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A W O S I E I N

Saturday, December 11, 1858.

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ALLY TO-NIGHT At ».hc Court House. All persons opposed to doggeries will turn out at the firing of tlic cannon.

PAY TIM: PIIINTKR.—Our subscribers will recolloct to settle up between this nnd Christinas.

WOOD! WOOD!!

Those of our subscribers who wish to pay their subscriptions in wood, are requested to bring it along immediately.

TIIH PKOPI.K IIAVi: SPOKEN. Last Thursday night a large and enthusiastic meeting of the citizens of Crawfordsville, irrespective of party, was held at the Court IIouso, to adopt measures to rid the town of the doggeries that infest it. The best of feeling prevailed, and it was unanimously rc-solvcd that those engaged in selling liquors should have until the first of January to closc up their business. Of course every man engaged in the traffic will dry it up. Certainly no OIID would be foolish enough to resist and oppose the wishes of an entire community. We think this an excellent and praiseworthy movement, and if properly carried out will do much to regenerate the town. The swarm of vagabonds, thieves, gamblers and idlers of every description will migrate to Lafayette or Indianapolis, where they cau find dens to harbor in, and the beautiful town of Crawfordsvillo become once more a quiet, pleat-ant and respectable place for an honest man to dwell in. God hasten the millcninm.

l.YTClt LAV* IN (ItAWroJtDSVIM.F. Last Monday night a number of our citizens seized a man by the name of Joel Gresh, whom they suspected of being engaged in the late robbery, and couvcycd him to the west end of Swcetscr & Davis's warehouse, where thev proceeded to deal with him in the most approved method to extort a confession—a method long since adopted by the holy fathers who flourished iu the palmy days of the Spanish Inquisi tion. Gresh had 110 doubt read the Book of JJartyrs. and when ho found himself seized, yelled "murder'»in the most lusty manner, but was quickly silenced by the gn r. A rope was put around his neck and he was told to confess. Gresh hesitated, from the fact wc presume, that he had nothing to coufess. lie was immediately suspeuded in the air where lie was allowed to dangle for a few seconds, when his tormentors lotting him down gave him another chance for his life by making a confession. Gresh stoutly denied knowing anything about the matter and vainly asserted his innocence. Again lie was strunsr up when, after suffering agonies of the most horrible description, ho was again let down and urged to confess. Of coursc he made a confession. It was his only chance. Stern necessity demanded that he should tell something in order to save his life.— Invention came to hia aid, and ho straightwaj* made a clean breast of the whole matter, in which he implicated a number of our citizens and which proving satisfactory to his persecutors, he was convoyed to jail, where he remained until Thursday morning when he was released. Of course his confession was a fabrication and was only made to save his life. These are simply the facts as stated by himself and which should be taken with a great, deal of allowance ns he is unquestionably a great liar. Who were the alleged actors in this affair wc know not. We presume, however, they were actuated by an honest desire to ferret out a crime, but the method wc are free to say, is a barbarous one and should be condemned by all good citiscus. Gresh is a poor miserable devil, a constant frequenter of the rum hells that line the principal streets in oar town, which if) one reason, we presume, why he was euepec^cd of being engaged in the robbery.

Tito weather i* clear and cold.

THE CITIZENSIir COUNCIL!

IMMENSE GATHERING of the PEOPLE!

Twelve hoars notice having been given, the citizcns met on last Thuraday evening, at 7 o'clock, in the Court House, to consult upon the best measures to remove the evils resulting from the retailing of intoxicating Liquors.

The meeting was organized by the appointment of Mr. T. Cos as President, and W. L. May as Secretary.

A committee, consisting of J. P. Campbell, M. J). Manson and F. M. Heaton, was appointed to report resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting. After a short time the following resolutions were reported, and after speeches by Messrs. Houston, John Lee, Win. Newton, It. Taylor, Dr. T. W. Florer, Mr. Smock, Dr. T. W. Fry, Carr and Eusminger, were unanimously adopted. "WHEREAS, The liquor traffic in the town of Crawfordsville and throughout our entire State, has becomc a source of unmitigated evils, a cause of daring and unprecedented crime, and a mighty power in the destruction of the young and^ rising generation and

WHEREAS, We have for months past witnessed the dark and damning crimes which have flowed from the retail of intoxicating liquors, crimes committed not only by the old and hardened, but by the young and the inexperienced and

WHEREAS, The influence of this traffic is evil, only evil, and that continually, that it destroys the peace of families, blasts the prospcctsof the young, brings the gray hairs of many parents in sorrow to the grave, blights every thing it touches, and brings lasting sorrow to hearts that would otherwise be happy. Therefore

Resolved, For the protection of themselves and their families, it is the solemn duty of the citizcus of Crawfordsville to set in motion such measures as will bring this traffic to a speedy closc.

Resolved, That we arc now determined to bring the retail liquor traffic to a closc, peaceably if ivc can, forcibly if ivc must, believing that the safety of our homes, the peace of our families, the protection of our sons, and the salvation of our town demand the prompt'execution of the above resolutions.

Resolved, That we extend the right hand of fellowship to those now engaged in the liquor traffic who will abandon the business, ccase the exercise of their destructive influence, and henceforward aid all good citizens in promoting the well being of society and the highest good of our city.

The following were offered by Dr. Florer, and unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the first day of January. 18-M), be, and is hereby appointed the limit of Doggeries iu Crawfordsville.

Resolved, That the undersigned, citizens of Crawfordsville and vicinity, provided a majority of the same be hereunto subscribed, do pledge ourselves to sustain and enforce the above resolution, peaccably if we can, forcibly if wc mnst.

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to present a petition to the citizens to sustain the above. Committee—Dr. Morgan, Dr. Florer, Eli Compton, and*11. H. Craig.

On motion, said committee was directed to request the liquor sellers to abandon the traffic.

Ordered that these proceedings be signed by the Officers and published in the Review and Journal.

Adjourned to meet on Saturday evening. December lltli, at 7 o'clock, at the Court House. T. COX, President.

W. L. MAY, Secretary.

pout i«AS AT Tin: SOUTH. The progress of this distinguished and greatest mau of the age iu his journey through the southern States is unparalleled since the daj's of President Jackson, when that stem old warrior and statesman visited the Crescent City. On both occasions, thousands of the beauty and chivalry of the south paid that tribute to greatness so characteristic of her high toned and generous sons. Old Hickory was a talismanic word with the American people a few years ago. Under the leadership of that gallaut old man the Democracy exercised a proud supremacy in the Confederacy. Long after he had retired from public life and in the quietude of the Hermitage awaiting the summons of the Destroyer, lie was visited by Mr. DOUGLAS. The old warrior discerned at a glance a man of extraordinary abilities upon whom nature had set the seal and impress of future greatness and renown, lie had read with delight the manly and noble defence that his guest had made for him in the halls of Congress tipon the infamous fine imposed upon him at New Orleans. It was the brightest congelation offered the old hero in his last hours upon earth—a viudication of his honor and his patriotism. The old man is gone, gone never to return—the mantle of the dead Caesar of the Democracy has fallen upon the great statesman of the West, and today, the thunders of cannon wclcomc him to the cities of the South, and his progress is marked everywhere with a wild enthusiasm.

ANOTHER "SLAP" AT TUE RICHMOND ENQUIRER'S DOGMA.—TheDemocracyof Rockcastle County, Kentucky, while maintaining that the people of the Territories have no right to prohibit slavery, yet declare jn their second resolution:

"That Congress has no right to legislate upon the subject of slavery or private property in the States or Territories of the United* States."

This is a direct thrust at the ichmond Enquirer, which asks Congress to pass a slave-codc for the Territories. Not a solitary county in Kentucky has yet indorsed that doctrine.

BS^Those of our subscribers who agreed to pay their subscription in Wood, are again requested to "bring it along.

A FRENCH HI AST AGAINST tfce VNITED STATES. The Paris Patrie, in a late article upon the visit of the United States steamer Wabash to the Dardanelles, makes a most terrific onslaught upon our Government and country. The article is so rich a specimen of European abuse of the United States, and such a good illustration of the bellicose and impudent Frenchman, that'we can not' resist the temptation to lay it before our readers: "It was generally admitted at this side of the Atlantic that asocial and politicalexperiment of the highest interest was-be-ing tried at the other, and that, in order not to trouble the attempt in any way, tolerance should be shown to eccentricities and phantasies which would not be per mitted in any other case. But at present the experiment may be looked on as terminated. The American Union is no longer, in any one's opinion, a model society and'Europe, to whom it owes everything, begins to find that her almost paternal solicitude merited somewhat more consider tion and somewhat less arrogance—in a word, conduct of a more filial character toward a society which is at least its senior in civilization. In fact, all the intercourse of the young Republic with Europe, particularly of late years, has displayed on the part of the Americans tendencies marked by a character of exclusiveness, and, above all, of violence, which it is impossible to tolerate any longer. There exists a public law, which is obligatory on all nations mutually, there are besides private enactments, which are binding on all men without any regard to nationality there is, finally, a jurisdiction which stops short neither at frontiers nor at seas, and which belongs to civilization itself all over the globe. The Americans are amenable to it as much as the Europeans, and vet they only too often totally disregard it. "But this restless and encroaching Democracy which wants to thrust itself in every-where, which forccs, with its guns loaded, the passages of the Sound which trammels in China the proceedings of our negotiators which in 1855 offered up prayers for the triumph of Russia which intervenes even brutally in all our affairs, and almost in every instance to oppose the interests of civilization—this Democracy, we say, has brought forward against us a new principle, called the Monroe doctrine, in virtue of which she pretends to interdict us from every kind of intervention in the seas and coasts of the whole of America. It seems like a dream to hear such principles insisted on every day in the journals of the Union, and even in the official notes of the Government. It is, nevertheless, in virtue of this theory that Spain was, and is still, threatened with seeing Cuba taken from her, and that so many fillibustcring attempts have been made for that purpose. It is in order to drive England from the American coasts that the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty is loudly disavowed at present, and propositions have been made to Congress to cancel it. If this Monroe doctrine were admitted, even tacitly, by the great States, our West India colonies would speedily be lucuaced, for there would soon be no security for European interests in the seas of the New World. There is in this conduct something more than ingratitude, there is a sovereign want of fotvsight: as M. Dc Talleyrand said, it is worse than a crime —it is a blunder. The great American Republic owes everything to Europe, her increasing population, her capital, her mechanical nrogress, and even her existence. But for the three hundred and fifty thousand emigrants who every year leave our shores, each of them taking on an average four hundred franco, without reckoning their labor, her development would soon be cut short. Without English capital, which carries out the majority of her undertakings, she would have neither canals, nor railways, nor manufactures. But for the piracy which she carries on with impunity of our modes of proceeding, and of our inventions, she would be neither a manufacturing nor a great maritime nation.— And as a return for so many services rendered, she nevertheless does not hesitate to sacrifice our most prccious interests to her slightest convenience and she has already exhibited the sad spectacle of a whole nation repudiating the faith of private engagements, and thus inflicting ruin on Europe for the satisfaction of a few bankers."'

The meaning of the above prccious effusion is this: France is an old and declining State, and is jealous of the'rapid advances which the United States are making toward that eminent position of power aud importance which it once held in the scale of nations. It sees the United States, a country of but yesterday, spring up, and, with the tread of a giant, eclipse the oldest and greatest empires of Europe in power and glory. It sees what a future—what a boundless future—is opened before us to cclipsc all the splendors of their past, and its envy can not be contained. The United States are such' a standing and living monument of a principle of government that is antagonistical to all those of Europe, and so superior to theirs that the advocates of the latter can not contemplate us with complacency, for they feel that there is a constant incentive to their discontented people to imitate our glorious example. The great Republic of the West must, in the nature of things, be an object of dislike to the monarchists of Europe.— The latter would destroy us, but, fortunately, the infant Hercules is superior to their power, and their only resource is to growl and bark and show their decayed teeth to those whom they can hot bite.

We again request Mr.

SIMPSON

office.

Batter, turkeys, chickens and eggs

are in great demand at preeent.

THE BILL TO PKOTIDK rqt TBS Elertioa mt raited states Keaaton fcelaf uler eaktidenuini,

Mr. WtLLirt said: Mr. President, do not design making a speech upon this subject, this morning, and if Fhad the will, I bare not the strength. Still, sir, I occupy somewhat of a singular position, and wish to say somethingJaoout it^ The Senator from parke_(Mr. Steele), once, declared upon this floor that before the session was over, he woyld find a pfo^cjj Anjd a name for ine, by which he meant, I suppose, that I had no well defined place, and no clearly defined name.* -1 suppose be meant that he would find that place and that name for me whfn -this question/arose. Heafecbin^ timatedtliat TWai afraicPto defhteSnj^po-r sition. I beg to assure biin that if he has had any such idea, he has mistaken his man. In reference to this election, and to its legality, I will say that I was an ac-tive-participant- in that election-, and .that, is far enough for me.'to golat thistiine.-—E At the time this election took place, it was very seriously debated by insiders and outsiders whether it was legal. I was not one who was positive that this election was legal on the contrary, I admitted that there was a doubl-as to its legality. I^reasoned this way, sir, and I believe a majority who participated in thai election reasoned the same way. We said there -is no statute upon our books defining* the mode' of election—that if we go into an election in this mode we violated ,no statute.* The only law we could find was that under the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of the United States in that respect is a good deal as Rufus Choate says of some passages of the Declaration of Independence —glittering generalities, sir. There is nothing positively defined in the Constitution of the United States upon that subjoct—nothing,prescribing the mode of election, and in addition, no law has been passed by the Congress of the United States. Wc conceived that by electing United States Senators in this mode, we violated no law, either constitutional or statutory. Then the question arose, if wc violated no law, as it will inevitably happen that the State, without an election, will have no representative in the Senate of the United States, don't all exigences demand that wc go into an election And then we reasoned further, that if we went into an election, the Constitution of the United States had prescribed the tribunal which should have power to settle the legality of that election, and that was the. Senate of the United States. To make a long story short, we resolved to go into an election and let the United States Senate decide whether it was legal or not.

iVIr.

CRAVENS, [interrupting.] I understand the Senator from Montgomery, (Mr. Wallace,) to say that he simply resolved to go into the election of United States Senators.

Mr. WALLACE. We had introduced a resolution to the effect that the Senate would go down into the House for the purpose of election, and, if my memory serves

Mr. CONNER, [interrupting.] Docs the Senator mean to say that, during that session. a resolution was,at any time pending in the Senate providing to go to the House for an election of Senators

Mr. WALLACE. Yes, sir but the Republican majority voted that resolution down.

The PRESIDENT. They voted to postpone it beyond the day appoiuted for the election.

Mr. WALLACE. Yes, sir they laid it 011 the table but when the day and hour came round the Democratic Senators of this body went down into the House and voted for Jesse D. Bright and Graham N. Fitch, and whether we clcctcd them or not wc did what we proposed to do, and that was to refer the legality of the election to the United States Senate. 1

Mr. WAGNER, [interrupting.] Was not this Joint Convention called in the House,

Sc"fte

WILLIAM

(of this township) to call at this

Two steamers are about to be con

structed at Buffalo, to ply on Lake Michigan, between Grand Haven and Milwaukee. They will be 235 feet in length, and will be bnilt and rigged much after the fashion of ocean steamers.

Mr. Richard Ten Broeck has re

turned home after along sojourn in England. It is Mr. Ten Broeck's intention to go back to England in the spring, and to take with trim some fresh American horses to test their qualities again on the Bnglish turf.

Mr. WALLACE. The Constitution of the

election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor shall be opened and published in the presence of both Houses. By .that provision there was a Joint Convention called —that Convention was the work and erea-

Representatives. Now, sir, the Senate, in aecordance with this provision, on the proper day, went down—wc were present—we Democrats I don't speak for our Republican friends, for I don't believe they were there—many of them but we Democrats were there jn obedience to the Constitution, and wc witnessed the opening aud publication of the election returns for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The President, or presiding ofheer, arose in his place and said the Convention would be adjourned tc a certain day—I believe it was three weeks—we can all ascertain by reference to the journals.

Mr. WALLACE. I understand that was intended to be the same. As far as individual members are conccrned who composed it, it was undoubtedly the same joint committee. I sec- what my Republican friends arc after—they want to get me into a debate about the legality of this election and 1 have told them I do ijtrintend to say whether it was legal o^Wuegal.— [Laughter.[ But I do intend to say this that just as wc intended should be done, these Senators went to Washington, aud there the question arose whether they were entitled to their seats as Senators from the State of Indiana. That question involved the question as to the validity of our election. There was a great struggle there over that election—a great diversity of opinion—marvelous travail, even in the United States Senate over it but at last there came a resolution—positive, from which there can bs no appeal, and after which there is to be no further consideration—and by that resolution it was decided that these gentlemen were legally elected —that they were I nited States Senators from the State of Indiana and the resolution was even so positive as to say, not only that they were legally elected United States. Senators from Indiana, bat. went on to point out the definite .term which each of those gentlemen should serve—Graham N. Fitch was to bold his seat until 1861,

and Jesse D. Bright till .18637 So ttin this resolution absolutely defines the terms for which these gentlemen shall hold-their office. Bat I will stop here to state that when I voted the other day against a resolution introduced by an honorable Senator, and sustained and passed by Republicans, upon tliiB floor—that when I voted "No" upon that resolution, I never intended that vdte' sh~ould be considered either a direct or indirect indorsement of the course of Bright -and Filch npon the- Lecompton* question.

Mr. .MARCH, [interrupting.]. Do you believe thej- were legally and constitutionally elected ^United States Seuators.?

Mr. WALLACE. Sir,' I have told youv that I would not say whether I believed they were legally.elected or not. I only know this, that Senate of tire Uniteu Statas have said that they were legally .elected-'

Mr.

MAROIT.

Mr.

*Do you helreve tliey -rep

resented the sentiment of the people of the State of Indiana in the last Congress upon the only important question that came up re a

WALLACE/* I'am

coming to'that

point, sir. I do not believe they represented the will of the people of the State of Indiana upon that question and more than that, sir, I know, they did, not represent the will of the Democracy of the State of Indiana.

A VOICE. Consent. Mr. WALLACE. Does anybody doubt that, sir? By referring to the resolutions adopted by the last January Convention, I there find a resolution which was dircctly violated by these gentlemen in their Lecompton course. That resolution was the will of the Democracy of Indiana. It was put there for the purpose'of guiding these gentlemen upon their course, but they refused to heed it. I have gone ns far as I intended to go upon this subject.

The other day this Senate, shortly after the House of. Representatives had done a similar act, saw lit and proper to pass a resolution that Jesse D. Bright and Graham N. Fitch were not legal 13- and constitutionally elected Senators of the United States from the State of Indiana. Now, if I were a Republican, as I am a Democrat, I say to you, that I would not hesitate a moment as to what I would do. After having declared they were not legally elected, I would do everything in my power that could be done—anything that could be brought about by my voice or vote— everything would be brought to bear to bring about what I considered a legal election of United States Senators.

A SENATOR. They'll do it. v7 Mr. WALLACE. I don't know about that. There seems to be sonic buckering in your

and adjourned o\ ei three weeks for the pur- (ham allowance to them and it is pos- and the Cincinnati platform.

pose of electing United. States Senators j)j]c tl)at they will have to pay the ex-' nize and re-affirm the doctrine of popular before fhia motion was introduced in the peases of the contest out of their own sovereignty, in all its length and breadth.

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State of Indiana, among other provisions, ,,^1, ]ess t}je

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WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS IN INDIt. Mr. Char: Buxton, an English member of Parliament) in a recent address to his constituents, thus spoke of the 'wholesale executions which have occurred in India:

How many persons do you think we executed in the city of Allahabad? Just ro-, alize the awful horror of but one execution —the fearful mental agony of the man who feels the rope rotfnd his neck, aud then the jdrop falH In "that city wc executed in cold blood thirteen hundred persons.'— [Shame.] In :the Punjaub, where no outrage whatever was committed, wc executed five, tJiousanfL persp)is..\ I read that myielOin .&f letter from OSfr Jdhn Lawrence.

Is it not awful to think of hanging and shooting*.five thousand human beings And if tbW wail done in the "Punjautf,. what must have been done in Bengal, where rebellion realty'raged?£ Ayhy» we secni'td have1put to death without mercy any man who took side against us. For instance, a Rajah saved the life of Mr. Mitchcll and other Europeans. But, under compulsion, as he .said, he aided the rebels .He .was caught and hanged. I knew the family of an officer of the Bhopaul Contingent.— They told me that when the contingent mutinied two hundred of them, with great [difficulty saved'the lives of this gentleman and his brother officers, and also refused to march off and take up arms with the mutineers. Well, General arrived.— And what did he do but put to death these very two hundred meu, 011 tho ground that they had fought against their brethren.— And I heard Mr. Layard give an account of their execution, which was heartrending to hear. [Shame, shame.] A friend of mine wrote home, with glee, how lie had destroyed eighty villages. I read a letter from a soldier, who said that after a wholesale massacre of their prisoners, they flung the bodies into a pit and covered them over. One of them recovered his senses, and came vrandcring into camp. lie was again shot the next morning. Al) about Delhi the head men of every village where the telegraph had been broken were hanged, though they had no more to do with it than I had. I said it in the House, and I say it here, again, that the men who did that did murder.

AN IMPORTANT MOVE IN THK RIGHT DIRECTION—On the 24th inst., Mr. Wallace of Montgomery introduced in the Senate a series of joint resolutions which, though they may excite some discussion when they come up for action, were imperatively demanded by the circumstances under which they were presented for consideration.

own household—some trouble about your of disapprobation of the course of "Messrs own hearthstone. But this is what I would Bright and Fitch on the Kansas question do if I was 011C of them. O11 the other instruct them and request our iieprcscnhand, if I was Jesse D. Bright or Graham tatives to vote for the admission of Kansas N. Fitch, I would be the lust, man who into the Union whenever the people therewould throw a straw in your way in bring- |of demand it, and if necessary for that puring that about. Why, if I held a seat as pose, to vote for the repeal of what is known

me well, the Senator, (Mr. Cravens,) was honorable as that of a United States Sen-! as the penalty clause of the English Bill, one of those who refused to discharge that ator from Indiana, I would never consent I The resolution.? also rect duty by voting for a motion to lay that resolution on the table and he and his friends refused to go down—

cumstanccs: and if I held it, and any body tory to form and regulate their domestic

doubted that my election was legal, 1 would institutions in their own way, and to pass

say, bring 011 an election and send up the Jsuch laws relative

best men you have got send them up and {may deem let us, face to face, contest this election.— 'Congress. would scorn and despise to hold a seat 1 bv the root? under circumstances that would cause me Congressional legislation for the protec to be afraid to let you send up your best tion of slavery in'the Territories. men to contest the places. And if I am I The introduction of these resolutions bv not mistaken, Jesse D. Bright and Graham Mr. Wallace is timely and appropriate.— N. Fitch think as I do upon this subjcct.— That thev reflect the sentiments of the DeIn the first place, I imagine that they are not much afraid that any gentleman will oust theui, and it may lie from that fancied security arises their boldness. I. am only

speaking of them from what I believe they

pockets. But I will tell you my opinion The programme of Hughes, Robinson &

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has one like this: The returns of the baurrhty Senators from the South to turn Washington Union, and which thev under-

jlify

thci i'1esolutions, may send up to the places action of the United States Messrs. Brinht and Fitch. I

draw their resolution solemnly passed un-1 der circumstances which have already gone into history, and let us see whether or not they will accomplish the principles they assert.

A SCENE IN REAL LIFE.—A Philadcl-

A VOICE. Is that the same Convention that elected these United States Senators? sailor passed within a few feet of her, gaz- the Senate canv:

The resolutions speak in strong terms

to hold it a minute under suspicious cir- upon the right of the people of any Terri- 'p" "Cn'i

inocracyof Indiana, there is not the slightest doubt. They cover the whole ground of our Territorial policy, and afford the only basis which can secure harmony and suc-

ss to the Democratic party of the North.

feel as honorable men—nothing more, sir It was fit that this declaration of Democratand to feel any other way, I believe would ic faith should go out to the world side by make thein dishonest and dishonorable men. aide with the programme laid down by the

can Senators, aud say, whip up yourhorses,

Now, in conclusion, I turn to Rcpubli- Administration meeting held in the Capi-1

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gentlcmen, elect your men and send them of Mr. allace steer close by the old land- \er i.nJ Ague Killer. There nr-dicinc* aro pruto the United States Senate. It i« pos-: marks of the party. They embody the let- pared by »thoroughly cJacato..! I'ii\si«.ian, Clicmi sible the United States Senate will vote a I tor and spirit of the Kansas Nebraska act ira uiul I'hannacf.-iti.-i, so that ail can rely cpr.n

don't believe it lies in,the bones, Co., on the other hand, is but a reiteration

phia correspondent of the Louisville Demo-. ,, annul the election of Senators BmcirranU crat says lie witnessed a scene in real life ion Wednesday last, and he thus describes it:

with four hundred dollars on hand but, as taching to the organization of all delibera- j'1

the neighbors told me my old mother was tivc bodies, whether public or private in

dead, I got on a spree with the money,! their nature and object, since on any other spent it all inside of a week, and then ship-1 theory their distinctive and independent ped airain." character could not be maintained." "Oh! good—good sir! you are too kind to an old body like me. For your sake, I will take it. Oh! you remind me of my poor son, George, who shipped and was drowned. Oh! George George White! where are you now "George White!" hurriedly exclaimed the now excited sailor. "Why, that's my name! And you-—you are my mother!" With this be seized her in his arms, and caressed her affectionately, while the big tears of joy ran down his bronzed cheek. The poor woman was entirely overcome by the recovery of her long-lost child, and wept nnd groaned alternately.

carriage,

shortly after, conveyed the mother and sen away, le&ring many a moistened, eye among the crowd who witnessed the seene.

the proud and of the dogma so recently broached by the

heir backs upon their.deliberately formed took to predict would be incorporated into 1 KE. JKK- OI KK J:, and admit the men whom you the Democratic platform by the Charles-: I- t.nrr:. rp hi.! nay send up to the places assigned by the ton Convention in 1800. by

Senate to The respective lines of policy for the fusav afain ture are clearly and boldly delined in th

INDIANA SENATORIAL CASK. The National Intelligencer, in noticing

As,

the cfTorts of the Black-Republican mcni-j bers of the Indiana Legislature, assisted d^as they are by a half dozen or so Demo- sAi.V."9 bhl crats, who are governed by private hate, to MKAI., 8 bn.-di

RETIEW OF ELECTIONS* Under this head tho New York Journid of Commerce publishes a comparative state' ment of the votes of all the States where elections have beon held within the last four months, with the votes given for President in the same States in 1856, wficn" Buchanan wns elected by a plurality o^er Fremont', in the nation at large of 492,525:

The result shows that thus far there is both an absolute: and a rqlati^p/pernapratipgain in the aggregate of'said SfattaTcom'pafed with the late Presidential election, and that even in the. Free States the Defno-5 crats have gained slightly upon the Republican --Fusionists^ and npon the aggre*^ gate opposition vote immensely.

In the aggregate vote,of nineteen States North and South, the Democratic vote stood at the recent elections, 1,118,217.— Buchanan's "vote* in I80G, in -the-*' same? Mates, was 1,10/,220, showing an increased Democratic voto since I806 ofrlO^fifc Fremont's vote in the same States, in 1856 was 1,086,646. At the rccent elections" Mic Fusion vote was 1,074,889, showing a decrease in the Fusion vote of 11,957.— Fillmore's vote in .1856 in the same States was 400,970. American vote at the rccent elections was 177,257, showing a decrease of American votes of 283,713.—' The total decrease of opposition votes in the elections of last fall, compared with 1856, is 295,67 0 increase of Democratic votes 10,996, which shows a Democratic relative gain since 1856 of 306,666.

This does not look iniich like ruin to tho Democratic party, nor does it give any just ground for the shouts of the Republicans over the results of the last fall's elections. The gain of opposition Congress-' men was effected, in almost all cases, by a union of Republicans and Americans upon the same candidates, when at the last previous Congressional election each party had its own candidates. In sonic cases it resulted from dissensions among Democrats.

NAPOLEON AND LAFAYETTE.—Thefollowing incidents were recalled to my mind last winter, by a lecture of Rev. Merrill Richardson, ou Napoleon, delivered at Ncvr^. London:'

When Napoleon flod from Waterloo toward Paris, he proceeded directly to St. Cloud, and sent his brother Lucicn to tho Chamber of Deputies to make requisition for men and money to enable him to take a stand against, the enemies of France. For some time after the announcement of tho defeat in tlui Chamber of Deputies no one dared to speak. At length Lafayette rose up and 6aid: "France has done enough for Napoleon. Tne blood of her .s•! 1 if• r3 has boon poured out upon every soil in Kurope. I lie bones o! her sons whiten every plaiu. L1 ranee can do more lor Napoioon."

At these words, uUered with a low and solemn voice, and listened to with a sileneo and attention indicative of unanimous svmpathy, Lucien retired from the assembly and hastened to his brother, who eagerly demanded: "Who had the Tribune!" "Lafayette," replied Lucicn. "It's all

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tended her palm in silence. Instantly his 1 the minds of any with regard to the merits fhe terms nf m.1C are follows: Not les« thnn

to accept, saying: the matter in dispute. This proposition, December 11,185S-3w» "There, good mother, take this you may besides resting in the present ease on the lWrinvno'c Fr^nrh Pnx*r/1oro as well have itas the landsharks The last! express terms of the Constitution, is veri-j cruise I made out of New York found me tied by the most elementary principles at-

S&~ A very sad case of alleged critn. con. was on Wednesday decided by the Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the State of New York. The parties are the Rev. Dr. Christie, for many years pastor of the Sullivan Street Reformed Presbyterian Church, and Mrs. Iloney, widow of Rev. Dr. Roney of Philadelphia. The Presbytery considered the charges to be proved against the accused, who is a married man, about seventy-five years of age, and deposed him from the ministry.

Dr. Christie was one of the memorialists **king Congress, "in.the name of Almighty God," not to pass the Nebraska aet.

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may still be seen hanging in the mansion a.i lett by tho Father of his Country. For the narrative of these incidents 1 am in debted to a citizen of New London, who enjoyed extended opportunities of personal intercourse with Lafayette, and who, indeed, brought him over to this country ou his visit iu iS:M.

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Price $1,00 per bottle—or bottles fur $5.00. Prepared by J. 12. MONROE. St. Louis, Mo., and sold wholesale and retail by Dr. E. EASTERLY.

The ubovo Powders together with Monroo'*' Tooth Ache Specific, nra for sale by Manson fc Powers, Crawfordsville, Ind.

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