Plymouth Banner, Volume 3, Number 21, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 July 1854 — Page 2

pmnontl) Sarmcr, "uTtrm ErtlTar Jt ftoprietor. " PLYRIOIITII IND. Advertisements to insure insertion, must be handed in by Tuesday preceding the day of publication.

Cor Mail Chanst again. The following letter from our member in Congress, gires considerable light in relation to our mail serviee oaths Michigan Road, and it will be seen that Dr. Eddy hat cot been un mindful of our interests. Washisoton, July 14. 1854.

Dear Sib: -Yours of the 6th inst., in i adverse circumstances, and so embarrassed relation to the mail changes on the Mich- i . . financeB tha. relreflchm0Rt rnd cur. igan road, was revived last evening. , . . . ., The 'Mail proposals issued by the p. jtailment in its mail carrying facilities afe O. Department in January last, invited j resorted to, as the only remedy to prevent bids for a daily mail on the route from ! bankruptcy and failures, tke party in powLoganspon to Niles, Mich. er muit nav6j at every hazardextra coinThere were but two bids and bv the . . . . . . ,i 1 ; a, pensation for its devoted pets. The people same person, (Mr. Alvord.) one of $3.- i 1 r 500 for a daily mail and one of 82,150 j -om whoe Pakets the substance comes.

for a triweekly. Neither of these were accepted by the Department. They were objected to as being too high. The service under the former Contractor was dor.e for $600 per annum. This was undoubtedly too low, but seems to have formed a basis for the estimate of the same service for the current year. The mail is now conveyed under no contract, except such as may be implied from the directions of the P. M. General to the Stage Co., to take the Moil over the road three times a week. This the Co. may do or refuse to do, as suits their convenience. I have written to several points on the route, (your own town included) enclosing blank proposals, and inviting bids for a daily service. There have been proposals sent and are now on file in the Department. Others I have good reason to believe will soon be in. As sojsn as a sufficient number of bids are in to indicate the lowest price at which any responsible contractor will perform the daily service, I shall urge o contract to be made. No one estimates the importance qf that route more than myself, and permit me to say, no one has contended with more urge ncy for the continuance of former mail service. The P. M. General is desirous to place on that route a daily mail as evidenced by the mail letting advertisements but he supposes that the required service can be performed for a less sum than (3,500, especially as the same service has heretofore been performed for 6600. The mail service on the route from Plymouth to La ports has not been altered. Tha former lettings was for a triweekly. Very Respectfully, NORMAN EDDY. W. J. Bi'asrs, Esq., Plymouth, Ind. The Indiana Herald and Onnelf. A week or two since we complained of a want of Editorial courtesy on the partof the Herald Editor, and since an explanation has been promptly made, we cheerfully copy it, and then aubmit to his candid judg ment whether we were misrepresented or properly quoted: The Plymouth Baükir. "We can see no particular propriety in a man 'flying off the handle' in the manner which Mr. Burns, of the Plymouth Banner has done. We really did think that he was guilty of inconsistency in using tha language that he did in reference to the State ticket of the opposition party, and in our remarks upon the subject had no'design to be uncourteous, but merely to induce him to denne himself. The editor of the Banner complains of a want of courtesy on our part, and yet we think his own remarks in regard to us are decidedly illnatured and out of place. We did not intend to insult him, but merely questioning a position which he had taken. and h-jned cur remarks would be received in lite same spirit in which they were given. If we have misrepresented him, or perverted his language, and he will take the trouble to point out our errors, we hold ourself in readiness lo make that correction which ought to satisfy any honorable man. We desire no man's friendship unless it can be obtained in an honorable way, and if we have unintentionally injured any one, decency and kind treatment will do more towards restoring things to their proper equilibrium than senseless bom bastic threats. We append the article of which we complained: A Strange Cot'HSE.--The editor of the Plymouth Banner says that be 'expected to aid by his vote a part of the ticket nominated at the late Democratic State Cenvention. It strikes us that in some things Mr. Burns is a pretty clever fellow; and then again in some others he is considerable of a humbug. For instance, he pretends to be a Whigto be a very .independent man, and to publish an independent journal. Yet in the very teeth -of these pretensions hs declares himself willing to aid in the election of a ticket which he very well knows was forced upon the people by a set of unprincipled demagogues, who neither obey nor care anything about th wishes of the people. The editor of the Banner also pretends to be strongly in favor of the enactment of a Prohibitory Liquor Law. Yet be 4eems willing by his vote U endorse the odious resolutions adopted by the Convention on the subject of Temperance. If that is independence, we are willing to admit that hitherto we have not properly understood the subject. Such manifestationsof independence are psurile and contemptible in the extreme. Now let the reader compare the first gantence of the foregoing article with the following, which ia a correct copy of our remarks to which it alludes, and if we were not clearly misrepresented, we will submit to the accusation of too auch haste in our reply: When we stated, a week or two since, that we regTstted tha introduction of those resolutions, it is probable tftat

seine of our leaders doub'ed our sincoiity. We expected to aid by our Tote a part of the ticket nominated, but at the same time we look upon all and riery one who silently votes for and sustains the entire ticket, as endorsing the platform upon which the nominees stand. This Judge Farley refutes to do. Hundreds of other Democrats in Indiana also refuse to do it; and if the party suffers defeat the blame is not to be attached tu bolting Democrats, but to the indiscretion of the wire workers of the Convention.

All act tO iOCrtase the pay Of Post Masten j jit the present session of Congress, the fol ilowiog act was passed, materially increasing me compensation 01 nie iepuiy i uimaslers. At a time when thai department of ihe-governmentis struggling under the most must tamely submit to it, and at the same time be deprived of the necessary carrying fnr liti to Kimnlv them ns '.heir reason able demands require. We publish the act entire, that every one may see that we have not misconstrued it or done injustice to the law rnaking power. An office receiving from $400 to 1.600 per annum, pays its post master one half the amount to attend to it, besides extra pay for delivering free mail malter. It would not be a very extensive office to take in $100 per month, but its P. M. realizes from it SGOO a year, and the extra pay for the delivery of free mail matter would doubtless amount to $100 more making the snug little sum of $700, The P. O. Department is in a deplorable condition Indeed! It is not able to pay but one cent a letter for advertesing. Impor tant and lucrative mail routes are lobe suspended or curtailed, and the interest and wants of the great mass of the people abanbonod or neglected to enable it to pay fat salaries to its own pampered pets. But read the law as Congress enacted it, and each one will be alio to arrive at his own conclusions: Be it enacted br the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 1 hat in place of the compensation now allowed deputy postmasters, the Postmaster General be. and he is hereby authorised to al low them commissions ntlhe following rates on the postage collected at their respective ofuces in each quarter of the year and in duo proportion for any period less than a quarter, viz: On any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars sixty per cent: b it any pMmaster at whose office tha mait is to arrive regularly, betw een the hours of nine o'clock at night and five o'clock in the morning' may be allowed soventy por cent, on the first hundred dollars. On anv sum over and above cne hun jded dollars, and not exceodin- four huni dred dollars, fifty per cent. On any sum over and above four hundred dollars, but not exceeding twenty-four hundred dollars, for;y per cent, And on all sums over twenty-four hundred dollars, fit teen per cent. On the amount ol postage on letter and packages received at a distributing office for distribution, twelve and one half per cent, commission may be allowed. Every postmaster whose compensation shall not exceed five hundred dollars in one quarter, shall be allowed one cent on every free letter delivered out of his office, except such ns are for the postmaster himself. But the special nllowance now made by law to the postmasters of New Orleans and Washington city shnll not othcrwiso he increased or diminish ed. Each postmaster who shall bo required to keep a register of the arrival and departure of the mails, shall be allowed ten cents for each monthly return which he makes to the Postmaster General. Eich postmaster may be allowed two mills for the delivery from his office to a subscriber of each newspaper not chargable with postage; Provided, That to any postmnster of a distributing office at which the commissions, allowances and emoluments, since the thirty-first day of March, 1853, have beon insufficient lo defray actual and necessary expenses, and afford the postmaster the annual compensation derived from commissions at the office before said 31st of March the Pcuktmaster General may, in his discretion, allow quarterly from the date a foresaid, out of the postages collected at any such office an amount sufficient to supply such deficiency, Provided further, That to any postmaster of a separating office, whose commissions, allowances, and emoluments may be found insufficient to provide the extra labor necessary to a prompt and efficient performance of Che duties of separating and dispatching the mails passing through his office, the Postmaster General may make such quarterly nllowance, out of the postages collected at such office as he may deem sufficient t compensate such extra labor; Provided further, That the commissions and allowances authorized by this act shall be subject to the forty-first section of the act entitled "An act to reduce into one the several acts establishing and regulatirg the Post Office Dominant. And provided, further, Thai the Postmaster General may, in his discretion, dispose of aty quarterly returns of mails sent or received, which were made np previous to the first day of July, 1850, preserving the accounts current, and al! vouchers accompanying such accounts, and use sucl. portions of the proceeds thereof as may be necessary to defray the cost of asperating and disposing of the same. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the commencement of the next fiscal quarter after its passage. Labor is honorable, says the Boston Post. It may be honorable but it is mighty inconvenient, when the thermometer is about 90 in the shade.

We find the following interesting letter from the New Territory of Kansas, by our joung friend Maek formerly from South Bend, in the Forum of the 15th iust, and gire it to our readers entire as a bit of reliable intelligence: From Kansas Territory. Westward the car of empire takes its way.' Dear Fob üm.-After roaming over some three or four hundred miles of the Territory,! sit down to give you the first leaf from

my journal. Bordt -ring on Missouri, and beyond it is a beautiful country, enveloped by the Platte and Arkansas rivers, and stretching far away to the Westward. The Kansas Basin, embraces about 120.000 6qnare miles, rich in all the resources of a great country, and when developed, will enrich the channels of commerce. Through the centre of this great "Basin" flows the Kanras (or Caw) river, a noble stream, about 400 yards wide, and formed by the union of those of the Republican Fork and Smoky Hill. Many rivulets having their source under the roots of the Sierre Madre (Rocky Mountains) flow along their channels, and the union of those form the two latter streams, which make up the Kansas. On either side the 6tately oak, walnut, hickory, etc., compose the 'leafy forest which is from ten to twelve miles in width; and in this 'strong hold of nature' one may trace the Indian trail leading to the ferry. A strange loot-print is now seen in the Indian path. The red man hears a louder and keener crack from a neighboring rifle. The sound of the pioneer's axe echoes amid "nature's solitude," and reveals to him the unwelcome truth that the pale faces are invading his once happy home. Three months ago this noble stream'was ruffled only by the ... light canoe, as it sped us way down stream: the camp hres burnt brigmiy on the bank, and the Indian was nanpv in sporting along the river. But the steamboat that innovator of western life, is now ploughing the surface of the river, and the noise of its waves are heard hy the retreating red man. The "Excellency." a fine ateamboat, has made five successful trips up to Fort Riley, and if necessary can run up to the Republican Fork, a distance of about 200 miles from the mouth of the river. The country ba6 challenged the attention of the bold pioneer, it has set our union all ngog and thousands ar flowing into this great basin. Already the intrepid Hoosier has planted his stake, and is preparing to bring his family to his western home. As soon as the Nebraska Kansas bill received the autograph of President Pierce, thousands buckled on their bullet pouch es, slung their rides, mounted their horses. end were off to lxy a claim on the prairies of Kansas; and. tWore many will wake from a Rip Van Winkle sleep, V this country will be teeming with HCf thousands of bold and hard pioneers. The characteristics of the country are highly approved by all who visit it . The soil is of limestone formation; but there is plaster, or sulphate of lime, having a lustrous mulatto tint. As far as qualities of fertility are capable of making a country great, the "Kansas Basin" is grtater than any other equal-sized patch of the earths surface. Lovely prairies stretch out before the eye, gracefully rising in picturesque beauty, dotted here and there with pleasant groves. The rolling prairie is laced with meandering streams, by which it is irrigated literally chequered with winding ravines. Thii rich diluvial soil is covered with luxuriant prairie grass, upon which countless herds of cattle are grazing. The farmer of this country only feeds his cattle three months in the year, for they thrive be6t upon the prairies. The grass is green from the vernal until long after tho autumnal equinox. Some say the scarcity of limber will be a drawback in the Kansas Basin. Not so; for fuel, there is coal in abundance: and lumber for building purposes, can be obtained from the timberlarul that border on the fine stream which flow through various portions of the Territory. The land nround Furl Leaven woith, was the first upon which the intrepid pioneer planted his ,,nake." Being high and rolling it presents many inducements to settlers. The "Government Farm," near the Fort, is one of the finest farms iu the West, containing about twentyfive hundred acres of deep deluvial prairie land. It yields large crops of grain. The "Boss Farmer," can sit in his cottage door, and gaze upon thousands of acres of waiving grain, and count the herds of cattle that quietly graze in the distance. This beautiful farm will soon be sold and will command a large price. Upon a high bluff is situated the Fort the present capital of Kansas, whence one can view the "sandy waters" of the Missouri, rolling on to mingle with the "Father of Waters," and note the steamboats as they dailyr,touch the landing at the Fort. Already the dauntless spirit of the Westerner has added life and renewed anergy to steamboat navigation; he has abandoned his wagou and takeu passage on the boat, as the readiest way of reaching the Kansas Basin. Hundreds hnd at. Fort Leavenworth but finding no accommodations, push out in the beautiful country, to find a home. Of Indians there are several tribes. The Kickapoos are near the Fort, and all the land not reserved by them is taken up long ago. The Delawares own the . largest extent of country; embracing as it does 2,160,000 acres. The tribe numbers about 700, they have reserve ! 200 acres for each one of the tribe, and the residue of this land is to be sold to the highest bidders. Regardless of the treaty thousands have made their claims, and formed themselves into societies to protect each other and to repress speculation Many have erected cabins aud are residing on their claims, determined to secure them or die. This step being contrary to the provisions of thi3 treaty, the Delawares have laid their complaint before the Indian Agent, who has threatened to brng out -the militia to drive the resident e aimants away, if they do not go peacab j; but I think no such step will be taken as Uncle Sam's "green soldiers at the Fort. would play a poor part in a conflict with these fearless and intrepid pioneers. Such daring recklessncif as some of them display on this dis-

puted territory fairly terrifies the poor Indian,' who fairly trembles as he looks upon the "pale faced intruders." To settle the matter the lands must be surveyed and. disposed of soon, for men are bound to carry out the principles of "squatter sovereignty." The Shawne nation numbers about 700 or 800 souls. Their

country embraces about 1.500,000 acres of laud, and about 140,000 acres of this are reserved; the residue is open for settlement over which the pre emplion laws extend. Hundreds from Missouri and other States have taken up the best portion of this land and the fair surface of the prairie is being dotted with log cabins. Already the plow has struck God"s fallow fields." and fields of corn will soon bless the pioneer's toil. The spirit of man seems loosened on the prairie laud, and is rushing forward with gigantic strides, in the channels of "renuova. ted life." Men talk of towns and cities, they have already marked the "sites," and "cabi n store houses" are going up with a rush. Such is life in the Kansas Basin, and I have repressed the spirit of exaggeration and told you just what I do know. J have mingled in the "crowd of claimants." imbibed the spirit of western life, and speak from actual observation. For the present, adieu. J. G. MEEK. Kansas Territory. July 3. 1854. - For fhe U inner. "AMERICAN'S LETTER.' Mb. Editob: In your last is a communication from one who signs himself American,' concerning which I beg lo say a word. The article referred to is burdened to death with 'hard words,' and has not even the merit of 'soft arguments.' Its author in the anoarent heat nnj phrenzy of passion, has dealt out the a ,nost bitter invectives, without even era matical congruity, much less with Rhetorical polish or Logical skill. He reminds one of the propatt of Bozar, astride of an Ass on a mission to curse Isreal; and without doubt his success will be similar to that of the time serving prophet. The emoluments of Balak will perish with his cause, and every Balaam who consents to ride an Ass lor Moabitish bribes will certainly be arrested by the angel of truth stationed in his way. Were it nol that Christianity and christian ministers are unwarrantably attacked and abused, by your correspondent, without any exception, 1 would not condescend to notice the incoherent stuff; for it is ghrer balderJash a vulgar hotchpotch. Your correspondent, like the advocates of the Nebraska bill in Congress, and like the anti-temperance platform men of In diana, seems to have a particular grudge j against ministers of the gospel. Now, 1 BSk, are these politicians engaged in a ! mission nf nntionHl onnil? I thtr nkL.i the welfare of the State! If so, thoy have nothing to few from the clergy or from the gospel principles which they apply to matters ol State policy. Did our revolutionary fathers treat ministers and their calling in this way, and try to drive them into privacy' How did they regard Kev.' John Wilherspoou. D. D., in the days of '76? This clergyman saw that British tyranny was opposed to the principles of the gospel, aud he proclaimed I it from the pulpitt and rottrumt of New Jersey. The people sustained him and elected him to Congress. On the morning of the memorable 4th of July. 1776, the old Congress Hall io Philadelphia rung with his voice as he invoked the blessings of heaven upon the cause of American freedom. He then signed the Declaration of Independence, and thus showed himself a man and minister worthy of his age and countr-y. The elder Adams, feeling the importance of the Divine help, aud knowing the potency of the christian ministry, said, 'let the pulpits thunder against the British oppression and corruption;' and speaking of the good service which the cleigy rendered in times thai 'tried men's souls' he says, 'and the pulpit thundered.' Washington courted and acknuwled the influence of christian ministers for good on the nation. And even JeflVrsun, who hod but little personal respect for religion beyond that of a genllemsn, recommended its prominence in Slate a flairs to prevent corruption. Now, if some of our ministers think this lo be a crisis in our government affairs, and follow in the footsteps of the illustrious Witherspoon aud others, why this hue and cry? Why thefe anathcmies against them? The fact is there is something 'rotten in Denmark, and political demagogues fear that the clergy will expose the hideous mass of moral putrifaclion covered up under a pretended zeal for more extended rights of individual citizenship. The pure have nothing to fe.tr from christian ministers as a class. I not wonder that these men make such .-operate effort to put down the inline. f the clergy by the gag law. I do it . wonder that they arc so restless in our State at this time. When 1 1C0 Methodist preachers, who minister to 80.000 parishoners, and who preach to about 250.000 hearers each week in the State of Indiana; when these are called 'itinerant vagabonds;' and when the ministers of all denominations in the Slate (Roman priests only excepted) are attacked, abused aud anathematised by the leaders of the so-called Democratic platform of the State; when they recommend the people to 'stop the feed of their ministers; and when they threaten to 'drive them to their kennels I wonder not that these reckless whiskey suckers and their trucklir, constituents begin to tremble for their cause. The people of Indiana are too virtuous and religious to sustain such men. That sowie: clergymen dabbVe in party politics beyond what is prudent and accordant with the sacrcdnessof their calling, is true; but as a class it is nol true. Neither is it true that the moral questions involved in Slate policy are not proper subjects for ministers to canvass. And all must admit that the clergymen as a class in this country are conservative and not agitators exceptions there are to be sure, chiefly out of the pale of orthodoxy. A few things more about the letter o1 'American. He ridicules the idea o

peple8 conventions.' As though the people had no longer the right to meet and consult about the affairs of State, but must do the bidding of party leaders. This State of affairs, no doubt, thse demagogues desire to bring about; they are afraid of the people. As to the number present at a recent people's meeting in Plymouth, 'American either ignoranily or wilfully states what is false; and I

would suggest to him tfiat he wait until i the time of election before he compares numbers. He says, of ministers, 'they have mixed with money lenüersarrd Jews. such as their Divine Master drove from the temple. True in part. As the Sa vior with a severe luh drove the 'money', chancers out ol ihe temple which they had desecrated, so are the servants of Christ commissioned to scourge the political 'money changers' who have corrupted the temple of liberty; and though they make a terrible resistance the scourge of truth is doing its office, and I think the 'tables will soon be 'overturned and the vile be driven out, who have made our fair temple of liberty to the extent of their ability a 'den of thieves.' 'American' seems to be very much exasperated that some preachers were present at the peoples meeting. He must be forgetful. I kuow some preachers who went drlegates to the late Democratic Convention at Indianapolis; and one of the candidates on the State Ticket is a minister. Be consistent my friend. And without wishing you any harm, but all manner of good. 1 dismiss your article which I must believe was a hasty, undigested product of a more ingenious mind than this effusion would indicate. QUIS. Fur tho Haimar. mDICATIOJ OP THE PEOPLE. Mr. Editok: A man ove the signiere of American,' has fully shown himself worthy of his trust, for it seems that into his hands is entrusted the d. fence of our northern doughfacr.$t who in Congress have shown themselves willing and that too without any desire from their constituents, and against their almost unanimous request, voled for the Nebraska iniquity. It is too true to admit of any doubt thai, by that vote, the entire Territory, consecrated to freedom by the ordinance of 1S20, was opened up to me institution of slavery. Does any plug dtny ii? -Sot Deine successful!controverted, we appeal to the people of this free and independent Slate of Indiana, and particularly to the cithern of Marshall county, whether or not, those who voted for that iniquity, did not knowingly, willinelv and wi'lfnlU t. late the wishes of their constituents? Having lost sight of every principle of freedom, we pronounce them unworlhy the least of our confidence. It is not necessary fo us to speak o" the many disadvantages politically, or of the immoral tendencies resulting from the institution of slaveay to us as free American citizens. They are universally known, acknowledged and felt, by all who have any concern for the welfare of our own countrymen. Without any doubt in my own mind, as to the correctness of the positions asiumed, as to whether public servants, deserve any respect politically, who would wilfully and against the remonstrances of their consiituents, repeal pull down, the only harrhr prohibiting the extension of slavery into Territory made free by the ordinance of 1820, which ordinance was passed by the fathers and founders of this the best of all governments. Is it not strange that men's minds should become so befoged by old fogyism.it not to know the great interest of the Northern as well as Southern freemen in providing Governments for all our Territory. Ah! here is the force of some convictions. Many who are eonvicted of ihe right, will in the vain hope or promise of some petty office, abandou the truth and resort to low and groveling demegogueism in order to secure that end. The truth is America, (as he calls himsolf)has recently discovered that the people were capable of self-government. Won darful discovery. We suspect the kinks aro not yet out of his wool, and wont be until he is more fully in his viasters Aarrto. We have ever known thai the peopie were capable of self-government, and when they have been permitted to express, themselves, we arc willing to abide their judgment. Then, hoohy, who are the people recognized by our institutions? We answer every native or naturalized citizen, no matter where he may live. That being the fact, and the balot box being the only legal medium through which the people rue permitted to speak, we demand that they be heard in vindication of themselves, against the corrupt end wanton violation of American freedorn by foisting upon the uninhabited Territory of this nation, the curse of American slavery. We are no strickler for th negro, although we are not dead to the misfortunes that has befallen them. But we feel to love our own countrymen, and art heartily glad to see ihem invited in one mighty phalanx to overthrow the traitors, who conrary to their best interests, have required the freemen of the North and the South, who desire to migrate to our Territories, to throw their labor into competition with that of Wares, and if there is any diflexence to become more degraded than the slaves unon a Sjuthern plantation. To this we do objectand while we have a feeling in common with the free laborer of this country, we solemnly protest against the effort to degrade and disgrace them under the pretence of squatter sovereignty. The people are not to be deceived by any such misguided flummery. Thej know their legitimate and constitutional rights. They know what their political and mora! duties are, and they desire to protect none other. Must the people sit mildly by, and hear John Pettit declare the revered sentiments of Jefferson to be a self-evident lie; and Douglass, that tfce Declaration of Independence is in riolation of every principle of self-government, in order to defend the Nebraska iniquity. The ministry has to be declared a set of itinerant vagabonds;' professing christians have to be abused for the exerciee of their legitimate rights and the people are to bo denounced as Traitors and Tories, and for what? imply because reckless, putty-faced politicians are about

having the seal of condemnation put Upon '

them bv an honest oeonle. Sttuzule on . in your last efforts, we but pity you, and ..I. you ,ei,. n,ore b,i..h from ,h. INnsnville disumoniats, you are done ; gone, fifzled out. j In this article we do not wish to be un- i .1. -c't . ,. ,. . .. , , ' ."7, "S Lln'r l'.nS ho favor ' this Nebraska iniquity, that they are wil-! fully wicked. Far from any such thine. 1 Only that they are misguided by impres--sions. which to the people seem to havebeen singularly arrived at. Has not all ; parties claimed and that rightly, that the . legislation of a country should not go in j advance of a people's necessities and oV . mands. That beine admitted where lh necessity and when the demand. We do believe from the incipiencr of this wrong o ,,, p,f, ,,, wm r polii.c.1 1 triCK, lOrced Upon this people against . their best Interests and desires. Then where does our friends stand (1 - it be ' deceived by any vulgar slan ) but firm ; j j ""S. "u mm i to your integrity ns ever, in faor of ihe j Compromise of '20 and against the ex-! tension of slavtry, with other great na- j tioual qursiions, which are not at lhis j time at issue before thi people. But it! is said that we are coalescing with the free D,moCracr of ,h, K.rtb. .,. . Ur liners all right if they are willing to der to this Union, for the sake of public ; plunder. Would not our friends muoh !

rather be found operating with the true ' . A,t r'1'" promptly fll.d bv wriiinror callJcc, of ,h. North fo, ,he ,.U " "

iiccuuin man cuairsing wun nasnviue Ditunionitts for the extension of slavery. Ponder well, aud labor for the right, and spurn tha wrong! For myself. I am 0. K. For the Banner. TIIB ORPHAN. BT I.ILLU. I fwl that I'm an orphan lutio, Noteuder mother' cre Pro knovn, No father watches with Uv; Tor in h stringer's home I move No sister gathers flowena fair. To we ivo in gulvidi for niv hiir Nobrojher all the long, long d.iy. To join mo in my lonely p'y I amnions! an I ttiit Tct word. With sorrow oft my hwart hi'h stirred; Until it almost dies aw.iy With yearuiiisjt for wbt niljht not st iy. The much iinred voices that afe gone. Seems tiiinliHg in t-acu low tone I almost linger for tliff feet, That I no more un earth alittll mrrl. I once had friends my heart to elver, 1 th ii li-v! prtrtnils kin 1 anf Je."r; AuJ friuii U .mi? fort m-j on me stiiiK-J, I w.n n t tlrn are or'phm chill Hut dentil, tho droad denm-r Cime, And sadly rent the household t Ii.iiiv A gloowi sit on the I oiwly lrtrtFi, To me, the dearest spot mi earth My brothers now are far away. My sislers dear, UT where art they; Perhaps they speak another tongue And their youn; hearts with sorrorrs wrung. Perhaps they sinj ia sJranger ear The songs we nsng in hygmie years. But strange mut serine ewh hoaeho1d-tniie, When far fromthwir own childhoods home. Though srne ih distant lands may roam, And Bomodw.dl neur their childhoods h sine. Yet wa are bound by memory's chain, E'an though we ne'er should aueet again. And should we meet on rnrth no more, O! rwy we meet on that ble.Mvd shore, Whei-A sorrow, parting, death and TIiu Are never felt nor feared igdn. rt.T MOCTH. I ml. VVAitmjGTox, July 21. 8k ate 1 he Homestead -bill w,s 1JU! I pasacd last evening, but reordered t bo engrossed. T,r 7 ' To Render Wond Iflcomausthbli. A verv excelleut way to render wood incombustible, is to soak it in a atrong i r I ,i it.- e solution of alum and the sulphateof copper. AuoMt one pound o; aium aim one cient for 100 gallons of water. These substances are dissolved in a small quan tity of hot water, then mixed with the water in the vessel in which the wood is to be steeped. The timber to be rendered fire-proof enn be kept under the liquor by stones, or any other mode of sinking it, All that is required is a water tight vessel, of sufficient dimensions te hold enough of liquor to cover the timber, which should be allowed to steep for; about four or five days. After this. it

is taken out, and suffered to dry thorough- j "jVTOTCE is hereby pven that the Commisly before being used. Variousubtauc s ! 1 1 stoner and Engineer of the county of have been prepared for this purpose, kut Marke, wi 11 oftei : foi -Fate as the law directs. f i , , I the contract of Ditching as follows, to wit: in answer to a correspondent tve present j Di!chNo. Äf towu 3., rn,e , westf T20 RoJs, the above as being equal to any that we . Do 9, do 34, " l 100 do.

are acquainted with. Dr. ATm. II. Arrison, the supposed sender of the infernal mr chine to Mr. .... . , , . Allison, the steward of the Cincinnati riospiifti, una wnicn kinea mm ona his wife, has deen caught, it is reported. in Iowa. The lady who 'knit her brows, has commeiicod a pair of sockt. Iter sister wk chekesl with indignation. Her brother went awny in disgust, and returned in a steamer. A cousin went into a rope line the other day -was hung. Her husband Just started on an enterprise gone to Australia to escape the sheriff. FoiTjrn Dead. On Saturday last, the body of a roan was found floating in the canal about a mile east of town. An inque?l w hold by coroner Squires and a verdict rendered ns published iii another column. The body had evident marks of violence. The shoulder blade wa bro. ken, the nose mashed down ns if done by the stroke of a club. There wero other marks of violence which convinced ihe' jury that the deceased had met a violent death. No one hen recognised his body. Tho person was an entire stranger. Wabash Gazftts. See Here, Folks! Dill JOHN MCI Rome of his Hoods aro hora and manv sold. Some of his first purcharav stilt ochind. but coming most vory day. He has ordered lots more though bro't a heavy let of Füh-ajl sold, a'raost, J.C Jaly2T, 1?5. .Jltf

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I VnOM the ulcriler livin at Wylnr i-, M'1"; Jarkau township.- Elkhart cumtv. EÄfÄJS: und tail, mane and lure-tup heavy und rnn c curled, black logg Ui the knees, ami a white frw.t "ber fort head niiherrenlr.T)? heart, at o t 16 or 17 liaiida high, nud move tie-kihI artifnr a k aniirmf. lhv undeni ,vi bW dantly reward any pem-n who win Mrn ni.1 nmre or pite infoiniMiit.n win re tin- c.i l-h;t I)ire t yur inform tin to New Puri Tout O. lu v. Kl k hurt coi.t-lv. I ltd. JONATHAN WYLANP. jr. Jily27 -H3 Discovered at Lasf. LIME! LIMP!! 1ME. in MiiK.-itljtiiiiiauce hihJ of ifie vrrv JLi be.i qialiiy.h.r purity. Mrm-thand whit - ,u ""' Ls ,;?,c, Uu ''.vrvd. ...I i ,,ow l,t- ,;,;,,.. lf ,ie ,!..!,.,. ; cm my ii-t ihe 1 nr of .Jurb;.11 ob? mi'e will, t' what is known n E My' hw Mill on E,Uy' l'' f,J,,r l,'t fttSt ,,f 'kiM-k- iake and m'- '' 'l, ',c,we:,1 M1'"' hMithin ii it iI. Also ten link's rxir! )i-vnt of RwheWr, and twelve mile south of Plymouth. The undei stauen if now nr. parctl to fillurder ,,,r ,ime ,r,,ia au-v lH,il'' unrounding country. a,.J war t. im lime to give GENERAL SATISFACTION, B'S-l"' " ''v. superior the Lo0 both xhv b ment fi all ihos-s desiring lime, to pun-lmre of '. JOHN M. MERRVMOX. July 27. 1851. Kiers Rocü Oil. T7JROM A IfELL 400 Feet deep, near IV. tsa. i'iraren,!'., is ollertd to the public as a I Natural Medici ht of no common value. It j j a different thing from the old Kentnckv, cx j Americas Od, an this is used INTERNALLY , as well as externally. As a local remedy in Paralysis, Piles, Rheumatism, Deafness, loss jofSiis'ht, Uurus, &c. Alo .?s a valu.iMe lnjternal remedy for Piles, Ague. Scrofula, Coughs, Diarrhoea, Erysipelas, old sores, Krupj tions of the skin, Female diseases, Worms j Bladder and Kidneys, Bronchitis, Pans &c, 4r. It invites the invent gating Physician, ai "j well as the suffcrinsr pntie'nt, lo become ae- ! quainted with its menu. I Discovered in 181 u has within 2 or three years, made multitudes cares, and muitii titles of friends, and as soon as tried, th sah- ( not only inrrrate but Loll out. Testimony to . its great rmrit is constantly accumulating in I the hands of i e proprietär by ctrtiScntes, : letter, ami in other ways. ! Full as the u-orll is of Faent Medicines ; 3 thorctfht t.ot best to suppress this, the work ot N.VflKR-to make room lor Human j inrenfiou. Puce 50 cents per bottle. msjM l. t x . .a. Lrjnj.K, ri) rnociri. K.M. LYON. Proprietor, &?.DearloTu !. Chicago, I IT. ivtlj 27, -.Mm.,. t mm mm Src.nitxvTrjAi, mri'oic-r or the concfit'Kr? c-f Western Can k at Plymouth, for the sis Trionths preceding the firl Monide of July 1RS1: Capital Stotkr Xotes Discounted1, 3100,0.10 00 iimouiit of debts due the Asroeiation OJ Fan fry I CM, Silter, fiO.noc 5t J,7)0 00 3r J 4 4 Total, Amount r Capital Stock, iuchidinjr that dofosited with Audi'oof Stale, paid in accordrtjy to th? i provisions of the law. ! Amount o " notes, bills or other e?idences of delt issued -100,000 Of) To'ai, S?no,om no Association or ibi Rank, J. W. P.VTfrvET.i., Pres.. T?. J. Mora, Casji, Nanus of persons who hae become p.-.Tties to to the articles of Js.sociatron with said period. 1 J. W. Patten-el), A. B. fiil!-tt, J;.!msVanj t'eet, Robert rfatiiff, L. Meriam oz John Porter. f rrwrt j j. n. KMee, F.. G. Eooih, J. s. Kibbee L. j Meriam and John Torter. Names of present Stock holders, J J. w. Patir nPe, a. B.ciiktt, Kubotnatitf, d George Taylor. Oays and hours open for the transaction of busiaeis, lo-wxt: From 9 o'clock, A. M., to 1 . . . .', v ... .., iu i State of Ohio, 1 c u Trumbull County, S J. V. Pattengcl!, being duly sworn, de pases and says that he is the President of said Rank, and that the foregoing report of the transactions and condition of said Rank, for the period therein named, istiue and correct, according to the Lesl of his knowledge and belief. J. W. PATTENGELL. Sworn and subscribed before me, thii 17th day of Ju y, I U54. SAMUEL FANSLKR, Juswiceof the Peace. July 27, 154. 21. t Do 1, do 32. " 3 101 do. Do 2, do 3i low I On the 12th day of Aupust, JS51, at the Court ' I,0"sc ?" tLt? townfT,e?l ÄlanP"t!n; Specifications of said Ditches, given on the ; day 0f sair or at tnc Commissionei's office at any time. u. s.TiifHiTS, comr. J. S. BENDER, Euer. July 27, 18Ö4. 3IU. state ofludittiia, Starke Ccuiiiy, m: In the Starte Circutt Court, Stptemhtr Term A D 1854. Silas Short, va Pa'ience Carpenter and her bnbnd Stephen Carpenter, CUarSott l-or nth and her iiuband Jacob B zartb, Cnrodi is Short, Robert Short. Jamea Short. Martha A. Sh-r. Tet"n Short, Jacob Short. Cyrus Short. Nancy J-peph and hr hib ind Jmm- !. ph, and CJiJcou Short. BEit remembered that cu ih 24th day of July 1854. Silaa Short, ih.s pla nt ff in tbe above Milled cause, by A. G. üi" . : Andrew W. Porter, hia Attorney, tiled in :.ie office of the Clerk of the Stark Cin uit Court a petittou and complains of taid dt ! u au', and says that in the year 18 2 he bi'ir-d and agreed wthon Certus Short, iu hii'itetiiüe, but who is now de. ceased, for the MJowieg described rol cktate, tivwiu The south east q niter of the norih out q iarter of section 5 tuwi'hip 32, range 2 west, containing 40 acrer-, ai d it uhs becnmide lo ap. pear to ihe unti faction of taid C'tik. that the above named Putieuce Carpenter, Stephen Cats peuter, N incy Jowph aud Jme Jepb are non-reridehts of the Si re oi I-i.'.iaua. I bt-y are therefore hereby notitied of the 61irg and pen dency ot sn.id pelUion.and ouic tney appt ar, plead, anr-wer or demur thereto, on or btfjre the calliugof thieaue. on the frt day ol the next term of said court, ou ihe 4th NJuqdy iu Sej-temlxT sVxt, the tame will bJe taken a coafoird, and will be hcjrd a od dotcrainod in their abscUre. CHA5.HUMrUEVS,CUrk, July 27,1854, . $lt3.

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