Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 October 1854 — Page 2

T. W. FRY, Editcr.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND.

THURSDAY, OCTOBKIt 10, Sol.

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The Triumph.

Nobly and gallantly have the brave sons of Temperance and of Freedom fought, and gloriously have they triumphed. The legions of despotism and of slavery have

years have passed since v/e as a nation dc-

oppressive yoke of a foreign power, and now there are those in our midst who court the aid of foreign potentates to impose upon us a tyrany as galling and oppressive as that which drove our Puritan Fathers to commit their fortunes in frail barks to the

jierils of the deep, and seek a home in this then wilderness world. Thank llcaven the history of our Revolutionary struggle was too fresh in the memory of our people for the success of such a party. Vainly did they imagine that the struggle of their par

ty ties could not be broken.- Year after year had they rung the cry of party through the length and breadth of the land, until they thought no human power was sufficient to sunder it. Belying upon the might of this power they fancied themselves in

vincible and secure, and arrogated to themselves supreme dictation and unlimited power.

They dreamed not of that eternal, undying love of liberty that burned in the hearts

of the American people! Oh, thought they, it is incrusted over with party, and would never again burst forth. And when it did blaze out, illuming the very uttermost parts of our country, it struck terror to their hearts ami they lied before its burning fer

vor. Honor, everlasting honor to (he bold and gallant heroes who led on in this glorious battle, and the brave, unflinching soldiers who achieved the victory! Long, long will you be held in grateful remembrance by coming generations You have redeemed our country and her institutions from the ruthless hand of the spoiler on. have discomfit ted those who would

trample under foot the Stars and Stripes, and sternly rebuked the daring and unscrupulous demagogue! But though triumph has now perched upon your standard, cease not to guard with increasing watchfulness the palladium of your liberties. Ever bear in mind the words of the immortal Jefferson, that '.'the price of liberty is eternal vigilance."

The leaders of the opposing party, though beaten and driven fiom their strongest fortress, though their hosts are routed and scattered, like the .Jesuits, whosejiower they invoke, will again collect their flying cohorts and renew the contest. Watch their every action. Chafed, disappointed, with maddened ambition they will seek vet to ride

upon the topmost wave of popularity, ,y

thot.gh that wave engulph the last, best and

brightest hopes of the human family they

iil yet .seek to float their bark upon the sea of popular favor, though beneath its waters lie the broken fragments of our Constitution and t-iie lifeless form of Freedom.

Then be vigilant as you have been active,

.v and our free institutions will yet be transmitted to posterity as they were received •. from otir Fathers, pure, unsullied and glorious.

Jt-5TAs the returns of the election come in the Old Liners arc utterly amazed they dreamed not that such an avalanche of popular indignation would be hurled against them. Thev had imagined themselves in

vincible, and could dare the perpetration of any act, however monstrous, however wicked or corrupt. But their impudence, their corrupt and tyrannous measures, their repudiation of the spirit and doctrines of '76, brought down upon them a defeat from which they may never hope to recover. It

is to be hoped "they have learned a lesson not soon to be forgotten. The American people will never suffer corrupt and infidel demagogues to denounce and villify the protestant clergy, without administering to them a rebuke which will

strike terror to their hearts.They should learn from the recent election that dictation belongs not to them, that they have not yet within their grasp "die powers which are exercised by the Pope

of Rome. The people are yet free, and yet o?dare to assert that freedom, though all the demagogues and renegades now railing in the ranks of Old Liners, shoul4t£ontinue to fulminate their anathema.1^ and shout forth

if.VMnirrj,

Strange infatuation that men, in the name tv-iive cents per bushel for corn, assigning of .Democracy, should endeavor to trample

under foot the dearest rights and interests Pc^

repugnant to every principle of freedom. '':C:1

Worship of the Virgin Mary. The Pope of Rome has summoned a 'council of Bishops of the Catholic Church for the purpose of settling the question whether or not it is a doctrine of that Church ''that the Virgin Mary should he worshipped." Would it not be well for the Old or (Short Liners who have such a holy horror of Protestant Ministers to meet and appoint a delegate to the convention The deep interest they have taken in the Romish Priesthood surely entitles them to a voice in the settlement of so momentous a question. And then it would accord precisely with their notions of popular sovreignty. They should at once see to it that the doctrines of popular sovreignity should not bo infringed upon by his holiness the Pope, and his counsellors the Cardinals and Bishops.

Corn.

'Wc understand that Liners who have been in

ani-l

been scattered like chaff before the wind. election, have determined to give but twen-

as a

poison of the Upas. But seventy-eight In the second place no law has been pas-

some of the

deeply agrieved at the result- of the

reason that the distilenes will be stop-

anu corn como

of the American people, that they should wish to test this matter and Uiecandoi and

endeavor to force upon (hem the most gall- honesty of the men engaged in it. In the ing iyrany beneath which man ever groaned- I1'1100

'ou

But their principles were so odious, so op- ol corn, and li the farmers com is leduposeu to the spirit of American freemen, so

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i11 P'

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dared ourselves free and independent of the before any law passed by the Legislature

down. Now we

have on hand a la/go quanti-

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ours must be also. id on

ia'':o

so fraught with evil that the American peo- your com ^ow loethe niaik, oi pie spurned them as they would the deadly *i'uu }'ou

twenty-live or thirty cents

aneither

for

onfess

candid nor nonest.

many months will nave elapsed

elect can l»e brought into operation. The whole or a greater part of the present crop

will have been used up before any law can be brought into operation then your cry about the corn crop is redieulous and absurd.

In the third place if you imagine the far

mers will be alarmed by such croakers, von must take them for fools, and will find yourselves as much mistaken as when you boasted you would carry the day. Now will vou sell at twentv-live eentv per bushel

Difference of Opinion.

A great difference of opinion exists among the Old Liners as to the cause of their overwhelming defeat. Some attribute it to ihe Know Nothings, some to the Ne

braska bill, some to the union of Fag lenders. some to one thing,"some to another.— The explanation is an easy one, if they will look at it aright: The Old Line Administration is deeply corrupt, tyranieal and overbearing. Truth, God and the People were against ihem, and therefore they were

beaten.

Popular Sovreignty.

In what a peculiar situation does the Hon. Jesse .D. Bright find himself since the late election He has been loud and earnest in preaching jwjmiar sovreignty.— "The people," said he, "should have the right to govern, their voice should be heard. In the councils of the nation, their will should, be obeyed in the passage of all laws." What now will be the course of the lion.

Senator should a bill for the repeal of the Nebraska bill be introduced? The sovreigns of Indiana have spoken in thunder tones against that bill, will Mr. Bright heed their voice? will he vo'e in accordance

with the will of the people as expressed through the ballot box? or will lie rather vote as his party directs, in direct opposition to the doctrines of popular sovreignity Time will decide. We will yet see whether he will act upon the doctrines he preaches.

$57"Some of the Old Liners are now threaining to stave off the election of U. S. Senator, should they have the power to do so. This we presume is in accordance with their peculiar notions of popular sovereignty. Let the people watch them elose-

Th,y wi]] stoop

the people*

to anything in or-

tQ ret in lhc spoiis of offi,/e.

man

,vllo ,m ,,u

Mark the

)t Uuvai

lll0 will of

had on yesterday morning the

pleasure of a call from JOHN W. DAWSON, of the Fort Wayne Times, who is looking well, and rejoices greatly in the success of the People's ticket. lie is the man whom the foreign Catholics of Fort Wayne have attempted to crush, because he dares maintain the principles of Native Americanism

bat the people rallied to his support and success will crown his efforts.

$5T'Read the news, from Europe, they are of the utmost importance. The Rus

sians are conquered—the Turks victorious. '-rt L. B. Fish, of Terre Haute.

We have received from the above gentleman several pieces of excellent Music. We

learn that his stock of musical merchandise is large, well assorted ami of superior quality. Any orders sent him will be promptly filled'.

jtSrOw devil will give a FREE TITMT to the subrosa of the Review, to his grazing fields at the head of Salt river.

jC2Tlf the Know Nothings are as numerous as they are said to be, wont the Old Liners do a land office business in slighting them

Putnam,

For Oct ober, is on our American Literature of a high order, competing well with the European periodical productions. Its perusal will amply repay

tabfe, replete with a lii

New Boot and Shoe Store/

Our friend Rob't E. Bryant is just receiving and opening a large and elegant stock of Boots, Shoes, &e., in the room

formerly occupied by Lew Falley, one door east of J. & J. Lee's store. Bob is a clever gentlemanly fellow, and is well worthy of a liberal share of public patronage. See advertisement, and give him a call

^jrSee the Card of Messrs. Bailey,

Johnston & Cox, Commission ami Forwarding Merchants, and Dealers in Wool, Cincinnati, Ohio.

&3T Beneliel & Eltzroth, are now receiving their stock of fall and winter goods which has been selected with extraordinary care, with a desire to please the varied tastes of this community. The styles and qualities cannot fail to give satisfaction.—

Advertisment next week.

the Old

corn trade

lives of passengers imperilled. In addi- J^Sjobu 2'Crayen3 tion to this, trains on some parts of the Knox, Daviess and Martin

road arc uniformly irregular in their arrivals, varying from their time not unfrequcntly four and five hours. The machinery on the road is in an extremely damaged

and unreliable condition, the cars to a great extent out of repair, and disgracefully dirty, and in short almost every thing pertaining to the running department in the most slovenly disorder. As a natural consequence

of this state of things, public confidence in the road is backward to such an extent as to affect materially the value of the Stock, and the fear is becoming general that if the

present management is continued, the Stock will be utterly valueless. I take this opportunity to suggest to the Stockholders the propriety of taking immediate measures to arrest the present course of things, and to secure, a manage

ment by which public confidence will be restored, and their property saved from utter annihilation.

I suggest that a meeting of the Stockholders in this vicinity be.called without delav, to take into consideration the present state and management of the road, and to take such measures as may be deemed proper for bringing the matter generally before the Stockholders on other parts of the line.

A STOCKHOLDER.

Crawfordsville, Oct. 11, 1S )4.

FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE

ARRIVAL OFITHE BALTIC!

FALL OF

S E A S O O

TERRIBLE CARNAGE!

Ten Thousand of the Allied forces, and Eighteen Thousand cf the Russians SLAUGHTERED

20,000 Taken Prisoners!

TEN

SKIPS OF WAR SUNK!

TIIE CITY OF SEVASTOPOL IN RUINS

Complete. Defeat

of the

Russians in Crimea!

NEW YORK, October 15.

The steamer Baltic with advices from Liver- Laporte pool to the 4th inst., arrived at this port at half Lawrence

past 7 o'clock this evening, bringing the following highly important

OEMERAT, INTELLIGENCE. Eight hours after the Europo sailed, on Saturdny the .'i!)t.h ult., official advices reached Liverpool, of a great battle which was fought, at the River Alma, in the Crimea. On the 21st ultimo the allied forces stormed the Russian entrenchments on the Alma, and alter fom^hours hard fighting, in which the allies lost two thousand eight hundred killed and wounded, and the Russians six thousand, the latter retreated to the River Ralscha, where they again rallied under Menchikoff, on t,he 23d, when another battle was fought, in which the Russians were again defeated and were driven back to the entrenchments behind Sevastopol. Here they again rallied, and were attacked the third time by the allies and driveu into Sevastopol, which city was then besieged by sea and land.

On the 25th, Fort Constantino was invested by sea and land, and after an obstinate defense, was carried by storm. The allies then bombarded the city, and'the fleet and ten Russian ships of the line were burned and sunk.

The remaining ports \verj.canied one after another, SOU guns silenced and 21,000 prisoners taken. The Russian loss in dead and disabled is estimated at not less than 18,000 in Sevastopol alone. Menchikoff, with the shattered remains of his force retired to a position -in the inner harbor, and threatened to fire the town and blow up the remaining ships, unless the victors would grant him an honorable capitulation.

The dispatches being lengthy, we condense the principle news. The latest dispatch says Menchikoff had surrendered, and the English and French flags were flaunting over Sevastopol. The Russian Camp on the Alama, 50,000 men besides cavalry and infantry were carried at the point of the bayonet, after four hours hard fighting.

The second engagement, on the plains of Kalanta, lasted several hours, ending in the total defeat of the Russians. Advices from Bucharest to the 30th again asserts that 50,000 Russians had entered Dobruscha.

Oiner Pasha was only waiting orders from St. Arnayd to attack the Russians in Bossarabia. All the arrangements in the Turkish camp indicate the intention of a winter campaign.

Six Russian ships had escaped from Sevastopol.

j£3rPollock, the' anti-Nebraska candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, is elecV., QA nnn

Indiana Legislature-

Barnett

Spann

For the Joupial.

New Albany & Salem Rail Road. Mn. EDITOR :—It has for a long time been a matter of complaint that our Bail Road managers are not discharging their duties so as to meet the just expectations of the public, and to secure the good reputation of the road. The history of the road for the last few months has been a history of accidents. Every few days accounts come to us of engines thrown from the track, or of other accident by which they

-1855.

SENATE.

.. HOLDING OVER.-

Boone, Hamilton and Tipton, N.J. Jackson Cass, Howard anil Pulaski, W. C.

William M. Gordon Brown, J. fc. Hester Carroll Cass Clark Clay Clinton, Dr. Wilson Crawford Daviess and Martin Dearborn, John Crozier and Alvin Alden DeKalb and Steuben Delaware, David Kilgore Dubois Elkhart Fayette Floyd Franklin, F. R. A. Letter and

Noah Miller

Fountain Fulton Grant Greene, Andrew Humphreys Gibson Hamilton—Sims Hancock, T. D. Walpole Harrison, John Leinmon Hendricks, II. G. Todd Henry Howard anT 'iipton, C. D.

Murray

Huntington and Wells Jackson, J. S. Tanner Jay Jackson and Pulaski, Thomas

Clark

Jefferson, David C. Branliam and John Brazzleton Jennings, Washington Malick Johnson J.M. Kiniir Knox Kosciusko Lagrange Lake

Madison, John Hunt and Thomas King Marion, H. C. Newcomb an.l J.

W. Ilervey

Marshall and Stark Miami Monroe, S. H. Buskirk Montgomery, R. M. Earl Morgan Noble Orange, D. S. Hufistetter O wen—M on go me ry Ohio and Switzerland, G. W. 11 any man and Parke, Levi Sidwell Perry Pike Porter Posey Putuam, James McMurray Randolph Ripley Rush, George C. Clark Shelby, T. A. McFarland St. Joseph Scott, David McClure Spencer Sullivan Tippecanoe, John Levering and Thomas H. Clark Union Vanderburg Vigo, R. N. Hudson and V. J.

Burnett

Meredith and Thomas Stanton White and Benton Whitley.

Denit" Fusion.

Clay, Sullivan and V:go,.M. Combs Decatur, W. I. Robinson Dc Ivalb and Steuben, A. G. Hendry Delaware, Grant and Blackford, 1.

Vande venter Dubois, Gibson and Pike, W Hawthorn Elkhart and Lagrange, T. G. Harris Fayette and Union, Miner Meeker Fountain, Harris Reynolds Fulton, Marshal, St. Joseph and

Starke, A. P. Richardson Hancock and Madison, Andrew Jackson Hendricks, John Witherow Henry, William W. Williams Jackson and Scott, M. W. Shields Jennings and Bartholomew, Jonn L.

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Johnson, J. W. Kightley Lake, Laporte and Porter, S. I. Anthony Marion, Percy Hosbrook Montgomery, Swan Brookshiro Putnam, L. G'azebrook Randolph and Jay, Theophilius Wilson Ripley, Luther Shook Rush, Jefferson Helm Washington, T. Cutshaw

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are seriously injured, trains delayed .and the Greene and Owen, J. J. A'exmdcr

Lawrence, David M. Lewis Miami and Wabash, Dan'1 R. Bearss Morgan, A. S. Craigg Noble, Koskiuskoand Whitley Ohio and Switzerland Parke and ermillion, S. T. Ensey Perry, Spencer and Warrick Posey and Vanderburgh Shelby, George W. Brown Tippecanoe, D. H. Grouse Wayne, Lewis Burke Warren, Benton, Jasper azd White

NKW SENATORS

Adams and Allen, Sam'l Rugg Brown and Monroe, W. (J. Larkington Carroll and Clinton, J. F. Suit Clark, Lcroy Woods Crawford and Orange, W. Mansfield Dearborn, R. D. Slater Fiord,

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Adams Allen Bartholomew, Thomas Essex Blackfoid, George Howell Boone, Nirnrod Landers and

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Vermillion Wabash Warrick Washington, R. Schoonover and E. D. Logan Wayne, C. H. Test, Solomon

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[CoMML'XICATED.]

WHEREAS, in the .wise dispensation of Providence, Thomas Milligan, a beloved

member of this society and one of those who first organized and cherished it in its infancy has been removed bej^ond the trancient scenes of earth, by the destroying pestilence, "that walketh in darkness and wasteth at noonday," and thus has been suddenly and prematurley cut off in the full bloom of manhood, therefore,

Resolved, That in this afflictive dispensation, we, the members of the "Union Literary Society," of Waveband academy, rec

ognize the wisdom and Justness of Almighty God, and whilst we deeply mourn

amiable friend and brother, of the vanity of prospects and human hopes and arc forcibly reminded of that solemn and impres

sive truth that "in the midst of life we are in death." Resolved, That we do most sincerely

the sorely bcricved family of our deceased brother, and would gladly pour into their

desolate hearts the balm of consolation, but especially would we commend them to that kind comforter and sympathizer, who has graciously said that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest."

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be furnished for publicatian to the

Crawfordsville Journal and Saturday Visitor, and a copy of the same be forwarded to the family of the deceased.

turned the following answer, which 1 just been published in the Philadelphia Enquirer. It possesses considerable interest :—Chanticleer.

The year 1856 must decide a momentous issue in this country. Are the American people prepared to share with aliens the right of governing this nation, at the ballot box, as soon as these aliens can make a declaration of intention They may, and often do make such a declaration, witin a week, or even a day, after landing on our soil. Again, r.:*e the American people prepared to share with aliens, every blessing anil benefit conferred upon them as American citizens, and even to give them a share of the public domain By the Nebraska bill, Congress has conferred upon them the right of voting, and by the homestead bill, which is still pending, and to be decided upon next winter, they are to have an equal snare of the public domain, on the same terms with native and naturalized citizens. Again, tho American people must decide whether, other circumstances being equal, the native citizen is or is not fairly entitled to a preference in tho distribution of honors and offices, in the country which gave them birth.

The state ofmy health will not permit me to discuss these questions in a letter. Our naturalization laws are unquestionably defective, or our almshouses would not now be filled with paupers. Of the 144,000 paupers in the United States, 68,000 are foreigners and 66,000 are natives. The annals of crime have swelled as the jails of Europe have poured their contents into this country, and the felon convict, recking from a murder in Europe, or who has had the fortune to escape punishment for other crime abroad, easily gains naturalization here, by spending a part of five years within the limits of the United States. Our country has become a Botany Bay, into which Europe annually discharges her criminals of every description.

I have no prejudice against the honest foreigner who comes here to seek an asylum from the tyrrany of rulers abroad. All my sympathies are with them, and when they become naturalized, I will defend them as American citizens, in all their rights, as fully as those born on the soil I would inculcate and practice religious toieration, in its broadest sense, but I would see to it that no men of any sect, whose creed teaches them to deny religious toleration to me and my countrymen, should ever hold office here, or power of any kind to persecute us for our religious opinions. No man who acknowledges allegiance to any foreign potentate or power, or who holds himself under obligations to obey the edicts ol any

such

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JJSTThe Louisville Courier gives the nativity of the patients in the Marine Hospital of that city. The list adds up'thus:

From "Ireland, J106 England, 4 Germany, 51

France, .3 Mexico, 1 States!

the loss of our beloved brother, Ave would opposite the light house, the boat was dis:reverentially submit to His righteous will. Resolved, That we are feelingly admonished, in the removal of our young and

and deeply sympathise with the griefs of (the body of the child was recovered a colored man from Virginia the above were passengers.

H. I. THORNTON.) W.F. RHOADS, Cora. M. A. WARSSON

John M. Clayton on Foreign Influence and

naturalization

D. Rodney King, Esq., of Philadelphia!

in July last, addressed a lefter to Mr. Clay- fongly into the lake, and had it not been ton, upon foreign influence and the Natu-1

potentate or power, shall be by my

vote placed in any post or office under the American Government. I would defend the rights of men of all religions to the full extent to which those rights are guaranteed by the American Constitution. But while I would advise every American citizen to defend the religious ights of all others even at the. hazard of his life, I would at the same time advise him to peril his lite not less freely in defense of his own.

I do not undertake to enter into the subject how far foreigners, who are not naturalized in this country, should be permitted to hold office. You will find that you can lay down no general rule upon this subject, to which there will not necessarily be exceptions. It is sufficient for my purpose standing as I do, without the power, and without the wish to have the power, to confer offices upon others, to say that in my judgement, a native American citizen, un-

der equal circumstances of qualification and merit, is better entitled to the honors and offices of the country than a foreigner, whether naturalizen or not.

And now, seeking no office from you, or your friends, or any body else, I have the honor to subscribe myself, very sincerely and respectfully, your friend,

foJ

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 1S54.

D. RODNEY KING, Esq.—My. Dear Sir: —Protracted and severe sickness since the receipt of vour letter ot the 3d ult., has prevented me iVoin keeping up my correspondence. But i'or^iii. your letter would have received an immediate an t. Let me begin then by replying to your principal question. I respond to that by declaring frankly that I never was, am not now, and nevwill be, a candidate for the Presidency. I shall be content with the seat in the Senate of the United States, which the kind partiality of friends in my native State have assigned to me. Indeed I would not exchange it for any under the government.

JOHN M. CLAYTON.

D. RODNEY KIXQ,Esq., Philadelphia.

Frightful Disaster on the Detroit River. Twenty-three lives lost.—The Steamer E. Collins Destroyed by Fire.—The names nf Ihe dead.

The steamer E. K. Collins, bound from Sault St. Maria to Cleveland, left this citylast night between ten and eleven o'clock, and when a little below Maiden, and nearly

covered to be on fire, and before she could run ashore, she was completely enveloped in flames, and twenty-three of those abroad were either burned to death or drowned.—

Tho following arc the lumes of the dead and

missing: Mrs. Bibble, New York Samuel Powell, Cleveland Lawrence Whalon, do. Thos. Cook, the Pittsburg Railway agent, Cleveland Mrs. McNcilly wife of waiter I Mrs. Matrons, and child, Astabula, Ohio

Of the crew are missing, Chas. Adams, barber John McNcilly, waiter John Ennis, do. J. Frinlakir, do. John Halstead, head-waiter Mr. Lyman, bar-keep-i* TTIIS.

come unto me all ye Lewis, cabin-maid Samuel Brown, fireman A. Alhvick, deck-hand Thos. Anderson, J. A. Guman, and James Garnett, cooks Nat, Bobbins (colored,) cook, and one of the pilots.

peri

rent the

P0^,

lhe of

ralization question, also intimating that ?rty, neariy ail on board would have pcrthere were many citizens who were desirous j18 of electing him (Clayton) President of t.J. f10, Captain of the linerty seeing United States, to which Mr. Clayton hastened to the wreck, and had his

The fiie broke out on the boiler deck, and spread so rapidly that the passepgers number did that of the first Napoleon. If and crew, who were mostly in bed, had to on the other hand, and contrary to present escape in their night clothes. "When the expectation, they should, by hook or by fire was discovered the boat was headed for crook, be apparently sustained by the voieff the shore, but before she reached shallow of the people, then, the fight will just beym, water the flames became so extended that for it is impossibly that a majority oi the she became unmanagable, and had the stem people will acquiesce in the doctr'iftcs of tbcf swung round into the river, and all those "Old Liners,"—Slavery propagandises

on board having been driven to that part free whisky, and Monnonism combined,

the propeller Lin-

They state that they -were imprisoned on the charge of murdering androbbinga man for his money, and they state also, that from some facts which they are in possession of, the person who committed the murder escaped. They have been trying to get a trial, but a heaving is refused them. They have written letters to the American minister in Mexico several times and they have reason to believe he has never received them.

Our Informant learned from many respectable Spaniards in Durango that it was impossible to get evidence to convict them and the great mass of the people believed them to be innocent. Tho youngest of these prisoners, John Gaines, is only 17 years old.

The above statement is of the most reliable character these persons witnessed it with their own eyes, and they are persons of undoubted veracity, and some of them have long been known to some of our citizens.

Convents.

The editor of the New Orleans Advocate, speaking of Convents, says: For conventual establishments we have no use. A relic of a dark age, and a libel against nature, and against society, thenexistence in this century and country, is a stretch of tolerance. Even banks are compelled to make a showing occasionally, and let the public know about the dollars in their vaults and store boxes. But when once a girl passes the heavy doors and irongrated windows of a convent all is dnnb and dark. The Superiors can tell a tale that suits them, or tell nothing. People, grand jury, 'Judges—all are locked out, and consent to it. Are the inmates wgll or badly treated Are they forcibly detained or willing captives Seciety may not know, The tfiingis an outrage. Evet

boats all ready to let go when he reached

thiug was done that could be to relieve them, by the- crew of the Fincrty, who acted nobly.

Some wretch in the confusion, s'ole eighty dollars from a poor sick man, who had been at work at the Sault, being all his earnings. A purse amounting to twenty dollars was immediately made up for him.

The E. K. Collins came out last October, and cost 8105,000, and was owned by Capt. E. B. Ward. She was insured for §115,000, all in New York offices.

AMERICANS IN PRISON* IN* MEXICO—Shocking Treatment.—On the 4th ult., five Americans arrived at San Antonia, Texas, from California, having come by the overland route from Mazailan, on the Pacific. From these gentlemen the San Antonio Ledger has obtained the following particulars of the imprisonment of three Americans.—A\ A. Tribune.

In the city of Durango, Mexico, they learned in a private manner that there were some Americans in the city prison, and they afterwards got permission to visit them. They found them in a large stone dungeon of so filthy a description that it was almost impossible for visitors to remain in the entrance way but a few minutes. The Americans in confinement were three in number and their names and former places of residence were as follows: William Shirley, Broom county, N. Y. William Rogers, Stark county, Ohio John Gaines, Dayton, Montgomery county, Ohio. These men have been in this filthy dungeon four years and three months, and during two years of this time they -were chained down to the floor, in total darkness, where they could not see any person but the one who fed them their starving allowance. At the end of two years the huge chains around their ancles and wrists had wore the flesh off to the bone, and such was their horrible condition that their chains were removed to save their lives and keep them in misery the longer. The flesh is partly healed over these wonds, leaving the most heart-sickning scars, which were all seen by the five persons above mentioned.

it, and nearly all those saved were picked |zan arsenal, with all sorts of savage as well up by them only a few being able to swim

and anon, our grand juries, conservators of public good, go the rounds of the watch houses, houses of refuge, parish prison, hospitals and asylums. They let us know of the abuses and whether the officers do their duty. But there is an establishment with as many iron bars as any of*these, and as many prisoners—the Ursuline Convent. Why do they pass that by It ia more than possible nay, it is highly probable, it is morally certain, that sighing ones are there that would rejoice at a delivtffy abuses, that if searched and told under oath, would make the ears of our citizens tingle. Have these victims no claim All these self-constituted jsilers amendable to no law? Wc never have heard of the coroner being called in there.

It is high time the subject of the above remarks awakened deeper and more general interest. It is high time the attention of free Protestant Governments, was in earnest directed towards the correction of this monstrous abuse. Justice, humanity, pa-

,ri°tism

chi valry, every principle of honor

and right, demand the overthrow of this

system of madieval tyranny.

Tho Late Conflict.

We have just passed through a conflict, different in its essential features from any which has ever occurred in Indiana. As yet, (we write the day before the election,) we know not what the result is, and indeed can hardly guess, what it will be, with any degree of positive assurance. "We think, however, that the chances are in favor of ills opponents of Nebmskaism and of the Picrce Administration. If this shall prove to be tho result, it will be a perfect Waterloo defeat to the "Old Liners," as they called themselves, and their leaders will be utterly demolished. Their "Hundred Days" will end their inglorious career, as a similar

^le boat, they had either to jump into I der the fallacious and false plea of "squat-

the water or perish in the flames. The cur- ter sovreignity," as Mr. CALHOCXstigmatised the notion of "non-intervention.- The people may be temporarily deluded, but they are not yet Sodomites.

the set

ve,"'

The battle has been a remarkable one in many respects. The "Old Liners," led on by all the corrupt and desperate officials of the degenerate National government a com pact host, well appointed from their parti-

ashore, owing to the curreni. Some of the ganized people, as in the olden titoe the saved were nearly exhausted, and eve:y-

ivil weapons—were met by ihe unor-

samc sor 0

people met the British Regu-

lars at Lexington, and Concord, and Bunker Hill. Ail apparent advantages were on the side of the "Old Liners," but ONE GOD was against them. If, providentially, they shall not he utterly "crushed out" now, it can only be because Divine vengeance has in store for them a more blasting'retribution—a more omnipotent destruction.— Chapman's Chanticleer.

A CHII.D KII.LED BY THE ARM OF HEP. DEAD Gr.INDMOTHEN.—On Tuesday morning, Mrs. Martha Whitcomb, widow of the late Jeremiah Whitcomb, of Stowo. was found dead in her bed, :u ihe house oi her son-in-law, Mr. Chas. II. Peck, residing in Crown street in tl.-is city, and by her side, at the same time, was found the lifeless corps of her grandchild, the only son of Ferdinand and Martha Dernier, aged seven months. Mrs. Whitcomb had taken the child to her bed, in order to assist its mother in weaning it, and it is supposed she expired suddenly in the night from heart disease, with which she had been afflicted. At the time of her death appearances indicate thai her arm fell across the face of the infant, and as it stiffened in death the child was unable to extricate itself, and was smothered by tho pressure of the arm across its mouth and noftrils.— Worcester Sj:y, Sept. 27.

JCST'John J. Crittenden, Jr., son of the Hon. John J. Crittenen, died at Frankfort, Kentucky, on Friday. He was a graduate of Centre College, and a young gentleman of high promise.

The Comity fair.

MR. EDITOR :—The following articles on exhibition atthe late County Fair, of Mont-' gomery county, by our accommodating^ townsmen, Messrs. Cumberland fc Manson, were entirely overlooked by the Secretary, in making out the list of premiums and diplomas awarded at said Fair, and pub* lished in your last week's paper, namely Best Cooking stove—Hathways

Patent Diploma^ Best Heating stove' do Window sash do

Morticing machine do Lot of carpenters tools do Shovel do Pitchfork do Harness fc bridle mounting do Pad & saddle trees do Currycombs do Horse brushes do Cutlery, knives fc forks do Best Thrashing machine, A." Garr & Co.'s Patent, Richmond, Ind. This machine being tried on the ground, was pronounced par excellence, both for do its thrashing the wheat clean, cleaning well without waste, and also for carrying off and stacking the straw.

J. B. DURHAM, Pres't.

SAMUEL AUSTIN, Sec'y. October 10' 1854.

Married.

On the 28th of Sept., by Rev. C. K. Thompson, Mr. Jaines 'TV. Wilson, to Miss Sarah Ermantrout, all of this county. —By tie same on the 3d of October, Mr. Jaa. H. White and Mildred A Canine. —On the 21st of Sept., by Eld. J. B. Austin, Mr Lawson Moore and Miss Catharine Weir. —By the same, Sept 26, Mr Henry Ruffner and Miss Eliza Holland. —By the same, October I2th, Mr John E .D Mount and Miss Mary Ann Boraker. —By the same, October 17th, Mr. JAMES C. ELIASOX of Wayne county, Ind., and Miss MAKY JANE KRTG, of this vicinity. (D»A boutiful supply of most delicious cake accompanied the above notice, for which James C. & Mary Jane, have the be3t wishes of ALL-HANDS, —By the same, October 18th, Mr J5erc*i laTrooy.