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WEDKESDAY) APRII* 12» 18.i4

.•• The Wabash Express,

Ic publlthod every Wedn««d»y, at $2 year, If p*id three montfct from ibe tlmo of #ob*criptiOo— 30, if within «ix month*—or. $3, If pijrment H* delifM to the end of the year.

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Particular attention given, to A I I tO Ijroir which we powesa roperior facilitie*.

Jiy Adverti«en»enti inaerted at the oaaal rate®

Q3* There is a perceptible lull in the turn of news. Nebraska—The Homestead—The War. Well, we must wait, and we are willing to, for all but the homestead. AH ears are listening towards the shore to catch the first sound of the next swell that rolls across the ocean. Parties in the East seem to have gone too far to allow of any hope of retraction, and the world hive made up their mind* to witnets a scene of bloodshed on a grand scale. Letter writers think that the vaunted strength and discipline of the Russian army will not stand the test when brought into practical encounter with the legions of the turbaned monarch.' "Austria is con fidently counted on now, as an ally againt the Czar, bet Prussia seems swerving from her former inclinations, to the opposite pole. All Europe is in motion. It has been a long time since there has been such general arousing of hostilities among the nations. It cannot well be. now. that any two considerable nations should take up arms against each other, without drawing into the struggle a large portion of the world. The reason is, that from the increased facilities for the multiplication and the diffusion of knowledge, and for the rap id transportation and commingling of the people of all nations, the different parts of the world have, become attached to each other, not simply by the paper fastenings of governmental treaties, but by milions of interwoven and intertangled cords of private interest, acquaintance and friendship. In fact, the whole world is fast coalescing into one great family, we hope, and will soon be convinced that what is really for the good of one nation is for the good of all. The people of the nations are fast finding out that men are men, whether bom on this side the boundary or on that side. You cannot now rudely jostle one nation without shaking the whole. A fow cold lumps still remain hard frozen in the hearts of some of the old monarchies, which the present state of fermentation into which they are thrown will be likely to reduce .so that when the commotion subsides there ttjll not be left the same elements for despots to practice upon, and wo may hope for a happy chango to come

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What are "Consols"? They Area three por cent English stock which has its origin in an act of Parliament Consolidating several separate government stocks, called intheaot "Consolidated annuities." In quoting, this term is oommonly written •'Consols," for brevity. From the amount, and the immense number of the holders of this stock, it is more sensitive in its financial influence than any other, aftd is, therefore, the favorite stock for the operations of speculators and jobbers. In January. 1848, it amounted to upwards of three hundred and twenty-four millions of pounds mtf*

OUR SPANISH TROUBLES.—The Louisville Courier says letters from Washington indicate coming trouble with Spaig.— One writer says that those who consider themselves acquainted with the purposes of the President nihd Cabinet, hffirfti that the expectation prevails, ait the State Department, that Mr. Soule will take his leave of the Court of Madrid within ten days or two weeks after he shall have received the instructions sent him in consequence of the outrage upon the Black Warrior and that upon his return, orders will be issued for the armed occupation of Cuba 4V

A NUT POR THB CURIOUS ~Mr John Toothaker, who is engaged an extensive lumbering operation about the uppfrr waters of the Uumbngog lakes, writes to the Farmington Chronicle that one of his men, who was felling a pine tree near the Mooselamaguntic. struck a hard substance which rendered his axe comparative use* less. On examination it proved to b* a clone, winch., when taken out, weighed 38 pounds. The stone was four feet from the ground, in the center of the tree—the tree was perfectly smooth, and ov^r two feet in diameter at the place whew the fetone was imbedded.

1' ^jlT Thoanti-J?ebraska whig* havs been carryiag all bewvre them, io Connecticut and Rhode I (land. President Pierce cannot make the hill country echo right, lie shouts bnuka! and the hills and rocks on ev«ry aid# echo and reecho, iVobraska I iY»braaka 1

CHARACTERISTIC.— It is said that the R«v. Dr. Todd of Pi its field. Mass., having read Dr. Edward Beccher's "Conflict of Ages.n and being asked by a friend, what he thought of the book, answered* either indefinitely "Sir, I have come..to the conclusion that (here are three classes of people in the world, via saints, sint&r* and the Betclier family.*'

nJCT Oacombers are new selling io tkc Cw- The city was fall «rf aU*eg«|, aad JMAMSS ciaaati market, at SO ceaU ajslece

Correspondence of the Kipwiai

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LAFATETTS, April 6th, 1854.

Slercury.Vhe winged messenger of the gods, althodgh he originated flie express business, had more time to survey the countries he traversed, thaa a mod^*u railroad traveler.- One reason is, that he was not restricted to two iron tracks, and although he carried" the mail, it was filled with lore-letters, and consequently very light, there beingf no evidence that any members of the Olympic Divan were allowed the franking privilege.

I left Terre-Haute this moningand arrived at Indianapolis on the railroad that knows no accident, experiencing all the way in common

settlements on the way are new, and built of lumber hardly yet seasoned: but still the germs of thrifty towns in the future. They are a development of Young America, stepping .out into the front rank and leaving behind the old fogy settlements to wither in the shades of neglect. Indianapolis is called the Railroad City, and a stranger would at once decide that it was no misnomer, as a large portion of the ordinary tumult of a busy town is drowned in the perpetual dinging and screaming of locomotive bells and whistles.^^j fj^ .» -i

The railroad from Indianapolis to this city though making good time, and evidently well managed, is much inferior to the T. H. and Richmond road, in the character of its construction. Ohangefrom the latter to tho former is like sailing from still water into a troubled 8oa-

pecialljr thia seM»a i. flT*!* Hoo'riet. "j«r«, Hedden. Snvder. with track Beeming industriously to avoid the towns and strike for timber. Consequently all the two clothing stores, and several shoeshops, names we don't know. On 4th st.,

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This smart little city of Lafayette I like. There is an air of nervousness and vigor about it which shows that a large portion of its com positron is gristle. Straws phow which way the wind blows, and I have noticed one or two relics of barbarism here. In the matter of "tak ing in strangers," it lacks just one dime of be ing fully christianized—that being the amount the hotel keepers charge for conveying you to their houses by omnibus. Like a wounded squirrel they hang to the custom by one claw but will soon drop, and yield to the liberal spirit of the ago. Iam stopping at Jones's Hotel, which if any pass by, they will run the risk of missing the best accommodations.

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(ET When it was announced by leiegraph that the Governor of New York, had vetoed the Prohibitory Law, we expected to find in his reasontsomething weighty, or at least, speci ous but we have been very much disappointed. It sounds rather flat in Gov. Seymour to give among liis reasons the ancient whine "you may coax men, but you can't drive them." But then, he did as well as he could in justifying such an act. A bad cause can never rest ou good reasons/"*** I*? ,'J In T" slf! A fgrr?

FATAL* ACCIDENT.—Robert Steel an employee of the Lafayette and. Indianapolis Railroad, while engaged in coupling some enrs tm the morning' of rtre'^rTi IristV,' WilS"^ caught between them, and crushed so se-

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riously that he died a few minutes after wards. He was single

Col. Lane, one of our Reprelchla-

tives in Congress, who, for sometime past, has been accused of doughfacedness in his action with regard to Nebraska, seems to have completely vindicated himself against the accusation and is now, after a full hearing of the circumstances, acknowledged, even by his opposers, to have borne himself honorably and "voted like a man," on that matter. We are heartily glad of it, and wish we could say as much of all our Representatives. .H rSf m.

JC7" We gather from our exchanges that although tbo growing wheat has sustained injury, as is always the case, in many places, yet in this and the neighboring States, tho prospect is very fair for an abundant harvest especially as it is becoming fashionable to thrust in spring

O* The Bonrd of School Trustees for t^o city of Terro-Hnute, organized on Satrday last, by choosing Joseph Cooper, resident V. J. Burnett, Treasurer, and M. Soule, Clerks

03r A private letter from Rochester, Vermont, says that the snow was two feet dtep and the thermometer down to xero, on the 21st u|t. A strong contrast to the green leaves and bright blossoms of Terre-

33" The election of United §£ates Senators is made in New Hampshire, not by joint ballot of Legislature but by concurrence of Uie two Houses.

A FOWL FCOITRAWSO?R.—Youfig gentlemen who dress tight pants and bobtail coats, have received the appellation of Shanghais.

Vttxow Fmta.—A. Gcrmtn, just from Havana, died at York on Wednesday, tha 5th iost., of Tcll'iw fever. This d»«*a»e now prrnlMt at Havana, and tb« Conner jury ia t*s* bivtcraMimi tfe« qtiarmntiae for allowing a v**sel, haviag «o dan* {Mesa a dim4*on baud, to come to the city.

CT Then wer« 165 dctfti in Xe* Orl«*n* *-«»k before last, of which 51 were fey choWra.

Great Conflagration in Terre-Hante.

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with a largo companv nothing but gentleman-- rr ly treatment, not havingbeen swallowed norj'n ashes also, on the opposite side, the "kilt intirely" by President, Conductor, nor shop formerly used by Rankin as a cabi-baggage-man—strange a? it may seem. Be-Snet shop. The buildings burned were octween Terre-Haute sad tbo Capitol tfctf ride, es-

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O* A correspondent writes to a Clcvc-

land paper thus: it i, "Sir. I rote a fue lions to you, fore weeks ago, in ancer to a pence heded," «Stc.

His communication opposes Free Schools.

O* If a ball were discharged from rifle, directly upward in a calm atmosphere, would it descend from its highest elevation, in a time equal to that spent in reaching that elevation, and so strike the ground with a velocity equal to that with which it left it And if not, then whv tot I

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Twenty-One BniineM Finn tlirown out of eke Iter II

The conflagration by which we were visited last night, commencing at about 2 o'clock, was the greatest that has visited Terre-Haute for many a year, certainly since we have known it.

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westward, and from Main street to Ohio street, except two or three wooden buildii.. TT-ii. Li:.i

(,y the Messrs. Furrow, Coats.

Patrick fe Brown, Dr. Fahneslock's of5.ee, Ball & Lockwood. a Barber's shop. Fairbank's Rifle Factor}*, Grace's Marble shop. Dodson's provision store, Neumeister's confectionery establishment, and Dim mick's cabinet shop and not least, the huge Livery Stable of Westfall & Chadwick. *,

The buildings'Hrere, ex'ce*pi the Stable and one or two others, cheap wooden buildings but the loss of property is great, as they, like every building in this city, were stuffed full. The streets are strewed, this morning, with all sorts of goods. The loss does not consist, solely, in what has been burned, though that is so great but in the breaking up of so much business of so many industrious citizens at this busy season, while it must be impossible for them to get any lodgement in town, till they build, in which to house what they have snatched from the fire, and go on with their calling. We cannot now give any estimate of the amount of loss, insurance, &c.

Our neighbors of the Prairie City, and Journal, at the extremes of the low, were closely whispered by the fire, and narrowly escaped by hard fighting. The latter had his windows demolished, and the beautiful building, in which i3 also the Post Office, is badly defaced, and in fact the whole east front of Warren's block, is badly scorched and blacked up.

The fire caught by a flight of outside stairs against Mr. Snyder's Leather Store and the circumstances postrong.topro^it the work of wicked design.

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0^7" To give our neigbors some idea of the rising importance of Terre-Haute as a produce mart, we would state that two of our ware-houses on the Canal Basin, had on hand at the opening of navigation,

JTng'tfie re^plsTdfafetv aayVarter, one hundred and forty-eight thousand bushels of corn, six thousand bushels of wheat and six thousand bushels of oats.

We have now thirty canal boats owned at this place, and a dry dock for the repair of boats, the best, it is said, in the United States, possessing fine facilities for business, and capable of accommodating a large number of boats at once. is in

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the hands of a man, D. E. STEVENS, who, we'll warrant, from the doings we have seen there, will never let the grass grow bewteen him and his business,

Bloomingtou College Fire.

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By a despatch to Gov. Wright, from Bloomngton, we laarn that the main College buildng with the library, was destroyed by fire, supposed to be the work of an incendiary, as the College steps were first fired, §jf€1

The estimated loss of the Library is from $6,000 to if 10,000. The loss in the College building is still greater. "We are gratified to learn that a meeting of the Board of Trustees has already been called, and arrangements will be made to reconstruct

as usual at the May session, there being three

rooms atlached to the College of sufficient dimensions to accommodate the students.—State Sentinel. 4'

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CT A young man named Cocke was arrested in Kichmond, Va., a few days ago. In 1851. Cocke was engaged to be married to a young lady at Holly Springs, Mississippi. Having an intimate friend, named Wilson B. Sanderson, he requested him to address this young lady himself, merely to test her faith to him. Sanderson accordingly addressed her, was accepted, and they were married. In about twenty minutes after the consummation of the ceremony. Cocke asked Sanderson to step into the street with him a minute. Having gone a little distance froin the house, Cocke drew a pistol and shot Sanderson dead, the ball striking just above the mouth. Cocke made his escape, and had not been found till the present time.

OCT A secret society has sprung into existence of late, which is said to bind its members, by very strong awearing. to certain political courses. They call themselves "TasKtfow NOTHINGS." They have already become a powerful party at the polls in several of the States, and yet nobody inota any thing about them.— They call their "meetings"" by posting up blank paper, and when questioned with regard to any of their movements, "None of "em don't know no thin'." Here is one of their advertisements, from the Philadelphia Smn:

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How cruel it is that the people must be kept so long, in waiting to hear all about that glorioas duel which fife to have ittn between Breckenridge and Cutting. However, we are permitted to fraw along breath again by the assurance that nobody's hurt, nor likely to be. It would be amusing if it were not for a sense of national degradation excited by it, io see several old Congressional fogies busily engaged in running to and fro between these two smart belligerents who have hid away, to pacify them and save thunder. Let them fight or what is better, let them play at hide and seek till they cool. We have no patience with the code of honor. since we were first able to read of the murder of Hamilton.r What can be more foolish than for a man to seek to prove the truth of a proposition by standing up to be shot at Or to prove an opponent to be a scoundrel by running him through? It is high time that this relic of barbarism were forgotten. No doubt the world will, by and by,when the mighty elements which have raised this commotion shall have a little subsided, be very much instructed in high toned politeness and gentlemanly bearing, excellent good feeling and most worthy motive, and all that, and that, through the important correspondence announced as forthcoming, which will set all ri"ht and show, as clear as a quill, why tliey didn't fight. How interesting.^

Q^r As the season has come when many of our citizens are busy in the laudable employment of transplanting trees, we wish to caution them against one error, in the operation, which causes the I6ss, probably, of fifty per cent, of the trees which die in being transplanted. It is setting them too deep. Do not plunge them into the bowels of the earLh so deep that they can never hear it thunder. The tree itself is the best judge of the depth most sui'able to it. Therefore, plant it just as deep as you found it to be when you took it from its native berth and withall, turn ihe same side to the sun. Stake it up firmly that the wind may not constantly irritate the wounded roots while they are endeavoring to shoot out new fibres wind a whisp of straw or matting around the stem to keep off the violence of the sun till the tree shall have time to start its sap into circulation. Lay some straw around the roots on the surface of the ground, wet it occasionally and keep it covered with boards. By observing these hints of on old hand at the business, the loss of much labor in transplanting, and of delay in a a a

AN AFFECTINO INCIDENT.—^-The New Albany Ledger says: "An affecting incident was related to us, by a gentleman who was a witness to the dreadful scene on board the Reindeer, after the recent explosion1." Two families, one of five and the other of six persons, who were removing from Ohio to Missouri, tvere all so badly scalded by the steam that they have since died. A little girl of five or six years of age, who belonged to one of these families, and whose tender flesh was literally boiled, was laid alongside of her mother, whose spirit was passing, in an agony of pain, from its earthly tenement. Turning her eyes toward her mother, she said: "Ma, it is 60 dark will we not soon get home?" Poor child! Her eyes were darkened by the haze of death, and soon afterwards her spirit was unfettered, and did go home, to live forever with angels.,J

A FALSE MAN AND AN OLD VETERAN.— There is now living not far from St. Sever, says iheyffsmortariforiftlais, an old military man who has a false leg and a false arm, both moveable by means ot springs a glass eye, a complete set of false teeth, a nose of silver, covered with a substance closely resembling flesh, and a silver plate eplacing part of the skull. He wears on his breast the cross of the Legion of Honor, won in the campaigns of Egypt, Italy, and Russia he was also at Friedland.Jena, Austerlitz, Wagram and Waterloo!— What recollections of the past must there not crowd on the old man's memory as he sits in his chair by the fire side and "fights his battles o'er again.".

U* Judge Mitchel, of the Supreme Court of New York, has rendered a decision that, on the sale of real

estate bv auction,

terms, &c., discloses the name of the owner of the lots, and that he, the auctioneer, acts as agent, the owner of the land is not obliged to convey.

O* An Australian, from the numbers of murders committed in that auriferous region. thinks Melbourne is tbe place Shakspeais sprain of when he says,**that bourne from whence no traveler returns*3#)*

U* The Detroit Times says that long John Wentwcrrth was a jour printer when kind. he went to Chicago some fifteen years ago speaker with them stood in one part of the The Toledo Blade denies it, and avers I house, on the opposite side the family of that he was nothing but a lawyer, yet as the brideA platform, raised one step, he was an ambitious chap and wanted to occupied the center—-in the center of that come up in the world, he allowed the impression to go abroad that he was a printer for the respectability of the thing f— The consequence is, he has in that time amassed a fortune of $230,000 and has been elected to Congress five times I

ST Mad dcgTweP^l? the streets 1 held a silver crown over the head of each. of Cmcinn&ti. Fire of the the nobility bore her train,

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RUSSIAN POSSESSIONS. MR. EDITOR: In these days of wars and rumors of wars, it- may not be without some interest and profit, to take a birfseye View of the dominions of the gigantic despot who so stoutly throws |»w*the gauntlet to all Europe. The items here collated are from notes of lectures and personal interviews #ith Dr. Baird—-who perhaps more than any other American, "testifies truly that which he has seen ."

The RcssiAN EMPIRE comprehends between: one-seventh and one-eighth of the land surface of the globe. It has a population of fifty-four millions fn European Russia, twelve million* in Asialjc Russia, and two millions in other Russian posses sions. In its forests the hospitality of its inhabitants, its bad roads^„and slavery, it reminds one of America. In European Russia, 48 of the 54 millions are serfs, always sold with the land, but allowed to acquire property, and oftentimes a large property. "V."

The face of the country is very level, with two immense inclined planes one sloping to the South East, its rivers emptying into the Black Sea, the other sloping to the North West. If all Europe was leveled off, the height of Russia above the level of the s^a, would be 35Q feet of all the other countries 650, Spain the highest of all.. ,-'

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The principal cities of Russia are Moscow and St Petersburg Moscow sixteen miles in circumference, a city of domes and palaces, and St. Petersburg twentyfive. As the army is the only road to honor, in Russia as in all despotisms, the Emperor has thirty-four military Academies, attended however only by the sons of Noblemen^ A little of the leaven of American Republicanism would do them no harm. It is affirmed that numerous as is the Russian Nobility, it is the determined policy of the Emperor to multiply the number indefinitely for the purpose as he avows it. of breaking up aristocracy That may be the only way in Russia—we have a better way with us. Nothing is more humiliating to a high-minded American, who remembers that in his country the people arc all one, than the servility of the Russian masses. They not only kiss your hand, but rub their face over it, and over your arm to the shoulder, and sometimes get down and clasp your knees

As might be expected, one fruit of such a complete despotism, where brute force triumphs over mind, and where military law is omnipotent, is implicit obedience to orders. The emperor on one occasion sent out a party of men into Poland after a shaft of granite for a monument, and ordered them to get one eighty feet long, if they could find it. The stupid fellows having found one 110 feet in length, cut off 30 feet to obey orders

Theii1 method of riding and driving is somewhat peculiar, often with four, five and six horses abreast, and most furiously at that. If any one in their lieadlong speed should be run over, the whole concern is forfeited, partly to the government and one half to the complainant. The Emperor himself not excepted for he, once having run over a drunken man, immediately drove to a magistrate, relinquished his establishment, and went on foot to his palace. Such a custom introduced here, would do us no harm.

The climate of Russia is awful. The thermometer often falls from 80° to 100° below zero But, for our comfort they tell us, and itmny be true, that often from 30° to 40° below zero, one is not aware of any difference. Indeed we are assured that it does not seem colder than our New England winters.

Though occupying such a vast extent of territory there is no danger, and none but persons of strong imaginations would ever have dreamed of any—that Russia would ever conquer the West of Europe. The troops of the line are its only reliance, and though vast and well disciplined.— France has far more effective pow^r, and is more densely populated.

The cause of Education is not wholly neglected in Russia. There is a flour ishing Seminary, for young ladies* in Eastern Russia, in which 750 pupils are in structed. The building is immense, full twenty times as large as our largest Col {eges, including 13 acres. In this Insti-

there instruction is very thorough, not

must be a written agreement to selland only in all the usual accomplishmentspurchase in order to hold the parties the I but also in fine needle-work. Of the ?50 same as at private sales-and that unless 450 are daughter* of merchants, the auctioneer in his book, stating the commoners of every class

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daughters of the nobility. They have no inter-communion. A Russian Wedding which Dr. Baird saw was

Somewhat unique. It was among

the nobility. The ceremony was performed in a large chapel without seals of any The Foreign Ministers, and the

was an altar with silver crosses and can diesticks. Soon after taking their position the bridal party entered—consisting of the Priest and two Monks in black—then die bride and groom, then the brothers of the bride and train bearers. The bride wore across her breast and under one arm. a crimson velvet ribbon, from which were suspended a great many jewx-ls,-—on her seek a diamond chain reaching nearly to her feet—her hair was also dressed with jewels and diamonds and her brothers'

consisting of crttnson velvet lined with ermine. 12 yards long by 6 wide 1 The ceremony lasted-nearly ad hour, at the close of which a fup of wine mixed with bitter ingredients was given .them to drink.

Those of yoftr Vesiders, in|gmt|!d in the[| progress of tlie war^ and not un frequen tly coming across an unmouthabie ana unpronounceable Russian name, will do well to bear in mind Napoleon's direction: "|f you want to pronounce a Polish or Rus sian name, you must cough a little, then sneeze, and put a skee on the end."

Tftenghts the Paii*

One hundred years ago all this Great West was occupied by the untutored In dian. How faint and few the rays of light that reached his mind amid the hazy vapors with which he was surrounded.— Here and there a Mission School exhibited the crucifix, which did more to make the darkness visible, than dispel it from the savage mind. Alas! what value could he set on existence, when immortality only twinkled in his hopes like a distant star The lamp of revelation shone not on his footsteps as he went down to the regions of death. Visions of a material paradise may have soothed his heart for a moment, but all those glorious realities which are promised in the unerring Word, and real ized by faith he knew not. A. W.

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Five Days later from Europe.'

I ARRIVAL OF THE *8*

STEAMER EUROPA.

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The Europa arrived at 4 o'clock. The London Globe states that the Rus sia consents to the neutrality of Sweden.

The Prussian people are earnestly petitioning the government to join the Western powers, but the government hangs back.

Austria seems to act in concert with the Western powers, but not yet in a decided or definite manner.

Nothing from Omer Pacha's camp on tho Danube. An English and French frigate, have gone to destroy the Russian's blockade at the mouth of the Dunube.

There is nothing from the Baltic or BUck Sea fleets. We have nothing later from Asia. The Czar has written a refusal, but it had not come to hand. It is supposed he would not send a categorical reply, but will accept war if offered.

The Greek revolution vet lives, butlanit,. 3W ,t T'G^x. CT 'BUiK Pi: SU"JT'J ^.4 R, 4 2*TT...

The export of gram has been prohibited from the Ionian Islands. The Cnnard steamer Cambria sailed on the 25lh from Liverpool to Kingston to ship more troops. The Canard steamer Teneriffe will sail fur Malta with a part of a regiment for that station.

PARIS, Friday evening.—The National Government Loan subscription^jt.is said, reaches 400,000,000 francs.j^

A collision took place in the English channel, between the American ship Ann Kemble and the bark Bonnetta, of Liverpool. The latter sunk, and eleven lives lost.

hp ri INnj mi NEW COUNTERFEITS.—-The following description of spurious notes ore said to be in circulation:^ i* ..jah-its Hnra 2 s—Bank of Albany, ftew Albany, la., raised from a genuine one. Vignette, female seated, holding milk pail, cattle. «&e., locomotive on lower left corner Statu arrris right bottom corner figures 20 each upper cornea 20's—Public Slock Bank, Newport, la. raised from a geriuine one. Vignette, female. spread eagle and shield female oh right end—portrait on lovtfcr left corner.

10 s—Farmer's Bank, Chicago. 111. al-j~L,g

tered from genuine I 's. ignette, female

reclining on a bale of ^oods, female on the lower right, and TEN on the left lower corner, and a large finely executed "X" on the right upper corner. Finely executed and would deceive any person not familiar with Bank notes. ij$

THE AUTHOR OP GRAT'S ELECT.—Mr. Gray, author of an ."Elegy in a Church Yard," being naturally very timerous of fire, during his residence at College, provided himself with a rope-ladder, for the purpose of conveying himself out of the window, in case of danger. Taking advantage of this, some of the collegians, under the favor of a dark night, placed a large tub of water under his window—when, after raising the alarm of fire, they had the pleasure of seeing the Bard of Tindus immersed in other waters than those of Helicon.

JOH* HOWARD PAYSK.—The remains of the late John Howard Payne* (the author of "Home,.

Sweet Home,") are to be

brought to this country and placed in the Congressional burial ground, and a suitable monument erected at the expense, of the government.

D- It appears that Miss Fox, the originator of the snirit-rapping humbug, went to Washington some days since, and operated in a committee room of the capitol for the edification of members. Mike Walsh, hearing of it, jose to a privileged question in the Houle, saying that Congress had forbidden the introduction of spirits into the capitol—and fhey ought to be pnt down.

The origin of the term "windfall is said to be the following: Some of the nobility of England, by the tenure of their estates, were forbidden selling any of the trees upon them, the timber being reserved for the us? of the royal navy. Such trees as fr 11 without cutting, were the property of the occupants. A tornado, therefore, was a perfect godsend e»ery sense of the term to those who had oeeupancy of the extensive forests, and the windfall was sometimes of a very giefrt

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Tbo Moral influence of Cltiei". The accounts which come to us of the' Hiameful manner in which the late elec* tions have been conducted in New Orleans, fiend strongly, to revive in our mind all f|hose fearful misgivings as to our instituns which we felt years ago, while living :, and voting in one of our most populous seaboard cities. It was no novel thing there to ace the plsllg bes|egld by blind of surly ruffians, who, if they dared no* thing more, would doggedly crowd the passage to the ballot box so compactly that it, was impossible for one of the opposite party to arrive at it except over the heads~ofr the crowd. Many a oine have we" caught up by his partisans and throw* gp sprawling upon the heads of the crowd, top clamber to the hole in the window into?! which his vote' was to be deposited, and there hold on by one hand while his votewas proffered by the other, and leisurely received and registered by the interested judges within. This done, neither of tlieg

committees of the opposing parties. w"hich|^ were arranged on each side of the crowd,w had any further use for you, and you found|§ your way back, crawfish fashion, over the§| same heads at your own peril often with your coat slit through the back from thojtf skirt to the collar, your hat gone, one org both your boots having quit before you: I

The policy of these doings was plaiqi Very few of the older and most respecta-^ ble citizens, who had the good of theirs, country most at heart, especially tho feeble, who had stood by their country in* many a dark hour, and who now stood^ tottering over their staves, in anguish at' the sorrowful prospect, had the courage^ or the physical ability to battle their way? through such difficulties to reach the balldt box and so, with a sigh over the sad prospect of Amctican freedom, they turned away, leaving all to the will of the' roughest. .»!!, -m •. n'A

No one who has not had an opportunity to witness these scenes, so common already, and so fast increasing in our cities, can easilly be aroused to a sufficient dread of the evil influence of our large cities upon the morals, and henco on the liberties of the nation. Turning to their account the steam ship, the railtoad and the tele-1 graph, they are fast absorbing every ele-» ment of influence, and through the ocean, of cheap periodicals, are deluging the whole country with their own principles, as surely as the heart in the centre, forcesthe blood, whether healthy or corrupt, into every capillary of the body. Success, then, to popular education nnd to the spread of the Bible, to enlighten and purify our overwhelming floods of rising population. Educate and christianize the wide spread country nothing else can fortify and save us from the deadly influence of these putrid heart cores against whose poisonous influences we must constantly1 struggle.

We .subjoin an extract from the Cincinnati Commercial. ELECTION FUACDS. RIOTS AND MURDERS, IN NEW ORLEANS.—The election at New Orleans on the 27th ult., was in several phases deplorably disgraceful. The most outrageous of the rioters and the most brazen ot those engaged in organized frauds, were in many cases the Police and the Commissioners of elections. Bands of drunken vagabonds, headed by police officers roved about from ward to ward, voting many times each, countenanced by the commissioners. The solemnities of oaths were loudly jeered at. When the voters who were challenged, went through the ceremony of an oath, the questions were repeated to them rapidly as possible, so that no one could tell what was sworn or said. The friends of fairness and order rallied round the polls and challenged tho gangs of drunken rowdies, and in somo ca-

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them bv force. At the Sev-

Ward, in the afternoon, an attempt

was made to drive the independent challengers from the polls. The onslaught was led by a police officer named Moner, afid his followers were a band of picked ruffians, wielding clubs with bare arms.— The assault was a formidable one, but the blood ofyoun^ America was up, and weapons more decisive than clubs were drawn nnd used. Morler was laid dead by a blow from a knife, and his followers fled in fright, several of them being severely wounded.

When closing the polls of the Seventh Ward, it was proclaimed that 432 votes had been registered, but at one o'clock in the morning, it was declared that 460 votes had been counted, and the commisssioners were ready, it was believed, to cbanijs tho number to a still higher figure, if it should be deemed expedient. Is it any wonder that a party of indignant citizens took the desecrated ballot box of that ward broke it open and scattered its contents in the street.

Ketchmn's

Patent Mowing Machine/

The only Snccwifnl (Iran Cutter Er» cr made.

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liave the sole right of this State. Orders should be sent in early to secure a machine for this reason, as the supply is limited. Price $125, delivered in Terre«Haate,

It is the only machine that will cut clover and all kinds of Gross. Circulars containing testimonials, and blank orders, will be sent, on application to

MUafFORD & HOOKER, Lafayette, Ind RIDDLE A LOCKRIDOE, Agents, April J2, tjulyl Terre-Haute4Ind.

Sale of Mortgaged Premises,

-VTOTIOB is hefebj given, that en Saturday,. IN the 17th day of June, 1854, at the CourtHouse door in the city of Terre-Haute, we will proceed to sell at publie auction, -without anjr relief from valuation or appraisement laws, the following premises, situate in the county' of Vigo, to-wit: The eqoal sod undivided onefifth part of the North-east quarter of section four, 4) township ten,10) north of range ten. (10) west—the whole quarter containing, on£. hundred and ten acre*.. Said land is mortgaged by Thomas Bell to Lucius Rrcr and Samuel H. Potter, (trading under the name and stvla of S. H. Potter A Co..) to secure the pay?** ment of $334 $0. Said mortgage bears date the 8tb day of November, 1851, and contains a power of sale,or foreclosure io accordance with chapter 39 and from section 51 to section 71,' inclusive of the revined Statutes of 1853. The mortgage is recorded io the Recorder's office of

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-ti Br R. N. HCDSOX, their Attorney. April 12,1S54-18-8W ...