Daily American, Volume 1, Number 163, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 August 1855 — Page 2

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J. N. SILVERTHORIU ISAAC M. BROWN,

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4«^TERRE-HAUTE. IND.

TTJESDAY~77:: AUGUST 28, 1855.

jar Amongst our numerous weekly exchanges, there is none we welcome more heartily to our table, than the Illinois State Chronicle, Edited and published at Decatur, Ills., by Wui. J. .Usrey. In mechanical execution, it is unsurpassed by any paper in the West —is spiritedly edited, maintaining a high tone of morals and is essentially

American in its politics. From the

cheerfully and cordially recommend the Chronicle

Consistency.—To

hear A. P. Wil-

lard, St. Ambrose Carl to a and other

such paltrooas, but for those leaders

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no

Modem Democracy is a Jewel! ..-A,' .: THE HOG TRADE.— Prospects are now very favorable for high prices for pork, the coming season. We notice contracts being made in various parts of the conn try, at prices, ranging from $4,25 to $5 per cwt.

The Indianapolis Locomotive says that packers in thet city are contracting for hogs, to be delivered at the proper season, at $5@$5,25per 100 pounds.

A Frenchman, being hard up for a dinner stole a pig. He was caught In the act, taken before a magistrate and called upon for his defence, when he thus delivered himself: 'O, mon Dieu! I steal ze pig! No, sari never! Aha! you sail see! I tell ze pig, vill he go wi* me? Ho saya "Oui! Oui" and zen 1 take him. Is xhat vot you call steal de pig, ven he go vis his own consent?

The New York Commercial Advertiser says that 33 years have elapsed since that city was visited by yellow fever. Baltimore has been spared fron its ravage about the same length of time.

On what is called the Lower Reservation, in Texas, ther are about six hundredIndians. They havenearfourhundred acres of corn in cultivation, and the prospect of making their own bread is fair. 1

The War in Europe—Interesting De-

pf velopments.

people of Macon Co., it deserves, as it He was made Lieutenant Colonel of the from the same quarter, but is given as a no doubt receives a liberal patronage, same regiment, which came home in Court rumor merely—it must be taken, and to any of our readers who desire to 1840, and was drafted out to India for therefore, subject to whatever doubt read the news from Central Illinois, we the late Sike war .• that fact may throw upon its accura-

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those who were present, we learn that jcareer'

the speeches consisted, like all Democratic speeches, of modern times, in abuse of Know-Nothings—Protestes-tant Preachers, and the Prohibitory Liquor Law, and in laudation of our foreign citizens—the Catholic Church and the Pope of Rome. Yery suitable work, for men professing to be Americans, "Very suitable for men prating loudly of Democratic principale. Democracy, and the Pope! aj consistent as a coalescing of light and darkness, or a communion of Christ with Beliel.

now

Du^

an

the Mass Meeting held in the Court:

House, on Saturday last. But from I'whm^

W*f]r!°0

ton

the rumor which adds the renomina-:casea*

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Of

Ghas. Napier to command but

in the Black Sea this time. It is fur-

ther stated that Palmerston offered tins command to the Admiral, but he refus-1

ed all commands and honors while a ^Auinist

stigma was unromoved from his name. "Everything has turned upon the success of the great French loan. This! immense fiat of the nation has shaken Austria, and is the real reason of her new adherance to the Western Powers. Louis Napoleon slipped the thong and let loose the hands of rebellion in Spain Spain immediately succummed and gives an army to the Crimea—:

Louis Napoleon simultaneously an-

inces, a those places.

duced her forces in the Danubian Prov- Charles Kingslev,

to the

threat, but Napoleon has no iutention

of trusting to her word. A French

army will land at the mouth of the! Danube, and a powerful demonstration will be made against the Russian frontier. Napoleon will lead this force in person it will consist of 110,000 French, with Canrobert, Prince Napo-!

leou, and Lord Cardigan as Generals of

Division.

"An English force of

powers are exhibiting their weakness

land their unpopularity. He also rises

lilprivate correspondence by the iPa-' as they descend in the European scale, cific, says the New York. Times, puts "This is the real foundation for the us in possession of intelligence, at once rumor that France is on the eve of war curious and important, concerning po- with Austria. I wrote to you before litical movements in Europe. The fol- how Austria was checked and how she lowing paragraphs from these letters could not stir. come from a quarter connected with "The 'backstairs' in the Tuileries do the French Court, and likely to be well not believe in the 'grossesse' of the informed, not only as to what has been Empress. actually done, but as to movements in "I give you these details as good contemplation, in the highest circles.— hearsay. You know the quarter from We give them, therefore, as entitled to 'which they come,and how much reliattention and confidence: ance may be placed upon it. Napoleon

PARIS, Aug. 10, 1855. 'has never given up the idea of conduct"Tbe English Government exhibits ing the Russian war in person. It was that sense of defeat which is known in the personal influence of the Qutjen of pugilism as 'hitting wild.' We are at England that withheld him from the a loss what to do for Generals the old Crimea last Spring, and it is hinted that ones will not satisfy the public, and we the interesting state of the Empress is have no young ones. Ministers have actually pronounced to deter him from determined to pick the youngest on the this Danubian campaign. But, as the army list and'Go it blind,'as you say Emperor sa^d to Lord Palmerston, in America. This chance has fallen when the Minister was condoling with upon General Markham, a name hither- him on his want of an heir: "Ah, to utterly unknown to military fame.—! my Lord, my children must be my milSome eighteen years ago, when the(itary successes." Napoleon will no troubles in Canada called out the troops,' more trust to the promises of Eugenie there was a Major Markliam of the 23d than to the promises of Austria." Regiment, sharp little man enough.— The followiug additional paragraph is

'Col. Markham and his regiment cy: were at the taking of Ghuznee. Butj "On the departure of Napoleon for how, when, or for what he was made a the East, an Anglo-French army will General I cannot obtain information.— be concentrated on the Rhine. To this He acted as Military Secretary to Sir force will be added the Spanish contin-

Sag Nicht leaders, who are sworn to Harry Smith, or to Lord Harding, I gents—the whole under the command go well armed, and when sure of sue-

forget which He has

cess, to make attacks upon American antecedents whatever but as experien-1 while the cavalry command devolves citizens, prating of dark-lantern-oa/A-, ce Generais have failed in taking Se-!on the Earl of Lucan^, This force bound Know Nothings. Out upon all bastopol, our only hopes are on finding professedly stationed as a threat to the sue contempts ypocrasy. can somebody that has no reputation, per-, German Kingdoms, will in reality watch have some symp or poor upes haps he will do something. General over the French Empire, during the of foreigners who are used as tools by Markham has another recommendation

however, no: of H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge,

1

professing to be American citizens at j8^ocra^c connections he is, therefore, Cambridge, of the Command-in-Chief t' ^a.n

and

absence of Napoleon.

he is a plebian he has no ar-1 "The Queen's offer to the Duke of

*n" a sop to the Cerberus of Administra-. in the Crimea, was made to be refused

oa mgan contempt. tive reform. The Senior United Ser-, by him to raise his popularity, and to vice sneer at such a youngster as the become the stepping-stone to the The Mass Meeting of Saturday. Owing to sickness and a press of business, we were utterly unable to attend

CommatMer-in-Chief but Markham above." commences his career at the age of forty

Thls

of Wellington

cl(fd

his

13 W1 ow

You

4 our

aristocracy is in its dotage. 'There is a consistent rumor of

extraordinary fusion on the question of,

Administrative Reform. A collusion

ra her than a coalition, between Is-

IS

afoot,

Bul wer is to be sent to Vienna as Grand

James Buchanan, our Minister to London, is expected to reach home ^bout the middle of October

D* There is more Sarsaparillacontained in Hurley's, than in six of any one bottle of

». ,, other man's we are aware of, and which,

wherever introduced, becomes one of the ne-

cessaries of life, and we can state from expe-

ii v»- tx.t rience, it is the purest, best, and most effica-

jcious. In our sister city, Louisville, it has

raeli, Gladstone, Layard, Molesworth attained great, celebrity, and here if. is in a, -r, equal favor. It is perfectlv free from all danana Lord otrattord de Redchne

gerous and Injurious ingredients is made

un(^eI.

pi tt-ji chemist, and composed of such pure medical

arge with Plenipo rank. Such is

special superintendence of an able

compounds as cannot fail to make it. in all

Sl,re

and

1 aug25 dtf

FttANK

25,000,

powerful. We recommend

those who reouirc genuine Sarsaparilla to

purchase Hurley's, and they will be much

obliged for the ndvice.—Cincinnati Sun.

advise all to try the great medica-

21-dt

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Journeymen Tinners Wanted.

TWO

first rate Journeymen Tinners can find steady employment and good wages, by immediate application to

Aug 23 dtf WM. LOCKWOOD.

MEMOIRS

of lames Gordon Bennett and

»ii

^is Times, by a Journalist Ijy Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass.

The Winkles or The Merry Monomaniacs,

The

author of Wild Western Scenes."

nnimpiri tn Aiiei&o i, Land, Labor and Gold, by William Howitt.

nounced to Austria that, as she had re-

I Olaucus or The Wonders of the Shore, by

Esq.

TTivinnl, History of t.ho Council of Trent.

armv would occupy

Maud, and other Porms bv Tennyson.

For sal.-at W. II. BUCKINGHAM'S.

CABTKR'

under

Sir Harry Smyth, vriUbe added. Lord

Cardigan being General of the Allied \A7AK -REM

Cavalry. Louis Napoleon Comman-

der-in Chief of the whole. The Stupe-

ror is playing the game of Eurone with

Pfincnmmate eln'll

WILLIAM R. JOUETT.

CARTER fc JOUETT, WHOLES ALE GUOCEKS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

No. 23 Third Street, below Main, aug23-dtf LOUISVILLE, KT.

Storage

Liberal advancements, at fair terms, will

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consummate skill. All parties

UNITED STATES

A

1 RECRUITING SERVICE!

«7 ANTED, for the 10th U. S. Infantry, WW (RIFLEMEN,) able-bodied unmarried MEN, between the ages of 18 and 35 years. Dot less than 5 feet 4£ inches high, and of good character. A minor will not be enlisted without the written consent of his parent or guardian,

The term of service iB FIVE YEARS and if a soldier re-enlists at the expiration of that time, his pay will be increased Two Dollars per month for the first re-enlistment, and he will receive a further addition of One Dollar per month for each subsequent re-enlistment.

By good conduct and attention to duty, a soldier will certaiuly rise to the position of a non-commissioned bfficer, and from this class the law provides that meritorious men may be selected, as the wants of the service may require it, for promotion to the rank of commissioned officers of the Army. The following is the rate of pay now established:

GRADE. Pay per Pay per Pay for month, annum- 5 years. To a sergeant major, quartermaster, sergeant, p'ncip'l musician, and chief bugler—each, To the. first sergeant of a company,

Ordnance sergeants, iAll other serg ts, each! orpc jgle

Corporals, 1 156 780 Buglers, .12 X1*} 2™ Musicians, .12 J44' 720 Farriers fc blacksmiths 15 .^180 900 Artificers, 15^1801 900 Privates, 11 132*. 660

In addition to the p4y, above stated, one ration per day and an abundant supply .^if good clothing is allowed to every soldier.— Quarters, fuel, and medical attendance ,arvi always provided by the government without deduction from the soldier's pay. If a soldier should become dijabled in the line of his duties, th^ laws provide for him a pension or(he may, if he prefer it, obtain admission iutothe Military Asylum, which will afford him a comfortable home so long as he may wish to receive its benefits.

The sum of TWO DOLLARS will be paid to any citizen or soldier who shall procure and present to the Recruittng Officer an acceptable recruit.

Those wishing to enlist, cin do so by applying at the rendezvous, at L. Duy's office, corner of Ohio and Market streets. Any information, not contained in the above handbill, can be obtained of the Recruiting Officer, at the time and place above specified.

LT. WM. KEARNEY,

Augl8 d(fc\v2w Recruiting Officer.

AND JEWELRY!

Gold and Silver Watches, Ca-

WyV meo Pins and Ear Rings, Gold, siig..i.^Stone. Jet and Lava Ear Rings and Pins, Gold Chains, Thimbles, Snaps, Bracelets, Sleeve Buttons, Stud4'. Keys, Hooks, Seals, Slides, Buckles, Lockets, aud fine Wedding Rings.

SILVEPi-WAEE:

Table, Tea and Desert Spoons, Butter Knives, Fruit Knives, Forks, Thimbles, Combs, Children Setts, Fob and Guard Chains, Soup Ladles, fcc.

Spectacles:

Gold and Silver-plat?d, German Silver and Steel Spectacles also, Spectacles for far and near sighted persons, Goggles, fcc.

REVOLVERS!

Colt's, Allan's and Sprev's Revolvers, A1 len's self cocking Rifle Pistol.

Fancy G-oods!

Shell Pearl Card Cases, Portmonaies, "Work-boxes, Baskets, Toys, Accordeons, Violins, Flutes, Fancy Combs, Brushes, etc.

CLOCKS!

A large lot of 8 clay and 30 hour Clocks, which will be sold cheap. H?" Clocks, Watchcs and Jewelry repaired and warranted.

C. M. & J. M. CRISHER, July.'tO-dtATlf North side of the Square.

"FEVER AND AGUE.

DR. WILLIAM ROBINSON,

HAVING

'IV

BODDB-

f~

WANTED

10,000

Paid, by SMITH fc DODDS,

.• 11 Wabash St., 1 door East of Bement & Co

and

all

Terre-Haute, July31-dtf

located in Terre-Huute, invites

the attention of the citizens of the City and the surrounding country to his Fever and Ague Cure, or Specific for the

Prevent ion and Cure of Intermittent Fever, Fever and Ague, Chills and Fever, Dumb Asfue, General Debility, Night Sweats, and all other forms of Disease which have a common origin in Malaria or Miasma The subtle atmospheric poison readily gives way to this newly discovered antidote. Tbisspe cific is so harmless that it may be taken by persons of every ago, sex or condition.

From Dr. W. R.'s extensive practice in Miasmatic Diseases, for the last, seven years in Canada, aud Eastern States, he confidently offers his preparation to the public, being well assured t)int. a complete ana speedy cure will be effected in every case, without exception, where the directions are followed.

be had ofW. Price & Co., Terre-flaute, Indiana, and by Agents generally. August 23,1855 dw3m

Flour! Flour!

THE

receive and sell Flour on con-

I signment—storing one mouth, for 10 cents per barrel, commission.

best of Flour can now be had at $6 per barrel, at J. DAVIS' aug25-dlw Grocery Store.

SELECT SCHOOL.

MRS. FOWLER &

Miss ANNA WATSON

\\7"ILL resume their School on Monday, the 3d day of September next, at the New School House, on the corner of Seventh and Poplar*- Streets. As their number of scholars will be limited, all parents and guardians desirious of sending pupils are requested to make application previous to the'opening of the scnool.

Mrs. F. & Miss W. may be found at their residence, corner of Fourth and Oak Streets. August 2l-dw2w

Journal and Courier copy two weeks aud send bill to this office for collection.

T?OR Good and cheap Teas »0 tn

August 14-d2w

1260

1200 1320 1020

dtf

,c 8 Ror

Musical, Again!

ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF TIM week, look out for the largest and best Piano Fortes ever brought to this citv Jv will be sold, if people wist toW

All the Pianos, I have hitherto sold U* given entire satisfaction as to price »„!l rabilitj white, few pewJKe' elsewhere, and have pHid in everv more than I have sold the same class strument8 for, and set them un for chaser. Please call and see them

-MI# L. B. FISH,, I

6

AUF13

Mechanics' ltmp&

—ii

^«IJPHOIPOS ATjS

WILL

be received at the office of Noble, until 5 o'clock, p. of'ij 27th inst., for the building of a School-house I lan and specifications are also thero for examination. Brick will be furnished tbacfm tractor by tlio Trustees.

By order of the Trustees. !fc Augl7-td C. T. NOBLE, ClPrfc:

For Sale.

WE

want to close our buKln^^consequcn'ly will sell the balance of our

Stock of Groceries

AT COST FOR CASH

or approved credit EF Those knowing themselves indebted to us will please rail and settle. aug 17-dtf GROVEIIMAN «fe BOURNE.

For Rent.

VX7E will rent the Store Room now occupied by us. to a good tenant, low. Apply to GROVERMAN & BOURXE. augl7 dtf

E. W. SMITH.

10th Inf.,

M. M. DODfis

SMITH & DODDS,i Wholesale Grocers,

AND,"T^^,|Tr

COMMISSION MERCHANTS/

And Dealers in FLOUR and PRODUCE,

Wabash Street, Terre-Haute, M.

Particular attention given to the

Purchase of all kinds of Grain.

Have just received, among many other ar ticles, not enumerated: 175 sacks Coffee, 129 hhds of Sugar, 30 bbls Refined "VYhite Sugar, 75 bbls Orleans Molasses. 60 bblsS. H. MO1H86GS, in bbls, bbls and^ bbls, 30 bbls of S. H. Syrup, a general stock of Teas, 33 bbls Crusnod Su* gar, a large stock of Tobacco, 154 boxes of Raisins, in whole, half anH quarter boxes, 40 boxes of Star Cwndles. 75 boxes of Soap, German, Orleans, Soda, White, Fancy, 85 bfxes of assorted Candies, Confeclioin:ries oi all kinds and varieties, 30 boxes of Lemon Syrup, 30 boxes of Starch, 15 boxes of Mus tard, 30 boxes of Pepper Sauce, 100 dozen of Blacking, a geneml stock of Tubs, Buckets, and Wooden-Ware, also. Glass,all sizes, 60 dozen Brooms. 200 kegs Nails, all sizes, Rice, Mackerel, Herring, Indigo, Madder, Nutmegs, Gloves. &c. A heavy stock of Wrapping Pnper, also, a large quantity of Writing Paper, and Stationery of all kinds,

Terre-Haute, July 13th, 1855 dtf.

NEW LINE TO CHICAGO.

TERRE-HAUTE AND ALTON

Tt ATT.TIOAP.

One Through Passenger Train Daily (SUNDAYS EXCKPTEO.)

AFTER

Monday, July 18. the P&ssengcr Train will leave Terre Haute, at&w A. M., and arrive at the crossing of the Chicago. Branch,ai 11:15 o'clock, A.M., connecting with the tram of the

ILLINOIS CENTRAL ROAD direct to Chicago, by 6 o'clock. P. M. Returning—Leaves Crossing of Chicagff Branch on arrival of Illinois Central Trayi, at 3:45 P. M., and reaches Terre-Haut« at 45 P.M.

O" Freight, Trains leave daily. O* Freights will not be received st the depot for shipment after 5 o'clock, P. M.

L. R. SARGENT, Superintendanf. June 29, 1855-dwtf

Five Hogsheads

PRIME WHITE SUGAR— received and for sale VERY CHEAP a aug8 SMITH & DODDS^

TERRE-HAUTE AND RICHMOND T» ATT.TIOAP

ON

1

Thursday the 23d

inst.,

the run­

ning of the night Express Tram wi be resumed, and until further no ice, the Trains will leave daily, Sundays cepted, as follows:

MAIL TRAIN

Lea-ve Terre-Haute, at 'k'

NIGHT EXPRESS

Leave Terre-Haute, at fn_:n

after the arrival of the from St. Louis. CHAS. WOOJD. [Acting Superintendent.

August 22, 1855, d-4t.

500

Pounds

May

Butter,

A PRIME ARTICLE—Just received

NV'E SMITH 4 DODDS.