Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 11 September 1858 — Page 2

CRAW FORDS VILLE, IND.

Saturday, September 11,1858.

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DKMOCUATIC STATE TICKET.

For Secretary of Stale. PAN1EL McCI.URE, of Morpan. For Auditor of State,

JOHN W. DOPI, of Grant.

»v For Treasurer of State, NATHANIEL E. CUNNINGHAM, of Vigo. For Superintendent of Public Instruction,

SAMUEL L. RUGfi. of Allen.

For Attorney General,

JOSEPH E. McDONALD, of Montgomery.,

For Judges of the Supreme Court ••-win hAMUEL E. PERKINS, of Marion.. ANDREW DAVISON, of Decatur.

JAMES M. HANNA, of Vijro. ... JAMES L. WORD EN, of Whitley.-

,, For Congress—$th District, JOHN \V. BLAKE, of Clintou. Forjudge of tho Stli Judicial District,

WILLI AM P. BRYANT, of TAUC. For Circuit Prosecutor, .. WALLACE REA, of Fountain.

For Common Pleas Prosecutor, JOHN MORGAN, of MOSTCOMWIT.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.

For RujirowiiJttttivc—(AMES F. IIAKN.h^ For Trcnsurcr—JOHN LEE. For Sheriff—WILLIAM K. WALl.Ai'i'. Fur Coinmisdionor—SAMUEL G1LLT.AND. For Surveyor—JOHN BUCK. For Coroner—J AM ES II. VAN A USD \T For Assessor, Union Tp.—S. EAS'l'LAl-lv.

DEMOCRATIC RALLY.

TJic Domocraey of Orawfordsv die and vicinity, will meet at lltu CJUTI- House on next Tucsdav night, the 14tli inst. Jvini ncnt speakers will bo in attendance and nddrcss the meeting. ..Let the "Old Line Dogs" I urn out.

|®"A squalid looking tenement in the alley, north of the Court ITou.sc, familiarly known to our citizens by the name of the "Dead Horse," was stormed a few nights since, and completely demolished, with its entire contents of rifle whisky. This cstablisnmnt., for a long time, has been a grievious annoyance to our citizens. It was a regular rendezvous for thieves and vagabonds.

OUR COUNTY FAIR.

Next Wednesday witnesses the opening "of tho grand exhibition for 1858, We have 110 doubt, from the interest manifested and the extensive arrangements being made, that, this exhibition of the agricultural products of Montgomery county, and its mechanical skill, will surpass all former efforts. The address will be. delivered on

Thursday instead of Friday, as stated in our last issue. Lot every farmer with his family be in attendance.

:9&* Judge BUKE commences the canvass in this county ou tho 24th. Let every one turn out and hear tho Judge.

.• LOST.

On last Saturday, apart of an car-ring (Chiucso Painting). The finder will ooufor a favor upon the owner by leaving it at Thomas Newman's Jewelry Store.

We this week insert the name of

W ALI ACE IIEA, Esq., of Covington, as the Democratic candidate for Frosccuting Attorney for this Judicial District. Mr. R. is a young man of promise, and wc recommend him to our democratic friends as their man, who, if elected, will put criminals through on the lightning lino.

The London Times still continues

to urge the United States to the absorption of Mcxico. The Liverpool Mcrcury •ays that "unloss Mexico speedily mends its ways, or be absorbed by the United States, it will stand a good chanco of having an allied expedition sent to crush its incivility and wroug doing." ,,

VA.:.

As an evidence of the telling effect

of Douglas* speeches beforo the people of Dlinois, we will give a single individual instance out of those that arc occurring almost daily:

On the evening of the 1st inst., Judge. Douglas spoke at Jolict, Will Coaaty.— .During tho progress of the meeting, Mr. Coggswell, aprominent Republican of Joliet, in a publio spcech, renounced hi§ connection with the party, and declared that hereafter he should act with and support the Democratic party. IEs speech, unexpected as it was, took his Republican meads by surprise, and gave them a foretaste of what uiey might expect in November.

From the_Laf«ycUe Argus

TIL RKCORD OF JAMES WILSON IS JF THE

/^Hon. James Wilson is again the Repub^ fican candidate for Congress in this district. His acts in the last Congress arc public property, and the voters of. the district have aright to know!what they:arc. Let the record speak

The Congressional Globe in four.- large volumes is now before us, in which every spcech, motion, resolution or legislative act of each member is recorded at length. Mr. Wilson was sworn in on the 7th day of December, 1857, the first day of the session. On the 30th (lay of March he made a spcech on Kaosas matterej on the 1/th of May he excused his absence from the House, by stating that he teas engaged urriting letters to his constituents! On the first day of June, he excuscd himself for not voting on the Paragnay question on the 2d of June he enquired of Hughes whether certain letters had been laid before the Committee on elections and on the same day introduced a resolution declaring that Fuller was entitled to Kingsbury's seat from Minnesota. About the same time wc find him making a few remarks on the contested election case of L. P. Campbell of Ohio, and H. Winter Davis of Maryland. During the whole session he introduced no bill or joint resolution made no report from a Committee, and offered no amendment to any bill.— During the session the ayes and nays were called three hundred and fifty times, and he failed to vote ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY TIMES. GENERALLY ON IMPORTANT BILLS!!

There! voters of the 8th Congressional district, iB the rccord of your Representative for the eight months of the last session of Congress! What a poor amount of service he performed, for which he received within a fraction the snug little sum of FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS!

The question will very naturally be asked what was Mr. Wilson doing in and about Washington all this time, that he could not attend to his duties in the House? If certain gentlemen who were the competitors of Mr. Wilson for the Republican nomination for Congress, would permit us to publish the letters which they exhibited about the district before the Convention, written byproniiuent Republicans at Washington, or if certain Republicans in this

city would tell what they saw, and heard,

LASR CQNGRBS.

thc greatest difficulty he could be mduced |be]1

GWYNUP CONVICTED.

The Jury in the ease of GWVNLP gave a vcrdict of guilty, with a sentence of eight years in thc penitentiary at hard labor, a fine of two hundred dollars, and disfranchised for eight years. "The way of the transgressor is bard."

I'LEAD GUILTY.

WILLIAM LOWMAN, the horse thief, plead guilty, and was sentenced by Judge Bryant to seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor, pay a fine of one hundred and fifty ddHars, and disfranchised for seven years.

JAWES.WILSOW

This gentleman- #ue to thefytetindtB? of his psrty, finds it convenien|pwe learn, even hi} this locality^ u£changMhe master ofhiss£eech-so as»to correspond with the peculiar views of those he is addressing. In most places in the county, he seemingly went' iota ccstacies' over| the glorious doctrine of Squatter Sovferagnty -and bewailed -in theiaostpiteoiia^lamentattons the. treachery.of the, Democratic party in depriving Jihe. people of Kansas ot the right of making tb&r1 own lairs'" ljf their own way.

When Jimmy went up to Russikville, somo of his Republican friends Were kind enough to suggest that the popular element of the party there, bordered Strongly on genuine Abolitionism. This caused the plastic time-server to change his tactics, and it: became necessary to say but little of the beauties of Popular Sovereignty, and to dry up his crocodile tears over the abandonment of thit principle by the Democratic party. Accordingly during the whole of his -speech, we learn, these subjects were not mentioned. Another question which had been a favorite theme of that pious representative of the sober party, was the effort on the part of Judge lilake to sell the people of Honey Creek Township to Howard County: Not one word cscaped his lips about clipping the county—selling our citizens, Ac., &c. He was in the wrong pew for that, and his inherent love of deception, and force of hab it, of being all things to all men, admonished him there as well as elsewhere, to utter nothing that would not be in unison with the peculiar sentiments of his party in each particular locality.

at Washington, the answer would be ready. compromise unquestionably involves the The paltry cxcu.sc for his absence which he gave upon one occasion, that he was "engaged writing letters to his constituents," is too contemptible to require more than a passing notice. Any person conversant with the routine of duties of a. monibcr of Congress knows very well that at least ninety out of every hundred letters which Ihey write, arc written at their desks in the House. And pray, who did lie write to? We know it was a matter of almost universal complaint, that it was with

The great beauty of Democracy is, that the exponents of its principles can make the same speech in all localities. It is founded upon the eternal principles of truth, and is co-extensive with the Universe.—Frankfort Crescent.

KANSAS IN TIIE NEXT CONGRESS.—Mr. John W. Blake, who is the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Eighth district of Indiana, having been interrogated as to whether he would or would not vote for the immediate admission of Kansas as a State, replied as follows:— "As a member of the democratic party I do not recognize the right of one Congress to pass any law which a subsequent Congress may not rcpeafc alter or modify and if I shonld be elected, and the people of Kansas should, at any time during my term, apply for admission into the Union with a legally formed constitution, which is the will of her people, I should ait upon the application regardless of any law whatever now upon the statute books and vote for hor admission, believing that the harmony of the country would be promoted thereby."

Sensible man, Mr. Blake. Good doe-

trinc_ The pmver to repeal thc

Missouri

power to repeal the English compromise.— But it is time that some of our Democratic organs in this quarter were speaking out on this subject. Tho. English compromise has served its purpose. It has done everything to settle thc Kansas imbroglio except the admission of Kausas, and that should be dine at thc first opportunity.— That act, and that alone, will forever close up the agitation of the Kansas nuisance. Any other expedient will only revive the agitation to thc prejudice of all concerned. JY. Y. Herald.

E O IN I IN A A W .—Lord G'amp-

ig about to introdliee into

to attend to any business for his constitu- Parliament, a bill dispensing with the pracents at the Departments, and it is said, ticc of requiring a unanimous verdict from and wc have no doubt truly, that verv few ja.iur.V- not propose the majority i- principle, but lie wishes to get rid of the Democrats were the rccipicnts or his la-

vors to the extent even ot a stray public jng

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... .. making it necessary to bribe more than

thcIrccStatcofM.nne.sota,withhcrpop-|oncof°thejurorg ulation of over two hundred thousand, out I —.— of the Union for at least one year longer IIoo MORTALITY—It seems that a lewhile at thc same time he voted for the devils have taken possession of the ,, hoirs in Daviess, Muicnburg."McLean, and Crittcndcn-Montgouicry amendment, which

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thc British

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practice ot tampering with a jury, by plac-

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document. the others. lie desires that if, after cerBut we arc not yet quite done with Mr. tain deliberation by the jury, they all Wilson. lie is now perambulating (liC I agreed except one or two, the verdict of ,. those who had agreed should be considerdistrict, bloviating about his great devo-j

it to hold out against all

ag g00f] as

tion to the "cause of Ireedoin, when the twelve, subject howevc*, to bo reviewed, rccord shows that he voted to send back land if necessary set aside. This would thc Constitution of Minnesota, which, if tend completely to break up the practice his .vote had prevailed, would have kept M' packing juries, or increase the risks by

vcrdict of the whole

INTICS.

in a certain event provided for in the bill, been traveling through these counties inMADK KANSAS A SLAVE STATE! Minnesota forms us that the mortality is astonishing, was made a free State by Democratic men I

eluding this very same James Wilson. Wc hear that Mr. Wilson in his speeches about thc district has a deal to say about the extravagance of the Administration.— Now thc truth is, and wc have the rccord to prove it, he voted, wheu he did vote, for the largest appropriations made at thc last session, and we have the authority of a gentleman who was in Washington during the late session, for stating that he wcut still further, and was loud mouthed in his denunciation of those Republicans who voted against them, especially Colfnx. And yet he has thc shameless assurance to complain of extravagance. Was ever impudence more brazen faced

sonie

T, ps ... I hundreds, the air is black with crows, raand Democratic Congressmen, notwith-1 .,, vens and buzzards, aud the stench is absostandmg the opposition of Republicans, in-

lutely

gentleman who has

places thp dead are piled up in

overpowering.

Thc poisoned atmosphere is producing much sickness. No satisfactory account

of the cause of the cpidcmic has yet been assigned. It is as mysterious as the terrible Asiatic cholera. Under its iron hand the proudest and stateliest of the porcine tribe curl their imposing tails in an agonizing kink, squeal miserably, grunt horribly, and die in despair.— Hopkinsvtllc (Ay.) Mercury.

ANOTHER TELEGRAPHIC ROUTE PROPOS ED.—A correspondent of the

I®* J. S. Miller has. ngw on hand and English and French fleets on the Chifor sale, a splendid lot of Carriages and buggies. See Advertisement, irr -v'e

S5F" Nearly all. the. papers, says Mr. Prentice of the 'Louisville Journal,'.regard it as a cheering omeu that the first dispatch, over the submarine, .wires was a'message of peace.' Alas. alas. he exclaims, centuries ago there came over the waters a-dove bearing the olivo branch, but, aince then, how hare wars incarnsd ncd their fair faea.

National In-

telligeitccr suggests the practicability of laying a submarine cablo between Europe and America by the way of the Azores and the Bermudas. The writer says the distance from Bermuda to Fayal is less than from Ireland to Newfoundland.-— These islands stand invitingly off the coasts of Europe and America. They stand as herculean pillars on which to rest the cable. If a wire was laid between them, shorter ones could be carried to the shores of thc Old and New World. One wire between these island-s would serve all practical purposes for along time to come. The route by Fayal would accommodate England with one wire, France with one, Spain aud Portugal with one, and Madeira and Africa with one. On our side the Bermuda route would be convenient for one wire to New England, one for the Middle States and thc West, one for the Southern States and California, one for Cuba and Mexico, and one for the West Indies and South Am&rica.

A CLOSE SUAVE.—During the attack of

nese forts at the mouth of the Pei-Ho river, as an English purser was coming on deek from below, a'round shot took off his hat in'a most unceremonious manner.^— "Hillo!" he exclaimed, "that-was a close shave and the next moment be fell dead. The coacmssioa of the atmosphere had destroyed his hold, OB life, it aeema, and yet left him :time to make the exclamation.— Similar instances of what is-termed thee wind of a ball have been recorded.

THK«CAPTURED M.AWK—THRCl \BdmRE0 A*D rqtjRTjgfcy SLAVE A Ul

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Hie Cbarleston^Sfer^tfy. following very interesting intelligence respecting the captjtfcd slater,and ite cargo^ recently taken into that pbrttoy a United'

The real name of the captured brig4s the General' Putnam. These letters are partially erased and coyere.dL.ovcr by those of ,tlie assumed name EcJio, ,and would, doubtless- have been, restored had,success crowned the enterprise in which she was engaged when taken.. She is of the Baltimore build, say two.hundred and eighty tuns burden, and it is believed, was formerly a packet in the coffee-tradc between that port, and Rio. On the 6th of March last, she cleared from New Orleans .with a captain, two mates, eight seamen, a cook, steward and one passenger. On. the 5th of July she shipped a cargo of four hundred .aud fifty-five slaves on the west coast of Africa, at Kabcnda, situated in latitude 5^30.south, longitude 12.20 east. It is in Lower Guinea, in the southern part of the District of Loango, and not far from the river Congo or Zaire. These slaves were purchased in a circuit of five hundred miles, and assembled at a barranjpn near the point of shipment.

The brig set sail with them, and in for-ty-seven days made the trip, reaching the point of desfination on the morning of the 21st ult. In this space of time one hundred and forty-one negroes had died, leaving but three hundred and fourteen alive. A bay on "Cay Verde," one of the keys on the north coast of Cuba, latitude 23.30, longitude 30.20 was the landingplace, where the Echo was detected by the Dolphin. The officers of the Dolphin left the harbor of Sagua la Grande the day before, and cruising westward in search of slavers, perceived the Echo it daylight, in tho distauce,.bearing the British flag, and running down the coast ahead of the Dolphin in the same direction. No suspicion was excited. The brig entered a bay.— The Dolphin run on her course, and in good time came in view.of the bay aud the Echo. The captain of the slaver now lost all presence of mind, supposing he was suspected and pursued, and suddenly hauled off from the coast. It was then observed that a number of lanches near the shore had their sails sot to come to tho brig. This verified the suspicion excited by her strange movemcut, and the Dolphin gave chase to tho flying vessel, still bearing the British flag. Blank cartridges were fired, and it became evident tliat'the pursuer gained., The slaver spread al! her canvass ia vain, and finding herselt about to fall into the clutches of the cruiser, thought to bo British, hauled-'down

that flan and run un the .Stars ana fctnnes.

her true colors, and brought her to with a few shotted guns fired after her. She was boarded by Lieutenant Bradford and sixteen men, and surrendered at discretion. No papers were found, but a signal of a black cross on a white ground, which had probably just been used to notify thc party on shore.by previous agreement.— The crew, nineteen in number, professed to be all passengers without captain or officers. But Lieutenant Mafiit selected the prisoner who appeared at the head of the enterprise, and took him aboard the Dolphin, with a sick seaman and comrade to tend him. The rest were brought here by Lieutenant Bradford.

Of thc officers and crew, nineteen in number, the Mcrcury adds: One is a Greek, one an Italian some of them are Portugecsc, some Spaniards and some English. Some of them talk about New York, but none now admit that they are Americans, or have a whereabouts, in this country. These smugglers are a desperate looking set of fellows.— Under the laws of 1819 and 1820 they will be tried for their lives as a pirates sailing on an American bottom under the American flag. They were committed to jail on Saturday afternoon. Their trials will take place at Columbia, S. C'., before His Honor Judge Wayne, Circuit Judge James Conner, United States District Attorney, prosccuting.officcr. The Court begins to sit tho 4th Monday iu November.— The laws of 1819 and 1820 will be found in another column.

Being curious to see thc cargo and arrangements of the Echo, we obtained a permit from Dr. W. C. Ravencl, thc Port Physician, and with one or two others accompanied Lieutenant Bradford in a small boat from the wharf. Upon clambering up the side of thc brig a strange and startling sight presented itself a deck covered with native Africans in a state of complete nudity, with rare instances of a narrow strip of rag an inch wide round the waist. These people were seated for the most part with their legs stretched out flat or drawn up iu front or doubled up some squatted on their feet and hands. A few were standing about and a few lying down. None were tied or fastened in any way.— Thc majority were very young, apparently from eight to sixteen years of age, some younger and some older scarcely' oue, however, over twenty-five. Some of them were able-bodied, good sized and in good case but the greater part were half-grownj children only, weak and worn. Many were much emanciatcd, and showed plainly the effects of their long and crowded passage in a confined ship. A few were evidently ill and soon to die. All were pure black in color exccpt the dropsical, whose skins were tawny from disease.— Their hair is very short and crisp. Those who were weli appeared curious and pleased, some of them ogling and giggling and chattering, and others smoking tobacco out of short clay pipes and cane stems, just as our own negroes do. Those that were thin

son who had charge of them. They are great thieves, however, and appropriate whatever they can on every occasion.— There were two hundred and forty-six males and sixty females, who were kept separation deck and-in the holds.

Thc men and boys were kept on the forward deck aad-tin the forward -hold, which latter is fifty-five feet long, nineteen feet wide in. the broadest part, and narrow at the head, 'and forty-four inches high, the' floor being formed of loose boards, nioVafble at pleasure. Tho hold for ibe women' and girls is behind this. It is of-the same hight, twelve-fret lottg "and^nineteeu wide. Under thiir temporary flooding'isf stored, the provisions, consisting office, *peas,r •ad the wster to drink Their food is boil-

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negroe^frbm taWngrfioFe'than their share, although all are liberally allowed. A pint oJ^ watetj-is, .to. each, *moipiBg ank cveningi of khein ^epTlon deck) being placed in close order, spoonftifii8B^lira^iFB8?^s^ancrno^erm1f^ to turn or move, daring th anight. At'daylight they are dashed with buckets of water to wash'them off. Theynsing songs, clapping tireir hands and "rocking their-l6cties in time and. these songs have a great resemblance to some of our nogro spirituals. Soferal of the negro fellows eicrcwe"-au-thority very much after the mauneb of our drivers, with arri of .authority and ridiculous -gesticulations and grimaces. Others were cooking the "big pot" like good fellows, and' with old breeches on, too, obtained from the sailors. The captain of the hold understands their lingo, and says they are very averse to going back to Af-rica,-as the United States law requires.— Our coast resembles that they come from, and the group of pines opposite the city on the souths looks to them like cocoannt trees of their native Africa.

'ysr IN THE PUI.PIT AGAIN.f^? rhe.notoriou's

The new disciple of the green bag made up his mind to return to his first love, (the pulpit,) and accordingly poster] off to Boston, signified his willingness to serve his former congregation, and w«s invited to do so by a

large

,i rt. o. oils rciicein.'.! iiaiu imitu

To thc honor of the Southern pulpit be it said that no man of the Kalloch stripe could profane the sanctuary a moment.— Joseph Surface, a very great rascal in a sly way, ruined his reputation by his adventure with Lady Teazle. That lad}', as the "little French milliner," did thc business for the smooth-lipped hypocrite. But the preacher of Tremont. Temple wont far ahead of Joseph in fact, Joseph was a saint with his "little French milliner," to the Boston preacher with the "lady in black." Yet with us one Surface adventure would expel a minister from the Church, and one Kalloch adventure would cause his expulsion from the society of al) respectable men and wome,n.

MORE ABOUT THE GOLD DISCOVER-

Kalloch, whose adventure

with the "lady in black," in the pious city of Boston, excited so much attention some time ago, is again figuring in the ptilpit. which he nsed :«s a stepping-stone to profligacy.

Soon after the adventurer which raised so great a muss the Reverend Aininadab Sleek departed, amid the tears amflamentations of the weaker and more crcdulous members of his congregation, for Kansas. He determined to leave the pulpit for the bar. To thc new Land of Promisor Kalloch journeyed, was admitted to the bar, and settled at last in a remote village of the Territory, looking out, it was said, for Congressional honors. But aspirants for thc same lofty position thickened around him, and one by one his dreams of ambition vanished. When it is remembered that this man was a noisy "freedom ghrieker," who went abont in New England denouncing the South, and weeping crocodile tears over the fate of "bleeding Kansas," was it not gross ingratitude in the negroworshippers of the Territory to give the cold shoulder to so renowned a champion?

majority of the saints.—

There are more "ladies in black" in tho crowded metropolis of New England, than in the wilderness of Kansas and this pious reflection may have spurred the great possi

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mi "r, •. jLVallochto get baeK as specaili-.'i The Dolphin followed suit, displaying ,,

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Now, when tins "divine" was tried for adultery in that city, well-known person:-! swore distinctly that they were eye-wit-nesses of the offence with'which lie was charged. Against a man of less iuflucRcp and fewer backers, the evidence would have been conclusive. Yet he contrived to escape, and was met with such exhibitions of syrSfiathy on tho part of grave men and refined females, as to excite the wonder of all truly good people. It'such men are to bo put forward as thc representatives of that holy Christianity which good men alone should teach, let those who do this wrong not- be astonished if their professions arc disregarded and laughed to scorn by the better classes.

But things are managed differently at the North. Well, wc suppose the pious folks of that section have a right to do so. They are welcome to the Cheevers, Beech- ried on ers, Kallochs, and thc whole brood of brazen politico-religious parsons, "Witli CLri.t upon th.-ir lviiigr lips,

Atul Satan in tlioii souK"

[iV. o. Delta!"'

SS.f In a spcech of John C. Calhoun, iu the Senate of the United States, March 16, 1840, on thc bill for terminating thc occupancy of Oregon Territory, after using many weighty objections to an appeal to arms for the settlement of the question, Mr. Calhoun drew a vivid picture of the marvelous progress of the arts of peace, in which occurs the following beautiful passage:

Within the same time man has chained thc very lightning of heaven, and brought it down and made it administer to the transmission of human thought, inasmuch that it may with truth be said that our ideas arc not only transmitted with thc rapidity of lightning, but by-lightning itself. Magic wires are stretching themselves in all directions over the earth, and wheu their mystic meshes shall at length have been perfected, our globe itself will be endowed with a sensitiveness which will render it impossible to touch it on anyone point and the touch not be felt from one end of the world to the other

work is as yet. but commenced it is but thc breaking of the dawn of the world's

and sick looked dull and brutish, but there [great jubilee. It promises a day of more was nothing wild or ferocious in their as- refinement, niore intellectual brightness, pcct. They.leoked amiable or dociie, and more moral elevation, and eonscqueiitiv of readily obeyed the commands of the per-! more human felicity, than the world has

ever seen from its creation.

SAD HUMOR.-—A report current about New York, that a prominent witness in the case of Donnelly, who,was hung for the murder of Moses, the bar-keeper of the Occan House, died on Friday night last^ confessing himself. to have been the muzn derer of .Moses, and declaring that Donnelly was innocent of iany complicity! ia- the crime. Donnelly was: the,Jal^iited young: Irishman, wlw, on the scaffold, and with his last bicath.-protestedhis innocenpc.:-.

From the St. Louis Republican.

IES ON THE PLATTE.

A*j»ntlkman|y th^ycUy^^aspjlf' us in pcriS^SsiOn^r'a letter aaled aTTort Laramie on the 8th of August, giving some additional and more reliable particular* in regard to recent discoveries of'gold- or/ theSouth Platte Riverf,, We attach more_im-_ltreC3 are,,for

portance to the statements of this because the gentleman who received it here vouches for the entire truthfulness of the writer. We give the pith of this letter:

At the time o£ writing, he had just returned from Cherry Creek. The Cherokee company had returned home before the writer arrived there, having prospected Cherry Creek, Ralston's Fork and Long's Creek, without having found much gold.— Thinking it would not pay, they became discouraged and went home. Capt. Russell, of Lumpkm County, Georgia, who was them [sic] remained to prospect still further, and after their departure was very successful. The writer saw where they had been digging, and from the amount of work done at each place, and the amount of gold obtained, he thinks the project a very good one. The product is said to be very irregular. The first diggings are about four miles up the Platte River, and about a half a mile from the river toward Cherry Creek. Here two or three men would work with a rocker, while the others were on the look-out for better diggings, and they made from seven to ten dollars per man each day.

After working here a few days, getting all the gold they could, they moved out about three miles, and rather up the river in a ravine; here they worked in the same way, making from eight to ten dollars per day, till the diggings failed. Then they moved again to the river, about six miles from the first work, and the proceeds were about as good, Mr. Russell says he has gotten as much as three pennyweights per pan, and the three men with the rocker have obtained from one day's washing of one hundred buckets of earth, which they had to pack fifty yards, forty-nine pennyweights and two grains. As the result of all their work and <prospecting> they obtained something this side of five hundred pennyweights of gold, or about twenty-five ounces.

Thc writer examined the country for several miles round and up the river, and expresses the opinion that five and six dollars per day can be obtained by several hundred men, without any further discoveries. As Mr. Russell's company was weak, he not attempt to winter there and they were deterred from looking out for something better, and this winter will return to the settlements. The writer sends in ten pennyweights of the gold obtained from Russell's party.

The whole country was covered with elk, antelope and deer, and herds of sheep were to be found all through the moun-

tains. -----

of their food is jerked beef, brought from South America, in addition to which they have rice, plantatiris and sugar cane. The latter would not seem to be a very valuable item in the bill of fare, though it is said to be very nutritious.

Many and the temperance reform has prevented -their renewal. .The

ges arc larirc, some of them getting as much Hereupon the passengers ros^ en masse as one hundred and fifty dollars"a month and the conductor was obliged to yield to. and their living: but their life must be one superior force. This circniunnnce show*.yof many discomforts, as they arc on

remote

The slave trade, as is well known, is ear- was removed to th a large scale, the Captain-Hen- home as well as eral, unless he is slandered, reaping an enormous revenue by winking at it. J. heir proceeding- is for several planters to unite, and send a ship to tho coast ot Africa, witn an understanding as to what part of the coast she is to make for on her return.— When she is about due, small fishing ves sels are sent out to intercept her, whilst a vigilant look-out iv kept, and signals are made from shore to warn them, in case cruisers are known to be in the vicinity.— The human cargo is disembarked with all dispatch, and after being concealed iu thc wood, in case suspected danger, are carried off the first opportunity to their respective plantations.—Correspondenceofthe Prcsbyteria n.

A NEW DODGK. 1 he M. Louis Rrj.uL-

lican relates this incident: A stranger in this city from Hannibal, named OtU Siebert, was done out of SI

And this dance, and after asking a few questions, di

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.the author ot' the

'fCQhstliiition,of Man,''^and the .champion of philosophical phrenology, died ia England on the 11th.

night before last, by a couple of scoundrels, who fleeced their victim in a rather novel manner. Oue of the rogues, professing to be a policeman, arrested Siebert while he was peaceably walking along the street, sayiug that he had been "spotted'' as a thief. The stranger protested his innoccnce. but was taken off to a place which the bogus officer said was the stationhouse. Here the accomplice was in atten-

rected Siebert to be searched and locked up. The money was marked and placed in a drawer, as though the proceedings were in all respects regular, and rascal No. 1 started off with his prisoner. After winding about several streets, the mock policeman disappeared, and it was then that Siebert discovered he had been victimized. The worst of the matter is that that the loosing party cannot find the place whero he was taken, else it might bo possible to bring the viliians to justice.

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ggrThe Mobile Advertiser of the 31st ult„ publishes a queer story about a tree in that city, the bark of which was gnawed by a mad dog in one pf his paroxysms.— It was not percepiably affected until the first rain came, when it burst into a thousand pieces. Thirteen hogs which were standing near,.were wojwded by the fragments/. and tojgothor .with a foolish mau who made a toothpick out of one of tho splinters, have since died of hydrophobia.

Tmatket^br-fip«

fruits

lias greatly expanded,? and^eafiy all the

of market apples. It took" eight bushels of applet

:^*m«^A^^rr8n3EacK5'7iind

the

barrel sold for only$l. Apples now bring every year from 50 cents to ffl pSr bushel. Fruit-growers cah hardly be expected to lament the change that is so much for their 'a.- •-:-t f3n*m3 pecuniary interest.

Yet cider is made all over the oonntry in small quantities, some, for apple butter, some for vinegar, and still more for a beverage. When bottled and properly handled, it is as palatable and much more wholesome than most of the wines of commerce.Iu affections of the kidneys it is an excellent remedy, and should have a place in every well-appointed cellar. It is a matter of some importance, that what cider is made should be made in the besi. manner.

The apples should be well ripened, but not in tho least decayed. Every apple with tho least speck of rot in it should bo removed, if you wish a: first-rate beverage. The decayed and inferior apples may he reserved for making vinegar.— Perfect cleanliness should be observed in the grinding process, which should be performed two days before pressing, and thc pomace be permitted to stand and mellow in thc vat, until it asstimes a deep red color. Clean dry straw should be used in forming the cheese. If the straw be musty, the flavor will bo communicated to the juicc. If water be added, it will make it hard and unpleasant to the taste. Thc cask also in which it is put for fermentation" should be thoroughly cleansed, and finished off with a fumigation of brimstone. This is done by burning inside the barrel a few strips of canvass, dipped in melted brimstone. Thc fumes will penetrate all thc pores, and destroy thc must and correct thc sourness. r. 4

After the fermentation is over, draw off into clean barrels and clcarify it. This can be done by mixing a quart of clean, white sand, with the whites of half dozen eggs and a pint of mustard seed, and pouring it into the barrel. It may stand in thc

barrel, or it a nice articlc is wanted, it should be put into quart bottles and corked.

This eider will be fit to drink in case of sickness, and retails at least two dollars a dozen, by the quantity. This is'much better business tiian to make a- poor article from decayed apples in a slovenly manner and sell it l'v (wo dollars a barrel.

BR:JR CUCO 'F.M TO THEIR CKNTS-KS.—-The Rochester Uniotr, in speaking of the plan ulnpted by the New York Central of i---suiiig tickets good for three days

PLANTATION* ARRANGEMENT**- IN CL-IM.—.(by illness toic ilto New York (night) C.\The ubiquitous Yankees of course, eould 'press at Albany, on the last of lU.: "i!uv:?r not fail-to lind footing in a land where oitn- 'days." Of oursewhen he readied Sciences of gold are as easily earned at in Cu- ectady the "three days" had expired, arid ba. Their services, too, are invaluable, the condueeor, mi leaving the city, dem:uiespecially as machinists and engineers on ded the fare. The mail explained, but tli"' the susar estates, and hence numbers of conductor advised him that he had no dis thein come hhher, and sonic of whom wo .eretion, and it was his I'y to collect faro mot had been here

for

vears. Their wa-

A passenger who had detained one d.iy

set him ol the train. »..

'the irritability of tho public in this mv-

plantations, but little society but that of iter aud if thc company act wistdy they' the negroes, the proprietor almost uniform- will romptly alter their rule.*'. ly residing in Havana. On each plantatiou, there is usually an "administrator," Siscvi. vrt Oci'.vnRLWcr..—.-V. sliang_ who has the entire nuperinteudenee of it.- fair has occitred at affairs under whom is seer who is not unl'r blacks. Thc statements of the machinists vorite wife of a groat Turkish pcrsonag.:, and engineers, who came as passengers on UK.1 on questioning her in the harem, he our ship from Havana, differed widely as found that she was suffering from arc into the treatment the negroes receive.— fl unination of the howr-Is. JIo slightlySome of them said they had light work, toadied with his finger tho part affected,, and were well fed and clothed, and others, I which a eunuch, who was in attendance, that their condition is, in all respects as misinterpreting tho net, rushed on him. miserable as it can be. The staple article knocked him down, and beat him until ho

V.IJJVI IIIU.UW.JIIL O* IN JIU I/A'IINIU AV is a "miral" or over- re -idenf physician, Dr. Z.iu^nia, an Ainer frequently one of the jean, was called in to prescribe fi«r the fa-

was half dead. The woman's husband, hearing thc nois^, hurried in, and being told what- had taken placc, stabbed the phvsician in the thigh with a dagger. The was so violent that the weapon broke. Thc wounded physician, bathed in blood. street and left to get ie could. Dr. Zallonia, few days after, died of the injuries ,vliich he had reeeivrd.

IXFANTS' Foon.—At this season, when ordinarilv the largest number of cases which swell th* bills of mortality, especially in our cities, are those of infants, and as doubts may arise from improper food we shall do a little service in giving prominence to a paragraph on this point from the undoubted authority of Hall'sJournal of Health

When it is necessary to feed infants artificially, and cow's milk is used, it should be first boiled, then skimmed, then sweetened a little with sugar, and next a little

5a]t a(]£]cj not

enough to give it a saltish

taste. Milk thus prepared not only prevents the indigestion and consequent ascidity, flatufence, colic, diarrhoea, &c from which sucking children suffer so much but will actuallv cure them.

86T"A gentleman named James, residing at Whitewater, Walworth county, Wisconsin, was bitten, nine weeks back, by a rabid do2- The wound, after careful applications, appeared to have healed up perfectly, and all trades to have passed away. Un Saturday night last, however, while in bed, he complained of a peculiar pain in the region of the wound, and mentioning it his wife, expressed his fears of subsequent trouble. Unhappily, his fears were too well founded.- Jle continued to grow worse, notwithstanding every citorfc was made to save him by the ablest physician?, and on Sunday night at one clock, he

He leaves a wife

died in.fearful agonies, and two children to mourn end.

bis dreadful'

THE LAPATETTE EI.OPF.MKNT.—Mr. Allen the husband of the woman who eloped the'other day from Lafayette with Sherwood, was recently pastor of the.Presbyterian Church in Jefforsonville

On being

made acquainted with his wife's perfidy, to sent a letter to his congregation, resigning his pastorate. There are many who sympathize with him in thc disgrace which the. shameless conduct of his wife has brought upon his household.

It is supposed that- the guilty pair ha?» gono to Europe.—Ind. Journal, 1th.