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BY S. B. EOW.
CLEARHELD, .WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1856.
VOL. 2.-NO. 4-3.
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THE SOUa OF THE SUMMER WIND.
I come from the Southern shores of balm,
From the spice-fields far away ;
I com with the breath of orange-blossoms,
- r u fl ,ight of the summer day;
I kiss tho cheek of the fevered child, .
And play with her sunny hair,
. I soothe the woes of the sorrowing ones,
And release their hearts of care.
. I bear aloft, to tho white, white clouds,
. . , The wandering school boy's kite,
And he gazes up till bis eyes grow dim,
With a look of fond delight;
v hile or the brow of the laughing one,
' I toss the auburn curl,
As by the throng, in the lingering eve,
My pathless way I whirl.
I open the enps of the dainty flowers,
By wild wood, field and dell.
And I rock the fairies fast asleep .
Who hide in the lily's bell.
- The tall grass nod3 as I wander by,
And the brock up-ninrmurs with glee.
And joy and gladness spring up in my path,
herever my pathway be.
Gb, what could the warrior's banner be,
"Were it not for my gentle power
t Aye. dark wonld be the patriot's hopes,
And darker liberty's hour;
But the starry flag of Freedom's land
- Floats gayly along the way.
----And the free man shonts with joyous prido,
As he views my force by day.
I come with the voice of Hope and Truth
I come with the good God's love,
And I bring earth's weary ones a tasto "
Of the joys of that band above :
"I whisper to them of that inner light
The love that never dies''
How the soldier of tho cross may ret
. On the fields of Paradise.
THE CRIMINAL WITNESS.
A LAWYER'S STORY.
In the spring of 1843, I was called to Jack
son to attend court, having been engaged to
emend a young man accused of robbing the
mail. I bad a long conference with my client,
and he acknowledged to me that on the night
when the mail was robbed, be had been with a
party of dissipated companions over to Top
ham, and that .on re!urning thry met the mait
carrier on horseback, coming from Jackson.
Some of his companions were very drunk, and
they proposed to stop the carrier, and over
haul his bag. The roads were very muddy at
the time, and tho coach could not run. My
clicnt assured me that he not only had no hand
in robbing the mail, but that he tried to dis
suade Lis companions. But they would not
listen to him. One of them slipped up behind
the carrier and knocked him from the horse.
Then they bound and blindfolded him, and hav
ing tied him to a tree they took the mail bag,
and made off to a neighboring field, where
they overhauled it, finding some five hundred
dollars in money in various letters. He went
with them but in no way did he have any hand
in the crime. Those who did it fled, and as
the carrier had recognized him in the party,
ho had been arrested. The mail bag bad been
found, as well as the letters. These letters
from which money had been taken, were kept,
by Order of the officers, and duplicates sent to
the various persons to whom they were direct
ed. These letters had been given to me for
examination, and I had returned them to the
prosecuting attorney.
I got through with my private preliminaries
about noon, and as the case would not come
up before the next day, I went into the court
to see what was going on. The first case that
came up was one of theft, and the pTisoner
was a young girl, not mere than seventeen
years of age, Elizabeth Madworth. She was
very pretty, and bore that mild, innocent look
which we seldom find In a culprit. She was
pale and frightened, and 'the moment my eyes
rested upon her, I pitied her. She had teen
weeping profusely, for her bosom was wet, but
as she found so many eyes upon her, she be
came too much frightened to weep more.
The complaint against her set forth that she
had stolen ono hundred dollars from Mrs. Xase
by ; and as the case went on, I found that Mrs.
Xaseby was her mistress, a wealthy widow,
living in town. The poor girl declared her in
nocence in the most wild terms, and called on
God to witness that she would rather die than
steal. Bnt circumstances were hard against
her. 1 A hundred dollars in bank notes had
been stolen from her mistress's room, and she
was the only one who had access there.
- At this juncture, while the mistress was up
on the witness-stand, a young man came and
caught mo by the arm. He was a fine-looking
fellow, and big tears stood in his eyes.
'They tell me you are a good lawyer?" he
whispered. .
"I am a lawyer," I answered.
"Then O! save herl You can certainly
do it, for she is innocent."
"Is she your sister V
The youth hesitated and colored. "No,
eir," he said. "But but " Ilcre he hesi
tated again.
"Has she no counsel V I asked.
"Xone that's good for anything nobody
that'll do anything for her. O, five her, and
I'll pay you air I've got. I can't pay you
much, but I can raise something."
I reflected for a moment. I cast my eyes
towards the prisoner, and she was at that mo
ment looking at me. She caught my eye, and
the humble, prayerful entreaty I read in those
large, tearful orbs, resolved me in a moment.
In my soul, I knew the girl was innocent; or
at least I firmly believed so and perhaps I
could help her. I arose and went to the girl,
and asked her if she wished me to defend her.
She "said yes. Then I informed the court that
I was ready to enter into the case, and wrs ad
mitted at once. The loud murmur of satisfac
tion which ran through the room, quickly tol
me where the sympathies of the Deorde wp
I asked for a moment's cessation, that I might
speaK to my client. I went and sat down by
ner siue, and asked her to state to me candid
ly the whole case. She told me she had lived
with Mrs. Xaseby nearly two years, and that
she never had any trouble before. About two
weeks ago, she said her mistress lost $100.
"She misacd it from the drawer," the girl
saia, "ana she asked mc about it but I knew
nothtng of it. The next thing I knew, Nancy
Luther told Mrs. Xaseby that she saw me take
the money from the drawer that she watched
me through the key-hole. They then went to
my trunk, and found twenty-five dollars of the
fl i c Ct i n rs a 1 - , .
u6 luuHcy mere, uni, u, sir, I never
took it somebody else put the money there!"
i men asked her if she suspected any one
"I rlnn'f Irnnn? 1,-. -r.l - i . . .
...., ouo asm, "wiio conia nave
done it bnt Xancy. She has never liked me,
ucLause sno thought I was treated better than
sue was. She is the cook."
f t. - . ,-
ouo poimea ancy Luther out to me. She
was a stout, bold-faced girl, about two-and
twenty, with a low forehead, small grey eyes,
a pug nose and thick lips. I caught her glance
at once as it rested upon the fair young priso
ner, and the moment I deleted the look of ha
tred which I read there, I was convinced that
she was the rogue.
"Oh, sir, can yon help me ?" mv client ask
ed me in a fearful whisper.
"Xancy Luther did you sav that girl's namo
was i" "1 es sir." "Is there anv other cirl
of that name about here?" "Xo, sir." "Then
rest easy. I'll try hard to sav von."
I left the court room, and went to the pros
ecuting attorney, and asked him for the letters
I had handed to him the ones that had been
stolen from the mail bag. He gave them to
me, and having selected one, I returned the
rest, and told him I would see that he had the
one I kept before night. I then returned to
the court room and the case went on. Mrs.
Xaseby resumed her testimony. She said she
entrusted her room to the prisoner's care, and
that no one else had access there but herself.
Then she described the missing moncv, and
closed by lellinz how she had found Iitph.
five dollars in the prisoner's trunk. She could
swear it was the identical money she had lost,
being two tens and one five dollar bill. "Mrs.
Xaseby," said I, "when you first missed your
money, had you any reason to believe that the
prisoner had tafeeu it ?" "Xo sir," she an
swered. . "Had you ever before detected her
in dishon.-sty 7" "Xo, sir." "Should you
have thought of searching her trunk had not
Xancy Luther adv ised you and informed you?"
"Xo, sir."
Mrs. Xaseby then left the stand, and Xancy
Luther took her place. She came up with a
bold look, and upon me she cast a defiant
glance, as much as to s.iy, "trap me if you
can !" She gave her evidence as fallows :
She s;tid, that on the night when the money
;-as stolen,she saw the prisoner going up stairs,
and from the manner in which she went on.
she suspected that all was not right. So she
followed her up. Elizabeth went into Mrs.
Xascby's room and shut the door alter her. I
stooped down and looked through the key hole,
and saw her at her mistress's drawer. I saw
her take out the money and put it into her
pocket. Then she stooped down to pick up
the lamp, and as I saw that she was coming
out, I hurried away. Then she told how she
had informed her mistress of this, and propos
ed to search the girl's trunk.
I called Mrs. Xaseby. back to the stand.
"Yon say that no one, save yourself and the
prisoner, had access to your room," I said.
"Xow could Xancy Luther have entered that
room if she wished ?" "Certainly, sir, I meant
no one else had any right there."
I saw that Mrs. X., though naturally a hard
woman, was somewhat moved by poor Eliza
beth's misery. "Could your cook have known
by any means in your knowledge, where your
money was?" "Yea, sir; for she has often
came up to my room when I was there, and I
have given her money with which to buy pro
visions of market men, who happened to come
along with thoir wagons." One more question :
"Have you known of the prisoner's having
had any money since this was stolen ?" "Xo,
sir."
I now called Xancy Luther back, and she be
gan to tremble a little, though her look was as
bold and defiant as ever. "Miss Luther, I said,
"why did you not inform your mistress at enco
of what you had seen, without waiting for her
to ask you about the lost money ?" "Because
I could not make cp my mind at once to ex
pose the poor girl," she answered promptly.
"You say you looked throngh the key-hole
and saw her take the money 7" "Yes, sir."
"Whore did she put the lamp while she did
so ?" "On tho bureau." "In your testimo
ny, you said she stooped down when she pick
ed it up. What did yon mean by that 7"
The girl hesitated, and finally said she didn't
mean anything only that she picked up the
lamp.
- "Very well," said I. "How long have you
been with Mis. Xaseby 7" "Not quite a year,
sir." "How much does she pay you a week ?"
"A dollar and three-quarters." "Havo you
taken up any of your pay since you have been
there?" "Yes, sir." "How much?" "I
don't know, sir." "Why don't you know 7"
"How should I ? I've taken it at different
times, just as I wanted it, and have kept no
account." "Now, if you had any wish
harm the prisoner, couldn't you have raised
twenty-five dollars to put in her trunk 7" "No
sir," she replied, with virtuous indignation.'
"Then you have not laid up any money since
you have been there ?" "Xo, sir only what
Mrs. Aaseby may owe me." Then yon didn
have twenty-five dollars when you came there?"
"2 o. sir ; and what's more, the money found
in the girl's trunk was the money that Mrs
Xaseby lost. You might have known that, if
you only remember what yon hear."
This was said very sarcastically, and intend
ed as a crusher upon the idea that she could
have put the money into tho prisoner's trunk
TT -
iiowe er, i was not overcome entirely. "Will
you tell me if you belong to this State"' I ask
ed next, "I do, sir." "In what town 7"
She hesitated, and for a moment her bold
look forsook her. But she finally answered, "I
belong to Soraers, Montgomery county."
i next turned to Mrs. Xaseby : "Do you ev
er lake a receipt from your girls when you pay
mem I" 1 asked. "-Always." she answered.
"Could you send and get one of them for
mc ?" "She told the truth, sir, about my
statements," .Mrs. 2s aseby said. "Oh, I don't
doubt it," I replied, but occular proof is the
proof for the court room. So if you can. I
wish you would procure me the receipts."
She said she would willingly go, if the court
said so. The court did say so, and she went.
Her dwelling w?s not far off, and she soon re
turned, and handed me four receipts which I
took and examined. They were all signed in
atfange, straggling hand by the witness.
"JSow, Xancy Luther,", said I, turning to
tlie witness, and speaking in a quick, startling
tone, at the same time looking her sternly in
the eye, "please tell the court, and the jury,
ana tell mc, too, where you got the seventy-five
dollars you sent to your sister in Somers ?"
The witness started, as though a volcano had
bnrst at her feet. She turned pale as death,
ana every limb shook violently. I waited im
til the people could see tho emotion, and then
repeated the question.
'I never sent any !" she faintly gasped
"Yon did !" I thundered, for I was excited
now.
"May it please your honor and gentlemen of
the jury," I said, as soon as I had looked the
witness out of countenance, "I came here to
defend a youth who had been arrested for belo
ng to rob the mail, and in the course of my
preliminary examinations, I had access to the
etters which had been torn open and rifled of
money. V hen I entered upon the case, and
heard the name of this witness pronounced, I
went out and got this letter which I now hold,
for I remembered to have seen one bearing the
ignaturo of Xancy Luther. The letter was
taken out of the mail bag, and contained sev-enty-fivii
dollars, and by looking at the post
mark, you will observe it was mailed on the
cry next day after the money was taken from
Mrs. Xaseby's drawer. I will read it to vou
f you please.
The court nodded assent, and I read the fol
lowing, which was without date, save that
made by the post master's stamp on the out
side.
;ivc it here verbatim :
Sister Dorcas : I send vou hcer sovo.ntfl fivn
dollars, which I want yu to kepo it for lue til I
cum hum. I cunt kepe it hero coz ime afmid
will get stole, dont sneke wun word in
liviu sole bout this coz I dont want uobodi to
know I have got enny money, yn wont will
yu. 1 am first rate heer, only that gude for
nothin snipe of a liz madwurth is heer yit
but I Iiojkj to git rid of her now. yu kno I
rote you bout her. giv mv luv to all ennuiren
friends, this is from your sister till doth.
Nancy Lcther.
"Xow, your honor," I said, as I handed him
the letter, and also the receipts, "you will sec
that tho letter is directed to Dorcas Luther,
Somers, Montgomery County. And you will
also observe that ono hand wrote that letter
and signed those receipts. It is plain, how the
hundred dollars were disposed of. Seventy
five were in that letter and sent away for safe
keeping, while the remaining twenty-five were
placed in the prisoner's trunk for tho purpose
tf covering tho real criminal. Of the tone of
the other parts of the letter, I leave you to
judge. "And now, gentlemen of the jury, I
leavo my case in your hands, only I thank God,
and I know you will, also, that an innocent
person has been thus strangely saved from ruin
and disgrace."
The case was given to the jury immediately
following their examination of the letter.
They had heard from the witness's own mouth,
that she had no money of her own, and with
out leaving their seats, they returned a ver
dict of "Xot Guilty I"
The youth who had first asked me to defend
the prisoner, caught me by the band, but he
could not speak plainly. Ho simply looked
at me through his tears for the moment, and
then rushed to the fair prisoner. - He seemed
to forget where he was, for ho flung his arms
around her, and she laid her head upon his bo
som and wept aloud.
I will not attempt to describe the scene that
followed : but if Xancy Luther had not been
arrested for the theft, she would have been o
bliged to seek the protection of the officers
for the excited people would have surely maim
ed her, if they 4 had done no mere. Next
morning, 1 received a note, handsomely writ
ten, in which I was told that the within was
but a slight token of gratitude due me for my
efforts in behalf of a poor, defenceless, but
much loved maiden. It was signed "Several
Citizens," and contained one hundred dollars
Shortly afterwards, the youth came to pay all
the money he could raise. I simply showed
the note I had received, and asked him to keep
nis uara earnings for his wife, when he got
one. He owned he had intended to make
Lizzy Madworth his wife very soon.
Next day I succeeded in clearing my other
client from conviction of robbing the mail ;
and made considerable of a handle of the let
ter which had saved an innocent girl on the
day before, in my appeal to the jury j and if I
made them feel that the finger of Omnipotence
was in the work, it was because I sincerely be
lieved the young man was innocent of all
crime 5 and I am sure they thought so too.
THE EAST RED MAN
IS JC5IATA VALLEY
"The most prominent friendly Indian that
ever resided in the valley, however, was Cap
tain iogan. inis of course was not his prop
er name, buta title bestowed upon him by the
settlers. He is represented as having been a
noble and honorable Indian, warm in his at
tachment to a friend, but, like all Indians, re
vengeful in his character. A kindness and an
insult alike remained indelibly stamped upon
the book and page of his memory ; and to
make a suitable return for the former he would
have laid down his life shed the last drop of
his heart's blood. He was a man of medium
height and heavy frame : notwithstanding
which he was fleet of foot and ever onthi
move.
"He came to the Valley before Chillaway
did, and settled with his family in the little
valley east of Martin Bell's Furnace, wGicli is
still known as Logan's Valley. He had pre
viously resided on the Susquchana, where he
was the captain of a brave band of warriors ;
but unfortunately, in some engagement with
another tribe, he had an eye destroyed by an
arrow from the enemy. This was considered
a mark of disgrace, and he was deposed, and
it was owing to that cause that he abandoned
his tribe, and took up his residence in the
Juniata Valley.
"One day, while hunting, ho happened to
pass the beautiful spring near the mouth of
the Bald Eagle now in the heart of Tyrone
City. The favorable location for both hunting
and fishing, as well as the charming scenery,
facinated Logan ; and he built himself a wig-'
warn, immediately above the spring, to which
he removed his family.
"Here ho lived during the Revolutionary
war, not altogether inactive, for his sympa
thies were on the side of liberty.
During that time he formed a strong at
tachment to Captain Ricketts, of Warrior's
Mark, and they became fast friends. It was
to Ricketts that Captain Logan first disclosed
the plot of tories nnder John Weston, and
Edward Bell gave it as his firm conviction that
Logan was among tho Indians who shot down
Weston and his men on their arrival at Kuan
s'
"Although Logan had learned to read from
the Moravian missionaries when quite a lad.
he knew very little of the formula of land
purchases ; so ho failed to make a regular
purchase of the spot upon which his cabin
stood, tho consequence of which was that af
ter the war, some envious white man bought
tho land, and warned the friendly savage ofT.
Logan was too proud and haughty to contest
the matter, or even bandy words with the in
truder, so he left,, and located at Cbinckalaca
moose, where Clearfield now stands, on the
West Branch of the Susquehanna. ;
"Captain Logan continued visiting the val
ley, and especially when any of his friends
among the pioneers died. On such occasions
he generally discarded his red and bine eagle
feathers, and appeared in a plain suit of citi
zens' clothes.
"But at length Logan came no more. The
Great Spirit called him to a happier hunting
ground ; and all that is mortal of him unless
his remains have boon ruthlessly torn from
the bosom of mother earth lies beneath the
sod, near the mouth of Chinckalacaraoosc
creek.
"It is to be regretted that more of his his
tory has not been preserved, for, according to
all accounts of him, he possessed many noble
traits of character. Unlike Logan, the Mingo
chief, Capt. Logan, the Cayuga chief had no
biographer like Thomas Jefferson, to embel
lish the pages of history with his eloquence.
Well may we say. The evilthat men do lives
after them, while tho good is oft interred with
their bones.' " '
A Tocchixo Ditty in Prose. When Seth
got home from mackereling, he sought bis Sa
rah Ann, and fonnd that she, the heartless one,
had found another man. And then most aw.
fnl tight ho got, and so he went away, and
bound ' himself to go out and cut live oak in
Florida. Ho pined upon the live oak lands ;
he murmured in tho glades; his axe grew
heavy in his hands, all in the wild wood shades.
Mosquitos bit him everywhere, no comfort did
ho get; ah! how terribly he'd swear, whenever
ho'd get bit. 'At last despairing of relief, and
wishing himself dead, be went into the woods
apiece, and chopped off his own head. Thus
died poor Seth." So saltb Bullfrog. ..- :
The Prince or Wales Socsply Thrashed.
The Birmingham, England, Journal prints
tho following account of a flogging the Prince
of Wales received from a poor boy :
During ner Majesty's residence, some years
ago, at Osborne, in the Isle of Wight, her
children were accustomed to ramble along the
sea shore. Now, it so happened on ono occa
sion that the young Prince of Wales met a boy
who had been gathering sea shells. The boy
had got a basket full. The young Prince,
presuming upon his high position, thought
himself privileged to do w hat he pleased with
impunity. So without any notice he upset
the basket and shells. The poor lad was very
indignant, and observed : "You do that again,
and I'll lick you." "Put the shells into the
basket," said the Prince, "and see it I don't."
The shells were gathered vp and put into- the
basket. "Xow" said the lad, "touch 'em
again, old fellow, if you dare, whereupon the
Prince again pitched over the shells. And
tho lad "pitched into him," and gave him
such a licking as few Princes ever had. His
lip was cut open, his nose knocked consider
ably out of its perpendicular, aud his eyes of
a color which might have well become tba
champion of a prize ring. His disfigured
face could not long be concealed from his roy
al mother. She inquired the cause of his dis
figurement. The Prince was silent but at last
confessed the truth. The poor boy was order
ed before the Queen. He was asked to tell
his story. He did bo in a very straightfor
ward manner. At its conclusion, turning to
her child, the Queen said : "You have been
rightly served, sir. Had you not been pun
ished sufficiently already, I should havo pun
ished you severely. When you commit a
like oflencc, I trust you will always receive a
similar punishment." Turning to the poor
boy, she commanded his parents to her presene
tho following morning. They came ; and the
result of the interview was that her Majesty
told them she had made arrangements for ed
ucating and providing for their son, and she
hoped he would make good use of tho advan
tages which should be placed within his reach.
Si.ncilar Discovert or a Skeleton. A
Kansas correspondent of one of the St. Luis
papers, in recounting a wolf hunt in which
himself and a number of his friends participa
ted, relates the singular discovery of the skel
eton of a young woman hid in the cavity of a
tree, in which, at some period, she evidently
had taken refuge and perished. Tho wolf, a
large black one, was forced by his pursuers to
take refuge in the hollow of a cotton-wood
tree, which after many futile attempts to drive
him out, they concluded to fell by cutting a
narrow gash around it. "At length," says the
writer, "the tree came down a little sooner
than we expected. Frank Mahan had the axe
lifted for another stroke ; as it went over w ith
a crash, the wolf, with bristled back, glaring
eyes and glitteriug teeth, leaped at his throat
with terrible ferocity. The descending axe
met it half way, cleaving its skull, and laying
it dead at his feet. We bad no time to ex
press our wonder and congratulations at his
narrow and singular escape, before our atten
tion was called to that which filled t:s with a
mazement, if not dread. It was a human skel
eton, of medium size, and of a fumale, hidden
in tho cavity of a tree. Its posture was erect,
and the bones were held together by a kind of
clear integument, that seemed to cover, like a
transparent skin, the entire frame- The jr of
the tree severed several of the joints, and wc
drew them all out and placed them again in
form. The proportions were perfect and the
limbs straight, indicating a contour, when in
flesh, of perfect symmetry. Who Could it have
been that thus perished years ago in this wild
forest 7 and how came her death in this strange
place 1 were queries that were immediately
suggested. Could it have been some maiden
who, like the bride in the 'Mistletoe Bough,'
had concealed herself from her lover in tho
heart of this old tree, aud become fastened
there and died ?"
Tall Chim.net. The tallest chimney in the
world has been built in Glasgow, Scotland its
height being 460 feet, and its circular diame
ter at tho base 50 feet. It is of the form of a
cone, and contracts to six feet diameter at the
top. Three millions of brick, and thirty tons
of iron bands, were used in its construction.
It was built by the Messrs. Tenant, to carry off
the deleterious gases arising from their retorts
in the manufacture of chemicals.
In a chancery suit, ono of the counsel de
scribing the boundaries of his client's land,'
said, in showing the plan of it, "we lio on this
side, my lord." The opposite counsel then
said, "and we lie on that aide." Tho chan
cellor, with a good-humored grin, observed,
"If you lie on both sides, whom will ye have
me believe 7" , . .
A young fellow eating some Cheshiro cheese
full of skippers, at a tavern, ona night, ex
claimed : r"Xow I have done S much as
Sampson, for I havo slain toy thousands aud
tens of thousands." .
"Yes," retorted another, "and with tho
same weapon, the jaw bone of an ass." . - -
'An Indiana paper, announcing the death of
a gentleman out west, says, that "the deceased
though a bank director, it is generally beiiev
ed, died a chri2tian, and universally reacted.
KANSAS AFFAIRS.
An exciting extra of tho Wcbtpor Aeu,
headed 'War ! Warl" reached Leavenworth
city on the 28th ult., and threw tho pro-slavery .
men there into the greatest excitement. They
held a private meeting and appointed a Com
mittee of Vigilance to attack Leavenworth,
and let no Free-State men pass, and deter
mined to make lawless arrests of obnoxious
parties. A company of men, armed with mus
kets and bayonets, (United. Statcs.arnis,) havo
been parading all tho afternoon, making ar
rests. They took prisoner a clerk of the Com
mittee of Congress, named Conway, -and two
witnesses that had been subpoenaed, Messrs.
Parrott aud Miles Moore. Warren Wilkes, of
South Carolina, headed the party. A. Moore,
one of the murderers of Brown, .helped to
make the arrests. Messrs. Parrott and Moor
were arrested while conversing with Mr. Sher
man. Mr. Sherman asked if it was by legai
process they had taken one of the chirks of
the commission. . Mr. Wilkes said it was not
that he bad no legal authority, but that bo
would arrest the men down on his list. Mtny .
others have been taken. The town is excited,
and the Commission fear they must leave. A
larming extras are sent out from Westport to
the border towns. A fight is expected near
Pottawotamic. The last difficulty .arose at
Fottawotamie Creek. Some Pro-Slavery men
tried to drive a Free-State man from his
claim, but he refusing to go, they took him
and were about to hang Lim, when his neigh
bors came to the rescue and shot some of tha
pro-Slavery party.
A letter to tho St. Louis Democrat, dated
Topeka 25th, says: The United States District
Court was adjourned to the second Monday in
September. Judge Lecompton t efused to ad
mit Messrs. Robinson, Smith, Deitzlcr, Brown
and Jenkins to bail, and they will be held
prisoners by the Marshal.
Gen. Fomeroy, who it was feared would bo
hung, made his escape and has gone to Wash-
ngton. He is x delegate to the Republican
Convention, which is to meet at Philadelphia.
It is estimated that the loss sustained by tho
citizens of Lawrence bv tho recent attack
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will amount to a hundred thousand dollars.
Leavenworth was surrounded by picket
guards and no one suffered to enter or leava
the town. Col. Wilkes had a list of the prin
cipal citizens whom he intended to arrest.
He had already made three arrests. ' II was
stated that the whole Territory would be
placed under military surveillance. ' - . ' '
An extra of the Kansas Herald, of the 2Sta
ult., confirms a telegraphic report that eight
pro-slavery men had been murdered on Fotta
wotamie creek, by a party of Free-State men:
All the pro-slavery families at Hickory Point,
it is also stated, were driven ofl at the point of
the bayonet by the Free-Stale men.
Tue War lis Cost. Since the commence
ment of the Eastern war, England has lost
19,581 gallant men by death in action, wound
and disease ; and 2,fc73 havo been besides dis
charged from tha service on account of th
two latter causes. England hag scaled her dec
laration of unflinching devotion to the causa
of national independence by the sacrifice of
22,457 gallant soldiers. Of these, 1933 fell
bravely in action ; about 1621 sunk under their
wounds ,- 4273 died of cholera, and 11,451 of
other diseases. The losses of tho French, so
far as they have been ascertained, amount to
60,000. Count Orloff has admitted in Pari
that the Russian loss has not been less than
500,000. The loss by the Sardinians has not
been, and the loss sustained by the Turks neT-r
er will be ascertained.
The City or Lawrenck, Mass., founded by
Samuel Lawrence, has the largest and most
comprehensive mill in the world. The floor
surface of the Pacific Mill covers sixteen acres
the largest mill in England covers eleven
and a half acres. There are now in operation
40,000 cotton spindles and 10,000 worsted
spindles, and these are to be increased to 80,
000 and 20,000 rcipcctively. There aro 1,200
looms in operation, to be increased to 2,400.
These with 2,000 persons, produce 300,000
pieces of cloth per annum, one half delaines. -The
weekly consumption of cotton is 20,000
lbs., or 1,500,000 lbs. per annum, and 500,000
lbs. of wool. Once a month 2,000 persons as
semble at the cashier's office, whera he pays
out 50.000 to them for wages.
"You may talk to me," said an old soaker, .
"about your export and your import you may
speechify ontil your hair gits as gray as a dus
ty snow bank, of report and support you may
shout Ontil the soles of your boots and the,
souls of your body are pegged out, concern
ing the Turkish Torte and seaport-; bnt give
me genewine old port, double X brand ; them's '
the sort for me." .
. To Kill Vermis It is said on the authori-.
ty of the celebrated French chemist, Rapsail,
that a solution of aloes, one quarter of an !
ounce of the gum' to two pints oT water, will
destroy vermin on animals or trees. Where- r
the hair or wool it long, the animal axe to b ,
moistened with it by means of a brush. . .
-Smitiiers says he always travels with a "sul- :
key," that is, he always goes, with hi wife,',
who contrives to be obstinate and out of fcu-
mor from the time they leave home till the v
ge6 where .they aro going to..' The only time
the ever smiled, he says, was rhn he broke
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