Indiana American, Volume 25, Number 43, Brookville, Franklin County, 9 October 1857 — Page 1

A NEWS PÄPBR--ÖEVOTBD TO PORBiGN AND DOMBSTJC NBWS, MQRftlS,TEMPERAHICB, EDUCATION, AOR8CUITÜRE, AND THE BEST HITERfiSTS OF SOCIETY. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1857. WIKILK NUMBER mi. VOL. XXV. NO. 43.

INDIANA AMERICAN

KM Ue UaU venia Court HETTII T O A...1 Uli ttlwe,U' pcauM ) U. With una la lo be loal eUU.'' COWM Oar loe kM bM lo NBMr l For Jsy.'i fcrlfht cfcaptot bfld4 0 pint . wkn tempaeu dnrtlj Rr m-lePa bleak wlat ed. Wa nave not leVwi, a U) wh" Tnelr troth lo Ml! wealkar ; Whu Wtm ara raea, nnd are wHbi. T, tread llfc'i pU loftllwr. Bat earakrewa, iattoee wee tread Taa taarajr pata of aorraa;, Witt clornd o'en.aat,aad caaee ta draerf Tat taa par gloom to-morrow. That inorny path, ihoee Wady aklaa IIa re drawn aarmdriu aaarar, A ad rendered uiey hollar tiaa Each lo ifco other dearer. Love born la boare of Joy aad mirth . Wit mirth aad joy may pwriab; That V Weil darfcar daft ! birtb Uli mora aad marc weabertea ' It look! 07 oad thahtcrmaof t ma, Th ot-wU dealh'a dim, shadow) vOlttl; Made by aUrUjr, eabllme, B fUlh and h pa, ImmorUU 1 Thaw tat taa cbeaglnc world frown on, Aad fortune Mill daealva u.. We hare. W mat oar hdada ut on, A hop that will not leave aa I And t hi. will bwar oar rplribi ap Above ach torasjr billow, Caa woatan orrow'i blttaraatcap. t tbor nlcit pillow ! Whrn gaatla brae tea aweetly blow. Aid cloud I m U lea are beamingTha llg' t barqaa o'ar the wmi may go. With her gay paonoiu itreamSag; Bat wait the manner can Uli, Sateald rade ware man the ocean, A nt'MU rtrr mMt brave th well . Of tea aad air'i commotion. Aad, think je, whan IU traofth ha d protad laatnrma. ha d leave It ever T Nay! Urn! lao-e who have truly loved, W II lava through all, foraver ! :Duiro'.n, Sapt. I1'7. A London paper thus doscribes the engines of the Great Eastern i Both engines are of such ponderous calibre and strength, that the visitor gazes on tbem, as they lie ranged beneath him, with the dumb fueling of surprise that a sight of the tremendous rock-hewn monuments of Egypt always occasions. They look so dark and massivo beyond all other engines that it iwmi drrUcmit to imagine bow they themselves can be put in rapid motion, though once at work, you can readily understand the amount of speod at which they would force even toe Great Eastern through the wares. They are beyond all doubt the largest and most powerful engines by some thousands of horse power that have ever yet been constructed, and some of the la-gest pieces of wrought iron that have ever been forged, and the largest castings that have ever been run in one casting, are used in their manufacture. Gold to be Coincd. It is stated in the Philadelphia Press that within a few days 9750,000 in refined bars of gold, stamped by the N. York a May office, has been received at the United States mint for coinage, and that half a million more is daily expected. This fact is interesting in connection with the present rate of exchange, as a proof of the strong chock given to the exportation of bullion by the extraordinary demand for it hero Hymexial. Two hundred and forty-five marriage licences were issued from tbo Prubate Court of Hamilton county during the month of September ultimo. The average number per month, during the past two years, has been about 240 say about 2,900 couples per annum yoked in bonds matrimonial. Cin. Com. ft. A gentloman waa dining at one of our hotels when peas had just come in season, and everybody called peas, peas, peas, till they wero all gone. The gentleman was too late, so, rising and taking an attitude, be exclaimed: 'Gentlemen may cry peas, peas, but thero is no peas." In tho two extremes of life we have the most acute sense of novelty. To the boy. all is new; to the old man, when this world no longer offers variety or change, tho most stimulating of all novelties is presented the contemplation of a new existence. SaY Mr. Choate was arguing a case before a full bench of tho Supreme Court of Massachusetts, when he, wishing to compliment Judge Shaw, exclaimed : When I look upon the vonorable Chief Justice, I am liko the Hindoo before his idol 1 know that he is ugly, but I feel that he is very great."' aa Stir It seems to us to be a great moral quostion whether men who have established a reputation for inveterate lying, have a right, in any given case, to tell tho truth the only expedient by which they can deceive their hearers. tl Tennyson, the poet-laureate, has a sensible liking for a good cigar, and once said, "If Lamb had not written on the glorious weed 1 would myself become its laureate." awb - ttqjr 1 1 is a very erroneous imputation upon one of our prominent politicians that he "drinks hard." There's nothing In the world that he does easier. IOsj of our divines asks why Cain, who seems to have offered his sacrifice in good faith, didn't obtain divine approbation. Probably because he wan't Abel.

AMEBIC W TRACT SOCIETY

Mabaervienry to hi t ar t . From Iba Haw York Trlbuna The American Tract Society as represented by iU Standing Committees has succumbed to the slaveholders. Placing its hand on its mouth and its mouth in the duit, it has eaten its timid and apologetic resolve of last Spring and returned to the policy of absolute silence with regartf not only to slaveholding per se, but ven to the evils and eins which as the Society itself resolved last Spring are connected with or deduciblo thorefrom. And the reason given Is simply the unwillingness of the slaveholders to receive, listen w or read anything that the Society may see fit to offer on the subjoet. This is certainly very extraordinary ground. Wo cannot remember that Noah, or Lot, or Isaiah, or John the Baptist, ever planted himself upon it. The Tract Society, at its last Annual Meeting, decided to publish a tractor tracts on the moral evils connected with or resulting from Human Slavery the "acknowledged evils," we believe the phrase was. The Standing Committee say that this was to be done " without trenching on the political relations of Slavery, ' to as only to set forth " certaim moral duties growing out of its existence, or moral evils and practical immoralities deplored by all evangelical Christians." The direction of the 8ociety was unconditional; the Standing Committees were not instructed to enter upon this field of labor if they should think proper, nor to consider the propriety of doing it, but to do it. The Publishing Committee, it seems, had already la preparation a tract on tho ' Duties of Maetew, made np of articles written by Southern Christians of various evangelical denominations. But the South remonstrated the South revolted the South exclaimed, liko the demons of old, " Let us alone ! " and Committees' hearts became !5ke water. The work which the Society unqualifiedly directed tbem to do, they nave not only inter-! av aw I mitted they have deliberately dotorrained not to do it. Their apology for this lapse we print in another column. Can it bo possible that the clerical gentlemen who mainly compose theso Committees have never pondered the Book of Jonah? What right have they to retain the stations conferred on them by the Society for tho purpose of obstructing the work which the Society ordered them to do. instead of doing it? The Committees say that tho South will only receive or listen to their publications on condition of thoir refraining from putting forth anything with respect to Slavery. It is not enough that they expressly ignore any consideration of "the political relations of Slavery" that they prooio to consider only the dutios of asters as Masters, without discussing their duty to cease being Masters it is not enough that they proposed to quote only from Southern divines the gontlo rebukes of the short-comings of Masters which they had decided to publish the South will permit no publication whatever rolativo to Slavery by this eminently "National" Society. It refuses not merely to hear the Tract Society on this subject. If the subject be discussed in any of tho Society's publications, the South will not hear the Society on any subject whatever. And it is to such menaces that men liko the Rev. Dr. Williams would seem to have succumbed! Wo regret it, and think they will live to share in this sentiment. It seems to us that it would be unfair for theso Committees to distribute tracts against rum selling in Cherry street, or those condemning harlotry at the five Points, after this derision. The Committees tell us in conclusion that they are " seeking the things that make for Peace," and "aiming to secure the fruits of righteousness sown in Peace," by the course they have resolved on. It seems to us that the Bible estimate of Peace, and the Bible method of obtaining Peace, are antagonistic to the Committees'. "First pure then peaceable,'' is the wellknown Scriptural rule. To seek peace through subserviency to wrong seems the last way to secure that peace which the world can neither give nor take awey. Slavery is either one of the vory greatest wrongs, and the fruitful pa rent of other wrongs, with all manner of vices and evils, or it is a just and proper relation which Christians may blamelessly maintain and uphold. Its rightfulness is evidently a question of ethics, of morals, and of Christian theology. Good men may bo honestly mistaken with regard to its true character ; but woe to them who, perceiving the right, conceal or dissemble it. How can they read without a twingo of conscience the great Apostle's declaration, " I have not shunned to declare the whole counsel of God." SOT Two young Misses discussing the qualities of some young gentlemen, were over -heard thus: No. 1. Well, I liko Charley, but he is a little girlish; he hasn't the least hit of beard. No. 2. I say Charley has got a beard, but he shaves it offNo. 1. No hs hasn't, either, any more than I have. No. 2. I say ho has too, and I know it, for it pricked my face. efi, Mamma rich, ain't ho?" papa is getting very I am sure I don't child?" know. Why, "Cause he gives so much money to me. Almost every morning after breakfast, when Sally is sweeping the parlor, he gives mo a sixpence to go out and play." Shortly afterwards Sally received a notice to quit.

A BANXEB Of TROUBLE Thefollowinganecdote ofthoCnurt of Russia, in the reign of the Empress Catharine, forcibly illustrates the vital importance of understanding orders, particularly when given by those high in authority: "A rich foreigner, named Suther land, naturalised in Russia, was banker to the court, and in high favor with the Empress. He was roused one morning by the information that his house was surrounded with guards, and that Reliew, and Minister of Police, desired to speak with him. This person entering without further oeremony, at onoe announced his errand. 'Mr. Sutherland, said he, 'I am charged by my gracious sovereign with the execution of a sentence, the severity of which both astonish and grieve me; and I am ignorant as to bow you

can so far excite the resentment of her majesty.' 'I am as much in the dark as yourself,' replied the banker. But what are your orders?' 'I have not courage to tell you,' said Reliew. Have I lost the confidence of the empress?' inquired the banker. 'If that were all you would not see me troubled,' said Reliow; 'confidence may return: position may bo restored.' 'Am I to bo sent back to my own country, or, good heavens!' cried the banker, trembling, 'does the empress think of banishing me to Siberia?' 'Alas! you might some day return,' said Reliow. 'Am I to be knoutod?' inquired the agitated banker. 'This punishment is fearful,' said Roliew,'bnt it does not kill.' 'Is my life then in peril?' exclaimed the banker. 'But I cannot believe that; for the empress, usually so mild, so gentle, spoke to me so kindly only two days since 'tis impossible! For heaven's sake, let me Know the worst. Anything is better than this suspense.' 'Well then,' said Reliew in a melancholy tone, 'my gracious mistress has ordorod me to baveyou stuffed.' 'Stuffed'.' continued Reliew. Sutherland looked fixedly at the minister of police an instant, and then exclaimed, 'Sir, either you have lost your reason or the empress M is not in her ritrht senses! Surely you did not receive such a command without ondeavoring at least to point out its unreasonableness its barbarity.' 'Alas! my unfortunate friend, I did that which, under ordinary circumstances, I should not dare attempt,' said Reliew; 'I manifested my grief, my consternation; I even hazarded arcmonstrance;Jbut her imperial majesty, in an irritated tone, bade me leave her presence, and see her commands obeyed at once, adding these words, which are still ringing in my cars, "Go, and forget not that it is your duty to acquit yourself, without a murmur, of any commission with which 1 may deign to trust you.' It would bo impossible to depict the horror, the despair, of tho unhappy banker. After waiting till the first burst of grief was over, Reliew informed him that he would be allowed a quarter of an hour to settle his worldly affairs, Sutherland wept and prayed, and entreated the minister of police to take a petition from him to tho empress. Ovorcomo by his supplications, the magistrate consented to be his messenger, and took chargo of the missive; but afraid to return to the palace, he hastily presented himsolf at the residence of Earl Bruce, the English embassador, and explained the affair to him. The embassador, vory naturally, supposed the minister of the polico had become insano, but bidding him follow, he hurried to the palace. Introduced into the imperial presence, he told his story with as little delay as possible. 'Merciful Heaven!' exclaimed Catharine, on bearing this strange recital, what a dreadful mistake! Reliew must have lost his wits. Run quickly, my lord, I beg, and desiao that madman to relieve my poor banker of his groundless fears, snd to set him at liberty immediately.' Tho Earl left the room to do as her majesty requested, and on his return found Catharino laughing immoderately. 'I see now,' said she 'the cause of this inconceivably absurd blunder. I had for nomo years a little dog, to which I was much attatched. I called him Sutherland, because that was the name of the gentleman who presented him to me. This dog has just died, and I gave Reliew orders to have him stuffed; but as he for some time hesitated, I became angry, supposing that, from a foolish excess of pride he thought this commission against his dignity. 'That,' added Catharine, in conclusion. 'is the solution of this enigma. A DISTINCTION WITH A DIFFERENCE Some years ago, when Mormomsm was rampant, and Millerite preachers began to abound in New England, a reverend divine, a man at once of in finite eccentricity, good sense, and good humor, encountered ono of these irregular practitioners at tho house of one of his flock. They had a pretty hot discussion on their points of difference, and at length the interloper, finding more than nis match at polem ics, wound up Dy saying: Well, doctor, vou'll at least allow that it was commanded to preach the , . . Crospel to every critter. "True," rejoined the doctor, "true enough. But then I never did hear that it was commanded to every 'critter' to preach the Gospel." This was similar to the retort given by another minister, in reply to one who quoted the Scriptural assertion, that men are saved by the foolish ness of preaching. True," said he, "but not by foolish preaching, else had the world all been saved long ago.'" MT An Ohio politician was boasting in a public speech that he could bring an argument to a pint as quick as any other man. 'You can bring a quart to a pint a ?;ood deal quicker, ' rojlied a Kenucky editor.

A MARRIA0K CEREMONY AMONG

HAWEKYEa A correspondent of a New York paper, who had been spending some time in lowa.givos the following singular account of a marriage coremony among the Hawkoyes: "Sine I came home 1 have roci ved a letter from 'Cousin Hannah,' the youngest daughter of the Squire in the town in Iowa in which she at present resides, containing the following account of a marriage undor peculiar circumstances: Talking about weddings, writes my cousin, calls to mind ono that took place in the suburbs of this city, and ai it Was a very important affair, 1 suppose you would Tike to have an account of it. Well, to commence: Father was called to marry, a young couple, so putting on his 'chicken fixins,' ne was escorted down to the place where you went hunting last summer 'in the woods,' and there we found a mansion which was seven feet front and nine feet deep, and, unfortunately, it was so low that father could not straighten in it, he being about six feet high. The furiniture consisted of one small shelf, on which lay a largo coon, minus tho hide, and covered with a rag; neither chair, sofa, nor table graoed thoestablishment. Within this beautiful establishment was the bride, dressed in what had been a calico dress, but was so disfigured by grease and patches, that it took a close inspection to tell what it had been. After we had taken a survey of this abode, the groom camo in dressed in a dirty cotton shirt, slouohed bat, and pants made up of all kinds of cloth of different oolors. 'How aro you sir? I reckon you'ro the Squire, ain't you?' 'Yes, sir,' was the answer. 'Well, Squire, I've got a little job for you: can you tie a knot for us?' 'Certainly, sir.' 'Well, come ahead Squire.' Whereupon father, raising himself as well as he could, commenced a prefatory speech. 'My young friends, this is a very solemn engagement' 'I know it that's a fact,' said the groom, taking the chance of a passe in the speech. He then raised himself, and catching 'the lady' by the hand, exclaimed, 'Come, hurry up, Squire, crack her through!' 'Wait a moment,' said the Squire; 'what is your name?' 'My namo is William S r. Well. William, do you take this woman to be your wedded wifo?' 'Of course I do that's tho calculation all the time.' Then turning to 'the lady,' the Squire said, 'Do you take this man to bo your hus band?' 'Well. I do that's the inten tion.' Hero the Squire had to stop to get a new supply of gravity, as his old stock was exhausted. 'Come, hurry up and crack her through!' repeated the bridegroom. Again the Squire commenced: and finally pronounced them man and wife. 'That's it. Squire, that's it!' exclaimed the delighted groom; much obliged to you till you are better paid. See here, Squire, I've got a half a cord of good dry wood down hore, and if you will haul it you may have the hull on it for doing the job so nice.' Squire K 1 sloped with another laughable 'yown' for his neighbors." The American Minister in Bad Ono'i at the Spanish Codbt. I hear a rumor, and from a source on which I am accustomed to place reliance, that thero is some renewed ill feeling existing between tho Government of Spain and this country. Recent advices from our Minister at Madrid speak of the display of very marked indignity towards him, tho causes of which have not thus far been made public, if indeed they really rest upon any actual movement of that functionary, or are the more offspring of tho proverbial jealousy and suspicion of the decayed but still arrogant Government of Castile. It has been suggested that Mr. Bodge may have incautiously approached the Ministry on the subject of the purchase of the Island of Cuba a point which they will not, you may roly upon it, allow to be oven suggested at this juncture, although they are driven to their last financial shifts, raaugro all their bravado on the subject of the threatened war with Mexico. The first 1,200 men of the contemplated expedition have been some months at Havana, and they will need for so insane an enterprise 4,000 more, for they cannot have forgotten the movement in 1830, under Goneral Barrados, who left Havana for Mexico with 3,000 picked men, a part of whom returned within two months, the balance (about one-third) having been almost cut to pieces by the Mexicans, who buried all their partisan animosities and united in defence of their cherished homes and national institutions. If Spain wishes to get rid of Cuba without tho humiliation of selling it, let her declare war against Mexico, and she will lose it in double quick time. Our filibusters by occupation are wide awake. JV. Y. Herald. MW A dispatch from Washington to the New York papers says : The Secretary of the Interior rei centlv submitted to the Attorney i . - . General the question whether the acprtice heretofore prevailing in tho Pension Office of allowing the children of revolutienary soldiers to receive the pensions which their deceased parents might have received, was according to law. Tho attorney General to-day rendered his opinion, doclanng that the practice has no legal foundation, and that neither children nor grand children have any such right under the acts of Congross. The eonsequenco of this will be to reverse a practice of tho Pension Office which has continued for twentyfive y ears. The Attorney General gives the law, but declinos to say whether the law should abolish the practice or tho practico defeat the law. leaving that as an administration question to the Secretary himself the opinion an able one.

THE LOTH) AND LOST A lady was riding some years since through Connecticut, in her father's carriage, when they were brought to a stop by a woman coming from a cottage, near to which they passed, and beckoning to them. Drawing the rein tight and stopping his horses, Mr. T waited her approach. As she came nearer, her face appeared intelligent and very attractive, but melancholy withal, and her eye was restlos and roving, but as she reached the side of the carriage, and laid her hand on the window edge, she gased with intense earnestness into the face of tho lady, and asked, " Have yon seen ray William anywhere? " Startling as the proximity of a deranged person manifestly must have been, the lady had sufficient presence of mind to assure her that she had not seen William, and the poor watcher by the roadside turned away with a sigh. Years had passed and the incident was almost forgotten, when, a few weeks ago, the same lady, now the wife of a lawyer in this city, was riding through Fulton street, in Brooklyn, a loud cry attracted her attention, and looking at the sidewalk, she saw a woman with streaming hair and wild eye, running down tho street screaming, "Willy! Willy!" in a voioe that seemed, as she described it to be, so unutterably mournful and thrilling, that it must reach the ear of him she called, unless that ear was sealed in the silence of death. Was it the same person she had met long ago in Connecticut? and had her poor wandering brain been searching all these years for the boy she loved, and searching all in vain? Who was he, and where, on the broad earth, had he kept himself out of the reach of that wild love? She had asked a millien persons if they had seen him. She has called him in the forest, in the crowded city, in the day and the night, now hopefully, now how mournfully, and always he answered not. Or waa he perchance beyond answering, and did the voice reach him in that land whence might he not reply to her, however much his soul yearned for her? Mayhap, so it be, and he strive hard mayhap some pleasant evoning when she sits all alone and murmurs his name in accents of unchanging affection, God may grant him utterance in tones that will reach her worn old heart, and then, then how will it spring it back through the lonesome years, and with the freshness and beauty of love, go forth to meet him, or, as these lines will in one day go further than she can in a thousand, if William be anywhere on the earth, and his conscience tells him he is wandering from the luve he owes allegiance to, let him know when he reads this, that there is ringing all through the world, now here, now there, a voice that is calling him mournfully, but oh! how lovingty, back to the arms that yearn to embrace him.

SXrARATlVO THE SEXES IN ScROOL. On this point, Mr. Stowe, a celebrated Glasgow teacher, uses the following language: The youth of both sexes of our Scottish peasantry have been educated together; and as a whole the Scotch are the most moral people on tho earth. Education in England is (fiven separately, and we never have loard from practical men that any benefit has arisen from this arrangement. Some influential individuals there mourn over the prejudice on this point. In Dublin, a larger number of girls turned out badly who had been educated alone until they attained the ago of maturity than of those who wero otherwise brought up; the separation of the sexes has been found injurious. We may repeat that it is impossible to raise the girls an high, intellectually, without boys as with them; and it is impossible to raise boys morally as high without girls. The girls morally elevate the boys; and tho boys intellectually elevate the girls. But more than this, girls themselves are morally elevated by the presence of boys, and boys are intellectually elevated by thepresonce of girls. Girls brought up with boys aro more positively moral; and boys brought up in schools with the gins are more positively intellectual, by the softening influence of the female character. In the Normal Seminary at Glasgow, the most beneficial effects have resulted from the most natural source Boys and girls from the age of two or threo years to that of four teen or fifteen, have been trained in the same cla-s room, galleries and play grounds, without impropriety, and they are never separated, except at needlework SkaY We find the following in the Maryaville Ragle., of the 22d inst. : Quito a stampede of negroes occurred on Sunday night last from the neighborhood of Washington, in this county, and we are informed that as many as seven toon made their escape to Ohio. They were immediately pursued by a party made up on both sides of the river, and on an attempt being made to capture one of the negroe-.. belonging to Mr. William Nelson, ho made battle and cut and dangerously wounded two men named Pose Waldon and Wm. P. Dare. The negro was finally overcome by the party and brought back to this side of the river where he is now safe in jail, but the two wounded men are said to be in a vory critical condition, and l-itibte are expressed wholhor either them can recover. Tho balance of tho negroes are yet at large. - - a

Ir Mr. Henrv String, of North r Brigbam Young says, in one Carolina, advertised last month, that of his latest manifestos, that the a gay young fellow- had run off with j great resources of Utah are her wobis two daughter. This is the most men." It is very evident that the reprehensible instance of two strings j prophet Is disposed to husband his rt.

to nr Oeftn wa ever BaarO QT.

DXSTRUC l IVE Ttftl IN LOUISVILLE We stated the progress of a tiro in Third street, yesterday morning, to fllA Knill. aaIhi, if .',.,. f L , . ,

fl nine- wero subdued no Iunh than . turye xcarenovtes on ine ran SSM Sf UK street, were consumed. Three were . a b . t . a four story buildings, with iron fronts. r buildings, with iron trout, and hsd been erected only a few years am -w-aw ago. Of these, two were owned by Mr. B. F, Cawtbon, and insured for 4,000 in the agency of the banners ana mecnanics oi r nuadoipnin. anu

uiu vuiru was uwnou oy jar. rt . r . , er oc inuiuerent to cacu other s sorPettit, and Insured for $1,500 in the rows, much loss laugh and sport with

inuiuai insurance company ot tins city. The three othor houses wn c three story, owned respectively bv Capt. Frank Carter, Mr. Tlwimas N . Lindsey, and Messrs. Kirkluial. Chase ft Co., of Baltimore. Capt. Carter had an insurance of 2,50o in the Mutual Insurance Co. of this city. We understand ho had sold his bouse a few days ago to Mr. W. P. Jouett. but no transfer of the sule had been made. Mr. Lindsey had an insurance of $3,000. There was no inu ranco on the building of Kirkland,

ChaseA Co., in this city. Tho houses tionship, and tho design of Proviwere occupied by W. C. Clifford, as ) dence in forming this relation. Ina feed store; ratten & McCullen, j stead of this, however, we sometimes feed store; Brandies k Crawford, grain see brothers and sistors become more dealers; H. Forsyth, commission mer-1 and more indifferent to each other as chant and tobacco factor; B. Mussel- they recede from that period of ine A. 1 At 11 mi a .a '

man a co., looaceo manuiaetory, anu D. H. Smith & Bro , dealers in whis ky, vinegar kc. Mr. Clifford whs insured for $5,000 iu the London and Liverpool. Messrs. Patten k McCallum had no insurance, we bellt ve They bad about 1,000 bushels of wheat on storage, sod some small lots or other gram. Their loss will not be heavy, howover. Messrs. Bran dies k Crawford estimate their loss at am K riff a m S AAA V ? t 5 a eu,ovo 10 co,ouo, wnicn was insureu 1 . am A AAA ST TV - -a. . m. . m ior 4,uuu. jnr. n. rorsyin naa un insurance of $3,000, we do not know his loss. Messrs. Musselman & Co. had an insurance of $10,000 on their stock and machinery, which will nearly cover their loss. Messrs. Smith k Bro. wero insured for $1,500. Thoir loss will probably not bo more, os they saved a largo portion of their stock. Mr. Kersley Carter had between 100 and 200 barrels salt under a shed in the rear of tho buildings, which was lost. Upon these losses there wore insu rances for the following amounts : In tne iiowara insurance uo., m. I ., sz. - aaa. ttmasamm w.. v.i, w' aao! t xt Vi. .oaaa'. a , ..v" v lantic, Providence, $3,000; Haitford, Hartford, $2,000; Merchants', Philadelphia, $3,000; Delaware Mutual, Philadelphia, $7,000; London and Liverpool, $5,000; Farmersand Mechanica'. Philadelphia, 84,000; Mutual, iiiiii in in n r us. i iiru m r iniir mi. Louisville, $4,000; making an aggregate oi sm.uuu. ine iobs in ouiiaings is about $25,000. The fire was . a. An i wis rm i i ait

a. a . a a a pacca, V isconsin, a piece ol gold bearing quartz, recently picked up noHr inai piace, wuieu im since neon tested by Dr. J. V. Z. Blaney. of, this city, and by him pronounced to ft the genuine aunfurous quarts, The Tribune says : The gentleman has spent some time in examining the surface and rocks of the vicinity of Wapacca, and finds this quarts distributed over a large tract of country north.of that village. A short time previous to the discovery of the specimen examined hv I) H nnev u crenl lemnn who hurt "J j,' : I. ,; , spent some time in Laiitoriiia. one day endeavored to explain to somo neighbors the California method of separating gold dust from sand. By way of illustration, he went into his garden and washed apanfull of earth, when, to his amazement, ho discovered several particles of gold. Thev wero so fow and small, however, that be did not mako tho matter public ! intending first to make othor investi , gations. Dr. J. E. Thayer, of Wa- j pace.a, has received several specimens of gold found in that neighborhood, within the past two or three years, brought to him for examination. He intends publishing a pamphlet in this city shortly, containing the results of his investigations. We are informed also, that Indians of the Menominee Tribe, have brought several nuggets in Wansau (Big Bull Falls.) Ihey report a large quantity somewhere north of that place, but refused to indicate the exact locality. The Clay Co. (Ta.) Canal War Renewed. The Wabash and Erie Canal, at Eel River, has again been cut by a set of Clay county rascals, and the canal is entirely dry above Newberry. The water has washed out a deep gully ten or fifteen feet below the bottom of tbo eanal, so that it will take at least two weeks to repair it. It it supposed that the same parties who weye guilty of the outrage at the reservoir in 1855 have made the present bank. Cin. Times. MW "Pa, didn't you whip me for biting Tommy?" "Yes, my child, yon hurt him very much indeed." 'Well, then, pa, you ought to whip mamma's music teacher too, for he bit mamma yesterday right on her mouth, and I know it hurt her. beoause she put her arms round his neek i i i v: and tried to choke him. 9tT A learned young lady, the other evening, astonished the company by asking for tho loan of a diminutive argentoous, truncated cone, convex on the summit ana semi-penor;uen with symmetrical indentations." The poor crcathre wanted a thimble! i trurwi

supposed to be tho work ol an inccn- as mo result oi then- industry, and diary. Louisville Democrat. I others to get thoir families, and once more go to the land of gold. Rut as Gou Found iw Wisconsin. The i tho storm continued to rage, less was editor of the Chicago Tribune has thought of gold, and when, on Saturbeen shown by a gentleman from Wa-j day. it became evident that they

L0YE OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS. , Brothers and sisters should muke it a duty to promote each other's hap ltinniL IM.. ,.UA..l J A a mIu mm

in nleaaino- ., nth, 5n-tS f K. i f : , . , , ing selfishly taken up, each promoting his own separate enjoyment. Ihey should novel envy each other s i gratification. Envy in children if liko to grow into a most baneful and malignant disposition. Eneh must i do all lie can to promote the happiness ol tho whole. They should nev - , euoh other a tears and griefs. It is a lovely sight to see ono child weoping ! because another is in distress. If there be any one of the family that is In had health, or weakly, all the rest, instead of neglecting that ono. ought to strive to tho utmost to comfort him. How pleasing a sight it is to see ! child giving un his nlav time Lo read i or converse with a sick brother sv meter. This tender attachment should, of courso, becomo stronger and more visible as they acquire greater powor of reason to understand their rclaiancy. i hey should now reason up on tho eloaeness of their rclation.ship. and let the understanding give an additional impulse to thoir hearts. A family of grown up children should be the constant scene of uninterrupted harmony, where lovq quieted uy ingenuity, puts forth all its powers to please, by those nntnral good offices and minor acts of beneficence, ot which every day furnishes the oppor I . a. . ... . . 7 tunny, and which will, while they cost little in they way of money or labor, contribute so much to the happiness of the household. One of the most delightful sights in the world, whero there is so much moral de formity to disgust, and so much un - kindness to distress, is a domestic cir cle where the parents are surrounded by their children, so usefully and happily employed. THE WORTHIES SNESS OF OOL" njie as seiuom eo largo an amount ....... ...I I.... 1 . . 1 ; money ownca oy passengers as iih. ,nfiu i-u i..iKAnÄfoi l vi ,y

J persons of largo means, and thero were very few whose immediate i wealth did not amount to huudrods, while numbers reckoned their gold by ; the thousands of dollars. The greater portion of tho passengers wero returned minors, some coming hither to I ' . . . (a.I it. .' l i i a a juvcai mu cupuui mey nuu rcuuzca in hopes to live a life of greater ease I . . 1 a t . 1 T . were likely at any moment to be buj riod benoath tho waves, wealthy men ' divested themselves of their treasure belt aud scattered the gold UOOIl the t.abm floors, telling those to take it who would, lest its weight a few j ounces or pounds carry them to , i their death. Full purses.'contniniugi in some instances ,000, were laying I untouched on softs. Carpet nags WCro opened by men ami the shining! : metal was poured out on tho floor with the prodigality of deaths des- : pair. One of the passengers, who I.... '- i um iui iuiintvij won i ravuvu. oponod a bag and dashed about the cabin 820,000 in gold dust, and told him wno wudwu to grainy uis groea ior gold to take it. But it was psssed by , untouched ns the veriest dross. A few hours afterwards and he would havre struck down the man who would have attempted to take a grain of that which he now spurned from him. Frou tae Washington Union, I vttt r of Henry la - Im it mein r Imbio The following letter, now for the

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first time published, ndrcesed byl Umtki Staves Sppremk Cot kt.Honry Clay to a gentleman of this I A Washington eorrespondent of the city, will bo read with interest. Mr. j Charleston Mercury thinks it probaClay, as is well known, was ono of j bio that President Buchunan will, tho negotiators of the treat on the j within his term of '.r yours. hav t. part of the United States: nomiuato more than uns member of WAsniNOToa, Dec. 14, 133H. (the Supreme Court. Judge Curtis

Dear 8in : In reply to yoorlottcr inquiring why a clause was not inserted in the treaty of Ghent guarding against tho futuro British irapessment of American seameu, 1 have to say that you will rocolloct that the peace of Europe was then established, and the United States alone were at war with Groat Britain. Wo were not in a condition to dictate t lie terms of peace. Impressment formed one of the topics of negotiation, but Great Britain was not prepared to renounce tho practice of impressing, as she said, her own nubjects. We did not think it necessary to continue the war to compel her to renounce it. if we could compel her. for various reasons : 1st, If thero wero a general peace there would be no impressment, which only takes place in war, or iu preparation! or war. 2d. It was not necessary i have any treaty stipulation to exempt us from the practice, our right to convention depending upou higher ground than any treaty; ana ddly, it ureat üritam should renew the practice of impress I . i j - 4 ment we coma prosecute a now war with more vigor and more ample means than we could continue the existing war, exhausted as we then wero. In point of fact she has not renewed the practice of impressment

against us, and I think never will. m- The low price of whiskev rd I am, respectfully. your obedient j high cost of corn is causing dJalillci sorvant. H. CLAY. In this section, to suspend operat ion 1 ,. 3 i n eonsoquoaco of tili fact sleek hogs. B3u Aman boasted of having killed Ure bocoming more abundant and a young panther, whose tail was four; prjCos aro doolining. We learn thai foot loug. A bystander remarked tbo hog cholera ao prevail- to a conthat the animal was killed seasonably, (siderable extent in the peir attached as the tail was long enough not to beit0 distilleries in this vicinity , Cp, ontinutd. I CostmrtVi.

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pMiitonrv County. iliaisaippi. Intelv tXe( "U " f'r0ing to Ihe rode ol Jdg i-yneh, a man by the nnm ..i Gray. At fho execution the following oeru oerurred. nreordiitfr to the t, i nublishcd in that conntv Whereupon Major fltsel, by rr nisei ! of the company. irnved a verv oleim, and fervent prayer for the spiritual 1 welfare of the prisoner and for the sanction oi iieaven upon their pro feedings the most respectful order and silonec being observed by the crowd during the prayer. Some'olhei remarkh were then made by the pri soner, mingled with prayera, ftc. lie then called up the brothers present of the man lie had murdered, and desired to shake hands and bid them fun well ; they all being three or four, we beliovc oamc up and gave him their hands. Hero, ordunn thc intervals of these proceeding, a eon tributiuii was made up by the company present, of about two hundred dollars, for the benefit of the prisoner's wife and child, who were about to be left a widow and orphan. After which the prisoner was mounted upon a horse n handkerchief tied over his eyes made to stand on his feet upon the horse the rope tightened over the lim! the horse led out from under, and the unfortunate victim of the terrible vengeance of an eutraged community U-lt to swing and qaiver betwoen heaven snd earth, as if unfit for either. a . a a Urs os to his Gold. A Miner who wast saved with his gold from on board the Central America, says: "When the vessel went down. I just laid under her bows her bowsprit hit me on the shoulder, and i should have been carried down, but she went a littlo aft and cleared me Every one on board knew the yvas bound to go down immediately. Fif1 toon or sixteen locked themsel ves up in the state reoms. saying thev would rather dio there than to go down struggling with death in the waters Five or six were sick in their berths and perished that way. I remained nirA ll AllMi' Seat Ua s al T . u,m,n. v ti s time iTn nT.tri:n ,; 1 5 eat anything during tho thirty-six I hours that we were pumping. After tlie vessel wont down, and I had got out of tha crowd, I pwafcd- -off my boots in tho water (and a difficult thing it was.) I had about me. :n coin and dust, about twenty pounds weight of gold. It was in a bolt buckled around me, so that I could loose it aud throw it off in a moment. ! jr found i Ho n it likelv to bear me i v a a rcraiailoaa la th Stale Stops' at si Haiwtwp We alluded some time ince to rumors that peculation had been discovered in the State Department at Washington, and that one of its officials was implicated. We do not IriltflYJI flB f ItAM iu a fm. al i rnmor hut inrn n Kat It - the following from the Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer The facts, as I learn them from a responsible source, are that the nartv implicated has been in the habit of returning to tho Department uuite a ollg list of female ontamtTlbv dolfars per day, while he has paid them but half that amount putting . . . . . .' me ictnai Uder m his own pocket . It mjwu niiegvo mm many or tne names on his pay roll were entirely fictitious u II I . I . .1 The aggregate amount of hi puls tiors is said to bo quite large I for bear meulioiuni; the name of the party alluded to. as 1 hope ho may bo able to clear himself of the charge If the facts as stated are true, some public notice will soon lie made of it. if it consists of nothing more than the announcement of the nffk-inl eon corned. j has resigned; Chief Justice Taney i nbout eighty years old. ami is infirm Judge Dnnief is fnr from promising life of many years; and Judge McLean is seventy -three years old. very rich, and tired of hard labor. It may not be pleasant to those gentlemen to have their end of life thus confidently predicted or alluded to. but they arc great men. in great positions, and must be satisfied with tho common fortune attendent there upon. J udge Taney aud Judge McLean will probably soon retire from the arduous duties of the Bench, and seek the repose of retiracy and private life. They have lived out their "three score years and ten," have fought manfully the battles of lite, and have served thoir country long and well. AawvAi.. Mrs. R A. Lockwood and family arrived in this city last evening. They are stopping at the Bramble House. We learn that Mr. Lockwood left San Francisco two weeks in advanco of his family hui remained at Panama until their arrival upon the next steamer. , It was not his in tent ion to have returned. La fayette. Journal.