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ATJG17Ö flfJD SÜS3WSSS PAPBR-DBVOTBD TO PÖRBiGI.-ÄND DOMESTIC HEWS, fJORfibS, TEMPERANCE, BDÜC'ßTiofc fiCRiCütTÖREi .fibo' THE BEST JHTBRBSTS "(BP S3 0.377. VOL. XXHI-NO. 48. MOOKVILLE, FBMKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1855. WHOLE -NUMBER 1192.
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m Lv r. r'Ti'.n. d.-phticia.i son wn e, at tie reeldeaee, eoraer Ala 4 Jaaee streets, Break viUe,Ial. fjrrrT,-ücöVlVaTiVf. J Cr t:. eue uxr eoetlt of Hi ;:y t.e, cr vaiae. All work a-rra.'.-Ki. 'Se darre foreiBmia-(jjr, auoa areolae, et-tr J-LULLf T3"ri: Z?-l U ST ICK or TBI PK AC 8 1 1 eai Atwrae Coaaeeilor at law, Brook Viile. lee. Omca, fditory Woil't sew bonding fröstln, is Court home 43 tW, kat,norMe, tad. Ai uaw. vrrici, 0.7. June's 43 fi I?,"", ATTORSXY oV COUJRElt.OK . Ar Law. Orrws, over Power' Store, Lei:)e, las. . ' T J, rm-T, attuk.isv at law J , tvTa t-uBLto. O r I o a , oae door a-. af lie Veite How. Brook vlUe. lad. Will lriaasaW;aQU of Deed, takeaud ear U.J Ua,AOJaTtu &. rirsnia j.TriTr-soTARv runnc, J , Lab.ai, las., ic eVpoaltloae aoJ aeImvWwsU, aa atlcau le Notarial suainoaa CaeraJl. . . , IIARfllCQN WmW. T7.-DKAICH IJI GROCICRIKIIAJID a franwwoe, Market street, lUaaiaoa, Ohio, I , 44 a fuoi aaeortiaeal of ail articles la Ma ftee, A LAO a (astral aaeertatent of rtnuiiTunn, Vislsa 1111 mU cheap for saas or ensntrr r-ro-oat 7 43 ei4. T" ttti rrirrL-o book Afor J , t Lft , luiaiene, Oato, Dealer In A-kktCAA, ItiSCM All) KXULIMII DUV UUOUM, t?aeUaaJ Eonaet Trtmmlnpof all ttjletsna .UCeatKlaoeaaBaChlMrea MOaa keMeoaa lull aa tap 4. w 87 j Wl, IKill, T"-, 5 XrST-lKALItRl IJI A.KCV j t l arao Ha4. VaroMrW, Har4warsUaaaii(war,BtM)U,lboaa CarpMia. Aa.. Coamr MtkiT W4imT PntatT, . lufcxisoy, onto. Oat 7 AS iHi4 - r:"VE, c mxra-DKAt-icR i?i uimgh, 2aktaaa, ra.au, OlU, VaruUoaa.UUu, Die tffa,e., CfarMaa aa4 Market treeU, CAtlliO.T, OHIO. atlYASim TTm.-CORJIICri MA 1.1 A MARKRT raete, tlARKINOJT. onto. f.O. FlXUCn, Pr.f rlet.r. OeU 1 AS 1W4 rSAnSLEJ COUTTY DHIECTOIIY. CiacoiT CeT macu tke let MunJeye la Febratrr tn4 Ab-muV nay ell Ure weak. Coaasa PiiiiCmara iulit Momlajr ta Jaa ry, April, July aad Uatobar aiay ait 9 waaka. Ccxt:nou'i Cccit mtU in Momljt In Jaaa.aaeuwbar, Oaaambar an J Uarca raay alt ala Aaj a aaa Hat, Cwnntr Clllcara, A.R.MeClaery, Baatlor, Ume eiplree Oct P. M. A. Jatar, Rap h w KV) i,oa HiiMtr. Joia M. Jofcuaon, CUrk. .t:-r :?,l-7:, f - Wai. K.-'-aaaa, Traaaarar. J a H. Mala, liwr, KeaMa Oaera, Raennfar, Jahe Kawthf, Coroner, M W. W. HabbarJ. M arravor. rh iHta Ocl l4 Aug tM Mar !" Oct IWtl Ort 1KV1 H It M U twr Laaiauaaaao-t'yraa Qalrt, J. If. JM", Bliaa Hfau, tljraa aaplraa Uutoaor, IIUAJcstlctjcf lh Ptftce 4Mttiiu towmi air. CraeKltrrl&aiBitaaioaeiitraeApr 1, ihm ..aWirtl Apf. Hi, 157 Wov,K.KoweU, AprV3, If 17 Jaaaaa atawfclaaa Ort 31, IrM aaaiwvriaLa TawaiMip. Joaepa Wetaa. Conmleeloa aiptra Oct 7, IKA A.C. KUIar, Uot'J.tns taraaal UolllJay, Apr 4,1(09 tauaiaaaaova Towautir, Da14 alaaawr. Commleeloa eiplra Vor 1,W JeaeeClemaola, Apr SI, 17 rvLea rewaaair. iaaa Oaatla, CaaamUataa aipiraa !o 1, 1MB Albert braaaaaa, - " Dae 3, KU'J rtttniL fttwmnir W. A. J. Cll4awall, Coajm aiplree FabW. IMM JaaaCoehraa, Jao,3ie)u . aitRToai(Rir. Freaole Xaeett, Cemialeetoa expiree Xo CIKJ9 rraacta A. Bawara, " Oct 13, 1A3 aaoaab rowaaaif. laaaeClaiaaateCaiaailaaioa expiree flee W, lM La4k.i Knaoalnger M w of , liui JtoaanU.Jtake M OallW, lall BiTimtTvvimiir. Joka Itoreley, Coatmleeioa 'atptrea July 13 I'M W.B.CooUr, - May J, eoaar Toaraaarr. Rabi. V. Millar, Coamlaeloa esplrae Kapt It, 1.17 Jaraee II. Moore, u Jnly io,Im aTowaiF. Hoary Rlmr,Coaimiaaloa expiree May 9t 1x5 Keraanl Mooroaaa M Way, 4lt nm towaanir. Ata V'. CoDimUeloa expiree June iT, UM Iaaaefraullpa, M " Fab 84. IS J7 wwrra wxtaa towwajp. WalUrKlVBali,Cma)tMloaexilrae Sap I, UM E II pkalet Barber, top 13, IM Ilaatat Wilaoo ' Maya.lRjil aaTwrowMinr. Joka (lev, Commttilna expire Juan 8, im UwUWklUmaa " April SS,U3 i uncacou:Tr y disectöey. C:ccr Cectt meu the tk Mondtji la Feb rery aa4 Aagaal .atay elttwo weke eaoh lime. Cmm PiiuCotaT aMUM Moatlayala Vvh raary, Ma, Aafii,an4 Nova a, ban aorpl whaa Vtara re I? konditrt in the preroiilnf luoutb-a Uea tat MoaJay. May all weoke each lime. Ca aiaaioaaa't Covit raaata lt Moadaya In Jaaa, Baplaaar, DMaaibar an4 Marek aiay i aU dire eaca time, Csaaty Oiaceri. ' . Mlaor Xaakar, Raaator, tlaie axptraa Oct, iw.Vl, Oao. W. Clark, Kap. N.J. Wit it bar iff, T.. aardaida, Clark, H W. Dawaoa, A adilor - M a. W. Hrowa,Traaaurar, M Ytm. . Horn, Coroaar, JeaieCork,hurvror. LawlaJ.CUae.JUaorU0r M Ac. ifi3 No. l"iJ. Moe. InM. A uc. I". OaU I'M. (Cb IM, it it Cooa n Cowanaatoaaaa Oarrat MTItoa, loaaa Saltier, aa4 Ales. M.la44okltimeexptro pp-Uber,184i-4-7. ' Jtaatlce) el Iba Icac X. Jarrelt, Caataalaatea espiraa Apr. I, IMS W.lrarr. Kan. Id, IHM. Ira Maxwell M K. U.Mawertk, 3. F. Faunati, O.WHaai. T.J.Colrto, Ju Lambt, M. RW.r, ' J W. awaaa. Joaopb Brew a, H. Irf'U Geo. WtUna m J. r.Taaiplatoa S. Foiguaaa. Apr. ih, MayS, 1KI7. Mau. I, Dae, 34. Iü. Apr., I'M. Aua?. a, i-jj ab. M, lMjk, f,3,l30, it it MtyJ. In37. OiU 3. I "3. Apr. Il.lnii. HYZliZ COUHTY DIRECTORY. Ciam ran a.M. eU kf oaday t Marek aa4 Caaaoa Wia CociT elU 41B Moodeje lu Jaaaary, Aprlf, July, and October; bol l Uo week i If aaataaaa Nq.lM. CaaaraaMtaaaa Cor aiaata I at Modar ta Kartk, Jene, epteittUor and Peceaiber; Mayan alne aayi tf eeceuary. ! t'Mtar oa I sm-iuith alia whaa bualneaa re Oro n )"dlll day f tba IMwIaM.riKiB aioa fleae Court. Cantr Office raa MlaarHaabar, Haaalor, tltaa expirae Oct. IhM ItetaoaTraalar, Kap . - inie A.M. tJ ward, Clark, " Feb.H WBB.r.cC1eery, Sheriff Oct. Iröd Jaia MrCtMry, JalUr, . - . a a tHM Wa. H. Mack, Traaaarar, . " khm JSloat,Aadltar, " Marino iocc-bT. Tata, Keeordef AeglcOT llaary Moena, iurveyor. Dee PÖ Coanuaaioaaaa, Aaarlah I. Beket, Joaapb Dala, aa n n. n. avuatoa. ... A M,uwl,a4 ary larwaaaaortmaatka full ko.or ey xae pic,jea ravi,a air. I cow BMKUlKow,SBdiirial by U5cK4tFAKUUHAU. TTiTairD run Li, !"' l)la, Juilrnfolred ttSo. H'om aan ii kow, aad reraala by i.lNCK.AiVAK(4JUAK. TT .1 LZZi ni---s J J Juat received a gruat variety of U-MoniMu baa4aaaartbaa at No. 'onmarctal Kow.by Uiitxa y A nM v lt., n i j WaaaratAaaaitriiiiant xbbokUntly onhlbd t !fo.l.Coatataralkl Kow. by UacKAFARUtlHAK.
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nrssTs wosnyouaa 10 do. The blackbird early toarei U retl, To atecl the (in Ulng morn , Aa4 gather rragmeota for It kaat From aplaod, wood and lawn. The bnty beelhel wing It way , M Id weU of varied hae, And every Sower would teem to y "There work enoegb to do. The cowillp tod Die iproadlng y loe, The daly la tb grau, Tba aaow-drop and the egtaalloe, Prearb termoee aa we pa. The ant, within IU carera deep, Would bid a labor too. And wrllntapoahU tiny heap, MThore work enough to Jo,' The planet, at lhair maker' will. Move onward la their ran, For Salur' will U never (till Progroaalve aüie iarl 1 bo leave that Suiter In Ih air, And tumuierabroexo won, One aulamn truth to man dnclare, There 'a work enough to do. Who than can ileep when all .around I active, freth and freo; bhall man-roatlon'a lor J ha found laa buay than the bT Our fonrltand ellejtare tho Raid, If man won Id eearvh tbam through. That bcetofcweeU ofUbnr yield, Andllivre'tenoush to do.H To have a hua rt for thoae w bo weep, TtinoliUh drunk r. In; To raaeu all Iba rhtll raa, deep la Ignorance and ala. Tohulp ih poor, tb hunfry fcr.I, To (Ira blm enal ajd ahoe Ta aaa that all ran writ and read, "It woik rnoiiglt In do." The time le aburt the wartd la wide, And rauob bu to be donii Tbl wondroua earlb and all lie pride, Will vanlah wlih the euat The mouenta fly an lightning' alng, And life' unoartaln loo, We've none to waauon foollab thing, "Tbrre'i work nouf h to do." From lllackwood'a Magaxlue, JlKm 0 TUX STO&ttY tUL. Era the twilight bat wae Sitting, In Iheiuiionttlberkululng, . Sung lonuly maiden alttlng t'i dirnoath her litre-bold treel Aa4a4da)llcbl4la4 baforo na. And the vciertr ihoneoVr u, Fitful ruae the taudnr chorua ' Jarala't on the atormy aaa. Warmly aboaa thai auaaat g-low Inc. Rweetly trU)d the young flower blowing Karth IUI betoly overflowing Reamed the bouae of rove to be, Aa tboae antral toaea aaeandlna, Wllb lh ico no and toainn blundlnj, Jamlo' o the lmy aca. Curlow bell remotely ringing. Mingled with that awoet voice tinging; Aad the Uat red ray aaa mad ell luting, lingering to tower end treat Noarera Icanio aiwl marcf, Plaar ruaa tk naloa and clearer, O, 'twae beaven Itat'lflohear her Ja.tu' on the ttormy oa, ; - blow, ye weat wlnda; blandly hover O'er tho bark thai bear my lovrrj Gently blow and bear him over To blaowa dear home and me, ' For, when Bight wind bend lha willow. Nleep fbrtakee my lonely pillow Jamlaa on the atormy eea. How could I but llt,but linger, To the eng and hear tho elngor, Sweetly wooing heavea to bring ho,. Jam la from lha fnaml ng tea. And white yetberllpe 414 namo me. Forth I ipraug my heart o'ert eine in, Or luve no more, wevt,l am Jtmle,' Home rolarned to love and thee. . ASL002XO 19 THOTTELE. Ono Helen Hales, a hauJsomc Bloomer, was once committed for dis turbing tho quiet of tho etrcets. Upon hearing tho I ntence, she laughed and eanir m re very uusecmly manner. Our reporter sends us the fII - !- 1. - I. lowing sianias, ttuicu uo rtTira uv iieare her chant' moat lustilj: Idou'lrtre sUump for tho beak, Or lha laaanna b eontUnlly teachae ; ITaj'iM bad a Jolly good fraak, Ao4womor in bourlho braeches. I don't car a duain for lhal Jail, Or the rr riuoui tho alow cbaplaln proarho, I tcwd the part of a nixlu, Ao4 worn, for an hour, lha brearbi. I dont ixre a dump for Uie cell, Orthe kay whleb la locking p aorerchcx; A aouilaUk Urk baa bad flail. And ib hai worn, (or an hour, tho brmbra WHAT SHALL SS KT AffQEL NAM El One of the awe etont gems of toetry nver written, it tho fullowing, Irom ... a . wa a the pen of I'LOkicnce 1'krct. 1 lie beautiful acntimvnt ao fovlingly and delicately expressed cannot fail to ouch every heart. In the land where t am ftoluc. When my eertbly life la o'er. - Where tho tired band e their ilrlvlng, And the ttreJJhoart ache no more . In that land of light and beauty. Where do thadow ever came. Too'ercloud theperfiH't glory What aha II ba my aogvl lam,? , Wbrn lha iplrlU wboaaait mc, Meat me at my eotarlna In, W tili what aaina of love and nauale Will lender wvKomlng btuT - !totlhaone aa dimmed with earth ttralnt, Llnkod vlih thoagbla orrtafaBd pain! JSo the namo that mortui gvo B1 Will not be my angi l nanu-! 1 have beard It all to, nrii-ii, Uttered by onlovlnif Ii,-.; Karthty ear and ala and orr w, Dim Itwllb thvirdeep evllpeet f shall thanj It like a garmcat, Whaa I leavu lb la niorul frarao, Andat llfe'tlmmorUlbaptlam I ihall have another name! For the angele will nut call mo By the name Ibrarnn rarih; Tbay will apeak a boiler unguago Wker I kave my hollar birth; t hjllhlcd In hcarenly wiulc 8weeter Ihr than earth may claim vrj (entle, pare and tender Huch ahall be my angl uauio. It ha thrilled my apirit often, la tbo holltfatuf my drvkmai But It brautj lltifnri near me, Only line 14 luornluc beam,; Weary of the Jtrrlng discord Which the Up of mortal frame, Wheu hall I with Joy and ra pture, A newer to my angel name T
SLAVERY IN A FREE STATE 1 1 Tt the editor of the N. T. Tribune. Sir I have no ambition to obtrude wy personal history on tho attention of your readers, but as my name has already, without any desire on my part, been placed before tho public, I arail myself by adrico of friends of my brief sojourn in your city, to offer you such a statement of facts as may place mo In a right position before tho public; and I hope the narrative may serve to illustrate the bearings of slavery upon tho personal security of the citizens of a freo State, and upon the civil and religious rights of tho American people. I am a native of Kentucky, and was educated there, but to tho honor of my parents, who wcro not slaveholders, my education was such as to incline mo against slavery. About twenty years ao, I becamo a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian church." This ecclesiastical body is located at tho South-west, and its merubrrs have been, from tho beginning, with few exceptions, decidedly in f tvor of Slavery, Their General Asnemhly rcfuso to legislate on tho subject, on tho plea that, ns a spiritual body, they h.ivo no cognizance of civil matters. D jring tho aix years of my ministerial labors in Kentucky, I was known to be unfriendly to Slavery, though favoring the scheme of Colonization. Sometimes I preached on the aubj tct, which ramie mo an object of sujicion, find subjected mo lo some obloquy, but 1 recttived no aerious molestation. Vet my removal from my native State wiisoning to my nvcrxioti to lim practice of aluve-holdin. Du ring my fourteen years' ministry in I'rinceton, Indiana, I used my liberty to preach more freely against Slavery than I had douo previuUrly. I encountered no Beriou opposition from ray brvlheren, until tho riJ of the excitement growing out of tho Neblablu question. Then they began to cry out that it was it political question, which ought not to come in'o the putpit. It was not until after this timo that the events took place which have involved nu in trouble. In May, lß.p4, Thomas Drown, of Henderson, 'Juntucky, was arrested and imprUoned, on aupicion of aiding two ftrualo ilavcs, with their children, to eacnpe from Union co., Kentucky, into Canada. An ,,indignal;on meeting" was then held, and n committee appointml to notify his wife, with her two little daughters, to leave the Stato in it few duyH, which were specified, or abide the consequences. ISüq accord
ingly removed with )Vr children to this State, and came to Princeton, where resided 8lio wrta then u at ranger to no but ofcours, I befriended her A knowledge of this fact was convey ed to Union county, where I had for merly resided, and where Drown was imprisoned. This, as - J aoon learned occasioned a suspicion that I was some how connected with tho escape of the slaves. . Tho arrest of Brown, though of courao it had taken place in Kentucky, ad been cllccted by a Air, Uavit, a herilF of Indiana, without any legal authority to do no. To this person ho following letter was now address ed : "Hkndir.hon, Juno Cth, 1854. Mit. Oavit: The citizens here havo raised for you. and those who assiated you, ono hundred dollars, for tho apprehension and lodging In tho Union county jail, Urown, charged with stealI ho citizens here and in MorgunCeld, authorized Mr. Harris to say to you, that for tho apprehension and sending to tho penctcntiary of Urown, who is thtta charred, they would see that live hundred dollars
in . i.i . . i duco against Urown auch testimony . . as will convict him of stealing slaves from this sido of tho river, you may rely upon getting Ulis sum from the citizens say five hundred dollars, ess ihe one hundred dollars now en closed to vou. IMvaho acknowledge tho one hundred dollars , enclosed. Yours, respectfully. Alien, iiixoa, A. J. AM)EllS0N," Has Arch. Dixon was formerly Governor of Kentucky, nnd was afterwards the successor of H-nry Clay, in the Senate of the United States. - This reward for testimony being of fered. Mr. Gayit'a associate Jno. Ward, Marshall of hvansvillc, Indiana, suc ceeded in securing a witness, one Jas. Steele, who went .- to Kentucky, and gavo the only testimony upon which Urown was convicted, though his tes timony, in reality, ununited to nothing. and therefore no oao took tho pains to publhll it. At the request ol Mrs. Urown, previous to his (Steele's) going t' Kentucky on tliis. business I waited on him and endenvoured todiwxuadc him from going, This was itnothcr ground ofj suspicion againRt me. Another circumatnnco win t Ivo fol lowing. ' Some time in the ensuing autumn (1654) a citizen of Evansvilte, Ind., JMi liriitnt, a native ot Kentucky, being in Henderson, Ky., w.ts arrested, and w ithout even the formality of an aiuuavit, wnsi thrown into pr.son, nnd detained there for more than half a ye tr, without right or justice, merely on suspicion, nnd then discharged without a trial, on his signing a bond, under penally of two thouaand dollars. never, during life, to come into that State ag iin, where his relatives reside. Into in confinement he wrote a letter to his wife, in which ho advised her to cousult with me, in repect to obtaining assistance for the family, an they were poor. This letter- was intercepted, broken open and copied, and furnisucd the final ground of proceedings against me. A reward of one thousand dollars was thereupon immediately offered, in private, to nny person who would either decoy ma into Kentucky, or take me into that State by main force. A Itttlo be furo this time, tho Indi-
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ana presbytery of theCumberland Presbyterian church, to which I belonged, while in session at Washington. Davies county, Indiana, resolved, "That it fa not expedient to discuss the subject of Amctican Slavery from the pulpit." The resolution was pased by a voto of seventeen to three. This was immediailey after I had preached a Rcrmon
against ölavcry betöre tbo presbytery. Paying no regard to this action, I pi occeded to preach afterward as I had formerly done. The presbytery met again, at Mt. Moriah, Oibaon county, laat April. A resolution was introduced by a one of the members, and seconded by myself as follows: . Whereat, It is the duty of every Christian and ecclesiastical body, as such, to bear their testimony against all evil ; and whereat, American Slavery is a great moral evil: ItetolveJ, Therefore, that it is the sense of this presbytery, that American Slavery is a great moral evil, contrary to the spirit of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. This resolution with tho preamble, was rejected by tho presbytery in the adoption of a substitato endorsing the views of tho (Jeneral assembly, and dissuading from tho agitation of the subject as "fraught with fearful conaequences, rtnd which, if peraiiated in, may result in severing tho body of Jesus Christ. Pen Jin; thU action a charge was preferred against me by the Ilev. J. I). Cowan, formerly of Texas, for Mun christian coiduct." Vint upecijication: For associating himself with an association known as tho underground railroad, whose avowed business it is to assist slaves from slave to free territory. Second tpecificalion: For actually engaging in the business of assisting slaves in making their escape - from slave to free territory, which i contra ry to the l.twa of tho United Slatea, and to tho ttntuto laws of tho Stato of Iudiana. Whether this action of a "spiritual body" took "no cognizance of civil matters," tho reader will have to be tho judge. Tho testimony consisted merely of statements of what I had myself said. Dut several of tho statements were not true. Upon this they proceeded to suspend me "from tho functions of the Gospel ministry;" but previous to their decision, two other ministers, belong ing to the iamo presbytery, together with myself, had withdrawn, and orguuizcd ourselves into n new ecclcsias-: tical body. A minister of the Cumberland Presbytcrinn church, from Kentucky, was present during tho discussion of the resolution relative to Slavery ; and immediately on hid return home, the court convened that sentenced Brown to the penitentiary for two years, for abducting slaves, and on the same testimony, the grand jury' immediately found a bill against me for "the crimeof abducting and stealing slaves, "dec, the accusation referring to the removal of the tame ilavti although I had not been in the State of Kmtucly furtev' eral yeart, This Hction, it will be perceived, accords with tho doctrine of tho Missouri' courts that persons out of the State may be indicted and tried for, crimes under the laws of the State: a doctrine acted upon by a grand jury aud the Governor of Alabama several years ago, in tho case of the lato 11. 0. Williams, for whose rendition a requisition was uniucccssfully(mado on Gov. Marcy, of New York. Gov. Powell, of Kentncky, accord ingly, made a requisition on Gov. v ; . T j nn"iy, maue at requisition ou v niriiL ni in mnn. rnri 11 1 ri n ir mv n livery to hit agent, Mr. Oavit, the sheriff, who was to havo received four hundred dollars, for Mr. Brown's conviction. Gov. Wright apparently evaded tho responsibility of direct action by a timely rii.it to Washington City. His private secretary, Mr. Francis King, made out the papers ; but the secretary of State, E B. Collins, Esq., refused to affix to it the seal of the State, and sin tho warrants, because he did not believe the private secretary to bn Governor of tho State. On the retuinof Gor. Wright, he issued tho warrant. I have in my possession a certified copy of tho documents from Kentucky, upon which the warrant wan issued, attested by tho Indiana secretary of Stato I give here a copy of these warrants. Here follow the warrants, fcc, which are in the usual form. Ed. By the concurrent action of ecclesiastical nnd civil authorities, I nm thus proscribed, hunted and driven out as a vagabond from Freu Stute, so called aS'.ato of which I nm a lawful citi- . , en, tor no crime, ana only because I ara suspected of an act which, ao far irom oeing criminal, nau i commit ted it. would only have been doing to others as 1 would have others do lo myself. From mere suspicion of this, 1 am separated from my wife- and children, whom 1 cannot visit but at the hazard of being dragged as a felon in to a land of manacles and of bowie knives. This act of Gov. Wright, in this case, is the more remarkable on account of its juxtaposition to a case, wherein the same principle was involved, not year bad elapsed sinco Gov. Wright had made arequisiton on Gov. Powell, of Kentucky, for the delivery of n eiti zen of that blate, who, on tin tod of fnJiana,hna committed acrime against her laws. Uov. Powell promptly ru msea a compliance, on tno ground I .t a T . iuai in xventucsy, mo oaence charged was no crime 1 So much more sacred are the claims of Slavery than .L . - t 1. I me claims oi rreeuorn. t. b. Mccormick. XT"1 nomas, spell in-ge-nu-ity. "Yea sir; Indian-knew aT." "Go to head."
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Education in Franklin County. BT MIS9 SUSANNAH. WAT. A good cause should always bo advocated in view of its own merits, and not for the sake of encouraging a spirit of rivalry. Still, it is better to perform tkffood act, from an inferior motive, than not to perform it at all. I have generally noticed that where theio is a rich soil, our country is apt to be settled by an entcrpiising, go-a-head set of people truo specimens of "Young America" who nro never backward in making their country, andMsir neighborhood, as desirable to live in as any other. They get rich, but they make their riches tell in the improvement of their country. Each man vies with his neighbor, anxious to excel him in the neatness of his farm, tho excellence nnd beauty of his rvhidence, and In the tasteful manner in which all things about it nru arranged, nnd in this way a public opinion is gotten up, that is stronger, if possible, than reasoa itself. No man in such n community, is willing to be singled out, and have his neighbors say of him, "Mr, A. is rich, but it is no honor to him look at his farml it's too large; ho can't half manage it his house is tho poorest in the neighborhood-.heru's nothing like comfort nbout it he'll not be, respected if lid don't rlungu his course his children nru without society, because thev cannot entertain it respectably: ami worse, than that, they are too inrant to court good so. cioty; and should they occasionally drop into suoh, they cannot tako part in tho genera! conversion, 'if, as is most frequently tho case, It turns upon learing, or scientific subjects, nnd consequently they feel out of their element." No, a man with nn ounce of ambition, will not subscribo to such n reputation. If ho has means, his country residenco shall be as tasteful as his neighbor's. His children shall be intelligent and interesting, and hall movo in the highest circles of society: they shall hare a good common sclu)l education, and those who havo ntnste for learning, shall be encouraged to n greater proficiency. And in this manner tho good work goes on, until the whole community hav united in making everything harmonizu with the rich mil beautiful country in which they live. Lovely farms, excellent residences, good churches, and good school homes, beautify and, adorn their land. The littlo square pens, built in '30, (an ago of necessity,) and called "school houses," are exchanged for large, well ventilated, comfortable buildings, adapted to - the purpose for which they were intended, nnd tastefully surrounded with shrubbery, or built in the edge of some neatly trimmed nntural grove, where art has not been wholly a stranger. Nor do they stop here. As tho common school is necessary for tho education of the future farmer, mechanie and houscwile, so is tho Academy, or College, indispcnsable to the training of teachers, nnd others who are tu till important places in comraunity. Thisisnn outline of life, A .l - -11 I -l.. , . Ill most Ol tue oiuer nnu neuer p.wis our country. If any uouia it jet them visit Way no Co., in this State, and omo of the richer sections in Ohio. But what shall wo say of fraiulin county? Is this an exertion to our general rule? Four or five years ago, when first came to this region, I was as tonished to find a community, with civilization and progress all around them, so far behind in educational matters. Farmers looked well enough, and peoph were not below par in ;; pearanct; uwciungs wer voiemoie. but school-houses were minus. Truo, I aaw a great many littlo log huts, with a chimney iu one end. the ceiling a little above your head, win dows two panes high, (five or six wide ) slabs with round pins for legs, for seats, and thcac so "crazy" that they were not safe to sit upon, and all things cle to correspond. These domieils were honored with tho digni fied titlo of "school houses;' but I noticed . that they were general. built as nearly m thn highway ft rKstjbible, an it to pi ;vr them upon would be to thrvw U illable Jana away. I had never seen nucn school houses not even in old Randolph, which has a soil infinitely interior to Irnr.klin. Aa a matter of course, good schools and irood books, were un known. I inquired into the cause of thia stato of things. 1 auppoacd there must be a very thin muI here, and that people were very poor. But no such thing: I was told (I am not a tiller of the soil, and am therefore no iudge of it;) that I was in tho very garden of Indiana; iuai in no purl oi the State was there a ucuersou, nnu further than that many of theVitize-ns Wi.re as they must be wealthy.Mr. B. had threo or four hundred acres of land, and Mr. C. had a good farm. ' and nlenty of monev in the .... , i - . bank. I find very little visible change n the common schools here, during the last four years, but it is to bo Imped that a reformation is going on in the Afcirf of tho people. And one evi dence of tho fact is, that they aro not wholly indifferent to the subject of ugh school. 1 am pleased lo learn that there is a Uouri.hing institution actually in operation, in .the lovely, romantic village oi lJrookvillo. It I sincerely to be hoped that this is nn . aaV. 0 . at a index to the lulure a lorclastu of the "good timo coming." But I have said that every good cause should bo advocated in view of its own merits. It is to bo feared the merits of education, are not sufficiently appreciated, or understood. Educa
tion is too generally regsrded as matter wholly subservient to the accumulation of wealth. That which is merely secondary in importance. Is regarded as the chief end of education; whereas, thereof object tobe attained, is not thought of. Wo have a great many- advocates of "practical" education; they regard each science as practical, just in the proportion as it aids in the making ol dollars) and cents. For instance, Arithmetic is a "practical" study, since it enables one to make calculations, and he see the argument that girls need not study it. Tho mcnt-tl diseiplino that it gives, or even the aid it lends in acquiring other studies, is never thought of. .Besides, it seems never to have entered tho cranium of some persons, that lo know something, is better than to know nothing. Wo ought to love study for its own sake; for the mental training which it give; for the rich truths it reveals to us. Tho man unacquainted with science, is surrounded by a world of beauty and grandeur which ho can nevert realize. Ho regards the plants that grow in his fields, only as so many lioublesomo weeds; he looks upon the great mass of matter around him, but ho sees no beauty or harmony in it; and at eventido ho asts his eye above him, but the starry hosts wake no lofty emotions; the moon and stars are but "so many lamps to light him homo from his daily toil." Not o with tho educated man.' He seizes with delight the most insignifi
cant plant or flower, discovers the class and order to which it belongs, end is ready to give its botanical history. To him, alinaturois full of beauty and wisdom, tho world is a store house of knowledge, arid ho has only to partake ol its riches. Having studied the Geological world, tho rough stono and tho tiny pebble, are object of intense intercut. In all nature he finds something worthy his careful investigation; even a drop of water is teeming with animal life. In the organic world, hu bees nil things runde according to law, A few simples compose the whole; these, arranged in mathematical order, constituting the great law known in chemistry, as the law of definite proportions, make up the physical man, nnd the meanest reptile; tho towering forest trees, and the lit'le, delicate flower; garth's green carpet beneath one's feet, and the vapory cloud above us; in short, the whole Mans of organic matter on the glob", and the ctherial atmosphere which surrounds it. This kind of thought gives real enjoyment, and he who studies nature, can hardly fail to grow better, as well as wiser. When ho gazes into the blue, ctherial vault, tho jewelled canopy of heaven." and looks upon the ten thousand bright su is, each the center of a system of worlds; peopled, jM-rhnps, with - angelic intelligences, and tho whole one system of systems,' all revolving around the same center, what must be his emo tional Thb scul must bo groveling indeed, nnd ill-deserving tbo seal it bears, stamped with the diviao invtge of the Everliving, if it thrill not with indescribable emotions, and pay not levout homago to the Author of the Universe. ' Ono would suppose that even tho illiterato mediocre, who gazes pensively into tno "blue arched brow of ni' lit," would e something of grandeur and beauty there; something worthy ihn attention of an immortal mind. Yet how often ara you told that astronomy is a useless study; that there in nothing "practical" about it; and if you reply that it elevates your moral 'and intellectual nature, that it expands and develops your mind, that you will forever be happier for having possessed such knowledge, how often do you realize that your remark is not appreciated, or your meaning underKlood. " And what docs the unlettered man know of himself of that wonderful or'anation of ours which lives from year to year, the casket of that precious jrem tho human soul? The man of nee, having studied tho motto, "Know thyself," lives that ho may leiirn, and learns that he may live; and when he contemplates the wisdom which is manifested in tho construetion of the human body, he feels of a truth that "we arc fearfully and won derfully made." Yet a knowlcdgo of i , i i im loveiy science, is ueemeu quuo supcrtluous to the common mind; so a j. 1 .1 much so that we olten hear the remark that none but jhyaiciana should study physiology. A strange doctrine thisl what can be more important than to kuow tho laws of health? to be able lo prevent disease, nnd to removo it when already contracted! Such assertion is a plain confession of the ignorance of the laws of our being; otherwise it would be universally ackowledged that till, and especially the the mothers of our race, bhould possess suuh knowledge. It Would save a . hont of Highs und tears, , poured forth over the victims of disease, and premature deah. And especially would it be of advantage to our "practical" economist as it would savo many n "doctor bill."' One item more, and I am done. Those who advocate iho 4 practical system," in regard to study, are genrally in favor of "economizing, by employing cheap teachers; but I must hay that they fail to accomplish their purpose, and deceive themselves in in tho end. They contend that' the instructor needs to know culy what be intends to leach; therefore, high learn ed, well qualified teachers are not wanted, or needed. Now, my economical friends, suppose you w ere going to listen to nn evening lecturo, on agriculture, stock-raising, or some thing else, how much do you Buppose you could learn, if the speaker knew no moro th in he could tell in one evening? Or how much would you bo editied, in listening to a preacher aaa a a a a who had never Btudicd but ono ser
mon? Of course he would not be like-1
ly to remember the half of that, at one time, if he had not committed' it. So, all good teachers must know a great deal more than they could teach in one terra; and in order to acquire such knowledge thcr must ?sncnd time, and means, to obtain it. How vain then to think of having it rctaited at to low a price ! SraisoriKiD, Nov. 1855. Select SKsttllanj. Spirit LongLgs. -Ono by one, perish the ties that bind us to earth. Tho dusky past grows still more dusky as the shadow of Lifo's evening creeps over us, and there grows upon us an intense and all-absorbing curiosity to penetrate the still darker mysteries of the Future. The years over which we have already passed dwindle into points into mere specks upon the horologo of Time, and the hands upon the dial move far too lazily until tho movement bhall como when all this fretted machinery slmll ccaso lis motion, Bnd ijiis ingenious mechanism crumble into Ashes. Whose retrospection is ever wholly satisfactory ? . Who would evoke tho phantoms that were in exfstenco in tho years gone by, and dare to face the dread array ? Separata the joyous from the painful, the virtuous from the vicious, tho ennobling from tho degrading, in ary one human life, nnd how suddenly and with what force does the scalu of tho form er kick the beam ? How few the number of tho myriads now living who can look back on the records ol their own career with any other emo tions than those of pain and sadness 1 Some, indeed, there arc, who, for many years, enjoy a respite from the ordinary ills that afÜct humanity, but this respite does not latt forever. Sooner or later their turns too must unddocooic. and usually tho blows of adverse fate fall with terrific force, from the very fact of their long accu mulation and the unprepared state oi their victims, The death of those we love is the most certain to restore to their aenss those who are at eae in their possesa . a a - I SI011S. We llHVe, lor instance, ueen passed by for years by tbo fell destrover. Our household circle haa been unbroken, nor have his shafts pierced any who were near and dear to os by tho ties of kindred or sacred friendship. Wc have looked on the misery of others who have been atllieted. but our own souls have not felt the iron. Wc havo rejoiced in our fancied immutiity, and forgotten to anticipate the coming calamity. Suddenly, without noto of warning, our moth er is snatched away our only mother tho being movt beloved of all on earth the bett and most holy recip icnt of our affections the guardian of our infancy, and youth, and the good angel of our riper years. The green turf is If id upon her venerated bosom, and we hear ner loving voice no mole. The grief of childhood on Mich an occasion is mcro mockery when compared with the'auguish of the atron2 nnn in whom the ties of filial f ... i. r .1 love have grown into corus vi dich. lie may, indeed, meet tho shock with an outward show of courage, but his inner existence is racked to the very centre. Ere he regains that partial senso of complacency which seems al most an institution oi our numan nature, ho is aain prostrated into the dust by another stroke, from which he finds it almost impossible ever to recover, ine Dctng wno u u-omc his second existence, or rather, whose existence has become o identified with his own that the two form but one whom he has cherished in his bosom as the faiiest and lovliest flower that jver bloomed in God's garden with ered on his breast, and he grasps, on ly ashes I What becomes of the strong man now 1 Judge him not as he is seen in his daily walks, for he wears a mask. He is ashamed of his own holiness, for all suffering is holy. But go with him into bis loueliness, when no eye but the unseen one of God Is on him and he weeps tears ol very blood. The chords of bis life have snapped asunder, and no skill this side of heaven can ever re-unite them. To the world he may eventua lly appear forgetful, and even gay d reckless, but there are thorns in his nightly pillow, and unreUnling whisperers ever at his ear wno win not suffer him to tpaits forget. How natural then tho indulgence ol thoughts and emotions that terminate in an almost irrebistablo anxiety to know where his loved ones are goue an overwhelming curiosity to pierc the d.rk veil of the future. . Skepticism, as to the abstract fact of u future existence, he has not, nor, in truth, has any man living. He knows that his treasures exist . somewhere, and his vain tllorts to discover how and where, only renders hia snxious curiosity more intense. unwuling and not daring to end his doubts by voluntarily rending tho curtain repeating life from death, he sighs and pray a ror the nourwnen me greav mistery shall bo solved, and he shall . . ., .it meet his loved ones where mere snaw bo no moro aeperation. Is this sin- . . a . a fdl curiosity" May not its indulgence bo attended with elevating and purifying results? And will not the belief, the consciousness that tho glorified spirits of the loved and lost are hovering about his pathway, and perhaps to some extent influencing his thoughts and actions, tend to render him more fit for, his final translation to their celestial homes? 1W. IUA great many words will cot fill a purse. rxThe Presbyterian of the West says that Hanover College has opened with a large increase of new students, 1 . , .
A Hew 7ay to Detect a Thief ! I
The father of the great American statesman was a very humorous and jocose personage, and innumerable anecdotes are related of him. As be was once journeying in Massachusetts, not far from bis native town, he stopped rather late one night at an inn in the village of' In the bar room were about twenty different persons, who, as he entered, called out for him to discover a thief. One of the company, it appears, had a few minutes before, hd a watch taken from his pocket, and he knew the offender must bo in the room where they were. . Come, Mr. Almanac-maker, you know the signs of the tiroes, the hidden things of the seasons,' tell who is the thief, Fasten all tho doors of the room, and kt no one leave it; and, here, landlord, go and bring your wife's big brass kettle. , , Whe cw I want to know 1 my stars I my wife's who cw? quoth Boniface. ' Why, you wouldn't be more struck up if 1 told you to go to pot 1 4 Boniface did as commanded ; the great brass kettle was placed in the middle of the floor, its bottom up as j black, sooty and smoky as a chimneyback. Tho hndlord got into his bar, and. looked on with eyes aabig as saucers. You don't want any hot water nor nothin', to take off the bristles on a critter, drye squire? said the landlord, the preparation looking a little too much like hog-killing. -The old wom an's gone to bed, and the well's gone dry 1 Nc ow, go into your barn, and bring the biggest cockerel you vo got. Whew I you won'lbile him, will you 1 he's a tough one. I say truly Squire, he didn't steal the watch. The old rooster knows when it is timo to crow, without having to look at a watch. Go along, or I won't detect the thief. . Boniface went to the barn and soon returned with a tremendous . fat rooster, cackling all the way most sonorously. ow put him under tho kettle and blow the litjht out. The old rooster was thrust under the inverted kettle and the lamp then blown out. Now. gentlemen, I don't 'spose the thief is in tho company, but if he Is, the old rooster will crow when the offender toHchei the btttom of the kettle with his hands. Walk round in a circle, and the cock will make known tho watch stealer. The innocent need not be afraid, you know. . , The company, then, to humor bim, and earry out the joke, walked around the kettle in the dark for three or four minutes. All done, gentlemen? - - All done was the cry 'where's your crowing? We heard no cocksuoodledoo. ' Dring us a light.' . A light was immediately brought as ordered. Now hold up your hands, good folks.' They were, of course, black, from contact with the soot off of the kettle. ' ' ' - All up?' A 11 don't know 1 here's a fellow who hasn't held . up his hand, yet-'. Ah, ah, myoid boy, let's take a peep at your paws. They were examined, and were not black like thoso of the rest of the company. You'll find your watch about hxp, search. '' ' - And so it proved. The fellow, not being aware, any more than the lest, of the trap that was set for the discovery of the thief, had kept , aloof from tho ket'Je, lest when he touched it, the rooster should proclaim him as the thief. As the bands of all the others wero blackened, the whiteness of his'own allowed, of course, that he had not dared touch tbo old brass kettle, and that he was the offender. He jumped nut of the frying pan into the lire, andwaslodged in as uncomfortable a place as either of them to wit the jail. - - .-- i i . a ii ' - Prohibition.' For ourselves, we arc wedded to the principle of Prohibition. It is, in our mind, a righteous cause. . It is the cause of humanity of mercy to erring man of salvation to the poor victim of intemperance of aid and comfort to his suffering friends and family. With us it is a question of principle, and we should as soon think of uttering words of discouragement to struggling virtue as lo intimate that Prohl bition is wrong or even impolitic. We Micvc that if the question was put to the people of this Stato on "Prohibition," there would be a majority in its furor of 25.000. ; . We have no very special attachment to our present Prohibitory Law that is: if it fails to accomplish the good results which were aimed at by its friends in its cnacmcnt. we do not claim erfection for it. It may possibly not e the best that could be drawn up. Bui until declared unconstitutional by tho- Supreme Court, or until it fails in its objects, should itpass safely through the judicial ordeal, we Aro its friends, and will maintain that it embraces provision of the highest welfare to the peoplo of the State. As to the principal of Prohibition, wc believe the day is coming when it will prevail throughout the whole ex tent of our Country and of all civilized nations. Whether tho neoDle of tht State are fully prepared for it remains to bo seen. But, sooner or later, the will demand and establish it be von all danger of repeal. And ehould the Constitution ever bo amended, we im agine that that principle will be embod tea in that instrument as one of Us nost hallowed features. JJcJisa.
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gives good advice. rThert are 214 lawyers, alH5 physicians in the city of Chicijo. JCiTNevcr take a paper a loocr ütjc than ten years without tayT-' the printer. ' "? WThe Rus.ians say thtt the Ea. glish are an army of lions led ca by asses. . ' jTTThe baby shows at Pitsbar, as well as that at Cincinnati, was fj. ure. - atiTlt is rumored thst Geo. &!ca only holds his ptesent position cstil his successor can be sent onL rTThe Supreme Court of New York has refused to grant an iajir.etion against the new canal loan. 7"In the mining districts ef Laie Superior they experience the scarcity or powder for their blasting cierteralions. ' ' atiTgick Hon. Stephen A Doclx is quite rick au Terre Hsute. He is there as the guest and patient of Dr. EKcad. ' -CiTPJeasuree which cannot be obtained but by unreaionalla and editable expenses, must Invariably end ia pain. ' aCrWilliam Cyrcs has been sent to the Penitentiary for eighteen months fi om Chamberkburg, I'a., for roblcsj his loom-mati. CTXn hour of honest Uber rill give any man abetter appetite than all' the ioou between hire and tbe Kir jdona of Egypt. rr"Lefs take a horn," is pirt; j of fiequent utterance The blast cf that horn may be the signal for the porter to open the gato of death. , X7In a late diaoussion between largetnd small ankles for Ud;:i, it has been decided, to the satisfaction of all parties, that -aU's well that ends well." JZr"My dear sir." said a candi. 'date, accosting sturdy wag, on the day cf the election, "1 m very fki to see you." The wag replied, "You needn't be, I'vo voted." aCSTlt is reported at Washington, that the administration has decided that Gen. Scott is to receive his ba-.k pay, for the time be served as Lieut. General. . aTySays the lovely Julia, to the bewitching Fanny, why is a new bby like a cow's tail. Fanny bl ashed, as she answered, becaase it was never, icen btfort, HatiTe Haine Laxr. ' , At a great Indian Council heia lately at Detroit, "General Cass alluded to the ruin-' ous effects of whisky anoszthe Indians, and advised them to banish it; whereupon one venerable chief arc: and said, When I hear that there is any fire-water among my people, I search until I find it, and then I pour ', it out on the ground.' " This a practical enforcement of the Prohibitory system, fit to be followed in every com-' munity, ' . IIaisiko a Snair. A . short tine ago, the machine used to deepen the , channel, near Dattcry wharf, brought, up ten glass bottles from the bottom of the dock, which were secured by the superintendent of the work. The bottles werecf antique form and finish, having raised letters on the bottom, showing that they were made at Bristol, England. The oldest inhabitants, ' who remember the fluid, prononnced the contents of the to be "Jamaica Hum ."Boston Pott. Hep ublicazt Party Tho Republican Party has no sectional aim: it claims only the res Crmaüon of a principle of compromise. ' which was established as a national one, and was never considered other- -wise by the most cubule and deaigin casusist, until the cabal at ths c&piuu invented the contrary idea, and uttered it, stammertngly and with much cred-, i table hesitation, at the first sessica cf the last Congress. Its aim, therefore, addresses itself to the conscience, to the sense of right, of the whole peopls, whatever the geographical position of the individual may be, . It demands an net of national justice; and sanctica' of all men, everywhere, and of whatever opinion on other aad sectional topics. That party which resists ca sectional grounds a claim ao. truly cathoUa and national, and, ia the fcrvcr of iu antagonism; declinsa any tit sectional aid; that is the party wticli should bo repressed at all haxsrd, u dangerous, if existing at all, and fitxl,if succsfiful, to the Union and the Constitution. . , ; - After this intolerant declaration cf tho Government organ, we onht. in all decency, to bctr no r.crc ccz;!:::t of the Republican as a sectional caovement. Compare d with the prescriptive and arrogant s-.lrit of thtt Fr blavery taction, which has aabjvated the Government, and rtf-rcs all Northcm support, unless willing to pass uader the same yoke, the Republican cy, which otherwise ozxi exuzguua
Party is the subUnie cf tolertace and chanty. It oZers the only means of art inmiiaViiniv an arcLial conanira-
the ConatituUoa, and tor the bletstng cf Liberty, steers tba bcctri cf Ciavery to us and to our posterity. Without it the sectional spirit, wtich hAS convulsed tho ccrstry for s li:t seventeen years, must ' inerera Lilifinitely, and to its cost frrrfzl rrst!u ; with it, the question at i::ae vrU ta brought back to the fixed basis of reasonable compromise, and tsitti there beyond the drcr cf C'.-'. banc?, Aa the cotter stow at--la, thaptrlctciizotnL-tliJe-4;.