Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 17 April 1858 — Page 2

A W O S I I E iN

Saturday, April 17,1858.

PIMNTED AND PUBLISHED KVEKY SATURI DAY MORNINO BY CHARLES II. HOW EN.

HPThc Crn\vbr«l*ville Review, fnrui«h-

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to Subscribers nt 41,50 in nd vaucc, or if not paid within the year.

8. If. I'AIIVTS. South Kasteorncr (.Vilmnlnn nml Alain street.*, ('incinnnti, is oitr, Af}«nt. to irocnrc advertisements.

I A I O N

LAIMJEK THAN ANY PAPER PUBLISHED IN Crnwfoid«ville! ,Advortism call up and examine our list of

fjjr SUBSCRIBERS.

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

For Secretary of Stat?. Wi DANIEL McCI.URE,'of .Morgan..

For Auditor of State, .JOHN W. DODI), of Grant.

For Treasurer of State,

NATIIAN1KLT-:. CUNNINGHAM,

of Vigo.

I'or SaperiiiJeii'leat of Public lustritrtton,, SAMUEL L. RUGG, Allen,

v-:. For Attorney General\ •MOsiEl'II E. MeDONAl.l). of Montgomery. For Judges of the Supreme Courty .•sAMDEL E. PERKINS, of Marion..

ANDREW DAVISON, of Docsitnr. .JAMES M. HANNA. of Viu'«. A E S W O E N of W ii

"T IJECOMI'TON. On last Wednesday, the 14th inst., tlic House of Representatives took up the resolution from the .Senate, asking a committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the Lccompton bill.— Tho motion was agreed to—yeas 108, nays 108 the Speaker then voted in the affirmative. On the motion to appoint the committee, Hale and Pendleton, of Ohio, and English, of Indiana, voted in the affirmative. We have no idea that the JIim.se will'cvor agree to any proposition that does not require a ratification of the Constitution by tho people, as a condition precedent to the admission of the State.

TUB BUITISII PERIODICALS.—We

Tin:

are in

receipt of the far-famed Blackwood and the Westminster. Every lover of a high orss dcr of literature should grace his library with tho British Reviews. See advertisement in another column.

ATLANTIC KOIL MA

v.—This highly

classical periodical has been received.— No man who appreciates a high order of literature should be without the Atlantic.

von MAY.—This elegant pcriodi-

eal has been received. Its fashion plates arc as beautiful as ever, and its contents a casket of the choicest literature.

A I I S A A I N I O A

.—'I his

fine periodical is on our table. Everybody should subscribe for Arthur's.

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If you wish to see a beautiful stock

of "oo Js, call at the establishment of

ROTH & IIARIUXU.

Thev are selling at

very low figures. Advertisement next,

S&" Owing to a large amount ot work

w'hieh we have had on hand during the jsns,

WINTON

fCornwpondcncc of the Now York Time*.] SAD CAI.AJHTY IK JEFFERSOJICOUWTY—BURNING OP A. WHOLE FAMI

LY-HEROIC CONDUCT OF A JAILORS WIFE. ... WATERTOWN,

N. Y. Mon. April 5.

The inhabitants of this place have had two rather exciting topics on their tongues for the past few hours, the first relating to a shocking affair in the" adjoining town of Lc Ilov the second to another affair not so shocking in our own neighborhood. ...

The first is I learn by actual personal investigation, somewhat thus: A farmer named Daniel Coiustock baa been living with his four little daughters, Mary, Maria, Colona ami Cora, alone in his house, which is located fourteen or fifteen miles from here, on what is known.as the Philadelphia Road. His wife has been absent sonic two months, in Auburn, under medical treatment. Last (Sunday) night about nine o'clock, it was discovered that the residence of Mr. Comstock was in flames, and before assistance could be rendered it was burnt to the ground, together with its five inmates! It would seem from the position of affairs, as I found thcin to-day, on the ground, that Mr. C. and his four daughters (the oldest of whom was only ten years) were all asleep together in one bedroom in a corner of the house. The first indication tlicy had of the fire was, probably, not until the building was full of flames, for it is apparent the fire "took" from a keg of ashes in the wood-house, which is some'distance from the bed-room in question, and, in burning its way to the bed-room, it must have enveloped everything in flames. Rushing in the darkness forth from the bcd-rooin, the frantic children flew in different directions, blinded by the smoke and flames, while the unnatural father, who loved his money more than his offspring, ran up stairs to get his box of valuables, while he might have easily opened the bed-room window at the outset and placed himself and children beyond danger—for the bed room was on the ground floor. But, alas for human frailty! his miserly habits ruled him, and bis blackened bones and ashes were found, after the fire, lying across his box in the cellar, Avliere he had fallen.

The second topic of which I spoke is more agreeable to dwell upon. Early on Sunday morning, three prisoners, named Wilson, Eddy, Missic and Ward, by feigning the sickness of one of their number, got tho jailor at this, place, Mr. Baker, in their power, gagged and bound him, and locked him in a cell. This done, they robbed him of his money and the keys of the prison, and were calmly taking their leave, when they were "brought all up standing" by beholding the jailor's little wife pointing at them through a railing a loaded revolver, and calmly informing them that she would put a builct through the first man who attempted to coins forward. A conversation, something like this, followed:

Prisoner—The devil you will! ou don't know how to shoot it. Mrs. Baker—Try it and s'ce, if you like! I have been practicing with this pistol for the past, few days, and I promise you I will kill the first man who. comes forward.

Prisoner—Well, if that's your game, we'll be quits with you. Now, take your choice, young woman—either let us pass out in peace, or submit to have your husband's brains knocked out against the walls of the jail. Which do you like best? Perhaps that won't be gay, nor nothing, just to sec him laying out there cold and stiff, with his brains laying around. 11a! ha'! d—d pretty picture, aint it? D—d pretty wife you arc, ain't yc, to get your husband killed- 'Come, now, what d'ye say? Let us out and it'll

JDC

all right—

won't ye? [And the speaker moved forward a step. 31rs. linker—The first, man icho steps over that sill dies

And there that brave woman held those men at bay for something like half an hour, until help came, and they were driven into their cells.

EI.TZ- TIIK POICHKEEI'SIRGIRL IN A TRANCE—

FURTHER PARTICULARs.—-On

•:. „v»! week before last the Poughkeepsie girl re-

week. present, advised that she should be raised

present week, we are obliged to omit a sitting on a dazzling throne angels are number of new advertisements. They willj giving him praise"—and them exclaimed, "I'm ffoni}' back again, and again swoonlippear in our next issue. cd. While looking at what she thought to be hell, she said, "Jesus reached forth bis lily white hand and dragged me from the pit. In heaven is a tree the angels are

Jgy We notice that quite a number of new and beautiful signs, the handiwork of T. II.

WINTOS.%

merchants since tho opening of spring.— praise.

is unquestionably one of he

painters in the west. If you wish a neat

and fine job of work, he is the very man to 'n0 one would live longer in their sins."—

nothing about color or race. It* negroes

ihcm voters legally. If negroes are legal citizens, then they vote like white citizens. The Tribune regards negro suffrage Republican principle, and rejoices that the Kan|as Republicans have been consistent

DR. LIVIXOSTONE AND TIIK SKWIXU MACIIINK.—The famous African traveler, Dr Livingstone, says, "to christianize savages, We must first civilize them," and to carry out this principle, lie intends taking with him, on his next expedition, various implements, among thorn a supply of

jf. She attends meetings regularly, and is gct1 ting quite strong.

GRO-

VEIT &UAKER'S Sowing Machines, procured from the Agents In England. The doctor is right, and no missionary should leave our shores without "doing likewise." The extreme simplicity, durability, and effectiveness jof the GROVER. & BAKER Machine peculiarly fit it for use in foreign lands.

96F The first barrel Gf whisky ever dis.tilled in Louisiana, arrived at New Orleans on the 1 fit£if last March.

Fridnv of

whf) was

up. so that the blood would circulate, when

cxo

]ai|nedj touch me see Jc-

sec

Jesus—ain't lie beautiful? He is

have been put up by our climbing up and down, giving God the

My friends,"

,. ,, I cet ready! the judgment day is near at

frjenjs am|if

she then exclaimed,

mit

Jx]*ct

to bc hcrc witl

„iy

you knew what 1 know

"Many

KANSAS NEKItO SlIFFitA«E. bolicvo that she was laboring under nerTho New York Tribune thus construes vo^ excitement but she has lived the last the suffrage clause in the last Kansas Con-' seven months with Mrs, Garrison, and du. 1 ring that time has never oncc complained stitution. I j.„essj „ml she is also a very strong "The Leavenworth Constitution says

niim

iet|gjrif

in Poughkeepsie

not a

,11 nervous. Friday

"t|10

saiue

.arc legally oifiaens, then they vote sor^hile at the altav, fell bnek in a Irauee, •other citizens iif Jiot, they don \ote. tut did not remain in that state longer We rejoice that the Free Mate men have han two hTlurs. been consistent and faithful to principle."

That is, the Free State men arc in favor of negro suffrage, if it is possible to make

church, two parsons aU

A STRANGR DELUSION.

Tho Parke Couuty Republican relates the following singular instance of dolusion in regard to religious duty:

It becomes our sad office to record one of the most sad incidents which has over fallen under our observation. Mr. Aaron

and faithful in introducing this principle St°wart, late a citizen of Boone count}, but for some five months a citizen of our into their last organic act.

town, lias been in a state of depression of spirits for about two months past. Religions excitement seems to have overpowered his reason, and on Monday night, after the return of himself and wife from church, he conceived the idea that the Scripture required him to sacrifice his right hand aud other members of his body under penalty of eternal punishment. He left the house without making known his object, and after perpetrating dangerous wounds upon his person with a knife, he next proceeded with a knife to cut off his right hand. After strikiug five several blows, ranging from the centre of the hand to some inohes above tho wrist joint, and severing the hand from tho arm, except some of the .tendons, he walked to the door, fell into jt, and fainted. Dr. Rice was called in, and dressed his wounds, and at present writing he is still alive, although his wounds are dangerous.

FRANCE.

The indications become each week stronger and stronger-thai one of those violent and sanguinary revolutions for which France is notcTamong the nations, is not far distant The intelligence by the steamer America, which we publish in another column, goes still farther to prove that Louis Napoleon is convince'd that the storm is not far distant. According to this the artillery in the various towns of France is to bc dismounted and placed in the arsenals, the pretext for which is that their condition is such as to render their use dangerous! Undoubtedly their use would be dangerous to Louis Napoleon and his dynasty, ami the fear that they would be used at no distant day for this purpose was unquestionably the cause of this sudden order for dismounting them, and stowing them away in the arsenals, the keys of which buildings, of course, arc carried by Louis Napoleon's creatures. .. 15y the arrival which preceded the last we received intelligence that the French mercantile houses had ordered their bills payable in London instead of Paris, they having no faith in the stability or lengthened existence of Napoleon's government. This is significant, for merchants arc proverbially clear-sighted men.

A spirit of restlessness and discontent pervades the whole of France, especially Paris, which, it has been truly said, is France. A recent intelligent letter writer states that everywhere you hear but one expression: that the Emperor or his ministers—no matter who—is driving matters too far that what might have been supportable under the dread of universal anarchy, or a reign of terror iu 1852, is perfectly intolerable now that tho evil is daily increasing that little by little every vestige of liberty is disappearing: that the French people arc becoming the laughing stock of the world, aud that, if not reduced to absolute Egyptian bondage, they arc, by the suppression, one after another, of every independent organ of communication, brought to a state of utter Egyptian darkness. The Prcsse and the Siecle must no longer be sold in the public thoroughfares of the metropolis or of any of the chief towns, and the censorship exercised over the articles published is so rigid that even the more liberal journals becoinc as little interesting as their official ccnipcers. Not a day arrives but with it accounts from the provinces in the shape of private letters, which do but speak of continual arrests. In Paris itself men are hauled over by the police on the most frivolous pretexts, and after few daj's'—sometimes a few hours'—detention, dismissed with no indemnification for the loss or inconvenience they may have sustained. The capital literally swarms with police, and when, about 3 o'clock, which is the hour when the Emperor or some of the imperial party nir.y be expected to take the air, tho peering glances and sudden, sharp turns of the head which, from officials, iu and out of their proper costume, the passenger is compelled to encounter, are quite obnoxious. Englishmen and—as often mistaken for such—Americans arc peculiarly exposed to this, and arrests have even been made which called.for the summary interference of their respective embassies. The truth is, there is a general dread prevailing at head-quarters, and tho Emperor himself, who is above personal fear, is compromised by the system he has created, and which binds up in his safety the material being of so many hungry and rapacious officials.

This picture is not overdrawn. The statements it contains arc confirmed from numerous other sources. It is natural that a brave and chivalrous people like the French should be restive under this despotism, which is worse than at any time under Louis Philippe's reign, for then at least the press was comparatively free.— The French people—or at least the friends of law and order—excused the early tyranny and watchfulness of Louis Napoleon under the plea that tho grasp upon their liberties would be loosened as soon as his government should become established.— It was promised that in a few y-ears that liberty for which so much blood had been shed, should be guaranteed to them in its fullest extent. But year after year has passed away, and instead of the French gaining any portion of their lost liberties, the restrictions imposed upon them have been constantly increasing, till now they are sighing under a worse than Austrian despotism.

This state of things cannot long continue. The signs of the times portend a coming storm which will sweep Louis Napoleon and his minions from power. Hat who will succeed him.' Will a republic be attempted, or will the crown of France again grace the head of a Bourbon or an Origanist ?—etc Albany ledger.

learn a little of how much they would probably better their condition by going upon the cheap but undeveloped lands of the now territories. Tljc experience of an Iowa farmer, published in the Western Farmer, may aid them in reaching mature conclusions on the subject, lie says

We have warn), rainy weather now mud nearly knee deep. vcrybody js coipplaiiu ing of hard times. Wheat is worth but forty cents per bushel, delivered on the railroad at Wilton, and that in rags at fifteen ppr oc»t. discount. There has been good wheat sold in Tipton, within a few days past, at twenty cents per bushel in gold, A number of ill}- neighbors have sold a large pf i"t of good corn at from ton to twelve and a half cents per bushel, and as good corn as most of tho crop in the country. Corn is heating ai)d spoiling in almost every part of Iowa. I have conversed with a number of owners of threshing machines, and they say tljat the wheat of Cedar County will not quite average, for the last year, twenty bushels per acre.— Merchants and creditors arc suing and selling property for a were song, Some arc giving up their land after the first payment has been njade and considerable improvement done. Some farmers are paying five per cent, per month for money.— There will not bc as much wheat sowed this year as last. Some are going to quit almost entirely for the present year.— They think it wiil not pay to raise wheat at.the present prices, or at the prospect of future rates.

To BE HANQED.—Loefncr,' the 'Cincinnati murderer, is to bc hung on the SOth of April.

THE SUNKEN SHIPS AT SEBASTOPOL —RAVAGES OF THE TIMBER WORM —THE AMERICAN WRECK3NG8HIP8

ADVERTISED FOR SALE. The Constantinople correspondent of the London Times writes:

The schooncr Silver Key and the steamer General Knox, belonging to the American Wrecking Companies, which nndcrtook to raise the vessels of war sunk in the har

which

is much nore than

ever was known or supposed. The companies have brought up sufficient anchors, cables. &c., to pay, at any rate, nart of their expenses, and probably the Russian Government will make up the difference.

These are all the particulars we have,

i.nc.sc arc an uio |wiutuiiiia \w ii«i\u«*

and we give them substantially as related

THOSE U:i3IBS.

The bombs thrown under the carriage

FROM WASHINGTON.

[Correspondenco of tho Hew AltSitfy Ledger.] ~WAsmKGToiri April 9i1858. The Senate bill for,the admission of Kansas, may be considered dead. The House gave it yesterday the finishing stroke,

which

left

bor of Sebastopol, have returned to Con-1Senate, with that natural affection which stantinople, and arc advertised for sale.—j is implanted in the breast of the parent tor The attempt to raise the sunken vessels has its offspring, after dressing its woimds, completely failed: not one of them was re- nursed it for almost a week with the Hope covered. The Black Sea teredo, so often jof preserving its life but all to no purattributed to the well calculated imagina- pose. The House was unrelenting in its tion of the Russian Admirality, is a stern hostility. No wavering or hesitation in reality. It has eaten up the body ot the! their ranks they stood with closed colRussian fleet, leaving only the outer shell. "nms, like a wall of adamant, and resolved The wheel of the ^Tic'clve Apostles has to adhere, by the same majority as before, been brought down as a specimen. Al- The brave and gallant Harris, who ledI the though it consisted of strong mahogany, charge upon the blyody field of Bucna Vistwo years and a half in the waters of Se-1 ta, and exposed his life for his country bastopol have reduced its weight to almost honor, with the same patriotic devotion nothing. -No external change is visible that steeled his. breast on that memorable beyond a few small holes, where the greedy miners sunk their shafts. The most approved contrivances were tried by the two rival companies. The-vessels wore caulk- imminent, risk of his life, to give one more cd and made seemingly water-tight, but vote to sustain the great principle of popuwhen it came to pumpin^r out, it was found sovereignty, even if the effort should that the timber was so rotten,that the wa- jcost him his life. A more impressive exter percolated everywhere through the gal- ample of moral heroism ot de\otion to lories made bv the teredo. principle—cannot bc found in the annals

jsay I

NEWS FROM TIIK VICINITY OF FOItT SCOTT. The Leavenworth City Ledger of the 3d jtive of Mr. Buchanan in recommending adinst says I mission under Lecompton, and it cstablish-

Beliable information reached here yes-!«« the principle that no new State shall be terday that a posse of men who rcpresen-1 Scatter admitted into the Union un .1 its ted themselves tobe in search of deserters institution sjiull have been first subnutfrom the IT. S. army, went to the house of

Isaac Denton, on the Osaire (about one advance, wlueli, Mr. Buchanan says in hundred miles south of this city), on the message is a "correct principle, and 27th ult., and after inquiring if any deser-

They next proceeded to the residence !g°01ls-

of Abram Hedrick, and after making tliei^"11

same inquiry and receiving the same treat-1H"?-.

mcnt as at Denton's, he was shot dead.

But one of the party was

tlic

They then proceeded to the residence the ISorth, has come to the dc of Newton Davis, and forcing an entrance, !I,.U,S0 amendmen and chums shot at him while sitting up in bed, one I adm.n.strat.on tnu.nph then why buckshot strikina him in the hand and the not the Senate accept the House rest of the charge lodging in the head amendment, and put an end to the centreboard of the bedstead.

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to us by a gentleman just from Lawrence, »ow refuse the olive branch thus whose veracity can- be rc^d on.

of Napoleon, in Paris, were entered at the controversy which gives it importance in Calais Custom-house as a new machine for, tlic estimation of .Senators, and their anxthc invention of gas, and the inspectors icty and hope, as avowed by Mr. Bigler, considered them of such little value that' to "sec another slave State admitted into they charged no duty upon them. Orsini the Tnion," alone stimulated them to push charged them with" fulminating

powder1

anxious

tho first attempt failed to do—the destrue-1 some think that it is too lato to raise that tion of Napoleon, and thus the loosening of objection. However, in my humble judgthe keystone that supports the arch of des- mcnt, if her admission now fails the door potic power in Europe Time will show.

Tire

LAKH FISHERIES.—A

men. The catch of white-fish in Detroit,

RISH FOR ESTEHX LANDS.—I'rom

St. Joseph's (Mo.) Gazette, we learn that

at the Council Bluff* ([owa) Land Office,

which was oponcd on the 2-Mtebruary,

stark dead, without a

particle of vital breath remaining its body. It received its

fatal

wound in the

House on the 1st day of April, but the

occasion and nerved his arm for the contest, had himself conveyed from his sick chamber to the hall of the House, at the

To this in itself invincible difficulty! of history. All honor to the gallant hero must bc added the fact that most of the of Buena Vista! but the glory of that proud vessels hud sunk from four to six fathoms day is dimmed before the milder radiance into the mud. Even if the ships had been jof that moral heroism, which so exalts the raised they would have been ot no use.— patriot abo\e the frailties of his wasting As they could not be raised, it was tried to flesh that he forgets his care for his perblow them up, in order to clear the harbor,' ishablc part in his devotion to the eternal which at this moment is so blocked up that principles of truth, and sacrifices the one only a narrow channel—marked out by f°r ^,G triumph and glory of the.other, buoys—is left, through which small ves-! There is left but one of two courses for scls can with difficulty wind their way.— the Senate to pursue. They must rcccde The damage done to the timber is, liowev- before the} can ask tor a committee of concr, so great, that not even the attempt to Ifcrcnce or, to maintain their dignity and blow the vessels up succeeded. self-respect, tlicy must adhere, ro take

As much as five thousand pounds of any other course would be in violation ot powder was tried with a two-decker but j'dl lules aud pirlitimcntaiy law. It. thej is the rotten timber lind too little power (idhcic, that is the end of the matter. It of resistance, the result was that the weak- I they rcccde, which is not at all probable, it est point "ave way, and the explosion tore will be a virtual backing down, and a conout a small part in the side of the vessel, cession on their part that they are willing lcaviii"1 the rest altogether untouched.— ciinpionis.se. It will be an abandonee harbor must thus°remain blocked up of the high ground and dictatorial until the work of the teredo is done, and tone which they have assumed upon this the ships tall to pieces. According to the qmistion, and will be an admission of their account brought down, eighty-one vessels fallibility. But will tlicy'do it? I cannot were found sunk,

think they will. But why not.

The House amendment secures everything that the Administration desired in the admission of Kansas. It secures the ratification of the constitution by a vote of the people, which the President was anxious should be done. It "localizes" the question and takes it out of national polities, which was one great and controlling 1110-

aud

rat,.fi?^

tr,lVsts

ters were concealed within! and receiving ^ash.ngton Ln.ou proclaims it a triumph a negative answer, insisted on searching !'the doctrine of popular^sovereignty, and the premises. Mr. Denton arose and let ^umts the whole Republican party in vothe posse in, and without further ecrenio- "1S for it ny lie was shot dead.

at oncc

recognized:

lis name is Broekett. Tho neighbor.* the vicinity dispatched an express to I. rcncc for assistance, which had gone down,

PcoPlc •seulc"!o'

hereafter be followed, lho

democratic doctrine, horse, foot, and dra It hails it as a "virtual rccogni-

and endorsement of the President

a"?

Ihc

Y'r

S™lt administration and Lecompton

.dl?"j1

P'O-s/arery Constitution? It the

tendered to them by the House, the con. elusion will bc forced upon the country, that tho slavery clause in the Kansas Constitution is the only feature in the whole

the Lecompton Constitution through.—

that he carricd from London in his satcli- That hope failing, if the people be permitel, in damp paper. He dried it in front ted to choose their own institutions, as of a stove, with a watch in one hand and they will under the Montgomery amendthcruionietcr in the other, liable at any mcnt, their fierce zeal dies a natural death, moment tobe blown into eternity by its and poor ^bleeding Kansas, ten chanccs explosion. Five only of the bombs were to one, will be kindly permitted to sta\ used of eighteen made, and the

in-j out of the Ijnion until her population will

qiiiry at Paris is: Where are the other justify her admission. All parties have thirteeu1 Do they remain in the hands of been willing to overlook the want of suffi-

other conspirators, ready to be used at the Icicnt population, and admit her so as to /i 1*1. 1._i ru) nf tliA

GLOOMY UEPOKTS FROM IOWA. Before disobeying the injunction of the fi gt favorable moment, to accomplish what [get rid of the harassing question, and nowold saying, "better let well enough alone," our people in the middle sections of the country, who annually got a raging "Western fever," had better, before leaving,

II'iroCKlliff

fflTP^finTI 51 Till

sl.ould be shut in her face until she arrives

at her majority, and that is until she shall

lato number have a population sufficient to entitle her

of tho Detroit Advertiser estimates that to one representative in the House of Reptile annual catch of fish upon Lakes Kl'ie, resentatives. Huron, Michigan and Superior, and the The next move will be to expel Camprivers and bays tributary, is between 80,- of Ohio, and put in Vanlandingbam, 000 and 100,000 barrels. Taking the low- l,0 Lecompton, and admit Minnesota, est estimate of 80,000 barrels, and esti-. whose representatives are Lecompton.—• mating the price roalizcd to the producer This would reduce the anti-Lecompton maof $8 per barrel, and the snug sum of, jority to four if Mr. Caruthers ever gets $640,000 js paid annually to the fisher- jierc it

WJH

Rivcr alone is about 7,000 barrels annu- jcn conversion. The chan.se of the vote of one man icould give, the Sjteaker the ,, ,-T-1 .. oastinu rote. The danger is not yet pass-

the

last, from that- tinjc to the 13th ult,, no •/U thuirtc'1less than three hundred and six thousand acres of land were entered, and all but about sixty thousand acres by land warrants.

8®* The St. Paul Minncsotian publishes a list of eighty-four of the lakes of Minnesota, which vary in length from one to eiglity-four miles. Many more were omitted, because they had no names.

SSfRcad the advertisement in another column of F. H. FRY & Co. They have decidedly one .of tlic finest stock of goods in Crawfordsvijlg, and are selling them at low figures. We rgcommcnd every one to visit this establishment. 4-

I9~H. R. Claypool has become the editor, proprietor and publisher of The People's JPrte«/, Covington, this State.-— M. Hansicker retires on account- of ill health.

leave the majority but three,

then look out for some accident or sud-

ousting vote. cd. The storm is but lulled that it may ra^c the more furious when it a?ain shall

revivcd.

HE CONSISTENT?—A

an be in a

thlcart

business man in

this city has lately made a donation of $500, to be spent out of the State, for religious purposes. Fourteen years ago his creditors received 35 per centum on their claims against him, and five years ago they had ten per cent on ditto. Can such charity scale the walls of heaven? We fear not.—Bostxm ledger. ,,

BAD NIQGERS.—The

New York Express

says th^t only about one in ten of the passengers on the underground railroad, reported by the Abolition papers, are in reality fugitive slaves. Cunning negroes, under this pretense, now travel about with "free rides," free board, and without work. If "the underground" did the twentieth part of the real work it reports itself doing, Canada would be so full of negroes that there would be no room for the white man.

[Correspondence of tho St. Louis Republican THE 2TBGRO CONSTITUTION INK AN-

'»cr waters It is just, it is equitable, it is right. Is the .Senate sincere in its

the vicinity dispatched an express to WW,™1 anxiety for the speedy admission 1,:!,1 .no,

W„ :"t Kansas into the Union! Or is it only anxious that it should bc admitted bccausc

Free State Policy advancing—Amalga- ^,, jmationists Rule the Day

LEAVENWORTH CITY, April 4, 1858. The Leavenworth (Free State) Constitutional Convention adjourned late last evening, having been in session at this place, by adjournment from Minnesota, for eleven days.

The Constitution is Topeka revamped. The principial points arc as follows The right to bear arms is guaranteed to individuals slavery is prohibited of course bail may bc refused in capital cases on strong presumption election frauds area bar to the future exercise of the elective franchise in cases of libel the defendant may testify. At all elections free made citizens having residence in the State six months, and ten days in the precinct, and all free males of foreign birth having resided in the United States one year, in the State six months, and ten days in the precinct, and who has declared his intentions may vote. The thing goes into details most confoundedly, and if ever it should be the organic law of the State it would need bc rc-changcd pretty much through. The ayes and nays are to be recorded on the journal of the Legislature on every bill passed by either branch.

The Convention was attended by delegates from nearly every county, but it was neither a full nor a fair expression of the will even of the Free State party. Claiming 28,000 voters in the Territory, and basing their apportionment upon 21,000, the Convention was appointed by about 8,000 voters, all told. The nigger question caused considerable of trouble during the session, and many harsh things were sajd by those radical members whose aim it is to elevate the blackey a little above the superior race. Several counties instructed their representatives to go against the nigger suffrage. Hence Linn and some other counties signed the constitution under protest, Doniphan county was extremely anxious to get the word white" in the constitution, to preface "male citizens," but it was

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go. Niggers arc to

vote for or against the constitution on an equal footing with the white folks, and then at the first general election thereafter, a vote is to bc had on the question of universal suffrage.

On a motion—after the instrument had been fully adopted—01 Lane to make the change of time for that vote from the second to the first general election, there was a peculiar sort of discussion. A general scene of crimination and retaliation, anil much confusion resulted.

This is not the only question upon which the party wanted to split. The address to the people being before the Convention, the policy of the party came up in some sort, when it became evident that a considerable portion of the people here desire to put an end to the infernal d'sturbances which have exhausted the means of the set tiers here, by qualifying under the Lccoiup ton Contitution. During the discussion upon this question the "lie" was given bc twocn Judge Conway and 31 r. Emery, and Sam Woods made a direct assault upon Lane, denouncing the men who took the back track from the "bloody" issue platform of Big Springs. [FROM

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KANSAS DAII.Y LEDCKI:.

It will be vary consoling to all the old maids and chambermaids, in and about Lawrence and Topeka to learn that the hi buck-niggers, robust nigger wenches and dirty nigger babies, who are at present in Kansas, and those who may emigrate hcrc, are on an exact equality with them.

The members of the Convention from the vicinity named, have obeyed their instructions, and a vote of thanks should be given them 011 their return home, anil to make the compliment thorough they should (each one of them) receive a nigger baby.

Seriously, the Convention have given the riirht of suffrage (for three years at least) TO AI At T1

We submit to the people* of Kansas if these enactments are not a disgrace to us. We call upon the honest fanner, the thrifty mechanic, the merchant, the professional man and the hard-fisted laborer, to ponder well these enactments of the nigger lovers.

When this Convention adjourns, these nigger lovers will be political!}' dead, and we pray God they, may never be resnreetetl.

A LEVIATHAN FAUM.—A new

NEW WAR. STEAMER.—R-A new war steamer, to be called the Franklin, is nearly completed at tho Kittery Navy Yard, in Maine, which is said to be superior to anything of the kind afloat. She will carry ten guns more than the Wabash or the steamers of her class. Iler model varies advantageously in many important points froi# the other five steam frigates lately built. Her dimensions are as follows: length over all, 320 feet breadth, 55 feet depth, 34 feet tonnage, 4,000.

alz»sorts_of

rTUi appropriations for anieipal purposes in^Boston for th® pte*p«4 year

The Governor of Mississippi has

appointed delegates to represent the State in thiei next Southern,' Commercial Co®vention."

THE CONVERSION

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IK NlGtJKl'S IN KAN

SAS, THIS HE BY PLACING Til KM ON AN EQUALITY WL'J'U TIIK WHITE MAN. Furthermore, they have provided that BLACK AND WIUTK CH1LDRKN SHALL BE EDUCATED IN THK SAME SCHOOLS.

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centl}' started in New York, called The Movement, states that "some men of wealth iu New York, Buffalo and Chicago, have it in contemplation to establish somewhere in the west a Leviathan Farm, of from 100,000 to 200,000 acres. Their object is to do for agricultnre by the use of combined wealth and the power of machinery, what has been done in the past half century, by the railroad and factory to supersede the old stage coach and the spinning wheel. They will organize the vast tract into two rivalized establishments, with a military organization of labor, gigantic machinery, to plow, plant, reap and render harvests, vast herds of horses, sheep and cattle of the most scleet stock, and the cultivation of fruits and grains^ upon a grand scalc. J'JIC organization will justly oouibinc the interest "1 capital and labor and by its colossal ccoilo'iiios, and its scientific appliances of creative industrial power, and its just system of distribution, it will attempt to give to the world, the example of a true Republic, an Industrial Commonwealth, where poverty, duplicity, robbpry /UKJ crime arc unknown, The next number of the Movement will contain the plan in full. Men of wealth and genius arc especially invited to examine it."

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vate lette* from Edwin Eomnrt* the aotor, says that never having doubted Christianity or apostatised, he thinka: there is no need of his becoming a "convert,"

S&* The Savannah Republican notices the arrival of seven vessels at that port, within two days, all of them loaded with ice from Maine.

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jr At the election in New Haven, last week, no less than fifty-seven justices of the peace were chosen. New Ilave.n oiight to be si well governed city.

Since the enterprise of C. E. Todd

& Co., tho New York Lottery Agents, was broken up, over 6,000 letters directed to them, containing $8,000, have been token from the Post Office i. f:«h pf It is stated that there is an extensive organisation in tho Southern States.to aid the liberal party in Mexico. It is not said whether Commonfort is a party to the movement or not.

A contract was formally entered in

to, at Richmond, on the 6th inst., by the ladies of the 3Iount Vornon Association for the purchase of the Washington estate.

Lieut, Allen, who was reported to

have perished in a snow storm, has arrived at Portland, Oregon, having been ajjaqqou-. ed by all his party except one. .,

A lettor from Paris, per steamship

America, reports the death of Gen. Thomai, Assistant Secretary of State under Mr. Marcy, of typhoid fever.'"J

A letter to the Boston Traveler

from an officer of the army in Utah, says: We cxpcct to move by the 10th of March. Write to mc at Great Salt Lake City, and I shall be sure to get the letters..

The export of a hundred thousand

bales of cotton in a single week is about the heaviest business ever recorded. At present prices it is equal to an exchange of full $5,000,000. Great Britain is almost the exclusive buyer this week. ..

SSTThc Grafton Bank, Grafton, Massachusetts, was robbed Wednesdayof $12,000—$7,000 of which was in bills of $100 each. Tho robbery was committed in the day time, during the temporary absence ot the Cashier. 14 8®" It seems that Congress has resolved not to print any more picturc books at the expense of the Government. This resolution, if kept, will certainly save a great deal of money, but what will the children do?

Every policeman in London walks

about 20 mild* a day, besides attending the police officc. The regulations for communicating arc so perfect, that if it were requisite, the whole force might be assembled together in two hours.

John D. Ferguson, Esq.. a well

known citizen of Clark county, lnd„ died at Charlestown on Thursday night, of consumption. Mr. F. had represented his county in the Legislature, and in 1852 was a candidate for Congress.

AST" Tiie St, Louis Republican learns •that

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the 27th ult., a hurricane passed

over tho town of Bentonville, Arkansas, blowing down nearly every house in the place killing 25 persons and wounding great number of others.

Dra?" A mill in Vinccnnes, Ind., which was in course of repair, was .struck by lightning on Wednesday, which fired it, burning it to tho ground, ft was owned by Benedict & Kennedy, Louisville.

A. Neal, late Vie.

President of the Illinois Central Railroad, has commenced suit against tho company in the United Static Circuit Court for $250,000 for services rendered to the company while in their employ.

A machinist named Crawley who

resides in Cincinnati has a very extravagant wife. Mrs. Crawley bccame dissatisfied, packed up tho furniture and went to a house of doubtful repute. Mr. Crawley found her, a quarrel ensued, and lie shot her. The wounds are not mortal. lie was arrested.

ROCK Isr.A.vn TO BE Soilri^—A Special dispatch to the New York Tribune says that Rock Island, between the town of that name and Davenport, Iowa, is to be sold in forty acre lots. Sealed bids arc to be transmitted to the Secretary of War, whowill open them in the presence of witnesses, to avoid future charges of collusion with bidders. If

KEXTTCKY BEEF.—Mr.

J. Bcntley, of

Boyle county, Kentucky, last week purchased ninety-one head of beef cattle for the New York market, from Isaac Shelby, sr., near Lexington, for which lie paid 5c per pound, or $9,096 for the lot. Twen-ty-four of the lot weighed, in the aggregate, 51,159 pounds, ranging per head from 710 to 2,700, and the average weight per head being 2,131 pounds.

COLOSSAL SOIREE.—The

Crystal Palacc

in New York was crowdcd with beauty, fashion, and comfort, on Thursday night, 20,000 people being present to dance, flirt, promenade and enjoy themselves, in aid of the Hunter Woddis Benevolent Society. The "Colossal Soiree" was all that its moBt sanguine projectors hoped for it. Not less than $7,000 or $8,000 must have been realized for the Socictj*.

t&~ Several Americans from Massachusetts, who arc now in Sebastopol, are thinking seri.'usly, it seems, of settling there. Every encouragement is offered by the Governor of the place and the Russian government. In fact, it would teem that the Russians arc well aware of ihc value of foreigners in building up a town on the border of their vast dominions.

i5©*The last Kansas Constitutional Convention was strongly abolition in character. Of eighty-four members, seventy-three were Republicans, nine Free State Democrats and two Whigs. The Black Republican portion of the Kansas press was strongly represented. T. D. Thatcher, editor of the Lawrence Republican, W. W. Ross, of tho Topeka Tribuner, P. & Plumb, of the Epiporia Nexcs, and J. M. Wfdden, of the Quindaro Chvidotcan, being delegates, whilst not a single conservative editor was returned to the convention.