Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1858 — Page 2

THE REHSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. irl-DNES DAY, JUNE 9, 1858.

REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

. Attorney General, WILLIAM T. OTTO, of Floyd. Treasurer of State, JOHN H. HARPER, of St. Joseph. Auditor of State, / ALBERT LANGE, of Vigo. Secretary of Stale, WILLIAM PEELE, of Randolph. Superintendent of Public Instruction, JOHN YOUNG,' of Marion. - For Supreme Judges. rrxsT nrrriirfcT, HORACE P. BIDDLE, , of Cass. SECOND DISTRICT, ABRAM W. HENDRICKS, of Jefferson. * THIRD DISTRICT. SIMON YANDES, of Marion. FOURTH DISTRICT, ’ WM. D. GRISWOLD, •f Vigo.

SLA VE AND FREE STATES.

i Modern Democracy requires but FORTY THOUSAND inhabitants to ranke a Slave State, but it takes NINETY-THREE THOUSAND to make a Free State; ergo, «nt Pro-slavery man is as good as two FreeStats men a id one third!

■ TTTTh. propritors of the Commercial Telegram , it iaSlitiapeUe. ire authorized t» procure advertisewests fer the Qoictte in that city.

Congressional Convention.

The Republicans of the Ninth Congressional District are notified that a Convention, for the nomination ot a candidate for Congress for this District, will meet at BRADFORD, TUESDAY, JUNE 20. It is hoped that a full delegation from each county in the district will be present. The Convention, was called for Plymouth, but advices from the north, representing that the reports of small-pox prevailing at that place would prevent many from attending, it has been thought advisable to. change the location.

MASS CONVENTION.

There will be a Republican Mass Convention- held at . Rensselaer on Saturday, June 19, for the purpose of appointing Delegates tojthe Congressional, Senatorial arjd Representative Conventions. Let there be a general attendance. By order of the Central Committee.

I. M. STACKHOUSE,

Secretary pro tem. long atory of “Idleville” is concluded in this number, and we are glad of it. We will never again undertake the pub- , lie&tion of a long story. Washington City municipal election. tame off last Monday. There was fighting at the polls, and a police officer was dangerously wounded. oirWe regret to announce that Benjamin Henkle, Esq., is lying dangerously ill with complicated continued fever. His recovery is extremely doubtful. The Commissioners’ Court has been in session since last Monday, and will probably remain in session until to-morrow evening. They have fixed the county revenue this year at fifty cents on the SIOO, one-half to be applied to the Court House debt. The poll tax is to be fifty cents.

MORE CANDIDATES.

We with it distinctly understood that the announcements of candidates we have thus far made, have been dona without the consent or knowledge of We announce auch names as we hear suggested by different individuals, in order tc let those in one part -of the county know who are talked of in another portion; but our principal motive is to aet our firienda to thinking over the matter, and to bestir themselves to get the very best men nominated for each office to be filled at the next election. i We have this week to announce *a few more names. Ezekiel Cox, of Hanging Grove* is spoken of as a candidate for Representative. D. C. Walker, of this place ) is suggested as a candidate for Sheriff; and John of Brook, the Commissioner whose time expires next fall, will probably be for re-election. We learn by the Porter Democrat that Mr. McDonald, of Lake county, will be urged as i a candidate for State Senator. James W. WHseh, of Lafayette, is out.for nomination in thia Judicial Circuit for Prosecuting also hear the name of J. D> Hopkins #n- . tioned in connection with the office of County Surveyor. 4 Mr. Stanley requests us to say that he positively declines being candidate for the Legislature. , ■ f

CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH.

The committee appointed by the citizens of Rensselaer to make the necessarry arrangements for the celebration of the coming anniversary of the declaration of our National Independence, have made the following arrangements; Marshal of the day-—Dr. G. A. Moss. Chaplain—Rev. A. Hays. Reader of the Declaration—Judge Joseph G. Crane. Orators—Rev. j. C. Post and Edward Hammond, Esq. , ' 1 " '*■<?-*. | i PROGRAMME. ‘ MORNING EXERCISES. i, | _ - The citizens will form in procession, under the arrangements of the Marshal, and march to the grove south of the river f-fpre-ceded by the Band. & The exercises will then commence with Prayer by the Chaplain. Patriotic song by the Choir. Reading of the Declaration of Independence. Music by the Band. Oration by Rev. J. C. Post. Patriotic song by thq Clioir. Music by the Band. After which there will be an intermission of one hour for refreshments, dinner, Ac. AFTERNOON EXERCISES. : » Music by the Band. Patriotic song by the Choir. Oration by Edward Hammond, Esq. Patriotic song by the Choir. Music by the Band. Regular Toasts.Volunteer Toasts. Musie by the Band. After which a Balloon Ascension, under the superintendence of James E. Ballard, Esq. There will be another Balloon Ascension at nine'o’clock in the evening. The committee made no arrangements for a regular dinner, and the hotels will be prepared to accommodate all who call. The committee design having a general picnic, or basket dinner, and all who wish to joinin will take refreshments with them.

POSTOFFICE LAW.

We publish the following at the of the postmaster at this place: Vn page 69, section 182, can be seen the law? for carrying letters outside of the mail by mail carriers. It is the duty of a mail carrier to receive and convey a letter, and the money or a stamp of suitable denomination for its postage, when tendered, if delivered to him-more than a inile from) a postoffice, and to hand it, with the money or stamp, into the first postoffice at which he arrives. A penalty of SSO attaches a failure to do so. But a mail carrier lias no right, within a mile, and within the delivery of one office, to receive and convey a letter to be mailed at the next office on a route; nor, unless it be in a proper stamped envelop, has lie any right to mail such letter at any other office than the first one he reaches on his route after having received it'. Sec. 187. Mail carriers, contractors or stage-drivers cannot lawfully carry out of the mail any letter or packet unless the same has been prepaid by a stamped envelop of suitable denomination; but are permitted so to carry newspapers to subscribers between postoffices; alsoy'niewspapers, pamphlets, magazines and periodicals, when not marked or directed, nor intended for immediate distribution to subscribers, but intended for sale as merchandise, and sent to some bona fide dealer or agent for the sale thereof.

Bancroft Correcting Judge Taney.

The Neut York Evening Post calls attention to the following passage in Bancroft’s last volume. As >he is a much higher authority in history than Judge Taney, we may learn what a slender foundation the Dred Scott opinion has to stand upon. The passage occurs in his account of the battle of Bunker Hill: “Nor should history forget to record that, as the Army at Cambridge, so also in this gallant band, the free negroes of the colony had their representatives. For the right of the free negroes to bear arms in the public defense was, at that day, 1775, as little disputed in New England as their other rights. They took their place, not in a seperate corps, blit in the ranks with the white_.man, and their names may be read on the pension rolls of the country aide by side with those of other soldiers of the Revolution.”— Vol. vii., Chap, xxxix, page 421.

Further from Utah.

W St. Louis, June 5. The Republican learns from a gentleman who left Fort Leavenworth on the 2d, and who read all the letters from Camp Scott to May 6th, that the news ©f Gov. Cumming having been driven from Salt Lake City is discredited. The letters from Carnp Scott of the latest dates mention no such event. Nothing yvas ? known-then of what had transpireffin the citj T , there being no official intercourse between Cumming and Johnson. Dispatches from Cumming to Secretary Cass were received at Camp Scott subsequent to the departure of the mail on the 6th of May, and as the newa of Cumming’* expulsion was only derived from Mormon bearers, these dispatches are regarded improbable. Information had reached Camp. Scott that a supply of beef cattle from Oregon was close at hand, and that Cpl. Huffman was within seven to nine days march of the encampment. I.ATER. St. Louis, June 5. The Democrat has just received the following dispatch: “Leavenworth, June 3. William Crossman arrived here last night from Fort Laramie and States that Captain Marcy’s train has been cut off by the Mormons. Particular* by mail. "T t Maggs, architect and builder, haa been arrested in Loudon for writing a letter calling upon the Queen to render up her office at head of the Church. He said he would be happy to produce hia credentials as Christ’s vicegerent upon: earth, and challenged creation to produce dny claim superi ■ ©r to hia own, *

More of the Ellison Tornado—--De-scription of the Scene.

The Chicago Tribune, says the Indianapolis Journal, sent a reporter to the scene es the late awful catastrophe at Ellison, 111., and in Thursday’s issue we find a graphic description of the jicene and an authentic, report of the extent of the disaster. We condense the most interesting portions of the account below. It Appears that the number killed is less than was at first stated, only thirteen having died so far, though several more are not expected to survive. The town contained two stores, a warehouse, a tavern, and thirty dwellings, with about two hundred inhabitents. All the inhabitants were more or less injured. THE STORM. * On Sunday evening, the 30th of May, about five o’clock, the residents of South Prairie noticed a funnel shaped cloud, the fan or tail about five hundred feet wide,moveing with almost inconceivable rapidity from west to east, and so near the surface of the ground that at times; it seemed to strike the \ earth and rise again. The cloud was black, accompanied with terrific thunder and light-ning,-hail and raini. Its. extreme length was not over six or eight hundred feet and its thickness only some fifty feet, and those ; who witnessed its progress asse:t that at times they could see that the air was apparently entirely undisturbed and clear above and below it. The storm-fiend—we know of no better name for the devastating cloud—destroyed fourteen houses in South Prairie, killing and wounding a number of persons, and a few minutes past five o’clock burst with the fury of a demon upon Ellison, destroying every building but four, killing seven persons outright and injuring every other inhabitant. It then rose and passed on to the east, striking the earth again within a distance of three miles,| destroying a flew fences, then rose again high in the air and passed out of sight. When we arrived (at the ruined village a sceneof disaster presented itself which nothing we can write will exaggerate. Boards, timber and debris of every description were scattered in all directions about the site occupied by the town, and over the prairie to the east for a distance! of two miles. The first building struck was the two story frame store of Mr. Joseph Knowles. This was lifted from its foundation, wh'rled around two or three times in the cloud, and carried across the street, where it burst into small fragments, and its contents were torn to shreds and so scattered that not even a yard of goods has been found. The next house destroyed was Dr. Yoho’s, a large frame structure. It was carried to the opposite side of the street, lifted high into the air and shattered into a thousand pieces. In this manner twenty-three dwellings, two stores and the warehouse were utterly destroyed, and so rapidly was this done that no time was permittedithe terror, stricken inhabitants to escape from their homes. So thoroughly complete was the destruction that not a vestige ot the houses or their contents I remain, save scattered boards and timbers, | and here and there a fragment of a garment ior a broken piece of furniture. One of the residents, whom we saw searching for his scattered goods, informed us that he had been unable to recognize among the ruins anything he had owned. Another stated that he was quite certain that nothing of his had escaped total destruction. During tfie passage of the cloud the water fell iu sheets and the thunder and lightning was terrific. But fopr buildings are left standing in the town, and two of these, al-j though out of the immediate track of the storm/are so shattered as to be untenable.

The Wisconsin Legislature Fraud.

The Wisconsin papers are ventilating the affairs of the “Milwaukee and Lake Superior Railroad Company,” which has for some years had “a local habitation and a name” in that State, but which has, according to the current phraseology, fallen into temporary difficulties in consequence of the financial revulsion, or “panic.” i Its doings were investigated by a Committee of the late Legislature, who found its assets “a beggarly account of empty boxes,” and the integrity of its managers a good deal below par. Briefly, the Directors named in the act of incorporation organized their Company without paying in any cash, only pretending to pay in five per cent, on their stock, and paying this in checks which had no value and were never cashed; they then proceeded to vote their President SIOO,OOO in full paid stock for his services in getting up the Company and procuring its charter, which sum he in good part divided among his confederate Directors, keeping $42,500 for himself! They then voted each other liberal salaries, and proceeded to employ agents at liberal rates to persuade the farmers along the line of their proposed road to mortgage their farmes in aid of the enterprise, taking the stock or bonds of the Company in exchange for the mortgages. Asa matter of course, these mortgages were sold for whatreVbr they would fetch, in order to pay the salaries aforesaid and various swindling allowances to certain parasites of the managers, so that the result of the business is that the farmers are swindled out of their hard-won homesteads and have no railroad to upon. Only five miles of the. road is comt . pleted and four or five more graded—in .short, the whole concern has “gone up,” leaving, the farmers to deplore their credulity and the managers’ villiany. It seems that the President had even disposed of some of th’«i mortgages tjo pay his personal debts! We have summed up. these facts, without giving any names, to point a moral which thousands will do well to heed. Qn every side, projects of Railroad Extension are pressed upon the attention of the publicspirited, whose property would bo enhanced in value or their..convenience promoted by their realization. And it is manifestly just and right that those who are thus to be benefited by the railroads yet in embryo should share in the risk, the outlay, the probable cost, of their construction. But, before subscribing to the stock or bonds of any. such road—above all, before running in debt and mortgaging his homestead in aid of it—let each curefully consider and answer this question—“Am I sure that this work is in the handsef honeet, capable,responsiblemen!”

If not, hands off! no matter though the route lies right through your dooryard and the prospectus talks of ten or fifteen per cent, income per annum.— New York Tribune.

Revolution in the City of New Orleans.

Vigilance Committee Appointed State Arms Seized—Collision Expected. New Orleans, June 3, 1858. A revolution broke out last night. A vigilance committee, in large numbers, touk possession of the arsenal in Jackson Square, and the this morning. The Executive Committee calls for law and order, and the people join them, and announce their determination to carry their measures out. Nothing efae has transpired yet. Seven o’clocc. —Cannon Ve dbaded and posted about thei arsenal. Alku.it two hundred armed men are rrow on guard. The following appeared this morning: To the Citizens of New Orleans: Alter years ot disorder, outrages and unchecked assassination, the people, unable and unwilling either to bow down in unresisting submission to a set of ruffians, or to abandon the city in which their business, their social sympathies and (duster, have at length risen in their might and have quietly taken possession of the arsenal and buildings in J-ickson Square, and have established there the headquarters’ of a Vigilance Committee, pledging each to -the other to maintain the rights inviolable of every peaceful and law-abiding citizen, restore public order, abate crime and expel or punish, as they may determine, such notorious robbers and assassins as the) arm of the law has, either from the infidelity ol the public servants or the inefficiency of the laws themselves, left unwhipped ol justice. For the present, the ordinary machinery of police justice is superseded., The Mayor and the Recorders, jwe understand, yielding up the power they confess the inability to exercise for the prteservation of_ property, and the Vigilance (qommittee Will therefore previously act in their stead—administering to each and every -malefactor The punish” ment due to his crimes without heat, prejudice or political bias* All citizens whd have sympathies with this movement, and who think the time lias come when New Orleans shall be preserved like other well-ordered and civilized communities, will report themselves without delay at the principal office, where the character of this movement will be explained, and the determination of the people more fully made known. All has beein done noiseless-ly,.dis-passiunately and justly/but tbe ruffians who have dyed our streets in the gore ol unoflending citizens, and spread terror among the peaceable, orderly and well-disposed, must leave or perish. So the people have determined—Vox Populi, Fox Dei! Si<nicd. True Delta Extra. Seven to eight hundred are under arms j now, ten o’clock, and several arrests " have been made. It is reported that opposition will be made, in which a severe battle is certain. Volunteers are still crowding up. , I. A TEH. Eleven o’clock. —General Tracey’s division ol militia has been ordered out by the Mayor. Ihe Common Council are in secret session. There is considerable confusion amongst them. Great excitement in the street. T he Council got possession of the first district armory with only ten rounds of ammunition. A battle is expected this afternoon. More arrests are made.

SECOND DAY. Lok'rsviLLE, June 4. In answer to questions about the origin of the outbreak at New Orleans, the following dispatch has jqst been received by the reporter of the Associated Press: “Can’t say whether political or not. The Vigilance Committee offered to resign, provided the city will vest the police authority in their hands. The city has refused. If the Vigilance Committee vvini, Gerard Stitli’s Native American party is dead. The Vigilance Committee is composed of all parties. “Signed, Muzzr, Reporter.” LATER. A dispatch from the New Orleans telegraph office says that it is positively not po litical, and that Muzzy is mistaken. • LATEST. New Orleans, June 4. A rumor is current on t.he streets that a compromise is effected. The city is to deliver up twenty-five of the noted ruffians to the Vigilance Committee. Five hundred men on each side are tP be sworn as police. I hare been refused admission to the City Hall. Muzzy, Reporter. New Orleans, June 4. Fifty men, with two cannon, have just taken possession of Canal *treet They are said to be organized by men marked by the Vigilance Committee for punishment. New Orleans, June 4. The Mayor’s forces are unorganized, yet all is still. Great preparations are being made, by both parties. The Vigilance Committee’s commander is Major J. K. Duncan, late of the United States Army. They are well organized and drilled. The city papers are divided. The Picayune and Crescent favor the city, and the True Delta and Delta favor the Vigilance Committee. The rest are neutral. ... A crisis is-expected to-day. [second dispatch.] The excitement is increasing. The Mayor has issued orders to arrest John Maginnis; if taken, they declare they will hang him. Mac takeß it coaly. STILL LATER. The Vigilance Committee are triumphant. The Mayor has resigned the municipal authority to the Vigilance Committee. The city is quiet and the crowd have withdrawn from Canal street. The Vigilance Committee have appointed a special police of over a thousand men. The treaty is signed and order restored. “ The terms of the treaty arc these: Mayor Waterman, for the city, nhd-General Lewis, Superintendent of Elections, accept tho

forces of Vigilance Committee, as a special police to protect property, life and execute the laws. The Vigilance Committee do not disband, but retains its organization as a military body so long as necessary for the defense and legitimate duties. The rabble are still in the streets, "but is very small in numbers. No more trouble is expected. Arrests still continue to be made. LATEST. Inflnmatory placards have just been issued by the so-called American party, calling Americans to arms to resist the authority of the Vigilance Committee. More than one-half of the American party are in the Vigilance Committee. Many of their leaders are well known to the Know-Nothings. One man was killed, and another wounded accidentally, in the Vigilance Committee’s camp. THIRD DAY. New Orleans, June 5. Incendiary speeches were made to the mob by Colonel Christy, candidate for Mayor, and Colonej Henry, of the Nicaraguan army. They call the Americans to arms, and offer to lead a charge against the Vigilance Committee to-day. J. P. White, money-broker, was shot at and-daogerously wounded last night, in front of the City Hotel. White is the man said to have furnished cotton for the .barricades ol the Vigilance Committee. Over one thousand and five hundred names are enrolled by the Vigilance Committee. Trouble is expected to-day.

Further from New Orlcans.

Excitement Increasing—Editor of Picayune Arrested—Mayor at Vigilance Head-quarters — Recorders Appointed Eight Hundred, Special Police—lmmense Street Excitement. New Orleans, June 5. The Vigilance Committee arrestpd Lumsden, editor of the Picayune, and kdpt'him in confinement several hours. He was drunk and disorderly around the Vigilance Committee’s camp. The Mayor is still at the Vigilance Committee’s head-quarters, afraid of his life if he leaves there. Affairs look squally—don’t expect an election on Monday. The-Mayor issued a proclamation revoking tiie power of the Recorders to appoint a special police. The citizens arc disgusted with the Mayor's viscilatio i. The Vigil nee Committee are still fortifying their position, Lafayette Square is still in possession of a mob. Cannon loaded with grape commanding all approaches to the Square. The Recorders have appointed eight hundred special police:—arn-ng them some of the worst men in the city. They, refuse to give up authority, although revoked by the Mayor. They have .arrested several men known to belong to the Vigilance Committee Tlfe Mayor is at the Vigilflr oc Committee’s rooms, and has placed' himself under tlieir protection. No attack has been made by the mob yet. Col. Christy has withdrawn as leader of the movement. The Recorders are engaged swearing in Special police. All tbe citizens are invited to join. New Orleans, June 7: On Saturday the A-ayor, having bis lifeguarantied, proceeded to the St. Charles Hotel where lie met the City Council and was impeached, and 11. M. Summers, President of'the Hoard of Aldermen, was elected in bis place. Col. Torno, ex-Chief of the police was dismissed and Col. Jacques appointed in his place. The old police was re-organized under Jacques. A. T. Turner and C. R. Muzzy,reporters, were arrested this morning by the special police of the city as dangerous characters and liberated on parole. Turner was rearrested. The streets are seemingly quiet, but no man’s life is safe outside of tbe different, barricades. An attack was made upon the Vigilance Committee on Saturday night. The Vigilance Committee lost four killed and twelve wounded by accidental discharge of a cannon during the confusion.

Progress of Republicanism in Washington.

A full and spirited meeting of the Republicans of tliijs city was held at the rooms of the National Republican Association, last Saturday night. The meeting wps addressed in an eloquent and able speech of an hour in length, by the lion. Schuyler Colfax, of Indi ana. Senator Clark, of New Hampshire, also bade the Association God speed, in a few pointed remarks, encouraging its members to go forward in sowing the good seed of political reform; for the harvest would Surely bring an abundant return for their labor. Other members of Congress were also in the audience. But the speech of Mr. Colfax deserves more particular notice; though fully to appreciate it one should have heard it, and imbibed its sentiments* as they breathed forth from the heart of the speaker, in words of eloquence and earnestness. Mr. Colfax said he would not. attempt, to portray the social and moral effects of Slavery, nor bring before the minds of his hearers pictures of the auction block and its attendant scenes of families broken up, without, the hope of an earthly "reunion. With all this his hearers, living in the midst of Slavery, were but too familiar. But he dwelt on Sluvery mainly in its political aspects. He reviewed the sentiments of the fathers and Founders of our Government, showing that such great,men as Jefferson, Madison,Pinkney, and others, Southern men, all looked upon Slavery as a social, political and moral evil, and an incubus on the prosperity of the country, which should be got rid of as soon as practicable, without allowing it to extend further. The eloquent speaker then referred to the fact that there are now in Congress from the South twenty members who represent pronerty, while the North has not one such Representative. What fitness is there, then, in confining the adjective “Black” to those who represent only white men, while the I negroes of the South are represented in Con- ' greys by twenty members? This property I

representation is all wrong, said the speaker, and should be allowed to extend itself no further. There were many more points, well taken, in the address, which we have net time now to notice. Success to the gallant young Representative of the 9th district of Indiana!— -National Era.

[From tha Minneiotiin, Extra.

Indian Battle at Shokapee.

Minnesotian Office, May 28, 1858, In addition to the dispatch sent us by our special correspondent at Shakopee, our reporter was able to learn the particulars of this exciting affair personal visit to the spot. It seems that the Chippewas, numbering, according to different enumerations made of them at houses where they passed, one hundred and fifty to two hundred warriors, arrived in the woods opposite to Murphy’s landing, below Shakopee, during Wednesday night, and lav concealed until daybreak, on Thursday morning, near the ferry. The first intimation the Soux had of their presence was the killing of one of their number, at daybreak, who was fishing in a canoe on the south side of the river, by shooting him dead. His squaw immediately fled to the tepees, which are about a mile below the town, and gave the alarm, when the Soux warriors, to the number --of forty or fifty, seized their guns, and at once proceeded to the Terry under cover of the bushes on the south bank. A rapid fire then commenced between the hostile tribes across the river, which did no damage to either party on account of the distance. The Chippewas fell back, however, and the Sioux in a body crossed on tfie ferry, and the battle again commenced in the timber, with a murderous ferocity, and lasted about five hours. The warfare was conducted in regular Indian style—a running fight among the trees and logs, and grass, interspersed with a few hand-to-hand conflicts with tomahawks and war-clubs. When a Sioux would fall he waa immediately carried to the rear and taken across on the ferry-boat. Several who were also severely wounded, were taken to the rear, but as soon as they recovered a little, would again rush back into the thickest of the light. The S;ioux are said to have acted with the greatest bravery daring the whole charging upon and following the enemy with a perfect desperation. Whenever a Chippewa would fall, his head was cut off and carried to the rear. Four ghastly heads were thus taken over the river and exhibited with great exultation by the squaws, who were busy all the time carrying ammunition (which, it is said, wa» furnished by citizens tirtbem. free of charge,) and encouraging their warriors. lintel in the Hay. some headless bodies of tbe Chippewas wer: brought over, and tbe squaws backed them to pieces, and fin all-' kindled a fire under one of them and burnt it up! This last sickening spectacle ot barbarity is said, by those who witnessed it, to have been hailed with fiendish exultation by the Sioux. About ten o’clock the Chippewas drew off, and the whole force retreated over the bluffs, in the direction of , uko Minn -tonka, leaving four of their warriors behind them, one of whom, from the decorations on the scalp, is supposed to be a distinguished chief. As they passed a certain -point on their trail, they were carrying six, and aome accounts say eight, wounded braves on litters, beside those wounded who were ablo to walk, some of whom seemed to be badiv hurt. Tbe Sioux then returned to their encampment with great exultation over their victory, and counted their lo?s, when it was found that t-\o were killed, two proniunccd by physicians present to be fatally wounded, and ten others wounded more or less, presenting a bloody picture of barbarism to the crowds of citizens who had assembled there. Four raw scalps were flaunted on a pole, and four ghastly heads were paraded as trophies, beside the disfigured trunks of two other*.’ Daring the whole battle, the high bank that overlooked tbe bottom across the river, near Mayor Murphy’s house, was lined with spectators; in 'eed, “the' whole town” might be said to have been there watching the fight, and seeming to enjoy the unusual spectacle of two nations of barbarians murdering, mangling, mutilating each other, in lull sight ot a city ot Christians, its churches, court houses and institutions of learning. Barbarism and its brutal spectacles in contrast with enlightenment and its blessings. Fearing another attack, the Sioux moved the tepees in a huddle and dug trenches, in which they watched all night, well armed. No attack was made, however, though it was thought the Chippewas had not gone off altogether, but were lurking somewbore in tbe vicinity for another skirmish. Ilole-in-the-duy was reported to be with them, but this is doubted. It is said by those who viewed the battle from the bluffs, that only about thirty or forty Chippewa warriors were in it, the main body remaining in the rear. If this is so, they must have had some railed design in drawing off, which will appear hereafter. Numerous trophies of the fight were secured, such as battle-axes, &,c. A map was also found, drawn on birch bark, which depicted the Chippewa war-traii, with some hieroglyphics, which the wise men pretended to interpret. Several bloody Chippewa heads were also purchased as mementoes, ”hnd to the curiovts with great gusto.

following letter was written by the wife of one of the victims of the Border Ruffians at Fort Scott, to her mother at Crawfprdsville in this State: Sugar Mound, May 21st, 1858. My Dear Mother: —You will be eurpri*ed to learn that lam a widow. O, how can I bear it, but you shall know the whole truth. My husband started on tha 19th of May, to Kansas City, for a lead—the Missourians came upon him, took him and eleven other Free State men prisoners, bul’carrigd them to a ravine near the Trading Post, (there being twenty or more of tbefti) and ordered them to stand in file and then shot them d-oum. My husband and foiff others were killed on the spot; six were.it is thought, mortally wounded, and one was not hurt. Companies of free State men have organized all over the Territory, and are giving chase to the murderers. For lurther particulara please look to the papers. Please send this im nediately to mv brother-in-law, F. M. Black. 1 am weuk, not able to be up, but will write as soon as I ain> able to get up. The children «re well.