Indiana American, Volume 22, Number 12, Brookville, Franklin County, 10 March 1854 — Page 1

BY T- A. GOODWIN. BROOKVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1S51. VOL. XXII. NO. 12. Ill 1.LII. ! I 1

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it u iuo of a Utforts ,rint.-r' roe. At- popular well-being anu muepenaence. orney t win be hold nanonaibu for the iai -. pror lo lnc wars of the French Itevertim ordered by tbein. , . w r, i i r n i4 irj7,Annonncincamli.latoaofeerTdl'crl.tlon, 0lvi10llt Burke and Mr. l itt Were WU "0l" I both Reformers; they aimed to make a Adrertiaeinenl notmarko.1 on the eoryrora 3crr;nnjnrPi 'J'hg war broke OUt, and Englandras regards reform, lost pre2:f:..":!:r. cisely fo.tyyears-the Reform Bill of forbid," ttiey will, of o.irsc, be Inserted mail or- j 1 C30 being just what was impending lered ut. at Hi not rat. ...... in 17ft7. Rohesnierre. who is hardlv

All advertinem.Mit from alrauffori oriranni-iu ernnto be paid In a-lvsncj. .portal Jiotic-iM, Pelf4, and CominiiiiUatloi-a Jejlgnod I proinoU private lnliri-U, will bo vbarv:J 91 per iimro f.r each Intcrtlon. Marriaoan I lioalUt aro aniiounted gratulU So adrertUjmcnt will be tnserUd wltliout coinpouautloii. T. A. OOOnWIX, F.d. American. C. U. BliXn-EV, Kd. l)jiii.i.ral. )rcftssicidC;uisL Dr. J. W. KKELY. Surgeon Dentist. FKirK 051i DOOR KOfTII OF TU I VAI.I.kV U llolK,Yr iTWii. All k warranted. So ' nro lr exuuiu'.auon or u, vc. - j J. K DAVIS, M, 1)., V Ii y i c i a n & Siirscbn, OFK1CK at bU reildeneo, turner of Malu and Jame troel, Druokt Hie, tnd. flYItt'.H KIM'Oltn, Juatlceof the fence. j and Attorney and Lottiiaelloraiittw.iiroofcTiiio, Ind. O.nce SoulU KaH Corner of l'ubllo Simiro, 43, 1033. J ' i W?IOUKOVy Attorney and Counolloral ,U, Oillco .No. 7 1!uIj bulUii'ir, HrooWUle,liaua. X-iX TV I. JOIWt Allorne and Coonaellor a J'l l,a.BrooltTiil,lnd. oaico In llaiUi-a b.illuinj. 4!fi. itl'CrCHOOItSSIAXK, Attoruey and , Counaellnrat Law, OUlce in Iluiio' bml liuj, UrgoWvilla, Indiana. -'33 J I. SI'CLt'Iir Attornoyal Law. Oflloe , on Btirne lrt. two dour iiorlU ofcleo. MulUnd'aOfflce, lirookrllle. 4.W43 AV. IIITT Attorney at Law, and Molary Pub I, lie, oitlco wi.li Oaoaoa IIulld, Ea., ilrouk llle, lud. NOTAKY PUBLIC. RcsiJence.Mt. Carmcl, lnd. --musks J. uf;i.i.i:v. Attorney at I.nw anJ Notary Public, LAURKL, PK A XK 1.11 CO. 1X1)., 'ITT I LI. take k owU'dmoiii of leUa, lake and 11 certify DcposlUoiK, Atndvtu&c. " ALIVWAIM). ATT 0 U N K V &. CO U N S K L, LO It AT L AW , Bfookvillo, ludlana. Ototo doraoortli Uurton'iSti'fe. i. IC. 310UUIS. 1. !., P,h y h i c i a i. & Surgeon. Mt. Carmel, Ind., 22-2-'53 1 year. $ ortign. War at Laat. If indices predict conflict, then surely is Europe on the eve of Avar tho niaznitude.of which can hardly be exagcrated. A creneral war now in Eurono III K a tWmt different from inv v-t

known in the history of the world. (Turkey, it would still be a miracle of The means of offense and defense are 1 hardihood to advance to 'Constantindcadly without precedent. A musket ople with the adjacent waters covered that kills at nearly a mile distant: a hv the Allied Fleets and with One

Paixhan run that.deals death in the P.i! trlon (Tun that iti j liiafli in fVia I lump; astearaer that is independent of wind and tide, and, riding the Baltic, or Mediterranean, Danube or A'hine, does in a week the distance that two months hardly achieved at the time of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt; a railway that can carry troops from Havre to Vienna in days instead of months as formerly; tho create r means of supplying by b ingcnious modes of preservation at

least for a period the troops with good ii0nort.,i throne thatis, to make peace fresh food; the labor-saving machinery wjjCU 1 iait battle had not been a that can till up by extemporization the victory how cau Nicholas nllord to .gaps in arms and accoutrements which rccuii before the formidable combination havoc makes; the latent feeling of Gov- wllicu ll0W confronts him! To seem rnments that war may be made use-. gmnipouut iu tho eyes of the Rusful by keeping the people fighting in bi.in!i is a necessity of his position; and order to keep them in subjection, it hujuiliatioiia abroad would very posbcing well known that Reforms always sil)jy be fatal to his despotism at home, cease during war and always progress Aud besides, a War which one or two during peace these all are the special battlc3 IS to js 6Cldoni so long phenomena the great contest which in cumig to a head as this has been.

uovr seems inevitably impending. Apart from the loss of life and mu tilationa of limbs on the battle field, it is sad to contemplate the pauperism that will ensue among nations on this fresh maelstrom Oeing opened to swallow up capital. Frauce, which takes tho lead as the anti-Russian combatant .along with Turkoy, is already staggering under her debts. All her revolu tions grow out of debt: 17C9, IC30, 1843, 1851 grew from tho same cau?c. Upto lGtU, during a period of forty yejurs, ncr expenses exceeded her in , . r it. . t Mi e come by four thousand million fines, and at this moment the majority of her population do not divld j over ten dollars a head a year minimum of i.... 1 .t . . ... . 11 ouues. jngiatio, tne next gjeai any of Turkey, has two millions ol nauners. and the mass of her population are always within the verge of starvation, not able to savo or lav bv w.t 'es Prussia has innirov. d. but ,,uf nf her capitals, wheru wea H i concentrate V, v-i , .1 ti.. -. 1 w her population is poor; her villages are ordid and mean to u degree that no American woukt credit who has not lisueu mem. auin ia, 1 a nopeie. - bankrupt for tho third time. Turkey is Poor bevond belief tho nvcra-'a Mra rr. ihm, itit Li rnhodv nn.l ..! im ..!, nmiiiv., JnJ

- : , ,,. , , .hand, away from t he t vo on my right Ku-.uispwrithesoldiersget about . . d ' . fjV0 rcina,uI.

one to two dollars a year pay; the mass of the peasantry earn mure than the

French, but still the Empire is so poor that on the invasion of Huugary the Commander seized provisions and fodder on the road, and puid for them in Government tax-receips which, as they afterward fell due, the Emperor was obliged to account for by fresh

loans. In a word, Europe is as a whole immcrseu in poveny, owing w previous wars, which have diverted labor to destruction, and prevented the growth of capital; and now she is going to rush into another war. One of its effects, and not the least permanent one, will be to impoverish the masses still further, and to glorify and signalize individual great men; and just in proportion to the intensity and duration yf waf wjjj tne postponement of . , . , known except for a guillotine rcputa --r lion, predicted all the evils of war, and did his best to avert it; but once in it, and the question being lifo or death the Duke of iirunswick shooting "every Republican, and razing .his houe, if ho "had one, to the ground," while the "buspect" were guillotined in France, the peace-setker was turned into a tiger, and Reform became a dead letter. Still there is no evil w ithout its ati tcndinir irood, and if this war shall fott, tiu (jZlirs to milld their OWn bus iiuess in future, it will bo ruin to Europe worth some part nt least of the expenditure it will cost. riierc is reason to hope that such may bo the result. 11c challenges the world to deadly combat. Even Napoleon proved unequal to the requirements of such a strudle in his tier man cam puign of 1UIJ, and Nicholas cannot surely regard himself as the superior in Military capacity of first rmich Emperor, however lightly he may esteem the tecomi. JSupciliemlly, the Auctocrat would seem to to rushing blindly on disaster, and courting humiliation. b'ut ho doubtless kuotts what he is ubuut, or thinks ho dots, lie knows that everv European despot, bi or little, regards him as the only reliable support of what is termed Order, and that the reduction of Russia to her normal insignificance in Christendom would b mwurned in every Court from Stockholm to Naples. He knows, therefore, that he has powerful though Covert allies in the very couuciU of his ostensible enemies that if Francis af . Joseph does not now declare for him, It is owing to any tuing but wantot will, and thatthu blows of all his adversaries but tho Turks will be bereft of half their proper force by a dread of damaging him too much. And yet, we can hardly see how ho can even hope to triumph iu the war into w hich he is now plunging. That his fleets are to bo instantly swept from the ocean or sealed up in his harbors, would seem to be beyond doubt. And how then can he expect to seize the great object of his ambition, Constantinople? Suppose he can bring into the tield One Million men, send half of them across stiirato rebellions in S the Danube, inServia, and among nil tho Christian races of European 11 n 1 tol 'I'ltn Hundred Thousand choice French and English troops united with the whole force of the Turks in its defense. If Russia has never yet carried her arms to the gates of Stamboul when the Porte was without allies, who can believe that sho will be able to do so in defiance of banded Europe? It is not likely that the "War now be'un will be a short one. If Napo- ! 1 , rilllij ntJver consent to sit on a dis The very fact that the Czar has provoked it so wantonly will reuder his escape from it more difficult. To be derate and conciliatory now would ; im.uy tLc 8CVerest censure on all he limply the severest j has done or meditated for the last twelve months, rather the war now commencing is to bu oue of the most eventful and memorable in History, or the age of gory conflict, of mutual hu man slaughter, has passed, and that of all-potentDiplowacy has replaced it A few mouths must determine whether this is to be a war of politicians or I wnr 0f extermination. Present ap ' ,iir:inP,.. ,n n,,t favor the former hv .,..,.; TrlLunrt: 1 frl happened in 1 school-room one 1 "... . . . ! äy, while 1 class of very .mall boy. and j 8ir, wcr0 "citing a lcson in arithme ! tic. It was about tho first lessons, 'Fivo from five leave, how many I' ask ! to teacher, of a little girl of some six y " a . , . After a moment's reflection .ho an gwerej How do you uiako that out!' .aid tho s toucher. Holding her little hands out toward ' h'nn, .ho .aid ! Micro aro ftvs (Inner, on ny right ' hnud and hero aro llvo on tho other. 1 Nuw, if 1 take tho linger, on my left ; Tho leaCnCr wai '.tumped oud was Obliged to-knock under.'

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Oxford, Ohio, March 1, 1C51. Dear Editor: The Hoosiers are a great people. One might imagine, fromre..ding Indiana newspapers, that the whole state was alive with excitement on the Temperance question. You hardly leave a column for the Czar and Sultan, or the famous Nebraska outrage. Now I am glad that you are inclined to talk and write so much on this subject, but it would re joice me still more if you would go to work and do something. We ot Ufc.10 take very little interest in the movement, j We have such magnificent farms for corn, and so many splendid distilleries that the Maine Law or its equivalent, meets rather a cool reception. You are right, I believe, in the position you have taken in tho inierican. Men are inclined, on this as well as other subjects, to run into extremes. The grand object is to stop the evil consequences growing out of the use of liquors as a beverage. Every one knows that alcohal is used extensively iu mechanical and manufacturing establishments, as well as medicinally what good can it possibly do to the cause of Temperance to suppress such use of the article? Pistols and knives are frequently instruments in destroying life; but no one thinks of putting down the manufacture of them on that account. Uut we Jo punish those who use them unlaicjully, just as we ought to punish the scoundrel who puts a bottle to his neighbor's lips. I hope that Indiana will not bo content to hold conventions and make speeches and pass resolutions; but that the people in their sovereign might and majesty; v:ll bestir themselves, and take the matter into their own hands. One thing must be dono before wo can hope fur any legislation worth a farthing on this subject decent, respectable and senstble men, absolutely must, by some means, bo induced to accept the olllce of legislators. 1 know this is a bold announcement to make, and I may bo laughed at as a visionary dreamer, but I am fully convinced of tho truth of my position. I mentioned iu a former letter that a new female College on k very extensive scale was about to be erected here by the New School Presbyterians. Since that time I have learned that another, of still greater dimensions and pretensions will be commenced next Bumracr by the Old School Presbyterians. It is quite probable that a pirit of rivalry and competition, which is the the life of trade, (if not of religion) has contributed n good deal to bring about this extraordinary increase in the educational lacmies ot our village. rapid muhiuliXo one can regret the cation of female Schools it is a cheerin:r feature of the pre sent times. And experience has demonstrated, no doubt that they succeed best, under the influence of sectarianism. We have a'.so a Theological Seminary here, which has been in operation for several years under the auspices of the Associate Reform Church. The Rev. Dr. Claybaugh, a most accomplished scholar and I was going to a say gentleman; but ought not that to follow as a matter of course, since he is a christian minister? is the Principal. Indeed I believe he comprises the whole faculty, for it does not require many teachers where the whole number of students does not exceed a dozen. The Associate Reformed Church is comparatively young in tho west, but its founders, with commendable forecast, are establishing it upon a solid basis, laying the foundation deep and strong. God speed them! It was in this town that the Rev. Dr. Berry, President of the Indiana Asbury University, made somo of his earliest efforts in the Pulpit. One of the "oldest inhabitants" gave me an account, the other day, of his first ser mon, or rather his first attempt at ono in Oxford. Having read the text he endeavored, in accordance with the custom of that day, to "divide" it into , its several ligitimate, component parts. ' In this preliminary performance he be-1 came 60 completely bewildered and confounded, that h 1 Wii rkfiliiWiwi fr it 1 close the book, nnd, after occupying some moments in relating his personal experience, sat down in tho pleasing L W 1 O " - Vi J consciousness of bavin? comulctelv - .. . .... . . O. - . ! ailed. "But" said my informant, "he never failed after that." Our townsman Lyman Cole, lias again been snatched nwny from his pleasant cottage, to answer to the charge of murder in Arkansas. You have seen the accounts ot Sidney u. Burtoa's coup d tat in the Cincinnati PaPcrs . An abortive cllort was made here a ew weeks ago to establish a newspaper. Can't you send Bomo interprising Hoosier to us who will start an Oxford Gazette or somethin-r of tho kind? I J'l .- I am persuaded that an enterprising printer would lind this a good location r . rri it f .1 . in many respects The trouble is that our citizens r citizens are so purely literary, and intensely fastidious, that nothiii? so short a little A. No. 1 journal jr't a little A. No. 1 journal would be toleratedt Yours, always. JOHN SMITH. Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Feb. ICS I. Fkienu Goonwix : A bird's-eye view of Mt. rieasant may not be amiss. It contains a population of ubout 1JUÜ, is well Mipplied with merchants, inerlninir:. and institutions of learnm1'. llesidestho common and select svhoois of which there aro three, with about three hundred scholars in attendance, the Mt. rieasant Collegiate Institute is iu a nourishing condition, having in attendance about one hundred and iifiy students. It is under the pal loita-'o three hundred scholars in attendance, of tho M. K. Church. Tho trustees havu niado arrangements to put up additional buildings during next sum - mer. which will cost about fclfi.OUO, and then if tho litpuor traflic can b

kept down this would be a desirable ,' place for parents in all parts of the '

State to send their children to obtain , a good education. But should eur citizens prove so recreant to tho cause ofüod, of Education, and of Humanity as to permit others to carry on the infernal traflic I fear the money spent in puttin? up these additional buildings will be thrown away, for what parent would send a beloved son away from j the salutary restraints and hallowed j influences of home, to a town where j temptations must meet him at aost every corner of the streets" The country around Mt. Pleasant is ' n. J hardly surpassed bv any other portion of the Mississippi alley. Timber and prairie lands are in about equal proportion. The best of Yatcr is easily obtained by digging. Our farmers are making considerable improvoment in their mode of cultivating the soil ; and we have an Agricultural Society in full blast. And last, but not least, a better community I have neve been acquainted with. I speak advisedly after an acquaintance of three years. Yours truly, AMBROSE YANCEY. For the American. The School education. Ma, Editor: I notice in your pt per published some two weeks ngo, a tender of the use of it for a discussion of the School law. And since no one has as yet entered the arena, I propose to make some remarks upon the subject. All civilians and statesmen have conceded the importance of the education of the masses of the people, as necessary to the permanency of our republican form of government; nnd the legislatures of many of of the Slates, acting upon this principle, have adopted a a syste m of Common School education. This principle was plainly recognized by the farmers of the constitution of our state in 101G; and acted upoa by her legislatures from time to time up to tho last session of tho legislature. But during all the time that there was legislation upon this subject, that por tiou of the school funds known as the Congressional Township fund remained inviolate, aud was never diverted (though attempts wero at ditfereut limes made) frn the respective townships to which it belonged, until the school law that now exists was passed. That law lays hands upon that fund, and makes it common property. This act 1 regard as peculiarly unlortunatu to thd educational interests of the State as is already apparent from the and magnitude oflhu lawsuits growing out of tho law. True. the great I disparity in the vaW of tho lands of the respective Congressional Townships Uni the consequent advantages that 8ome wwnslnpa havo over others in th.c'!r mn? ut auon. may he urged with all the zeal and ingenuity that gentlemen of the greyt bag are accustomed to argue questions of this kind, as a reason why this should be made a common fund. So may the disparity in the condition of neighbors bo ureu as a reason why a poor neighbor may seize ,with impunity, the property of his more wealthy neighbor and con- ( vert it t his own use. But the law interposes its strong arm in the protection of private rights, and we think the consolidation of these funds as palpable an infraction of law and of private rights, ai the case just alluded to would be. For the purpose of placing this matter in a clear and proper light, we shall quote from the act of Congress which was approved April 19 181C, to enable the people of the Indiana Territory to form a constitution and State irovernment fcc. Section Cth of the act just referred to, contains five distinct propositions, upon which the state was to be admitted as ono of the original states, and the firstproposition reads as follows: "That the section 16, in t-very township; and when such section has been sold, granted, or disposed of, other lands, equivalent thereto, and most contiguous to the same, shall be granted to the inhabitants of such townships for the use of Schools." This is the law upon which those that have tiled their injunctions, to , .-. I prevent 1110 consultation 01 tow wup und, -st "f C . Un 1 , V ! laU.ve boJ ,wlll ,the HboV" U)v. bct?rc 1 tl....u ...... , linul I nlr.iltll.r llll,lM..-l,.H i w?" CJ 5s' 6 1UW,U ft lt'"F of that funnd from the townsliips, lam i i - . i v . t at a loss to conjecture, ana i ininK rusk nothing in saying that this law unless repealed, will Oo one ot the most1 fruitful sources of litigation, of any upon our statute booc. Having said this much-upon this put of tho raw, shall have proceed to examine some of its other features. This first is, the making of an entire township a School District ict. Now tho reasons are so clear ' y mind on this subject that it is! to my mind on this subject that it is ! , ... .11 .1 . 1 " 1 um l 1 , , . c" muia: ! to lhcm.to KalKv him of lhc,r correct-: ncss. were 1 admit that if all our townshms just made un of Congressional ships, and each township suppled. I owns ; WUU a. su"c'ent number or school lwus.c' tha" lhl9. P:irt LlIl liUV W01J with I not bi f noxious. Uut suppose township needs mx school houses, and

"tt uwmoer ouwt cd0, wu-n thus aisumingtheir position under the district system, will the tax n tac Union, as a sovereign State, payers, accommodated by the four. If, in these views, I have misconschool homes, concent to be taxed to Cl.ivod the sentiments of my oonstitbuild the tAo? Let it bo tried, and lu.nta I hall expect to receive from

they will present an unbroken front the negative, while those persons who are to be accommodated by the build,1 . mg of the two, might cheerfully con 1 cent to be taxed to build tho two, upon the old district plan. As an ollset

the old district plan. .As an ollset ! i n ' against this diiadvautage it is urg-'d,;Ycry j that persons may send their children in.,v 1 to which eh.-ul they please. True,, A, but almost every parent sends his i-.-

j children U the nearest school, and tlm ipifstion of distaueo is some tiim s a ! fruitful source of dissatisfaction in tho ; location of new school llou es, and nil the inconvenience of distance, could

obviated, ns far a3 was practicable, under the old district system. For

neighborhoods, and portions of town ships miübt bo attached for school purposes. Another reason urn-etl 4 A m favor of the law is, that of economy. X Tl a - reason in iow l uo not loci uisposea to trump up a long list of expenses for the purpose of biasing the public mind against this law, for no creat enterprise can be carried on without money. It is esential to its vitality. But will less money move this machine, than was necessary to move the old one: Let us look at it. First then to say nothing of the salary of a general superintendant, which, to say the least of it is, as to its real necessity extremely questionable, could not the Congressional Township trustees and clerk have managed the funds as well a the civil township trnstees? Does it not require the same labor and time in the one case that it docs in the other? Iä the per diem allowance in the one case any less than in the other? To sum it up, in a few words there is nothing gained but much lost, by a change from the old to the present system, and my word and my reputation for it, that after ten years of legislation, there will I found to be little or no improvement upon the old district plan. Here I shall for the present dismiss the subject leaving it to clearer heads and more leisure hands than I have, to follow up the question. PIIILOM. Butler Township, Feb. 1C5J. JUiscIIancous. From the Goshen Democrat. TlioTerrllorluKiurttloif.rotitlou of our Iti-prrkculutlvo and tho Intlluuu Dclrgutlon, iu CoMgrc. Bdow we give that portion of recent letter from our Representative in Congress to the editor of this paper relating to the Territorial Question. It will be of especial interest to or readers, as serving to show the position of the Indiana Delegation nnd fully explaining that of Judge Chamberlain himself upon this now engrossing topic. Wasiiisoton, D. U., Kb 4, 1051. Hon. It. Lowuv: Dear Sir: I see by tho papers, w hi:h have come to hand since the re-openin" of the flood-gates of excitement on" tho Slavery question, in direct contravention to the letter and spirit of tho Compromise measures of lCö'J, and the altimore platform, by the introduction of Mr. Douglas' Nebraska bill, containing a direct proposition for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, that tili Arne raitft'&lktevott r-trit. Slavery excitement, the food of ambitious men, is also, to some extent, already doing its work abroad. I believe 1 hazard uothing in savin", that tho Indiana delegation in the House at this moment, unanimously, disapprove of the bill in its present form. We have no intimation from the President, cither in his Inaugural, or Message, or any other document before Congress, that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is an Administration measure. This being the fact, I have taken it for granted, that ho would not very readily recognize it as my right, much less as a duty devolving on me as a Representative m Congress, to inquire what his private .views as an individual, may be upon the subject. And the line of duty before me, as such Representative, seems very plain. Every adjustment of this question by Congress, now for more than thirty years, including the Missouri Compromise, has been received and acquiesced in by the people everywhere, and particularly by the Democratic party, in a spirit 01 patriotic devotion to the ' interests of the whole Union, which has given it a peculiar sanctity. Indeed, the degree of integrity with which the citizen, ISorth or South, has manifested his devotion to the Compromises all vfthem, has been justly regarded as the measure of his patriotism; tho great object being to do strict justice to to each section of the Union, and to allay, and prevent agitation. To the faithful performance of this duty, in this spirit, my mind has uni1 r . I . a I. ioiuuy ueen made up, ana 1 have never to this hour, doubt-d that it was in a . - .1 precise narmony with tne views ot my COIJs,llluc-' uPoti th subject, , .lt ,s a-wrU'd by the advocates of ll.i ....... . . - - 1 I ll. . f t . , u measure, inueeu, tne ueciarauon is incorporated in tho Nebraska bill itself . . . iitliat the Compromise measures of ljjio virtually repeal the Missomi Compromise This I deny. ?ut "rant it. for the sako ol the argument. .What then? Wherefore the necessity I' f,f r ,ealin' it over n-'ain? exeent for j the gratification of a wanton propensity ' for the agitation of this question, already I fc much abused, to the ends of nolitical sclf.ng.rrandizeraent. in Tins view of the e in tins view of the ease T shnll dorm , ' . ... it my duty, as the If representative from lhc Tenth Congressional District of 1 .,.i...,i m taml liv t1, Xtinnri Compromise, nnd thereby preserve the Territory free, leaving to the people lht.re the undoubted right, when they , frame a constitution, to ask for ada ; mission into the Union, with or without slavery, as they themselves may dein them instructions, em.inatin ' from ' . primal' Meeting !i ot." f..r the ret uionto SoUll - Compromise. K. M. Ciiamulklais. - - ! J ho following table will be lounu useful to many of our readers. rvo it; ntSI ItiflK-.l.y 11 liii li". jiiar.', aii'l slni'lira (.-i-i, 1 ill 1 ti tit i 11 S I'll. 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The JoIilugClerfr' iiMi.11. Rev. Dr. Byles was the most original compound of religion md mirth, conspicuous in the latter part of the last century, in New England. With a good heart, a mind of stable principles, and a decent reverence for his holy office, he nevertheless possessed a buoyant and genial flow of spirits, constantly runninjj over with puns and witty conceits. He maintained his connection with his (the Hollis street church for forty-three years. He was a hale yet aged man tthen the Revolutionary war began, and in his political predilections leaned towards the royal side.

In May, 1777, it was deemed necei-1 sary to arrest hira as a Tory. He was condemned to be placed on board a guard ship and sent to England. Subsequently the sentence was changed to confinement in his house. A sentinel was kept before his door day and night, whom he was wont to call his dbscrv-a tory. At the last the vigilance of the board of war relaxed, and the sentinel disappeared; after a while ha was replaced, and after a little removed altogether. The Doctor used pleasantly to remark that he had been 'guarded, regarded and disregarded.' Once the Doctor tried to have he sentinel let him fo after some milk for his family; but he vos firm, and would not; he then argued the case with the lionet but simple fellow, and actually induced him to go after the milk, while h, the Doctor kept guard over himself! Tho neighbors were filled with wonderment to eeo their pastor walking in measured strides before his own door with the sentinel's gun at his shoulder, and when the story got abroad itlurnishcd food for town gossip and merriment for several days. Tho Doctor Jiad rather a shrcwdish wife, so one day he called at tho old distillery that used to etand on Lincoln street, and accosted the proprietor thus: Do you still!' That is my business,' replied Mr, Hill the proprietor. Well, then,' saiJ the Doctor, 'I should like to have you go and still my wife.' He served rather an ungall tnt trick upon thi some good lady at another lime. He had some curiosities which people occasionally called to aec. Ono day two ladies called. Mrs. I), was in the suds,' and bogged her husband to shut her in a closet while ho exhibited his curiosities. He did so. After exhibiting everything else he said. Now, ladies, 1 havo reserved my greatest curiosity to tlie last,' and opening tltodoor, ho exhibited Mrs. 1). to the ladies. There was an unseemly Plough of despond' before his door, in tho shupo of a quagmire, which ho had repeatedly urged the town authorities to rsaiove. At lest two of the town officers in a carriage got fairly stuck in it. They whipded the horse, they hawed and geed. but could not get out. Dr. llylcs saw thi-tn from Iii window. He stepped out in the street ! am Jelljjhted, ntlomn,' said ho rubbing hi hands wuh glee, 'to see you ttirriJ in tMs matter at last I' The soro in the ground,' wai healed soon after. Going along the street ono day he found himself in a great crowd near the old North Church. 'What is the matter' inquired he of a bystander. Why, sir, there is a inn going to fly from the steeple. Poll! poh!' said he, 'do you all come hereto see a man fly! Why I have seen a horso tly.' A learned lady of Boston despatched a note to him on the Great Dark Day, (May 19, 1700,)in the following style: Dear Doctor How do yoa account for this darkness!' His rev ly was 'Dear Madam I am as much in the dark as you are.' The bruka Question. This subject still occupies the attention of the country, out of, as well as At the city of Washington. Ono ofthobest articles we haye yet seen on this subject is a communication in the National Intelligencer from the pen of the Hon. John M. Botts, of Virginia. Mr. Botts is a Southern man but opposes this scheme of treach.ry from principle. He says: As a Southern man, I raise my voice against it. I oppose it because it involves a breach of faith on tho part of tho South, M-ho have for thirty odd years enjoyed the advantages obtained by them in the formation of tho States of Missouri and Arkansas. I oppose it, because it necessarily and unavo idably hecrpi anut her anrrv sectional contrjI . 1 oc j Vt" . . ' . ,. tY 1 4 1 V 1 1 lllllV HIV IIUUV VII, HtltUIIitii,i,it tltont ari iwthn hi t nmmrr us 6ironr cnougu in tho confidence of I oppose it, bctho neoplo to allay cause it uproots and destroys the corn promise measures of 18S0, to which the Nnrth w tin niori nliired than tlld South to the compromise no- proposed to be abrogated. I opjme it, bocuuso it would I. a nn net if iiilutiinti'il madness on tlltf .w .-- r-- j ho nn act of inlatuated madness on tho ! P"t of ll Saull t0 acccl)t 11 I Wl tl, uecause u win uo nupuMium ngiiin to obtain as lavorable terms from the North, with their .even millions majority of white population, as we obtained when that population more nearly ..I .. .it.. ii t anDroximaieu enuamy. 1 vppv ur on the ground that it places a ti barren j Privileg, i. u n,j.-.r ;h. sr, ro, ' ,1' l....t he which sho must be ou ultimato and great loser." jTiT The J'rcss, the leading democratic Journal of Chicago, Senator Douglas's home, says: The more this Nebraska question is j

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U JU. , . t . t the democracy oecome, iiiav wuuge Douglas has made a sad mistake in introducing this bill. He has commit-fi-.l an error which will alwavs be an incubus upon him in future political 11sto.1v. In tins cm v, with all the re1 11 .1 . .r.ir, tho (l.-tiiiiornfv havn lor Jitd-re it ,- . ... . ,, ..... .... Uoilgias, Willi mi tue ju-i pruie uie feel for the high eharaeter und woi hlu i,h t-i-imtathm of their distiil'ruished V IS fcll. T v 11110 - l... , .1 ...... ... wm, 1 wi.'.ibin Im Ii m l-iLi ! nn Ihm i!r'isk:i 'UIVI'MI - .-. ...... . - ipuestion. M-i :n ..... i-: I. :.. .1...: 1 net t o. nut iinu.i lumen opposition bv the "mad-do- cry - . . . cry iidnliihiiiUiii iVotn a f, w interested rar -------- i lies, nnr any threats of ostracism from any (piaib r whatever. I ix their uppo

sum to in s .. ... p., - Ku,i'M that will bo aroused they tu at least ono thing agree withi Iho'NYhigsof nlUtripv. ' (.

gltcss of gasji. Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all. The original of all men is the same : and virtue i$ the only nobility. When a king creates an office, Providence immediately creates a fool to buy it. ftSr'Why are young ladies bcathing, like a pleasant summer beverage! j Because they are 'lasses in water.' He who has no opinion of his own, i

but depends upon the opinions and tastes of others, is a slave. Passion may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man that commits a riot on his reason. The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country, is to reside some time in a foreign one. We seldom find people ungrateful, so long as wc are in a condition to render them service. A quaint old writer defines egotism I to be "suffering the private I to be too much in the public eye." The tim by railroad from Tittsburg to Philadelphia fcincc the compleXion of the tunnel is only fifteen hours. The Washington (InJ.) San proposes Geo. D. Prentice of the Louisville Journal as the next Whig candidate for tho Presidency. The Malison Banner says over twenty thousand boxes of pork have been put up at that place expressly for tho English market. Senator Douglas, according to the Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Sun, is about to marry a sister-in-law of James Gordon Bennett. C. G. Crane, Whig, has been elected to Congress from Maine, to till the vacancy made by the election of Mr. Fessen Jen to the U. S. Senate. Tho Free Soil Convention of Michigan has nominated II. K. Bingham lor Governor, and Nathan Pierce for Lieutenant Governor. Envy feeds upon the iving; after death it ceases then every man s well earned honors defend him against calumny. Resolutions opposing the Nebraska Swindle were unanimously adopted ati Madison last week notwithstanding M. G. ltri 'ht opposed them Mrs. S. It. Lapham aids her "worser half" in editing the Milan Frco Press, and serves up a repast of well written, chaste, and spicy editorials. Woman's Rights. Mrs. Paulino W. Davis, of tho ProviJence Una, has boen assigned a seat in the reporters' gallery of the United States Sonate. The greatest discovery which now Hashes across the world with lightning 1. . 1... . the chief promoters of drunkenness. Ilea. Dr. 1'errine, JJclast, Me. The following Washington dispatch appears in the Cleveland papers : Ex-Senator Clemens and W. T. Harris had a very serious fight here yesterday. Harris was badly beaten. Two boys were arrested in Pittsburg for sending obscene valedtines to a young aay, ana m r,vansvme a mar - ried lady cowhided a young scamp who sent her one of an insulting character. II Ml ... .1 fcTThe vouns lady who lived to be twenty years 01 age. w.tnout wisa.ng to - 0 ( that sho acknowledges Ire not too lanrc marrv. is now we arm" a nair 01 shoes for her. . 9 (r-An agricultural society has been organized in Minnesota, and Hon. Wil lis Gorman, Governor ol the Territory has been elected president. "Westward the Empire takes its way." A Sheriff Musisa. Mr. Roberts, sheriff of Dearborn county, la., has ab i j j d , commissioners : . . have ueciaroii mo ouice vacant, anu ap pointed N . F. It: J die, the former deputy, . 1 I I A ' I 4 to im wie uuesjureu lern,. ittrA nhüosophcr in Putnam'. Masa - . zjn0 8ayg tha.t women in;iy mako ehirta .nt . nlon hut lia !fi.a I IUI VI.,W X. I- 1 4 V 4 MI'!'. V . I J M ; tiem ty make anything r.xcErT shirts. A living must be picked u? by onie otfcV.it Kml nut in that. i IUI L' 'JUL VrVllL t l'l'--V vub IIU v. .,w , fcrlt U said that Cuba wa a part of Louisiana, whoso dominion was ceded by Spain to France; and that, therefore, we bou-ht Cuba without kuowing it. If SUCH IS WJC can, Ik la llu;o iL oiiuum , have been unknown till now. nJevY,I Mr. Wil.oa.nd other, nf.d, . .Pe,cl,. Resolutions sustaining Mr. Mace in op posing tho Nebraska bill were adopted. IsifayrtU Journal. frT-Dobbs .ay. that people who don't pay postage on letter, in which no peron but themselves is interested, won't on do to tie to Dobbs hit more thai ono I . . !...l!!.t.i(tl .iiA..t.A l...f.lrli. .. mli.n he tuaUe that rcmarit. It is now one hundred and fourteen years that the Methodist- have existed as 11 people. They now number in ! the world nearly two millions of com tnunicants, and preach the Gospel to ten or twelve millions. lln. John lVttit made a speech on . a specci the Xebr Mfimlav last in favor of the Nebraska bill Gov. llright it is well understood v " . : : S V IM VOW They will be triumcv the - ' u han ' susLHineUDV iiic.reoniuiueius. i . , r t,f , we er", - ! If "the to Senators do voto as the s.ntiucl it assured they will, they will ' it jmicult to whistle down the ngrunst

The following is the way the pnpers. talk of our pigeon-roost: Immense Flock of Pioeoxs. A pig eon roost ten miles long by five broad in Franklin county, Ind., it is said is now swarming with pigeons. The roar of their wings on arriving and departing from the roost is tremendous and the tiocks during their flight darken the heavens. The ground Is covered to the depth of several inches with the feuano. Thousands are killed by casualties from breaking, limbs of trees and hundreds of hogs live upon, them.

It has beenknown among our steamboat men that suits were pending against the Forest Queen and Zack Taylor, for non-compliancs with the late steamboat law. l'esterday, Capt, Protzman effected a compromise of the matter, and both cases were stttled on the payment of 8500. Two suits, which have been commenced against the Wild Wisconsin, were settled some time since in the same manner. Capt David saw that the Inspector had him by the homs, nnd so he "caved," too, to the tune of 500. Our steamboat men are finding out that it will not da to trifle with this subject, aud so, ra'.h-. cr than have any difficulty, they at once comply with the full requisition of the law in furnishing their boats. We understand however, that Captain. Protzman intends testing the law be, fore the Courts. In England there is more franknesi in advertising professional wants, than in this country; for examples of which see the following genuine advertisements cut from the London Record, the organ of the "Low church," or "Evangelical" portion of the English established Church: A clergyman, M. A., of evangelical views, desires a solo charge in some town sphere of usefulness. Advcriser seti forth icalously and faithfully the whole counsel of God, and preaches unwritten sermons. His qualifications being of rather a high order, a suitable stipend required. Also ho is a bachelor; the advantages of goal society desirable. Address L. L. B., at the. London Record office. x Here is unother ; The advertiser having been found, under Gjd, very successful in preaching the doctrines of grace, would be !glad in meeting another metropolitan. sphere. lie has b powerful vuice, an earnest delivery, and a stvle of preachi,est suited to anedu:a"ted audience. . A IN. i . correspondent at the iouisrille Jotirnal.-nliuding to the suffering in store for tho poor working women of that city during the winter, states this pitiable fact: The owner of one of the newly invented sewing machines, lately adver Used for two girls to work on ono only for two weeks. The advertisement was out in the morning paper, the Tribune, and before one o'clock in the day, ho received over four hundred applications. He was obliged to close his office in a sort of horror at the suf- , 0 ! John an Buren is "down upon the Nebraska Bill. One of the gentlemen residiugat the White Houso has been endeavoring to persuade Mr. Van Buren to look favorably upon tho measure, but without avail. On its being declared to him that the Presi- ' f1nt. wna r1riil'11i' in favnr if th ' bil, j h cxpresseJ fcis regret that the a . . ... . L'hief Magistrate shoulJ entertain ; yiews SQ ditrcreat frora tUose o( t boJy of hU part , ' -. . . . The Democratic Prcst of Chicago CTM)jLa flute fn tlw KiiVtmnt - vj'vcan-J IUU4 vA Vaiv guuivvo . ..Meanwhile we wish to express tho 1 . , nvicüoa "-at the peop e conviction that the people of Illinois j are almost unanimous against the disturbance of either the Compromise of 18Q0 ! or that of 1850. They have endorsed both of them in the most emphatic way they believe both to be essential to the harmony of the country, to the continuance of a good understandingbctvccn the .North and the South; they will 0f 1020 Jcst it be warded ui n-'ni' i"- i.auuvu resist tho disturbance of the "finality" as a precc 1 lnr. fur rv-rfrirrivi-inr flu "ii nnlttu ()f , ß50 j n lu fha( (he ,tf nn anu ,Tort 4 V V J s ' of nartv drill will have the effect of driving them fiora the defence of !.. .1,:.. 1... ...i nnt fMfltr illL It MI'LIIIT LI 11. IH MJ III UUla our ro;ctaSa jntblic journalist, us a ,pwl-flff vpon tte watch-tower, shall not i ..... cease to le raised ayainsl the attempt to reverse the act of 1820. We have deliberated long an J earnestly upon the subject, and such is our settled conviction of duty such our Crmly fixel purpose. The Galeua JeJ'ersonian, the lead, ing Democratic paper in the North iV cstern portion of Illinois, comes out, manfully for freedom. It says: "Mr, Douglas's Nebraska bill is a bomb shell in our camp. We rejoice to know that it will bo actively nnd vigorously opposed. It aks too much and it asks for Slavery. The friends of the Compromise of 1U20, and of tho Compromise of 1050, which latter affirmed the former, are not to bo crowded into a measure looking to tho 1 repeal of the one or the other. e J hVA taki occasion to speak, at length, ' of lhc true relation of the two, und of - j th manifest duty of Democrats at this crisis. L,ei it SUUice lor tr.e preseuv T .r .1- ft that we fhall oppose the measures with what .biliiy and industry wc nuypos. , scss." Uis said that but a Single Democratic paper in Illinois has yet come to tho support of the bill. The opponents t'f a Prohibitory Tmuor Law sV th",l it will not answer the purjx.se intended by its friends that mit e liipiorwillbe sold afterwards than now. Well g ntlcinm if yoa aro really of this opinion w hy dont yo4 .'0 for the T 9