Plymouth Pilot, Volume 1, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 October 1851 — Page 2
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THE PILOT. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15, 1851.
The highest price will be paid for RAGS cotton and linen, if delivered at this office immediately. Wood. Those of our subscribers who promised to pay their subscription in wood.are requested to bring it along immediately. We do not wish the providing of our winter's wood delayed till the roads and weather get bad. We would inform our contribu- tor "Epaminondas that his production uui . me usiac mal w r jiain lur ; it; an l lliat his head contains more poul- ; try than poetry. We think his position
letter adapted to the cultivation of caJ-fore lages and pokcbcrricx. Or, perhaps, he j would prefer the office of "Pairer of Toe j Nails to the Great Mogul," or the ap-1
7 pointment of "Envoy Extraordinary and ! Judge Plenipotentiary" to the Court of j hlephontoon at Rruggahore. Either of j which must honorable callings he can have by an early application at our of-; fie j CCFm On Sundavhst a number of ren-1 , - i tlem?n left our town for the golden re-; JlioflS üf California. Their nmr nro ci Jollows: Jacob K. Hupp, Win. IIu I1!1 ! ' ; viiu-Juns. uenry ;uciruriin, Adam in edge, John Harvey, and Jacob Freese. We part with these gentlemen very reluctantly. They were good citizens, staunch friends, and agreeable companions. We wiih them a speedy and pros- ... J ! saiereuirn to their homes with the r cof-l r , . fers filled to overflowing with cold and i ,. , b diamonds. . (TV Mr. Enoch Phillips was committed to Jail in this place on Sunday even-' ir.g lastcharsed with ealin 40 fmm ! Mr. William Morris of North Township.! in Marshall Countv. He was held to 1 bail ia til.- sum of ft.00 His former ' residence is in Holmes countv Ohio I When he was arrested, he g-ive up $20 and said he had spent the other twenty, and confessing the whole affair at once. CO" We invite attention to the advertiscmenl of Mr. J. L. Westervelt on our third page. He has just received a large and splendid stock of Dry Goods, Grocercies. Hardware and a large supply of ready made Clothing. Those who desire ! good and cheap bargains will do well to ! call on Mr. W, and learn a fair and just! sstem of trade. OCT Our old friend Mr. E. S. Lewis has opened a new Grocery and intends ' . to take the lead in the wav of supplying ri 0 thit rniinlv with 11k rrltif in li!o i;.o For particulars see his advertisement in another column. CCT" We have received a number of "The National Democrat," printed at CassTipolis, Michigan. It is edited by Mr. G. J5. Turner, a man of taste, tact and ability, and a thorough-going Democrat. We ho; Mr. T s labors in the political field will be crowned with an abundant harvest. CO5 The "Monthly Literary Miscel lany" has been received. This number contains a very interesting selection of! reading matter, crowned with an embel- i lishmentof "The Transept of the Crystal Palace." This work still maintains its position of high literary merit, and vc have no doubt that the number of its pages will be increased and its circulation more widely extended till it shall rank with thi best periodicals of the day. (TT The "Detroit Daily Free Tress" has assumed a new dress. It is now a neat and beautiful sheet and is conducted by Messrs. Rams, Erodhead & Co. a combination of talent and Fpirit that will enr J .. . sure lur tne "iree 1 ress a long and bright existence. The steamer Brilliant exploded one of her boilers 011 the 2Jih ult. at Bjvou Sara, La. by which accident many lives were lost, but the names of the victims are as yet unknown. Of SO passengers, deckhands, and firemen, only 25 were found after the explosion. The boat was bound from New Orleans to Iiayou Sara. Emigration to California appears to have received a new impetus. On Saturday last the steamer Brother Jonathan cleared from New York for Chagres with four hundred and forty-one passengers.
sltposed murder. On the 3d ult. a man bv the name of
Cooxnoo Sclt, living in Starke County, i some 14 miles west of this place, died , J under suspicious circumstances. The j ! mockery of an inquest was held over him and a verdict returned of death by dtlirJ ! iuvi tremens. He was buried on the Cth inst. Some friends living near Logansport hearing of it, came on, and suspicion fixed so strongly on his wife, that she was taken into custody, and a post! Ifl0ttcm examination had of the body of te dead man by Drs. Brown, Rennet. and Moore of this county. On the 13th, ; . the body was found in an awfal condition; the head, face, arms, hands, breast, hips, towels, knees and toes were found (
tilt iiiiiiu'.i; unc iiuuuicu aim ihciiiy icr most horribly bruised, and beaten as if; ' . 4 , ., .'t-rs.orasr much as a smart pcnmin can
uuiiB wiiii amaui, anu me oiows on ii;e head, breast or bowels would either one have caused death. The examinat'orr bethe justice afterwards had, elicited the following facts. He was an honest, industrious man, poor and of tolerable steady habits, but sometimes drinked a little. His wife was a regular Xantippe. On the morning of the 3d (as she stated,) he was sitting by the fire, and about 8 o'clock, he complained of a chill, having had the ague occasionally before, and his wife gave him a pint of pepper tea. Soon after he jumped up, ran into a back room, mostly empty commenced scream- ing, tore off his clothes, and fell naked upon the lloor. His wife ran to a saw mill near by where some men were at work raising a floom, and said her husband had a fit. Sometime after two men went up and found him lying naked on his back, on the floor, of the back room, the door shut, a good deal of blood on the floor, and the bruises upon him-- Hhe appeared to be in a spasm. His wife was eating breakfast in the other room. The men did nothing, and went immediately . away, leaving him as they found him. A little before noon, she again went to the Mill and asked some one to go for a doctor. Two men again went up, and found him lying in the same place on the floor on his face -- bloody and horribly bruised and lacerated. There was a straw tick - lying near him, and between him and the tick was a large iron ring beetle, or maul. They lifted him on to the bed, put a pillow under his head, and left him there naked without covering, and went away. The woman again went down for some one to get a doctor. About night some neighbors came in. and he was Iy-
ing as left at noon. One of them washed j authorities, and was taken to Havana, him in salt and water, and gave him j Lieut. S. belonged to Capt. Kelley's comsonie drink, and threw a feather bed over ; pan, and is the only surviving officer
him. His clothes were not seen except the shirt, which was bloody and not torn. Soon after, some one took off the feather bed he was hot as an oven steam raised from him as from a boiling cauldron, and he died directly, having been senseless apparently from the first. From language used before and afterwards, and from many circumstances, it was supposed that the fit was brought on first by some, kind of poison, and a blow or more of the maul, but there was no evidence to fix the person with any certainty. After death, the body became livid as in
death from antimony, arsenic, &c. andjvcar5f w!lo murdered Miss Sharpless, in
chrystalizations were found on the body. The stomach presented an inflamed or irritated appearance, but the general appearance of the body was entirely healthy. The stomach aud contents are to be analyzed. The Doctors said U12 bruises on the Iiea:l breast ami illium. could not have been i,inu'11 b.v himself even by accident in that room, and all the evidence was conclusive again.it anything like insanity or mania a potu. The poor creature came to an awful and untimely death by some, strange means, which time alone can explain. These, are a portion of the principal facts as detailed to us, by persons present at the examination. If murdered, so brutal a wretch as the murderer can never escape justice. They may go free for a tltll0 but sooner or later, detection and punishment must overtake them. 1 u,, . ! bVlJy the late tr eaty with the See-see-tran and Wah-pay-toan bands cf Sioux Indian?, the United States obtain over 21 millions of acres, lying east of a line drawn from tha head quarters of the Red River of the north, to intersect the northwestern corner of the State of Iowa, The purchase includes part of the magnificent Blue Earth river country, and thataround the head waters cf the Des Moines and St. Petei's rivers. The Indians are to remain on the land two years. For this cession they are to receive 8 1,G5,000. The Galena papers propose that the name Dacota, be given to the new Territory, and such may yet be the name of one of the States of the Union.
Some parties in this country seem disposed to vindicate the Spanish authori-
ties from the charge of having violated the laws of humanity. The labor is a waste of time, for it cannot be forgotten that we have an official report from a Spanish lieutenant, that, corning across twenty of the sick of Lopez, and an equal number left to take care of them, he immediately put them all to death. Men who could be guilty of such an atrocity are competent to any thing. - N. O. Crescent. A German watchmaker is said to have invented and perfected what he calls a writing telegraph, by which any person 1 r f nrlni'vri t iticirtf 4 dlnra r Ti in Pv. . . . . , write. The instrument is operated by '. t!ie necessary number of keys, like the House Telegraph, but writes with a glass pi'n, filled with common ink, on ordinary paper, which is laid over a cylinder. The I machinery is very complicated. It is estimated that the city of New York pays 810,000 a day for cigars, and only 000 for bread. It is also compu ted that 820,000 persons go into the grave every year from the use of tobac co J Several streets being about to be open ed through the Methodist Episcopal grave-yard, Light st. Raltimore, a large number of the remains of the dead have been removed by the relatives and friends. This week, in taking out the ! coffin of Mrs. Vansant, a lady who has been dead 1 year.,, the lid being partiallv broken m, Mr, ansant, the hus . , , , . . A. T, . band of the deceased, and the Rev. Jo ?eph Shane, who were present, noticed that the body appeared whole and on examining it, found that it was petrified as hard as a stoiu-, and perfect in all its parts, the only change being that it was nearly black. The crave was in a wet - place. The New Orleans papers state tha they have heard from Lieut. Theodore A Stevens, who ws with Col. Crittenden's a ii. . ii 1 11 1- "ne mey were auaCKeu dv Spanish war steamer Habanero. Lt. Stevens escaped by jumping overboard, aml swimming ashore. After wandering for a month through the woods and mountains, ragged and shoeless, and without any other food than leaves and fruit, he surrendered himself to t lie ; who was with Col. Crittenden at the ! tlini: of his separation from Col. Haynes 'a,ul Capt. Kelly. He may, perhaps, be able to give some information respecting the thirty missing men, whose fate, a? yet, is unknown. An article in the Alta California by Col. Worth, estimates the annual yield from the gold mines at SG0,000,000 for many years to come. The veins, he thinks, are inexhaustible, and extend for hundreds of miles under the mountaius. j youn- man named Pharaoh, aged 20 Pennsylvania, an amiable school teacher, and simply to get possession of her gold watch, befure he was sent to the other world from the gallows, turning to his father, who was standing at the foot of the platform and gave him the following terrible rebuke: Father, you know you have not acted a good part toward nie; you have never olTered me a good example to follow, but permitted me to grow up in ignorance and vice.' What terrible words are these to be addressed to a father, by a son standing under a gibbet! The President of the United States has done an act which, next to mentioning the matter favorably in his annual message, is the highest sanction he could give to the Bloomer costume. He has appointed Mr. Bloomer Postmaster at Seneca Falls, New York, aud Mrs. Bloomer is the Deputy! The short dress mania is evidently rising into political importance. 67. Enq. The Washington National Monument is now 98, and by the first of October it will be 100 fret in height. The beautiful white marble with which it is faced is procured from Symington's extensive quarries, about 12 miles from Baltimore, at a cost of 07 cents per cubic foot. Crops everywhere promise to be very abundant. Ou the upper lakes some complaints have been made by grain growers, but this is an exception to the universal abundance and good quality of
the cereal product. How far the large
crop now coming in can be turned to a profitable account, is a question yet to be solved. The price of breadstuffs, just now, in England, would hardly seem to warrant further shipments; but the con sumption there has been greatly increased from two causes the prosperity of the manufacturing interests, and the low prices which have ruled throughout the year. Whatever the crop on her own soil may be, Britain must purchase largely elsewhere, and it seems fair to suppose that this supply may be furnished from our country. The rest of Europe have already drained their granaries, and their own harvests will not give them any material surplus. There is a prospect, it is true, that prices will rule low; but in the absence of speculation, the farmer will realize a greater portion of it than has been awarded to him in the past, and may hope for a steady market. Hunt's Mer. Mag. ARRIVAL OF THE PROMETHEUS I THREE WEEIvS LATER FROM j CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS 1 MARINE ÜISAS1ER DESTRUCT-1 1VE FIRE! New York, Oct. 4. The steamship Prometheus, from San Juan, de Nicaragua, with three, weeks' later news from California, arrived here at G o'clock this evening. She left San Juan on the 20th nh. She brings four hundred and sixty-five passengers and j 8123,000 in gold, on freight. 6100,000
of which is for Thompson & Hitchcock. ! passage in about iifieeen davs. that neither Cuba nor Great J ritain, The dates from Sun Francisco are to j Commfpci l Ixtki liokxcf The Liv- nor all European powers combined, can the 0th of Slu mber, and were brought 1 erpoofcoiton market 0,1 the 23d was rt,si for on this point the minds of th. down by the steamer Pacific, which ar- j f (liet an j steilllv at previous rates. American reoP.e are made up. and will rivcdatSan Juan on the 20th of Septem- j Sales on Monday and Tuesday 12.000 Rive law to Anv-rican policy and conber. with two hundred and twenty pas- ! biijc duet. The Republic arRuts that the 011sengers and 8120.000 in gold. j TlVe importations of grain were limited ' .v 'nty to Cuba is in possession of The North America and the Gold Hunter aml prict.s generally luul undergone little Statos Government, left San Juan for San Francisco on the j or n0 tlin,r-e: where any change had oc- j Wasimsgtox, Oct. 11. 30th ult , and the Monumental City j currc,i jt was in favor of buyers, except ! The Republic publishes the following for Realgo and Panama. j for iudian corn, which was Od dearer letter from Col. Crittenden: It was reported that the steam propel- j ami finaiy supported. Flour of good )enr Uncle: n a few moments some ler Lafayette, had been entirely destroyed fresh American brands was much scar-: fifty of us will be shot. We came here
by fire at Chagres on the 11th of Septem-! ber; that the cargo was partially saved. C.A Li TO R X I A G KS ERA L I N TEL I GE X C E. Scattering returns of the State election had come in. 1 S in Francisco had given one thousand whig majority. Sacramento City and county have gone democratic by four hundred majority. The returns generally are very incomplete there seem? to be very little doubt however, of John Bigler, democrat, being elected Governor, though it is still uncertain. The Alta Californian of the. Cth says that" so far as relates the remainder of the State ticket we think we cannot be wrong in saying that the prospect is especially the case in regard to the two democratic candidates for Congress, Joseph McCorkle and Edward C. Marshall; there can scarcely be a doubt of their election. The Legislature is still in doubt, but will, it is thought, be democratic.'" A great conflagration had taken place at Marysville on the 30th of August, by which eighty buildings were burned. The localiPH)t the fire was Second and E streets, the north and east sides of the plazc, the levee, D. First, and High streets. The burnt district comprises the principal buisness part of the city. Farish, Adams 5c Co. were the heaviest losers, say 630,000. The Indians are very troublesome on the route from the Great Salt Lake to the city of Sacramento. The mail-riders have been attacked several times but had escaped unhurt. Several emigrants had been killed. Two men by the names of McKenzie and Whitaker had been executed in San Francisco, and two other in Sacramento, since which perfect quiet has been restored. Robinson, who had been reprived by the Governor, was taken and executed by the people. The dates from Astoria, Oregon, are to the 27th. Mrs. Gaines, wife of Governor Gaines, died 011 the 13th of August. The steamer Genesee sailed from Sin Francisco for Panama on the 31st of August with 81,700,000 in gold, and the steamer Constitution with 6100,000. The former had two hundred and fifty and the latter onc hundred and twenty passengers.. The mining news is generally favorable. William Burger cc Co., a heavy drug house, failed to-day. The steamship .Washington sailed for Southampton to-day, with thirty-five passengers and four thousand six hundred dollars in specie. The cotton market is unchanged and quiet. Moderate sales of flour at 63, 73a61 for State and western and 83,11 1 a61.25 for Genesee and southern. Sales of 5,000 bushels Carolina rc l wheat at 75c. and 30,900 bushels corn at 58c. for mixed. Sales of new mess pork at 615.59. Lard9a9Jc New York, Oct. 6, 8 P. M. The steamship Ohio, from Chagres, arrived this morning with a million and a half in gold on freight and 600,000 dollars in the hands of passengers, together with her passengers at dpt. Stoddard and the crew of the steamship Lafayette, which vrsel was burnt to the water's edge on the 19th ult. and afterwards sunk in eight or nine fathoms water. The Lafayette had on board a good supply of coal and a q antity of freight
for San Juan, consisting of dry goods, Putnam, Laporle, Hendricks, Vigo. Tipliquors, spices, &c. Capt, Stoddard pecanoe, Montgomery, Wayne, Parke, was on board the vessel when the fire Lawrence, Monroe, Henry and Kosciusko, broke out. but found it impossible to Many of them hold fairs this foil. Farcheck the flames, The loss was heavy iners of Grant County! were and when, and but a small portion of it was iusur-;doyou hold your Fair? Let the Fared. J mers of Grant go to work, at one and The Tsthmus appears to be infested organize an Agricultural Society. with robbers. Many passengers by that j route have been robbed of everything j Washington. Oct. C. they possessed. j The President has given ordeis to the A gold train was attacked a short time Navy Stations to fire salutes and extend
since by fourteen robbers, two of whom all military honors to Kossuth at New were afterwards captured and the gold . York and other places. A grand dinner recovered; four others were short at, will be given him at the President's two of whom M ere wounded mortally. j House. From Chili we have later advices. 1 The rumered recall of Consul Owen is But 70.000 of the 300.000 loan, asked : confirmed by a letter from the President, by the Government had been raised. j informing him that his defence is wholSeveral shocks of earthquake had oc- ly unsatisfactory, curredat Conception. J The President has sent instructions to From Jamaica we have very little arrest all the parties to the Syracuse outnews of interest. : rage, and their committal for trial on a
Nes York, Oct. 8, 8 P. M. The steamship Humbolt, from Havre and Southampton, arrived at her wharf at six o'clock. She left Havre on the i4th of September and Cowes on the evening of the same dav. She brmis London jajeS lo the 2 Ith ult., one hundred and ti,irtv-four passengers, and two hundred tons of freight, mostly fine goods. She experienced a very disastrous passage experienced a very with a succession of heavy westerly winds. Ou the 7th inst., in latitude 4 1, longitude G2, she saw an American propeller. The. Asia arrived at noon on the 21st I of September, making the passage in aüout eleven da vs. Tlio 1 1 r r i i 11 o arrii-pil at Sniilrinmnfnn on lhe af.(.rn0on of the 2lst, making the cer anj cammaivled ISs to 10s Od.
Wheat had undergone no change, not- j t"lCe to believe my motive was good. I withstanding a slight decline at Mark i was deceived by Lopez. He, as well as Lane. j the public press, assured us that the 1sLondon Com Exchange Sept. 22. land was in a state of prosperous revoluForeign wheat is difficult of sale, except, tion. I am commanded to finish writat a decline of one shilling per quarter; at once. 1 will die like a man. American Hour is quoted at from 10 to! W. S. C. 21sperbbl. Canadian at 18 to 21s. I Loudon Money Market. Arise of 1; New York, Oct. 11. p?r cent, on the Paris Course led to I Late advices from Sardina bring Gui-
highly beneficial results in London on J ana, reports the yellow fever is on the the 23 I. Consols advanced J, closing at 1 decline. 9Gia962 for money and 96a96i fur ac- The Government building were concount. Foreign funds also advanced a J sid-rably damaged by an earthquake on little. Mexican 26a27. There had ; the Sib." been an improvement in railway shares, j The President has sent the recall of Exr.LAxn. The news possesses no Owen, special feature of interest. The London The Charleston News published a letpapers are discussing the question of eas- ter fro mi G. M. Dallas dated July, contern politics in connection with the con-! taining a distinct admission of the Contemplated railroad from Alexandria to I promise Measures, and an oflVr to settle
Cairo The potato disease is spreading in the north of"Narid, but, owing to the abundance wheat c-rop, no apprehension is The steaj.
-deficiency of food. j friends endeavoring to vindicate the coniypp.,arrived at South-J duct of Mr. Owen, the American consul
ampton;on0t West I nd if half insj";. New'p f ,fjL East IndianShe was recke with a loss of, fc,. 1 J & m 1 r with tlit 'in million and a VSßRandolph, an "rVjLondon. XMauritius, )l.y passen-'
gers out of 3)f:? U,.fUboard. jt i i, he immediately put them all to Great prepaj-aAlpogdV.being made in ) death. If this is not violating the laws Liverpool for the reception of the Queen I jf humarity, we would like lo know on licr contemplated visit to that city. what it is. Lafayette Jour., ( Whig). The receipts at the Crystal Palace on j the 23d ult., were near three thousand j fjpThe Cincinnati Enquirer says that pounds sterling. A self-priming musket, Major Yandom, of the U. S. army, lias invented by Dr. M.miard, of Philadel- invented a rail car to run on one rail, phia, was attracting much attention at similar to that of a telegraphic wire The the exhibition. j frame wark is about two feet long, in News of the capture and execution of form of a triangle. At the apex are two Lopez reached London 011 the 2lst and large grooved wheels which track the elicited considerable comment. The 'wire. The model is kept in portion by London press is chiefly iu favor of the 1 its peculiar form and weight, ahd can be course pursued by the Spanish Govern- made to carry light burdens, and travel me nt. I with great rapidity, by electro galvanic The Lady Franklin, of the Arctic ex-, force. It is possible something pnetipedition, arrived at Woolwich on the : cally valuable may be developed from 18lh September, all being well. The this" beginihg. Danish interpreter expresses the belief ... that the discovery ships Erebus and AN AFFECTING SCENE. Terror are still safe. The Ohio Statesman states thai a fev Advices from New South Wales re- i Sabbaths since the convicts in the Colative to the gold discovery etill con- lumbus penitentiary were called to gethtinue. Exceedingly Izrge quantities of j er to listen, in lieu of the regular service, gold continue to be found near Bathurst. ! which some disappointment prevented, A lump weighing a pound and seven j to some pieces from the Spencer Family. ounce was lately picked up anAsold for j who had come to attend service, and genfifty pounds. (7'; J erously consented to sing a few pieces State of Tuade. The demand for goods für the benefit of the prisoners. They and yarns at Manchester continued ac-1 sung some of their most touching strains.
tive. Owing to intellegence from America predicting a less plentiful yield than had been anticipated, the operatios had been conducted with much less timidity, and spinners and manufacturers were enjabled to command full prices, if not a slight advance. France. The revisionary movement still continues. Thirty consuls, who had abstained from expressing any opinion on the subject heretofore, have now passed resolutions in favor of revision.
ihe public mind is still kept in a sealed, and many a strong, proud man state of ferish excitement, rendering the bow i d th r? his head and webt like an markets uncertain and the government ( infant. S moving was the scene, that suspicious and arbitrary. the singers could scarce suppress their ! emotions suflicientlv to continue the AGRICULTU11ALSOCIETIES. , sog. They departed, feeling in their The followiu counties have organized ' generous bosoms a reward which the apAgricultural Societies under the law of plauses of e nttiusirstic and enraptured last winter; , multitudes at tht-ir concerts never gave, Morgan, Elkhart, Marion, St. Joseph, ( UecAZy Ledger.
charge of treason. Nashville. Oct. 8. An eflort is being made to purchase a residence in this county, near the Hermitage, to present to Kossuth and his companions, to induce th-in to settle near the late residence of Gen. Jackson. One of our citizens cTcrs to subscribe 6500 and a contingent subscription of 81.000. Por.TLAxn. Me.. Oct. S. A dreadful gale prevailed in Nova Scota: loO vessels were driven ashore and four hundred lives lost. The Republic has a strong article on the interference of Enghind in the afiairs of Cuba, and cautions England that the. first manifestations of British interven-
will be the signal lor a movement with Lonz, and vou will do me the justhe Slavery question by an-C .endment to the Constitution. COYe regret to see some of our Whig . 1(. f.no 4tcr,l a tlIA ii..f.ti..nnin at 11a una, tun aitt inc. uu ui (una ir ji ( oners whose bones are now mouldering to dust on a foreign soil. We think they had "better let it be." The official report from a Spanish ofilcer savs that com"ng across twenty of the ick of Lopez, an equal number left to taXe rare of j a stanza of which follows: Tliere ts a Friend, a secret Friend, lu every trial, every j: rif. To elicer and counsel anu defend, Of all we ever had, the chief: A Friend, who, wntchinsr from abov. When e'er in error's path we trod, Still sought us wilh reproving loo That Fiieud, that .H'cret Friend, is God." And (says the Statesman) as the hallowing strains fell upon the ears of the wretched convicts, the blessed foutain of tears, long drunk up by crime, was un-
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