Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, IBS’*

Sickles trial, now in progress, is creating great sensation in Washington City. The court room is crowded to excess every day, and many fail to gain an entrance. - v - prairie took fire a mile or two ■ outh of town one day last week, and the fire ran through two or three farms before it was extinguished, doing very little injury, however. (kt/The Valparaiso Republican has again changed hands, Dr. Cameron, who retired from its management last fall, reascending the “tripod.” We cordially welcome the Doctor back to his first love. He is an able and fearless editor and a good fellow generally. Success to you this time, friend Cameron. (£7"We notice that the South Bend Register has been enlarging its borders, which greatly enhances its worth and appearance. ; »We are glad to observe this token of prosperity, as it is an excellent paper, and one from which we frequeiHly select. We also see the name of Hon, Schuyler Colfax again at the editorial head. We welcome friend Colfax back to the editorial fraternity. (piyThe New York Mercury announces that it has secured the services of Bayard Taylor for a., year, as a contributor to that journal, beginning on the 30th inst. He is to write songs, sketches, incidents of trav- ! el, and the like. We had a good deal rather read his papers than Everett's “ten thousand i dollar”documents. Those who want to read i “Bayard’s?’ admirable sketches must send for j the Mercury, $2 a year. ~ ■

SHADE-TREE MEETING.

AU those interested in having the Public Square shaded, are requested to attend a meeting in relation thereto, at the Treasurer’s office, on to-morrow (Thursday) night.

R. H. MILROY,

Chairman of Committee.

A HARD HIT AT RENSSELAER.

The following communication contains a hard hit at the culpable negligence ot this town in not building a school-house. We would recommend our citizens, if they cannot build a school-house, to call our rural friends to their aid, as “J. Q.” suggests: “Mr. Editor: Some time since it was quite common, through the columns of the Gazette, for your country subscribers to have their ears saluted with the cry of our County Court House being-made a st able, where the cattle, horses and hogs of Rensselaer resorted for shelter in stormy weather Also, our town friends would complain to us when we visited them of the County Commissioners not fencing the Public Square, and making walks, &c. “Now, we wish to know of them, as they cannot have the County Commissioners build them a school-house, if they wish the folks from .the country to come and build them one. If so, we wish them to make it known through the Gazette. J. Q.”

JOSEPH C. LOVEJOY’S LETTER.

, On the first page of this paper will be f6und the letter of Joseph C. Lovejoy, makingrestrictions on the speech of h's brother, the Hon. Owen Lovejoy, of Illinois, which speech was published in the Gazette last week. Joseph holds a fat office in the Boston Custom House, and the probable ) motive that induced him to write the letter was, perhaps, the fear that the Admiirstration would look with suspicion on the “Democracy” of the brother of the man who delivered such a bold, defiant and masterly speech as did Owen Lovejoy. Taking this view of Joseph’s motive, it will somewhat palliate his conduct in coming forward as the champion of the Pro-slavery party, and endeavor to snatch from the noble brow of his noble brother the laurels that he has so honorably gained in defending the rights of free labor. If we take any other view of his motive, we will be forced to admit that he was actuated by a mean spirit of envy for his brother’s popularity. But take it in any light we choose, the letter of Joseph C. Lovejoy to Owen Lovejoy is unbrotherly, unkind, and totally uncalled so this unbrotherly" act is aggravated by his sending the letter to the Washington Union f republication. It is a Federal officerholder rebuking the chosen Representative of the people— a disgrace to a free government. Our object in copying the letter in full is to clearly show where the Democratic party now stands. The Democratic press of the country have spoken out in favor of the doctrines contained in the letter, and we have heard several of our Democratic friends in Rensselaer pronounce it the best thing of the kind they ever read, and that it “completely uses up Owen Lovejoy.” We have heard men make such remarks who afterward admitted that they had not yet re; d the speech, and therefore were not qualified to express an intelligent opinion on the subject; but they were fast enough to indorse

I the letter. The letter, without comments, j answers itself in most particulars, but we ! cannot refrain from noticing some of its I most glaring inconsistencies. It Is like the Australian “ boomerang,” which, when it is thrown by an inexperienced hand, after darting and curving in almost every conceivable direction, returns and injures the person who threw it. The Republican press and orators have always contended that the fathers of the Republic looked on slavery as an evil, and that Washington, Franklin, the Adamses, Jetferson, and other great men, anxiously looked forward to the day when this curse should be ult mutely eradicated from American soil. This position the Democratic I press and orators denied ; but Joseph C. Lovejoy says that, only twenty-five years ; ago, “almost every man at the South, at ; that time, admitted that slavery was an evil, moral, social and political.” Thus, by ) their own witness, we prove that the Democratic part has changed fronts on the slaveiry question within twenty-five years, and still they unblushingly claim Jefferson as the great founder of their party! Eight and ten years ago the Democratic press and oralors, and Democratic i.'onventions, in the free States, admitted that slavery was an evil, and loudly protested that they were as much opposed to its extension as any set of men could be—that it was the true policy ot the country to prevent its extension by all legal means. Now, Joseph says, “if slavery be a sin, a wrong, or an evil, no fair mind can resist the conclusion that efforts ought to be made, as soon as possible, to, do it away.” So far, so good; but he says in another place, that slaveholders “are entitle to be lot ked upon as benefactors to the ci.untry and to the human race!” With the admission that “almost every man at the South,” twenty-five years ago, “admitted that slavery was an evil, moral, social and political,” but that this belief was fallacious, and that slaveholders “are entitled to be looked upon as benefacfactors to the country and to the human race,” Joseph says that the Democratic party “is destined, under that name, and with essentially its original and present principles, to govern this nation while it remains a Republic.” “Original and present principles!” Was ever such a flat contradiction heard before! As though the Democracy of Jefferson, the first Democratic President, was the same as ’lie Democracy of Buchanan, who we believe is destined t be the last of Democratic Presidents. Well di I Owen Lovejoy entitle his speech “The Fanaticism of the Democratic Party.”

Dem -crats of late have been very sou l of asserting"that “Black Republicans” were “amalganjutionists,” “nigger loyeis,” that they desired to place the blacks on a social equality with the whites, &c. Joseph comes forward and kindly relieves the “Black Republicans” from such charges, by saying that “ the most respectable colored men in Boston (that hot-bed cl “Black Republicanism”) would not be permitted to hire o to own and quietly enjoy a pew in the broad ais e of any fashionable church.” All “Black Republicans” must feel pfir*--soundly grateful to Joseph for I elptng them out of this dilemma, although we cannot help thinking that no intelligent man, in his sound senses, ever gave credit to the charges. But the grand and culminating point in the letter is the argument to show that the African race is taken from heathenism and brought to this country and enslaved, in order that “they may be taught to worship the true God.” The African slave-trade is' a grand and magnificent scheme for Christianizing and humanizing the black man! Such philanthropy is almost incomprehensible! The Southern slaveholders, who have heretofore received the exe. rations of mankind, have been going on steadily and calmly in their huge self-denying work of ledeeming the African race from heathenism. Slavers have been lilted out to kidnap them and b>mg them to a land of Christianity and moral elevation. We have heretofore esteemed slavers as no better than pirates, ' but are now taught in this letter to look on them as the most self-sacrificing and heroic i missionaries the world ever saw. They I brave the dangers of wind, fire and water to | elevate the social condition of the black Iman; and this is not all—they brave the danger of being detected in their holy and I and philanthropic work, and of being branded and punished as pirates, to suffer an ignominous death or imprisonment, when, in fact, they are undergoing martyrdom for the cause of humanity and of religion. Such holy devotion, such pure Christianity, such i unexampled steadfastness of purpose to the | cause of elevating the condition, social and I rebgious, of the down- roddon son of toil, is unparalleled in the history of all the nations that have risen and fallen since the world ■ began; and future historians will record in ' words that burn how the slave-catchers have ' waded through seas of him afn blood and human anguish to benefit the poor and despised Africans! The blacks are brought hpre ami taughtto work, so as to save their souls in the next world. Joseph says that Dr. Dwight once said tha’ he “never knew hut one lazy man to be {converted,” and “as God had some chosen people in Africa, in was necessary I that they should be taught ,to work in order to their.conversion." Hem again is sn ev-

idence of that self-sacrificing missionary spirit that permeates the slaveholder. Missionaries to heathen lands go there to teach the Gospel to the heathens, in the full faith that they themselves wilEalso reap eternal life along with the poor heathens; but the slaveholding missionary gives up the cultivation of his rice, sugar and cotton fields to the despised race, “in order to their conversion,” while he jeopardizes his own salvation by living a lazy life of eaze and luxury. “Dr. Dwight never knew but one lazy man to be converted.” Awfully grand and magnanimous! The slat eholder teaches the slaves to work “in order to their conversion!”—and at what a earful cost! “Hung be the heavens in black!" Joseph tells us that the king of Dahomey has tour hundred wives, whom he employs in carrying palm oil to the coast, and are driven “along by a herd of lazy men.” He then adds: “Now, is it any great sin to catch a set of t.izy fellows that live on the ettrning*. of their wiyes, learn them to work, make them to work, teach them to love one another and to love their children, so that' their highest ambition shall no longer be to buy an extra number o! wives, that they may have a few pickaninnies to sell!” This argument goes too far,for il it proves anything it proves that “it is no great sin to catch a set of lazy fe lows” who live on the earnings ol their slaves—sometimes “their wives and children,” or, what is the same thing, their slave concubines and bastards—and “learn them to work, make them Work.” The same argument that justifies the enslave-) went of the blacks because they work and ; mistreat their wives, will also justify the I enslavement of their white masters because I they mistreat their,slaves. This argument ' goes too far’. It would justify an insurrection a ong the servile blacks of the Southern States. However, ilt is the correct conclusion to be drawn from the argument in the letter under consiueration. “Teach them to love one another and to love their children.” What for! To make them suffer the m“re excruciating anguish, when their families are torn by ruthless' hands! Well would it be forthem, while! writhin '• under the lash of their Southern task-masters, if God had not implanted in their breasts the divine instinct of love for one another: for then father, mother, si.-ter, brother, would not bo compelled to undergo that terrible grief at separating from those they hold most deter on earth, and to ; bitterly mourn over their unknown late until relieved by death. Oblivious to all the finer feelings of human nature would be a ' blessiqg to them while they remain in slavery. - W In the same paragrap i Joseph savs that “the fie t thing that could be done for Africe, if they could jive there, would be to send a hundred thousand Am -riean slavelu Ilers,! to work them (not the slaveholders, but the blacks, we suppose he means.) up to somedegree of civilization.” XVe will add, that I the best thing that couild be done for the) United States, if it were practicable, would; be to send all the slaveholders in this country to Africa,or to some other heathen coun■<ty, where their profession would not be a disgrace to the civilization and intelligence of the nineteenth century. The letter goes on to say that “there are visible footprints of God’s disapprobation ol the Abolitionism ot this country,” and then! points to the number of infidels to be found. I The author certainly forgets himself when he lays the increase of infidelity at the door; of Abolitionists. Who have done so much; to heap disgrace and ignominy on the Chris-! tian religion as the Democratic papers of the day! Since 1853, when three thousand ministers in New Englund alone protested) to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, the Democratic press, with singular unanimity, have clutched with fiend-like exultation every opportunity to create the impression that the ministers of the country were all wolves in sheep’s clothing. Every one who has been in the hajbit of reading the Democratic papers, could nut help but notice how careful they Were to note everv fault in an erring minister. Every case, from Maine to California, was set forth in flaming characters, in order to throw all the disgrace possible upon the profession. They sometimes even went sol far as to manufacture cases of delinquency in ministers out of the whole cloth, and village gossip, that would not have been noticed by any respectable paper in relation to any other class of citizens, when a preacher was connected with it, was heralded forth in all the Democratic papers of the country as a specimen of the depravity of the Clerical profession. Is it to be expected that such a combined effort, for a number of years, would not have the effect of increasing infidelity! No; the wonder is that all Democrats are not infidels. We would expect, under such circumstances, that every member of the Democratic party would either leave it or denounce Christianity as a monstrous delusion. And now, for a Pro-slavery writer to come forward nnd charge the increase of infid dity on “God’s disapprobation of Abolitionism in this country,” is the most audacious and reckless assertion to be found in the letter. Joseph srys, “as to the influence of i slavery on the character of the whites, th. 4 | is quite another question,” and then proI ceeds to enumerate the names of the inuuy >‘stinguit>hcd men and pure patriots who

have lived in the Southern States. That the; South has had her propor ion of great men and patriots, no one pretends to denv; but were any one to repeat in the Southern States of this Union the language once used on the subject of slaverv by Washington, Jefferson, Clay, and other great men who were born and reared in slave States, he would be term ed an “incendiary,” ‘.‘abolitionist,” “nigger thief,” &c., and in ninetynine cases out of a hundred would suffer personal violence at the hands of an infuriated mob. But Joseph refrains from entering into a discussion as to “ the influence of slavery on the character of the whites,” and says that “is quite another question.” We think different. If slavery proves detrimental to the white rac , no argument that it is beneficial to the black race would be satisfactory. It.is indeed wretched policy to bring slaves from Africa in order to Christianize them and improve their social condition, if, on the other h ind, it tends to depress the social stan iing of the white race. And that it does tend to debase the laboring white man there is no kind of doubt. No where in the country can the laboring class be found so debased and ignorant as those unfort nate whites in slave State who depend on their daily labor for their sustenance. There to labor is a disgrace—in the free States it is honorable. There the man who works for himself and family is termed “poor white trash”—here the man who jvorks is held in higher respect than he who does not. There education is confined to the wealthy, and the poor are kept in ignorance—here the State educates the r.ch and poor »4ike. There no man dare express an opinion in opposition to that slavery that is grinding him in the dust and crushing out every generous impulse of manhood and independence—here every one is as free as the air he breathes, to declare and maintain any opinion he chooses on any subject. There the white race is retrograding—-here it is advancing. The Southern planter affects to believe that Northern “small-fisted farmers and greasy mechanics •• re not lit to associate with a gentleman’s body servant.” They are the “mud-sills of society.” Such is the language and such the sentiment of the South. No other state of feeling could be expected in regions where the labor of a servile and inferior race is allowed to come in competition with free labor. It is burn in nature, and the sooner we stop the expansion and cut. off the supplies of slavery, the sooner will the evil be eradicated from American soil. This article has spun out to a greater length th in we had intended; but ore more point must be no Iced. The letter of Joseph C. Lovtj >y is headed: “Decay of Abolitionism m New England.” This may be so, or it may not. One thing, howev r, is certain —that an election was held in Connecticut since the letter was written, at which the last fortress of the I) inocracy in New England was taken from them. This shows,that that party has completely died out in' New England. There Republicanism carries everything b fore it. All hail the Republ cans ot New England, and may Indiana and the other North-western States imitate herjexampl'e at no distant day.

AGRICULTURAL AND OTHER ITEMS.

Now is the time to set out evergreens. A few have been tried in Jasper county and nearly all with eminent success. Pine, Spruce Arbor-vitaO, and Fir arc all beautiful trees, natives of the country and stand our climate well. Raise them from the ground just at the time the buds start, keep the roots from getting dry un'il the trees are re-set. Place them in the g r onnd at the depth they grew naturally. Drive down a stake to keep them from being moved by the wind, until they take root. Il too dry in the summer throw a pail till of water around them, which has stood in an open vessel in the sun during the day Grafts or cions cut from fruit trees now , and packed away in damp moss or siwdust from green hard wood logs, will keep good and sound a whole year and may be inserted at any time, you please during the summer. Cions cut from the trees in July and August’ and kept in the shade a day or two, where they may wilt, and then grafted in, grow readily and with good success. Currant sprou s, or brush, cut oft and stuck in the ground, will begin to bear in three years. If the twig is cutso as to leave some root on, it will bear next year. I have never heard of any one attempting to raise a crop of Marrow fat Field Peas in Jasper couty. This sort of pea yields a fair profit in many places, why not here! Besides the abundance produced for family use while green, they may be fed to hogs n the field without gathering, at hall the expense of a crop of oats, and are worth, acre for acre, as much as corn. Beets, sowed on new, freshly turned sod land, in June, are the very best for Fall and Winter use. I have tried this several times, in this county, and know. If you will look at your young peach trees near the ground, it is possible you may see a lump of gum oozing out. There is a white w rm, with a yellow head, nearly an inch long between the bark and wood. Cut him out, you can thus save an orchard of fifty trees in an hour. If that worm is left there, it will breed more next year and the tree will die.

Osage Orange, for fences, has been tried here under the most unfavorable circumstances, dry summers and cold winters —winters and summers which destroyed nearly all kinds of fruit trees, throughout the United States. But the fruit trees’will be gradually replanted, and abundance of apples, I peaches, cherries, pears, and other fruits will be raised here yet, why may not the next trial be successful for hedges! To keep Eggs, pack them tin layers, the small end down, in a barrel, mix one peck of good lime, with four quarts of salt in eight gallons of water and pour it on so as to cover them. If sound when packed they will no* rot. The yolks will harden in hot weather. They will do for use, but are hardly fit for marketing. y Manure.—One can not open an agricultural paper that is not. full of this article, little advantage has been derived from it, no necessity felt for it on the virgin soil and rich alluvial lands of this county. _ The* future may develop its use here. Hungarian grass should be sown in June. R its in J isper,‘tbe p ist year, have been more plentiful and more destructive than ever bo'ore. How they came here in such vast numbers, is a mystery, or win re they came from is equally as strange. They must be 'a northern horde migrating south. Since they came here they have constantly been found in every stage of growth and propagation summer and winter, from the magnitml • of a half grown cat to the size of a small piece of red chalk. How long they are going to stay, or what they are here for, or wh re they are going to, many would like to know. Their skins, when dressed are tough fine, elastic and beautiful, and make elegant gloves, and may be manufactured into a variety ofuseful articles. 'Pile fur, ot the larger ones, is rich, dine and durable. Tim dressed skins will take every variety of color, and the fur a brown or glossy jet black. Remedy for rats; strychnine, dogs ami men. Sheep have done well here for several years, but the past winter has been extraordinary fora weekly succession of rains, commencing in October, attended with occasional thunder and lightning the whole time. From these storm-', many sheep h. ve i.ot been well sheltered, either while feeding or at rest, and have not done w ell. Experience however suggests a remedy. Smailei flocks must Im kept togetherj with proper si elter and better care. The spring lambs and feeble sheep siieuld be fed apait from the Strenger ami more robust. Isiiri 11 fresh \v ite pike or other fish are wa-hcd and thiowp into a keg in layers, ith four quarts of salt to a bushel of fish, they will in three days be salt enough t’’ -moke. I’u-h a small stick throng i their eves, and A. * hang them up In the smoke house. Keep up a smud ic of em u cobs, hickory or ap.pfe tree brush, constantly for three days more. Then let them dry a week or so, am! you will hive a fine lot of herring that do not cost five cents a hundred.

Adulteration of Liquors.

The fact that intoxicating and malt liquors are adulterated frequently by the introduction of the most poisonous ingredients, and that wines are skillfully counterfeited, being often manufactured without containing a drop ot the juice of the grape, is well authenticated. But the fact that this adulteration and manufacture is systendtically pursued as a distinct branch of the liquor trade, adds ii possible to the enormity ot this businass, which tends to demoralize those engaged in it- as ’A ell as the poor victims of their destructive traffic. Several years since a wealthy -wine merchant in Bordeaux, France, retired from the business with a fortune; but lining quite a chemist, he undertook to counterfeit the various kinds of liquors, in which after experimenting thirty years, he succeeded. For the purpose of testing Ins production, he gave a splendid entertainment to the wine merc ants and connoisseurs of that city, at which he treated lljem on his manufactured liquors, each was labelled with the name of a pretended vineyard and the year of the vintage. The deception was complet ’,'he best judges pronounced 'he wines oi the best quality. At the close ol the feast he told them, to their great surprise, that they had ail been deceived, as there was not a particle of the juice of the grape in anything they h d drank, In? hav ng manufactured them all himself. He further told them that by the method he had discovered, they could supply England and the Uni’.< <1 States, who bought so 1 irgely of them, at a much less co t than formerly, even if the grape crop should be cut ofl’. At their earnest r ’quest he arranged the resu.tot his researches, ttnd published them expressly for the liquor dealers, tor which he received a largy sum. It bad a limited circulation in the wine growing countries ot Europe before the vintages there began to fail, so that when the grape crop was destroyed, the market was supplied nearly as abundantly as ever. A copy ol the book was brought to New York, and an edition was published and copy-righted here by tlie liquor dealers tor their especial use,-enabling them to manufacture spurious liquor at an enormous profit. Among the articles used in counterfeiting different drinks are sulphuric and.citric acid, caustic potash, nitrate ot silver, gamboge, indigo, iodine, logwood, sugar ot lead, mix vomica, and strychnine, some of which are active and deadly poisons. Much of the increase of crime, now stxjilarmingly prevalent, is ascribed to the effect of the poisons used in liquors now generally sold, upon the brain. A bottle o! so called pure Champagne wine, purchased of the importer by a chemist, was found to contain a quarter of an ounce of sugar of lead. E. C. Delavan, Esq., ot Albany, N. Y., who has done so much in calling intention io the evils ot intemperance, state- chi' facts he has in ais possession go to ‘establish the alatming truth, that among all the ' wines of commerce now - for sale ami in use

in this country, such an article as the pure, unmixed juice of the grape is almost, if not altogether unknown.” He st tes that “the avails of frauds committed in the adulteration of wine and spiri’s in the city of New A ork alone, amottn*, it is supposed, to st least three millions of dollars annually. The greater part of the wines sold in this country cost the manufacturer only f rom fifteen to twenty cents a gallon.” There are large establishments in this city where common whiskey is turned into win-e, and vyhere wine casks are made that clos> ly imitate the foreign, of which the Custom-house marks . are easily counterfeited, These facts that are now coming to the light, reveal a degree of criminal recklessness in those who so steadily arid so »t®»)thi--ly have carried on this destructive work, that deserves the reprobation of al! good and honorable citizens.— American Messenger.

Disruption of the Democratic Party,

The correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) furniishes the following political items; Au immense edition (sjiid to be five hundred thousand copies) of Judge Douglas’ speech in the Semite, in opposition to the dictrine of Congressi.mil intervention for slavery, is being printed in this city. This fact leads m-ny to bdieve that the tt ’derstamling which bar prevailed here for some', time, that Senator Douglas would nos. be a candidate for fbe Comptntiori. is not correct. His ardent friends say he w.ll be a candidate, and they predict with great confidence: his nomimtiim and election. Tiie.y declare be is the only mm who can be elected ov< r the Opposi ion nominee. Timy add. wi h some bitterness, t. tat, t ie S >uth c.in take him or Seward—that it will havem> other alte native. Ii .Mr. Douglas eallv goes into the fight, he will d mbtloss be sustained at. Charleston by a formidable arrav of friends, who v. iilVsupoort him wita muchanim ition He' has many bitter eneni es, who av-.i'.v eternal hostility. In conversation with a Mississipian, recently, he declared that. il Mr. D Highs’ name was ntertained as a candidate in tire Charleston Convention, the Delegates from Mississippi would withdraw froth it. He said if they had to take Douglas or Seward they would t ike the latter. If this spirit, really animates th ? Smith, c-r any . consider?bteporti n of it, there wi.l be serious trouble in the ciinventioii. No extreme mu isnres or man mu -r. be .1 owed to have sway at Charleston. It. is undoubtedly true that :i. the .'resent.state of affairs, iuifsiderable deference must be p rid to N -rtliern opinr-,;-., and even prejudices, both in th ? jtlat brm asd candidates. (j U r Southern (r ends will .i.i | it; greatly to their inter st t ■ pursue this course ■ The N rthetn and Western D m >< ri. vmn-t be strengthen s'at Irme.-, Nj position must be as.-i -:i -1 them which will .■•■•riv agiini’ them th > pre ad ce >f- s cji'n 1 in i ‘.al f eling. * * * iJ ■ i. ■ Unh< d S'a' S'-n itor in Jersey, M . Ten I?. ck R?public in. t th.’ pi.iif'W.'ig i', a .-Jt a uni -i National I c: There arc n iw ' wentv-iour straight -mt Rdpublicans ' in the Sen tie. h ' sides tlir oth -r < -it'on m ?m----l ers, ( rii.ten len, Retie.ly. of M try lurid, an 1 8.-U'lrrii k. I’s Ca Li tomia , w 111 > '-.vili ait with the Ropu. 1 eans. Too R mblieavs expect to odd. to this i'oree the Minnesota'Senator, in place of Shields, and also two from Kansas, making thirty in ail, beifore tlie close’ of the n-’xt session. Althmgih I trust these anticipations will be ('is ipp tinted, the late.-t news from Kansas indie -ting that she will probably cnoosy? Democrats, yet this rapid increase of Opposition strength in the Senate is calculated to excite g-ievuus apprehensions. It shows to Southern Dem-ocrats the nec -ssity of adopting eonciliatorv policy if they would not have their Northern friends annihilated, and the North arrayed against tljetn in solid column. W e cannot i flbrd to los-y any more Senators by idle and preiitless abstractions about slavery.

A New Craft for Pike’s Peak.

A company, consisting of J. I’. Piatt, J. J. Piatt, Ich.thod Harris, and \Vm. Stover were to stift to-day from Crum’s P>>int, on the Kankakee river in this county, to go through to Pike's Peak by neater! They have a boat nearly flat-bottomed, 16 feet long and 4 feet beam, which draws, with 1,500 lbs of passengers and freight, onlv 5| inches of water. It is propelled on the same principle with the hand car on the railroad—having two side who- Is, driven by two driving wheels, and worked by two men at a time. They hope to make JOO mi les per day dow” stream to St. Louis, from thence, up the Missouri and the Platte, forty or fl ty miles per d.tv. It is a novel adventure, and we sitall watch the success of the experiment with interest. South Rend Register. OtJ/”The New York correspondent of the Charleston C airier savs: “Gre.ely seeks, and has no society, unless it be that of persons desiring t > mike s >mething out of him. He is the most good ni. tured, imroceot person in the world. AH grades of society are alikF'to him. He will stop and converse with the Copgresstnan and the carman alike. His sympathies are with every body. He is not more careless in his dress than in his habits. Money is no object to him. If he goes to a restaurant to dine he puts down a bill to pay tor his meal and never looks at the ch mge. It is said he is often badly stuck with bad bills by persons knowing his carelessness and unconcern in suc’i.gn titters.”

(Ks” The New Orleans* Delta reports a matrimonial fracas at. one of the principal hotels, in that city, in which a husband used a whip on his wile in such style that she ran out of the room screaming and took refuge in a water closet, whence she was whipped back into the room. The affair h'-s caused a good deal of talk among the hotel frequenters, as jt well might, men not being in the habit of Horsewhipping women for anything, th >ugh occasion illy compelled to endure a li.tle at the hands-ot exasperated fem ties, not women,. OO If i- s Si <id Gov. Banks, of Miss., has not pardoned a man from the State Prison during the past year. Th • Governor must, be a man of pluck; for it takes more nerve to resist appeals made in behalf of criminals, titan the public ever yet understood. (Cy“ Mexico is a good place tor Presidential aspirants—they use up about two.a week, there.