Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1859.

A Liberal offer.

TFrMU delinquent subscribers to the Gazette who pay their *3 before the first of April next, shall have a copy of the Genesee Farmer sent for one year to their address at our expense.

REPUBLICAN TOENSHIP MEETING.

We tne undersigned, respectfully invite our fellow Republicans of Marion township, to meet at the Court House next Saturday afternoon, at two o'clock, to suggest suitable persons to be voted for at the April election. John Thompson, Sr., C.= W. Henkle, A* McGoy, G. W. Muss, Ezra Wright, i W. D. Lee. \ -And others. noticed that Mr. John Austin, over the way, was yesterday receiving a large lot of new groceries, wooden ware, &c. og7*Thoß. McSheehy has just received a large stock of leather, and is again prepared to accomodate his customers with anything in his line. fciy’R. B. James commenced a school over Spitler’s store, last Monday, and .Miss McCarthy. commenced one the same day, over Laßue’s store. , ? CC7" We are now enjoying fine spring weather, although the roads are still veryjbud. The prospects arej that we are to liavje an earls planting time. CtiZ'We see that Mr. James E. 11 a Hard habought out the drug- store of E. T. Harding, and is now in full possession. We wish him success in the tha-dicine line. {Ls”Jedge Milroy, Chairman of the Committee, advertises for sealed proposals for the Construction Of the Court House fence, to be handed in next Wednesday. Circuit Court adjourned last Friday afternoon. The business was slim, as the attorneys preferred to lay over their bus-, intjss to the next term,.as most of their cases were set for this week. ■■■»•■ - f ... r ' td?”Thc Stackhouse Bros.,liata just received a new and large stock of goods. They are now enabled to furnish anything in their line from a reaping'machine to a.pin. -For full particulars, see tpeif advertisement,. oCg”Tiie debate comes ofFto-nig-ht between the Calliope mis and Erudites,, The following gentlemen are to speak: Affirmative—R. B. James and L. A. Cole. Negative— J. Thompson, Jr., and A. T,uaips.>n, Ques-tion—-Foreign immigration, te/*Satupel L'lkins, 'the.old man, was las.t Friday morning sentenced to the State Prison fior two years, and, to pay a fine-of one dollarsfor assaulting Phillip Handy lest May, with iiitjent to kill. The eases of his sons, Mil liajn and Austin, werecontinued to next term. The evidence in the case was about the same as that before Esq. Purkison last spring, and published in 1 lie Gazette.

THE GREAT OPERA HOUSE.

The Cincinnati papers during the past few weeks have had an unusual number of complimentary notices of the Opera House in that city, recently erected by a wholesale liquor dealer. The papers say that thebuild,ng is the. largest one inj the world built by a private individual, and that the gorgeous style of its architecture aim fini h surpasses anything of the kind in this country. It is an imiuen.se affair, and has cost an| : immense amount of money. But the. aforesaid papers, while they have - been, showering their com pii merit ary not ices upon the proprietor, forget to inform the public how he procured the money with which to erect such a house, although the sequel can be found by turning to the advertising columns of any of the Cincinnati dailies, where his card, as “wholesale dealer in Magnolia Whisky.” can be seen. The papers praise the proprietor for his ‘public sjiirit, in ejecting a colossal building .that is. an ornament to the city, but say nothing ot'ihc destroying spirit which be lias been Sending forth broadcast oVer the hand for years,-carrying misery, crime and hope,less degradation in its train, robbing virtue of her honor, plunging helpless orphan children into squalid want, nerving the assassin’s trembling hand to of blood, and polluting everything that' eorhes in contact with its-blighting} maddening breath. The Opera House was dedicated some two or three Weeks ago by that celebrated songstress, Piceuldmin, find the unrivaled mukic hall was crowded to overflowing with the “.upper ten” of Cincinnati. Fashionable clergymen were, there-; successful swindlers and blacklegs were there, and all who pride in the -‘best, society” of the “Queen of the West” were there. The dedication was a success, and the manager lined his pockets with gold. The writer of this was. present in spirit on the occasion, though not in body. As f stood on the pavement on the opposite side of. th * s'reet from the Great

Building, watching the long rows of costly j carriages, with richly-caparisoned steeds and t servants in liveries, depositing their loads of human frailties on the sidewalk in front, and observing the diamonds, precious stones and golden trinkets that ornamented the ladies sparkle and dance in the gas-light as they ascended the hihiad staircase, I fell into a, deep reverie, and wondered how much suffering the Great Building had cost. I cast my eyes up and gazed at the immense pile of brick and stone and mortar,admiring its beautiful proportions and elegant appearance. Presence a sadness came over my feelings, which cannot rationally be accounted for, and that noble-looking building vanished from my view, and in it place appeared a gigantic pyramid of ghastly human skulls, from the staring eye-sockets of which were flowing rivers of tears —tears of starving wives and starving orphans—and oti the lace of the pyramid, midway between top and bottom, was this inscription in blazing characters,.each letter formed by one or more imps ot Satan, placed in hideously grotesque attitudes:

‘‘MONUMENT TO THE PUBLIC SPIRIT OF ' : Just then tiie spirit of the immortal Coleridge whispered in. my car: “Myself, I named him on.ee below, And all tiie souls that damned bo i.Tap'd u j) at once in anarchy, Clapp’d their hands and daifced for give. , They no longer heeded mo, -?■ But laughed to hear hell’s burning rafters Unwillingly re-echo laughters!” I walked away in anguish of heart from tiiis horrid sight, ami entered the Great Building. I ran up the broad staircase as last as my trembling limbs could carry me, presented a -dollar tit the door, and passed into the spacious hall ami sat down in a richly-cushioned seat. Presently the orchestra struck up. and that divine songstress sang so sweetly that 1 soon forjjot the horrid scene just witnessed; but in a . - short time the same fearful sensations returned with redoubled horrors. High above the music and rich melody of Piccolomini were heard the mournful Wail of the drunkard’s widow, and the harrow mg erv of the drunkard’s children; and the murderer’s curse was comingled with the victim’s plea for mercy. Shriek--on shriek, groan on groan, went up, resounding through the vast hail with awful minuteness. I cast my eyes on the 'brilliant chandeliers, in order if possible, to attract my attention front the wails and cries and shrieks; but there—Ob! horror of horrors!—l; saw the victim - of the public spirited proprietor of the Great Huti.-e. Helpless women were there, with the life -current flowing from the wounds made by thd .assassin's knife in the drunkard’s hand. Bfaddy lu-.ids- were there, with tlie skull mashed into jelly—bloodyfnecks, w i.tb ghastly j cuts from ear to. ear—bloody bodies, hacked and chopped in'a horrid manner. T.h!e soul sickened, and 1 .shut 'my eyes in the vein endeavor to close out the diabolical scene. But this was not ,-ell. A far more awful s'giit was that of once innocent children—sons and daughters grown up in misery am! crime—thieves, robbers, pros!iUtele's, murderers ami m-me-':: . Am! all tie* while little imps, With lyatfisorn-■ and hideously grinning faces, were flitting between the- brilliant lights of the magnificent chandeliers, gloating with fiii'cnia! satisfaction on the victims of ihejihb ic spirited, wlio erected that Great Building on the ruined fortunes and blighted hopes oi his fellow mortals—who has steamboats and babies named after him, and is complimented by I the press. Aye, those imps were grinning exultantly over their victims in this Great House. They knew that every*brick in its walls was washed by the orphan’s tears— ; that every nail went crushing through the! widow’s heart, 'i hey knew that- every cent invested in this Great House was the wages ! of sin-,' and therefore the imps rejoiced, if such Can rejoice. The orchestra went on, and the heavenly singing of the sweet Italian songstress continued; but. high above all sound were those heart-breaking wails and,cries and sobs, and (■lie. fearful sights increased in an hundredfold vividness of horror. Still I was fixed to the spot by this awful enchantment, ami it seemed impossible to leave the place of untold woe. 1 made almost a superhuman effort to rise to my feet and flee 'the place—great drops of blood were on my lor'head—one more desperate struggle, and I aWuke. Thank God! it was But a dream.

I. For the Kjuis-clafr Gazette.

A wORD TO FARMERS.

Mr. Davies: As I was wending my way to town, the other day, I came accross one of our largest farmers, and our road, for some distance, being the same, we fell into conversation. The bright sun was shining above and all around us nature lay smiling in her, beams. , It was natural, particularly at this season o( the year, that the interests of the husbandman should be our theme. “Well,” I remarked to my, companion, “I suppose you are busily engaged with the weak upon your harm!” ‘Mo, I am not doing anything yet. I should like to put in some oats and spring wheat, hut f can't; my land is yet too wet. I must wait until it dries." There it is! That is the grand secret why jt is. we so often fail in our crops. We must “waif until our land dries.” I ask any of my brother fanners, can this he anything hut a revicious practice, Our oats and whent

ought to have been in the ground two weeks ago, and would have been if during last fall, or in the winter, we had cut that drain in the fine field that has, for years past, been begging us to relieve it from its “dead and alive’’ condition. Yes we must wait oftentimes for two or three weeks past the regular season for sowing and planting, that our ground may dry sufficiently, and then, if we do not raise a lull crop, attribute our failure to bad luck, or the frowns of a benificent Providence. Broteher farmers, We must mend our ways! \V e never can succeed, as agriculturalist, in tiiis “slipvshod” way. We must take care ol out; farms or our farms will not take care of us. We must ditch more. We must save the two or three weeks we now loose in the spring. Suppose that our farms had been well ditched and drained last spring, would we have been in the half-starving condition we now are! Common sense and all experience assure us that we would not. Have you any wheat to sell, neighbor! Have you any corn, or anything else to feed man or beast, to sell! You need not answer. Look at th-at poor, miserable scallawag that you expect to help do your spring work—two of him would make a respectable shadow. Look at your milch cows and your work cattle—walking specimens of anatomy! Here is an answer that dives deeply into .your pockets, and ought to haunt your midnight dreams. \ou are robbing yourselves and your families by such miserable mismanagement. Fat cattle, sleek horses, well clad and well educated children, and happy homes, may all be had in Jasper, but you must ditch. There is a gold mine on every farm in our county to be 'had for ditching. We must ditch every pond, every marsh, every wet field, and th in, my word for can have lull garners and money in the till.

[For the-Rensselaer Gazette.

THE RENSSELAER MILL-DAM.

Mr. Editor: Disclaiming any unkind feeling toward either Mr. Van Rensselaer, the owner of the Rensselaer “Mill Property,” or Mr. Hopkins, the present occupant, l wish to raise the question: “Ought the milldam remain?'’ In offering some thoughts upon the above question, I propose to leave out all that might bfi said in relation to its bearing on the health-of the in habitants, and treat it in its relations to the adjacent lands.. T suppose the water \lcOet of ail the lands affected by tin 1 dam is raised not far from three feet. And, on the principle of “capilarV attraction,” the soil is saturated with water, much higher than the water level, and in so rc kinds of soil, the power to absorb surface water is nearly neutralized. Any one cat, see at a glance that the lands would be henefltte'd equally, by lowering the darn or raising the lands injured hv it. It would he sale to estimate the increase of crops, on said lands, at one-thin?, and some years it would He much more than that. If any one doubts this, let them compare the lust year’s crops on the high and low lands. It remains to inquire hoic much land is injured by the uam. Upon this question it cannot be expected that many persons will come to the same conclusion. I will venture the offm-, ion that the amount of land injured is at least twenty times greater than is commonly supposed. Il a careless observer should undertake to settle this J question, he would, most likely, walk along up stream from tlie dam till iie reached a “ripple,” and the question would he settled. But a cares ul observer would set his “tripod” at that“ripple,” and runawater level many miles in every direction; and carefully inea uring ihat “ripple,” and the water above, lie might conclude that the back water from the dam extended five or ten miles farther up the stream. But, as I only wished to open the question for discussion. I close the presprit article by setting down the damage, equal to a sum sufficient to build and furnish a first class steam mill, aml\ keep it going from year to year, if it

ground only air.

A Wife Chastising her Husband in Court.

A singular scene transpired in the Essex Market Police Court last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Ann Phillips, a very good-look-ing young lady, attired in deep mourning, appeared before Jusice Brennan, to prosecute her husband, William Henry Phillips, for abandonment. Site stated that lie left her destitute, with a little infant depending upon her for support, and although she appealed frequently to him for assistance, lie refused to do anything .for her. Recently her uncle died in California, bequeathing to her a fortune us some $30,000. Since this windfall, her husband had tried to live with her again, hut she would have nothing to do with him. She thought, however, that it was no more than justice that he sltould provide for his child. This lie refused to do, and hence the complaint. When Mr. Phillips responded to the summons, lie demanded an examination whether lie was legally responsibl • for the child’s support, whereupon Mrs. Phillips grew highly indignant, and exclaimed, “Well, you are too qontemptable a man fur me to look at, any way. You would murder me for a little no doubt; hut, thank Cod! lam independent of you. I can buy you and your whole family now, if I choose.” She then wtllked toward the dhor, and paused at the entrance until fie passed, when she struck him with her parasol several blows over the head and face, breaking it to pieces. Pushing her aside, lie escaped into the street, when she followed him, and the last hat was seen of them, Mrs. Phillips was sashing him as he ran.— N. Y■ Tribune.

THE NEW COUNT LAW.

We are indebted to Mr. Condit for a copy of the amendments made by the last Legislature to tiie “new county” law. The old law stands just as it was, with the exception that new counties can he formed of any sized territory not less than two hundred square miles; but old counties cannot he cut down to less than four hundred miles, and counties now- existing ol loss than four hundred square miles canhot be further cut down. The following- sections were added to the old bill at the last session: Sec. But whenever, under any law of this State, a new county shall hereafter he created, it shall he the duty of the Governor to issue a writ of election, directed to some person -in such new county, whom he shall appoint to act as sheriff until the next general election, and until liis successor is elected and qualified, requiring him to cause an election to be held at such place or places in said county as he may direct, on such day as may be designated in the w rit of elections, for the purpose of electing one Clerk of the Circuit Court; one- county Auditor; one county Recorder; one county Treasurer; one Sheriff, and three County Commissioners. Sec. The person to whom tiie writ of election is directed shall have the power and is required to appoint the necessary officers of such elections, which officers ol election i shall be governed by (ho laws, now in force, j regulating the elections, and shall make return to the acting sheriff on the Wednesday following, at such place in the county as he may have.designated. Sec. The person to whom ti: • writ.of election is directed,in a new county .shall give at least’ ten days notice of the time and place or places when and where such election's are to he held, and also of the place where the return is to be made to him, by setting up written notices thereof in three of the most public places in such election district which he may establish, in such-county, and on return o! the election being- made to him and i the note compared according, to law, he shall | give to each of the Commissioners a certificate of his election and the time he is elected to serve, having a regard to? the law; and shall also, within ten days after said returns are so made to him, forward to'the. Seeretary of State aicertificate of the persons who are elected to the offices requiring a commission from the 'Governor. Sec. The person so appointed as Sheriff' is authorized to administer such oaths as are required by the Constitution and laws of the State, certified copies of which he shall file in the office ot the Circuit Court whenever it shall be established. Sec. All officers falling within the bounds of a new county shall 'continue to exercise the duties of their several offices until tlicv are succeeded by others, duly qualified to take their place. SEC. No suit .or- action ol any nature whatever, commenced’ in any .coi'irt of record or he lore any Justice >; the Peace', ball in anywise be effected by the laying efior organizing any new county, ami taxes tfi.it m.v be due the State, or fitly county in the State, at the time of organizing x'iy new county, shall be collected in the same manner it such new c > n'y had .-nut been organized. Sec. Said new county shill, ior.punio-m of Representation in the State Legislature, when formed out.of a county mu. organized; remain in the District to winch the c unity roni which it was taken belonged, until a different appointment is provided by law, and tor judicial purposes shall r -main a quirt, of the District to which the origin a 1 Cou n’t v was attached. Sf.c. V* henevOr a new county shall fie formed out of contiguous territory of one or more-counties, the same shall for Re pres 'illative and Judicial purposes, be attached to the county from which the smallest portion of territory was taken.

SNOOKS.

“We want Cuba for the Extension of Slaverv.”

Tile Fanimany Hall Democr.i"v oj Mew York city, had a Cuba meeting a few nights since. All the regular and recognized leaders of Doughfaceism in the metropolis were in attendance, and all were furiously in favor of tile immediate acquisition and annexation of Chiba to the United States, bv force and piratical seizure. Speeches to’this effect were made by John Cochrane, Capt. Rymlers and others; hut. the speech of the evening was made bv Hon. A. G. Brown, IJ. S. Senator from Mississippi, who, forgetting that he was in a free State, utered the most intense fire-eating, fillibustering, slavery-ex-tending sentiments. In the course of his speech, this chivalrous Mississippi Brown proclaimed himself in favor of taking Cuba by “the mysterious opperution ot that power known in political nomenclature by the. name of fillibusterism,” declaring that “Cuba must and shall be ours, and the power does not exist on earth to prevent it.” And then he gave his reasons for wanting Cuba, boldly assorting that it'!' want Cuba for the. extension of Slavery.” But, says he— _J, “We are told if we take the island of Cuba, we shall offend England and France. The devil we will! (Cheers and laughter.) Suppose those governments should go on stilts, it we don t bring them down,d —d me! (Renewed cheering and laughter.) What is it to us whether they like it. or not?” Here is the reckless robber and pirate spirit boldly and profanely avowed and gloried in by a Federal Senator, and cheered and applaude by the Democracy of New York city! This unprincipled Brown is a “specimen brick” of the leaders of modern Democracy, who have control of our Government, and who rule this Republic. Although fully aware what is the object of the Douglas’, Buchanan’s and Slidell’s, in desiring the acquisition of Cuba, yet we were hardly prepared for such an undisguised avowal from a Southern Senator, in a free State. The extension of Slavery is declare ! to be the object, and fillibustering the most advisable means if obtaining it—in other words,violation of treaties,abrogation of laws, and a resort to armed violence, in preference to honorable negotiation, and the maintenance of public faith. And these declarations are put forth by a member of that high legislative body entrusted with making the treaties and laws, and preserving the dignity of the Union! And Democratic Tammany Ilali, in meeting convened, adopts resolutions in accordance with these sentiments, and gets on an ! enthusiastic drunk over them!— Chi. Jour.

P.

A Significant Sign.

The following is copied from the Chicago Press and Tribune ;■—-the leading ns well as the able free-soil journal of Illinois —of a recent date: “The fiee state.men of St. Joseph. Missouri, hehl a public meeting lately at Smith’s Hall, for the purpose of organizing and takirigisteps to contest the municipal election with the-pro slavery men, at the coming-city election. They res dved to start a paper as soon as navigation op ns, to advocate thencause, and pledged themselves to give it a hearty and substantial support. ‘‘The completion of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad will give the free state men large reinforcements, as ;i great stream of travel from the free States will flow over that road to the territories west of the Missouri river In a few years St. Joseph'will be a Republican city'. It is questionable whether a majority of the inhabitants are not at present in favor of making Missouri a free State.” We only submit the above.asianother indication that the outposts of the institution of slavery are giving gradually away,’and that as soon as they do 1 give wav, the citadel itsell will be in danger, but not with , u.cli hope, as. we sorrowfully confess of arou v ing those most interested* to a proper sensij ol their condition. Missouri will become a free State,-i i n£T human probability, within halt' a decade. The exorbitant and unnatural prices. which negroes are now commanding in the 'more southern States are rapidly draining her, as well as the rest of the border States, of their slave population. Ii is not likely Mat-vland will remain a slave State ten years longer; and as lor Delaware, she has about a.- much pecuniary interest in tiie institution, as Vermont. - s In the meantime . the North has been strengthened ph the admission of Minnesota and Oregon, am! Kansas and Nebraska will unquestionably come in as -freesoil States prior to the Presidential election of jsfio. At the same time, owing to tiie high prices ot -negroes; the number of slaveholders is continually diminishing,, and the institution becoming weaker,in the lower slave .Stiff -s, yet let any one propose to. interest the whole people in the-.institution, and thus render it. impregnable, and be is at, once met With the combined of .those who have ail to lose and little or nothing" to gain! Alas, tor the short sightedness ot p or hunt n nature!— .V." O. Crescent.

A Case where Ignerance was Bliss.

On the -3d ol September last nearly sixmonths ago, a mail named Michael Julg killed his. w ile in the Seventeenth Ward', of tiiis city and the papers were filled with the bloody details of -the affair, which were extetisiv: lyj-copied throughout the Suite Since that time Julg bus been tried before the Common Biease for the murder, ami tin* reporters sptcie.l the te~fn;< ny before • public as fully a- .as n-we-sary. The jurv -.- greed, in e •usequoiiee of a doubt 'in regardto the sanity of. the jiffs ;r;or. and he is f,,' to he tried again !’•»» tin- same offence. A-i.1,-from the-details oi the murder -n ! the tn.ii Julg Ims been the snlii vt. of iiv.jwnt paragraim- iff I he papers, .-o that bis n.tm - and crime are ;ami liar in til public. Julg has a mar ied si-o-r reNding iff. vieimi.yo! Hayfini, w.i > i ,-i. -s -■ .j- , |g.., u le-fi-r urging him to bi'in.j h.ts u'/f tin r. *• Du I'j V .ia it VAI.C '.lit ;; JU '.* .. Ii: d;i \V i - U'-ui't the land ol her husband, n.l piv, id. 1 . receive them kindly and. alibi'd nil the ass .'stance to himself and his wile tii ! w possible. The bearer; of. the 'letter ascertained that Julg was in jail, and to k it to him, and then cun ied buck the first- tidings of his present position to -the sister! Although living w itbi ii sixty miles cj ihccity,- she had rein fined in- blissful ignorance -aL-ihe fact' that her brother li-ul murdered liis vile, had one been tried.lor Ins life,-and was in d.t:fy expectation of being again called belfir - a |urv ot liis country a second tiin - for the perpetration oi an unnatural crime! J 1 ,d the jury cunvicl.ed him, fie. would probably haw been executed be,ore .she .was aware that lie was even accused (>!' crime. On Sunday the sister visited Julg in prison, and tiie scene which followed was extremely affecting. It was crushing to (hid a brother whom she had not seen fur months, and whom she supposed to be diving happily with his lamily, confined in a cell for tlm murder of Ills wife! “Ignorance” is ir.de«d, sometimes, “bliss.-” — Cincinnati (iaz., 16th hist.

New Democratic Platform.

'l’lie Albany Evening Journal in publishing the debate in the Senate recently on the Slavery question, collates from the sentiments expressed, by the Democratic Senators upon that occasion, what it regards as the new Democratic l’latf >nn. The Democratic Senators proclaim, ns to Slavery in the Territones,that ('.’.ingress c m do nothing to keep the Settlers from having it, a nil that the Settlers can do nothing to keep from having it, themselves. They insist that if goes wherever the Federal Government goes, hut it does not stop "here the Federal Government stops, (\,r no seal ol State or stall ofoffic” • can keep it out. 1 That, wherever we plant th • A n irican Fi.ig, I there we plant Slavery. That wherever we i carry the Constitution, there we carry the auction block, the manacles, and tin* lash! They claim that la .vs establishing it, by ! whomever passed, must be enrolled on that - statute book, hut that la is prohibiting it by whomever passed, are worthless as blank paper. W hen Mew Mexico adopts a law in its iavor, they pronounce it a chain o! iron. When K/tisas adopts a law agtinst it, they pronounce it a rope of sand. New {States, they declare, may freely copy | the institution of South Carolina, hut. they declare it is treason for them to copy the institutions of New York. In a word, they hold that anybody may legislate Slavery in, but that nobody can legislate it out! They demand Congressional\ legislation to protect it in the Territories, and failing to get that, threaten to dissolve, lirst i their Party and then the Union! Upon this consistent and attractive platform they propose to tighttlie battle o r 1860.> OT7"A personal liberty hill lias been reported from the Judiciary Committee of the Pennsylvania Assembly. Its purpose is to grant lugiliye slaves the right of trial bv Jury. It also prohibits the use of the jails for the detention ol fugitives, and permits Judges to release them upon bail, without a minimum limit,

One of Dan Sickles' Victims.

The Albany correspondent of the Utica .'■(raid, has the following: “I’eopie sHii c ontinue to talk about the •i.order at Washington. To the honor of A bany be it sai I, ijh it. public sentiment here Uounces the shooting down of Mr. Key as a cowardly and u. i.tjal act. “Let him that is w ithout s-»s i cr it the tirst s one. 1 fc>aid a friend to rile, ■ C; terday—one who has known Daniel E. fsickles; almost from boyhood—* “ Something less than five years ago I knew a woman, young, beautiful and confiding. E!ie was a iovld wi e, and a happy, loviirg mother. Though occupying no exalted so--cial position, she had a manly, upright husband, and a pleasant home. The Woman became a reluctant victim to the seducer's devilish arts. Her child to-day is an almshouse 1 hoarder, her husband a sot, and she & degraded outcast. “ ‘< Mi. it is pitiful! 11l a whole city full, friends she has none.’ “Her seducer now conies before the world as the avenger ol outraged chastity! In the cell where justice lias placed him for a dastardly murder, he is ‘visited by the President * am! -receives expressions .of sympathy*. from men. high in station, who have wives anti da lighters, and homes. Out upon such a state of society 1”

Henry Ward Beecher on Newspapers.

Consider how universal are newspapers in America. They penetrate every nook and corner of society. No other element of power has such a sphere. The pulpit, flic court, tiie lec-tiii e , compared with the newspaper, toiu fi society in lut -tew place.--. The newspaper in America is universal. It readies within-and. without, Irom surface to core, it tralyeis -everywhore, is bought by everybody, read by all classes, and -is wholly % or iie.iriy the only reading’ oi more than half our population. Ils.-service to good morals and to intelligence among the people, is incalculable. All the libraries of Europe are not of as much serv-ice to the nations oi Europe as tiie newspaper.-; is to this American nationItsjpower is growing. Who would, twenty ve..rs ago, have dreamed of such a growth untl power, as.has been developed- But the lU'Xt twenty yviws will ii . The editor is to be the si-hduimm-ter; The best, talent will find its sphere in the editoria! room. Already the t'iiair is more influential than the Bei.-cii or the Flaf’orni. No brain can a'' upon so .many as that which speaks by t’e- print! tig pres- of the daily pal’d"- Lit; beats like fil »>d it* the veins of the nation.—.V «• Yo'rk f'idrp ndv/it.

Oeath of Hon. Hover H. Smith.

’ M:v er li. Sin:t.n du d at ins reffdencc in ’fils 'if , i Saturday, night, the 1 efi j„st,, •SI ! 'll o'- ;k. r. ;nos;Xt V-I\, U rt! I SUM- ol' (fs ago. Me. .Smith hfis i.e' :l in-fififing fieultli ahoui a year. :niu •nj.'e Sugu-t last nis been eoi'i'linc'J to hi.- r-o -m. V>? w ithstaiiiling r'.gr :hi"fi wasiing ft.physica! ;> over.-,, in * retuinei; h; • ; ■ uial vi g- r to tiie last, ano trans.-i'-! fi u-diiiai v j u-iiisss to the das fietfiroUgii life until [ii;.- co l, Thus, less pass u iw. van 'tlier.oi ilie ts -.-tknot;lfft.-d men ”l Ki i . -•) — e. wn >j w. :-s prominently and - ' o'; iileritilitsd witiii - fc h sturv. — X: !*:• s njinr'. CJ* * L a:;- !) am. -.if t• •,|.— i > mg', •sforv xiooul i!i • win eng up ot the Missouri i jCgisl.i: irre, li s-.v.-: ••During t:; ' morn fiy. m -sfibers amused th ms ;vgs tfirowuig paper 4 nails at encii other. ,to J in the ■ i-i'-i ■ o by making cllaract *r:s: i -.: nigger speeches, in the meanwhile 1 lie Gfvernor vvoui; I up a grand spree IyV tiding It!- horse ii,tms .on jiarior, mid trying, with his : or*.-!. et, -a tune on the piano.” Tin: Laroest L\xn Sun in nn: W'ihiu-. S qis are about .to L.e c-oivep. •need by the Urn-:, levs who were driver, from Texas many years hg<\. fin- ! r.-e laad* granted to .them by .Mexico. ffiese lands compose the richest ami most fi. rtiie portion of Eistern I’exas. Tiie Ft. Smith (Ark.) Times, of thclatest date, says 1 hat the surviv iivg (’lierokees have Ci.iipi'oyei? able Counsel to conduct the business for them. A State ~in MourningJ—The New Orleans Picayune speaks of Louisiana as a j-Stat.e in mourning, 7- coilsequent upon the bxiilusiou ol the steiuitgr Princess. It says ’-there is 4 scarcely a ejommunlty from which some one oi the lost ii not missing, or to it known by his soci il virtues." The (utility' among prominent citizen-, was remarkable, and the State may well mourn its loss.

“ Di:?, l OCR AC v" E x smc fa fi ed. — The troubleabout the elect-urn ol'a jj. S. Senator in New Jcr.-ey, is the relusal olf the Senate to meet the House inj inf bad lot. .The lfo..se is Republic.! ■■-, the Senate pro-slavery with enough majority in th ■H * i-: t» outvote the Senate. S > the iu ijorhy-proiessing democracy refuse to alfo.wj a. Senator to be chosen. : fUg”The Santa Fe iiazette discusses a pro--ject ter dividing New Mexico in> o two Territories, vvftb t:fu> northern line ot lVrnudillu county as the dividing boundary. The object* apparently, is to orgujizo tw rSlgve Territories out of one, preparatory to t'ltg manufacture ot two Slave S' ttds. How dilligent the propagandist's are in th • work of extending their “peculiar institui ion.” the large stjock of choice cade, purchased by Mr. Barret, of Henderson, Ivy , m England, at a cost ot more than -yJO.OOO, only one cow was alive on the arrival of the ship av New York. Olio after another of the. valuable animals sickened and died; among them was a hull which cost about So,ooo, ami a cow for which tjg.bOO wa» paid. oTf°At the January term of the Supreme Court of Alabama, it was decided that a pe - son whoso great grandmother was the daughter pt a mulatto,.by a negress, is not a competent witness against a white person, although his father, makernal grandfather, and great-grandfather were white men. three weeks ago a man named Garrett, a farm *r sit South NVesterloo, Albany Co., N. Y. disposed of his farm for SO, 000, gave §2.000 to lfis wife and two children, and wi ll the balance eloped wi’h hi* servant girl to California