The Wabash Courier, Volume 20, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 May 1852 — Page 2

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For Governor,

NICHOLAS. MCCARTY,

OF MARION COUNT*.

Diet.

JAMES

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THE COPMER.

E S S E O N A E if a

E E A E

Saturday Morning, May 1, 1852.

W I I S I

For Lieutenant Governor, **,

WILLIAM WILLIAMS,

OF KOSCIUSKO COONTT.

For Treasurer of State,

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

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,

Dist. 1. JOHN B. HOWE, Lagrange co. 2. CHARLES DEWEY, Clark co. 3. DAVID McDONALD, Monro©co. 4. SAMUEL B.GOOKfNS, Vigo co.

E E O A I E

SENATORIAL HJECTOKS.

HENRY LANE, of Montgomery county. PLEASANT A. IlACKLEMAN.of Rush co. DISTRICT ELECTORS. 1. LEKTKI. DEBRI*I.ER, Dubois county 2. Jonx D. FUEGCSON, Clork county 3. Capt. SCOTT CARTES, Switzerland co 4. Jon* II. FABQITBAR, Franklin connty 5. DAVID KIUJORE, Delaware county 6. FABIVSM. FJKCH, Johnson connty 7. RICHARD W. THOUFSOX, Vigo county 8. G. O. BEHX, Tipp*canoe county 0. T. S. STA.NFIELE, St. Joseph county 10.

S. FRAZIER, Kosciusko county

11. JOIIX M. WALLACE, Grant county

At the celebration of Mr. Clay's birth-day in New York, Senator Jones of Tennessee, was the principal orator. He delivered an eloquent speech, full of patriotism and just acknowledgments of tho worth and great services of Mr. Clay. It was an occasion when men hod assembled to do honor to a great American Statesman, yet there was no excessive adulation that nauseates by its extravagance, in refering to his long, serviceable, brilliant career in the councils of the nation. It was an honest outpourihg from hearts that appreciated high and noble qualities and unyielding devotion to country. The occasion was rendered more affecting by the present declining condition of him whose birih they had met to commemorate. We would like to publish the whole of Senator Jones's speech, but we find it too lengthy for our columns. We extract the following touching conclusion in which the situation of the old Chieftain 1a alluded to in terms we fear too true but every good man throughout the nation ikU) itf'fK Af# TnnAo oif rrvnr hrmrfr »nil my heart, your prayers and mine, could avail anything, long, long, would he be spared to bless us." The address concluded as follows:

The next time that you assemble here, in nil human probability, it will bo to commemorate his birth and his death. For that great light which has shone so long and so brightly in the political firmament is fast, fast going ont.( Sensation.) Sad it is in contemplation to gaze upon the sinking luminary of day, as he sinks in the west yet still we know that in the course of a few revolving hours he will come back to us again, in nil his original effulgence and glory. With a feeling akin to that I behold that mighty political effulgence that has blazed and illumined for full half century fading day after day, and sinking rapidlv to its final resting

never again to enlighten the world.— stand every tiny of my life, and see that proud spirit, as ho contemplates his end, with philosophy not Roman or Platonic, but a Christian Philosophy, with a composure that can only fill the heart of an honest man, and a believer in the truths of the Bible. Another year, and ho mav be no more. Be it co. If your heart and my heart, your prayers and mine, could avail anything, Jong, long would he be spared to bless us. But the fiat has gone forth, and it becomes, us as his friends and countrymen, to submit to the decrees of Providence. There is one consolation left for my heart: when he has paaned from tho scenes of this world, calumny will havedone its worst. Detraction then deep,dark and damning, shall have lostits-last sting. Only then shall the American hcaTt feel the value of what is lost and then shall his pure and patriotic heart find and enjoy that full measure of felicity with which a just God rewards such jjreat patriotism, de votion,and fidelity his.

CHANGE OF TIME.

A few days ago we mentioned that arrangements were being made, for running the cars from this place through to Madison in a day. By reference to the Company's advertisement in another column, it will be seen, that this arrangement goes into operation on Monday, the 10th of May. From and after that date cars to leave Terre Haute at 6 o'clock in the morning. If we understand the travelling arrangements beyond Madison, it amounts to this, that on Monday 10th, passengers may leave Terre Haute at 6 in the morning, arrive at, and leave Cincinnati. Tuesday morning—arrive at and leave Dunkirk; Wednesday morning, and reach New

York city Wednesday evening. ~~~~~~~

LAKE SUPERIOR WINTER.—The winter in

the far north-west has been a severe one.— The Milwaukee <Sentinel> states that a gentleroan who left Lake Superior about the 20th of March, reports the snow at Copper Harbor from ten to fourteen feet deep, and along the head-waters of the streams flowing into the Bay de Noquet eight or ten feet deep.— He describes the winter as altogether the severest ever known, and the quantity of snow that has fallen as almost incredible. ~~~~~~~

The cabinet furniture, silver-ware end other household goods of the Chevalier Hu boman, Austrian Charge d'ASkirs, ere advertised in the Washington papers for sale at auction. This would seem to indicate that the rumors of the Chcvalier's recall from his post are correct.

I say it with profound regret, but freedom can expect nothing more from Mr. Webster. It is most fortunate for his fame that his second life must be much shorter than bis flrH

The above extract we tako from the Washingt correspondence of one of our exchanges. The "second life" alluued to dates from Mr. Webster's speech on the 7th of March, 1850. Mr. Webster will never be forgiven by a certain set of people in this country for making that speech, and taking the position he did when our Union was in jeopardy.— That he has the eternal enmity of fanatics who declare the Constitution of the United States "covenant with hell," is just catise for him to feel proud. For the sak&of our glorious Union he separated all affiliation, if he ever had any, with -tboee who expected him to turn his back to the Constitution he had so long.and ably supported. Their hatred was the result, but he has the proud glory of knowing that he performed the part of a true patriot, helped to sustain this noble confederacy, and preserve it as it descended to us from the hands of those who formed it. IIow much more enviable is his position now than it would have been, had he exerted his influence in behalf of the sectional prejudices of those who would have destroyed this Union. 'j .-'.

PBOFESSOR KISKLE.—The New Castle Courier, in a letter from the editor, who was then in Cincinnati, makes the following statement. If true, the fact of which it speaks hitsbecn kept singularly quiet: "I learned a fact to-day, that is exciting some feeling here, and ought to lead our people to exercise a little more discrimination in reference to the manner in which a certain class of foreign pretenders are received here. Professor Kinkle, a German patriot, who came over some time ago in hot haste to get funds to aid in the German revolution, after receiving large contributions in several cities, has invested the amount received in a brewery, in this city,and instead of applying the money to the objects for which it was given, has quietly settled down to the dignified employment of making beer."

COUNTERFEIT.—The Cincinnati Gazette of the 24th says a new, but miserably .executed counterfeit, of the denomination of $10, on the State Bank of Kentucky, payable at the Branch in Russellville, has just made its appearance, Letter C, dated January 1,1851~ G. W.Norton President, M. B. Martin Cashier. The engraving is very bad, and the whole appearance such that it woulii seem that but few could be deceived. Those who are not skilled, however, should be on their guard.

STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.—Through the politeness of the operator of the Wado Telegraph, we learn that tho steamboat Prairie State blew up on the Illinois River, on Monday.

The number of persons killed by the collapsing of a flue of the Prairie State, on the Illinois river, is reported by the officers of the boat, to be five, and some ten or twelve scalded. Immediately after tho explosion, upon an affidavit of a citizen of Pekin, Capt. Rider, of the Prairie State, was arrested, and gave bonds in the sum of one thousand dollars to defray the expenses in taking care of the injured. The wounded were taken to an

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made for their comfort.

The Democratic State Central Committee of Pennsylvania have issued an Address to their brethren of the United States, in relation to the next Presidency, in the course of which they give these gentle intimations: "If the National Convention shall decide againsto our candidate, we cannot promise that our people will bear the decision without bitter mortification: for their State pride is thoroughly aroused. If the man they now offer is set aside, they have no hope of succeeding at another time. If Pennsylvania must wait until she presents a more unexceptionable man than Mr. Buchanan, she must wait forever."

Someday we may write State of "Brown' or "Persimmon" county and then our friend, Woollen, will think we have"added" a new State to the Union and anew county to some State.—Madison Courier.

The State of Brown or Persimmon county will riot be up to Vigo county, for it contains a State. The State of Riley, regularlyknown as such and an awful riley State it is too, in politics—Whiggery don't flourish much there.

A Washington letter says: "I speak by authority, "when I state that Mr. Webster's friends here have become entirely confident that he will receive the nomination of the Whig National Convention for President. Their argument is that the Webster delegates will stand firm, and that the Fillmore strength ".vill ultimately be given to him in preference*to Scott."

THK CABINET.—The Goldsborough Patriot, a Locofoco paper in North Carolina, thus speaks of the President and the members of the Cabinet:

We are not disposed to compliment either Mr. Fillmore, Mr. Conrad, or Mr. Graham, but we are in spirit disposed to do simple justice, and cheerfully concede to them honor, Irr^sty, talents, and patriotism, of the very L0hcst order

The New York Daily Times says Kossuth has "exercised the most marked

FORBEARAXCE

lotoard Mr. Clay in regard to his opposition (Obw JC. -i.'Ys) policy and conduct."

Mr. Clay to»-*«uht., very grateful for the forbcaramce.

HIIIGTATIOX^

The Congressional Caucus held at \Y ashington bare fixed upon Baltimore as the place, and the 17th of Jane as the time, for holding the Whig National Convention.

The Lafayette Journal sta that Logan*port and Delphi have subscribed $7,000 towards a simpler to ply between Lafayette and tbewtta&nents up the Wabash.

The Dunkirk

Joarrml

estimate* that there

arc twenty thousand tons of Mereher.ii (be the West now stored at tint point, awaiting shipment to its destination,

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CANAL PACKETS.—Where are the Canal Packets? We are unable to answer this question, so often lately put to us. The Canal is in good order from this to Lafayette— and the travelling and business of the times evidently require some additional facilities. The Packets we think would be well encouraged at this time, in connection with the Railroad, &c. ~~~~~~~

Cmous.—Some large fancy bills around town, and our advertising columns announce that Johnson & Co.'s Circus is coining, and will exhibit in Terre Haute on Monday the 10th of May. Due notice is thus given to all who are fond of such entertainment to get their quarters ready. As there is no half price, this Circus undoubtedly goes the wholefigure.

Mr. John Davis, of Mass., has prepared an elaborate bill on the subject of steamboat explosions. One of the sections of the bill holds the officers and masters of steamboats liable for any destruction of life or injury to persons, or loss or damage of property from explosion, &c. from carelessness. ~~~~~~~

MAIL ARRANGEMENT.—Telegraph news,

ARRANGEMENT.—Telegraph news,

from Mr. Rose announces that arrangements have been made with the Government —and that from and after to-morrow the mail will be carried on the Rail Road between Terre Haute and Indianapolis. ~~~~~~~

Accounts from Australia state that the whole dividing range between the Sydney and Victoria mountains, known as the Snow mountains, has been ascertained to be one vast field qf gold. The government commissioners had a ton and a half of gold'xn a tent \vaiting for an escort to Sydney,

On Tuesday afternoon as the accommodation train on the Little Miami railroad was passing through Fulton, it ran over a girl 12 years of age, killing her instantly. That night a mob tore up the track above a quarter of a mile. ~~~~~~~

The receip.ts of the Madison and Indianapolis railroad for the week ending Saturday, April 17th, 1852, were $9,039 73 Corresponding week in 1851 6,450 34

Excess J,589 39

CHURCH ON FIRE.—At 10 o'clock this morning the roof of the Methodist Church was discovered to be on fire. The bells rang—the people run, and the fire was extinguished without much damage.

Bradford Glazebrook, member of the House of Representatives, from Putnam county, died at Greencastle on Sunday night. Gov. Wright has ordered an election to fill the vacancy, to be held on Saturday the 8thof May. ...

A despatch from St. Joseph, on the 27th, states that emigrants are arriving in that place in large numbers. The health of the emigrants is first rate. No cholera among them so far as reported. ~~~~~~~

The machinery of the Fleetwood, sunk in the Wabash, this season, is to be placed in a new boat of light draught now being built at Madison. ~~~~~~~

Gen. Doniphan declines the nomination for Governor, recently tendered to him by the Whig Convention of Missouri.

Mr. Clay's New York friends have presented him with a duplicate medal of the one which was lost.

EXTENSIVE LAND SLIDE. Yesterday Coal Hill, above the glass houses of Messrs. Lorenz and Wightman commenced heaving and moving in a very alarming manner for a space of about four hundred feet in length, and extending from the bottom of the precipice (two hundred feet from the top,) four hundred feet to the bottom of the hill. A few trees which were upon it were rent to fragments, and rocks were forced above the surface of the ground. In places wide chasms appeared, twenty or more feet in depth. At about three o'clock, a huge mass of earth moved down the hill, completely destroying the large vial factory belonging to the gentlemen nbove named. Their loss will be very heavy, though we have not yet heard it estimated, and thirty workmen will be thrown out of employment by this occurrence.

The large white school house on the hill-side, built to accommodate over hundred pupils is moving downwards, and must be destroyed. The ground along which thee [sic] turnpike runs is cracked in several places, and it is thought that it will be impassable by this morning.

It is likewise feared that the window glass factory belonging to this firm and a row of dwellings occupied by their workmen, cannot escape destruction.— They are now, certainly in very great danger,—a danger which no human efforts can avert.—<Pittsburgh Gazette, April, 23>. ~~~~~~~

THE FIRE ANNIHILATOR.—The New York <Journal of Commerce> of the 21st inst. says: "Several experiments were made with Phillip's fire annihilator, near Newark, on Saturday last, varnish, shavings, and other inflammable materials, were repeatedly set on fire, and the flames successfully extinguished; but a final experiment being made within a house, the fire unfortunately made too great headway—a fresh wind was blowing at the time—and the whole was burned to

says: 'Four or thrown In at the windows,

Newark Advertiser five

FILL IT WF—The

A. Wmo GAIjr.—J. S. Scoby, whig, is elected to the Senate from Decatur co., by 177 m»j. in place of Crawford^-dem resigned.

opinion of many checked the flames, though they did not succeed in repressing them.' " ~~~~~~~

following letters

were found in a Welch church, over the ten cotwmandmenw, and rema ned upwards of rf hundred years unexplained, as a couplet vf poetry, making use of only one of the vowels. It commands admiration

S N S S 5T.

J,tt will serve as a puzzle for tho young folks, even now,

JUST VIEWS OP A TARIFF. We copy tho following resolutions from the proceedings ol a Whig County meeting In iu Page county III., because of their intrinsic merits —and we commend tltero to »he attention of our readers. It is seldom we find so much sense in so small a compass,

Resolved, That we are in favor of a protective TariflV 1st. Because it increases the value of labor, and its products, and because, without it we must either depend upon European labor for a large portion of the necessaries of life, or see the price of free American labor reduced to a level with that of the Serfs of Europe. 2d. Because it tends to cheek the importation of foreign goods, thereby diminishing the exportation of specie. 3d Because its effect is to place the producer and consumer near each other, thereby relieving the produce from the necessity of paying transportation, and several profits upon the interchange of products, while these products might with as little labor, be produced in the same neighborhood, 4ih Because the late manifestations of applause by the aristocracy of England in favor of Robert J. Walker, the distinguished champion of free trade in this country, is evidence that the free trade party here are-laboring to promote the interests of England, in opposition to the welfare of our republic os it has ever been the policy of England to stifle the growth of manufactories of the United States, and to make the trade between the two countries a kind of colonial trade—she exporting her manufactures in exchange for specie and raw material of this country. As Lord Brougham declared in Parliament, "it is well worth while to stifle the rising manufactories of the United States," and as the London Spectator says, "in all economical relations, the United States still stand to England in relation of colony to mother country," thus placing us in the position of a colony ministering to the warns and interests of the parent country.

SINGULAR PLOT.

A dwelling house fn Abington Center, Massachusetts, having been fired and burnt to the ground, a man named Merrill, was arrested as the incendiary.— The Boston Traveler says:

Jle was arrested, and soon after made a confession, in substance, that one Nicholas Vesper, a shoemaker by trade, who for the last ten years htft resided in Abington, had employed him to burn down the house. It appears that Vesper had purchassed the house, but had not paid anything upon it, and had not received a title deed. He had, however, moved his furniture into it, and bad obtained an insurance upon the furniture for three hundred dollars.

Merrill states thai Vesper, after giving him directions about firing the house and arranging the plans of operations, left for Vermont. The fire was set to or near a bed, on which a number of light articles were placed, and also in one or two other places and thick curtains were hung at the windows, to prevent a too early discovery of the fire.

Most of tho furniture had been reI p./iulauo t/V |1" fire, and the wife and child of Vesper were also absent. Under all these circumstances it was deemed expedient to have Vesper arrested, and Constable Clapp was despatched to Vermont for that purpose. He succeeded in his errand, and reached this city on his return last evening, with Vesper in custody. This morning he conveyed the prisoner to Plymouth for examination.

There is another phase of this case somewhat singular. Merrill, who is said to be of rather weak intellect, and easily led, states that Vesper had induced him, previous to the incendiary attempt, to get his life insured for $5,000. Vesper paying the expense. Ilis insurance was made payable to Vesper's wife, and as Merrill says, the plan was for Merrill to secrete himself under such circumstances as to lead to the belief that he was dead. The money thus obtained was then to be divided between the two parties.

PRECOCITY OF INTELLECT. Chauertoti wrote all his beautiful hings, exhausted all hopes of life, and saw nothing better than death, at the age of eighteen. Burns and Byron died in their thirty-seventh year, and, doubtless, the strength of their genius was over. RafTelle, after filling the world with divine beauty, perished also at thirty-seven Mozart earlier. These might have produced still greater works. On the other hand, Handel was fortyeight before he gave the world "assurance of a man." Pryden came up'to London from the provinces, dressed in

Norwich drugget, somewhat above the age of thirty, and did not even then know that he could write a single line of poetry yet what towering vigor and swinging e&se appeared all at once in '•Glorious John." Milton had, indeed, written "Comus" at twenty-eight, but he was upwards of fifty when he began his great work.- Cowper knew not his own might till he was far beyond thirty, and his "Task" was not written till about his fiftieth year. Sir Walter Scott was also upwards of thirty before he published his "Minstrelsy," and all his greatness was yet to come.

AMCSINQ INCIDENT.—At

the late term

of the Greene circuit court, on the calling of a cause for trial, the witnesses for one of the parties were absent. One of the counsel, in explanation, read the procefa^vhich had been issued for the witne|Kls, several of whom were females tnd the sheriff's return thereon, the laton W

'••it as follows: **1 served the writ

sons. (i. e„ .he l«UTr.•.1"

Why

,he

otl.fr per-

es and other weapons"— ty Sheriff. The brother of the yofll^ ladies referred to, whose changing color ha^ testified his indignation during the reading of the return, rose instanter and said "I just move to the court that the man who wrote that ain't to believed on oath." The sheriff commanded aience, and the bystanders laughed.Bloomingfon Gazette* .•

blush

cause

like a liule girl? Be£

becomes a woniwi

Letter of Mr. Fillmore to the Emperor ot Japau. The following is an extract from PreS' lent

FILLMORE

Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connect

to the Emperor of Japan,

«nd which will be (kmveydd to the lat ir functionary by die commanding officer of the U. S. Naval expedition, shortly to sail for that Empire "I 6end you by this letter an envoy of my own appointment, an officer of high rank in his own country, who is no missionary of religion. He goes by my command to bear to you rny greeting and good wishes, and to promote friendship and commerce between tho two countries. "You know that the United States of America now extend from sea to sea "that the great countries of Oregon and California are parts of.ihe United States and that, from these countries,, which are rich in gold and silver and in pre* cious ptones, our steamers can reach the shores of your happy land in less than twenty days. "Many of our ships will pass in every year, ond some perhaps every week, between California and China these ships must pass along the coasts of your Empire storms and winds may cause ihem to be wrecked on your shores, and we ask and expect from yourftiendship and your greatness, kindness for our men and protection for our property. We wish that our people may be permitted to trade with your people, but we shall not authorize them, to break any law of your Empire. "Our object is friendly commercial intercourse ond nothing more. You may have productions which we should be glud to buy, and we have productions which might suit your people. "Your Empire contains a great abundance of coal this is an article which our steamers in going from California to China must use. They would be glad that a harbour In your Empire .should be appointed to which coaL might be brought, and where they might be able to purchase it. "In mpny other respects commerce betw'een your Empire und our country would be useful to both. Let lis consider well what new interests may arise from these recent events, which have brought our two countries so near together, and what purposes of friendly amity and intercourse this ought to inspire.in the hearts of those who govern both countries."

From the Detroit Tribune•

The Liquor Business—Its Extent in this ..Country: The following table, compiled from the census returns, shows the production in each State and Territory, of spiritous liquors, during the year 1850.— There are no returns from New Hampshire. Delaware, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Arkansas, California, Minnesota and Oregon. The table shows that in Maine there is but $17,000 invested in these productions, and but Jive persons employed in the labor. This fact proves how much more easily such a law could be enforced in Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island or Connecticut, than in many of the other States.

Hands Gals, of

Capital em- whisky $ invested. ployed, high wines 17,000 5 7,000 2 457,500 131 120,000 17,000 9.

onnecticut,' o.^uo 7 20 130,000 New York, 2,585,900 1,330 9,321,700 New Jersey, 100.655 197 1.250,530 Pennsylvania. 1,717,969 911 6,548,810 Maryland, 247,100 125 787,00 Virginia, 100,915 123 879,440 N.Carolina, 21,930 75 153,030 S. Carolina, 3,475 32 43,900 Georgia, 7 150 15 60,450 Alabama, 500 2 Louisiana, 8,500 8 Kentucky, 168,795 -.274 1,491,745 Tennessee, 68,125 159 657,000 Missouri, 298.900 179 939,490 Ohio 1,262,974 1,033 11,865,150 Indiana, 334,970 287 4,639.900 Illinois, 303,400 274 2,315,000 Michigan, 139.425 98 690 900 Iowa, 19,590 19 160,690 Wisconsin, 98,700 98 127,000 New Mexico, 7,300 21 42,000 Utah, 3,000 3 Dis. Columbia, 42,000 5

Total, $8,334,254 5,487 42,133,955 Besides the above, 6,500,500 gallon® of Rum are manufactured, as follows: Vermont, 220,000 Massachusetts, 3,785.000 Connecticut, 1,200 N.York, 2.488,800 Pennsylvania, 1,500 Alabama, 3,000.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. The act providing for the registration of births, marriages and deaths, which was passed by the Legislature, has become a law without the signature- of the Governor, having been passed within ten days of the close of the last session and not sent back within three days of the meeting of the Legislature.

The bill requires the Register and Recorder of each county to keep a book of registrations, in which shall be entered, in cases of marriage, the name and occupation of the husband, his place of birth and residence, and the names of his parents also the name of the wife and her parents, together with the color of the parties, the time and place where the ceremonies was performed, and the name and residence of the porson performing it. These facts, in form of a certificate}, under oath, must be furnished to the Register by the clergyman, or person officiating, within thirty days, under penalty of five dollars. In cases of births, the physician or other persons in attendance is required to return, within the same time and under the same penalty, the name and occupation of the parents, as well as the name of the mother previous to marriage, the sex and color of the child, the time of birth, &c. When deaths occur, the name, sex, color and ago (as near as can be ascertained) of the deceased, must be returned, together with the occupation, place of birth and death, cause of death, and other facts connected therewith. Neglect or refusal of the proper person to make such return, subjects him to a penalty of twenty dollars. The expenses of registration are to be paid out of the county treasury

lament,"" a^corA«?£«age

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY. SF.NATK.—Petitions

were presented

by Messrsi Anthon and Scoby, favoring abolishment of b.»ok peJiing license and and favoring the Maine liquor law re ferred to committees. Resolutions were adopted rf. inquiry tn regard to the acceptance by the Mi & IT R. R. Co. of the provisions of an act disposing of the Stare's interest in

sajd r0JMj. wh9lj,er

Wabash & Erie canal lands are taxable before 5 years after purchase authorizing proof sheets of the Stated journal to be furnished the State previous io correction requesting the revision committee to superintend the arrangement of amendments to certain bills also a joint resolution in regard to procuring a grant from Congress of land for a State Female Seminary. Bills for the incorporation of high schools, &c., and for the organization of a Supreme Court, passed. Various bills were read a second time. A communication from the Secretary of State was laid before the Senate, stating that the M. & I. R. R. Co. had filled a resolution in his office accepting the proposals of the act in regard to the State's interest in the M. & f. &c. A bill making radical changes in the present mode of doing township and county business, failed to pass, 26 to 17.

In the afternoon, the President announced the appointment of Mr. Newland upon several standing committees. Bill organizing Circuit Courts, &c., was laid on the table. The following bills were introduced and read a first time: to provide for choosing electors for President and Vice President of the U. S. providing for the election of Prosecuting Attorneys, defining their duties, &c, prescribing the manner of empanneling petit jurors, the number and compensation thereof, &c., and for layit.g out and vacating towns, streets, and alleys, &c. The death of Mr. •Glazebrook, representative from Putnam, being announced, resolutions of sympathy, adjournment, &c were adopted, when the Senate adjourned till morning.

HOUSE.—Eighty-six members in thefr seats. The usual amount of Temperance petitions presented, and referred. The committee of revision then reported a great number of bills on various subjects, which were read a first time. A resolution in favor of the Maine law was voted down, by a vote, approaching unanimity. The General Rail Road bill was taken up, and made the special order ot the dnv, for to morrow at 10 o'clock A. M. The colonization bill was then taken up and p&ssed Ayes 60, Noes—28. It appropriates $5,000 to colonization purposes.

Jn the afternoon little was done. The chair announced the death of Hon. Bradford Glazebrook, and adopting the usual resolutions the House adjourned.

SENATE.— Petitions were presented from citizens of Madison, Daviess, and Morgan counties, and referred. The following bills passed: to form voluntary associations bills for electing clerk of Supreme Court, aid county Surveyor and prescribing their duties: providing for deputies to certain offices touching townships and their boundaries enabling trustees to receive and convey donations, for religious and other purposes providing for appointment of Supreme Court Sheriff regulating tolls of grist mills and prescribing duties of millers to establish county libraries transferring county agent's duties to county and tor in regard to Attorney of State for Supreme Court for the electing &c. of Circuit Court Clerks and county Sheriffs and prescribing their duties do. of Slate Agent and prescribiug the manner of compelling officers to give new bonds and additional sureties.

The afternoon was devoted to bills upon their second reading. HOUSE.— Ninety-one members in their seats. Mr. Donaldson, from tho committee on elections, to whom was re ferred tho matter of alleged frauds and forgeries in relation to the re-location of the county seat of Clay county, reported that the.whol® ww-wttsftrctortly explained, and the committee was discharged from the further consideration thereof. The committee on revision then reported a number of bills, which were disposed appropriately. The usual quantity of petitions for the Maine liquor law was then presented and read also, a remonstrance against its passage. Several bills from the Senate were taken up, read, amended, and referred. Tho bill regulating descents came up, and in of re a a on which he spoke at some length. The general railroad bill was then taken up and discussed at length, and ordered to a third reading. House adjourned.

The general railroad biil was read a third time, and passed also the bill concerning mortgages. Ho'use bill for the regulation of the traffic in intoxicating liquors was taken up, and amendments being offered, was laid on the table. Mr. Owen offered a bill for the regulation of the traffic in spirituous liquors, which was read a first lime. House bill on the same subject was taken up debated, and referred to the temperance committee. The House then passed, with amendments, »he. bill concerning descents and apportionment of estates, when the House adjourned.

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A Canine Member of the Peace Society. A gentleman who has a court-yard connected with his premises in Methven street, was a good deal surprised, when passing his gate on Sabbath last, to observe two bantam cocks within en gaged in furious battle, while a largo dog, which is suffered to range aboui the premises, was meritoriously busy in trying to separate the combatants, and/ put an end to tho hostilities. For 'his purpose, he repeatedly went up to the cocks, and, inserting his large head between them, pushed them asunder several times. However, they were no sooner sundered than they were at it again, until ai last they go'

uPon

of fire-wood that was

the Old Tea-

brought to light, and saidrfiPPr's Jale»y is Chaldee—the Hebrew scripiure#ft,lic Moses to Malachi, are rnero translations from the original Chaldee, and the few chapters of Daniel and Ezra which are wriiten it what is commonly called the Chaldee dialect,-are all that remains to us of the language really spoken by Moses and Isaiah,

'JeaP

lying

they hoped to fight it

THATLHVREPWI'...^ "J? «'AD .,0

FRESH AIR. tr.

Gentlemen and ladies, opeii vduf „„d

in fres|

physical ami moral is not more es^nual to vision that,

ir fresh |o|le

and happiness. Y«,

how Cllrefu|

„r0

mos. of us io exclude h! You close up ine windows, nail list around your doors and appear io do ail in your power to' exclude heaven's free gift of fresh nir and the reason why thousands of pejonle are not smothered, is that the air so sub* tile it will work its way through every little crevice, so that it is almost impossible to get it shut out altogether.— But if people do not get themselves quite suffocated, they continue to get pale, stupid, nervous, an3 heavyheailed, fur want of pure

Qjrj which

anxious to

force itself^ tnto their rooms but which they contrive to keep barred out. What would you think of a

m»n

coming down

the river on a raft, who would get a basin of water and keep it for weeks to wash himself in every day, when the broad river was running level with his feet? You would say he was a fool. Are you any wiser, who have fifty|miles of deep fresh air aboye you and allow yourself but a few square feet to bo used over and over again hundreds of times'? I wish every one of you knew what a curious piece of machinery your lungs and heart are, and how the atmosphere is adapted to our use. Keep your windows open night and day. If you are ufraid to have the night air blow upon you while you are asleep, break a peine oui at the top window until you get used to fresh air, and a stream of it hard enough to blow ihe quilts off the bed will not hurt you.

TERRE HAUTE PRICES CURRENT.

Corrected Weekly for the Courier.

FLOUR AND MEAJL: Flour per brlCorn Meal, per bush GRAINS—per bushel:

Wheat, Rye, Corn, Oats,

BACON—per pound: Hog round, Hams, city cured, SEE DS—per bushel: ,,,

Timothy, Clover, Flax,

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

Apples, dried. Apples, green. Peaches, dri

SUNDRIES: Butter, Chickens,

Eggs, Lard, Cheese, Feathers,

0,45 @0 50 0,30 F»0,35 0,20 CSC,25 0,15 @0,00

0,08100,00 0,10 00,00

1,50 00,00 *6,00 00,00 0,70 00,75 0,45 00.50 6,50 00,00

2,00 02,50 0,80 00,00 3,00 00,00

0,15 00,18F 1,25 00,00 OWOO^O 0,09 00,10 0,10 @0,12 0,28 00,00

Ginseng,Beeswax ,- Rags, Potatoes,

E I E ILL

0,20 00,00 0,20 O0,0C» 0,02 O0,()i!l 0,40 00.5r|»

Great Consolidated Equestrian, Dramatic, Olympic and Histrionic Establishment,

Organized and perfected for the ensuing season, under the title of the

With a double troupe of performers, male and female, selected from the cream of the European and Americau Amphitheatres an unrivalled stud

PERFORMING HORSES, it

Superior in blood, beauty and training to those of any other establishment extant a whole family fcf

Diminutive Trick Ponies,

Whose sportive sambols, various dances, and ex-

Dramatists, Pnntominiists & Equerries, Will exhibit at 2 ond 1\ p. m., au Mooresville, Monday, May 3d v-

Martinsville, Tuesday 4th Gosport, Wednesday 5th Juo Bloomingfon, Thursday 6th Spencer, Friday 7th Bowling Green, Saturday 8th Terre Haute, Monday 10th Marshall, Tuesday 11 lh

ana

about, where

out

without inter

ruption. Here the dog followed them, and repeated the trick by pushing in his cflf pnd throwing both to some distance

EQCESTRLAN DIRECTOR, and

!°Y

of intervention to enforce noh-ftf^fiHim® tion ultimately prevailed, and had the satisfaction of seeing the hostilo parlies, if not reconciled, at least ceasing to mplest oio another.—Glasgow Courier*,

Paris, Wednesday 12th Producing upon each representation a succession of Equestrian, Acrobatic, Dramatic, and Pantomimic "chef d'eeuvres," interlarded with diverting Comcdettas, and

Grand National Spectacles,

With an entire change of programme at each performance, and in which the whole strength of the various departments will be brought into requisition-

E S A S

Who compose this novel and gigantic Troupe are of world-wide celebrity,prominent amongst whom the following'stand pre-eminent

Madame Browcr, the Equestrienne Prima Donna and latterly first Ladv rider at Fiancom's, Paris.

T. Neville, the ycung Phenomenon, and greatest trick and mercurial rider in AmericaW. H. Stout, the great clossic Horseman— backer of many steeds, and first teacher of "La haute ecol',."

W. Avmar, tne antinous of the Ciraue, dashing equestrian, and living model of the Apollo Belvidrre.

W. Rochford, the unequalled Gymnast, exquisite rider, and double somerset Champion. G. Sergeant, the greatest living Protean and Sbakspearean equestridn.

G. Dunbar, founder of the Vicnnian school ot motley acrobats. Herr Lee, the modern Sampson, and prototype of Homer's AthlaetaB.

J. Fisher, the extraordinary contortionist, and exquisite performer on the

oordo

tjiE

vol ante.

A. Levi, the great pastoral rider and pant^ mimist.

j^y JIEROES*

Ma8ters HENRI and AUUUSTE, tho youth-i-Lntora of the liijrh school of art. m2H?T BAKEft, 6ARLEY, MORTIMER, DUNCAN, &c-, &c.

TWO STAR CLOWNS,

Mfsars. Jennings and Brower, each famous for originality, wit and humor.

A Brilliant Brass Band,

Unhesitatingly pronouncod the firet ond most nccomplisbed in America, led by the greatest bugler of the age,

A I 1

And a general outfit of appointments, decora tions

paraphernalia, which cither as regards

taate,skill, or lavish expense, can

.Defy the World! 'r""

llMaitre

du Chsval,"

V. H. STOCT. I

MASTER OF THE AREKA, G- DUNBAR, MANAGER, G. B. Jonxso.v, Admission 25 cents, only—no half price..

April 30, '52-d8t-130-\vIt-36 'jzhri^

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COMPETENT Male Teacher will Gnd immediate employment, and secured in at least year, at the District School at Indiana •urnaco. .April 30, '52-w3\v-36