The Wabash Courier, Volume 18, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 February 1850 — Page 2

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To Pendleton by 6 m, 36 miles A a be 6 a an 6 Friday. &

4076 From Knightstown, lnd.,at I pm. once a week, Friday By Greensboro'

To Newcastle by 6 m,t4 miles And back betwecptj aj^^J 11

4076 From Ogden,lnd., at 12 m, twice a week, Monday and Friday By Spiceland .. To Greensboro' by 2 m, 7 miles

tt wm9 *f fftf

4077,From Newcastle, Ind., at 5 a m, umto,once

we®^»

Wednesday

^*^rBy Sulphur Springs aud Middle."*,3 itown l*iTo Chesterfield 12 m, 18 miles .And back between 1pm and 8 pm. 4078 From Middletown, fnd,, at 6 a ui, *-i once a week, Thursday

By Rich Woods To Muncietown by 11 a m, 13 railes And back between 1 and 6 pm.

J' SPECIAL OFFICES. Proposals are invited for supplying the following offices in Indiana for the riett proceeds of said offices respectively, limited to a sum to be named in the proposals in each case:

Alamo and Yountsville from Crawfordsvilla, 10 miles and back, once a week.

Arba from ^partansburg, 4 miles and back, once a week. Azalia from Klizabothtown, four miles and back, once a week.

Ballstown from Napoleon, 6 miles and bjick, once a week. Bnttle Ground from Lnfaye» e,5 miles and back, once a week.

Bean Blossom from Nashville, 5 miles and back, once a week. Bear Branch from Allenville, 6 miles and back, once a week.

Big Spring from Laporte, 6 miles and back, twice a week. Blue Ridge from Conn's Creek, 4J 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 Morefield, 6 miles and back, once a week. Dover and Hammond from South Bend, 13 miles and back, once a week.

Drewersburg from Harrison, 6^- miles and back, once a week. Ellisburg from Fawn River, 5 miles and back, once a week.

Gallatin from Roseville, 6 miles and back, once a week. Hannegan from Carthage, 6 miles and back, once a week.

Ifopewell from Dupont, 5^ inilos and back, once a week. Kewanna from Winnainec, 10 miles and back once a week,

Lawrenceville from New Alsace, five miles and back, once a week. Leopold from Rome, 16 miles and back, once a week.

Lick Branch from Russoll's Mills, six miles and back, once a week. Luray and Alfred from Newcastle, 11 miles and back, once a wook.

Mets frotn Spring Lake, 6$ miles and back, once a week. Mior from Marion, 10 miles and back, once a weok.

Millhousen from Napoleon, 8 miles and back, once a week. Money from Loosville, 9 miles and back, once a weok.

Mt. Auburn from Edinburg, miles and back, twice a weok. Mt. Meridian from Putnamvillc, six niilos am! back, once a week.

Newark from Evansvillo, 13 miles and back, once a week. New Amsterdam from Corydon, 13 miles and back, once a weok.

New Frankfort from Lexington, 8 miles and back, twice a week. Now Holland from Lagro, 6 utiles and back, onco a weok.

North Liberty from Sotnh Bond,— miles and back, once a week. Onondaga from Plymouth, 7 miles and back, twice a week.

Orange Valley from Paoli, 11 miles and back, once a week. Philomath from Abington, 3 miles and back, once a week.

Popano from Whitley, 9 miles and back, once a wock. Portersville from Haysville, 3$ miles and back, once a week.

Quercus Grove from Patriot, 6 miles and back, once a week. Rock Creek from West Point, 7 miles and back, once a week.

Russell's Mills from Rockville, 14 miles and back, onco a week., Santa Fe from Peru, 9 milos and back, tnce a week.

Six Mile from Vornon, 7 miles and back, once a week. Springtown from Stilos»ville, 5 miles and hack, twice a weok.

Spring Valley from Indiaiapolis, 9 miles and back, twice a wock. Sulphur Springs from Newcastlo, 5 miles and back, once a weok."4*

Taylor from Mt.Vernon, 6£ miles and back, once a week. Toronto from Clinton*, 8 miles and back, once a week.

Uniontown from Bee Creek, 6f miles and back, once a week. WadesvlHe from Gosport, five miles and back, once a week.

Wallace from Alamo,59 miles and back, once a week. Warrington from Pendleton, 7 miles and back, once a week.

Waterloo from Connersvtlle, 5 miles and back, once a week. West Franklin from EvunriviUe, 13 miles and back, once a week.

Winfield from Crown Point, 7 miles and back, once a week.

Wright from Scaffold Prairie, 7 miles and back, once a week.

form for a Bid tckcre. no change from advertisement is contemplated by the biddtr. "I (er we, as the case way be) [here write the name or names in full] of [here cute the residence or residences] here* by propose to carry the mail on No. f/om to aa often as the advertisement requires, in the time stated in the schedules, and by the following mo^e of conveyance, to wit: {Here state Wow it is t) be conveyed,] for the annual ium of

Dated

Form of a Guaranty to accompany each Bid "The undersigned [here insert the name of the ^larantor or guarantors] guaranties thai, [here insert name of Wdder 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, to perform the service proposed." ted.

Form of Certificate.

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

INSTRUCTIONS.

1 Seven minutes are showed for open ing and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is specified but on railroad and steamboat routes there is to be no more delay than is necessary to deliver and receive the bags. 2. The mail is to be conveyed in preference to passengers, and to their entire exclusion, if its weight and bulk re

lu're

3. Post office blanks, mail bags, and

the special agents of the Department, on

the exhibition of their credentials, are to

bo conveyed without further charge, on .g

mail lines admiuintr of such convey-

offices will require .heir employmen. by ,ow(!st

.ho Department and, tha. case, se-

paraie apartment for the assorting and

safe-keeping of the mail is to be provi ded by the contractor, under the direc tion 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 the connexion with a depending mail ^J

when tUe running or

behind time as to lose

und a .rfe.turo of a duo proportion of ,t

when a grude of service is rendered inferior to that in the contract. These forfeitures may be increased into penalties of higher amount, according to the nature or frequency of the failure and the importance of the mail. 6. Finos will be imposed unles the delinquency be satisfactorily explained in due time, for failing to take from, or deliver at, a post office, the mail, or any part of it: for suffering it to be wet, injured, lost or destroyed or conveying it in a place or manner that exposes it to depredaiion, loss, or injury for refusing after demand to convey a mail by any coach, railroad car, or steamboat, which the contractor regularly runs on the route beyond the specified number of trips in the contract, and for not arriving at the time set and for setting up or running an express to transmit commercial intelligence in advance of the mail, a penalty will be exacted equal to a quarter's pay. 7. The Postmaster General may annul the contract for repeated failures for violating tho post office laws for disobeying the instructions of the Department for refusing to discharge a carrier when required by tho Department for assigning the contract without the consent of the Postmaster General, or for setting up or running an express as aforesaid. 0. The Postmaster General may alter the contract, and alter the schedule, he allowing a pro rata increase of compensation, within the restrictions imposed by law, for the additional service required, or for tho incrensed speed, if tho employment of additional stock or carriers is rendered necessury but the contractor may, in such case, relinquish the contract, on timely notice, if he prefers it to the change. The Postmaster General may annul the contract or curtail the service and pay, when he wishes to dispense with fche service, in whole or in part, or place a higher or different grade of service on the route, he allowing one month's extra pay on the amount dispensed with. 9. The payments will be made through drafts on post offices or otherwise, after the expiration of each quarter—say in February, May, August, and November. 10. The distances are given according to tho best information but no increased pay will be allowed, should they prove to bo greater than is advertised, if the places are correctly named. 11. The Postmaster General is prohibited by law from knowingly making a contract for the transportation of the mail with any person who shall have entered

or not to do, any thing whatever to induce any other person not to bid for a mail contract. Particular attention is called to the 28th section of the act of 1836, prohibiting combinations to pro vent bidding. I

competition with the regular proposal not adjudged to be extravagant. 13. A bidder may offer, where the transportation called for in the advertisement is difficult or impracticable at certain seasons, to substitute an inferior mode of conveyance, or to intermit service a specified number of days, weeks, or months. He may propote to omit an office that is inaccessible, or is not on the sttge road, the railway,or at a steamboat Imding, as the caw may be or he may offer to substitute an inferior mode of supply in such cases. He may propose different day# and hours of departure and arrival, provided no more running time is a&kod, and it is obvious that no mail connexion or oilier public accommodation is prejudiced. He may ask for more running time to the trip, during a specified number of day*, al

with any person wnosnau nave enterea "^VSTihrough the House. We mto any combtnation. or proposed to en- from the coi ter into any combination, to prevent the making nf any bid for a mail contract by any other person or persons, or who shall have made any agreement, or shall ,h

have gtven or performed, or promtsed to „here

g„o orperform, any considerauon to do. ,pprobalion.

IS. A bid received .Tier time, to wit, the" peipli"of Vir". the 16th April next, at 10 a m, or with- _u out the guaranty required by law, or that combines several routes in one sum of jon__!neither have they any thought of compensation, cannot be consideredMn

uurmK spwiBwi immuci change in certain seasons of peculiarly bad roads occurred during period of two thous but beyond these changes, a proposal for and hundred years# inventnre taiMrvice different from tne advertisement! lore and mantoa-makers noat be scarce will prevent its being considered in eont-i there.

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 it with other proposals. 14. There should be but one route bid for in a proposal. fftdiL15. The rome, the service,the yearly pay, the bidder's name and residence, and the name of each member of the firm, where a company offers, should be distinctly stated also the mode of conveyance, if a higher mode than on horseback is intended. I fJF. -i 16. Thebidshould t»e sehtlanwBTSeal, addressed to the First Assistant Postmaster 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.) 17. The contracts are to be executed by or before the 1st July next. 18. Postmasters at offices situated upon or near railroads, 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 depot, and how otherwise supplied with the mail, to enable the Postmaster General to di

., .i« rect the proper supply to be made fiom

mail lines admitting of such convey ance. 4. Mail agents are wilhoul charge, on .he principal rail- fa

roesfeng

lendering sufficient

.0 be conveyed

lhe

ers, from

af|ef lhe Ul Julv nex

Cnder the ftct of March

3 |845t

,ct

tQ lhe low6gl bidder

guaranties for faith-

ful performance, without other reference

mode of lransporlatio

.erUy, cerj.iniy,

of cpnveyanc6f l0 witf on

When propoges to carry

,hon may

for tUe |u0

and securi.y of such

Md proposes

nc# lUat is

a mode

inadequate for the

cerlninlv se

cun-

route in respect to the certainty, secun ty, and celerity of the 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 and understood to be for the lowest mode

horseback.-

according to

enisement, and tm

vey0

„ce

mode of con

EUUed for

,he route in the

advertisement, it will be considered as offering only for horseback convey ance. 21. Since the passage of the act of March 3, 1845, a new description of bid has been received. It specifies no mode of conveyance, but engages to carry the mail with certainty, celerity and security, using the terms of the law. These bids are called, from the manner in which they are designated on the books of the Department, "star bids." It has been decided, after mature considera tion, 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 be preferred to the specific bid. 22. When the mails are of such size and weight as to render it necessary or expedient, in reference to them alone, to provide two-horse coach conveyance, the specific bid, though the highest, will bo 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 bo allowed, where the star bid is made by tho present owner of the 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 the mails, the prefer ence for the specific bid will be, if necessary, carried to a greater extent of difference than on the inferior coach rout&*, subject, however, to the excep tions above stated. 24. A modification of a bid, in any of its essential terms, is tantamount to a new bid, and cannot be received, so as to interfere with the regular competi tion, after the last hour set for receiving bids. J. COLLAMER,

Postmaster General

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, January, 1860.

The Southern Convention. Never was a scheme killed so dead as that famous project, which the Committee introduced two weeks ago, and

Conway and Claiborne

have not seen a man from tho country, and wo have made it our businoss to enquire, neither have we heard of one, who was in favor of that scheme. On the contrary, it has been received every

con it has

with

received every

decided marks of dis-

A mecting WM .„ned in

Lynchburg—not a dozen could be got together. Another in Fluvanna—it shared the same fate. Another in

Goochland, where resolutions being offered they were postponed indefinitely The bare idea of a dissolution of the abhorrent to ._ ... nia. They have_ no thought of abanoning their rights under the Constitu-

cmrusl

5|,g their destinies to nineteen

men in Nashville. They have better remedies for all their grievances t» the Union than they would have out of it, and they intend to exhaust them. They leave the game of Disunion to Garrison & Co. and their allies.—Rick. Whig.

The salary of the Governor of California is fixed at $10,COO per annum, and that of Secretary of State at #6,000.— Members of the Legislature have tl€ per diem, and 16 for every SO miles travel. a, a, S.flfii

THECOUlUEIir

T£SSE~CON A RD, EDITOR.

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SATURDAY7?KB. 2:J, 1850.

IMPROVEMENTS.

DUTCH Row is fast going the way of all flesh) ^Tearing down and dragging out, seems to be the order of the day. The old buildings from 4th street west to the alley are fast disappearing*!. Handsome three story bricks are to be erected, and from appearances, will soon supply the place of the old frames for a full hal square on National Road street*

More about Rail Roads in Illinois. The Charleston (Ills.) Courier of Feb. 16, says: There was a Rail Road Meeting held at Hillsboro, on 13th, at which Edgar, Coles, Shelby, Montgomery, Christian, Macoupin, and Madison counties were represented. The Convention passed off with great unanimity and pleasantness of feeling. A plan for a Rail Road from the State line near Terre Haute, Indiana, through Paris, Charleston, Shelbyville, Hillsboro, and thence on the most eligible route to Alton, on the Mississippi, was adopted.— A committee for each county, through which the proposed road will run, was appointed to obtain a sufficient amount of stock to commence operations.

The following instrument of writing was prepared to be signed by those subscribing stock: "We, the undersigned, agree to pay the sum of fifty dollars for each share of stock set opposite our names, in such manner and proportions, and at such times as may be determined upon hereafter by the President and Directors of a Company proposed to be formed for the purpose of constructing a Rail Road from the State line near Terre Haute, Indiana, via Paris, Charleston, Shelbyville, Hillsborough, and thence in the most direct and eligible route to Alton, on the Mississippi, and each subscriber is to pay at the rate of one dollar per share to the proper committe appointed for each county, through which said road may run, at the time of subscribing, and ten per centum ou each share is to be paid as soon as said company is organized and Directors elected." ———————

SLEIGHING.

Mr. RUGGLES of the PAVILVION STABLES has some fine teams. He drives <six in hand> with great skill. For several days during the snow Mr. Ruggles' <big sleigh and six> were seen flying through our streets, loaded with ladies and gentlemen. On Saturday last we were politely invited to a seat with a dozen of the <real some>, and had a delightful ride two miles out the National Road and back. It was capital—and the ease with which the <six> were turned, just at the driver's will, was admirable. ———————

MR. CLAY'S SPEECH.

Such is the demand for pamphlet copies of Mr. CLAY'S speech, that the Globe, at Washington, announces that they cannot receive any more orders for it, unless those ordering can wait two weeks for them. Their orders already given will require one hundred and seventy reams of paper to fill.

The demand on two or three other offices is equal to that on the Globe Office.

Whether or not Mr. CLAY'S compromise meets favor with the Representatives of the people at Washington, it is very certain that the people themselves are rapidly coming to the conclusion that it ought to be adopted.

DISSOLUTION.

We are pleased to find that many of the influential Whig papers of the South turn their columns in severe rebuke, on Southern disunionists in Congress.— Speaking of Mr. Clingman's speech, the Fayelteville (N. C.) Observer, says "We take this occasion to say, very emphatically, that we have no faith in, nor sympathy with, Mr. Clingman's views of the immense prosperity which is to resnlt to the South from disunion.— On the contrary, we should regard it, if effected, (which God forbid!) as the parent of woes unnumbered and innumerable.

hundredfold increase

of the annoyances from the fanatics would lead to wars, and instead of a prosperous commerce, we should have our trade crippled, and a national debt incurred to support the expenses of our army. Instead of the power which, as a united nation, is now felt and respected over the wide world, we should have two or more weak and feeble nations, which would And it quite as modi as they could do to kwp each other in check, without any surplus force to awe the other nations of the world. No, let us not talk of disunion as long as there is a hope of avoiding intolerable oppression and especially let us not delude the Southern people into a belief that it will be a money-making measure

Gold and Sliver across the Isthmus. The Panama Star gives the following as the amount of gold which has crossed the Isthmus from California, and Silver from South America, from the 1st of October to the first of January: By Zachrisson, Nelson &

Co. •2.095,844 08 R. M. Steamship Co. 767,090 00 Private individuals, (ostimated,) ,• 2,600,000 00

Total,

Ate.,

A LAKOE BUSUCKSS.—We are told, by good authority, that a manufacturer in Worcester, Massachusetts, has made by the sale of six barrel pistols in California, upwards oft160,000.—N. Y. Pott. fn the Island of Japan, it is said, a the fashion of dreaa has not

Hon. W.

4,000,00000

Making the sum to-

tal of

•9362,84408

A treaty has been made conceding Nicaragua, and has gone out on the Niagara to Lord Pal roerston, but until approved by him is not conclusive

GotKAX will please ac

cept our thanks for many favors from Washington.

T. Butler King and tho California Congressmen, excepting Col- Fremont, have arrived at Washington.

CONGRESSIONAL.

On the 14th the Senate resumed the consideration of Mr. Clay's resolutions. Mr. Jefferson Davis concluded Jis remarks in reply to Mr.

Clay,

contending

that slave labor would be necessary and profitable in California he defended the course pursued by the South upon the slavery question—denied that she had preached disunion, and also defended the action of Mississippi relative to the June Convention. In conclusion Mr. Davis said, "it rested with the North to say whether the last page of our national history shall be written in blood, and be descriptive of the wreck and ruin of our beloved Republic. The North had been the aggressors, and it was nothing but the spirit of a holy attachment which bound the South to our Union."

The bill relative to the act limiting the revenue for collecting the customs has passed both houses of Congress, and will soon be a law. The Secretary of the Treasury will probably be able, with the sum appropriated by the new act, to go through the year.

In the Senate on the 15ih, after the reception of petitions and reports, the consideration of the President's Message, transmitting the California constitution, was resumed. Mr. Butler spoke in opposition to the separation of the question of the admission of California from the other agitating questions of the day. He alluded to Mr. Clay's remarks yesterday, in relation to the allegiance which he recognized, and was surprised to hear him declare that he owed no allegiance to one particularsection. Mr. Clay, interposing, thought he had said he acknowledged no specific allegiance to any particular section that ho acknowledged allegiance only to the sovereignty of Kentucky and to the Union. Mr. But ler continued—be knew no Union but what South Carolina recognized, ho owed no allegiance except to South Carolina. He was willing to refer the admission of California and all agitating questions to a committee composed entirely of northern men, for the purpose of ascertaining what terms they would offer the south. He then proceeded, at some length, with his remarks against the admission of California. The House went into Committee of the Whole. Mr. Root said he would vote for the admission of California with her present boundaries. He differed from the President in his do-nothing policy, and wanted matters settled. He spoke atgreat length in favor of the Wilmot Proviso.^

On the 18th, Mr. Clay presented a petition from a single individual, asking that the first Senator proposing a dissolution of the Union be expelled from the Senate laid on the table. After some unimportant business the Senate proceeded to the special order of the day, being Mr. Clay's compromise resolutions. Mr. Downs having tho floor, proceeded to address the Senate at length in opposition to the resolutions, and against the admission of California with her present Constitution. He would not object to her admission had the Constitution been adopted legitimately by the people of that State, but he believed it had been adopted by the intermeddling of the Executive. Mr. Downs finally gave way for adjournment, without concluding.

In the House, Mr. Doty offered a resolution and moved the previous question, that the Committe on Territories be instructed to report a bill providing for the admission of California into the Union on an equal footing with the otiginal States, with the boundaries and limits defined in the Constitution, said bill not to embrace any subject or matter outside of California. After considerable discussion, the yeas and nays were called on a motion to lay the resolution on the table, which resulted yeas 70, nays 121. Confusion has ever since prevailed.— Several ineffectual attempts were made to adjourn. The members have mostly got thoir dinners, and there is every prospect of a long night's session.^

Mr. SOULE'S lecture before the Atalantians on Monday evening last, was highly interesting, and well received. The subject—"Pythagoras" ably managed, showing deep research, and literary scholarship of no common character in the Lecturer.

WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.— The original manuscript ot Washington's Farewell Address was sold by auction at the Exchange, in Philadelphia on the 12th. It was started at $500, and run up to 82,300, at which price it was taken by the Rev. Dr. Boardman, who purchased it for a gentleman at a dis-

:wnce-

*6,362,844 00

Gold and silver by R. M. S. Co., from S. Am., Mexico,

NEW POST OFFICE.—A new Post Office has been established at Cloverland, on the National Road, in Clay county, and JAS. M. LUCAS, Esq., appointed Posi Matter*^® -f* 4 ^4.

The nomination of Col. J. WATSON WEBB, as Minister to Austria, has been rejected by the Senate only seven Senators voted in his favor^^H 'Jt

The steamer Rhode Island, of New York, bound for California, fotir days out, has been lost twelve of those on board escaped. It is. reported that thirty persons were lost*®

Our neighbor of the "JOXTINAL" IS death on SOCKS. Solution next waak.

GOLD DIGGING.

A California correspondent of the St. Louis Republican says: The price at which men can be employed to dig, is the best criterion of what is the average of the actual laborer—and that price ranges from $8 to $10 per day, and when I state that this is fully an average, I rather suspect myself of being over than under the mark.

The labor attending digging is of the most unpleasant character, and well calculated to try a man's constitution and see of what material it is composed.— About the time the mines were first discovered, persons could, with but little labor, go along the margin of the rivers and make far more than they can now by laboring hard all day. The cream has been taken off, in short, yet there is an abundance of gold here and will be for years. ———————

(£rA genuine Arkansas patriot, of the high pressure order, has been to Washington City, and writes home to the Fort Smith Herald. His views of persons and things are thus expressed: *s®"Clay, Webster, Calhoun, and others, mingled with and received the warm hearted congratulations of the multitude

Clay, calm, dignified, affable to all, surrounded by a halo o£ intellectual grandeur and statesmanship, towered high to the imagination like some gigantic light house, while the waves of the world broke at its feet. Webster, to the mind's eye, is like the frowning battlements and bulwarks of a nation's strong hold, or like some dark old engine of a thousand horse power, which stands ready to rush like a whirlwind into collision with any power on earth that dare lift a finger on this republic. Calhoun is like a fiery comet that comes blazing from the south, and wheeling aloft, leaves undying corruscations in its pathway, lighting up the past and beaconing the future.

If there is a greaier ten mile square upon the habitable globe, or even in world's remote, and yet undiscovered, than this, upon which stands tjjj)£ federal city of these United States, it ik not laid down on the chart of the universo, or do papers at all speak of it."

ARRAIGNMENT OF PKOK. WKBSSTKII.— This legal ceremony was performed on Saturday, in the Supreme Court at Boston. The accused responded

The Journal says: ••The prisoner, during the reading of the first part of the indictment, manilasted considerable emotion, evidently making an effort to stand perfectly firm. In reading the first count of the indictment, whore it describes the manner of inflicting the mortal wounds,just as the clerk pronounced the words 'with a certain knife which he then and there in his right hand had and held,' &c., the prisoner lot his right hand fall and rest upon the railing in front of him, where it remained until tho reading was finished."

Machinery for Washing Dishes. Mr. Joel Houghton, of Ogden, N. Y., has invented a machine for washing dishes, so as "to save the roomen-folks a deal of trouble." The dishes are placed in a rack and set upright when it is carried to a vessel containing water and a little soap, and by turning a crank the dishes on the rack are whirled in great style to remove all the dirt. The unclean water is then drawn off and replaced by clean boiling water, and the crank again turned a few seconds. Tho dishes are then clean, and can remain in the rack, obviates the repeated handling of the dishes. About two years ago, one of our subscribers invented a very ingenious machine for washing the floor. All that was necessary to be done to it, was to turn the handle, move it over every square yard, and supply it with clean water. By turning the handle it scrubbed the floor, wiped it up, and wrung out the cloth. It had a spring, a drum with a cord on it, and a few levers peculiarly combined and worked by cams, all operated by a handle revolving a wheel.—Scientific American, 'Mltfl

DIGGING GOLD—SUB-MARINE ARMOUR. —Mr. Geo. S. Kimberly. now in California, writes home recounting the success he has met with in procuring gold from the beds of the rivers by means of J. E. Cowen & Co's. sub-marine armour. On one occasion he bagged $800 in five hours, at the depth of 25 feet— in six weeks he realized the handsome sum of $18,600. He had been offered $5000 for his armour and had refused it.—<New Bedford Mercury>. ———————

MORE REMOVALS.—Another list of a* bout twenty-five names has been sent to Washington from the Custom House for decapitation, including nearly all the Measurers, Weighers and Guagers who escaped the previous ratzia. We believe there aro to be no further removals of Inspectors, as the present number is absolutely indispensable.—N. Y. Trib.

There are in the United States 119 colleges, the oldest of which is the Harvard University, at Cambridge, (Mass.,) established in 1638. The next oldest is Yale College, at New Haven, established in 1700. The aggregate number of volumes in the libraries of these colleges is 643,328. The library of Harvard University numbers 70,000 volumes.

Dr. Wall, of London, has discovered and patented a process for manufacturing steel and iron through the agency of electricity, which promises to cheapen immensely the cost of their production, and at the same time improve the quality of the metal. It has been tested at several of the leading iron furnaces of Maryland and Virginia, with the most satisfactory results. ———————

It is estimated that Cincinnati will show a population of 125,000, and St. Louis one of 70,000, by the census of 1850. But for the ravages of the cholera, last summer, each would have been considerably higher.

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graph Company," with all the powen, u'. a in he re in a or or an acter. And said corporation, in the

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of iw affairs and prudential concerns, shall in alj r*!iertfl be governed and controlledby tl.e ani cles of association" under which the subscription of stock in the said Cincinnati and Saint Loins uken, and it shitll be law4

tion of stock in s«3d ot.mpan* »at stock taken until a sufficient antdunt has oeen KS Slcotapfete said line of Telegraph rom Cincinnati to St. Louis and subscribers to such further amount shall be members of f-au poration, and be in all things cover nod by thesayi^ articles of association under which said corpj* tion is organized

Sac. 2. The ri(ri»t of way is hereby gr«nt-* said corporation lb construct a line or Up Telegraph wires along all the public nl and across al 1 the land a of the State, and e, necessary fixtures thereon for sustaining the wi and also across the lands of individuals Prow said corporation shall render compensation to individuals, damaged by the construction ol mr iine, to his or hoi Hands Provided, nothing haT in contained shail authorise said company to struct said line or lines for a greater distance twenty miles along any roador highways, wh a Telegraph line is now established

SEC. 3. The said corporation shall oe authc to force the collection of any aubecription of in Baid corporation, by suit or otherwise, to amount of stock so taken by the subscriber, in Court having jurisdiction.

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4. Any person who shall intentionally mcr**V lest or destroy any of said line or lines, or sir injure any of the property or materials uiwjl od be used in the construction of said line of re| graph, or property belonging thereto, shall deemed guilty of a felony, andon conviction thert of, in any Court having jurisdiction, shall benn in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollar and imprisoned in the State Prison for any ter| not ex*eding two yeais nor less than one.

If tne corporation hereby created al

refuse to receive dispatches from and for other 14 egraph lines and companies, and shall refuse,1 transmit the same in good faith and with iinpf rialitv, the said corporation so offending shall fir feit all tha rights and privileges acquired un| this act, and the same shall cease and be diaolvi And in all cases for the willful failure to transmit' dispatches received at any Telegraph office ot a&ia company, or the willfully improper transmission of the same, or any other willful neglect, tha said company shall be liable as common carriers to the pariy injured.

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6. This act shall be in force from and after: its passage, and shall be deemed a public act.

ATALANTIAN UECTURPS The third lecture of a course before th& Terra Hauta Atulantian Literati," will be delivered by CrtARl.ES Caurr, Esq., on Monday evening fiext, at It o'clock, at the Hall of the Literati.

SUBJECT—Early Hittory of the Wabash VaJley.

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guilty" in a firm voice. He announced that Mr. Sohier and Judge Merrick were his counsel, who, being in Court, expressed a desire to have the trial commenced as soon as possible. Tuesday, the 19th of March, was assigned by the Court as the day for the trial. ^,

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Mr. Lansing C. Moore, is tho only person authorized to transact any business for our Homo in Indiana any othor person representing himaol aa from our firm, is doing so without our consent

BALDWIN, DIBBLEE & WORK, January 5, 1850—19tn2. New York.

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WABASH COURIER OFFICK,

Torrc-IIaute, Feb. 123, 1830.

The snow has passed away, and weather pleasant for lhe season. Tho river has been falling since our last, but at present again on tho rim*. The Steamers Tribune, Ililander, Globe, Dov, Anicrica, Visitor, and Warrior have been ut tho whart within the week.

THE JHTAJtKETS.

NEW YORK, FT

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GKAm—Wheat is held firmly. Corn in bettor demand I'ticem on tho advance. PROVISIONS—Mess pork

CINCINNATI,

Fub. llith.

I'ORK—50,000 lbs. country bulk bides eoid lu.t evening at 3GS3I.

Hoiite and l.ot For wale.

^tLAIlK AND PATRICK now oiler ibr fnla at private sale, the house now occupied by them as a barber shop, and the lot on which tlm same is situated. The location is a (rood one tor business, and the premises will be sola on reasonable terms Those wishing to purchase will ploatie enquire of CLARK & PATRICK.

Terre Haute, feb21-86-tf miJK3mw Wholesale Silk aud Fancy Dry («ooda a

No. 446 Main Street, between Fifth and Sixth, LOUISVILLE, KY. (Formerly occupied by A iidertona, McLancfyBarbec.)

are now receiving our spring Importations of a large and entire new stock of Silk and fancy Dry Goods, together with the luual variety kept in Silk Houses all of which have been selected with great care, and purchased principally for cash, enabling us to offer every inducement to purchasers visiting this market. The following comprise a portion of our stock, to which additions will be made throughout the season, rendering our acaortment at all times full and of tho latest styles, which we pledge ourselves to offer at the lowest market rates for cash or to punctual dealers on time: ^Superior Dresa Goods.

Super plain black Gro de Rhine Rich Broohe Pou do Soie 1^T$ Do white and colored Glace Silks f,Do figured do do do bkniirti

Do do black Armure

^iDo satin, plain, and watered Armurov, ,i Do India, Foulard Silks ',, ,-j. Gro de Nap and Florences *,4?^*!

Rich Paris Broclia Berages --i" Do Printed Albions Plain blue, pink, green, and salmon Berages and

DeLaines asrlfestA Rich Paris Lawns and Ginghams Do dotted Swiss and Tarletons Super black Alpacas and Bombazines Rich Canton Crape Shawls 3 jjDo Kossuth and Ujahazy Shawls.

White Goods, Millinery, &c« Cambric, Jaconet, and Swiss Muslins I Barred Jaconet and Lace do Bishop Lawn, Book, and Mull do Plain and figured Net 5 Plain and white Tarletons White, colored, and black Italian Crapes

Do do Illusions: Artificial Flowers, a splsndid assortment ft Laces, Edgings, and insertings Rich French embroidered Lace Capes and Collara [flortrtient.

Do Bonnet and Cap Ribbons, a splendid asPlain Satin and Mantua do, a large stock Blue and green Veil Berages Blaek Fillet and Lace Veils *.

Do Love do. Also, a large assortment of Pongee Silk Handkerchiefs rich Silk and Satin Vestmgs black and fency Cravats Linen Cambric Handkerchiefs, and Ladies' fancy Neck-ties.

Together with a large stock of Bonnets, Fans, Umbrellas, Parasols, Hosiery, Glovos, Buttons, Sewings, &c. ROBINSON & BROTHER.'-feb23-26 {Lou. Jonr.) '$k

EGBKltT UJMRVJEY,

PRODUCE COMMISSION

E A N BUFFALO, N.'Y.n

References in Terro Haute, JACOB D. EARLY,

THE^ubsCribersNOTICE.

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.wr Deotko, Esq,, m/i R* a jAJres FAR*INOTON, KSq., fd.16 .. .. C. & C. W. Binm,

to the Cincinnati and St. liouia

Telegraph Company are hereby notified that a second instalment of twenty dollars on a share of their subscription of stock i» required to be paid to the trustees of said Company, within ten days herefrom, and that within thirty davs thereafter twenty dollars more per share, will be required to be paid to the trustees of said Company,according to the articles of said association.

By order of the trustees, subscribers at Terro Haute will pay to J. P. Usher. JAMES BLAKEi,

BYRD MONROE4 JOHN P. USHER,

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persons wisliing to lease store-roonTlotj, fronting upon theKational Road,south side, can obtain the same an reasonable terms bv annlv-

J-."-HAGiR," At the Canal Office,