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5TT7' ' - . -' , - " .'-V J - i n.-.. - - ' - ' 1 I1 -' J -Jm l h 1 nr i'ii ' -- i . " ill , J I MP' - :!f- i ''WA:'C'"!'';'t W3B?S3& , . $ & ........ -z - k IOL. MILLER, EDITOR AXD PFBLISHER. . TERMS .0d PER 1SXVJI, II ADTAXCI.' VOLUME , . IVIgTE CLOUD, KANSAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, .1858. NUMBER 46.1 1 iljn 1 1 1 ij 1 rjim ANn Tut iim nu ...JOEOJET THEE!" Fnrt tfa! Ay, wta lift AU Tirilltkiihelfl ofi! feot at nB tl cm I for Oh, m' it "injl" ,k Of ewrtkio I Awl Uiint trm I tn t'n 6ft Om lh U4 fc"' To TOfi Woe iltJi abon. ' I thiol haw oft le fl h"' Oa rbaM bri(kt ect rvra; Aid ai tixf mil iliriwarJ cr, SliD dao-elou, elf of ooj fM, I Ihiak ko I b tlwta, lo ajr trie Ion for tbr. ForjMtkm! Tif i kit tor wot-J I msU h wm MMid FrtfBjoti ii aot with life, Bui with the likat oral; Awl till too icy aoJ of oroth . Shall clvp or thrjbbiot brow. Toil heart shall ttill remaia as true, As eoastaat par u aow. Forot thee! rMiOfl I kneel ia prayer, Thoa still art by my tiJe, And thr toft tones aoeoj aainglinf with Oar fanoa at erentiilo; And whea thy aame is btenoeJ vita Earh pore aail hallowed thoovht, Ja ferreat oritaat tn Ilearea Say, eaa'st thoa be forgot! Forget thee! Tes, wbea o'rr sny gnrm The careless foot shall rroaH; U'hea thil sad heart hath foand it! rest With all the ()oiet dead I tbea snay eease to think of thee, As earthly eacrtals Jo; Rat, oh! Ill nieet thee, lore, ia Fiearea, With heart aoehaned and true. PtsrtlLwmrSo HAKES 07 STATES. Tlv lolloaing inrormation relative to tlie de riratiuns of the names of the States, will be found iiitertsting: Maine was first called MarvM'hrn, but about K)'!-1, took the name it now bears, from Maine, a province in the West of France. The name U originally derived from Ccnnmanni, an an cient Catliolic people. Hew Hampshire was the name given to terri tory granted by the Plymouth Compiny to CaQ -HUH tn wipu, uj in limu, anil was uenv- ed from the patentee, who was Governor of Portsmouth, in Hampshire, England. Vermont is from rertf, gi eon, and moat, moAn uin. MasMclinsetti was named from a tribe of In dians in the vicinity of Boston. . Roer Will iam" rays the word signifies bine hills. Rhode Inland was so called in 1644, in rela tion to the it land or Rhodes, in the Mediterra nean. New York was named in honor of the Duke of York, to whom this territory was granted. Pennsylvania was called after William Pcnn. In 1664, the Dnke of York made fcrant of whit is now the State of New Jersey, to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Cartaret, and it re ceived its name in compliment to the latter, who had been Governor of the island of Jersey. Delaware was so called in 1702, after Lord Ie La War. Maryland was named In honor of Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles t, in hii patent to totd Baltimore, June 3, 1532. , Virginia was so called after the virgin, piiia beth. Queen of England. The Carolina, were named by the French, in honor of Charles IX, of France. Georgia was called in 1692, after Geonre II. Louisiana was named alter Louis XV-s of France. Florida received its name from Ponce De Le on, in 1512, while on his voyage in search of the Fountain of Yonth. He discovered it on Eas ter Sunday in Spanish, Pre Fltrda. Indiana was named from the American Indi ans. The States of Connecticut, Alabama, MUsis ppi. Tennessee, Kentuck, Illinois, Arkansas, Ohio. Miasouri, and Wisconsin, are all named from their principal rivers, and the names are of Indian origin, excepting, perhaps, Kentucky and her meaning is involved In some obscurity. Michigan was named from the Lake on her borders. Iewa is an Indian name; also, Texas, slgnl- fxing beautiful. California was thus named by the Spaniards, ' a very early day. A Don. n Pkiuadclthi Charles De Char mint and R. Sherdon,two Philadelphia dandies, (?ot into a qoarrel at a party in that city, about their fancy vests and shirt studs, and a challenge the consequence. Time, place, ke.r were arranged. When they arrived o the ground, f seconds discovared that the surgeon engaged le occasion, had brought ease or obstetri cal instruments, instead of those for goa shot wound, and extraatina- K.1U- tint . tK k.i '. in their trepidation, forgotten the balls, and had nothing to load the pistols with bat a piece of old newspaper and a little damaged powder. 'te Kistakjt ansa S -.1 -r - ''D was concluded to say no thing it. At the first fire Sherdon feH, ftwm f"t,todi)eCbariiiositfled. Bherdoo recev however the erplanatioa that there was D 1)111 the pistol, conducing more to his eoa ,fence than the doctor and his instromenU; Dt Charmont has not since been heard of, M lk " ttooght he has taken the steamer for f- He may be recognised by his fancy snrrtitBds.' , Governor Denver tertiled as follows before Legislative Committee on the election lrud in KaMM, "I sked Calboon, the nest dav after the Utftfm Catitatia.m 1 SEC1ET HI6T0ST OF TEXAS. The New Orleans Picaynne. of a late date, says The present canvass for Governor of Tetas is throwing a good deal or light npon some por tions of political history that hare been hitherto Very obscure. Gen. Houston is a candidate for GoTernor, and In his electioneering speeches, which are mainly personal, resting his elaiwsto wpport on old erviee to Texas, he has made statements of faeU, and allusions to individuals which twoToke denial and retort. The diploma- ic mysteries of annexation are opened to the j-nblic. and a rers dear insight riven into the negotiations of 1844-45. which Houston after wards describes as " enqueuing " with England, bnt which subsequent facts show to have been a very serions proposal to pot Texas under the control of GreaCBriUin, buying her protection by the pledge never to consent to be annexed to the United States. These things have been hinted at and charg ed often before against Gen. Houston. They are now distinctly revived and the proor fur nished by Anson Jones, formerly President of Texas, and the Secretary of State under Hons ton's administration, when these negotiations were undertaken, The present dispute commenced between Houston and Gen. Finckney Henderson, who wss one of the negotiators or the first (rejected) treaty with the United States in 1844, wherein the United States assumed the payment of the debts of Texas, in consideration of the cession of the public domain of the State a good bar gain for the United States which the Senate refused to sanction. In the course of this can vass Gen. Houston has asserted that this treaty was made without his authority, and against his express instructions, and he accompanied this declaration with terms of great personal abuse of Gen. Henderson. Anson Jones was appealed to for testimony to the falsity of this denial, and has responded in a letter, which gives the flat test contradiation to everything which General Houston said on this subject. He states that the treaty was negotiated on instructions furnish ed by himself, which were fully sanctioned by nous ton; that after the treaty was received, it met with Houston's uqualified approbation; and that he has the evidence of this in Hous ton's own handwriting. Proceeded to defend the commissioners, Messrs. Henderson and Van Zandt, against the attacks on them by Houston, the ex-President uses the following plain words I can imagine, therefore, of no condemnation severe enough for a man who, knowing all this, and actuated by a low, sordid, grovelling ambi tion for a petty office, would assert to the eon' trary, unless there be, as Milton expressed it, in the lowest depths a depth still lower," to which he might be appropriately consigned. with other hyenis. in human form, that prey up on the dead, and " lire on garbage." He goes on, however, to state some addition al facts bearing on the negotiations of that trea ty, and the history of annexation, for which he vouches, as Secretary of State, and during most of the time actual President, because Houston was seldom at the seat of government. When it was apparent, just previous to the Presiden tial election In 1844, in the United States, an nexation would fail In the United States Senate, Gen Houston, without communicating through the Secretary of State, adopted the policy of an immediate closing with England, and wrote, with his own hand, direct instructions to the Texas Commlasioners In Washington CHy, to accept the proposals of a Joint guarantee of France and England, upon the pledge to be msrie that Texas would never be annexed to the Uni ted States. The Secretary of State, and the foreim min isters disagreed withen. Houston, and the plan was frustrated. Ex President Jones adds: "Gen. Houston took an opposite course, and had I coincided with him, the foreign alliance wpuld have been consummated, and annexation dafeated." This letter is on file at Austin, with another, which Gov. Jones refers to as a diplo matic curiosity. According to his version, it contains this instruction to the agents of Texas: make the foreign ministers drink two glasses of wine to yonr one, and thus obtain their se crets from them!" Sharp practice that! Fud dle your opponents and pump them! We sup pose that in iew of this extra duty. Imposed upon Texas Ministers abroad, that Houston es timated a hard head as among their necessary qualifications. The best diplomatist must be a good toper! We hare sail aside this letter of Anson Jones upon Houston, as one of the aids for understan ding the political history of annexation, and shall look carefully to what Houston may har to say In reply. A Txaaraix Lea oca. The Paris correspond ent of theTew Tork Times, speaking of the late attempted assassination or Louis Napoleon, says: ' It is reported that one of the prisoners, Radio, has tamed State's evidence aind that, in his eoofeesion.he has revealed a plot that does not offer a very smiling prospective for the Empe ror. According to Rudio's confesaioo, the con spirator were fire hundred in number. They are bound to their work by terrible swth, and their object is the assassination of La Napo leon. Each year, or oftener, if eu-ro instances will warrant the attempt, the whole band are to draw loU from a box, in which there will Ve fire winning numbers. The Ire members drawing these are held to put in immediate exeeation aa attempt npon the Eajperor'e life, which shall be approved by the whole society, and by those who are charged with Its execution. The soci ety has plenty of money for carrying out its de- A Wiaawasin twrrsspondeTit of the Rochester Union states, that ia going ft Prairie da Chlest to La Croase. a few days ago, a ringnlar seene was presented on the ateajnooat. At ooavrod or the long saloon a clergyman was preaching to a small crowd gathered around hira; la the middle gambling was ke boat progress; and at the other end of the saloo there were eie and dancing. WXSTE&S f rZCTSLATXOV, In an editorial letter to the Boston Traveller, dated at Keokuk, we find a more truthful view of the state of affairs and prospects at tha West than i observed by many or our eastern exchan ges, most of which seem to think that because we are draining their region of capital and en' terprising men, we must therefore be-going to destruction by the lightning line Des JnTeiar VmJUf Wiiy. "My observations hare certainly been hasty, they mav have been sap racial; but such as they hare been, th y lead me irresistibly to the con clusion that commercial writers at the east are wrong in ascribing to speculations in western lands the present stringency in the money mar ket, and furthermore warning eastern farmers not to emigrate to the west. For my part, I believe that if many who still cling to the east, were to come out to the fertile valleys of this great west, it would be greatly to their advan tage. Where they now are, they can hope for but little more than they already possess. Here there is nothing reasonable or desirable for which they may not justly hope. Now it seems, and is a very plain proposition, when the best prairie lands of Iowa, than which the sun never shone on lauds more beautiful, can be purchased for from $1,25 to $10,00 per acre, and when one acre of that land will produce from forty to one hundred bushels of corn, and when corn is worth ss it la now and will be for years at least, fifty cents a bushel, that farming in the west must be profitable to an extent never before known. Here, upon the same extent of ground, three fold can be produced above that in New Eng land, with scarcely one-third the labor. There are many other :acts, of course, which should enter into a correct calculation of the relative advantages of farming at the east and the west, such as the price of Isnd, and the notorious fact that for two-thirds of what is produced on a farm there is a better market here than in New England. The advantages are all on one side, and will be so long as Immigration continues. An old lady residing about twenty miles from this city, informed me the other day, that for the last year the Income from her poultry yard was some $8 per week, during nearly the whole year, and that during the aame season her cows paid for themselves ia a few weeks, and well they might with butter ranging at from 25 to 50 cents per pound milk 5 to 8 cents per quart ggs from 12 to 40 cents a doxen, Ac. Many farmers who had not the means to purchase farms are getting rich in renting land, paying from two to foqsdollars per acre annually (yf farms under cultivation, and with the necessary im provements. Lsnds within fifteen miles of the city can be' purchased now for from five to twen ty dollars per acre, and that too of the rery best kind or land, having the advantage of a market for every kind of produce better than even the New England railroad towns possess. It seems to me apparent that it la not the speculation but the short crops which hare caused the stagnation in business that now ex ists almost universally. When money is inves ted in land, it remains in the country, and can not directly conduce to a scarcity. But when money is invested in tilling the soil, and the crops Tail, that smount of capital is thrown away. destroyed, and it is this which conduces to stringency in the money market and consequent stagnation in business. Now it is a notorious fact that two out or the last three crops have been, as to some important articles or produce, I 1 ... 1 soooooooooooiiBaaaaaaaassiiaooajoaa --'----w-'waiwawawawawawawsaaaaaoooooooooooo almost universal failures. There have been twoT rights and that the Administration can ne- rery cold successive winters, late springs andVoags dry summers, which have so affected the crops that in the midst of the richest corn .growing country in the world, corn has sold at even fire dollars a bushel, potatoes at two dollars, and ev erything else required for consumption at the same rates. Now any one must see that whether or not there has been one dollar invested ia land more than was actually cultivated, the present condi tion of things would be the natural and inevit able result of such crops. It is to my mind equal ly apparent that if the crops had been universal- good and abundant, it would be impossible for the present state of things to exist. - II Is simply folly for papers like the. New York Herald and other croakers to compare the pres ent with the times or '36 and '37, and to draw any conclusions from the one to apply to the other. We have no United States Bank, nor any othermonied monopoly, about which a Jack son and a Biddle may quarrel, and which expi ring, unprepared for death, shall again shake to their foundation, the finances of the country, and engulf in ruin the business and property of millions of our citixens. The country is not now, as then, flooded with a worse than worth less currency, created by an illy digested system of legislation, to supply the place of a defunct National Bank. 1 - - Then the country was full of produce, for which there was no market, so that farming, which most always be one great resource, and constitute the means of our national wealth, was ruinous investment, even in the midst of the most bountiful crops. Now our aggregate cur rency U of a healthy and reliable character, al most as safe a could be reaswraably expected or desired, while every article of produce ia in the greatest demand, and farming has become the most surely lucrative employment. It seems ev ident, therefore, that all we need to relieve the present stringency ia the none y market is a good and aairersal crop the coming fall, and for that the prospect, so far as I hare observed and nquired, is good. Asxxxno os tub Dwetjsav F red. Douglass complains bitterly that the friends of the aboii tion of slavery are falling away from the cause, some for one reason and some for another, and good many because "Its principles required them to treat th? colored maa as an eqaal bro ther in all the relations of f.N ; There's the rub-Uhs Aboti tionists never were the irOf friends of the colored race, and after preaching equality and freedom so long to them, tbey shrink with loathing from the twtUal lllsatra. don of tbrir own iketrin, ad would alpnost as rote la contact with SaUa himself as a VA H1,1,YZX atSgSTOES. AJC IRISH wOXG. BY ME. CEAWFOBD. ; d in watlaf with (bo aaj day, . Flaws faMoa Sremass of the, . . I watch tha wriest lamkiaaai paay Ataaf ttwaaarpbaaa, , O! thea I wsaM aat ihian hat weep, Aa thoa wert aslao So saere. MaAiDeoaA . VThtt twilight ktiaja tha woepiai hoars, . That sadden an th (Tore, And aaureb tewv their saairr kosrers. To watch o'er taitkial hrra, Thy awsriaa ararab, to as so snoot, I breads theas o'er and Vr, ' Ah! franaackt, asa rkollasaasnre. Ma Ailleea Aabstore! - " Bat two they'll by aa ia the am, . When Inkea hearts shoald be; And whea, beyond the distant ware, - Thoa dreasa'st of ateetiag as. My sorrows all will be for rot. And all th lor I hot. Ah, eraaaarhre, asa eboToraoare, Ma Ailleea Ashstoro! A HXW CATKCEISX. The following catechism, which bad its orj gin in the State or Tennessee, is reproduced for the benefit or the Delegates to the late Demo cratic Convention at Harrisburg. The copies for the Philadelphia Delegation are to be done np in black covers, and will be distributed on application at the whiskey saloon or Bill Mc Mullin. No charge for the "strychnine" for ono week: Question What's your name? ' Answer Lick Spittle. Q .Who gave you this name? A. My sureties to the Administration, in my political charge, wherein I was made a member of the majority, a child of corruption, and a lo cust to devour the good things of this land, Q. What did your sureties then do for you? A. They did promise and vow three things in my name, r trst, that I should renounce the people and all their works, the pomps and rani ties of free-born sovereignty, and all the sinful lust of Independence. Secondly, that I should believe all the articles of the kitchen cabinet faith; and thirdly, that I should keep the Prcsi dent's sole will and commarUients, and walk in the same all the days of my life. Q. Dost thou not think that thou-art bound to believe and to do as they have nirjmiaed fur meet A. Yes, verily, snd for my own sake, so I will; and I heartily thank our Federal Prcsi dent, that he has called me to this state of ele vation, through my flattery, cringing and dupli city; and I pray to his successor to give me ass istance, that I may continue the same to the end of mv life. Q. What dost thou chiefly learn in the arti cles of thy political faith, as expounded in the Cincinnati Platform, and the contradictory edicts of the President? - A. First, I learn to forswear all conscience, which was never meant to trouble me, nor the rest of the tribe of Buchanan politicians. Sec ondly, to swear black is white, or white black, according to the good pleasure of the President. Thirdly, to put on the helmet of impudence, the only armor against the shafts of patriotism. Q. What ia National Democracy? A. Swearing thai President Buchanan is al- do or be in the wrong. Questioner All right! that's what we mean by the phrase of Democratic principles. .. Faxai DEXTatnaix to as CowncrXD or Ditlicttt. Parson Brownlow, writing to the Knoxville Whig, from New Orleans, gives the following aa a portion of the evidence by which fillibuster Walker expects to convict the Presi dent of duplicity in his conduct toward the Nic araguan expedition: - When Walker was arrested snd held to bail in the sum of $2,000, to appear at the Federal Court in New Orleans, Col. Slatter, a rich old bachelor ia the city, went his bail. Slatter is the owner of the City Hotel, and the New Or leans Arcade, two houses which be rents for about $40,(00. He has $40,000 in the Nicara gua enterprise, snd has been the friend of Walk er all the time. Ex-Senator Soule, also, has large investments in Central America, and both them went before Buchanan, with WalkeaSsd heard him rnmit Wtlker not Is interrupt arm ia kU expatitim. Walker demands his trial, and both or these men will be witnesses, and will twrwr fits t fir fetfrrw Court. What a fix it will place the old hypocrite in! It will place" hiws where) hn atand 34 rears a ro. in the ifcW of " bargain, intrigue and corruption," which he originated against Clay, back up by old Geo. Cremer! It will how hira np to the world as a hypocrite, a two-faced and insincere man, and a grey-headed old demagogue!' " It is s disgrace to any grocery keeper to be detected ia such dopHeity ! It is unworthy of a eomtnon black-teg; but how much more dis graceful to the President of the United States! The testimony of these twe men will be believed throughout the Bute of Louisiana; aad npon their testissosy. Walker will be acquitted by the Court at the expense of Buchanan's charac ter." - ' Bason Mweciuwr". Miss Brewster, (daugh ter of Sir David.) ia her " Letters from Cannes and Nice," says; "Baron Munchausen is at Nice! My father met bias at a pic nic, the oth er dav, and heard free hiss the history ef his celebrated namesake. . One of his atweston had a chanlain who was famous for ' drawing a long bow' told. In fact, the most false and extrava gant stories. His patron, the Baron of those dsys, wrote a book out-Herodmg Herod, being a collection of still more BjarreihjoaMven tares. few trse mamnac of shaming ts faHest. for which laudable design We was p-nished, by having his own name held ap to posterity ssthf story-teOer er'f JMffimfi . I 'f i''- "' This shows thai U is rery daagerows tote, even In jest The Mniichasjiens are i a Haw lien fatullv.- ir ' xxs. crnnraroHAJrs early history. Mrs. Cunningham came from bad stock, snd she and her sister, Mrs. Barnes, were known in Brooklyn, where tbey were raised as the 'Hemp stead girls. She has, (rom her school-days been in bad repute, ajid it was the common saying in Brooklyn, that V the theory or the Bible was true, that the iniquities or the fathers descended on the ' children to the third snd fourth genera tions,' It would take at least 'forty generations.' A smart, bold, good-looking girl, she attracted the attention of a Mr. Cunningham, of Brook lyn. He was of an excellent fa mil v. His fath er was a leading man in the church or Rev. Dr. Spring, then or the 'old brick Church,' and so remained till the day or his death. This good old man, however, brought up his son to the business or a distiller, and he swen ed from the good wsy or his father, and was a hea viness to his mother. He became fascinated with Emma Hempstead, and be lived with her for a number or years. His family felt the foul disgrace, and mourned over the conduct of a son and brother. He was then in business and ma king money. But if the family felt the disgrace or his un lawful connection with thia woman, a deeper disgrace was in store for them. They were hor rified to know that this woman, with whom Mr. Cunningham had lived for six years, had actu ally become his wife, and that she was really Mrs. Emma A. Cunningham; then began his real troubles. He failed in business soon after his marriage, and in about five years afterwards he died very suddenly, net without suspicions of foul play. He was attended by Dr. Catlin, or Brooklyn. And when Mrs. Cunningham urged Dr. Uhl to aid her in her fraud, she said to him that Dr. Catlin would assist her, ' she had him in her power.' And since the death or her hus band, she has been a gentevl woman or the town keeping a house with some repute of cleverness, and taking In such boarders ss she chose. The character of the late Dr. Burdcll was no better than her own. He knew the wo man well, and had her in his house because he knew her. And the summers she passed at the Springs and Newport with the grown np daugh ters, indulging in the luxury and dissipation or those celebrated places; and both Mrs. Cun ningham and her daughters poor, and with no visible means or support, tells its own tale. Seaaxct. Lrrrra raoa the Kixo or Slaw. The New York Journal of Commerce sav: Ve have been shown a lithographed copy of atter from the King of Siam, to an Amer ican gentleman, which shows a very fair know ledge of the English language on the part of the writer, and displays a good hand writing. It reads ss follows: Rorar. CHaaraa, Gbaxo Pat.acT,) Bangkok, 19lh May, lt57. , No. 160. Ex-Majore Reee, Siamensiom. To S. E. Burrows, Esquire, an American old gentleman, visited me yesterday. Sia: When you hare been entertained with me yesterday evening, I beg to state truly that I observed that you were of good characters; indeed, and your conversation in regard to the occurrence at Canton was proving your being righteous persons of real honesty A what you have stated that you have conversed with Sir John Bowring the Superintendent or British trade in China, for needable provision or the Anglo Sirmese Treaty moreover it is best k most favorable to all powerless and dcfendless nations. I beg to offer my great sincere thank for your so good friendly feeling k also for your nd present or a few bottles of American Ckambaines. I have nothing to be presented to you in retrun k expression of my tbsnks to you except these a few lines in myself own roy al band sealed with my private k usual royal seals or stamps which I doubt not will be pleas ed to you much for acceptance and keeping in your hand for my remembrance on future A for showing to your friends ef Europe k America. have the honor to be your worthy good friend. SPPM MENGKUT Major King of Siam, reigning in seventh year. Saavio His Right. One evening last week. two young ladies were proceeding down Con gress street, on their wsy borne; when opposite the first Parish Church, trrj were overtaken by young fellow who tasisted upon seeing them home. The elder of the two told hint that she did not require his company, and that he had better go about bis business. Upon this the fel low walked on ahead and they supposed he had left A few mo menu after, they again met him when he still insisted upon seeing them home. The young lady finding that she could not get rid of him, determined to punish him for. his mpudence, and whispered to her younger sister to go home and place a pail of water on the steps, where she could reach it when she arrived, and then consented that the fellow might accom pany her home, which be did. When they ar rived at the bouse, she Invited him in. He de clined at first but at her earnest solicitation be consented, and was just epoa the point of enter ing the door, whea she caught up the pail, which her sister had placed there, and dashed the con- j tents full in his race. The young man seemed thunderstruck for a moment; but when he re covered himself he struck a "bee line," and the last seen of him he was steering for home with all possible speeds PtrtUnd Aryw: . i . In New York, the Chief Magistrate of the nation is daily prayed for at the union meetings. We have as yet heard no prayers for the Exec utive of ear State, at the prayer meetings being held ia oar city, which omission, we presasse, mud be attributed to his absence from Indiaa apolise sSrwtfswI. ., . No men need praying for worse than Buchan an and Wniaxd, whether at home or abroad. If there ts any probability of their getting better by means of prayer, we haps the pray . mediatelyWiaaaaWi' JruaL framing the !rayyeadaopW ef the reading LeXMtnptooitas ia Owsrtss, we are reminded of the old Quaker lady's ewset re nrjnse to a paamrerTBg store keeper-: Friend, a. ? SW wast . ISIMi A ww m piiy n m ma w 7 t to thy MAY TO APRIL. i. . . U'ithoat yawr showers, 1 Dreed a Sowers, Earh SjehJ a harrea waste appeajo; - If yon doat woo. ' My hloaaoaas sleep. They take each alios ok in row lesrs. If. Aa rosjt decay Mad rooaa foe May, . So I aaast part with all that's asia; My balmy hreeae, . My bloaeniaf trees, To torrid sons thoir sweet rcsiga. III. For April dead. My shades I spread, To her I owe say dress to raj ; ' Of daafhtcTs three. It falls on mo To close emr trio sophs oa esse day. nr. Tha to repose All aaiare root; Month after aaonth aaast And its Tins aa the wiar. May rod Use "ppinff. Aad Saaiaser frolica o'rr her toanh. GXirTRAI JACKS0K S PRIVATE OPIBIOX OF J AXES BTJCHAHA5. CiNci.t.t an, February 10, 1858. A distinguished politician of this city, of the independent Freesoil Democratic order, an ex member of Congress, and a man of restless en ergies, has been writing a series of remarkable articles, which have made their appearance un der the style, " Letters from the Hill-top," in the Commercial, the independent newspaper of this city. One of these letters, which appeared in that paper of Tuesday last, contained the following paragraph: " In this connection, I desire to give a bit of unwritten history, for which I have the testimo ny of a gentlemen present at the interview al luded to. It is well known to the political por tion of our community, that the late Moses Dawson was a (m, personal friend of General Jackson. They corresponded regularly, and Andrew Jackson never passed through this city without having an interview with his old and trusty friend. In 1837, on his return from Wash ington, after the expiration of his second term, Gen. Jackson had a talk with Moses Dawson, in the course or which he used the following language, referring to James Buchanan: ' Mm political lift Aot nogreatrr error to otone for than mv neslect to crush this eirriLC of Pennsylvania. He was the cause of a bitter war between two men of this republic (Clay snd Jackson) who should not have keen so estranged. Hit reprtfrntotiowi touted tht cliaro of bargain tnd tale, and, srAte brought home to him.lemran Iw left mt alone to fart it. Friends interfered then to save him from being exposed, snd I lis tened to them." His utter detestation of the man was express ed by sn emphaticanftamp or his foot, when he spoke or him as the " acrnLK " or Pennsylva nia. After the National Democratic Conven tion of 1844, Jack'son wrote to Moses Dawson, expressing his sympathy with Van Buren in bis defeat, and added: "But I rejoice at the defeat of Buchanan." Cor. iV. F. Evening fear. Tnr awn Now. The bill for the admission ef Kansas into the Union as a State, under the Lecompton Constitution, has passed the Senate. Among the Senators voting "aye," when the bill was put upon its passage, we expect to see the names or R. M. T. Hunter and J. M. Mason, or Virginia; Jefferson Davis, or Mississippi; and D. L. Yulee, or Florida. Let it not be forgot ten that all these gentlemen, in 1850, signed a solemn protest sgainsttbe admission of Califor nia into ths Union as a State, because " First. That it gave the sanction of law, and thus imparted vitality to an unauthorized action by a portion of the inhabitants of California. "Second. Without any legal census, or other evidence of their possessing theOmber of citi zens necessary to authorize the representation they may claim. "Third. Without sny of those safeguards about the ballot-box which can only be provided by law, and which are aecesssry to ascertain the true sense ef the people. "Fourth. As not having sufficient evidence of its (the Constitution) having the assent of a majority of the people for whom it was signed." A Face a.e Caoio ErxEcn. The True Southron, published st Vicksburg, Mississippi, in replying to some remarks of the Richmond Enquirer, derogatory to N. P. Willis, for voting for Fremont says: "As a msn, Mr. Willis had a right to vote for whom be pleased. As a friend of Millard Fillmore, we should have been gd to have seen him vote for that great man and true patriot; but as he did not do so as he chose to vote for Mr. Fremont (if he did so vote,) we see no great difference between voting for him and for James Buchanan. We know plenty or South ern Democrats who voted for Mr. Buchanan, who now regret that tietr candidate was elect ed:' TmemkaotmtkotUation in tawing thai thtf tyrrw Fremont too not eieeitd over lim. We were never able to discover any great difference between them, and we are quite sure that Mr. Fremont could not hare sold the Sesth more effectually than his saeeessful competitor has done. But this aside, we wish to see the great fields of religion and literature exempt from partisan connieta." - genie parties seem to be trying to change the DewMcratic creed about the admission of new States. It ased to read: " New States shall be admitted, with or without slavery, at the peo ple of the State may desire." The new veru'en reads: New States shall be admitted, with or without I be consent of their people, as Congrtu may ievn."LtnitnIU Dtmoerot. . A CasaotaJi KjMv Our Canadian cousins are advocating the erratic of Canada Into aa Indepersdext Kingdom; with a permanent ruler. The most eligible person we know of, to exer cise the regal funetiona. Is John lnsflebox Cal houn, of lcempr7 Notoriety TryhloV TES XnrXXAL HaOTTRCXS Of Southern Illinois are exriUngeonaidarable interest ht certain quarters, from the discoveries , made ia the survey of tha route for toe Sooth- , em Illinois Railroad from Mound City to Gray- , viUe. We learn from private sources that ther developments made by Mr. Jennings, the Chief Engineer, hare surprised even those who were partially acquainted with the mineral riches ef the region. Veins ef brows hematite iron flTw were found from ten to fifteen feet in thickness , that could be drifted without stripolng, and could be delivered at a tunnel head or a furnace at a cost of tl per ton for the ore. The whole re- ' gion is underlaid with strata of coal, which hare i j been penetrated at different points aad (bend tff ' j be four and fire in number, lying ia convenient . ; positions, on upon another, a that all can be j worked together by a single shaft Indications 1 of salt water like that found at Equality for ' the manufacture, were observed at several ' points. A fine chalybeate spring was discovered .1 in one location gushiotg from the tide of the hill, , which had failed to attract any notice from the inhabitants of the entire neighborhood, except . that its waters were so bad that the Cattle would not drink it in the driest times. Signs of lead were observed among the hills in different pla-" ces, and the finest quarries of free and Umestoa,,, presented themselves at numerous points along ; the line. With these rich mineral resources, ; the greater portion of the district is as fertile ' as sny other portion of the rich estate ef IUi- ' nois. . .-.! i But a most interesting fact has been eomme-n nicatcd to us by a friend, who says that a gen tleman who had been miking some geological ', examinations or the district, employed one of the natives to gather for him specimens of the various curious rocks aad minerala fouad la a ' region of country around Elisabethtowa. I . The specimens were packed in a box, aad . transported a long distance to the gentleman's home. On opening the box and removing Its' contents, a large globule of quicksilver was ob" served on the bottom; curious to know where it could hare come from, he began aa Uvesti- ; gation to account for its presence. Finding no other satisfactory explanation, he began to ex- f amine the rock, with a powerful atieroocfrae, and in one of the specimens, to his surprise, he die ' covered particles or quicksilver in its pores. -He sent the rock to Prof. Owen, who, on aiaa-" in lion, pronounced it a rich ipedmea of etna-- lor from which quicksilver la obtained. These , specimens were gathered up promiscnoualy by ' an illiterate man, who picked np only sod a1 were uncommou in their external appearance. ' In what particular location be found the pinna bar, he is unable to tell himself, snd aa he traced' a pretty wide district, be has left a wide field for search to learn if there be more. . The In ference is, there Is more or it and perhaps a valuable vein. We have these facts from the ' highest authority, and a tnortinteUigratMuree. -EoanniUt (Ind.) Dailp JonrnoL T lS'zcao or Hitrroar. Bsyard Taylor,, writing fiom Nubia, in Upper Ejgypt, says: "Those friends of the African race who peiaw to Egypt as a proof of what the race had accom plished, are wholly mistaken. The only negro features represented In Egyptian sculpture, are, those of slaves sad csptires taken in the Ethio pian wars of the Pharaohs. The temples aad ' pyramids throughout Nubia, as bras Daref and -Abyssinia, all bear the Hnerogiyphyoi rs7narcbsv and there is no evidence in all the valley of the Nile, that the negro race ever attained a higher degree of civilization than Is at pi aat el exhibit ed in Conro and Aahantee." So it may be said of the race that la the 4,000 years of recorded history, there has been no eminent poet, law-giver, statesman, or bight inventor or negro blood, and the whole story ol their contact with the whites, hss been invaris-' bly that of servitude snd sebord i nat! ouv f atVeC Thst WaLun Laxi ra low- Judge Crook -ham, of Oskaloosa, who owns land oa the bor-' ders or the famous " wailed lake in Iowa wsays he has often walked roand it has bathed la it waters, and carefully examined Its walls, aad that no man who understands philosophy, er common reason, woalj ever think ef profwwa eing them a work of art la a small partiosi of the lake the water Is from ten to flftoea fee deep, and along about fifty yards of the ehsiir the wind has blown the sand fro a the boaldsra. so that a rery respectable stairway is rbrsaed for, geese to descend to the water. And this Is all, of that wcodrous piece of mechanism which haar so excited the curiosity of antiquarians. ' ' Mr. George W. Kendall, ef the New Crleaa Picayune, writes from bis sheep " ranches'" fa, Texas: "I have pasturage for 20,000 sheep, aadf any number or horses and cattle, end to lee aft this space covered, n now what I aa'a-oaking for. I don't bother my mind a aanmsnt ahowt Kansas or Brigham Young, ee polities ef, any kind dont care who is President fee Godf snd hate the Indians am indifferent about Walker and the devil try to keep my foe warm and my head cool and smoke ary pipe in peace with all mankind." Rod St art or Arraiaau The Ne CYtMS Delta says that thrrs is a aMveuMst going en bs that city, bavins for its object the haTwieVttce) of the eastom of ladies carrying fire arms etniH pistols, such as are known as reel pocket pis-. tola, and wbicn aa be etowea. wiuaous uease branee, in the pocket of the fair heoter't dream. ia order to protect themselves from rutUa vio lence aad lasuM. . The Delta cordially indue in the idea, ' i),,,. .j Got. McMullea'e meaatre to the people ef Washington Territory, ea published, ssye that the Constitution "will be to as aa a cioad by day and a pil-Isar of fire by wight" That la what we call fiery rnetoric. ' - ' 1 Mies Matilda Heron is said to bare been ezdy -auodcrately patrcarixed by the immaculate legts laters of Washington, ra aecewnt of the imsao r"jlj of" Ca mills." The beet Joke of the seav ' It It estimated that, were aU the United S tatei as deriMly bihtabitod as Massai.hisetni,, tbT would hare a 'eolation of 44eV03M ee!.. A-