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THE WlkLY JEVIBW.

CRAWFORP8VILLE, IND. Saturday, February 2, 1861.

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CHARLES H. BOWEN.

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I A I O N

LARGER THAN ANY PAPER PUBMSlIKH IN CnirftrHnrillr Advertiser*. call up ami examine our Lirt of !7IWMCRIIIEBH!0

MPABTVRII OF TBAHS TI1K

LOUISVILLE, NEW ALBANY A CHICAGO R. R.

OOINO NOSTH.

Freight A Accommodation Train. i»t 10:55 a. m. Chicago Mail Train, at 4.-2U p. m. OOIJSTO SOUTH. Louisville Mail Train, at 9:1" a. m. Freight 4 Accommodation Train.

p. m.

K. E. BRYANT. A«ent.

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A sudden attack is threatened by Gov. Pickens on Fort Sumter. The Pcnsacola insurgents seem determined to open firo on Fort Pickens, Florida.

At Washington an alarm has arisen from a rtitnor that if Virginia secedes, an attack will be made on the capital. It is presumed that the Governors of loyal States, will be called upon to have their forces in readiness to march to the defense of the capital.

Our Legislature has resolved to send Commissioners to Washington. G. S. Orth of Lafayette is to be oue of the Com

missioners. Gen. Scott, before a Committee of Inquiry, said there was abundant evidence to justify military preparations.

Col. Ilayne has presented South Carolina's ultimatum in regard to Fort Sumter. The President ha3 made no official notice of it.

The announcement in the Springfield Journal that Lincoln is opposed to all compromise, is regarded as official.

Seward has declared for the Border State Compromise.

MORTON'S COMMISSIONKH*.

Gov. Morton has at last appointed Commissioners to represent the Legislature of Indiana, ut the Washington Border State Convention. The appointees arc Messrs. Caleb B. Smith, T. ('. Slaughter, P. A. Ilackluman, G. S. Orth, E. W. II. Ellis.

We arc reliably informed that the Republican legislators in caucus, at first, refused to appoint Commi-sioners at all.— The outside pressure was so groat however, that they were compelled to appoint. To satisfy public opinion they then resolved to deceive the people.. And we have now the full development of the plan.— First, look at the conditions of the appointments. Our Commissioners cannot act in the Convention until nineteen States are represented in it—a thing very doubtful in itself. That is the first condition. The next ono makes the Commissioners, not the representatives of the people of Indiana, but mere creatures of the legislature. They arc prohibited agreeing to anything until it has first been submitted to the legislature and sanctioned by the wiseacres of that patriotic body. What do the people of Montgomery county say to that plan

Look next at the appointees. Who arc they? With the exception of Caleb Smith every man third rate. And their politics? Not one Democrat on the list. So the 125,000 citizens of Indiana who voted for Ihonias Hendricks for Governor, are silenced—and as dumb cattle drawn to the slaughter. Tcoplo of old Montgomery, Republicans, wa3 ever such un outrage perpetrated upon a free people

What will be the result The character of the appointees forbids a hope of anything satisfactory. Smith alone may be reckoned conservative. Congress will not compromise. The proposed Convention will not. And then—CIVIL WAR!— Citizens set your houses in order. In sixty days wo will have no government.

AK.ni.Vli THIS STATE.

A bill is brought into the Legislature for the organization of the militia of the State. We have from the first mention of this bill felt an involuntary opposition to it. It IB unnecessary, unconstitutional, and would contribute largely to our financial embarrassments. The State Sentinel ably reviews the bill. It says Without going into details it is now sufficient for our purpose to state that it contains man}' obnoxious features, which the people of Indiana generally would deem reprehensible if uninfluenced by partisau feeling. And as it is, we do not believe that the Republicans even, if they take time for consideration, will be willing to become responsible for the scheme. The present militia laws of the State arc ample for any organixation of that branch of the puUio service, which the exigencies of the times demand, or any that it is at all likely will be needed. We object to the propositions for the reorganisation of the military of the State, and especially to tho bill introduced by the Republicans, through Senator Anthony, for that purpose, for the following reasons: 1. No necessity exists for the organization of a standing army to protect or defend tbe State. There i* no danger of invasion and none is even threatened. 2. We object also on the score of economy. The proposed bill if enactcd, will

add largely to the burdens of tbe tax payers, alrcadr grievous, without any corresponding advantage. 3. A standing army, or a military Government, is opposed to the spirit of Republican institutions. This is a radical objection to the proposed scheme. With the increase of military power in the Government there will be less of liberty. 4. We are opposed to a large and efficient military organization being placed in the hands of good men, much less in those of bad and seditious citizcns, who might abuse the power to stir up civil strife and internecine war.

For these reasons and others which will suggest themselves to those who take an interest in public affairs, we hope every good citizen will set himself determinedly against all schemes which look to the introduction and maintenance of such dangerous power in the Government."

We call attention this week to the

advertisement of Miller & Co. Their carriage factory is not to be excelled by any in the State. Their specimens of workmanship commend themselves to the judgment of all. Their ornamental painter R. Kellog, who has the reputation of being the finest in the State, is still employed in this establishment.

The store i4 Grimes Burbridge

is so well packed with goods, that there is hardly room for their customers. They have a large number of superior Cincinnati ploughs, all kinds of hardware, and agricultural impliments. «mi j{,

Call and examine the contents of

Robertson's Furniture Ware room. Subsiantial as well as ornamental articles may be found at this establishment.

We were favored this week wuh a

lecture by a gentleman of color named Rev. A. 11. Green, upon The American Union and the prophecy concerning it."

t&T Our friends will notice, that our office is removed to the first floor of Wallrce's new building.

Horace Grcclc\-, editor of the New

York Tribune, will deliver lecture at McClclland's Hall, Friday Eve., Feb. 8th. Subject: "America, westward of the Mississippi." Admission 25c.

HG&* A collision occurred on the N. A. & S. R. R., yesterday, (Friday) afternoon, between this place and Corwin. Both lo comotives were considerably injured. A brakesman was instantly killed.

I.KTTEK FRO.TI AliABAiHA.

We give below a letter from a gentle man residing in Seltna, Ala. It is addressed to a gentleman residing in this coun-

SKI.MA, Jan. 13th, 1801

PKAR SIR :—I corresponded with your neighbor, Mr. until I found him to be a Republican of" the deepost dye. He stated it was all humbug about dissolution of the Union, and Lincoln and Ilamliu would do for him. You may be of the same stripe, as men change in political notions. All I have to say is that that party —the Black Republican—have brought ruin on themselves. Wo will get ulong without them I think. We will rejoice to live poor and go naked, before we buy corn, meat, stock or clothing of j'ou. All we ask is to be let alone do not come here to whip us, nor coerce us. I saw some resolutions passed at your State house a faw days since, that arc well calculatcd to fire up the people of the South. We wish to be let alone without a fight. we are now out of the Union, never to be united again. You may come here and exterminate us, but will never whip us back. I hope none of my relatives will come here to fight, as they will be shot down like mad dogs.

Respectfully yours, T. M. JACKSON.

NEW OFFICES.—It will be Been from our Legislative reports that new offices arc about to

increased with the facility

with which patent pills are turqpd out.— They will work in the same way, too—-.one will physic the pockets, and the other the stomachs of the people. The office of Surveyor General is proposed to be created, and in each count}- an office, with a thousand ri ceieras, is to be built for the accommodation of county surveyors, with large

fees

attached. Retrenchment and

reform is the order of the day with the Republican party, which means that people must retrench in order to have money to be reformed out of their pockets into the pantaloons of hungry office holders.

Inasmuch as Mr. Lincoln insults

Democrats who call upon him to speak on our national troubles, we hope no Democrat will put himself out of the way to pay respect" to the narrow minded bigot, in bis coming trip from Springfield to Washington. He chooses to be President of a party instead of the country, and let Lie party do hini all the necessary honors.

As many as twenty-eight thousand

persons, able and willing to work, arc now idle in the city of New York. Beyond these arc thousands of pcrsous who, from pride, conceal their poverty and suffering. Three months ago all these people had plenty of work and plenty to live upon.— Their miseries date from the first Tuesday in November.

It is said that there is a distinctly

marked line drawn between thc conservative and rugged issue Republicans in the Ohio Legislature, and that thc feud is becoming very bitter. The Democrats and conservative Republicans are coalescing, and will control tho action of the Legislature.

TBOVBLE WITH THE NEGROES—The New Albany Ledger, says thafrsevewtnegroes have attempted to take passage on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad, recently, for the north, but have been denied the privilege of riding over the road. It is almost impossible for the officers of the road to be certain whether negroes applying are free or bond. They exhibit free passes, but it is impossible to discriminate between the genuine and bogus ones. ,,, rft:

LOI'ISIA^A.

The Louisiana House has passed resolutions instructing their Senators and requesting their members of Congress to return home. Tbe Senate has adopted a resolution declaring that they will regard the attempted coercion of any Southern State as an act of war.

KANSAS ADMITTED INTOtbefCnVION.

Kansas was admitted into the Union yesterday by Congress. It is gratifying, when so many States are seceding from the Union, to have an addition made in the shape of anew State.

REINrOBCKHIKXTS SKHTTO FORTS gamier aad Picktli.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald, telegraphs the following to that paper of Saturday

There is no longer any doubt that the Government has sent forces to relieve Forts Sumter and Pickens. The Administration do not regard this action as any declaration of war on the part of the Government, but as simply a duty. The authorities of Charleston and Pensacola understand this, and if they choose to be the aggressors and make the attack they must take the consequences.

It may be some days before it is known that forces have been seut. The movement has been quietly made, but the movement is in earnest now as these people well understand.

The destination of the steamer Brooklyn is Fort Pickens._

I.OVI8VII.LE lOlBNALIHnN.

If the South Carolinans were not submissionist, would they submit to see a foreign flag, the flag of the United States, floating over a fortification in their principal harbor? No doubt they get very mad whenever they look at the star spangled banuer over Fort Sumter, but not quite fighting mad.

Even Mexico, Nicaragua,San Slavandor, and Cuba arc expressing their deep pity for the United or rather the not United States. Alas that we should have fjallen so low!

Has Major Anderson contributed his share toward defraying the expeuses of South Carolina? Why doesn't Charleston invite him to shell?

The Secessionists, not liking the condition of the United States at this time, arc trying to exchange it for the condition of Mcxico. ..."

South Carolina complains of the derangement of the United States mails.— Why doesn't the pestilent little virago carry her own mails.

It is perhaps fortunate for some of the South Carolina leaders that they haven't any brains. Otherwise they might get them knocked out.

Some woman in South Carolina is writing coarse articles in a Charleston paper against the Union. We have nothing to say against that woman, but we shouldn't ask her to lend us her car if we wished to make "a silk purse."

If the Charleston landlords charged their boarders eighty dollars per day during the session of the National Convention in May last, we wonder what they charge now when their beef costs them thirty-five cents per pound.

Why do the South Carolina authorities travel all their way to Washington and demand the surrender of Fort Sumter from the President? Why don't they demand it from Maior Anderson?

SELLING OUT.—It is stated that ExPresident Pierce has sold out all of his bank stocks and stocks of every description, and converted the proceeds into spe* cic, which he has deposited specially in a bank in Concord, N. LI.

TIIK RKIZl'RE OF MUSKET* nt NEW YORK.

The New York Times gives tbe following description of the 950 muskets consigned to the Secessionists of Montgomery Alabama, and placed on board the steamer Monticello, but seized by tbe police

One of the muskets was exhibited by tho police to those curious enough to examine it. If it be like the others, they are probably all of the English manufacture, having the stamp of Windsor. 1858," with a British crown and arrow-head on the lock-plate. It was also stamped A 1" on tho barrel. It had a percusion lock and was provided with the new fashioned elevated sight. The ramroad was shaped for the use of the Minic ball. The weapon was pronouueed by persons familiar with such matters to be of the improved kind.

The cases were consigned to two different persons. Twenty-eight were marked thus *D. S. with the letter between, inclosed in a diamond. It is believed that they were brought to this city by way of the Erie Ilailroad, and the police lost|sight of the* c&rtmen who conveyed them to the steamer, and consequently could obtain no lice, Captain Silvery had the muskets taken to the new Armory, corner of Thirtyfifth street, and Seventh avenue, where they wil be kept until the courts decree whether they are confiscated property or are to be restored to whoe.ver shall claim them.

#Sf*A coffin, containing the dead body of a young girl, was sent from New York city to a town in thc western part of thc State, a day or two since, with the usual instructions, "C. 0.1).—collcct on delivery on return the goods." Business is business.

VST The commissioners from Ohio to thc Convention at Washington are Salmon P. Chase, Thos. Ewing, J. C. Wright, W. S. Groesback, V. B. Horton, Keubcn Hitchcock and F. T. Backus.

Thc Now York brokers have de

termined to strike thc bonds of seccding States, from the stock list.

THRILLING TALE OF INDIAN CAPTIVITY.

In the spring of 1848, when the Cali fornia gold fever was it its hight [sic], a company of sixty-four persons, five of them being wives of members of the party, formed at Syracuse N. Y., for the purpose of seeing the Golden El Dorado by crossing the plains. Among the company was a young man named James P. Kimball, then nineteen years of age, and his wife Jane, to whom he was married on NewYear's day of that year. At the time he was married he was working a farm near Onondaga Hollow, a village a few miles south of Syracuse. His father, Major Newell Kimball, was a merchant in Syrecuse. The late Philo Rust, long proprietor of the Syracuse House, and one of the most popular landlords in the country, was his uncle. The father of young Kimball's wife, Rev. James McNeil, of Bloody Run, Bedford County, Penn., a missionary, was also of the party. The company was composed of men like Kimball, young and adventurous, with strong hands and bold hearts, eager to solve the problem of life through toil and peril. The young wife who had been reared tenderly amid the refinements of life, gave up her comfortable home without repining and went cheerfully forth with her husband, sharing with him both toil and danger. The company was mostly frrm Onondaga Country. On the first day of April 1848, they left Syracuse, followed by the prayers and good wishes of their friends, and after they began their jonrney across the plains they were never again heard of. It was believed that they all perished by the hands of hostile Indians.

On Saturday morning last there arrived in this city, on board a freight train from Toledo, a man with weather-beaten visage and long bushy hair sweeping over his shoulders, accompanied by a pale and emaciated woman, sick and worn out with hunger, exposure and fatiguing journeys on foot. They were James Kimball and his wife, who eighteen months ago escaped from the Snake Indians, with whom they had been captive eleven years, aud made their way on foot for thousands of miles, amid hunger and sickuess and danger, to the States. Both were poorly and thinly clothed, and bore numerous evidences of what they had passed through in making their way thus far. They remained at the depot all day, and their story becoming known, they were provided with food by some of the depot men, and were furnished by the Lake Shore Road with free trausit to Buffalo, <en route> for Syracuse, on the night express. Our reporter had an interview with them on Saturday afternoon and obtained the following narrative of their adventures:

STORY OF THE CAPTIVES.

The company of sixty-four persons, to

cusc April 1, 1848 crossed he Mississip-

pi at Quincy, and Missouri at lirownv.lle,

dependence going two hundred and twelve

miles out of their way for the purpose ot jj.

soon to leave tbe latter place on the over-

land route. When they arrived at Indc pendenee they found that the train had been gone four days. Being provided with teams and all the necessary outfit for the journey, they hired a mountain pilot and pushed on, hoping to be able to overtake the train. They crossed the plains by way of Salt Lake and thence proceeded to the Chillicothe Valley, and prepared to

encamp for the night beneath an overhang-

,n-

hllc

tl,cy

The little band of adventurers prepared to resist thc attack as well as circumstances would admit.

^0,1,cn

wcro

tected from thc shots of the Indians by |,

one of the wagons, while the men earned j^f ,icm

on the unequal contest (thc Indians were

nearly two thousand in number) from be-1 =cco= -j

hind the other wagon* The battle contin-1on

ued with little intermission until^ ten 0 -1

clock thc next morning. On the afternoon

of the attack about half of the whites

were killed. During thc night firing con-

tinucd but only one man was wounded

The Indians adopted their own peculiar

manner of warfare, skulking among the

timber which grew upon thc cliff, and pick-

ing off the men with rifles with which tl.cy 1

were well provided When the fight end- ,and

ed only thirteen of the company were

alive, and they immediately Jccauie r"s-|Two

grievously wounded, the march was a pain-

ful one in the extreme. Armed^ there

tion should be made of the prisoners. It

was dccided that all but two should run |ped

Mr. McNiel was burned before the eyes of his friends amid dreadful tortures. His body bristled with pine splinters which were driven into his flesh before thc fire was built about him, causing fearful agony when they caught fire. His daughter was forced to witness the horrible spectacle, thc Indinns dancing around their victims with fiendish yells.

Thc next day the Indians continued on with thcir prisoners to the territory principally inhabited by their tribe. Th$ whites there joined the tribe as warriors, Kimball taking the name of White Cloud." His wife was treated with much cruelty by the Indians during the first year of their captivity. She had a son born shortly after falling into the hands of the Indians, who they called Warrior," and had three other children during the eleven years following, all of them girls.

After being with the snakes two years, joining them alike in the hunt and on the

warpath, Kimball became what the Indiana call idPaimiora, meaning a student with the nedicittfeman of the tribe. The Atter was an bra mao,-andafter iMying wi^ hintfour years, Kimbill succeeflid hinfas medicine man, and held! that lion'orableiposition in the tribe until his flight. The Snakes ranged through Oregon, Washington Territory, and sometimes Ujper California. ~^The other members of hi» company who joined the tribe became scattered, and some of them he has not seen in four years. u-j-'ivi .-During-the eleven years that he was a captive Kimball had contemplated escape but he, was watched so: closely that no opportunity for successful-flight with-liis family offered.for years. He tried to appear perfectly contented, and in the latter years of his stay with them their vigilance relaxed greatly, and he was permitted many liberties. He was allowed to take his family and go off on hunts, and coming back always within the time specified, all suspicion was at rest, and they believed that he had no desire to leave them. About eighteen months ago Kimball determined on flight, and pretending that he was going on a two weeks' hunt, he made all the preparation he could for what must be along and arduous journey to the States. We neglected to say that some time previous to this Mr. Kimball had met Kit Carson, who intimated to him the way in which he could escape from the Snakes, and it was upon Carson's suggestions that Kimball aoted in going upon hunts with

thereby

,. ,r ii Indian, each trying to take the other at a ... which Mr. Kimball belonged, left feyra-

joining a train which they learned was |himjashu

his family,

accustoming

the Indians

his ab

sence. He had had numerous opportunities to escape, but none before with his family.

The tribe was then located about four days ride from the mouth of the Columbia River, which separates Washington Territory from Oregon. He started on the pretended hunt with his wife and four children. Himself, wife, and "Warrior," who was about eleven years of age, were all armed with rifles. K. had a revolver, and a single-barreled pistol, very heavy, which was used by his father, Major Kimball, in the War of 1812. On the fourth day of their flight they were met by five Snake Indians, and Kimble resolved at once that they must die. They skulked behind trees, and, as the Snakes advanced, they fired upon them, killed three. The remaining two skulked behind trees and fired at the whites, one of the shots taking effect in Kimball's left arm and breaking it. (Mr. Kimball exhibited to our reporter the scar caused by the bullet, and a scar by the side of it, where he had cut the bullet out with his knife.

K. dispatched another of the Indians with his revolver, and then followed a contest between himself and the remaining Indian, each trying to take the other at a

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dis,|dvant

Jvl|ife

Fesel.ving

b()(] fro]n shot

jlis

.hin(1

[n mcan time Mrs

Klmhr.H rushed out and en-

dcavore{, (o di ttfh hiin witll tho sin lc.

disp

barreled pistol, but it wouldn't go off. JIe then struck him a blow on the head with the but of the pistol, which dispatched him, crushing in his skull and breaking tinstock of the pistol nearly from the barrel. He still has the pistol in his possession, broken, and rusted with the blood ot the Indian.

Kimball scalped all the Indians after

thc ]c q( W

were prepanng their

camp they were suddenly fired upon from the cliff above, where a large force of Indians of the Snake Tribe—Indians particularly hostile to thc whites and the terror and scourge of overland travelers—were in ambush.

llawalla Tribe in 01 der

t)mt Snake?i whcn {licy

i3eovered the

bodies, would think they had fallen by thc hands of the Wallawallas, with whom they were at war. On the failure of himself and family to return, they might also conclude that thc above Indians had taken them prisoners. They proceeded on their and thc next afternoon tlicv

way, ana tnc next aitcrnoon nicy came tiji-

ion a company of United States Surveyors

Pf°-i—Kimball called them mountainers—near-

on(J Lundrcd an(1 flfty iu Imin

count of a]1 th

ber. One

sct bhj brokcn ann Thc wcrc

tQ Fort LnramiCf anil thc

fugitiVCs

thcm tlicre from

thcncc to

the

Mississippi Biver, they

continued on foot( a distancc 0

dur5

between

thrcc aiid four thou3:inds lui]os from tho

mout]l of th(J C(jhimbia| from whcncc thcv

startcd Thcv suffcrcd

incredible hard-

-|iat

journ which consuIn

°onths

A volumc lllight Le

filled with an ac-

thro Th

werc oncc five without

,lisJg

,srting

food)

gomc of (hc ttm0 thcir way was ob.

struetcd by n]most

iinpassable snows.—

ri3 dicd otl

wns

oners. A sister of Mrs. Kimball among the killed. Mrs. Iv. was badly wounded. The Indians took their prisoners up on what they call liattlcsnakc Mountain, seventeen miles from the sccnc of the fight, and many of the whites being

ThJs wng in

the way one, an

infant, almost, died in his arms as they wcrc journeying along. The other girl,

six years, old, died not far from Muscatine. At a sctler's house, where she died, thc settler took Kimball's overcoat in payment for keeping thc family overnight.

foc°cmbcr

a council was held to decide w'hat disposi- j£jmbaji

]ast

At Musca-

jj10y rcmnined seven weeks Mrs.

gj^

wjtb

thc_ gauntlet. iPennsylvaniallouse. Our reporter asked Kimball if he had money to pay his bills

One of those exempted was the mountain pilot, hired at Independence, who was part Indiana, the other was the missionary McNicl, Mrs. Kimball's father, who was reserved to be burned at the stake to appease the spirits of the warriors who fell in battle. Mr. Kimball ran thc gauntlet first for himself and again for his wife.— He ran naked between two lines of Indians, fifty in each line, all armed with clubs. He was allowed a club and a pistol, the rules of tho racc permitting him to shoot down any person who stepped in front of him while he was running. He shot one Indian who jumped in front of him. He escaped both races with but two blows from clubs, one on the back of his head and the other on the back of his neck.

fever brought

gUf}'ering and exposure. They stop-

one John G. Stiucs, who kept the

there. 11c replied that ho had had onlytwo dollars and fifty cents since 1848, about twelve years.

Stiucs was very kind to them, and trusted them to pay him when they were able. While at Muscatine his son "Warrior" dropped down dead one evening in the bar-room. The toil and privations of the journey caused his death. They proceeded thence to Fulton, on the Mississippi, and have performed the remainder of the journey by railroad, being furnished with passes by railroad superintendents to whom they had made known their story. Their eldest daughter, and now only child, nine years old, being sick and worn out, was left with a kind family near Iowa City.

Mr. Kimball bad a brother named Charles Decatur Kimball. While at the Girard House in Chicago, Mr. II. heard that a man of that name lived in Cleveland. He made inquiries for him here on Sunday, but learned that he had left town.

They failed to obtain a pass from Toledo here and startcd to walk, but a conductor of a freight train, who had heard their story, took compassion on them and brought them down on his train.

In conversing together in thc presence of our reporter they both talked in the Indinn tongue. Kimball says he can speake thc language- of several different tribes. None of his children could speak English.

The woman bears fearful evidence of the suffering she has endured, although there are still traces of former good looks. She exhibits a dent in her skull made by an Indian bullet when the train was attacked

She was wounded in many places during that contest, and her «3rin was Broken by an Indian war-clot. Her Irasbandset her arm ^^\imperfe|tl^jiis our reporter, to whopifihe exhibited ft^could readily perceive." Her conditiorTexeited mtich sympathy among the ladies, on Saturday, who listened to her story ia the setting-room at the depot.

A lady, to whom Mrs Kimballs exhibited her feet says they are an excruoiating sight, the nails being gone entirety, and thick callous places on the bottoms of them, the effccts of that terrible journey on foot from the shore of the Pacific, almost to the Mississippi River. Mrs. Kimball says she has seen Olivia Oatman,-who was fori many years a captive among the Indians,' MidI whose interesting -narrative has been published and extensively read. Kimball is of medium stature and .rather slight in build. He has a most determinate gray eye, and his hair is long and bushy. He has alarming spells of spitting blood, caused by the hardships and exposures attending his escape. His narrative, which we have no reason for doubting, is deeply interesting, and worthy of a prominent place among narratives of adventures among the Indians.

THE PRESIDENT'S .11 ESS AGE.

WASHINGTON, Monday, Jan. 28. The following is the President's message in full, as transmitted to Congress to-day: "To the Senate and House of ReprrjsorUatives of the United States:

I deem it my duty to submit to Congress a series of resolutions adopted by the Legislature of Virginia on the 19th inst., having in view the peaceful settlement of the existing questions which now threaten the Union. Tlioy were delivered to me on Thursday, the 24th inst., by ExPresident Tyler, who has left his dignified and honored retirement in the hope that he may render service to his country in this its hour of peril. These resolutions, it will be perceived, extend an invitation to all such States, whether slaveholding or non-slaveholding, as are willing to unite with Virginia in an earnest effort to adjust the present unhappy controversies in the spirit in which the Constitution was originally formed, and consistently with its principles, so as to afford the people of the slaveholding States adequate guarantees for the security of their rights, to appoint commissioners to meet on the 4th day of February next, in the city of Washington, similar commissioners appointed by Virginia, to consider, and, if practicable, agree upon some suitable adjustment. I

I confess 1 hail this movement on the part of Virginia with great satisfaction.—

From the past history uf this ancient and Montgomery county. 1ml, renowned Commonwealth \vc have the full-A,S

Vm! est. assurance that what she undertaken

net •»,.,# ...l...t *l,

own

,jy

sklllking bc

tivcs

fm|jaU

had rc

proceeded to I-ort Scott, and thence to In-lloadc(1 her rifie, and when the Indian, in- Pntri»t'« and are 1 4 i_„.i *—1..« exposed his

Avatohin„ Kilnball

h(jr

*hc

lhas

will accomplish if it can bo done by

table, enlightened and pcrsever.ng effort,,

It is highly grat/tying to know .hat other

aI'P"n^nuiir,

fircJ aml wounJct

fc]1

commissioners to meet those

uf Virginia in council. When assembled, they will constitute a body in an eminent degree to the confide nee of the country.— The General Assembly of Virginia has also re.solvc-d that Kx-I'iv.sidcut Tyler is hereby appointed by tho concurrent vote of each branch of the General Assembly la commissioner to the President of the

United States, and Judge John Robertson is hereby appointed by a like vote a commissioner to the State of South Carolina and the other States that have seceded or shall secede, with instructions to respectfully request the President of thc United States, and thc authorities of stteli States to agree to abstain, pending the proceedings contemplating the action of this General Assembly from any aud all .acts calculatcd to produce a collision of arms between the States and the Government of tho United States.

However strong may be the desire to' enter into such an agreement, I am convinced that I de not possess the power, ane Congress alone, under the war-making power can exercise thc discretion of agreeing to abstain from any and all acts ealeu-1 lated to produce a collision of arms between this and any other government.— It would therefore be a usurpation for the Executive to attempt to restrain their hands by an agreement in regard to matters over which lie has no constitutional control. If he werc thus to act, they might pass laws which he should he bound to obey, though in conflict with his agreement. Under the existing circumstances my present actual power is confined within very narrow limits. It is my duty at all times to defend and protect the public property within thc seceding States so far as may be practicable, and especially to employ the constitutional means to protect the property of the United States and to preserve the public at this thc seat of the Federal Government.

ion of arms, then thc danger

£NJLAR6E0I_FACILUIES

JRedmetiomof ExpenM if

MILLER & GO'S. Carriage Manufactory,

Market St, north of Court House Square, i? C»*V°»MV I.I,K, im Haring recently purchased, enlarged and Improved the premises wo occupy, therhy taring eiptnn of rent, and giving increased facilities for manufacturing

Ar A.Q'BS.

«4^8, Sal]de, £|ri9g

\$g on8, Sleighs jpc"."**

Wu vrnnld respectfnlly announce to our friend* and position to (•ten re-

the public generally Uiat we aronow in a position to defy all competition in our line in this state gards

PRICES. STYLES AND WORKMANSHIP. nnd invite an inspection of our Carriages, Buggies, Ac., a fine assortmont of which wo keep constantly on band. Haing all practical, workmen and employing "one by the most skillful, and using the VERY BEST Ofr MATERIAL, together with our long acquaintance with tho wants of this scction of country, wo cannot help giving satisfaction, as wo confidently scrt that our work and prices cannot bo excelled by any-other establishment in Indiana. Old Buggies taken in exchange. All our work warrented ono year. Repairing, lllacksmithing, Trimming,. Painting Ac. with neatness and despatch. ^p. 15. 186(1. Feb. 2, '61.

JYOTMCH

OF TIIE ELECTION* OF TRUSTEES OF SHAXNOXDALE LODUE. NO.uR.

Tnu»TKlCST»Vr"ShannondaloLodge

100

much to be

deprecated will no longer exist. Defense

and not aggression has been the policy of, -:nnt\

thc Administration from thc beginning but while I can enter into no such engagement as that proposed, I cordially- commend it to Congress, with much confidence that it will meet thcir approbation, to abstain from passing any law calculated to producc a collision of arms pending thc proceedings contemplated by the action of the Genpral Assembly of Virginia.

I am one of those who will never despair of the Republic. I yet cherish thc belief that the American people will perpetuate thc Union of thc States on some terms just and bonorble for all sections of thc coun-

try. I trust'that the meditation of Virginia may be the destined means, under the Providcncc of God, of accomplishing this inestimable benefit. Glorious as arc thc memories of her past history, such an achievement, both in relation to her own fame and thc welfare of the whole country, would surpass them all. [Signed] JAMES BUCHANAN.

MARRIED—On Thursday the 24th ult.,

Crawfoibsmllc

REVIEW Oencz. Saturday, Feb. 2. IE«l. Durinz the paitt week trade ha« been very dull. To-day there is an evident improvemOnt, the streets and busiucM houses present ins a very lively appcar-

ance. Wheat iJ aeiling at 75®^0cts. But little offerod at at those figures.

Corn Potatoes

"i3.30.

Dried Apples

fir"on Apples 10^50.

sl^

Feathers p«r

Lard

19210: 1" T.-: .*-1 CHFCKFSS 51 ,-V per dosrn.

Lorigo, No. 187 will

bo holtl lit the Hull of snid in Shannondale on tlio evening of tho Hith day ot February, 18Cf, at 7 o'clock.

GEOKOE n. lU'KLEV. II. u. MASON. •ll'HLEV &• IHASON,

Attorneys and Counselors at Laiv, VirlLL cive close attention to business entrusted to them, make prompt collection! and quick returns. Particular attention paid to tho settlement of tlecufisod estates, foreclosure of mortirngcs .tc.1

Office in Wallace Block, over the Review Office.

NTATB OP INDIANA, MONTGOMERY C'Ol'XTY. 1

Court of Common liens, February Term 18UI. Elms Francis

Coinpluiiit.

.Funics W. Smith tinj William S. Smith Impleaded with Abraham Garr et nl.

IVHIEREAS said plaintiff by Attorneys, tilled in the

Hurley Mnson his Clerk's uffiee of said

Court his eonipliiilit nu the abovo entitled eniise. said I'liiintitf by his Attorneys alxo filed the affidavit of disinterested pursuit, setting forth that said defendants .lames W Smith and William S. Smith, arc lint residents of the State of Indiana, therefore not ifo df tho filin£ and pendancy of said complaint is hereby «iven ti said lion-resident defendants. .InUios W. Smith and William S. Smith, thnt they may appear on the lirst day of the next term of said Court to bo holdcn in the Conn House at Crawfordsville in said entiiil.v of Montgomery, commencing on the lirrt Mon[day in February no.\t, (lf(il) mid answer said Complaint.

Attest: W.M. C. VANCE Clerk.

Jan. 5G, ISfil. n'.'f-'liw,

dTAii: OK

I.\DIA.\Aj

MONTGOMERY COl'NTY. IMII.-IiNt in Attacliiiicnt fur J7.:UI before Alcxan-, der Huovcr. a ustiee uf the I'cuoe of Franklin Tun

VJ"

HA N FX l.F N (,

,„c |MI •.dcfcn,!iii,t rankl.tiOtiii. is licrcb

iu.r

Qll.V. by

thfif on ihr HUi ilny January the (Uimt'ti phiintiiV filei! hisvit nnd Iminl ncccs-miy to entitle him hi :t writ »f attnehiiicnt xeninst -Mii.I that :i( r*.»r'UiJUly a writ i»f ftltitohtneut w:m HUCI1 to

Knox who rtMurnnl the writ ol

tNeliinent uilh hi." eml^r-eue-iit, .tun Mth lrt'»l. Taken oie MrreJ iM/tv, one crib »I" omn, miu wl «f hnriic.vt. The •leteinlunt is tliereture hereby nolj!iel of the nemlein «.{' »ai«| ,-uit. HI..I lint tin the ilny «*T February iMil at III oVb.ek A. M. I will try AIM! ficterininu ?nitl complaint whereof the tlel'en«lant and all nlhersiiitere.«i« «l will take notice. Dated tin.* ITt!i day of January Mil.

A I.KXAN IM'K liO()Vi:i:, Jn-tieo.

Jan. -«*». I.s»I. M'riiiierV

A a.in.\ISTIt lTOIt'S I V"" (ITU *K i^ h"i t'l»y •:»ven (hat the a:»ders« nrd a b.'cii aj|Mii!fed AdmiitistrWorof the estate •4"

J. Champion. »to of Montgomery Count mnel

•ii. Till.- -l:\ti

an.

'.I to l.- *,lv K. IIICIIKS, I 11i 111 -1 r:11 1 r.

I. irJ Ju

TUATOIK'M

SA 1,1!.

OTM'K i- hereby jjivrn that will .-ell at Auction on Monday the t^th dn.v of Kebruar next at the lafe re-ddeii"«» of Sanni'-I J. Champion decen.^'d. about tour uiilen north oa«t of Crawford* ville, all hi.* P'T'Otial properly (not tak'Mi 1 the wid

Uisistiim of llor.-1!.*-, vatt b^ H- l: Sheep. WJiesi* »rn, one W.ii^on. Farming Wheat in :1

Sorishin Tkioi* -Mill* o\'t approve

1 barrels ot* Sorijltuin Molla^-ie Miil and Kvjtpcrating I'an.Ac. «tc. -lit of tin months will uiven on all dollar." by purchaser trivilc note v. ii i-y waivin--'valtiatii'ti lawf.

Cain

—A er thr»'

Jan. vNi.

SA Ml'KIi K. Un.'MKS.

n{n-,7. Administrator,

Mu I O II 'S.

n'ilr'-

CINCINNATI 1COVKK lT.OWS .11'ST ItK •••!. .'il nnd ID IM' .'N|,I ti. r'•!! It UF .'inall nil VitiM'i on iiii'itinnti pricr*. 'I'llt-tn« plow* liitv worhl wiil- ri-piiliitioii timl coii-n qurnily ilnrr« unpiirtii' who mantil'urtiirt.' a .ttpnrion-i rIi*l•• IIIMI mil t!iciii tin.- UIIVKU. Null" nr"• TFI-iitiiiii: cwrrpl IIH.-I-ni.idr li.v (!iirn-t A Cot I man, 'iiii-innati, Ohio, l-'arin «-r-" will plca-o- rail a' No. '1. Kinpirr 1'locU, lit tInof the- I'acl l.ock. ami examine for Ihs-m-»ir)vi-.J.

Jan. •-U. IMil. ir.'rt SAMI'KI, II. (iKKCC.

Commissioner'1h Sale. r.-i:riM-il. Commi^ioiM-r appointcil for tho piirpi-i- ly tlii- MoniL'oini.-iy Common I'.i-a-o Court sjivu.-. iiiitii-r that lie will "i-ll at jirivali- ••'all-, lint life intriv-t of Abraham Milliiwr, in ihr followiiiK ilo.-rrilM-il i-st.-ilc. -ilnat«-il in .Moniuoiin-r.v roiint.v. Indiana, tow it: TI half of I In: .-'oiilli -.fl quarter oi section Tin. in town-hip eighteen, north of ram:"

'plIE

tiv.

l-'or lenn- i'pply to th- iiii'li-r-'i^'in-il.

A A HON KH ST.

", lWli--lw-!print'r'. fee

i--.vit.ti roil

CJMlNTAININl!

I1'" acre.'' of rieli Intnl.

Ill-re* ..1" it in cultivation and III aere-l which can he cleared at a very small expeii-o-. I pon tlii- premi.-ii-s there i. a new two Mnry •Mill!,' 11'line of 1-i^-hl rnnm'. a I'.nrn. Sin hie. Orchard ai two well* of never fa ilim wnti.-r. Tim farm is .-itnatcd fi.\ mile* .«oiilh-ea-a of Crawfordsville. Indiana, and one inili i.-a-l of thn l.onii'vi lc. New Alhnny.t Chicago linilroad at Canine'^ .Mill*, i'rice four thousand live hundred dullars. Aildrc.'ri

Win. .1. .M..-CI"I,I.01'( il, iaiO Main street. Cincinnati, Oliin.

Jan. 12, JSfiO. iiw.

If thc seccding States abstain from any and all acts calculated to produce a eollis- V^'TICh i.« hcrrhy eiron thai 1 will s?ll nt public

OilIKIMTIIATOICM MAI.Ii.

auction in rranklm I own-hip, one mtio north

of Darlington. Indiana, on Saturday the Wth day of

thc estate of Nathan

1 nu 1 lorrft-.-, olio Ciir-

nml Itcfl'lini?.

Indiana, deceased:

TKitM:—A rr«-ilit uf twrlvc innnlh.'* will ho given from l:i uf milis thc ptirehnscr Riven noto with npprorutl .security, waiving vnluution niul uppraUcnu iit

KI'KNK/.KR 1'. MoCI.ASKKV.

Jan. .1.1^01 ni/'-VDn- Ailtnini''triitir.

AIKTII.'XIMTIMTWIl'M ftOTIC'K. OTICK hereby iciven that I liuvo IM*VU appointod Administrator of the personal effects of Nathan Morgan, deccn^ed.

KKKNK/KK 1'. Mcf'LASKKl .Administrator,

MtTIlK TO BOKROWEBM OP

•SCHOOL FIHNTDS!

^y^LI

person3 having loans of the .School Fund* of

Montgomery county, are respectfully requested not to delay payment of thointreat fallinedue theroprevious to tlni l»t day of March. 1801, longor than

not on thnt time-

.T/./fff l# I

Hi,

1861.

The condition, as all arc aware, uopn which ««id funds are loaned, being thc annual payment of th» interest t.v ATIVANCK. I). T. BIlJfJK.

Jan. SG NoSS?, 1W51—4w. Auditor of M. C.

AB5I IJflSTBATIOi* NOTICE. otice ia hereby civnn. that tho underiugncd ha.i hf^n anpointca A'linini.'iratri.t ot tho i-^flt&to of John W. Mrllanicl. Into of Montgomery County, dcrpBjpd Said estate i« -niix-''d to he solvent. cca..ca. .nutt CKCKI.IA S.MCDANIKI,.

Drccmber'--'1. IPW.

at thc house of Geo. Hough, by the Itev. cU' Dr. Dougherty, W. K. SCOTT, to Miss SAN J. INGERSOLL.

Administratrix.-

t:stray ^'ofirr.

js j*. M«nticorocry county. Indiana. oneK^tray Hrey Mare.

Appraised by W. H. Foster and

brttndi percei viblo. .lo-eph

Halhoun at ono nundr«*d dollar*, before Sam-

•S ",-l .McComas,Justico of the IVnc Attest: WM.

VA.NCK

December?. IfCO*

Important to Travelers

WESTWARD! I

HAVB just received a complete aiuortment of Revolver*. (Jun-i, Hiitoli and Howie Knives. Reolver of Colt'i, patent.

Allen's, Sharp's and Manhattan JAMtH PATTERSON. n31y.

May 12. l£60.

Gold

Pens,

ths fi.n«3

•juahif b7 JAMK5 PATTLR50N