The Wabash Courier, Volume 20, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 April 1852 — Page 2

THE COURIER.

E S S E O N A E DITOR*

E E A E

Saturday Morning, Apr. 24, 1852.

W I S I E

For Governor,

NICHOLAS MCCARTY,

OF MAUIO.N COUNTY.

For Lieutenant Governor,

WILLIAM WILLIAMS,

OF KOSCIUSKO COUNTY.

For Treasurer of State,

[ACHILLES WILLIAMS, of Wayne co. For Auditor of State, DOUGLASS MAGUIRE, of Marion co.

For Secretary of State,

JOHN OSBORNE, of Clay county, For Reporter of Supreme Court, A. L. OSBORN, of Laporte county.

For Clerk of Supreme Court,

JAMES A. STRETCH, of Grant county, For Superintendent of Common Schools, AARON WOOD, of Putnam county.

Judges of the Supreme Court,

jjj,. tauv B. HOWE,

Lagrange w.

2. CHARLES DEWEY, Clark co. 3. DAVID McDONALD, Monroe co. 4. SAMUEL B. GOOKfNS, Vigo co.

E E O A I E

SE.KATORUL ELECTORS.

HENRY S. LANE, of Montgomery county. PLEASAJNT A. HACKLEMAN, of Rush co.

DISTRICT ELECTORS.

Dist. 1. LEMUEL Q. DUBRCUER, Dubois county 2. JOHN D. FURGUSON, Clark county 3. Capt. SCOTT CARTER, Switzerland co 4. JOHN H.

FARQUHAR.'Tr'RAHKLIN

When the Legislature will adjourn is hard to tell. Respecting the adjournment of the present Congress the Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Journal of Commerce writes:

Mr. Clingman has a resolution ready to bo offered, for the termination of the present session of Congress on the first of July.— There is no hope of its adoption but, starting the proposition at that point, it may be reasonably expected that Congress will be prepared to quit about the middle of August. Experienced Senators say that the session will be closed from the first to the middle of August but that, if the Presidential election were not to come off, the session would be prolonged till October.

Mr. Polk and Mr* Rantoul, Democratic members of the United States House of Representatives have exchanged squibs on tho subject of Democracy, Abolitionism and Freesoilism. Mr. Polk intimates that Mr. Rantoul is a Freesoiler, and says "he believes that any man who prostitutes him-1

self to miserable sympathy with the aboli-

tioniats will steal a negro." Mr. Rantoul

The last Pittsburg Gazette states that the Sheriff of Clarion county, Pa., advertises that he will offer for sale on the first day of May, sixty-nine separate pieces of real estate, embracing NINE furnaces, several mills, and many improved farms. The description of this property fills nearly six columns of the Clarion Register. It is painful to think of the loss, the distress, the crushed and disappointed hopes, involved in this sad picture, not of calamity resulting from a visitation of Providence, but from the folly of man, the madness of party, tho obstinate blindness of prejudice for we say without fear of contradiction, that no effect can be more certainly traced to a cause, than can these disasters be traced to the locofoco tariff of 1846, which suffers the products of the pauper labor of Europe to come into competition with the better paid labor of this country.

Another fire occurred in the Capitol at Washington. Not much damage done, however. It was supposed to have been the result of accident.

The Ohio House of Representatives, by a vote of 60 to 35, rejected the resolution that had pawed the Senate, proposing to loan the State arms tQ Kossuth.

OUR FLOWERS.—GO

county

5. DAVID KILOORE, Delaware county 6. FABIVS M. FINCH, Johnson county 7. RICHARD W. THOMPSON, Vigo county 8. G. O. BEUM, Tippecanoe county 9. T. S. STANFIELD, St. Joseph county 10. JAMES S. FRAZIER, Kosciusko county 11. JOHN M. WALLACE, Grant county

We suppose now that we shall have any quantity of legislation, both State and National. Our State legislators have just got themselves seated, in all probability for a ninety days session. The members of Congress are receiving their eight dollars a day, having a good time doing nothing but debating about the Presidency. So far as any practical good has arisen from the deliberation of our Legislature and Congress, thus far, they are about even, as nothing of any account has been done by either. How very different is the action of a Representative in the Legislative Hall from his action on the electioneering stump. On the stump he gives the people to understand that, if they only elect him their interests will be attended to, to the best of his ability and to the economy of the Treasury. But after becoming comfortably cushioned and his per diem jingling in his pocket his zeal becomes wonderfully lethargic. Thero is one consolation, however, the Whigs can have', that they are not responsible for the protracted sessions of these two bodies, as their opponents arc largely in the majority and have every thing their own way.

now, the visitor to our city is struck by the profusiou of beautiful, bright flowers offered to his view, trailing up the walla, and covering the beda of gardens, bursting the paper nests, which patient vendor* at street corners would hide t'lem in—lending a richer charm to the deep blue sky, clear atmosphere, and aunny-day-—clustering luxuriantly amid the glossy green verdure of a Southern spring—filling the air with perfumes, and delighting the careless passerby.— Y.

O.

I'icayune.

It is pleasant to know that there is some place where there are bright flowers, deep blue sky, clear atmosphere and sunny days. This section of country at the present time has no claims for such charms. A deep dark mass of clouds, uncomfortable atmosphere and dull days prevail here. As for the flowers, however willing they may be to put forth their beauties they have no genial climate or warm sun to cheer them in their task. We have noticed some endeavoring to exhibit their attractions but it looks like a cheerful heart struggling to make gladness where all is gloom and melancholy.

KOSSUTH'S FAMILY

IN

ciation

I number

declined noticing tho last remark, andl prescnt, several of whom made speeches claims to be an old line Democrat, but was j^^rs were read from others who had been happy in having received the support of |nvitcd, among them Mr. Clay, President Freesoilers, though he had never accepted a Fillmore, Mr. Webster, &c nomination from them and if Mr. Polk would have no fellowship with him it was a matter of his own option, but if he shall decide that he will not, it is for him to step out of the Democratic party, for he (Mr. Rantoul) would not do so. Mr. Polk replies that Mr. R. will not have that privilege as he will be ordered out. Much confusion prevailed throughout the Hall, and tho whole subject was laid on the table.

where he will just

AUSTRIA.—

The

Vienna correspondent of the London Times, under date of the 14th of March^aays: "Very littlt attention is paid to Kossuth's movements in America, and I am even led to belieTe that

M.

Hulsemannhas been instructed

to return to his post at Washington. Kossuth's sisters aro still in confinement, out is expected that one will soon be liberated— -the other appears to be more compromised. It is supposed that government is at a loss to know what to do with Kossuth's relations. If I might be permitted to give an opinion on the subject,I should say that the best plan would be to permit one and all to emigrate, for, as long as they remain in this country, they can hardly fail to form a medium of communication with the revolutionary party."

WOMAN'S RIGHTS.—Lola

Montez,ofwhom

it has been stated that she tamed wild horses, horse-whipped gendarmes, knocked flies with a pistol ball off the bald heads of Aldermen, fought duels, threw people overboard for the sake of saving them from drowning, and a multitude of other similar feats, has been amusing herself by slapping a young man and pitching him out of a room, in Boston. Some men were intended to be women, and some women were intended to be men, but by accident things were changed. Lola was undoubtedly intended to be a man. We consider ourselves beyond her reach out here on. the Wabash, or we might expect a slap for this article.

The Maine Liquor bill passed the Massachusetts House of Representatives on Tuesday by 93 majority, with a proviso postponing its operation for sixty days after its passage.

That is Yankee thrift to suffer nothing to go to waste that can be put to any use, and the 60 days, we suppose, are to allow the people time to consume the liquor on hand and have a general "bust" before the supply runs out. We wonder if they have any "good drinkers" up that way. The 60 days will, no doubt, make them "smile."

LADY'S BOOK.—Godey's

Lady's Book for

May contains one hundred and twenty pages of reading, besides a fair quantity of engravings. It is an interesting number with the exception of the face of May, which is anything but interesting in the first engraving. If the artiste was living in such a climate as we are particularly blessed with this spring, there is some palliation. It strikes us as a terribly gloomy countenance to put under a wreath to represent May. It is enough Co wither the rosea.

The emigration from Germany and the Austrian dominions to the United States is increasing in volume, and resembles the Irish emigration, as the exodus of a nation. Through the city of Cologne there have passed in the course of a brief period upwards of 20,000 persons. The emigration from Germany are now seeking passage by way of Liverpool, as the price is cheaper in that direction.

The seventy-fifth anniversary of the birthday of Henry Clay was celebrated in N. York on the 12th inst., in an enthusiastic manner

by the membersof

the Clay "Festival Asao-

Hon. Joseph L. White presided,

of distinguished persons were

The Dunkirk <Journal says that the arrangements of the New York and Erie Railraad [sic] Company for their second track are such that a distance of sixty miles between New York and Dunkirk will be saved. The saving is mostly gained between Lackawaxen and Lanesboro', and Elmira and Oswego.— When completed the second track will be the shortest possible route by which the West can reach New York. ~~~~~~~

Mrs. Emily Norton,of Norwalk, (Conn.,) died recently from the effects of chloroform. She had taken it for the purpose of having an operation performed upon her teeth, and while she was saying she felt no effect from it and was asking for more, her pulse failed and in three or four minutes she was dead. She had taken chloroform on previous occa sions without any inconvenience.

SALARIES FOR MEMBERS

or

CONGRESS.—

A bill has been introduced into Congress by Mr. McMullen, of Virginia, giving to Members of Congress a salary of $1,500 a year instead ofthe present allowance $8 a day. This change might serve to shorten the session, and render the debates leu wordy.

The copy of the Bible used on the occasion of the admission of General Washington to the order of masons, was exhibited to the Lodge of Virtue, held in the Albion Hotel, Manchester, England, on Wednesday evening week.

A carriage firm Concord, New Hampshire, has received an order from Mr. Van derbilt for the manufacture of eighteen ore nibuse*, tc be used on the Sao Juan route arrow the Iathtnu*.

The State Sentinel of Wednesday says that the aame Joseph A. Wright who ia «ow a candidate for Governor of Indiana commenced his political life by a firm and decided opposition to the system of

Internal Improve­

ments, which far years crushed the energies of our young and glorious State. In the same number of the Sentinel it endeavors to exculpate Gov. Wright for voting when In the Legislature for the first time to extend the system of Improvements to the amount of a million and a half of dollars, and (or voting that it was not inexpedient to add new works to the system, on the plea that he was a young man, the youngest in the Legislature, At what time did he commence his political lifel When he first went to the Legislature and gave votes for the extension of the system of Internal Improvements, or was it after he found the system would be unpopular that he was born again and baptized a politician, all his former political indiscretions to be washed out, on account of hisyouthfulness, and he was to take afresh start in the systems ofState policy? Such obliterations will suit a certain class of politicians, but it is'too plain an atttempt to hoodwink the people, to be successful. ,,

A female convict in Sweden is now in ice, on experiment, and a man was found lately in Switzerland who gives signs of life after being frozen for nine

The Whigs of Rhode Island have carried both branches of the General Assembly, securing a Senator in Congress and the State patronage, Gov. Allen, Dem. has been re-elect-ed by a diminished majority.

The long mooted question, "who struck Billy Patterson!" we presume may be considered as obsolete. Some of the rappers have been conversing with Billy's spirit and it says he never was struck.

A writer in the Albany Journal proposes to coin the word Telegram, to denote-a telegraphic dispatch, thus employing one word to express what is now done by two.

River getting lowsmall Steamers.

5

months.

The

power of stopping while the world goes on, may be the next wonder. Ice houses may soon be advertised,with comfortable arrangements for skipping an epoch, or waiting for the next generation.

"We lay it down as a rule of business, from our experience as well as reason," says the Philadelphia Ledger, "that he who advertises judiciously and extensively, can afford to sell to his customers to better advantage than he who does not, because he adopts the correct means to~rnultiply their number and secure to himself a much greater amount of business."

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. Dr. Powell who is now lecturing in Logansport writes that he will in a short time visit Terre Haute for the purpose of giving a course of Lectures on the Science of Anatomy, Physiology and the Origin of Life. Dr. Powell will be accompanied by his sister Mrs. Davis, who proposes giving a course to the Ladies on the same subject. These Lectures have been well received at other places.

William Williams and A. P. Willard, candidates for Lt. Governor have made appointments for addressing their fellow citizens, commencing May 17th at Noblesville. The appointments extend to the 26th, the appointment for that day at Fort Wayne.— At the expiration of these, we presume other appointments will be made.

RACES.—The

races closed Thursday with

a match in sulkies, three best in five, between the trotting horse Jacob Taylor, and the pacer Simon Anderson. Taylor took the first heat, and Simon Anderson the next three, takiug the purse. Time, first heat 3,18—2d 3.25—3d 3.19—4th 3.10.

-but still navigable for

Great rise in the Ohio rivergraph.

-See Tele

A Washington correspondent of the Indiana Stato Journal writing April 14th has the following:

The Senators of our Stnte are still absent the one detained by personal illness, and the other by family affliction and bereavment. Less than half the seals were filled in the Chamber to-doy, and they almost to a man dozing, chatting, reading, or writing under the delivery of a manuscript speech from an honorable member upon the old subject of French spoliations. The House was worked tip to a little more excitement over the subject of'.lie public printing.

Another fire occurred in the Capitol last night, in the room of the Clerk of tho Supreme Court, the entiro inside of which with all its contents was burned out clean, and tho fire extinguished— supposed by the Clerk himself to originated from tho falling of a box of matches.

Mr. Clay's health has taken a turn for the worse again,and it is seriously doubted whether he is ever more to breathe the air of his own Ashland. No doub: it would be a hign gratification to himself and friends, should Providence so order, that he might closo his life in the bosom of his family.

Kossuth is here again, but the enthusiasm is gone. His entrance was noiseless, his retinue greatly diminished, and his presenco in the city is exciting no interest. His desire for seclusion and privacy seems likely pot to be much farther violated during the remainder of his stay on this side of the Atlantic.

I meet quite a number of Indianians here, none of whom seem more entirely at home, than our friend R. W. Thompson who is engaged herejirofessionally for a time. He seems to know ail and have access to all, and that with equal familiarity, from the Heads of Departments down to the lowest functionary. By the way, he is rendering occasional good service to our people w. home in the way of mail facilities, dtc.f an instance of which I wimessed in the Department this morning-

Why is a many coat Larger wlben lie pulls it out of a carpet-bogl Bececauso he finds It in create*.

TRUTHFULLY

AND

FORCIBLY SAW.--

The New York Courier and Enquirer, in the following paragraph, most aptly demonstrates the necessity which exists that the Northern States should sustain and enforce, in good faith, the measures of adjustment! "Northern acquiescence in the maintainnnce of the Compromise is quite different thing from Southern acquiescence in its abandonment. The compromise was made in good faith, and was so accepted. The great mass of the Southern Whigs rallied in support against the Successlonists, and to them it owes its success. *The measure consisted concessions on both sides.— Those by the South—the admission of California, the boundary line of Texas, etc.—ore in their very nature irrevocable ihev are events past nnd complete. That of the North, the Fugitive Slnve Law, is in continual operation, and the benefits which the South are to derive from it lie iti the future, if the Compromise were repealed, the north would now lose nothing the South everything. Can it be wondered at then, that Southern Whigs, who labored so strenuously for this measure against the common enemy, should be so vigilant in regard to every danger that may threaten it.!"

Our New York contemporary has ably and faithfully sustained the Compromise, as a "finality." Would we could say the same thing in regard to all our Northern exchanges, without reference to party, creed or sect. Were such the case, the future would smile hopefully upon the progress of our country, and all the lowering clouds which darken our political horizon, would disappear before the sun of pure nationnl patriotism and fraternal affection.—N. O. Bulletin.

The Fate of a Learned Man.—A Hard Case. There is a man in Boston, an old man of sixty who graduated at the University of Dublin, Ireland at the age of twen-ty-two was admitted as a surgeon in the British Army, and in that capacity visited this country with the British was present at the destruction of the public buildings at Washington City, has been in Indiawith the British Army—has been present -during his services as a surgeon at 4,000 amputations, and ff een severe battles—was shot twice, performed surgical operations on three wounded attend to in a year, generals, seven colonies, twenty cap-ivr-—L -u tains and over eleven thousand officers of smaller grades. He has dined with two kings, one empress, one emperor, the sultan, a pope, innumerable great generals, &c. Has held the largest diamond in his hand known in the world, exceptj one. lias been married three times, father to eleven children all whom he survived. Broken down by

profession loo poor to live without cm-

ployment, too proud to become a pau per, he sailed in an emigrant ship to thi country three years ago—and this man of remarkable adventures, classic education, master of four languages, sixty years of age, poor, old and decaying, is now peddling oranges and opples in the streets of Boston! "We know what we are—verily we know not what we may be."—Boston Bee.

CALIFORNIA EMIGRATION: It appears that recent accounts from California that every occupation in which labor is required in the New State is overstocked, so that the thousands of poor young men in the old States who have lately left comfortable homeswill, it is feared, endure much privation and distress. Those who intend to emigrate should ponder well before starting. Letters have recently been received from a company of twen-ty-five mechanics who went out from Boston three months ago, and it is stated that they all concur in saying that San Francisco and the other large cities in that section of the country are thronged with persons of every trade, unable to procure work of any kind. One man writes that he is fully satisfied with what he has already seen, and would, if he had the means, gladly return home. Anothor of the party, a most excellent machinist, went on to take a situation where he was to receive something like $180 per month. When he arrived he found that the firm for whom he was to work had failed, and at last accounts he had been unable to obtain a single day's work.—<Sun>. ~~~~~

A REMARKABLE MAN.

The Gormantown (Ohio) Emporium has an obituary notice of Mr. John Schafer, who died in that vicinity on the 24th of March, aged G2 years. The notice concludes with these surprising statements.

The deceased was the largest man that wo ever saw. The coffin was sufficiently large to contain five men of ordinary size: measuring in width three feet four inches in the clear, and three feet in height. Three men could have worked in it at the same time, with convenience. It required six men to take him from the bed on which he expired. This was done by raising a platform—removing the head-board of the bedstead, and taking him out end-wise. Thoy could not get the coffin into the house, but by taking off tho door-facing of an old vacated house that stood in the yard, they got it into that and carried the corps thither on three empty bags. A wagon and four horses stood prepared, and ten men placed the« coffin and its contents upon it. In letting down the coffin into the grave, they had two lines doubled—one at each end and one large well rope in the middle and seventeen men to let down this great sprinkle of mortality into its last home on earth* His weight was not known.

Wmo

PROSPECTS.—The

"0. -j hear several ofthe glasses in the windisease, ho could no longer practice Ins

Plaquenitfte

Sentinel, one of the neatest and most valuable of Louisana exchanges, has hoisted the names of Fillmore and Ctit ter.den for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, subject, however, to the de cision ofthe National Whig Convention. The Sentinel enters warmly into the, contest and so confident is the editor of

offers his paper to any and all Democrate in the parish of Iberville who

cuutesi mm su meet your own. In prayer how earnest! the success.of tho Whig ticket, that he in joy how sparkliig 1 in sympathy bow 1 a **l A |Th ft ft 11 A fV% Uar»w am i% Iv

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choose to take it, on condition that they carelessly passed by one of the greatest shall pay for it when Filtmore ahd

silull pajf IUI II ...."W.w jfivwuivg Vi Miu VMV I'uoavo

party are clccted,-2V. 0. Crescent.

Crittenden or the nominees ofthe Whig flower without plucking it, or knowing ... 1 nj pits value.

TIIE NOTIONS OP THE IWSANE. The vagaries of tho insane are sometimes amusing' to witness and not unfrequently there is a "method in their madness" that would not be amiss in those who are on the outside of the lunatic asylums, Many years ago, in Philadelphia,a patient in the Insane asylum of that city fancied himself to bo the Rejeemer of tha world and his talk and actions were always in keeping with the character, save that he exacted a rigid defference to his person and his divinely derived power. But one day another patient arrived, whose idiosyncracy was, that he was the Supreme Being. A little while after his entrance into the institution, he met in one of the halls, as hejwas passing, the imagined representative of the Son who, notiiking his bearing, reminded him who he was: "Yes, you arc iheS$n,but know, from this time henceforth that you have seen the Father, and must obey him!" •'And strange enough," said the keeper of the institution to the friend who gives us tho particulars, "from that day forward, all power was given unto the latter, and at length the fancied Son's 'air drawn1 vision melted away, and he left the establishment a perfectly sane man."

Some twelve or fifteen years ago there was in the lunatic asylum at Worcester, Massachusetts a kind of a crazy Davy Crocket, who fancied that he could do anything that could be done and a little more. One day a good many visitors were walking slowly through the halls, examiuing them, and occasionally saying a word or two to the patients.— After a very courteous reception of a gentleman who mentioned that he had come from South Carolina, the crazy man interrupted him abruptly with: "Have you felt any of my earthquakes down there lately?"

One of the visiters replied: "No, we've had nothing of tho kind where I live." "I thought so! I knew it!" returned the patient, frowning. "I have an enemy. Ice! ice! Why, 1 ordered ono of my very best earthquakes for your part of the country! It was to have ripped up the earth, and sent the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico. Look here!" he continued pointingto a crack in the plas.tering, "that's one of my earthquakes. What do you think of that? I've got more orders for earthquakes than I can attend to in a year. I've got four coming^off up North this afternoon—two in Vermont."

A MYSTERY.—-A very mysterious affair occurred at a house in the Northern Liberties on Thursday, which has caused no little wonder and amazement among the residents of that vicinity. On Thursday morning, the occupant of the house and his family were astonished to hear several of the glasses in the

dows i|)e a(orjM of lh(J hous£,

brea|t

TIIE FIRST TIME IN LOVE. A youth who is in love for the first time is wonderfully romantic. The beloved object is far above ordinary mortality, and he could do

Shorlly afterwords, several oth-

1 ers were broken and fell out into the yard and what wa^worse, the breaking con

tinued until twenty-two panes were demolished and scattered about the premices. lt was suspected at first that some malicious person was doing the mischief.

The Marshals police were sent for, but could not discover how or in what manner the glasses became so suddenly demolished. They carefully watched every avenue and alley leading to the place, and posted two of their number upon the roof a house adjoining, so that they could look into the rooms, but the windows continued to break with fearful rapidity without their being able to discover in what manner, by whom and by what agency the mischief was done.— There were several officers on duty during the day, who had the mortification of witnessing some some seventy panes broken without being ablo to discover the secret of it.—Phila. American.

mora

titr-

mauity over did before for her sake. He half wishes that somebody would run away with her, that he might ride upon a black horse, draw a pistol and shoot the villains, and carrying her back all in tears fainting and languishing upon hisshoulder. and have her father take her hand in Doth of his, and make some eloquent remarks. He cannot think of enjoying on earth anything

more

joyous

than for him to live with her in some old castle far removed from steamboats ond post offices and pick wild flowers for her hair, and read poetry with lien under the shade of very dark ivy or vines. And he would have a charming boudoir in some corner of the old ruin, with a harp in it, and books bound in gilt, with Cupids on the cover, and a fairy couch, with the curtains hung upon carved doves! These first kindlings of love are very ploasant but do they last 1

SKILL IN FARMING.

The farmer has has quite as much need of skill and tact in cultivating the earth, as any ^class of citizens. Skill, tact, good management, contributes quite as much to success in farmers as hard work. The head must work as well the hands and mutual helpers. In the article of butter for instance, the same article is required to make a miserable poor article as a good one. But rancid butter will not sell in market for half as much as sweet, and skillfully put up in yellow balls, and in clean wholesome firkins. It is the skillful dairyman that pockets the most cash and establishes a good reputation for himself and his butter. Just so it is in all the various departments of agriculture. The man who cultivates his mind, and lays up a fund of useful and scientific knowledge as he cultivates his farm from year to year, is sure to reap, a rich reward in the time of harvest.

A CHILD'S SYMPATHY.—A child's eyes those clear wells of undefiled thought what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they

r*. as

tender! The man who has never tried the companionship of a little child, has

nna

mm

pleasures of life as one passes a rare

^RAPIDITY OF THOUGHT. The rapidity with which the mind acts in dreaming is an important point in analogy. Itwould appear as if a whole sories of acti, that would really occupy a long lapse of time, pass idly through we mind in one instant. We have in dreams no true preception of the lapse of time strange property of mind for, if such bo Us property when entered into the eternal, disitnbodied state, lime will appear to us eternity. The relations of space 88 well a8 of ume are also annihilated, so that, wh\\e almost an eternity is compressed into a moment, infinite space is traversed more swiftly than by real thought,^ There are numerous illustrations of this principle on record. A gentlemen dreamed thai he ha^,enlisted as a soldier, joined his regiment,deserted, was apprehended, carried back, tried, condemned to be shot, and at last was led out for executed. After all the usual preparations, a gun was fired he awoke with the report and found that a noise in the adjoining room had awakened him. A friend of Dr. Abercrombie dreamed that he had crossed -the Atlantic and bad spent a fortnight in America. In embarking, on his return, he fell into the sea, and upon awaking in the fright, found that he had not been asleep ten minutes.

Looking-Glasses for Birds* A correspondent of the GarJener Chronicle says: "The following plan is perfectly efficacious for scaring birds from fruit and other produce. One of my servants having by clianco broken a looking-glass, it occurred to me that the broken pieces, suspended by a string, so as to turn freely in every direction, would give the appearance of something moving* about which would alarm the birds. I accor dingly tried the plan, and found that no bird, not even the most fool-hardy of them, dare come near. They had attacked my peas: on suspending a few bits of the looking glass amongst them the marauders left the place. The tomtits attacked my secKle pears, to which they seem very partial. A bit of look-ing-glass suspended in froni of the tree put a stop to the mischief. My grapes were then much damaged, before they were ripe, by thrushers and starlings a piece of looking-glass drove these away, and not a grape was touched afterwards. I had before tried many plans, but never found any so effectual as the above.

DISCOVERY IN SURGERY.—A Prussian named Aran is said to have recently mide a discovery in surgery that is ex citing considerable interest in tho scientific circles of Berlin. It is the application of chlorine to relieve pain. Unlike chloroform, it can be used without danger to the patient, and is very effectual in it£ operation. From the account, a small quantity of the fluid, (from ten to twenty drops,) is dropped on the part affected, or on a lint bandage slightly moistened with water, and then opplied, and well bound up in oil silk, and a linen band. After from two to ten minutes the part becomes insensible, and the pain is no longer felt, whether it be from rheumatic, nervous or other disorders. After a time it returns again, but

usually

weaker, and with

applications it is often entirely removed. The discoverer has presented a memorial on the subject to the Academy at Paris.

The Locofoco editors throw up their hands in pretended astonishment at the idea of the Whigs having any hopes of carrying the State,while their knees are smiting each other like Belshazzar's.— Like tho fellow at the ark, they are ready to swear that it is not going lobe much of a storm no how, "seeing that they can't come in" themselves. Let them gas away to their heart's content, for they are certain to get a high fall at the next election. The people are tired of Locofoco demagogtiism, tired of its extravagances, tired of its misrule, and lh(*Y Will Ink" JttAUAfc OWn Ifanas and elect an old-fashioned, economical man to the post of Governor, a man who will not bo eternally insisting upon the establishment of new offices as palaces for his friends, at the expense of the people. Nicholas McCarty is a man of the people, and they will elect him.—Rushville Republican.

Tho "Union," a few days ago, excused the Democratic Convention of Virginia for havingomitted to pass any resolution sustaining the Compromise measures, for the reason, as it said, lhat the position taken by the Democrats of that State, in favor of those measures was of such notoriety as not to require any affirmation of the fact by their Convention. Very well. But what has the 'Union" to say now, as to the unanimity of its party in Virginia on this question in view of the votes of their Representatives in Congress on Monday last, when, out of thirteen Democratic members from that State, one failed to vote, and seven, being a majority of them, voted against the resolution declaring the Compromise to be "a final adjustmeni and a permanent settlement of the question therein embraced, and should be maintained and executed assush?"— Nat. Intelligencer.

PRETTY GOOD.—The Portsmouth Journal tells the following story: At a meeting of the democratic friends, on Monday night, one of the candidates for the common council, who was once dissipated but now is reformed, made a speech in which he commended democracy in general, and the ticket which his name ornamented in particular.— This so elevated a well known and eloquent advocate of democracy that he immediately rose and said that "he was rejoiced to find that there was one man in Portsmouth wfto could leave off getling drunk without forsaking the democratic party.

THE "MAINE LAW" IN BRUNSWICK. —A liquor bill, of even more stringency than, the Maine law has passed both the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council of New Brunswick, and is only waiting the sanction of the Governor, which is understood will be given to itTho law is not to go into effect until June, 1852. in order to allow those who have capital invested in the traffic to get rid of their Stock without pecuniary iW*

SHOCKING AFFRAY.

., °nJ.ast Thursday, our usual peaceable viiioge was thrown into considersble excitement by the announcement that a man hod b«en killed by his brother! it appears that a number of young men were assembled at the house of Hiram Boyd, in the back part of

Texas Oregon

several

l0wn

for the

purpose of taking a "spree." Whisky #as sent for, and intoxication followed. Andrew Boyd used some violence to young sister who lived in the house with her brother, whereupon Hiram ins terfered and a melee ensued. Andrew knocked his brother Hiram down when the latter drew a knife and stabbed Andrew some twelve or fifteen limes in different parts of his person—cutting h»m terribly. The mother of ihe young men in endeavoring lo separate them, also received a frightful stab in the arm. Immediately afier ihe occurrence, Hiram attempted to make his cscape, but was arrested and tuken before Esquire Jones, who, after an investigation of tho affair, held him to bail in the sum of $250 for his appearance at April Circuit Court. In default of bail ho was committed to the county prison.

Andrew Boyd is yet alive,but his recovery is scarcely probable.—Cannclton Express.

Area of the United States. The total area of the United States is put down at 3,261.426 square miles.— This almost boundless extent of territory is thus made up:

Area in square miles.

Twenty nine old States excluding Texas and California 1,093,930 NEAV TERRITORIES. Calif a and N. Mexico 526,078

M, 325,520 414,468 1,103,061

Northwest Territory, west of the Mississippi, including Minnesota, and bounded south by Iowa and the*

Platte river, and west by the Rocky Mountains. 745,584 Indian Territory, west cf Missouri and Arkansas, and south of the Platte river 248,851

Number of square miles in the United States 3,261,426 The length of Mexican frontier and of sea-coast by which this territory is mainly bounded is as follows: }$£ Length of Mexican frontier 1,700 miles Length of the Atlantic and

Gulf of Mexico coast 3,500 do Length of Pacific sea coast 1,620 do In 1845 the military posts of the United States were only seventy-eight in number, the westermost of which was Fort Washita, on Red River now there are one hundred and eighteen military posts, and the Pacific forms the western limit of our territories.—Bait. American.

INDIAN HAIL STORM.

The following accounts have been col lected by Dr. Buist, of Bombay. Within the tropics, hailstorms frequently occur at altitudes of 1,700 feet and upward they are most frequent in April and March. At Kotah, on the 5th of March, 1827, the hail stones were as large as a man's fist. Men, aninrrals and birds were killed in the villnge of Nunda, alone, six persons were killed, and seven dangerously bruised. At Seramporre, in April, 1826, the hailstones were as large as hen's eggs, and consisted of coats like an onion. At Kamptee, in April 1831, there were hailstones twelve inches in circumference five persons were killed. At Benares, in February, 1836, some of the masses of ice which fell.weighed two pounds. At Dum Dum April 1836, two hailstones were picked up of sixteen inches in circumference, or more than five inches in diameter.— At Gwaber, in February, 1850, pieces of ice fell nearly two pounds in weight, and animals and men were killed. At Condweil, April, 7th 1580, some single hailsiones were as large as epeanuts.,

Appropriations for Ocean Steamers.-"' A Washington letter gives the following as the amounts now annually paid by the U. S. Government to various^ lines of Ocean steamships: -y'Vi* New YorK. to wremen via

Southampton, to Ocean steam Navigation Company $200,000 Charleston to Havana—to M. U.

Mordicai 50/0C0 New York to Chagres—to Geo. Law"' 290,000 Panama to San Francisco—to

Howland & Aspinwall 348,000 New York to Liverpool—to E. K. Collins 385,000 New York to Havana—to O- /. cean Steam Navigation Co. 75,Odd

£ye'

Corn, Oata,

BACON—per pound: 'Hog round, Haras, city cured, SEEDS—per bushel:

Timothy, -Clover,

F!ax,

SALT—per buthel: HA Y-per ton:FRUITS—per bushel:

Apples, dried, Apples, green, Penciled, dried,

SUNDRIES: Butter, Chickens,

Eggs, Xard, "Cheese,

Feathers, Ginseng, "Beeswax ,-

Rngs. Potatoes, Beans, O

ALWAYS

ihirgethis cftai

$1 348,250

Johnson gives tho following definitions: Garret—The highest room in the house Cockloft—the room above the garret.'

TERRE HAUTE PRICES CURRENT.

Corrected Weekly for the Courier.

FLOUJi AND MEAL: Flour per brl. Corn Meal, per hushGRAINS—per otuhel: r'

Wheat,

3,25 30,00. 0.35 C£0,00 0,45 00 50 0,30 30,35 0,20 0SC,25 0,15 G»0,00

0,03100,00 0,10 (?0,00

^1,50 C30 00 6,00 00,00 0,70 00,75 0,45 00.00 6,50 00,00

2,00 00,00 0,60 00,00 2,00 00,00

0,15 1,25 0X)5 0,09 0,10 0,28 0,20 0,20 0,02 0,40 0,00 1,00

00,181 00,00 00,00 oo.io 90,12

00,00 00,00 00,00 00,024 00,50

oo.ooj oo.oo

EXTRA FAMILY FLOUR,

WARRANTED,

on hand and for sale by the load at

the market price by the subscriber at •U Arni\*a west of Terre Haute on Sugar his mill 4 miles west

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