Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 March 1855 — Page 2

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THE .JOURNAL.

W.*FRY,

AT. RAMKY

J. L.

Adve-i'tisemen!

NRNKLL.

Editor,

CRAWFORDSVILLE,

THVjRSDAY, MAKCII 29, rxss.

TBR S. THE MONTGOMERY JOURNAL

I-1 published (.very Thursday, at $1,50, if paid 1:1 advance within the tear and $2,50 aller the expiration of the year. No .subscription discont'r.uvil till all arrearages are paid.

Editor Absent.—The columns of the •Journal will not be crowded with original matter for the next two or three weeks, owing to the absence of the Editor. Our cotemporaries will therefore, oblige us very much, by holding still for the time. On his return, however the language of the Count "they can •j itch in!"

OUK MERCHANTS

VIIAWFOM) I

MULT.IKIN,

is receiving and opening his

stock of Spring and Summer Goods. lie is gentlemanly and obliging ami it will give him' pleasure, to wait, and have waited on, all who may be i:i want of any thing in his line. Call at his new stair!, in Benage's bniiding, ami examine. Advertisement will appear as soon as time will per-mit,-explanatory of the whole matter.

BP.OWN,

at the New Clothing

Store, on (\reei: street, one door .south oi A. Harney's, is receiving and opening, probably, a little of the finest sloe! extant and will smilingly exhibit them, to any and ail, who wisti to be clothed. Call and see him:

in our next.

TI.AKK Fi.y.—We

flopped into this es

tablishment a few days .since, and found that Fraii had. been East, returned and was receiving and opening a magnificent leek of Spring and Summer Dry-Goods, Rounds:, Ribbons, and an endless lot of ilitis, fo men, misses and children, -Ad-1 .'eriiaemoiil erelong 1

•RojiiNso:.*, VAXCE IVOBIXBOIC.—The

rtork of this Sn», we see, has commenced a:riving. Our old Lnd John R. Robin-

went east himself, and yaving had long 1 ex. orience in the mercantile business, we •^.uiwhen :hi'i.**iock shall have been re-

.e.vrd. -nu opm-o, tne peopk. f.

IIAUTKU & GAT.KY.—This

another of the firms, you trill read of.— They have received their Grocenc.- t\s DryGoods, part—but the rush is not yet.— Mr. Campbell has not yet returned from the cart, hut is daily looked, for. The

(.'1 in opening and placing them upon his shelves for the inspection of the public.— Advertisement next v.vek.

A. HoKxr.Ji, ot the firm of Horner S: Davis, has just returned from the East.— ihey will be in receipt of a large and fine lock of Boots and Shoes, Leather, czc., in few days. Their advertisement will appear. asf'oen as their stock arrives.

v. iii doubtless be heard from through the columns of the Journal, and Posters in ai few days.- Give them a call.

JAMES GIUIIAJT,

.]'augment ot Mr. (. ., in the selection of ar- containing 12,000,OOl) acres, mote or less, tides adapted to the wants of this, people [The laud is in addition to seven or eight cannot'be surpassed. millions of ncies conveyrd to the-United

iji:w -t'.Ai.i.Li ten-, us, i'.is slOcIv o. Loot.-,

M-.oe-s, Shoe Findings, Leather, itc., has the United States nearly 9i)D,000 acres of been received, and that he is busily engag- 1 land at Long 1 'rairio, on the Mississippi

O. Ci.ot'D '.V Co., are in receipt of their

'Spring Summer stock of Dry-Goods, I badly burned, that not over three or four Bonnet -, Ribbons, kc., &c. This firm I °*f

of the firm of Graham

Bro.. hove to a day or two since. Their si'.ock is hourly arriving and being opened. Their Bonnets r.r.d Ribbons arc beautiful.

CL'MLEIiLAND, ChRISTMAN

GkEGO,

see. are busily engaged in the receipt of an extensive and complete stock in the Haidwere line..1. II. BEKEFIEL of tho firm of Benefiel

Eltzroth, has returned from the East. and informs us that they expect to be in receipt of their Spring & Summer supply of Dry Goods, kc.. «fcc.. in a few days.

Br.ov.'N, Bi-Atn

WASSON,

a new firm,

are receiving their Spring stock of Dry.Good.s and Groceries.

There are other businenr, men in our 'nee, who n^h! be mentioned, were we in possessi-m of tho facts .and shall be pleased to do so ai any time they may give us a call.

ur thanks are due the Hon. S. A.

Douglass, for a second copy of the speech didn't deliver in Chicago.

nai.

ELECTION.—Next

Momuy n. the

clay for the selection of township officers.

f'-fThe srrir# toriu or tuc Court of 'on.mon Picas of this county, commencc-

t. iJoudar nexf.

AA' lcavn from the N. A. Tribune, t.iat iunr now locomotives will soon bo added to tlie rolling stock of the New Albany and Suleui Railroad,

elect ion in- Virginia comes off

INO. "f on the fourth Thursday of April. The result is looked to with great anxiety by all parties.

jfcjyUie goneral elections in Rhode Island and Connecticut, comes off next week. Look out for some more of

BKOTIIKR—You

OJC.

.'-lock has ail arrived, opened and spread •L^

SAM'S

CiiAWFonDaviLi.E

we will just sav fin "feting is to be held at Liutoga, on the 5th

ANl EXPECTED ARfilVALH,

and Otll of A

inform us that

their Spring and Summer .stock of Dry(•ioods, Jcc., &e., are constantly arriving and being opened, for the inspection of the public, old customers anil friends general!'--. iMvm appearances, the uohns ate determined to merit a, good patronage this Jip:iny. and wo believe it due them, Call and tee—lor ".seeing is believing," \fce.— Advertisement in our next issue.

doings.

NUKSEKY.

Seo the

advertisement of this Nursery in to-day's paper. Mr. Oeunison, the proprietor, intends adding this spring to the variaties already on hand, semo fine Apple, Peach, Cherry, and a largo number of Ever-greens and shrubs.

jCSTSce notice of the Teachers' Association in another column. Their next

Tea! Tea! !—IT. Ball, is the in:ui who, we believe, keeps the Tea. Call to the sign of the Big Eagle and examine for vourelves. We did so, and are verily of the opinion, that it is as good, and a great deal the cheapest Tea wc have had, for "!o these many days."

A Sew Stcref. Order a::S Lheir Obligation. The following precious document was handed us by a citizen of Harrison county, who informed us that it was picked up recently by an outsider who did not sympathise very cordially with the proposed object and movements therein stated.— Whether it is the obligation of Sag jMchts, or some other secret organization we cannot say. Wo give it just as wo find it, omitting names.—A". A. Tribune. Harrison County Democratic Asroclatiou.

wrote me to know what

kind of oath to administer to persons vou lake in. I will give it: "I, A. 13., of my own free will and accord, in presence of these witnesses, do solemnly promise and swear that I am in favor of this association, and that I will r.ot vote for a Know Nothing if I know the same. UU'l that I will Note only for a good Demo:: a1 'i hat I will favor the Foreign born ail.'l the Romanist, thereby getting their votes as well as their well-wishes.

I fu:the: more promise and swear that 1 will not fell any of the secrets: of this order. I fu: the more promi.se and swear that I will tell that Know Nothings are villains, and that will vote for a member of this order whether I bclive he faithful or not so help me God."

You know the balance. I hope brother you will work hard in the service. President ot the county to the President of Washington township/

TK6 Treaty rath, the Chippewa's

"WASII:NOTOX,

March 15, 1855.

The lands conveyed by the Chippewas, 1 the treaty just concluded, as deleniated on tne map ia the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs are bounded by a

., line betrinnine''at a point at the end of Yer-

jiv01. siU atca

7y ./.'y and vicinity, will be heard to cx- min. north latitude, 1)2 deg. 40 min." west claim, "did yon ever/''

ril'n-

1 ,i ,1 1 -n westerly to where Bnifulo river inter v.son sheives., that those wim call mav ex-

.^out 40 deg. If

When their longitude, thence runumg southerly to 40

noiih latitude thence noith-

north end of Otter Trail lake, thonce due Yiorth to the source of Black river thence dowii said river to Rainy river thence down Rainy liver to the mouth of Big Fork river thence up Big Fork river to the mouth of the second principal branch of .said Big Fork river, entering from the east side thence in straight line southeasterly to point of beginning, said tract

States ia:t September.

T!u.

Winnebagoos have also conveyed to

rivur, in Minnesota Tenitory, in exchange for money, am! about 230,Ol'O acres on Blue Earth livar, in the same Territory.

The Coal lit Explosion at Kichmoau— Further Particulars.

B.'.T.T!::O:IE,

March 22.

The Richmond Dispatch contains full details of the coalpit explosion at Midlothian. Thirty-four persons were instantly killed, including twenty negroes twelve negroes and five white persons were so

('iem car-

recover.

Every effort was immediately made to rescue those who wore not killed. Some of the dead were found, with the flesh burned off the bones, and still holding picks, shovels, kc., in their skeleton hands. The flesh on thos'e still alive was burned to the bone, as if it had been roasted.

Tho pita are nearly eight hundred feet deep. The following are the names of the white persons killed Tho. Dunn, John Evans, (an Englishman.) Sain'l. Golden," John Lester, Jonathan Jeweti, Jas. Howe. The following white persons are fatally wounded John Howe, Samuel Hunt, Nicholas Hunt, H-nm and Thos. Kennedy.

WHITE MAVLE SUOAH.—As

The.x al

ters in Kaunas!

The pits were considered perfectly safe, f°r the meeting of Pienipoteutiarieri at and free from foul air, but in making a enna on the Otll inst. blast, an old shaft sink was accidently I Russian representation was present at crushed, from which a volume of gas is- Conference. I. nc object 01 tne debitsued, and ignited, causing a most terrific explosion, causing the earth, for miles around, to heave and crack similar to the effects of an earthemake. Over one hundred of the white miners were, fortunately, out of the pit at the time of the explosion.

the sugar

season i.s upon us now, the following suggestion as to the best mode of making white mapTe sugar, may be of service to some of our country subscribers:

A Vermont farmer says the following is sure method of clarifying sugar: Filter all your sap before boiling, through a hopper or box of sand, which, he is satisfied, Will take out, not only ail the stains derived from leaves, tubs, crumbs oi bark, but all other coloring' mutter that c.*fn prevent the sugar from being pure white.

rut aboil* BOO" legal vo-

LATER FROM- ECROPE.

ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.

Confirmation of the Death of the Emperor of Bussia.

Vv. NEW

OIIK,

March

27.

The steamer Atlantic arrived this morning. Her news confirms the report of the death of the Czar.

The Atlantic left Liverpool at 2 o'clock, P. M., on the 10th, and arrived off thfc Light House last night, but did not come in till day light. She encountered severe westerly gales.

The entire number of passengers brought by the Atlantic is 74, among whom are Bishop Hughes and Bishop Newman.

Breadstuffs are dull at 2d decline in wheat Is. decline in flour Is. decline in corn Is.

American stocks arc unchanged and money is easier. GENERAL IKTKt.Ur.KXCK.

The following are official dispatches of the Emperor's death Nicholas died on the? 2d of March, at. 1 of influenza. lie was attacked with the disease on Wednesday, and became much worse on Thursday.

On Friday morning r.fU::- consulting the physician respecting his approaching end, sacrament was administered to him. He

tiie iotn 111st., announce that the Czarowich Alexander assumed the reigns ot government at St. PeLersburgh, 011 the 9th of March, and received homage as Emperor.

Nicholas had recalled Menehikolt and appointed Gortchukoft* chief in command Osten Sachen second, «nd Luders to Bessarabia.

Alexander had appointo G011. Rudewer Minister of V\*ar. The Allies have ordered their Generals to press forward.

Emperor Alexander has succeeded peacefully to the throne of Russia. He issued a manifesto, stating that he would adhere to the policy of his father, Nicholas.

Coustantine and the other brothers of Alexander have taken oaths of allegiance. Alexander has continued Diplomatist, Gortchakotf's previous instructions to negotiate, and the first preliminary Conference has been held at Yionru.

There Ji.nl been mou-fighting in the Crimea. The French stormed the redoubt skillfully and retired during the night.

Severn! hundred men were killed. It is riynorcfl that the Graml Duke Michael was woim bjd, and died at Sevastopol. A l::rgtforce of Russians threaten to at tuck Balaklavf..

The blockade of the Danube was raised. Braussa was destroyed by an earthquake, and most of tiie inhabitants perished.

A disagreement has arisen between Napoleon and England Napoleon declaring

gether if Roebuck's committee* proceeded. Lord Clarendon proceeded by express to Bologne and made matters .straight. In the meantime the committee proceeded but it is thought thai Parliament would be dissolved.

The King of Denmark is very sick. Serious difficulties arc reported in 'J'iirin, Switzerland and Belgium, and the crisis still continues.

The last words of the C:- .ir to the Empress was, "Tell Frederick, King o! Prussia, to

i'C

.•rsects

hea nver, at tuc north thence tiown

amine tnen wnl their advertisement appear Hver to the mouth of Wild Ri*e river r.i oui column.?, speaking oi things as they 1 thence j.n a northeasterly direction to (Tie are.

attached to "Russia, as lio has here

tofore been, and never iorgcl his father's words," It is said that a few days before the Czar's death, lie succeeded in effecting

The news of the .Emperor's death was received in England with great demonstrations of joy. Several theatre, managers came before tho curtains and announced the fact, which was received in most instances with tremendous cheering.

Ambassadors in Paris announced the new Emperor's accession. A synopsis 01 Alexander's manifesto, received via K011igsburg, which declared the welfare of his empire his only object, and he will endeavor to maintain Russia 011 the highest standard of honor and glory, and aim to accomplish the incessant wishes and view? of his predecessors. and hopds his subjects will

sist him therein. The Berlin Court placed itself in proper mourning. Orders were received for trie whole Prussian arm3" to vmbols of

wear ^vm.bol, 0: monrnmg tor ttrur week

l.i, lenna conference cau.cd gieat agi-

tat ion. The Empei 0 knowledgment Nicholas durin nate triads.

of Austria directs an acot services rendered by the lime of his uufortu-

Upon receipt of the news of the death of the Kmperor in Paris, orders were sent to Canrobert to press on the eeige of Sevastopol with the utmost vigor.

Nothing was known about the departure of Napoleon to the scene of war.

Additional preparations were making

ters was to conclude upon the precise meaning of. the third section of the guaranteed points.

Gen. Medell had left Paris on his return to Berlin. He was said to be the bearer of instructives which would incur tho conclusion of the treaty between Prussia and the Western Powers.

The Chamber of Deputies at Stutlango had voted the three millions of thalers demanded by the Minister of War, but insisted forma in the bill of recommendation, to follow closely the policy of Austria.

The Ratification treaty with Sardinia had. been exchanged. The Bishop of Sevastopol reached Paris on the 7tli. of March, and stated that 50,000 Russians threatened the English forces at Balftklava. Bnsquet was endeavoring to get his corps in rear of the enemy, with a view of cutting them off from their reinforcements if they become the attacking party.

The weather was rain\'. Mcnechikoff saj-s the French were repulsed with a loss of 600 men. The French claim the victory with the loss of 100 men. The French destroyed the works around Malekoff, but with great loss. Nothing new had occurred at Eupotoria to the 5th of February. At the latest dates a fine convoy of two hundred wagons had succeeded in entering Sevastopol.

There was considerable -firing on both sides, with more or less effect during the night of the 21st, ult the Russians threw up an sinned {'doubt.in the flfir.k of the for-

tilieations of Sevastopol, and on the night of the 24th wcro stormed by the French. Accounts of the event are very contradictory.

SwiTZKitLAND.—Disturbances have broken out in some ot the Cantons, The difficulty is between the federal Commission and citizens of Canton.

BELGIUM.—The

"Pori'I.AH

tb.at the armies should no longer act to- very out of Kansas, jln'ed him thirteen do!-

Red •oeoilcl^a^'5iv 'HVV kis two eldest sons, hu.sband, and when unable to go herself Alexander and Constantim.

political crisis continues.

The country is yet without a Minist'y. The King of Denmark is dang"iorsly ill.

ENGLAND.—The

London Morning Herald

says they have most excellent authority for stating that the French Emperor has remonstrated against the Committee for enquiring into tho conduct of the war, and said that, in tho event of the Committeo continuing, the two armies cannot act together, although they may aim for the same object.

It is not known whether the recent visit of Clarendon to the Emperor of the French had any reference to the above matter or not.

Lord Lucan has been denied a court martial. Tho Roebuck committee is proceeding in their investigations, and apprehensions are felt that another Caiiir war is about to take place. The government its taking active measures to avert it, if possible.

Attempt to Xob

then tooic leave of las family ana expired. Bank, in this citv", v.*as made on Thursday Telegraphic dispatches from Berlin of

tile

niKht.

Lafayette Bank.

A bold attempt to rob the Lafayette

The Robber or Robbers entered the

cellar underneath the Bank, by a trap door on the sidewalk. A window was taken out which separated the cellar from a meatsho, where candles were taken and lit to work by. With a crowbar, which was left, a large hole, nearly two feet square, and about as doep. was made in the wall 011 which ihe vault of the bank stands. An attemyt was also made to bore through the floor, to make a passage to the bank, but from some cause the whole was abandoned. With the exception of what money was found in the the meat shop, nothing of value was taken away.—Lafayette American.

SOVEREICSXTY"

Ian and hi Hall jo free.

KANSAS.—

A man named Cantril, who lives at Independence, Kansas, actually supposed that he had a right in this free country to paint his own wagon to plense his own fancy.— So he had the words "Kansas Free Stale," painted 011 his wagon in big k-tters. This excited the indignation of Popular Sovereign Orho Hall, who jumped up in the forward end- of the. wagon and attacked Cantiilwith a knife, lie.-was, however, prevented from doing ipuch injury to the man, so he contented himself with cutting the covering of the wagon to pieces. Cantril had Ilall arrested, and upon tho trial it was fully proved that Ilall had threatened to kill Cantril. The Justice, however, examined Cantril as to his political opinions, and finding him in favor of keeping Sia-

Diveres Case.

A singular case was tried in the Court of Common Pleas., on Saturday. An application was made for a divorce by a respectable '.'nan, from his wife, 011 the ground that she hud beer, a nabitr.al drunkard fo: more than three years. The evidence showed that the wife, when sober was a very industrious, deserving woman, a good wife ami mother but when under the influ«meo of !i.-jnor a perfect maniac, abusing her husband and children. She had been in the habit of going to tiie lowest doggeries and buying liquor, in despite of her

would send her little children with a bottle to procure it. The husband' had used every effort to prevent the grocery and tavern keepers from selling to her, but ail his entreaties and lernor.stranccs were without avail. She had the money to buy, and the universal plea was, "if one wouldn't sell to her another would, and wc. might as well have the money as an}' bod}r else." The wife was rather a good looking woman, and thn husband is worth some $5000.— G. S. Journal.

Stamping on. Sables.

A corespondent of the Boston Post describing a visit to a mosque at Constantinople, gives this account of anew cure "There was a strange kind of by-play

pn in (}u, meanlim(J whieh

of hlamp

,:ni^

nexrilil,a])],. LUtlc chi|flrou wer# bcing

brought in, when Mr. Brown said to me, 'Now, look the shiek is going to stamp upon them.' Sure enpngh, they laid a little bit of a baby down on a mat be/ore him, and he deliberately set. one foot and then the other upon it, supporting himself on either side upon the hands of a couple, of aids. It looked frightful, and I could hardly help screaming out but the infant did not seem hurt when they took it up, nlthough it cried a little. 1 saw the process

^r repeated on several children

afterwards, who did not seem to mind it at all, although'one could see clearly he bore weight upon them as they flattened out under his tread. All this is done with the view of curing any disease tho children may have, and afterwards many other grown persons' came in to be curcd of one thing or the other. The shiek said prayers over them, at the same time performing a sci"i?s of manipulations on the part effcct-

Od. ,v

BURNING MUD

TOR

COAL.—Dr.

Thomas

Hooker, of New Orleans, has discovered a chemical preparation, which, lrflxed with mud as a bricklayer would mix lima with sand, make an excellent coal!—coal that can be made and sold in the New Orleans market for thirty cents per barrel, if made by hand, or -fifteen cents if made by machinery. It lights easily there i.s no offensive smell emitted but little smoke, and but very little dust of cinders. What little cinders are left, is good for cleaning silver, brass or other similar metals and the ashes make tolerable sand paper, and is also good for scrubing floors, &c. "The patentee also assures us," says the American Exponent, "that it will not only burn well in grates (where we saw it burning) —but in stoves, furnaces, for smelting and for making steam. In fact it can be jiut to all the practical uses for wood or coal, except for the purpose of generating gas.'

j£S?'It is thought that about ten or fifteen convicts will be sent to Jeffersonville at the present, term of the Vigo Circuit Court.

iP3TThe wide1v haf ecoyci"i h"i

of President usua! licrdtb.

ONE WEEK LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.

ARRIVAL OF THE GEOEGE

LAW.

NEW YOKK,

March, 24,

Arrangements for the resumption of Page Bacon & Co are about coihpleted, and it is expccted that-they would be %ble to resume business in a few days.

Reed fc Co.,of Sacramento, have applied for the benefit of the insolvent act. The Miner's Saving Bank, it is expected will shortly resume again.

Or general news, there is nothing of much interest. The copious rains gave much gratification.

The bill introduced into the Legislature for prohibiting tho sale of liquor, will be submitted to the vote of the people at their general election in 1855. Among the business men at San Francisco, confidence is is somewhat restored,hut the financial stringency is, nevertheless, great, and but little has been done in the way of trade.

From Valparaiso dates of the the 14th nit., we learn that the news from Chili is unimportant.

The Steamer Mississippi sailed for home on the 9th of February. ,:\ The frigate St, Lawrence left for the U. S. on the 8th inst,, and the Jndepedtjnce arrived to relieve her.

The John Adams arrived on the 26th of January from Rio. The markets dull.— Nothing of importance, commercially or politically.

The Bogota Congress met on the Lst of February, and Manuel Miller was duly declared Yice President of the Republic.

Col. Fremont was among the passengers by the George Law. Wells ite Fargo resumed payjnent on the 2otb. ult., :uid alt demands are promptly

r"l5lL

Adams & Corf have filed a petition, for the benefit of the Insolvent Act. The schedule of iissets and liabilities show a balance on the right of about $100,000. Mr. Vvoods gave in all his private property— estimated at $250,000,which went to malic up the total assets.

FOUND GUILTY-

Exrosr.or

—Kissanc, of 'Martha

Washington" notoriety, who has been on trial in New York for forgery, has been found guilty of that crime in the third degree./. The New Yoik statutes define this degree as follows "Among other offences, that of, with intent to injure and defraud, falsely to make, forgj or counterfeit any writing, the act of another, by which any pecuniary demand or* obligation i.s or purports to be created, increased, dischargod, or diminished, or by which ar.y rights or property are or purport to be transferred, discharged, diminished, or in any manner affected, the punishment of which is not elsewhere prescribed, and by which any person may be effected, bound or injured in his person or property—State prison not exceeding five years.

THE KNOW NOTHINGS.

The following i.s a very amusing expose of the secrets of the mysterious Order: When ever ar.y person expiesses in the presence of a Know-Nothing, a strong desire to become a member of the order, he is privately informed that he must be at a certain corner at the hour of twelve, whistling Yankee Doodla out of one corner of his mouth, and Hail Columbia out of the other that, he must have a cop3' of the Constitution of the United Stair.. in one of his boots, (or shoes, as the case may be,) and tlio Declaration of Independence in nix other boot (or shoe, as tho case maybe) that when a person passes him in a slouched ha!., whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner,' he (the candidate) must follow. He will be led up a dark stair way, into a room. He will then be sworn by some persons, whom the darkness conceals, never fo reveal any thing hj mu}' hear or see during the meeting. After this oath, a light suddenly illuminates the room, and five men in masks approach the candidate, holding in their hands the American flag, made out of twelve hundred yards of American silk, which they roll around the candidate, completely encasing him, after the fashion of an Egyptian mummy. The five then shoulder the candidate and carry him in:o the lodge.— Though he cannot see, he can hear, and the Great Grand Flum—the highest officer— administer a terrible oath, swearing the candidate neve*' to reveal any of the passwords, signs, tokens, grips, principles, designs or private work of the Order, 0:1 penalty of being sent to the penitentiary or the Indiana Legislature! If the case is not lo« aggravated tho viofcitioti wohW c*iJy be visited upon the violator bj sending him to the penitentiary, but the extreme^t penally for violation is the legislature.

Aiicr taking this oath, the candidate is rolled around the room, this being the speediest way of unwinding the flag. He sees the members standing around him all in masks. The five principles are then read to him, and after he has sworn to observe them, he is compelled to run a splinter previously taken from a liheny pole—into the index finger of his left hand, and with the splinter and his own blood, he signs the constitution and By-Laws of the order.—Physicians on being admitted iu!o the order, are compelled to take an additional oath, to the cffect that they will mistake strychnine for calomel in administering medicine to Dutch and Irish Catholics.— Lawyers have to swear that they will abandon tho habit of lying and deception in dealing with native born American clients. Many Lavyers have left.

A Ni:w ACQUISITION—RUSSIAN AMERICA.

—A singular piece of diplomatic news appears in the London papers-received by the Pacific, under the head of telegraphic advice from Vienna, respecting the Russian Possessions in North Amcrica. It i.s to this effect:

VIENNA,

to the local papers, tho Russian Gen. Irlansuroff, who has recently arrived at Brussels, is the bearer of the cession of the Russian Possessions in North America to the United States for 830,000,000.

The above, the New York Times says, should bear date Feb. 17, the day previous the steamer sailed from Liverpool. It is news to the United States,without the slight est premonition. The subject of the purchase of the Russian Possessions on the Pacific Ocean, if agitated at all at Washigton among the numerous other annexation schemes, must have revolved in a very silent and profoundly secret circle, since no intimation of the sort has reached the public.-' The present advice of the scheme comes

Herviwm I in round about way, and may be bogus of lb" poorest metal.-— j:tal. Sun,

Liquor Suits.

1 he Wabash Gazette says that Julia Walker received $476 damages against James Ditton, "for causing the death of her husband by making him drunk, whereby he fell into the canal and was drowned?" slight coihpensatibn for so grievous an injury, but our correspondent at Wabash stated that the law limited the damages to the amount of the liquor dealer's bond, which was §500, and the verdict and costs would make that sum.

The W abash Courier gives the following account of another case similar to the above:

Some excitement prevailed in this community during the week, arising from a suit brought by the guardian of a minor child of W. D. Johnson, against W. D. Smith to recover damages for selling liquor to the plaintiff's father. Some time ago Mr. W. D. Johnson went into Smith's saloon and called for a small glass of brandy. Instead of taking tho quantity customary for a drink, Mr. Johnson, while the bar tender's back was turned getting change, poured a tumbler full of brandy and drank it. He immediately started on a hunting expedition, and several hours after, when returning, dropped IHs gun in the cn-ial. While searching for it in the water, some calamitv befel him, by which he became insensible, *Tas carried home, and died in a few hours. The Jury returned a verdict of 8500 for thy plaintiff, which is considered as quite severe, under the circumstances. A motion for a new trial i.s now pending in the case.

j£5/"The following queer advertisement appears in the Daily Madison Banner.— We give it for the benefit of some of our lady readers: "WI'KE ANTIID.—A

EDITOH

widower, and a

tanner by profession, 46 years of age, encumbered with no children, who has §1,oOO worth of property, wishes to form the acquaintance of a lady who would like to be a farmer's wife—one of good moral industrious habits, between 25 and 35 years of age, not pretty, nor weighing down with ugliness, and not encumbered with more than one child. A ladv of the above desciiption, who wishes to propose, can address a letter to "Y. Y. Did, Madison, Ind." giving name and address, and stating where an interview can be had.

No Bloomer need apply.

A CI'IUOSITY.—We examined a curiosity the other day, consisting of a human bone around which th»s knot of a tree had grown. It was found

a tree about twen-

ty feet from the butt. It was severed in cutting the knot from the tree, but a piece, about two inches in length, remained in the portion of the knot exhibited to us. How it got there is the question. Dr. Duncan, who showed it to us, supposes that, as it was a custom among a number of Indian tribes to dispose of their dead by hanging them in trees, this bone was retained, when the balance of the body fell down in the process of decay, and was thus enclosed in the growth of a tree. The curiosity is now in the possession of Rev. Mr. Chapman of this place.—Marshall Illinoisan.

April Election.

v$fs.

Kwtox Please announce my r.amp .m a candidate tor Justice of the l-Vaee lor Uuion

nSS'H. ,S55*

B0BtT

MR. EDITOR:—Please

TaLS

Mu. Enn-on :—You will please announce ray name a.- a candidal* for Constable tvt tho coming I April) election. JOHN UUSENBAlilv.

announce my name as a

c.u'.nidate for the office of Justice oi' tho 1'onee for Union towcbhip, at the ensuing election. and oblige JOSEPH EJfSMINlJEil.

Mu.

:—Please announce my name a.-: a

candidate for Constable for Union township at the ensuing April election. SAMUEL HOKNEK.

EPITOR

:—Announce me as a candidate for

Treasurer of Union, township, at tho approaching April election.

Mr..

ELI

EDITOR

MR. EDITOR:

COMPTON.

:—Please announce my name

candidate for Justic of the Peace for Union township at the ensuing April election. March 15, 1855.] JOHN PURSEL.

Please announce the name

ALEXANDER THOMSON,

as a candidate for

Township Clerk, at the approaching April flection, and oblige,

MR. EDITOR:

MANY YO

ICNS.

Tlease announce my name

as a candidate for the office of Justice of the Peace for Union township, at tho ensuing April eiection.

FEAIIUKL

MR. EDITOR:

DKMOKET.

Please announce my name

as a candidate for Constable for Union rtowmdiip at th*ensuing April election.

JACOB

Mclwir.r..-

STAISRfED—On Thursday eve, March retain

29, by Rev. Jas. H. Johnston, Mr. ROBERT BI.AU and Miss JENNIE JOHNSTON, all of this place.

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Montgomery Teachers' Association. The fifth session of the "Montgomery Teachers' Association," will be held at Ladoga, 011 the 5th and 6th of April next, commencing on the afternoon of Thursday, at 8 o'clock. Addresses and Essays will be delivered by various members of the Association during its session.

Every Teacher and friend of Education in the county, is earnestly invited to attend and become members of tho Association.— The citbeu.s of Ladoga and the public generally are cordially solicited to meet with us. Tho good people of Ladoga have tendered us their hospitality on the occasion, and a Committee will be in waiting at the Depot, on the arrival of the cars, to receive us. All things will be in readiness. Come one, come all. By order of the Association.

Crawfordsville, March 28, 1S55. G.

jBar"beriii^!

rpHE

kept

Saturday, 9, A. M.™According

undersigned would respectfully inform

1 their friends and customers that after the l?t day of May, 1^55. their Barher Shop will not be

open on the Sabbath. Wc would therefore re-. pcctfully request all who may desire our services to call during the week, or at least, dn Saturday eve. VTICKLIFF & JONEiJ.

March 21), lff5.

GB&WWBmBSWm&Ti

THE

undersigned has ordered a selcct variety of Apple, Peach and Cherry Trees, to be on hand by the 10th of April, which added to his present stock of Apple and Pear Trees, will be sufficient to supply this Spring's demand. He will h:ive also a quantity of

E E E E N S

such as Norway fcprucc. Balsam Firr, Arbor Vita, Red Cedar,and Whitc-Piues. He iuteuda .io soon X- I !e, to obtain a variety of

0 21 amc-nta! Trees and Shrubs, ularge and perfect his stock of Fruit Tree? so- ns to be able to supply the demands of tins com iruinity O P. J..ISrI*ILJOIC

Marc! •}?, 'Stt Hv.

TIMES.

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knowing ones and many of

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A G-ood. and COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF*

TIN, COPPER AND

SHEET-IRON WARE,

ON&hands

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