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ta...On Monday,lsth inst., on motion of A.
W. Benedict, Esq., WILLIAM McGALLI.Ann
was admitted to the practice of Law in the
several Courts of Huntingdon county. Mr.
McGALLzArin, we understand, passed a very
creditable esanaination. It is his purpose, we
learn, to locate in the West, where we pre
dict for him a brilliant career.
The News
Hon. Sam. Illedary has been appointed
governor of Kansas, vice Gov. Denver re
signed.
The estimates of expenditure in the Navy
Department of the next fiscal. year, for the
Navy proper, amounts to $13,000,000, a mil
lion less than those of the current year.
Saline county, Illinois, at the recent elec
tion, polled 1,095 votes, which were divided
as follows:
Democratic,
Republican,
Democratic majority, -
A " lady" was detected, a few days since,
in Cincinnati, Ohio, pocketing a package of
gloves, in a store. When charged with the
theft, she burst into tears and tendered a s'2.o
bill in payment. The merchant took but $5,
and gave her $l5 change, but, on counting
the cash at night, that $2O bill was found to
be a counterfeit. " Pliancy the pheelings"
.of that storekeeper.
It is stated that the annual report of the
Quartermaster General, which is now ready
for the press, shows the expenditures of that
branch of the War Department, to have been
$9,736,385. The largest amount of this—
over four millions—has been appropriated
for the Utah campaign, and the next largest
for the Pacific department.
The St. Louis Democrat, says :—" There is
some probability that an application will be
made to Congres , s, at the approaching session,
for the organization of "Lamarie Territory,"
being the western half of Kansas, including
the gold region. There are already indica
tions that a struggle will be made by the
Southerners to dedicate this region to sla-
very."
The Democratic County Convention of
Berks county, met on Saturday last, and
nominated Joel B. Wanner, for a seat in
Congress, made vacant by the resignation of
f:xlancy Jones. Wanner is a law partner of
Jones, and was - nominated by II majority
over S. E. Ancona.
The' election takes place on Tuesday No
vember 30th. Gen. Wm. H. Kelm is a vol
unteer candidate, and will receive the votes
of the Independent Democrats, the Tariff men,
.and the opposition generally.
The Washington States learns from a
friend, who is almost direct from the Court
of Madrid, and whose high attainments and
high social position enabled him to approach .
the highest personages of the Spanish Court,
that France has taken up the subject of
Cuban independence, and with England, is
proposing to erect Cuba and Porto Rico; into
a semi-independent monarchy, and '"paying a
renter from that Island. This rents is to rep
resent-the interest on a, national debt, to be
assumed by the new monarchy, in considera
tion of her independence, .the debt and renter
to be assured by France - and England as a
bend for the non-annexation of Cuba to the
United States.
The Paulding (Mississippi) Clarion says
that a very violent and destructive hurricane
passed over a portion of that county, on
Wednesday of last week. It struck, in its
course the residence of Josiah Moody, where
its erects exceeded in horror anything that
the imagination can concieve or the pen por
tray. The place, was swept as with a besom
of destruction, :every house on the premises
taken, up and scattered in pieces to the four
winds, and what is far more distressing to re
late, Mr. Moody himself, and eight other
members of his family, were killed and sev
eral more severely' wounded. Out of four
teen persons on the place, but one—Mr. Jack
son, the son-in-law of Moody—escaped en
tirely uninjured. Mr. Moody was a min
ister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a
school teacher:. The dwelling destroyed was
newly built, of heavy green logs.
Democracy vs. Aristocracy.
All past political history (says the Luzerne
Union,) goes to prove the existence of two ,
great antagonist parties among men, even in
the fundamental principles of government.—
It would seem as if, from the very constitu
tion of man, a perpetual warfare must be
kept up, for it has ever existed, between the
ambition to rule and the ambition to be free.
The first is the source and spring of the
principle of Aristocracy; the other, the prin
ciple of Democracy. The one is hostile to
perfect freedom of political thought and ac
tion ; the other is the determined, though not
always succesful friend of both. These ele
ments of political difference exist as strongly
in this country as in any part of the world.
In fact, they form the real characteristics of
the great political parties, into which our
citizens have, for more than half a century,
been divided. We have but to review the
history of the federal party, observe its pre
dilections and associations, and recur to its
acts, and we shall see the ambition to domi
nate continually and distinctly developed, in
every stage of its existence. A similar ob
servation of the course of the Democratic
party will convince us that- it has; in the
main, pursued such a policy as was best cal
culated to give effect to that important and
practical truth, the perfect competency of
man for self-government. From the very
commencement, the federalists were in favor
of • a strong government ; by 'which was
meant a government that should concentrate
in the federal executive, sufficient power to
constitute a practical monarchy. To accu
mulate power in the executive of the nation,
was discovered at an early day to be the
great design of the federal party. They
sought to make the money power subservient
to their interest, to centralize influence, to
close the mouth of honest remonstrance and
argument, by laws against what they termed
seditious speeches ; to make the States de
pendent on, or secondary to the general gov
ernment, in matters of public improvement;
and to expand executive authority by the
most liberal and unwarrantable constructions
of constitutional right and privilege.
Against such latitudinarian and dangerous
encroachments, the Democratic party, lecLby
Jefferson, was first organized and arrayed ;
feebly at first, but soon with complete and
triumphant success. They were the oppo
nents of a strong and splendid government,
such as the federalists were endeavaring to
establish ; that is, a government whose
strength was derived from the liberal and
misconstructions of the constitution, and not
by a direct grant of power from the people.
They were the friend,s , of constitutional free
dom, but.opposeci to an unconstitutional con
solidation of strength which must inevitably
degenerate into tyranny. They suspected
everything that tended towards monarchy,
however cautiously developed ; and sought to
establish practically, what was clearly the
design of the framers of the constitution,
" a plain government, devoid of pomp, pro
tecting all and granting favors to none."—
Such is briefly, the original distinction be
tween the two great political parties ; and
whatever disguises may cover thcm, such are
the distinctions now; and such it may safely be
predicted, will be the real and fundamental
distinction and differences so long as the gov
erment shall continue. They may, it is true
be obscured,
so m etimes by temporary inferi
or issues, but times of trial will develop
them in all their original strength and bold
ness.
1,095
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1,095
Their intentions are clearly seen by the
character, the disposition, and some instances,
the open avowal of their leading men.—
Whatever may be the disguise of names,.the
federal principle is the same ; and is now con
tending with as much zeal as ever against
the principles of Democracy, in other words
the principles of equal rights. Against such
designs as they contemplate, - the Democratic
party owe their consistency no less than their
views of constitutional right to maintain as
heretofore, a firm and uncompromising hos
tility.
We learn that Jno. Fulton, Esq., Resident
Engineer of the Huntingdon & Broad Top
Railroad is now engaged with a corps of as
sistants in making the surveys for the location
of the Bedford Railroad. This Road is in
tended to connect with the H. & B. T. R. R.
at Hopewell, and will be about 20 miles long,
and can be very cheaply constructed, and
when finished, will not only add largely to
the business of the Broad Top Road, but,
will make Bedford Springs a second Saratoga
in popularity and importance.
ger Monthly statement of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad Company.
Earnings of the Railroaddrom all sources
for the month. ending October 31, 1858 :
Gross Earnings. Expenses. Net Earnings.
463,604 56 271,502 64 192,101 92
Same month last
year 396,904 17 259,621 96 137,252 21
Increase 00,700 39 11,880 58 54,819 71
Earnings of the
Railroad from
all sources
from Jan. 1, to
Nov. 1, '58... ...... 4,334,039 19 2,499 : 591 17 1,834,475 02
Same period last
year .4,341,551 11 2,749,327 92 1,598,563 19
Increase ..., 235 : 024 83
Decrease 13,311 92 249,735 75
Earnings of the canal department from all sources for
the mouth ending October 31, 1853 :
Gross Net.
Earnings. Expenses. Earnings
$24,375 54 13,758 11 12,617 43
Same month last year.... 20,695 88 12,528 60 8,167 28
----
Increase 3,670 66 4,450 15
Decrease 770 49
From Aug. 1, to Nov. 1,
18,15 564,047 56 42.040 07 22,895 49
Same period last year..., 77,267 27 43,465 66 32,801 61
Deere:l9e 12,319 71 1,41 G 59 10,903 12
Total front .Tan. 1, to
Nov. 1, 1835
New Railroad.
233,GL6 1 1 )1,309 12 42,347 12
TILE BRITISII PERIODICALS.
L. Scott & Co., of Now York, continue to republish the
leading 'British Quarterlies and Blackwood's Magazine.—
By this arrangement,:the American public is enabled to
obtain them for $lO, while the English people are obliged
to pay $3l. It is scarcely necessary to speak of the merits
of these periodicals. They contain the richest fruits of
the scholarship, wit, and genius of the literary men of
Great Britain, and are alike of great value to the scholars
the professional man, or tho intelligent reader. Their
pages abound with elaborate criticisms, brilliant essays,
profound speculations, and with whatever of interest may
be found in science, literature, morality, and religion.—
While they aro the acknowledged representatives of cer
tain principles in politics, they are far from being grossly
partizan. In this respect they occupy a position we
should be glad to see our own periodicals assume—a posi
tion which would enable them to discuss great questions
of governmental policy independent of party trammels.
Tas Ennvatrann REvisw, in point of age, at least, is first
on the list. Everybody knows that it was established by
Jeffrey, Brougham, and Sidney Smith, for the purpose of
combating the ruling Tory power, which was carrying -
everything before it with a high hand. Sustained by the
force of brilliant intellect, and upheld by a strong public
opinion, it carried on its contest single banded, until its
voice made the Tory leaders quake, and the very throne
tremble. It is still conducted with much vigor and ability.
Tsz LONDON QUARTERLY was established to meet this bold
and daring champion on its own ground, and such writers
as Southey, Scott, Lockhart, and Wordsworth enlisted as
its contributors. It still represents conservative principles,
but its pages are by no means confined to their advocacy.
Tun WEBTMOSTER ItEmtc belongs to a more liberal
school of politics. Its position is a step in advance of the
Edinburgh, and its views come nearest to the American
standard. It devotes itself particularly to the topics most
interesting to the people, and denounces boldly and fear
lessly exclusive privileges, hereditary rights, kingly pre
rontives, and all the abuses of feudalism. As a literary
and progressive periodical, it now stands unequalled.
THE Nonni Emma REvrew made its appearance as a
special advocate of evangelical religion. It was founded
by Dr. Chalmers, and since his death has been under the
editorial charge of Dr. - Dianna, and more recently of Prof.
Fraser. For some time past it has been less evangelical
than in its earlier years, but it has now got back to itsfirst
faith, and is conducted on the same principles, and with
the same vigor which characterized it when under the
care of Chalmers.
BLACKWOOD'S 111Aotamr. everybody knows to be the em
bodied genuis of Toryism, yet its witching rhetoric, pro
found disquisitions, slashing yet brilliant criticisms, poe
try, biography, historical and fictitious narratives, render
it the most readable monthly in the world.
The American publishers of these periodicals are in the
receipt of advance sheets from the British publishers,
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as they can now be placed in the hands of subscribers
about as soon as the original editions. As the beginning
of the year is a suitable time to subscribe, 'we subjoin the
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Returning to the Regular Democratic
Organization.
[From the Lycoming Gazette.]
Some of our " intensely " Lecornpton ex
changes are still continuing' their efforts to
distract and. divide the Democratic party by
insisting that those members of it who.did
not indorse Lecomptonism,
must now "either
repent and ask to be re-admitted into the reg
ular Democratic organization, or go over to
the Opposition." We observed just such an
article in the Harrisburg Patriot and Union,
no longer ago than last Saturday. May we
venture to ask these pertinacious party reg
ulators once• more, when anti-Leeorepton
Democrats ceased to be in the regular organ
ization ? Who authoritatively declared them
to be out of it? From whence was such au
thority derived? What is the prescribed
form of repentance for them in order to be
admitted again to full fellowship? And, if
supporting all regular Democratic nomina
tions, acquiescing in Democratic usages, and
upholding Democratic principles for a quarter
or half a century- , --as hosts of the anti-Le
compton Democrats hereabout, and elsewhere,
have done—does not constitute a regular
Democrat, then what does ? We have no
disposition to impeach the Democracy of any
one who honestly supported Lecomptonism.
But when such nonsense—to call it nothing
worse—is promulgated day after day, in pro
fessedly Democratic papCrs, we believe we
owe it to the party to take some ia;.)tice of it
and inquire into the reasons, the author;ty
and the end to be accomplished.. Folly, per
sisted.in too long, becomes obnoxious, des
tructive of good feeling, and dangerous; and
if this blatter about who are regular Demo
crats and who are not, is to be kept up, those
who do it must either come out and declare
distinctly when, how, and by whom they
were constituted judges ' of what is Democ
racy and what is not, or be considered—as
they deserve—disorganizers, who wear the
cloak of Democracy the more easily to de
stroy the party. Democrats want no more
such imbecile arrogance. As we remarked
upon a former occasion, one fourth of an, or
ganization cannot, by any parliamentary rule
known to us, expel' the other three-fourths.
The thing will not work any better than wa
ter will run up hill; so, the sooner the at
tempt is abandoned, the better for all hands.
Harmony is what every real Democrat de
sires, what is required to place the party in
the proud position it occupied a year ago,
and what all should labor to promote, in
stead of endeavoring to make a breach where
none exists, by pursuing the course to which
we - have alluded above.
ESCAPE FROM THE CAHANCHES—WONDERFUL
ESCAPE.—NeIson Lee arrived last Thursday
in Albany, N. Y. In March, 1856, Mr. Lee,
accompanied by 27 white men, when on his
way from Texas for California, was attacked
by the Camanehes, who butchered 24 of the
number on the field, and killed two of the
survivors the day after the fight. Win. Aikin,
one of thetwo was carried off by a portion
of the tribe, and Mr. Lee's life was spared
because the Indians could not manage his
repeating watch without his aid. In the
camp were 28 captive white women and 30 or
40 children, one of the former Anna Raskin,
was brutally murdered during her captivity.
While accompanying the chief to - a distant
lodge, Lee managed to kill the Indian, and
mounting his horse, after severe suffering he
reached Mexico, where he was kindly treated
and furnished with means to reach his
home.
Court Proceedings—Second Week.
John Fleming vs. Brice A' Blair and Henry
Robinspn—Ejectment, Verdict for Plaintiff.
.yoke.• Bios. c& Co. vs. .I^7.tn H. Lightner—
Feigned Issue. Verdict for Plaintiff. Motion
tbr a new trial.
Same vs. Jane W. A.skins—reigned Issue,
Verdict for Defendant.
Casper Dull vs. Andrew Wise and James
Sted—Summons debt, cause reached; and
Duff's Counsel gave judgement for $283.40.
The balance of the 'list continued.
Gov. Packer and the Disorganizing Press
Those disorganizing papers which have
been endeavoring to shoulder upon Governor
Packer the responsibility of the late Demo
cratic defeat, are meeting with the rebuke,
at the hands of the Democratic press, which
they deserve. The following extract from
the Mountaineer, published at Ebensburg,
Pa., holds up a pair of these sheets in some
thing like their true light:—
"The Washington Union and Star, with an
officious interrneddling entirely unbecoming
in them, attempt to hold our most worthy .
Governor responsible for the late defeat of
the Democratic party in this State. When
the Democrats of Pennsylvania desire cen
sors, they expect to have the privilege of se
lecting them themselves, and if the Union
and Star should be their choice, we will ex
pect them to speak—until that time they will
probably subserve their own private interest
and the public good both, by remaining si
lent. There was a time when the thunder
of papers published at the capital caused a
`weakness in the knees' of the unhappy
victim of their anger, but that was when the
editors of those papers were men actuated
solely by their principles of pure - Democracy,
who spoke out boldly against hoary wrongs.
Then the thunder reverberated from one end
of the Union to the other. Each country
paper took up the echo and carried it to the
ears and hearts of every reader. This was
before public plunder became the sole object
of the editors 'of these papers, and before
they commenced sticking their nose into
every township election in the States. Then
they had followers, now scarcely a paper is
so poor as to do them reverence. The late
attempt of these papers to cast odium on Gov
ernor Packer is as futile as it is contempti
ble. We have never had a chief 'executive
in Pennsylvania, who has established a
more brilliant character in a short time ; we
have never had one who did more to recon
cile conflicting interests in the party. Avow
edly an anti-Lecompton Democrat, he pro
scribed no Man on account of his differing
from him in that respect. In making his
appointments, he did not stop to ask whether
the appointee were a Lecompton or an anti-
Lecompton Democrat. He only asked wheth
er he was honest and capable—whether he
was a Democrat. By a prudent and intelli
gent use of the veto power, he has shown
himself worthy to exercise it. By his states
man-like and honest views on every subject,
he has even disarmed the enmity of the op- ,
position, and had he been a candidate before
the people of Pennsylvania this fall, we haz
ard little in saying the result would have
been different, Governor Packer, occupying
the proud position he does, can well afford to
despise the petty malignity of these self-con
stituted censors.
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The Perry County Democrat, also has the
following upon the same subject:—
"We notice that a few of the Democratic
papers in this State are disposed to charge
our worthy Governor with having contribu
ted in some way or other to the defeat of our
party at the recent election. This is an un
kind and unjust as it is untrue and dishon
()table. Governor Packer was . and ,is as
warmly enlisted in the success of Democratic
men and measures as any man who has ever
filled the executive chair in Pennsylvania.—
Not a single act of his administration indi
cates the slightest turning• aside from the
time-worn path of true Democracy. Ills
every aim and wish has been and is to pre
serve the great old party that has so lung
withstood the storms which error and fanat
icism have raised to crush it, and this very
hour he stands a head and shoulders higher
as a statesman than those whose time-serv
ing, expediency-favoring policy have effected
a temporary prostration of the party. The
position he took in his inaugural he has no
bly maintained, uninfluenced by persuasion
and unawed by power. Recognizing the
great Democratic principle that all power is
with the people—that 'all governments de
rive their just powers from the consent of
the governed,' he has fearlessly and faith
fully stood by the pledges
,and promises of
the party in the campaign that resulted in the
success of the Democracy and his own tri
umphant election. We honor him for his
honesty and applaud him for his firmness."
AN OLD MAN DRAGGED TO DEA:TIT DY A
RUNAWAY HoßsE.—The Cincinnati Enquirer,
of a late date, says : "An old man, David
Trumbull, .62 years of age, but quite hale
and hearty, met a horrible and violent death,
on the farm of his son-in-law, Peter Coburn,
in the Eastern Precinct of Millereek town
ship, the circumstances of which were as fol
lows : Trumbull was engaged in hauling
some lumber from one field to another, for
the purpose of building an addition to a
barn, and after he had removed his load,
the horse attached to the vehicle, became
frightened at some object, and ran at a furi
ous rate along a dirt road that skirted the
farm.
Trumbull, it appears, attempted to leap
from the wagon, and in doing so, his feet
must have caught in the reins, which had
been drawn from his hand ; for he was
dragged for more than a mile across a rough
and unbroken road until he was bruised and
battered to death ; his bead striking upon
stones and against the trunks of trees, every
few seconds. The horse was finally stopped
by running into a brush heap, when the old
man was found not to be entirely dead, al
though unconscious. His bead and face
were so much injured that no one could
have told that it .was he; his best friends and
nearest relations, indeed, would not have re-.
cognized the bloody and disfigured features
of the old - man. Trumbull survived about
three quarters of an hour, and breathed his
last while he was being borne on a litter to
his son-in-law's residence. The deceased was
a native of Ohio, and had lived for thirty
five years in, Lucas county. _
TEE GOULD'ir TRAGEDY.—Death of one of
the Servants of the Family.—Elizabeth Carr,
one of the victims to the murderous assault
of young Gouldy, died on Sunday morning
from the effects of her injuries. She Was
one of the two domestics who were wounded,
and it was supposed that her wounds were
comparatively slight, but on Saturday, an
alarming change for the worse took - place,
and death soon ensued. Johanna Murphy,
the other servant, is rapidly improving, and
her .recovery is confidently expected. Mr.
Gouldy is still in a precarious situation. At
times he is rational and enquires for his son,
who, he supposes is in prison. Nathaniel is
rapidly recovering, as is ,also Mrs. Gouldy,
but-Charles, the youngest son, will probably
sink under his wounds.
ItEl— See advertisement of Dr. Sanford's
Liver Invigorator in another column.
Uorribie Catastrophe.
The Future Course of Senator Douglas.
As there is much speculation in political
circles with reference to the future course of
Senator Douglas, we copy from the Chicago
Times, his home organ, the following notice
on that subject. The Times, says:
* * * * * *
There seems to be great misapprehension
in other States respecting the future course
of Senator Douglas ; and under this misap
prehension we see his name suggested for
the Presidency, as the nominee of the Charles
ton Convention, and as the nominee of a
great "People's party," and of other organi
zations. We feel authorized in saying that
this use of his name is wholly unwarranted.
For twenty-five years he has been identified
with the Democracy of Illinois, he has been
active in all their struggles, and has been
always a laborer in their cause. Their vie
tories have been his, and his triumphs have
been theirs. Ile never had an aspiration
that has not been for their honor and their
advantage. lie never has had and never
will have an aspiration for honor or position
unless such honor or position be freely ten
dered him by the Democratic party.
lie, and the Democracy of this State, have
always acted in perfect harmony with each
other. It is one of the strongest points in
the faith of Illinois Democrats that the only
protection for the Constitution and the Union
is in preserving, in fact, the great Democratic
organization of the country. To that organ
ization the country must ever look for the
preservation of all that is sacred and worth
preserving. When that organization shall
be broken, when it shall be divided into sec
tional factions, then, and not till then, will
the liberties of the people and the rights of
the States be in danger of destruction. With
the recent expression of approval, and the
renewal of confidence in him by the Democ
racy of Illinios, we suppose Senator Douglas
is perfectly content.
lie has placed his position and honor in the
hands of his political friends in Illinois, and
they have sustained him. They seek no hon
ors for him outside of the Democratic party ;
nor do they ask support for him 'from any
party that is sectional in its_ organization, or
in its principles. They do not present him
as a candidate for the nomination at Charles
ton ; but, if any pledge is required as to their
fidelity to Democratic nominations; they
point to their history, and ask, when did
Illinois withhold her vote from the Democrat
ic nominee for the Presidency ? Whoever
may be nominated by the Democratic Nation
al Convention, will receive the hearty sup
port of the Democracy of Illinois—of whom
Senator Douglas is a distinguised member.—
When the time arrives that the Democratic
party shall call upon Illinois for a champion
and a leader, then the Democracy of this
State will present the name of Douglas, and
he, obedient to their demand, will take the
standard and lead the column on to victory.
The Late Terrible Lynching Case in
lentucky.
Some eighteen months since, a wealthy
farmer of Kentucky, living near Campbells
ville, was murdered and robbed of between
$5,000 and $6,000 by parties who entered his
house at midnight, and accomplished the
double deed while he was soundly sleeping in
his lied. Mr. Simpson was wealthy and
highly respectable, and, of course, the cow
ardly murder caused a great excitement in
his community. Soon after, the guilty cul
prits were discovered and arrested, and an
attempt was made by the populace to hang
them, which was frustrated. Afterwards,
they were taken from the jail at Russelville
to that at Greensburg. Now the second and
awful tragedy opens, on the 10th, (Wednes
day, two weeks ago,) as reported to the
Louisville Journal:
"This morning, according to a previous
understanding, men from this and the adjoin
ing counties, commenced gathering at this
place, and at an early hour took up their
march to Greensburg, meeting with acces
sions at different points along the road, until
the crowd numbered two or three hundred
men, including a considerable number of
spectators. The mob proceeded to the jail,
which is built of stone and very strong, and
found the doors locked and the jailor gone.--
A number of men immediately seized a large
piece of heavy timber, and with several tre
mendous_,blows, burst the doors from their
hinges. An inner door was speedily broken
with crow-bars and sledge-hammers, and a
portion of the mob stood in the debtor's
room, fronting the cell in which the misera
ble men were confined. The locks of the
cell-doors were soon broken, and the doors
pried open, when a most horrid and sicken
ing and revolting sight met the gaze of
those present.
One of the men, Elias Scaggs, a man
weighing two hundred pounds, was found
weltering in a large pool of blood, in the' ast
agonies of death,.the blood spurting in large
jets from a ghastly and self-inflicted wound
in the neck, having with a razor cut his
throatfrora ear to ear. His body, convulsed in
death, was dragged into the debtor's room,
and from thence down a flight of steps on to
the street. The remaining three men, viz :
Bill Saul Thompson, Sloan Despotio and
George Hunter, were then brought from .the
jail, bound and mounted behind men on
horseback, when the crowd, in double file,
amid throngs of spectators, took up their
march to this place, a distance of some twelve
miles, during which, two of the miserable
men displayed considerable firmness, assert
ing their innocence in the most positive
terms. Thompson wept and prayed audibly
a good part of the way, calling on all to wit
ness his innocence. The crowd, having ar
rived at the place, determined to lynch Belo,
also, a negro belonging to the murdered
man, who had been implicated by Scaggs as
the real murderer.
At this juncture, amid the yellings and
howlings of the crowd, the expostulations of
the sheriff and our excellent jailor, and
"amid confusion worst confounded-," Robert
Colvin, Esq., a prominent and influential citi
zen, having succeeded in gaining an elevated
position and in catching the ear of the crowd,
addressed it in a short speech, which, for
point, appropriateness and good sense, I
hardly ever hear,d_excelled ; and it was as
effectual 'as it was sensible, for after, an un
successful effort of one or two inexperienced
orators, the mob left the negro in jail and
conducted the three men a short distance to
an elm tree, and began making preparations
to hang them. At Thompson 's request, a
prayer was offered in their behalf, he pray
ing and weeping aloud during the time.—
II; was then mounted on a horse, and after
again asserting his innocence for the last
time, a rope was put about his neck, the end
thrown over a limb, the horse driven from
under, and Thompson was launched into
eternity. Lle seemed tp die easy--one or
two spasmodic jerkings of the limbs, a shud
der, and all was over.
Despano soon shared a similar fate, dying
much harder. At this stage, Hunter gave
evidence of making a clean breast, which,
after some delay and a good • deal of reluc
tance, he did, confessing to the guilt of
Scaggs, Thompson and Hunter, and implica-;
ting five others as being concerned in the
murder. Their names are as follows : Henry
Scaggs, Jerry Scaggs, Lloyd MeDannel, John
Underwood, and a son-in-law of Simpson.—
The latter is under arrest, but is, I believe,
generally considered innocent. The sheriff,
with a posse, is out to-night 'to arrest the
others. Belo was also implicated by Hunteri
and brought forth, and the two confronted:
Nothing of importance was elicited, and they
were both taken to jail, both of them making,
a narrow escape.
The Indians.
Not for twenty years have the condition of
the Indians of this country and their rela
tions to our Government occasioned so much•
reflection and comment as at this moment.—
We will now only say a word or two. r The
flame of insurrection against the control of
the United States, lighted up by the surprise
and massacre first of Gunnison's surveying
party and then by the annihilation of Gra
ham's command, has since spread unceasing
ly, and by the recent rumors from Minnesota,
from the Navajo county, and indeed from all
portions of the mountains and prairies, and
deserts lying between the Mississippi and the'
Pacific, it is almost inevitable that the day is,
not distant when the red men arc to maim
their last stand. What the result wilt
be is not uncertain. The battle of Tippeca
noe broke the back of the Indians in the In
diana region, and the tide of emigration
rushed onward until stayed once more by
warlike savages. Another great fight, and
the vestiges of opposition will be swept from
existence. In Minnesota, the Sioux, with
some few exceptions, and the Chippeways,
and the other bands, are inclined to settle
down into the habits of agriculturists. Ink
padutah's renegades, with another outbreak,
will be punished, as were the Spokanes and.
Yakimas, by the gallant Col. Wright. Old
Smoke, and Big Gun, and the rest of them,
who will do nothing but rub and drink fire
water, will wander despairingly amid the
Black Hills, until they disappear altogether.
The Navajos are brave and intelligent peo
ple, and probably will remain on terms of
amity with us if the proper means be taken
to reconcile them. In the Indian Territory
the remnants of the great tribes are gathered.
There are the Choctaws, the Chickasaws, the
Camauches, the Arrapahoes, &.c. The
war in Florida is ended. In fact, the only
tribes with whom we may expect to have a
bloody and fierce conflict are the Apaches,
Camanches, and the Pi-Utes. Probably there
may be some lesser bands. This conflict
soon comes to the issue. Then, when, with
loss of blood and treasure, we have all the
overland routes within our confines safe from
predatory bands—and not a quarter of a cen
tury will be required for this—when emigra
tion has laid out and partially populated
the habitable lands across the continent—
when the Pacific seaboard stretching towards
the setting sun is belted with the States and
cities and thriving ports as they belt the At
lantic, it may be that the remaining Indians
will flourish in cur midst as a civilized com
munity.
Already in the Indian Territory they have
Governments ,of their own, administered by
officers of their own election. They have
schools and daily papers, and all the charac
teristics of our own Western Territories.—
But with admixture with the whites in years
to come, it is not improbable that these relics
of the lot tribe of Israel (if they are such)
will be lost altogether in our population, and
that then there will be left for the Indian
State, only the traditions of their race, which
certainly will be cherished as the Welsh
cherish the traditions that they are the de
scendants of the original Britons, who ruled
the English Isles before Creser invaded their
shores. But the Indian traditions will' be
richer in stores of legends and histories, and
bloody deeds, than those of the Cymri.—
Philadelphia Press.
ATROCITIES IN UTAII.—A letter published
in the St. Louis Republican, said to be from
a "gentleman of great intelligence, connec
ted with the army at Camp Floyd," contains
the following passage:
" The annals or crime might be studied in
vain for parallels to the shocking and beastly
crimes reported to-us here, on most credible
authority. I will not stain this sheet by re
lating them. They are so disgusting and
abominable that I could not possibly believe
them, except on the highest and most indis
putable evidence. Single murders of apos
tate Mormons were so common, that hardly
any notice was taken of them ; and it was
only when men and women were destroyed
by whole families, or parties, that much was
said on the subject.
" There is abundant proof of the compli
city and chief agency of the murder of that
large emigrant party from Arkansas, last
year. The goods and even the cattle of the
massacred are now in the hands of a noted
bishop of the church. Many other like mur
ders and robberies are also susceptible of
proof; but the Jordan, like the Dardanelles,
opposite the Sultan's harem, has been a fa
vorite deposit of dead bodies, which it never
yields up again, but carries them swiftly to
the waters of the Great Salt Lake, from
which nothing, living or dead, is ever recov-.
ered. But enough of this disgusting theme."
Bcaffold Conversions.
The Fredricksburg Record has an article
on the extraordinary conversions which mur
derers are wont to profess before the day of
execution arrives, and which are duly paraded
by the press before• the public. The Record
says
Now we do not doubt the power of God
to convert the most hardened wretch that ever
paid the penalty the law affixed to his crime.
Nor do we mean to intimate that it is not the
duty of a Christain minister to carry tidings
of salvation even into the gloomy cell of the
felon. Yet we are free to confess that we
have not the slightest confidence in the con
version of one in a thousand of those, who,
under the gallows, profess that they are re
signing mortality for glorious immortality be
yond the grave. Aye, there is a fearful re
sponsibility resting upon the pulpit and the
press for giving publicity to such scenes.—
What is the result of it? Why, the ignorant
are thereby encouraged to the _commission of
the most atrocious crimes, because, if found
out, they are induced 'to believe that before
the day of execution, with the aid of a min-:
ister, they can' be prepared for an entrance,
. .•
into heaven."