Indiana American, Volume 22, Number 46, Brookville, Franklin County, 3 November 1854 — Page 1

BY T. A. GOODWIN, BROOKVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1851. VOL. XXII -NO. 10.

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Dr. J. W. KEELY, Surgeon Dentist, U HOUSE. cra-ruae. All wor warranw. o Harfe for examination or advice. J. 13. DAVIS, M, D., lMiyiciaii & Sur sc on, OFKICB at hl residence, eorner of Mala and Jamet treett,BrooavtllotInd. Ci'tivn KILUOItC, Joalleeofthe Peace, aad Altora.randCoaualloratl.w,BrookTUle, I ad. Offloe stoma Kat Coraer of fuhllc Square. t , ttt noitltOW Attorney end Counsellor! II i Uf, Office .to. 7 Halle onildlr.;, BrookvUle.indtana. l-3. nrC.CIlOOKSIIAKt Attorney and i Councilor t Law. Uffleela U.lle'aballdln;, Brookflllo, Indiana. j-'aa T II. niCLCUC. AllornovatLaw. Offlce J ou nnrfeaaatraal, twodogrrTtorta oineo. nolaed'eOmea.HrookTÜle. 4-'3l EVAN OWENS? ATTOBÜTET AT LAW HOTARY IUBL C, Tit. Carrael, Indiana Jan 303mo ALF. WA KU, ATTORNEYS COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Brookrllle, Indiana. Office two door north Burton' More. i. it. 3ioititis,3i.i3T7 PhyiilGia ii&Siirgcon Mt. Carmel, Ind., 2122-'53-year. nut. ir.i: K. a w EN j DENTAL SURÜEONS, 711. Carmel, Ind. Will 4 all work enlraaUd to taor earn with DOktneu and pt patch. Jan 30 3mo MOSES J. KELLEY, Attorney at Law and Notary Public, One door South of the Valley Houao, iiroemviiie man ILL take acknowledgment of Deed, take and eerury Uepoait'ona, Amaavit die. HARRISON DIRECTORY. TJ TTXST. DKALKR IS GROCERIES ASnJ XV rroTumn, Markal iireet, lUmwoti, umo, keep on band a good aasortinentof alt article la hl lino. ALSO a general assortment of PVIlltlTl'llGi Which he wilt Mil cheap for eaah or eountry pro doe. Oct 27 43 WS4. TTTLTOIf TUT IBELL-oMC door kast of Ali. Ui UrtigMure, tUaklsoR, Ohio, Dealer in AMERICAS, FRKSCIl AS D ENGLISH DKT GOODS, Bonnet and Bonnet Trimming of all stylos and pr.ce Ladlea, Mlaaeaand Children' 8mok kept eonUnity on hand. ocl 27 4. e . r. WM. IKKO. BRUN ER XXMOW DEALKRS I.N KASCY u4 looielio i'u Uuop., Ladle lre Good of every kind. Grocerle. Hardware, vtueeuaware, UooU, Shoe Carpeting, 6to., COKNH MilllT AMD W.IJICT RTIKTf, HARRISON, OHIO. Oct S7 4 134 DS'E. E. ITJILIE.-PKALKR IS UK-JOS, M..ii.iue, i'aiuu. Oil, VarnUha,CUa, Dye Corner Main and Market Streets, ' IIAUitLSO.X, OHIO. otg7 43 154 flHTO HOTEL. cokskk mais makkkt Mrovi iiARuiso.v, oiiio. . . milF.il, Preprlatar. Oct 57 4i is:4 BOTS WAlfTED. The Philadelphia City Item lets off the following: What are wc to do for boya? Yhen we were a boy, there were lots qf boys, but they hare gradually grown source, until now there is hardly a boy left. As wo walk through the streets we read in shop windows, "Boys Wanted." When wo pick up a newspaper, tho first advertisement that strikes our eye is "A Boy Wanted.' In a word everybody wants a boy. NW, in view of this great scarcity of boys what are we to do? What shall we do for a substitute to light our fires, sweep our office and run our errands? The other day a little fellaw about fourteen year of age, (begging his pardon, we took him for a boy,) applied to us for a situation. "What can you do?" we inquired. "A little of almost everything," was the reply. "Are you quick at your errands?" "Well, sir, I don't much like to do errands." "Can you sweep and dust well?" 1 "Why, sir, young men don't sweep any now-a-days. The women folks have monopolized that branch of the business. It in't Ho was going on to say sweeping isn't genteel, but he hesitated to state his conviction. "How will you make yourself useful?" "Why, I'll sit in the office and answer questions when you are out.". "And how much do you ask'for this service?" "In the neighborhood, sir, of three dolhrs." "In the neighboihood?" "Yes sir." "What do you mean by neighborhood?" "Simply three dollars, sir a trifle more or les." "And you can neither sweep or run errands?" "Oh,(a little vexed,) I could, but-" "But what?" "It ain't exactly the thing." "Yet at your acre, we " 'Damn me tir," picking his hat and striding towards the door, "you don t take me for a Boy do yon" Amused but not astonished, we asked ourselves tho question what are we to do for boys? If some enterprising Yankee would undertake to 'get up a lot of boys, lie could make a lare fortune in a short time, for never in our rec ollection, have boys been in such de mand. C03TMTJSICATI03- PKOM. THE "BPIMTS.' One ti the "medium.'" was recently put in communication with the spirit of the celebrated and eccentric Dr. Ab me thy, to enquire what was the best of all medicine for diseases on -the Lunge. Loud and distinct raps upon the table slowly but promptly spelt out A-y-e-r-'-s C-h-t-r-r-y P-e-c-t-p-r-a--.

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TKEÄ2 AltX TWO WATS TO LIVE ON Z1BTH. T CM4ftl.lt fW4I. There are two way to live or earthTwo way to Judge to act to Tie w; For til talngt her have doable birth A right and wrong, a fait and true! Clve me the home where klndnea took To make ibat wet which aeemelh toiall; Where every lip In fundneu i peaks, And every mind hath care for all. W ho Inmate live la glad exchange Ofpleature, f.ee from vain expense; Who thoaghl beyond their mean ne'er range; 5orwle denial give offoceet Who la a neighbor' fortan And" So wle, no Impulse, to complain; V. ho feat not, never felt, the mind .n Toenvy yetaaoiher'ngalat Who dream not of the mocking tide Ambition' foiled endeavor meet The biliar pang of wou ndod pride, Sor fallen Power that ahnm the treeU. Thoogh Fate deny It glittering '.ore, Love' wealth la still the wiallh to chooso For alt that Gold can purchase more Are gaud, It 1 no to to lotet Soma be In ir wheresoe'erthey go. Find nought to pleaae, or to sail Their comum study but to tow Perpetual mode of Unding fault. While olhcrt, In the ceatelets round Of dal j want, sad dally ca c, Can yet cult flower from Hie comncn ground. And twice enjoy the Joy they liarel Ohl happy they who happy. make, Who, bleMlng,tlll themaelve are bleat! Who omeihlag ipare for other take , Aad trlve la alt thing for the beat! TUE CROCK OF GOLD. BT MARTIN 'fARQÜII AR TCFPER, AUTHOR OF PSOTZXBIAL PHTLOSOPHT." CHAPTER I. The Laborer: and hi dawning Dlacontont. Rooer Actos woke at five. It was a raw March morning, still dark and .terlycold, whilst at gusty intervals the ram beat in against the Cl azy cottage-window. Nevertheless, from his poor pallet ho must up a id rouse him self, for it will be open weather by sunrise, and his work lies two miles off. Master Jeiuins is not the man to show him favor if he be late, and Hoger cannot afford to lose an hour: so, he shook off the luiury of sleep, and rose again to toil with a weary tlfort. "Honest Roger," as the neighbors called him, was a fair specimen of a class which has been Britain's boast for ages, and may be still again, in measure, but at present that glory appears to be departing: a class much neglected, much enduring; thoroughly English, just, indusuious, and patient; true to tho altar, and loyal to the throne; though happily shaken somewhat now from both those noble faiths, warped in their principles, and blunted in their feelings, by lying doctrines and harsh economics; a class, I hate the cold cant term, a race of honorable mcu, full of carc, pains, privations but of pleasure next to none; whose life at its most prosperous estate is Labor, and in death we count him happy who did not die a pauper. Through them, serfs of the soil, the earth yields indeed her increase, but itis for others; from the fields of plenty they glean a scanty pittance, and fill the barns to bursting while their children cry for bread. Not that Roger for his part often wanted woik; he was the best hand in the parish, and had earned of his employers long ago the name of Steady Acton; but the fair wages for a fair day's labor were quite another thing, and the times went very bard for him and his. A man himself may starve, while his industry makes others fat: and a liberal land lord all the whiter through may keep his laborers in work, whilst a crafty overbearing bailiff mulcts them in their wages. ror the outward man. Acton stood about five feet ten, a gaunt, spare, and sinewy figure, slightly bent; his head sprinUed with grey; his face marked wuu mose ngia lines, wnicn leu, 11 not of positive famine, at least of too much toil on far too littl food: in his eye patience and good temper; in his carnage a mixture oi me sturdy bear ing, necessary to the habitual exercise of great muscular strength, together with that gait of humility almost humiliation, which is the seal of oppression upon poverty. He might be about foriy, or from that to fitly, for hunger, toil, and weather haduscd him the roughest; while, for all beside, the patched and well-worn smock, the ncavily-clouted highlaced boots, a dingy worsted necktye, and an old felt nat, complete the picture of externals. But, for the matter of character with in, Roger is quite another man. If msranit iu this, world is the lowest, many potentates may envy him his btate elsewhere. His heart is as soft, as his hand is horny; with the wandering gipsy or the tramping bestrar. thrust' aside (perhaps deservedly) as impudent imiosters from the rich man's gte, has ofttimes shared his noonday morsel: upright and sincere himself, he thinks as well of others: he scarcely ever heard the Gospels read m church, specially about Eastertide, but. the tears would trickle down his weather-beaten face: he loveschildren his neighbors' little ones as well as his own: he will serve any one for goodness' sake without reward or thanks, an 1 is kind to the poor dumb cattle: he takes quite a pride in his little rod or two of garden, and is early and late at it, both before and after the

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daily sum of labor; ho picks up a bit of knowledge hero and there, and somehow has contrived to amass a fund of information for which few would give him credit from nis common looks; and he joins to that stock of facts a nawural shrewdness to use his knowledge wisely. Though with little of w'iat is called sentiment, or po:iy, or fancy in his mind (for harsh was the teaching of hischtldhood, aad meagre the occasions of self-culture ever since,) tl e bcarty of crcalio.i is by no means lost upon hiui, and he notices a. times its wisdom too. With a fixed habit of manly piety ever on his lips and ever in his heart, he recognizes Providence in all things, just, and wise, and good. More than so; simple as a little child who endures the school hour for tho prospect of his playtime, Roger Actön bears itp with nob!e meekness against present suffering, knowing that Iiis work and trials and troubles are only for a little while, but his rest and his reward remain a long hereafter. He never questioned this; he knew right well Who had earned it for him; and ho lived grateful and obedient, filling up the duties of hishumblo station. This was his faith, and his works followed it. He believed that God had pl.tccd him in his lot, to bo a laborer and till God's earth, and, when his work is dono, to bo sent on better service in some happier sphere: the where, or the how, did not puzzle him, any more than divers other enigmatical whys aad wherefores of his present state; he only

knew this, that it would all come right at last; and, baring sin (which he didn't comprehend,) somehow all was rigK at p escnt. What if poverty pinched him? he was a great heir still what if oppression bruised hitu? it would soon ue over. He trusted to his Pilot, like the landstuaal'in a storm; to his Father, as an infant in the dark. For guilt ho had a Saviour, and he thought of him in penitence; for trouble a Guardian, and ho looked to him in peaco; and as for toil, back-breaking toil, there was another Master whom he served with t padc and mattock and a thankful heart, while he seemed only to be working for tho landloi u or his bailiff. Such a man then had been Roger Acton from his youth up till now, or, iffcauncss must be told, neatly until now; for, to speak truth, his heart at times would fail him, and of late he had been bitter in repinings and comfilaint. For a day or two, in particuar, he had murmcred loudly It was hard, very hard, that an honest industrious man, ru he was, should so scantily pick a living out of this rich earth; after all said, let the parson preach as ho will, it's a fine thing to have money, and that his revtrenco knows riht well, or he wouldn't look so closely lor his dues. N. B. Poor Mr. Evnns was struggling as well a ho could to bring Up six children, on a hundred and twenty pounds per annum. Hoger, too, was getttinjj on in yearX with a blacker prospect for the future than when he first stood behind a plough-tail. Then theie were many wants unsatiified, which ftjjit of gold might buy; and his wife teased him to bo doing something better. Thus was it come at length to pass, that, although he hadenduredso many years, ho now got discontented at his penury what human heart can blame him? and with murmuiing came doubt; with doubt of providence, desire of lucre; so the sunshine of religion faded from his path; what mortal mind can wonder? CHAPTER II. The Family; the Homo; aud more Heplulnj. Now, if Malthus, and Martineau be verily the pundits that men think them, Roger had twice in lifo done a very fooliih thing: he had sinned against society, statistics, and common sense, by a two-fold marriage. The wife of his youth (I am afraid he married early) had once been kitchen-maid at the Hall; but the sudden change from liv ing: luxuriously in a great house, to the griping poverty of a cottager's hovel, had changed in three short years the buxDm country girl into an emaciated shadow of her former self, and the sorrowing husband buried her in her second childbed. Thu powers of the parish clapped their hands; political economy was glad; prudence chuckled; ard a coarse-featured farmer (hement no ill) who occasionally had iriven Roger work, heartlessly bade him be thankful that his cares were the fewer and his incumbrance was removed; "Ay, and Heaven take the babies also to itself," the Herodian added. But Acton's heart was brokenl scarcely could he lift up his head; and his work, though sturdy as before, was more mechanical, less high-motived: and many a year of dreary widowhood he mourned a loss all the greater, though anything but bitterer, for the infants so left motherless. To these, now grown into a strapping youth and a bright-eyed graceful girl, had he been the Lcndcrest of nurses, and well supplied the place of her whom the f had lost. Neighbors would have helpeu him gl idly sometimes did; and many was the hinted offer (disinterested enough, too, for in that match penury must havp been the settlement, and starving the dower,) of giving them a mother's kindly care; but Roger could not quite so soon forget the dead: so he would carry his darlings with him to his work, and feed them with his own hard hands: the farmers winked a a at it, and never said a word against the tiny trespassers: their wives and daughters loved the little dears, bringing them milk and possets; and holy angels from on high may have ofttimes hovered about this rude nurse, tending his soft innocenti atield, and hate wept over the poor widower and his orphans, tears of happy sorrow and benevolent affection, i ca, many a good

blessings on their Within tho last three years, and sixteen from tho date of his great grief, Roger had again got married. His daughter was growing into early womanhood, and his son gave him trouble at times, and t'ic cottage wanted a ruling haad over it when ho was absent, and rheumatism now and then bade him look out fur a nurse before old age, and Mary Alder was n notable middle-aged careful sort of soul, and so she became Mary Acton. All went on pretty well, until Mrs. Acton began to have certain little ones of her own; and then the step-mother would break out (a contingency poor Roger hadn't thought of) separate interests crept in, and her own children fared before the olhcrs; so it camo to pass that, however truly there was a ruling hand at home, and however well the rheumatism got nursed (for Mary was a good wife inthc main) the grown up son and daughter felt themselves a little jostled out. Grace, gentle and submissive, found nil her comforts shrunk within the space of her father and her lible: Thomas, self-willed and open-hearted, sought his pleasure anywhere but at home, and was like to be trking to wiong coi'.rses through domestic bickering: Oraco had the dangerous portion, beauty, added to her lowly lot. and attracted moro admiration than her father wished, or she could understand; while the frank and bold spirit of Thomas Acto.i exfiosed him to the perilous friendship of Jen. Burko tho poacher, and divers other questionable characters. Of these elements, then, aro our labour and his family composed; and before Roger Acton goes abroad at earliest streak of dawn, wc will taken casual peep within his dwelling. It consist of four bare rubble walls, enclosing a grouted floor, worn unevenly and here and there in holes, and puddly. There are but two rooms in the tenement, one on tho ground and one over-head; which latter is with small difficulty got at by scaling n ladderliko staircase that fronts the cottage door. This upper chamber, the common dormitory for all but Thomas, who sleeps down stairs, has a thin partition at one end of it, to screen ofl tho humble truckle-bod where Grace Acton forgets by night the troubles of the day; and the remainder of tho littlo apartment, sordid enough, nnd overhung with the rough thatch black with cobweb, serves for tho father and mother with their recent nursery.Each room has its hatte ry easement, to let in through liclicncd panes, the doubtful light of summer, nnd the much moro indubitable wind, and rain, and frost of wintry nights. A few articles of crockery and some burnished tins docoriito t'.io nholvea of the lower apartiiiCnt; Which used to be much tidier beforo the children came, and trimmer still when (trace was sole manager: in a dourlcM cupboard arc apparent sundry coarse edibles, as the half of a huge unshapely home-made loaf, some white country cheese, a mass of lumpy pudJing, and ho forth; beside it, on the window-sill, is better bread, it well-thurtbed Üble, some tracts, and a few odd volumes picked up cheap at fairs; an old musket (occasionally Ben's companion, sometime Tom's) is hookod to the ralters, near a double rope of onions; divers gaudy little prints, tempting spoil of pedlers, in honor of George Barnwell, the Prodigal Son, the Sailor's lturn, and the Death of Nelson, decorate the walls, and an illuminated Chritmas carof is pasted over the mantel-piece; which, amongst other chattels and possessions, conspicuously bears its own burden of Albert and Victoria two plaster heads, resnlendently colored, highly varnished, looking with arched eyebrows of astonishment on their uninviting palace, and royally contrasting with the bomboe hue of poferty on all things else. The pictures had belonged to Mary, no small portion of her virgin wealth; and as for the statuary, those two busts had cost loyal Roger far more in comparison than any corporation has given to a P. R. A., for Majesty and Consortship4n full. There is, moreover, in the room, by way of household furniture, a rickctty, triangular and tri-legged table, a bench, two old chairs with rush-bottoms, and a yard or two of matting that the sexton gave when the chancel was new laid. I don't know that there is anything else to mention, unless it be a iraunt lurcher beloiging to Ben Burke, and with all a dog's reseoiblerce to his master, who lies stretched before the hearth where the peaty embers never quite die out, butsmoulder away to a heap of white ashes; over these is hanging a black boiler, the cook of the family; and besides them, on a substratum of dry heahter, and wrapt about with an old blanket, nearly companioned by his friend the dog, snores Thomas Acton, still fast asleep, after his usual extemporaneous fashion. As to the upstairs apartment, it con tained little or nothing but its living inmates, their bedsteads and tattered covernas, ana naa an air 01 even mure penury and discomfort than the room below; so that, what with squalling children, a scolding wife, and empty stomach, and that cold and wet March morning, it is little wonder maybe (though no small blame) that Roger Acton had not enough of religion or philosophy to rise and thank his Maker for the blessings of existence. He had just been dreaming of great t;ood luck. Poor people often do so: fi ,1 1 r just as Ugolino dreampt of imperial feasts, and Bruce, in his delirious thirst on th; Sahara, could not bani.sh fiom his mind the cool fountains of Shiraz, and the luxurious waters of old Nile. Roger had unfortunately dreamt of having found a crock of gold I dare say he will tell us his

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dream anon and just as 7m was counting out his treasure, that blessed beautiful heap of shining money, cruel habit roused him up before the dawn, and his wealth faded from his fancy. So he awoke at five anything but cheerfully. . It was Grace's Imbit, good girl, to read to her father in the morning a few verses from the volume she best loved: she always woke betimes when sh? hoard him getting up, and he rould hear he. easily from her little flock-bed behind the lath partition; nnd many a time had her dear religious tongue, uttering the words of pea"c, soothed her father's mind, and strengthened him to meet tho day's affliction; many times it raised his thoughts from the heavy cares of life to the buoyant hopes of immortality. Hitherto, Roger had owed half his meek contcntcilness to those sweet lessois from a daughter's lips, and knew that he was reaping, as he heard, tho harvest of iis own paternal care, and heaven-blest instructions. , However, upon th's dark morning, he was full of other thoughts, murmurings, and doubts, and poverty, and riches. So, when Grace, after her usual affectionate salutations, gently began to read, "Tie Bufferings of this present time arc not worthy to bo compared with tht glory ," Her ftthcr strangely stopped her 03 a rudder, with "Enough, enough, my girl! God wot, tho aifferings are grievous, and the glory lung a-coming." Then hcheavily went downstairs, and left Gnce crying. lO BK CONTINUED.

li? . . A 3. 1 1 i 11 r . From the Cincinnati Columbian. KANSAS. LECTURE CT REV. C. DOYKTOX. DELIVIRKD f V:.1l IT. COÜO0 1TI0KAL Cltb'Brn l.i.T KI01IT. A large and highly respectable audience filled Yine Street Congregational Church to hear tho report of the Rev. C. Boynton, who, as agent of the Kansas League, had made an extenBivc tour of exploration. The reverend gentleman introduced his remarks by stating that he proposed to give but an abstract of the contents of Iiis forthcoming printed report. On the wall behind the pulpit, was exhibited a largo outline map of Kansas anü tho lecturer introduced his remarks by showing its natural di visions, the na'ural courses of its traue, and tho direction of its water courses. There are no towns yet located di rcctly at the mouth of Kansas, but there is an excellent site for one in the Guyondot reservation. The Kansas river at its mouth is 330 yards wide, ami even at Fort Riley it is 200 yards wide. We, Said he, saw it iu a dry season, yet it was 'i line rapid stream, well Kuiifd for pnrposes of navigation. It is lurucd, out not ns mucn sas the Missouri, and the streams which empty into it nre limped as New England brook. Big Blue River at its mouth is 300 feet wide, nnd is a clear, beautiful stream. Grasshopper river U 100 feet wide at its mouth, but though, a fine stream, was low when we saw it. The Arkansas is one of the principal rivers in Kansas, running up into it 500 miles. The country through which it passes is comparatively unknown, but is rrpresented to be an exceedingly fertile and delightful valley. Kansas might be divided into northern Kansas, whose natural outlet will be by St. Soseph, and the railroad to the Missouri river at Hannibal lies on the head waters of the various tributaries of the stream just named. Central, or Valley Kansas will require an outlet city at the mouth of the Kansas. Weston is laboring to gain this trade, and a town will be located in the Guyandotte Reservation. South-western Kansas will need an outles at Council Grove, or some unknown point. ' This latter .portion may have its commercial outlet at Neosho in Missouri, which will connect with the South-west branch of the R. R. from St. Louis, and thence conneet with the Texas Pacific R R. A fourth district, comprising the Arkansas Valley, may also have a distinct outlet. A line drawn North and South, 200 miles west of Missouri and comprising 200 square miles,is considered the agricultural region of Kansas. The 2U0 square miles west of this has been represented unfit for settlement on account of drouth, and want of rain. Last year the records at Fort Riley prove that there was more rain there than even here. It feeds immense herds of buffaloes, and the streams when we traveled there, showed that it was not dried up, or unfit for settlement. The officers at Fort Riley, said it was as well watered 150 miles farther West as there, and it was there as well watered as the eastern portion. A soldier from Santa Fe, declared that for one hundred miles back cf Council Grove, it wa3 as well fitted for settlement as at Ft. Riley. Far back at the base of the Rocky. Mountains, the country is like New England, with its valleys, its sparkling streams and glorious scenery but it is as rich in minerals as any other portion of this continent. ' : . As a whole. Eastern Kansas is one of the most fertile and delightful regions ever seen. We, said the lecturer, traveled over 3J0 miles in it, and we do not think any portion, of the United States equals, it in general fetility, or in the rare beauty of its rolling prairie scenery. We did not see a swamp in Kansas,' and the soil is a

deep, rich, vegetable mold, dark when wet, a the rich soil of Miami and Scioto valleys, up to the very tops of the highest bluffs. We did not see a i od that was unfit for cultivations, except the beds of the water-courses. The soil is not as deep as on some Missouri bottom lands, a id has hence been votiert alued; bj. it is rich and ample, with p sandy subsoil, which when mixed makes it quick and wa-m. , The climate is a little moro bleak but with less . ain than falls in Southern Ohio, Indiana Illinois and Po.iasylvania. The, terapfvaturo ut Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth, is the same a here, but less variable. The productions of Kansas are such as belong to the same parallel of latitude. It is peculiarly adopted to hemp growing and all the cereals and fruits of Southern Ohio grow 'there in perfection. The timber is similar to ours, being composed of white, black, and red oak, sycamore, ash, elm, black walnut, beech and the like. Wild

grapes, plums, strawberries, blackber ries, and raspberries, grow in the great est abundance. The wild animals in Eastern Kansas are orairio wolves, wild cats, snuirrels. of all sorts, rabbits, pheasants, grouse, quails, ducks, brant geese. In the western portion arc buffaloes by the hundred thousand, elk, moose,' mountain goat, and grisly.bcar. Fish abo.md in all the streams. . , ; The geological character of the whole country is carboniferous or magncsian limestone. In some places, it approaches to chalk, so as to include nodules of flint. Lead, tin, iron ani copper have been found in it, and the western po.'tion will probably be extremely rich ? i these. Without search, we found two carbonates and two oxides of iron, the former very rich. An inexhaustiblo bed of gypsum has been fourd fifty miles f.oja it. Riley, and a id this will ultimately be used with advantage to reclaim sandy soils'. Coal ard iron aie both abundant in all parts of Karsas, and this, with the water power from its numerous streams, must rrako it a great manufacturing country, rivalling Pennsylvania itself in its iron works. Coal tops 0"t in many places, and though the veins are thin, they doubtless thicken as they rec de from the river, just as similar foriiiatioas do in Missouri. Having thus sho.vn the ability Kansas possesses for vast production, the lecturer went on to show its advantage for a market. It was near a slave ter ritory w aich never manufactured, and it, was in the vicinity of great military stations, requiring large amounts of agricultural products. It wasmoieover on great lines of travel. At Ft. Riley, alone, 18,900 bushels of corn were purchased for Government, last year. This maiket would continue for many years From its central position, markets will always be high for all Kansas can produce. They are now as high as here. The firrt part of the lecture was cioseu wiin a aesci lpiion oi lite vnllcy, the second level, and the high, rolling prairies, and the varied and Affecting scenery bo different from other prairie views. John Johiffe. Esq., President of the Kansas League, came forward, and stated the objects of the League to bo the spread of reliable information, and the induccmentof emigration. With an eloquent statement of the necessity for action, he made an appesl for material aid. Mr. T B. Mason then gave, on the organ; an imitation of an Indian war song, heard in Kansas. This attracted much attention. At its conclu sion the audience nnd choir sang the following: , THE KANSAS EMIGRANTS. DV J. 0. Will f TIER. We croM the prairie a of old The pllgrlrui crofid tba ia, To make tbe Waat, a they the EaU The homettead of the free, We go to rear a wall of men On Freedom1 outhern line, And plant beatde the cotton tree, The rugged Northern pine! We're flowing from our naUve UlUa At our free river flow; The bluMlng of our mother land lion uiiwi(o. Wo go to plant ber Common School On dlaUtnt prairie well. And give the Sabbath of her wild Themusloof liar bell. Upbearing;, like the Ark of old, Tho Bibla In our ran, ' ' We go to tcst.the truth of Cod Aalnat Uie fraud of man. . We'll weep the prairie a of old ' Our father wept tho tea, And make the Wett,ai uy the Eatt, : The honieaUad of the free. The Rev. Mr. Boynton resuming, stated that there were 1 2,7 1 1 ,840 acres of land in Kansas open for pre-emption settlement, and 662,000 which, according to treaties with the Indians, were to be sold, and part of the money given to the Indians,' but of these last 528,1)00 acres belonged to the Delawares,' upon whose Lnds there were already 1200 squatters claiming pre-emption, and though they had no right to bo there.it was doubtful whether government could, drive them out; hence, 13 million acres of land may be said to be open for pre-emption settlement. j The cost of the agents in travelling was goOO, but in the spring it will cost an emigrant 25 to go, and then he may have years to buy his land at government price, SI 25 per acre. This squ itter law squatters allowed pre-emption on 160 acres.but by clubI bing together the get 240 acres, as no j one dares to object to it. j The lecturer spoke of the advantag.sot timber and prairie land. Hedg ing for fences, and the advantages of Kansas for stock growing. He then showed the, relative commercial pros-

pects of different points, and concluded with an eloquent exhortation to labor for freedom in tho immense regio J, whose fate Knnsas decided, and tor. the immense trade which a proper course on our part will secure for Cincinnati. Wo regret that we havo to give but an outline of this very excellent lecture.

(lorrtsponbtuct. EVAUSVSLLE COSRESPOXDZNCE. Evaksville, Oct. 20th, 1854. RESULTS OF THE K LECTIO 5. Since my last the results of the elec tions in Indiana have been made known fully, and the people are rejoicing in the triumph.- Two rebraska men, in stead of one as I supposed in my last, return to Uong.fss. liut we m In diana arc most concerned in the kind of men the late elections have given U9 for the state legislature. The great want of our 6tatc just now is a stringent prohibitory liquor law. This statement will be laughed at by many would-be wise men, but still 1 repeat it, this is the great want of the people. The peoplo too, feel this want, and if their servants do not obey their wishes in this matter, the time is not far distant when they will speak in ßueh tones as that their servants will bo glad lo obey. I trust the next legis lature will be composed of men who will see nnd feel this great want and legislate accordingly. THE RIVER DCSINESS rROSPECTS kC. The Ohio continues remarkably low. Steamboat men say they never knew it lower, and unless there is a rise soon, it will freeze up, and stop navigation for the winter season. It is said that John Randolph once broke out in Congress in the midst of a discussion in reference to some improvements of navigation on the Ohio; and said, "What is the Ohio that there need be so much contention about it? It is dry six months ani froze up six months." This is sometimes almost true, and is likely to be so this year. It is certain that there is a great portion of every year when it is a source of gTeat annoyance to travellers and business men. Business just now is remarkably dull on account of the low water, and must continue so for sometime without a rise. But thanks to the enterprising spirit of our people we will soon be to a great extent independent of the river. Railroads are multiplying all over the country, and soon passengers and goods can be transported anywhere without delay. 1 he 1. cc C Katlroads will be completed to Terre Haute by the first oi January, alter wnicn people irom this quarter can go up the river in quicklime, and will not be so much interrupted by a dry river. "CRAZV ANN." Almost any day there may be seen walking back and forth, along our Wharf,a black Woman apparently about 45 or 50 years ot age. Sometimes sho may be seen gaiing across tho river as if anxious to sec some one on the Ky. shore. I enquired, when I first saw her who she was, nnd what was the cause of her strange conduct, I was told that it was "Crazy Ann." thatshe'pent a part of each day on the wharf walking from one end of it to the Other just as I then saw her doing. I was further inhrmed that she imagines (perhaps it is more than imagination) that her son hps been carried off into Ky., and that she goes to the river every day with the vain hope of seeing him return. Some say her son was drowned so it is she has lost a son and this is the cause of her in - sanity. Whether he was drowned or kidnapped; she imagines that he is alive and looks for his return every - day. Passing up Water Street one day I observed her as usual on the wharf, waving her bonnet and looking earnestly across the river, and I asked her what was the matter. She replied, "Dey said somebodv run down to de nber on de other side and call me, and it raus be my son." I said you are mistaken. Said she, no what any body call me for. una mv enn TTa woo t a hin linmp i r' ..iui.. v:long loio uia uuic, au x iwm vi mm,

constant," and she continued to waive i e .. Ul .l"c , , au" -ii. - A Railroad recently a'ruck. because the her bonnet, vainly hoping to attract ; Superinten(lent refused to permit them the attention of her lost boy. Poor!to adorn the locomotives witä crape, as womanl thought I, as I passed on. ja mtrif; 0f respect for a deceased emShe ii a poor ignorant negro, but she ployee. is a mother and with all the strength j M a 8&;d aQ Irish ffente. Of a mother s love she looks and longs i mmn to ,, wife ..x would rathber the for the return of a lost son. Bereft children were kept in the nursery when of reason as she is on account of her i T am at home: although I should not

loss of him, she has lost none of a mother's affection. BAKER. THE AOTI-KTBRASKA COLUMN. The following States have voted since the Nebraska question was made, and thus the column "piles up:" AGAINST TflE SWINDLE! IOWA, OIIIO, MAINE, VERMONT, INDIANA, CONNECTICUT, RHODE ISLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Nine Free States, all of which, except one voted for Franklin Pierce, have repudiated his slavery agitation j and slavery extension policy. Illinois, ! Wisconsin, New York, Massachusetts. Michigan, and New Jersey speak next. Let their voices swell the Chorus of Freedom which the majestic forest of Maine echoed back to the Granite Hills of New Hampshire! Chicago Tribune. f5Tlt is easier to compose two lines to fill this column, than to select them.

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OCT 1 the Newburyport police court a nun was recently fined 5,90 (or kisi- ; Ing an Irish girl. Let off too cheap. 03" The Buffalo Express charge Mr. ; Fillmore and his coadutors with t design to destroy the Whig party of the State. OCT D. W. Van Aernum, the former, ' has been sentenced at Troy, New York, to seven years imprisonment in the penitentiary. 0" Five persons died recently at Rock River, Iowa, from poison. Their names were Nogjjle. Wno poisoned them is unknown. fCSr Two men have been fined ten .' dollars for passing notes of foreign,.' banks of a leas denomination than ten ' dollars, in Mount Vernon, Ohio. 03r A man named Thomas McCorm- 1 ick was killed at Burlingttn, Iowa, by ! S. M. Trulock, with a buldgcon. Liq-, uor and a quarrel caused it. fXT The number of bushels of grain" consumed in tho distilleries of the Uni- ' ted States in a year, counts up to seventeen millions. , , XT It is said that out of 230 siilors on board the United States ahip Saratoga, on her trip to Japan , only 17 drank ' a drop of liquor. 07" A new sort of saw has been re- ' cently patented and is said to work ' more expeditiously and with less labor than the common implement. 07-Costedo, the man who dogged and finally caused the capture of General Lopez, was assassinated on the 12th inst., at Havana, in a coüee house. At Meaaina, Italy, out of a population of 20.000, mere than 12,000 have been carried off by the cholera during the past summer. The chief Rabbi of the Jews of Lon don, the Rev. Dr. Adler, has issued a form of thanksgiving for the present, abundant harvest. Ctr The Urbana Citizen says the whole line of the C. P., and la. Railroad from Piqua-to Union ! graded, the -bridges built, and all reidy for the iröa That's right push It ahead. ID" The late monetary panic was more severe at Chicago than at alnot any other point. All sorts of paper money was refused until, vith reflection, pub-' lie confidence returned. 03 A party of Iowajans, who hire recently explored Nebraska, report that it is a fine country a very fine country, but Iowa is good enough for them and they mean to stay there. 03" Two very excellent citizens of Eden, N. Y.. named Deacon John Carter and Curtis Hubbel, were killed recently while taking down an old bridge for tho purpose of substituting a new one. Ö3"A Madrid correspondent, describing the interests the poorer classes take in a bull fight, spya that a week or two ago a man actaam rut off this wife's hair, while she was sileep, and sold it in order to raise money for the purpose oi weing me njni. A man who advertises for a eom-i pctent person to undertake the aale of a j new medicine, adds that it will be found j profitable to the "undertaker! " ' j The Doylestown Democrat has jbeen informed that a German in Leliijjb j county, lately deposed of hia wife to another man, for the sum of ono dollar. ! A modern physiologist note, the extraordinary fact, th-.t, at the dinner ! table, every time a man crcoks his elbow his mouth opens. ; Officer: DidV. yon guarantee, ,;r that the horse wouldn't shy before the fire of an enemy 1 Horse-dealer: No more he won't. 'Tisn't till after the fire that she shies ! , Young Ladles' Schools are often places where females unlearn the good, ! thy have studied and practiced at home; and learn 'those things which add neither to the head, heart or hand. j o-Ahackman named John Cochran j was killed, at Washington city, a few days ago, by running his carriage against curb stone, whereby he was thrown .from his seat, whether hew., high .t ; lhe lm,e is not 8taled' '. ICT Professor Adler, of the Univertlty of tbe City of New York, lately ac"Bed of insanity In consequence of a UT The engineers and other employ- , ... T?,.u i.i.-j ! object to their noise, if they'd only be quiet." 05" A mail bag was stolen recently from the Jefiersonville Railroad, and was afterwards found at Edinburgh, Ind., rifled of its contents, which were let-, ters from Columbus, Pittsburgh, Wheeling, and other pla. es. No clue ' has been discovered of the robbers. i It was a ratber left-handed comj pliment to the memory of the good old i deacon, when his pastor gave out to be j sung at his funeral the hymn cotnmence- ! ing with, 'Believing, we rejoice to see the curse removed I The Irish shopkeeper, who was lately cheated by an old woman stealing a jar of whisky , and leaving a jar of wate' in its place, described her as speaking a strange dialect, neither Irish nor English. A punister said, he had reason to complain of the jar-gon. At a large fire at a celebrated piano forte maker's an instrument worth two hundred guineas, was burnt; it was inlaid with mother-of pearl and other costly decoration. 'Dear me, said a gentleman to tho proprietor, how was it they could not contrive to save that solend'id instrument.' 'Why.' replied ! the proprietor, who, being insured, coald afford tbejoke, tne reason was, tnat mo engines could not play upon it, I am told.' .

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