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The Latest War News
There has been no decisive battle between
the main armies. The Sardinians had, how
ever, succeeded in forcing a passage over the
river Sesia, and capturing Palastro from the
enemy.
Rumors have been received from Lombardy
to the effect that Gen. Garibaldi had met with
a repulse.
The Sardinians forced a passage over the
river Sesia at Palastro, in the face of the
Austrians, who were protected by the fortifi
cations erected there since their occupation of
the city. After a severe conflict they also
succeeded in the capture of the city. The
Sardinians were under the immediate com
mand of King Victor Emanuel.
Gen. Garibaldi was still creating a sensa
tion in Northern Lombardy. A rumor pre
vails that he has been defeated by a, superior
force, and retreated into Tessin, but the ru
mor lacks confirmation, as the Turin des
patches intimate that he was making still
further progress.
The Emperor Napoleon was about remov
ing the headquarters of the allies to Casale.
The Austrians have occupied Robbio in
considerable force.
It is reported at Paris that as soon as the
French enter Milan, England and Prussia
will jointly make strenuous efforts to termi
male the war by negotiation.
A fight had occurred at Florence between
some English and American sailors on ac
count of the latter wearing tri-color rosettes.
The Emperor of Austria, the Arch-Duke
Charles and General lless, all reached Vero
na on the 31st ult., on their way to head
quarters.
It is rumored that Napoleon will return to
Paris, in August, after the first series of mil
itary operations are carried into effect.
Heavy shipments continuo to be made of
artillery and siege materials.
The Military Committee of the German
Dlet have approved the motion to place an ar
my. on the Rhine.
Virginia Election
The recent election in Virginia resulted as
we predicted in the election of John Letcher,
(Derr.) as Governor, and R. L. Montague,
(Derr.) as Lieutenant Governor, over their
opponents W. L. Goggin and W. F. Willey,
calling themselves Whigs. Before the elec
tion Mr. Montague, in a speech made at a
public meeting, declared openly against Mr.
Buchanan. He said :
"I voted for Buchanan on the Cincinnati
platform, but he has deceived me—HE IS A
TRAITOR TO MS P.ARTY, and, so help
me my Creator, I'll never vote for hint again!"
It was such emphatic declarations as this
that saved the State ticket from defeat.
The Congressional election resulted as fol
lows:
1. John S. Milson, D.
2. M. R. U. Garnett, D
3. D. C. Dejarnette, I. D
4. Win. 0. Goode, D.
6. Thos. S. Bocock, D.
6. S. F. Leake, I. D.
T. Wm- Smith, D
A. R. Boteler, the only Whig elected, beat
Charles J. Faulkner, (the only Democratic
candidate that declared openly for Buchanan, )
in one of the strongest Democratic districts in
the State.
On such results comments are not ncces-
vary.
ANCIENT MINES IN NEBRASE.I.—An inter
esting discovery of ancient mines has been
made in Nebraska, about seven miles from
Wyoming. They are the most extensive
operations of ancient miners ever discovered
on the continent. For miles in extent, the
whole country is literally torn up and thrown
into the most fantastic and promiscuous ridges,
hillocks, gaiters, trenches, shafts, &c. There
are remains of furnaces, chimneys, stone
walls, and earth houses, fragments of jugs,
glass bottles, and many other things too nu
merous to mention. Rocks have been drilled
and blasted evidently with some explosive
material, stone dressed with the hammer,
and every evidence of the operations having
been carried on by civilized men. Old Cali
fornia miners, who have visited the mines,
say , that it would perhaps cost millions of
dollars to do the work that has been done
there, and the appearance of the surface is
similar to the placers of California where the
miners have been at work. What the min
eral was, has not yet been fully ascertained,
but this is soon to be tested by parties skilled
in metallurgy. It is generally thought that
the metal was gold or silver. The mines are
so ancient that there are large oak trees grow
ing upon them. When was this done and by
whom ? The above facts are extracted from
an article on the geology of Nebraska, in the
Wyoming Telescope, of a. late date. Wyoming
is on the Missouri river south of the mouth
of the Platte.
&MET Music.—A catalogue of sheet music
will be found on first page. Any piece will
he sent by mail on receipt of price.
8. A. R. Doteler, W.
9. J. T. Harris, I. D.
10. Sher. Clemens, D.
11. A. G. Jenkins, D.
12. H. A. Edinunson, D
13. E S. Martin, I. D.
The Late Frosts and the Crops.
The Harrisburg Daily Telegraph of June
10th, says:
We have taken considerable pains in look
ing over a large list of exchanges and private
letters to ascertain the damages to the crops
which had been produced by the late frosts,
which occurred on the nights of the 4th and
sth inst., in the Northern and Western part
of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Illinois
and most of the New England States, and
find that the general reports which first reach
ed us were very much exaggerated, and the
fears which were expressed in them had very
little foundation.
Garden vegetables, it is true, have been
nearly all destroyed. Corn in some places is
also totally ruined, but there is yet time for
it to mature if planted again. In other lo
calities we find that corn is reported as being
materially injured, but not to such an extent
as to preclude the probability of its starting
again from the roots and yielding a reasona
ble crop. Apples, where the frost was most
severe, are killed outright, and most other
descriptions of fruit have suffered past re
demption. Wheat, rye, oats and barley es
caped with very little damage, though here
and there we see accounts that these crops
were considerably injured. Grass was not
damaged in the least. We give a few items
below from various localities, showing the
sources from which we have drawn the gen
eral view taken above:—
The Chicago Press, published in the very
"centre of wheat," says : "It is thought by
good judges here that the spring wheat is too
far advanced to be much damaged ; but late
winter wheat, in bloom must be more or less
injured."
The Rockford (Ill.) News has a column of
items, gathered from all its section of coun
try. As a result of its observation it says :
"Corn injured to one-fourth of a crop ; pota
toes one-fifth; tomatoes entirely ruined;
grapes nine-tenths destroyed. Wheat is not
mentioned.
The Cincinnati Gazette learns that some
damage was clone to the corn crop in the Big
Miami Valley. The wheat not injured to
any extent. The Gazette sums up: " Upon
the whole we do not think there is ground
for very much alarm. Judging from infor
mation obtained direct from gentlemen from
the country, we infer that the wheat is prob
ably safe, and that a few warm days will re
store the corn.
The Detroit papers of Monday make no
mention of destruction to the crops in that
region. They simply give a glance at a
change in the weather.
From Buffalo the papers give reports simi
lar to those already brought by telegraph.—
The wheat in Western New York has gener
ally escaped, or if injured, it is but slightly.
The Boston papers of Monday morning
note a change in- the weather from sultry to
cold, but not a word as to any damage to the
fruits or garden vegetables.
The Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York
city papers make no mention of any injury
to the crops in those localities.
The Register (Blair c 0.,) says : "Upon the
whole, however, the damage is probably not
so great as to very seriously effect our pre
vious excellent prospects of an abundant har
vest.
In Somerset and Fayette, we learn that the
damage was confined principally to the ten
der fruits and. vegetables. The wheat has
undoubtedly escaped everywhere without
material damage. As for corn and potatoes,
even if they are all destroyed, which they
are not, there is abundant time yet to mature
a good harvest of both.
The Peru (Illinois) Commercial says:—
This section of the country was visited by a
regular November frost, and ice one-eighth
of an inch thick was formed in exposed
places. We fear great damage has been done
to the crops. They have been harvesting in
the southern part of this State for two weeks,
and early varieties of cherries are now about
ripe in this latitude.
The voluminous reports from Cleveland
papers, covering the whole Western Reserve,
North-west Pennsylvania, Northern and Cen
tral Ohio, and the upper portion of Indiana
are also encouraging.
The• Syracuse Standard has heard of no
damage to anything in that neighborhood.
The Auburn Advertiser says the damage is
confined to plants and vegetables.
The Binghamton Journal has heard from
different parts of Broome county, N. Y., and
the reports are that it has done much injury,
especially to garden vegetables.
The Buffalo Express states that all vegeta
bles which frost effects, and fruit of all kinds,
were to all appearances killed.
The Albany Journal says in that vicinity no
serious injury was done.
The Rochester Democrat says the thickness
to which foilage has attained, saved fruit gen
erally, hut grape vines suffered to a consider
able extent. Cucumbers, young beans and
vegetation of that sort, got badly nipped, but
some of them will recover.
The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald says in
that section it was severe enough to nip early
beans, but reports no other damage.
The Lowell (Mass.) Journal says :—The
frost appears to have been quite destructive
to tender plan is in many places. Corn,
beans, and other vegetables, in some in
stances, were killed to the ground.
The Portland (Maine) _Argus says it will
result disastrously to those two favorite Yan
kee esculents, pumpkins and beans.
In Connecticut and Rhode Island the frost
was quite sharp, but we can hear of no dam
age being sustained.
The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader says :—Much
damage was done to vegetables ; grapes were
nearly destroyed, we are informed, and pota
toes and corn seriously effected. We saw ap
ples as large as - walnuts which were frozen
to the core. In some sections - the fruit must
have been entirely cut off, while in others,
comparatively little damage was done.
The Worcester Spy says :—The frost visi
ted Uxbridge and vicinity, and severely nip
ped the tenderer *plants. Had it not been
for a heavy fog which rose shortly after sun
sot, great damage must have been occasioned
to vegetation. Corn and the hardier crops
escaped unharmed, though the effect of cold
weather like this must be seriously to retard
its growth.
The Manchester (New Hampshire) Ameri
can says :—At daylight early risers found a
heavy frost on the plants and gram, while
the open ploughed ground was frozen to the
depth of a quarter of an inch. All up the
Merrimac Valley, beans, tomatoes grape blos
soms, cucumbers, squashes, and to some ex
tent corn, were entirely cut down. In gar
dens, however, fences, trees and shrubbery
partially protected them.
The St. Paul, Davenport, and Dubuque
papers say :—The frost did no damage there.
The lowa papers say the wheat is aIL safe
there. The Louisville papers of Tuesday say
there were some traces of frost there, but not
the slightest damage. The Coluinbus (0.)
Statesman says there is no damage to wheat
thereabout.
Accounts from different parts of Canada
West state that the frost has done most seri
ous damage to fruit, potatoes, corn and gar
den vegetables. Wheat is uninjured, and it
is thought the effect of the frost may be de
structive to the fly, which was beginning to
appear in some sections.
In Washington county, Pa., the frosts have
been very reverse. The Tribune says :—The
fairest prospect for the most abundant fruit
crop, that we have had for many years, was
wholly blasted. Scarcely a peach, plum, or
cherry escaped, while the greater portion of
the apples are also destroyed. Of the small
er fruits, such as grapes, blackberries, rasp
berries, &c., there is an almost total destruc
tion. In the gardens all but the very hardi
est kinds of fruits and vegetables were de
stroyed as if by a consuming fire. Tomatoes,
beans, cucumbers, melons, potatoes, corn, &c.,
&c., were frozen down to the ground, and
after a few hours exposure to the sun, were
scorched and withered as if by an intense
heat. Iron weeds, docks, mint, and many
other hardy plants, and even grass and clover
in many places, gave evidence in their blighted
appearance of the great severity of the frost.
Indeed, everywhere the fields and gardens
presented most saddening proofs of the ca
lamitous visitation. At the time we write,
fears are entertained for the safety of the
grain crops. Much of the wheat, rye, and
barley, it is thought, have been killed. But
as that cannot be ascertained for a few days,
we will not now abandon the hope that these
great staples have escaped the general destruc
tion.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE GLOBE.
lOWA. CITY, June 7, 1850.
EDITOR'. OF TELE GLIC:BE have often
thought myself more misprinted, than any
body else writing for the press—and this,
though I have screwed my face over the pa
per, like a boy learning to write, in the effort
'to be legible. If you print as I write, which
you did not before, I promise to write as often
as convenient.
I said something in my last about giving
you some description of this place. My in
formation is as yet, so
,limited, that I must
confine myself merely to what I have seen in
a few hasty and general glances—my time,
since I came here, having been chiefly taken
up in getting ready for housekeeping. And
here a word by the way, to everybody intend
ing to move, or that may at any time here
after, in all time to come, intend to move
West. Bring all your effects you can. If
you do not, you will have to sacrifice them,
as I did, at one half their value, and when
you reach your destination, will find it takes
more money, time, and patience to replace
them, than anybody told you it would. I
give my opinion for what it's worth. It is
simply not so, that the freight charges will
be over the worth of the chattels. Besides,
beginning housekeeping in a strange land,
with what you were accustomed to in the . old
home, has a wonderful effect to reconcile a
family, especially the younger part of it, to
the change. Things look as if they were at
home after all.
lowa City is quite a respectable town, with
a population of over eight thousand. The
business part of it, is compactly built, the re
mainder scattered like most western towns.
There are some large four story blocks of
brick, some of which contain as fine stores,
and banking houses, as you will find any
where in your State, out of Philadelphia.—
Quite a large number of the private dwel
lings are frame edifices, and in point of
beauty of location, architectual neatness,
horticultural attachments, and appearance of
comfort, outside and in, compare favorably
with most that I have seen in the East.—
The City is not on such a prairie as Chicago.
It is on rolling land, that reminds you very
much of parts of Pennsylvania. Patches of
woodland are seen in every direction. Some
of the streets are set with indigenous, or
planted trees, and all you want, are brick
pavements, (the walks are mostly laid
with plank,) and more compactness, to
make you feel, that lowa city is not
just the "border town," the "jumping off
place," on the edge of civilization, some of
your folks, probably, take it to be. One
thing is certain, it is a living place, notwith
standing hard times. On any Saturday, you
can see here more men, wagons, teams, and
bustle, than you will see in Huntingdon, in
all the Saturdays of the year put together.—
The characteristic of the place, as it appears
to me, is personal activity and independence.
Most people who have settled here have come
with the one idea, (I do not mean that they
have no more ideas) to better their circum
stances. And they follow the thought well.
Some have gotten very rich--others have been
brought to a stand by the hard times ; and
yet hurry through the streets, and anon take
a fellow aside, talk mysteriously awhile, pass
on, and thus "go through the motions," even
if in the entanglement of the crisis, they are not
doing much. The times are hard, 'tis true. I
prefer calling them soft. These monetary de
pressions soften things down—reducing them
to their proper proportions. They deplete.
The house I live in, two or three years ago,
would have rented for four hundred dollars.
I get it for just half that sum. A man was
glad to get his family into a couple of rooms
at twenty dollars a month. He can now rent
the same for ten or less. This is only a speci
men of the good effects of hard times. Every
thing else has come down in proportion—and
last, though not least, the "lofty looks" of
man, too. And that is good—quite so.—
When I speak of paying two hundred dollars
for a house, it does not appear very cheap
to many of your readers. But a congrega
tion that will bear all a minister's personal ex
penses, on an experimental visit, and after
he has accepted their call, give him one hun
dred and seventy-five dollars to bring his
family out, must belong to a community,
where a two hundred dollar rent is not made
much account of. I never was in a place
where money was as freely dispensed upon
1 reasonable calls as here. An illustration of
this is, what the citizens have done for the
sufferers by the late tornado. They have con
tributed for their relief, about one thousand
dollars—probably more. The money was
raised by direct contribution, concerts, &c.—
The truth is, the people here appear to give
their money more freely to an object, than
anything else—than they will give, say, their
personal service. A man will hand you a
dollar, much sooner than he will help you to
trundle a wheel-barrow load of charity to the
house of some poor folks. I think it is rath
er the reverse an some sections of the East.—
But I find I am filling my letter with opinions,
rather, than with an account of lowa City—
the brick and mortar of it—its Institutions,
(particularly the University) and the many
interesting things the stranger will find here.
I cannot be very minute, until I am better
acquainted. • Since I last wrote, I visited the
scene of the late terrible disaster. The storm
made indeed, a fearful and a clean sweep.—
The wonder of it seemed to me to be the fact
'mentioned in my former letter—the planting
the fragments over acres, as if they had been
set by the hand of man. But to conclude—
I like the place and the people, and intend
(God willing) to make this city my home.—
Notwithstanding, should my health, or the
health of my family fail, or a sufficient sup
port be withheld, or my usefulness appear to
be at an end, I shall take any one of these
things to be an indication of Providence, to
leave the place. I mention this for the benefit
of those censors, in the ministry, and out of
it, who are so ready to charge brethren with
vacillation, because they choose to go away
from a field of labor, when they think they
ought to and when they ought to, A man
should have sufficient independence to do
just what he thinks right with regard to him
self and family. Under this conviction, I
inform all who may think worth while to read
my letter—that whenever I suppose duty
calls, I will move East and then West again
—to Madegascar or Ceylon, if you please.
Yours truly,
0. 0. MCCLEAN.
The Opposition State Convention.
The Opposition State Convention met in
Harrisburg on Wednesday last, and after
several ballots, nominated the following State
Ticket :
For Auditor General—Thos. E. Cochran,
of Lancaster.
For Surveyor General—Gen. W. 11. Kelm,
of Berks.
The Resolutions reported by the Committee,
were as follows, and were unanimously adop
ted:—
Resolved Ist. That Executive intervention
to prostrate the will of the people, Constitu
tionally expressed, either in the States or
Territories, is a dangerous element of Fede
ral power, and that its exercise by the pres
ent Chief Magistrate of the Republic, as
well in elections as upon the Representatives
of the people, meets our decided disapproba
tion.
2. That we protest against the sectional
and pro-slavery policy of the National Ad
ministration as at war with the rights of the
people and subversive of the principles of our
go vernment.
3. That we denounce and will unitedly op
pose all attempts to enact a Congressional
Slave Cude for the Territories, believing the
same to be utterly at war with the true pur
poses of our government, and repugnant to
the moral sense of the nation ; and that we
re-affirm our continued hostility to the ex
tension of slavery over the Territories of the
Union.
4. That we regard all suggestions and
propositions of every kind, by whomsoever
made, for a revival of the African slave trade
as shocking to the moral . sentiments of the
enlightened portion of mankind ; that any
action on the part of the government or peo
ple conniving at or legalizing that horrid and
inhuman traffic, would justly subject the gov
ernment and citizens of the United States to
the reproach and execration of all civilized
and christian people, and that the inaction
of the National Administration in bringing
the slave traders to justice, and its course in
sending such as have been arrested to trial in
places where acquittal was certain, subject it
fairly to the charge of conniving at the prac
tical re-opening of that traffic.
5. That we hold the encouragement and
protection of home production and American
industry to be one of the first duties of our
government ; and the failure to obtain such
encouragement and protection from the last
Congress, notwithstanding the professiihis of
the President, convince us that the laboring
masses of the free States will look in vain for
a tariff for the protection of the labor while
the administration of the government is in
the hands of the party now in power; and
that we believe the advalorem system wholly
inadequate to the protection we demand, and
in lieu of it we are in favor of specific duties
upon iron, coal, salt, and all such other pro
ducts wholly the growth and manufacture of
the United States.
6. That the reckless and profligate extrav
agance of the National Administration, caus
ing a necessity for continued loans without
any means provided for their payment, give
evidence of a want of that ability and in
tegrity which should characterize the Gov
ernment of a Free people, and unless check
ed will lead to a dishonor of the National
credit.
7. That the passage of a just Homestead
bill, giving one hunred and sixty acres of
land to every citizen who will settle upon and
improve the same, would be a measure fair
in principle, sound in policy, and productive
of great good to the people of the nation.—
And that we regard the defeat of Mr. Grow's
bill in the Senate of the United States, by
the party in power, as a direct blow at the
laboring classes of the country, and as un
worthy of the liberality of a government.—
And that kindred to this was the defeat, by
the same party, of the pre-emption bill which
gave preference to actual settlers over land
speculators. .
8. That the purity and safety of the Ballot
Box must be preserved, and that all frauds
upon the Naturalization laws, which have
been so much resorted to, to promote the
success of the party we oppose, ought to be
counteracted by wholesome and proper legis
tion.
9. That we approve of the enactment of
proper laws to protect us from the introduc
tion of foreign criminals in our midst, by re
turning them at once to the places whence
they have been shipped to our shores.
10. We cordially invite all men of all par
ties to join with us, in earnest endeavors to
restore the Government to its original purity,
and to preserve the proud heritage of Ameri
can Institutions, transmitted to us by our
Fathers, complete and unimpaired, to those
who may come after us.
H. That this Convention do most heartily
approve of and endorse the course pursued
by our able and distinguished Senator, the
Hon. Simon Cameron, and that of our Rep
resentatives in the popular branch of Con
gress who have zealously Supported the pro
tective policy, the homestead bill, the just
rights of actual settlers, and have steadfastly
opposed the tyrannical policy of the National
Administration in their attempts to force
upon the people of Kansas a fraudulent sla
very constitution in opposition to the known
and oft-expressed sentiments of the Freemen
of the Territory.
Heavy Damages.
In St. Louis, on Tuesday, Miss Effie Cars
tang, a lady of about twenty-five, obtained a
verdict of one hundred thousand dollars against
an old gentleman named Henry Shaw, for a
breach of promise of marriage. The defen
dant is sixty-five years of age, and, of course,
very rich. The case has been on trial for
some days, and excited much interest.
The above are very stinging damages, and
give us some curiosity to know more about
the parties. It is stated that Mr. Shaw is a
gentleman of great wealth, estimated at from
$700,000 to 1,000,000. He is a bachelor,
with a city residence, besides a beautiful
summer resort, near that city, called "Tow
er Grove." Miss Carstang is an orphan, the
daughter of a deceased Methodist preacher of
Brooklyn. She lived in St. Louis with a wid
owed sister, who kept a boarding house. A
letter written by the lady to the faithless suit
er is published, in which their relations are
thus set forth :
" It is over two years since you sought my
acquaintance, and requested permission to
visit me, and offered me references as to your
character and position, and very soon after
came your proposal to marry. You said your
wealth and business did not answer for com
pany ; you were very lonesome ; that your
mother was too old to live with you ; that
your single sister would probably die, even
before your mother, and Mrs. Morisse had her
husband for company. After delaying some
time to test the sincerity of your offers, be
coming satisfied that you really desired me for
your wife, I accepted you, and from that time
you were aconstant visitor. You sent me flow
ers and fruit, and made me presents from time
to time, and frequently invited me to ride, and
seemed to desire that our relation should be
made public. You invited me to meet friends
at your house in the city, and to ride out
to your country seat. You sent me a piano
and desired that I should employ a teacher.
You told sister that you were going to take
me away, and finally named the time when
we would marry, and I made preparations
for the same. The time arrived, and you
postponed it, on account of your desire to
perfect your arrangements in relation to the
botanical garden. You removed the piano
to your own house, under the pretense
that you desired it on account of a musical
party to be held there.
" Finally you cease to visit me, and when I
become solicitous for fear that you are ill,
and call at your house, you insulted me with
a proposition which any true woman would
reject. During our engagement I have avoid
ed general society, and declined the attentions
of others, and have endeavored to please you
in every way. Your attentions have been re
marked by many, and I am now subjected to
all the unhappiness and mortification arising
from your desertion of me. llad you called
on me as a, gentleman, and offered any rea
sonable excuse for this treatment, or simply
asked me to release you from this engage
ment, and assigned no reason, I trust I should
have had too much pride not ti have com
plied at once, but your desertion, as it is, de
serves whatever punishment the opinion of a
just public may visit upon its author; and
you may rest assured that if my counsel so
advises, such reparation shall be demanded
of you as our laws grant to my sex under the
circumstances."
This embraces the main points in the evi
dence, to show that the defendant had enga
ged to marry the plaintiff. The defense,
however, undertook to injure the moral char
acter of the lady, but in this it most signally
failed, and the jury rendered a verdict in her
favor for the full amount of damages claimed
—one hundred thousand dollars. On• the
whole, the defendant was probably served
about right.
Cannibalism on the Plains
RETURNING GOLD HUNTERS KILLING AND EAT-
ING A COMRADE.
[From the Cleveland Plaiudealer, June 6..]
An old man who stopped at the New Eng
land Hotel last night, told a frightful story of
cannibalism on the Plains, between Pike's
Peak and St. Joseph, Missouri. lie was di
rect from Auraria City, which is located right
in the heart of the so-called Gold Region.—
He left Genesee county, New York, in mid
winter, and with his son and nephew, two
full-grown men, started for Pike's Peak.—
He said they found the Peak a humbug, and
started for home. They had been forced to
sell their oxen, wagons, &c., at the Peak,
and therefore purposed performing the jour
ney to St. Joseph on foot. They had a week's
stock of provisions in their knapsacks, and
trusted to luck to get clear through. When
some two hundred miles on their way they
overtook a party of five emigrants, who, like
themselves, were returning to the States in a
destitute condition, and on foot. This party
were almost in a state of starvation, and
greedily pounced upon the old man's now
scanty stock of provisions. They all went
on, hoping to meet some Peak bound train
which would relieve them. But they were
disappointed. On the tenth day out, two of
the party that the old man and his son and
nephew had come upon, died of starvation.
They were buried by their comrades. One
of them was from Morrow county, Ohio.—
His name was James Richards. The other
was from New Hampshire, but the old man
did not remember his name. The wretched
party crawled on until the next day, when
another died and was buried, like those who
had died the day before. Matters were now
appallingly desperate, and one of the party
proposed they should draw lots to see which
one should be killed and eaten by the rest
This was done, tremblingly and silently, and
the old man's nephew was the unhappy loser
in the terrible game for life. He was des
patched by one of the survivors of the party
they had overtaken, and eaten by the miser
able men. The next day, towards night,
they met an outward bound train. They
pounced upon the oxen and slew them out
right before the astonished owners could offer
a word of remonstrance. They at length
reached St. Joseph, where they separated.—
The old man and his son found a friend there
who loaned them sufficient money to take
them home. The son was with his father
last night, and fully corroborated what is re
lated above. We can only say that they
were apparently candid and honest men.
Sixteen White Children Recovered from•
the Indians.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has .
received the following interesting letter from
the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Utah :.
SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE. Utah,
GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, May 4, 1859,
Snt :—I have just returned from a very la
borious and difficult trip through the south
ern portions of this Territory.
I have succeeded in recovering sixteen chil
dren, and have• them now in my possession. It
is said these are all that remain of probably
one hundred and forty men,. women, and chil
dren of the Mountain Meadow massacre in
in September, 1857.
In December last there was a small boy
among the Navajos, near the Colorado, in
Mexico territory, who it is supposed also be
longed to this emigrant train. I will allude
to this boy in another communication. I
was positively assured by the settlers in the,
neighborhood where I got the children that
I have all that were saved. I have good rea
son for believing that none of these children
have lived among Indians at all:
These children average from about tliree . to'
nine and a half years old ; are intelleatual
and good looking; not one mean-looking child ,
among them.
I have collected the following particulars•
in relation to these children :
Ist, Calvin, now seven or eight years old
does not remember his name ; says they (his
family) lived at Horse Head, Johnston county,
Arkansas. This boy had father, mother and
five brothers older than himself ; killed broth
ers named Henry, James, William and Lar
kin; and four sisters—Nancy, Mary and Mar
tha ; his father Joseph, and his mother Ma
tilda. 2d and 3d, Ambrose Miram Taggit,
now about seven years old, and Wm. Taggit,
now about four years and a half old ; the el
der boy says they had father, mother, and
two older brothers killed. He says they lived.
in Johnston county, and when they left the
States, had a grandfather and grandmother
living. 4th, Prudence Angeline, six years
old; and, sth, Annie; had father, mother and
two brothers, named James and John, all kil
led. 6th, a girl about four and a half years
old ; says her name is Frances Hawn or Kern.
7th, a - boy, now about three years old. I
have no account of this boy. Those with
whom he lived called him William. Bth,
Eliza W. Huff, four years old. 9th, Sophro
nia or Mary Huff, about six years old. 10th,
Charles Francher, seven or eight years old ;
and 11th, Annie, about three and a half years
old ; had sister. 12th, Betsey, about six
years old ; and 13th, Jane, about four years
old; have no account of these. 14th, 15th,
and 16th, Rebecca, Louisa and Sarah Dun
lap.
In conversation with these children, I learn
that they resided in the same neighborhood ;
my impression is, principally in Johnston
county, Arkansas.
I remain, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, J. FORNEY,
Superintendent of Indian Affairs
PANIC AMONG FARMERS.—The Curant, pub
lished in Lawrence county, says that on Tues
day 7th, flour was t;10 per barrel in New
Castle. The warehouse of Mr. Kissick was
thronged all morning with teams and per
sons wishing to purchase flour. Teams came
from Mercer, Sharon, New Wilmington, and
all sections. We heard it stated that flour
was selling in New Wilmington at $l6 per
barrel. Wheat is not to be had at any price.
A gentleman offered for one lot of about one
hundred bushels, three dollars per bushel,
which was refused ! The people are going
wild. Farmers who have wheat at home,
are rushing to town and buying flour up.—
Those who have no need for the article at
all, are buying at such prices as to make it
almost impossible for poor people, who really
need it fur bread, to procure it. The Curant
thinks the damage to the cereal crops greatly
overrated.
THE FORREST AND WILLIS CONTROVERSY.-
On Tuesday evening, Mr. Edwin Forrest pre
sented to the Grand Lodge of Free and Ac
cepted Masons, now sitting in New York,
through Worshipful Master R. D. Holmes,
check for $5OO, for the use and benefit of the
widows and orphans of Free Masons, the
same being the amount of a verdict recovered
by Mr. Forrest against Mr. N. P. Willis, in
an action for libel. The donation was ac
companied by a letter from Mr. Forrest, sta
ting that he did not bring the suit for the
purpose of recovering pecuniary compensa
tion, but for the vindication of his character,
and he therefore willingly devoted the amount
of the verdict to this noble charity.
to A very remarkable phenomenon at
sea is reported by Captain Rogers, of the
bark Rolla, from Galveston. On the 4th ult.,
in the Gulf of Mexico, the vessel passed
through a thick "scum" of the water, which
extended as far as the eye could. see from N.
W. to S. E. The substance resembled coal
tar, and gave out a smell peculiar to that ar
ticle. The ocean also gave off steam, as if
some hot substance had been poured into it.
The phenomenon was attributed to a volcan
ic eruption at the bottom of the Gulf. Im
mediately afterwards the vessel experienced
a violent hurricane.
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PREPARED BY DR. C. M. JACKSON,
WILL EFFECTUALLY CURE
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Chronic or -Nervous
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Every family should have a bottle of these Bitters in
the house.'
ONE DOSE will instantly relieve a sick stomach.
ONE DOSE will cure the most distressing heartburn.
ONE DOSE will allay any agitation of the nerves.
ONE DOSE taken an hour before meals, will gives good
appetite.
ONE DOSE will, in many cases, cure the most severe
headache, when proceeding from a disordered stomach.
These Bitters can be obtained at any Druggist's or seller
of Patent Medicines in the United States and Canadas..
Price 75 cents per bottle. See that the signature of C. M.
Jackson is on the wrapper of each bottle.
MODERN INVENTIONS.
We know of no invention of modern times that deserves.
or is destined to occupy a higher niche in the temple or
fame, than the discovery or invention of the Vegetable
Epiletic Pills for curing Epilepsy, or Falling Fits, Spasms,.
Cramps, and all the various modifications of Nervous Dis
ease. Dr. Seth S. Hance, of lOS Baltimore street, Balti
more, Md., the inventor, is certainly entitled to the best
wishes of all the benevolent portion of mankind, who ex
perience a pleasure by the alleviation of human suffering.
When Dr. Hance first prepared these Pills, ho intended
them solely for Fits, Cramps and Spasms; but subse
quent experience satisfactorily proved to him, that in ad
dition to their remarkable sanative properties in this
class of diseases, they exerted a perfect control over the
entire nervous system. He was then induced to try them
in cases of Neuralgia, Tic-Doloreux, Nervous Headache,
Palpitation of the Heart, Incipient Paralysis, Hysteria,
Muscular Debility, and a host of minor diseases, spring
ing from a lack of nervous energy, in all of which his an
ticipation were crowned with the most sanguine success.
Persons at a distance, by 'writing and sending a remittance.
to Dr. Hance, can have the medicine forwarded by mail
to their post office address, he paying the postage. The
prices are for a single box, $3, two boxes, $5, or $24 po .
dozen. Wo have given his address above.