The Wabash Courier, Volume 18, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 March 1850 — Page 2
To Pendleton by 6 m, 36 miles A a 6 a a 6 Friday. A 4076 From Knightstown, Ind., at pm, once a week, Friday
By Greensboro' To Newcastle by 6 m,~14 miles And back between 6am and. 11 a
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4076 From Ogden,lnd„ at 12 m, twice a week, Monday and Friday By Spiceland $ rr
To Greensboro* by 1 m, 7 miles And back between 9am and 11 art. 4077 From Newcastle, Ind., at 6 a m, ,«a**as|ouce a week* Wednesday ~Z,~'rsfiy Sulphur Springs and Middlenr*. \)wn "To Chestelteld 12 m, 18 mile«
And back between 1 and 8 pm. 4078 From {Middletown, Ind., at 6 a m,
once a week, Thursday By Rich Woods
*To Muncieiown by 11 a n*i, 13 miles
And back between lpm and 6 pm. ttPECIAL OFFICES. Proposals are invited for supplying the following offices in Indiana for the nett proceeds of said offices respectively, limited to a sum to be named in the proposals in each case:
Alamo and Yountsville from Crawfordsville, 10. miles and, back, once a week.
Arbo from Spartnnsburg, 4 miles and back, onco a week. Azalia
from EHzobethtown, four
and back, once a week. Ballstown
from
miles
Napoleon, 6 miles and
back, once a weok. Battle Ground from Lafayette. 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 Lnporte, 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, 5 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, 5 miles and back, onco a week.
Hopewell from Dupont, 5^ miles and back, once a week. Kewanna from Winnamec, 10 miles and back onco a week.
Lawrenceville from New Alsace, five miles and back, once a week, Leopold from Rome, 15 miles and back, once a week.
Lick Branch from Russell's Mills, six miles and back, once a woek. Luray and Alfred from Newcastle, 11 miles and ba"k, once a week.
Mets from Spring Lake, 6} miles and back, once a week. Mier from Marion, 10 miles and back, once a week.
Mil!hou8en from Napoleon, 8 miles and back, once a weok. Money from Leesville, 9 miles and back, onco a week.
Mt. Auburn from Edinburg, miles and back, twice a weok. Mt. Moridian from Putnnmville, six miles anil back, once a week.
Newark from Evansvillo, 13 miles and br.ck, once a week. New Amsterdam from Corydon, 13 miles and back, onco a week.
New Frankfort from Lexington, 8 miles and back, twice a week. New Hollund from Lngro, 6 miles and back, once a week.
North Liberty from South Bend, miles and back, once week. Onondaga from Plymouth, 7 miles and bacK, twice a week.
Orange Valley from Puoli, 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 week. Portersville from Haysville, 3$ miles and back, once a week.
Quorcus Grove from Patriot, 6 miles and back.once a weekRock Creek from West Point, 7 miles and back,onco week.
Russell's Mills from Rockville, 14 miles and back, once a week. Santa Fe from Peru, 9 miles and back, once a week.
Six Mile from Vernon, 7 miles and back, once a week. ., Springtown from Stilesville, 5 milos and back, twice a week.
Spring Valley from Indianapolis, 9 miles and back, twice a week. Sulphur Springs from Newcastle, 5 miles and back, once a week.
Taylor from Mt.Vemon,6£ miles and back, once a week. Toronto from Clinton, 8 miles and back, onco a week.
Uniontown from Bee Creek, 6 mile* and back, once a week. Wadesville from Gosport, five milea and back, once a week.
Wallace from Alamo, miles and back, once a week. Warrington from Pendleton, 7 tntles and back, once a week.
Waterloo from Connersville, 5 miles and back, once a week.
West Franklin from Evansvilte, 13 wiles and back, once a week. Winfield from Crown Point, 7 miles find back, once a week.
Wright from Scaffold Prairie, 7 miles and back, once a week.
Form for Bid toktre no change from advertisement is contemplated ky the
t'bidder.
"I (or we, as the ease may be) There write the name or names ta full] of here state the residence or residences] hereby propose to carry the mail on No. from to as often as the advertisement requires, in the time stated the schedules, and by the following mode of conveyance, to wit: [Have state bow it is to be conveyed.] for the annual •am of I
Dated
Form of a Guaranty to 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, to perform the service proposed."
Dated.,
Form of Certificate.
The undersigned, postmaster of certifies that the guarantors above named are sufficient and able to make good their guaranty.* -V-5'
Dated
INSTRUCTIONS.
1 Seven minutes are allowed for opening 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 require it. 3. Post office blanks, mail bags, and the special «£ents of the Department, on the exhibition of their credentials, are to be conveyed without further charge, on mail lines admitting of such conveyance. 4. Mail agents are to be conveyed without charge, on the principal railroad and steamboat lines, where the size of the mails and the number of the offices will require their employment by the Department and, in that case, a separate apartment for the assorting and safe-keeping of the mail is to be provided by 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 a forfeiture of a due proportion of it when a grad® 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. Fines 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 inpnner that exposes it to depredation, 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 inail,a penalty will be exacted equal to a quarter's pay. 7. The Postmaster General may annul the contract for repeated failures for violating the post ,office laws for disobeying the instructions of the Department for refusing to discharge a carrier when required by the Department for assigning the contract without the consent of the Postmaster General, or for setting up or running an express as uforesaid. 8. 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 the increased speed, if the employment of additional stock or carriors is rendered necessary but the contractor may, in such cose, 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 the service, in whole or in port, 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. Tho 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 itny person who shall have entered into any combination, or proposed to enter into any combination, to prevent the making of any bid for a mail contract by any other person or persons, or who shall have made any agreement, or shall have given or performed, or promised to give or perform, anv consideration to do, 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 prevent bidding.
12. A bid deceived after time, wit, tho 16th April next, at 10 a m, or without the guaranty required by law, or that combines several routes in one sum of compensation, cannot b« considered in
not adjudged to be extravagant. 13. A bidder may offer, where the transportation called for in tho 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 propose to omit an office that is inaccessible, or is not on the stige raid, the railway,or at a steamboat imding, as the case may be or he may offer to substitute an inferior mode of supply in such cases. He may propose different days and hours of departure and arrival, provided no more running time is asked, and it is obvious that no mail connexion or other public accommodation is prejudiced. He may ask for more running time to the trip,! during a specified number of days, at certain seasons of peculiarly bad roads but beyond these changes, a proposal for service different from the advertisement will prevent its being considered in coin-
many have nothing to brag of. They mentioned several who went from this region who are not making out well.—
petition with a regular bid not set aside for extravagance and where a bid"con? tains 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. 15. The route, 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 con-' veyance,if a higher mode than on horseback is intended. 16. The bid should be sent under seal, 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 deceived 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 rect 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 faith ful performance, without other reference to the mode of transportation than may be necessary to provide for the due ce lerity, certainty, and security of such transportation.
When the lowest bid proposes a mode of conveyance that is inadequate for the route in respect to the certainty, securt 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 8nd understood to be for the lowest mode of conveyance, to wit, on horseback.— When it proposes to carry according to the advertisement, and no mode of conveyance is stated 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, anew 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 Depnrtment, "star 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 tho 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 necossary 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 tho cost of transportation. Exceptions, however, may be allowed, where the star bid is made by the 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 cooch or steamboat transportation is required by the size and importance of the 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, howover, 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 be received, so as to interfere with the regular competition, after the last hour set for receiving bids. J. COLLAMER,
Postmaster General,
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, January, 1850.
Live Californians.
We had the pleasure of welcoming home yesterday morning, the two Messrs. McCullough and Mr. Starkie, who had arrived the evening before from California. The two former exchanged gold enough in New Orleans to net $7,513,02. Besides this, they have reserved six or eight ounces of the lumps to show their friends. Mr. Starkie brings the same proportion. They were among the emigrants who left for the overland route last Spring, and here they are back again in less than one year. They had two others in their employ, whom they left behind. One of them was in the mines but one week and the most they made was done by trading. They say that John S. David is making money fast in Sacramento City in rents and speculation. Peasley's company is also doing well.— While some are making money, the
We regret to learn that among these is our friend Sanders and his company from Mount Pleasant. They have sunk the three thousand dollars which they took with them, and what is worse, the two sons of Gen. McMillan are both dead. A man from this vicinity by the name of Nutt had also died. Iowa has certainly a large share among the dead of the gold region. The five remaining in Sanders' company were left sick.
Messrs. McCullough and Starkie reside in New London. They have seen the Elephant, and are satisfied without having another sight of him. They agree in saying that all those who are comfortably situated at home had better stay there. The testimony of such men can be depended on.-—<Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye>. ———————
Remember that economy is wealth.
THE COURIER:
ESS E ONARD, EDITOH^
E E^Jhj A TE
SATUR^fTMnCH^T1850.
Wkig State Central Committee. SueL. HAHNA, Chalr*n. DoCGLAS MA0UIB£, CHJLHIKS ROMMEL, Gen. M. STATF, JQHHH. FA*QOAHABI HUSH O'NEAL, JOHN COWSILI^ Scmnruat COLFAX, WILLIAM HEROD,
JOHN D. DEFRKES, HOEATW C. NEWCOXS, JOHN S. BOBBS, W. A. FORTES, DAVIS P. HOLLOWAT, A. T. ELLJS, A. S. WHITE, DAVIS KJLQORE, THO®. D. WALTOU.
COORT.—The Circuit Court will commence its Spring session in Terre Haute on Monday next.
CALIFORNIANS.
At ten o'clock on Thursday last, the steamer "INDUSTRY" turned from our wharf, carrying a number of young men from Terre Haute, on their start for California. The bank was crowded with relatives, friends and acquaintances, taking a long farewell. Among the number thus starting, as they stood on the upper deck, were, Walter Booth, James Hitchcock, Walter Warren, August Nippert, John Riley, Bartholomew Riley, and perhaps one or two others.— We wish them a safe, pleasant and pros-
perous journey. ———————
RAILROAD ANNUAL REPORT. In another column will be lound the first annual report of the TERRS HAUTE AND RICHMOND RAILROAD COMPANY.— The report shows every thing in promising condition. There remains but about twenty miles to be put under contract between Terre-Haute and Indian-
It is believed that a little perse
verance, and additional subscription for stock, will secure the completion of the road to Indianapolis by thQ first of December 1851.
ROBBING THE MAIL.—Ambrose W. Barnard, 18 or 19 years of age, formerly of Terre Haute, has been arrested for robbing the mail in Fon Du Lac, Wisconsia. He was a clerk in the Post Office at that place, and succeeded in rob bing the mail to a large amount. After the robbery he left for Terre Haute, and was in this place several days, week before last. !A special Mail Agent pursued him to Cincinnati, where he was taken, with apart of the missing money in his pocket. He was brought to Indianapolis and there committed, until a requisition is received from Wisconsin, to which place he must be taken for trial.
THE VALUE OF OUR RIVER. The last Vincennes Sun says, "Traders on the Wabash, can now effect Insurance on produce going out of this river at of 1 per cent, which is 4 cts. per brl. formerly, 3£ per cent, insurance before the improvement of our noble river, making 28 cents per brl. the saving on which now is, 4 cents lockage and 4 per cent former insurance 20 cents brl.* saved on the item of insurance alone, after paying toll at the rapids.— Freights are 25 cents per brl. at least, cheaper than formerly—so this explodes the idea of toll age being oppressive.— The ability to get out of the Wabash, directly to market, at all seasons of the year, taken into consideration, makes the improvement of the river a decided advantage to the people of the Wabash Valley."
IRAIL ROAD CONNECTION.—The Tole do Blade says, that to "secure the favor of a portion of Indiana, in carrying this project into effect, the stockholders of the central road promise, if the right of way can be obtained, to construct a rail road from Lafayette to Michigan City, thence east to New Buffalo, thus securing Indiana a central rail road, connecting, by means of the rail road now constructing at New Albany, the falls of Ohio, with the southern extremity of Lake Michigan."
We regret to iearn from Covington, the death of ANDREW M.CARNAHAN, ES^. of that place. Mr. Carnahan was a member of the last House of Representatives, from Fountain county. He was in the 27th year of his age, a most val ued citizen, of fine talents and great promise.
^RAILROAD MEETING.—By Advertisement in another column it will be seen that the citizens of Vigo County are in* vited to meet at the Court House on Saturday the 16th inst. It is said the proceedings will be Interesting to all friends of the Railroad.
DAGUKRREOTYPING.—By reference to advertisement, it will be seen that JOHN P. HawriNs has a room in the Town Hall, for the purpose of furnishing superior Portraits and Miniatures. Mr. Hawkins is well recommended. Call and examine.
BISHOP UPFOLD, of the Indiana DioOOM, preached at St. Stephen's Church in this plac^ on Friday evening, of last week. We understand Bishop Upfold has been called to the rectorship of St. John's Church at Lafayette, and Is about to move his family to that place.
Dr. Oippinger has returned from a vrtt to the Sooth, with his health much recruited, aad resumed practice in his profession.
CONGRESSIONAL,
On the 27th, Mr. Benton took the floor and spoke at great length. He read from the constitutions of Mexico, adopted in 1843, which declared that slavery did not exist in the wrritory of that nation. He entered at some length into an argument to show that had slavery not been abolished, no man would think of taking a slave there under the law governing slavery, unless for the purpose of freeing him because that law favored the slave so much more than the master, as to make slavery unsafe and unprofitable. He contended that nothing was to be gained and nothing lost by the pressure of the Wilmot proviso in connection with the territories of New Mexico and California Mr. Rusk next took the floor and addressed the Senate in vindication of the rights of Texas to all the territory claimed by her east of the
Rio Grande, and opposing the third resolution of the series introdribed by Mr. Clay. He reviewed the entire~qfuesiion, quoting from various documents for the purpose of proving the title of Texas to the territories claimed S
In the House, Mr. Johnson, of Tenn. introduced a bill to give a homestead to every head of a family, or to any widow or mother of a minor child, who shall become permanent occupiers of the soil thus granted. Mr. Toombs having the floor spoke at length on the slavery question. It was the duty of the South to defend her rights here, and the duty of people everywhere when that fails, it was for the people to approve of a violated contract. When the Constitution fails to protect them, they will stand to their arms. •, .*}•.«/-* "l
On the 28th, Mr. Bell in the Senate speke on a series of resolutions, offered by him, creating a new slave State out of a portion of Texas, that would satisfy the South, and be the end of extension of slavery. He spoke in favor of admitting California, with her present *SiConstitution.
A LARGE HOTEL.
The Burnet House at Cincinnati, the Gazette 6ays, is the largest hotel, built expressly as a hotel, in America, or perhaps in the world. It will cost $225,000 for ground and building it is 212 feet wide runs back 209 fbet is five stories high, and surmounted by a dome 42 feet in diameter, with a cupola. A continuous promenade of 558 feet extends around the building. The "entrance hall" is reached by a Ionic portico of great beauty—is 67 by 41) feet.— There is a dining room expressly for children—a new idea and a capital ar rangement. The whole number of rooms is 342. About 680 persons can be lodged comfortably in the house,— Every story in the whole house has two hydrants. The bar room is 78 feet each way, has 30 cast iron doric columns, and is reached from the interior of the house several ways, by elegant iron steps. P1X1
The Union Meeting in New York. The citizens of New York city, without distinction of party, were oalled upon to assemble at Castle Garden on the 25th ult. to consider the dangers menacing the Union, and respond to the compromise plan of Mr. Clay. The Baltimore American of the 26th, has the following telegraphic notice of the meeting:
NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 10 P. M. An immense Union meeting is being held at Castle Garden to-night. There are present probably not less than 10,000 persons. Mayor Woodhull is presiding. Gen. Scott is on the platform. When he appeared he was enthusiastically cheered. Mr. Whiting and others addressed the meeting. They spoke warmly in favor of a compromise on the subject of slavery, and were eloquent in speaking of the perpetuity of the Union. Great unanimity of feeling prevails. There are others yet to speak.
Pennsylvania—The Unfon. On the 23 ult., the Senate of Pennsylvania passed the following resolution:
Whereas, the members of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania have seen with deep regret, in several sections of our glorious republic, indications of dissatisfhetion with our fundamental organization, as embraced in our constitution and an apparent disposition upon the part of some to effect a radical change and whereas, in the feelings of dissatisfaction towards that sacred instrument, ihe people of Pennsylvania do not participate therefore—
Resolved, That the Union is identified with ail the glories of the past all the blessings oft he present, and all the hopes of the future that Pennsylvania true to the constitution, and all its principles, will never waver in her fidelity to that noble charter.
The Hon. JEFFERSON DAVIS, who has during the present Congress represented Mississippi in the Senate of the United States, by appointment of the Governor, has been elected by the Legislature of that State to fill six years.
the office for the next
DANIEL WEBSTER .-—It is stated that Mr. Webster has under consideration a plan for the settlement of the Slavery controversy and agitation which disturbs the tranquility of the public mind and that he will make a Senatorial tion worthy his great name.
exposi-
KENTUCKY.—A resolution offered in the Kentucky Senate, providing for sending Delegates to the Nashville Con* vention, was laid on the table by the decisive vote of 26 to 9. Kentucky has no sympathy for distutkmists.
THE GREAT LIGHT.
We mentioned a week or two since the proposition, by: Messrs. Porter and Paine, illuminate tfrefforld byjlhe decomposition of water into gases, nidi that it would probably done about the time the great Magnetic Light, in which some of our citisens made an investment of their judgment was perfected. Mr. Porter made a very extensive announcement on the subject. Since, that very popular journal, the IScientiflo American, cuts away the underpinning which supported the learned gentleman before the^ public, by revealing the fact that MrPorter is the alleged inventor of the balloon that was to carry two hundred persons to California. So the "fire-the-riv-er" light and the California balloon will probably share the same fate with the incredulous public. Messrs. Paine and Porter will probably end their days in drawing comparisons between their fate and that of the persecuted Galileo, Fulton and Jenner.—Louisville Journal.
President Taylor and the Disonionists. The New York Tribune publishes a private letter to the Editor, in which is the following
"The President is very firm, and the Southerp members ate in full possession of his views. A committee of them inquired in an interview with him if he had expressed himself ready to maintain the Union at any cost. He replied that he had—that he should blockade every Southern port in the case of an armed resistance to the collection of the customs—that he should not interpose the regular Army, but should call for volunteers from the Northern and Western States, putting himself at their head, and should pour out his blood, if needed, in defence of the Union. He is confident that the People of the Southern States would themselves put down any attempt to break forcibly out of the Union. When told that the Southern members would, in a certain contingency, secede and go home he quietly remarked that there would be enough more good men ready to come in their places."
Re-Vncclnation.
We take the following information, which may prove useful to ail classes of our fellow-citizens, from the Homo Journal:
First, every individual is susceptible of vaccination second, re-vaccination is not necessary before puberty third, the system undergoes a change at puberty and re-vaccination is then necessary fourth, re-vaccination is a sure pre* ventative of small-pox fifth, re-vaccin-ation is a sure preventative of varioloid sixth, the third vaooination is inert seventh, the system is susceptible of varioloid after puberty, whenever the individual is exposed to small pox without re vaccination eighth, re-vaccination is not necessary if the first operation was performed since puberty ninth, those who disregard vaccination are always liable to small pox whenever exposed to the influence of that dreadful disease tenth, if every individual were vaccinated before puberty and re-vaccinated at the revolution of the system, there would be no such disease ejrfgting as the small pox.
Statistics of the Jews.
An official publcation informs us that there are hardly more than from 4,000, 000 to 5,000,000 Jews in the whole world, whereas Buddhism numbers 400,000,000 adepts Brahmism, 200,000,000 Christianity 230,000,000 to 250,000,000 Mahometanism from 130,000,000 to 150,000,000 and Fetishism, (or pure idolatry.) from 80,000,000 to 100,000,000. The 5,000,000 Jews are thus distributed: There are some 500,000 in Syria and Asiatic Turkey 250,000 in European Turkey 600,000 in Morocco and North Africa 50,000 to 80,000 in Eastern Asia 100,000 in America, and about 200,000 in Europe, viz: 13.000 in England 1,594 in Belgium 850 in Sweden and Norway 6,000 in Denmark 70,000 in France 52,000 in the Low Countries 1,120,000 in Russia, (more than one-fifth of the entire race 631,000 in Austria and its dependencies 214,431 in Prussia 175,000 in the German States, and 4,000 in Italy,
The young Emperor nf Austria, now that the revolution has been suppressed by the aid of Russia, is amusing himself by shooting wild boars among the snows in the neighborhood of Vienna. The quantity oi this black game is as plentiful as butcher's meat. Talking of the Austrians, a letter from Vienna states, that a woman on the Rialto, enraged at a Croat who took her fruit without payment, loudly cursed the Austrians. She was immediately publicly flogged in the Piazza San Marco. She was covered with blood when the sentence had been executed, and cursed the Austrians again. The punishment was repeated but this time she did not curse the Austrians—she was dead. These Austrians must be great savages. -J
VALENTINES.—Rejected Valentines, (o the number of 4000, were returned by the letter carriers to the Boston Post Office, many of them apparently very costly, in elegant envelopes. They were refused on account of the too prevalent practice of sendjng insulting, coarse, and vulgar missives by post on Valentine's Day, and which thousands of persons have become offended at.
DEATH OP THE "KEWTtrcrr INFANT."— We learn from the Owensboro (Ky.) American of the 7th inst., that Andrew H. Brand* the Kentucky Infant, died of pneumonia, a few days since, at the residence of his father in Daviesa county, after a short illness. The deceased was in the 16th year of his age, and weighed over 500 pounds. ...
A duel lately occurred at Madrid between two young ladies. Ope was ultimately shot in the leg, and the combat ceased pro tern. Finally, a reconciliation was effected by the gallant senor whose charms had evoked the apple of discord.
Telegraph from Boston, March the 1st says: A body has been discovered in the water near Roxbury, supposed to be that of Dr. Parkman. r*
Father Mathew has been very successful ia winning people to the pledge, in Atalanta, Athens, and Macon, Ga.
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
Of the Board of Directors to the Stock-* holder* of tha Terre Haute and Rich^ mond Railriuta Company. I
I* the dwefctttge of tho duty required of us, by* oar Charter, wa submit to you the following re port of the condition, progress, and prospect of thee
Soon itftfer the organization of the Company the Directors passed an order, directing the President to employ a competent Engineer, to make an exi perimcntal survey of that part of the line which lies between Terrs Haute and Indianapolis, for the
Eable
urpose of ascertaining the practicability, and pro-i cost of constructing that part of the line.—e Capt MORRIS, an Engineer of hwh standing, waa employed to make the survey. He entered imme-# diately upon the discharge of
teport
Sch
hiaduties, with com-.
ber of copies to bo printed for circulation, anct doubtless the most of you have examined it By an order of the Board, made on the 19th day of Sep-i tember 1848, Capt. MORIUS waa employed to make a further examination and survey cf that part of
lie* between Terre Haute and
Greencastle, for the purpose of making a pcrma nent location of the line between those points preparatory to putting the work under contract.— After a full ana careful examination of the differ-, ent lines he recommended the adoption of what i» called the Southern Une, as being the shortest ani$ cheapest line to construct, as will be seen by refer-, ence to his Report. His Report was approved of by the Board, and he waa directed to prepare tholine for putting the same under contract whiclv Was done without any unnecessary delay, and om the 20th day of December 1849, the clearing, grub^ bing, and grading of S2 miles of the road, and the building of a stone pier and abutments for a bridge across the Walnut Fork of Eel River, was let to. Contractors, at about six per cent below the Engw neer'a estimate, and about thirty-three per cent of the work payable in the Stock of the Company.—• Most of the Contractors have prosecuted their work, under the charge of Mr. WitxuM D. WOODV the assistant Engineer, to his autre satisfaction, Two light sections only, have been abandoned*, and the work on one other section has not progress sed as fast as we could have wished we anticipate, however, no difficulty in having the work, completed as soon as we snail wish to laydowa the superstructure. A further survey and permanent location of most of the line between Greencastle and Indianapolis waa tnada during the last summer, and a very favorable line obtained. The
on favorable terms, at an average of about two and a half per cent, belowthe Engineer's estimate and twenty-eight per cent, of the work payable in tha Stock of the Company.
There now remains a little upwards of twenty miles, including the two sectiona forfeited, to bo. put under contract. The Engineer's estimate for clearing, grubbing, and grading of which, amounts to a little upwards of fmy*three thousand dollars,, and we have every confidence to believe that our Stock subscription will be increased, in a few months, so as to justify our putting that part of tho line, and the building of the stone pier and abuu menta ibr abridge acroes White River, under contract, the coming spring, so as to enable us to com-
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lete grading of whole line from Terra to ready for tho jperstructure, in one year from this time, and thereby secure tho completion of tlie road between those two points, by tfie first of December 1851.
We have secured suitable sites for Depoto at both Terre Haute and Indianapolis, without any expense to the Company. We have also secured, five acres of land for Machine shops at Indianapolis, for one thousand dollars, payable in two. years with interest, end live acres at Terre Hauto without charge. Most of the persons through whose land the road is located, have freely given us the right ot way. 8ome, we think, demand much more compensation as damages, than they are entitled to, 'and we know of no other method to settle with them than the one provided for by the Charter. We have compromised with a few by agreeing to pay small amounts and in ona instance we purchased a tract of land containing about ninety aores, for five hundred dollars, on which there is a valuable stone quarry, rather than pay two hundred and fifty dollars as dnmugea, believing the land to be worth all we paid for it, and that the stone will be very vnluable t» the Company in constructing bridges and culvert* on the road. We do not think the right of way will cost to exceed five or seven thousand dollars at most.
The cost of grading and bridging the road front Terre-Haute to Indianapolis, ready for the super-, structure, according to tho Engineer's estimate, will amount to 317,188 dollars. To meet whicht we have a subscription to Stock, including the amount payable to Contractors on their contracts, of 232,600 dollars to which add 30 per cent, on the balance of tho grading and bridging, not under payable In Stock, amounting to 34,15& dollars ami the Commissioners of Vigo county
contract, payablo in Stock, amounting to 34,15& dollars ami the Commissioners of Vigo county will subscribe fifty thousand dollars, payable in the Bonds of the county,.at any time when called upon by the Coimiany to do so—making in all th» sum of 316,756 dollars, which amount will about cover the expenses of preparing the road tor tho superstructure and when this is done, we trust that it will give such increased confidence in tho work, that we shall have but little difficulty in procuring a further subscription of Stock sufficient to put on a good gravel bed and lay down the superstructure, which is estimated to cost 130,000 dollars, thirty per cent, at least of which can bo paid in Stock, leaving but 91,000 dollars payable in Cash. When the grading and bridging is finished, and the means procured tk« ky down tho superstructure, we have every assurag.'e that We can procure the Iron, and Btock the road with Engines, Cars, &/S., by a sale of the Bonds of tho Company, secured by a mortgage on tho road.
The receipts of the Company to the present time amount to 103,385 69-100 dollars, ana the expenditures to 103,911 12-100 dollars, leaving a balance in the Treasury of 473 93-100 dollars, as will be more fully seen by reference to the report of the Treasurer. We have been under the necessity of making a few temporary loans, to enable us to meet our engagements promptly those have been aid off, and the balance amounting to 9,ollars, we expect to pay in a short time, from the increased payments which will shortly be due on Stock uvbecriped, ox a sole of a few of the County BonJ6.
The workhas thus fiir progressed as ra we could have reasonably anticipated. But the time is now approaching when we ought to redouble our exertions, and press it forward as fast as possible. To enable us to do this to advantage, it will be necessary for us to come forward ana increase our subscriptions to the Stock of the Company, and show to others, by ur own acts, that we nave full confidence in our ability to make the road, and are determined to do so, and thereby stimulate those who (ire interested in its early completion to follow aqr e*ample, and
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ward in the right spirit, and lend their aid by a liberal subscription to the Stock of the Company, land thus insure the completion of this grit at work from Terre-Haute to Indianapolis, in two years from the present time and wh#n this done you will witness a new era In ihe prosperity of this section of our country, and you may with pndo and pleasure look back
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to aid this great enterprise. If we look at this road as apart of the main trunk which (s ultimately to connect the East and West, fcmfview its connectionat Indianapolis with the Madison, Lawrenceburgh* Cincinnati, Bellefontaine, and Peru roads, and at Terre-Haute with the Wabash aad Erie canal, and the Evansville, St. Louis, Alton, snd Quincy roads—also the immense local business from the rich agricultural country, and inexhaustible beds of coal through wbich |t passes, we must all be convinced that there is no other road in the oouintry that will pBy abetter dividend on its cost. As an investment •f capital, we know of none more safe, and certainly of none which promises to pay so well for ail time to com®. ™"1 O. ROSE, President.
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On the 7th inst., by Rev. J. A. Dixon, JACOBP. MASOK, of Sullivan county, and ROSSXAHA. HUFF, of this pi acq. im
WABASH Coram OFFICE, Terre-Haute, M*rch 9,1850.1
A heavy snow and raia within a few days, has raised the waters in every direction. The Wabash is very high—overflowing its banks and rising.--Steamtrs are at our wh^rf, loading and unloading, daily. The weather feels very much like Spring, and buauteaa seems to be opening. ,| .r'*"' 'K
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CurcurxATi, March 1.
Proviiums—The market is quiet but in prices there is no aew feature. The sales comprised 140 brls country packed Mess Pork at 18,62* 40 do. Clear at flu,25, and 100 brls No. 1 Laid 1151c.