Plymouth Weekly Banner, Volume 5, Number 6, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 May 1856 — Page 2

Pnmoutl) .'-Banner. VjL. l ElRÜ, Editor Proprietor?7 TLnrsdaj Horning May 1, 185C. l-XrAdvcrtiseinciifs to insure inseri on, must be handed in by Tuesday preceding the Jay of publication.

CO" SEE FO UR Til PA GE. Thf Presidency. tla M;h wL-n Trea Pre ee an imUnn r - "" ",ulr"u (At she at; but rather inclined to Fusionism, ha3 the folding: 'In a recent letter to the Tribune, Mr. Greeley, in discussing 'the Presidency ahead,' gives it as his opiuion that the Democratic nominatitn is just as likely to fall on a new man as on Buchanan or Doughs. ' Tierce, he thinks, is out of the question. Mr. Buchanan is still, we think, the most prominent candidate, and the most likely to receive the nomination. There is, no doubt, in the pre seat condition of parties, on inclination on the part of Old Line Whigs, especially on tha part of those who are strongly AntiKnow Nothing, to favor the election of Mr. Buchanan in tho absence of a Whiz candidate. Present feeling so strongly predominate over the faded recollections of past events, that it will be difficult to make such persons lay aside their present hostility to modern isms by appealing to their old and forgotten party strifes, even if tha cooling influences of the lapse of time had not made them very considerably vnodifjr their views of those ancient differences."" Exactly so, brother Ireland. If Mr. Buchanan receives the nomination of the National Convention at Cincinnati, vre know there are many old line Whigs who will yield him a most cordial support. If Fusionism, Abolitionism, Know Nothingism, Samism, or any other ism, Tefuse to take and trust from a Northern State one of the first and Union loving statesmen of the age such an one as James Buchanan has proven himself to be we could not trust them. Liberal and conservatire in his viaws, every public act ol his life proving a deep and lasting devotion to tbe Union Ameiican by birth and American at heart, and always preferring the good of his country in preference to the success of self or party; and to-day standing before his countrymen as a model map and a model Senator rithtnt a single stain upon his political reputation such a man need not court the associations of party, but it is fof parlies to court his mighty influence add sanction. Unpledged and unprcju fliced in relation to the single topic which now agitates the Union, is it any wonder that there are scores of old line Whigs who are ready to support him for the first office within the gift of the American people, in preference to a picked op ism of any kind! We shall patiently await the nomination. Quickest Yet. Oa Tuesday evening last we received the New Orleans Picayune in a little less than eight days from the date of its publication. Telegraph wires and locomotives are yet d3tined to put this world into a nutsaell. AU the editorial of the last Plymouth Banner is comprised in the following significant line; "Gone fishing can't write without pay.'' Martinsville Monitor. Got back. Do you suppose we got anything' else? O'SA-wa-qcah. We have heretofore unintentionally, however, neglected to mention the receipt of this rich and very sentimental Poem, by Dr. 0. Everts, of the.Laporte Times. The Dr. has our thanks for a copy. Democratic Congressional Convention. It has been suggested by one cf the Central Committee that it is high time .that a suitable time and place should be designated for the meeting of the Demo, cratic Canvention for this, the 9th Congressional District, to nominate a candidate for Congress; and that Plymouth (the old stamping ground) be the place, and the 19th day of June be the time, thus affardicg the Democracy of the several counties an opportunity of having it serve as a District ratification meeting of the Presidential nominations. V Cutting done on the Körtest notice,1 we have lately learned can be clearly demonstrated in severat ways. One John Miller; said to be late of Ohio, commenced the Tailoring business in this place a short time since, and last week favored our citizens with a very polite solicitation fot their patronage, through our advertising columns. But for the past few days his shop was kept locked, and he not appearing at his boarding place, his shop door was forced open, but Miller was not in, either sick or dead-f-but had left for parts not necessary for ns to mention until we ate further advised. - He was a tall, and rather spare made man, and represented himself a a Polander by birth, and was no particular enemy to "free whisky." As we received no pay for our advertising, we wilT:throw this in also, by way of preventing others from imposition, and'for the future tvhen such cattins ia done upon our citizens, those in tersstaJ'caa have similar jobs done upon the'eirxt terms.- " ' .

THE MARKETS. It has been many years since so great a change, has taken place in the Fame length of time as have breadatuCTs the principal staple of this country within the last twelve months past. By way of contrast, we give the prices of flour in the principal cities in which our readers are mos, interested, in 1855 and 1S56 leaving other mjnor depositories to be guersed at. 18Ö6. 1S.55.

Yew York, New Orleans, Dctriot. (Xücinnati, $t50a7,00 $12,00j13.50 6,!2ari.50 G,0Ca6,5O 5,70a5,S0 12.50al3.00 10,50al2,00 10,50al2,50 Four IjU flour, $2I.32a25,eo $t3,50a 11,00 2J.32a25,80 In fdvrr of 1855, . Nearly 100 per cent. $21,lSa?5,20 As a reasonable consequence, it may be observed that Wheat. Corn and Corn Meal have suffered a similar decline. Foreign. The foreign news in this paper, both from Central America and the Eastern war troubles, is quite ietereling. Declined. Col. John C. Walker has declined the candidacy for Lieut. Governor of this State, and Abram A.Hammond, nominated by the State Central Committee, in his place. n - Summit Citv Journal. Is the name of a new literary paper recently started in Fort Wayne. It is under the editorial control of the Young Men's literary Association, and is pjblishcd by our friend T. N. Hood. It is an 8 vage paper, and is beautifully printed. Trice $2 a year in advance. Success to the Journal. The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church commences its session at Indianapolis to day. There are 219 delegates, representing 39 annual conferences, in the different States, Mr. Buchanan, upon his return to this country, has met with a very fluttering reception in most of the large cities. Nj statesman of the present day is more deserving of it. Caliponia GoijD. The receipts of gold dust at the Branch Mint, and various assay offices in San Francisco range from 5,000 to 12,000 ounces daily.. equal tö $37,500. to 6210,000 in vnlue; much of it going directly into coin to enter into circulation of the State. The shipment of gold to the Atlatic States and Europe are not likely to increase, as there is a diminished demand for merchants, and a disposition to reduce the advances heretofore made on the receipt of goods consighed from the Eastern cities. Indiana Free Banks. The Auditor of Indiana gives notice that the notes of the following free Banks have been placed into liquidation, and gives notice to the holders of said bank notes to have them at his office for redemption on or before the first day of Oct next; Traders Bank at Nashville. Bmk of Attica; Elkhart county Bank; B uk of Connersville; Slate Stock Bank of Indiana, at Peru; Wabash Wley Bank; Bank of Albany; Bank of America, at Morocco; Bank of Bridgport; Orange Bank; Green County Bank; Atlantic Bank; Bank of T. Wadsworth; Traders Bank, at Terre Haute; Drovers" Bank, nt Romt; Farmers' Bank, at Jasper; New York Stock Bank, Vincennes; Plymouth Bank, Laurel. aaaa. ip For the Banner. Mt Office, April 23, 1S5G. Come row therefore, and let us take coun sel together." Mb, Editob: It is quite convenient, as well as natural, for men in dilemma to counsel, one with another. I trouble you, Mr. Editor, with sundry observations of a peculiar nature, touching upon peculiar points; treading upon peculiar toes, perchance, nut all my own. Belonging, as I do, to a class of men who are entirely destitute of employment lying like wearied fishermen upon their oars, and possessing a disposition not entirely inactive, I am anxiously looking in various directions for something with which to busy and beguile my nature. The impatient war horse treads furi ously in his stall, longing for the fire of battle. The unbusicd physician sits sadly at his ofiice window, waiting still waiting. I am one cf that dejected class, Mr. Editor, who are found in such numbers throughout the great North-West known as Doctors. The universal health of sev eral months past having disinherited ma ny of u?, a diminution of our numbers becomes inevitable; and desiring as I always have, to be first in action, I "take counsel," shaping my. future; at the same time bidding my comrades an universal farewell, before I turn from them and their pitiable circumstances. - Since the commencement and firm establishment of this hv&ienic period. I have looked upon tha possibility of vari ous enterprises, all presenting induce rnents side by side with objections. I claim a full supply of philanthropic fluid in my veins, and would gladly serve my country and my kind by lending a help ing hand to the glorious work of instruc tion; thereby laying firm the corner-stone of republicanism. Bot, alas! Mr.. Editor, I do not boast. of a birth among tbe I green hills of New England, where edtf1 cation has diffused itself like the glowing

rays of morning; but rather among tho beach woods of Iudiana that land of tall corn and hard "doigers," where sei ence dared not come in tho days of my bojhood, for ferof clay, mud and corduroys; where ignorance spre&d abroad like shadows of night, damp and drear). Therefore I am unfit for mr favorite scheme must abandon it, Next in order of generosity comes tho ministry. Oh, golly! The idea of my living to tell the people what's truth! That revelation is not confined between two

lids that we are by nature more good than bad that we are not vile but from force of untoward circumstances. Sad work would I make of divine matters. Guess that, too, must be given up. So come up the enterprises of life before me, all bringing their weighty objections. I feel a beating within my bosom which is calling to action, but still my foot courts the sunshine from this casement. Hour succeeds hour, and no call. No call to day? asks my wife as I sit at tea, and I answtr, no call. There is a field, broad and green, wherein the tree of liberty was planted long years ago, by liberal men, whose names are more sacred than the most sacred words of our household, taught us by our mothers when we were young and more guileless. There is an invitation to all who love this country's weal, to go and labor. But who will go? when, the spot upon which freedom's fame should be reared is made the scene of unkindly strife; when heroes of tbe Revolution, who crossed the Atlantic waters to give help to the sleepy objects of oppression, have lired, to die, tho objects of proscription, placed upon them by the sons of those with whom they bled in sympathy; the uninitiated have little desire to engage. So come up enterprises, all laden with objections. Now, Mr. Editor, of you and your editorial brethren, I enquire what had a man of pars, who is unhappily enlisted in the Esculapean wars, better do in these times of universal peace? Do nothing! he cannot; and to change profession and employment becomes a fixed necessity. With much confidence reposed in the prolific heads of the quill fraternity, I wait a reply, with one loot still out at my oftico window. Meanwhile remaining Your, fervently. Pill Garlic. AllllIVAl7o?TUE ARABIA . Halifax, April 23. The Royal Mail Steamship Arabia, Cap tain Stone, arrived here this morning en route for Boston. She left Liverpool oh the P, M. of the 12;h, consequently bringing advices three days later than those brought by the Arago at Njw York.. The steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins, from New York. 2nd inst., had arrived out at Liverpool, making the passage inside of ten days - Nothing of the least importance had transpired since the departure of the Arago. The Peace Conference continued its

sessions, and the affairs of Italy were un- ig .Jaunted he lanaeu n:s army on understood to have occupied the attention Plliins of Italy nstonished ihe vyorld bv of its members at its latest sittings. The 1 deedt-tnd ft mank.nd an instance principal Plenipoteutaries were ejected of bravery and enterprise worthy of reto leave Paris in a few cars. crt' . , ... The steamers Tartar and Öosperate.; We. too, however, have crossed the searched separately for the Pacific. The S 'Rubicon'-the great 'Father of aiers Tartar having proceeded as far west ns which for centums has rolled on m:o the

longitude 2d, latitude 55. Guns were C ' firtd every two hours during the day. Capt. Dunlop is confident the Pacific can't be south of latitude 53. With regard to the Paris Conference, the correspondent of the Post says the telegraphs are constantly employed on the Italian question between Rome, Na ples, Vienna and Paris. Count Cavours' proposition had been referred to those Courts, and Franco and England will make the decision. A journal of the proceed ings of the Congress is to ba published. Tbe Commission of Austrian and Russian officers for the adjustment of the Moldaviau frontier, is in Paris now awaiting orders. It is, now said that Aus tria has yielded to the remonstrances of the Congress and agreed to evacuate the Principalities. Turkey shows great anxiety to be relieved of the presence of the Allies. Omer Pacha had been restored to favor. A French expedition against Madagascar has been decided upou. Permission will be sought to send troops through Egypt and it is 6aid the Emperor will visit Algiers. The question of the settlement of the Sound Dues make no progress, and will probably lie over until it is known what action the United States will take. The energies of the Russian Government it is said will now be devoted to three objects, viz: an alliance with France, the completion of great Railways, and a diffusion of Russian feeling on the continent, especially in Germany. Steamer Lost Great Loss of Life. . Boston, April 25. . Advices from Gibralter announce tbe total loss of the screw, steamer Minho, from Liverpool to Barcelona, she having come in contact with the transport ship Milden, of Teneriffe. The Minho was sunk. ' Out of 185 souls on beard, only 21 escaped. The Captain is said to have gone down with his vessel. Mr. Bcehanan's Eeftptlon. - New York, April 25. '" The Levee of Mr. Buchanan in the City Hall, this morning, was attended by a large assemblage, comprising our most prominent Merchants, Bankers, and citizens generally. Mayor Wood made a brief speech in presenting an engrossed copy of the complimentary resolutions of the City. Council, to which Mr. 'Buchanan ma la a felicitous respoöse.

irriral or ILc riiarlcs Morgan. Later fhom Cektbal America. New Orleans. April 23, The steamer Chas. Morgan has arrived at this port, with San Juan dates to the 16th inst. The Orizaba arrived at San Juai on the 16th, auJ landed 125 passengers. The defeat of Col. Schlessinge is confirmed. Fifty men were hilled in the engagement. The causo is attributed solely to the gross ill conduct of Schlessinger. The remnant of his party had arrived at Ricas. Schlessinger had not taken a single precaution against surprise, although within tho enemy's country, and on the field his conduct was so cowardly that dpt. Thrope was obliged to face hirn with pistols and threaten to blow his brains out. His cowardice had created o panic, and the men became dispirited. The curses vented against Schlessinger by the returned forces are loud and deep. Capt. Thrope is a passenger by the Morgan. He reports that Walker is in a good position and in prosperous circumstances, receiving large accessions to his forces. Another battle hod taken place at Arcapeka. between 140 of Walker's rryn, under Capt. Baldwin, and 200 Costa Ricans, in which the latter were

defeated with 30 killed. Baldwin lost 2 killed. From Nicaragua. New Orleans. April 23. The following additional items of intelligence from Nicaragua are contained in letters received by the arrival of the steamer Chas. Morgan. Parktr H. French has left San Juan and gone to Aspinwall, in consequence of a quarrel with General Walker Walker is reported to be at the head of seven hundred men, end is marching to meet the Costa Rican army, which it is said is invading-the Nicaragua. The documents received, however, are meager and unreliable. MH--a,iin From Washington. Washington, April 23. The Ins, steamer brought dispatches addressed by the Spanish Minister of Foreign Relations to our Minister at Madrid, in reply to demands roado at different limes for redress iu the matter of firing into and detaining the steamer El Dorado by the 'Spanish man-of-war Ferolano. The Spanish Government most decidedly, but courteously, refnses to comply with the wishes of our government, and the Minister argues that, according to the law ol nation?, the commander of the Ferolano did nothing more than the peculiar circumstances at that time in the neigh borhood oi Havana justified. KcccptiGii of Sr. B'dfltanan.j New York, April 23. Mr." Buchanan was receiveil'by a joipt committe of the Common Council, and welcomed as the guest of the city, and afterwards escorted to the Everett House. He will receive his frienJs at the Governor's Room at the City Hall. He declined a public dinner, and will leave for Philadelphia Monday a.4M. Correspondence oTtlie Chicago Tress. The Mississippi River Crossed by the Iron Horse. Davesp rt, Iowa, April 229 A. M. When Caesar with his legnns crossed the Rubicon, which divides Cisalphine Gaul from Italy, he wnsaware of the greatness of the woik he was engaged inborn! although many attempted to dissuade him from such an undertaking, yet noth. r 1 DOSOm lliC ""S"1 " " i I ! ... r r- r Trt Hnir s o Ilia in mar lis inexicaa. v u.ii una mw mighty deed been accomplished at which the. world has so often smiled in derision. Yes. the Mississippi is praciically no more. It is spanned by the mighty artery of commerce und enterprise the railroad. Science ha3 stretched its arm across - i 1 1 the over flowing Mississippi and along; its finely-knit muscles has the 'iron horse'! bounded with a heavy snort as it scents' from afar tho sluggish waters of the Missouri. The mission of Caisar of old was to conquer, so is that of the Caesar of the nineteenth century; but the latter is one of peace and plenty. The 'war horse of civilization miy have fiery nostrils, but it has also an olive brunch, the seeds from which it scatters as it (lies. That such an event shou'd have occurred without an assemblage of spectator from all quarters of the globe to witness it, is only another instance of the mighty progress which has been made within the last fifty years in the science of bridge building.. As we approached Rock Island, there were rumors afloat that we would cross to Iowa on the new bridge. 'Cross the Mississippi on a bridge! 'On a bridge?' 6'trapered a feminine voice from a young lady to her parents, bound for Couneil Bluffs; 'why, Pa. I thought the Mississippi was a great river, larger than the Hudson.' So silently had this progressed, that while half the world has been asleep, genius has been spanning the mightiest river on the globe, and connecting two as magnificent sections of territory as the 6un ever shone on. . Swiftly we sped along the iron track Rock Island appeared in sight the whistU sounded and the conductor cried out. 'Passengers for Iowa keep their seats. There was a pause a hush as it were, preparatory to the fierceness of a tornado. The cars moved on the bridge was reached 'We' on the bridge see the mighty Mississippi rolling on beneath' and all eves were fastened on the mighty parapets of the magnificent bridge over which we glided in solemn silence. A few minutes and tha suspended breath was let loose. 'We're over was the cry, 'we have crossed the Mississippi in a railroad car. - Mrs. Gaines has instituted suit in the U. S. Circuit Court of Louisiana against T. D. de la Croix, who. as one of the exccutors of the late Daniel Clark, has ap propriated to himself seventy-five slaves which were bequeathed to her by the de ceased.

MtiAflCHOLT Casualty. Yesterday afternoon, about two o'clock, a most heart

rending occurrence took place at the West end of the village, through the explosion of a boiler, in the machine-shop of Lovett Eames, by which two persons were horribly killed, nnd a third frightfully mutilated. The facts, as near as we could ascertain them, were as follows: Through carelessness, or some other cause it is thought tho water in the botler had got so low, that the first jet of cold water that was let in, caused an in stantaneous and terrible explosion. The boiler was lifted, bodily, some fifteen feet from its bed and thrown to the distance of seven rods fiom the building, carrying away ceilings, timbers and roof of the portion in which it was located. Mr. C. P. Newton, who was in the blacksmith shop, one story above and some twenty feet to the East of the boiler, was found prostrated beside the bellows at which he was emyloyed when the accident occurred, dead, with the upper part of his skull carried away. Mr. Parmlee was found upon his hands and knees, the blood flowing from his head and face. A heavy piece of scantling was thrown far from the shop across the yard, and 6truck a young man named Joel Turner, who with young Goodrich, was walking hy at the moment of the catastrophe. Turner survived but a few minutes. The block must have passed immediately over the head of young Goodrich, es he was between the building and Turner, when the latter was struck in the furehead, breaking the frontal bone. Hopes are entertained for the recovery of Parmlee. The jury of Inquest had not rendered the verdict at the time of our going to press. Kalamazoo Telegraph. Walker's Force in Central America. A letter from Grenada in the New Orleans Delta, gives the following ns a correct list of the number of men in the ser vice of Gen. Walker, in Central America, capable of doing duty! At Grenada, Col. Frye's command numbers At Leon, Col. Skerreti's At San Carlos. Capt. Linton's At CrfStolie, Lieut. Baldwin's At Chinedaga, Lieut. Cil. Saunder's At Rivas, Major Brewater's At Maysa, Capt. Averat's Convalescents in hospital. 247 353 65 9S 115 147 91 27 Total 1,262 besides a corpse in Grenada composed of Quartermasters and Commissary clerk, citizens, etc., numbering 130 men. It is further stated that fresh troops to tha number of one thousand are already on the way nnd the next steamer will bring us tha intelligence that Walker has two thousand of the best fighting mm in the world under his banners. With such a force he can defy all Central America. Tue Kansas-Nebraska Bill. For the benefit of a reader of the Gazette, nni allothetsVho do not understand what is meant by the Ndbraska swindle, it may be well enough to staleThat when the Stato of Missouri was admitted into the Uuiou, a compromise was agreed upon, between the North nnd ihe South, in Congress, that slavery should not be extended further north thanthe latitudinal line of forry-six degrees and thirty minutes. This agreement, or compromise, known as the 'Missouri Compromise,' 'Missouti Restriction,' &c, was made in 1820; and up to 1851 2 was considered, by ihe great nias9 of the people, as a final settlement of the question of the extension of slavery at least, so far ns lhat tetrritory north of that line was forever sacred to freedom that this agreement debarred slavery from ever coming there. But when Mr. Douglas, in his (capacity as Chairman of the Committee on Territories, accepted the amendment to the bill for the organization of the Teriitory of Kansas and Nebraska, (proposed by Mr. Dixon, of Kentucky,) to repeal and abrogate this compact, or agreement between the ISorih and the South upou this question of slavery, it was then denounced in Congress as a swindle and a fraud, because of the good faith of the two sections of tho Union was pledged to maintain ine agreement or compact. And since the hill, repealiug this compromise, became a law, it has been denounced as a swindle, a fraud, and iniquity throughout the entire North. This law was unjust, uncalled for without thetonsent or desire of the people, and they are now demanding the repeal of the clause abrogating the Compromiso. Hokrible Tragedy is Louisiana a Husband Huno bt his Wife. NatchiGtches (La.) phonicle of the 22d ult., gives an account of the murder of John Rodrigo by his wife and her paramour, Matthew Bresente. The Chronicle says: Rodrigo having what he thought just grounds to suspect h:s wife's fidelity, threatened to bring her to n sense of virtue. For this she had him bound over to keep the peace. The paramour of the bad woman then contrived the idea of getting rid of the husband. A few nights afterwards he and the wife seized Rodii. go while asleep, and after binding him hand and foot, dragged him about a mile from the house, where placing a rope around his neck, in spite of his prayers and 6hrieks for mercy; they hung him and beat him to death with a slick. After the guilty parties had succeeded in killing their uulortunate victim, they covered the body. Bresente has confessed his guilt. Mason and Dixon's Line" Oricn or the Phrase. In the 17th century, James II, of England, then the Duke of York, Jre certain lands to Lord Baltimore and to William Penn, and a difficulty soon sprang up as the proper owner of these lands on tbe Delaware. Again and again was the affair carried into the Courts, till in the year 1760, when George HI came, to the crown, the Lord Chancel lor made. a decision; but new difficulties sprang up in drawing the boundary lines. The commissioners finally employed Messrs. Mason 6c Dixon, who had Just returned from the Cape of Good Hope, where they had been to observe the transit of Venus. . They succeeded in establishing the line between Delaware and Marylard, which has eTer since been qalled "Mason and Dixon's Jjnr.

Chicago Prices Current Wednesday, April 23. The past week has been one of marked activity in almost every branch of business. The amount of dry goods. Groceries, boots, shoes, hat?, caps, clothing nnd hardware sold is enormous. The weather hns been verv favorablo for out door

transactions, which have been heavy. Largo consignments of grain nnd rolling and other freighls have been received from the canal during Ihe week. j In the market there is not much movement to notice in anr of the sia. r . . rdes. Monev matters are. if possible. ; more stringent than heretofore, though j the banks are discounting to some extent to their reeular customers. iSavipation i is fairly open upon the Lake, the first propeller started Sunday last for the lower lakes. Flour. In consequence of the unsettled state of tho market, we aro unable to eire any but nominal quotations. No sales of shipping lots have been made during the week, although offers to sell have been plenty. One offer was made of 11.000 bbls from Iowa, but not at rates which would leave a margin between j Ulis and the Eastern market. I Wheat. On Monday thero was a sale of a cargo of 14,000 bushels spring for ! freight at 81,21al22 on board, and which j was'refrnrded ns below the market, hold, i -- - o ers generauyasking St.za. Keceipts are comparatively light, and all that can be said is. the market closes firm at rur quotations for both milling and shipping. Corn. There have been a few cargo sales during the week at 37Jc on board from May to July, and some sales afloat at 30u37c, closing at about the latter fig- j uro, with few buyers or sellers. ! Oats. The demand for Oats, both for j the home and shipping is better. Sles j do not reach any high figures; 27c is paid j to store, and 30c is offered on board, with small sales to stables at 3032c. In other grain no change. Grand Buffalo Hunt. A company I has been formed in Minesota, for an in cursion among the Buffalos, about 150 miles west of St. Cloud. About thirty young men are already engaged for this expedition, among whom

are some of the most experienced hunters forgotten the rising generation. As they in the north-west. There are also engag- j must eventually tnke the places which d to accompany the party the renownedwe now hold, will it be eskir.g too much Chief of the Chippawa nation, Hole in-j to b stow some of the articles on the son?, the-Day, and twelve of his men also i which now in your papers Brc directed to Hon. Joseph Rolette, Hon. Chas. Grant, filhcrs. The greater part of the youriaf Hon. C. Burdick, of Pembina. men of cur country are farmers sons; Those proposing to join the company! huw important that they should havoth-ir will each want a good rifle, and hunting I minds set upon the subject. When the

knife, a horse and blanket, and to each party of five persons a horse loaded with commissary supplies, and a tent and man to take charge of them. The parly will on their excursion visit the great Sali Region of Minnesota. There has bepn engaged as guide for the expedition, the celebrated Pierre Bottineau, who was guide to Gov. Stephens' Pacific Railroad Expedition. The company am to stnrt about the 5 h of June, and are to be gone several weeks. Thosejwishiug to join are referred to Hon. Alex. Ramey,SL Paul. Chicago Jour. DitEArruL Casualty. On Saturday afternoon the wifo of Thomas Gregory, residing in Quincy, 111., was discovered by her husband, upon his return from work, lying upon the floor in a dying condi lion, her clothes burnt off her. with the exception of a small remnant ihen bhtziag. and her body, from head to foot, com pletely charred the flesh in many places burnt to the very bones. Mimical ai was promptly secured, but the poor suf ferer was beyond the reach of human skill. She lingered for several hours in extreme agony, vha' death put an end to hor tortures. The cause of this most dreadful Bffjir can only be surmised. The deceased was in the habit of smoking a pipe, and it is supposed that a spark from tho pipe fellupon her clothes and ignited them, and, being frightened, she fainted before she could elarm the neighbors, Mrs. G. was about fifty years of age. Dr. Heniz, of Florida, son of the late lamented Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, is on a visit to New York. The Mirror understands that the family of Mrs. Hentz feel aggrieved at the conduct of a Philadelphia publisher, who has scraped toge'.her a number of Mrs. Hentz's sketches and published them as 4,a uew work by that gifted authoress." The 6word worn by Napoleon Bonaparte at the battle of Marengo, in 1800. was purchased by the Emperor Nocholas, in 1850, just half a century after that eventful and bloody battle, for the enormous sum of thirty-two thousand dollars. Memory of a Magpie. A lady who caught her magpie stealing her pickled walnuts, threw a htfsln of hot grease over the poor bird, exclaiming: "Oh, you thief! you've been at the pickled walnuts, have you?" Poor Mag was dreadfully burned. His feathers came off, leaving his head entirely bare. He lost all spirit, and spoke not a word for more than a year, when a gentleman called at the house, who, on taking off his hat,, exhibited a bald head. The magpie appeared evidently struck with the circumstances. Hopping upon the back of his chair, and looking him hastly over, he suddenly exclaimed in the ear of his astonished visitor! "Oh, you thief! you've been at the pickled walunts, have you?" TheyGIre it Tp. The Kansas Herald of Freedom, published Qt Topeka, the very hot-bed and head quarters of Freesoilisrn in Kansas, after enumerating a multitude of reasons showing the impossibility of Kansas being a slave State, says: ;"And yet thero are people fools enough to think it is possible that Kansas will be a a'ave State!" ' No sensible person thinks so, and no demagogues will say so after the - next Presidential election. Hon. Henry S. Lane has informed the Crawfordsville Journal that he will deliver an oratiou on Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson, in compliance with the request of his friends, at some future davi not yet fixed, r r. ; '

Farmer's Sons, When the farmer's son arrives a; o certain ago, he is much too apt to forsake the callings of his fathers, and seek for wealth behind tho counter of the merchant. He sees that if he" works as his father hes done bo will not be rich, and with praiseworthy intentions he seeks

some other employment in which he 'can wield a greater influence and make his name mere widely known. - Iu the oI,v .voulh he looks only upon the

im.-!'" u,e ol " picture, an-i lets health ! happiness, and domestic comfort bo

' ..nirttiaft rlnirn in tlio KultmAA lt.. n1 1 . t i v'iiiit "villi lit uoiiauvu ujr gum l"at magic tajisman of the world. If his brightest prospects are realized he retires "um uusiurss, im iura nun eis wn and children in the country. Upon his i children are marks of sickuesp, and he of. i ten wonders why his children should be so sickly, while .his country neighbor's ! are so strong and active. Easily may he I find the answer in his own bad health and nervous temperament. Often does it happen that the rich merchant ends his days miserably, in spite of his wealth. vainly regretting iha! he spent health and happiness lor the accumulation of a few ihousand dollars. Young farmers! stand to your plows, and if dangn threaten and if difficult. s come lick uPon TOU. your own broad shoulders will bear tfiem: your stout teams will pull you through. Are yo-i ambitious? what a wide field is open for your talents end energy. You may not lay by as much money as the merchant; but if health, happiness end domestic comforts are wealth, you will have a boundless store, a piiceless treasure. Whal can vnu Form that will please your Maker more than to render this flh fruitful? Whore on earth would ,vou rr,lher sPemI vour lire lI,3n i t! country, surrjundtd by God's best gifts. and holding converse with Him through the flowers, the einging birds and babbling brooks? Young men! your country call? loudly for your talents and enterprise; if you htcd her call and put forth all your onergit s, you can make her the greatest Agricultural Nation ia the world. Ia reading your valuable paper, 1 find that among the many things to which you have to direct your attention, you have glorious work shall bo completed, exalt ed'will be the condition cf the Plow Bov. r The fate of the Pacific being row pretty certain, and but little probability nf any on board hiving been saved to lell th 8tory of the catastrophe, the spiritualists are revrBÜng all the circumstances of hrr loss, wi'h the cirrumstanijality of a peany a liner. . Safett of the Bishof. -Bishop O'Riely, reported as passenger on the ill -fair J Pacific, arrived homo iu the last trip of the Cambria, The anniversary of the Missionary Society of the Meihoiist Ericopal Church, South, will take place in Si. Louis, May 4ih, 5ih and G;h. A book lately published in Frane states that the numter of suitMes coiomitted in Paris since the commencement of this century exceeds three hundred Ihousand. Tho steamship Persia left New Y'crk on Wednesday last for Liverpool, with 227 passengers, and about 6500,000 in specie. The people of Scoiland are said to ba almost unanimously opposed to anything like war between the United States and Great Britain. On the 17th ult., by Rev. Wm. Reeder. Mr. Robert Lindsay and Miss Susasah EvanS, all of this county. Also, on the 23d ult., by the same. Mr. T. B. Thompson, our good-natured Depu. ty Sheriff, and Miss Susanah Morgan, all of this p'.ace. Thar, fÄar Blackburn his been deputy long enough, and has acted wisely in his determination to be the principal. City Drug Store. IVilson V Andrew, keep con. stantly on hand, a splendid assortment of pare Drugs &. Chemicals, paints, Oils, Varnishes, &c. Also, a good assortment of Toys and Fancy Goods, a: the City Drug Store, one door West of the Laporte Hotel, Laporte, ind March i27, 1853. ly-i Seek JVo Further But come to THE UEQÜLATOfl WHERE YOU WILL FIND THE First arrival of New Goods, Opened for Spring Trade. OETRY is sometimes used when the attention of the public is earnestly sought, but as Hank's "Alasheen" is out of order at present, we will invite you, in plain and simple language, to Call and see the STYLES, 1 t " T". nnl.in -. 1 . - ' auu compare uun i Lb wun waai you. have formerly paid. Wc intend to sell Oar Goods are selected by one who has had an experience of ninctkks tears, which mast give him a decided advantage over those buy ers wno are uui pusicu, aim uui cuswjriers shall have the benefit of this experience. We will not attempt to enumerate articles, but merely say that we shall try to keen Every thing' that is needed THE LADIES on find anything they wish, from a twenty dollar silk dress to a cambric needle. THE GENTLEMEN can have every want supplied, from the crown of the head to, the so'eof the foot. " " REMEMBER that we are not to be undersold I Once more we urge you to come and see ua at the old stand of Westervelt & Ilewett. . , J. E. WESTERVELT CO; Sfay 1, 1S5- r -' 3