Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 August 1854 — Page 2
THE JOURNAL.
T. W. FRY, Editor.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.
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PEOPLES' TICKET.
SKORETARV OF STATE,
E. B. COLLINS, of Dearborn eountv.
ArniTon OF STATE,
TREASURER OF STATE, |.
WILLIAM R. NOFS1NGER, of Parke co. I gentlemanly,
SLTEKINTENDE.NT OF COMMON SCHOOLS, PROF. CALEB MILLS, of Montgomery co.
PROHIBITION TICKET
FOR REPRESENTATIVE,
W. E. BERRY, of Wayno township.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
WM. MULLIK1N, of Brown township.
FOR TREASURER,
JOHN R. COONS, of Brown township.
FOR SHERIFF,
•W. IT. SCHOOLER, of Inion township.
FOR UNION TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR, •C. E. VANARSDALL, of Crawfordsville.
ABOLITION.
There improbably no term in the English language more freely used at the present time than that of Abolition used too with
out a knowledge of its meaning, indiscreetly, indiscriminately and without proper application. Its use is principally confined to the Oi.n LINERS who were once conncct-
ed with the Democratic party. Webster defines Abolition, "as the act
?.of abolishing or state of being abolished an annulling abrogation utter destruction
a
lilt.,, tu.Muin. uuuis. lilt pmuiij, .mum
S la very in the United States, with the view
men should be judged of by their voting more than by their profession. Now it is
true that these men who are so ready to ^charge Abolition upon others, have themselves advocated and voted for the most tiltra abolitionism. They have advocated
the removal of the Seat of Government from the District unless Congress would abolish Slavery. They have voted for the Abolition of Slavery in all Territory be
longing to the United States. They voted fur the Wilmot Proviso. They voted to .'•forbid any Slave State from coming into the Union. Yes, in this matter "they would go one step farther than the farthest." •They were more ultra than the ultra Aboli
tionists, and yet professed to be Jetl'ersoninn Democrats. At the present they repudi
ate their old doctrines and still profess Jef-
fereonian Democracy. If Jcflfersonian Democrats then, they cannot be now.— They were Abolitionists then. What are they now? If honest then, how stands the
matter now? One year Abolitionists, the next year pro-slavery! They are now in favor of abolishing the line which Jefferson anil other Fathers of the Republic established, North of which the tide of slavery should never flow. They are in favor of abolishing the principles they once advocated. At one time, if Abolition is popular they claim it as a pure and peculiar doc
trine of Old Line Democracy. At another, if they deem it unpopular, they dash it from them as worthless and dangerous. They rlook not at the correctness of principle, but its effect in advancing their party organization. Truth compells us to say that the
most ultra abolitionists of this county will not vote the People's ticket.
Another Argument in favor of the Traffic. The Temperance men of Wayne township had an appointment for a Temperance meeting on Sunday last, on the farm ol the
Rev. James Gray, had erected a speakers stand and arranged seats for the accommodation of the ladies. On Saturday night some -of those recently aicalcened Sabbath loving patriots, fearing that that holy day
might be desecrated by persuading men .to avoid the evils of dram drinking, stealthily, in the darkness and under cover of the night, when no eye but that of Jehovah rested upon them, and with incendiary hand
applied the torch to stand and seats and
consumed them to ashes. We know that there are many honorable
anti-Tempcrance
to slavery emancipation." But the term I cold water to a gray headed I athcr whose
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of exciting prejudice and passion, without pray for one drop of water to cool their I
regard to truth or justice. In two senses parching tongues. Refuse a cup of water of the word, the people are abolitionist.-,, "to a fellow-man Where shall we lind a
they intend to abolish the remnant orgauiz-: parallel in bitterness? Refuse a cup of tion of Old Liners, who were once connect- water to a stranger W beg oi Mr. Lllsed with the democratic party, and they in- worth, when speaking of it through the tend, by reason, argument and votes, to State, to let it bo known as the ripened abolish the liquor traffic and all concomi- f'ruit of the liquor traffic in Moiitgumcr
tant evils. As to the abolition of slavery, county. Refuse a cup ot water to (hose
men who would scom
sHch littleness and such meanness, still they .should reflect that in sustaining the liquor traffic they sustain that which leads to stic-H
littleness and meanness, and which never ennobles or elevates man in the scale of moral or intellectual worth. Those men
should at once free themselves from such responsibilities. *P'
Still another Liquor Argument. On Monday last, Mr. Ellsworth had an appointment at Thompsons's Chapel, foi the purpose of addressing the people on I the subject of Temperance. The place of meeting was in that portion of the county known as "Brittle Eridge.VAt the ap
pointed hour Mr. Ellsworth, Father A,is-
tin ami other*, promxl,,! to tho Chapel,!
One square of-12 lines or less, three weeks $1. were present for the purpose of distu'-10hi-i°/.a &rr0o8"cl'v for the price of this world, Each additional insertion, 25 cents. ti,„ I
One column per annum. §25.—Half column,! ^ctin0 and pit tilting others Irom the pitiful sum of one dime he furnished the TnVXiion
lUKl 10 heann what Mr
tor been intendim
k}
I made.
•••. have greeted him with a hearty welcome, I ana the temperance men would have been
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.TtTDOE OF THE SUVIIEME COURT. LI I SAMUEL B. GOOIvINS, of Yigo co. committed an act so contemj)tible, so revolting to all sense of propriety and so in accordance with the base passions of degenerate men.
as applied to the People's Party is intended life has been spent for the good of his fel- But 1 have no doubt God Almighpj was feel-
to convoy the idea of a forcible abolition of low-men Such persons should tremble ing for him /"—State Sentinel.
county. Refuse a who would befriend them 'Tis the eonsumation of those passions inspired Instrong drink.
Will hiirh minded and honorable men
the poison of Asps.
j?2rLi the regular reported proceedings
of the Alamo meeting held July '22, published in the Review, the following resolu
tion does not appear, but is placed in small type on another page, just above the Crawfordsville price current: i£3rAt a meeting held at Alamo, July 22, it was unanimously
RESOLVED, That we will unite as Democrats and as Whigs in oj^ppsition to the Maine law, or any Law, embracing lis anti Republican Principles—at the County Convention to be held on the 5th day of August 1S54. JOIIN BRITTON, Pres.
We ai'C informed that it is not published as it was originally passed. The words "irrespective of party" being left out, giving it a signification not intended or under
stood by the Alamo men. This is a trick of the "old livers" to deceive the friends of the Alamo platform, hence its isolated and obscure insertion, separate and apart from the regular proceedings. Tho Old Liners are bent upon having their own way by trick or treason. Whigs, beware AntiNebraska men, look out 1 Your old enemy seek your votes and will then laugh you to scorn.
SUICIDE.—A prisoner confined in the jail at this place, cut his throat on Tuesday morning last, causing death in a short time. He was in prison for killing his wife, near Attica, in a drunken row a few days since.
Covington Friend. While publishing such facts as the legitimate result of the liquor traffic, murder of the most atrocious character .and suicide, the editor..,of the Friend yet sustains the traffic. The probability is the man had not taken more than a pint or a quart of
liquor. We appeal to the judgment and
but to their utter astonishment, a large tures all tb^ js "loathsome and disgusting number of the citizens opposed to the cause P'Ofr.nity, babbling vulgarity and Sabof temperance, good order and sobriety, I ^-ii-bieaking. 1 would not be the owner
J^l^-Oith
1 11 11 fc X* 11 vl 1 I III S I *1*1*4
ii I II I I I 1 I I I W II 4 a ii I
high-minded, posscss-
ed of too much respect for decencv or law
Such conduct, as was exhibited by these disturbers of the peace, is not the result of reason, of enlightened conscience, or of ele
vated moral principle: it is the legitimate offspring of tho liquor traffic it was the
territory. The liberties and privileges of this land of the free were exalted to the skies. It seems however that they regard the liberty of drinking whisky and disturb-
abolition of laws, ordinances, where such an act, where such meanness
rite* customs debts The puttiiv an end would have been donefefS Refuse a eup ofj,
anec men, yea refused Father Austin a drink on our table. Why does he not do it
of cold water. We venture there is not Simply from the fact that no such resolu-
conscience of every thinking man and ask Allgugt
vvould it not have been better to have seized
and destroyed the liquor drank by the mur-
dercr, than for him to havc taken it, murdered his wife and then murdered himself?
Temperance men say better destroy the liquor than that one quart should instigate two murders. What say the Antics
What savs the Friend?, Wc commend to the House!
the special attention of those who .sustain
the traffic, knowing its results, to the following forcible language of Gov. Johnson, of Georgia. While on the bench it became his painful duty to pronounce the sentence of death upon a man who committed murder in a dram shop while under the influence of liquor "Nor shall the place be forgotten in which thi.s shedding of blood occurred. It was one of the Ante-Chambers of hell which mar, like plague spots, the fair face of outState. You need not be told that 1" mean
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t'PPling-shop—the meeting-place of
t'*
,, .. spontaneous ^^neration breeds and nur-
wc,'°
to speak in favor
ol
whi-l-v Ji- ii-i- tralhc is tolerated by law. and therefore the
drinking, „rg-
mg Uien to indulge as their appetites might nizable by earthly tribunals. But in the dictate, no disturbance would have been sight of Him who is unerring in wisdom, The anti-temperance men would ',1C
.foul1c0ssI001 lvl,1:h
converted into precious ore. For
had to say on poison which made tho deceased a fool, and
t»c iiupoitant su"",ect. Had the Hon On-1 converted, this culprit into a demon. How
~W
Pal^y pay for two hunian lives This
vcni,0|. has
:.01,lvil
w5l°
ttj0(1 M1 om,„cc not
deliberately furnishes the intoxica-
ting draught which inflames man to anger and blood:,lied, is particcps criminis in the turpitude of the deed. Is it not high time that these sinks of vice and crime should
itSpMr. JOHN LEE says he has nothing to take back of the contents of his letter to the Banner of Liberty. Just as the man
who said the horse was sixteen feet, high, he would stick to it, and if need be swear to it
Mr. Lee
inspiration of the alcoholic beverage, the great case, provided he furnishes the rcsoludrinking of which some men seem to re- ions which he says were passed "as it were." gard as the only and peculiar birthright of He says we have misrepresented him.— American freemen. Reader, judge for yourself —Ave have pub-
On the 1' ourtli of July last, there was lished his letter verbatim ct literatim, side a vory patriotic and national celebration of! by side, on the same page with our com- faithful to spread the news. Well, the day, the glorious day in this same Bristle Ridge inent. Our quotations from him are in his ^10 eventful day came round when we were
own language. But those "act it were" resolutions must
be produced or the brand will rest upon bun. If passed "as it were," then they
ing orderly meetings the only principle in- were published "as it wore," and Mr. Lee ^»ring the morning near noon one solitary vol veil in Ameiiean freedom. has them in possession or he could not have two-horse buggy came from towards CrawWe must not refrain from stating the known enough to write them out. A very fordsville, containing Messrs. Wallace, Lee, fact that they would not allow the temper-| short walk would enable him to lav them
anotlier place in the county, not another in lions were ever passed "as it were" or in tie ashamed. the State, Rot another on this broad conti- any other way. Tho whole thing is simplv Alter dinner the village folks and a lew nent, not another in the wide, wide wcrld and absolutely false. i"roni ^'e country who by this time had
1,1, ii ii .n,,! reived your hitter of the 10th inst., spooe liekt rigidly accountable to the Luvs !i-m, vn„,. u- I 1 1 a a -7
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havc
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lest the day should come in which they may Pretty language to be used, (especially pointing Jacob Bos.sort, Esq., Secretary,
boon opened 1 are told that there were many clergymen present participating in the proceedings. liether they relished the delicate sentiment of the speaker is more than we can say.— Covington Friend.
The Sentinel gives the above as an ex
tract from the speech of Col. H. S. LANE at the People's Convention. Ol course Cul. LANE said no such thing. 11 is were as follows
Too loilS has Col. LANE been a resident
of Indiana, too well is he known by her citizens to be injured by such attacks, come from what source tho\ may. MisrepiOaOntation is a fit weapon with which to sustain the odious traffic in alcoholic drinks. Defamation may do its mightiest work slan-
dors, mountain lii-d", may be heaped upon,
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supporting editors may luhninaio then* anathemas against those who condemn the traffic, yet will the cause of Temperance be onward and upward, yet will the people sustain it and bear it on to perfect triumph.
ggpWhigs of Montgomery, are you in favor of Whiskey and Slavery, or Freedom and Temperance Which of the two will secure the greatest good to the greatest number ..
Putnam's Monthly, for August, is on our table. Original, racy, American and national in its character, it deserves a liberal patronage from the American people.
To be had at Schooler's.
Agricultural Meeting.
The Quarterly Meeting of the Agricultural Society, will be held at the Court
HousC) Qn
yatimiay -0Gk, the 12th day of
at
time the Prudential Com-
mittoe win ropoi.t ]ifit 0f i1Cmiurns
the actLon of th(J Socie(y
The Mails.
Some of our exchanges and subscribers have recently encpiired of us, what has be
come of the Journal They do not receive it regularly for several weeks they have not had a number. The cause of this we arc unable to ascertain. The Journal is regularly mailed, and if they do not reach their destination the fault lies in our mail arrangements, of which much complaint
has been recently made. With the facilities lor transportation at tho present day, there is, there can be no excuse for this irregularity which exists to so great an extent. We have known letters to be from three days
to seven in reaching points not fifty miles distant, directly on the Rail Road. When such things occur it must result from pure carelessness. We know not who is to blame, but that it rests somewhere is very evident.
The following letter from I. Dickinson it Co., will show something about the mails in this region
LAFAYETTE, July 13, 1854.
Messrs. FRY IT KEENEY.—
understood attendance numbering some GO or 70
]us y0uglas house has been thunder- *. *,
at hollu
0
The newspapers inform us that the
newspapers intorm us tnai mo
A 1 a to a
cling to the support of a traffic which pro- recently been stricken by lightning. In! a pity it is, lac cause, whatever it duces such results? Can they sustain a view ol tho enormity of his offence he "ra be, exists, thai. ill place so piomising they cause which so debases and brutalizes the human mind It may do for demagogues and those who live upon the hard earnings of other men but the honorable, the pure, the good and the upright should turn their backs upon it and spurn it as they. .would
(Lane) did not wonder at it. Douglas was not, however, at home. No doubt the lightning was feeling for him, but did not find him." li really seems impossible for editors
who are supporting the liquor traffic, not I to misrepresent all men who speak on the subject of Temperance. The editor of the!
Sentinel knew full well that no such language was used by Col. LANE, and the editor of the Friend should have noticed the contradiction before reiterating and charg
ing blasphemy upon him. But the}* have neither argument nor facts to sustain their cause, and their only hope is to deface and blacken the character of those who oppose them, and thus strr up the prejudices of the people that they and their cause may profit it.
for
By order of tho President, JEREMIAH B. DURHAM.
it^Mr. Olds' bill to increXe%ie rates ol
postage on newspapers, has B^n killed in
Gentlemen
We received your despatches of the 11th Dii miacrauieand
12th
sume you have received. This evening we
°f J'-'y 10th. We have a rnr. ,l mail eom-
uilightened ami virtuous public opinion m.micatiou between CVawlbi-dsville and Lalayette. Yours, respectfully, I. DICKINSON & Co.
to receive our first impressions in the great contest now waging throughout our State. The day was very pleasant for the occasion, but no throng came, all was epiiet and still
au^
a's
I
pcisonS one-third being 1 rolubilory Law
1Ul-!1*
ng
nienibei of the church, as Mr. Lane Mr. Y\ allace, being called upon, addressed
by a member of the boasted he wis.) in a meeting tnat had just the company in his usual walk-about ntvie. rnyer to Aimiiihl Ood.
hiircli, as Mr. Lane Mr. Wallace, bem the company in
mst., and vesterdav stint vou a .... bundle of paper, by Express, which we pre- dethroned—anarchy and confusion run not
For the Journal.
DARLINGTON, July 31st, 1854.
Mr. EDITOR:—Having attended the "big doins" here on "Wednesday last, I conclu-
ettle the controversy with to gi\cyou a few items concerning the
samc, "nothing extenuating or setting down aught in malice." Posters, announcing the gathering with effective speakers, &c., etc., were duly received some days before, and were placed in the hands of some of the
some others, lesser lights, 1 suppose,
neither said or done anything that
could hear of, though they did look a lit-
come to town, adjourned to the grove, all
1 he meeting as oiganizcd by call-
Mi-. J. 1). Campbell to preside, and ap-
in a speech some two hours Ion maimer and matter according admirably.
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Supposing a brief synopsis would not be unacceptable, I present you wil.li some of bis positions 1 do so the more willingly
that the gentleman may have the benefit of all the popularity such sentiments as he advanced mav brine The el'i'urt made, ami 1"
tanieness of result, was a melancholy con
trast, and I could not resi. the idea, that
ho conlll do lcll,n.
adngs in a better cause.
a young man in such a fix.- •.
His first assumption was pictured with all the license of Poetry, anil wao unques
tionably received with the due quantum of allowance. It was this There had heretofore been two great parties in this Government—the Democratic and Vv big. llie I former still existed in all its pristine glory, —the latter was ruthlessly murdered and buried in Abolitionism. Wonder if he wasn't thinking just then of the mighty thrust he gave the "glorious old Whig jmrty," (his words) as he sank beneath the
murky wave of Loeofocoism in his "Fountain" baptism. He said II. S. Lane, Isaac Navlor, Dr. Fry and others of Crawfordsville had done the deed in Montgomery county, and manufactured from the remains a Prohibitory party which was now the antagonist of the Democracy. He spoke of the first having no principle but prohibition, while the latter advocated those great systems of State and National policy which was its wont. 1 expected to hear, in com
mon with tho audience, a serious uiSCHSMOTt
of the important political topics of the 'day.
lny
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the character of temperance orators, liquor v,!,..,.].,, v,.
Ilow sadly were we disappointed!
Not one word about JNebrasKa, Lyiiba, J."JX-
tension of Slavery, School Systems, or anything else, about which, we in Indiana feel particularly interested but lie proceeded to set up the Maine Law as the object of his ire, and with his keen glittering blade of reason demolished—himself. Would it not be well, Mr. Editor, for the Legislature to pass a law suppressing the sale of such books as "Don Quixote?" as I feel cpiite convinced they vitiate the judgment of some of our "smart young men." rendering them unable, justly, to estimate the relation between the ability to do and the thing to be done. Seriously, Mr. Wallace must assume correct!y if he desires his conclusions to produce conviction. lie could be guilty Of no greater folly than the assumption
that the Prohibitory men of Indiana desired to fasten the Maine Law or any other law, unconslituWbnal in its provisions, upon the State, for surely as upright, honest, and may I say as great men as he, (I will, but not in small matters,) are among those men who love their country and their country's honor full as well, verbum sat.
The two premises above spoken of were all that were made, and"being false it were
needless to follow him to his conclusion.
But two things were distinctly ascertained in the two hours speech 1st, His folly 2d, The main principle of the Democracy of this county, was a negative one, viz: Anti-Maine Lawism.
His sympathies, throughout, were feelingly expressed for the poor Distiller and his poor whiskey selling compeers, but not a word in behalf of their woe-stricken victims, the inebrial$flnd his family. Defenceless women and children had no sympathising advocate in him, only as wives and children of Distillers and whiskey sellers.
Is it because the one has money and the other none Strange, indeed, the infatuation, which can lead him to give his energies to so ignoble a cause.
Another genuflection to folly, was the declaration that lie "would rather see everv man in the land drunk from choice, than sober from compulsion." What is its equivalent? A drunken man has no respect for himself, his family and neighbors, law and order, or God. Read the equivalent: I would rather see man made a brute, his
learth-stone a hell—women and children I same at a price not exceeding §300,000, was agreed to. HOUSE.—MI*. Barksdale asked the con-
daw and order subverted—God
o'er the land,—than that man should be compelled by law to remain in a condition of usefulness as a citizen, husband and father. Could the Arch-fiend of Mobocraey give utterance to a sentiment more in unison with his purposes than the foregoing I trow not. How much of that fell spirit whose workings have been seen in various parts of the Union, and at divers times was fostered by the speech of Mr. Wallace, he and I may never know on earth, but the reckoning to which both must answer v.'ill fully show.
After Mr. Wallace had concluded, Rev. Mr. Smith was called for, who arose and commenced defining the position of the I prohibitionists, when Mr. Wallace requested him to desist, as they had a little business to perform, «fcc. Mr. Smith replied that he was called out by the audience and he would take his seat by the same command and not otherwise. There being no dissent
Mr. Smith proceeded to show the false positions assumed by Mr. Wallace, who exhibited by his looks that he had got more than was set down in the bills. After Mr. Smith concluded, the resolutions which you have no doubt seen were put to vote, and by the sound as many noes were heard as ayes, some say more, nevertheless they were
entered as passed. The whole affair was evidently a failure on the part of the Antics, and they felt it so. See the report of the meeting in the last Review. Prohibition men in this section will give a good account of themselves in October. DARLINGTON.
For the Journal.
There will be a Basket Temperance meeting held at Alamo on Saturday and Sur day, the 12th and 13th of August.
Many eminent and talented speakers will be on hand to address the meeting from
time to time. The meeting will commence at 10 o'clock on Saturday morning. It will beheld in a beautiful grove one-half mile cast of town.
It is hoped that every friend of Temperance will come up and assist in hurling back this deadliest enemy of the human race. Extensive preparations will be made to accommodate all who may lavoru* 'with their presence.
Bj- order of the Ripley Township C'onijiiitle. J. A. Gi.LivLi, Secy. Alamo, August 3d, 1S5-L
Doing's in Congress.
WASIIINCTON, July 20.—SENATE.—The consideration of the general appropriation bill was resumed.
The question pending being Mr. Hamlin's amendment, making the appropriations for Custom-houses and Post-offices at various points East and West and after some debate it was adopted. It makes appropriations for Custom-houses, and Post-offices at Cleveland and Sanduky, $40,000 in each case for Custom-houses, Post-offices and Court-houses at Wheeling, Chicago and Detroit, $88,000 each for a Marine hospital at New Orleans $48,000 and for one at Detroit, $75,000.
Various other amendments of no general intestest were adopted. HOUSE.—Mr. Letcher moved to suspend the rules to introduce a bill to repeal the Minnesota Railway bill lost. \oas 100, nays GO, not being a two*.Inird vote.
The house then went into Committee on the Navy Appropriation. Mr. Sellers moved an amendment that no seaman shall be enlisted who is not an American born citizen and that all commissioned and non-commissioned officers hereafter appointed, shall be native born, of which the parties so enlisted or appointed shall give satisfactory proof.
The chairman ruled the amendment out of order. Mr. Sellers then gave notice that he would offer a similar amendment to every bill introduced for the reorganization of tho Army and Navy.
The Committee then rose and reported tho bill to the House. The amendment offered by Mr. G. Smith, prohibiting intoxcating drinks in the Navy as a beverage bj either officers or men, was agreed to—yeas 84, nays 65.
The Vote was then reconsidered, and the amendment was rejected, by the casting vote of the Speaker. Some other amendments were made of no general importance and the bill then passed.
Mr. Singleton asked that the rules be suspended to enable him to intioduce a resolution asking the President to inform the House whether, as indicated in his message-of last March, lie still thinks it desirable that measures bo taken to enable him to protect, vindicate and secure the material rights of American citizens, -or whether the pending negotiations with Spain has removed the neceessity for such measures this motion was rejected \cas 56, nays 106.
The Senate bill regulating the pay, and
increasing the efficiency of the army, was taken up, and after a short debate the House adjourned..
WASHINGTON,July27.—SENATE.—After a long debate on the General appropriation bill, an amendment was adopted, increasing the salaries of the ministers to to France and England to $15,000 per annum, without the usual outfit, heretofore allowed. An amendment increasing the salaries of clerks in the Mint, and officers of the Treasury Department, was also adopted, and the bill was then passed— veas 25, nays 16.
Hot.-
After a long debate, the clause!
increasing the pay of commissioned officers of$ie Army was stricken out, and without concluding, the committee arose and the House adjourned.
WAKHINOTON July 27.—SENATE.—The general appropriation bill was taken up. Propositions to increase the salaries of the Clerks in the State Department and "in the Coast Survey Office, were agreed to.
An amendment, providing for the appointment of a Conimisioner to examine into, and report upon the value of the Hudson Bay Company, in Washington Territory, and authorizing the President to pur-
sent of tne IIousc to introduce a resolution appropriating, in view of onr illations with Spain, ten Million dollars, to be set anido and used by the President during the recess of Congress, if necessary, cither in negotiating or otherwise, to provide against the threatened injury, to the interests of the from Odessa toward Sevastopol. United States, or in such proportions as in The cholera had broken out on his judgement may be necessary to insure the observance of our just rights, to obtain redress for injuries reccJiveil, and to vindi-
The House resumed the consideration of the bill regulating the pay, and increasing the efficiency of the army.
WASHINGTON, July 28.—SKNATE.—Mr. Pcarce called for information respecting the burning of San Juan, by Captain Hollins, which was agreed to.
Mr. Mason moved that the Scnats go into executive session. Lost. The Senate then took up the River and Harbor Bill.
The Post Route Bill was received from the House and passed. All the amendments of the River and Harbor were concurred in. The bill has a provision giving authority to the secretary of war, in such cases as lie may deem necessary, to cause a re-examination and survey of the Public Works, for which the appropriations are made, to modify the present plan, should he deem it necessary.
Mr. (.'handler asked leave to submit a resolution, asking the I'resident to furnish the 1 louse with such information as may have been received at the Department, relative to the destruction of San Juan also asking copies of the instructions to Capt. Hollins. The motion was agreed to and (he rules suspended by a vote of, yeas 122, navsoO, and the resolution passed.
Mr. Elliot, of Mass., asked leave to bring in a bill to repeal the fugitive slave law, which was not granted.
Mr. Faulkner, from tho Committee on Millitary affairs, reported a bill increasing the pay of the rank and file of the army, to eleven dollars per month for Infantry, and twelve dollars for Dragoons, to encourage enlistments, which was passed.
The House went into committee on private bills, and passed 54. Adjourned.
Later from Texas and Mexico. NT'VY ORLEANS, ily 2G. By .in arrival from Corpus Christi, wc have later dates from Texas. Capt. an Buren, with a party of twelve soldiers, followed a party of twenty-five Chanianche^lndians a distance of three hundred miles, and attacked and defeated them, killing several.
Capt. Van Buren'
cate the honor of our flag. Several objec- of Minister of Foicign Affairs in the Turkish tious were made, and the request was not! Cabinet. ^ranted. Mr. Chandler made an ineffectual effort to introduce a resolution, calling on the President for information concerning the recent bombardment of San Juan or Grey town.
To this provision, the committee proposed ages cf clu-iora, at. a nig ira. tne vito add a clause giving the secretary the cinity of tho suspension bridge, on tho power to suspend altogether the applica- Canada side, has been far worse than is tion over the place occupied by any of said represented. Our informant visited the loworks, is required from any Slate in which c:dity yesterday, and found every person any work is situated, to tho United States, capable of moving had deserted the viciuiand report the same to the next session of ty, and lound several dead bodies im burCongress. This proposition wr.s debated riod. up to adjournment, without coming to any! In one shanty a woman was found in
MOU. the last stages of the disease, and the dead HOUSE.—Thegeneral post route bill pass- body of her child, about seven years old.* W lying by her side, i:i an advanced state o-J Mr. Faulkner*, from f.lio Anmmiiim nn din-nmpo.sitioii. In another house rwo men.1 Millitarv affairs, caused to be read a com- were found, one of them dead and the othmunication from the Secretary ofVt ar, ad- or dying, without any assistance, in dressed to him, covering a letter from Gov. Stephens, in which the latter states he has received information from the noting (Joy. of Washington Territory, to the eH'oet that the Fort Simpson Indians, a warlike race.".'] have recently made attack's on the !ron! er settlers md it is rumored Chief Justice Lander is among the missing. The See-. relary of War says he is unable to increase'! the military force there, and asks the action of Congress in the emergency.
was
shot through the
boilv, but the wound was not deemed fatal.' By the arrival of the steamer Orizaba, we have dates from Vera Cruz to the 22d inst., and from the city of Mexico to the 17th inst.
The revolution still continued. Corn was scarce and the city oflobasco was making provision to import corn free of duty.
There is nothing said about the death of Alvarez.
An
engagement between the in
surgents and the government troops were reported, in which the former were defeated.
It was reported that a conspiracy had been discovered at Vera Cruz.
Another Railway President in Trouble. Pmi.ADELPNIA, July 28.—John Tucker, President of the Reading Railway, suffered his paper to go to protest yesterday. He has various engagements in his individual capacity, his liabilities are large, but his assets, consisting of Railway and other securities, are in excess of them, and it is thought that he will make arrangements to resume in a few days.
The Cholera.
BUFFALO, July 2G.—Reports from the poor house say a large number died to-day but the persons in office rctused to give the exact number. ...
ThREE DAYS LATER from ENGlAnD.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER AFRICA.
COTTON AND BREASTTFFS LOWER
NEW YORK, June 27.—The steamer Africa, with advices from Liverpool to tho 15th inst., has arrived at this port.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Some more battles between the Turks and Russians on the Danube but otherwise affairs were unchanged. The Spanish insurgents still maintained themselves.
Jt is
ful'^ confi,'lr|ed
that the Russian
forces on the Danube have received counter orders, and will not quit Wallachia, and Austria has for the present entirely relinquished the intention of peaceably occupying the principalities. There is nothing new in regard to the Austro-Russian negotiations. It is believed all the smaller German States will adhere to Austria and Prussia, and the feeling in England in regard to these new complications is decidedly unfavorable and unsatisfactory.: 'Lbere has been some more severe fighting on the Danube. The Turks under Osman Pasha, after severe fighting, have! captured tho islands in the Danube, and the city of Giurgevo, which they now occupy.
It is clear that the Turks have assumed the offensive, and with the reserve of the allied troops, the first division of which is now at Rustchuck, they will probably risk a pitched battle. Gortehakoff, with thirty thousand forces, was advancing by forced march to retake Giurgevo.
Hie black sea fleet was last seen steering^
on board the
Napier's fleet, and he had gone to anchor on the Bomersund Bay. Redschid Pasha has resumed the offico
The ex-Ministers of Greece have been indicted, charged with appropriating tho public money to foster the late insurrection.
Louis Napoleon is at Bologneand Calais witnessing the embarkation of the French Troops for the Baltic.
The news from Spain is very imperfect, the insurgents, however, seem to maintain themselves, under Generals Leneno, O'Don-
nell, and Dulce they number about 5,000 and were going to Adalusia. Some movements favoring had occurred in Valencia.
A dispatch dated Vienna, Tuesday evening says that it is certain that 18,000 men of the Anglo French forces, had joined Omar Pasha, at Rustchuck, who on the days of the 7th and Stli inst., defeated the Russians, with great lix s, at Giurgevo, as was before stated. It is believed also, that the Tun havc crossed tho Danube at Olteniza. '?A
A~/ful State of Affairs ?,t Niagara. 'NEW I OR.K, July 2'.—e learn from tho most reliable .sources, that the rava, at Nia suspension
1
my assistance, in an-
other shanty were found three unberried bodies, so much decayed that no one could venture to disiurb them, and the shanty was set on tire and con-mned them.
Our informant also states that several bodies only partially consumed, have been rooted up out of tho ashes,
hoil's
and
eaten
by
Destructive Fire—Loss of Life. Si-n^NfiriLP, Mass.. July 28.—A building occupied by two Irish families, near the Princeton depot, Chieopec, was burned this morning, anil it is said four younggiiis were burned to deatii. and a man named Dolan badly burned in saving his mother from the flames.
Later from New Mexico.
Lorisvn.i.E, July 28.—Tho mail from Santa Fee has arrived at Independence, bringing advices from New Mexico ono month later. There is nothing of special importance. Active anil extensive preparations were making by Gen. Garland and other commanders, to make a decisive and concerted demonstration against the hostile Indian tribes. Nothing occurred on the route of special interest.
Firemen's Fight.
PHILADELPHIA, July 28. We had a fight this morning between the firemen attached to the Fairmount engine, and the Moyamcnsing hose. A great number of shots were fired, and three persons seriously injured, one, it is feared mortally. One of each party was arrested in the act of shooting.
Death of Miss Fillmore.
BUFFALO, July 2(3.—Miss Fillmore, daughter of the ex-Pre.sident, died at Aurora this morning at 11 o'clock. She left this city yesterday, to spend a few days in Aurora, and last night was taken with dysentery, and sunk so rapidly, that when her father, brother, and Dr. White reached her at 10 o'clock this morning, she did not recognize them. Her death is generally lamented. She was just 22 years of age.
The Prairie City says that the city cemetery of Terre Haute is used as a great rendezvous for abandoned prostitutes and their companions, both day and night, disturbing and disgusting the whole neighborhood.
The same paper contains the following telegraphic despatch from Maysville, a small town on the canal, a short distance above Attica, in Fountain county.
MAYSVILLE, July 21.—This afternoon a man from some cause unknown, put his child into a trunk and closing the lid put the trunk into a wheelbarrow and started towards the canal. His wife hearing of it, ran out and endeavored to get the child out, when he drew his knife and stabbed her, mortally it is supposed. Tho authorities have the man in custody. Some persons coming up succeeded in getting the child out before it died. It is doing well.
JtJf'Land warrants are selling in New York at $162 for 160 acres, $92 for 80 acres, $48 for 40 acres,