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Office East of the Court-House.

J. B, L. SOULE, Editor.

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Wednesday. Feb. 1, 1854.

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JOB PRINTING,

4lic President and Directors. The report is inJtcre&tiug as showing the prosperity of the oad and the rapid increase of its business.— ^The total income of the Company, for the last jfiscal year, ending Dec. 31,1853, was $177,975 97. Expenditures—a little upwards of $66,000, leaving tho net earnings of $111,644 60. This shows an increase over the net .earnings of 1852, of $40,179 55, The total dumber of through and way passengers, during the year, was 88.F21. Total number of Similes run, including passenger, freight and gravel trains—129,465.

This very handsome increase is attributed, %y President Crawford, in his report, in part, -to the completion, within the last year, of the %ndianapolis and Bellefontaine, the Indiana •-^Central and tho Cincinnati and Indianapolis ^•oads. The local business has also increased the transportation of coal exceeding that of last year by 5,888 tons.

While the stockholders are to be congratulated on the prosperity of the road, much commendation i# due to its managers for the remarkable degree of SAFETY which has been jmaintainod in its operations—"no accident," in the language of the President, "having occurred, or passenger or employee of the Coma

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O* Every foreign steamer, along with its war news, brings tho cry of pcacel peace! jand still thore is no peace. The representatives of the mediating "powers," have been knocking their noddles together for the last four months, and have effected nothing but to give time for Nicholas to consummate his war 'measures and put himself in a condition to ilaugh at the pacificators. England and France will inevitably be drawn into the fight had they made their first proposition for peace a final ono, and acted on the principle of "a jWord and a blow," tho conflict worfld probably have proved shorter, besides being more glorious to the "interventors," if indeed, there 'be any real glory in war.

^Trvery-vstrictv. neatly and promptly executed.—tas the Defender of the Faith. But all these ^Particular attention given to {signs have well nigh annihilated the thing Big's .t'ABD .PBlKTfTfCj .. nified—and poor Koszta, who played the part ^orwhlch r,u, of bear-bait in Europe, and was at last 4 TT7' i\dvcrtiK!/ncnls iusetttd at the DWM rate*. i^i» umpliantly ordered by otir Government to come

Tcrre-TTaute & Riclimoad Railroad. j^OME, is almost starving for bread in thecounCBABLES WOOD, Esq., Secretary of the Terre-1ll7 that was ready to go to war with all Euglaute 4 Richmond Railroad Company, has! on his account! If we were only in Consist laid

O" We had no "anxiety" to do the editor of lfche Courier an injustice in charging him with ta "masterly inactivity" at the time of the 'stampede of the thieves. We were told very directly that our friend was the first one callfed upon in the cars, for aid, which was not 'rendered. Of course, the Judge's testimony is the best, and we arc satisfied with it. He says %c helped to search the fellows, and asks if we •would have done as much. Considering all the ^fearful circumstances of the case, and especially the dreadful odds, really now—we don't

I -^'-'1" v: Address oi the Burglars. The last two numbers of the Prairie CiYyacorft'tained a long homily addressed, by the late «convicts, to their "fellow-citizens" of Teq-e-

!Hautc.

Our people, we opine, will not feel

slmuch flattered at this expression of fellowship, ^nor very complacent at being stigmatized as a "degenerated populace," by a set of thieves, who, a few nights before, wero breaking into their houses and shooting at their officers

Thon again, tho touching allusion to the "virtues" of our forefathers, from which we have so sadly deviated, is a tolerably good joke.Hi

The old saying of "the devil rebuking sin," we have seldom seen so well illustrated as in this instance

'UroiNi.—The "Nuncio," whose movements in this country have caused such a stir of indignation, has at last takon his departure.— He sailed in the Baltic, from New York on the

91st. To avoid public observation and probable assault, it had been given out that he would be in Baltimore about that time. Ho iwM driven from the residence of Archbishop 5Hughes to the ship, in private carriage, and notwithstanding the secrecy, about 3,000 per460ns, suspecting that he was to sail that day, assembled on the dock, but failed to get a glimpse of him.

ID* The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in 3* case carried up from Pittsburgh, have decided Sunday traveling unlawful. The plaintiff in error, was convicted before Alderman

McMaster, of Pittsburgh, for driving an omni%us on Sunday, and fined $4. The Supreme &Court sustained t&e judgment, by a majority of one—Chief Justice Black, and Justice.Lewij, ^dissenting. _ssjs===^

tyWe had the pleasure, on Ssttfrdiytoi a 'call from our old Illinois friend. W. D. LatSAW, Esq., editor of the Paris Republican r/L. is Clerk of the Illinois Senate, and is .about to leave for Springfield, to discharge his uties at the extra session of the Legislature, is strongly of the opinion that the "State Policy" measures will not be disturbed, for the ^resenv ...

$3* The Louisville papers are publishing"a .^reward of $500 for the recovery of the body of Mr. Edward Slevin, of the fipof T.A£, Sle#T»O, who disappeared mysteriously on S«nday night, the 22d inst., and is supposed to hare i'been murderrd.

CT On Sunday n.ght the5£d,acoal Wt sunk in the Ohio, above Cincinnati, by which ten ^men perikhrd. NiDt were drowned, and one ^Ji«l of cold and exhaustion, after swimming laibtn.'

CT Land in Ae vicinity of Cairo, which |9old oneyear ago for per aero cannot now be bought for forty dollars.

/1 83* The number of hog* slaughtered this -Mason in .Cincinnati It is wid,'-aill fall short •yd 400^00.

'4 CT Twenty«onethousand one hundred tad thirty-five hog« have been sJaughiered ai Ooanerarille,Tayetteoounsy,lnd., the present aea-

The Fint ttbiU kc Liut. This truth seems to have been verified inthe ease of Martin Kosata, whose personage, a few months ago, clothed in the Bublime robes of American citizenship, more dazzling than royal purple, was attracting the attention of the civilized tforld. through the charm of hip name and position alone, two men have become famous. Captain Ingraham by acting as his srcond in resisting the despotic claims of Austria, has been enlogized in prose, and sang in verse, in a dozen different languages, and came near.getting the present of a sword from Congress—and did get a gold medal. Secre-

subject, covering a half ream of foolscap, has been canonized by the democracy of all nations

table, the annual report of gress, we would move the presentation of a

carving knife to Martin Eoszta.

ILr A number of the Ohio delegation in Congress have issued an address to the people of that State, setting forth the "enormities" of Douglas' Nebraska Sill. They ask "What will be the effect of this measure, should it unhappily become a law, on the proposed Pacific Railroad? We have already said that two of the principal routes, the Central and the North' ern traverse this Territory. If slavery be allowed there, the sttlement and cultivation of the country must be greatly retarded. Inducements to the immigration of free laborers will be almost destroyed. The enhanced cost of construction and the diminished expectation of profitable returns will present almost insuperable obstacles to building the road at all while even if made, the difficulty and expense of keeping it up, in a country from which the energetic and intelligent masses will be virtually excluded, will greatly impair its useful ness and virtue."

A MYSTERT SOLVED.—Mr. Lamprey, of North Hampton, N. H., on retiring to rest some time since, hung his coat, as was his custom, on the bed post. Noxt morning, having occasion to examine his wallet, which was in his pocket, several bills were missing, for which he was unable to account, until a few days since, Mrs. L. while heating her oven, discovered in the ash-place a mouse nest, in which she found three one-dollar bills, one two-dollar bill, half of a five dollar, and fragments of other bills, with four young micee wrapped up in them.

KT A good conscicnce is more to be desired than all the riches of the East. How sweet are the slumbers of him who can lie down on his pillow and review the transactions of every day, without condemning himself I A good conscience is the finest opiate.

EMIGRATION FROM EUROPE.—Accordingto the books of the Commissioners of Emigration, there arrived at New York, last year 284,945 foreign emigrants, from twenty five different nations. The largest number was from Germany, viz: 119,644, and the smallest from Greece,!. Next in number toihe Germans, the Irish amounted to 113,164. j.

ITT* The Cape Cod people are about to bring before. the Massachusetts Legislature, a project for cutting a ship canal across the Cape.— There is only about half a mile of high land to cut through, which would save a day's sailing between New York ^nd Boston, and do away wtih the dangerous navigation of the

(CT A Paris letter writer speaking of the political affairs of France at the present time, says: "Editors constantly thre^tenec^jrith suspension or suppression of their journals, are silent on what may displease the government, so that we walk, as in adark cavern, not knowing what is ten steps before or behind U6.— One thing only is certain, that political resentments are ndt soothed. There is quiet on the surface, but agitation at the bottom You might traverse France from one end to the other without seeing any sign of rebellion but if you could look into the heart you would see germs of future revolutions wjhich will be more terrible than ever." ,*•

Er Du^ng theyearl853, seven hundred and eighty-two colored persons went to Liberia under the auspices of the American Colonization Society. The whole number sent since the commencement of the enterprise in 1820, is eight thousand two hundred and thirty-nine.

ID" The Cincinnati Commercial says, that an enthusiastic military spirit is rife among the citizens of Ohio, in favor tif military organi zations. Movements are on foot at Columbus for tho passage of a State Militia Law. ."'22

AWFUL LBAP—Miss Mary Dlake, moved by disappointed love, attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the Wheeling suspension bridge—a height of seventy-eight feet.— She was rescued and saved, half a mile below the bridge, by two deck hands of a steamboat. It is hard drowning Drakes.

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movement has commenced among

newspaper publishers for adopting the cash system both for advertising and subscriptions —which will probably become general. There is no doubt that such a system, strictly adhered to, would be better for all parties.

ID* Judge Charleton, formerly U. S. Senator from Georgia, died in Savannah week before last.

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CT The State Journal thinks that the title of "Prince of Humbugs," so long enjoyed by Barautn, will now be successfully disputed by Join Mitchell.

ID* Hon. Tom Corwin, in stepping out of a car in Ohio, the other day, fell and was seriously injured. J-

Itr Mayer Wettervelt, of Xew 'York, says that the annual expenses of that city now exceed those of the four largest States in the Union. The permanent debt of the city i* over $9,000,000. ys

The eld Washington Mansion. «t Mount Vernon, is 108 year* old and the first male child ever born under the roof made his adreat|astweek—a son of John A^Waehington-

lET We are indebted to Senator Douglas lor a copy of hi& .leUer tojGov- Matteson—and to Hon* J. O. Deviii, for valuable documents."

.He dies like a IpMt who has dose no good while ht lived*.'

CF The Missouri Democrat takes strong gicu&d sg&ht&t |l aesr Nebraska biTI.

Mr. Ikaueal Lectan, -The lecture of Bev. Mr. Shannon, on Gambling, clelirered at the first IPresbyterian Church, on Sunday night was rath* era scorching affair. He depicted the nature and effects of the vice'm a most vivid and life-Hke manner. He represented it as a sin of great antiquity—having been practiced in all ages of the world, both by savage arid civilized nations.— Haman was a gambler, and played a great game in his plan to destroy the Jewsstaking his office his honor and his life, but lost. The Roman soldiers gambled at the foot of the cross for the garments of the Savior—a depth of depravity, said the speaker, which nobody bat a gambler could ever reach.

After showing the horrible character of the vice, and proving that the only respectable feature claimed for it—namely, the punctilious sense ot' honor boasted of. as maintained among the craft—was only a policy of concentrated selfishness, enabling the biggest scoundrels to win the largest amounts, the speaker proceeded to make a practical application to our own community. *,**•

We have no space for a full report of his remarks but can only say that his expositions of the evil among us were startling, and that his rebukes of the more moral portion of our people were very severe, and perhaps not all undeserved.— But we are constrained to say that we believe the Reverend gentleman labored under a slight but Important misconception as to the designs of the Common Council in passing the late ordinance licensing bowling and billiard saldons, &c., on which ordinance he made somexery pointed remarks.

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WEEKLY EXPRESS.—A gentleman remarked to us the other day that the Weekly Express, with its present large amount, and excellent quality of reading matter, is a noble paper, and ought to command a very large subscription.i'-^We admitted the truth of the remark, as people abroad also seem to be doing, if we may judge from the voluntary subscriptions that have come in within the last two weeks.

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The ordinance in question, to say the least, was a very unfortunate one if, as we are led to believe, it holds forth to the public.tbe idea that our city authorities intended it as an unqaliBed license of gambling. From what we can learn, we suppose the Council passed the act with the design, and expectation, that it would operate as prohibitory—though to effect this, they were too modest in fixing the amount of tax. But the very idea of publishing a nominal license even, has a very ugly look about it and we hope the Council will lose no time in getting out of their present position. There is so much ambiguity and confusion about it, as at present regarded, both at home and abroad, that the credit of the city demands an immediate revision. Let the people know, gentlemen, exactly how we are to understand this matter.

SMALL POX.—Whatever of this disease is really in town seems to be restricted still to two or three localities, and no alarm, so far as we can learn, seems to be felt bj the citizens generally. But the report has gone forth, and no doubt, as is usual in such cases, the true state of things will be much exaggerated in the country. For the benefit of the afflicted, at least, it seems to be time that the authorities were giving some attention to the matter. One question presses itself upon our mind just now, which is this Since the excuse has been made that nothing can be done with the patients, as the building of a pesthouse at this season is impracticable, is it not the duty of the corporation to provide as soon as practicable for the building of such a house at some proper point, on a permanent plan, large, comfortable and convenient, to bo always ready for any

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ID" The Washington correspondent of the Freeman's Journal, writing on January 14th, says: h%mI

Monsignor Bedini is now in our city, and is the guest of the French Minister. Me has been invited to dine with the President at the White House, and has been received and treated with great consideration, by both the President and Secretary of State, who have seen the propriety and necessity of recognizing him -in his official capacity ias Envoy Extraordinary of His Holiness Pope Pius IX.

D* The Vincennes Patriot says that Carlisle is improving fast—that it contains five or six hundred inhabitants and six or eight first rate dry goods stores—and that the beuefits it will derive from the TcrreHaute and Vincennes Railroad will give it a proyxerous impulse.

ID" A report from the War Department of France says, that the nuttfeer of men available for arms ift France, in vent of a general war, is one and a quarter millioifs for laud service.

O* The Washington Um*u, according to a writer ia theJK". T, Tribune, has only GOO subscribers. Without the Government priming it could not live a week.

SIT Practical fruit raiser* say, to ensure a crop of peaches, good layer of straw should be placed aronnd the trees when the gtotiod ia fronts iat this month. There should be straw eaoagh, to keep the ground from thawing oat until spring.

D" Horace Qredey cloaaj a review of European affairs by saying. "All the omens announce the comiag on of a tnondoM war.— tfav Heaven protect the Right 1" .....

Bt. Louis Democrat eomplains of the

obstacles to promotio» in the army, as being very repugnant to tb* spirit of our institutiotts. It calls the army tS|onl/:recognized and legally constituted aristocracy itr the country In France and .'Prussia them is no more difficulty in the transition from a non-commission-ed to a commissioned officer, than there is from a private,to a corporal. "Give genius its career," said Napoleon—and his system realized •. •UieTmaxini^-s^^^^^^^

ID* At the Kew-Tear'slevee at the Tuileries, Napoleon addressed the foreign Embassadors, saying: "I sincerely hope to be abw to maintain the relations of amity which subsist between my Government and the Sovereigns whose representatives you are." Turning to the Ottoman Embassador, he said: "My good wishes, my £prfipathies and my efforts are in faror of your Sovereign and you will be good enough to communicate to him what I say."

U* The Boston Transcript complains of a clergyman in that city who prolonged his sermon one afternoon so long that the street lamps were lighted as the people returned home. A growing evil. Prof. CLEAVELASD once said, that aa a general rule, no didactic discourse should exceed thirty minutes—that an audience should always be dismissed while anxious to hear more

D~ A new patent medicine manufactory, is about to be established in Louisville, according to the Conrier of that city, with a capital of $50,000. It will manufacture the vegetable medicines of Dr. Bruce, of Newcastle, Ky., to the amount of several thousand bottles per day.

CT A considerable part of a column in the last Louisville Courier, is occupied in describing the dresses of ladies at a recent ball in Frankfort, and praising their beauty. We can beat the Courier in three line#. For every belle in Kentucky, dressed in "royal silk-vel-vet robes," we will find 2000 Hoosier girls of greater beauty, and larger.hearts, all dressed in warm linsey-woolsey. If we don't, then let Mr, Courier, like a true Kentuckian, come and shoot us!

D* It is current in the political circles of Europe that the Czar does not cease to tempt Louis Napoleon to desert the English alliance, and offers consent to French annexation of Belgium and Egypt—the Czar promising, on his part, to abandou the cause of the French Bourbons

O* The town of Brandon, in Knox counly, Ohio, was almost entirely destroyed by a tornado, on the 20th ult. Scarcely a house, was left to mark the site of the place. 61'*r hi i?

O" There is to be a great National Poultry Show in New York, P. T. Barnum, President. The Tribune says: ""We shall expect a big crowing, and probably the biggest show of poultry ever seen in this country." Food and water will be provided for all fowls on exhibition, without expense to owners. »We nominate Chapman, as Commissioner from Indiana.

O* By telegraphic news it will be seen that the people of Erie persevere wonderfully in the defense of what they consider their rights. The sympathy of Philadelphia, and indeed of the whole State, and the action of the Legislature in repealing the charter of the Franklin Canal Road, give a new and very serious aspect to the trouble. It is rumored that persons in the Erie interest have had an interview with President Pierce, and returned in high spirits, asserting that (he President was so-much enlightened upon the subject, that he would not interpose any interference by the general Government.

D" The police of Cincinnati, on Friday night last made a descent on several gambling "hells" in that city, and grasped over twenty of the mysterious inmates, who sought escape through doors and windows in vain. They were titken before a magistrate, and fined S?50, each. There are said to be several purgatories of the kind in this city, and a good statute against them. Can't our police, some auspicious night, give us material for an interesting local item, similar to the,above? It has been insinuated that our authorities are not sufficiently above such practices to make a descent upon them but this we don't believe. ,iRBRr S9

A NOVEL PROPOSITION.—Capt. Vanderbilt. of steamboat celebrity, has made our

Government a proposition to build a first class steam frigate. He asks no contract

and no money but proposes to build it with his own means, and according to his own ideas, keeping a slrict account of the

cost of the ship, which is to be accepted if it suits. He is ambitious to furnish the

navy with what he concieves tp be a

••thorough" ship.

CT The Greencastle Asbury Notes says that the number of students is still increasing. and the evidences of prosperity and efficiency in the University are unmistakable. It adds that the late instances of discipline have strengthened the College internally, and"we doubt not, externally too, where the facts are properly inown. tf myt.

ID" The New York Son has' some 'strange developments' about recruiting in this country for the Anglo-French naval service. It says that it it certain that the British Admiralty and French Naval Commission, arc secretly, but actively engaged in~the cities of Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Charleston, Cincinnati, etc. Five hundred men, says the

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ET A *ew Division of the Sons of Temperance is to be organised at Centrevilie, tc this county, on Friday night neit. Success to it, and the cause.

17* Th« Washington correspondent «f the New York Tribune mentions that there is a "good deaf ofTaaeeitngTajminent upon tbe fact that Congress adjourned because of Bodwco's death.

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On the Danube there was little doing, owing to the weather.

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In an action between a steamer, two gtm boats, and two shore batteries on the Danube, the: Turks w«re successful.

The report that the Turks had stormed Karakabel,- though likely, had not vet been confirmed:

From Asia the previous reports are confirmed, but we have nothing later. The Russians had warned their shipping not to venture out of port., uuless und^rthe protection of convoys convoys to be organi zed to defend the different trading ports.

There is no British, news of interest. The King of Belgium has sent an autograph letter, by a special messenger, to Napoleon, ou the subject of war.

The dontents have not transpired, but it is variously estimated as another device of the Czar to gain time

Trussia is concerting a course of action with Denmark and Sweden, in view of the coming war. A

The MarcjuisrofcTurgot has beeu appointed grand officer of the Legion of Honor. This is supposed to be

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After some debate, the bill was amended and passed. Other unimportant business transpired, when they went into executive session, and confirmed Redfield, of New York, by a vote of 37 to 9.

HOOSK.—After Etheridge had concluded, the committee actcd on his resolution referring the President's message to the standing committees. So much of it as referred to the Pacific Railroad, was referred to.the special committee on that subject."

The House then went into committee on the deficiency bill, The remainder of the session was occupied by a debate on New York politics.

Gov. Smith, of Virginia, defended the Administration against the attacks of the New York hards. Adjourned

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The"3iUaBlic arrived at half-past ten o'clock with Liverpool dates of the 11th inst. Little definite to add to the'importaut news by the Niagara. It is confirmed that on the 30th December a part of the allied fleet entered the Black Sea. They were prevented from entering 'sooner' by tempestuous weather. The "Czar refuses to consent to any interference whatever, between himself and Turkey.

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ing him. xj u1- X'i .n Toting Soule has published a longlotter explaining his difficulty with the Duke of Alba.

The overland India mail from Calcutta, to Dec, 6th, contradicts the previous news from Burmali. «b*v« vs

It is said that the Burmese have captured W

The Russians are reported to be at Khiva! Shanghai) Dec. 29th.—The Insurgents had evacuated Awai, and the Imperialists perpetrated horrible massacres there. Canton quiet.

McHenry's Circular reports a further rise in breadstuff's, with an unsettled aspect and limited operation.

Brown, Shipley & CfdVreport breadstuff's in Liverpool again advanced—wheat 6d per bushel flour 2s per bbl. Indian corn 2s per quarter. Sales of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Ohio flour at 44@45s. Canada 44@45s. western canal 42s. 6d.@42s. White wheat 12@ 13s, red ll@l2s. 2d'. per 70 lbs. Indian corn, white, 51s yellow 50s mixed 49s. There is an improved demand for new bacon at full prices. Old bacon was neglected. Beef wanted, without improvement mvalue. Pork very dull. Lard dearer. Tallow had advanced Is @2s.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.

(Conclusion of Tursday's proceedings.) Mr. Bell inquired of the' committee on commerce if it was intended to report a bill for the improvement of rivers and harbors.

Mr. Hamlin said it was the custom of the Senate committee to wait until the HoUse committee bill came up from that body, and there was no intention of departing from the usage.

Mr. Bell urged the propriety of the Senate committee reporting a general bill without a it in or he

After some debate on certain amendments made by the House to the bill for the payment of invalid pensioners, and providing for the relief of officers of the army and navy, and the troops who were on board the steamer San Francisco, and forgiving pensions to the widows of those who were lost.

WASHIXOTOX, Jan. 27.

SENATE.—A message received from the President, in answer to the resolution of Mr. Cass, relative to the character of the mission of the Pope's Nuncio to the United States.

The correspondence 6hows that Bedini, the Pope's NunCio, on his way to Brazil, was simply directed to cajl on the President of the U. States and deliver a letter of congratulation and expression of the Pope's kindest feelings towards the inhabitants of these States,

After some debate, the private calendar was taken up, and a number of bills passed* Adjourned.

The House went into committee on private bills. A large number were reported to the House, bat not acted on. Adjourned.

The following is the Pope's letter to President Pierce, referred to in the Congressional of to-day:

PIUS IX TO PRESIDENT PIERCE.1 IUustrious and Honored Sir—Greeting As our venerable brother, Caxetanus, Archbishop of Thebes, accredited as our envoy in ordinary, and Nuncio of the Apostolic See, near the Imperial Court of Brazil, has been directed, by,-sis to visit the United States, we have at the same time especially charged him to present himself in our name before your Excellency, and deliver into your hands these our letters, together with oar salutations, and express to you, in warmest language, the sentiments we entertain towards you, to which he wiltt^ify- i||

W« take it for granted that these friendly demonstrations on onr part will be agreeable to you, and least of all do we doubt that the venerable brother, a man eminently distinguished for sterling qualities of mind and heart, will be kindly received by yqnn Excel lency and inasmuch as we have besn entrosted, by Divine commission, with the care of the Lord's flock throughout the world, We«*anot allow this opportunity to pass without earnestly entreating you to extend your protection to Catholics inhabiting those regions, and shield them at all times with your power aad authority—feeling confident that your Excellency will very willingly accede to our wishes .and grant ouf requests.

We will cot fail to offer up our humble sajj?-

plications to Almighty God, that He may bestow upon you, efllust^uuB anirliomed Mr the gift of His l|eay&kj grac^that^ke nmy shower upon yod ever^ kind o||essm8, and unite us in bond? of p^ect chmty. &|

Given at Rome, front Yatictfli Maimi 31st, 1853, the 7th of j^r Pfl^ificaUMy XT PIUS IX.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.

The New York democratic delegates held^i meeting last night, and decided to oppose t^e

The softs, to a man, voted to oppose the bill, and several hards also. The Ohio democratic members of the House also had a meeting this afternoon, and it is said that th'S^dfecided unanimously to vote against the Nebrask bill. ""Ui

It is said that the Administration"fieard"of the New York meeting last night, and advised1 the speech of Gov. Smith, which was delivered in committee on the whole, to-day. a i&! CINCINNATI^ Jap. 27.

Flour has advanced to $7,00. now mostly held at $7.25 whisky firm at 23§ provisions buoyant 5,000 bbls. lard sold, part at 8J for prime but nfoslly on private terms bulk shoulders and sides 4$@5$ mess pork saleable at $12,25 held at $12,50, and in some instances $13 sugar 4@5 for common tn prime molasses 23 coSee dull cloverseed active at $5,50.

NEW-Yofek. Jan. 27.

Stite flour$9,25@$9,37 Ohi6 $9,25@$9,50 Southern do. 300,000 bu. Penri. and Michigan wheat $2t55 Southern $2,45, beiug the highest prices ever obtained in this market: mixed fcorn $1,10 mess pork $lo,50, prime $13,00 mess beef $13,25@$i3,50 lard 10jL

Additional News by llic Atlnnlic.

NEW-YORK, Jan 28.

Up to the latest dates received, the Russian Ambassadors had not been withdrawn from London or Paris. Mr. Kiesteff, Russian minister to Paris,.is reported to have said that he would await further instructions from his government.

It is stated, seemingly authentic, that Austria had asked Russia to consent to an European protectorate over the Christians in Turkey.. „To this the Czar replied that he would consent to no interference whatever between himself and Turkey.

The Pacha of Egypt, on hearing of tho Sinope disaster, immediately ordered the equipment of six frigate, two corvettes, and three brigs, to replace those destroyed.

It is linw fully confirmed that the "VVallacliian peasantry are in a state insurrection. Lord Dudley Stuart has had an interview with the Sultan, respecting the employment of Poles.

It is reported that the British charge has resumed negotiations with Persia. The Prussiansin Teheran, having broke out in tumult against the Russians, a general insurrection was looked for as tho result.

A latter from Christiana states that Norway has decided on fitting out a squadron of twelve 6hips, in view of approaching events. Little sympathy for Russia exists among the Norwe-

Thc c^rniou8^i?^fti" the'priee'of food in England has caused apprehension of riots among the laboring classes.

Bread riots have already commenced in parts of Devonshire. At Topsham, mobs of women had threatened the bakers, in consequence of their raising the price of bread.

At Crediton, also, bands of men, women and children paraded the streets, and attacked the bakers' shops, demolishing the doors and windows. Tbe market people were also mole9ted, and their produce kicked about the streets.— The police were unable to put down the disturbance, and it was not till after reports were spread that the soldiety were advancing on them that quiet was restored.

Dates have been received in England from Liberia to the 13tln of Dec. President Roberts had delivered a satisfactory message to the Legislature, in which he informs them that Liberia had formed an alliance with France and England, and that Napoleon had sent a present of one thousand stand of arras anda^coutrements for their native militia! if****'

At Lagos, affairs continued unsettled. Kossoko, with ten thousand men, was in the rear of the town, threatening hostilities sm From Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28, 8 p. m.

A large and enthusiastic meeting of merchants and citizens was held at the Exchange this afternoojp^ in regard to the Erie matters.— M. B. Lowrie and Mayor King, of Erie, made speeches, detailing the difficulties, and showing that the people of Erie were contending for rights, and acting in accordance with vested privileges, and that the whole difficulty was a deeply laid scheme on the part of New York, to cut off Erie and Philadelphia from the Lake tiade. It was asserted that New York railroad men had resorted to contemptible tricks to prejudice the traveling public against the citizens of Erie, who regretted the inconveniences to which travelers were subjected that in the first instance the police of Erie, (and not a mob,) by direction of the city authorities, proceeded peaceably to remove the track, which had been pronounced a nuisance agreeably to provisions of the original ordinance which allowed the company to lay the track. The speakers were warmly applauded, and the warmest feelings of sympathy existed in behalf of Erie. .- CmcurpATi, Jan. 28.

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Flour depressed and no buyers, offered 'freely at six dollars and ninety cents. Whisky 24}, but closed heavy. Sales of 18,000 bushels corn in bulk, at 42c. to 45c.— Wheat $1,30 to$l ,35. Provisions buoyant and active sales of bulk meat reached one million pounds at 4$ to5J for sboulders and sides, deliverable Maysville, Ripley and Louisville. four thousand bbls. prime lard at 8J, and one thousand kegs do. at 9$c.. Two thou-, sand bbls. mess pork at $12,50. Hogs in demand at 5|. One hundred hogsheads of bacon sides, deliverable, February 25th, sold at 7c., packed.

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?. V: HA*TFOAJ. Jan, 30. Hay ward's India Robber Works were destroyed by fireoo Saturday at ooe o'clock.

The overseer of the works, George Stark s. was consumed in the flames. Five htmdred hands were thrown out of employment and five extensive buildings burned to the ground,— Loes heavy bat fully insured.

The Indianapolis Sentinel says,

OBTXD FOB THE DAILY ZXPXESI. [BT WADE'S AKESICAN LINE.]

CLBVSLABD, January 31.

The track at Erie itf down, under pro?tection of the United Slates Marshal.— Cars running both ways from Erie, but not allowed to,pa^Jhrough town.pPassengers change'cars at Erie'.1^

Gov Biglerf of Pennsyl vania, is expected to pass through Cleveland to-day, on his way to Erie, to take possession of the Franklin Canal Road, from the Ohio line to Erie—the charter Saving been rcpealett by the Legislature of Pennsylvania. [Sewnrf Despatch from Erie, 10. a. m.]^

Bells have just been rung at Erie as,a signal for the mob, and thousands of mobocrats rushed to the destruction of the road. The track was soon taken up in the Western part of town. Thoenemies of the Franklin road are again triumphant. «NBW YORK. Jan. 31.

Steamerjn. Corn and Flour further advanced. ..A bloody battle between Russia and Turkey, in which the Russians were defeated. i-ii

[From tbe Madison Banner of the 31«t.] Doings in Congress. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. SENATE.—(The Chamber was crowded today. to hear Mr. Douglas on his Nebraska bill.)

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Ho commenced by explaining that two objects had been sought by the committee in preparing the Nebraska bill. First, as to the Indians, to protect their rights. Second, as to slavery. It was the object and desire of the committee to be equally explicit. They had taken the compromise act of 1850, as their guide, and had made each and every provision of this bill in accordance with those principles, leaving to the people of the territories the privilege of, governing themselves free of all control, except by the constitution of the United States, and limited and restricted upon no particular subject by their position.North or South, of any arbitrary geographical linos. The committee considered that the Missouri compromise had beejv jsuperceded by the.co^ promise of 1650.

Ho. alluded to addresses published by Senators from Ohio and Massachusetts to the pepple, charging this bill with a want of faith in a solemn compact, and charging him personally with concocting an atrocious plot, and applying to him, epithets which could not be used between gentlemen. He charged that this address had been put forth claiming to have been signed by a majority of tho Ohio delegation, in order to influence the Legislature of that State, before which, resolutions were pending on the subject. The address had not all these signatures, aud he believed the statement that it had ever been so signed, was a wilful fulsebhod. #jm

Mr. Chase arose to mnkc an explanation, but Mr. Douglas refused to yield the floor, saying that a gentleman who had so violated every rule of propriety and fairness was not tied to any consideration at his hands.

Mr. Douglas then proceeded at great length to argue in favor of the bill. $.1% Terrible Kxplonion of Gun PoWder--tircat

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.,«, 30. French's Ball and Cartridge Factory, at Ravenwood, Long Island, exploded yesterday, killing nearly twenty persons instantly. They were mostly girls and boys who were employed in filling cartridges. Upwards of 50,000 cartridges exploded. Tho houses for miles around were shaken, and the windows all broken. The magazine, which contained three tons of gunpowder, narrowly escaped destruction.

The number employed in the buiding was about twenty, and all inside at the time ofthe explosion, were instantly killed, except two. Some estimates, place the number killed a« high as thirty. Three girls, belonging to ono family, were among the killed, and their bodies all blown into fragments and found mingled with the pieaes of the building, timbers aud machinery. i*

Another account thinks the number killed, exaggerated. It has already been ascertained that thirteen are killed and others shockingly, mutilated.

Tho scenes were terrible: fragments of the building, bigger than a walking stick, can scarcely be found. Heads, limbs, and trunks of human beings wero scattered in all direc*. tionB.

Severe Weather at the Eaiti

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30.—The weather tJoih here and at New York, has been colder the past two days, than at any time since 1839.— At Portland yesterday, the thermometer, was 18 degrees below zero.

AtMontpelier the thermometer was 32 bej low zero yesterday morning, and this morning it is 28.

At Concord, N. H., the thermometer was 28 decrees below zero yesterday morning, and this morning 19.

At the latest'ad vices, the weather was mod^ erating somewhat^ and it was snowing at JBosj ton this morning.

Kic. State ot. Indiana, Vigo County, ss^ Vigo Circuit Court, March Term, 1854, ExpAaTE—Sarah Jane Isaacs, by-her prochain ami, Abraham C. Isaacs.—Petition to change name.

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term of said coart, the said Sarah Jane Isaacs will make application to said court te change her christian name to Sophia Jane.

ANDREW WILKINS, Cl'k,

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State of Indiana, Vigo County, M.

Vigo Circuit Court, March Term,, 854. Catharine Knight,) VS. Petition for Divorce. Moses Knight.

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now the complainant br Wright'A Baird, her solicitors, and files her petition herein, with the affidaritof a disinterested pefson that said Moses Knight is not a resident of tbe State of Indiana.

Notice is therefore hefeby given to said defendant to be and appear In said court on the first day of its next term, and then and there plead, answer or demur to said petition, or the same will be determined in his absence.

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From CfearlMMUj 8. C. CHAaLEsrojr, Jan. 24-

A-lfred Irarson, of Columbus, was en Hpnday elected on the fourth ballot Suited States Senator from Georgia. He is a thorough going State-rights decsoerat.

ANWiLW \MLKINS, Qi'k.}%

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State of Indiana, Vigo Cbwtgr,

the undersigned do swear that we hare and appraised a certain stray Cow, taken up as an e«tray, by Oeorge W. Dsss of Honey Orwk td^rnsMp, Vigo^^ iliAiutf ^Indiana, and find tbe same to bt a red Cow with a tittle white on the back aod ou the belly, and a crop rtKxhe leftear-»d underbit in tbeaame and swallow fork in the right ear, and %bout4 years old last spring, ana we appraise the «tme at sixteen dollars. James Pnce tnd Wjlliam York, appraisers.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 12th day of January, 1S54.

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senger trains Mt arrive and depart from the Union,

FERDISrAHOtolLXS, J.T*.

A true copy from the record. AHDREW WTLKftfS, CrkBt .ByJosnr "Wiucnrs, Deputy. February.l^l^&3w