The Wabash Courier, Volume 18, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 February 1850 — Page 2

To Pendleton by 6 m, 36 miles A a be 6 a a 6 Friday. 4075 From Knighistown, lncL,at 1 m, once a week, Friday

By Greensboro' To Newcastle by 6 m, 14 miles And back between 6 a in and 11 a m.

4076 From Ogden,Ind., at 12 m, twice a week, Monday and Friday By Spiceland

To Greensboro* by 2 m, 7 miles And baclt between 9am and 11 a 4077 *From ^?e\$cnstle, Ind., at 5 a m, once a week, Wednesday •By Sulphur Springs and Middletown

By Rich Woods 1

To Muncietown by 11 am,

Bean Blossom from Nashville. 5 miles and back, once a week. Bear Branch from Allenville, miles and back, once a week.

Big Spring from Luporie, 6 miles and back, twice a week. Blue Ridge from Conn's Creek, 4.L miles and back, once a week.

Boydston's Mills from Oswego, five miles and back, once a week. Buckskin from Princeton, 13 miles and back, once a week.

Craig from Morcfield, 5 miles back, once a week.

Ellisburg from Fawn River, 6 miles and back, once a week. Gallatin from Roseville. 6 miles and back, once a week.

Leopold from Rome, 15 miles

and

back,

PopanO from Whitley, 9 miles and back, once a week. Portersville from Haysvillo, miles '*od back, onco a week.

QnecCus GrwUhfrom .PaXtiot, 6 miles and back,onco a week. Kock Creek from West Point, 7 miles and back, once a week.

Russell's Mills from RockhfUle 14 "miles and back, onco a weok. Sauta Po from .Peru, 9 tuUesapd back, once a week.

Six Mile from Vernon, 7 miles and back, once a week. 'I Springtown and back, twice a week.

miles

and back, once a week. Wallace from Alamo, 9 back, onco a week.

Warrington from Pcndlotou, 7 and beck, once a woek.

and back.once a week West Franklin from Evansville, miles and back, onco a week.

fnr Hid mk,**

Form of a Guaranty \o accompany each Bid "The undersigned [here insert the name of the guarantor or guarantors] guaranties that, [here insert name of bidder or names of bidders, as the case may be,"] if his (or their), bid for carrying the mail from to be accepted by the Postmaster General, shall enter into an obligation prior to the first day of July next, with good and sufficient sureties, xo perform the service proposed."

Dated.

To Chesterfield 12 m, 18 miles And back between 1pm and 8 pm. 4078 From Middletown, Ind., at 6 a m, once a week, Thursday INSTRUCTIONS

Form of Certificate.

The undersigned, postmaster of certifies that the guarantors above named are sufficient and able to make good their guaranty.

Dated I

Azalia from Klizabotluown, four miles! mail lines admitting of such convey-

""B.'lu.owTfrU N7H-.«—«"j•»

Ilnnnegan from Carthage, 5 miles and liver at, a post office, the mail, or any bnck, once a week. pan "f

back, once a week. the contract, and for not arriving at the Lick Branch from RussolPs Mills, six time set and for setting up or running miles and back, once a week. an express to transmit commercial intel-

Luray and Alfred from Newcastle, 11 ligeuce in advance of the mail, a penalty milos and back, once a week. will be exacted oqual to a quarter's pay. Mets from Spring Luke, 5^ miles and 7. The Postmaster General may nnback, once a week. nul tho contract for repeated failures for

Mier from Marion, 10 miU-s and back, violating the post office laws for disonce week. obeying the instructions of the Depart1 Millhouson from Napoleon, miles mom for refusing to discharge a carrier

back, once a week. jwhen required by tho Department for Money from Leesville, 9 miles and assigning the contract without the conback, once a wook. sent of lhe Postmaster General, or for

onco a week. isation, within tho restrictions imposed NaWi Amsterdam from Corydon, 13 by law, for the additional service remiles and back, onco a week, quired, or for the increased speed, If

Now Frankfort from l«o.\ingtoii, 0 the employment of additional stock or milos and back, twice a week. carriers is rendered necessary but the Now Holland from Lagro, 6 mtlos and contractor may, in such case, relinlmck, onco a week. quish the contract, on timely notice, if

North Libertv from South Bond,—' he prefers it to the change. Tho Post.miles and back,"once a week. master General may annul the contract Onoudaga from Plymouth, 7 aniles or curtail the service and pay, when he ami bacK, twice a week. wishes to dispense with the sorvioe, in

Orange Valley from Paoli, 11 miles whole or in part, or place a higher or and back, once a week. different grade of service ou the route, he Philomath from Abington, 3 miles!allowing one month's extra pay on the and back, onco a week. amount dispensed with.

f^m s,&vine, 5

rt,,rrr

by propose to carry tho

how it Is to sum of 8 Dated

ven minutes are allowed for open-

injr and closing the mails at all offices

miles (where no particular time is specified And back between 1pm and 6

SPECIAL OFFICES. there is to be no more delay than is Proposals are invited for supplying-necessary to deliver and receive the the following offices in Indiana for the bags. nett proceeds of said offices respective-! 2. The mail is to be conveyed in prely, Unified-to a sum to be named in ihelference to passengers, and to their enproposals in each case: tire exclusion, if its weight and bulk re-

Alamo and Youhtsville from Craw- quire it. ... ... fordsville, 10 miles and back, once aj 3. Post office

gyk the special agents of the Department, on Arlia from Spartansburg, 4 miles and the exhibition of 'heir/re/Jen,i?ls'"rent" back onre a week. conveyed without further charge, on

railroad and steamboat routes

b,an£s'

™11

without charge, on the principal

back, once week Battle Ground from Lafayette,5 miles road and steamboat lines. the! lerity, certainty, ao4 security of .. ,„«0Lr size of the mans and the number 01 tne. and back, once a week.

the.Department

parate apartment for the assorting and safe-keeping of the mail is to be provided liv the contractor, under the direction of the Department. 5. In all cases there is to be a forfeiture of the pay of the trip when the trip is not run a forfeiture of at least onefourth part of it when the running or arrival is so far behind time as to lose the connexion with a depending mail and and a forfeiture of a due proportion of it when a grade of service is rendered in

Dover and Hammond from South I ferior to that in the contract. 1 hese forBend, 13 miles and back, once a week.! feitures may be increased into penalties Drewersburg from Harrison, 6^ miles and bn?k, once a week.

r®.1

rnere

of higher amount, according to tho nature or frequency of the failure and the importance of the mail.

C. Fines will be imposed nnlos .he de-

nquency be satisfactorily oxpUineilm

duo time, for failing to take from, orde-

l: for

Ifopewell from Dttpont, miles and jured. lost or destroyed or convoying it back, once a week. in a P1"00

Kewanna from Winnamec, 10 miles depredation, loss, or injury for refusing and back once a week! after demand to convey a mail by any j(\w rcnce vil le from Mew Alsace, five conch, railroad car, or steamboat, which miles and back, once a week. the contractor regularly runs on the route

and beyond

Mt. Auburn from liditiburg, f£ miles sotting up or running an express as

back, twice a week. I aforesaid. Mt. Meridian from Putnamville, six 8. The Postmaster General may alter niilon and hack, onco a weik. the contract, and alter the schedule, he

Newark from Kvnnsvillo, 13 miles allowing a pro rata increase of compennnd

suffering it to be wet, in-

or mnmiRr ,hat

exposes it to

the specified number of trips in

0- Tho payments will be made through drafts on post offices or otherwise, after the expiration of each quarter—say in Fobruary, May, August, and November.

K). Tho distances are $ven according to the best information but no increased pay will be allowed, should they: prove to bo greater than is advertised, if thn places are corroctly named. 11. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law from kiumingly making aj

OQK. I into any combination, or proposed to en-

and back, twice a w?ok shall have made anv agreement, or Sulphur Springs from Newcastle* 5

milos and back, onco a wock.« », give or perform, any consideration to do, Tavlor from Mt.Vernon, C^mUes and or not to do. any thing vrhaievor to inback, once a week. dtice any other person not to b»d for a

and

lhe

Form for a It id boatlinding, a* the case may be or he advertisement is eontempfated bidder* ..

matt

petition with a regular bid not set aside for extravagance and where a bid contains any of the above alterations, their disadvantages will be estimated in comparing ft with other proposals 14. There should be but one rome bid for in a proposal. 15. The route, the service, the yearly pay, the bidder's name and residence, and the name of each member of the Arm, where a company offers, distinctly slated also tfie mode of conveyance, if a higher mode than on horseback is intended.

contract for the transportation of the mail jon Tuesday morning last. It will comwith any person who shall have entered mand the earnest attenuon of every pat

or performed, or promised to

Iniomown from lloe Creek, 6 miles 1836., prohibiting combiuauons 10 pre- "rntor atid|8smtcsrian0wil?'ren

and back, onco a week. w- vent bidding. UtSfast. But he does not stand alone Wadcsville from fMmi l*A «|«n.l brieve, that nineteen-men-

"SLT.'So.h Tele, $ Though all other men should

tttile* „„d!ou..liO Rimiramy ramrod by l.», or ,1...| routes in one sum of I sentimofii jw Itn Mr. uiay.

combines several

miles eompensatipn, cannot be considered in

W infield from Crown Point, 7 miles certain seasons, to substitute an inferior and back, onte a week. mode of conveyance, or to intermit ser* Wright from Scaffold Prairie, 7 miles vice a specified number of days, weeks, and back, once a week. or months, lie may propose to omit an office that is inaccessible, or is not on steam-

Waterloo from ConnersviUe, 5 miles not adjudged to be extravagant. fThe^a^es^rLu 1313: transportation

"I (er we, as the case mav be) There pose different days ant hours of depar-J write the name or name® In full 1 of [hereture and arrivM, "provided no more run-] of the jtmr state the residence or residences] here- ning time isnsked.and it is obvious that

A bidder mav offer, where the tions of the people called for in the adver-1 sections are heart-whole in their reverti^'o. ***«,., or impracticable a, by Mr. Clay, whatever objections they may feel toward certain details in the

road,the railway,or at a

may otter 6 substitute an inferior mode of supplv in such cases, lie may pro-

o» No. «no mail connexion or other public ac-k _—

from to as ofiAi as the ail- conlmndatlAn Is prejudiced. He may vertisement requires, in the time staled ask for more running time to the trip,'trying to

in the schedule*, bv th» WUiwing during a specified number of days, a, as she re*d tbe last balloting* for Clerk

ua tne scneouieit. ana ©y ifw iwiowmg during a specinea numoer ai a«y«, r.: *«Hm movie of conveyance, to wit: [Here state 'certain seasons of peculiarly bad roads In the Houae of bo convevedJ/or the annual but beyond these changes, a proposal for it's Mr. Forney. Hut Mpowe tt saaooy

now

®£,taie

..... die House Keptr Mr. Forney. But!

I service different from the advertisement^ inoua to the same thing-,_tney

will prevent its being considered in com-, dropped we rroviw. 5

16. The bid should be sent nnoBr.aeal, addressed to the First Assistant rostmaster General, with "Mail Proposals in [name the State or territory,]" written on the face of the letter and should be dispatched in time to be received by or before the 16th April next, at 10 o'clock A. M. It should be guarantied, and the sufficiency of the guarantors should be duly certified. (See forms.) 1*7. The contracts are to be executed by or before the 1st July next. 18. Postmasters at offices situated up on or near rail roads, but more than eighty rods from a depot, will immediately after the 11th May next, report that fact to the Department, stating their exact distance from the railroad d«pot, and how otherwise supplied with lhe mail, to enable the Postmaster General to direct the proper supply to be made from the railroad by mail messengers, from and after the 1st July next. 19. Under the act of March 3, 1845, the route is to be let to the lowest bidder tendering sufficient guaranties for faithful performance, without other reference to the mode of transportation than may

j,e «Cessary to provide for the due ce-

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offices will require .heir employment l»vt«an^f,ora.lon^^^ of conveyance that is inadequate for the route in respect to the certainty, security, and celerity^of tho mails, aside from any accommodation for travel, it will not be entitled to the route. 20. When the bid does not name a mode of conveyance, it will be taken ond understood to be for the lowest mode of conveyance, to wit, on horseback.—

and, in that case, a se

wU cerlaimyi

such

When it proposes to carry according to the advertisement, and no mode of conveyance is slated for the route in the advertisement, it will be considered as offering only for horseback conveyance. 21. Since the passage of the act of March 3, 1845, a new description of bid has been received. It specifies no mode

„v

enga(

,es 10 carry the

%|erily

sccu-

rity, using the terms of the law. These bids nro called, from tho manner in which thev are designated on the books of the Department, "sfar bids." It has been decided, after mature consideration, that a bid proposing a specific mode of conveyance of as high a grade as two-horse coach transportation is to be preferred to the star bid. The experience of the Department enables it to lay down the following rules, viz:

When the mail on the route is not so large as to require two-horse coach conveyance, a star bid, if the lowest, will bo preferred to the specific bid. 22. When the mails are of such size and weight as to render it nccessary or expedient, in reference to them alone, to provide two-horse coach conveyance, the specific bid, though the highest, will be preferred to the star bid, to the extent of a moderate difference in the compensation, in case the difference is not such to interfere with the policy, of the new law, which looks to a reduction in the cost of transportation. Exceptions, however, may be allowed, where the star bid is made by the present owner of tho stock on the route, and it is manifest that the reasons for preferring the specific bid do not exist in his case. 23. On routes of the highest class, where four-horse coach or steamboat transportation is required by the size and importance of iho mails, the preference for the specific bid will be, if necessary, carried to a greater extent of difference than on the inferior coach routes, subject, however, to the exceptions above stated. 24. A modification of a bid, in any of its essential terms, is tantamount to a new bid, and cannot bo roceived, so as to interfere with the regular competition, after iho last hour set for receiving bids. J- COLL.AMER,

Postmaster General.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, January, 1860.

Mr. Clay's Speech.

We publish this morning the report of Mr. ClayV speech, made in the Senate,

,and- 0V^T mJyK^0

rious Union as strong as the love of life. Ever since the Union was formed sixty vcars ago, he has been a witness of its influences, and long observation hascau jscd him to feel the most intense rever

TIE COURIER,

the

remain

The desper

ate men of ultra opinions, who have un-

plan he has offered for the pacification of the present angry contest. Disunionists and traitors, boih at North and South, will wage war on Mr. Clay's proposition, for its success will be the knell of notoriety of all those who have contrived to .1 inake political capital for themselves ous wretched sectional jealousies that

Uf was

ESSE .CON ARD** EDITOR.

SATUUDAyTFEB. 16, 1850.

PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORMNG

months after

the ve*r expires. ... No paper discontinued until aB arrearages are paid, unless atthe option of the poblisler.

A failure to notify a discontinuance at the end of the year, will be considered a

IG"Postage must be paid to insure attention.

WHIG RESOLUTIONS.

The resolutions adopted at a recent Whig meeting, held in the Hall of the House of Representatives, at Indianapolis, will be found on our lourth page. We ask for them a careful perusal by our friends and all good citizens. They surely form a noble platform of principles, pure, and safe for every good citizen to act upon, The coming election in August next, will be one of great importance. One hundred and fifty delegates to a State Convention—one hundred Representatives and eighteen Senators to be elected. The election and the occasion will be one calculated to excite much interest among our citizens.

ILLINOIS RAILROAD. In another column will be found the proceedings of a Railroad Convention held at Vandalia, on the 7th inst. By these proceedings it will be seen that a company has been formed for the purpose of making a railroad, commencing at the State line, opposite Terre Haute, and extending through several counties to Vandalia, and thence to a point at or near Illinois Town, on the Mississippi. This is a great and noble project, and we wish it all success. This plan is intended to connect with the railroad now in the way of construction from Terre Haute to Indianapolis thus forming a great chain of railroad line to the East. It will be the consummation of a plan long since suggested by us, and one which we hope to see carried out at no distant day. ———————

THE WILIHOT PROVISO. The anii-slavery proviso, as applied to territorial governments, was defeated

in the U. S. House of Representatives, on the 4th inst. The question was presented in a resolution offered by Mr. ROOT of Ohio, as follows: /fatofofrf,That thecommittce on territories be instructed to report to the House, with as little dolay as practicnble, ft bill or bills providing a territorial government or governments lor all that part of the territory cedcd to the United States by Mexico by the treaty of Gaudalupe Hidalgo, lying Eastward of California, and prohibiting slavery therein.

a,CJI'Ipat,asf?a.,1wtti.!nn.w!u Mr. Merrill puts the total population /rVo Datiaas per.auniwMf paid wiUiiD tnrea I

the recript®! the first number Two

A motion was made to lay the resolution on the table, the mover avowing his object to be to obtain a test vote on the question of slavery extension. The mo tion to lay on the table prevailed, by 26 majority. It is now argued at Washington that this may be considered as de cisive of the fate of the Wilmot Proviso. The correspondent of tho N. Y. Journal of Commerce, says— "There-action has commenced, and it will over throw all the extreme advocates of the Wilmot proviso, as well as all who have favored nionsures lending to a dissolution of the Union. The moderate politicians of the North, the men who are stigmatized as doughfaces, will be in the ascendant."

FOREIGN NEWS.

The Europa arrived at N. York on the 11th—news not very important. The Russians have resumed diplomatic relations with the Porte. It is expected that the Austrians will not be slow to follow. A complete reconciliation is said to have taken place between Russia and Turkey, the latter having consented that all those foolish subjects of Russia, who wero concerned in the Hungarian movement, shall be obliged to leave the Turkish domains. A similar arrangement is on the point of being entered into between Austria and Turkey. The Russian list of persons proscribed con-

Kossuth, and contains thirty-two names. It is announced that Madame Kossuth has joined her husband, she having escaped from Hungary in the disguise of a mendicant. The English Consul at Vienna, has discovered a diabolical attempt, instituted by the Austrian Government, to murder Kossuth.

COURT HOUSE BURNED. The Court House in the town of Sullivan, Sullivan county, Ind., was burned on the night of the 6th inst. It is said that all the records belonging to the several offices of the Clerk, Auditor, Treasurer, and Recorder of the county were entirely consumed. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendia-

ary.

& INDIANA IN 1850. Samuel Merrill, formerly President of the State Bank of Indiana, and afterwards president of the Madison and, Indianapolis Railroad, has communicated some interesting statistics of our rapidly growing State, in a letter to Hamilton Smith, which is published in the Cannehon Economist.

"L Ohio) on the southern border of the

new

engagement.

ADVERTISEMENTS inserted three times at One Dollar per square, (11 lines a square*) and to be continued at the rate of Twenty-five Cents per square. Unless tbcnwnb^rofinwrtiowi* marked on the manuscript when handed in. it will be continued till ordered out, and charged accordingly.

Liberal deductions will be made for advertising by the column, half column, or quarter column also, for yearly, half yearly, or quarterly adverti'in*. ...

J|C State on the 1st of July last, at 11 JOS6^00. S.e.mb«« n.vi«».ion (he

Slate, '*at least eleven months in the year," 370 miles on the Wabash, "for about four months in the year," 330mites on the St. Joseph, "for about six months," 20 miles on Lake Michigan, 60 miles, making a total of 770 miles of steamboat navigation. Tho flatboat navigation is stated at 1580 miles. It conists, in addition to the Ohio, Wabash and St. Joseph, above mentioned, of the following particulars: Whito River four months, 60miles West Fork, 2 months, 235 miles East Fork, two months, 175 miles Muscakitack, one month, 75 miles Potoka, three months, 50 miles Anderson, two months, 30 miles Vermillion, two months, 20 miles Tippecanoe, tl\ree months, 75 miles Kankakee, six months, 100 miles Fallow, three months, 30 miles.

tains the names of Bern, and twelve The Empire City brings over two milothers. That of Austria begins with Bong in gold dust, and nearly three hun-

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St. Louis, Feb. 8th.

The police of this city yesterday arrested at Alton, Ills., a coiner named Dunn, and found in his possession $1,800 counterfeit coin. All of his machinery was taken. He has carried on this business for two years, and manu-

factored $80,000.

said Mrs Partington,! James Baker was arrested and com-

mitte

No only

at Peoria for murdering Coroeli-

oa Casey., a

"7 !B« Provt Gazette. ed #250,000toward* tbe Pacific railroad, surance to tiie amount of *2,661,100.

The citizens of this city have sufcstfrib- *3,335.450, upon which there was in-

Indiana has the following Railroads and parts of Railroads completed—viz, Madison and Indianapolis, 86 miles Shelbyville Branch, 16Aniles New Albany and Salem, 33 miles Jeffersonvilie and Columbus, 26 miles Shelbyville and Rushville, 20 miles Shelbyville and Knighistown, 26 miles Lafayette and Indianapolis, (north end,) 33 miles Peru and Indianapolis, (south end,) 22 miles Indianapolis and Bellefontaine, 28 miles Terre-Haute and Indianapolis, (west end,) 33 miles making a total of

Railroads completed, 323 miles. (The amount equipped and in use is not staled.)

A railroad from Lafayette to Crawfordsville, 28 miles, has been put under contract, and Mr. M. says of the 56 miles of the Indianapolis and Bellefontaine road, not included above, "the whole will soon be completed." In addition, Mr. M. says: —"Surveys have been made to extend the New Albany and Salem Railroad to Bedford 30 miles, on the whole route from Jeffersonville to Columbus about 40 miles beyond the part under contract. The Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad has been surveyed to this place, (Indianapolis,) 63 miles in all. The Peru and Indianapolis do., 70 miles in all. The Terre-Haute and Indianapolis do., 78 miles in all. These last two will progress to completion, but not rapidly."

The agricultural products of Indiana last year, Mr. Merrill estimates at 45,000,000 bushels corn, 8,000,000 bushels wheat, 18,000,000 bushels oats, rye, barley, &c. Hogs fattened last year, 1,300,000 head, of which he supposes 650,000 were exported. Average price of wheat through the State 50 cents near a market it was from 60 to 70c per bushel, remote from a market 40c corn from 10 to 30c, according to situation. Hay is stated to average in price 5 per ton. Beef and pork are put at $1,50 to 3,00 per 100 lbs.

There is miich irregularity in the Assessments of property for taxation. Mr. Merrill thinks that real estate is a?jessed at about two-thirds its actual value. On this State, County and Road tnxos, amount to about 40 cts. in the $100, or 26£ cts. on the actual value.

Of the 22,400,000 acres of land in the State, Mr. Merrill represents that 14,200,000 acres is first-rate farming land, 4,450,000 inferior farming land, and 3,750,000 refuse land.-.

.CALIFORNIA. 'I\:

The Empire City has arrived bringing news from California to December 31st.,', Tho Goneral Assembly met on the 7th of December, when Mr. Burnet, the newly elected Governor' was inaugurated. The Oregon had arrived at Panama, with three millions in gold dust,

dred passengers. Governor Burnet's Message appears to be raiher a lame affair and does not give satisfaction.— Fremont was elected U. S. Senator on the first ballot Gwinn was elected on the third ballot. On the last ballot T. Butler King received only one vote. Dr. Gwinn took passage on the Falcon for New Orleans, Col. Fremont had arrived at Panama and intended to take passage on the Empire City, but he was detained in consequence of the indisposition of his accomplished lady. T. Builcr King is among the passengers in the Empire City. There had been a large Are in San Francisco. It originated in Dennison's Exchange. A number of the principal houses were destroyed. The Parker house alone lost $200,000.— Then was also a large fire at Stockton, several buildings were destroyed and the loss was about 8l60,OOSO.

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DISTBICT or ILLISOIS.—It is rumored that the President has nominated THOS DauMiio2*DT Esq., of Galena, for the office of Judge of the U. S. District Court for Illinois, in the place of Judge Pope, deceased.

The total amount of damage by fire

gt during the year 1849, was

CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate on the 5th, the order ot

the day being called* for, Mr. Clay rose

and said that he did not present the resolutions with a view that they should be adopted precisely as he had introduced them. They were susceptible of amendment, and if such amendment would make them more acceptible, he hoped it would bo made.

His

wor

object would be

secured, if, by any means, the great question of agitation coult^he settled, and the integrity of the Union preserved.—— The question must be discussed in a spirit of conciliation,and settled in a spirit of compromise-^riiis had been his object in presenting a measure which would afford a platform upon which both sections of the country could unite. The question of slavery, in his opinion, presented two entirely distinct grounds.— Slavery within States, and slavery without Slates. Congress had no right to interfere with slavery in the States and if the time should arrive when Congress should attempt to so interfere with the institution, then his voice would be for

—then he would feel that the South was bound to resist so unconstitutional and aggressive a measure with all lhe means God and nature had placed in their hands. He then pictured in graphic terms the evils to result from a civil war arising from such a state of things. Next: Has Congress any power over slavery out of the States? He contended it had, and that while the want of control over this in the States was indisputable, its control out of the States was a debatable question. Ho supported this position by a lengthy argument. He next proceeded to enquire whether slavery was likely to be introduced into the new territories. California had decided negatively, and the climate and soil of the remainder forbUl any other view. Why then if these truths were evident, as they must be to a largo majority of the Senate, should they not be prepared to announce them to the world. He also carefully reviewed the resolution relative to the boundary of Texas, and finally yielded tho floor for a motion to adjourn until tomorrow.

On the 6th, Mr. Clay resumed. He contended that it could not be abolished here in good faith, without the conditions named in tho resolutions. With those conditions lhe prohibition of the slave trade in the district which he proposed, involved concessions by neither section of the Union. All admitted the right of the slave States to prohibit the slave trade within her borders, and the right had been extended by Southern States— Kontueky among others. Surely then, upon this point both sections might and ought to make a common cause. In regard to fugitive slaves he would go with him who goes farthest. ITc held that every man in tho community was bound to assist in arresting fugitives from labor. He felt that tho south had great cause for complaining on this subject, and he considered it the duty of Congress to pass laws regulating this matter. After some brief allusion to tho last resolution Mr. Clay proceeded with nn appeal in support of the whole proposition, and spoke till adjournment.

On the 7ih, the committee of tho House on Territories were discharged from the farther consideration of the memorial from Ohio, asking eighty acres of Territory acquired from Mexico, be given to every freo negro who will occupy it.

On lhe 8th, in the Senate, a lengthy discussion sprung up on the question of receiving a memorial in favor of dissolving tho Union. The subject was finally laid over, and tha Senate then proceeded to the consideration of Mr. Houston's resolution relative to the power of Congress over slavery. Mr. Houston spoke at length upon the whole subject of sla very, assuming the middle ground, and recommending conciliation and concession by both parties.

On the 11th, the Vice President slated the first thing in order to be the petitions from Maryland, and Delaware, asking a peaceable dissolution of the Union. Mr. Chase spoke in favor of the right of petitions. Believed the Senate was bound to recoivo every petition, no matter what iys character. Congress should express its disapprobation by subsequent action. He had no objection to whatever action was taken on this and similar petitions. Mr. Dayton acknowledged the right of peiition, but would vote against this because it was disrespectful. and treasonable in its nature.

On the 12th, Mr. Hale presented petitions, signed by fourteen hundred ladies of New Hampshire, praying that slavery be not extended in the New Territories. Motion to lay it on the table. Question of exception rejected,yeas 19,1 [rom^sndtlbatwUhte nays 26. A debate ensued, during which Mr. Butler complained that the Senate was imposed upotvto an intolerable extent, by an incendf&ry, a madman, if the Senate pleased who, day after day, took up the whole time of the Senate in presenting petitions, intended to distract,

and divide: (At the word roadman, or der was called from several parts of the Senate* and Mr. Butler resumed his seat. A demonstration of excessive excitement.) Mr. Hale replied, telling Mr. Butler that he would liave to talk lopder and threaten harder, before be would succeed in shutting bis mouth. He would tell him that tbe poor, miserable minority, which the powerful majority had endeavored to crush, were not to be appalled, even by any consideration of personal fear. New Hampshire blood coursed not through a coward's veins^— Her sons, who had evinced their prowess on many fields,1'would not surrender their constitutional piivjiegpji yjihqqt a struggle for iu I

For the Wabash Courier.

illino1sbaii

,rOAD CONVEKTIOK.

VANDALIA,

February

W. S.

7,1830.

WAIT, President.

JAMES Wftccu, of Clark co. P^T's. W

IS O IX TO N, of S a

TV'C"M'NONALD,

IL«Yfn

Seeretaxiea.

OHK MCD WUERKAS, under the requisition oi the constitution which demands that a liberal general law shall be enacted for the encouragement ot Internal Improvement, the General Assembly have passed an act entitled An act to provide tor a Geuetal System of railroad lacorporauon," thort-

That this coavcniion recommend an

association for the purpose ot constructing a**1*" road, commencing at the State line opposite I er-re-Haute, and running thence through the conn. ties of Clark, Cumberland, Effingham, via Vandalia, Farette, Bood, Madison and St. Clair, and terminating nt or neSi* Illinois Town, ind that a subscription be opened, and measures taken to incorporate the same in compliance with law. jR'jtolved^ Tit our Senators and Kepreaentstives in Congress bo requested to make apphcation to tlte General Government for the ri#ht of way for said road through tho public lands, and for a grant of a portion of such laud in aid ot its construction.

AWwd, That this great work, so necessary to the farmer, and which is no less his right than the S crops he raiaes, which is acknowledged and guaranteed bv the constitution, and finally provided 4 for by legislative enactment,shall now be accomplished. In the just confidence therefore of this much desired result, we invite our follow-citizens to come up boldly to the work, with tho full determination that no obstacle shall discourage them in carrying out and completing an enterprise which their interest and welfare so imperiously doniand—a work which will enable thcui ot wi seasons of the year to take their crops to market, whilst doubling tho valueoftheir fsrms.endtormine a connecting ond closlug link of one great chain of roilroaa from tho Atlantic ocean to th© Mississippi. jxegolved, That for the purpose ot a permanent organization, this meeting of delegates will appoint three person?, as commissioners, in each county through which said road as above proposed will pass, to open books, to receive the necessary subscription of stock, to authorise the organization oi said company. That the commissioners shall, after giving ten days notice in the several counties, prepare and open books of subscription, which said books shall contain all the requisites pointed out by the law entitled "An net to provide for a General System of Railroad incorporation," and shall remain open until the first of April next

That the name of the proposed corporation sftall be the "Mississippi and Atlantic Railroad Company," and that the shares of stock therein shall be titty dollars. That inasmuch as the proposed line of mad is about 160 miles in length, that ths convention recommend that sums be raised from each of the counties through which said road shall pass, in proportion to the number of miles of said road through said counties, respectively: FroviHtd that no county shall be precluded from subscribing for more of said stock, if desired, either by the individual citizens thereof or the corporate authorities. That so soon as 160,000 dollars is snbscibed, tho commissioners, respectfully, shall givo notice to tho President of this convention, whose duty it shall lie to call a meeting of the subscribers, at Vandalia, after giving notice for three weeks previously, in the newspapers published along tho lino of said road, and such other papers as he mt deem necessary: Provided, that it any of said subscribers who cannot attend said meeting may be represented by proxy.

A memorial to Congress was also adopted, tor a grant of land to aid the construction at said road.

Ettra Resolutions adoptetl. McOurdy, Vandalia

Rrsofvcd. That the interest of Southern Illinois in lntornal Improvements, is one and indivisoble, and requires and demands unity of action,-—wo therefore approve the call for a convention at Mt. Vernon on tho 6th of June, to harmonize on the subject of the Central Railroad, anil another railroads through Southern Illinois now in contemplation

Mr. Stevenson, of Bond. Risolved. That wo are sincerely grateful to witness tho well directed energy mauiUated by our sister States to the east, in pushing forward their noble worksof Improvement, and hope that by the time they ahall have reached ®ur eastern border Illinois will extend to them the hand of true sisterhood, and with a hearty weleooic conduct them speedily and safely to the banks ot tho Minsiasippi.

ATA IS ANTIA N LECTURES, The second lecture of a course before tho "Terre Haute Atalantian Literati," will be delivered by J. B. L. SOUI.E, Esq., on Monday evening next, at 71 o'clock, at the Hall of the Literati.

S1/ BJEcr— ryt hago rns.

TO THE PUBLIC'.

Mr. iTinnsnif? C. Moore, is the only person authorized to transact any business for our Houee in Indiana any other person representing himselt as from our firm, is doing so without oar consent,

BALDWIN, DIBBLEE &, WORK, January 5, 18ft0— 19ma. New York.

CPo in in cvct.it.

WABASH COURIER

Vf ft

OrricE,

Terre-Haute, Feb. 16, 1850.

The weather agaip has assumed a wintry aspect. A deep snow now covers the ground, and sleighs are running merrily. The river is open and in tine navigable order. Steamers pasting up and down daily.

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THE MARKETS. NEW YORK, Feb. 12th.

Flour, common straight state $4J)7. Fine W{ieat steady sa^ firm, above the views of buy ers. Corn improving. White 61c. Pork, moderate sales at #10,75JQT,$«W Mess, »nd &} FOR new Prime,

CINCINNATI, Feb. 12th.

There i» a cood demand for Provisions* check eaiesj Last evening SOOhrls. nrirte Lard sftld at 6 cents. Bulk Meat would will rapidly at 3c. for Shoulders, and 4c. for Sides. Mess rork is held at $0, but no buyers at that figure.

Mutt Si t'j UT /MffWiF,

PRO DUCECOM MISSION

I E I I A N

BUFFALO, ft

I^eferciicesTn ^errfl Haute, .RJJA«W-D.-EABMT, Esq, A EMINQ, Esq.,

JAMES

FARKiiwrozr, Esq.,

feblfj 2b-tl .n I c. &. C. W. BARBOUR. TmT., Fair Warning.

HAVING

determined on traveling during tho

next two or throe years* those indebtedwill find It to their advantage to call on me Within ten days and pay or make such arrangements as reason may dictate. All seven or eigut vears old demands must be attended to without aolay.

THE PRACTICE OF MEDICIWE Wjll bo coniintied from my office, by J. H. LONO, M. !., who during the past two years, has proved himself faithful and worthy of confidence,

A. HOLMES, M. D.

TMTC Hante,TeW-34-lf

NOTICE.

fPHE subscribers to the Cincinnati and $t, Louis Telegraph Company are hereby notified that a second instalment of twenty dollars rm a share ai their subscription of stock is required to be paid to .l- —jany1, within ten daya herelirty days thereafter twen*

the trustees of said Company', within ten day's heretnirty days th ty dollars more per share, will be required to be {»id to the trustees of said Company,according to the articles of said association.

By order of tbe misuses, subscribers St Terrs Haute will p»y to J. P. Usher. JAMES BLAKE,*

Mi it BYRD MONROE,?feb2.23tf JOHN P. USHER

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