The Wabash Courier, Volume 22, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 12 November 1853 — Page 2
THE COURIER.
E S S E O N A E E DITOR
E E A E
Saturday Morning, Nov. 12th, 1853.
GENIUS.
The practical utility, or every day availability of genius in tbe business of life, or in a utilitarian age, will be variously estimated according to tbe elements of genius as found* in persons making the estimate. A real genius can probably be appreciated only by a genius—to the rest of the world it is totally a dead letter, almost a blank in creation. Genius is sensitive, retiring, reserved —and although understanding others, is but little understood itself, and almost always compares unfavorably with tbe business titan In the every day occupations of life.— And yet genius has its own enjoyments, far beyond that apparent sclf-eatisfaction which teems to gratify the mere utilitarian in the successful operations of the common detail# •f ordinary buainess. Genius will rarely be rich, in the world's acceptation of the term, but will live longer, and enjoy the passing moments of any twenty-four hours of sunshine or storm, of winter or summer, than can generally be allotted to the weeks, or months, or even a short life, of the plodding, detail business intellect In the estimation of the world, however, the latter will generally have the advantage. Each will have its enjoyment, and perhaps wisely so ordained. .-Each will also regard, and hold the other, with tome degree of pity and contempt, according to the standard of estimate by which either will suppose itself ranging above, or below the other.
Although the business man may be fully m£C08s&il, without a modicum of genius, as indeed, he is more likely to be without than with it, still it does nut follow that genius may not also be highly successful in business. There are organs enough in the head of genius, if properly developed, for even superiority in every day business. But it Is the pleasure of exercising and indulging the higher and superior grade of organs, whieh sometimes occasions the apparent failure in conducting the details of ordinary Mife. Genius may be said, as it were, to have two sets of organs, and as tho higher predominate, according to the pleasure given, so will tbe other for want of exercise become more or less feeble and inefficient.— This is nothing more nor less than the natural course of physical cause and effect there la in reality nothing supernatural in tbe operation. Thus it will be plainly seen that what is called genius, need not necessarily be an isolated principle—but arising and taking ita name from tho fact of perhaps an over indulgent exercise of superior organs In the brain, to tho neglect of others •which properly used give a better balance to the man, and contribute to his success ttore efficiently in tho every day business of life.
We have been led to these reflections from an ivery day observation of the erroneous viewi constantly entertained by unreflecting people in reference to what is called want of success in genius, or the over estimate taken of success in those who really have no genius at all. An over, or an under estimate is often placed upon both moral and physical affairs of life, and common opinion is far from being always a correct standard by which to judge of all things in this world. "Some people live more in one day than others do in a month, and hence plrhapa it ia difficult for either to be good judges of the other.
We were at the Lafayette and Indianapolis Depot yesterday. and the forenoon train, under Conductor Woollen, camc in at the regular time up to a minute. Thia is nothing unusual for them. The road in well managed, and ia doing a good buainess Stat* Journal.
If the Editor of tho Journal would take the peine to visit the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Depot, he would find the Terre Haute Train also reguler to minute. We often saunter to our Depot In tho evening and find the train arriving wiihln a half minute, as marked on the time table. Such is the admirablo arrangement of Mr. Hueatis, superintendent, that all persons may calculate not only ea to the time of arrivals and departure!, but also of tnopreolae minute any stopping piece on the road will be
readied.
THR COMMON SC»EOUTOR NEW KMC LAUD.—By the last official returns of the public schools in tho six New England States, the whole number of pupils in at tendance during the yeer wss 641,983. The whole cost of instruction for the ytjsr wss #2,065,131. In Vermont the average cost of esch pupil wat In Maine $1 34 in Connecticut 1 3Sj in Rhodo Island tl 65. In Massachu aetta the law requires each town to raise
by tax tt P«r
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five and fifteen years of age, as a condition of receiving a share of the Income of the Statt school fund. All the towns complied with this condition last year, and 180 towns raited double tbe aum thos specified. The amount expended in Massachusetts Isst year for each child between the ages above named, wait*
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SALE OF THE EXPRESS. By an announcement in the Wabash Express of Wednesday last we learn that paper has changed hands, the late proprietor D. S. Danaldson, having sold his interest in the entablishment to J. B. L. SOULE. The late editor gives his valedictory, and the new one makes his bow. Mr. Soule has taken possession and entered upon the duties of the office.
The Express now passes into the hands of one with whom the paper will not be likely to lose in interest in any of its departments.
Mr. Soule is already favorably known as an editor holding a keen and sprightly pen. He was at one time co-editor in the paper, of which he has now become sole proprietor. And at the time of his new purchase was editor of the Charleston (Ills.) Courier, tbe columns of which for some time past have been found exceedingly interesting to the readers of that paper. Mr. Soule has our good wishes for success in his new place. ~~~~~~~
CRYSTAL PALACE.
We learn says the N. Y. Tribune, that the Directors of the Crystal Palace have resolved to keep the Exhibition open through the winter, instead of closing it in December, as they had previously contemplated. They are impelled to this step by the pecuniary success they have steadily met with since the exhibition was complete, and by the consideration that an early close must deprive an immense number of persons of the pleasure and benefit of visiting the Palace. Stoves will be immediately erected in sufficient numbers to keep the building comfortable, and new ones will be added as the weather becomes more severe. ~~~~~~~
SMITH'S WAREHOUSE.—'The new ware house Establishment ofH. B. SMITH on the canal basin is now in complete operation Engine, Elevators, shellers, fans &c., all in good order. We witnessed the process a few days since by which corn was taken from wagons in the ear at one side of the building and in five minutes was shelled, cleaned, weighed and delivered in a boat on the other side, ready for transportation.— Such is the completeness of arrangements that 4 men only are required to.re'ceive, shell, and ship on canal boat 2,500 bushels in 12 hours.
TRADE WITHOUT MONEY.—A new system of exchange is coming into vogue in France. Banks of exchange are established, through which manufacturers and consumers moy procure whatever they desire by giving a bond to exchange a cenain quantity of other goods for it. This bond the Bank exchanges wiih a dealer or consumer who wants the kind of goods specified In it. And thus the exchange between producers of different kinds of articlea is made without tho use of money. It is very successful so fnr.
Terre Ilante Railroad.
The receipts of the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad hnye been as follows:
1852.
April.
1853.
$6,874 38 6,304 46 7,213 66 8,105 03 7,475 64 11,633 31 12,485 68
I una, July, Aug. Sept. Oct.
April, May, June, July, Aug. Sept. Oct.
$10,305 32 10,620 21 14.369 71 13,243 04 15,421 83 16,2^3 13 16,867 93
DON'T TAKE THEM.
Don't take bills on the following Banks. Some of them have temporarily suspended and others broken outright Patchin Bank, Buffalo Erie & Kalamazoo R. R. Bank Farmers' Joint Stock Banking Co., Canada Atalanta Bank, Georgia Bank of Owego, New York Pratt's Bank, Buffalo, N. Y. Chatauque County Bank, N. Y. Lewis County Bank, N. Y. Bank of Massilon, O.
LOST BOOKS.—PA LET'S WORKS, complete one volume, and the HEROINES OF HISTORY, were recently taken from our table.— Whether these books were taken by fair means or foul, we know not—but we have a suspicion—and somebody may aave exposure, if the volumea are apeedily returned. The booka are aomewhere in town, and we will give a reasonable reward for their return.
PortJLATioR.—By a recent enumeration, Terrs Hauto now counts a little over 6,000 inhabitants.
MARKETS.—We note but little change in markets since our last. If any thing, Pork and Hogs stand a little depressed.
See prospectus for Daily and Congressional Globe in another column.
Henry Groverman haa ware rooms for rent. See advertisement.
For Washington news see Potomac's letter to the Baltimore Patriot.
It being thought necessary that the disastrous effect of the Administration's siding with the Soft Shells in New York should be to some extent counteracted, Mr. Cushing, the Attorney General, has published a letter in Boston, giving no dee that the Preaident will 'set his face like Aim* aginst all coalitions of the Democrats with the Freesoilera in Mas* sachusetts. So tbe Administration sets ita face like one flint against coalitions
Massachusetts and tike another flint in favor of the coalition fn New York. The Administration haa certainly a very convenient face.
Only a few days ago an election of State officer a by the Vermont Legislature took place at Montpelier. The Locofocos and Freeaoilera, as everybody had for weeks fully expected, formed a coa litioo and divided the spoils between them. The Administration did not in that case set its face against the coali lion tike a flint or like any other subatance hard or eofu It sets its face like a flint for a coalition in one State, and and sets the same face like a flint against coalition in another State, and sets it* |»ce like nothing at all while a coalition i* going on in a third State!—LtmstUU
Correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot. WASHIHGTOJI, NOV. 3, 1853. Judge Branson's last letter to Mr. Guthrie ia a finisher. If Mr. Guthrie does not tfiah himself dead, then a very large proportion of his political party unquestionably wish that much for him! It seema to me that a politician ought to die, after officially exhibiting himself as Mr. Guthrie has recently done.
Mr. Attorney General Cushing's letter, for the benefit of the Freesoil office-holders of New England would read admirably well, if its object were not ao apparent. The National Intelligencer well and facetiously describes it as an effort to trim the ship, which had been sadly careened by the great weight of Mr. Guthrie's and Mr. Marcy's Freesoil contributions! It is already understood that Mr. Cushing's pronunciamentoonlv intends threats and that no Freesoil blood is to flow. It is a funny, fast and lose, game the Cabinet gentlemen, under the eye of the President, are playing. They will soon find, however, that one mistake will not cover up or atone for another.
The National Intelligencer of thia morning contains along and most powerful and annihilating review of Mr. Marcy'sreply to Mr. Hulsemann, the Austrian Charge des Affairs, relative to the Koszta case. The reviewer signs rhimself "Buncombe." His piper, in the matter of style, ability and truthfulness, is as much superior to that of Mr. Marcy, as the replies of Judge Bronson are to tbe tyranical and bungling edicts of Mr. Guthrie. No reader will peruse the masterly review of "Buncombe," however much he may regret that there should be a necessity for it, without wishing to know the name of the author. Such an able and conclusive commentator on international State papers ought not to be afraid to have his name known to the public. I hope the review, long as it is, will soon find a place in the columns of the Patriot.
The Intelligencer is seriously joking the Union about its "cock and bull*' stories, relative to the intrigues of the British Government to Africanize Cuba. It chides the official organ for allowing its articles on the subject to so appear as to create the impression that the Cabinet had had a hand in the matter. The Union will yet be forced to explain whether its Africanization theme was of its own coinage, or an emanation of a Cabinet origin.
General Duff Green is out, in the New York Herald, with a most severe and bitter reply to a portion of Colonel Benton's history of his thirtj years in the Senate, which relates to the course of Mr. Calhoun and General Green, during the first term of Gen. Jackson's Presidential career. These quondam friends and veteran politicians are telling some truths, if not some untruths, on each other Murder will out, whether political or otherwise!
I learn, upon reliable authority, that this Administration, which sets up for its being wonderfully economical, has through the amiable weakness of Mr. Postmaster Generul Campbell, been shelling out a gratuity, in one instance, to the tune of twenty-four thousand dollars per annum A contract was given, some three years ago, to Wade Allen, to carry the mail between Montgomery and Mobile, in Alabama, for thirty-two thousand dollars per annum. Mr. Allen, the contractor, died a little more than a year ago, but the administrators of his estate have carried the mail, under the contract, (which is to extend to July next) up to a
Bhort
time
since. The contract has recently been purchased by MesRrs. Powell and Metcalf. This Mr. Metcalf was, for a number of years, a clerk in the General PostOfficc in this-city. He came here from Georgia.— Some time before Mr. President Fillmore went out of office, Mr. Metcalf found means to get Judge Hall to appoint him as special Mail Agent for Georgia and Alabama. T* position enabled him to look about for an eligible opportunity to better himself, if he could, at Uncle Sam's expense. So he surrendered the Mail Agency and purchased the aforesaid mail contract, jointly, with his partner.
This was the first move. The next was to come on here and represent to tbe Post master General that the mail between Montgomery and Mobile coult' not possibly be carried, as required, for $32,000 per annum, but an additional sum of $24,000 must be allowed. To this exorbitant request, Mr. Postmaster General Campbell, as I learn, has acceded, and promised, further, that he will urge Congress to extend the contract to Powell and Metcalf, for four years from July next, at a compensation of $24,000 per annum over and above the sum it has been carried for during the past three years.— Why is this Will it not be well for Congress to look into the subject, when Mr. Postmaster General Campbell gets ready to make his promised recommendation in the matter? POTOMAC.
Where are the Ships Built. Within five years the commerce of the Pacific and the increase of our trade with foreign nations generally, have created such a demand for ships as was never before known. More than 350,000 tons of vessels of all classes, were built in the United States, in the year ending June, 1853. Of these, 110 000 tons—138 ships, 63 brigs, 148 schooners and 5 sloops were built in Maine alone, which is the greatest ship-building State in the Union, making this the leading branch of industry after agriculture.— Of the ships built there, 54,000 tons were sold out of the State at a value of nearly three million of dollars. In the tonnage built, Maine has quadrupled in the last seventeen years increasing from 27,000 tons in 1836, to 110,000 in 1852 and making a gain of more than 30,000 tons in the very last year. The character of their ships has very much improved and under the present demand wages have so risen, thst every man who swings an axe—and there are very few who can't in Maine—is induced to enter the yards. In ship owning, Maine is, also, increasing upon her sister States. She has half as much tonnage as New York, three fourths as much as Massachusetts, and twice as much as any other State.—
<Newburyport Union> ~~~~~~~.
View him (Solomon) upon the whole, and in comparison with modern names, we may recognise under the the Oriental garb and temperament of tbe Hebrew sage the wisdom that shines out in tbe Esaays and Aphorisms of Lord Bacon— the magnificence that gave such peerless splendor to Leo the Tenth. Inbim, as with Bacon, wisdom was no safeguard from error. Witb him, as with Leo, magnificence was purchased sometimes at the expense of religion and humanity Tbe buiider of the great temple, like tbe builder of St. Peter's, entailed centuries o! suffering and discord upon hi* people by his enormous imposts, end what was splendour to tbe eye, looking from the enchantment of distance, was a crushing burden to those groaning be Death tbe stately pile.
THE MONET PRESSURE. The N. Y. Journal of Commerce publishes the annexed remarks, which it says are from the pen of *one of our most intelligent bankers.* 'They who imagines from the action of local and temporary influences, thst the present stringency Is the precurser of a financial revulsion, can hardly have studied comprehensively the condition of affairs. Never, from its beginning, was the country so rich and strong in all the elements of prosperity, as at the present hour. Some look at the magnitude of our imports, and predict ruin from this source. *We are rolling up au immense debt to Europe,* they Say, 'to be followed by a drain of specie, and general bankruptcy.* Now let us look at the facts.
The Treasury Tables showed a bal ance against the country for six years preceding 1837, of $165,000,000:—an amount which would require at that time the total exports of about two years to liquidate, even if the imports had ceased entirely. In other words, the country was two years behind its debts in the balance of trade. Here were the elements of a revulsion, and we had one
Referring to the same tables, we find a very different lecord for the last six years, up to June 30, 1851. The account stands as follow*:
Imports.
Exports.
$146,545,538 "154.998.928 147,857,489 178,138.318 215.725,995 212,995,442
1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852,
$158,648,622 154.932,131 145,25i.859 151,898,720 217,517,180 209.573,235
$1,056,211,750 $1,038,223,845 1,088,323.845
Excess of V-. Imports $17,887,905" •Showing a nominal balance of less than eighteen millions against the coun try in the trade of six years, an amount quite insignificant, compared with the aggregate commerce. This difference would be much more than provided for by profits on exports and by freights. 'The imports of 1853, not yet published by the Treasury Department, are estimated at about $258,000,000, being some $45,000,000 in excess of the two previous years but as an offset to this increase, it is well known that we had a cotton crop alone which was about $40,000,000 in excess of last year. •If then, the report of the Treasury Department, which, previous to the revulsion in 1837, had steadily and truly indicated, from year to year, the accumulating balances against the country, may be relied on now, there is but a trifling, ifny, balance against us, and our commerce is in a condition of general soundness and prosperity. The imports of the last quarter may have turned the baiance temporarily against us, as it is the heaviest quarter of the whole year, while in our exports it is the lightest, being the period between the old aud the new cotton crops. But the progress of the fall and winter is directly reverse.— linpoits decline, as they are now doing at a rapid rate, and exports increase, and the equilibrium is restored. So it will be this year and if it were not like sen ding cotton to the South, or 'coals to Newcastle,' we should import specie from Europe in payment for breadstuff's, as we did in 1847,'
THE SEMINOLE INDIANS.—In the course of his inauguration address at Tallahasc, on
the
3d inst., Governor Broome
of Florida, warmly urged tlit renewal of decisive measures on the part of the State government, with a view to the removal of the Seminole Indians within its jurisdiction. A law of the last Legislature, however, restrains him from beginning actual operations until the 4th day of May rtext, and not until he is satisfied that the General Government has determined not to remove said Indiana, by force or otherwise. At the same time, it was provided that if hostilities should be commenced by the Indians before that time, the foregoing proviso is to be of no^'orce or effect. The Governot says, the State, in any ^event, can never sanction, and he hopes it will never submit to a policy which looks to anything short of their removal.
ARMY RECRUITS.
The Washington Star says: So great has been the difficulty of late in obtaining recruits for the Army, owing to the ruling great demand and high prices of
labor
everywhere in the United
States, that the Secretary of War will probably be compelled to make the matter a leading subject in his first annual communication to Congress, trom the 1st of August to the 30th ultimo, we take it, hardly- any were obtained. In the recent distribution of the troops, the ar my has been put upon the extended peace establishment requiring 74 men to a company which may be serving at a western frontier, or other far distant post from their former number of 60 men each. The exigencies of the pub lie service require the pretence of near ly the whole army—thirteen out of the whole fifteen regiments— on western frontier service. So, perhaps, a thousand troops are required, whereas hard ly a handful can be obtaineds with the most active and unremitted exertions.
TOBACCO.—The total produce of tobacco grown on the face ol the globe has been calculated to amount to two millions of tons—which weighs as much as tbe heat consumed annually by ten millions of Englishmen, and is worth in money' as much aa all the wheat eaten in Great Britain. Tbe largest producers, and probably tbe largest consumers of tobacco, irg the United States of America.— The amount grown in our country in 1840 was estimated at 219,163,319 Iba. in 1850, at 199,752,646 pounds, being about one-twentieth part rf use produce of tbe globe.
We need to follow Solomoo'scoonsel rather than bis example, and look upon tbe prevalence of knowledge, industry frugality, and justice aa of more value then enormooa fortunes in tbe few, or passion for show and luxury in the many, vte should bless our fathers for tbeir noble course in guarding against dangerous opulence by equalising the Inherit* ance of children, and throwing open to all the institutions of education, which provide for general prosperity better than any agrarian law.
WASHINGTON, NOV. 7, 8 P. M.—001# Seymour, minister to Russia, was here to~day, in attendance at the State Department. He will sail in the Pacific on the 29th. accompanied by Mr. Irving. Secretary of Legation.
Advices from Oregon, dated Camp Myrtle, Umpqua Valley, Sept. 11th, says that the Star reports that for a month previous to date, that region had been the seat of formidable Indian war. With the assistance of Gen. Lane, Major Alvord in command of the regular forces there, raised a company of Umpqua volunteers. Gen. Lane, after leaving the main body, was elected to command it, and on the 24th of August, he met the Indians, some thirty warriors, and whipped them and made them sue for parden [sic], surprising them by march ing, and otherwise acting with vigor and rapidity. He overtook them in their stronghold in the mountains, where the battle took place. Lane was badly wounded, but kept the field.
The appointment of James W. Green, of Alexandria as consul to Lima, vice Judge Smith, of California, declined, is reported. ~~~~~~~
Which is the Weaker Sex! fe Females are called the weaker sex but why? If they are not strong, who is? When men must wrap themselves in thick garments, and incase the whole in a stout overcoat to shut out the cold, women in thin silk dresses, with the neck and shoulders bare, or nearly so, say that they are perfectly comfortable. When men wear waterproof boots over woolen hose, and incase the whole in India rubber to keep them from freezing, women wear thin silk hose and cloth shoes, and pretend hot to feel the cold. When men co\er their heads with furs, and then complain of the severity of the weather, women half cover their heads with straw-bonnets, and ride twenty miles in an open sleigh, facing a cold north-wester, and pretend not to suffer at all. They can sit, too, by men who smell of rum and tobacco smoke, enough to poison a whole house, and not appear more annoyed than though they were sitting by a mammoth boquet of roses. Year after year they can bear abuses of all sorts fiom drunken hus* bands, as though their strength was made of iron. And then is not woman's mental strength greater than man's?— Can she not endure suffering that would bow the stoutest man to the earth?— Call not woman the weaker vessel for had she not been stronger than man the race would long since have been extinct.
A Mohawk Dutchman, the other day, reading an account of a meeting, came to the words, 'the meeting then dissolved.' He could not define the meaning of the latter, so he referred to his diclionary and felt satisfied. In few minutes a friend came in, when Hontz said: 'Dey musht hab werry hot wedder here in New York. 1 real an account of a meeting, vere all de people hab melted right away.' •Mr. Skees ik s, you widthed fen an was honestand intelligent. What makes you think so, are you acquainted with him?' .j. •No sir, I never seed him.' •Why then do you come to such conclusion?' 'Cause he takes ten newspapers, and always pays for them in advance.'
Verdict for the plaintiff. Call the next case.
Don't attempt too much. Knives that contsin 90 blades, 4 cork screws, and a boot jack, are very seldom brought into action and for this reason, in attempting too much they have become so clumsy snd ponderous that men of small patience can't 'get the hang' of them.
In a dialogue which Dobbs had with himself the other day, he came to the conclusion that the best way to succeed with a woman is to brag of her baby, and speok well of her bonnet.
A DAUGHTKS OF PATRICK HKNBY*— Near Athens, Alabama, resides Mrs. Winston, widow of Mr. G. D. Winston, of Virglnis, and danghter of Patrick Henry, who did more, perhaps, than any other one man, to set the ball of the Revolution in motion. In an humble cottage, situated in a quiet grove, the eventful life of this venerable lady is calmly and quietly drawing to a close.
We all have our little troubles. There is an elder)7 gentleman down town, who can boast that he has seen every President, from Washington to Pierce—except one—namely Gen. Taylor and tbe existence of this elderly gentleman is embittered by the reflection that he neglected to aee General Taylor when be paaaed through New York, though he might easily have done so. How of en does repentance come too late!
A HIST —A Western editor aays he once beard Ex-Senator Tom Co? win remark, that wheal be "first enteied an office to atttdy law, he was the soiject for ridicule of every stadent in town, on account of his homespun dress bat," adds be, "1 have lived to aae every one of them ten times as ragged as I was st thst time— snd why! 1 was economical—they were spendthrifts."
Indolence is a delightful bat distressing state ve must do something to be happy- Action is DO less necessary than thought to the instinctive tea* dencies of tbe human frame.
When the iark moves it is a1#iys upwards. Imitate the lark, therefore, and when you cease to be a member of Congress, endeavor to become a respect able switch-tender to a suburban railroad. zf$? ••*^7r-s
Mrs. Partington aays she has noticed that whether floor was dear or ch*ap she invariably had to pay the same in on ey for a half a dollar's worth.
Ocr possessions are wholly in oar performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing
An intelligent and eaterpnsmg Chinese merchant in Sacramento, California, advertises among other articles of traffic,dried mama for samp.
MARRIED.
On the 10th inst., by the Rev. M. A. Jewett, Mr. E. P. BROWN to Miss MARGARET SCOTT, all of thia place.
On the iOth inst., by the Rev. M. A. Jewett, Mr. JOHB H. O'BOTLS,to Mrs. ELIZABETH BARBOUR, all of thia place.
#3rlt always eives us pleasure in notice any article that confers a real benefit on the commu nity, and it is with confidence we heartily commend Ayer's Cherry Pectoral to our readers as possessing extraordinary virtues for the cure of aieeaaes incident to the Throat and Lungs. This msy account for our frequent reference to thia ac tide which we feel fully justified in making known to the public —N. I. Tribune.
Improve Tour Sight
BRAZILLIAN PEBBLE SPECTACLES. H. Semmons & Son, the celebrated English opticians, will shortly visit Terre Hsute with their celebrated and world renowned Braxillian Pebble Spectaclea. Due notice will he given of their arrival
Nov. 13,^-19-11
ECLIPSE GALLERY. MESSRS.
DUFF A FREEMAN having
fitted up rooms in the H'arrew JBiock expressly for the A O E E A N S I N E S S would respectfully return their sincere thsnkt for the libers! patronage bestowed upon them by the citizens of Terre Haute and vicinity and would most respectfully invite them to an examination of the roomy and apparatus that has been fitted and arrange^ for the Dagucrrean purpose.
From long experience in the business, and a disposition to please the most fastidious, we hope to merit a continuance of public patronage.
DUFF &. FREEMAN,
Nov. 12, '53-lS-tf Opeiatora.
WARE ROOMS FOR RENT.
THE
rooms on Market street between Main street and Dole's Stables for Rent. Inquire immediately of
GROVERMAN & BOURNE.
Nov. 12,'53-12-tf
AN ORDINANCE
To prohibit TheMtricnl and other Exhibitions and Public Shows, without License.
SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City qf Terre Haute, That any person or persons'who shall exhibit or participate in exhibiting, any theatrical, or any other exhibition, or any public show, within tne city of Terre Hante, for which money is demanded and received^ except for lectures on scientific, benevolent or Htersry subjects, and the apparatus for the elucidation of the same, and specimens of the fine arts without license therelor from the Mayor of snid city, shall for each oficnce, on conviction thereof before the Mayor, forteit and pay any sum not exceeding fifty dollara, with costs of prosecution*
SECTION 2. That every license for any such exhibition or public show, shall state the name or names of the petson or persons in whose favor and for what purpose the same is granted, and the time for wliicli it is to continue, and incase ofany theatrical performance or exhibi.ion, circus, menagerie, hippodrome, or exhibition of wild animals, the house or placo in which such
ficense
erformance or exhibition is to lie had and sifch shall be issued by the Mayor, on the applicant or applicants therefor producing the receipt of 'he Lity Treasurer, specifying the said requirements^ and showing, that such applicant or applicants, have paid the sum charged for such license, as prescribed in the succeeding section of this ordinance and on such applicant or applicanta, paying fifty cents for issuing the same.
SECTION 3. That the sum to be pnid for each license as aforesaid shall be as follows: For exhibiting or showing either a hippodrome or circus One Hundred Dollars, for each dny, and for either a caravan, menagerie or other collection of animals, Fifty Dollars Tor each day, and fire dollara for each day in addition thereto, for each side show annexed or attached to either and for all theatrical and other exhibitions and public shows, five dollars, for each day, during which any such exhibition, performance or ahow is to continue.
Passed November 7th, 1853. .it W. K. EDWARDS, i»/e*or. Attest: J. EDMUNDS, CUrk.
Nov. 12,'53 12 2t
AN OHDINANCET"
Providing for the impounding of Ilogfi running at large. SECTION 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Terre Haute. That such portion of the north half of in lot Mo. 64 in the city of Terre Haute as shall be necessary, may be
U9ed
as a pound, in which any hog or hogs
found running at large, within the city of Terre Haute, contrary to the provisions of an ordinance,
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running at large," passed August 15, 1853 shall be impounded and, sold for the costs of keeping the same, according to the provisions of said ordinance and it is neieby further provided, that any hog or hog4 so impounded, shall be sold, also tor the penalty, that may be adjudged against the owner or agent thereof, for permitting such hog or bogs to run at large, contrary to tne lint section of aaid ordinance.
Passed Nov. 7, 1853. W. K. EDWARDS, Mayor. Attest: J.B. EDMUNDS, CferA. Nov. 12, '53-12-21
THE G-LOBB:
The Official Paper of Congress,
AND NEWSPAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. It will he seen bv the annexed extract from a letter from Generu Washington to David Stewart, dated New York, 17th of March, 1790, that the idea of such a paper as 1 propose to make the Globe originated in the mind of the Father of his Country, lie said: "It is to be lamented that the editors of the different Gazettes in tbe Union do not more generally and more oorrectly (instead of stuffing their pspers with scurrility and nonsensical declamation, which few would read if ttey were apprised of the contents) publish the debates in Congress on all great national questions. The principles upon which the difference of opinion arises, as well as tbe decisions, would then come fully before the public, and afford tbe bust data for its judgment."—Sparkt't I{rilingt of Washington, vol. 10, p. 84.
Tax DAILY GLOSS T! AND THE CosesssstoNAL GLOBE.
In surrendering my interest in the organ of a great political party, I cherished the purpose ot continuing tbe Congressional Globe, and, il pos sible, in nice to peneet it into a full history of the action of Congress, giving the debates accurately ami fully with tbe proceedings—all stamped witb the verity of sn official record. From the passage in tbe letter of Gen. Waahington, which I have quoted, it will be perceived that tie thought tbia office might be combined with '.bat of a regular newspaper and it is certain thst the avidity of the public for newa of tbe less importsnt kind greatly contributes to give wings to the weightier matter which may be called Congressional news
Havingsoeeeeded in my purpose of perfecting tbe reports of the debatea in Congress and giving tliem tbe official stamp, 1 now propose to send them abroad, in connection witb tbe news of tbe day, hi soeh baste as shall outstrip fall sod. accurate intelligence sent from tbr|seat of Government in any other form whatever. It will even anticipate tbe scrape of newa forwarded to (dries within two hundred and fifty miles of Washing
containing them will bsvs reached the post office of lbs: city bj tbe Expresa Mail of tbe previous eight. The process by which ibis will be effected I now lay before the paWie. 1 will have a eorpe of sixteen Reporters in Congress each la aocseasioo will take notes dnring Sve minutes, then retire, prepare them for tbe Press, put cbsaa slip by slip into tae bands of compositors, and thus, while a debate going on in Congress, it. will be pat in type, and in a few it is ended it will be ia print. 1
fore that made 3,901 royal quarto pages—-four entWedT'"An*'ordinance to prevent hogs Irotn
sfeaii by this mesne be enabled to send by the Express Mail of o'clock m. for the East, West, and Nortb,andby thst of 9 o'clock p. m.for tbe Sooth, all the proceedings of Cotgrnrss op to tbe onfcoary bow of sojournment. Thns tbsaeearate debates of Congress will reach tbe cities two bsadred ana fifty milce from the Capitol before their daily asonttag papers are in areolatkm.
Tbe HMsoailaaeoae news 1 shall be careful to gather from reaso4e sections of tbe eovntry by telegraph. 1 will obtain from die Executive DeP*""*"1* SKS*?
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of moment transacted in themr end, through a? gents employed for the purpose, all the city newa| of consequence in sufficient time to be ptH into the Globe and mailed in the Express Mail ir&fns. In this way I hope to create anew era in the di9semination of newa from Washington. Hitherto no newspaper haa attempted to give authentic accounts of things done at Waahington before the public mind at a distance had received ita first impressions from irresponsible telegraphic dispatches, or by letter-writers biased by peculiar views.
Washington has now become so great a center political interest during all the year—the proceedings of the Executive Departments ana the
recess ot Congress ia o? ao much importance to the interests of every section of the country -that I shall continue the publication of the daily paper permanently, with a view to become the ve-. hicle of the earliest and most correct intelligence.
It is part of my plan to reduce the price of the daily paper to halt that of similar daily papers and thus I hope to extend ita circulation ao as to invite advertisements. 1 will publish advertisements of the Government To subscribers in thai cities I hope to submit such terms aa will induce them to advertise their business in every village! throughout the Union, where the Globe is sent daily under the franks of members of Congress, all of whom take it, and aome of them a large number of copies.
The installation of a new Administration and a new Congress portends much change in the course of public a flairs as the result of the next aeesion. Many vast interests which were brought up in the last Congress were laid over by thee Democratic majonty to await the action of ai Democratic Executive. Tho new modelling of the tariff the new land system the question of: giving homesteads, and makins every man ft freeholder who may choose to become one tho* approximation of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans bv a national railroad across the territory of the Union reform in the Army, Navy, and civil offices—all these great quest ions, with a thousand minor ones, deeply affecting multitudes of men and every State in the Union, will, now being matured by public opinion, come up for the Gov-J eminent'* decision. These new issues, cooperating with old ones, coming op to be disposed of by new actors on the scenes at Washington, will be apt to modify greatly, if not alter essentially, the party organisations of the country.
To these elements of interest another is likely to be introduced by tho interposition of the agitations of Europe. After nearlv forty years of peace in Europe then is an evident restlessness that now seems fraught with tendencies threatening war and if war comes, in all likelihood there will follow such universal change that the United States can scarcely hope to escape ita vortex. Indeed, from late events it is apparent that our Government is already drawn into European difficulties. These circumstances sre calculated to draw the public mind towards the next Congress with much expectation.
The DAILY G&OBE will be printed on fine paper* double royal sine, with small type, (brevier and nonoareil.) at five dollars a year.
The CONOKESSIOKAL GUIDE will also be printed on a double royal sheet, in book form, royal, quarto sise, each number containing snteen pages. The CONORESSIOIS-AL GLOBE proper will be made up of the proceedings ot Congress and the running debates as given by the Reporters.--The speeches which members may choose to write cut thomseives will, together with tho messages of the President of the United States, the reports of the Executive Departments, and the laws paased by Congress, bo auded in an Appendix. Foimerly 1 received aubscriptions for the Congressional Globe and Appendix separately. But this has not been found satisfactory, inasmuch as it gave an incomplete view of the transactions in Congress and therefore 1 have concluded not to sell them apart, considering that neighbors can have the advantage of both by clubbing in case individuals shall find it loo onerous to be at the charge of both.
To facilitate the circulation of the Congressional Globo and cheapen it to subscribers, Congress passod last year a joint resolution making it free of postnge. 1 annex it, as tho law may not be accessible to postmasters generally Joint Resolution providing tor the distribution of the Laws of Congress and thedobatos thereon.
With a view to the cheap circulation of the laws of Congress and the debates eoniiributing to the truo interpretation thereof, and to make Iree the communication between the representative and constituent bodies:
Be it rtnolved by the Senate and Houte of Rep• reientatives qf the Ur ited State* at America in Congre** aitembled, That from and after the pitsent session of Congress, the Congressional Globe and Appendix, which contain the laws and the debates thereon.shall pass free through tbe mails so long as the same shall be published by order of Congress: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the circulation of the Daily Globe free ol
Approved, August 6, 1452. As I sell the DAILY 6UBE at half tho p/fed of similar publications, a6 theCoNoaEsstosAL GUJDB and ArrKNMX is sold lor halt the cost of so much composition, press work, and paper. This I can afford to do, nasmucli as the subscription of Congress almost covers the composition, and this enables me to dell for little more than the cost of press-work and paper. It requires tho sole of a* bout 9.C00 copies to reimburse expenses. If 500 only were sold, the cost of each copy would bo nbou 19104! The debates in the English Parlisraent cost about eleven times as much as I charge subscribers for the debates in Congress, equal in quantity, and as woll leported and printed.
The next session ol Congress will be along one and it is believed the Congressional Globe for it will reach 4,000 royal quarto pages, as the last long sesoion made 3,t*42 and the long one be*
be careful to file all the numbers received by them, 1 will supply any that may miscarry in the maila. This work increases in value sitgrowe old. Tho first seventeen volumes will now command three timet, and some of tho subsequent ones twice, their original subscription price.
The suliscription price for Hie 'ongressionsl Globe (inc uding the Appendix and the laws) is six dollars.
Complete indexes will be made out and forwarded to subscribers soon alter the sevsion is endod*. Subscribers for the Daily should hsva their money here by the 5th, and for the Congressional Globe by the 15th of December. Tlie money must accompany sn order for either the Daily or Congressional Globe. Bank notes current where a subscriber resides will be received st par.
JOHN C. RIVES.
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