Ttvilau.
TA-1X11,1,4W ADVENTURE I
Egp!oration of the Mack..
the Kentucky
Cave.
-The 4uisville Journal contains the fol
lowing account of a thrilling adventure,
hero of which is understood to be the
isun .of Mr. Prentice: "At the suppesed
end of what has always been considered.
'the longest avenue of the. Mammoth Cave,-
xine miles from its entrance, there is 'a
pit, dark, and deep, and terrible, known
As the Maelstrom. Tens of thousands
have gazed into it with awe while Bengal
; lights were thrown down it to. make its
fearful depths visible, but none had the
.daring over to explore it. The celebrated
guide Stephen, who was deemed insensi-
Yble to fear, was offered six hundred dollars
.;by-the proprietors of the Cave if he would
descend to the bottom of it; but he shrank
from the peril. A few years ago a Tomes-
See professor, a learned and bold Mae, re
solved to do what no one before him, had
,d,p.,,ied do, and, making his arrangements
with. care and precaution, he bad himself
jrwered down by a strong rope a hundred
feet;- but at that point his courage failed
him, and he called aloud to be drawn oat.
No human power could ever have induced
Jam to repeat the appalling experiment:
"A couple of weeks ago, however, a
.young gentleman of Louisville, whose
Ineryes never trembled at mortal peril, be
-117,..at the Mammoth-Cave with Professor
)1 , right of our city, and others, determin
ed, no matter what the dangers audidiffi
eulties might be, to explore the depths of
the Maelstrom. Mr Proctor, the enter
prising proprietor of the Cave, sent to
Nashville and procured a long rope, of
great strength, expressly for the purpose.
The rope and some necessary timbers were
borne by the guides and others to the Pro
posed point of exploration. •
"The arrangements being soon complet
ed, the rope, with a heavy fragment of
rock affixed to it, was let down and swung
to and fro to dislodge any loose rocks that
would be likely to fall at the'iouch.
"Several were thus dislodged, and the
long continued reverberations, rising up
like distant thunder from below, proclaim
ed the depth of the horrid chasm. Then
She young hero of the occasion, with sev
eral hats thrown over his head to protect
it as far as possible against any inases
Aging from above, and with a light-in his
hdnd, and the rope fastened around his
body, took his place over the awful pit, and
directed the half dozen men who held the
end of the rope to let him down into the
; Cimmerian gloom.
We hays heard from his own lips an
account of his descent. Occasionally mas
ses of earth and rock went whizzing past,
but none struck him.' Thirty or forty
feet from the top he saw a ledge, from
which, as he judged from appearances,
two or three avenues led off in different
directions. About a hundred feet from
the top a cataract from the side of the pit
went.rushing down the abyss, and as he
descended by the side of the alling water,
*ci in the midst of the spray, he felt some
apprehension that his light would be ex
tinguished, but his care prevented this.
lie was landed at the bottom of the pit, a'
hundred and ninety feet from the top.
0 He found it almost perfectly circular,'
about eighteen feet in diameter with
small opening at one point, leading to a,
one chamber of no great extent. He
found on the floor beautiful specimens of
black ellex of immense size, vastly larger
than were ever discovered in any other
part of the Mammoth Cave, and also a
multitude of exquisite formations as pure
and White as virgin snow. Making him
pelf heard, with great effort, by his friends,
he at length asked them to pull him part
ly up, intending to, stop on the way and
explore a cave that .he had observed open
ing forty feet above the bottom of
;be pit.
"Reaching the mouth of that cave -he
swung himself with much exertion into
holping the end of the rope in his
band, he incautiously let it go, and it
swung out apparently beyond his reach.
The situation was a fearful one, and his
friends above could do nothing for him/
aeon however, he made a hook of the en'd
of his lamp, and by extending himself as
far over the verge as passible without
falling, he succeeded in securing),he rope.
Fastening it to a rock, he followed the
avenue 150 or 200 yards, to apoint where
be found it blocked by ,an impassable
avalanche of rook and earth.
Returning to theflouth of this aye--
slue he beheld an almost exactly similar
mutts of another* the opposite side of
the pit, but, no able to swing
hiin
ecif into it, he refastened the rope around
bod i y, suspended himself again over
the abyss; and shouted 'to his friends to
raise him to the top.' The pull was an
exceedingly savery one, and the rope be
ing ill-adjusted around his body, gave hiai
the most excruciating pain. Bat soon
his paid was forgotten in a new and dread
ig
"When he was 90 feet from the mouth
of the pit, and 100 feet from the bottom,
awaying and swinging in mid air, he heard
Ts.piii" and excited words of *horror and
alarm above, and soon learned that the
rope by which he was upheld had taken
fire from the friction of the timber over
which it passed. Several moments of aw
fo..l swpease to those above, and still more
1117firl t 4 4t 4 below, ensued. To them
and him a fatal and instant catastrophe
seemed inevitable.
. • " But the fire was extinguished with a'
kottle.of water belonging to himself, and
plum the party above, though almost ex-'
.4aiisted by their labors, succeeded in
drawinghimto th top.He(id
e was as ni
and self-possessed as upon his entrance 112 7
to the pit, but all of his companions, over.
come by fatigue, sank down upon the
ground, and his friend' Professor Wright,
front 'civet-exertion and excitement, faint
ed and remained for a time insensible:
"The young adventurer left ilia name
carved in the depths o 1 the Maelstrom—
the name of the first and only person that
ever gazed upon its mysteries."
ticean Steamer "Austria' ,
BURNED 412 SEA.
533 LIVES LOST.
HALIFAX, September 27.
Tlie bark Lotus, from Liverpool, ar
riveti in Halifax harbor on Sunday after- -
noon with twelve of the sixty-seven mar
vivin,.,o passengers of the steamship Aas
tria, burnt at sea September 13th, in lat.
45 01 1 , long. 41 30, taken from the bark
31,aurice on the 14th.
Ata little after two o'clock on the 13th,
dense volumes of smoke burst from the
after ,entrance of the steerage. The shi t )
waS, instantly put at half speed, at which
slid` continued until the magazine explod
ed., i The engineers; it is inferred, were
instantly suffocated. Fire was next seen'
breaking through, the lights: amidships,
and travelled aft with fearful rapidity.
Stime persons let down a boat from the
port; side of the quarter deck, and she
was 'thought to be crushed under the
screw. An attempt was made to launch
a boat on the starboard side, but it was
swamped from the numbers who rushed'
into:it, and all were lost. • All the first
cabin passengers were on the poop, ex
cept a few . gentlemen who must have been
smothered in the smoking room.
Many Second cabin passengers were
also, on the poop, but a number of them
got thin into their cabin by fire. Some
of them were pulled up through the ven
tilator, but the greater number could not
be \ extricated. The last woman drawn up'
said there' were six already suffocated.
The ladies and gentlemen on the poop
Ijmaped into the sea by two and threes,
some of the ladies in flames. Several
hesitated, bht were driven to it at the last
moment. In half an hour not a soul was
to be .seen on the poop. The French
bark Maurice, Capt. Ernest Renaud,
came alongside the steamer at about five
o'clock, P. 31. - , and rescued forty passen
gers, chiefly taken off the bowsprit, - a few
were picked up floating around. At
about eight o'clock one of the metallic
boats came up with about. twenty-three
persons in it, including the first and third
officers.
Afterwards three or four men were
picked up floating on a piece of broken
boat.
The second officer was' taken up, bar
ing been swimming for -six hours. He
and the 3d officer were severely burnt.
One male'passenver was burnt fright
fully, and some others slightly. There
were but six women saved, three of whom
were burnt.
-A Norwegian bark came up with the
steamer the next morning, and a boat
was observed going around the burning
ship. They may have picked up a few
persons. but only a few. •
The Maurice had no cominunicatiot
with the Norwegian.
From the Philadelphia ~ /
The Centre Congressional Dia
trict.
Both parties have made their nemina
tions in this district. The LeCompton
candidate is Hon. Allison White, the
present member, a lawyer of Lock Haven,
Clinton ,county. He has/been a silent
member', and nut for his/Votes on the Le
coinpton and English swindle would nev
er have been heard of out of his own dis
trict. Having misrepresented the views
of a large majority of-lis constituents, he
would probably have sunk into a quiet
political grave, had not the office-holders
bolstered him up and renominated him.
His defeat is certain, as the people of this
district Can never sustain Lecomptonism
in an form.
The people's candidate Is the Hon.
Jaines T.* Hale, of Bellefonte. ' Judge
,Hale is a native of Bradford 'county. He
was brought up on a farm near Towanda.
and, like many of the hardy sons of the
North, he frequently rafted lumber down
the river to Marietta and Columbia, re
turning home on foot. From Bradford
county he came to Mifflin county in 1831,
and studied law in the office of his uncle,
lElias W. Hale, for many years the lead
ing lawyer of central Pennsylvania. On
the death of his uncle; he entered into
copartnership with the present Judge
Wilson, and was appointed deputy Attu - -
ney General for Mifflin county by Hon.
Ellis Lewis, then Attorney General of
Pennsylvania. In 1835, Mr. Hale mar
ried the daughter of Judge Huston, of
the Supreme Court, and removed 'to Belle
the Sal^^
fonte the save year. Here be speedily
rose 'to distinction at the bar, and, on a
vacancy occurring on the bench l , was ap
pointed president judge.. This office he
held for about a year, and then :returned
to the bar.
Judge Hale is about forty-eight years
of age, in full vigor of life'and
As a laWyer he has no superior! In the
Supreme Court no one is liste n ed to by
judges more attentively; but the great
arena of his triumph is in tryitig causes
before a jury. Here his legal learning
and practical knowledge of every kind of
business. from the construction of the
most intricate machinery to the ordinary
pursuits of life, backed up by a ready
cominand of language, winning address;
and persuasive oratory, carry! the jury
with him whenever the court leaves a
loop-hole for them to do so.
• Ia polities, Judge. Hale may be Called
n Democratic Whig.. He commenced
life as a Democrat; but joined, the 'Whig
party on the• tariff and currency ques
tions. He is now.
- and evet'has been,
really and more identified with the, mai.-
es than nine-tenths of those-who p piefess
to ~13e' Democrats. Living in the - iron
county of Centre, he has ever been • a
strong advocate of protection. Judge
Hale,
through sunshine and storm, has
stood by the great iron interest of Penn
sylvania. _ When he commenced political
life, all parties were for the taiiff. I He
has lived to see all parties , come back. and
take up this great principle, so vital to
Pennsylvania. , ,
Need it. be said that he loathes and de
spises the Lecomptore fraud and English
swindle? Such a man, brought up from
boyhood among the people, the architect
of his own fortunes, from a luMberman
on the river to the judicial bench, alWays
sympathizing with, and beloved: and re
spected by, the people, - could . not look
tamely on and, see their rights trampled in
the dust. Every court house in his dis
trict has heard his voice proclaiMbig the
indignation of a freeman against this Cru
el outrage, while his opponent, basely bow
ing,to the knee of power ' ,betrayed by his
votes those who trusted him. The sec
or.d Tuesday of October will bring in the
verdiet.of freemen in the ignOinimous'de
feat of Allison White, and the triumph
ant election of Judge hale.
INTERESTING TO NEWSPAPER PRO
PRIETORS.--011e of the courts of the state
of Indiana recently made a decision which
is of intereSt to all newspaper proprie
tors through Out the Union. A contro
versy existed relative to a charge for ad
vertising, between the CommisSioners of
Hamilton county and the Patriot news
paper. It was held by the. Judge that
"the published terms of newspapers con
stitute a contract. If work is given to
newspaper publishers, without a special
contract contravening the published terms,
the publisher can charge and receive ac
cording to the terms so .published. It is
not necessary to prove what the work'cost
or was' worth; the publisheri have a right
to fix the estimate value of their columns,
and if so fixed, no other question need be
asked, but the price thus charged can be
recovered?'
i 6ijt,grfttir &utlr4l.
COVDERSPORT, QA., . .
,11)1M4}} Worgiiv,
T. S. CHASE. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
tlq101) si4fe
FOR JUDGE OP THE SUPREME COURT,
JOHN M. READ,
=I
• FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
WILLIAM E. FRAZER,
OF FiTETTE
ahybfigaq Eub~~tg ~fof;~ii~afogs.
/ FOR CONGRESS,
JAMES T. HALE, of Centre
For Membei• of Assembly,
LEWIS MANN, of Coudersport,
L. P. WILLISTON, of Wellsbord.
For County Treasurer,
ELI BEES, of Coudersport
For County Commissioner,
JEROSIE CIIESEBRO, of Oswayo.
For County _Auditor
WILLIAM B. GRAVES, of Clara
OUR TERMS,
from and after the first of October, will
be $1,25 per annum in advance, and no
paper will be sent after the time paid for
These terms will be strictly enforced.
We desire our readers to take particular
notice of this announcement.
(In addition to the above we give
due notice to Delinguents,l that unless
their indebtedness- to us is paid up
as soon as the above date, their ac
counts wiil be put in the hands of a
Justice of the Peace for immediate
collection by due .course of law.
We are indebted to Eon. Simon Cam
eron for Vols. 1, 2 ,t 3 of the Patent Office Re
port, 185'1, (Mechanical.) The third volume
contains engraved illustrations of the patents
granted. The Ron. Senator will 'accept our
sincere thanks for his kind remembrances.
ter Read the article from the Phila
delphia Press headed "The Centre Con
gressional District." Forney will not
commend a Republican candidate with
out reason—neither will he condemn a
"Demodratic" ono without just cause. \
lid` Allison White made a speech,
Wednesday evening of Court Week, at
the Court House, to just such an audi
ene,e as we desired him to—composed of
a large majority of Republicans—indeed
the "dimmyerats" present were - so "few
and far between" (the lips) that after one
or i two efforts to get up a little "stamping"
to pass for applause, the object was aban
doned. Mr. White was no doubt much
exercised by the lack or enthusiasm in
his behalf manifested by the audience.—
We pitied him, because he seemed to feel
and know that he could not "pull the
wool ov the eyes" of that audience---to
do whic f
was the undisgu ised aim of his
1 [
entire speech. There beint Republicans
front all sections present to hear him, we
deem any further -notice,orths sffair_un
necesssry. Those 'heard tire
fully : capable of judging for ':thCisseett,.
and will , not misrepresent to' . thCir neigh:
bors. i Onc however, wedid nokice;
findt.,hat was the partypharac!eristie4
the prevalenee of `'bad whisky-4nd iti
fumes and effects; were not:'confinea-to
the common democrats, either.
REPUBLICANS OF POTTER!
But one more issue of the ;JOURNAL
will be made before the day of election ;
and this. present, number may be. the last
which a large number of you will see pre-
Vions to the day which is to decide the
'relative strength 'of parties in Peonsylva
nia—and' which Is to decide whether the
People are serfs orsovereigne.- , 'We, there-.
fore, address you a final appeal , to STAND
BY the great canseyou lave espen.sed—
the cause of Justice, - Truth and numani
.
ty. We•appeal to, you, not Without the
faith and hope that you will heed and'act
aright who do act; but iathere not danger ,
,
that your consciousness of the justice of
your cause and the strength of your party
will make yon careless of it welfare—,
heedless of the wiles the enemy will prac
tice to triump upon that " one issue" they
harp upon s l o, continuously ?' Will - you
. i not, by
_negligence, sacrifice your ague-,
reigoty ?—for it is the boast of the Bing
and hisiriends" that be will' compel the:
people of the North to endorse his
compton policy at the ballot-box. Will:
you endorse,: a scheme -which dictates
terms of suffrage and government entirely,
beyond a fair interpretation of the Nation.;
al Constitution ? If so, stay away from
i I the polls on the Second Tuesday of Octo
Il ) ber---or, infinitely worse, vote for Allison
I Whitens your Representative; ri Congrees:
Sacrifices of rights are oftener the result
lof passiveness than of mistaken activity ) i
Republicans of Potter 'I , there is but one '
complete remedy for the plague of politi
cat misrepresentation from which you have
suffered so much within the pastyear. Zt
is this : If all persons in. this Congres
sional district who are indignant at the
Congressional course of Allison White,
turn out and vote at the October election.
JAMES T. HALE, your candidate, will be
elected by 500 to 800 ronjority—whereaS,
if them be any laxity on your part,. Alli
son White may beelected by . a sniall-ma
jority. In view of this tact, will you neg
lect the remedy in your power ? Will
you forfeit your God-given right to think
and act for yourselves by being ,passive
when the most unainching activity alone
can maintain it?
Potter County can easily give James T.
Hale 750 majority; but if'every Repub
lican and, anti-Lecompton voter in • the
county turns out and votes right, the Ma
jority will be EIGHT HUNDRED. Shall
it be fifty more, or fifty less? is the ques
tion for your decision, freemen of Potter
Allison White's defeat is now almost
certain—but will you not sacrifice a little
personal convenience and comfort in order
that it shall he ENTIRELY CERTAIN
Remember, lwe are Only asking you to
maintain Principle by voting, and wain
-
ing'you not lto sacrifice Justice and Right
to the personal ambition ofJames Buchan
an and Allison White, by not voting a
week from next Tuesday. -
Men of Potter ! Allison White voted
for the Lecompton Bill, through all 'its
phases. Oa Wednesday evening of Court
week many of you heard him say that if
the opportunity was again presented; he
WOULD REPEAT THOSE VOTES !
i -
He betrayed you once and-WOULD DO
IT AGAIN. Will you grant him theo.p
portnnity ? If so, - stay away from the
polls electiod day--:-in other words,-*ay
while he works your ruin ! Need we say
more? When you are socially tuisrePre
seated, do you not make great exertion to
prove yourself innocent? Is not yonf
!ideal (integrity of as much account, and
is not your ballot the only corrective?
Then we say, USE-IT WHILE YOU
HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY !
"The Jersey Shore_ Republican
speaking of Allison White, saps:
"Frank and manly in his intercourse
with his opponents, generoul toy' his
friends, and true
.= to his constitneney;
still his name, which "never yet ' i the
breath of eabimuy had tainted," has beeit
ME
made a mock for brainiess and Aurpilifert
I'oo political knaves to:Carp I
l • - aptated by a fiendish Inaliguity,4oo ma -1
ny ;of his opp9nents seem;. to Zliwk • that
there - is no bonad at which ltheir pOraien.
ticiu shall step.''-- gru - ii'mis has I
ilt W ,ite committed to jastifkiiiiehttn
Mitigated hate,iiich
'e did 'not expee't his l,views; to to fairly l i
represented by the opposition; bo l t redid
expect that Allison White would be treat-'
'ed as _a high-minded, honorable gentle
man, an& his political reputation alone be
the target at which to hurl the murder
4:Ms-darts of political malignity." •
We'copy 'the above merely for the pur
pose of telling .our Lecompton-subdued
cotemPorary; tbathad White's course
in Pongress indicated that bewas a "high-
Minded, honorable gentleman," he would
have been treated us such 'by the Oppe-,
sition , press - of his district. A man who
wilt toop to treasonable political servility
in °tie respect, cannot be trusted again in
the same capacity-the ice over the mire
I of degradatiim being broken, : and the vin- 0
turer having entered the chasm,_ there, is
iittle reason to hope for his' pieserVation
without 'withdrawing him entirely from
all possible danz.. And we think Mr.
![White can be and will be , rescued by the I
people of , this district this fall—he will
receive credentials 'to again take up his
i • •
residence in Lock- H.sven- 7 (away from
•
the seene of .danger)—as scion as the 4th
f March,
There is nothing, in our opinion,. hich
. so Much .degrades the. character.of
1
a man, as his' betrayal of political con&
I. l dence bestowed upon'him. iNO man can
be "high-minded and honorable" who will
unscrupulously betray a constituency—:
not only of his opponents but his parti
san friends—nor':should be claiM to be'
treated as.such in a second effort`to obtain'
that.confidence.! :We have little respect
for such a man, and wick less for. a press,
which.attempts. to cover up so fresh a siU
with.the cry ot"personality," All charged , '
against Mr. White's private character
,that have found theii' way into publie
print, have originated- with, _ and . been
made public by, those who are now or
were _recently in positions to know hOW
true they were; -.and if his confidential I
friends will not overlook his shortcomings
we ask in the name and' behalf,of coin
mon sense, if his political faults which
have . soistrong a bearing upon his- priiate
character, • are expected to be overlooked
and unexposed by his political opponents?
Can They be Trusted t
We now find that the Lecompton Con
gressmen, who have !been renominated,
are ready and eager to pledge themselves
to the people that they are willing to ad
mit. Kansas into the Union under
. atly
Constitution that, may be properly framed
by her itdiabitant it s Without reference to
her population. OWEN JONES is panic- -
ularly anxious to induce the people of his
district to believe that this is his position
now, and we doubt ; Very much whether
any Northern candidate fur Congress will
dare to take any other.. But it is for the
people to deterwiue : how far these pro
fessions are reliable.i, The. English bill,
for which the Leeomptouites voted, con
tains the following extract:
"But, should :a tna*ity of the votes be cast
for the 'proposition rejected,' it shall be deem
ed and held that the pcz.ple of Kansas do not
desire admisdon into the- Union undet the
said Constitution, under the conditions set
forth in said proposition; and, in that. event,
the people of said Territory are herehy au
thorized and empowered to form for them
selves a Constitution land State Government,
under the name of the State of Kansasoc
cording to the Federal Constitution, and may
elect delegates for that purpose Whenever,
AND NOT BEFORE; it is ascertained, by a
census duly-and legally taken, that the popula
tion of'said. 7'erritoryi equals the ratio of repre
sentation required fora member of the Ifoutkof
Representatives of the United States," tte.
It will thus be Iseen . that Mr. OWEN
JONEd and his confederates - have within
the last few months voted that if the pea
pie of Kansas would not accept Lecoirip
ton, their admission should be delayed
until a period when, and "NOT .11E
FOIIE, it is ascertained" they have the
requisite population,. ikc. And because
life-long Democrats would not approve
this unjust discrimination between a free
and slave ConstitUtion, they' have been
ejected from office; persecuted and vilified,
and ; read out of the party, son as the
corrupt organs and the offieials. of the AiL
inioistration couldread them out. Against
that' proscriptive Policy these Lecouipton
ites have - never raised a voice of opposi
tion. If, then, they have voted for the
population prohibition in the English bill,
and thave encouraged the persecution of
of those who would not endorse it, what
confidence can any voter have iu their
present promises Ito ignore that discrim
ination? If it is right now to admit Kan
sas without reference to population, :.it
1 was clearly wrong to pass the English - bill.
1 The Congressional record of JoriEs and
his confederates is in direct contradiction
to his present promises, and by that re
cord must these men be tried.. .The - late
struggle in Congress is full of admonition
in regard to their readiness to Atiolate the
most solemn pledges, and we are at alms
to know how, they can satisfy their -con
stituents that they will be more faithful
hereafter than, they have been heretofore.
—Phi/.. Press.
Allison White being one of the igstripe"
deacribed 'by 'Col.. Forney; re eominent
. t b ig • 41 01 1Hrait to the 'consioei-ratiokofai.
to6iipikpi.-Denioorats in this regi on ..
66:01,41 % a number of them here, pe
believer - ,
7.roiney Sendetn.Crreeiln g ,
rney's speech at Tarrytown,'
abort time since- caused . 3 great flounder.
ing-agong the Adminstration organs, wd
partioularly. the one edited by the Prei
dent. _ ,Forney sends tit '
em, the following
brief note of deftancei •
CARD.---
.When spoke; to tI
Yoik I didic
u p on - - the deliberate -.`tipectititins
from--the ; impertinent tahitnniabir an/
convict of the' New York Herold , d ota
to- the -pensioners of • the.; Washington
tr i via /4 I would be abundantly traduced.
find-misrepresented. -11 n Administrnik
*blob -I-"assisted,- not- ihemisiderably
elevate to the power which ithas abuht
has" Mot hesitated . to , make an
ferene-of opinion =the :pretext for a pry
scriptiini extending to my business and
to my , most _ intimate relations ;• and I tin
not surprised-at 'the spirit. Which, my
marks at Tarrytown
.have ;created in that
qtiarter. - This is to state that I shall
ly await - the accumulation of all the seer
satiops of the 'Administration and
,
agents, when,-in my own way, and in;
own good time, I will prove all that
have written and - spoken as bathe
betrayal of a great principle and a sot
pledge and still further establish the,
tice and-strength of toe position of Ti
Plass and of myself. S. W. FORNEY,
New Gold . Reglon—Westers
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Correspondence of the 11r... Y. Tribune. -
Miasma RivEn, Sept. 17,1858
We are Writing ea board the wait
John U. _Perry or 4t. Louis, a new
this Siiriiak,: . and Considered the ben
the Missouri River... The existence .
gold in Western fiansas r‘e longer et
tionable, and the early reports from Pike
Peak are fully confirmed by parties
cently returned for provisions and mir
implements. The explorations of thi
parties over a space some 200 or 30,0 mi
in extent resulted in their finding
wherever they dug for it, though a
Were supplied with proper implement
mining. They report diggings at
head' of the Platte and Arkansas rive
remarkable richness; also that most(
gold so far discovered has averaged.
20 to 23 carats fine. Persons at the
were making a' average of teu.doe
day with only rude mining tools, am
party is reported to have taken out al
sand dollars in one week., These rei
coming from' parties well knewn au
spected in Kansas - and Missouri,
caused no inconsiderable eschewer
the' ritier, and several parties hare,
the diggings. Parties are also form
Kansas City, Leavenworth, Bluff Cit
Other towns', - terieelt for gold in:thil
El Dorado: Wealthy men- arc sendit
the Peak large quantities of proviti
and the 'Karisds Stage CoMpany are
chasing a lar. e number of mules to
a stage line d irect r to Pike's Peak fr
Missouri River. The . estimated
from Kansas City - or, 'from. Learnt
,to the diggings, inchiding.outtit, sir
implements; itnd . iirovisiqns for six mor
is 614 U per man ;: this .ineludes two!
of cattle and bnewagon for every for
sons. Furthcr- information Iron
Peak is awaited with great, anxiety,
we will . keep you posted from ttnie
Tan CONTESTED CASE.--BWEt Ts..
—ln.-this - interesting" and important
Jtidge Lackland rendered a decisiot
morning in favor of the 'application
Blair, and a peremptory order was girt
the Clerk of the Court to produce,-Icit
delay, true and full copies of the balk
question. ' •
Previous to rendering- his decision,
LackTand gave a carefully prepared di
eitenao of the laws of Congressonthest
and of the arguments of counsel in ti
the-great length of which preclude' t
favoring our readers with a copy. of it
day's issue.- -- The Judge assumed that
full power to:order an examination of ti
lota and to cause the same to be sires
the records. of the Court, and declares
tion of the County .Court, iii refusing
to the ballots to be illegal without ant
The application of Mr. Blair, as well
positions assumed, by him were sustai
every particular.—St. Louis Even. Yew'
11.
ANOTtIEi. PARADISE.-Iu Lest
ship, Clay -county, Indiana, saystl
Fayette Journal, they have a sort
taste of the.millenium. It la.s sitt
_limits one hitndred and'sixty-five
and 'during the last twenty pyears
has never , been a fight or quarrel
election teld in the townshiEt.
.tains seven school-houses, seven
lora, 'seven road districis,-and sevc
men; three churches, -three -poi
three pair , of twin boys, tbree
three post offices, and three menet
enty , five years of age. Dire is
lawyer, doctor or loafer is
eery nor a piper. A better, frie
happier population is not to be ic
the State. •
PARSON BROWNLOW'S L aTun.! ,
son BroW,nlovz has gone home.
which have been entertained of
enlightenment by - irradiation fn
southern luminary haVe vanished.
missionary tour through the .Nor
begun, and . ended in a .debate
Pryne; in 'PhiladelPhia. Other to
are more benighted. Many q uite.es,
so as P.hitadelphia, .but _Parson P
lias peremptorily refused torshit:.
other. Re promised to'enlie l 3.
tire - North npop the slaiersopp'
be -has not evert enligfiter
—414. po et ._ . TES.. ,