The Wabash Courier, Volume 23, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 December 1854 — Page 2

THETCOUMEI

E S S E O N A EDITOR.

E E A E

Satnrday Morning, Dec, 30, 1854.

TOE BAKER FAMILY. The concert by the Baker vocalists at Corinthian Hall on Wednesday evening last was well attended. There was a genteel and well behaved audience.— The singing was good—but we thought nothing extraordinary for the Baker Family. They should know that much fs looked for from them. A Terre Haute Audience can appreciate, and expects an effort from these well-established family vocalists to give something beyond their old and worn out pieces.

By the way, how does it happen that

have nothing of the regular Drama among us for so long a time? Does it argue too much taste, or too liule 1 May It be placed to the credit or debtor side of our deputation. Ten or a dozen years igo when our population was less than half of its present count, Theatrical rep resentaiions were occasionally well patronized. Exhibitions of a certain kind of amusement, such, as the Circus, Menageries, &c., ore always well sustained. And why not the Drama 1—we mean the performances of regular legitimate Dramatists. With this kind of entertainment there is not only amusement, but generally instruciion, particularly where there is tnste and education enough to justify the services of good performers, and the representation of first class

pieces. Such entertainments wo think might have the effect to supercede exhibitions of a less reputable character. We are not insensible to the fact thai public exhibitions are more or less liable to abuse. But with a people who re quire omuscment, we say encourage

that, out of which there may, if possible, be obtained something useful and instructive, even over that which is merely amusing or useless.

WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?—A gentleman happened into our office a day or two ago, with the question, "Where do they come from, and where do they go?" We inquired what was the matter. He pointed to the Railroad Depots. There were the Terre Haute and Richmond cars, four or five in number, going out in the morning and returning in the evening generally full of passengers. There was the Crawfordsville and Evansville road only completed within

a few days—one or two cars filled morning and evening. The same of the Terre Haute and Alton road, running west—finished thirty miles—one or two cars loaded in the morning and returning filled with passengers in the evening. Where do they come from and where do they go? Terre Haute is a great place—and so are the Railroads—

only a little more so. ~~~~~~~

U. S. SENATOR.—We have within a short time frequently heard the names of our townsmen, R. H. Thompson and Thomas Dowllng, mentioned for the U.S. Senato. Wo don't know that these gentlemen are candidates, but supposo that either would accept the office if elected. And we presume it will he

conceded that the interests of the Stntc would be ably and faithfully sustained by either of those gentlemen as a Sena tor in Congress.

BOOK BINDERY.—C. W. FERGUSON & Co., have just opened their establishment opposit® tho Post Office. For Blank Books, Book Binding &c., 6cc their advertisement in another column Such an establishment has been much wanted in Terre Ilauto for somo time There will now bo no necessity for sending abroad for this kind of business

Thirty-six women of Otsego, Allegan county, Michigan, last week formed themselves into a party, armed themselves with hatchets and pickaxes, and marched in a body to the hotel of the place and the places where liquors were sold, and made a complete wreck of the decanters and demijohns, and other liquor utensils. In one or two instances they rolled barrels containing liquor into the streets and there broke them open and let the liquor flow loose. ~~~~~~~

EX-PRESIDKHT FILLMORE.—The

Express

Buffalo

says that Ex-President Fillmore

voted for Myron H. Clark and the entire Whig ticket, at the recent election for Governor of New York, and expresses the opinion that the report that he had joined the Know Nothings is a fabrication.

Hoos.—During the first part of the week the weather was unfavorable to pork packing, and but little done in the business. On Friday the weather was fine and slaughtering brisk. Prices for good hogs may be quoted at $4.

WEATHER.—For a week past the

a week pm ihe

weather has been mild, soft, and foggy. The sun scarcely to be seen for several days. On Thursday the wind veered to the north, since which we have had winter and hard freezing. ~~~~~~~

COMMON PLKAS.—The Court of Common Pleaa for Vigo, commence in Terre Haute on Monday, the 1st of January.

The Legislature of Indiana wiU as* semble at Indianapolis, on Thursday next. The readers of the Courier will be kepi advised of proceeding*.

THE ALLIES AND TBIO.—We congratulate our neighbor Mr. McLean upon his recent happy alliance. It is a beautiful trio. It would be interesting to see them seated around stable, looking each other in the face—and reciting, if you

ulease, somo pretty things, each has said of the other. We have a faint recollection of some sayings of Mr. McLean about the two individuals whom lje now embraces as bosom friends. We can refresh his recollection as to point* if his memory should conveniently be a

little trcscherous. Mr. McLean quotes from his friends—therefore endorsing

what they say—and by endorsing makes ihe maiier his own—and says that he does thirteen times more business than some of his neighbors. Pretty nice calculation, and may account for the milk in the cocoa-nut. We often soe in the Journal advertisements which we had received, and thrown in the fire, because the offered price was inadequate. We also turn away a great deal ol'job work, which, from the press of business cannot always be executed as early as desired. It'moy be that some of this finds its way to the Journal office—hence the

last.

Indiana State Teacher's Association. This Convention assembled at Indianapolis on Tuesday last.

The following nominations were made for President Rev. Dr. Curry, President of Asbury University, and Rev. Dr. Daily, President ofghe State University. On voting, Dr.Djily received 58 votes Dr. Curry, 33 scattering, 9 and accordingly Dr. Daily, who had hitherto acted as President pro tem, was declared elected.

The following were elected Vice Presidents Pros. Nutt, of Ccntrcville Prof. Ferris, of New Castle Prof. Adams, of Indianapolis Prof. Reed, of Bloomington Prof. Stone, of South Hanover Prof. Thompson, do. Prof. Patch, of Ontario.

George A. Chase, ol Nashville, was chosen Recordins Secretary, E. P. "Cole, of Indianapolis, Treasurer.

Prof. C. Barnes, of Indiana Dr. Curryof Asbury University J. G. May, of New Albany Prof. Abbott, of New Castle Prof. Horr, Pror. Cole, and Bishop of Indianapolis, were chosen Executive Committee.

The Convention has been addressed at different times by HORACE MARK, President of Antioch College Professor Reed, Mr. Mansfield and others.

The Vincennes Gazette warmly rec ommends ihe HON. SAMUEL HALL for

ihe ncxi United States Senator.

NEW YEAifs ADDRESS.—Look nut for ihe "Wabash Courier" carrier on Monduy morning.

Christmas in Terre llauie was rother noisy. Too much ringing of bells, firing of guns, crackers, &c. &c.

CoNiREss.— We hear but little from Congress for sevoral days. It is supposed ihey ore playing Christmas.

GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.—The Message

of Governor Wright to ih» Legislature will be published in the Courier.

We are indebted to iho Hon. Jesse D. B«ight for compendium of United

States Census.

Tax on Emigrants.

We have several times directed public otten^pn to the fact that the New York Commissioners of Emigration, by the imposition of a commutation on all emigrants landing at the port of New York get possession of immense sums, ond then shift a large share of tho expense of supporting those emigrant, who become paupers, upon the people of other cities who have not received even a fraction of the commutation money

The Mormon Temple being built at Salt Lake City, is one hundred and eighty-six feet long by ninety-nine wide. The foundation is laid sixteen feet below the surface of the earth end is built of solid masonry) and sixteen feet think. A promenade of twenty feet wide is to be built the entire distance around the building, to be gained by a number of steps. The wall is to be ninety-six feet high, and the whole building covers an area of 21,850 feet of ground. ~~~~~~~

The rumor spreads, in the diplomatic circles of Paris, that. If Sebastopol be not taken by Nov. 19th, the English and French government have agreed that the allied armies shall re^emberk.

3B4.-.W :J.'

Bankable Fmifc

Canal Bank, Evansville CrescenfCity Bank, Evansville N. d6 V. S. S. Bank. Evansville Prairie City Bank, Terre H«uie Bank of Mi. VernonfTf! Farmers & Mechanics Bk., Indianapolis Traders' Bank,# Central Bank,

Bank of the Capitol, '-M Indiana Bank, Madison Merchants At Mechanics Bk., N.

Farmers' Bank of W estfield

Bank of Salem Fayeite county Bjnk

thirteen

limes as much. Mr. McLean tries to be witty at our

expense. H»pe he will hove a good time of-it. Fancy we can eosily spare all he can mnko out of the operation, and not suffer very much. We hnve nothing against Mr. McLean—we would not hurt a hair of his whiskers—lie is naturally a clever fellow, only for some unsavory associations—particularly his

On the main land Vancouver's Island

Total nrca

Proposed payment..... Hate por square mile... Kate per acre

Albany

Cambridge City bank

Rockville Bank •. Grammercy Bank Kentucky Stock Bank, Columjiusj

lloosier Bank Indiana Stock Bank, Liporte

Western Bank vLaGrange Bank Bank of Indiana. Bank of Syracuse. Bank of Monticello. Bank of Goshen. Kalamazoo Bank, Albion Bank of Warsaw. Bank of Pnoli. Bank of Elkhart. (Not Eikhart county.)

Salem Bank. Brookville Bank, Brookville. Huntington counry Bunk, Huntington. Laurel Bank. Laurel.. Southern Bunk, Terre Haute.

IIURRAII FOR DAN MACE Our Honorable Representative in Congress has taken the initiative steps inward immortality. The people of ihe 8ih District will be proud to do him honor, if he succeeds in accomplishing what he has so nobly undertaken. On the 13ih os we see by ihe telegraph to the Chicago papers, the House being in committee of the whole on the Indiana appropriation. Mr. Mace rose to bring ihe House back lo where they were before the passage of the Nebraska iniquity. He snid he should soon introduce a bill prohibitory of Slavery in Kansas and Nebraska. The Bill is straight forward and to the purpose, li is an exact copy of ihe Act of March 6th. 1820. He notified members that Kansascou'd never come in as a Slave State.

It may well be supposed that this move mem of Mr. Mace produced a sensation among the members particularly from the South. Mr Oiiver of Missouri, was ihe first to reply. Ho at first denied that Aichinson had interfered in ihe late Kansas election, but finally admitted it. and justified him in so duing. What il he did," said Mr Oliver—"did not ihe East gei ifp societies to send men 10 Kansas to vote againsi slavery 1

Dan's constituents will watch wiih in terest ihe progress of this fight between Slavery und Freedom, and will delight to honor ih« champion in ihe van of Libertv.—Laf. Courier.

9Iorc Annexation.

Ii is said in well informed circles that nctive negotiations are going on between the United States and Greai Britain, touching ihe retrocession of Vancouver's Island ond the 49..04 40 Territory, which during Polk's 'Administration was surrendered to the latter power. John Bull, it oppears, don'i want the territory, os it is of little or no valuo to him. He knows ihai his relative, Jonathan, has been mad ond mortified ever sinco Polk capitula led il away. and*that if it had to be done over again he would stand up to 54 40 or fight. Bull in I Its of signing a quit claim for ft re millions, which is but half a cent nn acre, while, for the mis erablc Mesilla strip of desert and rock, ten millions in hard rash was paid. It is estimated thai the British territory referred to is of the following extent:

Square Miles,

in ooo ..33,000

150,000

,.f5,000,000 00 33 33 00 Oo.j

It will be remembered that in 184 Mr. Buchanan instructed Mr. Sanders to intimate that this government would not stand upon any sum wiihin 8100 000.000 for Cuba, which is but one-third as large and contains no public lands from which to pay ihe purchase mouey.—Cleveland Leader.

SINGULAR DIVORCE TRIAL.—A young married woman in this city filed bill

Our statements are confirmed by a recent airainst her husband recently, for divorce, report made by the Commissioners, which She was in her twenty-fifth year—he was states that they have within tho las! eleven considerably past the grand climactric— years, received from the German Emigrants about seventy years of age. She was gay, alone, commutation money amounting to the pretty, and flaunting he was an early adimmense sum of eleven millions of do'Iars. mirerof the ladies, and retained a portion of How much has altogether been collected is! his former fire. In her petition, whic'i came not staled, but doubtless fully as much more. (up for hearing at the close of last week bc-

From this tlu Commissioners report, that fore Judge Parker, she charged hi in with cxthey have spent two millions to maintain treme cruelty and he filed a cross bill for foreign paupers in New York four hun-j adultery. The case showed, in the first drcd thousand dollars for the support of pau-. place, not adultery, but improper conduct pers who landed at the port ol New York,'on her part, such as being in houses of bad

and were afterward supported as paupers in other counties of New York, and ninety thousand dollirs for the support by the Governors of the Alms House of insane foreign paupers. The Commissioners do not state that they have spent anything for the support of the thousands of paupers who have been shipped west, to become chargeable upon Cincinnati, Cleveland, LouisviUe, Pittsburgh, and other western citie*. !t is a well known fact, that nothing is so spent, and ilis certainly worthy the consideration of the west, whether some means of abatinjj the imposition can be devised.—CM. Coiumbian.

& a 1 )»nAA in lliA

repute, sitting on a gentleman's knee in the dark, and offering, on another occasion, to show the proportions of very pretty limb for a dollar. There were a great many quarrels between the parties, but no personal violence. It was in testimony that the old gentleman encouraged about his house females not as thoroughly free from suspicion as Csesar's wife. The judge, therefore, on a review of the testimony, was of opinion that-neither party came into court with "clean hands," and 'dismissed both the bill and the cross bi 11.—Cincinnati Cammercial, Dec.

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COST OF TUB CAPITOL.—The

A JURY DRUNK.—The St. Louis Intel-

building

burnt by the Briish, cost $788,071 28 cost of the new building to 1330 including improvement of ground, 81.808.418 93. Expended since in alterations and improvements 993 959 21, making a total cost of the capitol and grounds 82.690,559. The additions and improvements now msking to the building will add some five millions of dollars to the last.

ligencer publishes the names of a jury, who, after they had acquitted a man tried for murder, adjourned to his cell, having been invited to do so, where they indulged in a regular carousal, one-half of them becoming beastly drunk.

TITBIT FOREIGN MEWS.

A Treaty of Alliance signed between Austria, Frame, and England, in which Austria binds herself to declare War against Russia.

Onjer Pasha had left for the Crimea with forty thousand troops. Some important negotiations were going on between Austria and the allied powers. feiu. -.

The steamer Atlantic arrived out on the morning of ihe 6ih. The steamers Sarah Sands and Washington sailed ac

cording to appointment. The latter took out to New York $106,000 in specie. Negotiations of a most important and complicated character, which will most probably involve all the European States in a general war, have been con

cluded. ''4* A treaty of alliance has been signed between Austria, France and England,

binding, it is supposed, Austria to de clare war against Russia within one month France on her. part guarantee

ing Austria against invasion from with' out, and insurrection from within. Aus tria has called upon ihe Germanic S'.ates to support her wiih the federal troops but Russian influence was at work in opposition 10 such a measure throughout

tho Germanic confederation. Nesselrode publishes four terms upon which Rissia will accept peace, viz* joint protectorate of the five powers ver the Christians in the Principalities

a revision of the treaty of 1841, and the free navigation of the Danube. Prussia and ail the other Germnnic

States are hastily placing their armies on a war fooling, ond it is very doubtful thai ihey will lake sides with Austria what Prussia will do, is admitted on all hands to be exceedingly problematical

The Spanish chamber have decided

to support the present dynasty ihe min istry had resigned on a financial ques lion, but had again resumed office.

Mr. Soule had arrived til Madrid: The Danish .ministry had resigned. The latest dates from Sevastopol soy ihe Russians were making Irequpnt sorties, but were in nil cases repulsed,

without, however, any serious fighting. The latest dutes from the Crimea are to the 27th November, up to.which lime the siege continued. The Dake of Cambridge was expected at Constantinople.

Admiral Hamlin had resigned ihe command of the French squadron in ihe Black Sea, and had returned lo France. The remainder of the French troops in Greece had been ordered to ihe Crimea

It is stated in England ihai it is the intention of the government to augment

ihe British Army, by an addition of thir

ty thousand men.

STATISTICS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—The Christian Advocate anJ Journal contains the returns for the past year from the several Methodist Episcopal Annual Conferences in thfe United States, which exhibit the following totals Number or members, 079,23:2, and probationers, 101,076, being an increase of 30,732 memnumber of trav

12.145 1,363 during the past y^iir. lions of the Germans, for religious purposes, likewise show a handsome increase.

Pickpockets nmoitg the Ladies. All of our larger cities ore inlcsied bv a class of rogues who devote themselves to picking ihe porkeis of lnl,e^~l,e''*J mpn

Ppture

perhaps because ihey ihink that in ]jevo

money. In New York a few days since iwo well dressed men goi into an omui bus, nnd assuming opposite seois, accidentally. os it seemed, ihrew portions of their clonks over the dresses of iwo ladies who sol besiJe them. Afier riding a shon distance ihey stopped iho coach and went their way. Soon the ladies wished lo gel out. and ihe daughter puling her hand in her porkei for her money. found that her sociable friend had carried it away. The mother, #ho had been sitting nexi ihe oiher man. then

cut of quarter of a

yard in Ipngth through nil her clothing, nearly 10 ihe skin. Fortunately her money was in nn under-dress, and the thief was foiled.

Ship Building in New York, is about at an end for the season. According to the Journal of Commerce, the innag* launched during the year amounts to 80,130 tons, representing 88 vessels of all descriptions, and embracing 26 full sized ships, and 4 steamships. Estimating the cost of the new lonnage at 855 per ton, which is a low average, there have been absorbed by it not less than 854100,000. The tonnage launched last year amounted to only 46,479 tons, so that the increase this yrsr is very Urge. The amount of tonnage on the stocks now is only 17,423 against 58,749 last year. As soon amhe tonnage on the stocks is completed, building will be almost wholly suspended for the pre#nt.

ANECDOTE OF THE CZAR.—Nicholas,ft

seems, in spite of the anxiety incident to his present po&iiion, msintains his old habit of walking the streets of St. Petersburg unattended. He was lately informed that a tradesmso in Urge way of business had insulted a Frenchman without provocation| and be immediately sent for him. When asked why he had insulted the man replied, because 1 hate his nation." 1« that yoar only motive "Yes sire." "Tb«i you shall have an opportunity to gratify your hatred.

shall send yon tojoin my

tny in the Crimea."

"the FOREIGN NEWS. The ateamer Pacific brought English news to the 29th of November, the latest from the Crimea being apparently of the 14th. The Czar receives intelligence from the seat of war several days sooner than it is received at London and Paris, which is certainly an advantage in his favor. There is evidently much disquietude felt fn France and England as to the issue of the struggle at and about Sebastopol, which has not been taken and does not seem destined to be very soon. Having stood about thirty days of the severest cannonading on record probably, it may stand thirty more, or all, indeed, that the Allies can bestow upon it, who have without doubt done an immensity of damage to the Russians, under the Jiead of both materiel and personel but have sustained an immensity of it too and the question seems to be getting to be, not whether they will take.the place., but whether they will remain in the Crimea, or can remain. They will remain, probably—they say thsy will but they have suffered, are suffering, and have to suffer terribly. Nothing, scarcely, has exceeded what they have encountered, except the suffering of the French in the retreat out of Russia in 1812, ond of the English from Cabool twelve or fifteen years ago. One half of the allied force that landed in the Crimea two months ago is completely hors de combat, and the other half is much worsted and is in want of almost everything. Here is a specimen of the way in

which

»r-

the troops have melted away The

brigade of Guards which left England a few months ago, three thousand strong, is now reduced to "eight hundred weak and wasted men." So says an Eastern correspondent of the London Times, and this journal itself, though not giving in at all, has greatly lowered its tone of late. It now admits the "necessity of a loan" to carry on the war, though it was to have beencarried on.it said at the start, and the Ministers said, by taxe.«, and posterity was not to be saddled with the expense. But now, within seven or eight months, the old expedient has to be resorted to, and if one loan is made, next year, and the next, and so on, to the end of the struggle, "the fatal precedent will plead," and ir the war should be long and disastrous, it inny be expected that about two hundred millions of pounds will be added to the present eight hundred millions of national debt. But in this the English nre kept in countenance by all the other beligerents and lookers on. Louis Napoleon commenced by borrowing the Czar borrows, and the Sultan would borrow if he could. Austria has added, within the last twelve months, largely to her debt, and must disband in part her numerous army, or must continue to add to it. England's advantage is in lipr moneyed resources Russia's in her multitude of soldiers. She can afford to lose three men for one lost by the Allies, although the population of France, Great Britain and Ireland may be equal to that of Rus-^ sia, and the Czar will stake his last soldier and his lust rouble on the bloody game—so he says, or so it is said for him.

The Times says that the forces (the English) in the Crimea are represented as "fairly ont at elbows, ragged, shirtless, illshod, and altogether approximating the condi ion of Omar Pasha's brave but ill used soldiery," which means that they are ragged and moneyless, on the brink of starvation, and suffering from the cold. It is shameful that men who have fought and suffered as the English soldiers have in the Crimea, should have been so neglected by the "gentlemen of England who sit at home at ease."—Ddily Globe.

The Know Nothines in Virginia. The Richmond Enquirer is on its knees before the Know Nothings. Only a short time ago, it said that there was not a Democrat in the Know Nothing ranks. It said that if any Democrat becamc a Know Nothing, he ceased by the very act to be a Democrat and had no pretensions to the name. But now that paper says "We appeal to tie Democratic Know Nothings in all kind-

bers during the year. The ellin* preachers in the several conferences ness and friendship. is 5,433. of which 4,814 are effective, thei Know Nothings must feel proud to find remainder being either superannuated

year. The number of local preachers reported is 6,149. The total amount of missionary contributions reported from the con-

or themselves

suoernumerary. There were 42 deaths quarter. amon" the travelling preachers during the

The Democratic

thus recognized in an unexpecte

Many

of the Democrat organs profess^to

have most serious apprehensions as lo what the Know Nothings will do in Massachusetts where they have obtained a complete as-

ferences is 3*229.049. The largest amount! cendcncy. We have some anxiety on the is from the Baltimore conference,

which subject

raiscd 329.23 4. The German missions of ings are comparatively an untried party, but the church are also prosperous, and report1, we have not the least fear in the world that

ourselves, for as yet the Know Noth-

ted Democrats and Abolitionists did when they, in the partition of their spoils, elected Charles Sutnner to the United States Senate.

Another complaint against the Know Nothings of Massachusetts is that they have filled the Legislature of that State with new

men w|io

Imps because ihey think the chonces or niemhprs of a legislative body. We

in cas* of detection are.slighter, joUj,t

for the most part were never

t[int

iat

these days of woman's rights the ladies ]{nr)W Nothings to elect to office men un. hold the purse-sirings ond carry th«

the fact is so. We be-

very common practice of the

hackneyed in political ways. They make no ferret of the practice, Mid, if it is a mischievous one, they should no doubt be held to a strict responsibility for it.

pui her hand to her pocket, nnd found ter of Margaret who was the daughter of ihai the rascnl had, in his effirts lo secure, Henry the Eighth who was the son of the purse, made

Wno IS VICTORIA 1—Victoria is the daughter of the Duke of Kent, who was the son" or George the Third who was the grandson of George the Second who was the son of the Princess Sophia who was the cousin of Anne «vho was the sister of Wiliam and Marv who was the daughter and son-in-law of imes the Second who was the son of James the First who v/as the son of Mary *, who was the granddaugh-

Henry the Seventh: who was the son of the Earl of Richmond who was the son of Catharine, widow of Henry the Fifth who was the son of Henry the Fourth who was the cousin of Richard the Second who was the grandson of^l^rd V»-Third ji ^\Ve'

who was the son of Edward the Second

who was the son of Henry the T...rd who

Duke or Normandy by a tanner's daughter of Falaise.

A LADY HORSE BREAKER.—We learn from Galignani's Messenger, (published at Paris, France,) that in consequence of the success obtained by Madame Isabelle in breakinff in horses for the army, the Minister of War lately authorized her

From the Cincinnati Commercial.

The Indiana 8pecie-P«*yins

Free Bank

Convention.

Mr. EDITOR In your paper of the 20th inst., you attempt to inform your readers^!n reference to the action of* the Convention ot Specie Paving Free Banks, held at Indianapolis on "the 14th and 15th. In what you say of the thirty-one Banks that have always.paid Coin for their noies on presentation, no error occurs, but when you go beyond these and furnish a list of what you call "vagabond" Banks, you should not snv that the Convention "ascertained" any thing in regard to them—nor that it "was stated that the balance of the Free Banks paid their notes in coin when presented by what their officers call honest men. Nothing was asce tlined in regard to the one clas.s or slated in regard to ihe other, and any informahave to the cjntrary, is not

tion vou may only incorrect, but probably originated with interested parlies, who are anxious to obliterate the distinction between specie paring and non-specie paying Banks, to establish which was one great object of this Convention.

The public should be made to know^ that when a broker or shaver, whether behind a bn?rk counter or elsewhere, represents nil ndinnn Free Bank notes as of equal value,, and quotes them at

fifteen, or twenty per cent., as the case

may be, he is attempting to ro6, without the courage, however, to do so in such a way as to render himself amenable to the law, and is, therefore, by so much beneath the highwayman. Nor is his conduct atoned for by naming a few notoriously defunct concerns, when thirty or more others should be added to the list. And allow mo here to correct an error of the Cincinnati Gazette, in its notice of the proceedings of this Convention, published in that paper of the 19th. After naming the thirty-one banks winch were represented, it says ''Such of tue foregoing banks os gave satisfactory answers, (to the question whether they had ever, under any circumstances, refused to pay coin,) were acquitted." The official proceedings, from which the Gazette pretends to copy, says at this point "each of the foregoing banks answered satisfactorily, and was admitted by separate vote. Having, some time auo, reduced the number of spe-cie-payinc Free Banks in Indiana to six, it is net a matter of surprise that this paper hesitates and blunders in letting its readers know that there were five times that num-

The Gazette, with great show of kindness, "presumes" that most of these thirtj-one Banks intend to redeem their notes with coin—no matter by whom presented. Why not presume this of all of them 1 Are the Gazette sources of information such as to warrant it in making a distinction 1 or is it trumping up an excuse for its previous misrepresentations of Ihese banks, and thus enabling the shy locks in whose pay many suppose ?t to be, to continue to shave innocent bill holders ten to twenty per cent, on notes which 6aid shavers know to be as good as gold 1 I had written thus far when I accidentally met with a number of the Indianapolis journal, of the 19th, containing a notice of the Bank Convention, which has no doubt misled you in the statements which have corrected.

Some of the Journal's banking friends, as we are informed, have enabled it to make "a far more complete statement of the Banks than can be gathered from the proceedings of the convention." In doing this, the Journal gives us a list of forty-six Banks, which it says "are understood to be good, and received by most of our Bankers and Brokers."

If it is Inferred from this that information was elicited in the convention justifying any one in pronouncing these Banks good, or any Banker in

taking

The use which is thus attempted to be made of the silence of the convention, upon matters not before it, renders it necessary to say, that it was claimed in the convention, that the Liurel Bank, Laurel Brookville Bank, Brookville Southern Bank, Terre Haute Huntington county Bank, Huntington ond the Public Stock-Bank, Newport, ore now paying coin for their notes when ever presented. Beyond this, nothing was claimed or done in convention, which should give credit to the notes of any Bank not there represented.

And it seems necessary t3 say further, that there are some parties who represent specie paying Banks of small circulation,

ship, suspended Banks of mubh larger circulation. All such Bankers ore, no doubt, highly gratified when the public ore mnde to believe the notes of one just as good as the notes of the other.

When Bonkers ond Brokers make their dealers believe lliis, they hove no trouble in selling them New York exchange at a premium tf 15 per cent., for Free Bank paper, indiscriminately. But when in their hands, it soon ceases to be of equal value. The notes of Ihe euspended Banks ore loaned to the produce buyer on bixty and ninety daj bills on New York, ond :hose of the specie paying Banks arc carefully laid aside lor an opportunity, directly or indircctly, to draw the coin.

It is time the people were made to understand this gnme, by which they are so shamefully fleeced ond no public press, whose circulation reaches the victims, will have discharged its duty until it has aided in the exposure.

A MEMBER OF THE COSVEHTIOR.

THE CZAK AHD HUMAH Ltre.—According to the Edinburgh Advertiser, the Czar has carried on a war with the Circasssians for twenty-eight years, and at the annua! cost of 20,000 of his subjects. This would make an aggregate of 560,000. In the two campaigns saainst Persia, as in the Hungarin campaign and the two Polish rampiignsof 1831-32 there are not sufficient data t«-form a correct estimate of the loss

Russians,

which was, however, in the

pcrgian and P(ngh war(l

camp8i{ n8 a?a

is the son of John was a 390,000 fell of whom, however, 50,000 Henry the Second who was the son ofJ l,Bue. The loss of the Matilda who was the daughter of Henry Pjnshe

Conqueror .hp lb.b.««d .on of the'

proceed

officially before a commission composed of general and superior officers of cavalry, with General Regnault de St. Jean d'Angley at their head, to a practical demonstration of her method on certain number of young cavalry horses. After twenty day's training the horses were ao perfectly broken in that the minister no longer hesitated to enter into an arrangement with Madame Isabelle to introdoce her system into all the imperial schools of cavalry, beginning with that Sanmor. The advantages of this systern appear to be these To train the horses without fatiguing them to diminish greatly the number of restive horses to leaaen the number of accidents to train any number of horses si the same time* snd to losion considerably the expenses

enormous. In the

Turkey of 1828-29,

lc Uti

Washington's Wealth.

General Washington was at one

„„,

it hou

|d be borne in

mind that no estimate is attempted to be made of the sacrifice of human life on the side of those who fought for their liberties sgainst the aggressions of Russis. Truly, the Emperor sustains his throne, and gratifies his ambition, ot an immense eost of life.

AMERICANS AT THE TABLE.--Robert

Chambers, in his recent volume on ••Things in America," remarks thnt person accustomed to visit among the middle classes in Grest Britain, is astonished at the profusion nt table in all quarters of America. "There is," lie says, "no stinting as to food He adds, ••it was often pressed to my. notice in the United States, thst the hired labor* ers in the field are provfded with better fare than falls to the lot of thousands of the "genteel'* classes in England. s.?-

WOKAV'S RIGHTS.—A

time

probably one of the greatest land holder®, in the United Slates. Hjs ®n"ua* ceipi from his estates amounted in 171»o to four thousand pounds sterling. property, at the same period, was estimated to be worih one hundred and sixty thousand pounds sterling, which is a very large sutn in federal money, and was considered a icry greai fortune at that eaily day in this country for any oneman 10 possess. His estate ai Mi. Veruon alone was computed in 1787 to conis in a a re a which enough was in cultivation 10 pro* duce, in a singlo year, ten thousand bushels of corn a'nJ seven thousand bushels of wheat. In a succeeding year he raised two hundred lambs, sowed iweniy^seven bushels of flaxseed, and planted 6even hundred bushels of P°J|| toes— it

Bayard Taylor, ihe traveler, says* ho prefers Mexico for the beauty of the seeGermany for its society. Cali* nery fornio especially for its climate, and ihe

uniform discount of United Siutes its government

vw-c DIED.

On Friday, the22nd inst.,of Slow Fever, Mrs. JASE McMuRTiE.oged about 31 years.

SELLERS' COUGH SYRUP C.OiNOT BK RECOMMENDED TOO flMIl "V

WAPSWORTH, Medina Co., O. Feb. 25,1852. MR. R. E. -SELUERS I have sold all ihe lmpeperial Cough Syrup your agent left wiih me and should like to have more of it. We hove used your syrup in our families, and .can sately pronounce it the best Coujjh Medicine wehavo ever known and cannot recommend it too highly to all litose who arc atllicied wiih coughs, or colds, os a speedy ond certain enre

S. BLOCKER, Post Master.

J. M. Bench, J. Slutter, J. II. Lit'le, D. Geisinger. The above is strong testimony and ottered without solicitation, in behalf of the best coi.gh medicine of .his day. ,-

Prepared and sold by R. E. SU.LL»F.RS & o. This article is presented to th ulllicted as tho cheapest, most jtieasvn' and reliable cough remedy now before the public.

Price, 25 cents per bottle For sale by|P. M. DONNlCLLY.Terre-IInute, and by Druggists and Medicine dealers generr ally.

Dec 2. 1854.—15-In»

03rA Wo.Ntrsr.rrL DISCOVERY has recently been unite by Dr Curtis, of this city in the trentinent of Consumption, Asthma, and nil diseasesof tho lungs. We refer to '"Dr. Curiis'8 Uyueann. or Inhaling llycenn Vapor and Cherrv Syrup." With his new method Dr. C. has restored many afflicted ones to perfect health as an evidence of which he hns innumerable certificates. Speaking of the treatment a physician remarks It isevident that Inhaling— conslnnlly breathins an agrieablee, healing vapor, the medicinal properties must come in direct con.nct wiih tho whole ol the mrial cavity of the lungs,and thus escape tho many and varied changes produced upon thrui when introduced into the stomach, and subjected to iho process of digestion. The Hygeana is lor snle ai nil tho druggists throughout the country. iFrom the New York Dutchman of Jan. Iftih.)

See advertisement of Medicated Inhalation in another column of this paper. June 17, '54 43 ly Dr. Swityne nnd~bi* CJrcnt l)i*covery.

We havo beforo spoken at lengih in tho columns of the "Courier." of the Compound Syrup of Wild Cherry of Dr. Swayno Wo know thi» from experience to be one ol ihe m09t valunblu medicines for all throat, breast ond lung complaints that the science ol chemistry hns yol produced, and a remedy that may bo taken without fear of injury to any one And «wo pay witlt emphatic earnestness to each an! all of our

the convention justifying! friends, do not wait untill you are Inid helpless upon a bed of sickness, bat upon the first intnivili.m of cold or cough, gut a bottle of his all-henl-ing medicine, tho "Compound Syrup ol iid

these notes, who

had pledged himself "not to treat as par funds the issues of any suspended Bank whatever," a great mistake will be made.

Cherry." The Doctor's Laboratory, for the manufacture* and snle of his "Family Medicine.*," is at No. 4

North Seventh street, abeve Market, Philml.t. Our friend J. R. Cunningham, is the exclusive agent for this county-

December 23, '31 18

AYER'S CHERRY PKCTORAI..— We believe thi* i® he un excellent preparation, and shall ilierelore not hesitate to wctimmciid it to our renders. It hns been tested in numerous instances in this city and in several which have under our own observation, it has accompli-heil what "tlii'r popular medicines and Mime ol our most skilful physicians had tailed to accomplish—a perfect* cure, in cases of (apparently) continued consumption- It is the only medicine l.ir this disease which we can heartily recommend.-*-1 emperanco Advocator Prov. K. I. _____

DR. GU YSOTT'S IMPROVED F.XTRACT OF YELLOW DOCK AND SAR3APARILLA. is a sure remedy for Hereditary Tnint.

Thousands of individuals ore cured with grinvous complaints which they inherit from their parents. The use of tho Yellow Dock and Sarsapnrilla will prevent all this and save a vaat amount of misery, and many valuable lives, for it thoroughly expels from tho system iWe latent laint, which ia the sei ol disease, and so takeoff the curse by which the sins or misfortune- of the parent* are so often visited upon tho innocent offtpring.

Parents owe it to their children lo guard them against ihe effects of maladies that mny he communicated by descrct, nnd children of"parents that have ot nny timo been nllecit-d with onsumption, Scrofula or Syphilis, owe it to ihemaelvcs to tuke precaution against the diseaso bein-t*revived in tlicni. G'jysott'a Extract of Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla i« a sure antiJota in such cases.

Soe advertisement.

Octobcr 28,1854—Im.

COKOJvrcit'S INQUEST.

an inquest held on the Bod of John flaufman. on the iWd inst., nt ihe house of H»nry Schullman. in the town of Terre Hauie. Vi(p county, Indiana. The verdict of the Jury was, that said John llautman came to his death by shooting himself in the mouth with a pistol-

On the body was lound one pockct knife, ono pocket comb, one pnirbu let moulds, and one IKJX percussion caps. Hi* person about 5 leettt inchl-s high, randy hair and complexion, stout ouili, ond about 53 years of ajje. an was drcsard in a coarse knit shirt, fustiun pants, a fur or plush cap. Mid a German by birth.

HAVEjustol

H. BL1NN, Coroner, Y«C.

Dec. 30.1851 -19-3t. TW.

FERGUSON & CO.

(OPPOSITE POST OI'T'ICI?! TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA,

established themselves in the manu

factory Blank Books, and Book Binding in all its branches, with ihe most improved machinery and tools.

With their long experience in working in tho' West, they feel sale in warranting their work to all who feel disposed to patronize them, with tho best of work and on the n.ost reasonable lerm*.

All Kinds of Bank. Kailroid and (-'ounpr Offices' Books snd anks, with lite best of work made on short notice. Periodicals, old books, snd muric bound to order.

Dee. 30,t

good natured hus

band, a dozen children, and a happy home. As these rights may be essily obtained, we hope the sisterhood will "make oote.ouV'

Sheriffs Sale.

virtae of decree of the Common Pleas Court made at the October term, A. I). 1851. in favor of Merick A. Jewell end Mary M. Jewett, his wife, against Harrison Low, 1 will, on Saturday the 20th of January 1855, next, offer at nblicsale, without relief from valuation or appraieemen!, at the Court House door in Terre Haute, the rents and profits for the term of seven yesrs. of the real estate mentioned in ssid order, to-wii: Lot No. 27 in subdivision No. 1 of Cutaw Farm in aaid county of Vigo, being the property of said Harrison Low, and if the aame shail not: sell for

sufficient sum to sstiafy said order, I

will then and there sell the fee simple of said premises to satisfy aaid order and costs.

Pee, 30,

L. A. BURNETT, Sheriff

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