Wabash Express, Volume 15, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 May 1856 — Page 2

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S. H. HUDSON, Editor.

E E A E WGUXEtOAY) M«f 28, 1856.

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MILLARD FILLMORE, .* OP SEW-YOBK.

roa VICE MttSlDEXT,

ANDREW J. DONELSON^ OK TENNE88EE.

Peoples' Party State Tielcet. ft

For Governor,

O. P. MORTON, OP WAYNE^Jg lAeutenant Governor, -**.'•

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BAKER. OF VANDERBURO. Secretary of State, fefasstsi W. DAWSON, OP ALLEN, jd* l.'*'1 Auditor of State,

E. W. H. ELLIS, OF MARION. "J Trtaturtr of State,

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It. NOFFSINGER, OF PARKER i| Reporter of Supreme Court, JOHN A. 8TIEN, OF TIPPECANOE.

Clerk of Supreme Court, JOHN A. BEAL.OF MIAMI." Attorney General, J.H. CRAVENS, OF RIPLEY. Superintendent of Public Instruction,

CHARLES BARNES.^

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Exciting News from Kansas!!

DE8TBTJCTI0N OF PRINTING PBESS1S!

the town of lawbence in ASHES!

We hare just received an Extra Missouri Democrat' giving an account of a battle at Lawrence between tbe Border Ruffians and Free State met).

Tbe United States Marshal, with about 300 men, after receiving from tbe citizens of Law. rcnce, tomo of tbe public arena, commenced a cannonadoof tbeplaco, and firod indiscriminately upon the town, until it was entirely destroyed. It is not known bow many lives bavo been lost, but at the last accounts the artillery was firing and tbe fire further Spreading' -4. v'

Tbe pro slavery men are led by Sheriff Jones, and tbe Free State men made but little resistance.

This is tbe first cling of arms that comes to us from the West where and how it will end, God only knows. »/*i i*S«'

We will endeavor to get the full particulars to-morrow.

Tbe editor of the Rising: Sun Visitor thus responds to our nujjtreftion fur a State Convonf:3, ami the reorgauizatiou of the Amorican Party in this State:

We have no objection to the time and place proposed by the Reveille, and hope that arrangements will be made to that effect. What say you, American editors of Indiana Shall we hold a State Convention of all the friends of Fillmore and Donelson, at New Albany on the 4th of July

We should like to hear from Messrs. Oreortr, Hudson, Banders, French, and all other Fillmore men. in regard to this movement.—Vera]/ Reveille. if?

For ourself individually, wo say, that at this time we can seo no possible use of holding a Fillmore Convontion in this State. In our judgment, it would neither advance the interests of Mr. Fillmoro, nor weaken tbe prospects of the old line party. What may be necessary to be done, after Mr. Fillmore acoepts the nomination of the Philadelphia Convention— after he refuses or agrees to Stand upon the platform, they teem to have tendered bim.it would be premature for us now to say.C What will be necessary for the Fillmore men, in this Stato to do, after we see the action of the Phil adelphia Convention wbioh is to meet in the month of June, is a question that cannot be settled, until we see who Is tho standard bear er of the men who are to compose that Convention, and tho platform of principles they there adopt.

We are, however, altogether unable to see, how, Mr. Fillmore's prospects can, by any poatibllity, be lessened, by the American party in this State voting in oppostion to the old line ticket, and fovor of the People's ticket.

The questions are, which is the best ticket, tho one presented by the old liners to the consideration of tho electors of this State, or the one plsced before them by the May Oonven tion? Upon which are the best men, and which presents the best platform of princi pies? If the ticket,headed by 0. P. Morton, is the best—if he stands upon a platform more acceptable to the Fillmore men than the other, then where is the inconsistency in the Ameri can party going for that ticket If it t* eventually deemed proper to organise a Fillmore electoral ticket, we know of nothing at this time, that can prevent us from giving it our hearty support, but certainly no one is in fa vor of an exclusive Amorican ticket for all of our State officers—this would be sheer child's play and must eventually result in the certain success of the old line party in this State.— We have not been able as yet, to discover why It is, that a few of the American press in this State think it inconsistent for them to sup port the People's Ticket, and at the same time, keep at the mast-head, the names of Fillmore and Donelson. -v-j

We are a* anxious as anytinits lifain have the exquisite pleasure of beholdiug Millard Fillmore the master of the White House, but it seems to us, as a citiwrn of the Sum of In* Biana, that it is almost of equal importance, that the policy sought Id be fastened upon this people, by old line party, should be defeated "Not that we love Caaar leas, bat that we love Rome," eqmatly m» weU.

si«r City Lrovtam Treape. This company pfcrtems again Uis evening, and we have oo hesitation in Baying, it is the best one that has, for a loaf time, visited oar city. Mr. and Mrs. Brace perform their parts to admiration—the pieces are selected with judgment and the characters welt cast.

We only regret that we have not a Hall of sufficient dimension* in oar city, where the accommodations to witoets the performance of thi« troupe, would be mors pleasant.

Bat go t« sight aad you will get a fall cofitfidersUoa for yoor taosey. Jj ... -'as

CT The New Albany Ledger cornea to as la ww typographical dress. Had it only changed its politics at iSe aaa* time itehaag •4 »U cfcHhinf.it-Would have beee ooeol the aost unexceptionable papers js tb« Suts.

^CTVlMOIdUM Nstkmal Oooveatloc *4 OsD&iooaii, to nominate a candidate for the "mM seat* Jvmt td.

Kaaiai War.

We expected full partipulafj in relation to the battle* at Uwrti^e» lust evening, but have been disappointed, the telegraph, through the State of Missouri, being down, and no connection with tbe Sast. Out telegraph to this city, we believe connect* witb no place, at leaat no news ever cornea trembling over its wires. Bnongb, however, has been received to justify us Ir the opinion that Lawrence has been destroyed and the border ruffians have shed American blood on American soil. This we fear is the beginning of troubles. Never before in the history of this country has there been such an occurrence. When American blood has been shed heretofore, it has been by a foreign foe, but now a sectional strife has arisen, which makes foes of the same blood.

"if civil war, like a dread pestilence is to stalk over this land. If all tbe horrors of domestic feuds, are now to overtake, and perhaps forever prostrate our liberties, then will the responsibility rest heavily upon the shoulders of those, whose ejfer tions repealed the compromise of our fathers, and of that party who now refuse to restore that compromise.

We will write no further until we hear more definitely from the West, but the limes are ominous, and the American people may begin to look for anew drama to be acted tn this country—a drama hav ing many acts, and the last of which, may seal the fate of tbe union of these States.

The shade trees of Terre-Haute have been killed by a species of worm.—Laf. Jour. Our locust trees have been killed, none oth ers. We still have our sycamores, and elms, and msples left, as fresh and as green as those of the adjacent timber. We know of no place that can boast of a larger number of thrifty young trees, beautiful forest trees, than our own. In a ride, which we took yesterday afternoon through the outskirts of the town, we were struck with the great attention paid to shade trees by our citizens. One gentleman alone who owns valuable vacant property near town last year, set out a continuous line of maples, elms, and silver leaf poplars neatly a mile long.

Tho owners of property can raske no better investments in a small way, than by purchasing and setting out shade trees. Besides by so doing they not only enhance the value of their lots, but add to the appearance of the city and increase the comfort and enjoyment of its residents, a matter that should, by no means, be neglected when it can be accomplished without any individual sacrifices or incoavenieuces. -o,

D* Qen. Gadsden, our Minister to Mexico, has returned home on a brief leave of absence.

117 Tourists are arriving at Niagara Falls in large numbers. J."-*

(CT The Richmond Examiner learns thst the July interest on all the Virginia bonds is already provided for.

117 Rev. I. H. Stockton, of Baltimore, proposes to publish the Bible in separate volumes— esch of the inspired writers' productions being in a separate, volume.

CT The Empsrqr Alexander II., is to be crowned Csar of Russia at Moscow, on the 31st of August next, being the fete of bis Patron Saint. The expenses will be about $2,500,000. ...

CT Contracts have been made for rebuilding more than one-half of the edifices that were burnt in the recent conflagration at Philadelphia. The new buildings will be of a superior class.

——>The wife of one of the unfortunate who were entombed in the coal mine near Zanesville, became deranged in consequence of the long and agonized suspense, and has been taken to the Lunatic Asylum, in Columbus, O. ———<>———

ET The "veiled murderess" (Mrs. Robinson,) is still in prison, the story of her removal to the Lunatic Asylum, is unfounded. 1

O* A lump of pure gold, worth $113, it is stated, was recently found on a farm, 9 miles from Lynchburg, Va.

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tJ* The Wheeling (Va.) Argus notes the Custom House in that city, an entry of railroad iron for the Cincinnati, Marietta and Wheeling Railroad, to arrive, the duty on which will be $8,000. The iron referred to lately arrived at tbe port of Baltimore from Europe. ——... -.e.». |y

IT Diogenes Wetmore snd T. K. Wetmore, of St. Louis, Mo., indicted for presenting fraudulent claims at the Pension Office, have been convicted, after a trial of twelve days, and sentenced to the Penitentiary, the former ten aad the latter for eight years. i|i tT The Faraville (Va.) Journal stag's that Dr. Owen, of Prince George county, recently had his horse killed under him by lightning. The Doctor was only slightly shocked by the electric fluid.

ET We had the pleasure of a visit from 1. N. Moaaisosr, editor of the "White River Valley Times," a day or two ago. We like the flash of his black eye, and will bet on his bein a "glorious good fellow."

ET Messrs. Coleman A Stetson, the old and well koftwn proprietors of the Aster House. New York, havs foiled.

CT Pic-Nics are all the rage in Lafayette at preeeiii. Well, if we lived in sach a place, we weald be glad to got to the coastrj, too.

tT The Viaeeooce Gasctte says that Mrs. Jones, the dnuoatic feeder of Hiawatha, Is expected in that city ta a few days.

——>The gas works are going ahead finely. The tank has been dug and the brick coosmenced being laid. On Saturday last, one hundred and twenty-five barrels of lime, designed for puddling, arrived here by the canal. ———<>———

O* Strawberrioeare bogiaaing to mak* their a

We give to our readers, to-day, a letter from Mr. CRAWFORD, addressed as President of the T. H. & R. Railroad, to the St. Louis <Intelligencer>. It is in reply to one written sometime ago, by W. J. BROWN, special Post-Office agent, to the same paper.

The failure of the General Government to

Why the Department has acted in so imperious a manner with this road, it is hard for us to underatsnd—disinterestedness could hardly act more unconcerned, or imbecility more foolish.

There is comparatively but a small amount involved in this controversy, and the Department is now paying for the transportation by teams, of the small mail necessary between Indianapolis and Terre-Haute, <more> than it has offered the road for carying [sic] the great western mail. While the whole country west of Indianapolis, is suffering for the want of mail facilities, the Post Master General, at Washington, seems to be playing a game of <spite>, and refuses to afford these facilities, by paying this road a compensation equal to to the service rendered.

The strongest reason assigned on part of the government officers for this wanton neglect of duty, is, that if she pays the Terre-Haute and Richmond Company the price asked, then many other roads in this State will want that same consideration. This is the argument of a school-boy, and unworthy a government official. If this road only asks what is right, then the government should pay it, and if other roads are not now receiving a fair compensation for the services they render the government, then their compensationa should be increased. The government certainly, should not expect the railroad companies to do its work for less than it is worth, and if the Department had the right kind of a head, such a thing would not be asked. We are of the opinion, however, that the price the General Government pays this road, will have, and can have but little weight upon tbe price that will be asked by other roads. It is hardly to be presumed that the gentlemen composing the different railroads in this country, are influenced by such puerile motives, as charterize the "the powers that be," at Washington. It would be an invidious distinction, to compare the energy and ability of many Western Railroad Presidents, with the weakness and incompetency of the President of the United States, or of the officers connected with those roads, to the want of practical knowledge, that so characterizes the Post Master General. ———<>———

The Railroads—The Mails—The Post Office Department OFFICE T. H. & R. RR Co., }

contract for the eeadiog of the nail over this| Aoril, aad their £r _j„. .. led that the mails had been directed to be con reate, ceo only he considered as a public ca- vieosi, aileN We would.cany them lamity, and wo. thi(ik Mr. hia fu|i3S per mile per annum. letter, demonstrate* conclusively that the blrax, the entire blame, ie with the Departm*at at Washingtoa. Mr. Campbell, PostMaster General, seems to ho impressed with the idea, that a company who have apent their toocey ia building a Railroad, mast transport the msils for the government, whether they receive an adequate compensation or not. He is possessed with the beliefs that the Post* Office Department most pay its own expenses, and in order to make it accomplish this, he must needs have its business done almost at gratuitous prices. "J

TERRE-HAUTE, May 12, '56. }

<To the Editor of the St. Louis Intelligencer:> DEAR SIR—I notice in a late issue of your paper, a communication from W. J. Brown, Special Agent of the Post Office Department, in which he undertakes to contradict certain statements, made in an editorial of a previous issue of your paper. The first statement of your editorial which he thus contradicts, is as follows, viz: "The Company (the T. H. & R. RR) charge that they hare carried it (the mail) for nine months without compensation, and aver that they are willing to carry it for what they claim to be a reasonable compensation."

The next statement of that article, which he contradicts, is the following: "But it does not appear that the Post Master General, has ever made any effort to procure reasonable terms with the company. He seems to consider that his prerogative will be degraded by any negotiations with them."

Now the particular object of this communication is to vindicate your assertions, and to say that the clauses contradicted by Mr. B. are true.

The following is a correct statement of the service performed by this company, compensation received, and the negotiations had with the P.O Department.

On the 1st May, 1856, the mail was placed on this road, under a contract for two years, at. $100 per mile for six trips weekly. The following extract from a letter of F. H. Warren, 2nd Ass't P.M. General, dated 28th April, 1852, to C. Rose, President, will show the nature of the service, and amount of mail mat-

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ter to be earned, viz: "In relation to that portion of your letter, which states that this is the direct St. Louis mail route, you are informed that the recent allowance made to Mr. P. Campbell, for an additional line of coaches, has been suspended, and at this time all mail matter for St. Louis and beyond, from Cincinnati and east of that city, is forwarded by the river route. The amount of mail matter sent over your road, will not much exceed the amount carried by the Madison and Indianapolis RR."

After the above contract expired—no con tract was ever made, but the company continued to carry that same mail, receiving the same compensation and asking no more, until the railroad connection was opened to St. Louis.

When that was accomplished, there was placed upon this road, by this same Mr. Brown as special P.O. agent, a large and heavy mail, the Great Western and Southern mail. This

mail was never contemplated in the expired contract, nor in the tacit understanding by which this company was afterwards carrying the Terre-Haute mail. When it was placed upon this road. Mr. Brown told us we should have compensation for the service. We have made repeated applications to him for settlement of the question of compensation for this mail service, and also for carrying the Indianapolis and Lafayette mail, from 1st October 1854, to 16th November, 1854, from Indiana-

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polis to Greencastle, this mail being refused by the Lafayette road, and by Mr. Brown, special agent, put on our road, we being assured by him we should receive compensation from the Department for this service. He has always seemed to be desirous, hut powerless to do anything, and has recommended the very course we felt constrained to take, vis: to decline the service after a stated period, if not adjusted.

We sent a special agent to Washington in December last, to make personal application at head-quarters for settlement and payment. This agent was given emphatically to understand, that nothing would be paid above the past and (then) present rate of compensation graciously conceded by the Department. After his return and on the 8th February I wrote an urgent letter to the Department, stating the extra service performed by this company— under assurance of W.J. Brown, special post office agent, that we would be paid for all such service, and asking that payment, therefore, he made up to 1st Jan. 1856, to which no answer was ever made. And finally, on 1st March, I wrote to the Department that unless they would pay us $250 for the service we were then performing, and also that rate for the extra service from July 1855 to Jan. 1856, with compensation for carrying the Lafayette mail to Greencastle, we would decline the service after the 1st of April. To

this letter we never received any answer; but it is true that on the 14th March, Mr. Brown wrote us a line, offering $125 per miles for the services we were then performing—requesting an answer at earliest convenience, as he was instructed, in case of our refusal, to provide other conveyance.

east. I returned by Washington City, 9th

for #125 per mile per annum.

In Mr. Brown's letter he gives a list of railroad companies in Indiana, Michigan and Illinois, with the rates of compensation. He wishes to have it inferred, that the department has contracts with these companies at the rate mentioned; but the fact is, that in all, or pretty nearly all the cases named by him, there are no contracts. When these roads were opened, the mails were placed upon their trains, and the Department pays the companies what it pleases. None of these are satisfied, and many of them are urging for increased pay.

If this controversy had been with another company, the Terre-Haut [sic] and Richmond RR Co. would no doubt have appeared in the list, as carrying the Great Western and Southern mail for $100 per mile. Mr. Brown says the Michigan Central and Michigan Southern carry the Great Western and Southern mail to Chicago, and receive $150 per mile each. But the amount of it is, that they are willing to pay, and consider it a great bargain to get the eastern mail to Chicago taken for the aggre-

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gate of $300 per mile; while they profess to think that $100 per mile is even liberal pay for carrying the eastern mail to St. Louis.

But.to prove that Mr. Brown's statements need qualification, and to show what are the views of one of these last named companies, I subjoin a copy of a letter lately received by the Secretary of this company, as follows: Mich. South. & Northern RR Co.,

Gen. Superintedent's Office,

ADRIAN, MICH., April 12, '56. Chas. Wood, Esq., Sec'y T. H. R. RR Co: DEAR SIR—We carry more or less mail matter in all of our trains, (four each way daily), for which the Department allows us about $40,000 per annum. <We have no contract>, and receive this amount under protest. We think we should have about $200 per mile. Yours, truly, JAMES MOORE,

Superintendent.

The Post Office Department has paid us regularly up to 1st January, 1856, at the rate of $100 per mile for carrying the way mail from Indianapolis to Terre-Haute, 6 trips weekly. Since opening of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad in July of last year, up to 27th October, we carried the mail 12 trips weekly, from 27th October to 18th February; we ran three daily trains, 18 trips weekly, on all of which I believe we carried a mail and from 18th February to 1st of April, 12 trips weekly.

The Department his paid us for mail service, such as was contemplated in Mr. Warren's letter to Mr. Rose, 26th April, 1852, and are indebted to this company at this time for carrying Lafayette mail, by order W. J. Brown, Special Agent, from Indianapolis to and from Greencastle, 1 1/2 months service; for carrying Great Western and Souther [sic] mail from Indianapolis to and from Terre-Haute, to 1st Jan. last, by order of W. J. Brown, special agent, 6 months; for carrying same from 1st Jan. to 1st April, 1856, by order of W. J. Brown, 3 months for carrying local mail from 1st Jan. to 1st of April, 1856, 3 months, as under old contract.

Mr. Brown speaks somewhat vauntingly of placing stages on this line or route. I have only to say that we gave the Department 30 days notice of our determination to decline the mail transportation, unless compensation was made for past services, in order that they might have ample time to make this public provision and only wonder that more diligent advantage was not taken of the notice.

Respectfully, SAM. CRAWFORD, Pres't. ———<>———

Compensation for mail Service. The rule that has prevailed with the Post Office Department, of fixing an arbitrary sum as compensation for mail service, and applying it indiscriminately, to all Railroads in each particular section of the country, is the most preposterous and absurd thing that can be imagined. It is the cloak of favoritism and fraud on the one part, and injustice and oppression on the other.

For instance, Mr. Campbell's published letter in the <Intelligencer> yesterday, states that the Illinois Central Railroad gets $100 per mile for carrying the mail between <Cairo> and <Dunleith>—the very same sum per mile that the Terre-Haute & Richmond Road was paid for carrying the great Central Mail of the United States, between the Atlantic Seaboard and the heart of the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys. at St. Louis. The former mail— <Cairo and Dunleith>—costs the Government $40 000 a year—the points, Cairo and Dunleith, are myths, even in Western commerce—and the daily mail matter not perhaps averaging <five bushels full a day>. On the contrary, the great Western Mail that came by Terre Haute, was measured literally by <carloads>, and the Terre Haute Road got no better pay than is given for the five bushels from Cairo to Dunleith.

Now that Mr Campbell has gone into the investigation of this matter of Railroad compensation for carrying mails, we hope he will work out a great reform, and do justice to the leading mail routes of the Union. There is money enough thrown away on stupendous humbug monopolies that carry small mails, to pay the roads well that really do a heavy mail service.— <St. Louis Intelligencer>. ———<>———

Are iro« ftwro 'Tie Truef^t®"' Padre Vijil, the Nicaraguan Minister, is said to be amulattto.—Jtmrntl.

That's the fact, is it? Padre Vijil is a mulatto, is he Well, the Journal ought to know, for it ii in the conftdeoce of President Pierce, we have no doabt.

It will be recollected, but a few weeks ago. Mr Ftench (a white man) was sent as Mrnia ter from Walker's government under precisely the same circumstances that Padre Vijil now comes. The President refused to recognise French, bat as soon as this mulatto domes, the grateful administration hags him to its bo»om.

We are glad the Journal—the gre»t exponent of tie democratic party in this peetiemafike State —in an editorial article, charges the Nicaragaan Minister as beiog a matatto, for it ahowa the abolitioa tendency of the old line party Ah, Grafton, you have pat your foot in it, and abolitionism, mulatto abolitionism, hangs to your skirts, like a black pall fringing a bloatedcarcaa.

The old line administration prefer* a mulatto Minister, to a white man! Well there is no accounting for tastes, especially^! |»od era democrat.

MSuok vs. Aacas».wThe contested election caaobetwoea thoao two gootlemen. each of whom elaima to represent the 7th Congres*! atoiol District of Illinois, is still undetermined. 'fho committee of investigation have not

dodly f» his hvr.- ftflfws Dm. fstn gl«4 to iaform the editor of the XNteoerat that tho posateitae fcoet reported, aad that has -stioog hopes* that the seat would to Mr. Ailae^hava nsl.b—meal-'

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Thta gentleman spoke last evening to ooa thi h,o«* toUlHgebt-wdience. we Igpe W seen* assea&ted 1« mW fcwrt-Hoffse. iTe epoke for omtrsifand bftjfa*d kept theelteatfon of auaitol* ch«ftd" during that time. Hiajirfbrt w«lltideetl a maaSfr oi

were elevated, and his whole manner becom^ ing the position io which he aspires.' He spoke like a man—he acted like a otan, and he looked like a man.

He-vividly portrayed the consequehces resulting from the repesl of the Missouri Compromise, and traced with the band of a master, the spirit of "border rufllana,*' which is now tbe legitimate fruits of that repeal. He spoke of the effort of the Missouri ruffians, through their bogus legislature, to fasten upon the bona fide citisens of Kansas, a series of lawa more tyrannical than ever cursed a free people, and totally unworthy this age and this people, and only worthy the corrupt assembly who passed them, and the officers who sought to put them in force.

He reviewed, in a most eloquent manner, the policy sought to be fastened upon the people of this Stale, by the Old Line party, and showed that in 1849, the Democrats went further upon the question of slavery, thin do the Peoples party seek to go at this time.

His whole speech was one of great power, and iqmense influence. Old Lineism was stripped naked, and its ghastly deformity shocked the beholders.

We could not help noticrng the msrked difference between this effort of Mr. Morton's, snd those nmring speeches of A. P. Willsrd's. The one was characterised by comprehensive views, clear perceptions and masterly states' man-like retisoning. The other was the cant ings of the demsgogue, the argument of the pot-house politicisn, and the reasoning of an adroit partisan trickster. While Mr. Morton appealed to the judgment of his audience, and convinced them by reasoning from which they could not escspe, Willard always spesks to the passions, and endeavors to carry in his favor, the prejudices of those to whom he ad dresses himself.'

This speech of Mr. Morton'* has made him a host of admirera and friends here, and if the people of Indiana Can

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Tn our own State, Mr. Davis said, this all decency snd moral-reform party hsd promised us great things: they were to bring order out of chaos—light out of darkness. How well and faithfully they had performed the work and fulfilled their promises, the present con fused aud entangled condition of the machine ry of our State Government would sufficiently answer.

The above wo clip from the Sullivan Demo crat, and is reported for that paper as part of a speech, made in that county a few days ago, by John G. Davis. How any man, occupying the position of an aspirant for Congressional honors, can be fool enough to make such an assertion as the above, we must confess, seems quite strange to us. The honorable gentleman ought to know, that the "moral-reform" party has never had the control of the legislative department of this State. He ought to have known, that the Whisky party had the majority in the Senate when the "reform" party had it in the House, and that the Governor, whose duty it is to sign every bill, before it ba comes a lau, has all the time, been a dyed in the wool, simon-pure, partisan, modern democrat. How then could any party expect to bring the "machinery of our State Government," out of its "preseut confused and entangled condition," when an old line Senate was putting in its ciogg all the time, to the virtu ous action of the House

What, however, is the "confuscd and en tangled condition of our State government Does it consist, in the many conflicts of the revised statutes of 1852? If so, those slat utes are the work of a largely democratic Le gislature. Does it consist in the fact, that all the laws passed by the Legislature of 1853-54, with the exception of three or four, are unconstitutional If so, that is also the work of a democratic Legislature. Does it consist in the fact, that we have now no assessment law, and no law apportioning the Stale forlegisla tive purposes on our statute books? If so, those -laws both passed the "moral-reform House, and never passed the old line Senate or does it consist in the passage of a prohibitory liquor law, whose "entangled conditions have been declared unconstitutional If so, then the distinguished «x-RepFe8entative is as unfortunate as in any of the above, for that bill, originated in an old line Senate, passed the'old line Senate, and waa accepted by the House, just as it came from the old line Senate.

But perhaps wo do not understand what Mr. Davis meant, when he spoke of th« "confused and entangled condition of our State" and we will therefore ask him, through Hi§ very able and efficient organ, the Terre Haute Journal, to favor as with an explanation. us *t

ST We have received from Messrs. A. S. Baskcs Co., of New York, the prospectus of a work which they propose publishing on the 1st of June. W"

This work is no less "Wan "the lssf seven years of the life of Henry Clay," edited by C. C. Col ton, author of the "Life and Times of Henry Clay," published in two volumes eleven J«ara ago. ,Av kW« I Jit

It will be useless to commend the forth coming volume to those who have read the volumes which preceded it. No part of the life of the "Sage of Ashland," is more replete with interest to the American people than the period which it embraces

It may, with great truth, be said of Mr. Clay, that the last portion of bis life was tbe best portion, and, although no man ever lived who had more bitter and unrelenting enemies, still even thri' abase and calumnies were in a measale eileooed by tbe ealm and dignified bearing *t this groat and good man, aa he drew near the last scene in that dr*ma in which he bore so important and prominent a part.

Mr. Collon possessed admirable facilities for the work which he has undertaken, having «pent much time io Lexington and at Ashland daring the lifetime of Mr. Clay.

We look forward with much pleasure to the peroaal of Mr. C.'a forth coming volume, and have no doubt that it will meet with a ready and rapid saloi

17 Tbe telegraph report* that large meetings have been held in Boaton amf cftber plaeea in Massachusetts, condemning, in severe terms, the coarse of Brooks and sympathizing with Mr. Sumner. Sooth Carolina on tfie oth* head, at Charleston aod other poi«te,«»tefw the d*ar*e of Brooks.

hear him, be will

carry the election uext October, as certain as truth can triumph over error, or virtue stran gle vice.

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Joha G. Davis.

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LAWRsitcK.l^edn One year ago-1

ire bought a claim ofi we county. jj^'

have never listened td arguments more conclu- On the 16th ofAugUSt the Border Rufsive, or reasoning mors sound. His thought, fians of the town of Atchison MCtme down the Missouri river on a raft.

I afterward heard them congratulating themselves in reference to this—that they had been honorable with me. The fellow was furious, but his companions dissuaded him fron shooting me, saying they were going to hang me.

If I can picture to myself the look of Cuban bloodhound, just ready with open jaws to seize a panting slave in a Florida swamp, then I imagine we have a correct daguerreotype of the expression worn by these emigrant representatives of the manly sentiment, high-toned courags and magnanimous feelings of the South Carolina chivalry when first they scented—in their own imagination—the blood of a live "Abolitionist," "Hang him thejr yelled "hang him! hang the d—d Abolitionist 1"

They pinioned my arms behind me, obtained a rope, but were interrupted by the entrance of a stranger—a gentleman from Missouri, since ascertained to be General Tutt, a lawyer, of Buchanan county. He said ••My friends, hear me. I am an old man,#nd it is right you should hear me. I was born in Virginia, and have lived many years in Missouri. I am a slave holder, and desire. Kansas to be made a Slave State—if it can be done by honorable means. But you will destroy the cause you are seeking to build up. You have taken this man, who was peaceably passing through your streets and- along the highway, doing no person any harm. We profess to be Jaw and order men, and should be the last to commit violence. If this man has violated the law, let him be punished according to law but for the sake of Missouri—tor the sake of Kansas —for the sake of the Pro-Slavery cause, do not act in this way."

They dragged me into another grocery and appointed a moderator. Kelly jLpld his story. rose to my feet, ftnd calmly, and in respectful language, began to tell mine.— I was repeatedly jerked to my seat, and so roughly handled that I was compelled to desist. friend from Missouri again earnestly besought them to set meat liberty.

Kelly turned short on him and said, "Do you belong to Kansa«?" He replied: "No bat I expect to live here in Atchison next fall ana in this mat* ter the interests of Missouri and Kansas are identical."

Mr. Lamb, a lawyer in Atchison, and Mr. Dickson, a merchant of tbe same place, both pro-slavery men. also united with Gen. Tut in pleading that I might be set at liberty.

While these gentlemen were thus speak* ing, I heard my keeper mutter—"D—n you, if you don't hush up we'll tar and feather you."

When Kelly saw how matters'stood, he came forward and said—''He did not take Butler to be hanged, only tarred and feathered." Yet in the other grocery tbey had said to tbe mob that"tbey should .do as tbey pleased 1" He dared not take the responsibility of taking my life but when these unfortunate men, whose one ideaism on the subject of Slavery and Southern Rights has bftcom* insanity— when these irresponsible South Carolinians, sent out to be bull dogs and blood hounds for Atchison and Stringfellow— when tbey could be used as tools to take my life, be was ready to do it.

Our gunpowder Moderator cat the discussion short by saying, -'It is moved that Butler be tarred and feathered, and receive thirty-nine lashes."

A majority said "aye," though ft number of voices said "No." The Moderator said, "the affirmative has it." 1 began to speculate how that sort of thing wowid work as far north as the latitude of Hamas. There was a good deal of whispering abotrt tbe Sme, I saw dark, omiootts aad. threatening looks in the crowd.

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We parted under a mutal pledge—I, if my life was spared, I would come back

to Atchison* and they, that if I did come back, they would hang me. Faithful to my promise, in November last, I returned to Kansas with my family visited Atchison in open day, announced myselfbn hahd^ and returned withbut molestation.

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KansasTbeing yeV sparseTy*settled,"and having few meeting houses, it was determined that Mrs. Butler should live on our tilaiin with her brother's wife, while I should return to Illinois and lesume my labors Us a preacher. I have been for a number of years ih the employ of churches in the counties of Brown and Adams, Illinois, a majority of whose members were, I suppose, born and raised in Kentucky. xApril 30th, I returned td Kansas, and crossed the Missouri at Atchison. I spoke to no one in town, save with two mer* chants of the place, with whom I had business transactions since my first arrival in the Territoryr Having remained only a few minutes. I went to my buggy to resume my journey, when I was asaulted by Robert S. Kelley, junior editor of the Squatter Sovereign, and others, was dragged into a grocery, and there surrounded by a company of South Carolinians, who are reported to have been sent out bra Southern £mit ration-Aid-Socie-J* iicpf*

In this last mob. I noticed only two were citizens of Atchison, or encaged in the former mob. It is reported that the'se emigrants from the Palmetto State, seek out a claim and make for themselves a home neither do they enter into any legitimate business. They very expresivejy describe themselves as having "come ont to see Kansas through."

They yelled—"Kill him 1 kill him 1— Hang the d—d Abolitionist 1" One of their number bustled up to me and demanded—

Have you a revolver,]" .. replied—''No." .'--v He handed me a pistol saying—" There, take that, and stand olf ten steps and G-d d—n you, I will blow you through in an instant!" I replied^"I have no use /pr jour weapon." mi

1 was given into the hands of my South Carolina overseers, to be tarred and feath ered. They muttered and growled at this issue of the matter. "By /'said they,

we had known it would have come out this way wo would have let shoot pfutler at the firstr He would have done uicker thati a ftdsh." issee black-eyed South Carolinian, as smart a

it qui One lifUesbarp visaged, dark-featured7

a cricket, who seemed tote the leader of the gang, was particularly displeased.— "D-—n you,*' said he, "if I dnftie all tlrs way from South Carolina and spent scf much money to do things up in sucu'milk and-water style as this."

They.stripped me naked ttriho~wUst, covered my body with tar. and then, fo^ the want of feathers, applied cpttorf frooli Having appointed a committee of three t$ certainly hang me the next time I should come to Atchison, they tossed my clothes' into my buggy, put me therein, accompanied me to the suburbs of the towd, aficf sent me naked out upon the prairie.

I adjusted my attire about me as best could and hastened to rejoin my wife and two little ones on the banks of the Strangei* (jreok. It was rather a sorrowful^ meetitlg after so long a parting. Still wo| were very thankful that under the blessing of a good Providence, it had fared no worse with us ail.

The first mob that sent me down the Missouri river on a raft—always excepting Rob't S. Kelly —were cour.teoiis' gentlemen compared with the last one.— When I was towed out into the middle of the stream I do not remember to have heard a word spoken by the men on shore. This last mob, when they left me on the border of the town, shrieked and yelled like a pack of New Zealand cannibals.— The first mob did not attempt to abridge my right of speech. In reply to all the hard and bitter things they said against me they patiently heard me to the end.— But these men who have come to introduce into Kansas that order of things that now exists in South Carolina, savagely gagged me into silence by rapping my faoe. choking me, pulling my beard, jerking me violently to my seat, and exclaiming, "D—n you, hold your tongue!" All this was done while my arms icerepinioned behind me!

Many will ask now, as they have asked already, what is tbe true and proper cause of all these troubles which I have had in Atchison, lhave told the world already, and can only repeat mv own words. I have said: "The very head and front of my offending hath this extent, no more." I had spoken among my neighbors favorable for making Kansas a free State, and said in the office of the Squatter Sovereign, I am a Free-Soiler and intend to vote for Kansas to be a free State. It is true that Kelly, by an after-thought, lias added two new counts to his bill of indictment against me. The first is that I wen to the town of Atchison, last August, talking Abolitionism. I have not the lion* or of being an Abolitionist. And, second,' that I spoke, somehow or other, improperly in the presence of slaves. All thi3 is not only utterly false, but the coargers arc expost facts for not a word was said of this the day they put me on the raft.

The New York Tribune publishes mo as a Methodist preacher that was put on a raft for preaching Abolitionism. I am a member of the denomination known Disciples (Campbellites), and have never alluded to the Bubject of slavery in my preaching. I published a.narrativeof the whole affair in the Missouri Democrat, not one word of which has ever been denied, to the best of my knowledge, except this: I said I had heard that Kelly was born in Massachusetts. He says he was notbo.n there that he was born in Virginia. Robert S. Kelly, junior editor of the Squatter Sovereign and Government Printer, shall be born just where he plonv es.

17 Our atteution was attracted on Saturday, by a continuous stream of persons pouring in and out of the Drug Store of our neighbor, P.M. Donnelly. We had never seen the like before, even in times of the greatest sickness, and although wo knew our neighbor kept a first rate article of mcdicine, we did uot suppose there could be so groat a demand for it as this continuous stream of human bodies indicated. On inquiry, we found th »t friend D. had just put up it new Soda Fount, nice marble slab, and other things to match, and like a liberal fellow, as he in, knowing there would be a good many persons in from the country, as there always are ou Saturday, was giving a "free blow" to all who wanted a good glass of nice, cool soda.

Feeling somewhat thirsty, and belonging 10 the press, we "went in," and although we did get a little squeezed, we also got our glass of soda.

CT A gentleman by the name of Hollingsworth, residing on Second street, got one of iiis legs badly broken, on 3aturday last. Wc have learned no reliable particulars,

U" Mr. A. C. Isaacs who has been in California for more than two yean, returned again to bis family in this city on Saturday. Ho looks well, and we cannot see that he has grown much older. We are glad to welcome him once more as one of our citizens.

Graham** Atagaaine.

Graham for June, is on hand. As usual it is filled witb sprightly and interesting matter, and contains some very fine eagraviugf. The one illustrative of war is admirably executed.

Tbe new publishers announce that thosO des ring back numbers can be supplied by addressing them at I heir publishing l^gu^) in Philadelphia. I

U" We have no news from Kansas, lafe than our last reports, copied from an extra of the Missouri Democrat, into 0w ^^day 'ty|sue.

We bad hoped to lay before car readers, additional particulars in regard to the attack on Lawrence, in oar p»per to-day, but have searched our exchanges in vain. As soon as any farther information reaches ut the public will be advised, as we are aware, the matter is one in which it ie deeply in teres ted. rff

O* We are glad to learn that young Boyles who was shot by his schoolmate, Linder, is in a fair way to recover. Yesterday Linder was taken before Judge Harlan ou an application for bail. We have not yet heard the reSuit of the application. ^.e»tT Oreen Pea«, tbe firat of tbe season, made their appearance on the table of the**

1 Terre Hante House v***erday at dinnef.