Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 May 1855 — Page 1

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VOLUME VI.

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of .March, IS55, as follows: Yearly Advertising. J" Ono Column, per annum, subject toscmi-an-nur.l chnnjrc £30,00 One-Half Column, per anrinm, subject to semi annual change 18,00 Onc-Tliird (Johimn. per annum, subject to semi-annual change

One-Qnnrter Column, pur nnniim. pubjcct to uemi-annnnl clmnpe 10.00 A "Curd",of one square or lc^s. per annum-••,7.00

for lirst insertion Cnrd and Job Printing, One pack of Cards, (50) Two (100 Lot terv Ticket?, or cards, (100) cacli udditionnl hundred Furiiornl Invitations, (note paper, enveloped) Circulars, on hnlf slieet letter, per hundredBlanks- -i!i«ie quire $1 ..V— two quires and for cueli aciilitiotial quire. 75 cents. Whole yheet Posters, jxtr hundred ench additional hundred ITalf Shei't. Poster. ]ier hundred each additional hundred Quarter SShcet Poster, j^er hundred cnch additional hundred lufrhth Sheet Poster. 50 or less-

I,,ltcnt Mcd,cll,0a

The officer in question is George \V. Mat-

sell, the Chief of Police. For many years

Mr. Matscll has held his pn sent position. «P

to justice and in this he has been rener «l-'

lv successful Mr M-.tell is a decided

the esteem in which Mr Matsell was held, a dark suspicion is now hanging over him, and one which, if proved, will show that all the confidence reposed in him has been misplaced. What is this grave charge that

nnd isn't it nn awful one? It is true MatReU's mother told him he was born the United S'ates. and he always believed such to be the case. But five witnesses—four women and nne man have been found who swear they believe that his father came to the United Spates in the year 181 at which time, they allege, George was a suck'ng babe, but born on the wrong side of tho herring pond! It is true this charge against Mr. Matsell. has not been fully substantiated. but i' looks suspicious. A committee of the Common Council of New Yrrk have been investigating the matter for some ^eeks past, and they will probably report pv^gress shortly.

But. to ce»v?e badinage, does it not ap-

sas am a year or more

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JJkView," on the 7th

day

montlis 4.00

IIKOAT. AnvrnTT^KMKNTP ns heretofore, one dollar per s-qnarc, for three insertions for each iidditionul insertion 25 cent? «!1 over one square, charged ns a pquare and a half, all over one square and a half, charged astwosquares

Pntent Medicine Advertising-

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Special Notices. I

Marriages. Obituuries, Literary Notices of all kind-! half our reru!:tr al vertisinj rate

$2.00 0.00 -1.50 1 0 0 00

Election Tickets, to be paid for invariably in advunco.

Show Advertisements.

Two dollars yer square will be churned for advertisements of this character, for lirst insertion—each additional insertion. £1.

Horse and Jack Bills.'

Forsinsrle Horse Bill $2—each ndditional Uorse on bill, $1. Particular Notice.

almost out

gradually being ascertained, and

variably, before taken from tho office. formed, and quite an excitement was rais-

CriARLKS If. ROW F.N. Ur.vinw "EKKMIAH KEKIsKY. JOIUNAI..

A GRAVE SUSPICION.

-A New York city officer, who has here-

become the subject of very grave suspicion, trumpets in

of the m:in

ft,rlh

of act

been committed, he has used every endea- But the rumors of this Missouri for-.y are vor to ferret out the offender and bring him

ross

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ministration*. Whin Mayors have nominated him and Whig Councils have confirmed him in his position as freely as Democratic Mayors iind Councils. But, as we have said, notwithstanding these evidences of "^1 the Attorney General's opinion is obtained us to Reedt r's right to set aside any of the elections." It cert linly appears from this that in all cases where Governor Reader has granted certificates, the election was or he p.-as satisfied that the illegal votes would not have

not

has been brought against the Chief of Po- exclusion ot

lice? Weil, reader, it is no more nor less changed the result. than that M^tsidl was born in England in-i

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pear, to all men not swallowed up by the ri to get away from the

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O The Cincinnati Commercial, which the wide and opulent prairies of Kansas

ADVFRTISING AND JOB PRlJrrJNC is an independent paper, not only in name among the floods of emigrants pouring in: ,, 1 1 there from all sections, is to be magnified -ENTERED into.b.t.-een

but ln fiict and tes usl hat 11 leases

about every thing, has the following spright-

ly article on the election in Kansas: THE RECENT KANSAS ELECTION. Stories of the most distorted character' next five years, which is not a consumma have been circulated throu concerning the recent election •"•15.00 The correspondent of the N

ouo-hout the Union tion that we wish.

of joint from sheer

though

sas eh-ction has been more disorderly than secure a safe exit.

".00 any of which we have any knowledge, and

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this fact results from the combination of

Bull Tickets. 100 copies, $4.0«r'to bo' paid foMn-. emigrants, that Emigrant Aid Societies were at all strange, but his statements should,

institution." and had been content to leave

New England and the stories

thousands that were to be sent

to conquer the new territory, waked

He has discharged its duties with unswerv- counties bordering on Kansas, who of course ing and unquestioned fidelity. The whole kit a very deep and special interest in the police force of the city has been under his matter agitated, and being nearest the sccne control. When a murder or a robbery has

residents of the rich and populous

'on they were first on the ground.-—

exaggerations. Governor Ri eder,

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Btend of the Lmted 6tate! 1 hat is the crime, rib.c w.13 uuh the term pro-sla\er} ,md

universally known to have no sym- one year. 1

Democrat, but he has been retained in of- of election to nine Counc.ilmen (Senator..) ed it was not. Being an anti-slavery man leads the first mile. fice alike under Whii and Democratic ad-

The Kansas Herald of Freedom says:

vidini Iree negroes can be negroes arc to be permitted to locate in the Territory at all,' say they 'we are in favor of bringing them in and retaining them as slaves.' They claim that tin left Missou-

r«r 6lnftrc'j the casein back-woods or back-prairie dec- by the application of gunpowder in powers, aftd superiority, gave addition tions. The fire-water has be a bli"-htiticr connection with a small quantity of lead, proof'to his friends that he* would not de curse to the pioneers, North and South, and

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forth, than emigrants and the Missourians, dieted somewhat to the "manly art of self- THF RACE' taking the hint, organized to head off th*e defence," or in other words, a regulars *L' Aid Associations-a great number of them "Moe," from the classic precincts of a Bos-

ithe frontiers on occasion and vote. *'ith set upon by the whole Missouri dele- races which have previous been run, .. ... Now it seems to us that if the eastern gation. He ran for his life jumped down has been a matter of very little miporTho payment for nil Pfttcnt jMcdicinc Advertise-

ments must be satisfnctorilv secured before insert- people had not manifested such feverous a bank some twenty feet high, and was not cut upon u.is, as upon nc.irij an tnc ed, by an accepted wler^bvenslK

majority of botli houses, and of these cer- appointed in his stead.' tified members, only one in each house is a Then, of course, the Missourians had it Frecsoiler. The rest of the districts have their own way. The pi:h ol the matter is been contested, and "certificates withheld displayed in the last quotation.

Freesoil journals are in a ter

profess to believo that all citizens of Kan sas who decline to act with them are determined to make that territory a State. Gen. Whitefield was called "a proslavery man," but he says that he considers his election only as an endorsement of the Nebraska Law.

itl„ ifiv n-i'K il„. i..rm ,i tlia ii a pariisan array against Romanism

NEGRO

if th« bout, ridiculous that bondage or out of it, the} have the The committee of

mad fanaticism of so much stress should be Uid upon the cir- prejudice again.-t them, with the excumstnnct- as to whether a man came into ception that they disiike the free negro the the country a (W weeks after or a few weeks ^orst. much was their charge, before he was born? There are some men "Mmy of our population from Iowa, Illi- charged nothing, though

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„^^™he St. Louislieptiblican learns from hundred families crossed last week." helpless men and women and young tender Washington that tlve Luid Offices in Kan- There is no occasion for the scorching girls—were on the brink of starvation and id N

distorted into-a grand battle, and eve-'

Wagon

train from Missouri is to he de-

JS.OO whisky and the slavery question, 5,00 things that "cause most agitation in this the protection of the guns of which he will starting, was pronounced by his immediate -r»!oo c001111")'- When the Missouri Compromise no doubt place himself." .oo was repealed, it will be remembered much' Now, that a man should write a good •1-r,° was said in New England about sending out tough story, after such an adventure, is not

... V' Election Tickets. led. But, as is characteristic of the most Here is another incident, as recorded in Five dollars per thousand will be charged for fierce of anti-slavery men, words more mul- the Post: rrv r„ -...1,1 ,, tltuilin0us than det-ds, more speeches, cir- "Mr. Edwin Bonds, a prominent mem- fully executed—it could not possibly cuhirs, editorials and "appeals" were sent her of the Lawrence Association, and ad-

became bona fide settlers of the new land of ton Engine House, presented himself rather between the starters, regard to the promise, and forces were drilled to cross offensively at the polls, when he was forth-

furv to forestall the question of slavery in seen again for twenty-four hours." great occasions ot life, a fuss adds to the Kansas, by sending out emigrants expressly Laurence, where these things transpired, excitement, ^ii t..-it v. as t..e order or tee because they were hostile to the "peculiar

W ls

was

the settlement of Kansas to the natural and respondent of the New York P.jst,

tofore held a liigh place in the esteem of prop" «*»«. this Missourian invasion whom we have quote,!, ntates rl,at the else- fT'J eLnV»«wS ^1. bin''iTI Ilis fellow citizens ,if all panies, has lately would not have happened. The flourish of ""on t= contested consequence of the «en s^art ttou.d sul. him, s.id

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proscriptive and intolerant. As a consequence, we sec sympathy springing up in

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slave

bcl ,lf 01 dass

nrn. quarter where it would have been least ex-

who will yet blush at tb» remembrance of nois and Indiana take the same position. fifty dollars' worth of work or more the inasmuch as running Lecomte a second heat their folly. A. A. Lcd^r. We are inclined to believe, from ail the Commercial charged nothing the Gazette would greatly conflict with his chances of I a a a a a a

"Both of the ferry boats at this place The committee intimated that none of the have been busy during the past weeks, other printing offices had mr.de any charge, crossing raov

ri, and bring hogs, fcc., &c. Over one while hundreds of poor and needy—oid

ebraska will cot be opened yet for excitement being discussed abont this elec- of death by cold. This is the charity of a. ®°re. tion, andjf every little row kicked up on leading EL N.—2i. A "Ledger.

then, says the writer in the Post: ceive them in the moment of trial,

elections in "uew countries" have been dis-1 "Not being at all partial to the 'villain-,.^ Lecomle. theillustriousdiscovererof 7:20,

was

taking a due west

imagine, be taken with liberal discount.

tiniruished for turbulence. But this Kan- ous saltpetre,'he took precipitate measures came in. also, for his share of admiration. purge this Augean stable of society.— When last seen lie

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illegal voting The manner in which the "invaders" At the tap of the drum they darted off managed, and the position they took, is like thunderbolts, each determined to "do shown in the following, which is also from the Post

slavery, has granted certificates clared the vote legal, and the other assert- renews his murderous attack. Lexington

fifteen Representatives, comprising a '10 resigned, and a^pro-slavery man was, Witl. an unfaltering step the combat is

RELLiGlOrs INTOLERANCE. The New York Journal of "Commerce aptly says: "Persecution for opinion's sake, especially in reIi to prop to suppre "know-nothinjjism" has become lif.le else

t!.na .njur,:d in

v.ry

quarter where it would have been least expected. This is shown by ncent occur rences in Massachuetts."

iC^During the worst of the terribly cold weather last winter, when hundreds of

Tn our own election dis rict we are as- poor people were on 'he point of freezing nn end, for Lexington opened so great a sured that a very large majority of the set-

tiers from Missouri have expressed them- Cincinnati got up an "Amateur Dramatic close it seemed useless, and from the halfselves in favor of making Kansas free, pro- Festival," or public exhibition, the pro- mile post to the stand no running was nee-! excluded. 'Ii ceeds of which were to be given to the poor, cssary. Coming down thes-retch, Lecomte

some of them heavily the theater in which the

rrentlemen

M&, owing a enng notice of P. he late election, there was an honest bona Times office, over whose destinies Pap judges had decided that lie might be withM. Gen. Campbell Route Agents, we find fide majority of Southerners in the territory, Taylor, the late Know Nothing candidate drawn, and to the disappointment of the in the newsspaper more often than he, as in the Bloomington News Letter: and that there was not a little trickery on for Mayor, presides. The committee ask- thousands v,-no came to witness the race, the patron of some movement for the spread "The mail agents on the southern end I?"1*1 To learn that the emigration ed Pap Taylor if he had any charge against the race was awarded to Lexington midat of the New Albany aud Salem Railroad are perfectly worthless. We have deposited several letters in the letter-box on the cars, and they are almost invariably carried beyor.d their destination, and are received only bv the return cars. We hear several persons complain of similar neglect of duty. -sre :e

both sides from Missouri was very large, it is only them, supposing the quesiion to He a mere enthusiastic cheers necessary to examine the Missouri and Kan- matter of form. To the astonishment of sc: sas papers. One of our Kansas exchanges the committee Pap replied, "Oh yes! we

have twelve dollars charged against you."

ising emigrants. Most of the people but Pap said he did'nt do business in that T. J. Well's ch.c. Leecmte by Boston, ont of •ing into the Territory are from Missou- way, and coolly pocketed the twelve duliars,

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.DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER—DEVOTED .TO POLITICS, NEWS, MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE,"MECIIAjVIC ARTS, &C.

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CRAWFORDSVlLLE, MONTGOMERY ..COUNTY- INI).,8 MAY£35, 1855,

From the New Orleans Picayune, April 15th. THE GREAT FOUR MILE RACE.

LEXINGTON THE WINNER

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wolfishness. Out of the sav^o-ost of fanatic ance at the polls with note-book and pen Upon stripping the horses for thc'raco,' ards in the commmunity are the editors.— c-r.i'U! we will not permit her, for the benccorrc spondence, the ultra Freesoil papers and proceeded to take down every remark comparisons were natur illy made between The lower surface of a dough-face, and the fit of society, of course, to lampoon her.rihave attempted to make capital sufficient to made by any one holding pro-slavery sen- the champions", and never did rivals meet upper surface of a tripod, seem to have an val through our columns. Dr. Calomel last until the next ".-hive case" or "anti-: timent--." before where the friends of each were so affinity for each other. There is in-ignet-1 and Dr. Wa!er-pow-r, each thinks it would Slave Convention." But now the truth is Now this course

proceeding, while his sanguine. The time made by Lexington

many outrages certainly nothing transpired so the New York Tribune'' would have led one to place, there was an immense quantity of »nd worked hard and harder at his notes, elastic, reaching step of Lexington, as hei—at the bottom of the :hair, perhaps.. If we would only tike the advice of old bud whisky consumed, as has always been until it was proposed to accelerate his move- walked forth, apparently conscious of his True. "fri. nds, subscribers and patrons," wo

supposition is that he will not vied with each other in extolling his fine it-, and every bo ly will sustain you in it.— the two bring up before reaching Fort Riley, under form and excellent condition, which, before Fair and softly, friend—who is to pay the

friends and those most interested in his success, unexceptionable.

The course was in good order, about the same as the day before—perhaps a little heavier upon the inside, but to the eye, about the same. If the we?ther had been ordered for the occasion—and the order

iave

been finer.

Lexington drew the track, and the squab-

ar! was

or die"—around the turn they sped, like t«vin bullets, not a shade between them up

woof the judges of election de- ed vigor (Lexington in the leaci) Lecomte

tied, Lexington

,he

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made

*gap

starving to death, some gentlemen of g*P up(,» his competitor thnt all effort to

They charged nothing for their services or closed a portion of the gap upon Lexington, for the expense of wardrobe, which cost who, just before he reached the stand, ap- people

and wheth- made no charge, nor did the Gas company, LIE was running away wi-.h his rider,

nominated a caravan of invasion, the whole The long agony is over—the contest is with the idea! Everything el-e is inde-the family fireside? This will never do* country will be kept in hot water for the ended—the race is run! The lustre of the pendent men speak their opinions, irre'-j Gh, it is ea^y to complain about the serbright diadem lately won by Lecomte, has spective of the feelings of their neighbors, viiity of the press.

jclTon in Kansas.— The correspondent of the New York 7W- achievements of Lexington and never was mar say of them—of course they do! It ty, where there is one wiliing to aid in hetpNew York Trib-' bune. who has written such horrible and a reputation more nobly sustained than by is only the editors who are servils, poor' ing us out. Widow Flighty is out of pa-

une, particularly, seems to have written glowing accounts of Missouri violence, is this noble horse in his last effort to prove chicken-hearted fellows! when in an awful condition of excitement, described by a correspondent of the New what, his owner has asserted, that he could Afraid of losing subscribers, patroiis, bread third floor opposite, because the latter has his hair crisping with the heat of his brain, York Pout, (also a free-soiler) as "a very beat 'Lecomte's time, and afterwards con- and butter? Well—wu must put up witli it willed away tier lover, and is perft-ctiy conand his

truly amusing. In all the four

t'lnop ^ut unon as imon no'irlv 'ill

the point upon which the grand attack d'iy But it did not in any manner effect

by the Missourians, and the cor- the judge who started the horses—he seetn-

rom

to have a prop, ano just idea ot the no-

"At the opening of die polls, Col. Young the black stretch they flew like doves es- purpose of securing his conviction?" The she must have the'bedding immediately, was the firt man to present himself. He caning from a hawk—at the half mile ipubiic become outraged at the conduct of }n:t, promised tha: the necessary formalities' made oath that he was a resident of the terri- 33 seconds,) they were locked—around the tory and declared that he could not ana'ni turn they tried it again a slight pull befort vote in Missouri until he had resided (.here renchir.-r the home stretch, and with renew-

in the lead. On ihei

back stretch of the third mile Lexington

near'y the whole stretch, shows his willingness to respond but the unconquerable led him, apparently at his eare. In rounding the turn lor the home turn, Gilpalrick, upon

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mg a upon Lecomte, looked as if he had il all his own way, which was the fact. At the stand, the thira miie, it w. very plain that Lecomte could not rua v.-i him, and then the interest of the race seemed at

The proprietor of peared frightened by the shouts that rent. unsound and in Festival took place the air, and, when he came to the stand, v.uuld have bee

appointed to comte four or five lengths in his rear.

appointed

manage the affair went to the various news-' When the time for starting for the second paper offices to ascertain what and how arrived, previous to which Gen. Wells had The Enquirer asked permission to withdraw his horse from they had done the contest, the President announced that,

SUMMARY.

URDAT. April 15.—Jockey Ciub Purs $i ,Q'"0

Alice '."anitnl—•! y. o. [Giipii.tric"k.j

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First mile Peeond mileThird mile--Fourth mile-

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'5 been dimmed and tarnished by the glorious and act without reference to what others, wlio are ready enough to get us into drfBcul-

meddlesome man," who "made his appear: quer hini. and yet it is str.ange that al! the moral cow-j vinced that we have no independence be-

ism

eye rolled in fine frenzy, and he fancied on the 2d of April had, if anything, glad- incumbent? Does the seat attack _the would permit him to annihilate the false, er-

al! Why don't you pitch in? Iuto what? Into everything ami everybody. Expose ail knaves, reform all the abuses, and let the river of vour indignation How into and

applause, and his numerous friends, I That's the way to make yourself popular

course at a 2:40 and they were like sands upon the sea-shore, livery body will lake your piper and read

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exist?—don't you wonder that editors should ever presume to interfere where the! characters of people are concerned, and I doubt., if justice docs not soon overtake them at the hands of man, Providence will speedily mete out, in their case, the fate of Korah and Dathan? ..v

renewed, Lecomte drives around the turn ^^^"""^he \ictim of a conspiracy the \i!e, store-keeper stood aghast at sucn unccreand pn pares again for the struggle up the vulgar press has determined that lie, monious infraction of his authority and of back stieteh, the pace severe iind .'--eady jshould be convicted. Gentlemen of the ill oliicrd routtiie, but the lady said coolly^ He reaches Lexing'on, who again darts from T' )1)11 !-,ulv your heads in slavery "R. port to headquarters that Miss NightIhim, aiid with no material rhange of posi- '-h's n"w tyranny in tne date.' No! .ing tie has turced "pen the door and carried tie,n for a mile the same efforts are contin-!

Discount Sv.-e .tclotii,

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fu v,„ Yon knew this- s,w what, the end

with an inside Etake of £2.500. Four mile Jess wretch and detestable hypocrite. Hit'

Brooch b.c. Lexington, bv Boston out of

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A"N INDEPENDENT PRESS. about. Suppose we should do Jt who. An independent press! What an adrair-J sooner than yourself would join irtii'&Jinable thing is an independent press.- '-How plaint than licentious press should penetrate strange it is that we dqn't have an indepen- the sanctity of the domestic circle, and desdent. press, when everybody is so in love ecrate the holy scenes that cluster aroun 1

somewhere. .Is it in the ch tir or the be vastly for the benefit of mankind

W ii pi in I to a re ad a a re han Is to keep a forty -horse power theshingmachinc in constant employment, and exhaust the wealth of the mines of Califor-

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bill? When we are sued for a libel witen the'virtuous and eloquent Squire Blunderbuss, wi'li a five hundred duilar fee buttoned snug and safe in his pocket, rises before the jury and pours the vials of his pious indignation upon a licentious pre-vs, ani paints the horrors of its ravages, in uprooting the reputation of the just, and blackening the fair fame of the innocent, don't you all

grow virtuously indignant, that so awful a. journalist and if we even .should securo pest as a uevvspaper should be permitted to j-such credit, it will mostlikely come at a time when it, least deserved. iSuch is the way of the world, an 1 it is not for us to complain.

the new.-papers—and like a man whoswal- should be complied with as soon as the offilowed a rotten oyster—would be glad to cers and phy-icians should return and nd throw up what they read with such an appe-, time for writing. Meeting with a second tire the day before, it they could. Coun- refusal, she ordered some twenty convalessel finds that his client has no c'ise—node-1 cents to follow her, went straight to the fense. What then? Make a drive at the storehouse, had its doors forced open, and newspapers. He is an injured, persecuted carried away the necessary articles. The

't the oppressed go free. away what was wanted for the protection

K-q., came to the of the life

hrcu^l.t, for e-ipital, a rogue's rep-

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must

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be.

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Yoti knew ihis— before it came—Why didn't you cx-posi him? II jnest, innocent, near-sighted, unreasoning individual! Suppose we said that Discount Sweatcloih was a knave, WIIH* a hubbub would HAVE been kicked up in the church! The appearance of AntiChrist, horns and all, would not have excihalf so much commotion. We should hav been denounced as an infidel, an atheist, wiihjan especial grudge against God's cho-

Why didn'i

we had said he was

nd insolvent, what a stir there en on Third street, and how

many gentlemen suspecting themselves to be in the same ticklish condition would have a he it a an W a he to pay the exemplary damages that he might' have waited hng enough to recover, or have hesitated to respond the verdict, "Served him right?"-.

Beii.il Smooth is a calm, quiet, sanctimonious, domestic tyrant. No rnan appears

of the gospel, the relief of the indigent, or the promotion of the cause of philanthropy. Yet beneath this, all is faise and hollow, and these professions conceal a heart-

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her grave, sent there by a

cold and ceaseless persecution, and his daughters were driven from his house by his solicitations and his abuse. Why don't you unmask tin: hypocrite, and show

him un in his true colors, as the editor of there cannot longer be any doubt of the fact an independent journal should do? Re-1 that James D. Taylor, the Know Nothing iT strain your temper, Mr. Simplicity—you candidate for Mayor of that city at the laU» don't understand what you are talking election, is by birth an Irishman*-

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We have thousands

Afraid of whin?. fience with Wi.low Flirt, who liv.-s.on tho

nia in the payment of damages. An independent press is an excellent thing: but to tell the plain simple truth, tho love which men bear for it is usually in proportion to the extent to which it agrees with them-elves in opinion. Every man is willing that it shall be not only independent, but impudent to the rest of mankind, provided it, in tll cases, coincides exactly with his own views and interests, and takes a reverend care not to touch himself.

We don't—Cincinnati Commercial

A man steals into his neighbor's house at midnight, anil blows o»f, his brains—1 another sends to his friend an infernal compound, by whose explo.-ion a family is sent, to eternity—the newspapers get hold of the facts, and lay them before thuir readers— the criminal is arrested, indicted, and arraigned fur trial—and what next? "Gen-1 tlernen of the Jury," inquires his well-p iid jivered by hi:n unless he got a regular orcounsel, "have you read any of those in- d«'T on foolscap, signed by the two respecfainous reports against my clieut, which tire: officers an physicians of the hospital, have been published in the papers, for the Miss Nightingale sent him word again that

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As we cannot be thus complaisant to all of our readers, it is not probable that wo .shall train much credit as an independent

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A UKJtO IN PKT rI COATS. The correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune relates the following: ...

Miss Nightingale is the real hero of the preson- ir. Lately, a transport of sick arrived ai S.-.titan. In the hospital, where no bedding could be provided for them they were laid on the wooden door of the corridor. Mis- Nightingale immediately sent to the purveyor lor beds and mattresses, but :ot the answer that no stores could be de-

her Majesty's sick soldiers,

her own responsibility."

utation. As the easiest mode to render his roguery available, he took up the pro-[ A Ririr.viscESCE.— The N. 1. Evening

fession ot banking an I reliici"n. i(e throve! Port, —gave splendid dinn.-rs—banked in one' pal :ceand lived in another, wa a leader in the churr-h, ar.d a pattern among the snobs. lie ended as any irian of sense must have tempt of France to conquer one of its reknown he must end—by swindling t'nous- yoking dependencies, and furnished its

t!iscus-iiig the prospect of our re

ducing iba, in the event of a war with

Spain, lias turn.-d to the history of the at-

readers with the annexed interesting para

graph. i'ii ... h.on the French rommander Leclerc j,

landed on the I -land ofHayti to reduce the inhabitants to obedience, he had with him a body of thir thousand soldiers. Frenchmen, full of French valor and impetuosity, a a in to ad a is in the French armies. The people ot the island never met them on the open field, but carried on the war against them as Mr. Pierce is carrying it on against our coramerce. They absolutely worried Leclerc's army out of existence they annihilated it by cons',ant annoyances. They kept the soldiery under arms when they should have slept, by midnight alarms, by the beating of drums and scattered discharges of musketry. In the heat of the day, when Europeans could not safely venture out, binds of negroes, to whom rtie blaze of a tropical noon was -imply an agreeable temperature, siiowed themselves in the sunshine on the hills, and made a feint of attacking the carnp. The French soldiers were of course obliged to form in order of battle to defend themselves. By perpetually harrasnng them jn this way, the Haytians obtained their object, and in a few months Leclerc's fin host-of thirty thousand, the flower of the French armies, who had served with renown in different countries climates, was reduced to three or four thousand sickly and wretched survivors, who were glad to find an opportunity of returning to France,

£3T The Cincinnati Commercial says