Wabash Express, Volume 13, Number 16, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 March 1854 — Page 2

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Wednesday. Mar. 29. I S«54.iquote:

The Wabash Express,

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side,

NATL'RE IN PE-

.•VdwpoT Itiri.u —The Belfast (Maine) Journal

ys: "We learn from a credible source that a very singular sub-marino phenomenon has manifested itself in Penobscot river during the last autumn, and "P to the present time. At a locality about a mile above Prospect Ferry

a locality noout a ....... agem^nt of all hi« operations of buying and witlnn about a hundred rods of the

some time was discovered to be a violent agitation of tl.o water, so that the surface was much disturbed, and stones and dirt were thrown up from the bottom. This up-boiling, has continued, at intervals, up to this time. Observations show that over at least an acre tho depth of tho water has increased from seven to fourteen fathoms. A gas is emitted from tho water that has the smell of sulphur, or as if some substance of nature was burning beneath. Aleo, we are informed, that, during the latter part of autumn, two shocks of an earthquake occurred in the vicinity.

These

Sl'DtJEM DEATn.—The Vincennes Gaiotte, of the 23d inst., pays "On Monday last, while Mr. G. W. Holmes and a young man named Montgomery, were both plowing in tho same field, the team of young Montgomery became frightened, ran off and dragged Montgomery, nearly half across tbo field by tho lines. Mr Holmes quit, his own plow and ran to tho assistance of Montgomery, who, when asked he was hurt much, remarked that lie was not. Mr. Holmos then started after tho balky hordes of Montgomery, and requested him to plow with the team ho had just left. This ha at once did, and proceeded on over a prominence until ho was lost to the sight of Mr. Holmes. Mr. H. after a while, finding that Montgomery did not return, went to him and found him lying over his plow, and perfectly doad. Mr. M. must have been internally seriously injured his fercnei bccnmc aucttlcnly very tnatk af

ter death."

THE GE^MA:. or THE BRITISH ARHT.—A writer in & late number of the Loiuiuu T.IIJUO, gives some interesting facts respecting the senior officers of the British army. Ho says that nine-tenths of the tnnjor»generals are upwards of sixty years of ago. Of the two hundred' and fifty-nino full colonels, one hundred and fifty-nine aro upwards of ninety years of age, A period of lifo at which an officer in the Frotich army, unless specially exemted, is placed on the retired list and tho remaining ono hundred full colonels are between forty-four and sixty. Tho writer states that the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon were forty-five years of age when they finished their military ca recr iu tho fluid at Waterloo. Tho youngest major-general in the British army at present (royalty excepted) is long past that ago, and thero aro only two full colonels who have not attained it.

IT A German, in Cincinnati, has invented a powerful microscope which has 6iich an immense magnifying pawer that by it, the dust which, by contact with the wings of a butterfly. adheres to the finger, is shown to bo a 'number of feathers, on which longitudinal and transverse lines may bo discovered. On a very miimto particle of dust from tho wing of a rnideo, measuring only five-hundredth part of an inch, and one-thousandth of an inch in breadth, tho number of scales is found to be 84,000, tv hich g'tvos tho enormous sum of fortytwo thousand millions to one square iachr

Smile, of the Wabash Express, 18th inst., •AYS that Dick Yates, "the most able member of the Illinois delegation in Congress,

hasctmp(

out in strong opposition to the Nebraska Bill." W« think the statement of Dick Y.'s being our most ablo Representative, is about, on a par with the general representations of tho Express on the Nebraska Bill. Yates is not only a Whig, but a rank Abolitionist to boot, and it may be that the Anti-Slavery spectacles of the Kxpress writer, enables him to discover virtu** and talents that us poor benighted Suckers, hare hitherto not appreciated.— W'abath Valley Republican.

Somehow or other, our opinion of Yate4s relative ability remains unchanged. As to hi# abolitionism, that is a matter of course, as one of the "tte-Uea" of tho Douglas democracy is to fasten that charge upon every anti-Nebraska tnan. We perceive that ca "appreciates" lAat trick, without spectacles

DAUAOES RKJTSSD.— The Common Pleas Court of Essex County, Mass. have refused to grant damages in a suit against tho Boston and Maine Railroad, for ailedged negligence in causing the death of Samuel Newell, in anna tv, 1SS3—decided that the cause of the accident could not have been foreseen- This was the same accident as that by which tho son of President Pierce lost his life.

CACsrrtC-—Th* editor of the Danville, (III.) Oitiaen, deal# with his correspondents in no mystic language. He declines to publish a communication from a young lady, on the ground that the "public peace" would be di turbed thereby and another correspondent h« calls a 'mullet head," and advises hita to g1

making soap!

IT The Memphis paper# of the I3th *?an that the ciiiwn* of that city are contuHatht? fratly to the monument to be erected to Joa^ Tasce. the pilot who w«* banted while at th. *h»-el of the steamer Caroline. Capuiu Bateai*n, of the Julia Dean, $1S5-

Ciavsa.—Th* Ca*wvm*tl-.uae valuation of th« eignn intc r*»r.

A lai^itiiubcr of the New 0rk-ati3 Credent, crtBtaios ia'tnte^stin^sSs of this^istufc "uihhed slatesiwlii, introduced by a-notice |is widow, ffiiHiring. 56th year of he| Itge, Her husband's manuscript papers were purchased of her, by Congress in 1845. We

Of the value of these papers to the secret history of our pnlilie affairs, during a apace of thiriy'years (1795 to 1^04) wluch they cover, no ono is in a better condition to speak than

For we were entrusted, on th«? part of with the choice out of a still vaster

OT^RFELF. the family. ... body, of the fifty seven folio volumes which, •after excluding whatever was of no interest, went into tho hands of the Government._

They give a prodigious idea of Hamilton 8

most from the first moment when, a mere boy of nineteen, he first drew as the Captain of a volunteer artillery company Gen. Washington attention to the superiordisciplineof his corps and the skillful service of his guns. Never did any man possess a more remarkable power of mastering at once whatever he set about.., Introduced, at the age of twelve, into the Count-ing-honw of a considerable shipping merchant, in Si. Croix, we find him, at only fourteen, entrusted, during his principal's absence in this country, with his correspondence and the man-

where the river widens into a sort of j,jH boyish letters to a youne friend) anchoring ground, being nearly a inile across, jrnn t„ ]nok to the state of things rising up in about the first of September, there this land of ours, and to foresee in it a country

'gto

singular manifes

tations have attracted much attention. The •advent' people in tho vicinity regard it as a sure prognostic of the final destruction of all things, and without doubt think the bottomless pit cannot be far off. People of better senso regard it as a phenomenon of a volcanic nature, but singular enough, in this latitude. We presume the manifestations will cea6o without tho sinking of tho real estate in the vicinity, or the setting on fire of Penobscot river."

Tho Toledo Blade Local gets off a great many good things. Instance this humorous dis course.

Wo read that tho modern Egyptians cut up mum mi os as wo cut ur firewood to cook with. In view thereof, well may we exclaim: "to what base uses do wo conns at last." Wo presume that an embalmed Pharaoh makes uo netter fire, or cooks no better supper, than tho poorest serf that dwelt in his dominions. The hungry Arab, as he hacks the limbs and trunks in pieces does, not pause to enquire whether it be King or subject, bond or free, with whose remains ho is making so free. He only thinks of the supper tn prospect, and takes tho old mummies from their musty depository, as our farmers haul cord wood to market.

SD" We have received the first number of a new paper published, a» Ctiuncwvilhs in rhls State and called the Telegraph, It is a large and promising shoot and starts out with much vigor and spirit. It is published by Wm. 3. Svriggett, late foreman in the office of the Cincinnati Oimmnrcial. We wish him success so overflowing tljat his name may prove no misuomer.

POSTAGE OX DAILY PAPEBS—Under the new postage law, daily papers are transmitted any distance, not exceeding fifty miles, for twentyfive cents per quarter, (or three months. Over fifty and under three hundred miles, fifty cts. per quarter.

EXECUTION*.—Thomas Motley and William Biackledge, the two men whose barbarous crime in hunting down and flaying alive a uogro slave, which made their cases notorious were hung at Waterboro, South Carolina, a few days since. A roscue was feared and a large detachment of soldiers accompanied them to the ground.

"VFhat 8eth did before Leaving* Two lovera atood npoo the shore Of Massachusetts Bay,

Biddlns a »*d farewell before Setlt tarehiaaelf a war »"i- "I'll marry you when 1 como back. ms. My Sally Aon." say* he. 4rid then he took a little aaack,, lAad went *w*y to »e*.

abilitieslusefnlness. and the confidence and the plt has presented his credentials to the Sultan, infisteoce which these commanded for him, al-{ and made air address assuring the Sultan of

:-g,Felling,

is seen in he has be-

„d all that. Already (as ,i:

and a career which the West Indies could never give him. At sixteen ho is in Columbia College, Now York, perfecting his boyish Latin and Greek. At seventeen he is already writing for the public journals, in behalf of the cause of the colonies, papers so striking that- they seize upon the general attention, and are attributed to the best writers. In his nineteenth year, ho hasnotonlv become a strong, popular orator, but has studied war as an art, more especially tho Artillerist's part of it and raising a company, (chiefly at lm own charge) has joined Washington's Army in the Jersey's, and made

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upon that cautious cotnmanuer so strong inpression that ho transfers hiin^to his personal staff as chief aid-de-camp, with the rank of lieuten:uit colonel. Hero it is well known .that, before he was 20, he became one of Washington's most efficient officers: but, though equally true, it has escaped attention that until that veteran of science, Steuben, took service with us, it was Hamilton who first supplied our systems of Tactics and Hamilton who, besdes drawing up many of Gon. Washington's important papers, wrote the admirable Instructions to John Laurens—a masterpiece of ability—under which he, when Dr.

Franklin had failed, brought about the Armed alliance of France. Hamilton was then 21.— In 1781, come on our part. naneier and took charge, under Robert Morris, of a part of that department quickly dis-

OI rifincts. AiilWMUVJU »an Mif-11 perceiving that the struggle had beour part, one of finance, he turned fi

playing it that, singular capacity which led Morria to sav, on the formation of our present government" that there was but one man in the country—Alexander Hamilton—who might, as Secretary of the Treasury, re-instate the public, credit. It is well known that the present Constitution is really his plan: but few are aware that its original project (still in existence) was drawn up by him in 17'4, when he was only 27 years old. We could tell much more but spaco fails us

WASHINGTON'S TEACHF.r.a.-Mrs.Kirkland says that "Washington had but two teachers, one an old fellew named Hobby, one of his father's tenant*, sexton as» well as schoolmaster of the neighborhood, who used to boast, after he was superannuated and somewhat addicted to potations, especially on tho General's birthdays, that it was he who, between his knees, haa wia tire ralindatioh of George Washington's greatness, by teaching him his letters and the othor, tho Mr. Williams already men tioned, v.-ho wa3, according to Mr. Weema, a 'capital hand' at reading, spelling. English grammar, arithmetic, surveying, book-keeping and geography, and often boasted that he had made George WaslfingN.-u as great a scholar as himself. We cannot doubt that to his thoroughness in teaching what he did know, his great pupil owed much of his acquired power for a good foundation in a few important things is tho best possible beginning for a boy of ability aud enterprise."

D* Cairo is now the moat extensive Coal

Depot for steamboats on the Western waters. Steamers from all directions invariably stop :ht»re to g**t their supplies. The coal is furnish*t\ from the Mulford Mines in Kentucky, floated down in large fiatboata, and sold at nine or «»rt*o cents a bu*hel.

O* Candles made from oil extracted from OtMnr beanv have been bronght into u* at

VUon lit Th-v cive a row* brilliant light

Clippings from Telegraph Items.

ARRIVAL OF THE

STEAMER

PACIFIC.

|i SANDT HOOK, 5 P. M.

The Pacific passed here at5 o'clock, and her news telegraphed for the Associate press in advance of all others.

NEW YOSEK, M«f£b 23, P. M.

The Pacific ha* arrived with dates to the 8th. The Africa arrived out on the 7th inst. The Clipper ship Lightning arrived at Liverpool in 13 days from Boston.

The Greek insurrection has almost been cheeked, and is no longer considered formidable.

The United States Minister at Consfantino-

the xympathy of the people of the U. States. The briii*h Chancellor of the Exchequer, proposes to double the income tax, and the French Minister of Finance proposes to borrow 250,000,000 francs to meet the expenses'of the war.

The war preparations go on in England. Th« fir.st division of the fleet for the Bnltic was to sail in a day or two. It consisted of Admiral Correy's squadron.

The French government advertise* for 100 ships to embark troops and stores at Marseilles for the East.

The Earl of Londonderry is deads^e More difficulties have occurred at Preston with tho operatives.

Messrs. Deckson «fc Co.. of Glasgow, have failed Liabilities 200,000 pounds sterling. Mr. Soule is reported to be in high favor with her Majesty, the Qneen of Spain.

The Spanish insurrection has been suppressed. --i"r ?•. Portugal is quieter -:«***tpA*$h*

Austria still slightly wavers. Prussia has prohibited the export of grain from Odessa and tho s-ea of

Azof.

This an

nouncement strengthened the English grain markets. St. Petersburg letters state that the prohibition of the export of breadstuff's does not extend to vesels loading or ladened.

CO'STANTlKOPLE, Fob. £5.—Persia remains neutral, but is fortifying the Turkish frontier. The Affsgnns are attacking the Kingdom of Condohar.

Persia has offered her mediation. The Khan of Khiva has taken refuge in Bokliasa. and summoned the neighboring natives to take part in tho 6trugglu against the Russians.

LOVDON, March 8.—The Chronicle's Vienna correspondent telegraphs that, new proposals have been received from the Czar, and that he offers to evacuate the Principalities the moment the preliminaries of peace are signed.— The terms are not more favorable than the last overtures which were rejected. A British courier, bearing a summons for the evacuation of the Provinces, is already on his way to St. Petersburg.

It is reported that tho Russian Minister, Matiteuffel, has offered his resignation to Victoria.

There was a review of the fleets on Saturday. Admiral Correy'a division of the British fleet was to sail about tho 8th of March for the Baltic.

The Austrian Government has published an official document expressing their views on tho difference/ between Russia and Turkey. It regrets tho proposition sent by the Western Powers were of such a nature as to leave hardly a hope of a favorable reply. But admit that their demands were jn.l, and in accordance with the interests of Europe—Austria is pre-

fiaredgreat

to meet the dangers which may accrue rom war in an adjoining country, and from

fho

submissive tendencies which may

manifest themselves on the frontiers of the Empire during the continuance of the war. BICRU.V, March 7th.—The Prussian Government rejects the suggestion of Russia to forUUl tho oiilrnnoft tho iluots of Wostqrii Powers into Prussian ports.

France and England are said to havo decided to prevent any movement in Italy. Tho loan of 250,000,000 francs has been unanimously authorized by the Legislature.

Advices from Madrid says there wi*s a vague rumor there, of a misunderstanding between England and Spain, and tho probable recall of the Spanish Minister at London.

Mcl-fctiry reports no change in provisions, but says lard had farther declined Is to 2s, with out leading to any animation in the market.

Tallow quiet. Cloverseed dull and prices lower. Nothing doing in rice or linseed cake. At Manchester busiuess was dull and prices weak.

Execution of Jewell. PiTTSBuaoii, March 23.

David Jewell, for murder, was executed this afternoon at 2 o'clock. A large crowd thronged tho streets at an early hour, and at times, it was ditficultto suppress disorder. About four hundred persous were admitted within tho Jail yard.

All last night and this forenoon, the prisoner was engaged in prayer and conversation with his spiritual advisers.

At 1 o'clock, the Sheriff informed the prisoner that the time had arrived, and to prepare for the execution. The executioner, disguised, knocked off tho irons, and pinioned the arms of the prisoner, who was then escorted to the place of

execution.

Having arrived on the scaffold, Jewell stepped forward and thanked the Sheriff for the kindness he had received at his hands, and

begged that he would uot be tho executioner.

He then read his dying declaration, reviewing

the proceedings of the Court which convicted

be went wilh his friend to redress that friend's

grievance, and being heated and maddened by

drink, he was uncouscious of what be did^

Ho warned vonng men to avoid the intoxica•

iingcup expressed his cordial forgiveness of

»U, as he hoped to be,forgiven, and for mercy

last prayer, in which th« prisoner audibly

placed in a coffin. ^Explosion of a lecemotive. LOCISVILLK, March 24.

The mail contractor from San Antonio to Santa Fe killed a Mexican opposite El Paso. The Magoffin difficclty has been adjusted, he restoring the property and paying the damages. The Utah Indians had committed some depredations, and Sit Carson, with a company, pursued them.

The ea«e of Birch M. Benton was called

.„ -v. U« defendant's

ban anjr other candle, while they can be man tftelured at half the cost.

CT The Washington SewOmH says thai Sen- where, who when he *i-k*a to be particularly

dgnra imported into tho United State* 1*^ Bright is gettieg better, and will be able indulgent to his apprentices, *ays: "comeboys, of the Louisville Journal, says that the origin a few days hi* »rat frith a flenalm let's quit work and go to aanriag wood I" al name of Kentucky was "T—^"couatty."

loined. tion ever indulged by the inventor. If their Tho hangman then adjusted the rope the hopes are as well founded as from this stateprisoner requestedI b«7 »PP?« which was granted. ,v. cal revolution is indeed impending.

Jewell then continued to pray, during which time the Sheriff gave the signal, and the lever! O" The "Temperance Musician," is the tiwas touohed. and the prisoner swung in the t)e of a little song book of 250 pages, just pubair. Hi* neck broke in the fall, and he conse-^ Jished by APPLEOATE & Co., Cincinnati, to quently died instantly. After being suspend-: whom we are indebted for a copy. The words ed half an hour, the body was cat dttwn and aud music are printed oo opposite pages. We

A locomotive attached to the freight train on

NjcwsrAr» E.vrmraiss.—On the occasion of! the New Albanv and Salem railway, exploded 1 The following will serve a« a specimen: (he debate on the Eastern question in the Eug-1 this morning near Providence, killing John lish Parliament, which commenced at 5 o'clock Morris the engineer Thos. Ratcliff, a fireman, P. and concluded at 4 A.« the London AND John Merrill, a hand. The bodies were Times of the morning when the debate closed, terribly mutilated had a full and complete report of the speeches, making jifty closely printed columns of that paper-

Later from Santa Fc. Sr. LOUIS. March 23.

Mrs. Wilson, who WM recovered from the Camanche Indians, was delivered of a fine Indian boy. Both are doing well.

-rr~,rr,u-v continued at the in»tance of hai

|~r The paper* tell of a Hark«ntith sosrve-

[From tbe Clnciniftti Gaxetie or tb«25tb.] tWO WEEKS LATER FBO* CALIFORNIA.

Arrival of the Steamer United States. WALKMk'S PARTY SCATTERED.

Cheering Kew» from Mines. NEW OaiJSASS. March 24. The steamer United States, with advices from California to the 1st inst., has arrived at

this port. By this arrival we have advices from Walker's expedition to Sonora, to the I5ih of Feb ruarv- The United States' ships, Columbus and Portsmouth, arrived at Encenada on the 14th, upon which Walker spiked his guns and started for San Thomas, with 140 men and one field piece, leaving behind him the sick and wounded. Many of his troops had deserted, and those remaining were dispirited and abandoned all hopes of success.

The mining accounts from California are exceedingly favorable the yeld of gold had largely increased, and all the miners were pros

pering. ,t. An Indian from the interior, who had ar rived at Panama, says St rain's party was killed by wild beasts. The story is not believed, but it is supposed the party was killed by the In

dians. The markets at San Francisco were exceedingly stagnant. Gallego flour was selling at $8,50 to $9,00 per bbl. Clear Pork at $19,00, and Mess at S16.00.

T. F. Meayher is among l|e passenger, by the United States. /, Doings in Congress.

WASHINGTON, March 23.

SENATft.^-The Deficiency bill with amendments, was reported. Among rhe were tho following appropriation.-- $-50 00 for a new site for a Custom House at San Francisco. A bill providing

for the

Revolutionary

orphaus

claims of the

Army, and of the widows and

of tho-e who died in tne Service 0.'

country, was taken up and debated, and after a loni'

executive

session the benate adjourned

HOUSK.—Tho House went, into committee on the Indian appropriation bill. Major Hobble died this morning of consump

An Unnecessary Effusion of Gatl

The

"Eastern Illinoisan," alias Telegraph. alias Democrat, a paper with two humps on its back, published in

Marshall,

has jumped at us

with a great deal of fury,all about the "Brougl Railroad." It calls us

all the

ugly names it

can think of, and almost chokes itself with its own spleen. -, We can easily excuse the language of this Protean sheet, for its very coarseness defeats its own purpose, and though there is a vast deal of venom beneath, the writer hasmnwittingly labelled it, "poison." Our offence con sisted in publishing a statement of flic opinion of the "three Illinois jurists," which we found in the St. Louis Intelligencer, a paper which has always advocated the Brough interest. It has been our aim to keep our readers apprised of all the phases of this question, on both sides, and if the "Illinoisan" men had views sufficiently brriad to take in the whole of our large and excellent sheet, they would have seen, in another column, of the same paper we believe, nearly the whole of Col. Brough letter, on the other side of the controversy

And uow, for the gratification of our furibund critics, who seem to regard the defining of our "position" as a matter of so much im pnrtance, we very cheerfully announce to them and all others, who have not been able to see any thing in this world for the last two years but Col. Brough, that we are not only willing that the St. Louis road should be built, but are really desirous to see it accomplished. "Oh what hypocrisy do we hear again

When we edited tho Charleston Courier, we defended the Alton Road and opposed its rival, on the ground that the faith of tho State had been repeatedly pledged to protect it. till it was completed. THE* and THERE we always held, as wo do now, that after the construction of the Alton road was securcd, the petitioners for tho other road should be allowed to have full play. As that object has been effected, and the public faith maintained, we have no reason for opposing, the Brough road, and act with perfect consistency in wishing it success.

Now, if the double-headed "Illinoisan," with its whig and democratic editors, find it necessary for the improvement of its readers, to repeat this wanton and discreditable attack upon us, it has our free permission so to do coupled, however, with the announcement that we cannot hereafter afford cither time or space to spell out its bad grammar, or robuke its incorrigible malico.

SUCCESS OF TNE Eaic3SON.—The New "iork Courier of a late date says: "We take pleasure

CI)

»f his God. V* Iw [patch

Tho clergyman iu attendance offered up a

announcing, on the authority of one of the

part

5es interested in the caloric ship. Ericsson,

that tllcy succee

him, and denyiug premeditated murder. He revolutions per minute with one only of hei said ho had never kuown the deceased before

tant

mijeg per

mid({ie 0f

ded in obtaining nine and ten

gjneSt which has been improved in- impor

^p^ts,

Rince

This 8CCUres

the late experimental trip,

the same number of (nine or ten)

j10llr motion, one-half of the pow-

er jn uge ph«

other engine will be got in or-

deJ by |h|J first weck

jn April, and about the

that month it is intended to dis-

the ship

to Havre, either direct or via

Ljvprp0ol. Tbe owners now feel assured of a

Si|CCe8s

tatjw

surpassing the most sanguine expecta-

are no judges of written music, but some of our amateurs pronounce the pieces in this book, excellent. Most of the words are very fine,

sentiment fully up with the times.

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Some love strong rom or ale's white foam, Aa it rises to be free And for ripbtrood cheer, not whirtle beer,

But the limpid stream for met To the forest shade or the moantals {lade. So cbeerily forth 1 go. To drink my 611 at the gsrgting rill.

When the saa ia tie king low. la the stream dip my glowing lip And the cooling draught poor in 1 aak no spring of br*ndy sling.

Or of toddy made of do. For what mtare ga-re I only crave. The /aut that gargle* free The greenwood ireea. a cooling ireew,

And a limpid atieam fur me!

SX The St- Nicholas Hotel, in New York, has been enlarged by the addition of one hundred rooms to ft* previons dimension*. It now

six hundred rooms, and can accom

gnosis.

he most elegant style a thousand

An old pioneer, in a letter to the Editor rrs that the ori|' Le*isa

Sleep.

Deem nol, dear reader that we are going to snore over a dull theme, or escort you through a garden of poppies. Sleep and sleepiness are very different things. One is natural, and the other is the prime minister of laziness. "Blessed be he who

first

invented sleep!" said Sau-

cho, and he certaiuly was wide awake when he said it. Few of us are accustomed to reflect on the nature and object of sleep. It is a little singular that it has not been the subject of more earnest investigation to the inquisitive mind of the philosopher, and that mankind have not been favored with at least some systematic theory of the phenomena of this nocturnal miracle. It may be, that unlike all other questions pertaining to physiological or mental science, this is unapproachable from the simple fact that the only time in which practical observations should be made is the time when body and mind both are locked up in the very mystery which is to be un raveled.

Physiologically speaking, sleep is a suspension of the voluntary functions of the body and mind for thetpurpose of recovering wasted strength, -^^very body knows by experience, who tired and gets up rested. But what"isjltfc&Uosophy—and who can interpret its "SwwrtJ. Walking, and eating and speaking and allMlie ordinary acts of life are voluntary, but sleeping is not. 'VS put our selves in a favorable condition only, and it comes, unbidden, and takes us captive and singular enough, we are never conscious of the moment of surrender. But where is the mind, and what becomes of all its restless, untiring activity The intellect, irrespective of its connection with the body, never needs rest Where and what is it then, for nearly half of every man's life? Is it really dormant, or is it unceasingly active and is wakefulness of the body a conditiou of consciousness, during this 'liyslic copartnership of the immortal with the mortal And who can unriddle the mystery of dreams—when thought is unchained, and a fugitive from the restraints of reason, careers unbridled over the illimitable domains of fancy

These questions our betters have never-sat-isfactorily answered and we shall not attempt it, lest the reader should find himself engaged in a oractical experiment before lie finished the essay. The human mind, ever disposed to marvel, has from time immemorial associated with sleep, and its phenomena, all kinds of superstitious fancies aud woven out of them some of its most gorgeous poetical imagery. The analogy between sleep and death, is so striking and naturally suggested that a child can discover it. Hence wo seo it alluded to in all languages, and in every age. Goethe's eulogy of sleep has been admired by some as unsurpassed: y* "Sweet sleep thou comost with good fortune'. unbidden and untreated. Thou loosest the knots of stern thought, and minglest together all images ofjoy and grief! Unhindered, the circle of internal harmonies, flows on, and wrapped in a pleasing frenzy we sink down and cease to be."

But of all the gems that have been set around this beautiful analogy, we consider an invocation to Sleep, by Tom Warton, as the most a A

Somne,

vcnl I

Quanquam ccrtissima mortis imago ea, 1 Consortcin cupio to tamen csae tori: Hue adca!

Ilaud abiturc clto, nam aic nine vita Vlvere, quam suave

CBt,

Sic sine mortc mori!

"""'It is impossible to transplant such a flower, without a great waste of fragrance yet wo venture an off-hand translation:

Come gentle sleep! although thou art ... Of death the perfect counterpart, Come, close my weary eye: 'Tla thine the wclcome hoon to give,

Thus without life to sweetly live, Thus without death to die

What a conquering creed is that of the great Democratic party How nobly it, survives defeat, desertion and treachery !—Penn. Patriot.

That is a singular kind of victory, and not very heroic, which consists only in surviving the conquests of its enemies, and the desertion and treachery of its friends 1 But herein the Patriot spoke truly. Its party creed is rather a negative than a positive thing. The club of Hercules could not kill the Hydra, but out of each bruised head would spring a score of new and ugly face3. So whenever the Whig party pummels the Democracy, and leaves it for dead, it keeps "coming to a head"'again, but looking worse and worse at every transmutation. .....

Mr Lewis Swam, of Meredith N. H., informs the editor of the Democrat that lie has been forty-seven years in the carpenter busi ness ana has never cut himself with an edged

tool, never has been sick a day and always voted the democratic ticket LCTI is is an "adamantine" certainly unless we attribute bis escape from edge tools and the shafts of disease, to his admirable training in the dodging school, in which it seems he was. brought up.

PRISONERS IS IUELAND.—It appears from a Parliamentary paper recently issued, that the total number of prisoners in the Government prisons in Ireland,on the 13th September last, was 3,902 of this number 222 were members of the Church of England, 3,636 Roman Catholics, and 44 Presbyterians or Dissenters. To all of these establishments a Roman Catholic chaplain is appoiuted, and in the majority Protestant and Presbyterian chaplains. In event, however, of there not being any of the latter appointed, every facility is given for the admission of any recognised mm ister. In the Irish jails there were confined, on the 10th September last, 601 Protestant, 135 Dissenters or Presbyterians, and 5,263 Roman Catholics. mS

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The Queen of England lately issued a proclamation, forbidding the export of munitions of war, fcc. Under this, some 6,000 bbls. of gunpowder on the point of being shipped for Russian account, was seized and confiscated by the Government officials. Yet more recently, another, and more important raid has been made. The ship Hampshire, loaded with boiler plates, shot, machinery, &c., was cleared and sailed from one of the southern ports for Odessa on the Black Sea. Contrary weather having compelled her to put back into Portsmouth to repair, she was boarded by the Custom House authorities, and together with her cargo, is now in the hands of the government.

U*The city of Paris is supplied daily with twenty-two millions of gallons, London fortyfive millions of gallons, Boston ten millions of gallons. New York thirty millions of gallons, and Philadelphia fifteen millions of gallons of water. .....

tT Some days ago a little girf, the daughter of John Kyle, of Ind'ranapoli* had her hand almost entirely cot off by her brother who w« playing witli a hatchet. The h»ne was com pletely seven-d. Doctor Ballard sewed it on again, and the papers say that it is knitting, and the little girl vill recover the we of it

A Sapling Hickory.

George E. Pugk, the newly elected democratic Senator from Ohio, though quite a jourig man, is said to be a man of more than common ability, and of fine oratorical powers.

We know little about his political "antecedents," excepting that ho toolc an active and not creditable part in the stormy session of the Ohio Legislature, a few years ago, when a gang of fillibuster agitators prevented, by riotous conduct, the organization of the Senate for three months.

It seems that Pngh, when a school boy, announced that he would be President of the United States,before he died, a prophetic boast which half the 6chool boys in the country are making every day. But it is curious to see how this foolish and trifling thing is influencing some minds, so tinged by superstitious tendencies, that they would be constant atten dants on the Delphic Oracle, could it be transplanted to our longitude and times.

Among those who aro already raising their caps for Pugh, we find the editor of the Lafayette Journal, who lauds liim with extravagant praise, and ranks him above Pitt, Sheridan, Grattan, Burke and says:

We'll vote for George E. Pugh, if he is ever nominated for President, though we should then be editor of forty Whig sheets. Who talks to us about principle when a man as ca pable as Andrew Jackson was of administer ing tho government is up 7 Indiana is for George E. Pugh.

What nonsense I Indiana, with the exeep tion of hero and there a "Young America, never heard of George K. Pugh, till his recent election to tho Souate, and we have little fear that Indiana, or any other State, with the melancholy example of Pierce in memory, will ever be caught moulding another President out of putty.

Sons of Tctnperance.

We are gratified to learn from one of the members, Uiat the Division of the Sons of Temperancc, in this city, is iu a very flourishing condition. During the quarter just closed, thirty six new members were initiated and the affairs of the Association generally are prosperous and progressive.

They meet every Tuesday night at the old Temperance Hall, Ross Buildings. The officers of the ensuing quarter are as follows:

D. E. STUVKNS, W. P., JAMES E. STEVESS, W. A., D. C. RVSSKLL, R. S., I. P. WINDLK, A. R. S R. R. LIVINGSTON", F. S J. EVANS, T., J. WooimrwvC., G. CORD, A. C., J. W. CHAMP, I. S

J. Lumen. O. S.

'The. installation of the officers takes place uext Saturday night. All the members arc requested to bo present.

O* In Washington, a few days ago, several hundred persons were drawn together on the vacant spaco in front of the Bank of Washington, to witness the novel performances of a man who has acquired some reputation as a tamer of animals. A cartman having a restive horse, very much disposed to kick in tho traces, brought it forth to have it operated upon.— The tamer tapped on a drum and kindly invited the horse to follow him, which the crcaturc did to the wonder of the spectators and, after being thus exercised for some minutes, the horse was again put between the shafts, Rnd trotted off in good order.

Tlfo Apple off Discord.

When that mischievous divinity al the banquet of the gods tossed the golden apple labeled, "To the most beautiful," into the Olympic saloon", where the goddesses were promenading in such harmony, he might have known the rosult, and should have been banished forever from that "upper circle." This little trick, like many little practical jokes, led to the most serious and lasting evils. Venus and Juno quarreled over it, and were always enemies and a long series of calamities fell upon the mortals over whom their empyrean battles were fought.

There is a fellow, somewhere in the country, who is busy imitating this trick of ihe winged wag, by despatching letters to different post offices, directed "To the handsomest woman in town": tlioreby disturbing the peace of villages, and sowing the seeds of envy in populous cities! Let the prcs come down upon him! let the police watch out for him! and when he is caught, let him be sold at auction to the ugliest wotnau that will bid the lowest on him.

ID" We learn that O. A. Brownson, the summerset theologian of Boston has been invited by Dr. Newman, President of the Irish University, to "fill one of the chairs" in that institution. Just as though Brownson could be still long enough to take a chair! If he should attempt it, as likely as not, in six months he would be found teaching his pupils Brahminism, or lecturing with profound and unintelligible erudition in favor of the religion of the Fejcc Islands. ....

O" The Louisville Courier says: "Santa Anna, it is said, has sent an order to Messrs. Ames, the great cannon manufacturers, of Springfield, 31assachusetts, for two hundred guns of from ten to fifteen pound calibre, each, and that the payment of the order, which, of course, includes the supply of a vast amount of amunition, musketry, revolvers, Ac., is to be made contingent on the passage of the Gadfden treaty,"

O* An exchange says: "Tbe total produce of tobacco grown "on the face of the globe has been calculated by Mr. Crawford, and amounts to the enormous quantity of 2,000,000 tons

We should like to know the total amount "chawed" in tbe face of men. i— *#3*

D" We call attention to the advertisement oftbe clothing store of Wx. J.MACK, in to-day's paper. His excellent goods and liberal prices are an inducement to purchasers, whom we would recommend to call and examine for themselves. -MM-u

D" The Lafayette Courier aays, Dr. O. L. Clark, of that city, is spoken of by his friend* in that region, as a Democratic candidate for onr next Governor.

O" Rev. Mr. Walsh, an Irishman, is lecturing in Lafayette against Catholicism, and in favor of Temperance.

0* It is eatimated that the value of public lands for railroads asked this session of Congress-, according to tbe bills introduced or projected, amounts to the enormous sum of $50,. 000,000.

D" Indiana, within a few year*

past,

BY TELEGRAPH.

(From the Cincinnati Gaxette of the 98th.] DESTRUCTIVE FIRBINBIRMINCHAX

One,Hundred Houses Destroyed!!!

PITTSBURGH, March 27.

A fire broke out yesterday afternoon, in the packing house of Johnson's Glass Works, in Birmingham, opposite this city and favored by a 6trong wind and want of water, the fire spread with great rapidity, and waa very destructive—raging for several hours, and was fiually only arrested by blowing up several houses. Upwards of one hundred houses and stores are in ruins, and fully two hundred families left houseless. Between Grosvenor and McKeestreets forty buildings were burned, and the burning shingles were carried by the wind to Bradford street, and sixty dwellings and stores were destroyed ou that and Deuman street.

The loss is variously estimated at from1 $100,000 to $200,000, about one-third of which ia covered by insurance. Johnson's loss is estimated $12,000. Among the buildings destroyed, is Gregg's Lead Factory.

L,uter from Havana. NKW ORLEANS, March 24.

The steamer Empire City just arrived from Havana, reports that the authorities there had given up the steamer Black Warrior, on condition that a fine of $6,000 be paid. Captain Bullock accepted the offor, and was to tako possesion of the steamer on the 22d inst., and to sail immediately for New York. The United States sloop of war Albany, and the steamers Fulton and Corwin, were at Havana.

The steamer Isabella has arrived at Charleston, and confirms the report in regard to the Black Warrior at Havana, and further reports that the Captain had entered strong protests against tho delay, claiming damages to the machinery, causcd by the neglcct.^of those in ha Arrival of (lie Steamer Punipero«-I,a-ter from Mexico.

NEW ORLEANS. March 25/

The steamer Pamporo. from San Juan, has arrived at this port. She brings 200 passeugers.

We havo dates from the City of Mexico to 16th inst. Santa Anna had left the Capital on the 12th, to take the field in person against Alvarez, and the latter was represented as being surrounded in the mountains, destituteof money and provisions, and nearly deserted by his adherents.

Loss of tbe Stcnincr Federal Arch. LOUISVILLE, March 27. The Steamer Federal Arch sunk thirty mile* below St. Louis, last Friday. She had a heavy cargo for Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.

Markets.

CINCINNATI, March 27. P. M.

Flour—The only sale* lo-day were 400 bbls. in two lots, nt $6:25. The demand is limited, but under the favorable advices from the East, holders are firmer. The receipts coutinue light.

NEW YORK, March 27, M.

Sales of 250 bags coffee at. 12c fur Rio. Sales of 8,500 bbls flour at $7,G2@8,00, for State, and $7,87@H,12 for Southern. A further advance, with a continued speculative demand.

Wheat is inactive, buyers are holding back for lower prices. Corn is in good demand at 82085c.

O" There is some misapprehension existing, as to the quantity of grain contained in an Englifh Quarter. It is eight bushels, but not eight Winchester bushels, which was the standard in England up to 182G, contains 2,150.-1 cubic inches, while the Imperial bushel, which has been the standard since, contains 2,218,1.92 cubic inches. An English quarter, therefore, is equal to about 81 of our bushels. This is a fact worth remembering, by any man in the grain market.

CT We received yesterday from New York, along ndvertisrmont, with a request to publish it, and take a portrait of Henry Ward Beecher for pay. Now we wouldn't take Henry himself for pay, much less his picture.

Wonder if tho jockeys of Ephesus and Corinth peddled the portraits of Paul and Silas

RESIGNED.—It is said that Donald G. Mitchell (Ik Marvell,) has resigned tho Consulate at Venice. The reason assigned is that the fees will not begin to pay expenses.

O* The new cent is to be of white metal, resembling silver in appearance, with around and slightly raised edge. It is about 8 lOths, of an inch in diameter, larger than a ten cent, piece, and less i'1 size than a quarter of a dollar. ,,

OXK or THE ANCIENTS.—The Lafayette Journal says that William Martindale died a few days since, in Miami county in this State, atthe advanced age of ono hundred years eleven months and sixteen days. He left children, grand children, great grand children, and great-great-grand-children.

QJ" There aro fifteen Roman Catholic Journals in circulation in this country, whose united circulation may be estimated at. aboul 60,000,..

O* W« learn that Jons II. BCKNAM Esq., for some years a highly respected citizen and magistrate of this place, died of a lingering consumption, at Worthington, in thia State, on Monday the 20th instant. s,

ID" A slight fall of snow la*t night and this morning, and tho cold breeze astir, render spring rather unpleasant to the nervous system.

DYSPEPSIA.

The Rock Rose Compound is rapidly gaining popularity in tho community, as the greatest modem remedy for restoring the vital principle, and diffusing a healthy circulation of the blood through the system. Patients suffering from Dyspepsia, Scrofula, and general debilitv, should by all means procure the Rock Hose. See advertisement in another column.

GROTOX BANK, Conn., Oct. 1,1850.

Rev. A. B. L. Myers Dear Sir—This is to certify that I have full confidence in the "Hock Rose," and believe it stands unrivaled relative to the complaints it proposes to cure. I have used it for nervous affections and Dyspepsia,: with success, and would recommend it to all who aro afflicted wilh Dyspepsia, general debility, and Scrofulous difficulties.

Yours, N. T. ALLEN, Pastor of Groton Bank Baptist Church. STT Myers' Extract of Rock Rose, for sail* BY Dr. WM. L. MAHAJ», Terre-Haute, and Drug srists generally, where pamphlets, Ac., may had gTatis. (March 1,1854-12-*.

4ItK112theS4th last.,by Rev. A*K** Worn*. JOTTS J«. UKAKK.of Danville, U\*.t to MUsfl CATHAK1SK W. WALKER, of tbla place.

DAVID A. POWELL.

Steam Engine and Boiler Builder,

Bntl*r Street, between OmgrtM and tnmt, Cincinnati. Ohio. LL kinds of Planin* Machines, Lathes, A. Screw '"titfint? Marhincs, fast Iron Saw

.. and Grist Mill Water Wheel*, Saw and Qritfj

o1* Mill Irons made to order.

constructed 1200 miles of railroad. March 1, 1854.12-1/ j.