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VOLUME VII.

A PRETTY LOVE SONG. BT wnox'

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The tMng I feel to tell

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Yolk I told yon *11 the day, You'd never gue»a how well.

Yov my comfort and my light 1 My T«ry Ufe yon seem

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"Hsbntof you I droam.

-•.» Thwe't pleasure fn tho lightest word That v6o can speak to me* My soul ia like the ^olian chord,

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And vibrates still to the*. 1 oarer read tha lovo song yet, Bo thrilling, fond, or tnic, But in my own heart I have mat

Soma kinder thought of yon.

1 bleaa the shadow on your face,

The light upon yonr hair 1 love, for hours, to sit and trace The passing changes there.

We doubt not, if the truth were known that this far-seeing corporation had in view this result when it entered into the treaty -of 11301, and has spared no'efforts or arts to produce the state of affairs which would justify the conclusion which it has now reached. Hence the demoralization of the kiug by the company's agents his introduces tion to strong drinks, and all the vices of

European society his withdrawal from the business and cares of empire, and entire engrossment in tho dissipations and pleasures initiated at his court by the fast young men sent to him by the government of Caleutta. This is the modus operandi of British fillibusterism. It would be less criminal if it were not disguised by such hypocritical pretexts, and by such a pharisaical disgust for the aggrandizement and expansions of other nations and people.

RAPID EXPERIMENTING.—The hot-air locomotive, "Vnmpire" which was briefly described in last Saturday's issue, ran off the track near Paterson during an experimental trial trip on Friday, while running at a rate judged to have been about eighty miles per hour! Fortunately no harm resulted either to the machine or its operators tho absence of any following train, even of tender, conducting very much to the safety of such experiments at this extraordinary Bpeed. The machine, it will ba recollected, is impelled by heated air, or rather by both heated air and steam, in a manner invented by Mr. Phineas Bennett, and is, we think, the first locomotive ever tried with hot air as a motor in any form. It is, taken together, a very remarkable construction. It has cost, up to the present time, about $40,000, but has neve?- been altered in any material point frcm its original design. Jt bns tender and carries its engine on its back, or rather on its side, near the forward ep4- Its weight, in running order, is forty-one tons, and fuel enough foj- 4 trip of 300 miles weighs only about three tons more, and is carried in its capacious furnace $s a single charge. The working ot*t of the principle has been most skillfully executed the whole credit of this being due, we believe, to Mr. William K. Thomas, one of the principal draughtsmen at the ijovplty Works. The speed made at the moment of leaving the track as above npted iqdjeates tyhat the principle is capable of accomplishing, and \fe cannot topress a hope that the serious practical difficulties alluded to in oar former notice may vet be surmounted.—-V. Y. Tribune.

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•Oh! you are kindly as tho beam That warms where'er it plays Ami you are gentlo ns a dream

Of happy future days And you are strong to do tho right,

And swift tho wrong to ftco And, if you wore not half so bright, Vou'ro all tho world to ino.

DR1TIS1I FILLIBUSTERISJf. When any portion of (he people of the United States complain of the tyranny, the political and sooial disorganisation that exists in neighboring Statos of this oontincnt, and desire that our Government should interpose in behalf of the oppressed, for the general benefit of mankind and civilisation —when it is thought and urged that it would be better for the world if Cuba and Mexico were brought under the protection of our Government and race, forthwith all KurOpe is in arms ministers make protests, orators thunder philipics against the rapacious Democracy, and journalists teem with tirry denunciations. But let.tlje scene be shifted, and the characters changed, and this custom And doctrine becomes quite palatable. Great Britain and France both romplained and interfered wheu the United States acquired Trxisof Mexico, and more recently interposed with actual force to preserve the weak nnd despotic control of Spain over Cuba ngninst the supposed designs of the intruding Yankees," who are denounced aa robbers, pirates and filibusters. Hut turn to Asia, nnd behold what is done there without attracting the notice, much les6 the protest, of any government or people. The Territory of Oude, quite as well governed as Mexico and Central America, where the natives

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THE STEAMER PACIFIC—REMARKABLE PRESENTIMENT—STRANGE APPARITION. ff f-j .yS€:

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We h*ve always been averse to to feeding the popular appetite for marvelous things especially those which may be said to hare their origin in a supernatural latitude, and only calculated to create a thirst for future revelations which can never be satiated this side of the grave. But the circumstances we are about to relate are so remarkable, and are so well authenticated, that we cannot avoid the temptation to give them publicity, and hoping that our readers will not think that because we have gone to another world for information in regard to the missing steamer, we have yet given up hopes of hearing from her in this, we proceed to relate the story substantially as related to us:

Among the passengers in the Pacific, one was Mr. w, of this city, a gentleman who has crossed the Atlantic several times, and always left in happy spirits, and always returned in dxcelleci health. But just before leaving on his last voyage, his spirits became suddenly and succeasivly depressed. He could not accountj for the feeling he struggled to overcome it, and his friends endeavored to rally him. But it was no use —the strange presentiment of some dreaded fatality bung over him, and weighed down his energies. Yet important business requiring his presence in Europe at a certain time, he determined to disregard the admonitions of this inward monitor, and to hazard the voyage. Before starting, however, he made his will, and placed it in the hnnds of a friend.

K. was engaged to be married to an estimable young lady, daughter of one of our most respectable and highly esteemed merohants, whose residence Is a short distance from tho city and the wc.lding was to take place on Mr. Iv.'s return from his European voyage. The approach of this interesting event, it was naturally thought, tended to aggravate the aversion he hnd to again tempt the dangers of the treacherous ocean but the cordial good wishes he had to carry with him, and the prospect of a happy return at some time or other, somwhat relieved his mind of the burthen which weighed upon it, and he departed.

He arrived out safely, transacted his business, and wrote home breathing the kindliest spirit of attachment for his dear friends, and designated the time at which he might be expected to return. Of course his arrival was looked forward to with much interest, especially by the young l.idy to whom he was engaged. But how futile are human calculations! Days and weeks have elapsed since that period, and yet a cheering word from the vessel which was to bear him homeward has not oeen heard to

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dom ns the Creoles of Cuba, with a population of six millions and large revenues, is, with a stroke of the pen transferred and annexed to the dominions of the. Hon. East India Company by virtue of a decree of that corporation, the government of which is invested in a board of directors, sitting in Threadneedle street, London. Here is fillibuaterism by the wholesale. Now, what is the pretext for such high-handed and gigantic appropriation? Why, simply, that the King neglects and oppresses his subjects, and, when complained of by the company, refuses to sell out. Years ago—in 1001 the company extorted from one of the king's oncc.«tors a promise to behave himself and treat his subjects kindlv, In consideration of 1 which it furnished him and his predecessors with troops to aid him in his administration, but all in vain. Everything hae gone to rack and ruin, and, to save the people and the country, the company assumes exclusive possession of the kingdom, and will hereaftor govern it.

the now painful anxiety respect­

ing him. About tho lime Mr. K. appointed to be at home, Miss his betrothed, was one night startled from sleep by tho figure of Mr. K. appearing before her! The form seemed so palpable that.she was for a moment bewildered. She felt conscious that it could not be her intended yet so real seemed the apparition, that she raised herself in bed and spoke to it. That moment

her agitation, awoke her sister, and related the occurrence. But little was thought of this matter until recently, when circumstances induccd a reference to the date of its happening. It proved to bo February 8—the very day on which the steamer Edinburgh saw portions of cubin furniture, d:c.t which some supposed to belong to the Pacific!

This, to say the least, is a remarkeble coincidence—but we sincerely hope nnd trust that it will prove simply a

FATAL DCEL.—The Mcssager du Midi relates the following story A short time since Mr. Cohen, a young Prussian engineer, whom the English company charged with the construction of a section of railway placed at the head of their works, was at a night fete given at Berlin. Among the guests invited was a nephew of Gen. Todleben, the celebrated Russian engineer. Toward tho close of the evening politics came on tho tapis, when Mr. Cohen supported the oause ofthe Allies, and particularly that of France, and Mr. Todleben naturally that of Russia. The discussion at last became so violent that young Todleben, completely losing his temper, exclaimed, "You are nothing butavile Frenchman!" "And you a vile Cossack," was the reply. "I defy you to support your opinion, sword in hand," said the nephew of the General. "I accept for life and death!" replied Mr. Cohen. Seconds were chosen, and a meeting arranged for the following morning, and it took place accordingly. Pistols were the weapons chosen, and at the second shot Mr. Todleben was struck in the heart, and expired instantly. Mr. Cohen had his right arm broken. He was carried to.the house of his brother, where he remains a prisoner on parole until his trial. ,.

0^7" You remember the passage in King Lear—a passage which Mrs. Siddons said that she could never read without shedding tears: l"o not laugh at ma

For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be niy child Cordelia."

Something of the same kind happened in my own family. A gentleman, a near relation of mine, was on his death-bed, and his intellect much impaired, when his daughter, whom he had not seen for a considerable time, entered the room. He looked at her with the greatest earnestness, and then exclaimed, "I think I should know this lady }&} ki§ repQgqjtifin pp further.

NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTIONf Every town in the State has been heard from by the Concord Patriot. WELLS, dem., has 32,067 MKTCALF, k. n. republican, 32,075 GOODWIS, whig, and all others, 2500. According to this, the Fusion plurality is eight votes, tn 1855, the vote was for BAKER, dem., 27,219 Mmtcalt, 32,675 all others, 4806. Democratic net gain SIX THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR VOTES. «r ,r

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if possible, the intense joy and gladness which awaits the re-union of dearly loved and cherished friends, whenever that snrftuch longed "for moment of re-union &ha<l arrive.—Boston Times.

RELIGIOUS TOLERATION IN TURKEY. Turkey is getting in advance of most of the continental nations of Europe in the matter of religious toleration. An imperial deeree has recently been published, in which the Sultan proclaims the unconditional equality of his Christian subjects with those of the Mahommedan faith, in all political, religious and social rights. This is a step of progress which France, and Austria, and Russia, and England, even, might well imitate. These nations pretend to be Christian nations, and yet tliose of the same general faith, who do not bend the knee Iq the established. State church, are proscribed, politically, socially, and religiously.1 Turkey has set them a noble example—though in a measure, a forced one. "Will they have the magnanimity and a sufficient sense of what belongs to Christianity, to follow their example?

This decree of the Sultan abolishes the penalties heretofore laid upon those Christians who seek to make proselytes to their religion. It also Temoves the penalty heretofore incurred by the Mahommedan who doffed the turban, and the religion of the Prophet. It does away with the system, heretofore pursued, of trying Turkish defendants or criminals only by Turkish judges and Christian criminals or defendants only by their own consuls and ministers— the result of which was that it was very seldom that plaintiffs of cither religion could obtain a judgment, even for payment of a just debt, against persons of tho other.— Branches of the public service hitherto closed against them, are now opened to Greeks, Catholics and Protestants, as well as Musslemen. As the Christians compose a large proportion of the population of the country, the effect of the measure will be to put its control in a great degree in their hands. Hitherto they have only been kept under bv the superior advantages enjoyed by the Turks. There are in European Turkey only 3,800,000 Mahommedans wliile there are 11,370,000 Greeks, Armeanians and Protestants, 200,000 Catholics, and 70,000 Jews. Turkey must henceforth be ranked as no longer Asiatic but European, no longer Mahommedan but Christian.

This act on the part of the Turkish sovereign is one of the most important political eventsof the present century. From henceforward—after the first shock is over-—we look for the advancement of the Empire to more than her former splendor. It was the only thing that could have saved her from utter ruin, and from being annihilated as one of tho powers of the earth. There will be confusion for awhile—it will take some time for all things to become adjusted to the new position of affairs —but as soon as they settle down into to operative action, progress will commence, and continue.— Turkey stands now with an advantage over the Christian nations of Europe, in her unusual toleration. While intolerance and proscription are the leading features of the religious systems of neatly every nation of the Old -Work!—while religion is' fettered, and cramped, and secularized, and its standard lowered by an alliance with the State/

Turkcj'8t»r» offin her ne* care, unl^m-1

raelod bv any of Ihcsc—freo and unfettered Mdisoni

to overcome hut the prejudices which have thrown out of the former inequalities of condition between the M»ihotnmedans and the Christians. These will be troublesome at lirst —the heretofore dominant race will be apt to cling hnrd to their prescriptive privileges, and will yield them wi'.h a bad grace but when the equilibrium is once fully restored—when all become accustomed to the workings of the new machinery, there will be nothing to prevent a continued upward progress. There is now hope for Turkey.

II. A. WISE INSANE.

It is said nnd believed in Richmond, by persons who have the best opportunity of knowing, that Gov. Wise's mind is very much impaired indeed so much so, that he should not be held responsible for his languageor writings. An effort has been made to suppress these facts, but they have leaked cut. If this be so—and their seems to be no reason to doubt it—Mt. Wise is entitled to the sympathy and pity, rather than the enmity of those against whom his virulent, yet harmless railings arc directed.—Haitimore Clipper.

This parapraph is going tho rounds of the Know Nothing and Black Republican journals, and it is lime it was nailed to the counter. It is a poor miserable slander, not even having the semblance of truth to support it. Mr. Wise continues to give the best exhibitions of sanity and wisdom, by the scintillations of wit and argument which flash from his brilliant pen, in his effusions against mock-Aracricanism, which are continually seeing the light. The secret order winces and shivers under the sting of his castigations.— Cincinnati Enquirer.

THEODORE PARKER AND SHARP'S RIFLES. —The Rev. Theodore Parker has been lecturing at Rochester, New York. In glancing at Kansas affairs he dwelt at some length upon the virtues of Sharpe's rifles, which he thought the best argument that could be used to keep slavery out of the territory, and freedom in. What a ferocious saint this Reverend saint is! When the Burns riot here was exciting the community, this valiant apostle slept with blunderbusses under his head and swords hanging around it—indeed, we should not be surprised if his mattresses were stuffed with Colt's revolvers. Yet consider him as arrant a coward as ever esconped himqejf behind a pulpit tp Uhf 1 and blackguard men as far before him in ble tq human character as the sun is above the earth indeed, no better than a mouthing ppltroon, without intrinsic merit sufficient to excite admiration, seeks notoriety through that extreme conduct which arrests attention by its shameless outrages of the rules of common jus^jpe and common depejicy.—Boston Poti.

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ST LOUIS, April 8.

Ths Qharter election in St. Louis resulted in the election John How, Democrat, for mayor and the whole Democratic ticket by ahptyt 1,500 majority.

Both branches ofthe City Council without doubt Democratic. The Democrat office is illuminated.

There is much rejoicing among Democrat*."

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CBAWrORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 19 1856.

The Leading Principle of the Nebraska Bill—The oneContcnded for by the Fathers of the RSrointfon—Mr. Douglas the

Rrgenenftor imd Defender of that Principle. In 1776 datei the commencement of that greatest of Revolutions which redeemed the American Colonies from the vassalage of George the Third which made us the happiest and modt'prosperous people beneath the sun and which gave us the freest and best government the world ever saw. The people of the iofitot OolonieB believed in the capacity of manifor self-goverment. That belief nerved thp arm of Jefferson to write the Declaration!! of Independence. That belief encouragjp the half-naked and barefooted soldiers that memorable retreat conducted by Washington, over the snows in New Jersey, Apd across the Brandy wine, which, more thpn any other event, contributed towardiigjuning our Independence That belief enjjkwed those patriots at Valley Forge witlilfcrtitude enough to bear the pangs of huplgilr and endure the chilling blasts of a terrible winter. Washington knew that the ,4|merioan Colonies were capable of self-gojjrernment. That principle was hi3 polar SHIT, which, when the sun of American Jijbexfy had almost sank beneath the horizon, that it had slightly risen above, he ever kept ia.%iew. Indeed, the truth of history, the sentiments of our forefathers, thefeeling8 of. American every heart, the promptings of tl|e reason of every votary of liberty, prore, igthqut further argument or Illustration, thajl the capability of man to govern hiinself impelled, the first gun to be fired at Lexington.

When Englafd had acknowledged our Independence, fbd it was found that the old articles of ^brfederatiori were insufficient to keep ttsfngether, a Convention was called for the purpose of framing a Constitution, which in flic language of itsframers, was "to form a more perfect union, establish justice, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."

With such no! as Madison, Jed to work- with ti

aims as these, such men rson and Franklin, went great principle of self-

government nearest their hearts and uppermost in their minds, and it was not without many fearful forebodings. If with a Constitution, the fundamental principle of which was that men w#e capable to choose their own rulers, that,they were capable of directly making their own lawa if with 6uch a Constitution, the people were found to be incapable of self-government, then it were needleas to have shaken off the shackles by which Great Britain had bound us, and rivers of blood had been pouted forth in vain. If such a Constitution proved suc-ce-sful, then their greatest desire was gratified a landing bad been found domestic tranquility had been ensured the general welfare liad been promoted, and the framers of it, had secured to themselves and their posterityblessings of liberty.

In a controversy whioh sprang up before the Constitution had been submitted to the States for their ratification, concerning the

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the Constitution, in speaking of what constituted, and what was the fundamental principle of a Republican Government, expresses hinm-lf as follows, in No.

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Federalist. "The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican?" It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America with the fundamental principles of the Revolution or with that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for selfgovernment."

This is adduced as farther proof that the leading idea in a Republic Government is the capacity of mankind for self-govern-ment that this was the fundamental principle of the Revolution that it was the honorable determination which animated every votary of freedom.

We do not suppose that the above will be questioned that the opponents of the Nebraska bill at the North that the deunciators and villifiers of its author at the South, will deny that it was this which impelled the men of the revolution to look death in the face with a smile. Yet the Nebraska bill contains nothing more nor less than this great principle applied to the Territories of this Union. But it required a revolution in politics to apply this principle. It required that this principle should be regenerated 60 as to be applied.

In 18.04 dates the commencement of that greatest of revolutions in American politics, when men were brought back to the principles of the fathers of the revolution and the framers of the constitution when the Nebraska-Kansas bill declared anew the capacity of Mankind for self goverment, by declaring "that it was the true intent and meaning of that act, not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States.

We say there was, and that it requrred a revolution in politics. The Missouri restriction declared in spirit, if not in letter, that the people of this Union, living North of a certain line, were incapable of selfgoverment. A few honest men had been made to believe and regard^ this as a solemn compact. Demagogues held up their hands

hom)r at th idea of erasiog such

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and unconstitutional law from the

statute boqks. Tijne-serving politicians, for the sake of power and spoils, were willing to preach a crusade against tl}2 erasers of it. Those who were honestly misled had to be convicted of their error those demagagues and time-servers who preached against it from their high p|a?p3 had to t}e made to bite the dust.

But where was hp who could do all this? Where was the leading spirit of this revolution to be found? Where was he who was willing to breast- the storm 'hat would be raised against him? The world produces but few such men, and nature seems to have to take her repose after going through with $uch a labor.

But the time has come. The Territorial governments of Kansas and Nebraska had to be orranijod. Stephen A. Douglas,

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planting himself upon the constitution, declared again the principle, as contained in the Nebraska bill, which our forefathers had fought for bid dcfiance to the combined hosts of Anti-Nebraskians, and another revolution commenced, only equalled in its benefits, by that in which our forefathers gained their liberty.

A tempest of fury swept over the land.— For a time it seemed as if all were lost.— But wherever was the thickest and hottest of the battle, there could the champion of the Nebraska bill be found, bearing aloft the constitution and maintaining, against all odds, the priaciple of self-government.— Nothing was left undone by which ho could be overpowered. No stone was left unturned. No blow was spared. The anathemas of three thousand New England preachers were hurled at his devoted head. Well they knew that if he fell, ihe principle which be had bound to'his heart fell with him. Against such efforts Stephen A. Douglas won the victory, but not without leaving many a gallantjknight struck down by his side. As the tempest abated as reason sumed her throne, peaoe and quiet began to be restored, and not only foe, but even friend, envied the firm hold which Mr. Douglas had upon the affections of the American people. They beheld Stephen A. Douglas, not only the regenerator and defender of the great principle of self government, but the victor in every contest where it has been disputed.

This principle, as contained in the Ne braska bill, will be the issue in the ooming canvass. Upon the principles in the Ne braska bill must the Democratic party either win or loose the battle upon the ides of next November. Then, we ask triumphantly, wbo is better qualified to be the bearer of the banner, with the principles of the Nebraska bill inscribed upon it, than Stephen A. Douglas. There are many good and true Democrats, under any of whom we would be willing to meet the combined opponents of the Democracy. But we give but a faint echo to the voice of public sentiment, when we say that Stephen A. Douglas has a stronger hold upon the affections of the American Democracy than any living Stateman.—Lou. Times.

CHANGE OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN THE NORTH. The recent elections in the North and West demonstrate conclusively that a great political revolution is going on averse to the wishes and pretensions of the Black-Repub-lican sectionalists. The tornado that swept over the free States in the fall of

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In New England the very headquarters of sectional feeling, where the Black Republican furnace has been heated the hottest, and where misrepresentations about Kansas have been the most industriously circulated and taken the deepest root, there are indubitable signs that a strong reaction has commenced. In New Hampshire the Democratio vote is quite equal to that of the Know Nothings and Black Republicans combined, and lacks but a few hundred of being equal to all the opposition. In the Legislature parties are nearly equal between the Nebraska Democrats and the pie-bald mongrel opposition, when last year the odds were three to one against the former.

From Connecticut we have not received the full returns, but have little doubt that the Democratic ticket polled many more votes than any other in the field, while in the Legislature the Democratic gains are enormous.

Rhode Island—aristocratic and federal Rhode Island—is drifting into tho current, and there is prospect of her political redemption at no remote period.

When in New England the change in public sentiment is so great and marked we may safely rely that it has been overwhelming in the great middle and Western States where State elections have not yet been held.

If the proceedings of the Cincinnati Democratic Convention are characterized by that union and harmony we have a right to expect, and if it presents a candidate who truly represents the great issues of the party, we can safely calculate that he will receive the electoral vote of more than half of the North, together with the whole South, and thus be elected by a regular old-fash-ioned JACESOX majority.— Cincinnati Enquirer.

the ability nnd tact to make almost any building a pleasant stopping place for travelers. A new hotel building wiil probably be erected this season, and it is to be hoped that it will be under the supervision of Messrs. Fisher & Fagan. Crawfordsville will then have as good a hotel as any in the State.—Tippecanoe American.

0^7" Judge Breckenridge, in reprimandifl^a prisoner, was answered by bim: "bir, 1 am not so great a scoundrel 5a your honor takes me to be."

Put jour words closer plied the Judge.

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completely "blowed itself out." Everywhere the old Democratic party is regaining the strength and vigor it possessed before the introduction of religious and nativistic tests and sectional passions and bigotry into our political contests. Indeed, purified by tho fire that it has passed through, and whioh consumed the dross and rubbish belonging to its organization, the latter will possess a Health and animation that it has not known for years. Most gratifying is it, on the eve of the great Presidential battle, to receive such cheering political news as has lately poured in upon us from the North and West. The Democrats have won victories in the municipal elections at Chicago, Springfield, Alton and Galena, Illinois Indianapolis, Indiana Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio St. Louis. Missouri Milwaukie and Racine, Wisconsin nearly all of which were carried by the Know Nothings and Black Republicans last year. They have swept a majority of the smaller towns and municipalities also in the North and West.

/3T The Crane House, kept by Fisher & Pagan, is one of tbe most comfortable hold them in so little foar that.he contrived, country hotels we are acquainted with.— during the chase, to pay a visit to the house Tho building is not a good one, but the! of a farmer, with whose dog he had on a best in the place, and the proprietors have former occasion, formed nn agreeable ac-

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THS RIVERS OF IOWA.—There is probably no State in the Union better watered with clear running streams than Iowa.— Most of these course through the State in a diagonal direction from northwest to southeast, generally parallel with each other, and at no great distance apart. The intermediate spaces are occupied principally by high prairies, which are termed "Divided* beingthe dividingrange between the tributaries of each stream. During the greater portion of the year these tributaries contains clear running water in deep cut chiinnels, consequently no trouble is cxperianced in the want of stock water.

Iowa is the Desmoines. This stream takes its rise in Minnesota Territory, and empties into the Mississippi at tho southeast corner of this State, where it forms part of the line between it and Missouri. Numerous small lakes are very common nt the bead waters ofour principal streams and they are described as very beautiful, filled with limpid water, never raisng or falling, and containing swarms of excellent fish.—* These sources together with numerous springs, render the waters of our rivers very transparent and fresh-looking. The channels are mostly deep and the banks abrupt but sometimes in rainy, seasons or at the breaking up of winter they are quite unable to oontain the surplus. The spring of 1849 witnessed a terrible flooding ofthe principal bottom lands of our State, when large quantities were deluged or floated away. Another occurred in the summer of 1851, which covered many miles of low, flat country, removing fences, houses and and crops in the general sweep. It was the 9th of July of that year that corn was planted on the Desmoines bottom lands.— The vlliage'of Red Rock was inundated, and most of the inhabitants were compelled to abandon their dwellings and camp upon the bills near town. Marks of this flood are yet visible on the bark of the trees—that portion of the trunk that was inundated being a shade darker or lighter—showing the exact depth of the water at different places. These marks are often ten or fifteen feet above ground. I have been told that cvidencies of a deeper flood than these above mentioned were visible hefore these occurred. Notwithstanding this, there are some who persist in making homes on lhe very bank of this river, when they are every year in danger, not only of the loss of property, but also of life. If I mistake not— judging from the amount of snow gathered in every ravine and creek) another great flood'will follow the breaking up of this winter.

Occasional bayous or sloughs occur in these bottoms that have the appearanco of being artificial. The channel is often very straight nnd deep, and each side the earth is elevated abovo the back ground as if thrown out of a oanal. Between one of these ridges and the bank of the bayou is a tow path or what very much resembles one. The bayou is not more than tworthirds the width of the canal, but, in most rcspects is like an old one out of use.

High, frowning cliffs, crowned with cedar shrubs, overhanging the Desmoines in many places. This rock is mostly light yellow sand, easily ground. Near the village of Red Rook, in this country, (Marion,) stands a oliff of a dark red color, in such places where it has been broken or scaled off. This peculiarity of color gives name to the village.—Life Illustrated.

A WOLF STORY.

A friend from Wetzel county, Viginia, has communicated to the Editor of the Richmond Daily Despatch an interesting account of a remarkable wolf, who has made that region of country the theatre of his exploits. lie made his first appearance in Wetzel some four years ago, and has ever since that time been constantly increasing and enlarging the circle of his acquaintance. He seemed to possess some fascinations of manner unusual in a wolf, for he managed to ingratiate himself so thoroughly with the dogs of the neighborhood that they became his associates and friends, and all jogged on together on the most intimate and confidential terms. His influence over his natural enemies was very great, and they soon began to look up to him as their leader and master. So long as they manifested a kindly and loyal spirit, he condescended to be good humored and friendly with them but so soon as they became peevish or discontented a simple clinch of his jaws crushing them through the body, and producing instant death, imbued their companions with a thorough conviction of the value of cheerfulness and contentment.

This formidable animal seemed to regard it as a perfect pastime to be pursued by the largest pack of hounds, and by bull dogs, cur dogs and all the rest of dog kind. The hunters of Wetzel, however, inspired by an offered reward of 8200, organized themselves under the command of an experienced leader, and commenced a regular campaign against his Wolfship, in the month of December last. The campaign lasted thirty days, and was kept up amidst the intense cold of that region, the assailants suffering much from frc&t apd want of food. The wolf, ho ivever, successfully der fied their attack, and in fact appeared to

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Qfir According to spiritual intelligence, received through a New Yoik medium, the Pacific struck an iceberg ou the 29th of Jasuarv, and "soon went down stern foremost."* All of the crew and passengers! but three went down with it. They clung to the ice and were frozen tc death-

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quaintance. His social impulse, however, proved his ruin, for tbe master of the dog received him most inhospitably with a shot from a rifle and on his retiring indignant- English physician

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I am profoundly humiliated I blush to the roots of my hair. I know not where to hide myself. On the faith of trudition, I had hitherto believed that the French people were the most gallunt people in tho world. Everything supported this oounation. Songs, ballads, the good opinion wo

error of foreign people, who say from habit, "Gallant as a Frenchman." After owning that it had decayed very much in his native land, he had coma to the conclusion that in other nations at least, gallantry, like chivalry, was dead he, however, disoovers thai he was mistaken:

A profound error which I have recogniz-. ed with shame and surprise! Gallantry is not dead. It has deserted Europe, but has taken refuge in the United Slates. I proclaim it openly:—it is in America that I have seen true gallantry universally practiced, spontaneously, disinterestedly. There woman is respected for her own sake, because she is a woman because sb* is, or will be, the mother of a citizen. If a good thing could be carried to an excess, I should ssy that the rights attributed to the fair sex are pushed to exaggeration.— The women kndff their power, they ab^so it as tyrants ddt"Who know thai there ara no limits to thitfr authority.

ADOLITIOV OPINIONS OR TBE COXSJITDTIO IT.—At the famous Sharpe's rifle meeting at New Haven, HENRY WARD BKKCIIBR spoke of the Constitution ns follows: "The Constitution was designed to be compromise for peace by those who constructed it but God ordained it to be an instrument of division—that it should explodo in the midst of the community, throwing out bombs and rocks like the fortresses nt Sebastopol! And it is having it9 missio^.

A great many people raise a cry about the Union and the Constitution, as if the two, were perfectly identical but the truth is, that it is the Constitution itself that is the cause of every division which this vexed question of slavery has ever occasioned iq this country. It has been the fountain and father of our troubles, by attempting to hold together, as reconcilable, two opposing principles, which will not harmonize, no^ agree."

This is strange language to use respecting the American Constitution. s.w

ANQTH$t!t LIE NAILED. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 27, 185G. We will subdue you," has afforded Greeley a theme for I do not know how many columns of his accustomod treasonable balderdash, Some time since "it. U." gavo this as the language used by Senator Douglas in reply to Abolition attacks made upon his report, and the libelers of thu Tribune have been harping upon it ever since. They prate loud and long of tho threat, and boast with Fallstaffi&n bravery, of their determination to resist to the last, all efforts to subdne them. Now, some of the Tribune's honest readers may be surprised to learn that "H. G." like his prototype manslayer, has manufactured in his own imagination all these "men of buckram." "i^r. Douglas neversaid any such thing.'* He said, ice intend to reduce tosnbjection all thojst yjho resist the laws of the country. This is, if not the precise language as is imputed to him by "G. H.," a^d, Greeley can only make the language actually mean what ho siys it does by admitting the fact the he and his party are those who resist the laws of the country.— In that event, it needs no prophet to tell them, that Mr. Douglas' promise will bo fulfilled to the letter.— Washinytou Cor. of

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A DANGEROUS BO^-XFT.—

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monster. During the past month, I have been in at[tendance upon twa lovely girls with tie STEAM CARRIAGE FO{C COMMON ROADS.— doloreux in the forehead, and several oth* Hunt's Meichant's Magazine, in an article

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on the efforts that have been made to pro-. tjme tiie frivolous bonnet of the presnt day duce a steam carriage for common roads, should be done away with." the confident conviction that ai espressos recent invention of Mr. Fisher overcomes all obstacles and will succeed. W

Ct^rThere is quite a large emigration time practicing extensive frauds on th? from Ohio to Kansas this spring. sion Office.

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AMERICAN GALLANTRY IN FRENCH EYES. A Monsieur d'Alembert has lately published a book of his experience in America. One of his chapters is on the spontaneous gallantry of the Americans towards women. After witnessing it he exclaims

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"On this rock will I build mjr chareh."

The New York Evening Post translate* from the Independence Beige the following strange piece of intelligence, lately communicated to that paper by a correspondent, writing under date of Rome, February 18 th:

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A votive church is about being erected in the capital of the Austrian empire. The architect has already gone to Cologne to study the style and proportions of the new cathedral. The first stone will be laid by the Emperor, and sealed with a golden trowel. This stone is the identical or\o on which St. Peter knelt whei^ he Received lhe blessings of Jesus Qhriit,. and heard tho words, "Upon this stona will I build my church.'1

This wonderful stone is to.be procured in the following manner: The Austrian Goverment is about building at Jerusalem a large hotel for the accommodation of pilgrims. Endlicher, the architect who is entrusted with the work, left Vienna for Jerusalem on the 5th of February. Previous to his departure, he was ordered by tho Archduke, who is well acquainted with Syria, in which he lately traveled, to go to Cesarea, where lies the rock on which St. Peter received the Divine benediction.— The architect will detach a piece of it, and send it to Vienna for tho great ceremony tq which I have alluded.

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^jih similar complaints. It is high

XiT It is said that Government officers at Washington are now on the track ut some individuals who have been for oonit/