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LARGER THAN ANY PAPER PUBLISHED" IN Crawfoitlxville! Advertisers call up and examine onr list of tW SUBSCRIBERS. JgL

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

For Secretary of Slate. DANIEL McCLURE, of Morpnn. For Auditor of State,, '.JOIIN W. DODI), of Grant.

For Treasurer of Slate,

NATHANIEL E. CUNNINGHAM, of Vigo. For Svjyrintendcnt of Public Instruction,

SAMUEL L. 1IUGG, of Allen.

.• For

Attorney General,

f^-JOSEPII E. McDONALD, of Montgomery.

,J'or Jrttfgcs of the. Supreme Court. SAMUEL E.'PERKINS, of Marlon. "ANDREW DAVISON, of Decatur. •''i 'JAMES M. IIANNA, of Viro.

JAMES L. WORDEN, of Wliitlev.

TI1E MERCHANTS OF CRAWPORDSVILLE. CilThc following list comprises the merchants of Crawfordsville—the men who do the business:?

DRY GOODS—Campbell, Galcy & Hurler Graham Brothers Allen, Galcy & Kecran Eltzroth & Ilnrding F. H. Fry & Co. N. AV. Grimes Mayer & Ulliuan J. II. Shuc Crawford & Mullikin.

GROCERIES—II. S. Cox & Co. Laymon Brothers Charles Marvin. HARDWARE—Cliristman & Gregg Bur--bridgc & Grimes Campbell, Galcy & Hartcr.

HATTERS—W. R. Parrish & Co. JEWELRY—Jas. Patterson Tlios. Ncwman I. F. Mills.

DRUGGISTS—Manson & Powers T. D. Brown. FURNITURE—WRA. Robertson Boss White.

STOVES AND TINWARE—Chliun Johnson John Hoover. 'BOOTS AND SHOES—David Kcster.

LEATHER AND FINDINGS—William P. Watson. BOOKS AND STATIONARY—F. M. Ileaton.

Let the farmers and mechanics in Montgomery county cut this out and paste it in their hats.

iSflt is now pretty well understood among tho Republicans, that Dan Mace -will bo tho nominee at their convention in June. The Major is unquestionably the most available man.

^IfiT'Wc arc pleased to sec the efforts making by the Administration to acquire Cuba. There is every reason to bclcivc :that in less than a year this beautiful island rrill form apart of the great confedc acy.

I THE ARTESIAN WELL WATER OF LAFAYETTE.—It seems the virtues of this water will never ccaso. The Lafayette papers arc daily trumpeting to the world the wondorful ourcs it performs. Among the la test wonderful achievments of this water, is the ease of a young Irish girl that gave birth to a lusty Erin-go-braugh— all the effects of using the Artesian elixir.— Shades of the immaculate conception.

For the last throe woeks the weath

er has been very disagrooablo, and, with tho oxception of a few days, we havo boon visited with continual rains. On last Thursday night a cold wind sprung up from tho west, accompanicd with a driz" xling nun and at this time of writing the wind is howling without and everything is oold and cheorloss as a bloak December day. Prospect# for early com planting are beootning sliro. WT

One dollar will be charged for all

editorial notices. No FREE PRINTING dolie st tho Rcvieio officc. Let every ono take notice.

MAYER & ULLMAN.—These gentlemen request us to state that they have a fine supply of ready-made clothing, which they are selling at prices lower than any other house in town. We notice that their establishment is daily thronged with buyers.

Jason W. Corey has just completed

a large number of his celebrated corn planters. Every fanner should have one, and now is the time to purchase. Wo undersUd4 tbat they are being rapidly sold.

CSBJTILTMAN & GRECO.—These gentle--men Jtrft now in.the field, with one of the .heaviest stocks of hardware and agricultural, implement*, ever brought to this market. Let every farmer and mechanic visit their establishment,

SPLENDID FUHWITUBE.—Wm. Robertson will

io roccipt, in

few days, of fine

stock of furniture, I

THE SHOWS ARE COMING. mp'fl great English Circus and Nixon's Amcricaa Circus, are advertised in another column, to perform here in conjunction on Monday, the 3d of May. Probably nothing in the show line has ever traveled that, in point of magnitude and magnificence, equals the display and matchless performances given by these rival companies, representatives of the two great nations of the globe. Kemp's company is composed of the first talent of Europe, many of his rider's being taken from Astley's Amphitheatre, London while Nixon's is stocked with the flower of American equestrians. Their progress thus far has been marked with a perfect triumph thousands of people who were never known to patronize anything of the kind before, arc flocking to witncs3 the most daring feats of horsemanship ever executed upon the American continent. The grand procession will enter town at ten o'clock. Nixon's will make the first display, preceded by the great musical steam Calliope, drawn by ten horses, and Ned Kendall's unequalled band after which, Kemp's company will enter, with a celebrated English band. Persons from the country wishing to witness this great display, should be in town before ten o'clock.

If any of our readers wish to buy

cheap goods they should always examine the advertising columns of the Rcvicio.— Merchants who advertise always sell cheaper than those who are too stingy to patronize the printer.

MANSON & POWERS.—This firm is in receipt of a heavy stock of drugs, mcdicines, paints, oils, &c. Read their advertisement in another column.

®ST* Read the advertisement of Messrs. GRIMES & BURBRIDGE, in another column. They have a splendid stock of hardware and groceries.

SPIRITUALISM.

Mr. Whiting whose advent here a few days since so astonished our citizens, has consented to return and deliver a series of lccturcs, commencing on next Wednesday evening at the Court House. Mr. Whiting is unquestionably a prodigy. The facility and case with which he improvises poems are to say the least a marvcloucs exhibition of human skill.

HOUSEKEEPER'S EMPORIUM.—As "MayDay," the general moving time, is near at hand, we remind our readers that the only place to purchase a Sne assortment of tinware, is Cm LION JOHNSON'S. He is now in receipt of the greatest variety of cooking stoves ever exhibited in one establishment in the State.

#3?" Israel Kclsey has now on hand a fine assortment of.school books and stationary. Ifc is selling them at remarkably low prices.

IIEATON'S BOOKSTORE.—Mr. Ileaton has removed his book store to the corner of Main and Green streets. He has one of the finest rooms in tho State, and a splendid stock of books, light literature, periodicals of every description, wall paper, and a large assortment of stationary.

S3?" The editor of the Louisville Journal has been over the country delivering a lccturc upon the deficiency of the American people in national patriotism and loyalty to the government. This is the precept. He illustrates his teachings by calling the President of the United States, "the old crocodiif of the White House."— The Devil preaching righteousness, verily.

A KANSAS PI.EDGE OF AFFECTION.—A Dr. Chapman, in enumerating in a court of justice in Leavenworth the articles which he had presented to his lady-love as pledges of his affection, closed the list with a mr of Colt's revolvers.

A DVEItTISE.1I KHTS.

Advertisements contain matter that interests every class of the community.— Free and liberal advertising is like sown seed in Spring time—it will bear fruit after many days. Advertisers generally admit that it ultimately benefits them. The man who is socking custom in any branch of trade, must invito and attract it by notoriety. Business will go to no house or shop unsolioitcd and could not, if it would, fiud it in obscurity. It is a fact, attested by universal expcrionce, that tho morchant or manufacturer who is best known —who is, in other words, best advertised through the newspaper—has the best run of custom. The advertising columns of a daily newspaper form a sort of mirror, in which the general character of a great commercial metropolis is reflected to the eye of the world. People at a distanoo judge of a city in its business condition and oth erwise, by tho evidences of an activity, enterprise, woaltli and commeroe, which it presents in the pages of its press.

RIMAR.KA.BLE SIGHT—DESCENT OF A BOLT OF FIRE.—The Now York Journal states that while the New York and Worcester train, connccting with the steamer Commonwealth, was passing Nantick a few mornings since, a ball of lightning, as large as the two fists of a man, descended, ran along the telegraph wire, and exploded with a report as loud as a cannon.-The wire was consumed, and tho posts within a space of a half a mile were shivered from top to bottom. riThe passengers on the train were greatly alarmed, as the ball of fire was all tho time in sight, and the explosion seemed aa if beneath' the cars.— Had the train been under the wire it must have been struck.

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THE HEW CONSTITUTION* OP KANSAS —EFFECTS OF THE GREEN-PUqH AMENDMENT.

The" baleful effects of the nefarious intervention of the Grcen-Pugh amendment arc already visible, even though the unconstitutional measure i3 not yet the governing law of Kansas. The recklessness of its provisions has already resulted in a fresh complication, as illegal as the parent stem from which it sprung, and as fraught with clap-trap delusion as though the framcrs of the Grecn-Pngh humbug had concocted it themselves.

Advices from Kansas bring us the result of the labors of the last Constitutional Convention, which adjourned on the inst. According to the accounts which have comc to hand, we perceive that provision is made that foreigners and negroes shall vote in Kansas on the Constitution, which is to be submitted to their ratification on the 1st of May. By this act the convention fully illustrates the doctrines of the Lccomptonitcs, and exhibits, in a forcible light, the outrageous folly into which they were led. .-••••

Following out the Grcen-Pugh amendment with peculiar exactness, as the Leavenworth Convention docs, no better commentary could be presented on the shallow unconstitutionality of the former. On the other hand, no higher testimony could be adduced in favor of the firm doctrines of the Crittenden-Montgomery bill, than by reducing the Grcen-Pugh amendment to a practical result, as the convention has done. No sooner is this result announced in the West than we find one of the leading Lccompton Grcen-Pugh organs adopting it. The Cincinnati Enquirer, of the 10th inst., says: "If that Convention was a legal body, we do not sec why the constitution made by it should not, if ratified by the people, supersede the Lecompton instrument.— Under the Democratic doctrine, that the people have at all times the right to alter or abolish their form of government, the people of Kansas, acting through the prescribed forms of law, could supersede the Lecompton constitution by a new one, if a a

The Enquirer need not so adroitly fasten Green-Pugilism on us as a Democratic doctrine. Wo repudiate it. The whole South repudiates it. No Northern Democrat honestly believes that to infringe on a State constitution is, or can be, "Democratic doctrine." As the lastactivc phase of Lecompton Green-Pugilism, the Enquirer would accept the terms of the new Convention.

For the very same reason we arc utterly opposed to it. It is an unconstitutional carrying out of an unconstitutional ordinance. Yet the Lccomptonitcs who passed the Grcen-Pugh stupidity in the Senate, and those who support it out of Congress, can have nothing to say against this new constitution. They must take it, niggers and all for let them remember that the Grcen-Pugh amendment, which forms the second section of the Senate bill, provides for the abolition of the State constitution by the people at all times, or any time, without any legislative action, and in dcfiancc of the express tonus of the constitution sent to Congress for acceptance or rejection and let them further remember that it makes no precaution against niggers voting. Thus, the last convention is the first result of Grecn-Pughism, and is entitled to the best respects of the Lccomptonitcs. Wc should like to kuow if the precaution against the voting of negroes was purposely left out by the Senator from Missouri and the Senator fro:ii Ohio? We cannot believe that the Southerners who went for Lecompton could have read the constitution at all for in that. constitution there is no provision against blacks voting. The first section of article eight, on Elections and Rights of Suffrage, says: "Every male citizcn of the United States above the age of twenty-one years, having resided in this State one year, and in the county, city, or town in which lie may offer his vote three months next preceding any clcction, shall have tho qualifications of an clcctor, and be entitled to vote at all elections. And every male citizcn of the United States above the age aforesaid, who may be a resident of the State at the time that this constitution shall be adopted, shall have the right of voting as aforesaid but no such citizen or inhabitant shall be entitled to vote cxccpt iu the county in which he shall actually reside at the time of tho olection."

This lays no restriction on negro votes. People may talk of the Drod Scott decision, but wc know that ncgroos vote in Ohio, Now York, and othor Statos. It is a known fact that negroes, with certain qualifications, by State laws, are ''male citizens," and vote. This last Kansas eouvention provides that ncgroos may vote on the constitution, and tho Lcoompton constitution docs not provide that they may not vote which is exactly the same thing in effect.

No one can deny the importance of specifically denominating the caste of the voters. This the Lecompton constitution docs not embrace. It is vague, and recognizes the right of blaoks to be citizcns of Kansas. For this, Southern men have been blindly votiug.

The Montgomery amoudment alono is distinct and intelligible to Southern men on this point. In providing for the elections, it takes the precaution to specify white males. Section 4 reads thus "And be it further enacted, That in the elections hereby author iced, all white male inhabitants of said Territory over the age of twenty-one years, who arc legal voters under the laws of the Territory of Kansas, and none others, shall be allowed to vote and this shall be the only qualification required to entitle the voter to the right of suffrage in said elections."'

Between the Lecompton constitution

which does not prohibit black citizens, on the one hand, and the Leavenworth constitution, which recognizes black citizens, on the other, what reliance .haye^the South but the Montgomery bill?

The Grcen-Pugh amendment provides for the changing of the constitution without reference to negroism or anything else and, consequently, this new negro phase of Kansas politics comes to us under the creation, patronage, and sanction of the Lecompton advocates. Thus the Leavenworth constitution is the child of Lecompton.—• It is not acccpted yet it is not before us yet but it is an inevitable conscquence of the Senate bill, with its obnoxious GreenPugh amendment. ..

Let the Southern Senators, while yet they have time, be warned by tho whole Southern press which has pronounccd against this amendment. They have no more protection in the principles of the Lecompton constitution than they have in the new Leavenworth impertinence. The Crittenden-Montgomery substitute distinctly and definitely gives them a basis in which to retrieve the multitudinous errors with which they have surrounded the Kansas question, and, through it, those principles of State rights which are the whole strength of the South. If Kansas is to bo admitted, it should be done upon this basis but it would bo better that Kansas should never come into the Union as a State until it shall contain sufficient population to constitute a State, to-wit: the number required by the ratio of representation for a member of Congress, to be ascertained by a ccnsus taken in pursuance of law. ,.

THE POUGHKKEPSIE TRANCE CASE. The editor of the Buffalo Advertiser knows something about physic, drugs, anatomy, fainting, trances, cataplasms, &c., and he says that the Poughkecpsic girl, who has been in a trance for forty-eight hours, simply has tho disease known as hysterical coma. The talking paroxysms arc more frequent and far less remarkable than the half cataleptic condition which previous accounts have mentioned. Iu fact, there is nothing at all remarkable about the case, except the fuss made over it. A little harshness, a few beckctsfull of cold water, for instance, would be far more likely to put an end to this trancc than the constant inducements held out to her to stay in it. That she has never been nervous before is about as wonderful as that a person should have the itch for the first time. The Po ughkeepsie Eagle, however, says that the whole story was an "April fool" hoax! Shouldn't wonder.

HARTER AND GRAHAM FOR MAY.—Frank Ileaton has received Harper and Graham for May. They are going off like hot cakes.

WAR IN THE WORK-BOX.—In these bellicose days, when half the world is at war, it is a little wonder that there should be "domestic broils" and "civil commotions." A lady informed us the other day, that there had been, not a tempest in her teapot, but a disturbance among her sewing implements. The Needle, with a single eye to business, and a great deal of sharpness. made a

pnmt

of attacking GROVER &

BAKER, manufacturers of the SEWING MACHINE. "Quoth the Needle," like Othello, "my occupation's gone." Here have I reigned in tho domestic circle from time immemorial, and now am to be used up— sewn up, I mean—by a thing with an iron arm and a common ichccl in other words, I was a Despot, and the Machine, like Cromwell, is a Protcctor." "Pooh!" remarked a pin, "it's high time your tyranny was put an end to. You've killed more wives than Bluebeard, or Henry VIII, himself, to say nothing of unprotected females of all descriptions." "Ah!" cxclainicd a pair of scissors, "T'm rejoiccd that you are cut off." And so the war of words went on, until the noise awoke the lady, who, having finished her work in a very short time, through the aid of her GROVER & BAKER, had enjoyed a refreshing dose and a dream. But it is no dream that this GROVER & BAKER Machine is the finest of its kind.

Offices of exhibition and sale 495 Broadway, New York IS Summer street, Boston and 730 Chestnut, Philadelphia.

8§5™THE VICE PRESIDENT ON LECOMPTON.—The extreme reserve of Mr. Breckinridge, and his silence on the subject of the administration policy, are creating much talk in Washington, and arc thought to indicate his disapproval of the attempt to force Lecompton on a resisting people.

LEQOMPTOX IN KENTUCKY.—The Louisville Democrat says that if Lecompton were submitted to the people of that city, it would fare worse than it would in Kansas. The Democrat-says: "Wc don't believe it could muster fivo hundred votes out of seven or eight thousand.". ,-.rv. ,-t

C-STThe Kansas Ledger says that there is, among the Free State men, a furious opposition to the Leavenworth Constitution.

A delegation of the Pawnee Indians

have been at Washington and made a treaty with the government, transferring 12,000,000 acres of land, for which they are to receive $40,000 per annum, which will give each member of the tribe about $10 yearly. They are now on their way to Nebraska.

LARGE CONFIRMATIONS.—The Provisional Bishop of New York, ,says the Church Journal) during the past week—or rather less than o-week-r-from the night of Wednesday in Holy Week to tho morning of Easter Tuesday, confirmed no less than five hundred and fifteen persons.

SfiT'ln Lower -Canada, the agreement of nine jurors out of twelve is sufficient in all oivilcases. This has long been the law of Scotland.

FROM UTAH. BRIGHAM'S THREAT.—-The <Deseret News>

has a reply from "Governor Young" to Colonel Alexander, of the United States Army, in which he makes this dire and savage threat.

If you persist in your attempts to permanently locate an army in this Territory, contrary to the wishes and constitutional rights of the people therein, and with a view to aid the Administration in their unhallowed efforts to palm their corrupt officials upon us, and to protect, them, and black-legs and black-hearted scoundrels, w——ters and murderers, as was the sole intention in sending you and your troops here, you will have to meet a mode of warfare against which your tactics furnish you no information.

BRIGHAM TAUNTS COLONEL ALEXANDER. —The Mormon rebel, in replying to a letter from Colonel Alexander, stating that he considered the troops under his orders amply sufficient to carry out the wishes of the Administration, sends him back the following allusion:

Inasmuch as you consider your force amply sufficient to enable you to come to this city, why have you unwisely dallied so long on Ham's Fork, at this late season of the year?

LEAVING UTAH.—The mail carrier between Salt Lake and California stated that Brigham Young had furnished passports to eight hundred and forty disappointed Mormons—men, women and children—who had availed themselves of the opportunity, and set out from Salt Lake for California. The messenger passed them about four hundred miles from San Bernardino, and they were hurrying through as fast as possible.

----->The Sacramento <Bee> had seen a letter from Salt Lake, dated February 6 to his father, in which he says, (he is one of the Saints:)

Wc get along quite well, having plenty to eat, but very little to wear, clothing being very scarce, as no goods have been brought in here this year, and you cannot buy a yard of goods of any kind, which is, possibly, done to force us into manufacturing. * * * We have one thousand mounted troops, well armed, who are in the mountain ranges, watching the enemy, and our intention is to enjoy freedom at any cost. As a last resort, if we are overpowered, we shall burn everything, and cross the mountains, where we shall be unmolested but we never intend to be conquered. -----

SSF* In the funeral procession which attended the remains of Col. Benton to the grave at St. Louis, there were 2,100 persons and 120 vehicles.

Eight hundred and forty dissatisfied

Mormons—men, women and children—recently left Salt Lake City for California, ivith passports from Brigham Young.

On Friday last, a Chicago firm ship

ped direct to London, England, by way of New York, eighteen thousand coo?i skins, valued at $9,000. The skins were made up in sixty compactly pressed bales.

SS?" The Free-soil party iu Missouri— encouraged bj* their success in the municipal elections—propose to form a State ticket to test, the question of free and slave labor in ths whole State.

FISTVSKF.KING A LARGER PLACE OF BUSINESS.—The Chicago papers say that George Pcabody is about removing his banking house from London to Chicago.

ARTILLERY CORPS FOR UTAH.—WE learn from Colonel Taylor that the celebrated -light artillery corps known as "Captain Bragg's Battery," which rendered such invaluable scrvicc in the late war with Mcxico, has been ordered by the Secretary of War to procccd to Utah, and left here in tho Western train of la«t eve evening cn route for Fort Leavenworth.— For some time past this unsurpassed body of soldiers has been stationed at Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort, and in a few hours afcer receiving the order were ready to proccod on their long journey.—Baltimore Republican.

MOVEMENT OF THE EA KTII.

The mildness of the present season has drawn forth many curious speculations as to the causes. A change of the currents of the ocean, and the approach of the Gulf stream, by fifty miles or more towards our coast, have been announced as remarkable facts, which may have some relation to the subject. Wc will now add another curious fact for the consideration of our readers: "The British Astronomer Royal, in his last annual report, referred to ccrtain mysterious changes of level and direction of one of the instruments, one occurring with changes of temperature, the other at the equinoxes, and lie imagines some movement of the earth itself to be the cause of these remarkable phenomena." Those who arc acquainted with the perfection of the instruments used in the great observatories, tiic permanency of the direction of tho transit and equatorial instruments, and the accuracy of measurements depending on (heir accuracy, will understand that these mysterious changes alluded to, arc in the highest degree important and astounding. Is the earth changing the inclination of its axis?

RACE BETWEEN A HORSE AND A LOCOMOTIVE.—A novel race took placc at St. Thomas on Tuesday last, between a blooded horse and a locomotive. The horse is decided to be a very fast nag, and so is the locomotive, and both were well trained to the track. The arrangements between the betting parties were, that the horse should be at his starting place when the locomotive came up even, and the word "go" should be given, when away they went under whip and steam. The judges declared the horse the winner by one half-length. The bet was $50 a side, and the distance eighty rod3. This decides the question that the horso is faster than steam.—sHam' ilton (Canada) Times.

fi^&*The Utah army is well supplied with newspaper reporters, The London Times, the New York Herald, and the Evening Post, each have one.

ILLINOIS STATE-CONVENTION. The Democracy of Iffinois met at Springfield, on .last Wednesday. The number of delegates in attendance, was strong and enthusiastic. Ninety-seven counties responded. Resolutions strongly approving tbc course of Senator Douglas and the Democratic members of the House from the State were passed without a dissenting voice.— Hon. Wm. B. Fondisy was noninated for State Treasurer, and Ex Governor French for Superintcndant of Public Instruction.

The following arc the resolutions.— They smack of-the old-fashioned Democracy. yH1st Resolved, That the Democratic party of the State of Hlinois, through their delegates in general convention assembled', do, re-assert and declare the principles avowe'1 by them as when on former occasions they have presented their candidates for popular suffrages. 2nd. Rcsolvcdj That they are unalterably attached to, and will maintain inviolate the principles declared by the National Convention at Cincinnati in June, 1856. 3rd. Resolved, That they avow with renewed energy their devotion to the Federal Union of the United States, their desire to avert sectional strife, their determination to maintain the sovereignty of the States and to protect every State and the inhabitants thereof in all their constitutional rights. 4th. Resolved, That the platform of principles established by the National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, is the only authorative expression of Democratic doctrine, and wo deny the right of any power on earth, cxccpt alike body, to change or interpolate that platform or to proscribe now and different tests that this they will neither do themselves nor permit it to be done by others, but will recognize all men as Democrats who stand by and uphold Democratic principles. 5th. Resolved, That in tho organization of States people have a right to decide at the polls upon the chara,ctcr of their fun damental law, and that the experience of the past year has conclusively demonstrated to the wisdom and propriety of the principle, that the fundamental law, under which a Territory seeks admission into the Union, should be submitted to the people of such Territory for ratification or rejection at a fair clcction to be held for that purpose and that before such Territory is admitted as a State, such fundamental law should receive a majority of the legal votes cast at such election and they deny the right, and condemn the attempt, of any such convention, called for the purpose of framing a constitution, to impose the instrument framed by them upon the people against their known will.

Oth. Resolved, That a fair application of these principles requires that the Lecompton Constitution should bo submitted to a direct vote of the actual inhabitants of Kansas, so that thoy may vote for or against the instrument, before Kansas shall be declared one of the States of this Union and until it shall be ratified by the people of Kansas at a fair election held for that purpose, the Illinois Democracy arc unalterablgkopposcd to the admission of Kansas uiiTcr that constitution. 7th. Resolved, That we heartily approve and sustain the manly, firm, patriot,io and democratic position ot S. A. Douglas, Isaac N. Morris. Thomas L. Harris, Aaron Shaw, Robert Smith and Samuel S. .Marshall, the Democratic delegation of Illinois in Congress, upon the question of the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution, and that by their firm and uncompromising devotion to Democratic principles—to the cause of justice, right, truth, and the people—they have deserved our admiration, increased, if possible, our confidence in their integrity and patriotism, and merited our warm approbation, our sincere and hearty thanks, and shall receive our earnest and efficient support. 8th. Resolved, That in all things wherein the national administration sustain and carry out the principles of the Democratic party as expressed in the Cincinnati platform and affirmed in these resolutions, it is entitled to, and will rcccive our hearty support.

The resolutions were adopted without a dissenting voice.

"DREAMS CUMK TRUE." Wc have now daily operation around us, throe greater marvels than find placc in the tales of the "Thousand and one Nights realities more wonderful than the "yarn" of the Roc, that hid the sun with a feather or a greater than the magic glass that enabled the prince to sec around the world greater than tlic strange fabric of the carpct, which bore one at his will, and quick as thought, to the ends of the earth greater than the Indian horse that never wearied nor slept, but went like a cloud, from clime to clime.

Greater than all these are the Daguerreotype, the Telegraph and the Steam engine, yet the short-lived wonder has looked away into indifference. Thus it is that fancy becomcs fact, and the dreams of "the drowsy East," bccome the deeds of all the world. ,"i

8S7"Life to the young, is an open book lying on a window-seat in a summer's day. Hope is the gentle wind that flutters the leaves over, and displaces many a page in the thin ledger of time. The reader is dreaming, and heeds not the mischief Hope is playing.

He looks down upon hi,s book again, but the page is a strange one hi» thread of thought is untwisted his train of action broke up and away he wanders in pursuit of Hope, that avant courier of the heart, thtit is swiftor thrin time.

JSfHuman life is one great Saturday, in whioh the world should get ready for Sunday, closing up accounts with time, and putting things in order for a holiday.

BENTON'S WILL.

The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer says: Although Colonel Benton went through the usual formalities of making a trill, he nevertheless died very poor. Tho oredi* tors of his estate arc not likely, however, to press their claims unpleasantly and, if a project on foot in reference to a certain disposition of his latest literary labors is successfully carried out, his debts will probably be paid in full. Every one who who had business dealings with him speaks in the strongest terms of his Spartan sense of honor and faithfulness to his engagements, and one secret of his late indefatigable labors lies in the fact of his extreme anxiety to cancel every pecuniary obligation before his decease,

THE MWIMIPPVi

Those who have'mvert seen thefXtississippi when die guthing patera of^thousand streams tnat' elsewhere would" be ranked as rivers, had given it a volume and pojrer, a wild rush of. waters, Jiore brokcn'by great twirls, thw«S^ reveled 6n itself by forming eddies and counter-cur-rents that a good boatsman done can safely pass, knowi,-little of lhe magnificence and sublimity of the view from our levee. Stand there and let. your" thoughts trace the .mighty^ flood now rushing "by to its source, amid the little lakes df-the far north, growing more and inofc turbid, deeper, broader, and. leps to be restrained by any ordinary obstacles, as it receives the tribute of the Rocky .Mountains and the great American plains on the west, through the Missouri, the Arkansas, the Red, and their branches, and the waters from tho great basin west of the Alleghanics, through the Ohio, and you begin to appreciate tho idea of the Mississippi. "It "grows upon you as you gaze upon its steady sweep onward to the ocean, bearing along washings from every soil to make the foundations of new lands slowly rising from- the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

Just now its surface is above the general level of the land. It, fills it ^froiu shore to shore, the wind dasliing its waves in many places over tho levee. Yesterday at the foot of Bienville street, at tho steamship landing, and at various other points, the water dashed over the crown of the firm embankment thar aTonc.preserves us from inundation. Still thefHater rose higher, and for twenty-four hours longer, at least, they did continue to swell.— But there is no danger from the rivcf front along the borders of the city. The leveo is broad and firm, and might oven permit the water to swell even so that no tnorc could be contained without these, massive mounds, gradually sloping away towards the swamp, being broken away. The only fear is from the weakness of the embankments miles above us. Hero a sleepless vigilance is necessary. The slightest crcvice through which the water trickle may in an hour be enlarged to the dimensions of a river, pouring a current upon the rear of the city which human ingenuity would toil perhaps in vain to close. Such experiments are recorded in the past histo* ry of New Orleans.

The news of the fall of all the tributaries of our great river, however, gives us a feeling of ease. We can enjoy the sublimity of the scene presented without any feeling of anxiety. It is a spectacle which is, rarely witnessed that can now be witnessed in this Crescent City, and the equal of which no other people can look upon.

RESTORATION OF ORDER AT WASHINGTON. The Federal metropolis seems in a fair way of being redeemed from the reign of anarchy, Plug-Uglyism and other monster vices consequent upon the triumph of Know-Nothingism in 1854. The sober, industrious portion of the population have been "ruled" by a miserable set of creatures calling themselves "American* about long enough, and they have concluded to assert the natural independence of which they have been temporarily deprived. An auxiliary guard has been formed, and many of the best citizens of Washington have enrolled and volunteered to watch the city at night, and protect the inhabitants from robbers and assassins. A proposition is also before Congress tu alter the entire government of tho District, ami plaeo it under the immediate direction of the national law-making power. KnowNothingism may attempt to shirk tho responsibility, but impartial hist iry w-11 hold its originators tc account, and fasten upon them the stains of those damning crimes, at tho bare mention of which humanity shudders, and whose darker shades will bo repudiated as romance by those that shall come after us.

FIVE VALUABLE FAMILY MEDICINE*.—•' I Noticcs of which can be seen in our col-" umns this day, and we invite the sick and afflicted to give them a careful perusal.— We allude to Dr. Easterly's Iodine and Sarsaparilla, Dr. Carter's Cough Balsam, Dr. Easterly's Fever and Ague Killer, Dr. Baker's Specific and Dr. Hooper's FemaleCordial. These medicines are universally acknowledged by Physicians, Druggists, and all that have used them, to be much superior to any others now in use. Th«' fame of these preparations seems to be spreading wider and wider every day, and the number of cures which they daily perform make them indispeusible to almost every famity. They are kept for sale by T. D. BROWN, Druggist, Crawfordsvillc, Indiana. Apr. 24, lm.

RICH.—Jhc London Times says of the sable men out on the coast of Africa:" "There is a never ending discussion whether they should be shot or sold, or carried off to slavery, or encouAged to emigrate, or apprenticed to planters, or enlisted into the Indian army, or taken into our navy, or taken to grow cotton and palm a

SSyEternal Kansas still rages at Washington.

8&~ The king of Prussia has become stark mad. He occasionally believes that lie is a private soldier, who has just received his commission as ensign, but has since bst the parchment, and therefore he anx-' iously seeks it in all the hidden comers of the palace, and nooks of the garden.—: Prince Frederick, with his English wifc^ may soon have an opportunity to try his Jinnd at governing.

For the Kc.view. -ri

TO THE PUBLIC.

,1 wish it distinctly understood, that I have no connection with Mr. J. W. Hogue. After repeated solicitations on his part I consented to go in partnership with him in the painting business. Having advertised the same in the Journal, ho told me he had word from his father to come home, and if I was willing he would dissolve the" partnership. Feeling that I was somewhat disappointed in the person, I readily consented to tho same, and am up to this date very well-satisfied with the dissolution.— I will be pleased to wait upon my old cus-^ tomcrs at all times, though I don't feel disposed to give them any grand and lofty strides in the art, as advertised by others..1 My intention is to try and plpqse those Ifd work for if I succeed in this I will be aatisfied. Returning my thanks to the.puhlio ,, for past favors, I remain their humble servant, T. H. WINTON.