Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 May 1857 — Page 1

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"THE PALACES UNDER THE SEA. J.r'

1 havc.reaJ ia an old tradition, yV

fTb»t

f*tboinft down andet th« «c», .-s,

Are

p*lacc* ancient and olden

"L,' Far ritber than mortal* «'«r H*l Whbw pillar* art bnilt of white marbl®, i.Hj^o ptimtth«:cTer waa found W Jftn thcd«ep and mfrteriona caverns}' lo *\By th« 6eing» who dwell-andergronnd

And stretching from pillar to pillar, And archca oT hjflSaat »we«p

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1 Compottd of th« crimson-loafed coral And the team which the oc*iun-birdi w«cp. .{•J And the beings who people those regions

With the Genii down under the aea, ,.c Jo the palaces ancient and goldsn, ^ar Holier than mortals c're soc, •. Are the daughters of earth, whose bright beauty

Enamored the gods of the wind} That radiant and dazzling beauty ... *, That seraphs alone may unbind.

And she who 1M kneeled to ninco childhood Was taken by them uudcr the sea, The beautiful sunny cheekcd maiden, Who wss heaven of all heavens to me. Per her was my soul, and ccstatic I bathed in its cryjtnline light— tihe was tire moon

ntad I

wss

a

star

Tllit wsndefod with her thro' the night, And tho' many came to her and worshipped, Bh« loved me the fondest and best, And flew iiko a bird from all others, To htdo in the truth of iny breast. Hat I loft h*r one dark stormy season, •. That time wheu the snow-drop is born, And the moon rises nightly in vain. To show you the tips of her horn And tho winds blew and boro me along To lands far out in the sea, [world's" "Dot hor lovo, tlint was greater by far than tho Cooldiiol live if not knoeling by mo [hor Bo sho broke the bright chain that had bound To a lore tve do well to adore. [king, But the envious windB boro hor down to their

And my lijm kissed hor blushes no moro.'• And 6omotimca 1 wander at midnight, When tho stars form a ladder of gold Tor tho angel* te bej.r down from heaven ,-Tlio truths which in ulumborb are told,

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standing alone by the billow, Rho comes on her moon-lighted way, And sings to tho stngs till tho silenea of night With inv sorrow has f.tdu.l away.

IMPORTANT FROM UTAH!

INSULTS TO UNITED STATES OFFICERS...

Corrcipondctjco of the X. Y. Tribune.] GREAT SAI.T LAKE CITY, Feb. 2, '57.

Messrs. Gerrish & Morrcll arrived here in the middle of last month, direct from the Slates. They brought us the extremely wcleoine news that a United States Marshal had been Appointed from among the Gentile residents of the Territory, and it is some consolation for us and the converted Mormons who have endured the most atrocious and horrible outrr.ges that devilish minds and hands could devise and execute, to think that although wc have been ««o ncglcctcd, the

gnvoand

Govcnimcntis

doing

ward defiled bj the presence of such a woman, and unless he turned his wife away his house would be palled down over his he*d The husband, either influenced bj the slanderous tale or intimidated by the more powerful threat, discarded his wife, when the Bishop immediately proposed to her to come into his family, which she in* dignantly refused and took refuge in the house of an acquaintance The Bishop, however was not to be foiled so easily. He compelled all the families who sheltered her to turn her away, and the poor woman in her anguish appealed to Brigham's sympathies, and begged him to protect her from her persecutor. But Brigham advised her to be "sealed" to the Bishop, and in utter despair she at length complied. The Bishop accomplished his purpose, but the connection was of short duration, and Brigham was soon called upon to "unseal,, the two.

Those who have left the Mormon church are the objects of frequent outrages, and whenever any of them are suspected of endeavoring to leave the Territory, they are immediately stripped of everything they posscss* Mr. Jarvis, who has a store on South-Temple street, was excommunicated last fall on account of apostacy, and has been endeavoring to sell his property, in order to leave for the States in the Spring, On the night of the 13th inst., some men entered the store of Mr. Jarvis, and asked for tobacco. Mr. Jarvis, in banding it to them, was seized by the hair and dragged into the street, and there most mercilessly beaten by some of the party, while others of the villains broke up the counters and shelves, built fires on the floor with the fragments, and threw the goods into them. They then repaired to the chambers, where they also built fires, burning the furniture and clothes of the family. Some females

who attempted to give the alarm, were set

upon with revolvers and knives and frightened into silence. Having made a wreck of everything, the ruffians left, carrying away all the portable property. The fires which were smoldering on the floors were finally extinguished by the females, though they wore much burnt and personally injjnred by the 'lemons.

Mrs. Sutherland, a "Gentile" lady of 'great respectability, and widow of Mr.

Progress cf Crime and Outrage!! jSutherland, who was killed on the plains '•'y I with Col. Babbitt, had been driven from her home by threats of violence, and had fled to Mr. Jarvis's for safety. She was in the house at the time of the attack, but succeeded in making her escape therefrom some of the gang saw her when in the street, and gave chase. In turning the corner she fell in tiio deep snow, and feeling entirely exhausted, did not attempt to rise the man happily not seeing her, passed on, and she sped in another direction, wandering through the streets all night, covered only with her night clothes, bareheaded and barefooted, and afraid to ask for shelter—the snow being at the time over two feet in depth, and the mercury liclow Koro. Jt is almost needless to say that Brigham was at the bottom of the affair, and that the Danites committed the deed by his direct orders. He had prcvi-

something to relieve us at last. Shut in, as wc arc, from the world at large by the snows of winter, and nr.prelected by even the show of a judiciary, the heads of tho Church have been enabled to! should never leave the Territory, or if he

perpetrate against us every species of crime and crue.ity. Gentiles have been robbed of valuable property dissenting Mormons, who have become disgusted with the fiendish rites of the "Saints," have been outra-

cd murdered and even women, who presumed to rebel against tho commands of the misnamed church, have been mercilessly persccutcd and driven from housA to house, until they were compelled to yield to the brutal demands of their tyrants or seek refuse, from them iu suicide

On Christinas nii^ht a young woman cut her Garrison, and Lucy Stone, and other such

One of the principal features of Mormonism is the constant endeavor'of the rulers to make the women mere creatures of pas. aion and slaves of their will. The barriers of modesty aud virtue are overthrown by thfim in all their discourses, and all refinement and elegance arc studiously obliterated. They glory, as Heber C. Kimball says, "in calling things by their right names.'' ',It was only a few. Sundays ago that Kimbal 1, in the presence of .between two^od three thousand people, delivered a'oisbourse on the intercourse of the sexes, In "which he tnndf) use of language too obscene and'viiiigar for the most degraded to

u^ef.J^itcrally

throat, br thfc only way in which she could folks, arc undoubted fanatics on the slavery 3»vc

cscape from tho more terrible fate which question, yet there arc a good many

calling things by their right

ttjinjea. Frequently, to further their villaifw.us .designs, they accuse women by, i^'the "ward meetings," of being prostitutes, thus making them,lose fill selfroipect, and inducing then} more easily, as tl|£V$e

.fp their OWIJ importunities, A

pertain Bishpp in this city took a.fanoy to b^peighbpj-^ peauitful woman.~ finding tSjat' ehe'pure to consent to his .su^psUo|j^hd dgteraine'd to effect hi^DBrpoae py otherlneans.j„ Ha.told her b^band that his wl

wifo -WM. unfaithful, and

.. ahe.hjul oftenbocn yisited by ir jme^ while he (tlie husband) was abk* •daeij jthat jU would not hare.. his

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plainly awaited her. Self-destruction by pcrate, well-meaning, earnest-minded men, ment of the remainder. Ilis mistress rethc less violent means of laudanum is very common. There is a class of young girls, who, too timid to resort to extreme measures, arc driven to bccomc the concubines of the loathsome vipers who pretend to be tho "Saiuts" of God. Their hopes and happiness are forever blasted, and the consciousness of their degradation is continually gnawing into their hearts. Of this the following is a melancholy instance. A man named Nash came lo this territory last fall, briuging with him his daughter, a lovely and beautiful girl of seventeen summers. He settled at Provo, a town sixty miles south of this city, aud in consequence of her beauty his daughter was much desired by many of the vile polygamists. She succeeded, however, in escaping them all until the death of her father, which happened in early winter. The funeral rites were performed by Bishop Carter, who, after fihiahing his prayer over the newly made grave, turned to tho heart-broken maiden and roughly told her that she must now become his wife. The gentle girl left friendless, and seeing no place where she could take refuge and escape a condition she so riiucli dreaded, was obliged to jneld, and is now doomed to alifc of sorrow and dishonor. She is Carter's seventh victim.

pcra who act with tlicm, in the belief and expectation that, with all their ultraism, something is done, nevertheless, to help on "the

Society was in league with the devil, if there is any.—[Evening Post Report. "Dr. Spring has stood up in his pulpit and said just what a rowdy says in a barroom: 'D—n a nigger, he is only fit to be a slave!' Dr. Spring has said precisely this, only he has said it in different words. He loved to denounce such hypocritical men. They had plunged down to the lowest depth of Milton's hell, and were trying to dig a hole in the bottom of it to crawl into." [From Wendell Phillips' Speech.] "God bless the colonies which made a Washington, God curse the Union that manufactured an Everett." [Applause.]— Tribune Report.

THE "HIGHER LAW."'

"The State Government could defy the General Government, and yet not be guilty of treason."—Tribune Report.

HOW SOUTH CAROLINA IS TO BE TREATED. "What we wanted now was to induce men to hate slavery and slaveholders. He would float South Caroliha into the ocean like an iceberg. He would desire to break this Union. The New York pulpit was the Northern end of the moral telegraph, of which the New Orleans cotton market was the Southern."—Tribune Report. 1,

One of the gentlemen who fraternizes with these "demons of discord" is the Rev. Mr. Frothingham, who has a church and congregation, we believe, over in Jersey City. Can it be possible that that church and congregation indorse such doctrines as these? Rev. Mr. Furniss, too—if not present iu the body—if wc mistake not, sympathizes with the .spirit which animates the Assembly Rooms orators. Mr. Furniss and Mr. Frothingham claim to be men of position and standing in the community—nay, indeed, good citizens, pure patriots, and all

t]jat

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cia ins m:ly

be a valid one—

we do not say it is not—yet we cannot exactly see how, in keeping such bad company, it can be reconciled with—we shall not say religion, nor virtue, nor patriotism, nor anything of the sort—but with common sense and common decency.

THE ORIGINAL DRIfiD SCOTT A RESIDENT OF ST. LOUIS —SKETCH OF HIS HISTORY.

The distinguished colored individual who has made such a noise in the world in the case of Scott against Sanford, and who has become so tangled up with the Missouri Compromise and other great subjects— Dred Scott—is a resident, not a citizen, of St. Louis. He is well known to many of our citizens, and may frequently be seen passing along Third street.. ITo is an old inhabitant having come to this city thirty years ago.

Dred Scott was born in Virginia, where he belonged to Capt. Peter Blow, the father of Henry C. Blow and Taylor Blow, of this city. He was brought by his master to St. Louis about thirty years ago, and in the course ofjtimc became the property of Dr. Emerson, a surgeon iu the army, whom he accompanied on that trip to Kock Island and Fort Snclling, on the ground of which he based his claim to freedom. The

ously said in the Tabernacle that Jarvis wile of Dr. Emerson was formerly Miss Sanford, and is now Mrs. Chaffee, wife of Hon. Mr. Chaffee, of Massachusetts. He

did he should not take one particle of properly with him.

[Frcm the Now Vorlt Kxprcsa, May 15.] NEGROPHOBIA.

Wc are sometimes told that there are a great many very estimable people—good citizens, sincere patriots, &e.—associated with such spirits of evil as those who are acting as chief engineers of the so-callcd

I has been married twice, his first wife, by whom he had no children, having been sold from him. He has had four children by his present wife—two boys, both dead, and two girls both living. Dred was at Corpus

Christi at the breaking out of the Mcxican war, as the servant of Captain Bainbridgc, whom lie speaks of as a "good man."

On his return from Mexico he applied to his mistress, Mrs. Emerson, then living

American Anti-Slaverv Society also, that, though Wendell Phillips, and'Wm. Lloyd near St. Louts, for the purchase of lus fann-

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vicc from the Express. Nevertheless, if John Sanford, as executor of Dr. Emerson's there is anybody halting between two opin- will

ions—and in doubt, still, whether these mononmnirs are the mischievous persons they are represented to be—wc beg leave to invite their attention to the following elegant extracts from the tirades which have fallen from the tongues of tho orators-in-chief, in the course of the two days past. Wc do not quote uniformly from the reports in the Express, it will be seen, but from orthodox Republican sources—the Evening Post and New York Tribune: [From a Speech by IIov. Mr. Fes*.]

SLAVEHOLDERS'NECKS TO BE TWISTED. "If the slaves cannot get their liberty, let them use the powers which God has given them. They need not arm themselves. They only want to have their liberty. Only give them that, and they will soon twist off the necks of their masters.— The speaker was in favor of that, and would twist off the neck of a man in the world before he would be his slave." [Applause.]

SLAVE-OWNERS' HOUSES MUST BE BURNT. "The day must soon come, in which will be seen the stalwart forms of the colored men upon the cliffs of the' mountains, assembled to witness the burning of the dwellings, and listen to the shriek and

§roans

of the dying 6lave-owners of the puth and see the blood of these infamous slaveholders coursing down the streets and la^eB of the South."

THE UNION MUST GO TO PIECES. '"'This thing must come as surely as there is a heaven, and all is a consequence of the union of this confederacy. We shall live to see the dissolution of this Union, and in order to secure this end he requested till persons not to recognise or sees to carry out the enactments of Congress, by which means the I Union would be sure to fall to pieces,"

HORRIBLE BLASPHEMY.

^'Georgo Washington was a traitor, Jest^ .Christ was a traitor, evory roan was a traitor to a tyrrannous government, and an infidel to a pro-slavery religion. The Tract

offering part of the money down, and to

ai}

eminent citizen of St. Louis, an

officer in the army, as security for the pay-

fused his proposition, and Dred being informed that lie was entitled to his freedom by the operation of the law regulating the

cause of freedom"—in the long run. We Northwestern Territory, forthwith brought presume it would be a useless task to undertake to undeceive those good-natured souls, because men and women who believe iu such extravagances of expression, and such extravagances as those of which the City Assembly Rooms have just been the scene, are not likely to hear, or heed ad-

suit for it. The suit was commenced about ten years ago, and has cost Dred S500 in cash, besides labor to nearly an equal amount. It has given him a "heap of trouble," he says, and if he had known "it was gwine to last so long," he would not have brought it. The suit was defended by Mr.

Dred docs not appear at all discouraged by the issues of the celebrated case, although it dooms him to slavery. He talks about the affair with ease of veteran litigant though not exactly in technical language, and is hugely ticklcd at the idea of finding himself a personage of such importance. He does not take on airs, however, but laughs heartily when talking of "de fuss dey made 'dar iu Washington 'bout dc ole nigger."

Tic is about 55 years old, we should think though he does not know his own age. IIo is of unmixed African blood, and as black as a piece of charcoal. For two or three years he lias been running at large, no one exercising owuersliip over him, or putting any restraint upon his movements. If he were disposed to make the attempt, ho could gain his freedom at a much less cost than even one tenth of the expense of the famous suit. He will not do so, however, insisting on abiding by the principles involved in the decisiou of the suit. He declares that he will stick to his mistress so long as he lives. His daughters, Eliza and Lucy, less conscientious about the matter, took advantage of the absence of restraint on their movements, a year or two since, to disappear, and their whereabouts remains a mystery.

Dred, though illiterate, is not ignorant. He has traveled considerably, and has improved his stock of strong common sense by much information picked up in his journeyings. He is anxious to know who owns him, being ignorant as to whether he is the property of Mrs. Chaffee or Mr. Sanford, though we presume there is no doubt that tho former is his real owner. He seems tired of running about, with no one to look after .him. while at tho same-time he is a slavo. He says, grinningly, that he could make thousands of dollars, if allowed, by travelling over the country and telling who he is.—St. Louis JNetcs. nu

•9*Tho greatest grain port in the world is Chicago.,....... ... ..

CEAWFOEDSYILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, MAY 30, 1857.

From the Dea Moinea (Ioira) Citizen.

ADVENTURE WITH THE INDIANS. A gentleman by the name of James 91. Harper, living in the vicinity of -Wiscotta, had a most narrow escape from a band of hostile Indians, a few weeks Bince. We received the particulars from his own lips, and we have the utmost confidence in the narration. Mr. Harper had been in the northern part of the State on business, and while there he disposed of his team, intending to return home on foot. While travelling toward home, he was obliged to cross a prairie, about thirty miles in extent.— This prairie is situated in the vicinity of Brush Fork of Coon river. For many miles, not a house was visible on the desolate prairie but the solitary pedestrian un conscious of danger, continued on his jour ney.

After traveling about ten miles on this prairie, he saw at a distance, a party of men whom he supposed to be hunters: but he soon lost sight of them, and pursued his journey without apprehending the danger that awaited him. After proceeding about half a mile further, and as he approached the brow of a hill, he discovered which before had attracted his attention. They proved to be a band of Indians lying in wait for him. They were ten in number, and their chief was a Frenchman or halfbreed.

Upon his approach they presented their guns as if to fire, but immediately lowered them, and surrounded their intended victim. Mr. Harper saw that resistance was useless, and remained passive while the Indians robbed him of more than $500 in gold. They took all the money he had in his possession except $10, which, from being ingeniously secreted ou hii»* person, they were unable to find. He was then taken about six miles from the road, and preparations were made to torture, and, perhaps, murder him. A strong Indian, of Herculean proportions, was stationed as guard over him. Ho held in his hand glittering knife, ready to strike if the prisoner should give any intimations of escape or resistance.

The other Indians having stacked their guns about one hundred and fifty yards from their victim, returned and formed a line with the intention of forcing Mr. Harper to run the gauntlet. Each one had his knife drawn, and from every indication, it was evident that the purpose was to conceal their robbery by a brutal murder.— Mr. Harper was then informed by one of the party who could imperfectly speak English, that he must run for his life through this line and if lie reached the place where the guns wore stacked, he should receive no further injury.

This was a most critical and perilous moment with Mr. Harper. To run through this murderous line, appeared to him as equivalent to certain destruction. A race for life, unarmed and defenceless, and surrounded by merciless savages, was no other than a race to death. He determined to effect his escape or^dic in the attempt. He resolved to make a bold effort for deliverance, rather than suft'er himself to be mutilated by the knives of the Indians.— At length the word was given for him to start. Nerving himself with all the energy he could summon, Mr. Harper, with the rapidity of thought, turned upon his guard and struck him a fearful blow that sent him reeling to the earth. Then instead oc running the gauntlet, the prisoner broke thro' the line over the body of his prostrate enemy, and fled, with the speed of the wind, across the prairie. Occasionally he turned his head to watch the movements of the Indians and he was gratified to know that they had not started in pursuit. After proceeding a half a mile, lie beheld the savages clustering around the body of their fallen companion. Mr. Harper still continued his flight with unabated vigor, until he arrived at a settlement twenty miles from the scene of danger.

The gentleman, whose perilous adventure with the Indians we have just been narrating, is about thirty-two years of age. Lie is a man of athletic mould, and of great

qualities he owc_l.w .lelivcranoo.

From the Dnily State Sentinel.

THE DEVOTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY to PRINCIPLES—NOT MEN.

There is but one sentiment with the great body of the Democratic party of Indiana in reference to its principles and policy, and their devotion to them has been fully demonstrated in the fierce struggles which they have encountered during the past three years, from both foes without and enemies within. AVhenever the measures of the Democracy arc fully and fairly- tested in the crucible of public sentiment, they come out from the ordeal like refined gold. The Black Republican press and Black ttepublican leaders have of late been not only prophccying, but charging that disorganizing divisions and dissensions exist in the Democratic party. That is not so. Men who have been attracted to the Democratic ranks for the mere purpose of obtaining office, of securing the loaves and fishes of party patronage, it must be expected, if disappointed in their expectations, will return to the beggarly elements from whence they came. A Democrat from principle is never the less a Democrat. He loves and is attached to his party, because he believas that its policy is the best calculated

ing of all. The wished for, prayed for and expected divisions and dissensions iu the Democratic partv, by Black Republicanism, based upon the personal feuds or rivalry of its leaders, will never occur. The dissensions and disappointments of men, may for awhile cause a ripple upon the surface, a nine day's wonder and talk, but the strong under current of deep attachment to the principles of thc party will bear along securely and successfully thc Democratic ship—the "old Constitution"—which has, unharmed, breasted so many political storms in the past and safely outrode every wave of. fanatical clamor end sectional strife.-— Neither baa treachery.witjiin its own ranks prevented the onward progress of Deine? cratie principles or weakened their strong-

bold upon the popular judgment and affec tions. The fearful forebodings of the' timid and unstable—their everlasting Croakings about the future—we incidents which have always existed and always will. Selfish ambition, purposes and objects, too, have at all times endeavored to control the influence and power of the party for their advancement, and often with success, but in the end the sure corrective of a right* eous judgment and just policy has remedied those evils and will continue to do so.

And what causes the present attempt to disturb the harmony, nnity and peace of the Democratic party of Indiana From center to circumfcrcnce, and from circumference to center, is there a single issue or any disagreement upon any question of party principle or policy? In this respect is not the Democratic party a unit? Gallantly the Democracy of Indiana during the political campaigns last fall met every political issue before the country, and they triumphed. No new issues upon any political principle or qnestion of public policy, has since arisen. The verdict of the Democracy has been given, was rendered, upon all the political questions which were then agitated, or which now demand the consideration of the people. There is then no question of principle or policy upon which there can be any division in the Democratic ranks. Whatever disturbance there is, or whatever attempt there may be at dissension, can only arise about men— the spoils of office. In a party of principle, the quarrels of men, or about men, should not and will not be the cause of disorganization. The Democrats who are such from principle will be as faithful to their party in defeat as in success, while those who are such from mere motives of interest, if unsuccessful in obtaining place, will allow their party attachments to evaporate like dew before tho morning sun.

Personal preferences are natural. Manifold considerations will cause us all to differ about the value of men and the desire for their preferment. But this is no reason why we should do injustice to others or attempt to defame, discredit or injure those of our political faith who have succeeded over our own favorites or choice. The official character of the representatives of a party is the property of the party they represent. In their public action, when carrying out the principles and measures of their party, they should be sustained.— Their usefulness should not be impaired or their influence destroyed by those who have chosen them as the representatives and exponents of their sentiments.

A warfare about men, or the success of men, cannot be productive of good. The great body of the Democratic party care infinitely more about the faithful development of their principles in the government of the country, than who may be the instrument of accomplishing it. The true men of the party will not be forgotten, and their services will be sure to find an appreciative consideration. And faithful public servants will ever meet with popular sympathy.

If evils exist in the party they should be remedied—if frauds or corruptions have a lodgment, the pruning knife should be applied. The remedy is not disorganization, bnt purification. The Democratic party can never be long disorganized or destroyed until wc cease to have a government resting upon popular sovereignty and the public will. The experiment of its disorganization has been attempted by giants with a most signal defeat, and we do not believe the efforts of pigmies to accomplish the same purpose will meet with any more success. Tho Democratic party will live to bury many generations of disorganizers.

LAUGHING IN CHURCH.

Henry Ward Becchcr, a gentleman who has achieved a good deal ot notoriety as a Fremont orator and general lecturer, is accustomed, we understand, to preach occasionally in one of the Brooklyn churches.— A recent, report of one ot his sermons satisfies us that if he would give his atten-

muscular power and withal, lie possesses tiori to theolocy as a regular vocation, be the true courage of a pioneer. To these

readers are assured that the circumstances which we have -attempted to describe are truthful in every particular.

wouW no(. rcnder

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himself a useful

s00icty,

but would beooiao .lis-

tinguished as a minister of the gospel. In a late discourse on the subject of behavior in church, he recommended a habit of cheerfulness in the house of God, with much ability, and said many things that were worth saying against those who (as Hood says) "think they're pious when they're only bilious." Here is a brief extract: "This crouching, servile fear of God not only debases God, but degrades the man who acts under it for fear, as a general thins, never works upon the mind, towards conduct. A mau who thus fears, is like the man who should go towards the Polar sea thinking to get to the equator. He is on the wrong train, with tho wrong engineer, and instead of leading to life, the road leads to death. There is no gospel in it."

Of laughing in church, on proper occasions, he said— "Laughing is just as good as crying, and a good deal better. Cheerfulness is characteristic of Christianity."

To all which we respond—"Amen."

RAILROAD CELEBRATION. The formal opening of the Great Central Piailroad Line,

to promote the individual good of every from Baltimore to St. Louis, is fixed for the citizcn and to advauca the general well be 'F ~x

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first of June. Some two thousand guests, including the President and his Cabinet, and the Governors and State Officers of Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri, are expected to participate. This immense company will be the guests of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company on the 1st of Junc, and of the Cincinnati and Marietta Company on the 2d. They will stop in Cincinnati on the Bd, become the guests of the Ohio aud Mississippi Railroad Company on the 4th, and of the city of St. Louis on the 5th. The authorities and people of St. Louis are already preparing for the event, and design celebrating thc occasion by a-general demonstration, and will receive and entertain all the guests in the most hospitable manner. Tho citizens of Cincinnati are also making preparations for-tho great eventr^

LAND SPECULATIONS-LETTER FROM IOWA. ALL SElLtRS-NO JlUfEHS. An Iowa correspondent of the Boston Traveler, who has been for many years a resident of that State, writes as follows with reference to the present land fever:

Have you any computation of the enormous quantity of wild lands purchased of the government within the past five years? Have you thought of the vast extent of lands taken up by individuals during that period, in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas? Of the many millions of acres thus purchased, how much has been sold, again and again, at constantly increasing prices, with an actual increase of value! How maiiy paper-towns have befell alluringly mapped out, conveyed and reconveyed tintes^without number! How all improved property thoughout the West has advanced in price, repeatedly changed owners, and what an enormous indebtedness has grown out of the unwarrantable speculations! If you have reflected upon these facts, you can hardly be surprised when yon hear that times are tight in the West, and bid fair to become rapidly tighter. Nor will you be astonished if an almost universal insolvency should result from the speculative fever which, for several years, has been growing more and more general until it has seized upon all classcs and almost every individual amongst us.

Pay-day is coming. A short time since everybody wanted to buy lands. A marked chaugc has recently come over them.— Now, everybody wishes to sell. The question to be solved is, where are the buyers are to come from? Somt will come from the Eastno doubt, but not enough avert the disaster which is already impending.— Wild lands will be wild lands still, and such arc really worth nothing. Until an owner lives upon it, a township of wild land is utterly valueless and after he has fixed his residence upon it, its value only becomes positive inproportion to the labor he intelligently bestows upon it.

All the lands in the hands of recent purchasers arc producing and will produce notliing, until they arc required for actual occupants. Great and rapid without precedent as has been the increase of population of Iowa within the past five years, still a full moiety, if not more, of the land taken from the government is in the hands of mere speculators who have had and have no intention of occupying them. They were purchased with the sole idea of reselling at an advance. Much of it has been bought of first hands at from three to five, and some instances even ten dollars per acrc, almost immediately after the purchase of the government price. Much of this latter description of purchase has been on one, two and three years time, with ten per ccnt, interest, the first and second payments now begin to fall due.— How are these payments to be met? Ordinarily, a sale of the land would producc the money.

This will not do now, for the simple reason that-, except an occasional purchaser, who will buy for personal use, no one has money to invest. The land will then be sacrificed, and still the debts will remain partially unpaid. Priccs, instead of continuing to advance, will rapidly rccrcde, until unimproved lands may probibly be purchased at less than Government valuations! Such must be the result, except in spccial localities. How many millions of dollars loss will this impose on landjobbers and their unfortunate victims! The estimate would be rather appalling of itself, but as think it involves a complete derangement of financial affairs throughout the country—a derangement already mani-

the country—a derangement aireauy mam- i—~-- -j festing itself, it is quite safe to affirm that char er election a few days ago Leavcntho present land-bubble is fated to burst worth under a city^barter grantedth S within the current twelve-month, and it is legislature they turned out and elected their man by a decided vote.

but wise to prepare for the train of ruinous consequcuces which must inevitably follow

IEON LIGHT FROM THE ARCTIC KB-

A PIOEON* FLIGHT FROM THE ARCTIC REGIONS. "with respect to Sir John Ross's pigeons as far as I can recollect, he despatched a young pair on the Gth and 7th of Octobcr, 1S50, from Assistance Bay, a little to the west of Wellington Sound, and on thc 13th of Octobcr, a pigeon made its appearance at thc dovecote in Ayrshire, from which cote Sir John had two pairs of pigeons which he took out. The distauce direct between thc two places is two thousand miles. The dovecote was under repair at this time, and the pigeons belonging to it had been removed, but thc servants of thc house were struck with the appearance and motions of this stranger. After a short stay it went to the pigeon-house of a neighboring proprietor, where it was caught and sent back to the lady who originally owned it. She at once recognized it as one of those which she had given to Sir John Ross but to put thc matter to thc test, it was carried into the pigeon house, when out of many niches it went directly to the one in which it had been hatched. No doubt remained in the mind of thc lady as to the identity of the bird. By what extraordinary power did this interesting bird find its way, and by what route did it come'l

Sir John Puchardsr.n states that

BQfWhat is a negro? is defined by the statute in Kentucky. He is one who has one-fourth part or more negro blood in his veins. He is also, if a slave, personal property, but cannot be sold by a personal representative, or for debt, until all the other personal estate of the late master has been sold. To import a slave as merchandise into Kentucky incurs a penalty of six hundred dollars. Persons removing into thc State may bring their slaves, but they are required to take an oath, and record it in the County Clerk's office, that they have not brought them with the intention of selling them.

•flTThe astronomers arc determined to have a supply of Comets on hand. Thc first one, recently announced as "approaching the earth with great rapidity," is now said to be retreating as rapidly as it came but Lieut. Muray has discovered another coming this way, so that people who like it can keep right on with their fright just as if the first one had not changed its course. Neither of these comets are or have been visible, except by th» aid of powerful tele-

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The Boston Traveller, which is nolr one of the very ablest papers in America ha* put forth two or three, stfong articles, taking that what are called the phenomena of spiritualism shall be regularly investigated by scientific men. We oopy the following from that paper: flfoW, there has Appeared in otrr age what purports to be a new fortn of intercourse with creatures of the spiritual spheres.— There are peculiarities about it, that broadly distinguish it froia previous phenomena Of the sfcffte general character—some of them rendering it repulsive to cultivated minds—others that strongly commend, it to the.philosophical, who seek demonstration as 4 ground of conviction upon all subjects. We speak of matters familiar in most of our communities. The leading facts of what is ealled spiritualism arc pretty generally admitted.-

The charge of deception and humbug has become absnfd The great majority of the people have witnessed its strange and unaccountable. phenomena, under cir* cumst&nces and in the presence of penoM where fraud or charlatanry were oat of Aw question. Inanimate hodies have Wen moved by unseen agencies, and ideas CM' municatcd from unknown sources. Aftd these things have occurred, and still ocew, in innumerable instances, and before witnesses of undoubted veracity.- These are facts, as well established as an/ facts no be by human testimony, and the scrutiny' of them is constantly within the rendi of aU.

Let them be examined and dealt with by reasoning men,- as matters of faot. We do not discuss the value of the disclosures made by spiritualism they do not seem to us of any special import. The Assumption that these things arc the work of disembodied human spirits—as they proclaim themselves—affords a distinct question by itself, which we do not discuss. But here is a clasd of new phenomcnas—-«ew to thui age, at least—not referable to any universally admitted laws, apparently in contravention of some established physical laws —what shall be done with them? It is easy to cry deception and fraud college professors can do that with as little effort as the veriest boor in the streets, and with as little credit to themselves. But these facts deserve better treatment from reflecting men. They open anew field of investigation. There are laurelB to he gained by the philosopher who will involve the law and reveal the science of these phenomena. If they arc "spiritual," in tho sense of the sect receiving them as such, let it be demonstrated if natural and legitimate products of strictly human faculties, let us understand the methods by which they are produced."

The McConnellsville (Ohio) Enqui* I rcr makes an excellent point when it says: The reason urged by the Free State men of Kansas for not going to the polls- to voto for delegates to form a State Constitution is that they arc unwilling to acknowledge the validity of any of the acts of what they call the "Bogus Legislature" of Kansas.— [f they voto for such delegates, by this act they say, and their friends the outsiders say, they will acknowledge the authority of that Legislature, which they are determined not to do. Bat these same Free State men of Kansas have, in numerous instan ccs, recognized the authority of this "Bogus Legislature." They have applied to it and obtained charters for banks, for railroads, and for acts of incorporation of various kinds. They have applied to the laws passed by it for their protection. At

This Free State party in Kansas is a queer institution. When itis their interest there at home to recognize the validity of the Territorial laws of Kansas, they do so, but

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States for political

they are stubborn aud unyield-

ing in their opposition to all such laws.— "Well—-'tis a blessed privilege to be free

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PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF GEN. WALKER. —In stature, General Walker is but little over five feet fouri His features are de* scribed as coarsc and Impassible his square chin and long jaw denote character, but

lips arc full and his mouth is not

well formed his eyes are universally spoken of as thc most striking feature in his face—of a singularly light gray, they are so large and fixed that in a daguerreotype the eyelid is scarcely visible. His manner is remarkably self-possessed, and some of his most intimate frieuds, who have been with him throughout the most trying scenes of

his

Nicaraguan experiences, have assured rac that under no circumstances have they ever observed him to change Countenance, even to laugh, or to alter in tho least degree his slow and precise mode of diction. He is at all time3 taciturn, and when he does speak it is directly to tho pointi He manifests a contemptuous indifference to danger without being reckless, and altogether seems better qualified to to inspire confidence and rcspcct among lawless men than to shine in civilized soci-. cty. He is ascetic in his habits, and his career hitherto has shown him to be uttrly careless of acquiring wealth. Highly ambitious, it is but due to him to say that his aspirations, however little ia accordance with tb» moral code in vogue at thc present day, are beyond riches. Like Louis Napo' leon, he has a fixed faith in thc star of nis destiny, and like him he will doubtless be branded by the civilized nations of Lurope as an uprincipled adventurer or a heaven born hero, according as he fails or anccccds in his daring enterprise.

A MAMMO-TH TENNESSEE DTNNCT,—Thfl dinner table at the late Railroad Festival* in Memphis was nearly three quarters of mile long, and had on it eight thousand plates and dishc3, two thousand five but*dred pounds of beef and mUttoii, seventyfive hams, sixty pigs, one hundred, and twenty-five turkeys, four hundred chickens one hundred and eighty beef tongpie^'&t*-1! barrels cake, besides raisins.ahngcds^orao cos, Set- Some fifteen er twentjr thotfSSid 6

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iperfotis partook ofth*? dioncC*