Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 August 1854 — Page 2

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Agents for the Review.

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S. H. I'AKVI.V. Sonth Eaft corner Columbia and iMiiin streets, Cincinnati, Ohio is our Agent to iproeure advertisements.

We wish it distinctly understood. that we have now the HKST and the J,ARCF.ST assortment of MKMT and FA.vtv .loiiTvpRcver brought to this place. "We insist on thotw wishing work done to call up, ntid W! will show them ourassortmentof typs. cuts,

A*c. NVe have {rot them and no mistake. Work done on short notice, and on reasonable terms.

DEMOCRATIC: TICKET.

Kor Suprone .ludtre, 4th District, AI.VIN P. IIOVEY, ofP..s.'y (ouniy. For SccrctarV of State, NEIIE.MI All HA YDI-lN, Rush county, ••m For Treasurer of State. ELIJAH NEWLAND. of Washington county.

For Auditor of State,

JOHN P. DUNN, of Perry county. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, WILLIAM C. LAKRABEE, of Putnam county.

DISTRICT TICKET.

For Congress—8th District.

Dr. JAMES DAVIS, of Fountain county. For Prosecuting Attorney, SAMUEL W. TELFORD, Tippecunoc coun'y.

-A COUNTY TICKET.

For Representative, THOMAS J. WILSON. For County Treasurer,

JOHN LEE. For Shorill',

BENJAMIN M1SNER. For Cominis.ii»ner, SAMUEL C.ILLAND.

District Prosecutor, ABNER V. AUSTIN.

Temperance Resolution Adopted at the Democratic State Convention. KF.eoi.vhi. That Intemperance is a great moral arid social evil, fur the restraint and correction of which legislative interposition is necessary and proper but that wo cannot approve of any plan lor the eradication or correction of this evil that .-must necessarily result, in the infliction of greater ones: and that we arc therefore opposed to any law upon this subject that will authorize the SEAUCII-

INO fur. or SKIZUUI:. CONFISCATION,and DLSTKUCTION of private property.

Read! Read! Read!

'•The right of the people, to be. urcitre in their pcrHiw.i, norsi.s. papers, and KKFKCIS. against unreasonable sKAiscn or sKi/.ntK. shall NO- be YIOI.ATIID. •Six. 11, Const. bid. '•No man's ncorritTY shall be TAKES BY LAW, without just COMI'ENSATIOS.'1 SI:C. 21.

O^T Wc call the attention of our readers in this weeks paper to the seventh annual report of President Brooks, of the New Albany and SaleIU It. 11. The report is of the uiost favorable character, and cannot fail to be highly satisfactory to stock holders. Under the admirable management of President Brooks this great work has been completed in an astonishingly short s'ace of t.me, und as soon as the ballasting and gravelling up of the track shall have been completed, it will be one of the finest railroads in the Union, and one upon which the highest rate of speed can be obtained. A large forcc is now engaged in putting it in the most thorough condition for business, which when consummated will amaze the most skeptical as to its earnings and dividends.

iCS"" An infamous wretch calling himself the "Angel Gabriel," was arrested a few days since in Boston, for disturbing the peace, and lodged in jail. This same miscreant, in connection with the notorious Judson, a states-prison convict, whose term of imprisonment recently e^ ired, and both of whom nrc the originators and high priests of the secret political order or society called "Know Nothings," have been studiously engaged for the last year in creating riots in our large cities. In the Atlantic cities, and in fact throughout the entire country, with but few exceptions, the members of this sccrct order are composed of the lowest dregs of society such as brothel-pimps, bullies and rowdjs of every class, together with those whoso lives have been for the most part passed in the penitentiaries of the several States. Wo .hardly know, says the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, of a greater insult that could be offered, than to accuse a man of belonging to this order, and it is a matter of fact that not a man in the city of Buffalo who is linowri as a respectable member of community has as yet connected himself with this debasing aad anti-republicansociety, whose sole object is to disfranchise a large portion of American citizens and crea\e civils «vrar and religious strife'.

jt3T The Council of Madison Livy" appropriated 8500 to aid in arrangements tor

Hhe coming State fair,

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A couple of steam saw mills were

destroyed bv lire a few days siuco in the south part of the cour.ty.

/3T" Through the politeness of Messrs. FAGAX &

FISHER, we accepted an invita­

tion to dine at the Crane House, of which they hare recently become the proprietors. It is needless to say that the table was bountifully supplied with all the substantial and delicacies of the season, and a better dinner we have not partaken of for m3ny a day. Since these gentlemen have assumed the management of this excellent hotel, they have displayed an epicurean taste heretofore unknown in this region of country in catering to the wants of their numerous guests.

At the table upon our right we Noticed our friend T. D. BROWS, editor of the Locomotive, whose demeanor throughout the feast of "fat things" was that of marked dignity, baring a few sighs that occasionally escaped from his Lordship, (he being a candidate for matrimony) which wc attributed to the effects of the dinner. The asperities existing between us were for the moment laid aside, and we had the pleasure of enjoying a sociable chit-chat with the gentleman, in which we were highly edified and amused, particularly when he spoke of the reformation of the press. The whole affair passed off pleasantly and wound up by his Lordship proposing to drink the health of our worthy hosts whose hospitality we had so well enjoyed.' We must acknowledge that we were somewhat startled and not a little indignant at such a proposition, being as we are, a strong advocate of a "judicious, constitutional temperance law," but fearing to offend we complied. Vive 1' Crane House.

AlT We received by mail a few days since an abolition book, entitled "Off-IIand Takings," with the request to give it a favorable notice. Upon close inspection we found that it abounded in violent invectives and low personal abuse against Stephen A. Douglas, Caleb Cushing, and other eminent statesmen, while it pronounces the most extravagant encomiums upon such traitors as Gerrett Smith, Wm. Loyd Garrison and Theodore Parker. The following extract from the Cleveland Pluindealer will explain better than we can this silly attempt to poison the minds of the American people against eminent statesmen simply because they belong to the Democratic

party: "OFF-HAND TAKINOS."—This book obtained a more favorable notice from us yesterday than it would have done had we examined it more attentively. We did not suppose that the author under cover of his sketches, had become the assailant of any political party, nor that he would cheat the reading public into buying, as sketches of public men, a creation of falsehood and blackguardism of any public man. The measure of vituperation he pours out upon the head of the lion. S. A. Douglas, which is termed a sketch of his life, is a piece of impertinent puppyism which would disgrace a dock loafer, and induces the belief that Mr. Bungay, and perhaps the publishers, received pay for its insertion, the same as a quack advertisement. They may rest assured it will be of immense injury in the sale of the book, for it will very soon become known of this attempt, under a handsome disguise, to load with infamous calumny the name of one of the most distinguished men in this country. We recommend our Democratic friends to invest no cash in Mr. Bungay's 'Off-Hand Takings,' nor to lend their aid in bringing into notice an individual whose chief aim seems to be to gain money or notoriety by a means a very little more honorable than that of picking pockets.

THE NEXT HOG CROP.—The Louisville Courier publishes a full table of the assessment of six months old hogs last year, and the returns from 93 counties this year in Kentucky. By this estimate it appears that there is an increase this year of 285,742 hogs in the above counties, over the entire estimate of last year, and eight or nine counties yet to hear from which will further increase the excess.

The excessive drought which prevails through the country will exert much influence upon the hog market, as corn will be both scarce and high, and it is fair to presume that the hogs will not come to the hooks as large as heretofore. In fact, it is stated that many persons in the interior have turned their hogs out, and abandoned all attempts to fatten them for slaughter.

THE END OK THE UNITED STATES BANK.-— The surviving Trustees of the Bank of the

United States, under date of June 3, 1841, give notice that it is their intention to pay a further dividend out of the assets in their hands, to the creditors of the Trust, viz:— The holders oft he notes and deposits mentioned and intended by the aforesaid deed, at their office, No. 70 Walnut street, Philadelphia, between the hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 2 P. M., on the 31st of December, 1854, when and where all persons interested are requested to appear. They are further notified to come forward and prove the respective debts or demands before the time thus appointed for making and declaring said dividend.

^5?*The New York Tribune recommends the election of FRED. DOUGLAS as the successor of GEKRITSMITH, in the Oswegc and Madison Congressional District.

FAILURE OI' THE MAINE .LIQUOR f' i'Aw. -\jThe Boston correspondent of the New York Times thus alludes to this ridiculous statute: -k\

For the want of more lively topics, I have been making some enquiries about the Maine Law, and find in nearly all the cities and large towns of New England it is a dead letter. It may have done some temporary good, but this has been counteracted by the reactionary harm. The fact that the rich have always been able to get what liquor they wanted without difficulty, has in some cases made them desperate.— The proprietors of the principal hotels in Boston, as well as of the chief bar-rooms, laugh the law in the face.

It is a melancholy and illustrative fact that two of the most prominent "informers" against the liquor sellers: Levi Mills and Absalom Howes, were brought before Police Court last week as common drunkards, and each pleaded guilty to the charge, were sentenced, former to six months, and the latter to two months, in the House of Industry. Such is the prejudice here against informers, that at the last session of the State Legislature the Liquor Law was so far modified as to deprive them of the

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usual witness fees.

THE MILLERITE DELUSION.—The Salem (Massachusetts) Gazette says:—"The sect of the Millerites worshiping in this city, who hold that Christ will come to judge the world before the year 1854 expires, have secured quite a large number of converts, and baptized them within the last few months."

THE GREAT DROUTH OF 1854.—The New York Tribune estimates the loss by the present great drouth, which is afflicting the country, at one hundred millions, and the loss of New York State alone at twenty millions. One hundred millions is probably a low estimate for the whole country. Every day brings intelligence of the extent of the drouth, which is much greater than is generally supposed. Some few localities have been visited with rains, but they have produced but little beneficial effect, owing to the absence of the dews and the dryness of the atmosphere. Food will be scarce and dear for a year to come, and it becomes all persons to husband their resources and practice economy. Our country is so wide, and our resources so great, that there will be no absolute want, no famine, but prices will rule high, and the poor will need more than ever the sustaining hand of charity.

TIIE DROUGHT IN PENS YL A NIA. The following is an extract of a letter from Clarion, Pa, in relation to the effects of the drought in that portion of the State: "This season in the driest that has been in this county for fifty years. Grain is very high—wheat $2 per bushel, rye fl, oats 50 cents flouf is $5 per cwt. The wheat in Clarion county this year is the poorest I ever saw. Corn is burnt up oats is not one fourth of a crop buckwheat will be nothing potatoes all lost. I think the coming year will be the hardest for breadstuffs that this country has ever witnessed. The pasture in the fields is burnt up—the leaves on the bushes are all the cattle can get. No signs of rains yet."

FORM CLUBS.—We were pleased to hear from a friend residing in Clinton County, that Democratic Clubs are being formed in every township in that county. That is right. There is no better method of advocating the Democratic cause than by the discussion of its principles at home—in your own neighborhood, and by your own speakers. There is not a township in Indiana that cannot provide for itself and for its county, intelligent and whole-souled Democrats—who, with the truth or their side, as it is, can meet the enemies of our principles and confront them successfully" and triumphantly. Then organize your clubs, and debate the question involved in the issues of abolitionism, search, seizure, confiscation and destruction, and Native Americanism. Let every Democrat feel that he is interested in the success of his paity. Raise aloft the standard of your principles, and bear it proudly and bravely against the storm of fanaticism and corruptions. Suffer not your flag to trail in the dust. Throw it to th^ breeze—inscribe your principles upon its ample folds—enlist in their defense, and trust in 'God and the Right' for success!—,State Sentinel.

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF CALIFORNIA. —A remarkable and permanent change has been wrought within the past two seasons in the agricultural productions of this State. During the present season her farmers have actually produced more wheat and Hour than can find a market within her own borders. Instead of being dependent upon importation for her bread, California is now in a condition to export. At the last accounts new wheat was selling at less prices than it commands in New York, and flour nearlj* proportionately low. All kinds of agricultural products were both abundant and cheap, and the cost of living will soon be reduced to a correspondence with the rest of the Union.

O^r We received a copy of a new Work this week, styled, "Fifteen minutes around

hew York."—By G. G.Foster. This work •will be hailed with pleasure by all who irish to read a most graphic account of everything worthy of record, in and around New ork. This work with manv other valuable publications, is published by DEWITT I DAVENPORT, 1G0 TT 1C2 Nassau Street, N. Y.

S3T The Bloomington Xcus Letter is responsible for the following: N. Carolina has now a Bragg Governor, Indiana once had a Bigger—and now "her head's Wright/"

O^T" The Illinois State Fair has been ti'-stponed.-* It will be heid on the 3d, 4th, 5th. and ^th dr.vs of October.

LETTER FROM THE UPPER MISSOURI. St. Joseph, Mo., July 27, 1854. MESSRS. EDITORS:—Having just returned to this place from an extended tour through a large portion of the territories of Nebraska and Kansas, I have collected a large mass of facts in reference to the soil, climate and agricultural qualities of the country, as well as some speculations in relation to their probable future political prospects,, which would, no doubt, prove interesting to your readers.

Of the two territories, I greatly prefer Kansas, and it is, as a general thing, better supplied with water and timber, and the soil is equally good. The winters, also, are much milder still there are tens of thousand of acres of land in Nebraska which far excel any thing you ever saw in Pennsylvania. This seems to be the general opinion, and the tide of emigration which tended to Nebraska, has now changed to Kansas. Only a few days since, a large party (some hundreds) of Germans, who had started for Nebraska, left the steamboat at the mouth of the Kansas and entered the Kansas instead of Nebraska, as they first contemplated. All the emigration from Iowa and Missouri is now to Kansas. The titles of the Indians will expire in November, and there are thousands of whites who will then cross the river here, and at points above. At a ferry some few miles above here, the ferryman informed me that he had daily averaged forty families across the ferry. This may seem incredible, but it is true. At least 8000 persons from Iowa alone are believed to have crossed the river for Kansas between this place and Westport and at this moment, there are eijrht or ten thousand white persons now the territory.

In twelve months there will be a sufficient number of persons to form a State government and mark my prediction, at the very next session of Congress, Kansas will be knocking fur admission into the Union as a sovereign State.

And now, gentlemen, you may ask how about slavery? Will their State Constitutions recognize slavery? I answer, no.— On the great Nemehaw river there is a large settlement of Missourians I was among them for three weeks:—knowing the deep interest felt through the country on this question, I have made a special subject of inquiry, and I assure you that I have never seen one person who is in favor of slavery who is now residing iu either Kansas or Nebraska. Even the Missourians give it up as a settled matter. Tlie soil, the climate, the nature of the productions of the country arc all against it. While, therefore, Wilmot Provisos and Nebraska Bills may furnish to members of Congress a fruitful theme for speeches to Buncombe, a 'higher law' than any law of Congress has decided the matter. Slavery can never flourish there. Of this I am as well convinced as I could be of any ascertained fact.

You may desire to know which parts of the country are most to be preferred for settlers. This a hard question to answer. In Kansas anywhere oil the Vermillion or Blue river counties, or anywhere between the latter and Gt. Nemaluiw river, a settler can hardly go wrong. I prefer the latter named place, and there 1 shall most probably end my days.

In Nebraska there is much more wasteland than in Kansas, but as I said before, there are large bodies of splendid land in all parts of the territory.

I may also mention another advantage which Kansas has over Nebraska. All emigrants for California or Oregon leave the steamboat at the mouth of the Kansas, and start for Westport, 5 miles from the mouth of that river. This is Col. Fremont's starling place. They follow up the Kansas a long distance, and then cross over to the Platte or Nebraska but do not reach that river till they advance some hundreds of miles west of the Missouri. The great highway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, you will thus perceive, passes chiefly through Kansas, and thus secures to the latter the great railroad route. On this subject I shall write more fully in a future letter. It is, or ought to be, the great question of the day.. I am, gentlemen yours faithfully.

CAUSK OF THE OBSTINATE DEFENSE OF FORTIFIED CITIES BV THE TURKS.—A very simple cause explains this obstinate defense of fortified cities by the Turks it is necessity. The whole male inhabitants capable of bearing arms are arrayed in the defense of the place. A city of 30,000 citizens will array on its walls 10,000 warriors, each of whom, trained from infancy to the use of arms, and are splendidly equipped with its own weapons of defense, formed at once a valuable soldier. They fight desperately, because, like the citizens of towns in antiquity, they have nothing to hope in the event of capture. The male inhabitants will all be put to the sword, the young women sold for slaves, or swept into the Turkish harem, the entire'fortunes of the inhabitants drawn to the coffers of the Sultan or victorious party. The commander himself, if he escapes death at the hands of the assailants, is almost sure to meet at those of the Sultan. Misfortune is punished in the same way as misconduct, and no amount of previous skill or valor in defense can save the Governor, who has lost his fortress, from the bowstring. Thus, the Turks in fortified towns make a resnlute defense for the same reason that the Russians do in the open field they have no hope of safety in flight their only chance is in standing resolutely together.—Allison's iJislorg of Europe, 1851 l»2.

jCSTA large number of the citizens of Belleview, Nebraska Territory, had a barbecue on the 28th u!t. Speeches were made, and resolutions adopted, requesting the Government to carry out the removal treaties made with the Otto and Omaha Indians, and recommending emigrants to mnkemutua! satisfactory arrangements with the Indians before settling within the domains.

DROUGHT IN MICHIGAN. By the following from the Detroit Inquirer of the 17th, it will be seen that Michigan, also, is suffering severely from the drought:

Great drought is now prevailing throughout the State threatening in many places to cut very short both corn and potatoes.— The breadth of land in corn, the present season, is unusually large, and up to two weeks ago a crop never looked more luxuriantly, or gave better promise, but Hie leaves now begin to curl and turn yellow, and the tops are dying out. In some cases, through large sections of country, farmers are cutting up this crop for fodder, having lost-all hope of realizing anything like a yield from it this is the case in the southern, western, and south-western part of Oakland county, and in the eastern partof Livingston.

The prevalent opinion among the more experienced farmers in this and adjoiniug counties, is that potatoes, which have not yet ripened, comprising all late planted potatoes, will be a failure. The vines are already dying fast. 1 eed and pasture is giving out and stubble fields are drying up, so that consumers of butter and cheese need not look to 'fall feed' as the source of a renewed supply, or lower prices

The crop of oats has been unusually abundant and fine, compensatinginsome degree for the threatened failure of other springcrops, though a consequent depression is felt in the price.

EFFECTS OF THE DROUGHT.—Theunprecedented drought which has prevailed over almost the whole of the great corn-growing region of the west and south-west, is having the effect already of advancing the price of all descriptions of breadstuff's in the southern markets. Corn has suddenly gone up at St. Louis some 15 cents per bushel, and prime lots now command t0 cents in that market. Superfine red wheat is quoted in the last papers from that city at $1.25 to $1.30, and superfine llour at SC.50 to %,GJ5 per bbl. The Intelligencer relates as evidence of the. advancing condition of that market, that on Monday last a miller sold 1,000 bbls. flour at Sti to a dealer. Tuesday the latter re-sold 500 barrels of the lot at §6.25. Wednesday it was again sold by the second purchaser for SC.50, and to-day (Friday,) the third and last owner refused 8G.75. Monday prime red wheat sold at 1.15a$ 1.17 to-day (Friday) it is worth !?1.25a$1.30 per bushel.—Chicago Press.

OLD LINE NATIONAL WIIIGS.—All over the Union, there are thousands of National Whigs, who will not surrender to the Abolitionists and Freesoilers. Even in the city of Boston a meeting of this kind has recently been held. The great commercial interest has everything to lose by the creation of a great Northern sectional party, so much desired by Greely and his adherents. Such a party Avill tend to stop intercourse between the North and South, and go far to prostrate the present commercial prosperity of the country. In taking a calm and dispassionate view of the subject, men interested in a reciprocal trade between all sections of the country, see what utter folly it is to follow in the lead of those who have no settled purpose in view, if it be not a dissolution of our glorious Union. We have received several hundreds of Whig subscribers to our paper, who arc not willing that their ancient and honorable party should become abolilionized, and who bid us God speed in our war against all sectional issues, and who are the true followers of Washington, on this question.—Van. Platform.

A correspondent of the New York

Courier and Enquirer says that the English government is now beginning to suffer the consequences of its insulting conduct to Metternich a few years ago. When, in 1848, that aged statesman was constrained by the course of political events to seek a temporary refuge in England, Palmcrston deemed him a safe subject for outrage.— The ex-Minister, bent down by years and affliction, having, in reply to some tax:nt of the foreign Secretary's, declared that "the British aristocracy had a reckoning yet to settle with the people, and that the day was not far distant," Palmerston ordered him within twenty-four hours to quit the kingdom. To his astonishment, Palmerston has since seen him arise with a stateliness and dignity of which his seemingly stricken body and broken spirit, previously afforded no anticipation and to the dismay of the English Whigs, Metternich has ever since proved their irreconcilable foe. lie hurried to Vienna, panting with his fury and vengeance. The reaction produced on his body, restored the slumbering resources of his mind, and -he has ever since been found counsellor, as-well as secret spring of the Austrian Empire.

ANTHRACITE BURNING LOCOMOTIVE.—A Mr. Phleger, ofPennsylvar.ia, has constructed a locomotive for burning the anthracite coal, which pr~mhc3 to reduce the expenses of railroad transportation very greatly.— One of his locoriactive engines has been running daily between Philadelphia and Havre de Grace on the Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, for over two weeks.— It has been attached to the express train, consisting cf six or eight passenger cars, and consumes, as we are informed, only two dollars worth of coal per day.

The wood-burning locomotive, which is replaced, consumed twenty-four dollars wood per day.

IT. I». WILLIS.

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The Drought still continues. Vre

were blessed with a fine refreshing shower hist Monday evening, but it came too late to be of any benefit to vegetation. Hundreds of cattle, we are told, have died on the prairies the present summer for want of water. Our farmers say potatoes will be five dollars per bushel in ic-ss than three months, and by January next, cannot be bought of them at any price. Of corn the same may be said. There is barely enough to supply each family in Bloomington with a rness of "roast'n" ears.—Blcomivylon Times, 1 Bin.

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If. P. Willis, they say, is dying of consumption. He takes leave of the public in his last Idlewild letter in the Home Journal. The N. "i Post thus comments upon the fact:—

"We have read with deep emotion, the valedictory-letter of Mr Willis, from Idlewild. Death", after all, with all the gilding from the*sunlight beyond, is a dark cloud to p^ss thro and the hist parting with thoser who have done much to bright^ en this side of thevmysterious raJ'ey for us, as they step down into its shadows, is not easy. Mr. Wiliis is one of the most fascinating writers in the English langunge— and who, to-day, will remember anything of his productions but th-jir excellence?—This letter will moisten eyes in widely scattered homes where the face and form of the author are unknown, but where his writings, have beguiled many an hoar of it« weariness. It is like the loved music of a long familiar harp whose cords we know are breaking."

KANSAS.—At a recent meeting in the city of New ^ork, for the formation of an emigrant "League," Mr. Eli Thaver gave a detailed account of the "Emigrant Aid Company." In the course of his remarks he stated that in spite of all the accounts that have been circulated to the contrary, not a single slaveholder in Missouri has yet moved his slaves into Kansas. None hud, as yet, had more than sufficient courage to stake out their claims. By the first of September, Mr. Thayer also stated, more than a thousand men, under the protection of the Society, would be on their way to Kansas, to be followed until navigation closed by others in their track. These emigrants coming from free states would soon be there in sufficient numbers to control the state and keep it a free territory. The company are now locating two cities, the situation of which will be made known in a few days, and will afford a favorable opportunity for the investment of capital.

INDIAN BRAVERY.—We heard of an incident connected with the late battle between the Chippewas and Sioux an account of which we published yesterday, highly illustrative of Indian character. The Sioux during the fight, it appears were entrenched behind ramparts, and from their {dace of safety fired upon their enemies, doing great execution. One Sioux warrior, however, disdained the protection afforded the rest by the defences, and stood upon the rampart in full view, loading and discharging his rifle with as much coolness as though he was smoking the calumet of peace. Many were the attempts made to pick him off, but at each unsuccessful effort, his defiant war cry rang o'er the plain. inally, Ilole-in-the-day, the Chief of the attacking force, admiring the undaunted bravery of the warrior, approached as near him as he could, and taking the chaplet of eagle's feathers from his own great head, tossed it to him, as much as to sav that for his heroism he deserved to be ehict.— St. Paul Pioneer, \2th inst.

WHO ARE THE WIIISKVITES?—Reader, did you ever reflect, that the real strength of the Democratic party is amongst the honest and independent farmers of the country, and that the charge of "Whisky Democracy" has emanated, in most instances, whero the Mongrel party is the strongest—wo mean in the towns and cities. Look at the thousands of Democratic farmers, scattered all over the State, and we will point you to a body of men, temperate in their habits, honest in their dealings, lovers of their country and the true friends of the American Constitution possessed of a deeply rooted religious feeling, that would put the authors of this foul calumny to the blush.

hese are the men who are becoming aroused, and the ides of October will exhibit their strength. They are silently investigating tlie characters of their vile traducers, and, in many instances, they can point to men, fresh from the groceries, with their whisky-breath, polluting the atmosphere, making the charge.—Bern. Plulform.

COAL IN KANSAS.—A traveler on the Memehaw river, in the north of Kansas Territory, states that there is a fine vein of co fl, three feet thick on that stream, and that it is overlaid by limestone, which affords abundance of building material. The Memehaw river is the boundary between Kansas and Nebraska, and coal in in that region, where wood is comparatively scarce, is a very important object.,

ARRISON'S WHEREABOUTS.—The Cincinnati Times yesterday received a letter from a respectable citizen residing in Iowa, in the vicinity of the father of AKKISON, of infernal machine fame, who says:

In your paper of August 3, you speak of Arrison as having escaped from Iowa. His father lives within five miles of this place, and as my practice calls mo in the neighborhood often, I can say with certainty that he is still in the brush near his father's.— Traces of him are seen everyday, and ho has been shot at twice within the last week, but the brush is so thick that he has so far escaped. There is a continual" watch kept up around the place.

iTSTMHckerel- arc being seized in great numbers along the southern coast of Nova Scotia. Every little creek and bay, from CapeJsablc to Halifax, is overflowing with ihcm. They are taken in nets, from one hundred to six hundred barrels being seemed at a single draught. Men, women and children are employed day and night curing them, yet the whole atmosphere is

'odorous' with the stench of those impossible to be taken care of. So says the Bel fast Age.

PRODUCTION OF COAL.—The quantity of coal produced in 1853 in the various parts of the world is set down at serenty-five millions of toes, of which Great Britain produces forty-two millions, and the Unitexi States, the next highest, oyer nine millions of tons.