The Wabash Courier, Volume 17, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 April 1849 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

E S S E O N A E DITO*.

*""TER^T^hTUTET?~

SATURDAY,v.-.APRIL 1, 1819.

Ur. Septcr Patrick.

For many week* past it has been known that Dr. Patrick was engaged in making preparations for a journey to California. On Thursday morning last, two tfagotis, one with four horses, the other with one, were seen quietly wending their way towards our bridge. It *as known as the equipage of Dr. Pattick, just starting for his great journey.— The Doctor himself was some distance in advance on horseback. Ho is aci. companied by his son Henry Clay Patrick, Mr. Joseph Baker, and Mr. Paine.

They start with two wagons and seven or eight horses on the route direct to St. Joseph. Dr. Patrick goes out with the viaw to benefit his health, and to practice tn his profession. We believe his calculation is to send for his family if prospects prove favorable, or otherwise to return to this country if he shall not be satisfied. The Dr. leaves a large family, a wife and several children, and an extensive circle of attached friends.— His departure threw quite a gloom over town—all wish him well, and regret his loss. The following resolutions passed by our Town Council, cm Monday evening, show the sentiments of esteem entertained fur him in this place:

The Common Council of the town of

Terre-Haute, having learned that it is the intention of our highly esteemed fellow-citizen, Dr. SEFTEK PATRICK, to leave us with the intention of removing to California, have deemed it proper to give, in behalf of themselves and the community they represent, an expression of their feelings upon the occasion of the removal from among us of offe who has, for nearly thirty years, been one of our fnost

valued

fellow-citizens. He it therefore

Itadlvcd, That in the removal from among ns of our fellow-citizen, I)r. SEPTER PATRICK,

we part

with one who, in all ihe relutions of life, has ever maintained the character of an honorable man, •n upright and useful citizen, a kind neighbor, a good physician, and a valuable member of society, ©ne whose integrity of character and kindness of heart have endeared him to the entiro community of which foe hits bee* so long a member, and while we rcpref the sepnraiion, we take great pleasure in Gearing this public testimony in Ins behalf.

Resolved further. That as testimonial ot tile high esteem in which he is held by his neighbors end fellow-eitizens, he is hereby cordially recommended to the protection and kindly offices of all »*ith whom he may be hereafter associated.

Resolved, That Dr. Patrick be presented with a duly attested copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions.

California.

By way of Vera Cruz, across Mexici news has been roccived at New Orb a is, from California, to the 25th January.

The winter had been a severe one throughout the country, but 110 distress among the miners—they have good Tog cabins and plenty of wood nnd provisions. The communication between Fort Sacramento and the Mining District, is cut off, the low lands being under water. At tho mines snow is said to bo from one to three feot deep.

Meetings are being held by the people to consider tho necessity of forming

gon. Tho paper Alto California, in noticing the hard work and poor pay of New York soamstresses, says:—

VVo would adviso a colony of those some working girls to come to California as soon as possible. Thoy can earn from 85 to 835 por day in tho manufacture of clothing and if they be anxious to do still bettor than that, thoy will find hundreds of young, good-looking, imd1 enterprising mon ready to embrace an opportunity which promises agood wife."

Girls, do you hear that As to gold, scorcely one word is said about this California production in the papers.

A drinking establishment at San Francisco, callod "The Shades," has been burned down—loss 815,000.

CHOLKRA.-*rTha nows from bolow reports tho Cholera on the in^ease.— Telegraph intelligence from New Orleans of the 30th ult. has cholera on the increaso.

Col. Webb's California expedition had broken up on tho Rio Grando, partly on account of the Cholera.

SAD ACCIDENT.—Wo regret to learn that two childron of Mr. Enan Smeed were badly scalded on Thursday of last week, by water issuing from Mr. Smith's Steam Mill. One of tho children died on Monday night, but the other is considered out of danger. The children were playing near the collection of hot water, and accidentally fell in.

COLONEL FREMONT.— The reports about Col. Fremont which we published last woek turn out to havo been much exaggerated. Fremont had got back to Santa Fe. The party had suffered greatly but not to the extent first stated

D. II."

real name.

it provisional government—aConvention g(Jns during the past week. Those who for that purpose is to bo held on tho first, have come from Michigan, Wisconsin

May jand the northern part of Illinois, have r- had a very hard timo of it. Many of Gen. Lane, was at Sat. Franc,sco on

Minesota.

This new territory, for which a government was formed at the late session of Coogresa, is represented as one of the richest and most beautiful portions of the £lobe. Its name is just beginning to be familiar* and yet thousands of families have already emigrated thither and established homes for themselves on its virgin soil.? The water power in the territory is said to be inexhaustible.— Mines of copper, lead, and it on are abundant. It embraces within its borders all the natural advantages necessary to a great Statey**-

The aci organizing this territory, which recently passed Congress, bounds ft on the north by the British possessions, east by the State of Wisconsin and tho Mississippi river, south by Iowa, and west by tho Missouri and Whitearth rivers. Provision is made for the division of the territory, if Congress sees fit. The government is to be organized in the usual manner, consisting of a governor, secretary and legislative assembly. Tho two former hold office for four years. The last consists of a council elected every two years, and an assembly chosen annually, on the principle of universal suffrage. All laws enacted by this body are to be submitted to the U. S Congress, and if disapproved arc annulled. The act contains the usual provisions for a territorial judiciary establishment. The governor's salary is fixed at Si,500 but he receives Si,000 additional as superintendent of Indian affairs. The salary of the secretary and each ef the judges is $1,800.

Mr. Ellsworth's Case.

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is received—wo want a

JkraTON & TILLAY.—This firm still going ahead—sec new advertisement.

STOCK JO* CAUFOILNU.—It

is believed that the

Mcamahip California took on board $1,000,000 in specie at San Bias. This amount was aem from the mint at Guadalaxara, to that port, via Tepic, be shipped ay Sao Frwjoacofor the purchase of gold duat.

DON'T STEAL NEWSPAPERS.—A man wan held to bail in three hundred dollars, at Philadelphia, a few days since, for stealing a newspaper from U»e door of a-subscriber.

'Independent' writes to the North American as follows:— An attempt has been made bv the exGovernment organ to exonerate Mr. Ells-j,her(!

Before Gen. Taylor \va$ inaugurated, a

statement of facts from the American Counsel, and from other equnlly^esponsible sources, containing the most indisputable evidence of the malfeasance of our diplomatic representative, was made known to tho circles of the metroplis through the agency of a distinguished citizen who has appeared conspicuously and advantageously in the columns of1 that very paper.

If tho Union desires to be informed as to the conduct of Mr. Ellsworth con-| corning this smuggling affair and other! matters involving his official repute, it' is but necessary to intimate such a desire —if the editor isnot already apprized— to be put in possession of the testimony, which will not only justify the administration in the course which it has taken, but will satisfy the public, when explained. that any other course would have disgraced the Government.

The Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye of March 29th thus speaks of Emigrant prospects:

CALIFORNIA EMIGRANTS.—Our streets have been crowded with California wa-

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the 25th of January, on his way to Oro- journev, and already look jaded out. A party from Wisconsin very wisely, un-

t00 fo/the

loaded at our levee on Monday last for tho purpose of shipping their heavy articles from this place up the Missouri river to St. Joseph.

The poor prospect and uncertainty of getting an early start so as to secure food for their teams, has discouraged many, and several in this vicinity have indefinitely postponed their visit to California. We do not believe that more than half of the multitudes who will congregate at Independence and St. Joseph will get off before the 1st of July, which will make it too late to get through. ———————

Dr. Graves, one of tho most eminent of tho English physicians, asserts that the cholera it contagious. Ho strongly recommends the use of acetato of lead. He says:— "A scruple of the acetate is combined with a grain of opium, and divided into twelve pills, and of these, one is to be given every hour, until the ricewater discharges from the stomach and rectum begin to diminish. In all cases where medicine promised any chanco of re-| lief, this remedy was attended with the very best effect. It gradually chocked the discharges from the bowels, and

A Washington letter in the N. Y. Journal of Commerce says— Mr. Hannegan has not yet receivedf

his outfit. I mention this, inasmuch as it has been asserted that he received it! on the 5th of March. It is doubtful even whether it will be should ho apply for it. The commission has not been issued to him. The subject may be under advisement. The opinion given by Mr.-Webster asto the character of the proceeding of the Senate and the President on this nomination and confirmation, is almost universally entertained. We shall see what the Whig Senators who havo been referred to as authority for the transaction wilt say tor Mr. Webster's lettor.

Wo arc compiling a work to be entitled "Distinguished Folly, or Models of Bad Taste," to be published so soon

as a sufficient number of specimens arejp fc mens on file, which are: 1st. C. M. Clay's letter to the editors of the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer, against Henry Clay, published some twelve months smce. 2d. Forrest's card against Mac ready. 3. Genera! Shields' late letter to S. Brecse.—Det. Adv.

procured. We have throe tall speci-

Sross

worth, the Charge d'Affaires at Stock-'tCr' holm from implication in the infamous. transaction which has called out so gen-1 Person!» eral an expression of indignation and I California, and in respect to vessels contempt from the press and the public. \^tal 'iat*

stopped the vomiting. The accetate of ington county, Pennsylvania, vice J. D. lead will succecd when all other astrin- Leet. gents fail. Dr. Thorn, surgeon of the 86th regiment, speaks highly of the acetate, combined with morphia, in tho treatment of cholera.

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Authentic Accounts from the UfM Region. Capt. P, W. Phelps, who reached Charleston lately in the brig Henrico, from Chagres (Shaving come frm Califortjia via the Isthmus,) has reached his home in Boston*/ The Traveller says:

Capt. P. brings a quantity of the gold in grains, in scales, and in lumps—the largest of the latter weighing about an out|ce and a half, being much less however tfian the lowest amount stated (38,000.)

As Capt. P. worked personally at the mines, ne says the largest piece he has seen is in the hands of Mr. Melius, and weighs but six ounces. He haard numerous stories at the mines of large pieces being found, but, in every instance where they were investigated they turned out to be false or greatly exaggerated. One man was reported to have found a piece weighing several pounds he went to see him and found that its weight was only two ounces, and that was the proceeds of an entire day's work.

As to the stories that the diggers were many of them averaging $150 per day, he thinks that those who have done the best have not obtained more than $3000 during the entire digging season. The hours of work were from five to ten hours per day. Formerly the Indians were willing to work for a trifle, but they have since become better acquainted with the value of their toil.

The inhabitants of California, Capt. P. says, are anxious to maintain order, but they can hardly do it in any other way than by lynch law until some regular government is established.

Agriculture has been so totally neglected that a man who had a field containing 15,000 bushels of wheat could not get it harvested, though he offered half the product, and was obliged to let his cattle eat it. Women and children, as well as their husbands and fathers had become gold diggers. There is no doubt, he says, of there being considerable quantities of gold in California, but mat-

«*«gge™»on in

the

Letters have appeared in the papers who had no existence in

never

been there.

Appointments by the President. By and with the advice and consent of the Senate..

George Evans, of Maine, Caleb B. Smith, of Indiana, and Robert T. Paine, of North Carolina, to be Commissioners under the act of the Congress of the U. States of the 3d of March, 1849, entitled "An act to carry into effect certain stipulations of the treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico of the 2d day of February, 1848."

William Cary Jones, of Louisiana, to be Secretary to the Board of Commissioners appointed under the said act.

Charles K. Smith, of Ohio, to be Secretary of the Territory of Minesota. Aaron Goodrich, of Tennessee, to be Chief Justice, and David Cooper, of Pennsylvania, and Benj. B. Meeker of Kentucky, to be Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States for said Territory.

James G. Campbell, of Louisiana, to be Judge of the District Court of the U. States for the Western district ofLouisi-

ana. Menry Bovce, of Louisiana, to be Attorney of the United States for said district.

John E. King, of Louisiana, to be Marshal of the United States for said district.

William B. Scott, of Louisiana, to be Marshal of the U. States for the eastern district of Louisiana.

Gales Seaton, of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary of the Legation of the United States to the federal Government of Germany.

CUSTOM-TFOUS-E OTFICELTS.-—COLLECTORS. Richard C. Holmes, (treat Egg Harbor, New Jersey, vice Robert B. Risley, whose commission expired.

John S. Rhea, Brazos Santiago, Texas. New Office. Edwin Rose, Sag Harbor, New York, vice Abel Huntington, whoso commission expired.

James Collier, San Francisco, California. New Office. POSTMASTERS.

Timothy Coggshall, Newport, R. I. Ephraim Hutchins, Concord, N. H. Joseph J. Pitman, Iluntsville, Ala. Samuel C. Cook, New Brunswick, N. J.

Thomas B. Bigger, (ro-appointed,) Richmond Virginia. Edwin Boylo, Annapolis, Md.

APPOINTMENTS BY THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. James McDermont, Postmaster, Wash-

William R. Hammond, Postmaster, Berlin, Worcbester county, Maryland, vice C. M. Williams.—National Intelligencer.

MR MCGAUOBEVHI REJBCTIO:*.—"Independent,

of the North American, writes as follows from Washington: If all the Whig Senators had been present, ss they ought to have been, the result would have been different. There may be explanation for this absenteeism, but, without it, the naked fact doee not appear much to the advantage of those whose

paid to him duty was at the ontaet of the Administration, to have attended and given their support to the nominations. This is not the first occasion upon which there has been just occasion for complaint, and if Senators can derive satisfaction from the consequence of their delinquency, Uwy might at least furnish their friends with some plea of justification, for what now anneara to be a most unwarrantable neglect of public duty.

MEETING OF MEXICAN COMMISSIONERS. —The Secretary of State gives notice that the board of commissioners, authorised by Congress in accordance with the Mexican treaty, are to meet in Wash ington on the IGthof April next. They are to receive and examine all claims of citizens of the U. States upon the republic of Mexico which are provided "or by the treaty aforesaid, ami which may be presented to the said board of commissioners, and to decide thereon according to the provisions of the said1 treaty, and of the first and fifth articles of the unratified convention concluded1 at the city of Mexico on the twentieth day of November, one thousend eight hundred and forty-three.

Front the Indiana State Jouriyiif^ State Central Committee* A tit meeting pf the WhigfcUate Cen trffM3otm»iiuee of Indiana, held at Indianapolis oiuhe31st day of March, 1849, the following proceedings were had.

Present «if the Upmntittee J. P. Defrees, C. P. J. Atfohnfhoa. Dowling, S. Bobbs, N. McCarty, Wm. Hanaman, C. Rommel and Horatjo C. Newcomb,

Letters were received from absent members of the Committee. On motion of Mr, Dowling, John D. Defrees was eleeted Chairman of this Committee for tfye present year,

On motion of Mr- 4rion, HofatiqC, Newcomb was appointed Seretaty. Mr. Dowling offered the following resolutions, which, after full consideration and interchange of opinion, were "adopted:

Resolved, That this Committee deem it inexpedient, at this time, to name a candidate for Governor of Indiana to fill the vacancy in the. Whig Ticket.

Resolved, That this Committee recommend to their Whig brethren throughout the State the propriety of selecting Delegates to meet in Coventiou at Indianapolis, on the first Thursday in May, 1849, for the purpose of choosing some suitable person to be supported for Governor in August.

Resolved, That the Whig papers be respectfully requested to publish these resolutions, at once, and give them such circulation as will ensure to the subject the early consideration of the people of this State.

The following Address to the people of Indiana was adopted, after which the Committee adjourned, sine die.

The State Central Committee, after a careful consideration of its duty to those represented by it, have deemed it proper to postpone any nomination till the great body of the Whig Party, through its chosen delegates, can be heard from in a STATK CONVENTION. For this purpose, the Committee would most respectfully recommend that Delegates chosen by the People, in the respective Counties, assemble at Indianapolis on Thursday, the third day of May next, to nominate a candidate for Governor, and tne prompt and speedy co-ope-ration of our fellow citizcns, in this matter, is urgently invoked.

In thus deferring to the popular will, and invoking nn expression of its wishes in a matter of such high concern, the Committee feels that it is discharging its duty to those from whom it holds a limited authority. While so many names are at the service of the party—names honorably conspicuous in defeat and triumph—it is due to the great Whig family of Indiana that its chosen Delegates should designate the man to conduct our glorious State to the new civic victory which awaits the Whig Standard in August. To you belongs the right to make this selection, and we doubt not that it will be properly exercised.

In looking over the condition of our beloved country, there is much to inspire and but little to depress the Patriot's hope. For the first time in twpnty years (with but a slight interval,) the Whig party of the Union have a permanent hold on the Government of the country, and with animating prospects that the PEOPLE will sustain the good work began and finished by themselves in November last. A patriotic President occupics the seat of WASHINGTON, and aims to bring back our Government to the practice of our earlier Chief Magistrates. Full of sentiments of justice, toleration, and love of the Union, he only asks that his country should award to his Administration a fair and impartial trial, willing that his own fame nnd the success of his Executive mission be judged by the body of his countrymen.— Unpracticed in tne arts of the politician, he can reasonably expect no justice from the political leaders who opposed his election but from the »ws#of the honest, intelligent and patriotic friends of his defeated competitor, he may, and of right does, expect a fair consideration of all proper efforts to serve his country.

The sense of iustice which animates the American people, and which is but seldom appealed to

in vain, will be heard and felt in our coming contest, and the ground-swell of that popular current which bore the old Patriot to the capital, will sustain, on its mighty bosom, the edihee of the

TION'S HOPE.

INDIANA—the

PLE OF FREEDOM

fuctcd

JOHN D. DEFREES, Pres't.

HORATIO C. X^EWCOMB, Secretary.

TO THE WHIGS OF INDIANA. The undersigned, members of the Whig State Central Committee of Indiana, assembled this day at the Capitol, to consider the best means of supplying a candidate for the office of Governor.— The declination of ELISHA EMBREE, nominated in January last by the Whig Convention, leaves a vacancy in our general ticket, and imposes the necassity of a speedy choice of another proper and acceptable name, for that high trust.

Fifteen States—including the "Em

pire" and the "Keystone"—cast their suffrages for President

TAYLOR

in November and we trust that

early object of his labor and of his

solicitude—will be found ranked with the sovereignties which sustain his Administration, so far as that Administration tends to the tranquility and honor of our beloved Union. The commencement of that Administration is suspicious, and all the just expectations of the American People will be realized in the sequel of its history.

To the Whigs of Indiana—the men of 1840,

!44,

and 1843—we would appeal to sustain the sovereignty of the People and freedom of Congress against the Veto Power. On "all questions of domestic policy" President

TAYLOR

rejects the right

to use that negative on the action of Congress.— His Inaugural Address is before tho country, and no fair man will charge that he is not explicit on this head. Many of those who acted with the Whigs of Indiana, in years gone by, abandoned their party in 1848, and voted Tor jVf r. Van Buren, under the fatal mistake that he was a more reliable friend of the free action ol Congress, in reference to slavery, than Gen. Taylor! Thousands of them were honest in this opinion, erroneous as it has proven to be. But that error has had its day, and it will answer no good purpose to discuss it now. The mischief which resulted to the Whig party of Indiana, by reason of that schism in its ranks, will, it is hoped, be of short duration, and it is confidently expccted that the good sense of these seceding brethren will induce them to return to the "house of their friends," where, by moderate counsels, and a well digested course of political action, they may aid in building up the

TEM

in the new empires on the Pacific.

We see nothing to keep them from their old friends —nothing to estrange—nothing to repel them. They differ in no essential measure of governmental policy from the Whig party of Indiana, in the ranks of which, for years, many hundreds of them held a high and elevated position. They will reflect on their duty—they will perform it.

As a party, the Whigs of Indiana have nothing to discourage them. Our defeat in November was the result of causes which cannot operate again. The canvass of 1848, commenccd under deep and

loomy discouragements, was, we must say, conwithout the ttfort which the importance of the contest demanded. It is useless to review these things now, or to lament what we lost by the falsehoods uttered against the good name of the honest soldier now at Washington. These falsehoods, and the schism in our ranks above alluded to, lost Gen. Taylor the electoral vote of Indiana, and placed this State tn a position adverse to her true interests. Fifteen other States saved the Whig party from a general defeat, and, let us add, the country from the misrule which has so long marked its historv. But we have still a to perform in reclaiming our beloved Indiana from oDoosition to the new Administration, and we should lose no time in accomplishing that desirable end. The declination of our candidate, (Judge Embree,) for masons which were feared and foreseen in January, has emboldened our political opponents, and imu to inspire them with confidence, felt or feigned, that they will continue to bestride the state with their heresies and abuses. They understand boasting, and mean to practice cm their knowledge but that should have no effect on the Whigs of this State. These boasts arc idle, as the past haa shown, in more instances than one. The same predictions were made in reference to Gen. Taylor, who, they modestly asserted, would get but from two to four States! This system is a poor experiment, and can have no effect on minds remitted to perform its own part in public affairs. If every Whig, and every man with Whig affinities and sympathies, will do his duty, the standard of oer party will waive over enfranchised Indiana—in honor and triumph I

JAMES E BLYTHE, C. P.J. ARION, C.

CLARK90N.

D. P. HOLLOW AY, JNO.

D. DEFREES,

J. S. BOBBS. W. HANNAMAN, CHAS. ROMMEL, H. S NEWCOMB, N. Mc~ARTY, A. T. ELLIS, THOS. DOWLING, JI LANE. A O O N ALLEN HAMILTON.

For the JVabath Courier.

Letter from Jimmy Trump to Billy Bowera. TERRE IIAUM, April 6, 1040. «DF.AR BILLY:—I a|f glad to hear that you think seriously of coming to Terre llrtute. As I told yotp in my other letter, it is a fine place, atm I think you will be pleased with it, fin answer to the severul inquiries contained fn youf letter, I have only to say, that so far as health is ponc^rQed, the general health of Terre Hauto is vefy good but in case you should get sick, there is every variety of Doctor here, from calomel t# 4ieatn.

The market is well supplied with the necessaries of life, and if so disposed, any one can have a first rute table all the year round.

About fire, vou need have no apprehensions in this place it is of so little concernment, that we have been able,for a long time, to dispense with a Fire Company, We have an engine, but it has not yet recovered from the serious injury it received about two years ago, when Smith's mill was burned. It seems that after that fire, the engine was not immediately taken home, and whether its injury consisted in its power being weakened by the sun shin ing upon it, or because they had put wa ter into -it, the owners of the engine have not reported. But certain it is, it was in a'bad way, and it was thought almost necessary to set up with it a few nights. If it is subject to such spells, it ought never to be allowed to go out in clear weather, without having an umbrella over it, or else, by no means put water into it. This disaster to the engine was considered so culpable, that the Town Council would not permit the Company to exist any longer and with a just appreciation of the authority vest ed in them, forthwith disbanded the company in as summarily a manner as the exigency of the case demanded.— This was a severe rebuke, and no doubt mortified every member of the'eompany very much. Since that time, two or three efforts have been made to organize a new company. The "ruffled shirt and silk stocking gentry" \yere respectfully requested to "stand back," and from the demonstration made, one could scarcely expect any thing else, than that a company would be established, of such power, ihat ihe mere actual presence of the engine at a fire, would be sufficient to subdue the flames. But the decree of the Council was imperative and the matter was settled, thai we stood in no need of a fire company.

At the recent fire some persons were so foolish as to take out the engine, when, after considerable exertion, it was got ready to work, in time to extinguish a box of matches that had ignited by proximity to the fire. After rendering this important service, it was left to stand in the street,the engine atonecorner, and the hose carriage at another, a square distant, the rest of that night and the greater part of next day, surrounded by horses and wagons, and drays, and carts and cattle, yet the Prime Minister of the Fire Department never said a word, and the Council took no notice of it whatever. It caused many to think that if this had been done by a company, how it would have caught "goss" from the proper sources. It is'nt right, any way, that the guilty ones should escape "just censure," for the high-handed measure of taking the engine out without a "permit," and leaving it so exposed.

The Town Council having magnanimously disbanded the Fire Company, the engine is considered of no further use, and 1 understand the works are to betaken out of the box, and applied to the raising of water in a pump, for the benefit of the Sons of Temperance—who have two flourishing divisions here.

This will be a good move, and may possibly induce a great many to join the Sons, for the privilege of drinking at the pump. Yours as ever.

JIMMY TRUMP.

Mr. BILLY BOWERS.

SIGNIFICANT FACT.—The New Orleans Crescent published the report of a Committee appointed for the purpose of ascertaining the number of death's from Asiatic Cholera, which occurred among the Sons of Temperance in that city and the adjoining towns during the recent epidemic. The committee state that there are 1243 members of the different Divisions in New Orleans, Lafayette, Algeirs, and Gretna. In these Divisions three deaths only occurred, and in some of them not a case of cholera took place. Of those who died, one had been a member but a week, another less than a month, and the third was a watchman who was much exposed.— The proportion of deaths in the city was fifteen to every 1000 souls, while in the Sons of Temperance the proportion was 1 in more than each 400 members.

THE WHIG PLATFORM.—A Michigan correspondent of the Rochester Democrat states that in the Michigan House of Representatives on the 5th instant, Mr. Morion a Democratic member, moved for the reading of the Whig Platform.— Thereupon the honorable Mr. Coe commenced reading to the House the Constitution of the United States. An attempt was made to stop the reading, but, "one of the Locos got up and insisted that he should go on that the document appeared to be interesting, and that he had never before heard it read. He had sought for in vain in his town, and he wanted to know what it was about. He had no doubt it would be new to most of them." Party discipline, however, choked the reader down.

MILWAOKIK.—This flourishing city is 120 miles long. Any one who doubts this, can easily be convinced of the truth of our assertion by examining the mileage of the members of Congress.— Walker, of Wisconsin, charges for 1809 miles Lynde 1760, both live in the city of Milwaukie.—Pittsburg Gazette.

TAYLOB WHISKERS.—"Your whiskers remind me very much of old Gen. Taylor," said a gentleman the other day to a young fop who was cultivating a very unpromising and sandy crop of hair on his face. Why so?" eagerly asked the ambitious youngster, with a gratified tone and air. Because they are rough and reddy, was fhe reply.

*en. Taylor on Lake Improvements The National Intelligencer gives an account of an interview with the President by a delegation from Buffalo, New York, to present him some choice specimens of beef, in boxefs, sample of the rich products of Erie cotinty. Mr. Harrington made an address to General Taylor on the occasion, setting forth that the vast regions of our country bordering upon our Western Lakes, are the granaries of the nation, and their natural products are precisely what constitute a nation's wealth already these inland seas are whitened by the sails of commerce but they are destitute of harbors and smitten by ihe withering blast of the veto and Mr. H. went on to say that the declarations written upon the platform of 1848, indicated a return to the freedom of legislation and promul gated to the General's admiring country men the guide and guarauty of the

Western emigrant. General Taylor replied in substance as follows:—

am deeply impressed by the sentiments which the people of BufTalo entertain for me, the and flattering language in which they have been expressed.— Forty years of my life has been spent in the camp, a portion of which was in the country of the Lakes. The aggregate value of their produce for exportation can only be compared with that of the great valley of the Mississippi. "I am fully aware of the difficulties in the navigation of these Lakes, and shall at all times most cordially co-operate with Congress in any measures for the reliefof their rapidly growing commerce. "Gentlemen, much of the commendation bestowed upon me is really due to others, and I have entered upon the duties of the high station to which I have been called with diffidence, trusting that the intricacies of government will yield to perseverance in faithfulness to the people. I am every where encouraged by the kind greetings of my fellow citizens, none of which afford me more pleasure than ihose of the city of Buffalo. I estimate their present and their motives far above all pecuniary considerations, and unite with them in the fervent hope, that abundance, prosperity, and happiness may exist throughout the land.

I beg that you will convey to them my most sincere thanks for their kindness, and say that I not only wish, as Henry IV did for his countrymen, that they may have a fowl in the pot on Sunday, but a piece of beef like these on their tables every day in the week."

Mr. Collamcr, of Vermont, now at the head of the Post Office Department, is a self made man— emphatically the architect of his own fortune. To illustrate his exertions and his merits in this regard, we may without impropriety repeat a remark a writer in the Courier heard him make at a dinner of the graduates of his Alma Mater—the University of Vermont—over a year ago. Speaking of one of the early Presidents of that institution, who was in office while he was in college, Mr. Collamer said he never heard him utter what seemed to him a harsh reproof but once, and that was when he directed him never agaift to appear in the recitation room without shoes. The harshness of the remark, he said, sprung from the fact that he had no shoes. He procured some, however, and for the sake of economy, carried them in his hand to the door of the recitation room, and then put them on.—N. Y. Express.

I understand that Secretary Ewing of the Home Department, has interpreted the law creating his Department, to mean that the offices transferred from the other Departments to the Home Department, donotembrace or include the personnel of those offices or bureaus— that is, the bureaus are transferred, but the clerks are not. The latter are mere locum tennens until the head of the department shall re-appoint them, or other men to their places.

These Bureaus include the Land Office, the Pension Office, the Patent Office, the first Auditor's Office, the Fifth Auditor's Office, the Indian Office, the Office of Commissioner of Public Buildings, and the Office of Superintendent of the Penitentiary. The clerks in all of these offices number some two or three hundred we believe. The alarm of some of them is great.— Washington Cor. of Baltimore Patriot.

NEWSPAPER CHANGE.—Old Mr. Ritchie, it is said, will soon leave the Washington Union to make room for Mr. Burke, commissioner of Patents and ColForney, at present editor of the Pennsylvania. These gentlemen are to purchase the concern at $60,000. Father Ritchie goes out a half a million better than he went in. He has played the organ to advatage. All his tones weresilvery, and neatly adapted to the delicate ear of power. His successors will not fare as well. The stream from the treasury has been cut off, and they will have to content themselves with what they can catch when it rains porrage.—Det, Advertiser.

MARRIAGES PROHIBITED BY LAW.—A proposition is pending before the British House of Commons for the repeal of the laws which prohibit marriages with a deceased wife's sister, and also with a niece of deceased wife. Tho Hon. S. Wortley introduced the subject with a very elaborate speech, in which he demonstrated that the present prohibitions were entirely inoperative. From nsummary of information take from only five districts in England, in less than three months, it appeured that of marriages ascertained to have taken place in the district alluded to, between parlies within the prohibited degrees, one thousand three hundred and sixty-four have been contracted since Lord Lyndhurst's act and of these upwards of nine-tenths have been contracted with a deceased wife's sister.

Locust Groves may easily be gtown on knobs of hills or the poorest soil, and in 5 years will yield per acre annually from 95 to $10 worth of post timber. produce more grass than it would without trees, and every year improve the soil. On Long Island Locust groves have grown up in 38 years to be worth $300 per acre. We have been urging our farmers, and especially those occupying plain lands, to cultivate locust— but as yet but few have done it*—Ohio Repository.

Of the seven hundred and forty-one cholera cases of the pasi month in' London, three hundred and sixty-three have been children under fifteen years of age, and the greatest mortality has occurred between the ages of five and ton a sign that the children of the metropolis are poorly fed and badly clothed.

MAKING IT THE ISSUE.—Tire Washington correspondent of ihe New York Post says, that when the Cabinet nominations were under discussion, in Ex-^ ecutive session of the Senate, Mr. Westcott, of Fin., objected to Mr. Collamer, because he was tainted with abolitionism." After the objection had been debated at some length, Mr. Seward of New Yflrk, rose and remarked that he sup* 4 posed he himself represented the most radical opinions upon Slavery that were held by any considerable body of people at the North and that he supposed Mr. Collamer would substantialy agree with him. With respect to the objection made to this nomination, it was time .there should be an understanding. He would therefore simply defy them to make this issue, to vote against this man upon this ground, and establish this principle. He had nothing more to say at this time and he took his seat sub si* lentio. There was a sensation, and after he settled himself back in his leather cushions there was a general buzz. Mr.

Collamer's nomination was confirmed.

EMIGRATION FROM THE UNITED STATES TO CALIFORNIA.—The New York Herald on Friday contains a list of vessels and passengers that have sailed fronj tho ports of the United States for California, from the commencement of th? old excitement to the 22d instant. Thtf ol lowing recapitulation gives' the number of vessels, the ports of their destinf ation, and the number of passengers: Total in 198 vessels via Cape Horn

Do Do Do Do Do Do Do

45 8 11 a 2 2 1

REMARKABLE TRACK OF ANTIQUITY.— Tho perfect skeleton of an Indian woman was found last Wednesday afternoon in the sand-bank excavation adjoining Niagara River, immediately back of Major Whitney's new residence. We understand that it rested in a sitting posture with its face facing tho North, (true Indian style,) about four feet below the surface. Immediately nbovr grew a large hickory, two feet in diameter, at least 200 years old, whose huge roots encircled the skeleton on every side.— Owing to the frost in the sand, and the number of roots to be removed, it was obtained with great difficulty. Rumor says Indian relics were found with it.— Niagara Falls Iris.

The Legislature of New York lias determined to exterminate all "law Latin" from legal proceedings. The effect of this movement was seen in the court of Common Pleas, in New York city, by the recital of a recent net ol* the Assembly which says: "Where a defendant is about to leave the State, whereby the rights of the plaintiff may be impaired, an order of

PUNCTILIOUS OF NAME —A corporal in one of the regiments in Mexico, when the roll was being called, refused to answer to the name of 'Ebenezer Mead.' The officer repeated the call. No answer. 'Is Ebenezer Mead on the ground?" said the indignant official.— 'Eben Mead is here,'quoth tho corporal. 'Why don't you answer, you rascal Ebenezer Mead!' *My name is simply Eben Mead.' The 'Ebenezer' was repeated again in a tone like a small northwester. 'Captain,' quoth the rampant corporal,'you call mo Ebenezer. Your name is Peter Read would you respond if you were called Petersneezer Read?' He was taken to the guard house, tried for contempt, and deprived of his warrant.—Lowell Courier.

NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.—The postage upon newspapers dropped into the postoffice by individuals, is now reduced to one cent for any part of the same State, and a half cent additional for distances over 100 miles out of the State.—the postnge to be prepaid as formerly, except when sont from the office of publication. The postage heretofore, it will be recollected, was three cents in advance.

NOT SO VERY MUDDY AFTER ALL.—The Editor of the Lake Providence (La.) Republican, in his last number, brags considerably about the improved condition of the streets of his town. Because he was able to see above the mud the ears and a portion of the head of a mule team that was driven through one of the streets the day before, he says, 'the mud is nothing like as deep as it has been.'

Senator Johnston of Georgiu, in thfr course of a debate in the U. S. Senate on the 29th ult., stated that tho estimated valuation of property in slaves amounted to the astonishing sum of ten hundred millions of dollars!

FROZEN FISH.—At Coppermine river, fish are so frozen as to break with the blow of a hatchet but if when thus frozen, they are thawed before the fire they will revive.-«Str R. Phillips.

ALMOST INCREDIBLE.—It is stated i» the papers that within three months after the new law of divorces was adopted in France, there were as many divorces as marriages, and that in eighteen months twenty thousand divorce? were registered.

To CLEAH BLACK SATIN.—In a quart of water boil three pounds of potatoes to a pulp. Strain the water through a sieve, and brush the satin with it, upon a board or table. The material is not to be wrung, but folded down in cloths for three hours, and then ironed side.

do Chagres. do Vera Cruz do Brazos do Corpus Chriati do San Juan River do Tampico do Lavaca

12,323" 3,229 594 7G5 103

116 87 122

Total in 270 vessels 17.341 Besides the above says the Herald, several vessels have cleared at New York, for San Francisco, which have not yet sailed and some few have sailed, the list of passengers in which, if any, has not been published. If those who have gone out West to go overland, were included in the above it would swell the list to about twenty thousand.

No Go' maybe

granted, and this shall be a substitute for the writ heretofore known as the writ of ne exeat." This new legal expression 'No Go' called up suchn ludicrous association of ideas, from the vulgar signification heretofore attached to it, that the whole bar burst into laughter.

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