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jsfc be-•3Dipa7jf thefodderofltde ds—a r than obata-Iy laid it fflf-v fault rou-I avcivwest.1£Ca '-old states, life ot ne in-prac-jor byo themark ai icidLree-3, are)t eat-f Jnis-, and farm-Keu-throe corn,»Ut ID d andas lit-Our i laud ?f oae r oivn t love k.s on quail's andlOUgll' yeaure of prinjjj 5 dai-?d ill e iiveThe Harper'll Perry Invc^il^ntiug Committee.A witness before the senatorial Harper Ferry Committee, after delivering liis test mony, comes to the following conclusionsI. That this government is not ad mini tered on economical principles. This 1110 mug Senator Mason banded me au order c the secretary of the senate for two bundrc and fen dollars—in return for which he hi twenty pages of foolscap, nothing at it dollars and fifty oen is a page. For a si milt amount ol equally valuably rubbish Riel ard Reall' collared over six hundred dollar federal currency. Augustus Watties' toe about three hundred and fifty dollars i mileage : Arny a. like amount; ar.d so goes. The investigation will not cost leS than one hundred thousand dollars whe the bills are all footed, and ihe net resul will not he worth one hundred red cents.II. That the committee will not be read to report before the presidential election.-All the evidence taken thus for washes tl republican party clean of John Brown au Harper's Ferry. This is Dot the enter tail ment to which the investigators invite tbemselve3. They will manage to slave o the printing of the testimony, on one pie or another, till next winter. They will pn tend that important vvi La eases are still wan nig. They will not give the coLiitry glimpse of ihcir report this season, The will not contribute that electioneering doui meet to the republican side, “if thecou; understand herself.”III. I conclude, lastly, Ihut John Brown purpose was Lo get together four or (iv hundred slaves, pun rifles in the bauds c the more intelligent und pikes into those c the remainder, and entrench himself ia Ui mountains. In ibe fas aiesses which he ha selected bo could hare maintained himse! for thirty days against any force which coul have beep Koi.it against him. The news t the insurrection would have spread lik wildfire north and south. It would hav pouetratcd through I he thick darkness whin envelope liifj slave population. It woul have carried an indescribable panic to ever southern plantation and fireside. Itwoaii have sent him reinforcements from huu dryds of negro quarters, Wheu troop:, were sent north to nut off his retreat u .t the ■ Lannda, be would have marched south. Hi chest | prcssuee ■'* TeanuSscc and the Carolina: ' would haveereared a pandemonium in who* coulusion and terror he expected that slave ry would somehow, in some nude fined way have an end. If ho (Brown) should fo-p pen to lose hia life in the turmoil, Ihntwouk be of the least possible consequence. He would trust to the elements brought ink conflict to work out the problem by natiira laws. I am not prepared to say that the re suit, would have disappointed his cxpnetu lions iJ he had got away from Harper's Fur ry w:th five hundred well armed negroes But his movement was preeipi'ated at ieas a week before the rime he had chosen.— V arious theories nrw advanced to accoun: lor Liiis Ja tali tv, .but the iuu8t intelligible anf is that one cf‘ his men deserted the day before the blow was struck, and that Blow had reason to believe he intended to betray him. Another tlmury is, that he a adtiuch,keep us a.ti haslustanyount.large2T0W-ht oflg it edict ihou*naci:ornes.deck y- ; men were suspected by die citizens of IIs ofC*J03peris Ferry, and that if they hadrviun.itA . , ^ ’ 'V. . I U ...inactive anodicr day ttiev would have bor at arrested. It is curtain that soitialfiiuffa cod ider*displat*ilisb-ches took i thejll£:pped o or .ems lieiul tied, fi bail led vn n-'ti cd itpci led uiin to strike before lie had plat hitnsFjh ai rapport with the slaves, mm. his fate with the calmness of one v wa.ii conscious that he bad ruined no c else by his act3. He was a man who irs clod on his own muscle. Wheu he buLl.oi his coal he enverrd the whole vcsponsibil tor Ins deeds. And for this reason Sena Mason s comm* Use will catch nothing ibou they ti.-;h -Jlj the crack of doom.:n ps s ofti in b.-—?acliikerbol-ilue* ■‘age If cs.thehenisosaad.andxes, five I hat the 5Gn-ght ack bad rcat a?v ir;u }.jrn,T l7i*ox a Bake.—-Rev. Lu Smith, presiding older of one of the dliuia cqnfeieujud. gives the following count of Morgantown. 5-j djrd state, on the peculiarities of which is ihat it is b on [i lake :\\ c read o: a cit;q set upon a hill. Morgan town, in my dislrici, stands upo iakr7! lids vras not known for a mini oi years a her the town was settled. . disco very was made by digging wells to rcure a full supply of water. The supab water m thy wells which had boen \u fadiiq: iti the dry season, a few years siione of the citizens concluded to sink a \ deeper and .-.ce i( lie could not strike a strc er vein. When some thirty-five or forty ■ below the sui'ullv nf the ourtlq. the jiiai work in the we 1 suddenly s'.ruek his p Ihrougn n crul: the water gushed up vsuch rapidiiv that it was with difficultywas saved by the nine at thy windlass/ a lew momcatM the water was 50me liftIcetueep in the v,■_■]]. In two or three stances afterward-,;, liien '.vevu near bein’r'uy coming suddu:,iy upnn this inexhanstiiuuiiuinui water.. M ulls have been si in dikercui pari3 of ihe town from ead' c or and I believe forty foet is the eroaijluprh to rsiich ibi* lake. Lead lines L; been dropped into several of these we mil no bi«:om has beau found. In di™ down to this hiky riney invariablv ^ p ihriv.tgli. strata of sand, leaves m,d timr rc^cnibung driftwood. This is sometwe!theair.red.I injy;rupt. ■ huiow the stii’iace of the lt;*ar;ij. •’ hoy j Posing through these strata, a sinner but. tlay is found, and when with in some t icon i”:he? of the lake a lmrd crust is ro cn. v.*::ich l a sure indicaiion that ihcy n ear ihe v. a: lt;?i\ W h on t he y rc a oh this c y a wall l hern on, carrvijllt; f,ie t(1P r,f the v;eil. then put down :i !. o.ngtu-. and bore a hole to the water, w fl us tics up With -Trent force filling \h*I rum fifteen to I we us y ibQZ in r. foV m!n\ « hen 1 be nngar strikes the* lake thy nti pherc bursts up for a lew seconds, pro-. !nff ^ son in J very much resembling the b 1.* ■ if‘= cff of steam from an emrino. I 1Uo ■ !HU ^V’on a!l lIlc pn^icuhird^ of what .no . hC0n discoid of ibis njvslerioas fol;-,'v i VnDl!^n i?* knew 10 settle it hevoudn dc\ \UiA u,° v*'hol° Bland* upon a laV1 ,l der ground, tnr;a51*1-enttheT5bea sDougla.s* SfiDnmx Law.—it is u.^ worthy foot that western journals in th w . j torcst uf Mr. Douglas, mako no fo; nd. pennon oi that got tie mans Ihein-rcr.rs.antvsv . . c- proposill|U for a sodition law. Indeed, since the ith cl-jurly shown that, the design of;m- ! 'ilr w;lb 10 iuiprison men and subject tis*- j !° h^^yy pecuniary penalties for their p xylw mu opinions, not cim of lb esc journals vcnl tired u reuiurk in relation to il, r.iev iuvs it received the indorsement of t-l tlio non horn dcmocralic stf.ks con lions. In the Jowa domocralic slate vot 111011, the oilier day. one of the doles J ro 111 tlie rural uislricis, who could not derstand the difforoneo l-etweon indor; the man and. his priacipW, offered u v hilion approving of the sedition luvv *I lie lejuiers, who U:iew a thing 01* two/ no Liioo in vholiing him down’ and smot mg the rc50hHio:i. But, while Don anti lu.s Irii-uds ni*ii thiiK wary in ihcii ell 3b- to prc.vcrvu him from tbtf odium of measure at the north, he has ;i uumbemen constantly employed in sending1ST*ifcvlet*ish:usno:x-m*\vc)h.!X.Ill-cdcdL\rshoeofcopies of Us speech in its advocacy fo s.nveholdiug states* Qnc account savs*2aIdit-lyjnd!3.IvQ-toover three hundred Ihonsnnd copies o: speech have already been sent into southern slates, and that Lo^an, Yn dingbam and Larrahoe are still busiR gaged 111 the work of franking them. ’'r'- bo remembered, v the ismnolsoii letter in lBIB. for the pose of securing lIig nomination for pvesiacucy. The letter answered its lt;mal in 1 out. but it defeated the elcctio Us author. Douglas* sedition law wa; a on b ted h* designed to iiidueuco the Cha ton convention to give him the nyiniuait will scf.rcc:y accomplish the purpose 11 it sbonlil mollify the south m far 1 gel him the nomufofion, the effect unor north will render his defeat in XoVer certain.— Chicago Tribune,s?Loil*10ulaMPRllAXCE LeCTC-2 , Httsh, of Champaign conn tv, in C has recovered five thousand dollars of ] Dawson for lbe loss of her foot In ] the case is this; • Dawson sold liquor t. nusband of the plaintiff; and the bus' under its influence made un-assault 1lus wile ana so injured he-x foot; that ai tation was necessary. She brought under jld act to provide against the resulting from the. sale of inLoxfoatmw wors 111 the state of Ohio/' and the jury tiered smd verdict. The jMae-a-che-kI says: •“ Dawson has accumulated consider property in thiy iieforious traffic, and is t ;or fie sum, though it w'.ll swamp hk I hi3 is ouo of the best temperance loot ct ,hc day, and will have more effect or rnmsoJIcrs thau all the blowings and tt of loetotalerft coa'ibinedJ7■- __ISL. TLe first stain election for lS'Cibo bald iu New Humpahire, next TneA Goveruoi- and uiombere of the legisl•nrclo bo'elected. James P, Cate is.democratic cand -date far go?craor, antiGoodwin the republican nominee. ••■G■vria'a majority last March was 3,500.
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Janesville, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Mar 09, 1860
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