The Wabash Courier, Volume 20, Number 50, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 August 1852 — Page 2

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ESSE O N A EDITOR.

E E A E

Saturday Morning, Atig 7 1882,

WHIG NOMINATIONS

For President. *'r

GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT,

Far Vice f*rmid*nt,

WILLIAM

GRAHAM,v.

Oir NOHTH CAHOLUU,

"1 ^'er ('ovemor, ,\ NICHOLAS MCCARTY, OF MARION COUNTY. ^or Lieutenant Governor, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, ,H OF KOSCIUSKO COUNTY. & 'HH (I

SSJTATOEIAL E1.ECT0RS.

1TENKY S. LANE, of Montgomery county. PLEASANT A. H.VCKLEMAN, of Rush co. ^T" .. I? DISTRICT KUSCTORS.

Bist. 1. LEMUEL Q. DEBKCLSR, Dubois county JOB.T D. FOJHKSO*, Clark county 3. Capt. SCOTT CASTER, Switzerland co ,, 4. Jun.f II. FAKQUIIAR, Franklin county ,5. DAVID KiuiORr, Delaware county 6. FABIUJSM. FINCH, Johnson county 7. RICHARD W. THOMFSOX, Vigo county 8. G. O. BEUM, Tippecanoe county 9. T. S. STA!fFiEU, St. Joseph county 10. JAMES S. FRAZIER, Kosciusko county 11. JOHIT M. WAIXACE, Grant county

ii-- «,u- For Treasurer of State, fl-lMON T. HADLEY, of Hendricks 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 couniy. a*

For Clerk of Supreme Court,

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

Judges of the Supreme Court,

.J)ist,

JOHN B. HOWE, Lagrange co. 2. CHARLES DEWEY, Clark co. 3. DAVID McDONALD, Monroe co. 4. SAMUEL B. GOOKINS, Vigo co.

LIEUT. GOVERNOR.

The two candidates for Lieut. Governor, Messrs. Williams and Wiliardare to address the citizens of Vigo Connty at the Court House on Saturday the 14th of August.

Ratification Meeting.

Out readers will be kind enough to remember that Thursday the 12th Inst is fixed upon for the GRAND RATIFICATION MEETING to take place at the Court House at 2 o'clock P. M. Arrangements have been made for a Grand Rally. A numborof distinguished speakers from a distance have been invited —of whom, several have promised to be in attendance. Of the following named gentlemen invited, more than half will probably be present, to wit: Messrs. Marshall, Lane, Dunn, Ewing, Linder and Steele. This is called a meeting to ratify the nominations of the Baltimore Whig Convention. Perhaps a meeting to ratify the nominations of GEHERAL SCOTT and WILLIAM A. GRAHAM might seem almost an act of suporerrogation. To ratify that w.hich is long si nee sanctified, ad well as ratified in'the hearts and minds of the whole peoptfc might appear useless. But no matter—come up, every body. There will be fine speaking and good music. You will hear something more- about our noble Whig standard bearer, Winfield Scott. His life has been long and eventful—full of great deeds in his country's service., His services, military, as well as civil, extend through a life of forty years' devotion to hia country. Of such a life there may be something new to rolatc—something which every one may not havo heard, or which may have escaped recollection—but »till important and interesting. it takes a wide history to embrace the deeds and acta of one engaged in THREE WARS, and victorious in eo many battles, as well as successful on many occasions of appointments to secure, maintain, and PRESERVE PEACE. ^Ve hope the occasion of this ratification will be availed of by our friends, far and near, as well at all who wish success in efforts for order and good Gov ernment.

MR. GRAHAM.—After the awful calamity tho country, and the Whig party in particular,were afflicted with in the person of John Tyler, who became President on the death of General Harrison, the Whigs have been very careful who they put upon their ticket for Vice President. Their experience has been sufficient to advise them to have one of the beet of men for the second office.

Mr. FreUnghoysen%as a true and reliable Whig in every contingency, and worthy of being on the ticket with Henry Clay Mr. Fillmore has proven himself splendidly quaii^fied to succeed to the Presidential chair, jaade vacant by tha death of General Taylor.

stated in 1843, that were be President he should oerteinly offer a place la his cabinet to Governor Graham, of North Carolina, asd at the fame time passed a high eutagtant upon the statesmanlike qualities of that dt»tinguithed gentleman.^ .,. r^r-nrrrir.r_

Among the incidents connected with the celebration at Niagara, we observe the introduction

to the aodtenee of Sergeant' as eoon as arrangements can be effected. Mr. Thompson, of Cleveland, an eld soldier who Paulm thinks he may be ready in about two had been left for dead at Laody'a Lane. lie weeks of which doe notice will he given.— said he waa a Democrat but he oo«lda*t votejT^is will ^e a grand pieee of excitement for •gainst General Scott. He balloted hira to oar people. A Ml account of Mr. Paulin's be as braves soldier and as good a waft ascension from ImhanapoHs was give* in ever lived. the Courier a few davs since.

COURT* CO*YENTJO».«—At meeting of the Whig Vigilant Committee of Vigo county he&jA the 10th of July last, the subject »f county oonvohtion WM considered, and thd lolloping roaolution paaied: "Retntoed, That there he held at the Court House in Tewe Hawte on the Slat day of August next* a convention of Delegatus from 'c?aeh township in the bounty, to consider up--m the ptxtprieiy of neiectin# Whig candidate* for the several county offices, to be filled at the next ensuing election."

This resolution does not authorize a convention to nominate candidate* for office but *imply to consider the propriety of such convention, important did the vigilant committee Consider auch amove at this time, that they were unwilling to take the responsibility of calling a nominating convention until a convention consisting of delegate* trom every township in the county should lirst declare the propriety of such a course of nomination. We are led to these remarks in consequence of being called upon to publish the proceedings of the Lost Creek township meeting, wbickwUl be found in another column. Hie Lost Creek proceedings seem to contemplate a nomination on the 21st.— Such a move is not authorized by the resolution of the Vigilant Committee. Should the convention on the 21st be a full one as contemplated by another resolution of the committee and consider it proper to have nominating convention tbey willsay so—and then another convention of delegates elected for the purpose must be heid to make,such nominations.

We called attention to this matter on the occasion ofpublishingthe proceedings of the vigilant committee, July 12th, stating then that the object of the convention would be to consider the propriety of nominating, and not for the purpose of" making nominations.— We make these suggestions now again that the Whigs of Vigo may act understandingly, ahd not be led into any confusion, or want of htrmony of action on the occasion of so important an election as that involving the success of our Presidential and Gubernatorial candidates.

Judge Wm. Johnston, of Ohio, being present at the Niagara celebration, was caJJ#d upon to address the groat gathering. He responded by making a patriotic Whig speech. After reviewing General Scott's eminent success, he said he thanked God there was one Book reoognized by the people of the world, as the Book of Revelations —one Book which the efforts of the Bible Societies had put into nearly every log cabin in the country. You may take that book, said he, and read its history from the Exodus of Moses to the time Saul was crowned King, and find, no matter who it was found with sword in hand, fighting the battles of his people, afterwards ruled the land. He said this to prove that there 'vas ground for the religious principle which has gone abroad to the people of the world,that the man who takes his lite in his hand and goes forth to battle, to shod his blood for his people, shall rule over them. But we need not look to religious history for this proof. Our own history woukl equally prove it. He then referred to Washington, Harrison* and Taylor, as instances, and traccd this fact to the semi-religious sentiment, which reigns in every free bosom that the man who loves liberty so well as to take his life in hia hand and go forth to battle to shed his blood for his countrymen, is entitled to be exahgd by the gratitude of that people he has served^

While the great contest for the Presidencyis going on, the people of Indiana must net forget that they have a previous engagement for which the forces of both parties must be marshalled and put in battle array. We have a campaign in this State of too much interest to every citizen to be overlooked, or suffered to go by default. We would especially call upon Whigs to be up and doing. If we wish to carry this State for General Scott, we must make a good show for it at the Stalto election and in order to do that,we must keep the camp-fires burning, pick the Whig flints, and havo them ready for good service in the iirst struggle. Let not our forces be absorbed in the Presidential encounter to the exclusion of strong efforts for thesuccesfcof Whig principles In the State. The State election comea'ofPin October, and besides the Satisfaction every Whig willfecl for having dofio bis duty at that time, the

States, to animate them with the evidence that we are heart and soul with them for the triumphant election of the old Chief who heads our columns in the Presidential contest -."

THE FISHERIES—In another -column will be found an article from the Salem Gazette, gfving the mo«t concise and pertinent statement we have yet seen, relative to the fish* •ries off the coast of the British possessions la North America. Our fishermen have exercised the privilege of fishing off the eosst, for forty successir* yean,- but not without occasional ditS 'ties to how far their rights extended, lite present disturbance is owing to an attempt to suforco tn

Wcilng U,. ..m. c,re,the Whig, were, 181, ewtiou. who to aeiect to run with Generali*^ "*f *meri"' tkeg™te««K.nbtage.of p«ScotL Therh.™ in Mr.•Itogrthe,. In p.tinj ti.1. pi. th.t took tie w.y o. poone p.»t history,chfcr«cter,«n(J •up.-,"™"' .«o «ecuU«., w,th«t not,c.,!l1tie.lg.AW,ng MI p.rt» of .h« U™* lior neeltoTw. haw .Mured him th» 0006-'1Wun**Tb

doBMOfWhip .11 over tha «»»tr,. On"'"*- Tto ™tt« .. tl» Sttt.contnk«.„j. portron towBd. th. Mm d» Whip m., «!j with Ho"00 Uowoment. wd «wo of 150,000 pthwed together. Tbi, mt mulM«k oo futthtt AndonetMUt dun ti» high utxk, thomuiteted,pLriii- .. .. to protect American fishermen. A resold-: )j indicate a decided sentiment over the «orid«^ Mr. Civ hW hm, whoj

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President tint all correspondence that may have takea place with the English government on this subject This will bring the question officially before the Senate, and in such a shape as ti be better understood.

BALLOONING.—Mr. Paulin, the celebrated aeronaut, is now in town, and proposes making a balloon ascension from Terre Haute,

glorious report of our well-doing will go out ueive the approval of the great mass of the over the country by November, to cheer our people throughout the Union. The people comrades in the good Whig cause, in other have become wearied by the continued agi-

The Flrat Monday of August* This day, th® ftpat Monday In August,is no longer a day of unusual interest to the people of Indiana. Under the old Constitution, the votteraoflhe State would be assembling to-day at their respective polln, to cast their suffrage# for all the offieea in the State, from Governor down to the smallest eounty office. The new Constitution postpones election day till the 12th of October. Were this election day. there would be greater sensation among our people—the Court House and Square would he more inhabited—can^didates, with anxious countenanoea, might be aeen passing ahouH-politielans, wftlj tickets and lead pencils, ready to fill out a ticket for any sovereign who votes the "right way if he don't vote that way, take hitn byt the button to one aide and "talk" to him perhaps, if he is opposed to the Maine Liquor Law, an argument could be used that would bring him over to the right side. The^e, and sundry other little occur^pceg, belong particularly to election day..

English wHtfcr contributes to ffiapl, wood's Mafffttine an article on "American politics," which concludes with the following prophetic words: ''Whoever may be the President, however, the United States will hold on the even tenor of their way— increasing^every da and every hour in ma-, terial prosperity—augmenting in population and resources. They will not interfere in the affairs of Europe, notwithstanding all ffosduth can say they will not again attempt to surprise Cuha, under cover of a Creole revolution, till a more favorable opportunity. Tbey will coquette with the Sandwich Islands, push their feelers into the open oyster-shell of Mexico, and as far aa the narrowest part of the Isthmus, feeling a destiny which impels them thither. They will flatter and court the Canadians, who hate them construct railroads and canals as highways for enterprises of all kinds settle, populate cultivate, develops wild districts and undiscovered resources disp^y many of the worst features of the Anglo-Saxon character, with here and there a touch of the different nations which they are absorbing into themselves and in the end, I believe, before magnitude causes disjunction, or cot ruption, produces decay, will become, what they believe themselves to be now, one of the greatest people that the earth has ever seen."

BEKTON ELECTED.—Through the Wade line we learn to-day that Colonel Benton is elected to Congress from the St- Louis district. 5?

HOFFEE.—There was a sprightly dance at the Brown House last night. A large number of young ladies fresh from examination at St. Mary's, and on their return homo with parents and friends, arrived in the evening. Mr. Brown's dining room was appropriated. Young gentlemen were levied upon. Three musicians from Lafayette, and two of our place were in requisition. Canal packet was in waiting for a few hours. Everything went off gayly till one o'clock. The company then dispersed, some at once for the Packct, and others for the Railroad train this morning. $

WHAT IS CONGRESS DOING.—The Southern Press, a Democratic journal, published at Washington, thus speaks of the patriotic labors of the present Democratic Congress: "If any thing could show the disastrous effect of party on.public service,it would be the present condition of business in Congress. Seven months have now dapsed since that body convened—and what has been' done? Why, perhaps half a dozen laws have been passed of little consequence. Even the Deficiency bill for last year's excesses of expenditure has not passed.

It has been understood for a short time past that Mr. Senator Sumner, of Massachusetts, intended introJucing a resolution for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law.— In accordance with this intention Mr. Sumner, on the 28th ult., rose in the Senate and asked leave to be heard. A number of Senators were opposed to bringing up such an exciting question and contended sgainst opening any discussion upon it. The ayes and noes were finally taken upon granting' Mr. Sumner permission to speak, and permission was refused by an overwhelming majorty—ayes 10, noes 32. This emphatic declaration of the Senate against further agitation of the Fugitive Slave Law will re-

tation of this question. They were content wfth the passage of the Compromise measures and considered them a "final settlement"' of all the questions at jssue,, The Fugitive Slave Law was passed by a solemn and deliberate act of Congress, and received the approval of the President of the United States. It is therefore a law of the land, and is respected as such by nil well meaninff citizens of tire country. What the people want, now, is repose from any further agitation of ex. iting oiiestions that have been decided upon by our National legislators 'and acquiesce.! in by an overwhelming majority of the sovereigns of the Republic.

*%*rom accounts received of the great gathering at Niagara Falls, it must have

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country in favor of the election of Gen. Scott, and the continuance of Whig peiiey in the Administration.

Dr. Eddy, o! St. Jooephs, has been nominated for Congress by the Democratic Convention in the Logansport dtatriet. The Jourmd says he "it not mach known In the district, but ia understood to be entirely harmless as a candidate. He is a gentlemanly sort of a man, hot estimated weak and wavering. He made a freesoil dash during freesoil times, but has since valiantly taken it all baek. His family and friends need not be apprefcea«ve of the attractions of home being made any leas by his absence on Congressional business.**

SERVW) RIGHT.—Mr. George Thompson, the English member of Parliament who came to this country about a year ago, preaching reslatanca to the laws, has been defeated in his election, and will not gefback to Parliament, Thi* defeat is attributed to the desertion of hia post in England to come to America to teach our citisens theif duty, neglecting his QWB all the while, and the interests of those who had elected him as thett representative. IF# midp no proselytes here, and it appears thathis popularity in England was net improved by We transatlantic offbrta. 4 f. I 1.11, 4,1

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The number of -Military Land- Warrants issued is stated tobooae hundred and eleven thousand, of which seventeen thousand were for one hundred and sixty acref, thirty-seven thousand for eighty a,cres,and fifty-seven thousand for forty acres.,

A memorial, addressed to President Fillmore, is being numerously and infiuentjally signed in Boston, Jt represents that 8,100 vessels, and 30,000 seamen, are now engaged in the fisheries, representing property valued at $12,000,000 that the ppople*of New England and their fathers have enjoyed free right to fish in the now proscribed waters, and that the enforcemontof the new construction put on the treaty of 1818, will ruin many femiliee in New England therefore the memorialists pray the President to aend a naval force to protect the fishermen in their lawful occupation.

The enthusiasm for Scottis

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the increase

all over the country. We scarcely pick up a paper that does not give accounts of men who have never voted the Whig ticket, going for Scotf.—Terre Haute Courier^

There is the difficulty Judge. The enthusiasm is all on. paper.—State Sentinel. Ah! Mr. Sentinelyou wore very sly in not publishing the whole of our article, fromwhich th? above extract is taken. You were careful to leave out the solid, substantial part, about the six Democrats in one family in this county going for Scott. That wouldn't read well in a Democratic paper, would it?

Gen. Pierce knows no East, no West, no North, no South.—Atlantic Notes. Neither does the East, West, North or South know Gen. Pierce. The coincidence is truly remarkable.—AUegliany Whig

Nothing to be added, O. K.

The meeting was ably addressed by Jo. McDonald, and dispersed full of determination to inflict upon Gen. Scott a terrible "fire in the fear."—Lafayette Courier.

That's well said, for they know that all of Scott's enemies stand no chance in a front fight, and their "terrible fire" will be so much in the "rear," that the shot will never reach ft\WT -V'JIVV *-V the General.

AHA!—The Red River Republicon 5a a: "If the Washington Republic's representation of Mr. Pierce's course as a member of Congress is correct, the Democrats of the West cannot unite in his support without treachery to ihe most important interests of their own section. There is no other policy of the general government in which the people of the west are half as much interested as in the river and harbor improvements, for it is only through such improvements that a single dollar of the millions annually expended by the government can ever be brought to this section, or that the commeice of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, greater in amount than our country,!s whole commerce upon the ocean can be protected against vast losses. Let every Democrat who has tho public good at heart ask himself one question: Which ought he to deem most important thai the almost boundless commerce of the west and the lives of those engaged in ft should receive protection from the government, or that a man calling himself a Democrat should be President of the United' States?,

Most certainly the general impression of the Democracy during Gen. Jackson's administration was that the old hero went quite far enough in his opposition to internal improvements. And now do the west«rn Democrats—the Domocrats of tho Mississippi and Ohio valleys— want a man as President who, in Congress, was so ultra in his opposition to the improvements Jiicksuj) Eqwinio/i-

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THE BOLTERS AT HOME.—The card of Toombs, Stephens *Ss Co., meets with no quarter at tho hands of the Southern Whig press. As a specimen of the manner in which it is treated, we need only quote the opinion of the Richmond Whig. That paper was not surprised at the document, beenuseihe C«n-

find

rressional course of the nine bolters been any thing hut ihat of men dearly attached to thet Whig party. The Whig thinks that the party will not he annihilated by tho movement, and adds: "The facts is. General Scott is used to pronunciamenttiji— he had to deat with them in the Mexican War and though ai times they seemed to threaten disaster and utter ruin to his cause, he went on with firm step and resolute hearing upon his majestic march, just as if the paper upon- which these direful missives were written had nsver been produced from its original rags. Such a document might be sent to his camp in the morning.commencingwith bloody threats and ending with "God and Liberty," and his evening bugles would resound in the very courts of the valorous Genera] who penned it."

DETOUBSB THT A SHARK.—The other night one of the men on board the U. S. ship Pennsylvania attempted to make his escape from the service, by plunging overboard in expectation of reaching the shore. The poor fellow had scarcely, however, touched the water, when Tie was seized by a large shark and speedily dispatched. It is said that a number of these fish are in our waters, baring followed the Cyane when she came in from sea, with several men upon her sick list—their Instinct, when there ia a disease on ship-board, prompting them to purstie in the wake in hopes of prey.—Norfolk Argus, htl$ 24.

The Yankee who had patched a method of tanning leather with the bark.of a dog, says the mode of collecting tits bark is also patented. lie wishes to dispose of rights. Address "Digby," Boston.

From th« Salem (Man.) Oazotu, Tha Fisheries* tn anotlier column ^ilj be foiind a circular from the State Department, cofiiod from the Bostoi, Cotfrier of vtsi^rdny. The proposition of tHe British author!* ties to restrict the opfra(1ins of American fishermen is no novelty, although the claim haa lain in abeyance for some timo. For nearly forty years pastdif* flculties have been constantly arrising from attempts by the British colonies and authorities to prohibit American fishing vessels from visiting the bays, creeks, and harbors of Nova Scotia. Bf the treaty of 1783: Great Britain

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right of the people of

the United States "to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bonk, and on oM other banks of Newfoundland also in the Cfulf of St» Lawrence, a if ail 6ther places ih the sea where the inhabitnnts of both countries used at any titwye heretofore to fish pR iha.c^a^, bays, and creeks of all othe Britannic Majesty's domi^iotjj^ ien and that the "Am§H^j^:|u^|trmen' shnlj hnvo libgifiy todr^ffntf^if^"fish in a|ty of ^e unsettled.hays, harbors, and

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lands, and Labrador, so long jfe 1)^ same shall remain unsettled." Under this liberul provifii^n, the fishermen of our country had been in tho habit of catching fish or) the coasts of the British possessions, and ,coring thorn on uninhabited pans of theft territory, which was a great convenience to us and was no injury to our neighbors, except so fur as it enabled them more successfully to compete with the inhabitants of the Provinces in this profitable branch of industry,

These privileges were enjoyed without interruption until the war ot 1812 drove our fishprmen from the ocean, und annulled all the rights granted to us by the treaty of '83. On the commencement of negotiations between the American and British commissioners, in 1814, it was made one of the four points presented by the latter, "that the British Government did not intend to grant to the United States gratuitously the privileges formerly granted by treaty to them, of fishing within the limits of British sovereignty, and of using the shores of the British territories for purposes connected with the fisheries."

The American commissioners replied that oh this point they were furnished with no instructions.. And in their correspondence with the Secretary of State, in which they set forth their conference, ihey remark: "From the manner in which they brought this subject into view, they seemed to wish us to understand thai they were not ^nxious that it should be discussed, and that they only intended to give us notice that theee privileges had ceased to exist, and would not be again granted without an equivalent, nor unless we thought proper to provide expressly in the treaty of peace for their renewal.'^

Strange as may seem, the American Commissioners do not again allude to this subject in any of their conferences, or their correspondence with the British Commissioners nor is there a single allusion to the fisheries in the whole treaty and this, notwithstanding our negotiators admitted that all ihe privileges which we had enjoyed previous to the war would necessarily be withdrawn, unless a renewal of them were provided by the treaty,.

Very soon after the ratification of the treaty the British began to exercise their newly-acquired jurisdiction. In June, 1817, a circular was issued from the Secretary's office, Halifax, declating that "American fishermen are not permitted to frequent the harbors, bays, and creeks of the province of Nova Scotia, unless driven into them by actual distress." This was intended to preclude our people from curing snd drying their fish upon the shores of the province, or to derive any advantage from the contiguity of the coast and was intended to check our prosperity in he a a it ^Subsequently, British ships of war *had the audacity to warn our vessels not to approach within sixty miles of the British Colonial shores," and, not content. with this, actually captured and sent in several such vessels as lawful prizos. This led to negotiations, which resulted it) the convention of 1818, the

yeajps after that date American fishermen followed the lines of the shore, at the distance of "three marine miles but about the year 1C40 the colonial authorities made a vigorous attempt to enforce the construction by which the British Government now propose to exclude our fishermen from all the hays and deep indentations of the shore.— This led to further negotiations, and in 1845 a despatch was sent to the Colonies by Lord Stanley, the present British Premier, announcing, as a concession to ^Aitiefledn fishermen, the privilege of pursuing their avocations within the Bay of Fjndy. But from that time to* the present the Colonial authorities have never ceased to proclaim and to threaten to enforce the construction of the convention, which, by drawing the line from the headlands of the bays, would exclude our vessels from them entirely. This pretension is clearly sustained in the following extract from the despatch of Lord Stanley, referred to above: is^'lt has accordingly been announced to the United States Government that American citizens would henceforward be allowed to fish in any part of the Bay of Fundy, provided they do not approach, except in the cases specified the treaty of 1SI& ,wiiliin three miles of the entrance of any Bay on the coast of Nova Scotia or New Brunswick." ^1#i*ll

We have recehted a lithograph made to show the obstructions of the mouth of the -Aftssiasrppi river and the damage caused to trade by the detention of ships 00 the bar.—N. Y. Tribune.

We aiso saw a lithograph the other day, of the obstructions of the mouth of the Mississippi. It was alikeness of Mr. Pierce.—Chicago lour. ty.

As tbe lid of a coffin was about bciAg fastened down, in Rochester, the other day, the inmate was discovered to be living. The poor fellow who came so near being buried alive, is now !fke!y to rccovcr.

main provisions of which are quoted in proVemem and defence of the highways Mr. Webster's circular. For some

An EfneHclou* Chastisement. A most exemplary wife had tho misfortune to wed husband who, shortly *Nr thei^fimarriftg8,_liocanio^ almosfc'a sot. not a hard'bifarted nor un«

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ctauld not resUuemptatioo.and whenever asked to drink had not the moral comnaf to say ..no" |||g

The",w#!fwmed vfrftujfht to frenzy by the seeming ruin that awaited her, determined up&n some plan to free her liege-lojfd frofn jthg|Wiporiuniiies of his deceitful co^p5inion. One night, while ijjer hoshc{iid was asleep, she heard, the well known footstep aud knock at vherdoor, and, opening it carefully, with a stout horsewhip in her handy'ifaiged the unwelcome visitant by the hair of head and it.flicted upon his body a chastisement of a most severe character. As soon ns she released him, he ran off. «nd has r.eyer since returned to sow thorns in the domestic parterre of her once peaceful home.: Her husbnnd was so impressed with her strength of mind and courage, that he resolved to be as much a man as she, aud has since been abstemious and happy.

This is a fa^i, and happened in our city not a month past. The parties, however, are not generally known Cin. Commercial nr-. V'' ,V V4--

Lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior are getting to be formidable rivals to New Foundland, the Georgies, and the Bay of ..Fundy in supplying, this great country with Fish. More than 3D.000 barrels and half-barrels of'Lake Fish have been sold in this market since the opening of the navigation this season, and this is bat one of the many Lake ports from which fish are distributed over- the. great West. The fish fold here are principally sold in Ohio. A portion go to Pittsburgh and other points out of the State.

By the politeness of Wm. Sholl, Esq., one of our City Inspectors, we have been furnished with the following'items' which are' interesting as tnatter of inland commerce as well as to those engaged in the "Fish Line."

Number of packages of Lake Fish inspected by Wm. Sholl, City Inspector! from April 9th 1852, to July 14 18o2, 22 863

Of these 8,970 were Barrets, and 13.897 half Barrels. This is only a partial report of our Fish Inspections. There are two other Inspectors in the city, and we shull be under special obligation to them, as we are to Mr* Sholl, for a full report of the quantity of-fish inspected by them during the past as well as the present year.

The Upper Lake fisheries are inexhaustible, and with a ship canal around the Saut the trade would double in two years. The fish taken in Superior are the largest and finest in the chain of Lakes, and the market for Lake, fish is rapidly extending. The trade is already an important item of our inland commerce, though it is yet comparatively in its infancy^—-Cleveland Herald. •.

WESTERN DEMOCRATS READ. According to the Chicago Tribune, in the single year of 18.51, 118 Steamers and 60S lives were lost upon our Western waters! What was the cause of these disasters? An answer to the question will doubtless show the necessity of y—T*ial .ttfoiiLCuaii, care to our rivers, lakes anannrhors. Oflfctenth of all our steamers are destroyed annually by various accidents—the same ratio in ten years, will show the destruction of 7,000 lives and 1.400, steamers —and yet the "democracy", have presented to the people a candidate for President deadly inimical to the im-

wife,

whom

he really loved, expostula.ed and jiftafoned, until bo promised never to taste liquor again but as soon as thrown into company, his resolutions were forgotten, and he fell into itis old degrading habit. She wept bitter tears, and began to despair of ever weaning him from his monstrous vice, especially as she had implpred one of his false friends in vain not to lead -her husband into evil coni^rti^. Rftgwlarly. however, the qiT^ufitPg associate called, and, despite •of solicited her hushand to sfch and such a pUce. The inmats cojuld not resist, and went and came in a beastly state of intoxica*'on» .a.

harbors of these very vessels. But

blind devotion to party enn do much, and it may essay to overcome an obstacle even so serious as this, though they be snagged and foundered in the attempt. Doubtless, many of the disasters are attributed to ignorance, carelessness or accident, but great share of the blame must lie at the doors of those who oppose appropriations to relieve and benefit our rapidly growing commerce.^

DISASTERS ON THE WESTERN WATERS. —The total number of steamboats lost, and the recorded loss of life on them, from the beginning of steam navigation in the West up to the year 1852, was, boats sunk 576 of which the total tonnage was 85,258, and the total original cost $7,113,940» The above statistics refer only to boats, sunk by snags and other obstructions.—<St. Louis Rep>.

Gen. Pierce is opposed to the remo-

val of the "snags" upon which these <five hundred and seventy six> steamboats were wrecked! And the Convention which nominated him agree with him in opinion. He is, therefore, on this im-

portant question, in entire harmony, but

with the declared views of his party, but

in perfect discord with the interests of

perfect discord with the interests of

the country. And yet he and they have the presumption to suppose that a man who is at once opposed to the Protection of Home Labor and Home Commerce will receive the cordial support of American artisans and boatmen! They will awake to find their mistake in November.—<Albany Journal>.

REVOLUTION IN MEXICO.—A correspondent writes that a conspiracy had

been formed in Havana

throw of the Mexican Government

favor of Queen Isabel. Itis stated that Chrisdanna, the Queen mother, is at irjo head of the movement. Names

Meeting: of the Whir* of Lost Creek. accordance with a call made upon the seve-

Soturflny, the 31st July, HJ52

solved.

to ih, choir,

•pprfnud S.„X

plained by tha chair, 0a motion of Svnual Dick-* *n?on, it was

That this meeting heartily npprove of

the plan ofholding a county convention, to nominate suitable persons to fill the Several county ot_ ficee, at the ensuing October election.

The following persons were then appointed delegates to said convention, to moot in Terre Haute on the 21st of August next viz: A. B. Pege, Samael Diekeraon, W. D. Ladd, Aaron Moses, Horace Chamberlain, John Dtckerson, Zadoc Reeve, Ralph Wjl*©^, Peter Uajchea and George'fiusaey. »t wag furtlter

That the Whig vot?ra of Lost Creek

be requeated to attend said convention, an4 that all in attendance be considered dele gatoa of tho

ssme.«j^. After three hearty cheer, for Scott and Graham, it was

Kesohxd,

That the proceeding of Una meeting

bis published in tho Express and Courier. The meeting then adjoured. —i GEO. I1USSEY, Chairman.

Jobs L.

DrcKr.so.v,

Secretary.

MARRIED.

On the 29th instant, by the Rev. J. O. Smith Mr. JOH* SWISHER, to Miss EMZA^ STRANAHAW, all of this county. JBIM I

IIIII lIlillM

On the 6th instant, MART ELIZABETH, youngest child of Wm. D. and Ann K. Johnson. "'T*1 ,,'

Corrected Weekly fer the Courier.

FLOUK AND MEATT Flour per brl- 3,2f» 30,00 Corn Meal,

per

bush-

GRA INS—per bushel:

Wheat, Rye, ti *1Corn,

BACON—per poun I Hog round, Hams, city cured, SEEDS- per otisfycl:

SA T—per tmrrel: HAY—per Urn-' FRU11 S—pcr btuhel:

Apples, dried, Apples, green, Ponchos, dried,

SUNDRIES: Butter, t'hickcns,

'ES.

j, C'hecse, "*4 Feathers, Cinseng, -, Beeswax

Rngs, Potatoes,

1 d«'clared forfeited against the

°f8 thereof,

the

that tiwo.

Pltysiciaii

H_'n

~~~~~~~

for

the over-!

.1 .1 \i jto i^.jacountry—tenders his seivtcCs to t«c

Are

given to us by our correspondent b'^'t he adds that the whole was nipped jn the bud by Genera! Arista, who seized the papers of tho conspirators, ajj.d threw the Spaniards in prison at V»ra Cru-/ N. Y. Express. 'i

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OCTOBER ELECTION.

COMMON PLEAS JUDGK.

.We areaiuhorizcd to announce JACOB JON K3 as a candidate for Judge of Common Pleas of Vigo at the October clcc'ion

We are authorized to annonnoe S. W. EDMONDS as a candidate for Judge of Common Pleas of Vigo, at the October election.

VVc are authorized JO annbence AMORY K!NNEIY as a candidate for Judge of the Court of Common Plejts of Vigo county, at the enmui.g election. a- -v •sKW I,,-* f*»|w awajw.

CLBKK CIITCDIT CO UK T,

We ire., authorized to apnouace TFIOS I, BOURNE as a candidate for Clerk oi the Caurtaal 'Vigo at the October election.

We are authorized to announce ANDREW WILKIN'S as a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court ofVigo county, at the ensuing October election.

We are authorized to annoftrifec BISHOP '/V. OSBORN as-a candidate for Clerk 9I' the Vigo Circuit Coart. ••,

-T. T'T- -r~TREASURER, HI'? We are authorized to announce DA VIES JOHNSON as a candidate for Treasurer and Collector of: Vigo, at the October election

Wfe are authorized to announce W. N. HA Ml LLTON as a candidate for Treasurer and Collector of Vigo, at tho October election-

"We are authorized to announce N. P. 'U.'v** NINGHAM as a candidate for re-election tor Treasurer.lcs^or.of Vigo at .Oct^r

tia 4~-' -4ih IAIS£ SIIEBIFF. J'

We Are aut/wrized to announco JAMES II. i^EIjSOS as a candidate for Shorifl ofVigo, at the October election.

We are authorized to announce*W ALTER SCOOPER as a candidate for Sheriff of Vigo, at the October election^-'- lr

We are authorized to announce

M. DAW

SON as a candidate lor Sheriff of Vigo, at the October election. STS£

COUNTY^S^VEYOvtT*

AC rt. ?A 'l.. We arc authorized to announco JAMES OAKEY os a candidate for County Surveyor tor Vigo, at the October election.

We arc authorized to announce ROBERT AT.LEN as a candidate for County Surveyor, for Vigo, at the October election,

TERJ1E IIAUTK X'RICES CUR RUNT,

0.10 30,00

0,-15 C30 ')0 0,30 0»0,3:

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Timothy, Clover, r'Jnx,

o.osicao.io 0,IJ 00,00

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0,18 00,00 0,02 O8,02i' 0,J0 00,60

Wabash Railroad Meeting/

OTICE is hereby given that there wilIffo ft meeting of tho Kiibscribcra to tho Capital Stock of *he Wabash Railroad Company at tho town of Mcrom, in Sullivan county, en tho 19th day of August, 1852,* nt It) o'clock,'*. W., of saiii day, lor the purpose of electing nine Directors in complinncc with.the fifth section'of-the charter o£ eald company., «t..

By order of the Board of Commissioners THOMAS MARKS, Secretary. Aug^, '52—w2w

Notice

Ofiko Torre Haute and Richmond TPSilroad Company, Terre Haute, August 3, 18!V2.

a medtng of tho Board of Directors held, tliig day, it was ordered— Th^t at the next regular meeting of the Board-,, on the 12th day of October next, all delinquent made «tock in this Company, and all payment? in

subscribed being delinquent,

shail

BHbta*ibers or hold-

same ahali not

fully

paid by

CIIAS. WOOD, Secretary.

Aug 6, '32—wGw

YOOMANS,

and Surgeon.

Jjpl A.-*.r j, CliAifE of Liciorjfo COUNTY, Otino.)

AVW6 had a. number of years experience th4 prncti of Midwifery ant} the diseases 2«l

np^

Children, Dysentery, Bilious

ever, alalign^it Erysepales, Typtioia PneomoRia, SOU TypV/jid Congestive Fever. Also, chronic diseases all their various forms—particularly

of the Liver and Spleen, so preva

1 of Terre Haute and vicinity, hoping'a liber/1 share of patronaae. Rtsideuce Stewart House, wjiere lie may be foind at all hpurs, except when ou professional

ImeinC^ra. -, 5 August 5,, t$52—tHw-wtf

The Life of Gen. Frank. Tiercel

rgXIIE GRANITE STATESMAN, v-Hh* Bi

ojjraphical Sketch, 0! HON. WM- RUfUS I N For Hale at BUCKINGHAM'S Stored