Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 July 1860 — Page 1

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From the (Chicago) Rail 8}ilitUr.

JHE WIDE AWAKES.

BT W. H. SriCKXKY, K3Q.

ICKB—"Hurra for the bonnet* of blue."

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health to the Wide Aw.ucos,

A health to.tuo men who arc truo, To hearts an.-! hands, in Lincoln bands.,

'A "healtlfM the red, white, and blue. It'? good to be watchful and wise, It's good to be always on hand, rlt's.gnod to support the Republican cause,

And march with the "Wide Awake band.

.Hero's a health to our country's cause, &«health to our Lincoln dear A health to Hamlin the son of Maine,

To freemen who never knew fear. Here'f freedom to earth and to man, Hef*^ freedom to black and to white There's-none that uosorves that great boon to

preserve, feoec who contend for the right. Karrc. for true hearts and true hands, Hurra ior free Prairie lands It is good to support the Republican cauje, And march with the Wide Awake band.

KEPIBLIC41V SOIVfi.

"AlB—"Star Spangled Banner."

'O, gay what is this that has caused such emotion, From hamlet to hamlet, from ocean to ocean, fFrom New England's bright valleys, baptised by

clear fountains,

'^Where the lofty pine waves from her beautiful ruoiin tains, .''Where the laurel and ivy round her rocks hath entwine,

Where Liberty's air every heart doth enshrine? 'Tis the fires of Freedom—and long may they glow Where theevergreen waves over mantles of snow.

From the glades oftho "West, where the "Woodman's j-axe sounds,

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the giant oalt monarch the dense forest crowns, .Where the wolf,^ and the deer, and the antelope roam, "'Til there the bold pioneer seeks anew home. There nurtured to Freedom in heaven's pure air, Thus he lifts up his voice in the accents of prayer: -"May the curse of a tytant or Slavery's chain, If e'er pollute, my fair State or dishonor her name."

Where tho soft zephyrs play oe'r the prairie ocean, There, there doth humanity plight hor devotion "To Freedom's own temple of Fame,

There thousands of voices shout forth" her loved name, There LINCOLN the Honest, our LISCOLX tho Brave, Has raised the proud standard our country to save, Tho Union is dear to'Kentucky's own son The'Unionj the Union, eternal in one. ALDIJTE.

The Republicans of little Dela

ware are in high spirits over the prospect of carrying that State for Lincoln and Hamlin. All the Opposition papers' except th¥ Wil mirigton Commonwealth aire vigorously supporting the Betoblipaa jiominees. We have seen no Bell and.Everett electoral ticket put forward, and ii is possible that none will be. At iiaost but a feW hundfed votes-will be thrown awayftpon- the "aged gent's" -ticket.^- Thei contest is betftefen the- Republicans, and slave codeite^, Either Linpoln or ,BxteckiTiridge wiil receive the electoral vot^ of that State. If thie Doug'lt^f'tfes

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An Interesting Letter—Lincoln's old Rail-mauling Partner. [From the'Chicago ftesii And Tribune.] r,

We fin th« following interesting letter from John-Hanks—Lincoln's early partner in the rail-splitting business—in the Decatur Chronicle.— Hanks is an honest old Jackson Democratic farrtter, sho shared with the next President the privations and hardship^ of pioneer life in Illinois, before the days of railroads and canals. His letter is a plain, unvarnished statement, that will find a response in the breasts of hundreds of old Democratic farmers of the pioneer times:, Editor of the JDccatur Chronicle:

Dear Sir: The following item appeared in the Columbus Statesman, a few days ago, which I take from the Coles County Ledger: "HANKS AGAINST LINCOLN." "We wer3 informed a day or two ago by a delegate to the Baltimore Con vention, who called at our office, that John Hanks, the man who assisted Abe Lincoln to make those rails about which the Eepublicans are making such a terrible hubbub, has announced himself opposed to the election of Lincoln. Hanks, who has never been a Democrat, is, against the Republican nominee because he knows Lincoln to be a humbug, and nothing else/ Hurra for Hanks!"

To this article I desiro briefly toreply. If my choice for President, or how I shall vote as between the candidates for that office, is worth considering at all, I claim it as a simple right to be correctly represented. I am but a farmer, and regret to say not an educated one. I have never been a candidate for an j* office, nor do I ever expect to be while I can with all truthfulness say this, yet I have never been a negative man in politics. From my boyhood I "have oeen a constant voter with the Democratic party in all essential elections li«-vetboiight that party to be upright and straightforward in all the principles ithas adopted. So late as 1858 I voted for Mr, Douglas and against my old friend Lincoln.— For forty years I have looked upon tho party with pride and hailed its success with pleasure but as Mr. Douglas made a speech in Decatur in 1858, and in my hearing spoke so pleasantly and so honorably of the old Whigparty and

of Mr. Clay, its leader, »ft«r h.vin?f,,r

fifteen years in discussing general pol ities, when I used to love to listen to him so well, spoke so complainingly and so abusively of that party and of Mr. Clay, charging upon it and him many bad and mean things, until listening at him I learned to look upon both as dangerous and full of evil,—the thought struck me that for the future J. would never judge of any party or itsleaders by what an opponent might say, and this conclusion I mean to follow the balance of my life.

Ifow foolish it is to abuse a party because my friend may do so, and then praise the same party because that friend may change and do so he may bo designing—I would, in all probability. be a dupe. Ever since Mr. Douglas made that speech in 1858, he has been abusing the Republicans just like he used to abuse the old Whigs. I am tired of this kind of warfare I think it is not right to do so and Mr. Douglas further said in that speech that he was in tho habit of sometimes changing his politics. I did not know but that it was about time for him to begin to excuse and cease to abuse the Republicans, and made up my mind to let him go in time. Now, as to entirely changing my politics, I cannot say I have dono this but for the life of me I can see nothing in the Republican party that any honest Democrat can seriously oppose. It is true, were they such a party as Mr. Douglas used to say they were, I could see no objectionable feature about it but then is it wise to believe everything Mr. Douglas has said, when he tells us he sometimes changes and when We have near us honest men known to be honest for more than thirty years, who deny all this and propose to tell us the true state of the case, and to give us the true principles of that party? I think not. 4

Besides this, when we have for years been opposed, in politics, to a man who has again and again seen his party defeated, and has himself sometimes failed, and still seen that man true to his colors, rearming and reentering the field to try to uphold and successfully plant his colors upon the side of victory, when all the tinie he knew he had but to change once to win, and yet has never changed, I think I may say never faltered, how are we to respect him? Such a man I have known Mr. Lincoln for thirty years to be. In boyhood days we toiled together many are the, days we have lugged the heavy oar on the Ohio, and the Illinois and the Mississippi rivers together many are the Jong cold daygiwe have journeyed over the wild prairies and through the forest with gun and ax, and though it is not pleasant to refer back to it, well do I remember when we set out together in the cold winter to cut and maul rails on the Sangamon river, in Macoon county, thirty years ago, (to inclose His far ther's little home, and from day to day k¥pt at work until thei wJiofe was finishedarid the homestead fenced in we often swapped work in this way, and yetidutfing the many, years we wero conobpted together as laborers, sometimesflatboating, sometimes hogdrirfeigv' sometimes rail-making,- and too^j wh6ndt was nearly impossible to get

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books he was a constant reader I was a listner he settled ,all disputes of all the young men in the neighborhood, and his decisions were always abided by. I nevor knew a man so honest under all circumstancos, for his whole life. Thus associated with Mr. Lincoln, I learned to love him, and when in 1858 he was a candidate for the first time within my reach, against my feelings, and I may say against my convictions, my old party ties induced me to vote for Mr. Douglas: my Democratic friends all declared Lincoln was an Abolitionist I heard him make a speech in Decatur just before the election and I could see nothing bad in it but I was told by the party he was wrong I could not see how he could be, but they said so, and I was a Democrat and went it. My wife used to say to me that some day Abe would come out and bo something I thought so too, but I could not exactly see how a man in the lower walks of life, a day laborer, and hopelessly poor, would ever stand much chance to get up very high in the world at last, one day at home, we heard that the .Republican State Convention was to be held at Decatur, and that they weregoingfor Abe for Frepident.

As soon as I found this out, I went into town and told a friend of Abe's that as great and honest merit was at last to be rewarded in the person of my friend Mr. Lincoln, b\- the Republican party, thought of the hard and trying struggles of liis early days, and recollecting the rails we had made together thirty years ago, made up my mind to present some of them to that Convention as a testimonial of the beginning of one of the greatest living men of the age, believing they would speak more of his praise than any orator could, and honor true labor mox*e than the praise of men or the resolutions of Conventions. On our way to get the rails, I told this friend of old Abe that if Abe should be nominated for President I would vote for him everybody knows what he has been, and I rejoice that I live to give this testimony of his goodnessand honesty, and hope I «hall live to vote for him for President of the LTuited States next November. Is there anything wrong in this? Who ought to refuse to vote for as good and as great a man as lie is?— I know that in voting for him I vote with the Republican party, and will be considered as adopting its orinciplus:

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party is divided, and we have no Solomon to tell who shall take the child. Slavery has divided the Democratic party nobody can blame Republicanism for the destruction that came upon us at Charleston Slavery has disunited us—it has united the Republican party if there is any good about the question, they have it all, and we have the trouble, ifl understand Mr. Douglas now, he occupies a position on this question just as distasteful to the South as Mr. Lincoln does—with this clear difference tho South seem to understand Mr. Lincoln's position better than his, and to respect it a good deal more, and I am convinced if Mr. Douglas does not reflect the nigger he does the mulatto, and one brings just as much in Mobile as the other, and stands as high in the market.

Many of my Democratic neighbors will say I have done wrong, but 1 know there are many who would doas I have done, were it not they do not feel willing to break away from party ties and to encounter "the talk" of old friends.

As long as I have ''Old Abe" to lead me I know I shall never go very far from right. Should nebe elected President and find any trouble in steering his new boat, he has only to remember how he used to get out of hard places by rowing straight ahead and never by making short turns. Tho tallest oaks in the forest have fallen by his giant arm he still wields a tremendous maul out of the largest timber he can make the smallest rails I have seen him try a tough cut and fail once the second trial he never failed to use it up. Though not a very beautiful symbol of honesty, I think tho rail a fitiing one, and mean to present Abe with one of his own make, should he be elected, in the city of Washington, on the da}of his inauguration, to be kept in the White House during his administration. JOHN HANKS.

Dr. Dally Hissed Down In a Democratic Meeting-. On Wednesday night, after the torch light procession had displayed its magnificence, an attempt was made to diversify the "glory with a few speeches. Among others Dr. Wm. M. Daily, whose exploit at the Union Depot procured him an expulsion from the ministry, from the church, and from the Presidency of the State University, but procured for him also the Democratic nomination for Congress in 3d District, attempted to speak. The announcement by Dick Ryan of "the fnan expelled from a vile and corrupt church on account of his polities," was received with hisses. His appearance renewed hisses, and finally so overwhelming were the demonstrations of contempt for him that he was compelled to leave the stand, relinquish: his attempt and retire, grumbling something about "having to leave very soon on the cars." The hissing was intended both for Dr. Dally and Mr: Ryan's most outrageous manner of announcing him, arid proceeded from. persons of all parties.— Ird. Journal:^ .u.

The Xiniotij ill any event.

The President 0n the Stump. The Breckinridge then recently held a large ratification meeting in Washington City, and after listening to speeches from a number of prominent Democrats, they proceeded to serenade the "old public functionary," who occupics the Executive mansion. In acknowledgment of this "flattering testimonial of public regard," he made his appearance before the crowd, and delivered himself of a political harangue on party politics in general, and the distressed condition of the Democratic organization in particular. It was a novel proceeding for the President of the United States, but "J. B." has a way peculiarly his own of putting himself in novel, and not very creditable, predicaments. With all his faults and follies, we must do him the justice to say that he is a true and fitting representative of tho Democratic party.

In the course of his remarks he said: I purposely avoid entering upon any discussion respecting the exclusion from the convention of regularly elected delegates from different Democratic States. If the convention which nominated Mr. Douglas was not a regular Democratic convention, it must be confessed that Breckinridge is in the same condition in that respcct. The convention that nominated him, although it was composed of nearly allthecertain Democratic States, did not contain the twothirds and therefore every Dcmociat is at liberty to vote as he thinks proper, without running counter to any regular nomination of the party. [Applause, and cries of "three cheers for Breckinridge and Lane. Holding this position, I shall present some of the reasons why I prefer Mr. Breckinride to Mr. Douglas. This I shall do without attempting to interfere with any individual Democrat or any State Democratic organization holdingdifferent opinions from myself^ The main object of all good Democrats, whether belonging to the one or the other wing of our unfortunate division, is to defeat the election of the Republican candidates and I shall never oppose any honest and honorable course calculated to accomplish this object.

He then proceeded to approve the nomination of Breckinridge because he was in favor of the equal rights of the States. This notion he presented in the usual style, for some timer Regarding the Cincinnati platform, he said:

That platform declares that a majority of the actual residents in a territory, whenever their number is sufficient to entitle them to admission as a State, possesses the power "to.form a constition with or without domestie slavery, to be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with other States." If there be any reference in it to a Territorial Legislature, it has entirely escaped my notice. It presents the clear principle that at the time the people form their constitution, they shall then decide whether they will have slavery or not. And yet/it has been stated over and over again that in accepting the nomination under that platform. I endorse the doctrine of squatter sovereignty. 1 suppose you have all heard this repeated a thousand times. [A Yoice—"We all knew it was a He/J

Wei!, I am glad you did. We have been told that non-inter-vention on the part of Congress with slavery in the territories is the true policy. Very well I most cheerfully admit that Congress has no right to establish, impair, or abolish slavory in the territories. Jjet this principle of non-intervention be extended to the territorial legislatures, and lot it be declared that they in like manner have no power to establish, impair, or destroy slavery, and then the controversy is in effect ended. This is all that is required at peesenfc* and I verily believe all that will ever be required.— Hands off by Congress, and hands off by the territorial legislature, [Loud applause.] With the Supreme Court of the United States I hold that neither Congress nor. the territorial legislature has any power to establish, impair, or abolish slavery in the* territories. But if, in the face this postive prohibition, the territorial legislature should exercise the power of intervention, then this would be a mere transfer of the Wilmot Proviso and the Buffalo platform from Congress, to be carried into execution in the territories to the destruction of all property in slaves [Renewed applause.]

The present issue is transitory, and will soon pass away. In the nature of things it cannot continue. There is but one possible contingency that can endanger the Union and against this all good democrats,: whether squatter, sovereigns or popular sovereigns, tyill present a united resistance- Should the time .ever arrive when Northern, agitation and fanaticism shall proceed so far as to render -the domestic fire sides of the South insecure, then,,- and not till then, will the Union be in dang'er:7?,A united Northern Democracy will present a wall of fire against such a catastrophe!

you nre too timid to lay" your

hands on the girl or widow you are courting she will think you are an nrj feeling,monster.

CRAWFORDSVILLK. INDIANA JULY 26,1 WHOLE NO. 618

An Interesting Letter. Jintown joon 25 Domini 1860. FELLER BROADAX:—When word cum tojintown last night that Duglis was elected to the nomination of the Baltimore convention which adjourned sina dy from Carliner to meet in joon, thar was a grate outporin of the jintown dimocracy, fur the purpose of holdin a spontaneous raterfycation. But on acount uv thar bein no nagmetic paragraph to jintown wo wus afeared it wus a mistake, and felt onsartin as to how we orter perceed. The male carrier fetched the news and when we pinned him down close, to be certin about it, so we mite know what kind uv resolutions to draw up, hosed either duglis was elected president or else thar wus a fite, and he wouldent be certain which. This put us to a grate quandry. Thar wus jist scoresuv dimocrats in town all afeelin enthusiasstic and a holdin a raterfj-un meetin and nothin to raturfy. At this pint Squire Bobins riz up and seys ho, "Feller dimocrats—sposen we raterfy tho dimocracy in ginerel and then hold another raterfyun at some future period (at this the dimocracy gin 3 nashunil churs) and Joash Trugrit wus immejiently appointed to bring in resolutions expressing the feelins of the meetin, and Doctor Jimpson was appointed to help him, but jist as we wus about retirin down to Old Muggins grocery fur to draw em up word cum agin that Duglis was actually elected. When the word cum the cheerin that wus done in jintown would a made chicauger trimble in its boots. Many dimocrats has had to wear stengthin plasters on thenlower jints ever since on account uv over dooin it. a hollerin, and one dimocrat actually tore his new butternut britches from stem to stern, a roll in over and over in squire bobin's dogfennel patch a cheerin fur duglis, he also lost his monej* puss, and torbacker.— By this time me and Dr. Jimpson, fetched in the resolutions, which wus received with three powerful chur? afore any body knowod what, teas in em. Then I perceeded to read om as follows: 1st. Resolved that Judge duglis are the fatfrer uv his country, and allers wus, and will be agin. 2nd. Resolved that God made the world fust, and then Judge duglis, and that all that yarn about Adam arc a black republican lie. 3rd. Resolved that at fust the jintown dimocracy wus in favor uv Jeems Burcannin, and would abin yit ef he had abin nominated, butnow their fust clioise is duglis and always wus. 4th Resolvod that when election day shal cum Linkum will git a lickin, and the dimocracy will sweep america from the north polo to californy, and from earamy squaddy bay to Carliner, and as fur round asyancy and the other succeeders. 5th. Resolved that the jintown nashunal dimocracy is now ready fur the mellennium, and that in the language of the Scripter, Judge Duglis can now put one fut on the sea and one leg on the solid land, and perclaim frum the top uv his voice how often would I gathered you under my wings, as I would a hen, and ye would not. (3 powerful churs.)

Gth. Resolved that—at this pint the male boy frum tother direction cum a riain in town at the top uv his voice, perclaimin, that the south had also nominated brackinridge & fitzpatrick, and maby" several other irrishmun. and wus still nominatin. When this inflamation kum Squire Bobins, tho president uv the meetin tuck the ager he hadn't had it afore fur yurs. I drapped the resolution, & perposed 3 groans fur the south, several dimocrats commenced a groanin but it all went off into cussin, and we adjourned scatterin afore eny body had time to make a regular motion. JOASH TRUGRIT.

Kegro by Express.

A young negro about twelve years of age came tip from the east yesterday, in charge of the Adams Express Company, on his way to Columbus, Ohio. He was shipped with every care and precaution at a cost of eleven dollars, the boy paying for his own 'grub.' This boy is from Staunton, Va., and until receutly was the property of Mr. Napper, of that place. The boy's father, a resident of Columbus, bought him not long since from his master at a cost of $1,000 and he was shipped to Ohio in accordance with the terms of the purchase.— Wheeling [Fa.] Intelligencer.

Kentucky lor Breckinridge., The Cincinnati papers bring us full reports of the Democratic State Convention of Kentucky, held at Frankfort on Wednesday, from which we learn that resolations endorsing the Breckinridge ticket were unanimously adopted and an elector placed on the ticket in lieu of a M. G. Taylor, who was aDouglas man, and another in place of John A. Pratt, also diseased with Douglas. This movement indicates the entire posession of the organization of the party by the Breckinridge men, but how the factions will stand in the popular vote remains to be seen. The Louisville Democrat was denounced as heretical and unsound and commended to the disfavor of the faithful throughout the State.—Jni Jour.

,-^The histories of men and parties are beet written after their death.—' The late Democratic party is now readv for tmtorv."—fLonigrille Journal-

Thus, all through the memorable and heated contest for Senatorship of 111., did Douglas time and again, testify to the integrity and ability of Abi'aham Lincoln.—Indiana American.

(Judge Lynch In Lafayette. It will be remembered thatsome time since we published a notice that a citizen of the Fourth Ward was in the habit of maltreating his family, and beating one of his children, to whom he appeared to have an especial dislike, so that tho screams of the little sufferer could be heard throughout the entire neighbophood, leaving the marks of the horsewhip he used upon the body, so that they were visible for several days afterwards. Ho was waited upon a number of times by those living near, and remonstrated with for his cruelty. He promised eve^'thing, but when in an ill humor would abuse his family, knock the child down and beat it until senseless. Forbearance having ceased to be a virtue, a committee waited upon him in the evening about 10 o'clock, after he had retired, and requested him to dress himself and step outside, as some important business was to be transacted.

Suspecting nothing he came out, was immediately seized, gagged, thrown upon the ground, his clothes stripped from his person, and a stout man with a leather strap gave him a taste of the punishment he had been ready to inflict upon the child. A physician was in tho party, who felt the pulse of the brute, and allowed the executioner to lay on as long as he thought it could be borne without endangering the life of the prisoner. After he had received a just reward for his cruelty, he was liberated, and informed that if he did not wish to have a repetition of the punishment, the sooner he left the city the better for him. Acting upon the suggestion he left the next morning, and has not been heard from. We are no apologist for mob law, but we think this fellow did not receive any more than he deserved.—Lafayette Journal, 17th.

They Differ.

i'Douglas will be elected ty the people," say tho Cincinnati Enquirer, and scores of other Demooratic papers. "Douglas will not secure an electoral vote," say the Louisville Courier and scores of other papers, of the same party. "We are all Democrats!"

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOAERY OF A CANNON.—A small brass cannon has been found at the bottom of a deep well of the Castle de Cluey, in France with the date of 1258 upon it. The date Ofthe invention of cannon has historically been assigned to the year 1324 —sixty-six years later

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THE TESTIMONY OF DOVGLASi The Democratic papers all over the Union and especially in the North, are sorely perplexed and chagrined that they can find or hear tell of no mean trick that Lincoln has been guilty of, that they may herald a report of them all over the country, adding to them as they fly hoping thereby to affect his popularity with the people. The Ohio Statesman, for want of something more malignant, calls him a fourth rate country lawyer, and the Quincy Herald says he used to, about twenty-five or thirty years ago, keep, or clerk in a grocery, and all the little dog Trays throughout the land, at the bidding of their masters, send forth some yelp, not knowing what else to do, in the extreme emergency. "Now let us call his great opporfbnt in the Illinois contest of'58, Stephen A. Douglas, to the stand, and hear what ho affirms in the case. In his reception Speech at Chicago, July 9th, 1858, Douglas, speaking of his opponent, Lincoln, said: "I take pleasure in saying I have known him personally and intimately, for about a quarter of a centurj', the worthy gentleman who has been nominated in my place, and I will say that I regard him as a kind, amiable and intelligent gentleman, a good citizen, and an honorable opponent." "I shall have no controversies of a personal character with Mr. Lincoln.— I have kuown him well for a quarter of a century. I have known him as you all know him, and a kind hearted amiable gentleman, a right good fellow, a worthy citizen, of eminent ability as a lawyer, and, I have no doubt, posit, sufficient ability to make a good Senator.''—Douglas* speech at Bloomington, Illinois, July, 1858. "He is a lawyer, an eminent lawyer." "He is a prudent man." "I take great pleasure in bearing testimony to the fact that Mr. Lincoln iB a kind-hearted, amiable, good-natufed man, with whom no man has aright to pick a quarrel, even if he wanted one. is a worthy gentleman. I have known him for twenty-five years, and there isno better citizen, and no kinderhearted man. He is a fine lawyer, and possesses abilit}'."—Douglas' speech at Springfield, July 17, 1858. "Lincoln is one of those peculiar men who perform with admirable skill

everything which they undertake."— relieve it,without effect. Last Sunday o-nnsmh ni riHrnrn Minni* An. in in Douglas speech at Ottawa, Illinois, August 21,1858. "Lincoln is the ablest lawyer in Illinois, and the smartest stump-speaker in the Union an earnest and an honest man who believes what he professess, and will carry out what he undertakes."—Late speech of Senator Douglas.

60 FELL YEAR IN ATJVASCK 2 OO WITHIN THE YEAR.

From the State Sentinel.

A Challenge to the Military Com* imnies of Indiana* CRAWFOR1)SVILLE, IND., July 7, I860.

J. J. BISGHAM, ESQ.—Sir: A correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, of the Gth instant, speaking of tho drill of the Grej's and Guards, of your city, in the Coliseum, on the Fourth says: "The two best military companies of Indiana, inside this arena went through, another drill inspection, for a prize of silver plate and 8100.

That declaration caritldt go unchallenged while I command the Montgomery Guards. My boys would depose me ifl failed to give it prompt attention. Therefore, thx*ough your colums I submit the following proposition:

If the citizens of Indianapolis will put up 8100. and the Greys §100, the Guards §100, the Montgomery Guards will also put up 8100—making a purse of $400—to be contended for and'taken by the best drilled of the three* companies. Time of contest, Thursday the 20th day ofSeptember next. Place within the lines of the State Encampment t,o be held in your city in that month. The drill to be in all arms of the infantry service, including the Zouave.

For Judges I pfropftso Majof Woodruff, Marion Rifles, Louisville Major1 Ellsworth, Chicago Cadets and Major Boselv, Guthrie Grays, Cincinati.

Respectfully, LEW. WALLACE, Capt. Montgomery Guards. P. S.—I extend the above challenge to all the Companies of this State provided they will each putupthe $100 de-

L. W.

JST-At a convention of insurrectionary abolitionists of John Brown genus, recently held in Boston, Gerrit Smith was nominated as their candidate for the Presidency. The platform of tho party is the total abolition of slavery from the Union. The convention will re-assemble at North Elba, N. Y., the residence ofthe surviving relatives of the late John Brown to-morrow, 4th inst.

A NEEDLE ON A JOURNEY.—The Howard Tribune says that Mrs. Sellers, of Kokomo, for two years has felt an acute pain in her stomach and side, and a great deal of medicine to has taken

the pain in her side was very acute, and upon examination she discovered a pimple that was very sore upon pressure. She made an incision, and finding a hard substance, got hold of it and drew forth a needle. After two years in its journey the needle, save a little rust, is in good condition for service.— Ind. Journal.

STRONG FOR LINCOLN.—It is not little remarkable that there is a town in Middlesex Co., Mass., another in Graflon Co., N. H., another in Penobscot Co, Maine, and still another in Addison Co., Vermont, where every voter is a Lincoln man. u.

/SrThe Vincennes Gazette will have to be held responsible for the following: The jollified admirers ofthe diminutive giant proclaim that I10 (Douglas) "is a whole team." And the Democratic party is a whole "team"—with all the "horses" loose, tho "harness" broken, the "wagon" smashed to flinders and the "drivers" disheartened and dismayed. !.

Compliments to the Enquirer. [From the Louisvillo Courier, Dem.] The Cincinnati Enquirer, whose editor, controlled only by personal considerations, has been against Douglas (on the Kansas bill,) and with him (for the Presidency)—for tho Administration (while ho held an office under it,) and against it (when he had been displaced)—for the Opposition (when ho supported Tim Day for Congress,) with the Democracy (when it was apparent Buchanan would be elected and while he was a Federal officeholder,) and again with the Opposition (when ho had nothing more to expect from the President)—for the Wilmot Proviso and the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia (when in Congress,) and is probably for both yet —who is all things, anything or nothing as his interests prompt him -—this paper is engaged in the congenial work of trying to ferment bad feeling among the Democrats of Kentucky, by appealing to personal animosities and individual antipathies, in order to prop up a cause which is abhorred by all our people. It will have its labor for its pains. It cannot enlighten the intelligent Democracy of this State upon the nature and extent of their difficulties, and is incapable of teaching men actuated by sincere attachment to great principles how to discharge their duty.

THE CORN CROP.—The yield of corn in Central Illinois, this soason, will be immense unless some untoward event occurs to blight the present prospect.— i'be prairies everywhere resemble an unbroken corn field much of it is now seven feet higb, atjci it is growing with an unequalled l-apidity. Farmers are already looking around for stock to eat the corn. The crop h&vijg been short for several years, has caused a .gteat tbinin^ out of stock but this year there will be plenty 0# all purpo863, and ftit cattle and hoffl ^ill be sta^ a if S a S 7

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