Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 April 1854 — Page 2

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-DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION. At ft meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee, held in Indianapolis on Thursday, February the 2nd, 1S5 i, it was unanimously llK=oj.vKr. That a Democratic State Convention be held in the city of Indianapolis on Wednesday, the2-1 th of May next, at 10 o'clock A. M. lor tlie purpose of nominating candidates for the following office*. viz: Secretary of State. Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, and Superintendent of I un.ic Instruction and that the several countics 111 the State be requested to send one delegate for every two hundred Democratic votes given at the I residential election of 1S52, and also one additional dele \itc for eve,rv fractional vote over one hundred. PROVIDKD) That every county shall entitled to lit least two delegates. "W.

Chairman State (.en. Com.

J. B. NORMAN, Secretary.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION. Tlie Democracy of Montgomery county nre requested to meet at the Court Ilou^e, at Crawfordsvillc, on Saturday, the 22d inst., to appoint Delegates to attend the State Convention to be holden at Indianapolis on the 24th of May next.

Other important business will be before the meeting, in regard to the organization of the party for the coming canvass, and it is hoped there will be a general turn put.

By order of the CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

THE WAR.

A Our readers have been duly apprised by our Extra of the passage of the Danube by the Russians, and the declarations of war by France and England. Stirring news may be anticipated in a few days. Failure in the beginning marks the history of every great campaign undertaken by the Czars. The same histories, however, also prove that, whether the war was for defense or conquest, success has generally crowned the ending. The late bold hand showing of the great western powers appears to have roused the sleeping energies of the Russians. At once they hurried resistlessly across the Danube, drove back the Turks, and took possession of a broad tract of coun(iy lying between the Danube on the West and North, the wall of Trajan on the South, and the Black Sea on the East. It seems the generally received]opinion that the object of this combined movement on their part is the capture of Constantinople, before the allies arrive to defend it. This opinion is strengthened by the sailingof the Russian fleet for Varna, or Variona, a fortress situated on the Black Sea 150 miles north of the

Ottoman city. If this be the true divining, it wears an air of startling confidence, to say the least. For before they can succeed Varna must be reduced, Omer Pasha must be beaten, and the allied fleets must be sunk or driven from the sea. But be the object what it may, "the tug of war" is at hand. Ynd as we intend keeping regular accounts of the battles and the movements of the hosts, we would advise our country citizens, who feci any interest in watching the contest, to subscribe with us.

Try it. To the above we will add, that it is also our intention promptly upon the receipt of important news hereafter to issue Extra's containing recitals as full as we receive

A new order or secret society has

been formed among some of the students of Wabash College called the "Guardians of Character." A wide field is open for their labors in this locality.

&ZT Such of our citizens who arc fond of hominy will find an excellent quality at

JOHN Bunk's.

T. D. BROWS has just received A

fresh supply of segars direct from New York, of the finest and most choice brar.ds.

JSf" Mr. D. Wortheim. has been receiving and .owning out a tine stock of Spring and Summer tioods.

Mr. W. has long boon known, as one of our conftdjug merchants. '"Wild displays," are no part of his business nature but a sure, true, reliable course, that always suit the wishes of his many customers. For all articles usually found in this mnrket. no onocan do better than to call at tho German •. Sit-TO. •••.. vV

(Kr Don't fail to read the advertisement ^CF JoliN R- RCISI

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OCT" The old wheel of Time has almost accomplished another revolution since we were last cheered by the first glad smiles,

and invigorated by the first sweet fragrance of an opening spring-time. Our forest trees, now stripped of their glory, our gloomy bills and desolate fields, black and dreary by the ravages of winter, must soon put on again the leafy decorations and the grassy garb, which the great wardrobe of nature so munificently supplies. Bright, morning of the year, we greet thee! With arms wide-spread, we bid thee welcome Never did a spring season look brighter in Indiana than the present one. We look out upon the prospects of the year of which it is the beginning, and while we see nothing to alarm or dishearten us, we find everywhere the very best and most satisfactory causes for hope and encouragement. While the angry elements of smothered ambition and the restive spirit of war and conquest are hanging over Europe like a great black and threatening storm cloud, soon to pour its fury broadcast all over that densely populated division of the globe, we, as a nation, are at peace with all the world, and what is more pleasing still, we are in a very highly prosperous condition at home. We have a Democratic administration, a wise and judicious Executive, an able and honest Cabinet, and a Congress composed of some of the best talent and patriotism of the land, and we, therefore, have nothing to apprehend in the way of politics and

government. Our farmers in all parts of the country, and our mechanics of every description, have everything to excite their hopes and stimulate their diligence. Trade was never in a more flourishing condition. Every product of agriculture, every demonstration of domestic manufacture, and every form and fashion of the constructive art, find an easy and lucrative market. Wt: have heard some expressions of fear that the present prosperous state of things rests not on a permanent basis, that it is only the result of accident, and that while there is an unusual depression elsewhere, we are just now enjoying the benefits of it. We cannot subscribe to this opinion, however. Our mammoth railroad system has a great deal to do with it. Let us look at this matter a little. A few years since we had to pay an enormous exportation duty, our sea port markets were far less accessible than they now are, and the only facilities we then had for the conveyance of our surplus staple commodities to maritime cities were very expensive, indeed they were so much so that the real value of the article itself was well nigh consumed before it had acquired any commercial value.

This is no longer the case our railroad system has obviated the whole difficulty, and this vast sum, formerly taken from us in exportations, now, instead of going into the safe and coffers of buccaneering canal and steamboat companies, finds a lodgment where it always should have been, in the hands of those by whose toil it has obtained an existence The farmer now, instead of getting only fifty cents, actually realizes one dollar per bushel for his wheat, and his other grains have advanced proportionately. We say again, the secret of the whole affair is the gigantic operations of our railroads. Tiuly we may say of this, as Napoleon said of the time in which he lived, there is nothing in history like the 19th century, and there is nothing in the 19th century like the era of our rail­

roads.

&3T In calling attention, this spring, to the various business houses of our place, we have inadvertently neglected to refer to the extensive wholesale and retail grocery and variety store of Messrs. LAYMON & Co. These gentlemen have been in business among us for only about two years, but by their agreeable mode of doing business, the excellent quality of their goods, the endless variety of their assortment, and the extremely small advances upon original cost at which they have been turning outgoods, they have at once, as if by magic, placed themselves at the head of their branch of trade.

Their spring stock of groceries appears to be endless in quantity and variety, and they give us confident assurances of their

ability to turn out at all times, groceries in large or small parcels, at Lafayette prices. From the magnitude of the business they arc doing, our country friends must be well convinced that such is the fact. These gentlemen deserve great credit for the facility they have afforded citizens of this county in getting groceries at such extremely low rates.

Their stock of Ilats, Caps, Boots,. Shoes, Hardware, Queensware, Willow-ware, Notions, ifcc., embraces every thing that could be desired, and is well worthy the examination of those in want of articles in their line. We bespeak for Messrs. Laymon Co., an examination of their stock. All hands will at all times be found at the post of duty, ready to exhibit their goods to those who may favor them with a call. Goods at the lowest figures, and gentlemanly attentions to customers, will always be met with at this establishment.

[For the Crawfordsville Review

THE BALHYIftH TRIALS.

About the 30th of January last, a meeting took place in what is familliarly called the Koon's Meeting House," situated on the southern border of this township. It was gotten up by a political association, selfstyled "Temperance League," one of the peculiar principles of which is a solemn pledge, subscribed by each member, to vote for no man for office unless he be in favor of a prohibitory liquor law. The labors of this association are like the labors of all similar fraternities. Its members lecture, debate, log-roll, and resort to every means, legitimate and illegitimate, likely to accomplish a great and speedy proselytism. In their excess of devotion they confine themselves to no particular time or locality. House and hearthstone, field and church, street and cross-road, day and night, summer and winter, wedding and funeral—all are alike fit times and places for them to pitch in" to a hesitant neutral,

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avowed

foeman. No more do they confine themselves to a particular mode. One man they beg, another they curse, others they bribe, while bold opponents they overwhelm with slander and calumny.

Divers of its members had previously published throughout the neighborhood that on the night in question there was to be a free and public discussion of the prohibitory question at the Meeting House. All were invited to attend but especially they invited anti" speakers. Bring advocates with you," said they we want all the light we can get." And they came, male and female, old and young—some for fun, some to discuss, and all to listen. Both sides of the question were about equally represented by friends and spokesmen.

Though thus made a public meeting, where both parties were at least entitled to equal privileges, tne prohibitionists seem, nevertheless, to have been guilty of a general usurpation of seats, lights, stove, and the high place in the synagogue." When they and their friends entered, each walked to the west end, sat down, and was comfortable. When the unfortunate antis came, nothing was left them but to walk to the east end, stand up, and make themselves uncomfortable.

The prohibitionists "opened the ball." Three of their "big guns," all doubleshotted, poured terrific discharges of abuse, insult, low anecdote, and the latter-day-temperance-logic into the ranks of the "antis," who, compelled to "face the music." o-rew each minute more restless, aroused, maddened, and boisterous. At the end of each speech there was a call for "opposition opposition At last one brave old "anti," nerving himself to the task, advanced, and, leaning upon his cane, commenced a reply. As he went on he felt his youth come back again, words came to him like a tide, his voice grew strong, and he literally annihilated his opponent, a pseudo preacher of the true gospel, and a true disseminator of a pseudo theology of his own. Then a row commenced. Yet another prohibitionist took the floor, swept his arm energetically eastward, and said something about "drunken rabble and Balhynchei I hen the confusion grew more confounded all was uproar—order was officially commanded— order! order! but there was no order. The temperance men sang, "What shall I do with my rum several not very "still small voices" responded with, "How happy are they," &c., and I have sought round this verdant earth," etc., while from at least one set of puckered lips "Yankee doodle," that immortal doggeral, was executed in the highest style of a whistler, graduated in the best school of the art.

With two or three more speeches, delivered in so many lulls of the storm, the meeting broke up, and the "antis," dreamless of coming vengeance, separated for their homes amid the hills,

A few days after, one of the "leaguers," (since made forever notorious in that region,) came to town and filed before a Justice of the Peace a complaint against every "anti" who attended that "free discussion." The case read on the Justice's docket,

"The State of Indiana v. and twentv-nine others, men and boys indiscriminately. James Wilson, Esq., and A. V. Austin, the District Attorney, prosecuted, and Lew Wallace defended the thirty^ After a trial, attended with extraordinary excitement, a jury of most staid, sober, intelligent, and reputable men. acquitted one of the defendants. Thereupon the case was dismissed from before the Justice, and on the same day a new affidavit was filed by another "leaguer," (since made equally notorious with the first,) and the case was thereupon carried into the Common Pleas Court. Last Tuesday, after a trial of nearly a week's duration, a second jury brought down a verdict of not guilty as to another of the defendants. Messrs. A. V. Austin, Isaac Naylor,

James Wilson, and John Swan, Esq., prosecuted for the State, and Messrs. Lew. Wallace, Wilson, and McDonald, defended. Wc will make no invidious distinctions as

to the efforts of these gentlemen-—they all executed" in their best styles. Messrs. Wallace, Wilson, and McDonald, obtained a verdict from the jury James Wilson did as well as might be expected under the circumstances, while Mr. Swan obtained a verdict from the people."

On Wednesday last Mr. Austin entered a nol. pross.—we believe that is what the lawyers term a dismissal—as to the whole batch. Thus ended this farce in fact, tho' as over §200 will be paid to jurors alone, it was expensive enough to the county to be a tragedy

Never since the organization of Montgomery county has there been such a wanton outrage perpetrated upon a set of crimeless men, as this whole proceeding. Twenty-four or five farmers arrested, brought from their farms to town as criminals, compelled to stand two trials, put to the cost of attorneys' fees, and boarding expenses for near two weeks, forced to leave full a hundred ploughs standing idly before their doors, forced to hear themselves cursed and vilified on street corners and before store doors, and taunted by loafing "leaguers" mounted for safety upon house tops, and subjected to publication and branding in papers shamelessly edited and mortgaged body and soul to a party headed by fanatics with bad hearts and wooden brains never, we repeat, have men, honest or criminal, been, in our couny, so wronged, outraged and persecuted! and what for? Yes, what for? How many good men, accustomed to uninterrupted toleration, in Boone, Fountain, and Tippecanoe, will believe us when we say, the only crime of these unfortunate farmers was their OPINION Yet such is the truth. Farmers of Montgomery! will you not awake at once to a knowledge of the true character of this new political temperance faction Can you look coldly on while such persecutions are conducted to such extremity before your very faces Or do you choose to wait till too late to crush the new-born hydra Wait till another and another such proceeding? Wait till the tax gatherer comes knocking at your door and auctioning off your property to pay &200 to jury after jury Wake up! Learn your rights, and use your power to maintain them There is a place to redress your wrongs, as well as a way, less expensive than in courts and by juries. We mean the ballot-box, after all the surest bulwork of a freeman's liberties.

Come up with us Every other political organization has, or may go down some blasted by the perfidy of its leaders others crushed by their own corruption, or the nation's judgment. Bnt still stands the republican par!y of Jefferson, and yet Democracy goes on bravely and stoutly, the only legitimate offspring of our great free people. Come up with us, you Whig farmers you are too worthy to be sold to a band of base spoils-seeking hypocrites. Our platform is broad—there is room for us all!

[For tlie Crawfordsville Kuview.

Jlessrs. Bowen & Stover: GENTLEMEN—An article appeared in the Locomotive and Journal of last week, which would have a tendency to create a false impression in the minds of the public.— Knowing that you have some respect for the feelings of a bereaved woman, and the sorrows and character of helpless orphans, I ask this favor of you, to contradict the alleged cause of WM. RILEY'S death. It has been said that he died of delirium tremens or drunkenness, which is false. When he died, he was sober, and had been so some months previous The complaint of which he died was of long standing and altogether dissimilar to drunkenness.

By giving this an insertion in your paper, you will oblige one that is suffering much sorrow and distress.

JULIA RILEY.

It gives us great pleasure to give place in our columns to the above. The public probably remember the papers which published the articles complained of. It seems

the Lafayette papers re-published them.— From information derived from persons well acquainted with the facts, we have no hesitation in pronouncing the articles in question altogether untrue. The unfortunate Irishman for months previous to his decease had been a strictly sober man. The living and the dead, however, are alike in the estimation of the slanderer for the one he feels no respect, for the^ other no sympathy. i*.

AMERICANS IN THE TURKISH ARMY*.—A letter in the Boston Traveler, dated Constantinople, March 2d, says: Two Americans are now in the Turkish army, one having the commission of a Colonel, and the other, I think, of a Major. The former was a Captain in the United Slates army. Both have gone to join the troops at Kars, near the Georgian frontier.

£5T The Washington Star says Colonel Colt will realize a stupendous fortune out of the Eastern war. The Russians will be armed mostly with his revolvers, and so will most of the officers in the English and French armies. ".v

The weather

trees in full bloom.

For the Crawfordsville Review.

TO DIETRICH CABBAGE. NUMBER I. Knowing the latitudinal and longitudinal extent of your influence over yoar obfuscated followers, and selecting you from among their multitudinous array as one peculiarly distinguished for clear conception and preeminent abilities, I see fit and proper, whether you like it or not, to address a few epistolary warnings to you, relative to that alarming and terrible calamity now prevalent to such an unprecedented extent in our community. Of course you understand me as alluding to the horrible and deathprocuring vice SOUR KROUT EATINO.

We might go on to dissertate upon the history of sour krout as a diet but you must admit,—a man of your extraordinary intelligence could hardly do otherwise, that common experience clearly demonstrates that its influence has been injurious and greatly destructive to the highest and dearest interests of hundreds and thousands of our fellow beings. Now, sir, let me urge you to look a little more closely to this matter—take two young men (if they object, it makes no difference) of fair and equal promise, let the one commence and continue from day to day the use of sour krout, while the other partakes alone of pure and sparkling "Bologna" (Galey Ridge's best) which of these young men would be considered as standing on the safer ground which would you or any business man select to trust with the management of important affairs which of the two will most likely fill a sour krouters grave? Again, take two families, one of which is in the hourly use of sour krout, and the other observes the strict habits of Bologna sausage and sausage Bologna, which of the two is more likely to have his stomach move on smoothly, quietly and prosperously? which of the two is in greater danger of diarrhea, cholic, flux, dysorixy, dysury, dysentery and dysphagy? Once more, sir, (lest you shouldn't already have had enough) let me ask you to bring your reflective organs to contemplate, (for fear that you should lose sight of the rhetoric of this paragraph, let me remind you that I am now approximating to a climax,) the management and probable prosperity of two counties, states and nations in the one the Governor, or President (of course you know every county has a Governor and every slate a President), legislators, the judiciary, all the officers of government, ahd the people at large, as well as those not at large, are addicted to the use of sour krout as a diet, in the other every officer of government and the entire population are strictly temperate, use none of that diabolical vegetable which robs men of physical power, dethrones intellect and palsies every faculty, in which, sir, would you prefer a home to rear up your family? In which would you look for crowded prisons, for ruined families, for penury and deep, unmitigated wretchedness And when the dark shadows of raging pestilence broods gloomily over the land, where, think you, would be found its rediest victims From which country would come up the loudest wail of anguish, &c., &c., for those borne away by the dread sour krout? That the nation addicted to krout would be far the greater sufferer, vour juJgement and superabundent sense must readily admit, the history of the past proves it beyond the doubt of a shadow, i. e. it proves you would admit it.

Before inquiring into the teachings of science, of morality and religion on this momentous subject, let me briefly call your attention to the power of those habits your influence as a manufacturer is now calculated to rivit upon the young and rising generation and I cannot better illustrate than by quoting the language of that remarkable man, F. Dougherty, who once reveled on several tubs full of krout. In describing the progress of the your.g in the krout habit, and its final fatal end, he says

"Launch your flat boat on Sugar Creek

are

is delightful fruit

it is bright, smooth, beautiful, magnificent, grand, sublime, glassy and romantic there -s ^.j is a ripple at the bow the silvery mill pond _j you leave

behind,

'Young men, ahoy dam is below you.' ha! ha! ha! ha! we

adds to your enjoyment jfcg-

'The mill-dam is below you.' ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! we of the dam below us, but we are not such fools as to £0 over it. When we find we are going too fast to suit our convenience, then hard up the paddle and steer to the shore when we find we are passing a giv-

'Ha! ha!

swiftly sailing with the current.' 'Young men, ahoy 1 'What is it?' 'The dam is below you. Now, you see the water foaming all around see how fast you pass the pork house Now turn Pull hard!— Quick quick Pull till the blood starts from the nostrums, and the veins stand like bedcords upon the brow! Set the pole in the socket! hoist the stern gib. Ha ha ha ha ha ha it is too late. Shrieking, cursing, howling, growling, blaspheming, over you go and billions and millions thus go over, declaring all the while,' 'When I find out that krout is injuring me, then I will give it up."

Believe me, sir, this is no fancy sketch of the imagination 'tis'serious, fearful, momentous reality. One and another and another of our citizens yearly take to tho fearful krout. The soul, that immortal part of man, passes into the eternal world, and the last sounds it utters ere the final separation are the incoherent mutterings, the horrid blasphemies, the bitter cursings, the startling cries of agony, inspired and produced by that infuriating krout which you have manufactured and proclaimed to be a blessing to the world. By the proper exercise of your power you can save them from that darkness and those unutterable cholics which ever flow upon and overwhelm the krout eater. Pause, ponder, and reflect.

Intending to continue my remarks, I remain, Very truly, BUG 1IUM BAGPILLS.

CUTTING AND BRACKENRIDGE.

'Duelling appears the order of the day. From all quarters we hear of challenges, and now and then, though not so frequent, we hear of actual meetings ending in bloodshed. Like all other peace-lovers we had hoped that the day was gone by when our representatives in Congress, leaving their seats and the business of their constituents, should deem it necessary to go to Bladensburg, or elsewhere, in search of honor at the pistol's mouth. Messrs. Cutting and Brackenridge have satisfied us, however, of our delusion. They quarreled, chose their seconds, and exchanged sundry excessively polite billets. The correspondence

between them has been published in full everybody has doubtless read and weighed it. Both of them are talented and promising and Democratic. Indeed,-both are leaders—Cutting of the "Hards," and Biackenridge of "Young America." Still, we must be allowed to express an opinion. Wc don't think, in the first place, there was anything to fight about. If they thought so, however, and advanced so far as to ask and refuse explanations, they ought to have fought and had done with it. And now, that the affair is settled and hands been amicably shaken by the belligerents, it is our very modest opinion, founded upon their correspondence, that neither of them wai very anxious to be shot at, whatever disposition lie may have felt to shoot. From and after the first two notes, both, it appears to us, showed a fizzling tendency and the redundant cordiality of their last missives betrays a great anxiety to again enjoy their appetites, hotels, and eight dollars a day, undisturbed by obtru-ive thoughts of rifles and—death. The loss of either of them we believe would be a public calamity, but still, after having gone so far, they should have finished their coffee and fought. The weight of opinion may bo against the practice, and we think it is in the north but so often have our people been excited by stories of duels about to take placc, but which, by some inexplica bility, are so invariably arranged without meeting, that now-a-days they listen to the

tales incredulously, and, if the parties don't fight, no matter how honorable the conduct, they think the gentlemen have Dogberry-ed themselves, if no more.

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Paradise Lost has been dramatised

for the National Theatre,"N. Y. The Costurner of the establishment has sent out to| Smyrna for the fig-leaves fur mother Eve.)

AIJPEARS

ha\ hearc*

en spot too rapidly, we will set the pole in

the socket, hoist the sail and speed to land.: Albany and Salem Railroad from there to a the Wabash river, and it3 rapid extension We are not alarmed by the danger.'—

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our krout what care we for the future?— Company are discussing the project of im-1 „n,_

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,o man ever saw it. Sufficient muo. th

day is the evil thereof. We will enj°y Krout shipment of the large quantities oi while we may, and catch flies at our pleas-

frra

current in England,

rumor

down the creek you glide you have oars, that Mazzini is preparing to make a strike sails, and paddles prepared for every con- f0r Italy, and that he will soon appear tingency, and you set out on your pleasure among his partizans in his native land. excursion. Some one comes out from the bank, Younc man, ahoy,!' What is it? PROPERTY AT MICHIGAN CITY, IND.—Real

t0

be advancing rapidly in

this thriving town. The Lake House pro-

was

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0f

Jearn, for

jagj.

weej{j we

5P,000, one-third cash it changed hands iuss than six years ago, at §2,GuO. Dwellings are in oreat demand, and the want of

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them prevents very many from removing there with their families, quite anxious to do so on account of the increasing business

the place. The opening of the New

1-ll

towards the Ohio, which it will reach

nat is it I he season has given an extraordinary impetus 'Ha! ha! ha! ha!

itoa

fthis'0i,

)i the enterprises, and to every apart-^

will laugh and eatjnient ot trade. The N. A. & S. Railroad:

proving the harbor at their own expense, so:

This is enjoyment it is time enough its entire line, require that something should

ure.~ to steer out of danger when wc find we are be done for the harbor. Chicago Press.

with ecuri

ty.

which the road will bring fn^jp along..