Indiana American, Volume 18, Number 43, Brookville, Franklin County, 18 October 1850 — Page 2

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BROOKVILLE, INDIANA. ——————— FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 1850. ======= New Mail Route. By an act of the late session of Congress, a Mail Route was established from Metamora or Laurel, by Stipps Hill to Clatksburgh. In the official act it is stated that the mail starts from "Samuel" in Franklin Co. We suppose it should be Laurel, as the type setter would more probably mistake that name for Laurel. Rob't Ward has been appointed Post Muster at Stipps Hill. He lives on the Hill, near Hint's Saw Mill, on the road from Metamora to Clarksburgh. This office was much needed; and now we hope our friends in that region will send for the American. ——————— Rushville Rail Road. We have some vague and indefinite information that the rail-road is now open from Rushille to Indianapolis, by the way of Edinburg. We have searched the advertising columns of the Jacksonian to learn the fact officially. If there is such a rail-road we presume they are too poor to advertise, or too penurious. We have some idea of going to Indianapolis and have been for some years in the practice or going by Madison. But if there is really a Rail Road from Rushville, and we can find out the hours of departure of the cars—how it connects with the Madison Road, and how long it takes to go from Rushville to Indianapolis, we may

n r 1 . . ",s h?a(1 oot f water, It is thoueht thet nrnbaville Monday morning, w hat hour can we reach 1,,, h m. . , c. lno"Bnl ,n,,, Proba" .... u . . bly ne may have had a fit, and thus emired.

Indianapolis by your route? And there is another important question. Do they chalk editor's hats on your route? ——————— The Turnpikes. The Pike from Harrison to this place is finis-

lied to the Mound, three miles, below town. j years. The amount alleged to have been taken The work is still progr-ssicg, but sbwly ho we- j wa!' eleven dollars which sum was proved to Ter, on account cf the funds. I lisve been stolen from the Prosecutor whilst soOn the last day oDast week, we came through joining at the same tavern at which the prisoby Venice and Mt. Carmel from Cincinnati. j ller barned. The Pike from Scipio to connect with the Ve- I SCTWilliam Goudy, who has been imprisoned nice road is progrfssing. We came through by ! for er months, charged with uttering the new road. The part connecting the two ; t,lrPf 's of committing arson, has been liberated, roads is about 3'a' miles, and is about two-thirds 8n', fnl on h' wy rejoicing. If there's auy done. They will have it in a few weeks so that , ,ruth ij Shakespeare's declaration "He that has loaded teams will pass over the Pike. We thick ; no music in - oul, is fit for stratagem " &e

It will be ready for the winter travel. tTContrary to our expectations, we have no word from the Indiana Methodist Conference. CTOur latest proceedings from the Convention Is np to Saturday evening last. They have made but little progress the first week rj3"The private news from California, i that i large nnmherof these who went to California ' last winter will return this winter, amone horn ! ere Dr. Goodwin. James Goudie end the Fairfield boys, and manv of those fr-.m Brookvil'e i " T. . "55 -JtT. The official returns of the votes cast, at tht Ute election ,, that cou.ty, give for Governor j .--Wn.035; JonS.OiO-Wood'.ma-fmith . majority 3,C4. , awn Mrrllm. It i. conceded, says the St. Loui Republican, j that Daniel F. Milled, Whig, is elected to Loa- I grees in the first Dislr.ct cf Iowa to fill the vacancy caused by shading home the silting iiitin e, Wm. Thompson. .uiuer was jusi.y er.t,iiej to the seat, but the Locofoco niaionty i:i Ccr.jrnss r fused it, and ! f:ll ... .... . . . . !-o relusod to let! hom-son sit wilh them. Tlie people of Iowa, therefore h ive done juslite to Mr. M:i!er and given him al least ()l.Hi.rity, thu. settling the o i stiou araijst a r.ckl.ss ', party In Congress. - J " i !Lr I he Iii-iomiiigtoii, (tn.i ,) R .sai James ii;io':-s, t.i; , cf H'oom stipttli has ' challenged Hon. Geo'g- G. Dimu, cf Be,;f,r end that the latter has accepted the haii'ne.I he meeting is to t ike pi ire i-i K-ntiicky. . The diflicttHy ?r.w out of a lawsnU In Green ! co.niy, in Whit'ti tliey were et:.ared ns attor were engaged . kltormember of the CornellConstitution cf Ia.:iana f l.o7d7Tc;,is. j ueys. Mr. Dtinn is a member of the tiou to revisi the Stat- Cons I nioil Kail Hottd At an adjourned mettiug held in I!ariicn, ou I October 1 itli, l?yit, On motion, C. F. Clarksou was .lectn.1 Trei!ent, an.: S A. Ci.uk, S,-tr. tary. Whereupon Judge Mc.Carty, being loudly c -tiled f r, ad.iesed the meeting i;h much energy, contending that Cincinnati had he;-n asleep to. or ueeKgent her greatest iiHeieett!:;tt while N. Y audi,, Hil!itn B.r. . n - L i. 1 .-'.'-..a.. I. . . .. . , .. .nr mil., ...I., HI iilllTCM, ; conruotiiivj railroads conir cling tiiem i:h ,iie l-tkes and branrhinT iT t!;e irrjer cf the I'ke Slat, s, and N-w Oi'eans had been . xt-rtii.g h.rselfto secur? southern trade, and i-.I-o that of the Mississippi an.t Oi io valleys Cincinnati had remaine.! inactive, instead of rxtxtidipg railroads into tlie iutrrier i f in.'i.ina and Illinois. These, States l,..d heretofore nude and constituted the wea'th of Cincinnati, but now their produce was about being diveit.-d toother points. The Judge then went on to show that the cheapest aad most practicable route for a R i.l RoaJ from Cincinnati, wis one ..,uiuK p the Whit Water Valley, and thence iuto lhe j interior, securing the trade of said States. He compared this line with ether contemplated! rout. and showed clearly that this was fur prefumble, ia all points of view , to any other. He. next showed that the Idea of all t-ther kiuds of ! Internal Improvement than nil roads had be-j come nearly obsoleto-that the White Walerj Valley Canal as well as many others must soou be abandoned and het:ce the n.e.ssy ,.f a Kail That .here is in this .. Road an this Va'lev. That . . . V lll V Inner. inni1nnr.i -1 sn ri'n. m-.ilii l. build this road, if they willful once entire ' v " I " "" this road, if thev will riut once enlace In earners t in its construction; and it will be i done il Cincinnati will arouse io her interest and ' encourare the rotd u this Valley. That this road will greatly enhance lhe value or the coui,-i

try through which it passes and therefore-, it is ; " " m-ii aua prooucuvo beyoud for the interest r all in this valley, to eagsje in j ro'"r",:"'n. Recent advices, however, estabita construction. J !Uh xh to be that these celebrated Fremont Joh- Bexnet. Fsq.beinj called upon, briefly mi"p llwc3!.r rn - of 400 reet lone, Jdreseed the meeting in raver of said road -re- hki' ' n opened theeutire length that marking that Cincinnati was destined t become i som, rio!l -rf"e boulcers, were fouud and a great maunfacturiog ei'y, extending over the j ,;8"h1 ui to crate excitement that lhe present vegetable gardens in the vicinity f Cin- s,,eci",,"K"ire "hauatcd, and that it will not -"ianali, aad that ir this road were constructed '" for ,0'rg. ll is asserted also that this lhef.rm. to the White Water ValVy would no,al,!e xe'n was .orked by persons who held

become gardeut. Tarioaa resolutions were paed. and one intrucUng the committee to ra.se fun.'.s, t. meet ' In Brook vide on Saturday the It'uh cay of Noember, to L.ks further ar-:in, snc! as they ' Vail deem best, for the furtherance of the chjict rl lUe ineetg. S. A. Ct a.k, S?ctr"v tTThey have two Newe-psper. tn Hieing i,IHraal tar-nr

lln(. at c owner vllle. ! When our contemporaries "dish np" their local items tn the right stle, It is with pleasure we give them a place. We copy the following from the Connersville Vallev: Junction Rail Road. The stockholders of the Junction Rail Road met at Connersville for the purpose of electing Directors on Monday last. The following named gentlemen were elected, to wit: H. L. Sexton and Daniel Wilson, of Rush county. Celeb B. Smith, Henry Simpson and Miner Meeker, of Fayette county; and Wm. L. John and Henry Rider, of Union county. Caleb B. Smith was elected President of the Board, and David Moore and Sol. Maker, Sec-

retary and Treasurer of the Canal Co. were se1 lected to discharge the duties of these offices for the Rail Road Co. until the further order of the Board. Henry C. Moore was appointed Engineer of the Co., and directed to proceed at once to survey and locate the road, and prepare the line for lettings from Rushville to the State line. The Company is now fully organized and preprepared for efficient action. It remains for the people interested in this important work now to determine whether this enterprise, so auspiciously commenced, shall be successfully carried cut; or shall be suffered to fail for want of sufficient encouragement. About one-half the amount of stock requisite to grade and bridge the Road, and prepare it for the iron has now been subscribed. The ether half ought to be taken in thirty days, and if the people are not blind to their interest they will take it. Pcntencrtl Wr- Knowles, who has been confined for j me pnsi lour moulds in our jail, upon a charge .of petit larcenv, has had atrial and been conder.ined to hrd labor in the Tenitentiarv for two be must be innocent of "the -oft impeachment." merrier bird never chirped through the grating or a prison window, and as to music the strain was continued. Cnmbriilce Iml. The Reveille cf the 12th inst. produce, the foIlowi,1S paragraphs; VI n Tr"flfrtta Ro!5 or-with . , . , "lH Wwk- durin ''e ''" d-!wred wrle. of addreson the subject of Temperance. Hisnieetings have been well altended, and a lively huervsi m-miUi' k . "lie rXC',,,e" " W,-,t is .UFp08ed th rTTi,,. v...,.u .. . . . i ""'y -useung oi Orthodox j Friends at Richmond r!.-e,1 T.,. i ... The Falla i-um says, it is sPp-J to h,ve be.n as targe as any nreviouslr I.eM CTRooMers have sometime. K .it,.i ,.?, owing to the fact that they proclaim viva voce uie approach of d.v K... .. -' """" II I-II IU we : CaM t!i hens? D've memsers, to be sure." give Hup. hy( lay j Ilrary to Iml. .. From ihrXtw rt;le Courier .. . . lrr.HT.i rw . tl :iRHAn w ui, , , ...... I i - ,, win open '. iu rr.. iroitil it, njr . ....-11 ' i Unon our enternri.ii.A m;.,I.i.- . . . ' " "r't""u' town oi ivniirlitsptoeine?;t and prosperity. Within ih ii.' IV fiist "snorting, crth- Iron horse" will awa ke., .e -rhos that slumber amonrr ih. benlift ! I .... , , ""iMi niiis anil Rli'lif the verif inl .-11... ... lie nestles. Our Railroad Progress. -- The meeting of the friends of the New Castle and Richmond Railroad at Washington last Saturday, was well attended, and productive of most gratifying results. An examination of the Stock Books showed that there were something over $80,000 subscribed, to which, between three or four thousand dollars were added before the adjournment of the meeting. Additional stock solicitors were appointed who are now in the field and we have no doubt that the whole amount of $100,000 will be taken before the meeting of the commissioners at Hagerstown on the 11th inst., at which time, we learn it is designed to order an election for Directors. l' i Uailrwul. ,1'cftock of this company is htld as fo'l owe In .Miami ccuuty 4,-, 4-."550.lt(l .!fi.0?5,K) U,!)-j:.,H0 Hard Tipton, iKiMilton, Marion, 53,675,0(1 31,441,66 Total. f 143,4r.6,Cti w- .... i e are garuneu to learn that there i a fair , crosr-H . for ih , r.L: , - --""" roaa to .-lohie.-1 Ti,'' irt Hamilton county. distance of 20 miles, j bv ,!w lst December. "e !""" watch the progress of this road with "". because Teru is not to be Its ultimate ! 1 .1 - " 8 l"ace, nor any other point, until it rea- i tl,e8 the Michigan Southern Road. -T'-ZZ Il i t nc In iru Klttiold. i. la accounts which have been n.,!,';.l.a.t r.. 1 "d of the great richness of, he quart, rock i ! f C. nque,t:onab!y untrue and 'ruinously decent;.. tn.i. , , I . . . . latl j ruinously decent!.. tn... , . . - .... . ...i ii.i ur d mi i rest .ft

've the California, were made to e" x1 there wa quart, rock enough! i:l ,!,eCpld region, that would yield Trom $1 .50 I believe, that ther ... , to 1 To t!i pound to load all the .hip. in the "rM" And rmont mine, were proFreemont mine. wer. nm. : leases iron, Fremont, and by others who had no r-ghi.an.i (hat ,1 his not aud does net yield crT Uv c""n,s to :! ' P"1. ,l ' K,ld there are numerro. lorg face." 'r'-(f the gnld diggers, and lh it loud comI P111'1' are made by them and new adventurers, Hgaiust King. Wr'ght audothtrs, who published such gowinj and ceceptlve cecriptior. of the i qnr.:lv and richness of (hie quart, rock gold ' Cin Cett.

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Lecal llrrua'at tdiaampel!. From the Journal. B7Geu. Carry, Most Worthy Patriarch of the National Division of the Sons of Temperance, delivered an address at the first Presbyterian Church in this city last night. Bitfalos. We saw yesterday a curious sight for this section of country and period of time, vii., a drove of upwards of twenty veritatle buffalos, which would cause the heart ofahungrv trapper to leap for joy. They were going eastwardly along the National Roard, and were very tame ann easy to drive. ' New .Tla-onic Ilnll. This large and beautiful structure, and honor

to our State and City, and the pride of the Order that erected it, ! drawing near to romplel'on- The grand hall, on the second floor, receiving the finishing touches, and strikes persons entering it with wonder, surprise, and admiration. There Is not, we venture to say, a h.tl f .1. Ill L .1 . .,1 , . j all west of the Allegheines that wil successru - . , . . ly compete with it for splendor and chnsleness of finish; anJ it will compare in sire with the largest rooms in the west being 96 feet long, 54 broad, and 20 high. The ceiling is Indented with panels, the edges of which are embellished with fancy plaster mouldings in a neat style. Tho room is crowned with a serjes of three cira , ties, each composed of concentric mouldings standing m relief around a centre from which emerges a pipe to convey gas to the chandelier with which it is furnished. Surrounding each gas pipe isamouidingimitatinga wreath of flowers and foliage, the work cf which is the most fairy-like we have ever seen. The cornice of the walls U romposed of plain and ornamnla mouldings displayed with exceeding good taste. rpi i . .. , "'u8?'1 I"''0 hfW "H9,r casln utiiivu w iitip. tie wr imt.i w- a m- .A.ti. j extend , .1,- u '." h " , J street, and west ardiy upon ..r..u Kin. mii- iuru:u irunillllT on v alinH'ton ' a nent iron balustrade;' balcony fronting on Tennessee street. Tha id.sier nf ih : i .e dust and the mouldings of gypsum or plaster of! Paris. j O-The Health oflndianapolis is bow e.c'e- 1 dinglygood. We hear of very little sicknessWeather cool, skies clear, air invigorating, pros- i peels bright State Journal. Bih. Thr I iiKittrr tnTC Rill. Great excitement has been caused in some H.u. o, ,0 country oy me operations of the tugitive Slave law Arrests of alleged ,,aVe, havebrennWe at Tittsburg. New York and elsewhere, the slaves in each instance being safely returned to their masters. The alarm among the colored population U so irre.it that numbers have already taken up the line cf mar. h venien e " n I I 7 i, inr mnm ana a r r ,, " c irom r. nMf hi, u:n'iiii onu outrages nr.-.!... ,1... r . I . . . j. " Pr"o oi me couiitrv.tlie safetw nt

the Union, with the increased hardship . r'M. i . "oa'T P- " noyance to the blacks, hereor in the Sou'th, have 'IX all been brought about by those bitter foes of fusion.'-it prese,s-,o say nothin. of , hi muthe slave, the u.lra-aboIitioniMs. This is the le- ! .ic and revelry during the evenin.-U ke nmh ....!- fruit of that ultra abolitionism which, ing but a populous city The 'own! too h is u its b., t.t, has proved the slaves greatest more than doubled illf within , Z cur-e without hav.ngve, realized one solitary months and a half; not only i ,e number .f

c K' eimer to ine black man or the white. A ., . , , . ...... .ympalhy with the colored man, wa, seen ,a, mi- uiir- wan nn. ... n'wr.-ed ln the city otKw

restore the fugitive .lave to hi. family way of construction .u.hatc.y. Ofthesumwhi,h secured there-l George. Parry, formerly of Richmond, Indiana, urnof.hisco!on-dmai,.no,onecenta.raiSed,isdoingo, mdv a profitable. . '

cy ite ar,o,o,s. This was not a case cr buying a slave to take him out of bondage, thereby aiding ,....... frlrtVerv, tlit? lilra hMii. wh.M. .k.J:.tA..: t I mv a Witt I VII 174(11 a I ways shell, rs itself when appealed to. but an effor, , restore the man ,0 hi, famil, and friends In a free State. The heartless refusal . .M in . . sucn a cause shows ihat discnr.l. rii.m.i.,.. ....i nnnrcnv, a reck osi . . hostd.ty to great cause -.... .. anu oi universe emancil...ti..r .n a .,. ,.i.. the nhi.-i i.k .1 ... . . i uiinapnv aaitators. than .... ..l . . . - . j ,v" -"pHiny or care tor the colored man r- . courier. KrentHnil, ;,( brrv. rntLAnr.LrHr, Oct. N, M rri -i r The Mail car wa- eii'ered near GravV Fern about 1 1 o'clock Saturday night, and the pouch" robhed of the m .ils made op in New Yorl City for .Richmond, V; R.leigh, N. C ; an, Torreo near uray. terry and 111... ". "eiiug, va. uie latter containi ng the mails for 'hio. Indiana. ftli...i. f . . - ......vn, iriiuessee. Ivell t4...l.- t .1. ,i . . . ' i,'ftnd,h9-n t!' 1 hese umi.,11, eontaln lar reml.tsne,. f ha,lk "": well as draft-. C IWM. tVi thrt cash ...!. .., .. ' - - ... " uinern and ' iuu,.s songnt up hy Uie brokers iu the Atlantic cities and nt home for redemntinn. 1 n. l..iio i r 't" letter alone rrom Carnenter on, I V......:i.. . i of New York tn I iv m ... - r." ruveredsren . .-. . . - "'"") i rv icnmonci, a mi. 1 lie lllimh.r . f 40. The number ,f h ; I . , .... (.n.nK- ,Teneo ,n shearch of money end ! other valuables i .......--iir-. riiniiin in f,n I Chec a I r, f "'' CBrPfU,,V iMP-ted ! ., , " d',', c" " nrown aside as j unavailable. A Lumber or boxes containing : Pntl.,n ...U:..- .... " ...... .. ,.U,K inniratea t rat B Consiiletahl.. quant.ty of Jewelry was'carriedofT The opene.t letters, numbering about on. lhn,..un ; i . . , .......,,-, ,-,h, r l,h An(t "r- ks. &c, were re.re,l ; t K.-. I. ... ' ; " -'"-" t .n. w lute. There a" -TPl 00 rl ,p ' tne rohhers . i . . ... . . i l-'rtim Tt'n.liingten. Tl.. P t ri , ..... - ""r 14 r . i . v . , 01MI f, th. apprehe,in or the part,, win,' . ... ...... ..in- nas nn-r -.. r robbed the mail Saturday nioht -' lMwrri llmilinn. r...... c. o I " i.irrmcr. .. ' " 1 n" "esirable dwel l.r- . ... tualeT K T" i Z t " lorcd for sale. Tope ev. I r. mile below town, are of'nj.rw. io persons in want nf. .,!.,. - i . " " " "'-'""t "rPrtni.i- !?" aavertiwment. rre understand ihat onr Repreeent8tv. I ",onn ,'"rr' ow on hr. way to ColomecBre room Dd "i:Pneer for SPeaker IT On Monday last th. first Locomotive of tiie Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, arrived by canal, and on Tuesday afternoon, a temporary track having been laid from the canal o the encine-boose, a U'g-crowd of our citizens had the pleasure of wilnessing the first trip f the Iron Horse in the Gnat Miami Valley. IT Accounts from Dublin say that "the Potato panic had all but died out." Oue oflhe Irish papers q.u.ted rays: "That the disease which has brought ruin upon cur country appeared amongst the poor niaii'i Mend is certain, and that many persons have suffered severel by a partial loss cannot be denied; yet it is consolatory to find that at this time (as admitted by all tor miles arouud u; thedisease has ceased, and I that now a kind Providence has granted a r'ea- ' tW m.-v."

Letters From Mr. Budd. ———

Nevada, Cal. Aug. 11, 1850. DEAR CLARKSON:—It is a difficult matter for one to say much on any one subject, without

rendering himself subject to the charge of inconsistency by the careless or superficial readers. In my letter to you from this place, written in June, I gave what might be called a very dark account of the mining operations; but more particularly of the success of the adventurers to California. In my letter, from Auburn, in May, I stated, in substance that the gold mines of California never could be exhausted. If any one has got it in his head that there is an inconsistency in these two statements, I only ask him to read both carefully, and then decide. In my letter from Auburn, I gave it as my OPINION, that the interior of the hills, deep in the earth, would one day be found great quantities

of gold,—but this could not be obtained while the present state of things continued, so as to benefit the miner, as they would have to incur a very great expense in getting to the depth of the mineral, without being certain of finding it.— Since then, what I there gave as a matter of opinion, has been reduced to a certainty. Already has the earth been pierced, in thousands of places to the depth of ten, twenty, thirty and even sixty feet. The hills overlooking the town of Nevada, and lying to the north west, are literally dug to pieces—pierced by holes of an indefinite depth, almost from bottom to top.— When the miner finds himself successful in finding the object of his search, the hole by which he has descended, is widened by taking out the dirt in which is intermixed the gold.— In this way, you many walk over five or ten acres of ground which is merely a shell supported by columns of earth left between the different holes —not so much from the support of the earth, as because there is nothing there worth taking out. But hundreds of these holes are dug, at an expense of from two to ten hundred dollars, without getting enough to pay the expense of washing—sometimes not a cent. This kind or mining is called "KIOTA," which is the name here given to the Prairie Wolf, because it burrows in the ground, and means that the miner digs down some distance, and then makes a larger cavity around him. The gold taken from the Kiota mines is in exceedingly fine scaly particles, much of it smaller than the black sand (oxide of iron.) which is nearly of the same specific gravity of gold, redering it very difficult to separate them. The magnet acts upon this sand very strongly, but it takes out some of the fine gold:—Quicksilver takes it out clean.

Nevada City still grows, and has an increase

of business, population, and buildings I have never seen equalled. 'Tis a strange country, this California, where not only towns and vil- its inhabitants, but in the number and quality of its buildings. At first, nothing but cloth tents were to be seen—then a few log cabins; but now may be seen several very large and handsome two story frame houses, and many more underbusiness in the mercantile line in Nevada. Parry is a clever fellow, and deserves to return to Hoosierdom with a good pile. You have undoubtedly before this time heard of the death of D T Woods, D. B. Woods' father. This has been an unfortunate undertaking for the Woods'. The old gentleman was a good hearted man, and I heartily wished he might live to see his home again. But he was too old to undertake such an enterprise. Doubtless you and many of your readers have read Milton's description of the battle of the good and bad spirits at the time the latter were cast out of Heaven. But in all probability most of you looked up on it as fabulous or imaginary —and no one, perhaps, ever dreamed that this scene was transacted in the part of the world now called California. But when we visit the mines, and work in them a few months, noting things as they pass, we can scarcely help being impressed with an idea of similarity between this place and the one there described, where the gods would seize the mountains by their shaggy tops and hurl them at each other,—co- vering plains and filling valleys with the rude fragments of these mighty engines of destruction. It is not uncommon for us, while digging, to find logs of wood and beds of drift from 3 to 10 feet under ground with large trees growing over them, the top of the soil an appearance of not having been disturbed for centuries. When digging too we make it an object to get to a rocky bottom where we expect to find gold in greater or less quantities. But the rock we find is not solid, but is shattered and shelly. Tho' forming a perfect bed or foundation, it is shiv- ered to atoms, and the gold is obtained by picking this fractured rock to pieces, and washing the fragments. But the greatest curiosity I have seen, is this:—About 60 yards from where I am at work, some one has sunk a hole in search of gold, just in the edge of the hill. The valley of the ravine is perhaps 30 yards wide, or less; and from this the hills, rise at an angle or about 40 or 50 degrees, to the height or some 200 to 300 feet. The earth composing these hills is very hard red clay, having the appearance of half burned bricks, combined with great quantities of granite rock in fragments. In the hole I spoke of the diggers came on to the roots of a pine tree some two feet in diameter lying in a horizontal position, with its top in the hill, and at right angles with its base. If this tree is as long as the same kind of timber now growing around it, and even directly over it, the earth is not less than one hundred and fifty deep at its extremity. How this tree came under this immense pile of hard earth must be a matter or curiosity, if this be not the field of battle described by Milton. Aug. 18. Immense numbers of emigrants from the overland route are now flocking in.— Near a hundred wagons have passed my residence within the last two days, going to Nevada, calculating, I presume to winter in the "FRY DIGGINGS." Now, I should like to know what people understand by "dry diggings?" I presume they are understood to mean places where the miners work entirely clear of exposure to water. Ncthing can be farther from the truth. I work in what are culled "dry diggings;" and I am standing in water at all times ankle deep, some times knee deep. These are "dry diggings" as they are called to distinguish the ravines from the rivers. When you hear people talk of going to the 'dry diggings," hereafter, just ask them if they expect to get their feet wet there? The fact is, I have worked on the river bars and in

the ravines, and I assure you we are worse exposed in the latter than the former.

In my letter written in June, I gave my opiuion that there would be many failures in th Yuba expeditions, but the extent of the losses con't you hire out ? savs one. Hire out? There i.u i jvu uiirutii i iw,unr. IJirruuiI 1 lierr ' , .. . are now while I am writing, more than five thousand men within ten miles of me who would jump at the chance, but can't get it. There are so many idle that the market for laborers is overstocked. Yours, &.c E. R. BUDD. : hio S,",' :,--""-eul. Our telegral.ic reports from Columbus, cive i ' lh- result of the late ehdion as follows: ! Lrc,s.' ATt RE 1 l,e w '"g9 na 35 mem. norniiMaii.iA ut .n . I . . " """, tao ' L IiZ .Tr" "'I ec,,d ,rm the counties of Trumbull, Geauca. ! , Lh and Ashtabula. Sfnatr. The Whigs will have 13 members, the Democrats 16. and the Free Suiters 2. The ' Free Soil Senators are Rund-ll i.H ?nil;r 1 --. in. I C.,.Tl.e Whigs have elected nine members, the Democrats nine, and the Free Soilers one. (Giddings.) Abolition Democrats 1 (Towushend;) one Independent member, (Jo.nson.) Fiom this statement It is apparent that the half dozen Free Soil members of the Legislature, will hold the balance of power. OhioCongrmsionnl Klcrlion. DISTRICTS. MRMBF.R9 ELECTED. 1. Hamilton, ' David T. Disney, dem 2. Cutler, L D Campbell, w Muntgomery, &c, Geu. Hiram Bell, w I 4" Champaign, &c. Benjamin Slanton. W .:- urus. S .elby. &c. A P Edgerton, dem tZ l? .. t . ... --'"ca, ooa, ccc, t rederick Green, dem i Clermont, &c, 8. Ross, Adams, &.C, 9. Fairfield, &.C, 10 Franklin, fee, Nelson Barrere, w John L Taylor, w Edson B Olds, dem Charles Sweetser, dem George H Buhby, dem 11 Knox, Richland, n Morgan, &c, James M Gayl.ird, dem 14 Muskingum, &C, 13 Belmont, Acc, 16 Holinee, fcr, 1" Columbiana, Ace 13 Stark, Wayne 19 Portage, Ace, 20 Ashtabula, ic, Alexander Harper, w Willliam F Hunter, w John Johnston, hid", w Joseph Cable, dein Divid K Carter, dem E Newton, free soil w J R Giddings, free soil 21 Erie, Lorain, Acc, N S Townrend, dem f . Members of the present Cong aonKre...onni I lcri.cn ! I'maisylvnnln. in uie last Congress the .e!eg.tion iu this S,Ml 8,ood 15 Whigs to 9 Locos. In the 19 w ,,,K . j uwos. in Uie 13 r. i r .... . -"emtm ru irom, ine v inirs nave e eetei' the late election seven, the Locos ten .1 Soilerstvvo. In Tour ...rie.-.l.. in doubt The L-gisla.ure will have a Locofoco major, ' U. but not as arire as las. ,M, J I Ttle Lroforo, h " L..r,.tr :,... .1 i c.. V " no"u' Ueiierl.a,,d ! . cn,rlvan5.. Kloctiow. S a,,.! Zl , fj,vpr of . . ""'"a"? luiiunm iwii. "v s.. r... ... . i . , . . ofCong, i. , l'Zr' ruber. Rtrmnbonl itrridrnt. Lot'lSVIM.R, Oct 11. The Meteor No. 3 from Red TJive- i . - - - -" Orle.ne k.. l. 1.1 . ... c '. . . -mill liny IlllieS UIJOVl flrle.n. T "-"S-n escaped wi, ,he loss of h. ir be Tlrree colore,. Ko. . Ki.,:.. .L . . 8 . ....,..,., iu ((, Doal were , Two hundred bales of cmi.. buru.H.

Ohio

' K National Intelligencer in shaking of congress says: ' u' those measures which appeared to us imr,ive,y to demand .egi.,. interposition. i'wi wiiHJii narii iHiinn in mn-m. . .1 Kn 1. I r..:l.i T was ...e great PUi' ruiO llln f 1 P 1) rf-sa1 rnnHitinn .f iL. " I - "-uuiu.ii u mr i inanu- ..... - o, ,ne conmry that of iron especially, I .renmringa modifitatloi.-.,f u,. ,C. I rivp' ,id hbr bill, the passage or which was one to the great interests and wants 0r the West hitherto not sufficiently regarded and rejected by the General Government. This l.t bill we have no doubt, would have commanded ma' joriiiesin both Houses or Conrre. .i :. . . " u iTe oeen reached in time to pnss upon it. The Hog Crop. The correspondent or a mercantile house or Louisville, having recently visited the porkJ 1 ' T 0" "? IUi"iB "nd Mita.ippl . ' J ' ,n nun,n"r r hog. will full very little ir.n.. d. ... ri . ' "u"' " ai , short of lust .eason. He says the number near the river ,ill ril .... . , r .i .... ., .. . -rt uu account but the ro.mir. I n , yW' . a irnrr it anH : u . rv Tl ' ",n"i, "P tins deficienami this will en.ll r" neVeT ,,urT' ha arfdB. will enable feeders to ho-, to brinp all their u, . market, by ate feeding. The corn of aarli.t liv I... e. i B J.. ,. to hogs, a. it will i. .....i ,.. f . n,ak,', n'1 if 2 cent. - . " - I'aiu lur iintra. rti . ;ti i ... forw rard. "8 AtHann bil M h n, 1 1 1'0 ' the deficiency I. estimated ' at 8000 l,e. ,n ' ' umfd M d ., . a : p P"rk,d 00 tl Iilii IIP fKf t lit Ll t Mt it... 1 . . 000 i ) ''pi r'rer"' ,B1 .eason, is 500. . . "c u,lln8 Sl-Loui The geueral iner..-. niowa. Missouri and lllinni- .L. . " 1 ""J rom last year by the .carcity of cora.-Cin. Gaiette. , Hie t orn Vnp. ast year our farmer, were in ex.acie. over I ""-"r"'ry pood crop of corn-it considered the best thai h.A u in Northern nn wru pronuceu Indiana. This ve.r'. u ver. i h.ii ii .1 . . . many we inn, in ai since IrTi tl... u. . 1 entire failure of tl.. ' h" Mt b"'n ..I uj, iu tins rounty. Laporte Whig. fc W notice that John U Petlitt, Esq., of Jhii 1 fetaie, ha. been appointed Consul to the Island M.ranham, Brazil. Mr. Pettitt i. . Democrat of the ultra school and attended the National Convention Ihat nominated Gen. Cas. After that nomination be turned t-ee-.oiler, until few day. previous to the election, and ha. erLrnsl9 'C,fd W'th he P""f-3'ate

Pc !! ItnaM. DAt last accounts, Mr. Rive, the Am:lcan Minister in Pari, had returned from a journey he had made in Scotland and Eu gland for

nis neaun. 11 is lamny were mil travelling id Germany and Switzerland, bat would eooa re - turu also to the Hotel dela Roe, Ville I'Rvique. Mr. James Watson Webb left Paris with his family, on his way to the United States, per eteamer Atlauiic. He was accompanied by Mr. Dn-

iel Lei.ry, formerly Counaul of the Uuited having declined the CoileciorsMp 0f ;. Slates at Genoa. cisco, the appointment was conferred 'Loll' 0-A grand Fancy IUII ie mentioned la the , Hob. Thomas Butler Kiue who ;. , -it i i who, ii tLouisville papers, as having taken place on the stood, consents to accept it This is a most 27th u It- at the mansion of R.J. Ward, Eaq ,: nable and meritorious appointment. Mr Kin"' the rather of the late .Mrs. T. Blgelow Law- exalted character, and hit practical knowled of rC! n . . ... 'California, her people, her rivers and harbor, (0Hon. Daniel Webster haa been writing ; nd her commerce, wi I enable him n ! an..lher letter-thla time to the people of Salia- j t0 hold . C9mmHndiaf, inflaence a ' nly b,U,T N11" 5" nV"- li" ''lofS.n Francisco, but to cmn.. old friend, and companion. Tor. the good opiu- from jme to m ion they have of h.m, and particularly of hi. tlon t0 ,h Government here at Wahini?to efforts to ave the Union.. I r tum . . , , , ... By lne way' yu '-"niber the charges thst ITHon. Henry Clay wa. warmly received at mBj. .r,.,. . 6 ,, .. , . , were made, olten on the floor or Co n great c. Mart.nsburg. V,on his way home- It i. at.ted , lho ,at. of t,.at that he has sent a despatch to Cincinnati, en- .GelI Rilev, Bd PrwWet T.ylor reoreien " noncing hi. inability to be present at the Epi.-: that Mr. Kingt M pre!ijjeut TaVlor'. A copal Coniention. went t California last year, and bore Inslfle' BTThe constitution of California imp Uo.,. -erb-l or -ritle.. to G Rdev , 2 ik'fcre penaltiei aeaiucl duelliue, and bearing or r - i r . . . . , . , . on toe people of ialiforoia to form a Slate Gotrecpivinjr a cha knee. A citizen euilty oisnch -.,,,., t t

!... J 'in nn npA tn inrrr niniHiina irnm nn m nin pnb'ie otEce Mr,. Sally ward, formerly Mr.. T. Bige- . . ... 3 . . w " i .. v- -, u wir u . ,v w liiui iicu M ruhicmanin Ionisvilla O-The Hon. Edward Everett, of Cambridge, ha. presented 1000 to the new City free Librarv a Boston. Gen. Cass met the democracy of New York at I ammany Hall, on Monday. I Mr. Nathan Sargent is .aid to be re-appointed to the office from which the Senate rejected him, Mr. W. R, Thompson having declined it. Reuben Wither., who kill Author Reynodls, of Philadelphia, ha. been tried and acq ail led in San Francisco, Calliforoia. ICFThe wife of the Hon. Josiah Quincy, sen ior. died at thnir reRi.l.nc. in O nln.v n .. i day morning, at the advanced age of .i-..

year.. - - a new omce w. created on the last night cf ETHon. T. Butler King of Georgia, hat been ! Conr,,, ,B th Attorney General". Burean a ppointed Collector of Sao Francisco, Califor II ' th"1 of "C0PV'ng clerk," with a salary of nia, in place of I. R. Davia of Pennsylvania, . 2"00' and h" 'K klucly bestowed upon th. who declined the appointment. . eoerable Ex-Chancellor George M. Bibb, by IT M'lle Borghese has not retired to a Con- ; hi Personal tri v. Crittenden. It U tru. vent iu Canada, a. recently reported by BJodgeBibb is a Locofoco, like Perry E. BrocFrench journal in New York. jchis, who ha. recently been appointed by thli Jack Wade, n cw in prison at Dedham, Mass. Administration to a Judgeship in Utah-thi. it

has confessed that he was one of the robber. who relieved the Dorchester and Milton Bunk of about 33,000. BMiaM In Rushville .till conticne. to thrive. Oar streets are daily filled with wagons some from a considerable Distance giving evidence that onr place is commanding the trade of wideex tent of country. Our town, too, i. receiving! the impulse. New buildings are constantly be ing projected, mechauica moving in and new busi-iess house, being e.tablikhed. Come on there ' room for more J.-.ck.onlan. Prnrflrlea Cclebraliew. r tnt . " --r. 1 L" f . T i y ihsi ine ceienraiiou t ine nn.n. I of lh IH "d Bellefootalne ( Railroad came offin grand .tyle. More than - ' V"" "r C"iZen" nd down .he line on the trains, and the people in , mas. of the surrounding coonlr, were there to participate R the celebration. Sneeche. were . mad, bv Governor Wriht. Mr. Re.il... I-J.. i Kiltrore. Mr. HrnMrrh nA M Qm:i. Tt ... - uu 4,A , . .IMItla. I HC J UBU j was in fine order, and the tho.sand. returned to " -'-1 hiKh.y de.ighted will, the seen., ef lhe day.Hnd .11 wishing .he ' , .uereetlc comoauv the ntm.t .um... in ik. , great enterprise , which they are engaged. louiie oenuoei. Klert lens. The following list exhibits the date of the eleclions ror the present year, In the State, men . , - r -7-', mo Slaves men Iinn.it ..! ... ii . ... fn ","7h J". - ' Art ' r. "Z? Election. Whig. 3 1 0 8 1 1 13 32 1 1 7 Dem. F.S Oct. 7 1 4 0 7 11 6 1 8 I 1 S 0 Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. 7 7 14 ! lor",B.. , South Carolina 8 5 5 8 5 vv'ronsin Nov. Nov. Oct. Not. Nor. Nov. Pennsvlvsni. 1 New York 5 5 11 12 MaesachuwtU Nov. Nov. Delaware 72 43 1 0 Total ' gress i th" M. Hchul.e.'i' 7 1 f ?0B m. o that or Pennsylvania " j Vk ,1 I V Baltlmoreand Ohl. Railroad. ! . We"UDOU0C,,d " tew day -'"C that the con . '7 ,ou,e rout the Baltimore , BIIU ' ri.: n . w. ivauroaa in us e-tention to the Ohio

river, had been .etlled by the adoption of the who would fill the office wilh more credit to him'"veCr,'kroute" jaelfand honor to hi. country than Col. Graham. The Company are now preparing to posh ' The wonder m that ,e, surronnded a. he is in the work forward on that route, with all possi- New York City by to many eminent cftixent,

bledespatch. To tbi. end. the Board or Direc tor. have authorized th. k,. . .l. ivl too tomray to the amonnt of 50n nnn k : . .:. ' -.-po-wi " we pnoiisti to-dav. the official ad..,ii.m.i invit" PP09-!. from capitalist, for the aale ... - - ----. ao I bonds are to have Coupon, attached, and are to guarantied against State taiation. - These bonds sr. .r.nn i "ty or the Comnanv: and n,.,;l ;... them is paid, there U no dividend to be declared the stock. Now as the .lock I. seillnz at 74 .a .. " marKet, of course It mast be regarded, by noiaera and purchaser, of the stock, that thew bond, are at least eooal to oar. The. are to. The re-enu e of the company will thi. VfHP fpasili an -. Ji I t. . t a kuow probably 1700,000 net; and there I. no ; probability that it will be lea. hereafter. With 1 such a security, it is hardly nns-ihl. any . ' ' " ' FraaL A heavy frost fell in thi. vicinity, ye.terday morning, and the morning before. We apprehend some damage to the cotton and tobacco crop., particularly by the Utter Nashville Whig. Taknrrwanu- the Freer. A friend from Montgomery county inform. ns that the tobacco crop in that region has so.r - -. i "in"d immen,w ,niu'y th. let. fro.U. He supposed that from oue-third to one-half of the crop in that and the adjoining countiee or Kenlucky must be destroyed Nashville Whig. ,. A-lce ! the fJIrU. loadd new le.ftothe rose, on yonr cheek all that i. necessary ia to go to bed at nine and get up at sunrise. t&A young lady who wa. "a. full of trembling as au leu," because a man once seen her tie her garter, eloped the other uiglit wilh her faiher . ho.Uer. They ..eat their boney-moOD

I Corrcpondriwe of the Baltimore Ptrit J WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 1850 j The member of the Cabinet are aroirr in the preliminary steps to a wholesorn re- '

: ganization 01 uie clerical force ia their D j menu respectively. When the work is 6 I will be well done. The right men r 1 1 '.-ti - -pact Some new and Important annointmeni. t.... recently been made. Mr. Dis. 0f Philadelphia ' cjJVU. deoce between .Mr. King and Gen. Riley 00 ""bj,'ct' ,n wh'ch the old General emphiti. callv dec area that ho l,nA ki. P i . I, f- . ... ui viiiiuruia, reianve to their meet ! i : f . r ! ,n iB CoBVeution 10 f' ute Government, i 7'thoat " tructioo. or request, .o to do from either Pr-i.lnf T.i !. . i iiicnioen or member of his CuLinet. from either. This it conclusive, and ovet whelms Mr Kin'a tradocers in the matter. Mr. King waited a week after he learned of Gen. Riley, arrival tn lh. city, before he called on him or addrefed him on the subject. His object was to let othert have an opportunity to first learn of Gen Rtfey the true fact, of the case. Mr. Allen A. Half, late editor of the Republic, for a few months, hat resumed his form.. P08" M ittant Sret.ry of the Treasury. Can we not have a claim to ask tht ' Locf"co. should they ever come in power, to i reciprocate ! Judge Bibb, however, may not b thorough going Locofoco. He wa. Mr. Tyler'. Secretary of the Treasury . IOTOMAC. I Corrr.poml--ee tifil.- H.ltim..rr Ptri-t, - .WASHINGTON, Oct. P l5o Mr. Corwin, the Secr.-tary of the Treason? - : ha gone to New York to transact torn? buti- ; ne with Mr Collector Maxwell, J Mr. Secretary Conrad will leave here to-mor i -. f . . . v . v i i r. o oe gone some eight or tea days. Mr. Secretary Webster has already passed , , - o 'r.0.Kh Yrk' " l" f M.ch.. I waen" nd J" Army officer, ' Solicit of tt ; fol'C,lorf,.hB T'-'ufy. ' aMtuken.tr.? j " Wr-Allen A. Hall ha. not yet been perms1 "J Wored to hi. former cos. cf Asai-i.,. j . SecretHry of the Trraanrv. lUnmmAt " -fi iu W( .iU : bi name on the official paper., I ha, not been re.tored f h" old P"1 Reorder or t!,e CenerJ L-nd rcr Office The Collector for San Francisco hat net y.t been decided upon, since Mr. Davis, of Philadelphia, declined it. Thomas Butler Kin. or Jain A. Collier will probably get the appointment - ' Mr" Collier', brother wa. the Collector al Si. - . ' n,nc,sco- 001 ""popular wilh the C!i fornians, and the Senate reacted his nomination. 0 The possibility that the ill feeling of t!,e C!l0 fornian. toward, one of the Colliers might b 0 transferred to the other, furnishes a reason for ormiting that the Hon. John A. Collier will not be appointed Collector for San Francisco. II. haa already declined the offer of Cliar.e de Affaire, to Eqoador, to succeed Mr. Van Alien, who ha. come home. Mr. King, appointment to the Col'.ectorship of San Francisco, would be hailed - itli almott at much joy by the Whigpwty of the country, snd 7 w'ln lmost a. much satisfaction by the people t'"' M WOU,d h"e ,he PPoil i l""amf c.s.ingu.shed .laUsman a.becret.ry lh" N"y' 'ig,,,,"en mo"ths "sCol. J. Lorimer Graham, of New York, is in - ! ""' city, mott ponerrullv recommended Tor th. federal Jodgeahlp iu South Calikruia. Therei. " not, perhaps, a gentleman In the United Statet who esteem and respect him and his family, and .h.i.n.ik.i,nM ff.i.l. r...k.. ...w . s.u..uu ,u. u-u-nm. liv.hhmwf. hn.,ld K !iii t --- . i"""" " .uch a far-off annointment. if tendered him. . The reaton can only be foond in the.uppositlon . that lhe. to see some of his promising and ! enterprising mm and he ha. .is of them well . i.i.i:.i.. i ....:. i i r. ir i.-j -r u ; mnA nmm(.. I The Card of Col. Fremont aralnst Gen. Foot. , rather overshoot, the mark. Like the famou. ' f of Hudibras, it bear, wide and kick. Il owner over. I like the gallant and indomitable Colonel-Senator, and regrert very much that h ever allowed himself to appear before the publio ...... ' L 1---. in pucu vuu. The recent removal, and appointment., and reduction, and promotions, in the Sixth Auditor'. Office, by the derection of Mr. Secretary Corwin, are toon to be followed by more of th. mmeaort. If thi. Administration rs to go down, it will be apt to be found going down in the maintainance of true Whig principle., and with it friend., in preferreD.ee to iu enemies, rallying around It. POTOMAC. Wmlkiag the Wire. The Baltimore Sun Bay.: The announce ment that an Individual designed to walk a wire stretched 40 feet from the gronnd, a distance of 400 feet, at the lower end of Broadway Market, ye.terday afieruoon attracted tome three or fonr thousand people to witness the feat. Al 5 o'clock, he made hi. appearance and accomplished hi. undertaking CTThe only fiuiahed place in thi. county t. Lansiogburg. For the lart twenty year, there has not been a board added or a nail drove in the whole place; a man undertook to repair hm shop last woek, but he was arreoled aud sent lo jail. Piatt says the whole village .till believe that Da Witt Clinton ia GsfsMox-aJ trft?e. Aib-y l.teur'tV