Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 25 April 1857 — Page 2

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For several weeks past our cotcm-

porary across the way has been regaling his readers with articles commenting upon the decision given in the Dred Scott case. Ilia strictures upon the.character and legal abilities of Chief Justice Taney were so nearly akin to the street-corner declamations of Fisher Dohert.y and Madcmosclle Filkinfi, that while they only cxcited a smile of derision from our citizcns, seemed hardly worth our time to noticc. W will venture the assertion that Joseph Addison Gilkey, the great bard, (pcacc to his illustrious memory) could never have originated in his brain a more palpable hit at this decision of the Supreme Court, than the articlc of Mr. Cantrill, in which he styles Ohief Justicc Taney's decision in the case nn "infavians and windy." Now it is not our intention to go into any discussion upon this matter, for two reasons. First, the decision11 of Mr. Taney has not yet boon published and consequently we are not posted as to how far it. protects our southcm brethren in their property. Second, from all wc can learn from Abolition sources, it only allows the owner of a slave the constitutional privilege of passing through .a free State with his slave property, and •declares the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. Of course no national man will find anything in the decision that he cannot heartily approve of. The silly and idiotic assertion that the decision virtually establishes slavory in the free States is too ridiculous to notice, and nobody but a consummated ass would make it. If ourTicighbor expects to revolutionize Montgomery county by laborious efforts to prove that a nigger is tho equal if not the superior of tho white man, he will find that his career will be as inglorious as the great bard's.— The faculty of Wabash College we opine arc laying it on a little too thick when they boldly assert, as in the last issue of the Journal, that tho "negro is tho equal of the white man and susceptible of the highest intellectual culture and refinement."— That sentenco has proved as sickening as an emetic to some of the Republicans in Crawfordsville, who openly d—n the man that penned it. They say that the new proprietors of the Journal are managing things worse than Gilkey, and that if such is to be the doctrine taught by that organ tho Republican party in the county will dwindle into a minority so miserable that it will lose all identity. Now, there arc many good, honest, wcll-incaning men in the ranks of the Republican party who were led off from the Democratic and Whig parties by that old hobby "slavery extension" When they joined the faction they never dreamed that they were allying themselves to a miserable set of Abolitionists and aiding in the dismemberment of the Union. That fact, however, is beginning to dawn upon them, and thoy arc already denouncing the negro worshippers. The future of the Domocraev is bright and checring. We predict that Kansas will romC in as a free State notwithstanding the efforts made by Black Repnlicanism to the contrary.

„t, A NUISANCE. We notice that a miserable dirty doggery has recently been reopened in the alley immediately north of the Court House. JJfjgulnrly every Saturda}- it is the sccnc of disgraceful brawls and figlitn. A) think that our citizor.s should take some steps to abate this evil. :.4. mm 'Every prosecution with but one ox Ircption for misdemeanors in our last Court ^fizcled. The gambler and disturber of the peace went scot free.

#ST" Wc noticc that FRANK HEATON has just received a very large supply of new books and stationary at his periodical der pot. Among the selection wc noticc a fine assortment of school books —Mr. II. is deserving of. much credit for establishing ivliat has been long_needed in our town—a first-closa book store where. not pnly all 4bc standard.books can be,' purchased, but "where can always be found tho very latest literature of the day. Wc sh*U publish a floguc of his books in our nojt issue.

MORE ABOUT THE COMET. A distinguished astronomer of New Jersey, is said to urge the following objections to cometic collisions generally, and the foolishly apprehended collision now talked of particularly. There is nothing new in these ideas, but they may tend to quiet the nerves of the very weak: 1st. The earth and the comet would have to arrive at the same part of the earth's orbit exactly at the same time—if either were a little too soon, or a little too late, there would be no concussion. Now the probability of their keeping such time is very small. In the year 1836, a comet crossed the path of the earth's orbit about a month before the earth arrived at the place where it had crossed, and was some millions of miles distant at the time of the crossing. 2d. Even if the collision should happen, it would not injure the earth. A comet may be said to be almost all tail; now the quantity of matter proved to be contained in any comet is small, say diffused over a large space indeed, some says that the tail is due to electrical action and its density cannot much exceed air. Stars have been seen, by means of a telcscopc, when the tail of a comet was directly between them and the observer.

It is a fact known to all astronomers, that about the year 1700, a comet passed so near the planet Jupiter, as to be more strongly affectcd by his attraction than it was by that of the Sun, and therefore it was turned out of its orbit: but the planet and his satelites [sic] moved on, taking no notice of the intruder, or being at all disturbed by it. The only effect a comet might produce, if it came in contact with the earth, is this:—It might leave behind some of its matter, and thus poison our atrnosphere. However, the probability that a comet will ever come in contact with the earth is about one chance that it will, and two millions that it will not happen. ---<>---

MINISTER TO ENGLAND. Harper's Weekly, after discussing at some length the question of who will be Minister to England under the administration of Mr. Buchanan, thus mentions the name of lion. Stephen A. Douglas in that connection:— "But there is one name which has not yet been heard in connection with the mission to England, a name known to every school boy in this country, and"quite familiar to statesmen in every nation of Europe. That name is Senator Douglas, of Illinois.

A ripe'statesman, tried in every sphere of domestic employ, a laborious Senator, a brave man, undoubtedly the chief of his party under the President—Stephen A. Douglas is entitled, politically, to tho mission to England if he would accept it, and among the Democrats to whom the Presidential choice is necessarily limited, perhaps

he." The Chicago Daily Times expresses the opinion, and wo presume correctly, th'lt Judge Douglas would accept no foreign appointment. He can scarcely be spared from tho Senate, and wc presume does not desire to change his position, at least till the close of the present administration.

THE NEXT CONGRESS.

The gain of two members of Cong&ss Iqj the Democrat y-in Connection^ dispds-. the last, lingering hope of the 'R&ffiiblicans that the Democracy would not have a working majority in the next House of Representatives at Washington. Thus far sixty-six democrats and ninety-three opposition of all shades have been elected to the House. Tho remaining States caul districts were represented in the last Congress. by 49 Democrats, 25 Southern Know Nothings and one Republican—in all 75. Of this number one is to fill a vacancy in Missouri, occasioned by the resignation of John S. Gvecn, Democrat, and one in Indiana, by the death of Samuel Brenton, Republican. Should all these return men of the same politics as before, the new House will be divided politically as follows:—

Democrats, 115 Southern Iv. N's. 29 Rep. Si Northern K. N's. 92 Leaving an opposition majority of four but there can be

bo very considerable gains to the Democracy in elections yet to be held in the South, and it is not at all improbable that the vacancy in this State may be filled by a democrat. There can be no reasonable doubt of a democratic majority sufficient for all practical purposes.

A NEGRO BARY IN A MOLASSES BARREL.. —The Wheeling (Va.) Times says that a short time since a man who keeps a grocery in the vicinity of Fairview, Ya., some distance out on the national road, west, came to Wheeling and bought a barrel of molasses. He took it home and commenced retailing it in small quantities to his customers, all of whom were attacked with a strange sort of sickness, from which, however, they speedily recovered. No one could account for this singular circumstance until the molasses barrel was pretty well drained and the head kockcd out of it, when the whole community was astonished at the discovery of a negro child, about eight days old, inside the barrel in a state of partial putrifacation.

8©* PANORAMA OF THE OVERLAND ROTTE TO CALIFORNIA.—This magnificent Panorama will bo exhibited at the Christian Church this (Friday) evening. Wc noticc that it is very highly spoken of by our exchanges. Wc recommend everybody to go early so as to secure good seats. IMJ

8&*Alf Howard, the great Violinist gave a concert in the Univorsalist Church on Staurday Evening lost to a large audience receiving rounds of applause from ever seat in the house. His performances upon the violin by far exceeded our most sanguine expectations and wo have no hesitancy in saying that he stands preeminent in the rank of the first Violinists of the ago.— Tcrre Haute Union.

TNY. ^EI-OREMENT OR- INTRIGUES OF A COLLEGE HUCKSTER .—**Noxt week we shall commence the publication of the above or* iginal and thrilling tale. Persons wishing extra copies of the Reviow will leave orders at our counting room.

|&°Major Elston's fishing club starts for the Kankakee next week.

MAMMOTH LU.XP OF COPPER. The Lake Supcrio^itf/wcr, the editor o£ which'is hicisclf a practical ininer. contains the following interesting description of the big "coppcr miggct:" "Since our last publication we have been twice into .the Minnesota Mine, to look at this wonderful piee« of copper. A few tpn4 have already been taken from it, and there are somc"thirty men a^T^lc cufting It up, more .parties will be put on'soon. The lower end of the copper was raised by the powder from the rock in

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closed—the upper end being very little disturbed. This leaves it inclining but little from the horizontal, and in an excellent position for cutting to advantage.— They are cutting in some ten places, two of which are already in to where the copper is fire feet thick. Another is four feet and a quarter. Eighteen irichcs further will bring one of the cuts to where the copper is seven, and a quarter feet thick. Its greatest thickneBS is between eight and niuc feet but the cuts driven in from the edges very soon reach the thickness of 3, 4 or 5 feet, and its average thickness will be from three and a half to four feet. Its greatest length is forty-six feet. Greatest width eighteen and a half feet. We make the following measurements of its width at several joints, in feet and decimals—11— 12.5—18.5—16.2—12.7—10.9—6 showing a mean of about 12-12 feet. We cannot think its average thickness to be less than three and a half feet. These dimensions give it a cubic content equal to about 2,000 feet, and this amount of pure copper would weigh 549 tons.

Large masses from this mine have generally been of high purity, and the cxterior of this is quite clear of rock and the cuttings thus far show it to be remarkably pure. In the five feet cuts scarcely a speck of rock is to be seen, but the copper is as bright as anew polished penny. Unless it should prove to be a great shell enclosing rock, its purity must be very high, probably more than 90 per cent. and we think there is no ground for such an apprehension. On the contrary its solidity is indicated, not only by its external purity, but also by the manner in which it resisted the action of the powder, and rose from its bed without the slightest crack or bending at any point. There is scarcely a possibility of its being anything else than almost solid metal. If it is 91 per cent., and this is not a high estimate for such a mass, it contains-about 500 tons of pure copper, and will be worth when prepared for the market, about $800,000.

This wc respectfully submit, is the largest mass of metal of any kind ever yet exhibited in a single piece upon this planet.

Indeed it is only here upon Lake Superior that pure metals are found naturally in considerable quantities. And the mechanical arts have little use for pieces of such immense weight. They would not be very pretty things to handle. The largest, of which wc now recollect any account., is Lne great bell of Russia—thy "Tsaelrololcol The prod^t-of

A TOUCHING RECITAL.—At a coroner's inquest, held over the body of a deceased female in the city of New York, the only witness in the ease, a little girl of eight years, related the following touching story of poverty, desolation and woe:— "That is my mother," she said, pointing to the corpse. "The night before last two men came into our house, and turned my father and mother, and me and my two little brothers out. We had no where to go. We then went to sleep in an entry. Nobody turned us away all night. In the morning father went away to look for another place. lie was gone all day. AVe had nothing to eat, and were very hungry. Father came Pack at 6 o'clock and then went away again. Nobody would let us into their house, because they said if they did the landlord would turn them out.— The folks wc hired the house of hired it of somebody else. So wo went into the yard. Mother said she was very sick she had been sick a long time before, and my litt-lo brothers cried. Mother lay down, and I put some rags on her to keep her warm, Itccausa she said her head ached so bad. When it got dark my two little brothers lay doten and I jmt some things over them, and 1 got some rags to put under them too, and then I sat up to tcatch. By and by a policeman came along, and then lie went away and got another one, and they lifted her up and put her into a cart, and took us all here. Mother didn't want to leave the yard. She said to the policemen that she wanted to stay where she was."

A NEW SWINDLE.—The Cincinnati Commercial notices the operations of a man by thc name of Mathews who pretends to have a town in Dacotah co., Minnesota Territory. He lins sent circulars all over the States offering to give away three thousand lots in his tpwn to any one who will make the application. He only requires one dollar, he says, to pay for the deed. It is perhaps needless to say that it is all a swindle, and the polioc of Cincinnati are on the track of the fellow. He has lately received through the Postoffice hundreds of letters indeed, so extensive had his correspondence become as to excite the suspicions of the Postmaster, when the above swindle was developed. Mr, Lawrence, Postmaster at Newville in this State, says, in a letter to Dr. Vattier, that he alone sent the fellow $30. This kind of swindle, we noticc, is getting quite coqnnon in the East also.

GSxf Spring commenced yesterday.

LIQUOR LAW.

Almost'-every*. county in''the 'State baaf at present, ..its own liqnor law, notwithstanding the constitutional restraint upoti special legislation. This singular «tate of things grows out of the decision tif the Supreme Court upon the temperance law of 1855 spme of the Common.Pleas Judges holding .that thdt- law is wholly -qpid, some that it is only partially so, and others again that it is valid throughout. For some time past, it was thought that1 in this county there was no law at all upon the subject besides the law relating to common nuisances. We have, however, now a law restraining the liquor traffic, and one too as stringent as any one could reasonably desire. How this came about in the vacation of the Legislature may be worthy of explanation. *'yr

At the January term of the Common Pleas Court-, John Stogel was prosecuted under the ninth and seventeenth sections of the liquor law of 1853. His council moved to squash the informations upon the ground, that the sections upon which the prosecutions were based, were repealed by the temperance law of 1855. The cases were taken under advisement by Judge Emerson until the term of court just closed, at which time he rendered his decision in the cases. The opinion given by him is substantially as follows:

The temperance law of 1855 is void in toto. The clause in that statute providing for the repeal of all former laws contravening the provisions of that statute, is, therefore, inoperative and void. Consequently the liquor law of 1853 remains in full force, except so far as modified by other acts of the Legislature and by the judicial decisions.

In the case of Maize vs. the State, 4 Porter, 342, the Supreme Court held that so much of the law of 1853 as relates to the popular vote of the township is unconstitutional and void. The Legislature at the session of 1855 repealed the second and third sections of the same law,—Acts 1855, ch. 106. With these modifications, the law of 1853 is still in force.

The law may therefore be stated as follows Every person may sell wines, cider and beer in any quantity. He may sell any kind of spirituous liquor in any quantity not less than a gallon. If he sell spirituous liquors in a less quantity than one gallon except for sacramental, mechanical, chemical, medicinal, or culinary purposes, he is liable to be fined, for each offence, in any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. All places or houses in which spirituous liquors are sold in less quantity than a gallon, and all such places or houses in which such liquors are allowed to be drunk arc common nuisances, and the keeper thereof liable to a fine nor more than one hundred dollars. If such place is kept in a disorderly manner and mahit.j.|7iccl to the annoyance of the neighborhood, the lender is liable to a fine of 110^

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of people was sc^my iaxcj to produce that gre^'t. mass of metal. But its weight i*v only 300,000 pounds. This, wc admit, makes a '''smart chance" of a bell, but the, great copper mass of the Minnesota mine is nearly three times that weight.

But, i-aerediMe as it may appear,jtlie great mass is but a small port of the copper now inj^ffijit. itf' its immediate vicinity.— AbpuiJwhiraBlrod feet to the east, a series tif monster ma.Hse,: ^cwcriuous size are now being stripped and followed into the conglomerate, theaggregate weightof which including the great mass, will in all probability, exceed the total product of the mine for the year 1856. They have just exposed a large opening going south into the conglomerate, which they were about filling with powder. This blast may make new discoveries, for which wfe anxiously wait, and the result of which wc hope to give in another number. The disclosures of the last few days are immensely important.— It is perfectly safe to say that there are at least two thousand tons of copper in sight within a few feet of the points which we have described.

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A Frenchman calling himself Prof.

13. Melchoir, and who says lie is a teacher of perspective drawing, and who came to this city highly recommended by Professor Chase, President of Asbury Female College, Green Castle, and Professor Tingley, President of Asbury University, Green Castle, has been imposing upon the printers and hotel keepers, through the influence of these letters. This will warn our Brethren of tho press against him, and will also notify Profs. Chase and Tingley that their friend Melchoir is a humbug, if not an arrant knave.—JSfeiv Albany Ledger.

We made the acquaintance of the aforesaid Professor some three or four months since, and now hold his card in the shape of a bill for advertising which be forgot to pay. The Professor has a bad memory about such matters he should take lessons in phrenone motcchny.—Lafayette American. 'V

The Ledger*publishes a Frenchman calling himself "Prof. B. Melcho-lr," tacher of prespective drawing, as a humbug and swindler. Pass him around.—Tribune.

PERSONAL.—Robert C. Coons who eloped with the wife of one of our citizens last December, returned this morning. Who he intends running off with next we are not advised. Coons is a great rascal and deserves to be severely punished. AVe commend him to the kind consideration of his Shanghai friends.

OUR MINISTER TO CHINA.—It is understood at AVashington that Mr. Reed, the new Minister to China, with all convenient expedition, will proceed in a government steamer to Southampton, thence to London, hold a conference with Lord Palmerston thence to Paris and a confcrcnce with Louis Napoleon thence across the Mediterranean in a British passenger steamer to Alexandria, in Egypt to Suez, the Red Sea, down which he will proceed in a British steamer to Aden. At this point he will be picked up by our Government steamer, which, in the interval, from Southampton, will have passed round to Aden via the Cape of Good Hope.— From Aden Mr. Reed will proceed direct to China, where, simultaneously with his arrival, all the American vessels of war in the East will be collected with some important additions, under the command, probably, of Commodore Perry. This was a feature of Mr. Walker's programme of 1853.

A SAD AFFAIR—SUDDEN DEATII.—A gentleman and lady arrived at the Pavillion Hotel on Thursday evening with the corpsc of a young man who had died that day on board the steamer Empress. The deceased was a brother to the lady, and with her and his friend were going South on the Empress. On Thursday morning •while the deceased was sitting with the lady on deck, apparently in good health, his head sank upon his bosom, and when the lady turned to address him, he was dead. The party left tho boat at Henderson, and were bearing the young man's remains to his home in Maryland, The lady's grief was heart-rending to witness—her bright anticipations for the future, all brushed away by the strong arm of Death. Verily "we know not what a day may bring ioT'th."^-rEvansvillc Journal, 1 Sth.

During the imprisonment of the

"American Eagle" in Rochester, N. Y., many persons visited him, and one of them having put his finger tlyongh the bars of the cage, was bitten severely. The eagle, however, got sick, and for some days appeared as if he had been poisoned. Upon enquiry it was ascertained thai the finger belonged to a Blaek Republican

LATTER-DAY ABOMINATIONS. RESIGNATION OF JUDGE DRUMMOND OF UTAH.

<To the Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, Attorney General of the United States, Washington, D. C.:>

DEAR SIR: As I have, concluded to resign the office of Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah, which position I accepted in A. D. 1854, under the administration of President Pierce, I deem it due to the public to give some of the reasons why I do so. In the first place, Brigham Young, the Governor of Utah, is the acknowledged head of the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints," commonly called Mormons, and as such head the Mormons look to him, and to him alone, for the law by which they are to be governed; therefore no law of Congress is by them considered binding in any manner.

<Second>. I know that there is a secret, oath-bound organization among all the male members of the church, to acknowledge no law save the law of the "holy priesthood," which came to the people through Brigham Young, direct from God, he (Young) being the vicegerent [sic] of God and prophetic successor of Joseph Smith, who was the founder of this blind and treasonable organization.

<Thirdly>. I am fully aware that there is a set of men set apart by special order of the church to take both the lives and property of persons who may question the authority of the church (the names of whom I will promptly make known at a future time).

<Fourthly>. That the records, papers, &c., of the Supreme Court have been destroyed by order of the church, with direct knowledge and approbation of Gov. B. Young, and the federal officers grossly insulted for presuming to raise a single question about the treasonable act.

<Fifthly>. That the federal officers of the Territory are constantly insulted, harassed, and annoyed by the Mormons, and for those insults there is no redress.

<Sixthly>. That the federal officers are daily compelled to hear the form of the American government traduced, the Chief Executives of the nation, both living and dead, slandered and abused, from the masses as well as from all the leading members of the church, in the most vulgar, loathsome, and wicked manner that the evil passions of man can possibly conceive.

Again: That after Monroe Green had been convicted in the District Court, before my colleague, Judge Kinney, of an assault with intent to commit murder; and afterwards, on appeal to the Supreme Court, the judgment being affirmed and the said Green sentenced to the penitentiary, Brigham Young gave a full pardon

to the said Green before he reached the penitentiary; also, that the said Governor Young pardoned a man by the name of Baker who had been tried and sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary for the murder of a dumb boy by the name of White House—the proof showing one of the most aggravated cases of murder that I ever knew being tried; and to insult the court and government officers the man Young took this pardoned criminal with him, in proper person, to church, on the next Sabbath after his conviction, Baker in the meantime having received a full pardon from Gov. Brigham Young.

On the other hand, I charge the Mormons, and Gov. Young in particular, with imprisoning five or six young men from Missouri and Iowa, who are now in the penitentiary of Utah, without those men having violated any criminal law in America but they were anti-Mormons, poor, uneducated young men because they emigrated from Illinois, Iowa, or Missouri, and passed by Great Salt Lake City, they were indicted by a Probate Court, and most brutally and inhumanly dealt with, in addition to being summarily incarcerated in the saintly prison of the Territory of Utah. I also charge Gov. Young with constantly interfering with the federal courts, directing the Grand Jury whom to indict and whom not; and, after the Judges charge the Grand Juries as to their duties this man, Young, invariably has some member of the Grand Jury advised in advance as to his will in relation to their labors, and that his charge thus given is the only charge known, obeyed, or received by all the Grand Juries of the federal courts of Utah Territory.

Again, sir, after a careful and mature investigation, I have been compelled to come to the conclusion, heart-rending and sickening as it may be, that Capt. John W. Gunnison, and his party of eight others, were murdered by the Indians in 1853 under the order, advice, and direction of the Mormons that my illustrious predecessor, Hon. Leonidas Shaver, came to his death by drinking poisonous liquors given to him under the order of the leading men of the Mormon church in Great Salt Lake City: that the late Secretary of the Territory, A. W. Babbitt, was murdered on the Plains by a band of Mormon marauders, under the particular and special order of Brigham Young, Hebcrt C. Kimball, and J. M. Grant, and not by the Indians, as reported by the Mormons themselves; and that they were sent from Salt Lake City for that purpose, and that only and as members of the Danite band they were bound to do the will of B. Young, as the head of the church, or forfeit their own lives.

These reasons, with many others that I might give, which would be too heart-rend-ing to insert in this communication, have induced me to resign the office of Justice of the Territory of Utah, and again return to my adopted State of Illinois. My reason, sir, for making this communication thus public is, that the Democratic party, with which I have always strictly acted, is the party now in power, and therefore is the party that should now be held responsible for the treasonable and disgraceful state of affairs that now exists in Utah Territory. I could, sir, if necessary, refer to a cloud of witnesses to attest the reasons I have given, and the charges, bold as they are, against these despots who rule with an iron hand their hundred thousand souls in Utah, and their two hundred thousand souls out of that notable territory, but shall not do so for the reason that the lives of such gentlemen as I should designate, in Utah and in California, would not be safe for a single day.

In conclusion, sir, I have to say, that in my career as Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah Territory I have the consolation of knowing that I did my duty that neither threats nor intimidations drove me from that path. Upon the other hand, I am pained to say that I accomplished little good while there that the Judiciary is only treated as a farce. The only rule of law by which the infatuated followers of this

curious people will be governed, is the law of the church, and that emanates from Governor Brigham Young, and him alone.

I do believe that if there were a man put in office as Governor of that Territory who is not a member of the church (Mormon), and be supported with sufficient military aid, much good would result from such a course; but as the Territory is now governed, and has been since the administration of Mr. Fillmore, at which time Young received his appointment as Governor, it is noon-day madness and folly to attempt to. administer the law in that Territory.— The officers are insulted, harassed, and murdered for doing their duty and not recognizing Brigham Young as the only lawgiver and lawmaker on earth. Of this every man can bear incontestible evidence who has been willing to accept an appointment in Utah, and I assure you, sir, that no man would be willing to risk his life and property in that Territory after once trying the sad experiment.

With an ardent desire that the present administration will give due and timely aid to the officers who may be so unfortunate as to accept situations in that Territory, and that the withering curse which rests upon this nation by virtue of the peculiar and heart rending institutions of Utah may be speedily removed, to the honor and credit of our happy country,

I now remain your obedient servant. W. W. DRUMMOND, Justice of Utah Territory. March 30, 1857. ---<>---

THE EXPECTED COMET SEEN.—The New York Herald states that the great comet which savans [sic] have perdicted [sic] would appear during the year 1857, has been seen in that city, by an eminent professor of its learned institution, and the result of his observations will soon be given to the public. It is as yet only visible with a telescope, but as it is rapidly approaching the earth, it may soon be seen with the naked eye. It is now about five degrees east of the star Andromeda, and is moving south. This comet was first seen by Prof. D. Arrest, at Leipsic, on Feb. 22d, and on the 26th of March, at Newark, N. J., by Mr. Van Arsdale. It was also seen last Friday night at the National Observatory in Washington.— The comet is known as Charles Quint, or Charles the Fifth, it being during the reign of that monarch it was last seen. A German savan [sic] has started the story that this comet will strike the earth during the month of June next, and the statement has created a great deal of discussion in scientific circles, and is very generally scouted. This comet is destined to create considerable public curiosity, and its approach to the earth will be watched with intense interest. ---<>---

{Correspondent* of tUd Chteigo INDIAN fTAII IN SJt. Pavi£ M. T^Apjl

THE I'HTNAill CQ. WIFE liltDElt. The Putnam Banner of Tuesday contains the following letter from IIon.s$. D. Ham. ric-k:

MANHATTAN, April 10th, 1857.

Mr. Editor: One of the most painful and heart-rending tragedies oceured in our midst this morning that any community vs* ever called upon to witness. A young lady, Mrs. Martha Mullinix. wife of Greenbury O. Mullinix, and daughter of one of our neighbors, David Sublet, who has been raised in our midst., wus murdered, as is universally believed, by her husband, ot whom she had been married but barely three weeks. The neighbors in the vicinity were first alarmed by tho screams.' of the family at his father's, where he ran after the fiendish deed was entirely consumatcd.. Several of the neighbors and citizens of our little town immediatly repaired to the scene, and all who witnessed the sight declare it to be the most heart rending sccnc ever recorded. There she lay on the floor weltering in her own blood, with the whole ofthe upper part of her forehead and front-of her skull mashed in

On examination two other wounds wore found upon her head, either of which would have caused her death. The one in front is believed to have been made after she had fallen to the floor and was weltering in her blood. The jury supposed the weapon was a new large iron shovel which he had recently had made, but it looked to me as if he had taken an axe in both hands and struck her with all his force. Tho skin and skull were so broken in that you could almost insert your double fist. You may think that to see a young and beautiful woman murdered and mangled would be a sight not to be desired, but you can form no conception of it unless you had witnessed the 3cene.

THE MORMONS. A AVashington letter says that it is proposed to send to Utah a military force of two thousand five hundred men, officered by men of character, who have families, who will also, to appoint as

LAND SALES IN KANSAS.—Three great land sales are now advertised by the United Stater Government The first will occur at Iowa Point, in Doniphan county, Kansas beginning on the 5th of May this sale is for the benefit of the Iowa tribe. Another will occureat Paoli, in Lykins county, Kansas, commencing on the 26th of May, for the confederated bands of Kaskaskias, Peorias, Pinkcshaws, and AVeas, The third will commencc at Osawkee, in Kansas, on the 23 of June, for the Delaware tribe.— For the benefit of the Iowa tribe ninety-five thousand acres will be sold for the confederated bands two hundred and fourteen thousand acres, and for the Delaware tribe three hundred and forty-five thousand acrcs, making in all six hundred and fiftyfour thousand acres.

SNAKES.—Mr. Ransom AYhite. of East Hartford, brought into the city to-day, in basket, ninety one black snakes, weighing in the aggragatc eighty one pounds.— He dag them all out of a snake burrow, in the town by the side of a stone quarry, yesterday. They were in a torpid state, but could crawl about a little. They were found about two feet from the surface, and were wound up together like a ball. The average length of the snaktajy-was about

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The j)C(^le ^this tfitjr a stateM excitement' list evening arrival^ aTfit&senger fromSt.Peter, with the startling intelligence that the Sioux In* dians in the vicinity pf the south bend of the Minnesota river, had broken out^tad were burning the settlements on the Blue Earth and Walton Ore, and nrarddring anH massacring the settlers,

of six hundred Indians were moving towards Mankato for the purpose of destroying it. Rumors were also afloat that Mankato was actually destroyed, and that its citizcns were most barbarously and inhumanly murdered. The saine messenger that brought the intelligence brought the following communication from George Hezlep, Esq., Secretary of the St. Peter Company: «iS "ST. PETER, April 13, '1867.^ "DEAR SIR: A terrible excitement prevails here and about us. Reports have come that the Indians have broken out on the Blue Earth and Walton Ore, and arc murdering the inhabitants. Some forty men left Mankato yesterday, and a like number leave here to-day. Send, without delay, arms, ammunition and provisions.-^-AVe have sent with the volunteers all, or. nearly all, the provisions we had. Gov. Dodd has taken the command, and has sent the express that takes this, to the fort and acting Governor. See that the acting Gov ernor acts. -i Yours, "HEZLEr." PARTICULARS OF TIIE MASSACRE AT S

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Since receiving the above letter, the ticulars of the massacre at Springfield, Blue Earth county, have comc to hand.—The number killed had not been precisely known, but AArm. AVood, George M. Wood, Mr. Church, and Josiah Stewart arc among the number.

The atttack was without provocation, and was unsuspected by the settlers. Mr. \Yir. AVood, a trader, and an old settler of Mankato, bad been proceeding to have a talk with the Indians on the bai,K of the river when he was shot dead and his body burned. After thir, a general massacre took place, in which all who were not armed, suffered nici-e or less. Those who were armed barely escaped. Two Indians wero killc ',—one having boen shot by Mrs. Ohurch, who loaded guns for the uien in one of the houses. Several women wccc tukon prisoners by the Indians, among whom were Mrs, Marvel and Miss Gardner.

Thirty-eight volunteers left Mankato, un der Capt. Lewis,. Lmmadiaitcly on rcccipt of' the intelligence ofthe massacre* The company reached Slocum, on the Watonwani river, 011 the evening of the 11th—-where* they meta body of Indians e)4«»i*pcd, wlu„ on their approach, fled, throwing their hatchets in the air, firing back as they ran. Th. company killed four Indians. This how ever was but an outpost for immediately afterwards 150 armed Indians made their appearance and showed fight..

They therefore sent word to St.. Peter for assistance, when Gen. Dodd and fifty volunteers started for the scen.e ot',wa.rv

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Intelligence readied Fariba-wlt, calling011 Gen. Shields for assistance, who inline-, diatcly raised a company of volunteers and started for Mankota, accompanied by Alex. Faribault, and several ImSian /miners.— Sonic of these runners had xoiwr»«edv confirming the rumors of the massacree in Blue Earth County, and stating that at least forty settle?.- fx&d boen massacreed near the Big Bend.

A company had also been raised at Prcs-" cott, AYiss«, and wero nn the Time and Tide ready to start, when news from Fort Snelling arrived stating that troops stsflicienthad been dispatched. The people of Preseott volunkec-red most nobly.

A gentleman had arrived at Presscott,who left Mankato on the 14th, who states that up to that date Mankato had not been taken, but that some fifty murders had been committed by Sioux Indians in Blue Earth County. AVhen lie left Mankato, 150 Indians were encamped four miles from Mankato, and it is presumed that it is against this band that Gen. Dodd is marching.— Tho settlers had all fled from their home.", and wore leaving the country or gathering for mutual protection. (Jrcat alarm was everywhere feit. All the Indians beyond the Minnesota River were said to be a suming a hostile attitude. Rumors worn rife of alliance between the Sioux and Chippewas.

BKEWINC A iIT.

Leavenworth (Kansas) correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, a Republican

will accompany them journal, after announcing the arrival ol Judges and.as Lxecu-j«jim Lane" in the Territory, who has

tive officers men of moral worth and^stand- recently returned to Kansas through Mising, who have families and thus it is hop-: gouri, in disguise so perfect that his own cd, that a society will be formed which will best friends did not know him, adds: present a good example to the "Saints," and form the nucleus of an enlightened and moral community.

An old bachelor geologist was

boasting that every rock was as familiar to him as the alphabet. A lady who was present declared that she knew of a rock of which he was totally ignorant. "Name it, madam," cried Caelebs. "It is rock the oradle, sir," replied the lady. ,, «iai» 1

Four or five ultra Free-State men were with him, and some of them boasted, as they were leaving the boat, that "they would soon raise h—11 in the Territory." It is well known here that just before the adjournment of the bogus Legislature, there was a project on foot among the Free-State men to rise and wipe out that body with its records and acts, at one blow. The Free-State men in the Territory arc undoubtedly strong enough to have done it even though opposed hy tho United States troops. But the more prudent among them feared the cffectof a "little civil war" on the spring emigration, and the step was finally postponed. The elements arc all here for a grand rising, and the flame oi excitement wants only r« little fanning to grow into a tremendous blaze. A\l«etht»r Lane has influence enough left with the Free-State men to make a war remains to be seen. You need not be surprised to 'hear that there is trouble in Kansas soon. I talked with an intelligent soldier at the1 Fort to-day, and he thinks tho officers would be glad of an excuse to put after Lane. There are now twelve hundred troops at the Fort—eight hundred cavalry. It is expected six hundred of them w$l leave for Oregon soon. You cannot imagine the trepidation of some of the Leavenworth people at the intelligence that Lane is here. lie certainly is greatly feared by the Pro-slavery men of the Territory.

Jim Lane is not a very worthy apostle of freedom, and it is tp be hoped that the Free-State people will not "raise h—11," as is proposed but trouble is undoubtedly brewing, and Kansas is again to bleed.— Who arc the bleeders, however, the Northern people can now easily see after this prc-annonncemcnt of^lans.

tST" Gossip and Slander is 0 the increase in Crawfordsville.