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EPUBMCAN
By HOSIER & KERR.
LANSING, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY. APRIL 1,0, 1859.
VOL. 5. NO. 52. WHOLE NO.
fbon focii.
Wkt up, BriuV. Lion ft up," aa7 John Bright, i and measure (lf recres?
VSff tPT Do tou .akVdav for i " Kom. That the principle and con
Ct up. ,V w ' fctruetmn contended for hj the party which
r BP8y" P11 Iaz-T 01,1 bta:it ,10W ru'cs m t-'e C0UnciI of the nation, that
Berr br0,,shl-T0Ua General (iovernment is the exclusive
r ,Cmin to .uri.lv tou with Prog; of th: l?" delegated to
rmtbemw to n . . a lt .top Ilotlin2 .l0rt of despotism : nice
c.;iiinmi lmu R
yLrre that I go the whole Hog.
..iie DritLa Lion, awake and be fed,"
ojj fcrDT: " - - 1
Too coo! J manage to bite if jou ti try.
T . jij, nnw, or vou may In? wanting to .-
British L:!i'' LorJ John fcliout3,"ari! j
Too i fiiih:l !'m mre you nmst be.
Tkn J' . ou Mlorc P0 ? Cuiuc PCQ 70ur j
led tou hall we hat you shall see.
r3 rraiit jou'll bud it a better blow out
Than tho. other fellows can give :
rn nroTiJe you a un a', which beyond any doubt.
Will fet y' hC J0'1 hve."
The UT to the !! !;. iti-h Lion in vain ;
The Lion d'R-s rioihing .-it snore;
Jfe won't 2 h'" t u!, and he won't vhake
hid
fl.baiw0 huck-Teai.n, the finest e'er ; being sovereign and independent, have the
bred, . 1 unquestionable right to judge of its infrac-
. Zof neat;!,i"n' 5tat l y those
AadlSVt jM the Li..:, to roar. StaIS.0. '"".'
Bat you may make him roar and his jaws wide! " halt! 'I he hUocn Southern
fipaJi'i, j States, cxcoi t Maryland. I low many lotc-
Just .resume on hi peata-aMe mood. JlUVe they in the ch-ctoiial collo".' ? ( hw
Too may then find it ha.d o, supply the demand j jj, j irlJi, Maryland.
Of thenuf 1 Unti-'i Li..n l-.r fool. II . e c. . r i 1 i 7 i
J J How many lree .Statesdid they have by the
"oESTUtCTio ' ii xiri it V II AI.l , II'u'ar vote at the lat s-t ( 'ongn sMonal eh-e-
m (tions? Three California, Minnesota and
The f !I .wing at-co-int of the destruction; Oregon. I low many eWtori;il votes do
bj fire of Ihixbury I lull in Lancashire, ! these latter Statr cast in the next -o!leg.,
Eclaod, is from tho Manchester luxata-' supposing the Democracy retain them .'
iner
ered to be
fr,rcad with such fearful rapidity that vari
cos alternatives had to be resorsed to before
the inmates could 1 rescued. In a remar
kably short space c f time the greatest por
tion of the furniture, and also the l.ooks,
paintings plates, Sic , were conveyed to the
jard and outbuildings, though thfy were
somewhat wriously injured in the removal.
Notwithstanding the exertions used, the
maguficcnt ai.il elegant structure is render
ed a total ruin. The south front of the
Hall is left entire, excepting some damage
which was d!.e by the water to the floor
tad ceiling. The library and picture rooms
have also sustained no other material inju
ry ; but there can be no doubt that at least
two-thirds of the building is destroyed.
There is scarcely thn fragment of a window
left; the roof has falleu in, and the whole
. i n i ti o , . i . Oregon, on their present lro-lavery-Cn
in". March 1, D'jxbury liall, sit'iate about . . , . . A
, c r J m i i .i ban-Central Ainenean-r.rottctorate-Amis
i mile ami a halt from t horl.-v, and the . . . t, .. , 1 ,.
. Mi-ir . r ! i' i- ,afl t'egro-rresidential-war-makmg-ivtwer
jeatofWilliam Mandish, lvs.,,wasd.sv-ov- " . , ... ..r.li.
5 it iiun"i hh.u mil in; null nnvillll .
re. I be tlatnes . . .? .
of the snledidly carved woodwork is redue-; , , , ' ,' ,J .
edtoernbtrs Kepublicaiis trouble themselves about any j
n. , -.j.' , , . . rhatige in a idatfonn which has thus far!
juchuiidingwbo.se destruction :s thus i ,i i i i 1
, - v. ,. . . , x. earned them so safely and surely to vie to-:
described Lad a rtculiar interest to .tw , r , .. . ir . . i
r. , , - . . . . , . ry : Let. them remain steadfast to that i
Lnclanders, from its association Willi the . , v i i .r e
e t o it bread and -National platform of opposition
name of -Miles Standish, the l uritau cap- . ',. . ' f I
.. , , -,, , ' to all the schemes of the Democracy for'
tain, whom Longfellow and hhninger ha-e ,t . 7,"v ,
, ? . . .. ., the expansion of the slave power. Wash.
to lately recalled to the memory ot all. jf tllfjr j
The blandishes wese settled in Lancashire ' ' j
onthe site of Duxbury Hall, as early as i.vdiks tiik hit ( inip.v. j
1306, and Miles standish is said to have ' j
been born in Chorley, near the Hall. It is Thackeray says that it is better f-r you
well known that Duxbury, in the Old Colo- j to pass an evening once or twice in a lady's
nj, where the captain fixed his abode after j drawing-room, even though the con versa-
coming to this country, received its name tiou is slow, and you know the girl's song
from this ancestral llall.and it is also known i by heart, than in a club, or tavern or the :
that he asserted a claim to the possession of j pit of a theatre. All amusement of youth ;
the family property ami honors, which he ' to which virtuous women are not admitted, '
did not forget when making his will. That ! rely on it, are deleterious in their nature I
instrument concludes with a device worded All men who avoid female society have 1
M follows : ' dull jierceptions and are stupid, or have
"I give unto my son and heir apparent, j gross tastes, and revolt against what is pure, :
Alexander Standish, all my lands as heir ap- j Your elub swaggerers who are sucking the
parent by lawful descent, in Ormistick, ; buts of billiard cues all night, call female 1
iJonsooune, Wrightirgton, Mandsley, New- j society insipid. Poetry is insipid to a y
burrow, Canston and in the Isle of Man, kel ; beauty has no charms for a blind man ; ;
and given to me as right heir by lawful de- j music does not please a poor beast who docs
sceet, but surreptitiously detained from me, i nt kuow one tune from another : and as a !
my great grandfather being a second or ' true epicure is hardly ever tired of water, j
jounger brother from the house of Standish, ' saney and brown bread and butter. I pr- ;
of Standish." ! test 1 can sit for a whole night talking ton :
Some attempts have been made by the ' well-regulated, kindly woman, about her ;
descendants of Miles Staudish to establish j girl coming out, of her boy at Kton, aud;
this claim, but without success. Boston j like the evening's entertainment. ne of
Advertiser, 2.V ult. ' the great benefits a man may derive from j
j woman's society is, that he i bound to be rc-'
THE spiiciT ix witruxsiv. j spectful to them. The habit is of great good :
The following preamble and resolutions ! yonr moral men depend upon it. ( ur !
pissed Kith Houses of the Legislature of ! &walion makes of us the most emu ently :
Wisconsin on the 17th of March. The ,cn ,n world. e tight for !
rote in the House of Representatives was ! "ursclvc. we yawn for ourselves, we light ;
47 to 37. and in the Senate IS to PJ. being, i our pipes and say we will not go out ; we ;
it is said, a strict party vote : ! T ourstdves, and our ease ; and the :
- Whereas, The Supreme Court of the goJ that comes to a man from a
United States has assumed appellate juris- woman s. society, is, that he has to think of ;
diction iu the matter of the petition of! rrbosy to whom he is bound b Ik? eon-:
Sherman M. liooth for a writ of habeas stant,-v a""'" anJ respectful. ,
eorpus, presented and prosecuted to final j
Judgment in the Supreme (Vmi of this !
S... ..ii.. -.i . ..t I
ma uaj wiuioui process or any oi
the forms reeignized by law, assumed the
power to render that judgment as a matter
involving the persoual lilerty of the citi
lea, asserted by and adjusted to him in the
regular course of judicial proceeding upon
great writ of litarty, secured to the
Pecpleof each State by the Constitution of
4 United States; And Whereas, such
assumption of power and authority by
e Supreme Court of the United States to
cooe the final arbiter of the liberty of
e citizen, and to override and nullify "the
Judgment of the State Courts declarative
hereof, is in direct conflict with that pro
ton of the Constitution of the United
states, which seeiirj t - Im Tu...f,b. tho b,-n.
of the writ of habeas corpus ; therefore,
fcolrel. Tint we regard the action
J we Supreme Court of the United States.
18 assuming jurisdiction in the case before
"Rationed, as an arbitrary act of power,
ttthorizd by the Constitution, and vir
superseding the benefit of the writ
nd liberties of the people at the font :
f un-
iiom. That this assumption of ju
2Jctwn by the Fcleral Judiciary, in the
se and without pnvess, is an act of
""Wted power, and therefore without
"JJ"J. Tcid, and of co f ,ree.
(J,i75 That the Government form
, DUle institution of the United States
;e "cIusive or final judge of the
tot lw c Pors delegated to itself;
to w all other cases of compact
j among parties Laving no common judge.
! each party had a perfect right to judge tor
I itaelf. ns Well of in Cm '.-. no o . f !.,. n
v . .i . . . '
the discretion of those who administer the
I Government and not the Constitution would
! bo the measures of their powers ; that the
i several Mates which formed that instrument
sovereignties of all unauthorized act done.
! or attempted to be done, under color of that
j instrument, is the right remedy."
1Lo legislature, having concluded its
business, adjourned sine the on the iilst of
March.
SC(TIO.L!SN OK TIIK
PAIITY,
IJKMOCIttTIC
Tho Washington States, in a long article
ujkju third parties, has the following : .
"The Democratic party has the p. resent
control of the Government, and command
an undoubted major it v in nearly half the
rileven. .uppose they can carry the fif
teen Southern States, und California, and
One Luuarcd aud thirty-ono vote.-. l'..r th
Charleston nominee. What will be the
Opjtosition fetrength, without Maryland or
Kansas ? One hundred and seventy-two. .
Democratic vote 1.'1
Opposition vote 17'J
Whole college W.l
If this is a true picture of the condition
to which the Democratic party has been re-,
duccd by its sectional platform of extension '
into the protection of Slavery in the Teni-;
torics, may it not well desire to back out of,
its position j
( n the tlicr hand, should not the Oppo
sition l' admonished by it to adhere to its ;
National platform of non-intervention with j
Slavery in the States, and the old Jeficrso- j
nian doctrine of non-extension of Slavery ;
II V.M OK MItKIM. II
The Marseillaise was inspired by genius, i
patriotism, youth, beauty and champaigne. j
llouget de Lisle was an officer of the garri- j
son at Strasburg, and a native of Mount '
Jura. He was an unknown )0t and com-!
poser. He had a pea;int friend, named i
Dietriek. whose wife and daughter were the ;
only critics and admirers of tiie soldier po
et's song. One night he was at supper
with his friend's family, and they had only I
coarse bread and slices of ham. Dietriek j
looking sorrowfully at De-Lisle, said : ;
" Plenty is not our feast, but we have j
the courage of a soldier's heart: I have j
still one lx.ttle left in the cellar hring it. j
my daughter, aud let ns driuk to liberty i
and our country !"
The young girl brought - the bottle : it I
was soon exhausted, and PeLisIe went sta-1
geriug to bed; he could not sleep for the
cold, tut his heart was warm and full of
the beating of genius and patriotism. He
took a small c-liricord and tried to compose
a song; sometimes the words were first
sometimes the air. Directly he fell asleep
over the instrument, and waking at daylight,
wrote down what he had conceived in the
delerium of the night. Then he waked
the family, and sang his pro.Jui.nion ; at
first, the women turned pale, and then
wept, then burst in a cry ot enthusiasm.
It was the song of the nation anJot terror, t
Two months afterwards, Dietriek went i
t) the scaffold, listening to the self same j
music, composed under his own rof, and j
under the inspirations of the last bottle of j
wino. The people sang it everywhere ; it j
flew from city to city, to every public or
chestra. Marseille adopted the song at
the opening and cl ?e f its cluls hence
the name, "Hymn of the Marseillaise;"
tLen it sd all over Trar.ee. They sung
it in their houses, in public assemblies, and
in the stormy strt-et convocation. DeLisle's
mother, hearing it, said to her son, " What
is this revolutionary hymn, sung by bri-gand-s,
with which your name is mingled ?"'
DviJsle heard it, and shuddered as it soun-d.-d
through the streets of 1'aris, rung from
the Alpine passes, while L a royalist, fled
fr ni tho infuriated people, frenzied by his
own word-i. I'rance was a great n'npithea
tre of anarchy and bhd, and 1'elJsIe's
Kng was the battle cry.
There is no national air that will com
pare with the Marseillase in sublimity and
power; it embraces the soft cadences full
of the peasant's home, and the stormy clan
gor of silver and Steele when the empire is
overthrown ; it endears the memory of the
vine dresser's cottage, and makes the
Frenchman, in his exile, cry " La l.ei'e
I'rance!" forgetful of the torch and sword,
and guillotine, which have made his coun
try a spectre of blood in the eyes of ra
tions. Nor can the fort iguers listen to it,
sung by a company f exile, or executed
by a band of musicians, without fueling
that it is the approach of battle and war.
Something too Fastiijiois. A very
worthy gentleman at Kouen is at present
receiving a fortune which came to him with
the drawing of a cork, in the following cu
rious manner. Obliged by the state of bis
health, last summer, to change the air, he
went to the sea shore at Villers-surmcr,
near Trouville, and walking on the beach,
he noticed that a lad, who also promenading
there with his father, had found a sealed
little among the sea-weed. The father
bade his child to "throw down the dirty
thing, aad not be soiling his finsers;" upon
which the invalid picked up the castaway
bottle and took it with him to his lodgings.
The cork drawn, tho bottle was found to
contain a written document, properly sign
ed, and dated on board a vessel which had
sprung aleak and was about to sink. It ran
thus :
" About to perish, I commend my soul
to God. I hereby constitute the tinder f
this will, enclosed in a bottle, my s.ul h-ir.
My fortune, laboriously acquired, amount
to near three hundred and lifty thousand
francs and the small house in which 1 have
resided at Valparaiso. This tenement I
wish converted into a chapel, and that a
mass may be there said once a month f-r
the repose of my soul. The fortune will
be fiund deposited with M , notary, f
of Paris, to whom, from time to time, it
has been transmitted. Pray forme! Sign-'
cd .M
Soiled fingers should not always be
avoided. !
Attempted Scicide on the Steps of
of the Union Clcb House. On Monday ;
night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, a gentle-'
man residing in Fifth avenue, observed a
young lady, dressed in mourning and of re-
spectable appearance, leaning ujwn the rail-!
ing of the Union Club House, on the corner
of Twenty-first street and Fifth avenue, ap
parently ill. Upon questioning her, she
confessed that she ha 1 taken laudnum for
the purpose of self-destruction, having been
deserted by her husband and lost her young
child, and that she had now no object in
life. She appeared very much distressed
in mind and btdy, aud produced the vial
a two ounce vial which she had emptied
of its contents. She stated that owing to
the interference of her husband's friend,
he had deserted her last Wednesday, ."ih ;
March, since which time she had eaten no
f. M id, and sought relief from her misery only
in death. She was immediately carried to
a druggist's store, and a powerful emetic
administered, which relieved the stomach
of a quantity ot fluid, but not one particle
of food ! The hysician in attendance sta
ted that she had not eaten certainly in four
days. Oue of the gentlemen present went
for her husband, a last youth of the fancy ;
order, who came in with an air of noncha!-;
ance. ami asked her coolly what was the
matter. He also stated that her sister had
told him that day that his wife had eaten
nothing since he left her. After the dan
ger from the poison was passed, the two
were left together. Her only desire in
living is to possess the affections of her hus
band, who is evidently unworthy of her
love, a he himself admitted she had done
nothing to forfeit it. At his re.pjest. and
for the sake of his wife, their names are .
withheld from publication. Kxprtss.
An Aged Warriok. Old Tarmahhah, ;
(One-Kye) the well-known Indian chief and I
warrior, was in AYabashaw, Miunesota, last j
week. He is supposed to have been born
about the year 17.X), according to the H a
bashaw Herald, which would make him ,
104 years of age. He was a chief.saysthat
paper.of one of lied Viug's b itels of Sioux
and in the war cf 1SPJ fought nobly and
callantly with the Americans against the
Uritish. He was al. on the side of the
American in the Mack Hawk war, and
has rendered the whites valuable service at
other times. The Herald gives a copy of
the commission given him by tlov. Clark.
of Missouri, in 1S1V O.d Tarmahhah
takes great priue in showing this Commis
sion, and also demauds a vitsh yep tlr a
s ght cf it. The marks of extreme old age
are visible in his countenance. He is ebi!
dish and imbecile, and is but a wreck of
the once mighty warrior who led his braves
to battle and to victory.
"Pitt the Sorrows," Ac. The "'Oor
old mau" is the Democratic party, or it" you
prefer it, the Democratic Administrate n,tn
"trembling limbs" knocked at the "door"
of the next Congress, with "life dwiudied
to the shortest span," and begging 'relief"
from an Opposition House of Uepresenta
tives The pieture is almost sure to Ik?
presented to the eoantry and the world in
one time. Soberly, every free Stare seems
to be deserting the Democratic Standard,
and the prospects of the unterrified for the
organization of the next House are gloomy
indeed. Connecticut ha repudiated her
two Democratic Representatives, and choson
the whole four from among the Republi
cans. Well done, Connecticut A. 1".
Com.
COl'liTISr t A K.ll.KOAI :io MILKS
A H'Jtli.
An incident occurred, on tie Little ."I
ami Railroad yesterday morning. The fact
are about these : A lady, somewhat !
cd that period of life which the v.r!d wo'd
term "young" although she might u :::'. r
with them was on ber way t tLi- city,
for purposes connected with active iuda-try.
At a jjint on the road, a traveler took the
traiu, who happened to enter the ear in
which the young lady occuj-ied a seat.
After walking up and down between the
seats the gentleman found no unoccupied
seat, excep t the one-half of that upon which
the lady had deposited her precious self ar. I
crinoline the latter very modestly expan
sive. Making a virtue of necessity a
"stand te" berth or a little self-assurance
he modestly inquired if the lady had a fellow-traveler,
and took a s-st.
As the train flew a!oi g with express
spaced the stranger entered into a czy con
versation, and mutual explanations. Th"
gentleman was pleased, ard the lady cer
tainly d:d not pout. After ..th..r subj ets
had been discussed, and worn thread-bare,
the lady made inquiries as to the p rice of a
sewing machine, and where such au article
could be purchased in this city. The gen
tleman ventured the opinion that she had
"better secure a husband first." This op-en-ed
the way for another branch of conversa
tion, and the brokeu field was indu-triouly
cultivated.
Ry the time the train arrived at the d
p ot iu this city, the gentleman had propos
ed and been accepted, (although the lady
aftci wards declared she regarded it a a
good joke.) The p-arty separated : the gen
tleman, ail in pood earnest, started for a li
cense, and the lady made her way to a
boarding house on Broadway, alje Third,
for a dinner. At two o'clock the gentle
man returned with a license and a Justice,
to the great astonishment of the fair one,
and after a few tears and half-remonstrative
expression, she submitted with becoming
modesty, and the Squire performed tho lit
tle ceremony in a twinkling. Last evening
the happy con pin departed for Louisville,
f ti rout'' for New Orleans and California.
If this is not a fast country, a search war
rant would not succeed in fiuding oiif.
Cincinnati Gazette, Man-It J!4.
The Man that never holds the Uaey.
Miss Bremer is after "the man that nev
er hoid the baby," with warm applications.
II.:'. her:
" At no other time does a gentleman ap- ,
pear to such advantage as when presiding !
patriarchal! in the bosom of his family. j
Certain it is, that a large majority of the j
mo.-e fascinatirg gentlemen one meets in
s-ieicty are men of family. The man who;
reserves his sour moods for home who
hoards up the sp.leen which he dared not
wreak on strangers, for the domestic circle j
who slams the front door till the whole !
house quivers who snatches off his beaver,
and tears off his coat with a growl, and 1
bounces into the room with a sharp snarl
who tosses poor pusy off her comfortable ;
cushion for sheer spite, and kicks Ponfo
till he fairly yells with pain ; but. oh 1 oh 1
especially the man who nrv r uire. the
baby, i p repared to perpetrate any enormi
ty whatever, and should be banish" !, with
hue and cry, from the s cie;y of humaiiiz -d
b"iiiL. Mark hi:u well; he i ripe f.r
"treason, stratams. and spoil-; iet no
such man be trusted."
So much f-r our friend who nurse the
babv.
The Ckleur ti:d Yacht Am nr. km.
Mr. Leonard Vv Jer.'V.i" of New York has
been bargaining for the purchase of the
yacht America, the conqueror of the Inhi
bition at Loudon in lol. Thi yacht wa
Imught from Mr. Stephen of I IoUilcn, her
builder, by Lord De Bhquieie, who n,
her to Lord To'.np.Iotowii, who in turn sold
her to the Me-rs. Priehard, ship-builders at
North Fleet.on the Thames, two miles above
Iravessend. Lord Tempdetown sunk the
yacht by accident near the yard of the
Meers. Pritchard, and it was only after
she had lain in that condition for some time
that she was lought by the...' gentlem-Mi.
It is probable that the sum paid for her wa
iusignitleant, but Lord Tempietown ha
asked for and obtained the first promise fr
purchase after she has again bv.-n j.ut in
repair. Mr. Jerome, who is spending the
Winter in Paris, lately visited the yard of
the Metsr. Pritchard, in order to in.-peet
the boat, and he found her on the stock, in
the workmen' hands, undergoing ceiup-lete
repair from t. p to b.tom. More than half
the timbers of her k-l were found to b
rotten, and are Icing replaced; but tle v
are restoring her exactly up- n th original
mode! not a line of her bvl i- to be
changed. Wh- n tini.-hed and rigged, she
is to stand preci-ely a she did the di. of
her great race. If L-.rd I'cmpletown d-jt s
not insist up-on the repureha-e of the boar,
and it is thought he will not, the Mes.-rs
Pritc hard will accept the terms off red r v
Mr. Jerome. If bought by Mr. .1 ., she wiii
be brought ba k to the United State-'.
Jealousy. A singular arT.ir is said to
have occurred in Pcn-aeola a few diy ago
Mis Susan , daughter of one of the
most distinguished jurists and politician of
1'loriJ.i, entertained a most violent pas-ion
for Mr. ., Major ..f Per.sacol.a. who had
paid lc-r s-me attentions previous to hi
marriage with another laJy. She took no
great pain to conceal from Mr. r. the na
ture of her feeling, and had on s-.-veral oc
casions conducted herself i:i rather an ex
travagant and startling manner, but he
probably sup posed nothing seriou would
come of it. Oae day recently, however,
she went to his house and called for Mr
i., and, when that laiy came to the dr,
drew a pistol, ready cockled, from the f -lis
of her dre-s. and fired it her rivpl. ILe
bullet mied, and Mrs. ti. bravely rushed
upon the desperate girl, and wronchd the
pistol from her : bur, prepared aLd deter
mined to -bed b.'X-i, Susan drew a knife,
and. before she could be disarmed bv oth
ers who interfered, succeeded in imiioting
a slight wound upon Mrs. . The letter
states that her father, in order O shiel her
from a criminal p rosecution, wis abut to
senl h?r to as inane asvluta.
A PI. At K. WI1KKK HLOOMKH WO.MK
AKi: IV UtMVM),
.Mrs. Dr. Lydia Saver Ha-brouek's Sibul
has a coi rtspon dent in the person of Mr3.
J. A. Ar -hal r.ld. a bloomer woman who is
travii'ing acr-s the prairie- with her hus
band andther adventurer-f-r Pike's Peak.
In hr List letter she says she was in great
dc::.and an.-'-ng the Indians a class of peo
ple r.otei f.r many characteristics besides
thtir go. d taste :
"We pass.d, on the 1 1th f June, a
large number f Cheyenne and Arrapahoe
Indian. Fifty men ."'.lined with Sharpe's
rifle snd revolvers were afraid to allow the
Indian to kn.-w that the company contain
ed any women, inc. nsequenee of something
which the carrier of the Santa Fe mail
told them when they p as- d a few days p re
vious. I was, t!i!-i. t'. re, confined to the
wngon while- we p a-sl many places of in
t crest which I wished mu ! to visit. Not
withstanding th! care to be unob-erved.my
presence became known. At one time by
"penii:g the front of the WL.g..a for ventila
tion, at another by l.-apan from it to see
souit thing curious which two or three Indi
ans had Irought, not knowing, as afterwards
proved true, that we were very near a vil
lage. I p ion discovered my mistake, and
though I did not my.-. If feel there was any
cause fr alarm, I was sorry 1 had been
s.-eii, on account ; f the feeling existing iu
the train. It was no u-e to hide now, for
every indi:;:i within a mile knew of my
whereabout. Though there was not a shad-,
ow of danger iu such a company as ours, :
many of us well knew at the time, and !
as many experience men have since inform
ed u. tt is ccn tfur that the red men ,
have an uniccountalle fancy for chite
iro.tt n. My husband received several '
very flattering offers for me. One Indian
wanted to trade for two squaws, who could
probably p-rform four times the p-hysieal la
bor that 1 could. hhers, not quite so tim
id, ap proached the wagon, made signs for
me to jump behind them on their pionies, '
but I declined the honor in the most re
spectful language I knew of their dialect i
a decided shake of the head." ,
A Showman "Soi.ii." Showmen, as a
general rule, are tolerably Vharp,' aud it is
no easy matter t) overreach them, but when j
they are fooled, it is a matter of great a
muement to those present. I was a wit-
ness to one of the bo-t 'sells' of the kind I
have ever heard of. Last summer there
wa an exhibition in a tent, on one of our
p ublic lot. a sort of menagerie on a small .
scale. Before the entrance to the tent the .
proprietor was l-oa.-ting of the innumerable
wonders to be seen for a shilling, to a con-!
iderable crowd. While in the midst of a j
speech overflowing with large words, he j
was somewhat summarily interrupted by !
the following examination from a man near
him. who had a boy with him :
'I'll bet you a 'five' that you cannot let
me see that lion .
'Done,' said the showman eagerly. 'Put
up our money.'
The man placed a five-dollar bill in hands
of a by-.-fsnder, and the showman counting
o:it the change, did tho sune.
'Now ' iik this way,' .- .id the showman,
and I 1! convince y,,n "
Th : m.Mi and tie? little loy followed him
Into the t- T;t, t!... whoa' crowd following.
' l':i.Te 1 -aid tic- snowman, triumphant
ly. 'l.o. k iu that corner, at that beautiful
Numidiau lion '.'
'U ii -re. a-ke
t!
.e mau, looking m every
oir-'chou but :be right one.
" Why, there!"' was the astonished reply.
" didn't .! any." responded the other.
"What's the matter with you." asked
the .-howmau, who began to 'smell a very
larg-' mice '
'' Untd .'" was the grinning rep.ly.
That showman was very industriously
employed in turning out the crowd, f.r the
next i. '.v minutes, while the blind man
p. ketcd the -takes, and went his way.
Something like the old story of the op
tician, who -trove so anxiou-Iy to supply a
gentleman wi'h spectacles that would ena
ble him to read, '...'('ore be discovered that
hi cu-V-iii. r nt rrr could read.
The Pr.irt: of Mfkderin Michigan.
Our reader- will rcmemb-r the case of Ty
ler, a deputy U. S. Marshal, who killed a
man in Canadian waters while attempting
to serve .-ome process ,f the United States
Curt npon Li:n. lie has recently liocn
tii-d in th- U. S. Distri .-t Court of Michi
gan, and f.und guilty of manslaughter.
dudge Wilkin called him up f.;r sentence
di Monday last, and the punishment awar
ded him is thu set Lrth by the Judge.
lb-re follow.- the sentence. ;
' Tiiir'y d..ys" i the p eriod f jt which we
- id vagrant- tojiil in Pennsylvania; and
it .-eci.i- from this that the punishment
which we award to a vagrant is deemed suf
ficient in Michigan f .r the p.uni-hment of
manslaughter. The Detroit Advertiser
truly characterize the sentence as a farce.
Tyler wa iuiiry not merely of manslaugh
ter, I ut committing that olfense in Carina
dian wat-.rs, where he had no light to at
tempt the s.-rt ice of U.S. process. It was
an :ggrav; tod ciime, and such a sentence is
a di-graee to tho C-. urr and Judge inflict
ing it Pit '.slur Gazette.
MYSTEf
speaking
is The Washington States,
: f ti e transfer ef the Union
ncw-pap. r it.to new hand, say :
" v e bate already announced the change
of partnership, in the Washington Union,
by which the clhcial journal, as our grave
conteoip. rary characterizes if, passes from
the control .f Mr. Cornelius Wendell into
the hands i f Brigadie (General Gecrge
Washington Bowman. The complete detail-
of th" transaction, though now in our
p. o.-sion, we reserve for future exposition,
when the p.iibiie will aJmit that the j ro
ee. ding is without a parallel, ia so far as it
exhibit the Attorney k ncral of the Uni
ted Sr.'i. vs negotiating and attestesticg the
tl of a newsp ap r for a consideration to
be pa:d. nvt by the indiviiaal purchaser,
but with the fand of Government distrib
uted iu the shap-e of Executive patronage."
Ya JJit.en. This county, cot buber
to r-ported, Comes ia hand-ome'y. It gives
Martin GOO majority. The Board Ftands
12 Republican to Democrats.
ALI.KUKI) IIKAVV sIIII.K.
-I thousand Acres cf' Tand sold for fo
( us g','il chains.
A gentlrinau from Indiana, named Fox,
came to this city a few day ago for the pur
pose of negotiating for the sale if a large
quantity of Western school lands Si on
after he was waited ujon by a man named
H'rris, doing busine.-s at No. Nas.m
street, with whom he had a p revious slight
acquaintance, and who proposed t- ex
change a hundred g. Id chains f r land.
Thtse chains, Harris as.-ured him, were
pure gold w. rth from t- n tosif-en dollars
a p iece, at wholesale, and ,ur twentv dol
lars apiece at retail. Fox wa unwilling to
trade, as he kn w iu thing about jewelrv.
but fiually he yielded, it i alleged, to the
rep resentation f Harri. ha.-ked by the as
surances of a third party fr m ibe Bowery,
and transferred the certificates fi r a thou
sand acres of land to Harris, r ceiling the
hundred gold chains in exchange The
chains proved to be comparatively worth
less, Mr. Fox made comp'aint this in.rning
at the City Hall lVIiec Court, charging
Harris with obtaining the certificates bv
fal.-c pr tttices. ILiri- wa ace. rd'i'glv
arrested and required to find bail in 'J,ohi
for examination to-morr. w afieinoeii. He
said he was not able to l.n-1 bail, and d. jK
ited the certificates with the magistrate f- r
safe keeping. The examination, it i ex
pected, will reveal the existence of an ex
tensive conspiracy of swindler llvninz
Post.
ArFKCTiNu Interview in the Jam.
a Scene or Sorrow. Repentance ami
Remoksi: ketween a Father am hi
I ai outers A day r two since, Stephen
J. Mcdroarty, Esq., eoiin-il of ,K.hn Kain,
now in prisou awaiting a new trial for kil
ling Singleton, the seducer f his daugh
ters, succeeded in ctfeet ing a reconciliation
between the father and his two girls, also in
jail charged with larceny to whom their
parent had not sp .ken since the domestic,
tragedy, more than two years ago.
By the kindness cf the jailor the daugh
ters were allowed to visit their father in his
cell, when a most affecting interview t.n.k
place; the girls falling ou his neck and:
weep.ing like children, when from the eyes
of the stern, strong man who had slain the .
vile destroyer of his child's honor, and had '
known her to fall step by step to degrada
tion and despair, the great tears ran like
rain the agony of a heart wrung by uiiii.'
tion and agonized by terrible suffering to a i
woman's tenderness.
For come minutes no one of that trio
spoke. S.bs choked their utterance, and '
the memory of the fearful past awed them ;
into silence. Their sorrow melted them to j
sympathy, and love and grief, remorse and !
repentance filled their hearts to bursting. .
In that moment that moment they were pu-!
rifled ; in that hour their errors were blotted ;
out by the tears of deepest contrition, and :
atonement made to Nature and themselves.
At last one of the girls, the dishonored
and avenged, fell at her father's feet, ami j
said, with still strengthening eye :
"O, father, dearest fa' her, can yu for
give me .'"
"Yes, yes, my child, with all my heart,"
was the solemn and impres-ive answer, "a
I hop' to be forgiven'."'
Then both bis daughters knelt and re
eeived his blessing, and a moment afu-r be
was by their side ottering up. a prayer f..r
strength to resist temptation and avoid evil
in the future. The father embrae. d th. m
tenderly again and again, and assured ti.eiu
of his entire forgiveness, while they r-.m-ised
amendment and reform, and icxun-d
to seek comfort and suppoit iu the faith ;
their parent recently had sought.
The scene as witnessed was extremely
p athetic, and such as our plain p-encil can-:
not paint. Several who witnessed the roc-,
onciliation were, in spite of themselves,
melted to tears, and left the cell with a bet
ter opinion of that human nature which,
however it may err, is always held by a
golden though invisible thread to its rative
heaven. Cincinnati Krvuirer.
Distingvt-hed Convicts. The Rev.
JosejJi Johnston, sent out to minister to
convicts in Freemantle, Western Australia,
by the Colonial Missionary Society, an-,
uounccs the arrival of Robson and Red-.
path, aud Agar and Tester, with their,
friend Saward, alias Jem and Penman. ,
The writer says : "They were all engaged .
on the p'ublic works, making roads, Ac. ;
Redpatu and Robson are engaged, as I am ;
writing, wheeling stones near my house,
with shackles ujtn their persons. Their '
health appears to be good, but they seem ;
wretched and dejected, and weary f their j
lives. The celebrated R.-v. Dr. Beresford. i
who is related to a noble marquis, and hoj
with a living of jCU'OO a year, committed (
forgery to an enormous extent, has also ar
rived out in the colony, and i now employ-,
ed sweeping the wards in the new convict .
prison, which has ju.-t beeu comp leted. It 1
is an immense structure, and took seven
years to build. The p rison has a lu sep;-.
arate cells, chapel, hospital, lunatic a-ylum,
work-hop s, and residences for the governor ,
and his deputy, chaplain, doctor, Vc."
Enzlish paper.
The picture is a sad one, but it is to the
bonor of the British government that in the
administration of justice it is no re-p.ectT
of persons. We might learn a useful los- j
soa too from the promptitude and certainty i
with which it enforces thi penalty of viola-1
ted laws.
Paragvav. The Paraguay peace news'
is accepted as true by the Administration, !
although no dispatches have been received. '
President Lopxr is to pay us $35,000. j
Meanwhile the Administration has contri- j
ved to sp-ecd 1,000,X0 on the eipedit'on. I
Onp rrreat ifpm of exnense mi?-ht have been I
avoided the purchase of the chartered!
steamboats, whioh, on trial, have proved to j
be nearly worthies. Nevertheless, the t
Navy Department insisted on buying them j
and by plausible mUre-presentations that j
hostility would be so protracted as to ren-
der their purchase cheaper than their hire, ;
succeeded in getting an app reciation from
Congress fjr the purpose. They are low j
on our hands, costly and usele&s, unless, in- j
deed, they shall prove too uuseawortby to ',
reach Lome, which is not improbable. O: j
course some Democratic pket are well
lined by this transaction.
TAKIV "KSl M)V!I.'
We met Judge L , the other day, at the
American House, in St. Johns, who related
to us the particulars of an incident which
will do to put in print.
The Judge left his home last Tuesday
morning, and took the cars at Ionia for St.
Johns As he entered the cars ho observed
an unusual cumber of Irishmen "aboard,"
but did not at first comprehend the reason.
As he elbowed his way along the narrow
aisle between the well filled slips to find a
aeai.t seat, be was stopped bv our ever
prest nt and companionable friend. W. P. 1.,
who, with his u-ual politeness offered him a
seat by bis side. The customary inquiries
and resjH.r,-? on the subject of health and
destination were scarcely over, wheu Mr. I.,
with an air of exaltation remarked: "Well,
judge pos, you've heard alnmt our elec
tion at the Rapids yesterday."
"Yes," replied the judge, " it is reported
that the Democrats elected their city tick
et." After enlightening the judge with refer
ence to the details of the victory, Mr. I. turn
ed to an Iri-hman, who. it seems was a sort
of captain, and inquired:
" Where vou going to take the bovs to
day, Mike r
"O, ji-t above here, at station,"
replied Mike; and a conversation having
been thus opened, Mike embraced the oj-px-rt
unity to relieve himself if the surplus
of cnthusisam with which he was charged,
in the following style-:
" Oeh, be gorra, but did'nt we tak 'em
d'jwn some, when our fe.rty inin wiut up to
Wote 1 1"
Friend I, just then had urgent business
in another p art of the car 6'. Ii. Uagle.
KMMIItilO I DELAWlltE.
The yorth and South, Mr. Burritt's
paper, of the Hith ult., gives an account of
"the fr-t Emancipation Convention eer
held in a slave State." It took p.laee at
Wilmington, Delaware, on the i!Jd March.
The editor says :
" According to the Call, the first Mission
of the Convention commenced in tho City
Hall, at ten A. M. Rev. Nicholas Patter
son, of Wilmington, Yiee President of the
National Compensated Emancipation Soei
ty, for Deleaware, was called to the chair,
and Dr. Bulloch was appointed Secretary."
The r solutions adop ted are long and ar
gumentative, but, in substance, they de
clare that Slavery is a great moral and so
cial evil ; that the North as well ai the
South is responsible for its existence ; and
that the proceeds of the public lands khould
c appropriated, as suggested by Rufus
King and approved by Mr. Webster, to the
extinction of the evil, by compensating the
owners of tlaves. The cigth rcsoulution
declares :
" That the fraternal and benevolent dis
positions which this act of brotherly copart
nership would inspire and diffuse through
out the entire nation, wo il l e of vast and
vital importance to the shut s themselves,
both before and aftrr their emancipation,
leading to those ameliorations -f their con
ditions, which would greatly enhance their
moral elevation and bap-pint
Wisconsin Another Repeelican
Ti.it mph 1 It now a ears that the elec
tion f,r Justice of the Sup.rcmo Court iu
Wisconsin, has resulted in the choice of By
ron Paine, the Republican nominee, by a
majority of over ."i.'MM. The contest invol
ved the question of State Sovereignty, the
Supreme Court of the United States being
at issue with the State Court of last resort,
in an attenq t to compe l the latter to ac
knowledge the coii-titutiotiality and enforce
the operation f the Fugitive Slave Law of
1 ..
Mr. Paine-though a Lawyer of conceded
talents and ability, is a young man, while
bis opponent was an experienced Jurist and
prrhaj , as uuexeep tionable as any that
could have been f .und in the Democratic
ranks. Add to this, that'iucal and personal
questions were dragg. d in to embarrass the
Republicans, and it will be seen that the
contest was made under disadvantages,
which render the victory all the more grat
ifying and significant Ad. Jour.
"Sinking the Slavery Agitation."
We bad occasion lately to exp ress the opin
ion, which we honestly entertain, that
"sinking the Slavery agitation North and
South' was not only an impoHMhi!ity, but
that it was a grave question for wise patri
ism, whether 'sinking' was desirable.
" Peace retireon the sections of the Un
ion is indeed the greatest good within the
reach of man, but when we say peace, we
do net mean a 'sinking' or cassation of hos
tilities, but p.. rmanerit peace ; not a tmre,
during which each party shall increase the
means of warfare, and after a time renew
hostilities with greater zeal and more dead
ly fffeet. We think the b"st at d purest
way of arriving at pacc is finally and fair
ly to sct'le every question that 1 as ditur
bel the hrrmony that formerly existed be
tween the two secti .ns For marly fully
year, peiuie has not existed between the
North and South truce has f allowed twee,
and the shams of c mp romisi have delayed
a settlement by holding out to both parties
the p rospects of ultimate triump h Rich
mond (Va) En'j.
A New Name Under its new proa
pectu, the name tf the " Washington Un
ion" is to be changed to " The Constitu
tion." This is after the fashion of Pi
rates, who hoist the flag of the ration they
mean to plunder. Under its former title,
the pap-er has done its bert to di-tract and
divide the Union, and under the latter, we
suppose, it will pervert and assail the Con
stitution AIL Jour.
Clinton Co This county gives Judge
Martin -0 majority. Tb.2 Republicans have
a majority of the Board of Supervisors.
A Kaecal CorouT. A mau named K. II.
Jf onroe, who life in IodJana. was arretted ia
Wicor.s:n, mi -ourht to this citr retterdtj,
charged trim s.-Kir 5 'to Litth k Co.," ot Et S -ir;4-r,
forged drifu on New York. He has prac
ticed this tort c-f vi"'a:njr prettr extenfirelj ia
thlt sure. Indiana asd Wwcoriftia, aad U finally
caught. He also is pU'-'J h'gamr, hat ing
abi.doDd his ife in lacLana not lor.gginee, and
deired 1 rourj jrirl whom he Lad with him in
WiCOLia." lieadmitj all hit crime, and will
now probably get bit filldewrtt. Detroit 7WV
tn.