Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 March 1860 — Page 1

N~E¥t SEilLES"-V"OL,-II, 10, 36.'

AJSCE5G 1ST A JlTKY IJOOJf. A THRILLING STORY.

I had once the extreme felicity of leaving my business to serve upon "the Jury." I pleaded in all manner of ways for release, but to no effcct. I could not swear

The case to be tried was one of arson— then a capital offense—and the prisoner at the bar was a youog.man named Charles Ambold, whom I had known from boyhood, and who was naturally one of the finest youths in the town where lie resided. He halt a widowed 'mother who depended on him for support and his circle of friends was large^and,choice. I was morally certain he did not commit the crime, and hence, I am sure, thoso who were friendly to him got me on the panel, and had me rc.tampc}.

The trial commenced, and we, twelve incn, took our scats in the jury box. I had a very rcspectablo set with me—only there was one man whom I didn't like to see there. This man was Moulton Warren. Htf was a dark-faccd, sinister looking fellow—at least to me. I knew that young Ambold had one fault. He had recently been addicted to drink, and had been known to visit disreputable houses. It was one of these houses that had been burned for setting fire to which he had been apprehended.

Now I had often tried to persude Charles Ambold from the course he was pursuing. He had repeatedly promised 111c he would reform, and as repeatedly had broken away. I had oftcu talked to him of his poor mother, until be had wept like a child but the etTect was not lasting. There was a power of temptation more cffectivc than any influence I could wield. He would fall away Into his evil companionship, and for a while his manhood was gone. One or two abandoned women had gained great, power over him, and upon thcui he ..wasted much of hi: sabslnv.c

And I knew that lhi very man who w«3

others to lead th" poor vonth awav. It

who had led him away to those mo.*'": abominable haunts of sin and pollutions. Why h^ in?)HI the iin I could cjniv ac-

•ertam dwelling hou iuj human life. T!ii

already intimated, was a low sink of ini-

i.:i:y, wiser. the abandoned of both sexes were wn :t to congregate ar.d wliere the \outhfa! prisoner had sjont much of hitlaie.

T'.ie cvid co for the prosecution came on, and I was startled. Oone after anotiiergave their testimony, some of th .'in very eluct.-.M'y, and I was frightened when 1 is.'.w i.'.nv piainlv it all pointed :o the priso-! m»r a tiie -uiitv panv. Several credible

ont. cit.sons the prouiiso

witnesses swore tiiat they had heard turn ,, ., a a threaten to burn the house down and otn-1 ors hid heard him say repcotudly, that he widie.l it was burned down. Then came

who saw on the ni rht. of th tire.

With reg.ird to the provocation on the prisoner's pari proved upon h's own been ill-treated there, sworn to have revenue. it wr.a moved that he

admission and that he had And furthermore had been heard to

hc ha*'

ic salvation of his soul and body upon tao destruction of that :.it c:\uie more tesiiinonv slronc-

say, thy depend house. still.

The tire had been set in a back basement room, where shavings and other stuff lor kindlings wero kept. Entrance bad been gained through a back window, which bud been partly pried open with a stout knife. Tiie basement wall w:is of brick, end beneath the sash was found the blade of a Luifc which bad been broken off in trying to raise the sash. The blade was rccognized as belonging to the prisoner's knife! A maker of cutlery had made a knife to order for Ambold only a month previous, and he knew the blade at once aud swore to it.

Bnt this was not all. The Gre had evidently been set first to the shavings which lay upon the stone floor, but piled up against a wooden partition. The floor was damp, and some of the outer shavings, even were not wholly burned. liut just at the edge, where the fire commenced, lay piece of paper rolled up. and half burned, and from the manner in which it lay, it was very evident the fire had been set with it. This piece of paper rolled up, and ignited by a match, a number of which were scattered around, and as soon as it was on fire it had been laid upon the floor, with the burned house burniug end just in the shavings. Of course these shavings were in a blaze instantly but the paper torch being upon

And this paper was found to be part of 11 letter bebuging to the prisoner A letter which he had rcceivcd from a friend of his, and a friend of mine only a week before.' That friend had to Jcome forward aud swear that that piece of charred paper was part of a letter he had^ written to the prisoner This friend's name was Stephen Grant. He was a young merchant, and _j

long been eating away his soul. Poor Charley I had before been sure of his innocence but now I could only shake my head and pity him.

Finally he was allowed to speak for himself. He said he was innocent of the

that I .ws.doaf, Lot blind, nor yet non orimc immitcd lo him He said bo had compos bnt did toll then that I bad cl-! threatened to burn that bouse down that rnt „T. „ci„ he said about all that had been sworn to. ready lormcu an opinion. I ney asked me 1*11 •t ft .- And furthermore he was around the house if my opinion would prevent 111c receiving] tho*t»atunouy. in gQod faitlvamLrendcring a vcfdic?'accordtug to it. -I replied-, that of course I should weigh the evidence carefully, and be governed by it. I was then iuformed that I would do."

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very soul—I knew how free and open it Charles Ambold was acquitted. St was ah, how sinful to I knew there was afterwards Warren was tried, and no falsehood in the story lie had told us. 1 plainly proven that he set fire to the 1

My boy is innocent! My boy is innocent! I heard the cry—and I saw an old woman sink back into the arms of a male companion. It was his poor mother! Her heart was well nigh broken. Yet I saw that all this had but little effect on tho mass of the spectators. The prisoner's course of dissipation—his many threats against the house—and the very fact of pi his having been robbed and abused there, were very heavy against him.

'nqiw on.tlic jury—this Moulton Warren— speech whicii was labored and hard. llo careless in regard to the puper and knife, was the one(who had done more than all

was Warren who li:u! drank witli him, and bouse more than o^ce, ho must l»o\c been ju^e lor a torcu in setting the fire, he djd intoxicated. In short his plea had better not notice what it was, and even when that

been left out. The eviden :e he could no shake, and did all he could to suppose cvi-

thereby endanger- ... 1 was indeed tan* and candid, uwelliu:' as Ii.av

cvidetu

several witnesses—three of tlieui promin-1 nian as he said this which excited my jo.i hts past lite. Tne tnoug.it 0i his old

found that eleven of the jury were bent on rendering a verdict of guilty, though most of them were in favor of recommending the prisoner to mercy. Moulton Warren was decided. He had no mercy at all.

Presently I started up and pretended to be faint. I sa:d I must go out for a few moments. I kicked at the door and the deputy sheriff came. He heard my plea and let me out. As soon as we had

on the night of the fire. He was not ten gained a safe distance, I told him all he rods off when the flames burst forth, and 1

was

he was one of the first to give the alarm. came back he brought the district attorIle bad uttered one cry of fire, when he

lie had gone there on the night of the fire out the hat to them as soon as we entered to try and persnade them to give him back the room. his money and papers, or at least to get The door of the room was opened and I back what he could. When he got there, pointed them to the hat. The sheriff took he saw a stranger whom he did not wish to Jt

that there was no doubt in his mind. Wo

astonished. He went away, and when

y, the district judge, and the sheriff. I

noticed where tiie flames must have origin- told them again what I had seen—that it atcd, and the thought came to him that if ^as no mere suspicion. And I explained, he were found there, he might be suspected of having set the house on fire so he run away. He also said that three uight3 before the conflagration, he had been robed in that house. His pockets had been emptied of everything in them, and his pocket book containing forty dollars in money, and some valuable papers had been taken

too, Warren's maimer in the jury room, his former connection with the prisoner, and his known character.

The officers went away, and at the end of ten minutes they returned with a constable added to their number, and this constable had a freshly written instrument in his hand The Sheriff bade me point

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see, so he hung round, waiting for him to leaped to his feet and would have seized it, depart. He was around by the back of 1 ljUt lie was held back. the building once, and that was an hour 1 Word was instantly sent to the Judge before the tire broke out. lie knew noth- that the jury could not agree. They were ing—nothing. He clasped his hands, and 1 discharged and Moulton Warren was with his tearful eyes raised toward heaven searched. The knife was found upon him, he called 011 God to witness that he was and his behavior at once expotedbis guilt, innocent. The presence of that letter was accounted

I have told you that I knew him well, f0r by him in a dozen different ways in the I knew hiin so well that from that moment course of an hour. I knew him to be innocent! I knew his' new Jury was empannelcd, and

asked whose it was. Warren

enough to intimate that if h:s It was he who had robbed Ambold, and

v'as ''^ouini at tne back part ot the when he took the old loiter from his hat to

(1raof.it

the jury—were conducted to our room Thus was Charlev saved—and raved 'IN

W arren was first to speak. his mother once more took ample delight' Weli," he said, I s'pose there's no .iid jov,

a a

Iiavc set lire to the house

,t ciuiositv—I won't say it was snsnieion companion being handed sent a thrill ,, ni.a iin^i... .looac .i „8, ii est to the American people and although lien—only cunosifv. lie spoke with a through his irame. iut he was able to t=

Stephen Grant." oughly the Democrats of tlje city. It was Next I caught the sentence regarded, and justly too, that this election And nowfdear Charles, if not for your Ivvould

the damp stones, had not burned wholly paper back and took a piece from my own up. hat, which was the same pattern as the RODMAN'S MONSTER CANXOX.— .—The bv its side. ster cannon designed by Major Rodman

other, and I returned

Without

was

the letter had been written for the purpose large blade was cone! With all the pow0 inducing Ambold to reform. Stephen I possessed Ircstrained my emotions.

tried hard to avoid testifying, for he knew, &s did others, that the fire must have been set with that identical piece of paper but he was summoned, and he could not deny his chirography.

The case looked dark. Mary witnesses were willing to testifj* to the prisoner's £00(1 qualities, and no one would swear that he was not dissipated and degraded. That boose had been to him, indeed, a re-

infernal. Its destruction cried out bi« bodilj lift sod it« cxiatenee bad

Charles Ambold's knife*!—The

and having cut my paper, I banded back the knife. W by should he have that knife so boldly about him I afterwards learned that ho had not worn these pantaloons before sincc the night of the fire and now he used the knife, probabl}-, without the least rcmemberance of the loss it had sustained during a very peculiar piece of work, to the execution of whioh it was made subservient 0" ft

We talked for'some ten 7nmutes, and I

llave

I held in mv hand the other half of|SISnal Democratic triumph. the sheet which had been used to lire the

TllIS

I went to the table and

Shortly it was

plainly proven that he set fire to the house and that the woman who kept it was to have been burned up in it, as he had contrived to lock her in the room shortly after kindling the fire. She had incurred his ill will in various ways, and this was his revenge. Not only she, but two of the girls had suspected him before, but dared not complain, for fear he would not be convicted, cr. would then be sure to murder them.

liie hardened villain confessed his guilt

iaf er he had been condemned, and then it

^50 prisoner made nifl that he told how he happened to be so

I partly burned had been exhibited in court, ho had entirely forgotten that he had torn

He reviewed when it should bccouic evident. With re-

told us it there was a lingering doubt in 'and put it in his own and or, Ih

ec caretulty, and pointed out ^rd to the knife it was as I before stated. Lf Illinois, wns the Speaker, and his was such as bore heavily upon the case. Iic [»0 took that slso from Ambold'

our minds, we must give the prisoner t.ie the fire, he had used it to pry up the sash, jlu]re of its merits. benefit ot it. Uut I could plainly see

STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS' INTERVIEW WITH GJbaiERAL JACKSON. To the Editor of the Enquirer

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and when he put it back la his pocket he! iv.Tr-l-t.-

When Charles Ambold knew that Mou!-

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forced ellort at calmness, which I at once trace out, clearly and logically, this terri- -',,J incident we are about to reiate is, I pcrcezved. The more 1 looked at him the more 1 became strangclv nervous and

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easy, vondered wliy he should be so a he remembered how far I10 had gone instrangely anxious to get rid of the case, to the same courso himself and he was I and have -Ambold convictcd. I knew that tb!c to sec the onlyjsafe path for any youth, ad frequented tiiat evil iiouse, and that Not only must lie shun temptation—not

he had done much toward tempting Char- (only keep clear cf even the appearance of !ey to dissipation. I knew he was in that vice—but above ail be must shun evil comhouse on the night on which the prisoner pr.nionship. A youth may make all the wns robbed—for Charley had told me 60 when I visited him in his ceil. I had then asked the unfortunate youth if he was sure Warren was his friend. Oh, he was sure of it he should have hunted him up on the

good resolution.1 thought can afford, but if he continue one evil companionship he is not safe.

important bearing upon the

pattern as the I JAODMAN S ^UOXSTER VJANXOX inemon

ed to the table and sat down. L'. S. Army, and recently cast at the bort was by my side. He had writ-! Pitt.Works, Pittsburgh, is now being bored.!

metal

A card which I published a short time ago in your paper, contained the following paragraph 11

I prefer Mr. Douglas because he is my friend, and I know of no obligation more sacred than that of friendship I prcfere him because he bore the flag of Democracy in the darkest hoars of its history, when even the bravest hearts almost trembled in the face of the political tempest because General Jackson, in his old age, and in his own house, declared he Douglas,) had smoothed his path to the grave, and seemed to place his mantle upon him, as the Prophets of Israel, in the olden time, annointed the future magistrates of the people because he advocates the rights of men in the Territories, as well as in the States to regulate their domestic policy."

An esteemed friend assured me, after the publication of the card, he was not aware that General Jackson had spoken so strongly in favor of Mr. Douglas,. The following are tho particulars of the -incident to which I alluded—premising that Judge Douglas was elected a member of the Twenty-eight Congress, and took his seat on the 1st of December, 1843 "For !^$veral sessions of Congress an effort had been made to restore the fine imposed upon General Jackson by Judge Hall, for declaring martial law, and taking such other steps as were necessary, for the defence of the eity of New Orleans, during the last war with Great Britain. The proposition to effect that object was renewed shortly after Judge Douglas took his seat, and many able speeches were delivered by members on both sides of the question. On the Seventh day of January 1844, pending the discussion of the bill, and after the subject seemed to have been exhausted by the older politicians, the floor was assigned by the presiding officer of the House to a member small in statue, and a stranger to the National Councils and to p. Washington audience. The mas-

forehead and piercing blue eye of him

w]10 was

ahout to speak, indicated that he

was not without valuable attributes of mind and character, yet 110 one of the vast audience which thronged the galleries during that exciting debate, could imagine what remained to be said on that subject to them it was apparently exhausted. The speaker, however, had made but little progress in his remarks, before all eyes were upon him, and a profound stillness prevailed over hall and galleries. It was seen that ho had struck out anew course, and way presantiug the question in a new light, lie took the high ground that General

J.n.lrsoti stood justified legally and morally in what he had done, and the effect was lectrie. Judge Douglas, the little giant'

pocket, pronounced the speech of the session. nigut ot is before tho world, and 1 lie world

tc'vinont''3aftcrv.ard

CO!!1PAN.V

by an officer, and tlicro locked up. A xi- from more than ignoble death, too. 11c attended the Nashville Convention while votes were necessary for his political sueicjice o. some^ minutes ensued. Moulton

own, yet for your mother's sake, lei me I g°ncral election in the fall, and local or 1 hope that you will do better." personal feeling was cast aside for the !of Representatives upon that subject, stead from execution. I started as though a shot had struck Sood of the cause. The result is a most was the modest reply of Judge Douglas, 6th. lam in favor of a Convention

glorious result is a precursor of the

feelmS

found that I had taken it from Moulton !over

wh,ch wlU

SWCCP

llke a

the

Warren's hat! I looked to see if I had election, with Stephen A. Douglas as been observed, and had not. I put the "Je Democratic Candidate

tempest

northwest in the coming presiden-

as saved, to be a noble virtuous man, and there, they paid their rcspccts to Geuernl jcess, his pro-slavery opinions suddenly uu-1

lisht'd sl\ortl3'

tj]e

TIIE DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IN* GAT.ENA.

_'ht of the robbery, only they told him |—We refer to the figures published in an"W arrcn had gone. other column, Tor the particulars of the Ey and b^c, the foreman proposed thnt 'great victory achieved by the Democrats we should each take a piece of paper and I of Galena at the city election yesterday. write down our opinion, and then compare It is a victory which has surprised themuotcs. I went to 1113* hat which I had selves, and of which they are justly proud. placed upon a table with a number of oth- The llepublicans had placed in the field a ers, aad took out a sheet of paper. I had strong ticket throughout—dieaded by a got half way back to tho table, when I gentleman of great personal popularity, found I had mode a mistake I had srot' who was regarded as invincible—and they part of a letter from another man's hat." I rallied to its support with a determination was aboat to turn back when the name of to elect it. the writer of the letter arrested mv atten-j But their efforts, instead of disheartentiou. I looked more closely, and"read—jing, only aroused and united more thor-

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countrv,

result from the course of life the ill-1 itself, of r.o great interest, it becomes so man had pursued. lie shuddered to ns in consequence of those connected

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leDgth fourteen and a half feet. At the one which, if I had neglected it would breech, the outside dinmater is four feet have made a traitor in the sight of God at the muzzle, tweuty-eight and nine-tenths

inches. It will project a bull of four hundred and twenty-one pounds a distance of five or six roilcs, with a tolerably accurate raugc of four miles. Nor approaching it in size or weight has ever before been cast. The largest English guns are made of iron staves, banded together. Some brass pieces of greater length bav« been cast,

but no gon of more th*n twelve inch bore.J the late session, established it beyond the i»i 'possibility of cavil er deubt. I thank you StF" The life of woman's heart is love- sir, for tiat speech* It has relieved my

CEAWFORDSYILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, MABCII 24, WHOLE NUMBER 928.

ken at any period of my life, the C'onstitu tion or laws of my country." Thus spoke the old hero, his countenance brightened by emotions which it is impossible for us to describe. We turned to look at Douglas—he was speechless.— He could not reply, but convulsively shak-

...

lore his death, bequeathed all his valuable

papers to Francis P. Blair, Esq. these papers was fouud the pamphlet copy of the speech of Judge Douglas, with an indorsement in Jackson's hand-writing, signed by him in about the following words This speech constitutes my defcuse I lay it aside as an inheritance for my grand-children."

CINCINNATI, 0., March 17

THE JIM CROW JL'.IIPS OF UK LANE ON THE .SLAVERY ISSUE FIRST ULTRA PRO-SLAVERY, TIIK.N

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posed to slavery, and the extension of si a-

very,'' takes the occasion to construct a

sjavery and the extension of slaverv,

it ii

can

.....v. *—_v ing Joshua R. Giddings for his Abolition-

Judge Douglas,

delegation from Illinois, ism. But when he found that Abolition

is of deep inter-

wit'a it: At the Nashville Convention, of August iast, wo visited the Hermitage, twelves mile3 distant, in company with Judge Douglas of this State, and some others of our fellow citizens. The mansion was crowded with people from almost every State, who had been invited thither by the venerable patriot on the day succeeding the Convention.

Governor Clay, of Alabama, was near General Jackson, who was sitting on a sofa in the hall, and as each person entered, the Governor introduced him to the hero as lie passed along. When Judge Douglas was thus introduced, the General raised his eyes and gazed for a moment in the countenance of the Judge, still retaining his hand. Are you the Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, who delivered a speech last ses-

sion on the subject of remmitting the fine

Jackson at the Hermitage. The following! derwent a marvelous change. Wecive',. »1 t* .1 1

the lo-e and tcidpr ire of!. 1,- -r- r, liable Democratic journal, comes to the ae. is the report ot what occurred, ns was pub- his letter to tho Free Soil Convention of|r rv 1 t»

^rward P«- Tippecanoe County. in 1840, to show with ..

ten Warren had expiated his crime upon I per Everything that relates to Andrew what wonderful facility, Col. Lane—now ticians pursue this distinguished gentle-! Witches and Apparitions, Corneliu3 Agrjp*'' There was something in the manner of the gallows, I10 saUlown and pondered up- Jackson, the Hero cf New Orleans, and regarded as tho great leader" of Indiana I man is calculated to ad vancc, instead of pa 'Uordin's Dcmonotnania Lily's AstroltH.. llepublicans—can favor or discard opposite injuring his presidcnti.il prospects. The gy and other.-:, a jerusal ot any of whicb|| sentiments upon the slavery issue to «uit P1™ Politician ..r Judge Douglas'j would cfp.ctually murder the sleep of ability and pubnc services, shall be pur-: p-rson orasnary nerve fur at least nal% the circumstances w^ich he is placed,

lie wrote as ioilows

CRAWFORUSVILLE,'

imposed on mc for declaring martial law at should comc in conflict New Orleans ask^d the General. JUST rights of the people of Texas Ui.u--.-i

I have delivered a speech in the House

tLe

"Then stop," 6aid General Jackson,'amend our State Constitution. Bit down here beside me. I desire to

counlrv ,. decl^i^"

law,at

ten his opinion, and ^took a knife from his The gun weighs some forty-eight thousand kave always admitted the violation, but tained the Whig plattorm of 1S52, winch pocket to Let you please,"

OrLans, and my fn

an, could properly be pronounced a

violation of the Constitution. I felt convinced in my own mind that I was not guilty of such a heinous offense but I could never make out a legal justification ef my course, nor has it eTer been done sir, until yoar on the floor of Congress, at

j°inTl annexation.

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return you my thanks for that speech.— jgar d.youia, fec., You are the lirst man that has ever relieved my miud on a subject which has rested upon it for thirty years. My enemies have {always charged me with violating the con-

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mind from the only circumstance that rest-! advocated by Colonel Lane in 1849 and STRANGE STORV—A8TOR LIBRARY ed painfully upon it. Throughout jny those of 1S52. With the WhigpnrtyheJ HAUNTED# whole life I never performed an official act! acquiesced in the Compromise measures Tho N. \. Eveaing Post has a ftrarige which I viewed as a violation of the Con- 'of 1850 as a settlement, in principle and jatory regard to a ghost irhiofi recently stitution of my country and I can now \substancc, of the dangerous and existing'

go down to my'grave in peace, with the I questions they cmbrace, and he deprecated ^r" ^-°SSWC^» the Librarian,* who perfect consciousness that I have not bro- fall further agitation of the question thus '°^SCS

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is we -nown, General Jnc^son, be-. to prohibit in the Territories those twin

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GEO. P. KCELL.

i°n^°r 'aro .v

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j'ears

FOR ABOLITIONISM, AND VICE possible to divine—but without doubt lie 11101

-. VERSA. will endeavor to find the popular side. J.

Col. Lane is etcrnaily opposed to sin 1,1 .. VIUUH. very and uio extension ot slavery. .. ,,

The ierrc llaute Ihxvress. noticing.I -1 U'I2i:iCE M1IALL THICY GO I so far from fainting or shrieking, as might some comments upon the declaration of the gomc

Republican candidate for Governor, in his they have become convinced that the nic-. the ghost: speech at Terre Haute last Saturday, that chanics of Massachusetts will withdraw "Dr. ," said he, "you seldom, if the Republican party are eternally op-!

d,cir

.. ... whoso political aboiitioiiism has taken tnc

bread out ot their mouths, are exceeding'

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Col. Lenry fc.Lane, adheres, in scntimenf.jj,rJll

district, as the Whig candidate for Congress. Previous to that period ho had avowed uccided pro-slavery sentiments, and he was among the members of Congress who voted for the resolution ccnsur-

fense of Senator Douglas. It says

T|io vk)]cncc with w!lich cor iill pol

su(J(l witb

vor

trade in the District of Columbia and if I model Democrat.?, am'

sion of any such statC)

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GENTLKMEN:—I have justreceived your eeive the sanction of the honest masses of icrniincd tiiat tiie shade, spirit, delusion.* letter of the JiOtli of Juno, in which you the pce:'e. Now, Jud^e Dou glas is no'- or eireet ot indig '.- 'ion—whatever itmigiit propound to me several questions of great juur first choice. We think we are entitled bo—should rot interfere with his duties, interest and importance. I recognize your to a Southern candidate, and we do not in-again visited the various books which hug

perfcct right to make the iuquiri-j::, and it dorse one peculiar view iielj by Judge n*i»li-d to refer to and wh^n occasion gives me great pleasure to answer as fullv Dou^ia:. manded, did not fail approach the iny.v as my very limited time will permit, ij •'i''or these r^n-fuif we are for anotbe-r.! tic alcove. There again was tho appariprocced now to answer your interrogations But we do no', hesitate to dcclarc, as we 'ion, dressed precisely as before, in. 2 gen*: in the order in tvhich they stand in your! have heretofore reneatedlv declared, that' tleinan usual costume, as natural as lite, letter: -!jf Judge Douglas' is nominated by the and with a hand raised, as if about to tali® 1st. I do admit the right of Congress to Charleston Convention, we shall tupport down a book. Dr. Cogswell again spoke— legislate on the subject of slavery in the I him most cheerfully, and we believe that "Dr. ," lie said bol llv. "This \i United States, includiug the district of tiie south will support bun with an undi-'the tliir time have met you. Tell mj Columbia. I vided electoral vote. Senator ver.son, ot jf aov of this class r.f books now disturbr 2d. I am in favor of the Wilniot Troviso. Gcor?ia, Brown, of Mississippi, and Clay you? If they do, I will have them ro*-

Sd. I am in favjr of abolishing the slave of Alabama, may set themselves tip as moved." 8 make tiiemscl-j Lut the unsrinteful without acit can be done legally and constitutionally, ves disorganizirs, by declaring they will: knov,-lodging this accommodating spirit ort I am also in favor of abolishing slavery in !uot supro: Judge Doug'.ii if nominated, the part of its interrogator, disappeared.— the District of Columbia, and if not I am but the honest masses of tiie people in Nor has it been seen since, and the libra in favor of removing the seat of govern-! their states will disregard their adiuoni- rii-n has contained his nightly ?OE".archc»s ment to free soil. I tions, and support the Illinois Senator if: since without interruption. 4th. I am opposed to the admission of, the Democratic candidate.' any more slave states and if elected to ri .Congress, should vote against the admss-i 5..,. Knrvr-s \\tnvc IV.r

that V(jt(! hV„c°CKL,S

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Crcat rcipect anci

Messrs. II. L. Ellsworth. J. B. Semans, Commit".?. Luther Jewett That was in 1S49. Three years later

mar- we find him occupying a different platform, friends In 1S52 he was a Whig elector, an I sut

ri'so, for New Mexico and Utih, embracing ,inv

nPPcnrcd

tenance all effort? to continue or renew Proccei^3* such agitation, whenever, wherever or how-' Some two wec^s ago Dr. Cogswell wa# .1 iat work as usual on the catalogue. It was ever, the attcmnt be made. In the Uppo-

ing the aged veteran's hand, lie rose and 56, Colonel I.ane again changed ground, candle, and, as he had often done before, left the hall. Certainly General Jackson He came back to the' Wil.not ProvNo and I Pursucd

had paid him the highest compliment he his Abolition position, and declared it was PasrsaScs

could have bestowed on an individual. both the ri»ht unl the dv*u or Con"res ?^C ,\n

us that they should lea\e their oe- of

syllogism to prove that Col. Lane is un A b-1 cupation and strike for the West." The answer, but disappeared. oliticnist. Here is the logic of t!ie Ex-1reason why they desire to get id of the The next day Mr. Cogswell thought over press, a warm admirer ami advocatc of Col.! shoemakers, and depopulate such towns an the matter, attributed it to some optical Lane, which we five verbatim .* jl-yi'U. by sending them to the more recent- delusion, and in the evening proceeded oceiipied parts of our country, is ob- with his work as usual. Again lie wished

at the Astor Library. I* sppeirs

t'ic

settled, as dangerous to the peace of thejcJof evenings making a catalogue of country, and pledged himself to discoun-'books i" t'ic library. Tho £?enia£

IOi LAS IN VIHMNIA. on these mystic books arc auggestiva.— •These are the I'ronheciea tions of Michael Xottradamu?, a folio pub-1 lished in London in 1G72 Albamasar d«^

rp, I I I I- II VAC ."HI: TIN: I LOIIIIOLIUA OT 1 L'0£Tn03tic3 The Lviienburg (v a.) Kepublican, a rc-

while the wild pigeons were

with any of tne,^v.n„ innuir.err.ble qnnntitics over the Nr. Geo. N. Baker, proprietor of the present,

?chtn

lpting a home-

0.1

H. S. LANE.

:)s

all the territory then recently acquired by wild confusion to the earth, wen: c-iptuied the United States from Mexico, not

cen-'

,.f.3 largG numbers, diving in

j'v boys in the neighborhood.—C'^dand

tained in the boundaries of California Dealer more effectual enactments of law, to secure the prompt delivery of persons bound to service or labor in one State, under the law thereof, escaping into another State, and abstaining from establishing slavery b*t under a heavy penalty, prohibiting the Martha, widow of Oliver Brown, killed slave trader in the District of Columbia.—|at Harper's Ferry, died -it North Elba. N* 'about in various Irtcrary and '-c Mirk the difference between the dtieUinei Y., on the 2d ins?. clf? th'.F *".17

library building, was engag-

a 0 a a a

sition ytytc Conventions of 1S54, 0, og^joa to refer to some books in a distast and in the Philadelphia Convention of 18- part of the library, left he his desk, tookhil

1,is course

uu,onS

l,lc'uo111

lhc

0. i,ongrea3 southwest part of tuc older portion of the

winding

th1c.]dcsircd

»P®/-

building, he was startled by seeing a WSff,

barbarism,'slaverv and polvMmv, respectably dressed in cituen's clothed,

Among and "no more slave States." """'eying a shelf of books. The Doctor

buch is the record of the Republican himself for the purpose of abstracting candidate for Governor. Upon the slave-'of the valuable works in the library ry issue he has .proven a buckwheat politi- stepping back behind a partition for

supposed it to be a robber who had secreted somo after'

ry issue tie lias proven a buckwheat politi- stepping back behind a partition for a mocian. He has been steadily pursuing what

R,cnt-

l,e

t"0 potties ot the

a?'?iu

movctl

1,- ,1 1 *.i to catch 11 glimpse of the individual's face# he thought the popular breeze, without re- 1 *1 1 .1.

cautiously forward.

.j when to his surppnso ho recognized in tho

teroncc to principle or consistency. His 1 supposed robber the features of a physician record certainly thows a wonderful clastic- (whose name we forbear giving) who had ity of, or perhaps we may better say, aj''ve^. *',c immediate vicinity of the lijlack of principle upon an is'suc which has t'rn.r-v' ""f "ll0

1,:ul

1 1 i-• I it should be borne in unud that this deccas-

E.NIIV s. :country during the past teu or twelve of Doctor Cogswell, not an intimate friend Where lie will land next it is im-1 :md since his death Doctor Cogswell had

*So!

person was a mere casual acquaintanco

nim*

But

A ,, ,, will not vote rifht next lad. r. is tho as hie, wns iho yuost, very calnilv aud Abontioiiists aro eternally opposed to si 1 1 1 1 \r'n 4

icause ot their Li:tk about overcrowded placidly surveying t.:e shelve"/ Mr.Loss*

mi i•.• numbers ot the lounievmeu, tho overs oc:- well rpouo to it. Ihere Col. Jane is an Abolitio-.iio'. ,• 1 led marset, and the inviting lieU o: the 1 "Ir. said IK-, ".ignm I ask you It thus appears, according to the hx- \Vu-st. But, lo 1 other papers of the samel why Ton who never visited the Library while living, trouble it now when dead!"

press, notwithstanding his professions of stamp assert that the West is as poor a3 a convservatism, to adapt himself to the lohiii-rh mouse that its trade in shoes has present temper of tho public mind, that '.),Cun. '::it ,0'' 'J-y

r0VC1'1'*.•.

w^'*e tiK'..

the apparition was in the prcuenc*

of a man not easily scared. Die librarian.*

the Republican papers, now as reasonably be expected, calmcdy addressed

stq.port republican party, jevcr, visited this Library whiJo living.--

Why, do you trouble us now, when dead?" l'er!iap3 the gho.^t did not like the sound

human voice any way, it gave nd

The black presses fear that they to refer to .some books, and again as largo

Again the ghost vanished, and tho i!ln" daunted librarian pursued his task without

South has been in good condition ar.d lias interruption. Ine nexi dav tic examined

v.ol, eailycu0:s. tbis a Ilio. r0-j

to tnc abolition opinions lie avowed 13- qiou to sei.d our mechanics into, '.vhere had bcc:i standing, and by a singular cc-"n' 49, to catch the votes of that party in hisjpe-iple can't raise money enough to buy icideucc found that tlicy were lilled with

the shelves before which ihe apparition

their shoes Tiiis illustrates, however, books devoted to domorology, witchcraft, the smail amount of sympathy felt by the magic, spiritualism, &e. Some of Vbeso republicans for white mechanics. 'When books are rare toir.C3, several centuries they begin to fear they can get no more!old, written in Latin, illustrated with political aid from ihese cordwainers, tlicv quaint diagrams and redolent of mysticism/ very cooily ic!l them to pack up their traps while o:i the next shelve? are their youn** and leave for the more recun'Jy occupied ger brethcrn, tiie neat npruce worki of parts of the country."—Boston Ilcrald. modern spiritualists, of Lilt tan, Davis. w—»-o— Edmonds, and others. The very titles

Conjectiouibus Kerner's Majikon God-

„-,

Iiiv

Necroinanecr. Glnnvil

blood hound ferocity, and to theja dozen nights. J: wr.s thc-ic volumes that

death, simply because he has commit- appeared to attract the apparition. 3:

July 2d, 1 SdD. I ted'onc political sin, is too monstrous to rc-j Ths third night Mr. Cogswell, still de-f:

A few

.so .n'

establishment at tiie corner or was soon Superior streets, thought

ferry and would see what effect iii fireworks would have

literary riau a though diost-sc

ti.i.i feathered tribe, and upon

trial, discovered a ""-v ne'.d tor sportinggentlemen to humor tiieir fancy. Ju as a iiri'e iloek approached, be seit hissing through their midst a halt-dozeii b'ivy rockets, producing a wi. 1 and ble consternation at cince t.)« mvi floe wouid change its course, dividing in ail oircctions, and in ma'.y instances great numbers would come to the errand akglit others would reverse their course, wnste the greater number would conic- down wi a few vard.s of the ground, wandjring

«t:

A few days ago, at a dinner party at the iiouse of a well known wealthy gentleman, l.'r. C'orr-iwcii related the circumstances an above rtcjrded, as nearly as wc can learn. eighteen or twenty people wero the reur.rkabio story of courso ?id about/ A number of

me-i. ir.ol niin :id others, heard the the-y attibiitcd Doctor Cogswoll'.* .-•ir.a* to th* .strain and ::dyn of

an CT: nent bis1 ta 1, and

bij iierv.i3"d=jri:ig h?4 too protracted labors at 'he er f:dOg i--, tb»y yet confessed that it hr.'i its remarkable phases. Both Dr. Cogswell ar.d the decease 1 physician wre ier.-or.s r.f a pr'iell^i: turn of mind, and a-ways tr^al I the. marvellous ghost stories r-juy-tirnes set f.Coat, with deserved contempt. And 33 th.ey were not at ail intirpaie. i* wiii be ut least r. eurioir! q-tcs-

tion lr-r im p.syciioiogi? e'.ern.ino, wh.} the idea "f this deceisei gentleman should come to Dr. Cogswell's brain and resolve itseif into an apparition, when en

a full cartro. comments, but give the story as related by lr. Cogswell, as wc arc credibly informed,- and as it has already been talked

ra^ed

ihoul o'Jc

irv, stitisi'.c'it labor', which air,' banish sll thoughts of the inarvclloud. A-jtingou the a'lviee of several t'r:ca'J.-». Ir. is now absent on a short trip to Charleston, to recuperate his energies. Hts indefatigable industry, f.is devotion the interests of the Library, and his great efficiency as a librarian render it highly .lpc .ih!ft that ho should oniov recreation