Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1860 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE.

EIiITEDI BY 1. fl. STACKHOUSE & L. A. COLE.

RENSSELAER, IND, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 21, 1860.

Republican State Ticket.

FOR GOVERNOR, HENRY S. LANE, of Montgomery. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, OLIVER P. MORTON, of Wayne. TOR SECRETARY OF STATE. > WILLIAM A. PEELLE, of Randolph. FOR TREASURER OF STATE, JONATHAN S. HARVEY, of Clarke. FOR AUDITOR OF STATE, ALBERT LANGE, of VigoFOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, JAMES O. JONES, of Vanderburgh. FOR REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT, BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Marian. TOR CLERK OF SUPREME COURT, JOHN P. JONES, of Lagrange. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, MILES J. FLETCHER, of Putnam.

YOUNG MEN'S REPUBLICAN CLUB

Tho Young Men’s Republics i Club of Jasper county meets at their rooms in Rensselaer, in the third story of the Shanghai Building, every Tuesday evening at six and a half o’clock. R. S. Dwicgins, Sec’y. I. M. Stackhouse &i Bro. received last night a fine lot of plows to which they would : call tho attention of their customers. understand that the Sheriff of Newton county-* —Mr. Thomas Barker—has received his commission from the Governor, endjhas ordered an election of County officers on tho first Monday in April. C *** 7 . OCrThe indications from Washington are that Sickjea will be ousted from his seat in Congress', and the seat given to Mr. VV illiameon, tho contestant. i OCTAd vices from Washington show that i Hon. F. P. Blair of Missouri will succeed '•in his contest of the seat of Mr. Barrett, member of Congres from that State. fOO'Full returns from New Hampshire chow the following result: Goodwin,(Ret*.-) 38,059; Cate, (Den, ) 33 410. Goodwin’s majority. 4,599. The Republicans have ten out of twelve Senators, and their majority m the House is eighty-seven. ? farmers of Oregon iiave been taking revenge upon the Indians of that State for their depredations. During the month of February some three or four hundred Indians men, ir.oaen, and children were killed. OCrlt is thought that the National DenioConvention will be held at Charleston, notv. ilhslanding the threatened extortions of its hotel keepers and citizens. It is believed the committee have no power to change the place of meeting. (p7?”We have received a communication in reference to “nuling” county, which we will publish 8s soon as the author furnishes vis iiia name. It is a rule, from which we cannot deviate, never to publish any commit* ! nicationa unless we know who they are from. * CdirWe noticed large rolls of leather and 1 boxes unloaded in front of the shoo shop of friend McSheehy the other day, and this jmorning w*3 stepped into bis establishment v and found that he had just been receiving a 1 ne'V stock of leather and ready-made shoes mnd gaiters for ladies and children, and ■shoes for men and boys. He has an exceedingly fine stock, especially for ladies and misses, and we recommend every one i i need of a beautiful gaiter to set off a neat (and well-turned foot to call and see his se- = lection, confident that all can be suited. His stock of men’s summer wear is also r,.\vel! selected, asj&rell as that for boys. We believe, from our inspection, that Mr. Me'"Sheehy sells a 3 reasonably,or more so, than any one in town. It will do -mo harm to and see.

IMPROVEMENTS IN NEWTON CO.

Wo learn that a distillery is about being 1 erectod at the county seat of Newton county. Whether Governor Willard is interested in p it (the distillery 1 ) we are not advised. We fhink however it is quite likely be maybe. Certainly his feelings in relation to such institutions would not stand in the way of such connection, and the business seems very appropriate for the man who being chief magistrate of the State of Indiana and the recognized head of the Democratic party in the State, could so far forgot what % was due to decency, self-respect and the good of the public as to locate the county seat in the extreme corner of the county for the sake of enhancing the value of his own land. Besides it is necessary that the Governor after this display of Democracy should at once engage in the manufacture of platform to keep the party ip fhst county together.

THE HOMESTEAD BILL.

We present on our outside to-day an abstract of the provisions of the Homestead Bill as it passed the Horn • a week ago last Monday. With regard to I*3 provisions we have no remarks to make; except that we, with every Republican in the House, every Republican paper in the United States, and, we believe, every Republican also, would be glad to see it become the law of the land, ft is pre-eminently the laboring mail's law—a staff to the poor man, to help him to a home —and, at the same time, a sSield to protect him from the merciless those who might have the power to defraud him of it. How many thousands are there of poor, homeless, hard-working men in our thickly settled States, and our densely populated cities, and even in our own fertile prairie States of the West, who are just eeking out a living,scarce knowing at night Where the next day’s dinner is to come from, deriving ». precarious shelter for their heads from, and subject to the tender mercy of that same rapacious landlord, or land speculator who has deprived them ot a cheap home of their own, and the influence of whose capital has had its effect heretofore in depriving him of a free home! A free home for these and such as then;—a free home for all its citizens who are unable to purchase one, is a measure worthy of our government; and the perfection of a system whereby the indigent can get homes, afid retain them, free from all fear of being defrauded of them by the many sharpers with which our country is infested, is an 'abject worthy of the highest efforts of our best statesmen. Such a law would as indelibly stamp tl-o moral character of the age on the page of history, as would the Pacific Railroad stamp its power of constructing mighty works of art for the benefit of the race. But will we get such a law as this! Yey; but not until labor is elevated to its proper status in society; not while there is a party in power whose every act is controlled by capital instead of labor. True, some Northern Democrats voted for this bill in the Louse; not because they believed i t right, but because they dared not “face the mu sic.” They knew, better than we know,that it could scarce run of the Democratic Senate where its predecessor was so effectual down by Democratic'votes a year ago. HVe do not say that it cannot pass the Senate, nor do we say that it will not; policy may prevent its defeat.. The Democratic party is just • entering upon its second contest with its young and very ’formidable adversary, the Republican party. Whether the result of that contest will be favorable to the Democracy is extremely doubtful, even under the most favorable j circumstances. This bill is ,Lno\\ n to be! very popular in Indiana and Illinois—two o! i the States upon which the contest turns. Uunder thc-e circumstances the Senate may pass this bill knowing that it will never become a law. And why! Because the President pu iicly declared a year ago, when this same matter was under discussion, that, should it pass “he would- veto it.” Having thus declared his w illingness to be sacrificed for the good of the party, the Senate may take the old gentleman at his word; ease the party of the load in the coming campaign, by saddling the responsibiity on to tlie shoulders of the President, whom they will kick into retirement, and go into the contest of 1860 with “homes for the homeless” inscribed on every piece of Democratic “rag” that may be unfurled to the breeze in the—Westtern States. But this kind of subterfuge will not do. When the President, a year ago, declared that he would veto the Homestead Bill, not a Democratic paper said a word; “when a majority of their partisans in the House resisted the bill, they said not a word; when the Dei ocratic members of the Senate killed the bill, they said not a word, nor have they yet opened their mouths upon any of these points; thus silently undersign | what they dare not openly approve. What | mockery, then, for the State Convention of i that pury to resolve that they were in favor jof “homes for the homeless,” when the re- | eonkd ads of the parly gave the lie to { words. Away with all such double dealing; [ serpent-like, -they would charm whsio they ! sting. We have no patience to talk us the infamous party scavangers who will lints lure the poor on to hope by barren, senseless resolves until i hey get ' is vote, and then stab | him in the , or* through his dearest, rights, | by votes and acts tnat are not barren.

Missouri Free Negro Rill Vetoed.

St. Louis, March 19. Governor Stewart has vetoed the free negro bill.

Death of Gov. Bissell.

Sr. Louis, March 19. Governor Bissell, of c Illinois, died yesterday attf^rßoon. Harper’s Ferry committee are doing nothing. They are waiting tor Redpath, Sanborn and John Brown Jr. The two first, it is thought, they will be able to secure, as their officers are on their track. Hyatt still refuses to yield. The Committee will .keep him incarcerated until Congress adjourns. Pof.try a Capital Offence! —lt is thus related in Scottish Annals: “In 1579, an act was pas-ed againsVhe beggars and sic as make themselves fools and bards.” And the Annnle go on to register: ‘‘Two Poets i hanged in August, under Act of Parliament against bard* and minstrels.”

EDITORIAL CORRESPONENCE.

Table Rock, March 7, 1860. Steaming down the banks of Niagara iron Buffalo, one asks himself a thousand times, can this river, so calm, so beautiful, 60 placid, be the “Roaring Waters” o. a thousand Indian legends? Can this river so bestudded with island gems, so dotted with whitewinged pleasure boats, be the veritable Niagara of ten thousand stories learned in boyhood! Can this river, with hanks so low and green, with “verytliing so placid, so homelike, be the repository of such untold wealth of geologic knowledge, pointing bock with the unerring fiinger of science to the time when God said. “Let the dry land appear!” \etso it is. It rolls on in sluggish majesty, a mighty river, the outlet oi four of our inland seas, until it reaches the brink of the precipice, then pitches into the deep abyss beneath where we now st. We can sit here with our feet in the water and watch it lazily pitching over, while one hundred and sixty-nine feet beneath us it is seething and boiling like a cauldron; laslied into white' foam, while the spray is falling thick upon us

We have not space to describe the Falls as we would like to. The American falls (the falls on the American side of Goat Island,) are “small potatoes;” the water is comparatively shallow—probably five to eight leet deep—is broken into a thousand sheets and jets by the roughness of the surface of the precipice; but the Canada Fulls—the Horse Shoe Falls—are three times as long, five times as deep, and flow over unbroken sheet,smooth as a mirror and green ss the deep sea. Toe name is derived from the shape being that of a horse The greatest depth of water being in the middle has naturally worn the rock away ‘aster than at the sides, thus it lias gradually assumed the shape of a horse shoe. A lew years ago a condemned vessel, drawing twenty feet of water, was run over these falls to test the depth, and it passed over without touching. Entering one of the the towers constructed for the purpose, we went down, and down, and down, until we began - o snuff the air to see if we could discover any traces of brimstone; but failing to do so, we concluded that the place where they used that article so profusely was still a little lower,and th«» we were only going to the leet of the falls, Here a grand sight bursts u ();)n us as we emerge from the tower. Table Rock overhangs us, and beside us is the great sheet of water, under which we go, resolved to get our “money back.” The scene here is intv pressible grand, a hundred and fifty feet above you, you see the sheet of water pitching out from the sharp point of rocks, describing a graceful semicircle above, then p.tching into the boiling flood beneath you. Near the fa’is is still discernabie a part of the platform from which Sam Patch leaped into the boiling waters below, came up with clothes slightly damp, paddled to shore, “pocketad the rocks,” and went on his way. Still farther down, and near the suspension bridge, stand the stakes where liiondin tied iris rope across the chasm, and performed the unp ualolied feats with which the readers of the Gazette are already familiar. The banks are here two hundred and twenty-five feet high, ami twelve hundred feet (four hundred yards.) from bank to bank; and yet across this n,igh(y chasm he carried a man five pounds heavier than himself; carried a stove, stopped and.cooked omeletts, eat his dinner,drank,iStc.; crossed it at night—a dark night, at that—ami did sundry other feats that we didn't attempt to imitate, and don’t expect to, and says that he will this summer cross it on stilts. Still lower down—two miles beiow the falls—stands,-''or rather hangs the Susp nsion Bridge, the great wonder of the world; one of the glories of the present age; on - : of the greatest triumphs of sience and art combined. The bridge, proper, being the distance between the, abutments, is 850 leet long—2B4j yards. The main cables are anchored 64 teet deep in the solid rock, then pass up over the tops of towers some 50 leet high. These cables are some six or eight inches in diameter, formed of small wires, twisted into small cables, then these again are twisted into a large cable, which in )•§ turn is wrapped with small wfre, which in its turn is covered with an impenetrable coating of gutta per.’ha. To these cables is suspended the gieat br-i Ige, two hundied ai.d fifty feet above the water. The bridge is some tv. e.jiy feet wide, is constructed with a wagon way beneath the railroad tr. ck. We stood about the middle of it while an immense freight train thundered past over our head, but could not discern the slightest motion, except that treinulousness incident to all bridges on the passage of a heavy load.

A friend of ours once remarked that “God and man had each here exet ted their highest powers, nod it was hard telling which had beat.” VVe quote the expression without indorsing it; but there is here united one o! the eublimest works of God, and one of the grandest triumphs of Art; a work of God that elevates ones mind, gives him nobler perceptions of the power of Deity; and a triumph of art that gives one nobler ideas ot man, of his mental power, and higher conceptions of what may be the ultimate destiny of the race, when all its capabilities are fully developed. Stanley, king of the Gypsies, died last week, near Madison, Ind., where the tribe are now in winter quarters.

[For the EcnsseUtrr Gazette.

COUNTY SEAT OF NEWTON COUNTY.

Newton March 17, 1860. Messrs. Editors: As the Rensselaer Ga\zeite circulates generally among the citizens iof our new county, I am greatly moved to communicate some of our grievances through its columns. It is patent to every one in this region that we have succeeded, after many struggles, in erecting the new county of Newton out of the west half of Jasper. Our main reason for desiring the division of Jasper was, that it was too far for the citizens in j the west half to go to Rensselaer to do their j county business. Accordingly, feeling tho I inconvenience of going to the county scat of j Jasper whenever we had to attend court, pay taxes, &,c, we went to wor* with great unanimity to procure the divi ion of the cou Ty. Now, had the Commissioners appointed by Governor Willard located the county seat somewhere near the geographical center of Newton, we should have received simple justice, and the desires and requests of three fourths of the voters of the connty won id have been granted. Instead of that, the county seat .- as located in the extreme south-west-ern corner of the county, within two miles and a half of the Benton county line. It is within five miles of the south-western corner of the county, and some forty or forty-five miles from the north-’astern corner. Notwithstanding three-fourths of the voters petitiuned to have the seat located north of the Iroquois river, the Commissioners, without any regard to their wishes, evidently located it where they did from other motives than that of public good. The action of the Commissioners is an outrage on public justice, and ! they should be held up to public scorn. That the Commissioners were influenced * by pecuniary motives, or that they were j bribed, I do not undertake to say; but that their course was strange and unaccountable Ido say. 1 make an exception in favor of Mr. Allen ol Montgomery county, who fought to the Inst against the perpetration of the outrage. Another strange circumstance was the fact that the Governor of the State left the State'busmess to itself, and come out here with the Commissioners, evidently being afraid to trust them out ol his sight, He had no business hero, and his presence was an eye-sore to the people, who had fears that an outrage was being concocted when they sa.v him about. Another strange circumstance, (perhaps accidental.) was the location of the site on ) the east side of A. J. Kent’s land, as the Governor owns upward of half a section adjoining Kent on the east. This ruav be purely accidental, and the Commissioners may have been ignorant, that they were Jo- i eating the seat so contiguous to the Governor's land; blit it hardly appears probable that they were entirely in the dark. There must have been a secret motive for their action, as there can be no public motive for their doing as they did.

Those who desired the location of tbe county seat north of the Iroquois evidently made a mistake in proffering donations to the county, to aid in erecting public buildings, &.c. Many think that had they tendered their donations (ora the slif) to the Commissioners, success might have crowned their efforts. Who knows? The people here are indignant and Governor Willard and two of the Commissioners will receive a warm reception if they visit | us soon again. The people believe them to be public plunderers. Yours truly, Beaver Prairie. Our correspondent draws it as miid as though he was a “tender footed” Democrat: but be that as it imy he has hit oi the truth with regard to the influences that caused the Commissioners to r'gard Kent’s as the most eligible site for a county town. We believe however "hat the land spoken of as belonging to A. ?. Willard really belongs to the v,. ife of that functionary; and he, looking after the interests of his better-half, as evengood husband should, came out with the Commissioners to assist them in locating the county-seat; which he did by permitting them to look through his opera-glass, to-wit: his B >urbon bottle, through which they were able to see distinctly all the precious excelencies of ICen'’s, What other eye-openers were used we know not. Take it all in all it is one of the most outrageous uses of political influence to advance the pecuniary ! int erests of a few at the expense of the rights of the many that even our corrupt State admini tration has been guilty of. It is in keeping with the election of bright and Fitch, the disposal of the Swamp lands &cWill our friends in Newton endorse it by letting Willard, Turpie, and Co. carry the county in October and November? (t3~A fashionable young lady lately went into a store, in Norfolk, Va., entered into an extended examination of its contents, and then bought a dime’s worth of thread, which she requested to have delivered at her house a mile distant. The poli’e proprietor assented, procured nn express, which, on arriving at the door, the mailboard lowered, and all the motions incident to exrress business gone through with, including the collection of fifteen cents, the usual express charge.

following is a hitherto unpublished speech by a successful competitor for the prize at the Boston skate race, a tew days since: “Gentlemen —I have won this cup by the use of my legs; I trust I may never lose ths use of my legs by the use of thia cup.”

THE SOUTH ON METHODISM.

We publish the following ar,icles, from among several of a ii re tenor, without comment; they speak for themselves, and show how Jow a party can stoop in defense of an institution so infamous that Christian organizations have been compelled, from the very nature of 'heir mission and professions, to take a decided stand against it. And yet the Democratic party will lend itself to this institution; support and cherish it, though it is necessary to subvert Christianity to sustain it. They will mob Conferences, imprison Clergymen, refuse an eminent Bishop the use of a Hall to preach in. and last, meanest, lowest, most Jispicable of all, refuse a S iciety of Christian ladies the use of a llali to hold a Fair in for benevolent purposes;! and all because the organization to which \ these persons belong, is, agreeable to its Christian profession,opposed to human slavery—property in man. But to our extracts; Slaveholders Awake. Head! IleailJ! Read!!! Head!'!* * The Maysville Eagle announces in i;n editorial that the “Kentucky Conference of the M. E. Church will commence its session in Germantown on the 9th of march. Bishop Simpson will preside, and will preach on the i following Sabbath- Everybody is curdiully j invited to attend.” We have been instructed to say that if it ' be necessary, and is tlie wish oi Ju people j of Geimantown' the “Cyntlii.ma Indepen-j dent Ilifie Company” will visit that city and j abate that nuisance. It will certainly he a shame to permit men with a record like that! of Simpson &. Co., to promulgate their sen- ! tinients in a piace where they would not al- j low a man to live who entertained much ! milder sentiments toward the South. We say to the peo le in that section—look out. We understand that there are two churches of this character in the lower part of this county. \\ e suggest this occasion as an excellent opportunity to secede from the anti-slavery Church, and join in with their friends oj the South.

A Clergyman Imprisoned for Speaking 1 Slavery. We have to-di.y to add another to the already long catalogue of outrages on the liberty of speech, commuted in behalf of slavery. ReV. Mr. Howe, a Methodist clergyman in Harrison county, Missouri, was challenged by a Kentucky neighbor to debate the slavery question. He accepted the challenge in good faith, and the debate took place, with no unusual circumstances, about six miles from Bethany, the county seat. Immediate ly afterward Mr. Howe was arrested. A man owning $13,090 worth of slaves had made affidavit that h : was an “Abolitionist,” and demanded his incarceration in the Penitentiary. A prosecution so evidently malicious and absurd, did not alarm Mr. liowe until after his return to town, when he found that all the lawyers, with one exception., had combined to refuse to defend him. Ot>t of this combination were selected W. G. Lewis, Circuit Attorney, and J. W. Wyatt to conduct the prosecution. The one exception was O. L. Abbott, Esq;., a native ot this State, and a gFadsiate of the Albany LawSchool. He undertook Mr. Howe's defense hut was allowed mo time for prep a nation. Notwithstanding he offered iir behaSi of the prisoner any amount of bail an* asked tnat !)»e examination it ight be posponed, h » was compelled to go «m kv«mediately, without having an houi’s time to ascertain tl.-e-R.aksi.i-e of the case to obtain evidence, and that, too, in regard to an offence hitherto unknown to the record of crime! During the examination the court sustained every objection made by the prosecuting attorneys to question which were all important to the interests of the defence. The defendant was requested to produce all the testimony in- his behalf ra court Ht midnight. At one o’clock, however, the Judge, for his own convenience, having other business coming on in the morning, consented to a postponement lor two days. In the meantime all the influence that could be exerted to embarrass the defense was resorted to. When the trial was resumed the town was filled with people from all parts of the conn try. The large court-room was densely crowded. The evidence closed fate in the afternoon. Mr." Abbott summed up his case, assisted, since no lawyer would assist him, bv Rev. John S. Allen; who, though a slaveholder himself,was not w illing to see his to.v n disgraced by such tyranny against free speech. Judge Lewis followed in a fanatical pro-slavery tirade against the prisoner, his counsel, “incendaries” and ‘-Abolitionists'’ in general, and the case was submitted for decision.

That decision will be looked for with interest, even at this distance from the scene. The crime with which Mr. Howe is charged is defined us “uttering words, the tendency of which is to excite any slave t > insolence and insubordination,” ( lissouri R S., vob }, page 536.) aithough/it was shown on evidence that, there was not a negro bond or free, within two niilVsu, the plucc of debate' The penalty lor this offence is five years’ imprisonment at hard labor in the Peuiten tiary. During and-since the trial threats have been freely made of “tar and feathers ’ against the prisoner’s counsel, and various attempts made to intimidate and drive him ! from the place. —Albany Journal, March 7.

"to vo Anti-niotbuilist Legolat isn &kt Missouri. In the House of Representatives on Sa.4durday, Mr. Hudgins, of Andrew . on. Leave„ introduced a resolution asking for the use of the Mall for a religious service, to be performed by the Rev. E. R. Ames, Bishop of the M. E. Church. This led to. some discussion, in the course of which it was elicited that the Bishop belonged to the Northern connection who had been refused the use of the Senate room on a recent occasion. The reasons given lor objecting to the request were, t'hatuthe Northern Methodists had passed resolutions to abolitianiae thcSlate ot Missouri, and that they had already promulgated their obnoxious principles in the State, in violation of a compact entered into with their Southern brethren; finally the resolution was carried by a majority of twoayes 16, nays 41. Cincinnati GavUtc.

Mr. Davis moved to reconsider the votetaken upon the motion of the gentleman from Andrew. Mr. Ament had learned that the gentleman (Bishop Ames) was an Abolitionist traveling for the purpose of demonstrating his principles- * Mr. D vis, of Nodaway, saitf if rBo man was a servant of God, he shoaliT have use of. the Hal); he desired to sear fwK>, even if hewas an Abolitionist, because a* yet fcs never seen such a creature. Mr Fagg desired to know what authority they had lor declaring the gentleman an Abolitionist. Mr. Davis, of Buchanan, said he received his information from the gentleman from. Henry, Mr. Stone. Mr. King of Ray, had understood that Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York, belonged j to the Northern Methodist Church, and°m> doubt, though his name had been hoisted by i many papers lor the Presidency, this fact was fatal to his chance of getting the nomination. Mr. Stone said that the Northern Methodist Church was an avowedly anti-slavery institution, and that eve.y member believed that a s aveholder was a barbarian and a savage, and hence he presumed that this gentleman was a Black Republican Mr. Guitar felt that he might be that and a gentleman too. Mr Stone—We differ a little on that. [Laughter.] Tins man it a so-called minisi ter ot goapui, who expounds the doc- ! trires of his church, u torcli in one hand and ! a bowit-kiii.e in the other, and. no doubt hke the rest, he was of the John Brown j order. Mr Turner, of Clinton, felt they were unduly dignifying this preacher, and undigni-v----ing themseives as a body and as u Lm-nia-ture. He voted against the resolution) and should vote against reconsidering a. Mr. Hudgins said this man was a Bishop and had nothing to do r nht,. e polit.es of the Country; he lives in Indian*, and was not even here; he regretted nav.ng introduced the resolution, and he was sure, alter the proceeding that ha.: taken place, he would not accept the use of the Hail, but speak, from i mine stump in preference. Consvay having no proof tha: she man was an Abuliti-.i),*’.. should vote agmast a< r e e ansi d e rs i i o n. Mr. Ament desired e • . nge »..s vote for the same reason. In his section !c wereNorthern Methodists who wore good' Christjians. Mr. Larries said this Bishop Ames hruf p. csnh'd over a Conference in Indiana where they passed resolutions to send out missionaries here to abulitiouize Missouri, in spite of the devil himself. He did not believe that Daniel S. Dickinson was a Northern Methodist. If he was, he could not be a national* Democrat. He believed he was an Old School Presbyteria.il, who believed that slavery was inst-tuted by God. The motion to reconsider was then sustained—>yj ayes, 35 nay*. The resolution Was then rejected—3l ayes, G! nays. Dcmoczacy v». mt»!l»odJsn». The outrage perpetrated upon the m: m- • bora of the Methodist Episcopal Church by the Democratic Hieni-bsrsot the lower branch ol the Missouri Legisln’ure, in denying toBishop Aines the privilege of spe.ik ntr in the Hail of the House ot IZepresentat ves,. has veen repeated by the Democratic members of the Semite. The ladies of JeffersonCity, connected-with the Utethodrat Episcopal Church and ct>rsg»egalit>r>,applied to tharblody for the use of the Senate cha nber. for the purpose of giving an entertainment, the proceeds of which were to go to the church. A resolution to that effect being off' red, it passed* witßowt opposition;Us4 on the. next day the vote was reconsidered-, ami the resolution laid upon the table by a vote of twenty three to six, upon the express ground that the Methodist Episcopal Church is not a proslavery organization. Having refused the Methodists a charier for their University nt three successive sessions, and having nowturned one of their Blstiops cut of the House., and one of their congregations from the Senate, the next thing in order wifi be for tiie Democracy of Missouri to expel all the adherents of that chu-ch from the State. TheMethodists of Illinois have reason to be thankful that the Democracy are not solargely iu the majority in that State as in Missouri. Press and Tribune.

A Gung of Robbers and Thieves Broken up!!

Startling Developments ! An extra issued by the Valparaiso Republican Friday morning Sl-.rch 16, says: “VVe learn from Calumet that a neat of Robbers and Thieves w.g pounced upon yesterday, six of whom were arrested, mid were undergoing an examination before Justice Thomas last evening, commencing at six o'clock. “It appears that tiie goud and law-abiding citizens of Calumet, have tor the lust eighteen months suspected that they had among them an organized gang ot thieves, and have been on the alert. Recent developments pointed out some of them, who were dogged to their hiding places ui the woods, and more recently a young man was employed to join them, for the purpose ot catching them in. some act, and knowing who the whole company were. Among the robberies the gang have committed, are that of a Gun Shop, at Michigan City, of five hundred dollars, worth, last full; Mrs. Thomas of a Gold Watch, andj otner articles, lost winter; Jtolm o§ a lot ot Hams, Esq, Coulter's Grocery, and the M. S. R. R., of a quantity ot Tickets. The names ot the six arrested, are two Coo- - Leys, two Dishraus, one Reid, and Brown.

“ Among the goods found at their hiding places, were sume ninety dollars, wbr’.h of the Michigan City Guos, any quantity of Skeleton Keys, and oilier burglars? tools They were to have entered Thomas’ Store • last evening, and spirited away the safe, but their arrest prevented it. Their organize-, tion is perfect, having oflioers, pass words, and signs. We shall give the full particulara as Buua as we can procure them. The worthies, will probably be in town to-day, bound for their new home in Michigan City.”

Correction. —The St. Joseph Register says that the contingent delegates to the Chicago Convention are I. Mattingly. Murshall, and S- Keith, s ot Fulton, and noj D. G. Rose and K- G. Shryock, a* was fir*t reported,