Richmond Palladium (Weekly), Volume 36, Number 7, 12 April 1866 — Page 1

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HE BE vtlr "- VOL. XXXVI.. Ml TWO. T JENNIt OThe golden nnli it lingers on tbeir facae, hard and brown. As file on file of gallant tnops come marching thru the town. While Freedom's banner finals on Eigh from belfry, , roof mod dome, And full hearts shout a glad -'Hurrah to bid them " Welcome borne." I scares can sea their faces for my bittar blinJinjr, tear. I only sob a greeting, while the crowd are giving cheers ; A thousand hearts thr-b gladly, mine aches with grief and care, The troops are marching home again ; but Willie is not there I Mr two I On Freedom's altar I humbly laid them down. Husband and son went forth to die. They wear U.o martyr's crown. The loathsome dens at Salisbury, whose tales of horror told, How Edward pinsd his life awsy. It mads me grsy and old. But Willie was his mother's pride, bis mother's only son. He wss so bright and beautiful, my darling precious one! I see him, as two months ago be stood with eager joy, And showed his new-made captain's bars my curly headed boy I Ah, nisi he fell at Petersburg. Just e're the day was won ; A rebel bullet found his heart, whoso life seemed but begun. They brought me home a left brown curl ; I hare it safely here ; My Willie slumbers 'neath the sod, and life is very drear. Yet glorious shadows seem to stand in every vacant place, Where late they stood who now lie low ; I see each absent lace. Responsive to the muster roll, here, as the lines advance, The answer for La Tour D'Aubergno, First Grenadier of France. " Dead on the Held of battle !" Aye ? remember well each name. The patriots of the rank ait file, who lived unknown to lame. I gave my count y all I had, the old but simple story, Mt two, thk lonly Widow's mitks ! Give them their crowns ef glory. Home Journal. M JM) THE CJ.OCK. In this translation from the Atlantic M"nth!y the writer has endeavored to preserve all tlie beauties of the origi nal.j Warden, wind that clock again ; Cp.H goes the priee of flour; Errry thing la going up Through the sunshine snd the shower, Wit d again, wind again, Sixty miuutes in:'.ke an hoar. SLp-hty hills are coming in, While the worM ces round an J round ; Dear ia everything ou earth. Where can happiness be found T Wind again, wind again. Cutter's sixty cents a pound. Fifty thousand boots are blacked At the "happy hearted dawn," Fifty thousand boots will be Blacked again to-morrow morn. Wind again, wind again, Where is alt there luster gone t Seven-thirty conjurers " Bud-embroider" every tree Greenbacks fall like falling leaves Do tbey lie in wait for me T Wind again, wind again, Warden, let us go to sea. Sailing in a "startled-ship" Ou our "ever golden way," We wilt sleep snd we will dream That we have no bills ! pay. Wind again, wind azain, Warden ! that's the tiina of da.y From the Madison Courier. The Veto Power Its Origin. Just at this time, when the whole country is so veto of the , , . .1 ! sensibly stirred by another Prpidenr. of a measure I adopted by both Houses of Congress, after long and taithtm discussion, mere : can be no wonder that men are enquiring about the extent of the veto of the President. Every man ought to carefully read we will say it is the duty of every citizen of the I'nited States, to read and study the Constitution that required the best ability of the infant nation to frame. Taking the Constitution as a whole, we believe it to be about as complete an instrument as has been prepared by human minds, ami j et we are not at liberty to say that it is a perfect instrument, and possesses no defects. Whatever eminates from a falible mind j will be more or less imperfect. For the reason of human im perfection, and the natural development of great ideas one ought to expect that at times it would be suseeptable of improvement. The particular part of the Constitution giving the veto power to the President is provision second of Section 7, Article 1st, "Every bill which shall have pass .l th House ol Representatives and the - j ' 1 . . . I lvr.r'.AVn t 1 r, . -- A rven:tie, iian, itrivnr ovoiina . . be presented to the President of the United States ; if he approve, he shall sign it ; but if not he shall return it with his objections to the House in which it shall have originated ; who shall enter the obicc4ions at large upon their journal, and oroeeed to reconsider it. If. after such reconsideration, two thirds of v - ar that Hotisjc shall agree t- pass the bill, it shall be sent, together witn ine objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, snd if approved by two thirds of that House, it slu.ll become a law." The latter part cf the section provides that "if any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to hi u the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.

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JUST AND FEAR NOTI LET ALL THE fIICIOIOXI, Such U the authority or power given to the President to veto every bill, -order resolution, or vote to which the conc- i it , i current action oi uie oeniie ui i Representatives may be necessary (ex j cej.t on a question of adjournment) " i Without tbe approval of the PresiJent, nn. bill can become a law, except it be passed afterwards by a two-third. vote of both houses of Congress. Tbe origin of this provision of the Constitution given by Story on the Constitution is as follows : "The next clause respects the power of the President to approve, and negative laws. In the convention there does not Beem to have been much diversity of opinion on the snbject of the propriety of giving to the Presidents negative on the laws. The principal points of discussion seem to have been, whether the negative should be absolute or qualified; ami if the latter, by what number of each house the bill should be subsequently passed, in order to become a law ; and whether the negative should in either case be exclusively vested in the President alone, or in him jointly with some other department of the Government. The proposition of a qualified negative seems to have obtained general but not universal support, having been carried by the vote of eight States against two. This being settled, the question as to the number was at first unanimously carried in the affirmative in favor of two thirds of each house; at a subsequent period it was altered to three-fotiths bv a vote of six States against four, one being divided : and it j was ultimately restored to the two thirds : without any apparent struggle." (See vol 3, p. 343 ) j Such is the history of the veto provision. Its design is to be an executive j check" upon legislative action, while the two thirds provision is a '-legislative ; check to prevent an undue exercise of : it,"' i. e. the veto power Our fathers ; designed to form a compensation or a ; power balunre, whereby the President i could hold Congress on the one hand. jind on the other. Congress could bring ! a stiildorn Executive into measures. The frequency with which the veto power of the President has been called into exercise within our nation's history we are unable to determine, but are sat- i isfied much more frequently than in ! England. Mr Story says, "tins negative of the King has not been once exercNed t-iuce the year 1692. We 'o not present the above facts because we are for or against Mr. John son's veto of the Civil Rights bill, but for the purpose of refreshing t;ie minds 1 of our readers on the power and its cri gin, and :dso to lay the foundation for farther thoughts. However much one man may think and act differently from j ourselves, it is nevertheless a duty to j stop and reason as to the power, posi- j ti'n. the thing acted upon, and wiiat ! wouhf be our probable actions were we i placed in like circumstances. However ! much the President or Congress may 1 deviate from the most judicious course ' let us never be discouraged or disheartI ened. Ever remember that in our form of Government all these errors will ultij mately right themselves.j In connection with the above, we take the following extracts from Andrew Johnson's speech, on the veto power. i delivered at the short session of Con- ! gress, (whilst a member of that body from TennessRoe,) in 1847, to show that ! the position he then occupied on the question, does not ditTer from the one j he now practically illustrates, and that j neither his honestry of purpose nor his consistencey can be questioned. In that speech, he first runs the origin of the veto power back to the times of the Ro man republic, in which the Tribunes of the people" had the ultimate right to approve or disapprove any law passed l' 111. CUIi;UC III7V.1 1 V'lilX vuc - . , parchment of the law, in case they resolved to adopt the latter alternative, the word veto. "This," remarks Mr. ! Johnson, "is the origin of the veto pow-

er; and so long as it was exercised by j 0ljr uliml MenA Trotter has just set ! tribunes or officers immediately respon- j 0if n a great hurry for that door-way ; ; ible to the people for their election or ! he seises the handle, opens the door ! appointment, the end designed by the hastily, shouts out one or two lusty ! , - t-iii wods, waits for no answer, but rushes j people was successfully accomplished, j off elaewhere Ask him w!ml this j which was, resistance to all encroach- j pantomime means, and he will tell you ; ments on their rights. And so long as j that he was in quest of a certain trio of ! this power was perserved in its original 1oys who promised to meet him the:e ; I purity and simplicity, it was ever exer j he "looted" into the club room and 1 . . . . ' found that they were not there; at least c.sed toward the advancement of the ! ,jc - j;ul.in! hv thP soun1 ; people's rights and interests." lie then j of ,-l9 ow foot against the form on j traces this curious and delicate power ; which they usually sit, and of his own I throtiHi the various stages of its pro- j vo ice, the room seemed empty. And 1 crcssifrom the days of Augustus down empty it really is. The well known etoi . , - , . ", o ry told by a .Mr. Anderson of a bund j througn the rise of the modern States j n-esseng-r at Edinbors, entirely corrob and governments built upon the ruins of j orates this fact. I had occasion. " lie ; the Roman Empire. In the course of j says, "to nend out one of those blind ! time, he shows how what was originally ra a mattress. I gave him the 1 1 . .i t-i r .k" bill with it. that he might receive payj a protecting shield to the liberty of the j mfnt my BnrrsCi he ret,lrned subject, became unfortunately an instru- j wjth tne account and tlie -'mattress too." ' ment of tvrannv in the hands of the , "I've brought back baitb. ye see, sir,"

i monarch. Finally the American revolution bursts upon the world, and the veto power is brought back to its original ' source by the patriots and statesmen of j the time, and is thus restored once more in free American to its rightful posses i SOI S. THK FBOFLK. j Governor Johnson then gives a graph j ic account, deeply interesting to the student of political his'.ory, of the man ner ia which the power of the veto has been used by the different Presidents, from the formation and establishment of the Constitution and Federal Government down to the administration of Mr. Polk. After referring to the exercise of this mighty power mighty for evil or

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WAYXE CO., IXI. ! for good, aeeordiog as those who wield j it are honest or corrupt, the friends or ,,-- r ,h rus-mi v Wnstiincrfor , .. r-r-- -i r. Madison, and Monroe, the speaker proceeds with the subject as follows : "We then pass over Mr. J. Q Adams administration to that of Andrew Jack son, and, notwithstanding he has been denounced as arbitrary and tyrannical that his will was iron and his nerves were steel even hs, in the exercise ol this power, always exercised it in de fense of the people interests, and in resisting encroachments on t'ieir rights. By this man it was exercised nine times, and the people said, 'Well done, thou good and- faithful servant.' We will pass by tbe administration of Mr. Van Buren, to that of John Tyler, called by some, but not by me, in derision, "the Accidency President," who exercised this power four times, and under his administration is the only instance in which a law was passed over a veto, by twothirds of the two Houses of Congress, since the origin of the government, and that an unimportant law. Next comes Mr. Polk's administration, and since he came into power it has been exercise I three times. Thus it will be seen, that from the origin of the government to the present time, tfiis power has been exercised twenty five times. The whole number of laws passed from the organization of the government and approved is about seven thousand, which would make one veto to every 'JSO. a very small proportion : and I think I mav anneal with confidence to all those who are con vcrsant with legislation here, whether it would not have leen better for the p?o pie and the country if live thousand o it of the seven thousand had been veto d I have been thus particular in giving the origin, and exercise of the veto pover, to prove, that whenever it lrts been ex ereised in compliance with tln popular will, by a Triburrs or President, or bv any other name whatever you mav think properto call him, so that' he is imrnel iateiy responsible to the people, it iipir atcs well And to show, further, that whenever this power is retained in the hards of the ptiople, men entertaining certain principles, without a:iy re-jar I to t'ieir partv name, m k war u ;i t! is power when at this end of tit liu : b U whenever it is trans ferre I to the ot-u-r ! , . .... i end. an I place I in the !ia:i Isol n res.i ai.snb persons, tliey bec-:ne its du-lC'i brs and advocates. And this brings me it; directly to one of" the iss'ies between the parties in this u "vern:neut lly an ex animation of the Cswtu&ut'oa. c fin I t!u veto power lodged in r.;i-r.her departineniof the government, a well as with the Executive: and that department is irresponsible to the per''- I m.an that the Judiciary, who are appointed t offiio during liie. or tantamount thereto during goo I behavior exercise the veto power ahtluUli. Th-v are men. an I suiijecl to.atl the prejudices a-i t 1:1iluetices of ether men, and, according to their construction of the Constitution, they can veto every act oi' Congress after its approval bv the President, anl ttrt veto is Jinal. But against the exercise of this power by this department o!" the government the federal party make no complaint ; but think it a perfectly sale place for the lodgment of the power, as it is beyond the reach of the people; which will at once show to every reflecting and intelligent mind, the sincerity of the opposition in making war on the exercise of the veto power, wheir exercised by that department of government immediately responsible to the people. "In this connection I will enumerate the times that this veto p.ower has been exercised since the establishment of this government: By George Washington, James Madison,. James Monroe, - Andrew Jacksin, John Tyler, .. James K. Polk, . 2 . . fi --...I .9 4 3 Total number of vetoes. " The whole number of ajts and approved since the origin jiassed of the government is about 7.000, make 2S0 acts to one veto."' which will How a Blind Man Sees. sa'd he. " How so t mneea, sir, l didna like Heave 't vonder, else I'm sure we wad ne'er see the siller there's nae a stick of furnitto-e w ithin the dor ! " "How do you come to knw tnat?" ' Oh, sir, twa taps oa the Coor wi my stick soon tell't me that! And tre enough was the blind roan's ! guess; for guess it must still be called, ' v. .. krt, K 1 1, a c u , -i? tifl it watt bUV'J)U IU . '-- - -- shrewd enough to pass for w'L London Quarterly Review. Id the gallery of the theatre in Crow street, Dublin, one night, a coal porter made himself disagreeable. There was yell of Throw him over. " followed by the exquisitely droll idea. Don't waste him; lull a fiddler wid him."

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APRIL 12, 1806. From the Grundy County Herald.) Protection of Western Interests.

j It is decidedly gratifying in looking ' under whose tuition Generals Grant and i over the proceedings or Congress to ob- Sherman were when at West Poiut, pnb- : serve that the Western members re : , . . . ;;..

t shvn tn n sorwn rf I iir diitv in rpiTSnl j to the protection of their home interests I as well as those of the Eastern manufac ' tures and now, bv our steady increase of ; population we have not only the talent but the numerical strength in Congress, that can command the respect and at tention of representatives from other sections of the country, while heretofore we have been compelled to accept what they in their generosity might see fit to yield. We can now, as a western people, feel that our great interests must be respe. ted as we have the strength in the legislative halls to say to those who have heretofore turned a deaf ear to our entreaties, lor we couJd do more than entreat, that the time has come when we are to be heard, and unless our interest can be provided for as well as the interests of New England, and the interests of the Western agriculturist as well as the Eastern manufacturer protected from competition from the British Provinces, we will have compensation by a reduction of the duties on other articles. On the 13th inst , the House of Representatives having under onsideration the bill to regulate trade with Canada, we find in the Congressional Globe the following remarks from Hon. B. C. Cook : I suppose that, according to the rules that have been advanced heretofore by the irentleman from New York. Mr Brooks. J he must believe that if he gives us a reasonable protection on our beef, he will net beef in New York both cheap er and fatter than he has ever got it hetore. That I understand to be the logical deduction from the argument which lie used to present; I do not know whether he presents it now. A day or two ago the gentleman from Maryland. Mr F Thomas, appealed Sf.fci-ssfull y to tins House to have the tariff raised upon coal. The reasons urged by the gentleman were these : firt. that the coal of Maryland, having fL l'lro-i l-m.l f rinjoM-lition rni!l.l it New Brunswick on the seabord, which j is the ..oiut ol comoetitiorv He also in sis:ed that free trade in coal had been j disastrous to ihe miners of Maryland' and the co d interest of Maryland. And j the House adopted his reasoning by ! raising the t arilf o.i coal. Now. upon J the same ptineiole, as the coal of Jlarvland couid nt, compete with tbe cord of New Hrunswick until it got to the seaboard the point of competition, no more can western agricultural products compete witli the prod icts of Canada until we come to Bnilalo ; and inasmuch as New Brunswick cord at the point of corn petition costs less thrin Maryland co:d so the agiicultural products of Canada :t the point of competition cost less than the products o!' Illinois and Iowa. These things are so Strike otf this protection, and the agricultural interests of Illinois are pieciselv where the cord interests of Maryland would be without protection. Now, ti'.cre should be some little protection to the agricultural interests of the West to enable our agriculturists to compete successfully with the agricul turists ol Canada at the point of competition, and that is Buffalo. I call the attention of the committee to this fact, tuat in raising the taritf bn the different articles mentioned in this bill, we have raised the tariff upon fish, upon dried fish and makerel, the only fish from New England used to any extent in Illinois and Iowa. You have raised the tariff on coal, which enters into the value of eve ry article of machinery which we use, of every farming implement we use, for their price is graduated to some extent j by the pi ice of coal. You have raised! the price of these things upon us in the j West by the alterations made in this tar- j itf since it has been reported to this j House. I believe, and I am willing to i say it here, that the system of the inter- ! nal revenue and of the tariff have been so arrange"! in this House as to operate most injuriously upon the agricultural ! interests of the West, and if western men think as I do about this matter, we will contrive to have a fair show in this matter in time to come. 1 f we are called upon to protect Eastern interests, and to adjust our tariffs for protection, we must have them adjusted in such a manner that we of tlie West and our interests shall receive equal protection. A Benevolent Singer. The principal singer of the great Theatre at Lyons one day observed a poor woman, with her four children, begging in the street. Her decent and respecta ble appearance in the midst of extreme ' poverty interested the kind hearted vo calist He desired the poor woman to j folow him into the place Bellour, where j placing himself in a corner with his back j to the wail, his head covered with a j handkerchief, and his hat at his feet, he legan to sing his most favorite opera airs. The beaut;.' of his voice drew a ciowd around, the idea of some mystery stimulated the bystanders and five franc pieces fell in showers into the hat When the singer who had thus, in the goodness of bis heart, transformd him j self in'o a street minstrel, thought he j had got enough, he took up the hat. j emptied the contents into the apron of the poor woman who stood motionless ; with amazement and happiness, and dis j appeared among the crowd. His talent. ; however, betrayed l.im, though his face j was concealed. The story spread, and the next evening when he appeared on the stage, shouts and applause from all parts of the house proved that a good action is never thrown away. What an absent minded man was he who, on falling into the river, sank twice before he recollected that he could swim.

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Who J Xasnker.) ISST. XO. 7. ! Charrcteristics of Grant and Sherman. Prof. D. H. Mabam, of West Point, e ces of their student life, from which the following extract is taken : Grant always showed himself a clear thinker and a steady worker. He bej longed to that class of compactly strong I men who went at their task at once, and kept at it until finished, never being . seen, like the slack-twisted class, yawning, lolling on their elbows over j their work, and looking as if just ready I to sink down from mental insanity, j Sheiman was the reverse of this in j manner. Eager, impetuous, restless, he always worked with a will, being one of ,' those of whom B3-ron says : " Quiet to j quick souls a hell." If he wasn't at i work he was in for mischief. If, while j explaining something to his class at the j blackboard, I heard any slight disturbj ance, denoting some fun, I was seldom I wrong, in turning round, in holding up j my finger to Mr. Sherman. But one was more than repaid for any slight annoyj ance of hls kind, by his irrepressible j nood nature, and by the clear thought j and energy he threw into his work, j That he should accomplish something I great I was prepared to learn. But not j so in Grant, whose round cheery, boyish face, though marked with character and quiei manner, gave none of tnat evidence of what he has since shown he possesses. Grant's mental machine is of the powerful low pressure class, which condenses its own steam and consumes its own smoke, and which pushes steadily forward and drives all objects befoie it. Sherman's belongs to the high pressure class, which lets oft both with a purf and a cloud, and dashes at its work with re istless vigor, the result of a sound boiler and plenty of fuel. The question is often put to me whether I look upon Grant and Sherman as great men. 1q this there is but one reI ply. Posterity alone, when the clouds, J raided by passion, prejudice and partistil have been dissipated, and tr.,:'h, vealed in all her distinctness, w.'.'1 be. wmpetont to pronounce upon tins point, nut it great deeds, tlie re s ilts of high mental and moral powers, of magnanimity and generosity toward p ublic and private enemies, are characteristics of greatness, then cannot the meed ol this ennobling patent be withheld, in our own day, from either of these men. Becoming a Medium. The fac inating spiritual rappings are without doubt gaining strength among us. and some very ludicrous incidents of ten grow out of them at times, as well as more serious and deplorable ones. A few nights since, within this week, a y oung male friend of ours, who from a sneering skeptic, had become a devout believer, retired to rest, after having his nervous system partially destroyed with tlie infot mation, through the spirit of his grandfather, that he would become a powerful medium. He was in his first comfortable snooze, when a clicking j noise in the direction of the door awoke mm. ue listened intently; tlie noise was sti'l going on very like the raps of the spirit on the table, indeed ! "Who's there ? " There was no answer and the noise stopped. " Anybody there ? " No. " It must have been a spirit. ' he said to himself. " I must be a medium. I'll try. f Aloud If there is a spirit in the room, it will signify tbe same by saying -aye no. that's not what I man If there is a spirit in the room, will it please to rap three times ? " Three very distinct raps were given in the direction of the bureau. " Is it the spirit of my sister? " No answer. " Is it the spirit of my mother ? " Three tap3. " Are you happy ? " Nine taps. " Do yo i w;int anything ? " A succession of very loud raps. " Will you give me a communication if I get np ?'J No answer. " Shall I hear from you to morrow ? ' Raps very lond again; this time in the direction f the door. He waited long for an answer to his last question, but none came. The spirit had gone; and after thinking on the extraordinary visit, he turned over and fell asleep. I On getting up in the morning, be found j that the spirit of his mother had carried j off his watch and purse, his pants down J into the hall, and his great coat off alto gether. So Yoc Might Have Bken. An eminent divine, remarkable for the devoted piety and spotless purity of his character, was heard to say that he never read or heard of a crime in his life, no matter how heinous, without feeling an inward conscionsness that under certain condi tions of education, training or association, he might have committed the same crime himself. The same feeling must have been experienced more or less by a!J reflecting, enlightened men ; and yet and yet, how little charity there is in the world ! Thk Boot Avksgbd. By too much sitting still the'body becomes unhealthy, and soon the mind. This is nature's law. She will never see her children wronged. If the mind which rules the body ever forgets itself so far as to trample upon its slave, the latter is never f generous and amiable enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. Thus has many a monarch mind been dethroned.

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sire t! .... ....af ,St) " c.-!i .i l:tionl insertion. - " Three otr.-tttis ... .SOO " Six m-iuihs .-V,00 On yer-'.,. lf,00 A liS-.-rjil i!isn.,it made on larger adverUMmeats, for the in No. of insertions Mnborn. JS-fr A ottart"is ten liiusf tiustvpt). Jfn ad vertisement uiert.vl for .-. than On Dollar, thocurh than ten lutes au.1 lr u week only. AU dis,ved advertisements mea-snred bv this rule. i ." Rru!r srwUU. to cents per line. Tima acient speKU. ! reuu per line. ,BJr Advertisement shouM be handed la nn Monday afternoons to inar in wriion Wabash has assumed a city robe. The M. K. Conference met at Peru on the 5th. Evansville or cs a city debt of over 8150,000. Chlorofom is the surest thing to remove paint from clothes. Terre Haute is endeavoring to obtain the State Normal School. The Tippecanoe County Treasurer's office is said to be worth 915,000. The steamer Mayflower arrived at Delphi, on the Wabash, last week. Indiana paid the United States $3,802, 43S revenue, during the year 186v. Indications of oil have been discovered near Huntertowu, Allen county. The new Hotel company took charge of the Terre Haute House Wednesday the 4th. A new Methodist Church is to be built at Plymouth this summer, at a cost of 312.000. Judge Bicknell, of Floyd Circuit Court has decided that the dog tax cannot be" collected. The county of Wayne paid the United States, revenue taxes for the year 1S65 8307,855,52. Parties are offering to contract to supply Indianapo!isawith coal, for ten years, at 84 per tun. Eighteen persons joined the United Brethren church at Brookville, during a recent revival. A negro woman, ased one hundred and ten years, died in tlie vicinity of Salem recently. The Logan-sport City Council have employed two men to inspect and superintend the cleaning of the city. Mr. George Sperrier, of Shelby county, has a steer six years old, which weighs four thousand pounds. The work of boring the artesian well, will soon be put in active operation by Mr. Chauncy .R se, at Terre Haute. The city of Te rre Haute is at present entirely out of debt, with a' surplus of two thousand dollars in the Treasury. The stamps on the papers in the conveyance of the Terre Haute Heuse to the company purchasing, amounts to 8101. The Noblesville Clipper, after learning tbe full extent of tbe late storm say tbe damaio in the eou-.uv is fully 8200, 000. An old man nunc Rhodes committed suicide at Delphi Thursday night 27th, by cutting around t ne of his arms to the bone, and bleeding'tj death. The bridge over Wild Cat, near Burlington, Carroll county, ha been swept away. Travelers are now obliged to make a circuit of eight miles. Four children in the family of Amos Truax. in Elkhart Co., died upon the same day, recently, of a disease about which the Doctors there know nothing. , ir . i . .r . i . . . : l a. e icurii nn ruori. it uKing inavue k organize a military company in Terre Haute, the chief object of which will be to pay the last respects to deceased soldiers. A countryman named Winship was robbed on Monday nigfit, in Lafayette of 8200, by a man najicd Vick, who has been committed to jail in default of 81,000.. The Wabash river is recediug slowly and is now within the banks. Immense and unusual washes have been made along tbe western bank and through the bottoms. This State pays something over two thousand dollars for the luxury of owning the hospital buildings at Jeffersenville two months to date, and from which it derived no benefit. James F. Peraise, jr., charged with murder, for killing a man who had made use of obscene language concerning his sister, was tried last week in the Circuit Court at Salem and acquitted. The Commissioners of Koskiusko, Miami. Fayette and several other counties in the State, refused at the late terms to grant license to any more applicants to retail spirituous and malt liquors. The floor b being laid in the upper or main audience room of the First Presbyterian Church on Seventh street, and the house will be completed early this summer. f Tc-rre Haute Express. The trial of Zimri Stroud for the mnr der of Andrew Dardis was concluded at BowliugGrecn, last Tuesday. The jury, after au absence of over three hours, returned a verdict of " Sot Guilty." On Wednesday night 28ult, four stores were burglariously entered at Vincennes, and robbed of amounts ranging from 810 to 870. Two men have beeu arrested on npieio,i of connection with the robbery. A young lady re?id;ng in Huntington county, attempted suicide a few days since by drowning. She was drawn np from the water before life was extinct. Disappointment in love was the cause of the rash act. John Kane, a highly respected citizen of Logan s port, was murdered in cold blood in that town on Saturday last by a man named John Sprinkle. Sprinkle had an examination and was committed to jail, bail being refused him. A woman named Lizzie H inkle has been arrested at Indianapolis, on s charge of infanticide. She gave birth to a healthy male child,, at the Illinois House, a few nights since, strangled it and threw it down a privy vault. Lafayette must be attempting to rival Indianapolis. The editor of tbe Journal of th former place hopes "the time will come when we can pass th rough m week without being compelled to chonieie a single murder or accident in oar midet."