The Wabash Courier, Volume 17, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 March 1849 — Page 2
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THE COURIER.
.JES&E CONARD, Efctfott.
SATURDAY,vMARCH
31, 1849.
FIRE! fIREi
8
Corner Burned.
Between one and two O'CIOCK
this
morning the building*, on Locus* Corner corner of 3d and National Road stjreet, were discovered to be on fire.! Hie flames w^re so rapid, that although a large number of citizens were promptly on the spot, but Utile could be saved. The whole of the frames on the corncr were gofisurrted in a very short time, as far as the brick occupied hy Wood & Donnelly. The corner buildings, owned by Mr. Farrington, were insured.
The second building, ownod by Mr. Sedam, was Also partially insured. Messrs.
BURTON
&
TILUY,
occupying
riie corner store, lost their whole stock, with a trifling exception-perhaps 84,000 or 95,000. They are fully insured. Mr. Crane's Clothing Store is a total loss of perhaps *2,000. No insurance.
Mess re.Collins and Murray saved some „f their «tock—-but lose probably 8200 or $300—no insurance. Mr. Crisher.of the watch shop and jewelry s.ore,loses considerable—not known towhai amount
—no insurance. The origin of the fire seems not to bo known. At one time tho danger to the
from the north was sparks over the open square, rather than in the direction of other buildings. Any of the wind must have other direction resulted in great loss to property.
We afe authorised to announce
SDTIIEHLAND
RIIUCE
as a candidate for Constable
of Harrison township, at the Election to be held on Monday, the 2d of April.
CHOLERA.—For
several days past we
have had rumors that the Cholera
reappearing to an alarming extent.
nnrt from Louisville March 26ih says:
The Cholera has been very prevalent
on steamboats arrived from New Or-
deaths on bonrd and many more «reL|{is
still sick. The George Washmgton
had fifteen deaths previous to her arri-'
val at Memphis. The Dol'.c Koy had
three deaths. The Weather at New Orleans was hot and sultry and much sickness prevailed,
principally among cuiigiants.
Wives demanded in California. It seems there is a lack of the pro-
cious artiulo in California. A lady writing from San Francisco to a friend in Boston, says the demand for marriageable women is greater than for goods and provisions. California is the only country where women are at par and proporly appreciated. The proportion of malos to females, in the territory, is as five to one, and the labor and presunce of females is as much a necessity in the gold regions, as that of males.
Thcro have been more marriages the last few months than in ten years previous. Tho squaws, before they will .go to tho gold regions, make efforts to get white husbands, which they soon obtain in the prosent state of affairs.
Father Manaque, tho Catholic priest, married in one month 110 white men
to squaws
LAFAVETTE EDITORS.—Mr. JENKS
the "COURIER," and Mr.
TRANSIT
OF
SPECIE
of."
Mr.
week that
ACROSS THE
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n.
fW
Mr. Ilannogan'f Appointment at MluUtor to li«riin. It has been said in letters from Washington thai r. Uaunegun** fcppelmmiiot watt solicited *t the last moment by *omo jlea4ing Whig!i-of the Se|into«£t)d 1t KM been iritlmated in private clreloa ihit Mr. Webster was one of those Whigs, What othor Whigs niav have dona, soys the New York Tribune, we do not know, but as to Mr. Webstor we are able to give to our readers the following loiter from him:
WASHINGTON,
Louisv
musl
March
12, 1849.
n. My Dear Sir: I hare rcccivad your letter of the 10th respecting the appeintinont of Mr. Hannegan as Minister to Beilin. That ap
p09©
chamber between Bix and s»-ven o'clock on Sun day morning, the 4»h of March. 1 had never heard a syllable of any intention of nominating Sir. Hannegan as Minister to Berlin, or for any other office and supposed it certain that no nomination, of any kina, would be sent to the Senate after that hour.
When I heard, the rtext day. that Mr. Hannegnn had -Wen nominated ton Foreign Mission, and that the nomination had been Confirmed, I at once contradicted it, saying that I had been in my seat'every moment through the'whnle of the session of Saturday and Saturday night^and until broad daylight on r-unday morning, when the senate was-about breaking up, and I had heard nothing of any such nomination. 1 look upon this nomination, under the circum* stances, as one of the most disreputable proceed ingS recorded in the history of the Government.
I am, with niuch "WgJj
Accident to the Steam Ship Galveston, from Ne\r Orleans to Chagres The Galveston left New Orleans on the 15ih of Feb., wiih one hundred and sixty-eight passengers, On the 22d, at two P. M. the piston rod broke at the neck, and by its specific gravity, drop* ping burst the end out of the cylinder The vessel was completely disabled,
.»» Some of the pa,
isengershad chartered the bnganune Emily to go to Chagres. Others were
preparing to cross the country to Gua-
tamala. In the list of passengers we notice the names of James Walker and R.
Scouten, Terre Haute, Ind.
Comic Lectures,
W
are requested to say that T. J.
WLNCHELL,
was
|T
erre
chcH
the COMIC MAN, will be in
Haute in a few days. Mr. Win-
is celebrated in his line. The
jil Democrat, in noticing one of
enlerlainmctjts
llmt d(y) says lhal
leans since Saturday. sanations and imitations kept the audiThe steamer Bride had founeon}
enC
given recently in
.'his eccentric per-
smiling aloud during ihe evening,
say ngs and
doings are original, and
please any intelligent person."
Immense Cargo.
The St. Louis Republican of the 14th inst., notices the arrival of the steamer Sultana at that port, bound from Quincy, 1H-, for New Orleans, with "the largest cargo believed lo have ever come down the Upper Mississippi on one boat.1' Her freight list is published as follows:
Description. Number of £yernee Packages Weurht. Pork and beef 3.968 bbla 330 Pickd beef,h'ms,should 1,340 tea I ard
of
BXUSMAS
of
the "JOURNAL" recently visited outtown, via steamboat. We had the pleasure of welcoming both to our Sanctum. They are specimens of fine genilemenof the intellectual school. We are happy in their acquaintance and none can be otherwise than interested in their society. We hopo the trip and visit may have been as agreeable to them as it was pleasant to others.
Transporting Specie.
ISTH-
,\ correspondent of the Boston
Travellor, writing from Gorgona, Panama, says:—"The English Uo. carry acrdss a million of dollars in bullion for almost every steamer. Twelvo men more or less, carry it to the head of navigation, accompanied by an officer with a drawn sword. It is then turned o\er to the canoe men—under charge of nobody in particular—who carry it to Chagres. The bars of silver often protrude through the cantass in which it is wrapped yet a theft is almost unheard
MCGAUGHKY.—We
noticed last
E. W. MCGACOHET
the Locofocos against it.
had
been rejected by the Senate as Governor of the Territory of Minesota by a vote of 2S to 25. The Union says that it was a strict party vote—all the Whigs present voting for the confirmation and all
On retiring from the Vice Presidential chair of the United States Senate, Mr. Dallas madoa farewell speech, in which he staiod, that equal divisions of th® Senate requiring the casting vote of 'the President had occurred 30 times du
ring his official term.
SENATE ADJOURNED.—^The
called ses
sion of the Senate was adjourned sine
die on the 23J of March.
Total Weight. 1,309,440 500.600 178,710 287,000 720,500 188,100
410 370 270 220 330
483 ,cs
Klour 3,215 bbla Fork t'k'n on at Cin, III 570 bWs
3,193.350
Total amount of tonrtsge, 1,400 tons 1,783 lbs At St. Louis the Sultana took on board 250 head of beef cattle, which swelled her freight to nearly tixteen hundred tons!
ATAUNTIAH LECTURES.—The
COLLETT,
eighth
lecture was delivered to a crowded house on Thursday evening, by
JOHN
Esq. Subject—"The States
man," well sustained, and the interest kept up to tho last. These lectures are
interesting.
Mr. Perkins will be at the Stewart House the latter part of next week, with Dr. S. S. Fitch's Remedies—Abdominal Supporters, or, Body Braces, Shoulder Braces, Inhaling Tubas, his Medicines and Guide to Invalids using the above
articles. Mrs. P. will wait on the Ladies, one
door north of the Baptist Church.
THE NEW'ROCTE.—Theexpedition
of
Gen. Worth to open a new route from San Antonio [Texas.] to California will soon be ready to start. Col. Jack Hays informs the editors of the N. 0. Picayune that Gen. Worth will put the troops in motion from El Paso by the middle of
April, taking tho route from San Antonio direct. Tho Colonel thinks this will in time become the great route of travel for New Mexico and California.
(£7-The Mexican Vice Consul at N York publishes a card denying in toto and "bv authority," thatsome of the Un ited States overland immigrants (through Mexican territory) had been molested bv the government authorities there.— On the contrary, he says the Mexicans are rather disposed to encourage them than impede these expeditions.
COL. FREMONT.—The
rumor about
Col. Fremont as published in another column is distressing. It is possible that accounts are exaggerated.
Cottl oa the Pacific^
An inexhaustible mine of coal has been found near Acapulco. Coal has also been discovered at Cape Horn, at various points in Chili and as far north as Vancouver's Island.
ON
DIT.—Thai Col. Haskell of Tennessee, will be appointed Minister to China, and Bailie Peyton of Louisana, Minister to Mexico.
Ex-Governor Pennington, of N. Jersey, has been appointed and confirmed as Governor of Minesota.
The Legislature of Ohio adjourned sine die on tho 26th.
s«ya: "In new colonies, the
SOtniarde IxSrTbrbuilding a church the trench Phi Jadetv a ball" wDm?aad the English a tavern •.
From the St. Louis Republican
Sad Nevts from Colonel Fremont and his Party. Corr(di^nJ8hce of the Republican. l.NOEPt?NDKJrcE, March 20, 1849.
I herewith send you a slip from the Snpm Fo .Republican, of Feb. 2d, containing tomo Intelligence of Colonel Framont wul party. Mr. Jones, who left Santa Fe some days after its issue, reports the whole number as having perished, with the exception of Colonel Fremont himsolf, who was in Taos bad" ly frost bitten. It is possible, thotigh, that there may be some mistake in this, as Santa Fe is notgil^mmkhenti cated
rumors. -1 I* 'I- ts ftl From the Independence Expositor. Col. Fremont—Late and Important from
Santtf Fe.
We stop the press to-day, to announce the arrival of Mr, Green Jones, of our town, direct frorrt Santa Fe. He brings with him the Santa Fe Republican of Feb. 1849, from which we learn that Col. Fremont and his company have suffered severely, and some of them have been lost. We are gratified to know that Col. Fremont himself, is still safe. The whole country must, and .will feel a thrilling imeresf' in the narrative we publish below, taken from the Santa Fe Republican of Feb. 2d.
COL. FREMONT.—We
DEAR HOVEY:
presefit to our
"readers in this weeks paper, a communi* cation from our correspondent at Taos, relative to Col. Fremont's unfortunate expedition, which will be found below.
From the circumstan
ces of those who carry this lam compelled to be short. There is not much novelty in this place, unless it is the successful excursion of the commander of this post, and the very unfortuante affair of Colonel Fremont
This enterprising and experienced officer had started from the United States for California. Being in the winter season, and being overtaken by a severe and long snowstorm while passing through he mountain gorge, the Col. lostsomQ 130. mules in one night. Bein» left
on
f°°l
lhe
party could scarcely
remain where it was, and it was deemed impossible10 proceed. Finally,the Col. dispatched three men to seek some settlement, which, after twenty days absence and no1 returning, tho Colonel started for Taos, in company with one distance of some 350
or two men, miles, which he made in nine days.— On his arrival, our commander, Maj. Beall, issued an order for 30 days provisions for the detailed party, and mules to carry them.
The sufferings of the party have been terribly severe, even to the extreme of feeding upon cach other. Both Col. Fremont and Maj. Beall certainly deserve great credit in the whole aftair, the one for his perseverance and humane gallantry in persisting to retuin in person to the succor of his companions in misery, and the other for the promptness and" humanity with which ho ordered assistance to be rendered to the unfortunate party.
Some persons havo taken up the notion, that in consequence of ihe late 4ih of March falling on Sunday, and the postponement of the inauguration of President Taylor until Monday, the 5th. the country was without a President on the 4th. Others, again, suppose that the President pro tcvi. of the Senate was President in fact on the fourth day of March. The National Intelligencer presents the matter in its true light, in the
annexed article: The supposed Interregnum. We copied in our last, from one of our contemporaries, without giving the credit for it, a paragraph to the effect that the Hon. Mr. Atchison, President pro tern. of the Senate, was in faci President, of the United States from the end of Sauir day the 3d day of March, until the ac tual inauguration of President and Vice President of the United States, on the 6th of March.
This was, of course, intended for a jest by its original proprietor but having been regarded by some readers as a grave statement of fact, we take leave to say that Gen. Taylor possessed all the power of President of the United States at any time after the legal expiration of the 3d of March. The President is required, it is true, by ihe Constitution, to take a prescribed oath before he enters upejn the execution of his office but he is the President of the United States from ihe moment of the expiration of the tcim of the preceding President, and no man but he can, under the circumstances, discharge any function of President of the
United States. It is only "in case of removal of the President from office or of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the poW'ers and duties of said office,'* that "the same shall devol ve on the Vice President," and next after him, in case of his removal, death, &c., upon the President pro tern, of the Senate, should there be one, and if not, then on the Speaker of the House of Representatives "for the time being."
NcW Hampshire Election. Dinsmore, (Democrat,) is elected Governor by a large majority the Legislature is Democratic as usual, and the Congressional delegation will probably stand as in the last Congress, viz:—2 Whigs, (Wilson and Tuck, re-elected,) and 2 Democrats, Peaslee and Hibbard. In 15 towns Wilson's plurality is 105 greater than in 1847, while Tuck's in ten towns is 424 less. As his plurality in 1847 was about 1,500, the Boston Atlas thinks there can be no doubt of his election. _____
EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT ?o EXTORT MONEY.—Mr.
William B. Astor, of New
York, has received lately several letters from a man signing himself "E. K. Basswood," demanding from him 850,000, and threatening his life and property in case of his refusal to give it. Police officers were set on the watch for the man, and a plot arranged for his detection.—» A man named Biggs,and another named Bragg, who are supposed to be connected with the affair, were arrested, but the principal is not yet ascertained.—: lilctdefphxa Bulletin
Condition of things in Canada. Amid the turbulence and excitement now so general in Canada, pervading all classest^but which has. as yet only manifested itself in bluer partisan conflicts in the Pari lament and mass meeting) there-is evidence of a deep and irflplacable hostility t$ British rule. &
I he Montreal Courier of me 20th, giving an account of a great- demonstration tn that city on the 18th of reb., says. the meeiingwas attended by so^e 4000 people that the language of the speaker was violent and denuftoialory tft the extreme. The bill in Parliament appropriating a large suni of money to indemnify sufferers in the late" rebellion was assailed without^stint and ili£.gt ound was boldfy taken that resistance at all hazards was the duty of all loyal men.
The Montreal Herald predicts that the monster meeting of the f7th will be the day from which the future historian may date the emancipation of the British colonists from the imposition of foreign laws and foreign masters.
What will be the result of the excitement now so universal and so intense, no one can predict.*Ji!We should not be surprised if the Canadians should some day, and that not distant, imitate the exam pie of ihe French, and in a very sudden and summary manner overturn British rule in Canada.
The Detroit Advertiser commenting on these facts thus speculates as to the future:
For the past year the press and the public men of Canada have been assum ing a more bold and independent toneeven amounting to defiance of the home government in many instances, lrie freedom with which we in this country have been accustomed to speak of the acts and doings of government, has even been transcended, in the strong language used in the attacks upon the measuies which have been brought forward by the ministry. What ihe upshot of the matter will be "remains to be seen." Independence or annexation to the United States, we doubt not is the ultimate, and we are inclined to think inevitable destiny of the British provinces upon this continent. The time of its consummation may be near, or it may be remote, bu the indications are that it will not long be avoided.
California.
The Boston Traveller has a letter from George W. Morrill, dated San
Francisco, Jan. 20, 1849. We have heard a good deal about this letter. It is supposed to deal in the "marvellous." The following is an ex
tract'. As for gold, I haee got plenty of U.-~ 1 have about 793 pounds
It sell here
for from 12 to 16 dollars the ounce. I was in the diggins three months and a half, and if 1 had something to wash out the dirt clean, I should have got as much again for we can get nothing like near all of it out. I have a number of pretty large pieces-—one piece weighing. five pounds.
I want you to come out here you can get just as mnc-h gold as you want, know where there is a ledge, that is almost solid gold but 1 shall not tell any body, nor work at it till my friends come out. I found it out by one of the Indian chiefs, whose life I saved, when he was about to be murdered. A great many are killed, and nothing is said about it.
The excitement is so great, that every body has been digging gold, and every one here has got a plenty of gold. Living here is now two dollars a day. has been ten dollars.
The gold country is immense. 1 have been five hundred miles up the country, and the further wc go the thicker the gold is. I think on the river where I was, the fountain head is in the mountains, but it is awtlfl traveling to get up to my ledge. I know where there is plenty of silver in the mountains. We found that when I was among the Indians.They took me prisoner, and I was with them nine months. At last I discovered that one of the chiefs was a freemason, and he at once set me free. 1 find that. a great many of the Indian chiefs are freemasons..
GEN. TAYLOR
ON
DUELLING.—The
Washington correspondent of the New York Express says: One of the good stories of the day, and one most creditable to the President and Administration, is connected with the application for restoration of two midshipmen, dismissed by Mr. Polk, for being engaged in aducl. The Secretary of the Navy, in cabinet meeting thismorning, informed the President that he had read the petition, and considered that the midshipmen ought not to be restored. So thought the cabinet. "Iam very glad of ii," said the President, "for, if the whole cabinet had thought otherwise,
I
I
would not have consented
to re-appoint these gentlemen. I hate duels, I hate fighting, 1 hate wars, and will have no duelling men about me if
can help it."
Santa Anna*
The Mexican Congress has passed the following resolutions respecting the distinguished expatriated general: 1 General D. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna shall inform the Supreme Government, #hen he may judge it convenient, of the time when he intends to return to the Republic, and the point at which he will debark. 2. The Government shall impart to Congress whatever information may be received, in order that proper measures may be taken for ihe preservation of order and tranquility. 3. Should Gen. Santa Anna return to ihe Republic, it is necessary that he should previously express his determination to do so, and be furnished with a copy of these resolutions. 4. The Government shall take especial care to bring this decree lo the knowledge of Gen. Santa Anna.
A writer from California thus describes a young lady in that country: "She rides wild horses, throws the lasso adroitly, and ne\4er misses her aim with the 'rifle. She carries a hunting knife in her girdle, and understands anatomy of eitlfer stag or buflalo knows nothing about corsets, furbelows, capes» or flounces never wears bonnets anu speaks no EngUsh/'
^-Thomas S. Staufield, of Indiana. Few individuals have risen to political distinction more rapidly, and none more deservedly than the gentleman whose name heads this brief article. ITe is now ihe Whig candidate for Lieutenant Governor, of the State of Indiana, and we feel confident i&at the cidzens of that State could have conferred ination on no one more worthy.
We are more gratified at ihts^ornmation, because unaided, Mr. Stanfield has with his own hands hewn out the reputation which he has attained, and may therefore, bef enM^ajicaUv styled a self made man. -r tiU I rM,
He was borft In Logrtn county, Uhio, and until 14 or \S years of age resided in the ipwn of Bellcfbiuainc. It will be gratifying to his old friends and acquaintances here to know that this olire huinwho was raided toindusirV and 7 id
ble boy, labor, has risen to eminence and usefulness in our sister Stale of Indiaua. What a contrast, too, may be traced between his present, and ihe position he occupied when ayouihin Bellefoniaine. Then he was familiar with all the hardships of a newly settled country, com-
I nrl nt ilon'c TUrtrlr in which
pelled to work at day's work, in capacity he spent months and years to aid his father in supporting a family and tov-provide the means which should fii him for usefulness in after life. The son of a poor and honest mechanic, he was trained up to that industry which has made men of talents and usefulness out of so many humble and deserving individuals. Many of our citizens will recollect, when but a beardless boy, in our then newly settled country, he toiled with his hands at every kind of labor at which he could find employment, for the scanty wages afforded in those limes when bare-headed and bare-footed, with his axe he aided in clearing up our forests,, or tilling the rich soil of our country."
Yet "under these circumstances, without wealth or influential friends, unaided except by his own industry, talents and honesty, he has risen to the position he now occupies. By his application and energy he stands high at the bar of In diana, and ranks amongst her most tal ented and useful men. lie is a man of the people, and his talents and wouh we trust, will insure his election.
We would not draw invidious distinctions and insist that none are deserving but those who have had the good or ill fortune to be born poor, but when an individual has encountered all the adverse circumstances which surrounded the early career of the Whig candidate for Lieut. Governor of Indiana, with no patrimony but the privilege of rising by honest industry, we claim that it is a met it which should be acknowledged and appreciated.
The career of such men is always marked with usefulness, and after all, it is this which gives to men, and especially politicians, an honorable and lasting fame.—-Logan County [Ohio) Gazette.
The Home Department.
The principal features of this new department are as follows:—It lias a Secretary and a Chief Clerk, the former at a salary of $6,000, and the latter of $2,000 per year. Its duties are included in certain bureaus transferred to it from other departments together with their officers. It takes from ihe State Department, the superintendence and control of the Patent Office from the Treasury Department the control of the Land Office, the coast survey, and the superintendence of light houses: from the War Department, the Indian and
Pension offices from the Navy Department its Pension Bureau from the Executive, the control of the Penitentiary and Public buildings. There are doubtless to be added to this, new branches Tiereafter to be created, one of which has already been before Congress in an^ other bill, reported by another commit tee, to-wit: a bureau of statistics of agriculture.
Elopement.
We understand that a day or two since E. G. Danforth eloped from Mooresville, la., some four or five miles back of New Albany, with the wife of Mr. Samuel Dunn, of that place. The guilty couple reached this city on Thursday evening and stopped that night at Shaefer's tavern, at the lower end of Maine street. Yesterday they started on the steamer Santa Fe, bound for the Wabash. Danforth has a wife at Mooresville, from whom he has been separated a year or two. Mrs. Dunn is the wife of an honest, hard-working man, who is now absent on business to Tennessee, and she has heretofore borne a good character-—-She had seven children the two youngest she took with her and the otheis were left at the Catholic institution at
Portland.—Louis. Cour., of Saturday.
MIDNIGHT JUDGES
AND
SUNDAY MIN
ISTERS.—The elder Adams, ofl the last night of his Presidential term, appointed several persons to judgeships. 1 hat act, from ihe date of its commission up to this lime, has been a standing theme of fierce denunciation with the present Locofoco party. The term "midnight judges"1 has been upon every Locofoco tongue, and we sec it stated that Mr. Polk himself, while in Congress, tauntingly introduced it into one of his speeches against the Whig party!
And now look at Mr. Polk own oonductin the nomination of Mr. Hannegan as minister to Berlin. The nomination, it is true, was not, like that of Mr. Adams's judges, made at midnight on the 3d of March, but. far worse, it was made a day later—on the 4th of March, and Sunday at that!
Where henceforth will be the thunders of Locofoco presses and Locofoco orators upon the subject of the midnight judges ?—Louisville Journal.
UMBRELT.A ETIQCETTE
FOREIGN NEWS.
ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.
v* NEW Yorfu, March 24, 4 P. The steamer Canada, with European news .0 ihe 10th iwtoM, MrivcSd j" 1 fax Thursday last. From Oews was expressed to" St. Johns, N Brunswick, and from thence telfegrapfied 4o tWs oityv—%
Commercial. W
The prices for grain continue to a roop,and from present appearafcees, the bow torn has not yet been reached. From the manufacturing districts the accounts continue favorable. There is also a fair business going forward in the produc^ market on the Continent, and prices on the wholeare steadily maintained. I he uveal market continues active, and priare on the advance, without, however.
ces an advance March 2^
during the week ending
There is a fair trade going forward American provisions. The arrivals of beef were very heavy, and already three times as large as at the same period last year
Fine qualities bring full
prices, and other sort are to be had on verv easy terms—say 15s to 25s for or-P,-vrl- hacftlv
dinary to prime. Mess' Pork barely ris these rates. Lard is in fair deat a decline of 6d cwt. Cheese JS steady, but butter has receded from Is to Is Cd#- cwt., and in some fhstances two shillings has been accepted. Naval stores are quiet, and commands former prices.
sup|i man
England
Cobden's financial reform project—cuttingdown the expenditures ten millionsofj
pounds—has been rejectejl. by Parliament,
The emigrant barque Floridiun, bound from Liverpool to New York, was wrecked oft" Harwich. All on board, excepting three persons, were lost.
France.
The government continues to gather strength, and there is evidently a growing disposition on the part" of the nation to crush any attempt at public disorder. Unon the whole, the prospects of tranquility are more favorable than they have "been for the past year.
India.
Another murderous conflict among the Sikhs has occurred near the left bank of the river Ahell, between the army of ihe Punjaub, under Lord Gough, and the Sikh force under Rajah Shwerering—a struggle in which the British have to deplore the loss of 93 officers and 2.500 men killed and wounded. The struggle terminated in victory to the British, but was disgraced by the flight of the Bengal cavalry regiment, and the retreat, as yei scarcely satisfactorily explained, of the British corps of dragoons.
The news from India is of the most disastrous character. Lord Gough has been superseded by Sir Charles Napier, who was to have proceeded to ihe scene of hostilities on the 20th ultimo.
Emigration#
It appears from the second annual report of the Commissioners of emigration that 189.176 emigrants at the port of New York during the year 1848, of whom there were from—
Ireland 98,061 Germany, 51.973 Other countries 39,142 These passengers were carried over the sea in 1041 vessels, viz:
American British German
Others
The ratio of the sick, out of every one th otisand was Thirty on board British ships.
Nine and two-fifths on board American ships. Eighty and three-fifths in German ships.
The total number relieved by, and chargeable to the Commission was 27.301.
About Duelling.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Express has the follow-
ing: Among the good things concluded upon in tho Cabinet Council, and one from which the injunction of secrecy has been removed, is the official determination that every officer of t.ie Army and Navy, and every man connected with the civil service of the Government, shall be removed from office if he engages in a duel. "Old Zach" says ho served in the Army for forty years, and during all that time got along without fighting. It is not necessary, he says, and for the reason that nobody but a black-guard would insult a gentleman, and such a fellow is not worthy of noticc, and not worth the powder which it would take to shoot him, even if ihere were no moral guilt in the act of honorable murder.
INSANITY
The Court
Journal lays down the tollowing rules:— "If you meet a ladv without an umbrella in the rain, it is not proper to lend an umbrella to her, but you ought to escort her home but if you meet two ladies then you should give them your umbrella. This is proper whether the ladies ate your acquaintance or not.
Her Sweet Will.
A wife once kissed her husband, and, said shej "My own sweet Will, how dearly I love thee!" Who ever knew a lady, good or ill, Who did not dearly love her own s* rrr u.t.
AMONG
From California..
The Netf York- Tribune- publishes extracts from letters received from San Fransteco by one of'the oldest, largest and most respectable "houses in Pearly St., andgcommunicated -for the Tribunfc by the parties to whom they were addressed. ut. San.Fraricisco. Dec. g3,1848^
American.
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FARMERS.—The
FASHIONABLE.—Hearinga
fact
that 15 per cent of the males and 16 per cent of the females confined and treated for insanity in the Pennsylvania Asylums, are farmers, and ihe wives an daughters of farmers, has led to some discussion in regard to the causes in sanity in rural life. One class of writers, we observe, is striving to trace the causes to the stomach and l,v«rmaintain that ihwsalt pork and beef, le dumplings, &c„ of farmers when made the stample articles of food from year to vear, with little or no change, derange ihe functions of the digestive organs and in time affect the brain. If they can prove the truth of this theory, we maj expect to see the farmers providing themselves with French cooks in order that their dinners may be got up scientifically and in the most approved modern fashion.—Baltimore Sun.
shout of newsboys and others nenr our office obout 12 o'clock, we looked out of the window, and inquired the meaning of it, when we were informed that the distinguished-champion of the ring, Tom Hyer, Fs|., was drs-enditig the steps of the Exchange Coffee House to enter his carriage to take an airing.— '•What's fame?" Gen. Taylor himself could hardly have excited such an uproar of eheers.—Boston Transcript
A down east editor says lie is a "whole horse," "effect which accounts for the advertisement in his paper duee the desire —"Grain wonted avthis office!"
Real estate has gone up
here, as well as every thing else. A store and lot I paid 17,500 for, yester-
Lumbe'f is worth $150 per M. antf the carpentefrs ean earn- $1G per day. The entire population of Oregon have abuhdoned their Crops arid homes, and are coming here. The Sandwich Islands are deprived of all their foreign population. ®Every vessel from any port on this coast' is filling with passen gers for this place.
Mr.- formerly consul at———* informs me that two of his servants left him when the news first came. Thqjj have just returned with $75,000. '4*
Capt. -of the navy, who retaincd last evening from the mines, informsme of one locality which has been found where gold is so abundant thai there is no necessity for washing tho earth $700 per day is the atnourjit obtained by each man.
Sheath knives are used to dig thg gold? and have sold at the mines for $60 each.
I have conversed with many old friends of mine who have been at the mines and gathered large quantities they all say they only want two months
more
en0U
next summer and they shall havo
g|
Although this country and town are filled wiih gold, no vegetables can bo had. Weeai bui little else than beef and bread all agricultural operations have ceased entirely.
Joseph A. Wright In a Quandary. Wc understand that the leading Democrats of Putnam county have determined not to support Mr. Wright, unless ho comes out boldly in favor of the non interference doctrine in relation to slavery extension, as laid down at Baltimore. They contend that that is the true Democratic ground, and are opposed to his deserting it. Joseph has been advised as to their opinions, and does not know what to do. Should he now lake back all the speeches he made in support of the Baltimore platform, and come out on Whig ground, lie will lose ihe support of the true Democrats—and ihe opposite course would offend the "free-soil portion of the Democracy. He is in a "bad box," and cannot get out.™-Indiana State Journal.
LEGISLATIVE TELEGRAPH.—We
ATALANtlAN LECTURES. The ninth Lecture before the Terre Hnute Aral anti an Literati, (the last of the pYesent
will he delivered hv
II
ha\e
received, from Harrisburgh, a copy of a votetaken by the Legislative Telegraph, as it is called, recently fixed up in tho House of Representatives ai Harrisburg. The members vote by touching keys (for yeas and nays) placed at each desk the result of each touch being a pcrfotalion on the yea or no side of a printed list of members named. The vote, hero recorded comprises fifty-eight yeas and forty noes but the written statement n' the record is, that the whole vote was rc corded in less than two second^. —JSorth
c0«^e
CHARI.FS CROFT,
Esq., one
the order, on Thursday evening next, at .i clock, the Hall or the Literati. ,.
w(|lt
Rnhiect —"The European BevolnUons oj 184B. March 31,1849.
MASONIC.
A Chanter of Royal Arch Masons was organired in 1 erre-Haute on the 24th inst. Its mated nTeetinV will he held on Monday evenings, on or
E & a
Terre-Haute, March 31, 1349.
RELIGIOUS NOTICE.
Elder W. Beae, having recovered trom his late illnr^s will publicly discourse, on next Lord dlv (1-t Aprfl) at the Christian Chnpcl on Fourth street at 11 A. M..on Sin, its Pollution, Power and Punishment at 7 p. »., on Salvation HB 1 hreefold
'".F t*!} P. M., a special meeting of the Christian Church for business Terre-Haute, March 31, W3-
DR. SWAYNE'S
Compound Syrup of
11,1
riUTi-y.
/IV IMPORTANT LETTER. Read the following letter from Mr WM. S.HAW/ a re a is in W in to N a
Sr'lSSS Liver Comprint. Spilling Blood,
DR. SWAYNE—-Dear
1646.
Sir: You will please send
SYRFPVOF°\V1LD CHEfRRY?"F^U«l£^f
.•ontinue'to do go. An acqunintance of min« called a frw dnvs ago sny thflt he would give me a certificai* of its pood effects He is from the countrv aid a minister of the tne
obta,ninp
he apency, I loubted
the Methodist
Church. Shoitlv nfler obtaminp the apency prevailed upon htm to try a bottle, though fdoufe whether any benefit would be derived, for he, Well as myself, thoupht his case was confirmed Consumption in fact every symptom was indjcanve Shortly after he wrote to me to semi him four or five hotfles mofe. Hfe came to town last week 1 will quote his own language "Sir *"]he, "T am a new man. and 1 confident a duty "owe to the public to -ell what Dr. Swayne'a Pnmnniind Svrup of Wild Cherry has done for S?' I wil publish his certificate, and as he is generally known all over our section, I e*P«ct^ trooH results from it.
With every feeling of respect, ^onrs
Letters such as the above are daily revived from nil parts of the country, but we jmhhsh thw as one of the many proofs of its effic«^. Avoid all preparations purporting to contain Wild Cherrv except that bearing the written rtfcnntiire of i\_ tiwavne, as they are most likely quite destitute of the article from which they borrow a name.
The oriainnl and only Cfnuine article is only prepared by DR. "WAYNE N. W. corncr oV
El^'w"r.o^neTo1r
Eighth and Race sts., Phttada.
For sale Wholeaale
tremendous
janG 19nlm Terre Haute. Ind.
WIST AR'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY —GnJUT REMEDY.—A very important disease ovect which this Balsam exerts a very powerful influ--ence, is that of a Diseased Liver. Inthiscomplaint ft has undoubtedly proved more efficacious than any remedy hitherto employed, and in nuv merous instances when patients had endured long' and severe suffering from the disease, without receiving the least benefit from various rertiedies, and when mercury has been resorted to in vain the us© of this Balsam has restored' the liver to a healthy action, and in many instances effected permanent
cures, after every known remedy had failed to pro-
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