Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 August 1860 — Page 1

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Journal Correspondence.

LEXINGTON, IVY., July 22, 1S60. MR. EDITOR: On Saturday last I called upon my old preceptor in Medicine, iPr. Dudley, v.'uoso reputation as a ourgen was high not only in our own, but in foreign countries. I found the old gentleman very feeble, having suffered severely for five years past, lie informed me tliat five years ago ho amputated an arm. affected with a malignant tumor, and in handing the knife to an assistant, the bloody point inflicted a slight wound on his own finger, and thus innoculated his system with the malignant poison the effects first appeared in the form of carbuncles then attacked the back of his head, producing deafness. Afterward it seized upon his forehead, producing blindness, and at the same time restoring the hearing. The poisonous influence passed over the whole system, successively attacking the organs of the head} chest and abdomen. He now hopes that the power of the poison is wellnigh exhausted, and that ere long his usual health will be restored. For more than two years he has been unable to go to his own table, and has lived on potatoes, brehd and milk. Few men have led a more active life but few have been so devoted to his profession, and fewer still have shared so largely the confidence of the people. Though a lecturer on Surgery and Anatomy for many years, and regarded as one of the most successful operators of the world, ho has left no work as a monument to his skill, and has communicated \but few articles to medical literature. His long experience in Surgery, his ample opportunities gave the profession reason to expect, that in the riper years of his manhood, liis time and talents would be employed in writing the principles on which he had practiced, and thus adding the light of his experienco to that of former years. It is the knowledge of practical men, men who have observed, who have acted on the broad theatre of active professional life -who have observed the wondrous phenomena of normal and abnormal life, who have witnessed the mysterious play of vital forces in the human system, that is how needed in medical literature. Closet men, mere book worms who have never witnessed the fearful and formidable attacks of disease on the human form, who are ignorant of the action and reaction of the various remedial agents on the organs of the body such men have flooded the world with their speculations on disease life and health, which are absolutely worse than nothing. They mislead the young and inexperienced, destroy the* confidence of men in the sound and reliable principles of medical philosophy, and thus give rise to quacks and quackery in their vilest forms. Many practical men like Dr.

Dudley, labor on until strength and health fail them, and are then unable to contribute to the world the valuable knowledge which by long years of toil they had acquired.

It is a sad reflection, that a man of such eminence and ability, who for forty years had "been actively engaged in Surgery should at last fall a sacrifice to his profession by the absorption of a deleterious poison into his own system from the malignant disease of his patient. But this is often the case. Many a luminary in the medical profession has lost his life by operating on tumors and other forms of disease whose touch was almost certain death.

In the heat and shock of battle men may face with daring boldness an enemy all bristling with the weapons of death they may rush upon canon vomiting forth its thunder and death excitement will bear them on through scenes of blood and carnage, but in the quiet of the chamber, whore the angel of death seems alike above patient and physician, where disease of fatal and malignant type is doing its work, it demands a bravery cool, calculating and determined, to use the knife on tumors whose touch and odor are almost certain death.

The chasm between the two wings of the old Democratic party widens with each passing day—the feelings of hostility becomes more intense. The tide which bore on the Breckinridge party, move with less rapidity, and before the election will be almost motionless. The Douglas party is about in the same condition while Bell and Everett seem to be rapidly on the rise.— What new developments will be made cannot be foreseen.

Lincoln is regarded by all parties as an able and an honest man.— 11 is debate with Douglas has given him a high reputation even in the South. His fairness, his honesty, his ability, his familiarity with the subject has placed him in the front rank of American statesmen, even in the South.

The Breckinridge men prefer Lincoln to Douglas, and the Douglas men prefer Lincoln to Breckinridg.e, and the Bell and Everett men prefer him to either. TheLincoln men prefer him to all and will elect him. Ca,ssius M. Clay can now speak in Lexington to a larger crowd and with more otuiet than any man in the State. He fights for principles, for his country, for the Constitution, for freedom while others fight for party and for spoils and a brighter day is already dawning on him, and those with whom he acts. Their principles will sooner or later constitute the platform for the greatest, the largest, the best party of our country.

In proof of this I need only refer to the late Democratic meeting in Louisville, when Minister Preston and Gov. Powel, were hissed down. Cassius M. Clay had spoken a few days before to an immense crowd from the same stand, and was listened to with respect and in filence save when interrupted by long, loud and repeated bursts of applause.

I had almost forgotten to mention the fact that my first letter was written on paper furnished by an accomplished democratic southern lady my inkstandby an old line Democrat, and was written beneath the roof of a full blooded. Bell and Everett man, who thinks the Democracy are worse than 'nigger' stealers. But they all with one accord, approve the sentiments and doctrines of the letter.

Truly, T. W. F:

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The New York Post says: A leading Houston man in this city said, a day or two since, that Houston would-undoubtedly receive, the vote of texas. "in which ease," he added, "he will stand better in the Electoral College than Douglas, for I don't believe Douglas can get an Electoral vote.,"— We shall all look about like Houston, Breckinridge, Douglas and Bell—for you Republicans will beat us all.

VOL. X1J.-N0.47. S CRAWFORIMILLE, INDIANA, AlCI ST 9,1860.

Daniel S. Dickinson on the Douglas Democracy. At the great Breckinridge and Lane meeting in New York, on Wednesday night, Daniel S. Dickinson, "the Sage of Binghampton," the ablest leader of the Democracy in the State, made a speech, in the course of which he expressed his opinion of the Douglas men and their conduct very lively.— As no Douglas paper is likely copy it, Ave will do so, that each branch of the party may see what the other thinks of it:

THE CONVENTION.

There was never a moment in the history of the Democratic party, or a time when the masses of the people looked to the sitting of a National Convention with more confiding expectation than when it was about to assemble at Charleston in April last. There was never a time when such confidence was more wickedly, wantonly and shamefully betrayed—when reasonable expectations were so madlj7 blasted as in the results produced by its actions. Its proceedings find no parallel in disgrace and degradation since the Empire of the World was sold at auction for money.

The Democratic party, for its steady devotion to the principles of the Constitution, the catholicit}* of its creed— for its grand radical analysis and its just and lofty conservatism, had won the confidence of the masses, and wrung unwilling admiration from its hereditary opponents, and all good men looked to it in this, the evil day of our country, for deliverance and safety.— Its convention assembled at Charleston and organized for business. A holy man arrayed in the robes ofhis sacred office, with raised hands and fervent supplication, invokes the favor of the Benificent Being who has vouchsafed to us, as a people, so many blessings.— The whisper of beauty is hushed in the galleries—the aged bow their gray hairs in sympathetic and deep devotion —levity is humbled in silence, and even lurking fraud is abashed and cowers for a hiding place. But the prayer is over, and a band of conspirators take possession of the assemblage, and, instead of a National Convention, a groat huckstering bazaar is erected—a political trade sale is opened—management inaugurates her slimy and repuls'ive court and the office of Chief Magistrate of this mighty Republic is put up like the board of a public pauper at the lowest bidder. Its proceedings bear evidence of deliberate and long cherished design, of a combination and conspiracy to tie up minorities against them, and leave those free who wore for them, and thus attain by fraud or force a particular result, regardless of public sentiment or of consequences which might follow.

The ruling faction had snuffed up the scent of four hundred millions of spoil, and for them the Administration was expected to rain milk and honey, snow powdered sugar and hail Moffat's Vegetable Life Pills.

Under nearly two weeks of this application of the forcing process, the Convention proved unequal to the emergency and paused for breath—a portion of the delegations withdrew and the residue adjourned to Baltimore, for a period of some six weeks, for ventilation. The public had reason to expect that, separated from the influences which surrounded them, and no longer breathing the contagions they engendered, but inhaling a healthy moral atmosphere, they might return and discharge the duties they had undertaken. But abstinence only edged their appetites, and their last state was worse than the first. The same drilled, packed, machine majority met again, composed of delegates from a portion of the States, and assumed to sit in judgement on the rights of regular delegates from another portion—to punish them for some lion-conformity to the majority standard or other delinquency—in short, to deny to sovereign Democratic States the rignt to return to their seats at Baltimore, because they did not occupy them for the whole period of the protracted sitting at Charleston—a question belonging entirely to the constituency of those delegations alone, and with which the National Convention had no business whatsoever. And not only were these delegations expelled under such pretensions, but bogus delegations, made up to suit the convenience and necessity of the occasion, were put in their places.

A decision so abhorent to every principle of common fairness—so replete with outrage and usurpation—divided, dismembered and broke up the Convention, as it should have done, and as every sensible mind saw it would do, and I commend with my whole heart the spirit, and approve the conduct of the President, General Cushing, who refused longer to preside over the tyrannous cable, and of the delegations who, under the same President, reorganized and placed in nomination Messrs. Breckinridge and Lane.

The remaining faction made up chiefly of delegates from Republican States, whose delegations w6re the authors of the great wrong, deprived oftheir head, and without a Democratic body, proceeded to nominate Messrs. Douglas and Fitzpatrick, as we were informed, amidst tremendous enthusiasm—^Vermont and other New England States, and the whole Northwest, were pledge ed to Mr. Douglas, (subject, of course, to a slight incumbrance, held by one

T) ie TJnion, in any event.

Abraham Lincoln) with deafening .applause! Someflat boatmen, descending the Mississippi, in rather a jolly mood, passed a house on the shore where,they were fiddling and dancing on the piazza—the boat fell'into an eddy, and once in each half hour passed the house again, and the boatman swore they were fiddling and dancing in 6very house for a hundred miles on the shore of the river while they had been revolving in an eddy, and had seen but one. The Douglas strength is estimated in the same way.

Waiving all questions of the merits or demerits of Mr. Douglas as a candidate, his pretensions wore pressed upon the Convention—some times under the pretentense of a platform upon which he could stand with convenience —some times in the admission and rejection of delegates by the process of machinery and management, and at other times in the direct presentation of his name, beyond all precedence, or bounds of courtesy, or reason—in a manner and in a spirit and with a feeling, which spoke defiance to nearly one half of the States of the Confederacy, when it was well known they wo'd not acquiescc in his nomination—that they would not support him if nominated, and that he could not be elected without their votes—pressed, too, in a tone and temper, and with a doggod and obstinate persistence, which was well calculated, if it was not intended, to break up the Convention, or force it into obedience to the behests of a comI biriation.

TERRIBLE INVECTIVE.

Those who ruled, and dictated to, and wielded the vote of the New York delegation throughout the fraudulent process of a unit vote—a rule forced upon a large majority of this delegation to stifle their sentiments, while small minorities were released from it, in others, to suit the purposes of the conspirators, will hereafter be known by the name plainly branded upon their guilty foreheads at Charleston— "political gamblers!"—who hang festering upon the lobbies of State and Federal Legislation to purchase chartered privilege and immunity by corrupt appliances—who thrive in its feted atmosphere, and swell' to obose proportions like vultures upon ofM office breakers, who crawl and cringe around the footsteps of''power, and by false pretences procure themselves, or vile tools, places of official trust and emolument, that they may pack and control caucusses and conventions at the expense of the people they defraud and betray, while honest men arc engaged in their industrial avocations to earn their bread.

Oh, how has tho once noble spirit of the Democracy fled from such contaminating approaches?" Rome, whose proud banner once waved triumphant over a conquered world, degenerated in the pursuit of sensual delights to a band of fiddlers and dancers, and the Democratic party of New York, founded in the spirit of Jefferson, and emulating for many years the noble efforts of a Jackson and a Tompkins, has in the hands of "political gamblers'' been disgraced by practices which would dishonor the resorts of a Peter Funk in cast off' clothing cheating the sentiment of the people of the State and Nation cheating a groat and confiding party, whose principles they put on as a disguise, for the purpose of enabling them to cheat cheating the Convention which admitted them to seats cheating delegations who trusted them cheating everybody and everything with which they came in contact, except Mr. Douglas, their nominee, and then lamenting through their accredited organ, from day to day, that the Convention had not remained together so that they might finally have cheated him! They have overthrown the Democratic masses, but "woe to the riders that have trampled them down." Political gamblers! you have breathed your contagion throughout the Democratic citadel, and profaned and polluted its very walls. You have defiled its holy places by your corrupting presence unci can beasts fold in the area of its temples, and filthy reptiles have inhabited the sanctuary of its Gods. Its towering eagle of liberty has fled, for a brief season, and foul ravens croak for prey and whet their bloody beaks and dirty talons upon its sacred altars. Political gamblers! you have perpetrated your last cheat—consummated your last fraud upon the Democratic party, for you will never again be trusted. Henceforth you will be held and treated as political outlaws, and set at defiance. There is no fox so crafty but his hide finally goes to the hatters. You will hang upon itsskirts to regain power, and lie in ambush for revenge, but as an open enemy you are powerless, and arc only dangerous to those who trust you. With parties, and especially cliques, who betray trusts and abuse power as with individuals, thero is a day of reckoning and retribution, and yours is at hand: "For time at last sets all things even,

And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power, Who could evade, if unforgiven, ... The patient search and vigil long, Of him who treasures up a wrong."

THE DOUGLAS "MACHINE." From that day to the present, elements therefore unknown and unheard of in the history of the party became rife, wielded by "political gamblers." Since then caucusses have been run by contract, conventions have been packed, and the management of party machinery has been assigned to its chief

assistant engineers, with as much precision and regard to minutia as the running of railroad trains. When a corps of hands were wanted to falsify domestic history at Washington, and calumniate faithful Democrats and honest men, they were in motion with all the alacrity of police detectives, who start to arrest and punish, not perpetrate fraud. In short, they usually keep stationed there a drill sergeant and a file of men to serve in emergencies. When an office was vacant, or a job of depleting the treasury was in the market, they snuffed up the spoil with that keen instinct given to all birds of evil omen, and demanded it as their lawful booty. They were "political gamblers" by trade and pursued their avocation with appropriate and shameless desperation.

KIDMPPIVa

Three free negroes were kidnapped in Iroquois county. 111., on the 2d of this month—were hurried South, most probably with the connivance of the conductors of the Central Railroad, and are bofore this time in hopeless and irredeemable slavery. There was no pretence that they were fugitive slaves, as they had resided near Clifton for years, and were generally known as quiet, peaceable and industrious farm hands, and were respected as such in tho neighborhood. The account of the affair, as published in the local papers, is enough to make the blood of freemen boil. On the Sabbath, they (the kidnappers) met at the house of John O'Neal, about three fourths of a mile west of Clifton, procured a team, and placed sentinels along the road and in and about Ashkum. On the afternoon of that day Geo. D. Smith went into the village and procured a room. He then went out and enticed the unsuspecting]five negro men into this place, and called for, and was supplied with, whisky and cards. At the appointed time he made a preconcerted signal, when the whole company came up, surrounded and entered the house with knives and revolvers and attempted to take the negroes and fetter them. A general fight ensued, several of the negroes fighting desperately, and two made their escape. The other three, Siater, who leaves a wife, and who is a free negro from Boston: John, from Maryland, and William, a little boy from Florida, were finally subdued and tied. They were immediately put into a lumber wagon in waiting and run under thewhip to Ashkum. Tho alarm being given in and about Clifton all the best citizens of the neighborhood assembled, and the down train from Chicago coming along in a short time, they got aboard of the cars and, went to Ashkum for the purpose of effecting a rescue.

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Arriving at that place the con­

ductor ran into town without giving a signal, stopped but a moment, until the negroes could be rolled into tho baggage car like so many hogs, and started his train without even attempting to make the usual signal. The whole company of man-stealers were there armed ready to prevent a rescue, and tho Clifton men werecompelledtojump off the train without trying to effect anything.

The three negroes vrere taken South by these southern robbers, and ere this have undoubtedly been sold and the money pocketed.

Is there no excuse for personal liberty bills when such outrages as these can be perpetrated at our doors? It is seldom such affairs occur so near Lafayette, yet along the Ohio river they arc said to be not uncommon.—Laf. Journal, July.

Pettit on Douglas.

A Kansas correspondent writes "as follows to the New York Times: The rival factions are only laboring to destroy each other—like the famous "Kilkeny cats'" eat each other up—in which they will succeed, to the satisfaction of tho people and the peace of thecountry.

Judge Pettit, an appointee ofMr. Buchanan, Chief Justise of the Supreme Court of this Territory, is reported to have written a scorching letter to an editor of a paper in Texas, who desired his views "upon the current topics of tho day," in which he handles Douglas without gloves, declaring that he is neither a lawyer or a statesman, and going into a lengthly argument to prove it. Also, that Lincoln is a better Union man than Douglas ever was, and that the country would be safer under his administration than that of the "Little Giant." proving it by an argument that is incontrovertible.

Tho Judge is now in Indiana, where he is supposed to have gone to secure the defeat of Douglas in that State.

Cincinnatti Gazette says that

the real estate and personal property of Nicholas Longworth has been ascertained within a few days to be as follows: Real Estate §2,000,000 Personal Property 1,500,000

83,500,000

With proper economy and not too many expensive daughters, we should think a man ought to be able to live pretty comfortably on that amount.

Bg^In anticipation of the great crowd that will be in the city on the 29th inr stant, a number of gentlemen have already engaged rooms at the Bates House.—I?id. Jour.

An Elopement Prevented and the Would-be Bridegroom Severely Thrashed.

A fellow calling himself O S. Berry, pedlar of a patent cider mill and press who for the last two mouths has been operating in Tippecanoe and adjoining counties, stopped at the farm of Mr. Martin a wealthy farmer in Clinton county, the father of two pretty girls, aged respectively twenty and seventeen, and three stalwart sons. The vender of the cider mill by his smooth talk, at once made friends with the fam ily and a decided impression on the youngest daughter. The farmer bought a mill and invited Berry to visit the house whenever convenient an invitation which was accepted.— Since which time he has been in the habit of calling once or twice a week, when he was treated in the most hospital manner. On Saturday last he invited the young lady, to whom he had been paying particular attention, to take a walk, and while out he persuaded her to elope with him, making an appointment to meet her on Tuesday morning, when they would come to this city and take 2:20 a. m. train for Chicago, where he had wealthy relatives residing and the nuptials could be solemnized. Making an excuse to visit a neighbor, the young lady met him at the time appointed, and the two l'eached Lafayette Tuesday evening and took quarters at a private boarding house, where Berry had been in the habit of stopping when in this city.— By some means the father learned that his daughter was not at the neighbor's she had proposed to visit, but had been seen in a buggy with Berry. Suspecting all was not right, himself and sons started out to hunt the missing daughter, and traced the couple to this city. Here for a while all track was lost, but having great confidence in their own ability, as dotectives, the friends did not secure the assistance of an}- officers, but watched the different trains going out. Taking position at the market space, the father and two sons kept up a close look out until about one o'clock, when just as the engine was backing down to the junction to take the Chicago train, tho couple made their appearance, thinking from the ringing of the bell their train had arrived. The father took charge of the romantic young lady who fbll sobbing into his arms, when discovered, while one of the brothers paid particular attention to Mr. Berry giving him a severe thrashing, blacking both his eyesand cam ing him to cry out for quarter, which attracting the attention of several persons who were wating for train.-?, the enraged countryman, was taken off", and the patent cider mill pedlar, bruised and bleeding, made himself scarce, satisfied that it was a dangerous experiment to attempt an elopement with a girl who has a big brother. Berry isundoubtedly an imposter, and did not receive any more punishment than he richly deserved, while the young lady escaped being the victim of a villian by the opportune arrival ofthe father and her brothers, and has learned a lesson which should be a benefit for a life time.—Jjof.Journal.

THE DOUGLAS MEN.—Eminent Douglas men in Philadelphia, recognizing the idea that Pennsylvania will decide the contest, and prompted b}' a cordial hatred of the Administration party, boldly avow their determination to vote for Lincoln rather than to suffer the election to be thrown into the House, and thus secure the success of Gen. Joe. Lane.

Senator Green of Missouri, in a recent speech at St. Joseph, dealt the Little Giant some pretty severe left-handed blows, as follows:

He supported John C. Breckinridge, because he had never traveled up and down the river on the decks of a steamboat, advocating his own election to the Presidency he had never descended into beer saloons, and drank lager in order to gain popularity with the vulgar rabble he had never sent hired letter-writers all over the country to puff himself into notoriety, and cry down everybody else he had never prostituted the telegraph to sound his own praises and misrepresent every other prominent man in the party and finally, he supported him because he was the only man who had any chance of defeating Lincoln. No Southern State would, under any*circumstances, cast her Electoral vote for Douglas, and he didn't believe he could get a single Northern State.

The Albany Standard (Breckinridge organ) professes to have discovered how the cat is going tp jump in that vicinity. It says:

The Republicans not .only egineered and helped to pay for the Douglas reception on Friday night, but he was honored with a complimentary visit on Saturday from Gov. Morgan Thurlow Weed and other leading Republicans. We learn from a leaky "soft" that Mr. Weed promised to make Judge Douglas Secretary of State, provided he would keep up the fight against the Nationals. Judge D. promised to take the offer into consideration and report progress at an early day. j@*The Wabash Plaindealer, the onfly Douglas organ in Wabash county, and the leading one in tho Eleventh District, has hauled down the names of Douglas and Johnson, and has announced its purpose to support Lincoln and Hamlin hereafter.

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Where our Candidates Stand. DOUGLAS QUESTIOES AND LINCOLN ANSWERS. [Extract from Senator Benjamin'# Specch.]

In that contest the two candidates for the Senate of the United States, in the State ®f Illinois, went before the people. They agreed to discuss the issues they put questions to each other for answer and I must say here, for I must be just to all, that I have been surprised in tho examination that I have made again within the last few days of this discussion between Douglas, to find that on several points MrLincoln is aJ^ir more conservative man, unless heinfssince changed his opinions, than I had supposed him to be. There was no dodgingon his part. Mr. Douglas started with his questions. Hero they they are, with Mr. Lincoln's answers:

Question 1. I desire to know whether Lincoln to-day stands, as he did in 1854, in favor of the unconditional repeal of the Fugitive Slave law''

Answer. I do not now, or ever did stand in favor of the unconditional repeal of the Fugitive Slave law.

Ques. 2. I desire him to answer whether he stands pledged to-day, as he did in 1854, against the addition of any more Slave States into the Union, even if tho people want them?

Ans. I do not now, nor ever did, stand pledged against the admission of anymore Slave States into the Union.

Ques. 3. I want to know whether he stands pledged against tho admission of a new State into the Union with such a constitution asthe people of that State may see fit to make?

Ans. I do not stand pledged against the admission of a new State into the Union with such a constitution as the people of that State may see fit to make.

Ques. 4.1 want to know whether he stands to-day pledged to the abolition of Slavery in the district of Columbia.

Ans. I do not stand pledged to-day to the abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia.

Ques. 5.1 desire himtoansAvcr whether he stands pledged to the prohibition ofthe Slave trade between the different Statos?

Ans. I do not stand pledged to tho prohibition of the Slave.trad^etwe^n,. the different States.

Ques. 6.1 desire to know whether he stands pledged to prohibit Slavery in al 1 the Territories of the United States, north as well as south of the Missouri Compromise line?

Vns. I am impliadly, if not expressed I v- pledged to a belief in the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit Slavery in all the United States Territories.

Ques. 7. I desiro him to answer whether he is opposed to the acquisition of any new Territory unless Slavery is first prohibited therein?

Ans. I am not generally opposed to honest acquisiton of Territory and in any given case, I would or would not oppose such acquisition, accordingly as I mignt think such acquisition would or would not aggravate the Slavery question among ourselves.—Debates of Douglas and Lincoln, p. 88,

It is impossible, Mr. President, however we may differ in opinion with tho man, not to admire the perfect candor and frankness Avith which these answers were given—no equivocation, no evasion.

H. B. MAOOON of Jo Daviess writes a letter to the paper from Scales Mound, in which he says:

How Democratic soever Stephen A. Douglas may have been in the commencement of his career, his late wanderings after political heresies liavo caused him to forfeit the respect, confidence and esteem of all good Democrats. When this campaign is over, I opine that there will be recorded for him a most signal defeat. And this, in my humble opinion, will seal political damnation upon his memory.

The Albany Evening Journal says "Prominent members of the Democratic factions are still trying hard to unite on one Electoral ticket in this State.— And they talk about it as if it might bo of some service to them. But of what service can it be? Republicans are quite indifferent about it because they can whip them just as effectively combined as distracted. It is simply a question whether Lincoln shall have 75,000 or 50,000 majority. Either figure will answer. Let the union be effected, by all means. The sooner the better."

SINGULAR DEATH.—A few days ago a man named Errett, of Hempfield township, Westmoreland county, died after a painful and lingering malady, produced, it is belreved, by accidentally swallowing an insect while drinking at a spring in which were dark insects having numerous feet. He said he had swallowed one of them, and felt great uneasiness, with violent coughing, for which he could get no relief.— A few days before his death he coughed up a worm of the color and description of those in the spring at the time he drank out of it. During his long and protracted illness he suffered excruciating pain, and was much reduced in flesh.—Pittsburg Free Press.

JBSrWe learn from a private letter, that a gentleman living near the Madison Springs, in this State, lost fifteen negroes from sunstroke a few days sioce. They were engaged iri ditchings—Au* gust a Democrat.