Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE.

RENSSELAER, IND.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 9, 1859.

A Liberal Offer.

TCFAlldelinquent to the G«i«ree-Who -pay their *2 before the first of April next, shall have i* copy of the Oeireaee Farmer eent for one year to their address at our expense.

Ctr William H. Prescott, the historian, died suddenly, at Boston, of paralysis, Jananry 2 Bth, aged sixty-three years. -■ OATA Series of resolutions complimentary to Senator Douglas were lately introduced in the Missouri Legislature, and were all quietly voted down. (O“The Methodist quarterly meeting at this place commences next Saturdays and they are holding religious services every night this week, except to-night, and some- . times during the day. woman in Knox county, says the Indianapolis Journal of yesterday, gave birth to three children at one time a few days since, two and a girl—which fact was,communicated to the Senate Monday afternoon for Legislative action. (f|y“We call attention to the advertisement, in another column, Of the “Spiral Lightning Rod.’’ In a flat country like this, a sufficient protection from lightning is of great importance, and it behooves every . man to provide his dwelling and barn with lightning rod V- ' . (piyWe are glad to. perceive that our i young friend<“Quiz,’’ has been'admitted to i the Chicago bar. Of course he will do well > in that city of rascality and crime of every ; kind,--where the men, when they get tired of their women, murder them, cut them up,l pack them in barrels, and send them to New ; York to be sold as venison. GshWe would again call the attention of i |,mr readers to that excellent remedy for i troughs, colds, consumption, &c., kept for j sale at the store of Mr. Geo. W. Spitler. Every member ut oitr family, including ourself, has been afflicted with severe cold; within the past two weeks, and we have sue- ; cessfully used Phillips’ Cough Sirup. That it is a cure for colds and; coughs we know. GO”Thc donate comes off to-night at the Court House. As a change of some,of the speakers ha/ been made’, we arc requested • to announce the corrected list, which is as follows: CaUiopeans. Erudites. - T. J. Spitler, Alex. Rowen, M. L. Spitler, A If. Guthridge, i D. F Davies. E. P. Hammond. ■

iyZF The Democrats held a caucus at Hartford. Conn., last Thursday night, to appoint delegates to their Convention. Over four hundred were present, and the Douglas delegates were elected by nearly live to one. Strong resolutions nominating Douglas for the Presidency were passed almost unanimously, and one speaker, a delegate to the St,ate Convention, denounced the Administration in bitter terms.

THE HOMESTEAD BILL.

-The Congressional Homestead bill, which passed the House of Representatives last week, by a vote ot 120 to 76, is one of the most important measures to the country ever presented to Congress. ‘lt gives to every man who is at the head of a family, or over twenty-one years old and a citizen of the United States, or has filed his intention of becoming such, the right to enter and hold free of cost one he. red and sixty acres of land he can find.it vacant, on condition of his actual settlement and cultivation. It also prevents any government land from being bought within ten years after its b ’ing surveyed, which will stop all the greedy land speculators of the country from Hipping in their unholy liana’s to so great a fra d as has been continued from almost the first o settlement of the nation to the present time. W 6 are not advised of the pro,pects of tlie bill in the Senate.” •

LAND AND MeCARTY.

The Judiciary Commifte of the Seriate last week reported adversely to-the claims of Lane and McQarty, but a minority report was made in their favor. The matter was to come up for action last Monday, but we pee no account of it in the Congressional proceedings of that day. The correspondent of th® Cincinnati Enquirer says: “It is tnderctood here that Mr. Douglas, when the gueetion comes up, will advocate the right of Lane and McCarty to the seats now filled by Senators Bright and Fitch. Aa he voted against the right of those Senators to seats at the last session, his course now excites no surprise. The Committee on Elections have reported against the bogus Senators, Lane and McCarty, and therejs no doubt but that Bright and Fitch will held their scuts. The Republicans intend, however, in any event, to bring the matter up before ths new Senate which meets in March. They declare Urey will harass and annoy Bright and Fitch «p to the end of their term, and if they get » Republican majority in that >wly. will nnatjhaon.

THE GENESEE FARMER.

A LIBERAL OFFER. The February number of this popular agricultural journal is received. We desire again to call the attention of our agricultural and horticultural friends to the merits of the Genesee Farmer. No similar journal furnishes so much matter at so cheap a rate. Each number contains thirty-two pages, crammed to overflowing with just the information that farmers and fruit-growers need. It is handsomely got up, and well illustrated with new and beautiful engravings of ani- ; mals, machines, implements, fruits, trees, I shrubs, flowers, tec. In the Agricultural Department, this ; month, we find fourteen able articles w.rit- x ; ten expressly for the Farmer. The Horti- | cultural Department occupies fourteen pag- : es, and is unusually interesting and beauti- | fully illustrated. In the Ladies’ Depart- ; ment we have twenty-one original domestic receipts, contributed to the Farmer by experienced housekeepers. The publisher of the Farmer offers a twenty-five cent book for a dozen original domestic receipts deemed worthy of publication, and in this i way is able each month to publish a very choice selection. These receipts are worth

1 the cost of the paper. The monthly review ! of the principal markets in the United States, I Canada and England, is a new feature, and | will make the paper still more useful and , popular. W e observe that the Farmer prognosticates a higher price for wheat. We advise our readers interested in the cultivation of the soil to subscribe at once lor the Genesee Farmer. Terms, fifty cents a year in advance; five copies for two dollars; eight copies for three dollars, with a copy of the Hural Annual and Horticultural Directory, sent prepaid by mail to the person getting up the club. The publisher will send a number of the paper free, for examination, to all applicants. Address Joseph Harris, publisher and Proprietor, Rochester, N. Y. . By an arrangement with the proprietor, we are enabled to furnish the Farmer to our subscribers at thirty-seven and a half cents each, or the J’arwter and Rur-al Annual at i fifty cents. VYe also make'the following | liberal offer to our delinquent subscribers: ; Every one who pays up (s9>) by tlie first of | April next, shall hav*e a copy of the Gene-\ see Farmer for one year, sent to his address. ■ It is a good agricultural journal, and we j would.like to see it freely circulated in Jasper ebunty. Remember that this offer is open until the first of April.

THE TEMPERANCE BILL.

Many of our citizens are under the impression that the Temperance Bill has become a law, but, as yet it Jias not passed in the Senate. It passed the House on Tuesday of last week, and will probably pasts the Senate and become a law. The effect of it will be to protect the interests of the few engaged in the traffic, by giving to one individual in each thinly settled locality the monopoly of the business. They can well afford to pay a heavy license, and will be glad to do sb- to stave off competition, thus securing all the profits of the trade to themselves. However, it will “dry up” many “one-horse” doggeries, whose proprietors can neither pay the lincense nor give the required security. Mr. Snyder did not vote on the bill, not have returned to his seat in time; The following is ,a synopsis of the i bill: It provides that no person shall sell or barter, either direc-t-ly or indirectly, any intoxicating liquors without? first obtaining license from the C-ounty Commissioners. : To obtain license the person applying must ' fi fst give notice in some weekly newspaper, ; if one is published In the county, stating the precise ocation in which he- is to sell at least twenty days before the meeting of the Board to which hjs application is made, and 'it shall be the privilege of any inhabitant of i said township to remonstrate against the : granting ot said licensee on account of immortality or otherunfitness. i. The Board of County Commissioners may I then grunt license, after his giving bond with* two good freeholder securities residing in the I county, in the sum of five hundred dollars; to be filed with the County Auditor, on conditions that all fines assessed for violations I of the act be paid. The applicant is required to pay ’ to the i Treasurer of the county a sum not less than ! S2O nor more than SI,OOO, t'o be determined i by the Board of County Commissioners as a I fee for license for one year. When any amount is paid to any incorporated city or i town for license, such amount is to be deI ducted from the amount required by County Commissioners, All sums received for license go to the common school fund of the pountv where paid. The County Auditor is to issue the license i when the applicant procures the order of the Board and the receipt of the Treasurer. No license to be granted fora longer time than one year. I No liquor* to be sold on Sunday—to a i minor—to a person in a state of intoxica- ; ion—to anv female—nor Upon the day of i any State, County or municipal election. Section 8, as amended, we gibe iu the I language of the bill: “Every person who shall, by himself or agent directly or indirectly, knowingly sell, barter or give away, any spirituous or intoxicating, liquors to any person who is in the 1 habit of being intox cated, after notice shall I have been given him by the wife, child, pa- , rent, brother or sister of such last named .person, or by the overseer or overseers of .the poor of the township where he resides, that t>u.ch person j*siu the habit of being intoxicated, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof be fined trot Jea« than five nor mor* than fifty dol-

Any person selling in less quantity than a quart, and allowing to be drank on his premises any liquor, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than SSO nor more then $1000; and imprisonment for three months may be added. For selling or giving to a miner or intoxicated person the penalty is the same. For adulterating, or selling adulterated liquors the fine is from SSO to SSOO, and imprisonment for six months may be added. Any house where liquor is sold, kept in a disorderly manner, shall be deemed a common nuisance, and the keeper, upon conviction, may be fined from SSO to S2OO, and imprisonment for three months may be added. The Court of Common Pleas and Circuit Court shall have jurisdiction for violations of this act and it is made the duty lof grand juries to take cognizance of offen- ! ces under it. Justices of the Peace shall have jurisdiction within their respective townships, and may recognize offenders to Court, when in their opinion the fine should exceed $25. Druggists can sell in* any quantity for medicinal purposes and the manufacturer of wine and cider, from fruits grown by the manufacturer are exempt from the provision of the act. It is made the duty of the City or District Attorney to prosecute the violators of the act, and on his failure or neglect to perform that duty, any other attorney may attend to the same. All laws coming in conflict with the provisions of the act are repealed, and an emergency clause is appended.

SWAMP LAND.

The following article is from the Pulaski Democrat* We agree with it, that the management. of the swamp lands should be placed in the.hands of the County Commissioners where they are located. Many frauds cui the treasury might thus be pre- ! Vented, and the County Commissioners could see in person that the proceeds were honestly applied to the draining of wet lands. We join with our cotemporary of Pulaski county in urging this matter upon the attention of our Representative. The Democrat says: “Mr. Miller offered a resolution, which was adopted, that the Swamp Land Com. inquire into the expediency of transferring the swamp land business to the .care and j control of the Auditor and Treasurer of i State now performed in the several counties, | for the purpose of the speedy settle nent and ; the winding up of the same, and authorizing I the purchase of swamp lands at the offices : of the Auditor and Treasurer of State. “We do not know the object of Senator Miller’s resolution, but we hope that if the Legislature takes any action,upon the sub- I ject in any way, that it will amend the pres- I ent law in such a manner as shallqjlace the i whole subject under the supervision and control of the Beard of County Commissioners. “We are satisfied that this is the most proper body to look after this interest 1 . An arrangement of this kind would be more in accordance with the general sentiments of the people in the swamp land districts, than the placing of it with officers who are already overburthened with public duties. “\V e have, or ought to have, a large fund in this county, and in order that the benefits may be realized here, the management of it could not be better intrusted than with our county fficers. The large amount of swamp land in this county, through which no ditches have been located by the State as yet, will probably consume the most of this fund, and we hepe that, until this land is ditched and reclaimed, the Legislature will see the propriety of committing the whole care of the same to the County Board.”

INDIANAPOLIS CORRESPONDENCE.

Indianapolis, Feb. 5, 1859. Mr. Dames: The removal of the inner range of pillars in the Senate chamber has not only vastly improved its appearance, but has, also, by extending the area of the hall proper, made it much more comfortable for “grave and reverend seigneurs” than it was before. In addition to this improvement, they are also enjoying the luxury of new desks and news seats. The desks gle, made of walnut, and covered with purple velvet; the chairs are spring-seated, stuffed back and rotary—presenting a far better appearance than the miserable! old, cramped and dilapidated furniture that has disgraced the Senate chamber for so many years and annoyed its members. The Hon. Mr; Wallace, Senator from Montgomery, introduced a resolution refusing to take back the Wabash and Erie Canal, or for the State to have anything to do with it. The honorable member expected the resolution would pass nem con, but he was doomed to disappointment. It was referred to the Cpmmittee on Canals and Internal Improvements. I am fearful we have not yet seen the end of this thing. On the contrary, it will become mixed up in our politics, and a desperate and formidable struggle will yet be had between the bondholders and the people of this State. Whilst right and justice will furnish many a gallant knight for the coming conflict, Mammon will find many a soldier willing to sell soul and body to fight under his golden flag. Many of the friends from along the line of the canal are now here. They have had several meetings, but as yet have come to no definite conclusion as regards their future policy. It is thought they will ask the State for a sum of money sufficient to partially, at least, reoten the canal, and thereby protect the interests of our citizens who own large mills, warehouses, &c., that depend exclusively on the canal for their usefulness and worth. The Hon. Mr. Gooding, of Hancock, is at this moment pitching into the State Bank at 2:40 velocity, the Senate being in C*ir»mHt*e of the Whole on the MH repeeL

ing ths Bank chartar. As I remarked in one of my former letters, it is not probable this Legislature will do anything more than let off a little gas on this question. By the way, legislative gas is about as plenty as ever, and it only costs the “dear people” of the State a littla over S6OO a day. This is cheap, very! Especially so long as we have credit to borrow money to pay tor the same. Vive Vhumbuff! Lieutenant Governor Hammond is said to be better to-day, and it is hoped will recover from his severe illness. I understand the Swamp Land Committee is getting up some rich developments. Whether they will do the State much good I am not now prepared to say. t Yours, &.c., Teddy.

A STRAY MISSIVE.

Chicago, Jan. 2, 1859. f'yiend Davies: Your Indianapolis correspondent, hss evidently never been a sojourner in this wooden Babel, wherein your negligent correspondent has become a permanent dweller, or he would not complain of the muddy streets of your State .Capital. As far superior as the supposed Eden, of the primitive days is above Cairo of the present, is your capital above our windblown and youthful city—that is, as regards conifer’. I have no desire, however, to say one word iii actual disparagement of my present and future home, so long as I continue to fight life’s battle; yet, like humanity generally, I am disposed to find fault, but I hope only where there is cause. Chicago is muddy, and the mud is like that of no other place, it is peculiar; it is often a foggy city; we have all the seasons in twenty-four hours, sometimes; thej wind blows here as it does nowhere else, and when it rains one is reminded of the forty days shower of long ago. Still, Chicago, is healthy; and there is, too, a friendly echo in the wooden sidewalks, familiar and home-like; the exercise of mounting and descending stairs is healthful; there are noble hearts here, too, if one can only find time to get. off for a moment from the commercial Juggernaut and look through quiet streets and stop at genial firesides. And should there not be noble hearts here as elsewhere, even if every man has to plan and work out his own course! I believe there is not one of the many I meet daily, be he who he may, but has some fresh, green ; spot’in his heart, and though it be hid deep i down, and corroded and seared over with what is termed selfishness, there is a way to it. Why not then seek to discover the redeeming traits in humanity, as experience tells up they afford the most permanent gratification, even though the way be rugged as | a mountain defile, and the reward should chance to be small] Yet likQ a small jewel, which is worth m re than a ton of granite, if the gem lie beneath the seemingly immovable rock, we consider it not worth the trouble it may cost to obtain it, so men possessing an innate knowledge that goodness dwells within the human heart, prefer to remain in passive blindness, and breathe curses upon each other rather than use the lever of Charity ar.d discover the hidden treasure.

I agree with Shelley, that could men be taught to love one another this earth would realize Paradise, but Ihe thought is so visionary that even Hope must be sustained on chamelion diet. Men philosophize, moralize, satirize, eulogize. The philosophy is seldom good for anything save to make n misanthrope of the man who indulges in it, and sometimes to engender a little pity for human frailties; it not unfrequently is like the donations of rich relatives, it touches but one faculty faintly—the ear. The basis upon which morality is preached is fear and a threatening of “ills that we know notof;’’ a rotten foundation at best, and one that serves to rob the superstructure of that pureness inspired alone by love, and unattainable save through its influence. To satirize, is to climb to eminence upon a brother’s infirmities, compared to which the red-hot plow-shares of a batbarious age were a light penalty for a misfortune brought about not even by a fault, To eulogize, is frequently to tell the few friends of some great poor man who has starved under the cold shelter of a winter’s sky, that which they always knew; thus to the world reversing the now axiom of Avon’s Bard, “the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” Metaphysically yours, 1 Quiz.

Famine in Michigan.

A memorial from the Supervisors of Gratiot county was presented to the Michigan Senate on Saturday, setting fourth the destitution prevailing there, and appealing to the Legislature for relief. They assert a knowledge “from personal observation,” that “very many of the citizens are at this time without food and without any means of procuring the same.” An almost entire failure of the crops is assigned as the cause of the want existing, and the county, they say, has no means of making or procuring the necessary relief. From the reports of the town treasurers and ether means of information, they estimate that there are about one thousand families in the county,- and not more than one-quarter of them have the means of subsistence until next harvest, which would leave seven hundred and fifty families, nearly all of whom are in present want. Relief to the amount of $20,000 is considered necessary to support the destitute in the county until the harvest; and it is asked in the form of some leading thoroughfare through the county, whereby the inhabitants may not only earn a living, but a lasting benefit be conferred upon that •ection of the B»at*.

Correspondence of the N. V. Comer ci*! Advertiser. Aapect of Affairs in Europe. London, Jan. 11, 1859. The European war panic is rapidly increasing. Another drop of one per cent, in the French funds, and of a half per cent, in the English, occurred yesterday, and every capitalist seems endeavoring to protect himself from the coming storm. This aggravation of distrust has been caused mainly by the speech of the King of Sardinia, delivered yesterday, at the opening of the Sardinian Chambers at Turin. It was known that this speech had been submitted to Louis Napoleon several days before its delivery, and that its tone might be taken as a test of the designs alike of France and Piedmont. When it was found, therefore, to be totally in contradiction to the “tranquilising paragraph in the Aloniteur, the suspicions of the public as to the hollowness of the attempt to bolster up the Bourse became confirmed. o

The Moniteur had stated that there was nothing in the diplomatic relations of France and Austria to warrant the agitation that had been manifested. The King of Sardinia, on the other hand says, “the political horizon is not clear,” and that “a rupture is at hand which will require firmness and resolution.” C oupled with the reported statement some time back, that the Sardinian army might look for active employment in the spring, and the knowledge that King Victor Emmanuel now speaks solely as the mouth-piece of France and Russia, little more was wanting to stimulate the worst fears of the capitalists, merchants, and persons interested in the maintenance of peace. The King of Sardinia, however, is obliged to admit the fact that there is no balance in his exchequer, and as Russia and Austria had only just announced that they could not get on witho'ut large loans in London, it is satissactory thus to find that all the hostile parties will have to commence their destructive saturnalia without money. Even France would have to resort to a fresh loan immediately on commencing war,since has no surplus for the year and can scarcely venture on increased taxation. The can be little doubt that the general plan was that before showing their hands. Russia and Sardinia should procure ample ; financial supplies from London. Austria would have done the same and the total that might have been obtained from us, would propably have been equal to $100,000,000. Happily the Emperor Napoleon has spoiled : that part of the arrangement, and there will now be some prospect of our being able to contemplate Aith full pockets the commencement of the impending struggle, That we shall be drawn into it before it has lasted two or three months, many persons will consider inevitable, and the advantage of having husbanded our resources will therefore be the more important. Under present circumstances there is no sympathy with Sardinia. She must be playing either a weak or a dishonest game, and the traditions of the house of Savoy are certainly not incompatible with the latter surmise. Count Cavour must know .well that France and Russia .will never permit Italian ; nggramiizement on a constitutional or liberal basis. If any compact has been defined it must consequently be to the effect that u hen Lombardy and Rome shall have been united to: the Sardinian Kingdom, the Sardinian con-■ stitution shall be abolished and the people brought under absolute and congenial monarchy. That Victor Emmanuel has sufficient am-; bition and self-will to be attracted by such a scheme will scarcely bo questioned by those ; who have observed his character. Taking this view of the case, therefore, treachery to the Sardinian people lies at the bottom of the i cry of “Liberty” on which the country is to’ be carried forward.

But it may be said that. Sardinia probably intends only to avail herself of Russian and French bayonets t clear the country of the Austrians and to put down the Pope, and that she will then turn againsl their supporters and refuse any behests ineonsisteiit with Italian freedom. Such a dream would be idiotic, and in any case contemptible. It Sardinia has come to any understanding, actual or implied, with France and Russia, it will be her business to fulfill it to the enl. She has chosen her partners and must be faithful to them, er must be branded accordingly. She cannot set aside the principle of all lime and touch pitch without being defiled. Whether the eti se of liberty can be otherwise than defiled when France and Russia are paraded as her servants and worshipers, the world must judge. Meanwhile, in thef-inidst of all these turpitudes it is satisfactory to trace already the good that is indir-’Ctly springing from them. The King of Naples (counselled most probably by Austria and th.‘ Pope) is beginning to see the necessity of conciliating public opinion at the same time that he is strengthening his army, and has published an important amnesty, which it is said will soon be further extended. Poerio and Settembrini, after their dungeon life of ten years, are to be allowed to leave the country, and sixty-one other political prisoners have been pardoned. At home something like alarm seems at length to have seized the Derby Cabinet, and it is said that the Channel squadron is to be augmented by the addition of twelve sail of the line. This is an instructive result of the “confidential”' relations they boasted of having established with the French Emperor! The Paris writer of the Boston Courier, January 6, charges that—- “ After Orsini’s death most positive engagements were entered into by the Emperor Louis Napoleon with the so-called Italian “patriots,” he solemnly promised that if “time were given him,” he would chase the Austfians from Italy. Since that moment the attempts at assassination have ceased. M. de Cavour, who is obliged to hold more and closer communication than he cares for with the revolutionists of Italy, wasof course the natural confidant, and even in some respects the agent of all these negotiations. But tho difficulties of execution were immense. On one hand the “patriots” point their daggers and pistols, and say: “Deliver Italy or beware of us!” but on the other, England has hitherto said she would hear of no modification to the map of Europe. Russia will only enter into an alliance that shall st all •vent* tacitly con (anted to by Eng-

land, and Prussia will back the English policy in conjuncture with her fine army, backed by the 300,000 men of the troops of the confederation. ----- [From the White Cloud (Kansas) Chief. The Pike’s Peak “Gold Region." No one would be more gratified than ourself, to know that the gold stories constantly arriving from our Western frontiers, were realities. It would be a great benefit to Kansas, as well as to other portions of the Union. But if Kansas cannot be prosperous without humbuging the people, she had better go slow, and bide her time. We cannot help thinking that Pike’s Peak and Cherry Creek are humbugs, notwithstanding nearly every paper we pick up, is filled with glowing accounts from there. We are acquainted with a number of persons who have gone there, and they invariably send bad reports. Another thing looks suspicious. The favorable accounts all appear in papers published in towns which aspire to be outfiting points for the gold regions. We conversed with a gentleman, only a few days since, who had stopped at Cherry Creek, on his way from California overland. He found particles of gold there, and has no doubt that small quantities can be procured, but does not think that diggings will pay. Henry Sterret, who went with a company from Oregon, Mo., last fall, has returned. He reports the diggings a “suction.” A little gold can be found, but nothing that will pay. The entire company are sick of it, and intend to leave it as soon as the weather will permit. Several are going through to California, and the others are going home. Many of the miners, he says, are for keeping up the excitement, in order to draw crowds of gold hunters in the sping [sic], when they expect to sell their claims and cabins for large sums, and return home. Cherry Creek is a little stream, which a man can easily jump across, and is dry a good part of the year. Others of the company have written to their friends in Oregon, telling how they have been humbugged. One of these affectionately wishes all those papers in a veryhot country,which published gold stories, and induced them to go out there. We are hearing plenty of such news as this We should like to be convinced of the truth of the great gold discoveries in the Kansas gold region, but we are not yet convinced, and until we are, shall not advise anyone to go.

LATEST. Asa Hayward has just returned to this place from Salt Lake. He and William V. Culver went out last summer. Culver remains at Salt Lake in the care of the Mormon women. Mr. Hayward passed in the vicinity of the gold regions, and confirms our belief that the excitement is all a humbug. He saw many persons from the diggings, and they were “down in the mouth.” He says particles of gold can be found anywhere between the Platte River and Salt Lake, but it will not pay to gather it. Drifts can be found, which will yield from fifty cents to one dollar, but that is far from paying. We had immagined [sic] that there was less gold excitement in our town than in any other community in the United States; but he says if there had been even one-third the excitement in the neighborhood of the diggings there is in White Cloud, he would have remained: for he had designed to remain if there had been the slightest encouragement for him to do so. It may be judged from this, how plenty the gold is there The snow was five feet deep at the Creek and the Peak, and all operations were suspended; yet, when he arrived at St. Joseph, news came shortly after him, telling how the miners were making from $l0 to $15 per day. Such is the truth of the gold stories! He furthermore says that there arc a number of traders out there, who last spring took out large stocks of goods, in anticipation of a vast emigration to Utah and California. But the Mormon war stopped that, and the traders were left with the goods on their hands. They first started the gold excitement, and are keeping it up, in order to draw people out there, when they can sell their goods at enormous prices. The biggest stories are sent in by these men and their agents. And the the [sic] newspapers are doing their utmost to gull the unsuspecting into going to the diggings, that the trading speculators may save themselves, who went there, in the first place, in order to skin needy emigrants journeying across the Plains. Those papers which doubt the stories, or dispute them, are hooted at. It is a matter of indifference with us. We shall use our feble [sic] efforts to keep people from going there to be swindled, until we have sufficient evidence of the truth of the gold stories. -----

Official Scoundrelism in Dubuque.

The people of Dubuque nre at last beginning to believe that they have “sharpers” among their Democratic office-holders' and place-men. It appears that O'Biien, the Democratic County Treasurer, is a defaulter to the amount of $108,694,13! Whether they will turn b in out of office alter this exposure, or keep him in as they did Ssnizer at St. Louis, is what we cannot judge of, as they have a way of their own to do things in that intensely Democratic city. Theyreceißly sent a Mr. Hull to New York to negotiate some Dubuque bonds, giving him to start with ssoo' to pay expenses. He sold the bonds at some 7o or 80 cents on the dollar, reported that he hid sold them at 52, and very composedly pocketed the difference himself, some SB,OO0 —a trifle that is worth looking after these times, we are told, even in Dubuque.

From KanautM—Fresh Troubles.

A Lawrence letter gives some particulars of a fresh fight in Lykins county.,The Marshal of the_southern District had taken two prisoners, one a harmless old man. and was trying to make other arrests of Free-State citizens, when he and his posse from Fort Scott and Missouri met with an opposing party. A fight ensued, six of the Maruhni’a posse, were slain, and the balance routed. Others on both sides were wounded. Such was the report nt Lawrence, but it was discredited. Two bills have been introduced in the Legislature looking to admission4nto the Union. One is to take a census, and the other provides for another Constitutional Convention, if there be the ratio of Congress!.>na I representation. (LFThomas Crompton, a p*p«r manufacturer of Lancashire. England, dixi recently, Wettb%et«r»en >30,000,060 and >95,0«*.0i0! <»