Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 February 1860 — Page 1

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From "All the Year Round."

BOOK WORLD.

When the dim presence of the awful night Clasps in its jewelled arms the slumbering earth, Alone I sit beside the lowly light

That like a dream-fire flickers on my hearth With some joy-teeming volume in my hand— A peopled planet, opulent and grand. may be Shakspeare. with his endless train

Of sceptered thought, a glorious progeny Borne on the whirlwind of his mighty strain Through vision-lands forever far and free.

His great mind beaming thro' those phantom crowds, Like evening sun from out a wealth of clouds.

It may be Milton, on his seraph wings, Soaring to hights (sic) of grandeur yet untrod; Now deep where horrid shapes of darkness cling, Now lost in splendor at the feet of God; Girt with the terror of avenging skies, Or wrapt in dreams of infant Paradise.

It may be Spenser, with his misty shades. Where forms of beauty wondrous tales rehearse, With breezy vistas, and with cool arcades Opening forever in his antique verse. It may be Chaucer, with his drink divine. His Tabard old, and Pilgrims twenty-nine.

Perchance I linger with the mighty Three Of glorious Greece, that morning land of song, Who bared the fearful front of tragedy, And soared to fame on pinions broad and strong

Or watch beneath the Trojan ramparts proud The dim hosts gathering like a thunder-cloud.

No rust of time can sully Quixote's mail, In wonted rest his Iance securely lies; Still is the faithful Sancho stout and hale,

Forever wide his wonder-stricken eyes And Rozinantc, baro and spectral steed. Still throws gaunt shadows o'er their every deed.

Still can I robe me in the old delights

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Of Calip splendid, and of Genii grim, The star-wealth of Arabia's thousand hights, (sic) Shining till every other light grows dim Wander away in broad voluptuous lands, (By) streams of silver, and through golden sands;

Still hear the storms of Camoens burst and swell, His seas of vengeance raging wild and wide; Or wander by the glimmering fires of hell With dreaming Dante and his spirit guide;

Lofter in Petrarch's green, melodious grove, Or hang with Tasso o'er his hopeless love.

What then to me is all your sparkling dance, Wine purpled banquet,or vain Fashion's blaze, Thus roaming through the realms of rich Romance.

Old Bookworld, and its wealth of royal days, Forever with those brave and brilliant ones That fill Time's channel like a stream of suns!

From the Lafayette Journal (Republican.) THAT RESOLUTION.

The Convention on Saturday adopted the following resolution, reported by a committee composed of Dr. J. B. McFarland, G. S. Orth, Wm. C. Wilson, W. R. Ellis and R. C. Gregory:

Resolved, That American slavery is a sin against God at war with every ennobling sentiment of humanity a withering blight upon our prosperity a curse to the white man and to the black its continnance is a living disgrace to our age and nation, and the day of its utter extinction will be hailed as the proudest epoch in American history that while we claim no power to interfere with slavery in the States in which it exists, we are unalterably opposed to its further extension.

We can see no propriety in the enunciation of anathemas and epithets against slavery where it exists under the Constitution, by a party claiming to be national.— The resolution is inconsistent in itself, for if "we claim no power to interfere with slavery' in the States," there is an evident impropriety in denouncing it in the unmeasured terms of the resolution. lnterference by words is unnecessary, if we do not intend to interfere by acts.

The error in this matter is the incorporation into a parly platform of any sentiment upon which, as a party, we do not intend to act. The tendency of the doctrines of the Republican party, not its avowed intentions, is alleged as the evidence of its sectionalism. If such resolutions as this are adopted into State and

National platforms, the charge is just and the fear well-founded. Why should a party which intends solely to resist the extension of slavery, resolve that "its continunance is a living disgrace to our age and nation?" Why should a party that repudiates John Brown, resolve that "the day of its utter extinction will be hailed as the proudest epoch in American history?"

Why, if "we claim no power to interfere with slavery in the States," do we constitute ourselves the keepers of the morals of the nation, and resolve "that American slavery is a sin against God?" Does the Republican party propose to inaugurate a religious crusade against the South?

What good purpose does it subserve for a Northern party, claiming respect for the Constitution, to march its forces right up to Mason & Dixon's line and there vociferate "slavery is a sin against God; at war with every ennobling principle of humanity; a withering blight upon our prosperity a curse to the white man and to the black its continuance is a disgrace to our age and nation, and the day of its utter extinction will be hailed as the proudest epoch in American history;" but still, "we claim no power to interfere with it!" Such bravado as this is but the language of the coward. The most foolish, as well as the most inconsistent thing an individual or a party can do, is to use high and lofty words of daring, at the same time admitting that there is no chance for a fight; to insist that it is sinful not to fight but unconstitutional to fight; that nothing but the national Constitution prevents the removal of a national disgrace ! One can not but think that those individuals who regard slavery as a living disgrace to our nation, and also a sin against God, are using the old Constitution for a very shabby purpose. If that venerable institution is the only obstacle to the removal of a sin against God, and a national disgrace, why profess any regard for it? Why not abate the nuisance at once?

Respect for the rights of sister States is not to be cultivated by denunciations of them. The inevitable tendency of such proclamations is evil. If the burden of our songs is "slavery is a sin," a "national disgrace," a "withering blight," it is not to be wondered at that here and there some practical Abolitionist mistakes it for the battle cry. A party calling upon "all those opposed to the doctrines and policy of the present Federal Administrations," "without regard to past party associations," should not announce as its sentiment,

opinions upon any abstract questions not involved necessarily in the contest. The most ultra Abolitionist can vote for the non-extension of slavery into territory now free, yet it by no means follows that every Republican and opponent of the Administration can resolve that its "continnance is lasting disgrace to our age and nation." We do not regard the continuance of slavery as a disgrace to our nation.

The Republican party having declared it sectional, how can it be held by that party a national disgrace? The true Republi-

can doctrine is simply that of non-exten-sion into Territories now free, Its adherents have quite enough to do to show the American people that territory acquired by the joint blood and treasure of Southern and Northern States, should not be equally and fairly divided between

them. Quite euough without running off notes in each of the States North-west of into irrevelant questions not at issue.— the Ohio, Minnesota excepted, during the Declamation may answer as a medium for past fortnight; and, though I seldom place individual opinion, but is not the safest predictions on record, I now make one plan for the enunciation of the principles which I would not have credited when I

upon which a party proposes to act.— "Mind your own business" is as good a maxim in politics as anywhere else. Good manners as well as good morals prompt us to silence in regard to the local institutions of neighboring States. Slavery is their institution, their sin and their disgrace, if disgrace at all, not ours. Abuse of the institution, where it exists constitutionally, inevitably strengthens it and retards the very object of the abuser. It does not follow, because a friend has a horror of clean linen that a public resolution denouncing dirty shirts is the best way to improve his appearance or temper. It is most apt to do neither, but rather to induce him to swear, in his wrath, that the care of his wardrobe is a right secured to him by the Constitution, and that dirty shirts are decidedly preferable to any other kind. ---<>---

HOW TO GET TO PIKE'S PEAK. The Pike's Peak correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat writes as follows:

Pack very carefully and condensely your traps in a good store-box or chest, that will prove water-proof, and suit to lie on or use as a table occasionally, in the absence of better. When you get all things fixed at the old homestead, don't fool away time, and don't fool away money by getting on a "starting spree," but roll out, business-like, for the best route for St. Louis or Chicago, and thence to whatever point on the Missouri River which is most convenient and direct, everything considered, to make your second start from.

have not a heavy supply of provisions to lay by with after you get here, and some capital to trade around.

The first here in April or May will have great advantages for buying or pre-empt-ing property or claims, but, still a body should not risk a wife or children's lives to get here very early, unless you ihink you can stand and weather it, and you have the means to come along with plenty of provisions and warm clothing, blankets and a good covered wagon, that will not break down or burn up by the stove-pipe, and

their might on all advire given, or else Johnson, of Tennessee, could hope for their

SNAKE"WORSHIP IN AFRICA. According to a correspondent of the

fight that nothing but Boston Post, now in Africa, the people there have some curious ideas on religious questions:

from five to fifteen feet in length. You can almost always sec them crawling about the streets. When the natives sec them they fall down and kiss the earth. They are perfectly harmless, as I have often seen the natives take them up and carry them back to the fetish-house. It is not all unfrcqucnt to find them on the mat alongside of you in the morning, as the huts are without doors. I had my lodgings in what was once an English fort, but is now in ruins, and is a favorite resort of snakes. I never found one in my room, but one morning upon.looking in the room adjoining mine, I found one almost seven feet long. The penalty for killing one is—for a white person—the price of sixty slaves, now $4,200. For a native, he is shut up in a bamboo house, and then the house is set on fire. The poor fellow has the privilege of getting out if he can, and run for the lagoon, a distance of two miles, followed by the mob, and if he reachcs the water, he is free. But very few can ever avail themselves of this "watcr-curc." It is a great dodge with the fetish man, if he knows that you aro peculiarly averse to this kind of god, to bring them near your house and put them down, knowing they will enter, aud ho will be sent for to come and take it away, for whioh he gets a few ftriagf qf cowrie*.,.

NEW SERIES--VOL. XI, NO. 31. CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 18, 1860.

[Editorial Correspondence of the Xcw York Tribune.] POLITICAL VIEWS OP AN OLD STAGEU—WnO MR. GREELEY THINKS

WILL BE THE CANDIDATES OF THE TWO PARTIES.

DAVENPORT, IOWA, Jan. 29, 1860 I have been looking through and taking

left New York. I predict that Stephen A. Douglas will be nominated for President at Charleston next April, and that most of the slave States will give him their Electoral Votes. Let their foreshadowings be noted and compared with the events.

events be thrown for him

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I see also that the Anti-Douglas side will have the advantage in the Convention, first in settling the contested seats, then in framing the platform. But, after making allowance for these make-weights, I still hold the Dittle Giant's nomination to be all but inevitable, because

I. A National Convention always nominates to win. It is largely made up of men who would like to be Cabinet Ministers, Embassadors, Collectors, Marshals, or at least Postmasters. These quite well understand that, if they are to obtain what they aspire to, it is essential that they should nominate a ticket that can be elected. National Conventions are often blind to transcendent merit, rarely or never to superior strength.

II. Mr. Douglas is still in the eyes of the Democratic masses iu the Free States, the champion and embodiment of the principle of Popular Sovereignty by which they were reconciled to the repudiation of the Missouri Compact. That repudiation was never relied by them per se nor did its manifest object commend it to their approbation. But the suggestion that each separate community, whether termed State or Territory, should be at liberty to manage and dispose of its own negroes—to have slavery or not have it, as it should see fit —was and is popular with the Western Deinocrac}*. And having long recognized Mr. Douglas as the author, expounder and champion of that doctrine, they will not be dispose to scrutinize very nicely the Platform if he is placed conspicuously thereon. With Mr. Douglas as their candidate, the Democracy will contest every North-wcs-torn State with energy, and most of them with confidence. They will not consider one of them absolutely lost until its popular votes for President shall have been cast and countcd.

If you have no wife or family to take along, you should prepare to startc as early as you read this, as the weather on the plains will be no severer, but rather less so, than it will be in March or April, and by getting here early, if you are singlehanded, and have three month's]rovisio7is ahead, and some little money, you can realize a great deal by speculation of one kind and another in these towns, or in good forfeited claims among the valleys and ranches, as well as in the rich mining districts until May, Jwhcn some mining will open up, but if you have a wife and family to take, I would not positively advise you to start ivith them from the Missouri liivcr before the 20 of April at soonest, in case they are not very hardy, and cannot put up with rainy and cold weather and other hardships of that season, and in case you in a Territory, equally with those in a

III. But, should Mr. Douglas be defeated at Charleston, the very blindest mole will understand that theprimciple wherewith his name is indentified is ignored and cashiered—that the National Democracy no longer holds American citizens located

State at liberty to legalize and establish or to exclude and forbid slavery within their respective limits. In that case, the

become speedily rich by land speculation, [of it. Think better of God think better have suddenly awaked to a realization of of heaven think better of manhood. If of the fact that their land-grabbing has ru-| you have begun wrong, it is not too late to ined them, and that they have a hard chance before them of obtaining even a livelihood. To these, and to tens of thousands beside, the Homastead bill seems of more consequence than all other topics of political controversy. No other Democratic statesman than Douirlas, unless it be Andrew

magnified and uuaturally and incorrectly support. Mr. Joe Lane's ugly record last Africa. The action comprises an advance distorted pretty nearly all facts and infor- winter renders him conspicuously unarail mation of supplies and about the modes of able. Mr. Douglas, on this question, could traveling across these plains, of their so-' probably hold his own against a llepublicalled best routs to take aud start from, as can 110 one else but Johusou could begin to well as regarding mining, and the whole do it. historj', gossip and situation of this country iu every particular almost.

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The chief objects of worship in Whydah are snakes and a large cottonwood tree.— at the start must be very large, and this I course, be preposterous to compare the

ballots. That the events and developments of the next ten weeks may change all this, I fully understand but, if matters move along as t.hey are now going, Mr. Douglas' nomination at Charleston seems hardly avoidable.

As to the Republicans of the Northwest, the great mas of their delegates will go to Chicago determined to make the strongest possible ticket, without regard to personal claims or aspirations. I think the largest number of them would prefer Governor Seward, should it appear that he can carry the States which are to decide the contest but there are many who desire to see Abram Lincoin's name on their national ticket, and none who do not place the triumph of their principles far above any personal consideration. The merits of Bates, Dayton, McLean, Cameron, Chase, Banks, Read and others are freely canvassed and I have heard good men suggest that after the ground has all been fairly gone over, it will be found that Fremont and Dayton are stronger with the masses than any new combination that can bo presented. All are anxious that the ticket should be strong in personal character and in devotion to our cherished principles and any Republican ticket that is so will be enthusiastically supported by a strong majority of the

voters of the North-west against Douglas and by an overwhelming preponderance against any other possible nomineo at Charleston. Should that nominee stand unequivocally upon Mr. Buchanan's platform, his vote in the North-west will hardly be worth counting. H. G.

DEATH OF BURTON, the COMEDIAN. It was stated some weeks since that William Evans Burton, Esq., the accomplished comedian and man of letters, was dangerously ill. The nature of his disease, an affection of the heart, allowed from the first but little hope of his recovery. It terminated yesterday in his death. He was born in London in 1804, and came to this country at the age of thirty. He was intended for the clerical profession, and accordingly received a classical education but while still very young, took the control of his father's printing office, and became editor of a monthly magazine. A few years later we find him both an actor and a dramatic author. One of his pieces, "Ellen Warcham," was played at live of the London theaters on the same evening.

After his arrival in the United States, he was successively proprietor of theatres in the principal Eastern cities, but resided for the most part in Philadelphia and New York. In the former place he established The Gentleman's Magazine in 1SU7. It will be remembered that during his connection with this periodical, he was assisted for a short time by the late Edgar A. Poc. His latter years were spent iu New York, and are well known to the public.— His management of the theatre iu Chambers street, which bore his name, and of the Metropolitan Theatre on Broadway, was very successful. As a comic actor he was almost without a competitor in a large number of parts. In addition to his professional skill, Mr. Burton was thoroughly read in English literature, and had collected a Shakspcarian library of great value. His principal work was The Cyclopedia Wit and Humor, published in 185S.

IIENItY WARD I1EECIIER O.V COINCi TO Bin CITIES TO .HAKE MOMliY. In a recent scrmou, Mr. Beceher says:

Have you come to New York to get rich? Did you take the trouble to come all the way from home down here just to get rich? Why, you might have demoralized yourself without taking half so much trouble! God could have said, "thou fool," to you just as well if you had staid at home! l"ou have come here, among all this excitmeut and temptation, with no other end thau this: "1 will be as big a fool as ten thousand before me have been!"—here, where, if anywhere, wealth stands on a weak foundation here, where it has been proved, ten thousand times over, that, the rich man is like an old harp-frame without as string in it—that he has nothing in his soul which responds to joy: here, where a man may build lofty paisiecs and vast warehouses, and carry the street in his hand, and own the bank, and vet be a

stereotyped Democratic question of 1854-j miserable wretch, saying at night, "I would 5-'G, "Why should not American citizens that it were morning," and saying in the

in a Territory have crjual rights as to slave-1 morning, "I would it were night!" You

of a State?" will be turned against them with fearful effect. Mr. Douglas may work —as he doubtless will work—desperately

ry within their respective limits with those have come down to try the old game. One '^lich

for any candidate who may be nominated the snare set in sight of the bird: but the I

it Charleston, no matter on what platform: devil

but he can not sccure for a hearty Le-

witli plenty of oxen, in ease some should comptonite one electoral vote in all the die or stray away of nights, or bo stolen There should be taken plenty of grain for your oxen or other animals, to last thirtyfive or forty-five days journey, in connection with what slow small picking they can get among the old grass, and the green grass underneath, which more abundantly will be found in the earlier mouths on tho Arkansas or old Santa Fo route than on the Fort Kearney, North Platte road. You should, in these cases, allow your cattle an extra long time to graze and pick up all they could, and also feed with grain. Have a small stove in the wagon, and a place to cany along wood from cam]) to camp. 13c not dccived by gratuitous advice, for ninty-nine out of every hundred of all these old mountaineers, guide-men, agents, runners and "cxpcrionccd miners" generally, that I knew or met with there "and here, and on the way during the past twelve months, have cither lied with all!

North-west. IV. Through all his mutations, Mr. Douglas has hitherto stood by tho principle of Free Homesteads, or the grant of the public lands to actual settlers without charge. That principle always stronger in the free West than any party—has gained immensely in power to control votes from the pecuniary disasters of the last three years. Thousands who were grabbing all the land within sight of their log-cabins a few years since, and fondly expecting to

change your course. It is never too late to

do well. Take a higher view of life, a nobler conception of duty.

[From the London Times, January, 13.] A SPANISH CM AItGi: OF BALAKLAVA

On the 1st of January the Spaniards fought their first considerable battle in

from the sea coast, and a subsequent and longer conflict in the afternoon, necessitated by the gallant but ill-judged advance of General l'riiu. The most remarkable feature, however, in the occurrences of the

The minute division of his adversa- d»y was an almost exact parody on the

ries gives Douglas a great advantage in the charge of our own light cavalry at Unlaktruggle. Out of some six hundred votes in the covention, over two hundred will at

lava b}' two squadrons of the Spanish, princcsa hussars. There was the same \!llze

blunder of an aid-de-cainp, the same too

ballot, while the opposing vote will be di- implicit obedience of the officer immedi-

The snakes arc of the boa species, and are can not fail to tell ou the succeeding 1 means of destruction at the disposal of the 0 aparij coi reaponf eu Moors and the well served batteries and !ot

steady fire which tho Russians were able to bring into play against the English dragoons. Still let honor be given where honor is due. The Spanish hus=ars rode into their valley of death with as unflinching a courage, with as firm determination to do their duty, as the English cavalry in October, 1854, and not a man came back with a stain on his name.

They rode up to the enemy's fire, and even to his camp, bringing back with them nothing but their glory and the memory of their great deed of arms. The squadrons of Diego Leon's hussars did this. It was as though the spirit of their gallant chief was with them throughout that fiery ride. It seems almost a grotesque instance of history reproducing itself to find that a misinterpreted speech of the Spanish aid-dc-camp who carried the order, produced a similar result to that which followed poor Nolan's fatal blunder at Balaklava. The messenger, it is said, applied the word "cowards" to the Moors by a fatal error the offiser in command of the hussars took the word as intended for himself and his men, and went off at once at their head into the midst of the enemy's fire. There were two officers killed and five wounded -—a large proportion out of the two squad* rocs engaged.

ANIMA CARISSI.HA.

In the door at the noon of the night We line'ringly gazed at the sky. "W hile Luna, the Abbess, in silvery light

Of her nuns floated pensively by.

I remember the rose in her hnir. And the blush on her pench-colored cheek i'". The perfume that slept in the roseate air.

And the thought that I dared not to spealc. Like a lil imprisoned, her hand, ft —ijof'.'dimpled and warm. I«"y in mine, ••rjv.. ,lcn thrilled 'neath a pressure ?o libind j* I' 1 hat it seemed something more thau divine.

Her lips, with a smile, half npnrt. !5eemed_thc home of nn Em?, alarmed ... -test the siifh that cscaped from her heart

Might not fall on the heart he had churjacd.

In each violet eye. sweet and clear— Liquid depths of dark, delicate hue— '\Pe.arl I saw sparkling a tear—

I had kissed her a pfirting adieu.

CONGRESSIONAL "MOTHER GOOSE." i. Thero were Congressmen in Washington,

And they were wondrous wise, .1 Tncy balloted, until they found 1 hey could not organize ,-MC~: .: And when they found this would not do, ith all their might and main. •. They got "advances" on their pay.

Aud, balloted again!

Hey diddle diddle. The "chair" in the middle! Tho "Congress" will organize soon! The Lobbymen laugh t^i sec the sport. And all feed from the Xationnl spuou!

BENNETT AND PHTOU. Editor l'ryor. We're sorry to pen it, lJrands as a liar

Kditor Bennett. Editor Bennett Brands as a liar The man of theSonate,

Editor l'ryor. We have no desire

Now to inquire, Who is the liar. Bennett or l'ryor. P'raps when they've dono

his for titud rich Good-bye—go—we do not travel t'h same road.

Oh, I will not say so for as my mother wept over me, your mothers wept over you. Oh, the tears that have baptized you in the cradle Oh, the prayers that have brought down the blessings which now you boastfully call the fruit of you own skill! There is much, I trust, laid up to be answered in your behalf, yet. Think better of it—oh, young man, think better

Kicking up so much bother, We'll find six of one. llnlf a dozeu of t'other.

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COMKS HOME."

•One of our citizens, who has taken some

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vided between Hunter, Wise, Guthrie, A. I atelv in command, the same useless rush c'rildish simplicity, "Mister, get out oi here: from his escutcheon one cf ii.s brightest ''1^' succeeded in inflicting several Johnson, Breckinridge, Jeff. Davis, Ste-1 up a valley bristling with opponents,

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phens Cobb, &c.: Mr. Douglas'plurality the same bloodv retreat. It would, h-.-ine, Connerscillc 'limes. the Commitiec on Territories. This badire j:is

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I sincerely pity the Japaunese, such are the knaveries and tricks fjrcigu merchants

THE EXECUTION OF STEPHENS NEW YOItK. The custom which has prevailed at executions iu the United States for many years, of jerking a man suddenly eight or ten feet from the ground, or letting him drop that distance, was not followed at the execution of Stephens in New York last Fridaj'. The New York Daily News thus describes the execution, aud remarks upon the inhumanity of the prevalent method:

The Sheriff, at thirty-seven minutes past nine, gave the signal, and the hauginan, who was in the box containing the weights, unwound the rope suspending them,"and let them descend gradually to the ground. The cord around his neck tightened gradually. The knot remained in its proper place, beneath the left car.

The'blood

was pressed upon the brain by the action of the heart and arteries, and, being confined there by the pressure of the cord upon the veins through which it returns, and which arc more external and easier compressed than the arteries, the brain was overflowed with blood, asphyxia was produced, consciousness and feeling were gradually but speedily lost, and death ensued without contortions or spasmodic cf-

without great suffering and pain.

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running to the snare of the fowler! Sure- jhands were slightly turned, llis legs Iy, a bird is wiser than you are: for in vain |!l I'ttlc drawn up. Ihe blood ceased to

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the death ot Jameii Stephens.— read his las: debat

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lor township, actively engajred in preachMM ii

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i'airfield with a lady whom lie introduced as his wife, stating that tliey had been married at Indianapolis a few days before.— They sojourned with Mr, Thomas, and the lady, as preachers' wives usually do, receiving much attention. The parties lived as man and wife at 31 r. Thomas's. In the mean time another lady made her appearance who produced letters of late dates over the signature of Mr. Chew, which indicated emphatically that he had promised to marry her. She came to this place, wc learn, and counselled about bringing a suit for a breach of promise. After some time the first named lady returned to Indianapolis, and it is said that her husband (a Mr. Cliugcnsmith, or some such name,) who knew nothing of this lust adventure of his wife, obtained a divorce from her on Wednesday or Thursdaj- hist. Mr. Thomas having discovered that he had been imposed upon by Chew, came up here and filed an affidavit as about stated.

Chew is said to be a doctor, and while practicing in that profession was introduced into tho family of Clingcnsniiiii several years since. He had. wc believe, commenced teaching school ii the house where he was preaching on the night of his arrest. He is licensed by the Nowlights to preach, but has surrendered hi parchment since his arrest, or at la.st prepared to surrender it.

He is about fifty years old, and has been married two or three times. These are all the particulars wc have at this writing.

As wc go to press an etturt is being made to rolcase Chew on a writ of habeas corpus.—Kokomo Tribune, Jan. oliV.

SENATOR DOUGLAS—CHARLESTON CONVENTION. An old Dcmocart who was present at

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stood on a cart, while the rope was attached What a model Democrat! As if tlie to the beam of the gallows, when ihe cart: pcrpose of the convention was not to coi-1 being driven from beneath him, left him I lect the sentiments of the party, and to hanging by the neck, lint such is not the name the man fo carry tho ilag." Such a' modern and inhuman mode of hanging, by man is a rash diair

jerking a man suddenly eight or ten feist I dangerous than ihe boldest aud dashing

^:ite discussion in the Senate between

Messrs. Clay, Davis and Douglas, sends us the following letter from Washington:

WASHINGTON, Friday, February 3.

Jlditors of the Cincinnati Enrjuirer: Do you wish to here of the prospects of a great man—Stephen A. Douglas? What

from the ground, by means of heavy weights I adversary. Jiut Douglas is the man to 'iys

a name and like him of old, of the Grainpain Hills, he is bewitehing ail hearts, and from Ihe "JSottinghuni list." inspiring his country-men with the st Cleveland Herald, a few years :i

devoted zeal and admiration. Have yon short notice, dis

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he was baited by the sharp and growlii spirits of his opponents? What a maguilicent figure he exhibited in tho contest!— Clay, 1 fancy will never again hold him up

suddenly thrown down, and letting him fall I subdue all danger. How brilliani have eompeting with the dollar papers, in back four or five feet with all the momen- been his victories even against ail ofiicial

turn of his weight and velocity suddenly power! Do you not recollect an incccndt '"'ght a village retail merchant attempt to

arrested by the rope around his neck, dis- that oecured, on the discussion of ihc Ka«t !Ke" goods as low placing the rope, distorting the features, I India Dill of tho great (Jharl.'s doing great violence to the spinal cord, the reign of George II f, which producing convulsions and spasms fearful to behold, and anguish and sufferings in-

pride for several years in cultivating a full sentiments, and that His Maje.-tv would conveniences, if there were no country pacrop of hair 011 his face, was called away resent the measure." What a universal 1 pers, and yet, no more than one fourth of from home on business some time since.— outcry it provoked and if 1 mistake not.

While absent an inexperienced barber "The*Commons resolved that the use '.:'j spoiled his whiskers in trimming them, the King's name hv a member, should b._' AW H'l, ANTICIPATION. which so chagrined him that he directed considered a high crime and misdcmcan-! The Milwaukie .NCIVJ tay.J that tho rncmthe barber to make a clean job of it by! or." hers of a family residing" near that city shaving whiskers and mustache both off. Now, yuii rcccol!e..-f l,e ma"!:\'ic.jrit .cuc-'^ave bitely evinced unmistakable signs of The barber obeyed, and our friend's face cess which attended Douglas Tn his stru"-1 hydrophobia, caused by the use of milk was as smooth and delicate as when in his |gle iu Illinois? He sustainad the Demo-1

teens. He returned home in the night.— eratic banner, and when he bore it, like a

Next morning his little girl did not rccog-j hero, to the Senate chamber, what was' "'hich the family had of the horrors which up. Looking over her done by some of his Democratic brothers?

as she supposed, a Thev hung no laurel. on his brow, but do-10'

will practice upon these simple minded 1 rever,^,.'" ,.ld.l now th- "m-m •—At

ed to reappear during the present year, and ,m3

and kind-hearted people, and such vices ^0 £d bv the mol't jLiJc fric-ndYin the It,v. Mr. .MeCor'd wu will be practiced by the mass of seafaring .j,0 ]jc mocratic ranks, leading him the way ::ibout ^commence prcaching his farwei: men who will visit these ports. I saw an Charle-fon on the tide of succor -1

American of our ship dead drunk in the Ohio, Indiana,' Illinois, Wisconsin,^* Iowa, street, and the Japanese looking on Miiinesota, Michigan, New York, N-w

amazement and apparent sadness. The JergeV|

®^"Professor Lovering, iii one of his iate Astronomical lectures before the Low-: ell Institute, said that the great comet of! 155C, which caused the abdication °f }ji«swor

,-11 1

U1(

Christianity which commerce sends to the Tennessee, Kentucky, to" say' nothiri" of j=ati0"' 'I'he scene that ensued was a s:'ui East corrupts heathenism itself.

French astronomers are even now on the .11 ,1 ,.r 1 1: ..

look-out for it. If no error has been made ,•

-1 oen n* like old Cato of Home, Ins couutrj men apof 1860.—Boston Traveller. .,ure

with ]as Qr Bucbanau/

VQn pce th(

f{ruth

preciatc him, as the

WEALTHY MILLITART.—A mounted mil-jeorrnPt^c FATR'OTitary company has recently been formed at Port Tobacco, Md. This company is said to be composed of some of the wealthiest men in that part of the State, the Captain (Cox) being worth some $200,000. and the Orderly-Seargeant between $300.000 and $400,000.

WHOLE NUMBER 923.

ARRESTED IN THE PULPIT. jTIlE CREDIT SYSTEM Uf NEWSPALast Saturday evening an affidavit was! PAPERS. placed in the hands of S. T. Montgomery, I The following sensible and truthful c\* Deputy District Attorney, by K. Thomas, tracts is taken from the oration of Mra hotel-keeper at Fairfield, in this countv, ti,, rv,. r, ,, vT J-'ennv at. the Editorial Convention rccentcnargmg open adultcrv nrninst James 31. Chew. An information having bc6n filed, !J.V

,,cll) at

Ilihn-

the Clerk issued a warrant which was hut a plain honest statement of facts which plaiced in the hands of Isiine Price, Depu- are well known to tho publishers of every ty Sheriff. Price proceeded at once to uewspaoer which does a credit business: make the arrest. He found Mr. Chew at .• he Greatest affliction of the country a school-house in the eastern part of lay-1 T, I

The following arc the circumstances as near as we have them, that caused his ar-1

rest: Some time iu December he came to ia,ld

lje

ing. ihc bhcrifl a scat, listened atii .class of men but printers that oxtend a tentivelv to what lie thought an excellent

Senat", when (drcci, but in less

l'lC

even the IIuu.se of Commons to resent, pbes a want that no foreign paper cans with the most passionate indignation, the} ''_ln''sh, and hence it is worth to every use of the King's name, to influence the eitizr-n of tho country double its value, legislation of Parlimcnt? Karl Temple, an whatever that may be. To make a pa-' intimate and confidential friend of the Pcr like evory-thiii^ it must bo King, declared "that he knew the Kinir's patronized. How great would be the iu.

tlie

a'vn^

iu the bed, she remarked, in her precsatcd the .successful hero by plucking '•"'"S ot hydrophobia, and during one of tho

Pa 011 you ^\vhen ue comcs jewels. He was displaced as ('hairman of: wound. on his l.ifncr. 1'hy -.h-ians gave it

I I. ....... ,* 1 ..'itKO.rl l,f fl.O M.'H .(' t'liil.'

"no exaggeration,

f. printer, is tlie Credit Svsteni. It ousrht

abandoned at onco. Ihere- is no

I i- i- -.i year credit: and no business in cxistcnco sermon, and awaited his time with pa- ... j|encc can flourish by such an extension of credit.

S°°/Is V'll0n

rurchasc(1'"!ld

tl:f-v

ll0nc glVC

ar0

rloh

mor°

than th,VC mouth

credit. Farmers rcf|uire cash down for every article they sell. Paper makers grown independent in consequence of tho great demand for paper, sell exclusively for cash. Type-founders, grown wise, because often llecced by bankrupt-prin-tcrs, will have nothing but the "ready" or a six month bank note, with responsible endorsers. Journeymen, when they are lucky enough to be employed, or boys working at half-rates, must be paid. The grocer, the butcher, tho tailor, tho merchant, have all caught the cash infection, and nothing but American Gold or thv notes of specie-paying banks will satisly them. Ilow is it possible, then, that the country printer, hedged about as ho is on all sides by demands for cash, can maintain the credit system? The Daily Press, published in the great cities, havo long since abandoned it so havo the eastern and western religious and literary journals. Why, then do the country printers of Ohio hesitate to imitate their example.' hv persist in sending a farmer your paper fur a year or more, on credit, when he won't trust you a day for a bushel ot wheat, a load ol wood or a pound of butter? If you charge t,f0 per year fur your paper, it cost you one third of it to chase, capture and compel!, coax or entreat, the fugitive from justice to pay you. livery publisher is compelled to neglect his business, perhaps one third of the year, in the business of running down subscribers. Like Nimrod of old they aro "mighty hunters," but un'ike him, they capture but little game, but generally return from the chase with more "kicks than coppers." The only remedy for this intolerable grievance, is the adoption, of the (.'ash System. J, therefore recommend to my brcthern here assembled *ai:d to every country publisher in the State, that on the Fourth day of duly next, they declare their independence, and resolve not to issue another pap.:r, after that date, unless paid for in advance. Give your patrons six month's notice of your intentions argue tho case with them, show the absolute necessity of the step, and then, when the time arrives, strike every delinquent, in the political parlance of

Tho after

onunued eighteen bunthau six months they

were nearly all back again, and. the publishers received hundreds of commendatory notices for their course.

In establishing the advance system, I prico that? an dill papers rarely exceeds a thousand. If you ask SJ.OO per annum ibr your papers and should reduce the price tu SI, your loss would be S50O. How would you be rc-

lizer, and is far inure iinbci'sct! Hy increased subscription:?

am^

more advertising} livery printer who

ll'i'-d

i1- h-'is been skinned. The idea

Arro it citios, is redieiilous. As well

fct-

nearly sure in the final

Pennsylvaiiia, all result, and even Texas and Arkansas anxious to fall into his ranks. What a pros-' and how justly deserved! Even tt now bates his breath, and sheaths 1

c? 1 *..ord. "No chance for success," savs Charles of Spam, is confidently expect-, „but

of t!jtf remark of

,1 I tlie Jew, in the plav, that "J.ove and roii-

ii 1 1 1

1 1 0 3

the revised calculations, it will probably ,t

,, ,, •. ,.i„

a on it

1 .1 1 1:,.. „„,i

ti,.,»

... T* ii 1 that honesty is the best policy, and that, r. be seen from this planet during the Fall .-

sjm„ie

and in-!

A DEMOCRAT.

fi®~The peach buds are said to be killed in many parts of Ohio.

thc ni'llionairo

x, in wholesale merchant from whom he buyes. lucmi Ihc country paper, in local affairs, aup-s

voters'would patronize them."

(,,JU'

which was bitten Koine tirue

Sl!:c'i !'.v

The fir.-t iutimaiion

them, was a few days ago, when ono

l'"-'

ehildren, a boy, began to show simp-

t!l'-'ir

he may now point to with 1:0 mortification or regret. Was it use of the King's name which achieved-this great blunder, not to call it a crime? i'id not the sacritle.j of! ,, the offices held by hi? friends satist'v the *jA'!l ..''''''v!''*"

opinion that it the boy's inadncfu

I by tlie useol' niiik, the whobj

family must suffer a horrii.de death soonc: lor later, ••••.- -•••••:.••••:

rlLIlC1'

!:0II1'a.s,

rankim ountv, l'a

111

the .Motnodist Episcopal Church

—t-he church being filled with pcople-a caati phene lamp hanging in the aisle c.rp'ode'f,

,H New England Maryland I.'j''-' great consternation of the Vung c-

!'?r

f'-'v Kvf-'r)'person

suppos,-!

that the whole house was 011 fire. Ihe in-

dies becam very much frightened. Sc.no of them fainted, all screamed at the tor oi their vuices. .V rush was made for the d^or. in the excitement some person, dreading the consequcnces of delay bounced tlrroi gn one of the windows, carrying out glass and everything else. Although '.or awhile all thought that escanc from dcM-h

or serious injury would be impossible, ve

person was hurt. The floor of the bui u-

niKcailShfc

Crc but

extinguished.

"'e flames were sc„'.i

f®*Dcad letters, instead of being sen*, to Washington within six months, as heretofore, are now returned within half tb'tt period of time, thus facilitating the rcstoir.tion of valuables to their owners, ns wcii an preventing tho accumulation of buch lo' tcrs at tho various post affioea,