Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1858 — A True Freeman. [ARTICLE]

A True Freeman.

Stephen D. Dillaye Bent three kegs of powder to this city last night, directing that thirty-two guns should be fired in honor of the passage of the English swindle. Th> Washington Artillery was deputed to waste the powder. Previous to the application of the match, for the first time, Julius Seidel, a member of the company, a German, and one whose heart scorns slavery and its defenders, stepped up to the gun and hung a piece of crape over it. The captain pulled it away. Julius put it back. The captain pulled it away again. Julius again restored it. Thu captain removed it once more, when Julius once more put it back, and intimated to the captain that if he disturbed it further he might expect to be knocked down.- Whereupon he subsided, and the gun was fired with the crape hanging over it! Julius ought to go to Kansas—he mny be, wanted there. Such pluck as his is not to be lound every day. He knows what freedom is, and how to stand by his principles. If we had plenty of Julius* >s the country would be safe, cheers for Julius Seidel, and three more for the crape on the gun!— Syracuse__sournal. OCrThe St. Paul Alinnesotian publishes a list of eighty-four ol the lakes of Minnesota, which vary in length from one to eightyfour miles. Many more were omitted because they had no names.