Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTL

RENSSELAER, IND

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1859

REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKER.

CLERK. D I JACKSON RECORDER, C. W. HENKLE ; J AUDITOR, X D. T. HALSTEAD. COMMISSIONER'S. Ist District—S, McCULLOUGH. 2d District—R BENJAMIN

Republican Grand Rally,

AT BEXSBELAER, OCTOBER S. I There wiljl be a Grand Rally- of Republicans at Rensselaer, on the Sth day of October next. : Mr. Colfax having written that he would be unable to be with us, the following gentlemen, together with others, will briefly address the meeting: dR 11. Milboy, W. D Lee, L. A. Cole, W. 11. Martin, W. S. Hopkins, Alex. Rowex, T, Halstead, D 1. Jackson, -SV. E. Moore, D F Davies, t. A, Knox I ; i It will bei a general reunion—-a jjolibcai class meeting—and good , time is expected. , Come one, come i 411, and set the ball a rolling for’ 1:860.

Public Speaking.

‘ Messrs. D: I. Jackson and D T. Halstead will address their fellow citizens of Barkley township next Friday night, at the school house near Esquire Parkison’s? <■ iWe are indebted to a friend for e article in this number.desorbing the Fair held here last week. The “boys” caught another v. olf Idst Saturday morning, and brought hun to town and let him go on tin prairie north-east of town: but the hbrsemen and dogs soon overtook apd killed him. There will be an other hunt on the same ground-—-sijuth of the Prnkamink—next Saturday morning.

MONSTER CORN.

(Mr. W. W. Bussell left at this ol‘fitfe last week 1 one stalk of coni, on tvjfich there arc seven gpod-sizcil and a “nubbin. Coinc and seje it.

SCHOOL MEETING.

The undersigned request the citzqns of this School District to meet at the Court House next Friday afternoon, at four o'clock,-to elect a Director and transact other business. Apex. Rovven), R. B. James, John Thompson, Jr., , G. A. Aloss, Geo. Veatch.

THE TY OF VOTERS.

■JNext Tuesday, October 11, is the' day for holding our county election, and it behooves every voter to well consider for whom he will cast his voite, and weigh well the conseqqences. As, we said in a former, number, there are two tickets ofl'ered for the suffragcd of the people oi this county, representing two sets ol principles— following in the | footsteps of the fathers of their country, desiring to see a stop put to the'extension of slavery; the other.' walking in the footsteps of a new school of politicians, of whom Cal houn was the founder, are willing,] (>f; indeed, they be not axions,) to pee the foul blot of human slavery spread oyer all our western territocursing the virgin soil once dedicated to freedom!, by its polluting presence. Both tickets are composed of good men. No boniest man can place his hand on his heart and say ought against the character of any man on eitner ticket. But there is a wide difference in the manner in which they were nominated. The Republican ticket was nominated openly ami aboveboard Every Republican hap an opportunity to express hi.-

i choice of candidates, and was pubj licly invited to do so. The Demo- ' cratic ticket Vyas nominated in secret in a seednd-story back room, and “recommended” to the Democracy for their support. So secret was it that one of the. candidates, i living 'in town, did-- not know anyI thing of the meeting until told by a ’ Republican that he had been “reeommended” Secret runners had been sent out through the county, inviting the loaders, the would-be owners, to meet in secret conclave. The rank and fib? were considered 'as too insignificant to he intrusted with the important- state secret' If those IJemoerajts who wei'e passed over in silent Contempt, as tern insignificant to aid in nominating a ticket, vote, for [be one “recommended" to their-support, they are made of different stuff'from what we take them to be. It is, insulting their manhood to suggest such a thing to freemen It is: worse than KnowNothingism, for they placed every member on an eq ua 1 i ty. Next T ties ■ j day will reveal whether the masses ] of the Democratic party can be I bought ami soi l bv their leaders or 1 ( not.

TO REPUBLICANS.

Republican voters! you have re posed in fancied security too king. There is danger-j-imminee; uanrrer--that oui county ticket will be defeated, We do not say this idly and without foundations but honestly believe that, unless the Republicans t'wti out jn full force at the polls next Tuesday, the setting sun will witness ’heir defeat and shame. Some of our reasons for believing it are these: The Democracy have been secretly al work in electioneer : ing for several weeks'. They knew that by ®pemy find honestly work ing for a ticket nominated in a legitimate manner, they would arouse the sleeping lion of Republicanism to overthrow them. To prove that they are at work secretly we have only to say that their tickets wire printed in Monticello yesterday. They go twenty-eight miles from home to procure the printing of a five-dollar job, for fear th 1 Republicans would know: they wore at work. How different this from the course of the Republicans. Their tickets are already distributed throughout the eobnty. All we ask is an open field and a fair fight.

Another causeiwe have to fear is tlic fact that the Democracy expect to carry this county ■through the aid of a large force of transient voters* working on the railroad in the south end of the county —how large the force is we do not know, but a Jasper county Democrat said in Monticello that it was two hundred and fifty. The leaders of the Democracy about this town. t (, O’ have been for sometime chuckling,over their anticipated success, and one ‘of them has pledged himself to the Demo cratic candidate for Clerk to insure his election.

Reppblicans! shall this be? Shall your proud flag, hitherto unspotted by cowardice, be trampled under the feet of the foe? Will you desert your standard-bearers lighing gal lantly in your cause—the cause of Freedom —and allow them to be struck down while you are standing aloof with folded arms? Shall the friends of slavery; corruption, ballotbox sluliing, ‘ Lecompton frauds, Swamp Land fraiuds, Treasury-eat-ers, defaulters, once more rule in Jasper county? No! nd!, no! a thousand times, NO! Let jit echo and re-echo Over our broadfprairies, until every lover of his country hears the mighty shout and raises his'arins to heaven and cries NO! Let the welkin ring with the inspiring cry. Let EVERY REPUBLICAN devote one day to the cause. Let it be seen that every one is at the polls. If this be done, otirs is the victory—if not, we fear thnjt We will Lave too good a cause to hang our heads in sha me. Besides this, there is another reason why the Republicans should exert every nerve. Your candidates 1 hate Been villified and abused, their

characters have been bitterly assailed by their pornjcal and personal enemies. Public policy and private justice demand that their irresponsi ble slanderers should be rebuked.

AN EXPLANATION.

[The foil Giving communication explains itself. Mr. Moore handed it to us. at the same time remarking I lhajt we could publish it or not, as we | thought would be for the interests of : the Republican party. As some unpleasant rumors have been afloat, which his article fortever puts at re.-*. we publish it with pleasure.] .}fr. Idditof: I,sco in the Gazette of week ■ before. Inst, the statement of Mr. Brown, in .re are nee to the Barkley vote, anil in his i cosfimunicution frequently uses my name, i ••Hid, niter .making h ; s statement, says lie i distinctly told me so; which, perhaps, may i make the impression on soure, that 1 inis-.-.•(.•presented his statement to me. Whether . this construction was intended by Air. : Brown net, I atn unable to say, but as > tliere-h':ts been considerable said on this subject in connection with my name.l beg leave to make a statement of the facts and cir-i I cuinstunees of which I have a knowledge in l i the matter. On the.evening of the Conven-i lion Mr. Win. 11. Nichols, of our township? g.yent over to Mr. Brown’s for the purposem l : ascertaining how the vote of the Convention o, i i.it townstr.p storw. o n his return, he stated to me Ciat Mr. Jackson, for Clerk., received sixteen votes and that I did not re ceive any. I tisked him how manv votes were polled, and he said twenty-three or' twenty-four. I then ;:i-ked him who had re-i ceived the balance of. the votes, as Mr. Jack-I son had only reec-iw-d sixteen of them; he i said he reconed they were given to Mr. ' Brown, for Commissioner. Thinking- that. Mr. Nichols did not understand himself, I said nothing more about, it at that time.

On ‘lm Saturday following; while on my ; way to Rensselaer, in company with Mr. Perry Paris-and Mr. Nichols, Mr. Nichols turned to Mr. Paris and myself, and said he would tell us the truth about how the vote Stood in Bark ley townahip. lie said that j Mr. Jackson had received all the votes but : one, and that Mtu Brown said that, he voted ! for me, and that, in counting out the votes? his vote was thrown away and was not conn-1 ted, and that Mr. Brown was very much: a:u;or<;d about it, 1 said to him, I reconed i it was not throw: l , away intentionally. He: He said it was thrown out [i-irpose!y, and i that Mr. Brown said so. I asked Him tyho , were the cflicers of the Convention; lie said i that Mr. Brown did not say who they were, : but that lie (Nichols.) could g-ne-ss, dsc. I went on to town, thinking 1 would see M -. Brown, or some person from that neighborhood, with whom I was acquainted, and : would learn more about it, but during t’jel time I stayed in town, I believe-I saw no? person from that neighborhood, with the ex-i J ceptipn of Mr. William Parkison, passing] along the street on horse-back, and saw him,] • I believe, no more that day. 1 was at the] I Court House once or twice during the after-i : noon, but did not learn anything about, the cote cl that township. I '.vent home think-] i that Air. N ichols was under a mistake about the matter; but on the Wednesday following, when the paper came out, the official returns |of tliat township showed that Mr. Jackson ] had received twenty-four votes and that there i were twenty-live polled, and that I had not ] received any, which partly coroborated Mr. Nichols’ last statement. This tiling became - a neighborhood talii. Several mentioned it ;to me. I believe 1 mentioned jtr to some ] three or four in casual conversation, and : that I would go and see Mr. Brown about it. They advised me so to do. Accordingly, I ■ went to see him this day four weeks ago. ] Air. Brown commenced the conversation

about the vote of that township, and stated to me substantially the facts, as set forth in his communication in the Gazette. After he had finished his statement, I remarked that my business over was to know the straight! of it, as there was considerable talk about it, | and that I thought the matter ought to be! set right before the public, fie said he thought it unnecessary to say anything about it; that he had never made the statement to any one except Mr. Nichols. 1 did not malto the full statement of Mr. Nichols known to Mr. Brown, as I sincerely hoped the thing would never have be m hoard of again, and as they were brothers-in-law, and fearing that it might interfere with their social relations, which should exist between neighbors and relatives, which I wished to remain unimpaired; nor should I ever have mentioned it had it not been in vindication of my own character from imputation and stain. I never said anything about Mr. Brown’s statement until Mr. Thornburg had prepared his first article for the press, when I stated it to him, and the Saturday after its publication 1 mentioned it to Mr Davies, editor of the Gazelle, Mr. Charles Boroughs, on Sunday, and to Mr. William I’arkison, Tuesday or Wednesday before Mr. Brown’s communication appeared in the Gazette. I had up object in view only to exonerate Mr. Parkison and Mr. Brown, and to set them right before the public. They are gentlemen for whom I have always had the great- ] r .-f i.. teem and respect, a... hone t, upright I and | citizen. . aw! J feel it to be tuj duty

( to state Air. Brown's version ot the affair: I and I now appeal to aw of the-above-named ] gentlemen, to whom I mentioned it, to soy ] whether I misrepresented Air. Bkown in the least. I make the above statement with the best of feelings toward ail concerned, and if 1 have misrepresented any. it is done unintentionally and I cordially invite correction. Now, in conclusion, let me say'to my fellow citizens and brother Republicans of Jasper county, that although there mav be some things which have transpired in the party, at which some feel hurt, and of which all do not approve, let us forgive and forget them at the present, and come up to the polls, to-morrow week, as brothers bound together in the bonds of one universal brotherhood, to battle against Slavery and its extension, and for freedom,, freemen, free labor, and Irms institutions. Respectfully,

WILLIAN E. MOORE.

Hanging Grove, Oct. 3. 1859.

JASPER AGRICULTURAL FAIR.

The first annual fair of the Jasp 'r County Joint Stock Agricultural and Alec.hanical Society closed on Thursday last, after having occupied three days. Notwithstanding the" inclemency of the weather the fir.- t day. (which was caused by rain.) by ten o’clock there was a large crowd upon the ground, with many articles for exhibition. Floral Hal] was crowded with ladies, who had congregated in tig-re, doubtless, for the double °^ p ?i of keeping put of the rain, as well as admiring the beautiful boquets of flowers and many other article}?,'that, were there presented for exhibition. Here we found an exceedingly fine display of fruits, garden and field vegetables, together with many articles of domestic manufacture, such as quilts, coverlot-, blankets, bedspreads, tabjp-coyers, &c. There was also, a great display of needle-work and embroidery, some of which was beautiful indeed. But we must not forget to notice the sweetmeats, such as preserves, jellies,: &.c., of which there was a variety, and judging from the looks, and the manner in which otir worthy friends, the Committee, who were to judge of their good qualities, handled their knives, they were excellent. As we watched the operation we kind a wished that we had been on that Committee, but there was no vacam■•?,•

anil we had other duties to perform , we coubl trace fair fingers'over :-ma!l stiches, bit there *waa no chance for tasting, 'i’he work of the Indies wap tidmirably and well gotten up. and goes to prove, while the , t■•rner sex move forward with the gigantic sti i.b-s of th;* age, our fair friends will keep step in the march of progress?)!'!, ,iri their sphere,. .Among the fruits, the apples attracted conisiderable attention, anil for size and quality., arc as fine as any county in the State can boast of. Our farmers should pay a little more attention to fruit trees,' and we soon wilthave any amount of good apples. Notwithstaniling the dr uth, many of the vegetables could not be beat in the State; for in-* stance, those hfige heads of cabbage that were raised by R. Parker, we never saw surpassed, if equaled, any place. The Irish pot atoes were very large and of a good qua I? ity. It. G. Howe, Esq., had something new in that line; they look like they would not be bad to take, Dick, if they were served up right. There were some ponderous pumpkins and squashes; we did not learn who raised them, but the}* looked to be about, as large as such things ever get to be. There j was a great variety of garden vegetables, i such as beets, parsnips, tomatoes. &c., which were of goocr quality, though we have not ] time to notice them specially.

The annual address, which was delivered by Dr. Martin on the second day, in the place of G. W- Spitler, who had been chosen by the Board, but was absent, was very good and appr ipriate, clearly pointing out the position the agriculturalist should occupy in the great, scale of being, and that it requires scientific investigaton, and mental, as well as manual labor, to carry on a farm as it should be done.

The echanical Department of the Society was not very .fully represented, but there were some agrictriturai instrumentswhich deserved a notice; but more especially a buggy which was gotten up by the Warner boys. It is undoubtedly a credit to them, and proves to us that we need not leave the county to have a buggy gotten up right. The stock was not as well represented its it might be, and as it ougiit to be, in this fine stock country, where grass grows so abundantly; but there were some very fine blooded animals brought into the ring, and we know of many others in the county, and all that is required, it needs to be a little disemiuated for us to have the finest stock county.in the State. On horses we cannot brag much. It isi true the scarcely of grain during the last summer had something to do with making them generally look bad; but we are satisfied that there were but few good horses on the ground, and that we have generally an inferior quality in the county. There were, however, two or three fine blooded stallions brought into the ring, and we hope that the society, and citizens generally, will make an effort to have improvement in this particular. ] What hogs were on the ground, show there i is a good stock to be had in the county, and | we hope the farmer.-, (those that don’t know i if,) will soon learn that it only require-; about ] half the grain to keep up a good Mock of I hog . that it dot'.- a poor one.

On Thursday some fast stock was trotted around the race track, but as none came under four minutes we will not refer-to them. The ground, however, was not good, and we learn the Society will have it changed before another year; and should they decide to change the location of the Fair ground, wc would recommend the opposite side of the river as being superior in every sense, besides having the advantage of the splendid sulphur springs. Upon the whole, the Fair was a perfect success, and much credit should be given to the officers and managers lor the energetic way in which they got it up. The Police were promptly on hand and kept perfect order, and the whole exhibition was an honor to the county.

Examine, then Judge Te.

A man’s true character is formed, ami t.i ]be judtred of, more by wiiat he actually land actually does, than by anything or ail j things he pretends to be or do. Whether he Ibe a uood man or a bad, will be manifest from his acts and his works. “By their fruits, ye shall know them.” . This is the gauge by which every discreet man measures his fellows. Ami if men. as individuals, are to he tl.u - I judged,’it follows, as a necess-arv Imßc-il ] conclusion, that a combination of mm, should be subject to the same rule >t judgment, Parties are but combinationsol men, organized for a special common object, and their true character can be ascertained only by a knowledge of what they are, and what they have done. It is this rule of judgment, and this only, that we wish the people qf this country to observe in respect to the two great political parties, now contending for the mastery in this government. Let the Democratic party be judged by what it actually is, and by what it.has actually done, and not by what it pretends to be or to do, and how can any : man. who has a sincere desire to suye his country from disgrace, or to promote ami secure its general welfare, give his support to it, either by word or deed? What is that party! Look at the leaders of it, who control its rnoevm“nts, shape its policy, and profit by its success; who are they I Ambitious men. every one of them; profess,onal office-seekers, who. by false pretences, unscrupulous arts and unblushing corruption, seel; their own elevation, regardless of means or consequences. This js i he. character of the leaders, and their followers are either expectant of self-profit by their success, or blind and willing dupes to their schemes <>f cunning ami dtii iieity. This is a deplorable fact, but such it. is. as every discriminating man, who is informed on m.attm. of politic? and p irbes. the-e times, mast* know in 11 >. 1 1 .

Suili is th- Democr tic party—am] m..w what, has it ■ dorti■ \\ hat are i.is irn?-! It has .prelunded to espouse the cans.- of the people in iho territories, while cot;: :>ii ing openly and secretly 1o subpigM ■ the people to the will of a slave-holding oligarchy. It has prelend: d to be national, while doing all in its power to nggianilize one section of the country at the expense of the rights and interests of the other sect’on. It lias prete.ided an anxious regard for public economy, while running the nation into heavy indebtedness and hopeless bankruptcy, by its inexcusable evtravqgance ' and corrupt profligate practices. It has pretended a love for the Constitution, while doing all it could to degrade that sacred charter of Liberty into an instrument for-the benefitof Slavery. It lias pretended a great love for the Union, and lias done more than al! other parties and influences combined toward disturbing ami endangering the Union. It. has pretended to have a deep regard tor the poor man, and to desire the lievelopement ‘of our country's resources, while it has, by its Free Trade policy, played into the hands oi European capitalists and manufacturers, by encouragj ing the importation of goods and fabrics from ] abroad that our own obor men could manufacture as well here at home, ami lias conspired with the ’.and speculators to defeat the Homestead bill that proposed to give every poor man a free farm, if he chouse to settle upon and cultivate it. Indeed it has pretended to be in favor of almost every good, wise and patriotic measure, while in tact it has all the while been engaged in doing just the oposi c of its pretensions. Is this not true! Recall to mind the acts, the measures and accomplishments of the Democratic party for the last six or eight years, and an wer us nai/ if you can.

Now we w mid have the Republican party \ judged in the same way. What is it, and ] what has it done! It. proposes, first of all, to be opposed to the further extension of Slavery, and in favor of the protection and fostering ot the rights and principals of human f reedom, and never have any of its representatives in Congress or any where else failed to do all in their power to carry out this profession. It professes a regard for ’he faithful and economical administration | of the affairs of the nation and the States ] and we challenge any man to point out one instance where the Republicans are or have : been in power, in any of the Free States. East or West, where there has been extrav- i agunce in public expenditure, intentional ; mal-administration, or a lack of fidelity to ■ public trusts. It professes regard for popular righ's and the poor man’s interests; is there an instance where a Republican Congressman or other responsible representatutive of that party has proved recreant to his profession! And look at the character of the leading men ofthe Republican party — are they mere mousing politicians, who have nothing .in view but self-aggrandizement! 1 Are they bad men, unscrupulous of means | and corrupt in their pratices! Are they not, ■ rather, true, schollarly statesmen, full of an earnest love of liberal principals and a spirit of true progress! They are public men many of them; examine their records and view them in the light «.f a candid criticism, and then pass judgment. Bad men there may be—doubtless are, in‘ the Republican party, tis there are in all human associations, but they are not men of coutroling influence, nor trusted with important responsibilities. “Lobk on this picture, and then on this.” Judg ‘ ye fairly, honestly, with candor and in the light of knowledge, and tell us, oh ye who cling to the skirts of “Democracy” as if it were the only anchor of hope, whether you are not making a 'Teat mistake-and that

too with your eyes open and while in possession of a sane mind.— Chicago Journal.

The Mormon Abomibation.

, A correspondent of the Philadelphia Christian Observer, under the date of Camp Floyd, (Utah Territory,) July 9, writes as ] foMows: j “A'ou cannot surely know the,highhanded I crimes which this people commit in the name i of the Alost High God. 1 “The basest passions of the basest men I have full scope of gratification in the name |ot religion. In the name of religion, arson ilnJl murder are committed. To save the souls of men who have apostatized, their throats are cut. It women refuse to become the second, fourth, or fortieth wile of some lustful saint, their throats, in many install' ces, have been found cut in cold murder, and the report started, “committed suicide for fear of the wratirof God!” All these, and I mus are done in the name of the Lord, usd by and with the consent of the heads <* the • hun li! Judge ot this Judicial District (tile Ist,j informs me there are now over one humlri-d and sixty murderers, and many tliem known and acknow iedged as such, running.at large, and in li 11 communion with, and protected by the Alormons—a large number of whom are Bishops and Elders, and other church dignitaries. This is ti,e trict in which were comm ; ■ }j •. Aleadows murili r.’he P..'■ • I- - J Forbes, and others. •■Brigham Young, u .c -, is-'since, said in ttie Tabernacie, tha- i * was expecting a revelation from God commanding his children by one wife to intermarry with his child, en of another wife, to secure pure priesthood. “Ttiis people have pretended prophets an i revelators, who pretend a revelation tor any I emergency, commanding the perpetration of 1 any crime that may be desired, to uccom- : plish any end in the name o. Go i.

“Ail their wives are taken in accurdmee ' with pretended visi its,dreams or revelations. Should the woman object, she is asked to reflect with care, anti admom-tied to obey counsel. Tins uJns-onitioii to obey counsel, i is ominous, savoring <j( throats cut, pretend- ■ ing suicide. But po erty here is- so distres-- ! singly great, and women w io are wives have j so tittle liberty, together with the fact that, (many more women than men are member.-, ■ ot tins pretended church, that womenhirdly ever object to becoming the wives ot anv 'man who can in any wise assist in their supi port, careless how many wives the man may i already have. “An l herein is found the excuse for polygamy on the part or the females, though 1 they may pretend to receive the institution as icom Goil. 'l'lre men profess to marry : wives whuiiy as a religious duty, claiming more wives as religious light and knowledge i increase!- I opine an excu e can be more : easily found ior this abominable polygamous : h a b it. ••1 kne.w o. seven mc’n who have the m;>- : thi*r and daugut.er to wife. And one. who i lias the mother and her four daughters: to | wile, and children by all of them. This man [has ten wives. -The reporter of the Taberi nacle services having five wives, has his halt jsister to wife. They have three-children. ()ne man in tills district, an elder, refused to.seal to his sfin a spiritual wife, but h:i 1 i himself, sealed to that same woman as his tenth spiritual wife and lived witli tier as such tor two months, then divorced her and sealed her to that son in question, and ;;r----sucli they now live.”

The Constitutional Convention.

The New Albany Tribune gives the following classification of those in favor of a Convention to amend our State Constitution: Ist. T e friends of Free Schools. 2d. Those who desire purity in our elections. 3d. Those who desire justice and equality in taxation. 4th. Those who oppose drunkenness and I crime. sth. Those who are not in favor of £»xin«j the people of one county for the educational purposes of other under tlie plea of uniformity. 6th. Those who oppose the system of ! plundering- that exists under our present I Constitution. 7th. Those who are in favor of good money, and opposed to wild cat banks. Sth. Those who are in favor of justice in the granting of licenses and permits. 9th. Those who favor economy in the ad- ! ministration of our State Government. 10t!>. Those who favor honest and just I legislation. | 11th. Those who are in favor oi permit- ; ting the people to tax themselves, ii they see I proper, in order to school the poor children | around them. 12th. Those who wish to perpetuate oiir free institutions.

The San Juan Affair.

The misunderstanding about the ownership ol the little Island of San Juan, on the i coast of Washington Territory, which Gen. I Harney has aggravated nearly to the point | of hostile collission by taking military possession of the disputed property, is a good deal more serious than the value of the pro-, petty would indicate. How the President has sumn oned General Sen t to consult ' about it, and the Cabinet has debated it, and ' the veteran Commander in Chief has been I smith nly dispatched to the far off region of trouble to avert the first steps of a war, our readers are aware, but they may not be aware that the English Government regard the matter quite as seriously as we do, and have s°nt their Commander-in-Chief, the Duke of Cambridge, to act on their behalf. He set sail tor Vancouver’s Island some days before the last steamer arrived here. Gen. i Scott started on Tuesday. Both have doubt- | less been trusted with large discretionary I powers to avert the calamity of a war, and I we need hardly fear that they will use them for othty than peace keeping purposes. I There is enough of color on each side of the i dispute to justify pretty decided opinions, ■ and with General Harney’s headlong disposition, and Governor Douglass’ fiery petu- ■ lance, a collission might happen at any moI inent, but once t'‘e two venerable Commanders reach the scene of difficulty we apprehend that the end of danger will have been reached.— lnd- Journal. ijfT’X Maine newspaper, in announcing the death of Henry Johnson, Mayor of New buryport, says: “He was an uncle of the , Hon. Caleb Cushing, but otherwise a respectable and worthy man.”