Weekly Gazette And Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1857, Janesville, Wisconsin ZETTE VOLUME XII Gazette and Free Press were almost equally good marksmen could WISCONSIN SATURDAY JULY 25 1857 NUMBER 47 EVERY SATURDAY In Exchange West End of the Upper In Kooms formerly occupied by the Press by CHARLES fairly advance in in advance CHs subscribers by the per year Subscriptions six months over due al tji SO 1 00 50 currier will be payment will be charged nt the HATES OF lines close matter or its equivalent in ease a i 1 M- 1 3 w 4 I 3 in 6 in 1 y Among the early settlers of the weat were many who moved out and selected Rites for their horom upon the land they hud and by clearing a portion of it and ing a cabin they a pre-emption right portion of it e been to the soil or at least a and in possession of which thei tec rf b by the government at least so 3 i i moo cji r each line in business Direct for 8 lines per ye 4 for Notices lit statute rates Special Notices landed and kept having pre- ss lence of ordinary advertisements 50 cent ad- on ordinary rates V tices of meetings charitable societies fire com- panies Ac half price Advertisements not with directions T 11 be inserted till forbid usul charged for All must paid for in rule will not be from the advertisement is ordered in and weekly 15 per cent deduction on Uie amount will be made advertisers allowed the privileEe of cha advertisement considered ngn BUSINESS DR D C pace over g C Jewelry Store DR Oculist late of New York in Exchange Block west end Upper Uridge Wis DR J 11 over the Philadelphia Druz Store Vest kee Wisconsin April 2 J SUTHERLAND Co and Retail and Stationers pin's new brick side the Janesville AH and Counsellors at Law 0 W 3 1 WOODRUFF and Counselor ftt Law and Solicitor In Office corner of und Janesville seS E B J F DRAKE Hare Tor a stock of Fruit and Ornamental Shrute Ac ttt the V west of the 4 SANTORD A and Counsellor at Lu cery Office in the Empire consin w Solicitor In DR B F DENTIST 13 now prepared to op unite in every branch of liis profession due door North ot McKey Main 3L POTTER Attorneys and Counsellors at in Janesville Wisconsin PEASE Attorneys and Counsellors Jit In Mum Street City of B O J J H T H HUGER l Will Surveying Engineering Platting Ing and Conveyancing promptly Office in DR G F GALE Office and Residence west side of Main St n doors South of the Post Office Particular at- tention given to diseases of thu Eye and Ear April 21 T B WOOLISCROFT Baker and Confectioner No 1 corner Of Main and Milwaukee streets AH kind of Cakes Crackers Bread Candies Oysters Cream and ail other kinds of eatables served notice WILLIAMS Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Solicitors and Counsellors In and Notaries in New Block Main street H A C G WILLIAMS DOCTOR A S P n Y 3 I C I A S A D 3 C R U K O S Office Opposite the U Ho u Dr Jones devotes his time und to the tice of and turnery and will attend promptly to professional calls in this city and the surrounding country DOCTOR AMER Office in Mr building one floor east of the tel in May's block Doctor A will vender assistance in all where his medical services may re- quired N B Consumptive and Lung affections treated un tha principles of Dr Hunter of New York by inhaling Medicated Vapors 46 ATTORN ESS AND SOLICITORS Having associated together for tin tice of law in nil the courts of this ire pre- pared to give prompt and attention to all professional burners entrusted to care I H HIK Solicitors in Also Main Wisconsin JOKX R c SLOAS L r L P Patten Commissioner for state of New NEW TOKK CASH STORE C Si th Co Wholesale anil in Dry Groceries Crockery lar Lam Boots and Shoes Huts and Clothing faints Oils and Hse at the very lowest prices E 0 O AMOS anil Office In new block Having purchased of Chiton x tti Attract of the Records and Titles in and a Transcript of ihu of the District Court he Is pre- to furnish complete of Titles to in MEDICAL CARD pr H S- Treat with him Dr H atr of Infirmary Troy N 1 hey will hereafter to the of profession anil attend promptly t in city or country S attention given to H PALMER M D R B TREAT M D Aug 15th L o au jur US trial no one could dispossess them without mg them an equivalent for the and even then they had a prior claim or of purchasing at government price every other purchaser Such pioneers have been squatters In early day a man who had left the sterile -ail of nn eastern state started with his yomi and rising family u better his condition in the nub and valley of the west He n poor but honest man had hard to his nnd by patient en- to obtain an of u horse and cart lo journey to the Passing through what was then a wilderness lie at length reached a spot on the Illinois river about two hundred miles from its mouth where he pitched his tout and erected his cabin His fa mil ly consisted of a wife and three eldest a buy was in his nineteenth year ihu next a girl in her eighteenth und the youngest a boy of They were all vigorous the very material suited lor the toil and pour fare of pioneer life One day there emne to the cabin three Indians professing to be friendly who in- the lather to go out on a sion with them As the family subsisted ly upon game he finally concluded to ny them taking with him his eldest son They expected to be absent about a week as they intended to take a somewhat extensive range After three days had away one of the Indians returned to the house and deliberately lighting his pipe und taking his by this lire he commenced smoking m lence The wife WHS not startled at his it was frequently the case that one and sometimes more of u party of Indian ters getting discouraged would leave the rest and return This was usually the case when they imagined they discovered some bud sign and it would not only bu useless but disastrous for to hunt under such circumstances The Indian sat for some time in sullen lence and at length removing his pipe from his mouth he gave u grunt to attention ami White man die The wife at this replied is thu matter Ilo tree fall on him he die You go see him Her suspicions being somewhat aroused at the milliner of the savage she asked him a ber of questions The evasiveness and evident want of in the answers at length confirmed her that something was wrong She judged it bust not to go herself but sent her youngest son the eldest as we have seen ing gomi on a hunt with his father Night came but it brought not the son or the Indian All its gloomy hours were spent in that lone cabin by the and daughter but ing came without their return The whole day the same fruitless for the boy the mother felt grieved that she had sent her boy on the errand but it was now ion late suspicions were now confirmed that the In- dians had decoyed away her husband and sons She felt that they would not stop in their evil designs and that if they had slain the father and bis boys they would next attack the er and daughter No time was to be lost and she daughter as night was went to work to barricade the door and of the cabin in the best manner they could The ri- fle of the young dt boy was all the weapon in house as he did i ot it when hu wunt to seek his father This was taken from its ings and carefully examined to see that it was well loaded and primed To her daughter she gave the axe and thus armed they determined to watch all nigh and if attacked by the ges to light to the last About they mado their appearance expecting to liud the mother and daughter asleep but in this they were They approached stealthily and one of the number knocked loudly at the door at the door crying Thu mother's uur too acute to be ed by the wily savage and she replied Where are thu Indians my The answer Urn would have ied her if she hail not before aware of the deceit u Gome up my son pul your ear to the f want to tell you something be- I opun the door The Indian applied his ear to the The crack of tbe rifle followed and he fell dead As soon as he had she stepped on the door ami immediately two bails passed through it either of which would have killed her Thank said the mother in a per to her are but Thuy are the three that went to limit with your father and one tf them is dead If we can only kill or cripple another we shall bu Take courage my child God will not forsake us in this trying hour We must bolh bu still after they fire Supposing have killed they will break down thu door I may be able to shoot in the mean she hud reloaded tic if I miss von must use the axe with nil your might The daughUM equally with her mother her that she would do hci bust The conversation had hardly ceased when two more rifle bulls came crashing the window A ensued for tlu space of several minutes when uyo more in succession through the lowed by tremendous strokes against it with a heavy At length the door gave way and an Indian with n fiendish yell in tin act of springing into the house but a the boy's rifle in ihu mother's hand his heart and be across the threshold Thu surviving Indian dm u not it BARROW PMlil'lelphln Druy Start Wholesale and Retail Dealers n foreign Dome Drugs French English and American Paints Oil and Painters and Artists terials and Colors Wines anil Liquors for Medicinal Glass Wnre Instruments articles I at- etc etc etc etc 48 H L J II D PHILLIPS GUILD Commission Merchants Produce BroKers nnd Gener id Agents No South Water Street Chicago III SAMUEL PHILLIPS WILLIAM IT Cash advanced on consignments of Flour Grain nnd other Produce Hon John Wilson Esq J V Esq Raymond Ward B Bryan Esq Floyd i French spared and yet some one must his life in the undertaking It was tile forlorn hope of that little band and on it their fate was to turn The commander Col Shephard called for a volunteer in this perilous undertaking al promptly offered their services both men and boys but they were the bravest of hand and could least be spared The difficult Lv seemed to be not so much in finding the heart stout enough for the fearful undertaking but in making the selection Just then up step- ped a slender girl With the spirit of her father she said to the commander I will bring the powder II I die in the attempt my loss will not be fell In vain the strove to dissuade her she would most certainly be shot she could not run with the fleetness of i man All entreaties were in vain and she Open the gates and let ne With tearful eyes the gates were opened and the intrepid girl bounded towards the house The moment she emerged from the ate she was seen by the Indians who instead if tiring at her seemed to be taken by a surprise astonishment that for a moment led murderous purpose She reached tho liouse entered it secured the desired keg mil started back to the fort The soul of the c girl was in the effort and bravely it ed her As she sped across the space with her burden a dozen rides were raised and their sharp simultaneous crack seemed to announce ier doom but she neither fell nor On with accelerated speed she urged her way ind passing the gates she entered the fort in safety The deed of that brave girl saved the ori and an advantage was gained over the savages from which they did not recover so as renew their depredations in future on that frontier outpost Pioneer life in the west with incidents of female heroism and the simple story of their deeds possesses a more thrilling interest than can be infused by the uost fervent and fruitful imagination into any of of th DENTISTRY WOU DENTISTS Exchange M Block west end or upper Bridge Milwaukee at W One or both of us can be found tn the office H all hours to perform nil to the improvement Sana Percha Contiguous Gum Palatine Arches and the latest approved plans of filling teeth with Gold and also a newly discovered material for preserving which att ue by attention paid to ilia of children's teeth We to be those who lire to tor first as Ve do not intend to do apy of the commonly called cheap dentistry 43 May 14 IKM well skull that he did nt dom and ran away said the mother to the daughter we must leave und taking the rifle and thu axe they hastened to the river jumped into n cunoe and without a morsel of provision except a wild duck and two blackbirds which the er had shot on thu voyage and which they ate raw they paddled their canoe down the river until they reached the residence oi a French settler Louis Some time after a party of hunters started over into Illinois and scoured tho country in every direction but they returned without finding either the squatter or his boys Nor have been heard of to this day Should the traveler pass by the city of In his westward wanderings thu old settlers in hat can point out the spot where stood the cabin of the squatter so heroically by his wife and laughter and who so nobly avenged the death of the father and ns The of the west like the men were of sterner enters into the composition of most ol our modern ladies and gentlemen They were brave in entering wilderness and they showed themselves eqt in grappling with iis difficulties and enc MAU DOC Dinks and on the edited by Frank The dog is naturally the most nervous of all thu dumb tribe His intense his iral jealousy his method of attack the less of his rage and his insensibility to all bespeak a creature whose nervous system is developed in the highest possible de- gree I myself once had a little cur who as I sat reading would enter the apartment jump upon my knee uttering a low whinner all the ic creep along my waistcoat rub his little against my head and face lick the hand up to return his caresses and then er off and perhaps not come near me again tho hole of that afternoon What was this but an impulse seeking a nervous The way to manage an animal ol this is to respect his evident y The instant a dog appears to be there should be a sign given ng it stop to be put to all further proceedings f the respect of the animal be habitual thu son who mildly enforces if enter the room the same dog is in a rabid state and come forth unscathed It is no pleasure to a dog to go mad Quite he reverse as hydrophobia mav be o the human being rabies is to the dog t makes its approach more gradually It lasts and it in more intense it endures The dog that is going mad feels unwell for a ong time prior to the full de.'eiopmelit of the lie is vury ill but In: does not know hat ails him Ilu feels nasty dissatisfied with every thing vexed without reason and greatly against his better nature very snappish Reeling thus lie longs to avoid all annoyance being alone This makes him seem strange to those who are most accustomed to him The sensation induces him to seek solitude nut there is another reason which decides his choice ofa The light him intense agony The sun is to him an instrument of torture which he therefore studies o avoid for his brain aches and feels as if it were a trembling jelly This induces the poor brute to find out the holes and corners where he least likely to be noticed and into which the ight is unable to In solitude anJ nuss he passed liis lay If his retreat be dis- covered and his master's voice bids him to come forth thu creature's tance brightens his tail beats thu ground and he leaves his anxious lo obey the loved authority but before he has gone half the distance a kind of sensation comes over lint which produces an instantaneous change liis whole appearance He seems to say to Why cannot you let me alone Go away Do go away You trouble you pa ue And thereupon suddenly turns tail and darts back into his dark corner If let alone thei e hu will remain perhaps frothing a little the mouth and drinking a great deal of water but nut issuing from his hiding place to ITis appetites are altered hair straw dirt tilth excrement rags tin shavings stones thu most noisome and unnatural substances are then thu delicacies for which the poor dog changed by longs und swallows in hope to case his burning stomach is now altogether changed Still he docs not desire to bite mankind be rather endeavor to avoid ciety he takes long journeys of thirty or forty miles in extent and lengthened by all kinds of accidents to vent his restless desire for motion Whun on he does not This would bu too formal and measured a pace for an animal whose frame quivers with excitement Hu does not run That would bu too great nn exertion for an animal body is the abode ofa deadly sickness He proceeds in a slouching manner iu a kind of trot a movement run or walk and his aspect is dejected His eyes do glare or stare but dull retracted Sis appearance is very characteristic and if once seen can never afterwards bu mistaken In this state he will travel the most dusty roads bis tongue hanging dry from his open mouth from however here drops no foam His course is no straight How could it bu since it is doubtful whether at his period he sees at His desire ley unnoticed If no one notices him he ly passes by them He is very ill He cannot stay to bite If nevertheless anything opposes he will as if by impulse ii man Tn a similar state would strike and tell active men of good Profitable A Number of character and address ore wonted to for new and highly attractive just published and in publication to whom terms are A few experienced may be at liberal wages by personal application N Cor Jackson i Wall Sts Win Large of 031 in tubes Also a gen eral French Lithographs for Painting by STATES COURT Plea of was an action of trespass tbe C Mitchell a colored man fi a citizen of Illinois in 1854 against the Charlus a citizen of Wisconsin on a of assault and which bled the plaintiff from prosecuting hUi ordinary business for months and impairing the of one of his eyes The pleaded to the jurisdiction of the averred that the plaintiff was n person of color to wit a negro To this pica tin In giving the opinion Judge served that as tho leading counsel in the defense that is not ruled by the Dred Scott case it will be to refer to the latter There is no pretence that the ever a or that he from a slave No such averment is made in thu plea and the court can presume nothing in a to the jurisdiction The objection to the jurisdiction must be clearly stated and it must be of such a character if true as to show there is no jurisdiction That the plaintiff is a colored man to wit a negro are the substantial words of the in the plea It is not denied domicile is in Illinois It known that in several of the land status negroes aro citizens in tho 1 of tiie term having the right of In Vermont in to the rights of ship there never was any discrimination us to color In a sMite where slavery does not e individual without regard to color is to be free but where color is a badge of ry tho presumption is otherwise It has never been decided that to enable an in- dividual to sue in the federal courts be an elector Females have a right to this court though they are not en A corporation has a right to sue without regard tu the citizenship of its stockholders sue as a citizen of the state where its powers are exercised The constitution and the act of cong give jurisdiction to the federal tween citizens of different stales In tin hero used the citizen may be held free man who has u permanent cilii in a state being subject to its quiring and holding property in of taxes and in the distribution of among or to heirs on Ids decease a man Is a citizen so as to en as I in tiie has never been made so fai or believe to his right to sue in this court that ho not entitled to vote The i of the constitution of ted which declares state be entitled to all privileges of citizens of the several states Burn plates an investiture of political rights i in no respect to sue in the federal courts This is a vary short sketch of the opinion which was not written at length Judge declined giving us a copy for pn The demurrer was sustained which held the Democratic From the Missouri Democrat K T July Sth 6 Southern Kansas is becoming ded with live men searching foi west I have just made a three hundred miles taking in the Burlington and the Sac agency In traveling both I sa large companies of emigrants wendin way slowly southward with of them with women anci children and ions for six months all fully resolved ro a permanent home within our borders of claims have been taken Cilice I s tiie same country in May last It tind any timber that is unclaimed hundred mites of Lawrence but prairie claims can be found within three or four lington or Maple ton Timber c men on the southern ers for a moderate price They to sell out whenever the among them aud get the majority scarcely a town left in southern Kansas that Is not owned and controlled by free stale where the sales are now taking place was their common rendezvous year but last week it was bought nut by a party of recently from the east for A day or two afterwards Gov Walker and his suite arrived there and Walla Ferrin made speeches for the wluch they were extremely lavish of charges against free state men the Topeka constitution and the general policy of our people three speeches on this side had been made M Foster of arose to reply five hundred were present mid a majority w tree state men Mr Foster proceeded to dc lineate the grievances we had suffered at th hands of the dominant political party in the Und and pointed to Jol Coffrey who was in the crowd as one who hail been a prominent actor in tiie army and dared him to de- ny it but be was several times interrupted by the crowd and considerable sensation was man- in quarters At len n revolvers were drawn upon him in a thrent- uing manner and he was ordered to stop he free state men were genert nd us it wus impassible for Mr Foster to know the relative number of his e he submitted to be forcibly gagged in pros rice of hij excellency Gov Walk yet immediately he took the f vent on to Denounce the abolitionists more un ever He compared of the revolution charged uing the cause nf nil our lined the mob n gainst freedom uch is the exhibition of squat tor i s defined hy tbe Sue of the man who tells the country he bas tonic hero to give us our rights the person to get out of his way lie may take liis road across A field in which there is a flock of sheep Could these creatures only make room for him and stand motionless the dog pass on anci behind od But they begin to run und at the sound the dog pricks up His entire aspect changes takes possession uf him What made that Et p it with all the energy of madness He flies at one then at another He does not mangle or is bite simply con- terrible He cannot pause to tear the creature he has caught Ue snaps ami then rushes onward till fairly exhausted and unable longer to lie sinks and the sheep forward to be np molested He may have bitten twenty or iu his mad on- in entering the selves equally tering its perils Who lias not heard of the heroic Miss Elizabeth ut Fort He 1777 where the city of Wheeling now stands V When tv army of been ed under it Girty and had the fort having killed in an outside skirmish several officers and men a fearful arrived The was i educed lo eleven men und boys The houses of the village were occupied by the savage foe who for the moment had censed hostilities and had withdrawn to the of the hill which roso abruptly and precipitously the narrow valley The ammunition of the fort was nearly exhausted and the stock must be replenished or all would women and prey to the merciless About sixty yards distant at the house of enezer Zane there was a keg of powder If that could be procured they would successfully to fort and keep the bay Not a man or boy for and would have worried more had strength lasted tor tho furor of madness then hnd possession of him He may he slain while on these exclusions but if he returns home and soeka the darkness and quiet of his former abode His thirst increases but with it conies the swelling of the throat plunge his head into water so ravenous is his but not a drop of the liquid can be swallow though its surface d with in consequence of the makes to gulp the smallest quantity ho The throat lo that extent will permit nothing to pass He is the of the most horrid inflammation of the stomach the most intense of the els His state of suffering is most pitiable He has lost all self-reliance even feeling gone He flies at and pulls to pieces everything tha is within his reach One animal m this eond lion being confined near a fire flew at th burnin mass pulled out the live coals an crunched them He emits the most cries The noise he makes is incessant and pe It begins as a baris which bein too torturing to be is chang a is suddenly rat short m th and sb the poor wretch at lut fails worn out by TUB UTAH p or tiie Utah expedition nre going on at Fort It is hat the troops will be sent out in throe divisons o that they may encamp at different points nd thereby be sure of an abundant grass fo he horse and cattle Gen will soon hi to move at the head of tho whole orce and we no doubt of his being able a good account of in Utah or elsewhere Up to Monday last to hich time our reach nothing had ecn heard from Col command ex- cept that he was fifteen miles from Ash The Terre Alton St Louts railroad company yesterday brought to this city 221 troops destined for Utah They were from Carlisle Barracks Pa were under com- nand of Capt Duncan United States The other officers accompanying were Captain Anderson 2d dragoons Lieut Jackson rifles and Lieut Lee 2d cavalry These troops were it once placed on board the Pacific railroad cars and left at three P II for Jefferson City jy rail and thence to Fort Leaven worth by the Shilling mostly recruits and be assigned to companies en route to Utah on arrival at Fort Ismis Republican 9th A most tant case decided by the New York court MORNING JULY 20 Crop of 1 South IM a the men wise in ught by southern democracy are waging a lerce warfare upon the administration in facts are number of grain which the farmer justification which the will raise this year ich has made for Governor estimates the cro iu Kansas The New Orleans of wheat th is uncompromising in its attacks be twenty-eight million in true southern style to li also of Union if Walker is not recalled be a greater surplus i fire eater How little these jenn is in bad taste nay it is criminal to these things may be while discussing The that they put the en Dred refer is doing the south a great wrong Ue should bu made to feel it Had it not been in 1849 at iliff determination of a large portion of the of the south to cut adrift from the north the estimate for 1857 ifr increase of only 800.000 in i n slave in event of the election of Fremont a which alarmed the more increase in this state h ng in of that section Mr Buchanan had more than that E i to president to-day To the south he is s anything of the im it must indebted for his elevation to the shief magistracy Has he repaid the la he the breaking up of repay it He suffered the cause of the during that time for to wit Nicaragua to be crushed out by a wheat knows th ic official The of Cuba his cigar with the Ostend manifesto be more than one hu Kansas is to be crushed to be lost to per year in the eig ew Is this gratitude what our crop is we ha is injured innocence for you means of is the reward which the faithful will soon be known on its for its services 1 They the assessors made this Buchanan by the cry of disunion whose duty it was to asc st they propose to scare him with products of the sta of sla raw head and bloody bones that as little as we kn le an remains to be seen whether they as capable of judging ho as the editor ol o in carious to observe the boast who relies to Buchanan would not have been reports of others t regard It it had not been for the determination gentlemen who kin south to cut adrift from the north in the crops of our farmers of the election of Fremont and how much they rais of this course they frightened the oblivions of the rapi 10 into his support This of the country held what was charged at the that all the branche it in the faint-hearted conservatives ran are being dev flock of sheep when it was said that in the histo s was in danger To them the that immigration froi e him Mr Buchanan is indebted for his increasing every year w The for if these east of the A I been out of the way Fremont get away are urt carried Pennsylvania and been of the west and that How does Mr Buchanan propose this the products of the of that That is the business increase in quantity and which the south propounds Is keep pace with the t letting Kansas assert her moving unsettled urm southern rights to be crushed is now overspreading by letting Cuba slip fed they have instead h fingers How can you be so become consumers Mr Buchanan The poor south is settled upon their held and refuses to be comforted to be so These think Mr Buchanan will do disturb the figures of for them yet it is not at cannot be y that he is not shamming all by eastern men es in and that it may be all right with comprehend the gi jf before the Kansas game is the west and hence they At any rate if they will not the prices of s I union just now we think we can ways getting them too low ig them something better than do not doubt that so s ninny route to California by way of the are put forth for the o the producer EE the mean time if Mr Buchanan were solicited to publish e I saw flicult deaf ear to their remonstrances just why wool would ru thin the Delta says they will do declined for these effo B Mr Buchanan arrays himself against to cry down the price of Bureau if he turns a deaf ear to remonstrance ind refuses to recall Walker if he several years past lern treachery of that official in a word if they never predict ably in There is lost to the south through such means as ire openly avowed by the Union the whole southern press and the incorruptible of all always give plenty of re will be low We believe t 3 that parties will join in denouncing the in price and that it te us well as tbe so until it is a large per v only so but they threaten to at present y a keeping house on own season these Cincin r Delta further are presumed to know and his gler us put our household in order unmindful of what traitors may say at home or to keep a list of all prepare to work out our own salvation pen in the whole i time has gone by when the south can columns of figures pr hope for justice at more hogs in the co ndc hour of trial has come to Mr that the price must will he remain will every body would be i ity by the words of his own to buy at a higher f: d at do justice to all the people of They began by y in hope lie will but our fears are but the demand 0 WHS our up to m to The faith should have bee of Judge McLean in the case of vas really knocks a hole through Judge the grain buying n Dred Scott decision although it represented trat the stop that the case was not ruled by it of wheat nnd corn to that negroes have some than was needed an ds white men are bound to respect very large export trade 1 in they have the right to sue in the low fund courts to hold property and of wheat to more the state is to protect to twenty-five cents p em to those rights Judge McLean every borly was dec cm with and that in a state where slavery The truth is the f exist every individual without appreciated its vast e color is presumed to be increasing importance s tha ex ry he the burden of proof upon the and hence we bel of arisen The black democracy are afraid will be just as easy pith their distress on this the crops of a commences early in the although the crop o divisons t must grow more painful until the yet we believo there grass takes place They know their it all at good prices 11 soon better than we flo and if figures will be made The Cincinnati statists know of wheat of body who progress lands in this te But we are ow about it we of the crop of the Cincinnati are generally increase of the They do not while the wlule to the fertile 7 year do demand This they must t elements WHo arc the People There lias been published in the ington Union tin article on the subject of the present condition of Kansas which has attracted no little attention H is posed to reflect the views of the tration and if that were not sufficient to stamp it with the seal of importance the views which it promulgates would as com- ing organ of the government en- sure its attentive perusal It is even said Mr the author of it The import of this article is that Gov Walker is in his position that the constitution about to be formed shall be submitted to a vote of the people It is evident from the care with which this editorial is gotten up Early this spring of this product that wool is now eased This shows lion the country unless we hai ices must ruk i reducing th cents ani bushel nt and and the anxiety with which Mr Buchanan and his cabinet manifest in to this Kansas mutter that they do not agree with the lesser lights who revolve about them in pronouncing Kansas and her wrongs a humbug By no means As statesmen and leaders of a party they feel the weight of their responsibility and if they could they would gladly shift the burden which is upon them to other shoulders It is your political popinjays who float on the surface of things without reflecting upon the political convulsions upon which they ride who pronounce the Kansas question a The Washington Union after admitting the propriety of submitting the new con- to the people But who are the What shall he the qualifications of u voter on the constitution when it comes to be submitted We answer that this is for the convention to settle Those who think that the convention might declare the constitution in full force by virtue of own will can hardly deny that they might pend to it a condition requiring it to be first proved by the If they can do this they can also say what classes of persons shall be counted as being part of the people This is the vital point iu the whole Kansas controversy and has been from the ning It was the policy of the Pierce ad- to acknowledge those alone elected the bogus legislature as the eople and to refuse to recognize the free tate men This was the rock upon which leeder Shannon and Geary were Mr Walker has had the sense o avoid it and the administration appears o be willing to sustain him but not ut leaving a loophole for a retreat if the should rebel too strongly That place is precisely the marrow f the is contained in the inter- Who are the people As a general thing it is easy to decide who the people of a territory are but in this case he Washington Union just here begins to imp and finally throws its solution upon he convention and says that they can what classes of persons shall be id as being part of the If permitted to decide it we can easily guess what it will will it to he voters of Kansas There is a seeming fairness in the talkof the border journals just now but they have that game pretty often heretofore ind consequently we have no faith in them They will bear watching on this Kansas question They have not so suddenly be- come converted to right principles for to make it pay low When they ilo come up to the mark of submitting their constitution to the bona fide people of Kansas we shall believe and not till then The free state party in Kansas is in a state of armed neutrality looking on with watchful and anxious eyes They have heretofore proved themselves worthy ol their position and we do not believe they will be deceived by Walker or the tration Correspondence of the from lite 4 July fith MESSRS EDITORS list letter wu a sort f type of this in hino beauty and flowers and ending iu murder nd blood I told you in my last about the murder of a egro boy and I will now yon how the law negro killing or those whone duty it s to administer the law Soon after the negro killed something of a crowd gathered round the body made some passing remark bout its being a good shot The r in the meanwhile standing in the front ioor f the Washington Hotel After of bout an hour the marshal went up to McCoy nd after talking sometime apparently in he lout friendly manner walked up street It seems they went to the mayor's After an examination McCoy was ordered to ill but it being contrary to his principles re- used he would rather go to than to rew a and walked off and left tale The next morning there appeared in American published in this city the following A inquest was held list evening on body of a the property of O W Esq who was shot near the ou Hotel between 5 and 6 o'clock P M The of tbe jury was that be ame to his death from a pistol fired by Neil It is a most lamentable occurrence ud one deeply to be deplored The TO was valuable to his owner and killed passing down the street There ww no invocation whatever and it is charitable to ay that his slayer was laboring under some influence and knew not what he did McCoy was taken before the mayor and after n examination was ordered to jail by his honor or further hearing We learn that he made lis escape from the custody of the officers and s yet has not been taken Tho Whig giving the following account he affair account of the murder doea not differ roto that already published It adds that of the marshal in allowing the Two IX expected the democracy although in a minori- ty undertook to have its own way but couldn't and therefore organized itself into a separate convention The Daily Times says on Mon At a quarter before twelve o'clock yester day C L Chase secretary of the territory took the speaker's desk and simultaneously with Mr North called the convention tc Mr Gorman moved that the convention ad notwithstanding of appeals was that of the North American company a million and a half The import nf the ruling in cases is that thu claims of foreign ors are established with slight modifications and the million trust also the firat hall million trust which secured these foreign creditors are declared valid This decision involves says the New York Evening Post a greater amount of than any one cause ever decided m the courts of this state and we have heard it stated that the costs and counsel fees amount K more than thirty thousand e suits have betn before the courts tic tastes that way they have high ex- the contrary ample in F F in the old THE OK THE slavery the darling of democracy Forney whom Mr Buchanan ungratefully that promotes amalgamation and not defeated for the senatorship is about dom and free suffrage For ing a paper in Philadelphia to pitch into ginia there are mulattos and the the president The begins white population are democrats and know nothings A SEEKER AFTER Argus wants to know a great many things It is a persevering seeker after truth and shows jood sense in applying to the Gazette We will join you in supporting Mr Buchanan and Gov Walker if they will cause their border ruffian convention to submit their to the people of sas although the convention to form a con- about to meet has no more legal power to make one than the Topeka con- them having an enabling act of congress In answer to the Argus we say that the republicans of Kansas never did a convention which denied to the negro the right to live in Kansas Some time or other when the weather is the Argus gets amiable and pleasant we will attend to your other questions about which you are so distressed We are happy to tha gus is convalescent from its latat fit of aud te Utk lite a the fight by pitching into him In sippi Georgia and Virginia the democracy are quarreling with each other but are united in their opposition to the administration while the old hard and soft sore is breaking out anew iu New York Here in Wisconsin the quarrel between the Barstow and factions is iflg fiercer every day and the fate of the Kilkenny cats awaits them AT Chronicle of the 7th inst remarks upon the at The weather for the week past has been ex- 91 dog al s are however worm averaging abi two o'clock P M The cool j and in this we have the advantage o those who live In more southern Tho ho have an idea that Superior is in the Polar regions should drop in upon us now We think it probable opinions would The jury have rendered a verdict 0 manslaughter against tbe owner of the steamer Montreal Rudolph the captain Deva the pilot and B A the mate they also censure Mr the contracting agent They recommend the stringent ment of the law The parties im plicated will be tried at the present o Mart of tanah and that he was permitted to About ten o'clock tbe began to a meeting was called the result of I give you as published in the With all this indignation expressed at meeting and the excitement of tbe there are some facts that appear somewhat The murder was committed between and 5 o'clock P M on the the murderer uade his escape the same night and no effort made to recapture him until 12 o'clock the lay giving at least 24 hours to make good scape The committee appointed by tbe first to investigate affair learned igro that when McCoy left the mayor's office Marshal Fagan followed him up the street and ad a long conversation with him and then ach went on his own way rejoicing but a Df word is no testimony according to he lawi f Mississippi and consequently no notice wai of it by the committee The next day however a white woman wu ound who corroborated the negro had said but it was then too late the report of the had been made and consequently t went for naught I was greatly pleased to see the earnest aeal with which all old minister went in or capturing the murderer and punishing such as had been guilty of neglect of duty it was said iu the meeting in the evening hat McCoy had said in the presence of the and marshal that he would rather go to than to jail our methodist minister said in hat case it was the duty of the marshal to take a pistol and send a ball through his head opening the gates of wide so thai he could enter without impediment The result of the whole affair is that a man was murdered in cold blood in broad daylight in the streets of Vicksburg and one a defies the city of Vicksburg and the stato of Mississippi to take him and makes his escape The most tant result is to the owner of the negro Mr G Bender Esq who loses tbe price of the Negro which was right smart Yours TYPO journ until twelve o'clock to-day which motion was put to vole by Mr Chase and amid th tho most tumultuous confusion and in a deal ning thunderstorm of and e pronounced the convention a motion had been put and wt T J republican be clecte hairman pro tern and he promptly look hi eat The democrats the motion to adjourn adjourn what nd the remaining members of the conventio with their temporary organization Fifty-six legal worn into office A D Balcombe was chosen president by 5 otes and A Babcock secretary by 55 votes The remaining offices were filled with equa unanimity The enabling act was read and a to the act and expressing the wish of the people of Minnesota to cooxe into he union upon a footing with the original A resolution was also adopted instructing Win B Gere as marshal of Minnesota y to proceed immediately to take the census of lie citizens of Minnesota The constitutional convention recognized by 59 republican members has been in session at the capitol sinca the morning of the 13th The democrats 44 members have organized an- other convention in the council chamber with Hon H Sibley as president Secretary Chase having previously appeared at the convention hall and demanded the room for the use ol the constitutional convention which demand was by the president informing Mm that the convention was already in session there and refusing to deliver it up to any other There aro now two conventions in majority and a drafting a con- The Times adda The republican members remained guard again last night every member sticking to his seat with an invincible firmness worthy of Old Hickory This morning they are there ready to expose and defeat any trick that can devise to have new f THE Finn is THE LUNATIC This fire nearly destroyed the main building leaving the wings uninjured The loss is about There was no loss of life The description of the scene among the ing the fire w ill be read with In the meantime the fire was working iu way down the basement of the building and gradually extending into the wings The heat was excessive and the elements bid defiance to the paltry efforts of a single stream of The most fearful feature of the scene however was the awful cry of the or sir hundred in were inmates of the building Ike men who are kept in tbe right wing were comparatively quiet but the screams and antics of the females in the left wing were appalling The larger portion tered heartrending cries for relief many ed prayers at the top of their voices ers made the air vocal with crazy and ligible Many of the females were ly removed to a grove in of the ing while the men were in order for an instant departure should circumstances quire it FOURTH OT JULY is SOUTH They have the impudence to celebrate tbe 4th of July in South Carolina The position of natural allies of the northern can be seen by the toasts which SOUTH CAROLINA PATRIOTISM A Southern The time come when the south must look to she break loose from yankeedom and form a slaveholding confederacy Sent by a lady God speed the hour when South Carolina will be the first to shake off the shackles of ml tyranny and serve u a model to her fixer of the south COOL AND Smith The banner in porting and promoting the principles of hi CAROLINA FREEDOM Of The hemp crops of Kansas ought to plied in a domestic way to hang free stale in the FIRE Chinese for which no useful service greater than producing on the ny can n hope in the ty It longer lacks but with tbe stamina that right always needs iu wdk up like men ud do without faltering Bon of the fourth of July hare heretofore been discovered at last been applied lo cal account In some of the New slates caterpillars are destroyed with They to place one on the end ot a thrust the nest and knock them afl to flinders It will take crackers to demolish a nert U small collections a single explosion b Tne this work but go air U ii or Mirror The new bu a magio the ascendency over the rowdy being
