Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 May 1856 — Page 1

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MISGIVING.

BT C0ATES-KIXSET.

OH can it be that this is all of life, Betwixt a cradie and a coffin Death

Amid the humid ashes of the grave? This marvelous existency! this dream, Bounded each side by night, is there no morn To be, that we may then remember it, And know it a reality?—The grave And nothing! Doubt, the horrid goblin, haunts The gloomy chambers of my brain, and wails

"The grave and nothing! Love while yet the heart Throbs warm and when the eye whose thrilling glance Beams in among-the shadows of thy spirit, Like sunshine in the forest, shall grow dull And vacant, and the lip's red bloom grow pale. Gaze then thy last, and kiss thy last for love Ends here forever! Rainbows hope may arch In spans of beauty, that shall link thy years One to another gloriously, and tint The clouds of sorrow yet the last bright arch Is broke by darkness ay, it can not span The gloomy valley of the shadow, death! Take on the wings of thought and soar away— Away most infinitely nothingward Away till Earth gleam smaller than the eye Ofwiiom thou lovest—on! away! till thought Grow crazv with infinity, alone With the magnificent creation—on! .. Where Fancy flaps her pennons full against The battlement of Paradise, and soul Deems to have traveled far enough to reach The home of God: and yet eternity Of matter, world, world, world, outstretches still Beyond. 2o spirit greets thee in thy course Thou hearst no rustle of the wings oi' angels No whisper of intelligences here Naught here but matter, matter without end: Thou art alone amid the silent wheels Of the interminable mechanism."

Great God Almigety!—for THOU ART else who Did frame this endless, awful universe?— Shall man, who loves, and hopes, and thinks, and feels, And weeps, and shrieks for everiastingness, Shall he end utterly here in the grave? Hope nol in God's large mercy, no. While all Unconscious, careless things, incapable Of being nothing, must forever be, Shall mind, the only thing that knows to be, Be nothing? Seems not Like a God, to cause It so. Weknow not all is mystery: Life's awful problem—the solution, death!

OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.

Who would sever Freedom's shrine? Who would draw the invidious line? Though by birth one spot be mine,

Canst thou put out this spark of God, the soul, seized upon by the old liners of the present day as furnishing an argument for the "Douglas swindle," the repudiation of the "Missouri Compromise."

Dear is all the rest.

Dear to me the South's fair land— Dear the central mountain band— Dear New England's rocky strand—

Dear the glorious West.

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By our altars, pure and free By our law's deep-rooted tree By the Pasl'a dread memory

By our Washington

By our common parent tongue By our hopes—bright, buoyant, young By the tie of country strong—

We will still be one. tmrnr

How Mr. Buchanan is to be Defeated. The Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Herald thus shows the mode in which M. Buchanan is to lose the nomination at Cincinnati:

The Herald has predicted the possibility of^Ir. Buchanan's defeat in the Cincinati Convention. I can stale with confidence that this will be accomplished, at any sacrifice, by parties in this city, who are themselves candidates for the Presidency, if possible, for what is Mr. Buchanan's out-door strength to him if he permits himself to abide the action of the Convention, even with nine-tenths of the people in his favor? Out of Gen. Pierce's 114 or 115 votes, 98 are marked as sure for his renomination, v-and aro pledged to stand by bis fortunes to tho last. Douglas's 85 or 89 will to a man be governed by his wishes, and act under his instructions the balance of the 296 •*.vOtes will be all that can be counted upon -for Buchanan, even should there be no other candidate to claim a share of it.

The leading Tierce men in this city dedark that in the event of there appearing iio choice for their man, after the first two "or three ballotings, they will go in for ^Senator Hnnter, of Virginia, and leave ^Douglas to follow their lead for Douglas -is both personally and politically objec tionable to the President, but not as mueh so as Buchanan. By this courie Gen

Pierce will have the satisfaction at least of naming the candidate, and of having triumphed over both of his opponents 'Now, is not this reasoning and planning both plausible and possible, as insuring the defeat of Mr. Buchanan? And this is the game Mr. Pierco has now resolved upon making his own, should lie fail in the Convention.

"The people of St. Paul, Minnesota,

consumed 75,000 pounds of venison during the past winter. That article is yet abundant and cheap up ^qrth^vest.

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J^Insults, says a modern philosopher, are like counterfeit money, we can't hinder their being offered,but we are not compelled totake them.

JtwMexico papers say Santa Anna and his wife have separated.

From the Morgan County Gazette,

THE COMPROMISES OF 1850. The bundle of measures, called the compromise measure of 1850 embracing the admission of California with a free constitution, formed by her people without any previous legislation on the part of Congress, and without her having a territorial organization utider the laws of Congress or the Constitution, territorial governments for New Mexico and Utah, the adjustment of the boundary between Texas and New Mexico, the appropriations to Texas of §10,000,000. the abolishment of the slave trade in the district of Columbia, and the passage of the fugitive slave law which were acquiesced in and submitted to I as a COMPROMISE:, and which were declared fo be FINALITY on the question of slavery, by the Democratic National Convention which nominated Franklin Pierco for Presidem in 1S52, have been remorselessly

Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster are continually held up as the approvers of that gross swindle, are vilely slandored as having in 1850, by supporting the compromises of that year, laid down a precedent for the swindle of 1854, initiated by Douglas and forced through Corgress by a most infamous application of party drill and presidential patronage. Mr. Clay introduced the compromise measures to the Uuited States Senate on ths 29th of January, 1850.— Yhe second proposition of Mr. Clay declared (see pago 246, Cong'l Globe. 1S50) that— "Slavery does not exist by law, and is not likely to be introduced into any territory acquired by the United States from the Republic of Mexico."

On the next day, January 30th, the same measures being under discussion, Mr. Butler, Senator from South Carolina, made a speech in opposition to the measures, in which may be found on page 252 of the Congressional Globe:— "If I unnderstand it, the Senator from Kentucky's whole proposition of compromise is nothing more than this: that California is already disposed of, having form|ed a State Constitution, and that terretorial governments shall be organized for

Desaret and New Mexico, under which, by the operation of laws already existing there, a slaveholding population could not I carry with them own slaves there. What is there in the nature of compromise here, 'coupled as it is with the proposition that, by the existing laws in the territories, it is almost certain that slaveholders cannot, and have no right to, go there with their property?"

Mr. Richardson also made a speech in the lower house of Congress, during the same session, in which he laid down very clearly the same position. He then occupied quite a different, position from that to which he was forced during the present session of Congiess, when the old linecandidate for speaker, as the following extract from his speech of 1850 will show. Hear him:— "There is a necessity to abolish or prohibit slaver}- in territories where it exists. With this view, the ordinance of 1787 was passed. It had application to territory where slavery did exist by operation of laws of Virginia, to which tho northwestern territory belonged. The Missouri Compromise also abolished slavery north of 36 deg. and 30 minutes. That compromise was passed, not to keep the territory free north of that latitude, but because the laws of Louisiana, when we acquired it, recognized slavery, and carried it, consequently, unless repealed, to all the territory."

He does not talk as though he Was about to strike down on the Missotiri Compromise by voting for the measures of 1850 but proceeds to give his reason for thinking no restriction of slavery necessary as to New Mexico and Utah, as follows:— "The peoplo of non-slaveholding states believe that the territory we acquired from Mexico, by treaty of peace, brought with it laws not inconsistent with our Constitution, and that thoso laws excluded slavery. If there is any representative from tho non-slaveholding State that denies either of these propositions, I ask him to rise in this place and say so. There are none who can or dare deny it. This is a universal sentiment at the North, and I might refer to all the speeches that have been made at this session of Congress and the last, to show that every one, free-soilers and all, hold that the territories are now free, if this is true, what more can yon do?"

Ah! yes! "What more can you do?— The people were told in 1850, while the compromises of that year were under discussion, that all the territories embraced in thoso measures wore FREE then, FOREVER FREE—that nothing could be done to make them more so, and that it was nonsense to apply the Wilmot Proviso to them, as slavery was already and forever prohibited while in 1854, and over since, we are told that the measures of 1850 FIXED a precedent for destroying a restriction which Mr. Richardson says was necessary to prevent slavery extension, the result of which has proven that he was right as to Kansas at least. Was there ever before such villainous perversion. But Mr. Richardson says further:— "They are free how, and will ever remain so they are free by the law of nations, they are free by the law of nature, and they will remain free, from causes to which I have already refered forever. This should satisfy all, in my judgment, who are opposed to the eixtension of slavery. The position is so unanswerable, that the distinguished Senator from Kentucky (Mr.

This was neaily five months before the compromise measures of '50 were passed, and this was the great argument ho urged in favor of the passage of these measures. He deemed it unnecessary to urge the adoption of the Wilmot Proviso or the ordinance of 1787, as a part of those measures, as slavery was forever excluded from the territories in question by huv and not only was their character forever fixed, but so was the character of all the other territories FIXED BY LAW, and then added that these laws "could not be repealed without a violation of public faith."

How, then, we ask, was the character of Kansas and Nebraska fixed? Was there any law I'IXINU their character? Everybody will answer that, at that time, Sir. Webster was looking back upon and had in full view before him the great compromise of 1820. And did he mean, when he said he "would stand or fall" upon the proposition that the character of "the whole territory of the States, in the United States" was "FIXED AND SETTLED," that he was about to do an act, that he was by his speech and argument then inducing otheis to do act, which was to I'NFIX and CNSETTLE the CHARACTER of that immense territory which was then protected by the Missouri Compromise? No an indignant, decided and deep-toned NO, will be answered by every decent, honest, or honorable man. The Nebraska-Kansas swindle he pronounced a "violation of public faith," four years before it was conceived by Douglas, and yet his name is mouthed and his fair fame bedaubed -by old line stumpers, and slanderously attributing to him the laying down of a precedent for the Douglas swindle!

The Facts under Oath.

The evidence as taken before the Kansas Investigating Committee, up to the first of May, is published in tho N. Y. Times.It compromises, that paper states, all the facts upon which the House of Representatives will act in deciding on the conflicted applications of Gov. Reeder and Gen. Whitfield for a seat as Delegate. We have now the sworn statements of the witnesses duly examined, by Gov. Reeder on the one hand, and Gen. Whitfield, and his attorney, Col. Woodson, of Independence, Mo., on the other. They bear out the charges made of Missourian invasion, interference and violence in tho affairs of the new territory completely and triumphant•y-

Jordan Davidson testified that he came into Kansas from Missouri to vote on the 30th of March, 1855, to extend Slavery into Kansas. He was a member of a secret society whose object was to extend Slavery into Kansas, called the Social Band, the Friends' Society, the Blue Lodge, the Sods of the South, and other names. It exists in either States.as well as Missouri* This Society was used as a means to concentrate men for the Kansas election of March 30th, 18o ). He had heard one person in a lodge of this Society, ask how they could vote in Kansas if they were not lawful citizens of the territory.—The answer was, "wo will swear in some how." The witness was appointed by the people on the ground at Douglas, one of the officers of the election, after Burton and Ranney (the regular inspectors,) had left. He had taken charge of the duplicate papers not sent to the Governor's office/ including a list of the voters, but the children had destroyed the books, or they had been lost, and the list was used as shaving paper by his father. Wanful was also a judge of the election, and he was to make the returns, but witness couldn't tell whether he made them or not.

Wm. Lyons was a resident of Lawrence on the 30th of March, 1855, and testified that he saw a body of strangers encamped at that time. In a conversation with Mr. Shelby, he told the witness that he had him-rcome over a hundred miles to vote, and that eight hundred Missourians would vote in Kansas that day. On his cross examination Mr. Lyons swore that he passed through the camp* and the men were armed with knives and guns. He voted for delegate to Congress in the Fall of 1854, and saw a great many strangers passing on the California Road toward Douglas, who said they were going to vote. He supposed there were over a hundred Missourians who went to Douglas to vote, and he saw many of them returning election day and day after. They hurrahed for Whitfield and

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Clay) says incontestable truth.' And then added what we would be glad to have every reader note:— ''I believe Congress has full power to pass such laws as they may think proper for the government of the territories,. There is, consequently, no constitutional difficulties in my road."

Daniel Webster is sometimes quoted by old liners—no, never quoted, but slanderously refered to in support of the Douglas swindle. It is true ho favored^e compromise measures of 1850. But. why? For the Very reasons assigned by Butler of Sonth Carolina, Richardson of Illinois, and by Benton and Clay, that all the territory of New Mexico, Utah and California, had a fixed character and were free.— In his great speech on the 7th of March, 1850, in favor of the compromise measures of Mr. Clay, he uses tho emphatic language: "Now^ Mr. President, I have established, so far as I propose to go into any line of observation to establish, the proposition with which I set out, rtnd upon which I propose to stand or fall and that is, that the whole territory of the States, in the United States, or in the newly acqured territory of the United Stales, has a Jixvd and settled character, now fixed and settled by law."

"THE UNION, THE UNION IN ANY EVENT."

Y0L. VITT—M)r41.1 CI RAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, MAY 2 9,1856. 1 WHOLE NO. 405

Hill, (the pro-slavery candidates,) and some for both. Hammond Muzzy swore that ho was at election at Douglas, March. 30th, 1855.

Saw a largo crowd there, and many wagons got there just as Mr. Mace did he tried to vote, and when the pro-slavery party saw that his vote was a free state vote they said he should not vote it: several men took hold of him by the collar and pulled him away he took hold of me and were both pulled away together from the poll they cried out, "Cut his throat," "tear his d—d heart of him," saw one man draw a knife on him without doing any injury saw a man with a lever, trying to pry up a .corner of (he cabin, others cried out, ""Don't do it until you have orders saw Ellison was one of the judges heard Jones, (now Sheriff,) say he would give the judges five minutes to resign or die Jones gave one more minute, and then they left the judges were Ramsey and Burson, both free state men was there when the other judges were appointed the crowd then commenced voting saw no free men vote don't know whether Jones voted that day.

Augustus Wattles wos a settler on Rock Creek Second District he had examined the poll list of that District for the election of November, 1854. and found the names of twenty-five persons whom he knew in Missouri, and all of whom ho knew to to be non-residents of Kansas.

George Umbarrizo saw the judges of election driven from the polls at the Second District, March 30th, 1855. He took the poll books to take charge of them, and he says: "Started for home, was overtaken by eight or ten horsemen, surrounded and the poll-books taken from me by force Sheriff Jones was one of the party, unu he seemed to act as leader after they had got the books, they wanted me to go along with them, I objected they said I must go one man took me by the collar and said he would shoot me if I did not go." He went to the poils where he swears wore more votes than there are residents even now.'

W. H. Rose swore that in the Seventh District oh Switzer Creek, on the day before the March election, 1855, he saw a large company of strangers coming in about fifty wagons, son -.! two and others four horse, fifty horsemen. They camped near the polls and were armed. The crowd were all strangei'g, and the witness, a justice of the peace, had seen none of them since.

Jariies R. Stewart agreed with Mr. Rose. He recognized two in the camp as Missourians. Several others say they came from Missouri to vote. A number of them wore badges. They returned the same way they came.

Adam Horner corroberated the evidence of the last two witnesses. Marcus II. Rone swore that he had examined the census roll and„ poll-books of the Seventh District, of 30th March, "There were 25 votes on the census, 17 of them are on the poll-books: therfc are 234 names on tho poll list are not on the census roll: 6 of the 8 had been there and built cabins, were away when the census was taken: there were 607 votes cast in our District on Nov. 29th 1854: in my judgment there could not have been more than 25 or 30 resident voters in that District." Several other witnesses recited other facts similar to thoso above given.

Wm. Jessie, settled upon the Wakarusa, in the second district, testified to the murder of Parker: that property was burned, cattle killed and stolen, teams stopped on the highway, and persons taken prisoners when going to their lawful business, these people were stopped and depredations committed by people in the Missouri camp at Wakarusa boxes were broken open and corn taken by them. A military organization was effected to prevent siich Violence, not to resist the law.

There was an encampment at' Lecompton, Wakarusa, and across the river from Lawrence Gov. Shannon did not recognize these Missourians as apart of his men he repudiated them at the last, we made our preparations against these Missourians, I did not hear Shannon say he recognized any of them, don't know of his recognizing any of them, only by his report.

It was not our purpose to resist the Territorial laws, our organization had nothing to do with or against the lawn, it was not the purpose of the people of Lawrence to resist the writs of the Sheriff, I heard people say if the Sheriff has any writs let him come and arrest them.

And again: This assemblage was not to resist the Territorial laws. It was not the purpose of the people of Lawrence to resist Gov. Shannon, if he came with militia of the Territory alone, but they were determined to resist the Missourians who came up.

N. B. Blanton traveled for fifteen miles with a band of one hundred Missourians who came to Lawrence. He was one of the judges of election, bat resigned.

They said that if I did not reeeive their votes their men would hang me: they told me that they wanted to get a Legislature to suit them, and make Kansas a Slave State, that the Emigrant Aid Company were sending men out to vote, and that they had a right to vote, as they were citizens of the United States. I did not see any man- hindred from voting: here saw one man run off the bank of the r.iver..

Peter Bustinger was at the election of November, 1854, at Mewhinney's on Ottawa Creek. Saw a great many strangers. Mr. Royalston of West port, Mo., said they were, bound to make Kansas a slave State, if they had to do it with the point of the sword.

One man who staid with me all night, said as Dr. Chapman was one of the Judges,'

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they got a man drunk, called him sick, 6ent the Doctor to him, and then appointed another Judge in his place, these men told me they were from Missouri, there

were arms in their wagons and nearly ev- Uv®

dependence next morning-—saw many men going towards Missouri—on the road some of these hurrahed for Whitfield, sawnumbers of persons going to the election of 30th March, saw many of them returning from it, some of these men were from Missouri, I had seen them there, having teamed a good deal the fall before, there were but few settlers east of-me. I was the last settler that way in my district, think there were twenty-five that passed my house before breakfast on their way to the election.

Thomas D. Hopkins, lived nine miles south of Lawrence, saw at the election of March, 1855, many acquaintances whose names he gave from Carrol county Mo.

They told me there were about 25 of mj' acquaintances there from that settlement, it is about 125 miles, I think, from here, they said they wanted to make Kansas a slave State, if it wasn't they would lose their property, and if it was neccssary they would come again they told me there were from 700 to 1,000 from Missouri in this place, and that there would be from 5,000 to 10,000 here in the Territory from Mo. to vote.

There was one little skirmish here—I don't think any free State man had a chance to vote while I was he^e, it was about 1 o'clock when I left. I think no free State men were voting when I left. I voted.

I was at the election of 29th Nov. 1854 in the Fourth District, at Dr. Chapman's, there were many there whom I had known in Jackson, Mo., (Witness named many whom he saw there.) I was down in Missouri a short time after the election, at old Judge Brooklin's he told me he outfitted 20 men to come up and vote I saw men there from Cass couuty at the election they told mo they came to vote at that precinct there were from 80 to 150 they were opposed to its becoming a free State, and advanced this as a reason why they came Chapman's is 40 or 45 miles from the Missouri State line, and about 4 miles from the boundary line of the District.

Such is a fair abstract of the mass of

men on mnlcs, and thirty to evidence published. The space it engrosses, leaves us no room for conimont. ill the outrages be longer denied?

TERRIBLE CALAMITY!

TEE BRIDGE PARTLY SWEPT AWAY!

Steamboat Eflie Afton Burned

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Yesterday about 5^- o'clock the splendid steamboat Effio Afton in attempting to pass the R. R. Drawbi^dge ran against the pier, and staved in her bows, and in her efforts to move away from the drawbridge pier she swung around under tho bridge, on the Island side, knocking down her chimneys and instantly setting the boat and bridge on fire. This span of the bridge soon burnt through and fell into river, when the steamboat and tho bridge floated down the current together, while the flames continued to rage with the greatest fury on the boat. There were a large number of cattle on board and they weie with the exception of a cow, an ox, and a calf burned up with the wreck.

At the time the boat took fire there were about a dozen steamboats lying at the wharf here and on the Rock Island side, and they opened their whistles in a concert of music which was so frightful that all the babies in Davenport went into fits of crying. It sounded like a vast menagerie of elephants and hippopottamuses howling with rage. The steamboat Effie Afton was worth $50,000 dollars and was owned principally by the captain and crew, and had no Insurance. She is lying sunk at the head of Pelican Island, in the River opposite Cannen's Saw Mill. We are informed that the Minnesota Packet Company offered $45,000 for the boat last week. She was as fleet as a deer, and one of the finest if not tha beet boat floating the Mississippi river. Below we git'e the accohnt of the accident which the clerk of the Boat handed into our office. "Left Rock Island about 5 o'clock this morning, (May 6) entered the entrance through the bridge and had gone fully two hundred feet through, when tho wind and current striking her head, she began to swing. It was impossible to turn her on account of the rapidity of tho curreut she swung around against the timbers of the bridge, tearing all forward works above to atoms, sweeping her chimnies and smashing every thing above the cabin as far back as the passage through the centre of the Boat. She 1 odged against the pier, and when found that she was still, every person above and below went to work to save themselves and baggage, which was done, and not one person was lost or the least injured. She took fire twice which was extinguished both times, but finally took fire again and was wrapped in a sheet of flame in two minutes—burning one span of the bridge entirely away.

Many persons had saved themselves and baggage on board the J. B. Carson, that was made fast to the stern of the Effie Afton, and-the balance had gone ashore over the bridge. After the span of the bridge went down with a crash, the burning wreck got afloat and floated down the river as far as the head of tho Island, when* it crounded and and continued to bnrn to the waters edge. B. HOLMES, CLERK.

These two lines which look so solemn. Were just put here to fill out the column,1

FINALITIES.

The following manifesto, to which are appended names of many of the most act-

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ery man had a revolver—I started for In-' Compromise, was published in the National Intelligencer of January 29th, 1851.— It shows exactly what such promises are worth.-

violent repealers of the Missouri

The undersigned, Members of the Thir-ty-first Congress of the United States, believing that a renewal of sectional controversy upon tho subject of slavery would be both dangerous' to the Union and destructive of its objects, and seeing no mode by which such controversy can be avoided exccpt by a strict adherence to the settle-

David Outlaw, H. A. Bollard, C. H. Williams, T. S. Haymond, J. Phillips Phoenix, A. H. Sheppard, A. M. Schermerhorn, Daniel Breck, JohnR. Thtinnan, James L. Robinson, George R. Andrews, J. M. Anderson,

D. A. Bokee, W. P. Mangum, R. I. Bowie, E. C. Cabell, Alexander Evans,

tnries we find Him employing various

means for consummation of His great and glorious plan of salvation as revealed to us

in the life and death of His Son. Progression is a principle implanted in the mind of man. In his infancy, weakness and helplessness are particularly his characteristics. His wants are simple, and his pleasures only those of sense. But soon we see the slight dawning of thought, and the gradual development of his higher nature. His capabilities of enjoyment are enlarged, his pleasures are of a higher character.— Even those which at first were merely animal and sensual, seem to be elevated, and to derive their satisfaction from higher sources. An intellectual nature is developed which, though weak in its first unfolding, shall become strong. No longer

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with bubbles and toys, earth,ocean,

air, and the arts, the sciences are laid under contribution to him The dim past must bring forth its treasures, and the mysterious future furnish grounds for the speculations of his inquiring nature. The subtleties of philosophy are the pastimes of his mind. He wraps his thoughts in eloquence or clothes them in the sweetness of song.— He may drink at the fountain head of knowledge, and sap the miues of wisdom. With a mind "but a little lower than the angels," clothed in the majesty of an immortal, what a sublime spectacle is man. But it is not. in this present that man attains his greatest glory. Decay and ago at length creep over him,and the powers of his mind become dim,

"Yes, man forgets sensation and lies down, Cold on the lap of his primeval mother." But it is a pleasant thought that the mind whose progress i§ ever onward,sleeps not. No clouds darken the soul's vision, and no clogs fetter its powers. Seen in that clearer light, the mysteries which perplexed him here have become transparent things. Those principles with which he had grappled long and severely, are then revealed to his admiring gaze. He had tasted but the' droppings of wisdom before, now he finds the whole ocean of Youth spread out before him,and with his immortal powers expanding, and still expanding. Eternity alone is the boundary of his progress. -,y ..•'

W abash Gazette says that a

"foul murder was committed in Peru on Monday: We learn from a gentleman who came through Peru yesterday that a foul murder was committed in that place on Monday night. It appears that a country man carpein to that place on Monday evening, having with him a considerable sum of money. Ho stopped for the night at a cheap boarding house near the railroad, and in paying hii bill in advance, showed

TERMS—$150 IN ADVANCE.

ment thereof effected by tho Compromise A large number ofdelegates have been visitActs passed at the last session of Congress, ing their political friends here, and expressdo hereby declare their intention to main- led, many of them openly—all of them pritain the said settlement inviolate and to re- vately—their respective preferences for the sist all attempts to repeal or alter the acts several candidates now prominent before aforesaid, unless by the general consent of the people. The conclusion arrived at by a large majority of the knowing ones, is, that Stephen A. Douglass holds the trump card, and if he be not able to win, he will at least be able to say who shall and shall not. The fiiends of President Pierce now admit that he stands no chance, and all that he can ask for is a complimentary vote. Nearly every Pierce delegate will

the friends of the measure, and to remedy such evils if any, as time and experience may develop. And. for the purpose of making this resolution effective, they further declare that they will not support for the office of President or Vice President or of Senator or of Representative in Congress, or as member of a State Legislature, any man, of whatever party, who is not strike for Douglass as his second choice, opposed to the disturbance of the settle- and his vote will carry him through triment aforesaid and to the renewal, in any umphantly. A distinguished Senator from form of agitation vpon the subject of slavery.

Howell Cobb, H. S. Foote, Win. Duer, James Books, Alc-x. H. Stevens, R. Toombs, M. P. Gentry, Henry W. Hilliard,

Henry Clay, O. S. Morehead, Robt. L. Roso, Wm. C. Dawson, Thomas J. Rush, Jeremiah Clemens, James Cooper, Thomas G. Pratt, William M. Gwin, Samuel A. Elliot,

F. E. McLean, A. G. Watkins,

J. B. Thompson, John B. Caldwell, Edmund Deberry, Humphrey Marshall, Allen F. Owes.

Progress of Mind

Progression is the law of Heaven and na- mination if the fight was continued, ture. When man had fallen from his first! estate of innocence and bliss, God, in bringing about his plan of restoration, for seeing I that his mind in its weakness could not endure tho noonday blazo of the great announcement, did not at first reveal the impressions that Vanx, the Democratic scheme to him." But for twenty-five cen-

his money. The next morning he was ture for high Treason. found murded in his room and robbed of A dispatch from Leavenworth Says an all his money except about ten dollars.— armed body of men were en route for LawWe shall doubtless have the particulars in ronce, for the purpose of destroying th«S the Peru papers by our next issue, evidence taken by the committee.

Presidential Movements—The Most Prominent Candidates. ^Special Dispatch to the New York Times.

W ASHINGTON, Friday, May 2.

Presidential movements continue to engross attention. Douglass stock is above par. Thorouhh-going Democrats say that he has a hold upon the South and West which no other man can claim. Buchanan is loosing ground. In the Republican ranks McLean and Fremont are the prominent candidates. Yours, X.

[Correspondence of the St. Eoufs Republican.] WASHINGTON', April 30, 1856. The speculations here on the Presidential prospects are becoming highly interesting,

the North—a Buchanan man, too—declared to me this morning that he was now satisfied that Douglas held the game in hia own hands.

Kunsas and Alton Steamer's. ALTOJT, May 1. The Kansas and Alton Committee have just completed arrangements by which will stop at Alton and receive passengers freight direct for Kansas. The Committee have prepared a circular to the press which will be forwarded by the next mail, giving all particulars of the arrangement.

Brutal Prize Fight. BOSTON, May 2.

A prize fight camo off yesterday noon, nearMedford, between Ned Price of London, and a man named Colbert from New York, for a purse of $300. One hundreds -and fifty-live rounds were fought, occupying three and a half hours. Both parties were savagely beaten and blind. Their fiiends separated them, fearing a fatal ter-

Fliildaeliihia Election* I'IIIL ADELPIA, May 6..

The returns received show increased Democratic majorities, and confirm previous

candidate

for Mayor, will be elected.—

His majority

will bo large, but cannot be

known with accuracy before daylight.— The Common Council will also bo l)emocratici

TATER. PHILADELPHIA, May 7.

The Democratic ticket, Vaux as Mayor, is elected by over 5,000 majority. The Democrats have over two-thirds of the city Council.

The Latest from Kansas.

Goventfr Robinson in the hands of the Missourians!

Other Excitui? News!

ST. LOUTS, May 12.

.From passengers who arrived this morning on board the steamer Star of the Wost, we learn the following facts

Tho boat loft Kansas on Saturday, Gov. Robinson and family among the passengers. At Lexington, Mo., Gen. Shields, Mr. Savage, and a number of most respectable citizens of the place, went on board the steamer and notified that they intended to detain him, on tho ground that he was fleeing the Territory to avoid and indictment for treason found against him by the: Grand Jury of the U. S. District Court.

Robinson said that he learned from one of the Grand Jurors, that an attempt had been made to find a bill against hi'm but had failed. This did not satisfy the committee, and on persuasion of Capt. Parkinson, of the boat, and Mr. Barnard, of Baltimore, he agreed to remain, and accepted Sawyer, of the Committee, who agreed to send a messenger to Kansay to ascertain if the indictment had been found if not, all expense of his detention should be paid. No violence or indignity was offered Robinson during these proceedings, Capt. Adams communicated information upon which the committee acted.

Advices from Lawrence, of the 9th, say Reeder refused to appear before the Grand Jnry at Lecompton, at its .iitting on the eve of the 8th. Writs were issued on him by the Deputy Marshall for contempt. He appealed to committee, but they decided they had no power in such case. Howard and Sherman thought Reeder protected by his privilege. Oliver dissented, said the committe could not stand between him and tho Marshall.

Reeder said although his life was in danger at Lecompton, he would remain on his privilege but warned them to touch him at their peril.

The Marshal left, but was expected to re-, turn on the 9th, with dragoons. Judge Lecompton charged the Grand Jury on Monday, 5th inst., to indict all State officers and members of the Legisla-