Plymouth Weekly Banner, Volume 5, Number 22, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 September 1856 — Page 1

r i . . k . fvsf I rt 1 -i ' A Family Newspaper Devoted to Education, Agriculture, Commerce,' Markets, General Intelligence, Foreign and Domestic News. PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1856. WHOLE NO. 230. VOL. 5. WO. 22.

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From the New York Evening Post.

Sooth Carolina to hrr Sons. To arms, my children, up and do! By Northern speakers shamed; Your orators are weak ahd few, Your couiage is untamed. Too long the brave palmetto State Has had its feelings wrung, Too long unanswered n debate Has Sumner "switched his tongue." The land that brings forth one Cajuoun Exhausts its crop of brains, Bnt you have bowie-knives instead, And gutta-per cha cants. If I have made your "skulls too think, I've given you ready "Tiands," And there is virtue in a stick - Youx country understands! Your planter, ignorant as a lord. The field-hand dull and low. All comprehend with one accord The logic of a blow! Then grasp youi gutta-percha clubs, J rr roach with ucrrr tskad Don't acvK with the caitiff wretch, Bt KXOCK HIM ON THE HEAD! Got. Wright 'of InJijina. Our readers will reracmbar that on the 17th of last month the Buchansn party of Indiana held . ratification meeting in Indianapolis. A number of Kentuckians happened to be in attendance, and from one of them, & man of unquestion ed veracity, we learn that the gentleman whose name heads this article made a la bored argument to prove that the Demo cratic farty was not, as the Republicans charged, in favor of the extension, 6itf teas in reality the only true freedom par ty in the country. Said Gov. Wright, "1 the policy of the Democratic party in reference to slaver j is adopted and carried out, bot another fooT or slave TERRITORY WILL BE ADDED TO Till ÜHITED STATES." ; We 4are the Kentucky friends of Gov ernor Wright to deny that he made this statement. We can substantiate it by undoubted testimony. The position of Gov. Wright's is similar to that of Mr Groesback, of Cincinnati, an old line Democrat, who, in a recent speech at that place, used in substance this lan guage: MWe all desire freedom for Kansas, and wa feel that ahe' will be. admitted into the Union aa a free State, whether the election falls to Buchanan or Fre mont. The remarks of Mr. Groesbeck were reported in the Cincinnati Enquirer, of the 4 lb of July. Do not these positions of prominent Nothern Democrats sustain us in the charge we hare already made that thr principle of squatter sovereignty, whicl the Northern Democracy everywhere maintain, is practically the vilest species of Abolitionism? will Southern men never open their eyes to the falsity and hypocrisy of the assertion of Southern Democrats that their Drethem in the North ar true frienda of the South? We warn Southern men of the Tips they are cursing in their bosoms. We warn mem irom amuation wun men who advocate a principle which "John C. Calhoun and Wm. King denounce. aa worse than Wilmot Provisoi6m. Louisville Journal, A correspondence of the Whealis Tim jayjr Will'yöü please publish Xhe above that tho Southern Democracy may see what a fix they are liWly to be in. The Legislature of Virginia, and tile Deimniti-Jiutt f the Crrqut " rar were fierce in denouncing the Squat ter principle of Gen. Cass. Is it more palatable when advocated by Buchanan, lie is the Cincinnati platform, and the platform is squatter sovereignty, which Calhoun said was nurse than Wilmot Provisoism. . One plank of the Cincinnati platform has been taken out entirely, I mean thot one which ignored internal improvement by Congress. But old Buck is not disheartened at all, he can now be seen astride this gap, one side of bis face looking South, the other, with the lame or squinted eye, with a rmile at the North, with it'a all right. , Gen. Cass was one of the first to laud the platform, and was first to draw out this lost plank. If thia does not open the eyes of Southern Democracy, I know not what wilt This is not all.' It seems that th whole of the public lands are to be given to a few. individuals, under the plea of granting lands to railroads. It is time these stupendous frauds should cesse; iu fct they should naver have existed, and Pierce, whilst he . vetoes internal improvements when mon ey is appropriated, signs the mos.t ob noxious and fraudulent land grants, as if Congress had the power to do the great er evil, and not the lesser. ; Is not the no&itioa of prominent Northern Democrats euouh to open the eyes of Sontbern Dsbocrscyt You msy res,t assured you are embrac ing a vipsi that trill stirj'you if you eltvste Juchicsato tj Htzzli'tncji v

I truß: there is bolh North and South

conservatism enough to rally and defeat so dangerous a candidate, by electing and once more trusting the model Poeßident, Millard Fillmore. ilounrfsriZJe (Va.) American' irngkm III 1 - England Urging the Sale of Cuba. . Wasmbgton, August 8. Movements of the highest importance in reference to the interests of the United States are now on foot in Europe, growing, in.part, out of the assumed de signs of Napoleon III, upon Spain. I may ' state, upon information' not questionable that the British government have again urged upon the government of Spain the expediency of the salo and cession of Cuba to the United States. I say again, too, pending the Ostend conference, the British government favored this measure.- But now, in view of the ambitious, project of Napoleon HI for the assertion of pretensions to the crown of Spain, that- government has become exceedingly anxious to strengthen Spain, by cutting off her expensive and useless appendage of Cuba, and by the same means to enable Spain to improve her provinces, and be better enabled to sc cure her independence against domestic insurrection and foreign invasion. If Napoleon succeeded in his intrigues, he will extend his empire over both Spain and Cuba, and this attempt is nnc e&sarily to be resisted by England, at the hazzard of a war with France a war in which she will gladly have the United States as an ally. The transfer of Cuba to any foreign power the United S'.ales have been pledged to resist ever since the administration of Mr. Momoe. The Biitish government have rrpre sented to the late government of Espartero, and the present administration of O'Donnell, that Spain cannot long retain possession of Cuba against the United States, lor a proper consideration a hun dred or a hundred ' nnd -fifty millions of dollars and thus improve her physical and political condition. Napoleon III has on the other handj concentrated a large foic onthe Spanish frontier, and is actively engaged in intrigue with the queen mother, Christiana, whose malign influence is deeply felt in the affairs of Spain. A rupture between England and France is to be apprehended on this subjrct ni an early day; meanwhile England seeks to conciliate the United Slates by removing every possible cause of disagreement, and the two countries may be soon compelled to make common cause against the designs of France in re gard to Spain and Cuba. " ai .- . a - - Brooks at the South. Col. Brooks wts sworn in to day, nnd received the congratulations of h;s friends. While it the Virginia White Sulphur Springs, Col. Brooks was quite a lion, hating to undergo an introduction to several hundred gues:?. When leaving he called for his bill, and was informed that his Gnancial matters had been- attended to by iheguestfif nd that a private carrtage and niTescort awaited him without. The ladies wared their handkerchiefs in honor of South Carolina .and ber "chivalrous' representative. Cor. of N. Y. Herald. So, the ruffian who admitted that he was afraid to attack Sumner until he could do so at an advantage, nnd whose cowardly conduct has been hissed from Maine to Texas by sensible people, and who hsj crowned his cowardice by back ing out of a fight he himself invited, is cheered and kissed by Southern ladies, and his expense paid by Southern gentlemen. We may be sure now that ho is a choice specimen of the chivalry cultivated by slavery. State Journal. Mr. Bnchanan' Opposition lo Farcisncrs. ' Had the following sentiments been uttered by Mr. Buchanan within the last two years, he might bnye been put down as a very good Know Nothing: 'The greater part of those foreigners who would be affected by it have long been the warmest frienda - of tho Democtatic pariy. They have been one of the. great means of elevating the present ruling party, and it would have been ungrateful for that party to have abandoned them. Tosecure this FOREIGN FEELING HAS BEEN THE IAB0R OF THEIR LEADERS (the Democratic) FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS, and well have they been paid for their irouble fcr it has been . one of, the principal causes of introducing-and communing them in power. Immediately before the war, this foreign influence had completely embodied itsel( with the majority, particularly ': at the West, arid ita voice was heard. "so loud at the fsat of Government that (resident Madison was oblid to" yield;

to its dictates and retire from office, j

The choice was easily made by a mnn I who preferred his private, interests to tho ! public good, Biiu therefore huriied us irr-j o-a war utterly unprepared. - ' - We ought to uso every exertion to turn out of power Ihose weak ami wicked men whose wild and - visionary schemes , have been tested and. found warning.' j Above all we ought to dbive from our j shores r UnlMuUiN ii r Lux4vri, jlu CHERISH AMERICAN FEELING; 1 foreign influence has been in EVER age THE CURSE OF REPUBLICS. Its JAUNDICED EVE SEES EVEI1YUODY IN FALSE I colors the thick ATMOSPHERE of PREj- j udice by which it is ever SURROUNDED, '

EXCLUDING FROM ITS. SIGHT THE the glorious but ' unpixying business of LIGHT OF REASON. Let us then learn makii;g Kansas a Slave Staie. Ho colwisdom from experience. AND FOR ; lccted a compnuy of nearly ihree hunEVER BANISH THIS FIEND FROM (jIP(i mpn. whose exnenses to theTerrito-

OUR SOCIETY." The Slave Trade. j We have over and over cgain called public attrntiou to the lact that trie SlaveTrade, in spile of all the laws! against it,' is actively and constantly carriea on from the ports of New-xoik and . , . , , "... . . . ' Baltimore. ro one familiar with ihe' . ., . . . details of tho shipping business in this , . . . . . , j Vlijr is igliviaut vi iti lie icicut itu lalions in our Courts of law place it be yond controversy. Scores of vessels . fitted out here ostensibly for some of the t obscure ports of Cuba or South America, atari for the coast of Africa, take in car oncK n I slaves, anil, in finite of laws, cru- , '! i u 5 iseis.and Government oflkuls, land them : ' in Cuba, where the market is always j open. The extraordinary precautions' which the hazards of the voyage render necessary, increase, incalculably the sufferings of the poor wretches who are thus brought over. . But avarice blinds men to all thoughts of humanity, and men can always be fouud here in New York ready to furnish the capital fur such adventures, and to load their souls with tha awful responsibility for such agonies and murders, in consideration of the profits they hope to'rcnp! . 'While the great aim and object of our Government is to extend Slavery into Kansa?, and make it permanent aud par amount in the tfTiiis of this Republic, it wculd be folly to hope for any attention in that quarter to this great and growing infamy. It has been proposed already in ihe Senate of the Unittd Sinlcs, to repeal the laws against the Slave Trade, to get rid of these restrictions upon the extension of Slavery, just as those which kept it out of Kansas were got rid of by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise; When the Slavery oligarchy feels strong enough, this measure will undoubtedly be pushed to consummation: and meantime the' Government will wink at the evasions of the law, and make uo effort to. strike at the root of iht evil itself. The Londou Tine in an article, says that no hope of its cefsatiou can bo eiiteruined s j long as Cuba continues to afford a slave maikel. We believe this io be true: and we believe that-it is, therefore, tb'-J,""r our Govejjimiit,TrTcönnection with ihe"'other nations of the civilized world, to make such steps as shall close that market effectually and forever. N. V. Tribune. Tee Last. Yet another disgraceful outrage has been perpetrated at Washington Or, (as perhaps the admirers of Preston S. Brooks will say.) another Southern Replesentative has displayed his chivalry in the vindication of the honor of his, po litical mother. A Southern con6iituency may again be called upon to vote goldheaded canes to the author of so gallant' .. . A iiuiv at ..as u LJ ui'J UK1IJ,' Mr. Oranger, of New York, whom a chiv alrous Virginian, Mr.-McMullen, under took to beat. Both parties, according to the telegraphic accounts, were riding in an omnibus, and, while there, commenced conversing on political topics. Mr. McMullen boasled, after the manner of sectionalism, that the South would not submit to Col. Fremont'ß election if that event should take place. Mr. -Granger replied that they would be made to sub vnit. To this expression of opinion the Virginian responded by blows; Even the gray hairs of his opponent were no protection to him. It is imposiible.to say to what extent the excited feelings' of Mr. McMullen might have led him iu his onslaught. He was happily checked by the interference of the passengers : after he had struck Mr; Granger twice cnd considerably, bruised his face. The outrage is worthy of being placed in the same record with the murders and assaults that have so lately preceded it. They will all make a bright catalogue by which the . existence of, the late session of Congress will - be chiefly recognized j and remembered hereafter.' Bah! The ' people are disgusted" with such1 scenes,1 and will endure them no Ionger.! There': will be a change soon. And it; i time that there should be one. I I . . -." Times. -,

itlajor Buford-

It appears from the St. Louis IVeirs that the gallant commander of Soulhern chivalry, who was in at the sacking of j Lawrence, has not succeeded very well ;in Kansas. He has gone home disgusted. Kansas does not pay. Conquering the Territory is, after nil. a costly business, The slave power will find, perhaps that freedom is not to be put down without ai.i, cumu, - and defeats. The News has the following in regard to the disappointed Major: TL !-.' I.I X.'. - -1 J A IIIS grHUCIIiaii bUlU Ulb piau la nuu lu Alabama, and invested the proceeds, amounting to something like $50,000, in iy he paid, having first entered into a written apreement with' each member, individually by the terms of which, his men wee tQ pre.empl a claim of ,anJ in Kansa?, and mortgage it to their commander, to secure the money hi advanc ed' to them. All promised well, and . , , . . . . . MJor liuford flattered himself with the , prospect lhat ins Alabama plantation ' - . .. would be the means of securing to him a hundred or more Kansas farms, worth a d zen times as much as the one he pari fast w Vi Ttnf Via c r r n ftititiA t Ii n fininfT 0 - D io uisiant ierriiories to maintain tne rights of the South, is not just what it seems to be. M.-tjor Buford passed through this city, not lone ao on his , , ' ...... - ktr t A.I'kYi'B -v- t. ,1 o r- ,1 that Via vc way to Alabama, and it is said that he is 0 disgusted with' the Kansas business that he will have, nothing more to do with it. He tried lo get his men to settle on pre emption claims and become steady citizens, so as to secure him for the sums of money he had paid out to them. But the men could not be induced to do it. They preferred roving over ihe country in 'organized bands, depending upon their too hospitable frifnds in Kcnsus und Missouri for the means of support. These fiiends are becoming tired of them and no doubt desire their departure. They have done nothing for themselves, nothing for their commander, and nothing for the cause of the South in Kansas. l'ro-SIavcry Iics. Henry Ward Beecher in the last dependent speaks truly nnd eloquently of the "shower of lies heaped on Fremont, and we commend what he saya to our friei.ds, and all others: This campaign is to be one of eminent and abounding falsehood. It will rain end hail lies. They will come like gnats and locusts, like frogs and murrain. Let no man be alarmed. Col, Fremont from this time till November will walk in a storm of fire and brimstone, and nothing will provent his being consumed but llint which preserved Shadrach, Meshnch and Abednego. God will pr- ' serve him. It is a" matter of gra"ltlon lhat we have at le' aTnan presented "fur ihe Presidency, of scrupulous honor, of manly bearing, of incorrupt mcrals, of a he roic spirit, young, enterprising, proved in danger, "of an excellent judgment, "of great sagacity in practical affairs," remarkable for capacity to command, and for habits of self-command, and above all, an unworn, unhackneyed politician. He is an honest man, and he is not a supple politician. Against such an one thero can be brought no political charges, no broken promises, no tergiversations, no conduct j supple, evbsive, unmanly, dishonest. He has no feuds, no party commitments, i .- t t, i no political enmities. -He is a clear, fresh, able, honest, heroic man, ' Let us try how it will seem again to see such a man President of these United States. Therefore, let Christians pray for him; let all men work;-' let lies . breed and swarm, and buzz and die, like mosquitoes iu n morass, ' but let every true man go right . straight forward; talking, spreading papers, rearoniug and persuading, and then let November" be the" judgment day of a faithless, treaty-breaking, slave-spreading 'party. ' - iwnii , .. Buch a nan's Vote to Pwiflethe Mails! U. S. Senate, Wednesday, . June 8, 1836. Oa motion of Mr. Calhoun, the bill to prevent the circulation of incendiary publications touching the subject of Slavery) in the mail, was taken up on its third reading. , , , ' , ; . The bill was losl on its passage by the following vote; Yeas Messrs. Black. . Brown, BUCHANAN, Calhoun, Culhbert, Kins of Alabama. Kine of Georsia, Mangum. Moore, Nicholas, Porter, Prestou, Rives, Robinson, Tallmadge, Walker Wright White 19, ' ' Navs Messrs. BENTON, Clay, Crittenden, Davis,' Ewing'of Illinois, Ewing of Ohio. Goldsborouth. Hendricks. Hub' t bard, - Kent,; Knightt M'Kean, j Leigh,

Morris, Naudian, Nales. Treuuss, Ruggles Shepley, Southard, . Swift, Tomlinson, Tipton, Wall. Webster 25. It will be seen that Mr. Buchanan was truer to Slavery and its despotic demands than several leading Southern Senators, among them Clay, Benton, Crittenden. Leigh, of Virginia. Goldsborough and Kent of Maryland. Every one understands what is ment by "incendiary writings." .They include every speech or publication which ques tions the morality or lawfulness of Slavery. All such publications could, at theldiscretion of a South Carolina" postmaster, ba burned or destroyed, without consulting the parly to whom they were addressed. The Kansas laws on this subject, copied, we believe in this,-as in other cases, from these of Missouri, punish with fine nnd imprisonment the circulation of any writing which ques tions the rali lity of Slavery in the Territory. National Era,

Sectios ai Partv. Gen. Wm. O. Butler, in a letter dated CarroKton, July 22J, and published in a Louisville paper, says: That party has,' therefore, properly assumed the right to its leadership, aud in conjunction with a portion of the old line Whigp, has preecnted as its 6landard-bearers the Hon. James Buchanan, of the old Keystone State, and the Hon, JohnC. Breckinridge, of Kentucky. I know them well, and congratulate the country on their nomination. They want no eulogy of mine. It is enough to say that they are bolh highlygifted, highly-cultivated gentlemen, of stainless reputation, and true as steel to the South on the slavo question in all its bearings. To plain folks this looks sectional: Gen. B. evidently knows no North, no East, no West, nothing but the Soulh, Mr. Buch anan is true as steel to the interests of the whole country no;Uen. Untier says, "as true as steel to the interests of the South'"! How can any northern man refuse to vote for a candidate so true to the interests of the slave Barons? This is equal to Mr. Buchanan's letter to the New York hards and softs, whose union he said would be hailed with delight by the entire South. When there is ed palpably a South, there ought to be a North. Every freeman ' thinks there ought to be. Madison Cour, - A correspondent of the New York Tri bune, writing from Shanghai, makes the following reference to Chinese farming: Every foot of ground is in the highest slate of cultivation, aud I have never seen farms kept in better order in any part of America. Tho fact is, foreign ers have already derived manv useful bints from ihe . Chinese, and may yet learn more. The chain-pump, which has been patented in America as an origiual in vention, has been in use for centuries in China. It is used to elevate water from the canals on to their rice fields. A Frenchman some fifteen years ago, with much eclat, commenced hatching eggs ! by steam in Faris. .This has been prac ticed so long in China, that even tradi tion cannot tell who wes the discoverer of the art. They have large establish ments in the different towns, where thousands may be seen hatching at a time. This, however, is a digression. The canahs also serve another purpose Where tho farmer is not near a town, they supply him with the most of his manure. In every direction we saw the farmers, withjbaraboo tongs drawing up the rich rnud from the bottom, just as fishermen catch oysters. This they spread on their farms. The staple productions of this plan are wheat, rico, hemp, silk, and cotton. . A Fable. A young man once picked up a sovereign lying in the - road. Ever afterwards as he walked along, he kept his eyes fjxed steadily upon the ground in hopes to 'find another. And in the course of a long life ho did pick up, at different times, a goodly number of coins, gold ond silver. But all these years, while he iwas looking for them, he saw not that the heavens were orient above him, and; nature beautiful around. He never once allowed his eyes to look up from the mud and filth in which he sought the treasure; and when he died a rich man he only knew this fair earth of ours as a dirty road in which to pick up money as you walk along! .Fall of Ihe Charter Oak..t , II abtfoed, Conn., Aug. 21, The Charter Oak fell this morning' at a quarter. before 1 o'clock, with a tremendous crash, and. but six feet of the slump now remains. This. famous tree was far past its prime when the Charter was concealed in. ft on the 9th of May, 1689, and was probably an old tree when Columbusdiscovered the New World. It stood ..upon the old Wyllis Estate, Crowds of citizens are visiting the ruins, and each one bears away a portion of tha venerable tree. !

J. D. Bright a Slaveholder. ' , . " The Madison Courier of August 6th says in an article in reference to the card of C. M. Clay, written in Indianapolis, which wo have published: Now the "'best Democrat' in the Stata Jesse D. Bright owns tocrteen slaves in his own rtght. If it is a sin in Mr. Clay to hold a life estate in slaves belonging to bis children, after he has emancipated all that he had absolute control over, what can be said in defence of Mr. Bright,' who pretends to bein favor of free States and free labor'while he owns fourteen men, women end children, "in the same catalogue and upon tha same terms as his twenty fire head of cattle." ." Mr. Clay, born in a slave State, in-' herited slaves from his father; and all the slaves so inherited he emancipated, Mr. Bright, born and raised in a free State, becomes the owner of slaves, holds them absolutely, and has not liberated a single thing or chattel of them. Which of the trvo is the better man?

A French author finding his reputalion impeded by. the hostility of the crit ics, hit upon the following expedient to get fame and money: He dressed himself in a workmanlik'e attire, and repair ed to a distant province, where he took lodgings at a farrier's shop, in which he did a little work every day at the forge, and anvil. But the greater part of his . time was secretly devoted to the composilion of three large volumes of poetry and essays, which he published as the .. works of a Journeyman Blacksmith. The trick succeeded all France was in amazement, the poems of this "child of nature," ' this ''untutored genius," this "inspired son of Vulcan," as he was now called, were immediately praised by the critics, and were soon purchased by everybody. The harmless deceit filled the pockets of the poor poet, who laughed to see the critics writing incessant praise on an author whose every former effort they made a point of abusing. Mortality amojjo Hogs. The farm ers on the Big Miami, from New Balti- , more to Venice, are losing nearly all their hogs by a severe epidemic, which carries oft ninety out of every 100 attacked, within.two hours after the symptoms are manifested. The farmers call the disease cholera; the spasms and other symptoms exhibit similar evidencesof congestion to those manifested by human beings seized with that fatal disorder. A. C. II. Cone, Esq., lost 300 hogs, and L. B. Clarkson, Esq., OTer 200; neighboring, farmers have lost in proportion. These were lively, healthy hogs, not . still fed. . A panic prevails among the hog feeders of the above district, and they are selling off as fast as they can. Cin. Gazette. Fremont is sweeping e-verything befcre him in Wisconsin. A late me&s meeting held in Rock County, of that State, exceeds erery demonstration made . by the Republicans of Wisconsin, thus - far, during the present campaign. . It indeed surpasses in enthusiasm the popular movements of 1810. Seren thou. sani freemen were in council, and a procession formed two miles in length. Says a Wisconsin paper; "The nomina-' tion of Fremont and Dayton has enkindled a spirit among the m&Eses that sweeps all before it, and spreads like flame through a dry prairie. Put downr John C. Fremont a majority of thousands in Wisconsin." . . The Cikcihhati Platfobm. If any -of our readers yet have any stomach for the Cincinnati Platform, let them read the following from an Arkansas Whig: . Now. this Cincinnati platform seems to be a perfect hodge podge. Tom Kirfcmau used to tell of a Iriend of his dropping in about dinner time on an old . lady who invited him to draw up to the table. There was a huge pile of the pot order for dinner. The old lady helped him bountifully, and he being hungry, was doing justice to it.--. Stranger,' said the old lady, you will find almost every sort of meat in this pie.' 'Yes madam,' said he1, 'and fish too,' as he drew, between his lips what he imagined was the backbone of a red-, horse or sucker. 'Lord have marcyexclaimed the old woman, 'if there ain't out fine tooth comb that Billy lost two weeks ago.' --aa Fremont's Haib, A letter-writer just before Fremont's nomination saw him, ; was much pleased, but bad oca fault to ' find 'he parts his hair in the middle." At all events it is nothing new, as an. ''old federalist' testifies. An exchange : paper says: . . . We heard, the olher day, an old Fede-, ralist, who was looking at a portrait of Fremont, at the window qf a book store, . swearing at the original because ha wears his hair a Utile different from the prevailing mode patting it in the middle." Said be, that's just the way JeTer:ou did; Fremont is as much of a scoundrel as he was, I believe." Fed. oes for Buchanin. : -