The Wabash Courier, Volume 23, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 June 1855 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

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Satnrday Morning, Jone 9, 1855.

TWENTY FOURTH YEAR

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tion a motif the business, and best chss of citizens, makt the

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enables the Courier Office to strike of Posters, Business Cards, Hand Dills, »fc. (J-c in the best style, and alwtys at the shortest notice.

ELectidn.—The election in

Illinois took place on Monday last, but we have received few returns. In Clark county it is reported 600 majority ngainst the Liquor Law in Edgar 526, Chicago 688. Juliet 135 for the Law, the town of LaSalle 100 for the Law, The city of Sprjngfield gives a majority of three against the Law, Rock Uiand 193 against

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See advertisement of subscription of stock for the new Bank of the Siate of Indiana. Books will be opened on the 10th of July, by the sub commissioners, VV. E. McLean and W. R. McKcen, at the office of the Trustees of the Wabash & Erie Canal.

The National Intelligencer, speaking of the Virginia electon says The people of Virginia are peculiar in several respects. They are not only good talkers, but they are equally good listeners that is they delight in public speaking they expect their public men to ndtJrcss them in public assembly, and they are open to great influence from commanding oratory. They are, moreover, a people of tradition they are attached to their historical names, and especially to what are called the 'Virginia doctrines,' to which many a worthy citizen proclaims his devotion with very Jittle idea of what they are. They only know that the resolutions of '98 were passed by men whose names have come down as household words that their fathers voted for them, and so must ihoy and, having taken their side and publicly recorded their voto when first lhey exercised tho right, the viva voce mode has great influence afterwards in preventing a change. There is respectability in consistency, they think, and so we confess there is however poor it may be as a reoson. We have seen a man in this old State who voted for Mr. Polk, for the sole reason that he had voted for Mr. JefForson

Ni:w

RKANSAS.—-The

Louisville Courier learns that the mass of people of Arkansas are actually sufF ering for the necessaries of life. At Little Rock, tho principal town in the State, sugnr, coffee, tea, flour, corn, &c.. nre commanding famine prices, and hard to get at any price. The Arkansas and other tributaries are nearly all dried up, and the river communication entirely cut off. In addition to all this the growing crops throughout that region nnd all the South are very backward, and present the most unfavorable appearance.

OVEMENT.—A

new movement

has been started in tho American ranks, in New York, which is likely to lead to important results. A call has been issued for a public meeting at Stuyvesant lnstitue, to make an open declaration of National American Principles. The call is understood to have the sanction of many influential members of the order. The ohj-?ci in view is to make a public declaration that the American party does not desiro the exclusion from office of any foreigner who is a Protestant, and has no intention of debarring them from the benefits accruing from tho triumph of the American cause, abandonment of tho principles of 'secrecy* will also bo urged.

HEAP OOD.—-The

Providence Jour

nal stated that there were cheap articles of food on which we could live healthily, and would continue cheap if a large portion of the people would live on them. The Pawtucket Gazette desired to know what those articles were,. whereupon the Journal gives the following bill of particulars: -tj•We will tell yob. Of course you will not expect a bill of fare such os you get at the St. Nicholas or the Astor. In tho first place there is codfish. Don't turn up your nose at codfish it is excellent food if you know how to cook it if you do not, you might as well try to eai shingles, it is nutritious, palatable, and wholosome, and very cheap. Next we havo pork and beans, ^he man who dacs not like pork and beans, is like 'the man who hath no music in himself.'

It is said that pork and beans combine, in remarkable degree, all the elements required for the proper food of man. Next clams, if again you know how to cook them, and if you do not, you should be ashamed of yourself, living to near the banks whose discounts never fail.— Then we haue rice, which few people know hnw to cook, but which, as the Southern people *ouk it is most delicious in great, variety uf forms.' 1

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. The steamor Africa, with advices from Liverpool, London and Paris to Saturday the 26th ult., arrived at New York on the 5th inst. The advices though interesting, are not of startling importance The Vienna Conference will probably be again opened. A secret expedition is preparing in the Crimea by the allies The general aspect of the affairs of the allies fore Sebastopol is unchanged though there has been some hard fight ing. Gen. Pellissier contemplates an •attack on the Russians in the field. The motion of a want of confidence in the English Minister was not successful in the House of Commons. The latest ad vices from the Crimea, say an engage inent took place before the flagstaff bat' tery, in which the French destroyed the

Russian outworks. The Conference at Vienna it was reported, would re-open on Monday the 20th ult. The money market is easier. United States securities are in good demand, and prices generally better. The Austrian envoy was to leave Vienna immediately for Frankfort, to urge the mobilization of the German federal forces, and it is re ported that Austria has sent secret circu lars to all the German Courts, insisting that each should specify, distinctly, the line of conduct it proposes to follow.— The recent arrival of the three Franch divisions swell the allied force in the Crimea to 201,000—say 120,000 French 30,000 English, 40,000 Turks, and 11,000 Sardinians. The correspondent of tho London "Times," writing from the Crimea, soys the army was well sup plind with not only all the necessaries, but the luxuries of life. On the 19ih, Gortschakoff telegraphed as follows

The enemy's fire is weak, and loss is moderate both parties are repairing and erecting batteries. A severe battle fought last night before the walls." Gen. Pellissier telegraphs under date of the 24th ult.: In a very lively combat, against an out position of the Russians which lasted all night, we obtained com plete succeas. The Russians loss was enormous and ours considerable." Offi cial information had reached the British Consul at Elsinore, that the Russian Government had ordered all the ships of war at Constadt to be sunk, except eight liners. Advices from S Petersburg of the 19ih ult., say that all the fortified harbors in the bay of Finland, had been placed in a state of siege. The mortality in the Austrian army in Gallacia, continued awful fifteen thousand had died, and twenty-three thousand were in hospitals, -i-,.:.

HE USSIAN OSSES.—In the course of a specch recently made by Lord Lansduwne, he said:—'A few days before the death of the Emperor Nicholas, a return was made up, stating that 170000 Russians had died, and according to a supplementary return furnished some few days later, 70,000 were added to the list, making a total of loss-of 240000 Russians in the first campaign in Europe as well as in Asia. When

such losses are inflicted, the war cannot be considered as utterly unsuccessful.'

The Crops and the Prospect. It is a subject of felicitation with all who wish well to the country that the prospect of an abundant crop is most favorable.— From nearly every section of the Union the accounts are cheering. The importance of a rich harvest—one that shall not only fill the granary of our farmers to repletion, but afford a large surplus—can scarcely be alluded to in terms too strong. For some months past we have been suffering under famine prices, and the effect has been serious upon every branch of trade. The wonder indeed is that the laboring classes have contrived to provide to necessaries of life. Meats and breadstuff* still command enormous rates, but a hope may be indulged that the worst has been experienced. An immense breadth of the land has been planted, and there will in all probability, not only be a large crop of wheat and corn, but also of rye, barley, and potatoes. We recently alluded to a tour made by an intelligent gentleman of this city through twelve of the Stales ofthe Union and to the fact that all had been visited by refreshing rains. The Savannah Georgian states that throughout the whole extent of middle and upper Georgia the grain crops of all kinds are excellent, and the harvest everywhere promises to be abundant. Wheat is already fit for the sickle. The same is reported of the crops in Tennessee and Kentucky. Almost everywhere throughout the South, continues the Georgian, 'the cereal grains, which have been planted more extensively thid than former years, give promise of ^n abuudant harvest.' The State Gazette, published at Austin, says it is now satisfied that the harvest of Texas for cotton and corn will surpass that of any of the sister States. There is, therefore, we may fairly infer, a good time coming, not only for the farmers, but for all who depend directly or indirectly upon breadstuff's.—Phil' adelph ia Inqu irer. ,, „,

Strong Talk.

OBITUARY.

At a meeting of the members of TerreHaute Lodge No. 19 of F. & A. Masons on May aau, 1835, the following report with annexed resolutions was unanimously adopted:

It has pleased Almighty God, to remove by death from our midst, our dearly beloved brother LANDON COOHRAN, after a severe illness, in the 63d year of his age.

As history, revealing the life of a nation, is a teacher to the rising generations, so the life of the individual man, is a fit teacher of those of his own generation and of his sur. vivors. While as Masons we may throw the mantle of extended charity over his frailties and shortcomings—for such he with the rest of the hufoan family undoubtedly "had we are permitted to garner -in our heart's heart the remembrance of the great and good qualities, which adorned his life. Prominent among these was reverence for the name of his Creator, which from his youth up he never profanely used prominent also were his temperate habits of life, the attachment to his family, rewarded by the affect ionatq regard of his wife and children but most conspicously prominent was hi« patriotism. At a gloomy period in the progress of the late war with Great Britain, the gal lant Perry, on the 10th September, 1813, crossed with a hastily collected naval force the bar before the harbor of the town of Erie and giving at once thesignal for close action, soon engaged the superior English fleet.— The execution of the canpon was desperate, the carnage on both sides fearful but the dauntless spirit of Perry and his associates achieved a splendid victory. In tfiat small band of heroes, was a youth 21 years of age, who had volunteered his services for the occasion, and who was lucky enough, under God's Providence to survive the dreadful conflict, and join in the glad shout of triumph, •We have met the enemy and they are ours.' That youth, then so full of vigor and life, whose every nerve and muscle was then strained to its utmost tension, and whose eye hurled dcfiance to an arrogant enemy was our now deceased brother. A finely executed medal Commemorative of the event, and now before the writer of this notice was awarded to him by the Government of Pennsylvania, bearing this inscription: |To LANDON COCHRAN in testimony of his patriotism and bravery in the naval action on Lake Erie, Spptbr. 10, 1813.'

Again, when the United States declared war against Mexico was there a mnn, who toiled harder in organizing an efficient force in Vigo county, than our brother! Leaving his fireside and family, he joined the army under General Scott, and participated with it in a campaign, alike distinguished for masterly conception and successful execution.'

In view ofthe foregoing be it Wit* .1 Resolved, That in the death of

THE

ENGLISH

ETURNING

The London Times closes a recent article on the Eastern War with the following paragraph:

The great battle we have to fight is, after alt not abroad, but at home. Grant us the victory over our own corruptions, and we can easily desl with the open force of a barbarous enemy. But the two campaigns ought to begin together. While we are pressing on the north and south, we accomplish nothing, unless we deal with equal vigor with intestioe mischiefs. That this country should be governed at such a moment by a few great families, and the Administration of our War Department should be abandoned to a valetudinarian that our War Department should be wosked on principles solemnly condemned and unrelentingly adhered to ibat the country should distrust the Government that the Govern toe nl should have no confidence in itself, and as little in those it employs and that Parliament should witness ail those things and make no effort to amend them—this is more fatal to our interests than all the myriads of half starved serfs that are marshalled between the Baltic and Eoxine, or aH the hordes of Cossoeks and Bashkirs who rove between the foreets of the Ukraine and tile froma

LANDON

COCHRAN, his family has lost a fond husband an indulgent and affectionate parent, and the community at large a good citizen, always obedient to the laws of his country, that country, to which every pulsation of his heart was beating, and for which in the hour of peril he often hazarded his life.

Resolved, That it becomes us, his brothers in the fraternity of F. & A. Masons, to emulate the virtues of his life, so that when we are called from the terrestrial Lodge to the celestial Lodge on high, we may prove ourselves as good workmen, worthy ofthe company of our exalted brethren.

Resolved, That in token of our sense of bereavement, the Lodgeroom nnd Regalia be draped with crape, and that the brothers will wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days.

Resolved, That the Secretary furnish a Copy hereof to the widow and family of the deceased, and cause it to be published in the papers of this city.

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UPERIORITY OF

MERICANS TO

ON THE

FIELD.—It is a

somewhat noticeable fact, that the most accurate account of Sebastopol, the one which gives the best idea of the position of things was there, copied by the London Times from the Providence (11. I Journal, and written by the late Dr. Draper, formerly of that city, who" went to the seat of war as surgeon in the Russian service, since the siege began, and news of his death was.brought by the last steam er. The superiority of Americans to the English in observation and military foresight, was also attested by John Quincy Adams, at the time he went up on the eastern frontier, when the Maine boundary question was agitated. He mingled with both the American and British officers who were stationed there. The English were all absorbed in hunting, racing, and sporting, and knew little and cared less as to what our army were about. The American officers, on the contrary, were acquainted with the English forces, their fortifications, and all their movements, and not step could he taken without their knowing it.—Albany Register. u.-sr-t* Jr.

be the cause, it seems to be beyond dispute that unusually large numbers of our foreign population are returning to their former homes in Europe. Since the 20th of April 2000 at least have been sent from New York by the South street shipping agencies. The superabundance of labor in the eastern cities, the pressure of hard times, and very high prices for living are responsible for much of this, and we do not know that it is to be regreted just at present as the country is hardly 4n a condition to need all the foreign imigrants still crowding hither, at least of the kind who come to us. Thir New York Courier and Enquirer tells us that few can be induced to go into the interior, wheie agricultural laborers are scarce and in demand. One ship, the Daniel Webster, which sailed from New York lately, took out about one hundred passengers, many of whom came here in her, on her late passage from Liverpool. After taking a look at the city, and finding out how hard times were thero, they have supposed that the rest of the country is the same condition and so have gone back whence they came.

~~~~~~~ HUGE REMAINS.—While the workmen on Geyer avenue were engaged yesterday in the excavation of that thorough fare they came across the remains of an animal of other days, which for huge dimensions, we have not seen equalled.— A tooth, in excellent preservation, is now in our office, which the public can exmine at their leisure, weighing 3 lbs, 7 oz. Mr. Gorman, who first discovered the remains, informs as that they were at least fifteen feet below the surface.— If the law of <lex talionis> was in force among the brute creation when this monster existed, and "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" was enforced by the instincts of their natures, the old Father of Waters has witnessed some extraordinary dental operations.—<St. Louis Republican>.

A. Prediction of thePreaeat War. The Rev. John Gumming, D. D., of the Scotch Church Londoh, in a lecture delivered in Exeter Hall in the year 1847, pronounced, among other matters, the prophetic words written below. They are copied frppi hts 'ApopalyptiQ Sketches*:— •Having explained the pouring out of the six preceding vials, the learned lecturer proceeds with the seventh~~bist^xt is Rev., xvi., 17 to §1.' •TThe seventh vial is ready to be poured out, or if not already pouring out we are upon the very verge of its being so. It trembles in the hands of the angel.— Vye may expect during the action of this vial, the mountaineer and the fastnesses—the miner in his subterranean caves—the voyagor upon the ocean's bosom—the Arab in his desert—the moslem in his mosque—the Cossack in his Steppes—the King upon his throne—the mother in her household—the babe in the cradle—all will feel its vibrations, receive the taint of its influence, and respond in a thousand echoes to the voice from above, "It is done." •There will be rocking thrones there will be subdiverted dynasties there will be dislocated systems there will be nations scattered and shaked as by a whirlwind and the hearts of the great and the mean,.the rich and the poor, trembling for fear of the things coining on earth.' 'Now you will notice that under the seventh vial the ten-kingdom form is no longer to be the distinctive characteristic of the Romanish nations they are to assume a new shape—they will be divided into a tripartite shape three great masses will be the ultimate form into which all the nations of Europe and Christendom will be divided as soon us you see three great leading powers coming into collision with broad Europe for the battle-field, and the evening of the \yorld for the conflict, you may expect that the downfall of Babylon, and the advent of Christ, nnd the dawn of the millenium are near. It is probable that this tripartite division will consist of France leading its hosts upon the one side, as the great partisan of Papacy the Autocrat of all the Russias, who has moro than once' played a cruel game, may lead the second part and I have some idea that this old England of ours, so illustrious by its sainted sufferers, its noble army of maryters, its devoted Christians its preached Gospel, its spreading Christianity, its circulated Bibles, will be also the third party and when the conflict comes, it will be as of old,. England against the world, the truth of God against the apostacy of Satan and th$ infidelity of man.'

Sailing of the Kane Expedition. The propeller Arctic and the barque Release, forming the expedition to go in search of Dr. Kane and his companions, who sailed in 1852 for the purpose of obtaining information of the fate of Sir John Franklin and his companions, departed from the Brooklyn navy yard (New York) for the Arctic seas on Thursday afternoon, the 31st ult. They will anchor at Sandy Hook, and remain a few days to afford time for adjusting their compasses and make other preparations of a similar character for their long and, but for the noble mission on which they are destined, most cheerless voyoge.

As the hour of sailing arrived the navy yard wharves were lined with spectators, and among them many ladies who had come to bid farewell to gallant spirits, who perhaps, may never again be greeted by their smiles. Every thing being in readiness, the Arctic, having steam up, hoisted her anchor and moved forward of the Release, to which a hawser was extended that she might be towed down the bay. The Release then hoisted her anchor and cast off the line by which her stern was moored to the cob work near by, and the gallant vessels and their noble crews were under way. As they moved swiftly down, propelled by steam and tide the sailors on board the North Carolina manned their yards and sent up cheer after cheer in which those on the warves [sic] fervently joined. The crews of the departing vessels replied with cheer upon cheer till their voices were lost in the distace [sic]. ~~~~~~~

FASHIONABLE

AND

VAL,

MIGRANTS—Whatever

A New Move la the Crimea.'" The European papers talk of a change in the plan of campaign of the Allies in the Crimea. The plan for the summer is said \o be that 25,000 men of the French reserves, now distributed ai iNlalak, Gallipoli and Adrianopla, are to be brought to the Crimea, to be followed by from 80,000 to 40,000 additional troops, Piedmontese and French. As soon aa the reserves arrive, and without waiting for the additional reinforcements, the French army will proceed to cross the Chernaya, attack the Russians in the field, and when the reinforcements come up, clear the peninsula of Russians, and occupy and fortify Perekop.— The main army will then return and finish the siege of Sebastopol at leisure. Kafia and Kertch are first to be secured, as points of retreat for the army in the field. This plan requires a very large increase of the Allied forces, for the Russians have an army of from eighty to one hundred thousand in the field, and all the accessible points have been strongly fortified. There will be «ome sanguinary work before the Russians in driven out of the Crimea, if auch an event is now ponibto.

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War Expanses of England. The London "Daily News" jays: The time is come when England and France must peremptorily declare that who is not with us is against os, ,lf Austria stands in their way they must march over Austria." YVhilst this avowal clearly indicates the doubta which are still felt in England rfjgarding the course which Austria may eventually pursue, it also betrays the plan adopted of bullying into the espousal of their cause all those whom they cannot coax. But that would be a dangerous game to pursue while Sebastopol remains, and Austria is in occupatipn of the Principalities, and her Emperor has the disposal of 500,000 bayonets. From the lofty posi lion which this Republic occupies, she can afford to look dispassionately upon the movements of the crowned combat anti below.

The budget presented by the Chan cellor of Exchequer to the House of Commons in England ia most oppressive in its nature, and already the under growl ings of discontent are making them selves audible in high quarters. The expenditure for the present year is esti mated at 8404,487,805, which is an. ex ceas over last year of 875,988,275 so that if the war continues for many years longer, the debt of Englaud will be accumulated to such an extent that revo lution and repudiation will be the only chances of escape from a grinding and intolerable taxation. But the Chancellor of the British Exchequer very pru denily calculates that the unforseen outlay of the. war may increase the estimate expenditure, and he has therefore proposed to raise $434,185,000. This sum is to be made up by a loan of $80,000,000, by the revenue derivable from ex isting sources, by a direct tax upon all incomes, and on several of the necessaries of life which are already heavily taxed. There is to. be an additional tax of two cents a pound on coffee, six cents on tea, seventy*two cents per cwt. on sugar, two cents on bankors' roceipts forty-four cents per gallon on Scotch whisky, forty-eight cents per gallon on Irish whisky, and an increase of four cents in the pound sterling on the in come tax. Ireland suffers heavily in this arrangement, as her population is poor, and the increased price of coffee, tea, sugar, and whisky will be the more severely felt. Whisky is almost the only article of native manufacture that has not been crushed in Ireland but it cannot be now in a very prosperous condition, when this last import raises the duty to $1,50 per gallon. U. &. Jour nal. Ti'

A SCREW LOOSE

HARD TIMES

IMPORTANT ARRI

-Among the arrivals at tho ^Planter's House last night was A. Skeeter, Esq., lady, family and friends of Swampum, La., and Sukemdri Ranch?, Texas.— Shortly after arrival, the party being too numerous to find accommodation in one house, divided the honor of their presence among the various public establishments In the city not a few availing themselves of the hospitality of our private citizens. The Skeeter family, as our readers may be aware, is a very numerous one, different branches having settled themselves at various times in every State in the Union. They are remarkable for possessing singing voices, and like birds of Paradise, for being perpetually "on the wing". They will commence giving a series of evening concerts in the couse of a week or two, and will, we doubt, make their customary impression on ihai^a^io^.-^w-souri Democrat.l '^s

TENNESSEE.—Hon.

A. J. Donelson, Gen. Jackson's^Private Secretary, then Charge to Texas, &c,— a distinguished private man in Tennessee, is out with a letter, in which he intimates his decided opposition to reelecting Andrew Johnson, the present Governor of the State, who is now 'stumping' the State, with Hon. M. P. Gentry. His letter is addressed to the Editor of the Nashville Union, and begins thus:— 'As I am not a Nullifier or Abolitionist, or apologist, in any degree, for President Pierce and his Cabinet in their attempt to govern the country by a coalition of the most dangerous factions in the land, you will oblige me by erasing my name from your list of subscribers.' 'It is notorious that the individuals the most prominent in adherence to this treason, are those specially sought for by President Pierce to fill the most elevated and responsible national trusts, but not a word is ever found in your paper, warning the country against conduct so obviously the result of the intrigue which has surrendered the powers of the Federal government to the nullifying factions of the day.' -1

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NEW ORLEANS.—Tho

N. O. Commercial Bulletin speaks dospondingly of the business interests of that city. It says the unprecedented depression of business of every description, during the past season, has set moneyed men to thinking. Communication with a large extent of country has been cut off by the low state of the rivers, so that goods packed months ago still remain in store. Real estate has rapidly depreciated under heavy taxa tion, which drives away capital, and prevents a permanently resident population. The Bulletin says: Tho fall of city property within the last year has been surprising —greater, within a given period, than for many years past." As a remedy for the chief of these evils, the Bulletin calls for reform in the city government, the arrest of extravagance, and the breaking up of the iniquitous combinations of contractors and jobbers, that the depletion of the treasury and the increase of taxes may cease. 1 "Rowed up Salt River." -s

Bayard Taylor, in a letter from Mammoth Cave, gives the origin ofthe above famous saying, as follows:

While on the spot I took occasion to inquire the derivation of the slang phrase, rowed up Salt River," and succeeded in discovering it. Formerly there were extensive salt-works on the river, a short distance from its mouth.— The laborers employed in them were a set of athletic, beligerent fellows, who soon become noted far and wideofor their achievements in the pugilistic line. Hence it become a common thing among the boatmen on the Ohio, when one of their number was refractory, to say to him, we'll row you up Salt River "—where of course the bully salt men would have the handling of him.— By a natural figure of speech the expression was applied to political candidates, first, I believe, in the Presidential campaign of 1840, and ia now extensively used wherever the naiivo-American language is spoken."

A STATUTE LOST.—A correspondent in Michigan informs us that the engrossed copy, bearing the Governor's signature, of the Michigan Prohibitory Law has been stolen from the archives at Lansing! The State ia therefore without a Liquor Law, in a literal aense, though we presume that there ia a copy aome. where upon the Records of the Legislature, if not actually printed in the books of atatutea. Thia is a peculiar case, but probably the felon will be disappointed in bis hope of being able to deatroy the efficacy of the Lew .—Bmfalo Dentotr

The Waahington correapondent ofthe' N. Y. Enquirer, aays: The Administration has taken its position In respect to Kanaaa. It will austain Reeder ao far aa to recognize the frauduteut election by the Miasouri mob, and so far aa to pay him (Reeder) his salary until the end of the quarter, ft is not believed, however, that Reeder will rdturn to the territory, in as much as tbe mob leaders have distinctly declared their intention to murder or assassinate him, and Gen. Pierce has not only informed Mr. Reeder that he perceives no occasion to intervene in his behalf, but has extended to his opponents the substantial encouragement of sending the government advertisamenta to the most bitter and incendiary organs of the moss troopers. It is supposed that Achison or Stringfellow will be appointed Governor on the dismissal of Reeder. The latter will settle in Easton, where he will be elected to the town council, or perhapa the assembly, aa a testimony of the heroism with which he has de~ fended the right of self-government and squatter aovereignty in Kansas,'*

THE BRITISH ARMT IN INDIA.—Accor ding to Sir Erskine Perry, a member of the British House of Commons, the British army in India ia now nearly half a million strong, and is in a condition of the highest efficiency. Of this immense force thirty thousand are troops in the Queen's service, and forty thousand are European troops in the service of the East India Company. The gentleman named recently submitted a motion for the appointment of a committee to consider how the army in India might be made most available for the war in Europe, and to inquire into the steps necessary to be taken it it should be deemed expedient to constitute the army of the EaFt India Company into a royal army. Singular enough, all the circumstances considered, the proposition waa rejected by a vote of 171 to 62. .•!£'

ABOUT LONGEVITY.—The census of 1850 shows that the oldest person living in the United States was 140. This person was an Indian woman, residing in North Carolina. In the same state was an Indian aged 125, a negro woman 111, two black females 110 each, one mulatto male 120 and several White males and females aged from 106 to 114. In the parish of Lafayette, Louisiana, was a female black, aged 120. In several States there were found persons, white and black, aged from 110 to 115. There were in the United States in 1850, 2,555 persons over 100 years. This shows that about one person in 9,000 will be likely to live to that age. There are now about 20,000 persons in the United States who were living when the Declaration of Independence was signed, in 1776. They must necessarily be about 80 years old now in order to have lived at that time. The French census of 1854 shows only 102 persons over 100 years old though their total population was near 36,000,000. Old age is therefore, attained among us much more frequently than in France.*

A SANGUINARY PROSPECT.—It is ofton said observes the New York Courier, and and with apparent indifference too, that a general war in Europe may now ensue, equal in duration and severity to that which closed in 1815. Now, according to the calculations of Mr. Alison the levies of soldiers in France during that war exceeded four millions, and that not less than three millions of these perished in the field, tho hospital and the bivouac. If to these be added a like number of the enemies of France who perished, we have a direct destruction of human life to the terrible amount of six millions—and yet that figure, large as it is, gives but a faint and remote conception of the sufferings and evils inflicted by that awful scourge.

How TO GROW GRAPES.—As soon aa the grapes are all formed, let no more than one or two shoots grow, and they, whenever you want them as runners. Let all others be nipped off as fast as they appear. It will be necessary to go over the vines at least twice a week for two months. In this way you will have bunches that will weigh a pound—all the grapes will nttain their full size and ripen to perfection. Any grape vine let alone will run to destruction.— Should drouth ensue, it will be necessary to throw water around the roots. The best grapes are grown by training against a brick wall either in sunshine or shade, they will prosper and produce beyond any other fruit.

FEELING APPEAL.—Shopkeeper

••That's a bad fifty cent piece- I can't take it it's only lead silvered over." Customer—"Well, now admitting such to be the fact, I should say that the ingenuity displayed in the deception might induce you to accept it. Admire sir, the devotion of the artist to the divine idea of Liberty, the idol of us all I He having wrought her effigy in humble lead, in order to make it worthier of that glorious impression, resorts to the harmless expedient of silvering it over And shall we harshly repudiate his work! Oh.no. sir 1 You'll take it, I know you will

MARRIAGE OF GEK. TOM THUMB.—We clip the following from the Boston Herald •Tom Thumb, the celebrated little man was married at Webster on Thursday last to aMiss Vinton, of Bridgeport, Connecticut. An attempt was made to keep it from the public, but aomehow it leaked out through some ofthe company, who were a little indiscreet after imbibing pretty freely ofHeidseick, which Dr. Kirkham had provided for the occasion.'

.—

An Indian trader, named Picott, who has arrived at Wolf river, Kansas from the Blackfeet country, with 20,000 buffalo robes, says that, as he passed through the Sioux country, he found all the tribes of that nation talking about the war which they were expecting to have with the United States, and moving in large numbera down towards Fort Laramie. Picott reports that the Big Chief Mountains in Blackfeet country abound in buffaloes of a larger, more shaggy and ferocious kind than those of the plains;that more than a hundred thousand of them are annually slain by the hunters, while a like number perish in the snows and rivers, and yet there is no apparent diminution in their numbers. ~~~~~~

MARRIED IN BED.—Rev.

I am piteyied to Recommend Tour Fills.

Mr.

JoriET, Will Co., 111., Feb. 25, »54.

R. G. SELLERS:—When I

Walter W. Early and"l James W- Stewart, vs.

WilliAirison

W. Wright, of Covington, waa, on Friday, married while he lay in bed seriously ill. The bride was a Miss Lucy E. Moore.

A SPORTSMAN'S IIBATBN.—A

bound

less prairie, with an eternal September *XTILL bedoi en everlasting con* end never-dying VV finish, April 23» *M*3

resided in Pitts-*

burg,',I was cured of an attack of Liver complaint which had preyed upon my system for'eight yean, and reduced me so much that

was compelled t»

quit work. During the time of my suffering

HYGEAK VAPOR AND CHERRY SYRUP,

CE.NTER

had the ad

vice of several physicians, but their treatment' failed to accomplish a cure. A friend recommended the use of your Liver Pills," and after using two boxes of them, 1 found myselfentirely cured. Whilst suffering from Liver Complaint* I was also afflicted with the Piles, which 1 never felt afterwards. As my wife and eldest son ar* now very much afflicted with a deranged state of the Liver.

am verv anxious to have you make

an agency tor the sale of your Liver Pills at this place. Alter the cure of my own disease, 1 am prepared to recommend your Pills and very many persona in this section would freely try them if they had a chance.

Respectfully. ANDREW SARVER, FOR SALE BY

all the Druggists of Terre.Haute, Ind-,i*nd ftpDruggists and Medicine dealers generally. May 12.1855.—38-1m

Very Important Information.

Dr. Jon.vs, one of the most celebrated Physicians in New York, writes as follows: DR. CURTIS—Dear

Sir .-—Having witnessed!

the excellent effects of your

HYGCAN OR

Itta&uNaf

in a cam *f

chronic Bronchitis, and being much in favor «i counter-irritation in affections of the throat, bronchial tubes and lungs, 1 can therefore cheer! fully recommend your Medicated Apparatus as being the most convenient and effectual mode of applying anything of the kind I have ever seen. No doubt thousauds of persons may be relieved, and many cured, by using your remedies.

You are at liberty to use this in any way yoi% may think proper. Respectfully, yours, &c.

C. JON ES, M. Dv

j. I No. 603 Houston street, NewYo:iu PROF. S.

writes us as follows:

GENTLEMEN,—1 have, recently had occasion t». test your Cherry Syrup and Hygean Vapor in a case of chronic sore throat, that had refused t* yield to other forms of treatment, and the result has satisfied me, that, whatever may be the composition of your preparation, it is no imposition, but an excellent remedy. 1 wish, for the sake the afflicted, that it might be brought within the reach of all.

Rev. Doctor

CUEEVER

writes:

NEW YORK,

DEAR SIR:—1

Nov.

15, 1854.

think highly of Dr. Curtis^

Hygeana, as a remedy in diseases of the throat and lunss. Having had some opportunity to twt its efficacy. 1 am convinced that it is a most excellent medicine, both the Syrup and the inhaling application to the chest.

Tho Hygeana is forsale at Terre Haute by CONDIT & HUNLEY. See advertisement in another column headed Medicated Inhalation.

Feb. 24,1855-27 3m

"DR. GUYSOTTS IMPROVED EXTRACT OF YELLOW DOCK AND SARSAPAR1LLA is a sure remedy for Hereditary Tatwt.

Thousands of individuals are corct) with grievous complaints which they inherit from their pa-, rents. The uae of the Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla will prevent all this and save a vast amount of misery, and many valuable lives, for it thoroughly expels Irom the system the latent taint, which is the seed of disease, and so take off the curse by which the sins or misfortune of the parents are so often visited upon the innocent offspring.

Parents owe it to their children to guard them against the effects of nuladies that may be communicated by descect, and children of parents that have at any time been affected with '.'onsumption, Scrofula or Syphilis, owe it to themselves to take precaution against the disease being revived in them, tiuysott's Extract oj Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla is a sure antidoi in such cases.

See advertisement. •,} October 28.1854— 1 m.

AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL.—We

believe this to

be an excellent preparation, and shall therefore not hesitate to rccommend it to our readers. It has been tested in numerous instances in this city and in several which have come under our own observation, it has accomplished what other popular medicines and »ome of our rooai skilful physicians had failod to accomplish— a perfect cure, in cases of (apparently) confirmed consumption. It is the only medicine for thia dis--ease which we can heartily recommend.—Temperance Advocate, Prov. It. 1.

Attachment

Frank Jennison and

Before L. Duy, J. P.

James H. Young. AiVlES W. STEWART, one of said plain-: tiffs, having filed in my otiice his affidavit^ setting forth that the said defendants ore indebted1 to the plaintiffs, and that said defendants havo lrtt the State or Indiana. A writ of attachment issued by me against the goods andchntiles credits ond effects of said defondants. Now therefore said defendants are hereby notified to be and appear before me Lambert Duy, a Justice of the Peace, at mv offico in Terre Haute, on the 30th day of June, 1855, at 10 o'clock A. M. otherwise said proceedings in attachment will be determined in their absence.

LAMBERT DUY, J. P.

June 9, 1855-42-31. Printers fee $2,00.

NOTICE.

BOOKS

will be opened for the subscription of Capital Stock to the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars, for the JBranch of tho Bank of the State of Indiana, located under tho Act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, entitled An Act to establish a Bank. with Brandies," at Terre Haute, on the 10th day of July, |1335, between the honre of 9 and 12 o'clock, A, M„ at the Office of the Trnsteesef the Wabash and Erie Canal, Terre Haute. Tke Books will be kept open between the above mentioned hours each day, for thirty days, if said amount of Stock be not sooner subscribed.

TilOS. SMITH, 1

wL.OSBORN,

J.T ELLIOTT. A L. KOACHE, J. D. DEFREES.

June 9, 1855.-42-5t

Commissioner*

MACAULEY, WELCH & Co.

June 2i 1855-41-3m

--r f-t t?: it

Coach & Carriage Manufacturers

SHOP A WD WARE ROOM CORNER OF SECOBD ALTD WALNUT STREETS. One Block South of Public Square/

TERKE HAUTE, INDIANA. HAVE on hand, and are building some very fine Carriages and Buggies. All work warranted to, do. the best of service.

REFERENCES:

T- C. Buntin House I. M. DAWSOTJ J, S. CLARE, Clark House Joax Rf

ARKLX.

PATENT GRAIN SEPARATOR.^

Four- and Eight Horse Power.

HAVE greatly extended my arrangements for the manufactare of my improved Machine, to which ha« been awarded the first premium at the World's Fair Exhibition, New York, in 185?, the Slate Fairs of Ohio. 1853-4, and all other plr» res where it has been exhibited in the United States and Europe. By many practical testa with the best machines in use it has invariably proven superior in all essential points. I have made many valuable improvements during the last year, and have no hesitation in warranting my machines superior to any in use.

My Four Horse Separator, is designed for the Farmer's own use. They thresh and clean th* Grain perfectly and deliver it in bags.

Crawford's Clover Hnllor.

I am also preparing a large number ot A. B.* Crawford's Improved Clover Hullers, patented 1854, which is greatly superior to his patent of 1844, being a self-feeder and greatly ahead in other respects, hulling snd cleaning in the most speedy and perfect manner. They will be put up under the supervision of the Patentee, who has permanently located here.

I am Agent for the sale of C. H. McCormick'» Reaping and -Mowing Machines. Piqu* Oh:o, 1855. JOHN R. MOFFITT.

There will be a number of Machine* for sal* here this season. Terre Haute, Jane 2, 1855-41-tf

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