Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 11 February 1860 — Page 1

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IFrom the Richmond (V».) Dispatch.]

IN CONSIST EJVCY OF. HELPER "RE1 rALITV TS ICTION."

.gentleman this cily has placed in our hands a copy of "The land of Gold.— Reality versus Fiction: (a suggestive title) By Uinton R. Helper." This work was published In 1855, and the author presented copy of it to our friend, who as well aa-Helper, was then in California. On page 275 of this.volume, Helper say9 there are comparatively few negroes in California, most of those who are found there having emigrated from the Northern and Eastern States in the capacity of cooks and stewards of vessels. "They arc in the same situation," he adds, as their re them in New York and Massachusetts, •laves to no single individuals, but to the entire community. Like free negroes everywhere else, they inhabit the worst parts of the town in California, and live commonly in characteristic filth and degradation.

He then proceeds to say that there arc a few blacks in California from the South, and these have been brought out as slaves. "It is true," quoth Helper, "that on their arrival here they havo the power of claiming their freedom but such is their attachment to their masters that this is rarely done. Instances have occurcd in which they have been enticed away by

owner, aud signifying their unwillingness to remain iu California, they concluded by rcquesting their master to take them with him. He consented, paid their passage, and they all returned borne in the same vessel."

Now this is the man who has since written tlie "Crisis the man whose book has become the Black Republican Bible the book which preaches up insurrection aud civil war the book which is indorsed by Seward, Gov. Morgan and the sixty eight and their candidate for Speaker. It is on the testimony of this man against slavery, that the South arc to be forced into Abolition or out of the Union the testimony of this man, who, in tho extracts wo have given from "Reality versus Fiction," volunteers his evidence in behalf of the kind treament of the blacks, and their perfect contentment with their condition,

.*|0rThc Washington correspondent of Uie Cincinnati Commercial (a paper which is now engaged in trying to prove that the Little Giant has no strength in the South) says that Judge Douglas is the second clioiee of the Tennessee delegation to the Charleston Convention Hon. Andrew Johnson..heing their first choice under instructions. Thus far Ohio, Indiana, Illiooial and Minnesota liavc instructed for Dovgba,-Mississippi for Jeff Davis, Tennessee for Johnson, while Kentucky iyo« 0O)bm«nds Chithri*.

no. so.

HOW JACK DAVIS BECAME A DEMOCRAT. v. The most bigoted and' unreasonable party menT ever met was Jack Davis.

Jack was a red hot abolitionist, and his chief of pleasure seemed in making the fact as notorious as possible,. His friends and associates, with one consent,' pronounced Jack a bore, and his politics a nuisancc.

One day Jack met at the house of a friend, a young lady of great personal beauty and accomplishments. Attracted by her lovliness and captivated by her inteligence, he become assiduous in his attentions, forgot for a while his principles, and without enquiring what might be the political preference of his lady love, imprudently proposed and was accepted, and they were married.

The wedding was over, the guests had departed and the happy pair had retired to their chamber, and were snugly ensconced in bed, when Jack in the course of a quiet conversation with hisjwife, unwittingly alluded to his favorite subject, by causually speaking of himself as a Republican. "What!1*" exclaimed his wife, turning sharply and suddenly towards him, "arc you a Black Republican?"

Yes," replied Jack, delighted with the idea of fiuding a patient listener to his

meddling Abolitionists, but, disgusted j]0ng unrestrained oratory. "Yes, madain, with a freedom which was of no value to them, they have becu eager to return to their masters. Several cases of this kind hare come under my own observation." Mr Helper then proceeds to relate these cases as follows: "I was personally acquainted with a JfeW Orleans sea-captain and ship-owner, who had a very likely negro mau named Joe. This slave had acted as his special servant for many years, and had made two or three voyages with him between Shanghai and San Francisco. Ilis conduct was entirely unobjectionable, and his duties were always promptly and efficiently discharged. Indeed, the captain informed me that though he had reared Joe, lie never had occasion to whip him for any

I am a Republican, a regular out and outer, double dyed and twisted in the wool." "Just double and twist yourself out of this bed then.'1' interrupted'his wife,"I'm a Democrat, I am I will never sleep with a man professiug the abominable doctrines you do!"

Jack was apcechlcss with amazement. That the very wife of Lis bosom should prove a traitor was horrible she must be jesting. He remonstrated, but in vain: tried persuasion, 'twas no go she was in earnest and the only alternative left him was a prompt renunciation of his heresy or a separate bed in the other room.

Jack did not,, hesitate. .. To adjure the established doctrines of his party, to sur-

offense. Others had observed the admira- render those glorious principles which had blc traits of the negro, and several persons had attempted to buy him—offering extraordinary prices but his master, having the highest appreciation of his qualities nnd a strong personal attachment for him, positively refused to part with him on any terms. At last, however, Joe deserted the vessel. An Abolitionist had persuaded him to leave his master and a short while thereafter lie married a Moxicau woman—a sort of half-breed—and went off to the mines, near Cainpo Seeo.— Rut he soon found his freedom unprofitable and troublesome. While in his legitimate station he had always had an easy time, plenty of food and an abundance of clothing. He had also accumluatcd two or three hundred dollars, which had been given him by his master, and others, for extra services. Not long after his marriage with the Mexican woman his money disappeared. He became penniless, ragged, dejected, and, as a last resort, determined to return to San Francisco, beg his master's pardon, and, if possible, reinstate himself in the favor of one who had always been his friend. lie did return, presented himself as a supplicant before his master, told him that he had been perbuaded to leave, that he was sorry for having dftnc so, and now wished to enter his service again, promising unwavering faithfulness in the future. The master regarded him with a steady gaze until he had finished his story, and then, in a distinct and dispassionate tone, said to him: "You had no cause for leaving me I had always treated you well. Now you may go 1 don.t want 3-011 any longer." At the conclusion of these words the negro dropped in despair at his master's feet and wept like a child. Moved by the sincerity of the nogro's repentance, and having duly considered the extenuating circumstances of the case, the master overlooked his estrangement, set him to work, and never had the least difficulty with him aftcrwrads. Of his Duleina, whom it (teems he had married in a Laguna daneeJjouse, I know nothing, except the information 1 gained from Joe himself, that she left him as soon as his money was gone. "One more instance, and 1 have done with the negroes. A gentleman and three of his slaves, from the Western part of North Carolina, had been mining about two years, near Quartzburg, in 3Iariposa Coun-1 ty. Their efforts having been crowned with bucccss, the muster concluded to return home and speaking to his slaves of his intention, he told them that they were at liberty to remain in California, where

grown with his growth and strengthened with his strength, to the mere whim and caprice of a woman, was ridiculous and absurd, and throwing himself from the bed he quit the apartment.

A sense of insulted dignity and a firm conviction that he was a martyr in the right cause, strengthened by his pride, resolved him to hold out till lie forced his wife into a capitulation.

In the morning she met hiin as if uothing had happened but when Jack ventured to allude to the.night previous, there was a lurking devil in her eye which bespoke her power and extinguished hope. n'

A second night he repaired to his lonely couch and a second time lie called his pride to support hiin in his struggle which ho now found was getting desperate. He ventured curses, "not loud, but deep," on the waywardness and caprice of the sex in general, and his wife in particular, wondered how long she would hold out, whether she suffered as acutely as he did, and tried hard to delude himself into the belief that she loved him too much to prolong the estrangment, and would come to him in the morning, perhaps that night, and sue for r. reconciliation. liut then cauic the recollection of that inflexible countenance, of the unbending will, and of that laughing and unpitying eye, and he felt convinced that he was hoping against hope and desparingly he turned to the wall for oblivion from the wretchedness of Lis thoughts.

The sccond day was a repetition of the first. No allusion was made to the subject on cither side. There was a quite happiness and cheerfulness about his wife that puzzled Jack sorely, and he felt that all idea of forcing her to surrender must be abandoned.

pervaded with it.

The third night he was alone! His" reflections tvere yet more serious than the previous night—what they were of course was only known to himself, but they seem-. ed to result in something decided for jc' dc la Mer, givc.about midnight three distiucts raps were heard at his wife's door. No answer.— The signal was repeated in a much louder tone still all was silent. A third time the door shook with the violent attack. "Who's there!" cried the voice of his wife as if aroused from a deep sic

GENITS AND LABOR.—Alexander Hamilton once said to an intimate friend: "Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have is just this, when 1 ha\c

I make is what the people called the fruit,

ject of great importance: "The

session (which was then three days off.) I have not time to master the subject so as to do it justice." ft "But, Mr. Webster, a few words from you would do so much to awaken the public attention to it." "If there be so much weight in my words as you represent-, it is because I do not allow myself to- speak on any subject till I have imbued my mind with itif

Demosthenes was once urged to speak on a great and sadden emergency. "I au. not prepared," said he, qpd obstinately re is it

The law of labor is tqpsjiy binding on geahis and mediocrity.

CliAWFORDSYJLLE,

WHAT AB0LITI05IS5I DID. The city of Kingston was once a magnificent city,, situated on a magnificent harbor, and containing a population of forty thousand inhabitants. Its commercial prosperity was unrivaled at least in the Britisb'West Indies. See what it is now:

If tie city of Kingston be taken as an illustration of the prosperity of Jamaica, the visitor will arrive at more deplorable conclusion than pointed ,out by commercial statistics. It seems like a romance to read to-day, in the capital of Jamaica, the account of that capital's former splendor. Its magnificent churches^-now time-worn and decayed—are scarcely superior to the stables of some Fifth-avenue magnate.— There is not a house within the city in decent repair, not one that looks as though it could stand a respectable breeze, not a wharf in good order, not a street that can exhibit a square inch of pavement, no sidewalks, ho drainage, scanty water, no light. The same picture of neglect and aparthy greets one every-where. In the business part of the town you are oppressed with its inactivity. Clerks yawn over counters, or hail with greedy looks the solitary stranger who comes in to purchase.— If a non-resident he is made to pay for the dullness of the, market, and leaves a hotel, or a livery, stable tolerably well fleeced.— Prices that in Now'York would be deemed exorbitant, must be paid for the common necessaries of life. Kingstonians remind me much of the Bahama wreckers: having little or nothing themselvs, they look upon a steamer-load of California passengers cast away in their harbor for a day, or a night, as every Egyptians, whom it is not only their privilege, but their duty, to dispoil.

There is nothing like work done in Kingston, except perhaps in the, establishments of a few Europeans or American merchants', or on the-'piers, now and then, at the loading and unloading of vessels.— The city was originally well laid out, but it is not ornamented with a single tree, and the square, in a central localtion, is a barren desert of sand, white-hot with exposure to the blazing sun. The streets arc filthy, beach lots more so, and the commonest laws of health are totally disregarded wreck and ruin, destitution and neglect. There is nothing new in Kingston. The people, like their horses, their houses, and all that belongs to them, look old and worn out. There are no improvements to note, not a device, oru'amcnt or conceit of anykind to indicate the presence of taste or refinement. The inhabitants, taken e.n masse, are steeped to the cyc-lids in im morality the population shows an unnatu ral decrease illegitimacy exceeds legitimacy abortion and infanticide are not unknown. Kingston looks what it is, a place

Have I described a God-forsaken place, in which no one seems to take an interest, without lifie and without energy, old and dilapidated, sickly and filth}', cast away from the anchorage, of sound morality, reason and common sense? Yet this wretched bulk is the capital of an island the most fertile in the world it is blessed with a ciimatc the most glorious it lies rotting in the shadow of mountains that can be cultivated from summit to base, with every product of temperate and tropical regions it is mistress of a harbor where a thousand line-cf-battle ships can safely ride at anchor.

EXTRAORDINARY MIRAGE.-Lieut.Julien,

of the Ircnch iNavy, in his rcecnt work,

"Courants rt Revolutions de I Atmosphere

vntf-. 7 c- Hp-vo-m Imrl Im™ from

".-1 hale the best Democrat you ever dui: announced a wreck to the westward drift- jof

rrvOutinn HI 1 nnln'n iug towards land. Lieut. ulieu writes as {!0mc {roods, she picked up a copy of Der J.lie revolution in ins opinion was ratii-

cal and permanent. lie removed to an-!, Deutsche Oluo, a paper published by Kaby other county and bccame popular—offer-i "AH our telescopes turned in that di- of Canton, formerly .ot this comuy and

-c

himself as a candidate on the Domo-1 rcctiou confirmed the truth of th

But our

announcement.

hallucination, could follow with

effort which

rcst0

su^ject

interests me deeply, but I have not time, floa^:ng spars, and sent out ber boats

ere, s.r, pointing to a huge pile of let- ,Br0unjthem were still seen men iu motion

our own

eyes the details of this indescribable Farmer. Admiral Desfosses, who was in!

corumand of the India station at the time,

Then the seemed uients that the

nf T» it *li» fruit of labor and I i- I A- .r ..

mission. She stopped in the midst of windows, the ctnia would have peri

oars. A few seconds more and we should of

the north. Thus vanished this strange vision—thus disappeared the last hope which a doceitful mirage had so to say evoked from the depths of the ooean.

WILD PIGEONS.—The country around Shelbyville, Indians, is darkened bv flocks of %ild pigeons.

all. In the year 1854, Ilershbcrgcr, who

scholar and fine writer, wrote a let-

... I tcr to a triend in Germany, invinj a ac-

comU of the v6vage

,oss

r( ,SCue

of the effects of mi rase, witnessed off the '"any

island of Madagascar,"in 1S4G. The cor-1fuithfi:i girl-

/t,=

L:Jndshut-

i- I merchant, who was engaged, to sell her

MONTGOMERY €OUjVTY, 'INDIANA, TEBRUARY 11,' 1860.

^olnnnd

of himself and Louis S This

a curious description letter was published in a paper in Ger-

wbich

fell iijto the hands of the

l,-v

•vlllch. she learned that

^ou's 'iar' saved but whether he was

-e at first it noticed the death of the wife of.

iOUS S concluded

feverish

the squadron by a hurricane, and a month hcr in grCat suspense. Her father died ]c,f j]ie road*, and across the river to Louis-1 the correspondent of a London mor: elapsed without obtaining any knowledge in 1S5S, leaving her a large fortune. In ]]et

aud whlle

being united in marriage at. the house of,

of genius. thought." Mr. Webster once replied to a gentle-1 appj-oaching without a twilight, when the timely assistance of a man, who ran in on tral Illinois and at Michigan Citv with De- to make himself interesting to a goodlooka a a 1

i?KF»?UT "'T I-A °F LEXERS to I lifting up their bands to heaven, and a FIGHT WITH A BULL-DOG.—At Akron (-'-The New-York Tribune sets up the cry SAID tli^ lady, blushing,' "we lia to raise subdued and coufused hunt of many voices O^, c:i the morning of the 24th, police

was heard to mingle with the splash of the jomccr Burton, when ^opening the door of

lsvcryrstablc of George V» uhle, was

be cmbraciuu our brethren rescued from seized by tho throat by a large bull-dog.— j0*1- *n I lie stepped backwards and fell, the dog savs: Our boats branches

got c-ntamrlcd among the thick holding to his throat with the tenacity of a

^Special Difpaucb to the Xetr York.Ti.11c3.] DOUGLAS IJf THE SENATE.

STRANGE BUT TRUE.XOVE STORK. In 1847, .their liveiin the-town of Landshut, Bavaria a young mechanic named Louis S- who had^jnst arrived at the age of twenty-one years. He became acquainted with a young woman, the daughter of a wealthy citizen, rioted for her beauty and many accomplishments. The two •were soon'deeply in love with each other, and were (living in the blissful anticipation of soonenjoying a world of happiness in weeded bliss. The matter was mentioned to the girl's father, who became very indignant at' the presumption'of the young man,"who was pioor, in asking for the hand of the daughter of one so wealthy as he. The young man was driven from his house, and threatened with personal violence should he return. "With a sorrowful heart, arid his eyes wet with tears! Louis,bade adiiie to Season, for such was the youug girls name, and. set sail for America on the 13th of April, .184S, in the ship Calms. The ship was out two weeks, wildly tossed on many a rOlliiig billow, wheft'orte dark,' sformy night, the 27thof April,. 1848, she was stfuck'by an English vessel, and in less than, twenty minutes, sunk to the. fathomless depth of the ocean, parrying several of.the crew and about forty passengers "to the undiscovered country from whose bourne no ias Mr! Douglas-rose, there was a stron traveler returns." disposition in the galleries to applaud but

Just^ as the .vessel was gping down, silence- having been restored, he comLou'is S- and .John Hershberger, who jmencedby first reading the letter of Gov.

in the voyage liad' become intimate personal friends, .plunged into the br.iny deep And fortunately got upon a large plank and were quickly'carried far from the scenc of disaster. The English ship hoved around

the 29th of November of that year, he was married to her. lie continued to prosper, and in IS52 purchased a line farm and

where money has been made, but can be went to farming. In June last his wife made 110 more. It is used up, and cast I died, leaving four children—two boys and aside as useless. Nothing is replaced that is destroys If a brick tumbles from a house and falls into the street, it remains there if a spout is loosened by'the wind, it hangs by a thread until it falls if furniture is accidentally broken, the.idca of having it mended is not entertained. The marks of a listless, helpless poverty are upon the faces of the people you meet—in their dress, in their vcr\- gait.

Wise to President Buchanan and the rcph', and then*inquired if it were possible that the Federal Government could afford the States no protect/ion against violence, after their own hands had. been tied bv

f'or several hours and gathered up a nnm-j the Constitution? ber of the Caloik, but Louis and' Ilersli- But I wfll notfullqw the speaker, as, his itual meetings are held regularly bcrger hiul, in their frail bark, got bevond remarks, have been fully rejiorted for 3rour

hailing distance and. the vcssal! went oh h'cr jcbWniris. The speech was entire^' dharway,without them. ...For thi^-six hours lacteristic of the man, and was well rctliey wer^ oh this plank iu .the .middle of ceiyed by hisrfritswJy^frOttr"Trvery section. the ocean, enduring all tlie horrors of an-• The 'galleries ,several timcs.applaudcd.— xiety, hunger and thirst, when they Were Order was' restored an2 maintained,only picked up by the since ill-fated ship City by threats to clear them if Senatorial deoj Glasgow', bound for Philadelphia, where jcorum was again violated. Southern Senthey,arrived on the 0th of May, 1848.— jatbrs and members this evening are loud Hcshberger hired with a barber in Phila- jinipraise of the "Little Giant," the opindelphia, and Louis Sr canic, on foot, to our neighboring county of Stark, where he worked two months, and then caine to this county and commenced work at his^trade, as a partner in an established shop. He was a ver\- fine workman, sober and in dhstrious, arid soon gained the confidence of his customers and neighbors. The re-! the countrv. suit was that he soon had all the money he 1" needed and some to loan, which he was AN ABOLITIONIST SEES VIRGINIA AND always careful to put in safe, hands. In I CHANGES HIS SENTIMENTS.—^Mr. Joshua the 3Tcar1850 lie made the acquaintance of Coppie, a Quaker geutlcman of Butler a farmer's daughter, of this county, and'on 'Township, in this count}', h:i

ion being general!}' expressed that he will be the unanimous choice of the Democracy at Charleston. Old differences seem to be already forgotten, and Mr. Douglas stands forth the great champion of the Democracy and the. Union. The debate will be read with deen interest throughout

nship, in this county, has aiwa}-s been a warm Abolitionist. lie is an uncle of Ed ward Coppie, and went on to Virginia for the purpose-:of bringing home the remains of his nephew for interment. On his way home be was detained at Wells-

two girls—to battle the storms ot life I yille for a couple of hours, and there had without a mother. a conversation with Mr. D. M. Lawson, in News had been takeniback to Germany which he said: "I cotne home a converted of the loss of the Calais and most of thcnrmn. The Virginians are a kiud-hcarted passengers, and among th-.-m Louis and and Christian people as I ever was among. 3'oung Ilashberger. The girl, Louis' first JOur anti-slavery agitatiou at the North is love was sorrow stricken with the sad news all wrong. I am satisfied it has put back ot Louis' supposed death, for she still hop- the cause of the slave, and I am going to cd that fortune would favor thorn so that:do what I can to put it down, and I hope they might, marry at some time. "Hope jthec will do the same. I am satisfied all springs eternal in the human breast," and Virginia wants is Christi iau treatment, and it was this that strengthened the young at the proper time she will do more for g:rl to bid farewell to her lover, and pray the slave than we ever can." Mr. Coppie to heaven that he might safely be carried never before had opened his eyes to the over the pathless ocean: but when tho sad disastrous consequences of Northern fanews of his death reached her ear, she was for many 111011 lis almost frantic, the rosy hues of her checks gave way for a death-j put down agitation. There arc a great like pa'or, and her frieuds feared that man}' people of the same class, and when

they would soon have to follow her to the grave. Time, however, had its efTcct, and she finally apparently forgot the cause of her create a tone of healthy conservatism, troubles. Many were the suitors that cp-1 Lisbon Patriot. plied for her hand, but sbc refused them

NEW TEXEGKAIMI Ll.\f\ We have inadvertently omitted to make

"Jii

jtl operation, within a few months

HU 4

WASHIKGTOU, January 20.

gallery, which was crowded with ladies to ..... .1 the exclusion of many gentlemen of the corps. On the floor there was a quasi-

joint session of the two bodies, nearly all the. members having left the. other wing

..._

At half-past one o'clock Mr. Douglas entered-, leading his two little boys, and soon after being seated, his resolution was called up. 'The President of the Senate called out, "The Senator-from Illinois," and,

of the. Capitol to hear the distinguished 150,000. in Michigan and Wisconsin 80,-1ton,s

Illinoisian. The excitement ran so high 000 each, in Maine 50,000, in Missouri!am'

that Senator Hale suggested the propriety 32,000, and in Pennsylvania 40,000. The of maintaining order on the floor at a'1110- believers in the Southern States are less ment when the noise was greater than in numerous than in the Eastern and Westhe galleries. ice President Breckeu-' tern. South Carolina and Arkansas arcridge begged that the Senate would prcorder. The serve order. The scene "was a striking one. it being the first time that the new Chamber had been filled.

naticism, but now having learned them, ,•=

they get fairly to understand where they are drifting, they will cut loose from the rampant Abolitionists, and set to work to

a a a a NEW CHINES: W .—We observe

tsvo

of her fate, when a cry from the masthead she w-as in a store in the town Tho whole length of the line is worked in difficulties winch threatened 1- ranee and

waiting

ll!e

...

?raph

captain, officers and sailors, all ,ot last montli tiiey were made nappy by j-fordsVille, Corwiri, Lafavctte, Reynolds, abundant, which can not be cut 'off^fHe of us, under the influence of a

Company's lines, thus sccurin

sl)Ci

and regularity in

I"rarseesvii!c,

the bridegroom.—Holmes County (Ohio) Officcs will soon be opened at Or- an army of twenty-two thousand men, of

HORRIBLE RESULT OF PARENTAL NKG- Pierre, and Michigan Southern Crossing. I ever seen on the Indian Ocean ECT.—Thomas Good, of Rocliester, N. ., The connections with other lines arc as

went out-Visiting'with his wife, on Wednes-j follows: At Louisville, with all the South-1 RAISED ON TEE BOTTLE.—Everybody lay afternoon last, leaving their little boy, !-ern lines at New Albany, with Cincinnati} who knows the amiable Superintendent ot

willing to four years old, sick in bed. While the}-! nd St. Louis (via Mitchell) dircct at: the Illinois Deaf and Dumb Asylum knows gender.

re to us from the bottom of its were absent, the quilts which were wrap- iGrecncastle with Indianapolis,Terre Haute that he cau easilv make himself agreea

abvses. The day began to decline night ped around the sufferer took fire, burning land St. Louis at Lafayette, with all points even to strangers. Not long sinoe, in ene as it docs under the tropics, was already him in a shocking mancr. Bat for the in Northern and central Indiana, and oen-' of his rides iu southern Illinois, he sought

Archimede arrived near the object .of its seeing snioke issuing from the door and troit, Canada, Chicago, and the Northwest, iug mother of a sweet baby, occupying the child would have perished, direct next seat in the oars. After dulv i.raising •n

.All! Iiis recovery is even now doubtful. •i"** tho baby, he remarkf-d to the mother:

(jt a]arni

certain death. But, alas! what an illusiou!!He stepped backwards and foil, the dog!says: "'JQjrThc tea plant prows in

iar£retrees torn from'the nciffh-!blacksmith's vicc. After a smart-struggle croakingand faint-hearted, we tell tho Re- said that it makes borin" coast, and drawn with their leaves he succeeded rn disengaging- the brute's publicans of these United States that we I tea than that usually imported. I into the counter-currents directed toward fangs, by choking, and released, himself.— believe they are to be beaten, and we fear drank without milk, and has a rich,

His throat is lacerated in the most shock-j badly beaten, in the Presidential contest taste.

ing manner—so much so that for several now opening, days his case was considered onj of extreme danger. The wounds were deep, all the integuments of the neck were torn and stripped down .like orange-peel, laying baro the traebea, and even gwdng the forger vein# of the neck.

$&~In the Rhode Island

hundred and ninety-three miles. I i»g paper has directed attention to the

one circuit with perfect ease and regu-1 iinglaud in the third war, on which

:ari!y. The paid business of the line is done in connection with the Western Union Tcle-

transmission

)f dispatches to all parts of the country. iooked-for obsticles—he advisi.s, a* a far. folio-,v_|better plan, the seizure of Nankin, ruinated on a broad, tlcrp, navigable river, two once, hundred miles from the sen, and whore idford, the allied fi'jet can approach neru- the 1 raw-! abutting on a country where supplies ?re

Wcstvi'.le, Michigan Citv. assumes that the combined forces will form

to) I Uthccs will soon be opened at Ur-1 an army oi iwcuiy-ino uiousanu inen, oi ... leans, Ifarrodsburg, Ellettsville, Clover-1 whom twelve thousand will be Knglish and dale, Bainbridge, Ladoga, Brookston, San ten thousand French—the most powr.iful

l?» nhrirlm Y.^rlnim Ttrnnlrctnn Snn! ten thousand French—the most i.owcrful

d'jfild l&y.

SPIRITUALISM in tbe UNITED STATES. The "Fourth Annual Spiritual Register" for I860, published by U. Clark, of Auburn, contains some statistics which in

The intense interest heretofore exhibited in the jiropeedings .of,The House was to-day transferred to theSenate Chamber. .The report that Mr. Douglas would speak drew together a' crowd sufficient to have 1 filled the immense galleries several tiiribs: ...... over. By noon every available inch of one million five huudred and thirty-seven j^CQ5- -*11 'f3 largest part itwassorao tw room was packed, even to the: reporters' thousand believers in the United States,

dieate a rapid increase of believers in Spir-

set down at 3,000 each and Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and New Mexico at 2,000 each. Every State and Territory is represented as having believers. Florida containiii£r fewer than any other, is set'down at 1,000.

It is claimed that during the 3'c^.r there thas been au'iiicrcas.e of'TGO'.OOO. Beside his ^reatnumber'arc' claimed five millions

of "nominal believers." The compiler of these statistics gives

noauthoritv for his estimates and it is prob-} f0.

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A VOICE OF I-p. a real Sutler, I ftuppos".*' "No. sir,"

the following paragraph, which on tlie bottle." iTillett rcsnmed h:s

tract from a leading political arti-: reading, audhas not bragged on any strange baby since.—Indiana American. late number of that paper, it

At the risk of being denounced as cultural garden at

sionallv, 00(Tdiflereiit bookiTaud paniplilets violent choking on Spiritualism, and -riurty periodicals, throat, induced the reptile to with 200,000 circulation, devoted to the subject, o'l, 'U JV 1 ?.i 's

A DAY or STATE CONVENTION-?.—The 22d of February, th'c anniversary of the birth of Washington, ivill^be'a gr-jat day this .year for the holding of State Conventions.. The Opposition Convention of Tennessee will meet at Nashville the Democratic Convention of Iowa will meet at Des Moins the Democratic Convention of Michigan will meet People'e Party Convention of Pennsylvania will meet at Ilarrisburg the Opposition Convention of Virginia will meet in Richmond, 111 Richmond, arid the Republican Convention of Indiana will meet in Iudianopoliu.

Raleigh the

C®~"The U. S. steam frigate, Mississippi, Cant. Win. C. Nicholson, commandin

u-rived at Boston on Friday, after a cruise j* 'T^1 V*

of two years and a half. She sailed from New York, August 17th, 1857, and was twenty-one months on her station in the Chinese and Japanese waters. The Mississippi visited twenty-three ports aud sailed over forty-seven thousand miles. Seven of the crew have died during the voyage. It will require about one hundred thousand dollars to pay off the crcw.

fiSF*The reading of Owen's "Footfalls" has renewed the Rochester knockings and called into existence all sorts of medi-,Guernsey

O from goinjc by a irravc warnintr received

GENERAL CASS AND JUUUE III.ACK.— led in tho Channel and on the south coast The Washington correspondent of the New Ireland. ALnon.

York Times says: jrilE I)lsT .\ DlMl) or TIIE Judge Black's reply to Senator Doug- LAST TEX YEA its. las is uow for sale. A list was presented Within the last ten years death has ta.-

niention, heretofore, of a new and-valuable to Secrctar}' Cass, with the request that ken the scepter and closed the reigns of telegraph line which puts us in immediate 1 he would subscribe for some, but he re- sovereigns on the thrones of Russia, Auscouimunication with all the large cities of plied: "Nosir.no. A heres}', a contradic-1 tria, Sweden, Denmark, Hanover, Naples, the Ohio and Mississippi valley. tion of uiy whole political lite. No, sir, Portugal, Brazil, Japan and the Sandwhiea

The Louisville, New Albany, and C'hi-j none for inc." Several of the other Cab-i Islands. One PreMd.-ni of tlie L'nitod caijo Railroad Company have completed inct officers subscribed liberally.

WHOLE NUMBER 922.

A MODERN LAOCOON—TfiltKI CONFLICT WITH A SNAKE. It was ouly a week or two since that wo announced the arrival at Salem, from Af-

rica»

itualism ih this country and elsewhere, and Ione the largest ever -brought to this a corresponding increase of spiritual liter-j

From

tion of the assemblage, In one instance portion of the storm moved northward aid a large partv who had cnjjaicd to attend a eastward, places on the castand north coasts ball in a neighboring town were deterred Soctland having strong easterly aiid

an honest man, he will endeavor to ri »i .i ,]if. of Furr'-md \VhMi the Ro-il Chir'er rp, trom the boundaries of the other world.— o.c oi r.ng.ai.u. nncn ine iiii ai v.ar.cr The knockings arc all tiie rage and will be jw:is wrecked, Elgin and Banffshire was until something new turns un.—Stat? Sen-!rM,t disturbed by wind. When it blevv tincl.

i• i^i

State while tcrec

the

people of the latter country are entering! wit'a the Chinese, and his remarks arc forcible. Instead of iii'uvnm'.: Fdcin aud taking possession of —a t.- .-i he shows, which will be attended with tni-

hie

the r.gii-

Washin'/ton. It i. finer flavored di.-h nf It i.-

'Monster boa-constrictor, i:i size

couu'r^-

"'"gth, '.n

ature was full thirty feet, with a capability of According to the Register, the- «». extension, when in motion, to nearly forty

1DC 1

New York there arc 420,000, in Ohio 200,-! Provcd,

£tr,f-c'

in cicumfcrence.

and sixty-three thousand in the Canada?, I .This snake was purchased by Mr GoodCuba and South Amcrica, making a total

of 1,600,000 in America. In the State of!

0 3 ou

000, in Illinois 100,000, in 3Iassachusetts jIl0Wcvcr-11I" suakcsbip exhibited symp-

of llIncss ln

cx"Jk'ticn

Horticultural Hall.bcbool-strcet, where

.l",tc

attractive. Last week,

tl,e.

form ot

uPon

onc

»1(i,Scstlon-

occasion Mr. Kishup, the

keeper, removed a number of feathers of un animal which the reptile had swallowed, from its throat.

On Sunday the snake was treated to a warm bath, and Mr. Bishop was again attempting to remove some obstructions from its throat, when the suakc suddenly exhibited signs of hostility, crecttd its head, seized Mr. Bishop by the hand, and commenced to coil its cmfrmous length about the body of .the keeper, in order 10 crush him to death. The other attendant:., in the first moments of alarm, retreated, but recalled by the crios for help ot" tho

,m!'r,S0!u'.

keeper, thev ariii'»d theu:-

1 3

able that tliey are chiefly founded on co:i- '«e snauo 111 order to induce him jceturc., According to the same authority, there arc 220 "trance" speakiiig' mediums'in this country, and 30- "teit," "healing" and other mediums. IS'2 spiritual preachers or speakers, l,i00 places where spir-

Commenced to

to release his hold. No impression was made, however, and 1011c coil was already around tho body of the unfortunate man, when a brother of

Mr. Goodwin came 10 the rescue with a lai'ije hammer. With this lie struck tho

__ snake two violent 'blows upon the head,

wnioosc its coil, when Mr. Risltop was at once set free from his horrible imprisonment. The snake soon began to sink under the treatment which it had received,: and in two hours v.ns dead. Its remains were purchased by Mr. Vickery, of Lynn, who will have the skin stuffed for preservation.—Boston Traveler.

THE STOKMOF OCTOHKll 25, Rear Admiral Fitzroy explains the na-

'i"'I ture of the storm which wrecked tho lloy-

ftombiniug

al Charter, the various reports^. he has ascertained it to havo been a ec:iir... plctc horizontal system. Travelling bodily northward, the area of its sweep was scarccly 800 miles in diameter. While the central portion was advancing northward i:otfg uniformly, but at an average rate of about twenty miles an hour, the actual velocity^ of the wind, circling (as against watc.'i

fr°m

urns once more in our citv. Spirtual cir-J ^'IC sudden shift off the Lddystonc occurcles meet every night, and communications I

red

from the invisible world arc dashed off by half-past five it took place near Rcigatc.— writing mediums and read for-the ediliea-1

to 100 miles an nour. At places wc.vtward of its centre the wind appeared back," or "retrograde." shii'tinr from c:..

through northeast, and north to northwest while at places eastward of its central passage the apparent change, or veering of the wind, was from east through southeast, south, southwest, and west to northwest.— Our channel squadron, not far from tlio lvldystone. had a rapid—indeed, almost a sudden—shift from southeast to northwest, being in or near the central lull, while at,, the wind veered round regularly..-.

about three, or soon after, and about

eastern parts of England the ccnt ml

..n-tiifrlv .,..1™ 11,, »i10.

mciO

gaies a UA} i.I.cr III.I.I me I.N I-

hard from the oa--t to north on that exposes,

coast, the storm had abated, or almost ceas-

and one Kx-Prcsid^nt have died, Louis Piiiilippc han u)i:K-d the seeniif :jt, having previously lost his earia- a ly crown. Numerous iiiuuiiou.MDen have departed, r'.minciit among whom will i.o foutid the names Webster, ('lav, Calhoun, P-(1, Wellington, Soult, Thiers, (.'hatoau'oriaiid, Mettornich. A\'ord.sworti», Moore, Roger-j. Lo-.-khart, Wilson, Macaulav, Ila:hi:n, Do Ouiiicy. Irving, Prcscott, s'.'rawford, '.•'edg\rick. aud nu.i-.ercus others, while the names of Ja:ie Porter, Jane Taj.lor, 2ui.H Mitfjrd, Miis Jvlgeworih a:,d •others have added brilliant luster to tho role of eminent r.ed iliu.-.trio'iH woiaeu.

W R::«*II V»'A.G :S IN CAI.IF-ONNIA.— Work is paid in tlii ."r'tafe 1-y tue job or l.y the day, 'without refercn-.'c tv the sex of tho party that perform"- it. A washer-woman rft-ts*three !'dla -=. a day in the country a carpenter get» mi r**. A lady teacher c/ets the same wag'-s that a gentleman would teaching the .same class. If ma'ieM have ever predominated among the teach---ers, it was because the supply of teach- r« ins material was mostly of the masculine

EXFIFURR.ACE TIIE SOUTH.—We learu froui the Wilmington (N. C.) IleraUl, that the :. Directors of the Wilmington and Marchestcr Railroad have passed a resolution instructinir tlie Superintendent to emplov as f-nv Northern nidi as possib to work on and at the road—ilv.ays giving tiie pictcrcrice home mechaaics. Awo, instruct--...-.-ini him iu ir.akinsc pisrehanfe.s to procure, a a ii os C1,'.' a ta.ture.

£0^The 1't-i.i'eu'.i'.ry at l-'.-utcvraud. 'partme:it Maiuc et 1 ranee, duitirr a terrible storm on the id ult., It'll iu ill: a crash, burying many of tho p.risoser.j beneath the ruina.

C©~Thc

WILLI) CAT KILLED. A wild cat wtigh- tone day met with a cronv, who inquired

Legislature, ing twelve pounds, was shot and and killed how he got along with his tircv inr.ster.

on Thursday of last week, an net was pass, by a young man named Isaao Milliron, near "Oh, excellently, answered the sen ant, ed making the 22d of February a legal hoi-! Nineveh, A\ estmoreland County, l'a., on "we live on t.icndiy terms—-c\ rj L.oruiday'instead of the 1st of January, as the Saturday last. More of the same varmints ing we beat each other coats, lie takes law now provide?.

servant of a Prussian oftv-or

W be b^ten.

r.d I keep nunc on.