Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 April 1858 — Page 2

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i- Saturday, April 10, 1858.

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DEMOCRATIC STATU TICKET.

For Secretary of State. IMNIKL MrCLL'ilE,of Morgan. For Auditor of State,

JOHN 1)01)1), of (limit. For Treasurer of State,

A T11A X1KL K. CINNINGIIAM, ..f Viro. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, S? A Ml'EI. L. BUC.G, of Allen.

For Attorney General,

•lOSEl'il E. McDOXAI.B, of Montgomery. For Judges of the Supreme Court. SAMUEL K. PEKKINS, of Muri. a.

ANDREW DAYISOX, of Pccntm. ~:i .TAMES M. II ANNA, of Yiifo. .JAMES L. WOHDEX. of Whitley.

LECOMPTON IN CONGRESS.

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Last week flic House of Representatives adopted what is known as the Crittenden amendment, with a slight modification, to the Senate Bill for the admission of Kansas under the Lccompton Constitution, by a vote of 120 to 112.

Briefly, the amendment remands the Lccompton Constitution "back to the people of Kansas for another popular vote thereon, and in ease said constitution is rejected, provision is made for the calling ot a new convention to frame another constitution which shall be submitted to the people, and if ratified, the State shall be admitted into the Union by proclamation of the President, without further action by Congress.

The Senate has refused to concur in this amendment, and the question was to have come up again in the House on Thursday of this week. Should the House adhere to its amendment, a committee of conference will be appointed, and their report will then be subjected to the action of both Houses, and in case they fail to agree, the bill will of course be dead.

Our opinion is that the house will not recede from its amendment, and if Kansas is admitted at this session of Congress the Senate will have to give way. The matter will probably be settled some way, during the course of next week at furthest.

Messrs. English, Foley, and Davis, (democrats) of this State, voted for the House amendment, and Messrs. Hughes, Niblack, and Gregg against it. 'LATER.—As we are going to press, the telegraph brings us word that the House has adhered to the Crittenden amendment. Lccompton is dead, and the elections iu every city show it d—d. Amen!!

#8T"Capl. Manson of the firm of Manson & Powers, has just returned from the East, where he has been engaged for the last two weeks in selecting a heavy stock of Drugs, Medicines, Oils, and Paints. The CAPT. informs us that ho is prepared to give country customers better bargains than ever. Advertisement next week.

A FIRE IN Tin: REAR.—The Mobile Advertiser, speaking of 1'arson lJrownlow holds the following language: "What must be the impression as to the character of the Southern people upon the minds of the ignorant masses of the North, when they behold and listen to the blackguard Tcunossecan, and arc told that be is a minister of tlie Gospel, and the choson champion of Southern institutions, sent among them by the people of the South? It was an unfortunate joke for Southern gentlemen, as they did it, doubtless, only for the fun of the thing, to have encouraged this coarse brawler in politics and religion, to go into the North and expound the merits of Southern institutions and Southern society. But tho mischief has been done. Th reversed ruffian has already crossed tho line, and the enemies of the South arc doubtless, by this time, chuckling at the prospect of the damage which the reputatiou of the Southern people is certain to suffer in the minds of the Northern masses from the blackguard exhibitions of this Tennessee parson."

l9*The Washington correspondent of the New Ycrk Times eays: The experiment of lightning gas-bur-ners by electricity is a perfect success.— The inventor, Mr. Gardner, put up his vires in the great chandelier of the Senate Chamber, and, daring the last day or two, some fifteen hundred jets hare been ignited instantaneously by the touch of the key uniting tho magnetic circuit.

I^COL. BENTON is dying. Yesterday he waabat'ly able to whisper,

DR. GUNK'S NEW BOOK

This great work hasfat last made its appearance Everybody, we presume, has heard 0/ D6CTO* GUN*, whose old work 00 "Domestic13fedicine," first published some twenty-five years ago, was sold so extensively, and met with such universal favor that it became a sort of house-hold companion in almost every family in the country: '^Several years ago the Doctor promised the public, and especially his old patrons, anew work, which should be far superior to the old one—which should contain the experience of along life spent in the practice of Medicine one that should be expressly written FOR TIIE PEOPLE, and contain the latest and most approved methods of treating the various diseases of the country, bv means of the simplest, safest, and best remedies. For several years past he has, it seems, been engaged in preparing this new work, devoting much care and labor on it, so as to make it worthy of the confidencc and patronage of the people.— It has but recently been published, and is a large, handsome, and well bound book, containing nearly owe thousand pages, beautifully illustrated with engravings, and is entitled "Gwin's New Domestic Physician or Home Booh of Health—A Guide for Families, pointing out in familiar language the latest aiul most approved methods of treating the Diseases of Men, Women, and Children, and for using the best JVcw Remedies: By JOHN C. GUNN, M. 1). of Lousiville, KyContaining also an Appendix on Anatomy, Physiology, ami the Laws of Health, by J. 11JORDAN, M. D. Published by Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., Cincinnati.

It is certainly an extraordinary book, and must, it seems to us, meet with very gcnera^acceptancc among tho people.— We doubt whether the amount which it costs can be better expended. We ali need to study more closely the Laws of Health, the means of avoiding disease, and it will certainly do

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harm to know how to

cure disease, also, especially in its more common forms. Many along and painful spell of sickness, and it may be an untimely death, might be avoided, by the use of a few simple remedies, given in time if we only knew how and when to give them.— This knowledge we may obtain, to some extent, certainly, from suitable works

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the subject—if we arc disposed to do so. It seems to us the duty of every man and woman who value the health of their families or their own, to have on hand some good and reliable work like this, that may be consulted at any time.

The style of this book is tho very best it is pure, chaste, yet in that plain and familiar language that all can understand it. Wherever Medical terms arc used, they are fully explained. It contains a large auinuut of interesting and useful reading, besides what is strictly Medical. Then it gives a description of all the diseases of the country, their causes, nature, and symptoms, and directions how to treat each case. It also contains a description of all the principle remedies used as medicines, with their "medical properties and uses," including near two hundred vegetable remedies a treatise on the Passions, showing the influence of the mind on the body a large number of valuable Medical receipts, Tables of Doses, and important directions for preserving the health together with a complete treatise

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Anatomy and Physiology of the llumau System, properly illustrated with engravings, the whole making it a complete Family Medical Library, a work that should be, it seems to us, in every house in the land.

Wc will merely add that the work is furnished only to subscribers, and that 3Irs. E. P. BENNETT of Cincinnati, is the Agent for Montgomery County. Mrs. BENNETT, comes well recommended. She is a personal acquaintance of both Dr. Gunn aud Dr. Jordan, the authors of the book, and also has, we understand, a largo number of acquaintances in this county. Wc trust she will meet with deserved success in this community, as we doubt not she will. It is a book that every MOTHER ought to have, at least and we sec uot how any lady, who is qualified, could better contribute to the good of her fellow beings than in aiding to circulate among them a work like this.

l®"Wc publish in another column the comments of the State Sentinel on the recent extraordinary speech of Mr. Bright in the Senate, on the Lccompton Kansas question. The Sentinel is not at all pleased with Mr. Bright's effort. We arc glad to see this evidence of returning reason in the Sentinel men. The positions taken by Mr. Bright however, are onlyr the natural results of an advocacy of Lecomptonism——the absurdities to which men are driven in trying to sustain erroueous principles, We do not wonder at tho Sentinel's objections, as auy man who could swallow Mr. Bright's views, would have no difficulty in swallowing ancient Federa is in it an

DEATH OP HON. JOHN EWING.—The Vinceuncs Sun of the

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death of Hon. John Ewing of that city.— Ho retired to bed in apparent good health, aud was found dead in the morning. He was in his seventieth year, had lived in that city for more than fifty years, had filled many important positions of honor and trust, and had served many years as a member of both typmches of the Legislature and as a Representative in Congress. Mr. Ewing was formerly a resident of this place.

[From tie Boston Courier of April 5th.]

THEODORE PARKER ON THE

GREAT \AWAKENIW.%i The Music Hall was. greatly crowded yesterday morning, in Consequence of the announcement that Rev. Theodore Parker would preach upon the TCviVal. After*the usual exercises of singing and prayer, the text was read as follows: "But when he saw the multitude, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd." Mathew, chap 9, verse 33.

Mr. Parker said he would endeavor to give some thoughts on a false and true revival of religion but the subject was a great one, and as he could not dispose of it in a single sermon, he should preach on this occasion mainly of the false, reserving the discussion of the true for next Sunday. If a person should go into an apothecary's shop he would find an endless number of vials and jars and boxes, labelled with strange names, but all containing medicine, for making sick men sound, and keeping well men sound. He would also find many kinds of surgical instruments, for the healing of wounds, and ridding men of the ills to which their flesh is heir.— But if he should say to the unwholesome looking young man, prematurely bald and spectacled, but still wearing a benevolent face,—who is iu attendance, "I will have some of the best of your medicine—enough to do my business," he would be answered, "we have all kiuds of medicine you must discriminate aud select tha.t which fits your case, for most of these medicines would kill a well man you must consider what kind you need, and then use it with the greatest discretion."

It is with ministers' stuff as with doctors' stuff. Men are told that they must have religion or thev will perish everlastingly, and they seize any of the things labelled "religion," which may be within their reach. Oatmeal and strychnine arc both medicine and there is no less difference in the various things called religion. There is the bread of life and the poison of death.

I will go back into the history of the past, we find that all sorts of things have been held sacred as religion. Abraham wonld have sac riliced his son to his religion. Stephen was stoned to death because lie gathered firewood on the Seventh day, in the name of rsligion. Joshua slow the Cauanitcs, women and children, iu the most barbarous manner, because his religion commanded it. 1812 years ago last Thursday a band of Roman soldiers surrounded a man whom they had nailed to the cross, not because he was a murderer, or a kidnapper, or a deceitful politician, or a hypocritical priest who thought one thing in his study and said another in his pulpit, but because he had taught a religion of love, by which a man could be saved without the blood of bulls because he was esteemed a blasphemer of the priests, who did not believe in a religion of love and charity, but "passed by on the other side"—perhaps because they were in a hurry to attend a prayer meeting at Jerusalem. Christ was crucified as an act of religion, and the high priest who directed it lifted up his robes,

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lactorics of which were inscribed the whole of the 13th chapter of Deuteronomy, and shouted Glory to God!

Come down a little later, and in 1552 wc see a Spanish doctor burned to death outside the gates of Geneva by the followers of John Calvin, because he denied the Trinity. In the year 1(560 the magistrates of our own State of Massachusetts hanged a woman on Boston Common because she was a Quaker, and said that the magistrates had no rights over the consciences of men, that the sprinkling of water on a baby's face did

good, and did not please God,

that she was opposed to war, and that women had rights as well as men. That was an act of religion.

In this citv, in March, 1.858, in a meet-j PAN'C'n

ing house, a Saturday afternoon, we find honest and respectable „mcn and woman met together for prayer and conference most exciting speeches arc made exciting stories are told fanatical prayers arc put up a part of the assembly seem beside themselves and out of their miuds they say "the lord is in Chicago, and a great revival is going on there,"—"The Lord is in Boston, and lie has poured out his spirit here,"—"C'ome to Christ, or you will go to an eternal hell,"—•'Come now, for this night thy soul may be required of thee," prayers are offered for particular purposes, and one minister is singled out as a target which all the petitioners may riddle one minister asks God to convert liiin if he can, and if not, to remove liini and let his influence die with him another asks God to get into his studio ''this aftcruoon" and confouud him, so that lie shall not be able to finish his sermon (which was written five days before,) and to confouud him in his pulpit so that he cannot preaeh, by putting a hook into his jaws so that he cannot speak another asks God to dissuade the people from listening to this man, and to induce them to leave that house aud come up to fill "ours." And all this is callcd religion.

With such prayers the preacher contrasted those which are uttered by betrothed lovers, either spoken in their hearts, that their love may be blessed by the mother for the happiness of hor children by the philanthropic men and woman who seek to elevate their race by blotting out the oause of social distress by the young man, away from home, who seeks to resist the temptations thrown in his way.-— All these are animated by the true religious spirit.

If a aeet which retainsthe Old Testament There is theBoanan Cathovtt, which teacV es salvationby a compliance with,the ritual, and the Trinitarian, which teaches salvation by baptism, and many others, still widely differing! All tibese' sects believe in God, but how different are their Gods and their religions,—corn, the bread of life—strychnine, the poison of death. By some of the creeds God is variable,, illnatured and revengeful—one who goes into a ministers study to put a hook -in his jaws. That is the God of the Park street Church. By other creeds he is the father and mother of us all, blessing all nations and kinds, sinner and saint, alike. W'hich religion is best—that which will kill a boy, stone a man, butcher nations, crucify a prophet, torture men for opinions—or that which will make better men, husbauds,— friends, ministers, mechanics—better men in any form

Just now there is a revival of religion. The newspapers are full of it. There arc crowds of men and women at the meetings and they cannot get enough of preaching. The poorer the article, the more they want of it. Wonderful conversions arc told of. The innermost secrets of the heart arc displayed to the eyes of the gossiper and to the pen of the newspaper reporter. The whole thing has been skilfully got up, and with the greatest pains. It is well known that ecclesiastical institutions in England and America decay. The number of church members in America is about three millions and a quarter. There are thirteen negro-slaves to sixteen church members. The slaves increase and the church members do not. The number of births increases rapidly. The number of baptisms falls off. The belief in ecclesiastical authority is fading. 3Icn begin to think that

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In thia city, at thisdaywesee thatthere AtKAJ^CKCHA^-PIE^ J! S Aii m. _k_ IXAV8 POSITION OF THE U.'i, 8H1F SEVERAL

God is not so uglv and devilish as minis- .startled us, and an olu man, named llcniderson, was seen wildly struggling

ical doctrines to ItIie

Attempts at revivals are no new thing. Two winters ayo the Unitarians tried and

got nothing—only a few sprats and nun-

place to set fire to the whole

country. If a regiment runs, the whole army will run. The meetings are gathered in tho same way as cattle shows ami musters arc. It is advertised in the newspapers that the Rev. Great Talk will preach on such a day, and placards are posted in the streets. It is and reminds me 0 clothing dealers in North street, the Park street church having become the Oak Ila'.l of revivals. Men with full pockets wore not to be scared by talk about hell, but the

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Last year a newspaper disgusted the public with the obscene details of a most unfortunate trial for indecent and impure conduct. Now the same newspaper's are crowded with the gossip about the revivals.

And, on the contrary, much evil will be done. Learned and cultivated men will turn with disgust froai the .hideous form of Deity presented to them, and will have no faith in God or immortality. The actual atheist is to-day cunninger than ever, and will entrench himself in the church.— There is no foretress against the ecclesiastical artillery like the pew.

There is much in the revival that is encouraging, but in the conduct of it there is very much which is profoundly melancholy. The idea of God and the religion which is inculcated, if it should convert everybody, would not add one ounce of humanity to the converts, but would weaken and deaden the piety and morality of the people.

From tE^W»Vingi&n Stumps.

"We have been permitted to publish the following extract from a letter written by an officer-on-board the IJ. S. ship Cumberland to a gentleman in this city:

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FUNCHAL, Maderia, March 7,1858. It is through God's mercy my dearthat I am enabled to address you again.— On the morning of the 5th a gale came on, rapidly increasing and blowing directly on shore and, for a time, it was the general opinion that wc would be driven on the rocks. If we had, probably not twenty out of three hundred and sixty souls' on board would have survived to tell the story. About 11 A. M., our cable parted, and we were drifting by the wind—sea directly towards the shore. Two more anchors were let go but still we dragged. A fourth brought her up just in time to prevent the destruction of a barque, near which wc had drifted—so near that I could haye touched her with my hand. We had been tying outside the other vessels in the harbor, but bad dragged past them all, tearing away the jibboom of a brig as we passed.

It was a fearful moment when, one anchor gone and two others useless, we were drifting helplessly on towards a precipitous and rocky shore, to strike which was our death-warrant—only ten minutes between time and eternity—when our last anchor was let go and, thank God! it held. The gale was then at its height, the waves rolling mountain high, the angry sea dashing even over the Loo rock, eighty feet in height, the wind blowing furiously, aud the ship pitching and rolling so that it was impossible to stand the water a foot deep on every deck, and pouring through every porthole. Then came a. dull booming of cannon from Loo fort, warning all vessels to go to sea immediately—a thing it was impossible for us to do.

Wc could but v,'atoli and wait. Another surg^carried away our jibboom and flying jibboom, and other important spars and rigging. Then the cry of'Man overboard!'

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tcrs paint him. They arc applying their common sense to religion, as well as to threw'"'him"on"board ajxa'in. The their business affairs. This state of things the ministers seek to change. They cannot manufacture ecclesiasti suit the people, for the day when the best talent sought the pulpit has passed. Now there are a hundred men in every congregation who arc superior in talent and learning to their pastor, and can beat him in argument or reasoning. So the minister tries to scare men into the belief of his doctrine and membership of his church.

cables were now straining so severely that four guns were thrown overboard to lighten

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nounced the wrcck of a brig and still a third, in quick succession, ushered five souls more into eternity from another brig. It was with a painful, sad interest that wc watched these vessels break from their anchors one after another, and drift helplessly ashore, till three had gone.

At last, about 4 P. M., the barometer, which fell in a fearfully short time lower than it had ever done before, began to rise. Hope revived. Everything had now been I done for our safety the royal and topgallant masts and all the yards sent down

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nows which ran throuhg the net before they ting away and guns for heaving overboard, could be hauled into the fishing boat. It was not an attempt to make bricks without straw, but with nothing else. As well might we expect to procure fire by friction of ice blocks as to expect a revival among the Unitarians. Nothing came of their attempt, and their vanity in the beginning of the winter turned into vexation of spirit in the spring. There was another last year, but .that was unsucccssfu!.

Now the case is different. The great commercial crisis turned men out of business. Men set themselves to look after the poor then to prevent the expected increase of crime by tho increase of charity. Other men would take the opportunity to make church members. So they set the revival machinery in motion. That is as well known as McCormick's reaper, and need not be described. It requires only a spark in

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housed,''masts ready for cut-

so that, if wc did go ashore, we might be driven as high as possible and now we could only wait idly for whatever Providence had in store for us. But the gale began to break and the sea to go down, and for the first time in those terrible hours, our safety seemed assured. And so it continued the appearance of things gradually grew better, until, at 11 o'clock, weak, exhausted, wet, and hungry, (for nothing could be cooked,) I turned in to pass a restless and sleepless night.

The next morning, though the sea was still very high, all danger was over. We escaped wonderfully well two men got overboard, but were both recovered, and several others were more or less injured. From a barque near us four mem were washed overboard and lost. On shore the destruction is frightful. The inhabitants say that so tcrrillie a gale was never known before, nor ever the barometer so low. Of the vessels driven 011 shore, two were dashed to pieces within five minutes after striking, and not a vestige of theiu remains and the other lies high and dry upon the beach, a complete wrcck. The anxiety on shore was painfully intense for if wc had struck, the loss of life would have been six times greater that that of all the other vessels in the roadstead combined.

For fear of the repetition of the scene from which wc have so providentially esto sea for a short vessel is in a fit condition. After this month the harbor is 1 perfectly safe, and we shall probably, be back acain in time for the next mail.

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street, which ruined the

warehouses, fills the meeting houses. It' the cholera, or yellow fever, or small pox, should break out, the revival would be greater than now.

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the placards of tho cruise as soon as the

juvenile humanity

The same motive governed them in both procured her charge, toddled about the cases. If they can turn a penny, they care not where it comes from, whether from a revival or an adultery. .«•

Some good will doubtless be done by this movement. There arc wicked men who are only roused by fear, and some of them will be converted. Dread of hell is stronger than fear of the gallows. Some will desert their evil ways and their crimes, and that is a good work. But it is only the men who do the small vices who are converted. The doers of heavy wickedness arc never converted until they are too old for anything except hypocrisy.

Thjjp'fxeaders ,pf ms paper thukmorn* ing mil \not be rarpcised to see we annoumnnent of the utter rdute of the Democratic party North and Soufh, on* the Lecompton issue.

In St. Louis the question was fairly tested—on one side was Lecomptod,? and on the other anti-Lecomptoit. Tbevhew tdst, the abhorrent test, involvings total aban-donment-of the Cincinnati. Platform was repudiated, even in the metropolis of a slave State and Mr. Filley, an anti-Le-compton Democrat is elected Mayor by over twelve hundred majority.

In Dubuque, a strong.Democratic city— a city which never yet failed the party— has also been subjected to the new: test.— Mr. D. A. Mahony, a respectable and most estimable citizen was put in nomination for Mayor, but it was at once claimed by the endorsers of Brigadier Jones that Mr. Mahony was a Lccompton man. Knowing defeat was certaiu, 3Ir. Mahony withdrew. A Mr. Rogers was then put in his place, and an anti-Leconipton ticket has been elected by over five hundred majority.

In Cincinnati a ticket was nominated.— The Enquirer, which is conducted by a candidate for the post, office, claimed the nominees as Lccompton meu—we believe induced the candidates to say as much— and the result was the election of an antiLccompton ticket by over two thousand majority.

The Democratic city of Cincinnati—the city whose name is connected with the National Democratic Platform—has, in a most emphatic manner repudiated the infamous test which required an abandonment of that platfcrm. Well done Cincinnati.

Connecticut, which last year was almost redeemed—which last year elected two Democratic members of Congress, and fell short less than 500 votes of electing a Democratic Governor, has gone anti-Lc-compton by over three thousand. The two Democratic membcrc from that State voted for Lccompton, and the State Convention endorsed the horrid fraud,—the result is the defeat of the party.

The new test is repudiated. On it the Democracy cannot hope to carry a State of this Union. We have every reason to believe that if an election was held to-mor-row in Missouri or Kentucky, the anti-Le-conipton—the anti-Fraud party, would sweep both States by the most decisive majorities.

The only way to save the party is to keep the party true to its principles. Once abandon principle, and take up fraud in lieu of it, and defeat must and ought to follow.—Chicago Times.

MK. ItitlUHT'S SPEECH. We dissent from some of the positions assumed by Mr. Bright in his speech upon the Kansas question. Wc refer especially to his estimate of the character of State Constitutions and to their submission, before adoption, to popular approval.

It is true that our Government is based upon the representative system. This is the theory of our political organization.— The voice of the people—their sentiments on all that pertains to governmental policy are expressed and developed through delegates chosen b}r themselves. Their form of government is the most convenient, tho most just, and the most perfect which has been devised. The Fathers of the Republic fitted the machinery of our government to the representative system as far as practicable. But this delegation of power does not limit tho sovereignty of the people over the instrument which confers it.

Mr. Bright regards the formation and adoption of a State Constitution as of no more importance than ordinary acts ot legislation. Wo think differently. It is the highest exercise of self-government.— A Constitution is superior to mere legislative acts for it defines the forms of government and all its various functions. It regulates and limits legislative or representative authority, duties and power.-:.— It designates the duties and obligations of the executive, administrative and judicial branches of the government. And it establishes the general policy of the State upon a fixed basis, to which all legislation must conform. The adoption of the organic law of a State wc regard as the most important exercise of State sovereignty.— jTiie submission of so important an instrumcnt to the approval of the people, we cannot regard as either a "vicious" principle or policy, or as a a "noxious heresy."

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A HEARTLESS MOTHER. The Albany (N. Y.) Argus relates this incident of hcartlcssness

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occurred in that city: On Wednesday, as a little girl was playing in the street, a woman approached with a child, wliieh she begged tho little one to hold awhile, as she was going on an errand. "If I do not come back in a few minutes I will meet you at the Orphan Asylum of St. Joseph's Church." The little rir'

street with the baby, and waited in vain for the mother to return. As it was getting dark she made her way to the Asylum, and sat down on the step, frightened and crying, but still clinging to her foundling. It was evidently the trick of a heartless mother to get rid of her child and as there was

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for such a case, the little victim of impo sition had to carry the little baby she so unexpectedly became endowed with home to her family, leaving with them the choice of sending it to the Alms-house or rearing it themselves.

THE ONE-STRINGED HARP.—Our Republican cotcmporarics are very fond of calling the Administration organs the tools of the slave power and the advocates of the Lecompton Constitution, even as amended, are dubbed the friends of slavery extension while on the other hand the Douglasites are esteemed to be the friends of freedom. Now wc see no reason for this, or argument either, since Mr. Douglas says the question has nothing to do with slavery whatever, and Er. Crittenden uses similar language. It is not, then, a slavery issue at all, but the Republicans are so effective on this one string, "Slavery," that they cannot make any music at all, or creatc a sensation, unless they play this eternal "solo."—Chicago Union.

I®*lt is little trouble to tell a lie, but it is a great deal of trouble to conceal the fact that you have told one.

The sovereignty of the people as to the I manner of adopting their organic act 'should not be limited. They can confer that power upon the delegates they may 1 select to frame the instrument or subject I it to the ordeal of popular approval. We |agree, as we believe the Democracy of Indiana do, in the position taken upon the question by the President in his Annual

Message. lie says: "Under the earlier practice of the government, no Constitution framed by the Convention of a Territory preparatory to its admission into the Union as a.State had I been submitted to the people. 1 trust, I however, the example set by the last Con|gross requiring that the Constitution of

Minnesota "should be subject to the approval and ratification of the people of the I proposed State," may be followed

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ture occasions. I took it for granted that the Convention of Kansas would act in accordance with this example, founded as it is. on corrcct principles.

However unrestricted the power of the people may be to alter, modify or cliangc their Constitution at pleasure, yet wc regard tho policy of its submission to the people for approval as being founded

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wise and "correct principles." A popular ratification of a Constitution detracts nothing from its virtues or its binding obligation upon the people. No evil has resulted from this method of ratifying Constitutions. It will be followed on all future occasions. The people of Indiana thus ratified the present Constitution of the State. The Democracy of Indiana are in favor of this exercise of popular sovereignty. Mr. Bright has a perfect right to cutertain his own convictions upon the subjeets to which we have alluded. His views on those questions, however, are not those of the Democracy of this State. They believe that the adoption of a Constitution is the highest exercise of sovereignty by the people and that it "should be subject to the approval and ratification of the people."

THE COMING SUMMER.—It is said that the Earl of Rosse, one of the groat astronomers in Europe, has told a gentleman in that he anticipates one of the most intensely hot summers this year that has ever been known, and he advises farmers to build sheds for their cattle, by way of protection, against the extreme heat.

iPROMWEfTT iDEMO £$he JRiehmond 'Mnqmter, in^ftftmng to & 'morceaof villification applied to eminent members of the Democratic party," which appeared in the Vldon. on Saturday last, says: .«***««» "We. have already mtde it our task to Tebufe 8miilar publications, not- only because they are undignified and unjust, but because they are directly- opposed to the known sentiments of the Democratic'party and are well calculated to injure the cause which they are avowedly intcnted to assist "We refer again to this matter, not for the purpose of expostulation with, the

Union. That journal persists in assailing honest Democrats with the opprobrious— "renegade," "treason," and "larceny."— We simply leave it to public candor and public decency to decide whether this sort of accusation defiles the accuser or tho accused

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"Our present object is to correct an erroneous statement which has been busily circulated by opposition newspapers, viz that the Union is the organ, official or un-* official, of the present Administration.—• Indeed, this statement hardly needs a positive refutation. No friend of tho President can doubt that he will not condescend to communicte directly or indirectly with his own party, through the medium of an annonymous organ and tho Washington Union, published by Cornelius Wendell, is now entirely dependent on anonymous contributions for an editorial management, which discloses neither the authorship nor the adoption of a responsible editor. "In asserting that the President cannot in any manuer be charged with the odious responsibility attached in these wholesale assaults on anti-Lecompto Democrats, wo arc not obliged to rely on general inferences. IVe have positive information, which leaves no doubt of the fact, that the Washington Union is not the President's organ, but that the. President himself disapproves the abuse which it applies to his personal and j)olitical friends who differ from him on the Lecompton issue. So much for the Union and its intended organism."

CASE OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION. The Union states that "a Bomcwhat startling case of suspended animation transpired on Friday, which should serve as a caution to those in attendance on tho sick. Mrs. Brotvn, the wife of a plasterer, residing on West Madison street, near Green, has been long sick, and yesterday those in attendance on her observed the usual symptoms of dissolution overspread her features, and very soon thereafter the heart appeared to have ceased its function. The usual formalities were observed, and the woman placed into a coffin, and one of her girls visiting the body shortly after, and sobbing loudly, the corpse moved, and the eyes opened and stared wildly. A scene followed which can more readily be convinced than expressed in words. The girl screamed and fainted, and momentary conBternation possessed the household. This, of I course, was soon overcome, and Mrs. Brown I removed from her rather embarrassing position. She is now, we are glad to say, doing well, although in a low, debilitated state.—Chicago Press, 5th.

accordance with a resolution of

the Legislature, Gov. Banks of Massachusetts has renuved Judge Loritig:-

MARRIED.

—At Sandwich, Ills., at the residence of Joseph Weeks, Esq., by llev. W. M. Basse It. .Mr. L. D. ItfrtKitsotx, Esq., of Iown, and Miss Jirr.TA R. TOI.MAN, of Sandwich. Ills. Attendants—Lew J. Moore, Esq.. of Chicago, and Miss Mary Tolman of Monticello, ills.

Sy~The bride and groom have our best wishes for the future.

DIED.

—T11 this place 011 Monday, .rth inst.. of disease of the lungs, Mrs. E. M. Robert-, son, wife of W. Robertson aged 82 year?*

BSTTiqun, Ohio, papers pleaso copy.

LIST OF LETTERS,

Remaining in the Post Office at Craw, fordsvillo Indiana,

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1858, which if not taken out within thre* months, will be sent the General Post, Oflice, as dead letters.

Persons calling for the same, will picas* say "Advertised." A. Allen, John B.

B. Berry, John 1.: Bell, Jef. Barker, Cyn'Jiy. Biakeney, James Brown Eliza-: both Burden, James Booker, Win. R. Burtis, John Brooks, James Brown, Hannah.

C. Clair, Charles Campbell, John Crier, A. D. Davis, D. M. P. Dcmemer, John Dam, G. W. Dohoncy, James R.: Daidy, Michael.

E. Elmore, Matthias. F. L'airman, J. S.2 Fowcl Mary Kone, John.

G. Gray, Sarah Ann Giger Kate Gardner, Daniel Andrew Gambrcl and Lewis Shepherd Gray, .Jane Grimm, Fred.

II. Harris, Rachel Henry, Peter Harris, Sarah Harris, James Himes, Abra-' ham Hill, Richard Hall, Jane Hall. Mary W. Hurley, D. Homes, George Huntsinger, William Ilowy, Thomas W.

J. Johnson, Margaret Johnson, E. Ann Jones, William P. Johnson, Sally. L. Lamb, Michael Lambert, Jenni# Lavn, 31. J. Lemon, S. W.: Lewellen, Mary Lane, Mary. 31. Mastiff Nancy Miller H. R. 3Iiller Robert H. Maxwell J. M. 3Iiller Irvin Millard T. P. 3Iaicr Isaac Miller Thomas Moore Candis E. 3Iyers Frederick Moore Willis G. 3Iudgc James D. Moudy Peter: McDowell Betsy 31cLaughlin Elizabeth A. 3IcFaddcn S. S. 3IcCahan Robert. 0. Odonald Couday.

P. Powell Hiram Pursell Mary Ellen R. Roberts Mary Robison John RobcnsonTillic Rice R. 31. Rodorf Caroline

S. Seaman A. H. 2 Shoop Noah Steel 31. Lizza Skellinger George Shijunan James S. Shanklin John C. Snoddy* James H. Stockholm Mrs- M. D. Stanford Alonzo

T. Taylor Catharine Thompson Geo. H. Trusler Nathan. W. Wallace M. J. White Jaokfloa Williams James Wadman William H. Write Wil. F.: Wright Elizabeth. April 10'58 0. W. SNYDER, M. 9$.