Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 November 1849 — Page 2

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After this week we shall publish tri-weekljr, and will try to keep up with the current of events. Plank Itotids. One mile and three quarters of the National Road, West of Greenfield, has been planked, and Mr. Templin informs us that more woulJ have been finished, had the saw mills been able to furnish plank. Next spring the work will proceed rapidly, we hope. The citizens of Georgetown, Floyd county, at a meeting on the 15th inst., resolved that they would raise $10,000 for the construction of a road from that place to New Albany. Six rnilei of the Lafayette end Crawfordsville plank road are finished, and is still progressing. The whole will be completed by next fall. The Trustees of the Mount Vernon and New Harmony Plank Road company have expressed a determination, in a series, of resolutions, to place a portion of the work immediately under contract, and push the whole line to a speedy completion. Profits of Plank Roads in New Yor.K. The Watenrille and Utica road, nineteen miles long and costing $34,010, has just declared a dividend of ten per cent., payable to stockholders on demand, and ten per cent, laid by for repairs. The Utica and Bridgewater road, twenty miles long, and costing $10,000, pays twenty-fire per cent, regularly. The B on vi lie road pays twenty-two per rent. The Watertown road pays twenty-five per cent. The Forea & Johnson road, four miles long, and costing $3,000, pays regularly fifty per cent. Pogr. Our paragraph of last week, intimating that hog owners had better nat hurry sales, has elicited considerable attention; and not a few inquiries for our reasons. In stating them, we are compelled to be very brief, as our paper is ready f it the pro. First, we again say, do not hurry the sales. An unusual large number of hogs ins been driven to mar ket, and the weather h been unfavorable for slaughtering till within two days. O i this point all agree. The Louisville Courier of the 2lth says that there were then in tbe pens in and around that city, 40,009 hogs ready for the knife. The Connersville Valley says that the warm wet weather had suspended operations. The Madison Rinner of Tuesday, says the arrivals of hogs at North Madison up to Saturday night last were nine thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. Of which, four thousand six hundred and eighty-one arrived by the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, and five thousand one hundred and eightyone were driven through on foot.' And such is the account from every quarter. This fact lessens the present price. Tbe stock of pork in the market east is not as great as usual at this season of the year. This we gather from such authority ai we deem trust-worthy, and not from speculators interested in making a different statement. The stock of fags generally is not as large as ordinary ; and this we gather from reliable sources, farmers themselves in all quarters. The money market east is unusually easy from ordinary business transactions, not to peak of the great influx of gold from California, Dearly four millions of which has been received at the U. S. mint, independent of Iba received on private account. All business is looking op, and in a healthy state. The wheat crop is short, and the price of corn consequently increased, while the latter is not over abundant. Theo we hare the opinion of old pork dealers, who fully sustain us, in saying "Don't hurry your hogs to market yon can hold them for 30 days, and our wcrd for it, say they, the price must and will advance. We might enlarge more, bad we space; but we will endeavor to keep our readers advised of all transac tions as fast as we can obtain them authenticated. and we also take this occasion to say in reply to note from one of our friends, that in business matters, we aim at correctness ; and have yet to learn that it is improper to use the best sources of information, merely because they are vhig. Politics is one thing. and business another; and if we get better and ear lier information from a whig than a democratic paper, we shall do so, and give the proper credit. The ruling price at Cincinnati, on the 20th, for hogs of 200 lbs to 250 lbs and upwards, was $2.60 to $2.75. At Madison, $2.50. The price here, as near as we ran learn, is about $2.00. There is a large number on hand here, and it will be some days before we may expect much of a change for the bet ter. The facilities for packing in this city is sur passed by none other ; but our packers don't seem to care to let the public know it. We shall have a look at them shortly, and say a word or two about them. P. S. Since the above was written we are favored with the following despatch from Madison : Madison, Nov. 27ih. To Mr. Isaac W. Hunter, Indianapolis : Sales of two thousand hogs to-day at $2.50. Market firm. GODMAN &. SEEING. v Ma. Haxneqan. The Boston Courier (whig) says it is informed by a gentleman who has been travelling in Europe, that Mr. II. "had his oZce open in Berlin. early in the Summer, and has regularly attended to his datier, sod Americans who Lave had occasion to seek his acquaintance and to accept of his politeness can testify to hu presence at his post, and to his per formanee of all tho functions of bis office." Edmund Elagg, Esq., in a note to the St. Lou'u Republican, says thit Mr. Hannegan repaired t ISnrlin as toon as possible after his arrival in Europe and that he has been absent only on account of sick n ess, or when the plague drove nearly all the foreign er from the city. Mr. F. is a whig, and is an at tacbe to the U. S. legation in Berlin.. Odd Fillows. It is announced thit this benevo lent Order "planted her first standard on the golden shores of California, on the evening i-f -Saturday Sept. 20th. A large number of the brotherhood were in attendance, and "California Lodge No. 1" was es tablished, for "ministering to the wants and soothing the woes of those who need its offices of kindness and care. Much needed, we have ni doubt.

Spliirgiflcntioii ! Mr. Martin M. Ray, the editor of a whig newspaper entitled the llvk Eye, published at Shelby ville, has all at once discovered that there is great corruption connected with what is called the State Printing, in this State. He thinks the public interest and the morals of printers, imperatively demand that there should be an immediate change in the law, o as to allow, under present circumstance, some chance for a virtuous ichig to profit by it. He would like to change tho official tenure of Governor no doubt, for the same reason! Wonder if we could not hire fcon.c whig pettifogger, very chcapl If Mr. R. is to be believed, the law as it now stand creates an enormous monopoly, to secure the benefits of w hich, n en are willing to purchase the friendship of the legislature by the exhibition of innumerable barrel of oysters and illimitable baskets of champaign! That the lucky winner of the prize, will always be ready and willing to gormandize and guzzle iuordinately, with all clacs of loaft-rs, whom the carrion of spoils may congregate at Indianapolis. He expiflngalet in the most grandiloquent phraseology, to the extent of a mortal column, and as if he were affected by a diarrhoaj of dictionary, t as if he were bumfustigaling before a justice of tbe peace for a fee of five dollars in a maiden case. All that he says, however, only proves his complete ignorance of the whole subject. He i o fleeted with that caai.hes scribendi, which, like a moie vulgar cutaneous affection, impels him to speak and to scratch involuntarily and at random, just as demagogues are apt to d upon all occasions. The secret of all this verbiage is simply, a democratic majority. If it were whig instead of democratic, we should not hear a word from such a quarter, -not a lisp. Here is the rub, and herein is made manifest the wonderful product of the Hawk Eye's incubation. It is a mare's nest, and nothing more. We would, if we had time notice every specification of Mr. Ray, from the oysters and champaign, down to the dirty 7y-sheets, which the devils consider as their peculiar perq. We think we could easily convince him, that he has suffered his very prolific imagination to outrun bis discretion that is, if his judgment is as well balanced as that of common men. But we can only say now, that the law as it stands was made by the vhigs while yet in power, and made with a view to cut down to the lowest point the profits of democrat who held the contract at the time. .This law, as It stand, in the Revised Statutes, received the approbation of the late Gov. Bigger, and of Geo. H. Dunn, then whig Treasurer of Slate. The price were fixed after taking the testimony of printers under oath, before a committee of the Legislature, and Several of those men being whig and envious or inimical towards the then State Printers, exposed every means of making fat, or in other word, profitable work. By these means the prices were reduced about 30 per cent, below what they had before been: yet under the highest ratos, so far as we know, no man ever gnt rich unier the contract. Ou the contrary, several who held it became bankrupt, and others aro now pour. The capital necessary to invest to do this work, would pay murh better in almost any other bu8ies, not subject to the envious railing of demagogue. And so far as we sre concerned, if we had not purchased the necessary material, almost useless for other work, we should hardly make such an investment for the sake of s single term of three year-. We never worked harder than when we had the printing, and we never made let profit on the same amount of work. We have made a little money principally by advertising, and we suppose it to be hon

estly our own. CtIt is a fact, often remarked, that sons very frequently differ from their fathers in matters of speculative opinion, especially when the fathers are uncompromising, unyielding and over-zealous in their partizanship. Thus it sometimes happens, that the sons of pious men turn out very wicked; and the sons of some very wicked men, become very pious and virtuous. Tho same may be true as to politics, perhaps: and an example on a small scale, may perchance be found in Terre Haute. It happened recently that some children in that town were at play in a hay loft, a part of their means of amusement being friction matches. In some way they set fire to the hay, which consumed the stable, and several sheds, and came near burning the banking house. One of the little chaps engaged in this fun, was a son of the editor of tho Express, a child of about five years. There can be no doubt that the father it not only an "ultra whig," but he is also a contemner of Free Soilism. Yet we see his son setting his face against his father, while yet in the "green leaf," familiarizing himself not only with locofoco light, but coming at once upon the platform as an actual barnburner ! Unnatural Children. The Philadelphia News states, that recently, in Bucks county. Pa., a father and daughter were arraigned on the charge of incestuous adultery, the prosecutors being the sons and brothers of the defendants. Tho daughter had become pregnant, and the proceedings were instituted, charging them with the crime of incest, because the father woulJ not or could not accede to the demand of his sons in advancing them money. They were acquittad, but it was only after the trial that the daughter for tbe first time, and then ander oath, revealed the name of the father of her child. Heavt Robbert. The Shelbyville Volunteer says the houe of Hannah Nichols, three miles from that town, was entered on the night of tbe 19th inst., and robbed of fourteen hundred dollars. In paper money, gold and silver, it boing the proceeds of tbe sale of a farm. This is worse than Taylor's robbery of the widowed postmistresses. The theives doubtless thought, however, that they could'nt reasonably be expected to be more honest than the President of the United States! Such is the effect of bid example in high places. Accidents. The Michigan City News states that, recently, near that place, Mr. Peter Shimmin, while gathering cranberries, was mistaken for a bear, shot at, and severely wounded. He hid on a fur cap, and was in a stooping posture, which led to the mistake. The bill struck him over the right eye, destroying the eye, and coming out at the cheek bone. He. will probably recover. A son of W. H. Metcalf, in the same county, was killed by the accidental discharge of his gun while he was getting over a fence. The Democrats have a large majority of the popular vote in this Slate; and the old Whig majority- of 25 on joint ballot in the LejUlature, has been cut down to 7 -counting the tw ) Assemblymen from Tannic as Independent. - Hereafter New Jerney may be set down among the Democratic States. Camden (A. J.) Drnutcrat. We are glad that our old friend Hineliue of the Democrat has a ahare in this democratic victory, being elected to the legislature from Camden county. The uccess of the party is no doubt owing, in a great measure, to his zealous labors k the cause. We are only sorry his election was not to a more elevated station. r The emigration from I'remvn to the United States, this year, has amounted U mure than fifty-seven thousand pcr.ou; eight thoiimud of whom have sailed within the last mouth. (gjr See Prof. Rodgers's advertisement in this morning's paper.

Letter from California. GOLD MINES, NORTH FORK, } Sept. 7, 1849. } <Dear Sir>--You have, no doubt, heard before this, of my safe arrival in the gold mines of California, as I wrote my wife the next day or two after we arrived; and as the mail only departs once a month from this to the States, I have delayed writing to you so that I might the better give you such information as you would feel anxious to know. After our arrival, our company, by mutual consent, was dissolved. Matthew Alford and Saml. Dunlop going to themselves, separately, and F. P. H. and myself continuing together. After spending a few days in preparing for raining, we left Coloma, (where we first landed,) in search of a place to commence digging for gold. We accordingly packed our mules with provisions and our implements for mining, and each of us <leading> a mule, we steered our course down the South Fork. There are 3 forks to the American river, the south, north and middle forks. We would travel some three or four miles down the river, and when we would see a place that promised fair, we

woulu onload our mu es. and prospect lot gold until atufiej that it would not pay," and then we would again re-pack and travel on. Not finding; the prospect fir on the South Fork, we struck our course for tha North Fork, and here we have remained, as we supposed wa could do as well here as any where in the vet diggings. The plsce where we now work is called the "Oregon liar," from the fact that Oregon miners first found and worked on it. Her we commenced work and have mail from $10 to $50 per day. Same daya -ielJ much better than others ; but none of them ye! J as abundantly as vre eipected. There is a New York company turning the river at this bar, and when they get tkeir dam finished, I have no doubt they will make a large amount of money. The gold is most abundant in the beds of tbe river, and then companies succeed in turning the stream, thry alnutt always make fortunes. A company about three quarter, of a mile beow ns have just finished turning the river, and they aie now getting out from ix to ten pounds of gold per day, but the expenses attending an undertaking of this kind sre very great. Companies for this purp ose consul generally of from 15 to 0 men. and for all help they hire they have to pay from 8 to 10 dollars per day, per man. and board htni ; besides u is rather expensive boarding at the mines, as you will learn from a list of the prices I will give you before I close. There is quite a difference in tha gold found in tbe wet diggings from lb. at found in the dry diggings. The particles found in the former are very small, while those in the alter are large, weighing from fi'ty cents to an ounce, and sometimes much larger. We have not been so fortunate yet as to strike on a good "streak" as they say in this country, but we expect to do so every day, and we hope to make mis tall and winter s sum that will lake us home a little better off than we came here. Large fortunes are not msde every day some make fortunes in a few months but hundreds make very little money during a whole yearIt requires hard labor to roke money by dipglng some r unable to stand it, while others tabor hard, but from some cause or other, make comparatively nothiar. The a bor in mining may well be compared to that of canalin through a rocky country, for gold is always found among the rocks, snd to get it you must remove tbeui, and then, in a wooden bucket, park your dirt to the water so aa to wash it in your machine. A bucket full of the dirt and stones will weigh about 40 pounds, and has to be carried from 5 to 25 feet, and then the path along which you have to carry it is generally over a b- d of stones of various sues, making the road to wealth a very rugged one. I have in this way, cirri, d to our machine more than 3000 pounds per day, and then at night, as you may suppoee, I would feel a little fatigued. My health, notwithstanding this, to me, very severe labor, is very fine. and I eat my humble meal" with an appetite very becomng one of my profeision. My banes, however, of a night, ache as though they were out fitting my frame for a severe attack of bilious fever. Men who make the most are generally those who deal in provisions, groceries and the right kind of dry goods and clothing, and we think this winter of commencing something of the kind ourselve. It will be almost impossible to mine in the winter and rainy season, and that is the time miners spend the most money. Rents are very high in the mines, but . , I i j . we can in two weeks put us up a log houre and in that we can trade with as much success as if it were a four story brick. I railed to aee one of old Matthew Almant sons the other day, and he has a little establishment of this kind, and on enquiring of him about his business, he said he was doing well that he took in from one hundred to four hundred dollars per day. I had long talk with Dim about old times while there I sold ten grains of tartar emetic to a sick man for one dollar as the fellow appeared to be poor and very sick at that. v e nave now been mining about three weeks and have cleared five hundred dollars. This, in the States, would be called fair vages, but we do not look opon it in that light nere. we think we ought to make at least 1300 a week, and hope we shall do so in a short time. September 14. Since writing the foregoing, wa, in company with four others, have been engaged in turning the river by means of a dam partly across the river. We will complete the dam in two or three days more, and then we think we will make money very fast. Our bar is about one hundred yards below that of the New York bar where they are doing so well ; snd judging from what we have seen, we think our a will vield better than theirs. They ssy that our prospect is much etter now than theirs was when they commenced work. To-day, after we quit work for dinner, we took a large spoon and in less than half aa hour dug up and washed $12 worth of trold. This has encouraged us very much, snd I doubt not in my next, I shall be able to give you an interesting ac count of our doings on this bar. The gold mines in this country are almost inexhausti ble, but tbe go!d is very difficult to get at and always will be so. The accounts heretofore civen bv writers have been greatly exaggerated. It is true tbat there is an abundance of gold in the mines, but the stories about men get ting it in such large amounts and in so short a time is not true now, nor do I believe tbey ever did. But still, bard as it is to get, men can mike more money here than any place I ever ssw before. The country, so fr as I have seen it, is one of the most desolate, poor and unpromising countries I know of anywhere. The soil, if soil it can be called, looks like the dust about a brick-kiln, and it certainly cannot produce iny kind of grain, fruit, or any thing else, except the pine, the scrub oak, and some few other tiees and shrubs. It is said that graas grows well in the rainy seaaon, which commences about the first of December, but this looks unreasonable to me as the nights are already very cool, so much so that four heavy blankets can be borne very comfortably. The country, however, is nothing, the gold is all, and this will keep people here while it lasts. It may be a little amuiing to you to know how we live in the mines, and aa I am giving you rather a sketch of things than regular historical account, I will tell yon. We have located under the shade of a little shrub tree Here we dug away the rocks, scraped sway the dirt so as to make it Isvei, and then spread down our Dufulo skins and blankets. This constitutes our habitstion. and the few leaves on this little tree are ocr only protection from the inclemency of the weather. Our meals consist generally of fat pork, bread and coffee ; sometimes, when we sre lucky, we purchase a small piece of fresh meat, so as not i a a . . - er is to lorgei entirety now neen meat tastes, we generally get our breakfaat by sun up, and then put off to work. After working hard until about 11 or 12 o' zot k, we retorn to our dvclUng place, and prepare for dinner, which consists of the same viands as we had for breakfast, and then, after resting sn hour or two, we return again to work-then we work until night, and on returning we prepare our tea,' which consists of tbe same precious articles as loose we enjoyed at breaki-st and dinner, and in this wsy we work snd live; snd notwithstanding we live on the diet above described, snd sleep in the open air, we enjoy One health. Tbe greatest trouble I have to en counter is the hard pallet on which I have to sleep. It affords very little rest to my tired bones, and instead of that swtet sleep Tvhich a clean, comfortable feather bed affords, I roll end tumble about for nearly half tha night ; but auch is the miner's fare, snd I enjoy it ss best I can. The machine we brought with us, being; one of Leavenworth's patent gold washers, proved to be perfectly morth'et and we lad to throw it away. This was a severe los to us. as i! nearly broke down our team to get il here. The machines manufactured in the States sre unfit for mining in this country, and those who deal in them mut knot it, and knowing it. they swindle those who buy them, knowingly. Our government is greatly at fault too, in granting patents quite so liberally ss they do. When sn article is otTared for ssle with a patent attached to it, the peopts of rourse hav some confidence in its utility. and at the tame time the machine, tbus patented, is worth less and In this way the government becomes parti cep criminit in this swindling operation. . I would adviee all emigrants lo this country not to accept of a gold tnmher, if even patented by the govei-nment tf the United State, shou'd it be ousred to them as a gift, as tbe transportation is worth more lo them H an the machine. It will be out of my power to give you an account of our travels to California before I return home--I would not undertake a trip across the <plains> again for ten thousand dollars--indeed I could not be hired to do so. It is a journey of great length, of great toil and great danger--and no man can describe it as the emigrant will find it to be. Many men have died on the route and many more who are now toiling along with the hope of reaching here, will, I fear, not be able to do so. All writers who have written on the subject of crossing the plains have greatly misrepresented the trip. Bryant's work on California is a fancy work well written and well calculated to allure those who read it into difficulty if they start here on what he says. We found scarcely any truth in what he has

written, and hundreds of emigrants <cursed him and his work> from <Dan to Bersheba> [sic]. And this is true of most of the writers. Tbcy h. written to make money, and they have accomplished all they desired. I have just

heard from our friend Rev. Mr. Owen and his train, The man who saw them told me he left them about six hundred miles from here. I have not heard from Aaron Orr and his company--they may possibly have reached the mines as they have had abundant time to do so; and yet I may not hear of or see them for a month to come, so extensive are the gold regions of California. Dr. Ackley and Dr. Graydon are mining somewhere on the South Fork and how they succeed is more than I can tell. Greer, Baker and Matthew Alford left here together--how they will succeed I cannot tell; but I hope they may do well Samuel Dunlop went with Larimore. I spoke tf the h'gh prices of provisions, dec-, in the first part of my letter and I will now give you a list of tbe prices ss f-r a I can recollect them. You will bear in mind that every thing in the eating line is sold by the pound, snd you wi be astonished at the rates. Pirkled pork, "35 per pound; fresh beef, M)c do; dried beef. 80o do; Lams 1 00 to 1 12 do.; salt fih, 70c do.; venison, 50c do.; Irish potatoes, 50c do.; pickles, 50c do.; fl ni', 35c dj.; corn meal, 50c do.; crackers, 60c d i.; baker's bread, 100 per loaf; brown sugar. N. O 40 to 45c per pound ; loaf sugar, 60 to COc do.; sperm candles, 1 00 each ; salaratus, $6 to f S per pound ; salt, g3 for a box of 4 pounds; molasses $1 per bottle holding about a pint ; vinegar, $1 per small bottle ; brandy, $5 per bottle of about 1 pint or 50c per drink, except champaign which is $10 per bottle all other spirits same as brandy; common tobacco, fl to I 5u per pound; dried apples, $1 do; dried pc.cbes much higher, but price unknown ; shelled corn, 30e per pouod ; cheese, $1 to 2 00 d.i.; milk, 50c per quart and scarce; boarding, $21 to $25 per week, single meals, $1 50 to 2 00 each; coarse shoes, 5 to $7 per pair; fine shoes, 8 to $3 do.; coarse boots, 10 to $12 do.; fine boots, 20 to $25 do.; flinnel shirts, 4 to $S each, and all other clothing in the same proportion. These are the prices in the mines, but they are a shade lower in the cities on the bay of San Francisco, I have now given you the particulars of the mines, country, ice. as far as I can crowd them into this letter. I will write you monthly and keep you advised of all things here that I think will iuterest you. I have, as yet, had no letter or paper from home. I f-el a great anxiety to hear from you all, as I fear the cholera has visited our place and taken to the grave some dear friend. I will write to James and give him a history of my practice and my success in a short time, and you can see his letter. I have not heard from tbe States since the 30th of June- I saw the N. Y. Tribune of that data and I found it full of interest. Yours trnly, A. W. HARRISON. Monet Missing. About four weeks since,-Peter Dagtry, Esq., as an agent of the Indiana Mutual Fire Insurance Company, put a letter in the post-office at t!ii place for Indianapolis, containing' $20, which has nut since been heard of. Mr. D. has since writen to Indiana pons and received an answer that no money had come to hand as directed. Mr. Daggy has frequently heretofore sent money to the atne address, and it has always went safe. There is. evi dently, something wrong somewhere; but where it is we are not prepared to say. Putnam Co. Sentinel Such occurrences are becoming entirely to com mon these Taylor times. It is hardly fair to impli cate Fitz Warren's beauties however for they were appointed for their "hontslyl" Another New Invention. We call the attention of those about building dwellings, and of builders especially, to a Patent Blind and Shutter Fastener, on exhibition at the Falmer Houce. It appears to us to be a very ingenious and uselul contrivance, and outte sim ple withal; one that the ladies would like, especially i.i stormy weather; as the blinds or shutters can be completely fastened in any desired position wiihont Aruantfirr tlio tvlnitnltf n t .11" n rt wKnn Fnmt.nA m Ks!, t t , e e r j jj-.- i i. and ock, thief-proof, affords additional security. It r must be eeen to be appreciated. Ihe right is tor sale for a portion of this State, we believe. We understand that it Is sold in all the Northern and Eastern States. A Deplorable Cask. A woman, the mother of four children, was committed to prison in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, by the Mayor, on the complaint of her husband, for being habitually intoxicated. The North American soys : The statement mde by the almost distracted husbaud was heartrending. He had us d every means to produce a reformation, and for years borne the shame and mortification consequent upon her conduct, in the hope that she would see the evil of her ways, and be to him and her children a wife and a mother. Every art failed, all moral persuation proved fruitless, and almost broken in spirit, and ruined in his busi ness he was compelled to ask the interposition of the aw ns the last source left him. It was a melancholy spectacle, and excited in all who witnessed it the mingled emotions of sorrow, pity and regret. Naval. The Ohio 74, sailed from San Francisco for Norfolk, Va., Sept. 15lh, Captain C. K. Stribling, commanding. The Warren, Commander. Long, was at San Francisco, all well. The Prebie, Commander Glynn, was at the Sandwich Inlands; some cases of dysentery onboard; last news from her, doing well. The frigate Savannah was at Benicia, the flag ship of Com. Jones; also the Steamer Massachusetts, and store shin Southampton. At San Francisco, the St. Mary's Commander Z. Johnson, was hourly expected from the lower coast. On her arrival she was to take Cornodoro P. Voorhecs, appointed to the seat of his Command, the East India Squadron. She will 'ouch at the Sandwich Islands, with the Commissioner, the Hon. Mr. Eamei. Diflomattc. We learn that Mr. Schrceder. the liewly-appointed charge to Stockholm, has forthwith departed on his mission. Mr. Ellsworth, tho late charge who has relumed to the United States, we learn, after encountering and overcoming every ob stacle, was on the point of concluding an important treaty with Sweden, upon principles of reciprocity and fairness, that would have been productive of high ly beneficial results to this country, when l:e was recalled. Mr. E., we learn, displayed great diplomatic tact and talent in his negotiations, meeting and defeating as he did the insidious efforts of British influence exerted to prevent his concluding the treaty. His successor will, we presume, as the work is ready for completion, have no difficulty in finally consum mating Mr. Ellsworth treaty at an early period. Washington Union. 07The Pa. Ledger truly says, in concluding an article upon French affairs, that every r.ew idea is a blow to despots that secures the triumph of freedom. Human rights are to be achieved by the pen, that little instrument of mighty mischief," and not by the sword. Bloodshed is temporary reason eternal. Pi. ling barricade till the crack of doom will not free a people. Ont 'jiclory of reason is conclusive. Inform aticn Wanted. Information is wanted by Amelia Mart'n r.f Fluche and Bent. Franklin Mar tin, whom sht has not seen or hvard of for eigh'een yea is. The father of these parties was formerly a school teacher in the Fourth ward of Cincinnati. Any communication directed to Win. II. -Wie, Cin cinnati. Ohio, (the husband of Mary Martin,) con cerning his friends will be gratefully received. The mother or Amelia, Phcebe, and Benjamin k. Martin died at Newton, Ohio, some twenty years since. ' Hon. George W. Julian. Our Representative elect to Congress we regret to say, was taken sudden ly ill on Saturday night last. With hemorrhage of the lungs, and has been confined to his bed ever since. He is now (Wednesday morning) believed to be convalescent, but it is feared that ho will not be able to reach Washington at the commencement of the session. Cenlretille Sentinel, jVr. 21. "Rak of THE Locr." A scoundrel at the Boston Museum, when the crowd was passing out, on Thurs day evening last, deliberately cut off three or four ringlets from a yonng lad; s neck. Hearing the click of the scissors, the young lady quickly turned round and uttered a scream, but the perpetrator of the out rage had tied. - The editor of the Worcester (Mass.) Spy and the editor of the Palladium were opposing candidates for the Legislature at the late election. The editor of the Spy (Whig) won the day, whereupon he, of the Palladium, consoles himself by saying: Tho people of Worcester have elected the edi tor of the Spy to the Lrpislaiurt and elected us to slay at home. That shows very plainly teile they can f pa re best

Explosion of the LouMatia t'rom. the 27. O. Bulletin, Noe. 17. The boilers of the steamer Louisiana, Capt. J. W. Cannon, expired yesterday at 5. P. M., nearly opposite Gravin street, spreading death and destruction in every direction. At ihn time we writ; this it is impossible to ascertain the number of lives lost. Tbe rep rts range fnnn 8- tu 130, though we hope this will prove to be exaggerated. One of the officers of the bat tated to us that there were about fifty cabin passengors on board; bat. a oil the cabin aft the wheel-house was uninjured, we hope that many -of

them are saved. Oue gentleman informed us that he . 6 i .iii- r .i -' or twelve, mostly ladies, f.om the t 1 ' assisted Komu ten or wrvck Accounts differ as to the number of persons on the boiler deck and forecastle, at the time of the explosion. The boat was about starting to St. Luis and had run; her last boll; but was to haul alongside an emigrant veste) to take on board 20! deck passengers; b it f r which they would aUo have been involved in the dreadful calamity. The Butona has had her upper works greatly shatterrrd. Capt. Du.tin, her commander, it is feared will n it recover from his injuries. The steamboat Storm lay on the lower side and is worse injured than the ttistnn, and some persons were hilled on board of her. Slie hid j st arrived, and had n t made fast whan the explosion occurred. Fortunately, she had ni pasaeugors on board. The force of the explosion wait apiiling; tbe pl ins was 8'iattercd on the frjnt levoo at a distance of lOOl) fftit from I lie boti, and the shock wis felt at the extremities of the city Toe forecastle nf the Louisiana was sunk in the mud, but the stern being in dp water, kept sinking until the boat began to slide ttF. The working parties had to desist from their generous rxertiors in order tu save themselves. There were some !&) or 30 who had to swim fur their lives, when the whole wreck .lipped into deep water and disappeared. IAt of Killed, Wounded and Missing. Wounded, from Kentucky; H. W. Bucnanau, Marcus Milnor, Samuel F. Smith, Arthur, (a slave) Thorn. s Meriwether, Samuel Conley, J. S. Wilger of Indiana; I.vaac Miller, of Ohio; Ctpt. Dustin; Capt. Hopkins, steamer Storm; Robt. Price, John Mas m, W. Wolfe, of Memphis. Front Mississippi W. Tucker, J. Tucker, John E. Barber, 'Phos. Hamsun, L. O. Read. The following bodies were found: Wm. Knox, Andy Bu, Levi Prescott, of Memphis, Mrs. Moody, wife of clerk of steamer Storm; R. McMakin. Missing. J. W. King, of St. L uis, Mr. Elliott, J. Merring, tf Cincinnati. Tiiere are many other names f killed, wounded and mUaing, but most of them are of New Orleans and foreign countries. A Fraud of the Teleckaph. The following note from John Vau Buren is published in tho Atlas and Argti-: Editors of ihe Alias Gentlemen : The telegraph ic despatch from this city published by you on Mun d-y, signed 'E. B. Hart, chairman, &c.," was drawn op and forwarded al my instance, and was Signed by me as well as by Mr. Hart. The Fame communication was directed to a prominent democrat at nearly every telegraph station in the Slate. Its t'bvious design was to prevent either of the former sections of the democratic party from rcialiatin;; upon the tler by scratching a portion nf the ticket; and especially to prevent such action on the pun of the barnburners, who might be jutly irritated at the card of Messrs. Sickles &, Co. The Argus and Atles both published it omiiting my name. I have enquired at the office here, and am informed that the despatch- was forward ed to Albany as written, end strongly suspect that tiiy j name was dishonestly kupresd by the operator at Albany, fiir the purpose of aiding the Taylor and Clhoun inen. Reep ctlully your, JOHN VAN BUREN New York, Nov. 7. 1949. This is one of the email tricks resorted to by a desperate party. It i worthy of a party whose ascendancy was won by fraud, and which se?ks to perptualc its power by concealment and treachery. Lu. De111' The Rascal! We learn from the St. Louis Republican, that Ia.t spring a scoundrel assuming i!.e j name of Francis River, appeared in that city and ; married a young and very reepectable lady. They j afterwards settled in Peoria, where, three months af ter marriage, he deserted bis vounr? wife, robbing her of a considerable amount of jewelry, and everything

she had, and taking in her friends to the amount of bersreful not to put anything in it! Goshen Dem. several hundred dollars. After leaving her, he went j Jjefore us lies a real Califomion newspaper, with to Albany, N Y.t where, assuming a military dres,;aj ;tg politics, paragraph and advertisements, printhe passed himself off for Lieut. John L. Eaton, U. S. j atl(j publi8hed at San Francisco, on the 14ih of last Navy, and Boon after contracted marriage with a-jum rn jterary or profrssional point of view, young and wealthy lady of its neighborh-jod. But be- there is nothing very remarkable m this production, fore the honey moon was over with his new bride, he ; Journalism is a science so intuitively comprehended was detected and exposed by two gentlemen of St. ' Dy American citizens, that thoir most rudemcntary Louis. Sence then, it is understood that he has yet j effur(s j ti,jg Jine are sure lo lie successful. News"another wife in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is time for the ! paperä are to them what theatres and cafes are to nemspapers to take hold of him. He is yet at large, j Frenciiroen. In the Mexican war the occupation of and we hope a general hue and cry will be riised so .j, eucceSsjVe town by the invading army was sigthat he may be brought to the penitentiary without ; naij-.P(j by the immediate establishment of a weekly delay. t journal and of a "bur" for retailing those spirituous . , compounds knowu by the generic denomination of Another Canal Break. On Wednesday night . ..American drinks." Th same fashions have been last, after the break just below Early's slaughter Bdoptej jn California, and the opinions of the Araerihotise had been repaired and the dam removed to let an pojon 0f i,at strange population are already the water below, some two hundred yards further repregented by journals of in ire than average ability south, and just above Mr. Enrly's packing house, I(d jnleIligence. -Lonoo- Time. another break occurred, which took about eighty fwt of embankment and six or eight feet bdmc the bottom ! A Heroine for California Ti.e brig Ark sailed of the canal with about half its width into the Wa- from Newburyport on lire JUst ult., fur Cil.fi rnia, baeh. It seems to l ave let loose and slid out from tho ; with 117 passengers, among wlium were three young bottom, as if the foundation were quick sand. Somo ladies. One of them i a single woman without driftwood in the river which had ldged near the riv- friends (unless of recent acquintance),or relatives on er bank is pushed sixty feet further out, and the earth ; board. She goes out on her own book, washed in or just above the water, changing the cur-j young woman had no need of going away to'

rent and driving tt further west, from the appearFrom the ance of the place we presume its cost for repairing will not be short of a thousand dollars. Wabash Ex press, tJl.f.

Pay the National Debt. We learn from the last fiscal statement of the Secretary of the Treasury, that the amount now on d-poite and subject to draft in the various depositories of the government is $7,577,932. This tact shows the salutary operation of the existing tariff, and iis capneity to supply ample revenue to the treasury, even much more than is required for the necessary ordinary expditures ol the government. What should be done with the accumulating surplus! We have but one reply to make. Pay the national debt with it. It is true, the certificates of indebtedness running for a special term of years cannot be redeemed except at the pleasure of the holder. But Congress should, at an ear! day, make provision for the appropriation of all surplus revenue to the purchase of the national stocks at their current prices in the market. And this policy should be euforced, by legislation. Washington Union. fJT-The next session of Congress, judging from the preliminary gitings out, will perhaps be the mo&t exciting one which the country has yet neen. It is important that the people should take newspapers giving them authentic information. O-The New London " Pioneer" has beu enlarged, and presents a very respectable aspect. We are glad to see this evidence of prosperity, for its editor is intelligent and industrious, and deserves success. We have not received the State Sentinel f r nearly two weeks. We can't very well d without it, and hope that the publishers will send it regularly. Vernon Times, Our paper is mailed to the Times punctually, as it is to all our subscribers snd exchanges. If il doe not reach its destination it is the fault of the failhlesi and inefficient agents now in charge of the post office department. Death of an Editor. C. V. Duggins, Esq., formerly connected with the Eaton Regis'.er, the Hamilton Intelligencer, and the Indiana Courier, died at New Castle, on the 17th tust. He was an honest and respectable man. Horace Mann, in a late lecture in Bwton. said the Gods of the world are fast dying out, und one deit) alone is worshipped wm. Were it currently reported that the river Jordan was bedded with gold, and that the Pool of Bith6eda was lined with pearls, the Christian world would vie with the Jews to rebuild Jerusalem, and ships would be up far Palestine instead of San Francisco. i

VAiucri'. (KrWilliam Shakspeare is G. S. of tbe Sons of Temperance at Columbus, Ohio. 07The repital of California has ben fixed at the Puebla of San Jose, by the Constitutional Convention. C-The Melhodists in England have determined to erect a college in one of the most vicious and destitute portions of London, for the gratuitous education of the poor. Caution. The St. Louis Union of the 17ih inst.

. . , ,.r - ,. . r e7 r e. n i w ,n? to be bill of the 'Bank of St. Cmix, St. Paul, 6., . . , . , . . e. n i . . as there is not only no such bank at St. Paul, but no Bank at all in the Territory of Minnesota. The California Mails. There hd been no regular mail received at San Francisco up to the 29th of September since the thirlidh of June last, and one universal voice of condemnation is heard in the country at the bad management which causes this delay. Polygamt' among the Deseret Mormons. A correspondent writing from the city of Salt Lake, states that the laws of the community permit the men to have as many wives as thy can support, snd that some of the elder ones have twenty, but that young men content themselves with five. Singular Case. The Cumberland Md.) AUeganian states, that ou Wednesday last, an Irishman. wh' resides near Lonacontng, threw from his stomach a living snake five or six inches in length. For several years past he has been in delicate health, and laterally subsisted almost wholly upon milk. On Wednesday, at the earne-t persuasion of several of his countrymen, he was indued to drink with them. Directly alter swallowing the liquor, he was seized with vomiting and threw up the snake. Ship Builcino in the Uxited States. One of the immediate advantages, it is predicted, which the United States will gain by the reciprocity between England and this country, in the carrying trade, will be the impetus which it will pive tu ship building. A New York cotemporary thinks that Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Buffalo in fact all of our cities and towns bordering on the great laks and rivers, will go at once into the buninene. The spectacle will frequently be presented of ships, barques, and brigs, built of materials from the forest within a mile of the ship yards, and laden with western produce, clearing for England direct. This has been the case to a certain extent already, and must need he greatly increased. A Rousing Dat's Work ov the Western Railroad. The agent of the Western Railroad has furnished us with the following statement of the amount of freight started from their depot at East Albany : 10,053. birrels of flour; 942 barrels of apples; 1,405 boxes of cheese; 75 bals of wool; 1,159 firkins of butter; 05S barrels of beef. Eight trains, with SGI c-rs, were sent East. The receipts for freight were $3.423. This is the largest nf any day since tho road was built. -Albany Etc. Journal, Oct. 30. The End of the World. To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands, the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fi-r it 1 We walk here as it were in the crypts of lifi; at times, from t!-e great cathedral above n, we can hear the organ and the choir; we can seethe lirht stresm through the open door where some friend goes up before uj; snd shall we fear to mönnt the mrrnw staircase of the grave, that leads tis out of this uncertain twilight into thesorcne manionsof lifW eterntl ! Sight Seeing. An individual of melancholy lemperament whne vife had left him a year or two eine !ramR inI our lCtt l'ie olf,er rf,.v' on rpP' y to nn inquiry saiu sue nau nur. muri.Ku oui iik iibu m-vii ner a day or two since, indeed he could see her whenever he wanted to." How is that?" "By look in it ihroujh a bottle. I can see her any time, and tell what ihe is doing!" "What was she loing when you saw her!" "Once she was nursing a baby "twan't my bbr neither and the last time I noticed he was a little too tocinb'e with a young man I used to know!" We expressed our surprise at his wonderful faculty, but he assured us it was positively tru. We advise all iealous husbands to procure them a bottle, and if they don't want to see too many sights, i Caiif,,.;. ;f Bhe wanted io calch anything with her "hook," worth having. If rh? had come here, we would guarantee that she would have been married to a first rate husband at sight. It ttkes thofe spirited yankee girls to d up business promptly : ours are too backward! Telegraphic Imffovement. A Mr. Speed has invented a " Switch,'" as he calls it, which consists in making one galvanic circuit and break, close a second circuit"both ways, the second circut a third, and so on, for an unlimited distance, the operator at the extreme end being able to break and close the different circuits, and consequently write on all the registers connected with the through wire without any attention of any one of those stations not receiving the message. He adds: Lines of Telegraph cannot be worked advantageously, even with new insulttora, for more than 4(K)or500 miles in one circuit. To work a line for 800 or 1000 miles in one circuit, would reqire so powerful a battery and one of such high intensity, tbat much of the electric current would do Jost in consequence of imperfect imsulation. our best conductors beinf only poor conductors. My improvement will enable us to divide the line into such circuits as can be worked with certainty in bad weather, and still send a message from St. Louis to New York without re-writing." Mr. R. T. St. John, who took the overland route to California, give, in one of hi- letters to the Msrioa (la.) Western Union, the following account of the Alkali Lakrs this side of the Rocky Mountains : "There are. for fifty miles before you reach tho Sweet Water, the most singular ponds or lakes in nature. They cover from one to six acres of land, and are called Alkali Lakes, the soil fir one-fcurth of a milra around them beinj composed of subatance re?e;nbling salerauia and answerinj every purpose for baking, and from three inches to one f ot in deptn, as white as .i:w and light like ashen. The lakes are covered over with an incrustation having the appearance of ice. but being the strongest alkali I have ever seen; it is from one inch to three inches in thickness and will almot take the vkin off. This water is very dangerous for stock, as they die in a short time afler drinking it; fortunately we have prevented any of ours frn going into them, always camping two or three miles distant and watching our stock." Locks iiikI Uiiildin? Material. JUST receives at Uraydon'a "Sign el tli -aw," a Urfo fupply of door lockt ef II qualiiie, among them tbe -eUbra ted novelty worki Lockt of PiUtbarfh at very low pricet: Latchte of all klnrtt; King", Shutter ftttenn.ft, Boltt, Cnploard taicbtt; Ola, Naiia aaa bradr, Boctoa finiahing aaila. fcc STIt VY HO KS LS. 5 XUke aa tr Ch.i let MeiUeill. Iiii.g on the corner vreH of Ue . vrett market Irauw, in O. city, ta frT hor,iUi puiM, but no bnti let. The o-ix-r can lae tuem by iUK. rrinf I4iupolU, Kov.tT 1S49. 1-3.