Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1860 — Page 2

legislation. Tt sprang from the idea, as Madison expressed it, “that republican institjutions would become a fallacy, where slavery existed;” and in order to guaranty republican Institutions to the Territories, they excluded slavery. [Cheers.] The ordinance of 1737 was the logical offspring of the principles upon which your i \- dependence and your Constitution are founded; it is the practical application of the Declaration of Independence in the government of the Territories. Its very existence sets completely at naught Mr. Douglas’doctrine and historical construction, and the dwarfish hand of tbe demagogue tries in vain to tear this bright page out of your annals. [Cheers.] The ordinance of 1787 stands written on the very gate-posts of the Northwestern States; written on every grain-field that waves in the breeze, on every factory that dots the course of their rushing waters, on every cottage that harbors thrifty freemen; written in every heart that rejoices in the blessings of liberty. [Long-continued upplauso.] There it stand* in characters of light. Only a blind man cannot see it; only a fool can misunderstand it; only a knave can wilfully misinterpret it. [Repeated cheers.]

Buch is Mr. Douglas' principle of popular sovereignty in its logical and historical aspect;apparently adopting the doctrine that slavery is the creature of local low only, and fighting against a Congressional slave code, but*, on the other hand, admitting the very principle on which protection to slave property becomes a logical necessity; and again assuming the ground that slave property may be introduced where there is no local law, but explaining away the logical consequences of that doctrine by the transparent sophistry of unfriendly legislation; dragging the proudest exploits of American statesmanship into the dust; emasculating the Declaration of Independence, because incompatible with its principles; setting aside the ordinance of 1737, because that stern fact is a conclusive historical argument against it; a jesuiticnl piece of equivocation and double dealing, unable to stand the criticism of a logical mind, because it is a mixture of glaring contradictions; unable to stop the war of principles and interests, because it is at war with itself. [Applause.] Jt is true, its principal champion worked hard to cover with bullying boisterousness the moral cowardice from which it sprang; but in vain. lie mistakes the motive power which shapes the actions of free nations. Having no moral convictions i of his cfwn to stand upon he could never nd- 1 dress himself to the moral sense of the people, j [Sensation.] Having no moral convictions j of his own! This is a grave charge, but I i know what I say. I respect true convie- | tions wherever I find them. Among the j fire-eaters of the South, there are men who j speak of the moral basis of slavery, and be- ! lieve in it; who speak of the blessing of ser- j believe it; who assert that slave- i ry is riglit, and believe it. Atrocious as them i errors ipay be, and deeply as I deplore them, ; yet I respect their convictions as soon as I | find thejm out. But look into the record of i the champion of “popular sovereignty;” scan j it from iy liable to syllable; and then tell me ■ you Dqjiglasites of the South, do you find : one wo fid there indicating a moral con vie- | tion that slavery is right? And you Doug-1 lasitc-s of*the North, who are in the habit of, telling uls that you are the true anti-slavery j men, and that popular sovereignty will sure- 1 Iv work the overthrow of the institution, did j your master ever utter a similar sentiment! I Do you find in his record one word of sympn- , thy with the down trodden and degraded! I One speaking of a human philosophy of our age! One syllable in vindication of the out- '] raged dignity of human nature! One word i which might indicator, moral conviction that | slayeryis wrong? Not one! . But one thing he does tellyou: “/ do not care whether slavery be voted up or down.'” There is then a human heart that does not care! Sir, look over this broad land, where tile struggle has raged for years and years; and across the two oceans, around the globe, to the point where the far . West meets the far East; over the teeming -countries where the cradle of mankind stcod; and over j the workshops of civilization in Europe, and ! over those mysterious regions, Hinder the tropical sun, which have not yet emerged ; from the eight of barbarism to the daylight of civilized life—and then tell me, how many hearts you find that do not tremble with mortal anguish or exultant joy as the scales of human freedom or human bondage go up or down! Look over the history ol the world, froth the time when infant mankind felt in its heart the first throbbings of aspiring dignity, down to our days, when the rights of „ men have at last found a bold and powerful champion in a great and powerful Republic; where i«j the page that is not spotted with blood add tears, 6hed in that all-absorbing struggle; where a chapter which does not tell the tale of jubilant triumph or heartbreaking distieas, as the scales of freedom or

elavery weat up or down? [Loud applause.] i Cut to-duy, in the midst of the nineteenth j century, in a Republic whose programme was laid down in the Declaration of Independence, there comes a man to you, and tells you, with cynical coolness, that he does not care! And because he does not care, he claims the confidence of his countrymen and the highest honor of the Republic! Because he does not care, he pretends to be the representative statesman of this age! Sir, I always thought that he can be no | statesman whose ideas and conceptions are - not founded upon profound moral convictions i of right" and wrong. [Applause.] What, i then, shall we say of him who boastingly parades'his indifference us a virtue! May ; we not drop the discussion about his states- j manship, and ask-, What is he worth as a \ man? [Repeated cheers.] Yes; he mis- ■ takes tin* motive power which shapes the! events of history. I find that in the life of j tree nations, mere legal disquisitions never i turned the tide of events, and mere constitutional eonstructions never determined the tendency of any age. The logic of things goes its[s£eady way, immovable to eloquence anff dettff to argument. It shapes and changes lawis and constitutions according to its immutable rules, and those adverse to it will prove nb effectual obstruction to its onward march. j In times of great rjonfricts, the promptings and dictates of the human conscience are more potent than all the inventive ingenuity of-the human brain. The conscience of a people,, when once fairly ruling the notion off the masses, will .never fail to make new laws, when those existing are contrary to it* tendency, or it will put its own con-

struetion on those that are there. Your disquisitions and plausibilities may be used as weapons-and stratagems in a fencing match of controversing pa-ties; but, powerless as they are before the consciences of men, posterity will remember them only ns mere secondary Incidents of a battle of great principles, in which the strongest motive powers of human nature were the true combatants. There is the slavery question; not a mere occasional quarrel between two sections of country divided by a geographical line, not a mere contest between two economical interests for the prepontierence, not a mere wrangle between two political parties for power and spoils; but the great struggle between the human conscience and a burning wrong, between advancing civilization and retreating barbarism, between two antagonistic systems of social organization. [Ap- | plause.] In vain will our impotent mock giants endeavor to make the test question of our age turn on a ridiculous logical quibble, or a paltry legal technicslity, [applause;] in vain will they invent small dodges, and call them “great principles;” in vain will they attempt to drag down the all-absorbing contest to the level of a mere pot-house quarrel between two rival candidates for a Presidential nomination. [Applause.] The wheel of progressing events will crush them to atoms, as it 1 as crushed so many abnormities, [cheers,] and a future generation will perhaps read on Mr. Douglas' tombstone the inscription: “Here lies the queer sort of aj statesman, who, when the great battle of slavery was fought, pretended to say he did not care whether slavery be voted up or voted down.” [Cheers.] But as long as the moral vitality of this | nation is not entirely exhausted, Mr. Douglas, and men like him, will in vain endeavor to reduce the people to that disgusting state of moral indifference which he himself is not ashamed to boast of. I solemnly protest* that the American people are not to be measured by Mr. Douglas’ low moral standard. However degraded some of our politicians ! may be, the progress of the struggle will ! show that the popular conscience is still alive, and that the people do care! [Long! continued applause.].

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. EDITED BY S. 31. STACKHOISE A: 1.. A. CODE.

RENSSELAER, INI). WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7. 1860.

Republican State Ticket.

FUK GOVERNOR, HENRY S. LANE, of Montgomery. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, OLIVER P.’MORTON, of IVayne. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE. ~~ WILLIAM A. PEELLE, of'Randolph. FOR TREASURER OF STATE, JONATHAN S. HARVEY, of Clarke. \ j FOR AUDITOR OF STATE, ALBERT LANGE, of Vigo. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, JAMES G. JONES, of Vanderburgh. FOR REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT, BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Marian. FOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT, JOHN P. JONES, of Lagrange. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, MILES J. FLETCHER, of Putnam.

YOUNG MEN'S REPUBLICAN CLUB

The Young Men’s Republican Club of Jasper county meets at their rooms in Rensselaer, opposite the Gazette Office, every Tuesday evening at six and a hall o’clock. R. S. Dwiggins, Secr’y. forget the donation party, at the 31. E. Church, this evening. Ofp~\Ve learn that the Newton county Democratic Convention on Saturday last, nominated Thomas R. Barker as a candidate for Sheriff to organize the county. The Governor had beforo promised to appoint whoever they might nominate. No other nominations were made.

(pj"We bespeak attention to the adver- 1 tisement headed “Take Notice” in another j column. It will be seen that the Board of Trustees of this town are fully in earnest in their determination to comply with the wishes and wants of the citizens and furnish them a school house this season. (fCj~We to-day complete the publication of Curl Schurz’s great speech and invite for it a candid and careful perusal by men of all parties. In our humble judgment it is a complete answer at all points to Senator Douglas and his squatter sovereignty humbug. The Young JVJen’s Club have fifty copies of it for gratuitous distribution. Call <m 11. 8, Dvviggins at the office of Milroy &, j Cole. ' U-J ! the advertisement headed “apple trees once more, 5 ’ we are somewhat at a loss to understand the meaning of tire advertisers. We would like to know whether they intend to cast any reflections on the Gazette by sayin r that they found no room for any more gas. If they mean to intimate that the Gazette is conducted ’.:i a gaseous style, or is devoid of “sober truth” wo repel the insinuation with scorn, and would say to our friends that in our humble judgment it would bo difficult to fill our receptacle so lull of gas ns to prevent ' them from injecting a little more. See their I advertisement in proof of this _

THE “IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT."

While the monarchies of Europe are plodding along in the beaten track of ‘ precedents,” it is the province of the United States to carve out fer itself a hitherto untrodden path through the wilderness of dogma, ideas and principles hourly being evolved, or rather brought to light, in the brains of her millions of free-thinkers. While the statesmen of the Old World are lookin backward for landmarks emblazoned along the pathway of time by tiieiy ancesters, by which to govern the people; it is the province of the people of ‘he New World to look forward along the pathway of human progress, and therefrom evolve principles for the direction of their statesmen. These two systems of government are ever contending for the supremacy, in every civilized nation; but the more is this observable in absolute monarchies, where occasionally the progressive element—the people—try by force of arms to throw ofl'the aristocratic, the conservative chains that are coiled around them.

It is only within a few years that this aristocratic element has shown itself in our midst with any degree of power. A Government that was of itself an original idea, was but a sorry plan to introduce worn-ous systems; a nation whose fundamental principles of confederation recognized the equality of all mankind was but a sorry system for au aristocracy to be buih up under, and attempt not only to lead but coerce the masses. But to-day these two elements stand arrayed against eacli other in our government, with almost the iil feeling o! the feudal times. Each have entered the Congress of our nation with a principle indicative of the class from which it emanated and whose interests it is intended to subserve. Each of these interests—each ol these elements is repre- j sented by one of the great parties of the j day; thus, while the Republican House has j before it a bill to provide a homestead for every free white man in the nation who is homeless, and while “free homes for the homeless” will be inscribed upon every Republican banner during the coming canvass, the Democratic party will he found laboring—it may be silently, in the free : tates — insiduousiy, and as efiectively as now, for the irdorseinent of the principles of“niggers for the nigerless” by the people of the United States.

i “Free homes for the homeless!” Free j : from the blighting curse of slavery; free from j ; the withering simoom thut has swept over | every Sta.o where a slave lias trodden; free j • from the curse of that not much less evi!— j the land speculator; free, peculiarity, to eve- ■ ry houseless, homeless son of Adam who longs for an “abiding interest” in the world | which God gave to the race. What more glorious object could engage the attention of the people’s legislators? What would tend more to elevate the masses; to spread free schools all over our Western prairies, than to put a free man on every quarter section of : the two thousand millions of acres of the then free land! Place, in comparison with this, the pet scheme of the Democracy, the aristocratic element of our Government, as foreshadowed i in the action of the Democratic members of j the Senate, in February, 1859, who choked down the Homestead bill with a bill for the acquisition of Cuba, and the more recent action ot the same Honorable gentlemen in passing the following resolution before a caucus meeting, with only two dissenting I voices—Douglus and his man Pugh: “Resolved, That neither Congress, nor a i Territorial Legislature, whether by direct j legislation, or legislation of indirect and i unfriendly nature, possess tbs. power to anI nul or impair the constitutional right of any | citizen of the United States to take his slave ! property into the common territories; but it ! is the duty of the Federal Government to afford for that, as for other species of property, the needful protection, and if experience should at any time prove that the Judiciary dees not possess power to insure adequate protection, it will then become tise duty of Congress to supply such deficiedcy.”

Here, then, are the two opposing elements of our government brought face to face in in the Congress of the United States, each advocating the principle that will tend toward its own advnncem; nt —“Free homes for free men,” ay the people—rthe progressive element; and a “Slave Code for the Territories,” by the Aristocracy—the conservative element. Between these two principles, the people of Indiana will be called upon to choose in October next, and again in November. “Free homes for the homeless” is engraved all over the Republican standard by every action of the party. In that in Feb., 1859, it passed the House, every Republican voting tor it except one; in that it is now again before that body, having been introduced by the Republican Committee on Territories, of which Mr. Grow is, Chairman; in that it was introduced in the Senate in February, 1859, by Doolittle (Rep.,) and on motion of Slidell, (Dem.i) was choked down to give place to the Cuba bill; in that the State Republican Convention of Indiana, in Fehruary, 1880, indorsed the action ol the House. So lias many other State ar.d county Conventions; and it is now one of the acknowledged principles of the party lor the campaign of 1860, and every succeeding campaign until they get control of the government and accomplish it. The resolution presented above is copied nlmost verbatim from the late message of the President, and has thus far been indorsed by the highest Democratic authori-

ty, and may therefore be considered good Democratic doctrine. Men of Jasper county, which side of the “irrepressible conflict” will you lake! Will you indorse “free homes for the homeless,” for the sake of Northern Freenjen—Northern laborers, or will you vote for a “Slave Code for the Territories,” at the nod of Southern aristocracy!

CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.

We have a letter from a friend, suggesting Francesville as a good point for the holding of our Congressional Convention this year. We heart ily concur in our friend’s suggestion. -r’rhe Convention has always (with a single exception) been held in the eastern part of the District, and generally, perhaps always at Plymouth. We think this is hardly fair. We, of the western part of the District, feel some interest in the Convention, and do not think we should always be compelled to go to Plymouth, or remain unrepresented. We think the place of holding the Convention should he alternately in the eastern and western parts of the District, and, as the Convention has always been at Plymouth, we think justice to us demands that it should be held this year in tiiis part of the District. We are not strenuous about its being held at Francesville, though we think that is, on some accounts, the most suitable place. It is as easily accessible as any point in the District, and has excellent accomodations for holding the Convention, and we think it proper that it should be held tiiere. 13 .t we are not strenuous about this. Only let us have the Convention in this part of the District—at Francesville, or Reynolds, or even Bradiord, and we will not complain.

HOUSE PRINTER.

We announced in our last issue, the election of Ex-Lieutenant Governor Ford, of Ohio, as printer of the House. On the next day Mr. Rutfin moved to amend the journal, eo as to show that his vote was cast for Glossbrenner, alleging that he had so voted. The journal was accordingly corrected, and the result was a tie vote, and wn-elected Mr. Fold. Finally, after several day’s delay, a ballot was had on March 1, resulting as follows: Whole number of votes 187 Necessary to a. choice. yq Ford yf> Glossbrenner 7-J Button y Remainder scattering Mr. Ford was declared elected. Mj. Ford having thus been twice elected House Printer, it is presumed lie will be permitted to discharge the duties of that office.

COMMISSIONER'S COURT.

The Board of Commissioners of Jasper county is in session this week. No business of particular interst is before the Board. It was understood in tbe early part of the week that a petition would be presented, asking for the formation of a new county out of certain territory in the eastern part of Jasper—the proposed county to be called after our model (!) Governor, Willard. Who was the originatorof the scheme we know* not, but like most works of daikness it was destined to an untimely fate. A large majority of the residents of the territory remonstrated against the petition, and we understand it will not be presented at all. We are not sure that the name selected for the pro posed county was the cause of its early decease, but presume it was. At any rate it should be.

[From the State Journal.

The New County of Newton and the County Seat.

Rensselaek, Feb. 27, 1860. Ed. Journal: Last Thursday, the 23d inst., the Commissioners appointed to locate the county seat, arrived in Newton county, accompanied by his Excellency, our worthy and disinterested Governor, who is always on hand when there is a penitentiary or a c unty seat to be located, prompted, doubtle ■ by the double object of sharing the many champagne suppers and other good things that are brought to bear upon the minds and stomachs of the Commissioners by the different contestants, and by the .ischarge ot his official duty. But, in regard to the first, I don’t think he fared as well in this instance as in some former operations, lor before they had got around to Rensselaer, which was the Sunday following their arrival, tiny had run out of good liquor, and his Excellency had to resort to prairie grass whisky. They have not, as yet, made known publicly the decision as to their location, but an intimate triend of the Governor, who seems to understand matters and things, says the location is fixed upon a point in the center of the county east and west, on the L. & P. Railroad. Believing him to be one that would be likely to know something about it, 1 was led to examine the records to find who the lucky individual would be who will own so valuable a piece of property, and found the quarter section designated in the name of Mrs. Caroline Wellard, whom I suppose to be some relation of the Governor. He only desires, of course, to advance her interest. But, as the county is forty miles long, north and south, and only twelve wide, east und west, and (he proposed location is within three miles of the extreme south line, it looks like sacrificing a large public interest to a small individual profit. L. D. VV.

Destructive at Danville, Ky.

Lexington, Ky., Feb. 23. The principal part of Danville was destroyed by fire yesterday, eighty buildings being consumed, including three churches, the Court House, Adams & Co’s Express office, the Busterton Hotel and the leading business houses. Loss estimated at $220,000. Insured for one-fourth.

LFor the Rensselaer Gazette.

OLD LINERS DISTURBING A RELIGIOUS MEETING.

-Hanging Grove, March 3, 18€(X j Messrs. Editors: The earth has made one 1 more revolution around its orbit since I ! wrote you from this part of the county on the subject of “-education.” Tire immediate ! cause of writing at this time, is the effect produced on society by the different kinds |of education. On the 2d of this month the ! Rev. Mr. Shockey preached at our Grove, to | a somewhat promiscuous congregation, upon the subject of Christianity and the redemption of the human family. At the close of his sei mon he remarked that he was an agent , for a Missionary Society to establish a missionary in Kansas, to “proclaim liberty to ; the captive and to bind up the broken-hear-ted,” and that he would now receive donations for that purpose. This was too much j for the self-styled Democratic portion of that j Church; one saying: “Yes, and Sharp’s rij fles,” another that “my Bible says nothing I about slavery, but let it alone.” Whereupon Mr. Shockey remarked that that was what tbe devil said7“let me alone,” and the , next morning Mr. Shockey remarked that j he thought the gentlema-rr had gotten tlie idea from the Cincinnati Platform and not I from the Scriptures. A third said that his Bible taught him that slavery is right. A . fourth, that Mr. Shockey ought to be assaulted with rotten eggs. By this time the

| congregation was in one general uproar, j However Mr. Shockey was not to be terrified by all of this parade and ado; he conclu- ! ded to stay and give them another sermon ;on the day following, agreeing to preach a I sermon on the slavery question; and that he would prove from tbe Bible that slavery is wrongj-and that he would answer all of the supposed pro-slavery texts of Scripture. The news spreading through the neighborhood | that Mr. Shockey was not afraid to proclaim from the pulpit that slavery is wrong, brought in a considerable congregation. However, the gentleman, who on the evening before quoted from the Cincinnati Platform, ns his Bible, and some of his confederates did not appear, perhaps thinking they would be bad- | ly used up in the way of argument, coneluj ded to stay at home. Mr. Shockey made a ! very masterly discourse; answering all of the objections from Genesis to Revelations, in a very able and satisfactory manner, shivieringhis opponents from head to foot. It ; was truly amusing to see them writhing and 1 twisting under the operation, frequently i:iiterrupting the speaker, and one descended Iso low as to give Mr. Shockey the lie. Mr. i Shockey stated that a self-styled Clr.i ::.in, I down South, had sold one of lfi.s fellow men j fur thirteen, hundred dollars, and appropriated the proceeds of the sale to the preaching of pro-slavery doctrine in Kansas, and . that he (Mr. Shock y) certainly had as good j a right to preach anti-slavery doctrine, i Messrs. Editors, thus we see that the selfstyled Democratic party are not content with j the extension of slavery, but want to distort j and pervert the Scriptures into its support, and even insult tbe minister who would dare raise his voice against this hydra headed monster. May the time come when this whisky and pro-slavery spirit shall cease to dictate for State and Church, and be buried in or.e common grave of oblivion and forgetfulness. Mr. Shockey will be heartily welcomed by the law-abiding and order-loving portion of our citizens, at any time he may see fit to give us a call. An Eye-witness.

CINCINNATI CORRESPONDENCE.

Cincinnati, March 3,1860. j On Thursday morning last, between eight ! and nine o’clock, our city was startled by a j report that St. Xavier Church, on Sycamore j street, had fallen and crushed a large number of people in the ruins. The first impression j upon the minds of those who heard it seemed j to he utter incredulity, as there did not accompany the report any assignable cause that such a calamity could occur in such a substantial, well-tried building. It was not generally known that the building was being torn down to make room for a larger building. Slight and unsatisfactory as the report at first appeared, it was soon observed that the current of the populace set in one direction with unusual celerity of motion and anxious faces. Alas, indefinite as the first report was, on urriving in the neighborhood, the crowd and confusion and sad heart-rend-ing wails of sorrow that rose above the noise, all indicated, too truly, that a terrible calamity had fallen upon the city. No Church was there, and in the wild uproar every possible report obtained credence. Yet, after the wildest reports were refuted and the facts developed, enough was left in the actual casualty itself io cast the black shadow into many homes and the blackest grief in hundreds of lovi ig hearts. The Church was a heavy substantial building of brick, and in order to take it down, the always dangerous process of undermining was adopted. In this way the front and rear walls were taken down. On Tuesday night and Wednesday it rained very hard und the standing walls were penetrated with moisture to a considerable depth. On Thursday, w.lien the men went to work, this im- ! portant fact appears not to have been consid- ! ered, and fifteen men set to work to underi mine, by removing with picks, the lower inJside bricks just above the foundation. The ■ wall stood twenty feet above the foundation

and no props or other means appear to have j been set up to prevent its giving way suddenly. The digging progressed, and, in an unexpected moment, even before i*. was thought the wall was seriously affected, down° it ! came, crushing thirteen men beneath the ruins. For a few moments those at work at otherparts of the building stood'transfixed with* j horror, but they soon rallied and rushed to ; the work of exhuming their companions from | beneath the brick and debris. In » few min|T 3 redS ° f 6tron ° ar ® s "’ere aiding in l the work as if life and not the recovery of | an ‘J ma-ngled bodies depended upon the | exertion. Th ; crowd continued to increase and press upon the laborers till tiiere wu | r,ot rot>ra left to prosecute the search, when--Ihe mayor brought the police into rearai.i----i tion and forced the crowd off the ruins in : order that the work of exhuming could pro- ; ceed with proper celerity. As the crashed bodies were carefully I lifted out, friends soon recognized them, and it was a sad and melting scene to see wive* prostrate themselves upon the crushed and bleeding forms of the husbands from which they had parted but a couple of hours before lull of file and hope; and as children rushed in to learn what they most dreaded to know, a scene of sadness and sorrow ensued that melted the most obdurate hearts, and evem men were moved to tears. Ot the fiit *en men engaged in undermining the wall thirteen were killed upon the spot, one taken out not seriously injured,, and one escaped. Twelve of the dead leavefamilies who were dependent upon them. Measures are taken for a public expression of sympathy for the bereaved and for the purpose of establishing a fund to aid them through the fearful trial that has fall.-n upon them.

The members of tbe Mechanics’ Exchange arc making arrangements to induce the holding of the Fair of the national Agricultural Society in this city. The committee ~ou Ways and Means report that they have guaranteed subscriptions to the amount of $12,OUO, and can r;use any amount that may be required for the object in view. Charles Clawson was tried during the past i\ eek foi tl e homicide of R. T. Mahcnc and acquitted. This acquittal was based upon the precedent established in the Sickles case. Yours respectfully, J aster. Baeti.lt s Commercial College.— The principal ot this old and deserved y most popular Institution of the kind in this country, has been for years known to tbe bu.si- : ness community as the only instructor in the j higher branches of commercial science. lir. lact Mr. Bartlett lias no competitor in bin- ' lino. Review vlr. ;i trtieit’s late and most: ; remarkable work on commerce and bankings and they will doubt no longer.— Cincinnati Gazette.

The Rochester Mercury.

Ihe above is the name of a paper justr started at Rochester, 1 u lion county, Indiana,, edited and published by our old friend, J. 11. Si a i ley, Esq., the first number of which we have received. The typographical appearance is good, the editorials are vigorously u ritten and tne selections evince much taste. It is Republican in politics and will doubtless do much good in the cause of freedomIt deserves a hearty support at the hands of | the Republicans of Fulton County, and we trust may receive it. Success to you Bro. iStailey.

The Latest from the Hungarian.

Halifax, March U. An official letter from 31r. Townsend,, agent of the government at the wreck of the Hungarian, says that it is now ascertained beyond a doubt that there are no survivors of the disaster. Only three bodies have been found, one that of a woman, one that of a man supposed to be a fireman, and thw other that of a ehild, supposed to be twoyears old. The cargo and materials of the steamer are scattered along the shore from Taskefc around Cape Sable ns fur east as Ragged Island. Considerable goods are drifting’ ashore at the mouth of Shelbourne Harbor . The country people generally ore acting' hone, tly. Three stores are hired at Barringt in to collect the property, which is of considerable value. The ship’s articles have been tound, and it shows that the crew numbered seventy-four. No passenger list has yet been found. The rumored find.ng of the clearance of the steamer is untrue. The only passengers yet known to have been on board the ill-fated vessel, are WmBoultenhouse of Sackville, and Dr. Barrett of New York. A box belonging to the latter has been found containing a number of letters from his wife and daughter. Particular care will be taken of any bodies that may be found, and a record of the marks found upon them will be kept. The bodies will be buried in separate graves for recovery by their friends. The mails are soaked into pulp, but they will be sent to Halifax by the revenue cutter Daring. Hon. Joseph Howe, Provincial Secretary, is exhibiting much interest and promptitude concerning the wreck.

Interesting From India.

By the Arabia the following interesting Missionary intelligence hus been received: “The Overland Friend of India states that the Rujah of Kuppoorthulla, who recently married a Christian girl, has established a inis non, to be supported entirely by himself. Mr. Woodside, of Debra Doon, and Dr. Newton, medical missionary, have charge of the new mission. The Rajah has thrown off all caste prejudices, and ie diligently studying the Scriptures, with a view of baptism. This is the first instance in which a native chief haa established and supported an entire mission on his own estates. Dhuleep Singh gave liberal donations to the American and other missions.”