Danville Weekly Advertiser (Newspaper) - August 3, 1850, Danville, Indiana anb Current H. H. AUGUST 1850. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Dollar and Fifty vcr within tlie Dollars if payment lie delayed until tlin 7 oar for lefs tlinn and no er until paid failure to order a at the end of be considered a new cn per Twen y Five Cents lor additional Nothing to less than a Hie usual discount to those advertising by the cn be post in tlie Court up lines of Willis on the death of President says the Louisville strikes ui as eminently applicable to General his ord on There's no on its whose r breath his bright laurels will fade the lead It with sweet mercy when was all An in ihe council as gallant in lie and not iis In the patl of the hero wUli pity he itli of Follow as ye list The to day Is the father is taken away ren and may moan at his Jle was and to his country as For the on our suddenly us in our u eep for him Not for leaves in Not for has died full of honor and for ascended ladder so tlie round at the top has stepped to sky 1 o so ready to e e 1 Solon Having heard by Doctor that yon are alive and the not I once more to tiie duty of a I have of your lust and I did not know but it had blowed out as ii is yet so am and Merritt arrived at Ranche about 10 days They are now up here among the and have stopped into good luck at nnd ail the Fountain boys are well at this time and doing came very near starting for home tha other I sold out nnd closed having about but at last changed my It would be a shame lo leave ihe field just as the mining season is I am now going to start again on the South close up to its Mountain Last fail when 1 was working hard and could only make 88 a I thought if I could only once gel and money to take me how I would but now I have fell in love with the and make more than a temporary return to tho I want to get a good as soon ns I can. Present indications are that m 2 or years from this time tillable land in California will be worth more than a mine of it is at this All kinds of garden and field now command potatoes are 75 cts per onions 81.25, at least a dried apples sell here at 75 per peaches the and prices cannot diminish as the supply tho Sandwich Oregon and Chili are pretty much Pork is now 50 cts per a good beef sells out lor about 8300. m ning prospect this year is better than I am at present on Deer a stream just south of the The ravines and mountains are all dug around some thousands of people are at work making various wages from 85 to 86 per On as it is Mr. Baldwin showed me the of one day's 3 miles to get to the from the lop of its The river was very and is almost a perfect sheet of Several men and a number of mules have been lost trying to get across It. One poor fellow had 8600 in dust wrapped up in his blankets on his He got walking a couple of poles that had been thrown from rock to rock for a he had to drop his blankets to save and thus went shovel and The stream was about 100 feet and had three sets of poles for a Indians are now Capt. a lawyer from Mr. Mr. Holt and two have been Companies have been raised and sent out to punish but as yet not much has been They run like deer when the troops come after and our men cannot catch is travelling Five men killed in their hut one night on Bear Creek miles south of must give you n sample of California A man was caught stealing some money out of a gaming and a watch from a Four of the resident citizens were chosen to hear the The court was held in a of gambling houses here 3 merchants and a miner sat as the The guilt was and they sentenced him lo receive 50 The poor devil bore up under 40, which cut him to the red every The bystanders requested a remittance of the other as it was like to kill received It and he and his gang ordered to leave the town in three hours at the peril of a general 12 of them took the hint and of them were others suspected and put The law of Judge Lynch is the only one that will protect us here with our canvass Since then we have hnd perfect deaths have occurred here Last Sunday we were called to witness the funeral of a wife of Judge of She was and such a woman is highly appreciated here where they are so and her demise was mourned by a circle of sincere friends and we buried an Odd 25 years of Where there are so of course death v ill be in our G. W. 5 it was ten pounds of gold lacking one pennyweight and n few That the greatest yield ever found in the northern and such diggings are about forty thousand times scarcer than the 85 Within a half mile of here is a Mountain called the Sugar It is isolated and of volcanic Upon the small of its base the miners have discovered The surface earth pays an ounce a day for Some adventurous men dug down 10 or 15 feet and struck the taking out as high as to tha of This is a deposite independent of aqueous and seems to stagger Some think it a lava We call it the because the miners sink a hole down from the nnd then mine out under the Tho is the California days ago I started up the Yuba hunting a of We ag to within about 20 miles of the summit of the Sierra Nevada In some places the snow was from 6 to 20 feet we rode over it without any though in some places considerable streams of water were running under the if we had broke through into we might as well have broke through the ice into a mad mill It is the grandest country for scenery in the The lofty covered with through which struggle to be mighty some of them 300 feet Between these mountains arc of the Santa fair repute in Northern is living He has become a sort of and to him resort tho money borrowers in No one knows what his object 13, for he is very but he has a wrinkle in his head of some Jesuits were to have left Santa where they had after a journey of great privations and in the schooner Anita for and from thence it was thought they would proceed to the United may also be from the tone of all the articles following the expulsion of the that both parties are eager lo test their principles by duels arising from political differences have been fought at In Carthagena three challenges were publicly given by frantic collector of the customs at the above port challenged a Venezuelan named they went but the was amicably the same time a growing feeling of jealousy is relative to American occupation of the and the most extravagant stories are freely circulated and credulously swallowed by the the brutality and lawlessness manifested by all Americans at that They seem to look upon the American population there as a band of pirates and whose only object is and many are the daring threats and menaces of driving them with their army and patriotic from all their violence will go no further than these pardonable outbursts of foolish New of The old distinctions of Whig and as they once it is well have been broken so far as regards A Southern member of in a letter to the Natchez Free endeavors to account for the pieces by arranging them as follows appears to be four parties in Congress A party from the South who wish to cut own A party at the North who do not wish the people of the South to cut their own but prefer doing the job for A party from the North who are willing that the people of the South may cut their own A party at the South who do not intend to cut their own throats nor let any one else do it for last party have the other three against and they will have to exert great energy to save their July 8, 1850. To the Editor of the Tribune Fourth of July in South have been a resident of the South for several years and I long ago observed that the people felt less pride celebrating the of our Republic than the This is a curious and hereby inference of great political never saw the day celebrated here until the present to be in I saw a turning out of the Military Companies to ihe number of Besides this there were two steamboat excursions down the they passed the Fourth of on the sod made rich with the blood of South celebrated the day in u manner becoming South I have lived in this as I snid lor several I have been held up in some of tho papers as a a of Northern and abused in every shape all of which born pretty because tho abuse came from political But the toasts that were drunk at the Beaufort Carnival outraged every feeling in rny because directed against my own New England home and I never heard such splendid outbursts of sectionalism before from Northern or Southern Don't let people talk about Northern fanaticism after To show the people of South I give you so many of these delicate as will serve that splendid failure of the first modern attempt by people of different Institutions to live under the same the event of the South claims as her portion the heart of the Noble to the Yankees we leave the feathers and Free Soiler and the political power and complexion alone they Old Oak of the it always produce an abundance of bark to tan the hides of the a Holy now an accursed Bluffton Boy has said his voice was in his sword the Beufort Boy says his is in two Canister and in making South sovereign and a we of tho yet more glorious of old land of the only down with the foul and greedy the buzzard of human above are a specimen of political and I ask you to contrast them with those of n like nature given in Portsmouth end cannot comment further on the above Hold them up when you hear people talk about Northern The memory of Calhoun was toasted some half a dozen deprecated that was not They even went so far as to the old North State notorious for giving light to she remains in pitchy darkness who lately got unwillingly hit the South in a sore Only think of concubinage and amalgamation being hit in this style by one of her own sons and best safeguard for the Charleston I notice the same only softened by the influence of commercial intercourse with the North and the presence of some Yankee impression seems to have got among the here that the Yankees are to come upon them by force of and extinguish the institution of What This is attributable to designing You ask a man here what he thinks about the Southern and he replies almost if matters come lo a I am a fighting No This was an answer lately given me. are you to asked Yankees are coming here to get a depend upon and I don't even in case of a dissolution of the you will have anything to do more than watch your You know South in the days of the when called upon to furnish her quota of replied that she could only take care of ber slaves and things haven't mended in that matter And many here look at the matter in this I once heard of an insane man who imagined that if he did not look constantly up to the sun it would fall upon - The Slaveholder has to watch a less imaginary with as keen of He has embarked on a moral sea with a Millstone about his War Department has decided to establish a new military about 60 miles above Fort Des on the Des Moines Imposing an must have been made upon the minds of the Representatives of European powers in Washington when Millard Fillmore took the oath of office as successor of President at the simplicity and quiet of the In ihe midst of a Congress of citizens in everyday without military without the roll of the drum or the note of the without a populace or a pealing one in bearing and apparel like the mass of those by whom he is becomes ted with all the power and dignity of one of the most powerful and dignified offices in the How peculiarly American the is well described by the National Intelligencer of the 11th in an article from which we make the subjoined extract twelve according to previous the Senate entered tho Hall of the House of the Speaker and Members Soon the Hon. Millard Vice President of the United attended by a member of each entered the Hall and took a seat at the table of the Clerk of the After a brief pause he in a clear and distinct pronounced the oath of fidelity to the and the act of installation was of summary of remarkable incidents in the life of Taylor will be interesting to our The from we copied gave a at considerable of his services in the which is familiar to our and for the want of we now After introductory ihe who is Well conversant with his says the son of a futher honorably in the Revolutionary was born in Orange Nov. 24, 1784. Till the of 21 he work id on the farm of his but early developed a for Ho was appointed in the Seventh oii May 3, In 1810 lie married Miss Smith of la 1312 ho served us Captain under Gen. in the Indian war of the where in he gained great credit for bravery and in defending Fort Harrison against tho and received the rank of in In the course of the war iie further distinguished it being reduced to the ruuk of Captain on account of the generai reduction of the he resigned and back to his The profound silence of so I He was reinstated as an assemblage of deeply 1816, and tho so brief and so yet so important in its and presented an incident and a scene altogether It was the incident of the day which probably made less impression than some others on American but was precisely that which is most calculated CO attract the notice of death of the President being a plainly enters among the assembled Representatives of the walks up to the Clerk's takes an oath on the Bible to support the Constitution of the United and by this brief he in an instant of invested with the command of the whole military force of a mighty with the execution of its laws and the administration of its No objects or dreams of objection the act is acquiesced in as a thing of and with the submission that would be rendered to a law of The sceptre of the People passes into his hands as quietly and as quickly as a power of attorney could be acknowledged before a justice of the And though the individual the thing itself was hardly thought of in connection with the In some countries such transfer of power would have cost streams of and shaken the Government to its very And why is it not so here? Because ours is a Government of equal laws; and because our People are a law-abiding and a People because they know nnd feel that their own laws are the restraints which they themselves have placed on their own and that it is by observing these laws that their rights can be May such ever be their spirit If we may well say of the not but New Fillmore has appointed his It is as will be seen by the telegraphic dispatch from as Daniel Secretary of State; Thomas J. A. of Ed. of of N. A. R. of N. P. M. J. L Attorney we need not is a a great It cannot fail to inspire the whole country with the deepest Daniel who fills the first place in is admitted by all to be one of the very greatest of living As a statesman and a diplomatist he has no living His his far-reaching his deep knowledge of the true interests of the and his perfect familiarity with the laws of qualify him to conduct the diplomatic negotiations of the Government with consummate skill and names of Clor and Crittenden need no They are the brightest names adorn the annals of onr We think that the members of the retiring Cabinet have done their and thut they are entitled to the of the but most certainly they are surpassed in ability by their members of the though all of them are and uncompromising are men who have never signalized themselves as bitter They are men who maybe safely relied on to do justice to all parties looking only to the honor and the prosperity of the shrewd little who had only recently to learn occasionally mixed his mother tongue with a spice of the dead It thus as one day he was reading aloud to his that ho astonished him by the translation a a a man young exclaimed the your father has been helping you with your The late President's family have left Washington for far two at Green Bay on Lake Afterward he served in the scarcely ever absent from active On April 19, 1819, he received tho of Lieut. 182G he was again sent to the where he remained five In 1832 he made and served in the Black Hawk Afterward he was at Prairie du Chien till 1836, when he was ordered to where on December 25, 1837, he fought the battle of one of the most memorable in the annals of our Indian which virtually put an end to the war for this he received the brevet rank of He remained in Florida till 1840,when he took command of the first department of the army in the his headquarters being at Fort in In 1845 he was ordered to the Texan in anticipation of the Mexican and at the beginning of August had taken up his position at Corpus Gen. Taylor was about five feet eight inches with a slight tendency to His complexion was his forehead his features but full of benevolence and good His dress was always his manners made all who approached him perfectly at the wife of still lives from she has not appeared in general society her husband's elevation to the They have had four one son and three j one of the latter Dr. of the who has been in attendance on the President during his last another also married Senator Davis of and the third is Mrs. who has done the honors of the Presidential The son is still a young ability and Decay of Plank plank road may require a either because it has worn out at top by the travel upon or because it has been destroyed at the bottom by if the road have travel enough to make it profitable to its it will have earned abundantly enough to replace it twice as we shall see The liability to decay is therefore a secondary consideration on roads of As to natural no hemlock road has been in use long enough to determine how iong the plank can bo preserved from Seven years is perhaps a fair Different species of hemlock very and upland timber is always more durable than from low and wet The pine roads in Canada generally last about eight varying from seven to The original Toronto road was used chiefly by teams steamboat and at the end of not six years began to break through in and not being was principally gone at the end of ten Having been poorly badly sanded and no care bestowed upon indicates the minimum of Oak plank are in the plank being laid flat as on those of It is believed that oak well would last at least twelve or fifteen One set of sleepers will outlast two Several Canada roads have been relaid upon the old thus much lessening the cost of new locomotive to be used in conveying the cars through has been successfully tested in It own has on each and two drivers in the The entire machinery is condensed and so that the locomotive appears the same as a and is so arranged that the engineer can check its speed almost whether a tram is attached or Treaty We copy from the N. O. of the have the unspeakable gratification of announcing to our fellow citizens the inii ll ae ico that our energetic and to Mexico has succeeded in a with the Government similar in its provisions to already made with whereby our citizens will be enabled to cary into effect their enterprise of building railway ition between the two which will bring New Orleans within 12 travel of San deserves the warmest thanks of his for Ihe energy and unwearied which he has in conducting to u this arduous On Orleans ho has conferred an and it will be her own fault if the whole current of Pacific its rich is not diverted from its present course and made to centre in her this wo have no We know that tho committee appointed by nur citizens at their public meeting last have been and in tho performance of their Juties they havo made the arrangement witli the grantees who hold the concession from Government and that other and important preliminary arrangements have been which will soon be to the treaty was made on ihe 24th of and entrusted immediately to a special to bo carried to Washington The messenger arrived here in Water and immediately proceeded and Sudden formation of Island in Lake singular phenomenon took place Heart on the southern shore of Luke About 11 o'clock in the day of the Mr. John observed a slight agitation of the water of the Lake near the and very soon he with the land suddenly rising out the water n few rods from the shore and within a stone's throw of The bia h was ed up at the same time to a height of some 12 new island is round and about 150 feet in and is raised above the water six and the rise on the which is wide there is of about the same size and looks like hillock of Tho new island was first covered with sand pebbles like bottom of the but the have dashed over it since and washed it down to a black The was about five feet deep whero the island was and a boat hac past over the very spot not five minutes before its A few rods from tha back on the rise of a great depression of the earth took as the in the A circular spot of some 50 lods in with suddenly sunk the depth of 20 feet below tlie A number of Indians who were encamped near this place were very much frightened at ibis strango of tho power in and fled from the placo of tho great and could not be pe for some time to visit the No agitation of the or shock or took and the cause must been much less powerful than the internal convulsions of the earth that such down to te to Henry The subjoined brief paragraph is from tho Mobile ser. It is the most beautiful of all - the beautiful tributes which have recently been called out by Mr. Clay's noble position and great services in the We can recall nothing in the writings of Irving more chaste in diction or more elegant in The figu re with which it closes would have been worthy of any poet of modern or of limes seems to have no effect upon and the spirit of Henry appears reluctant to convert into a ruin ihe stately fabric of that mighty It knocks with gentle hand at and slowly impairs the of the but stands hesitatingly upon the of the as if enchantment of genius had laid a spells upon Its anJ it had forgotten work in admiration of its The once elastic step of of the now halls a little with the increasing burthen of the form is somewhat ed; the hair is white with those which herald the long winter of but the great soul seems endowed with and its and transparent flow reminds us of some fresh and limpid ing iup among gray and moss-covered and sending farth sparkling streams to beautify and fertilize the dry places of the never injure our own character much as when we that of Bear this in
