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THE WEEKLY HEVIEW.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND

Saturday, July 21, I860.

PrlRied ana) r»Ui*li«l ercrr PMilnnlnr 3I*min«, br CHAHi.ES H. BOWEN.

jry The Cr wt'oriivrillc Berfrit, fumi«hrd

Maburihrn nl in nrfrnncr.

I A I O N

LARGER THAN ANY PAl'fcK H:iJLl.-«HKD IN ruTfonliritlc

Advertiser1.

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up and cxnmino

nor

List of

p-j-HI'llSCRIIIEBWia

DEPARTNC: OF TRAI.VM OS THE LOUISVILLE, XHW AI.RANY A CHICAGO II. II.

GOING NORTH.

Morning Trnin. nl 5:43 a. in. Evening Train. »t llsSS a. ra. Krcightat 3 0Tp. m.

O OII-TG SOUTH.

Morning Train. 4.-C0 a. m. Kvrning Train, -f. 9:1° p. in. Freight at 6:10 a. m.

B. E. liltYAXT, Accnt.

Toy 1Prcsi dent,

STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS,

OF ILLINOIS.

For l"icc President,

HERSCMtt V. JOHNSON,

OF CEORCIA.

-^Democratic State Ticket.

Foil tlOVKRSOB.

THOMAS' A. HENDRICKS,

of Shelby.

FOU J.nxTr.S.vNT GOVKKSOK. DAVID

TIJRPIE,

of White.

FOR SKCHHTAKY or .STATE.

WILLIAM li. SCI1LATER. of Wayne. T'iir. ArniTOR OK STATH

JOSEPH JUSTINE,

OSCAR

of Fountain.

Ft-: TI:F. vsniKU OF STATE,

NATli'L F. CUNNINGHAM, of T*/ L\M ATTORNEY OESERAI,,

li.

110RT),

of 1 heat If r.

FOR SI RHII VTKNUKNT IVHI.IC TSSTKI-CTIOS.

SAMIT.L L. UROG,

,f Alien.

Fori CI.EIIK Srrnr.ME Corirr.

CORN ELI R.S O'BRIEN,

of Dear bom.

«. Foil KECONTKR Sfl'HKMK C'ol KT. MTCIIA KI, c.

KERLL,

of Flod.

Knr fongrw—Kill Itintrirf,

S.1.1H s:w, €. H7/,A«O.T, Of OToiifgonirrjr.

•••.Full ClIlCriT l'ltOSKi'lTOP. •'&«•

WILLIAM P. BRYANT, JR., of Parke.

NOTICE.

For u?i»ot?ieing the nanus of Candidates, jmi/nu ht. IN ADVANCE vust invariably be made. Persons handing in their armouncet/trnts, nnaccnmj.anicd, with the CASH, must not complain if they find their names out of the list.

•J'SII! NEW VOI,MI K.

This week we issue thc first number of the twelfth volume of the Crawfordsville Review. Hereafter all subscriptions not paid in advance will be charged two dollars. Subscribers arc requested to call in and settle their subscriptions between this and thc 20th of August, by so doing they will save fifty cents. Thc Review will continue as heretofore to advocate the great principles of the Democratic party mid suppor-the nominees of all regular National Democratic Conventions.

J&" The Democratic State Mass meeting at Indianapolis last Wednesday was a glorious gr.lhering of the Democracy.— vSpeeches were made by Senator Pugh and the Hon. George Vallandinghaui of Ohio, who were followed by our own speakers

Willard, Dunham and Beach. At night there was a grand exhibition of fireworks nnd ft torchlight proccssion.

THE HARVEST.—The wheat crop has all been gathered and many of our fanners have completed their threshing, and it is a safe calculation when we say that thc crop is nearly double that pf any former season for (ho last ten years. The corn never looked finer and there is every prospect of a fine yield. The amount of product) that Montgomery county will throw into market this fall will be sufficient to feed anv one of the New England States.

jfcir Thc new brick building of W. K. Wallace, ou Green street, is being pushed rapidly ahead. Thc walls are all up, and wheu completed will form two of the finest business Zooms in the town. The upper rooms will make fine offices.

t&~ Thc Banner of Liberty has hauled down its black flag, and intimates that itwill support thc regular nominees of the .Baltimore Convention.

J3T The Republicans in Crawfordsville in order to hoodwink thc Democrats who joined them in 1854, are loud in their hypocritical praises of Thomas Jefferson.— In 1855 lhey formed a political club end gave themselves the name of Jeffersonians. We ask those Democrats to ponder well upon tho infamous sentiments uttered.by Lincoln in relation to one of thc greatfounders of the Republic. Can they consistently support such a defamer of the character Jefter*oij, for President

THB SLINITAMN OF mrnM•*. In 1844 Abraham Lincoln used the folowing language in relation to the author jf the Declaration of Independence "Mr. Jefferson is a statesman whose praises are never out of the mouths of the Democratic party. Let us attend to this uncompromising friend of freedom whose name is continually invoked against the Whig party. The character of Jefferson was repulsive. Continually puling abodt liberty, equality, and the degrading curse of slavery, he brought his own children to the hamujcr, and made money of his debaucheries. Even at his death he did not manumit his numerous offspring, but left them, soul :md body to degradation and lie cart-whip. A daughter of this man, tbe vaunted champion of Dc'mocracj-, was sold some yeans ago at public auction at New Orleans, and purchased by a socicty- of gentlemen, who wished to testify, by her liberation, their admiration of the •statesman,

Who drcampt of freedom in a slave's cinbraco." This single line I have quoted gives more insight to the character of the man than whole volumes of panegyric. It will outlive l:i3 epitaph, write it who may."

The Democrats who went off from their party in 1854, and are now acting with the Republicans will perceive that Honest" Old Abraham Lincoln was not much of an admirer of the Sage of Monticello, and in voting for him they simply aid in the election of a man whose whole life has been spent in denouncing and abusing the Democratic part} and its leaders.

THE COXVEHTION.

The Democracy in several of the townships are busily engaged in making arrangements to attend the great Convention on Saturday the 4th of August. From present indications it will be a monster gathering of the people. To the many enquirers for flags, we would state that F. M. Heaton has just received a large lot of

ty arc unable to raise a rcspectabe meet ing.

DKMOFRATU: MEETING. The. lion. Lew. Wallacc will address the Democratic club this evening at thc Court House. This is the time to gird on the armor, and rally to the standard of I

Douglas, which lias inscribed on its fair

V3F Our neighbor of the Journal, who by the way is working zealously fur the Yancey ticket, is unusually prolific in squibs in his last issue. Jerry feels that thc bogus rail-splitter is a goner. The defection of his party in the eastern States, speak in unmistakable terms the overthrow of Northern Abolitionism.

DOIM Mil VICTORY!

GRAND RALLY

.OF THE.

MONTGOMERY BEMOCBACY

On Satnnlay the 4th *f AngilM. The Democracy of Montgomery County will assemble in mass Convention on Saturday the 4th of August, for the purpose of nominating a ticket for the several County Offices, A WO RATIFYING THE NOMINATION

OF IHIltiLAS AND JOHNSON Among the distinguished speakers who will be present on the occasion, will be GOV. AVIII.AItn. •ION. 0. W. VOORIIEEM,

splendid flags of different sizes, represent- COIMEONK! COME AM.! ing the stars and stripes and a portrait of I And let us have a glorious Democratic JuStephcn A. Douglas. T. II. Winton isjbilee. By order of the also prepared to get up any amount of ban- CENTRAL COMMI1TLE. ncrs. The various township Clubs can have their orders promptly filled at cheap rates by either of those gentlemen. Ineluded in the programme of the day will bo the raising of gigantic hickory pole in

front of thc Court House. Eve-y Dcmo-J^d

Slavery can and must be abolished. Club," who arc now so zealously blowing You and 1 can do it. Correct your own cr-1 their horn, do not kuow what historical ror, that slavery has aiiy Constitutional reminiscences are attached to this name, guarrantccs which may not be released and The title "Wide Awake" first acquired ought not to be relinquished, and you will notoriety in 1854, when it graced those

soon bring the parties of the country into au effective aggression upon slavery. Senator Seicarcl, of iY. I".

And Senator Seward, who utters these scntin

fully endorsed thc nomin

ation of Liucoln aud thc platform on which he stands.

GOPEY FOR JUI.Y.—We are in receipt of this spIeniiiU magazine for the present month.

NOTICE TO .SUBSCRIBERS. Subscribers to the new volume arc requested to make payment between this and

the 20th of next month. «y so doing they

TOWNS 11 IP COMM LTTEE.

A 5IAKB nrr.

The Chronicle of the West, a German paper published at Rock Island, thus informs its readers of the origin of thc wideawakes"—a name origiuallv belonging to a plug-ugly association, such as use the awl on election days in Baltimore.— The Chronicle says

Thc gentlemen of the Wide Awako

bands of nativeists, who somewhat later acquired such celebrity under thc name of Know Nothings." Persons who lived in New York iu 1854, will remember the 'outrages which those white hated loafers who called themselves Wide Awakes," repeatedly committed upon thc Germans of New York, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg. For the sake of decency, thc Republican battalions should have adopted a different coguomen.

CALCULATIONS.—Thc Washington correspondent of the New York Express, says:

.i ,i Thc friends of thc "Little Giant," con-

tliat he win carry in the

will save fifty cents. No deduction will gjatcs.Missouri, Louisiana, Alabama and be made after that time. Georgia, and in the free States, New York,

1 1

•SyWe arc under obligations to Mr. F. M. Heaton for a fine portrait of Stephen A. Douglas, the ncxt President of the American Republic, also a copy of the life of the great statesman. We reccommend our Democratic friends to call at his establishment, where they can be supplied at low rates with the campaign publications of the day.

HARPER FOR JULY.—F. II. Heaton has received the July number of this excellent magazine. Everybody should purchase a copy for Sunday reading.

19- The gratuitous advice of the Lafayette Argus in relation to the infamous traitor Bright, entirely unasked for. We regard a bolting Democrat in the same light as a Republican, if anything mere obnoxious. The duty of the Democracy is to spurn them, to hold no affiliation and under no circumst-auccs accept any compromise with fhem.

MB.irAllCEi

RICSIARD KVAN,

AND OTHERS. The Convention will assemble at 1 o'clock. Immediately after nominating the candidates speaking will commence.

At 10 o'clock a STATELY HIC'KOnV, wlli be raised in front of the Court House.

Let every Democrat turn out on this occasion. Bring your banners, flags, music, and all the emblems of old fashioned Democracy, and let us rebuke the factionists, who would break up the nation.

lRIJIABY ELECTION.

Thc

Dcn,ocracy of Uuion township will

crat should be in attendance and give the |onncxt Saturday thc 28th inst., for the lie to thc Rlack Republicans who proclaim pUrp0SC of expressing their clioicc for that the Democracy of Montgomery couu- candidates to fill thc several county offi-

primary election at Crawfordsville

cos. The following are the names of candidates announced in the Review for the several officcs

FOR Ri-.rur.s :.NTATivi:—Alex. Harper, of Franklin Township. Fou TREASURER—Jessie Cumberland

an I on

ci, ,, ,• j., it* C.Youns and Campbell Craig of PranKlm. folds truth, justice and the I. mon.

1M| W

ROORY BICE. jion Wm.Gottof Brown .Stephen Fields, This man of straw that, the Republicans

Riplcv.

have put forward for Congress, has grown I FOR RECORDER—lle.nrv Nicholson and so weak in the knees, that he finds himself Andrew J. Fullen, of lluion Jessie Wiltotally unable to accept Col. Wilson's challenge to a joint political debate in the district. As a last resort, he has hired the Hon. James Wilson to canvass for liiiu.— Mr. W. will undoubtedly make an excellent canvass and may possibly carry poor Rice through in triumph.

FOR SHERIFF—Wm. K. Wallace, of Ln-

lianis of Walnut. FOR COMMISSIONER—Win. Wufson of Union.

Tickets with the names of thc above candidates will be furnished votes.on. the day of election. By order of

Southern

Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island,

6®- The more intelligent portion of the Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, IIRepublicans have sctled down in the be-! iinois, Iowa, Oregon and California. lief that'there is no chance for Liucoln.— The Leli ticket will, most likely, carry TI .I .I ,I Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, The apathv of their party in the eastern J'

a a a a a a

states clearly indicates an overwhelming ij'hc Yancey and Slidel party, with defeat. Lincoln will hardly carry Ver mont and 3Iassacbusetts.

Breckinridge at- its head and Jo Lane at its tail, may possibly carry South Carolina and .Mississippi. Nous Verrons.

That gives Douglas 176 Bell 60 Breckinridge 15—leaving to Lincoln 52— ueccssiry to election, 152. As to South Carolina being given to Breckinridge, the Charleston Mercury demurs.

Republicanism Define*?.

The Hon. James Wilson is giving his party considerable uneasiness by the bold manner in which he defines the doctrines of Black Republicanism. He asserts that a man emigrating to a Territory loses his citizenship—that he has no political rights whatever.

During the las't winter Mr. Wilson was completely converted over to Seward's irrepressible doctrine. He was a pet pupil of the great senator of New York, and strongly favored his nomination. Mr. Wilson's political views are disavowed and repudiated by many of his party in town. Tliey say

lie

iloes -not speak for the party.

How is it James

It must remarks the New York New*, be a source of intense

Yancey of Alabama, that, after twelve years of politics! obssurity, he has at last, not only revenged his fancied wfongs, but may possibly have the further satisfaction of seeing in November next, all who aided him in once driving him into oblivion drag-

fed

down with Itiminto

Resolved,further. That the doctrine of Non-interference with the rights of property of any portion of the people of this confederacy, be it in the States or territories, by any other than the parties interested in them, is the true Republieau doetrine recognized by this body."

We say burning with indignation that the National Democratic Convention would not adopt the above resolution as part of the platform, he commenced a systematic attack upon Gen. Cass and the Democratic party his efforts however, much to his chagrin, attracted precious little attention. IE his pamphlet, which is a sort of lugubrious expression of his wrongs, he says that act'ng as a citizen of Alabama, after the adjournment of thc Baltimore Convention, and under the solemn pledge made to me by the members of the Convention, and by me, as a member of that bod}7, to my brother members and "to thc country," I have refused, uuder any political necessity whatever to support thc Baltimore nominee for the Presidency." Following this announcement he continues Since I have returned to thc State I have felt it to be a duty which I owe to the Democracy who had delegated me to speak in the Baltimore Convention, to speak freely and without reserve of the proceedings iu that body, and to call upon the Democracy to stand firmly to that pledge made 'to the countr}*,' as well as to its delegates by its regularly authorized representatives in thc State Convention of February last."

In accordancc with thc above expression Mr. Yancey did call upon the Democracy" to condemn thc proceedings of the Baltimore Convention, and thc result we give in h's own language, as follows "That call has been answered by the great majority of the Democratic Press with such a torrent of contumely—of personal abusive—of vindietiveness has been

they were de.-igned to pl These misrepresentations have force given to them by the studied attempts of the Democratic Press, with one or two honorable exceptions, to keep from tlu public even an account of my official acts as a delegate while a portion of it, not satisfied with leaving me defenseless before the public, has assailed me with such gross misrepresentations as would need no other refutation than a simple statement of facts."

Mr. Yancey, liually, in his long rigmarole on thc contempt with which he was treated by his party in Alabama says:

From an ungenerous, unjust aud abusive Press—from thc mass of ill-formed speakers at ratification and cross-road meetings—from the wretchedly contemptible effusions of letter writers and anonymous correspondents—and from the misrepresentations of that portion of the delegation to the late Baltimore Convention —I appeal to the people of Alabama."

Now, we have Mr. Yancey's testimony that his desire to destroy tho Democratic party in 1848, by opposing the regularly nominated candidate, resulted to him in disaster. He was driven into a grave where we thought no Ithuriel spear could reach him, and for twelve years he has been wandering iu gloom, making fitful demonstrations of life by writing about or hatching plots to divide the Union. In an unfortunate hour he turns up at another Baltimore Convention, which partially adopts his resolution of 1848 But he is not content he must now go back to his once hated Wilrnot Proviso and because the National Convention would not adopt as a principle the power of Congress to interfere with slavery in thc Territory and States, he now, as in 184S, raises the banner of secession Defeating the National Democratic candidate in 1848, he desires to defeat the National Democratic candidate in I860, and instead of having his conduct treated with the storm of iudiguation he so eloquently portrays as the reward of his first treason good and true men have been led astray by his course, and he may in the present contest notouiy defeat thc nominee of thc National Democracy, but destroy the Democratic party itself, and with it the Union. We will not believe that patriotic men, consistent, lifelong Democrats, will sacrifice themselves to thc crotchets of a man whose whole antecedents, taking bis own confession as true, display nothing but impracticable and revolutionary theories and a vaulting personal ambition.

A STORY WITH A XOBAE, The truth is sometimes stranger- than fiction is not disputed, and it falls to the lot of a reporter to be cognizent of many strange but startling stories. One of these shall be transcribed. It has a local character, aud the parties referred to are well known in Philadelphia.

About five years ago an enterprising firm was engaged in a lucrative business on Walnut street. Its integrity in business was beyond suspicion or .cavil. Thc promptness with which its obligations were

net

wai

194 SAND

MM.

common grave.

Ir. Yancey is no new hand at disorganization. He is an expert at the business-t-one of the few, indeed who can- say, I myself once defeated the election of a Democratic President" Doubtless in the recesses of bis heart, he contemplates with satisfaction that he may do it again.

In thc year 1848 Mr. Yancey published an Address to the people of Alabama," on the title page of which he styles himself Late a Delegate at Large from the State of Alabama to tbe National Democratic Convention" held at Baltimore on the 22d of May 1848. Burning with opposition to the nomination of Gen. Cass because the Baltimore Convention of 1842 would not, at his suggestion, adopt the following language as the seventh resolution of the National platform

and its paper bad, in eveij[ case, the value, of

bank-notes

satisfaction to Mr.

composed of

two

apace, and wii j_each their kindness

GENERAL. CASS FOR DOUGLAS. The Detroit Free Press. General Cass' home organ, announces that Mr. Buchanan's Secretary of State stands for Douglas in the present crisis. This might be infcred from the course of thc Free Press all along, but a recent transaction at Detroit makes it neccssary for that paper to indicate thc fact more distinctly. It will be recollcctcd that during the recent session of the Michigan Democratic State Convention, at Detroit, General Cass arrived their. A resolution inviting him to attend and speak upon thc political topics of the day was oifcred, and laid upon thc table. The impression carried abroad by this action is that it was intended as an insult, when in fact the Convention, which was unanimous for Douglas, was, by a large majority, composed of Cass' friends. The Free Press says:

The simple facts'regarding the resolution are these: The resolution was offered .without general consultation wi !i mem-

replied to in ratification meetings by reso- jbers, and while the Convention, did not, as they could not doubt were General Cass stands in the'present crisis, they presumed that, on account of his official position, it would rot be agreeable to him to "address the Convention on the political topics of the day." They therefore laid the resolution on the table. That was all there was of the matter, with reference to which, we will venture to say, General Cass has not felt the faintest suspicion (hat ho tvas "insulted." On the contrary, doubtless, he thanks the Convention they did not pass the resolution.

lutions of personal condemnation, and by speakers in such strains of bitterness and mijreprcsenfafion, that were T. not sustained by a perfect consciousness of being right—by a knowledge of my duty, and by a courage 'to dare to do wrong' in this great mailer—I should have yearned for that obscurity which is a protection from such assaults, ami should have sought for peace b}' yielding the principles upon which I have acted, as a sacrifice to the angry passions of my assailants. "A portion of my co-ilelcgat.es also joined in the hue and cry whieh has been raised to hunt down 'the rebel,' to drive 'the traitor,! to his doom. Their statements.

General Cass not only supports Douglas bu

ikii •imm

ihe rabject of gencrml encomimin,

speeie.

The

firm

was

members, both

wealthy.

them

Witlt them

their

aad

integrity increased. The senior partner resided in a magnificent west-end mansion, sOrronnded

all the luxuries which mon

ey could command

and

taste could ask.—

The junior partner lired with his family in a rural district upon a small farm. He passed the business hours in his establishment upon Water-street, and in the cool of the evening rested in his cottage. His children grew np healthy and contehted, and all the fireside virtues gamboled about his feet. "5 s.

In the lapse of time the firm desolved. Its purposes had been subserved in the success of its speculations and the preservation of its integrity, and each partner retired to his house to enjoy the profits of his labor.

The saddest part of the picture is now to come, and "Nature's steruest painter, yet the best," might delineate with pity the disgrace of the one and the happiness of the other. The west-end millionaire has forfeited the respect and friendship of his ancient partner. We passed him last evening in a state of bloated intoxication, filthy with exposure and absolute want.— The men with whom he once associated would blush to-day to recognize him. His fortune has been squandered in continued excess, his family is scattered and peniless and the sole aim of his degraded ambition is to find the wherewithal to purchase drink. Thc junior partner has not changed in circumstances. The home ties have proved stronger with him than the attractions of vice, and he still lives to demonstrate the advantages of retired virtue and contented competence.—Philadelphia Inquirer.

the patriotism, the mnlj independence and the personal courage' of his distinguished father, and, like nim,^ was

now, out no was actually an advocate of me-ieed my duties, and in order to ingrain's nomination. Before thc Charleston tiatc mvself into thc good graces of tlie

too, exhibit the spirit of the crowd which Convention assembled this fact was known captain I did even more than could be exto many, aud thc Harrisburg (Penn.) $e i-'nccted of me.

tniel gave, on undoubted authority, the sailed on the 10th oi March from

following words of General C. conyer- the foot of Spring-street, and proceeded to

I journal and its Republican allies, are just as intensely abusive of DOUGLAS, his doc-

trines upon the slavery issue, and cxces-

sively complimentary to ilr. BRECON-

rial question. W by this marvel ous som-

the DOUGLAS men on the backhand now to

accomplish thc same end, it is giving

similar encouragement to the BRECKIN-I

RIDGE movement. Are there any Demo-

REMOVAL OF POST3IASTER CABBOL AT JIEMPHI8. President Buchanan has removed Wm. II. Carrol, the Postmaster at Memphis, from office, and appointed a Disunionist in his place. This act is in perfect harmony with the policy of the Administration.— Mr. Carrol is the son of General Carrol, the distinguished aid of General Andrew Jackson, at the battle of New Orleans, who served gloriously under him in all his memorable campaigns, and perhaps enjoyed his confidence and friendship in a higher degree than any other man. Carrol the younger inherited in a remarkable dogreo

sat.on with a prominent Ohio Democrat: Ke.vport, where wc re,named t.U .Sunday. ,Lo

ed in must ruin tho Democratic Judge Douzlas is a Democrat i-...i ,,v

This war upon Judge Douglas and h.s hilo here I scraped thc mast, the ,mt ^ef

friends I have always discountenanced.- ,]0op, did a lot ot carpenter work, and cyt-

[t is wrong all wrong, sir and it persist- dcu.ly pleased Captain Burr very much by

ial favorite of the Hero

riches grew

espec

This

^he Hcrmitage.

son of -Jackson'^ ^rar worn

party.- earnestness in trying to make every my

as good a thing ship-shape.

Democrat as lives to-day and it the po iu- arrived at Gravescnd on Saturday

cians succeed defeating him at Charles- afternoon, and waited (here for a lair wind.,

ton, as a party we arc lost, and God only At last wc put to sea and when we were

knows what catastrophe may follow. off the Ocean House 1 went to the lore-

THiTDIFFERENCE. ^1''^ Ir!'

Two years ago the Journal and all the

Republican papers of this State were loud iu the praise of DOUGLAS—defending his

position upon non-intervention and popu- i„

lar sovereignty-, and giving "aid and com-!

fort" to thc Democrats who sympathized

with his opposition to the Administration

boat hanging to thc davit aft.

Th(J

°ungcr

whilc Uc consentcd

com

rade has been removed from office because he is a supporter

that man for the Pres

idency, whom Jackson in hia lasto days eulogized as having made the' speech which vindicated his action at an important period, and who inscribed upon the printed copy of that specch—left with his literary legatees—these words When my life i3 written, I want this speech (Mr. Douglas') to be inserted in it, as my reasons for proclaiming and enforcing martial law in New Orleans." The old Jackson men of Tennessee will hear with indignation of this decapitation of the brave Carrol, for no other reason in the world except that he was faithful to the usages of the Democratic party. The axe has been suspended over the head of the independent Postmaster for some time, in the hope that he would be deteredfrom voting for Judge Douglas. They miscalculated at Washington in supposing that he would be influenced by motives that would be paramount with them.

THE PIRATE IIICKS' CONFESSIONA HUMAN FIEND. Hick the pirate, who was executed on Friday last, in New York, for his murders on the sloop E. A. Johnson, made the following horrible confession, which is enough to chill the blood to record:

The sloop E. A. Johnson offered an easy prey. She had on board, I supposed, from all the information I could gather, something over a thousand dollars, and thc entire crew consisted of but two boys aDd myself.

I had never known of or seen Captain Burr before I shipped with him. He had never done me injury or wrong, so that I had no revenge to gratify, no grudge to pay.

He seemed a kind and amiable man, and would, I have no doubt awakened kindly feelings in any heart but mine, and even I liked him. Yet I engaged myself to him soly for thc cruel purpose of taking his life, the lives of thc two young men, and making myself master of thc money I supposed he had on board.

I concluded to do this as calmly as you would contemplate doing any of the usual duties in thc ordinary transactions of life.

I had killed men—yes, and boys too— many a time before, for far less inducement than thc sum I supposed I should gain by killing them and I had too often lyed my murderous hands in blood in days gone by to feel the slightest compunctions or qualms of conscience then. 1 never thought of the conscqucnces of such a crime. Thc fear of detection never once crossed my mind. I had too often lone the same thing with impunity to believe that a day of reckoning would ever come, in this world at least, and I never gave a thought about thc world to come.

After cngagiug with Captain Burr, 1 went home to my wife at 2so. 129 Cedarstreet, and lying down on the bed, told her not to disturb me,"as I wanied to take a long sleep, and, if any o:!C came forme, to say that I was not in. She left me alone, and I then deliberately matured all my plans. I marked out the course I intended to pursue exactly, and after I had decided upon every tiling T. went to sleep, and slept as soundly as ever I slept in my life: mv mind was so much at ease, and I felt- so contented at the 'a of having at least an opportunity of making some money I in an easy way.

The ncxt day I went on board and coin-1

He turned around and looked in my

pointed with my hand.

RIDGE and his doctrines upon the Territo-1

inci

cat,ion

a!inc bcs

an(J innocent

ersault? Two years ago it hoped to d.s- Had I been under human influences, the organize the Democratic party by patting

c0Dfi(

,.Look

crats in Indiana who can fail to see that jje jurned bis head and peered through opposition to the regular organization of:

nn rtirtv in Hub le r»irin« "oin onrl it*

the party in this State is giving "aid and comfort to the enemy? The Republicans' only hope to succeed this year by divisions in the Democratic ranks, as they hoped to carry the State ticket two years ago by similar tactics. They did not succeed then and they will not now. The Democracy of Indiana will be found as loyal to their organization in 1860 as they were in 1858. The true friends of Mr. BRECKINRIDGE in this State see that their only hope of success is to carry Indiana against Mr. LINCOLN, and to do this, they must stand by the State and Electoral tickets nominated by the State Convention in January last, which they will do. And General LANE himself admits that it will be folly for tbe special friends of Mr. BRECKINRIDGE and himself, in Indiana, to take any steps that will jeopardize the success of the regularly nominated State and Electoral tickets.—State 1Senti?iel.

tbere ain tliat itV

tl)e darkness in

and, nulling him, I straek onee? twieef thrice'/ with the ax, and finished him.

Winning aft, I jumped down the commas-

,01W.

with

the blody

ill

hand.

There lay the elder Watts in hi berth, and close beside him the ghostly, bloody corpse of the captain. inoment looking at him, and dashed at him, and struck out with the

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He leaped out of his berth, and sprang' at me, dl red with blood of the c^tain whose body had fallen past him, covering him with gore in-its fall.

He tried to grapple with mo, but stepping back I gave the fatal ax a full

swing, and-

struck him again, again, and again, once more upon the head, which felled him to the floor, and he lay dead at my feet, side, by side with the captain. re

My bloody work was done. Dead men tell no tales. •. •. I was alone. No eye had seen me, and! now I was free to reap thc reward of my work.

I did not feel thc slightest regret for what I had done, and went about removing the bodies as coolly as though they had been so much old lumber.

I took a rope and tied it (o the feet of thc elder Watts, hauled him on dcck and threw him over the quarter. I then hauled the captain out in thc same manner, and threw him over and then going to midships I lifted the body of the younger Watts from the deck and plunged him into the sea by the starboard side.

I then threw the ax overboard, and as soon as I had done this I changed the course of thc sloop, and ran in close to the Hook.

My intention was to run the sloop up the North River, and then fire hor but I come near running her on the Dog Beacon, abrcst of Coney Island and Staten Island Lighthouse, after which I foulod with a schooner, and carried away thc bowsprit, so I put thc money and such other articles of value as I could pick up, into the yawl, and then sculled ashore, three miles, landing just below the fort on Staten Island.

My movements after landing are well known and when I look back upon tho fa 'ity that seemed to dog my steps, it seems as though thc fiend who so long had stood by me in every emergency, had deserted me at last, and had left me to my own wickedness. -4%.

But I never thought of this until after my arrest. I had no shadow of a presentiment that I should be checked so suddenly and brought to justice, and on my return to New York made arrangements to go away with my family as coolly as if nothing had occurred which should council me to use caution.

But. on that fatal night, when I awoke from a deep sleep to find thc officers of the law standing by my bed, for the first time fear ovcrcauic me, and I grew faint and weak as a baby. Great drops of sweat started out on my forehead and all over my body, and then I realized that at, last thc master whom I had served so long had reallydcscrtcd me and abandoned rue to my fate.

TIIO.UAW JEJ-'l-ERSs'lN O.V rti.AVEKV.

The Chicago Herald, edited by Gov. I McCom.-is fonnr.-ly of Virginia, says tho I name of the great. Jefferson has been, and still i, invoiced in every political contest in this country. If there is ov.c name that, more than any oilier, gives sanction to political doctrine, that name is that of Jefferson. Ili.-j pre-cmineiiee as a .-.iafesuiau is, in the main, based upon a just appreciation ci' his worth. As politician and philosophic r=.'alesnian, .Mr. Jefferson has never had an equal iu any country. Ili. political sagacity was only cquailod by his own lofty devotion to liberty, and his unsullied patriotism. When, therefore, tho

Republican party, avail themselves of his acre at name and authority, to aid them in

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and went forward,

few minutes I left thc helm, and,

taki the went tQ and asked him

hcbgaw Banlogato

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did not tol him

momcnff so

tace a moment, but even it he nail suspect-1 ,,

ruel purposo

hc would have read

of it there, for I was as calm

though was

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do the simplest

thing in my life.

]cnce and trusty way in which he «»s great man to live long enough to seo

I a a

itatc but no such thought entered

my heart, and I pointed again and told

hc direction I pointed,

and, as he did so, I struck him on the back

of the head with the ax and knocked him down. He fell!

Thinking I had not killed him, I struck him again with the ax as hc lay upon the deck.

His fall and the sound of the ax madc some noise, which, added to that caused by myr running across thc deck, attracted the attention of the captain, who came up the companionway, and then, putting out his head, asked what was the matter.

I replied "Nothing," and then asked him, as I had the younger Watts, "Is that Barnegate Light?"

Captain Burr replied, "No, you will not see it for two hour3," and as ho spoke he turned his head from me.

The ax swung in the air, and guided by my sinewy and murderous arm, came down.

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Jefferson, we can

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can ]iul fce,»s a C!iristian lni r,ft( wlien

hears thc wicko(1 lotn

Uf t]ieir lin

Hcript«re, to jus-

iiaii„ ,C(l ]cej3. Wc do not

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i,isopinions to

profound respcct. With this acknowledgment, let us examine how far this great

thc view?

man can be quoted as favorinj of tho Republicans. Wc will not deny that Mr. Jefferson was opposed to slavery in every form. Wc will not deny that his abstract love of lib •crlv at times even cloudcd thc greatprac-

the sage of Monticello."

But wc utterly deny that it even for one

far blinded him as to close hi*

v,sw to tjc r:m

"'Justicc and ruinous

conscqucnecs of the Republican doctrines. We arc not left, on this subject, to surmise from thc generalities of thc Declaration of Independence. Providence permitted

inaugerated this doctrine of no more slave States." Thc contcst on the Missouri question" involved prcciscly this same doctrinc, and was stimulated by the very same passions, and for the very same end that is so manifest now. Jefferson lived to witness that controversy, aud has left his opinions and feel'ngs, in words of Src, upon the very questions which now agitate thc American people.

No man, living or dead, had more sanguine hopes of the success of popular government, than Mr. Jefferson. Even in a green old age," his faith in man was so simple and earnest, that we cannot help but love him. The first time this confidence wa3 shaken was upon the agitation of this very question of slavery in the new Statc3 and Territories. Mr. Jefferson declared that this momentous question, like afire bell in the night awakened and filled me (him) with terror. I (hc) considered it at once the knell of the Union. He further declared I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the glorious sacrifice of themselves, by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown

The edge crunched throgh his neck, away by an unwise and unworthy passion* nearly severing his head

from

his body,

and killing him instantly. The body fell down the companionway. As I turned to leap after it, and dispatch my remaining victim, I looked forward, and—oh, God. how I shudder to think of it now!—he whom I thought I had already killed had risen, and was coming aft, his hand outstreached toward me, and the blood running in two dark streams from over his pale face, from two ghastly wounds on his head.

For a moment I stood undccided, bat as he still camo on, I ran toward him but, ere I reached him, he fell about midshipa,

of their sons and that my only consolation is that I live not to weep over it.

they but dispassionately weigh the bless* ings they will throw away, against an abstract principle, more likely to be effected by union than secession, they would never perpetrate thi3 aot of suicide on themsel* ves.and of treason against the hopes of

the

world This is the language of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence," on the question of no more Slave States."