Alton Weekly Courier (Newspaper) - November 6, 1856, Alton, Illinois EDITOR THE ALTOS COCH HEn zs B7 GEORGE 1 oO two without 2 OO One 3 OO Two without S OO i O OO 8 OO One OO per 0 or 8 OO 1 OO Display price Advertisements for the must be in by 4 the to injure TUB i THE 1 I TEEMS j OO fc AND and and Short O WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION and Short street and ISAAC WHOLESALE DEALER IN FANCY pie diy goods Third io Subscribers in w To Clubs of Three in JJ OO To Clubs of OO To Clubs of in SO OO charged tame at THK ALTON j VERY LARGE PAPER FOR ISO THE SEWS OF THE j TEEMS j To Single in OU To of io To Clubs of in 1 To Clubs of 1 SO And an copy to tie setter up of the One 12 Hist OO 0 Two oil 22 AND STEAM boat painting and done at the and on tbe reasonable A DEA lers in choice rines and and 23 Second business Cards 1 year 1 OO Displayed Advertisements for the must be presented by 9 Wednesday to secure aar Advertisements for and WEEKLY to 50 per additional on Dully liberal discount on the will made to regular AT ALTOS BASK Third will give prompt at tention confided larly He mil attend to the prosecution ol claims against tho United JOHN ATTORNEY AT calf i Book Third AT OS nearly opposite the Presbyterian Jc AT WEST BIDE of tbe Public SETH ASD COUNSELLOR AT and Notary and for the State of Missouri for taking Office on Second AND AT And Solicitor in JOHN ASD Greene tenders his professional services to tbe citizens of Fayette TENDERS HIS services to tbe of at bis drug M TV PHYSICIAN AND f Second near 4 Uro 111 A H AVISO LOCATED KAt havo taken an office on Third over Posts directly oppo site tie Alton James corner of Belle Seventh joining ASD AT calfs Metcalfs Book on Third Alton ASD pays attention to Ilie of foods at Advances wade on Roods to be sold at B When will po into the country Ind attend to sales of personal or pro perty or real JOHN ASD fice on Belle opposite the septl dly COMMISSION AND FORWARDING A WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IS and blank sta Kail window fancy and variety side Third HAVENS WHOLESALE ASD BETAIL d ealers in and looking table ont Third DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF ire warrant to be equal in and durability to anything of the kind west the mountains CHABLES DEALER IN LIME AND and forwarding Short street and SIGHT exchange for sale in Bums to suit Collec and promptly Warrants bought and on time CITY DEPUTY for the Western District of Madi son tbird Alton Bank bnildins KANSAS Tlic Overland TJ the Editor OJ the Courier DEAE SIE During tho past few weeks several companies of emigrants for have arrived in the Territory by the way of Iowa and One company in charge of and arrived some sixteen days and although dragoons were scouring the country to in tercept Northern they got without any They numbered about Two days a larger party got but under very different It is tho custom for the emigrants to collect somewhere in Iowa and come into the Territory in b sufficiently large to protect themselves against bands irom This latter party traveled and charge of erry and each under the separate company having somo recognized conductor or They were reported to number throe hundred and fifty when they left but there were not two hun dred and fifty of them when they got to this They had a large train of farming and mechanical The men had arms of some these being in the There were women and children with the This Northern emigrant train had just en tered the and were driving peace ably along with their when with a large of dragoons at tacked and as the emigrants attempted to make no they wero all taken The wagons wero and between two and three hundred Sharps common shot be sides pistols and other were Tho whole was then led captive by Cook and his United States towards their road being past this As many of the thus taken entertained the most serious sions of their and as hanging was free ly talked of by their those who felt themselves most Iv or When the train reached it numbered a hundred less than when it entered the Pomeroy and some others connected with the got permission to go ahead of the to where they went and made complaint to at the instance of the proslavery who want no more Northern emi OF A By General had sent out the dragoons but fearful that the outrage would be too he rode back with these gentlemen to To where they met the Seeing its peaceable and that its arrest was dealer in diy t Geary ordered I bc Mt Bt Their which i naj a perfect right as American citi kept by the ing some kind of a promise that uW A few of the emigrants stayed but the bulk of them moved on to I suppose you aro aware that there was an election for the House of Representa nov DEALER IN STAPLE FANCY to c wholesale imd retail j fi giv C WHOLESALE ASD RETAIL IK boots and dry and ready mode comer State and Third a tives of tho Territorial That like all others in the Tem under ASD 33 Levee and 66 Commercial St Lonis January Kins i j tte held in and officers appointed Owing a test oa IO i freo State who repudiate the Mis which has been condemned by tho House of Congress on evidence did not and took no part in I the By the last voting invasion tho appearance of a large vote is given to the proslavery Representatives and who was rejected by Congress for vote taken under authority of the bogus has again been elected under thil authority fey the vote in Geary tried to get tho State settlers to but he did nothing to remove tho odious tests or nor did he take any steps to preserve the polls against tho Mis pretense of Governor Geary is the worst Governor yet appointed for the Free Stato There is a pre tended while at the same time there is no legal or forthe persons or property of Free State Geary declares that tho bogus la shall be and the bogus officers thrust upon the Upkeeps spies amongst W Free State boasb that ho has and also that he service money from tho Govern AND FORWARDING corner Piano street uar the railroad Williams and Jacob Von and Bussell i WHOLESALE AND RETAIL JS and Tyrone iron and and hardware copper and iron tin block Sec ond one door wost of IMPORTERS WHOLESALE DEALERS IS and domestic guns and riflas dealers in and Beo ond DEALER IK FANCY AND STAPLE DRY and Ready and Commission inE Second and Alton Dealer In ramify Pro COMMISSION ASD end dealer in ana dom Ue S Short street and Lev 56 CARD 4 BIGS agenti for James Howard composition roofing WILLIAM AT HIS ON THE of and have ranlt melton the 18th to visit to the wants and suffering of that illfated to by which aU tie could be Although T was and to peril in through by tho of been enabled to ascertain the truly deplorable of the Free State such arrangements as will ui reach with your bounty every cabin and tent in the That those who havo to give of their abun dance may know the condition of things to some and the I beg leave to make following report In passing through while I fell in the company of between two and three hundred Georgians and South Buf ord and who were on their return to the from whence they under the command of Such a company of men 1 never flaw and I trust never will be called to mingle with Their time atten tion was to card swearing and boasting of their great exploits I in the They said they came out to help make Kansas a slave that they had been paid for their expenses now so that they could reach and that they intended to make the best of They they had remained to vote for and boasted that the last act they performed to elect They helped make Whitfield and left the next I will not attempt a further description of these as my space and time can be better THE Without giving a detailed account of tho adventures in my journey through suffice it to that 1 reached Lawrence on tho afternoon of the 15th and about two hours afterward Eldridgo arrived with a portion rhe This numbering in all about 500 had been started in different companies between thi 1st and or from Pleasant and Iowa days pre vious to my the advance train about 150 persons had and many of them already settled on The 250 which arrived on the day I reached Law we took immediate steps to have and before I nearly all of them bad been divided off to the various localities of the and ere this are settled and many of them at The rear consisting of 50 are hourly and will be provided for on their The train of Eldridge brought with them added to the clothing and which I brought with amounts to about which but a small portion of what will be required to supply the present to say nothing of the demand during the coming The train inder Eldridge had been stopped by a pro slavery United States regardless of a letter of allow them to pass directions to They were taken searched and incurred in but were finally for a full account of which I refer to the statement of the officers of the DELAWARE TRUST The sale of these land will take on the 17th of I have examined and am satisfied that better and more desirable lands cannot be found outside of The settlers on them are truly to be pitied many of them without the ne of and no money to nay for their are placed in a position that sacrifice their improvements un less capitalists will render them immediate Many of them are willing to give half their claim for means to secure the other Others say that they are to pay any reasonable interest for a to be secured by mortgage on the I commend this matter to the serious and immediate action of the and the capitalists of and any such who may desire informa ion will receive it promptly by writing to he CONDITION OF THE The political and physical aspect of things Kansas are subjects which would be has secret service money The menu sot when he lor effect before the but Urge numbers of i ree State men have been taken prisoners and there are now ten times more political prisoners than ever at of Free State men are daily ana that will harass and dis courage the Free State The came of Freedom in never so gloomy John uttered a few days Ohio these words The Declara ago tion of Independence was an If it had been embodied in the of the country the Union would have been dissolved long and the would have been days a and one of the most respected men in fh was Generals consent about to make a remark or but was hooted and hissed down by the bogM theyre in favor Mount not entirely but will require assistance before the expiration of the DISTRICT Stranger This district will require considerable o which I have previously called his being the dis rict in which the Delaware Trust are now offered for ORGANIZATION TO BELIEVE Immediately after my arrival in Kansas I earned that a Convention of the Free State was in session at and as fast s my health would permit 1 went to that and there found the members of the Cansas Central who are now in ho and an organization which will reach the destitute in every por ion of tho Three persons are from each Senatorial district to earch out and report to the Central Com the wants in respective dis The Central Committee is as follows Samuel James i Alfred Bloomington James Ad Franklin Coun 11 City Aaron Ulen Miles George Grasshop er Falls George Easton One vacancy to be filled at the Mass Con to be held at Big on the James William and Alfred EXECUTIVE Samuel OF KANSAS CENTRAL the of free the Siala 10 By this means we become atj nee acquainted tho condition of our as the proper channel for all Kansas take this occasion to protest against nd repudiate all agents in the States by them or our or the tate Committee where they We would further that all por who have contributed for Kan to forthwith report to of time o and For what purpose such money was We insist that the request should o rigidly complied We beneve tnat all money hereafter con for will come directly to our without loss or Our people arc still in extreme and of families arc entirely dependant pon your the gene he information of the but nt I deem it of more importance to devote ny time and space to tho consideration of lio condition of the suffering with a view of having their wants turn my attention to that PRISONERS AT On my arrival at I immediate y called upon and obtained to visit the The ncn are held in durance vile under civil and from what I could to certain proslavery and for effect in the It is certain here are proslavery men in Lecompton some of whom hold such as Marshal who are far more guilty than any of those poor prisoners whom ho guards with And it is also c hat in that proslavery locality they cannot obtain a jury that will render a just ver About one hundred are confined in a shan and without a change of clothing several and one deaths Tom emigrant fever during ray They are composed of former citizens of various ree the largest number from one State being twentyone from prin from Chicago I con versed with Geary and urged him to urnish them with clothing and he promised to but as he left for he South of the Territory wo concluded to havo thorn immediately and the ladies of Lawrence for warded shirts to and the Cental Com will seo that they are supplied with and DISTRICTS ASB In the First Senatorial Topeka is and in these four districts shoes and groceries are Numbers of families are entirely Half the in these districts must suffer much n the winter if not In the First near a family of five motherless the eldest seven years was found in a state of father a prisoner at DISTRICT near the Missouri have suffered have lost their and will require much assistance in clothing and A portion of the last train left Lawrence to settle on claims in that dis and with them provisions were for the present necessities of the DISTRICT Council on the Santo settlement of or four in six miles They have suffered from growing out of the want of proper having on pumpkins and without bread or On Walker and Swifier whole families are completely prostrated with sick scarcely able to help each Elm and other from Council Grove down to nearly every person is A physician on that who went to the Territory two years in good circum a now entirely destitute One hundred families are located on the heat waters of many of whom are naked wae below their bareheaded and bare and women so destitute of clothing that they are ashamed to be From Council Grove down to Dowa nearly desti entirely Forty of flour would hare prevented who lived while there on com grated bv s Big new and district The fathers of two families at One of these families the oldest years of who bare ofthe They on green green and grated until it became too They then lived on pounded corn and pump I Burr Oak and Iowa Point Considerable this One family lived for four weeks on nothing but wolves THE e Brothers It should b the And rocka in her Shes clad in her and She winks and And talks bat than ahe Her father clad in his T And ragged and seedy at that His coata are all out of the Ha hit Hefl hoarding and hia So carefully on her beaux and la throwing it all She lies in the Till nearly on hour of noon cornea down snapping and Because she was called so Her hair is still in the Her checks atill dabbled with Remains of her lost nights Before she intended to She doats upon men And men with the flowing hair Shes eloquent over a foreign She talks of Italian music And folia in love with the And though but a mouse should meet 1 She sinks away in so very white Her jewels so very And her head so very N Her color ia made of Though this she never will own made mostly Her heart is made wholly of She falls in love with a Who struts witb a foreign air She marries him for his hair One of Both ore well mated In life 1 Shes got a fool for a And hes fora wife Off OF TO PRESIDENT 7 J To franklin dent of the United States SIE During the lost twelve I j have been constantly receiving mc in o rials and from former citizens of now residents of the Territory of alleging that they are not protected by tho United States officers in that Terri in the enjoyment of liberty and They and the evidence T fully supports tho that at the and at each subsequent Territorial and that fullest they so is given to the entire J Our committee is fully organized into and its ons extend to every district and precinct in i 10 election of a majority of the mem bers of the Legislative of whom were and are citizens of om were other By this assembly a code of laws was unparalleled in the his nee acquainted and have just the information that i OI u tory of legislation j laws palpably and which no man with the spirit could obey without personal randa Of his indispensable to the equitable ent of money or We have also fa of and witi out losen a general business agent who is to repel violence by interests of ht s bosen a general business age vc his entire attention to the ur Wo ons o States declares that treason shall consist in levying yet a man holding a commission under the seal of the United and exercising the office of chiet justice in that has decided that the persons who accepted office under the State are guilty of Under his instructions the State officers have been arrested and bail denied the pretence of judicial pro but without trial or hearing ol any an armed posse has invaded the town of and destroyed printing private dwellings Hu man lives have been property to a largo amount has been citizens have been driven from the territory by vio anarchy and disorder everywhere pre Among the sufferers have been many for of who went to Kansas it with the nd we confidently recommend whatever in no spirit but he may relative to our j ot becoming permanent to the We would Throo i that ning permanent residents Throo have been in behalf of the sufferers in arms bme been Uy a to our friends m the hands of a band of out aws from a remote Some have been flee from the territory for no ther save that of having emigrated rom a free whilst others remain there tripped of their and appeal to heir fellowcitizens of Iowa for sympathy nd In my their appeal should not o in They went to relying pon and had a right to expect the protec lori of the General in this they have been has been virtually denied heir right to defend and to teep and bear has been infringed by he net of tho Territorial who have from them tho means of defence putting weapons of offence into the lands of their They have been by a code of unequalled in in modern Tno character nd the conduct of tho Territorial Judges lave shown that an appeal to tho judicial is worse than Tho Central Government having failed to perform its duty by protecting the people of Kansas in the enjoyment of their it s manifestly the right of each of the States o adopt measures to protect its former citi illy express our thanks to our friends in he States for their generous contributions f provisions received the general agent of the National and by the train in charge of ALFRED Council Grasshopper Stranger JAUES Members of the Kansas State Central Com The other members of the Committee arc in the GENERAL In tho above report 1 have briefly related omo of the so as to give a gene al notice every specific or von every would require nore labor and time than is now at my Suffice it to that not a day assed during my stay in that my eart was not and the fountain of ly tears was called in at wit essing tho suffering and destitution which had it not in my power to ont by tne Ladies Aid Society was divided nd forwarded to five of tho most destitute which 1 was 10 Central to purchase ons and medicines to supply the sufferers as ar as it would acco o supply thi thai that brought bv Eldridge and myself will relieve it is but a what will be required by these noble aen and aye and who been and are suffering in Kansas for their cause and your 1 trust you will immediately respond to l the hoir and immediately supply the National Committee at Chicago with ampli leans to sustain tho defenders of Freedom i Kansas during tho coming Genl Agt National Kansas All persons who have paid money to the Ka Committee or State Committees are not m in the above it is understood only o be to traveling All snch are requested to report to the undersigned tbe the object of which is to be able to give a full and assurance tbat all funds contributed mve been properly The Richmond of October las a letter from of date October which states that the whole force of tho Navy Yard at Pensacola under the lead of the Commodore and his to vote the BUCHANAN The etter says At the Navy Yard a game was played to which Americans wero never Freemen who wished to had Democratic tickets pul in their hands on starting to tho and were given understand that their situa tions depended on their voting that and even guarded to the to prevent the possibility of The in full with his went to the poll and voted and county if the people of Iowa are not permit ed to enjoy tne rights of citizenship they retain their former citizen hip in this and aro as much entitled o protection from tho Stato while public as they would be if tna Gen iral Government failed to protect them in a Whilst 1 an army raised in the Stato of is marching into Kansas with the avowed purpose of driving out all hose citizens of the territory who omi from tho Free and who ex a preference for a Free Stete consti Another armed body of men have themselves on the emigrant route irom the State of to prevent at the joint of the bayonet any further emigra ion from this The Stato of Iowa cannot bo an spectator of these acts of lawless bno demands that her citizens shall be pro in and stand upon an equa tity there with the citizens of other She will submit to the closing of the immigrant routo through her domain into that As the Executive of 1 demand for her citizens in Kansas protection in the enjoyment of their their and their political I ask that tho military force on the line of emigration into the be A compliance with reasonable ro will tend to restore peace in Kansas and quiet the public mind of In tho event of the in a arisen clearly within tho principle laid down by Mr Madison 11 tho Virginia resolutions of when i will be the duty of the Stats to interpose to arrest the progress of in tha Tarn very Your obedient servant JAMES Many of tho Democratic papers system suppress tho accounts of outrages upon the freo settlers of Kansas They know that it is not safe to allow even their OTO political friends to see the facts in ro gard to that Territory on which Democracy at the point of the bayo fallen And while those papers suppress the ridicule the sofler ings of the free settlers of Kansas as detailed ID moro truthful Will tbe free men ot the Union not rebuke second fish epidemic is raging Grand During the pas week the shores have literally with dead and dying of them o almost fabulous A few months sine every creeping thing by wai cast dead upon the banks of tho Gran of and gusting appearance were piled in heaps where they were thrown by the snakes and every species o scaly monster shareS a common fata tit aty o Eon hu been ban tor three and at thi end ot tint period will not bi allowed to return until it tii give bond in to tie for Don u Arrest a Portion Charlos principal person implicated in tie extensive frauds r upon the Northern Cpmp was on a firm near man named ol who o are you asked the was the laconic at is the matter f had been stimulated to out tho offender by a reward of a thousand dollars which was offered for The MM J It seems that after from this went into the intending to secrete himself tho pursuit had then watch his opportunity to slip out the In furtherance after wandering about in different shaving moustache and cropping his hair he donned the habiliments of a farm and came towards New York taking the cars on Erie he stopped somewhere of walked some three miles below and succeeded in on tho farm of his board and a small he picked The manner in which tho introduced to the New York Police by his thus described Late last Thursday Dowling of the Sixth Ward was awakened by a mysterious looking coming uto his sleeping apartment and shaking him by the Starting he saw a man by his wrapped in a thick which was so muffled up as to con ceal the lower half of his face while a slouched hat concealed the upper part leav ng only big eyes and tip his hoso Who An o What Got a prisoner for Who is ho f the French your authority for arresting He drew out from under his a war rant issued by Justice and with out disclosing any of his quietly landed it to The who tad not yet dressed feel and the imperturbable coolness of the tranger rather annoyed him was no gainsaying the which the arrest had been he also olt a little as obvious that the man was a New York that the should havo been earned by an At any rate he sharply asked Who are anyway do you hail from If you are an you belong Without deranging a fold in his the tranger cooly I have brought you a there is ay By what right do you thus me who was now standing iri the middle of the shivering with fired up at tho and told the tranger to clear out and air himself in the for his and wait was ready to attend to When ho came out the been in tho and his after du y transferring him to the custody of Dow The box containing the property was found by following tho directions of an nonymous received by a s follows In tho second story of West Sixteenth Front ves Frederick In ae subcellar of said fuel is and which is divided into o accommodate four or five families who the woodhouse apportioned to aid Couvet there has recently been received wo tons of The coal must be removed under tho coal is three inches of saw or Between tho coal and the pa ing of the under tho flagging of rick or whatever the cellar is paved is a small wooden box of inclosing a tin which is soldered containing tho The officers found the box precisely as in the much to the astonish aent of the people in the who did ot dream that so rich a treasure was lying in their It Id coin and valuables jut took it to office unopened ft was handed over in tho samo cbn to the agent of The Tribune says of Carpenter So skillful were his efforts to cover up his that while he was quietly wending is wav through the interior of the no of the keenest of the United State Dep the steamer ty Marshals of this city took or New Orleans in his OF A Tho following details of a horrible case of and burning of a ship at Macao have icen received at The Dutch ship 00 tons with between 300 and 400 migrants coolies for put back to about a month the dispatch s dated Honi August with her water casks leaking and cargo hav ng encountered boisterous on caching the outer roads to an There she remained her exercising strict the coolies going for fear hey should make their For the hreo whatever discontent may have no fears of an would cem to havo been until a nese doctor warned the Captain that inis was In preparing for such a as a rising of the the mall arms were and two uns were loaded with grape and pointed About nino oclock on the night f tho tho disturbance and he crew took refuge on the The first fired a shot or two iut as that had no effect and the coolies ad toward yelling frightfully armed with belaying bricks torn from ho tho Captain gave orders to his men to and immediately a volley was poured into the infuriated mass rom the two and also from tho small This had the effect of checking and ratting down the and the coolies Iriven but revenge by setting fire to tho and in a few minutes he Captain was appalled by seeing fiames issuing np from tho fore A frightful sceno of carnago followed coolies rushed up on and no doubt murdered all tho officers of the The ship was soon in a fore and In about an lour the mainmast fell with a then he foro and and about up with a tremendous The ship was instantly hurled to frag and a vast number or poor clinging on the perished with Of the number who were on including crew and only 151 escaped with their lives mainder were either burnt in the ship or The has produced a great sensation o THB of the las we dispatched copies of the letter giten be low to and Fre only received of The others may bo steamer expected will be so jadga for themselves as to which candidate has the California SAS Snt the San Francisco Even iTbeg leave to you the following in fop State of aro considered paramount to par Do you believe tho Federal Govern ment has tOi con struct a the Atlantic Pacific Would if elected President of the United H tat recommend i to the national Congress the passage of an act to construct an Atlantic and Pacific the gen eral government Would if elected President of the entertaining doubts aa to the constitutionality of by an amendment Constitution effect this great Would if of the United States use all bf yoor ind safe r connection luring the construction of The State of account of ler position and mixed s independent party and sectional is sues and will election for who will favor lost As on the electoral vote of this State may depend your your the questions very obedient acknowledging he receipt of of Relieving that its lends the whole future of if our hopes can bo consider an immediate and clear reply j due to the people of wo will op It is myself to use ho occasion presented a state ment of my convictions to as I lavo not thought it ith propriety to offer it a o the Pacific is as clearly apparent to my mind as was of extending to t the Constitution when the country was It is hardly necessary remind you that I have occupied in aiding to procure for it a favorable and 5 might bo inferred that I would be prompt to seize upon the good occasion which should offer for giving radical effect to the labor and time have upon From tho day my connection with ho army was have considered ny lif o consecrated to the construction of his Pacific In view of future be easily his national highway becomes able as a means of holding these parts of ho country As to of power in the government to aid in or to secure its there is in mind as as of tho power of the government postal accom in or means for ho munitions and bodies of oen in time of Entertaining no doubt to tho power andio its any the constitution in his connection is Until this national work can bo very facility communication other arrangements should bo imine as a means of annihilat ig the distance which divides md Atlantic and consolidating by bends the now apparently do and separate parts of the American This opportunity to answer your inquiries ias given mb a particular My are inseparably connected by choice by tho current of events with the Pacific I cherish a grateful recollection of he favor I have already received from this whose marvellous energy and lower in the brief space of eight years havo empire of feeble which have so obscured that country and whether in or public opportunity will bo to escape me in by personal or by personal I can advance its great With am obedient JOHN C To Thomas Editor of the San Francisco Evening A defines snob 1 snob is that man who is al ays pretending the to be something is one who hinks his position ind is always yearning striving to force into without ion or character which belongs to it one who looks down over rides his and even of his own and is ever ready to worship awn and natter rich and titled he is a good or a but because he ias the luck bo rich and Such snobbery is to be found humble as well as in the great jt has oxistedj and probably always will all that can be preached against how the day of final it rom the It is and though hated and despised by all whether rieh or there are thou sands in the who seem to have no ambition than to move in the circles of Diz Sons for little vish to is sthill leben on jat a doing shuss de Die der sometimes goes down to see how die tarlin and asier how sho Dais loves her ver goot dais loves her a dais loves der but dey loves die vidder To dalk mit zat ven she hands will make das shap zat does pound if ve can veil die vat tanks das coes in daro for nothin put Oh dio eyM so and Shes die alien vot live m dis here In her plack silk put toned to de and a collar Ho clear you odor f cant to shine ven do lof ely vidow cooms I vish You cant to cut me you dalks in leh nab die schoene wit tive scion nit ich ne Abend wohl bei dam counter Uia Wangen rein wig milch nod die Auien hell no ms An Ally of editor of the Charleston Courier j writes to his jour nal a minute and circumstantial account of he spent recently with Fill at One paragraph of the let I have the satisfaction of being able to state on from his own that he is against repealing the or restoring the Mis souri Compromise and is utterly oppos ed to any further the slavery and for restoring and riving permanent repose and to now He with that he and the were were waging enemy that were seeking to poison our destructive tion with a Northern gentleman on the pol state of the stated the posi affaire thus have no fear of Northern Abolition We can take care wo have to is insurrection among What said the an insurrection of the sail tho but of tho poor This remark he explained by that h not be surprised if a into the next Legislature of Virgur to restrict the slaves from learning the mi arts with design to restore these to the poor distinguished as an in has invented an enormous oven n capable of baking 54 barrels flour to supply tho whole Sc groat of labor is effected tha the establishment promises to bread 40 pc cheaper than The whole apparatus coit Below wo publish ment own flu wing ho Gaary topi 0 They were arrested found nun to remain arms for am not until he Irst accomplished his by hi own to drive all lawless bands out of The pf whose appeal ier than ohe heir appeal whan you go to the A portion our number havo families ion our earnings for many of outstanding crops of great going to or suf heavy We come now to speak of a vital to admit of our passing ret to full horror to dwell our treatment and condition our confinement any description ol which must come far short of the terrible of our guard will ever bere us with emotions of the portion of them aro too vile and wicked for Times without number have hey threatened to shoot us or stab and not have they attempted to any out their hellish Several have the guards amused themselves their different watches by burs ng stones at the and Two large cannon land planted but a few yards from our and two nights has the match wung several in the hands of the with orders to firo loaded with shot and slugs upon in ase our frien is should come in orce to avenge our how are only compared and sufferings heaped iost of us poorly have any prison is open and nd is surrounded with all is overed with and everything is mixed with In we listened with to a the dark stories of the Jersey prison ships Black Holb of never reaming that we should at last bo actual in their More than nee havo to that 11 would not leave this ur assertions have been Several lave been and one has Eis name was for merly from He la ored with us nobly in defending our God iven end it was with feelings of sorrow that we parted with Jter an illness of two he left his suf erings this morning at one Before is death we requested the officer ofthe uard to havo him removed to a place of We talked and became yet was Last night all the in sent for and used to John who is Justice of the Peace and Judge of Pro not come because he was sick et ho was seen that as well as the doing hard rs had wo know not rooks was sent for five but as he was at a card table playing poker hat he would L very Jany thanks are to Cald a proslavery and the town of for tho kind aid iey gave The Governor paid us a visit yesterday is the third since our in We showed him young nd told him we feared this was the begin ing of an epidemic which would prove atal to not a We showed him our He said that the Grand which was in session all last would probably finish its business by night lat all against whom no bills were found would be immediately that ho was going away and should be several yet ho would leave rders that all those retained should be with every comfort that could be But the Grand Jury has its examination and none can tell when it Sickness of the horrid forms are in our of pandemonium surround can see nothing left us but an ho last Tribunal with God as our nd our Jury the great American Ve are willing to necessary for the ause of Liberty and of but is it Will you answer to God and lot s hear your decision Aaron Rock Justice Ogle John Farm Isaac Adam Schuyler William James Half Jesse Schuyler FOB THE TO On tho 20th of in the Congressional of said Let mo tell that Gid and this and the that hould this country ever arrive at that un state of that tho Govern ment should tho hands the such fanatical charac ers as are over the and if the Govern ment should RESTORE THE MISSOURI or repeal tho Fugitivi in such a I lave to endorse tho declaration pf the hon gentleman from that THIS not leave the game to save Abolitionist in the UNION SOLVED Jj MUST ASD WILL BE One of tho greatest mis of the is the act that our Northern brethren mistake the character of th They suppose that are tho Calhoun wing of the Democratic is the GREATEST ERROR lhat the people of the North havo ever fallen And I tell and I want tho country to know want tho gentlemen rom tho free ott Seward our Abolitionists or whatever they may bo to know iW that if gou restore the Missouri or repeal the Fugitive Slave THIS UNION WILL BE named is now with his wife and awaiting the resul of the Presidential know whether or not to remove to Kansas Ho has sold and intends to go to tho West to settle himself a an will go to Kansas if Fremont is electee feeling euro that it will but should tho Republicans bo i intends to seek a home in some other por tion of tho West that is secured to freedom Wo doubt not there aro hundreds and than who are awaiting the result of th pending election for the same an looking forward with tho same Tho Richmond has the expressive and highly philc coup de grace to an article gravel Slavery the strongest bond o has preserved our Union so or can pre serve it Without this institution be no good reason for together confederation so cindi date ot the in this for of Lieutenant shall some of the voters witK oar Wood is a of the State ot New her is years of andis of a hardy frank persevering and In a in the midst of and in tho midst or of public lei would be the man aC once selected to lead the his Toice would be hoard ringing over the meet or subdue the or to quell the Henas greater portion of hia life in our own Saving come to this State in year thirtyseven years He resided during ha wo in what s county first came to the Military there was no white settle ments in this extreme region of the a called Coles now in Calhoun beautiful in its and the thousand objects comfort and i most Ko nan has contributed so to this de velopment as John He was always a hard working never too to never lacking energy and industry to tako the lead in every labor to overcome and subdue tne wil causing it to sustain the real wants of man at and finally to blossom like he He visited the spot where which had hia wme for thirtyfour in the early part of year His and almost unerring enabled him at once decide advantages of the though the country was wil In the the same year he acted as guide to Lieutenant of the in a party under his command some point below Though he taj more the pro knowledge of ind shrewdness as a gave him the Ho in one of hose men whose very appearance and man ner inspire confidence in andin this case he discharged his without one of judgment or ho moved iff from Pike the in a truck wheel cart of his cutting as ho Ho built abin in tho December following this was he first one erected within ts This by wenty standing a few years ago t was built without the use of or awed But a few years previous to this the site was occupied old Sad village Black Hawk once us that here when he was At the time settled ero there wero but two other white men re present limits of this In an early many of our early settlers Western border of tho State went to to work in the lead he labored in the mines usual industry and ind which enabled iin to effect some purchases land at this which have been tho foundation of is present At the as everywhere he was ot too proud to for he is a true and disciple of the free labor nd he is illustration of its most John Wood ia truly a ne in his own person ami f the dignity of labor I He is now a man f all of which he has and the of which was laid by tho labor of tis own hands I Though ho is the ame and kindly that always During the war he turned out with his neighbors and served out tho term or which they Ho has endured all the hardships of pioneer life with manly having o go forty miles to and thirty miles get a In the groat struggle in this State in tho car when there was a project before he people for calling a convention to amend ar Constitution so asto make Illinois a lave Wood was on active and efficient laborer in opposition to the con As he was then for freedom in so is he now for freedom in But few men in this State have given for the building of towards and in the aid of public improve so much money He has tne cry of distress U never unheeded by and lis hand and heart are always open to sym and Ho has been tho ant friend of the laboring men of our and like nearly all tne rest of us esteem him beyond all other men of our It may DO truly said of Wood that he s not an aspirant for official station yet le has been repeatedly almost forced to be t candidate and to bo elected Mayor of the Ho was a few years elected tothe Stato Senate from this and Pike and it is not too much tosay that lis both of Mayor and Senator has been highly creditable o and exhibits him in his true char acter of a reliable and honest may be safely can bo firm prudent and position as a candidate for was hot sought for or desired by but to accept the his the tried friends of to see him We feel do herself more at the coining than to make old farmer and upright John her Lieutenant Uov We doubt not by the vote f her will aay From tie A L On Friday afternoon a wind storm ell with fury the neighbor residing about four miles east of the city on the old railroad The cloud iom which the wind came was funnel shaped and black as and want whirling and revolving through the air after the fash ion of an old time spreading devastation and ruin along its The storm great fury upon the premises of Simon It tore the roof from bis dwelling and scattered the shingles along its for out one of the aides of the down his carriage and the List that was seen of his car some three thousand feet high in the airy traveling as a land vehicle never traveled It is yet On the which adjoins that of the oat stacks wera the sheafs over tho all The corn stalks were and twisted np by the and the whole field was shorn as smooth as if a reaper bad been over John place largo bearing applo up by the The fencing for miles along tho path of tho entirely swept large pond the railroad track near Henry Kemps covering an area of two was entirely sco ped a drop was It was ro wore watching the that instantly the its color inky black V This region has not been visited with so desolate storm for many Thera was no destruction of life that heard ia paid valuo of a good in tho manner in which has been tendered sympathy and forbearance of his creditors and all classes of citizens in during his present financial Men who do not know him have expressed sorrow that any adverse circumstances should and his friends arc everywhere offering of of which board McKay is held a and ho being tho other members passed a series resolu expressive of the feelings of the com pany in regard to his temporary Lomt i i
