Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE, RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1859.

REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

*%, CLERK, D. i. jackson. RECORDER, C. W. HENKLE, AUDITOR, D. T. HALSTEAD, COMMISSIONERS, *■ ist District—s. McCullough. 2d District—lL BENJAMIN. Beck will give a Spiritual Lecture at the Court House to-morrow night. , OSrMr. Wigmore has returned, and is Dow prepared to repair Clocks, watches, cm short order, or to sell good time-keepers in the clock or watch line. • young friend, Joseph V. Tat man, will please accept our thanks for a welcome present of luscious wild plume and waterrnellons. Joe is a “brick,” and remembers tihe poor. { Warner requests us to say to those who promised to pay him for b'lackemithing by the first of August, that the time has passed and gone, and the money hjas not been forthcoming as he had expected and deeired. i o. Jennings Wise, Son of Governor Wise, of Virginia, has been fighting another dpel—this time with Mr. Ould, of the Richmond Examiner. Two shots were fired, but, unfortunately, neither of the representatives of “chivalry” was hurt. Wise ascended from Lafayette last Wednesday afternoon, and descended a'4out four miles south of Cravvfprdsviile. He started on a “grand continental trip to thje Atlantic,” but the Indianapolis Journal thanks that he made scarcely a “countyneninif’ trip. !(£jr We have received the first number of I the Williamsport (Warren county) Chronotype, edited by Leonard H. Miller. It is a neat little paper, of the size and style of thjs paper, Democratic in politics, and ably conducted, judging from the number before us'j. Success to it. Us— CtCrWe have received from the publisher, Charles O. Perrine, Indianapolis, the “ Dime Sotigster No. I,” a neat little pamphlet of seventy-two pages, filled with a collection of popular comic, patriotic and sentimental sorjgs. Price ten cents. See the advertisement in another column of “Dime Publications.” ■ Girl- m. Stackhouse &. Bro. are opening a Agricultural Store in our village. Thpy tell us that thgy. ha ye secured the! agency of Hunt & celebrated Sejf-Adjusting Sugar Mills, something new. j and said to be decidedly superior to anything heretofore brought out. Give them a a ckll end patronize them, for they deserve it.

RELIGIOUS NOTICES.

There will be a two days’ meeting held by the Protestant Methodists, at the rcsidenjee of Rev. John Alter, on Grand Prairie, {three miles wfjst of Carpenter's Grove, on 'Saturday and Sunday, 3d and 4th. All are Ires pypet fully invited to. attend. By-order. Thera will be a meeting, commencing on Friday evening before the first Lord’s day in peptember, in the Baptist Church in Rensselaer, by S'. M. Houston, of Craw--I’ordjsviHe, anJ F. McCullough, of Iroquois towh-ohip in this county. By order.

JASPER COUNTY FAIR.

The members of the Agricultural Board are 'requested to meet at the Auditor’s office 4 on' the first Saturday in September. Thet Board must attend, each one without fail,! aa it is the last meeting before the Fair?. Arrangements are to be made for fen.c|ng the Fair grounds, and other important business, Ni B.—All those having- taken stock in the Socijety fTte notified to pay their subscription in tq Mr. McCoy, Treasurer, at the Bank of Thoe. McCoy & Co. in Rensselaer. By order. RonT. Parkei:, Pres’t. Si Donaldson, Sec’y.

A COVERNMENT OFFICER ARRESTER FOR FORGERY.

A jdispateh from Washington lust Saturday stays that Major 'Edmund French, Pay Clerk of the Bureau of Construction of the Treasury Department, charged with forging certificates and receipts for 1 lie purpose of obtaining money from the United States, was; arrested on Friday; hut not until after consultation between the Secretary of the Treasury, Solicitor of the Treasury, District Oultl and Major Bowman, and giving the accused an opportunity to explain. The affair lis said to create much gossip there. The extant of the alleged defalcation has not yet beerj asceiturned. Wo hail this as an in di - c.atityn that the A'J>ninit*trntjr*n is becoming hO 11 (J t , " ,

SUPPOSED HORSE-THIEF TAKEN.

A young man who gave the name of Harding to some, Harter to others, and Parker to still others, pased through town on Monday afoot, leading a bay mare. His manner, and an evident desire to trade or selli the mare, excited the suspicion that she was stolen, and in about half an hour after he left town Messrs. Elisha Murphy, C. B. Barnes, D C. Walker and Titos. S. Peacock, stared in pursu.-it, overlook him in the Forks settlement, some four or five miles from town, and brought him back. It hud just rained before he lelt town, and his pur-suer-eusilv followed him by his tracks in the mud. They noticed this singularity in ihe tracks: whenever passing a»house begot I off and walked, and when out of sight ot 1 houses got on and rode. After being brought back the prisoner j stated that he had led the mare from Northi ern lowa, and that he was. on his way to I see his father in Wabash; but a memorandum iL'und in his possession showed that he hud been living about South Bend, in this State during the present summer. He was brought for trial on suspicion beforeuribsq. Howe, when the proceeding ß '■'■’ere quashed tor want of certainly in the The prisoner, on being set at liberty, immediately started on a run, and the iust that was seen of him he was entering the large corn field ol Mr. Bedford; jus j. east of town. The mare, which lie left in the possession of Win. S. Hopkins. E?q., his counsel, in pledge for his fees, and ’which tiie owner can have by proving property, is described as follows: She is a light bay mare, about fifteen and a half hands high, white face, three white feet, about ten or twelve y urs old, and considerably sway or hollow backed. There is a sore on her back as if made by the saddle. She is shod With very heavy shoes, and on each shoe is stamped the word “Comer,” or something like it. The man and mare came from the west here. 1

SCHUYLEK COLFAX.

The Democratic papers of the State are still keeping up the cry that this gentleman is aspiring for the Presidency, without the i least, shadow of foundation for the charge. Now, although the people of the Nintu Disj trict know lull well that their honored and j loved Representative is emit) ntiy qualified j to fill the office of President, Vice President, Governor, or any oilier office in ihe gift of ! the people, yet they appreciate his services ; in Congress too highly to easily part with them; and we believe that the highest, ambition ot Mr. Colfax is to deserve well of his i friends in this District. That he is almost • “idolized” Imre, as the Democratic papers ' sav, is true, for in Colfax the’ jiccple have ! found a champion that has never flinched in doing his dhty, and they delight in honoring him; but they will never tamely consent to his running for an office outside of (lie Dis- ; trict. We are ted to these remarks by read- ; ing the following from the Williamsport Chroroh/pe, a Democratic paper, which has : some truth, and some not so true: “In fact, the Republican party might go farther lor a candidate and fare much worse. Mr. Coif x is, ten times as well known in the politic: ! world, has rn -re intellect, more experience, more shrewdness,; more brass, and is a man of more gumption generally 1 than ever Fremont, was. In the northern part, of this State a large majority of the people almost idolize him. “Hundreds of youngsters in the Ninth District, none of whom resemble him in the smallest degree, I are every year christened -Schuyler Colfax.’ Besides, he is a near relative of Horace Greeley, and looks so much like him that he ;is sometimes called -Little Greeley,’ which . is no contemptible qualification for a Re- ! publican candidate,’

"FAR-FETTCHED & DEAR-BOUGHT,”

I Is a saying that has brought its truth ’dourly purchased to many ol us. We are led to the use of the cap'ion to this article from i the fact that we find u tendency among our people to make their purchases, oi trees and [shrubbery from the so-called agen stf Easti ern nurseries, rather than buy of our own ! citizens. For the past lew years the West has been flooded with persons purporting to ' be agents of famous Eastern nurseries, who have sold iruit tress and shrubbery b thousands, that had been raised in obscure nurseries along the Ohio river. Thousands of j farmers have, been thus gulled, and found out, when too lute, that the trees with ) high-sounding names, they had bought ol ' traveling agents, were not worth the plantj ing. Wo are credibly informed that Jasper county has suffered in this 'manner to tin* | tune of hundreds o! dollurs in a single seai son. We recommend our friends, when they are making their purchases of trees for the useful or ornamental, to be sure they ! are dealing with responsible parties. Mr. I Coen and Dr. Martin are both reliable Mien, and both have on hand line assortments ol the very best quality of apple trees, and the latter gentleman cun supply to any demand anything in the shape ol a tree, shrub, bush or vine, that the people may want, and at as low prices us can he furnished by any one. Let the people, then, in behalf ol their own interests, buy their trees at their home nurseries, where the stock is acclimated, of thje best, quality, and more likely to do well j than ii brought from —no one knows where. 0-b/”We learn that lion. Graham L.. Fitch ; is lying dangerously sick at his residence in 1 ,■ qjansp.Tt.

AN IMPOSTER.

A fellow named Snyder has set himself up in Lafayette as an advertising agent for country newspapers.. Some time ago he sent us two or three advertisements for business houses in Lefavette, requesting us to publish them, which we declined doing, believing the agent to be irresponsible. We have since learned that at least one business man of Laf'ayet'e paid him in adv; nee for advertising in this paper, and when he demanded the agent to show him a copy of the paper containing his advertisement, he was informed that the Gazelle was dead, and that no paper was published in Rensselaer; but that his advertisement should be published in some other county. It other editors are green enough to be imposed upon in this manner, let them suffer; but Snyder had better leave this paper alone.

Repunlican National C ommi ttee.

Ttie Republican National Committee have , issued the following circular: “In the judgment of the undersigned members of the Republican National Committee, the time has arrived for consultation and preliminary action in regard to the approaching struggle lor the Presidency, and they beg. I thereiore, to call your attentio i to the suggestions which follow. The Republican pcyt.y had its origin in the obvious necessityfur resistance to the aggressions ol the slave power and .“‘aintaioitig for the States re sportively, their ."eserved rights and sovereignties. In the c0n.*931 °* 1556, by the preservation and advocacy of the true science of government, it laid the sod ,u - a, i° n ol a permanent political organization, altoM' 11 -” jit did not posses the power to enforce its principles. When the result, adverse to ! its efforts and its hopes, was declared, it un- | affectedly acquiesced giving the victor lor ; the sake of'he country, its best wishes for j an honest and fair administration of the government. “H ow Mr. Buchanan’s administration lias realized these w ishes, is now patent to the world. With the executive power of the Government in his hands, his administration has failed in every respect to meet the expectations of the people, and has presented j the most humiliating spectacle of corruption. I extravagance, imbecility, recklessness and I broken faith. So apparent is this, even to ■ our opponents, that the so-cal e<! Democrat ic I organization, always distinguished for itr- : discipline and party fidelity, is utterly demoralized and distracted, without any recog nized or accented party principle, and threatened with disruption by the rival aspirations and struggles 01, its leading partisans. White the Administration ha? been thus faithless to the interests of the country, and has thus i disorganized the party which placed it n power, the Republican party has been 'on 'stuntly mindful ot the great public necessity which called it into existence, and faithiul to the fundamental principles upon which it was erected. Experience has only served to ; strengthen the conviction of its absolute necessity, in the reformation ot the National i ; Government, and of the wisdom and j slice j of its purposes and aims. some of the exciting incidents! Sos .the election ot' WO have -cen partially disposed of by the energy, r glut-prise and j valor of a free people, the duty of RepuhliI cans to adhere to their principles, as enacted j at Philadelphia, and to labor lor their estabi lislmient, was never more pressing than at thi - moment. The attitude ol the slave I power is persistent ly insolent and aggressive. ! It demands of the cou.it y much more than iit Ims demanded hitherto. It is not content I with the absolute control of the Northern Government; nor content, with the dispensuj than oi the honors and emoluments oi the 'National Administration; nor content with its well known influence-—always pernicious j over the legislation at the National Capitol—hut it demands fresh concessions from a free , people, tor the purpose of extending and strengthening an institution local in its character, the creature of State legislation, which the Federal Government is not authorized to establish or e- tend by any grant of delegated powers. It demands by an au thorized assumption of power, after having, as occasion required, adopted and repudiated ail the crude theories tor the extension o! Slavery, of the ambitious politicians who sought, its favor—the establisment. and prot> ction of slavery in the Territories by act, ' of Congress, ui.d the revival of the Alrican ! slave trade. ! “Upon no organization except that of the Republican party caTfi the country rely for successful resistance to these monstrous propositions, and lor the correction of the | gross abuses which have characterized the present National Administration. It is the duty, then, of ail patriotic men, who wish lor t e establishment of Republican principles and measures in the administration oi I the National Government, to aid in perfectling and strengthening this organization for the Coming struggle. There is much to be | done, involving earnest labor and the expenditure of time and money. There should be: “Ist. A thorough understanding and interI change of sentiments and views between ihe ; Republicans of every section of country. “2d. An effective organization ot the Republican voters of each . State, county and town, so that our party may know itstrength before we engage in the Presidential str ggle. “3d. The circulation of well considered documents, making clear the position of tinRepublican party, and exposing the dangerpus character of the principles and policy oi the administration. “ith. Public addresses in localities where ] they are desired and needed, by able ebampi- \ oils of the Republican cause. “sth. A large and general increase of the circulation ot Republican journals throughout the country. “To give practical effect to these suggestions, an adequate amount ol money will be required, lor the legal and faithful expenditure of which the undersigned will hold themselves responsible. The vast patronage ol the Federal Government will he wielded against us, to which we can oppose nothing but earnest and efficient devotion to the Rej publican cause, and the voluntary pecuniary j offerings of our Republican friends. “In conclusion, the undersigned may be 1 permitted to express their opinion that the i sign? ol the times are atlspicions for the Rej publican party, and Ih;,t. in their judgment.

discreet and patriotic action throughout the Confederacy, promises to secure a Republican victory in 1860. Unwilling, however, to encourage hopes which may be disappointed, and to place their appeals for aid and co-operation unon the assurance of success intfie contest that is approaching, the undersigned are constrained to say that they rely most confidently upon the patriotism and zeal of their Republican brethren for such aid and co-operation; meamvhi le, we have the honor to be very respectfullv your obedient servants. (Signed.) E. D. Morgan. New York, O. N. Schoolfield, Tennessee, Win. M. Chase, Rhode Island, Thomas Spooner, Ohio, Joseph Bartlett, Maine, Norman B. Judd, Illinois, George G. Fogg, New York, James Ritchie. Indiana, John C. Goodrich, Massachusetts, Zachariah Chandler, Miciigan, Lawrpnce Brainard, Vermont, Andrew J. Stevens, lowa, Gideon Wells, Connecticut, John N. Tweeds, Wisconsin, James N. Sherman, New Jersey, Cornelius Cole, California, Thomas Williams. Pennsylvania, M. F. Conway, Kansas, E. D. Williams, Delaware, Lew is Clephane. District of Columbia, George Harris, Maryland, Asa S. Jones, Missouri, ABred Caldwell, Virginia, Alexander Ramsay. Minnesota, Cas ins M. Clay, Kentucky. Republican National Committee.”

Blondin's Crossing the Falls with Man upon his Back.

All the f°ats, wonqjerful and startling as they have been, tier Blondon has heretofore Performed at the Fall, were so entirely cast into til.” shacie by his incredible performance yestefday as jo seem triflingaud insignificant, 'll is uncreu'Hed nromise to carry a man across the chasm noon his back wa s kept to the letter, and none of to’ predicted accidents resulted from the featful ui?'' l ' rt ak i ng. 15loudi n first crossed from the Aa,.'erica.?,sidealone, performing during the passage most of the daring feats descriued in our account of his crossing on the 3d inst. After a short -est on the Canada shore lie started on hit? return, with M Colcord, his agent, cbnging to his back. From his shoulders two looped cords were- suspended by his side, in which the legs of the daring rider were swung, w hile his arms clasped Blondin’s neck. 11 i p isitiou was such that at the distance from shore to shore, could hardly he seen, and when the adventurers started upon their terrible journey, bets were freely exchanged among the spectators on this side as to whether Blondin alone or accompanied according to programme. He stepped out so briskly and lire ly that it seemed impossible that his hack was freighted with a living load. But as he advanced the rider became more clearly disti nguished, and while all; doubts disappeared, the trembling anxioty of the lookers-on was pai-n'ully increased. About one-eighth of the distance was traveled without any halt or sign of fatigue. Then Blondin came to a stop, and Colcord. slipping his legs from their slings, dropped his feet upon the rope, and stood snoot-ting himself with his hands -upon Blondin V shoulders while the latter rested. The halt was, ppidiuDs, of a moii ents duration, when Colcord again mounted !*> his seat, regaining it apparently with the utmost ease, and acting with all the sell possession of Blondin himsob. After this the halts and resting spells were frequent, the length of the journey and the weight of his load telling upon even the iron nerve and muscle of Blondin.

Several times the spectators vve e terrified by seeing the rope tremble and sway from sum cause, and by apparent signs of exhaustion in B 1 .ndin. Whether these latter were assumed or real it is impossible to say, but especially at the center where the rope is entirely clear, and w itiiout guys, he shook and staggered in a manner to cause the stoutest nerve among the spectators to shudder and turn pale. The latter half of the journey was performed with fewer rests than the first, and the last stage was one of alm >st desperate length; and Blondin reached the end ol his terrible trip, by an almost superhuman effort of detei mined will. When he was fairly on terra firm a, the pent up excitement ol the or vvd burst forth in deafening cheers and the w ildest demonstrations, and the two heroes, Blon lin and Colcord, were seized and borne away on the shoulders of the crazy multitude. —Buffalo Ex. The feat of Mr. Dolave, at Rochester, it seems, has excited Mr. Blondin, and now he announces that he will cross his rope this week, and carry with him a cooking stove and utensils, and when in the middle of the river will cook an omelette for the passengers of the Maid of the Mist. Gre.it rivalry between the rope wa Ikers these days.

Cents Going Out of Date.

A Pike’s correspondent of the Boston Journal s-iys: “The smallest coin I lure seen in circulation here is a quarter, though dimes are said to he taken at some counters. Haltdimes, three cent pieces and coppers are myths. In Eastern Kansas, (us through the South and West generally;) the cent is never seen, except at the post offices, or preserved as a curiosity. Three cent pieces there, in most localities, pass for li a I -dimes: but. at one point on l lie Missouri river it was discovered that one of the merchants, a Jew, every time lie visited St. Louis, brought back a large quantity of three cent pieces, realizing upon it a profit ot 66 per cent. The indignant popula’ion, determined not to Le bled upon both goods and currency, put coppers into circulation, and so brought three cent pieces down to their lunest value. In New Mexico eight dimes pass lor a dollar.” A Young Congressman. —The Louisville Journal states that J ,lin Young Brown, me in tie i elect from the Filth District ot Kentucky, will not be qualified bv age to take his seat at the first session of the present Congress. Th Constitution prescribes that no person can be a member of the House of Representatives who is under twenty-live years of age. , . Fort Wayne Republican says, that arrangements for a balloon ascension at that place, by Mr. Barrister, are so tar completed, that the 30th has been fixed as the day for he a seen sion .

Commodore Whipple.

j Mr. Nahum Ward, a wealthy citizen of j lias placed a handsome monument | over the grave of the gallant Commodore Whipple, who rendered such distinguished service in the revolutionary war, Comrnoj dore Whipple, having given the best, part of his life to his country, and contributed nearI ly all his prize money to the cause of inde- : pendence, retired to his farm and afterward removed to Marietta, where ho lived in honorable poverty, supporting himself by the labor of his hands upon a small estate’. At the age of seventy-six, the tardy and meagre justice of the country that he had helped to tree, overtook him, and for the ten rej maining years of his life he received a pension of §3O a month. Commodore Whipple was in the expedition that went out from Providence and burnt the Gusjkc. In a single cruise of the privateer Game Cock, he took twenty-three prizes, in the old French War. The schooner. Providence, under his command, tool; more prizes than any other vessel from 1775 to 1779, and in the frigate of tiic same name he made a during and successful passage | I through the British fleet, and safely delivered | the important dispatches with which lie was | entrusted to France. The following anec- j dote ol his daring is related in Blake’s Bio- , i graphical Dictionary.: “Subsequently. 'ill the termination of his naval career in the contest, he was the commander of a squadron. Some of his achieve-! ments were so singular and extraordinary ; ajs to appear more like romance than reality,’ | and on one occasion the prize money from i his captures amounted to § 1 MOO,OOO. I’er- ; haps the most eccentric and daring of his exploits was performed in July, 1779, when | he encountered the homeward-botind Jumai!ca fleet of nearly 150 sail, conyoyed by a seventy-four gun ship and some smaller vessels. He con fried bis own guns, hoisted British col r-;, j fined the fleet as one of their number. Thus‘he sailed in their comp nv for several days, am! each night he was busily occupied in making captures from ' them, one at a time being taken, manned ; with officers lr"m his own vessels, and then steered to a differet t point, of the compass, so that by morning she wis out of sight. In this way lie captured ten richly-laden v -s----ise- eigi'll of which arrived in America!, ports.

Can Donglas Carry Illinois!

The Democratic papers are jus' now discussing w ith considerable w'crmth this quesj tion. The organs in his inteiest mui.'Uain tha 1 lie can, while the N;itionals (Adminis- ; tr.itioii men) insist that lie eannot. The Times, his', home organ in Chicago, boast that Ire w ould sweep the State w ith thirty thousand majority, hut it did toe same during the last contest. Tin* result, proved that its chieftain was in a pitiable m nor'tv, I wh le his name rallied thirty tli usand more voles in opposition to Democracy than had ; ever been east beloie. Thus much for. the i personal popularity oi Senator I) >ugl s in Klin .is. We do not think the cotfsc o' our SenaI tor since his election has changed m it tors 'much. Indeed, so far as the R ’public ins I are .'concerned, they w.m d rally more t > oppose him than ever, for they .eel that his late triumph was due to an out rug-, ms apportionment. and they are -anxious to try his speed on a. fair course with no odds I against them. Whether I) -uglas is or is ' not the most ili'Q'i table Candidate furtive Democracy is none of our business, we admit, yet when the Times, for the purpose ol aiding the failing fortunes ot its candidate, s betrayed into making the statement that—- " Certainly no Republican in Illinois 'oases ! anv hopes on the alleged weakness of Douglas here. A man who should express in public the opini >n that, with 1) .uglas as a j candidate for the Presidency, a Republican j would stand a better chance for election, on ’ that account, or any chance at all; won d be hooted out of countenance”—we beg leave to say, and we put it on record for w hum it ; may concern, that with any tried Republican j for a candidate, Dougl s would be beaten in his ow n ward—in his own city—in his own j county —and in his own State, in arithmetical progression. This is the opinion of the Republicans of | Illinois-, and this will be the result of their j action, if the Democracy will give them a | chance to prove it.— Chicago Journal.

A False Step.

It appears by the synopsis of the Wyan- ; dotte Constitution for Kansas, just pubj fished, that the following provision is inI corporated into the proposed organic law of j the new State: ‘ A homest :ul to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres of farming land, or one acre within the limits of an incorporated town or city, to be exempted from forced sale under any process of law.” “The adoption ofgsuch a provision will injure Kansas more'than a little.— Chicago Times." The 7 imes hi singling out thfs clause in flu* Kansas Constitution, upon which to build an opposition to the adoption of that : instrument, hut olluwsa common instinct | of Democracy. It is hi the same spirit in which the Demjocracy have w on d upon Kansas a II through her history. War upon the free labor of that ill-starred territory lias been tin* chief end aimed at by the Democratic party. Failing to establish slavery there, and th*i cripple or destroy th‘* tree white labor oi Kansas, the homestead oi the laborer is selected as the next object of attack. , The wise and beneficent Homestead Bill of tiie last session ol Congress fell at the hands of the Democracy, and now it is seeking further triumph, by refusing to protect the laborer in the possession of his home after his toil and sweat have made him its lawful owner! __ For our part, next to the provision in ttie Kansas Constitution declaring that her soil shall be forever free, do we consider that, which protects the homes ol In r freemen. And we would have it, not only applied to Kansas, hut would lie glad to see Congress pass a Hemest >ad Bill lor till the Territories ol the Union. Free labor lias bo mi secured for Kansas despite opposition, and the protection of her tree homes will follow, even if her former enemies arise at the roll-call of the Times , and league together to prevent it.- Chi Jour. tCy-Hal; a cranberry put on a corn will kill it in n si ugh* night.

A Grand Voyage.

Certvinly we ought to be very liberalminded people to dwell in a country that has w ithin its bo-ders a river navigable for a distance of more than three thousand miles' The St. Louis Republican announcing the return of the steamer Spread Eagle —or once a befitting appellation—haa the following: “The steamer Spread Eagle, in connection with the Chippewa, has just completed one of the most remarkable trips on record in the navigation of the Western rivers, having traversed the Missouri river from its mouth to Fort B >nton —a point within sixty miles of the head waters of the Columbiiy and three thousand one hundred and twenty miles above the mouth ol the Missouri. This is nine hundred miles above the mouth o-t the Yellow Stone, and seven hundred miles further than any other steamboat has ever been. “I he Spread Eagle left St. Louis on the 28th day of May—three days after the Chippewa, and returned, having made a voyage of more than 6.200 miles in-seventy-nine days The Ind ians we e quiet, and expressed themselves well satisfied with their presents. Game, above the aiouthof tl>e Yellow Slone was very abundant. Large hands of b-offiriov elk. and mountain sheep might be seen at any moment, together with any quantity of grizzly bear. The trip has been demonstrated to be practicable, the Chippewa having made it in low water.”

The Oregon Election.

The result of' the Congressional election in Oregon appears to he in some do-slit vet. The Democratic papers state that Stout, the Democrat, is elected, but the New York 1 lines ot yesterday says its correspondent on the Pacific Coast gives a different statement ol the matter. It is probably not known vet which way the election has gone, but it is certain that how ever it may go, the race has been too close to give the Democracy anv ' satisfaction. The Republicans, i l ' they have not succeeded-- have come very close to it, stf close that they can in ike sure of success next time, and that cannot l-ut he particularly unpleasant to Gen. Lane, who has so loirc* owned the territory. That worthy appears to fie passing through Mr. Bright's experience in this Slate. After ruling his party, and through it the State, for fifteen yearsMr. Bright has fallen too low to ever rise aga.n. '1 his is not only admitted, but glo- | ried in by more Democrats than those who openly despise him. Gen. Lane appears tohave reached pretty near the same stage of politica l we.ikness in his ow n State. When these corrupt and unscrupulous regencies pro broken up, the Democracy will fall apart into .‘‘ties of opinion, instead of lines ot mere organization, and its days-, will aave been, numbered. Journal.

Toledo, Logansport and Burlingtou Railroad

This railroad moves- hr., ve ly 'forward. The the track is laid Irani the N. A. & S. R. It. to within two and a quarter miles of this place; and it i- thought it the ties were easily come at, the ohgitle- would he here by tomorrow no n. As it is, taking ail things into consideration, tin- cars w ill certainly be running into M ■ntieello by the last ol tips week. Scores ot incch.inios are busily engaged framing the bridge to cross the rivi r tit this place. Tnis bridge is rather a. stupendous affair—’>.)’> feet long and 7.5 tout in height. It will, when completed, be one the largest st uetures of the kin I in the West. We are inform-d the tr;u k-iavers .will be divided into two companies as soon., a? they get to the bridge to facilitate the transmission of timber, one of tiie-ii t i lav. west from Ry no id's Station the other west - from Logansport. The object oi laying track west from I.oganspbrt, at that time, is to et at the ties, which contractors are getting out in large q:i inlities along that part ol the line. M in'icell-o begins to look bright 1 already with her numerous German and Celtic laborers Mont'i.ccUo Spectator, 10 Ih ins!

The Sea Serpent Caught.

The Yarrnout li R egister says that the farfamed sea serpent lias lately visited that port and was chased up a narrow creek and caught. He turned out. to be a horse-mac-kerel, ensuring over eight feet in length, and weighing three hundred and sixteen pounds. The Register says: “It is the opitnon of experienced fishermen that this is the fish that has given rise to a belief in a sea serpent. When it is running at its ordinary speed in search of prey, it moves along just under the surface of the water, producing a wave which rises up in a scries of corrugations for about one hundred feet in a straight line, before it fulls off into the ordinary spreading wake produced by a body moving through the water. This appearance in moderate wea'her so closely resembles that of a huge serpent moving over the surface of the water, that it is difficult, even for those accustomed to the appearance, to realize that it is nothing but a wave, and it is not strange that when seen lor the first time, it should strike the beholder with terror.”

Publication of the Laws.

The Indiana American, alluding to the fact, that the laws of last winter have only just been destributed to the various counties, and went into force thereby on the 6th inst., thus remarks: ‘•lf the laws' had been published in the papers, as they should have been, every law would have been published three or four months ago, and would have been in the hands of every reading man at but little more expense than they now he in the office of th Clerks and others. The laws of the two sessions c.ont'awis about -100.000 ems. There is not a paper-in .the State that would not insert them at §‘loo, and glad to get that. There are about 100 papers in the State, making the cost of printing, distributing and all, about $15,000. - The present cost is at,, least half of that, and then the laws only reach a favored few. Only some 8,000 are published for 200,000 voters. Eet the book he published as other books are. on private account. I.et those who need them, buy them, but let the money of the million be devoted to giving the laws to the million.” must he classed among the neatest to sts of its class which has recently been ventilated. It was given at the late celebration in Ellington, Conn., as the thirteenth regular toast: “Women —the lover of union and annexation. Dike our country, her manifest destiny is to spread her skirts.” It was responded to bv nine cheers "and a fw)hoop!