Wabash Express, Volume 12, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 August 1853 — Page 2

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OFFICE BAST OF THE C0TJST-H0TI8E.

D. 8. DAHA1D80H, Editor.

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Wednesday Morning, Ang. 17, 1853.

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Ar Siarss. JONES', Fleming county, Ky..? August 5, 1853. A month'ago. this part of Kentucky seemed to be literally parched by the dry weather, and the prospects for good crops were extremely disheartening. Now, however, and for three weeks past, more or less rain as fallen almost every day, the weather is warm and sultry and the corn has loomed up dvm its despondency and promises a good yield for the toil and hopes spent upon it. The chaoga is greater than could have been hoped for or expected in so ihort a time, when, in fact, whole fields seemed like they were too much fired ever to recover. Hemp, which is a prominent staple here, is short. In passing along the road ways, I saw a great many fields, none of which could be called good, though thick upon the ground, and perhaps as well linted as if of taller growth. Males and cattle range the woodland and open pastures, both of which now command high prices.

An order came to this county sometime sfnce for a lot of mules precisely 4 feet high— not a half inch over, and for the kind wanted, large prices were offered, while a mule a half inch over in height would not be taken. I thought this very singular, until it was explained, that they were wanted for use in a coal shaft in Pennsylvania, the entrance to which was only four feet high and no more, and there is no process for taking off a half inch of a mule's withers, without some injury to the hybrid animal, some of which, in lots, bring $150, each.

I saw. at Cincinnati, some 8 or 10 bulla, and double that number of cows, which had recently landed from Great Britain. They were on a boat for Louisville, intended for some of the Beargrass farms of Jefferson. With halters on and rings in their noses, they were readily managed, each one of the males having a groomsman.

LIAJTOM M. COX, a lawyer of Flemingsburg, and recently a Captain in the Mexican war, is returned to Congress from this district, boating a Mr. Rice in a democratic district, of whom, (Mr. Rice) fame has not spoken so loud as to reach my ears, here nor in Indiana. Ha is a resident of some of the mountain counties in this district. Mr. Livingston, the uttenvied hero of the infamous tragedy at Richard Puckett'i, in Vigo county, lives in this district, tome distance, however, from Fleming county.

The whigs here, are much gratified with Mr. Cox's election, though a prominent gentleman told me, that he would have preferred loosing the whole State, rather than the Ashland district and BOB LXTCKU. Some of your readers will recollect Letcher, the magnificent orator who addressed the crowd at the Taylor gathering at Fort Harrison, in September, 1848, on which occasion,he brought down the iooodt. I recollect his witty and inimitable allusions to Gen. CASS as Marshal of the State of Ohio, levying upon the widow's last cow and calf, FO tat* hit feet, while ZACHAKT TATLOB was perilling his life, sword in hand, on the frontiers of our infant State. There is something wrong among the whigs in and around Mr. City's old district, in thus turning over his venerated ashes to the unholy keeping of tho Saracens, and an army heroafter, as grvat and as enthusiastic as that of Peter the Hermit, must rescue his tomb from his enemies. Breckenridge, a young man, the flower of his party, elioited no doubt, the sympathies of the young and on such occasions, as democratic purse-strings are entirely relaxed, the result may be measurably aocounted for, though we blush to think, that Kentucky votes in August, are about as merchantable as hemp, mules or negroes, at other seasons of the year!

I forgot to tell you yesterday, that in one particular, Flemingsburg is ahead of TerreHaute. It has a fine True PIXOB in the cupola of the Oourt-IIonse, which marks the hours as thoy pass, and hammers them on a bell for the information of all concerned. The bell, however, is too small, or not loud enough, as a cork mallet on a quart tumbler wonld make almost as much noise. The citizens sre quiet people, however, and generally have good tasts. .A Kentuckian told me he would not give his little farm of 540 acres, (it is eighty dollar land) for all of Indiana. He was evidently in a state of dou't-know-a iiv#-*!***, from which he derives a comfort, and it would be cruel to undeceive him. I like that feeling, however a man that thinks his own home the best in the world, is sure to have enough patriotism to defend it when invaded, But Indiana, with h«r railroads from the centre to the circumference, like the spokes in a wagon wheel, may soon be the second or third, as she is now the fourth or fifth in the scale of State*. She is younger than Kentucky and is now a head.--0'lanp (I smell dinner.) D. S. D.

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Ftnnxossvto. Ky.. Aug. 6.1853.

Borne of your readers may wish to know the ittmt of expense, on the route which brought me away from Terre-Haute. and other thing* connected with traveling. *c.

To Madison, Ind., four city at the "deep diggings,") by railroad, is $4.25—a distance of 160 miles, consuming about 8 honrs. A good 40 cent dinner is had at Franklin, at Mr. Pegga'. and the e*yt^v must peg ia enough to do htm in 15 minute*, or be left for the next tram When enough checks are, found at our depot, baggage may be checked through to Cincinnati which will give no farther trouble bat only a part of the luggage, trunks, carpet sacks. &£., of onr company were so checked as they had not enough cheeks of that kind The sew road to avoid the inclined plane at Madison, is not yet finished, so yon go down that dangerous looking pises by gravity, sad on ench occasions, the wary passe-ger is genes*'! ly grave enough, as he is vividly reminded of tmashup but all the breaks are *5*ell manned, and yon have a fair chance for petcing down safsly. "if the breeching dont break bat in cuch event yon have no security except along ©f blsmslsss parity An former year*

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Item Madison io the boat without

stopping, which takes yon to Cincinnati for §1,50, giving yon supper and lodging without extra charge. You arrive at Cincinnati at about 4 A. M. and may be transferred to the Maysville packet at daylight, on which you may remain until it leaves Cincinnati, at 11 A. M. To Maysville is $1,50, and 25 cts. for breakfast before starting. At all changes you may calculate 25 or 50 eta. for removing baggage, and in such charges generally, you may expect to pay well. You arrive at Maysville at 9 at night where you remain for breakfast next morning, pay $1,00 for your bill, and 75 cts. to the omnibus, which brings you to this place at 11 A. M.—very slow going over a good turnpike at that.

Since here, and although onc6 used to the place, I can't help but observe the kills on all sides, and the limestone rock lying all over the face of the earth. A little boy in company. (Jimmy Turner,) as soon as he got out of the omnibus, said, "Ma, let me go over there and roll down that grassy hill." It was indeed, a nice place for ro'ling.

I called this morning at the "Messenger office" to post myself with the news, but a card on the closed door, dated Friday evening, informed the friends of the office, that the editor, publisher, printer, foreman and carrier (all united in the same person,) had gone to the country and would not be back until Monday evening. This estoppel on the current news vexed me Badly, but not to be foiled entirely, I called at the PoBt Office, and a weekly Covington Flag, of Aug. 3d, informed roe of the election of Preaton, Breckenridge and Stanton, all of which I knew, of course.

This dibtrict, Fleming and Nicholas, sends John A. Cavan, whig, to tho State Senate, and two whigs, (Fitch and Wilson) to the Legislature. I heard a democrat boasting of helping that ticket with his free suffrage. After the election, you know, some very good people like to claim duo services with the victors— like Napoleon's soldiers who acknowledge Marengo and Austerlitz, but disown Waterloo.

I witnessed the process of mule-shoeing tljis morning, which is singular enough to the uninitiated. They are driven into a narrow pen, and suspended by a band under the body, entirely from the ground. Four smiths take a hoof each, at the same time, and soon fasten on the iron rings, at a cost of 90 cts. per mule. One mule, more fierce than the rest, turned himself on hia back to givo freedom to hia heels, and he kicked a veritable reveilte, upon the shambles until each hoof was confined to I a post by cords. He-was shod vi el armis, and I when he could not kick, he tquealed defiance at the sturdy sons of Vulcan, who stood I around him with hammer, tongs and pincers— |pinchers, I may say, but the animal was game jto the last and was shod a-fighting.. Large numbers of mules come to this placo, to the shop of my old friend JOHN PUATT, to be shod, who seems to have all of such custom, as be manages them so dextrously. Before the plan of swinging a mule was adopted, it was as much as a man's life was worth to shoe one of the pesky varments. They are so very handy with their heels.

The Express of the 3d has arrived, and I "haul off" to read the leaded articles. D. S. D.

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LA GEAJJOE, Fleming county, Ky.,? Augest 10, 853. This is tho former residence of the late Major Wu. P. FLEMING, who died at Frankfort, Ky., during the session of 1834-5, (I think,) being then the Senator from this district, and having been Senator for a number of years previous. LaGrange means a granary, or a farm house, and was aptly named, as the farm surrounding was very large and productive.— I do not know that this place still retains this name, as the property has bpen divided—the homestead falling to Gsoaox.tlie youngest child, who, with an interesting young wife, enter* tains his friends and acquaintances as hospitably and handsomely as liis father before bitn, who was one of the moot popular men of the county. He was most always in public office, and 1 do not recollect that he was ever beaten before the people. The younger son, George, seems to inherit something of the same kind he is public spirited and popular, and was recently nominated by the whigs for a seat in the lower branch of the General Assembly, but his affairs at home precluded his acceptance of tho nomination.

Col. JOHN FLKMINO, was an early settler in this part of Kentucky—at a time when the Shawnees gave the whites much trouble. Col. F. has given his name to this county, and the county seat, also to a station, & creek and meeting-house. He was one of the principal men in the battle at the Upper Blue Lick in this county, some 63 yean ago, (1791.) where the whites were sadly thrashed and many of them killed. An anecdote is told of Col. Fleming which shows great presence of mind, at a momeut when there was no time for re flection. Seeiug that his party were whipped in tbe battle at the Lick, he began to think of the best means of escape, and started for his mare but was intercepted by a large Indian, tomahawk in hand. Col. F. called to a man near by, who had a gun, to "shoot the Indian," but the man replied "my gun is empty." "Point it at him," said Fleming the Indian took to a tree at once Fleming reached his mare and was carried away alive, while the man with the empty gun saved his own life by his fleetness of foot, after he had alarmed the Indian by pointing with his empty gun at him.

Collin's Kentucky gives an account of this battle, which was occasioned by the Indians stealing two children and some hordes from Strade's Station in Clark county, and were pursued by 15 whites only. Col. Fleming, though badly wounded, managed to kill the Indian before he left the field of the battle. I bs^e often been upon the ground of this battle, at a time when the standing trees gave evidence of a conflict with bullets, many of which showed the scars of honorable service, though it could not be told whether they had screened a White or a Rod man. A branch near by bears the name of Battle run to this dav.

The early settleftlntr of Kentucky has been greatly retarded by the interminable conflict* in land titles, which afforded business for the courts year* and years after 1787. In this county, a thousand seres of land have sold for a bottle of ram! and the title ultimately sustained. T%st land wonld now command §50 per acre. Such was the Uuetmity of land ti tlti, or the M2M of "red eye** in thai early day. Some have paid for the SUM toil, half a dozen tiroes over and over.

The "Fox Springs." a place of considerable resort, are in this county, setae ten miles from FlemingsbuTf, in the hill country, and apart of the company arriving with me fmm Terns Bant*, are to visit the place to-morrow, among which are Mrs JDE.8.SE, Mrs Mr*.

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Dr. W„ and several Flemingsburg ladies and gentlemen. I find most leave Fleming, or the treatment I receive will soon make me a fit subject for an infirmary, or a Hotel dm Invalidts. Eat

Concord, and illustrating by turns, the politics and

jurisprudence of New Hampshire.' Mr. Maurice makes no complaint against the administration because it did not give him an office. He did not desire one, and says:—"I have not asked any place or office for any blood relative or connection of my own." He ha3 greater cause of complaint than that, in what he says is Gen. Pierce's policy "of consolidating the Democratic party by the bestowal of places of great influence, trust and profit on unmistakable specimens of every faction that has of late years threatened to disturb the peace of the country." This is pretty plain talk for a Democrat, and is an "unmistakable specimen" of the kind of feeling which is becoming common all over the country, in consequence of giving offices to men who entertain political opinions dangerous to the peace and quiet of the country. This feeling is not confined to the men who expected office from Gen Pierce, and failed to get it—but there name would be legion if it were. It is a deeper and broader feeling than that, and is entertained by thousands of honesthearted Democrats in the country, who have not yet learned the process by which a man, who, but the other day, belonged to a dosperate faction can become so suddenly purified of his political sins, as to become a confidential officeholder under General Pierce's administration.

GEN. PIEB0E AND HIS FBIEND8. Gen. Pierce is the toorst defended man who has ever been President, not even excepting John Tyler. Look which way you please, and about all that his friends have to say, in defence of his appointments, is the old song, stereotyped long ago, that the whig party ia dead, and is corrupt if it is not dead, and all that sort of thing. Now, this won't do—the time for such stuff as this, is pa9t. The people are anxious to know what can be said by the democrats in favor of the administration— for if the whig party is dead, that's no reason why the democratic party should play the mischief, generally. Let us hear then, from some friend of Gen. Pierce, how he can reconcile upon principle, tho appointments of Abolition disunion men, and Pire-eating disunion men, to high offices of trust and confidence under the administration. It is not enough to say that these men merely agree to hold office together to unite the party. That's the spoils doctrine, and the contract expires as soon as the office is lost. We want to know where the principle of the union is—upon what point of political doctrine they think alike—and when and where tbe disunion man purged himself of his political sins, and atoned before the country and the world for his assaults upon tho sacred union of the States.

DEMOCRATIC HARMONY.

The Democratic General Republican Committee of New York, that has had charge of the Democratic movement of that State, for some years has been ascertained to con*ist almost entirely of fres soilcrs. As it was inclined to favor that "division" of the party a little too much, the other portion called the Old Hunker "division" had had anew election.and elected another Committee consisting of Old Hunkers. So there are now two General Committers for the State—the Free soil Democrats comprising one, and the Old Hunker Democrats the other and each contending for the right to govern the affairs of the party. What a beautiful fix the Democracy of the Empire State is in:—so perfectly united and harmonious! It is said, by the Albany Register, that the two committees, composed of twenty members each, grin at each other "like forty belligerent monkeys over a dish of boiled rice."

PitAI5T TALK AMJNG3T PBTBSDS. The New York Day Dook was once a whig paper, but it supported the election of Gen. Pierce—Baltimore platform and all —and that, according to tbe present Democratic standard, makes it a Democratic paper. As the friend of Gen. Pierce, its editor has a right, therefore, to administer editorial castigation to him, whenever he pleases:—the democrats wouldn't care a straw about what he said, if he were a whig still. Exercising this right, he speaks out pretty plainly, in what follows: •What do you think of our new administration?" writes a friend from Albany. We think the best thing we can do is to think as little about it as possible. This is not the first time we have been humbugged, and probably will not be the last. Never did a man have a better opportunity to draw around him the best men of the country, and to secure the support of three-fourths of his own party and half of the opposition, than Franklin Pierce had on the 4th day of last March, and never did a man so foolishly and blindly throw away such an opportunity."

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PACIFIC BAIL B0AD.

We publish a communication to-day,from a correspondent, upon the subject of the Pacific Rail Road, and call the special attention of onr citicens to its suggestions. The writer has given the subject much attention, and is of the opinion that, as the question is now attracting so much of public notice, the friends of the antral route, by St. Louis, should go actively to work in its favor. We Uiink as he does, that unless they do there is a very strong probability that the combinations against them will give mors strength, in Congress, to MM other vmte. We, therefore, hops the meeting will be held, and held «t emcs, for there is no time to be lost. What say oor city cotemporaries?

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ing and drinking is the order of the day, and sprint has been veering from North to South that, too, of the "fat of the land," as well as and from South to North, but always looking jk •. 1 A. aaam nfe ktf. tltO Slfl VA» much of foreign countries. Of course, I can't stand that, not being used to so mu,ch that is so inviting to the appetite. These latitudinarian habits will surely make me a valetudinarian, to prevent which, I leave for Bonrbon and Clark in two days, until which, tale.

,, A SLIGHT MISTAKE. The Journal is mistaken in supposingthatifc is "but a small portion of the Democratic Press which is waging war upon President Pierce for his official appointments." That is bad enough iu all conscience, in a party sense, for it admits that some of those who elected him, have lost confidence in his administration. But it is far from being the whole story. The Hon. James Maurice, Representative in Congress from the first District of New York, has published a letter to his constituents, in which he says —"And if the great body of the American pen-

ple had not bun deceived into his support, as I was, ments of Heaven. They employ in their ser General Pierce would still be practicing law at\v

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Presidential contest pl«T"—JearmtL Smm for principles—a meay foro&r Rsfh have been disappointed,—and, therefore, according to the Journal, they sen "mre headed" democrat?

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INDIANA JOTTRSfAL AND ITS TENDENCIES. The Indiana Journal is quite offended at oar short notice of its squinting towards Abolitionism, Free Soilism, or whatever else the reader may please to term it. For several years, that

out for a favorable occasion to hit the Slavepower" a back-handed lick, and, by a very low and cowardly course, slabbing the W&ty cause in the house of its friends." If we had the files of that paper before us (and we toiS have them, when it becomes necessary,) it could be convicted of the most perverse proclivities toward the dark side of politics.

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There are more than one species of abolitionists. The first and true stripe consists of the law-defying and Union-hating followers of Fred Douglass, Giddings, Garrison, and such like. These men openly denounce the'' American Union and the American churches as having formed a league with hell," and our American law-makers as ruffians," pirates," and men of blood." They are bold traitors, who having made up their mind to uproot every vestige of well-rfgulated liberty, andbringour institutions into contempt, at home and abroad, fear neither the opinions of men nor the judg-

runaway negroes, "strong-minded wo-

theatrical preachers, enthusiasts, and

novel-writers. They hire man-stealers to teach school iu the Slave States, mix in with the domestics of those who feed and cherish them, and then repay hospitality and kindness by inducing the poor blacks to runaway, to be made ten times more the children ot slavery than before. They are in correspondence with all the enemies of Republic Institutions—they bring foreign emissaries into the country to foment strife, to engender sectional difficulties—to array the North against the South—to put State against State—man against man. They openly contemn the AMERICAN UNION, and proclaim their hostility to its continuance. They are traitors to all that the American People hold dear and sacred, to interests which rise far and beyond all the party feelings of the day.

There is anotherclass. This consists of men who hold that political ascendency should be purchased at any price. In Massachusetts and Ohio they unite with the Democrats to put down the Whigs, and in New Hampshire and Wisconsin tliey coalesce with the Whigs to put down the Democrats. They are in market, and will sellout at any time to the highest bidder. They are the free soilers or WUmot Provisomen, bearing the same relation to Abolitionism that the varioloid does to the small-pox. It is abolitionism of a milder type, but of the same loathsome, nasty, and destructive character. It is the invention of a repudiated democrat (David Wilmot.) carried to Buffalo by a disappointed, beaten, and disgraced democrat (MAETIH VAN BUEEN.) Standing on the narrow isthmus between patriotism and treason, these men have rallied the fraction of a faction, and by judicious buying and selling manage to keep up in a few States the balance of power.— They refuse to let the people of the newly admitted States manage their owu affairs, and say that the institutions which they shall adopt must be subject to the supervisionof Congress. The doctrine that all power is inherent in the people" is repudiated by them, and they declare that Massachusetts and Now York shall be the judges of what is desired by the people of Utah and New Mexico. The sovereignty of the States is thus practically annihilated, and the blind fanaticism of a portion of the people is made to rise supreme over the wellconsidered organic law of those communities which seek admission into the confederacy.— A doctrine so liable to abuse cannot be too stronglv resisted. But this is not all: These free soilers, wherever found, are constantly breathing into the public ear the poisoned words of discontent with the guamntooo of the

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tution. They are against slave-representation —they are against the laws of the slave States passed for the protection of the peculiar property" of the South—they ate decidedly against the fugitive Slave law—they are death on any Commissioner, Marshal, or Judge who will enforce it, though these officers are sworn to obey and carry it into practical effect -they misrepresent that law, and try to hunt down every man who is, or has been, for its enactment.— There is another "mark of the beast" by which a free soiler may be known, whether he professes to belong to the Whig or Democratic parties. He employs a sneer at every one who acts on the belief that the American Union is, or has been endangered by the sectional confiictsof the times. He professes to believe that the people of the South have no reason to feel alarm at the movements of the abolitionists— he says that a "good sized omnibus" would hold all who would destroy the Union—and the Indiana Journal puts forth that sage remark, in addition to others equally sagacious. A freesoiler, moreover, is known by the company he keeps. If there be a Whig or Democrat in his neighborhood who bolted the platform of his party, and went off after false-gods to Buffalo or Pittsburgh, he is sure to be in favor with an editor of that ilk. A hundred chances to one he writes half his editorials, and very likely would get the track for a Congressional or other race, if that editor's counsel should prevail. This class of politicians whatever they call themselves, are embryo abolitionists, and will be assurredly full fledged whenever it is their interest to join the black banner of the enemies of the Republic.— We might cite numerous instances of similar lapses in this State—of persons who began mild anti-slavenr men, and are now ferocious, starkmad abolitionists. Ten years ago, they would consider it a great slander to be classed with those with whom they note associate. They professed to be as good Whigs as the editor of the Indiana Journal, and as true Democrats as him of the Sentinel. It is the nature of delusions, however, to increase by the exercises of the imagination, and by a constant contemplation of a favorite theory (however fallacious,) it becomes a fixed fnct" in the mind. Gradually men fall from grace, and this holds good in politics as well as in religion. We will venture another remark on this head, and say, that whenever a white man talks about social and political equality to the black man in this country, tine only is required to establish him in the faith of Garrison and Giddings. To that complexion he most come at last."

The editor of tbe Indiana Journal is not so blind as sot to know that his course on the free soil and negro question has given Ms political friends much ground for suspicion. With an overwhelming majority of hia Whig brethren decidedly attached, from principle and conviction, to the compromise measures, advocated and upheld by the eminent Whig statesmen lately removed by death (OLAY and Wsasrza,) he has taken every opportunity to sneer at them, and has travelled rat of lis way to cast reproach on the living defenders of these enactments. His conduct, in this mp«t, has been the theme of mnsrk in ererv

quarter, and very deep concern has been expressed as to the best means of relieving the Whig party of Indiana from the tmpotetton of concurring in his expressed sentiments. Many of the best informed public men in the Whig ranks made it the subject of conference and consultation. The unfortunate nomination of General Scott by the Baltimore Convention (brought about by such influences as guide and govern the Indiana Journal,) and the subsequent overthrow of the Whig party, whilefighting for that nomination, has measurably rendered these conferences useless and unprofitable. The platform of that convention was spit upon" by those who seem to be the exemplars of the Journal, and if the editor of that paper concurred in any of the principles laid down on the Slavery question, that con currence was so feebly expressed and so weakenunriated as to leave a painful impression that his approval was more feigned than felt. For these and many other reasons that we might mention, the Indiana Journal has not commanded the influence to which its central position entitled it, nor do we believe it ever can, till its editor ceases to interpolate the wholesome and generous principles of the Whig party by refraining from all interference with the question of slavery. We know that he will denv this interference, and so will the most heated and fanatical of the free soil school of politicians. All he asks is to take a fling at the "compromise measures, the Fugitive Slave law, the Marshals and Commissioners who are to execute it, the Union-Savers," (includ ing the deathless and undying fame of Clay and Webster,) and then allow him to bepraise and laud

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, Win. H. Seward, aud Uncle Tom's Cabin," and he will consent to pull in the Whig harness, for the present, looking ahead, like a prudent m&a, for that re-organization of parties, so piously looked for by the New York Tribune, the Free Soil papers, and all who love the inauguration of a new era in politics. All this may do for him, and those who could act with a sectional party, but for the large majority of the Whigs of Indiana—the men who have given it all the success it ever attained—where are they to go Let us say now, and beg leave to say it emphatically, not one Whig in ten will ever con sent to vote a free soil abolition ticket, no matter how nicely that pill may be gilded by the political doctors atlndianapolis and elsewhere. No Trojon horse can now or ever be used to introduce armed traitors into the Whig citadel, or to transfer the compatriots of CLAY, WEBSTER, HAERI80N, and TAYLOR to the unlineal andbastard" cause of Slavery agitation and domestic treason.'

We can well afford to disregard the hardsayings of the Journal, in reference to the supposed writer of the article which called forth the ire of that print. We have a higher object than dealiug in such epithets as a reply would naturally require. We should not fear even an encounter of that kind, but the respect we feel for the editor of this paper (who is absent,) prompts us to refrain from a retaliation which is both ready and deserved. The sentiments assumed in this article, we know, will not be repudiated by the editor of the Express, nor by any editor who loves the Whig cause better than the success of a sectional question.— Doubtless the language and style mi£ ht be improved in other hands, but that will not,shake its Whig orthodoxy or the cause of truth.

The reader will permit us to introduce to the subscribers of the Express the sentiments of a gentleman of color," (as he is called by the Indiana Journal,) commonly known as Fred Douglass, to show what kind of creatures a Whig editor must consort with, when he leans to the abolition side of the slavery question.— Speaking of GEREIT SMITH'S advent into Congress, master Frederick thus discourses in an abolition paper published at Syracuse, New York: "Most distinctly will Mr. Smith deny the legality of slavery. He will strip the vile thirl^ of all gospel, constitutional and legal countenance, and will treat it as it ought to be treated —a system of violence and blood, no better than piracy. Murder itself will get as much respect from him as slavery for. to him, slavery is murder. Heisin conflict with this Government at many other points than its slavery. A mighty work is before him. He i* a Temperance man he goes amon? wine bibbers. He is a Peace man he goes to minele with men of blood.— He is a man of prayer he goes among bias-1 and who are already at work phemers. H» is an abolitionist. he eroes to meet the traffickers in human blood. He is a gentleman he goes to confront ruffians. There will be few with whom he will have anything in common. That he, like the noble Hebrews, will refuse to acknowledge the lower law of slavery, is certain that he will enrage the worshipers of the slave power, and brin* upon

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touch a hair of his head let the assassin knife

by love kindled vengeance, would lie wait for the

murders N^rt Sar.itooa. and Niaoara

murderers. Netoport, Saratoga, and Niagara Falls toould become dangerous places. There would be white men and colored men all over this North land, who would look upon their lives as worthless, in a country where the people's chosen man falls bv the assassin's steel. Let them touch him !—Fred. Douglass.

These horrible sentiments of treason, murder, assassination and bloodshed are published over the signature of this black wretch Douglass, and have been copied into more papers than one, conducted by white msn! When such scoundrels are tolerated and encouraged, and their fanatical and murderous intents spread before a christian community without rebuke, is

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SJT Johnson (dens.) has bees sleeted Governor of Tennessee, but by what majority we do nbt know.

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THE RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC. Tnax-HAtrrx, 11th Aug., 1853. Ma. EDITOR:—Ono of tbe most stupendous works of this or of any other age, is the construction of a Railroad from the valley of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean. The great Appian Way, which tied Rome to Brundusium, in comparison with it, dwindles into insignificance. S

himself their fiery wrath, iscertain butwhet.h- is constitutional to build it. Mr. Fillmore's er it shall be his to save his life as well be

true to his principles, is not certain. Slavery may, in its madness, demand another sacrifice. ','10 same way. Now, from which of the parIt may demand another CRAKDALL, LOVEJOT, or ties, whig or democratic, will Gen. Pierce reTOEBET, to appease its bloody wrath. But

It is now fast beginning to be a conceded point, on all hands, that this Road will be built, and that the steps necessary to its construction will be initiated at the next Congress. It has been recently stripped of one of its most doubtful features—that is, the question, whether or no it would be approved by the present administration. That question is now settled, and it is certain that the recommendation of it will form quite a prominent feature in the first annual message of General Pierce. Its construction, therefore, is scarcely to be any longer considered as a matter of conjecture.

But the line of the Road—the place where it shall have its eastern terminus, is yet left to much doubt and uncertainty. Whether it shall be a northern, southern, or eastern termination will greatly depend upon matters which may hereafter transpire. The writer of this is pretty well satisfied that the explorations now in progress, will show the fact that all these routes are practicable, so far as that question merely is concerned and he is also satisfied that the ultimate selection of the route will be made to depend upon other things than the mere question of practicability. In this view of it, every body will see, that it is of the ut most importance that the friends of the central route shall not be, any longer idle—but that they shall begin, at once, to concentrate public opinion, as rapidly as possible, in its favor. When we look at the matter in the light which, from our locality, is apparent to our own minds, it appears difficult to conceive an argument against the position that, in order to make the route a central one, it must point to St. Louis,— as the great commercial centre of the Mississippi Valley. But there are others, in other localities, who seo this thing differently, because they see it under the influence of different interests. These, upon the other routes are busily at work, and there is much less doing upon the central line than upon either of them. If, therefore, we do not take care, the prize for which we have so long labored will be snatched away from us.

The city of St. Louis is vigilant in this work, and there arc some local and party controversies going on in reference to it, in other parts of Missouri. But St. Louis cannot do it all herself:—She wants assistance And when she looks Eastward, upon the central line, Ter-re-Haute is the fir^t point of commercial importance, from which she can expect that assistance. Now, what is our duty to this great^ work, and to ourselves, 11 the present posture of affairs? It is clearly this—that we shall go to work, actively anu industriously, and do all we can, from this time till the question is acted on in Congress, to concentrate public opinion in favor of the central route. Let any man lay down a map before him and he will see that, if that route shall be constructed, it must pass through the centres of the three great States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and then if he will examine farther eastward upon the map, he will also find, that there ir already such a concentration of Railroad enterprise, poiuting around the Southern extremity of the lakes, from tho Atlantic Sea board, into these States, so as to render the central route the most desirable of all others :—for this reason, if none other, that, in all probability, by the time the Pncific Railroad is begun, the western frontier of Missouri will be connected by Railroad with all tho Eastern cities which wil already have overcome nearly half the distance from Boston to San Francisco

There is no time to lose now, in this great work. Let us be up and doing, as others are, both north and south of us. Let us given little of our time to an enterprise which is of importance enough to justify the most laborious and active exertions. I propose, therefore, that there shall be a public meeting in TerreHaute, as soon as possible, to consider what are the most advisable steps to be taken in aid of those whose interest is identical with ours,

t,on? We venture to

of slavery be drawn upon him, and the life of a whig party will sustain him, while pretty much slaveholder would not be worth a sixpence in any, all the abuse he'll getabout it, will be from his Free State of the Union. Unseen hands, moved

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which Dr. Daily is in possession of, has been breakers there. New parties are always danconferred upon him by this institution the gerous. very place where the democratic Editor of the Journal claims to have received his first, and best impressions. Dr. D. has never been considered a "simos pure," although be has been a Methodist circuit rider. It was through democratic influence that Dr. D. waa elected chaplain to Congress, and if reports be true, it was through high official democratic influence that be was chosen President of the University of Ind. With all these facta staring tbe Editor of the Journal in tbe face—is It not a little strange that be should, in spite of tbe better judgment of his party, come oat with such a tirade of abuse against Dr. D. as the bead of his «2sw meter?

Pred,ct

For

that the whoU

friend-,_the Democrats. Is there not food

,. *.i_* -at i_

reflection in this state of things? We shall

soon find out how the Idnd liesi

The Joittnal calls the Express th6 "representative of th ^principles of the late whig party." Itis not long Bince it used to say that the whig party had no principles. We are glad to know that it has, at lastj found out its error, and has the frankness to admit it. But it is not alone in discovering that the whig party had principles. Gen. Pierce has been equally fortunate,

and, what isfar better for the country, is about

to appropriate one of them to his own use:—| on the

ore a ennsuau cuiuiiiuuny wiWUUV '. .. We find oneof them tobe aidsrk bayorbrown mare, 1 that in favor of Internal Improvements by the about fifteen hands high, and supposed tobe flveyears it wonderful that the people of the Qener_j Government old last sprlne, snd we appraise ner at fifty dolls whole country should loathe this abolition pbrenxy. These murderers and assassins, with their aiders and abetters, will have their reward

27 The Journal speaks of the "Old Whig Party." That's right, and we are glad to see onr democratic friends waking up to tbe troth of history. It is an old party—as old as the Revolution and as old as the Constitution. It

O* Our neighbor of the Journal, seems to be a good deal worried over tbe election of Dr. Daily to the Presidency of tbe University of,^ born in *76, and is worth all the new parInd. This should not annoy the Journal man {j^ together, that have flourished since.— so excessively, especially when ho reflects Whenever the ship of State gets out from her. ,—- RHI that it was through democratic influence tbat^ moorings, she I# obliged, for safety, to come! ExSan^"—RrmH money ^'to England, Ireland, Scotthe Dr. was elevated to office, all the honors t& her oU harbor again, there are no

"The people should never believe any news in whig papers from Washington City."—Journal. "Reason and public, weal we trust, are about to assert their long-lo*t supremacy in the Democratic creed."—National Intelligencer.

Don't yon believe a word of it—*sy* the Journal,—whig papers never speak the truth. Well, if it is not true, we are sorry for it.

17 The Journal, in speaking of what we have said about the appointment of Abolitionists and Fire-eaters to office, says: "Tbe writer quotes good democratic authority in support of his views." Then what right have yea to complain, Mr. Journal la there any ham done t# Mr. Fierce, is quoting what "good democratic authority" ssys of him

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A BEQUEST.

We will be very mucb obliged to some democratic friend if he will famish us with the Baltimore platform. We can't lay our hands up on it just at this moment, and have a curiosity. to see whether there is not apart of it which says that Congress has no power to appropriate money for Internal Improvements. That's the*1 way we remember it—but prefer to have the| thing itself. But we hope, whoever our friends shall happen to be, that he will not slip out any of the planks before, he does it. We want thai whole thing.

A QTOMI0H TO BE AV8WEBXD. Can any body tell us whether or not the Hon. Jesse D, Bright and the Hon. John Pettit,i«« Senators from Indiana, approve or disapprove of the opinions expressed by Ool. Davis, and the "by authority" arguments of the "Union'*: on the constitutionality of the Pacific Rail Road? We hope some democratic friend will give us information on this point.

"The croaking of whig editors, and sore headed Democratic grumble] ing."—Journal.

and

I make no sug

gestions as to tho time of the meeting, but leave that to be considered of by others. T.

WHO SUPPORTS GEN. PIERCE? The administration of Gen. Pierce is now in favor of tho Pacific Railroad, and insists that it

adminigtratioo wa9 in favor of it, and thought

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the greatest support, upon this proposi-

grumblers can avail noth-

Cant these "Democratic grumblers" avail just as much now, as they did before they got sore headed?"

Rock Hose.

In tbe edition of the U. S, Medical DI*pen»*tory, we are told, s*ys the writer, that the Rock Rose w»i first Introduced Into regular practice by Dr. fill Ives, of New Haven, Ct., who considers it invaluable in all scrofulous diseases. In the same Work, it is stated that Dr. Isaac Parrlsh, of Philadelphia, has employedit with great success in his practice for scrofulous diseases. Allusion is also made to a work published by D. A. Tyler, M. D., of New Haven, Ct., as containing interesting and Important testimony of tho wonderful efficacy of the Rock Rose, flrom which the proprietors of Myers' Extract have taken the liberty to quote, and to use the words of Dr. Tyler, to make known to tbe public the virtues of a plant as much neglected. He says, as an older member of the profession once remarked to me, the Rock Rose possessed far more alterative powers than the popular Sarsaparllla. J. T. WALL, Agent.

Terre Haute, Aug. 17,1853-3C-3W.

Flowers will grow where the Waters Bun. If the cuticle of the scalp Is kept healthy, and the genns of the hair invigorated by stimulants which operate at their roots, through the inner skin or firmit of the head, a strong and vigorous head of hair cannot fail to be the result. The operation of Lyon's Kathairon is founded entirely upon this most reasonable law of the Natural World. It Is prepared of such ingredient* only, as will produce this effect. Hence tho most Incredulous have tried and been benefitted by Its use,—and the secret of its immense sale. The appearance given to the hair is truly baautlful and pleasing. Sold by all dcalors everywhere, at 513 tents, in largo bottles.

D. R. BARNES, Proprietor, 161 Broadway, JV«N York.

John T. Wall, J. Cunlngham and John Markle, Agents in Tcrre-Hnutf willlani M. Kohl & Co., and John Park.Clnclnnati, Ohio. [July 37, 53-33-4w]

TT-?' Dr. GEOOIIMAK'S Extract of Hydroptper is purely vegetable, pleasant to take, perfectly harmless, and will cure without fail, Scrofuln, KyBpepsta. all impurities of tbe bloud, and bad tin bit of system. It i« aond nt all seasons. See advertisement.

FOR SILK.

a. Rnro Cl»unc«« to Wahfc IWonof# FT1HK subscriber, desirous of changing his J. business, olTt'rs for sale, at a bnrgnin, his new and commodious Tannery, situated in Terro-Haute, Ind. The buildings consist of a Beam hou-e, two

stories

MILL

DARK

high, w) by 26 feet—

house, Hide house and Stables,

all new. Attached to the concern, is & steam Engine, in complete running order, used for pumping, grinding. Ac. The above Yard has every convenience for tanning, being built on the most approved plans, regardless of expense, and being the only Yard in the city, presents a rare clinnceforan enterprising man to enter into a snfe nnd lucrative business.

CT" Hides can be bought from 3J to 4c per lb., nnd Hark at $3 per cord. Price $4,000. one fourth down, the balance in ono, two and three years, secured by mortgage.

JOHN TIERNAN.

Terre-Haute, Aug. 17, 1853-36-tf

TVOTICF.

Clintoti Draw Drtdire.

TIIE

subscribers t.o the Cnpitnl Stock of th» Clinton Draw Bridge Company, are hereby notified that ft final call of20 percent, upon said Capital Stock, being the balance due on subscription, is required to be paid, bv ordor of the Board of Directors, on or before the 27th day of August, 1853. Payment can be made to Wm. P. Dole, Secretary, at Clinton, or to J. H. Hager, at Terre-Haute.

By order of the Board WM. P. DOLE, Secretary. Clinton, Aug. 17, 1853-36-tf

MEAN.

THAT

msn who w*s so mean and miserly thst h« compelled his wife to wean her babe (only three weeks old) just because It gave her an unusual appetite, went into the Paguerrean Gallery of Duff & Freeman, Parrlngton Block, and being Informed that he could not get one of their pictures at the price some opperators charged. He wanted to know if they hadn't got any second hand ones they could sell for less.

Terre-Haute, Aug. 17, 1853-30 tf _____

VIGO COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. To October Term, 1853. Clarissa Jacques VS. Eliza Cithers, James Gathers and other heirs at law of Gershom R. Jacques, deceased.—On P*tilion for Dower. T^HE petitioner, by C. T. Noble lier so-

A licitor, having filed her petition together with an affidavit, that Kllsa Cathers and James Cathers sre not resident* of the Stste of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given, to tbe said EH*a and James, that they be and appear before the Judge of said Common Pleas Court, at the rourt-Hoase In Terre-Haute, on the first day of Its next term, then and there In said Court to show cause why dower should not be assigned as asked for in said petition.

ANDREW WILKINS, Cl'k.

Aug. 17, 1853-36-3W [pr's fee ®L,75] Mate of Indiana, VI*© County* Jftttict of Petition to till Lands—(in vacation.) that Jabez 8. estate of John Gurry. deceased, has filed his petition to sell apart of th® real estate of the decedent, his personal being Insufficient to pay his debts, and that said petition will be heard at the next term of the Vigo Court of Common Pleas, to be commenced on the 3d day October, 1853. AHDREW WILKINS, Cl'k.

TVTOTICE is hereby given, i" Casto. administrator of the ee

Aug. 17.1853-36-3W (pr's fee »1.25]

State of Indiana, Vlfo County, n. tbe undersigned subscribers of

fip,

nea in said county, having

been called upon to view and appraise two estray

horiNS# uken

john

nth

clark, of said township,

day of July, 1853.

appraise uer at wty aoilsrs.—

I The other is dnn or clay-bank mare with white legs and blaie in tbe face, and about fifteen hands high.

and supposed to be eicht years old last spring, and we appraise her at seventy dollars. BURREL J05BSJ

LEWIS JONES,

Apprt

Subscribed and sworn to before rae, this lOth day of JOB* Diftraso*, J. P. August, 1AS3.

A true copy from tbe Rerlster. AJfDRBW W1LKUI8, Cl'k. Aug. 17, 1853-36-pd

SOUTHER!* BANK OF BfDIAJfA.

THIS

!*nd

Institution, located on the west side of the Public Square, will buy and sell Gold, KHver and

Germany, on

THE

W|11

also pay Interest on depositee at tbe following rates: 4 per cent, on Call 5 a Months

19 Months

for which certificates will be riven at tie above rates. jr Banking hours from 9

from past I, to 4 r. u.

to past 19, v.

O.O. DOY, Cashier.

Tern-Haste, Aug. 17,1893-36-tr

Vocal Xiuic Cla««es.

sohsceiber lespectfally announces Ms Intention to undertake Two CISIMMS in addition to the Senior one conducted by him last winter. Having bad several applications from adults, he intends to form an twit CLASS. Those Indies sad Oentl*met», therefore, who feel desirous of joining, will be kind enough to sign Iff their Intention as early as possible.

As additional jnnlor clsss will also be undertaken. A. C. ISAACS. Asgnst Ut IS53-35-Jw

Posts and Ralls Wanted.

-1 AAA COMMON Oak Posts, and MOO JLUUU good split white or burr oak Rails ... fti

wanted, tor whfth $10 per 100 per 100 rails wfll be p«d.

aB£

RSOKS.

August 3,1853-34-1 mo.? tA fa-

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