Madison Daily Courier, Volume 1, Number 1, Madison, Jefferson County, 30 April 1849 — Page 2

MADISON DAILY COURIER.

S. F. & J. B. COVINGTON, Editors MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1849 Democratic Nominations. FOR GOVERNOR, JOSEPH A. WRIGHT OF PARKE COUNTY FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR JAMES H. LANE OF DEARBORN COUNTY. FOR CONGRESS, SECOND DISTRICT. CYRUS L. DUNHAM , OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. Salutatory. You have before you the first number of the "Madison Daily Courier." Tarry with us for a week at anyrate before you pass sentence upon our bantling. We shall make you no promises further than that we intend the paper shall be continued for one year, whether profitable or unprofitable. This much has been determined upon, and we begin prepared to keep the promise good. This community has had an opportunity to judge of the ability of one of the editors for such an undertaking. By what he has done, he would be judged, and not by what be may promise to do hereafter. The other has not the advantage of an extensive acquaintance in this vicinity, and he prefers that the public should form their opinions of him by his performances rather than by his promises. The same Carriers who have been delivering the Weekly Courier to subscribers in the city, will deliver the Daily. Those who desire to discontinue the weekly and take the daily will please notify the Carriers and the weekly will be discontinued to them. The Carriers will take down the names of all such, and where they are in arrears their bills will be made out and presented at as early a day as we shall be able to attend to it; and where they have paid in advance the amount due them will be staud to the Carriers so that they will receive the daily until it is paid up. By the c'.o.-e of the week the Carriers will be prepared to tell each advance subscriber how much is yet due him. The Daily Courier will be issued every dav at one o'clock in the afternoon, and all the subscribers in the city will be in receipt of it by a little after two o'clock. We have many reasons for printing an afternoon paper, either one of which would be regarded as sufficient. A few of them are as follows: There is already a morning daily paper printed in the city; and if two papers were furnished at the same hour, they must, of necessity, contain about the same items of news. By publishing at different hours, that similarity will be avoided , and by publishing in the afternoon, we can give the details of all important news received by the mails of the previous evening. We can also avoid a great deal of nightwork, which we regard as important for our own health and that of our workmen. And last, though not least important, we can entirely dispense with Sunday work In an office where a Monday morning paper is issued, the paper must be either one day behind the times or work must be done on Sunday. We shall not disregard our obligations to keep the Sabbath holy, by alloting either to ourselves or those in our employ, regular work tor that day. All payments for the Daily Courier are to be made to the Carriers, and no subscriptions for those residing within the city, except it be beyond the Carrier's routes, will be received at the office. This plan has been adopted for two reasons. One is that payments are made more frequently, thus better enabling us to meet our current expenses. Another is that we entirely dispense with the labor of keeping accounts of subscriptions, and avoid all difficulty about failure to deliver papers regularly. The arrangement will doubtless be more acceptable to subscribers as they can take the paper for any length of time, and renew or discontinue their subscriptions by merely notifying the Carriers in their regular rounds.

A scheme is on foot to change the market hours in this city. The project is in harmony with the progressive spirit of our would-be imitators of foreign fashionables in turning night into day and day into night. In the estimation of some people, the Creator made a great mistake when He set "the sun to rule the day and the moon to govern the night," and they are endeavoring to change the whole machinery of Nature. They seem to think that the work which the Creator looked upon and "saw that it was good," is but a 'botched job." These people assume to themselves that they "are of a more intellectual character," and assert that those who act otherwise and obey the laws of Nature, are "like other mere animals, lie down at sun-set, seldom listen to a sermon, look at a paper, or turn over the leaf of a book." This is bold ground, but it is that which ignorance we meant to say, "intellectual char

acters" always assumes to itself, lest its importance might not be duly appreciated, recognized, and acknowledged by the "mere animals" who build our houses, im prove our streets, fill our work-shops, carry on our commerce, and produce the true wealth and enterprise of our nourishing city. The product of the labor of these "intellectual characters whose toils cease not until after midnight, and who, if they rest at all, can only do so during the legal market hours" is to prey upon the earnings of the "mere animals" whom they would drive about as the mules and other "mere animals" are driven along the streets; and the next move would be to assign to them, as "mere animals," the quantity and kind of food for their consumption as well as the harness they must work in. Intelligence is not the child of Ease, nor of Luxury, nor of Indolence, nor of Physi cal Imbecilitv. It is the child of Industry; begotten by Physical Activity, nurtured and reared to manhood upon the food produced by Physical Labor. The man who asserts that mental ability can exist without physical activity knows but little of himself or of his species, lhe man who asserts or insinuates that physical labor, or that workins from "early dawn to dewey eve," and then resting from labor and sleeping eight or nine hours, necessarily classes him with the "swine" and the "fowls that go to roost," entertains sentiments unworthy of "God's noblest work," and slanders men occupying a position in noble, generous feeling and mental ability which he never can obtain. Self-styled "intellectual characters" are the drones of society. They add neither to the stock of true wealth, nor of enterprize, nor of general information. Their wealth is filched from the active, laborious masses; their enterprize is but the on their part involuntary movement of the active masses surrounding them; and their intelligence is but the froth arising from true knowledge, the scum cast off by sound sense their minds being unable to hold the substance. Where do we look for virtue, morality and religion, as well as general intelligence? Certainly not amongst the drones of society, but to the man who "is ready to eat by candle-light," who employs a good portion of the day in some honorable calling that benefits alike himself and his fellow man, who devotes a part of his time to mental culture, and the dark hours of the night to repose instead of dissipation, whether it be of the lower grade or of that kind called by modern 1 efinement, 'fashionable hours and fashionable amusements." Such aie the men who, without ostentation, "listen to sermons, look at papers, and read books" with profit. Such are the men who make good society, who support schools, who distribute intelligence, who give life and being to enterprise, and who spread morality and religion throughout the land. Such are the men whose wants and wishes are to be regarded in legal enactments; and such are the men whose names are "immortal in the annals" of all that is of good and of advantage to mankind. Two rival medical schools in Louisville are quarreling about their respective and exclusive claims to the clinical practice of the hospital in that city. They discuss the matter as though the sick were made for the doctors, and seem to have lost sight of the important fact that hospitals are made

There is always a difficulty in getting things to rights in starting a paper in giving to each article its proper place, and providing new articles with which to prosecute the work. Next to a pair of scissors, a pen is the most important article in editing a paper. Aware of this important fact, our friend Thomas C. Good, Jeweller on Main-cross street, has sent us a most excellent gold pen and pencil. If we had the scissors, our equipment would be complete, and the Daily would be bound to go ahead. By the way, Mr. Good has a few more pens of the same sort, and those who would improve their chirography should by all means call and get one before they are all gone. He is fitting up his establishment anew, and every thing looks as bright and shining as California gold. A look at his establishment would well repay one for a mile's walk.

Every person who has spoken to us about our Daily has wished us good speed. They have our sincere thanks. We have heard that one savant has expressed it as his deliberate opinion that two daily papers cannot be sustained in this city. So far as we know anything about his disposition to sustain home enterprises, a yearly thumb-paper could not be sustained here. Mr. Howard has laid upon our table the May number of Godey's Lady's Book. It is filled with good reading and pictures to match. The Lady's Book may be had regularly of Mr. Howard in ad vance of the mails. The Pittsburgh papers announce the loading of a fleet of coal boats in mat region. Now is the time for our yards to lay in their supply. A Second Father Matthew. Father Chinquy, a priest of the Catholic persuaion, has been preaching temperance at Montre al with such earnestness and effect , that in four davs he administered the total absti nence pledge to 19,000 persons. We saw a dilapidated specimen of humanity sitting on one of the butcher's blocks in Lower Market yesterday, with his face buried in his hands. As we passed by, he looked up and his countenance seemed to say: "I wish I had a pint and in some secret place, I'd elevate my elbow and pour it in my face." It being Sunday, the coffee-houses were all closed. He doubtless feels better to-day. We learn that the steamer Gov. Bent blew up, or collapsed a flue at Cat Fish Point in the Mississippi, a point some distance below Vicksburgh. We did not hear the particulars of the disaster. One man only was killed. The steamer Peytona arrived at Louisville from New Orleans on Friday evening last. She reports the cholera on the decrease at the latter city. The Henry Clay who presided over the Emancipation Couvention held at Frankfort, Ky., last week, is not "Old Hal" who has been so long trying to preside over this nation, but a Col. Henry Clay of Bourbon county. There is a large family occupying a room which is not more than twelve feet square. in this citv. There must be some half dozen in the family, and they have but the one room. Who says that more dwellings are not needed. Two new lumber yards will soon be opened in this city. Glad to hear it, and would be glader to record the fact that the lumber had been used in buildings. When we announced that the first number of the Daily would be issued today, it was expected that the junior editor would be permanently located in Madison by this time. He is unfortunate enough to have been a locofoco office holder, and has not been quite so fortunate as some of his political friends in being removed. He is, or was, Post Master at Rising Sun, and sent on his resignation in ample time for an appintment to have been made ere this; but it has not yet come, and he is compelled to hold on until someone is authorized to take his place. His successor will certainly receive his appointment some time this week, and so soon as he does, the Junior will be permanently on hand to aid in

the management of the paper

To-morrow is May Day. The young folks will of course celebrate it with due honors, and, leaving the city, hie away to the woods to gather "Sweet garland wreaths Of pansies, pink, and gaudy daffodils," "Where opening roses breathing sweets diffuse, And soft carnations shower their balmy dews; Where lillies smile in virgin robes of white, The thin undress of superficial light; And varied tulips show so dazzling gay, Blushing in bright diversities of day."

It is thought by farmers in Michigan that the opening of spring finds the wheat in a poorer condition than it has been for many years. A first rate Taylor man of Maysville, Ky., wrote to Washington that four more such appointements as the administration had made in that State would do for the whig party. But for the timely interposi tion of the U. S. Senate, one more appoint ment such as Genl. Taylor had designed to make for this State would have done the whig party in Indiana. G. A. Chapman, senior editor of the Sentinel, and J. D. Defrees, editor of the Journal, (Indianapolis,) came down in the cars on Saturday last. Defrees took the boat for Cincinnati, and may be, for aught we know, on his way to Washington to get an office. Chapman stayed with his friends in this city until this morning, when he returned to the little town at the the other end of the railroad. Life Insurance. Attention is called to an advertisement of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., which may be found in another column, and for which Mr. R. E. Stratton is agent in this city. It is unnecessary for us to state the advantages of life insurance, for everybody knows them. Everyman who has a family dependent on his labor for support should by all means keep his life insured. The Company alluded to issues policies on the most liberal terms on such terms that in event of life continuing, the premium would not be missed by any man; and in event of death, the family would have secured to them an amount which might be the means of saving them from much misery and suffering. Life insurance is a matter of too much importance to be neglected. Our table of general information, or rather, directory, was made up with some trouble, and may not be strictly correct in every particular. Indeed it is hardly pos sible to make such a table correct at first. We shall take it as an especial favor, if there are errors in it, to have them pointed out, so that they may be corrected. A great revival is going on in the Christian Church at Columbus, in this State. Elders D. S. Burnett of Cincinnati, and Elder Goodwin of this city, have been in regular attendance. A day or two since we noticed a drayman driving leisurely along the street, and permitting some three or four boys, from six to eight years of age, to hang on the tail of the dray half riding and half walking. Such things not unfrequently result in broken limbs, if not broken necks, and any man of sense would not permit it. A company of persons, apparently French, consisting of two men, two women and several children, all respectably clad, have been perambulating our streets for several days past. They seem to have no fixed location, and we observed them taking their dinner a day or two since on the door steps of a private residence on Main-cross street. That may be fashionable where they come from, but it is odd in this region. A meeting of the Sunday School Association of this city will be held in the lec ture room of the Second Presbyterian Church, at half past seven o'clock, to-morrow, (Tuesday evening.) Early this morning there was a flattering prospect for rain, but as yet no rain has come. The wind is out on "a blow," carrying along clouds of dust to the great annoyance of dry-goods men, and those whose business calls them into the streets. One good reason for printing an afternoon paper is that we ean go to bed early, and be in time for market when we have those indispensble articles for such occasions, to-wit the dimes.

Great Excitement in Canada. Buffalo, April 26th. Private messages from Montreal state that the greatest excitement prevails there, in consequence of the Governor General signing the Rebellion bill. The Parliamentary House was set on fire and destroyed. The steamship Europa brought five hundred thousand dollars to one house alone in New York, and it is understood that she had three hundred thousand more for other concerns, making

eight hundred thousand in all. Verily the precious metals are flowing into our country rapidly VIRGINIA ELECTION. Baltimore, April 28th. The following is the result for Congressmen in the counties named: Norfolk Co., Watt, W., 583; Willson, D.,377. Portsmouth Co., Watts 358; Willson 445. Great Bridge, Watts 97; Willson 58. Elizabeth City, Malling, W., 127; Bagley 85, In the 9th district, Pendleton received 750 votes. To the Friends of the Sabbath in Indiana. The annual meeting of the Indiana Sabbath Union will take place in Indianapolis on the Wednesday after the fourth Monday in May next, (May 28 1849 . The friends of the better observance of the Sabbath are requested to attend. It is hoped the exercises of the occasion will be interesting. A premium, of one copy of Harper's Illuminated Family Bible, in elegant binding, will then, be awarded for the best written Tract or Essay on the perpetual obligation, the utility and duties of the Sabbath . The committee to award the prize con sists of Rev. Dr. Wiley of Bloomington, Rev. I Scovil of South Hanover, and Rev. E. R. Ames Indianapolis. We request all who design contes ting for the prize to forward their communication at as early a day as possible to some member of the committee, to Rev. P. D. Gurley, or to the undersigned, as may suit their convenience. The names of the writers, if desired, will be withheld until after the prize is awarded. It is hoped the committee above named will not fail to be present at the annual meeting of the Union. F. C. HOLLIDA Y, Sec. I. S. U. Indianapolis, Ia., April 16, 1849.

MARKETS. New York, April 28, P. M. The weather has been rainy all day, which checked out-door opera- I tions to a considerable extent. Sales of Western Flour at 4,87 1/2 to 5,18 3/4, and prima Gene see 5,50 to 5,75. Corn Meal at 2,68 7/8. There is good inquiry for Wheat with sales 300 bushels Ohio at 105c. There is a good deal doing in Corn

and the market has an upward tendency, sales of prime yellow at 64c. Sales of Mess Pork at 10.25 and Prime at 8,25; Mess Beef 11,50 to 12,00Sales of Pork in dry Salt at 4 3/8C for Hog round," 3 3/4c for Shoulders and 5c for Hams. Lard6a61/8C, Treasury Notes- 109 1/2; Ohio 6s 106 1/8. In consequence of the small amount of specie brought out by the steumer, the money market is tighter. Philadelphia, April 28th, P. M. Sales 1500 bbls Flour at 4,75 to 5,00, being an advance sine the steamer. The sales of Pork are to a moderate extent at 10,50 for Mess and 9,00 for Prime. Bacon Shoulders 4a4 1/4c. Sales of 1500 kegsLard at 7c. Cincinnati, April 23, P. M. There is good demand for Flour but the market, owing to light receipts, is still quiet, and the only sale of any magnitude was 150 bbls at 3: 60. Small lots sold at 3:60, and we quote 3:50@3:60 as the range. There is very little city mills making, the stock of wheat being almost entirely exhausted. Of Provisions, the only sale heard of to-day was 100, 000 lbs choice sides in bulk at 3:95 Mess Pork would sell at $9, but 9:25 is contended for. Of Grain, Wheat is firm, and would sell readily at 70c, very little arriving and little or none in the hands of millers. Oats are in good demand at 28 to 30, with a sale of 200 bush, at the latter rate. Barley is rather scarce, and a good lot would now bring 70c. Pittsburgh April 28th. River falling with 6 feet 10 inches water in the channel. RIVER IMPORTS From Cincinnati, per Wisconsin. 12 tea kettles, 75 pcs hollow ware, 2 bxs hardware. 4 bxs books. 80 pkgs sundries. Polleys & Butler; 13 pkgs mdze, Weyer &.McKee; 1 bale, Armel & Clough; 1 stove, 2 pots, 1 bolt copper, H. B. Davison; 450 chair slats, E. & J. Lewis; 2 cases mdze, A. B.Smith; 3 bales, J. Niven; 2 bxs tobacco, C. H. Walden; 3 kegs ink, F. E. Suire; 4 bgs coffee, 2 brls sugar. Mellen &. Sering; 30 bdls scythe sneaths, H. K. Wells & Co; 1 box books, W. Wells & Bro; 9 pcs iron Lewis & Crawford; 14 brls mackerel, 145 pkg mdze, Strader & Keyt; lot moving plunder, 2 bxs type, 1 bale, 1 horse, 1 bx turkeys, 5 brls beans, owners on board. Arrivals at the Hotels. CITY EXCHANGE - By Wm. Kirchner & Co. Thomas Elvin, Samuel Ball, Lewis Simpson, P. Bause, W. Reed, W. Williams, Buffalo, N. Y. Steamer Beacon Louisville. WASHINGTON HOUSE - By C. W. Shelton S. H. Killough, Gosport; Kendrick, Pittsburgh; G. W. Miller.