Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 April 1858 — Page 2

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For Secretary of Sta^e. DANIEL McCLURE,of Moignn. For Auditor of State,

JOHN W. DODO, of Grant.' For Treasurer of State,

KAlVlANIEL E. CUNNINGHAM, of Vi-n.

•, For Superintendent of I'ubfic Instruction,

SAMUEL L. HUGO, of Allen, For Attorney General,

JOSEPH E. MeDONALI), of Montgomery.

For Judges of the. Supreme Court. SAMUEL E. PERKINS, of Marion. .' /, ANDREW DAVISON, of Dccutur.

JAMES M. I1ANNA, of Vijro. JAMES L. WOKIJEN, of Whitley.

nil the agitation and dissension that exist, and we ask, is it any wonder that democrats should becomc disgusted and indignant at such an assumption of power as these bastard proselytes arrogate to themselves to read out men who have devoted their whole lives to the service of the Democratic party? What a spectacle.— Davis and Tombs, (the latter an old bluelighted Whig,) men whose hearts rankle with the basest treason, reading out with the as.sii-tanec of bran-faced, white-livered free soilcrs of 1848, tho loaders of the Democracy of the Union. Bah how ridiculous. Douglas will outlive the enmity and slander of his tradueers who in their effort to crush him in the Senate have presented to the nation a spectacle of pigmies combatting Ilureulcs.

THE STATE SENTINEL.

... Wc regret to see the organ of tlvc Democracy of Indiana, publishing every little bit of malicious falsehood and defamation of Senator Douglas that can be gleaned from its exchanges. This is a sly way of stubbing a man in the dark. Wc have noticcd this disreputable system of tactics for some time. If Mr. Bingham wishes to read Judge Douglas out of the party, he should have the manliness to do it boldly under tho sanctitou of his own paper instead of retailing second-handed every little dirty squib of pensioned letter writers and $450 editors. Mr. Bingham, should remember that his connection with tho party has hardly been long enough to remove from his garments the disgusting emell of rank, putrid Abolitionism. We regard you here in Montgomery Mr. Bingham as a very good Democrat—that is for a new rccruit. But for heaven's sake bo a little more modest. Don't drive the old veterans of the faith out of the rauks.— You assisted to kill Cass iu 1848, spare Douglas.

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THE HOPES OF THE REPUBLICANS. Nothing is more certain than that the only hope the Republicans now have in the future is the passage of the Lecompton Constitution. It is amusing to sec how long their phize's grow whenovcr anything transpires at Washington that indicates the defeat of this measure. Wc have regarded Colonel Lane's facc as an excellent thermometer. Ife is a man who looks ahead, and is unquestionably the shrewdest and most able politician that the Republicans possess in Indiana. We hare noticed the I Colonel of late, and his face invariably

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8. II. PAIIVIX.South East corner Columbia mul shaking of hands takes place. Tho SenMiiln streets, Cincinnati, Ohio is our Agent to

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Democratic Meeting.

There will be a meeting of the Democracy of Union Township on Saturday, the 3d of April for the purpose of nominating township officers. Let every Democrat turn out.

SENATOR DOUGLAS.

'.S In common with the great mas3 of the Democratic party, we not only entertain the most profound respect, but an enthusiastic admiration for the splendid talents of Stephen A. Douglas. His zealous devotion to Democratic principles as taught by Jefferson and Jackson endears him to the rank and file of the American Democracy.

He is iu fact to-day, one of the chief leaders of the party, and as such we shall always recognize him. Iu the fierce and stormy contentions that have agitated the Democracy for the last four months, lie has never deviated a hairs-breatli or faltered for a moment in the defense of the platform of 1850. Among his most fierce assailants who have lately gained place and power in the party, and who seek to displace him from his high position, are the areh-disunionists of the south, Davis and Toombs in the north resurrected Wilmot Proviso men, AVIIO in 1848 assisted in the defeat of the veteran Cass—these are the men who to-day arc the sole eatisc of

forget the Democratic meet­

ing of Union township this afternoon.— Tho meeting will organize at 2 o'clock.— Let every Old liner be on hand.

We notice that Col. Wilson of this place has been favorably spoken of by many of the Democratic papers in the district as a candidate for Congress. The Col. requests us to state that under no circumstances will he accept a nomination.

l&*Wo notice that our atreeU are being cleaned. •, chee iu height.

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compt exhibits symptoms of dissolution. On the other hand when the news is chcering—when the telegraph announces the wavering of an Anti Lecomptonile, the Colonel's face is bathed with a perfect flood of sunshine, and if by chance as is frequently the case, he meets with his old friend Johny Beard, mark what a cordial

looms up magnificently in the Colonel's

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vision, aland office in Nebraska stares

Johny full in the facc. To them everything is accomplished. Democratic- party gone under, broken into a thousand fragments, nothing for the Republicans to do but to take all the offices. Not only Col•jonel Lane, but ever}' Republican in Mont-

Jgcmery county shares in the same hopes land fears that have agitated him so terribly {of late. Defeat Lccouipton and the oecuI pat-ion of these fanatics arc gone.

£6T\By the foreign news published in 'another column, it will be seen the Orsini land Pierri have both suffered martyrdom, The offence of these patriots consisted of an attempt to relieve France of a bloody tyrant. While humanity mourns their Ifate, there is consolation in the fact, that

there are more conspirators who will pursue the crowned murderer to his death.— His doom we regard as sealed and certain. Who has not mourned over the fate of that beautiful daughter of France, Charlotte Corday. To save the nation she slew the remorseless tyrantMarat. While his bones lie mouldering in an unknown and nameless grave, a graceful monument with its white shaft marks the silent resting place of tho fair Charlotte. What a commentary upon the fate and destiny of tyrants. The names of Orsini and Pierri will rank in history with the fair heroine of the Reign of Terror.

Our neighbor of the Journal is very much disappointed with the Democracy of Montgomery county. Some sly wag has been hoaxing him into tho belief that because they diilered with the President on Lecompton, that it naturally followed they would try to break down his Administra tion, and in the coming State election allow the Republicans to secure the offices.— Don't believe a word of it dear Jcre. We regard a Lecomptonite, compared with a Black Republican a ministering angel

fisSf'It is proposed to hold the next Congressional Convention at Lebanon. The new court house which has just been completed at that placc, is said to be the finest edifice in the State, which fact alone is something of an inducement to give Lcbprefurcnce. We arc decidedly in favor of Lebanon. What say our Democratic cotcmporaries?

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W. GRIMFS is now receiving his

stock of spring and summer goods.

CKAWKOKD

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MT:I,T.IKIN.—This

old firm

arc receiving a splendid assortment of goods. If you want capital bargains go to this establishment. Look out for advertisement next week.

GONE EAST.—JAMES GRAIIA.M

of the firm

of Graham Brothers, left for New York on last Wednesday for the purpose of buying one of the largest stock of goods ever brought to Crawt'ordsville. They will receive a large portion of them next week by express.

KSfThc first woolen mill on the Pacific coast has been set in operation at Salem, Oregon, with four hundred and eighty spindles!

IT THE SEA SHELL

BfiTTwo hundred government wagons were burnt iu a conflagration in St. Louis, chanced upon one who had been Friday ni«rht. schoolmate in Brooklyn, and upon another

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measures, these same Senators and more of the same kind were opposed to Douglas. It was not then considered disreputable for a Democrat to be found acting with political opponents. Douglas and Webster, Clay aud Bright were found voting together, so were llale and Hunter, and Seward and Mason. Mr. Cobb, the present distinguished Secretary of the Treasury, ran for Governor in Georgia against a regularly nominated "States Rights" Democrat, and as such had all our sympathies, and the sympathies of the great mass of the Democracy of Indiana. He was elected, but nobody except a few Georgia nullifiers ever thought of reading him out of the Democratic party. Thank heaven, the people of this country are not yet so bound to party that they are willing to sacrifice every man who does not see things exactly as party leaders see them.—New Allxuiy Lcdscr.

A MAMMOTH PEAR.—The Adams Express Company have brought to the Patent Office a mammoth pear from Oregon, weighing four pounds. Is was transported in a glass jar filled with alcohol. The pear measures twenty by eighteen inioes in oireumference, and about amy in-

Ifow LsitwHh tbec, oh, lone se* shell! .... Why ntter this co*Bele» moanf.^f

Art Teaming apiin For thy home in the main,

Where the sunlight hath never shone?

Like tlie niufilitil throb of a broten hearty Thy mnaic is sounding to me Art mourning thy lovo

In some far coral grove

Thatb'.o.vwmado.vn under tha sea!

They »av that tho voice of tiiy native wavM This melancholy dirge doth keep: Which, though far away,'

Doth ever betray

Thy birth in tho wild ocean dep.

"And is it nftt thus with that mystical voice Which epeaics to tho children of Earth And often unfolds

Tu.God-imaged souls',

Some trace of their Heavenly birth?

Ah! many a spirit like thee, lone shell, Now mourns in its prison of clay "While it catches faint gleams,

In soul-thrilling dreams,

Of the ocean that's fur away.

[From tho Mi'wnnkyo Daily Wisconsin SAD HISTOItY Or A YOUNG FEM ALE.

We have some painful facts to narrate about a woman who was recently found iu this citv, in a most wretched and degraded condition. A simple sketch of her antecedents will show how rapid is one's going downward, after the first step is taken, and how mercilessly retribution follows after wrong doing and crime.

The woman in question was, a few years since, a young lady in the seminary of Professor Crittenden, in Brooklyn, N. Y. She was then a protege of Henry Ward Beccher, lived with his family, aud was being educated by him. Of course she was placed under the most favorable circumstances, aud had her every want that was reasonable, gratified. She was surrounded by the very best of associations, and had been adopted by Mr. Beccher, because of her natural brightness of disposition and intellect. In the school, though she was regarded as an eccentric aud wayward being, yet she was admired by all of her companions for her superior quality of mind.

No young lady in Prof. Crittenden's school, (one of the best in the East) could write so brilliant and beautiful a composition as she, and all had to yield to her in intellectual inferiority. We have this from one who wa3 a schoolmate of hers, that all her compositions were gems of thought and language, and sho promised to become prominent as a female writer.— Now comes the first circumstance that poisoned her happy heart. It is the old story of love. She became a passionate admirer of one who reciprocated her affections, but who was forbidden to tender his hand in marriage. He wa3 already married to another. This first disappointment occasioned a violent brain fever, which completely prostrated her, and in the coursc of her recovery she was advised to resort to stimulants, by which she acquired a taste for what has since plunged her into the depths of degradation.

Afterwards she went to Boston, and became a teacher iu a House of Refuge. It was an advantageous station for a lady of education and character, and she is said to have filled it, at first, with great promise of usefulness. Soon, however, she yielded to the appetite which she had planted within herself, when rceoveriug from her previous illness, and she Mras picked up in the streets of Boston one night, in a state of intoxication. Facilis descensus Acerni. Efforts were made to effectually redeem her, but it is almost impossible to reclaim a woman once disgraced. She soon married, and as we have been informed, married against the wishes of those who had been her former friends and protectors. From this time she sinks rapidly, rind whether by means of an avenging Deity, or from the natural laws of cause and effcct, others may decide for themselves.

Three or four years elapse, and she came with her husband to Chicago, last year. He found employment there, but in the great fire of last fall his situation was lost to him. Pretty much all winter long he remained destitute of work, pawning aw.iv his household goods and cioth-

ing meanwhile, and when Spring came, they determined to come to Milwaukee.— They had one child, and on their way here that was taken away from them, at Kenosha. Their povcrt}- had now becomc lamentable, indeed, but undoubtedly their situation might have been much better, but for the accursed article of rum, to which they had both now becomc addictcd.— Having buried their child at Kenosha, they came on he-e, and hired a miserable room iitthe 3d Ward of this city. A few days passed and the wretched woman whose career wc have been sketching was forced to go out and beg from door to door. In the course of her alms seeking she

I who had known her in Boston. Fearine

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it a great card to be able to say that Son- {wretchCd creature she had becomc, they ator Douglas is not sympathized with by

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ignorant of what a

eut. to her room where she and her bus-

such Democrats as Mason, Hunter, Jcft. baud were almost freezing and starving.— Davis, &e. If these Lecomptonites will confessed to them that she had nothcarry their memories back some eight jng

(o cat for thrcc

years, they might possibly call to mind the vieketv old bed there was but one sheet to fact that in the great struggle which pre- protect them from the cold. There was ceded tho adoption of_ the Compromise

iongdays, and on their

a singie ci,airj th

but. three legs to it, in

the room, and scarcely any other articles of

furniture cumbered up the room. These friends at onec began to exert themselves in her behalf, got others interested to aid her and her husband, gave them clothes and food, promised them both a plenty of work, and it seemed now that her destiny was taking a favorable turn.— The woman wept over her poverty, manifested touching tokens of a reanimation, but here too the fire was only being smothered a few days, to break out again the first favorable opportunity. The money that was given her to buy food and clothing with, was spent in the rum hole, and when she was next visited she was found all demented by intoxication. From that time she turned her back upon all friendly offers of assistance, abandoned her first quarters, was afterwards found by the authorities in low houses of prostitution, and has now again probably left the city, in company with her husband. She has almost reached the lowest round of misery, and this once gifted young lady, an adopted child of Henry Ward Beccher, will soon find that peace in death, which she has been unable to find in the enp and in the corruption of licentiousness.

lOTThe weather is delightful.

FOURD1TSUTERFROMEUWPK

ABR^AL OP THE CITY OF BALTIMORE.

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Cotton Declined,1

Brcadstuffs and Provisions Dull.

LATER FROM IXDIA AND CDINA.

Execution of Orsinl aod Pierri.

QUEBEC, Tuesday, March 30.

The steamship City of Baltimore, with dates from Liverpool to the 17th inst., four days later than those received by the Niagra at Halifax, has arrived at this port.

The steamship Africa arrived out on the" 14th., and the City of Washington on the 16th instant.

Late advices from India and China had been received at London, but with the exception of the bombardment at Lucknow, which was shortly expected, the intelligence was barren of importance.

The steamer Ava, with the Calcutta mail and treasure had been lost. Her passengers were fortunately saved.

FRANCE.

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Orsiui and Pierri, the principals in the attempted assassination of the Emperor Nopeleon, have been guillotined. 31. Walewski's dispatch to the British Government withdraws his original request.

Iludio has been respited by the French Government. GREAT BRITIAX.

The Parliamentary proceedings possess but little importance. CHINA.

The advices from China state that affairs at Canton continue quiet.

SECOND DESPATCH.

The steamer Alps did not leave Liverpool on her appointed day of sailing: INDIA.

The Bombay dates arc to the 24th of February. A large portion of the British Army had entered Oude.

Gen. Colin Campbell, was still at Cawnporc, awaiting the arrival of the siegetrain. '1

It was expected that Ludknow would be bombarded on the 25th of February. The King of Delhi has been found guilty and was sentenced for lite.

The steamer Ava had on board over .£25,000 in specia when she was wrecked. She was lost near Trincomalee, on the 1Gth of February. Her cargo and mails were lost, but no lives.

All was quiet in the Punjaub at the latest dates. The Eajpootan field force was en route for Kotah, where the enemy were said to be 7,000 strong, and 100 guns.

Shorapore, in the Miainis dominions, had been captured and the Rajah seized. At Ilydrabad, the Barrelli rebels were defeated on the 10th of February.

It was reported that Nena Sahib had crossed the Ganges with a strong force, near Bethpoor, designing to enter Buudlecund.

CHINA.

The Canton dates are to January 28th, when all was tranquil. The Chines^ Mul commenced hostilities against the Russians, by attacking the advance, post at the mouth of the river, with towboats belonging to the Russian Government.

They were attacked so unexpectedly that the Russians were forced to retreat to a point thirty leagues from the river. ..

ENGLAND.

The case of the steamer Cagliari has been referred to the law officers of the Crown, upon whose report the Government will act, in respective of the action of the late Government, whijh had acknowledged the jurisdiction of Naples.

The ship Kennebec, of Bath, from Liverpool for Mobile, was abandoned at sea on the 22nd of February, Her crew were saved, aud arrived at Liverpool on the 14th inst.

The correspondence with the French Government, relative to the rcfc.gc question, was submitted to Parliament on the 15 th inst.

T! English Government refuses to let Sardinia give up Mr. Hodges, the Eiiglisman, to the French. Government.

Mr. Roebuck is said to have received a challenge from a French Colonel. The Spanish Ambassador at London has resigned, in consequence of the failure of a firm in the South American trade, the name of which is not mentioned.

SAUDI.VIA.

The Conspiracy Bill has been rejected by the Sardinian Parliament. FRANCE.

The Execution of Orsiui and Pierri took place on the 130i inst., aud created much excitement. The crowd, numbering from one to two hundred thousaud, was kept at a distance by the military, of whom five ]icr thousand were on the ground.

Both met their doom with firmness.— Pierri sang the well known "Lourie Pour LaPatrie" ou his way to the scaffold, and on the block, cried, -'Vive L'ltaly! Vive La Repubique!" Orsini's last cry was, "Vive La France."

fi®*Love is ingenious in reasons, or at least in pretexts. Sometimes they arc very flimsy ones. Everybody remembers the young lady who assigned as a reason for getting married, thought a wedding in the family would "amuse the children." Here is another little humbug, equally spccious: "Bridget," said a lady to her servant, Bridget Conley, "who was that man you were talking with so long at the gate last night?" "Sure, no one but me eldest brother, ma'am," replied Bridget, with a flushed cheek. "Your brother, I didn't know j:ou had a brother. What is his name?" "Barney Octoolan, ma'am."— "Indeed! how comes it that his name is not the same as j-ours, Bridget?" "Troth, ma'am," replied Bridget, "sure he has been married once."

INFAMOUS OUTRAGE— he Salem (Illinois^ Advocate of the 24th inst., contains the following:

One night last week, a negro boy about eighteen years old, whom Judge Breese, of Carlyle, had raised from infancy, became offended at one of the daughters of the Judge, and in the night, after she had. retired, crawled into her room through the window, and inflicted a frightful wound on the face of the young lady with an ax.— He would, in all probability, have brutally murdered her, had she not by her screams given the alarm, when he fled.

t* From the~CMcago Tiinajk,

AIT EXECUTION AT SANTA FE.

£BT a MEMBER OF THE CHICAGO BAH..

In the summer of the year 1849,1 was seated in my office, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, when a gentleman entered, who, without ceremony, introduced himself as Mr. Jackson, of Missouri, and desired to know if I was the prosecuting attorney.— Upon my replying in the affirmative, he stated that he wished to take out a warrant for Jack Sims, for murder. "What! the frolicking, merry Jack Sims, the auctioneer, a murderer Mrifcder Who When?" I exclaimed. Mr.'Jackson then stated that his brother had been murder ed by Sims, three years previous to that time, on the road from the village of Taos to Moro that he had come from Missouri, (a thousand miles) to avenge his brother's spirit, by the punishment of his murderer. A warrant was procured, and Sims was arrested and incarcerated in the common jail, within a few minutes after our conversation.

In about two weeks court commenced its term, and the grand jury found a true hill for murder. Jackson had, in the meantime, been busy in hunting up the witnesses, all of whom came over a hundred miles to court.

The trial came on, and the excitement in the city was intense, from the mysterious silence which had been preserved by those who knew as to the particulars of the crime. A jury was empanneled with but little difficulty no one having formed or expressed an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused. The prisoner appeared indifferent and careless as to the proceedings—seemingly satisfied that no case could be made out against him, and that it was disagreeably necessity to go through the form of atrial. The prosecution opened the cause in a general manner for the people. "Sheriff, call John Con stable." The prisoner started a man of iron nerve, his face became as pale as death at the words, as lie turned an eager gaze towards the door of the court room The crowd gave way, and the witness ap peared. lie testified in substancc as follows: I knew the deceased he was a merchant in the town of Moro prisoner and I were some eighteen months in his employ previous to his death that Jackson had been winding up his business, to return to Missouri, that about three years previous, about the day of Jackson, witness and prisoner went upon some business to the town of Taos, distant about 45 miles from Moro and on the second day started on their return to Moro. Constable then went on to relate as follows: Coming down the mountain, about fifteen miles from Moro, about dusk, the saddle of my mule turned, and I stopped to fix it. Jackson and Sims rode on. Jackson riding down the path in advance of them. I noticed Sims raise the lock of his musket (we all had muskets) and look at the primiug thought nothing of this at the time, as the Indians were said to be lurking in the mountains. After fixing my saddle, which took me some time, I rode on to overtake them. It was now dark, and after riding, I think, about three-quarters of a mile, I heard the report of a gun. I sung out:— "Hallo, boys!" No answer. I cried out again, still no answer. I pushed on, and after going about two hundred yards, my mule struck her foot against something in the road, and suddenly stopped still.

Indians are about they have killed Jack son." I said, "Then we had better get. away from here. That must have been his musket my mule struck her foot against.'.' I did not see Sims uut.il he spoke, he was sitting upon his horse at one side of tlie road. Wo rodo on as hard as wo could until wc got to Moro, where we woke up the Alcadc (justice of tho peace) and Sims told him that the Iudians had killed Jackson. The next morning, the Alcadc, Sims and I, and ten or twelve citizens of Moro, went out to look for Jackson. As wo nearcd the spot, I noticed that Sims appeared to be nervous and excited. We found the bod}* lying to one side of the road near a large cedar bush lie was shot through, the head, apparently from behind. His horse we found grazing i:i a little valley about one hundred and fifty yards off. Vi'c saw a few moccasin tracks about the place—there were also sheep tracks, and some of the party said the moccasin tracks were those of shepherd boys. Wc took the body to Moro. Sims and I were arrested and sent to tho jail at Taos where we were confined three weeks. Sims told mo when in jail that he killed Jackson that the reason he did it was because he was courting a girl in Moro who refused to marry him because he had no money that Jackson was going to the States, and lie (Sims) would have no emploj'mcnt. Ho then said that he was a partner of Jackson's and was going to take his property that if I told anything about what he had told me, people would not believe me, and we both should be hung, and that we must both stick to the story we had told the Alcadc. Our examination came on and we were discharged. Constable further stated that Sims, upon their return to Moro, claimed a partnership and took all of Jackson's property, some S3,000 worth that Sims married the girl he had been courting.

The witnesses who went out to find the body—some seven or eight in number— were then examined aud testified to the absence of Indian signs, the wound in the back of the head that money, of which the deceased was known to have had some sixtj- or eighty dollars, was missing, and other circumstances tending to support the story that Sims had shot Jackson as he (Jackson) was riding along iu advance of him. lie was found guilty, but even then he did not appear to realize the situation he was in. He was told to stand up and was asked "if he he had anything to say why the sentence of death should not be passed upon him." He replied, nothing except that Constable had sworn to a lie.

The day of execution approached and few thought the last dread penalty of the law would be inflicted. A very strong petition was sent to the Governor he gave the committee no answer except that he would call and see the prisoner. The Governor did so, and it seems that Sims believed from what passed, that the Governor would pardon him probably at the last moment.

The next day, Sims was marched from the jail to the place of execution, distant about half a mile. A minister and friend walked upon each side of him, a platoon of soldiers in front, and another in the rear. He was untied, having prevailed upon them not to bind him.

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He was dressed in a pair of light oolored Jftntaloontl no oott or rest, a clean white phut with the collar turned down.

About 5,000 spectators had gathered about the gqufTold,

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prisoner, with a

fina step and unblanched cheek motinted the steps thereof. He made a speech, acknowledged his guilt as an accomplice of Constable, stating that they had agreed to kill Jackson, and that Constable had fired the gun that killed him.

His speech was very much disconnected and his manner became very much excited. It appeared that his whole effort was to gain time. His eyes were constantly directed towards the Governor's mansion (which was in full sight) apparently expecting that a pardon would come at the last moment. After speaking about thirty minutes, he knelt down and a Protestant minister prayed with him, yet it was apparent that Sims was paying no attention to the prayer, as every minute he would turn his head and gaze anxiously towards the Governor's mansion. After prayer, he desired to speak it was only an incoherent repetition of his first remarks.— Then he desired the Catholic minister who was in attendance, to pray with him which he did, but the prisoner was only gazing intently in the direction of the hoped-for pardon. I afterwards learned that he believod^hat if the sheriff did not hang him within the hours named in the sentence, from 12 to 2, he could not hang him at alh It was evident that- the prisoner was determined, if possible, to delay until past 2 o'clock. It was now three minutes to 2 o'clock, when the sheriff told him he must be getting ready. Sims asked to sec a friend in the crowd. He was called up, and I afterwards heard that Sims asked him if he did not think he had better jump off the scaffold and let the soldiers kill him. His friend told him no, that he would die harder by being shot. Sims answered, "They shall never hang me." He was still untied. All persons were directed to leave the scaffold, and a deputy, up on a motion from the sheriff, started up the steps with the cap aud a rope to tie the prisoner's feet and hands- I was sit ting upon my horse about 100 yards in front of the scaffold intently watching the prisoner at the sight of the rope and cap he started, and jumped forward upon the trap or fall thrust his hand into the bosom of his shirt, drew out a pen-knife, the blade open, and quickly drew it across his throat twice. He was drawing back his arm to do so a third time, when the sheriff jumped forward aud caught him around the arms. Then commenced a desperate struggle.— Tlicy were both powerful men. In a few moments (it seemed an age) the sheriff, by a violent effort, succeeded in throwing

Sims. He fell upon his hands and knees, the sheriff being upon his back holding him around his arms. The deputy had run off the scaffold. No one had attempted to interfere every one seemed to have lost all presence of mind. When the sheriff threw him, he commenced crying out to take the knife from him. Still the struggle was going on, Sims attempting to rise. The deputy ran up the steps and was about sciziug the knife when the prisoner suddenly dropped it and ran his hand up over his shoulder, ami seizing a revolving pistol that tiie sheriff had in the bosom of his vest, he applied it to his head as if to blow out his brains. Although ho had his thumb upon the trigger, yet the slurilf had such powerful grin about his wrist that the prisoner was unable to pull the trigger.— The sheriff cried out to his deputy, "seize the pistol! the pistol! the pistol!" upon hicli the deputy wrested it from his hand. Sims then, by a violent effort, rose to his feet and tore himself from the sheriff's grasp. For a moment they stood looking at each other, and then tho sheriff jumped upon the prisoner and again the struggle commenced. The sheriff was the largest, most powerful mar. but tiie prisoner hud the strength of desperation. He appeared to grow weaker from the loss of blood, and the shenf: at last threw him—this time Hat upon his face, with his feet off the sea lib d. Jumping upon him with his knees, the sheriff called for a rope, and easily secured the prisoner, by tying his arms and feet.

Tiie sheriil assisted tiie prisoner to rise. He was so wer.k lie eouh! scarcely stand, and trembled violently. I shall remember the expression of his face to my last day. No language can convey any idea of it.— It was a picture of blank, hopeless despair. He was as pale as it' a!read}' dead. The rope was then adjusted on the prisoner's neck, tho cap puiled over his eyes, and the deputy stood ready to cut the rope at the word. But the tragedy was not 10 end so soon. The prisoner leaned his head forward, and, reaching up with his hand, seized the cap and drew it off his head.— Then, apparently forgetting that his feet were tied, he started, as it were, to run and jump oil the scaffold, instead of which he dove off—into eternity. As he swung back, his head struck the trap or fall but the second time he swung clear, the deputy having cut the rope which held up the fall. His neck was not broken—lie died the horrible death by strangulation. The sight was one never to be forgotten. His cap was off, and his face in dreadful contortions—the tongue and eyes protruding, his throat with two large gashes iu it, his shirt and pantaloons covered with blood from the cuts in his throat, the writhings and contortions of the body in the struggle with death—it wa3 a horrible sight. At times the body would hang perfectly still, as it life had departed, when the muscles would contract, and the body being drawn up into a knot, would spring, it appeared, at least ten feet to one side. Sometimes he would draw up his limbs, and then spring, as it were, downwards, and again swinging to and fro, until he would again hang motionless then another drawing up of the body and a spring to one side.

To add to the horror of the scene, a woman, who was just in the rear of the gallows at the moment when Sims dove off, uttered a wild heart-rending shriek.— Shriek followed shriek, as the horrible wri things and contortions of the body went on, and until at last death had put anend to the sufferings of Jack Sims.

I had kept my position in front of the gallows and when the body hung lifeless, I started to ride around to the rear to discover who it was that had been shrieking. As 1 rode from the front around to the side of the gallows, I could not keep my eyes off the blood}-, horrible corpse, and my invagination (for I was mach excited) made that face turn slowly, to move as I moved and follow me around. I kept on with my eyes upon the face-(I could not withdraw them) and when I had arrived opposite the right side of the corpse, its face bad followed round, round, until it was staring at me as full in the eyes as

several nights I was

riding around

'tBj^SSS

when I wu sittii| upofc ay ly in front of dfo ralo^. I no more but tqraedmy hone* hei£,itniek my spurs into hia sides, and went upon run back to the

city.

I slept none to

always when asleep,

that

corpse

slowly. following nje

with that face

round, round, moving

as I moved., It was a great

relief to me

that Sims had confessed his

that day I vowed never

execution.

guilt.. From

to witness another

fSfHon. Joseph E. McDonald opened the campaign of 185S, with one of the best speeches it has been our good fortune to hear in along time, at the Court houso last Tuesday.

He reviewed at some length the condition of the affairs of our State, administered a withering rebuke to the Abolition Senate of last winter, and asked whether the people were willing to allow their attention to be diverted from the acts of that bodj' by the cry of bleeding Kansas?—. whether their own domestic affairs wero not of more importance, in a State canvass, than vthat was transpiring in any other State or Territory. He then wvA&rjn to a of he an as on S a the difference between the Prt-s. ai and Senator Douglas was concerned, he regarded it as a question of policy merely and one upon which it was foolish to talk of dividing the Democratic party. It was one upon which Democrats might easily differ, and yet stand united and present an unbroken front to the common foe. It was ridiculous to talk of organizing an exclusive Douglas or Buchanan party, for the question would probably bo finally settled before such an organization could be affectcd. lie believed that it would have been better had the Constitution of Kansas beon^: submitted to the people, but there was no* legal obligation upon the Convention that framed it to do so, and ho believed, with the President, that the Territory should be admitted into the Union now as the best, means of restoring pc-acc and quiet to the country. He reviewed tho action of the Free State part}' of Kansas, showing that they not only had a fair opportunity to register themselves and vote at the election of delegates, but that they refused to do so, but in many instances would not even allow the registry officers to enter some of the counties. He had but littlo sympathy for the agitators in Kansas.— Within the last nine months four general elections had been held in Kansas at two of these elections the Free State men voted, and they elected their wholo ticket, and at two they refused to vote. When they did vote they triumphed and this proved clearly that the responsibility for the present state of affairs rested upon them. He concluded by alluding to tho1' advantages which would occur from the immediate admission of Kansas, and by urging unity and harmony in the party.

The speech was just such a one as wo needed here, and gave general satisfaction to the large crowd of old Democrats present.—Boone County Pioneer.

CAPTUREOF A 'DESTROYING ANGEL.' A letter from Camp Scott, dated Jan. 31, says:

On the 9th inst. a gentleman came into the camp at headquarters, in the most free and easy kind of way, perfectly affable and communicative, and all that sort of thing, stating that he was a persecuted individual who had escaped from Salt Lake City, and offering for sale butter, eggs and milk, luxuries unheard of, and assuming the air and manner, as far as possible, of a friend to the States and the army and a jolly good fellow into the bargain. His career in this part, for which nature had never intended him, was cut short as summarily as there is every reason to hope his existence will soon be, though not by the intervention of a rope, but of Major Porter, Assistant Ad-jutant-General, and a file of men with unpleasant revolvers ominously cocked. The interesting but misguided provider of the aforesaid dainties proved to be a notorious Mormon, called Cherokee Jim, alias Thomson, a rcgurlarly commissioned "destroying angel," in other words a blood-thirsty, murderous fanatic, who, like the Thugs in India, offered human sacriffees [sic] to the object of his adoration. He was immediately accommodated with bracelets and anklets to match, and put into the guard-house of the fifth regiment, in which appropriate locality he still flourishes, and it is so to be anticipated will flourish until he can be tried. Strong suspicion has arisen that the Mormons have spies, and good ones too, in our midst. Cherokee Jim asserts that they know every thing that passes, and I, for one, believe it. -----

WASHINGTON IA Fli.

York

The correspondent of the New Express tells the following: 'Ihore is a funny bit of scandal going, about a certain lady noted for her exquisite complexion and fine hair. Her room opened on to a passage way, through which a gentleman was passing, as the cry of lire was raised in the Hotel. The lady threw up her window and put out her head to sco how near the danger might be. What a sight did she present to the astonished friend passing by—as sans hair, sa?is teeth, sans rouge, satis everything—scarce rocognizable, she stood before him—a spectre! "Is that you, Mrs. B.?" cxclaimod the affrighted looker on. "No," shrieked the poor woman, "Tt's Mrs. A." A few hours later Mrs, B. left Washington for this season.

As a specimen of the ease with which one can make new acquaintances hero, take the following:—A member of thj House, who is living at one of the principal hotels, was much annoyed that his wife and himself were constantly changed from one seat to another at the table. Finding themselves one day placed at around table with utter strangers, the head waiter was sent for and a formal complaint made. "Here we are placed with strangers at a small table, and it is very disagreeable," urged the gentleman. "What's tho odds?" responded the waiter, "shure an* I'll inthroduce ye." Whereupon the civil wait-, er presented the member and his wife to their astonished companions. The scene was too much for the risibles of the lookers on, and a shout of laughter but added awkwardness to the already embarrassed actors, who, however, soon joined in the general merriment.

As the river flows out from under

the shadow of the willow that bends over its waters, so the cheerful spirit flashes out from the cloud, without bearing it along.

Cincinnati contains more grogeries than any other city in the United Stnt$?.