Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 May 1859 — Page 2
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NINV 8,'FLS] .IEKK. KKENEY.
For President in 1860,
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I A. DOLGLAS,
Suhjcct to thr decision of the Democratic National Convention, to Itc hoklcn at Charleston, South Carolina.
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CHARLES II. HOW EN. Jill!- MIAII KEE.NEY.
April 1-!. 1^0. "A
THE DRAMA.
MoWilli.nns & White's Dramatic Troupe litivc drawn excellent houses during tlie last week. To-night (Friday) they present Ar the first time the splendid historical drama of Lucre tia Borgia. Miss MI-WIL-LIAMS' personation of the beautiful, proud and vengeful Lucretia, is pronounced by
those competent to judge, as a finished
The Indianapolis papers arc mak
ing desperate efforts to induce the General Assembly of the Old School Presbyterian Church, now in session in that city, to locate the proposed North-Westcrn Theological Seminary in that place instead of Chicago. Indianapolis is a great town and we should bo pleased to see some effort made at the next session of the legislature to pension each and every one of its inhabitants. We suggest that Crawfordsvillc locate a saw-mill in that great central thoroughfare. An institution of that character would be free from the contaminating influences of a large commercial community like ours. Indeed "the most successful" saw-mills "are those that are located iu quiet or isolated towns or villages," and wc know of no placc that fills the bill better than Indianapolis.
KAHAJI IJKOTIIER.
This firm still takes the lead in business. f)u last Saturday their cash sales amounted to eight hundred and fifty dollars, nearly treble to that of any other establishment in town. Their immense stock of goods received in the month of April have all disappeared, giving place to daily arrivals of new and beautiful fabrics. Their great iucicasc of trade renders it neccssarv for them to enlarge their building, and arrangements have already been made to extend their principal store room some sixtv feet back to the alley.
OrTKAGEors KXTORTIOX.—The millers iu our county have formed a combination among themselves, and are now holding flour at priccs ahead of the New York market. They pay our farmers $1,15 a bushel for wheat, and sell flour to our citizcus at $7,50 a barrel, making a dean profit of over $3,00 on a barrel.
——>The new penitentiary has been fi-
nally located at Fort Wayne. The mechanics of that town will hereafter have the pleasure of competing with convict 1abor.
THE EMPEROR STARTING —TI1E SCENE. A letter from Paris says: have just returned from seeing the Emperor's departure for the seal of war. lie left the Tuillcrics at half past five o'clock, and with his departure commences a new era in his eveiitful and dramatic life. When the Prince Iouis Napoleon stood with his back against the Napoleon column at Boulogne' in 1840, defending himself with his sword, and his friends begged him to fly wit4»- them, he said:— "No! 1 have left France fur the last time!" Again when he entered in 1848 he used the same language to his friends and this time he stayed. But now he has left again, and although nndcr different circtimstanocs, his mind must be crowded with reflections that would crush the spirit of a less collcctcd, a less impassable man than he."
Never before in his life, however, did Louis Napoleon sec such a day as this.— From the Tuilleries to the rail-way station beyond the Bastilc was one dense mass of human beings, and from different points on the route I hear the same report not a man or woman on that whole route but shouted over and over again with frenzy, "Vive VEmpereurV The military could not restrain the people, who precipitated themselves against the horses and the carriage, waving their hats ap to his Majesty's face and shouting like madmen. At the station the cortege was arrested for some minutes by the crowd, which was so dense as to prevent all further progress. The whole city was out to wish him and the French Army success.
His Majesty was dressed in a red fatigue cap, blue frock undress coat and red pantaloons, with the insignia of a General of Di vision. He rode in
nn
open carriage
with the Empress at his side, and one of his officsrs in the front of his carriage.— lie was preceded and followed by a small detachment of the Cent Gardes, which will remain in Paris to do duty at the Tuilleries, and by several other open carriages, in which were seated the officers who accompany him, among whom were the Prince Napoleon, Marshal Vaillant, General Regnault do St. Jean D'Angely, his aid-de-camps, his ordnance officers, and the employes of his secretariat. The menial part of his camp household left two hours earlier.-
TIIE \USTRIAN LINE OF DEFENSE. flla
army is well officered and abundantly provided with the munitions of war. TL'o two great lines of Austrian defense, say. a recent writer, arc the line of the Minincio, ffful the line of the Adige. Of these two the former is tho strongest- it is difficult, indeed, to conceive any thing stronger.
The Mincio, Virgil's river—"smoothsliding Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds" —runs with a deep, sluggish stream right across (lie plain of Loinbardy from the bottom of the La-go di Garda, on the north, to tho Po on the south. Just where it issues from the lake is Peschiera, a fortress always formidable, but by the efforts of the last ten years, rendered almost impregnable. At the other extremity of the line of defense stands Mautua—.situated in the midst of marshes, which in a few hours can be converted into a lake by the simple management of a few dams and sluices. Mantua, thus strong by natural position, has been trebly strengthened by
!,rt-
Ttis piratically impregnable its earthworks defy artillery, its swamps arc mortal with malaria. For a weaker force, to
picce of acting, lhc play abounds vith j)iiss (he line of the Mincio with Peschicr
historical incidents, interwoven with the romance of the feudal ages.
5*a" A gay wedding party came off at the residence of Col. Willson, on Wednesday night last, on which occasion Mr. V. Q. IKWIN, of New Albany, was united iu the holy bonds of matiiinony with Miss JITI.IAWIU.SOX, a lovely daughter of the Colonels. Some two hundred and fifty guests were present. The whole affair was decidedly magnificent, and conducted in that refined taste and order so characteristic of the gallant Colonel aiul his accomplished lady. The happy couple took their departure on Thursday morning for the east on a bridal tour.
on one flank, and Mantua on the other, would be among the most hazardous of military enterprises and yet until the line of the Mincio is forced, Austria remains strategically the mistress of Lombard}'.— The line of the Adige resting on the vast entrenched camp of Verona is at least equally strong. The command of the Austrian troops will devolve upon General Hess.
THOUGHTFULNESS OF THE PRESIDENT FOR THE DESTITUTE PIKE'S PEAKERS.— The telegraph has advised us of a Government train having been attacked by starving returners from Pike's Peak, and that the War Department has ordered armed consorts to the trains with army supplies, from apprehended attacks of returning emigrants from Pike's Peak. We understand that persons in charge of Government trains with army supplies have been directed by the Secretary of War, under orders from the President, to supply returning emigrants, who are in a destitute condition, with food sufficient to enable them to reach the frontier towns of Kansas and Nebraska. Humanity and policy alike dictate such orders, and we rejoice to learn that the President has been thoughtful of the case of these persons who have been deluded from their families and homes to the gold mines of Kansas.
The cheapest way to protect a train of army supplies is to furnish food from them to the starving men whom dire necessity drives to plundering them. These trains should be doubled, and so arranged as to make sure of missing none of the unfortunate sufferers in their way to the States, and of having supplies sufficient for the emergency. The President will deserve and receive the approbation of every good heart for attention to these starving emigrants from Pike's Peak. -----
HOW ENGLAND MAY BE INVEIGLED INTO TIIE \VA It. From tlic London Times, April 30.
The laws that regulate the conduct of neutrals towards belligerants are extremely complicated, especially in relation to the carriage of war material. It is more than likely that, some day, in the Mediterranean, one of our ships will be boarded by a ship of one of the belligerauts on charge of having arms, ammunition, or war stores for the use of the euemy. The suspicions may prove to be unfounded, but it will suffice to sot us in flames. Forthwith the ministry of the hour will be charged by the opposition with neglecting the honor of the country if they do not resent the insult.— Opposition never care for consequences they would plunge iuto war, or anything else, if thereby they could eject the partyholding office and put themselves in their places. A year will not elapse without some such misadventure giving occasion for a quarrel, and plungiug us into the struggle.
5®"" A German "savant" has taken the trouble to count the number of hairs exist* ing in four human heads. He found in a blonde, 140,000 distinct hairs in a brown, 109,110 in a black, 102.960: aud iu a red, S
Si,740,
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The Royal Mail Steamship Asia, from Liverpool, 14th inst., arrived this A. M. Napoleon's departure from France was a perfect ovation and his reception at Genoa, where he arrivedon the 12th,-was most cordial. lie issued a stirring address to the army enjoining discipline, and stating his fears that they would show too much enthusiasm. lie was expected to proceed to the army on the 14th.
The King of Sardinia, visited the Emperor, at Genoa. Sardinia bulletins continue to.rcport retrogade movements by the Austrian's whose head quarters were at Sobbiou.
The Sardinians had re taken their former position. The British Government formally proclaims strict neutrality, and warns its subjects against violations.
The war department issued important notices,^authorizing the volunteers corps throughout England.
Activity in the English Nsvy yards ,is equal to the highest of the Crimean war.
/itf AW Tim
The German diet has adopted a proposition to put the federal garrison on a war footing.
The Prussian chambers have both unanimously authorized a war loan by the government.
Advices from Turkey report increasing agitation in the provinces. LIVERPOOL, 14th.—-At Manchester business was trifling, and tendency more against spinners than at the commencement of the week.
TIIE BLACK REPUBLICAN KNOW NOTHING AMENDMENT IV MASS CIIUSETTS -VIEWS OK SMITH O'DITL-
KN.
Now I must tell you frankly, at the same time, that in the United States I have been frequently told by my countrymen—and if there are any here who are opposed to the emigration of foreigners, I am not sorry that they should hr.ve an opportunity to hear what I am about fo say on the present occasion—I have be jn told in various parts of the United States that their hap-
three or four years ago, was very conside:ably diminished by the prevalence of a spirit hostile to the introduction of foreigners and, in fact, in some remarkable instances, I learned that men* who had lived in this country for upwards of forty years expressed a determination to leave the country in consequence of the prevalence of tho Know Nothing spirit which at that time prevailed. I regret to say that in some localities I have found traces of a continuance of that spirit, and it has been to me a source of the greatest grief—grief
pie of the United States as it is to the for eign population of this country Upon all other questions of American politics I am neutral, but upon this question of Know Nothingism I am not neutral, believing it equal it equally disasterous to the United States and to the adopted pop ulation of this country. What would be the result if you succcceded in driving away from your shoros to Canada or elsewhere half a million of Irish people?— What would be the advantage gained by the party accomplishing that end.' Would it in any degree increase their happiness? Would it increase their wealth? Would it not depreciate the value of their property?
I am sorry
to learn that in this State there has been a recent effort to extend the period of disqualification beyond the period which i? imposed by the constitution of the United States. I know not what may be the feelings of the people whom I now address upon the subject but of this I feel assured, and I feel it to be my bouuden duty here openly to express it, that such policy is detrimental to the interests of this State. [Cheers.J
8®* Thursday, May 5, was the thirtyeighth anniversary of the death of Napoleon. He died at eleven miuutes before six in the evening, in the midst of a great storm, which has been compared with that which raged while Cromwell's spirit was passing away. He was but a little older than Napoleon III. now is, who completed bis fifty-first year on the 20 th of last month. Slay was a peculiar month in Napoleon's history. He crossed the Po on the 7th of, May, 179G, and won the battle of Lodi on the 10th. May 10th, 1798, he sailed on the expedition to Egypt. His final effort against Acre was mads 5lay 11, 1799. On the 6th of May, 1800, he left Paris for the Marengo campaign, and on the 15th com inenccd the passage of the Alps. He was made Emperor on the 3d of May, 1804.— On the I'ith of 3Iay, 1S09, Vienna fell into his hands the second time. The battle of Essliug was fought May 21 and 22, 1809. May 17th, 1S09, he annexed Rome and the States of the church to his Empire. May 9th, 1812, he left Paris for the fatal Russian campaign. He wou the battle of Lutzeu May 2d, and that of Bautzen May 21st, 1812. He landed at Elba, May 30th, 1S14, and he died May 5th, 1821.
CIIAIUTV AND ITS REWARD. Conductor George Rogers on the Lafayette aud Indianapolis Road, took the responsibility upon himself yesterday to lend a helping hand to the poor widow and her children, of whose extreme destitution we made mention yesterday. He laid up a. little treasure in heaven on his own account, by passing licr to Indianapolis. We venture the prediction that this departure from the rules and regulations of the L. & I. R. 11., will eventuate in his discharge from the position he has so credibly filled. Mark it!—Lof Courier.
TERRinc VieHT IN A MAIL CAW-, A Daring Uttmpiby jlight to Rob tke Southera mi WcrteiiiiJIailik ,' lFrom|he cieedehS
,. Imagine for one moment the scene.- A The parlimentary elections are nearly
all over.^ The result is as last reported. The army of Ly^ns was under orders for Italy. This would raise the French troops in Italy to about 200,000.
French legislation on corn laws is postponed sitk.die. The tftpk of France lost 25 million francs ipf^pecie during the month.
The L$®irsc has been active and higher, but deel^jed on the 13th closing at 61 65c. i.*r
The projected mission of Prince Windischgrate to St. Petersburg!] is abandoned. (V
nian
DamMi^t]
Law evening we learned the partietilars of one of the most daring attempts to rob the mails ever attempted in this country, ao^^kich came .near being successful.— The Wcstorn' anii Southern mails,'ilrhich left-New York Wednesday evening last by way of N. Y. & E. B. R-, were in charge of Mr. Keck, Throagh Mail Agent from New York to Cincinnati. About 11 o'clock at n'ght, when running over the Delaware ,P:*,v'?ion» near Elmyra, Mr. Kcck lay down on his back upon the niail bags to sleep, the door being partly open. After dosing a short time he felt a drop of something like water fall upon his cheek, and opening his eyes drowsily he was startled by the spectacle of a burly-looking man standing over him with a sponge, which was afterwards found to contain chloroform, in one hand, and a revolver in the other.— Seizing the, arm which held the revolver, with a sudden grasp, Mr. Keck dosed in with the robber, and then followed a most desperate combat. The Agent is a large, robust and powerful man, and he .represents his antagonist as being a man *f_.uncommon physical strength and endurance.
in tfac mail car of an Express train,
in the dead of night, the noise of the wheels effectually preventing any outcry he might make, being heard, and thus unable to obtain aid or assistance from any quarter, straggling alone for his life with a desperado with whom the combat seemed alike of life and death.
Mr. Keck succeeded in wresting the pistol from his antagonist, when the latter attempted to strike hiin with a pair of brass knuckles with which he was provided.— The struggle lasted for full twenty minutes, the train meanwhile being under full headway, when Mr Keck succeeded iu catching hold of the bell cord and giving it a strong pull. The robber then made desperate efforts to break away from the agent, and before the speed of the train had slackened much, he succeeded in doing so, and sprang out of tho door. The train was stopped as soon as possible, and backed to the spot where the robber made the leap, which was down an embankment one hundred feet high! Although the sand bore traces of his descent, still nothing could be found of the desperado. It was a fearful leap, and the agent said his escape from death was nothiug short of a miracle.
Mr. Keck passed through Cleveland last evening, and having had no opportunity of changing his clothes he showed all the evidences of the severe conflict lie had passed through. lie was bloody from head to foot, and bore numerous sanguinary cuts and bruises on his person, lie lias the sponge, revolver and overcoat of the robber, which he will retain as mementoes of the most exciting event in his life. He can only account for the presence of the obber in the car in the following manner:
piness in this country at one period, about separate loads of mail bags, and thinks the
fellow got and secreted himself in tiie car after the arrival of the first load. It was several hours before Mr. Kcck recovered from the cffccts of- tho chloroform.
TIIE DUCHESS OF PARMA—MARIA LOUISA. The Duchess of Parma, following the example of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, has fled from her dominions. The government has given in its adhesion to Sardinia and the Italian cause. Parma is an independent State about the size of Delcware.
to me not onlj as a friend ot my own race |anti contains a population of half a million, alone, but as a friend—.or such T. sincerely ]iaj standing army of five thousand am of the people of the United fetatcs. which will be a seasonable rc-cnforce-[Ueers.] Because I feel perfectly assur-
ed that the prevalence ot suca a sen-. Duc|iess
Iucut to the
Surdinians. The Grand
was
timcnt is as equally pernicious to the peo-j ROBERT, a boy of eleven years of aire.—
the reirent for her son, Duke
She had seen the storm coming and had forwarded, some time ago, to Venice a large quantity of her personal property, wardrobes, plate and money. Having secured these, the sensible Duches desided to leave the sinking ship, and, appointed a regency, it is supposed, for Venice, where, like FAXXY ELLSLER, the Duchess de BERRI, and other notable ladies, she possesses a very comfortable and handsome palace.
The ruler of Parma preceding the present was the secoud wife of NAI'OI.EUX I, the Empress MARIA LOUISA, who, after the overthrow of her husband, was assigned the government of this petty State. She who froih 1809 to 1814 was the Empress of the most poworful nation in the world —who had a bevy of queens as her attendants in the Palace of the Tuilerics, governed under Austrian influence this little Duchy from 1814 to 1848. Her character was contemptible in every respect. She manifested no affection for her husband, and when his reverse came she seperated from him and united hor fortunes with his bitter 'enemies. She was destitute of womanly pride and dignity, and did not realize the importance of maintaining her position as the Empress of the most powerful monarch of modern times. While he was a prisoner on the Island of St. Helena she maintained a notorious illicit connected with a one-eyed Austrian Colonel, who was her private secretary. On NAPOLEOX'S death, in 1821, she married him and had several children. lie had several rivals, however, iu her favor, and her court was noted for its corruption and profligacy.
ALL EuitorE ix THE BATTLE-FIELD.— Marseilles. May 5.—War is declared, and the Emperor leaves Paris to-morrow to take command of the "Army of Italy."— More than 150,000 men have been transported by land and sea to Italy within week. This is almost impossible to believe, but it is so. About 00 French men-of-war and all the trade steamers of Marseilles have been employed in carrying troops. It is supposed that the hostilities will begin to-morrow, or at least before the 10th inst. We expect iu France to soon have war against England also, and wc hope to be allied with the United States and perhaps with Russia. All
Europe is presently under arms aud prc- ,,
with some
1
dy specially is. A dandy is a clotheswearing man—a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of he
Every faculty of his "soul, "spirit purse, and person, is heroically consecrated to this one object—the wearing of clothes, wisely and well so that, as others dress to lire, he lives to dress.—Carlyle.
THE I'ARTUREOr THEj*RENtn ROR FOR?TIIE SEi^fe OF W
The London Times NDf May^f, the following leader on the "Depsrture*tf the Frencli Emperor from his Capital for the seat of War-,
Yesterday the Emperor of-ihe French left.his .capital to take command .of his army. W^hcn these words were read^by our father^, soin^ half century ago, every one knew^thercjeas^under in the air, and. tliat the bolt wonltPsoon fall tHey knew also that the crash of sacked cities and cries of broken armies would soon lfe heard. It is not quite with the same certainty of havoc that wc follow the flight of the tamer eagle of the Bonaparte family. He has taken all his possessions lie has left the Empress all the functions of the regency, and has weighted them with those proper restrctions which he thinks necessary to prevent the operation of amicable weakness, or feminine irresolntion. In matters of State, in his absence, he has left her his orders and instructions to guide her, and his photograph newly taken to console her. If we .look back for a precedent for an (Trent of this courtly impertinence, we must rest upon the magnificent ceremonial which accompanied the departure of the uncle of the present Emperor, in the month of,May, in the famous year, of 1812. Then, also," an Emperor of France recommended to the protection of his people his wife and his one child, and went forward in a plentitude of inagnificencc, which even Napoleon III, can not yet emulate, to take command of half a million of men under arms, and to direct the thunders of thirteen hundred guns.— Even the huge armies now on foot are not to be compared with such tremendous armaments. Nor will there interpose between France and the seat of war any so magnificent a display as that which drew together half the sovereigns of Europe to do 1 omnge to the great Napoleon at Dresden. If wc recur to our history, it is that the events of the last few years seem to have brought tho great wars of the first Napoleon nearer to our own time.
Sonic seven or eight years ago, the present generation felt itself divided as by a gulf from the tremendous conflicts of the Republic and the Empire, but these mighty events now scein less strange and less foreign to our experience. We have become accustomed to the rumors of wars and alliances, the dispatch of regiments and ships, the views of successful sieges and hard won fights. Wc turn to our histories to find that the armies marshaled under t.hc banuers of rival States, arc now vastly more numerous, expensive and well equipped than those which fought at the outset of the great war. The vessels which contended tit the Nile and Trafalgar wore mere nut. shells in comparison with the stupendous hulks which will bo brought into action should the only two great naval powers which remain in Europe op-
He says they received at New York two pose each other in war. These facts may
seem commonplace, utmost importance
but still it is of th to recollect that (lie the European nations
may now be drifting, is on quite as hirire a scale as that which exhausted their energies at the beginning of this centurv.
True, any war of the present day mav want the fierceness and enthusiasm wnicn prolonged a. former one for twenty-two years, but ruin may come just as well from a war unwillingly commenced and languidly prosecuted, as from one which engages the passions of every peasant. The burdens of war, the. horrors of war, may be justice, as terrible when both sides arc wishing for peace and asking the reasons of the fight, as when a revolution is battling with kings or a crowned soldier placing his relatives and his commedians on the thrones of Kurope. Let us then consider by the light of history, the preparations which are now being made by Franco and Austria for the conduct of the present war. The campaign, which began by the entry of French troops into Piedmont, and by the passage of the Ticino by the Austrians, is on a settle which very far exceeds any former struggle in these countries.
Iu the long wars of the first Napoleon, the armies continually increased in number, while it said, the genius of the commander, and the prowess of the individual soldier diminished. The brilliant campaigns of Napoleon First were made at the betid of a few thousand men. Marengo tself was gained by 28,000, while in tin
iia baapoinc 9(^)00^teooiM .of-her own already#may h^feck^d,#ithou|Wag-
erati°ik|p!*t
campaigns of Wagrani, Moscow and Lcip- wagons formed into two circle-, with their sic, wc have incomparably larger armies families in the midst, trying to defend ihenibrought iuto the field on both side.?. Now selves against the mcn-iless and bloodtlie war of 1859 begins on the collos»il, thirsty savages, who lay around in ambush., scalc of the latter Empire, and the armies
1
Germany will, while the war is confined
to Italy, be sufficiently the ally of Austria!
fo guarantee her from any attack inthe, rear by Russia, but not sufficiently to dis-1
turb France by any demonstration on the I
Rhine. It n.ay be said, for some time to
come, at least, the influei ce of Germany !k!uv'!S
will have the effect of leaving both sides
Ihoscatoi war
c,
paring for a tremendous war.—Lorresjwn- two single States ever yet opposed to each
deuce of 0# Journal of Commzce. other. The numbers wc do not pretend fcrocious peckings of the Austrian even to guess at. The French are push- ],]afr]c. in the foreground are France and ing troops over the Alps and loading their I
The supply of food will be the only limit to the number which can thus be brought into the field. There is no doubt that the power which sent a quarter of a million of men to Sebastopol within eighteen months, will be able to send that number into Northern Italy. Considering that the whole of Italy, with 27,000,000 of people, may speedily be in iusurrectiou. and that Sar-
more Jk«®0,000 meiinay,
'n .#,thliP)e -put in Me to drivodoe Austral iroa^their carefully chosen. and their now famous portions, in Lombardy. On the other hand, Austria can and will no doubt bring an £qua| forte into the field. She does not'want men/for the -Empire contains- 33,000,OOQx-^ouls without counting th$Italia&proyinees, If Ihe Finance Minister can finduie money to keep 300,000 up on foot in Italy, General Gyanle will find work for them all.-— They willnot be men to fight with the spirit and dash of Frenchmen, but they will be fine, steady troops, superior iu physique to their enemies. They trill have all that science has achieved in the way of perfect weapons of destruction, and they will be commanded by officers who know that the eyes of Europe are upon them, and that they must fight now for the.jvery existence of their Empire. These are the prospects of the campaign, and certainly, as far as man can divine, they promise a most obstinate contest.
The combatants are fairly matched.— France, wi'h Ttaly at her back, and a less impoverished exchequer, may be expected to have the superiority of numbers, but the Austrians, on the other hand, will probably, after their "raid" into Piedmont, fight" 4 defensive battle, and then ithey will be-on ground of which they know every inch. They will be holding their own military works, at which they have labored for forty years, and which they have declared to be master pieces of science. If on such conditions they are not able to hold their ground, Europe will come to to the conclusion that it is of very little use to help them. With every inducement to a desperate struggle, they must be changed from what the}- were in the old times, if France is easily victorious or Lombardy free at once. Such considerations as these make us look with apprehension for the future of Europe, especially in financial matters.
Wo read that the French loan of £20,000,000 is being easily raised, and this is not a matter for surprise, as the lender will get 5 per cent, for his money, and payment of installments is to extend over no less than 18 months but these twenty millions, which are to come in at the slow rate of a million a month, will be soon spent, probably before the next sixth monthly installment is forthcoming, and then what is to be done.' Is there to be another loan extending over a further term of eighteen months or an income tax or additional custom duties? If one or two brilliant victories dispose of the Austrians, all will be well, and the twelve million pounds sterling, which the Minister of Finance says lie has on hand, added to the produce of the loan, may give Napoleon I II. the glory he covets tit a comparatively cheap rate. Jiut suppose the troops of Francis .Joseph to be tougher enemies -than counted upon, how long will the cost of aggressive war be home cheerfully, even bv the Krone!) peo-
As it is not the duty of .Knirhmd to fight for either party, so common prudence commands them to hold their purse strings when despots ask for funds for such an enterprise as the Italian war.
TIIE MURDER. OF TIIE ARKANSAS EMIGRANTS —AN AWFUL SCENE. One of the witness before Judge Cradlebaugh, at Provo, while he was endeavoring to bring the murderous Mormons to justice, but without success as yet, for the murdering and plundering of the Arkansas emigrant party, consisting of some one hundred and thirty people, of all aires and sexes, thus testified:
While I was residing at Cedar City I was called upon by Messrs. Isaac Hight, John D. Lee and John Higbee—all three Mormon military officers—to go a few miles out south of the city, which did. There I found thirty or forty others, selected from different settlements. We were addressed by the above officers, who told us that they had sent Canosh, the Paravant Chief, with his warriors, to destroy the Arkansas Company, and that if he had not done it we must; that if any of us refused, or betrayed them to the Americans, they would take good care of him hereafter. Here we were all ordered on the quick march to the Mountain Meadows, where we found the emigrants, with their
killing them as opportunity presented.
employed mnyenttain dimensions such as no flight and Lee formed their men into single State has hitherto been capable of two companies, and made a precipitant
producing. Presuming the struggle to be I rush at tho poor defenseless victims. .1 he inside of the circles rose up, but inconfined to France and Austria, and to the field of Northern Italy, we shall have the spectacle of a combat in close lists, such as the world has never before witnessed.— If both the antagonists fight well and stubbornly, the conflict will be as interesting to the* military critic as grievous the philanthropist. Both Franco and Austria will be able to march almostall their enormous forces to the seat of war.
men inside the circles rose up, but in-
stantly fell dead or mortally wounded, under the fire of the wretches who so cruelly sought their lives. Nothing remained to be done, except to kill the frightened females and their innocent, children clasped in their arms. Others clung with desparation [sic] to their bleeding, dying husband pleading in vain for mercy at the hands of 'the "Christians" who controlled the more savage Indian assailants.
John D. Lee now sent to the Indian
spare on the little children, who could not
chief, and his men in ambush, to come out
and finish the survivors, directing him to
bloody work. The scene beggars descrip-
free to use all their strength against each jtl0!l' demouiac ells of the savage other. That thev* will use it there is no
tion. The demoniac yells of the savage
prayers of helpless mothers and daughters,
..
4 1
~r|unflinching
each railways am their troops easily, and the long inarches 1 1 I I I I and innocence winch enfeebled and diminished armies in the days of Napoleon, will be avoided.— Enormous masses of armed men can be ta-
1J^C:rUC,
aJ1
,hc I,ttIc
'll,1'lren:wl,°
c'Hl1,1
talk. The savages came instantly, with
knives drawn, and speedily finished the
-^enc beggars desenp-
monsters, mingled with the shrieks and
while the death-blows were dealing with
unflinching hands, and scalps were torn
S„tran^rtS!tVc)in•
from heads which bloomed with beauty and innocence but a few hours before.— Now the work of butchering ended. The murderers threw the dead into two heaps, covered them slightly with earth, and left them, "to feed the wolves and birds of prey;" and returned home, with their booty of cattle, and wagons, and a great quantity of goods, &c. -----
ken 'o the country they are tj fight in, as comfortably as if they were merely making a change of quarters. With this facility of transport, and this power of using the whole of their great standing armies, wc must expect sec two hosts gathered to- The last number of Punch contains getlicr on the plains of Italy such as no
an cngniving
representing Sardinia inthe
tjlji.-rilYllJ't lUUlMtluUo
st:ncc
jn the shape of a lamb, exposed
jU5Sjaj
also eatrie shayed, in confidential
discourse, one proposing to the other— "Dear Brother, Oh let us hasten to protect the poor lamb yonder." The illustration is headed "Birds of a Foathcr," Ac.
How UNCHRISTIAN WE AKE GROWING.— When a steamer comcs in, everybody looks over the foreign news and exclaims, in a tone of disappointment aud sadness—"No battle vet!"'
[From the Detroit Advertiser.]
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THE GREAT PIKE'S PEAK HUMBUG. Mr. Stephen D. Johnson, of this city, long in the employ of the Centrial [sic] Railroad Company, who left for Pike's Peak on the 5th of March last, returned to Detroit on Monday evening having seen the ele- phant if all his phases. He fully confirms thre eports [sic] that the whole thing is a humbug conceived in fraud by a set of unmitigated sharpers and swindlers, the chief of whom is the notorious General Larimer. After having prospected the alleged gold regon [sic] thoroughly, the inexhaustible supply of gold at Pike's Peak have been manufactured by unprinciple [sic] speculators, for no other purpose than to give them an opportunity to prey opon [sic] those who might be drawn to the fabulous Eldorado in search of the precious metal.
Mr. Johnson is an old California gold digger, and was therefore prepared to judge correctly of the prospect of finding gold in any conciderable [sic] quantity, and to enter upon the search intelligently. He informs us that after the most industrious effect in the best localities the most gold he was able to find in a day was the enormous sum of <five cents!> During all his residence at the mines, after the most patient inquiry, the most he could hear of any one's having in his possession was $74 of quicksilver dust, and only $14 of the pure dust. He succeeded with great difficulty, in purchasing $6 36 worth, to bring back as a specimen to show his friends, and which may now be seen at this office by the curious.
One gentleman of his acquaintance offered $25 for an ounce of the dust—$3 or $4 more than its real value—for the same purpose; but he could not procure it upon any terms, for it was not there. The traders, or "merchants," at Auraria and Denver City, of whom the miners bought their supplies, could not procure a dollar's worth of the precious metal. If there had been any gold in the diggings it would have found its way into their clutches, but they had not been able to gather enough of the tiny scales to reward them for the least of their impositions upon the public.
Mr. Johnson informs us that the goldseekers were rapidly leaving the mines.— When he left, there were not more than five or six hundred there, though he met a large number on the way as he was returning. The day before he took his departure there were forty wagons left to return and many on their way, who were met by those who were fleeing from the mines, as they would from the plague, were induced to turn back without even looking upon the promised land, by the unfavorable reports they received on all hands. He fully confirms, also, the reports in regard to the severe suffering at the mines. Many were destitute of shoes, and were, compelled to tie rags upon their feet, without decent clothing, and with scarce enough food to keep soul and body together. He left at Denver City, lying in a wagon, too ill to move, a Mr. John Bell, of New York, with the toes of one of his feet literally frozen off. One man he saw had been frozen to death, and another murdered and scalped by the Indians or the equally savage whites. He thinks, from his own observation and from careful inquiry, that, there must bo at least one hundred and twenty-five thousand people on the Plains, either going to or returning from the mines.
As to accommodations at Denver City, Arrapahoe, Auraria, etc., he says there are none. The stories of splendid hotels, fine houses, &c., are made out of whole cloth. The things which the swindlers said was a hotel that would compare with any in the country, is a miserable, half-finished logcabin, with no beds, no chairs, and only rough boards for a table. Boarders were charged $14 a week at it, for miserable food, and were compelled to find their own blankets, and sleep on the floor at that.
Most of the ''houses,'' of which there were only about a dozen in either of the great gold cities, have no roofs, and everything else was on the same scale. Such is the great gold Eldorado, and thus has the miserable bubble burst. ———<>———
DEATH OF DOCTOR LARDXKII.—Doctor LAIIDXEIC, one of the most- eminent seientific men of this country, is dead. He was born in Dublin about, the year 1 SOI).— I His decease will leave a great void in tin world of science and art. Mis "Cabinet,
Kneyelopcdia of Science ami Art" has had a wide circulation, and is universally admired, iiml was contributed to by many of the leading minds of Europe. Doctor-. LARDXKR occupied tit one time the chair of Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Loudon University, lie lost much of his ition and social standing,however in conthe scandal arising out, of lii.-n unfortunate elopement with Mrs. Captain IIKAVVSIIJES. This imprudent step was the means of bringing him to this country in 1X4H, a visit which familiarized him with the American people.
nce A
ffST" Baron Humboldt, was attended on his deathbed by his nephews, and by his niece, the Baroness of Bulow. He inquire ed several times after the King of Prussia, whom he hoped to sec agaiu before his death. He has bequeathed a great por tion of his books and instruments to his former traveling companion, Scyffarth, who was servant to him for the last thirty years, and who is now also prostrated by illness.
SST* The New York Post, in its notice of Humboldt's death, reminds us that the great deceased was born the same year as the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Stuart Lord Castlereagh, George Cuvier, Chateaubriand, Sir Thomas Lawrence, John Quincy Adams, Brunei, the civil engineer Tallien, the revolutionist, and Mehemet Ali, of Kgypf•
CSfA few days since wo noticed a case in Hudson where a man cowhided a gay Lothario for promenading the streets with his wife and daughter. The woman publishes the following card, which sets at rest the man's claim to either wife or child, and makes him a poor, lone crcature in tho world
As the impression still seems to prevail that I am the wife of Charles E. Southerland, I deem it my duty to make this correction. I am not bis wife. A mutual agreement of separation for life was a long time ago signed by him and myself. As for the young lady that he calls his daughter, she is not his.
ANNIE E. GRIFFETII.
Gabriel, blow your horn
Judge Douglals hasbccd invited bv
the Maine Democracy to visit that State.