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THE COURIER.

E E A E 7

Saturday Morning, June

WABASH COURIER, REMOVED

To Mr. FarriafUw'i ffew llrlclc, a early iii opposite the old stand.

soirrajEBN CONVEIVTION. We laxt week gave the first days proceedings of the

Southern

the

Convention,

which assembled at Nashville, on

inst. On

our first

the

as they have

the

Rtmolwd. That the stockholder* of this company recommend that tho President and Directors of tho Company adopt all proper measures, as speedily "powible, with due r»*pard to cconony, to cause

•s Mi

Jd obstructions to navigation to be removed.

SENATOR COR WIN.

The correspondent of the Rahiraoro Sun, snys that Mr. Corwin will "speak as the champion of the President's plan —taking up the glove which Mr. Clay threw down. Mr. Cloy will Imvo competitor worthy of his power in Mr. Corwin."

The

page will be found

further proceedings of this body, as extracted from the Louisville Journal. .1 number of

resolutions are appended,

been

offered in the Conven

tion, showing,in some degree, the character, disposition arid sentiments of the members of that body. The Louisville Journal referring to this Nashville Con vention, says:"Notwithstanding a larg majority of

Congressional districts

in the slaveholding States are without a ny representatives in Nashville, the few men who have the effrontery,in defiance of the well known public sentiment in the South, to meet together in convention in that city, have organized and are pro grossing from day to day with their de liberations as if they were commission ed

speak for

the South. Were iliey

content to announce their own opinions —did they pretend to speak for none but themselves

and

these

little

the

knots of dis

affected people who sent them there did they not undertake to spoak for all the slaveholding States—we should not question their right to say whatever they please. But as four-fifths of the people throughout

them and have

to have any participation in the proceed Ingg of tho convention, and as they in advance declared they would assume none of the responsibility of

ceedings,

WABASH NAVIGATION COMPANY. The improvement of navigation

Now York Courier correspond

ent says that Mr. Dayton has given notice in the Senate, of his purpose

to vin

dicate the policy of the President, as •oon as the Omnibus Bill shall have a final shape given

it.

Mr.Clay's gaunt

let is now taken up by those equal

contest—others

DRAWING.—-Mr. Freeman proposes to teach

the

are ready to

follow.

CALIFORNIA.

!a the House of Representatives on the 10th inst., the consideration of the California question coming up, Mr Meade gave notice of an amendment he intended to offer, as follows:

1. Admitting California with her present con stitution so modified as to limit her boundary diirty minutes north latitude. 8. The territory south to he organixwd bv a t#rritortal government, declaring to be repealed at! laws which wetvever in force in said territory, and to oonitin no elianpntbihitiRg slavery. 3. A territorial government to be established north of that line prohibiting negro slavery. «. Making the extreme north fewmdary 3 30 sua., aud giving that State a bonus. "i* tvnfiwowm.

36 dcg.

Appointment by the PresMeaU WILLIAM G, COFFIN, of Parke county, has been appointed Mineral Agent for Michigan and Wisconsin. Residence to be at Sault St. Mary. This appointment we believe,doesnot require confirmation by the Senate. Mr. Codm informed us a few days ago, that he accepts the appointment, and will start at ouce to his place of designation. "i nfiYi»i\MJ

few young ladies in drawing.—

An excellent opportunity,

sessing

rare accomplishment. Mr. Freeman** room is on the

second

rington's block.

floor of Mr.

der an indisposition which has lb*

Har

RKV. M. A. JKWKTT— Wo regret to learn that the Rev. Mr. Jewett, of the Congregational Church, it

laboring

time prevented his services as Pastor of the Church.

We believe our neighbor of the lour&al did not go to the Circus.

Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, ia the Diocese of Indiana. The annual Convention of this

15,1850.

Church

£uerabled in Indianapolis, on Thursday June 6th,

half past 10 oVock. Mor

ning Prayer was read by the Rev. I. C. Talbot, Rector of St. John's Church, jbouisfctHe, Ky., afBtsied by the Rev A. Foster, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Evansville. The ante-communion vice was read by the

Right Rev.

George

Upfold, D. f)., Bishop of the Diocesc, and alter singing the 99th hymn, the Convention sermon was preached by the Rev, R. Bethel Ciaxtan, D. D., Rector of Christ Chinch, Madison: Text, 1 Cor. 32, 33. ,••

Rev. C. A. Poster Was ulftardm6usly

rC-elected

Secretary.

The following gentlemen were elected Deputies

The Rev. Dr. Wylie, Rev. Dr. Camp, Rev. Dr. Claxton, Rev. Mr. Large, Jos. M. Moore, Esq., lion. James Morrison, Hon. G. II. Dunn, and W. F. Krumbhaar, Esq. JS W *,

On Friday evenlng .'ttie"tts^op read service and

the Rev.

preached

Southern States have re

jected all the sectional appeals that have been urged upon

examine,

1. Upon the question whether or not

those pro

it soems to us that tho conven

tionists, in disregarding these

facts

Joseph C. Talbot

ar able

and instructive mis*

sionory sermon, for which he received the thanks of the Convention, and at I o'clock, P. M..

after the usual religious

services, the Convention adjourned sine die.i /Y*

WHEELING BRIDGE.

The Supreme Court of the U. States have not given a final decision upon this very important case—but have directed

an inquiry into the matter by appointing

Chancellor Walwork of New York to take testimony, as to whether the bridge impedes navigation, &c.

Amongst other matters the Chancellor is to examine,

refused

and

in assuming to utter the voice of the South, render themselves JHhy of scorn and make their proceedings utterly ridiculous."

in the

Wabash river will form an epoch in the history of trade in the Wabash Vulley. Already has tho improvement of tho rapids by the Company greatly benefitted trade for hundreds of miles along the riv«r. The subjoined preamble and resolutions, passed at a recent meeting of the stockholders, show a praiseworthy determination to secure a low-water navigation on the river:

WHEREAS, The further improvement of the Wnbash, from tha incmili to Latavetto, by tho removal would tend further to aecuro a

Sood

and constant low water navigation and conace largely to the increase of the oommorce of the river, and consequently to tho development of the vast agricultural and othur resource* of this extensive and productive valley, a* well as to the receipts of tho company: Therefor©.

the bridge aforesaid, mentioned in the pleadings aforesaid, is or is not an obstruction of the free navigation of the said Ohio river, at the place where it is erected across the same, by vessels pro- pelled by steam or sails, engaged, or which may be engaged, in the commerce or navigation of said river, and if an obstruction as aforesaid, shall be made to appear, what change or alteration in the construction and existing condition of the said bridge, if any can be made, consis- tent with the continuance of the same

the census

Compromise—Wilmot Proviso. A decisive vote was had in the Senate on the 5th inst., in relation to the Wilmot Proviso. The vote was on some amendments to tho Compromise bill:

Mr. SEWARD moved to insert tho Wilmot proviso in express terms, aa follows: "Provided, That slavery nor involuntary servitude, except for tlie punishment of crime, whereof the party shall be duly convicted, shall not be, but is h^-by forever excluded nod prohibited in the said territoriesol Utah ami New Mexico."

And tho question beinjt taken, Uie amendment was rejected, as follows: Yias-~-Me*sn.. Baldwin, Bradbury, Bright, Chase, Clarke, C""*-"-

unasc, jJirke, Cooper, Corwin, Davis of Mass., Day ton, I Vxljfe of Wisconsin, Douglass, Feleh, I":

,J,r"!,lin

Miller, Korris, JVwnnl,

tftwkb, bniitb, lipliam, Walker, and Whitcomb

Bemen, Butler, OM, (.fay, (lemons, Davis, of Miss., DAW«O„. Dickinson, Dodee of Iowa, Downs, Foot©, Uonatun, Hunter, Jones, Kinc, Maajjitm, Mamm, Morton, Pearee, Pratt, Rusk, hrbtiMian. fVmle, Spmonee, Sturgeon, Ti Underwood, Webatrr, and Yulee—33.

rurney,

PACKET BOATS.—Doyle's Packets seem to be well patronized every other day from this place. Many persons we ob-

this

place. Many persons wo ob

serve, taking passage by this line, direct for Buffalo, Albany, and New York. The Packets we understand will be daily from this place after the first of July. ~~~~~~~

FOURTH OP JULY AT PKAIRIETOX. Extensive arrangements

have been

made for celebrating tho 4th of Julv at Prairieton, at which Sabbath Schools in the vicinity are invited te participate The proceedings at a

preparatory meet

ing, and resolutions in relation to the occasion,

reached us too late

for puWi

cation in tho Courier this week. They will appear in our next.

Mr. Webster—FagiUre Slaves—vfarte*, Mr. Webster has been accused of being hostile to the granting of trial by Ju ry of fiersons claimed as Fugitives from Slavery. Hence is

the

Provided,

girls,

yotircel vea

of pos

ofa

most charming aud

Prnviso

which he has lately submitted

Senate, distinctly adopting tire

Jury.—

to a Bill

the

Trial

that if the fugitive shaH deny

that he owes service to

the claimant un

der the laws of the State where he was held, and after being duly cautioned as to tho solemnities and

consequences

an oath, shall swear to the same, the Commissioner or Judge shall forthwith summon a Jury of twelve men to try the right of the claimant, who shall be sworn to try the oaose according to evidence, and the Commissioner or Judge shall preside

competency of

SOm«

CONGRESSIONAL.

the Senate, June 8, the California Compromise

bill was

across said river, that will remove the obstruction to the free navigation by the vessels aforesaid, engaged in the commerce and navigation of said river as aforesaid. ~~~~~~~

taken up,theques

tion under consideration being an amendment moved |gr Mr. Foote fixing

the

ation so as to

tho Rio Grande

ney of

to the General Convention:

and

OHIO—STATISTICS OF POPULATION.— Tho Secretary of the State, in an an swer to a call of the Convention states the number of white males over 21 year old in this State, in 1839 was 291,127 in 1843 it was 325,646, and in 1847 it was 3^0,000. -i

of 1040, there were 1,-

502,114 white and 15,353 colored people—total 1,519,667. Tho Secretary estimates tho population of tho State in 1850

sixty thousand.

two millions and

might as well face the music and galloj" through the fume of the Wilmot Proviso, or the result will be the admission of New Mexico and Utah

gress had no right

the

Nbrthevn boundary to be proposed to Texas at the 34th degree of North latitude also, providing

that

bill aha1)

lie

nothing in the

construed

as impairing the

right of Texas to all the territory claimed by her. provided she shall fiiil to accept the tprms proposed for the settlement of her boundaries, jfi

Jong and

animated debate ensued upon the amendment, in the course of which various propositions were suggested and disposed of finally, however, Foote withdrew his amendment, and Mr. Douglass moved to amend

was suited

for slave ter

ritory. These remarks drew out a rep etition of former discussion upon the necessity and propriety of compromising the question agitated, in the course of which Foote triumphantly announced the defeat, death, burial and extermination of Free Soilism, and predicted the speedy settlement of all the controverted questions of the day, and the overflow and destruction of demagogues by thousands. Mr. Ifale responded in a tone pungent with irony, expressing his sincere thanks to Foote for having comc out fairly and squarely, and declared that he would not go for this measure if he supposed it would add a foot of free soil. Mr. Stftrrs arose at the close of Mr. Hale's address, and denounced abolitionism in no measured terms ns well as declared the blacks to be beasts in human form, and unfit to live free. He also read an

editorial

from the Dover

Gazette, which he. intimated was under the editorial control of Mr. Hale, in which also the abolitionists are handled with much severity, and an abolition lecturer named Thompson, is threatened with a coat of sar and

feathers. Mr.

Halo addmitted the general accuracy of il»e statement made by Mr. Storrs, and said that within the ia«* filWn yoars his sentiments had changed. He proceeded to defend himself with considerable force against the aspersions upon his course, after which tho Senate adjourned.

In the House, Mr. Phelps showed that Mr. Ritchie and gentlemen of the South had advocated the formation of a State Constitution by California, and when the Constitution was formed they opposed her admission. He declared that the adoption of that Constitution was no child of the Administration, as the people determined that before the Administration moved in the matter. He earnestly advocated the admission, and stated that it ought to have been done long ago, Mr. McMullen accused his colleague, Mr. Hammond, and the gentleman who had just spoken of being in favor of the Wilmot Proviso in disguiso. Those who voto for the admission ofCalifornia in advance of other questions

as free States.

He wanted Territorial Governments for New Mexico, and contended

that

was

sion and

ing

ofj

at tfce trial and determine the

proof.

the

ALONE AND INDPENDENT.—In a letter from a California emigrant crossing the plains, he states that he saw a man with a wheel-barrow who swears be will beat us all to California! Success to him.

to the rock,

Con

to prohibit

estab

lish slavery. Mr. Allen proceeded to show that tho aim of the South is to divert tho Government from the written Constitution, which was formed to perpotuate tho blessings of liberty, that the power of slavery may bo perpetuated and extended forever.

In the Senate Juno 11th, after the morning business the Omnibus bill was taken up. Mr. Cass addressed the Senate, and handlod severely the remarks made by Mr. Benton yesterday he re greued especially his allusions to the Chairman of the committee of 13. The Senator from Missouri had truly said that ours is a great and prosperous and happy country. Prosperous as we are a trouble had risen which was now un der consideration. A short time since the south was threatened

with tho Wil

mot Proviso, and yet, when a project was brought forward

removed

it.

arrest that, in

sure and settle the whole question met with the most hostility from gentlemen representing the south. On the other hand, certain Senators from the north and west opposed it just as heartily. as an abandonment of important con siderations. If he had a doubt of the justice of

the scheme

before this

ing of extremes against

meet

it, it would have

Mr. Cass spoke at great length, and

energetically recommended the adoption of

the

report of

the Committee

of Tbir

teen and spoke in high terms

of Mr.

Clay's compromise. Mr Dayton replied, defended the President, and contended that the report of the Committee of Thirteen

the offspring of confu

discord lie

continued speak

at great length, and finally gave way to a motion

adjourn.

The New Orleans Delia gives

the

following incident attending the Cuban expedition: An Irishman was found on a rock near Cardenas, and

taken into Havana.

He says he was fireman on.board the Creole, and that he left her and

supposing

with other prisoners."

The

swam

it to be the

main

land, the first opportunity he had after finding out the object of the expedition. He was ironed and taken to the

Castle

Indianapolis Locomotive states

that 25,700 dollars in specie was taken down the railroad on Friday, drawn by the Cincinnati Banks from the Branch of the State Bank of that city. This is the second heavy draft of specie this spring.

CALIFORNIA INTELLIGENCE. The steamer Cherokee arrived at

York a/ew days

The

section under consider

fix the Northern boundary

of Texas as follows: Run a line due East from

from

the

legislature

the Jour

Dead,

to the Red river,

thence down the centre of said river also fixing the dividing ridge

mountains separating the waters

the

Rio Grande and the Gila, as the Western boundary of Texas. Davis, of Miss, addressed the Senate in opposition to the entire proposition for settling the boundary of Texas by any of the modes proposed. Where did the United States get the power to purchase this territory, and where did Texas derive the authority to sell it? He contended that the thing was wrong, and the result of the pending propositions if agreed to, would be only to rob the South of a large portion of her territory, which unquestionably belonged

Ne#

since from Chagres.—

She bring* the California mails to the 1st of May inclusive. The news is In tereiting.

At San

Francisco trade has

assumed

a more lively turn, and as the large amount of gold which has been winter edin the mines .pomes down,

gives an

impetus to all Itinds of business." The owners of cattle along the coun try are beginning to supply milk, ignd butter, which reduces the price of the imported artide.

California adjourn

ed, after passing 143 acts and 17 joint resolutions, The Alia California of the 1st of May says:—"The steamer Panama sails about 4 o'clock, with 150 passengers, and $1, 400,000 in gold dust. Tnis shipment makes up an amount of over three and a half millions of dollars shipped in three steamers from this port since the ls» of March."

The tri-weekly Placer Times, of April 28th, has the following intelligence from the Sacramento Diggings. It will be found to be the very latest from that sec tion of the gold region: "John Berg has lately returned from Trinity. He went from here a short time ago with a party of five men with seven mules. The trip each way, consumed sixteen days. He reports gold in the beds and on the bars of the stream—but very fine indeed, re quiring the use of quicksilver machines of which he takes back four with him.— There are a great many more people there than he expected to find. None ol them knew anything of the distance to the coast, but some of them were getting ready to explore further down. Met no snow on the way, and saw but two Indi nns. Provisions at the diggings, as a genoral rule, sell at $2.50 per pound.

A great disposition towards the middle fork of the American is manifested. Some 6,000 persons are said to be high up there among the snows, waiting for the waters to subside, so that they can commence operations.

At Placerville the whole town is almost dug over. They think that they have found an old creek which used to run at the depth of from six to twelve feet. Excellent diggings are had.

For a town site, Placerville does not do so well as if it had been made the county seat. This is established at Coloma, and the place is progressing rapidly.

Some large operations have lately been made on the Gold Run Creek. We saw a gentleman yesterday, who returns home in the next steamer. He has just sold out a claim to 150 feet along the Run for $10,000. He says this is not as high a figure as some other like claims have been disposed of—an eighth of one brought $4,000.

SAN FRANCJSCO, May I.—Her Majesty's steamship Driver, will sail at an ly hour this morning for Valparaiso, with $200,000 in gold dust.

Considerable of a contest was going on for securing the seat of government. San Jose was strongly urged by its citizens.

Stevenson & Parker, proprietors of N. lork on the Pacific, submitred a proposition on the 17th of December, to locate tho oapitol at that point—in consideration therefor, furnishing the public building at a cost not exceeding $100,000, to be in readiness by the

1st

of January.

1051. An additional offer to prepare before the first of May next offices for the heads of Departments of State, to be used temporarily, until the erection of commodious public edifices.

We understand from a gentleman who arrived in this city yesterday, in the steamer Senator, from Sacramento City, that the citizens of that place would assemble, it was thought, to give expression to the popular feeling on the subject of tho admission of California into the Union. The spirit of the prevailing sentiment in that section may be learned by consulting the resolutions adopted at the recent meeting in this city. The whole country is clamorous for immediate admission.

~~~~~~~

CUBA.

Telegraph at New York, June 10th, says: The Georgia arrived from Havana to-day with advices to the 4th inst

The U. S. steamer Saranac entered the harbor before the Georgia came out. The U.S. ships Albany and Germantown were cruising off the harbor.

An American brig from which was taken some California emigrants, supposed to be invaders, was towed past the Georgia and Saranac. Persons captured in this vessel and the Gorgona are confined in Moro Castle and all access to them denied to the American Consul. It is believed in Havana that there is no evidence against them the vessels having been regularly cleared for Chagres.

Havana is comparatively quiet though the militia are drilled every day. Fhe Habaneras speak

quite contemp

tuously of the American heroes who were so easily driven from Cardanes It was reported that ten of Col. Jeff. Davis' officers were engaged in the expedition.

The feeling against the Americans was very strong. The Captain of

Georgia

land. The Captain of the Ohio, was arrested although he had passports, and was paraded through the streets.

Of the men taken at Cardanes, four were shot, and fifty reprieved.

is said

that these men were sailors not soldiers. They had wandered from a boat and were leisurely returning to shore, when they were captured.

All the officers

and men, who fought

Lopez were rewarded, the officers with crosses of honor, and the iron

Telegraph from New York June 13th, says: General Lopez arrived at New Orleans on Thursday, and was arrested by the United States authorities, aad held to bail, in S3,000»

BOSTON, June 12, 8 P. M.

The application for a new trial, in Professor Webster's case, is being argued before the full bench of the Supreme Court. No decision yet.

THE INDIANA POETESS. On the occasion of the presentation of the Silver Cup to Mrs. SAIAH T. BOSTON, by the Royal

Arch Chapter of Ma

sons at Indianapolis, Mrs. B. made the following beautiful reply to the present tation speech of Judge Morrison:

Mrs. Bolton's Keptf*

I have no language to express my sense of the honor conferred on me by the

Grand Chapter of fndiana,in

the pre

sentation of this beautiful cup but let nio assure that bonorabie body, through you, sir, that 1 will treasure it up with the proudest care, and that

will be

in future years, the nucleus

Holding a Corpse for Debt. A young man, a stranger, died at a boarding house in New York, the other day, and the boarders contributed sufficient money to bury him. The Tribune says: l'' "f

The man of the house sent for the coffin,at his own request, and got one worth $4 or $5, for which he charged $12.— The night before the funeral he locked up the body, refusing to let the friends see it, and when the boarders and others assembled at 2 o'clock, the next day, to perform the rights of burial, the hearse being at the door, he flatly refused to unlock the door, saying that if the $5 that the deceased owed him was not paid, he would send the body to Potter's Field. The young men, shocked at tho atrocious conduct of this vampyre, borrowed the money, redeemed the dead body of the unfortunate stranger from his clutch es, and hurried it at Williamsburg. The name of this imprisoner of the dead is with us, but we do not choose to pollute our columns with it. Suffice it to say almost every boarder in the house has or will leave the premises.

STOlfE CAVALRY.

-Four petrified horses and their riders are said

to have been

bottom

red and

the

with much difficulty was able

a thous

and bright and cherished recollections. The

ode, in consideration

to the

of which

was presented, was but the simple and spontaneous outpourings of a

dictates of humanity a heart well taught in the school of adversity

to ap

preciate human aid and human sympathy. When, a little child at my mother's knee, 1 listened to many a story of the stranger cared for, the widow relieved, and the orphan cherished, by Masonic charity. 1 learned to love and honor your noble and venerable institution. The

seed then sown has ripened with my years, and I now believe that Free-Ma-sonry is the sister of Christianity. Both have gone out into

bless and

the wastes

ways of the earth, giving beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of

heaviness."

to the ordeal

praiso for the spirit

cheer

Mortals havo witnessed her labors of love and angels have recorded her annals in the archives of eternity. When the lion shall lie down with the lamb—when the new henvens and the new earth are created—then, and not till then, may she fold her white wings on her spotless bo som, and proclaim that her mission is accomplished.

~~~~~~~

Mail Robbers Sentenced to the Penitentiary. The Indianapolis Sentinel of the 8th, contains the following:

WILLIAM SHEARER, tried before the Circuit Court of the U. S. at its present session, was, on Wednesday last, sentenced to four year's imprisonment in the State prison for robbing the Post Office at Winchester in this State.— Shearer, on being called up for sentence, declared himself innocent of the crime charged against him. Judge Huntington pronounced the sentence of the Court in a very feeling address to the prisoner, and declared his conviction of his guilt but in consideration of his family, and under the hope of a reform, he would place the sentence at the lowest limit his duty to the country would allow him. Shearer is a man of good appearance and has occupied a respectable position in society.

JOHN D. JONES was sentenced by Judge Huntington, at the same time, to eight year's imprisonment in the State prison, for robbing the United States' mail. The Judge, in pronouncing the sentence said, that the prisoner was in connection with an extensive company organized for robbing the mail. The prisoner was a young man of rather good appearance, well dressed and one that would pass without suspicion in almost any crowd. ~~~~~~~~

if'|

discovered in

of Crow Wing

twenty-eight miles

Paul, Minnesota.

the

river, one hund

establish a museum in

that city, writes to the editor of the Pioneer for particulars In relation to the stone cavalry, and ofTers

for hard customers

ered there in

Tbe Indianapolis Journal says tbe lo corootive and cars have been tbe last week, making daily trips a abort distance up the Union track of tbe Bellefontainc and Peru Railroads—thus making/oatr Railroads in actual operation la the city. ,-p

It is very rare that we hear of people committing suicide by drowning in tke winter.

ATTEMPT TO CONVERT THE POPE. ROME, May 2.—One of the most interesting occurrences of last week thfc interview of Rev. Dr. Townsen Canon of Durham, with tho Pope. I mentioned in a previous, letter that the Rev. Dr's.object was fo endeavor toln dtice his Holiness

sured him that he

and by

Both have been subjected

of persecution and

both,

like the Hebrew children, came forth unscathed by the furnace and the flame Whon, bowed and broken-hearted, our first parents were driven from the garden of Bdcn, to reap the bitter fruit of disobedience, the spirit of Free-Ma-sonry was commissioned, in heaven,

the power to act

conversation

tlo away with tho

.bickerings, animosiiiep and polemical discords which keep the various denominations of Christians separate and at enmity, iiflj, by calling & general council, to establish the basis of an universal creed. It was certainly a bold attempt for a Protestant clergymitt to convert the Pope himself, but thQ Doctor nils re» solved

beard the lion in his den, and

on Friday last

in full canonicals.

went to the encounter

After having knelt

to kiss the Pope's hand,

heart alive

Dr. Townsend

was invited hy his Holiness to take a chair, and an animated conversation commenced inLatm, a fit language for controversy, and ono in which the dtsputats might be presumed to be a match for each other. The Pope

was upon the

whole very tolerant, as may be imagin* ed from his having not only listened with calmness to Dr.

Townsend's

arguments

favor of releasing the Catholic clergy from their vow of celibacy, but also

SiHKflilar Discovery of a Treasure. tMOn the grand route of Pouille, In tho kingdom of Naples, there was a statue of marble bearing this inscription in the Neapolitan dialect: "The first day of May, at the rising of the sun, I shall have a golden head."' The stattiohad already stood there two hundred years, and no one had yet discovered tho meaning of this mysterious inscription. A stranger (a Saracen, says Castelani in his memoirs) passing through the country,, read tho inscription and thought that he had divined its sense, but did not communicate to any one his suspicions. The first of May having already passed, he departed, but the succeeding year he arrived in the country on the last day of April. The next morning he resorted to the spot before sunrise, and having remarked the spot on which fell tho shadow of the head of the statue, at the precise moment when the sun aross above the horizon, he dug up tho earth there, an as re

MARRIED.

On the morning of the 6th inst., by Rev. W. M. Choever, Rev. W. D. ROSSSTER, of Rockville, to Miss MAKV L. BEACH, late of Brooklyn, N. Y.

TERRE HAUTE PRICES CURRENT.

CORRECTED EVERY WEEK St Mt

BACON-per Hog, rouo Shoulders,

Clear Sides, Haras, S* FLOUR AND MEAL:

OW Weat, per brl., New Wheat, Corn Meal, per bosh.. FRUITS-perbnMr

Apples, dried, Peaches, dried,

above Saint

The

St. Paul Pioneer,

which seems to be slightly sceptical on the subject, oflers to pay fifty dollars for each sound petrified horse, mare or gel ding, and the same for each perfect pet rified man or woman which may here after be fond, and half price for ponies and children.OlA St. Loais Barnum, who is about

GRA INS—per btukd: Wheat, ,,f. Corn,

Oata,

GROCERIES: Coflee, per lb., Sagar,

Tea, Molaaaes, Tobacco, tndico, Madder*-.

HAY—per ton: Timothy, Clover, ?. IRON—per pound:

pay liberally

tf they can be deliv

good condition.*' A few

antediluvians, embalmed by nature, would rather take the shine out of tbe swaddled corpses brought from the pyr amids.

Bar, Sound and Sfoialre, Castings,

Laid,

aimers,

SALT—per btukd Kanawha, Lake, per brl. i, SEE^per

Tuaotiry, Fit*.

SUNDRIES: Bntter, Laid.

Cheese, Tallow,

entertained serious

ideas of adopting such a plan in the ear ly part of his reign,especially after

them in their loneliness.

She has fed the hungry, reclaimed the wandering, ministered consolation by the bedside of

the dying and brightened the

pathway of the

bereaved

and desolate.—

hav

ing received pressing letters upon the subject from Germany, but that, in the present state of Italy, and indeed of the whole continent, any innovation on his part would be dangerous,

even if he hat

freely, which he hac

not, being by no means the free agent that he was on his first accession to the throne. The same object would prevent him from calling a general council, or attempting

unite the great and divid

ed family of christians, although he ful ly admitted the grandeur of the scheme, protesting his own desire for peace and harmony, and wept

Dr. Townscnd'i

enthusiastic picture of England recogniz ing in Pio Nono the head of a Universal church. After threequarters of an

hour

discussion the Reverend canon took his leave, placing in the hands

his Holi

ness a document containing the prin ciple heads of his argument, which ap pears to have madesomo impression on the Pontiffs mind, judging from the fact of his having sent to the doctor's residence on Sunday last, only two days after the interview, requesting to be made acquainted with the period of Dr. Townsend's return (he had gone to Naples) as he should then like to have some

with him.

Death of the Rev. Mr. Maffilt ConAirmcd. "yi The Mobile Advertiser of tho^SOth ult., says:—Tho Rev. J. N. Moffat died very suddenly in this city on Monday night, of a disease Of the heart. Tho Tribune says he died at the residence of Major Chamberlain, and that soon after the attack, Dr. Games was called in ant found the patient suffering from exoruti nting pain in the pit of the stomach.— Medicine was speedily administered and a favorable change occurred within a few minutes. Afterwards Calomel was given with the happiest effect, the cold and clammy state of the extremities ond surface giving place to a gentle, warm and healthy glow. Both physician nnd patient thought tho danger passed, but suddenly the pain returned, and shifting to tho region of the hoart soon produced death. Dr. Gaines denominated it spasm of the heart. mmM

COST OP RIOTS.

The Philadelphia

June if), i850-42-ts

0.0% 0 CM** •, ,0.05 (9 ft.OM 6.06 Ot OMi

5.50 9 0.A0 5.00 & 5.25 0.80 0» 0.00

2XO (9 0.00 2.25 Ot 300

0.95 O 1.00 0.35 OS 0.40 0.25 0 0.30

0.14 09 0 00 O.OSI0 0.121 1.00 0 1.25 0.46 0 0^0 0.20 0 0.45 1.50

0.00

Inquirer learns from

official sources that the following sums have tityen paid by county of Philadelphia,for pay of riiithary and civil posse, from the year 1842.to 1849, inciu-.„ iivet

1842. Lombard and St. Mary «., riot $6,368 50 4043. Kensington, pay for military, etc. --790 76 1844. Uarper% brick yard *2850 1845. Damages from riots, pay military, 3S,301 S3 1846. Riot in Southwark, 1844*. 7,647 91 1846. Riot in Kensirigron, 184-f 23,421 66 1847. Claims ol troops 8,000 00 c"* 1848. Judgment for dnmegos in late viota 58,498 66 1819. Judgment for damages in late riot*34,813 S9

Total:

fjf lll-JMM 84

Candidates. -V

We are authorised to announce JOHN

ER, as a candidal* for the iflgiaiatnr*, at the suing Angust election. We are authorised to announce WILLIAM if. EDWARDS, as a candidate for re-election to the Legislature at the AngKst elecrton.

We am authorized to announce ROBERT N. HUDSON', as a candidate for the Legislature at the next August election.

We are authorised to snaoanoe L. A. BUR* NETT, as a candidate for the Legislature at the neat Aaguat.eleetkau Sj- .r

We are authorised to announce ZEN ASSMITH aa a candidate for the Legislature at the next August election.

We are authorised to announce TffOMAff I. BOW EN, aa a candidate for Delegate to the Convention to revise and amend the Consti tutioiK.

We are authorized to announce SAMUEL EDMUNDS, as a candidate for dolagaie to the Convention to revise and amend tli* State Costa titut ion.

We are authorized to announce WALTER 8. COOPER, aa a candidate for Sheriff of VijoCoi at the next August election. 'fp"~

Wo are authorised to announce A1XJY DEAN, as a candidate for Sheriff of Vigo County, at tho next August election.

We arc authorised to announce ANDREW WILKINS as a candidate for Sheriff of Vigo county, at the next August election,

Strawberrys and Cream.

I'EARN will keop on linnd a good sup-

1TA ply of Strawberrys and Cronm for ihe BCD' fton, furniHuorf to /tames and Gentlemen in ieparate roorn pp stairs, at tho old stand, near the "an"* junlr-'l2-tf

State of Indiana, County of Vigo, sr.

p/&sa-/

We are authorized to announce JAMES NELSON nsa candklnte forShcrifl'of Vigo County, at the next August election.

We are authorised to. announco ALBERT LANGE, as a candidate for Auditor of Vigo county, at the August election

We are 'authorised to announco N. B. MARKLE, as a candidate for.Auditor ot Vigo County, at tho next August election. .v.

Wo are authorized to announco EDWIN ARTRELIi, as a candidate for County Auditor at the noxt August olection.

We ffre authorised to announco N. F. CUNNINGHAM, aa a candidate for re-oloction to the office of Collector and Treasurer of Vigo county, at the next August olection.

Wo aro authorised to nnnottneo WELLS N. HAMILTON, as a candidate for Treasurer of Vigo County, pt the next August election.

POOLE & BROTHER,

Forwarding & Commis.sion Merchants, 90 MAGAZINE STREET, NEW QRJ.EANS.

References, Williams & Earl#** J1 II. D. Williams ot. Co., Terre Haute. lJemfint & Co., Any business. Forwarding or Commission, entrusted to our charge will meet our usual prompt attention. jun15-42-ly

Instruction in Music. Mil.

J. SOTTOCASE, Proirasor of Mututi. rcspoc»ftiljy oflers his services to the citizens of Terro Haute, by giving instruction on the Piano Forto, Violin, Guitar, Bnss Viol, nnd the wind instilments—also, VOCBI Music, llanos tuned cor* rectly. Application to be made at the Prairie HOIISO.

Refers te Mr. W. F. Krumbhaar, Torro Haute Dr. Geo. W. Mean*, indinnapoiis Professor TOSHQ, Cincinnati. 42-31

Going at Auction! A

SPLENDID ond wnll mndn double set of Silver Plate I Harness, (entirely new) will be fib rod ot auction on 1*2 month's timo for a good wcurity note, on Saturday the 22d inst. rhe Harness con be examined any time, at our Hardware Slorc. 8. II. PtyiTER & CO

T- NOBLIO, lerk of the Vigo

I Circuit Court, in tlicBtato ot Indiana, do herelv certify, that at the next General Election, to bo held in said county, at the usual plncon of holding olection* in the several Townships of eakl county, on tho first Mondny of August next, tho following offices aro to bo filled, viz: One Delr-

ito to the Convention to revise, niter or amend Constitution of the State of Indiaae, from the Senatorial District composed ol the counties of Clay, Vigo and Sullivan: three Delegates to the aforesaid Convention from the Representative District composed of the county of Vigo three Representatives to the State Legislature Sheriff Coroner Collector and Treasurer Auditor onn Commissioner for the 3d listrict, and one Probate Judge.

In testimony whereof I hereto suliaeribe my name and affix the seal of the Vigo Circuit Court at Terrc-Hauts, this 10th day of June, A. D. 18:*)

C. T. NOBLE, CUrk.

The qualified voters of Vigo county, Indiana, are hereby notifiod to meet at the usual places ot holding eutciiont in the several townships of saiu county, on the first Monday of August nest, and then and there to fill tho several offices in tho above certificate mentioned.

M. M. HICKCOX, Sheriff.

June 15,1850-42-5W

1 1

••J* II I

Oj06 0» 0.09

Auditor's Reportp Tho County Auditor submits to th« Board of Commissioners of Vigo eounty, the following report of receipts and expenditures on acconnt of Vigo County, from tbe 1st day of June, J849, to the 31st day of May, 1850, both days inclusive:

RECEIPTS. Sfjtw

There was remaining in the Treasury at the last settlement the sum of 1,657 28 There has bees received at the County Treasury since the 1st day of

June, 1849, aa follows, viz: From IJoenecs to Pedlars sod 8bows, 117 50 for vending foreign

Merchandise, 360 24 From Licenses for Taverns and Oroemae, .... ,t .• 227 SO From Estravssold, From loan from Bank, From miscellaneous sources, ». From Collector of County Revenue

Wag

9 .00 0 0 .00 (M)0 0 0.00

0.04 0 0.00 0.05 0 0.00 o/» at om

130 0 40 o.» 0 am 1.75 at

t^15

a on

o.25

ooo

0.00

1.00 0 0J00

0.45 0 000 240 0 0J00

5.00 0 0.09 0.00 0 0.00 om at joo

O.OB 0

0, 1$$

Ginseng,J

Beana,

BOOK

1,000 00 100 00

Oct amount after

7,533 52

Making total reeeipts during the year, $10,996 02 im,P: EXPENDITURE*.

be2?£*?ed

P0,inly Orders since the

1st day of June, 1849, for the following objects and amounts: vZ lbejr°°r' *2,1r8 86 ror fim to County Treasurer, 217 89 ror per dwm to County Commissioners, 00 For allowance to Cleric Circuit Court, Go oo For per diem to Associate Judges. 172 00 For allowance to Sheriff, .h.

Coroner, Auditor,

For Amemrng the Revenue for 1849, For expenses of farm for Poor House, "i Criminals, •$*!*•

For Blank Books ancFfkationery,

0.121

te* if

For repairs to Public Buildings For expenses of Elertkms, Bailiffs, For specific aUowanccH by Board, For expenses of Roads and Highways,

70 00

2.""! 22 25 102 10 H8 0O„

310 10* 214 05|

1,096 73» 1XJ 33* 120 65y 72 Ofu *. 149 84, 3.V2 04

n792

42'

For Jororafees, 9**0x642 00r ror Interest, TO g2. For School Tax refunded. 552 70 For loan from-Bank refunded, 1 1,000 00! ftl' Tots I expenditures during tlw year, $8,863 84

W. N. IfAMILTOtf, Auditor.

June, 15,1850-42-lw