Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 June 1854 — Page 2

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CicAWFonn.eviLi.K, May 20, 1851.

To tho Eds. of the "Review:", At mee.tinp of tho delegates from the pevcral eonnties composintr the Sth Congressional District. Indiana, held in Indianapolis, May 24th, it

unanimously decided to hold a Convention for the nomination of a Democratic candidate for Congress in that (the Sth) District, at Crawfordavillo, Thursday, August 17, 1S54.

THE C. YTTIERING OF TIIE CLANS.

'& Next Saturday there "will be a grand gathering of the clans for the purpose of nominating a candidate for the legislature. Nominations for Treasurer, Sheriff, and county Commissioners will also be made. Fisher Dougherty and R. T. Brown, the leaders of the new party are desirous that the nominee for legislator, should vote if elected, for a United States Senator who is in favor of repealing the Nebraska bill and the Fugitive slave law. The scramble to necure the nomination for the offices of Treasurer and Sheriff, will undoubtedly be exciting and interesting, nnd we sincorely hope that whoever the lucky ones may be they will not, like Mr. Remington, throw up their offices and leave in disgust for parts unknown.

J£rT Fisher Dougherty, the prime leader of the "search, seizure, confiscation, destruction and disunion party," made the following remark in a recent speech: ''I would rather sell powder and load to the British soldiery to shoot down American citizens than corn to a distillery." This is the same man who endeavored to raise a crowd to mob John L. Robinson, the U. S. Marshal. Dougherty's intellectual qualifications arc far superior to any other leader in his party, and he is one who should be held accountable for his remarks, which in fact reflects the sentiments of his followers.

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informed that we can hold no controversy with him whatever through the medium of our paper. The notoriety he has acquired in this vicinity, should satisfy, we think, any reasonable aspirant for literary honors, without this seeking a newspaper quarrel with us to gain greater. The young man is evidently ambitious, and with his over-weaning and hereditary vanity, will undoubtedly make his mark in the town nnd compel the public to ''write him down an

We arc the last man in the world

to discountenance or frown down juvenile aspiration, particularly in this case, though our feelings have been somewhat stir/My lacerated by his childish ebullitions.— in all charity, then, we commend him to the editor of the Rockville Nub who has been a constant and admiring reader of his 'productions, nnd who will take pleasure in improving his billingsgate and developing ihis dull wit.

it5T We learn from the Illinois papers, lhat the wheat throughout that State has Soever looked finer nnd if nothing intervenes to cut off the promised yield, the crop will sexceed all calculation.

NATOLEOX AXD CUBA.

The last news

from Europe has the following item: The Emperor Napoleon is reported to have ex--pressed his decided disapprobation of the .American design upon Cuba, and declared that his policy would be the same in the ssWept as in the East, by a faithful observance of treaties, and that he was opposed ..to any attempt on the part of any power to Sitake advantage of the weakness of an ene*§my, or deprive him of his right.

&ST Winslow, Lanier fc Co. are paying .at their office in New York, the interest of the seven per cent, mortgage bonds of the

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FALI.ET'S

S3T We are glad to notice that there will be a meeting held in the Court House on next Monday night, to take steps preparatory to the celebration of the 4th of July. We hope our citizens, of all parties and positions, will be in attendance. We are rrrowintr too sluggish in our observance

of that day. It is one day peculiarly interesting to the American people, and to the whole people. No party or sect can properly claim and appropriate it to their own use. It becomes us to lay aside all party preferences, and individual interests, and unite fraternally in commemoration of that day, which gave birth to our liberties as men and to our nation, now among the most powerful and influential on earth. We hope then to see a large attendance.

$3T A beautiful thought is this which we quote from a letter to the editors of the Cayuga Chief:—"A foot of snow fell yesterday, and to-day the sun looked at it, and—the white vision is murmuring in the brooks."

TIIE GREATER EVILS EXPLAINED. The Free Democrat (Abolition) referring to the recent action of the Democratic State Convention on the subject of a prohibitory law, says: "On the temperance question, the ground they take, as we apprehend it, is this: that intemperance is a great evil, and that the liquor traffic ought to be rtgulated and restrained, but the attempt to prohibit the traffic altogether would result in greater evils than ihtempcrance itself. What those greater evils are we are not informed."

As in duty bound, we propose to enlighten the dark understanding of our neighbor, [n the first place, we assert that the word "regulated," is not to be found in the resolution referred to. It is an interpolation of the Editor. The language of the Democratic resolution on that subject is "restraint and correction." A proper and correct quotation always enables the commentor to arrive with much more certainty at the intentions of the writer, and we suggest to Mr. Vaile, if that plan will suit him just as well, that he pursue it in future. The greater evils referred to are search, seizure, confiscation and destruction of private property. Tho constitution and laws of our land, makes fcvery man's house his castle there he should be sccure from unreasonable search and seizure. Any law which would authorize and require officious constables and police officers to make their weekly visits to private houses to search tho cellars, smoke-houses, pantries, cupboards, and trundle-beds, to see if there may not be a bottle of "bitters" hid away, and if found, to forthwith destroy it, we regard as a greater evil than the unrestrained sale of spirituous liquors. Under this right of search every sort of enormity would be committed. There is a middle ground between the two extremes—that ground is the Democratic platform.—State Sentinel.

R£T A case of cannibalism was tried before a New Orleans Court lately. The testimony showed that ono Fannin was arrested in March last for a breach of the peace, and wlien under confinement, a man named Sullivan, who was also a prisoner and confined in the same room with him, attacked him in the night time in a most ferocious manner, and not only bit off one of his ears, but gnawed him on his breast, tried to bite one of his fingers off, and attempted to gouge one of his eyes out.— The ear that was bitten off, being preserved in spirits, was exhibited in Court.

Such cannibalism is sometimes displayed in our streets, particularly the gouging part.

j£grThe self-expanding petticoat is meeting with considerable fashionable attention abroad. It receives its appearance by inflation with air, and can be reduced or extended at will. Swelling or collapsing thus at the pleasure of the wearer, producing at once rotundity or meagrene^s, it seems admirably adapted for wearing in omnibusses or crowded places.

JCiT In Siberia the greatest luxuries are raw cats served up in bear's oil while in Japan a stewed crocodile, flanked with monkey's feet, is the height of "fat things."

PROTESTANT

Broomr.—Miss Melinda M.

Ball, formerly a teacher in one of the Public Schools of Troy, has been discharged by the Board of Education, on the ground that she was a believer in the "spiritual rappings."—Troy Budget.

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Jt?r The Anti-Maine law meeting held at Waveland on l.tsl Saturday was large and enthusiastic.

the summer of

1853, while walking at Reichenback, in Silistria the colonel of a regiment caused a drunken priest to be laid hold of by some of his soldiers, had his dress stripped off him, and twenty stripes inflicted on his back.— After this correction his priestly robes were again put on. the soldiers prostrated themselves before him, and the colonel and officers kissed his hands in the most humble manner.

persons have any idea

of the extent of this territory. Its boundary is three thousand miles in length, its era fire hundred thousand square miles, and it will form twelve States, each as large as Ohio.

is- We find the following apostrophe to Flats going the rounds Hat for beauty—hat for pleasure—

Hal for usage—hat for leisure— Hanging over tho eyes of azure You're a trc-nstirv beyond measnre Shading well with flowing tresses, Showy necks and charming dresses.

J£3r~ Among the most important items of personal news afloat is one from the Syracuse Standard, announcing that Mrs. Bloomer and Mrs. Stanton, the champions of Woman's Right, are not on "speaking terms." We are not to understand that they propose to treat the public as they do each other, and cea«--e to address temperance rnd women's rights convention.

[From the London Daily Times.

THE ICE-BURST ON TIIE NEVA. The crisis of the Baltic enterprise seems near at hand. Under date of the 3d of May we hear of bitter east winds and thickfalling snow of the 4th, of Stockholm steamers running, with crowds of citizens, to see the fleet on the Sth, of fog so thick that the ships could not stir. In Finland, meantime, the season is mild, and navigation is rapidly advancing. The month of May is always the season of suspense at St. Petersburg—the time when it is said the restless Czar, who sleeps only by snatches, looks out, or goes forth, almost before anybody else is stirring, to observe the aspect of his watery realai, and see which way the wind is. The suspense is about the wind and even now, in this most solemn spring season of all the fifty seven he has known, the movements of the winds are of more consequence to Nicholas than even those of the allies. A long continuance of strong east winds would do more for him than all the preparations he can make. A rush of west wind would ruin him more speedily and thoroughly than all his united enemies could without its help. The suspense is about this. The fog is the token that the crisis is at hand. The fog precedes the breaking up of the ice in the Neva and it will be succeeded by those singularly twilight nights, of unequal beauty, which are the only charm of the desolate region in which St. Petersburg stands. While the fog lasts the sentinels on the watch-towers in the city look out in vain, some towards Lake Ladoga, some up the Neva, some toward the sea. They can hear something, but see nothing. So it is with the Czar, listeningin his balcony and with the commandants of Sweaborg and Cronstadt and perhaps with our "Charley" walking the deck, and talking to himself. What he is listening for is the arrival of the French quadrons, which will enable him to proceed to his work when the fog curtain rises. What the Russians are listening for is, first, the wind. To some it comes sighing over the peaty plains which stretch to the margin of the gulf, whence they look like a mere drift upon the waters. Over that barren bleak expanse the wind comes sighing through the rushes, with an occasional bark of the wolf, or bursts of the din of the water fowl in the pools which are already melted. To others the wind comes vibrating like mournful music through the pine forests, which surrounding the capital with their black belt, nowhere further off than 20 miles approach much nearer in some directions.

There are sounds which come to the ear on May nights when the wind is from any point of the compass for there are swamps and pine forests everywhere. It is the voice of the waters that the watchers listen for with hearts that stand still. As long as the hollow moaning goes on, the moaning of the imprisoned winds below the ice, the suspense is complete. Sooner or later comes the crack, which tells that the hour of crisis has come. The cracks of the ice are naturally the most impressive and sound the loudest in the night. The Czar and his centuries are already on the watch but now the citizens rise and look in vain through the fog. Some dress and go to the wharves, though it is much too soon to conjecture how high the waters will rise. Next comes the crash of the ice, driven up in heaps in the river, or against the wharves and then the more anxious sound —the swash of the driven waters. The thing most desired is a moderate east wind —and this is what usually happen.".. A violent east wind brings down the inland ice and flood too fast and every inch that the waters rise above the iron rings in the granite embankment is so much danger.— But the fearful thing is a strong west wind, turning back the flood on its way to the Gulf. Then it is less the swash of waters Douring down than the roar of the sea coming up and when the tides meet, the consequence is what the world saw in 1824. The vessels that were not capsized by the meeting of the floods were carried over the wharves, and stranded on the sands which were arable fields the day before.

The nine rivers and seven canals on which St. I'etcrsburgh is seated all over-flowed at once, and the flood poured into the upper chambers of the best houses in the capital. At Constandt a large vessel was driven into the main street of the town, and left there. Every successive year adds to the peril of such a chance fur every year does St. Petersburg settle lower in the swamp.— Amid the stagnant silence maintained there about all disagreeable facts, this very disagreable fact is well understood. The mallet is heard driving new piies incessantly—that is a sound that cannot be muffled. The blocks of granite settle unequally, that is an irregularity which the Czar himself cannot prohibit or punish. The walls of palaces crack, and hovels sink down endways into the bog, and all the world may see them melt down or be shored up. The destruction will be horrible some day and every inhabitant knows it, and only hopes that the place may last his time.— But if a west wind should carry up—not the soa only, but those who are now riding that sea—what then? This is what the

Czar is listening for the one other sound —the boom of cannon—which might for once rival in terror the roar of the sea.— From Cronstadt, 16 miles off, the spire of the Admiralitv and the glittering cupolas of St. Petersburg may be seen on a clear day. Cronstadt is nearer to St. Petersburg than Gravesend is to London. From St. Petersburg the boom of such cannon as we have sent "there may be heard from Cronstadt, if we have the west wind for our herald of approach. By that time the fog will be gone and the transparent twilight of that latitude will have set in. Tlie admirals will then have no more time for listening like the Czar. Such a chance as that wind would fill the channels for them, and obviate their chief difficulty. A very few hours of such a tide would suffice for their attempt upon Cronstadt. The gun boats of the enemy, ambushed among the islands, and watching with intense interest and awe the great floating fortifications that have

been sent against their stationary one, must not, in such a case, come out, unless they would be run down and the sentries on the bastions at Cronstadt would see with dismay how rapidly the ordinary watermarks are disappearing. Such a wind would be the best of allies. But, without it, we are disposed to believe that Cronstadt is, as now hinted from the scene of action, "not impregnable." We hear much of the shallows there but it is certain that the largest Russian ships of war are built at St. Petersburg, as far as the hulls are concerned, and then brought into the Cronstadt harbors to be finished. They are brought by the old fashioned machinery of "camile" down the river, and then by means of the great ship canal at Cronstadt, into the heart of the place. That canal— the one running from the Middle Harbor— holds ten large ships of war at once. The shallows before Acre were thought to be an insurmountable difficulty before Sir C. Napier made a wreck of that marvellous fortification. We shall soon see whether, with the added resources of fourteen years of naval improvements, he cannot deal with the shallows of Cronstadt. The Czar permits no sounding of the Neva. To sound the Neva is death to Russian subjects but it is given out that the average depth is nine feet on the bar, and twelve within. We all know what Russian figures are worth, and we may be sure that the shallowest depth that can be believed will be the one reported.

We know, too, that the range of difference between the highest and lowest water is very great, and that the period of highest water is at hand. "Charley" knows- all this, and very much more and while he is walking the deck, and talking to himself, he has his own plans for making the wind and tide serve him. we may be sure. Everything is said to serve the Napiers (as it generally serves other people) when they are at their woik

And the watcher at the other end of the Gulf who knows all this, and very much more, how is it with him? -----

NEBRASKA AS IT IS, AND WILL BE. No families have removed to the Territory, neither have they a right to do so, until the Indians have relinquished their claim and title to these lands. The first county north of the Platte, and west of the Missouri river, and east of the Horn, will become the most populous county in Nebraska. This is considerably well timbered, has lime quarries, stone coal, and iron ore and is an excellent, dry, rolling, fertile region. The embryo city, opposite this place, will be the capital, for the present, of the Territory, without a doubt, and will eventually be second to none in the West but this city. Next in importance will be the cities twelve miles each way north and south of us, Bellview [sic] and Winter Quarters making three very important river cities in one county. Besides the ordinary business importance of this new frontier river county in Nebraska, the great Pacific Railroad is to pass through and have there (probably at Omaha city, or near) a great resting house, before skimming the broad plains and leaping the Rocky Mountains.

The great place in embryo, Omaha city, is located immediately east of this city, on the Nebraska side, and about three miles distant. Bellview [sic], the old missionary and trading station, is twelve miles below, but north of the Platte river, and has a beautiful and commanding view. Winter Quarters is twelve miles above, and is the site of the winter quarters of the first Mormon emigrating camp which is also most beautifully situated. In fact, we do not know of three more charming and delightful town sites on the Missouri river than these. We would make a slight correction of an article recently published in the Keokuk <Dispatch> upon that subject. His informant was in error in regard to the distance of country back lhat was well timbered and a good agricultural country.

There is much worthless land, and that, too, destitute of timber, within 150 or 200 miles west of the Missouri river and although there is much good land and considerable timber, we would not have the people find themselves deceived in any way by our neglect or assent,

There is no doubt that many will be disappointed and dissatisfied with the country, as it has by very many been overrated. It is a positive Paradise; there may be cold, heat, and many other inconveniences to offend. The climate and soil are both very similar to Iowa, except when you get far back from the streams, there you find sand and barrens.

Many who go there to settle will finally find homes in this State, or cross the Rocky Mountains.

The principal reasons of this is a general scarcity of timber throughout these territories; this in time will be overcome by the use of coal, hedging and the growth of young timber, and every foot of these rich vallies will bud and blossom as the rose, and the iron horse, with a hissing snort, bound through the defiles, on its way to or returning from the Pacific, laden with the silks, cashmere, and precious things from China, Japan and the Indies. "A good time is coming boys, "Wait a little longer."

Up, stir lively, work bravely, and pull together, and you will be fortunate if upon the route of this stupendous thoroughfare.

—<Council Bluffs Bugle>. -----

ABOLITION PLATFORM ON LIQUOR.—The

following is the resolution adopted by the Abolition Convention, recently held at Indianapolis, on the subject of Whisky.

Resolved, That we demand a Prohibitory Law, that shall totally suppress the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, by embodying the principles of seizure, confiscation and destruction of liquors kept for illegal sale.

Keep it before the people.

The editor of the St. Louis News saw a train of ten wagons from Illinois, bound for Nebraska, on the 13th just.

From tho State Sentinel.

HON. DANIEL MACE—A NEW ALLY. The abolition party afe greatly rejoiced at the recent acquisition of this gentleman to their fold. We wish him much joy in his new vocation. We admire his frankness and his independence we are sorry we cannot add the word "honesty." Personally,, we rather admire the dexterity of his last sommerset.

When a man becomes dissatisfied with the principles of the Democratic party, the best thing he can do is to leave it. If we are to have grumblers and croakers, let them be outside of the party organization. We do not regard opposition to the passage of the Nebraska bill, as sufficient ground to excommunicate any man from the Democratic party. We are all liable to err.— We think Major Mace erred in opposing this measure. But his vote against the Nebraska bill was one thing, and his open denunciation of all the principles of the party, and his bitter vituperation of all the leading men of the party, including the President, his Cabinet, and distinguished Senators, is quite another and a different thing. Under such declarations we were rejoiced to hear him say that he had severed his connection with the Democratic party. He has now fully adopted the creed and is in full communion in the abolition church. -i "Try all things, and hold fast to that which is good," is his maxim. He was first a whig, a noisy, hard cider, white whisky whig. In 1843 he was nominated by the whigs for Congress in opposition to Hon. John Pettit. Finding himself no match for the old war-horse of Democracy, and seeing defeat staring him in the face, he all at once discovered that the whig party was essentially corrupt and debased, and that Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and the great leaders of the party, were selfish and politically dishonest. Seeing that he, Daniel Mace, was the only honest man in the great Sodom of whiggcry, he declined the canvass, and took up his bed and walked to the Tyler Inn, a sort of a half-way house, where a kind of patent laver was prepared, which washed out the stains from disaffected whigs, and removed the rings from the tails of snarling coons. In this theatre he was soon promoted from the ranks to the office of District Attorney for the State of Indiana an office of honor and emolument. John Tyler was a man who rewarded his friends and punished his enemies. In this chrysalis state he remained until the fire of Tylerism went out and disappeared "like the baseless fabric of a vision," leaving here and there a wreck behind. On one of those shattered planks the gallant Major was left floating in the great sea of political uncertainty. In this crisis he was picked up by the great Democratic ship then making a most gallant run. with Polk and Dallas as commanders, and Texas and Oregon flying at the mast-head. Like all new converts, he was exceedingly zealous in support of his new opinions, and denounced in unmeasured terms the corruptions of his old associates. In 1848 he was on the elcc'oral ticket for Cass and Butler, and advocated the non-intervention doctrine of the Nicholson letter, which he now so violently condemns. In 1851, he was elected to Congress as an avowed supporter of the compromise measures of 1850, the fugitive slave law inclusive. In Congress, by all his votes and acts, he supported and sustained these measures.— Abolitionism met from him neither aid nor sympathy.

In 1852 he was rc-elcc'ed, under the pledge not to be a candidate for re-election. Finding it impossible to again succeed as a Democrat, he all at once discoveied that the Nebraska bill was a "great swindle," and that Pierce and his Cabinet, Douglas, Cass, Pettit, and Bright were essentially corrupt, and that the whole party was unworthy of his confidence and support. lle was not long in coming to this conclusion. His conversion was sudden and thorough. The new lights which illuminated his understanding showed him but two honest men in Congress. One was "Father Giddings," and modesty forbids him to mention the other. Into the open arms of this venerable man he suddenly and gracefully flung himself. He had lived on the fat of the land, but the fate of the prodigal son loomed up before him. He could'nt think of eating "shucks," with the vulgar herd, and false pride forbade him to return to his father's house, the old dilapidated mansion of Whiggcry he therefore took a "free bus" for the Giddings house where there were many empty rooms with shining ebony furniture. Drunk with new wine, he immediately left the halls of Congress to make a pilgrimage to his old friends in Indiana, to indoctrinate them into the beauties of abolitionism. Here he held forth in denunciation of the corruption of Pierce, Marcy, Cass, Douglas, and the whole Democratic party. We of the Sentinel came in for a heavy portion of his double distilled wrath. He was awfully severe, but as the ejection of this billious matter seemed to do the Major a great deal of good, and us no sort of harm, we were rather glad of it.— We had no disposition to assail the gallant Major we were perfectly willing to let him sink down to his native element undisturbed but he .seemed determined to court a notice and we hate to disappoint an old friend. His speeches were open and frank. Without disguise he declared his connection with the "old line democracy" dissolved, and that henceforth he should act with the New Democracy." He declared himself in favor of the repeal of the Nebraska bill, the repeal of the fugitive slave law, and opposed to the admission of more slave

States. fe He has now made his bed with the abolitionists, the enemies of the country and the Constitution. There the Democracy of Indiana will let him lie. They will say to him as Uncle Toby said to the fly, "go poor devil: the world is wide enough for both of us." Farewell Major, let us part in peacft. May you have a good time with your new associates. May the prophet

Joshua pour the oil of Consolation into

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lacerated wounds, and may you be a worthy and accepted member of the great free dirt, free nigger party of this country Sic transit gloria mundi.

PREPARING TO EMIGRATE. The "Anti Nebraskaites" down east, are preparing on a pretty extensive scale to render the repeal of the Missouri Compromise nugatory, by occupying the new territories with the opponents of slavery. The Legislature of Massachusetts has incorporated an Association under the namo of the "Emigrant's Aid Society," the object of which is to secure the occupation of Kansas and Nebraska by free settlers, A temporary organization has been effected under this charter, by appointing Ely 1 hayer, of Worcester, as President, an Dr. Thomas H. Webb, of Boston, as Secretary. Books of subscription have been opened at Boston, Worcester, and New ork, and a meeting of stockholders for permanent organization, will be held in Boston on the first Wednesday of June.

Its capital is So,000,000, in shares of 8100. It is prohibited from holding more than 820,000 in real estate in Massachu- "i setts, or to assess more than 84 on each share, in 1854, or more than 810 in any year thereafter. Its plan, as already decided upon, is to contract forthwith with the "1 ransportation Lines for the convey-" ance of 20,000 emigrants, giving h.- advantage of the reduced fare to°the emigrants to erect immediately a large Receiving Establishment in Kansas, where the emigrants may be accommodated until they have time to settle themselves to send out and set in operation steam saw mills, grist mills, and such necessaries of civilization as require capital, with the apparatus for a weekly newspaper.

The committee say that it will be but two or three years before the company can dispose of its property in the territory first occupied—and reimburse itself for its first expenses. At that time, in a stato of 70,000 inhabitants, it will possess several reservations of G40 acres each—on which its boarding houses and mills stand—and the churches and school-houses, which it has rendered necessary. These points will then be the large commercial positions of the new State. If there were only ono such,—its value, after the region should be so far peopled, would make a very largo dividend to the company which sold it, besides restoring its original capital, with which to enable it to attempt the same adventure elsewhere.

This is a great deal more sensible than dissolving the Union, or threatening to do it, as do the more rabid abolitionists and whigs. Let the new territories come in as free States, and we shall have no more repeals of compromises, or of legislation soobjectionable to a large portion of tha American people.— Chicago Press.

BLOODY AFFRAY--7 MEN KILLED! One of the crew of the canal boat Flying Cloud, owned by Sheppard & Houghtelling of this city, arrived in the city yesterday and brought intelligence of a terrible encounter between Capt. Henry Brown, and a party composed principally of the crew of the repairing scow, at Ottawa, in which seven of the latter were shot down. The circumstances as related are as follows:

At Lasalle, while the Flying Cloud was coming through the locks, one or two of the scow's crew came 011 board and wantonly threw a favorite dog of Capt. Brown's wife into the lock the Captain thereupon put the men uff the boat, and in no gentle manner. They went to their boat and ^allied a party of twenty or more, and took wagons and came up to Ottawa to lie in wait for the boat and take vengeance. A messenger was dispatched from Ottawa by a friend, to meet the boat and warn Capt. Brown of his danger. He loaded two Colt's revolvers and a shot gun, and on arriving at Ottawa, gave one of the pistols to one of his men, and taking him with him, started for the Collector's office to settle his business there. lie had not proceeded far from the boat, when the party fell on him with axes and clubs. His man fired one shot which dropped one of the assailants,! and then fled, leaving the Captain alone toi fight the battle. He commenced retreating to the boat and as the men jumped on him he discharged his weapon with fatal precision, each shot dropping a man. With this loss the party vani.-Iu-d, and the Captain regained his boat, somewhat bruised from the blows he received, but not seriously wounded.

He subsequently went up to the town, surrendered himself to the authorities, was held to bail, gave security, and was discharged. Captain Brown is a small man, but of determined character and indomita-| ble courage. lie is highly esteemed by Messrs. Sheppard ik Iloughtelling, whorepresent him to be a quiet, peaceable mani and one in whom they have great confi-? dence. We have frequently heard complaints ot the conduct of the men on the State scow—of conduct most aggravating to Captains and crews.

SERENADE TO SENATOR DO

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New York, June 4.

The Young Man's Democratic Club complimented Senator Douglas with a serenade last night at the Nicholas. A brief address was made by John Cochrane, on. behalf of the Club, to which Mr. Douglas replied at considerable length. Ihe lateness:? of the hour prevents us from giving a full report, which will, however, be published in in to-Morrow's Herald.

The steamship Black Warrior arrived, vesterdav, brinirin£ later advices from Havana. Ihe most active preparations? to give the filibusters from our shores a warm reception were in progress. Tho Governor General, remembering the lovalty and sufferings of the negro soldiers1 heretofore, has determined to attach to each regiment of white troops two cora-^ panics of black, both to enjoy the samtt advantages and obligations. llatlier H. disagreable intermixture we should say in view of the prevailing hot weather.) ..