The Wabash Courier, Volume 17, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 July 1849 — Page 2

THE COURIER.

E S S E O N A E PITO*.

Y€r^THA_ E:

SATURDO^J^'-V 21, 1849.

C2J1U3 JlominaHouc.

FOR GOVERNOR,

JOHN A. MATSON,

OF FRANKLIN COUNTY.

FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR,

THOMAS S. STANFIELD,

OF ST.JOSEPH COUNTY. FOR CONGRESS.

E. W. McGAUGHEY,

OF TABKE.

FOR SENATOR,

jn the Counties of Clay, Sullivan and VTgo,

JOSEPH W. BRIGGS, OF SULLIVAN.

The Health of Terre Haute

Still continues good—we hear of no disease in the place beyond slight summer complaints. A good deal ot pains have been taken to cleanse and purify the streets and most likely with good effect as to the general health.

John A. Matson.

Agreeably to public notice, Mr. Matson, Whig candidate for Governor, addressed his fellow-citizcns of Vigo, at the court house in Terre-Haute, on Saturday last. He is an excellent speaker —certainly a most effective one. We have rarely heard a speech more convincing and clear in argument, and at the same time more conciliating to all bearers. Mr. Matson made a powerful impression we know upon his audience. Not only were Whig* delighted with their candidate, but Democrats did not fail to express a favorable opinion of the man, after the meeting adjourned.

Mr. Joseph A. Wright will find a pow erful competitor in Mr. Matson. Mr. W right is famous for mysticisms, catches, non»commiualism, &c. None better qualified to keep the Democratic candi date straight than Mr. Matson. He is the very man to do it. Mr. Wright will have to toe the mark, without suspicion of locality, or Wilmot proviso dodging in this or that section ol tho State. It seems the gentlemen have met on several occasions. Mr. Matson related some clever anecdotes of the manner in which his competitor was now and then cornered in his opinions.

Mr. Matson

has

sound views on sub­

jects pertaining to our State Government, as well as those of a National character. He is decidedly in favor of a convention to change the State Constitution—giving his reasons in full on many points, in which ho thinks the Constitution could be altered for the better. Ho is in favor of the election of officers by the people, and particularly those of the Judges, both of the Supreme and Circuit Courts. He dwelt at some length upon the abuse of the appointing poworas possessed by the Governor at present, in selecting Judges of the Supreme Court, &c. He is also in favor of so changing the Constitution as to admit of assembling the Legislature but once in two years, unless callod by the Governor for some special purpose, die. But we have not time for further notice of the speech. Mr. Matson wait listened to with great attention by a crowded house, and made a most favorable impression upon his audience.

Senatorial.

J. W. HRIGGS and J. M. HANNA, candidates for tho State Senate, in this District, spoke in our Court House on Tuesday evening last. Mr. Hanna, Democratic candidate, commenced with a short speech. He seemed, indeed, very liberal, so far as party politics was concerned. Scarcoly venturing a sentiment that might be exceptionable to Whigs. We hardly understood this at first. Our eyes were soon opened, however, when Mr. Briggs commenced his address to the meeting. He congratulated Mr. Hanna on tho liberal spirit just manifested, and hoped it might be continued. Ho could not, however, avoid remarking, how different had been the conduct of his competitor in the Democratic county of Sullivan. There, he stated, Mr. Hanna had shown the true feather—had •bused Gen. Taylor and his Administration without stints Not a word of this kind in the Whig county of Vigo—at least not in tho Terre Haute section.— That was pretty shrewd in Mr. Hanna. But will it take I—we think not. He is the very man to be well watched. Let Whigs look to it. Better be careful— voto for a true Whig—and trust not to this Vigo non-committal sympathy.— Should Mr. Hanna be elected, he will prove the same uncompromising Locofoco in principle at Indianapolis, that he has in the Democratic county of Sullivan.

MORE LEVELLING.—Some time ago we mentioned the levelling and grading of Third and National Road Streets. The same sysiem is now being pursued in referenco to roost of the principal streets in the town. And really we think the Improvement is contributing greatly to the appearance of illo place, besides the final benefit of property holders generally in Terre Haute.

HOUSES FOR CALIFORNIA-—No less than seventy houses have ba&n shipped tn four vessels, from New York for Cali­

fornia,

THE STATE OP PARTIES)* Congressional Election*. "If we can reason at all from the signs of the times, our Whig friends never had to strong motives to exertion as they have in the pending Congressional elec tions. With a majority in the House of Representatives, a good working major ity, there seems to be no doubt whatever that the Administration of General Taylor will go on quietly, prudently, and wisely, to secure for the country all the advantages that the people have expected from it. The popular branch being with us, there will be no factious oppo sition in the Senate and the tendency of things will be to assimilate more and more every day the views of the latter body to those of the Administration.— The moderate measures of reform put forward by the House will not be factious! defeated in the Senate and the country will prosper under that benignant policy which contemplates the welfare of the whole people, and believe in the power of the General Government to give them 'good roads, good harbors anl good laws.'"

We take the above from the Washington Republic. The same paper further adds •'When we consider, then, the disturbing and distracting causes in the old Democratic party—causes which must forever prevent its reunion with its old prestige and popularity—and when we consider in the same glance the moderation, the concord, the harmony of the Whig party—their position as a national party under the lead of the gallant and popular

chief

two

whose name is so glorious­

ly inscribed on the history of the age wc think that it becomes the one great duty of ourfriends,in those Stateswhere Congressional elections are yet to be held, to devote themselves from this day forward to the Congressional canvass that.this great and united party may not receive its first blow through thefr defection. In those districts where there are

Whigcandidates, one of them should be withdrawn. No risk whatever should be run. In those districts where we have large majorities, we should' take good care that our over-confidence is not our ruin."

These extracts from the Republic are worthy the attention of Whigs at the present time. We ask our friends in nil the Congressional Districts in the State to exert themselves. Particularly in the seventh District, let all the friends of the General Administration rally to the election of Mr. McGAUGHEY. "No risk whatever, should be run," says the Republic. "In those Districts where we have large majorities we should take good care that our over-confidence is not our ruin," repeats the same authority.

Thos. H. Benton.

All things don't go smoothly or favorable to Col. Benton. The Platte Argus gives us some proceedings.

At nn adjourned meeting of citizens of Plntte county, irrespective of party, held at the court house in Platte City, on Monday, the 2d day of Julv, 1849, the following proceedings were hod:

ttesoloed,

By the people of Platte county, in

convention assembled: That we are opposed to tho Wilmot Proviso, that

we

consider it unnecessary and uncalled for,

and unjust in its application to the citizens of the slaveholding States. That we are in favor of the application of the principles of the Missouri Compromise to the territories of the United States, lately acquired from Mexico.

That American citizens removing from the States of this Union to any of the territories, are entitled to all the essential rights, privileges and immunities under the constitution of the iJnited States, as citizens, that they were while within the boundaries of any one of the United States

Mr. Hardin offered a resolution, to the effect that the County Court he requested to open a poll at the next August election for and against Thomas II. Benton, which was adopted.

Mr. Mackay, in his recent work on this country, says "that America is the only power on earth that Great Britain has to dread." It is not the political or the military power of the United States that tho British Government has to dread, according to Mr. Mackay, but "the silent and unostentatious operation of nature and the progressive achievements of art on the continent of America.

New Cashier.

We have been requested to state that JOSEPH H. JENCKES, Esq., has been elected Cashier of the Branch Bank at Terre Haute, in the place of Nathaniel Preston, Esq., resigned.

Grafton F. Cookerly.

We understand that GRAFTON F. COOKERLY is the Democratic candidate for Congress, in the Seventh District.

HUNGARY APPEALS TO FRANCE.—The Minister of the Hungarian Government at Paris has addressed the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. de Tocqueville, asking for aid from France in favor of his country.

The city council of Jeffersonville has voted in favor of taking $100,000 in the stock of the Jeffersonville and Columbus railroad.

MESSRS. MATSON AND STANFIELD.— We continue to hear the most encouraging news from all portions of the State, iii relation to the prospects of these gentlemen. Wherever they have addressed the people, they have given general satisfaction. Thousands who did not think proper to vote last November, are now to be found battling side bv side with their old friends, in behalf of their long cherished principles. The Whigs have only to come to the polls, in all their strength, to secure the election of their candidates. Lei mery man, from now unui the last ballot is cast, sro to work, and ail will be well.—Slatt Journal

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA. July 16, ^The funeral obsequies in memory of Ex-President Polk took place this morning at the Museum the pageant was very solemn and imposing* Mr. Dallas pronounced the eulogtum, paying a glowing tribute to the exemplary private worth, eminent public career and distinguished services of the illustrious dead. One hour and twenty minutes were consumed in the delivery of the speech. Mr. Dallas during the whole time, was listened to with the most profound attention. Flags were raised a| half mast on the shipping and the public buildings.

BALTIMORE, July 16.

Mr. John D. Berck, clerk of theSusquchana Copper Works, was murdered in his office last night. The murderers are unknown.

PITTSBURGH, July 16.

TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION.—A tremendous fire is now raging in Allegheny City—thirty houses have been burn* ed. Dr. Swift's beautiful church is destroyed. The Alleghany firemen refused to throw water on the fire, and prevented the Pittsburgh firemen from rendering assistance the fire is still raging in all directions the greatest excitement prevails. Further particulars will be forwarded as soon as possible.

Two feet four inches in the channel and falling. t. NEW YORK, July 17.

CHOLERA.—There were 1000 deaths last week, against two hundred and eighty-four of the same week last year, of which over one hundred and eightyfour were of cholera.

PHILADELPHIA, July 17.

There were four hundred and s»xtynine cases of cholera during the week ending on Saturday, of which there were one hundred and seventy-one deaths.

BALTIMORE, July 17.

The cholera is raging violently in the Alms House. CINCINNATI, July 17.

Sixty interments of cholera and fortyfour of other diseases for the last twenty four hours—a great decrease.

NEW YORK, July 17.

One hundred and three eases, and fifteen deaths of Cholera are reported. PHILADELPHIA, July 17.

There have been reported seventythree cases and thirty-one deaths of cholera.

NEW YORK, July 17.

Several serious riots have recently taken place between the Catholics and Orangemen, at St. Catharines, in Upper Canada, six were killed and several wounded. On the 12th a street skirmish occurred at Hamilton, in which nine were killed. The cholera is gaining rapidly at Montreal, on Saturday 45 deaths occurred. The increase of deaths is attributed to the sudden change ii the weather. The epidemic is preading among the troops. Lord Elsin refuses to allow the soldiers to leave town, as requested by the military commander. nv of the first class peole have fallen victims to the epidemic in Qucbec.

ST. LOUIS,July 16.

The interments of cholera on Saturday were 89, other disease 42. On Monday of cholera 58,other disease 34. The weather is cool and cloudy. The health of the quarantine is improving.

To the Whigs of Indiana. The August election is »t hand, and we fear that its importance has not been fully considered. As Whigs, we are too much in the habit, after achieving a victory, to sink into lethargy, instead of following it up vigorously. This arises from the fact that many of the party do not sufficiently reflect upon their own political principles, else would they see that to carry out measures it is not sufficient to succeed in a Presidential election only, but in the Congressional and other elections also.

It is known to all that General Taylor stands pledged to use the veto power, not arbitrarily, but to yield up, on questions of mere policy, his own individual opinion, to that of a majority of Congress. This body represents the people the people should be careful that it truly represents them.

During the next Congress tho great questions of slavery or freedom in California and New Mexico, and the boundary of Texas must be settled. The Legislatures of different States will instruct Senators as to their action on these important questions. Whether our Senators will vote to forever exclude slavery from these territories, and to prevent its existence in Santa Fe and the whole eastern bank of the Rio Grande by limiting the boundaries of Texas to her true limits, or will pursue a course of non-interference will entirely depend on the character of our next Legislature. If those who are truly opposed to the extension of Slavery will unite their strength on candidates hostile to slavery, then Messrs. Whitcomb and Bright will be compelled to vote for the direct and positive exclusion of slavery. But if they suffer themselves to he disunited, or fail to be at the polls, then these Senators, if instructed at all, will receive no other instructions than those voted for by the Democrats of the last Legislature—the non-interference resolution*.—State Journal.

BANKING IN PENNSYLVANIA.—Applications will be made to the next Legislature for charters for eight new banks, with an aggregate capital of 82,550,000, and for the re-charter of eleven existing banks, whose united capital amounts to #4,187,500.

Public Speaking.

JOSEPH W. BRIGGS, candidate for State Senator, from Clay, Sullivaft and Vigo, will address the voters of the district, at the following times and places, to-wit: K*®

Monday, July 23, at Compton's, Dick Johnson township, Clay county, at 1^'" clock, A. M.

Same day at Moses Usher's, Clay county, at 4 P. M. Tuesday, July 24, at George Lucas,' Jackson township, Clay ^county, at 10, A.M.* U. 1 JL„*. -I-

Same day, at Poland, Clay co., at 4, P. M. A Wednesday, July 25, at Bowling Green, at 11 A.M.

Thursday, July 26, Lockport, Vigo CO., at 10, A. M.| .. Same day, at Friendly Grove Meeting House, Clay co., at 4 p. M.

:I

Monday, July 30, at Stewart's store, Turman's township, Sullivan CO.,4P.M. Tuesday, July 31, at Ruel Downs, Curry township, Sullivan co., at 10, A. M.

Same day, at Brick Meeting House, Pearson township, Vigo co., at 4, P. M. Wednesday, August, 1st, at Middletown, Vigo co., at 11, A. M.

Thursday. August 2d, at Prairieton, Vigo co., at 11, A. M. I. Mr. HANNA is respectfully requested to be present at all the above places, at the times advertised.

Later from California.

An arrival

at New

Orleans supplies the

Picayune with papers from the capital of Mexico, to the 17th ult. These papers contain later news from California, though not of a very important or authentic character. The El Siglio, of the 13th, publishes the following letter dated

TEPIC, June 2d, 1849.

A friend of ours writes from the Stanislaus placer (the latest and richest discovery) stating that thirty-three persons working together had obtained during the last two weeks in April, 176 ounces ol gold. This they complain of as a scanty gathering, but anticipate better results for the future. He complains of the immense fatigues he has undergone, and which are incident to gold digging, and adds, that there is at present no want of the necessaries of life on the placers.

The Tepic Gaviota of June 2d says that letters of a very recent date had come to hand there, from San Francisco, Stockton and Stanislaus—all reporting California to be abundantly wealthy, through the immense circulation of money, the activity of trade, and by a thousand other advantages independent of the value of the placers. The major part of the emigrants from Sonora (the richest mining State in Mexico) writing from California, speak more favorably of the country than those from Guadalajata. A few young men who left Tepic some time previously, without capital, without friends, and without any of the ordinary elements of success in industrious occupation, had yet done so well in California that they remitted funds to their families in their native city. One of them writes that working with a pair of oxen, he was making more than $100 a week.

EI Siglio says: "The advices from California are contradictory. A few days ago we had communications dwelling on the misery of the men who had gone in search of gold to those regions. Now we meet with accounts which assure us that it is easy to make plenty of money at the placers, and that the necessities of life are readily found there. Which are we to believe?

Emigration to California is still going on in various parts of the Mexican Republic, particularly from Sonora, where it said that the soil is as rich in Gold deposits as that of San Joaquin, the Sacramento or other rivers and forks of the El Dorado. The Apaches, however, are too formidable to the native Mexican to allow of his putting to profit the latent riches of his own land.

Pope Pius IX. has conferred on President Horrera the grand decoration of the order of St. Gregory and on Sir D. Luis G. Cuevas, and D. J. Valdiclso, the Charge d'Affairs from Mexico to his Holiness, the cross and badge of the first class of the order "Piano," created by himself. It appears that the Government has consulted the Council, to ascertain if these decorations may be accepted without the permission of Congress.

The Administration.

The Alexandria Gazette—a reliable witness in the case—says We learn from Washington that the Administration is going on calmly, peacefully and harmoniously in the discharge of its duties, unmoved, by the violent assaults of its enemies, and rejoiced to know that its general course gives satisfaction to its friends, to the unprejudiced portion of the country, and is likely to secure the approbation of a great majority of the people. In good time, when the politics of the officers of the Government, both at the seat of Government and throughout the United States shall be made known, it will be seen what has really been heretofore the extent of ••proscription," and how far the Administration has proceeded in giving the Whigs share of the officca and honors of their Government. The out-cry is now about the "spoils"—enjoyed so long, that to take them away is considered a heinous political crime. As for the rest, the opposition has had and can have nothing to say. The great interests of the country

are

all attended to, with an

ability, an industry, and a patriotic devotion, which challenges the confidence and respect of the nation. There never has been an administration more honestly determined to do its duty to the whole country* and more desirous of acting alone for the common good—for the welfare, Happiness, prosperity, and peace of this great Republic.

Eighteen days later from Salt Lake—Accounts from the Emigrants. In the "Frontier Guardian," of the 27th ult., published at Kanesville, Iowa, we find later news from the Mormon city of the Salt Lake and the California emigrants. The Guardian says: "Three men arrived here on Friday last from the Valley, bringing news from thence to the 6th of May. The health of the settlements was good—spring crops looked remarkably well. Winter wheat did not look quite so prosperous as could be desired, yet it looked well. They had a fine rain all over the Valley on the 1st of May. Crickets were not one quarter so destructive as last year. They begin how to learn to manage them better. Many men would leave the Valley to go to dig gold in opposition to the counsel of the Church. So great was their desire for gold that quite a company left the valley to go after the gold of this world. When they get it, look out for the moulten calf. "The three men who were robbed by the Crow Indians of eight or ten horses, saddles, provisions, clothing, guns and ammunition, and were turned loose on the prairie to eat grass or die. But they happened to be not so easily discouraged as some, and managed to get through. Dr. Burnhyson [Burnheisel] and his company may be looked for in about three days. Met first California emigrants at Fort Laramie on the 22d May. Their health was good, and their teams in good condition. "First met the cholera at the South fork of the Platte. One company had lost 14 men and encamped and lying by in consequence of being disabled, and many were sick. From where they met the cholera they passed many fresh graves by the road side, all the way to where the Independence road strikes the Council Bluff road 12 miles east of Fort Kearny, formerly Fort Childs. "The troops under Cols. Loring and Backenstos were met at the South Fork of the Platte in good health and prosperous condition. Egan and his company with our express was met at the same place also; all well, and no accident had occurred on the road, and their teams were in fine condition. "A company set out to Fort Childs with Government cattle, and were robbed by the Indians of their clothing and provisions, but they saved their cattle. "They report a great number of emigrants returning on the Southern route, having seen the elephant at various points on the Plains. Several fights had taken place among the emigrants. Some were split open with an axe, some cut and mangled with hatchets—some shot dead and were left, while others shot back, and the balance shot ahead. "One lot of wagons was, six abreast, about two thousand in number, all rushing and cracking to get the first chance at a certain pass. 'Oh!' said a wag, on hearing that, 'how I should hate to have been an off-side ox in that crowd under the cut and sting of a darkey's cracker.' "They report the number of wagons that had passed Fort Childs up to the 15th inst., to be 7,436, and like the ice at the breaking up of the Missouri, still coming. In addition to this number, large numbers were seen to pass up on the north side of the Platte on the Mormon route. The upper route emigrants had no cholera or sickness among them. "Gen. Wilson and suite were met forty miles west of old Fort Kearny, on his way to the seat of his agency at Salt Lake—all well. "Grass abundant all the way. Plenty of rain in the mountains." -----

Dr. Cartwright on Cholera. Dr. Cartwright of New Orleans de scribes his mode of treating the cholera as follows. The prescription is a strong one

Give the patient instantly 20 grs. Hy drargum cum creta. 20 grs. best cayenne pepper, 10 grs. gum camphor, 15 grs calcined charcoal, 15 grs. gum Arabic mixed together in two table spoonsful of cold water, and cram a wet towel in the mouth to take away the burning taste and prevent vomiting. The patient should swallow the above dose quickly, and the whole of it without stopping to taste it. He should lie down and cover up and keep down. The doors and win dows should be opened to give fresh air to fan and feed the combustion in the lungs which burns slowly in cholera, i. e., the change from black to red blood does not go on as in health, and the temperature falls. A jacket or a flannel shirt wrung out of scalding water and rolled into a ball as large as a child's head until it will not drip, should be wrapped in a dry cloth and applied over the stomach and bowels, as hot as it can be borne. Bottles filled with hot water should be applied to the extremities.— Five minutes having elapsed from the taking of the powder, a spoonfull of hot sage, balm, mint or cammomile tea, to be given to the patient from time to time, with a table spoonfull of cold water or a tea spoonfull of pounded ice alternated with the hot tea. Now look out for a perspiration. From 10 to 15 minutes alter the powder is taken, perspiration is generally established., Jf 10 the patient is safe.

OLD WHITEY.—A Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette says "By the way, as during the late campaign 'old Whitey'was frequently mentioned in connection with his master, let me say that he has arrived in good health and condition and recognized his owner at a good distance off, and is now well lodged and cared for, not in the Royal, but Presidential stables. He served under his master through the Florida and Mexican wars and in all the great battles, and like his master, he too, not only never showed the white feather, but was always* adequate to any emergency." ,,

WIDOWS OF EX-PBESIPENTS.—Tt is a remarkable circumstance, and worthy of notice and recotf, that there are now living four widows of hx-Presidents: Mrs. Madison, in her 81st year, Mrs. Adams, in her 75th, Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Polk—all of whom have adorned the Presidential Mansion with a courtesy. dignity and affability which will long be remembered by those who have visited it.

Mrs. Madison died at Washington on the 12th inst., after a lingering illness.

5

FOREIGN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA^

One

Week

l.nler from Eii-

I rope.

ST. JOHNS, N. B., July 13, 1849. The steamship Niagara arrived at Halifax early yesterday morning, and will reach New York on Saturday afternoon. jShe has on board eighty passengers.

Our dates from Liverpool are to the 30th of June, inclusive, being a week later than the advices by the Canada.

The bullion in the Bank of England is about fifteen million pounds sterling. A good deal of business has been doing in American stocks. United States 6's sold at 1094 Pennsylvania 5's82a 83. nv ,u...

General Intelligence*

The Niagara experienced a succession of heavy gales. She brings £8,000 sterling in specie.

Liverpool and Havre are to be connected by a line of first class steamers. The House of Commons has affirmed the second reading of the bill rendering valid the marriages with deceased wife's sisters.

The bill for the transportation of Smith O'Brien is now an act of Parliament, but it is said to contain a futal blunder.

It is supposed the approaching visit of her Majesty to Ireland, will be signalized by extending thd royal pardon to the Irish State prisoners.

Advices from Calcutta to the 8th, and Bombay to the 21st May, have been received, and are satisfactory in the extreme.

The London money market is remarkably easy. France.

Advices from Paris to Tuesday evening state that the city was perfectly tranquil. Business in the Bourse was good, and prices had an upward tendency. On Monday the Ministry introduced into the Assembly a bill for regulating the press. Odillon Barrot stated that it was intended merely as a temporary measure to regulate the position of the press until organic law on the subject should be passed. The new law is nearly the same as the one which was in force under Louis Philippe. The powers are given for a temporary suppression of every journal attacking the constitution or making appeals to arms. The bickerings between the President and the Ministry are rapidly approaching a crisis, and it is supposed they will lead to the retirement of some members of the Cabinet. The principal measure of discord is the anomalous and fratricidal policy in Italy.

Rome.

After a severe bombardment three squadrons of the French army succeeded in establishing themselves within the outer walls of Rome on the 22-1. They have since been occupied with operations for acquiring possession of the inner bastions and defences, but up to the 23d and 24th they had not mad4 much progress. Every inch of ground was stoutly defended by Girabaldi, who still continues to animate the Romans to resistance.

The latest intelligence says that General Oudinot had so far succeeded that the city was entirely at his mercy to spare which, and the horrors of a frightful carnage, he has submitted terms to the Triumvirate, which it was thought would be accepted by the Romans. It is reported that the English Government presented a friendly remonstrance against the bombardment of Rome. tichleswig Holstein.

The London Globe says the affairs of Schleswig draw rapidly to a conclusion, and the first settlement may be expected in a fortnight.

War in Hnngary.

The Hungarians were partially defeated by the Austrian troops, on the 21st, and forced to retire beyond Waag, where, from the nature of the country, they will be better able to repel the invading forces.

Letters in the Austrian and German journals state, that engagements have recently taken place between the Austriaris and Hungarians on different points on the Waag, the result of which is not satisfactorily stated. Some ascribe the victory to the Austrians, and others to the Hungarians.

The German Reform, whlch'has hitherto been favorable to the Austrians, says they (thfe Austrians) have received some severe checks, and that the cholera and other maladies were in their camp aiding the enemy in carrying away the men. The Magyars, however, were displaying greater enthusiasm than ever.

Kossuth has ordered the Austrian prisoners, several thousand in number, to work on the Debrackson railroad.

The War in Italy.

Advices from Italy to the 28th, state Ancona. after a destructive bombardment, has surrendered to the Austrians. The terms of the capitulation are a political armistice to the inhabitants.

The bombardment of Venice has been suspended, in consequence of proposals for capitulation having been made by the besieged.

Central Germany.

The accounts from Central Germnny are of a much more pacific character than hitherto.

Chinas

The Emperor of China refuses to carry out the stipulation of two treaties, which provided that Canton would be open to foreigners.

BISHOP CHASE.—A case involving a large amount of property, wherein Mr. Moore, of Quincy, was plaintiff, and Bishop Chase of Illinois, defendant, was decided recently in tho United States Circuit Court for the District of Illinois, now in session. The claim was for several tracts of land, including portions of Jubilee College grounds, title to which had been acquired by the plaintiff upon a sale for State taxes. The judgment of the court was in favor of Bishop Chase and against the plaintiff.

DESOLATION ON THE ILLINOIS RIVER.— The most of the boats on the Illinois River are laying up, in consequence of the cholera, and we fear our packets will do the same, as every body seems afraid to go to St. Louis.—Chicago Dem.

The Pope and Lord Palmerston. The British F.oreign Secretary has given to the public copies of his dispatches to the Marquis of Normandy, on the subject of Roman affairs and the armed imerfemion for the re-establish-ment of the Pope. They show his course to harve been so exceedingly proper and discreet that there really is no interest to reproduce them. Declining to take any active part either way, he expressed the strong preference and desire of the British Government that the pending difficulties should be arranged by negotiation and by moral rather than by physical .force, with no equivocal assertion of his opinion and wish that the civil gbvernment of the Pope should be characterized by liberal tendencies and measures. A correct idea of the views expressed by Lord Palmerston may be gathered from a dispatch to Lord Normandy, dated 27, 1849.

The British Government is for many obvious reasons not desirous of taking any active part in any negociations which may result from the application which the Pope has addresse'd"to some of the Catholic powers of Europe, whose territories are nearer than Great Britain in geographical proximity to the Italian peninsula. But the British" Government will be much gratified if tftfe'r^sirlt of those negociations should* be such' & reconciliation between the I*b{)e and his subjects as might enable the former, with the free good will and confceh of the latter, to return to his capital, and there to resume his spiritual functions* and his temporal authority. But it is the opinion of her Majesty's Government that such a reconciliation could scarcely be effected, or, if effected for the moment, could never be permonent, unless the basis upon which it was founded were to be that the Pope should engage to maintain the constitutional and representative system of Government which he granted last year to his subjects, and unless the separation between tiie spiritual authority and the temporal powers and institutions of the State were so clearly and distinctly established as to put an end to those manifold grievances which the mixture of the spiritual and temporal power has for so long a period of time produced in the Roman States. The great importance of admitting laymen to administrative and judicial functions in the Roman States was pointed out to the late Pope by the memorandum presented in 1832 to the Roman Government by the representatives of Austria, France, Great Britain, Prussia and Russia, and the events which have happened since that time, not only in the Roman States but in the rest of Europe, have tended to make it still more important that such a reform should be carried out into full and complete execution.

Foreign Postages.

As considerable difficulty has occurred in different parts of the country, especially in places remote from the large cities, in ascertaining correctly the rates of postage under the new postal treaty with Great Briiain, the New York Courier has obtained from the Post Office Department ihe following schedule of the various rates, which will be found of importance and- convenient to all having occasion to correspond with parties in Great Britain or on the Continent.

Letters by the British or American steamers to England, Ireland and Scotland, 24 cents a single rate, to be prepaid or not. Newspapers 2 cents each, to be pre paid.

To the Continent of Europe, by British steamers, 5 cents a single rate, and newspapers 2 cents each, to be prepaid.

Letters by the American steamers, to Portugal, France, Spain, Belgium, Holland, and Italy, 24 cents a single rate, must be prepaid, with the inland postage to New York to be added. Newspapers 3 cents each, to be prepaid.

Letters by American steamers to other places on the Continent of Europe, not mentioned above can be paid or not, postage to New York to be added.— Newspapers three cents each, to be prepaid.

Letters must be pre-paid to Havana 12 1-2 cents. Chagres 20 cents. Panama 30 cents a single rate.

Letters to California, from any part of the United States, can be prepaid or not, 40 cents a single rate. Transient newspapers 3 cents each to be prepaid.

By single rate is meant letters weighing a half ounce or less. The Post Master General has decided the British West India steamers do not come within the provisions of the postal treaty, and letters sent by them hence, must have the postage prepaid.

SULPHATE OF QUININE A PRESERVATIVE AGAINST CHOLERA.—An ex-physician of the French army in a note addressed to a Medical Journal of Paris, (as we learn from the Courier des Etats Unis) says:

"I have the honor of proposing to the National Academy of Medicine, the employment of a preservative which I have used against several violent epidemics, and which I have no doubt will succeed against the cholera. It is the sulphate of quinine, which substance modifies the susceptibility of the organs to such a degree, impressing them, we might say, withimpunity, that they loose their aptitude for morbid impregnatioa, Mid then the epidemic ceases to have any power over them. We have full evidence of its virtues in this respect from its wonderful efficacy in preventing attacks of intermittent fever."

THE POISON IN IVJGS.—The editor of the Salem Gazette in publishing an account of the death of Mr. Bassett's children, of Brooklyn, says ,s

A friend, on reading the above statement, gives us the following extract from a Cyclopedia: "The white of an egg, boiled hard in the shell, and suspended in the

air

afterwards, a liquid drops from

it which will dissolve myrrh, which is more than either wiiter, oil, spirits, or even fire itself can effect. A little putrid white of an egg taken into the stomach, dfceasions nausea, horror, fainting, vomiting, diarrhoea, and gripes. It inflames the bile, excites heat, thirst, fever, and dissolves the humors like the plague."