Madison Daily Courier, Volume 1, Number 65, Madison, Jefferson County, 14 July 1849 — Page 2

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21. C. OAltncn, Ed Uor. SATUllOAV LV KMI0, JULY 14. urmocxiATic rfoiixATioifi. FOR GOVERNOR, JOSEPH A. WRIGHT, CI PARSE COUMY. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. JAMES H. LANE, OS EEAEECRN COUNTY. 10 CONGRESS, SECOND DISTRICT, CYRUS L. DUNHAM, OF WASHINGTON COUNTY. grWe have heard of but three deaths from cholera since oui report of yesterday, arid but one new case We are requested to state that on account of eickne5B, Mr. Howard is unable to deliver the Great TVett to subscri bers. Those who take it, can get copies of it at this office. Joses and Jokers. The Whig candidate in the Third Congressional District in Indiana, Joseph Robinson, or Old Joe, as the Whigs call him, or the "Old Hoss," as he calls himself, is allowed to be the greatest joker in all Hoosierdom. Like all Whig candidates, he is fond of misrepresentations. The keen, active Democratic candidate in that District, Hon. John L. Robinson, never allows these misrepresentations to pass, without exposing them. Whenever this happens and it often happens the '0!d Hosj" declares that he was only joking. It is thought that, after the election, the "Old Hosh" will declare the whole canvass a joke, and that he was aftly joking all the time. The Cincinnati Inquirer bide fair to rival the old Joker. The best joke of the season was perpetrated yesterday by the Inquirer, in characterizing the Madison Courier as "a pesky little Whig sheet.'' The Inquirer does not pay very strict attention to little sheets, or it would have ere this discovered the difference between the Courier and the "pesky little Whig sheet." fj7-In New York City, where they have a Whig Mayor whose Britis-h feelings !ed him into the crime of bloodshed, rathei than to have the aristocratic Opera House in .Astor-Place clo?ed, and thereby preventing the British actor, Macready, from acting before the "upper ten," the Managers of the Temperanca Demonstration, in the Tabernacle, on the night of Father Matthew's arrival in New York, charged two shillings a head to see and hear him speak. It is due Father Matthew to say, that his visit to this country is purely philanthropic; and it is a sin, as well as a burning shame, that he should have been imposed upon, particularly on the first night of his arrival among us. The N. Y. Sun says: "The friends of Temperance owe it to themselves, to their cause, and to Father Matthew, to provide that at all his future meetings the people eh nil have free access to him. It wilt be to the interest of Temperance and the honor of the country. Of course, Father Matthew will feel delicate in dictating any course; his trie nds, therefore, should now and hereafter choose the one that will be most faithful, beneficent, and generous. Let them procure the Tabernacle or Castle Garden, or any sufficiently commodious place, and throw its doors open, that the people may go in free, and take the pledge from the hands of one they admire and love. Cholera A.n Affectinc; Incident. The New York Express relates the following melancholy cholera incident: "Two young ladies, beautiful and accomplished Mary Louisa and Virginia Star, one nineteen and the other twenty-one years of age were both engaged to be married on Mondaylast. On the Saturday night previous both went to Hoboken, and there imprudently partook of ice creams, strawberries, and other fruits. Tne hour appointed for the wedding found both of them cold ia death, with their biidal garments for windingsheets." Virginia Wheat Ckof. The Richmond Whig says that the harvest is pretty weil through in all Virginia east of the Mountain; and though the crop was unusua'ly late, and suffered somewhat from rust, and very much from the April frost, it will ex ceed an average one. The season has been dry and favorable for securing the crop.

Cokititctio!4L Co.tvxxno. The time Is not far distant whea the voter of this State will be called upon to decide whether the Constitution, with allita acknowledged defects, shall remain as it it, or whether itihaJl be amended and revised, and made to conform to the earnest wishes of the people. Other States Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky are adopting measures to reform their Constitutions, and in all of them there appears to

be a remarkable coincidence of sentiment on one point, to wit: That all officers shall be elected by the people. The day has passed when the friends cf this principle are to be deterred from its advocacy by the denunciations and coarse epithets of those who are afraid to trust the people with power. The people have a right to rule, and those who deny them are tyrants at heart, let their professions to the contrary be what they may. '1 he main difference between a free government and an in absolute monarchy is, that in the former the people are considered trust-worthy, and in the latter, the rulers; and in an exact proportion as any government incorporates in its organization the principle that the people are not fit to be trusted, in the same proportion does it contain elements which, if fully developed, will lead to an absolute despotism. Then, why not elect all the officers in a free government Judges as well as Governors, Postmasters as well as Members of Congress? But this is not the only evil which results frera our present system. The present oppressive State debt, which had well nigh crippled the energies of this otherwise prosperous State, was the offspring of reckless and improvident legislation, which can only be prevented in future by a constitutional barrier, prohibiting the contracting of any public debt without, at the same time, providing means, by taxation, for the annual payment of the interest, and the gradual redemption of the principal. Besides, a system of common schools, adequate to the wants of he people, is to be provided, whose foundations must be laid, not in the mere letter but in the spirit of the Constitution. Taxation alone will never make good schools, especially in a State whera much of the public fund which was set apart for educational purposes, has been squandered and misapplied. We hope the people will agitate this Bubject, so that they may be prepared to vote, understanding, on the first Monday in August next. Wash. Co. Democrat. Our people appear to take a lively inte rest in the canvass now in progress in our sister State of Kentucky, for members of the Convention to change the Organic Law of Kentucky, and have paid but little at tention to the fact, that they will be re quired in August to decide whether we shall have a Convention to amend the Constitution of Indiana, or not. This question is an important one to Indiana, and the proposed alterations and amendments are of the most interesting character. The first in importance, in our opinion, is the proposed alteration to take from the State Legislature the power to borrow money upon the faith of the State, without first having obtained the consent of the people ihiough the ballot-box; and which, if adopted, will effectually prevent in future the wiseacres who are sometimes assembled at Indianapolis, from involving the State in another "great improvement scheme." Indiana has not yet recovered from the disastrous effects of those improvement laws. Her inhabitants now feel the buiden of the many taxes required to sustain the credit of the State. Now, then, is the time, when all the ruinous effects of vesting such a power with the Legislature is fresh in the minds of all, to put an absolute veto upon the possibility of the rulers of the State ever committing such another blunder. Allow no money to be borrowed upon the faith of the State without first having obtained the consent of the people, who will eventually have to pay the debt. Ax-io.ms of Gen. Taylor, and the Axe of the Council of Eight. "I have no party projects to build up no enemies to punish." Allison Letter. The removal of Col. Weller from the office of boundary commissioner by the Council of Eight, is confirmed by a letter from Mr. Charles Welle-, now in Washington City, to Maj. Ryan. We can easily divine the cause of Coi. Weller's removal. It wai not because he lacked the "essential pre-re-quisites," but because he has been and is distingushed as a talented and fearless Demociat. In the eyes of Ohio Whiggery this was enough, and these have done the deed. So savs the Hamilton Telegraph. C7"The transmission cf dispatches over the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Louisville Telegraph Lines, will cease at 7 o'clock, r. after the present week. The health of the telegraphers on the Lines renders this order necessary, until circumstances shall admit of its repeal, of which due notice will be given. CO" The river is rising at this point.

E.tsuaa and Ftxsca Navixs. From pablish ed lists it appears that the French have eight sail of the line in commission, while in the English fleet there are twelve sea going line-of-battle ships. Of the French list of eight, five are three-deckers, two of them are 90-gun shipa, and

one is of 66 guns: whereas, of the twelve sail of the English list, only three are three-deckers, one only is a 90-gun ship, four are 8-1 -gun ships, one of 80, one of 73, and the other two are of the old 72-gun class, and moreover, twu' others are in the home ports, with only one-half their full complements. The French have eight heavy frigates: one of 60, one of 52, two of 50, one of 46, and three of 40 guns. In our sea-going force afloat, we have only eight first and second class frigates, of which two only are of 50, two of 42, one of 40, and three of 38 guns. The total number of guns carried by the French frigates is 3SS; by the English frigates, 332. The the number of guns carried by the French sixteen liue-of-batt!e ships and frigates Is 1,214; the number carried by the Euglish line-of-battle ships and frigates is 1,404 showing a difference in favor of the latter of only 190. The aggregate number of men preponderates in favor of the French. The French ships of the line are concentrated in the Mediterranean ; the English ships of the liae in the Mediterranean are only six; and cf the others, one is in the Pacific, another in China, and a third is in the West Indies. At home, therefore, we have only one ship of the line more than the French have at this time in commission. London Times. 07" Rome has probably fallen beneath the fratricidal blovv of France. If so and the Canada, which is now due, will tell us France presents to the world, and to all future history, the most shameful picture of recreancy to her professed national faith on record. What if Austria and Naples did seek to impose a hateful temporal rule upon the Romans; was it for France, boastful of her freedom, to step between them, and when warned back by the Romans, to insist at the point of the bayonet on forcing them to accept any government? Rome did not seek nor need the aid or mediation of France. She defied the Austrian and Neapolitan from her capital, and the heroic manner in which she repulsed France proved her capacity to make good her defiance. Whe can doubt longer that there is no party of the people in Rome in favor of the Pope's return to temporal power? If the Roman revolutionists are all assassins, there must be a host of them, for the armed force in Rome amounts to 80,000. This story of assassins is like the edict of George the Third, declaring Washington a rebel, and offering 5,000 for his head, dead or alive. The Romans may be overborne for the moment, but as God is just, and the principles of Liberty are eternal, they cannot be kept long in bondage. The day of Austrian bayonets at the throats of the people is past. The last words of Marshal Bugeaud to the buz-zard-in-the-eagle s-nest French President were, 'Withdraw your armies from Italy, and fight the Austrians N. Y. Sun. Nothing has alarmed whiggery so much as the position assumed by the I -emocracy of the North. They see in it an omen of Defeat. They look at Ohio, Connecticut, Vermont, Wisconsin, aye, and Indiana, and are stricken with dismay. They have aroused the indignation of the people with their duplicity, and have disgusted them with their falsehoods. They have wooed the Free Soilers to their embraces, but they refuse to surrender. They have piped, but the Free Soilers will not dance their music. They make loud professions of Free Soilism; but the the people point to Old Zack, and tell them they can't come it. They're gone coons, and had better make up their minds to die as decently as possible. Mr, Matson will be the worst whipped man in the State, but his stripes will probably procure him a pension from his master, Zachary Taylor. Goshen Democrat-tr-We learn that the Hon. George Banctoft, our minister at the Court of St. James, received the degree of Doctor in Civil Law, from Oxford University, on the 20th oi June. Upon opening the convocation, the Vice Chancellor alluded to the distinguished persons who were to have the honorary degrees conferred upon them, and Mr. Bancroft and James Heywood Markland, F.S.A., were then introduced to the Convocation by DrBliss, the Registrar cf the University, in a lengthy Latin oration, which was followed by the ceremo ny of conferring the degress upon both those gentlemen. Right. The N. Y. Express, in closing an article on the approach of cholera to that city, hits off the two great causes of the spread of the baneful disease, by the following felicitous quotation from Macbeth: "Scoca all the country roand! Hang those who talk of fear?" Filth and fright are the principal promoters of this terrible scourge. California Gold. The Philidelphia Bulletin, of Tuesday, says: "We learn this morning, directly from the Mint, that within a small fraction of t2,000,00.) California Gold has already been received at that institution. Among the passengers te Europe in the America, from Boston, last Wednesday, was Col. Thomas L. Crittenden, U. S. Consul at Liverpool. During the three months ending on the 2d Inst., ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and forty-one immigrants arrived at New York.

BY TELEGRAPH. EXPORTED FOR THX MADISON DAILY COCRIITU FOBEION IVEYFS. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER NIAGARA. St. Johxs. July 13, S p. sr. By Express Telegraph from Halifax, we learn that the steamer Niagara arrived there early yesterday morning, with 69 passengers, and will reach New York on Saturday afternoon. MARKETS. Liverpool, June 30. Operations in business for the past week are firm, with an improvement in business transactions in almost every branch of trade. Accounts from the manufacturing districts are cheering, and give good hopes of a more general activity. National aeenrities firm throughout the week, but the funds were somewhat duller yesterday, in consequence of an excess of stock having been thrown upon the market. The amount of bullion in the Bank of England is about 15,000,000. A good deal of business doing in American stocks. United States sixes stand at about 107 to 107)4 Pennsylvania from 80 to 85, owing o the unfavorable accounts by the last American steamer of the grow ing crops.

In cotton there has been an extensive business transacted during the past week. An advance of 8(384 has taken place for upland. Mobile quoted at 4; fair Orleans 5 to Si and 4 for middling qualities. Sales on Friday amounted to 6000 bales. Wheat, flour and corn steady during the week, though somewhat dull towards the close. Western 24,-2)258; for superior 216221s 6d. Philadelphia 23S24s. Baltimore 23s 6d25s. White corn being scarce, is worth 34sfS35s 6d; yellow 34i2358. Corn meal I67a)l7s. Wheat in barrels 6s 6d to 7s 4d. Pork, lowest quality only, going off at regular prices. Beef unchanged, demand limited. Bacon, arrivals large; hams scarce; enquiry for shoulders fair, demand at 15s Cd322n. Lard one hundred tons sold at steady prices. FRANCE. Advices from Paris on Tuesday evening state that the city is perfectly tranquil. Business in Bourse steady, and prices have an upward tendency. On Monday the Ministry introduced into the Assembly a bill for reguiating the Press. O'Dillon Barrot states it was intended merely as a temporary measure, to regulate the position of the Press, until an organic law on the subject should be passed. The new law is nearly the same as the law Louis Pbillippe established. Powers are given for the temporary suspension of every Journal attacking the Constitution, or making appeals to arms. The bickerings between the President and the Ministry are rapidly approaching a crisis. It is supposed that it will lead to the retirement of some of the members of the cabinet. The principal measures of discord is the anomolous and fratricidal policy in Italy. ROME. After a severe bombardment, three squadrons of French troops succeeded in establishing themselves within the outer walls of Rome on the 23d ult. They have since been occupied with operations for acquiring possession of the inner bastions and defences, but up to the 23d and 24th, they had not made much progress. Every inch of ground was stoutly defended by Ginbaldi, who still continues here. Late intelligence says that Oudinout has so far succeeded that the city was entirely at his mercy, to spare which, and the horrors of a frightful carnage, has submitted terms to the Triumvirate, which, it was thought, would be accepted by the Romans. It is reported that the English government has presented a friendly remonstrance against the bombardment of Rome, urging upon the French government the necessity of coming to an accommodation. The London Globe states that the Schleswig affairs are drawing rapidly to a conclusion, and a final sett lement may be expected in a fortnight. HUNGARY. The Hungarians were partially defeated by the Austrian troops on the 21st, and were forced to retire be)ond Raab, where, from the nature of the country, they will be able to repel the invading forces. Letters in the Austrian and German journals state that engagement? have recently taken place between the Austrians and Hungarians at ten different points around Raab. Some ascribe victory to the Austrians, and some to the Hungarians. The German Reform, which has heretofore been favorable, says that the Austrians sustained several checks, and that the cholera and other maladies are raging in the camps. The Miygarsare displaying greater enthusiasm than ever. Kossuth has oraered the Austrian prisoners several thousand in number to work on the Bebsee Kron Railway. Advices from Italy to the 25th state that Ancona, after a destructive bombardment, has surrendered to the Austrians, with terms of capitulation, or political armistice. VENICE. The bombardment of Venice has been suspend

ed, ia eonseqasnce of prop!! f crpitili haTlbenmadebythebiiegd. GERMANY. Account from Central Germany are of a cimc. more specific character than heretofore.

The Emperor of China refuses to carry out tha stipulations of the two treaties, which provided that the city of Canton should be opened X far-" eif ners. GENERAL SUMMARY. The N iagara experienced a succession cf heavy gales. She brings 8,000 in specie. Liverpool and Havre are to be conaected by a line of first class steamers. . The House of Commons haveaiSrmed tfta second reading of the Marriage Bill, readerta; valid raarriagea with the sister of deceased wives. A bill for the transportation of Smith O'Brien is now an act of Parliament, but is said to contain fatal blunders. II is supposed the approaching visit cf her Majesty to Ireland will be signali2ed by exteadis j the royal pardon to Irish State prisoners. Advices from Calcutta of the 8th, and Bombay ef the 2Iat of May received, and the intelligent is satisfactory in the extreme. London money market remarkably easy. ApPAtu.vG. We use the word 'appalling' because the very thought of being buried alive suggests a hideous degree of horror, fearfully startling to the mind. No affectation of levity cam divest it of its chilling terror. Imagine, for a moment, the idea of waking, as it were, from a sleep, and finding yourself in the cold confinement of death's prison knowing that your voice cannot be heard, and that your struggles cannot avail that the cold earth of the grave envelopes yoixf and that the worm is already hungry for his feast! Hands bound, your prison close, your bed death, and not the faintest glimmer of a ray of hope. Hope, that lifts the soul at other times, La useless in the grave save that Hope which directs th spirit to the blissful realms that lie beyond tha "valley of the shadow of death," and strips tha King of Terrors of hia panoply of fear. We learn from Col. Williamson of Lockland, that a man was seized with cholera in that town on Wednesday and died in a few hours or rather he was pronounced dead, and the paraphanalia of mourning was assumed. The body was laid out and placed in the coffin; but a few hours previous to the time appointed for the funeral, the bxad man rose from his coffin, to the great terror of those around, and walked out of it in his shroud! He divested himself of the garments of the grave, and ia now apparently a well man. It is needless to add that he sent the coffin back, having no further use for it. This is true, and it is another warning against too much haste in burials Suspended. An Irishman, who was talking in rather ambiguous terms about the sudden death of his paternal relative, was asked if he had lived high? "Well, I can't say he did;" said Terence, "but he died high!" "Why, what do you mean?" "Faith, I mean that, like the United State Bank, he was Suspended! ! O" The Georgia Whig St to Convention have adopted strong resolutions against the Wilraot Proviso. DIED This morning at 2 o'clock, Mr. G. B. Shelton, aged 38 years. His friends and acquaintances are invited to attend his funeral to-morrow (Sabbath; morning, from his late residence on Broadway, at 8 o'clock. We are authorized to announce William W. Woollen as a candidate for County Treasurer, at the eliSuiug August election. ILr The first of July behi regular erni-annu-al settlement time for job work and advertising, and having failed to present our bills at that time, we shall, as soon as we can conveniently do so, make out our bills to July 10, (at which lime we disposed of the office,) and present them for payment. The subscription list of the "Weekly Courier" will be placed in the hands of Mr. Garber, our successor, to whom payments may be made. Those wh have paid in advance will find themselves credited for the amount due them on Mr. Garber's books. Persons having claims against either of the undersigned or against the late firm, will please preseut them at the office at the earliest convenience. This notice is intended for all, whether we have accounts against them or not. July 11, '49. S. F. & J. B. COVINGTON. mm OSQ I ITOBA RH Bubinet M.q i.t N ling, if J 3 yards w J; Linn ditto l yard wide; 100 places Mufquito Ban. awnef rwaiitiM; for hy July 10 3d 8WOEM.STFDT M CO. s.l'JIJItU Goods at Hrducird Prices. we will ell otf our summer Mock of Lawn. Berax, Gin?ham, Bonnet, RiWons, Flower. 4;e Jlc , at prices hal will suit any reasonable piirrh?nr. jul? !W3 tVORMSTEDT Jt CO. n IIOLUTIO.-TI) firm of James Roberta Jt LLP Co.. in tut day d b-'vn1 br mutual consent. AH pereona bavin arcu'ita with eaid firm, will aeuie tae rue with Wm. MrQuliton, who Is authorized to clove the biinft- of said firm. Mad ion, June i-i. lfiO. JAMES ROBERTS, j.ily 7 WM McQUiSTQN. XV JI . M'QUIST o , GENERAL Forwarding and Commission Merchant, a D Dealer in IV t item Produce, jnly 7 West Street, Madibo. Ia. I HE IlitAIM DIE'S A!YiV WIEJi.-P eona wanting pare Ltquora e.a find them at Jane 30 W A UUt.SH. Also Pare Lexington Maard and African Cayenne Pepper.