Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 11 May 1854 — Page 2

THE JOUENAL.

CRAWFGRDSVILLE, INDIANA.

Thursday morning, May II, 185-1.

D3rWM. P. RAMEY, is an authorized Agent for the

JOURNAL.

MONTGOMERY

lie will take subscriptions,

reccivc money, and give receipts.

TO ANDREW J. SNYDER.

NUMBER VII.

DEAR SIR SO

long has the liquor

traffic been suffered to exist, nay ao long has it received the special protection of government, so powerful is its influence over the minds of men, so blinding and perverting its effects on the human understanding, that in the present day the manufacture, sale and use of strong drink is regarded by many as tho inalienable birthright of each and every citizen, the first born grinciple of the American Revolution. Were we to be governed in our opinions by the orators of your nnti-temperance meetings, we would be led to the belief that our Revolutionary Fathers engaged in their arduous struggles for the sole purpose of securing the right of making and drinking ardent spirits, that all their ideas of republicanism, of the right of representation, of national independence, of civil and religious liberty, revolved around the manufacture md use of liquor as the grand, central point. In the opinions of many the liquor traffic seems to constitute the only barrier between the union of Church and State, the only safeguard of personal right?, of civil and religious liberty, the only principle or measure that can preserve and perpetuate our free and independent government. The right ol our citizens to employ ardent spirits in governing and controlling our elections and thus ruling the Legislature is not to be questioned, but the right of the citizens to throw off the. tyrany of alcohol and destroy his power over the freedom of elections, the freedom of ni-cutal and physical faculties is a dangerous privilege- which should never be exercised. Temperance is a subject that should never be brought, into politics, should not be legislated, .upon. This is your logic and that of your friends. The anti-temperance convention which met in this place a few weeks since, in which you took a prominent part and of which you were the ruling spirit, resolved that '•TEMPERANCE rs

A MORAL REFORM"

and

ehould be kept free from the party thrifts of the day. Now if this refcolvc be true, will you inform the world what part your distillery bears in pushing on this moral reform? and if distilleries are instruments and means of moral temperance reformations, can you tell us how many it will require to secure a triumph in Montgomery county and throughout the State of Indiana?

If yon are sincere in the expression or resolution that Temperance is a moral reform, if that it is a cherished principle of your platform, surely you will put forth efforts to secure its establishment and permanent triumph. But engaged as you arc in the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks, how would your moral lectures be received by those who indulge toa freely in their use If a neighbor were, to purchase at your establishment a gallon or a barrel, and drink until his brain reeled beneath the maddening draught, the evil passions of his heart were fully aroused and vented upon his innocent and sorrow stricken family, would he listen calmly and patiently to your admonitions against the use of ardent spirits Would he not indignantly turn and charge, you with mocking his weakness and Lis crime Would he noi say, Sir you have manufactured this destroying element. You have furnished the material which has wrought this debasing, this damning influence on my mind and body. You have presented the accursed tempter's cup to my lips, knowing my thirst for the intoxicating bowl -and its controlling power over me. You have thrown around me mighty temptations, then cooly tell aic to resist. Sir, your counsels are worse than mocker}, your business deprives them of power destroy your distillery, cease the manufacture and distribution of the liquid poison you now see coursing in maddening currents through my veins, then may you speak with consistency, yea with power and effect of the evils of intemperance and the necessity of

moral reform An individual who bad for some years indulged freely in the use of strong drink, but had abstained for gome months, was tempted on a cer­

tain occasion to partake of some cogniac brandy, but having experienced its fearful power Hius replied: "No, it will not do to tamper with the lion or play with edged tools. To drink or not to drink, that's the question. Whether like a man I will wrestle against temptation or turn once more to death and ruin. Oh thou accursed begetter of ten thousand furious passions! thou deadly anodyne to all the noble feelings of man's nature enticer to all the horrors of poluted fancy! engenderer of vice, and all the catalogue of evils to which the soul is subject Oh how I have loved thee, thou damnable drug! how blindly have I devoted

all to thy service—to thy infernal influence wife, children, and friends have all been surrendered without one effort, one solitary reservation. I have served thee with a blind zeal and never flinching devotion but I renounce the forever. I will not yield myself a victim to thy dominion again. Oh we must struggle for the mastery Lie there, thou fell destroyer begone, I will not taste thee, thou beverage of hell!" Should not the strong arm of the law be brought to bear on an agent possessing such mighty powers, exerting an influence so terrible, and producing a slavery so abject and cruel, and yet wearing the appearance and claiming the glorious prerogatives of an angel of light?

But wherefore, at this late day, object to the constitutionality and policy ol legislating on this important subject? Has it not been a subject of legislation in our councils both state and national from their earliest existence? The Congress of the United States has passed a strong law prohibiting the sale of liquor to any of the Indian tribes. They perceived that strong drink made even the wild Indian more savage in his nature, more brutal in his propensities, and enabled the dishonest agent to swindle him of all his effects.

The laws of all slaveholding States positively prohibit the sale of liquors to the slave population, and those who violate these laws are visited with heavy penalties and yet none of these laws have been pronounced unconstitutional, and all have received the hearty sanction of the American people. If then our national government may protect the Indian and the southern Slates their slaves from the debasing powers of alchohol, surely it becomes the voters of the free States of the north to protect their wives, their sons and their daughters from the same destroying element.

Intending to continue, I remain, Very Truly, T. W. FRY.

CCPThe excitement in the city ol Louisville resulting from the acquital of Matt. Ward, the murderer of Mr. Butler, is mnre intense than ever before witnessed in that city.

Malt Ward, the cool, the deliberate, the willful murderer, has been acquitted—tried and acquitted in a Court of Justice. When men like Ward, whose skirts are red with the blood ot their murdered victims, can go unpunished, why the necessity of going through a formal trial? why tax the people for sustaining institutions which are but the mockery of justice? Why aits the judge on the bench, why is thejury empannelled, why do the lawyers plead and explain the great principles of law?— Guilt still goes unpunished, and innocence suffers. Money is becoming stronger than justice, the pride of station more powerful than the courts of liw Truth, fact3, and testimony are thrust aside, the spirit of justice taken its flight, and nothing remains but cold, dead, heartless formality.— It would seem that our courts of law once regarded as the consccrated shield innocence and right, have now extended iaCir protective aegis over the murderer's heau, and became the guardian angel of the moat daring miscreants. A change in the spirit of legal proceedings is loudly demanded.

Tippletonia,

Is an allegory on the subject of Temperance representee to the inebriate as passing through the country of Tippletonia, which is treated of historically, geographically, politically and morally. There is a map of the country, through which is rushing one broad Btream, into which all others flow, and on which are various points, stations and towns with appropriate names. It is original in its conception, written in good style and our readers will find it entertaining and instructive written by one who has been there. To be had at the Drug Store of T. D.

BROWN,

price 25 cts.

But a few copies left.

Anti-Maine Law Meeting. We notice a solitary handbill with the above title, posted in town, which concludes with the following brilliant passage:

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All party politics and political considerations will be laid aside for the COMMON CAUSE against the common enemy, who are now in the field, assisted by all the white cravat aristocracy and silk-gloved gentry, who have a disposition to trample all conscientious rights beneath their unhallowed feel

Oh, kiud reader, what sort of a meeting is that to be? with neither party nor political ends in view and then all who wear white cravats or silk gloves areenti rely excluded.— Kid gloves, rich silk, satins, and shining, glistening cloth, velvet vests & other etceteras, may be sported. But white cravats and silk gloves have no place there and then what are the "conscientious rights to be trampled beneath the unhallowed feet" of those who thus attire themselves. Oh. it is the glorious, the blessed, the constitutional, the divine rights of making, selling, and drinking brandy, rum & whiskey.

These are the 'conscientious rights' written boldly across the proud flag of the stars and stripes that beautiful banner thus inscribed, placed in the beak of the American Eagle, whose broad and sweeping wing bears him athwart the skies, screaming as he goes: 'Whiskey and Liberty, one and inseperable now and forever. "Oh, SaJictissima Verba! Oh, Temporal Oh, Mores!"

The Indiana Journal.

The Indiana Daily Journal has been recently greatiy enlarged, and is now under the editorial care of J. D. Defrees, and B. R. Sulgrove, formerly of the Chanticleer.

The Journal is now edited and published in a style commensurate with the great principles it advocates. It is the largest daily in the State, & occupies the most important position.

Sweet Potatoe Plants.

Mr. Smock, in the south part of to^n, has on hand a large supply of line Sweet Potatoe plants, which will be ready for transplanting the first of next week.

OCr* Putnam's Monthly, for May, has been received, and is, as usual, filled with pleasing and interesting matter. The latest competitor in the field of Magazine literature, is rapidly gaining for itself a high reputation.

DC/3We have received the Eclectic Medical Journal for May. This work is exclusively devoted to the advocacy of the Eclectic School of Medicine.

[Hf'There is more improvement going on in this place the present, than an}r previous season for many years. The houses being built are more comfortable and substantial, & give better evidence of general prosperity.

Agricultural Society.

At the regular quarterly meeting of the Montgomery County Agricultural Society, held on the Gth day of May, 1854, the following named persons were unanimously elected officers of said Society for the the ensuing year, namely:

PRESIDENT—Jeremiah

B. Dunham

Vice Presidents— M. D. Manson, John Allen & John S. Beasly. RECORDING SECRETARY S am 1 Austin Corresponding Secretary— R. T. Brown Treasurer—Francis H. Fry Executive Committee—T. W. Fry, Preston McCormick, Wm. McCray, T. II. Fitzgerald, Richard Canine. J. E. McDonald, James P. Watson, Wm. Hanna, Alex. Harper, Hudson Middleton & Elijah O Neal.

The Executive Committee were instructed to meet on some day to be by them appointed, prior to the next quarterly meeting, and make all necessary arrangements lor holding the next County Fair also to make out a list oT premiums to be awarded at said Fair, ana ^ibmit the same to the next quarterly meeting .for consideration, which will be held at the- Court House on the last Saturday in JuJj, next. Said Committee will also meet on the last Saturday in May, to settle with the Treasurer and audi! the accounts of last year. Every person who considers himself interested in the Society, is requested to act as agent for soliciting funds for the Societs. Price of membership, one dollar.

SAMUEL AUSTIN, Sec'ty.

DCrThe Small-pox is prevailing to a considerable extent in Michigan, and in northern Indiana. At Lansing, the capital of Michigan, there are said to be over one hundred cases. Several deaths have occurred.

THE CRAW^RDSVILLE, FRANKFORT, KOKOMO & FT. WAYNE

R. R.—When

the Directors of this road propose to receive stock in the New Albany & Salem Road at par with 7 per cent interest from the time of transfer, we thought the requisite amount of subscription could be easily obtained.— We admit the liberality of the proposition and the importance ot the road. They premise that with the same capital two important roads may be built, thus greatly adding to our commercial facilities and giving us command of a greater number of markets. It is also known that unless we move and act promptly and liberally in this matter, another road running near us will be built, seriously injuring our trade, and yet there is an unaccountable backwardness in transfering stock, an indifference manifested which are at war with our best interest. In these roads the farmers are especially interested, for they more than any other class, reap the benefits of rail roads the.y are the men who gather the richest harvests, and yet they are slow to assist. Wc make the statement with reluctance, but truth demands that it sho'd be made. If the people of our town and county desire the road, now is the time to act the terms are ea^y.— Come up to the work promptly, come with liberal hearts and open hands, and the road will be built. The increased value of your agricultural productions will far out ballance the dividends on your stock in the New Albany & Salem Rail Road.

Franconia's Ilippodrome. An exhibition of this company will come off in this place on We dnesday next, 17th inst., From the notices we see given of their performances, trained animals, &c., through our exchanges, we ehould judge this entertainment would be quite as interesting if not more so, than any thing of the kind, that has visited our town, for some years past. Read advertisement which appears in another column of to-days paper.—*

OCrThanks to the Hon. S. M.Parker, D, Mace, and Senators Pettit fc Douglas, for public documents.

Proceedings of the Temperance Convention at Alamo. The Convention met at Alamo pursuant to previous announcement in the public journals of the county.

Dr. R. T. Brown was called to the chair and Joseph A. Gilkey appointed secretary. Whereupon the Dc. rose and briefly stated the object of the meeting. It was then moved that a vigilance committee be appointed to transact such township business as generally devolves upon such committee, after which Mr. Brown explained their duty in a very forcible manner. ,r

The following very ardent and tried friends of temperance were appointed T. Elmore D. Shular, A. O'Neal, W. Gilkey and II. Powell.

The president then appointed J. A. Gilkey, A. McKinsy and F. M. Black, a committee to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the convention, and was directed to report at the afternoon session. Some other preliminary business was transacted vvhea the regular exercises of the meeting Was opened by a very impressive and appropriate prayer by the Rev. David Shular.

Mr. R. T. Brown was then loudly called upon to address the meeting whereupon he took the stand and held that crowded audience chained by the power of bis eloquence for the space of an hour and a half.

Mr. Scott of Tippecanoe co., then arose and addressed the meeting, in a very appropriate manner. With song and benediction the meeting closed, to meet again at 2 o'clock.

At the appointed hour that large and commodious M. E. Church, was crowded to overflowing, with anxious hearts, good friends of temperance, lovers of humanity, and the Ladies, God bless them, they who are first and foremost in every good cause, made up a goodly number of that vast assembly. The meeting was again addressed by friends Taylor, & Scott, when the committee on resolutions reported the following:

WHEREAS,

Intemperance is the

scourge of our land—the fountain of crime—the source of untold social and political evils—the ever present foe of human happiness, invading alike the cottage of the poor and the princely home of the wealthy robbing the Pulpit, the Bar, the Bench and the Forum of their brightest ornaments, and by corrupting the purity of the Elective Franchise, endangering the stability* if °t the very existence of our free institutions. Therefore, it becomes the duty alike of the Patriot, the Philanthropist and the Christian, to unite their efforts to accomplish its utter overthrow.

Resolved, That the manufacture and the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, stand as the fountain of the great vice of Intemperance, and open the streams that are sweeping thousands and tens of thousands to destruction—that the great army of drunkards that now disgrace our land, are the legitimate fruits of fraoh business,

and a living exhibition of the character of its deeds. Resolved, That from the efforts heretofore exerted—unparalleled in the history of any moral reformation —we had hoped tha\ a blow had been given to intemperance which would have postrated it forever. But to counteract all the moral force which has been brought to bear upon it, upon almost every street, highway and byeway, throughout our State, stand the rallying points of intemperance, claiming and receiving protection from the law. A law which we believe to be not only at war with the best interest of the people but contrary to the express provision of the Constitution of our State, which enjoins upon the General Assembly to encourage, by all suitable means, moral and intellectual improvement, and wholly in opposition to the wishes of a large majority of the people of the State.

Resolved, That as no Government can give, and no man can have a right to do wrong, we blieve the time has now come when we should demand from our Legislature a law prohibiting the manufacture and sale, as a beverage, of intoxicating drinks.

Resolved, That no prohibitory law will satisfy the Temperance senti ment of this township which does not contain the principles ol seizure, confiscation and destruction of Liquors kept for illegal sale.

Resolved, That the principles for which we contend, are, and have been recognized by all civilized Governments, as well as by the Divine Government, as fundamental to the existence and well being of society.

Resolved, That, attached as we are to put respective political parties, we have no disposition to interfere with their organization but, we distinctly declare, that we will not vote for any candidate for the Legislature of any party who is not fully committed in favor of the principles avowed in the preceeding resolutions.

Resolved, That the preamble adopted at the Alamo Anti Maine Lawmeeting contains statements in regard to the Sons of Temperance and the various Temperance organizations, which are false.

Resolved, That such conventions, are calculated to build up and perpetrate the traffic in intoxicating liquors and are justly chargeable wilh a partnership in the evils arising therci'rom.

Resolved, That Ripley township stands pledged for her portion of the funds pledged by our county delegates to the state Temperance convention.

Resolved, Thai the friends of temperance of Ripley townc-hip are enlisted "during the war," and will "fight on fight ever" until victory shall perch upon our banner.

Resolved, That the vigilance committee be instructed to use every exertion to get up organizations in every school district throughout ihe township.

After the resolutions were adopted Mr. A. McKinsey was appointed marshal of the day, whereupon the ladies and gentlemen of the convention took up the line of march for the supper, passing through the central part of town, surprising the antics, on their route making them feel that temperance men are in earnest that they are "bound to conquer or to fall no they are bound to conquer and not to fall.

The supper was a brilliant affair.For variety, for plentifullness, for the neatness and good taste in which it was gotten up, it undoubtedly stands unparalleled in the history of temperance suppers or any thing of the kind. Hundreds feasted on the rich and luxuriant delicacies spread for them by the Ladies of Alamo and vicinity, and hundreds more might have satisfied their appetite from that bountifully ladened table had they been present.

At candle lighting the meeting was addressed by Dr. Berry of Middletown in a most glowing and convincing style. Such brilliant flights of eloquence as came from our young and ardent friend should occupy the first pages of American oratory.

Mr. Scott briefly spoke but his remarks need no eulogy, they told for themselves.

J. A. Gilkey then presented the following resolutions which were adopted.

Resolved, That this convention tender a vote of thanks to the Ladies of Alamo and vicinity, for their unwavering perseverence and energy in preparing the sumptous repast of which we have just partaken.

Resolved, That our warmest thanks are due Messrs. Brown, Berry, Scott, and others for their eloquence and praise worthy effort in addressing us.

Resolved, That every good friend of temperance in Ripley Township consider himself a delegate to our county convention which will be held in a few weeks.

Resolved, That the proceedings together with the resolutions of this meeting be published in the Locomotive, Journal, and Review.

During the Sabbath the peoplewere addressed by Prof.

W,

C. Twin­

ing in a very appropriate and becoming style. His discourse evinced the most invincible argument in favor of Temperance and a law prohibiting the traffic and use of ardent spirits. Thus closed one of the most memoriable and goodly meetings ever held in Montgomery county, thus vvhere the platform of whiskey had its origin where it first spread its dark wings, the pure, the bright, the spot­

less banner of temperance is unfurling its folds to the breeze and hundreds are rallying around it as the star of their hope.

ALAMO

April 29th, 1854.

Three days later from hurope. Arrival of the Steamer Africa. NEW YORK,

May 5.

The steamer Africa, with advices from Liverpool to Saturday, the 22d, ult., arrived at this port last night.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

The latest advices from the north and east contain but little new or interesting in regard to the war, or that would change the aspect of affairs reported by the Pacific.

Austria and Prussia have at length signed a treaty which both powers have been so long negotiating in reference to.

The weather in England had become very favorable for vegetation, with abundnnt rains.

Richardson & brothers,who are the agents for the steamer City ot Glasgow, say they are not afraid of the steamer being lost, as she was perfectly efficient had water for forty days, with a distilling aparatut provisions fur G5 days, and coals for 2G drtVH for 373 passengers.

The treaty is closed and the alliance ratified between France and England.

The expulsion of the Greeks from Turkey is being rigorously enforced. The insurrection now assumes the shape of a guerilla warfare.

Lord Strafford has published a strong manifesto against the Greek Government for favoring the insurrection.

A massacre of Greeks by the Turks at Vato is reported, but it is doubted. The accounts are still vague respecting the occupation of Servia by Austria.

Prince Daniel is reported to have summoned the Montenegriansto arms against the Turks.

The campaign in Asia was expected to be opened by the middle of April.

Nothing of importance from France and England. The latest telegraph advices from Vienna and Paris, say there were new rumors of a Prussian mediation.

Advices

from Berlin, dated Friday,

the 21st, by telegraph, state that an alliance offensive and defensive, was signed the day previous between Prussia and Austria.

A dispatch from Omer Pascha confirms the previous accounts that the Turks were three times successful against the superior forces at the passage of the Danube but retreated in obedience to orders.

The St. Petersburgh papers contain a manifesto in reply to the English and French declaration of war. It endeavors to throw the respcnsibilty of war wholly upon France and England.

The advices from Copenhagen state that Sweden has positively entered into a secret treaty with Russia, by which an absolute enactment, forbidding more than four ships belonging to a foreign power, to enlt a harbor at Mecca, has been recived, and the same law extended to Norway.

Mr. Soule, it is reported, was still enforcing the Black Warrior affair on the attention of the Spanish government.

A Spanish decree is published to register all the slaves in Cuba. At the instance of Great Britain, Sardina and Holland repudiate privateering.

The ice in the gulf of Finland had generally broken up. WASHINGTON, ?«Iay 3.—SENATE—Mr. Geyer presented a petition from the Jews in Missouri, in favor of securing religious freedom for American citizens in foreign countries.

The Senate resumed the consideration of the Indian Appropriation Bill.

A message was received from the President, vetoing the bill granting land for the indigent and insane.

Mr. Brown made a speech in favor of the bill, and in answer to the argument of the President. \HOUSE.—Petitions were received from Boston, in favor of establishing floating schools for the education and training of seamen.

The House went into Committee on the bill to establish a land office and a Surveyor General in New Mexco, and to grant land to actual settlers in that territory.

Mr. Dinsey offered an amendment, altering the second section of the bill, so as to read, that grants shall be given to every white man over twenone years of age, who may have declared his intention to become a citizen.

Gerrit Smith objected to the word 'white.'

War in New Mcxieo..

INDEPENDENCE, April 26.—I send you some further details of the recent difficulties in New Mexico, though they are not so ample as I would like.

On the Cth March, there was a fight between Lt. Beale, in command of thirty dragoon, and a party of Jicarilla Indians. Six of the Indians were killed, and two of the soldiers. The Indians for the first time were whipped.

On the 26th of

March,the

soldiers,

30 in number, were outdone- [Probably defeated.) On the 30th of March, Company I of the dragoons, sixty in number, under the command of Lieut. J. W. Davidson, met tho Apaches, to the

number of 250 warriors, 15 rnilea east of the Seneguilla, near the foot of the mountain, and on the road from Toas to Santa Fe. The battle was a sanguinary one. Thirty-five of the troops are reported to have been killed, and seventeen wounded.

Only eight of the whole number escaped without being injured.— Lieut. Davidson, in command, and Dr. Magruder, were slightly wounded the first sergeant was killed.

The loss on the part of the Indians is said to have been very great. Fifty horses belonging to the dragoons, all the Colt revolvors and carbines, fell into possession of the Indians.

A large force under command of Col. Cooke, of the 2d dragoons, were out in pursuit of the enemy when the mail left, but it is said to be understood that they are not so easily intimidated now, and they say they are ready to meet the troops. We fear we shall receive further news of a similar tenor to the above.

Twenty men of Major Carleton'a company of dragoons have deserted from Fort Albunquerque, taking with them two horses apiece, all the Colt revolvers, and a six mule team loaded with provisions. The}* were headed by the first sergeant of the company.

The Indians who killed foci? of their number for witchcraft were being tried in U. S District Court at SantaFe.

Homicide.

A desperate fight took place on tho canal packet Northern Indiana, near Lockport, day before yesterday. The parties were two men of the same name, Allen and George Wood. Allen was the aggressor. He came ahoard the boat, accompanied by a number of friends, with the avowed intention of whipping George. When he entered the cabin George wa? setting at the table, and before he could rise from his scat was attacked by Allen and one of hi* friends. Ho managed to strike Allen a severe blow, when Allen drew a knife and attempted to cut him. At this point George retreated a few paces and snatching a large carving knife from the table, warded off' the thrusts of Allen, at the same time retreating towards the Ladies' Cabin. Allen closely followed, cutting at him with the knife, until they reached the further extremity of the cabin, when George stabbed him with the carver, causing his death in a very few minutes. The boat was completely riddled with missiles thrown by th« friends of Allen who were on the shore. Several ladies and children were at the table and in the cabin, but none of them were injured in the affray. George immediately gave himself up. As the deed was an act of self-defence, we presume he will be acquitted.—Lnf. Jour., 28ih.

A Terrible Death.

A master bricklayer, attached to the Stanton Iron Works, in South Derbyshire, England, while effecting some repairs upon the wall of a furnace, was precipitated from his position by the giving away of some bricks, into the midst of a mass of molton led. The operatives who saw him stooping with his hands and feet in the red hot metal, could do nothing more than pour vast quantities of water upon the fire and upon the person of their unfortunate fel-low-workman. When the heat of the furnace was somewhat subsided, so as to allow of access to the body, all that couid be found of the remains was a single shrivelled fragment of the trunk, two or three feet in length.

Loss of the Caloric Ship Ericsson.

NEW ORK,

April 28.—The Caloric

Ship Ericsson capsized last evening on the Jersey Flats, in a squall she went down in twenty fathoms water. It is thought that all on board were saved, as there were two steamers and four schooners by at the time, which were also much damaged. A sail boat was capsized at the same time, and four men on board of her saved themselves by clinging to the bottom of the boat.

The squall is represented as tremendous while it lasted.

SINGULAR.—We

yesterday saw a

five dollar note purporting to be on the "Bank of Kalamazoo," and dated at Albion, Indiana. What struck ua as singular was that the gentlemen whose names appear as President and Cashier were, as late as a day or two since, residents of this State! The engraved head of Gen. Cass appears on one side of the note, and that of ex-Governor Ransom on the other.— We protest against the use of tho countenances of these well known locofocos for any such purpose.—Detroit Free Press.

EVANSVILLE

&

CRAWFORDSVILLE R. R.

—The last Vincennes contains the following in relation to the abovo road:

We have the satisfaction of informing our readers that all the iron for this road from Vincennes to Ter-re-Haute has been purchased and will be delivered at an early day, in time to have the entire road finished to Terre-Haute some time during the approachiug fall.

The receipts ot the road for the last six months amount to $28,87472.

OO^The new College building is now in progress of erection, & when finished, will be an ornament to tho town.