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Tito other Bank, which we referred to in our last paper, to-go into operation in this place, and whtoh will make the fourth one under tho New Banking law, Is to bo called the Southern Bank and is owned by two gentleman from Eric P?,, Messrs Jos. II. Williams and Charles B. W right. I he capital Block we learn, will be $ ICO,0 0. Let'er rip.

CONGRESS.—Wo have as yet received nothing of importance from Congress. Quite a spirited debate has been going on since the last organization, MI regard to the credentials of Hon. Archibald Dixon. It is tho current impression from what we can learn that he will be unable to secure a seat in the Senate. The matter has afforded much speculation. The committees for tho session have been selected in both hosci. The following are tho positions upon the various committees assigned to the members from Indiana. Our worthy member has been again assigned to tho chairmanship of the committee on publio expenditures, and the committee on the Militia.

Committee of Ways and .Means Cyrus L. Dunham. Committee on Claims—Dan'l. Mace. Committer on District of Columbia—Daniel Mace. Committee on tho Judiciary—Samuel W. Parker. Committee on Public Expenditures—John G. Davis, Committee on Agriculture—Samuel Brenton. Committee on Indian Affairs—Graham N. bitch. Committee on Military Affairs—Willis A. GornHhi. Committee on tho MilUia—-John (t. Davis. Committee on Mileage—Thomas A. Uentlxicks. Joint Commitieo on Printing—Willis A. Gorman. Committee on the Territories—James Lockhart. Committee on Roads and Canals—John L. Robinson. Committee on Expenditures in tho Treasury Department—T. V. Hendricks.

PROF. LARK.*BEE, tho Superintendent dect, of Public lusiruciion, delivered tho introductory Lecture of the course before the Mechanics' Historical Society of this plaae, on Tuesday evening last. Tho discourse was a most chaste and classic ono, and was listened to with profound attention by it large and respectable audience. We are gratified to see that the course of Lectures contemplated by this Association, has commenced under such favorable auspices. Tbey arc highly interesting as well

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J7 PiCTa &Mrm4r, No. 36 Walnut fit .Clnclnumtl.are our authorized agents to obtain advertiaeiaeati aiui cub* aeriptlOBe for ue In that city.

S3TS. M. PETTCHHLL & C*, Newspaper advertising •grtiU, are authorised to receive advertisements and tubeeriplioas for us, and receipt for the nine. 1 i»etr office®

NEW YORK, 122 Naaeaa St.

BOSTON, 10 State St.

IT Wt are authorized to annoance THOMAS ROBBINS a* a candidate (OF the office of Marshal of TerreHaute. Ktectlou, on Monday, 3d day of January, 1853.

The Trader's Bank.

This i* new Bauk, hailing from Terra Haute but t* doing business in New York, where the hills circulate at a small discount. Not one dollar tiae y«rt made its apperance in Terre Haute or any office opened for if« redemption. This shows the beauty of the systen

We 6nd the above in the Sentinel of the 18th Inst., It is tiue thst there is no office or Bank for the redemption of such notes in this place, nor hare any bills upon a Bank so called, as yet, circulated in this region, it certainly does not speak favorably for the credit of the institutions, that their circlation is in places remote from their nom inal location?. These billecanbe nothing more than mere notes ol credit, which may or may not be convertabie into the currency of the world. The presumption, however, must be certainly against them. When a distant section of the country Is flooded with promises to pay by a Bank, which has no "local habitation," any where, fears may bejuiily entertained of their value. The requisitions of the lawH of Indiana in regard to Free Hanks may have been complied with to the letter, in the issue of these bills, but it is a serious defect in the system, that the office for deposit end redemption is only nominal in its location. It opens a wide field for the commjsion of the grossest frauds, and will have a tendancy to bring the whole system in disrepute* The Democratic policy of the country has always been opposition lo all Banks and chartered monopolies, but if we must have banks for commercial and businem facilities, let them be free Banks. The expansion of the banking system may bo the forerunner of another mercantile crash involving ruin to thousanJs ol innocent persons, and affording facilities t» the few to enrich themselves from tne misfortunes of the many. Exchage on the east is now at a discount. This might have been reasonably expoeted from the high price of western produce. We shall not however assumo prophetic Inspiration for tho purposes of foreboding dire calamities, we shall hope for the best, if tlva worse dose como.

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a most liberal patronage., The next Lecture will b« delivered, on Monday ©vetting next, by Judge SMITH of the Supreme Court.

0^- The Covington Frieud says: N. F. Cubingham. Esq Treasurer of Vigo county, is a candidate for Trustee of the W. it tv Canal. 'Nat is a good democrat and a hard 'hoss' to beat, as the whig* of the banner whig county of Indian have ascertained to thcit sorrow on many occsjuons.

MSSRY Caaiyrsus,—To mcrrow 1$ Christmas. Mow ii»*rry aouc we shall see. VVe have heard of nothing special to b* done, with the excepOoa of an exhibition of the Agricultural Society at the Court House. Tie uausl number of Roast Turkic*, Mince Ties, etc will Ue doiioiteas set ted up. •Hat, drink, and be merry* for to morrow thou shall

Oar friend Or. Jou* U. Washington city, is a candidal* &r MarahsUbip of the District of Columbia. Dr 8- is a polite and accomplished gentleman, and decided and unwavering Beaocrat We hope fee may receive the appoint-

meat. -1?' .J "A Ct*mf«-s Rett* ~-Pasrrtg*r9 fc-rro thisplace "to Lstayenc lt«h*o»p4is. ic»ch Lafaj, married in this city ette .« one day. *ere

Another Candidate for SeMtsr. Hon. E. W. H. ELus- ibe present able auditor of State, and late Editor- of the Indiana Statesman, is urged by the Goshen Democrat, and Fort Wayne Times, as a suitable person for the vacant seat in tile 0. S. Senate. If Dr. Ellis would make as good a senator as he has, an efficient Auditor* Indiana would not suffer from his representation^ Mr. L« a Aorthem candidate,

OCr By the following list of the former Unfa Stales Senators from Indiana, and their residences,' will be seen that the claims of ike Norih(l) for th vacant seat, don't amount to so much after all that portion of ihe state having been heretofore fully represented. For the Northern Demooratic press lo urge the election ofa man from that sectiou the Stale, as a matter or right is simply ridiculous. The interests of Indiana most assuredly should not be made subservient to the local habitation of her politicians. A contest for the senatorship should be a contest of merit and Statesmanship, and not a mere local and sectional struggle. The following is the residence of the former Senators from this State.

James Noble, Brookville vValler Taylor, Vin cennes William Hendricks, Madison J*hn_ Ti ton, L'»gansport Oliver Il.Smith, Connersville A) bert S. While, Lafayette Edward A, ilannegan, Covington Jesse D. Bright, Madison James Whitcomb, Terre Haute. Two Senators have been appointed to fill vacancies: Robert Ilanna, Indianapolis Charles W. Cathcart, Laporte.

We noticed the fact in our last paper that Sacramento city was again in ashes. The loss occasioned by the Conflagaiion is enormous, about ten millions. Among the sufferers by the fire are the following from Terre Haute. We learn by a letter from Newton Booth addressed to his father, that the sufferers are not disheartened, but are begining to rebuild more extensively than before. Such perseverance is worthy of success.

Lucius A. Booth, of Terre-Haute, building. $25,000 Edward F. Dicks, formerly of Greencastle,building and furniture, 5,0C0

Farshee «k Reynolds, (Wat Reynolds, of Terre (Iaute.) building and stock. 30,000 Reynolds & Co., building and stock 42,000

Smith & Booth, (Newton Booth, of Terre-Haute,) stock, 18,000 Smith & llerriugton, Herrington of Greencastle, furniture, 3,600.

An article of ours in regard to the improvement of Terre Haute, its present condition and future prospects, we have the pleasure of seeing copied into the National Intelligencer. This, we regard as a compliment to our city, and to the article in question. If we can elicit the aid of the great National organ of the whig party, and some other standard sheets, in our efforts to advance the interests of }ho Terre Ilaute, she will not suffer from want of notoriety.

03-Our young friend JOH.V C. TURK has puchased the Putnam county Sentinel, and will hereafter publish it as a Demooratic paper. The Democracy of Patnam have long suffered from the want of an ofiicient county organ. We hope it will be well sustained.

We forgot to notice in our last issuo that W. K. EDWARES Esq is tho Agent of the Clay Monumental Association, Tor this city. To subscribe to a monument in memory of tho illustrious sage of Ashland, would doubtless gnatify many of the warm admirers of Kentucky's favorit, son.

WHOLESOADVICE.—Bro. Turman of tho Covington Friend advises us to marry instanter. We would gladly avail ourselfof the advice of one who has thouroughly tested the pains and pleasures of bachelordom, but at present there are some slight obstacles which we fear might prove insurmountable.

MR. WIM.IAN SAGS has, at his Bakery and Confectionary establishment, on National Road street, a large and complete assortment of everything in the line of confections, toys, sweet meats, dtc. His show window makes an admirablo display.

More Houses*

Tho Indianapolis Sentinel is complaining for the want ofa sufficient number of houses to accommodate persons desiring to locate in the city. We h««r the same complaint in this place daily.— There arc no empty tenements in Terro Haute, begging an occupant, at least none that are habitable antl two hundred erected next season, would not be long without tenants. The scarcity of houses, we have no doubt, prevents many an industrious mechanic and artisan from locating in our beautiful Prairie City. AV'e understand that preparations axe being made for the erection of more buildings, next summer, Shan in any previous season. This speaks cncoursgeingly for the rapid, but healthful growth ol our ptiMge.

PRETTY SHARP.—In answer to the question of •'who is Franklin Pierce?" a whig replies: ,, We've got your answer, 'twas prompt mad quite emphatic too ifFW*!

How kind to thus dispel oar cloud? Bui pray, hereafter when a civil questions put'V you,

Speak one't a time, and not so thundering load!

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C£r We shall soon be abte lo give la an official form, the results- of the recent Presidential election throughout the United States, ss well with regard to the popular as the electoral votes. As fsr as ascertained stated thus

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NEW YORK.-TIIO official vote of New \ork is as follows:— Pierce, 262,158

Scott, 234,880 Hale, 25,433 Scattering, 453 Pierce's majority over Scott, 27,269 over all, 1-377*

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The Hotels in this city have oeen smashing business lately. The Woodruff House was closed on the lihh tnst by a Sheriff's attachment.

The Burnett House,the crack tioii^e of the vest, is advertised for sale for the non payment of taxes. The amount of delinquency is upward of #5000.

The Sibson House has lately changed bands, the recent proprietor being su*«* about $3 00. The Wave fly House has been lately sold under the sheriffs hammer.

The Hotels in Terre Haute we may remark, do a sotaehing business also, but not in the same way a* the Cincinnati Houses. In the first place they hav* the best of cufe**, aad they give th« bust of •ecttmmodattoe. so both the entertainer and the a in

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The Vote for Hale»-Official.

As the official returns from all the Free States, with the exception of California, have now been received, we are enabled to give the correct Abolition vote of the North. It amounts to 155,498. In 1848 the same party polled 291,373 votes for its Presidential candidate, showing a falling off of nearly one-half in four years. The Abolition agitation is rapidly dying out in this country, and tho probability is thai it will soon be among the things that have been. The great mass of its supporters are in the three States of Ohio, Massachusetts, and New York, in which it polled, respectively, 31,782, 28,023, and 25,433 votes. General Pierce has received at least 60,000 more votes, for the Presidential office, than all his competitors put together

Postage Receipts.

The President mentions a fact in regard to postages, which we had hardly anticipated—a decrease in postage receipts, the last fiscal year, of nearly a million and a half. He does not, howevever, favor a return to higher rates of postage.

The National Treasury.

The balance in the Treasury on tho 1st July, after paying nine and a half millions of the Public Debt, amounted to $14,632,136. The whole receipts during the last fiscal year, were $49,728,386.

DEATH OF

ICHABOD CRANK."—Jesse Merwin

died in Kinderhook, N. Y., on the 8th ull., at the age of 70 years. The Kinderhook Sentinel says: He passed much of his time in the society of Washington Irving, then a preceptor in the family of the late Judge Van Ness, of this town. Both were engaged in congenial pursuits, and their residence being only a short distance apart, the author of the

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employed, and subsequently immortalized his name by making him the hero of one of his inimitable tales—'The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow.' Every* body who has read that inimitable Legend—and what lover of genuine humor has notf—will remember that hapless wight, Ichabod Crane, and his terrible adventure with the 'Headless Horseman.' Mr. Merwin was the original of that character, 03r Breakfasting at 11 o'clock in the morning, and dining at 12 o'clock at night, is now the rage" among the superlatively fashionable people, whose tender susceptibilities induce them to prefer the refined light of tho silver moon to the artizanlike blase of the golden sun. Ah, Fashion! thou art a fickle, uncomfortable jade, whose gay and varying attire cannot conceal the rankling disease which lurks within thy hollow eye, and the mind destroying contagion thou impartest, soon or late, to thy votaries. r*- -fts* %«.?%• n»

There are eight thousand hotels, drinking saloons and dram shops in New York, and the mount expended in them is smazing, almost exexceeding belief. If the daily sales average ten dollars each, which is a very low estimate, the amount will be 990.000 a day, $2,4000,000 a month and $20,000,000 a year. The New Yorkers certainly do "take a tittle something."

TRS WEATHEA has been very pleasant for the past week, cool and bracing, until yesterday when il appearrthat the windows of heaven were opened, it Gaining incessantly all day. The activity in the P»tk trsde is begining to abate. Potk is firm at

Prof. Di.tm RSAD, of the Indiana State University Mil deliver a Lecture before the Mechanics' Historical Society 00 Thursday evening next, the 3tb kftk Prof. R. is one of the most accomplished scholars in the State. He was a prominent member of the Coostimtional Convention.

Beveriy l?. Sanders has been appointed Collector at San Fteocisco, in the place of Thomas But ler King, retigoed. We notice by the result of the late Presidential election that 8,100 votes was oast in Sen Ft^ncisco. in i&OO when Mr. Jefcrson was elected. the whole vole te the city of New York was 5,600. j|'Tl«s shows an eatouiskisfcing and rapid increase of the population of our Pacific

««y. Ll Socae 500 Chinese sailed (ram Sea Francieco, for China, recently

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The Contested Election froaa Keatacky. The following extract from the Nationel Intelligencer of yesterday states the point at issue between Hon. David Meriwether end Hon. Archibald Dixon. We agree with ihe Intelligencer in saying that "the right of the matter appears to ua so plain as scarcely lo admit of two opinions on ihe subst,:' although it is probable that we may differ klely from that journal when its opinions are

Lted as to the righi of a senator to crea!e a vacanat a future period by anticipation, which perihe may not live to see:— Union: i'lf rumor speaks truly, there is to be in the Uties Senate at the present session a case of conted election of anew character Mr. Clay it will recollected, some time before his lamented ), addressed a communication to the Legislate of Kentucky resigning his seat in the Senate |a and first Monday in September last,

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ereupon the Legislature duly elected the Hon. Dixon, supply the anticipated vacanBut Mr. Clay died some two months re the time fixed for his resignation to take ofan actual vacancy was created, which the rernor of the State immediately filled by the Ointment of the Hon. David Merriwether, who red the remainder of the last session. It is I that both Mr. Dixon and Mr. Merriwelher are in this city as claimants of ibis seal, the one ming to hold over under the executive appointit, (there having been no meeting of the Keacy Legislature since Mr. Clay's death,) and the ir claiming by virtue of a regular election by

Legislature. The right of the mailer appears •s to be so plain as scarcely to admit of iwo lions on the subject."

'he smart young men alluded in the following lagraph ought to emigrate. Legal examination .the present day are mere bagatele. But the fny part of the affair, after all is, that the Judge uld have cried about it. It must have been a 'i blending of justice with mercy. But read the paragraph ''Several law Students were examined for admission at the recent term of the Supreme Court in Buffalo, and all rejected. Mr. Justice Marvin addressed them on the occasion with tears in his eyes." -R —HI

A Chinese Theatrical Company have arrived in California—having been sent out by speculators in China. The cost of freighting their scenery, inc., was about $10,000 including passage for the performers. By the way, the Alta Californian describes a Chinese festival, which came of there on iho 27th of October, thus:

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noise was indescribably awful. An ava

lanche in the Alps doubly distilled patent thunder, or a dozen grizzlies in a cane break, does not even give an approximating idea of the nature of the noise. It was confusion worse counfounded in a superlative degree. Fortunately the procession moved on, and it was only after the lapse of an hour that the city resumed its usual aspect.

CtiT A man, says the Cincinnati Commercial, hod the tip of his nose cut off lately, by a barber on Front Street, who, while engaged in shaving him. fell asleep, and the blade of the razor which he held, descended upon the customer's proboscis, and shortened it by the sixteenth of en inch. The outraged customer immediately knocked the darkey down and would have beaten hirn to death had he not been prevented.

OCT Advices from Australia aro as late as 2d of September. They confirm all the previous accounts with regard to the yield of gold. For the month or two previous to the above date, it was estimated there averaged £400,0C0 a week. New deposits are constantly being discovered, and in one instance £6,000 was obtained by one party in a single morning. The receipts in London amounted to as much as $1,000,000 in a week.

(KT The New York Expres gives the following account of a late speech made by Hon. John P. Hale: "John P. Hale, having occasion to make some kind of a speech down in Salem a few days ago, went in strongly for the annexation of all the regions round about, provided they came peacebly with free Institutions but he "would not accept the Garden of Eden, as it came from the hand of God, filled with beauty and adapted as the home of bliss, if it brought with it the curse of slavery."

OCr A sigular matrimonial bargin took place, not long since, in Missouri, in the vicinity of St. Joseph, which, within our memory, has not a precedent.— Two married men who lived near each other, became, from reason best known to themselves, dissatisfied with their own wives, and took a faypy, each for the other's spouse. Matters being thus Ihe better-halves were consulted as to a change, and expressed themselves willing to accede to any measures that would keep peace in the family. Each wife took her neighbor's husband, and has since lived contenily in her new home.

0^7" The Panama Star says that Santa Anna is about to sail from Carthagena, New Grenada, to put himself at the head of the revolution in Mex£1*45 rsi? ,Mf 'J*

It costs $35,000/100 to pay the salaries of American lawyers $12,000,000 are paid out annually to keep our criminals, and $10,000,000 to keep the dogs among us alive while only $6,000,000 are spent annually to keep to 16,000 preachers in tbe United States.

A WOXAM'S MAW.—Gerrit Smith says: 'Were you to ask who elected met I would answer, tbe women. The women plead and prayed for me, and I am elected. Thanks to die women for aucb a result.* "§j|f

Another grand temperance revival is in pro*' pectu in Indiana polis, Sreet meeting* have commenced. A most excellent field for tbe Temperance reform. God speed them.

(£7- Another magnificent hotel, tbe St. Nicholas, said to surpass even the Metropolian,is about to be opened in New York.

The most popular drayman in Chicago is an Irishman, a regular graduated physician, who took that means to live independently rather than iolio# Ms profession and starve respectably.

ftSr In Texas they can hire Mexpan 'peons* for twelve cents a day, while a slave—wear and tear— costs tbe planter sixty ceots adiy.

Mk» Dofis says the first time a oee! sleeve encircled her waist she was in a peviliion built ol rainbows, die window trifle of which were composed of .£oiisn harps.

A man who loved madly wffi laugh at his madness as soon as he has got cared of it: but a woman never las«hs on men asubjett. With her fore madness of which she never sees fWTlbflyT

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judging what the price will be a coming winter, than farmers, and if you aro offered $4,0C# per hundred, you may take it as pretty good evidence that it will be worth more at packing time. No' responsible man will make large contracts months before the season, unless there is a good prospect of realizing a handsome profit. T. READ.

RAISING PIGS.—Raising pork, if made a prominent portion of a farmer's business, will bring in as much ready money, and produce as much nett profit as any one branch of his business.—Breeding pigs for market is profitable, and those of the most approved kinds will always meet with a ready sale at fair prices. It was formeily thought that there wa3 some risk in attempting to raise pigs, for it was frequently tho oase that a portion of the litter would die when a fe\y days old, and sometimes the sow would eat a portion of them as soon as they were born.—Bui since "book farming" has become so common, remedies hove been found for boih those evils, and now there is no more risk in raising pigs than in raising calves. The pigs and sometimes the sow dies from over feeding, and by the use of improper feed ailer her accouchmeut. —No milk or greasy slop should bo given for three or four days. The best food is a thin gruel of scalded Indian meal dealt out in rather small quantities. When the pigs aro a week old you may feed on whatever you wish to give them, aud as abundantly as you please.

A hog requires both vegitable food, and when her appetite is not gratified she willsaciate il on her own offspring. A breeding sow should therefore be well supplied with meat or fish of some kind with her other food, especislly for a week or two prior to the birih of the pigs. Regard theso rules and all risk of losing your pigs vanishes.—N. E. Cultivator.

A gentleman in Alabama writes thus: We have lately received a most valuablo addition to our varieties of tho sweet potatoe, supposed from Peru. It is altogether different and equally superior lo any variety of this root hitherto known. It is productive, and attains a prodigious size, even upon the poorest sandy land, and the roots remain without change -from the time of taking tliam out of the ground until the following May. The plant is singularly easy of cultivation, growing equally well from the slip or vine, the lop or vine of a lull grown plant being remarkably small the inside is as white as snow. It is dry and mealy, and the saccharine principle contained resembling in delicacy of llavor fine virgin honey.

George Ltuv.

This distinguished American merchant and khip owner whoso nem®n connection with the Crescent Cily difficulty, has become notorious all over the country, and who is now ono of the most wealthy capitalists in New York, was formerly a journeyman stone mason, and has made his immense fortune solely by t!ie exertion of his own abilities. Ho got his first start in the way of wealth by building a section of tho high bridge over the Harlem river, a job which he contracted for, and out of which he made forty thousand dollars. He is now President of tho Dry Dock Bank, is the principal ownes of the line of steamers between that city and Havana, and is likewise largely interested in those plying on iho Pacific side, between Chagres and Panoma and San Francisco. His personal appearance is thus described by the.Boston Herald: "His persona] appearance is not prepossessing. He is six feet in height, with shaggy black hair flying in all directions, a tremendous pair of whiskeis, and a face in which can be seen, as in a mirror, the prominent elements in his character—determination, perseverenco, fixedness of purpose— we might almost say, obstinacy. This was bhown in the action he took in relation to tbe Crctent City affair."

Lonic Nnpoleon.

The New York Courier and Enquirer thinks the world has been greatly mistaken in the character of Louis Napoleon, the world is beginning to find it out. In the course of its remarks, the Courier says:

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Ressoas why Fanieri shoatd not Enffat6 their Perk eatil the Fsekts Season Commence*. 1st. You can deliver it when it is fatted, or your corn exhausted, in short, when you are ready whereas, if you bargain it away early in the season the buyer, if ihe' price of pork advauces, will wait till the last day of the contract before taking your hogs away, without any regard to your convenience. This applies particularly to those who presuming, yet cool and eelf-poseised in a renjarkable degree. Ho evidently reels that he is not yet

sell on fool 2nd. In case of a fall in the price of pork, three chances to one the buyer will breakup or run away, and so you gam nothing at last. Besides, what honest Farmer would not prefer taking tho market price for his pork, to seeing the merchant stripped of his all, partly through his agency. If the price advances, he shows you no mercy. shoulders, nor that depth of chest, indicating the 3rd. Pork dealers have better opportunities "of most vigorous constitution, -Hi-* complexion, too.

It so happened, that when in the winter of 1836 he landed in this city from Brazil, where he had been exiled by Louis Phillippe, we were the first acqusintance he made in this country and his first evening in the United Ststes were spent at our table, in company with Gen. Scott and otner guests. This circumstance was the cause of our seeing mnch of him while in this country, and we subsequently saw a {great deal of him in London. Tbe result of our intercourse was a conviction that he was a man of far greater tslent than the world gave him credit for, and that considering the peculiar charaoter of the French people, it was impossible to predict. There was one man in England, however, who saw and predicted the future of Louis Nspoleon and that man was Sir Robert Peel. He saw more of the exile than any of the statesmen in England and he not only declared him to be a man of extraordinary talent, but boldly predicted that if he lived,

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CLOCK iHCEStmr.—A citizen of Ithica, New York, has invented a clock, and is now goiog largely into the manufactory of tbe article, which will run for one year without winding or. setting, and in addition to its value as a correct time-piece, its calendar exhibits tbe month, ihe day of the month, the day of the week, and the year, The machinery of the olock is simple, and Us movement* are strictly accurate. Its designations of the day of tbe month i* surprising. For the months having but 30 days it denotes that number, and so fur 31 days, while for February it points to only 28, 'except for leap.year 29/

BiGAiti.—Do not the United State* 1aw« against bigamy extend to Salt Lake City? Governor Brigham Young has, in hie splendid mansion in in that cily, sixteen wives trad thirty children.-

Mr.-Prestou.King hss laid before the House a hoi making penitentiary offence for any government officer, or out of Congress, to be interested in any claim against the United 8tates.

Lcarr Fruxiw.—An irishman reeidtding in Rome, Oneida,county has recently become heir to 9100,009 and the interest there** for sixty yea«sf

TI# Desaocratio President*

"A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald writes as follows front Concord is relation to Gen. Pierce: I have had the pleasure of several little interviews with Gen. Pierce. 9 IJo is a man of mark, a mao, of education, a man of accomplishments in the ways of the world a shrewd politician, and of broad and comprehensive views as a statesman. Hi* face Ms expressive, and genial and intelligent. He affable and pleasing in his mariners, modest and un-

been tried to the measure of his capacities and. what is better, he has the power involuntarily of convincing you of the fact. He has an agreeable voice, speaks readily, freely fluently, atfU correctly but he keeps his own counsels in all matters requiring the exercise of a saving discretion.

In person he is about five feet nine inches high, strait and slenderly built. Ho has not that breadth

is pale, and his face thin, excepting the extraordinary expansion of his lower jnw but he is ono of that wiry, active class ofmen. all muscle and netve, and capable of all sort of hardships and endurance. Fremont, who has sus'«i:ied the miit incredible trials of starvation, and cold, and snow, in the depth of winter, among the inhospitable peaks and dreary defiles of the Rocky mountains, and tho Sierra Nevada, is ono of the same sort—spare and delicate, but elastic, and muscular, and tough, and hardy as Kit Carson. James K. Polk, who could ride on horse-back sixty miles day, in tho middle of July, and make three or four stump speeches of aquarterofan hour each, was of the same spare construction. So was Marion so was Napoleon in his prime so was Wellington so was Horatio Nelson so wa9 Jefferson so was Old Hiokory, and so was Harry Clay. General Pierce has precedents in the greatest abundance to make a merit of being neither a Falstaff nor a Hercules.

MARBIED—On Thursday, 2d inst., at the residence of her father, by Rev F. C. Holliday, Mr. Jotham Belden to Miss. Margaret liolden, all of this city.

We learn from those who wero present on the occasion, that the ceremony was more than usually interesting. The beautiful young brido was mute—a graduate of our Slate Asylum, and accomplished as*she is fair. The ceremony at loast her part of it, we learn, had been written out by Mr. H.,and presented to the bride just bofore tho parties came upon the floor. Hence when the usual questions were asked Miss H. responded with a graceful assent, and a atranger would never have dreAmed that the queenly brido bel'oro him was passing iti the eloquence of .silence to the bowers of Hymen —Latorencrbnrgh Press.

(&" Measures are being tuken to import a large number of Chinese laborers into Cuba, to be employed in the ordinary labors of the plantation.--Latest advices from Havana, state that tho first cargo is daily expected.

Few women keep

diary after their

firit

love.

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In tlil» place, #n th« lftli Intl., ot ll* re*iJeni'o of John Evim*, RAMUEt. W. HOWE to Mlsa vRTUA MARTIN, by Rev. AARON WOOD.

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In Otbuon eountv, on the 7th Inst., of rong««*tl»o chilli, Mr. JAME§ ADAMS, contractor on the Wabash and Erto Canal, oroJ 41 year#.

KW AI KHTIS KM ttNTS.

IH BI.IC LECTI IIKSI.

There will bo a icrici of ten or more Public Lecture* delivered before tho .MECHANIC*' JIIITORICAL SOCIETY,by vmiou* dUtlnguUhod Individual!, during iho preiont 'vlntur.

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I. N. COLTRIN".

Drtembflr 15, 1852. Course of Lectures. The second Lecture of the Course to be delivered this winter before the MECHANIC*1 1II*TORICAL 8oc«r.TT, will be give ti, by Hon. T. L. SMITH, 011 Monday evening next, (37th lust.\ at the Universalis Church.

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Dooember 24, 1852.

Schoolmaster Wanted,

A MALE Teecher, for the DUtrict School, at 1 J\. Nums, Parke couniy. Ono competent lo teach the various branches of a good English education, can find a situation on application to

J. W. SHIELDS,

Dee. 24th, 185343«t3 Triyitee.

Toy Emporium—Fancy. Fixins! t? 8. WOLFE has just received any quantity *1~J* of Toys and Fancy Notions for CHRISTHAS and NEW YEAR PRESENTS. Parent* rishing to Ucklo the "young Ideaa" fancy, will iImm "*nl! ftllfi MA*'

December 24,1852.

TIIE WOLFE.

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