Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 January 1854 — Page 2
Orr lCIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY
THE REVIEW.
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1?54
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We wish it distinctly understood, that \vc have now the BUST and the LARGEST assortment of NF.W and FANCY .J or. TvPF.cver brru^ht to this plaec. We insist on those wishing work d. r.c to call up. and wo will sfiow them our assortment ot ty ps. cuts. tc. We have got them and no in intake. W OIK done on short notice, and on reasonable terms.
JOB PRINTING.
As it is now abouUthe time when Morehants^nnd others arc wishing to have Circulars. Curds. Postrrs. fcc.. printed, we would respeetfuilv call tlieir Attention to our extensive assort men' «f type. Ail work executed at short notice ai at the lowe,-.. prices. Call and see our facilities for doing worK.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.—The Democratic State Central Committee will meet at the State House in Indianapolis, on Thursday, the second day of February next. The object of the meeting is to call a Democratic State Convention, and to recommend a ratio of representation l»r the several counties in the State. Punctual attend.iiue of the Comniitteo is respectfully requested.
its political divisions, and those divisions
will always have substantial doctrines which ra the people collectively and individually will claim and sustain as their own Mr.
WILSON
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AVM. J. BROW N
Chairman State Central Committee.
0^-0 wing to the indisp8sition of one of our hands, and not being well ourself, is the cause of our paper being later this week than usual.
0^7~The 7ih lecture before the Mechanic Institute, will be delivered on Thursday evening next, by our friend, lion.
M'DOXALD.
per.
waxed truly eloquent in many
Ilis effort was what Prentice would de-
sub unary ideality. All ihroujh msspeeoh .•
we felt very much like exclaiming, "ye
tliat five hundred thousand millions of dollars arc annually expended in the United States by the traffic in ardent spirits. That would be almost twenty thousand dollars to the head, far greater wealth than we have any right to lay claim to. The speaker not only blundered in his statistics, but he was in every respect as "dry as any fish"
03-W understand that the bill of fare at the Hamilton fete in Canada,/ar exceeded that of the dinner at Detroit. From the variety and the popularity of the wines that were used on the occasion, we should think that the feeling on the subject of the Maine Law, is very much like the climate up in that quarter, rather cool.
O^rMr. A. T. JOSES, having just completed taking the census of the town of Crawfordsville, reports as follows: ToUl population, 2017 this includes 110 Females at the Seminary also, 150 students in attendance at Wabash College and 112 negroes. lar'*. ."•
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jrsrwe were very agreeably entertained on Thursday evening last, by listening to Mr.
JAMK3 WILSON'S
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Ilis subject will be, "Political
Revolution, their effects upon popular right." The combined attractions of aj good man and a good subject should call out a good house. So let's give him a bum-
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lecture upon the in
teresting topic of "Political Integrity."— His views were highly spiced with the strength of historical allusions, and as a general thing we think they were very philosophic, though Utopian. When he touched
.... We have had the pleasure of riding with
upon the instability, corruption, and ulti- .. v- 'Mr. iirnuARD, and endorse every word of mate dissolution of an parties. No government ever has, or ever can exist wiihout
the above.
ptrts of his discourse, and his peroration tionists than Moses, or especially we think was very fine. jChr.st. We deny that it is a crime, I a a a
vania was introduced to the audience.—
After the lecturc was concluded, Mr. .,. to bnv slaves, to sell slaves, to keep slaves Fish, a temperance speaker from Pennsyl-.
nominate, a metaphysical disquisition on '.
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god'sand little fishes!'' The facts perhaps well stocked with healthy negroes in Alawould hardly bear him out in his assertion, baina.
BABT SHOW—SPLESDTD PREMIUMS.—A VERMONT.-—The
baby, two years old the second premium —a silver pitcher, costing 835—to a similar baby two years old and a £10 gold goblet for a fine handsome baby only six months old. r-
MR. MITCIIEL'S POSITION ON THE SI.AVE-
RV QUESTION.—The following explicit announcement appears in the second number of John Mitchel's paper—The Citizen:
We are not abolitionists—no more aboliSoerates, or Jesus or a
hei work by flogging or other needful
coercion. "By your silence," says Mr. Ilaughton, "you will become a participator
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communication in a Georgia paper amioirn- proud of their Slated The Rutland Herald I.Ices the fact that the executive committee breaks out as follows: A
the Southern Central Agricultural Asso-| The re is but one city in the State and not ciation have determined to offer some very one soldier. We have no theatres nor mobs. handsome prcmrams on Babies at the next! *'ehi,re °o police, and not murder has been committed in this state within the last meeting of the Fair! This is a new fea-
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that ever got outside of the deep and silent: been an insurrection in Dublin, in 1043, flood, which a benciicient providence has and if the women in the upper stories could kindly provided for all that species of his! rained hell nre upon the enemies ot
animal creation. ,, the Revolutionary garden, till it blossomed O^rThe French Government is at ]jis( 1'ke th^Mose. beginning to show some signs of firmness in relation to the Eastern question. Notwithstanding the strong temptations which the Czar has presented to Napoleon by offering to abandon the Burbon cause, and to approve of the French annexation of Belgium and Egypt. He still remains coldly disposed towards the Russian Autocrat, and has lately assured the Ottoman Ambassador of his friendship ajid sympathy in behalf of Turkey. This looks rather indicative. We may soon expect cxeitinsr news."
NEW
riots.
who he recommends to the pat
rons of the paper as a gentleman, well qualified to fill the station which he now occupies. We wish the new firm,
reported that the U. S. Marshal
of the Western District of Pennsylvania lias received authority from the President to call out the troops to assist him in enforcing the decrees of the Courts in the Erie matter.
00~Thc following paragraph is taken from John Mitchel's paper, the "Citizen," published in New York. lie says "Once again rosy morning dawns upon the earth. The 'Peace and Order' established in Europe at the point of five million bayonets begins to grow nervous. The nightmare of live years loosens its clutch upon the breast of the nations, and we see daylight and hear ihe cheerful cockcrow.— Many a time in this long, dark unrest, misnamed Peace, brave and just men wished they were dead the righteous cause, thev said, is crushed hopelessly for our generation—that which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which.is wanting cannot be numbered.' But courage! courage The unwearied sun chases his own shadow still and it is well to be alive, and not dead, when the dawn is breaking, calling us to the work and the plaj* of life again." "Rosy morning" docs very well, but what shall we do with a nightmare losing its "clutch We protest against putting anything of the horse kind to any such purpose. Nightmares may kick, but we insist that thev shall not clutch.
FJ J' I. J. IIIDBARD,
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As a.further evidence of the spirit of this paper we copy the following reply to the London Times, who intimates that the Irish rebels used vitriol as one of the weapons of warfare. "In
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KEE:EV
success in business.
conductor on the N.
A. S. railroad, between this place and Michigan City, is just that kind of a man, land just the conductor the traveling pubI lie like to meet with. We would rather travel round the world with such a conductor, than to ride to the first station with a surly bull-head, who imagins, because he is a railroad conductor, he is some pumpkids.—Lof. Courier. •/:.
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ur part, wi--h we had a good plantation
everything that will either kill,
hurt, or burn, or blast an enemy is good. Bless your innocent heart vitriol is nothing. If there had been, as there ouirht to have
I their country, they would have watered
Yonic.—In a notice of New York
city, in the Home Journal, it is said that "The negro panic in 1741 was one of the remarkable affairs of the city's early history. There appears to liaVc been little
The Journal gives the following account of the treatment of the first settlers, towards i:.ie Indians not at all to their humanity:
This island, and its neighborhood, seem to have swarmed with Indians in the early times and the conduct of the Dutch towards them, and when the Indians became cxhorbitant in their demands, they provoked them to hostilities. On one oc*casion the Dutch killed eighty Indians of a party which had fled to them for refuge against the hostile tribe The Indian prisoners were, on some occasions "hacked
ground for fear vet one hundred and fifty- duced^the keeper to wiue to the Rev. J. D. four negroes were imprisoned, seventy-one of Scott county, and other minister transported, eighteen hanged, and fourteen burnt at the stake, for a conspiracy which was probably imaginary. The place of burning was (he present Five Points but the hanging was done at an island in FiveWater Pond, near the corner of Centre and Pearl streets."
with knives, flayed alive, strips of flesh cut said he, "lean compare you to nothim'but from their living bodies," &c. The first a parcel of "knotty hickory butts the was concluded by the massacre at night, of Gospel is the wedge', and"—throwing himfive or six hundred Indians, men, women self in the attitude of a woodman—"by the and children, "from whom not a crv or igrace of God, I'm the beeile to d-r i-v-e it jjroan cscapcd." This was in 1613.".1 [into you!"
Yermonters are justly|
ten ycars We hare no mu(
ture in Agricultural shows. The first pre-, house, nor chrystal palaces, but we have mium—a silver pitcher, co-ting $50—is to homes, genuine homes, that are the centre be awarJed to the "handsomest and finest" of the world to its inmates,' for which the father works, votes and talks—where the mother control?, educates, labors and loves —where she rears men, scholars and oat-
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iCS?~Wc see by the Locomotive of last table omnibus running from the Depoi to week, that Mr. T. J. SCOTT, has disposed of, his house, or any place in town where pashis interest in that establishment to Mr. W. sengcrs mav-desire. This is quite an acII.
opera
WAYLAXD,
land-lord of the
Eagle Hotel, has now a neat and comfor-
commodation to the traveling public, as the road from the Depot into town is horrid in a muddy time. Mr. W. we believe keeps the best accommodations of any house in the place. So say those who ought to know.-
-t/t^"Rcad the advertisement of John W. Burk, in this week's paper and give him a call
itS?" A passenger in the Winfield Scott, recently wrecked on a barren island on the Pacific coast, gives the following account of the occurrence, and general plunder which followed: "The island is Some four miles long, with two natural bridges running under it, but without anything to sustain life. The part of the island where the steamer struck was t. 1 1 1 to 4 0 0 0 a a or 2 0 0 0 0 the onlv part where it was possible to have ..
der trial in Waukcska county, Wisconsin, illustrated the great difficulty of getting a virdict in a capital case. One Hugh Drum was indicted i'or the murder of his mother. The evidence was clear and positive, and such as left no other alternative to the jury than an acquittal or a verdict of murder in the first degree. There was no chance for any alternative result. It appeared that the mother was possessed of eighty acres of land by a former husband, a portion of which would fall to Hugh in case of hei death. A quarrel exhisted with regard to this land, and it was proven that the son had threatened her life. On the Saturday previous to the murder, Hugh left 1 is work of making shingles, wiihout telling those 3 O wiih him where he was going.
Monday afternoon, his step-father while at work in the field, heard a bullet whistle by his head he saw smoke near an old stub, and saw the prisoner running from it. Thai night he got a man to stay with them at the house. About 8 o'clock in the evening, the two men were sit iiig in the house smoking, and Mrs. Sullivan stepped out, leaving the door open. They heard the report of a gun and a scream, "Oh! I am shot! 1 am shot by my son Ilirghy!" She was lying about three rods from the door. Sullivan went out and brought her in, when she repeated several times: "My son Hu^h came up to me and said, I might pur him in irons, but he .would lay me low, and he put the pistol so close to my breast that it burnt me!" Drum immediately fled, and was arrested in Peoria. In defiance of this testimony, the prisoner was acquitted. This is certainly the most outrageous verdict on record.— Quincy Whig.
REVIVAL IN A PENITKTIARV.—For
j" i- Cotton quotations—Orleans tair, landed, as the whole island is perpendtcu-
lar to the sea, being from two to three hundred feet high. On the 5th, the steamer California, coming up the coast, discovered the smoke on our island, and ran in and took the ladies and the purser up to San Francisco. She returned the 9th, just in time to prevent trouble, as we had got down from a scanty allowance of bread to one potatoe per day, and the water had become salt.
What occurred during our six day's sojourning on the island, was outrageous in the extreme. The passengers had been put ashore as fast as possible, no baggage being allowed until all were ashore, when the baggage was sent. Trunks came broken open, carpet-bags cut and their contents extracted, clothing lost and strewed about— money "cared for," and such a general robbery was never before perpetrated. I I had a carpet-bag, with nine hundred dollars, and one hundred dollars' worth of shawls, &c., and all I got of it is my memorandum book, and a letter containing my ticket, which I changed off for one to New Orleans.",
HAND TO 11 A SO A MAN.—A
recent mur
some
time past the Keeper of the Kentucky State Prison has been in the habit of lecturing the inmates every Sunday morning. Several of the prisoners gave such evidence of concern on the subject of religion that in-
to vi-it the prison, on the third Lord's-day of Decembei Mr. B. arrived on Saturday evening, and on Sunday morning repaired to the prison chapel, a room about forty by sixty feet. At the hour of 11 they met again, and after the preaching of a short discourse, an opportunity was given for those that wished to designate themselves as seekers aiter religion. Several came up and made a public profession of their faith, while many were discovered weeping in the congregation. That same afternoon, at 3 o'clock, seven persons were baptised in a pool within the prison walls. The circumstances attendant upon this revival are rather extraordinary.— Cin. Com.
An itinerant minister was one day
preaching to a "pack of hardened sinners," when he made use of the following original and rather striking simile:' "My hearers,"
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INTERESTING FOREIGN NEWS!
*LATEST FROM EUROPE.
A Cxcucrnl European War
AFFAIKS OF iiUSSIA AND TURKEY.?
O A I O N O W A A I I I A
THE RIVER DANUBE!!
AUSTRIA AND FRANCE.
Congress' of the Four Powers
ADVANCE IN liiiEADSTUFFS.
Terrible Su or.* Stcrm in EngJaiuI, and Belgium.
Fnrace,
.FOUEIGN AND DOMESTIC MARKETS.
,I HALIFAX1 Jan. 23.
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Niagara arrived this morning with Liverpool dates of 7th inst. Terrible snow storm in Great Britain.
The snow blocked the roads in England two days. In Belgium it ivas several fet deep, and the railway tracks thick with ice.
At Madrid the winter is very severe. The Baltic is packed with lloatin^ ice. The winter is very severe in the North
of Europe. Flour has considerably advanced, and wheat in good demand. The cotton market is steady, with an advancing tendency. Sales for the week 3D,000. Speculators
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Trade at Manchester is unchanged. It is reported that the second duel between
The French and English fleets had been ordered to the Black Sea.
had given orders ior immediate preparations. for crossing the Danube, ,-Tiie latest advices from Constantinople express little hope that the negotiations will lead to any good result.
The Turkish Council has declared itself permanent. I The Russians had occupied the frontier of Austrian Wallachia. £*-1
paliiiesand the maintenance of the Turkish
sovercignty, and consents to a congress in
when the result transpired, a tumult arose
in Constantinople, and a mob of three
thousand, led by Ulmoris, who assembled
the liects are, that in the event of mcetin
Russian ships of war, they will, in the names of their respective governments, request the Russsian Commander to return to Sebastapol, and on refusal force will be used.
The Russian statements affect not to feci the slightest alarm about the mevements of the allied squadrons, on the contrary they assent to the fleet's entry into the Black Sea.
A signal is fixed for a simultaneous outbreak in India, Algeria and Greece being already organized by agents of the Czar.
A Russian dispa'tch says the Turkish army in Asia is totally disorganized, and that the troops had killed Sclirn Pacha and
ine Pans papers report that the Czar over ll-.e estimate. D. S. Mahoney has been elected Senator nom San Francisco in place of Brannan resigned.
The Russians had been allowed to march through Austrian territory. Count Esterhazy had not yet gone to St.. Pcter&bur^h in consequence of a home mis-' ,-
understanding. i,, .• oacramento Constantinople is quiet. ..
Trieste is mentioned as a neutral place j)'ipc is for a meeting of a congress of the four great
European powers. Intelligence confirms the report that the vor\b!e* Porte had accepted the note from the four! -V, i. powers, saying he would not object under •.* -I
certain conditions, to agree to an amistiec, j11Mr
but insists cn the evacuation of the Princi-
Turkish accounts acknowledge the evacu-
RUSSIANS PREPARING TO CROSS says, that agents are on their way to the it is generally."thought by experienced pub-
and ban
Middling, G'jJ Upland fair, G-i} Middlin^. 5-£. The demand is good, and prices arej^ h, when, during the night, the iiliibusters stifler. :ih: W pf*
Soule and Lord Howden has been deferred them on board was spoken ofl San Redo on in consequence of death in the family, of:21st, and they probably arrived at Lathe latter. isanada on the 25th, when an immediate
Turkish affairs more complicated than attack will be made upon San Thoma^ ever. A general European war is inevita-! The weather in California for a fortnight ble. was delightful. There had been but 1 i:11e
The Paris Moniteur contains a circular rain, and the miners were disappointed.— from the minister of foreign affairs, of the ,The water was insufficient to till the canals 3uth Dec., addressed to all the French le- 'or for wa-hin^ small milches. gaiions, on the Eastern question. The document is moderate but very firm. He narrates the phases of the question, declares that France, England, Austria, and Prussia solemnly recognized the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire and fur.her,
that the a flair at Sinope took place against soon be completed
all provisions. She only desired a material guarantee, therefore, to protect the Ottoman territory and flags from further attack. The circular terminates in expressing hope that Russia will not expose Europe to new convulsions.
The papers authentically state that the French government is dissatisfied with the evasive conduct of Austria, anil addressed a strong letter of remonstrance, intimating that France will extend aid to Hungary, Italy, Ac.
*™ncisco dates to the 31st.
The large independent steamer Oregon left San J- ranciscv) on the 31st, with 100 passengers and 8400,000 in specie on freight
Dates from Ensanada, Lower California, are to the 10th. Accounts relative fo the Aj iiliibusters are contradictory, but it is known that they were besieged from the 4th to the
atta ked the besiegers who fled leavingtheir arms, horses, Arc. Reinforcements from Anita had not arrived, but a vessel with
The Klamath mines are very productive. New dicoveries have been made at the Eastern head of the Sacramento river at Pilot cret k.
A new canal 20 miles lon^, to fu i'ni!)
water to the dry diggings of the State, will
The min. rs at Shasta intend to expel the Chinamen. Legislation is called for to' define the rights of miners and mining companies.
It is reported at San Francisco that another vessel is fitting our for Lower California. There is a growing feeling against Filibusters and their objects.
Ac !rly Gc,000,000 ofgold was last year manifested in the custom house. The total amount since the discovery is estimated ai ^00,000,000. A million and a half of property was sold fit auction in San Francisco on the 2Gth at a considerable advance
Extensive works for fortifications of harbors had commenced. Mrs. Sinclair has assumed the management of the Metropolitan theatre, tin: largest and most elegant place of the kind in Ihe country.
Three daily papers are abytU to appear.at Stockton. ,r. The prostitute, Ida Brewer, the mun'erot Alary Lee, has been acquitted at ^ainst clear evidence of her uilt. The papers are passing around the
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a neutral citv. reported a practical pat-s. The Divan continued three day?, and
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and presented a remonstrance, declaring the Oregon dates are to the 24th of DeccmSheviate constitution violated by the Conn-jber. The Legislature met on the 5th. cil. For a time a riot was apprehended, Ralph Wilcox was elected president of the and a force of marines from the English and council, and Z. C. Bishop speaker of the French steamers were called to Constanti- House. nople, and a proclamation was issued by I The Legislature adopted a memorial tS the Sultan on the 23d, which restored quiet. Congress praying for the speedy payment
Several of the mob were arrested and of the officers and soldiers encaovd "in the banished. Rouge river war. Definite information, as to the relative The papers are advocating the formation action of the Czar is daily expected. of a State preparatory to the°admission into
Intelligence from St. Petersburg of the the Union. The population is estimated at 20th states, that the Emperor had formally 50,000. rejected the Vienna protocal of the 5th, The San Francisco Herald reports combat consents to examine the Turkish propo-! mercial affairs for the fortnight as oloomv. sitions of the 20th, although he refuses to The demand from the interior is very email, recognize the right of European inlcrvcn- and importations unusually heavy lion in Russian Turkish affairs. The receipts of gold du*,t are greatlv re-
On L, _jdi, the allied eflets had not duced. entered the Black Sea, in consequence of There had been during that time nine the tempestuous weather arrivals from the Atlantic States ™h full ihe inductions of the commanders of
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Gen. Gugen. This report is not credited. THE PRESiiiVT HOUSE RKPitESEJI-
The statement for the quarter ending Not a speech, long or short, has been deJanuary the 5lh, shows a large increase in livered upon it, which failed to he marked the revenues. with acute reasoning and sound discretion,
great quantities
-i-iners are sowin
seat.on is nnusuaily
hty is rnging ists and birds.
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party, rent by the Iv-i:!-
convention to examine the Sierra Ne-
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ht-ad uf the Stanislaus, have,
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Pacific Railroad parties have
d, and the engineers speak very fa
bly of the Southern route, and public
generally in favor of that route,
lcadin
staples.
PITTSBURG,
Jan. 23.
A dispatch from Erie states that a numccr of citizens were marching throufh the streets with the effigy of J. H. Walker director of the Erie and Northeast Railroad. The effigy was labelled "Father of guaoxlaw."
The Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian church in Allegheny city, was burned to the ground this cvenin"-at 6 o'clock. Half the library which was very valuable, was saved. Building insured for five thousand dollars. Library partially insured. About forty students of divinity occupied ihe.building. No lives were lost.
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lion of the Russian territory in Asia wiihout We ha^e waited until the present moment loss. before expressing an opinion or commentingl The latest from Persia is more satisfac- upon that of our cotempornries Upon the tory, but does not agree with the statement character of the present House of Reprethat the Russian General Gonneloff com- sentatives, because, xirtttl j-esteaday they mands the Persian army. -had not concluded their action upon any,
Constantinople dispatches states that the one question of importance, wherein they* British charges in Persia have succeeded could develope their tone and the calibre or in terminating the difference between Great any number of new members. It will boBritain and Persia. recollected, too, that there are more netr
The Turkish charge .was satisfied with members in this Congress than ever before^ the explanations. These facts render it extremely difficult to There is extraordinary military activity judge of the present House upon reliable'' all over Russia. The London Observer data. We mav now, however,, write that,
United States, to purchase ships and ammu- lie men in Washington of both great parnition for Russia. ties, that there is more personal character, England.—There is much indignation talents, and attainments, in the present against Prince Albert, and particularly the House, than the body have been previously independent papers, and the public voice blessed with for some years past. In the protest he is a tool of Russia, and that Lord consideration of the Ingraham resolutions Aberdeen is under his influence. The (a subject of a class heretofore generally Prince, it is stated, betrays ail cabinet se- giving rise to the expenditure of no little crets to Russia, Austria, and Germany.— froth and demagogut-ism in the IIali)calmTlie matter is. expected to come before p:ir- ness and reason have pre-eminently been: liament. the distinguishing features of the debate.—
I however widely oentlemen may have dif-
eALfrOil.* iA. I fered as to the particular path "of the duty OKIV, Jan. 24.
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Congress on the matter in hand.
The steamer Northern Ligiit arrived this It is very certain, that in no previous demorning. She brings upwards of 3J0 pas- bale occurring in the last ten vears have so sengcrs and -SC44,381 in specie on freight, many new members distinguished them-1 selves by the practical ability with which
they came to the consideration of the questions involved. The entire absence of froth and demagogiieism from this debate, a» before remarked, is a capital sign indeed. It tells of an important change in the character of a portion of the public men of the country, which can hardly fail to work more advantageously in shaping the results of the future labors of the present Congress. This is truly fortunate, in view of the fact that many important changes in our system must be initiate rl this winter: among them being a very extensive revision ot the present rates of duties on imports. The large surplus in the treasury will also be directly or indirec ly voted away ere the session closes and it is well, indeed, that, that duly is lo be per.'ormed by gentlemen who, with very few exceptions, seem bent on disposing of it with due deliberation and caution, and alter careful investigation only. We rest under a,firm impression that thev will do actual business in a more business I like way than we have seen it done in the aggregate, in the House lud! formally years past.
As far as we can perceive, (and we have really taken pains to inform ourselves cn the point) there is neither a drunkard nor othei wi.-e a confirmed dissipated man among all the gentlemen who are this win•er, lor a first time, entitled lo seats on the floor. This is saying more for them than we have ever before been able to sav for a new House of Representatives of the United Stales.— Washington Star.
'.} [Fro::i t! V/ushin/rt.-n I'ni.n,.] IMPORTANT PKOCI.A AT I OX .—T he bj in ed important proclamation, issued by the President of the United States, will be read with interest. It relates to a subject which has attracted a large share of public attention, and will be received with general approbation. It shows that the. President'is determined to interpose to maintain the integrity of the laws against violation s:nd to this end, he calls upon all good citizens to di.-countenance the proceedings alluded to, requiring all public officers io exert their authority lo arrest and bring to trial all ofienders. This step was called for by the intelligence received by the President", and will be properly appreciated.
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PROCLAMATION.
hcreas inform'itien Ir'.s been received by me that an unlawful expedition ha: en lilted out i:J tne State of California with a view to invade Mexico—a nation maintaining friendly relations with the United States and that (••.her expeditions are organ.zing kit in the L. mied states for the same unlaw fill purpose and whereas certain citizens and i:.habitants of this country, unmindful of their obligations and duties, and of the iignis of a friend.y power, have participated, and are about to participate, these, enterprises, so derogatory to our national character, and so threatening lo our tranquility, and are thereby incurring the severe penalties imposed by law against such ofienders:
Now, therefore, I, Franklin Pierce, President of the United States, have issued this my proclamation, warning all persons who. shall connect themselves with any such enteiprise or expedition that all the penalities of the law denounced against such criminal conduct will be rigidly enforced and I exhoi all god citizens, as they regard ouc national character, as thev respect our law ot the law of nations, as they value the blessings of peace and the welfare of their country, to discountenance, and by dl lawful means prevent, such criminal enterpris-, es and 1 call upon all officers of this government, civil and military, to use any eftoi ts which may be in their power to arrest for trial and punishment every such offender.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Lmted States, at Washington, tliiaeighteenth day of January, in the [L. S.] year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, and the sev-enty-eighth of the independence of the United States.
FRANKLIN PIERCE.-
By the President: W. L. MAIICT, Secretary of Statc.
Kane's Arctic expeditition in search"
of Sir John Franklin was at Upernavik. Greenland, on the 23d July. It was provided with every necessary for the northern journey which Dr. Kane was about to undertake, for the purpose of establishing a. provision depot. He would leave his vessel to return to her ic October.