Decatur Eagle, Volume 1, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1857 — Page 2

THE EAGLE.J H. L.’l'l! DECATUR, INDIANA. I RIDAI MOK Ji INC, I LIL I W. A BIT OF ADVK !-■ “Have you enemies? Go straight on and don’t mind them. If they get in your way, walk around them, regardless of their spite. A man that has no enemies is seldom good for anything —be is made of that kind of material which is so , erily worked that every body has a hand in it. A sterling character—one who. thinks for himself, and speaks what he ' thinks, is always sure to have enemies.— , They are as necessary to him as fresh air —they keep him alive and active. A celebrated character, who was surrounded by enemies, u-.ed to remark: “They are sparks, which, if you do not blow, will go out themselves.” Let this be your feeling, while endeavoring to live . down the scandal of those who are bitter against you. If you stop to dispute, you do but as they desire, and open the way for more abuse. Let the poor fellows talk —there wiil be a reaction, if you perform but your duty, and hundreds who were once alienateu from you, wili flock to you and acknowledge t!it<r error.” LEGISLATIVE. Hon. David Studabaker hasintrodua bill into the Houk of Representatives, ■ which provides for the investment and safe i keeping of the funds created and set apart for ►ehool purposes, by the one hundred and thirteenth and one hundred and fourteen*.'-. sections of the charter of the old State Bank of this State, which expired on tiie first day of January last, by its own limitation. It appears by the bill that there is at this time over one million two hundred thousand dollars, which from time to time has been collected under the provisions of a.J Bank Charter, and denominated a sinking fund; and that this fund could not be mr.de available for the purpose of purchasing the Bank bonds of the State without embarrassing its financial affairs, and besides there is still a large amount retained by the Bank sufficient to redeem all the Bank bonds now outstanding. Therefore, the cue million two hundred thou ..nd debars ought to be distributed to the counties and then loaned out, and the interest arising therefrom to be applied for educational purposes.

The bill also provides tl.-.t the destriLotion of t'nis fund to the <■ .unties are to pointed by the General As -embly, three of whom are to be from the House, and two from the Stnate, upon the basis of the votes polled ac the last g. neral election for State officers. Now this, or a similar bill ought to become a law. and thereby augment the permanent school fund in each county, the interest of which is now used to educate the rising generation. I; would materially enhance the interest of the State, be a lasting benefit to the chhdren thereof, the extent of which would be incalculable, and could only be estimated by future generations; but as the session is fast coming to a close, this bill may not become a law, and from late indications there will be very little business done, for the refactory spirit which at first was confined to the Senate, has, since the election of United States Senators, extended to the House. But we have a Representative in each branch, who have always been true to their constituents, and the interest of the State, they are active and industrious men, and the Democracy of this County arc proud to own them as their representatives, and nothing will be kit undone by them, to secure the pas»age of laws to our interest.

Breaking up of Wister —We heartly congratulate our Fellow Citizens, upon the prospect of deliverance from Stern Winter « a.*i. w now are, that we shall have but link more o; Winter’s piercing frosts, this season — Tne sun of genial spring shines brightly upon us, to cheer and gladden our hearts. The people are every where rejoicing that winter has departed, for bitter suffering w w experienced while its crushing power bad sway over us. At the eltw. along the Ohio and Mississippi, the citizens evince ti e greatest anxiety to witness the breaking up of the solid icy surface of those rivers, that navigation may be again resumed, for it has been one 0/ the most trying times ever known, among those who are dependent on river commerce for the prosperity. But good times are now coming, and we most cordially congratulate the people upon their happy anticipations of the prospect ahead.

‘Did you ever go to a militaiy ball?’ inquired a lively girl of a;> old soildivr.— ‘No, my dear,’ replied the old Revolution•ry> ‘> n tho»« day* the military bails came to n».‘ ,

/‘-eTA s the public are desirous of knowing where they can be better accomodated, and where articles which they desire can be procured the cheapest, we would refer our readers to the advertisement in another column, of P. F. Robison, Esq., l as Cabinet Manufacturer —from our ac- > quaintance with the man, and knowledge] of his establishment, we feel confident that there is nc other place in the county, where articles of furniture can be bought any cheaper, or neater and more durable than at Lis shop. Call and sek. A Newspaper.—lt was Bishop Horne’s own opinion that there was no better mo- ■ ralist than the newspaper. He says:— •The follies, vices and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a news-, paper, are so many beacons continually burning to turn others from the rock on I which they have been shipwrecked. \\ hat 1 more powerful dissuasive from suspicion, j jealousv and anger, than the story o: one friend murdered by another in a duel'— What caution more likely to be effective against gambling and proflagacy, than tl.u mournful relation cP a a execution, or the fate of a desparing suicide? What Cner lecture on the necessity of economy than the auction of estates, houses and furniture? Only’ take a newspaper, and consider it well, pay for it, and it will instruct thee.’

Terrible Suffering at Sea -—The officers of the British brig Princes Louisa, that arrived at New York, 110 days from Cadiz, endured the most intense suffer-) ing. Their water, provision and fuel ali gave out. Worn out with fatigue, reduced by starvation to the lowest stage of physical weakness, the wine of which, they partook only maddened them, and some wildly began drinking salt water. The inevitable consequences of which they had been forwarned, followed, and the men went crazy. To so dreadful a state were they reduced, th;.t had one of them died the rest-would have eaten his body. If relief had not come as soon as it did, they might even have cast lots among themselves for a victim to appease their hunS er< ... - '

Cater, the Murderer. —We are informed that during a visit of the Committee of the Legislature of Mass., on prisons to the State Prison, Cater, the murderer of the late Warden, was taken out of his cell into the passage way, for the purpose of giving the committee a better opportunity of judging of his mental and physical condition. Cater was handcuffed at the time, and while in presence of the committee, he took a piece of a spoon handle from under his sk-eve and with it managed to unlock his handcuffs and free his hands, nearly as quick as it could have been done by another person with ■the proper k<.y. The cutumi'.tce Uukuiteated their astonishment a’, the act, and Cater observing it, coolly remarked with an oath: ‘You don't suppose I’m fool enough to sleep with them things on me, do you?’

following bit of history shows that in ail ages poverty has been the ally of genius: Homer was a beggar; Plutus turned a mill; Toren;-.- was a slave; Boethuis uied in jail; Paul Borghese had fourteen trades yet starved with them ail; Tasso was often distressed for a few shillings; C<>moens the writer oi the ‘Lusiad’ ended hi; days in an aims house; and Vauge last left bis b>ly to the surgeon to pay his debt. In En_. .nd 3 . 'un li.edalifeof meanness and distress; Sir Walter Raleigh died on the scaffold; Spencer died in want; Milton -old his copy wright of ‘Paradise Lost’ for £ls, and died in obscurity; Otway perished of hunger. Lee died in the streets; Dryden lived in poverty and distress; Steele was in perpetual war with the baiiffs; Goldsmith’s‘Vicar o£ Wakefield,’ was sold for a trifle to save him from the grasp of the law; Richard Savage died in Bristol jaii for a debtof £3: Butler lived in penury aa-1 died poor; Chatterton the child of genius and misfortune, destroyed himself.

The Indiana Senatorial Election. 1 ; We clip the following from the Weekly I Union, of Feb. 12tb, 1857: The great importance necessarily atI taching to this question will, we trust, i justify us in making a brief reierence to ' it even while it is undergoing anexaminai tion before the Judiciary Committee, but . ’ with no purpose to offer an opinion on the , r t .. W v uuduuVied reasons for knowing that the action of ti.e ; kgitiature, in the election of Hon. Jesse - D. Bright, and Hon. Graham N. Fitch, • to the United States Senate, is cordially endorsed by the highest judicial tribunals r oi the State of Indiana. Neither of the gentleman named, we are fully satisfied, = would have consented to go into the elecr tion, had not the proposed method of choo- - sing senators been most thoroughly can- } vassed and approved by the first legal talent of the State. Written opinions, based upon the most thorough analysis of 1 the law and the facts, were furnished bv . members of the supteme bench; also, bv , the accomplished and learned judge of , the United States district court, and the able lawyer who occupies the possition of attorney general of Indiana. ’ Legislative action based upon the evi- • dence and opinions of those who are the . jieculiar guardians of the Constitution of the State, and who are justly supposed to be best acquainted with its letter and spirit, is certainly entitled to high respect, and will no doubt, receive the careful consideration of the Judiciary Committee. Which is the most difficult punctua- • tbn? putting a stop to a women’s tongue.

Death of Dr. Kane. Our telegraphic dispatches this morning announce that the remains of Dr. Kane were brought to New Orleans yesterday from Havana. They wili be sent up the river by the steamer J. Woodruff, and will pass Cincinnati on their way East. Dr. Kane was born in Philadelphia in 1822, and had accordingly just entered upon his thirty-fifth year. He was a student of the University of irginia, and graduated as Doctor of Medicines at the University of Pennsylvania in 1843. Soon after, he entered the United States Navy as assistant surgeon, and accompanied the first American embassy to China. Nearly one-third of his life was passed tn foreign countries. He has traveled m Ceylon and India, ascended the Ni«l to thfi confines of Nubia, and visited the slave factories on the coast of Africa from Cape Mount to the river Bonney, and obtained access to the baracoons of Dahomy. His adventures in the Mexican war are well known, and from a part of the history of the country. When the first American expedition started in search of Sir .Jous Franklin, he was engaged in the Gulf of Mexico on the coast survey under Prf, Bache, and immediately volunteered for the Arctic enterprise, and went out as senior surgeon of the squadron’ His last Arctic expedition is known to all our readers. He has fallen before the noon of life, but had already reached a full meridian of fame.— Cin. Gazette.

Wagon Road to California via the South Pass. A bill has passed both branches of Con- ' gress, appropriating 8300,000 for con- ' structing a wagon road from Fort Kearney ' to California, on the South Pass route.— ' A road is already in course of construe- ; tion from the Missouri, opposite Council 1 Bluffs, to Fort Kearney. There will be about 1100 miles to con- ! struct, and this route, as remarked by 1 * 1 one of its advocates, will be the thoroughfare over which the emigration from the 1 . East to the West, and over which even- ' tually all the trade between the Atlantic P | and Pacific seaboard will pass. From the . • i examination that has been made it is believed to be the best route from the east to the west. It is a route on whieh.it is said there wili be no deep cutting, no 'tin-I i neling; and that in no part of it will the ) grading exceed fifteen or sixteen feet to I, j the mile, it avoids all the deserts. By , i locating this wagon road on any other ; 1 route, deserts will have to be passed six-:; ty and seventy miles in extent, on which \ wells will have to be sunk, at great ex- i pense to the Government. This route, which is the shortest, passes through a ■ portion of the country winch is fertile and , well timbered The latter is important,’ for timber is a great necessity in the con--•.ruction ot tne road, oecattse me sip which are deeply cut, require heavy - ' bridging. Plenty of coal is also, Lund in i many parts of this route. The road will become the great highway to the Pacific, and will be the pioneer for a rail road which will inevitably be i constructed on the same route. ' The same bill also, appropriates 8200,000 for a wagon road from El Passoon the Rio Grande to the mouth of the Gila; ‘ and 850,000 for a similar road from Fort Defiance in New Mexico to the Colarado River, near the mouth of the Mohava.— . Fort Wayne Sentinel. An Ingenious Test.—A. few days ago, a merchant, in prosecuting his morning i tour in the suburbs of Brooklyn, found, as he walked along, a purse containing a considerable sum of money. He observ- ■ ed a lady at some distance, who. he thought would be the owner and loser. — < Determined to be correct in the party to whom he delivered it, he fell upon a strange yet ingenious plan to effect this He resolved to act the part of a ‘poor distressed man,' and boldly went forward, hat in hand,-and asked alms, This was answered with a polite 'Go away! I have nothing to give you.’ The poor man, however, persisting in his entreaties, would not go until he had got assistance for. Lis 'famishing wife and children.’ The) lady at last condescended; but, to her dismay, found that the wherewith was gone. The merchant, now satisfied that he was correct, with a polite bow returned the purse, with the advice that in future she should be more generous to the distressed and destitute. vr;e.t...,80S Or HtSDUO WIDOWS. An incalculable and unutterable amount of wretchedness is produced by the Hindoo law, which condems the female to perpetual widowhood on the death of her hus-' band. This is the case, even where the preliminary ceremony of betrothment only, has taken place. Not only is absolute and unending widowhood imperatively commanded, but she is required to practice the most rigorous austerities, and toj mortify herself as it were unto death.— The widow shall never exceed one meal a Jay, or sleep on a bed.’ She is required to observe a rigid fast every eleventh dav, besides many ofner seasons of abstinence. She is forbidden to taste animal food of any kind; and even the one meal of pulse, roots and vegetables that is allowed' her, must cosist of such articles as can be cooked to ther in one pot, to make up a single dish. A new umbrella has been manufactured in Connecticut, called the 'lending umbrella.’ It is made of brown naperand willow twigs, intended exclusively to accommodate a friend. A country dentist advertised that he) will spare no pain* in <>. oration, to render : th*m satisfactory’.

The Dead Alive--An Extraordinary Murder Case. Our City Hall has been crowded to its utmost capacity during ths last iew das s bv an excited and deeply interested crowd of listeners to the Brownstown murder case. Much sympathy was felt for the nnsoners —three elderly ladies—as the examination of the witnesses elicited suspicious appearances and circumstantial evidence of a condemnatory character. — Some Llood was proved to have been, found about the house, some out of doors, soma human hair, and some boards knocked off the barn. Also bones supposed to be human were found in the ashes barrel. All this tended to prove that a crime of the blackest dye had been committed; and what rendered conviction a certainty was j the fact that a little pedlar had strayed from the fraternal care of his brother and had not been heard from in a week.) Excitement had reachedits highest pieth. That pedlar’s brother had identified a piece of cloth on the premises as belonging to his brother’s vest. The bones, notthe assertion of tbe doctorsl -.tor they belonged to a sheep’s hind leg, were believed to be the remains of tne nedlar, and the hair was appropriate for the same personage, though it had been ; maliciously whispered around that they i came from the appendages of a male cow. The council were abom summing up the case with all their well-known ability! when a little Dutchman! (the pedlarjwho ’ i had stood with his hands in his pockets a ( quiet spectator of the scene stepped forth and protested against any such liberties being taken with his affairs, declaring : that he had neither been slaughtered nor burnt, up and, as to being dissolved into the small show of sheep bones and horse ) Lair which the table before him afforded, j he felt indignant at the idea. Os course we shall not attempt to de? scribe the delight,of the spectators, the consternation of the learned council, or the amazement of the judge, at the summary winding up of the beautiful case which had been made out: but we will confidently as -ert the scene was rich.— ) Detroit Free Press, Zth inst.

Appalling Disaster. Railroad Train Plunging into Da Page River. Seven Car-loads of Horses Sub- ; merged—Three Lives Lost. The recent heavy rains washing away 1 embankments, occasioning slides under-1 mining ties, and sweeping away bridg have been the cause of delays, and much ! hard swearing of failures to make connec- i lions and detentions of the mails. And a . general derangement of the rail road lines ■ m Illinois and Missouri. If this were al!,: we’d be glad. On the Chicago and Rock Island Road, as it crosses the Du Page ; River, five miles from Joliet, the heavy | : rains of Fri’Jav had swoll«a tUo rivsr till it I overflowed its banks, covered the bottom ' and submerged the track on both sides of • the bridge. A freight train consisting ' ■of the locomotive, tender and seven cars j i loaded with horses approached this river lon Saturday. The engineer, ignorant of > any obstruction and confident in the firm- ■■ ness and safety of the road, though covered with water, held on bis way, plow- ; mg through a stream two feet deep, guidjed by the iron track’ until he reached the .bridge, when the appalling fact was re- ■ . vealed that the swollen river had not only i submerged the bridge, butswept it away! I Locomotive, tender, seven cars with their i ! freight of horses, one after another, dis- i ippeared beneath the surface of the stream I deep enough; by reason of the freshet, to I.idc from view every vestige of the train. Down with it went all in charge of it, and three of them were lost. One human life destroyed over-balances the destination ■of a thousand horses. Bat who can think without a shudder, cf those seven cars ’ closely confining beyond all hope of escape, their noble freight of horses? And ; who without a thrill, can picture to Lis imagination the frantic death-struggles of those helpless animals, as with the failing train they took the fatal plunge, and amid gurling and inrushing waters, died, their cars of trasnportation proving their coßns, and their tomb ' — St. Louis Republican, Feb. 11. Snake Story The Camden (New Jersey) Democrat received a letter from a correspondent lately, who informs them that on the tenth day January last, while John Bebee, Robert S. Peacock and Isaac S. Peacock were out on a rabbit bunt the dog of the latter followed the trail of some animal to a bole under the turf, in Kettle Kun Branch, about three miles from Jackson, i The dog, by his continued barking, gave them to understand that the trame was there. They commenced digging, and Mr. Bebee put his naked hand into the hole, and tried to draw out tiie ‘critter,’ but i without success. The party returned 'Lome, and having armed themselves with an ax, hoe and spear, came back and took out of the hole three rattlesnakes, one measuring four feet and two inches, the other two being somewhat smaller. A Good One. ‘ Now* sir, on your oath, were you not born in Pennsylvania?’ WTI ss, in a solemn tone: ‘Although present at the event, I swear on my oath I hi.veno recollection of the fact.’ ! Book-keeping.—A friend, who has suffered largely by lending books* be s us to state that the reason people never return borrowed books is, that it is much easier to return the volumes than what is in i them. I The surveying of public land in Wash- ! jng’on Territory is proceeding rapidlr.

LATE FROM CALLIFCRNIA. Arrival of the George Law. New York, Feb. 13. j The steamship George Law, arrived hare at 6 o’clock this evening’ with Aspinwall di’tes to the 3rd inst. She brings 81,000,000 in specie. The George Law connected with the Golden Gale, which brought down upwards one million and a half in specie. Messrs. Broderick and Gwinn, the newly elected Senators from California are 1 among the passengers. The U.S. frigate Independence was, still at Panama with the St. Maryis. The captain of the Sierra Nevada reports having seen Walker at Rivas on the ' 17th ult., and tiiat the allies had not taken Virgin Bay as reported, nor had tney made ar.v attempt upon San Juan del Sur. Walker had an active force ot t welve hundred men, and was strongly fortified at Rivas. Walker had not heard of the capture of bis steamers up to the 17th. The George Law brings dates from Valparaiso to the Ist ult., from Callao to the’ll th, and Australia to the 10th of Nov. Business al V alparaso was du,;. — The U. S ship John Adams was still i£j that port. Captain Bruterell arrived all Panama and came in the GeorgegLaw. - The Revolution in Peru still progresses j ’The insurgent fleet entered the harbor ofj Callao on "the 31st of December, and had ) 'a slight skirmish with the forts and a gov-1 eminent steamer, in which several foreign vessels, including the American bark Avanta, were injured. The English; steamer Tribune and French frigate interi sered for the protection of foi eigners. The French sympathizers with the in-1 sur n' ■- had been arrested, having in their possession important papers and in- ■ tereepted letters from Vivauco to his wife, I which are said to implicate the British and American Ministers in the revolution. The revolutionist had taken possession of the Chineha Islands. The English mail steamer Bolivia, from 1 Panama, was boarded on the 10th of January, off Callao, by the revolutionary steamer Tumbo, and an attempt was made to take the mails. Another un-uccssful attempt had been made to revolutionize Bolivia. The advices from Australia are unim- ' portant. The harvest prospect were good. HowI er was dull at 22£ per ton. There was nothing new at Aspenwall. The Governor’s messsage reccomends the passage of an act to realize the State debt, and a bill introduced for that pur- , 1 pose. Several shocks of an earthquake had' been felt throughout the State. Many j O.iHUin-j were ohalHrwi u.l. Gaum

bar a, The Gandara party had attacked the Government troops at Sonora, or. the 23 of November, but were repulsed with a loss of eighteen men. A force was being raised at San Francisco for a fillibusterexpidition to Lonora. The mining news was favorable. Business was dull. The receipts of merchandise were very large. Money was tight. The State Treasurer had deposited money with the pacific Express Company for the ; pavment of the Sia’c interest, but the ; i Attorney General had obtained aninjunc-; cion restricting the payment. Advices from Panama are to the 3d inst. The Sierra Nevada arrived there on the ; 21st, and departed a few days subsequently for San Francisco. LATE FROM EUROPE. Arrival of the City ofßaltimore. New York, Feb. 13. The steamship City of Baltimore, with dates from Liverpool of the 28th ult., arrived here on the last night. The London money market was decidedly more stringent. Conslcs for money closed at a decline of for account. The steamship Niagara arrived at Liverpool on the 26th ult. The London papers furnish a rumor of the submission of Persia to the British demands. The steamship Edinburgh, from New York had arrived at Glasgow. The papers furnish no decided news of any kind. It was reported that upon the British force taking Bershiere, after two days’ bombardment, Persia submitted to the ■ , demands of Great Britain, but the London ; papers do not credit it. Great doubt is i also thrown upon the recent news of the : factories oi .Canton. Later intelligence ' fron China is anxiously looked for. The rumors of the modification of the I British Cabinet continue, and a dash at i the Ministry is to be made on the opening ; of Parliament. The ship Confederation, before reported to have been wrecked has broken up. The master, mate, steward and a boy were drowned. Ferrouk Kham, the Persian Ambassador. has had an interview with Napoi leon. i The Emperor’s reply was non-com-mittal. Nothing more has been heard of Swiss affairs. The Emperor of Austria has granted i a complete amnesty to tiie Lombardy Venitian Provinces. The conferences at Constantinople, respecting the Principalities are ended. The Turkish troops will now replace . tuv zxus.rianv. I At Bath, N. H., on Saturdry morning the thermometer stood at 52 decrees belew aero!

LATER FROM NICARAGUA. New Orleans, Feb. 17 The steamer Texas is at Balize, w . Yc ’dates of San Juan to the 10th inst. ' Ne The steamship Tennessee had arrivo ha .out. _ Y< Colonels Titus and Lockridge proceel. ed up the river attacked three hundrej Mi Costa Ricans at Cody’s Point, at t'« •« mouth of Peripagua river, and s n them with great loss. American un ‘ trifling. The steamer’s machinery getting out 0 [ e d order, they came back to Punta Arenas F’ti ! repaired and had gone back again. Th-rt th was little doubt but they would be in faj 6a ! possession of the river in a week. We have dates from Walker to the JJ inst., by the Orizaba from Panama. Cora had appeared near Rivas and been driven back. On the 26th ult., Henningsen, with t all force of four hundred, attacked sis hundred of '.he enemy at St. George, driving them from tbeii possition, and then f returning to Rivas. , ai Walker’s whole force was thirteen bun- f' dred fit for duty, eleven hundred of whum ; , were in excellent health and spirits, aod with provisions and amnnitiun for three • months, k A private dispatch to the agent olta* Press, dated Greytown, Febiruary 10, confirm the foregoing account, j” Mr. BUCHANAN’S CABINET, For the last twenty-four hours publlj : opinionin Washington seems to have set. tied down upon the following cast of Mr Buchanan’s cabinet: Lewis Case, Secretary of State. Howell Cobb Secretary of the Treason John B. Floyed Secretary of war. A. V. Brown, Secretary of the Navy, Jacob Thompson, Secretary of Ir.terier. J. Glancy Jones, Postmaster General, Isaac Touey Attorney General. We know of no information of an as thentic character which justifies the coi- . fidence with which ie foregoing is reccir- U ed as the cabinet, or as so near the cabinet that only a single change is suggested. ‘ 1( It may be mere conjecture, but whattret . may have created the general impression. , it is certain so far as our observation !:af Dl extended, the cast of the cabinet above r< meets with decided approval. If this w B a cabinet composed of such names ii j formed our anticipations as to the wise discrimination for which we have given “ Mr. Buchanan full credit will entirely r I realized. We express no opinion as U 1 the correctness of the list of names, for we have no ground for any opinion; but vi venture to say, that if the list is the true I cabinet, the public mind will be entirely that Mr. Buchanan’s adminis’ n tration will start under most favorable

M What Does It Mean! u The Kansas correspondence of the Un- g souri Democrat (.-ays the Albany Argus,) e a paper which has uniformly taken sides a with the free State party, represents that £ party to be in a very unpromising condi- b tion in Kansas. -According to the state* n ) ments of tins left ;-writer, the free-gtate J men are more intent upon pecuniary ente- v prises than material interest of the Terri- b tvty railroads grants, and other corporate v j monopolies, than upon ‘the cause of free- o dom.’ He even accuses the free-State u ; men es Lawrence ot so far departing Irom « 1 the faith as to take part in the tleccionef a delegate to the ‘bogus legislature’t- ti fill a vacancy, and what is worse, to actu- • ally vote for a oro-slavery candidate. , He sums up the backslidings of tin t< 1 free-State men by accusing Roberts, ths a j lieutenant governor under the Topeh government and since the resignation ol -■! Robinson, we suppose the governor. of’ combining with others and recognising “ ; the authority of the ‘bogus legislature' _ by soleiting from it an advantageous cor- q porate grant. We shonld hardly credit j? these stoiies of fall from grace, did they ® not come from qnarters friendly to the p late Kansas free-State party. The inter- B pretation, however which wc put uooa C these things is that the people of Kanssi ” have concluded to take care of themselves and the interests of their new Lome, it' 2 stead of longer ministering to the design* of politicians. J) —— "***» r It is said that a volcano has actmly *P' c j peared in Pendleton county, Virginia.— B 'The Cumberland Telegraph says! Jti ® at a point on the Backbone Mountain di* j, i rectiy between the heads of the dry’ fork jj of Cneatand the south branch of the Fa- P tomac river at a place known by the natn* ~ of the ‘Sick,* so called from the dapre-s- c ed condition of the mountain at that point r These‘Sinks’are funnel-shaped, and eact S one embraces as much as an acre of , ground. On the Ist of January t . cre- - ports caused by the bursting forth of the ' subterranean tire were heard for adtstatce of twenty or thirty miles. Vast column’ i of flame and smoke issued from the orifices; and redhot stones were thrown up in the air several hundred feet above tha 3: mouth of the crater. Our informent add’ fi that the people in the vicinity are becoming alarmed at the pertinaciy with which i the flames are kept up, and the red bet masses of rocks thrown out. A heavy j rumbling noises like distant thunder, i’ continually reverberating through ue q deep caverns of the mountain, winch s’ -w times seems to tremble from summit W n h pase. t] B If you wish to undertake any impel' J taut enterprise, be sure and consult your wife, If she agrees with you, fly i to her armi—if she does nor, Ay into a pati 1 '"