Locomotive, Volume 31, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1855 — Page 2

Here I am, then, in the quiet village of Lancaster? which is situated anion? the hills of the Old Bay State, some thirty-five miles from Boston, via the Nashua & Worchester railroad, and a day's journey from New York city. The Nashua river runsv near the village. ' It ' jingles along its winding course, among the granite rocks and pine clad hills, till it is lost in the Merimack. It was on the banks of the placid Nashua that Mrs. Rollston resided, who was taken captive by the Indians about the year 1775. The population consists mostly of old inhabitants, who are of stern, regular Puritan stamp. They are industrious and intelligent, and by minding their own business, and "doing unto others as they would have others do to them," they manage to get along in the world. But I would not have you understand that all are so, for somo would speculate in "shoes with wooden soles" and "horn gun flints" if there was any money in it. The fai ms in the vicinity are said to be among the best in Now England. If they are, I would advise all Yankee farmers to go west. If a farmer here has two or three acres of Indian corn, and tho same amount of wheat, he thinks he is doing well. Ho has a few acres in "roots" of different kinds, and off of a "truck patch" of wo acres ho supports a large family and lives well. They raise good hay, which is the principle feed for stock. If some western farmers were to come here they would starve, while a Yankee would live well. The latter scratches and digs around and among great "nigger heads" with his hoe, where a westerner would not dare to lift his plough. One Yankee had the impudence to tell me that lie could raise "truck on the ledges of the mountains, where I would have to whet sheep's noses to eat grass between the rocks." They have excellent fruit; the Hubbertson, Nonesuch, and Baldwin apples are among the best. , You may have heard a great deal about Yankee oxen and horses. ' I have seen but few that would come up to our western stock. 1 The Yankees are fast folks, and put their horses through, keeping them continually on the run, and no difference how poor, the horse has to go it at a 2:40 rate, while the driver is holding on to the reins as though his old "crow-bait" was, running away. They drive their oxen in a way that would disgust a Hoosier, yet they are well broke and pull tremendous loads. I have been here nearly two months and have seen but three days when sleighs could not run. We bad a terrible storm yesterday, and now the snow lays about a foot and a half in depth on the average. The drifts are so deep that it requires oxen and' log sleighs to "break the road," and when it is packed down will be grand sleighing. Everybody have sleighs here of the best quality, and it is real cheering to hear the merry jingling of sleigh bells from early morn till late at evening. ' ' ' But to return to the village. We have two large churches one a . Congregationalist, the other a Unitarian a very large edifice erected in 1816. A town clock is placed on the latter, and faithfully counts the moments as they fly. A Port-money manufactory is carried on, which employs many hands. An excellent High School is conducted by Prof. H. C. Kimbell, and a Common School by Miss M. King. Lastly, but not least, the New England Normal Institute. Prof. Win. Russell, the .author of several standard school books, is tha Director; Professor of Greek and Latin, H. C. Kimbell; Prof, of Modern Languages, H. Kingy; Prof, of Mathematics, Geo. S. Houghton; English Literatum, L. W. Russell. The Institute Hall is a commodious building, and every thing is convenient for pupils. There is an excellent library connected with the Institute, which is Free to all students. A Lyceum is held once a week, and after an address being given, and the paper read, the members enter into debate with great earnestness. Many schools .or institutes may be called ..nodel schools, but if this is not the school, then they must be "scarce as hen teeth." If a scholar does not understand the very foundation of every branch of study, then the Professors are not to blame he must be a hopeless case. To sum the matter up, we have the best Institute in the country, and I advise all who wish to save their money to come to the New England Normal Institute, where they can soon be fitted for model teachers, or any other profession whatever. Those who wish to keep "bach" can have every opportunity. There are several keeping bach now yes, even the ladies do.and when this is the case it has been concluded to call it "Maidens Hall." There are at present but thirty pupils, but when the spring term commences (which is in March) we expect many more. Then, come on Hoosiers, if you wish an education. Yours, &c, ' A Hoosier. Lancaster, Mass., Jan. 20, 1855. N. B. There is still a goodly number of "old maids" in Yankeedom. So, send on your orders, if you wish a supply "all favors thankfully received."

. Indianapolis, Feb. 6th, '54. Mb. Editor: Permit me through your columns to say a word in reference ..to the Know Nothings. I am not a Know Nothing, nor do I know what the Know Nothings are. It may be guessed, though, that they are Protestant Americans. It may be guessed that their object is to check the monstrous encroachments ,of foreign power upon our nation. 1 If that is their object taking into consideration the religious character of that power is it not time that the native citizens of this land were looking to their own interests? Shall the land be, as it were, deluged by a flood of foreign ignorance, pauperism and religious bigotry? And shall that foreign ignorance, pauperism and religious bigotry be armed with the sovereign franchise of voting, that it may drown out the last spark of freedom from among us? What kind of a law have we woven into the very Constitution of our State at this very moment? A law that invites into our boundaries

the veriest ignorance, pauperism, off-scouring filth of the population of the old world to become citizenized, and to exercise equally with us all the powers of free and equal republicans. Is ii right? No man who has a spark of patriotism or national pride, will say it is. Why was such a feature introduced into our Constitution? Was it because it was of vital importance to those clothed by it with citizenship, that they should be so clothed? Was it because they would be enabled to live any the more comfortably? Was it because they would be at all injured by being permitted to serve at least a decent apprenticeship to republicanism before being admitted to the full rights of citizens? Was it because the national strength was so small as to require their addition? . Was it because the Government need

ed the wisdom of heads that in fact generally had never dreamed of exercising any other than the rights of menial servants? What do the low, degraded, ignorant foreign population of other lands know of the character of this Government? Anything? No. Then why should they have been invited here, and so summarily clothed with the power of directing the policy of the Government? There is no reason for it under the heavens, but that their votes would go to build up the unconscionable schemes of petty politicians. Is it true that there are those in tho land who would barter their country for their own personal distinction and profit? It seems so. What effect have tho Know Nothings had since their formation into a body? If they have had the effect to chastise politicians who have condescended to court distinction at the hands of for eign paupers, instead ot at the nanus or tree born, independent American citizens, that is one effect. If they have had the effect to uncover and drag to light the latent sentiment of foreign ecclesiastical domination to show what in fact is the real republicanism of men who know no thing but to do the bidding of a religious tyranny that bows the masses in slavish ignorance, that is another effect. If they have had these two effects, so that native citizens are awakened in time to guard their Government from a ruin ous element that has been stealthily creeping into it, then they have been of use that will be felt as long as the Government exists. Have we not seen how, by a paper printed and published in this land a paper that is circulated far and wide, and reaches into all society, from the highest and politest to the lowest and filthiest a certain class of foreign population have been urged to form themselves into independent military companies? Have they not been so urged by a paper that has but just opened its wing under the protection of the American flag? And why are they so urged? Is there no meaning in the premonition? Do we not know that those who are urged to so form themselves into compa nies are under the influence of a religion whose priests, when the occasion require, stand as military directors of war? Do we not know that the mass of those who bow the knee at the Papal throne are but the veriest slaves to a tyranny darker and blacker than any other that has ever cursed the earth? N 1 : It seems to me it is time that American citizens were looking to their interests. It is time we were looking into the question, who shall be permitted to land upon our shores? Who, with the air of Dictator, shall begin to rule the very moment he touches foot upon our soil? Let us defend against the end by guarding the beginning. Civilian. STATE PRINTER WHO IS TO BE? ' Mr. Editor. The Republican has commenced, in its usual courteous style, a reply to my artitle in your last paper, but seems entirely to misapprehend its scope. Chapman, Father or Son in' short the Republican office really, is a candidate for ' State Printer before the public asking a favor, and I simply attempted to throw together the objections I had heard made in various quarters to the election. Among other objections, I mentioned that Chapman, the elder, having been so repeatedly a candidate for office, specifying as a part of the instances, his election to the Constitutional Convention, while, at the same time he was holding the office, as appears by Auditor Dunn's late report, of State Printer. I did not charge him with robbing the State, nor taking more than his legal pay, nor think of such a thing. . I did mistake the length of time the convention was in session, but that is an im material point. I charged him with 'receiving the three dollars a day, the legal wages, and no more, as a member of the Convention, and not otherwise, and of course he was not a member of the Convention longer than it existed some four months, equal to two sessions of the legislature. The drift of the matter was, not the pay, nort the time, particularly, but the office holding, and that point is not denied. The fact, then, remains undenied, standing in the account of the official favor Chapman has received, that he was a member of the Convention, elected while his three years of State Printer were unexpired, and the public attention cannot be diverted from the real point by his use of such decorous terms as "liar," "libel," &c.,, The charge was that C. had been an office seeker, and that was all ; and instances were given to prove it. They are not denied.. ,: . . ; i ;- Observer. The Ferry-Boat Wreck at Louisville. An account of the grounding of the Jeffersonville and Louisville ferry-boat, on the Falls, was pub lished in the Afternoon Commercial of yesterday. i!y special dispatches from Mr. Chas. H. Clarke, of the Louisville Courier, we learn that there were thirty ladies in the party, and that twothirds of the passengers were residents of, and destined for this city. The boat was caught by the ice, and forced hard aground on the rocks in the Indiana Chute.' The first passengers Who reached the shore were Mrs. Joseph Darr and sister, and a son of Mr. R. S. Dunnin?, of this city, who were rescued by Wm. Kellum, mate of the Strader, who gallantly manned a life-boat, and brought many passengers ' ashore. Yawls and life-boats during the morning succeeded, amid great peril, in taking off others, We understand the officers and crews of the steamers Rescue and Queen of the West were on board the ferry. Navigation is closed at Louisville, and the insurance companies refuse all risks on cargoes. Cin. Commercial.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1855. TjSaturdaylsthe day of publication of the Locomotive when Itwtll alwaysbereadyfor subscribers.. In nocasewill weletacopyofthepaper go from thooffice before publlca tionday. i . ., - - OFFICIAL PAPER FOR THE CITY. OFFIOIAiPAPERTO PUBLISH THE LIST OF LETTERS &W Single copies of the Locomotive can be procured at the office, opposite the Post Office, either with or without wrappers, at 5 cents each Improvement in Printing. We have lately added to our establishment several large fonts of copper-faced type, from one of the best foundries in the United States, which enables us, with our improved steam printing facilities, to equal any printing of a similar character in the United States. This is saying a good deal, but we believe the facts will bear us out in it, as we have all the advantages of improved material and machinery. With this new and beautiful type, we are now prepared to print addresses, pamphlets of every kind, and all kinds of job work, on short notice promptly at the time agreed on, and at fair living rates. Persons having this class of work to do, will find it to their interest to exam ine specimens of our work before contracting. ' Small Pox. So far as we can learn, from reliable sources, there is five cases of small pox, and three cases of, varioloid now in this city. The persons that have it, from fear of being entirely deserted and neglected, have kept the matter a secret, thereby spreading the contagion to those that came in conlapt with them. It will be seen by the proceedings of the Council, that they have acted promptly, by providing against its spread. The Board of, Health, who really have sole and entire authority to act in this matter, have taken steps to systematize efforts to prevent its spread, and will issue bulletins of reports and regulations, and direct the officers how to act in preventing its spread, j ' :; We do not think there is any danger, unless persons come in contact with the person or cloth ing ot those that have it-j-in our opinion, no person can get it by passingjthe house where it is, or through the street, and if the persons attending the sick are prevented from attending to business. it appears to us it can't spread more. We think there need be no fears of person's coming to the city, on account of the disease, as every house where it is will be marked with a red flag, and sufficient means taken to prevent its spread. 1 'Where the Rosea and the Lilies? , Where the roses and the lilies? Can you tttll me jiV you know? ' ' Are they dead, or are they sleeping ' ' Hap'Jy dreaming 'neath the snow? " : ' ; They are sleeping, only dreaming; . ' ' ' They will spring slgain and bloom; , , And tell us of a spirit life, , ' . . That exulteth o'er the tomb. ,, Who doubts but that the principle of life is eternal? The flower fades, the leaf withers and falls, and the stem breaks and is crushed, and mingles with the earth. But is the thing dead? The tree buds, puts forth its bloom, yields its fruit; the fruit falls to the earth, moulders for a time and then springs up again to glorious and majestic life. Is this death? Is it death for the spirit of life to rest awhile in peace? The nut has its shell and its kernel; and that kernel has its heart, where is hidden the principle of life. A principle locked up that no one may understand no one explain. The nut may fall 'may appear to.be dead forever gone; but is it gone? How is it possible that out of the little acorn that falls to the' ground springs up all that great, broad, grand life, that towers in the strength and magnitude of the oak? Can it be possible that out of so little can come so much? ' We see it. Is it to be doubted that that mind that soul which mounts so high in the realm of intelligence, which goes abroad so far and gathers up gems of wonderful truth, should fall away and die? Is it any more wonderful that the principle of immortal life should sleep awhile in the grave, than that the little nut should moulder its alotted season and then come forth in glorious life? , :. 'Keas'ner unsolve the mystic life That sleeps within the flow'r; ': ' That wakes it from its Winter's sleep To smile in Summer's hour.' . i First tell me how the little nut V Lives through a seeming death, ;, : Ere you declare man's soul is dead ' When he yields up his breath. ! ' .i-i i '. jJSTThe January number of the Western Democratic Review has just been issued by the publisher, Mr.' Geo. 'P. Buell.' The character of the articles' in this' No.,' we think,' are better than any of its predecessors, and the Review commences its second year, not as an experiment, but as a permanentcstablished Monthly competing, both in matter and style,' with its eastern cotemporaries. . The following is the table of contents of the January No,:: Mirabeau's last Address to the National Assembly; The Currency and Banking;' English Poetic' Literature; The Double Mistake; Mormonism ' and Polygamy; Woman her , Character and Mission; Lady Writers and their Books; A Cock-Fight in the Havana; The Sympathy Meeting; and Editor's Table. '. ' : ; - :" i Of the mechanical execution and ' general appearance of this number we shall not speak, as it Was printed at this office but we can say that, while printed by us, the present number is but a specimen of what each number will be.

.'" .. ; 'OFFICE SALARIES. . At almost every session of the Legislature the question comes up as to the salaries of officers, "what shall they be?" It is urged on the one hand, that in order to have first class men, the salaries should be sufficiently large to make the offices desirable to such men. - On the other hand it is denied that the meagerness of the salaries is the reason why the offices are not filled by such men. It is said as argument to sustain this denial, that Judges Blackford, Dewy and Sullivan, held the office of Supreme Judges when the salary was no larger than now,-and that Judges McDonald and Dewy were candidates, not long since, before the public for the office. Now we presume that at the time Judges Dewy and Sullivan sat, it did not cost quite as much to live in the little State of Indiana as now. It will be remembered, that within the last few years our State has been opened out to the commerce of the world, and that now, every pound of butter and every dozen eggs that any man has, commands, at his door, a price at least threbble what they did four years ago. Every article of food for man and beast now commands a California price. . It don't seem logical to say that because a man could afford to live on thirteen hundred dollars a year when flour was worth one dollar and a half per hundred, that he can as well afford to live on the same amount now, when flour is worth four dollars and a half per hundred. Why it costs a man, now-a-days, about the fourth part of thirteen hundred dollars a year for anything like a decent house to live in, in the city of Indianapolis. ' The fact is, it costs a great deal more to live in any decent place in any decent manner any where in the State now than itdid a few years ago. Is this no reason why the salaries of public officers should not be raised? Besides, are public officers to be sealed as paupers the very moment they take upon themselves the honor of office? .Is a public officer merely to have his allowance of bread and water for his term of office? It really seems that the State ought, at least, to provide him when he retires from office, with what the . peniteuliary birds are provided with when they retire from the public service a decent suit of clothes and a little pocket money. But no; the people must not be burthened with taxes. Burthened with taxes! Why, there is no shadow of doubt, but if the question was left

to the people to settle, they would say pay the officers of State decent salaries, so that they may live deeently and so that the State may feel some little pride in the fact that she is no mean, small souled, beggarly thing.. Members of the Legislature are very tender of the people's pockets sometimes. Who ever heard of the people of the State rising up and calling for a reduction of the salaries of State officers? No one. All complaint ever made upon the subject, came from low demagogues, who took up the cause of the people in the matter, simply to ingratiate themselves into favor making the public believe lies, and exaggerating small matters. We say, go through the State, from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River, and from the eastern boundary to : the western, and there is not one man in a dozen who would not say, put up the salaries of all State officers, not only to a Jiving mark, but to a generous one. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. : '"''; February 5, 1855. '' The Council met at 7 o'clock P. M. ' Present, all the members. The Civil Engineer reported the cost of a stone bridge across Pogue's Run, on Noble street, to be $11 38,75.'.'; Laid on the table. " The captain of the watch reported 83 arrests since Jan. 1st, 1855. . ' Accounts allowed, $279,88. ' " ' .' ' Mr. Maguire offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Mayor of the city be directed to present to the authorities of the city of Terre Haute, a view or map of this city, that city, through their Mayor, having politicly presented to Indianapolis a map of Terre Haute. Adopted.' ' , Mr. Nelson offered the following resolution: ' ' Resolved, That the Marshal and his Deputies, be directed to procure immediately, if possible, some one or more persons, who will not be liable to take the small pox, to wait on any family in which the disease exists, which may be destitute of the necessary assistance, to minister to their wants, and that the Marshal and his deputies endeavor to prevent all persons liable to take the infection, from visiting houses in which there may be cases of small pox; and, also,' that they prevent individuals who have recovered, from coming in contact wiTli other persons, by going into the streets, until a sufficient time shall elapse to prevent danger of communicating the disease to others. Adopted. Mr. Dunlap' moved, that when the Council adjourn, it adjourn until Thursday evening next, .and that the Judiciary Committee be instructed to-report an ordinance in relation to the small pox. Prevailed. , Mr. Gray don offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the City Clerk is hereby directed to ascertain the costs of improvement made opposite to any of the property owned by the State, and paid for by funds of this city, and respectfully ask the present Legislature to refund the same; and also, that they be requested to adopt a law authorizing the Auditor of State to pay the State's proportion of the amount of money necessary for any improvement which the City Council may hereafter direct to be made, opposite to any property belonging to the State. Adopted. . ' , Mr. Moffat reported, that the irregularitv of the town clock was caused by the weakness of the cupola where located, that the cupola, when shaken by the wind, caused the pendulum to strike the timbers of said cupola. ' Adjourned. ' ' . ' ' Thursday, Feb. 8, 1855.: Council met. Messrs. Karns, Jones, Colley, Maguire, Nelson, Pitts, Gowan, Boaz, Truxes, Graydon, Dunlap, Keeley, and Seibert, present. -' The object of the meeting was to consider an ordinance and make arrangements to prevent the spread of the Small Pox. ' ' The Judiciary Committee reported " an ordinance to regulate the public burying ground, and for the protection of public and private burying grounds in the city," which was read and adopted. ' ' . Mr. Maguire, from the same committee, reported "an ordinance to prevent the spread of small pox, and other contagious diseases," prepared by the city attorney, which was read and adopted.

m Mamiii-a nffrH a resolution, requesting

all persons that have not been vaccinated, to be . 1 1 11 1 1- C fntvil. immediately vaccinated ; ana an neu ui lies are requested to have their families vaccinated, and all under their charge, which was adopted. , , The council adjourned. PROHIBITORY LlftUOR LAW. This bill passed the Senate on Tuesday last. The first section is as follows. That no person shall manufacture, keep for sale, or sell, by himself or agent, directly or indirectly, any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, ex-, cept as is hereinafter provided. Ale, porter, malt beer, lager beer, cider, all wines, and fermented liquor which will produce intoxication, and all mixed liquor, of which part is spirituous or intoxicating liquor, are includde in the term intoxicating liquor, and are within the meaning of this act. , " ' ' . Sec. 2. Permits the manufacture of cider from apples, and wine from grapes and currants grown in the State; but prohibits the sale in less quantities than three gallens, which must be taken away at the time of sale. Sec. 3. Permits the sale of foreign liquors by the importer, according to the law of the United States; but requires all such liquors to be sold in . the original casks and packages; but prohibits the Custom House certificate to be received as evidence of that fact. ' Sec. 4. Authorizes the County Commissioners to grant permits to persons to manufacture spirituous liquors; but prohibits their sale under severe penalties to any except agents authorized to sell the same. Sec. 5. , Provides for the appointment of agents for the purpose of buying and selling spirituous liquors for medical, chemical and mechanical purposes, and wine for sacramental occasions, and requires such agents to keep an account. of the names of the persons to whom such liquors are sold. Sec. 6. Permits the agents to sell liquors 1st. To persons over 21 years of age of good character for sobriety, provided the agent is satisfed it is intended for any of the uses enumerated in said section. , 2nd. To anv agents regularly appointed to sell. "' ' Sec. 7. Provides that the County Commissioners shall direct the Treasurer to pay over to the agents a sufficient sum of money to purchase liquors, the agent accounting for the sale thereof. 1 Sec. 8. Requires the agent to give a bond. Sec. 9. Punishes any person who manufactures liquors in violation of the law, by a fine of not less than 20 dollars for the first offense; 50 dollars for the second, and 100 for the third, to which may be added imprisonment in the'eounty jail for thirty days. . '. Sec. 10. Punishes persons who sell without authority of law, for the first offense by a fine of not less than 20 dollars, second offense 50 dollars, third 100 dollars, and requires in all cases after the first offense, imprisonment in the county jail thirty days. ' : Sec. 1 1 . "imposes the same penalties on clerks and agents, as on principals. Sec 12. Punishes persons who buy liquor and apply it to unlawful purposes by a fine of ten dollars. , ; Sec. 13. Prohibits -persons from keeping liquors with intent to sell the same, under the same penalties as is provided in the 10th section. Finding liquors in the possession of a person shall be prima facia evidence of the fact. Sec. 14. All such liquor shall be deemed a nuisance and 'shall be forfeited. t - Sec. 15. Provides for search and seizure by warrant on the affidavit of three persons. t Sec. 16. i. The owner to be summoned to show cause why liquor so seized should not be forfeited and destroyed., , . ' V , Sec. 17., Points out the mode of trial and judgement of forfeiture. . s 1 Sec. 18. Requires the office to destroy the liquor and to sell the vessels without appraise ment. i . . , Sec. 19. Providefor the return of the liquor where it is not liable to forfeiture. . , i Sec. 20. Declares all contrivances to evade or conceal the seller a nuisance and requires their abatement. , . ; , '. ' Sec. 21. Punishes persons who resort to devices by fine not less than 50 dollars and imprisonment not less than 30 days. Sec. -22. Requir.es Sheriffs, deputies. , Constables to arrest all persons found selling liquors and to seize the same. It also requires such officers to arrest a person intoxicated to take him before a magistrate- who shall require him to answer where he obtained his liquor and. If he refuses he shall be imprisoned until he answers. ' Sec. 23. . Prohibits selling drugged liquors. . Sec. 24. Habitual drunkards and persons convicted of manufacturing or selling liquors shall be incompetent as jurors. , . ... Sec. 25. All contracts for the sale of liquors to be void, and moneys paid may be recovered back. Sec. 26. . Permits the sale of burning fluids, chemical dyes, medical compounds, &c. . Sec. 27. Requires district and city attorneys to prosecute all offenders under this act. Sec. 28. Courts of Common Pleas, Justices of the Peace and Mayors to have jurisdiction. Jurisdiction of Mayors and Justices to extend throughout the county. Sec. 29. Requires prosecutions to be made on complant or information. Sec. 30. Relates to costs. Gives the atto ney a docket fee $5 in each case of con vietion. . Sec. 31. Prohibits action repelvin or any other action to the validity of the judgment decreeing liquors forfeited. , ' Sec. 32. , Provides for appeals. Sec. 33. Proceedings on appeal. Sec. 34. Provides for the custody of the seized liquors in case of appeal. Sec. 35. No defect, in any bond or recognizance shall operate as a discharge. . Sec. 36. Agents to manufacture and sell may be prosecuted for violating their rules. Sec. 37. Unnecessary to allege that it was the first, second and third offense. Sec. 38.- The singular number may be con strued to mean the plural and the masculine the feminine. Sec. 39. Repeals all former acts.. !. Sec. 40. Term magistrate to mean justices Mayors, Judges, &c. . Sec. 41. Prohibits giving liquors away. Sec. 42. To be in force on the'12th day of June next, and 1000 copies to be printed. S3T The Continentals, a quartette company of vocalists, gave two concerts in this city, on Monday and Saturday evenings, to large bouses. This is a company that have deservedly earned a good reputation through the east, as being excellent vocalists, and good musicians, and we can bear testimony to the fact that they produce excellent harmony. If any of our readers have an opportunity to hear them, they should avail themselves of it.