Plymouth Pilot, Volume 1, Number 19, Plymouth, Marshall County, 28 May 1851 — Page 2

THE PILOT.

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1851. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR CONGRESS, IN THE 9th DISTRICT: GRAHAM N. FITCH, Of Cass County. Nomination of Hon. G. N. Fitch. The Democratic Convention which convened here on the 22d inst., unanimously nominated the above named gentleman as a candidate for Congress at the ensuing election. The best feeling prevailed and the Democracy present seemed proud to be able to give this token of their confidence in the man who so ably and faithfully represented their interests in the last Congress. Now, fellow citizens, give our faithful public servant, a "long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether." and you will elect a Representative, who will not only reflect credit on himself, but on his constituents, also. Freshet In Yellow River. Owing to the heavy rains during the past week, the River, at this point, rose to a height on Thursday last, never before witnessed by our oldest settlers. The whole of the low lands in the immediate vicinity of town were completely submerged---and in the dwellings located there, the occupants might have sat in the cupboard and caught catfish in the parlor! The water rose to within a few feet of our office, bringing us an abundant supply of firewood--- causing the poor Printers heart to rejoice, and proving, "That i'ts an ill wind that blows no one any good." We regret to state, that several of our citizens have met with serious losses by the Freshet. Mr. Austin Fuller, estimates the injury to his Dam, and otherwise, at $250. Mr. Bostwick lost nearly 100 bushels of coal. Other losses have been sustained by some of our citizens, but cannot be correctly estimated until the water subsides. The neighboring streams have also been unusually high, and we expect to hear of still further damage. 0ur friend of the South Bend Register, "is awfully" "put out" by our

fully" "put out' by our gress in this District, will he held in tack of some anonymous Plymouth today. at 1 o'clock P. M.

allusion to an attack of some anonymous writer in that paper, relative to the course of Dr. Fitch. We think our friend is over-sensitive. He repeats, that he will not tell who "Vindex" is. We were not aware that any one considered his communications of sufficient importance to enquire into their authorship. Our friend of the Register implies that his statement that Dr. Fitch intended to challenge Vindex was a joke! We, like many others, thought it was intended to for effect. We "acknowledge the corn," and are glad, for the Register's sake, that we were mistaken. We wish our friend Colfax, understand distinctly, that we don't believe the "moon is made of green cheese," any more than we believe this editor of the Register will be elected next August to Congress. Our friend, we think, views the canine allusion too seriously---at least more so than we intended or expected that he would. However, we "trust" the Register "will recover," "for it may be assured that after he gets acquainted with us, he will learn that we" are as slow to "abuse" anyone as he possibly can be, and more particularly one towards whom we have already expressed, and still entertain, personally, the best kind of feeling. To Correspondents. "Ploughboy:" will appear next week. "J" is accepted. Will be published soon.

cinnati for the purpose of taking meaFirst attempt at Poetry, rP. jsures for the construction of a ship ca-

"Z's" "First attempt at Poetry,"---re-ceived. Declined---better not make a second attempt, Z. Never read anything to equal your Poetry, except the sublime couplet of the Iowa poet: "The saw-loq floated on the water, A good deal further than it ought'er." Plymouth School.---It will be seen, by reference to our advertising columns, that our friend, Mr. C. D. Smith proposes opening a School in this place, on Monday next, June 2nd. From what we have heard of Mr. Smith's qualifications as a Teacher, we think he will discharge the important duties he is about to assume, with credit to himself, and to the satisfaction of all who may patronise him.

Scientific American. We are under obligations to the gentlemanly Publishers ol this work for the unexpected favor they have done us, in forwarding us the back t: umbers of the present Volume of their valuable Journal. Apart from the information it contains so useful to every 3Icchanic'jt presents a mass of other intelligence alike interesting to the general reader. We invite Mechanics, and others, to call at our office and examine this work, and subscribe for it at once, feeling confident that they will be richly rewarded for their outlay. Terms: only 82 per annum 81 in advance the remainder in six months. Munn cj- Co. Publishers, New York City.

CO" Sahtaix's Magazine for Juneis on our table, filled with articles of great interest, and adorned with splendid Engravings one from the burin of Mr, Sartain, one of the Publishers of the Magazine. Mrs. Kicklakd and Prof. Hart, who edit this valuable Periodical, seem determined to lender it worthy of patronage. 83 per annum,! published in Philadelphia. The Democratic Review. This able work increases in interest with each succeeding number. The portraits of distinguished men which it regularly presents, are worth more than the subscription to the whole work. Price 83 per annum: published monthly, by Kdttll y Moore, New York City. We regret to learn that a child of Mr. R'.'progle, living in Union township, in this county, was drowned in a well at its father's residence, on Thursday last. The deceased was about four 5 ears old. Mirshall Cj. Commissioners Court will commence on Monday next, June COT Boats are now plying briskly from our office-door to the opposite side of the river. Ferriage one dime Printers, free. Prosecuting Attorney. It was decided at the Convention held here on the 22d inst., th.it tin nomination for a Democratic candidate f r the above office in this Jiuiirul circuit, would be made at the Convention to be held at South Bend, on the 7ih of June next. The IVhijf Convention. For nominating a candi'iie for Con-! Id in Great freshet in thp tipper Wabash; a serious breach has or curred in the canal above Logansport. CCV" Horace Wells, the well known Type-founder of Cincinnati, died a few days since in that city, from a wound received by the discharge of a rifle in the hands of a young man who was carelessly using it. CO Gen. Joseph Lane has been unanimously nominated in Vain Hill county, Oregon, as a delegate from that Territo ry to Congress. fJC3" The proceedings of the Democratic Convention, held here on the 2 2d inst.. wfll be published next week. CQ" John B. (Jough, the great Temperance advocate, has been lecturing in Indianapolis. The Statesman says "He is one of the most eloquent men of the day." (CjT An Irishman, named Jpseph Currie, killed his wife in Jefferson county, in this State, on the 8th inst., by administering poison. Currie fled. COT C. P. Hester, formerly a distinguished lawyer of Indiana, has been appointed judge in California, with a salry of $7,500 a little more.says the Indiana Statesman, than the aggregate salaries of nine circuit judges in Indiana. A meeting has been held in Cinnal around the Falls of the Ohio, ou the Indiana side. f-The Whig of Mount Vernon, Ohio, have nominated Scott for President and Crittenden for Vice. tOT Dr- Findley, of South Bend, died at lis residence last week. Dr. F. was I a highly esteemed citizen. CCjT The Erie Railroad Company expects to deliver passengers from Dunkirk, in New Yoik in 1) hours. C3 Thomas A. Hendricks, of Shelby Co., has been nominated for Congress by the Democratic Convention held at Indianapolis on the 1Mb inst.

The Dayton (0.) Journal notices a new and dangerous Five on the Clinton Bank of Columbus, Ohio. The eyes are slightly defective in the vignette and the line upon which the date is written, is on a level with the horse's foot, while in the genuine it is one-eighth of an inch below.

The Common Council of New York have appropriated 82,500 for the celebration of the glorious Fourth of July. Tj,a p r i .1 . Ihe Rev. Lrskinc Mason, a most enn-i nent Presbyterian minister, died recently in N. York city. The fitting up of a suitable place at the World's Fair in London, for the exhibition of American manufactures, cost 810,000. The Miami County Sentinel, of the K)th inst., says that Eel river was then within 15 inches of being as high as ever before known. CO" The Lafayette (la.) Courier says, that Mr. Knoblock, a butcher of that city, lately killed two veals one weighing 2,200 the other 1,920 lbs. The delegates to the Democratic Convention from Tippecanoe Co., havebcen instructed to vote for Major Mace as a candidate for Congress. Butter male near Cleveland on one morning, may be found for sale in tha Cincinnati market on the next. So much for railroads. Dr. Moffat, the inventor of the celebrated life pills, is said to be worth 61000,000 has lately purchased a costly mansionin New York city and is the principal owner in a bank. One of the ' Spiritual Rappers," a girl about 16 years old, has been arrested at Providence, R. I., for adniiuisteiing poison to her brother. It is reported that B-lleti, the chief musician at Jenny Lind's concerts, will soon marry the "Sweedish Nightingale." A warrant which entitled a poor wo man to a pension, wis lately sent from j Washinnon. a few davs after she died in ! the Poor House, near "Marietta, Ohio. j A hard case, indeed. A newspaper has been started in Washington City, entitled the "Washton jtfonumc nt ,the net proceeds of which are for the benefit of the monument now being erected in that city to the memory of Washington. Harbor Jtill. Of the many who hae compla'fned of! the General for not supporting that bill ' as it was presented to him, how few know anything about it; how very few care, whether his views were right or wrong, provided they can find fault. And yet if that bill had been dissec ted and separated, and a vole taken separately on each appropriation, scarcely one of those who find so much fault would have voted, (if they had been in the sam? responsible situation,) for one-half of those places for which appropriations were asked. Why, such a system carried out, would cost twice as much as the Mexican war, and in time would bankrupt the nation; appropriations were asked for certain places, where no estimate of the expense had been made by the officers of government; appropriations were asked for the improvement of rivers that began and ended in one State; that had not even (what Mr. Webster calls) an odor of 1. 1 . . 1 c. .1 nationality auoui mein, ouppose ine principles adopted by Jackson on this subject had been applied to that bill, how many democrats would have been willing to support it? Why then, ehould Gen. Ca6s be called upon as the first to break down that article of our creed? He was willing then, as he had before done, to vote for a bill when the improvmeut was national in its object when the cot had been estimated and approved bj men of judgement and experience, and the necessity of the country require it. Hut he would not, and could not as an honest man, support eeiy foolish and improvident expenditure that had been put in the bill for the purpose of buying votes; he is too sagacious to be caught in ' that trap, too honest to squander the pub lic money for private purposes, uur Lake harbors und our rivers need improvement, and much money we hope will yet be expended upon them, but let it be done in accordance with the spirit of the constitution for national purposes for the commercial transaction of at least more than one State, community or individual. Font. Jacksoniun; The Crops. We hear the most flattering accounts of the wheat crop from all parts of the State. It is too early of couise, to regard the reports of this kind as any sure indication of what the harvest "will present to the farmer. The growth of the wheat, however, and its fine appearance, may be relied on to sustain a long seigc of dry weather. Our exchanges indicate, a very general destruction of the fruit, especially peaches. This delightful and most healthy fruit en nnot well be spared. Detroit Free fress.

EDITORIAL SUMMARY.

'Lively and gossiping stored tcith the treasure of a tattling world, and icith a tpice of mirth, too."' A ladv in England has sent to the W onl s tuir, a lace trarf, containing i ' ö i twelve and a quarter miles of thread, and j 3,475,000 Stiches. It is nine feet ten inches in length, and three feet broad, 1 . , , - ... . and weighs only five and three quarter ' ounces. Tom. liver's challenger to ficht for - b $10.000 has been accepted. The cost of legislation in California, amounts to SI, 393 per day. Whitney, the projector of the great railroad to California, has sailed for England, in the hope of receiving aid from that country in the construction of a railroad from Halifax to the Pacific. They have a House of Refuge now, near Cincinnati, where, juvenile criminals are sent and made to learn trades, N. C. Baldwin, of Cleveland, Ohio, has sent an ox to the World's Fair, which weighs 4,000 lbs. The anti-slavery Convention is now being held in Syracuse, N. York. The elections to fill the places of the Senators who resigned in New York, tikes place May SOtli The village of Palmer Dnnt ' has been nearly destroyed by fire. $70,000. Loss iiuwcm toLD is me union pariy s can-; didate for Governor in South Carolina. The President of the Madison and Indianapolis railroad company has negociated a loan of (300,000 for t'4je purpose of improving the road, and purchasing j additional cars, locomotives, cc. Marshall E. Holliday, who was sent to the pcnitentiiry seven years since, for stealing U. S. drafts, his been pardoned bv the President. Kx-Chincellor Walworth, was lately mariied to Col. Hardin's widow. Col. II. was killed iv. Mexico. A lady living in Buffalo recently left home after breakfast, and attended a paity on thcevening of the same day in Alfiny distance 90 miles. Daniel Endicott was hung on the 25th ul t.. at Cyutliiana, Ivy. He confessed his guilt, and died penitent. Father Matthew, the great Apostle of Temperance, is expected to visit the Cullcge near South B -n l, during t lie coming summer. A heavy embankment is now in course of construction at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. If the over flows could be fprevented, it is thought Cuiro would, in a few years, become an important town. After boring 500 feet, at Anderson, Tennessee, lately, a vein of salt water was obtained, and the manufacture of Fait will be immediately commenced. A negro man who had been taken to California by his master, has been dej clared free by the laws of that State The U. S. steamer Michigan has been despatched to the Upper Likes, for the purpose of arresting some of the Mormons for cutting timber on Government land, Counterfeiting, &c. An immense amount of litigation is j already to be found in the California I i courts The Roman Catholic Church, erected at a cost of 630,000, w..s destroyed by tire, on the Gihinst., at Pittsburg, Pa. It contained an organ, valued ut 6t,000, tvhich was also destroyed. Anti-rent outrages have again occurred in rw York. Three men, to whom a valuable cargo had been entrusted to be conveyed on a flat boat from Louisville, Ky., to New Orleans, sunk the boat, and sold the cargo, valued at 68,000. They have all been caught, but only 61,000 has been recovered. A man. named Nelson, was recently drowned in the Wabash canal, near Uoanoke. Two men who were lately working in a distillery iu New York, lost their lives by inhaling carbonic gas produced by the fermentation of molasses. Nine elephants, two boa constrictors, oue Brahim Bull, porcupines and monkeys, arrived at New York, last week, from the Cape of Good Hope. The reports of the different railroads iu Massa chusetts, show that 200,000 passengers lave been carried on them during the past year. An old colored lady is now living in South Carolina, at the advanced age of 112 years. A process has been discovered in England, by which gas tan be made from water. Staves arc now shipped for the East, from Detroit.

FREAKS OF PHILANTHROPY. A few days since the papers contained the account of the death of a man in Boston jail, who had been put there for some paltry debt. He was a man of education, a graduate of one of the New

t Tvtlfrlanrl rfct 1 Airn n a t 1. .1-1 - .1Hj anA ., ... , . man, and a merciless creditor enforced, llot a fugitive law, but the law for the eolleet ion of dibts, put in jail where he lingered, and finally died of consumption in the felon's cell. We hear ofnorcs- , J On Saturday the telegraph informed us that a black man named Sims, was arrested charging him with being a fugitive ) slave. There was danger, not of his be ing put in jail and lingering as the whit debtor had lingered, but there was danger of his being sent back to the South from whence he had escaped, under the pro visions of the fugitive law. This ca6e j excited to madness .the men who had stood by and seen the white man die in in prison for debt. They fly together. The country is alarmed. Meetings .are held in the. neighboring towns, and resolutions are passed denouncing the law under which this arrest was made and offering their services to release all black men bv forre of arms, nnrl to tramnlr. ihr laws of he Union underfoot to accomplish this purpose1. Here is consistancy, for you! Reader, what do you think of it? Ohio Stale Sentinel. Appalling Occurrence The Lewisburh Chronicle of Wednes'day gives the particulars of the iniurr to thp MfthnKct ri.nrr-h ut TW,,,;iu k.the Methodist Church at Danville, by lightning, on Sunday last. The congregation were kneeling in I prayer, inst before the sacrament was to! be administered. There were no previous indications of a storm, except a slight sprinkle of rain, and a cloud which seemed to be gathering in a northerly direction. The steeple was fust struck and much shattered. After reaching the main building, the electric fluid divided into two separate currents one passing through the ceiling and along the chain by which one of the lamps was suspended, (both of which latter were demolish ed.) directly down into the midst of the crowded congregation; tearing np the floor and pews considerably, and instantly killing Mrs. Pencil, and inflicting alarming rnjuries upon her sister, Miss Vastine, and eight or nine others, mostly females, besides stunning and otherwise partially allecting many other persons. The ladies dresses were much torn, as well as set on fire, and in some instances ripped completely open to the flesh by the force of the tenific bolt. Mrs. Pencil's person bore no external marks of injury, but most of the. others were scorched and discolored to a greater or less extent. The other current passed out through the brick wall bv the front door tfring off the facings and prostrating a young man named Jones, who was just at that mo ment in the act of entering. Ti e lightning struckhis right shoulder, tore his right boot to fragments, and blistered his flesh from shoulder to heel so badly, that the skin peeled off when his clothes were being removed. Our informant, a gentleman of this place, who was in the chapel at the time says it was the most appalling scene of consternation and distress he ever witnessed. The chapel is a new building, and the entire elevation of the 6teeple, or dome, is about eighty feet, and had no lightning rod; though we understand one had been contracted for, and was expected to be put up in the course of the summer. FATAL AFFRAY. The Owensboro' (Ky.) American gives the particulars of the affray which took place near that town, by which two men were killed and several others wounded. The quarrel was about a fence, as we have stated, old Mr. Payne having forbidden the Tumbulls to join him eta certain poii't in his line. The Turnbulls persisted in putting up the fence, and on last Monday evening old Mr, Payne, accompanied by his three sons, repaired to the spot for the purpose of tearing the fence down, The Turnbulls, who were at work a short distance off, rushed to the spot and commenced an attack upon old man Payne, who immediately called his sons to his aid, and in a few moments the two Tu'iiulls were reinforced by their mother and five sisters, and then commenced a dreadful conflict with knives and clubs, which did not end until both parlies were well nigh exterminated. Old man Pajne and his son George were found dead upon the ground, the former with fourteen the latter with nine stabs in his body. The two other young Paynes and the two Turnbulls, William and George, were also found upon the ground, ail badly wounded, the former with knives the latter with clubs. Several of the women were badly bruised and crippled. A MilUrite Convention was last week in sessional Neu York, endeavoring to fix the day again for the final end of all things. One of their prophets, Mr. Reed, declared he waß ready with positive proofs, to convince them that Christ would come before the 23d day of July next. Hut the convention were not entirely satisfied with the proofs, and kicked at the idea of his fixing another day, especially so soon. When the 23d of July arrives, we shall see what we shall see. A Second Advent excitement appears I to be beginning at Morrisville, near Treni ton.

Terrible Earthquake in Turkej't Six hundrcd'Jircs lost in one Town. Accounts from Malta announce, a succession of terrible earthquakes, which had been felt on the 2Sth of Feb., at Makri. a city of Adolia, Turkey, on the Mediterranean, and at the far-famed city and island of Rhodes, which is situated fifty miles from Makri, and the Turkish coast. At Makri, on the main land, the houses were all about prostrated, the waters dried up, and sulphurous vapors proceeding from the earth. The town of Levissy which contained fifteen hundred houses, has not one left standing, and no less than six hundred persons are reckoned to be under the ruins. The village of Chioge has nearly met the same fate, the upper part of a huge mountain has fallen, overwhelming all the dwellings round about its base. Another village more inland, has been buiied from the fall, in opposite directions, of two hills, between whicii.it was situated. At Rhodes, where the famous Collossus of Rhodes, which in its day, Mas reckoned one of the seven wonders of the world, was thrown down by an earthquake 234 years before Christ and 36 years after its erection, being of the enormous weight of 913,000 lbs.; the earthquake on the 20th of February demolished the castle at the entrance of the town. Many buildings were shattered, but no lives lost. Cincinnati Enq.

The World's Fair. The London Correspondent of the New York Commercial advertiser savs: The number of Americans has increased everyday. In the register kept at the commission to the industrial exhibition, several hundreds have ilready signed their names, and the cry is 'still they come.' From what I know, the great majority who are here pay quite twenty dollars pr week for their board, and many far more than that. Indeed, while that is about the m'u n'um ti wl ic'i decent board and lodgings can be obtained here, 650 per week can very easily be spent in that way. Around Hyde Parke it is but one crowd of gin shops, taverns, hotels and restaurats; and from every ' prospect now the environs of the Industrial Exhibition are to be a perfect nuisance. I hate l.hfi re this polten of the anomalous position in which the United States contributors found themselves upon their arrival here, in consequence of no appropriation having been made by Congress to meet the expense of preparing the portion of the building alloted to us. The only remedy left to our commissioner, Edward Riddle, or rather the only alternative he had from immediate reshipping the goods to the United States, was to raise the money necessary and hold the goods for repayment. It has cost not less than 610,000 to fit up our portion of this Crystal Palace, and lor that amount our goods stand pledged. Will Congress suffer us thus to be taxed for lack of an appropriation, when there is not another nation represented here, the expense of whose contributions are not paid by thire government? In France, for example, 636.000 francs have already been voted by the Chambers to meet the expenses of the Exhibition anil there is not a French contributor here who, to place his goods in the most advantageous light before, the juties of award, is taxed to the value of a single sous. T.and Ilcforin IMcdtfC. Three hundred votes of Fayette County have signed t lie following pledge. We believe that every fumi i -s should be possessed of a home, and that home should be sacred, exempt from execution by law; and we also, believe, that the public or the unocupied lands belonging to this Government, should be donated to the landless in limited quantities; (say 106 acres) they becomeing actual settlers and the land to cease being a source of revenue. We therefore mutually pledge ourselves to each other, to support no person for any public otlice, who will have an influence either directly or indirectly, unless he will pledge himself to us in writing, to use all the influence in his power to stop the sale of the land, revert back to the people, for their free use and ocupation, an I to carry out the principles, set fcrth in the above t!e claration. The city of Paris no longer ruler the fashion. Constantinople is dividing with it its former supremacy in matters of that kind. The ladies in some of the towns in Western New York have entirely abandoned French fashions, and adopted the Turkish costom for traveling purpose. The men tiew the inm v tioit rather drliimislv. as the first sten towards assume. i , tion of the pantaloons altogether. If the Turkish fashions are to prevail, however, the men need not object to the change. The women can take -the trousers, and the men the Turkbh number of wites. Gov. Brown has recently made a tour through Southern Florida. II? took occasion to examine, with some atention, the Everglades, with reference to their drainage if impracticable. If it could bo effected, the deposits laid baro would Im found to be purely vegetable decomposition, light enough, when dry, to be blown away, and quite as combustible as peat. The waters of the everglades, says the Tallahacsec Sentinel teem with fish of many varieties and in such numbers that one must sec to believe. With a single spear the fisherman may load hin boat in a few moments. Wild fowl aro there in tuch enormous IWks, ns al most to daikcn the sun, tnd game abundant ou the islands,