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ozo. SANDERSON, EDITOR..
A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LANCASTER, PA.,' JUNE 8, 1858
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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
JUINE OP THE SUPREME COURT :
WILLIAM A. PORTER, Philadelphia
CANAL COMMISSIONER:
WESTLEY FROST, Fayette.
A WORD TO DELINQUENTS
There are hundreds of persona indebted to us for sub
scription, advertising, or job work—varying In some of
from one dollar up to twenty dollars—which ought to be
paid, and must be paid without much longer delay.
We have commenced making out bills for town and
country—near and remote—and shall expect settlements
to be made, either by cash or due bills, between this and
the Ist of July next—so that then, at the commencement
of the tenth year since the Itcrzudgertoea passed into our
hands, we may be enabled to open new books. After that
period thoee who refuse to liquidate their indebtedness in
one of the ways specified, will be stricken from our list of
' , patrons," and their accounts placed in the hands of proper
-officers for collection.
We have become tired of " working for other people and
finding ourselves," and we give this timely warning so that
all may be prepared. We cannot live and keep the estab
lishment In operation on mere "promises to pay," and as
we have no notion of starving when every thing is in abund
ance all around us e we have concluded to adopt the course
above intimated.
To such of our patrons as have been prompt in their pay
manta, we return our sincere thanks; and we shall also
feel grateful to those who may repent of their past delin
quency, and either call at the office and settle their bills,
or remit by mail the amount of their indebtedness. But
we wish it to be distinctly understood, and therefore we re
peat It, that we take the step because our necessities require
it, and shall expect all accounts of more than one year's
standing, to be settled between this and the trot of July.
If not, they will be settled in another way.
REPORTED BRITISH OUTRAG
R.
It is' reported that reliable information has
been received in Washington that a British
cruiser had fired into an American vessel, and
that one man was killed. The occurrence is
said to have taken place off Pensacola. It is
further said that the United States steamer
Fulton had gone in chase of the cruiser.
The American brig Abram, from Savanilla for
New York hove too off Key West on the 25th
ult., and signalled for a pilot, in order to land
some passengers on their way to New York
via Charleston. A pilot boat came and took
off the passengers and the brig stood on her
course. She had scarcely got under way, before
the Styx, lyingat anchor at Key West, weighed
anchor and started after her. From the course
taken by the steamer and the continued thick
stream of smoke, there can be no doubt of
the intentions of her commander to pursue
and examine the brig, which must have taken
place in American waters, as the breeze was
light. The result will be known on the arrival
of the brig in New York. Should the Styx
have overtaken and searched this vessel, no
insolence as yet offered by the British cruisers
can equal this, starting from under the guns
of an American fortress to search an Ameri
can vessel in American waters. The comman
der of the Styx, we understand, expressed
regret at having entered Key West, as the
citizens have shown freezing coolness to himself
and officers, but excused himself by affirming
that he was merely carrying out his instruc
tions.
Brig Mindue, from Jamaica, reports being
boarded ay 20th, by the British steamer
Styx, and after being detained for an hour
allowed to proceed.
EM=l
We neglected to mention in our last, that
the Plug Ugly Know Nothings have met with
an overwhelming defeat in Maryland. The
people have strongly condemned the proposi
tion to call a Convention to alter the Consti
tution of the Staiie. The Know •Nothing
Legislature and Governor wanted some of the
beauties of Plug Uglyism infused into the
Constitution, but the people, heartily sick and
tired of such.,s, party, have refused to alter it
to suit the rowdies and blackguards of Bahl
more, by a majority of over eight thousand
votes !
EXCITEMENT IN NEW ORLEANS
The city of New Orleans has been in a
state of great excitement for the last week or
two. That place has been under " Plug Ugly"
municipal influence for some time past, and
assassinations and other outrages have been
allowed to be perpetrated with perfect impu
nity. The law of self preservation has im
pelled the citizens to protect themselves and
their property, by taking the government into
their own hands. The necessity for the adop
tion of the course is to be regretted ; but
matters appear to have reached such a crisis
as to render strong measures -absolutely
necessary. We trust, however, that no resort
to bloodshed will be necessary—although from
the excited state of the public mind, at the
last accaunts, such a result was to be appre
hended.
OFFICIAL CORRUPTION IN lOWA.-At the late
session of the Legislature of lowa a snecial
committee was appointed to investigate
alleged frauds in the location of the capital at
Des Moines. Before this committee, evidence
was given, showing that the black republican
commissioners who had charge of the location,
received in the way of bribes more than fifty
thousand dollars, worth of property. Certain
witnesses refused to testify to most important
points in the investigation, and though the
committee reported them as contumacious, the
black republican House neglected or refused
to compel them to testify—thus attempting to
throw a cloak over the villainy of the com
missioners. So we go.
ARREST OF AN ENGLISH OFFICER
The latest intelligence from the Gulf of
Mexico, is that the English naval officer who
made himself so conspicuous in boarding the
American vessels in the port of Sagua la
Grande, has been arrested and sent to Jamaica,
to answer for his conduct.
A SOLDIER KILLED.-A U. S. soldier belong
ing to the Carlisle Barracks, named McNamara;
was killed in the town, supposed by another
soldier named Pierrie, on the night of the 3d
inst. The latter has been committed for trial.
DEATH OF AN. S. SENATOR
Hon. JOHN P. lIENnErtsoN, U. S. Senator
from Texas, died at his lodgings in Washington
City, on Friday evening. He had been suffer
ing for several months with a pulmonary
disease.
THE MORMON REBELLION
A special despatch to the Washington
Union, dated Fort Leavenworth, June 1, seems
to confirm the intelligence received by express
from Fort Scott, to the effect that the Mormons
had driven Governor Cummings and his party
out of Salt_Lake City back to the army.
ADiOURNDIENT OF CONGRESS
Both branches of Congress have agreed to
bring the session to a close on Thursday next,
at 12 o'clock, in.
ger Commodore Tames AP CATESBY JONES
died at his residence near Washington City,
on Sunday week, aged 69 years. He had been
for more than fifty years in the naval service
of the United States.
U. 8:Sul/am—Hon. Henry B. Anthony,
Editor of the Providence Journal, has been
elected to represent the State of Rhode Island
is the U. S. Senate, for six years from the 4th
iafMtirch next. He is of the Black Republican
"twe,.and. succeeds Mr. Allen the present
tie member from that State
BLACK REPUBLICAN HONESTY I
WHOLESALE BRIBERY OF A STATE GOVERNMENT !
It appears from the Report of an Investiga
ting Committee of the Wisconsin Legislature,
that the whole Black Republican government
of that State was directly , bribed, last year,
by a Railroad corporation. Congress granted
to the State a farge amount of land for the
aid of Railroads, and the La Crosse and Mil
waukie Railroad "put in" for a share of the
"plunder," and got it by bribing nll the State
offices, a majority of the members of the
Legislature, and many other individuals !
This is proved, and the proof has been pub
lished
in an official form by the Legislature.—
It appears from this report that Coles Bash
ford, the Black Republican Governor, received
$50,000 for approving the bill, after he had
once vetoed it! The Lieutenant Governor
received $lO,OOO for his services, and other
State officers the same amount. Twelve Sen
atorsVeceived from $lO,OOO to $25,000 each,
amounting to $165,000 in the whole ; and that
sum may therefore be regarded as the price
of a Black Republican Senate in the West.—
Only four Senators voted for the bill without
pay ! Fifty-nine members of the House were
purchased, their prices being $5,000 and $lO,-
000 each, eight of them being paid $lO,OOO
each, and one $20,000. The whole amount
paid to members of the House was $355,000.
Only four members of the House voted for the
bill without pay. The clerks of the Legisla
ture, the Governor's private secretary, and
numerous " outsiders " were paid sums rang
ing from $l,OOO to $25,000. Over $BOO,OOO
was paid by this Railroad to secure the pas
sage of the bill—most of it to State officers
and members of the Legislature
The N. Y. Times, in publishing the report
developing these facts, says :
There is not a cringing slave in the worst
despotism of Europe, who is not entitled to
despise and contemn the Republican State of
Wisconsin, so long as she permits her public
officers, from the highest to the lowest—Gover
nor, Senators, Assemblymen, and all—to sell
themselves, like beasts in the market or stale
fish at Billingsgate—and, after the whole
thing is exposed, ' deliberately refuses either to
punish the offenders, or even forbid their sue.
cessors - from running the same infamous and
degrading career.
It there were any proper law, or any proper
public sentiment in Wisconsin upon this sub
ject, every man who has had a hand in these
proceedings, from Governor Bashford down,
would expiate his crime in the State Prison .
A more wholesale robbery of the property of
stockholders has never beep perpetrated. The
Directors of ,the British Bank, who have been
sent to the penitentiary, were not hal fso eulpa
ble, nor were their offences half so infamous as
those revealed in this report. But the most
discouraging feature of the whole case is, the
refusal of the Legislature of Wisconsin either
to punish these past offences or to Brovide
against them hereafter. The Investigating
Committee reported a bill designed to secure
stockholders against such wholesale robbery,
and to punish Directors or others who should
perpetrate the acts of plunder and corruption
which has been fastened upon the managers
of the La Crosse and Milwaukie Road. But
parties interested in the perpetration of these
outrageous abuses thwarted every attempt to
bring up the bill for action, and the Legisla
ture, on the 17th, adjourned sine die—leaving
Governor Bashford & Co. in possession of their
plunder, and every stockholder in a Wisconsin
Railroad at the absolute mercy of its Directors.
They can cheat and swindle, plunder and rob,
the Company
,to the utmost extent of their
pleasure, and there is no law or public sen
timent to punish or prevent. We are not in
the least surprised that La Crosse arid Mil
Waukee stock and bonds should he selling in
Wall street far so small a price ; the only
wonder is that they should be considered
worth anything at all. With such unrestricted
opportunities for plunder, and SO resolute a
purpose to improve them, it would be a, little
singular if anything whatever should, in the
end, he left for the stockholders.
MILITARY ENCAMPMENT.
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. !
Executive Cluunber, Harrisburg, June 3, '5B.
It is hereby ordered, that a "CAME' OF IN
STRUCTION be held at Williamsport, Lycum
ing county, Pennsylvania, the present year,
and the Adjutant General of the Common
wealth is directed to fie the time thereof—to
take charge of the arrangements—to attend
in person, and' to issue the necessary orders
to the general Staff, and other Military officers
of the Commonwealth in relation to the same.
WM. F. PACKER,
Contmantler-in. Chief.
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE
IMMNMS=i
In obedience to the above order from Head
Quarters, a " CAMP or INSTRUCTION will be
held at Williamsport, Lvcoming county,
Pennsylvania, commencing at 12 M., on 'hes-
Day, the 7th day of SEPTEMBER, A. D., 1,58,
to continue until Saturday, the 11th day of
said month, at 12 M., of said day, tube called
Camp " SUSQUEHANNA. "
I. This Encampment is intended to include
the uniformed companies throughout the State,
who are earnestly requested to be in prompt
attend ann.
11. The Major Generals, Brigadier Generals,
and Brigade Inspectors of the several divisions
and brigades, are required to report to my
office as soon as possible, what companies and
field officers will be in attendance from their
respective cammands—with the number of
men in each company, the names of the Cap
tains, and their Post Office address.
111. The _lids de camp and all other officers
of the Grand Staff of the Commander—in—
Chief are ordered be in attendance, armed
and equipped in full parade dress.
IV. All companies in attendance are
required to bring with them all tents and
camp equipage they may have.
V. The Brigade Inspectors of every brigade
will report at once to my office what camp
equipage belonging to the State is in the limits
of their command.
VI. The Major General of the Eleventh
division, Gen. D. K. JACKMAN, shall be the
senior officer on duty, and he is hereby charged
with the immediate arrangements for said
Encampment, and is ordered to report to this
office for further instructions.
By order of the Commander—in—Chief.
EDWIN C. WILSON,
Adjutant General of Pennsylvania
GAMBLING EXPOSED
The New York National Police Gazette will
commence this week "a truthful history of
gambling iti all its various phases and an ex
pose of the whole system, showing the various
disguises under which it is carried on, the de.
ceptions practised on the unwary, and the
terrible consequences resulting from it in this
and other countries, which will be beautifully
illustrated with wood engravings, showing the
shocking barbarities that have been caused by
its devotees and the implements used to carry
on the nefarious business." The Editors prom
ise " faithfully to unravel the whole of this
villainous business," through their correspon
dents in various parts of the Union, " and to
show to the world a debasing criminal indul
gence that is devastating our own land and
the fairest portions of the earth."
The demand fur the Police Gazette will
doubtless be .very great, and news agents and
others should forward their orders as early as
possible, to GEO. W. MATSELL Co., Editors
and Proprietors, New York City.
APPOINTMENTS BY TUE GOVERNOR.-lEMBC
S. Waterbury, State Agent Pennsylvania Rail
road.
Jacob A. Shindel, State Agent Penneylva
ilia Railroad:
Thomas Cummings, Master Warden, Port of
Philadelphia.
John E. Rupp, of York county, to be State
Agent on the Northern Central Railroad.
THE "BELL" CREVASSE.—The Planters'
Banner, speaking of the Bell crevasse, says
that it has put over forty plantations under
water, and destroyed cane enough to make
twenty-three thousand hogshead of sugar.' A
railroad that test millions of dollars has nearly
stopped operation, the Texas steamers will for
a season leave our waters, and an immense
sheet of plantations between the Lafourche
and the Gulf of Mexico are under water.
BRITISH OUTRAGES
The following proceedings were had in the
Q. S. Senate, in reference to the recent outrages
on our merchant vessels by British cruisers in
the Gulf of Mexico
Mr. Mason,of Virginia, from the Committee
on Foreign Relations, to whom was referred
the resolution inquiring whether additional
legislation is necessary, to place power in the
hands of the Executive, to obtain redress for
the recent British aggressions, submitted a
report, the substance of which is that official
statements show a succession of acts of aggress
ion by British cruisers in the Gulf of Mexico.
so marked and extraordinary as to have
awakened the indignation of the country.
Vessels under our flag, pursuing a lawful
commerce, have been fired into, stopped and
interrogated as to the cargo, destination, crew,
&c. No less than fifteen American ships in
the harbor of Sagua la Grande, and six on the
high seas have been officially reported, each
arrival bringing additimml facts of the aggress
ions of the same power on our flag. It has
hitherto happened that in isolated cases where
similar aggressions have occured through mis
conception, the United states has been con
tented to accept a disclaimer of intent, but
the continued and persevering character of
these outrages is such as to arouse the indig
nation of the country, and to require arrest
at once, and to end at once and fur ever, the
continuance of such indignities. The slave
trade is alleged as an excuse. The committee
will not discuss that question. It is sufficient
that . the United States, though often invoked,
refuses to recognize the right of the police.—
They rest on th principle that a marine under
its flag cannot be visited or questioned with
out its consent. And the committee deem this
a fit occasion to declare it as the principle of
the United States, admitting of no reserve or
qualification, and to be maintained at any
cost.
They admit no right of visitation, far less
of search. Such have no foundation in law
or comity, and cannot be tolerated by any
sovereign power without a derogation from
her sovereignty. The infraction of sovereignty
consists in visitation. The best American and
English authorities, Stowell, for instance, so
decide, founding it on two principles :
Firstly, the equality of all independent
States. Secondly; the comity of the sea as a
highway.
Indignant as the American people are, and
ought to be, at these aggressions, yet their
occcurrence will afford the opportunity to end
them at once and for ever, and the committee
refrain from recommending any further legisla
tion, only from the reason that the President
has already ordered all the available navy to
the infested waters, with orders to protect our
flag.
It is believed that this measure will be ser
viceable for the present in stopping these
outrages. The subject has been also brought
to the notice of the offending power, both
through the minister at London, and the
minister at Washington. They cannot, there
fore, till a reply is received from Great Bri tan,
decide on any insecure that can be a guarantee
for the future. for nothing short of that will
satisfy the American people. The committee,
therefore, while refraining from recommending
present legislation, have unanimously
Resolved, That American ships, at sea under
the flag, remain under the jurisdiction of the
country to which they belong, and, therefore,
that any visitation or molestation is an infrac
tion of the sovereignty of the United States.
Resolved, That these aggressions demand
such unequivocal explanation from Great
Britain as shall prevent their occurrence
forever, in future.
Resolved, That the committee approve of the
action of the Executive, and are prepared to
recommend such future legislation as circum
stances may require.
BRITISH AND AMERICAN FLEETS IN
The following table shows the number of
United States and British men ofiwar in the
Gulf of Mesieo. The United States vessels
in the Gulf. or under orders to appear there,
carry a total of 140 guns:
S team, Colorado,
Steamer }'ulton
Steamer NVlthash
Cteamer IVater Witch
Steamer Arctic
Frirate Savannah
Sloop Jamestown
Brie; Dolphin
stmt. of res,l,
A va'anche
A ta;alita
Basilisk, Steam,
Buzzard, steam
toberboid,
Devastation, steam,
Forward. steam gun-boat.
Harrier, steam
111,111111
Indus
Jasa•ur, steam gun-boat.
Jasper, steam gun boat,...
Leopard. steam
Ski pjaek, steam gun-boat
Styx. steam
Tartar, steam,
Terror, steam
These vessels are already on the West India
station. It will, therefore, be seen that the
number of British guns in the Gulf is nearly
three times that of ours—a strong argument
that the presence of more American men-of
war are required there.
FARMERS' 111011 SCHOOL.-At the last stated
meeting of the Philadelphia Agricultural So
ciety, Judge Watts, of Carlisle, who was
present by invitation, made an interesting and
highly practical address, illustrative of the
advantages of this institution, and its proba
ble effects upon the agricultural interest of
the State, in the course of which he stated
that the reliable means for getting up this in-
Legacy by the will of Mr. Cresson of Philadalphia, $ 5,000
Paid by the citizens of Centre County.. 10.000
Appropriated by the State Agricultural Society. 10,000
Appropriated by the Legislature, and paid, 25,000
Appropriated and to be paid by the State, 25.050
Upon individuals paying a like sum, 25.000
" Of this sum we have actually received and
expended forty-five thousand dollars in the
erection of a farmer's house, a large barn, and
all the out houses, cisterns, hedging, planting,
fencing, and on account of the school
so far as the same has progressed.
It is the determined purpose of those who
have this subject in charge, to have constantly
in view the useful end to which this institu
tion is intended ; they desire to erect a monu
ment to art, to science and to themselves, and
therefore to incur no expense which is now
absolutely indispensable for the practical
operations of a farm and the teaching of it;
farmers."
HOW BISHOPS ARE MADE
The mode of electing a Bishop according to
the Episcopal canons, is as follows ; The
Convention is divided into two Houses—cleri
cal and lay. The clergy express their pre
ference first, and elect in the first instance,
and, subsequently, the lay members, by a
majority, either confirm or veto the choice of
the clergy. Both Houses must agree before a
selection can be made. If this is done, and a
selection is made by both bodies, then a
majority of the Bishops must agree; and also
a majority of the standing committees of the
Church throughout the country, being applied
to, must give in their assent. To complete
the necessary preliminaries, the Presiding
Bishop," as he is called, (the highest function
ary in the Episcopal connexion, and now the
Rev. Dr, BROWNELL,) appoints a time and
place for the consecration of the prelate-elect
into the full powers of the Episcopal Offide.
It will he seen from the above that Bishop
BOWMAN has to pass through several ordeals
more before he is fully invested with Episcopal
honors and responsibilities.
MINNESOTA.—The State Government was
organized on the 23d of May, at St. Paul,
where the oath was administered to all the
officers of the government, by J. J. Noah,
Clerk of the Supreme Court.
DISCREDITED BANKS.—The following Banks
of this State are set down among the list of
discredited ones, in Peterson's Detector :
Bank of Crawford county, Meadville, Pa.,
McKean County Bank, Smethport, Pa.;
Shamokin Bank, Shamokin, Pa.; Tioga County
Bank, Tioga, Pa.
THE COMBION SCHOOLS OF LANCAS
TER COUNTY..
In to day's paper we commence the publica
tion of a series of articles on the Common
Schools of Lancaster county, prepared for the
public press by the County Superintendent, J.
S. Crumhaugh. The article which follows is
merely introductory to the series, but even as
such contains matter interesting to our readers.
Each future article will contain statistical
tables, the material of which are no where
accessible except in the note-book of the Super_
tendent :
SKETCHES FROM MY NOTEBOOK. - NO. 1
Education, like many other good things, is
regarded as a dry and stale topic out of which
to manufacture a newspaper article. Several
causes, no doubt, could be assigned for this.—
Alost of us at once associate with the word
education, the idea of the school house ; and
as our recollection of the tedious processes and
caustic manipulations of school boy days - are
by no means pleasant, we have but little
prepossession fur anything that can be said or
written about it. In fact, so far does this
prejudice extend with many, that even a school
house and its precincts are odious sights. To
limit education to the scho room, is of course
a great mistake ; and to gather around it all
the unpleasant reminiscences of youth, is
evident injustice. Why not let the fond
memories uf the nursery and play groundthe
earliest teachings and endearments of a
mother's love—the delightful rambles and
excursions of early years—all parts, and im
portant parts, of our culture, shed their amber
colorings around this sombre-hued telim,
Education.
Another evident cause of the unpopularity
of such articles, is, that when written by per
sons of the least wit, they contain some sensi
ble thoughts—good, if nut new or striking. It
would require a man of more than ordinary
ability to write foolishnesss on a subject so
full of sense—hence, as the majority of readers
of periodical or transient literature are not
very fond of thinking-or reflecting—troubling
their feeble, delicate brains with a few grains
of common sense—educational articles are
quietly ignored, or if read at all, rate after the
advertisements, and serve to fill up a lonely
Sabbath hour.
Knowing these things, both from observation
and experience, it would seem temerity to at
tempt to draw public attention to what we
may have to submit. If our readers be few,
we are sure they will be select, and this will
console us.
The County Superintendency has been in
existence now for almost four years, during
which statistics of the most interesting charac
ter have been accumulating until they have
become " a pile." Some of the more general
facts have teen collected and published from
year to year in the State report. These ena
bled us to form some idea of the aggregate
progress of the county, and also to estimate its
comparative position in the State. They have
furnished data upon which educational men
have predicated their sources of action, and
by which they have been guided in their coun
sels. But besides these, I find a mass of facts
that may not be so weighty, yet we think of
sufficient importance to warrant their presenta
tion. It is true, they are purely local—but.
what should interest us more than the affairs
of home. Besides, it is our special design to
arrange these statistics in such a form that
every part of the county stands compared with
every other part, and thus it is hoped that by
making defects known by contrast, a strong
effort may be made for their speedy reffioval,
e would by these means stir up a laudable
emulation in the minds of directors, teachers
and citizens, which we hope will promote our
noble cause.
It has cost patient toil to collect these facts:
yet we trust they may be useful, in coming
years, by affording a means of comparison,
and thus marking the sure and steady progress
of the common school system. Had we such
a record of the schools of this county made
five years ago, it would now be an invaluable
test to show the effects of the present school
machinery; and placed along side our present
sketches, it would exhibit a triumphant vindi
cation of the system from the asperities of its
enemies. Unfortunately, such a table cannot
be obtained, and many of the earlier tables
which we have, are not rr..ble, having been
made up from general rmates instead of
observed facts.
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In the several papers it is our purpose to
write, we shall be compelled to speak plainly,
and, it may sometimes seem, harshly ; but we
hope it will be remembered that we have to
deal with facts, and these speak loudly and
strongly. If any district shall deem itself
hardly or unfairly treated, we are willing to
re consider, and if wrong, to correct any mis
takes that may occur. If personal narrative
should at times find a place in our comments,
we bops no one will consider it as meant to be
invidious, but thrown in by way of illustration,
and meant for general application.
Believing the press to be a power not enough
invoked in a cause so fraught with blessings,
we have solicited its help in the present effort.
Every encouragement has been given us, and
we are emboldened to go on. We will com
municate, therefore, from week to week, until
our material or your patience is exhausted.
JOHN S. CRUMBAUGH.
Count g Superintendent.
IMPORTANT LIQUOR DEciscoN.—An interest
ing " liquor case" was recently tried before
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, at Salem,
(Chief Justice Shaw presiding.) The Salem
Gazette states the case as follows :
" This was a case growing out of an occur
rence in Rockport on the Bth of July. 1856.
Some two hundred women collected together
on that day, and proceeded to several places
where liquor was sold, and entered the shops
by force and destroyed the liquors there found.
Among other grounds of defence it was.
claimed that defendants, if they performed the
aetsalleged, were justifie in so doing, inasmuch
as liquors kept for sale, and the shops in
which they are kept, are declared to be com
mon nuisances by the act of 1855, and, as it
was claimed by the defendants, could be abated
by the destruction of such liquors."
Judge Shaw instructed the jury that " all
persons have a right to abate a public nui
sance"—that "liquors kept illegally fur sale,
with the implements of trade, having been
declared by law a public nuisance, every person
may destroy them"—that " if kept in a shop,
nut a dwelling house, it is justifiable to use so
much force as is necessary to come at such
liquor and vessels, for the purpose of destroy
ing them," and that if the liquors in the case
were kept for sale illegally,the defendants
"had a right, using as little force as might be,
and injuring nothing else, to enter the shop
in question, and destroy the liquor kept there,
:with the vessels in which it was kept and the
implements of such illegal traffic." Of course,
under these instructions, the defendants were
acquitted. •
This is certainly very remarkable law; it is
nothing more or less than mob law. It gives
perfect license to mob violence, and authorizes
the sucking of thousands of stores and shops
and the destruction of millions of dollars
worth of property in Massachusetts. Any
loafer or any evil-minded individual can walk
into any liquor store in Boston in broad day
and deliberately destroy thousands of dollars
worth of property, and the law will hold him
harmless ! But if mobs or individuals can
thus, with legal impunity, assail property, its
owners will doubtless prepare to protect it,
and the result will probably he that the large
establishments in Boston will arm their attend_
ants with revolvers and let their assailants
take their chances !—.N. H. Patriot.
AN INTERESTING SLAVE CASE. „,
A trial came off at Vicksburg, Mississippi,
some days ago, that is of interest throughout
the slaveholding section. A man named
Davenport, charged with killing a slave was
convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to
seven years' hard labor in the penitentiary.—
The Vicksburg Whig says :
" This was a case of some importance to the
slaveholders. The accused was an overseer,
and pleaded in his defence that the slave was
resisting his authority when he gave the blow
causing death. Welearn that his honor Judge
Yerger, at the instance of the State, charged
the jury to the effect: That the slave, when
his life was threatened or endangered by the
infliction of cruel and unusual punishment,
had the right to resist even the master, and
that his resistance under such circumstances
would be no justification to the accused for
killing him."
CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS.
THE UNION MEETINGS.—The Union Prayer
Ifeetin,gs were continued throughout the week at the Lec.
titre Room of St. Paul'e German Reformed Church, Duke
and Orange streets. No abatement of interest is yet per
in these meetings.
The weekly sermon was delivered on Sunday afternoon,
in Fulton Hall, by R81%16,1..1%3 Powys, of the Presbyterian
Chanty Orange street. It was able and practical, and
likewise abounded in many eloquen t and beautiful passages.
Mr. Powell is a gentleman possessing the highest order of
talents ; and his style of preaching attracts large congrein.
bona
COLONIZATION MEETINO.—A Colonization
meeting of several of our city churches was held in the
Presbyterian Church, Orange street, on Sunday evening.—
The large audience chamber was crowded by an interested
congregation. A sermon was delivered by the Agent of the
Pennsylvania Colonization Society, and addresses made by
Revs. Dr. Hodgson and Mr. Demand.
CORPUS CHRISTI.—The annual celebration
of Corpus Christi took place at St. Joseph's Cathdlic Church,
St. Joseph street, on Sunday morning. About six hundred
persons took part In the ceremonies, which were exceedingly
Interesting, and witnessed by a large number of citizens.
THE MOZART CONCERT.—The Mozart Choral
Society, acceding to the request of many citizens, will give
a concert this evening at Fulton Hall. A brilliant pro
gramme i 3 announced, and among other exquisite produc
tions are the •'Anvil Chorus," and the '•Wedding Chorus,"
which were received with so many manifestations of pleas
ure and applause at the last Mozart concert.
SURETY OF THE PEACE.—On complaint of
one Elizabeth Hollinger, officer Gormly arrested and
brought before Alderman S. G. Musser, on Saturday, Jacob
Irwin, who hails from our neighboring borough of York.—
Irwin seems to he a lover of Elizabeth, who lives in a noted
suburban thoroughfare, but as usual the course of true
love didn't run smooth, and Jacob, the naughty fellow,
among other terrible things, threatend to kick the life out
of Elizabeth, and eud the tragedy by putting a period to
his own career, dm. But the valorous and romantic Jacob
didn't carri.out his murderous intentions! The complain
ant brought to tho Alderman's office a number of articles
which she received as presents from the gallant Jacob,
among which were a pair of gold ear-rings, a lady's basque,
a parasol, two towels, a pair of gum shoes, /Lc., wnich it is
thought he did not come by honestly. This must be a
slander on Jacob's fair name! Any person having missed
such articles may perhaps identify tnm at Alderman
Musser's office, No. 19 North Queen street. Poor Jacob was
committed for a further hearing.
On the way to prison, Jacob tried to prove his agility by
giving officer Gormly the ..slip;' and running from East
King to Orange street, where he wre-nr,sted. having
concealed himself In a wood shod. The unruly Jaeob lost
a good deal of breath and got a slight tap from tic' officer',
mace for his trouble.
THE FIRST GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH FAIR.
—The Ladies' Fair for the benefit of the First German Re
formed Church. (Rev. Mr. Harbaugh's.) was held last week
at Fulton Hall, and, we are glad to learn, proved very suc
cessful. The hall was crowded day and evening, and the
pretty saleswomen were particularly attentive to the wants
of their mate customers. dovialty reigned supreme, and
every body was delighted at the manner In which the Fair
was conducted. Repaid a vioit to the Hall on Friday evenin,,
and our good nature and benevolence were sorely tempted,
by the oodles and lips of the pretty fair one, but -nary
red . ' had we to invest. Our tortune and destiny is attached,
perhaps unfortunate/y, to a peculiarly poor class of mortals
called Printers, but who iu reality are the "salt of the
earth," in a moral. if not pecuniary, sense. Keller's Braes
and String Band furnished music dining the whole of the
exhibition, and on Thursday evening a grand supper was
given, after which the immense asseinblage was towed
with a vocal entertainment front the Mozart Choral Society.
The Fair closed on Friday night almmt 11 o'clock.
COUNCILMAN ELECTED.—At the stated meet
ing of the City Ceuncils, held on Tuesday evening last,
HENRY C. LOCIIER, Esq., wan elected a member of the Com
mon branch, from the S. W. Ward, in place of Gen. GEORGE
M. STEINMAN, resigned. Mr. 1.. wlil make an effluent
"City Father.'
WATER RENTS.—The water rents paid into
the City Treasury up to the Ist inst., on which au abate
ment of five per cent. was allowed, amounted to i,5.521 47,
which is only about ill; less than the amount paid in up
to the corresponding period last year. The amount would
hare been much larger this year, were it not for the fact
that a large number of properties are unoccupied, and in
which the water is not used.
FIRE AT THE MATCH FACTOI2I".—On Tuesday
evening last, about half-past ht o'clock, a small new frame
building, in the rear of the Match Factory, on Chesnut
street. and used as, a dry-house for seasoning the woad in
the manufacture of matches, was discovered to be on fire.
The alarm eras promptly given, but as the flames hod net
broken out and no light could be seen, the alarm was at
first supposed to be false. The fire finally broke out at the
roof, but was soon atter subdued by the prompt acti,m of
the firemen, without the exterior of the building being
much damaged. Mr. Porter's loss Is estimated at about one
hundred and fifty dollars.
FIREMEN'S VISIT.—The Stuffier 1.10,:e Com,
pent of this city intend visiting Reading, to participate to
the 4th of July festivities in that city. We have no doubt
they will be heartily welcomed and cordially entertained
by the Reading people.
BRUTAL OUTRAGE—TUE FINALE OF A .SPREE.
—A brutal outrage was committed this morning, about 10
o'clock, In the alley betweml Vine end German and South
Queen and Prince 5t.14.. by a man named Daniel Lechlin,
who threw his wife out of a window of his house, suiting
her head severely and otherwise injuring her. Both the
man and his wife were drunk at the time, and have been
so for some time past. Lochlin was recently discharged
from prison, or, as his wife alleges, was released thiough
her exertions and by paying twenty-five dollars. The parties
were not married previous to his release front prison, but
upon the woman's statement that she would give Lochlin
seventy-five dollars if he would marry her, the bans were
consummated. and the party have ever since kept up a
honeymoon of drunken carousel, annoying to the neigh
bors nod disgraceful to the community. Some of the
neighbors hearing a disturbance at the house, at the above
hour, proceeded there. when they found the woman lying
iu the yard, with her head out, and her face arms covered
with blood. Lochlin boon made his appearance, and began
applying the foulest language to his wife, say ing she was
fool enough to jump out of the window, Ac. The woman
denied having jumped out. and said that he threw her out .
A boy in the house confirmed the woman's statement. The
window is about nine foot from the ground and she appa
rently came out headforemost, striking the ground with
much force. Officers Kuhns and Gormly conveyed her to
the Poor House, where she will be properly taken care of.
The same officers also arrested Lochlin, and took him before
Alderman Van Camp .—Friday's Express.
NEW POST OFFICE.—A new Post Office has
been established at Chigoes, on the route from Columbia
to 31arietta, and E. nobleman, Esq., appointed P. 31.
BOROUGI.I OF COLUMI3IA vs. SAM'', B. HEISE.
—On Monday last a suit brought by the Burgess and Town
Council of the Borough against Samuel B. Heise,. for the
recovery of $49.50, borough tax for 1056, was tried before
Judge Hayes. The jury were instructed by the Judge that
the law was in favor of defendant, and that they should
return a verdict accordingly. The jury found for the
plaintiffs, upon which they were again instructed by the
Judge, and retired a second time, but. after a short absence,
rendered the seine verdict. They were then reprimanded
by the Judge and the verili.it set aside. a new trial being
granted.
The defence was conducted by Mr. North, and the
grounds taken by him were sustained by the Judge in his
charge. Mr. North argued that notice to each inhabitant
of the amount of his tax and of the time and place of ap
peal were required by law before the tax could be legally
demanded, and it was proven that no such appeal was held
or notice given. Another point made by Mr. North was,
that the plaintiffs could not recover if there was a sufficient
amount of personal property belonging to defendant on the
premises, out of which the tax could be levied and co lected,
and by the evidence there was such amount of personal
property.
Mr. Fisher, attorney for plaintiffs, carried the jury with
him, in spite of the law.as laid down by Judge liars. In
the now trial ordered a more decisive verdict will he the
result. —Saturday's Columbia Spy.
RAWLINSVILLE AFFAIRS.-
lt.kwuNavniE, May 26, 1858.
MESSRS. SANDERSON :—"Measures and not men, - says
JUNIUS, in the common cant of affected moderation. A
base, counterfeit language--fabricated by knaves, and made
current amongst fools. Such gentle censure is not fitted
to the present state of degenerate society. What does it
avail to expose the absurd contrivance end pernicious ten
dency of measures, if the persons who advise thrill be suf
fered to retain their control over the minds surrounding
them." Satire can never have effect unless it be pointed
at some persanal and distinct übjevt—it must hove a relative
application, ere it can be satire. 'DEas SWIFT was the great
est satirist of modern times. hloaocc, of antiquity, used
the quill of satire with a master's hand. Each of [hove
satirists always had a distinct object in their view—thus
it is, that satire is More pungent.
Men of more modern times, in their satire, have improved
upon Z3WIRT, HORACE. and other ancients, without any dis
tinct object in view; but, 6ancho Panzo-like, they fire
without a mark, burst like a bubble on the ocean, and are
lost in nothingness. It must come home to the bosoms,
and often to the offences of particular men. Thus it wt..
with affecb-d greatne,, the courtiers of ALEXANDER TOE
GREAT affected to carry their heads on one side, to ape a
natural deformity of their master; but, through poverty
of memory, their natural deformity becomes au obnoxious
trial at imitation of superiors, however or whatever the
natural defect of any ono may be. For he who tries to
imitate this defect, (to affect a naturalness in himself.) is
like a frog affecting to vie with the mammoth no; he will,
frog-like, burst as an empty bubble, and render himself
still more ridiculous. To attack vices in the atotra,t,
without touching persons. is safe fighting—but it is con
tending with shadows. This is, probably, the most effectual
way of contending against vices of the present day, by
throsing broad hints at actual wrongs, which may, after
all, effect the speediest reform.
My greatest encouragement in thus remarking upon
generalities, is to effe7t the shame of those who hare any
shame, and thereby gain them back to respectability and
respect. The illustrious BURS; author of the - Sublime
and Beautiful," In speaking of the Jacobins of France—
those who were composbd of the same sort of stuff as the
"American Jacobins"—denominates them a nuisance cre
ated in a "pestilential manufactory." The heads of this
party, In this country, are synonyms of those who made
France an Aceldama. Ono of these men, who strikes a
midnight blow, is more injurious to a neighborhood than
a regiment of midnight robbers or assassins who make
Open war upon society, and ought to be treated as one of
the most dreadful scourges with which It has pleased Prov
idence to afflict mankind.
The affairs in and about Rawlinsville are In a flourishing
condition. The few days of tine weather make our agricul
turalists look up and rejoice in the prospect of a rich and
plentiful harvest. The wheat crop in this neighborhood
never looked more promising. Corn ie in a sickly condition
—yellow and small. The grass crop in this vicinity wHI
be unusually large, unless something comes over it which
cannot now be anticipated.
Yours,
A DISTRESSING &rms.—A. man named
ZUSCHEIC, a machinist, residing at the upper end of west
Chesnut street, committed suicide, on yesterday morning,
by cutting his throat from ear to ear. He was said to be
laboring under a fit of temporary insanity. Mr. Z is repre
sented as having been a very worthy and industrious man.
A wife and seven children mourn his untimely end.
LmitrlsEs.—Up to the present time 376 Ii•
tenses for this county have been granted, of ',bleb 312 are
tavern and 64 restaurant licenses. No cause of complaint
now for a "plenty of entertainment for man and beast."
DONEGAL HORTICULTURAL AND FARMERS'
Cum.—A meeting of the Fruit and Vegetable growers of
Marietta and vicinity was recently held, at which a Society
was organized under the title of "The Donegal Horticul
tural and Farmers' Club," and the following officers
elected President, J. J. Libhsrt ; Recording Secretary,
John Musser; Corresponding Secretary, Barr Spangle:—
Treasurer, Henry M. 'Engle. This was organized as an
auxiliary to the Lancaster City and County Society, and
those interested have gone Into the movement with a COLII_
mendable spirit which promises to accomplish much good.
THE CASH SYSTEM
The following article, from the Pittsburg
Dispatch, in relation to the adoption of the
cash system by the country press, although
directed more particularly to that branch of
business, is yet applicable to many others.—
We believe there has been money enough lost
by newspaper publishers, by indulging in the
credit system, to buy one-half the newspaper
establishments in the country, and we have
reason to believe that this is equally true of
many other kinds of business. The Dispatch
says:
The Country Press must adopt the cash sys
tem, and insist upon pay in advance fur every
subscription, before they can expect to prosper.
The Butler American, far instance, in a recent
issue, states that since the paper came under
the control of the present proprietors, the
receipts have not been sufficient " to buy the
white paper on which it is printed." How i
half the country papers manage to exist at all
under such a miserable policy is a matter of
marvel. Hundreds of offices can show on their
books two, three and six thousand dollars,
trusted out in small sums, overa wide section of
country, the collection of which would involve
a cost almost equal to the amount involved.—
The persons owing these driblets are many of
them substantial farmers, who neglect to
" pay the printer" from month to month, not
because they are unable, hut because the sum
due is small enough to be classed among con•
venient obligations, to be paid at an indefinite
day, out of an indefinite sinking fund. So the
proprietor of a country printing lace—gene
rally one of the cleverest and most generous
of men—shirks along, takes pay in miscella
neous farm products, when his wants are pres
sing, and calculates his profits by an invoice
of very dubious accounts due on his books.
The reform may or will begin one day or
another. Let every proprietor of a counrty
paper announce a determination to adapt the
cash system with the commencement ut a new
volume, and:resolutely cut off and prosecute
every delinquent who neglects to settle within
a reasonable period. Subscribers may be lost,
but those are the very ones whose patronage
is worth nothing, and who manage to read a
paper at the expense of the publisher. No
subscriber who is willing to pay will refuse to
sanction a measure of self-protection, so clearly
just as to admit no doubt on the grounds of
right and expediency. The cash system is the
only alternative between comfort and confi
dence, and rascality and a ragged shirt.
REDUCTION OF THE STATE DEBT
By an act of the Legislature, approved 22d
day of April last, the revenue derived from the
following sources, is specifically appropriated
to the payment of the State debt and interest
thereon. The Secretary of the Commonwealth,
Audit. ,r GerieraLand State Treasurer, are ap
p;nod Ci 'tier to receive and disburse
~ _ ) ti
the same. The Sinking Fund law of 1.849 is
repealed :
The net annual income of the public works
that now are or may be hereafter owned by
the Commonwealth, and the proceeds of the
sale heretofore made and yet remaining due,
or hereafter made, and the income or proceeds
of stocks owned by the State, and all revenues
derived from the following sources, to wit
From Bank charters and dividends, taxes as
sessed on corporations and all the sources of
of revenue connected therewith; the tax on
taverns, eating houses, restaurants, distilleries,
breweries, retailers, pedlers, brokers, theatres,
circuses, billiard and howling saloons, ten-pin
alleys, and patent znedinine licenses , on the
atrical, circus and menagerie exhibitions ; on
auction commissions and duties ; on writs,
wills, deeds, mortgages, letters of attorney and
all instruments of writing entered on record,
on which a tax is assessed ; on' public officers
and all others on which a tax is levied ;on
foreign insurance agencies ; on enrolments of
laws; on pamphlet law 4, on loans or money at
interest: all tines, forfeitures and penalties;
revenues derived from the public lands; the
excess of militia tax over expenditures ; mil
lers' tax; tonnage tax paid by railroads;
escheats ; collateral inheritance tax ; accrued
interest; refunded cash ; and all gifts, grants
or bequests, or the revenue derived therefrom,
that may be made to the State, and not other
wise directed.
The correspondent of the Philadelphia Argus
gives the following table of the receipts into
the State Treasury during several months of
this year and last :
February 28, 1858, 4?„ 410 508 33
11a ch_3l,
February 28. 1857,
The above is truly a melancholy picture of
the condition of the Treasury. The falling off
in the revenue is attributable to several causes
—one of which (and the principal one we
think) is the insane gift of the Main Line of
the Public Works to the Pennsylvania Rail
road, and another the general depression in
business growing out of our financial difficul
ties. We have no expectation, as we have
more than once said, that the sale of the Main
Line will relieve the taxpayers of the State to
the amount of a dollar. Indeed, judging from
the above exhibit, we think it more than
probable that the taxes will have to be increas
ed in order to meet the interest on the public
debt.
SWILL-MILK INVESTIGATION.—The Commit
tee on Cow Stables of the Board of Health in
New York commenced their investigation on
Monday week, when a number of persons in
terested in or friendly to the nasty but profit
able swill milk business, gave in their testi•
mony. One or two new facts came out, such
as that nearly all the cows, when no longer
valuable for milk, are butchered and sold as
number one beef by some of the most prom
inent dealers in Washington and other
markets. Another point is, that these abused
and sickly cows never get a drop of pure
water from the time they go into the stables
until they are hauled out by the offal men or
nu tchers.
An Important War Bill
WASHINGTON, June 3.—The North Eastern
Boundary Act, for the revival of which Senator
Douglas to-day introduced a bill, puts at the dis
posal of the President, to be used when neces
sary to resist the claims of Great Britain, the
Naval and Military forces, and the Militia of
the United States; authorizes him to call into
service fifty thousand volunteers ; and also
puts at hie disposal ten millions of dollars,
with the right to borrow the same; and also,
if he deems it necessary, to send a special
Ambassador to Great Britain.
The act is to continue in force for sixty
days after the next meeting of Congress.—
The bill confers the powers in the precise
language of the act of 1839, except that it
strikes out the word "boundary" and inserts
" visitation and the right of search," with a
few other verbal alterations—conferring, in
fact, the same power on Mr. Buchanan as was
conferred on Mr. Van Buren.
eSY. The New buryport (Mass) Herald says,
that among those trees whose ages have been
ascertained, the elm has been known to live
more than 350 years; the ehesnut, 600 ; the
cedar, 800 ; the oak from 1000 to 1500 ; and
some of the woods of the tropics for 3000, 4000
and 5000 years. ,
CAUSUO
ST. LOUIS CORRESPONDENCE. -
Our visit to the "iron Mountain" and Pant Knob"—
What we saw. and what wilt ultimately vault fron the
construction of the Iron Mountain Railroad—Missmal
iron dr —Death of Maj. IN/key—Arrest of Murderers—
From Kansas—Lane and Redpath at Loggerheads—Red•
paths Expose—Kit Om Anion and Recoiling Virtue—
Lane denounced—His conteaudated Assassination of Gao.
Donn, de., de.
On Tuesday lest we accompanied the Excursion to the
"Pilot Knob," on the occasion of the opening of the St.
Lords and Iron Mountain Railroad. This road rune directly
South from this city, and into the mineral regions of the
State. The party comprised about 400, and left the depot
at 8 o'clock In the morning. Along the entire route we
were welcomed, by shouts from the assembled multitude
and the booming of cannon, and the occasion was one of
great rejoicing to the citizens of Southern Missouri—as a
country he•etofre but little known or developed, had that
day been penetrated by the " Iron Llorse." The Iron
Mountain Railroad has been constructed under the most
trying circumstances—during a year of panic—when money
was scarce and commanding ruinous rates of interest—
when bank aßer. bank suspended, and financial disasters
were occurring in every State of the Dnion—the Iron
Mountain Railroad, heedless of all this, progressed through
it all, and we passed safely over its whole length on Tues
day last. The President and the Board of Directors are men
of capital and enterprise, and inspired with the proper
spirit for an undertaking like the construction of so Im
portant a road—through a region of our State presenting
the most formidable barriers in the shape of huge moun
tains of rock, water courses and fearfutprocipices, which,
a few years ago, was regarded as an impossibility; Yekthe
art of man has overcome all these obstacles, and St. Lnuin
to-day reaches out her southern iron arm and grasps the
mineral wealth of the State.
The famous " Iron Mouutain" is six miles this side of
"Pilot Knob "—both, or either one, contains iron enough
to supply the entire country. There Is no digging Into
the bowels of the earth for iron in Missouri—all that Is
required is to blast it on the surface and roll it down to
the mouth of the furnaces in the valley below. • At the
Iron Mountain there are three furnaces—two of which are
in successful operation; and at the flint Knob, two more,
but one of them now idle. The five furnaces will shortly
be put in active operation. each one of which is capable of
turning out 5.000 tone per annum, or combined 25,000 tons
of pig iron. Several runs-of pig were made for the especial
edification of the excursionists.
The iron obtained from these great deposits is said to be
far superior to any other in the West, and for all ordinary
uses—machinery, castings, railroad iron, car wheels, and
for smelting purposes—is regarded as the very best. Here
tofore Missouri sent millions of dollars abroad for iron
c 'flaunted here, which will henceforth be retained at home,
and the same paid out for Missouri iron and 311ssouri
labor, which throws open a wide held for the enterprising
capitalist, the skillful machinist and industrious laborer
in our city, which is destined, at no very distant day, to
become the rolling mill for the world.
On the highest peak of the '• Pilot Knob " the stars and
stripes were floating in the breeze, and upon this massive
rock of iron several appropriate addresses were delivered—
one by ex. Gov. Reynolds, of 111.. nod ono by Col. Switzler,
editor of the Missouri Statesman.
We cannot leave this mountain without saying a fow
words in regard to the magnificent scenery which attracts
the eye on every side. A valley of some three or four miles
in width surrounds this mountain. and from its eminence
aff wds an unobstructed view of all that Iles beneath.—
About a mile distant, deep In the valley below, are
the towns of Irondalo and Arcadia—about a mile or so
of beautiful country intervening between the two, and
from this groat eminence presents a rather diminutive ap
pearance; the beholder can look down into all the streets
at a single glance.
A sight like this in the West is seldein seen, and the
p . arty were unanimous in their expressions of delight.—
This mountain of s did Iron, the beautiful and picturesque
scenery'as witnessed from Its summit, the great valley be
low. and indeed the country iteelf, present a then., upon
which much might be ash! and written, but which we
leave for abler heads than ours.
Leaving the mountain, we proceeded to the depot, where
a sumptuous dinner was spread for the party, and toast,
sentiment and speech characterized the affair. After we
hod tilled the inner man, the cry of "all aboard," and the
shrill whistle of the iron horse summoned us to our seats
in the eare. In a few minutes we re at the Iron Munn
tain, and after spending an hour . we that - locality, visiting
the furnaces, and a run of pig metal at each, inspecting
the beautiful grounds in the vicinity, we once more - took
our seats for St. Louis, which point we reached at 12 o'clock
at night. Nothing occurrent throughout the day to detract
from the pleasure and enj nyment of the occasion. An
itnintent, however, occurred on the return trip which we
moat here relate. Whilst at the Maramec Bridge, end
after the engine had been n.upplied with water, and shirted
on tn. the Leif;,', the valor pipe leading from the cistern
to the tank ,it he, fell or broke—which was just in range
with the Windows of tics ease, and a four or five inch
stream of water rushed in at tho windows from the first
to the rear car of the train, completely flooding them, and
saturating those on that side of the car with water Thu
windows that were not raised, the glass was forced through,
forming no impediment to the current of water—raking
the window glass fore and aft. The alarm and excitetneut
can be better imagined then described—some thinking,
no doubt, that they wt ro in the Maramee below. The differ
ent impressions formed and expressed after the "ducking,"
made considerable merriment to the party the remainder
of the trip.
Trains are now regularly passing over the Iron Mourityin
railroad, and a few years will wake oar city the greatest
iron depot of the country.
Maj. Benjamin Walker, Paymaster, U. S. A., died in this
city on Friday last, and his retina. Were taken to Jeffer
son Barracks, twelve nines south of this city, for Interment.
Funeral ceremonies were held In one of our churches,
after which the remains were attended by a large
concourse of citizens to the depot of the Iron Mountain
Railroad. 3lnj Walker wis 02 years of age, and nearly
two-thirds of that long time was passed in the service of
the army.
Our Intelligence from Kansas is pregnant with uo great
importance. It appears, however, that the notorious Jim
Lane, and none the less notorious James Redpath—the
Kansas correspondent of all the Abolition papers In the
country—are at loggerheads. Itedpath charges Lane with
everything damning and dishonorable—with everything
villainous and rascally—with everything contemptible and
disrepotable—and in a word, thinks Lane too great a
scoundrel to further infest the land, and in therefore wil
ling to go before any court of justice, and convict him of
uny crime, no matter how foul or damning. A short time
since these two individuals were sucking through the
same straw, and Redpath now confesses that he was one
of Lane's band of assassins, and their recent. quarrel grew
out of a command from Lane to Ito !path to assassinate a
man by the name of Robert Kelly, which Redpath had not
the courage to do. Itelpath is now an editor of an abolition
paper iu Kansas, and here is what he said in regard to the
contemplated BSBrifirlination :
"A few weeks before. ho had tried to make me tho agent
for assassinating Robert S. Kelly—as he WEas then pursu
ing Mr. Shepherd—with whoa: he quarrelled when he could
not make him a tool—with a malignity whf h it would be
euphony to characterize as infernal,lperemptorily refused
to do so."
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Again—Redpath says:
"We are ready to swear in any court of justice, or to
make solemn affidavit of the fact, , hat Gen. Lane intimated
to us that. if Gov. Denver challenged him, he would•have
him put out of the way by the secret order known as the
Danites."
Redpath's virtue recoils. Hear him:
"We thought that he could not ,be In earnest, but cir
cumstancea, subsequently ascertained, convinced us of our
error. It was the corroboral ion of this Intention that de
termined us, at whatever cost, to throw the human viper
off. It will cost us everything we possess In Kansas; pram,
landed property. and bonne,. prospects; but we prefer to
be free and pour rather than to remain In the power of an
awes-in."
We hare always said that Lano was the greatest coward
in Kansas, and hero is Redpath's opinion—who has been
long enough associated with him from personal knowledge :
"I knew comparatively little of Lane's private character
before I came to Doniplian, but my fr quent Intercoms
with hint since ham fully unfolded it. I have found I.lm
to be a man utterly devoid of principle, without the faint
est shadow of a shade rf conscience, unscrupulous and
dosing. but crAwardly arid suakedke In his policy. He
would ruin a friend or a woman with as littlecompunetion
as he would eat en egg, and would take pleasure in doing
it if it would a Ivance his ambition by a single hair's
breadth. I solemnly do-lore that I never knew him to
perfcom a disinterested action, excepting in two instances
only ; once. in Nebrnika, in assisting tugitives to escape :
once, in Leavenworth, In giving a dollar to a citizen, for a
widow iu destitute circumstances. Ile even blurred both
of these acts by cursing me, among his own men, for re
fusing to take the negro. buck as prisoners, to Kansas,
with my companies of armed emigrants. although he pri
vately made arrangements with me to send a num fr. m
lowa, immediately to take them over the Missouri river."
Redpath acknowledges his association with Lane, and
admits himself a member of his band of assassins. Hear
how be talks:
'• Lane organized a Club of Daniten In Doniphan county.
I became a member of it. Although be could have attend
ed it., and wan expected to attend it. he attempted, on the
second night of its meeting. to mate me the agent to In
ducethe Club to kill Bib Kelley lie saw that my unlucky
indebtedness to him did not give him a sufficient hold over
me—that some day, if he again dsred attempt to rule my
editorial course I would throw my property In bin face and
defy him. Ile wished. therefore, to engage me in a crimi
nal enterprise—and then I would be his slave forever. I
never hated Lane till he asked use to do this deed. I did
indeed despise him from the bottom of my a ul, but I did
out believe hint to be cspable of a scheme so diabolical—
to involve a young man, without any cause, in a criminal
act of private revenge. It was ao cowardly, contemptible,
and hellish. that I left him without saying a word. I need
hardly add that I did not put my neck In his halter, that
I did not choose to become his assassin. that Bob Kelley
was not killed, or that Lane, after creating the disturban
ces in Doni[han, on his next visit to the town. entertained
us with • magnanimous' and conservative speeches."
We have told your readers repeatedly that Lane, Red
path & Co., were a curse to Kansas, and until they were
driven from its borders that unfortunate Territory would
continue to bleed." Redpath now confirms those state
ments, in the following paragraph taken from his paper of
the 17th Inst.:
"I determined now, after I had thus seen hew ho had
intended to ruin me, to watch him with ceaseless,
tiring vigilance, until I could obtain legal proof against
him—not to ono iu a court of Justice, but privately t,, C •m
-pel him to abandon his hopes of high off.° in the party
he diffracts and degrades, and to l, are the Territory to Wadi
his presence, excepting on two occssions only, has been a
great and : almost an unmitigated curse.
But I found there is danger, while watching an anaconda,
of being crushed In Its loathsome folds.
I am not the only young man whom ho has tried to Use
for his cowardly schemes of secret and criminal revenge,
and he may find, too, thst he has reckoned without his
host in more cases than in mine."
And in conclusion Redpath adds
" That' $lOO loan," which was never borrowed? Lane,
I will spare you that history for the lady's sake. Ido not
wish to drive from you any purifyirg influence, for God
knows that you need it, and He may have sent her, whom
you wronged so foully, as an angel of mercy to save you
from becoming yet more devilish than you now are, and
to rekindle the lamp of conscience in your dark and murky
soul.
But beware, Lane, beware I for I have not told all that I
know yet."
What now will the Northern Black Itepnblicans say of
their brave General Lane, and their truthful correspondent
Itedpath? Is It not evident that Lane and hie hellish
ST. Lome, May 31, 1838