Terre Haute Daily Union, Volume 2, Number 77, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 April 1858 — Page 2

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WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 14. 18S&

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JOHN J. CHlTTfUH DEN,

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Our Washington Wo publish to-day, to the exclasioa of other matter, along and exceedingly intefc? cut ing letter from Washington. It ii fnlf ot the language of true Amcriconitm, and abounds in thoce national, conservative and patriotic sentiment*, to the promulgation of which the whole encrgiea of that party have been directed from the time of its first organization to the present, and the preservation of which shall be its fatore, as it has been its fir*t and only object.— It is bitter—as it should be—in its deannotation of the present administration, and its "modern democracy," and handles that class of the Republican party who have no political ideas bat those involving the question of slavery, with glovelesa hands. The manner in which it treats of Washington politics shows sufficiently that it is written by one who has a perfect insight into the way things are managedone who not only has foresight enongh'to see the political wires, however well party leaders may suppose them to be conceal cd, but who aho knows who pulls them, and what is the intention and effect of every movement made,

Every true American should carefully read this letter, for the doctrines it expounds are genuine. Every good citizen, to whatever party he may belong, should read it too, for th^re are facts and figwrtt that cannot but bo interesting to all, and may open some oyes wider than they have been opened for many a day. While we hope to hear often from "Cattillns," we feel perfectly safe in assuring him that his letters will be read with pleasure by many persons in this portion of our State.

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Chicago Union states that "a somewhat startling case of suspended animation transpired on Friday, which should serve as a caution to those in attendance on the sick. Mrs. Brown, the wife of a plasterer, residing on West Madison street, near Green, has been long sick, and yesterday those in attendance on her observed the neual symptoms of dissolution overspread her features, and very soon thereafter the heart appeared to have ceased its function. The usual formalities were observed, and the woman placed into a coffin, and one of her girls visiting the body shortly after, and sobbing loudly, (ho corpse moved and the eyes opened and stared wildly. A scene followed which can more readily be conceived than expressed in words. The girl scrcamcd and filiated, and momentary consternation possessed the household,-— This, of course, was soon overcome, and Mrs. Brown removed from her rather emharassing position. She is now, we are glaJ to say, doing well, although in a low, debilitated state."1

Fiuat Turks ron Fr*« Wood.—The editor of the California Parmer t» strongly urging the growing of peach trees for fire wood. He says: ''Thoee who have been to the Bnnoa Ajttos country will easily remember that the principal fire wood used is peach wood, and the vast plains beyond the city and port are one wide extended peach forest, the tree® grown principally for fire wood aad so rapid is the growth of the peach tree, that nothing ®*n be more profitable, and there are those now in that country who have made fortunes by this business. The trees grow rapidly and bear abundantly the fruit is weed for swine and for drying and shiping. Such a similar kind of business do we look forward to here in California. It is well known that of all the varieties of trees growing in California, none have a more rapid growth than the poach, and thai in S, 4 or 5 years, the trees are sufficiently large for fire wood and when the quantity estimated that can be grown upon an acre, the present priec of wood would beeqnal to |600ftta«r»r -V jarlfce maxima of the wisest men are to {hwwti the M? la yrihet health, wt writ for AtdmiepMSlof disease. wtos la •hwi* check and guard again* the trrt approan*. Keep the etesaaeh and blood healthy aad sad ft* pfa^Mef apaiaaoed awmpkmreMl hsasfces. The oaly resaedy that UwiongMf pertly &e l*»d» tlsss strengthen aad Itilforsta the qytsas,ieMataaa^sSf^thsalag Certia! aad Meed T*I WcenisBd See a4wrtis«a«it

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Wasuxxotox, April 7,1858.

JSditor of Union:—A friend has been kind enough to place in my hands a copy of your paper containing the proceedings of an American meeting, held in your beautiful "city of the prairies," on the 80th of March 1-st. I obeerve, with pleasure, that my old friend, Col. Thompson, delivered a speeeh upon the occasion, filled with sstUmal and patriotic sentiments, each as we all know him to possess and that the resolutions breathe the true spirit of nationality, and have the true Union ring about them. Just as I had finished their perusal, a friend of mine, from the South—*ne whom. I have generally characterised as an unmitigated Democrat—called to see me, and wbile Tnrshd exultant mbod which they occasioned, I read them rt him csrcfally, and appealed to him, upon the score of old friendship, for a frank and candid opinion of them, rAfter a moment's reflection, he replied: "They are right—they contain the doctrines that are to preserve the Union, because they avoid extremes upon a question about which it is impossible for the North and Booth to agree, and I am ready to pledge myself to go with the party that maintains them, whatever its name. We have had enough of the tampering of Democratic and Republican demagogues." Upon this point we agreed entirely, although this friend of mine is now an activo and efficient Democrat I shall look for better things from him before long. **ft" 1

After he left me, the thought occurred to my mind that I should like to know what effect the'pernsal of these resolutions would have upon the sensitive nerves of an excitable Northern friend of mine, who is a most incorrigible JHepubliean. It took me but a moment to resolve upon making a call upon him, and I

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find hi alone. I read them to him and repeated the request I had made of my Democratic friend, and ho replied, but with somewhat more of hesitation:—"I can see no objection to them. I was once a member of the American party myself, and these resolutions express the sentiments which that party then professed.— I was pursuaded that it was best to abandon them and get upon the Republican platform, in order to catch the abolition vote but no more unfortunate step was ever taken. If we had not been misgnided into it, Mr. Fillmore would have been elected President—we should have had no such miserable swindle as the Lecompton Constitution, and the country would have been quiet. I am ready to get back upon this American platform again, and fight the Presidential battle of1860 upon it, un der the lead of the gallant Crittenden." And as he spoke these words, his fine eye expressed an earnestness which could not be mistaken. A few words more terminated our interview, and I left him better satisfied than before, if it were possible, that the resolutions of your meeting cannot foil to address themselves to the moderate and conservative men of alt parties, both North and South. The whole country must see—and it it rapidiy*coming to see it—that the American party is really the only national party for the future. The Democratic party has split upon the Lecompton Constitution, until it i* reduced to an exclusively southern, pro-Wastry and sectional party. The Republican party never was anything else but a sectional one. The American party, therefore, it the only national party—let fanatics, and agitators, and demagogues, id amne genus, say to the contrary ai much as they please. Upon all the questions which entered into our contests when the Whig party existed, it is just where that party always was.--

When I first obeerved that you had placed the name of Mr. Crlttendenat the head of your columns, aa a candidate for the Presidency in 1860, it occurred to my mind that the movement—however proper and right in iUelf—was premature.— Upon reflection, however, 1 do not think so, but, on the contrary, consider it a wise and pwdest stop. Tree, the next Presidential election is more than two years off, but then, what may there not be of evil in those two years, growing out of the existing state of things, if there is Mt eome point of common Union, where conservatism oau be sufficiently concentrated to check *he ravings of maddened partiaans aad faction ista, who feed and grew fat upon excitement, without the slighteat concernfor the ooontry.ita happiaes .er 4setiay The nsme of XnCrMn Garnishes this commoa ground of Union, and proeenta the best poeaibls opportunity for the comhtg tegetto again of many thousands of good -mm, a all part* of the country, who now find themselves in

false position, and who are eeekiag an op* portunity of getting out of it without further delay.

There it another view of (he matter too. The Republican leader* are getting uneasy at Che signs of the times. Mr. Hall, of Maseachnsette, who belongs to that party said, a week or two ago, in a speech made in the Ilonse of Representatives, that "the party or the future is ft to be formed. This must be understood to mean that the Republican party, as it stood upon the platform put together by the bungler* at Philadelphia, must be considered as a defunct concern* And that ii ia defunct, will be pretty soon apparent, if it is notalreadso. Yetit possesses all theelemen's of mischief it ever did, for thitf reason—that the politicians, editors and office expect ants who cling to it, are just a* ready to unite with ultra and extreme men, and to support ultra and extreme measures as ever. They united at Philadelphia with the abolitionists, and will do it again if it ptomieee to pay. They represent the same class precisely as infe*t this city and fill the offices here. Such men are always with the "powers that be." They constitute a great eating, consuming and deadly fungus upon the country, which must be cut out by the popular knife or it will eat to the very heart of our happiness and prosperity. This class, seeing their ranks broken, are getting ready to go to work now, without delay, to make new bargains with any body or party that they can make anything out of. I understand they have already begun in your State, more than a month ago, a State canvass for only a few State officers, although it is yet about seven months 'till the election. Why this ha*te in so small an election For the reason I have stated—tha*. it may servo as an advertisement that they are in the market again. Now, theso same men, as my Republican friend said to-day, deceived a good many very worthy men at the last Presidential election, and drew

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away from Mr. Fillmore, and thus elected Buchanan. Thousands of this class hao now got their eyes open, and if they sec that there is a chance for them to unite upou such a man as Mr. Crittenden, they will doit. Therefore, I think your movement a good one. But the Republican editors will curse you in their hearts for it, because it knocks their calculations right in the hoad. 1 hcy'll not exactly abuse you for it, because they cannot fail to see that the movement reaches the popular heart. There are a plenty of them, all over the North, who will go for Crittenden, when the movement gets fully under*way, and swear that they've been for him all the time Therefore, I say to you "God speed," in tho work you have

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It is not a little diverting to an outsider like me, to witnesa the boiling and bubbling of the political cauldron here. Everything centres in the Kansas imbroglio, and no two men converse for five minutes together without finding out how each stands on this question. With the administration and its supporter* the Lecompton Constitution furnishes the only test of Democracy. Though a man may have been, during the whole of along life, a follower of that party, through all its winding* and twiating*, yet if hiapolit* icai stomach revolts for a moment, at gulphing down this desperate swindle and miserable abortion, he is at once read out of the party. After the passage of the Kansas bill through the Senate, the other day, tho Washington Union,*' which everybody here understands to speak for the President and hia party, represented it as one of the "leading meaanrea" of Democracy, the defeat of which it declared would "cripple one of the soundest and purest democractic administrations that have ever extend in the country." (What will the old Jackson men say to this And then it thus discouraed "those Democrats who are now opposing, or getting ready to oppoaa the recognised policy of their party," in these terrible tons* of executive and party thunder:

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"Let those men take warning Aim the example* in history which we have laid before them, and learn from them the fate which iaia store for aB who Imitate he 3 "If they vote against the admission of Kansas under the Lseompton Constitution, aad susaesi in defeating it, what do they accomplish Not triumph for the Democracy, but a triumph against the Demecrwqr Mt the promotion of the interests of the party to which they profesa to he* long, and upon whose existence they know that the safety of the country depends, but of that organisation whidk theywfD not deny ia a foe to theConatitutioa attd the Union- And when they hare accom-

pliahed this—when they kavaiMW the Democratic party, and placed it beneath the heel of its enemy, can they expect longer to be considered one of its friends, or he atlowed to remain its organuattom.**

This is plain talk—understood here to be the cracking of the executive whip^— But it^d not avail. Theec men revolted at the lash and have nobly redeemed their pledge of honor to the country by firmly resisting to the last the "policy of the party." They have "stabbed the DemOcrat:e party" to the very heart, untint

now lies—like the hulk of some vessel stranded upon the shore—"beneath the feet of its enemies and for this act of patriotism, for which all good men will honor them, they will not "be allowed to remain in its organisation" any longer.— Thus a party, invincible but a little more than a year ago, goes to pieces upon the Kansas rock, and will serve to furnish, for the historian of other times,one of the most striking proofs of that demoralising tendency which must, sooner or later, follow all political organisations where devotion to honest principles is not the chief cor-ner-stone, but where the spoils, and nothing else, is the great and leading and controlling object.

The Senate ret urneu the Kansas bill to tho Hocse to-day, having, after some days of ridiculous delay, refused to concur in the amendment of the House, now known as the Crittenden-Montgomery Amendment. I have just heard that it is understood that the House will vote at one o'clock to-morrow upon the direct proposition to adhere, which, if carried, drives the last nail in the coffin of the Locompton ^Constitution and the administration too, unless tho Senate tshould hereafter come to its senses sufficiently to recede from its foolish and aub&ervient position. Some of the administration toadies pretend to think that the llffuso will back out, but I have no such expectation. In the very nature of things it i« not probable—for if a Rin5e man were to give way, every body would know that ho was bought up, and I do not believe there id one of them who, for all that Mr. Dnchanan can give, would bo willing to have seared into his forehead, with the brand of popular displeasure, *o deep a mat of infamy as would follow such and act.— We shall see to-morrow, and my prediction is that the column will not bo broken.

One expedient to which the* administration men are ic-sortiug to frighten the nn

ti-Lecompton Democrats in tho House is recolbct very well when this name Demo the cry that the

amendment

igin, either as it was first moved in the Senate by Mr. Crittenden, its real author, or with the amendments moved in the House by Mr. Montgomery. Nobody need be told that Mr. Crittenden is an American—the great and acknowledged lead er of a party which has shown itself, both in the North and South, too courageous to be frightened ard too incorruptible to be purchased. This amendment, then, has an American paternity. Mr. Montgomery is Douglas-Democrat, and when he moved his amendment it was understood to express the views of that portion of the Democracy in the House. This last araendmont, then, was of Democratic origin. True, the Republicans voted for them, and for this I am ready to accord to them all just praise. But it is equally true that there are two classes of Republicans, meeting esch other in opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, who act from far different motives. One of these classes voted for the Crittenden-Montgomery amendtaent because the Lecompton Constitution recognizes slavery, and for no other reason, and would vote sgainst any slavery constitution whether adopted by the people er not. These are such men as Giddings of Ohio, Colfax of yottr State, (who openly avowed it the other day,) and others, who are nothing more nor less than Abolitionists—who hate the South and are constantly striving to get others to help them hate it. The other class are conservative Republicans, who, like nay friend whoee conservatism I have repeated, have got into that party by a false step, taken more under the influence of feeling than judgment. These men are really willing to let the people of Kansas or any other Twritoty, when they come to form a State Constitution, settle the question of slavery for tlMBerives. Which of these two lis*—s constitute the aoajority of the RepobScan farty I cannot say. I think, however, that the latter does. It therefore is, to my mind, sign of brighter and better times that both these and the Beeig* lai-^emocrats cap find, in thi« greet and

healing •assure of Americaniem, moved by Mr. Crittenden, a eommon ground if union. Such body of mem, embodying in their creed all the conservatism of the country, both North and South, will save it from that anarchy with which the madness of Democratic taction on one side, or abolition faction on the other, would curse it ffej

of the House cratic paity denounced the extravagance of

ia a Black Republican measure. But Mr. Adams, bccaure his administration there's nobody so silly as to be gulled that t^pent $12,000,000 a year. Now, there is *ay. The statement is not true. The a bill pending in Congress, merely to pay Republicans had nothing to do with its or* the army deficiencies of the year, which

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The Utah war ia also giving Mr. Bach-' anan a good deal of trouble as Congresa seems disposed to look little too closely into the expenditures for carrying it on.— By the by, it will, I think, strike the public mind as rather curious, to say the least of it, that the army should have become so important a part of a Democratic administration as it is. It really seems as if the President, like the Emperor of Russia, or Louis Napoleon, or some other crowned head, could not get along without an army to enforce his measures. At the municipal election, in this city, last June, a gang of foreign bullies attacked some of the citisens who were on their way to thj polls to vote the American ticket, and when they turned upon them to inflict a deserved chastisement,'Mr. Buchanan ordered out a portion of the army of the United States and had them shot down in cold blood 1— for no other reason in the world, than because it was necessary to get the Irish vote to elect the pre*ent imbecile Mayor of this city. The result is such a general demoralization, that rows and murders are almost of nightly occurrence. The citizens have been compelled to ask Congress for protection by an increased police force, and some of them, through Mr. Marshall of Kentucky, have solicited an investigation into the circumstances connected with the "bloody Monday of June." This, however, has bern denied them, for the reason, of course, that it would prove to the country that the gang of foreign scoundrels who ightly prowl the streets like beasts of prey, and steal, rob and murder, havo been bheltered behind the protection they get from tho Democratic party, ao the prico that party is willing to pay for their votes and services at an election! 2

And so too, in both Kansas and Utah, the army has becomo an es eutial arm of execu»ive support, and every measure of Democracy has to be enforced at the point of thc£bayonct! Do not honest and oldfashioned Democrat* actually blush at this degeneracy of their party, in the same proportion that they once exulted in its strergth aud untarnished honor? I can

appropriates a sum estimated at somewhere between #8,000,000 and $12,000,000. Just think of this—for deficiencies alone. Let the tax payers think of it.— The expenditures will soon reach $100,000,000 a year! And about as much of this to keep up an army to help a Democratic President torairy on the government, as Mr. Adams expended for the whole public service!

I could pity poor Buchanan if he deserved bu£he does not. I saw him at his late levee, and as he stood like a mere machine, extending his hand to every comer, his melancholy look and sunken eyes told, too plainly, how he was troubled at the discovery that he had wrecked his party, and made himself both the tool and sport of a set of miserable political desperadoes. I hare no pity tor him, nor will the country havo. The u!tra disunionists who started this Leeompton Scheme and contrived to tangle him in this net, when they find that he ia too imbecile to consumate their purpose, will turn upon him with their madness whetted snd their wrath increased by disappointment. And his real friends, who would have led him in the path oftruo duty, having lost all confidence in him, can no longer come to his defence. So that, before two more moon* shall come and ge, he will have fairly reaped the reward that always follows duplicity and deceit, as surely as the needle points to the pole—that is universal execration. This is strong language to apply to the President of the United States, but none other will express the public judgement.

8mce I have ventured thus to malm your acquaintances, without the formality of an introduction, I may, if it shall be your pleasure, again obtrude upon you such thought* as are excited ia my mind by an observation of matters and things «id men from this great political "standpoint." Though we may never see each other fecetofece, we may thua mingle our sympathies in the greet cause of mrffswal Amerkstmtm, which, is I verily believe In

my eonaciere*, furni*hea the true and only ground upon which the peace, happiness and honor of the whole Union san be preserved. CA*JTULLUS.

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On tlx 13th tn*t, at the mddcncc of her daughter, Mrs.LOUISA PLANKTT, aged 66 yean. The faaeral w'.tl take place lUa a&eraooa at 3 o'clock, tram the rraidenc* of her Soo-in-law, Mr. Joseph Wright on 5th street.

The Mends ef the family are invited to attend.

Xn. 1. X. Kiss Jane Xnapp, At Uh* rp«idene* ot Mrs. E. I. Knapp, &1 floor. No. 9, MechamicV Row, rrsfiectfully announce to the Ladtea of TerreHaute, that they will carry on tfw Dtv*s Making bosraesa in Ito ail hnutehce.

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and after the IS inst^ the sahacrtbert will be prepared to furnish all the parly vef*Mhies that may be hi season. For the presntt, wo trill hare them on Wednesday and Friday afternoons, and in market on Thursday and Saturday tannings. We may be fou.id at the Adams Exprow Ofice until fur: h*r notice.

April 19,-dSt. JOHN S. CORSON ft CO.

SHERIFFS

SALE—By Tirtne of one order of

sale i&>otd from the Vigo Common PleaM Court to me directed and delivered in f»ror of W. R. Tnell, ami against W. F. Lewis and Buah, Ellen Lewis. I am ordered to sell the following described Real Estate, t»-wil: Lot No. onr(I), and twelve feetaeren and one third ineheaof south side of Lot, No. Two, in Jewett* subdivision of Lota No. 273 and 974, in the town of Terre-Ranta aa th« same appears in the Recorded Plat ot mid aubdivision, and 1 will on Monday, May 3d 1 within the legal hours of said day, at the Court1 House in Terrs Haute, oSor the rents and pn.fi'n of naid premises for seven years f»r sale to tho higheM bidder for cash, awl if the «ame hould fail to veil for a Mufficient sum to satisfy •alii order of sale, I will then and them offer the firs aimple to said pronfrty to satistv *«tJ execution ami cost*, ap. iVw3w W. ii. STEWART, Sheriff.

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flnvo received during the last ten tisys in addition to ot:r foruic stock, tlw following Goods: .VK» Stella Shawls f00 Stella Shawl* GOO Stella Shawls

Rich Printed Csihmere SitawU, Rich Printed Ca»htner* Vliaw •*, Rich Piinted Oaahmn* Shawls,

Blk and.Col. Centres from to 12,00 tarh.

Rlf-gant Summer Silks, Elegant Sutnm Silks, Elegant Vummcr Silks, From 50c to $2,00) d.

500 ynrds Lawns snd j4i kon a, 5*tO yard* Litan* on«l Jsckoti* u, 500 jardj Lawns ami J»cnimu,

Real French Orpindics, Real French Organdies, Real Freiicli Organdies,

100 dot Kid Olores at 35 worth 75 100 do* Kid Rlov^i* at 35 worth 75 100 dot Kid (Jlovcn at 35 worth 7&

Swiss and Jaconet Setts, Swiss and Jaconet Setts, from $1,00 to 19,00. Swiss and Jaconvt Scits,

All kind# of Embroideries All kinds ol Embroideries, from Aue. All kinds jf Embi-oidtrU'S,

New French Chinif, New French Chihtz, New French Chintz,

llesuMAil Chath, Beoutiful Challi, from 15 to 25c. Beautiful Challi,

Black Dress Silks, "f" 25 Pieces extra Bile Dr. ss Silks from 60c to $0j00y. EDSALL. McDOlTGAL

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Late Rice, Bilsall 4c Ccf.

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