Daily American, Volume 1, Number 121, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 July 1855 — Page 2

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TERRE-HAUTE. IND. TuisiXVV, JULY Io7 ISA3.

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4th at Charleston Ills.

The people of Old Coles, determined Gen. Pelissier, thai the Submarine Tel-

to celebrate the 4th to the good oldj.gmph Cable cut. He found th»t

tuhuwed «yle. .nd to thu «ud made mstaad of serving, was injur,ous to

preparations oo agrand scale. W b. i» hourlj communication wilt, the

ttone were extended to all parts, and the Tuilleriefi." crowd, we presume, equalled the expectation of the most sanguine. Paris turned out en masse, some 400 or 500,

going over on an excursion train. Soon ^lt'e

Hstening to part of a speech by Hon. U. F. Lrnder. As an oration it was in-

S^'!e

with the sentiment After the address

with the sentiment —in the public square, a procession was formed lead by one of the bands from this city, discoursing, eloquent Military Music, with a fine Military Compoe ny in uniform, bearing arms, and marched to a beautiful grove north of the railroad where extensive preparations had been made to feast the assembled thousands.

ted by Dr. B. Monro*, near the R. Road I" depot,as a ware house, where they en-j !81 °ra

joyed themselves very pleasantly until !venhon'

midnight, when all retired to their ^1Sm

homes, and so ended the 79th anniver-1

sary of our national birth day. We were pieaaed to note the fact that all business houses were closed at an early hour, on that day and we believe—there was but little if sny drinking done during the d*7-f i"'

In the evening there was a disgraceful fight between a stranger and a host* let at the stable belonging to the Bunael House. The parties were promptly arrested and fined $3 and 85 respectively.

part of the scaffolding round

one of the towers of the Niagara Suspension Bridge, fell down, on Tuesday, upon a bain that was passing. No damage was done, but there was great consternation inside, the prevailing impression among the passengers being that the bridge had given way, and that they had been in the Niagara river.— One lady insisted upon leaping out, as the only means of saving her life.

fW Mrs. Pauline W. Davis and Miss Lucy Stone Blackwell officially announces that the next Woman's Right's Convention will be held in Cincinnati, on tho 17thjind 18th days of October ensuing.

A heavy sbower fell last night.

.•-A —i "*. i. (.

Si•

jjtST To keep fish from smelling in warm weather, cut their noses off. 1

®jar

corn have

appeared in tho

Cincinnati.

ed and recrossed the Atlantic, with very

trou^e'

after our arrival we had the pleasure of ®eera' ^ere are Brooks in

yet

8trang®

he can't get over.

1. ft rirtvpRRinn *m !.

Th« tables—though extensive and well filled with substantiate—were soon relieved of their loads. The number of people OQ the ground—vas variously computed at from700Q,to I0,000,among whom we had the pleasure of meeting the very agreeable and dignified Editor of the Prairie Beacon, Mr. Jacob Harding* We had also during the day the honor of an introduction to St. Clair Sutherland Esq. of the Valley Blade, with whom had quite a plaasant conversation. After the dinner a number of patriotic toaata were read—and duly honored by loud cheers by the assembly or by vollies from the Military, interspersed by excellent Music by the hand. The performances wound up by a dance upon the green after which the procession marched back to town and dispersed. »Every thing passed ofl pleasantly during the day—without accident. At night the young people had a ball in a large »ewbuilding iust erec-'j^ .• 1 .. .. ?J- IBronson ticket last fall

may

America that Save

on the third day he jumped into the street from third story window of his residence and killed himself.

JEdF The Buffalo Democracy relates that during the recent freshet which overflowed the village of Hornellsville, New York, a child which was lying in a cradle was carried three miles down the stream hurt.

The New York market on Mon

pay last week, a Catholic priest stood

at the door of the railroad office and re-

quired them to fork vrer from one to three dollars each.

The Batavia Times, Lockport

and

m9t?ad-

orgaDS

ACTS IN

-1 fFor the American.] t' .'/.Y&V. tM MB. EDITOR Your neighbor of the Express" amused his readers, a few days ago. with the discussion of the jquestion, "Can a Slaveholder be a

pears, and grSen Chrittian?" Though he did not say

Vlfcf JL UVUCu uv utM uv«

in expre98 term8j it is quite evid

markets.^ ji* that he desires to be understood as t»JST It is stated that a cargo of li-! timating that a slaveholder cannot be a quor has just been brought to Boston Christian. Passing by the want of libfrom Rotterdam, consisting in part of, liberality involved in the expression of 350 packages of liquor including 500, such an opinion, and its assault upon the pint and 300 half-pint bottles. memory of WASHINGTON and many of big compeers of the Revolution, the

SMALL GAME.—President Pierce's writer of this would be pleased to hear

Secretaries arp venting their spleen by the opinion entertained by the editor of dismissing from the Departments all the "Express" of the venerable Patrithe messengers and watchmen who vo- arch, ABRAHAM, and to know whether I the K. N. ticket. in his opinion, this servant of GOD was

I a a I

X3T A Paris letter says:—"I believe ,, .1

I it is quite true that it was by order of -d

now refuse to

has

t3T Does this razor take hold well?'

inquired a barber who was undergoing

|reauit

advocate Know-Nothing- ]re8ult

t*6" mellowing

cent. of the South, Virginia would have been

ent

require to be told whereabouts the

]t wh

*v Abram heard that his brother was taken

he arm4(, bi8 trahied

bom in h|g om thrM han(Jred

and #i hton_ snd them umo

Tuilleries. |Dan?" or where those who were

Xy Archbishop Hughes has cross-!

with the

moneV

res ing—aa oquen course, jost by death, his daughter one day, pronounce an opinion upon a question

erated g0

S3T Last week, a German gentleman these. He who would undertake to'

sPoken of-

unt0

heavily upon his mind, that with what it takes to! make a Christian

and rescued alive and un-

Abraham are

or where lhe

"men-servants

and maid-servants" that Abimeleck

Abraham, are mentioned, or

many other passages of the Old Testament are to be found of like import to

v.s.iiu.u^iiuvuinu uiese. no wno wouia unaeriaKe 10

t° ®®me his wife the neit, and his afflictions op- of such magnitude, must be familiar'

in the Bible sense, and with the history of the venerable children of God there spoken of. Will he, therefore, give in his opinion, whether Abraham was a Christian or not 1 may have more to say, when his answer is given. ,, AMERICUS.

TERRE-HACTE, July 9th, 1855.

The Bitter Fruits of Abolitionism. I In 1832, twenty-three years ago, three' years before abolitionism became rampant, John Randolph introduced into the Virginia House of Delegates, a proposition for theabolition of slavery, and it

day last was glutted with West India fruit. Fifteen vessels laden with pine apples, bananas and cocoa nuts lay at was discussed with great freedom. the piers, and hadtouboard, of pino ap-. very was spoken of in terms of severe' plea alone, about 100,000 dozen, while condemnation, and the debates were publarp quantities bad already been sold. lished and read by every colored man Price8 ranged from 2^ to 8 cents.:, who could read, and to those whocoulJ

The Syracuse American Organ other.. At that states that when the Catholic labors! "f^ on the N. Y. Central Railroad at

that

pl.ee received their regular monthly

Sla-

110 d.scuss this quest.on, and was grad-

B"'"hen

Cal

free

HCJTAJT LIFE.—The number have followed her example. The impulse of languages spoken in the human world which such a step would have given to amounts to 3,063. The inhabitants of every branch of her business—to the the globe profess more than 1,000 dif-{general prosperity of the State—could ferent religions. The number of men is aboutcqual to the number of women. The average of human life is about 33 years one quarter die previous to the age of seven years one half before reaching seventeen and those who pass that age enjoy a felicity refused to one half the human species. To every 1,000 persons, only one reaches 100 years oflife of 100, only six reaches the age of 65 and not more than one in 600 lives to eighty years ofage. There are on earth 1, 000,000,000 inhabitants and of these 33,333,333 die every year, 9 1,824 everyday 3, 730 every hour 60 every minute, or one every second. These losses are about ballanced by an equal number of births.

e™anciPation-.

"bolmonms their fa-J

bega"

10 Send tl,eir

th Ml

was

mcen-:

diary publications into the slave States, endeavoring to incite a servile insurrection, they aroused at once a strong and bitter feeling at the South. Taunts and

Democrat, Orleans Republican, Penn.' ^rea's disunionand treason, resistance iYan. Democrat supporters of the

lflwRnd appeal to arms, followed, until

w^0^6

Con- I

t*ron

Union became a seething caul-

abolition excitement. The

the bands of the slaves

firml7

bound than ever, and

their rivets more securely fastened. Public opinfon which began to be exhibited in Virginia against slavery,

wa' st^e^

the operation of shaving one Saturday ^e'r safety her citizens interdicted the night. discussion of her institutions. Who "Yes," was the reply, "it takes hold ^0u^)t8 that, if abolitionism had never first rate, but it don't let go worth a ^^feredwith the domestic institutions

at once. In providing for

State—and other States would

not have be-.*n without its influence on others. But to this good work abolition-' ism must lend its blighting services, and the tide that was setting in for universal freedom was checked. Every-1 thing they have done has been not to enlarge but to restmin—not to set free, but to bind in closer bonds the slave population of the South Bur.

"How do you do, Mr. Smith "Do what?" "How do you find yourself "I never lose myself." "How do you feel "Pretty smooth, I guess—feel of me' and see." ''Good morning, Mr. Smith." "It's rather a bad one wet and nastv.

Further Particulars by the Steamer m: ^America. -v.

NEW YORE, July 7.

The reient attack on ^the English

Ws crew at Hadgo, under the °f|THEBnlpriM„r „f truce, caused much excitement in Eng- inform the public that he is land. Evidence rests solely on the au-!1

land. Evidence rests solely on the au thority of a negro, the sole survivor.

inomy 01 a negro, iue

BOIB

and the remainder are prisoners. A

Prince Gortshakoff is appoint resident Russian Minister at Vienna M. of Furnacec and Rolling Mills, and a"

Titoff to Wurtembergh, andM. Fonten

His stock compris-s in part.Suu'ar, CofFoe, ilolHSsrs, Teas, Apices. Tobacc«, Flour, Bacon, Salt,&c., Tubs, Buckets, Brooms,Wa«h Boards, Powder, Lead, Shot, and almost everything in the line. Al.- o, Cotton Yarn, Brown Muslins.

Cash paid for all kinds of Produce. Terre-Haute, July 6, 1855-dl v.

FOUND.

A MEMORANDUM BOOK, con11. taining notes evidently taken by a single man, was found the other dav, whi/h the owner can have by calling at this office and paying for tins adve£ tiscment. juiy

Dressing and common Bu-

reaus, Tab es, Stands of different styles, Centre Tables and other tales, Bedsteads of all kinds Lookmg-Glassus, Cribs of every description Lounges and many other articles too numerous to mention. on hand a large assortment of ^uan-s of home manufacture, warranted and Spring

3 of

evei7

description

od^tLh0»w?"Skr

A. A. HAMMOND.J

Vt. Sen.

0N,n5w,

c°m"y deale'*^

LS.

reP""'°g d°ne

sfttiiw

dispatch from Dantz confirms that the Hi L«

An infernal machine exploded under

,!'n0!er' ,/ (for the first to commence the business in* All the camps are healthy, except I would like to have it understood

General Marmera, the vougger is dead Halil Pacha remains in office. A national monument is to be erected to the English dead at Scutaria.

Sir John Paul, William Strachan and Robert W. Bates, partners of the banking house "of Strachan, Paul fe Co., Loudon, have been arrested on the charge of disposing of the securities intrusted to their charge.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

MORE EXCITEMENT OPPOSITE THEPOST-OFFIGEH!

JAilES DAYIS,

DEAT.ER IN

GR0CEBIE3 AND PROVISIONS, Fourth Street, Welch's Block,

I—I A i.\G a fiebii of Groceries -l_l am! Provisions just opem-d, I am nowready to wail upon the citizens of Terre-Hauie with as good Hnd ns fresh articles in this line as any other house in hi- city and at prices that will correspond with the times.

indiak

ion or such healthy and plewant

S^?™m°dati0D,

8UC^

desire 'daring

cotnpthv

»uryi*ur, «uruig the hot weather of Snmm?*

who asserts he heard the Russian commander say, "I don't care a dam for a! Mount PJessmt at each of flag of truce." Unprejudicedsupposi- ut2k. tion is that the Russians supposed the Pleasant, run hack*. Viaitora from boat was taking soundings, as recently was done at Kertch. I feasant

Admiral Dundas has tfftlftmunicated with the Russian authorities and British ted their virtue* think them government, through their Danish Min- T1VT OOll/f "P A 1) ister at St. Petersburg, and demands AXL I redress. Tho Russian account in "Invalide Russ" says six were killed ..

l0 BTa

j^hM^rov^

reBcTatof

HIT^I A

officers of the boat, Lieut. Genest, Dr. in many cases of ScrofuK Emipeii^SLf Eastone, Mr. Sullivan and all the crew, S'ttea^o^i'htve except six, are prisoners. Chalybeate water of rery good quallty,^1,lt,

p|$|( & GAME ARE ABUNDANT

the English steamers Merlin and Fire- aud the alleys and swings will be inJ»l7 fly, off Cronstaat, on the 9th, but did ™idst of the Miaeni 1 g'o». coal and iron abound here, ag »1«« 21 not damage them seriously. Ai peri01 qualities of grey roarble,

The merchants of

Bucklngli am's

CHAIR &, FURNITURE WAEE-EOOMS,

ON' FOURTH STREET,

H(Ajust

few doors North of Main,)

AS received the largest and most complete stock of Furniture ever offered part —consisting in

CHAIRS of EVERY DESCRIPTION! SOFAS, PLAIN

H. BUCKINGHAM.

Terrc-Hautc, July 6, 1855-tf.

T. H. NELSON

HAMMOND & NELSON. ATTORNEY'S AT LAW, A used in CrOFFirp in P)im^u?pnnte'

I,ldinna.

ham's Book Store °^er Bncking- Rose, S'lrsaparilla, Strawberry book btore. [Ju]y 5

Toledo and abash Packet Boat

COMPANY.

tueT,15lh

4Pril

the

Toledo

Packeti

leave

BVCNIUG, Saturdays excepted, at 7 O'OCIO.Kevery

connecting with thi Pi

To!edo^lal'knrl} Packets at Lafayette Thankful for the liberal patronage leaves Sund .v-

Cla,k-

St Q^ Cil in t£e same cmrtn.

FINE OPENING!

-'-m't. want, svnrukniln 't*1

WU iue oesi iCa„

fr Hotels and Boarding Houses in th, rich,, ity will doubtless be accommodating P«r BONA desiring to UBC the bath had be»t b»their own towels.

The season will close 15th October Waur shipped in new good bantu ordered.

J. R. DUNIHUE, Proprietor. June 27-dtmvd.

FOR THE BEST

SODA WATHH IN THE CITY, GO TO WESTFALL & TRAPP'8,

Corner of 4th and Ohio Street#.June 9, 1855-dtf.

Boarding! Boardidg! 1

MRS.

RUGGLES i- iiow prepared to iecommodate a few more boarders,*itk or without lodging.

HIT Room East side of th$ Public Squirt, a f( tr doors above the City Hall. 1 •:?$'

May 28, 1854-dtf

American Traisponntion Compiny. CAPITAL 8900,000. NCOPPC RATED under the IswgofUi I State of New York. Tbiflcorapsnvhite abundant roeannboih in Steam Propellers and Boats, to give any property, intrusted to them, the grentesi despatch, and it !»hall b» 1 heir car* to transport all property safely, and in good order.

T"?re

Haute, and id-

jacent country, are respectfully invited to take the advantages of this line into consideration CONSIGNEES.

Hubby, Hughe« 4- Co Cleveland Brownlee, PenHMon and Co, Brown and King.Pcott iind Co., Toledo. Shewmiker and Co., Ttrr* Haute. ct ^ny informntion ST'VPTI by

SHKWMAKER A CO.,

Ohio Street between 1st and 2d. May 24 855 nnd tf.

NOTICE.

EXPECT to be absent from town JL three or four weeks, and have deposited my Docket with Lambert Duy, Esq., where those having business unsettled, or wishing to examine the Bane can call, and have it attended to in jpy absence. I. M. RAY

June 21, 1855-dtf

A CARD Having sold my wtabli'l1ment on Market street, East of the and purchased Mr.

TOELL'S

firm of

interest in

GEO. F. RIPLEY

Co., North of

Square, I shall take much pleasureherttw in serving my friends, acquaintances, andui*

SublicBoots,

generally, in the-line of Dry Goo« ats, Shoes, Ronnete, &c.,

Also, keeps! The business will continue without a Chairs of' change of firm, and will consist of Hx F. RIPLEY

and the undersigned

-%r

D. S. DANALD80N.

N.vncK.—Mr. D. will continue in th?**?® Warrant business, and the various dun'tf" Notary Public, and will wait upon old. w* diers, their MINOR children, promptly and ficiently.

O" Lind Warrants bought and «old. May 19,1855. D-8.

SYRXTPSJ SYRUPS!!

LL kinds of finely flavored i8oi nneiy navoiw"---connection with Sod* Fo mon, Pine Appl

including Lemon, Fine Appi«

P.jj

inlln

1855.dtfB in quantite^ 8uit tho

Rtratrbprrv

&C.—forsaw

June 19 tf WESTFALL & TRAPES

Dr. WARREN, Dentist

recieved continues to perform all «Perlt^i

March 8-tf