Daily American, Volume 1, Number 146, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 August 1855 — Page 3

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CITY ITEMS &

Public Meeting!

—-OF THK

FRIENDS OF THE

AMERICAN UNION,

OF VIAO OO 2 21

The time has arrived when the FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNION should unite together to save it from assault, The thme» are ominous of evil, and call for calm deliberation on th« part of the People.

Let Us Reason Together.

"Will address the meeting, and there will, perhaps, be other speeches. August 6, '55." "*4M'

FIRE ALARM!

The alarm of fire, last night, was occasioned by the burning of a pile of brush, fired by some thoughtless nr malignant person, in the middle of the street. This is a very reprehensible sport, trifling with the lives and property of our citizens. We hope the like may never occur again.

iCST" Mr. Wheeler, Minister to Nicaragua, and Col. Fremont, are at Washington.

fhe Rochester Democrat says

that there will be no peaches in Western New York this fall.

The Sandusky (Ohio) Regis

ter says that a wholesale dealer in that city was offered 2,000 bushels of potatoes, deliverable next October, for 25 cents a bushel, but he declined the offer

A3T Hun. John L. Crittenden, addressed the Amariciin party of Louisville, on Saturday, the 4th inst. His speech is represented to be a masterpiece of eloquence. He fully advocates all the principles avowed by the American party.

An old man speaking of the

Mississippi liver said ho had known it ever since it was a creek.

SPEECH OF HENRY CLAY, DELIVERED IN THE UNITED STATES SEX ATE, FEBRUARY 7, 1839,

If the question were an original ques-

tion, whether, there being no slaves!

l.he slav«8

(better

There will be a PUBLIC MEKTING in our revolutionary ancestors assumed. Terre-Haute, on next Saturday, the tl/A It is that which, in my opinion, forms instant, commencing at 1 o'clock, P.M. our justification in the fcyes of all Christo consider tie present aspect of public affairs and to endeavor to counteract the efforts now making to atoolltloilize the whole North. The people of ALL PARTIES are invited, and it is hoped they will generally attend.

ft. W. THOMPSON,

is than that of the

ILl/X xill white population. An immediate abolition of slavery in them, as these ultra abolitionists propose, would be follow ed by a desperate struggle for immediate ascendancy of the black race over the white race, or rather it would be followed by instantaneous collisions between the two races, which would break 1 out into a civil war that would end in the extermination or subjugation of the one iace or the other. In such an alternative, who can hesitate? It is not

for both parties, that the existing state of things should be preserved, instead of exposing them to the horrible strifes and contests which would inevitably attend an immediate abolition? This is our true groun 1 of defence for the continued existence of slavery in our country. It is that which

v.j vmi vvuuu XV ia lllltl WUIGIl

tendom.

I know that there is a visionary dogma, which holds that negro slaves cannot be the subject of property. I shall not dwell long on this speculative abstraction. at is property which-the law declares to be property. Two hundred years of legislation hive sanctioned and sanctified negro slaves as property. Under all the forms of government which have existed upon this continent during that long space of time— under the British government—under the colonial government—under all the State constitutions and governments— and under the federal government lts?lf—they have been deliberately nnd solemnly recognised as the legitimate subjects of property. To the wild speculations of theorists and innovators stands opposed to the fact, that in an uninterrupted period of two hundred years' duration, uuder every form of human legislation, and by all the departments of human government, African negro slaves have been held and respected, have descended and been transferred, as lawful and indisputable property. They were treated as property in the very British example which is so triumphantly appealed to as worthy of our imitation. Although the West India planters had no voice in the united parliament of the British Isle, an irresistible sense of justice extorted from hat legislature the grant of twenty millions of pounds sterling to compensate the colonists for their loss of property.

If, therefore, these ultra-abolitionistfe are seriously determined to pursue their immediate scheme of abolition, thev should at once set about raising a fund of twelve hundred millions of dollars, to indemnify the owners of slave property. And the taxes to raise that enormous amount can only be justly assessed upon themselves or upon the free States, if they can persuade them to assent to' such an assessment for it would be a! mockery of all justice and an outrage' against all equity to levy any portion of the tax upon the slave States to pay for their own unquestioned property.

If the considerations to which I have already adverted are not sufficient to dissuade ^he abolitionists from further perseverance in their designs, the interest of the very cause which they profess to espouse ourhtto check their career. Instead of advancing, by their I efforts, that cause, they hove thrown

On Abolition Petitions. [CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY.] The next obstacle in the way of abo-, wuunu lition arises out of the fact of the pres- hack for half a century the prospect of ence in the slave States of three mil-

anJ'

lionsof slaves. They are there, dis-' can race, gradual or immediate, in any persed throughout the land, part and !of

within the country, wo should intro- which was first adopted in Pennsylvaduce them, and incorporate them into

species of emancipation of the Afri-

lhe

parcel of our population. They were have increased the rigors of legisbrought into the country originally un-! Iation against slaves in most., if not all, dor the authority of the parent govern- °f the slave States. Forty years ago ment whilst we were colonies, and their 1

n'a

States. They have done more"

lho

importation was continued in spite of, °f Kentucky of a gradual emancipation all the remonstrances of our ancestors. °f

question was agitated in the State

lhe

ua|

slaves within its limits. By grad-

emancipation, I mean that slow but

6a*e an{^

cautious liberation of slave?

our society, that would be a titally dif- )'ear 1780, and according to which, ferent question. Few, if any of the the generation in being were to remain citizens of the United States would be *n slavery, but all their offspring born found to favor their introduction. No after a specified day were to be free at man in it would oppose, upon that sup- ^e

position, their admission with moro de- meantime, were to receive preparatory termined resolution and conscientious instruction to qualify them for the enrepugnance than I should. But that is j°y»ent of freedom. That was the. not the question. The slaves are here species of emancipation which, at the no practical scheme for their removal

is, what is best to be done with them. ^on* No one was rash enough to think In human affairs we are often con- throwing loose upon the community, strained, by the force of circumstances iga0™*11

and the actual state of things, to do

^e instance of Dr. Franklin, in

Affe

eP°ch

or separation from us has been yet de- *n Kentucky. No one was rash enough vised or proposed and the true inquiry

twenty-eight, and, in the'

to which I allude, was discussed

propose or think of immediate aboli-

a°d

5lHves

***wv gvf^iu bUQ

blaojj, or the black govern the white. Ia several of those States, the number

unprepared, the untutored

°f the Slate.

what we would not^ do if that state of But if I had been then, or were now, things did not exist. The slaves are a citizen of any of the planting States— here,, and here must remain, in some the southern or southwestern States— "tion and, I repeat, how are they I should have opposed, and would conto be best governed? What is best to tinueto oppose, any scheme whatever be aonefortheir happiness and our own? of emancipation, gradual or immediate, •v *1 Te. ®tat€S the alternative is, because of the danger of an ultimate tbatttie white man must govern the ascendency of the black race, or of a

oivil contest which might terminate in the extinction of one race or the other.

M3T1 A batch of banks have been created in Georgia recently, whose issuos are to be redeemed by Illinois and Ohio Brokers. We advise the publio to handle this trash very cautiously. vl

Somebody says the Mississippi

has raised one foot. When it raises the other it will probably run.

OCTOBER ELECTION.

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Fish Whito Mackerel Tt'flb Tar Indigo al®ratus Kails Candles

authorised to announceS B.

EDMLNDS, as fnudidsitf for Commission* er of ihu Jurat District, at the eiifc'unir clcc-

U°n'

_____ &

I am a candidate for re-election the office of Auditor of Vigo county, at the next October election.'

ALBERT LANGE.

July 31, 1855-*

To the Voters of Viyo County— (tkxtlemkn I present myself before you soliciting your suffrage for tion to the office of Recorder for your County, at the ensuing October election. Nothing could be more grateful to me, than to b»* again elevated to this office by the unbiased suffrages of free and enlightened citizens. If you think I have promptly and faithfully discharged the duties of 'he oflice, and possess the requisite qualifications. 1 will feel thankful for your voles. impressed with a sense of kindness heretofore received, which 1 am always ready to acknowledge 1 am yuurs respectfully,

DAVID BELL.

Terre-Haute, July 31 65-*. City papers pl»ase copy,

HOMMtAKK ET. CORIIKCTED DAILY Koa THK AMK&ICtN.

WHOLESALE. Flour bbt $f» Wheat Corn Bacon Flaxseed Lard Sugar ContHi Molasses Tobacco Salt bbl. Coal Wood 13 cord Lime $ bu. Feathers Rice Whisky gall Butter

RETAIL.

GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.

STILL MORE

EXCITEMENT

AT THE XKW OROCKRT ANII PKOVIMOX STORE OX P. P. PRICE, On National Road slwt. one door West of the

Terrp-HanU? Hou-o,

XVf,nrRK niay b» fontid all kind* of Frc-h Groceries and Provisions, eotiiprinimt in purl, Sus ar, Coffeo. Mola»gp««. Tens. Spice®. Tobncco, Flour, l'.ncan. Silt, ako. I'room*, Ttibft, buckets. Powder. Load, Shot, &.c. All kinds of fri-jsli Provisions bought and *.old, cho«pfor rash.

All rixk'h nurchased lhi» store will b« dolivpred any wh(»n within tb« corpormion, fri-e of extra charge, by I'ricoV fa«t litip Mule Exprw* [July J8 dw3m.

Notice.

^TRAYED OR STOLEN from the V.j undersigned, on or before the 15th of July, 1855, living in Sugar Creek township, Vigo county. Ind., one bayStud Horse, about 15|- hands high, 3 years old last spring, with a star in the forehead and a snip on the nose, one of the hind feet is white up to the paster joint, with a strip of grey, about three inches l'»ng, on the inside of the left thigh, the left fore-foot turns a little out. Any person that will give information or bring said horse to me, shall be reasonably recompensed.

QUIMBY ROMINE.

July30-d&w3w*

Coal! Coal & Coke! HANCMETTth'KELLY

purchased Sullivnn Coal lJank,are now prepared to deliver their coal in TerreHaute, or at any other point on the Evansville &. Crawfordsville Railroad upon the fchortest notic«. Their Coal and Coke ncds no puff. It will recommend itaelf upon trial ana can be had cheap enough.

All orders left with D. Griffith, at E. 8. Wolfe & Co.'s, Terre-Haute, or addressed to Hancbett A Kelly, Ascension, Ind will meet with prompt attention.

July 16-?tf

BANK NOTE LIST. .XJiRKCTKI

DAILY FOR Tilt AMKRICAV

SOUTHERN BANK OF INDIANA. Tl'orrcn'i Block, Corner Fourth and Main Street's.

Collections road® and remitted on the day of payment. Coin and Exchange bought «nd sold, Remittance* nude to JEnglaud, Ireland and Germany.

GEORGE C. DUY. O^hior.

Indiana.

State Rank and Branch***

CLASS No. 1.

n.uiV of Indian*, Hank of tKishen, I'ank of MouticeUtv Hank of Salem, 1'ank of the Cai»ul, Hwtk of lWkvilitj, Bank of Warsaw, Dank of Ml. Version, Uank of Elkhart, I Hfuik of Syracuse, lirookvilJe Biutk,

N.Y AVa.S. S.bk, Prairie City Bank, Salvni bank, Savings bank of Intl.. Southern Bank of Ind., Trader* bank, Tippccauou bank,

$7,00 0 01 0,G5 8(3)10 0,00 10

Bushel 75 0 00 00 35 10 30 15 10 15 10 75® 1,00 60 1,6' 10 6U@7 15 30 13 2,00

1,0001,15 6^

Star Candles 26 Tallow 10 D't-d Ap'ls gj bu. 1,50 On."cn @0,00 IVnches Dried 2,50 Potatoes Cheese 10 Madder 3 Onions 1.00 Chickens doz, 1,50 Cid«-r 0,00 Oats 35

CLASS No. 3. Kalnm?zoo Bank, V. Stock Banrf, Wayne bank, Wala«h Hiver bank, W abahli Iliviarbauk, Wayne bank.

CLASS No. 4. I*ank of Albion, Hank of Prry»viH«, Pank of liennaolacr, uik of Ooriugton, Rank of Rochester, B'k of T. Wad«wortl», Klkbart Co. Bank, Farmer* Bank, Stat* Stock bank, Wubash Valluy bank, r«rmeri» fc Mech'a Uk,

O'OO 3,00 80

(tf00 1,50 1,80 00 40

Madison Laperto Kohoniu Columbus Lima N. Albany KvansviHe Terre-Haute Salrtu Conner«vil]o Terre-Haute 1 i.UianapoHa Winucmac

CLASS No. 2. Aurricuhural bank, 1'iuk of North Amurica, Uattk of Rock}ort Hank of South Bond, liank of Ft. Wayne, Unaware Oo. Bank, tlrcat Western Bank, N'ortJi WesU-ni bank, Steuben co, bunk. Upper Wabash bank, Shawnee bank,

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38@4i [email protected]» 2.50 @9 2,25 3(1 @28 08 30 @10 08 13,00 00 50@65 6,50

50 @60 21) @50

Value, 96 oonte, Mount Sterling Clinton

Rock So Ft. Wayne

CLASS No. 6. Atlantic bank, Bank of Bridgeport, I lank of At tica, l'ank of Nortli America, liank of Connorxvillc, Hunk of America, Mank of Albany Dravtm' Bank, Govcrnfn'iit Stock bk, (inwiic Go. Bank, lauiel Bank, Merrhanta Bank,] Mt-rchanJ* bank, Northern Ind. Bk, Orange bank, Public Stock hank, Perry County bmk, Plvmou'h b.mk, State Stock bntik, State Stock bank, SisiteStock bank of Ind., State Stock Sfjcurity bank Traders bank, Trmlfr* bnnk, Western bank, Wabattli River bana,

kport

South Hend Wi Muncio Terre-Haute Bloorafield Angola W abaali Attica

Value, 90 cents. Albion Vinccnnea

Loganaport New orydon New vilie Richmond

Value, 00 cents. Albion Perryaville

Rennaelaer Covington Rochester

Mich City tionhcn Jaipur Marion

Logannort Renaciaer

Value, 75 cents. Jaekaon Bridgeport

Illinois

All Solvent banka, Suspended do.

Attica Newport Conn era ville Morocco N. Albany Rome Lafayette Bloorafield Laurel Lafayette Springfield Loganaport Po»ryville N«-a port Camielton

Plymouth Jamr-titown Loganaport Pnru N cwport lluute Na«hvi]Ie Plymouth Jaaper

Par.

5c dis«

N. York & N. Jersey.

All solvent bank*,

Par.

New England States.

All solvent banks,

Par

Ohio

cj'ate bank fc branches, Solvent Free banka, Stock hanks (old plate,) Suspended and broken,

Par Par

10c dis

Kentucky.

All solvent banaa,

t-aving recently

All solvent banks,

All solveatbanks,

Par

Virginia.

-r,^

Georgia,

Atlanta hank Interior hank, Merchants bank, Ma«sn All others,

Banks inN OrU&ns,

IV Michigan.

IX-troii city banks, Other solvent bank*,

All rolveiit vink»,

Par,

Par.

bu Louis f{KOi«

iciu^tut Oily

Sa)«»ui.

Jtank of Paoli, ]Oan*l bank, Ciwct*«t Citr bank,

Cambridge City Bank, I LVntr&l bank. Co. bank,

KnVm's.Vfr Mtxh's bk, KnrnMH^liank, ir«merev Bank, liooMor Bauk, Huntiugtnn C3o, Bank, Indian* Bank, Indiana Stock Bank, Indmu Itoiwirvo Bank K»ijiucky Stock liank. I4i0iange Batik, S Mi-ffhw. «t Mi*ch. bk.,

'OM Olki.1' fcolvent bank*.

R«iekvillc» Wsysiiw. Mt. Wr».«m Elkhart Syraeu*'Um»ville

Patiii Evaiisville KvajtKViile Catnb. Citv Indianapolis Conn.rsvUl« lndinnnpolis W«*tfieiu Lafaywtttt I^^rnn*-jxitl Huntiii|ft«u

Par

10c di,c. 10c dint Sc disc

Louisiana.

Par

.. P®r ISyglOc diw

Wiaoonam.

l,ar we

i*«

dini

Distrintof Columbia.

|S«lve«t, ttauk*, ,, Kxohtuige bank. di-u

Alabama.

Alt wlvent bank*. dive

Canada.

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SOIgETHINS NE"J

Ontlio Watoaali

FURNITURE MADE BY ST® D. 0. F0RSTER «?»f

VJ!??permanently

located in Ter

*l'rnitur« by atuani. in the moat ^0T*«»*«Hkt! manner.

^8,"sro-Room1 are on the corner 1 liiid and C^crrv ntr«*eu, vbon h« con^auUy on nd and offer# for ui ia whnWlt-and retail, a Wand full a^utV nittitt of Ujo most elegant Furniture, ©fall *vy)w» and detcrtptiona, at rates equal to Oln^•ti prtcw, adding freight. paSnttM.^r

C01,"U,ltfj

hMd Fkk

Metalio Btiricil O&sos. Toother

full aaaorunent of

Bnri&l Clothes, and Wooden Coffin* ir£ r*1

Ull,l!'ri:l1

*nti workmaniiliip, AU'"doi

with

Lyu^y thing iu hia lmo furniahed at tlio tonnJ*1

and on 1110 n,ost

waaonablo

i. !nd dealer*,in the trade* will find

B8t CRl1

Uie corner of 3d

and Cheny *tre»u, one aquareNorth of Mala before purchaainr elaewfiere. lerre-Hauie. May 99, 185S dwtf

..ill

MORE EXCITEMENT

OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE!!!

JAMES DAVI8,

IitAI.tt

GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS,

Fourth Street, Welch'a Illock

r. anvR!Jttflin,,d

(Th

"y."

ther bo

in this line

««e tn the city and at prices

that will corrcHpond with the times.

!^X:T^,n^?Spices,

,,**

Suer«Coffec.'Flour.

JUoiaaaea, Tea«, Tobacco, Ba' Boarlf ?uckel"« Brooma.Waah emhinV rlf'^a(1' erSJ»Vudii:.1,M-

Ai,°'

°'uo»Y™.

CTOaah paid for all kinds of Produce.

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1855-dl y.

LOOK, OUT

FOR YOUR SWINE!

hor.''bF

J?»,Ton

ftt

owners of

11 hog* in the city of 1 erre-Haute, that tha undersigned will take up and empound all aiiTthlr .i'i'I

Contrni7

ISv .i

wm/I

to ordinance,

and that all hogs, that may bo so taken up fini'ffiUriT'f"r

tW(,,v«

n«in. previous to

9th a •Tday,lb(

7,h' TLu,*d«y

fiik ii i'7.

the

11 th

6*y»

of August,

,ne

at said pound, to

ftnd

c,°"ls

lhat

rn«y

be as-

NEW LINE TOIJHICAOO

One Through Passenger Train Daily a PTPP(M1,DJAT' EXOKPTED.) A Tra^°-lfly'

Jul^ 18-

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Pennsylvania.

Par

Maryland.

Par

North and South Carolina. AJl solvent bank*, S dice

Pastor

A ^C""e Haute, at 8 JO A. M., and arnr« at the crossing of the Chicago Branch ,nt 11:15 o'clock, A M, tonnw tug with the tr^.n of the ,. IVH?.018 central ROAD direct to Chicago, by 6 o'clock. P. M.

Retnrniiif—Lews Crowing of Chicago SrrAhP°\?mval

of I JIir,ois

Central Train

rcftches

Ten«

Haute at 6:'

IO* Freight Trains leave daily

600 POUNDS PRIME LEAP LARD! IN STORE and for sale by Aug4 SMITH fe DODDS.

Returned I

ISAAC M. RAY, ESQ., is at home be found at *U hours in his o®ce ready to attend to any business ljj his

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