Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 25 January 1855 — Page 2

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THE JOURNAL.

T. W. FRY, Editor.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND*

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, IS55.

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Rule or Ruin.

S. Senator who has been repudiated and condemned by overwhelming majorities. Rule or Ruin is virtually inscribed on their banners. Rule or Ruin is growled forth from the factious Senate. Rule or Ruin is echoed back by the the disappointed politicians whom the people have consigned to merited oblivion, Rule or Ruin is caught up and prolonged by the horde of party leadears who have seen written of themselves across the very heavens, "Mene,

Mene, Tekel Upharsiu!" Well might the peoplo exclaim, as did Cicero, when prosecuting the conspirator C'atalinc, "Quousque tandem abutcre Senatores paticntia nostra? quamdiu nos etiam ror isle tuus nos eludet? qtieni ad Jinem sese rffrenata jactulit audacia?"

For years past tlie old liners have had almost unlimited power in this State, and managed affairs as best suited them they iliave elected their United States Senators, G&vemmci, pursued by People and Buffa

men of their own party and their own loes 11th, Plan for getting the road built ^choice. They have had Senator Hanne'^gan, Whitcomb, Pcttit k. "Bright, They .were in the majority, and their opponents ^submitted, and like true patriots yielded "to the will of tlie people. But a change has comc over the spirit of our political .circles, the people have said "it is enough, i\ve will have no more of such rulers and -how is tho will of the people heeded by this 'old lino factious minority in the Senate of Indiana, Their voice, as uttered in their .legislative action is "RULE OR RUIN." If •dn the majority we rule with power com1imitted to us by the people if in a minority, wc rule by refusing to act in concert with the House of Representatives, and .failing in that, we will rule by revolution, •by breaking the quorum, by resigning our seats, if ncccssarv, to thwart the will of the •people and secure the appointment of a U.

The opposition of the old line Senate can be looked upon in no other light than that of a conspiracy against the government of the people.

Decidedly Cool.

very cooly replied that he would do no such thing, but assured the House that he would retire from office "in as comfortable a situation as any Old Liner could be."

We would infer from the Governor's message, that he believed the Auditor had acted dishonestly, had deceived and swindled the people, and acted in bad faith towards our entire population hence his suggestion, the appointment of a Bank Committee to investigate the whole matter.

At the present time there is scarcely a man in the State who believes him honest or in any way qualified for the responsible position in which he was placed by the old Une party. In his hands were placed all the bonds on which the free banks of this State are based, amounting at one time to near ten millions of dollars, with a security of only ten thousand. By allowing the issue of bills on bonds above their cash value, he has accumulated an immense fortune in a very slioit time, and that fortune came from the hard earnings of the laboring man, the mechanic, the merchant, and all those who earn their living by the sweat of their face. We wonder not he sung in such sweet and thrilling strains the song of "lovefor the dear people." We wonder not he proclaimed aloud his pure Demo^i^cy, his earnest desire that the People should govern.— Now. that he has office, his lovefor the Pcople, his pure democracy, his desire for the '••peopleto govern, have shown out in living, burning characters. Dearer, far dearer to him was the love of money sweeter, far sweeter to him was the gingle of dimes, than the plaudits of the people. Having cheated, deceived, virtually swindled the people, he now turns upon them with scoffing indifference and laughs at their troubles and their calamities clutches his ill-gotten gain, he bids defiance to the people and boasts of his '"'comfortable situation.

A resolution passed the House requiring the Auditor to report the amount of money lie had received under the provisions of the general banking law to which the Auditor his family, but did not wish to be idle,

He is one of the men who rode triumphantly into office on the syren song of Democracy. A noble French lady in the times of the Revolution, when standing up on the platform on which she was soon to be beheaded, exclaimed "Oh, liberty, how many crimes arc committed in thy name! Thus might wc exclaim in the present day, Oh, democracy, how much rascality, is practiced in .thy name!

See the advertisement of Laymon

& Co., in to-day's paper. They are buying the notes of the Kentucky Trust Company Bank. You that are in possession of notes on, this Bank, better give them a call,

jJSrGodev's Lady's jLVook for February,

Iras been, received

Senator Benton and the Pacific Railroad Senator Benton is manifesting a most praiseworthy enthusiasm in the building of the Pacific Railroad^ He has recently been discussing the subject with great ability in the large cities oftheEaBt, & appealing to the capitalists "to engage heartily iniKe work, which will not only increase their fortunes, but confer infinite blessings upon the commercial world. His speech at Boston was divided into the following heads: 1st, Exordium 2d, Description of the Valley of San Luis 3d, Description of the Santa Clara meadows and of the bunch grass which prevails on the Pacific slope of our continent 4th, Climate of the Wah-satch and Anter-ri-a 5th, Buffaloes as Topographical Engineers Gth, Travel of Woottcnwith 8,000 Sheep on tho Central Route 7th, Coal on the C^Titral Route .8th, Evil reporters upon new countries 9th, Straightncss of the Central Route, with branches to the right and left 10th, the Central Route eschewed by the Federal

and 12th Peroration.

The facts and reasoning of the address must be convincing to the judgment of every unprejudiced mind. History and experience have long since proven that Buffaloes arc by far the best topographical engineers. By following them the Indians found their way from Virginia into the rich hunting grounds of Kentucky, the white man followed the Indian's war path, and since that time no better pass-way has been found.— The same is true of the routes to California. The following is the brilliant peroration of the Hop. Senator,

Solid men of Roston! Here is an enterprise worthy of your energies worthy of the city which was the first to open the East India trade to our America, and which with its neighbor, Salem, has produced so many of those enlightened and liberal merchants who know how to combine the character of merchant and statesman, and howto aggrandize their country while enriching themselves, and of whom I have had the happiness to serve with two in the'American Senate (Mr. James Lloyd and Mr. Nathaniel Sillsbee,) and deem it among the honors and felicities of my life to have enjoyed their intimate and friendly acquaintance. Here is an object worthy of merchant statesmen, of whom too many yet exist here, survivors of the illustrious dead, to admit of enumeration, and of whom respect for all forbids the selection of a few names. But there is one among these living—I feel honored and gratified at his presence here this evening—whose case makes an exception and demands a special reference—the late United States Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the British Court—(facing round and bowing to Mr. Abbott Lawrcnce, who sat on the estrade behind the speaker, with some hundred others of the first and most aged citizens of Boston, while four thousand others of both sexes and all ages sat in front.) His case forms an exception, for to him we are indebted for the seminal idea of this discoarse, and of this appeal to yon, and of this plau of building the Pacific railroad by individual and voluntary means. Soon after he returned from London he said to me, in a conversation at Washington, that lie had done enough for

and would be glad to be engaged upon soir.e useful public work, and mentioned the Pacific railroad as tho object he would prefer. Those words were seed which fell not by the wayside, nor on stony places, nor among thoins, but on ground—I will not say "good" ground, but on ground— had root and grew up, and brought forth fruit. And here the fruit now is, in what I now say, shown to the sower, and asking him to reap the harvest of his own sowing.

This is the object! That road compared to which those "Appian and Flatainian ways" which have given immortality to their authors are but as dots to lengthened lines, as sands to mountains, as grains of mustard to the full-grown tree. Besides the advantages to our Union in open direct communication with that Golden California which completes our extended dominion towards the setting sun, and a road to which would be the realization of tho Roman idea of annexation, that no conquest was annexed until reached and pervaded by a road: besides the obvious advantages, social, political, commercial, of this communication, another transcendental object presents itself. That Oriental commerce which nations have sought for and fought for, from the time of the Phenicians to the discovery of the Capo of Good Hope which was carried on over lines so extended, by conveyances so slow and limited, amidst populations so various and barbarous, and which considered the merchant their lawful prey and up and down rapid rivers, and across strange seas, and through wide and frigiivfnl cfo.^erts and which, under all these perils, bin-Jens, CM discouragements, converted Asiatic and Ativan cities into seats of wealth and empire, centres of the arts and sciences, while Western Europe was yet barbarian and some branches of wind' afterwards lit up Venice, and Genoa, and Florence, and made commercial cities the match for empires, and the wives and daughters of their citizens (in their luxurious oriental attire) the admiration and the envy of queens and princesses all this commerce, and in a deeper and broader stream than the "merchant princes" ever saw, is now within your reach, attainable by a road all the way on your own soil and under your own laws to be flown over by a vehicle as much 'superior in speed and Capacity to the steamboat as the boat is to the ship, and the ship to the camel, and the camel to the Arab's back—thanks to the progress of the mechanic arts, which are going on continually, converting into facilities what stood as obstacles in the way of national communications! To the savage the sea was an obstacle mechanical genius, in the invention of the ship, made it a facility. The firm land was what the barbarian wanted: the land became an obstacle to the civilized man and remained so until the steam car was invented. Now the land becomos the facility again, the preferred element of passage, preferred to air or water, and admitting a velocity 5nits steam car which rivals the flight of the carrier pigeon, and a punctuality of arrival which may serve for the adjustment of clocks and

watches to say nothing of ils accompaniment, the magnetic telegraph, which flashas intelligence across a continent and exchanges messages between kingdoms in Jthe twinkling of an eye, and compare^ to-whlch the flying car degenerates into aj|fczy, lag?, ging, creeping John Trot of^trMeller ri^TEijgf- .with his news after it hall-bee om# |tale with age.

All tliis commerce, in a stream To ranch larger, with. a.do^^^ ^a^^E^ita tra&k, your own laws to protect it, withi conveyances so rapid and security so complete ', lies at your acceptance. That which Jew"' and Gentile fought for before the age of Christianity, and for which Christians have fought both Jp-Vv and Gentile, and fought, earth other, 'and with the Saracen for an ally: all this is now at your acceptance^ and by the beneficent procsss of making a road which, when made, will be a private fortune as well as a public benefaction—a facility for individuals as well as for the Government. Any other nation, upon half a pretext, would go to war for such a road and tax unborn generations for its completion. Wc may have it without war, without tax, without treaty with any nation and when we make it all nations must travel it, with our permission, and behave well to receive permission, or fall behind and lose the trade by following the old track, giving us a bond in tho use of our road for their peaceable behavior. Twen-ty-five centuries have fought for the commercial road to India: we have it as a peaceable possession. Shall we use it, or wear out our lives in strife and bitterness, wrangling over a miserable topic of domestic contention while a glorious prize lies ncglected before us? Vasco de Goma (in the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope and the opening of a new route to India, independent of Mussleman power) eclipscd in his day the glory of Columbus, balked in the discovery of his well-defined route by the intervention of a new world: let us vindicate the glory of Columbus by realizing his divine idea of arriving in the East by going to the West. Take the work ininto your own powerful and auspicious keeping adopt the road give us the lead of your names, and enough will follow.— Let Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore sign first, and all the cities, inland and maritime, will furnish citizens to follow the example aud all the railroad companies, all the express companies, all the telegraph companies'will see their interest in promoting a road which would be prolongation of their own business lines, and add to the value of their own property and to the extent of their own business.

The enterprise would be a trifle to the wealth and resources of our business population—only some thirteen hundred miles of road over ground the most favorable, and under skies the most auspicious, and with material the most abundant and convenient, and the prices of labor and iron returning to reasonable rates. More than half the country is smooth prairie, to cost no more than in the prairies of Illinois the remainder is nearly level, only slight undulations, with an almost total exemption from the high cuttings, deep fillings-up, long bridgings and tunnellings, which constitute the gravity of the expense of railroad making. Say a fourth more than the cost of Illinois prairie road, (the wide guage being understood,,^ and you have but twenty thousand dollars to the ?nile twenty-six millions for the whole. W ^t is that to the resources of our business populations? There are many twenty-six men, in onr extended Union who could build the road themselves, and own it as their private princely estate—themselves and their posterity after them.

Safety as well as profit, security as well as policy, protection against calamity as well as prospective good, require the construction of this road. What sustains and stimulates the national industry at this time? California gold! that gold the weekly arrival of which is the life's blood of our daily industry, and one month's default of which would be the paralysis of our financial, commercial, and industrial world.— And how do wc receive that gold now? Over foreign seas and across foreign territory, and after a circuit of six thousand miles, liable to be cut off by the cruizcrs and privateers (to say nothing of fleets) of any Power with which we might be at war and several specks of that portentious cloud now appear above the line of our political horizen. But this is not the place for political considerations. Such considerations address themselves to tho political power, which is elsewhere. I speak to business men, to merchants, mechanics, manufacturers, farmers, planters, and all the industrial classes—to every man who buys or sells or consumes, or produces, or carries on any branch of productive industry, or interchanges the productions of others, and appeal to their enlightened sense of interest and safety to do what their own interest and safety requires, and lend a helping hand, by deed or word, to this work of profit, of policy, and of necessity.

Pliny, the elder, accounting for the commercial prosperity of some ancicnt cities, attributed it to their form-of governmentrepublican—and because that form admitted the greatest freedom of enterprise. The moderns have seen the truth of this profound remark in later times—seen it in Italy, in Holland, and in various part of our America. WTe are a republic, and a great one and our fathers have given proof of the truth of Pliny's axiom in the success and extent of their commercial undertakes. Their sons have not degenerated. Tlufni-aZPin of Pliny is not disparaged.— Tho numerOUo Mercantile Library Associations, their ample list of members and wellfilled libraries and laudable spirit of improvement give oaiiieit of future eminence and of useful and honorable careers, rivalling their fathers and justifying the axiom of Pliny. They will not let the road flag they will not lose the East India trade. All they want is information about the road, and I have come to try to give it. I have brought the facts, carefully assured, to show that there is a good way for a good road, and a good country to sustain people to protect and support it, and settlements nearly all the way already began, and to multiply with magic rapidity. Then let us begiii, take the first step, which is always the most difficult. Let Boston sign fiist, others will follow the road will be made, and the East India trade will come-upon it, and the ocean toutes by the Horn and the Cape will become what the land routes became when they were discovered what Tyre became when Alexandria was founded, and what Alexandria became when the

Cape of Good Hope was doubled. For this purpose I come here and go elsewhere, at much iuconvcnieuce to myself

and grdat cost of personal feeling, oppressed as I atn with occupation and saddened with the weight of recent and heavy affliction. But for this' cause I could become (i circumstances perriiitte|) a Peter the wermii,^ t^versin^jtlie^ounlly and preaching a cruj|»fde, n$fc©f,4&msAgainst cTel. but of work tffion an enterprise beneficial to the human race.

Young merchants of this Association! two thousand two hundred of you! who have yet, I hope, long, useful, and honora-

as to the guardian care of your elders, those solid men of Boston, who have done enough for their fa«iiil3efi, Tni^:l^ for their? cotmiiry/ and who mav see in the assumption of this work the crowning glory of their illustrious lives.

jtSTSomeof the old liners are still haunted with the ghost of the U. S. Bank, wuicn they fear will come up from the depths of the past to torment them as in bye gone days. The harrassing difficulties and pressures resulting from the present condition of the monetary affairs are not sufficient to withdraw their thoughts from this their ancient enemy. They speak of it and write of it as some terrible and hoary monster of frightful mien, that still lurks in some hiding place and wrill at some suitable and convenient time come forth in all the power and influence of his pristine existence. Give us, say they, Stale banks, pet banks, free banks, stock banks banks with branches, shin-plasters, hard currency, anything rather than the United State's, paper, which commanded a premium in all parts of our country, and was as current as gold and silver in all parts of the world. Give us any kind of paper, five, ten, or twenty cents below par, in preference to that which always commanded a premium —give us anything, bills that fluctuate as the wind, unstable as the sea, tho value of which bankers nor brokers can estimate rather than bills whose very imprint speaks forth their value in terms to be understood as fully by the plainest laborer as by the keen and and scrutinizing broker. Give us anything, money that will not pass current even within our own State, rather than that which is sought after as surest and best all the world over. Such is the language, such the feeling, such the wisdom of the old liners. Passion and prejudice nd party seem to be their guiding and governing powers. The mists which hover around and obscure their mental vision have become so dense, that the light and heat which beam from a sun of seven-fold brilliancy would scarcely suffice to dissipate them.

JtJf It is stated by the Baltimore Patriot, that Auditor Dunn, has received $80,000 in fees in the redemption of State Stock money. Let the farmer, the mechanic, the laboring man, ask and ascertain who has paid this large sum to this so-called democratic Auditor. Most of you have taken this money at its face and pay it out at a discount of from ten to twenty-five per cent. Who sustains the loss? Who stands the sl:.av(?? Whe makes by the shave? Onr Old Li^e Auditor has already pocketed $80,000. Kow m: ch more will he pocket before the expiraiiPn oi his office? How much are the people yet t.0 Ipse? All who have lost, all who will lose, may ealcuhtle the amount and charge to the leaders of the Old Line party, whose love for the people, iu profession at least, surpasses the love of David for Jonathan.,

jggT'Tlie interest on Railroad Iron bought in Great Britain for the United States amounts to the sum of $20,000,000 a year.

Under the Whig Tariff of '42, Iron factories were springing up, aud if that protection had been continued, they could have furnished by far the larger amount of Raiload iron needed in the construction of our oads, prevented the creation of enormous debts, retained the gold and silver in our own country—would have urged on the progress of national prosperity, and developed the vast resources of our mineral wealth.

That Tariff was stricken down by the hand of the Old Line party, which has been to the energies and commerce of our country like palsy to the physical system. Onr roads are built, it is true, and we glory in them but their profits are in the. hands of British capitalists. We are now toiling for the moneyed aristocracy of a foreign nation. We have sustained the British and crushed American manufacturers and all in tho name of Democracy and for the support of party.

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The manufacturing and moneyed power of England secured the adoption of democratic free trade with the powers of Spain and Turkey both of whom sunk in national importance in proportion to their dependance upon a foreign power for articles which they should have manufactured.— Their independence was swallowed up by the moneyed power of England.

Her statesmen have long been aiming at the accomplishment of the same object in the United States—and strange as it may seem, they have had a powerful ally in the Old Line Democratic party, whose history is but a history of opposition to American interests. Shall they ultimately triumph? Let the response come from the heart of the American people. .n-..

jJSTThe pleasant, spring-like weather wo have been long enjoying came to a sud den close on Sunday last. The Sabbath was a,day of perpetual change—-a blending of sunshine and cloud rain, sleet, and snow, of storm and calni. A furious north-wester swept over tlio earth, a dry show filled the air, which was followed by the most intense

cold wc have

"The South asks Nothing." Wc would call tho attention of our readers to an extract from ,the speech of the Hon. Lewis D,. Cauipbell, recently deli

Yen r. Gold. 1840, $ 9,000,761,50 I8.rA 31.081.738.50 1851, 62.614,492,00 1S52, 56,"46.187,50 1853, 46.098,945,60 1854, (9 mo.) 66.302,388,86

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edyin -^.pngres^in rej)ly to|the Hon. Stephens, who*-in hisifenthiisiasTri South had used the above expression. Mr, Campbell takes it up and has presented one of the most powerful and cumulative arguments, which must have come like a $J#p*of thunder upon the chivalric Southerners. We have heard Northern men use sitnilar expressions, asserting in most positive t,erms that the North had, for years, trampled upon the rights of the South, and sought to intefere with her constitutional privileges, wresting from her an equal participation in those territories acquired by common funds and common toils.

The idea that the "South asks Nothing," and gets nothing is persistently insisted upon, and so often asserted, that many in the North had been led to believe them true, but facts like those in the extract referred to, will dissipate them to thin air, and show the facts in their true light.

j2£g""L. D. GLAZEBROOK is the authorized Agent for Col. Benton's "Thirty Years View," which is regarded as a very able and valuable work, containing a vast amount of the most interesting information and many of the most thrilling scenes which •Mr. Benton has passed during his long course in the Senate. Price of the work $3 per volume-

Specie in the Country.

Some differences of opinion exist as to the quantity of gold and silver held in the country. The Treasurer estimates the specie in the banks to be sixty millions, and in the hands of the Sub-Treasurers and the people at large, one hundred and eighiyone millions an aggregate of $241,000,000, against $112,000,000 in the year 1848, before the gold of California was brought to light.

The Custom House books show that about $121,000,000 have been exported in the five years ending June 30, 1854, over and above the imports, viz:. Year Ending. June 30, Imported. Exported. I8f0, $4,628,792 $ 7,522,900 1851, 5,453,592. 29,472,752 1852, 5,505,044 42,647,135

1Q53,

4,201,328 27,486,875

1854, 6,758,5X7 41,197,300

$-26,547,497 $148,354,056

For the nine months ending September 30th, 1854, the coinage of the United States amounted to the enormous sum of $80,374,7S8, including fine bars. The coinage of gold, and silver for the past six years is shown to have been as follows, according: to the recent report of tho mint:

Silver.

$ 2.114,950.00 1,866.100.00 -v 774.397,00 999,410,00 6.966,255,00 '14,072,400,00

Six years $'273,751,513,96 $26,823,512,00

The Mississippi Spanned

Anthony, has at length been completed, and the waters of the mighty river arc spanned for the first time by a structure of iron and wood. The last floor beam of the bridge was laid upon the 5th ult., and the ocoasion was one of pride and rejoicing to the inhabitants on the different banks of the stream. The dimensions of tho bridge are as follows: The length of spann is GoO feet vertical deflection of cables, 47 feet, which are four in number, and each cornnob\°d of 500 strands of No. 10 charcoaliron wire. The width of the platform, inside of parapets, 17feet distance between uspending rods, 3 feet 0 iuches.—Scientific American.

Political Ups and Downs.

For the last twenty years—or since the retirement of General Jackson from the Presidency on the 4th of March, 1836, the administration of the General Government has been politically changed every four years. In 1837, Van Buren was inaugurated President. In 1841, General Harrison, of opposite politics assnmed the reins of Government. In 1S45 Mr. Polk became President, and the Democratic Dynasty was re-instated, when General Pierce donned the Presidential mantel and now the old parties have died out, and in 1856, we will most probably have to record the election of a man who shall be the embodiment of principle which, indeed, are not new but which have never yet been allowed their full sway in this country.— Chicago Tribune!.

Croup.

A medical correspondent of the New Hampshire Journal of Medicine states, that for three years he has used alum in croup, and in all that time has not seen a fatal case which was treated with it from the beginning. He usually gave about ten grains, oncc in ten minutes until vomiting is induced, using at tho same time tartar emetic or the hive syrup freely— the latter subduing the inflammation, while the alum has more of a repulsive action.—Scientific American.

JONN WENTWORTH ox'THE KNOW-NOTH-INGS.—The "long" Congressman from Chicago writes home from Washington on the Know-Nothings as follows:

From all that I hear and see around me, it is evident that this foreign question is to over-ride all others, even the slavery question, as we see men of the most opposite views touching slavery, forgetting all their differences and acting together.

jSgrTight times and stock money lias stopped peoplo from marrying in Morgan county. The editor of the Martinsville Gazette after going to the clerks office for the list of licences issued, an,d finding none, thus lets, off in his last: •'Not one license has been issued by our Clerk, during the past week. Times are too tight to allow people to perpetrate such extravagant acts as getting married. How could all the new hats, pants, boots, bonnets, dresses, &c., be procured, when the people have nothing better.to offer for them than, the uncurrent shin-plasters now encumbering their "pockets? No-sir-ce marrying, as well as every other-laudable undertaking, is vetoed and will remain so as long as rascality aild scoundrelism are iij the ascendency, jlturrahj-foi' btatc Stock banks J," t'-b

CONGRESSIONAL.

^WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.

Brodhead again asked the consideration of tl|e resorption bg the Arctic expedition, and it wa&wfceanp^ iHunter.dbjected'to its passage, on the ground \liat the search for Dr. Kane would lead to the loss of more lives, owing the uncertainty-pf the p^sitio^ gi the, .Aptic 'Expedition/

Mallory explained that Dr. Kane had made arrangements, by monuments aud signals, so that i_f he ipst his ti ack. thoioute could be discovered.

Mr. Hunter acquiesced after Mr. Mallory's explanation, and the joint resolution passed.

The House went"~mto the Pacific Railway bill. Mr. Stephens, of Ga., made a speech to show the great superiority of slave labor in Georgia over free labor in Ohio, and incidentally advocated the acquisition of Cuba.

Mr. Boyce strongly opposed the acquisition of the island, and said the project was frouglit with danger to the South, and wholly inexpedient.

Mr. Smith, of Alabama, made a strong Know Nothing speech. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.

SENATE.—Mr. Jones, of Iowa, presented the petition of James W. Schaumburg, praying the recognition of his commission, as Captain in the Army, and that his claims for pay since 1886 be considered.

Mr. Cass introduced a resolution of inquiry, whether air and water-tight mail bags cannot be profitably substituted for those now in use.

The Internal Improvement Bill was made the order of the day for Wednesday, the

Mr. Seward presented a memorial, signer] by Brigadier Generals Dobbin and Hurd 250 Captains, and 1,460 subordinate officers and privates of the U.S. Army during the war of 1812, praying for relief for their sufferings caused by the inadequacy of the law of Congress. This petition was accompanied by the memorial of 83 Indians, who were engaged in the service of the United States in the war of 1812. Also the petition of 1,600 citizens of the United States supporting the above application.— Referred to the Committee on Pensions.

Mr. Seward also presented the petition of S. D. Vandersee and other citizens of the United States for the same object.

The compensation bill was then taken

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HOUSE.—The bill for the sale of Rock Island Illinois lands, came baHlc with amendments, which were agreed to and the bill passed.

Mr. Breckenridge, of Ivy., reported from the Committee of Ways and Means, the Texas creditors bill with amendments.— Referred to the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union.

The House then went into committee of the whole on the Pacific Railroad bill. Mr. Bayley, of Va., said he should move to take up the French spoiliation bill at the earliest possible day. '•Mr. Benton said that private comp&nies and private entei-prise, in his opinion, should pass on the practicability of a railroad to the Pacific, and attend to its execution.

vr- i* i-i •'-The Englihh Mint coincd in gold, from Tho Minneapolis suspension across

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the .Mississippi river, above the iallsof ot. .w.A ,, i- .• .1 1 '1 -1 000. lor a similar period of time the

^28,000,-

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coinage during the last century has never exceeded .£8,000,000.

MEANNESS.—Ever since the present money panic began, we have been pestered a good deal by persons calling at our office and asking for papers that contain the Free Bank Lists. We have given away a large number, and to men who are too stingy and mean to take their county paper. But wc intend to quit it. We publish the list for the benefit of those who take our paper and those who have Free Bank money, but are too poor to take a paper that will tell them how much it is worth, deserve to lose every dollar of it. Such men needn't ask us for information any more. If they do they won't get it. And we hope our subscribers will not let them have their pa perSf—flockutile Republican.

Keeping Apples.

Apples that are designed for lato keeping should be assorted and all tho defective ones laid aside place them carefully in boxes, or on shelves in the cellar, which should be kopt at nearly freezing point and permit plenty of air. Apples in very large boxes, casks or bins, do not keep as well as when in smaller parcels. They always should be looked to every week, throwing out all that are unsound. The following, which we copy is worthy of trial, and if found to keep apples good can be easily adopted. A correspondent of the Ayr Advertiser, Scotland, writes thus: "I have a dark closet in my house, or rather I live in a row with windows back and front. The house is four stories high, and the length from back to front is so great that we have three rooms on the floor, the centre dark. On the third story the floors are plaster, and I find the temperature so even 2hat I use it for a winestore in preference to the cellar, having fitted it with bins. In this room I put some hampers of apples like pearmain. I wanted one of the hampers and turned the apples in one of the bins among the dry sawdust (pine saw-dust.)

A fortnight ago we looked at them, having used up the others gathered at the same time and from the same tree, all of which were much wrinkled but 011 those off apd from the sawdust, I found them in a most beautiful condition—those covered with sawdust were as plump and fresh as when gathered, while those partially buried were only so to the extent coveied with the sawdust, the upper portion being wrinkled.— I am so pleased with the discovery, that I shall pack them iu bins next year, for I have no doubt tlicy vill keep in this way til.l nCxt Christmas.—Mich. Farmer..,

•. -Chloroform Counteracted. Dr. Robert de Lnimbelle,"a distinguished physician of Paris, announces that a shock of electricity, given to a! patient

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the effects of chlnroform, immediately counteracts its influence, and returns the sufferer tp life.—Ib. ***j

CARRIER PIGEONS AGAIN IN USE.- -Onthe recent arrival of the steamship Africa, the foreign news was sent on shore by pigeons, while the vessel. was outside of Sandy Hook, when it was telegraphed to different parts of the country, and published an hour before the steamer reached her

Dreadful Calamity at Fort Washington. BURNING OB'JIR. HAVEN'S HOCSE AT WILDENFIEI.D THREE OP His DAUGTERS PERISHED.

The residence of Mr. John Appleton Haven atFort^ Washington, (ten miles from the New York City Hall, known as *''Waldenfiie!d,") Was totally destroyed by fire at four o'clock this morning. Three of his daughtejs, Mary, Sarah and Grace Havens, lost their lives. One perished in the flames, aud two were suffocated.

The family retired to rest-about eleven o'clock last night, in good health. The yojung ladies slept on the second floor, and the first intimation they had that the house was on fire, was by thes, smoke, entering their apartment/

The two who were smothered had made their escape from the building, but afterwards returned to it again, it is said, to get some more clothing. They were jn their night dress, and fell upon the floor, insensible from the effects of the smoke.

While the house was burning, some of the neighbors entered the upper story, and saw the two ladies lying on the floor.— They instantly picked them up and mshed out of the house, but it was too late, they were past recovery. Although their pulses beat, they died soon after being taken into the open air.

The other daughter was not recovered.— It is supposed that si rv 1 is also suffocated and burned with the house. The neighbors succeeded in rescuing Annie and taking her from the building alive, though nearly suffocated. By the application of suitable remedies she was restored.

The bodies of the two suffocated young ladies were taken to the neighboring house of Mr. Hopkins, treasner of the Hudson River Railroad and a son-in-law of Mr. Haven. The remains of the daughter who was burned to death had not been got ont of the ruins up to twelve o'clock to-day.

The fiire occured in the kitchen, and is supposed to have originated through the carelessness of the servants, who had been up till a late hour. It is also supposed that the house had been on fire an hour before it was discoved. The servants, it is alleged, fled from the building soon after tho fire broke out withont giving any a'a-m to the house.

The fog was so very thick at the time, and the light of the fire could hot be seen at a very great distance.

Mr. Haven's house was an irregular structure, built of wood, about one hundred and twenty-five front and forty feet deep. It was situated on an eminence, at a distance of a quarter of mile from the Hudson river. The house and furniture, ali of which were consumed, were valued at twenty thousand dollars. Mr. Havens was insured in various offices in this city.

ANOTHER AC'COL'NT FROM AN EYE-WITNESS. The house of Mr, John A. Haven, of Fort Washington, was burnt to the ground at about half past three o'clock this morning.

The entire family had, in the first instance, escaped from the house before the flames had apparently made mncli headway. Unfortunately, one of the young ladies thought she would .have time to procure some clothing, and running into the house for that purpose, was followed by three of the sisters. Anna, the eldest, was rescued scarcely living, through the presence of mind of Mr. James Conolly, one of the neighbors, who fortunately arrived early on the* spot. The bodies of two of the sisters, Mary and Grace, were taken out imediately afterwards, and although medical attendance was promptly procured, it was impossible to reanimate them. They were suffocated.

Sarah, the other sister, was burnt iu tho ruins, Mr. Haven is a member of the firm of Haven & Co., one of the largest commission houses in this city. The bouse, to which he has recently made an extensive addition, was all burnt of wood. He supposes the fire to have originated from tho registers of the furnace getting overheale '. Others have surmised that it resulted from the carelessness of some German servant girls in his employ, who were frolicking in the laundry up to a late honr last night, and long after the retired. They were met, all dressed and hooded, on the road by one of the neighbors who was on her way to the scene of the disaster, very soon after the alarm was given from which it is inferred, that the fugitive domestics had not been to bed at all, but that the fire had occured through some carelessness of theirs, and they became frightened and ran away.

Fire companies from ManhatfanviWe and Garminsville, two and three miles distant, arrived in time to protect the outbuildings, but not in time to offer any protection to the dwelling. The firemen have been occupied all the forenoon in searching for the body of Sarah' but up to twelve o'cloek without success. Mary and Sarah were twins, and about twenty years of age.— Grace was about seventeen.—V. Y. Evening Post, Jan. 13.

METHODISTS IN PITTSBURGH.—The Pittsburgh Christian Advocate says the number of Methodists in the two cities of Pittsburgh and Alleglianey is about 2,226, being about one Methodist in every thirtytwo inhabitants. Pittsburgh has a population of 47,000 of which 1,500 are members of our church. Allegheny has 23,000 inhabitants, and a little over 600 members of the M. E. Church.

The total increase of all the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the year 1854, is 30,633. Last year the increase, according to the Methodist Almanac, was 25,950.

Cure of Palpitation.

A lady about forty years old, says the Journal of Health, who has suffored severely from periodical attacks of palpitation of the heart, from the age of twelve years, has found immediate and permanent relief from the use of soda water. It appears from experiments since made, the carbonic acid gas is the active curative agent.—Ib.

CHURCH REVIVALS.—For a week or two past there have been continual day and night meetings at the Baptist, Baldwin, and North Methodist Churches. Many are said to have been added to these congregations.—Terre Haide Courier.

jgpThe cashier of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank at Indianopolis, in the spccie paying list, decamped on last Saturdav, taking with him all the money, leaving depositors in a bad fix. The bank is owned by Col. May, and the cashier his nephew, Frank May. The Colonel pub-1 lishes a card, wherein he says none but himte'if shall be loser by the transaction.-

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