Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 July 1858 — Page 1

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S'^Tfie 'Courts have decided that refusing to tak^&'titosspaper .or periodical from,the office, or removing iiild leaVinjf it uncalled for, is,prima acia evidence of fraua.

ZHESH ARRIVAL

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Music & Jewelry Store!

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THOMAS NEWMAN,

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ju3t received and opened anew and extensive stock of fine gold and silver Watehes, Jewelry of every description, and warranted as represented

Gold Pens fc Holders, Gold Chains, Breast Pins, Bracelets, Finger Rinjjs, Ear Drops, Spectacles, with every variety and shade of gla§s Clocks and time pieces of various styles

Guitare Banjos ... 4, itusic Boxes Books Note Paper

Violins Melodeons Accordeons Stationery Pictures, &c.

Als'6", Chickering Boardman, Gray & Co. and

GILBERT'S PIANOS!

These Pianos arc from the best manufacturers in the Utiited States. "Wo are also agent for the sale of Urban, Dodds & Co.'s

Concrete Cement Safe!

We1 have various other artcles, viz pure silver Spoons Revolving Pistols and in fact all articlos usually found in such establishments. (0*We also repair and warrant all kinds of Watches, Clocks, Musical Instruments, Jewelry, &c. and do engraving on silver, fcc., in superior stvle. Call at my store in the Binford block, one-door east of Cloud's store. may 13, 1858—ly T, NEWNAN.

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Corner of Green & Main Sts:

The only exclusive Boot and Shoe Store in

CRA WFORDS VILLE!

Where customers can purchase not only every kind of article in the Boot and Shoe trade but at priccs

LOWER THAN ANYWHERE ELSE.

The great inducement we offer in our prices and the beautiful quality and durability of our etobk of Boots aud Shoes are such that every man, woman.and child will save

TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT.,

By trading at our establishment a quarter of a doHaiw»ved- these times is an item that no one should overlook^ JBdiig exclusive in the- business and i^ftirbtfsfof facilities for doing businC?\KrSC«er^led

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Any of.the-Dry Goods Stores in town that.sel^ Boots aira-SStiofes.' The followingfccompriscsa list' of oitt splendid stock of ««kr!

BOOTS & SHOES.

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Ladies'Kid Congress Gaiters- *•/. Lace Gaiters 7 #iiiI, Kid Slippsrs

Kip Heeled Shoes

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Calf Sewed Shoes Sheep Skin Over-Shoes

."••• Lasting Congress Gaiters •/'. Kid Buskins Calf Heeled Shoes

Goat Boots Rubber Over-Shoes Moccasins. Fur and Cotton Lined

Gents' Calf Cork soled Boots 1" Single Double Grained Boots

Cloth Congress Gaiters

Yj*'••! Kip Shoes hi'' Doubled soled Calf Boots Kip

Calf Congress Gaiiers

tyj Plain Calf Shoes (EJiConnected -with the establishment is a Manufacturing Department. All orders for Work, executed with promptness and dispatch.

May 13, '58.—tf.j DAVID KESTER.

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^TATE OF INDIANA, •-^V MONTGOMERY COUNTY Mobigomcrv Circuit Court, September Term,

A. D., 1858.

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Fourth Letter to Junius»Baptism of the

Iloly Ghost. One of the most sublime scenes the world ever beheld was witnessed upon tho day of Pentecost. Upon this day. the church received her christian baptism1—the baptism with which Qhrist was to baptize his followers. Mat. 3, 11.

This was the fulfillment of a noted prophecy, by Joel, 2, 38. "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. And on my servants, and on my handmaidens I will pour.out in those days of myspirit and they shall prbphecy." This is tho one baptism of the Christian dispensation, spoken of by Paul, Eph. 4, 5. "One Lord, one faith, one baptism." Around this baptism circle all other christian interests. Without it we are none of Christ's with it we become heirs to "an inheritance incorruptable, undeliled, and that fadeth fiot away." It is true, that we have an ordinance, in which water is used that we call baptism, but it is only by metonytny, a figure often ubed in the Scriptures, as well as elsewhere.

John said his baptism was to decrease, (he could have meaut nothing else, sincc he was instituting a comparison between his baptism and Christ's baptism,) and Christ's baptism, which was to be with the Holy Ghost, was to increase. Tho christian church now enjoys this increasing baptism. And surely, those who have been baptized with this baptism will cling to it as the one baptism, the all essential baptism of Christ's church. Those who have it not may cluster their hopes around some point raised by their own ingenuity, or by the neologi&ts before them. But, my son, I beseech you, by all tho tender sympathies of a father, never rest satisfied unless you are assured that you enjoy the influence of this holy baptism. I am far from teaching you that water baptism has no place in the christian church. 1 only wish to teach you that it is a mere sign of the true baptism. If there is but one baptism, and who can doubt it after Paul's declaration? either the baptism of the Holy Ghost must be a sign or a figure of water baptism, or vice versa. The sign of a thing has no intrinsic virtue, the thing itself is the substance. Signs are made to behold, and may represent things unseen things seen are never represented by thiDgs unseen. Now let the christian make his choice, which he will consider the one bapiism, which he will take as the substance, and which the sign. .. Does it appear Sir, to a young and unbiased mind like yours, that there could be any difference of opinion on this subject? You may think yon have built up an argument impregnable as the rocks of Gibralter upon any question, yet you will find those who hav6 a creed to serve and preserve will laugh at your argument and turnupon you with ridicule. But while you enjoy this holy baptism, neither their sophistry, ridicule, insolence nor jeers can insult you. ..

The mode of this holy baptism is definitely fixed by inspiration. God declared, by'his^rophet, 1 'vfill ^pur o\il of my Spirit upon all flesh,"' &c. Again the word shed is used to convey the same idea. Ti. 3, 5, 6. The Spitft is poured or shed

giv that we are born of God." The spiritual baptism then is ever to remain with us, as a witness of hour heiiship.

When I discuss the subject of water baptism, I will have something more to say of the nature of this spiritual baptism that you may clearly distinguish between the two. I close with a word on the final establishment of the Church of God under the christian dispensation.

God has never had but one Church.— (But I will more fully discuss this subject when I speak of the unity of the Church.) Christ came to sit upon "the throne of his father David." The throne was not removed, but the ruler changed. The Church from Abraham to the day of Pentecost was typical in a vast degree. At that day the type had fully passed away to give place to the antitype. Types and shadows had fled away befortfthe brightness of the Church in her ho!-y!p:'anoply'. "For four thousand years the Lord, had been preparing the world-for this display df^is eighty power and glory and also his good will toward his Churcti^^isCWlw^ Jlan bf Saving the world is now fully developed—"it is finished'' The redeeming scheme is now to be tauglit to the world more clearly than ever. vu,

My next letter will discuss tho unity of tlie Jewish and. Christian Church. "Keep good co&pany. Paternally yours,

Mount Peace.

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VOL-X.-NO. 45.1 CMWFORDSYILLE, INDIANA, JULY 22,1858.

For the Journal.

ANSWER TO BKOTIIER. I shall now proceed to show "that the original word used in the scriptures denote the act of baptism, conveys the idea of dipping or immersion only," and I shall claim that present of a handsome Bible—hope it will be a polyglot pocket Bible, for some poor sinner stole such a one from me,—it is sure to make a Baptist of him, for he whose soul thirsts after tho word of God so much as to cause him to steal it, would certainly give it a candid and carcful perusal, and that course, it seems to me, would make a Baptist of any one. I affirm, and am ready to give the proof when called for first, that all standard Lexicons unanimously agree that baptizo has but the one signification, and that is immerse or its equivolent: Secondly—All distinguished Pedobaptist schollars admit this fact and thirdly, they all bear testimony to the fact that immersion was the only mode of baptism in the primitive church.

I challenge you to produce a single Greek Lexicon, ancient or modern, a lexicon of classic Greek or the Greek of the sacred Scriptures, which gives either to pour or to sprinkle as the meaning of baptizo, with ihe exception of a single edition of Liddell & Scott, in which "to pour upon" was inserted but was subsequently stricken out by the authors themselves.

I challenge you to produce a single Greek Lexicon, ancient or modern, in which bapto and baptizo are defined by the words to dip, to immerse, to plungo.— Will you, can you d#ii? or will you take the ground taken by Barnes the commentator, Calvin tho founder of Presbyterianism, Dr. Chalmers, by far the greatest man, Dr. Lightfoot, who was conspicuous in the Westminster Assembly, Doddridge, Bloomfield, McKnight, Wall, Whitfield, Wesley, Doddridge, the author and finisher of the Methodist faith, Martin Luther and a host of other strong Pedo writers who admit immersion to be the only meaning of the word and that immersion, and that alone was practiced by the primitive christians? i'ou will at once see that if I am in error, I at least have a goodly number of respectable men for companions.

John Calvin says: "the word baptizo signifies to immerse and it is evident the rite of immersion was practiced by the ancient church," Institutes, Book iv, chap. 15. And again, commenting on John 3 and 22: "From these words we may infer that John and Christ administered baptism by plunging the whole body under water."

On Acts, 8 and 38th, he says: "Here we see the rite used by the men of old time, in baptism for they put all the body into the water. Wherefore the church did grant liberty to herself, since the beginning, to change the rites somewhat, excepting the substance."

Barnes' Notes on Math. 5 and 6, says: Although the words primarily mean3 to immerse, it cannot bo proved that it follows as a consequence that the whole body must be dipped. Again on Rom. 6, 4th, "Therefore we are buried" &c„ he says: "It is altogether probable that the apostle in this place had allusion to tho custom of baptizing by immersion—I presume that this is the idea which would strike the great mass of unprejudiced readers."— .Martin Luther, "Another thing which pertains to baptism, i6 the sign or 6aciament, which is immersion itself into water, whence, also, it has the name. For baptizo, in Greek, is immerse in Latin."—

Anthon, L. L. D. "The piimary of the word is to dip or immerse, and its secondary meaning, if it ever had any, all refer in some way or other, to the same leading idea. Sprinkling, &c., are out of the question." Dr. Lightfoot, "That the baptism of John was by immersion of the body seems evident from those things related concerning it."

Sam Johnson, the English Lexicographer, "They may think that in what is merely ritual, deviations from the primitive mode may be admitted, on the ground of convenience, and I think they are as well warranted to make this alteration as we are to substitute sprinkling in the room of ancient baptism." Dr. Chalmers.— Lecture on Rom. vi, 4, "Jesus Christ, by death, underwent this sort of baptism, even immersion under the surface of the ground whence he soon emerged again by his resurrection. We, by being baptized into his death, are conceived to have made a similar translation. In the act of descending under the water of baptism, to have resigned an old life and in the ascending act, to emerge into a second or now life."

Neander, the celebrated Pedo Church Historian, "In respect to the form of baptism, it was, in conformity with the original institution, and.the original import of tho symbol, performed by immersion."

In tho life o.f Wesley, we learn that when he determined on establishing the,Metho­

dist church, he was at some loss to decide whether i^K^t the form of baptism then prevalent, or go back to the primitive mode of immersion. So numerous are these concessions by Pedo authors, that I might fill a quarto volume with them. My letter is already too long, I must close. The communion pan of your letter. I shall answer in my next to Alpha.., Your other points I would be glad to answer if time wouM permit and I could find any argument.in them. It seems mere sophism— assertion. You, yourself certainly doubt them, or yon would not be either ashamed or afraid to sign your name to your proon

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'J. W. ELLIOTT, alias W.4

j?5rConsiderable excitement existed in Bluffton, created by the discovery of an infant child, found secreted in a hollow log in the woods South-East of town.— The discovery was made accidentally, by Mr Drew, on Tuesday morning 29th ult. The. fact was communicated to the coroner, who called a jury to enquire into the matter. Suspicion soon rested upon a young lady, residing in Shorift'Philip's family, as being tho mother of the child.

The Sheriff left town Tuesday evening for the purpose, as he said of bringing back the girl from Ft. Recovery, whither it was reported she had gone for medical treatment, leaving the Sheriff's residence the Thursday before. The matter rested until Thursday evening, when a messenger arrived fromUnion City, with the Sheriff's horse and buggy, stating that the Sheriff and the aforesaid lady left the latter place on Wednesday of tho same week, on the cars for the West. As a matter of course excitement runs high, but as the whole matter is still before the jury, wo think it improper to make farther statements at present.—Peoples' Press, July 3.

These incidents are becoming frequent, and demand tho serious consideration of the people. That it is doubly criminal cannot be doubted—seduction in its common acceptation,—a violation of the marital relation—and then murder to hide the shame of a guilty mother and keep unexposed the damning wickedness of the father. Because the murdered being is yet unconscious—a babo—the offspring of illicit intercourse—takes not away from it the vital elements of accountability, nor withdraws from it the protection of the law, nor the sympathies of our nature and yet so morbid has become the public mind, that infanticide is not marked by that moral turpitude that is attached to the murder of a man or woman. Recently that community was thrown into a feverish and maddened excitement by reason of the arrest, indictment and imprisonment of Dr. Freeman for murder and yet Mosses T. Murphy was no less an unoffending being than this infant child. Indeed he had a capacity for evil, and did incur the animosity of Dr. Freeman but in this case an unconscious babe—a bud, awaiting the coming and returning of vernal suns to blossom and mature it—was kiiled—not by an enemy, but by the bauds of its unnatural mother, aided by a brutal father.

Oh spirit of Abel! wilt thau not blush to think of what improvement there has been on the wickedness of thy fratricide? Thy brother did offend thee! but here innocence is murdered lest that very innocence itself should confront, in dumb yet meaning language, tho parents whose shame was manifest by that birth. Let these things sink deep into the hearts of the people of Bluffton and let the same watchfulness and vigilance be felt here, until the frequent cases of infanticide, seduction and abortion shall be no more. We know of several cases of seduction, some ot abortion, &c., and yet the wretches movo with as much effrontery as did the Devil when he wae leading Christ up into the mount. —Ft. Wayne Times.

Murder on a Large Scale. There has been a terrible affair committed in Texas. Four men, believing much money to be in the possession of two families, disguised themselves as Indians and murdered ten persons1 in cold blood. An infant (found sucking its mother's breast, twenty-three hours after she had been murdered, and a little girl eight years old, alone remain of the families. This little girl recognized them through their disguise, and escaped to the field where her father was plowing. She found him murdered, and stopping only to cover him with her little hands from the buzzards, she hastened to alarm the neighbors. They trailed the fiends as far as their houses, and, after a desperate resistance, captured them and carried them to the scene of the murder, where, in all probability, they at once gibbeted them.

Dreadful Affair at Lexington Ky.—Murder and Hanging by a Mob. LEXINGTON, KY., July 10, 7 A. M.

Jos. Beard, city marshall, was cruelly murdered about 4 o'clock while endeavoring to arrest a man named Barber, who was engaged in a fight in the market house. Barber stabbed Beard in the right side severing the lungs and killing him instantly. The citizens were much excited. Barber was taken to the watch bouse, and from there to jail. He was taken from jail by citizens, and marched to the court house yard. A temporary scaffold was erected from a second story window of the court house and Barber was swung off. The first rope broke, and he fell to the ground, a distance of 30 feet, bruising his face considerably. He recovered in a few moments, and wr.s again taken up to the window. Another rope was attached, and he was made to jump from the window.— He is still hanging—will hang till 12 o'clock,

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A MURDEROUS AFFRAY. Martinsville is celebrated in the fighting and murdering line. On Saturday last, late in the afternoon an altercation occurred between Mase Warner, of this town, and Jack Kent, of Ingeon. We understand that they were both intoxicated, and in a playful manner, commenced knocking off hats. Jack got mad, and what had been taken as fun was accounted in earnest. A fight ensued, to which Warner used brick bats to considerable skill, brui|r, ing and disfiguring his opponent most shockingly. For the exercise of this glorious right of a freeman Warner was arrested and taken before Justice Orner, who fined him $5, with costs. This so exasperated him that he left the office of the Justice breathing vengence against Kent. Falling in with Bill Lee, the two Started off in pursuit of their victim.

About 9 o'clock the parties came, together, on the old free whiskey stamping ground, in front of the murder mill re cently kept by Adam Wise, and a murderous affray was the result. After the fight had progressed some time, Kent halloed enough, and Warner was forcibly taken off. Kent was then carried in Dr. Til ford's office, and an examination of his wound's made. In addition to the injuries received in the afternoon meleo, the doctors in attendance found a dangerous fracturo of Kent's skull, from the effects of which ho lies in a very crittical condition. The fracture is supposed to have been made with a two pound weight, as an article of that kind disappeared from the establishment of Loyd Lee about tho time of the fight.

Warner, after a desperate resistance was arrested by officers Lee and Dent, and again taken before the Squire, who recognized him in $300 bail to appear and stand trial on Saturday next. Early on Sunday morning, Warner made himself scarce and is supposed to be secreted somewhere near town, awaiting tho result of Kent's injuries. If Kent dies, which is likely, somebody will probably be sniped out of 8300. Bill Lee, an aider and abetter of the fight, was arrested on Sunday, and lodged in jail. lie afterwards gave bail to the tune of $800, and was released.—Martinsville Oaz.

YELI.OW FEVER

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QUARANTINE.—Within a few days past, throe vessels have arrived at New \oik with cases of yellow fever on board, and have been put under keepers at the lower quarantine. On Monday there arrived the ships Susan and Grotto. The Susan Acting Captain Williamson, from Matanzas, laden with sugar, was on her way to Greenwich, Scotland, and was compelled to put into New York in distress. Her former captain, Robert Bevridge, died on June 23d, being tho third day after leaving port and three days before making the port of New York, she lost Robert Newton, the cook, and John Harper, seamen, by the same disease. All the rest of the crew, five in number, were down with the fever, and she was obliged to put into port disabled, for want of a crew. The sick sailors were sent to the Marine Hospital as soon as the vessel arrived.

The ship Grotto was from the Sagua la Grande, with sugar for Falmouth, England. Capt. Nichols died on the night before the ship arrived. The vessel had on the passage lost two of the crew, and seven of them were down sick. The wife of tho captain had his body sewed up in canvass, and on its arrival hurried it on shore, and had it buried.

The ship Greenland, Capt. Varnum, arrived on Tuesday with sugar from Havana. Onboard the vessel wore the bodies of the wife and child of Capt. Bates, the former captain of the Greenland, who came himself in the Cahawba, but sent the bodies of his wife and son, who died in Havana of fever, home by the Greenland, intending to bury them in Maine. Capt. Varnum and most of the crew became sick, and upon arriving in New York were taken to tho Marine Hospital. rife TECHNICAL WORDS.

In reading we frequently come across words with which we are unacquainted and which are necessary to give us a full idea of the subject. To obviate this difficulty we giye a definition of some of the more common words:

A firkin of Butter, 56 lbs. A Sack of Coals, 224 A Truss of Straw, 36 A Stave of Hemp, 32 A Sack of Flour, 280 A Quintal, 100 A Piggot of Steel, 120 A Truss of Hay, 56 A Bash, 80 bush. A Kilderkin, 18 galls. A Barrel, 36 A Hogshead, 54 A Puncheon, 84 English prices-current often speak of the price of wheat per quarter—to reduce this to barrels, multiply the price by seven and divide by twelve, and it will give the price, at the same rate by the barrel. Thus: If wheat is quoted at 56 shillings a quarter, multiply 56 by 7, and divide by 12, and it gives the price, 32 shillings 8 pence a barrel.

The Spirits Detected.

Unearthly noises, cat calls and a general rumpus, night after night, in the Chicago jail, having been attributed to 'spiritual manifestations,' the infidel jailor of that institution kept watch night bofore last and detected one of the 'mejums' in the act of innoculating himself with the 'spiritual effluvia' from the neck of a quart flask of burbon, which had been smuggled into the jail. Some outsider had regularly furnished the prisoners with a supply, and the cause of the uproar was thus explained.

J3TJudge Duglass is going to canvass every cduiity in Illitiois this summer.

The "Southern'* Pacific Railroad. Whenever there is a Southern project, our government always bleeds freely to carry it forward, no matter how great a swindle. Tho Albany Evening Journal says it may not be generally known— which it is not—that we are building, now, a Pacific Railroad. But such is the fact. It is, to be sure, rather an airy, unsubstantial structure, the rails being laid nowhere except in the imagination but it has cost- us a good deal of money. The history is an exceedingly interesting one to non-stockholders, as showing the way our Democratic Administration encourage all "southern" projects.

The Road was begun about four years ago. As our Government is a Government which legislates alwaye i'orthe South and never for the North, it was a foregone conclusion that the Railroad must be a Southern Railroad. It must connect with Charleston and Mobile, instead of New York or Philadelphia, and must link the States which talk of forming a Southern Confederacy to California and the Pacific coast.

We began by sending out a corpse of array officers to survey the Southern route. To be sure the country was deluded with the idea that they were going to survey all the routes, Northern as well as Southern. But they had their own instructions from the Secretary of War, (a Missisfippian,) and the published report of their surveys show what they were. The second route they surveyed was a route through

rIexas.—

The third route they surveyed was a route through Texas—and so on to the end of tho chapter—every one of the dozen routes, with but one or two exceptions, being a routo through Texas.

This Texas engineering took out of the Treasury about $1,000,000 The next step was to print the surveys. Printed they were—in seven magnificent volumes, with steel engravings, diagrams, etchings, lithographs, pictures of red Indians, and green cactuses, fishes, lizards, and the like, every toad on the line having a chance to get his portrait at the Government expense. These seven magnificent volumes, (of which every library boasts an odd one, and no library in the couutry a full set, ours Vols. 1 and 2 short) cost about 750,000

Unfortunately for our railroad, there was but one point in which the surveys agreed. That was, that there was no feasible route, anywhere so far south in Uncle Sam's dominions, for a Pacific Railroad. Any government but ours would have knocked under to this necessity, and consented to build the railroad farther north, but tho genius of our institutions rose superior to the dilemma.— If we could not have a Southern Pacific Railroad

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Territory, we might build one around the outside of it! Acting upon this brilliant idea, we sent Gen. Gadsden down to Mexico., to buy a strip of land from Santa Anna, to build our Pacific Railroad on. The Gen. was eminently successful. He bought a strip of sandy desert, agreeably diversified witli rocks, too barren of vegetation, for the most part, to support a field mouse—-all for the moderate sum of 10,000,000

The Mexicans as is their custom, when any money comes into their country, immediately fell to fighting for it. Tliey have already had nine revolutions in consequence, and there is now a prospect of a tenth, which will about exhaust the sum—revolutions being cheaply afforded at a million or so apicce.

And now matters had so far progressed, that we set about building a wagon road—preliminary to hauling material for the railroad—putting it as near as possible to the extreme southern verge of our Territory. For this'enterprise and its branches, Congress appropriated 250,000

But here arose another difficulty. In a Desert there is no water. Without water, settlements are impracticable, horses perish, and even Army Surveyors cannot live. The Cabinet cogitated. Another brilliant idea met the emergency. Camels! Away went Lieut, Somebody or other, across the "billowy ocean," on a pilgrimage to Mecca, and a tour through Egypt in pursuit of Camels to build the Pacific Railroad with. Back they came with a cargo of Camels of all sorts and sizes—the Arabian Camel, the Bactrian Camel, the Camel of Asia Minor, and the Bedouin Dromedary—the double humped, the single humped, and the no bumped at all. They wero tied on the deck of the ship, and carefully attended by Arab gjpoms and negro waiters. Some, devoid of enthusiasm for internal improvements, had the perverseness to die of sea-sickness, but a dozen or two were slung safely ashore at Galveston, and forwarded into Central Texas to

We do not remember whether it was at this time, or previously, that Government made the discovery, that even Camels cannot live without water more than ten days or a fortnight. The journey to San Francisco could not be done in that time by any

Camel that evet* wore A hump. Water must be had after all, and

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Pacific Railroad, Geology has, proved that water can be had if you only bore deep enotigh for it zmrtn —provided you do not happen to 'J{ strike in a dry spot. Ingenious Frenchmen have turneil the fact to account by boring Artesian wells, a thousand feet or so deep. So we must have Artesian wells. Frenchmen and augers wert called to the relief of the Camel, and the boring began. Little water but much money flowed therefrom, say about

SINGULAR SURGICAL OPERATION.—The Detroit Free Press gives an account of a surgical operation recently performed in that city, upon Mrs. Jones, who was under the influence of chloroform. Mrs. J. had her shoulder put out of joint over a year ago, which was never returned, the bone of the arm having been thrown downward upon the ribs, and pressed upon the nerves, rendering the arm useless, and a constant source of suffering. The operation consisted in cutting down upon, and removing the upper portion of the bone of the arm, which articulates with the shoulder, and returning the arm to its original place. The patient was immediately relieved, and is rapidly recovering. About two inches were sawed off the upper end of the bone and taken out entirely, after which the cut was closed, leaving it to nature to heal the wound and form a now in

Trotting Rings at the State Fair, The Directors of the Southwestern Agricultural and Mechanical Association, at the request of many members and other persons, and in consideration of the heavy interest and large outlay in trotting stock in this part of Kentucky and the West, have determined to- open their grounds for an exhibition and trial of trotting horses, on Monday, September 27th, 1858—the day before the commencement of tho Third Annual Fair of the Kentucky State Agricultural Society. The horses are to be trot in harness, and the distance one mile'.— The following aie the premiums: Stallions, 5 years old and upward'........ $^0 4 years old and under 5 75 3

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commence operations on the line of the Pacific Railroad. They cost say 250,000

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It is impossible to have a well regulated sandy! desert, wherein the rights of Camels, Artesian wells, Frenchmen and the PacificRailroad will be duly respecte'd by the Indians and Baffalos, unv"*~ less you establish also there' k'-II Territorial Government. Hence the necessity of erecting Arizona into a Territory. Tho bill lags, but it will pass, sooner or later* 1 and perhaps after there is a Government there will be inhabit tants. But whether there are or no ha no re to establish a Territorial Govern-./ ment to protect our Southern Pacific Railroad, 500,00O

813,000,000

The condition of the Southern Pacific Railroad may therefore be said to stand, so fat—Expenses and Liabilities, Thirteen Million Dollars. Assets, sundry Camels, and Artesian wells, seven volumes of Surveys, a sandy Territory and some Arabs. Let no captious Northerner, remark that this Thirteen Millions would have built the Railroad from St. Louis or St. Paul westward some liuudreds of miles already.-— That might have been done, but where then would be our Southern Pacific Railroad. §Gt:

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15th of April, says the Buffalo Commercial, we detailed the circumstance of a hasty marriage at the Genessee Souse, in this city, in which a bold widower tnefc, woed and won' a Dulcinea in the short space of an afternoon, and departure of the couple for the country residence of tho rich but uncultivated bridegroom. Such matches are not made in Heaven! Last week the young and disappointed bride pretended to make a visit jsome aistanco from her homo, but carefully packed up her effects and left her husband forever, having gone west with a relative. Here is a lesson for ambitious damsels, who fancythat wealth is better than 'love in a eottage,' and we trust it will not be lost.— The circumstances of tho hasty wedding, the immediate and intense grief succeeding the ceremony, the gloomy honeymoon and flight, all 'point a moral,' if they do not 'adorn a tale!'

old and under 4 75

Geldings 4 years old and upward 75 3 years old and under 4 50 Mares, 4 years old and upward 7S 3 years old and uiid£r 4 50 Sweepstakes, for stallions geldings and mares of all ages [Louisville Cour.

Trial of Reapers and Mowers The trial of reapers and mowers under the auspices of the Kentucky State Agricultural Society, took place near Louisville on Thursday and Friday last. The premiums will not be awarded until the Fair. Three combined machines and two reapers entered the contest. Three acres, in a large field, with ground and grain in good order, were measured off and cot round for each machine. The work was done as follows:

The Kentucky Harvester (combined)-1 hour 58 minutes. «r Atkins' Self Raker (combined) 1 hour 33^ minutes.

New York Reaper and Mower (conibio*'* ed) 1 hour 41f minutes. Moore fe Patche's Reaper (reaper only) 1 hour 24£ minutes. 1

New York Reaper,(reaper only) 1 hout^ 34£ minutes.—Paris (Ky.,) Citizen, 9th,