The Wabash Courier, Volume 10, Number 2, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 September 1841 — Page 2

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FOREIGN NEWS.

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ARRITAL OF THE

BRITANNIA,

./^FIFTEEN DAYS LATTER FROM ENGLAND, f?"' The Steam-Ship Brita*wia, Capt.Cleland, arrived in our harbor thie morning, and hauleA up to the wharf at ten minute* after four. She sailed from Liverpool on the 19th August, and brings papers of that place to that date, London papers of the 18th, and intelligence from Franc? to the 16th.

The det.uls of political movements are not particulaly interesting. The news from China by the qyorland mail is Hot to late as that received in this country by Iat,e arrivals from Canton.

GUEAT-BRITA1N.

Parliament was to meet on the 19th August.— Lord John Ruwell had addressed a circular to the ministerial members of the House of Commons, in the following terms:—-"A* upon life meeting of Parliament on Thursday, the 19th of August, the House of Commons will immediately proceed to 'the choice of a Speaker, and to the consideration of business of the highest importance, I take the liberty of earnestly requesting your attendance on that day. I have the honor to be," &c. 8cc. It is stated in some of the papers that Sir Robert Peel had communicated to Mr. C. Shaw Lefevre his intention to support the rc-eleciion of that gentleman, in the event of his being proposed on the meeting of the new Parliament, as Speaker of the

House of Commons. It is stated in the London Observer that Her Majesty had signified her intention of opening the Parliament in person on the 24th inst., on which day the Royal Speech would be delivered from the throne, "tte intermediate days from the 19tb would be occupied in swearing of the members ot the. House of Commons, after the electioq and the approval of the Speaker by Her Majesty. The Globe of the 17th says, however, whh regard to this, tlvU as, in Her Majesty's present condition, any undertaking involving anxie'y or fatigue might prove Injurious, Dr. Locbck has interposed his veto*, and that the new Parlament will be opened by commission, instead of by the Queen in person ~On the 14th of August it was confidently asserted in the city, says the London Morning Herald, by generally well informed and most respectable merchants, that five ships of war had been ordered to proceed immediately to the coast of the United

States, and that they were there to be joined by ten other vessels of her Majesty's navy from foreign stations. The object of this alleged mission to the American shores, it was added, was to re' ceive Mr. Fox, should the refusal of the new de mand for the release, which it is said he was instructed to make, of Ur. McLeod, compel the British representatives to withdraw from Washington, and afterwards to adopt such hostile measures as may be deemed ind'upensible for the vindication of the honor of the British Crown, which has been so willfully and wantonly attacted by the American people and government in the person of its -subject—Alexander McLeod. A ministerial paper of a late date, says:—We have no reason to believe there is any truth in the statement that an addition is to be made to our force already on the North-

American station Sir C. Adam is to take with liim two ships—one a line of battle, and the other the Pique frigate but these are to replace two of the same rates, which will be recalled.

The f,ondon Shipping Gazette of the 18th ult., holds the following language »»We are glad to find that the rumor as to a con siderable naval reinforcement having been order ed from this country to the Amarican seas, hat been contradicted by the official organ of the Government The dcfpatch of such an armament to the shores of the United State-, would have shown that war was the only^node left us for the decision of our disputes with that republic, and that the appeal to arms was about to be made. It is still to be hoped that matters ufill not be driven t'o extremities and, despite the gloomy fore-hidings of some of our cotempdraries, we think -that there are reasons why peace should be «»pccially desirable by A a.. ...A

merica, sufficient to counterpoise the efforts of party, of fooIUh jealousy, and national vanity to provoke a war with England whose resolution to mainuiit peace will oniy bo overcome when the honor of this country shall demand the proclamation of hostilities.

We can readily nndetstand why the American Government has not, in the case of McLeod, entered a nolle prosequi. We firmly believe that the proceedings against the individual would have been thus terminated long since, but for the ho^e entertained by the Executive at Washington, that the affhir would be settled by the decision of the courts of law, (o the effect that McLeod should be discharged and that they would have thus been able to avoid the popular outcry which, if he was liberated by the Government, would be raised against them by the very parties who would be equally vociferous in their denunciations of a war should the detention or the unjust punishment of McLeod originate it. On these grounds, we beiieve that the active interposition of the American Government will be postponed until the hope of a satisfactory termination of the affair by the Courts of Law shall have censed to exist and we have some reason to think that this course of action, which is certainly ihe reverse of a dignified or straightforward procedure, has been sanctioned by the British Administration."

The London Times closes along article on the subject of McLeod's detention as follows: ••These consideration# belong, however, to a

stage

in these proceedings which is, we fear, already past. Principles and arguments, like those we have been using, doubtless suggested themIselvas in suppoit of the opinion which Lord Palmetston was pledged to maintain in negotiation with the American Government. To such arguments Mr. Webster's despatch of the 24th of April gives no aufficient answer but that despatch having been, though conciliatory, quite unsatisfactory, and the judgment of Justice Cowan having demonstrated that the law as administered at Utica is slowly drawing along the wor*t consequences, doubts may reasonably be entertained whether al« negotiation on the subject is not peremptorily bro*ien

off by the decided rejection of all those principles by which the British Government declared itself to be guided. It it becoming to the dignity of this country that 0to should patiently await the very last, perhaps the fatal, stage of these proceedings, against which we hare protested from the first.' Is it »n any way compatible with the safety of McLeod, and the honor of the Crown under which he has served,, to reserve our more forcible remonstrances till he is sent beyond the reach of succor? If McLeod is to be acquitted by force of evidence, or on any other ground, we presume that he will not be placed in greater jeopardy than he now is in by any sets of the mother country.— If, as would seem but too probable, his chance of subsequent pardon, we cannot be too soon

We have on several occasions lately alhided to the critical position of the Bank of England, with little over £S,000,U00 of gold if her coffers, ex4 posed to a drain to pay for more than two millions of quarters of foreign grain, if the weather should continue unfavorable and, writer any circumstan ces, being called upon to find gold' equivalent to the price of 1,000,000 of quarter* at 50a per quarter, which would place the Bank precisely in the •ame peril as in November, 1839, when the stock of gold was reduced to £2500,000, and bankrupt*

3France.

avoided by a loan of £X,OOQ.QOO from the Bank Tho truth of our remarks

Mt only to be felt, but fairly acknow imtwHbttaAdWig the propitious advent ol

imkmv,"

and somewhat better weather, the

of the Rank paitnr admit t, la a long article this Atoning thty dk Mt know that *ay well groonded argument can he opposed to the fare* of ggoli ooook&taM. -«Ottr cotemporartes are innressed," says the -accredited atgsa" of the OW rLav. »wHh the convktkm that «wy tjnww of JSt imported most be peWI for U. hard cash and ^within so abort a petiod. that it to say, imtately «m the tetvwMkm of tho eootioeotsl without sodjgn.

vident ad mi lustration, the coffers of the Bank most inevitably W draiqed of tbeir last sovereign before tbe end of the year.'*

FRANCE.

There is very little intelligence from France- The troubles at Toulouse are at an aid ©fit.considerable excitement prevails in Pari*, from ^l&yrbanccs ic oth-er-towns. J#'* 'terms of the barte ssrtrs the marriage of daughter of King Louis ty Frioce of Saxe Cobu«g

J*?*' PrinceH Clli^ntine, thi Pliillippel with the hertd was positively arranged.

POLA'N D.—11 is anoounoed thai the Emperor Nicholas was disposed to re establish (hekingdom of Poland as constituted in 1815, provided the peace of the country continued undisturbed aaduring the last eight years. The Emperor was to repair to Warsaw, to take himself the initiative of that measure, which had been recommended by Prince Paskiewtsh but was opposed by a strone part* in the imperial cabinet.

at oue-—

ITALY—Rorrs

great interest which

A horrible tumult with

great loss of life, took place at Rome on the 20th July. An execution is an unusual thing in that city. Three criminala^of the names of Ricco, were executed on that day, being a man and his sister, and their nephew. They had got into the house of a rich watch maker, of Piazsta Colonna, and had mardered his wife and daughter, and then robbed the house. The tumult was caused by premeditated design to create a riot, in the midst of which robbers might reap a harvest. An immense concourse of persons bad assembled, aud at a given signal the tumaWeommenced. The troops fired upon the rioters killing twelve and wounding two hundred and fifty severely. More than three hundred persons.had been arrested.

Sir J. Brunei and a party of ladies and gentlemen passed through the Thames tunnel, from side to side of the river, on the 14th of August. The passage was not entirely completed for the use of the public, but there only remained the finishing.

The steam ship Caledonia arrived at Liverpool on the 14th ult., making thg passage in 9 days and 23 hours.

The steam ship British Queen has been sold to the Belgian government, and it is thought she is destined to open and continue a communication between lium and the United States. jne week's income on the different lines of railway now open, as reported in the Railway

Times,amounts,

within a few pounds, to the enormous sum of £99,000. IRELANDThe uneasy state of the public mind in Ireland produced by the prospect of a Tory Gown ment, has induced her majesty's representative to recommend thit an addition be made to the millitary force in that country. We have of late years had the pleasure of reporting a reduction in the army stationed there. We have now the unpleasant duty of stating that a regiment of cavalry is ordered to proceed to Ireland forthwith, to be followed by two infantry regiments—Globe, Aug. 13.

The Duke of Bordeaux had his thigh fractured by liis horse rearing and falling upon him, while, riding near Vienna. Some hours elapsed before surgical assistance could be obtained, but at the last accounts the Duke was doing well. It was feared however, that he would be lamed for life.

M. Boitens, a student in the Medical College at Paris, had expired in great agony from mortification caused by a slight wound jn the hand, received while dissecting a dead body. The virusoverpowered its victim in about two days.

All the accounts from the banks of the Rhine hold out very unfavorable prospects of the vintage. The last hurricane has destroyed all hopes of even a moderate vintage?.

There was a great fire at Smyrna on the 25th of Ju-

ly. One third of the Turkish quarter, the whole of the

the

The commercial intelligence is very gloomy-—The liondon Sun of the 17th, represents trade in a very_depressed state in all parts of the country. In Manchester, Leeds, Bolton, Bradbury, Paisley, and Glasgow, ilie sufferings of the poor thrown out of employment were truly deplorable.

The Durham Chronicle gives an affecting account of explosion by fire damp in Thornley colliery, by which ten lives were lost, and several persons dreadfully injured. 4

Activity prevails in the English dock-yardsv At Sheerness the Hercules T4. is to he put in commission without delay—also, the Formidable84, and the Spi*y gun brig. The Goliah 84, is soon to be launched At the Chatham yard, and will be commissioned immediately.

The Case of Mary C. Rogers. Various conflicting and contradictory statements and reports in relation to this unfortunate girl have appearea in the city prints for the last few days, some of them endeavoring to convey the belief that the boJy found at Hoboken was not that of Mary,but that she eloped and absented herself from her mother^ roof to avoid a union with one disagreeable to her, but whom her mother insisted upon her marrying. We hove been silent on the subject Tor the last few days, in the hope that some certain information might bif received on ihe subject: but from all that we can ascertain, and from the opinion of the mngistratcs, the friends of the missing girl, and a careful investigation of all the published statements and facts that have come to light, it is our decided opinion that the body found at Hoboken was that of Mary C. Rogers, and that she now quietly reposes in the grave, in mat long and deep sleep from which there is no awakening till the resurection trump shall sonnd. We still think it the duty of the Governor and ihe Mayor, to offer rewards for tho detection of her murderers.—iV, Y. Star.

Cabinet and Cliaii* Making. THE subscriber respectfully informs the public that, having employed a first-rate workman, he has added the CHA1RMAKING

BUSINESS to his own trade of CABINETMAKING, and is now prepared to execute orders in either of the above lines, in a style of workmanship that will advantageously compare with any similar work on the Wabash. His mono being "small profits and quick sales," his terms will be extremely low.— He, therefore,

invites the

Rfavorablearticles

June 96-42-tf

prepar

ed to interfere in the only way which remains for u*. THE CHOP AND THE GOLD. —The London Morning Courier of the 18th of August holds the following language with reference the effects of the failure of the harvest upon the Bank of F.ng land

try

IAW^T-Ys-tf

WISH to for which

bdtmf now lecbut far Qi tuc "im

friends of "domestic manu

factures" to give him a call, and to recollcct. as they go along, that industry alone can create wealth. Country Produce, of any description, will be taken

^ROBERTTHIRtAVEl.!,.

Confectionary. ,.r

ICHARD BLAKE is now opening a choice assort ment of in this line.whjch will be sold on terms. March iQ-2-j-tf nat!

FUR,

Black

Silk, Russia, Moleskin and Brush ^htfs and WIRte—broad and narrow brims. Terre-Huate. June 19*41 -tf B. BOOTH & CO •OWE NO MAN ANYTHING.1 4 those indebted to mc, are earnestly solicited to /\. call and pay Dr. Keicham, wiih whom I have left my accounts and noies for collection must kav« money.

I need, and

E. V. BALL.

TEAS, INDIGO, Ac.

CHESTS sup. Young IlysMi Tee, 2 do. do. Gunpowder, I Ceroon pure Spanish Float Indigo These Teas are of a recent importation

and were

bought for a very superior quality. Tlie public are respectfully invited to call and June 26-tit-tf.

examine for themselves. W. I,\NGWORTHY.

Groceries: Grocerites!!

RICHARDGroceries,suitableforaseortmentthecoun

BLAKE has received, by steamboat

Keokuk, a large and general of Family and other the use of

and town, which he will sell to his customers st cbosp they can b© purAsscd in thrti m®rkct- lie in* cheap vitas well aa others.

vitM thosebuyin^t^j«gin^to give him a call,as

Specie.

purchase a quantity of Gold uHSIw, fwill give a j* ad *a nee, in wren funds

O W iXac,WORTHY.

Wanted, f^

1 nan POUNDSofliveGeese Feathers, in exchange l)"uv tor Goods, st «asb price, if delivered at my Store, soon.

August 7-48-tf O. W LANGWORTHY.

QWEET James River and Ky-

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O May

IMWLT.

xaw Notice:

HARLAN

& MANLY, Attomeva at i^^^r-

hal', Clark county* lllioow. March-3?-29-if-

TOBACCO.

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22-37-tf B. BOOTH CXI. VTAQB PARE HXDUCKO.

1AARE from Terr^Haote to Lafayette, by way ot 15 CmwWdswiM*, |3 00. Jolt 17-4S-«f R. a BAILEY. Proprietor

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THE WABASH COURIER

CONARD It HARRlSv Publishers.

TERRE-HAUTE, SATURDAY SEPT. 18. Ull.

/T THE WABASB tioiIIUEl, As our readers have leadened, Ms pa into new hands. We consider it at matte of no small responsibility, to take charge of an establishment,, which Mbrmfmy years, g^w with its growth, And strengthened with strength, under the superintendence offta former Editors. Under their Editorship, Cburier has acquired a reputation, whi could hardly have done, had not the dence of the community run strongly of their abilities as public journalists. S a large list of subscribers* and so extern a patronage, could scarcely have been ob ed through the influence of common mil Or mediocrity of talent. As successoi such predecessors,we feel that we have to do. That we have not only. to.put own shoulders to the wheel, but also to asi little of Hercules.

At alt events, at the same time that ask the indulgence of our patrons, we promise to use our best endeavors to the paper, and faithfully serve our friero aBd the community. If improvements can made, we hope to make them. If the comm nity can be better served we hope to do ou| utmost. That our columns will be devoti exclusively to politics, is more than a ration* and liberal community ought to desire. I iThere area thousand other matters, useful, more interesting, and decidedly congenial to the human mind and feeling

Literature in its various branches and partments.and under its several heads of vapej tv, may be so arranged, and introduced tHr the coluqins of a journal, as to be a subject interest to the reader.

A knowledge of the science of govern may be very useful nay, indespensible, i^ Republican Government, and to a people 4 admire freedom but, we do not think it she I be made the all absorbing theme. 'J.f

We are not willing however at the mencement, to make too Tnany promises 1 to our course, least the public might bo dis pointed we will rather sot our minds on formances, without raising expectations high in the way of promises. ",

The Wabash Courier having passed fi its late Edi'ors, into the hands of CONA] fe FI ARRIS it is proper to state, that

w}j0|e

Hebrew quarter and several bazaars were destroyed 1 advertising will be conti Among the latter were tho goldsmiths', shoemakers', annum anu uu.c. 6 grain merchanta' and druggists.' Also a number of ed and conducted as heretofore, rapers 1 mosques, seven synagogues and more than ten thous- directed to aH subscribers as usual—should cmw. conpoml of Mini there be any failures in the receipt of pap*?, tere of Religion, wnsheld at Manchester, August 17. qj* errors in directions, we hope to be inform* —Up to Saturday, August 14, no less than 650 clergy- immediately, so that mistakes mav be cormen had announced iheir intention of being present at

the convention and it is mentioned, as a proofoftho rected promptly

peopleof Manchester felt on the

subject, that many of the most respectable families in the town vied with each other in offering ther*reverend gentlemen accommodations in their houses.

business transactions oyf the office

MrfcLAV'S SPEECHf^""

On our first page will be found the speech of Henry Clay, on the Presidents Bank Veto. It is characterised by the eloquence and ability, with which that gentleman's efforts are usually distinguished. In our next we endeavor to give the remarks of Mr. Ri on the same subject, in vindication of the President's course. These speeches will read with interest, as embodying the. views iff two distinguished statesmen on a subject now agitating the country.

WHIGS.

When we take Into consideration the yl^ rious influences and interests naturally operas ting in so extended a country nsours, it migHt be deemed extraordinary to find a body of men so united hs the Whigs of the United States. Local and sectional interests State rights the North and South, East and West, all to be reconsiled. It is almost more than could be expected of human nature, that ther$ should be an entire sympathy of feeling, from one end of the Union to the other, over it? whole length and breadth. Yet so it is, in reference to the Whigs. Local jealousies* segtional feeling, contending interests if nol exactly hushed and silenced, still, all yielding to the great principles of patriotism—the good, and love of Country. Men may differ in small matters, in fractions, in details, in wny# and means nay, almost radically, in some leading measure: But Whig principles aral not limited to one, two, three, or a dozen measures, of more or less magnitude. Instead, therefore, of apprehending danger from small differences of opinion,, in reference, either, to large or small matters, as a whole, it is gratifying to believe, that the whigs of this great Nation, are firm and- ihorough, in the main point, of the Public good, almost beyond what might be expected, from a body of people, embracing six and twenty Sovereignties.

NATIONAL BANK.

Two question would seem to be involved in the consideration of the establishment of a National Bank. The constitutionality, and the expediency. The ablest jurists in the country have given it as their opinion, thai Congress have a right to charter a Bank| The Supreme Court, the highest tribunal irf the Land, has indirectly, if not directly, decid) ed the very point. Members of Congress^ acting under their oaths to support the Con* stitution of the United States, have plead fo^ it, have argued for it, and voted for it. A all this, after a thorough examination «f_th

question in all its bearings, in the full fac^^r^nt®^'f much distress, in conand light of day with every opportunity to sequence or ine fa

judge correctly, and after hearing eV threw manyopemments for and against.

"Various other functionaries, under the sol-' *x*. eron obligation of an oath to support the Constitution of their own States, and also that of the United States, have deliberately passed their unbiassed opinions in favor of a Bank. These |ire no light considerations. Men are«®ecn not to be supposed willing to violate their oaths so extensively and so unanimously.

Then as to the expediency. Able financiers have spoken and written as to the benefit and necessity of a Bank. Tbe Nation itself, has spoken, loud and long, in away that cannot be mistaken. The Ballot-bdK baa told the talc, and proclaimed to tbe "^torld, the wish, desire, end belief of the people. And what is this wish, desire, and belief? Nothing more, nor less, than a conviction oft the minds of the People, founded on the experience of business men, aud by them proclaimed from one to another, and to the multitude at forge, with their reasons, and the reasons, for those reasons, until time and experience, has ta itght those who did not wish to be convinced, that the country needs just such a medium, for tibe transfer of property from ma& to man, and the transaction of miMie and private business, as a National Bank will undoubtedly afford.

TaiatOF McLtson—The Iwtn of the Com

^^SlrfwSTaffeo&i^atthe pies- «t whl^ McLeod's trial takes place, begii 4ontbc SeptmnHer, at Utica.

The excesses of oar youth ate draft* upon our ohfc ace, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.'1

Is there not amoral in the ab^ve apophthegm of three lines, conveying the instruction or a volume? How much might be read from it. But alas! it requires almost a life to learn the penally. How much of the miseries of age depend on the indulgences of youth, which unfortunately for the moment, seem innocent, at least so far as regards the future. So little are we inclined to connect cause and effect, unless the one follows the other in immediate succession. Were a debauch of the evening to be succeeded certainly by Gout on the morrofP, perhaps much fewer cases of this desperate disqrder would occur. And so of every other of the thousand maladies which follow a few years of indulgence. Nature in the human system is governed by certain, regular and unerring laws. Any course of life, infringing gradually upon those laws, will, as inevitably result in misery and pain, as that disorder and confusion will follow in the operation of any human piece of Mechanism, where some of its part* are broken or destroyed.

The Committee ofjforeign Relations, within a few days reported a resolution requesting^the President of the United State to open a negotiation with Great Britain for the release of American prisoners in Van Dieman's -tani Mr. Adams opposed the resolution unshould know something more about men—men, who, said Mr. A. against arning of the President, the laws of their owr land, Ihe land which they had invaded, and thei

he laws of^civilized nations, had set all warnings? at defiancq.

I a debate on.a resolution respectingYne cas^ of McLeod, Mr. Adams intimated in strefng terms that, in the Boundary question, America was clearly right, but that in relation to the Caroline and McLeod affair,^certainly wrong. fi tx #el

Races.

The Terre-Haute Races, will commence on the 12th October. Considerable preparations are making for the occasion, several Horses have already reached this place from Kentucky

THE LAND B!LL.

J*~

In our coluwill be found extracts of Foreign news, ived by the Britannia This Steamer at Boston on Thursday morning, bring verpool dates to the 19th and London to 9th of August. The ru mor that seven

!a of War were about

to be sent to th ,erican coast, is contra dieted. Parlia was to meet on the 19th and the Queen iD open it on the 24th with a speech. jn consequence of what is termed her A present condition, it is deemed more t, that she should not be placed in a involving anxiety, or fatigue, and thai new parliament should be opened by coi^on, instead of the Queen in person,

The McLb6d ill commented upon though we think less asperity. It would seem, this matteiccoming better under stood, #nd whenberly investigated, we have reason to ho^U not be the cause of interruption to th4i)0nious feeling exist ing between Engird

the

ORiIy.

The bill providing for the Distribution of the proceeds of the Public Lands among the States, and for a permanent General Pre-emp-tion in the Public Lands, has received the signature of the President of the United fates, and is now a law.

HEALTH OF NEW ORLEANS.v The Board of Hpalth of August 25th anince the existance of acclimating fever in lepidemic form, and that about 12 cases of Jpw fever occurred on the 24th. .*

MEMPHIS.

Memphis Enquirer of the 20th, says, larket is abundantly supplied with all in the grocery and provision lino, exwhich is scarce, at the quotations $0 50. Corn is al&j scarce and in deml

}jg} there is a percept&lo im-

pr°v^,l jn bnpineg

0f aji

kinds.

rERETT.—The nominatiin of this

Mr\

gentle!

niinister to England, still re-

,mains Und^d in tho Senate. Th« princito be, nis supposed a

ins we underhand on feeling.

WabaV«0|jggg

serted tn\

dvertbmcat..,wiil be iu

jf possible

1 he Tfeisjgrg of 11—12 and 13, shall •be conside

We have V,ed the Lnhdand Pre-emption bill, an^l wil^ j^iore

our

week. No fresh paper went tf tion bill had the hands of there.

Since the

has arrived, which will be whole next

United States.

Sonra of the n^turing districts are

several important

many opera

jy out of iloyment. At Liver old ertab/i house in the Ameri badsuspe payment their debts to,*50,00 taring the earlier part the cil had promised abunly great fears have re might be a fail se is critical, the either an early or

nore

rtahed tha W now

not iadi

matter is taken published in the rs that in are the Fiscal Bank long party speech points, he said

Wowing am Washington le Patriot. Jt tbe

Senate

I ouc ha nan made inf»among other sti good old JpteJa v«io," &c.

Wr. Clay repliid, and tatbesame oecantm

notice the visit made by

of Locos, to the President on tbe the Veto. Mr. the Loco b» |L, wSif °Lm aeeo weodiog

betwoso^KaodoiM

PK tW**isoof&Aeeideet,

fcias. sidsiaainfcia

2L, yy'Hw, Th» is a ense!" y??. wss Senator fissi Mis*

3fl*ttrs oppos«e, (Mr. Ben-

be stood, wnb a curled lip and an anfry

•reTpttng upon the Senator from South Carolina, and exctaming aloud,—"fle a statesman! why, sin, he never invented even a humbug!" [Roars of laugh ter.] In the centre of all and as the common spokesman, stood the Senator from Pennsylvania, [Mr. Buchanan] and making—it may be pardoned me for supposing—a speech to the President, and inthese worda-IHafe Mr. Clay put a moat excellent speech, and a well ttoke* ope, the mouth of the Senator, and addressed to the President The whole scene was trnly dranfctk, and the tlramafw BfT*©** bad their parts played for them, •o that eaidi Senator not only recognised, himself but was amuaiiat the figure hecut*before and around the President.n

THE SHOWER OF FLESH AM) BLOOD. This singular phenomena which is said to have taken place in the vicinity of Lebanon, Tennessee, may be explained by the following extract, which we take from an exchange paper,

There are many persons of that peculiar temperament that is unfavorably affected by intelligence of so unusual and awful a character to audi it may be a relief to learn that the phenomenon alluded to finds its ready explanation in a well-ascertained fact in the economy of insects. In the interesting and instructive work of

irbv

pehck,on

& S

Thelnstance mentioned in the Nashville account, of fresh appearing with the blood, no doubt waa the result of the insect having perished in the process of transformation.

U. S. BANK—GENERAL ASSIGNMENT, We learn from the Philalelphia National Gazette, that on Saturday morning, the Directois of the Bank of the United States made a general assignment of all its effects to James Robertson, President Mr. Newbold, Director Richard H. Bayard, of Delaware Herman Cope, assistant Cashier, and Mr. Taylor, acting Cashier. The first three named assignees will receive 1,500 dollars par annum, the two latter 4,000 dollars.

blkajts

I Burli

readers next

rom Washington when our tss. The Fiscal Corpora both houses, and was iu resident—its fate doubtful

hg was in type, the mail a sccond veto. Part of in another column. The

FOIkn hews.

premises, sers. Terro-Hauie, Sept. 18-2-31. [Prs. fee, |2,62i.]

HAVING

ca,e®

the "Natural History of Insects,"

are the following remarks which explain the whole subject: Many species of Lrpidafttmy [Butterflies] when they emerge from the pupa or chrysalis state, discharge a reddish fluid, which, in some instances, where their numbers have been considerable, 1ms produced the appearance of a shower of blood and by this natural fact, all those bloody showers, recorded by historians as preternatural, and regarded, where they happened, asfearful prognostics of impending evils, are stripped of tbeir terrors, and reduced to the class of events that happen in the common course of Nature. That insects are the cause of these [supposed] showers is no recent discovery for Sleidan relates that, in ihe yfir 1553, a vast multitude of butterflies swarmed through a great part of Germany, and sprinkled plants, leaves, buildings, clothes, and men, with bloody drops, as if it had rained blood. But the most interesting account of an event of this kind is given by Reaumur, from whom we learn that, in the beginning ot July, 1608vlhe suburbs of Aix,and a considerable extent of onuntry round it, were covered with what appeared to be a shower of blood. We may conceive the amazement and stupor of the populace upon such a discovery, the alarm of the citizens, the grave reasonings of the learned. All agreed, however, in attributing the appearance to the powersjof darkness, and in regarding: it as the prognostic and precursor ot some direful misfortune about to befall them. Fear and prejudice would have taken deep root upon thisoccMion, and might have produced fatal egects upon some weak, minds, had not M. Peirere, a celebrated philosopher of th%t place, paid attention 10insects. A ehrysalis, which he preserved in bis cabinet, let him jnto -the secret of this mysterious shower. Hearing a fluttering, which informed him his insect was arrived at its perfect state, he opened the box in which he kept it the annrarfflbw out and left behind it red spot. He ampered this with the spots of the bloody shower, and found they were alike. At the same time he observed there waa a prodigious quantity of butterflies flying ab6ut, and that the drops of the miraculous rain were not to be found upon the tiles, nor even upon the upper surface of the stones, but chiefly in cavities and placet where rain could not easily come. Thus did this judicious observer dispel the ignorant fears snd terror which a

natural phenomenon had caused.'1—Vol. 1, page 35. Those .wishing further information on the subiec will find it in Com»(ock,» Phyniologi and in No LXX1V of Harper's Family Library.

During the 48 hours ending dn the

30th ult. at noon, (here were 31 deaths by yellow fever.

JtlMRItMEn,

On Sunday, the 12th instant, by S.»W. EnMbJitis, E$n. Mr. DAVID SMITH, to Miss MARY ANN RICHARDS, all of Terre-Haute, Indiana.

taken sick snd died. He waa decently baried by a large number ol the citiaens- If be has friend* atther at Cincinnnti or Tecre-Hanie, tbey can team further particulars on implication to J. B. Webber, Public Administrator for ibis county.

NOTICE. Central Turf Club will he held on

WEDNESDAY EVENING NEXT, the 22d inst. at early candlelight, nt the Club Room (Tuckcr^- Shaffer's) Officers to serve the ensuing year will be chosen, and other important business transacted. Tn .*

Sept. 18-2-tl. r»ti 3* Ji**..

ITIorlgagc $ale.

virtue of two Executions issued from the office of the Clerk of the Vigo Circuit Court, and to me directed and delivered„one in favor of Demas Deming, and the other in favor of John Milner, and against Danlei H. Johnson, foreclosing the equity of redemption of the said Daniel II. Johnson, in and to the mortgaged premises mentioned in said bills, to wit: in favor of Demas Deming, 38 feet and 6 inches off of the norrh side

feet off of the north side of the above described lot. with [he appurtenance thereunto belonging and I will on Saturday the 9th day of October qext, at (lie CourtHouse door, in Terre-Haute, within the legal hours of satd day, offer the rents and profits of snid premises for seven years, and it they should fail io sell for a sufficient sum toMtisfy said Executions, I will then and ihero ^enffexpose_to sale to the highest bidder, lot cash, all jne right, title, interest and claim of the said Dantel ft. Johnson in and to the said mortgaged premises, there being two commodious brick Store-rooms on said they will be offered seporately to suit purcha*

J-STRAIN, Sheriff.

FOR ShtM.E. THE undersigned desirous ot satisfying

0 r8

^or

Ba'e l^e

Clarified

£TWbest,ooni^ata,oraojr other prod ooe, will be taken in exchstw* 1 erto-Haat*, Feb. 20, IM1-CT

House and, Lot

wnere he now reaidw—it is directly East ofjohn Britons garden and South of John FT Crafts'dwelling. The House is 2 sto

ries and as spacious as any reasonable family need, good cellar under, a cistern in the yard, and many other convenience attached. The whole is well fencod, the west part, 75 feet by 160 foe: will be sold with the House or the whole as may suit the purchaser, persons desirous of a pleasan ^residence and a property of their own should cnll soon. It will be sold citesp, from 4 to 600 dollars will be required down the balance easy to the purchaser. 4 or 500 dollars is wanted on the above property- Enquire of J. Farringtorr, or

Terre-Haute Sept. )8-2-3t. JAMESSERRIN.

vn.fiPiJY,

ATTORNEY AT LAW.

/^kFFICE on Market Street opposite tbe Courier Office. 8«pt. 18-I84I-2-tf.

Ooct'n. Irish J* Brook*y

associated themselves ia tbe practice of Medicine, respect fully inform* tbe citizens of Ter-re-Haute, and vicinity that they are now prepared to attend to all calls in tbe profession. Office oo Second 8treet, one door North erf Dr. Daniels4 offibe

Sept. 16-1841-2-1 y.

BAGS COFFEE, received am! for sale, by •v April I7-32-tf RICHARD BLAKE

Sn^ar! r, a superior artiind for sale by

TIERCES Clarified White Son cle. for preserving just received and ior July 3-43-tf

RICH'D BLAKE.

TERRE-HAUTE

Stemm Foundry# Engine Shop. QTRATTON.

A LLACE & CO, arc now prepared

to execute orders for Engines, Boilers. Forgaig If Irons, Outipgs of every descriptim, either in Iron

Brass, Taming, Finishing. £cFor the Farmer, we have the beat article of among which are tbe Peacock, with wrooght aadcaet Shares the cat Shares sre much tbe cfaecpest sad fc—l for the Prairie. W* have also the weU kaemi WOODS' PATENT, which will ha aoid cheaper than can besot oo the Wabaeh VaJley aad alt oar Plows will h* wairant«d to rao weH, aad aot bseak Croat 8a wa or bed work.

Wollce.

11-1-13

MHI or

yk MY AUTHORITY. utt OP THE innTED"STATES Patted at tht Jirtt sttrioit of Twenty-Seventh Congrets/

(Ptrauc^-No.8.J

AN" ACT in addition to an act entitled an set to carry into effect a Convention between the United States and the Mesican Republic.

B* it enacted b* th* StmUe and Rn** of £rpre$*nUi' tivt» of tbt United States of Amerita in Congresm asfewiW, That the Secretary ol the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, upon tjte presentation of certified copies of audi awards as have been or shsll be made in pursuance of the Convention with the Republic of Mexico, concluded at Washington the eleventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, in fator of citizens of the United States, to issue certifi-

kc.any

persons authorised to receive the soma so

awarded, their legal representatives and aftrigns, in the manner directed by the seventh section of the act of t-onjrr«e entitled "An act to carry into effect a convention between the United States and the Republic of Mexico such certificates to be in such form and for such portions of the sums awarded aft may be eonvc nient for the claimants, and to be subjttet to the deduc tions provided for by the tenth section of said act: Provided, That nothing in this actshall be construed to givejany rights to theclaimanta that are not conferred by said convention, and the act of Jane twelfth, one thousand eijght hundred fhd forty, and that the substance of this proviso be inserted in the certificates that may be issued..

JOHN WHITE,

V- Speaker of House of Representative*. SAM'L L. SOUTHARD, President of the Senate pro tempore. Approved, September 1,1841.

JOHN TYLER.

oblic—No

9.1

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act to provide for taking the Sixth Census, or .enumeration of tho inhabitants of the United States," approved Much third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nlnft, and the acts amending the same.

Be it enacted. $c. That it shall and may bl lawful for the marshals of the respective States and Territories who have not, before the passage ol thia act, completed their enumerations, and mads their returns, under the acta hereby amended, to proceed personally and by their assistants to complete such enumerations, and make such returns under 4he said acts' and the said assistants shall be allowed until the first dsy ot December, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one,, to complete their enumerations,and make their returns to the marshals, and the said marshals shall be allowed to make tbeir returns to the Seeretsry of State at any lime before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and foriy-two.* Provided, That nothing herein contained aliaII hie deemed to release sueh marshals andL assistants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid, unless their returns shall be made within the timer prescribed in thwact: And provided further, That nv persons br included in the returns made under the present act, unless sueh persons shall have been inhabitant^ of the district for which aueh returns shall be made on the first day of Jane, one thousand eight hundred and ty and the Secretary of State Be, and he is hereby/ authorised to cause to Be printed twenty thousand co-

lies of the compendium or abridgment of the Sixth' Census, by counties and principal towns, together with the tables of apportionment as prepared at the Depart-! ment State, tor the use of Congress.

ec.of

ect o.

2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretsof State is hereby authorised to have the Sixth ensus doeumqpts bound in a plain and substantial manner, the cost of which shall not exceed fifty cento per volume and that the amount thereof shall on paid out of money innhe Treasury not otherwise a|prpriaied.

3. And be it further enacted? That it shall and may be lawful for the marshal of the State of Maryland, and he is hereby required, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to cause the ntimber of the inhabitants within Montgomery county, in the State afore-# said, to be again taken according to-the directions of the act to which this iaj supplement, and the same to be returned before the first day of December next, and when so taken and returned, shall be considered as the correct enumeration of the inhabitants of the said county: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be deemed to release such marshal and his assistants from the penalties contained in the act aforesaid And provided further, That no persons be included in the rectum* made under the present act, unless such pemons shall have been inhabitants of the district of which such returns shall be mado on the first day of June, ono thousand eight hundred and forty: And provided, also, .. That the said correct return shall not delay the printing' of the Cens and that the said corrected rctdrn ho printed by itself separately.

Approved, September 1,1841. „1

N 1 1

A RE&OLUTTON re biting to ihe light-boats ffbW stf tioncd at Sandy HoJk and Bnrtletfs Reef. Resetted be the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unitmf States qf America in Congresi nmrmbltd, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, if tuxm full enquiry be deem it expedient, to cause the light-boat now stationed at Sandy Hook to be removed, and to be placed near Bartletfs Reel, in Long Island Soafid and, whenever the same shall be so removed and placcd, to cause the light-bom now at Bartletl's ReeHo be removed, and placed, if ho deem ft expedient, near Execution Rocks, in Long Island Sound,-with a bell only for the latter vessel, to be so fixed as to be rung by the motion of the sea.

Approved, August 25, 1841.

[RBtor/mow.—Pt'Btic—No.-2.3

A RESOLUTION for the distribution ol sevon hundred copics of the Digest of Patents. Resolved, f-c. That the CommisB:uner of Patents bedirected to send to ihe Secretary of State of each of the States of this Union, and of the Territories of Florida, Wisconsin, and Iowa, the Digest of Patents published by the Commissioner of Patents, under the act of Conopted March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine to be disposed of as the Legislature of *achi State and Territory may direct, viz: To the State of Maine, twenty copies ti the State of New (lampshire, ten copies to the State of Massachusetts, thirty copies to the State of Rhode Island, four copics to the State ol Connecticut, twelve copies to ineStato of Vermont, eleven copies to the Stale of Ne*r York, ninety-eight copirs to the State of New Jersey, fificcn copies to the State of Pennsylvania, sixty-nine copies to the State of Delaware, four copies to the State of Maryland, nineteen copies to the State of Virginia, fifty copies to the

State of North Carolina, thirty-nioo

copics to the 8tatc of South Carolina, twenty-four copies to the State of Georgia, twenty-eight copies to the State of Kentucky, thirty-one copies: to tbe State of Tennessee, thirty-three copies to the State et Ohio, sixty-one copies to the State ot Louisiana, fourteen copies to tbe State of Indiana, twenty-eight copies (o the State of Mississippi, fi'tcen copies to the State of Illinois, twenty-three copies to the State of Alabama, twenty-four copics to the State ol Missouri, sixteen copies to the State of Arkauaas, five copies to the State of Michigan, ninl copies to the Territory ol Flonda, three copies to the Territory of Wisconsin, two copies to the Territoiy of Iowa, (bras efrpiea being the whole seven hundred copies and that th* remaining two hundred copies of said Digest be Iwt with the Librarian of Congress for fut are disposition.

Resolved, &c. That tbe sum of fivo hundred and twelve dollsrs and thirty-eight cents be paid from tbe Patent Office fund to reimburse what is still due for publishing ssid Digest.

Approved, September 1,1841. "~r" j11"1* [Rxsonrrio*.

i'blic—No. 3.J

A RESOLUTION to provide for tbe distribution of tlie printed returns of the Sixth Census. Resolved, J-c. That the aggravate returns of the cento* for the year eighteen hundred and forty, directed to beprinted under the superintendence of the Secretary of State by the att entitled "An act to provide for taking tbesixtl) census, or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States,'* shall be distributed and dispeeed of by tbe Secretary of State as follows: to the State ol Maine, two hundred to tbe 8tate of New Hampshire,one hnndred and fifteen to tbe State of Msisachuettta, three hundred to the State of Rhoda Island, forty to tbe Stat* of Connecticat, one hundred and twenty: to the 8tate of Vermont, ooe hundred and ten to the State of New Yerk, nine hundred and eighty to th* Seat* of New Jersey, one hundred aad fifty to ninety

the Skate ol Pennsylvania, six hundred aad to the State of Delaware, forty te the I

tv to tM

lias, two hundred and forty to tin State of Georgia, two hundred and eighty to the ftata of Kentucky, three hnndred and ten to the State of Tenneeeee, three hundred and thirty to the State of Ohifb aU hundred sod teo to tbe Stste of Louisiana, eno hundred and forty to the Skate of Indiana, two hundred and eighty to the State of MissisnppS, one hundred and fifty to the State of Illinois, two hundred and thirty to the State of Alabama, two hnndred and forty: to theStato of Missouri, one hundred snd sixty to the State of Arkaasas. fifty to tbe State of Michigan, ninety to the Territory of Florida, thirty 5 to the Territory of Wisconsin, twenty to the Territory of Iowa, thirty to eaeta mennwr of the preeent Consnts, and tlM delegates fram

the Territories, the President and Vice President or the United Statee, to eaeh, five oofnea being, in tbe

fthsU.

ifJiT

mrrtowa..

TTTHEREAS my wife MARY, has left nay faBcTaatf Tv heyd. antiwii aay jastmoss or

provaaacio*,

yarhaihwiai topsyaadehts

,aal an

JOHN MeGRANNAHAN.

eiiht thDaaand five hundred and ten that tliaTiaaafirinc eoptes be placed in the CoigMe for fetaredispoiition.

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etng, 1

AWrov^d, September I, 1841. n-MM --i—»— At* tfally inform tb*ir have vmovad

and

brmry of 0 a-

tkf,rK..

tea raoiB en thaJfoN* 1 at gehalts St Porter-

that

".Groceries

they am haw prepared 10 sail sav ant-

w.. tho «ass aWs 1—otw—d.oa very yicnmoiWinf