The Wabash Courier, Volume 23, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 November 1854 — Page 2

THE COUBIER.

E S S E O N A E DITOR.

E E A E

8atnrdaj Morning, NOT. 25, 1854-

Business for the I«|iil«tiri. As our Legislature has not been in •ession for nearly two years, there is likely to be much business for their action the corning winter. Times and circumstances have greatly changed within year or two, calling loudly for new

laws, and modification of old ones. We have not much doubt but there will be a

press of business, ana some of it of the first importance. The election of U. S Senator the Banking System, and Temperance question, will all be prominent The recent agitation and panic in referencs to Bauk Notes, and particularly the Issues of the Free Banks of Indiana, jiave stirred up inquiries as to the necessity of some change of Stock Bank system. What that may be no one can tell. The subject is one of great impor lance, and requires steady counsels, experienced heads, and practiced hands

to do full justice to the Bunks, with due safety to the people. The Temperance question in the shape of a Maine Low, or something else, will be brought up for action. I'his question entered so largely into the late election that It is not probable it will be passed

over in silence. It cannot be, for a great many members have been chosen with almost direct instruciions on the subject. A law embracing the Maine Law principles on the subject of the sale of spirituous liquors will no doubt be brought forward. There will be speech as and discussion and modifications

without number. Something too, will be done, we have no doubt, in reference

to liquor troffic, but what kind a law moy find its way through both Houses, cannot just now be very easily determ

ined.

DISCONTINUED.—We see by the Terre Haute <Journal>, that the <Prairie City> of that place has "died out." It "languishingly did live," and speedily did quit living, after the old editors and proprietors sold it. In its stead, we believe, is a weekly called the <Gazette>, of a Know Nothing tendency. But of this we are not sure, as we have not a distinct recollection of the paper.—<State Journal>.

The State Journal of course intends to convey the idea that the Prairie City "languishingly did live," under the old editors— and died out under the new. This is doing great and palpable injustice to the new purchaser, who bought only with the view of a weekly, as on examination he had reason to know that the Daily was a losing concern, and could not be sustained. The price, and terms of sale, show that neither buyers nor sellers attached any consequence to the

Daily. The <Prairie City>, under Mr. Brown, is in flourishing condition, and one of the best weeklies laid on our table. ~~~~~~~

The Know Nothings have been at work in old North Carolina. At a spec lal eloction in Ilanover county, for a tnembet of the Legislature, Dr. N^jker, the Democratic nominee, was the only

candidate named until the morning of the election, when Mr. McMillan was brought forward and elected by a ma jority of two to one. The usual Democratic majority in the county is about

thousand.

EK£AROEMENT or THE CITT.—The Mayor requests us to call attention to some resolutions passed by City Councils, and pub lished in another column, in reference to an nexing certain territory to the city. The resolutions contemplate Ihe annexation of all the platted and recorded additions, with certain territory on the west sido of the river. For particulars see Resolutions.

ExruLsto* or MR. SOULE.—We last week noticcd the fact that Mr. Soule, our Minister to Spain, had been prohibited from pasai ng through France on his way to Madrid. Later news has the intelligence that the Emperor had rescinded his order, and Mr. Soule allowed a passage through France. Quite a hubbub was kicked up about the affair.

FINS CATTLE.—Mr Lewis Thompson of Parke, and Jas. F. Darnell of Putnam, had a fine lot of cattle in town this week, sold to II. D. Williams dc Co.— There were 310 head and the average net weight was 655 pounds. Pretty good for Parke and Putnam.

MONKY MATTERS.—Currency

affairs

teem to be a little better. People are in good humor, and will take a most anything with 'INDIANA' on it for their goods, or in the way of business trans actions. The Prairie City Bank still re deems with specie.

There are forty locomotive establish menu ia the United States, turning out. when busily engaged, 1.200 engines year. They employ 9,000 hands at a coat of 93,300,000 per annum. The Iron used exeeeds 45*00(V tons year, and the value of the manufacture is $10 000,000 per annum.

the city of San Francisco, of which •o many hard things have been said there are twenty church congregations, embracing nine thousand members. A religion ia attended to, rice gradually ilmlnletuN,

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. The Canada arrived al New York on the 22nd

TheuanadaarriTea-aiiicw iui» •. ,• Official despatches have been received from Lord

day of the bombardment to the sixth. Hamlin

squadron, after ibe firat fire could have auccesa fully run In and placed themselves in communication with the land force*- without, perhaps a greater loss than they have now actually suffered. The Euglish lota by ship-board haa been two Lieutenanta killed, aizteen officers wounded, in all forty-tour men killed and two hundred and sixty six wounded. The ships have been considerably damaged by shot and ahell8. The French loss is thirty killed and one hundred and eighty wounded.

On the evening ol the 26th, the Russians, 8,000 strong made a sortie from Sevastopol, also from the direction of Balaklava, but were repulsed, 1.000 men being left dead on the field.

According to the latest telegraphic despatches an attack upon the fortifications by sea had not been renewed. The bombardment from the heights was vigorously continued.

Forts Quarantine and Constantino had been razed, and the southern tower and other works demolished. The town, it is stated, is on fire in three different pliccs, and it was evi lent that Sevastopol could not hold out much longer, According to on account, an attach will be made on 2J or 3J of November.

A telegraphic despatch has been published by a Greek house to the effect that tht place has positively been captured. Although this is believed by many, yet it needs confirmation.

A despatch published in London, on the morning of the. 17th, stales that the town of Sevastopol is in ruins, and that the French Chassuers kill all of the artillery men who show themselves. That during all night showers of ball are pouring into the forts, leaving the enemy no possibility of repairing the di«aster.

The Russian fleet had sought sheltsr under the buildings alongside the quays The allies were about to fire upon them Irom new batteries with red hot balls.

The Russians have withdrawn from the forts in the vicinity of Balaklava. Raglan stales '.hat Menchicoff is.not in Sevastopol, but with the main army, in the plains north of Beehriseri.

It is stated that the French lost 200 men by exphwioni. while'he English loss is under 100 killed and wounded.

As the British and French forces have been much cut by dissase and losses, reinforce

ments

are urgently called for from England and France, and are to be forthcoming. During the pasi two weeks four thousand men have been sent from England, including amongst them the detachment of the regiment recently sent from Canada. The reinforcements will make the British in the Crimea thirty thousand and the French reinforcements are still larger.

Iron cylinders have been ordered at Woolwich, to be conveyed to Sevastopol lo blow up the sunken ships at ihe mouth of the harbor. Each cylander is to contain one thousand pounds of powder, which will be ignited by a battery One hundred and twenty gun-boats, with two heavy guns in each, togethsr with forty floating bstteries. of seventy guns each, have bee order-

for an attack upon Constadt.

Dundee, Canrobert and Hamlin. Retailing the announced that Mr. Atchison, Sena-

operations of the allies, from the 17th, the first j|j880Urjf (who our readera will re-

if the Russians had not closed the entrance

SLAVERY IN KANSAS —A Mr. Dodson, of Georgia, brother of ihe editor of the Georgia Examiner, who has settled in 'Kansas, gives his views nbout slavery

in that territory, lie says slavery already exists in Kansas, and needs no act of legislation to permit ii thai it is impossible to get white labor ihere, and they must have slaves that Missouri will send half her population there to protect iho territory from the control of

the Abolitonists. He adds that slaves hire readily at from 8150 to $200 per annum, and that K'insas was intended by providence for a slave Siate.

The Auditor of State gives notice that the Prairie City Bank has cancelled of her notes 857,783, reducing the present circula tion of the Bank to $110,000, which is secured by a deposit in the Auditors's office of 8125,000 of Indiana five per cent bonds.

The Prairie City still continues to redeem her notes in specie.

The Treasurer of State, Elijah Newland, has issued a circular, notifying

ihe various county Treasurers that they are authorized to receive the paper of all specie-paying Free Batiks in payment of State taxes.

There are 150,000 Mormons in the world, and are scatiored as follows In Europe 60,000 in Utah 50.000, and

over Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin about 40.000.

BURGLARS.

It may be necessary for our citizens to look out. There have been several attempts to break into houses within a few nights, by boring doors, blowing locks with powder, &c. ~~~~~~~

CITY ORDINANCES.—Three Ordinances will be found in our columns—one changing Market Hours—one fining absentees from Council meetings—and another about width of streets—duties of Street Commissioner, Marshal, &c.

SPEAKE*.—The

Express recommends our

townsman. R. N. HUDSON, as a proper candidate, and well qualified for Speaker of the next Legislature.

Tb« Un society .pok.il of io Ciocin-

nati is the "Pay-Nothings be alarmingly

It is said

rprosperous

•Broke." The Vincennes Gazette baa information that the Railroad between Terre Haute a Vlncenott will be finished this week*.

word is "Lend me a dollar/' the respoasa for the invasion of Sonora, there is not

ind

A Grave Charce.

The Waahington Star, a aycophanticsnp-

porter

memb recent

of Gen. Pierce's Administration, re Aeniocmtc

promise on Douglass) would, though President of the Senate, be absent from Washington this winter. The Star further says "Mr. Atchison intends to stay at home and electioneer for a return to the Senate, his term expiring next March." In reply to this the St. Loui8 (Mo.) Democrat, of Thursday last, makes the following astounding charge "In regard to the speculations of the Star, however, we have a cue to add that has not yet been made public. It is that Senator Atchison is at present engaged^n the upper country, organizing a secret society to consist of five thousand persons pledged to repair into Kansas on the day of the first election held there, to vote slavery into thai territory. Of this we have authentic information, and In a few days we shall expose the whole scheme for, while we wish to see the people of Kansas determine the question of their own domestic institutions, in forming their own State constitution, we cannot and will not tolerate such an unlawful and iniquitous rascality as that of'Drunken Davy's,' which proposes that a large body of men who are not and do not intend to become residents of that territory, shall by force override the senses and wishes of its legitimate settlers."

Monstrous as this accusation against a Senator of the United States is, thore are certain circumstances which corroborate the existeuce of some such infamous design against Kansas as that charged by the St. Louis paper. On the 9th of September, EM. Dodson, of Georgia, brother of the editor of the "Georgia Examiner," published in that paper a letter written by him in Platte county, Mo., in which occurs the following significant passage

Many emigrants are going to Kansas from Kentucky and other slave States Missouri will leave no stone unturned, even to the temporary emigration of half her population, to save it from abolitionists and if the people of the other slave States do justice to themselves, we will secure it to the South. —Vincennes Gazette.

National Know-Nothing Convention. The New York Herald has the following

osiienes. oi ouvcm/»uw... tome,..-..- —, ed by the War Oflice. and will be ready by spring may be, is to be considered the Know Nothing candidate for the Presidency of the United States.

The Delegation elect to Congress from Illinois stands as follows 1st District—E. B. Washburn, Whig,

anii-Nebraska. 2—Woodwnrih, anti Nebraska. 3J—J. O. Norton, whig, anti Nebraska. 4ih—James Knox, whig, nnii-Nehras-ka. 5 h—W. A. Richardson, dem. 6ih—Thomas L. Harris, dem. 7ih—\V. B. Archer, whig, anti-Ne

braska. 8ih—Lyman Trumbull, dem anti-

Nebraska. 9ih—S. S. Marshall, dpm.

despatch CINCINNATI, November 14.—I believe the report I sent you yesterday, of the meeting of the Grand National Council of Know Nothings in this city, is correct. I understand that thev will assemble about noon to-mor-row but I now learn that twenty-two States, and not twenty-eight, will be represented on the occasion. The object of the Convention is not to make an out-and-out nomination of a candidate for the Presidency, but to transact the usual business before the Council, and elect a Chief of the Order for the whole Union- It is suggested however, that this Chief, whoever he

With this suggestion in view, it becomes interesting to look at the chances of the different candidates for the office of Chief of the Know Nothings. Five individuals will probably come before the Convention

Gen. Sam Houston, of Texas. Gen. Winfield Scott, of New Jersey. Hon. Jacob Broome, of Pennsylvania. Hon. Millard Fillmore,of New York. Hon. John M. Clayton, of Deleware. The chances of Houston are deemed the best. He is considered an available man is now opposed to Irish whiskey and lager beer has,during the past year, organized upwards of four hundred and /jfty local lodges or councils has plenty c(f military glory and romance is a Western man living at the South, with a Northern and Eastern reputation lately acquired and has been President of the Republic of Texas.

All know Gen. Scott and his antecedents but the satient point in the brave old General's life with the Know Nothings, is his famous letter in favor of a change in the naturalization laws from five to twenty-one years—the time it takes a native born American to acquire the right to vote himself a President or a farm. This celebrated letter lost him a great many foreign votes in 1852, which is thought to be in his favor as a candidate on the Know Nothing ticket.

Jacob Broome is not so well known, although he was a candidate for the Presidency in 1852, and received votes in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. But Mr. Broome is known to the Know Nothings. Ho has been fir years toiling in the native American cause is the father, we may say, of the order has just been elected a member of the next Congress, and will be treated with fraternal kindness at the convention.

NJW we come to Millard Fillmore. He is a membar of the order. John M. Clayton says so. It is known, too, that aM the Fillmore Whigs joined the Know Nothings, heart, purse and hand, at the last election in your State. It is also stated that when Mr. Fillmore was on his late tour at the South, with the Hon. John P. Kennedy, the author of native-American novels, with scenes laid in native American forests, he aided more or less in the organization of about two hundred and sixty councils or lodges. So I am told. I am also told that he is on intimate terms with Sam, who was in New York on the 7th inst., and was to have visited Massachusetts on the I3th inst.

John M. Clayton comes last, because he says he is not a member of the order— not a candidate for the Presidency, and don't care a button for anybody. But in these times it is difficult to tell what may turn up. Clayton, by the refulgence of his genius, os shown forth in his late letter tosome-

body in Philadelphia, has been the means of organizing quite a number of lodges, and thereby aiding in the spread of the wings of the American eagle all over the country.

Col. Wm. Walker Acquitted. The quondam President of lower Caifornia, has been tried and acquitted Little interest was felt in the subject— ihe Jury saw the accused depraved, by judgment of the Court, of the attendance of a witness, Mr. Dillon, Consul of France, upon whose testimony he relied for some of the most important elements of his defence and the mur der of Dr. "Raoussev-Boulbon had wrought a marked and decided change in the public feeitng on the subject of the invasion of Mexico. So great, says the San Francisco Herald, is the abhorrence in the breast of this people of

771 that detestable ferocity and blood-thirst

hich Coum D, f,n.

v}CI|mi

|bai jf

Whnt Wm they do f)

Should the fusionista carry the next House, what will they do 1 The list of Democratic measures ia before them 1 will

meaBure8 ia wlBIIl Wl„

tjiejr

handg upon theae 1 Bitterly

{he most of them have assailed the tariff

ly proclaimed that he had of 1846, how many are ready to repeal it!

nf thft MiMQUri Com

How many, with the chance before them, have courage enough to break down the independent treasury system After all their assaults upon the acquisition of California, is there one readv to give her baclPto Mex ico Will the Abolitionists, so full of pro fessions to the adopted citiaens, vote with the Know Nothings to repeal the naturalize tion laws 1 Will those of the Know Noth ings who say they are not Abolitionists vote with the Abolitionists in order to carry out their plans 1 Will the National Whigs, like Mr. Haven, of New York, co-operate with Giddings and his friends To ask these questions is to expose, at a glance, the utter weakness of the fusion party and also to indicate that there is but one party in. this country that is equal to a crisis like the present, or to the duties of the future.— Washington Union.

The fusionists as they are styled, will probably derive some exceedingly useful hints, as to what they shall do.frojn the fate of the Administration they are demolishing with such unbroken and terriffic effect. A more promiscuous and intolerable fusion than that which bore Franklin Pierce into power was never before known, in politics or physics. It was compounded of all the ingredients known to political pharmacy, and of nearly all the simples ever conceived by tieason or fanaticism. So miscellaneous and nauseous a dose was surely never before administered to a respectable nation. This monster fusion, under the imbecile lead of the Pierce administration soon fell into monstrous confusion, and the entire affair now lies floating wide before the public eye, as huge and contemptible a wreck as ever lined the shores of the future. It is a beacon light, in whose melancholy radiance we have no doubt the fusionists above mentioned will steer wide of the rocks upon which it has split with such general disgrace to itself and satisfaction to the public.—Louisville Journal.

Bnrnuni's Menngnric.

A N. Y. letter writer of the 16th has the

following The auction sale of Barnum'3 Menagarie, at Williamsburg, yesterday morning, drew a large attendance of "showmen" and others, including Messrs. Sands, Titus, Howes, Smith and Robinson, of Cincinnati. The male and female giraffe, now on exhibition at the Museum, were bid by Barnum. at $7,500. Nobody would bid for the Rhinoceros. Seven Elephants, costing originally §2,000 each were knocked down to Seth B. Howes, for §2,300 for the whole family. Another lot consisting of one Lioness, royal Bengal Tiger, Black Bear, Spotted Hyena, together with sundry Monkeys, Parrots and other animals, were purchased by the same gentleman for 82,500. Barnum, after the sale was over, re-purchased one of the elephants, which, he said, he intended to keep employed on his farm at Bridgeport. Two ornamental carriage wagons, called Tom Thumb's carriages, were sold at $35@$40 each. The sale I suppose was all bonafide. At any rate a respectable auctioneer presided, and, notwithstanding the general atmosphere of humbug that Barnum does, nobody seemed to suspect that the transaction was a new scheme for raising t.!ie wind.

Barnum has cleared, he says, this year, from his travelling menagarie,§6,000 last year it was $60 000 and the year before #71,000. The original cost was $109,000. High price of feed, &c., have caused the great diminution of receipts.

A NEW STTE OF RAILROAD.—A Mr. Nutt, of Dayton, has left at the office of the Gazette, of that city, a model of a railroad invented by himself. The following are the chief points in which it differs from the Railroads now in use 1st. It avoids the expense of grading and gravelling—the track being elevated, front) four to eight feet above the ground, resting on a wooden structure. 2d. The cars have no wheels, and the locomotive has but one wheel—a single driver. 3d. The track is composed of a single rail. 4th. The cars can never be thrown from the track except by obstructions purposely arranged to do mischief. 5th? Half the power required on the ordinary road may be dispensed with, while the speed may be greatly increased. 6th. The cost of construction will be reduced fully one-third.

PRICES, Now AND THEN —A citizen of Baltimore, who has evor kepi nn nc count of everything purchased for his family, gives the following list of articles and their prices in 1828, to which he has added the lisi of prices of similar articles at the present time

Butter Cheese

1828.

Flour per barrel, Wood per load, Potntoes per bushe', Beef per pound, Veal Pork

Total,

has been the means of

a Boread of the w.nirs

armed expedition

The pass- «r« to leave our wharves to-morrow

powef enough in the federal authorities to prevent it —Louisville Courier.

Solitude Is dangerous to ration rithout btlDg farorabt* to virtue.

1854. 811 50 3.

§3.59 1.50 25 4 3 5 10 9

1 25 10 9 10 31 12

$5.03 814

A similar state of things exists here and yet there are those who growl hide nusly »f a newspaper publisher charges more for his wares now lhan he did iweniy-6ve years ago.—Laf. Jour.

A FEMALE SWINDLER.—The Petersburg (Va.) Express, gives an account of a "handsome, attractive rnnnneied and lady like femnle. with fine figuro, rath

er lnj|

number of lodges, and

pre„y fnce bewitching blue eyes

neatly moulded fair hand, and

foot lo

correspond/*,who paid

a visit to a number of the first-class Dry Goods stores of that place, and made purchases of embroiderres and other costly goods, ordering the bills to be sent to a certain wealthy merchant The dry goods m»*n. says the Express, found that they had been very neatly hoaxed on a Monday morning early. The fair swindler was attired in a handsomo drab mantilla straw bonnet and blue veil, and was. fair and comely to look upon.

BtOuD HOUSESThfre is a singular discrepancy connected with horsfi even thorough breds, as "Caleb Qnsntem'rand"Stamford" were full brothers, bgt different in shape and aobstance. It ia singular these horses got a drfferent kind of stock out of the same mares those got by "Caleb7' were strong and thrifty, and made excellent hunter#, and those by ••Stamlord" were light made and first-rate racers, while Caleb's produce bad no racing qualifications. In this particular instance, therefore, tbe rule of like begetting like was not proved.— Thorough bred horses seldom make —J huntera, except for light weights.—ZWi s*t Brmiinc IMh 9toch

RUSSIAN SOLDIERS.

writer from the battle field of Alma, gives us some Interesting items about the condition, tare, &c., of the Russian

soldiers. He says: "Their knapsacks Astonished OUr soldiers. On opening them^each was found to contain the dress uniform-coatee of the man, blue or green, with white facings and slashes, like our own, a pair of stout mils, a case containing a good pair of scissors marked WSarum,' an excellent pen-knife with one blade of Rus sian manufacture, a ball of twine, a roll of leather, wax, thread, needles, and pins, a hair brush and comb, a small looking glass, razor, strop, and soap, shoe brushes, arid blacking. The general remark pf our men was that the Russians were very 'clean soldiers' and certainly the men on the field had white fair skin to justify the expression. Each man had a loaf of dark brown bread, of a sour taste and disagreeable odor, in his knapsack, a linne roll containing a quantity of brown coarse stuff, broken up into lumps and large grains, which is crushed biscuit or hard granulated bread prepared wiih oil. This we were told by the prison ers, was the sole food of the men, they eat the bread with onions, and oil the powder as "reserve" rations and if ihey march they may be four days without food and remain hungry until they can get fresh loaves and more "bread stuff." It is perfectly astounding to think they can keep together on such diet, and yet they are strong, muscular men enough.

The Albany Evening Journal thus sets down the next Congress The Representatives to the States which have already held elections, stand in the present House as follows

Administration 96 Opposition 55 In the next House, giving the Administration the one or two members whose election is in doubt, the members will stand thus

Administration 30 Opposition 121 There are 83 members yet to be elAted. Of these 74 are to be chosen by the South, and 9 by the North. Even should the Administration secure every one of them, the House will still be against it. But as the opposition will have at least 15 of the 83, the next House of Representatives will stand

Administration 93 Opposition 136

John Burnett, a merchant of Aberdeen, some 60 or 80 years ago lefi a portion of his estate, ihe proceeds of which were to be applied at the end of every forty years, to award the authors of ihe best two treatises or essays on the existence and character of God and his Provi dence, at ihe same time obviating difficulties regarding his wisdom and goodness. The premiums are to be award ed ihe preseni year to Professor Powell, of Oxford, Henry Rogers, and Mr. Isnnc Taylor, ihe well known author ihe first being £1,800, and the second £600. Two hundred and eight treatises have been given in. The adjudimtors state that some of ihem are of a high order of mind, and furthermore that iheir award will shortly be made. The subject excites great interest in ihe liiernry Christian circle of Scotland and Engl un d.

CAUTION TO LADIES MAKING PRESERVES —An esteemed lady of our acquaintance was suddenly taken ill yesterday. She had been engaged in preserving tomatoes in a copper or bell-metal kettle, and partook of a small quantity of fruit. A short time after she became distressingly dizzy and alarmingly ill. The verdigris from the metal doubtless caused ihe attack. An active emetic was given ihe sufferer, and the white of eggs administered, which happily effected speedy relief. Much caution should be observed by persons using metal vessels of this kind.—Exchange.

BOT ONE FOOL IN THE FAMILY.—The Louisville Times, says If there is a constitutional way of letiing South Carolina out of ihe Union, we would hold up both hands for ihe measure, and run ihe risk of her conquering ihe balance of the United States, and laying ihem under tribute. But as it is, we must try and get along with her, and thank our stars and stripes that we have but one fool in the family.

Inquiry having been madeof us as to ihe European Governments with which our own has a treaty for the mutual delivery fugitives from justice in certain cases, we hnve o*cennined that we have such tremy with Great Britain. France. Prussia, and wiih most of the 2"»tes ol ihe Germanic Confederation. —Nat. Int.

FIVE THOUSAND HVLLAR HORSE LOST. —The-Black Hawk" horse, wrf* Vermont, and owned by Mr. Felton, uf Govanstown, Maryland, died a few days since from choki-'g. while eating. He was a very fteautiful and valuable animal. a great trotier, and held by his owner at $5,000.

Twenty thousand Emigrants have passed through this city within the last thirty days, and they are still crossing at the rate of 600 and 700 a day. We have these facta from the ferry folks, who keep a sort of running register. About one team in a hundred is labelled "Nebraska"—all the rest are marked "Iowa."—Burlington{Iowa) Telegraph.

EMIGRATION PRO* VIRGINIA TO LIBBEM.—Tho bark Euphrasia, of 600 tons, sailed from Norfolk on Wednesday, the 8'h inst., with 166 emigrants, of whom 150 wera from Virginia. The spirit ol emigration among the free negroes ol this State is arising. Virginia contributes a very large proportion of ib» whole number of emigrants from the United Stales to Africa.—Richmond En

quirer. i-

The citizen of the United Statea, arriving at Hew Orleans from New York, haa passed over a distance more than equal to that aeparating London from Constantinople, or Paris from St. Petersburg. If he baa ta ken the land route to Astoria, hia travel wil be nearly as great aa from New York Bremen if the water route, be will have made a voyage nearly e»ju|l tp fini from London to Cantom* Vr.!--•«£g as i-t v-vsA". v'

nois.

From Washington. New York. Nov. 11.

Dispatches to the Herald, from Washington, states that there will be a general change in the Cabinet, after January. Campbell and Guthrie will go out Breckenridge will be Attorney General Cushing, Secretary of State Dobbin, Treasurer and Mason, Secretary of the Navy. There is also to be an entire change in the foreign appointments. Marcy will goto EnglHild.

Ordination. New York, Nov. 22.

The Rev. Horatio Potter was ordained provisional bishop of this diocese to-day. The sermon was preached by bishop Tulford of Montreal. Numerous high dignitaries of the church assisted.

Election of a United States Senator. Louisville, Nov. 21.

Robert W. Johnson has been elected unanimously to the United States Senate by the Arkansas Legislature.

Death of Thomas P. Cope. Philadelphia, Nov. 22.

Thomas P. Cope, Esq„|a prominent merchant of this city, died to-day, aged about ninety years.

New Orleans Market. New Orleans, Nov. 22.

Mess Pork has advanced to 823.— Bacon Sides 10^c Corn is steady at 90c. Whisky 43c. Fair Sugar 5@4^-c.— Molasses 18c. Hay $30. Lard in brls 10@10£c. Sales of 3000 bags Rio Coffee at 9£@9fc, Arrived steamer Illi

New York Market. New York, Nov. 22. P.

Flour is unsettled sales of 6000 brls at $8.62@9 for good Ohio, but at the close holders were asking a further ad

vance. Southern is quiet at 8,50@8,12 Wheat is firm. Corn is easier, but not quotably lower. Fork has further declined 6c. Beef is unchanged and dull Lard is dull at 10@10$. Ohio Whisky has declined to 44£c, and ia dull. Rio Coffee is heavy at 10c. Sugar is dull Molasses is lower, with sales of old at 18@22. Linseed oil is dull at 78.— Money is stringent. Vs. sixes 89^-

New York Central 67 Erie 33, and

Reading 66£.

SERPENT FASCINATION.—A few weeks since a little boy who was known to be frequently absent from school, was noticed in the neighborhood of Privet by a shepherd of Martineau, Esq., to be very busily engaged in the road. He approached nearer, and was surprised to see him feeding two adders The boy having crumbled the bread in his satchel, spread it out in his pinafore, and the adders came and eat the food from his lap, picking up the crumbs with great dexterity. After feeding them he lay on the ground and played with them, all three seeming to enjoy the sport. But if the little urchin rejoiced in^their company. the shepherd did not, fdr with much difficulty he killed the adders, to the great distress of their little playmate, who wept bitterly at their destruction.— Wiltshire Mir' ror.

EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.—Charles W. Stewart, one of the doorkeepers of the U. S. House of Representatives, committed suicide at Washington, a few days ago, by taking strychnine in a glass of champagne, in the Speaker's room at the Capitol. He was found lying on the sofa perfectly dead. During the day he had taken leave of the persons employed about the building, saying that he would not again see them. To one of them he gave the keys usually kept by him. He had accumulated quite a handsome property, and was popular among those who knew him, but had of late indulged too freely in intoxicating drink, from which his mind was frequently found deranged.

Mr. William Trover, of Schenectady, N. Y., while removing the stone from an old well on his premises on Saturday, found at the bottom a box containic $4,500 in gold and silver bars also a silver tea-pot and kettle. It is supposed to have been placed there by a man now in the Auburn State prison.

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At her father's residence in Cambridge, Vt., on the 11th inst of grief and slow decline, Mrs. MARY E. HATHORW, widow of the late

city.

H. HATHORR, Merchant of this

AYEK'S CnnRRY PECTORAL.—We believe this to be an excelleni preparation, and shall therefore not hesitate to rccommend it to our readers. It has been tested iit numerous instances in this city aud in several which have come under our own 'tn. it has accomplished what other 4 tome of our most skilful

oo££J"vai.» popular media/lea at.phvrician, h,d l.iled icco.'"1"1'"* cure, in cases of (apparently) continue,.

Take care of your Lungs!

IF YOU DO HOT WISH TO DTE WITH COHSUMPTIOK PITTSBURGH, April 18, 1847. Mr. E. SELLERS— Dear sir:— have on several occasions expressed to you personally, the high estimation in which, from having made use of it for several years in my family, 1 held your im penal Cough Syrup I have never known it to fail in relieving Coughs, Colds, or oppression ol the Lungs, when used promptly and according lo your directions. 1 have given it to inlant chil dren with highly beneficial effects and so far as my own case is concerned, a dose t»ken at night before retiring has invariably relieved me from Cough or any disagreeable feeling of the chest. I always keep it in my house, and would, not on any account, be without it.

Every* person wha may use it, wHl pronounce it an agreeable, mild, fet- highly effective cough .medicines, which, in a climate as changeable as oura, cannot fail to prove a great benefit t« ail who may give It a trial. 1 am, sir, respectfully, your fnend, %4 !,

DR. GUYSOTT'S IMPROVED EXTRACT OF YELLOW DOCK AND SARSAPARILLA. is a sure remedy for Hereditary Taint.

Thousands of individuals are cured with griov-1 ous complaints which they inherit from their pa-^ rents. The use of the'Yellow Dock and Sanaparilla will prevent all this and save a vast amount of misery, and many valuable lives, for it thoroughly expels from the system the latent taint, which is the seed of disease, and so takeoff the curse by which the Bins or misfortune of th* parents are so often vlaited upon the innocent' of&prhig.

Parents owe it to their children to guard then. 'k against the effects of maladies that may be com* municated by descect, and children of parents that have at any time been afTected with Con* sumption, Scrofula or Syphilis, owe it to themselves to take precaution against the diaeaM being revived in them. Guysott's Extract of Yellow Dock and Swsaparilla is a suro antidote a

JCT See advertisement. October 28,1854—lm.

#3r A VVOXDEKFDL DISCOYERV has recently been nade by Dr Curtis, of this city in ihe treatment of Consumption, Asthma, and all diseases of tha lungs. We refer to "Dr. Curtis'* Hygeana. or Inhaling Hygenn Vapor and Cherry Syrup." With his new method lr. C. has restored many afflicted ones to perfect health: as an evidence of whick he hns innumerable certificates. Speaking of the treatment a physician remarks It i^evident that Inhaling—constantly breathing an agrieablee, healing vapor, the medicinal properties must conte in direct contact with the whole of the aerial cavity of the lungs,and thus escape the many and varied changes produced upon them when introduced into the stomach, and subjected to tha process of digestion. The Hygeana is for sale at all the druggists throughout the country. (From the New York Dutchman of Jan. 15th.)

See advertisement of Medicated Inhalation ia another column of this paper. June 17, '54-r431y

FURS WANTED.

CASH

will be paid for Coon, Mink, Dpossuaa and Deer skins—any quantity wanted. GROVERMAN &. BOURNE, Nov. 25, *54,.—14—tf.

State Stock Money

WILL

be taker at par for GOODS and all debts due us. Come and settle. GROVER.MAN 5c BOURNE. Nov. 25, '54-14-tf

AN ORDINANCE,

Changing the Market Hours. SECTION. 1. Be it ordained bu the Common Council of the City of Terre HaiUe, That lha fourth se-tion of an ordinance entitled »n ordinance regulating the market,' passed August 8th, 1854, be so amended as to change the houra of selling, at the Market Houses, so as to commence at 12 o'clock Meridian, and continue until 2 o'clock in the alternoon of each iUarkel day.

Passed November 20, 1851. W. K, EDWARDS, Mayor, Attest: I. N. CoLTRijt, Clerk. Nov. 25, '54-14-2t.

AN ORDINANCE

Fining absentees from Council meetings. SECTION. 1. Be it ordained btf the Commm Council of the City of Terre Saute, That tho Mayor or any member of tho Council, who shall be absent longer than fifteen minutes after tha time appointed for its meeting, shall be fined two dollars, and it' absent the entire meeting, shall b« fined four dollars, but the Council may remit such fine on excuso rendered. Less than a quorum of the council, attending a staled or adjourned meeting may organize, send for and compel the attendance of absent members.

SEC. 2. If the city Clerk shall fail to record the proceedings of the council for twenty four hours, alter an adjournment he shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five dollars, nor lose than three dollars, with the costs.

Passed Nov. 20. 1854. W. K. EDWARDS, Mayor. Attest: I. N. COLTRIN, Clerk. Nov. 25, '54-14-2U

AN ORDINANCE ,,

Proscribing the width of streets and duties of Street Commissioner and Marshal.

SECTION. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council oj the City of Terre Haute, That aids walks, on each aide ol the street, shall bo twelvs feet wide, on all streets between Walnut and Cherry streets, and between llie Wabash River and the cross cut Canal.

SEC. 2. Every owner of a lot on a graded street shall cause side walks and curbs to bo made opposite thereto, when directed by tho council, and every owner of a lot shall keep tho side walks and curb opposite to it, in good order and repair. The street commissioner shall examine and see that this is done, and whenever the sido walks or curb are not made, or are not in repair, he shall report the tact to tho council* who may order the work or repairs to be done, if such order has not been made, and in caso any such owner shall I ail or reluse to do the same, ha she or they, shall on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay any sum, not exceeding twenty dollara for every day any order as aforesaid shall not bo complied with.

SKC. 3. The Street Commissioner, shall in addition to the duties required of him by law. specially soo in connection with the Marshal that all cellars, yards, an.l privies, be kept in proper condition. Said officers shall also specially see to the care, protection unil pr-per use of the public wells, pumps, and cisterns They shall enforce the ordinance prohibiting wooden buildings in aerinin limits, and all that relates to or areconnected with their duties, and shall report all offenders therein, to be prosecuted.

Passed November 20th, 18b4. W. K. EDWARDS, Mayor. Attest: 1. N. COLTRIN, Clerk. Nov. 25, '54-14-2t.

NOTICE.

con

sumption. It is the only medicine for this dis ease which we can heartily recommend.—Tcm perance Advocate, Prov. R. I.

MAYOR'S OFFICE. City of Terre Haute.

At a meeting of the Common f'onncil of the City of Terre Haute held on the 20th day of November 1854, the following resolutions were adopted. "Jlcnotvrd, That a plat and map of survey do"fining the metes and boundaries, of the several -'additions to the City of Terre flauto, where "Mich additions or lot shrill have heretofore born "laid ofF and platted, adjoining said city, and a "record ol tho same is made in' the Recorder'^

Office of this (Vigo) countv. be mode out and "submitted tothishwly. at thennxt meeting to bo "held on the first Monday of December next, "together wiih a resolution to extend the boon» "daries of said city so as to include said Iota or "additions, that they shall thereaff form a part "of said city, and be within tbe jurisdiction ol "thesame. "JinoloeJ further, That it is expedient to an"nex the following territory, contiguous to said "ciry of Teire Haute, not platted or laid oo, thai "the same shall thereafter form a part of said "t be within the jurisdiction of thesamev city, at.- within tbe following described "ss is contain*.,

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1* Editor Pittsburg Daily Chronicle. Prepared and sold by R. E. SELLERS Sc. Co., And for sale by P. M. DONN ELLY, Terre-Haute, and

Druggists and Mediciae dealers genu-

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"boundaries,anj. no.?/?'^ awl rvcor "n solution, as lots laid o,., .' "as additions to slid city, to-wit: "Commencing on the westside of the wsoasn "river, at a point on the line dividing sections "28 and 33. thence running east on the line be-

sections 28 and 33 and 27 and 34, to tho

"south can corner of the south east quarter of "section 27, thence running north to the north "east corner of the north east quarter of section "15, thence west along said lino to the north"west comer of section 16,1 hence south on tfrtT. "west line of section 16, to tho west bank of th®" "Wabash river, thence southwardly olon^ tho 'west bank of said river, with its meandertngs, "to the place of beginning all being in township "12. north of lange 9 west. And further, thaf a •map or plat accurately describing by metes and' "bounds* (lie aforesaid territory, proposed lo- b® 'attached, together with a petition setting forth lor such annexation, be prepared. '08 tbe law prescribes,and presented toihc board

'the reasons lor such annexation, be prepared, as tbe law prescribes,and presented toihc board of Commissioners of Vigo county, on- rnursdajr "the 28th day of December, 1854, and tha: notice "be given." ..

TOFSEFORB, notice is hereby given that said petition will be presented to the Board of Comtnissionersof Vigo county, on Thursday, the 28th Jay of December,-1854, at the Court House in ihe City of Terre Haute, praying the annexation to said city, ot tbe territory, hereinbefore descrl-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the corpo-» [L. S.1 rate seal of said city to be affixed, Uu»| 21st day of November, A. D., 1854, at.

Terro Haute, in the State of Indiana. W. K. EDWARDS, Mayor. Attest: I. N. COLTJU*. Clerk* November19H-Mri»