The Wabash Courier, Volume 23, Number 44, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 June 1855 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

E S S E O N A E DITOR.

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Saturday Morning, June 2-3,1855,

TlVE.VTY-$OUJlTH YEAR!

tobscribers.—TXe great pains taken in se Iccting miscellaneous reading—and the prompt insertion of the earliest and most ii /jrtant news of the day, render the WABASH "OUBM a very desirabit newspaper for business men and family circle*

Advertising.—The Wabash Courier it now in •its TWESTV-njtTRTn \EA*-i Iti rxleitslbc ch-cul*-tirm amfme thebu4iness,andhtxt clis*'4f caiitns, make tfoGorBlER'a very detimbfe medjufijpr Advertising.

Job Work ."The great variety of Jon TYPS tnnbfet '4lt« Courier Office to xlttke ojP Posters, •iBtttiitcss Cards,. Jfuud J3Uls fyc. $., in ttyt btst style, and always at the shortest notice.

Kji' Know Nothing Pintfbrm*. The proceedings of ihe Know Nothting Convention recently held in Philadelphia, as published to the world, have given rite to much speculation.. We were in Philadelphia during part of the session, and heard a good deal saiJ OR the subject. There w«a a great deal

published each succeeding morning, particularly in the Now York papers, pur

porting to be from correspondents, professing to know more or less of the hourly proceedings of the Convention.

IIow correct all these reports may have been it is even now difficult to determine. It, ho\vever has publicly transpired that there was difference of opinion, which led to animated discussion, and the final secession of delegates from

thirteen States? The secession was occasioned by expression of sentiments in reference to Slavery in the platform reported by a committee, and adopted by

a majority of the Convention. L-.l The platform as finally adopted' will bo found in oyr columns to day. We oluo publish the Address of the minori tv, with the names, of delegates .nnd States^eceding. Connected with these, wilt likewise be found, the platform

adopted by a Know Something convention held In Cleveland on the 14th inst. Ilerc are really three platforms, emanating from Know Nothing sources. We

publish all in order thot our readers may see and judge for themselves. There are sentiments in all that wo could cheerfully subscribo to. Bui there is something in each that we do not exact

ly like. The Platform of the Philadelphia majority, as a ,w.hole, harmonizes best with our tastes....Though there is much in that, that we nre unwilling to subscribe to, or bo bound by. In that

.platform there is much that was origi nnlly Whig—of the real conservative Whig principle—and as such, endears

itself to our feelings and enlists our •ympathios.

NIAGARA BRIDGE BUSINESS.—A writer in the Buffalo Republic says that the bus-

iness at the Suspension bridge is immense. The goods passing over the bridge for the month ending the 6th of May last, were valued by custom rules at ten millions of dollars! Forty-five trains of cars for passengers and freight,

arrive at the bridge daily upon the different roads.

On our returning from the east last week we stopped a day at the Falls— and visited, and crossed over this bridge. It is a magnificent structure—probably

the strongest wire bridge in the world. Its supporting strength is estimated at 7300 tons. There is a lower and upper track. The under for wagons, carriages, &c. The upper for Railroad trains.-— While we were crossing below there were long trains passing above, and yet there was not the slightest quiver or shaking of the bridge. ~~~~~~~

Scott Harrison for President. A meeting was hold on Saturday last, and largely attended at Greencasilo, fa

vorable to the nomiuation of J. Scott Harrison of Cincinnati, member of Congress, and son of Gen. Harrison, for the .Presidency.

Judge Farley was President of the meeting—Col. SigleY offered some reso-luiiona--and a speech made by the Hon. A. Matson. ir

CROPS— WEATHER.—There have been very heavy rains, within the last few days and nights. And fears are now entertained, that crops particularly the wheat, until the present time so very promising, may suffer by too much wet.

There is a danger of mildew and rust, besides the risk of being beaten to the ground, too flat to ripen, or be gathered to good advantage. ~~~~~~~

ABSENT.—Tho Rev. Mr. Jewett has obtained letxe of absence from his congregation for a short time, in ordelr to recruit his health.

The Rev. Mr. Van Antwerp has pub "lished a farewell address, and resigned his charge of St. Stephen's Church. i!-' 'Si

CHURCH FESTIVAL.—'The Methodist Strawberry Party, on Tuesday evening, was largely attended. Bun tin's big mop fbowed out to great advantage* t«-

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By tho last article of this platform of the National Council, it will bo seen that the principles of the ordi-r shall bu

henceforth everywhere) openly avowed and that each member shall be at liberty to make known tiio existence of the order and the fact that he himself was a

member die.

Quite a Change*

An absence of two or three weeks from town enables one to notice by way of contrast, changes and improvement that may takeplrice, far beyond the observation of those, who pass daily through the streets.— The new Congregational Church—Mr. Ludowici's Hotel, with the several ngw buildings adjoining h»Ve all 'sprung forth into quite (brmliiabl^lppearance daring our absence. We also notice great improvements in other places over the city. But that which is more observable than all others is the metamorphosis of grocery establishments, and the change consequent upon tho going into effect of the 12th of JuneLiquor Law. When We left, there were a larg# number of coffee houses open, and in full blast with all the attending "noise anil confusion" incident to the miscellaneous character of drinking houses. On our return we find these houses ail closed so far as retailing liquor is concerned. The town is quiet and orderly—no rewdying in the street by night or by day. People seem to attend to business, or at least do not appear to be idling about as formerly. We have heard it said there was leas appearance of life, and stir and business since the 12th of June. We will venture, however, that this is all delusion—-and that there is realty on under tone, and life of business, of a much more healthy character, that will be made manifest in a short time.

A- rk-f Clay. County Affairs. We learn that the military has been disbanded at the Reservoir on the canal. The breaches have been mended under the protection of the military—and the water again filling the Reservoir. Several persons have been arrested on the charge for burning buildings and shanties on and near the canal. None we believe have been yet taken up for cutting the banks and Reservoir. It is Baid there is some kind of negotiations goingon between the Siite and a committee selected to mako or receive proposals of peace &c., the result of which have not yet an re

I- A GOOD JOKII.—-A distinguished Democrat, says tho^Cincinnati Gazette, living in,tho neighboring city of Covington, day before yesterday was blustering

very loud against the new platform

adopted by the Know-Nothings at Philadelphia. and was particularly severe upon tha: part which relates to slavery. He was interrupted by a gentleman who

was a delegate to tho Convention, who said to him, that he had not read tho right one. Now said he, here is the real simon pure, and took out of his pocket the Democratic platform adopted at Baltimore, in 1844, when Polk was nominated. Tho gentleman read it and hand

ed it back, •Why,' said he, 'that is worse and worse—it's more abolition

than the other.'

Queen Victoria's state coach is bullet

proof, and the glass of the windows is six inches thick. When George IV. was fired at, the glass was only broken by the ball. In this coach, for some

reason, and not as had been expected, in an open one, Louis Napoleon proceeded on his late visit to Guildhall to receive the address of the corporation of London. ~~~~~~~

STATU MASS MEETING OF THE PEOPLE. We are requested, to give notice that there will be a Mass Meeting of the an-tl-Nebrasku voters of Indiana, and such

others as may sympathize with them held in the city of Indianapolis, on the 13th of July, 1855, to consider the state of public BfFtirs, and for a more thorough

organization of the Republican or Peo

ple's Puriy,S^,V, I -JSI'-

THE WAR.—By reference to our accounts of Latest Foreign News, it will be seen that the bombardment of Sevas

topol has been resumed—and that the AHies have''"obtained great advantages in

the logo. ^sii-

RIVER.—In consequence of the late rains, the Wabash is swelled bank full,

and likely to overflow, probably to the great loss of corn planted in the bottoms. ~~~~~~~

ORDINANCES.—In oui" advertising col

umns will be found two new city ordinances—one regulating tho erection of wooden buildings—the other, levying a

tax for 1855.

The following is from a Russian pa-

By the be&ilftiffig of June, will* all the preparations of Russia be completed and het troops bo arram?ed in their oppointed positions, in sufficient numbers to oppose any attempt upon her territory. Already in Poland, Lithuania, Courland, and from thence as-far as St. Petersbutg, 400,000 regular soldiers stand collected, a number which upon occasion could be easily doubled* It is in any case an illusion to suppose that the power of Russia is a shadow, a feet which we often stated in opposition to the English journals even before the expedition to tho Crimea first set out.— And who is so bold as to deny that the strength of Russia is as great to-day as it was one year ago I At the moment when Russia is first in a condition to de velope the powers she possesses, one o! her enemies, England, is already weary of the struggle, and has lost the half or moro of the army which she possessed

What, we may ask, has become of" the days in which it was moved in tho Parliament of Great Britain, ihat Russia should defray all the expenses of the war

TTNTPENTINE CONVENTION.—A turpentine Convention has been held at Mobile. Alabama, which recommended that rosin should be substituted for coal on the Western boats and in boiling sugar at the South. It recommended the establishment of depots for its sale it New Orleana and Mobile, v»- & 8 i.

LATEST FOREIGN NEW?. The news from the seat.of war by

this arrival is highly exciting. The bombardment of Sevastopol had been resumed on the 6th and on the day the Asia sailed a dispatch had been received from Lord Raglan, dated June 8th—6 P. M.. announcing that nfter a fierce bombardment the French attacked and carried

the Mamelon and White Towers with the greatest gallantry. The fight on both sides was desperate, and the loss of

life very large, but no figure are given. The news had produced great excitement in England, and a general buoyancy in public feeling and Consola slightly advanced. The Conferences at Vienna having been formally closed at the instigation of the Western Powers, negotiations for peace will not be resumed except ai tho request of Russia, ang upon her application to Austria for her good offices. A Prussian correspon

dent says, Austria Considered herself releassd from all engagements to the Western Powers, the latter having refu sed to conclude a peace upon reasonable terms, but she still professes herself to be the ally of France and England, by virtue of article one of the Treaty of December. The Vienna papers say that although the Conferences are closed

the Russian Plenipotentiary has the Austrian propositions under consideration, and that Austria is still desirous to effect a mediation meantime the Commissioners of France and England had left Vienna. The advices from Sevastopol shows great gallantry on the

part of the French. The allied forces consisting of 20,000 men, were advan-. cing onTchernaya. The condition of

the ground shows that the Russians never intend to maintain their position. The allies found 17000 tuns of Coal at Kertch.and fifty dismounted guns, but no powder. The allies propose to fortify Jenicale, but do not intend holding Kertch. Gortschikoff telegraphs under

date of June 3rd, that the allies had left Geuttchki, and that part of the burned stores would be saved. Letters from Cracow say that the insurrection in the

interior of Russia had not yet been quelled. Advices from the Baltic, say that on the 4th June, the allied fleets were near Cronstadt, nnd that new fortifications had been erected since last year. Gen. Pellissier telegraphs that

the Russians had evacuated Lougek, in Asia, after destroying sixty-six guns and mortars. Some chunges had occurred in the Turkish Cabinet, and new po

litical organization was springing up.— The London Times is out strongly" in favor of war, and argues that any pros

pect ot the invasion of the Principalities, is extremely remote. In Parliament the motion of Sir Francis Baring was passde

vem con, that is, the House having seen, with regret, that the Conferences at

Vienna, not having led to a termination of hostilities, feels it its duty to declare she will give every support to her Majesty in the prosecution of the war, until

she shall, in conjunction with her Allies obtain for the^ountry a safe and. honorable peace. A decree extends the free

importation of Breadstuff* into England during the present year. Th .' King of Sardinia will probably meet Victoria at Puris in August. The Sultan will also

bo there. The Spanhsh government represents the Carlist insurrection entirely

supptessed, but the Proivnce of Catalonia had been placed" in a state of siege,-for

what purpose it was not known. Numerous arrests had been mt^de lately in i,he Romap States. The Spanish ministry had made a compulsory loan of

two hundred millions,

Remarkable Balloon ascension-—350 miles Traveled in Four Hours. Wm. D. Banmistle, of Adrian, Michigan, ascended, on Friday afternoon, in a balloon, from that place, at 10 1/2 in the morning, and descended in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, at 2 1/2 in the afternoon, making the computed distance of three hundred and fifty miles in the extraordinary time of four hours. This is the second trip, and an experimental one with a balloon of unusually large size.— It is thirty feet in diameter, contains over six hundred yards of silk. and is capable of holding nineteen hundred thousand feet of gas.

After his ascent to the distance of three miles and a half, the aeronaut struck the eastern current of air, which, he says, is continually blowing in one direction. It carried him south of the lakes, through Central Ohio. His intention was not to descend until dark, as he was above the rain clouds in a clear sky, but the excessive cold to which he was exposed brought on the accustomed drowsy sensation, which prevented him from properly managing his balloon.— He was in a tree in Red Bank, having descended in consequence of the evaporation of the gas. 'The cold was so severe that his feet were completely frozen.—<Phil. Ledger> ~~~~~~~.

CANADIAN LOYALTY TRIED.—Our friends across the Niagara have had a heavy draft made upon their devotion to the Mother Country recently. Tho British Ministry have sent a dispatch to the Provincial Government politely requesting them to hand over one million acres of choice land lying between the Ottowa river and Lake Huron to be used to bait Germans to enlist Into the Foreign Legion. It is,proposed to give each private SO acres, each non-com-missioned officer 100 acres, and each officer 200 acres, and 500 each to a few auperior officers. Tho Canadians evince a purpose to hang on to tho land, and aid iu the project of the Foreign Legion piayers onlj.—$Mjf' JDem.,

From our New York Correspondent. NEW YOBK June 20. Fourth of July will bo an day in this city. The great anniV^ary which recalls the memory

of tb$vardent spirits of '76, is the day selected for the installation of the statute against the ardent spirits of our o\9n time. Spiritualism is among the great movements of this nge. While the world of impalpable essences is convulsing the earth, through the newly /established communication betwoen those opposite spheres, the prose riptive arm of legal

intervention has agitated, to its lowest depths, the region* of those grosser spir

its, whose votaries are no less numerous than those of the table-moving order.— Is the interdict of the material spirits constitutional 1 Will the proscription

of malt, vinous, and alcoholic stimuli be

actually enforced These are among the absorbing questions of the day but

as the period of their solution is so rapidly approaching, it is needless to indulge in speculation.. t"""

The Bostonians have hit upon a new method of celebrating the glorious Fourth of July having become tired of the old-fashioned system of John Adams —guns, bells, bonfires, military parades, illuminations, orations, orations, Szc.— These over-used agencies of patriotism are to be laid aside awhile to freshen or at least, so far as their use is indispensable, they will be made to occupy secondary positions. The grand feature

in the programme of the ensuing anniversary is a Regalia in the harbor.— Boats are already entered from points as distant as St. Johns, N. B., and the City of New York and it is not unlikely that nearly nil, the chief cities of our Atlantic coast will be represented. The experiment will undoubtedly be successful, and a new element added to the commemorative resources devoted to the patriots of '76. The doctrines of the immortal Declaration of Independence are entirely as well adapted to, and were quite as well meant for, the water, as for terra fir ma and their celebration, under a clear sky and a genial air, is in no sense less agreeable upon the gladsome face of the great blue prairie than amid the heat, dust, crowd, and greasy exudations of the street, or in the foetid atmosphere of the temple of eloquence. Bring out your boats, and transfer your whole population to the water 1 Give us a good sea-breeze and the merry dance of the waves, instead of the worn-out-fustian about 'the Eagle of Liberty,' 'the Genius of Freedom,' and the thread-bare illusions to Greece and Rome, and to sundry notable babblers once living there, but who have long since died, have no right to abuse living people. Viva Regalia.

There is known to be in this city' a great number of people addicted to the pernicious habit of a constant use of laudunum is a substitute for alcoholic beverages which they feel too much pride or a sort of vitiated principle to indulge in. The prohibitory enactment aguinst spirits has direcfcd tho attention of some individuals awake, to other evils of sociHty, to tho probable effectjof ihe law, if enforced, regarding the increase of this deleterious practice. It Is a pity that compulsory moralists, instead of prescribing for the separate evils thai afflict the seven hundred thousand people of New York, are not able to physic them in concrete. To deal with our diseases by the single case, is like an effort to freshen the ocenn by extracating the salt from each separate drop. Let them lake a lesson from the successful inventors of patent medicines. Tho nostrum-venders- without recognizing any particular disease, trace all the evils inhabiting the human system to a common source, and cast their single .curative into this original fount. Let them make up for us an universal* panacea,which, being thrown into the putrid spring of vice, disease and suffering in New York, -will politically,, morally, and socially cleanse this afflicted community from (."All diseases, all maladies, fa I

Ofghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms, Of heart sick agony, all feverish kinds: (?i 1 Convulsions, epilepsies, fiares .catarrhs, ,il Intestine ills and ulcers, colio pangs, DC Demoniacphrensy, moping melancholy, And moonstruck madness,fining atrophy. Marasmus and wide-w ssting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums." The diarrhoea is raging here—among publishers. Book after book drops into the market—sometimes several in one day. Oa coming down to my office every morning, I am suro to see one or two new ones on my table* each of which it is expected by the publishers, will be favorably noticed by me. But unfortunately, I cannot say much for the quality of the books lately published. Not one in ten deserves a 'mere mention'— much less a criticisim. Beecher's 'Star Papers,* and a religious novel, 'Which: The Right or.the Left,! are the only sterling books I have seen. Theseare both works of merit but as you have doubtless written or read criticisms of them elsewhere, 1 will confine-myself by sta ting that they deserve to be widely circulated and read. They are the only two books published within six weeks that I have been able to read through!

Justice Bogart dismissed yesterday fifteen liquor cases: that were being prosecuted after the Carson League fashion. The Justice expressed in strong terms his distrust of such associations, and says with regard to the Prohibitory Liquor Law, that *no law can be safely pronounced a constitutional enactment which first creates a crime or misde meanor, and then makes confiscation of property a punishment therefor.'

The upper part of the city was disgraced on Sunday, by a brutal prize fight between two Irishmen. They bad fought some six or seven rounds, when an officer interfered, and attempted to arrest one of the principal*. His friends immediately rescued the bully, and beat the officer to insensibility, after which they departed, without tingle «rrest being roidt.

^"Platform of the Amerlcitn Party. The following are the'Platform and Principles of the American Organization' as finally decided upon by the American National Convention in Philadelphia.

PLATFORM AKD PKMCIPLES. PSFE I. The acknowledgement of that Alniighty Being who rules over the Universe—who presides over the Councils of Nations—who conducts the affairs of men, and who, in every step by which we haye advanced to the character of an independent naTtfon, has distinguished us by some token of Providential agency.

II. The cultivation and development of profoundly intense American feeling of pas sionate attachment to our country, its his tory and its institutions of admtratton for the purer days of out National existence of veneration for the heroism that precipitated our Revolution and of emulation of the virtue, wisdom, and patriotism that framed our Constitution, and first successfully applied its provisions.

III. The maintainanee of the Union of these United States as the paramount polit-

icn

good or, to use the lauguage of Washington, 'the primary object of patriotic desire.' And hence: 1. Opposition to all attempts to weaken

or subvert it. 2. Uncompromising antagonism to every principle of policy that endangers it. 3. The advocacy of an equitable adjustment of all political differences which threaten its integrity or perpetuity. 4. The suppression of all tendencies to political division founded on'geographical discriminations, or on the belief that 'there is a real difference of interests and views' between the various sections of the Union. 5. The full recognition of the rights of the several States as expressed and reaerved in the Constitution, and a careful avoidance by the General Government of all interference with their rights by legislative or executive action.

IV. Obedience to the Constitution of these United States as the supreme law of the land, sacredly obligatory upon all its parts and members, and steadfast resistance to the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. Avowing that in all doubtfttl or disputed points it may only be legally ascertained and expounded by rhe judiciul power of the United States. And as a corollary to the above: 1. A habit of reverential obedience to the laws, whether National, State, or Municipal, until they are either repealed or declared unconstitutional by the proper authority. 2. A tender ana 6acred regard for those acts of statesmanship which are to be con-tra-diatunguished from acts of ordinary legislation, by the fact of their being of the nature of compacts and agreements and so to be considered a fixed and settled national policy.

V. A radical revision and modification or the laws regulating immigration and the settlement of immigrants. Offering to the honest immigrant, who from love of°liberty or hatred of oppression seeks an asylum in tho United States, a friendly reception and protection. But unqualifiedly condemning the transmission to our shores of felons and paupers.

VI. The essential modification of the Naturalization Laws. The repeal by the Legislatures of the respective Stales of all State laws allowing foreigners not naturalized to vote. The repeal without retractive operation, of all acts of Congress making grants of land to unnaturalized foreigners, and also allowing' them to vote in Territories. r^vif. Hostility to the corrupt mean3 by which the leaders of party have hitherto forced upon us our rulers and political creeds. Implacable enmity against the present demoralizing system of rewards for political subserviency, and of punishment for political independence. Disgust for the wild hunt after office which characterizes the age.— These on the one hand. On the other—Imitation of the practice of tho purer days of the Republic and admiration of the maxim that 'office should seek the man, and not man the office,' and of the rule that the just mode of ascertaining fitness for office is the capability, the faithfulness"and tho honesty of the incumbent or candidate.

VIII. Resistance to the.'aggressative policy and corrupting tendencies of the Roman Catholic Church in our country by the advancement to all politic stations—executive legislative, judicial or diplomatic—of those only who do not hold civil allegiance,directly or indirectly, to any foreign power, whether civil or eclesiastical, and who are Americans by birth, education and training—thus fulfilling the maxim, 'Americans only shall govern America.' The protection of all citizens in the legal and proper exercise of their civil and religious rights and privileges the maintainanee of the right of every man to the full, unrestrained and peaceful enjoyment of his own religious opinions and worship, and a jealous resistance of all attempts by any sect, denomination or church to obtain an ascendancy over any othefr in the State, by-means of any special privileges or exemption, by any political combination of its members, or by a division of their civil allegiance with any foreign power, potentate or ecclesiastical.

IX. The reformation of the character of our National Legislature by elevating tQ that position men of higher qualifications, purer morals, and more unselfish patriotism.

X. The restriction of excessive patronage especially in the matter of appointments to office—so far as it may be permitted by the Constitution, and consistent with the public good.

XI. The education of the youth of our country in schools provided by the State which schools shall be common to' all, without distinction of creed cr party, and free from any influence or direction of a denom inational or partisan character. And inasmuch as Christianity by the Constitutions of nearly all the States, by the dccisione of the most eminent judicial authorities, and by the consent of the peoplc-of America, is considered an eleraont of our political BJTHtem, and as the Holy Bible is at once the source of Christianity and the depository and fountain of all civil and religious freedom, wo oppose every attempt to exclude it from the schools thus established in the State.

XII. The American party having arisen upon the ruins and iu spite of the opposition of the Whig and Democratic parties, cannot be held in any manner responsible for the obnoxious acts or violated pledges of either. And the systematic agitation of the Slavery question by these parties having elevated sactional hostility into a positive element of political power, and brought oar institututions into peril, it has therefore become the imperative duty of the American party to interpose for the purpose of giving peace to the country and perpetuity to the Union. And as experience has shown it impossible to reconcile opinions so extreme as those which separate the disputants, and as there can be oo dishoaor in submitting to the laws the National Council has deemed the best guarantee of common justice and of future peace to abide by and maintain the fixisjin_ laws upon the subject of Slavery, and a final and conclusive settlement of that subject in spirit aod substance.

And regarding it the highest duty to avow their opiaions upon a subject so important in district aod nneqiurocal terms, it is hereby declared as the sense of this National Council that Congress possesses no power under the the Constitution to legislate upon the subject of Slavery in the States where it

does or may exist, or to exclude any State from admission into the Union because its Constitution does or does not recognize the institution Of Slavery as a part of its social system and expressly pertermitting sn^expreesion of opinion upon the-power ofCtan* gress to establish or prohibit Slavery any Tarritor^ it is the Bense of the National Council that Congres ought not to legislate upon the subject of Slavery within the Territory of the United States, and that any interference by Congress with Slavery as it exists in the District of Columbia would be a violation of the spirit and intention of the compact bv which the State of Maryland ceded the District to the United States, and a breach of the National faith.

XIII. The policy of the Government of the U. S. in its relations with foreign Governments, is to exact justice from the strongest, and to do justice to the weakest restraining by all the power of the Government ail its citizens from interference with-the internal concerns of nations with whom we are at peace.

XIV. This National Council declares that all the principles of the Order shall be henceforth everywhere openly avowed and that each member shall be at liberty to make known the existence of the Order, and the fact that he himself is a member, and it reccomends that there be no concealment of the places of meeting of subordinate Councils.

E. B. BARTLETT, of Kentucky, President of National Council. C. D. DESIILER, of New Jersey, Cor. Sec'y. JAS. M. STEPHENS, of.Maryland Rec. Sec'y.

Minority Rt. epor

The following is the address ot the minority at the Philadelphia Convention, adopted at a meeting held June 14th, 1855.

Appenl to the People.

To the People of the United State* The undersigned, citizens of various States assembled at Philadelphia on the 14th day of June, 1855, feel constrained, under the existing state of affairs, to affirm the following principles:

First—The unconditional restoration of that time-honored Compromise, known as the Missouri Prohibition which was destroyed in utter disregard of the popular will—a wrong which no lapse-of time can palliate, and no plea for its continuance can justify. And that we will use all constitutional means to maintain the positive guarantee of that compact, until the object for which it was enacted has been consumated by the admission of Kansas and Nebraska as Free States.

Secctul—That'the rights of the settlers in Territories to the free and undisturbed exercise of the elective franchise guaranteed to them by the laws under which they are organized, should be promptly protected by the National Executive whenever violated or threatened. And that we cannot conscientiously act with those who will not aid us in the correction of these National wrongs and who will not even permit their fair consideration and their full discussion.

Third—We further declare our continued and unalterable determination to use all honorable efforts to secure such a modification of the Naturalization laws, aided by such an elevation of public sentiment as will preserve the true interests of the Nation, and will guarantee the three vital principles of a Republican Government SPIRITUAL FREEDOM, A FREE BIBLE, and FREE SCHOOLS—thereby promoting the great work of Americanizing America.

Fourth—That we invoke the arm of legislation to arrest the growing evil, tho deportation by foreign authorities of paupers and convicts to our shore and that, as our national Constitution requires the Chief Executive of our country to be of native birth, we deem it equally necessary and important that our Diplomatic Representatives abroad should also possess no foreign prejudices to bias their judgement or to influence thier official action.

MASSACHUSETTS.

H. J. GARDNER, A. C. CAREY*H. WILSON. II. W. RUGG, J. W. FOSTER, J. BUFFINTON,

A. A. RICHMOND. NEyV-U^apSHlRE.

A. COLBY,' J. MANN, S. B. SHERMAN. YERMONT. B. FLETCHER, R. M. GUILDFORD, E. PIERPOfNP, JO. I). HATCH, J. II. BARRETT, H. KINGSLEY. .* MAINE. L. O. COWAN. J. L. STEVENS, A.S.RICHMOND, J.S. SAYWARD, B. D. PECK, J. COVELL,

J.M.LINCOLN.

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F. H. FORD, I.N. OLDS, J. MARTIN, J. K. MA RLE Y,

GEO. R. MORTON, A. MjKAY, H. M. McABEE, J. E. REES, WHITEI'I!,I:

INDIANA.

WM. CUMBACK, J. L. IIARVEY S.COLFAX, F.D.ALLEN, G. S. ORTHM. BRYANT,

T. if. SLAUGHTER MtcaroAw.

L. COGSH/ALL. M. A. McNAUGTON ILLINOIS. W. DANENHOWER, H. JENNINGS, W. H. YOUNG, EASTMAN,

FUW* VV. J. PHELPS. IOWA. J. THORINGTON, W. LAUGHRIDGE,

BLIODE ISLAND.

J. C. KNIGJIT, N.GREEN, W. H. SWEET. -.F.S- »-11 'COSHECTICUT. UNYI D.B. BOOTH, T.CLARK, N

I* N. D. SPERRY, WISCONSIN.

D.E.WOOD, R. CHANDLER, C.W.COOK. ,(

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On June 16th orCungestioa of theTungs, Epwm PBICE, eldest aoit of GEOBOE W. and JosEPmmJSfl-tFfEB, aged 6 yeara 4 months and five days.

Dayton, Lebanon, Hamilton Oljio.Vupc. please c°py-, ,,

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e\v and Revised Editions. MEDICAL BOOKS.

CyCLOP(EDIA

of Practical Medicine, by

Forbes, Tweedie, Cdliolly and DungUson, 4 vols. 8 vo. jllciga' Woman and ber Diseases, 1 vol. 8 vo.

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I am prepared to Recommend Your Fills.

JoLiET,-WiII Co., 111., Feb. 25, *54:

Mr. R. E. SELURS:—When I resided in PittaburgJL wns cured of an attack of Liver complaint which had prayed .upon ray system for eight years, and reduced me so much ihat I was compelled ta quit work.

During tho tim* of my suffering I had the advice of several physicians, but their treatment failed to accomplish a cuie. A friend recommended the use of your Liver Pills," and afl«i using two boxes of them, 1 found myself entirely eured. Whilst suffering from Liver Complaint, I was also afflicted with the Piles, which 1 never fell afterwards. As my wife and eldest son ar« now very much afHicted with a deranged state of the Liver. 1 am very anxious to have you rnako an agency for the sale of your Liver Pills at this place. Alter the cure of my own disease, I am prepared to recommend vour Pills ajid very many persons in this section would freely try them if they had a cljanco. 2 Respectfully. '•-•'•I ANDREW SARVER.

FOR SALE BY

all the Druggists of Terre Haute, Ind., and by Druggists and Medicine dealers generally. May 12.1355.—3S-lin

Very Important Information.

Dr. JOHNS, one of the most celebrated Pbyal* cians in New York, writes as follows: DR. CURTIS—Dear Sir:—Having witnessed the excellent effects of your HYGEAN oa I.NHAUNU HVQKAN VAPOR AND CHERRY SYRUP, in a casn «f chronic Bronchitis, and being much in favor counter-irritation in affections of tha throat, bronchial tubes and lungs, I can therefore cheer fully recommcnd your Medicated Apparatus as being the most convenient and effectual mode of applying anything of the-knrd Thnvw ever«eon* Iso doubt thousands of persons may be relieved, and many cured, by using your remedies.

You are at liberty to use this in any way you may think proper. Respectfully, yours, &.c. C.JONES, M. D.

No. 609 Houston street, Now Y»:k.

PROF. S. CENTER writes us as follows: GENTLEMEN,—1 havo recently had occasion te test your Cherry Syrup and Hygean Vapor in case ot 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. I wish, for the sake of the afflicted, that it might be brought within the reach of all.

Rev. Doctor CHEEVER writes: NEW YORK, NOV. 15, 1854. DEAR SIR I think highly of Dr. Curtis'* IJygeana, as a remedy in diseases of the throat an4 lungs. Having had some opportunity to test its efficacy. 1 am convinced that it is a most excellent mcdicinc, both the Syrup and the inhaling application to the chest.

The liygeanaisforsate at Tcrre Haute by L:ir CON DIT & N LEY. -1 See advertisement in another column head«2 Medicated Inhalation. __Feb. 24,1^35-27 3m

DRTGUYSOTTI IMPROVED EXTRACT OF YEL.LOW DOCK AND SARSAPARILLA. is a sure remody for Hereditary Taint.

Thousands of individuals are curcd with griovous complaints which they inherit from their pa» rents. The use of the Yellow Dock and Saraaparilln will prevent all this and save a vast amount of misery, and many valuable lives, for it thoroughly expels froin the system the latent taint, which is tlie seed of disease, and so take ofiT ihe curse by which the sins or misfortune of tho parents are so often visited upon tho innocent offspring.

Parents own it to their children to guard thara against theellects of muladios that may bo communicated by dcscect, and children of parents that have at any time l»een affecied with

-wlJtest: E. B. Au.r„v, Clerk.

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suniplion, Scrofula or Syphilis, owe it to themselves to take precaution against the disease being revived in them. Guysott's Extrnet ol Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla is a sure amidol in such cases. (Or See advertisement.

October28,1851—lm.

Sheriff's Sale

virtue oftwn executions issued from tho Vtgo Circuit Court, and to me directed and delivered, one in lavor of Angelina Mauley and tha other in fnvor of tho Trustees of the Indiana University, against John K. A/nhnn, 1 have levied on the following property, to-wit: -tho S. E. qr. of the N. W.qr. ol'tlie N. W. qr. of. Bection No. 3(, township No 10, range8 west, containing 10acres and lot No. [21] twenty-three,.in tlso town of Centerville, Vigo county, lnd., being the lands and tenements belonging to the said John R. Mnlinn, and I will, on Saturday tho 21st day of July 185S at the court-house door iu 'l'erre llama, within the legal hours of said tlnv, offer the rents and profits of snid premises, with the appurtenances thereunto belonging, for a term of sovon yenrs without relief irom valuation or appraisement laws, and it' they should fail to sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said execution, I will then anil there offer tho fee simple, to the highest bidder, lor cash, to satisfy said execution and costs.

L. A. BURNETT, Sheriff.^

June 23, 1853 44 31—Printers tee. $2,23

Sheriffs Sale, -.v

virtue o( one execution issued from tho Vigo Circuit Court, and to me directed in fitvor of Charles Groverman, Thomas Bourne. Win, R. Mclveen, administrators of tho estate of

James

Johnson deed-, Cyrus W. Bishop, Rtifus S't John, John II. Burnham, Samuel II. Potter, and Luciei? Rice, and aguinst John Riordan, Jacob Y*. Smith nijd Catharine Smith. I nave levied upon lots No. five in Fountain'? addition to the town of TorreHaute, taken as the property of Jacob Y. Smith, and Catharine Smith, and I willonSaturday2l!c day of July 1855, at the court-house door in Terra Haute, within the legal hours of said day offer the rents and profits for a term of seven yeara and if they should fail to sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said execution and costs, I will then and there offer the fee simple to the highest bidder to.sati9fy said execution and costs.

L. A. BURNETT, Sheriff._

June 23, 18fi5-4i-"Jt—Printers feo $2,00.

AN ORDINANCE

To regulate the erection of vroodei buildings in the city of Terre Haute. Sixrrto.y I, Be it ortlained bq lite Common Council of the city of Tcrre Huute, Thru it shall bo unlawful to erect any wooden dwelling, barn, stable, out house or other building whatever tho following described limits of tho city, begrniiiflgmftvihe East side of first street at Cherry Street rnnmn^thfMiccisouth to Ohio street, thenco East to Sixth street tiigftefr-ALprth to Cherry street and thence west to the place ol Dog'nniilgftmcluding both aides of all tho streets nameu iiPtT._ said limits, except the west Bide of first street whose height shall be more than ten feet above the level of the established grade of the street to the eave or top of the cornice,having a roof not rising in its ascent from theeavo to tho apex abovo an angleof22i degrees to tbe base line. Nor aboil it be lawful to remove from one location to another within the limits named or front other parts into the said limits any building which this ordinance makes it unlawful to erect.

SBC. 2. Any person or persons who shall erect or remove any building contrary to the provision* of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof before tho iVayor be fined in any sum not exceeding fif dollar's and cost of suit, and twonty dollars for each day thereafter be, shn or they shall suffor such building to rcmuin iu violation of this ordinance.

SEC. 3 The Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to prevent the erection of wooden building passed April 7th, A. D., 1851, is hereby re-

Sue. 4. This Ordinance to take effcct from and after its publication. Passed June 18tb, 185a, tor

JAS. HOOK, Mayors-

ir# »i —y.m.

D-.oses

Sign pf thf," Big Book.

Joaa 16,18»M3-tf,

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"'AN ORDINANCE

Levying a tax for the year 1855. SECTION. 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council ol the city of Tcrre Haute, That the amount and rate of tax. to be leviod on all property subject to State and County taxation, within the city of Terre Haute, for tbe year 1855, shall be, smiths aame is hereby fixed at twenty cents for general purposes on every one hundred dollars valuation of real and personal property, and for school

fifteen cents on every ono hundred devaluation of real and personal property, and a poll toxol fifty cents on every white male inhabitant, sane and

no.1

a pauper, of the age of 21

years and not exceeding fifty years, residing in said city, and onedollaron each dog or slut ownod and kept in said city. M'sti-}.

Passed Jane 18,1855. ,--J

"J A NIKS iiOOK, Mayor.

ATTEST: E. B. ALLEN,Clerk,. June 23, 1855-4 l-2t

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Never Known to Tail. DR. ROBINSON'S SPECIFIC.1

A certain and safe core for all Bowel Complaints,

such as Summer Complaint, Diarrheas, Dysontenr, £loody Flax and Cholera Morbus. sold by J. R. Cuningbaxa and P. M.

Terre Haute, Indiana/^ June23,18M-44-3ni 't i.) b.-v-a

Donndly, lii.