Wabash Express, Volume 13, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 February 1854 — Page 2

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J. B. L. BOULE,:: Editor.

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We esday Feb. 8,1 S54.

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Ot every vtrifly, ncatiy »nd promptly txccpted,— Particular attention given to tHJkm. A CARD I I For whicb w» posse*? aupcrior facility*.

Jty AdverUacmcnts inserted at the usual rate*.

The. Nebraska Bill.

dorsed the pledge and reiterated It in his annual message two months ago. In this state of things there has been a very general acqui escence, even by those to whom it was distasteful, rather than disturb the peace, and peril the integrity of the Union.

But an ambitious, democratic Senator has taken upon himself the responsibility of stirring up anew all the bitter sediments of the recent discord, unauthorized by circumstances, and "uncaring consequences," for the purpose of making political capital at the South, and riding into the Presidency upon the whirlwind he expecta to raise. But that he is overshooting his mark is already evident in the distrust of the South, and the kindling jealousy of the North. The former gained more than it ex pected, by the compromise of 1850, and the latter in yielding to that compact, determined to yield no more which it is now imperiously called upon to do/

By the Missouri Compromise, slavery was "forever prohibited" in territory north of thir-ty-six degrees thirty minutes, north latitude. The Texas annexation act, in 1845, recognized and repeated this compromise of 1820. The compromise of 1850, again repeats the pledge, and provides that nothing contained therein "shall be construed to impair" the joint resolutions on this subject, in the act admitting Texas. Mr. Douglas's bill distinctly repeals the Missouri compromise} and thus by filing off the head, slips the bolt by which these three great acts were riveted together. Well may the people the,, be startled at the bold and arrogant tread of this audacious demagogue, who hesitates not alone, and of his own counsel, to trample upon these great national compacts, and essays, with a dash of his pen, to annul an internal treaty, which for more than thirty years has been held as sacred as the constitution itself. But he will surely fail in his purpose. The present attempt would not have SUCCGCdud in 18(0 it wi 1 to far loca auocessful now. He will fall into the pit his own hands have digged. And the administration, frightened at the loss of character it suffered in fraternizing with the extreme abolitionism of the north, has made, if possible, a more suicidal blunder in embracing this covenantbreaking scheme, so treacherous to the true and permauoul interests of the whole country,

TNS GADSDEM TREATT.—The Charleston (S. C.) Courier, gives some of the details of the Mexican treaty negotiated by Mr. Gadsden, who stopped in that city on his way to Washington. Mcxico surrenders all claim to indemnity under the 11th article of the Treaty of Guadalupe yields the Mesilla Valley, and for the sum of $20,000,000, cedes an immense region, embracing a part of Chihuahua, and about one-third of Sonora, including the gold region, and reaching nearly to the head nf the Gulf of California. Of the above amount $5,000,000 are reserved to liquidate the claims of our citieens on Mexico, including those under the Garay Grant. The sum of $3,000,000 is to be paid down, in cash. Santa Anna finally ratified the treaty, on his part, before Mr. Gadsden left. As a part of this inchoate treaty, however, has a squint at the construction of a Pacific railroad on the Charlsston, Memphis and San Diego line, it will find much opposition, and probably defeat, in the Senate.

EBIXI —G. F. Sechi de Casali, editor of the Ctnader, an Italian paper pihUvl»u.i io i'ow York, in a letter to the N. Y. Herald, thus points out the illegality and usurpation—under the laws of Papal Rome—resorted to by Bedini to accomplish the murder of Ugo Bassi. and thedoom that surely awaits him if the Italians ever regain their country from the bloody despotiam Jlastor^ed upon it by French bayonets sjj

Judge Douglas's Nebraska bill seem* to meet with ftlmost univennl disfavor. The re openfngof the vexed and vexatious slavery quarrel in Congress, and by consequence throughout the country, is an event dreaded by the people. The Democratic Convention at- Baltimore, in solemn conclave, resolved, that rest ing upon the compromise of 1850, all agitation of the slavery question should thenceforth be J««r. provided. 1'owever, that he shall be paid .Lou-leoJjj—nd pre.ij,„t ri«« on the r.t« of #100,000 jr™r, ,fh,.tr.p. .v«r-

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1. Bassi was a chaplain, and not a soldier: 3. lie had been captured and acknowledged as a prisoner of war. 3. He was a priest, and therefore could not be put to death under the canon laws in vigor in Bologna.

When the present foreign predominance in Italy shall ccfcse.&iulanvjust and regular government whatever shall "be established in Italy, Bedini, if taken, wilt tint be able to escape ••S condemnation by regular tribunal, of Wing hanged—not in effigy—but in propria persona, 'mms* w*'

Corr TVETAT IN Sr.\tx ThtT^asJiirig-

"Ibn Ooriespondont of the Philadelphia American says it is believed out" government is fully informed of everything in relation to the contemplated cottpd'eiti at Madrid. This scheme, it is said, will receive, aud doe* receive, the countenance and support of Louis Napoleon, who is desirous of seeing his brother-in-law clovatcd to the' Spanish throue, not because a .»• more liberal system of government will be adopted thereby, but because it will be, in many respects, advantageous to hiiu to have his neir relative established as the. ruler of ,a Spata. It is a part of his plan to unite Portu* gal into ftne. kiugdoru with Spain. iSrtjdtfci

EJT Mr. Ericfts^n is out in a card, denying that "new difficulties" have Wen presented in

re-constructing the machinery of his calortc

ST A California paper gives the following* a* a bill of fare at a Chinese restaurant in that city: "Cat Cutlet, 95 cents Griddled Rats. 6 cent* Dog Soup, 12 cents Roast D*'g. IS cU. Dog Pie, 6 cents."

ffj* Th*t* are tun* newspaper» Mid aoo ReView published in Indianapolis.

Louii KapoleoB.

Mr. George N. Sanders, writing from London to tlie If. T. Herald, says: "Louis Napoleon is preparing for war on the grandest scale. It is known that he will have, by early fpring, an invading army of 700,000 men, fully equipped. The active part taken by all the Northern courts, especially that of Austria and Russia. in bringing about the Bourbon jfusio i, has deeply excited Louis Napoleon. He sees, in the success of Nicholas, the re-es-tablishment of the Bourbons in France.—

'Hene'e, notwithstanding liis present apparent tlic nature and

Russia, and the Orleanist and Legitimists.— Louis Napoleon having made up his mind to fi^ht, will flatter theoth powers by canvassing their propositions for adjustment, until he can have in movement all the material for an aggressive war."- WW gffj

O* Corifftiodore Vanderbilt's proposals to carry the mails between New ork and San Francisco are to make the average time so far made by the Panama Company, which is twen-ty-five days for the delivery of the mails both ways, at the rate of $100 a month, or $1,200 a

age

one

day less than the Panama standard,

$230,000 if they average two days less $300,000 if three days less, and so on, at the rate of $100,000 for each day gained—ten days less time being the most rapid trips for which he a*ks conditional compensation. At the same time he will agree that if any other party will make better time than he, between' New York and San Francisco, he will forfeit all compensation for carrying the mails. He proposes that his pay shall be graduated on the average duration of his trips for periods of three months. am—*-

D* The Stale Sentinel in alluding to the discussion of the Nebraska question, says: The administration and Congress has therefore resolved to meet this question at once, and we hope our Senators and Representatives will act, on this question, as statesmen, and not as timid and time serving politicians.

Meet the question !—so far from meeting it, the administration, and one member of Congress, have been running after it. But, like the Sentinel, they will probably endeavor to make the people believe that a dangerous crisis, which they have been straining every nerve to get up, has unavoidably come upon the country, and must be met, and patriotically, valiantly, skillfully and triumphantly overcome by this firm and unwavering administration.

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O" The Maine Hemperance Journal contains a beautiful poem, entitled "The Two Temples in Ruin," written by Edward R. Place, and suggested by Witnessing tlie burning of the noble Merchant's Exchange, in Portland, and a drunkard in the light of the scene. Here are the last three stanzas:

Aud men, unmoved, behold such conflagration, !.f .And manhood-slaughter, „,JJut with keen int'rest for a shed's salvation,

Cast on the water.

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'fit 4 -SrV Is it not nine, VJIUUH-T., «hRt a man, God's house and throue,

Bu held as sacred as a temple's plan, Of chUelod stone 7

Shall they be held less criminal, less base, My thoughtful brother, ir i|Whofire this pile, than monsters who deface iU-i ii Or burn the other vi

HIT The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writes There is now bofore Congress a"petition from' Mrs. Elizabeth C. Sinith, of Missouri, who, in 184G, under the assumed name ef "Ben Newmau," volunteered in the Mexican war, where she served faithfully for ten months, when her sex was discovereu and she was discharged from the service. "Ben" has since married, and now applies for her pay and bounty land. As the law applies to soldiers and not to men, this female soldier may be successful.

O" The Prairie City Bank purchased, yesterday, the store room now occupied by Donnelly A King, which is to be handsomely fitted up for a banking house. Anbther story will be added to it, and the present front will be changed to a cast-iron one, of a beautiful model. The price paid, we understand, was $4,750. The Bank will bo removed as soon as the improvements eah be effected."

D* The editor of the Evansville Journal complains that the Now York "Home Journal" does not come td that office, although he published nineteen notices of it last year. Served right, friend 8., for giHng$20 for an exchange —and that too nUowV-is- elf—atfxpiett to this dandy td a tan-yrtrd.

SOMETHING NEW.—In Chicago, hotel runners, hack and policemen, are reqired by law, to wear badges. The Journal of the 26th ult., says CharleS Bell, a hotel runner, was fined $5 for having exercised his vocation Without the badge required by law| Mr. Bell took an appeal to try the constitutionality of the meas-

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WHAT A WASTE 1—It is computed by an English writer of distinguished ability, that the laboring people of Great Britain, exclusive of the higher and middle classes, expend no less than £53,000,000, or $250,000,000, every year on alcoholic liquors and tobacco.

O* Some of the Missouri papers are saying very hard things of Major Ogden, of the Army, who is now stationed at Fort Leavenworth, for openly opposing the Nebraska bill, and taking part in a cohtention at St. Joseph, which was called to denounce the new scheme of Stephen A.Douglas. They call upon the Government to remove hint.

A Wonderful Shot*

While a man was engaged in selecting one of a lot of nets pistols, in the Hardware Store of S. H. Potter, ye&terday afternoon, a percussion cap was put upon one and snapped, which proved td be loaded. The ball passed through the front Windo"tr, and across the Street* into the oftte* of Gharles Graft, Esq., 4o near the ears of the young Counsellor, as to give hiiu some practical conceptions of "torridthtUm*^ /,

tt" The New York Tribune accouhta for the

fact

ship, as some of the netffcpapers bad iutuaa-j i0tsthan those at Brie, by saying that ted. The public, he Says, ere U?ng, will have are no votes to be got in one direction, an opportunity to judge again of the pn»ctical UUile

that Congress paid more attention to the

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merit* of the changes he ha» been making, harvested in the other.0 The suggestion is s' well worth consideration.

thought that a large crop may be

ST Mrs. Anne Royall, the editress «f the Sj-HuMre-." «V^|M chjr. i» j£~ MVmOT,'it0,OOO now eighty-five years old.

Canine Convention*

At a large and respectable meeting of dogs in the Market House, OB Thursday night, Feb. 2d, 1854, Tiger was called to theChair, and Trip appointed Secretary.

After an informal interchange of friendly sentiment among the members, the President called to order, and the object of the meeting was stated in the following remarks, by Base

Mr. President: It is doubtless well known to tl»i intelligent assembly that we are called together this evening to take into consideration

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friendly relations, or rather pleasant coquetry, 1 passed by the authorities of this city, bearing jWith Austria, he will, in a few months, strike specifically upon the canine portion of this for the Italian States, and attempt to hold [community. I allude, sir, to the dog-tax. •them as the cost of Austrian alliance with' (Here there was an evident sensation through

of a recent ordinance,

the audience, and a slight rising of hair.) I move the raising of a committee to report appropriate resolutions for the actiou^of the meeting. »ff

The motion being seconded by Watch, the chair appointed Base, Watch and Rater, said committee.

The committee retired, and after a short consultation at the corner of the Calaboose, reported the following preamble and resolutions:

WHVREAS, The rights of a large portion of this community have lately been invaded by an act which is

deemed

by every intelligent

and sober dog as illegal and oppressive, therefore Rmolrcd, That the dog-tax, in the opinion of this meeting, is an unwarrantable usurpation of power, unknown to the constitution, and contrary to the spirit of '76.

Resolved, That this dangerous innovation of our vested rights should be met at the threshold, and that it is the duty of every free dog to embark in a hearty and unyielding opposition thereto.

Roter moved the adoption of tiie resolutions, and was seconded by Growler, who enforced the sentiments embodied therein^ by^ the following eloquent remarks:

Mr. Chairman—There is always something sublime and elevating in the discussion of a great political principle, although that discussion, as now, may be called forth by the suffering of a great wrong. (Applause.) The youngest of my friends in this assembly know the difference between barking at a mouse, and baying the moon. (A sharp response from the pups.) If we were now engaged around some common bone of contention, it would be meet for us to maintain our respective views with dignified firmness how much more meet then, when the stake is so momentous as that now before us. I like the resolutions. They take bold, but tenable ground. Sir! here is the true Jeffersonian sentiment! (tumultuous barking.) Who of us, I ask, was even once consulted about this measure before its enactment? Not one! (growling.) What led our fathers to follow, for eight long years, the revolutionary camp Was it not to resist an act of oppression precisely similar to this Sir! our noble ancestors were engaged in no sportive rat-chase, (a sneeze from Frisk,) but struggled face to face with the Lion of England, and drove him skulking to his den (prodigious howling.) ^hall we then, like whining puppies, run at the sight of a chip-monk (growls, and showing of teeth.) Sir, a few more words, and I sit down. This tax is illegal, unconstitutional, and esprinlljr oppressive to. large dogs, who in addition to the ordinary burdens of society, are under the necessity of gnawing the biggest bones, and watching and controling the market. But, sir, back of all this lies the great principle for which we are called to contend—namely: no taxation without representation! (spirited barking.) I therefore move, sir, the adoption of these resolutions, and that a committee of five be appointed to present a remonstrance to the authorities, and that if within a reasonable time, either the tax is not repealed, or seats provided for the new mem here, the said committee be instructed to take legal measures for the resistance of the law. [As the eloquent speaker sat down, all the members gathered around him with congratulatory expressions, and for some minutes the wagging of tails presented a very auimated scene.]

The motion prevailed unanimously, and Sport, Carlo, Bull, Cuff and Frisk, were appointed said committee.

On motion of Tray, the convention adjourned to meet in caucus every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning, at the Market House, preparatory to a grand Tally on the first Tuesday after the second Monday of Dogdays. Attest,

TRIP, Secretary.',

TIGER. Chairman. h' v* •,

ILr Nebraska, which threatens to revive the slavery ag2tatittii-i»--®0*,'KTW5s' has no resident civil population. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs says, that on the 11th of October, when he left the territory, there was no settlement made in any part of Nebraska. From all the information he could obtain, there were but three white men in the territory, except such as were there by authority of law, and those adopted, by marriage or adbptioi1,into Indian fam.he. ______

LAIFAKTIJTE'S Opfjuos' OF THE TURKS.—Lamartine, the ditingtiislied Frenoh author and orator, says that "the Tutks, as a nice of men, and as a nation, are still the first and most elevated among the nations of east. Their character is noble and grand their courage intact, their virtues, religious, civil and domestic, calculated to inspire in every impartial mind esteem and admirations Their nobility is written on their brow, and in their actions. If they had better laws and a morfe enlightened Government, they wouldbeone of the firet

,R, I _I •df ST The Philadelphia Bulletin says "that there is noxr, and has been for some time, lyItig in the Mint in that city, over one million of dollars In silver coin,-ready to be furnish-* ed to any applicants in exchange for gold)

CT The Ctar. it is reported, has expressed the opinion that the Stars and Stripes would be the only neutral flag, amoftg the leading powers, before the final settlement of the.prtsent Turkish difficulty*

D* J. Mackintosh asked a deaf and damh pupil of Paris—"Doth God reason I" He replied: "To reasoh is to hesitate, to doubt is to Inquire* it is the highest attribute of limited intelligence. God sees all things, therefor® God does not reason."

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•'"WEALTH OFBOSWTS.—A single ward in the city of Boston (the fourth) has an assessed valuation of upwards of $60,000,000, and is probably the richest locality of the sixe In the United States. This ward is nearly as weal ,r in*

IT G. Luorz, Esq., ef Louisville, Ky.,j O* A deaf man of about 40 jeab of age, over «t St. Louis, the width of the river oppowill deliver a temperance address at the Court- named Davi*. was killed on the Indianapolis site the city at its ordinary height was mcasHouse. this fvcwing at early candlelight. and Cincinnati Railroad last Saturday, j*d aud found t^one third of a mile.

Soingi in Coafress. WASS?U«OTOS, Feb. 3, 8 p. m.

SENATE.—The Nebraska bill was taken up after the private calendar, and .disposed of.— Mr. Chase having the floor, moved to amend the 14th section of the bill by striking out the words which declare the Missouri compromise superseded* by the principles of the acts of

od or hinted at by either southern or northern men, adherent or opponent, that the Missouri compromise in any way was superseded or affected, no one ever alluded to such a contingency in debate. The late distinguished Senator from Kentucky, who reported the bill, never advanced in debate, in committee, in the Senate, or in coversation in or out of the Senate, any such idea, althoujgh the Senator from Illinois had virtually endeavored to bring back the dead in support of his position

Legislature, corporation authorities, and other guests. Torch-light procession, illuminar Lion of public buildings, and a grand ball.^.i' FL NEW-YORK, Feb. 3, 8 p. m.

1850, known as the compromise acts.. He said one to land, in Finland, and the other to lan on a "former occasion, he had repelled the per- in Crimea—the English Government would sonal assaults made by the Senator from llli- jpay tlfe expenses. The proposition was mndfc nois, and he now moved to stVike out from the on the assumption that war could no longer be bill an assertion which he iutended to-day, to avoided. The Emperor is said to have deprove historically false, and without founda- jelined it, on the ground that it would leave tion. He said during the debate in 1850, on the English Government at liberty to withthe compromise acts, tlife idea was never broach-

He appealed to all who were in the Senate ]oujly

during the memorial agitations of 1850, jjas

whethcr they had then or since, until this bill was introduced, ever dreamed that the Missouri compromise was repealed by an act of 1850. As to the address issued by himself and others, to which the Senator had taken such exceptions, he boldly reasserted the statements there made, and said they were facts which the Senator could not overcome. He migh as well attack Gibraltar! 'T

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From Buffalo. b^itM BrFFALO, Feb. 3i

The railroad men have relaid the track, where it was torn up yesterday, but two hours afterwards, in consequence of the excitement among the people, King ordered it torn up again.

Gov. Bigler is said to be displeased with this act of the Mayor, and signified that it shall be relaid to-day. The excitement runs high, and the people seem disposed to act independent of the Governor and Mnyor. Yesterday the mob, headed by Mr. Loom is, Collector of the Port,, endeavored to prevent the departure of the freight train on the western road. Gov. Bigler has appointed Col. Parker to take charge of the western road, the clirrter of which has been revoked. Gov. Bigler went down last evening with the intention of forming a connection, but was deterred by fear of the assembled mob. Passenger trains will run regularly from to-day, changing at Erie. S

Steamboat Disasters at St. Loui8 ST. Louis, Feb. 2. The ice broke in the river last night, about one hundred yards, aud sunk the steamers Asia and St. Ange, aud seriously damaged the steamer Garden City.

From New-York. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.

FLOUR, sales of 11,000 bbls State flour 8 75 @31, Ohio 893@9 18 declined 6c 2,500 Southern 6 93(a)9 18.

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Wheat—Genncsoc.2 35, cilsier corn mixed and yellow 1 0U—lower pork, mess 16, prime 13 50@13 62, firm lard lOg firm shojal^eri 6J, hamg 8g, hogs 6J,long middles 8|.

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NEW-YORK, Feb. 2.

Washington's birth day is to be celebrated by a grand dinner to Hie members of

Congress,

Hio cotfee12c ava 13c flour opened heavy, but improved at close State $8,56@$8,62 Ohio $8,87@9,12 Southern do Genesee wheat. $2,41 Orleans molasses 29c prime whisky 33c pork—prices easier, mess $16,00, prime $13,87 Chicago beef $14,00 prime $20@23,50 beef hams $15,00, firm whole hogs 6J cut meats 6J to 8g lard firm at lOjj iron market firm at $37 to $48, at six months credit. rrom Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2.

One hundred merchants of this city subscribed $10,000 each, at the committee meeting last night, to the Sunbury and Ere Rail road.

Captains Creighton and Low, at the Exchange at noon, were heartily received by the citizens. A committee presented the prepared testimonials, including $2,000 to the former and $1,000 to the latter.

From Pittsburgh. ,«

."'"T ~,St* -r, t,, no V, PITTSBURGH, Feb. 2, 8 p. m. River unchanged and getting cold.

since noon weather clear

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The river_has fallen four feet. The weather changed suddenly, and it is now snowing lightly -J' GC *1'

Sales of flonr at 6 60@6 65—demand moderate. Whisky has declined to 22c. Clover seed is in good demand at 5 75@5 80. Provisions unchanged—sellers are more free than buyers bulk shoulders 4 55 shoulders and sides 4J@5| 2,000 brls mess pork, in part for February delivery, at 13 1,500 do, deliverable at Portsmouth, at 12 50. No. 1 lard, in lots9c. Groceries unchanged.

150"000 po utid Vaco n^ "shou Id ers" iind' sides", at

nothing new in groceries.

U* Madison has been fixed opon as the place, fot holding the next State Fair. The Banner says, that while the matter was under consideration by the State Board, a communication was read from the Marion County Agricultural Society,*'rt^lignanitt)t^lisly', resigning the claims of Indianapolis in These two rival cities have been looking at each dthef oat of the corners of their eyes so long, we are glad to witness such practical evidences of growing civility, though they inay be a little aykward at first. m. 3- it.

O* The salary of the Lord Lieutenant of

Ireland is $100,000, four limes that of the President of the United States.

ST We are indebted to Adams 4: Co.'s ex press, for early copies of St. Louis and Cincinnati papers.

IT* While the Mississippi river was fro Sen

Important Ramar

On the 25th ult., there was circulated in York, an interesting itfem of intelligence,illustrating the preparations on foot in foreign Courts, for an Eastern war. It is stated that the English Cabinet recently proposed to the French Government, that if she i|fbul|| dispatch two corps of troops against Russia--the

draw from active participation in the war at pleasure and. that whenever joint action was taken by tlie two Western Powers, against Russia, both should stand in the same position before the world. "J

[p- The Green castle Sentinel complains of a parcel of noisy and unruly boys who congregate nightly in tlie streets of that place, to the great disturbance of the editor and the people generally. It calls

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the Marshal to put a stop to the

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red to the Senti-

nuisance nel that it is only reaping fruits of the seed which itself has been sowing for the last three months, in defending and en­

couraging "noisy nn^^unruly boys through jis columns 1 at

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O" The Marshal, with a train attendant

of some 150 spectators, picked up, and locked up in the Calaboose, four helpless

drunkards, on Sunday last. That is the fashion under the old dispensation which is passing awav* y? The Maine law will

pitch the tune on an entirely different key —and men who go to the Calaboose under that law, will do their own walking,

and not be carried on hickory poles as. those poor victims were last Sunday. [5aA

?IM SAL- I -S_ VT PACIFIC RAILROAD.—The Washington

correspondent of the Journal of Commerce, savs it is pretty well understood that the

committee on the subject of a railroad to the Pacific, will decline to meddle with the question of the termini or line of the road, but will recommend the passage of a general railroad law, the donation of alternate sections of the public land to provide com­

panies, and literal mail contracts, to take

effect upon the completion of certain sec­

tions of the work.

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$jT Rev. Mr. Day is at this time under arrest in this cily, to answer the charge of kidnapping. We understand he was ar­

rested by virtue of a requisition from the Governor of Kentucky. His reverence

seems to be certain of his triumphant acquittal. So says the Madison Banner.

IMPORTANT RLTMOU.—The Danville (III.) Citizen says: Wo have it from a gentle­

man in whom we place every reliance, and

who obtained his information from Mr. Boodv, one of the contractors, on the To­

ledo and Wabash Valley Road, that ar-. rangements have been entered into be-

tweecn the company and the Great Wes­

tern Railway company, by which the former are to build the road between the Indiana state line and this place and that the contract has been let to a Mr. King, Springfield, Mass., for the grading and

Masonry, the work to be completed by the

first of November next.

FIRE.—We learn by a gentleman from

Prairieton, that the house and barn of a

Mr. Simmotts, living a little below Prairieton. were burned on Saturday night last. So rapid was the wdrk of the fire lllat Mr. S. had barely time to rescue his family, not even saving his pantaloons, which were consumed with Si00 in the pockets.

03*- The Lafayette papers are toasting largelj* over specimens of sugar-cured

hams, that have been presented them by the bnuuu curers of that city. This re-a-hem—we don't like to say it! minds us—

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CINCINNATI, Feb. 3, p. m.

River fallen four feet since last evening weather clear and cool, Whisky 22@22| flour dull, and lots of any magnitude could not be s6ld at 6 50 Wheat 1 30@135 linseed oil held at 9c provision market dull bulk sides 5f shoulders 4J prime lard in brls. 9c mess pork $12,50 sales oft

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51@6J packed clover seed advanced to $5,90 twenty-one years of age, intelligent and prom-

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97 Bedini, before his departure, addressed there is inside. a letter to Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, in which he glories in his afflictions and says A. bloody row came off at Smiths Coffee that "feasts aud outrages have honored his House, on Friday slight, in which a roan was mission of peace.'1

A ACjrstery- Mpitlflcd

Dr. Ediwtrd Beeclicr's new work, entitled "The Conflict of Ages,*' is tindetgoing an ordeal of criticism to which few books have been subjected during the pres­

ent century. »Inr this work, which is an elaborately constructed theory, the author

attempts to solve the great problem of the '•origin of evilover which the grim old

^philosophers scratched their puzzled heads in vain, and more modem casuists ex­

O" The cities of San Francisco and Sacra mento, and State of California, are all deeply duced into our schools, by the Trustees of this in debt, or, as one of the papers expresses it "Knee deep in gold, and over head and ears in debt.','

has been lately lecturing on "The

legal inequality of the sexes." We presume that the object of this lady is to advocate Coe-partnership between them."

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U" Mar-hall W. Parker,, a son of SAMVEL W. PARKER, M. C. from Indiana, was killed recently, while hunting near Cambridge City,

accidental discharge of his gun. He was

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O* The Madison Courier says tfic"exporxs of Madison amount to some six millions per annum. i--g. Hi, ML*** "O" There were three deaths by small-pox on Saturday last. They were interred about 12

r'^T""6 o'clock, at night. So we hear. Can't the atoro a *on. Council forces, move in this matter?

O* The perforation made by the pistol ball ill the window of S. H. Potter, can yet be seen by any who have a curiosity for small wonders. While loofeiagat it, just peep through and see what a grand assortment of hard ware

severely beaten with ah iron poker. We don't know the particulars nor the names of the par-

t,cs

IT It is said that John Jftitcheil aas come out in a furious letter, in reply to the strictures of Henry Ward Beecher, and the If. Y. Tribune. "Tufmultoous John Mitchell," as Beecher calls him, will, ere long, blow his brains odt*—of bis mouth.

ST Dr. Adam Clark said—if 1 was going to make an offering to the devil it (should be a roast pig stuffed with tobacco.

pended all their wits, besides a large amount of folly. Since revelation does not elucidate the subject, the world may

safely conclude that to the present state of the human mind it is inexplicable and

that its solution, if possible, would be of no practical use to us. Yet long years of sevefe lucubration have been spent by

speculative theologians in the vain attempt to undermine this mountain-mystery-

picking at Gibralter with a pin Beecher*s theory is a remodeling of the' Egyptian notion of the transmigration of

souls, revived and imported into Greece by Pythagoras, 600 years before Christ. The present enlightened age is swallowing

a re-hash of most of the old popular impo­

sitions, and the author, Ave suppose saw no reason why this stupendous absurdity should not have its turn.^

He endeavors to prove the pre-existence of the human race, and that the present life is one of suffering for sins committed

in that former existence, although no man is conscious of having lived befote But how this is to explain the origin of

evil, his readers are left at a loss to know. It is only driving the monster deeper into his den, or going a little further east to

find sunrise. It is on a par with the primeval notions of geography—that the earth

rested on the back of an elephent, the elephant stood on the back of a big turtle, but what the turtle-rested on was beyond

the penetration of mythology itself—the

old codgers of that day having emphatically run the thing into the ground It is a pity that men of such intellects

as Beecher, Bush, Emerson, Parker and Dewey, should, in their ambition, lose sight of the simple truth that a single act

of practical beneficence is worth more than a life-time of abstract speculation thai

such strong reapers and sharp sickles should be employed in "fields of stubble.

cluster in rich abundance the sweet, ripe

fruits of immortal truth, to starve on the

bleak mountain-tops of error, and stumble

over precipices of doubt.

(CT Mr. COLFAX, editor of the St. Joseph Valley Register, who has been touring in this part of the Stale, thus speaks of Terre-llaute, in the jottings of his journey in the last number of his pnper "We renewed so many old friendships, and enjoyed so many personal courtesies at the beautiful city of Terre-llaute, confessedly the handsomest in the State, that we we abstain from calling any names, because we have not room for all. It is rapidly growing in business and population,numbering now over 6,000, and famed, as it always will be, for its extensive pork trade. Soon it is to receive an additional impetus from the opening of four new Railroads, oic to Alton, Illinois, the Mississippi, one to Evansville on the Ohio, both to be completed this year one direct to St. Louis, and the Wabash Valley Railroad.

ID» On the evening of the 2f)th ult., there was a meeting at the Tabernacle, New York, having in view the object of securing greater religious freedom to American citizens residing abroad. Eloquentand instructive speeches were made by a number of distinguished gentlemen, and letters were read from the Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. D. D. Barnard, Hon. Abbott Lawrence, Hon. Henry A. W ise, Ac., Ac. The meeting wa9 held under the auspices of the "American and I'orcign Christian Union."

School Books.

We publish to-day, an advertisement of the Indiana series of school books, adopted by the State Board of Education. We ai'e not certain that they have yet been formally intro-

city, but if not, we presume they will be. We have already had occasion to express our gratification at the selection of the Board, as it is in accordance with

our

And yet there is a host of such in our own and other lands, who are constantly wan-'' warranted in the belief that they will continue to receive the approbation to which tlieir merit denng away from the sunny vales, where

own judgment, found­

ed upon eight years' practical use of these very books one of which we first introduced into this section of the State, and which has for years nearly superseded the use of all others. Should there be any occasion for it, we shall, (jt some future time, point out the excellence of this series more specifically.

O" Gen. Cass lately made a speech in the Senate, in favor of Bedini and the only reason he urged why the Pope should be treated with respect, was that he had shown kind feelings toward this country, by sending a block of marble to the Washington Monument.

O* The hotel keepers of Madison, have come oat in a card, in the Banner, with a list of the charges which they agree to make for boarding and lodging, at the time of the next State Fairv They are reasonable, and are an awful warning to the publicans of Lafayette."

A PowKaruL AccrioxzEa.—The Macon (Ga.) Citizen, gives the following account of the greatest auctioneering "knock-down" we have ever heard of: Jfcyv

Not long since, wBile a book auctioneer was crying off his wares, at the store-room recently occupied by Mr. J. Barnes, and was in the act of knocking down a volume, saying, "goiag—going—gone the floor gave way, and pfecipitated the crowd into the subterranean regions, breaking the gas pipe, and leaving the place in total darkness.

ACACLAT

o*

CTTO*.—Mr.

HTDIAK A—Recom­

mended, in compliance with the requisition! of Law, by the Stato Board of Education, Consisting of the Governor, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Secretary of State, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction.—Set School Late. Sec*ton tt. I OFFICE OF &U*»'T ot PeSttc INSTRUCTION,) 1 In 1 anrfpolis. Nov. 1853.

At a meeting of the State Board of Edtication, held at the Capital, November 14, 1S53, each member of "the Bttard being present, tKo following document was adopted iNDiAjtAroiis, Nov. 14,1853.

The State Board of Education appcoei the followinglist of text-books forcommun schools: McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book

The Indiana First Reader The Indiana Second Reader The Indiana Third Reader The Indiana Fourth Reader %n Butler's English Grammar -jf" *V Mitchell's Primary Geography:

Mitchell's Geography and Atlas Ray's Arithmetic. Part First Ray's Arithmetic, Part Second Ray's Arithmetic, Part Third Webster's Dictionaries. The examination of Books for our Comniori w, Schools lifts involved great labor, but the Brtfird lias endeavored to perform the arduous and ri-, sponsible duty judiciously, thoroughly, and faithfully. Intrinsic merit for instruction has been considered of paramount importance, and secondly, economy to the State.

The lioard would submit only a few remarks on the books selected: SPELLING BOOKS.—The object of a Spelling Book is to teach the orthographical form of words, in a simple, methodical, and thorough manner. For this purpose, preference is given to McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Bonk over any of the numerous works in that branch that have been examined.

READING BOOKS.—The Indiana Finrt Reader, Second Reader, Thicd Reader, and Fourth Reader, have been coinniled from McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, which are well known to educators in all parts of the United States, as, perhaps, the best class books over issued. The choicest lessons of these excellent books make up the matter of the Indiana Rei»-* ders. which are esteemed as the most desirable reading books.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR.—For this department the works of many authors have been examined, and preference given to that of Professor Noble liutler, whose excellent treatise is highly esteemed by intelligent teachers, as well calculated to make thorough grammarians.

ARITHMETIC—In this important branch of study, the works of several authors havo been carefully examined, and none found, all things considered equal to llay's series, which embrace three books.

Part First, is a hook of simple and easy lessons and tables for young children. Part Second is a very complete and thorough work on Mental Arithmetic, a branch of study too much neglected in common schools.

Part Third, devoted to Practical Arithmetic, is an admirable treatise, and well calculated to make pupils thorough arithmeticians.

It. is a work of the highest order of merit.—^ Professor Ray's works show that the author is* a thorough mathematician, and a skillful and successful instructor.

The foregoing works have all been compiled, stereotyped, auu published in our own Wesfc Their authors are gentlemen engaged in educational pursuits in the West, and their successful labors as instructors have sensibly contributed to our advancement. The books named have already been received with so much favor by the peoplw of this Stnte, that, we nro

80 eni nr llt

1 entitles them.

GEOGRAPHY.—The Geography wo recommend is highly esteemed for accuracy in facta and figures, and is already in very general use in this State.

DICTIONARIES.—Dr. Noah Webster's Unabridged Quarto Dictionary is considered in• dispensable to every teacher in our State, a.* the standard authority in Orthography, Pro. nmiciatimi and Defining: and Webster's smaller Dictionaries are equally indispensable iu all schools where an English Lexicon is reqtiired.

The introduction of Webster's Dictionaries is indeed an urgent necessity, that, llic rising generation may be taught to spell and pronounce alike, and also, that all may learn from the highest authority the use and meaning of

The SCHOOL TRUSTEES, whoe duty it is to know what. Books are used, can do much to assist, the Slate Board iu obtaining what the School Law contemplates, and economy to the people demands—uniformity iu school books throughout, the Slate.

W. C. LARllABKE. Sup. of Public Instruction, tvg and President of the Hoard of lucation. N. B: A large number of School Officers and Teachers in Indiana liavo already adopted the above books—recommended bytheSlate Hoard in compliance with tlie New School Law—thus showing a determination of the friends of education to cooperate with the Hoard in securing throughout the State the uniformity desired, which will avoid frequent and vexatious changes, benefit, the learner, and relieve parents of a great, and unnecessary expense.

The above Books are published,and for sale "by Booksellers generally, throughout Indiana, by Morton A Griswold, Louisville W. B. Smith A Co., Cincinnati Thomas CowperthwaitACo., Philadelphia: Pratt, Woodford A Co., and Clark, Austin A Sinith, New York.

Feb. 8, 1854-9-3w

Feb. 8, l854-w3t-pd

rpAK£N

Macaulay

once observed that prize sheep were only £t for candies, and prize essays to light them.

ST A shrewd lady has remarked that domestic troubles are often connected with disasters in china.

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..Lyman Watta' Estate.

Nsigned

OTICE, is hereby given, that- tho underhas been appointed administrator dr. bonis non, on the e«tate of Lyman Waits,Jam of Vigo County, Indiana, deceased.

Feb.8^1854-9-3^ JOHN WILSON.

estray hogs,

r|"hVKEN

up by John F. King, two estray

hogs, on the 14th of January, 1854. One is a white barrow, the other is a black nnd white spotted sow, 18 months old. The Sow has a slight break in the left car. And appraised the barrow at $7,00 and the sow at $5,00 by Andrew Grossgreen, Luther Grigsby.

Sworii to before mc this 2f)th day of January 1854. I. 31. RAT, J. P. true copv from the Record.

ANDREW. WJLKINS, Clerk.

UP—by D4vid H. Denny, living in

J- Otter Creek township, Vigo county, Indiana. on the 16th day ot'Jannary, 1851, one year ling heifer, black nidfs, line back, crop off tho left ear, unde* half crop off the right, ear, appraised to $5 50. Two white soring calves steers, under half crop off the left ear, swallow fork in the right ear, appraised to $4 00 cacli. One red steer calf, marked as the last abovo described, appraised to $3 75. One red and. white heifer calf, crop off the left ear, under half crop off the right ear, appraised to $1 00, One brindlc steer calf, swallow fork in tho right ear, under half Crop in the left ear, ap« praised to $2 50 by Jesse Wright and W. S. Carter, appraisers.

Sworn to before me, February 1st, 1854. T. W. ADAMS, J. P. (Seal.) A true copy from the record.

ANDREW WILKI5S, Cl'k.^

Br JOHX WitKiss, Deputy. ,"L Feb. 8, l851-9-3wpd

Administrator's Sale of Real Estate. "VTOTICE is hereby'given, that I wUl sell, at i-N public auction, on Saturday the 4th day of March next, at the residence of John Curry/ late of Vigo county, deceased, the following Real Estate, belonging to said deceased, towit:—The east half of the south-west quarter of section 29, town 11, north of range 9 west' —also 20 acres, commencing at the south-eastf' corner of the north-west quarter of same section, township, and range, running west 80| rods—thence north 45 rods—thence cast 89,rods—thence south 45 rods to the place of bc-' ginning.

An equal credit of six and twelve months^ will be given, the purchaser executing his notes with approved security, conditioned that the same shall draw interest from their dates, and without any relief from valuation or appraisement laws. JABSZ S. CASTO,

Administrator of John Curry.,

By R. N. Hcnsojr, Att'y. Feb 8, 1854-9 4w {pr's fee $9,00]

CAJfDLES—SUr

Candles, ID quarter* half, and'

wbote boxen, or by the pound, at the D«c. 21*U .. jj,., Q.