Weekly Reveille, Volume 1, Number 37, Vevay, Switzerland County, 2 March 1854 — Page 2

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Frep Discnssion.

The columns of the Reveille are open for free upon all subjects, which are interesting to the community generally. We not be responsible fnr any writer's oninion; tut will publish all articles of a reasonble length, provided they are worth inserting. Articles are respectfully solicited.

Fire at Ghent, Ity.

A fire broke our in Qhent on last Sab* bath evening. A frame dtvelling was burned to the ground. The house was owned by a Mr. Grifley. The fire broke out about 3 o’clock, A. M,, and was not discovered until the smoke awakened, tire family. Nothing much was saved, not even the children’s clothes.

Dry Goods at Wholesale.

Wc take pleasure in directing the al[{n* lion of our merchants generally, through* out this and the surrounding, counties, in Kentucky and Indiana, to the advertisement of Messrs. Joiis W. EiAts §• Co., of Cincinnati. This firm have great facilities for accommodating merchants, having a partner residing in" the east, who forwards new goods as they appear jf} d> e market. , . v

Ilnrrls' Mirror ol In temperance. This splendid panorama will be exhibited at* Odd Fellows’ H a U< Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings, March I, 2 and 3d. This exhibition .has received the universal praise of the press throughout this Slate, and we are ponfidepl that

is well worth going.lg sec..

(£7- On Tuesday last, we were favored with a visit from Rev. ffa. Gill Ago, of Cincinnati, Traveling of ; the Star tn the W«/.- Mr/ G.preached to the Odd Fellows’ Halt on Monday - flight last, Id a very respectable „;and attentive audience. ‘The Star has passed,lnto the hands of Uev. G. W. Quinby, by whom it wilt in future be conducted. i'J’erms, S3 per annum.

; Aa wo were employed, as a typo, upon the Star for several years, it would give pa pleasure to exchange.

Kr The charter of the Terre Ilaule and St. Louis Railroad called "Ilrongh’s-Road') has passed both branch* es'pf the Illinois Legislature. The Road may now be considered as a "fixed faqi.” as the Governor is already committed in o ul raising the means to build it, and the work will no doubt be pushed to completion as fast as possible.

Mr. Verson. —A movement hai been originated among the ladies of Virginia, Georgia, end perhaps one or two other of the Southern ■ Slates, for the purchase of Mount Vernon by contributions raised through the agency of the ladle*. At Savannah Ihe ladies held a meeting, at which committees were appointed to present the subject to the people of that Stale. \

A new stssion of the Commercial College, of Indianapolis, will commence next Monday, March Gth. \V. McK. Scott, Principal; M. J. Clark, {late of N. York,} Professor of Pennmanship and JBookkeeping. This is, undoubtedly the TOW-Mcrcantile College in the West. We tSvcTa ticket of scholarship which we will sell very, low.

Dcsntt'CTive Eire at Portlafd.— On last Friday night about 7, o'clock, a fire broke out in the counting room of the three story brick ware house of McCullough y Buren, at Portland; which together with five or sir small tenements adjoining were burned to the ground.

We sc? by some of the political newspapers in tills State, that candidates for Congress arc already in the field The Brookvillo Democrat has an article recommending B,'W, Wilson, Eeq., of Greensbtirg, as just I fie man for the limer, W. M. French, of Ohio county, we presume is a candidate!

'l’ns Churchman's Monthly Magazine.—This is the title of a now and iieal magazine, just established at New York city. This periodical is Episcopalian in character, ami is afforded at $3 a year. Address, Proprietor of the Churchman’s Monthly Magazine, jtyewYork.*-

OCT The Madison- Courier siaifs that L. Dunham, our Congressman, bar left Washington Chy. to attend the courts in WA?bington and . Jackson, counties, in this Slate!

Death of. Gen. Armstrong or the Washington Union, —The.telegraph announces the death of this brave companion in arms of the Hem of New Orleans.

fC7".We rue -under obligations to iMEArr.'.-'-Orown an-T Vineyard of the Wla:o:i«Id. for !a:c-

[For IheWeekly Reveille. j Xlie prqnUard’s Home.

I hWpiWd by the door of the.drunkard, and

heard. Him abusing his wife with unkind word, While the* cold wind shrieked through the

tattered wall And the door which oped in a distant hall Prcientcd a scene I lothe to recall, Of on old straw bed, where some fragments lie

Of wornout clothes, the only supply To shield ihe children at night when they

slept. While the pale light glimercd and the mother

wept. As she hushed her infant to its wonted rest. Which to her trembling heart she pressed, While she paused to listen in anxious doubt For the inebriate's coming, who often was out Loitering his time away in the town

'Till nil were at rest, and Ihe moon went dowp, Where a friend incarnate filled up the botyl, And coaxed him to drink, to the curse of his

soul,— ’Till his eyas stood cut and his face imdarned Told of his families''ruin and shame.

Aghin, I passed on the Lord’s holy day, While the sun shone put with gladdening ravin the door the children all prattling stood. And the mofAfrwus busy satdngsome icood! Heeding not those who thoughtfully trod '

The pathway that led to the house of their

God, for her heart hed grown callous from wanted

neglect From him who had vowed he'd ever protect Her above all earth’s joys beside,

When qt the altar he claimed her his bride. But now there's a Balm, a Physician to heal This blighting evil which so many feel, paused by rumsellers throughout our land, Who mendicant-like, in their doggeries stand Blending licit posiott for the old and the young While words of blasphemy ’scape from Ihe tongue;' ■ ’Tls'the "Maine Liquor Law” that rose in Its might, May it sweep from our land this evil and j‘ blight: j All hail, to Ikjs law that has risen to quell The demon of drunkenness, by which thousand? have fell; And may it be borne on the.swifl wings of time To all mankind, in every dime, ’Till it breaks the shackles which bind in thrall All those who suffer from King Alcohol.

Vevat, Feb. 27, 1851.

MsRC£LI.A.

(Original.) Chcerlnlncss.

What is more lovely and charming to our hearts than to see nor friends possessing the treasure of a cheerful disposition? And when our spirits are depressed, the jiighl of a gay and cheerful face is like the bright (lashing of the sun on a cloudy over what was before cold and passionless, and enables us to took around upon our Jellnw facings, and no longer imagine ourselves the miserable inhabitants of a miserable world.

What Uwe are poor! There are riches in friendship, in love, and i!n books. There is poetry in the flowers of earth, in the winter** fireside.jn the stars which adorn the sky, in Ihe coloring of the autumn leaves, and in their dying away, like the good man, who ere he dies seems to change his nature, and for a while become enveloped in heaven’s own light and glory. Look on the bright side when all appears as dark as “Egyptian darkness’’— remember the “darkest cloud has a silver lining,* 1 I You, who are poor, take comfort in lyour families, in reading, and in religion. You who arc n'cA. relieve the wants of the distressed, the widow and the orphan , and your conscience will whisper so |sweet an approval, that '‘sleep like an [angel, will visit your bed.” I Mourner, let not thy heart linger in [snnow over the tomb, when your loved | and departed ones are beyond the grave, |in the bliss of heaven; even when your i spirit sinks with sorrow, give not up to despair, but meekly and cheerfully bear your lot, and God will support you. Let us then pursue the pathway of the world with cheerfulness, and the smiles of heaven will support us in every trial and sorrow, and gild every gloomy cloud, Mfs. Dumont’s School, Vevay. m.

(For the Weekly Reveille, Intemperance a Fruitful Source

or Crime.

By the official report of tha Indiana State Prison for the year 1852. it is found that nut of 217 convicts, 158 were intemperate, and only 5Q temperate. Nearly three-fourths were intemperate, and how much the other one-fourth were under the influence of intemperate sentiments, children of intemperate and educated to vice and idleness, is not staled. This is a fearful comment on the traffic, when, we remember that nut more than, one person out of every six of the adult population, is intemperate. Yet the system of drunkard making furnishes nearly three-fourths of the inmates of the Penitentiary, nut of ode-sixth oft the material. If the intemperate population were equal 1 ; > the terapeiate, and u were possible for crime not to be increased, .then the intemperate portion Would Turhfbh 10 cdnvtcls, to the temperate portion The argument then of temperance, m res-

pect to crime, is as 10 to I. , Who pays the expenses of crime,—the: intemperate few, or.(he lemperlae many?! Who is bonefitted by intemperance, save the drunfcprd-maker % with a few more dimes in his coffer? To be temperate costs nothing. To be intemperate costs money, costa time, costs a bloated countenance, costs the loss of Health, costs the shortening of life , costs the loss of characlcn the loss of happiness, the loss of comfort, costs the pangs of a brokenhearted wife, posts mortification and disgrace as an inheritance to the children.

H. Wasos.

[From tie Gospel Herald. Oar Country's Press. JT SIRS. R. ASS m’clvsc.

A censtellation, from whose glorious beams Effusive knowledge o’er the wide earth streams In steady tays of still increasing light,

That thread He rows of dark opposing night; And through the.ijpptb.of superstition, forms A track effulgent—heedless of the storms

And clouds despotic, that would mar fie way, Aud bind to chaos tits bright car of day.

With steady bins, pacb pleiad in the (palm Of freedom's lone, shines like a (Madam Upon the bosom of pur gifted land, j Whose high position will cro’long command— Even as its right—the proudest name on earthl Won by our mess aud its unmeasured vwrth-

Letter (root the Von I tent Jury.

The following note we 6nd tit the Lawreuceburg Press. It was written' by W. N. Lyon, formerly of> Florence,* in this county. U may be interesting to hi? acquaintances ami friends; ; . j

Indiana State Prison, ? Jan. 29, 183-1. J

After a confinement of two months in ( the Slate Prison, and looking back Jo the ( month of November’§3, a month that will be remembered by me. thinking of my trial and escape fiom the county jail. I feel it my duty to let the public know that’ Thom- ( as Roberta. Sheriff of Dtarborp county, is , as clear pf knowing anything of my escape a? the child unbbin. I left it in the dark and dismal night of the 17th of November— unknown to him or the. family. | On the 20th that month I gave myself up to the Lessee of the Indiana State Prison ; to serve,urjul the.26th of Noy. 1553, unless I receive a pardon from his excel ten- , cy, Joseph A. Wright, Gov..of the State. , I was on the bloody field of Hunea Vista under the world-renowned Taylor, with my gun in my hand and my knapsack on my back, but it is nothing to what I have underwent in the last two years and one'roomh, I wantto regain my liberty by the law; if I don't gain it by* the law I am'willing to die in an.odlous - prison. Many a good man and.a great man has met with the same misfortune in by gone days. Wat. N. Lyos,

An Important Humor. The Co wrier Den Eiats Unit, of Saturday, has an article in which it is staled that several offiicers of rank In the Military and Nava! Service of the Czar, have been dispatched to this country, and are now iciually in New York city, ostensibly for the purpose of superintending the construction of two steam frigates, at prs. ent under the ship-builders hands on the East river, but really engaged in recruiting sailors for (he Russian Marine,- The Courrier intimates that the objects of this, movement are even mote singular and perilous In their nature than the simple enlistment of men on neutral terilory, during the impending European war, would be, when conducted by Russian or any other belitgrenl power, viz; the equipment of privateers to be employed against the commerce of England and Francs,

Conferences of a more or less explicit nature, have been brought about with particular parties, varying in iheir character according to the person thus approached; lists having been dawn up; tables of crews and equipments prepared, and the very ships selected which would be the most likely to suit! .So thoroughly has this work been done that, upon the receipt of intelligence that the Girsi cannon shot has been fitted in the Black Sea, nothing would remain to be done but the filling up oflellers-of-marquc, in order to cover the Atlantic with a fleet of American privateers carrying the Russian flag at their masthead.

Cholera on the Coast.

The Point Coupee Echo fLa..J of the 18th inst. baa the following paragraph; We regret to announce that a disease resembling Asiatic cholera, has broken out within the. last few days, among the laborers at the Grand Levee in this parish; and that many of them are leaving inconsequence of the feeling of fear which a few sudden deaths had caused among them. ■ • ■

Mr. 0. Cotliua. planter on the Alchafataya in this pariah made last year, a crop of sugar which is remarkable, having with eleven hands, on one hundred acres, cleared 27i®Q0 pounds of sugar. Of course he bad' to hays some extra assistance, to gel his crop off w But that such a crop should have been brought to maturity with a small force is a proof of the extraordinary Jertiiity^f,the soil of the northern part of our parish, .and of its peculiar fitness for the gfowth of cane.

There is no trifling with nature; it is at ways true, £tave. and severe; il is always in the right, and the faults and errors fall to out share. It defies inpbmpetency, but reveals its secrets to the the truthful, and lie pure.

The Plr*t Meeting of, the Committee of the World's Temperance Convention. ■,

The first meeting of the committee, comprising the Hon! Neal Dow. of Maine, Chairman, the Hon; Malcolm Cameron, of Canada, Christian .Keener, Esq-, of Maryland, Judge O'Neil, of South Coroiiiia. (Jen* Carey, of Ohio, ar.d E. C. Delavan, Esq., of New York, took place in Albany N- Y. Jan, 23d, and continued through the greater ponton of the 24th, Proceeding immediately to business* they ctcciect the Rev, Henry Mandevllle, D. D. Corresponding Secretary, Azor Faber, Esq., Recording Secretary, and E; Corning, Esq., Treasurer. J

It was then Resolved, That as soon as means can be obtained to defray the expenses of the measure, the committee will proceed to. appoint an agent to visit the several stales of the Union and the British Provinces.

It was also Resolved, That it be, and hereby it is recommended to. the friends of temperance in every part of the world.] to hold stimulotis meetings on the second i Thursday in June next, to be conducted, as may seem to them best fitted.to advance the cause they had at heart. It was further Resolved , That it be and hereby is recommended to temperance men throughout the country, to procure petitions to Congress to abolish the spirit ration in die Navy, for a Prohibitory law in the district of Columbia, and for a law forbidding a Post-ofiice to be kept in any part of the Uniled. Stales, in a grocery, shop or store in which intoxicating liquors arc sold. »s a beverage.

CONGRESSIONAL

Washington, Feb. 23.

from the committee on public lands, reported back the Senate's bill granting 2.60D.U00 acres to Wisconsin tor railroad purposes. He advocaved ihc measure, bpt pending the discussion the House adjourned for wapl of a quo-, rum, > \

, Sesvtp—lfumerous petitions were presented against the repeal nf the Missouri (Joinpromise,- • • Mr, Shields ,submitted a petition, from the inyetentpr of'the atmbspheric tele* graph, iasktng aii'approbriatiun of five' thousond.dollars, - to enable him to consult ten miles of his telcgiaphj referred to a special.coratmueo- • = ’ ' Mr. presented a petition . relative to religious freedom, asking .the interposition of this government with foreign powers, wlten. such imerpositi6n r :|a required in order to secure to American citizens abroad ihe enjoyment of religious worship while living, and a place of sepulchre and right of Christian* burial when dead. , , > He said it was strange that such demahds are rendered necessary by the arrogunce of eir thly presumpMon, in this day »f khowledge/sn<l searching enquiry; but to it: wai, ; ami public opinion m this conntry is awaking to the, interest of this quesIfe anlT” fVe eTiTaf 1 o (relig umV'wi* rs tn p is a subject belonging to the kingdom of God and ; nol of roatr, and human -rules cannot interfere with it without equal injustice and presumption, Uf course.we claim no rights ,10-iaterfere between other governments and their own people,.between other governments and their,own people, except the right of judgement and condemnation, r common to all countries not crushed by the foot of the oppressor, when sqqh aclrof revolting tyranny occur to shock, thftf-feelings, of ‘mankind— but when American .citizens are’the sufferers, it is duty of this government to take all such measures as are justided by the laws-of nations to - insure their protection, ‘and the exercise of political institutions, as they are without the scope of political institutions, as they ara without their, just anthoriiy. v -i--fie said he proposed at some convenient time to move the reference of the commute to the excellent report made last session upon similar petitions which were ptesemed by Mr. Underwood, now mi longer a member, and he would then ash to be heard on the subject. He desired also to allude to a matter personal to himself. He said it would be recollected that he made some remarks last session, when a similar petition was presented, which together with the proceedings on that occasion, had been revised with some severity bv Archbishop Hughs, in a doc. ument;published over his own name, and judging from it he had been greatly mis. understood, and he desired to re.assert and maintain his true views, which task he would execute with all the respect due the personal character of the (lisiinguished prelate, but with that freedom which belongs equally to the subject and 10 his own position as a member of :he Senate. He moved the reference of the petition to the Committee on Foreign Relation*.

Washington, Feb, 24.

Senate.— Numerous petitions from Indiana, Massachusetts ami Maine were presented against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,. The Nebraska bill was then taken up, and Mr, Hunter made a speech. House-—’Resolutions were received from the Legislature of New Jersey and Virginia asking for additional grants of land for soldiers of the war of ISIS; referred to the Military Committee. Mr. Stanton, ol Kentucky, made a unanimous report from the Committee on Elections, declaring. Jose Manuel Gallegos entitled to a sen as « delegate from New Mexico, over William Carr, hit late contestant, the former having received 7CB ■majority; adopted. A large number ol private bills from the Senate'we^e- referred to cmnmillces,' Senate. —The Nebraska bill was taken up, and Mr, Tombs made a long ■peecli advocating it, : The Senate then adjourned,

Washington, Fe!)h, 25,

Sf.katb— On motion of Mr. Smart, the Senate took up the resolution instructing the committee on Commerce to report the

river and harbor bill. After some debate the. motion .was laid over until Monday- . Mr Cass read from the Earl of Clarender.’s speech' that portion intimating that the English and Fieneh allied alliance ex* tends to western as well as eastern affairs, 1

Mr. Cass said this clearly mean- an alliance designed to check our national aggrandisement by the acquisition of Cuba, and he hoped the committee on foreign affairs would be prepared to recommend eume action.‘declaratory of our determination not to permit such interfejance. Mr; .Mason said he had noticed in the Tripatiini cornspondence that England and franco- designed to prevent j our acquisition qf 4 Cuba, ’ Mr. Bel! said there ‘was nothing fo; us to do until the interferance actually occurs. What -would the' Senator from Michigan do! -v • > " Mr. Cass read Mr, Churchill's non-io-, terveniion resolutions, offered in (he House some-weeks ago. and *aid_ he would pass them, declares our rights in the family of nations; to stand by them in all extremes.? * •• •'

. The Seqate resumed the consideration of the Nebraska bill.

Mr. Duller concluded hi# speech, and the Senate adjourned;' ■ ■ 1;. ' i,.—. ' ' , ■< • . Feb, 27.Numerous petitions against the repeal of the Misouri compromise were received. Mr.Chase presented petitions from N. York and Ohio, for the repent of the Fugitive Stave act, the abolition of Slavery in jite District of Columbia, and the repeal of all laws for taking in payment on debts dne the U.'Stales, all of j which were laid oK the table.

- A bill granting land to Louisiana (or a railroad fronts lire ye pot I to the Mississippi river, passed, ; A bi|l granting land to Wisconsin for a Railroad from Madison to the Mississippi river also passed. . •' v JJil|s were, presented, granting lands .to Loujsiana,, Mississippi, lowa, - Alabama, Florida' ami California, for Railroad , purposses.; L ‘" . v -,' '•. ..• . House.—M. Davis* radycd to proceed to the election of public printer, in * ths place of Robert Armstrong! deceased. • .Mr. Dean moved the be- post* poned until Wednesday, which was agreed to. ' i " .• i•. ' ‘ An effort waa rhade tmtake up the Senate's bill appropriating 8000 ( 000 for. building si? v sieampra.,

Awful Death. —A most tragical talc.is' told of the suffcritig of three soldiers of a detachment of iho 69ih ■ Regirtient,' now stationed at Tortola anil,a black man. who got. into a ;boat ■ wi|h ; the, soldiers, in die j(petition of descrying and getting overiu. Crab Island, anil from thence as opportunity offered, to America.—After a while, the'wind arising. they were ot their course, anti so in the boar for. without food; or "water. Ailengih one qf, tlye soldiers proposed to draw lots that one should be killed to fur'ifefe i one of the soldiertfi-whti forthwith bound tip lus arm. aml. opened a vilntobleed himself to death, one of, the oilier and the. black man sucked his blood, and afterwards‘went raving .mad and jumped into the sea—Buckley also 'died and liif‘rc>cmained only one nut of the party inilie boal. - William Lennon,- who threw the dead - into the, sea, fashed (he helm and left himself to his fate. He had not tasted any of. Buckley's blood, because, ae&rdirig'fri:his 6wa statement, he had; fella scruplej as he'had been his roraradc. After eleven days drifiingi.V the boat iwaif driven Jo,/the,coast; of Si, Domingo,-tod the coast-guard found ihe ter “giving huh, refreshnienlvsehi him Ip Jacamal to Mhe 1 ' English’Consdl; _ before whom i he made ■ »’-'relation of '.the* facta above, and • he was sent,.back; to.- Toricla in the steamer.—J?ar6adoe| paj)cr.. "i

New York, Feb. 24.

Yesterday the steward on the steamship Africa ■ was arrested oh charge of smuggling.large quan hies of lace goods, which were "seized in the store-ul an importing firm in this city. ; : . - .

Letters from San Francisco announce the failure of Otis grain and flout dealers and Ogden & Haynes. Lia* bilities of each 52U0.000.

A meeting last night of German Demoora ts, called to endorse the Nebrrska bill, broke op in a row. . The ship Cornelius Grinnel front Liverpool,' brought the officers and arew of the ship Columbiana of New York, which was fallen in with jab. 26th. with decks swept, masts gone, and men lashed to the pumps. The sea was running so high that it was impossible to board her then: The C. G.laid by until the next day, when alt the fuller era were rescued and the ship abandoned.

Buffalo. Feb. 24.

This afternoon, while workmen were stringing the cables fur the new tuapen*; sion bridge at Niagara Falls, a scatJolingj with four men on it gave way and two men fell into the river, a distance, of 230; fed; and were instantly killed. The otherl two saved themselves by catching hold of the cables.and were drawn Up to the tower,' ‘V* '

Disgraceful.— At a temperance meeting held at Knob Creek Meeting House, in Franklin. Township, Floyd County, on Monday evening, some persons engaged in ihe disgraceful proceeding of cutting op the saddles nf .ihoid who wore'in the church lisieoing to the lecture.' • Such cowardly conducl will* do, the cause of 1 temperance far more good than harm.— A minisifr from this ’city while delivering a temperance lecture at the same place a few weeks since,; was egged.— N.' A‘ Ltdfaif. ~\)v

■*KT.U it not lime titai tha Switzerland County Agricultural Society.,was.making, some.'arrangements for bold a, suitable Fair? We-think-so,