Wabash Express, Volume 11, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 September 1852 — Page 2

TIE WABASH EXPRESS.

OFFICE EAST OF THE C0TTRT-H0U8E.

D. 8. DAHALDSOW, Editor.

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Wednesday Morning, Sept. 15, 1852.

FOR PRESIDENT,

CEJ5EBAL VIIIIELD SCOTT.

or XEW JtRatr.

FOR VICE PRESIDENT,

MIAM A. &BAHAM,

OF XOBTH CAROLINA.

[Election—Tuesday, Nov. 2, 1852.]

E E O E A I E For Senatorial Elector*, HP:NRY S. LANE, JPLEASANT A. HAUKLEMAN.

For District Electors.

1.—John J. Chandler, of Vanderburgh. 2.—John D. Ferguson, of Clarke. 3.—Capt. Scott Carter, ol Switzerland. 4.—John I. Scoby, of Decatur. —David Kilgore, of Delaware. 6.—John Coburn, of Marion. 7.—Richard W. Thompson, of Vigo. 8.—G. O. Behm, of Tippecanoe. 9.—T. 8. Slaufield, of St. Joseph. 10.—James 8. Frazer, of Kosciusko. 11.—Gustavus H. Voss, of Hamilton.

.STATE

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[Election

Tuesday, Oct. 11, 1852.]

For Go err nor,

NICHOLAS McCARTY, of Marion. For Lieutenant Governor, WM. WILLI. AMS, of Kosciusko.

For Treasurer of Slate,

SIMON T. HADLEY, of Hendricks. For Auditor of State, DOUGLASS MAGUIRE, of Marion.

For Secretary of Stale, JOHN OSBORN, of Clay. For Reporter of Supreme Court,

A. L. OSBORN, of Laporte. For Clerk of Supretne Court, JAMES A. STRETUH, of Grant. For Superintendent of Common Schools,

AARON WOOl), of i'utnam.

Judges of the Supreme Court.

First District—JOHN B. HOWE, of Lagrange. Second —CHARLES DEWEY, of Clarke. Third —DAVID MCDONALD, of Monroe. Fourth —SAMUJLL B. GOOKIXS, of Vigo.

For Congress—Seventh District (Composed of the counties of Sullivan, Clay, him,

For Judije of the Sixth Judicial Circuit ?reat

[Composed of the counties of Sullivan, Clay,!1,,Story

Vigo. JAMES HUGHES, of Bloomington. For Prosecuting Attorney,

JOHN HANNA, of I'utnam. For the State Senate,

From the comities of Sullivan, Clay and Vigo, MICHAEL COMBS, of Clay. For Judge of Court of Common l'leas, [District—Vigo county.]

AMORY KINNEY. SAMUEL W. EDMUNDS. For Prosecutor, SALMON WRIGHT.

For the Legislature,

HARVEY 1). SCOTT* LYNAS A. BURNETT," WILLIAM GOODMAN.*

For Clerk Circuit Court, ANDREW WILK1NS,* THOMAS I. BOURNE, BISHOP W. OSBORN.

For Treasurer and Collector, N. F. CUNNINGHAM, CHARLES T. NOBLE*

For Sheriff,

ISAAC M. DAWSON, JAMES H. NELSON, MARVIN M.I HICKCOX,* THOMAS W'ALKER, PATRICK O"SULLIVAN.

For County Cotnmissioner, (First District.) JOHN J. BR'AKE. (Second District.) SYLVESTER SIBLEY, ROBERT WHAKRY. DAVID A. STERLING. (Third District.) MOSES REYNOLDS.

For County Surveyor,

JAMES OAKEY. For Coroner, JOHN D. MURPIIY.

Noroinated.

PUBLIC SPEAKING.

JOHN

a.

FOOT PAOS.-

villain, he fled.

DAVIS,

A CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS, Will address the people as follows: ,*I!ralrioton

ViS° countJ'

ft" C0,,n,y' Frian-V Scpt-

Carlisle, Sullivan lfth, 3 p. M. CT" All are invited to attend.

LAFATKTTI: JOI-RJSAI..—'This excellent whig Daily paper has bfen materially increased in its si w. and now fa vorably compam with any d„c

responding increase of business, and we hope to hear such wilJ b« the fart.. Mr. I.ISK labors industriously for the whig party, and they need not be afraid of doing too much for hint, for his efforts desrrt* success.

O* Daniel has been rc-nominated for Congress in the Lafayette district, beating Mr. McDonald before Uic Convention thirteen votes. .Some of McDonald's friends bolted, and we suppose wia give the nominee th teold shoul* tier. ...

At the same (tints Wm. P. Bt^aut, d&r*rkrt was nominated for Circuit Judge, atjdace he has heretofore held.

----->The survey of the railroad from Vincennes to this place, has recently been commenced at Vincennes. So says the Gazette.

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Owen, Greene, I'utnam, Vigo, Parke and Ver- pain was too much, and lie fainted 1 For this, million.] YRBOUR the scabby whigs intimaterowarrfice, when the

Thursday, Sept.' ty of John Pettit, of Tippecanoe.

16th, 10 A. M. Middletown, Vig-I county, Thursday, Sept. speaker said Gen. Scott deserved no 16tl», 3 r, M. particular praise for anv of the battles of the nUiTw M.

,at0 with

Sullivan, Sullivancounty, Frida}-,Sept.17th,:'1,u' f°w£ht in many, the honor belonged to 8 r. m. others. He said Scott was entitled only, to New Lebanon, Sullivan county, Saturday,! what hecould make out of the battle of QueensS A ... !i\u'n UAtnlila 1. _.. 1 1

couuty, Saturday, Sept.

Thv VnicotinesUn*ette tlrnt '"ent, when he was sent to settle the North-

an

daily of the State. It should meet with a cor-] before 5um.

JOHW PETTTTS SPEECH.

After the abortive attempt at pole-raising on Saturday evening last, Mr. Pettit, the State elector on the Pierce and King ticket, was invited into the Court-House for a speech, but as it was late, an adjournment was had until candle lighting. This was unfortunate, as it permitted all the country people to go home without hearing anything from the lips of the distinguished loco orator, who stands so high in the estimation of his party friends.

After supper, a very respectable audience assembled, nearly half whigs, and the "Old Brass Piece" (as the bills of the day called him,) went off in the most passionate and abusive style. However wet he may have been himself, (it was a rainy day,) he had dry powder, which never failed to report, while the mouth of the "big gun" remained open. The speaker occupied the stand until half-past nine, and his exertions were so heavy, that the sweat from his back showed itself on his linen coat between the shoulders—the psy for which labor, he told his audience, would be just seven dollars and fifty cents. This ought to have reminded his friends, that passing round the hat for contributions would have been acceptable, but they failed to take any such a hint.

Mr. Pettit opened on George D. Prentice, of whom he had much to say, much personal abuse, in which ho occasionally connected Horace Greeley. He did not know which of these gentlemen deserved the most contempt or which, over the other, most merited the ti tie of "father of liars." The Bible, ho thought was in error, when the devil was spoken of as such in this respect, he thought Prentice headed the devil!

The speaker then commenced an elaborate defence of Gen. PIERCE for fainting in battle in Mexico. He flatly admitted the fact, but prov cd that it was admissible according to Homer': Iliad .'! Hector, the great Hector, in a walled town, had defended Troy for ten long years against all the force that could be brought against him. He had fought his enemies at fearful odds with an unblanched cheek, yet when Ajax hurled a dornick, brickbat, or a stone at Hector which struck upon his shield Hector fainted Hector had no wound—had lost no blood—not the scratch of a pin upon his hide, yet he fainted and was carried out of the terrible conflict! Pierce was thrown upon the pcdregal—his horse fell upon him and crushed and bruised his knee, he could not touch that foot to the stirrup—he had lost blood and sleep and bullets, not stones, were flying all around

turning on his mangled limb, the

and

Vnmortal

He'tor'

aS

who wil] live in

lon»-M

Owen, Greene, Morgan, Monroe, Putnam ami, *'ie slight shock of a finger stone from the

t,mo shaI1

lnst'

faintcd with

hand of Ajax, which "wounded" him on the shield!! (Here the speaker went off into a burst of rhapsodical abuse of the whigs, for daring to intimate that Gen. Piercc had not a right to faint, at such a time, and on such an occasion—under all the circumstances of the case. And this view of the case and wringing in that old Grecian Poet, who wrote about Hector and Ajax 168 years after the Trojan war is supposed to have happened, brought down rapturous plaudits in honor of the acute rea-

ig and oratorical power of the speaker! 1) Getting through with Gen. Pierce's civil and military qualifications, a man whom he thought the best qualified for the Presidency of any man in the nation, because he was unanimously nominated by the convention—after they could not nominate any of the men the convention really icanted, the speaker then pitched into OLD CmrrKWA, and gave liiiu particular thunder for the balance of the evening. Poor Scott!— He will tear off his tall plume, trample upon his epauluttes, and break his sword in a rotten .stump, when he hears that John Pettit charged, and prooed to his (Pettit's) satisfaction, that said Scott was a liar! a coward .'! and a MVRPKRKR Think of it, independent yeomanry of the country, and blush for the democratic elector for the State at large, who charged that Gen. Scott was a liar when he said in his letter to the Irishmen of Philadelphia (who in vited Scott to celebrate St. Patrick's day with them) that the Irish never turned their backs upon a friend or foe—that said Scott was a coward when he failed to challenge Jackson, and a murderer when he ordered the hanging of 17 deserters in Mexico, who were taken under the notorious Col. Riley Just think of such infamous charges against so meritorious and distinguished a citizen as WIXFIKLD SCOTT who has fought his way from obscurity and poverty up to the deservedly high position he now holds in our own country, and is now the admiration of three-fourths of our own populalion, and all the enlightened of Europe. Think of it, and weep for the venality and mendaci-

Great Britain, that although he

town Heights, where he surrendered himself and all of his mem All citil qualifications were denied Winfield Scott. The whigs, he jsaid, had claimed much for Scott's manage-

decent of one of the speaker's allusions, brought in soon after he spoke of ,*'SaUy Gordon." Shame on the partisan who is so lost to all sense of self-respect, and to the courtesy

intelligent audience, such as was then

Jf Pettit visits many counties in Indiana, we shall have stronger hopes of carrying the State for Scott, for certainly no one could listen to

of boats, it a just provision—one which the luumei office# have in vain endeavored to enI force. It cannot now be dispensed with.

Toat Unfortunate Pole!

One division of the Pierce phalanx in Vigo attempted to taise a long hickory pole on Saturday evening last. The drum and fife were out, and with immense tattooing, including whigs, a respectable crowd was brought out The pole was iron-banded in two places and pierced with iron bolts, screws and taps, to make all secure, but alas, it refused to be hoisted on that occasion. Along strip of bit-mus-lin, marked "PJEBCK A KING" with lamp-black was to stream from the top, while on the very apex perched a painted tin rooster with im mense spurs, intended as a weather-cock, to show which way the wind was from. The cock and the bunting neither would go up I

When all was ready, with forks and stays, up went the hickory apart of the way snoth er heave, and it rested on the stay*, until a new fastening in a new place could be given the rope from the block and tackle. Then all handfo to the ropes and a pull altogether, with the props removed, and down came the pole, the bunting, and the rooster 11 ami up went a shout from some of the whigs, and all of the opposing division of the Pierce phalanx pre* ent.

We saw our neighbor Harry near by, looking the very picture of grief and despair. Wo suggested to him to have a "little music on the occa«io»,"to which he replied, "you had bettor leave here, snd that suddenly." Finding our advice would not be taken, we kept it afterwards to ourself.

The polo broke where it was pierced, nnd the rooster had a tremendous fall the flag was trailed in the dirt, and those who believe in omens may make what they can out of that unfortunate pole-raising It was a handsome hickory, with the "bark on," and will do to be mended and hoisted hereafter. Piercc fell in Mexico, but he got up and tried it again, which will serve to encourage those who wish to honor Gen. Pierce with the hickory.

There were several faces on that occasion that could not have seen the moon through a horse colter.

LA¥EK.—A few of the faithful worked all day Monday on said pole, made two new splices, shortened it somewhat, and on that evening hoisted it handsomely at the northeast corner of the public square. The rooster is now high in the air, and the brown muslin streaming in the wind, to remain subject to the weather, and the votes of November next.— We have not heard that any politieal changes have been made, growing out of that pole-rais-ng.

O* A good one happened during Pettit's speech, which it is well enough to mention.— The speaker was interrupted three times, twice by democrats, which made him very savage.—• On the last occasion, a prominent democrat sitting near the stand, observed to Pettit, 'please repeat that again." "What do you say, sir?" "Please repeat that again," said the democrat Pettit repeated his remarks angrily, and said, "you can take the stand tomorrow—lam not to be interrupted by tories and federal whigs."

In concluding his speeeh, Pettit alluded to his having been interrupted by "tories and federalists," and he gave them a clean skinning. He said when Paul went to preach at Ephesus, his doctrines ran a-foul of the business of one Demetrius, a certain silver-smith, who made money out of the temple of Diana, and Demetrius, the silver-smith, interrupted Paul, as I have been interrupted lo-night," which made Paul lay it on the harder, until he overthrew the silver-smith and his temple, and all the false gods.

The pith of this circumstance and apt language is, that Pettit had just been interrupted by a democratic silversmith sitting in front of im, and Pettit thought he was skinning a tory or a federal whig. There was a very broad grin upon the faces of the whigs around, who aw how the matter stood. We had lent our

So says the Journal. "We suppose the editor will give his whig authority for saying "all or nearly all" of said nominations are to be beaten and it would also be gratifying to know, how he has obtained that "settled opinion."' Front what we hear, our settled opinion isjust the reverse, and we have democratic authority for saying "all or nearly all" of said nominations will lie sustained. This is only a slight difference, which cannot be finally settled until after the election. "A host of independents will soon be out." This doubtless, tickles the Journal, though he very much dislikes the independent Hughes The editor is in a place where .the same rule does not go well both ways but if he wants independents, trot, 'em out, and let the people look at, and examine them. They generally decide correctly upon the merits of those before them.

Death of E. W. McGaughey.

several gvutlomen, in traveling over the plank eastern difficulties, the Caroline affair, and death of Mr. McGaughey, who was on his way jn New Albany, under the new banking law of road towards Brueciville, have, within a week nullification in South Carolina, but the whigs to California. He died on the steamer Win-1 Indiana, with a capital of $100,000, to be inpast, been accosted and abruptly stopped by outrageously upon all of said subjects.—

__ win for Seward, if not for Seward, for Taylor ne to a democratic friend by us to rap with,

this occasion, because lie saw Pettit was on the rong scent I Democrats will not interrupt John Pettit again, without they are labelled so as to be known.

It is the settled opinion that all or nearly all of their nominations (nominations of the whig convention) will be defeated. At least we have the best Whig authority for so stating.— A host of independents will soon be out.— Journal,

The„telegraph of last week announced the

field

some suspicious looking characters, who de-j They were "all liars," was the chaste term fever. He left home in precarious health, and Several capitalists of Cincinnati are at the nianded money, etc. Their rendesvous ap-jused by this well-charged "brass-piece."—j we presume was unable to stand a severe atpears to be about three or four miles from Vin-: We thought we had heard tolerably abusive tack of any kind. cvnnes. We heard of another attempt having1 spwehes, as we had listened to Willard, but) deceased occupied a high position in been made yesterday, upon a gentleman in a Pettit's speech would have shamed Willard jthis part of Indiana, and served the people in buggy, but upon levelling hi* revolver at the out of the house, bad he been present. We!

inany

At this rate our State will' are in fact, too modest to repeat the most in-1 member of Congress from the seventh district., *c- Those wishing to purchase will address soon be as dangerous to travel in as Mexico.

important posts, among which was,

He leaves an amiable wife, and a large family in Rockville, to lament their irreparable loss. The Northern Light steamer, brought the sad news to New York, on the "th inst. Fuller accounts will arrive hereafter.

Editors.

Frank Emerson, editor of the Democrat is a candidate for Treasurer, in Jackson county. I O. B. Torbet, editor of the Register, is a ian-

such abuse, unmerited, uncalled for, without didate for Representative in Dearborn county, with an extra quantity of health. One Wabash wishing to rise up at oncu in defence of sol James Hughes, editor of the Bloomington chill would wear it all off in a short time—if

... Gasette is a candidate for Jndge, in theBloom-

lh#nk

in^on district.

mal-treated a citizen as Gen. Scott him far failing to say, that Scott was a drunken W, E. McLean, editor of tie Journal, at Ter loafer, and a sheep thief—we thank him for, fe-Uaote. is a candidate for Prosecuting Attor- «, k. conipUitwd in

that he was "too much exhausted to say more." tinel. is a candidate for Representative in Patnam county.—AVie Albmmy Ledger. The above shows the love of locofoco lead

for office

gt*w requires tiat all Hemp earned on boarxl. there! What office

VIGO COTOTT PAUL

At an adjourned meeting of the committee for that purpose, held at the Court House is Terre-Haute Sept. 11th, 1850, it was agreed that the following premiums be awarded at the Vigo county |fir, to be held at Terre-Haate Oct. 16th, 1859. Best Stallion, Society certificate and $3,00

Brood mare, Draft and farming, ono y'rs subscription to Ind.-Farmer 4. .2,00 Best Gelding for farming purposes, Far gjj|j mer.and 1,00 year old colt for farm. Farmer .1.00 1 do fe.. 1,00

Sucking colt, do A.. 1,00 Jack, Society certificate and 3,00 Span of Mules,.. 3.00 Sucking Mule,..,,.... 3,00 Yearling Mule .....3,00 Bull, blood and form, Farmer and... .3,00 Cow, do do do 3,00 9 yr, old Bull or heifer, do 3,00 I do do 1,00 Oalf, do Boar, do and.... 3,00 Sow do ....3,00 Pig under six months old 3,00 Hog, weighing most, underSyears old .3,00 Bushel winter apples, selected, and variety 2,00 Spocimon of Plowing, not less thau of an acre, stubble land, not less than 3 loams for the trial and to be on the ground by 9 o'clock, A. M., punctual, Ind. Farmer 1 year, and. .3,00 Pair half hose, woolen, Farmer and.. .1,00 10 lbs butter, do ..2,50 10 lbs do 2d best 2,50 10 Cheese, Farmer and 2,50 10 do 2d best, 2,50 Pair of Chickens Indiana Farmerand 1,50 do 2d best, do 1,00 Sod Plough, do 2,00 Stubble Plough, Farmer and 2,00 Corn Plough, do do 2,00 Harrow, do do 2,00 Cultivator, do do 2,00 Acre of Corn, do do 4,00 No article will be allowed to take the premium where there is no merit. And no person will be allowed to compete for a Premium un less he be a member of at least a week's standing, or a member of the family of such person.

And it is especially requested that the officers and members of this Society, meet at the Court House on Saturday one week previous to said fair, at 2 o'clock, P. M., punctual—the business will be electfon of officers and further arrangements for the Fair.

HARVEY W. ALLEN, Sec'y.

THOMAS DURHAM, 1st., JOHN J. BRAKE, JOHN WEIR, Committee. HARVEY "W. ALLEN.

CP For the week past, our town has been fuller than usual. The Circuit Court was and is still in session, which kept up the interest in that quarter, though but few strangers attend our Courts.

The North-western Indiana Conference has been in session at this place, which brought a considerable number of the Methodist clergy together here, giving our citizens an opportu nity of showing their hospitality and kindnfess to those who usually travel without scrip. We understand their session has been one of inter est and harmony.

Two circuses, the most useless of travelling shows, were also here, which brought in the country people in numbers, to see what they had often seen, perhaps, and to learn nothing good from what they had seen. It is strange to us that such caravans have such unlimited patronage, all over all the States.

CLr We find the following in the last Journal: "GREELEY'S OPINION OF SCOTT IN 1848.—Send a delegate to the convention, if yon can, for Clay, if not for Clay, for Corwin.if not for Cor-

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but he would not do it, as the others did on ed coxcomb of a man. His brains—all that he

fa Scott. Scott is a vain conceit-

has—are in his epaulets, and if he should be elected President, would tear the whig party into tatters IN LESS THAN SIX MONTHS."

Mr. Greeley has long ago contradicted the above and called for proof, and none has been produced. Its shameless publication now, will be branded by the peonle, as it deserves.

O- The proceedings of the County Whig Convention were published in the Daily Courier of "Wednesday last. We expected a copy for our paper of that day, but none was forthcoming. It is now too old for an insertion, especially as we have given the pith of all that transpired.

JOHN VAN BUREN SNUBBED.—An exchange says that John Van Buren recently appeared as a delegate in the New York Convention, from one "of the Wards of the city, and was denied a seat, with only a few negatives. A motion was made to reconsider, in order to give JOHN a chance of being heard but this was not wanted. Mr. VAN BUREN entered the hall just at the moment, took his hat and left the Convention.

ItJ* We find this receipt for making Vinegar, in the Ohio Cultivator. Try it it is cheap: "Mix one quart of Molasses, three gallons of warm rain water, and one pint of yeast together. Let it stand and ferment four weeks, and you will have the best of vinegar."

ID" A new bank will soon go into operation

Scott, OR the Pacific ocean, of Panama! creased as soon as circumstances may require,

head of it, and it will go into operation in October.

Hoes AND CORN.—See Judge Porter's notice for selling a large lot of com for feeding hogs,

him, at Eugene, Ind.

MUBDEK.—The Charleston Courier reports that a man named Crockett, recently murdered an old man named Clark, in Moultrie Co., Ills. Crockett used a knife, and is now in jail.

O* Our people who have been off east to the

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are

retuni,n&

they catch it.

aboat

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Day GOODS,—See the card of Anderson, Mc

-I,, .ws 5..V.S wis »i IWOIVCO itwi- ..., ... -, —o on the general benefit that must result to The ia recent.y passed by Con-,

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steamboat* shall be baled and covered, thus does the Ledger editor want? jests. 'virus and the constitutional disease, is to the year.—Ledfjcr. giving additional security agaiust fire on board

whig that heard him, and drove some away from the Court-House. Such was his bitter denunciation of the whig party, who, he said, were literal descendents from the tories of the revolution, and the federalists of a later day. Pettit ought to have lived in France in the reign of terror. Robespierre would have been his "second fiddle."

0*The following resolution was unanimously passed in October, 1850, by a Democratic State convention of New Hampshire, of which Gen. Pierce is said to have been a member:

Resolved. That the holding of human beings in bondage is a curse to any country that we are opposed to slavery, black or white, in all its forms and under whatever circumstances.

The resolution is rank with abolitionism, and should be looked into and clearly scanned by those who have predilections for General Pierce.

ID3 John Pettit has called the editor of the Louisville Journal a liar to which Prentice gives the following reply: "Call us a liar as often and as loud as you please, John Pettit. You reject the Holy Scriptures, and we don't wish a fellow to believe our word who doesu't believe the word of God."

0» John Pettit is commissioned to preach democracy all over the State. He is fluent, and sometimes eloquent but his mind seems to run in a dirty channel. He can make no friends for Pierce out of whigs, if he pursues the course of unmitigated abuse, which he did here. *He is certainly mistaken, if he expects to make friends by calling whigs, or their candidate, by such undeserved epithets as he used towards them here. We have never heard such an abusive blackguard speech as the democratic elector delivered in this place. We almost wonder that any body listened to him patiently.

Cr" The Journal of Friday last, takes back the charges it made against Mr. Barbour, about his "advocacy" of the bankrupt law. All right.

The same paper contains the suppressed editorial headed "SAMUEL E. PERKINS," in which Mr. Hughes is belabored somewhat. It is now fairly before the public, to be settled as the interested parties may wish.

O* The Massachusetts papers, for the most part, have a regular department in their columns entitled "Liquor Cases" or "Liquor Items." They are .accounts of arrests, seizures, confiscations, meetings, mobs, fec., taking place through the enforcement of tlio Liquor Law.

C. W. BARBOUR, Esq., of Tcrrc-Hautc, is the whig candidate for Congress in the 7th Congressional district of Indiana. Ho is a prominent lawyer, a man of sound sterling sense, and having all the elements of popularity, will give his opponent, Davis, a hard run.— Charleston {Ills.) Courier.

A SIGN IN PENNSYLVANIA.—The Philadelphia Inquirier says that a meeting of Democrats, who have never voted a Whig ticket, but who now go for Scotland Graham, wa^ held in Hellam township, York county, on the 2lst ult. One hundred and twenty Democrats were present, who raised a pole over one hundred feet high* to which was attached a flag, on which is inscribed in large letters, "Scott", Graham, and the Constitution."

Cr We do not know why the outside form of the Evansville Weekly Times was sent to this office. We had waste paper enough without it.

FROST.—Last Monday morning, Sept. 13th, <frost > was visible on houses and fences. ----->We have had a great change in the weather since Sunday last. On that day, fire was necessary to comfort all the time, since, fires in the morning have been common. =======

BOSTON, Sept. 11.—VERMONT—Whig State officers elected by the people, by reduced maoritics. Senate will probably be twenty-five whigs, five opposition. House nearly the same as last year.

Congress—Meacham, 1st district, 1,644 maority 2d. Tracy, whig, 754 majority 3d, in 44 towns, Sabin, whig, leads highest.

SARTAIN.—We have not received the September numbers of the Union Magazine. Of course they are au fait, and we are wailing to notice the fact.

WASHINGTON, SKFT.12.—It is stated that CoL

Forney, clerk of the House of Representatives,

has becomc part proprietor of the Washington

Union, and w,ll resign h.s office on the 1st of

December, successor.

U* R. C. Gregory is the whig candidate for Congress in the Lafayette district.

S3" Wheat at Lafayette is 57 cts. Corn 36(S$ 38c Oats 18 to 20 cents.

HYDROPHOBIA.—Fred'k B. Page, a phy-

sician of Donaldsonville, La., has a letter

Lane A Co., Louisville Ky., who are now ready j,e Orleans Picayune, reviewing the excelled in the west. We congratulate the a a a A N and has always done a large Wabash business. tressing malady, ana proposing the followCall and examine stock and prices, when in jng as infallible:—"All that ts necessary

if tJaere is anything to be etui!* ^oaisTrille. and you will be likely to make pur- avoid the terrible consequences of the jail, by having an unobstructed passage

I

I press the blood and saliva freely from the

U* It is stated that the small pox and cbol- O" Cages of Canary birds, left uncovered at wound, and apply the htjuid choride of soera are making sad havoc with the California night, at Cincinnati, are killed by the mosque- da more or less diluted, till the part is emigrant* who are crossing the plains. itoes! What a place to live in- (healed."

HOT The late session of Congress has materially reduced the postage upon newspapers, pamphlets, bc., the law to. take effect after the 30th inst. One cent will be the postage on transient newspapets to any part of the United States. The New York Tribune says, that, ng a suitable tribute of respect to* the subscribers will henceforth be under no obligation to pay their postage in advance, and have no inducement to do so aside from their own convenience. Transient or casual news-

papers, hitherto under interdict, may be sent LEAN was appointed Secretary. under this law at as low a rate as if they were presented for the consid sent regularly, if paid in advance otherwise, double the rate. The reduction of the tax on the conveyance of books is a very liberal one. Tracts and pamphlets will also be sent much lower than hitherto.

tLr John Pettit thinks Gen. Scott is a "mere ass, not fit for a constable." How many of the a re it

Can such speeches accomplish any good None whatever. Pettit may have confirmed somewhat, a few of his own party, but he took no one from the whigs. He alienated every

toprotect your owa inter- bite of rabid animals, the absorption of the across the River at all times and seasons of

Bar Heating—Death of W. N. Hamilton. At a meeting of the members of the Bar of the Vigo Circuit Court, held at the Court House, on Monday, the 6th day of September, 1852, for the purpose of pay resDecl memory of WBLIS N. HAMILTON, ESQ., late a member of this Bnr, the Hon AMORT KINNEY senior member of said Bar was called to the chair, and WM. E. MC

eration of the meeting the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted.

The members of .this Bar have heard with feelings of most profound sorrow, of the death of their highly esteemed brother. WELLS N. HAMILTON, ESQ., who departed this life at his residence in this City, on Saturday 21st ultimo, surrounded by his deeply afflicted family and other relatives, and a large circle of friends, to whom he was much endeared. By this dispensation of Divine Providence, one in the vigor of

manhood,

In

the" midst^of an acUve

LKAIIKY. A MURDERER.—The notorious Monk ofLatrappe, Leahey, who has perambulated the country during the last half dozen years, and as a reformed Monk delivered lectures against the Roman Catholic church, has at last finished his career by murdering a man. named Edward J. Manley, at Pardeeville. Columbia county, Wisconsin, on Thursday, August 19th.— At the same lime he also shot at and wounded Esquire Morton, of the same place. The cause of the murder was jealousy of Manley and his (Leahey's)wife. The criminal was arrested and lodged in jail to await trial on a charge of murder.

The London Times candidly confesses, that the American steamships have triumphed over the British. That journal of the 9th ultimo, says: '•The truth must be told—the British steamships have been beaten, and the most rapid passages ever achieved between the old and new world, have been accomplished by the American steamship.— N ne but an American steamship has ever

I yet run from Liverpool to New York and

,'"7" vice versa, in less than ten days. The av-

erage

and

useful career, and with the prospect of as long a life as the most hopeful among us. has been cut down so suddenly, that, we can scarccly yet realize that he is gone from us forever. hile by this melancholy event an entire community, whose confidence he shared in an eminent degree, has been deprived of a highly valued member, we as the members of this Bar hare to mourn the loss of one whose unswerving integrity, amiable deportment and kindness of "heart had endeared him to us all. Once, nnd again, and again, and yet again, as a BARBOI*R. and a KINNEY, a HENRYand a HAMILTON have been taken from our number, has the oft repeated admonition come to us, that "in the midst of life we are in death,'' prompting us to diligence and fidelity in the discharge of those obligations which devolve upon us here, which must soon be met, or be left undone forever.— Soon shall we each be called to answer to that process to which there is no imparlance and as one by one the hand of death shall strike our names from this roll, may a well-spent life furnish to each of us its guarantee that our names are enrolled upon the records of that tribunal in whose decisions error hath never intervened.

Resolved, That the members of this Bar deeply sympathize with the afflicted family and friends or our deceased brother, WELLS N. HAMILTON, ESQ., in their bereavement, and we tender to them the assurances of our heartfelt sympathy and condolence.

Resolved, That, in the death of MR. HAMILTON, the community of which he was a member has lost a most valuable citizen, of uniform integrity, kind deportment, an upright nnd honest man.

Rcselved. That these proceedings be reported to the Vigo Circuit Court now setting, with a request that they bespread upon its records, and that a copy thereof be furnished to the widow and other relatives ot the deceased, and that the newspapers of this city be requested to publish ihe same, and that as a further mnrk of our respect for the character nnd memory of the deceased, it be ordered that this Court do now adjourn.

A. KINNEY, Chairman.

WM."E. MCLEAN, Sec'y.

A STARTLING PREDICAMENT.—On Saturday, one of our citizens was on a visit to Canada, and about the time the storm of that evening was coming on started in a carriage to return to the American side. When about midway of the "suspension bridge" the storm struck them with appalling fury. The wind blew a perfect tornado, while the air was densely filled with driving hail and rain, and so potent was the wind that the bridge swayed laterally to and fro, ten or a dozen feet, making one giddy with its vibrations. So appalling was the commotion that the horses stopped and finally fell upon their sides on the bridge, while the driver in the extremity of his terror, seemed incapable to make the least effort to move from the perilous spot. The inmates of the carriage could with difficulty keep their seats, and for a short time expected nothing else than to be precipitated into the surging waters. A situation like this is too appalling for description, and we must leave it to the imagination to picture what the sensations of those in the carriage were during this frightful commotion of the warring elements.—<Rochester Advertiser>. =======

passage of the Asia and Africa may,

near

|y

equa

the

B. B. French is mentioned as his

|10se

nest and most substantial structure of the

kind on the Wabash, and perhaps is not excelled in the west. We congratulate the

0 the

BaUjc Rnd Arctic of

Pacific,

,he

Co],|ns

,ine

but

Americans have achieved the positive

victory in speed, their steamers the Pacific. Baltic and Arctic—having made the fleetest voyages."

THE COVINGTON DRAW BRIDGE.—This splendid structure now spans the River, and by to-morrow evening will be ready to cross the travelling public. This Bridge is pronounccd by good judges, to be the fi-

Company upon the succcssful prosecution COALED proposals for tl of their enterprise, and the community up- County Jail." will be .» flit/tr ain TVrrn-rlAtlt

ST Another attempt upon Cuba is fctrongly suspected. All is commotion on the island and arrett* often made.

letter from Mr. Webster.

MESSRS GALES FC SEATON—GKNTLEMEX: —I observe that in debate in the Senate as reported in the Baltimore Sua, one day last week, the following paragraph appears? in a, speech of Mr. Mangum, of North Carolina: "Mr. Mangum said, perhaps there were occasional petty paltry tricks committed in' the Departments. Very recently otief had been committed, and that, too, by the great man of the Whig party-he meant" the Secretary of State—a trick unworthy of him, unworthy of his position, and disgraceful to his party, so far as he could afteel it. whiqB was but to a slight extent, and which shortly Avould not be,to anv extent."

Upon inquiring through a friend. I learn from Mr. Mangum that his observations were intended to apply to the appointment of the Wilmington Commercial, conducted by Mr. Lor.ng, as a paper to publish the Jaws in North Carolina and to the appoint^ ment for the same purpose of the Knoxvtlle ,: Whig in Tennessee.

We would respectfully invite Merchants visiting this Market to examine our Slock. _Sept. 15, 1852.-40-2m ,ff.

Evnnsvflle Steam Piindy Manufactory,

ASSORTED

Pile Wilmington Commercial was nppointed as a pap^r to publish the laws up-' on what was esteemed good Whig author-* ity and it Mr. Mangum had seen lit tocon*sult the members ot Congress from his own£ State, including eminent Whigs,he would-, have learned that there is not a more re-» spectable journal in North Carolina than the Wilmington Commercial, that the ed-' itor. Mr. Loring, "is a highly respectable man, of irreproachable character and that his paper has the largest circulation of. any W lug paper published in Wilmington, the most populous and far. the most commercial city or town in North Carolina.— I refer Mr. Mangum on this subject to his speeches in Congress.

As to the appointment of the Knoxville Whig- as one ot the papers to publisn me laws in Tennessee, it is sufficient to say that that appointment was made by me upon the express recommendation of a majority of the Whig members of Congress from that State.

So far as I remember, I never read a single number of cither of these newspapers.

Fanners, Beware!!

Now is your business season. Yotir Creator is now blessing you with delightful weather to till the rich soil with which he has so bountifully supplied^ you. Do not neglect your hcfuth ftt tnis time, for on it depends your familv of little ones for their bread during the blasts of a cold winter that is coming. If you have any of the well known symptoms of Feverand Ague, or Billious Fever, get Dr. Bragg's pills immediately, and take them freelv, and thev will surely restore your-system to liealth nnd vigor. If we should relate some of the remarkable cures these pills have performed, we should not be believed, therefore, we will onlv snv. try them.

Sept. 15, '52-40-\vl

(CT POISONING. J-J, W

Tliousniiil? of parents who nse Vermiftigo composed of Castor oil, Calomel, fcc., are not awaro, that Whilo they appear to benefit the patient, they arc actually laying tlie fourulntion« for a series of tlixea^cs, such as aalivation, loss of sight, weakness of limbs, Ac.

In anothor column will be found the advertisement of Hobensack's Meilicinw, to which wo call tlio attention of all directly interested In their own as welt us their children's health. In liver complainls and all disorders arising from those of a bilious type, should make use of the only geiiuino mcdicino, HohcnsacU'a Liver Pills. "Be not deceived," but ask for Hobensack's Worm Syrup nnd l.iver 1*11ls, and observe that each has the signature of the Proprietor, J. N. HOBKNSACK, as n.nc olsc arc genuine. Sept. H, *52-]yr

County Commissioner.

1— DAVID A. STKKMNG, of sugar crock town* ship, is a candidate for County Commissioner from the Sd district.

I E

In this place, on Thursday last, of Measles, CHARLES EDGAR, infant son of HARMON

BLOOD, aged In this place, on the 14th ult., SOPHIA ISA ACS. infant, daughter of IRA and LVHIA L. OKOVER, nged 1 year 6 months and 2 days.

ANDEltSON, McLANE & CO., Importers and Dealers in i1-!

Domestic nnd Foreign Dry Hoods,*

No. 152, north side Main between Hih and 6th sts., LOUISVILLE, KY.,

HAVE

now on hand a Inrge stock of Staple Fancy nnd Variety Goods, selected with great care by one of the members of the house which we will sell at very low prices, as wo have a buyer all the time in the Enstcrn Mrtrket. We are constantly receiving additions to our stock, and we are at all times prepared to avail ourselves of any change of styles, or reduction in pricesthat may occur in the Eastern market.

CANDY at 12J cents per pound..

Manufactured from Steam refined Sugar. The undersigned respectfully announce to Western and Southern Merchants, we are fully prepared to furnish assorted Candy, by tho quantity, at I2J f) lb, rfnd warranted superior to any manufactured this side of the Eastern cities. (Terms cash on delivery.)

JOHN FARRELL Jt CO., Confectioners. Evansville, Ind., Sept. 15, '52.-40-to am't $2

O E E S

I

HAVE for sale 200 acres of corn near Eugene, Indiana, on the Wabash, with abtnH dance of pure cool water and dry shady lots, 100 acres more on same place could be had with like advantages. JOHN R. PORTER.

Sept,. 15, 1852.-40-.lt pd

Wanted.

A

good can ca

part

can call the changcs, will find a place for the winter by early application. Further information maybehadby applying at this office.

Sept. 15, 1852-40-3W

NEW BOOKS! NEW BOOKS If

MEN

OF THE TIME or Sketches of Living: Notables. Sargent's Life of Henry Clay, edited by Horace Greeley.

A Step from the New World to the Old, and Back Again, by Henry B. Tappan. The Higher Law, in its relation to Civil, Government, by William Hosmer.

Lydia, a Woman's Book, by Mrs. Newton Cropland. Time and Tide or Strive and Win, by A. S. Roe.

Lotus-Eating, a Summer Book, by Geo. Wm. Curt.is. The Knights of England, France, and Scotland, by Wm. H. Herbert,.

Lives of Eminent Methodist Ministers, by P. D. Gorrie. What I Saw in London or Men and Things in the great Metropolis.

Religion of Geology and its connected Sciences, oy Edward Hitchcock. The Methodist Preacher, containing seven-ty-eight Sermons on Doctrinal and Practical subjects.

Harper's Magazine for September, for sale by W. H. BUCKINGHAM, At the Sign of the Big Book. Sept. 8,^1855-39-tf

7:* Notice.

osals for the painting of "Viga% received at the Au- 4

ditor'soffice, in Terre-Haute, until Friday, September, 17, 1852. The paint to be pure oil paint, and shaded or colored, as may be determined. For further particulars, inquire of the undersigned.

Bidders will name their securities for prompt and faithful performance. Bv order oi the Board of County Commissioners. ALBERT LANGE, Auditor.

Terre-Haute, Sept. 8. '52-39-w2