Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1859 — Page 2
THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 16, 1859.
A Liberal Offer.
H7FAII delinquent subscribers to the GFazeMc who pay their *2 before the first of April next, shall have a copy of the Genesee Farmer sent for one year to their address at our expense. John Goetz advertises that he will pay cash for green and dry hides and sheep pelts. . (g!7“ln the case of John Warner, charged with burglary, the jury to-day returned a verdict of not guilty. Schuyler Colfax will accept our thanks for public documents, and for many favors during the past winter. We are indebted to Hon. David Snyder for a bound copy of the proceedings of the Ex ra Session of the Legislature. - (O' Postmaster-General Brown died at Washington last Wednesday. Judge Holt, Commissioner of Patents, has been promoted to the vacancy. tyfyWe learn that the Hon. John Pettit has been appointed Chief Justice of Kansas Territory in placcof Judge Lecompte, whose term of office h-asexpired. (£rit is reported that Judge Hughes, of this State, defeated candidate for re election to Congress last fall, has been tendered the appointment of Commissioner of Patents.
Circuit Court is in session this week. A law has been passed giving us two weeks’ court instead of one, commencing one week earlier in the month than heretofore. McCarthy will commence a school over La Rue’s store next. Monday. See advertisem mt for terms. The schools of Mr. Niles and Miss Johnson close next Friday. £C7”Governpr Medary, of Kansas, has issued a proclamation for an election on the iouxth Monday in this month, in accordance with an act cf tlie Legislature, providing for the formation of a State government for that Territory. (Cj"Hon. William L. Goggin, the Opposition candidatje for Governor of Virginia, has entered upon a canvass of the State, as he says, ‘ not only with the hope o' success, but with the assurance of the triumph of pur cause, that amounts to faith itself.” Washington letter-writers say that the President will be compelled to call an extra session of C ngress during the summer. 1 f this be done, it will place the organization of the next House in the hands of the Republicans, as many of the Southern States have their Congressmen yet to elect. 11
THE PUBLIC DEBATE
Has been postponed to next Wednesday night, on account of'the Circuit Court being in session tins week. We forgot to state in our last number that in the last debate the Erudite Society again came off victories, for which forgetfulness we have been most unmercifully belabored by some of,our Erudite friends. We truly regret that we did not sooner chronicle their success? Long may they wear their “blushing honors.'’
[For the Rensselaer Gazette
TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES.
Jlr. Editor: As we are hereafter to have but one trustee in each township, it will be seen.at a glance, th it a great responsibility will be connected with that otliee. But it is my purpose to call the attention of the people to the fact that Ptez'r whole system of common schools is under the direction of one man. Now I ask ii this one man ought not to be selected for his fitness for this office? We can get along somehow with a bad Governor, or almost any other b id officer, because we have the whole county or State froth which to select a hiding place till “Herod be dead.” But, sir, I should like to know ihow a man can live shut up in one little township, with one of these “high pressure” trustees. “Oh, lor so.in ■ vast Prairie; Some boundless contiguity of shade.” No, fellow citizens, >ve must elect goad and true men to this office, or we shall have to leaye tile country. We ought to elect u man possessed of" the following qualifications, viz; A virtuous character—a sound m j n d—a lover of common schools—one who will keep within the teller and spirit of the law. He ought to have no monstrous or eccentric opinions to propagate or defend; a suggestion in regard to all public officers. Why should a man, divinely appointed to upturn all that has been heretofore supposed to be settled, in regard to interests of time and eternity—to make wise'men of fools, and fools of wise men—to make men sorry they ever did believe anything but nonsense; why, I say, should we require such men to attend to the paltr waffairs of a public office! Have they uot a right to claim exemption’
I hope no one will get “crusty” and refuse to eat their supper; or nervous, and refuse to sleep. But, reader, will you help to elect a good township trustee for your own town-
ship?
A Democratic Display!
four Hundred ITlen and Women Sold.! A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune attended the sale of Mr. Pierce Butler’s negroes at Savannah last week, and makes quite an interesting report of it. Mr. Pierce Butler has heretofore been known as the husband of Fanny Kemble. Hereafter he will be less pleasantly renowned as the vendor of four hundred human beings, whose feelings, which, contrary to the Cincinnati Platform and the Dred Scott Decision, they had permitted to be harrassed by their sale into strange hands and lands, he soothed by a present of a dollar apiece. The slaves were part of his f ther’s prop.'rty descended to him on his father’s death. The sale and some of the, scenes attending it, present some features of interest which we‘copy:
WHERE THE NEGROES CAME FROM. The negroes came from two plantations, the one a rice plantation near Darien in the State ot Georgia, not far from the great Oketonokee Swamp, and the other a cuttpn plantation on the extreme northern point of St. Simon's land, a little bitofan island in the Atlantic, cut off from Georgia main land by a slender arm of the sea. Though the most ot the stock had been accustomed to rice and cotton planting and culture, there were among them a number of very passable mechanics, who had been taught to do all the rougher sorts of mechanical w ork on the plantation. There were coopers, carpenters, shoemakers and blacksmiths, each one equal in his various craft to the ordinary requirements of the plantation, that is, the coopers cou d make rice tierces, and possibly, on a pinch, rude tubs and buckets; the carpenters could do the rough carpentry about the negro quarters; the shoemaker could make shoes of the fashion required for the slaves, and the. blacksmith was adequate to the manufacture of hoes and similar simple tools, and to,such trilling repairs in the blacksmithing way as did not require too relined a skill. Though probably no one of all these would be called a superior, or even an average workman among 1 , the masters of the craft, their knowledge of these various trades sold in some cases for nearly as , much as the man-—than is, a man without a 4 trade, who would be valued at §9OO. would readily bring §1,600 or 1,700 it he was a passable blacksmith or cooper. Out of this great family none had ever been sold, consequently the selling now came all the harder. , a THE WAY THEY WERE KEPT, AND LOOKED. The negroes were kept for the day of sale in sheds on the race course, which had been erected for horses and wagons attending the races. Here is a description of the scene and the people:
In these sheds were the chattels huddled i together on the floor, there being no sign otd a bench or table. They ate and slept oh | the bare boards, their food being rice and : beansj with oecasionly a bit. of bacon and qorti, huge bundles were' slaves sat’or'yeclined. wlien not restlessly moving about, or gathered into sorrowful groups, discussing the chance of their future fate. On the laces of all was an expression! ot heavy grief; some seemed to be resigned! to the hard stroke of Fortune that had thrown ! them from their homes, and were sadly try- j , ing. to make the best of it; some sat brood-| ■ ing moodily over their sorrows, their chins I resting on their hands their eyes staring va-I cantiy, and their bodies rocking too and fro, with a restless motion that was never stilled; few wept, the place was too public and the I drivers to near, though some occsionly turned aside to gave way to a few quiet tears. They were dressed in every possible variety of I uncouth and fantastic garb, in everv style .and q! every imaginable color: the texture ol the garments was in all cases coarse,most I of the men being clothed in the rough cloth that is made expressly for the slaves. The I dresses assumed by the negro minstrels when they give imitations of plantation character, : are by no means exagerated, they tire in- ; stead, weak and unable to come up to the i original. There was every variety of hat, with every imaginable suluch; and there was every cut and style of coat and pantaloons, ' made with every conceivable ingenuity ot misfit, and tossed on with a general appearance ot perfect looseness,that is periectly indescribable except to say that a Southern negro always looks as if he could shake his i clothes off without taking his hands out o< his pockets. The woman, true to feminine ' instinct, had made, in almost every case, ■some effort at ii :erv. All wore gorgeous turbans, generally manufactured in an in- ; stunt out of a guy c lored handkerchief by a sudden and graceful twist of the fingers; though there was occasionally a more elaborate tu-ban, a turban complex and mysteri- ! ous, got up with care and ornamented with I a lew beads or bright bits of ribi.on. Their dresses were mostly coarse stuff, though there were some of gaudy calicoes; a few had ear rings, and one possessed the treasure of a stran of yellow and blue beads. The little children were always better and more carefully dressed han the older ones, the parental pride coming out in the shape of a yellow cap pointed like a mitre, or a jacket with strip of red broadcloth round the bottom. The children were of all sizes—the youngest being fifteen days old. The babies were generally good natured. though when one would set up a yell the complaint soon attacked the others, and a lull chorus would be the result. A young negro baby looks ' like an animated bit of india rubber, and has wonderful powers of suction. They were very prevalent in the long show room where all the stock was congregated the day of sale, and tlusethat were old enough to have defined ideasof locomotion were perpetually crawling away from theft mothers, and getting under the feet of visitors. They have 1 ! a passion for climbing, and made strenuous exertions to scale the legs of the people who didn’t belong to them; if a m n stood still for a moment, he was certain to have a baby ‘ banging to each leg—like a crab. They
didn’t object to being knocked dowh, and rolled over, or being pitched across the room, or any trifle of that sort; but" 1 it seemed to disconcert them to step on their fingers ONE OF THE INCIDENTS. The following curiously sad scene is a type of a thousand others that were there enacted. “Elisha,” chattie No. 5 in the catalogue, had taken a fancy to a benevolent looking middle ag'ed gentleman who was inspecting the stock, and thus used his powers of persuasion to induce the benevolent man to purchase him, with his wife, boy and girl, Motley, Israel and Savanda, chattels No. -6, 7 and 8. The earnestness with which this poor fellow pressed his suit, knowing, as he did, that perhaps the happiness of his whole life depended on his success, was interesting, and the arguments he used were most pathetic. He made no appeal to the feelings of the buyer; he rested no hope on his charity and kindness, but only strove to show how well worth his dollars were the blood and bones he was entreating him to buy. “Look at me. mas’r; am prime rice planter, sho’ you won't find a better man den me; no better on the whole plantation; not a bit old yet; do inp’ work den ever; do carpenter work, too, 1/ftle; better buy me, Mas'r; I’se be a good sarvant. Molly, too, my wile, sa, fus rate rice hand; mos as good as me. Stan’ out yer, Molly, and let the gen’lm’n see.” Molly advances, with her hands crossed on her bosom, and makes a quick short courtesy, and stands mute, looking appealingly in the benevolent man’s face. But Elisha talks all tlie faster. “Show mas'r yer arm, Molly—good arm mas r—she do a heap of work mo’ with dat arm yet. Let good mas’r see yer teeth, Molly—see dat mas’r, teeth all regular, all good, she in young gal yet. Come out, yer, Israel, walk aroun’ an’ let the gen’lm’n see how spry you be.”
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Then pointing to the three-year-old girl who stood with her chubby hand to her mouth, holding on to her mother’s dress, and uncertain what to make of the strange scene. ‘■L ttle Vandy’s only a child yet; make prime gal by.and by. Better buy us mas’r, we’m fus’ rate bargain”—and so on. But the benevolent gentleman found where he could drive a closer bargain, and so bought somebody else. Similar scenes were transacting all the while on every side—parents praising the strength and cleverness of their children, and showing off every muscle and sinew to the very best advantage, not with the excusable pride of other but to make them the more desirable in the eye of the man buyer; and, on the other hand, children excusing and mitigating the age and inabili ty of parents, that they might be more marKetable and tall, it possible, into kind hands. Not unlrequently these representations, if borne out by tiie facts, secured a purchaser. The women never spoke to the white men unless spoken to, and then made the conference as short us possible. And not one of them all, during, the whole time they were thus exposed to the rude questions of vulgar men, spoke the first unwomanly or indelicate word, or conducted herself in anv regard otherwise than as a modest woman should •to; their conversation and demeanor were quite as exemplary as they would have been had they been the highest ladies in tlie land, and through all the insults to which t±ey were subjected they conducted themselwis with the must perfect decorum and spect.
THE WAY THE CHATTELS “TOOK” THE SALE. The expression on the faces of all who stepped on the block was always the same, and told ot more anguish than it is in the power of language to express. Blighted homes, crushed hopes and broken hearts was the sad story to be read in all the anxious lacs. Some of them regarded the sale with perfect indifference, never making a motion save to turn from one side to the other at the word of the dapper r. Bryan, that all the crowd might have a fair view of their pro ortions, and then, when the sale was accomplishad, stepping down from the block without caring to cast even a look at the buyer, who now held ail their happiness in his hands. Others, again, strained their eyes wi .h eager glances, from one buyer to another us the bidding went on, trying with earnest attention to follow the rapid voice of the auctioneer. Sometimes two persons only were bidding for the some chattel, all the others having resigned the contes , and then the poor creature on the block, conceiving an instantaneous preference for one of the buyers over the other, regard the rivalry with the intensest interest, the expression of his luce changing with every bid, settling into a halt smile ot joy if the tavorite buyer persevered unto the end and secured the property, and settling down into a look of hopeless despair if the other won the vic-- 1 tory. daphney’s baby. I he family of Primus, plantation carpenter, consisting of Daphney, his wife, with her young babe, and Dido, a girl ot three years old, were reached in course of time. Daphney had a large shawl, which she kept carefully wrapped round her infant and herself. This unusual proceeding attracted much attention, and provoked a good many remarks, such as these: “What do you keep your nigger covered up for! Pull ofFlaer blanket! “What’s the matter of the gal! Ain’t sh (> sound! Pull off her ragsand let us see her!” “Who's going to bid on that nigger, if you keep her covered up? Let’ .-ee her face!” And a loud chorus ot simitar remarks, emphasized with loud profanity, and mingled with sayings too indecent and obscene to be even hinted at nere, went up from the crowd ot chivalrous Southern gentlemen. At last the auctioneer obtained a hearing long enough to explain that there was no attempt to practice any deception in the case—the parties were not to be wronged in any way; he had no desire to palm oft on them an inferior article, but the truth of the matter was that Daphney had been confined only fifteen days ago, and he thought that on that account she was entitled to the slight indulgence of a blanket, to keep from herself and child the chilfair and driving rain. THE SALE OF JEFFREY AND DORCAS. > Among the chattels to be disposed of was one named Jeffrey, a stout young man of twenty-three, who had so far forgotten the Dred Scott decision, his duty to the Constitution, and his admiration to the star epan-
gled banner which “waves over the land of the free” especially and eternally, as to fall in love, ridiculous fancy, with a plump healthy young girl named Dorcas. As they were not married they might be sold separately, and thus be bought by different masters. So Jeffrey, after he had been sold, set his wits (which had belonged to P. Butler, Esq., of Philadelphia) to work, (not for P. Butler, Esq., but feloniously and unconstitutionally, and in contravention of the Cincinnati Platform) for himself, in order to secure the purchase of Dorcas by his own master. Thus he did it:
The man seems touchad by Jeffrey’s remarks, and bids him fetch out his “gal, and let’s see what she looks like.” Jeffrey goes into the long room and presently returns with Dorcas, looking very sad and self-possessed, without a particle of embarrassment at the trying position in which she is placed. She makes the accustomed courtesy, and stands meekly with her hands clasped across her bosom, waiting the result. The buyer regards her with a critical eye, and growls in a low voice that the “gal has good p’ints.” Then he goes on to a more minute and careful examina tion of her working abilities. He turns her round,makes her stoop, and walkjand then 1 e takes off her turban to look at her head that no wound or disease be concealed by the gay handkerchief; he looks at her teeth and feels of her arms, and at la t announces himself pleased with the re ult of his observations, whereat Jeffrey, who has stood near, trembling with eage - hope, is overjoyed, and he smiles for the first time. The buyer then crowns Jeffrey’s happiness by making him a promise that he will buy her, it the price isn’t run up too high. And the lovers step aside and congratulate each other on their good fortune. But Dorcas is not to be sold until the next day, and there are twentyfour long hours ol feveri h expectation.. Early next morning is Jeffrey alert, and hat in hand, encouraged to unusual freedom by the greatness of the stake for which he plays, he addresses every buyei,andot all who will listen he begs the boon of a word to be spoken to his new master to encourage him to buy Dorcas. And all the long morning he speaks in his homely way witn all who know him that they will intercede to save his sweetheart from being sold away from him forever. No one has the heart to deny a word of promise and encouragement to the poor fellow, and joyous with so much kindness, his hopes and spirits gradually rise until he feels almost certain that the wish of his heart will be accomplished. And Dorcas too is smiling, tor is not Jeffrey’s happiness her own! At last comes the trying moment and Dorcas stepped up on the stand. But now a most unexpected feature in the drama is for the first time unmasked; Dorcas is not to be sold alone, but with a family of four others. Full ol dismay, Jeffrey looks to his master, who shakes his head’ for, although he might be induced to buy Dorcas alone, he has no use for the rest of the family. Jeffrey reads his doom in his muster’s look, and turns away, the tears streamin'* down his honest face. 1 So Dorcas is sold, and her toiling life is to be spent in the cotton fields of” So ith Garolina, while Jeffrey goes to the rice plantation of the C|jeat Swamp. , In another hour I see Dorcas in the long room, sitting motionless as a statue, with her head covered with a shawl.„ And I see Jeffrey, who goes to his new master, pulls oft his hat and says, “I’se very much obiged, Mas’r, to you for tryin’ to help m*e. I know you would have done it if you could—thank you, Mas’r—th nk you—but—its—berry—hard,” —and hear the poor fellow breaks down entirely and walks away, coverin'* his face with his battered hut, and sobbing like a child.
He is soon surrounded by a group of collored frien.ds, who with an instinctive delicacy most unlooked for, stand quie’, with uncovered heads about, him. AN UNEXPECTED MARRIAGE. When the family of Mingo, consisting of his wiie, two sons and a daughter, was called for, it was announced by the auctioneer that chattie, No. 322, Dembo, the eldest son, age 20, had the evening before procured the services ot a minister and been joined in wedlock to chattel No. 401, Frances, and that he should be compelled to put up the bride and groom in one lot. They were called up and, as was to be expected, their appearance was the signal for a volley of coarse jokes from the auctioneer, and of ribald remarks from the surrounding crowd.. The newly married pair bore it bravely, although one refined gentleman cook hold of Frances’ lips and pulled them apart, to see her age. It was ahno.-t too much for endurance to stand and see those brutal slave drivers pushing the women about, pulling their lips apart with their not too cleanly hands, an I committing many another indecent acts, while the husbands, fathers and brothers of those women were compelled to witnes these things, without the power to resent the outrage. Dembo and Frances were at last struck oft' for $1,320 each, and went to spend their honey-moon on a cotton plantation in Alabama.
PROCEEDS or THE SALE. And so the Great Sale went on for two long days, during which time there were sold 429 men, women and children. There were 436 announced to be sold, but a few were detained on the plantation by sickness. At the close of the sale, on the last day, sundry has rets of champagne were produced, and all were invited to partake, the said wine being at the expense of the broker, Mr. Bryan. The total amount of the sales foots up three hundred and three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars—the proceeds of the first day being one hundred and sixty-one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars, and of the second day one hundred and fortytwo thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. What a blessed thing it is that we live in the only land on earth where such happifying, purifying and civilizing exhibitions can be Been. How the patriotic heart swells with joy in reading these incidents of a great and instructive display of the ennobling tendencies of Democracy. England, France, Spain, evan Turkey and Russia have in-
sanely deprived themselves of the power of 1 presenting such an impressive lesson of civilization to their subjects. Only the “Land of the Free,” and the Democracy of the Union, are brightened with this glory.
Quart Temperance Law.
The following is a synopsis of the act : which passed both branches of the Legisla- ; ture and has received the signature of the Governor, “to regulate and license the sale ot spirituous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors, and to prohibit the adultera-I tion of liquors:” No person shall sell or barter, directly or : indirectly, any intoxicating liquors less than a quart at a time, without at first having ! procured a license; the word “intoxicating ' liquor” shall apply to any spirituous, vinous or malt liquor, which is used or mav be used as a beverage; any white male inhabitant desiring to obtain license shall give notice of the precise location of the premises where i he desires to sell, at least twenty days be- | fore the meeting of the County Commission- ' ers from whom he intends to apply for a license; applicant to be a man of good character, and fit to be trusted with a license. ' and to give bond with at least two freehold I sureties, residents of the county, to be approved by the Auditor” in the sum of §s<>o that he will keep an orderly house and pav all fines assessed against him tor any violation of the act; to pay to County Treasurer §SO as a fee for license for one year, to be applied to the Common School fund; no license to be granted tor less than one year: ' the license under the act does not author- | ize the selling or bartering of any intoxicating liquors on Sunday, to any person under the age of twenty-one years, to, a person j ir. a state of intoxication, nor upon the day of any State, county, township or municipal election; “every person who shall directly or indirectly, knowingly sell, barter or give away any intoxicating liquor to any person who is in the habit of being intoxicated, alter notice shall h ve been given him by the wife, child, parent, brother or sister of’such person, or by the overse r or overseers of poor of the township where he resides, that that such person is in tlie habit o being intoxicated, shall be deeinpd guilty of a misde- I meaner, and upon conviction thereof be fined not less than §5, nor more than §50;” anv person or persons not being licensed wh’> shall sell intoxicating liquors, in violation of the provisions of the act, shall be fined not less than §5 nor more than §lO9, to which may be added imprisonment in the county jail for any determined peried not exceeding thirty days; any person who shall sell, barter or give away intoxicating liquors to a person under twenty-one years of age, or to any person at the time in a state of intoxication, to be fined not less than §5 or more than §lO, and imprisonment in the county jail may be added, not exceeding 30 days; the adulterating or the selling ot any adulterated Ijquors, to be fined not less than §SO or more than §SOO, to which imprisonment in the county jail may be added, nut exceeding three months; all places where intoxicating lizuors are sold, in violation of this act, sh ill be deemed common nuisances, and the keepers fined not less than §SO or more than §2OO and imprisonment not ex- i ceeding three months—but no prosecution is to be instituted fur any violation of the act between the time it shall take effect ami the close of the fi st regular session of the Board of Commissioners of the proper county thereafter, the beginning of which session not taking place in less than four weeks after this act shall have taken effect; the Circuit and Common Pleas courts to have jurisdiction to hear and determine all complaints under the act, and it is made the duty ot the Grand Jury to take cognizances of ail offences against its provisions, as in case of felonies; Justices ol the Peace io have jurisdiction also, but in all cases where §25 ; is deemed to be an inadequate fine, the party offending shall be recognized to appear i at the next term ol any court having competent jurisdiction; the Common Councils: ol cities and the board of trustees o.i incorporated towns can enforce a lee for license from all keepers of coffee-houses or other places where intoxicating liquors are sold and drank within the limits ot their respective corporations in add tion to the fee for license under this act; an emergency’ is declared to exist, and is to be in force from and after its publication in the Journal and Sentinel.
The Salary Law.
The new salary act fixes the following compensation or yearly salaries for the officers named, engaged in the public service: Governor,s3,ooo; Treasurer of State ,$3,000 ; Auditor of State, 2,500; Secretary of State, $2,000; President of Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, $3,000; Governo 's Private Secretary, $500; Superintendent Public Instruction, $1,300; State Librarian, $800; Superintendent Insane Asylum, 1,200; Superintendent Deaf and Dumb Asylum, sl,000; Superintendent Blind Asylum, $800; vV arden Prison, $1,500; Moral Instructor State Prison, $800; Physician State Prison, $800; Adjutant and Quartermaster General,s2s each; Judges ol Supreme Court, $2,000 each; Judges ot Circuit Courts, s],500 each; Prosecuting Attorneys, SSOO each ; the Auditor of State is allowed two clerks at SI,OOO each; and one at $600; the Tre surer ot State one at SBOO, and the Secretary of State one at SBOO. In addition, the law provides that there shall be taxed and collected as other costs for ail civil actions, appeals from Justice’s Courts and confessi ms of Judgmen s in the Circuit and Common Pleas Courts, a docket fee of $1 in each case, and a docket fee ol $4 in the Supreme Court for each .case, which are to be collected and paid into the County and State Treasuries bv the clerks of the several Courts. The object of this provision is to lessen the expenses of the Judiciary system to the State. 4he increase of the salary to the Governor cannot take effect during the term of the present Executive, and only applies to his successor in office.— lndianapolis Sentinel. Boston Female College, at the close of its, annual term on Wednesday, conferred the degree of M. D. upon Almira Fifield, Valparaiso, Ind , Mary Ann Harris. 1 roy, N. H., Mary Ann Brown Homer, Brimfield, Mass., Elizabeth Taylor, Pitcher, N. Y., Sarah Sheldon Wetherbee. Charleston, Mau.
[From the A drian (Mich.) Expositor, Meh. 8.
Mr. Thurston's Remains Eound at Last!
Our city was thrown into considerable excitement, this morning, in consequence of the arrival of two or three gentlemen from Sylvania, with a part of the remains of the ; lost aeronaut, Ira J. Thurston, whose tragic lute, last summer, is so well remembered bv our readers. The facts of the discovery, as near as we can ascertain, are these: 'Last Sunday, as the son ot Michael Hoag was searchin'* for some sheep in the woods, on the fanfl of Mr - 8. Miner, about four miles soutii-east of the village of Sylvania, he discovered the remains ol the body of a man. He immediately ran to his lather, who, in company with Mr. Miner, repaired to the spot, and there found abundant evidence that the remains were those of Mr. Thurston, who must have fallen from his positmn on the valve of the balloon, where he was seated when carried off so singularly last summer. These gentlemen immediately proceeded to collect what could be found, but only sticce-ded in finding the skull, and one foot in a boot, anda few'other small bones. The rest of the bodv has been carried off’ by wild beasts. They found, however, the coat, pants, vest and shirt, and nil them Mr. 1 hurston s cards upon which he took his minutes on his balloon trip from Adrian to the place of landing, near Sylva- 1 " nia. The pencil marks on tne cards were so water-soaked tue writing could not be made out. 1 hey lound,however,in.a memoranda book? a letter directed to Mr. Thurston, from a firm • n Philadelphia, which was in reply to inquiries about balloon siik. <. They also lound Mr. Thurston’s watch, and kina', both of winch are fully identified by many ot our. citizen- as bis property--1 be watch is unhurt, but stopped at twenty minutes to twelve o’clock, which shows the time he fell. All that remains ol the unfortunate Thurston, about whose fate there so much solicitude, is now enctosedJn a small box, dt this office, where we huve so often trreeted his honest lace, and answered his pleasant salutation in day past.
[W ashingtwn Correspondent oi the 5. Y. Courier
“’Tis the Survivor Dies.”
The tragedy at Wadi-ington. has been in all voices to-day. Be ond ail till? other features ot this case is the terrible truth, that a here a ma:i of fine ititellect' participates in such a scene ’tis the survivor dies ” It must be s .—dismissed suc|i scenes cannot be—-the red ray will be in ail the light of the future. A,n engineer on one of otir railway s had,.without taul! of his own. run the t emendous power umb r his control over a human being. The body was removed from the rail, death had done his dread work, examination Was made of the < i rcumst a nee.-. and the engineci ac p iited.the timnici le was not in him. Yet, a little ivhife afterward the engineer came to the superintend' !.? ami asked to resign his place—-he could not endure it. any longer. “VDhy do yon goi” said the superintend-ent—-“no one blamt » von.” •• A i." s.,id he, •• 1 n.u.-tg'. Every nightl tun on tiu> road, / ,s., that man standiinj 1,. - Jar: th ? en<jin< !'■
Won't Pay Her Taxes-the consequence.
M:. Janies W. Hovt, < Collector for the town of Wallkill, New York, his attached, and olfers fur sale, “A Pair 6f Bloom' r Pants,” the property of Mrs. Dr. Lydia Saver Hasbrouck, in satis r action for faxes due said town by the lady doctor. Mrs. H., we , believe, denies the right to tax without grant- , ing the privilege to vote, and thus comments upon the tax gatherer's conduct: , ••He may sneer at the course we are pur- . suing to gam justice—he may act the part ol . a vulgar sneak to drive us from it—but lie i will find he bus mistaken the metal of the one he has to deal with, if he has the famt- . est hope to gain any vantage.ground bv the course pursued. ’instead cf our respect, which he had, and would have retained by a proper j-mmse. we now scorn and despise ; him. Bhis sale, from which he hoped to j reap so rich a hardest of sport, may not prove 'So tunny an affair as was looked for: for confident are we, no citizen among us, who respects himself or his wife, will be there to 1 to aid him in his farce.”
Appointments by the Gaovernor.
. John W . Blake, ol Clinton county, John , P. Dunn, of Marion county, and B. F. .Mullen, ol Ripley county. Directors to constitute a Board of Control to locate and superintend | the letting and construction of a new State Prison, north ofthe National Road. W . 11. Talbott, of Marion countv, President of the Board of Trustees ofthe Institution forthe Deafand Dumb, the Asylum for i the Blind, and of the Commissioners ofthe Hospital for the Insane. E. J. Peck and Henry Brady, of Marion county, Commissioners of the Hospital for the Insane. 1 homas U. Woolen, of Johnson countv, and John M. Kitcl en, of Marion countv, [ I rustees ot the Institution for the education ■ol the Dent and Dumb. M. Fitzgibbon, of Marion county, and” 11. G. Hazelngg, ot Boone county, Trustees of the Asylum forthe Blind.— Sentinel. Kossuth on the Continent. Galiwnani’s Messenger contains the following extract from a letter in the Augsburg Gazette. dated Genoa .January 27. It seems scarcely probably th.it its statement can be correct, I although they are positive,and came in a verv ■ direct manner:— I “I can positively assure you that Kossuth, [whom I know personally, arrived here ves- [ terday, with three other Hungarians? from i N ice. He has come under the name ol Clark, | with a passport from Paris, where he had’ i stopped for some time. While at Paris and at Nice, he had, it is said, interviews with [ several Hungarians, who are anxious to take I advantage of the Italian complications to excite fresh agitation. Kossuth, it is also stated, has with him a great number of proclamations, intended to induce the desertion of the Hungarian troops in the LombardoVenitian kingdom. He has since left for Turin.”
Pike's Peak.
ST. LOUIS, March 10. ——>It is estimated that ten thousand persons afflicted with gold fever have arrived here in the last three days, en route to Pike’s Peak mines.