Locomotive, Volume 44, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1858 — Page 2

THE LOCOMOTIVE,

SATURDAY, APRIL 24,1858. JQ'Satardayislhe day of publication of the Locomotive when It will alwaysberedyror subscribers. In nocasewlll welutacopyorihepaper go from theoffice before public londay. " LOCOMOTIVE STEAM PRESS BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE. EG would call tlie attention of Railroad Men.Presldenteof ColleResand Academies, the Medical Profession, and era, to our assortment of NEW AND BEAUTIFUL TYPE! eusl received from the best Foundrius in the United States, Jmbrnclne all the Medical Sign's Accente, Vocrion, French Z.!(r, Algebraical Signe, and all tha modern facilities for doInitworlv in tho best style. All our Type and Macliinury la new, and in good order, Including two of Adims' Improved STEAM PRINTING PRESSES which enables us to do our work in asuperlorstyle.on asshor time, and as good terms as r.ny other office. We have on hand a superior article of Hook and Col" ered Papers, and the bestof Inks, and ns we ore practical workmen, we guaranty all work entrusted to us to be done in the neatest manner, with promptness and accuracy. Our Job Department is well supplied with all kindsof New and Fashionable Type, and we are prepared to do ICincls of Jot) "Worlv t on the shortest notice, and at the lowest living rates; and BLANKS OF EVEKY DFSCBIPTIOJII on Cap, Loiter, Folio Post, Flat Cap, French, or Colored Papers, and Cards or Card Boards. Fr the character of our work we confidently refer to any Book or Job bearing our imprint. Our prices are regulated tit the In west cash standard, so as to bu regular and uniform, and equal to nil: and contracts for work will be adhered to. without resort to extru charges. Trp0rlers from a distance promptly attended to, and accu racy guarantied. - ' rT7Otllceon Meridian streel.lmmediately opposltethe Post Office. ELDER & HARKNESS. Indiana. Reports. Next week Messrs. Merrill & Co. will publish the ninth volume of Indiana Reports which includes nearly all the opinions delivered at the last November Term of the Supreme Court. This volume contains some important cases, and will be necessary to the profession. The printing of this volume was done at this office, and we would ask from Law. yers, and all others having printing to do, a careful ex. amiuation of the mechanical execution, and a comparison with any law work printed in the United States. Blackford's Building. It is very common for every person that sees a piece of work in course of construction, to volunteer suggestious and changes that should, in their opinion, be made, There appears to be plenty of volunteer council in the case of the Black, ford building, and the builders, in order to quiet the fears of many objectors, have furnished us the following note, in explanation of tlie arrangement of the upper stories. We are informed that the building wilj be completed and ready for occupancy by the 12th of September next. Mr. Editor : As the public seem very much dissatisfied with the apparent arrangement of the Blackford building, I would just say that it is so arranged and constructed that it can at any time be changed from fourten rooms to forty-one, all with stairways leading from the street, and amply provided with light, ventilation and stoveflues. Byrket & Beem, Builders. ; .. We understand that arrangements are about com. pleted in regard to the Rolling Mill, in this city, that will place it on a solid foundation, and enable the managers to start work in it in a few weeks. It has been changed into a joint stock company, part of which has been sold in the East, and part held here, on such terms as to relieve it of embarrassments, and afford ample means for carrying it on. This will be good news to our citizens, as this mill has been looked to from the first to give manufacturing a new impetus in " our citv. C3T Our Farmer's in this vicinity report that the growing wheat crop looks fine never better at thig season. In some places wheat is already knee highf and even and regular over the fields. Should the wheat meet with no backset, we will doubtless have a large crop this year. 63T The large amount of wet weather for tlie last two weeks has been very discouraging to Farmers, it preventing them from plowing, and getting in oats and corn. It has been fine for grasses, as the meadow lands never looked better. The Government Building. It is now a fixed fact that the work on the Government building, in this " city, will be commenced soon. Mr. Costigan, Architect, has just returned from Washington, with the contract for its erection in his pocket, and is now making the necessary preliminary arrangements. In the course of two or three weeks he expects to start the work, and once started there will be no let-up until it is finished. We are glad that Mr. Costigan has ob. tained this contract, as his reputation as a builder is such as to insure the best kind of a job. This will give a lively appearance to the neighborhood of Pennsylvania and Ohio streets, and a new impetus to building and business. It will yet be some two years or more before the Post O ffice will be removed, but its removal is certain and fixed. The erection of three buildings alone, without estimating the hundreds of others commenced and in contemplation this year, will expend in our city this year at least S75,UOO. This will help to ease the hard times. ' T A project is being talked of, among the property owners, to boulder the square on Washington street, between Meridian and Illinois streets. Mr. Palmer, one of the heavy property holders on the square, is anxious to see this improvement, for the cteuble purpose of making a permanent improvement on that square, and to ascertain the cost of improving the streets in that manner. We hope, it will succeed, but are of the opinion that the spuare east of Meridian street is as permanently improved as the boulders could make, and is free of the noise traveling over the boulders will make, still we would like to see that square improved with boulders. igf We are informed that the Fire Association, at their meeting this week, decided to ask the Council, through the Chief Engineer, for appropriations for new Engines, &c, as follows. For the Marion company, for a new engine, $2,000. For the Relief, for a new engine, $1,600. For the Western's, to pay the balance on their engine, $ 900. For the Hook and Ladder company, to pay for new wagon, $700. This makes a total of $5,200, for new fire apparatus. Wlt is the general undo rstandrcg that the American Express Company will occupy tlie corner room in the new Blackford building. One acre of ground wa recently sold, adjoining the city, on Meridian street to Mr. I'un-iuc, of the City Book Store, for 53,500.

Meridian Avenue. The location of the Post Office will have tendency to make Pensylvania street more of a business thoroughfare than heretofore, and, to some extent, deprive it of that air of genteel respectability that it has hetetoforc enjoyed, by placing it more in contact with bustling business. The same may be said of Illinois street, as the business hours between Washington street and the diagonal already draw crowds of hurrying pedestrians. This being the case, Meridian street will at once take front position

for the residences of the elite it will be to this city what the fifth Avenue is to New York, and will gradually be decorated with elegant private residences. We make allusion to this street now to ask that steps be at once taken to have a uniform row of shade trees planted along the entire line of the street, from the Circle to Tinker street. There is about two squares of tltis street now planted with silver leafed maple, a beautiful and durable tree if the plan of having these trees planted along the whole line of the street was adopted, similar to that for grading and graveling streets, the expense would be a mere trifle, and in a few years it would be the pleasantest street in the city for a pleasure drive or evening promenade. If thi was attended to this year, before the trees now planted get too large, the whole line would grow up uniform, and we arc satisfied they would be highly prized. If a few of the enterprising and public spirited gentlemen living on this street would take this matter in hand, and spend but a short time in it, we are sure they could succeed, and we know they would never regret the time spent. If, in addition to the above, a row of Elms were planted up the centre of the street, from Circle street to the donation line, they would, in a few years throw a fine shade over the whole road and make this tho finest street in the country. We would ask all interested on Meridian street to think of these suggestions. Hardy Trees. We notice in many parts of the city that the old locusts are either killed by horses eating the bark off, or by being blown down, showing conclusively that locusts are not the best trees to plant for shade and ornament. Locusts grow faster at first, and for this reason they have been generally used, but after a few years the maple gives a better shade, looks better, and lasts more than double the time, getting larger and stronger as it gets older. We are glad to see a general disposition in those settsng out shade trees this year, to get those of a permanent and durable character, and hope this disposition will become general. Masonic Hall. Levi Comegys has been busily at work during the past week, with a full force of hands, straightening the bents, and strengthening the upper floor of the Masonic Hall. He has succeeded in bolting and bracing it so securely that it will bear any weight put on it, without giving or shaking, making it perfectly secure. It will be remembered that the last meeting of the Grand Lodge was held in the Concert room below, on the recommendation of a com mittee appointed to examine the strength of the Lodge but all these fears can now be removed, as the floor is more solid and secure than it ever was, and will bear all the weight of people the rooms can hold. The Evansville Indianapolis & Cleveland Straight Line Railroad Compawy. We are glad to lay the following statement of the prospects of this road before our readers, copied from the Journal, as we understand it only a fair statement. This road is greatlyjneeded by central Indiana, and if this contract should be consumated, of which the friends of the road entertain little doubt, it will place it in a better position for speedy completion than it ever has been. We are clad to learn that there is a fair prospect that the work upon this important route of travel is likely to be vigorously resumed. The capital which has been accumulating in the East, during the monetary crisis, and so long remained unproductive, is now beginning to seek earnestly the means ot prontawe investment, and a company, possessed of large capital and experience in railroad enterprises, has been examining this important work, with a view of proposing to complete it on tavorable terms. VV e learn that they have carefully examined the entire route and the pres ent and prospective means of the company, and are of opinion that the work ought to De ana can De successfully prosecuted. They have, we also learn, made a proposition to the isoard oi .Directors, wmcn me uoaru is to convene in the early part of May to consider. There is so eeneral a disposition among the farmers on the line of the work to have the road completed, that we trust and believe that a contract will be made with this Eastern company. In connection with this matter we are pleased to learn that the opposition to the company offered by a lew persons by delcnses to stock surjseripuons anu oy ouo warranto nroceedinss have been uniformly unsuc cessful. In the county of Greene, only last week, a quo warranto proceeding was quashed and the company obtained judgments in some thirty or more cases upon stock subscriptions. We do hope now that the clouds which have recently hung over this enterprise have begun to clear away, that persons owing the com' pany may promptly pay up , without wasting their means in unsuccessful litigation. Ij" There is much alarm in the Eastern cities at the arrival of the U. S. steamer Susquehanna at New York, from Nicaragua, via Port Royal, Jamaica, with the yel low fever on board, there having been 155 cases and 17 deaths. The New Yorkers are talking furiously of cleaning their abominably filthy streets. W The Pacific Railroad project, for the present, at least, is dead, the Senate voted this week to postpone action on it until next December. The great trouble is the selection of the route, between a Northern, Soutnern, or Middle route, and this has created so much sectional bitterness that it will be hard to pass either route. ' ' " fBT The Bellefontaine Railroad Company is consid erino the uolicv of issuinc excursion tickets at reduced rates for tlie accommodation trains on the road from any point on the line to Indianapolis and return, with a view of at once building up the local traffic of the road and advancing the interests of the city by inducing customers, by the offer of cheap railroad fares, to visit the city for the purchase ot goods and the transaction of other business. The idea, we think, is a good one, and should be encouraged by all our business men. whose interests it would promote. Journal. That is an excellent idea, both for the road, for the people along the line of tlie road, and for this city, and we should like to see it carried out, not only by this road, but by all others leading to the city. Cornelius King has been nominated by the Democrats of the 4th ward, as their candidate for Coun. cilman, in place of N. West, declined. William McClain has been nominated as the Re publican candidate for Councilman, in tlie 6th ward. gg" Mr. T. M. Sharpe has the materials on the ground for extending the row of business rooms from the Journal office to the alley south, on Pennsylvania street The present dwelling bouse on the ground witf be altered to suit the improvements contemplated. C" Forty-five feet of ground were recently pur chased by Mr. S. M. Brister.of the heirs of H. Cobnrn on Delaware street, north of Mrs. Coburn's residence, for S50 per foot front A cellar is being dug for a residence for Mr. Brister, which wiH be finished this summer.

Life Thoughts, gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by one of his congregation. This is a neat little volume, containing 300 pages, well printed, and, as its name imports, contains the gems from sermons and lectures delivered during two years, collected by a member of the congregation. The work is regularly indexed, enabling the reader '' thoughts" on any subject, without trouble. Some of to find tlie the extracts are truly Beecher's there is no mistaking them, as the following will show. Many men want wealth not a competence alone, but a Jive-story competence. Every thing subserves this ; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning rod to their houses, to ward off, by and by, the bolts of divine wrath.

There are many professing Christians who are secretly vexed on account of the charity they have to bestow, and the self-denial they havo to use. If, instead of the smooth prayers which they do pray, they should speak out the things which they really feel, they would say, when they go home at night, ' O Lord, I met a poor wretch of yours to-day, a miserable, unwashed brat, and I gave him a sixpence, and I have been sorry for it ever since ;" or, " O Lord, if I had not signed those articles of faith, I might have gone to the theatre this evening. Your religion deprives me of a great deal of enjoyment; but I mean to stick to it. There's no other way of getting into heaven, I suppose." The sooner such men are out of the church, the better. 4 Some men, when they attempt to reform their lives, reform those things for which they do not much care. They take the torch of God's word, and enter some indifferent chamber, and the light blazes in, and they see that they are very sinful there ; and then they look into another room, where they do not often stay, and are willing to admit that they are very sinful there ; but they leave unexplored some cup-boards and secret apartments where their life really is, and where they have stored up the things which are dearest to them, and which they will neither part from, nor suffer rebuke for. , In moist and'liberal summers, the wheat is often covered with fungi and parasitic plants ; and it has to be put through smutting machines, that it may be cleansed, and made ready for grinding into flour. So men, in prosperity, often have fungi and parasitic plants growing on almost every faculty ; and then, to purify them, God puts them through trials which are like smutting machines to the wheat. The best thing wh ch can happen to such men is a trouble that will bolt them. How hateful is that religion which says, " Business is business, and politics are politics, and religion is relioion" ! Religion is using every thing for God ; but many men dedicate business to the devil, and politics to the devil, and shove religion into the cracks and crevices of time, and make it the hypocritical outcrawling of their leisure and laziness. Many professincr Christians are like railroad station houses, and the wicked are whirled indifferently by them; and go on their way forgetting them ; whereas they should be like switches, taking sinners off one track, and putting them on to another. A man will confess sins in general ; but those sins which he would not have his neighbor know for his right hand, which bow him down with shame like a wind-stricken bulrush, those he passes over in his prayer. Men are willing to be thought sinful in disposition ; but in special acts they are disposed to praise themselves. They therefore confess their depravity and defend their conduct. They are wrong in general, but right in particular. ' A true preacher is God's mint. God heats his heart till the truth flows like molten gold, and his utterance is prepared, as dies are, to stamp on the coin what God has cut in him. But thousands of preachers are only exchange brokers, who run between bank and customer to carry old coin back and forth for commercial uses. There is need tor these too, only lower down. Our space prevents any further extracts, but the work can be obtained of Messrs. Stewart & Bowen. EDUCATIONAL MEETING. The next resrular meeting of the Teachers and Young People's Association of Pike and townships will be held at the Centre House, on Saturday, May 15, 1858. The following is the order of exercises as far as com pleted by the executive committee : FORENOON EXERCISES. Introductery exercises and music. Essay. M"iss Mary Moore, Miss S. Cotton, Miss N. J. Case. Miss E. J. Alford, and Dr. H. T. Cotton. Declamation. Miss b. J. Lotton, Mr. bylvander Dawson, Miss M. J. Hornaday, Mr. JLheodore Crane and Mr. Wni. Broomfield. Selections from the Piketon rural ottering. AFTERNOON EXERCISES. MUSIC. Representatives from schools. Address. Prof. James R. Challen, Indianapolis. Discussion on the subiect of Female education, by Messrs. Jno. Jennings, L N. Cotton, Jno. H. Wdey, C. Pollard, W. P. Long and Mr. iiuckhanan. Address. A. R. Benson, i,sq (jreenwood, . It is hoped that all live teachers and active friends of education will attend and add their modicum to in crease the interest m Teacher's Associations. Xhe character of the exercises, it is believed, will interest those that may attend. Prof. Challen and Mr. Benson are too well known in central Indiana to need comment here. April 16th, 1858. Igg J. W. Fellows, Proprietor of the Exccllsior Sky-light Daguerean Gallery, has taken a Daguereotype of the 1st page of the Locomotive, of April 17. The plate is about two inches by four, and every let ter on the page is seen perfectly distinct, with a mag. nifying glass. This is applying the art to a new pur pose that of reprinting newspapers, and the success is complete. We shall preserve this plate carefully, as evidence of the high perfection in the Daguerean Art attained by Mr. Fellows. IJiT We are writing this notice with Conger & Field's American Writing Fluid. It flows as free as water from the pen, leaving a greenish mark, that speedily turns to a jet black, which color it retains through all time. As a record Ink, for writings that are required to be preserved for a long time, we should say this is just the Ink required, and it should be generally used. It can be had at Messrs. Werden 6c Chamberlains Book Store, handsomely put up in stone bottles. 1" Rev. Dudley A. Tyng, of Philadelphia, died on Monday Last, from the effect of injuries received from a Threshing machine. An unfounded report was circulated in Boston, on Monday last, of the death of Vice President Brecken. ridge. There was no truth in the report The Legislature of New York has provided that the people of the State shall vote, in November nextt whether they will have another Convention to frame a new Constitution. faT Ground has been broken on Ohio street, corner of Alabama, for a public cistern. A large force are at work grading and graveling New York street, between New Jersey and Noble streets. OTine Fish are now offered daily to the fish loving citizens, at the City Fish Market, corner of Meridian and Washington streets. O The Adams Express Co. furnished a car handsomely draped in mourning, and the Superintendant accompanied the remains of CoL Benton from Washington City to St Louis, for which they would receive no recompense.

McLean Female Seminary. The examination

exercises of this Institution were held last week, com meneino on Tuesday, and closing with a concert on Fri day afternoon. There were in attendance a large num ber of our own citizens, and many from abroad. . J. here were classes examined in Reading, Spelling, Defining, forming and analyzing words, Geography, Grammert analysis of sentences, Arithmetic, Algebra, Chemistry, Trigonometry, Rhetoric, Latin and I rench, others wer" omitted for want of time. The examination was con ducted throughout with the utmost fairness. There was no disposition manifested to cover up defects, or to confine the classes to selected portions of their stud" Books were furnished to the committee, and oth ers in attendance, who were requested to choose topics for examination, and propose any questions they might wish. Many availed themselves of the opportunity os thoroughly testing the knowledge of the pupils upon the various subjects brought under review,. The result gave gratifying evidence that the course of instruction was not mechanical, or superficial It was al. together satisfactory to those present, highly creditable to the talent and application of the scholars, and to the competency and fidelity of their teachers. There wag one part of the instruction worthy of special notice. It is the method by which spelling and defining is taught It can hardly fail to give the learner a correct knowledge of the form, meaning, and use of words than which nothing in education is more desirable. On Thursday afternoon two papers were read, called the Pleiad, and Amaranth, containing compositions by the pupils. These, as was stated at the time, were most of them'written months before as ordinary effortsi without any reference to their being presented on this occasion. Quite a number of them exhibited much depth of thought, and beauty of style. The specimen3 of Penmanship showed that tins important branch re ceived a proper share of attention many of them wera exceedingly neat and beautiful. The Paintings and Drawings, of which there were a largo number, displayed no small degree of taste and skill. The exer cises were enlivened with vocal and instrumental music by the pupils. The large number of parents and friends present were greatly interested and delighted at the manner in which the pupils acquitted themselvesA nfTnfAnA rn T?vi,lnv nfrnrtinnTl nt witnessing the attainments of the young Ladies in vo cal and instrumental music. The vocal classes gave evidence of systematic and thorough training. The performance on the piano showed a high degree of proficiency. Some very difficult pieces were executed, with an ease of manner and a brilliancy of style which reflected great credit on their accomplished Professor. The concert was indeed a fine affais, a fitting close for the interesting exercises of the week. Tlie young Ladies, by their scholarly acquirement8 and ladylike demeanor, through all the trying duties of a protracted examination, have brought much honor upon their teachers, and the Institution. We wish the highest success to this most praiseworthy enterprise in training the female mind. Kansas in Congress. Up to Thursday noon the Committee of Free Conference, appointed by both House and Senate, on the Kansas question, could not report an agreement For several days a proposition presented by Mr. English, of this State, was under consideration. If this should be agreed to by the com" mittee, it will no doubt pass both houses if not agreed to, there is but slight prospect of Kansas being admit ted at this session. Mr. English's proposition is to amend the Crittenden bill by referring the question o the admission of the Territory under that instrumen to a vote of the people of Kansas. If the majority vote for it, Kansas to come into the Umon at once under the President's proclamation; if against it, then the bill provides for the formation of a new constitution whenever the population there equals the number re quired for a member in the United States House of Representatives, 93,000. The Indiana Farmer. This monthly publication has changed hands, and Messrs. Ray and Wellhouse, the present proprietors, will publish it in this city hereafter, instead of Richmond. The Farmer is published Monthly, and contains 82 large octavo pages' besides a printed cover, at $1.00 a year. The number before us contains some very interesting articles, and particularly the one headed The Plow, by the editor. Indiana should certainly sustain an Agriculture paper in preference to depending on Ohio or New York for agricultural news State pride, if nothing else, should induce this. Pigeons are congregated in countless numbers at a Pigeon roost, in Decatur County. Sportsmen have been visting the roost for weeks, carrying away loads of game. There is little or no sport in shooting them, so thick are they. They have hatched, and are now rearing their young, the squabs being nearly as large as the old birds. The squabs are obtained by striking against the tree on which the nests are, and iarrin" them out. Some trees have over a hundred nests on. In a few weeks these birds will take up their line of march, and travel northward. IgaT The Annual meeting of the Orphan Society, for the choice of Officers, will be held at Mrs. Paxton's, on Circle street, on Tuesday the 4th of May, at 2 o'clock P.M. The Public Anniversary will be on the evening of the same day, (May 4) at the 2d Presbyterian Church, when the Reports will be read, and addresses made by several gentlemen. Large Mules. A span of mules, 16 hands high, and large in proportion, were purchased in this city for $500, and taken by Mr. Lawrence to western New York. They are a fine span, and will compare tavor. ably with any mules raised in the West. Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs to-day, April 19, instructed their chairman to report a resolution abrogating the riavrnn-Rnlwp.r treatv. The resolution strongly con demns both the American and English construction of the treaty, and directs the 1'resident to take mimeuiate steps for its abrogation. Mr. Clingman will report it to the House, and ask its consideration at once. It is believed that it will pass without opposition. CS Mr. J. R. Robinson has effected a settlement with the depositors of the Saving's Bank, satisfactory to all parties, by payment in full, with 10 per cent over, in accounts and bills due the bank. Prnrirm Di-nturi- There will be a meeting of the Rebekah Desree Lodse, I. O. O. F., this (Saturday) evening, at 7 o'clock. All members of the Degree and all entitled to receive it, are invited to be pres ent On last Tuesday we enjoyed a fine mess of fresh Cucumbers, thanks to our friend Traub. It was rather forcing the season, but they did not taste any the less inviting for that (gy We are under obligations to the American Express Co., for late St Louis papers. tBF Ex-Gov. Wallace is building an addition to his residence, on New Jersey street I

COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. special session. The Council was called together last evening to consider matters relative to the debt incurred for cer. tain expenses connected with the public schools. All the members were present except Mr. Greenfield. Mr. Fletcher stated that the amount owing by the city on the account of the public schools, for balance on the Seventh Ward school house, for rents, for fuel, for stationary, for balance due teachers on salaries, &e., was about $2,000. Mr. Harvey said he would suggest that the amount of debt incurred for building and rent be borrowed from the general fund, and a special tax levied for the next year to pay it back, and that the remainder be paid direct from the general fund. Mr. Dunlap said there was no money belonging to the general fund to use for any purpose, and that the Council had no power to meet the difficulty under consideration. The Board of Township Trustees was the only body which had control over the schools and the school houses. Mr. English said he had understood that the lot on which the Marion Engine House stood belonged to the school fund, and that might be given to the general fund, in part, to aid in liquidating the school debt Mr. Dunlap contended that the Council had no power over that lot The Township Trustees alone, un

der the recent decision of the Supreme Court, had control of the school fund and everything pertaining to it . Mr. Harvey offered a resolution that the sums due for building and repairing school houses, and improving the school lots of the city, and for fuel furnished, be paid out of the general fund, the same to be refunded to the general fund out of any money hereafter levied and collected for the purposes for which said debts were contracted. Mr. North doubted the power of the Council to make a levy for such purposes as named in the resolution. Mr. Dunlap said the assumption of this debt would tend to depreciate our orders to a lower figure than that at wluch they are now sold. Mr. Harvey's resolution was referred to the committee on Education. The Council proceeded to the transaction of other business connected with improvements on the streets and bridges; made necessary by the late flood, after which, On motion, an adjournment was effected. Journal. BENTON'S WILL. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer says : Although Colonel Benton went through the usual formalities of making a will, he nevertheless died very poor. The creditors of his estate are not likely, how ever, to press their claims unpleasantly; and, if a pro ject on foot in reference to a certain disposition of his latest literary labors is successfully carried out, his debts will probably be paid in lull, it,very one who had business dealings with him speaks in the strongest terms of his Spartan sense of honor and faithfulness to his engagements, and one secret of his late-indefatigable labors lies in the fact of his extremfc anxiety to cancel every pecuniary obligation before his decease. Horses and Mules for the Utah War The Prices Paid. A correspondent writing from Fort Leavenworth, says : The purchase of animals for the Utah expedition continues to be briskly carried on. There are in the vicinity of the Fort some three thousand mules, of which some two hundred and fifty are from Tennessee, five hundred from Pennsylvania, and the remainder from Missouri. The price has not yet been permanently fixed, but it ranges to SI 75 per animal. The buying price for horses averages $125. The supply is large, and large numbers of each are continually coniino; in. The Washington correspondent of The North American says : " They are hopeful, at the Treasury, of a large accession of receipts at the beginning of the new fiscal year, from land sales in Kansas, Nebraska and California. Four millions of acres in the two first Territories are now put in the market, and, it is suposed, will be entirely covered with pre-emption claims, thus bringing in some $5,000,000. The published accounts from that quarter exhibit a very embarrassed condition of affairs generally, and it is stated that as high as 100 per cent, per annum, is offered for money to save the lands of settlers from sale. If this fact be well authenticated, that source of revenue may not be quite so reliable as is estimated. Twenty-three millions of acres are to be thrown upon the market, in divided quantities, in California, from the sales of which at least $10,000,000 are expected in a few months. . With these 15,000,000 of lands, which have to be realized, the Treasury is to be carried on during the recess of Congress, relying upon a large increase in the Fall imports tor a corresponding augmentation of revenue for customs, a From the Louisville Journal. DR. HAYNES ABOUT AGAIN LET THE LADIES BE ON THEIR GUARD. This distinguished personage is doubtless remembered by many of our citizens. Some years ago he was in this citv. entered larsrely into cotton speculations, and then married a worthy young lady ot Paducah, having only a short time previously married a woman at Cincinnati. The doctor was tried and sent to the penitentiary for bigamy. His term expired about a year ago. Last week a gentleman of this city was on east, and on his return had a man for a traveling companion who, by his elegant manners, attracted his attention. He gave his name as Mitchell. He was also coming to Louisville, and a mutual friendship sprang up between tho two. ' On their arrival here they stopped at the same hotel, and his Louisville friend introduced Mitchell to some of his acquaintances as a large land speculator. Mitchell finally made the acquaintance ot a gentleman who owned a quantity of land in Texas and bought of him thirty half sections. Mitchell was to pay $1000 in cash, and, as he had no money, drew a draft for $1600 on Washington City through a banking house here, for which he held a receipt until a return could be made from Washington. The remainder of the pay ment (some $7000 or $8000) was to be made in a draft - . . .. - . i . mi on Washington at ten days' sight, jlhus iar everything had gone on swimmimgly. But matters now took a different turn. A barkeeper of a steamboat, meeting Mitchell in the house of the gentleman of whom he had bought the land, recog nized him as Ur. tiaynes. .anoiner sieamuoai. ouiter recognized him as tho same person. Mitchell, however, strongly denied that his name was Haynes, remarking that he had been taken for the doctor at Washington. At this juncture, the gentleman who had come with him from the east invited Mitchell to walk to a gentleman's house, who knew Haynes, having gone to school with him. He at once recognized him, and the doctor's friend, being now satisfied that his name was Haynes, expressed his regret that he should hereafter be compelled to pass him. The chief of police shortly afterwards arrested Haynes. He had only five cents in his pocket In the safe of the hotel where he had stopped he had deposited some papers of no value. He had a trunk full of clothing and of the very best description. P. S. The above article was prepared for yesterday's Journal, but did not appear.. Haynes underwent an examination before Judge Johnson yesterday. It was proven that he had paid his hotel bill, and also that he informed the gentleman of whom lie purchased the land that he had a partner in Washington. The court required bad of Haynes m $300 to answer a charge ot vagrancy, but promised to discharge him in case the Washington draft was honored. Premium Mule Team. The four fine mules which took the premium at the National Fair, at Louisville; the Kentucky State Fair, at Lexington, and the Ohio State Fair in this city, last fall, were purchased for use, by the Government, at the Brooklyn (Ne York) Navy-yard. They stand about seventeen hands high, and can travel at a rate little below that of a fast trotting horse. As it was feared that they were rather too young for the heavy' cart work of the yard, the Secrefcirv of the Navy authorized Mr. Sanders to sell them. The contractor for the transport service of the Utah Armv has become the purchaser for $3,050, a sum which fully re-imburses the United States Government for the cost of the mules, and all incidental expenses.