Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 November 1859 — Page 1

THE

jfEW SERIES--VOL. XI, NO. 16.

WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE. The Republican papers profess to be highly indignant that Democrats should bold their party responsible for the late unhappy affair at Harper's Ferry, by which a large number of lives were lo3t, and dread and consternation spread over a wide dlstriot of country. To those, however, who are convorsant with the language need by the Republican leaders since the organization of their party, but little need be said to convince them that the party is entirely responsible for what occurred last xnanth at Harper's Ferry. It was indeed, bat a fulfillment of the predictions so free-

ly made, and a carrying out of the principles BO earnestly advocated and enforced by the leaders of that party in the halls of Congress, in the pulpit, on the stump, and through the columns of their newspapers. To bring more vividly before the minds of our readers the principles and measures advocated by this party, we publish herewith extracts from the speeches, sermons, and writings of the leaders of the Republicans. Ilcrc they are:

OERRIT SMITH INSTIGATING INSURRECTION.

No wonder, then, is it that in this state of facts which I have sketched, intelligent black men in the States and Canada, should see no hope for their race in the practice

and policy of white men. No wonder they are brought to the conclusion that no resource is left to them but in God and insurrections. For insurrections, then, ivc may look any year, any month, any clay. A terrible remedy for a terrible icrong!— But come it must, unless anticipated by repentancc and the puting away of the terrible wrong. It will be said that these insurrections will be failures—that they will be put down. Yes, but will not slavery nevertheless be put down by them? For what portions are there of the South that will cling to slavery after two or three conitiderablc insurrections shall have filled the, whole South with horror? And is it entirely certain that these insurrections will be put down promptly, and before they can have spread far? Will telegraphs and railroads be too swift for even the swiftest insurrections? Remember that telegraphs and railroads can be rendered useless in an hour. Remember, too, that many, who would be glad to face the insurgents, would be busy' transporting their wives and

BULLETS INSTHAii OF BALLOTS. "If peaceful means fail us, and we are driven to the last extremity, where ballots are useless, then we'll make bullets effective." [Tremendous applause.]

lion. Ernstm Hopkins. DISUNION ANYHOW.

"I detest slavery, and say Unhesitatingly that I am in favor of its abolition by some means, if it sends all the party organizations in the Union and the Union itself to the devil. If it can only exist by holding millions of human beings in the most abject and cruel system of slavery that ever cursed the earth, it was a great pity that it was over formed, and the sooner it is disolved the better."

transporting their wives and him to martyrdom.

daughters to places whore they would be AWAY WITH THE UNION. safe from the worst fate which.husbands ..j

•and fat.icrs can imagine »or lcir i\es

..and daughters. admit that but for this

(luucinents of this act—the ugitive blave i-

Charles Sumner

H. M. Addison.

DOWN WITH THE UNION.

"Was it not that the only hope of the •lave was over the ruins of this Government, and of the American Church, the dissolution of the Union was the abolition of slavery."—Stephen C. Foster.

DOWN WITH THE CONSTITUTION. "A great many people raise the cry about the Union and Constitution, as if the two were identical but the truth is, it is the Constitution that has been the fountain and father of our troubles."—Rev. Henry Ward Betchcr.

sriTTiNG uroN WASHINGTON.

"Remcm^cr'ng he was a slaveholder, he could spit upon Washington. [Hisses and applause.] The hisses, he said, were slaveholders in spirit, and every one of them would enslave him if they had the courage to do it. So near the Faneuil Hall and Bunker Hill, was he not permitted to say that SCOUNDREL, George Washington, had enslaved his fellow men!" C. L. Redmonrf, Black Republican orator at Faneuil Hall.

GENERAL DESTRUCTION.

fesotved. That. God helping us, we will live and labor, not only for the prevention of slavery upon the soil of Kansas, but also for its destruction from the lencth and breadth of tho land.

Resolved, That the Union was established to seeure the liberties of American citiiens. When it fails to do that, our only Toio* eaa be, let the Union be dissolved.

LoweU Resolutions.

OIRIKO KID or r&EEDOX.

The events of the last few jews, and

barous community and a civilized comma* nity can constitute one State. I think we mast get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.—R. W.. Emmerson, at Concord.

REVOLUTION WANTED.

The following resolution was adopted at a meeting of Slack Republicans at Monroe, Green sounty, Wisconsin, on the 31st of July.

Resolved, That it is the duty of the North, in case they fail in electing a President, and a Congressthat will restore freedom to Kansas, to Revolutionise the Gov' ernment.

S EFFECTIVE AGORESSIOHV^ There is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the domain. It (slavery) can and must be abolished, and you and I must do it. Correct your own error that slavery has constitutional guarantees which may not be released, and ought not to be relinquished. You will soon bring the parties of the country into an effective aggression upon slavery.— Seward.

GREAT llOrES.

I have great hopes of the overthrow of the Union.—Rev. T. Foss.

THE DEATH STRUGGLE.

Thus he (Rev. Dr. Kirk) only pointed to the thuDder cloud that hung over us.— "God," said be, "may avert it. Man cannot avert it. Coaxing, compromise, letting alone, arc all too late. Mr. Brooks is nothing in this matter—3Ir. Douglas is nothing in this matter. The doctrine that a negro is not a man, and the doctrines that a negro is a man, have now come to the death struggle, and the nation will heave with every convulsive struggle of the contest. Neither will yield until a continent has been swept with the deluge of civil war." Traveler's Report of Rev. Dr. Kirk's Spcech.

rOWDKR AND BALL.

At a meeting of the Emigrant Aid Society Rev. Mr. ame» of Worcester said: lie had no faith in the resolutions passed by large meetings, and believed that paper resolutions would do no good unless ramm jd down the barrel of a gun with powder and ball.

Rev. Mr. Snow of Lowell embraced the sentiments Tittered by his brother Christian, and .said that he was ready to follow

lovc tl)C Ul)icm

i-mbarrcssmcut, .Southern men would laugh at the idea of insurrection, and would Illicitly DISPOSE of one. But trembling as I'I.EDOEI. AGAINST run SOVKH. tliev would for their beloved ones, I know "No man has a right to be surprised at of iio part of the world where so much as this stale of things. It is just what we in the South men would be like, in a for-j (Abolitionist and Disunionists) have atjnidable iusurr6ction, to lose the most im-j tempted to br.ing about. There is merit ^idrtatjt time, and be distracted and panic- in the Republican party. It is the first .stricken.—Ucrrit Smith's letter to the scctional party ever organized in this coun"Jerry Rescuers," Angus'., !."»$.

DISUNION HETTI::'. THAN SLAVERY "In conclusion, I have only to add that such is ray solemn au 1 abiding conviction of the character of slavery, that under a full sense o. my responsibility to my country and niv God, I deliberately say. hotter disunion—better a civil or sjrvile war—

_:lIul he time has

c0:nc w|ien wc ninst

love freedom better

than Uaim '_Ex.LicuL

oc.

Ford

I try. It does not know its own face, and jit calls itself national but it is not nationla), it is sectional. The Republican party I is a party of the North pledged against the

South."-—\Vendcll 1'hillips. TIIU

UNION A

.... ii II m. Unul Crarrixon. —is tilled with horror. Mere the path of my duty is clear. I am bound I *N ANTI-SI.A\ER\ IRNILL. to disobey this act." lion. I "The times demand and we must have an anti-slavery Constitution, an anti-slave-ry Bible, and an anti-slavery God.—An-

LIU.

I "This I'uion is a lie. The American I l.'nion is an imposture—a covenant with

bor.ti'r anything that God in His Provi- death and an agreement with hell.' denee shall send—lhati an extension ofi I AM FOR ITS OVERTHROW the bonds of slavery." l*p with the flag of disunion, lfon. Horace Mann. that we may have a free and glorious republic of our own and when the hour 1 1 ha a a iv at "ihe good citizen, as lie reads the re-j ,, •. ,,

Is ha it a

son Bit rim game Member of Congress from Massachusetts. S I.KT Disr.NioN COMI:. "In the case of the alternative presented of the continuance

being

of slavery

or a dissolution of the Union, 'I am for a dissolution, and care not how soon it comes.' "—Rufus 1'. Spalding.

TIRE AND SWORI).

CUT THROATS.

At a recent Black Republican meeting at Auburn, Fred Douglas said, among other things, "that it was the dutv of everv slave to cut his master's throat

BRITISH BATONE1S

"I look 'forward to the day when there shall be a servile insurrection in the South —when the black man, armed with British bayonets, and led on by British officers, shall assert his freedom, and wage a Avar of extermination against his master— when the torch of the incendiary shall light up the towns and cities of the South, and blot out the last vestige of slavery and, though I may not mock at their calamity, nor laugh when their fear cometh, yet I will haU it as the dawn of a political millennium."—Joshua R. Giddings.

We now ask' if, after reading the above extracts, anybody thinks it strange that such an event as that at Harper's Ferry should take place? Tho leaders of the Black Republican party vent curses upon tho Union declare that slavery is a crime against God and man send forth the dogma that there is and ever must be an "irrepressible conflict" betwoen the free and the slave States maintain the doctrine that there is a "higher law" than the Constitution which we are bound to obey in dealing with slavery predict that slave in. •urreetiotu will take place, and that white men and white men'a bayonets will not be

aoath». «ad d*y» hire Uught tu the le** I **otiag to aasut the cegroet is obUisisg one of ceDtariM. I do not M« ho*« for* tbeir Awe4om.

These doctrines have been proclaimed by the Republican leaders time and again, and now that they have been pat in practical operation by Ossawatomie Brown and his associates, but have failed to bear the cxpccted fruits, these leaders and editors composedly fold their arms and say they are not responsible—they had no part nor lot in it! But they will not be thus permitted to shake of the responsibility of this bloody and treasonable work. It is the direct offspring and the legitimate result of their preachings and teachings ever since the organization of their party and they must bear its crushing weight.

THE PROPOSED BALLOON VOYAGE TO EUROPE. Mr. T. S. C. Lowe, the aeronaut, has brought his immense balloon "City of New York," out of doors. It has been placed in Crystal Palace Square, in New York city, and connected with a huge gas metre holding 200 cubic feet of gas, from which it is now being filled, preparatory for the air-voyage to Europe, which, if the balloon bears well the test of inflation and out door exposure, he designs starting on in some two or three weeks. A party of six men, whose names have not as yet been announced, will accompany him in his perilous undertaking.

Some idea of the size of the balloon may be formed when we state that if spread flat on the ground, it would extend nearly across the Crystal Palace square, a distance of 400 feet, and that its shortest diameter, when filled, is 30 feet more than that of the large circus tent which has been erected on the ground for the purpose of exhibiting the car, boat and other equipments.

The fabrick [sic] of the balloon is oiled twilled muslin. The pattern was cut from six thousand yards of this material, and was sewed together in eleven sections; the work was done by seventeen sewing machines, making three rows of stiches [sic] to each seam. When spread out on the ground to receive its coat of varnish, it covered two acres.— The netting is made of cord of three strands, each strand containing twenty threads, weighing in all one thousand pounds. The basket suspended from the contracting hoop to which the net is attached, is six feet in diameter it is made of strongly woven wicker-work, about two inches thick; the sides are about four feet high, and are continued up with canvas, making a circular room or cabin, in the sides of which are windows. The cabin, is heated by a newly invented stove, lime being used instead of fire. A trap door, in the center of the basket, when opened discloses a rope ladder leading to one of Francis's metallic life-boats, 45 feet in length, made expressly for this ship. It contains a Caloric engine, attached to a propeller. At one end of this boat is a fan or fly-wheel of sufficient dimensions to drive the whole ship up or down without the loss of gas or ballast (though the latter will be taken as a precaution.) A long and very broad car, or rudder, at the other end of the boat, will assist in shaping the ship's course. This boat will have a crew of six. It will also contain water and provisions for six months, also a rubber life-boat, life-preservers, rockets, &c., for signals, one barrel of lime, and everything necessary for use and comfort.

When rigged and fitted the ship will be <three hundred and fifty feet high>, and will have the power to take up twenty-two tons. Mr. Low has instruments of his own inven-

tion for ascertaining his rate of speed, the

DOlKili TtlE Hl(i

A gentleman relates an anecdote of the Mexican War, which has never been published:

Wheu the American army was forming line for the battle of Buena Vista, Gencr

"On the action of this Convention de- al Lane was riding up and down the line ponds the fate of the country if the Re publicans fail at the ballot box, wo will be forced to drive back the slavcocracy with fire and sword."—James M'atson iVebb.

LET BLOOD IIE SHED.

"I pray daily that this accursed Union may be dissolved, even if blood have to be spilt."—Black Republican Clergyman at Poxtghkcepsie.

of his Indiana Regiment. The Mexicans had stationed some small guns on a neighboring bight, which were blazing away most furiously on General Lane's regiment.— But as their guns were badly aimed, the balls in every case passed over their heads, but sufficiently near to cause the men, as they heard the peculiar whiz of the balls, to involuntarily "duck" their heads.

General Lane happened to notice this, and in his rough, stentorian voice, he bawled out: "Indiana Regiment! No dodging!"

In about five minutes after, the tremen dous whiz of a twenty-four-pound shot passed close by the head of the gallant Brigadier, and in an instant involuntarily he bobbed his head. The men saw this, and commenced a tittering along the line, which the old General saw. Turning around, with a sort of quizzical expression, he thundered out: "Indiana Regiment! Dodge the big on

•©'The following advertisement appears in the Buffalo Express "WANTED.—An English widow lady, young, beautiful, accompli9hed,and of firstrate family, wants a position as companion to some gentleman's wife would mako herself generally useful as housekeeper, with the needle, or care of children.

Tho vixon! How dare any "young, beautiful and aoeomplished" widow thus publicly seek admission into a man's family under the pretext of becoming a companion for bis wife.—Rochester Advertiser.

Ljjtply to Brigham Young or Brother

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WHAT IS IS THE WIND?—A noted Kansas rifle-clergyman, of Brooklyn, was this morning seen, with carpet-bag iu hand and shawl upon bis arm, apparently with •ager haste leaving the eitj. Does be apprehend a requisition, from Governor WiseT—Jfinr York fry Book.

OLD SETTLERS.

MR EDITOR: I will now furnish you with a list of the early settlers of Crawfordsville and tho surrounding country, made out by our journalist in the years 1824-5, fcc., making but few changes from the old manuscript before me, which reads thus: "Crawfordsville is the only town between Terre Haute and Fort Wayne. The land office is kept here. Major Whitloek is Receiver and Judge Dunn, Register. Major Ristine keeps tavern in a two story log house, and Johnathan Powers has a little grocery. There are two stores—Smith's near the Land Office, and Isaac C. Els ton's near the tavern. Thomas M. Curry and Magnus Holmes are the only physicians, and Providence M. Curry the only lawyer in town. John Wilson is Clerk of the Court, and David Vance, Sheriff. Wm. Nicholson carries on a tannery and shoemaker's shop. Scott and Mack have cabinet shops, and George Key blows aud strikes at the blacksmithiug business.

Old man llill has a- small mill on the south bank of Sugar River, north of town. West of town in the country, there is a small neighborhood composod of the following persons and their faniilcs, viz. John Beard, Isacc Beeler, three of the Millers, (John, Isaac aud George,) Joseph Cox, John Killen and John Stitt—who owns a little mill about two miles west of town.— Southwest of town near the Fallen Timber, lives Crane, Bowen, Scott and Burbridge. East of town resides Whitloek, Baxter, McCullough, Carterlin and John Dewey with whom we stooped a few weeks on our first arrival in the country. Further east is Jacob Beeler, Judge Stitt, who owns a sawmill, W. P. Ilamey, McCafferty, widow Smith and the Elmores. Zachariah Gapen has a little tanyard near Stitt's sawmill, and in the vicinity of Kinworthy and Lee's. On the North side of Sugar River, I know of but Abe Miller, Henry and Robert Nicholson, Samuel Brown, Farlow, and Ilarshbargcr."

Besides those named, there are but few others living in the town and country. I think I am safe in saying that a half a dozen more families would embrace all, including hunters and trappers within fifty miles around.

At John Stitt's mill below town on Sugar River, there is a fish trap, and in one night we caught nine hundred fish, the first Spring we were in the country, most of them pike, salmon, perch and bass.— Some of the largest pike and salmon measured from 2 to 4 feet in length, and weighed from twelve to twenty-live pounds.— We carried them by skiff loads aud throw hem alive into the mill pond hard by, which was fed by springs, and thus we had fresh fish the year round. When a customer wished to purchase a few fish, Stitt took him to the pond, j^j^the fish were selected and the price agreed upon, before the salmon was lifted from tho water.

Society is in a chaotic state, but the floating elements begiij to indicate some definite formations. The Baptist talk of building a small house for worship. The Rev. Iiackaliah Vredenburg, of the Methodist denomination, prcachcd here a few sabbaths ago, and took incipient steps for the organization of a church, while the Presbyterians think strongly of building a eollege north-west of town, between Nathaniel Dunn's and the graveyard.

To give you some idea of the sparscncss of the population at the time at which I am writing, I would state that in a difficult case of surgery, a message was dispatched to Terre Haute, fifty-tivc miles dis-

fant, through a wilderness country, for

Ijawrcnce

direction of .he wind below, Ac., &c. It then residing there. After three or four is expected that the voyage will commence

in about ten days. The gas is furnished

by the Manhattan Gas Company through a gigantic metre capable of registering half a million cubic feet of gas per day. While the inflation is going on visitors will be admitted to the enclosure on paymeut of a fee. ———<>———

y. Sbuler.an eminent phvsician

davs and ni

„hts traveling, the messenger

t„rncd with the doctor, whom he found

luded to, our Circuit Judge and lawyers good as ever came off iu any country, new had to travel from Rockville to Laporte on or old —and if our voungstcr3 did not

horseback, crossing swamps and unbridged streams through all dispense justice to the pioneer Iloosiers.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Dec. 24, 18'24.— The land sales commenced here to-day, and the town is full of strangers. The Eastern and Southern portions of the State are stroDgly represented, as well as Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Pennsylvania.

There is but little bidding against each other. The settlers, or "Squatters," as they are called by speculators, have arranged matters among themselves to their general satisfaction. If upon comparing numbers it appears that two arc after the same tract of land, one asks the other what he will take to not bid against him? If neither will consent to be bought Off, they then retire, and oast lots, and the lucky one enters the tract at Congress price— fl 25 per aere—and the other enters the second choice on his list.

If a speculator makes a bid, or shows a disposition to take a settler's claim from him, he 600n sees the white of a score of eyes snapping at him, and the first opportunity he crawfishes out of the crowd.

The settlers tell foreign capitalists to hold on till they enter the tract of land they have Bcttled upon, and that they may then pitch in—that there will be land enoughmore than enough, for them all. (There is Squatter Sovereignty as christened and adopted by Stephen A. Douglas.)

The land is sold in tiers of Townships, beginning at the southern part of the district and continuing north until all has been offered at public sale. Then private entries can be made at $1 25 per acre of any that has been thus publicly offered.— This rule, adopted by ue officers, insures great regularity in the sale but it will keep many here for several days, who desire to purchase land in the northern portion of the district.

A few days of public rale has suffiecd to

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,) CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, NOVEMBER 5, 1859. WHOLE NUMBER 908,

I will answer for the School Master, for I was there myself. We cleared land, rolled logs, and burnt brushs, blazed out paths from one neighbors cabin to another, and from one settlement to another—made and used hand mills and hominy mortars— hunted deer, turkies, ottar and raccoons— caught fish, dug gin-seng, hunted bees, and the like—: and lived on the fat of the land.

Wc read of a land of "corn and wine," and another "flowing with milk and honey but I rather think, in atemporal point of view, taking into the account the richness of the soil, timber, stone, wild game and other advantages, that the Sugar Creek country would come up to, if not' surpass any of them.

I once cut cord wood at 31} cents per cord, (and walked a mile and a half—night and morning) where tho first frame College was built, near Nathaniel Dunn's, north-west of town.

Prof. Curry, the lawyer, would sometimes come down and help for a few hours at a time, by way Of amusement, as there was but little or no law business in the town or country at that time.

Reader what would you think of going from six to eight miles to help roll logs, or raise a cabin! Or from ten to thirty miles to mill, and wait three or four days and nights for your grist?—as many had to do in the first settlement of this country. Such things were of frequent occurrence then, aud there was but little grumbling

about it. It was a grand sight to sec the log heaps and brush piles burning in the night on a clearing of ten or fifteen acres—

in an adjoining county electioneering for Congress, in opposition to Ratliff Boone.— After assisting Doctors Holmes, Curry and Snyder in performing a critical surgical operation he resumed his canvassing, was mid-night march of the Sons of Malta, with beaten, and died a few years afterwards.— [their Grand Isacusus in the centre, bearHis district extended from the Ohio River ing the Grand Jewel of the Order, would to Lake Michigan, but contained more In-1 be nowhere in comparison with the log dlans, wolves, and wild "varmints" than heaps and brush piles in a blaze! voters. I But it may be asked, had you any social

Democratic torch light procession, or a

The judicial Circuits were then upon amusements, or manly past-times to recrcthe same capacious scale, but were like the ate and enliven the dwellers in the wilderyounggentlcman's whiskers—"extensively ncss? We had. In the social line we had laid out but thinly settled."

kinds of weather to fessor of the tcrpsecorcan art, or expert

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relieve hundreds of their cash, but they secured their land, which will serve as a

basis for their future wealth and prosperity, if they and their families use proper indilstry and economy, sure as "time's gentle progress makes a calf an ox."

Peter Weaver, Isaac Shelby, and Jehu Stanley stopped with us two or three nights during the sale. We were glad to sec and entertain these old white water neighbors, altho' we live in a cabin twelve by sixteen, and there are seven of us in family, yet we made room for them, by covering the floor with beds—no uncommon occurrence in backwoods life. They all suceccded in getting the land they wanted without opposition. Weaver purchased at the lower end of the Wea prairie, Shelby west of tho Wabash river opposite, Stanley on the north side of the Wabash, above the mouth of Indian Creek, and my father, on the north side of the Wea pratic.

It is a stirring, crowding time here, truly, and men are busy hunting up cousins and old acquaintances whom they have not seen for many long years. If men have ever, been to the same mill, or voted at the same election prccinct, though at different times, it is sufficient for them to scrape an acquaintance upon. But after all, there is a genuine backwoods log-cabin hospitality, which is free from the affected cant, and polished deception of conventional life.

Society here at present seems almost entirely free from the taint of aristocracy —the onl}r premonatory symptoms of that disease, most prevalent generally in old settled communities, were manifested last week, when John I. Foster bought a new pair of silver plated spurs, and T. N. Catterlin was seen walking up street with a pair of curiously embroidered gloves on his hands.

After the public land sales, the accessions to the population of Crawfordsville and the surrounding country were constant and rapid

Fresh arrivals of movers were the current topics of conversation. New log cab-1 in3 widened the limits of the town, and spread over the circumjacent county.

The reader may be curious to know how the people spent their time, and what they followed for a livelihood in those early times in the dense forest that surrounded Crawfordsville.

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good hoc down on punchcon floors, and were not annoyed by bad whisky. And as for manly sports, requiring mettle and muscle, there were lots of wild hogs runing in the cat-tail swamps on Lie Creek and Mill Creek, arid raccoon, and amongst theui many large boars, that Ossian's heroes, and Horner's model soldiers, such as Achilles, IlcCtor, and Ajax would have delighted to have given chase to.

Tlic boys and men of those days had quite as much sport, and made more money

Tippccanoc County, the establishment of the Seat of Justice of said County, Ac.— Laf Courier.

Carolina, and secessionist withal gued his hearers on the importance of perseverance and fortitude. He said:

You that is church members must not look back upon Babylon like Paul's wife done! You may be a heap better than the world's people! Religion is like a battle, and Satan are strong. He bates good men and wants to kill thorn at wonst. In short, my dearly beloved hearers, you must do like General Wasbinton done at the battle ef Waterloo. In the skirmage his horse was killed by a British cannon ball. Did Washinton give up his sword to the enemy? Not he! He sung out at the top of his voice, "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" A horse was brought him by Frank Marion, and he drove the bloody British from the' field, and thus secured the liberty of South Carolinti

of somewhat similar character. When the

existence. While our fleet lay off the port of Algicr3, a large ship was in sight, lying under the protection of tho guns of that immense fortress. The American commander proposed to send a boat for the purpose of blowing up the ship. The plans were laid, arrangements were perfected, and at the silent, hour of twelve at ni^ht about twenty men, solemnly and silcittly, shook hands with their companions, entered the boat, and struck out boldly to capture an immense ship, in order to liberate their fellow-men from bondage. They died—not one returned. Their plan was ill-conceived—it failed but their motives were sublime, aud wc honor their memories."

Giddings considers Brown's act sublime aud patriotic in the highest degree.

A WEALTHY MAN.—The New York correspondent of the New Orleans Crescent gives the following description of George Law:

If anything don't pay, George Law resile

ten millions. Jlc really owns the Flushinn Railroad, and Heaven knows how much

1 1 1 I lllli JlkUUl UtlU, «UIU IMIUHO JlillMJ I I it* 1 1 I our mectmgs and singing schooLs, sugar! That immense thinkin-I

I'or manv years after the time above al- boilin-rs and weddings,—which were as '. •. had actually commenced. a brain keeps accumulating. 1 doll think: he goes into Urge operations now for the I ,. .. .. ,, purpose of making inoncv. I think he the light fantastic toe under a pro- .. ,1 BX& vct.Tun editor, (a life-ioug Dem-

"trip the light fantastic toe" under a pro-j '"""'"fa

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A PRETTY STRONG DEFEKSE. I.YIOKE LETTERS AM) FCRTUKIt Dl The Boston Atlas and Bee, edited by vn.OPM E.\TSV Colonel SCHOULEK, late of the Cincinnati) '.,c ^or.c Herald of October L'7 publishes a series of letters from Col. ForLrazette, which is one of the strongest Re-1 ...

Joshua 11. Giddings, in his late lecture

I oe.s, the author of the institution books for

publican papers the Union, publishes, Guerilla warfare found at Brown's house,without dissent, the following from its cor-j from various Republicans, principally F. respondent "REDrATH," who, in speaking Sanborn, Secretary of the Massnchuof the Harper's Ferry insurrection, says: ',',J1'prant Aid Society, and S. ir. „n ... ... .. Howe ot Huston. One letter is addressed

Contrast with this spirit and their acts' ja(( the heroic courage of the Northern buys who fell in the fi"ht, anil the dauntless, r. ... I a 1 lease show to Mo=srs. Sanborn, Law-*.. speech of the hero cf Ossawatomie as he r*,(•,.,1 -ti-- renee, to. Copies will ho sent to Gov.contronted Gov. ise, and as he covered !i.

with contempt, by the majesty of his mcral learning, the miserable and blood-thirsty conduct of the Judge at the first day's reliminary trial. "Who that has a drop of manly blood in in his veius, would not rather sit to-day in the dock with old Brown than on the bench where presides the cowardly Colonel Dcvenport?—worthy representative of the pusillanimous mob who, although the prisoners are shaekeled, wouuded, feeble from loss of blood, arc afraid to give them time to recover or get counsel,^r be tried where the passions of the populace are not roused against them. "Since Lafayette left Virginia she has had but one hero on her soil, and him she is now panting to kill. It is the crime, ami not the scaffold, that disgraces one, and there is sometimes a great honor in the executioner. Next to being honored bv the heart of old Massachusetts, 1 know of no greater compliment that could be paid to a good man than being hauged by the hand of Virginia." "REDPATII" was the Kansas correspondent of the New York Tribune and the St. Louis Democrat, and was au active friend of Colonel Fremont for President in 1856.

at Philadelphia, reported in the New York runs. Slave property would thus become. Tribune of Saturday, says: untenable near the frontier. 1 hat frontier "Most of Brown's companions are dead,

at least the more fortunate among them

its consummation. I recollect an instance fe,,nS

Iter dated May 1858, is prcfueed' following memorandum:

I l.hase who found money, Gov. rleteher. who contributed arms, toothers interested

as quickly as possible." The latter gives the plans of Forbes aud Brown fur an insurrection. Forbc's plan with carefully selected colored and whito persons to orgauizo along the Northern slave frontiers, Virginia aud Maryland especially, a series of stampedes of slaves, each one of which operations would carry oft' in one night and from the same plaej,some twenty to fifty slaves. This was to' be clTceted once or twice a month, and eventually once or twice a week along non-continuous parts of the line, if possijble without conflict, only resorting to force jit attacked. Slave women accustomed to fii'ld labor would be nearly as useful as men: hvcrything being in readiness to pass on the fugitives, they could be sent with such .-•peed to Canuda that pursuit would be useless. In Canada preparations were to be made for their instruction aud employment. Any disaster which might befall a stampede would at the utmost comprom-' isc those only who might be engaged in that single one. Therefore we were not bound in good faith to the abolitionists, as we did not jeopardise that interests to consult more than those engaged in the very project. Against the chance of loss by occasional accidents should b« weighed the advantages of a scries of sueccssful

w0"l bc.P"shcd ,nor«

a,nJ

have departed. The others will probably "dement would impel the pro-slave-scon follow. Their sad fate will occupy a 7'tcs

brief page in the history of our nation:- ,llie.

m'ght

V- .I I .T II formed of the circumstaneca. In part 1 to the .Ninth-avenue, and thence to liar- ,. ,.n. T,. airree with iiim, and in part 1 dificr.

lem River—a nine-mile concern. JiaJf ,. .. tr ., Igret that the misconstruction of the rscw the ferries belong to Law. lie owns the ?, ... ,• ,, r, 7, .. __ Ivngtanders s.'itmld force me to address Dry-dock Bank, and the bank owns about i. ..

I I I I

forty acres or docks, houses and land al-1

influence upon politics, especially upon lo-1 sippi. We find the following in an obituacil affairs. Most persons have an idea ry noticc of the old gentleman: that he is an such thing.—

southward

reasonably be supposed that

C0'"imU so»,e

Those who yet survive seem to have an- f0111 |!,e 'nbab.table part of Ca'nada and ticipatcd tho result, and arc now waiting

outrageous blun-

froT3t'"

^etn3S0

K111™1 Pa„rt,f• "J'1.1

pectfully drops it. lie now owns nine-. ,, .i ... •, in one letter tie says: "1 had an interview tenths ot the J'jitrhth-avenuc Railroad, ,, ,, -b with fccnutor m. 11. Seward of .New which alone is an income of a prince, and •. N .1 ,, ii lorlc. I went fullv into the whole mattor, crowing more valuable cverv day. 11c also •. .• *i x- !ln all its bca owns nearly all the stock of the Ninth-

ta,r

an(1.

tliat

bIalanccd- suSgcsted

Africans of Algiers seized and enslaved *hicb would^ depend l» Americans, wc sent an army and a navy to butcher them, declaring them unworthy of

FO-slavery

-AIl^oun, so nearly

a peculiar action

(great measure on affairs iu Kansas, Brown had a different scheme. He proposed with some twenty-five to fifty colored and while men, well nrirrcd, rfnd bringing a quantity of spare arms to beat up a slave quarter iu Virginia. To this it was objected th'at no preparatory notice having been given to the slaves, no notice could with prudence be given them. The invitation to rise might, unless they were already prepared for agitation, meet with no response, or a feeble one. To this he replied that he was sure of a response. He calculated that h'c could "get on the first niglu from two hundred to lire hundred.— Half or thereabouts of the first lot, ho proposed keeping with him, mounting one hundred or ,so of them, and make a dash at Llarpcr's Ferry manufactory, destroying what he could not cary off. The othor men, not of this place, were to be subdivided into three or five parties, each under two or three of tho original band and would beat up other slave ffuartcrs, whenoo more men wonld be sent to hiui. in some of Forbc's letters are eerioua complaints of not receiving the aid promised for his services, which were to bo sent to I'aris for the support of Forbc's family.

rings. lie expressed re^rol

at a to a a id at

avenue, which, when completed, will run I ... ... .. ., -i, .. "i lus position, ought not to have been m-

from the isattcrv through (jrecnwicli-street ..

.. .'

im on the subject.

ened on the subject he

most the heart ot tho city. Law crwn.s ,., .. c. business remain in its present crooked the Statcn Island ferry-boats, and two ,,

•i vi condition. miles ot water front, nearest .New ork, .. .... that in a few years will bc worth for docks

told him that Amos

i,i

!'ro"llsod

1jU

I not a politician, be wields a very powerful 'J

Manv ancc

^-V .-VCa -'0 Jet

es one of those vigorous constitutions that will last him forty-nine years longer

I6?"ln a lecture delivered at 1 hiladcl- quaintance met him. "Good morning, Mr. phia before the Law Academy of that city,! Worthington," «aid he "how are your famJudge Woodward related the following in- fly?" "Gone to h—-11, sir! all gono to cident

"I found it impossible on one occasion

and health by their hunting excurtions, when I was practicing law, by any reasonthan mlr city gents do now-a.days, playing jng

0 0

wn, to dissuade an old man. my

Chess by telegraph, where the players are client, from conreyir/g his estutc to his sons ®©'~Whcr. I gaze into the stars, they more than seventy miles apart. land sons-in-law in consideration of their iook down upon mc with pity from their In my nextnmber I will call the atten-jbond to support him and his wife for life I serene and silent spaccs, like eyes glistcntion of the reader to the laying-off of the but remembering that he was a reverential ing with tears over the little lot of man.— Town of Lafayette, the organization of reader of the Hible, I turned to the thirty- Thousands of generations, all ti3 noisy as -..A-i-ii-t- -i third chapter of Ecclcbiasticus, and read our own, have been swallowed by time. to him as follows: and there remains no record of them any 'Give not thy soil and wife, thy brother more. Yet Arcturus and Orion,

and friend power over thee whilst thori liv-! Pleiades are still shining in their coarsoa

t&"\ \ery popular preacher in est, and give not thy goods to another, lest I—clear and young as when the shepherd it repent thee and thou entreat for the first noted them iu the plain of Shinar' same again. ("What shadows we are, and what shaiowJ 'As long as thou livest and ha -t breath «'e pursue?"—Carlylc. in thee give not thyself over to any. 1'orj mm better is it that thy children seek "to thee ri'BMl' SKM'I.UKSI' AT TilK.sol Til. than that thou shouldst staud to their coar-'| Tiro 3!ontgomcry (Alabama) Confederacy. At the trmc thou shouldst end tby hc leading Democratio p«por in that days and finish tby life, distribute thine

inheritance. 'Are those words in the Jilblc? asked dential election. "The only question for our dccisiou is:

the old man. "^Indeed they arc,'I replied, 'though they occur in one of the Apocryphal Books. '"No matter for that,' he rojoined, 'I will take its advice.' "And the sequel of his history proved that it was well he did."

Filibuster Walker i» living ia cb-!nominalion

scurity in New Orleans. .aTviluVe candidal--

I rc-

Being now enlightcannot well let tho

iIlC

lie really owns the Flush-

^Uon spccu.ation 4vas devised uy

uljJ\Ctotl

l,v

J'0rbcS- Br°Wn

Lawrence of Boston

lll,n

''°0u

who"

ho£llht!cd

All those letters were written in 18oK

/j locrat) died the o'her dav down

U,LU ll,L

Missij-

u"IILr

uww

dotcs of the old veteran arc^

Here is one which exhibits

his intense political ardcr. After the overwhelming defeat of Mr. Van Btircn, in the Presidential canvass of 1810, an ac-

sir.

h—11, sir.'" replied

Mr. W.

who, boing

very deaf, thought his frend alluded to th«j I incoming election returns.

Sinus and

,c „r0Tl

tfce Wca

Can we defeat the Republicans without the aid of Douglas and his friends? [We bavo never yet seen the man. North or South, that believed we could."]

That fact is getting to bo generally recognized. and it will load to Mr. DOUGLAS'

Chsrlas^n. IU i« ih%