Wabash Express, Volume 13, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 18 January 1854 — Page 2

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TEE tllU EXP1BS.

SlflOfiBce Bast of the Court-House.

J. B. L. SOULE, Editor.

E E A E

Wednesday. Jan. 18,1S54.

The Wabash. Express,

j|3 jo.

be delayed to the end of the year. JOB PRINTING, MT Of every variety, neatly and promptly executed.I'articular attention given to

The new Dictator—or Emperor—or "Most Serene Highness," as his satellites call him, or ANTONIO

THK NEXT PRESIDENCY.—A

I, puhli.brrt every Wednesday, at $? ye.r. .f P».d hundred Mexicans and cut within three mon«b» from the time of *ab«cnptiJi»—

AH PBflVTIlVG,

Kor which wo po*»e** superior facilities. yrr- Ailvcrtifement* inserted at the usual ratft'*^

Nanta Anna Forever

By the news from Mexico we are assured of the consummation of Santa Anna's project of assuming the Dictatorship of that republic— Mexico waxes and wanes like the moon, and almost as often. Its history for the last quarter of a century has been not much else than the history of one man, and that man, Santa Anna. In variety of fortunes, in the tips and downs of life, the Mexican hero has no equal in the recorded annals of mankind. The stories of Alcibiades and of Marius dwindle into nursery tales, in comparison with his. He has oscillated between Power and Banishment, Popularity and Disgrace, like the pendulum of a clock. His path between Excellency and Exile has become a beaten track, and he needs no guide-posts to show him the way, in any direction out of his beloved Mexico. He has been the hero of more defeats than any other mortal, living or dead, and has survived therfi all. With only one leg, lie has run away from a greater amount of danger, than any other man of the present century'has been called to meet. No mind can ever indite, no pen record the Btrnge events of his doublcd-and-twisted career. It is a political and moral kaleidoscope, ever changing, and never twice alike. Most men who have descended from a throne have never been able torescalethe steep ascent. But Santa Anna plays like a bat around the Temple of Fame—now torpid in the crypts, nnd now fluttering about the spire, as the twilight of Mexican liberty comes and goes.

I., as he wishes to bo called, has is

sued a decree accepting dictatorial power for life, with the right to appoint his successor, in a scaled paper. But if he lives a few years longer, wo have an inkling that the "succession" will be found lodged in the hands of a score of Territorial Governors, commissioned at Washington for the old Saxon engine is on that track, and the bell Is already ringing

But long live the great Unipede say we and when he docs die, may some Briareus rise up, with a quill in each hand, to write his history —for it can never be done by any body else.

Trial and nentcncc of the Ifurfrlara. The burglars, whoso arrest was noticed in our last, and who gave their names as Bnrton, Hayden and Smith, havo since been tried in the Court of Common Tleas, Judge

KINNEY,

and sentenced by the jury to pay a fine of $2125 each, and to be confined at. hard labor in the State's Prison, each for the term of twelve years. The little fellow, who has so often, nince his arrest, declared that he would give ten thousand dollars to be with his mother, dropped his head, as the sad sentence struck his ear, and could raise it no more while he remained in court. The two older men, themselves quite young, managed to remain erect: but the blood-shot eye, the knotted muscles of the face and the big drops of perspiration told of the agony of emotion that fired the brain. What an example to the young! What a warning to all, to resist the first impulse to evil—to refrain from the first step in crime.— The way of transgressors is hard.

correspondent of

the N. Y. Tribune says, that the Whigs in Congress are a unit. Whether ho means by this that they are reduced to one man, he does not say He adds that Whig Presidential candidates are springing up in every direction.— Among the prominent namos already mentioned, are Boll and Jones, of Tennessee Crittenden of Ky. Botts, of Va. Clayton, of Delaware and Pearce, of Md. Pearce and Bell are spoken of with much favor. We hope the Presidential cauldron will be allowed to cool, before anew fire is kindled under it.,.

(tj* Advices from the island of St. Domingo report, the arrival of a French war vessel upon the coast, to enforco the demand for Haylien indemnity. Baet would probably return to the Presidency as the nominee of Louis Napoleon, and it was thoughthewas onboard the French Ships. Placards hostile to the existing government were circulated, and trade was nearly at a stand-still. The American officers were anxious for tho presence of a U. S. warship in the "harbor while annexation to the United States was frequently talked of among people of all grades, who said that St. Domingo would be a more valuable acquisition than Cuba, to our

Government. it seems that more tropical fruit is threatening to fall into Undo Sam's basket. __________

"CT* Horace Oreely has been on a trip to the West, and has written a long letter to the 7Vibunt reporting his observations. He alludes to tho wonderful growth of Chicago and ita brilliant prospects, predicting that in I860 it .will have a population of, at least, 150,000. He 'says the first civilian's house was built there in 1832 and that as late as 1837 thfe place was so insignificant, that the President of the United

States, Martin Van Buren, did not know where to locate it, but addressed a letter to Chicago, j, Michigan'

A Cot t»

SCAU.—The

people of Paris, Ills.,

"'celebrated the "Kighth of January," by an '^oration from S, P.

RE VO.

K*q and a series of

resolutions. One ©f the testations speaks of ^"the achievement of the battle of New Orleans, by kitMIV

AC*SOJ«,o*«r

the victorious, troops

of Britain, fresh fr*m the plains of Waterloo." It was indeed a powerful victory, to whip sol* I dicr» fre*h from a battle, fought five raoaibs t-afterward*! But this anachronism may be I accounted for. by the fact, according to the Re--p&bhc**. that'the celebration was held in the "Court-House, with a brick floor and no fire, 4 which was most intensely uncomfortable

tT Foreign letter—writers assert thai a po litieal change is working in the minds of the French people,that the leaves of dissatisfaction 1 has palpablj commenced fermentation. .+

tT The Russian Steamer, Pruth, has set two Turkish villages oi firs with red hot shot.

The California Fillibnsters* As we anticipated, the expedition of Capt. Walker, and hi* mock-heroicseizure of Lower California, which has been the subject of so much merry-making, is likely to be followed up by tnore serious movements. It seems the Captain, after his brilliantdisembarkatiorj and the formation of jiis cabinet met with sad reverse*. Makin£.jp.ii excursion from §au Diego for the purpose of capturing the Governor, or [to forage, heA?as attacked by the Mexicans

and beaten, the loss of twelve or foorteen inen. Taking refuge in a house, they were be-

s,eP

paid within nix month—or. #3. if payment off from their vessel, anchored near. The

news of his defeat reached San Francisco on the 13th of December, and on the following night 250 men, under command of Col. Watkins, set sail in the bark Onita, for his relief. The bark^as well provisioned, and had a large supply of ammunition, small arms, four brass cannon, two six-pounders and two fourpounders. The men embarked have seen all sorts of service in Mexico and among the Indians, and were going to put themselves under Capt.Walker.it was believed, with a view to the conquest of Sonora. The authorities made no effort to arrest the movement. We shall probably soon hear of a rumpus in that quarter. f! "v*. -V

ID" Shoemaking is becoming a fashionable

home-employment

TONNAGE DUTIES.—AWashington

0» The State Board of Agriculture lias liad a session in Indianapolis, at which Hon.

ERY

WISE,

O* We were disappointed, Saturday, in not receiving some articles of furniture for the Daily, which we had sent for by Express, and which would have improved its appearance.

SHOCKING.—At

PsurosLT

for ladies. The New-"i ork

Express says, that in Washington, some of the most respectable and independent women, married and single, engage in shoemaking as an agreeable pastime, as well as from motives of economy. The gaiters which cost $3,00 at the stores, cost them one day's labor and GO cents for the material at retail. On Capitol Hill there are thirty ladies thus employed, and about 200 in the city. We do not see why the business of making shoes should not be as "respectable" as wearing them out.

a recent wedding in Louis

ville, tho bridal cake prepared for the. occasion, was nine feet high, and cost $250.

CT The initatory steps to tho Pacific Railroad hftve been taken in the U. S. Senate, a special Committee of nine has been raised, with Mr. Gwin, of California, Chairman. It is said that Mr. G. with his strong practical sense and indomitable energies, will devote himself entirely to the success of the measure.

D" Santa Anna is said to be doing a real service to Mexico by putting down the banditti, and rendering country and city safe.

IT ANew Hotel, to be called Taylor's In ternational Hotel, hasjustjmn opened in^New York. It cost $500,000.

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O* Governor Matteson of Illinois has issued a proclamation for an extra session of the Legislature of that State to meet on the, 0th jf February.

tJ* The difficulty in the British cabinet has been patched up, aud it is reported that Lord Palmerston retains office. .„

U* I» is stated that the enlisting of foreigners in New York, ostensibly for the Turkish war, is supposed, by the administration, to be intended for filibustering purposes, nearer home and that the attention of the AttorneyGeneral has been called to the circumstance.

O* Senator Fisk, of New York, is collecting information with a view to a thorough revision of our Emigration laws, and will soon introduce into Congress, a bill for ,that purpose.

Catirc.—At the late term of court in Lawrence county, Ind., eleven men were sentenced to the Penitentiary, for grand larceny, and arson.

8X FXAXCIS P. BLAIS,

well-known as the ed

itor of the Washington Globe, died recently in San Francisco.

BAX* FAIL^SE.—The

paper of the Merchants

and Mechanics' Bank of Oswego was refused in New York on the 6th, it being reported ihal the institution had failed.

O" The wheels of Congress move sle|W and heavily.. __________

ET The Turks estimate their loss at Sinope at 90,000,000 piasters. Levies of recruits are making in Poland.

O* The Steamer SM Francisco has foandered at Sea—340 lives lost.

UT gee adverttMmeat of Fairbaaks Convty Scales.**

DONATION.—The

correspon

dent of the Baliniore Sun says, that a regular opposition is organized in Congress against the scheme of tonnage duties projected by Douglas and recommended by the President. The writer says that this opposition is not confined to whigs, but embraces both parties in the Mississippi Valley. We have but slight expectation that this measure will be brought forward at all—for it will be sure to work the political extinction, sooner or later, of any western politician that advocates it.

of Virginia, was selected to de

liver the address at the next Fair. The time of holding the State Fair was fixed on the first Monday in October. The place will be determined at the meeting of the Executive Committee on the 30th of this month.'

jlj" Warlike operations are still active in Europe. The Shah of Persia had left Teheron with an army of 30,000 cavalry, 1000 pieces of cannon, and 3000 camel loads of ammunition to join the Russians. Recent developments are said to prove that Russia has been long preparing for the present crisis. Large bodies of Russians have marched upon Lesser Wallachia, of which Prince Gortchakoff had taken the command.

IT We have before us a volume, entitled "The Land of Promise," being a topographical description of the principal places of Palestine. It is a valuable and interesting book, and especially useful for Sabbath School teachers. Rev. A.

WOOD

by the name of

HKN-

has a few copies for sale.

MORTALITY IN NEW-YORK.—According

to the

Tribune, 21,897 deaths occurred in that city during tho year 1853. Consumption was the most general disease, the victims of whioh were 2,723.

•Vigo

most munificent

donation ever made by a single individual to any literary institution in this country, has just been bestowed by Dr. Norr, on Union College, New-York. He bas made a conveyance to it of $610,000, over two hundred thousand goes to found nine professorships. Dr. NOTT has been President of the institution, fifty years, and has a large private fortune.

Btoonr PxasKcrrioN.—A young Turk has just been beheaded at Adrianople, Turkey, for renouncing the Mohammedan faith and professing Christianity. The leading policy of England in its relations with the Turkish Government has been to humanize the semibarbarous practices of the latter, and Sir Strafford Canning was expressly instructed by Lord Aberdeen to insist upon the abolition, by*Tuikev, of religious persecution. The London Christian Times thinks that the English Government, whose sympathies in the present war have been rather luke-warm towards the Porte, will take strong exceptions to this act. as an outrage upon the European nations. I

CINCINNATI POLICE.—The

Cincinnati papers

express strong indignation at the corrupt and inefficient character of the police of that city, as developed by the "Bedini Riot," and the trials grown out of it. The Gazette says, "God have mercy on us, if we are to be dependent upon 'the tender mercies of hyenas such as these—or to look to them to protect us from violence." jffi

tnr The excitement at Erie still continues, but the track-laying is progressing, and the bridges are framed and ready to be put up.— The appearing of the U. S. Marshal, with his broad powers of arrest, has had,a. wonderful e^ct on^he mob. ,,

HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR!—AII

engineer

REHINS,

proposes a plan, in the

Railway Times, for a road over which the cars can be propelled from the Atlantic to the Pacific, at the rate of one hundred miles an hour. It embraces four rails instead of two—the main pressure to be on the center one. The cars to be sixty by twenty feat, fitted up with cooking, dining aud lodging rooms.

IE? The Dayton Journal says, that the members of the Young Ladies' Anti-Marrying Society, which was organized in Carrolton, a few years ago, have all broken the pledge but one. What frailty!

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CP The Illinois Central Railroad Company, according to the St. Louis Intelligencer, will expend two millions of dollars in constructing •.?:

levees at Cairo.

U* Omar Pacha, the commander of the Tur--kish fleet at the disastrous battle of Sinope, and taken prisoner by the Russians, was found lying on the deck of his frigate, with his leg broken, and his head terribly wounded.^

O* A new and startling fillibuster project is said to be in the wind, which is to fit out a large

Steamer filled with men, and well provided with Paixhan guns, sabres, muskets, cutlassess, Colt's pistols, and other' improved instruments of war, which shall proceed to the Peruvian Coast, hoist the flag of Bolivia, with which Peru is at war, exterminate the small vessels on the coast and sieze on the Lobos Islands. Tho scheme is said to receive much favor in the South.

D" The Boston Times says, that during the late gale on the New England coast, A. Crosby, a shoemaker in Chatham, was at work at his bench, when be found his shop was afloat, and had just time to leave, when the building floated out to sea with all his stock and $20 in money in his desk.

ET The latest advices from the Sandwich Islands, are to the 19th of November. Tin subject of annexation to the United States continued to be agitated. The mass of the peopie are favorable to the measure.

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-tit* I pt',. (IX The Louisville Journal says, that the number of hogs packed in St. Louis, up to the 9th inst., was 45,000. Pittsburgh and Wheeling will fall short of last year's business, 20,000. Indianapolisw^ll ingreasse, 15,000 to 20,-

O" There is a strong disposition in Congress to take off the duty on railroad iron, based on the idea that iron is an article of primary necessity. As an off-set to this, it is said to be the intention of the Pennsylvania members to move that Muscovado and refined sugar be let in duty free.

CT'The vote of "thanks and a sword" to General Wool, has passed in Congress. Wonder if any of our delegation, who voted "aye," were members of the 2d Indiana Regiment, which Gen. Wool reported as having run from battle and couldn't be stopped.

ID" According to the SpiarroAL

O* We understand there are evidences of a strong reaction in public feeling towards the burglars convicted in the Common Pleas Court, on Saturday, on the ground that the trial was too hastily pushed, and the sentence excessively severe.

O* One thousand and twenty persons, 127 of whom are women, were sentenced to the Penitentiary in New York, during the year

•1853. W-

CHANGS.—The

There are movements in some parts of Kentucky in favor of an air line railroad from Louisville to Memphis.

tT U. Montbolon,the newly appcinted Consol General of France at New York, is the son «f Count Moutholon, who accompanied Napoleon into exiles-

O" It is onderstood that Col. Benton will oppose the .substitution of tonnage duties foT harbor appropriations, when the matter is

Ax Ixxksse AceaaoATE.—The total estima led value of all the property that came to the Hudson river by the N*w York Canals during 1353, r«ch«s the immense aggregate of over mellow dtfimrt.

Temperance Meeting. adjourned -Temperance Meeting of the citizens of Terre-Haute, was held on Tuesday

evening Jan. 10, for the purpose of receiving the reports of the committee appointed at the previous meeting.

Col. R.

Thompson, from the committee

on Resolutions, reported the following, which were passed unanimously. Whereas, The manufacture, sale and use of intoxicating liquors produce effects of the most destructive character, extending their influence to all positions and classes of commu-j nity, multiplying misery and crime, increasing the public burden of taxation, inducing intemperance and corrupting the morals, impairing the intellect and enfeebling the physical powers of its victims, therefore,

Resolved, That having no confidence in any scheme for merely regulating the traffic in ardent spirits, and believing the Legislature to possess the power and that it. is its duty to prohibit it. we invokethe exercise of that power, for its absolute and total suppression-^

Resolved, That, in view of the necessity of legislation to prevent the increase of intemperance, we promise to use all the means in our power to cause the passage by the Legislature of a law prohibiting the traffic in ardent spirits and we deem it expedient and right to declare that, while we disavow any purpose ol entering into and recognizing any distinct political organization for this object, yet that, we shall consider it our duty to regard the'advocacy of a prohibitory law as an essential part of tlie political crueil of those candidates for the Legislature to whpm we shall give our support.

Resolved,

That, in avowing these principles

of action for ourselves, we do not wish to be understood as entertaining unkind feelings towards those who entertain different opinions, in reference to the propriety of a prohibitory law, feeling assured that a great many good and worthy citizens belong to that class, but we shall consider ourselves as falling short of both our dutv and obligations, if we shall fail hatsoever means mav be within

Resolved, That, in our opinion the temperate and laborious portion of community ought not. to be required to bear any longer the heavy burthen of taxation imposed on them bv the pauperism and crime growing out of the traffic in liquor, and that this evil should be remedied at the ballot-box.

Resolved, That, we invite the cooperation of the Press of the county, in the work of reform, upon which we have entered.

Resolved, That this meeting send twenty delegates to the State Temperance Convention at Indianapolis, on

ednesday next, the 11th

inst. The committee on delegates, nominated the following persons, who were accordingly appointed delegates to the State Temperance Convention:

Joseph Cooper. Zenas Smith, J. Burnet, Chas. Knapp, J. B. L. Soule, Harry Corn well, Ezra Fisk, M. A. Jewett. A. C. Allen, James A. Modesitt, A. Wood. Fleming Megaw, James Gwin, Geo. H. Whidden, Michael Combs, F. R. Whipple, J. N. Shannon, Rev. Mr. Taylor, Dr. Fahuestock, Elijah Leake, Harry /airbanks.

S. B. Gookins, stated that the President of the Railroad bas agreed to pass the delegates to the Convention for half the usual tare. A collection was taken for the purpose ot defraying the expenses of the deleyatfcrf attending the State Convention.

A motion was passed requesting the city papers to publish these proceedings. Meeting adjourned sine die.

J. B. L. SOULE, Chairman.

E. E. BASSETT, Secretary.

Doing's in Congress. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.'

The Senate is not in session. HOUSE.—Mr. Drum asked leave to introduce a resolution instructing the Naval Committee to enquire into the( expediency of keeping public vesselsat. each of the ports of New York Boston, and Norfolk, to be ready for any emergency in case of Marine disasters. Objected to.

A bill passed extending to March 1855, the act to settle land claims in California. Mr. Cobb, from the Committee, on public lands, reported back the homestead bill, with amendments it was referred to the committee of the whole.

Mr Cutting, from the Judiciary Committee, to whom the subject was referred, reported a bill providing that persons heretofore or who shall be born of parents citizens of the United States, in foreign countries shall be deemed citizens of the United States, providing, however, that the rights of citizenship shall not, descend to those whose fathers never resided in the United States.

Cloven Hundred Freemen in Council. %^A.t the Temperance Convention, which had its Session in this City on Wednesday and yesterday, the names of over ELEVEN HUNDRED DELEGATES IN ATTENDANCE were handed in and recorded by the Secretaries. The deliberations of the Convention were of the most harmonious character, and the Delegates will go home with determination to carry out the principles set forth in their platform.

A most auspicious commencement has been made. With proper prudence and energy its end will realize the ardent anticipations of those engaged in the great movement. Indiana is bound to have an efficient Prohibitory Liquor Law, and its opponents may just as well quietly consent to it. as to waste their lime in a fruitless opposition. jyt

That the whole people of the Stale may 1 see the ground occupied by the friends of the movement, we are requested to ask every Editor in the State to publish the address and resolutions.—State Journal

*[4

TKLEORAPH,

fellow in Troy, falling sick, consulted a medium and gota prescription in the shape of one hundred grains of arsenic, which he took in Spirits of nitre without harm. '[Credat Judens ApptUa!"

HJ-

Eel River Propeller, publish

ed at Bowling Green, has given place to a new paper called the "Clay County Advocate," and edited by Capt.

JOHN OSBORN,

commander of

a Rifle Company In the Mexican War.

Nrw

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Itf" See notice of the Terre-Haute' "and Lafayette Packet'ALIDA,' Capt. HASLETT, in another column. The Alida is said to be a very fine boat, and the Captain is well-known in this community as a man of superior business capacities. N.

SMITH

ergy

A Soxs are the agent for

this port, and will attend to business of the boat with his accustomed promptness and en-

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A MM ?«R 1, tT Bedini. the Pope's Nuncio, was in Wheeling on Saturday week, and was burned in ef-

O* Another man, a Dutchman, was sentenced by the Common Pleas Court, yesterday, to two years in the Penitentiary, for horse steal

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WixcHKti

AGAIN.—This

ans arrived in town last night, and is preparing to perform "inimitable" imitations in his new piece, in which heis said to excel himself. ^_

O" The Marshall Telegraph, in changing its name and editor, has also changed its politics to the Democratic stripe, according to the Paris Republican

MEXICAN DELEGATE TO CONGRESS.-^The

Washington correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser thus describes the reverend gentleman who has a seat in Congress as a delegate from New Mexico. His seat will be contested however, by Gov. Lane. Senor Galiegos is a Hispano-Mexican Roman Catholic pnest, of

Anna in coekfighUDg •mart man. thoutrh not yet much skilled in the sse of the English longne. He is opposed to the Papal jurisdiction on this continent, and it in that respect a nonconformist. He cannot be churned bv the Romanists or the anti-Ro-manists of this country, for be side* neither with the Pope nor with Padre Gavazxi. Annexation of foreign population* will give us some strange representatives in Congress.

Spool-Cotton and Whalebone Manifesto. Tom

to employ whatsoever means mav be within our reach to persuade them of the'ir error, and by every whale that courses the briny deep, of the necessity of uniting with us in this great JO Lucy! Lucy! the popularity of thy barwork of reform so essential to the welfare of society and of their happiness as well as our own.

Jefferson was a great man, and •wonderful and so are the Madison merchants.—. Tom stood up before the world, and said that "when in the course of human events" it becomes necessary for a nation to shake off its yoke, it is proper to tell folks the reason.

The Madison merchants, numbering twenty, save one, stand up in a body before the world, -I and declare that when in the coarse of trade it becomes necessary to abandon the etistom of "throwing in trimmings, spool-cotton, thread,

cord, hooks-and eyes, buttons, whalebones

box

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angues in the city set under an hill, is now explained—where all were eager to get at the thread of thy discourse!

K7" A Paris letter in the Leader, has the following, which contains a great deal of truth, and much well-founded speculation? 'The writer, in speaking to the English people, says: "You fancy yourselves a free and self-gov-erned people. You believe that your ministers will do only what they are told to do.— Nothing of the kind Your ministers are doing what Queen Victonia tells them to do.— Queen Victoria wishes all that King Leopold wishes King Leopold desires all the Emperor Nicholas desires so that Nicholas, Emperor of all the Russias, is, in fact, the present King of England. You won't believe it! Well, listen then. Who was it that recommended Lord Aberdeen to impose upon Turkey a three months'armistice Who is it that persuades the British Government to resume their Vienna conference? Who is it that pulls the strings and moves the arms and legs of the British Ministry ?--thc Emperor Nicholas, through King Leopold. Every thing is to follow the caprices of the Emperor Nicholas. We are to have a Conference. This Conference will raise its voice to impose an armistice on the two belligerent Powers—a three months' armistice.— Rut. what if in three months Henrv V. were to be in Paris, the French fleet, recalled to Toulon. England abandoned to helpless isolation? Turkey left to herself will be alone against Russia, and thus you see you are playing, as we have played, the game to the Czar. Nicholas. our General-in-Chief, means to have Constantinople. Is he to get it?"

O" The Legislature of Maine, which assembled at Augusta, the capital, on Wednesday, 4th inst., is peculiarly constituted, A full Senate consists of 31 members but only thirteen are elected, of whom six are Whigs, and seven Democrats and there are eighteen vacancies, which are to be filled by the House of Representatives. The latter body stands, politically, 76 Democrats, GG Whigs, and 9 Freesoilers but of the 76 Democrats there are from 17 to 20 who are bitterly opposed to all the candidates of that party, and who are expected to refuse to vote for them.

ID" Judge Wing decided at the last term of the Circuit Court of Lenawee county, Mich., that one Register cannot alter or correct the mistakes of the recording done by a previous Register but that if the deed was not properly recorded and compared, the only remedy is to re-record the same.

SECRETARY MARCY.—The

THE CITIZEN.—This

prince of comedi

N.Y. Herald, which

being a sort of go-between of honest men and j/gij

rogues, reveals more wickedness than any oth er paper, tells a hard story on Mr. Marcy. The Herald denies the charge of having abused Gen. Scott, in the late campaign excepting in one instance, the publishing of a scurrilous review of the General's military career. And even from this, Bennett excuses himself by saying that hereftised again and again to publish it, till worn out by the importunities of a Mr. Penn,who brought the manuscript, he finally consented. T!Ps document, he says was issued by the Democratic Committee at Washington, and written by Wni. L. Marcy, Every man must judge for himself, how much credit this tale is entitled to, Bennett's testimony is always good—as far as it goes.

PROSPECTS OF CAIRO.—Mr.

Bissell of Illinois

has given notice that he will introduce into Congress a bill for the establishment of a national armory at Cairo, and another member has moved that it be made a port of entry, notwithstanding the very unhealthy location of this embryo city it is probable that its remarkably favorable location for commercial purposes will push it rapidly forward to eminence despite its natural disadvantages. St. Louis is already exhibiting a nervous jealousy at the prospects of her future rival. sei

paper of John Mitchell,

the Exile which has been announced some time as forthcoming,has at lenght made its appearance, in New York, as we learn from the Louisville Courier. It is said that the publishers have already on their books orders for 45,000 copies, probably from periodical agents, who have calculated largely, in advance, on the curiosity of the public.

The Courier says that Mitchell's opening address shows much more ability than good temper, his feelings having been soured by the hardships he has suScrred. From the Courier's review of this address, we conclude that the Citizen will 1 urn oat to be a ra Heal .rampant sheet, calculated to do much more harm than good

tT The Astor Library was opened in NewYork, on Monday -week. It contains 80,000 volumes, and will be increased to 100,000. The shelving in asingleline would reach two miles. The collection comprises almost every branch of literature and art.

IX The European Times, in its account of the dne! fought between the Duke of Alba and the Son of ocr Minister at Madrid, says that th«$y fought with small swords, and after aa hoar's combat the Duke worsted young Soule, and holding his sword to his breast, compelled him to retract.

*TT A Baptist Female College is about to be established is Indianapolis.

gfPoHTfiS FOR THE DAILY EXPRESS. [BT WADK'8 AMERICAN LINK

FLOCR—The

vor se

and linings," it is proper that the ladies vance. Sales of 90 bbls. at $5,60@$5,65, do. should know it. Now it takes some heroism from Hamilton Railroad at $5.65. Received to do some things—this, is one of them. If during the last twenty hours 1,967 bbls. our fathers (how they did fight at Bunker Hill!)

HOGS.—To-day,

could see a great principle in a tea-c inister, $4.50 but we hear of no sales. who dares say there is not one full as big in a button If the rustling of a sheet of stamped paper stirred up the patriotism of a whole continent "like all Boston," what momentous events may not be expected to follow this fearless and sublime rattling of a

SUGAR

of hooks-

and-e^es Poor Madison ladies! they will have to return to the primitive simplicity of sewing their garments togeter with roots and bark. Will they submit to have their prescriptive rights invaded by this Whalebone Conspiracy Nineteen mercantile houses, taking a firm stand on a spool of cotton, to assert their independence of a custom of courtesy as ancient as the city of Tyre—and that too, after having been so recently and eloquently instructed in woman's rights, is an exhibition of moral .. courage, the praises of which should be spout-

CINCINNATI, Jan. 14.

market is firm, and prices far

}lers. There is not much doing, howev

er—holders

generally demanding a further ad-

good lots are held firmly at

—Sales of 40 Hhds., common, at 4Jc.

No change in demand or prices. COKFEX.—Sales confined to small parcels, but at terms not made public.

Jan. 14.

Wilson & Co., received the following dispatch this morning from Warren, Ohio: The Western Reserve Bank is not brbke, but is as firm as a rock. The report is as false and base as the tongue which uttered it.

GEO. TAYLOR. Cashier. VNITM CINCINNATI, Jan. 17.

FLOUR—'The

market is firm at [email protected], be

ing a large advance on yesterdav's_currency. The sales to-day comprising 1000.679 and 140 bbls. at $6, and 500 do. at $6.25. Received during the laM, 24 hours, 20.361 bbls.

HOGS—Nothing

doing to-dav: very few of

fering. and hulders are firm ati,75, and buyers free at 4,50. BUTTKB.—Sales of 8 bbls., common, packed at 10c.

PiTTSBunon, Jan. 17.

To-day, Alfred King", Mayor of Erie, and M. B. Lowrie, appeared before Judge EUWIN. to answer for contempt of court. After remarks of Counsel, the case was postponed to Thursday, to give respondents time to prepare.^

PROVISIONS.—The

only sales heard of to-day

were 500 bbls. Mess Pork at 11,50, and 50,000 pieces shoulders and sides in dry salt, deliverable from 15th Feb., to the 1st of March, at 4J@5jcts.

WHISKY.—Sales

of 125 bbls. from Hamilton

Railroad. 100 do. from Little Miami Railroad, 500 do. from River, at l9ic., and 100 do. from wagons at I9{j. No change since yesterday.*

NKW YORK,

Jan. 16.

Europa iyrived W^th Liverpool advices to 31st ult., on 23d wheat gold freely at advanco of 4d@6d. per bush.

FLOUR.—Is.

per bbl. dearer and corn in'^

demand at advance of 6d. Is. per quarter, PORK.—New Bacon sides 45s., Lard lower.

In Liverpool 31st the nwuketwas greatly excited—flour quoted at 40s., white Wheat lis. 6d., red do. lis. corn, 47s. Tallow advanced to 60s.

From the Cincinnati Gazette, Jnn. 10.

Front Sow York. SATURDAY, Jan. 14th.

The ship Lucv Thompson, with passengers saved from the San Francisco, who were tritnsfered from the Atlantic, have arrived below.— She lias l.'0 passengers.

KKW-VOKK MARKKT. NKW-YORK,

Jan. 11.

Flour is 6 to 12 cents better sales !),000 brls. at $7,93 to $H,00, for State and$7.93 to $8,00. for Ohio. Sales of 1,500 brls. Southern at $7,93 to $8,06. There is a lurge export demand.

Stiles of 6,500 bushels Geneseo Wheat nt $2,05 the export,demand is good. Sales of 40,000 bushels Corn at P9c. for mixed, and 90c. for yellow. Purchasers demand concessions, not generally conceded by holders.

Coffee is flat—sales of 2,000 bags Rio at 113 @l2c. Sales of 950 brls. Pork at, $12,P7 for Prime, and $14,18 for Mess—market steady.

Sales of 150 brls. Mess Beef at $13.50 250 brls. Lard at 10c., firmer. Sales of 600 brls. Wliiskv at 2bc. for Ohio. 1,500 tons Pig Iron fit $30@$10.

Stocks arc dull and heavy. Money easy— rates unchanged. MARKET.

T7JC

SATURDAY,Jan.14.

Provisions firmer. Small sales of Mess Pork at $11.50—generally held higher. Sales 1000 bbls. prime Lard at 7c., and 1000 do. No.

No sales bulk meat. Shoulders are

at4jc.

and Hams 63c.

NEW OltLEANS MAltKKT. NKW ORLEANS, Jan. 13. There is a speculative feeling in Pork. Buyers are offering $1H for Mess, deliverable in February: holders asking 18,50(^14.

A contract was made for 150,000 bush. Com at 58@55c.. deliverable in March and April.

R: N TS

NKW ORLEANS,

Jan. 13.

Ohio Flour scarre, at $6,80. New Mess Pork $1125 Bacon dull old Sides 6|c. Sales of Lard for the week: 17,000 brls. at8Jc@83c. forbrl keijllc.

Rio Coffee dull at Jl@l2c. Stock 80,000 bags. Fair Sugar 3$@3jjc. Prime Molasses 18c.

Western Hay advanced to $25.

PRACTICAL DREAM.—Asheriffin

Winches

ter county, N. Y. bad entrusted to him the recovery of some lost money. Before making any effort, orsuspeeting any body, he dreamed that a clerk in a certain hardware Store had it concealed about his person. Influenced by this dream, he watched the young man, whose movements looking suspicious, he was arrested, and the money $372, found in his possession. So says the Highland Eagle, published in tbat place. ',"

MAINE LAW IN VERMONT.-EX-Governor

4^/4 jo*# :uy: O" Quite a sharp controversy has been going on, for several days, between the Banner and Courier,of Madison,as to which has the largest circnlation. It originated in a call from the Post-master for certificates of circulation, to decide which was entitled to the printing of the Letter List. We gather that the Daily Banner has a circnlation exceeding that ot the Courier by about 100. Not difference enough to quarrel about, gentlemen. Each deserves doable.

OT There was saow enough in New (York on New Tear's Day to make sleighing and the Timet says we heard of a hundred dollars being paid for a sleigh and two horses for eight hours on Monday and there were scores of instances in which from $40 to, |75 were •pent in the same foolish manner^

TR TV

damage done to the ship Great Re

public, by fire, In New York, was not so great as at first supposed. Capt. McKay, her owner, says she can yet be made into as fine a ship, as floats.

For tke Daily Express.

Address of Schiiylcr Colfax* E»q, You missed a rich treat, Mr. Editor, in not hearing the address delivered at the CourtHouse, on Saturday night last. Laying aside the subject,

ODDFKLLOwsnir,

there was enough

upon the progress of the times to interest every hearer, and I am glad to say, that the audi- a ence was large and attentive, and interspersed with a goodly number of the "gentler sex."

Mr. C. showed very plainly that he was a scholar and historian. I think the opening part of his address could hardly have been ex- fcelled. He is a rapid speaker, (too much so perhaps,) but he scarcely ever failed in making himself fully understood. Fluent, chaste, and critically correct in enunciation, his address must have been considered one of the best that has ever been delivered here. Such, at all events, is the view I take of it, in which I know I am not by myself. Jr

The main subject of the address wn$dis-$s cussed with much interest and ability, and iff.' the Order live up to the tenets they profes«,tthey ought indeed to have the good will of al 1 men. The speaker showed that his heart was p: in the right place, and composed of the proper W material for smoothing the rough nnd nigged paths in life—for softening the hard places so| often met with in the wo ld. He is erf those who may be called the "salt of the earth."

Mr. Colfax is a prominent whig editor in the' north part of our State, and is much apprecia-^ ted wherever known. His talents and ability,s as exhibited in the St. Joseph Valley Register,' over which he presides, indicate that he willl soon occupy a high place among the prominent men of Indiana—a place which he. will adorn by his many virtues of head and heart, as well as by the vigorous use of his well practiced pen. *-. D.

ERIK DEPICTURED.—The Ravenna Slur comcs to us with "cut of Erie nn hundred years hence." In the view, thor "lightning train" on the "uniform mtu^e" is seen wending its way from Clevelnncl to! Buffalo. No slop is made there, for there is no place to stop at. Ships nnd steamersHre seen passing in the distance laden with^produce nnd merchandize from both the Old and New World. The moon, in her nocturnal evolutions, is supp'osed to have reversed the position of her horns and gone over to the Canada side of the Lake, being ashamed to pass the spot in her usual round, even after night. Tho bird 011 the leafelcss tree seems to contemplate the melanchollv scene with mingled feelings of awe and reverence, whilst the people who once infested the ground on which the ruins stand, are scattered to tho four corners of the globe, their names a by-^'ord and reproach nmong tho nations of the earth.— 0. Statesman.

O* Little of general interest, was done in Court, yesterday. The man who took tho Accordion from the Auction ltooin. a few day's ago, was sentenced to pay a small fine and to be imprisoned twenty-four hours and the ono charged with stealing spoons from Dr. Patrick, Mas discharged the spoons not being found in his possession, and the crime not being established against him.

1 1

O" The school room of the Misses Watson caught fire yesterday, and was so much injur--i-ed that the school will be suspended for a day or two.

O" The citizens of Cambridge, Mass., nro unwilling to lose their indelitv, and have decided against the project of annexation to Boston.

0° Counterfeit. $3 bills on the Hollister Bank of Buffalo are largely in circulation.

O* Counterfeit Post oflico Eitvelopflsjiire in circulation at Albany, N.Y.

TWADDLE.—Twaddle is not simply nonsense. it. may be sense in the wrong place. Gee the,

Simmssnys if it was not for the hole in the hoop von couldn't put it on the barrel» and then the barrel would burst.

Itcn«l 'I'llIn, our large cit.ios, have

"Scrormn."

Many Physicians ii recommended and used the Rock Rose, with great *necess. Dr. J. H. Thompson, of Philadelphia, used it. in several bad cases of Scrofula. In one case, of three years standing, where the patient had a large opening upon the hip, leading to the bone, containing twelve ulcers, he ordered a decoction of Bock Rose to be used three times a day: and in thirty-nine days the person wns entirely cured.

TfT3 Myrrn' Kxtrnct of Rock Rocr. for sale by Dr. WM.

MjHUK.TcrnvHiuitc, and Drusirfot* generally, where iminptitnt*, Ate., ni«y bo had gratl*. Jan. 18. 1M4-6 2w

ITp Dr. Gcomir.ciAN's Extract of Hyrimplper I* purely vegetable, plcaaant to take, perfectly hnrmtc**, and wilt cure without fail, Scrofula, Dyapepnta, H!1 impurities of the blood, and h»d habit »f syitcrn. It I* good atall aea«ona. Hec ndvertihement.

Sons of Temperance,

WM.

VIG0

DIVISION, No. M, Sons oY

Temperance, meet regular every Saturday evening, at their Hall, West 01 the Square, over R. St. John's Saddler Shop. t? vr f/-i 11/ Mr

ISAAC WILLIAMS,

Eaton

of Vermont, in giving his opinion of the operation of the Maine Law in that State, says: That the law has exerted an immense influence, and accomplished great good, is as plain to him whose eyes are not resolutely closed to the light of truth, as is the light of the sun to him who opens, at mid day, eyes that have not been deadened and darkened by paralysis, or veiled by cataract. Yet, on the other hand I would not overstate the amount of what the law has actually accomplished. Enacted as it was.

F. MEGAW. W. P.

Notice!

ALL

PERSONS knowing themselves indebted by note, book account, or otherwise, to J. W. Stewart. Stewart. A Bro., Stewart «fe Bell, or Stewart fc Moselev. will please call on tho undersigned, at Livingston fe Co.'s office, and pav up. as the Hooks of the above concern MUST NOW BE SETTLED

JAMES LIVINGSTON.

Jan. 18, 1854 6-4w

TAKENUP

William Caldwell, living in Sugar Creole township, Vigo county, Indiana, one red" Steer, with a white face and belly, with red round his eyes, and brfl^Wed with the letter A. on the right horn, and crop oflf the right ear: supposed to be 3 or 4 years old, and appraised to $14,0U by Thomas McOloch and, Rich{yd &> Harris.

Sworn to before me, this 6th day of January, 1854. JAMES HEARD, J. P. A true copv from the record.

ANDREW W1LKINS, Clerk.

JOH* WILKES,

Deputy.

Jan. 18, 1854-3W

Regular Terre-Haute and Lafayette %•••. PACKET JILIDA. THE STEAMER ALIDA.Capt."

HASLETT,

(formerly of the Ver-

mont.) will run a* a regular Packr

et, between Terre-Haute and Lafayette, and alt intermediate points, commencing on the open?' ing of navigation. This boat is entirely new, and built expressly for the above trade, with all the modern improvements, and being very light draught, passengers and shippers can rely on her running in the trade all the season.

N. SMITH SONS,

Jan. 17,1854-dtf

rTigo

Agents.

COH11ty Scales!

THESE

Scales have been nut in, on Fourth street, at the expense or the county, acd, are the best Fairbanks' Platform Scales. Sellers and purchasers of Hay, Coal, Corn,Oats, etc.. can rest assured of getting correct weight,

H. FAIRBANKS, Weigh-Maticr.

Jan. 16,1854-6-tf