Bedford Independent, Volume 2, Number 29, Bedford, Lawrence County, 5 August 1857 — Page 2

BRIDilE ACROSS WHITE RIVER. | Any one who will take the peine to | | examine the map of this county, will at once ' . convinced of the absolute necessity of n bridge across ' White River at Reek’s old ferry. The citizens of Rono township experience , great inconvenience in visiting and bringing their marketing and produce to Bedford. The township is and unless something be ilaic (-'iinniuii.i itn-u " itU BBS ,■ toms of tile ri.iiniv. ■ !' I;.mi'. 1 own _ :t <■ 'I I 1 ’■ to at ■ '"inly more convtMwB^^^fr* Sff 1 < The bridge wonlil cosffl%n»r 000 or $20,000, and we have been assured by a prominent and wealthy citizen of Rono township, that he has

The chair appointed the following gentlemen, a committee to report at the next regular meeting on fruit, domestic manufactures, the price of labor, and the relative value of crops. Isaac Rector to report on fruits, Judge Duncan on domestic manufactures, Ij. Q. lloggatl on the price of labor, and the relative value of fi*ops. motion the Society adjourned to ■Mb on the lust Saturday in October. VL*. j. w. NEW LANK A."V

emancipation. That a large majority of the people are in favor of tlio abolition of slavery, if it can be effected without serious detriment to their material interests, is a fact wo

county, got at hia villainy againwrit was taken out for him by a r spectalde citizen—lie disposed of i land and goods uml lied to parts m, known.

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gunny laugh occasionally; but are, also, as strongly i» favor of a prohibition law against them requiring so much space in tins free Ihqmblio—

KKUIMACtM KK BY IION 0. II SMITH.

From tin* InJiiuiA Jouriml. Karl) Indiana Trials.

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WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUO 5.

A TIUHT KIT.

•aT Mr. P. Alonzo Parks, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Las published w hat may very appropriately be called his dying confession. He wriggles a good deal, but the pangs were too great, and although erlrtmlfif light in the poop, he gives up tho ghost, and in Ids last desperate struggle he cries, “Bloomfield," “tax list.” We don’t blame the little soul for trying to divert the public attention from the Jaci* which wc presented lust wcel,. This Bloomfield argument is the grand *inr yua nun. — Wbea our villiticrs have no argument or the semblance of truth to back them, ami when they have been driven to the wall, they ory out “Greene County Tax List.” This cry Ins lost j its potency, and will no longer servo as a scapegoat to carry oft" tho sins of those whose special mission seems to be to attack our private character. Rut Mr. P. again attempts to make an unduo impression, by insinuating that ho had been here for a Ionsr time, | and that wc had born here for a short time, and therefore onr statements j when coming in conflict with his, ought not to be believed. We clearly and distinctly stated last week that would pay attention to such mat-•or*-only «s wc wen prepared to prove to bo true, and nol one of I line farU ha* Mr, P. touched! nor can he. If you had lived here a thousand years, and we should prove (as wc have done) that you had made false | statements, the people would believe the fad « in preference to your asscr-' tions, Mr. P. But it seems to be an up-hill business with our little friend to get at the troth. Hear him ;

IWrry mts hr iii.m1i urrmnjrvmfnU with mic ot (Ur firm, kt.“ “Berry*'said no such thing. “Berry" didn’t rent the office at all. But one of the firm of J. V. Mathei & Co. did, and upon the condition we ctatod. Tell tlio truth, Mr. P.—tell the truth, “though the heavens fall."

just as if that is any thing to concern' you! you “rusty, crusty" specimen of humanity! But, pshaw, who cares? You might as well try to turn the \vind as to attempt to turn the female mind by opposition. When will you learn to cease meddling with that which coneerneth you not? Hut no difference; you may meddle and fret, sweat, 'and spend your best days (if they arc not already spent) in opposing the Indies, and you will find that all your trouble but strengthened! their will. “Good—I may now hope to get one evening’s rest; fur, if I am not mistaken, Hell, Kate, cousins und all have started out to spend the evening.

In early times there lived in Indiana a man by the name of George Boone, a descendant of the celebrated Daniel Boone, who should not ho overlooked in these sketches, although I have not space to pay tho same respect to many others whom I would he pleased to notice. George Boone |would have stood well in those days when there were giants in the land. Ho was near seven feet high, with large bones and muscles; bis bands were large, but bis feet were beyond anything of the kind I have over seen in length, breadth, and depth. 1 cun best give some idea of them by relating an incident that George used to relate with a gusto, after he became one of our State Senators. “I was about eighteen years of age, when,

are compelled, however reluctant, to believe.

A Year of ricnlj—('roiis of Isr»*. The indications thus far are of the most favorable character, in relation to the crops of 18.'»7. The prospect is that the year will he one of extraordinary plenty. The present production of the principal wheat growing States of The West is estimated as follows: Wheat—IM37. Kentucky lo.ooo.ooo «thin 15,000,000 I udiaiM 111,000,000 Ullsail I (,800,

Total #8,000,000 The Consumption <>f Wheat in these States where corn is commonly used for bread, will not average more than five bushels for each person. The surplus for these States for 18o7, may he shown as follows:

lillsllfk I'lmlilctioll 111,000,001) t'on-umpliioi ImiMs |kt beat! ;io, >(<o,(hmi

CllnutU* not (hi 1 ( a use of ( oh rl It is a common opinion tiint the c l > mate alone is capable of producing , i the diversities of complexion so >. > markuhle in the human race. A i j t facts may suffice to show that sat) • cannot be the case. Thus the n.j groes of Van Diemen’s land, who a among the blackest people on t ( I earth, live in a climate us cold as ■ 1, j of Iceland, while the Indu-C’hii i - nation - who live in tropical Asia, | of a brown and olive complexion. , is remarked by 1 Turnbull that t; 1 American tribes of the equinoctial i | giom have no darker skin than tu| mountaineers of the temperate Z"i j So, also, the Puclches of the Mng. luuie Plains, beyond the fifty-fifth gree of south latitude, are absolu darker than Abipodcs, Tobasand <>• cr tribes who are many degrees n a or the equator. Again, the Clinm who live soulli of the Kio de la Phi* are almost black, while the finny, under the lino arc among the fair* of the American tribes. Finally n to multiply examples, those natio of the Caucasian race which have 1 come inhabitants of the torrid son in both himi,spheres, although th> desccndeuts have been for ccntun expo v *d to the m«st active iiifltiem of the climate, have never, in a s< lory instance,exhibited the transform ation from a Cuucassiun to a neg complexion.

mli'pendf'iii. A if Mwptnii i nit's soil i ooi i. HrAlMUM rl those tormenting women folkii will be the death of me yet!” w as heard to emanate from a certain bachelor’s habitation a few evenings since. “Here 1 have been all day long trying, in vain, to get a few hours of ijuiet study; hut, confound their nonsense, 1 know about as much of what I have been reading as a (shanghai does of Latin! Who can study when they are bound to hear, giggle, giggle, titter. litter, and all sorts of nonsense the whole time?”

no douht but that $o,000 can be raised in that township alone. We hope the citizens of the county will give the matter that attention which the importance of the subject demands.

Oh! had luck! I w a s entirely mistaken! they’ve Just entered the parlor, acting like a parci-1 of intoxicated monkeys. From their conversation they have some dovelisli plan in their brainless pules which is to he executed this very evening," and the pitc- . oiis fellow closed his ryes, as if to banish all thoughts of tho “tormenting things" from his troubled mind; but "Suddenly awakening to realities, by hearing a merry laugh, ho exclaimed: “Oh shades of misery! never ending torment! May the deuce take them! Yonder they come straight JJiere!”

for the first time, I took it into my head to go a sparking. One of my neighghbiirs, a few miles off, had a very pretty daughter that I thought would just suit me. It was late in the fall, and tho weather pretty cold; still it was too early to put on shoes. The Sunday evening hail come; 1 dressed ill my best butternut colored suit, made some six mouths before, but soon found that the pantaloons reached only just below my knee, and my coat stretched over me as tight as a dried eel skin on a hoop pole. 1 started barefoot, wading the creeks and muddy bottoms till I readied the house. They were about sitting down to supper, and invited me.—

n-'-rDr. Hostetler and family left this place on Monday hist for sumo point in Illinois, where he intends to locate.

iSnrpIn- 87,801^000

This will Imvcuii average transportation on railroad, of at least five hundred miles, mid should pay in freight at least 40 cents per bushel, or #15,1 25,000. This is for one single item of freight, and will materially add to the receipts of our railroads for the year. The total production of Wheat in the United States for 18j' may he estimated thus;

Poor bachelor; he was in a lamentable condition. Mrs. S , liis nearest neighbor, was a lively body with two fair daughters just emerging into womanhood. These daughters w ere of the “upper ten" and, of course, had a vast circle of gay acquaintances who were almost daily giving them calls, much to the annoyance of their bachelor neighbor. At tho time of which we write, a couple of Mrs. S ’s nieces, from a neighboring City, wore spending a few weeks with their cousins; and, these young ladies being the greatest romps of their sex, their poor neighbor was “in hot water" all the time.

W'i’hcre were several drunk men in town on the day of the show.— Where did they get their liquor?

•taT A Young Lady lost a large gold Breast Pin, on Monday week lust. The finder w ill confer a favor on the owner by leaving it at this office.

••ar.Messrs. Lee Si Foreman have opened an Icc Cream Saloon in Mr. Thomasson’s new building, west of the depot, and nearly every body lias found it out already, and there is a constant rush. They also keep soda water, lemonade, candies, ic. Of course all who have not been there will go immediately. ¥

and ho quickly made tracks for a little back room, taking good cars to lock the door, Having occasion to leave just at this time, we did not learn what havoc the girls perpetrated, nor how their enraged victim spent his time during their stay. But wo fancy wc see him now, tossing impatiently over his unmade bed, muttering some not very tender epithets against all females iu general, and the authors of his present misery in particular. Hut, readers, this is only guess-work. For aught wc know, lie may have spent these “trying moments in quietly peeping through tho key hole. Who knows? Perhaps some brother bachelor. • Lawuk.nceCo., I ml,, July 28,1857.

Sally sat by my side. U'o had mush mid milk, and plenty of it. The old lady banded rne a large bowl. I thought politeness required me to meet her, at least half way, and stretched out my hand to take it; but 1 had made uo calculation of the size of the tabic, the space between the milk pitcher and the bow l, nor of the width of my band. I struck the big milk pitcher on one side, and out went the milk over the table. Sally jumped up and went roaring with laughter into the other room. The old lady merely remarked: “It will all rub off when it gets dry, ’ and the old gentleman said: “There had greater accidents happened at sea.” J5ut it was nil over with roe. 1 saw that all was lost. Not a word more was spoken. 1 saw nothing more of Sally.— The clock struck ten. “Mr. Hoone, wont you wash your feet and go to « tl IJI..1- i.V ••

I Total 1 HO,000,000 That this estimate is moderate is •how n the returns of the Patent Office for 1S55. The crop that year was below the average, and yet it is staled in those returns at ICo,000,000 bushels. California which at the last census was returned as producing less than 20,000 bushels. x\ ill produce this year, over 4,000,000 bushels. I’hhIik I |« »||, 1 H .*».*» f |,i!.*»," ,000,01)11 I’rotl net ion, 1H‘»7 l,01<»,ooo f (NH» (kiiii hi. t';»% or ol |H.%7 Mio.oon This increase in our agricultural products constitutes our real gain in wealth, and in the interchange of these

Penns) Mania Flection Frauds. Wc ask tho careful attention of Democrats, and all Other*, *0 the following from the New York Tribune. Mr. Mann ran ns an American caudii_.. i ,i ..I.. — ...

hod? said the old lady. “Us nm in. “Hers is an iron pot —all I have suit- ’ able." I took the pot and found it so small that I could only get my feet intuit!*)' sliding them ip. Sideways; but 1 got them in, and soon found them swelling tighter and tighter, mi-

products, transportation to 7„?nVe‘i. otc., railroads find emViWment. Enough has U*,, h l m wn' to demon*Wie that for this rear the transport- : slion interest should be prosper on», if abundant freights can give prosperity.

dale, and wus tho only one who contested the election. Of course nil the Democrats elected were elected by means equally fraudulent: The lute Presidential election was virtually decided and the election of Buchanan secured by the result of the State election in Pennsylvania on the second Tuesday in October last. That result was produced by money contributed in this city and expended in Pennsylvania just before that election. * Had the vote been taken two

til the pain was so great that the sweat rolled off my chin. The clock struck eleven. “Mr. Boone, arc you not done washing your feet?" “5N hat did this pot cost? 1 must break the infernal thing.” “A dollar.” “Bring me the ax." “Here it is." “I took the ax, broke the pot to pieces, handed the old lady the dollar, opened the door, and never taw her afterwards. I met Sally at husking several years afterwards, and ns we met she roared out laughing."

weeks earlier, Huchanan would have j lost the State by from five to ten thousand majority. His leading supporters knew it was against them when they came here and pressed our pro-sL very bankers, brokers, and of-fice-holders into giving them the requisite money wherewith to reverse the popular verdict. And they know now that Mr. Buchanan was made President by that levy. At that election, Philadelphia w ns made to give a Buchanan majority of 8,4d'>, the vote for Canal Commissioner standing: Scott (Buch.) 80,088; Cochrane (Union, 0pp.) B2,60i{. A nd this Bu:bsnan majority in the city was more than the ticket obtained in tho State, the total vote standing — Scott, 212,8Ha*; Cochrane, 210,111; Scott’s majority 2,775. Thus,outside of Philadelphia, in spite of the universality of tlie fraud* whereof thi t city was the focus. Cochrane had n clear majority of COO votes. The frauds in Philadelphia were so gross that William B. Mann, the < >pposition candidate for Di-triet Attorney, who was beaten iu tlie vote polled by Lewis I >. Cassidy, the Buchanan candidate, resolved to contest the return before the higher courts of that city. Tho case has at length been brought to an issue, and on Saturday Judge Thompson delivered the unanimous opinion of the court, ousting Mr. Cassidy and affirming the election of Air. Mann. The investigation on which the decision was bused, was extended to but eight of the hundred or more polls held throughout the city, these sufficing to prove Mr. Minin’s election, hut the defense were at perfect liberty to extend the scrutiny to any or all other polls. These polls returned 2,(520 for Cassidy to 505 for Maun, while the whole number of taxable! (synonymous with legal voters) in the dis-

A FMIIT Ut THE SENATE. But the end of George was not yet. He grew up to he a man und a colonel, and like Saul of old waa chosen to lend the people. He became a State Senator and an able debater.— His figure w as so tall and commanding, his voice so strong, loud, and clear, his manner so plain and unassuming, his coolness and known courage such, that he was both respected and dreaded as an opponent. While . he was in the Senate a warmly contested question came up for debate. Ratcliff Boone, Lieut. Governor, in the chair. The Col. was the leader of one side of the question, and a Senator, about four feet ten. limbs in pro- 1 portion, with a voice like a “Katydid,” led the other side. The chainher was crowded. The Col. rose with Ids eye upon tho chair and was speak- i ing at the ton of his voice. “That's I ale,” squealed out tho little oppoai- 1 lion Senator. “As 1 was saying, Mr. ’ President—" “That's a lie. ’ “As 1 ji was saying—” “That’s a lie,” in the : same squeaking voice. “As I was saying-—” The little Senator could I stand it no longer; sprang over the i railing, ran round to where the Col. was standing and struck him with all i his might on the back. “As I was i saying, Mr. President—” the blows:' i repeated several times, while the Col., [| without taking tho least notice of it, : continued to address the Senate until he closed his speech, then turning his ' eye upon his opponent, “What arc i you doing'?’’ “What am I doing; I’m lighting.” “ B7«> are you fighting?" ■ “I'm fighting you." “Me! I had no ; knowledge of it whatever.” The scr- 1 Igeant-at-arras stepped up nrul carried the little Senator away in a state of exhaustion. A glass of wine ami tho friendly hand of tho Col. soon put all things to rights, and the debate proceeded. i

Profit* of Dp. Kano’s Ursf and hi* Second Vm-ulhc. Messrs. Childs & Peterson. the Philadelphia publishers of Hr. Kane's last hook of Arctic explorations, have ■ before stated, paid the family of the deceased explorer J|60,000. «>r one dollar a copy, ns his .shareof the profits of the publication. It is u little singular, and not at all in keeping with Dr. Kane’s sanguine temperament, that during the printing* of tinwork, he was troubled at the profuseness of the illustrations and the costliness of the type, which his publishers had adopted; and so apprehensive was he of loss that he offers*<1 to sell them his entire interest for >*.’»,(lOO, which proposition they decline!.— i The Doctor's apprehension was founded on the limited profits of the pub-1 lished narrative of the first Arctic explorations, which, as we arc told did not exceed 87<*0. It appears that in preparing hia later work, he had underrated the vast increase of his reputation and the extent of t lie public interest in his vast exploits.

Livisu tx I tah.—A private letter from Provo City, I tali, gives some idea of the manner of living there: The sales of wheat and cattle arc never made for cash or ready money, | but a trade will ho effected in this way. A good cow will he offered, I worth here £•»<>, of which about three dollars will be paid in tea. coffee, and sugar, and the balance in dry goods. Tea is worth §2 . r >0 per pound, coffee 50 cents, sugar 50 cents, and dried apples 50 cents per pound. The Prophet (llrigliara )T oung) says that if they (the Mormons) will live their religion, or the religion of Jesus Christ, they shall hare four years of great plenty, and that then will followseven years of famine, such as was never before known in the world, but the Saints will not want for bread, nor their friends who shall coine to the valley. Ami ho (Brigham) has already commanded his people to build granaries, which arc to bo filled during the years of plenty,

trictlin which these pi Us were held, wns but 1,717, or 90-1 less than Cassilly's vote alone! Of the illegal vote it was proved on the trial that at least 1,1 Ii8 must have been cast for Cassidy, reducing his returned vote from .•J4,17. r t to JW,807, anil electing Mr. Mann by 518 majority. This being practically n* good ns ten thousand, i Sir. Mann had no motive for increasing the expense of the contest by going further, or ho might doubtless have proved thousands more of his opponent’s votes as had ns these 1.1<I8.

• W" The Kichmond (Va.) South, in speaking of politics in Missouri uses the follow ing language: We are constrained to admit that, i so far tin- general .indications of sen- , timent are hy no means favorable to ; the stability «f the institution of slave- ' , I ry. The subject is no longer debated upon the high vantage ground occupied by southern States, of the original i rectitude and reciprocal blessings of slavery; but it is reduced merely to the question of the practicability of

• ConmcitKEiTixn akd Maii. Rob- i bino.— Under the head of "Loss of, Democratic Vote*," tlic Knoxville Whig chronicles the following criminal’statistics: The authorities of Bradley countv have just am sted ami confined in jail, Thomas \\. i HTiecr ami three other I >eraocrats, for passing counterfeit money, uml found in their possession (rn Ilwutand ilnlhin on the hank of Hamburg, well executed. This will lose to that party four votes in the coming election. In Rhea they have lost another vo- , tor and his influence, which lias been | considerable heretofore. .UJ. Abell, who was tried here at the last Federal Court, for participating in the ' t hcry of Ihr mail , returned to Rhea

111 u-lick Xi-w York. S'i,*MK»,000 , I'mnsrlrani« Jo,os »o,mm Virginia nml Miirvlmol .'(i.ooo.iioo Minicw Hlmve mount 08,000, (HSI Ollirr .'Slates M,OiHI,M

Jlnititin MiKUtn akuKobbkuv Hkiifoiiu Cul’XTV.— The Shelby VI Coiiatitutioiialiit of the 28th has t following: On Friday night last, about eig miles from tdielby ville, a most f and brutal murder wai perpetrat upon the person of James Grant, & and his son and wife moat brutal beaten and cut. Th© net was per; trated in the night. The father r killed, haring his head mangled. .* three of them were stricken on t{ head about the same place. The i strument used was an axe. Ah sixteen hundred dollars were tu' from the house. James Gn*mt, J is in a very critical con<V.t«on. M Grant is not so seriously hurt. Tl were all sleeping in different rooid and the perso’ii who committed : murder kuc”, the premises well.

“Study, I cannot!—and when I lie down for a quiet nap I can seldom get to sleep; und when I do I have, U, such dreams! the plagued things literally surround me—some a chattering away with their abominable nonsense, some displacing my looks, reading my poetry, offering me boquets, and, oh horrors! ’twas but this very evening I dreamed they actually carried me out of my own room and rode me on a rail! just because I did n’t attend their Pic nic."

THE WHEAT CROP.

FJilor of the Independent ; Having made an estimate of thirtyone farms in my neighborhood, all joining, I arrive at the following result :

There arc 551) acres in wheat, and making an average of twelve bushels (a low estimate) to the acre, it gives 6,COM bushels. Then count 200 farms in the tow nship, and it shows 4;),200 Dustieis. Tfcfil counT nine tdWWbrpX in the countv, and vou have i588,HOO ¥ • m • bushels of wheat as the entire crop of Lawrence county this year. July 24, 1857. * J. P.

Maiming l»j Wlioloalr in TVv The Texas Indianolian of the 11 inst., has the subjoined picture of late lawlessness prevalent in that mote t'tute. It exhibits a sari a tion to the violence, rapine, rnui and lynching, alarmingly in the I Cendant almost throughout the lei i nod breadth of the land; We learn that, a row occurred a M days since Oil the Sun Antonio r J near Victoria, between the M ex , and American teamsters, in wl! three or four uf the Mexicans s ] badly shot. It grew out of a 1 j existing feud between them ; the .'I crican teamsters having, wo un ! stand, determined to drive off Mexicans, whom they most cordi ; hate, because they haul goods f the bay at extremely low and ruir : prices.

Poor fellow; how we, pitied him! the next pic-tiic the iadics have wc presume lie will attend for fear of haunted with another “horrible dream.”

The balance »f Mr. P.’s effusion is balderdash, and needs no comment. Perhaps this is the last of personal attacks that will be made upon us , for some time to conic. Here wc rest tin relating an anecdote we once he ard. An old negro was very hard at work in a cotton field. The poor old fello w had a very sore foot, and was suffer- . ing intense puin , us the big drops of W sweat rolling down hia f arrowed cheeks plainly indicated. The pain increased as the otyl u»n plodded on ; and finally lie became almost exhausted, laid down his hoe, walked deliberately up to a stump, laid dow n flat on his back, laid his foot on the stump and triumphantly exclaimed, “Bar—now pain away dar—you hurt yersef wus dan vc do me." So say wc to our persecutors. — They arc hurting themselves a good deal more than they are rs.

"Oh sakes! wasn’t 1 mad the other

morning when Bell and Kate S came tearing in here with their blackeyed cousins? Such impudence—they made as free as if they were at home; and all commenced relating to me what extraordinary things happened at “our pic-nic" just as if they supposed I wanted to know. I Ju wonder when them noisy girls arc going to leave town? If they don't pretty soon I will; that's certain.”

Lawrence (omit) Uriciillurnl Society.

11>;i.Klim>, lint., July 35, 1857.

The Society met and was called to order, Robert Boyd, President, in the chair.

Reports from Committees being called for, the committee on Fair Grounds submitted the following:

TV lAf Prentenl anil MtnAera of ihr l/turtrurt (Anility AyrnnUunil Surirty.

Humors constantly reach us f; the upper country, that the V igil. 'Committee are rukiug the com i fore and aft, and sw inging every li [thief and murderer they can find, gentleman who came down the refew days since, states that ho ss dozen bodies suspended on one t and on another five. A great m of the desperadoes have passed tl this town on the way to New Orl. 1 not considering it healthy for tint remain any longer. If the Comm 1 continues, the country will soon rid of the scoundrels that have so infested her borders. The same paper has also an itoi a different ami much more gratiM character:

The unUi'clgncI CnnuaiNcc on K»ir Urouixt. rv»f»( Ifully rrjiurl, that llicy have «>M tinjfroiHKt hrrelolurc pnrchuH for Kmr liruumii. air! hart contracted with Win. FUlwt tor ten acres of I mot, ut or near the northwest corner of Bedford, for the >nui of one hundred ilolSrru per were. That they have |mid the Mill VVTllinni FUher all the pnrdm-e Money except t«4 hundred and fifty dollars, and that the kx irty it .till iinlchted to Jnw A. Mitchell, mi H.-cmnt of former purchase, in about the Mini of live hundred and forty dollar*. They alno report that they lime procured post- for fencing said around, contracted for plunk, and made lb* neee.-tury nts for having the fencinjr done iinmcdintely. .1 KSh’K \ .'vi in.i.i,. II. C. IJOISTOS, H. H. M( I-AXK.

Wc were vastly in hopes the “noisy, black-eyed” girls would prolong their visit until fall, so that our town might get rid of one whose selfish nature would gladly prohibit all amusements from the “fair sex” and,

James Hughes calls upon us in the last Lawrence Democrat to give to the public the name of the author of a communication which appeared * in our paper a short time since over the signature of “An Eye Witness,” giving an account of the difficulty between Huskirk and Hughes. This demand was made several days ago, through A. B. Carlton, Esq., of this plane. We declined then to give the authors name, only on certain comli- - titm... Tko«e conditions not being complied with, wc still withhold the name.

probably, think “he should like them none the less were they nil dumb ,” as a certain gentleman ungcntlcmnn-like remarked not long since. “A fellow can’t take any public conveyance nowadays without coming in contact with tome of those “exquisite creatures" about the size of a—n young mountain; and, grocious goodness! just let a fellow walk about a half a mile' with one of them—I did it once; but learned a thing or two and shall never attempt the like again. Never. I bad occasion to take a short tide on the cars tlic other evening. Tito train was crowded.— Scarcely Lad 1 got seated myself when in came one of those hooped Indies, knocking everything hither and thither as she swept by. The scats were all occupied, but Miss Impudence gave a commanding glance towards a seat containing a trio of verdant, slim, dandyish looking fellows; and up jumped two of them, praying her to he seated, which invitation she was not slow to accept. But the place, vacated by the two meager fops, was not sufficient for her accommodation! She looked at the remaining one with what some call “a winning smile,” us much as to say, “nothing short of a whole seat cun accommodate me,” and he, silly puppy, yielded up his scat with a bow and u smile! Now some people call this gallantry, notable politeness; but 1 term it down-right foolery. Don’t catch me acting so silly.”

The second expedition, in d» of ('apt. John Pope, which halt fitting out at this point during the two months, left yesterday for' Antonio, whence it will proceed to wild regions of the Pecos, for the i pose of boring Artciian wells d the line of the proposed Pacific F road route. This expedition wo? ted up entirely in this city, well supplied with mechanics an I gincers, has n steam engine whit is intended to use in boring the wr and ii fully prepared for atliree.vn campaign. An escort of rifle? infantry will be furnished it, tog with a train of forty more wagon San Antonio.

On motion, the report was adopted. The following resolution was offered by G. A. Thornton, and adopted: Retailed, That Jesse A. Mitchell, II. C. Houston, and 11. II. McLniie, be, and are hereby appointed a committee to m ike all necessary arrangements for a Fair this full. That they make all appointment* of Marshals, 1’oliccincn, and other officers; and generally supervise the management and direction of the Fair.

We will say this, however, that notwithstanding the ill treatment and misrepresentation we have received at the hands of James Hughes,—still, wc have no desire whatever to do the unhappy man an injury, and wc arc willing to make any correction in regard to the Blooaington tragedy, when wc are satisfied that our correspondent has made misstatements. Wc must bo permitted to say, however, that the publication in the Danor rat of yesterday morning, by no means satisfies us that our correspondent’s version of the matter is not in the main correct. Most of the evidence Hughes produces is of a negative character, and of but little value. Wc have no donht that Mr. Cobb is perfectly honest in stating that he saw some one knock up Hughes's arm; but there are several persons w ho saw thw* patties from the start, and saw Hughes draw the pistol and fire, and they assort most positively that no one touched his arm. But we have not time nor space fori farther remarks to-day.

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On motion by Judge Duncan, a committee was appointed to revise the Constitution of the Lawrence County Agricultural Society. The following gentlemen were appointed said committee: J. A. Mitchell, II. C. Houston, II. 11. McLsne, Ceo. A. Thornton, and J. W. Nowlaml. The committee to report at its next ’meeting.

The following resolution was offered by J. W. Ncwland, and adopted : Retailed, That persons not residents of this county may become honorary members of this Society, with all the privileges and rights of regular members, with the exception that they shall not bo eligible to nny office, by paying into the treasury the sum of five dollars, and subscribing their names to the Constitution of this Society.

A bed of fine coal has hcdt)' 1 1 near Uniontown, in Kentucky. j will complete a series of coal ope" J every few miles on the Ohio i I from near the mouth of the Cuti j land, to the mouth of Sinkin; I Breckinridge county, Ky., a dir' of over two hundred miles of »n J broken coal field, which ill on 1 1 he the princiAl manufacturing trict of the coufftrr.— Kramnik 1 i

MAItRIKfi, On Minnln' , Aojfii«l .1*1 tij IW. " nls. Ma. Mii.tiik Asnmsis to Mi*< M»i Haw kiss, all «iC linwrune remit y. We (Printer*) mivsl n tiomniflil *u| (iiko from the tiniui of (hr fair Kiidf, ai" Ir lliijr in itclt< ion- (|»«lil|ci<, w »• fllit nl nl the wiillemitn Iwcnming n It Hie h«l"

Well, my churlish friend, I discover you arc not only in favor of prohibiting the Indies the life-prolong-ing pleasure of a merry romp and