Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 12 November 1859 — Page 1

NEW SERIES--VOL. XI, Kp^lT.f]

GERRIT WITH AT HOME. H^ A210 flV9 NEIGHBORS THiKK .0F ^K* tfARP**'S FBRRT INSURRECTION/ IfceNew York Herald sent a special correspondent the other day to see Gerrit Smith, and patnp oat of him and his neighbors all (hat could be learned of his and their sentiments regarding the Harper's Ferry business. The correspondent headlined the result of his visit as follows: A Visit Vn tho him« of Oerrit Smith—The People of

Slndunn Determined to RoilJt his sat-render—Mr. Smith'* Alarm and Probable Complicity with the Iniurrcstl n—llii Friondj Dij.'iiiwlo him from rubllabin^ a Pull Stateni mt. which wVinM Show Oth«n mil* Implicated than Hinnelf—Hi* Irop»ratioos for Dcfon*e. Ac., Ac.

The locality of Mr* Smith's house is thus sot forth: Eleven miles from the Oneida depot, on the Central Railroad, perched well up on the hills of Madison county, is the quiet little village, or settlement of Peterboro'.

Here is the information the correspondent pickcd up at the railroad depot: "Is there much cxcitemcnt about here in regard to the Harper's Ferry affair?"— I asked. "Yes, sir," emphatically replied 3Ir. I'arrell. "I guess Gerrit Smith is considerably excited about this matter. lie is telegraphing from here all the while. His nigger was over here day before yesterday quite late, with dispatches. The telegraph office was closed, and he had to remain until morning. The old gentleman, evidently, is a good deal uneasy."

Question. What is he uneasy about?— Does he fear an arrest? Mr. F. Well, I don't know that he fears anything where his principles are involved but then he is agitated and uneasy about it, and I suppose he is very much cut up about old Brown

Q. Suppose a warrant should come here for his arrest, on a rcqusition from the Governor of Virginia, do you think he would go? ..

Mr. K. Well so far Its he is ebneerned himself, if let alone he probably would not resist it.

Q. Would anybody else resist? Mr, F. I guess it would be tough.worl^ to attempt to get him out of Madison county.

Q. Why? Would the people offer any violent opposition to an ofiiccr? Mr. F. An officcr! Why it would take regiment of soldiers to get him away.— Yes, sir, the people would resist. They'll never let Gerrit Smith go to Virginia that you my bet on. a

Q. Do they so generally sympathize "with his Abolition sentiments, then, in this •county? .Mr! F. No. they do not, But then there's scarcely a mau in the country who has nut at some time or other asked a favor of some sort of Gerrit Smith, and no one «-wr came avav unsatisfied. Aside Irom polities, lit is every man's friend, and wh-.Mi that's ho, it is difficult to make pco].!e coiwnt to let such a '.nan be arreted, ninl taken off to another State. tl. Then the people hereabouts arc fond of Mr. Smith.'

Mr K. Fond of him! 1 guess they are. No one can help it, for he's a noble old l'cllow. {). You say li.-'s sorry for Ossawafomie 15rov.ii, as tIn call him. Do you .suppi^c he was personally well acquainted with him.

Mr. F. Oh, yes. Brown wns here co'nKiautly some years ago. lie bought cattle to take to Ohio, llis two sous were with him, and he had a big law suit growing out of a wool contract, in which Timothy Jenkins was his lawyer, lie was a line, honest ajmearine fellow, aud was ireuorally liked.

This was the substance of the conversation but when I left Oneida for Peterboro' on the following (Sunday) morning, the landlord, remarked, as I stepped into the buggv—"Tell Gerrit Smith if those Harper's Ferry fellows take him, it mint not be from here. We'll make the old house a fort first!"

Wherever I asked the ques

tion 1 found but otic answer—the men of Peterboro' would never consent that Gerrit Smith should betaken to Virginia. Thry would resist the officers of' the late, Jirst, to the extent of their jwicer. But the most absurd ideas prevailed By some I was assured that Gerrit Smith's house was watched by volunteers every night, in the fear that a Southern mob might carry him •off in the night, after the fashion of Kansas border l'ufliauis-in, iu the days of old •Ossawatomie Brown. By others was seriously informed that the apprehension was not so much that Gerrit might be arrosted, as that lie .might be shot—assasinated by some emissary of Governor Wise. Mr. Smith's neighbors evidently believed that the Southerners regard him as a terrible and powerful cuemy, and have no idea that he is only looked upon b}' every sensible man as a crazy, but honest Republican.

I soon discovered that poor Mr. Smith is about as excited and as mistaken as his friends. Indeed, I am quite convinced that the agitation consequent upon the Virginia outbreak has not only impaired his health, but is likely to seriously affect his cxcitable and illy balanced miud. He is a very different man to-day, from what he was twelve months since, llis calm, dignified, impressive bearing has given place to a hasty, nervous agitation, as though some great fear was constantly before his imagination. His eye is bloodshot and restless as that of a startled horse. He has lost flesh, and his face looks as red and as rough at though he had just returned from one of old Brown's Kansas raids. It may be that he chafes and frets at the silence and inactivity imposed upon him by his friends, rather thau dreads auy responsibility for the past but, however this may be, he appears an altered man, and his true friends must deeply regret an affair that may so agitate and so distress him.

Mr. Smith's views as to the Sabbath arc as peculiar as his political sentiments. He fallows rather the Jewish doctrine, and makes Saturday his day of rest. He is, therefore, always visible and ready for business on the Sabbath. Having been ap. prised of this fact, I sought so interview with him on Sunday, armed with a letter from»near relative.

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A few words sufficed to convince me that any attempt to obtain from Mr. Smith any information as/to aetozsin the iVirginia invasion, or bis connection therewith was

hitioptinents ujipn th:g said Mr.Smitb*, starting like a frightened deer, "I can't speak- a~word with you on the matter..

dropped

intimate

sa^a,. *or#l-c-not

a syllable, ^Sveh friends course from you that ooUld implicateor injure an one."

.s. *'A'But," aesiro any *1 isclttenres |0£ any word

I can't speak, about it at all" replied Mr.Smitb. "I am going to be indicted. If any. man inthcJJnioa is taken, it will, be int.: It "would no"? he "proper to say4* word about it. I ought not to say one word. I am advised not to approach the subject at all. I am going to be indicted, sir, itvligtcd! You must not talk to me

I made some inquiries about Ciiptain Brown, and found that he was here last spriug for several week, a guest at Gerrit Smith's house, and that while.here a number of the most promiueut IieadingJlepiib-. licans visited him, and were for days in consultation with him.

PERILOUS ADVIvNTUItK OI' AN ITIN-UltA-NT DRITON-—t»OLl EVBRY)vhi:rc.

Thev had frozen to death in f,nnoe ,W!l?

Black Hills, and on the head waters of the North Platte. They had no tools scarcely, no means of securing it, but have, during the entire time, cleared twenty-five

dollars per month each. They found all along the streams gold quite plenty and in the mountarins [sic] rich quartz leads. So confident is Mr. Pope of the richness of the country, that he has himself traveled over, that he returns early in the spring prepared to prosecute his discovery to a triumphant result. His partner remains in the mountains—-the exact, locality, it is not necessary to mention—and it would be rather difficult to ascertain it now, for thc reason that there are but three men who known [sic] just where it is at present. ---<>---

How* DUELING WAS SxorrEo IN IECInois.—In moralisingpipou dueling.tho Chicago Press

and Tribune informs, us hqw

the law bccamo a dead-letter.in Illinois, by reviving the history of the first and only duel ever fought in that State. In the year 1820, Alphonso Stewart and William Bennett fought with rifles in St. Clair County, and Stewart fell mortally wounded on the first fire. !Bennette made his escape into Arkansas, where he remained two years. His whereabouts was dicovercd, he was arrested, brought back, indictef, tqed ^eonvict^d of tnurder, and executed—^Gjiv. Bond jjyas besieged days and weei^br thc^diswpler"of the "code," piyil&. But he closed his door against^ gjptitign and entreaty, aud William Bennett dangled at a rope's-end, in the presence of some thousands of spectators who took in a gceatr moral lesson.— This was the first and last duel ever fought on the soil of Illinois, and it effectually crushed out all. respect for the bloody oode in that State.

——>Prof. Lowe's great balloon on Friday the 4th, contained 75,000 feet of gas.

THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS A SUICIDE. The Courrier des" Etas Unis publishes a remarkable article with the signature

jfrLffD- vhUh' w* giVe fch-

BZ'.m.lat it is worth:

"How did the EApiror'Nicholas die?— Of what did he die? These are questions which one6 asks, when, reflecting, upon the. pfe&afail'Wd^ wtf5ny* inex'pedwd' end of that remarkable man. There are two very differentrepiies.to these questions.— The following is what is asserted publicly.

After the annihilation of Poland and r| th* jrEn^i»£ was convinced that nothing in Europe could resist him. He was impatiently awaiting news from the Crimea, firmly convinced that he should hear of the destruction of the English and French ar-^ ruies. A courier is announced. Tho Em-? peror with a confident smile on his lips bids him cuter. The couricr, exhausted

the^-crusWbg ofi-Hi^n, Nicholas '"-a -i

ab9.ut. it." ... by a journevfdf fhree thousand werts, offers

tbe. subJcct as.

course. It is evident that,',the family, of Mr. Smith are much alarmed, and in a constant state of agitation for when I approached the house, a stranger :to them, an apprehension—a dread painful to see—1 was evident in the anxious countenances of his wife and daughter, who were on the piazza at thesmomenf of my call. 1 subsequently conversed with,„a^near relative and closo adviser of 3Ir. Smit^,' and expressed to him a desire to obtain some statement that, while doing injury to noue, might, on the other hand, remove, erroneous impressions and lay facts before the^iSbUe."'if "TC"J" "'Sir''"ftcrfaid, "Mr. Smith does "desire" to make such a statcmcut himself, and can scarcely be restrained from doiug EO.—lint if he should, he would do it in his own mauner, and strike the thing square in the face, let .who might be, injured. lie ija^ however, strongly adviieil .niot to' do so in the present position of affairs, aud has agreed to abide by the judgment of his counsel. When he does tell his story, it will be fouud that many now only partially suspected are more implicated than he himself is. 'But at present he will sayjno wor4 to any person."

™att.er °i the dispatch to his majesty. "Well," says the Emperor, 'we .have beaten them I sup

pose." "Will your Majesty please to read?' says the couricr. 'Was the day doubtful?' 'Head, sire.' 'Answer me, sir I will read afterwards.' 'Sire, we have been beaten.' 'Where?' 'At the Alma.' The Emperor became livid, and started up. 'You lie!' said he. 'Bead sire.' Nicholas opened the dispatch aud read it. It was the bulletin of the battle. Menschikoff revealed all! The French and the English had been victorious. The Emperor fell back'in his easy chair, as though both his legs had been broken. "A month afterwards arrives the news of the battle of Inkerman. The man whom nothing had been able to resist, now experienced not only a double resistance, but a double defeat. He could not bear this double reverse. From that moment his health became deranged, and he sunk under the weight of this annihilation of his greatness. He died on the 18th of February, 1854. "Such is the generally received account. The following is what ia'Msertcd privately. The effect of these: two piecerof intelligence had not beed less terrible than as above described, but the athletic constitution of the Emperor would have borno up against it. Nevertheless lie took an exalted and, terribly heroic ,(so says Dumas) part. He resolved to die! Should he retrace his footsteps and abandon his policy he would have to give the He to a reign of thirty ^cars. Should he persist in carrying on the war he would ruin Russia. But what he could not ask for without loss of honor viz, peace, his successor might. He therefore, by pressing solicitations, obtained from his physician, who bad previously resisted for two months a dose of poison strong enough to kill him, but yet weak enouirh to allow him to live a few hours af-

The Arkausa.* News has a thrilling narrative of an Englishman's adventures in the West. Mr. Pope, the gentleman referred to, having participated in several expeditions not remarkably successful, ter having taken it. (l)umas should have rtn-tr 1 fur Pike's Peak* '"'"t }said after he had been weak enough to

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fork of the Platte. For twelve months

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Arnvmg heMcnity of So.itl, 1 ash, I the 17th February thi-v heard discouratrmg re orts ironic, ,, ,p i* having obtained rrom the hinperor a deePike Peak, ami ccnelute.l to "prospcet ... ... laration writing which made him sate at on their own nooic. AH winter they roam- ,, id about through the B'fu.'k lliUn, the 'Wind Kiver Mountains, along the Swectwater, and the head waters of the north

er portion ot lie time, Old .Night found ,, portion them seeking the consolations of Morpheus with their blankets wrapped around them,,. .. in tho snow from eight to twenty feet 1ocp.

They .eareely «v?r lmilt fire. Tl.ev !'»t?ko, ""1

Ihey scarcely ever lmilt a nre. mev. I found iu their wanderings many a poor ]llinVl ieai fellow "snow blind," and helped .some 011'

repose and shelter for the night. After crawling in several feet they found human beings—six—cold, lifeless and breathless as a statue. They had <frozen to death in that damp cave!> one thousand miles from the outermost verge of civilization. Our friends walked on at least fifteen miles that night without seeking rest.

The physician (like.a wise man)

On the morning of the 17tl

I tlui Emperor swallowed the- poison, after which he sent for the Grand Duke Alexander, (now Emperor,) aud told liiai all.—-

The latter would have cried out for help

., r™.l. The latter .would have erica out tor help they lived on liotlunir but fresh moat,

•.? ii (i., but the Emperor prevented him by an orwithout sait or nenper. JJunng the ereat- .{ v.* ru v:

dor so positive that as a son anil a subject

he could not disobey his father and sovereign. Then tho Emperor explained to him

tUo «ot.™ rt.ch h..l mdueeJ

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to the mail stations, where they were eared for. Atone time, after traveling all dav, ,, 1 at ton o'clock at night they came across":. '"v, ^ther! my father. Jhc Emperor leave, and concluded to erawl in aud

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-cold. lifeless and breathless

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the terus streamutterance choked by

ibs, listened to the dreadful narrative on his knees and clasped his hands exclaiming father!' The Euipcror

would not allow him to quit his side until

shelter for the night After l»e had obtained troiu lam a solemn promise everal feet they found human

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death take its course without attempt-

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In the merry month of "May, when the ^ry violent agony cx! ircd twenty flowers are alfin bloom and "the av birds

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They suffered that night from cold most "ft proclaim it aloud? It might be ^intensely less Christian, but more glorious thau his As to gold they fouud it every-where! I on thc Sweetwater, Wind River, iu the '-ig«et

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arc caroling their sweetest music: our ad- °„f *olruary, *e same instant venturers, one bleak, cold, dark night. ehanged not only her master, but stood bv rock, solitary and alone: and for her pohaj. twelve hours remained "there nearlv frozen.!

nS,fihul lov,e

triumphed over his fidelity to his word,

sand miles irom ,l .•• *, and he summoned the whole ot the royal The lat*cr arrrived too late. The Emperor, after a

tannlv and three physician.

tnends wanted 011 at least lutccn miles nu._ 1/ that nii'ht without seeking rest.

on thc

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ALEXANDER DUMAS."

PRACTICAL SERMON.

Dropping into an African meeting-house, in the outskirts of the .city, we found the sermon just coimmeuced. The topic seemed to be the depravity of the human heart, and thc sable divine illustrated his argument: "Bredren, when I war in Virginia, one day de old woman's kitchen table got broke, and I wats sent down intone woods to cut a tree to make anew leaf for do tabic. So I took de axe on my shoulder an* I wander into de dept of the forest. All nature was beautiful as a lady going to de wedden.— De leaves glistened on de maple trees like new quarter-dollars in de missionary box de sun shone as brilliant and nature looked as gay as a buck rabbit in a barket pact, and de little bell round de old sheep's neck tinkled softly in de distance. I spied a suitable tree for de purpose, and I raised de axe to cut into de trunk.

I was a beautiful tree. De branches reached to dfr'fbttr corners of de earth, an' raise up so high in de air above, and de squuirrels bop about in de limbs like de angels flopping der wings in de kingdom of heaven. Dat tree was full of promise, my friends, jest like a great many of you. Dea I~eut itttc d®" trunk, and.madc^the "clnpVfly^ik^ de"4lighty "scales' dtdpipiiig from Paul's eyes. Two, tree cuts I gib dat treei and alas! it were hollow in de but-end-ah. Dat tree was very much like you, my friends—-full of promise outside, but "hollou in de but."

The groans from the amen corner of the room were truly contrite and affecting but we will venture a small wager that that was the most practicable sermon'pteached in the city, on that day, at Icaat.

Old Ksspp, is preachisg in Boston-

When* along-witfchis children, clothed in the skins of wild beasts, distraught, wan, in thff^ffifit oP-fem"l*»§^ain fled

mountain in jrtSt«-f|JS^n£^ii4(Weary wife and his panlinz cnilcltcn said to.pim, .'Le.t 1 his panting children saia 10 nim, "Jjei

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Cain, not of the,, mountain^ flawing his Theaa^Jie saw in^iie^dipths ^of

Jtierftraeral

heavens

an eye, wide open in the darkness, gasing fixedly on him through the night. *1 am too near,'he said, trembling. He awakencd'his sleepihgtphildTeh.t'his W^iry iwiffe,^ and rcnewed.his ,woful journey, going thirty days and thirty n:ghts, silent, pale, furtivei startled ate*ery 'eotiti'd and looking behind, without truce, without rest, till he reached the shore sea. 'Let us-rcst here,' he said, 'for it is a sure asylum we have reached the bounds of thc world.' And as he sits down, he sees the eye in thc same place in the lurid horizon. And bl ackli(fr$*ptei« etf him,faifd be «rics?'£id| m4 and '"Ja^el', father of tbos'c" wno live under tents in the desert, drew a tent about hiip andywh,etn .he sat encompassed bjr its thick fbl^B, Tiiila. hisjson's. child, fair as the morning, asks: "You no longer see anything?', aud Cain answers:. 'I stiii' see the" eye." And Tubal built' about him a w^ :oil ^rasst,but ithat eye still gazed upon him. Then .Tubal,4 Cain and'his rs built gl%af city,-! with walls as thick jis .mountains,. and ^wrote upon the gate,^ 'God ^ibaTf i^t'^Dtt^' and they placed Cain in a great tower of stone within, rad^ there the eye, looked, steadfastly on the dreary, hagganl-ttan: Then he said, let me dwell under the ground, in the lonliness of the grave, where I shall see nothing mor^. And theymade him. a «ive under ground, and Cain said 'it is good.' Then he went down into it, and when he was seated there in the dark, and they had closed it up with a great stone, 'the eye was in the tomb, and. looked on .Cain.'

EXPERIENCE OF A BALTIMORE REPORTER. The Baltimore American gives the following account of their reporters experience on election day::

Reporting yesterday was not at all pleasant, especially to those who represented papers opposed to the peculiar style in which elections in Baltimore are managed in these days A single instance of the experience of one of our reporters in.worth relating. His errand Was to obtain the returns from the Twelfth ward. After knocking for some time at thc door of thc house in which thc polls were held, it was at last opened, and in reply to his request for the returns, lie was informed with an oath that they were not ready. Whilst this parley was going on, two "roughs" approached the reporter and inquired his busine.'s." T6 flic re\l^*th(rt'hc"wa3 a reporter,he was told that he "mustn't breeze so, that he couldn't come in that way." A demand was then made that he should treat the crowd, and his generosity excited by a puncture with an awl. The reporter refused to "treat," and pistols aud knives were drawn to intimidate him. Whilst thc reporter was endeavoring to escape from his unwelcome company, a large party came up and iuvitjd his captors to drink. This iuvitation they complied with, and taking their prisoner with 'them, they adjourned to a neighboring tavern. Here thc reporter found two policemen, and began to feel seriously alarmed. Soon a dispute arose between the party, and two of them stripped for a fight, one of them handing his arms to a police officer who was setting by the stove. In the confusion that ensued, the reporter got out of the house, glad to escape without compromising his dignity by paying for his captors liqucr, or getting his head broke. Whilst enjoying the company of his captors, one of them informed him that lie h:id voted only seventeen times in the 11th ward. After leaving thc tavern our reporter admits that he made the "best time" 011 record between the 12th ward polls and thc American office.

SEWARD'.* PROPHECY OF HARPER'S FERRY AFFAIRS. The following was Seward's language declaring "the irrepressible conflict," and that such affairs as that at Harper's Ferry are not the work of fanatical agitators.— Here is what he said at Rochester:

Thus these antagonistic systems are continually coming into closer contact, and collision results. Shall I tell you what this means? They who think it is an accident, unnecessary, thc work of interested or fanatical agitators, uid therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that thc United States must and will, Booner or later, become entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free labor nation. Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and thc sugar plantations of Louisiana, will ultimately be tilled by free labor, and Charleston and New Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers to slave culture and to the products of slaves, and Boston and New York become onoe more markets for trade, in the bodies and souls of men. It is the failure to apprehetid this great truth that induces so many unsuccessful attempts at compromise between the slave and free States, and it is the existence of this great fact that renders all such pretended compromises, when made, vain and ephemeral. Startling as this saying may appear to you, fellow citizens, it is by no means an original or even a modern one.

Osb Good TuitJi Deserves Anotiieh.— T\"Een (Jld Brown, the l^aderof the insurrection at Harper's Ferry, was wounded arid supposed to be dying, Major Russell, of tho marines, kindly ordered him to be eonvcyed to a room in one of the department*, and all attention paid to him. Brown looked up and rccognising Major Bussell, said "You entered first. I eovld hare UHed you, but.,1 spared you." In reply to whieh the Major bowed and said,' "I th«nk you

KITTSOlHr.KOUT 00 M"*^B* :oD f.&

-jstMIT: ]}AlciTEliOR**- f'ARE." nO Funny nnd free nrc *_baclidor's rcVcri«. ?.-• "J Cltucriljr. merrily'histlifu,

Charms in variety fall to ht.-t shiutv. i'—"'1"* Bacohoj's WishchandVcntik'sUiiwc'. Thiii, buy?. tUisi. tho Bachelor'* Fare. A ^ife, lik«ae%nnister, chaUeriQtf.clatterinc.-^,

Tied to ai (logfor fris torment ana droad, All ba-rpaturin*. bfewpintrnnd battering. r-. Harried and worrieslum till hc.-iii dead. Old-ones xre two deyita. haunted ty kino devils,

Yyuug ones are new devi'j. raisin despair Doctors and nnrses eombfnin? their curses. US* .Adieu to full puraea and iUohelor'ii Fare. Through inch.folly dny^.oncc sweat holiday*,

Soon are embittered with wrangling and strife Wires turn jolly dny* to melancholy days All porplexing'aud vexing uno's life. Children are riotous', maid servants fly at u«.

Mammy, to quiet us. growls like.a bear Polly is squalling, aful Molly is brtwltn?. While Dad is recalling his Bachelor's Fare, When th"y arc older grown, then they are bolder grown, •Turning your temper and ."coming your rule. Girls, through foolishnus*. passion or mulishn'.'ss.

Parry your wishes,and marry afoul. „. Boys will anticipate, lavish ami dissipntej AU that your DU?.Y pate hoarded with care. Then tell me whal'jnUity.' fun or frivolity,,

Equals in quality liuchelor's Kare.

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irotMBER 12,-1859.

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Kothia^ikaows he of connubial iluviUries. Troublesome chit circa and ctiimorotis wifV. vii jwl. Free from satiety, care and aiuontj'.. ,,

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DYING.

the lime stove, the anchors, the drag, the ft'0"1 ber sharpness, her eopper-float, and other apparatus to be

ally superintending thc work of inflation,!

No Rest fob Editoes.—Every editor

sion.

the professions of desire for peace, contin-,

ues.to occasion considerable uneasiness.

We take the following from' the Novem-1 p0sc to himself by the vast armaments at ber number of the Atlantic Monthly. It sea he goes on preparing. One fact on this is very truthful aud very beautiful:

No human being can rest for-any time in a state of equilibrium -where the desire to live and that to depart just balances each other. If one has a house which he has lived and always means to live in,lie pleases himself witb the thought of all the conveniences it offers him, and thinks little of its whnts or imperfections but Once having1 made up his mind to move to a better, every incomniodity starts out upOu him until the very ground plan of it seems to have changed in his miud, and his thoughts and affections, each of them packing up its little bundle of ciroumstanccs have quitted their several chambers andn AOoks and migrated to the new home long before thc apartments ready to rcocivc their bodily tenant.

It is so with thc body. Most persons have died before they expire—died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the looking of tho door of the already deserted mansion. Tlie fact of the tranquillity with which the great majority of dying persons await this locking of those gates of life through which its airy augles have been going aud comming, from the moment of the first cry, is familiar to those'who have been called upon to. wituess the last period of life.

Almost always there is a preparation made by Nature for unearthing a soul, just as on a small scale there is for the removal of a milk tooth. Thc roots which hold human life to earth are absorbed before it is lifted from its .place. Some of thc dying are weary and want rest, the idea of which is almost inseparable iu the universal miud from death. Some are in pain, and want to be rid of it, even though the anodyne be dropped, as in the legend, from thc sword of the Death Angel. -.,.u

Some are stupid, mercifully narcotized, that they may go to sleep without long tossing about. And some are strong in faith and hope, so that, as they draw near the next world, they would faiu hurry to-

Every bodv who has mixed during flic last [a

head cauie within my observation only yesterday. Mr. M. —, an eminent Eng.

engineer, told a friend of mine that he had seen an offer made this month to a ship-building firm at Newcastle for fifteen steel-clad gun-boats, to be ready within a given period, for the .use of the French Admiralty. As each of Oioso ^ssel.x

would probably cost £lo0.000 to X200,000, it is evident that no consideration of

THIS "fJREAT EASTKRX." It appears to be settled now that, notwithstanding thc preparations that have

word it, as the caravan moves fa.stur o\er jjCon ,a(je for tJie expected event, the great steamship will not cross the Athn-

the sands when the foremost travelers send word along the file that water is in sight. Though each little party that follows iu a foot-track of its own will have it that thc water to which others think they are hastening is a mirage, not thc less has it been true in all ages, and for human beings of ovcry creed which recognized a future, that these who have fallen, worn out by their march through the Desert, have dreamed at last of a Iliver of Live, aud

TI1E ATLANTIC. I motion depends on the amount of power: rnfiniroil mi' nn tin- fi-.n.on.ii-il "«Mi,.r-itwi, violence in Kansas, and that they woundThe process of inflating thc nionstor 1re luirc J:a

square. Thither thousands of visitors go demands. Iter size, Le asserts, dose not

daily to witness it, and to examine the jS,vu ^ier

life boat, the basket, thc caloric engine, Kf'ier

ami

used in the icriai voyage to Europe. j1115 impossible that there should be much The caloric engine is of four horse pow-1 economy of tuel. cr, and weighs only 35 pounds. The up- established fa per portion of thc balloon is expanded to

{s a sp

yI* ,t

balloon, The Citv of New York, is proceed-1,lIld "1'P^tion ot that jiowcr, he inquires ed several pro-slavery mm, and that it ill" slowlv, but steadily, at Bcservoir-:ll0W

u,ucl1

luLrse

I.,ovvcr

tl"'

a,0"

vc*si,e's'

engmes are precisely of the old sort.

8l!,t

'IC.

ai',nuc

413

l"v-

its full breadth, and already rises several exclusively a screw steamer, as t.iev inter-1 Democratic meeting was recently held ia feet higher than the fence that surrounds tered to some extent with the free opera-

lleservoir-square. It already contains six- 'j3"°' *,e I? wheels. At high speed following "solid men," as Daniel Webster ty thousand feet of gas, but will not be "iey would be of little assutance. llcrc-Juse(j to call them. In the olden timo a inflated to its full extent until it starts ou regards her, however, as to some extent a )argC portion of them were Whigs. Hero its voyage, and none but those who accom- raeelianieal success, aud believes that, if

panvitwill ever see its proportions fully I shecan be filled, upon long voj ages she Watt-, sh-rinrui, expanded. Between 500,000 and GOU.OOO *l! P*?. although the anticipated cconom-

cubic feet ol carburetted hydrogen will be jlcal ^vantages may not be fully realized. conducted into the air-bag before it leaves

the earth, but the volume of the fluid will THACKERAY ON WASHINGTON. Sam i. L. M. Hiriow. increase as it ascends until the envelope i.- In the last number of tho Virginians entirely 'distended: Prof. Lowe is person-

fritC(1

and is constantly on the ground. He is j^ded the "stars and stripes to the list of course the centre of attraction. Du- 'Jf national flags ring Tuesday—the day on which the infia-1 Ah 'tis easy, now we are worsted, to tion commenced—3,785 persons attended look over the map of the great empire

or stop for calamity or sorrow. The Judge that we are atdo to see thc eneun

passage on the 8tru?c

if J'.S to .0 WHOLE NUMBER 909

CXCiLmD 'ASD FRANCE IJf COMIS*' die clory of-facing and overcoming, no ion-war PRE pa RATI oiS.

ly yeterau Eoldiors amply provided s-.\

The "London correspondent of iho New inured to war, but wretchednoss, 00'J, York. Times writes as follows: hunger, dLsaensions, treason within our "The attitude of. France, in ipite of aU iow"

al1

rjlck*

bnt for thc

thc

three nionths in French societ^ civil oraconstancy, what a magnanimity. inilitnry, has derived the same impression as to the comiug policy, of the Imperial Government. Knormous. naval preparations of all kinds.are making cvery-where, and thoughtful Frenchmen, who venture to speak candidly to their English friends or

11,

have gone to

Pu.rc

and

«nq^*ncnubl«

'flame of patriotism that was forever burn-

bof,n

^rcat Eastern was 111 consequence of thi- act that his

son

appieciaoic advantage over

although she gains

,)VCre hi 11 J.

that

,, ,.

thc exhibition, and yesterday about 5,000' wrested from us, and show how we ought ^uj,iu were admitted: not to have lout it. Long Island ought to The precise day of Prof. Lowe's depart-! have exterminated Washington's army be urc is not fixed, but he gives every assur- ought never to have come out to alley |. "AKE ei".ior. tie *\i. ance that he will go, and appears to enter-\ Forge except as a prisoner. The South 'ni,t* ,tlierc "as .S,10W L)lxr

tain little doubt that he will reach the oth-1 was our, after the battle of Camden, but »»ches in the woods bank of Marquotte, er side of the Atlantic. At the same time, for the inconceivable meddling of thc Com-

he confesses that the exact spot on thc mandcr-iu-Chicf at New York, who paraly-

other side at which he will descend cannot zed the exertions of the only capable Brit- contract lor building .cn in. cs 4 be calculated with anv degree of certanty. ish Geueral who appeared duriug the war, "iC Ontonagon and 1 oc au an oa and sent him into Ihat miserable^/ de sac commencing at the south end. has been let

knows the truth of the following, from the defeated and a prisoner. 0! for a week jt0 ',e

0 1

Newlork llonic Journal: irnore! a day more, an hour more of dark-: ",l*lu* ,, i* 1, i- "on »^nd is not vet definitely located, aii'l It is one of the hardships of our profes- ness or light, in readme over our Amen1 1 a

that its working wheels—brains and can campaigns, from their unhappy com-1 9 ,,

may adjourn his court, the school and.mcnts and conditions as well a, our own,,

workshop may close shutters, the mourner) I fancy we can see how an ad*,a.iee, a

may veil features and turn friend and strau. march, might have put enemies tuco our

ger from the door, but the journalist must .power, who had no means to vith,tand it.:

forget before to-iuorrow the sorrows of to-! and change the day—must write gaily and freshly, as a newsmonger,' on the triflo of the hour, whatever burdenTiasbeen laid on that same hour by Providence, for his heart aod b.rain as .man. It sometimes tries and mocks—

leader—

whst a surprising persistancc against fortune! Washington before tho eitMSJMjft? no better nor braver than hundreds wha fought with him or against him, (who has not heard the repeated sneers against "Fabious," in which his factious captains wcro

connections, a'vow that tbey°look with daily- wenstoined1 to indulge?) but Washington, increasing wonder at thc sort of indifference and trifling with measures of defense noticeable here. One aud all tell the same tale of the popular desire in France for a great strinrirle with Englaud and all ex-

onoe tasted

press their belief that, havin

the chief 6f a nation in arms, doing batt'.o with distracted parties calm iu tho mids» "jf conspiracies serene against thc open foe befure him and thc darker cncmic3 ai his baek Washington inspiring spirit and rder into troops hungry and in rags stung

jf I .sublituo as on tho day Uc laid down his vie-

dream !has fairly measured swords with us. ^. i.i- 11 'such', indeed, be not his secret thouel.r, it j1'™"* sword and sought his noble retire lis inconceivable what object lie can pro-1 '"ent-hero indeed is a character to admire and revere a lite without a stain, a fame without a flaw."

A.V AI'OIXMiV 1'OIt OLD BKOWK KNOCKED IN THE IIEAD. Several of thc Republican prints put in a plea for thc conduct of old BIIOWN atIlarper's Ferry, that he had been cruelly treated by the Proslavcry men in Kansas,

expense is likely to limit thc preparations conduct must be set down to thc very natmaking, and this, be it remarked, is but a

tic this Fall, after all. This disappointment is almost as great as that of thc failure of the Atlantic telegraph cable—especially in Portland, Me., where very expensive arrangements have been made for herarrhal. it dates back anterior to his first visit to

The New York Times's special currts- Kansas. Thc four hons had located on pondent on board thc Great Eastern sums Pottowatomie Crook Lykins County, and

thought they heard its murmurs as thcyjnp his reasous for concluding that the in the fall of 1855 were joined by their lav dvin". monster ship fails to establish any new father and other brothers." »mK facts in the philosophy of Oceans Naviga- jt j|l be seen that Bkowx and bis pnrTI1E BALLOON THAT IS TO CROSS 11ion. Premising that the cost of loco,no-

had murdered his sons and destroyed

1,13

property. Ilcncc, they say his recent,

al desire of beiug revenged upon the par-

supplemental item."--«•»«•*-*»--— ty which had so incxcuSably injured him Thc improvements in military and naval jas to cause a partial, if not entire, insanity, science within the last few years have 1YJ0W- niuch truth there is in this maybe vastly strengthened France in a war with seen by the following extract from tho Kngland. By tho advantages of steam leading Free-State paper in Kansas, tho navigation it is comparatively easy for Herald of Freedom, October 23: France to land an army on the English shores. The contest in naval affairs does not depend much upon seamanship, in which the English excel the French, but in gunnery and military science, in which the French have no equals. Thc French navy bias large as thc English, and it could all be converted in one fleet, while that of England is distributed all over thc globe, to guard licr numerous colonics. Steam has almost bridged thc English chanucb and give—what thc first Napoleon* so much desired—thc thirty-six millions of French .an opportunity to meet thc twentyfour millions of British, and contest thc supremacy for power with tlicm 011 their own island. The French Emperor has been accused for years of a desire to have a brush with England, aud his recent movements look as if he had not been belied.

"In the spring of 1856, when tho news of the threatened siege of. Lawrenco reached John Brown, jr., who was a member af thc Topeka Legislature, ho organized a company of about sixty men, and marched towards Lawrence. Arriving at Palmyra, lie learned of the sacking of tho town and the position of thc pcoplo. IIo rcconuoitorcd for a time iu tho vicinity, but finally marched back toward Ossawatomie. The night before reaching tho place, when only a few miles away they campcd for the night. Old John Brpu who, wc believe, was with the party, singled out, with himself seven men. These ho marched to a point eight miles .above the mcuth of Pottowatomio Creek, aud called from their bed, at their several residences, at thc hour of miduight, on tho 24th of May 1856, Allen Wilkinson, Wui. Sherman, \Yni. 1'. Doyle, Win. Doyle, and Davy Doyle. All were found thc next morning by the road-side or in thc highway—::ouie with a gash in their heads and sides, and their throat cut others icitk th' ir r.h u/ls split open in two places, icitk holes in their breasts and lianas cut ojf.— No man in Kansas protended to deny that old John Brown's head, or tl of any of his tons, had been injured by tho Pro-slavery part\\ "It was nut until thc 30th of August, three months after the Pottowatomie massaere, that thc attack was made 011 Ossawatomie by thc pro-slavery forces, unJ Krodfrick Iirown son of old John, wo? killed. Tho truth of hihtory requires tho statement. If Brown teas a monomaniac,

ty uf llinralH]cri

commenced the work of

THE IIA It PICK'S Et( IIY CONNIMIl.VCY nul thc Wealth of the Country. The commencement of the "irrepressible conflict" between tho North and tho-

luel. It seems to be also an South, at Harper's Ferry, has had a great fact, that her sails cannot 1 effect in rallying the wealth of thc country uch as tucy would were she jn support

"l""" "v"

=ut

tn support of the JJemoeratui party

Ncw

lnit

., a ,1 I 1 ,. ,r: I he notatoc crop in thc neiifhborhood of

heart ^are not- allowed to flag for sickness, mencement to their inglonou, end now }.a

the Democratic party. A

york ity, under thc auspices of tho

are tj,ejr nanics

Klia« S. Hi uini. I'Iiik TowtkJiict. Stephen J'iliii.'uii, Jorl Conklin. .Schuyler Livinsilou. .1. T. S-.uHIT. li' iimiiiin li. 1- iclii. Mn,.,Tllj|..r. IUy«|

Jan

.i.,^rVv..iri'.'Jn'

SHUI'1. L. M. KimiIII-II ith (i-firir'.1. l',rr»(. .V. W. ChiiO.T, Arthur Ijonry, (1 -,.rxc C. C'lllin*. Jaini*.- O well, ](. .V 1 ox. John MrKo-fSnn

IC. Alburns.

Willisia T.

I"'t ,nuch

at New Town, whence he could only issue •t0 ^r- ^^a.r^e9I*\'I^''.'C!Ce.D^sftthe

1 1 1.

L'iinmiu.

T. AKne1"'.

•t-nrtt'- Ori.i.'r, •Inliii W. (.'niiori, It'-nry V"!vcrl u.

'rii'irniii K. i-

It is 3 good sign wheu such.men come tav thc rescue of the Constitution jicd thj

"bore, lha wo., "ir

%ei7 0'^'

^"d freezing slig it.y.

coniP ete' J-v

contract Tho v:-

uiaiumir mile and a quarter at th-* U.li-'iij-

"But it was ordqred by lieavcn, and for jt0 l"-r

the good, as wc have no doubt, of both

a fni]u^0lfii pr,h-

,y -frosu-at leat a n.outL

acvcrer thau Um fnMl

.rotuft,re bee. The average crop

„,lt^_very—j,ixty

to 8CV

ontv hushclf.

th srua

entire mane of the strug- .1 1 irw !garden «pots are many wf them gocd—-IU1

ll patehs.s ac-l

ul3rc*

empires, tbat tlic ^roat westorn republic ft is now stated ori authoritj thiiv

Mibuld separate from us: and the gallant Mary Howitt, the distinguished English

as the world That reads what is" thus writ- (solders who fought on her side, tbeir in-1authoress, has announced hor l-.diof in th ten, would 9crcr dream of. ,7 )domitablc and heroic chief above uf bx&taOKUff.