience's bonnet in another, and dad's old trowser's in the smash that Zed and I made yesterday.'

A Western editor says that a child

vn un over by a wagon three years old, cross eyed, with pantalets, which never spoke afterward.

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THE ANCIENT PYRAMIDS IN CALIFORNIA. The Panama Star publishes the following statement, given the editor by a gentleman now in Panama, in relation to his visit to a strange people in the region of the Great Central Basin. This statement was elicited by an article in the Star on the probable builders of the antique pyramid which has recently been discovered ia Colorado county, California: "Your article on the antiquities of tho Great Central Basin calls to recollection a conversation I had in 1852, near that region, that was of intense interest to me at the time. "Far away beyond the South Pass, on the head waters of the Gila river, lives John Bridger, a trapper of the plains and mountains for more than forty years, and whose veracity cannot be questioned by any one acquainted with him. lt is admitted by all trappers that he is better acquainted than any living man with the intricacies of all the hills, and the streams that lose themselves in the Great Basins. (I say basins, because there arc many of them.) While trapping 011 the tributaries of the Colorado, an Indian offered to guide Mr. Bridger and party to a people living far in the desert, with whom they could barter. The proposition was accepted and after providing themselves with dried meals and water, they struck right into the heart of that- Great Desert, where no white man had before or since trodden, and which the hardy mountaineers will only venture to skirt. Afler five days travel, the party arrived at three mountains, or buttes, rising in grandeur in that solitary waste. These mountains were covered with the diversity of forest and fruit trees, with streams of purest water rippling down their declivities. At their base was a numerous agricultural people, surrounded with waving fields of corn, and a profusion of vegetables. The people were dressed in leather —they knew nothing of fire arms, using only lite bow and arrow: and for mile after mile, circling these buttes, were abode houses, two and three stories high. Mr. Bridger was not allowed to enter any of their towns or houses, and after remaining three days, bartering scarlet cloth and iron for their furs, he left them, not, however, before being given to understsnd that they held no communication with any people beyond their desert homes. "That these are the same people who once inhabited the banks of the Gila and Colorado, and left those monuments of wonder, the "C'asas Grand," which so deeply attracted the followers of Fremont and Doniphan, and then vanished as a dream, ihtra can no longer be a doubt. Their abode houses attest it. "Months after this conversation with Mr. Bridger, I had another with Mr. Papin, the agent of the American Fur Company. He told me that another of the party, Mr. Walker, the mountaineer, after whom one of the mountain passes is named, and who is known to he a man of truth, had given him the same description of these isolated people, and in my mind there is not the shadow of a doubt of their existence. "The subject is one replete with interest to the antiquarian, as well as to all others and arn in strong hope that the recent discovery in the Colorado country will have the effect of speedily bringing to light, and to the knowledge of t,he world, not only the existence of tiie people in their desert home, but also their origin and history."

The Jefferson (Texas) Herald, of the 24th ult., furnishes the following scrap of intelligence. The "greasers" had better be looking out:

From Mr. C. N. Stanly, of this city, just returned from Dalias, we learn that great excitement exists in that portion of the Trinity country, in consequence of the contemplated difficulties with Mexico. Mr. S. informs us that companies are being formed in every quarter ready and eager for tho fray.

CKAWFOKD.SVILLS-: PStlCt: CURRENT [t'orreeteu weekly for the Moviev/.j Wheat, 5.0| Aj'jdea, preen, C'irr, Angles, lrv, Oyts. !•. W hire Bxnns, Flour. $4.7 "Ui.fw, Flax seed, Butli.-r. Timothy,

(,'in.i ..e. Wool. B-icon side .* sliouldor Beeswux, ii a 8 in in Ls»rd. 10 Potatoes, Tullow, 8 Onion.-j,

DI?. S. If HOWE'S SHAKER SAKSAPAIULLA tVILI, PI.*KIFY THE 3LOOD-

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I,"^STHA VF.D nwf.y irom the subscriber living in S'J VM'. rd-.vilii-. 011 or about the 7th ns.t.. a irrev r:iur-. 4 years old. h:mds lii'jrh and shud bc('ire. ADV delivering said miire, or givirijj information s.o thut I cun get ln:r. will be liberally rovi'iii'd'-d. M. NKJIOI.SON.

Crawl'.,rdsvillu. O.-t. 25. WJ iil7w8.-

^imrcliaai Sale.

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imdur.-iiifned u'^a.-aian ''i the estate and of I'hoda. William. Jumea. arid Geo i). R,!,..-r?s. minor children of William Roberta, de.-eased. wiil seli at j,ri\ate sale, pursuant to an order of the curt t-ommuii plea* nf Montgomery county. tState of Indiana, made at, the October term 1?0- the following real e.state in s.-iid eounty. towit: '1 lie c--a.it halt' of the south west quarter tnd the 1vt.

township is. north ru.'ii'c west, containing 1'10 aeres. lyinc 1 li miles east of Cr i\vford.-vi!le, with improvement* "n the same.

Ti.iiM.-i OF Sa r.i:.-- One third ea.-di, one third in nine month.-*, '.ne third in eighteen months from date of the purchaser I'ivint,' notes and approvI ed security lor deferred payment* with interest from date of sale. SAMUEL JK.SSKE,

OetoberiS, '.r»3. [n!7w3.] Guardian.

C^uardiasi .Salt*.

WILL sell at private Hale, pursuant to an order of the court of common pleu.s of Montgomery .•• LIV. State of Indiana, made attiie October term WS. the f-ilioiviiur real estate situated in said county. The house and lot upon which I now reside, lyinir one fourth of a mile cast of Crav/fords'/illo, s^iitli of the Indianapolis state road, containing four acres a four acre lot lying1 north of said roaa acr-rs from the above lot: also, lot No. 15. in Dunn's addition tosaid town »aid property gowned by the undcrsiirned and tho minor heirs of Henry Coolmaii. deeeased. T:itus:—One fourth cash, one fourth in six months, one fourth in twelvo months, one fourth iu eighteen months from sale, 1 i:i purchaser rivin no« find approved security with interest from date of sale.

For a minute description of ,iai-l property seo r* cordi oi said ccnrt. KHEI'IIAMA COOLMdN. Guardicm.

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hail'of the aout'u cast quarter of section 2,

October nl7**.-