Daily American, Volume 1, Number 141, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 August 1855 — Page 1

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vkmso Aim FPBUWHXD DAUT BT I. M. BROWN & J. N. SILVERTHORNT, Welch's Block:, opposite the Post Office^]

Terms of $nbscription«

Per Week, (payabls to the Carrier,) 10 cents. For Six Months, (in advance,) $2 50 For One Year, (in advance,) 5 00 "I .,

Terms of Advertising:

O* Our term* of advertising shall be as liberal as any other Office in the Wabash Valley".

HJT A largis deduction will be' tfeade ori early «d?flatisciifei|ts f$k advance payments.

1 O. a -FORT T3ARRTSON'i6D£i. I NO. 157.—Moots at Gor. FELLOWS' HALL, in thePraineCity Biuldings.eveiy Tuesday

D" Transient Bi others »-e respectfully invi.ed to attend. FIRMAN NIPPERT, N. G.

JAS.B. EnjIUNDS.'SeC.

IGO ESfuAMI'MENT, NO-17, meet* at

'"uildings, on the first and third Wednesday evenings of efich month. S B. SMITH, 0. P.

E. S. HUSSET Scribe.

EVENING STA It TEMPLE OF HONOR, I N.O. 50, nvct* at their Hall, in J. D. Ear, ly's Building, north-west corner of the Public. Square, every Monday evening.

M.S. WASSON, Ag|rui.

DEMENT & C03

A\Tiole»ale Dealerain Groceries, Iron jNails autl Flours Corner W abash and lit Struct.

j. -M. AD A

Auction and Commission Boom=, Nrf. !2 Early's block. Salei? ev^ry Saturday.

HOLMES' FOUNDERY,

I'IAST OK CAN AT., KKAR TKHKK-U AI TE ASH RICHMOND RAILROAH DV:FOP, 'irr.RK he is well pro-pared to furnish Engines, BoiU*rn, MiIIM arid all kinds of Machinery, at short notice and in elegant style nnd finish. [July 18-dy

LIME'LIME! undersigned is now prepared (o fur.JL nisb the best of

Putnam County Lime,

at. Wholesale or Retail. This lime is well known to be the best in the State, for all pur pose^. I have fitted up a lime house on Fourth, between Poplnr and Swan streets, where a good supply will be kept constantly on baud.

Orders from a distance will bo promptly filled, on reasonable terms. WM. II. BOSWELL.

Terre-Haute, .May 16 dfe wl,f

To Printers throughout the State. "IXTEare prepared to furnish at the lowest Vv CASH RATFS—

Kine Eastern Printing Inks, iu large and small sized cans. Printing Paper of any size, and extra quality.

Cards cut to order at short notice. Unruled Cap, Letter, and Note Papers. Fine Plain, and Illuminated Card Boards.

STEWART BOWEN,

18 West "Washington st., Indianapolis. May 28, 1855-wy

Flour! Flour!!

SUPERFINE

Flour at retail for $9,00 a

good article of Fine Flour at $8,50, per barrel, can now be had of JA3IIS0N fc TERRY.

May 30, 1855-dtf

A. HAXXOND.] T. H. NELSON.

HAMMOND ft NELSON. ATTORNEYS AT LAWi .. Terre-Haute, Indiana. ID* Omiit in Phoenix Row, over Bucking ham's Ppok Store. [July 5,185^-dtf

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iSfeptntSii. QUEEN-SWAB!!

^2* GLASSWARE- AKf) rsBrreoiire

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TERRE-HAUTE LODQ$| nn12 nt VDIIAWO'

1 O. 0. V. 1 NO. 51- Moots at Odd Fellows in the Prairie City Buildings, evfery Saturday exiling. 7i,j JAMES HOOK, N. O.

J. H. 0'BOM.E,Ht-c'y. V"ff

MOST

Odd Fellows'Hall, in theTrairio Gity ing country, tint they have just opened at rlinrrc A«I ha ti ivf a TWI fnir/1 W ml il ACII a ti I tl%

It. C. BARR, W. C. T.

P. S. WRSTK A W

5 W

•ORNING ST AR SOCIAL DEGREE. NO. 38, Aiieels at the Hall wf Temple of Honor every "Wednesday even in

11C. S.CH. S P.

Mrs. FHEBE LEA

Miss MARTHA RHKA^S,

O. R*TJ4—^f.U.tre^ular Con noil Fire of HAWK I'RIJBB, No. 3, will be kin(llccl]ai igM :itA, on the|3ddeep of every 1 '1 ih run. 1 ®l

J.VlT-M.,ORlSltBKr*

Chief,of Records.

1st Sun. GoM M.10n. fi. a.. 561».

iusii«s^piicTORYi American Ex|t^s Company* Oflicp. in Ross' bitjck^Veit sid^ of Public

t-w «yfea. i~^iCTrh"i'r?nf.l,iVir-f~n•^ilif*f.tiftf

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GLASSWARE AND GROCERIES,

At Wholesale and Retail, No.2, MECBAICIOS' How, Tflfre-Htute.Indi-#4dl*»,Eo.

m*®£

t,#i 0 d"U tf-wn *a testis-"V jn .0 \li

COMSTQCK & BHOTllER respectfully announce Co the citizens of Terre-Haute, andthe surround

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the »bive*taiid, a lar«j and g«meral aSMrt' tnentof Queensware, GUsswarvund Groceries, which they n»w offer at prices «wldom htj&rd of iu this section of country. Their able-Ware Department is filled with the finest and most desirable specimens of art,comprising in part,

Dining and Ten Sets, (fine and plain,) of Different styles, patterns, make and prices Spoons, Knives and Forks and every other article used upon a table.

ROCKINGHXM AND YELLOW WAEE, of the

)??i:$h fwtfi. Pitchers. Vaces, £c.t Acll ft liOOKlNG*GLA8SES, Wit3i plain aiK 't nil ni*es.

fancy gilt fmmes, all ni*es

Groceries and Provisions. A complete assortment kept constai tlyon hand.

ENKIN'S TEAS,'in metaJic packs, or by tin* chest, or pound warranted pure. Mustard and Spices, from li«rri»on fe Baton. Cincinnati, and Beatty of Dayton, warranted good, and, in fact,• very thing ucuiilly kept, or that is possible to gqt hoi oof, may be fouud at this house, and at as fair rtftufe at I any one CMIJ or will sell."

Country Merchnuts, and all others, will do well to give us a call, as our prices are based upon the principle of "live and let live." MSTOCK 6l BROTHER,

May 12, 1855-dwtf

TRANSPORTATION.

LIVINGSTON & CO.

Commission Merchants, Forwarders A Steam Roat Agents. TERRE-HAUTE, IND. Agents for Transportation Lines. FM^H.ROUGH Receipts given to and from fi. Terre-Haut/', Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.,

Pariicular Attention paid to receiving Goods by Railroad, River and Canal, May 9th, 1855-dtf.

VfcDXspauiding'sJller^andiseN

O"" Residence, corner of 5th and Poplnr connecting with all Western Railroads. streets, where he may be found when not at the lime house.,

O* Mark packages, -'Spaulding's Express," and send to foot of Duane Street, Wew York.

U" For contracta, apply to G. B. Williams, *. ,. R. R. Livingston, 119 Broad 8t. N. Y.

M. H. Powell, And to LIVINGSTON & CO.,7 May 4,1855-dfo f:^ Terre-Hautc.

STOVES.

HAVE on hand a few of the celebrated Empire State Cooking Stoves, which I wil sell cheap, at the old Rough and Ready Corner, opposite the Court-Houtse.

March 7-tf R. L. BALL.

J. W. STRATON,

O IS S I O N E A N F0RWAEDING AGENT, AND DEALEa IS

Groceries and Country Produce, CORNER OF SECOND AND OHIO STS., TERRE-HAUTE, IA. [T7* REFEREKCE—Citizens of Terre-Haute.

May 9 1855-dtf

DR.

JTM. Comins, has removed hi« office one square north of the Stewart House. April 16, dtf.

aui 3mfrifa,-gdigimis ^ibtrlg^lttos ^ttrptu^t

3 4 5 6 S7 1011 12 13 17 18 19 20 ll

and

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biiwa^is

their flavor A large lot of Willow Ware, consisting of Wagons, Baskets. &c.

I'ubs, WashboRrdo. Bucket# (with or without covers,) Well Buckets, Bird Cages, Ac MOCKT EAOLK TRIPOLI, for cleansing glass plates, windows, glass chimneys for lamps ind and silver. arli "e.

and gas burners, go: Powder, Shot, Le-id, Cups, and a new cle of Elastic Gun Waddinp.

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VOL. TERRE-HAtJTE, TTTD. WnGT7ST 12,• 1855. NO. 14:1.

ALENDAR

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1 27 3 4 5-6 '7

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7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 2fl ^1 23 23 24 25 2G 57 2« 29 30 31

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AMERICAN

ano Job OFFICE,

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Welch's Block, Fourth Street, ?I East of the Post Office,,

TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA.

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PRINTERS AND PROPRIETORS.

mHK ropriot)rs of tho "American JL Job Printing Office," are pleased to say that they are now prepared to fill all orders (on short notice) in the lino

T™.r ,r-,r.Tr r^TST-r, r,. Xooc3Lei- XJOASOS, IsEW YORK fc ERIE RAILROAP a/| ^NDTPA^CTC 0. E E S S E I I E IV I I O

^uth-^^teTO Express, jjno

Job Printing Office," are pleased to

am ant) ancg

CIRCULARS,

PAMPHX.BT8, BILL HEAD8f HAND-BILL8, NOTE8,

Gre«t vVestern and (And in fact every thing in the printing

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done in a manner not to be

excelled by many Western printing offices. it3Sr Orders for Printing respectfully solicited.

May 30, 1855.

MONEY MADE (ITJICK. "^HKRE is great complaint among young men that they cannot get employftilnt that will remunerate t.tiem for their services. To such, the subscriber would cull attention to a cafe, pleasant and very profitable business, by which, without any risk, the capital invited can be doubled every throe months, and by a little extra exertion every two moths. Agents are wanted in every city and town in the Union—you cannot overstock the market, and there is always a ready sale.

Circulars containing a full and accurate description of the business, and all matters pertaining thereto, will be sent free of expense to any address, on application by letter or otherwise to SAMUEL SWAN,

Atlanta, Ga., or Montgomery, Ala June 1, 1855-d3m

A HORSE WANTED.

SUITABLE

1855-dwtf

May 21,

Ice Cream Saloon.

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F%NCY CONFECTIONERY!

mf#BSTFALL & TKAPP, a

\\76lJI.D rcip«ctfuily inform \k» cUlitens

dans) Office," oorner «f Ohio and Fourth streets, where tliey ore prepan-d to wire up In ihe Inost approved le—Ice Cream, of ail flavor*, Oakos. Candies, Friiit*, Nutji, Oewfeetions of all kind-, and, in fact, every deli. eacVoftheaoawui, hoping by •trict attWition to the businoss to merit, your patronage. i'heyare pn^inred to furnish Psrtioc, Weddings, «nd private fuuiili«* with ov«jiy thing in tliwii line, on the shortest notice, and mo»t ucconiniodating t«rm*.

Al*u,"

hours

SAVE YOUR*MONEV'T

ICK CREAM

•SA1.00W.:

A/I BS. HL*G(51.12S nnnonncet. to the TubLLTA lie that the "Rtifgle* »al«mii," e«*t of the public squartf, a few dous Noitli of the city Mall, i* now fitted up iu complete style for the reception of Gentlemen Bnd l.ndies, wh«m they cau be supplied with as good l«e Cream flavored to suit, thiir ta*ti for ICSH

r*)'««,y nn.v

PRIWTmG!

O to an a in are entirely new, and of the bopt and most fashionable Btvie pinrha.std with a view of doing all kinds of

RAILROAD

for an Express Waggon en

quire at the office of the American Ex press Ctwopany. Terre-Haute, Jtfne 29-dtf ,:

pwl rMuhliKlnnent in thin

city. Also, all kinds and varieties of mils, rQkw.candji'senitfeciinnMrieii.A'e ,ein«t»n1-ly-oil hand. Mfn. Rugglek "will siwrn h«' able to ktwp a constant supply of c.hoioStrftwbeiTi«?s, wliirvli will be Nerved up to ord^r st short, notice and in the beet niyln.

Weldings, Pariiy$ and funjilifji, .fumiidiml on sliort notice with CBUPS and Ice r.ivutu, of the lm.«t quality and in any qauntity, at fill tinier A tiberal patro»ag*f i* Hilicit«il. ,t 'I erre-tfuule, Mwjr 25 1855 d-tf.

ICE CREAM SALOON

SCUDDTR& CO.. WOULD

inform th«' citizen# of tliih city

that they have ftu»d Up fine tjf the most elegant, Ice Cream Saloon* in the West lee Cream of all descriptions, Vanilla. Lemon, Orange, Ac., kept constantly on hand throughout the Summer also, cukes, candies and nuts of the best quality. lMy7]

I I -I FIN

3L Summer Hats.

ATTENTION, GENTS!

PERSONS

desiring neat and fashionable

Dress Silk Hat®, or Gent* Fine Caps, will remember that the New York Hat Storu in the place to find them, at all limes.

Also, Leghorn, Panama, and other fine straw hat*, to suit any taste, A large lot of pluin straw good*, for sale cheap.

Call and examine for yourselves. Hats of the best materials, made to order, and warranted to lie just what thev are represented—the genuine A No. 1 of the seaaon,

J.C.YATES,

Modisett's Block, Terre-Haute, Ind. May 17, 1855-dtf

T\KTJIT OA.NB!

AM now manufacturing, at, the old Rough & Ready Oorner,Self-Sealing Fruit Cans, for preserving fruits, vegetables, dec.—thf only can ever made requiring no wax, solder or cement. These cans arc warranted peform as represented. Those in need of an article of this kind can have their orders filled 011 short notice, and on reasonable terms. Call at the old R. dt R. Corner, and examine for yourselves. R. L. BALL.

Terre-Haute, July 17-d2m

1 Second-Haaded Cider Barrels 10 VJ for sale by P. P. PRICE, One door West Terre Haute House,

Julyl9-dtf National Road st.

A lbs. Fresh Honey for sale Wy 0" A P. P. PRICE, One door Weat Terre Haute House,

July 19 dtf National Roadst

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DAILY & WEEKLY AMERICAN.

^Thr undorsign^d fwl ifratified in being ah,lo mv to tho oitkens of TernHaute,'and the people of Indiana and Illinois, gonorally, that former sttecesa and fh pfds^Nitrjwitifpfliem in: annoutu-iug th« D»«ly vand" Wttklv

I'ho pr^r(^mi kre^ determined by trtttiHiig energy, and A heart felt devotion to the eausft- in which thej are en-: gftp^d, to make th^ American a most d^ifuble and readable newspaper. ?The following senUmeots.will embody the oolitic*! faith of the American, and will be maintained, in a spirit of cou^sy wwards those who may differ with us in sentiment. 1st. A just disorimination in favor Of native born 5iti*ons, for all offices of trust and profit, in preferanoe to those of foreign^ birth. 2 he S at

I 3d. Ppbofjitinu to all local or eectional prejudices. ZrJZT^w

4Ul* T'10

th®y M'*

vT of this place, tliat tlii-y ha\'e taken and 5th. No Sectarian mterterence in fltt«i ui ln a rtylo ^ganee and conveni-»our legislation, or the Administration of euc« suldom equalled in tiu est, \hn lartw

o, ice Crepm furuislted to faiuiliosat tvll with ffotv ttno of t.ho Bible, God's Ho!^d•iSlJV'y.T,"nia3rVki•* ly Word, as a textbook 'l Jr21. lR55.-d^tf. otk IPwII ,V. iSiVil

The market*, of our own and of th'e principal commercial citieK of the States, will, be oortooLly reported d^ily (yyl .T" {. L' fi ki ^4 'adf

All 'otrimurncjitioni» of an interesting u»ittrc«, iroo from personalities, and ufi^xcojjtlonal in language, will b« weleomod to our columns.

Huiot attention to thecourtesies du to our coteuiporarieg will be preaerved I 3 Daily, per w»ek payable to carrier lOctt. r' p»u' annuiu in advance, $5,00. nix mouths, three months,' Weekly per annum in adVanee, sis months, 11 copies one year, mv

Uuitod 'SuiUeof jduejioa

"°m «"d inseparable."

Ameridn LftWi. 8#?

6th.' Hostility t6 iujsumptwas of tbo Pope, thmti^h tte Bishops, J'rksts and ProkU'Jiof tlie Church, or bv powers of the Old W01I4. 7ih. R«stx)rallt»h of tmr State natnralixntion law* to a forrospnndeure with the Constitution of the United States. 8th. Free and liberal Educational luHtitutioriH, fur all sects and classes.

9th. Fntl t^lemtieo to «T1 fellfftoua Berts, which do not conflict with th« Ccnabiituiion jX tho U. S. ^r ilie geoiu« «»f oui- fm« iuptitutiouK. lOlh. Tho "Monroe doctrine'against oolonusfttion on the Americaa continent by the tifttfanS of Euro[e.

The latent Fornipi and domeatic geitend Hud local aowti, will be carefully noted, and solvations will be made in refcroilcc to tlio tnuint«nanco of a high tone of niottilM in our oolumnn,

2,50. 1,25.

'1,00. 50. 10,00.

No subatsriptions received for weekfy for less than six months, and no paper continued after the subscription has expi rod, wiles by especial arrangement.

BROWN & SIIYERTHORN

Publisher* & JJroprie(or$.

,:76'COMER ill

Groceries and Provisions of all kinds. E a re no re pa re to A wait upon their friends and customert with a full and general assortment of Groceries and Provisions. -1, ,'ij

Their stock comprises, in part, English Dairy Cheese, Mackerel, Sugars, fepioes, Coffee, Teas, Molasses, canvas*-$ ed Beef, Harris, Shoulders, .Sidoa,

Lard, Potatoes, Salt in sacks, Willow Wagons, Baskets, jtrirtfi* Tubs and W ashboards, and in fact every thitig that can be desired, may be had, at cheaper rates than can be found in th« qity.

VT Butter, Eggs, Chickens, Meal, Flour, &c., kept on hand, when they are to be had in the country.

O* Persons sending' children for any article to thin bouse, my rely on the correctness of weight and change.

Give us a call-—we are determined that no house in the city shall undersell us we do not put on the tariff when an article Is scarce-

JAMISON & TERRY/ Corner of Market & Walnut sts.'

Ma^ 16, 1855-dtf

Harper for July,

now to be had at 3 June. So BLCKIAQHAM'^i