Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 April 1860 — Page 1
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NEW SERIES—VrOL. XI, NO. 38. CEAWFORDSV1LLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 7, 1860. WHOLE NUMBER 930.
SIGHTS B¥ AJf AMEttCAS DIPLOMAT 15 THE OLD WORLD. Hon. Jdmes Williams, our. Minister t0 Turkey, resident at Constantinople, was some months-aince directed to proceed to Syria, to settle some matters in that country calling for his interposition, and Wil-
liam Williams embraced the opportunity
Our route carried us through Endor, where, dwelt the Woman with the familiar spirit," through Nain, Jezral and Samaria. From Jerusalem we made an excursion, accompanied by a large military escort, to the Dead Sea and the Jordan, passing through the ancient city of Jericho, now a miserable Arab village. We bathed in the Dead Sea, and swam over to (he other side of Jordan," despite the warnings of our Arab attendants, who assured us that we would without doubt perish before we reached the opposite shore. I may add, that on our route to Beyroot, I visited Tarsus, the birth-place of Paul, and the scene of the first meeting of Anthony and Cleopatra. From Jaffa we went by sea to Alexandria, aud thence by railroad to Cairo. There we visited the Py ramids and the ruins of Memphis and lie Iiopolis.
From the top of the mountain whence we caught the first glimpse of Damascus, !he sight is beautiful beyond all description. A city of one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, literally embosomed in groves of orange, lemon, apricot, fig aud other fruit trees, as green as in the midst nt summer, and extending for many miles along the valley, seen for the first time by one who has just crossed the black, barren looking range of mountains between Beyroot and the Herinon, which rise in sight on the further side of Damascus, is a sight which one must see to appreciate. Then too, the historical associations which crowd upon the mind—the oldest-city in the world—founded by the great grandson of •Noah, it has withstood the revolutions of four thousand years. Sidon, Hebron, and .-ouie others might vie with its age, but these are now miserable towns, the mere remnants of past splendor. Damascus has flourished amid all the changes that have cou\uhsed, impoverished and ruined others."
Bntxixi ny Two CIIILUREX.—A liorriblc accident occurred Ivridav forenoon three and a halt.miles wvst the city, 011 itlie [ndian Creek road, occasioned by the burning of two children, sons of Louis
Ambler, aged, one three years and the I oilier sixteen months, together with his house and furniture. Mr. Ambler had eouie to town early in the morning with a o.iil of wood, and during his absence his juir\: had went into the field to attend to isoinc bunting logs, fastening the door of tiie house to prevent the egress of the children. She had be?n absent probably an hour, when she thought she discovered
was enveloped in flames. Several neighbors had arrived a few moments pre- ?r
vious, but could do nothing in consequence I
screams of the agonized mother as she be-
held her children almost literally burned before her eyes, arc described as being heart-rending in the extreme. Nothing could be done to save them as the building was almost totally destroj-ed before any one had arrived.—Lafayette Journal.
To OHKUO.V, THE STAR OF HYMEN TAKKS ITS WAY.—A meeting lyis been called in Stcilacoom, Oregon, to consult about the best means of getting an importation of! voting women. The call was signed bv
in our midst of a number of the fair sex I from the Atlantic States, and to bring t'
A LIBERAL" POIICY--KOUND TUII* TICKETS TO CHARLESTON. We have it from good authority that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company will issue round trip tickets to and from Charleston, S. C., at one half the regular fare. We also learn that similar arrange mcnts have been eonsumated by the B. and
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... ting lines from Louisville, St. Louis, Cinof making a tour through Syria in company with his brother. A few days since a letter was received by one of his friends, at Mr. Williams' home in Tennessee, giving a graphic description of his journey through that portion of the old World, which it was necessary for him to pass on his way, and so full of historical recollections from the earliest ages. The following extracts were afforded the press
The fJaltimorc and Ohio Jlnad is in complete condition throughout the entire length, and the trip may he made with as little fatigue as upon any of our river palaces. There is no change of cars or baggage the conductors are polite an 1 atientive the trains are provided with smoking aud elegant sleeping ears nothing is left undone to promote the pleasure aud comfort of its patrons.
Beyond the main stem of the Baltimore and
Ohio
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of the rapid progress ot the fire. The "S* i'-
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about such au arrival, a united effort is cal- Congressional Slave-code politicians wore led for on our part, we respectfully re-! unable to get any expression for their fa {quest a full attendance of'all eligible and
sincerely desirous baenclors ot this community. to assemble on I'liesday evening
RELIGION or TIIE LATE GOV. BISSELL. —Our Republican friends are unpfeasant,ly cxcrcised abont the religion of the late
Governor Bissell. The development of the fact that he has been a legitimate member «f the Catholic church since 1854, has somewhat astonished those who were ignorant of his religious sentiments, but the leaders of the Republican party—the knowing ones, and the Know Nothing ones too—knew it as well previous to the election of 1856, as they do now, but they affeet to believe that the discovery is now for the first time made. It is of but little consequence with the Republican party whether a man is a Catholic,^a Protestant, a Mormon, or an Infidel, so that he can contribute to the success of a Republican candidate at an election, they would rapport him for office. We are not in favor of making religion a test of qualificatien for office, and only allude to the dilemma in which our Republican friends are placed by the exposure of Gov. Bissell's religion to show up Republican inconsistency.—Illinois State Register.
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with its various Western connoc-
cinnati, &c. This movement is for the benefit of delegates and others attending the National Democratic Convention to be held at Charleston on the 23d of next month.— Thus, for the same fare that a passenger can ride to Charleston at any other time, he can now go and return. This liberal policy—and by the way all we want o. corporations or individual capitalists in this world is that they should be liberal and comprehensive in their schemes—this very liberal policy will enable large numbers of citizens, as well as regular delegates, to visit the seaport capital of .South Carolina, aud to tike in their way thither the wonderful natural scenery of the great Baltimore and Ohio road. There is not in all the routes ef travel in the Old "World, or the new, so much of varied beauty and grandeur in" mountain, valley and river view nor is there in the same distance such exhibitions of industrial power, ami such triumphant demonstrations of engineering skill.
lload, the passengers for Charles
ton will find many attractions—Washington City
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I smoke issuing from various parts of her dwelling, and consequently started home, ,, .. but before she could reach the house it I
chances for the Ch.ca- h.s name
noininiltlon are 11 IIS
moment slender- lcreius,
er than ever, and that they will grow rcgu- history.
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0«) bachelors. Iho following is a copy of bership in the Republican j-artv at the thought that Rrown was hung "becau.-e lie the advertised call iu the Stcilacoom Her- cost of all title to ita leadership. So far aoted on the belief that the affirmations aid as the Presidential aspirations of Mr. Bates of the Declaration of Independence werciI, Attention. Bachelors !-BeJievin«r ihat!
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1 1 S a a our only chance for a^realizationi of the —J— I The Xew Haven I'.dladi,,,,, dorifics benefits and early attainments of matri-l The Georgia Democracy, at their' --his truly Cl.ris.ian death, and .-peak.uionial alliances depends upon the arrival ,, .. ,* r,. in n„r midst of a number of tbe fair ,ev
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next, February 2$, in Delin & Shorey's tionalist, one of the leading Democratic I building to devise ways and means to se- papers in the State, in its issue of the 1 -ith
eure this much needed and desirable im-'
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migration to our shores. Signed by D.: V. K. Waldron, S K. Mckall, Jas. E. Jcs-
Tucker, 0. II. bite, O. C. fchorcy,
and eighty-seven others
March, which said
ter G. lord Christopher Downey fcgbert °ai„cd =.Uiatsuch^protectionh
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^erer until they vanish into noth-. I heN orw.ch (.ourirr thought that Lrow
whatever upon national topics. The
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ritory, take property that pays ten and seventeen per cent, here, to a climate where it will not pay three per cent
What nonsense, then, to ask protection where protection is not wanted iur property that will never go there.
Then let as have no new tests. We will have all we can do to combat Republicanism upon our old-established prinei
kcrp for im* my l:iuye«lcnr?'*
Thr boM criw*: thy inriyc to mr." Mi* ijrotluTfalM? ropin*'4.
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WIioso Imjntur^trcntiicd in air.
Krr far hail n»le thnl rustic's lortl,
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tbo?«» )«roul I«t h"«Men irray: (iu fori]i!n ul mi xuy slu'cp!*'
"2tHi• brother de»r« thcslicrp to toml. Ala-! I kn«*w not how.** "Jf u*nl sheep tliou'.-i nrvor IrarnM,
My laMci' shall teach thcc Srvvii livr-lonjr years hrr l»c« J\ The sjm! one wept in vain Ai .-even years* eni forgot tt wr«]\ nil M* eelly SHUI ugaiii. As with hi'rsouus the inoiintiiiiis run::,
A knight cutm* rhiin wnr. Ami lo jiis jifjjv the reins he tlurc. I Vic. h»se ihat voieo I hear?**
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wr.iry years. 1 !rn\.) iiihi:* ears it soumleil la.is hear il now!
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*ii '1 ni'r.*ow to thoe. monntain iiin'nl! Thy ii ol iimis so tray. M-'think* tlion ha.*«N to yinir so elear, llreakfastcil well lo-day!'* well I hav —to (ii.il If thnnk.s
Koruhai lie ami took— Thutur'i nn a ern-M I»r!-:»• m,\ Ja.-l. Ami ilipp (1 i: in the hrot k."
*T''H infair 'Inm-vl! can I lotlsri* A• -mler 1 r«Hy hail'.'" (lli.y.v! you'll fi-nl fair lo«lt ini: there—
Yuur sieeil a kn*i !it!y slail A eimeh of down will wait your rest, Sneh as I onee e» nhl share, Krehanish'd with the th eks tinhvell, shared the w:itch-d« ^*d lair?" 'Awl wher\ my ehild, then, is ,ourp "Use"
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my lord, iswt the wnr-i-—
llc'd fair, U»n^ lucks like thee!**
"If Ions and fair his locks like mine, Mtaht we not he the same?'* *'Oh ye-ijyotiare my love, my lord.
And I Faoiitc'a damcI'V
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tlwn the Docks! my halls to reach With fir- haste I hnrn!— llrother! ail h«ii! n:y hulye*^weal
Kiuin you I lon^r to learn!"
of
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Baltimore aud Ohio Bond the Potomac rives, Bichinotid, the capital of Virginia, and other points of iutcres, oh "the railrord route to Charleston.
r, rest!
"S'ill fair a brave! Hest. Lroth* Your la dye fair has cne To Qiiimp r. ton weddini: fea
JJuv she'll be here auoii." **Thoti liest, wretch! thy sheep lo feed, On ni 'iiutain- lone and hare, Thou sent'st.tuy dame, in servile weed
Passengers from this city, St. Lpuis, or Cincinnati, route to the Convention at Charleston, will do well to purchase their tickets via Columbus, Ohio, connecting at that point with the Central Ohio I'ailroad to Wheeling. This road is iu splendid order, with all the modern 'improvements and the regularity of its trains, and freedom from accident for years past, have justly entitled it to high position among, ... first class railroads. Louisville Cour-! ^pubhean deny that l.ts party indorses ricr. or sympathizes with the Bebellion in A ir- •!, lirinia, just read the following to him.
Lo! she stands subbing there! *4 (r..! brother cursed, and hide thy ah a me!
Not one more lyimr word! Wcr't not our p.treats' hallow'd hearth, Thy blood had stain'd my sword!"
Tin joiin bkom'x ki:iu:mjo\ k.VDOi'INKI) JJYTIIE PAIt-
TV. Wlienevcr any of our readers hear
LOl'ISVILLK JOUKNAL ON BATES. m, it »i
:ulic Louisville Journal, the or^an ot
ii lhe ^ew lork ritmnv declared that
it "had not one reproachful word for John Brown." The leading Bepubliuan paper of Xew Hampshire, the Independent Democrat, safd that "ever// Republican naturally sympathizes withTJohn Brown.
the new Constitutional Union party in this section of the country, fiercely denounces the late letter of Mr. Bates, defining his position on the slavery question. It says that his further support by the conservative opposition as a candidate for the Presidency is out of the question, and that he will be most emphatically repudiated by the Baltimore convention. As to Mr. Bates' chances for getting the Chicago nomination, ,, Winstcd Jlcra/d, the edi'or of which welcomed u.i coming, blest the Journal says: was thou Chairman of the Republican .State "ever forgets us—never.
Whether Or not Mr. Bates has concen- Central Committee, speaUs ot Urowu as trated and fixed his chances at Chicago as. follows—"l-'or one, wc conies* we luic Inm effectually as he has dispelled them at j—we honor him—wc applaud- him Baltimore wc shall presently see. Jnour Judgement ho has not. On the contrary, some da}' be gathered
will be written with the W'inkTells, and Washiii'r'ons of
tbmgs arc, should 'sacrificed h.s property and lite to a be-
"g° nominate Mr. neyolent purp. Bates: lie can command no votes outside lhe .Norwich lhdletia considered Ins
of the Republican party, and can't com-'crime "the attempt to give a practical ex-j think you, as she sits in that well rcmaud all the votes iu it". This is plain.—'position of the doctrines of the Dcclara- mcmbered corner to-night, she dreams her As a mere Republican he is unquestionably tionof independence," and adds with truth trembling arm is le.i.i powerful to protect weaker than any of a dozen or two dozen that it was simply an attempt to do finean- him now, stalwart man though he is, than
others, and he has voluntarily sacrificed ing murder on a large and impracticable whatever conservative strength he pos- scale, what he had previously done on a scssed. The truth is, Mr. Bates' letter small but practicable scale in Kansas."— has destroyed the only real claim to the The same paper considered tho presence of Chicago nomination that he ever pretended armed men at his execution as "not only fo have, or that his friends ever set up in testimony to the greatness')/1he work which his name. In putting 1.i Republicanism he had begun, but so many evidences to the beyond reproach, he has sunk him e\f to l1 uity of his undertaking." '^e
herd. lie has purchased mem- The Haven Jounrd and (Jourtrr
the step is a suicidal one.- something more than glittering general*
onvcntion, passed no re olu- ot as one o! tieedom. Lulogies men!
the I'alladinm. "marble monies and pioevssiuiis, will cele
brate his fame, and give his name to po.--teritv a.-j that of a go .d ...man and a trite fritn.l to hi- race.'"
]-'i:i:t.i Tin Ku:r.i.iN r.—A rather curious .-ecne oct- irred in the Northern part Kughmd during the performance of a nictiag'T:o. A \i.u ig mhi who had been
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But, supposing an improbability, and .fur s^.u.e time carehiiiy observing the moneiephant, determined to try thif ftr.-h with his ml of the elephant's laws against negro-stealing, indue* South- tusks, which are of a large mzy, an iron em men to take slaves worth. Sil.." 0U each rod, binding one tu.-k to tiie other. Our where cotton docs not grow .' Will men, hero seized hold of tins, and began to ican for the sake of extending the South in ter- his whole weight upon it. he elephant
granting may'he ster elephant, determi
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wni cmictmcll{ crtate lie rM)e
stren rth of tho !lU
Will'own. 'I here is at the en
not altogether liking thi-• hind of treatment, determined, for his part, to punirh his audacious antagonist. He raised his great head aloft, and the young fellow was swung from the ground until he almo.st touched the canvas coverini
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lawyer of Lebanon, and clerk of Boone county, died very suddenly on Tuesday.
f^The New York papers state that the value of street dirt produced annually io that city is ovor $100,000.
ami was, no doubt,
milch higher th:m his i: ost wild ambition ever carried him. The ani-^-il repeated this, and a second time hu tU. feildtjd ti.
pies. The fate of the Western Wjrld is the ground, when the elephaiit, perhap." poised in the scale, and thousands of the thinking it best to to temper justice with good and true in the North will win laur- mercy, wrapped his trunk around the hap-1 els under the non-interventiou flag, who
"THE OLD FASHIONED MOTHER.'' "Old fashioned Mothers" have nearly nil passed away, with the blue check and homespun woolen of a simplier but purer time, llere and there one remains, truly accomplished in heart and life, for the sphere of home.
Old fashioned mothers—God bless them! who followed us with heart and prayer, all over the world—lived in our lives and sorrowed in our griefs who knew more about patching than poetry spoke no dialect but that of love never preached nor wandered made melody with their hearts and sent forth no books but living volumes that honored their authors and blessed the world.
If woman have a broader mission now, in Heaven's name, let her fulfill it! If she have aught to sing, like the daughters of Judah, let her sit down by the waters of Babel, and the world shall weep like Miriam, let her trumpet-strain float gloriously over crushed but giant, wrong, and the world shall hear but let the trumpet and lament issue, as did the oracles of old, from behind the veil that cannot be rent the inner temple" of sacred Home.
Within it, shonld be. enshrined the divinity of the place. Here and here only, would we find a woman here imprison her—imprison her Aye, as the lighthouse ray, that flows out, pure as au angel's pulses, into the night and darkness of tho world—a star beneath-tho cloud but brightest there—warmest there—always there, where heaven did^kindlc it, within tho precinct, the very altar place of home!
It is related of Madame Lucciola, a renowned vocalist, that she ruined a splendid tenor voice by her efforts to imitate male singing. Many a sweet voice and gentle influence in the social harmony, ha* been lost to the world in the same Planner. There is nothing more potent than :i woman's voice, if heard, not in the field or forum, but at home. The song bird of Hasten! sioty, borne from its native i.le, grew dumb and languished. Seldom did it sing and only when it saw a dweller from its distant land, or to its drowsy perch there came a tone, heard long ago in its own w. ods. So with the song that woman sings best heard within Home's sacred temple. Klscwhcre, a trumpet-tone—per-haps a clarion-cry, but the lute-like voieo has fled. the "mezzo-soprano" is lost iu the discords of earth.
The old homestead I wish I-couJd it is—no, no.'I dare not say, as it is—as it wits that we could go together, to-night, from room to room sit by the old hearth, round which that circle of light and love once swept, and there linger, till all those simpler, purer times returned, and we should grow young again.
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And how can wc le.ive that spot, with' out remembering one form, that occupied, in days gone by, the old arm chair that old-fashioned mother ?—one in all tho world, the law of whose life was love one who was the.diviuity of our infancy, and
The Hartford 7Vr.v.v said—"For the. old the..sacred presence in the shrine of our first earthly idolatry one whose heart is far below the frosts that gather so thickly on her brow one to whom we never grow old, but in the plumed troop" or the grave council, are children still o:ie who us "oin' and
veteran himself we have a profound respect. lie scorns excuse or apolog}-. Heaven send us more ol the element that makes such men."
Ills ashes will
to a hero tomb—
And when, in some closet, some drawer, some corner, ?he finds a garment or a toy that once was yours, how does she weep, •is .-lie thinks you may be suffering or sad..
And when spring aves her robe on the trees," does she not remember your t-ree, aud wish you were there to see it in its glory.' .Nothing is far, and nothing long," to her she girdles the globe with a eincove
turc of love she encircles her child, if he be on the face of the earth,
when it clasped him, an infant to her bosom .' Docs t.lic battle of life drive the wanderer to the old homestead, at last Her hand is upon his shoulder her dim and fading eyes are kindled with .something of the light of other days," as she gazes upon his brow I'e of stout heart my son No I.arm can reach thee here
Siiri'lv, there is but one Heaven—one Mother—and one (Jod."
In the foreign department of the
telegraph establishment at London, thcro are a number of clerks employed capable of reading off messages in almost every Kuropean language. Messages are constantly being received or scut to and from I'aris, Berlin, Hamburg, St. Petersburg/* .Moscow, Pcsth, Prague, Constantinople,'' &e., indeed there is no town of any importance on (he Continent with which tclegraph communication ninv not he had.— 'l he largest streteii v.iiieh has yet been talc ••n without a break is that from Odessa via. St. Petembnrgh—a di.-Uince by telegraph of tlirefj thousand five hundred miles. The electric spark started from (Meat 15::!!-alley, dashed off along the Kastern countries, leaped into the sea near Lowestoft, traversed the bottom of the .German ocean, rose up at th'.' Hague, cro.--' ise the Kibe, passed through Hamburg, flew by Berlin, hastened on to St. Peters-..
Ourgh. traveled to Moscow, sped along over the bleak steppes of Southern Russia, looked in at Keil, glanced at tho busy shipwrights at Nieoloitfl", parsed over the swamps of Simperopo1, and leaving tho ''riuica. skirted along the northern coa.-t of the Black Sea, and rang the little bell of the slumbering clerk at Odessa, to call his attention to the winged words of the manage which( /:_.-c following dose at its heel-.
THE FRUIT.—-^Ve are glad to learn that
less aud now thoroughly humble yo uh, and in «pite of the fears prematurely express-
would find the protection banner but a very unceremoniously laid him in the mud ,•!, the fruit has thus far escaped injury in funeral pall." that overspread the floor. The wrestle this locality, and the prospect for a good was ended, the elephant coining of the vie- crop of peaches, &c., is now cncouraginjj
SUDDEN DEATH—Mr. Shannon, a young *r. while his combataiit pieked'himself up, hnvennes Su,i.
and, amid the hearty laughter of the spec-
tators, vanished. Fifteen divorces were granted at the receut term of the Klkhart Co. Court. OST"Captain Delvigne, the first inventor of precussion locks, has had a pension of C^^The friends ot Mrs. Brennan dissix thousand francs: conferred upon hiui by credit tho statement of the New York TriNapoleon III. bunc, that she had been seen iu Florence.
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