Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1859 — Page 2

the ti-me whe-n the Constitution was made than we are, would know a little better what was meant by it than we would. Monro-, himself did not entertain a do,.bt upon the•ubjeet (and he was something of a man.) that if any Legislature Could expel or admit Slavery into the Territories, Congress could do lt. There was no other legislative function to be performed by any body, and no I body to perform t. Mr. Wirt, Mr. Son'h*rd, Mr. Adams, Mr. Calhoun-, Mr, CraW’ord, all of them agreed. Some of these gentlemen I had the honor to know, and I do not - knojyof those who held to the doctrine <> the Bred Scott decision, any that could be •aid to be their equal, or the eq >al of any or them. It was so in 1823. I ask you, my fellow citizens, is there ever to be an en.i oi this qu •slion! What d >es the judge tell you when he decides a case! He tells you in the language of the law that -~‘it is expedient lor the country that there •houid be an end to the question.” Your law - titles depend upon that. Would you not consider it strange if twenty years after another court should come .and decide the contrary’ A sensible court would say thi.has been decided twenty years ago, argued legally, and “it is expedient for the country that; there should be an end to the question.” If you want t > have a writen Constitut on that you can rely on at all, you must have an interpretation put upon the words, and let it read that way until the people choose to change it by altering the words, otherwise a written Constitution will be made to read this thing one year, and another thing another,year. It war settled then in 1803, in 1805, in 1822 in th great issouri restriction, by the judgment solemnly given of an entire Cabinet, one of ttie profoundest lawvers we have known in the country being Attornev General. WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN. But what else did you do about it? I tell you 'you did right on the same thing to the year 1850. In the year 1836 Wisconsin came as a Territory; you organized her.' Michigan came as a Territory, and you or-1 gunited her, and you provided n that organic i law, that while the Legislature might‘make laws and send them to you, if Congress disapproved of those laws, they should be null and Void. President Jackson signed bills of thia kind. Did not “Old Hickory” know a thing or two about this matter ! President Adams signed such a bill—both the Adamses signed such bills; Monroe sighed such blils; Madison signed bills like it. Alloftho.e bills involving that question, and all deciding them one way, and even in 1850, in that compromise, as it was called, it is enacted that New Mexico and Utah shall send theii laws to Congress, and if Congress disapproved of them-, they should be null and v«id. Now, my brother Democrat, what becomes of your “Squatter Sovereignly!” Do you know more than all those men! Are you egotistic enough to believe that you understand the words of the Constitution better than all the statesmen, public men, lawyers, and private men that have lived before you for seventy years! Have you that confidence in yourself’ If you have, God have mercj* Upon you! You are past praying, and lam done. (Laughter.) folk's doctrine. Don’t you know we acquired the Territory of California under Polk’s administration,' and put the Wilmot proviso on it! Did not Polk know as much about it as Mr. Dou- ; glai? Did not Jackson know as much about thia thing as Stephen A. Douglas! Did not Mr. Monroe and his cabinet! So far about the legislative power on-this question. THE SUPREME COURT’S DECISION. The question came up from Florida in perhaps 1824 or 1826, in the case of Canter j against an Insurance Company. You will, find the case in Howard’s Reports. John! Marshall was Chief Justice of the United, Slates then. Mr. Story was on trie bench;! a man whose law books on the subject of ; our laws, and on the subject of law and chan eery in gener I, have been read with the highest'commendation of any man that has overwritten law books during the last century, in the Court of King’s Bench in West minster) Hall. John Marshall was on the .bench, and the man that does not know something of him ought not to be allowed to vote. The very question was brought into the: Court as to whether a lav. being made by a Territory was valid or not. The Court sjaid it was not; tint there was no power under Heaven to make laws in a Territory bu Congress. Now, my bro.her Democrat, what was the reasoning of Cine! Justice Marshall! He was n<> >poi; but, ii th re was an intellect ever vouuhs:*. -U by G d to man. that was competent to unr-.v 1 the sophist ics of men, it Was John Marsh til to whom it was •riven. Why, he said, how is this; how cun this be! I Congi ess has ttie power to acquire territory ■by treaty, and who will the territory be con•veyted to! To the Territory! No! To any •State? No! To the United States the cession iis ,-ma-le. Mexico conveys New Mexico and CaMornia to the United States. What .follows? ii there is any law to be made for ■that Tertitcuj that was yesterday a foreign 'Tewupnyidt is by the legislativie department of the government to whom the Territory is .conveyed. -What is the legislative department of the government of the U nited States i Congress! That was his reasoning. It is very simpile.very plain, and utterly and hopelessly conclusive against those who have got up this new doctrine. Well, is inot .that-enough? Must there ittet.be ,end to .the -question some day? Must we sot ..know -some day what is the meaning of our 'Constitution! For sixtyfour years the Courts of the United Sta es have so .decided, and'Congress has so decided, and- Cabinet Ministers have so decided; Presidents, of every complexion and degree of political partisanship.,-have agreed to it, powbill.ajt once, we throw it away, and we are told tfaattiUey did.nut know anything •bqut it aJI Jhe time. That ,ia pitying at the old game of “go-devil” and pateox plow, over agjun. Tiejtt year suppose Chief Justice Taney 4o die. Will not thnt.dediaion be reversed! Now I wish you -to under at ar. d that I don’t believe that the Court has decided that question at all),.because the question was not before it, and we never regard a decision of a court updn any point of law, unless that point was in the case. But if they have, what hare they done"’ Overruled their own

f decision: overruled their predecessors—and - such predecessors. I hold to the judgment lof Marshall, my brother Democrat, before that of Mr. Tart -y, if he has decided it. I held it is a Case where every brother has a right to hl’s private judgment, seeing that the same court has decided otherwise, when they Were more likely to know more about i it than we do or can. DOUGLAS AGAINST SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY. Well, my friends, have you ever seen the honey bee. after having sipped honey from the rose, th ■ carnation or the j iponica, light down upon the Jarned >wn weed and finish its meal! I have seen it when a boy, and wondered why it did not commence on that and top off with the best. lam about to do something of that kind. lam coming from the sayings of a great man to the sayings of a man not quite so great. Here is a speech delivered June 2d: “Sir.” said he, “1 do not hold the doctrine that to exclude any species of property by iaw from any Territory, is a violation of any right of property. Do you not exclude hanks from the most of the Territories??’ Yes, and I was on the Committee of Territories once, when Wisconsin sent a law with five or six bunks. I voted for them, but the Democratic brethren associated with me. nullified the law. It went back to the Territory,and squatter sovereignty that it was, it ceased to be a law. “Do you not,” continues he, “exclude whisky from being introduced into large porti >ns of the Territories!” Do you take up Washington Territory, and it there is a tribe of Indians in it, and any man sells them whisky, ’hey go back to a law of 1802, and punish The man for doing it. That law was made by Congress, yet they say Congress has no right to make the laws for the government of anybody in the Territories But the In dian Intercourse act instituted by Jefferson himself, is in force in every Territory, and “Squatter Sovereignty” veils her diadem, and then it is in humble compliance for the United States to make the laws. If the Terr tories have the righty to make laws for the Territories, why don’t you say to the people: Sell what you pleas. ! Squatter Sovereignty did not think of that. Squ itter Sovereignty : s but a youth yet, and he had no time to think about that. Possibly he will think over these things some day, gather himself up and slink away. The speech continues tab'es, which are property, recognized as such in many of the States, are they tolerated in your organic laws! And has any one found that the exclusion of ardent spirits was a violation of any constitutional privilege or right!” Yet you will perceive that the gentleman is.so certain of his conclusions that he puts them into the interrogatory form. “And vet it is the case in a large portion of Territorv of the L‘."”?<! States, but there is no outcry about it.” ‘‘The law also prohibits certain other descriptions of business from being carried on in the Territories. 1 am not therefore, prepared to say that under I the Constitution we have no power to pass : laws excluding~Slavery from a Territory.” My brother Democrat, who do you suppose s'id that! I said something like it, but I did not say that. That was the speech of Stephen A. Douglas in 1850. You can read it in your books in the debate. A Voice—Just before he sprung the trap. Mr. Cornwin—l don’t say that, but I believe it, though. Well, now 1 have given you, my fellowcitizens, as it has been decided by every department, of the government for sixty years, upon the doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty—the decision against it by the very man who is now appealed to as the leader of that doctrine. He has changed his opinion; he wants to get back to the “go-devil.” That is what he is after. Douglas is a respectable gentleman, and a man of considerable talent—so am I, (laughter;) but I differ with him on that point, a.id I have the advantage of standing by the side of Washington, who put his hand upon my head and said: “Mv son, you are right;” and 1-id his hand on Stephen’s head, and said: “You must go to school.” T-'at is what Washington, Jefferson. Madison, M'>nr-e, J ickson and Calhoun would say, too. While 1 am in company like that. I am content to remain. I say this, if it be the constitutional rule that the Constitution of the country carries the relation ot m ister and slaves into the Territories, it is the bouden duty of Congress to n-ake laws to protect that right. I cannot comprehend that a man has any conception of tiie harmony that was to reign in our country that, don’t believe that. If they Can establish that proposition, that the sacred panoply of the Constitution cu r ries slavery into Kansas and Nebrrska, what Squatter Sovereignty dare raise its paracidal hand to destroy its validity. Has it provided that a man sha 1 have the right to go wherever a State Constitution does not prohibit it, and sit down and exercise dominion over the black man who was his slave in Virginia, upon the theory that a focal legislature shall overrule the Constitution and destroy it! What sort ot a Ki kenny cat fight is that, swallowing each oth.'r! It is revolting to a man’s common sense. I can’t treat it with patience. I cannot a:gue with a man that will say you have armed the government to commit suicide—it must kill itself, it shall kill itself. Oh! 1 have nothing to say upon that. I won’t condescend to mention it again to a sensible man. If the Constitute >n carries it there, it is sale there. No State or Territorial Legislature can touch it; but if the Constitution is as they say, it carries it there only to remain us a visitor-*—goes there to rest itself a little while, but as scion as the Territory seeks to be a State, take nj? your niggers and walk Spanish, for they cun drive you out. (Liughter.) I don’t like to say much about that, because I like the. men on the other side of the river, who call themselves the Opposition to this Administration doctrine. NEW TERRITORY. If you won’t look into the decalogue which forbids you to covet your neighbor’s property, But will acquire more Territory, then the North will tell you you shan’t do it and carry your slaves there. I tell you that you may roast us at stakes until our fingers blaze in tne fires of martyrdom, like lighted candles, and we shall still believe it is better to have a free State, where white men can labor and live. It we are fools, we are fools forever, and there are two and a half mi I lions of just such fools in Ohio. All you t in Kentucky and the slave States have got

to di is to put an end to this vexed question, and see to the cultivation of the farm you have got—it. is very large. Keep what you have got; let further acquisitions, at least for this generation, go. You don't wan’t Cuba more than you wan’t a hornet’s iest about your heads. I see in the Democratic platform that it would be very desirable to have Cuba a- a matter of national defense. Would it not be much better to go to Canada and Nova Scotia, that are right, before us! The English are much more likely to come in by a land boundary like that, than to do us any harm in the Carribean Sea. You have got afraid suddenly, that some nation will come and take you, and that she will stop at Cuba and take a drink when she is coming. Do you want Jamaica for the same reason! Do you want St. Domingo for the same reason! Why do you not want them! Because there is no negro slavery there. The negroes in the one havebeen made free, and in the other have freed themselves. That is the reason why you are afraid of them. Just drop that sniveling pretense, my brother, you who want Cuba, and say that you want to possess it with its slaves, because it would not be worth a cent without them. Leave it alone. It is not yours—it don’t belong to you. Mr. Corwin concluded by recommending Kentuckian s when men meddled with their State politics, to give the party a gentle hiqt to leave by showing a handspike; but insisted that he should hold to his right to dis< uss national politics anywhere in the Union.

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, IND. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1859.

REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

CLERK, d. i. Jackson. RECORDER, C. W. HENKLE. AUDITOR, D. T. HALSTEAD. COMMISSIONERS, ist District—s. McCullough. 2d District — . BENJAMIN. Commissioners’ Court is in session. Circuit Court will commence its September term next Monday. OAF-Read the advertisement of John Goetz in this paper. His work needs no “puff.” Ex-Governor Wallace died a’ his residence in Indianapolis last Sunday night, of apoplexy. (fs“The State election in Vermont was held yesterday. It comes off in Maine next Monday. the advertisement of our goodnatured Teutonic friend, M. Eger, in another column. Cyrus L- Dunham, Secretary of State, and spoken of as the next Democratic candidate for Governor, was in town yesterday. ljfv"All persons having lists of names of stockholders in the Agricultural Society, are requested to hand them in to Allred McCoy, the Treasurer, forthwith. (fJ-We are indebted to Hon. David Snyder for copies of the Legislative Acts ot the extra session of 1858, and the regular session of 1858-9. Jackson requests us to say that he was in error in advertising that a Coroner is io be elected this fall. Mr. Peacock’s commission is dated from August, 1859. CO“A destructive fire occurred at Valparaiso last week. The Republican and Democrat printing offices were so much injured that the two offices had to unite to get their papers out. (py-Mr. Wigmore, the watchmaker, will remain in town until the 17th inst., when he leaves for M mticell •. All who have clocks, watches or jewelry to repair, had better bear this in mind. employees of the Michigan Southern Railroad have been on a s rike for several days, and no passenger or freight trains are allowed to pass. A locomotive and mail car alone are allowed to pass. The company owes it employees four months’ back wages. any one wants to see a well-made and well-finished buggy, his desire can be gratified by calling at the blacksmith-shop of Captain Warner. The iron-work is the handiwork of the Captain, and the woodwork is by his brother John. The buggy is being made for Dr. Moss, and we have no doubt the Doctor will be proud of it when completed. Spitler last week presented “s with a very nice embroidered collar for our betterhalf. He has a few more just like it in store for sale cheap. If the ladies want a “love of a collar,” or any other fancy “fix- | iugs,” of which their sex alone know the use j of, we recommend them to call at Spitler’s. J He has enough of such articles to supply the I conntv.

HOW AN OFFICE-SEEKER CAME NEAR KILLING AN EDITOR.

We have for a long time deliberated whether or not to publish the following, and have at last concluded to make it public, as a warning to all future office-seekers. There is a gentleman residing in this county, (a fine fellow and whole-souled all over, who will do anything to accommodate his friends,) who was a candidate for nomination to a county office at the last primary election; but whether he received the nomination or not shall remain a secret, as we intend to relate how he came near putting the the editor of the Gazette under six feet of ground, and we don’t want the Grand Jury to indict him next week for on attempt to commit murder. This gentleman came into our sanctum on one of the most sult y days in July, and plyed us with one continual string of questions and suggestions, until our ears fairly rung with the confused ideas going in at one side and out at the other' meeting and passing in hurried succession. “He didn’t want the office—no, not he—it would be a curse to him—but, then, his friends desired him to run, and he couldn’t see how he could so tar disoblige them as to decline. Really, he was sorely troubled, and wished to gracious he had never been thought of.” Such was the language, and much more of the same nature, that our unwilling ears were compelled to listen to. We tried to evade his questions—to turn the conversation—asked him out to drink a lemonade—but all in vain—'.here was no escape, but to “grin and bear it;” so we gave ourself up to our fate with the feeling# of a ■ martyr, and prepared for the worst. Off went our coat, and then <>ur vest. VVe pulled off our cravat, unbuttoned our shirt collar, and rolled up our pants, for the political atmosphere was getting terribly oppressive, and we felt as if already roasting at the stake. Still on, on, talked the politician, taking no notice of our agonizing position. We grasped for a chair and threw ourself on it, for we had been standing all this time, with the tormenter on tip-toe whispering in our ear. Our head fell on the table—we were almost helpless—but our unfeeling friend stooped over us and whispered on. Presently we fell to the floor insensible. Our overtaxed physical and mental natures could endure it no longer. Hc<v we remained in this condition we could n.-ver clc«r! v make out, but ’’ must have been in the neighborhood of two or I three hours, for when “reason again reigned ! supreme” we found our persevering friend lying on the floor beside us, hollowing in our ear, but very we-ik and hoarse, for he had well nigh expended his breath in the vain effort to make u» hear while insensible. The first words that saluted our ears on recovering were, “What do youthink of my chance!—not that I care—but, then, my friends, you know,” uttered hoarsely and with gasping breath. Directly he fainted from pure exhaustion, and we crawled out and procured assistance to carry him home. Ever since that day, when we so narrowly escaped u horrible death, we have shunned office-seekers as we would the sheriff However, we voted for our ftiend, believing that he had well earned our support, and we hereby promise to always vote for him at every election as long as we live, if he will never electioneer us again; and, too, he is a perfect gentleman, and would, no doubt, fill an office with ns much grace as ourself or any other man of talent. Reader, if you don’t believe that the above is true in every respect, why, all we have to say is—it is your privilege.

A FIGHT AND A DOGGERY " D R IED UP."

The doggery kept in the second building east of the bank, although liquor had been sold there on the sly for a long time, has of late been an almost intolerable nuisance lo our villagers; but it was “dried up” rather suddenly last Monday, and much to the credit ot those concerned in the job. On Monday morning Norman Warner, having learned that Lewis, keeper of the doggery, had let his brother John have liquor on the previous evening, inform d said Lewis that he must leave the village; that he would give him until Tuesday noon to pack up and move, and that if he did not go by that time, he would assist him to go. Lewis took the hint und immediately packed up his things; but he did not leave town himself till evening. when he was assisted in rather an unceremonious manner, as will be seen further along. _ On Monday evening John Warner, while under the influence of liquor, furnished no doubt by Lewis, met Mr. Case, (who works in Mr. Warner’s blackstnithshop,) in front of Harding’s store. John thought that Case had something to do in shutting up the doggery, and was angered by it. He drew a pistol on Case, when the latter felled him with his fist and took his pistol from him. Case ihen turned to Lewis, who was standing by and asked,“What are you doing here!”and, with a word and a blow, sent him staggering against the house. Case then gave him a kick in the seat of honor, exclaiming at the same time, “Get!” Lewis started on a run, asking. “What have I been doing!” “Get!” accompanied with another kick, was the response. “Aint I getting!" exclaimed the poor doggery-keeper, clasping one hand on the sent of-pain, while his legs we e doing their utmost to carry his body out of the

i reach of the tremendous foot of the muscui lar blacksmith. The way he “threw the ’ gravel” was wom’er'ul to lidhold as he doubled the corner, and the last that has been seen of him he was two or three miles from town, with his coat under his arm, his hat in his hand, with one foot booted and the other bare, making every effort to increase the distance between h'rnself and Rensselaer, and well lie might, for he has no sympathisers here. Norman Warner is a Captain, and Case a “brick,” and our citizens should tender them a vote of thanks for abating the nuisance.

IMPORTANT RAILROAD RUMOR.

A gentleman from L ifayette stated here last week that subscription books had been opened in Lafayette for an air-line road from that city to Chicago. He said that several wealthy citizens had subscribed SIO,OOO each, and that the Indianapolis and Lafayette, and the Cincinnati and Indianapolis roads, had subscribed SIOO,OOO each, with the understandim' that the work shall not be commenced until sufficient stock is taken to insure its completion. This is important, if true.

RELIGIOUS NOTICE.

I will, Providence permitting, preach in town next Sunday at ten and a halt o’clock, which will be my last time here. Also, there will be a two days’ meeting at Sayler’s School-house on Saturday and Sunday, the 17th and 18th of September, which will close my labor for this year.

The Houston Triumph in Texas.

Gen. Houston’s victory in Texas is oven more sweeping than was at firs’ reported. Os one hundred counties from which returns had been received on the 16th, he had majorities in all but twenty-one. and it >vas believed that his total majority might reach 12.000. The defeat of a partv so strong and well organized as were the Democracy in Texas, by an independent candidate, is an event which for its noveltv alone would challenge notice. But it has a deeper significance, as showing that the strongest partisan fortifications are not always able to resist the unorganized strength of the popular will, when party undertakes to perform what the people ought to disapprove. For Gen. Houston personally, the result is a most signal triumph. He appealed to his State against the slave trade, which is supposed to be favored by the planting interests, 'And he has demonstrated to the wh'de country that even in T"xas, if anywhere, the importance of cheap savages would be profitable, the traffic excites the instinctive, irrepressible disgust of the masses. Gen. Houston is chosen Governor by an unprecedented vote: bur bis victory does not end here. The Legislature elect will restore him to his sent in the Senate of the United States, which he vacated in March last, there to sp-'uk, as one having authority, against the selfish schemers who are bent upon evoking the spectre of piracy in his worst, form ’o aid them in their projects of disorder, excitement, and ultimate disunion. The South and the whole country have reason to b“ proud of the Texan election of 1859.—A’, y Tunes.

From Kansas.

Leavenworth. September 5. A collision occurred here between the Democrats and Republicans on Saturday night, both parties having m -de demonstrations prior to the muncipal election to-day. The republicans were holding a meeting at the intersection of two streets. The Democrats, with a torch-light procession, attempted to pass through, and being resisted, a genexal melee ensued, severs I hundreds on both sides participati ig, using stones, bludgeons, pistols and knives. One person was shot and live or six severely cut, but nwie fatally. The Republicans maintained theirground, and proceeded with their meeting. The affray is believed to have been purely accidental, and is universally regretted. There is some apprehension of renewed disturbance to-day, but effective preventive measures have been taken. The Denver City Express, of the 27th ult-, arrived yesterday with a small quantity of dust. In some of Gregory’s diggings some miners penetrated three feet through a strata of uulphuret of iron, finding rich dirt below. The discoveries in the Colorado prove remunerative. Indian depredations continue. Isolated parties of miners are frequently cut off’.

Man Shot by a Woman.

The Evensville Enquirer of Saturday, relates the following which has something of the air of “steepness” about it, but it may be true: “We learned this morning of a shooting affair last week n Gallatin county, Ky. It s ems that a la - ver named Payton entered the house of a M. Lawrence, during the absence of the latter gentleman, and proceeded to the sleeping apartment of the lady if the house and made a dishonorable proposal to her. She, with the courage of a true heroine, di charged a loaded pistol -it the insulter, but. missed her murk. P. yton fled, but. the next day the lady saw him in the street, and going up to him discharged her pistol in his face, blowing out one of his eyes and inflicting a frightful wound. Surgical aid was at once called, but our informant says the opinion was that Peyton would die. •‘The Sherifl’uf Gallatin county proceeded to nrrest Mrs. Lawrence, but that lady had left the State to visit some relatives in Indiana. Her httsbane, who has since returned home, says he will die himself defending her before she shall be arrested.” is the golden age of the Jews in America. They number some two hundred and fifty thousand, who still adhere to the faith of Abraham. They have forty thousand in New York alone. Two Senators and four Congressmen are ot the Jewish faith, which sh. ws the ancient political talent of the race.

The Cincinnati Enquirer says of the election o Ethridge or Tennessee: “.A constituency that Will elect a man with such a record ns Etheridge, has not far to go before it will support an out-and-out Republican. Etheridge’s sympathy with the Republicans was notorious at Washington, notorious in Tennessee, and notorious in all parts of the country.” Hon. John ,4. Gilmer, recently elected in North Carolina, has written the following letter: “Dear Sir: I am re-elected by two thousand majority over two opponents, one the regular .Administration nominee, the other of my own party, bitterly denouncing my Anti-Lecompton vote. I feel proud a - being so nobly sustained by an intelligent Southern consti uency for doing my duty in the hour of sectional madness. “John A. Gilmer,”’

A man named E. L. Griffiths, baggage master, in the employ of the Illinois Central Railroad Co. in Chicago, committed suicide a few days since. He had b -en sued for SIOO. “nd his monthly wages of .-60 had been garnisheed by a heartless cr-'ditor, leaving him nothing for the support of his family. Griffiths sought out his creditor, and asked him to be content with $25, and leave him $35 for the support of his family, but he would not do it, saying h« would keep what he had got. This so disheartened the unfortunate man, starvation a Bring him in the face, that he took laudanum and j.ut an end to his life. Shylocks will uphold the hard-hearted cruelty o» that creditor, and call it but justice, but God and humanity pronounce his act a devilish one, and will hold him responsible tor the sad crime which followed. The Chicago Journal well remarks t-at “the creditor obtained a portion of his note in cash. He should garnishee a widow’s tears and orphan’s cries for the balance.”

C. B. Mock

A terrible catastrophe happened on the i afternoon of the 2d inst., at No. 106 Goerick ) street, New York. About four o’clock a , steam boiler located on the premises alluded j to, which were occupied by John Roach as a foundery, exploded, completely demolish- | ing the building and burying all the hands I employed—fourteen in number—in the ruins. By some fortunate circumstance but i one man, named John Shaw; was killed, : while five others were more or-less injured. ' The names of those inju ed are John Stew- ) art, Edward Roach, Edward Petrie, Win. I Bernard and James Taft’el. The concussion i cau ed by the explosion was felt for a con- ! sidernble distance, and the people in the vi- ! cinity were much excited. i severe conflagratior. is reported from Europe. The town oi Kiosterlein Bohemia was almost whoely consumed on the 23d of Juiy; one hundred and sixty five houses were I burned, and several persons lost their lives; only a tew buildings reinrintd unbun.ed; ) and ne thousand persons were deprived ot shelter, food and clolhii g. All efforts to ' extinguish the flames were useless, in c<oi- ! sequence of tiie high wind, the nirr->wness I of the streets, ..nd the circumstance th it so i many ot the houses were built of wood; beI side which, several of the fire engines, which i had been brought too near the confl l grat:on r were obliged to be abandoned, and were i consumed. i Couldn't Get the "SiMNDULrcK ”—A—merchant in New York who held a clain of ! long standing against a Western customer. ! heard recently that the debtor was in good I circumstances again, and sent his claim to u I Western lawyer for collection In due time ) lie received a reply which effectually dashed ) any hope he might have entertained of re- ' ceiving the money. It ran this wise: “Sir: You will never get -my spondulick from Bill Johnson. Tiie undersigned called upon him i yesterday, and found him with nary tile; his | feet upon the naked earth; and not clothes ; enough to wad a gun." We call that an ex- - pressive simile. | ~— British Columbia.—Advices from Van--1 couver’s Island to the 15lh ult., state that .General Harney, on the 9th, ordered four artillery companies from Fort Washington to reinforce Captain Picke t, who stilf occupied San Juan unmolested. Governor Douglas had issued his protest against it, and sent a message to Vancouver’s Island’ Assembly, declaring that the British should land at San Juan. It was rumored at San J rancisco before the last steamer left, that the British steamer SaUelite had attacked the Island and killed thirty Americans. ! 00-The comparative esteem of the South- - ern aristocracy for poor white peopl‘d and negroes is illustrated by the remarks of a Lousiana paper in recording the death by lightning of “two likely negro men:’’ “The electric fluid of the clouds seems to be no respecter of persons. It would as soon kill a negro worth fifteen hundred or two thousand do.lars as a‘poor white man’not worth, the powder and lead it would take to ‘blow his brains out.’ ” J-Courtenay,Deputy Uniied States Marshal of the District of Texas, was killed on the Ist inst., in the town of Birdville, i n that State, by Col. A. G. Walker, editor of the Birdville Union. The immediate cause of the difficulty was the result of a political discussion, but there had been an old quarrel between them. Col. Walker was held to bail. A man named Reed was stabbed and almost instantly killed last Sunday night, at a G rinan bull, at a town called Prairie City, in Madison county, 111. He created some' disturbance at the ball, and a cry was raised to “put him out ’’ He was put out, but put out a corpse. No clue to the murderer bai been obtained. (0"Bla -kwood says Louis Napoleon, under the garb of generosity and moderation, has driven the wedge into Europe, nnd ia n .w in a position to split up its States as he desires. ' 1 ~pr writer says witnessing Blondin walk his tight rope is almost as good as seeing a man hung.

Light in the South.

Shameful.

A Terrible Explosion.