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CITY ITEMS.
Distressing Casualty —A Man Drown
ed !—Monday afternoon about 3 o’clock, a
man named Michael McNamara, a cousin of
P. Nash, Esq., and in liis employ, was acci
dentally drowned together with his team,
while engaged in dumping dirt at the upper
end of the levee under the foot of Minnesota
street. He had drawu up his team and wag
on near the edge of the “ dump,” which was
sand, loose and wet. While unloading, one
of the horses lost his footing, and iu strug
gling to get up, pulled the other horse, wag
on and driver, (who was endeavoring to hold
them) into the water. The shore here is
very steep and the current strong, and they
went iuto deepwater, and disappeared. The
loss is a severe one to the family of Mr. Me
Nauiara, thus so suddenly suatched away.
The team and wagon, which belonged to Mr.
Nash, is valued at SSOO.
The chaunel was dragged, below the scene
of the accident, but no traces of the body or
team were discovered up to dark.
Wonderful Discovery ! St. Paul
Against the World!— Every Man his
own Ink-Maker !—Leaky Chimneys turned
to Account !—Esq. Joseph Lemay has acci
dentally made an important philosophical
discovery, that will not only electrify the sci
entific world abroad, but add an imperisha
ble wreath of glory to the laurels of political
victory that already deck his historic brow.
During the last storm, the Esq. was annoyed
by the water coming down his chimney, and
through the stove pipe, as a conduit, to the
lioor. He therefore set a vessel under the
leak, aud when the storm was over, found
that he had about a quart of jet-black, glos
sy, indelible writing fluid, caused by the
rain from heaven percolating through the
soot aud rust of the stovepipe. Ihis is one
of the most important discoveries that has
ever agitated the scientific world, and will
hand down the Esq.'s name, undoubtedly, to
a grateful posterity.
Is there no way to prevent our citizens
being swindled in buying wood ? It is amus
ing to any one except the unfortunate house
keeper who has to purchase, to look at the
dismally scant lot of wood palmed off on our
citizens. A cord, on exact measurement,
will be found to be nearer half that amount.
We pay enough in this city for wood, to get
good measure ; and in justice to the people,
some plan to insure it ought to be adopted.
It has become a universal complaint.
The American House. —This elegant Hotel
sustains its former reputation as a first class
house under the excellent management of
Messrs. Rice & Filkins, who are both first
rate fellows. The “American” has recently
been fitted up throughout, new and late con
veniences for coinfort and luxury furnished,
aud also eularged by an additiou, to meet
the increasing patronage, travellers from a
broad will find this an excellent Hotel, con
veniently situated, quiet and comfortable,well
kept, and supplied with all modern luxuries
common to first class Houses.
The Methodist Conference.— This body
is now in session, as we stated yesterday, at
the Methodist Church on Ninth street.—
There are between fifty and sixty delegates
in attendance. The body is presided over by
the Rev. Thos. A. Morris, D. D., Senior
Bishop of the United States. Ten or eleven
ministers transferred from other Conferences
were in attendance, and received into the
Minnesota Conference. The usual annual
Conference business was transacted. The
body meets again this morning.
The Fire Department seems to be an
unpopular institution with the City Council.
The committee to whom was referred the pe
tition of the Department relating to the loca
tion of the engine houses, reported—in ef
fect,—that the Council was disposed to do all
they could for the Department, and had con
ceded to them many favors already ; but
wished in future they would confjne them
selves to thejp legitimate business, and not
attempt to dictate to the Council, or inter
fere with their action relative to Fire matters.
The official report will be published in a day
or two.
New City Orders. —The City Council
have contracted with the Ageut of Bald,
Couslin & Co.,Bauk Note Engravers of Phil
adelphia,now in this City, for a plate of beau
tifully engraved City Orders, of the denomi
nations of one’s two’s and five’s. We have
seen the specimens, and they are as beauti
ful in appearance as any bank note, and are
to be printed on the best bank note paper—
thus defying counterfeiting them successful
ly-
The plate will costs $325 00. There will
be 12000 impressions taken from this,amoun
ting to $96,000 00. They will be ready in
about 6ix weeks.
Tu6K3 ok a Mastf.don.— We were show
yesterday, at the Booms of the Historical So
ciety at the Capitol, the remnants of tusks of
one of these antidiluvian monsters, dug up in
Stillwater, a few days sjnee. They were
each from two to three feet long, about the
thickness of a man’s leg. It is a pity that
they could not have been get out in better
preservation, as they are considerably de
cayed, and broken by the implements of the
laborers who found them.
They were found at the foot of Myrtle
street, in Stillwater, and donated by Mr.
Van Vorhef.s, to the Historical Society,
where they can now be 6eeu.
Fatal Accident.— Louis Martin, Sr., an
old and esteemed citizen of Dakota County,
says the Pioneer,was killed near bis residence,
on the 10th inst, by being thrown from his
horse. Mr. Martin was one of the oldest set
tlers iu Minnesota, having come to this coun
try nearly forty years ago, and was for along
time engaged as a voyageur to the Fur Com
pany. He was 65 years old.
The Counterfeiting Case.— -Aud. Grand
staff, arrested on Saturday evening for coun
terfeiting, was bound over yesterday by
Judge Simons in the sum of SIOOO to answer
the charge before the next District Court
He was committed in' default of bail.
A person, supposed to be a lady clad in
male habiliments, was arrested a day or two
since on such charge, but was dismissed by
Judge Simons. What romantic mystery lies
under tho matter, we know not.
Thk Methodist Episcopal Conference of
Minnesota, met in this City Yesterday, and
was largely attended. Wc noticed several
delegates on the War Eagle, from places in
the Southern part of the Territory. There
are between forty and fifty Ministers conneC'
ted with this conference, we we told.
Our Foreign Coi
CANADIAN CUSTOMS, Etc.
Rapinkauvillk, 0. E., Mar. 15, 1858.
The Contrast between English and American charity—
Two incident* —Montreal, its buildings, streets, etc.—
Papineauville—Description of a Canadian wedding
Sundry games described—The lower classes of Soci
ety there.
Messrs. Foster <f- Moore: On my way from
New York to this place, 1 witnessed one of
those pleasing incidents that a traveller will
see almost only iu the United States. As the
conductor came around to look at the tickets
iu the cars going from Troy to Saratoga, he
came to where a poor sickly looking youth
was sitting, and asked him for his ticket ,
whereupon the lad handed him a piece of pa
per, which I afterwards saw, and had e imply
the address of two men on it, one of which
lived in Pennsylvania, and the other in Clin
ton Co., NT. The conductor looked at the
paper and said, “Well, I can’t go to those
men to collect your fare, 1 want one dollar
and a half.” The lad replied “ I haven’t got
a cent iu the world.” The conductor asked
a few more questions and passed on; one of
the passengers then interrogated him, aud
found he was in actual distress, and had not
had any breakfast that morning. One of the
passengers happeued to have some provisions
with him and gave them to the lad, and 7 or
8 of the passengers gave him twenty-five
cents each. I saw that lad passed over three
different lines of Railroad free ; he was on his
way to his uncle who lived in Clinton Co.
I thought how different this humane action
was to a case I saw in England. I was at a
station there waiting for the cars, when a
neatly dressed young woman with a child in
her arms came up to the ticket office and
asked the clerk for a third class ticket. The
clerk told her that the only 3d class cars for
that day had left iu the morning; 6he said, “I
don’t see what I shall do, if I don’t go to
day ; for I have not got enough for a second
class ticket by a shilling.” The clerk iu an
abrupt manner replied, “ I can’t help that,
you’ll have to wait for the third-class to-mor
row.” I said to a friend that was with me,
that a case like that would not have happen
ed in the United States ; he looked at me
with astonishment and said, “ what, would
some one have paid the extra money ?’’ I said
if the clerk had not given her the ticket, and
as many standing around as there was there,
that some one certainly would. He replied,
Well, if we was to do that here, we should
have to keep our hands in our pocket all the
time to hand to some one.”
I came to this place by way of Montreal
and was detained there a short time. Mon
treal has a population of about 70,000 and is
the largest place in Canada. Vessels of four
or five hundred tons come from various parts
on the ocean direct to the wharves of this
city. The site of Montreal is very good, but
t is spoilt in the way it is laid off, as all the
streets with but two or three exceptions are
very narrow, and are not laid off in blocks.
Some of the back streets are in a very dilap
idated condition. In the rear of Montreal is
a fine bluff giving an extensive view of the
city ; and tins you will find all through that
part of Canada that I have been, that the
tin roofs arc not painted, but left bright. I
am told that the climate keeps it from rust
ing. A large proportion of the buildings in
Montreal have tin roofs, and I notice that the
snow melts quicker on them than it does on
other rqofs.
The cars in Canada are built just like those
in the States, only here there is a first and
second class in every train ; the first class
cars are just the same as those used by us ;
the second class have no cushions of any kind,
and are built rougher. The fares generally
arc higher than they are with us.
Papineauville is situated on a large bay ;
connected with the Ottawa river, it is not j
much of a place, and was laid out for a town
in 1855. It takes its name from Joseph
Papineau, a permanent leader of the rebel
lion of 1838; at that time the government
of Cauada offered SIOOO for his arrest, but
ho escaped to the United States. The Can
ada government afterwards permitted him
to return, and he now resides about five miles
from here. Since his return he has been elec
ted a member pf the Canada Parliament; and j
a nephew of his now represents this district j
in Parliament. One of the most prominent 1
persons in this town is a Mr. Tucker, an !
American by birth, who although long a res
ident of Canada has lost none of that energy
which is so charactcrist'c of the American
people. Although this neighborhood has been
I long settled they have never had a building
used solely for Protestant worship until this !
winter, and now they have a very neat Bap
tist church, towards the erection of which,
this Mr. Tucker has contributed three fourths
of the entire cost. I have two brothers re
siding here, and it so happened that I came j
in time to attend the wedding of one of them;
I will give you a short sketch of it, although
I do not know that it differs much from the
custom with us; (I never had any business
to do in that line, therefore I am not well in
formed about it).
On this occasion Miss Lucy C. (the Lilly
of the Ottawa Valley) was selected as brides
maid; and C. (your humble correspondent)
as groomsman! After the Minister arrived,
I with another gentleman had to enter into
bonds in SBOO, that there was no just cause
why the couple should not be joined in wed
lock ! (I believe these bonds have to be
signed by two persons in every wedding case.)
When all was ready I entered the room of
bride, offered her my arm, and marched forth,
followed by the bridesmaid leaning on the
arm of the bridegroom, to the room where
the ceremony was to be performed; I took
my station at his right, and the bridesmaid
on the left of the bride. At a part of the
ceremony the Minister tells them to join
hands. The bridesmaid then removes the
glove from the hand of the bride, and I per
formed the same ceremony for the bride
groom. After the marriage service is over
the husband greets his newly made wife with
a kiss, and occupying the position I did, it was
my privilege and duty to greet her in like
manner the second ; and thereafter, all the
company kissed her indiscriminately; this is
done before the bride sits down. We then
went to the supper room and a party of about
. thirty partook of supper; I was happy to see
it on temperance principles: which I believe
is rather unusual at weddings in Canada.
After supper as there was no dancing the
amusements consisted of various plays, most
ly in the forfeit line ; as some of these plays
were entirely new to me, they might be of
interest also to some of your young readers;
therefore J will give you a short sketch of
one or two. Qne is called the Mills. To play
this all the company stands on the floor in a
circle, and each one takes a name in the vege
table line, such as oats, corn, wheat, potatoes
&c., &c. One of the party commences the
play by turning around and saying I turn
Oats, or whatever the name might be; then
I the one that has taken the name of oats turns
around and says I turn potatoes; potatoes
then turns and call on some other name and
sj on. Whoever makes a mistake, or ne
glects to turn when the name is called, bos
to pay a forfeit, which I suppose you know
is the deposit© of something, to be after
wards redeemed according to ancient usages;
and as some of the modes of redeeming was
new to me, I will relate them. When there
is sufficient forfeits, one of the party takes
the part of judge, and another goes behind
their chair, and holding each pledge over
their head, askes what the owner must do to
redeem it. The judge then announces the
penalty; one of these was to form a bridge ;
the owuer of the pledge then calls one of the
other sex on tho floor, who stands opposite
him, she then calls a gentleman, and so on
until all the company is on the floor, the la
dies in a row on one side, the gentlemen in a
row on the other side ; they then all join
hands and holding them up, the top couple
then goes under the arch, and as they go
through, the lady kisses each gentleman, and
the gentleman each lady; each couple as they
in turn get to the top passes through in like
manner; by this process each gentleman kiss
es each lady, and each lady does the same to
the gentlemen, this is what I call reciprocal.
Another penalty was to form a Scotch plow;
this is done by a gentleman going to the cen
tre of the room kneeling on his left knee,
his right leg forming a square, he then calls
a lady whom he seats on his knee and salutes
her. Of course you will wonder how a bash
ful man like your correspondent could go
through such an ordeal, but a person don’t
know what they will do when they cannot
help themselves.
Another game was called choosing part
ners; to do this all the ladies seat themselves
in a room by themselves, and each choose a
partner from the men; one stands at the door
aud admit the gentlemen one at the time,
and tells him to go and sit by the one that
has selected him; who that is of course he
don’t know, and he most likely sits by one
that has not chosen him; they then all clap
their hands and hiss him out of the room,
this is kept up uutil all find their partners.
The ladies were after served in a like man
ner.
•No. IS.
The party broke up at half past three,
which I am told is “ good hours” compared
to some weddings.
Four fifths of tho people in this part of
Cauada are French Canadians ; they are a
mixture of Indian and French, there is not
one in a hundred that can read or write, and
their mode of living is miserable; raw fat
pork is a dainty dish for them; although
nearly all of them are very poor, they are an
inoffensive, happy, contented lot, and as long
as they have enough for to-day, they care but
little for to-morrow. The English Canadi
ans, or English as they are termed here, look
upon them as we look upon the colored peo
ple; a gentleman speaking of them to me,
said “ they would do very well for soles, but
would make very bad uppers ;” meaning they
are better kept under.
The ladies in this part have generally a
fresh, healthy look, and many of them in
cold weather wear a round fur cap or turban,
giving them a very pleasing appearance, and
many of the men wear a cap on their over
coat, which in cold weather they pull over
their head, forming a hood.
I will write to you shortly from Ottawa
City, the new selected seat of the future
Capitol of Canada. E. C.
Onr Special Minneapolis! apd St. An
thony Correspondence.
April 13th, 1858.
To the Editors of the Minnwotian:
Since my last communication a change has
taken place in the views which a few of our
citizens entertained respecting the Five Mil
lion Loan. Men who, ever since the first
suggestion of the proposed impolitic amend
ment of our Constitution, have been reading,
rc-reading, carefully studying and strenuous
ly opposing this political travesty, have very
suddenly discovered some mythical clause in
it containing as they assert, good reason
why they should vote in favor of it.
Their great discoveries indicate that a ray
of light has passed over the sister cities,
striking two persons directly, antj a very few
others diagonally.
The lantern has been around, but has not
yet illuminated my immediate vicinity, al
though it has approached me very nearly,
for those of my neighbors who, as above stat
ed, have climbed over the fence, I know could
not have accomplished ihe task without light
to see the cracks wherein to stick their toes.
This lantern must be a very Alladdin’s
Lamp, which calls up the mighty Genius
Cupidity ; before whose irresistable power,
self-respect and honest conviction, troth and
; integrity, love of the public good, and com
mon honesty, are as the cobwebs before the
housemaid’s broom.
If tho bill passes, judging from the talk of
the Loan men of St. Anthony and Minneap
olis, all the situations in the gift of the Com-
I pany will he filled by citizens of this irame
! diate vicinity. I suppose this belief is com
mon with every city, town and village in the
| State.
We are honored at present by the resi
dence of an aristocratic and accomplished
gentleman who hails from the American cen
ter of fashion—-the city cfNew York. He
advertises himself as correspondent of the
London Times and almost every paper of
note in the civilized world. This prodigy of
erudition and high metropolitan breeding is
lending his mighty aid in favor of tho Loan.
I lie has kindly consented, I presume at the
earnest solicitation ot the Committee of the
torch-light procession which is to take place
next Wednesday evening, and of which I
will send you a faithful account, to invoke
; his muse ; aud has composed a ballad of
wondrous conglomerated heterogenious me
tres set to the tune of the “Low Backed
Car,” designed to be chanted by those who
are to compose the aforesaid procession.—
Can he be Longfellow or Mackey in disguise?
We are receiving our full share of immi
gration. Stages loaded with passengers are
arriving almost hourly. Strangers are pleas
ed with the situation, beauty aud business
appearance of our cities.
Builders generally have commenced their
building the no’se of the plane
and hammer is heard in every direction.—
Many houses are rapidly approaching com
pletion and will soon be ready for tenants.—
Sidewalks are being laid, and arrangements
entered into for grading streets.
Messrs. Russell & "Williams, of Minneapo
lis, have just issued the first number of their
monthly paper, the Real Estate Index. —
They intend to circulate it gratuitously
throughout the United States. The Index is
devoted to the monetary and real estate af
i fairs of Minnesota, and to be tho advertise
, ment of its publishers’ own real estate busi
ness.
We learn that the Winslow House in St
1 Anthony will be open for travelers on the
i first of May. Youre, Waazizi.
Death of Hou. Thos. Hart Benton.
Washington, April 10.
Hon. Thomas 11. Benton died at half-past
7 o’clock, this A. M. Congress will adjourn
on Monday to attend the funeral.
Funeral Honor* of Col. Benton.
St. Louis, April, 10.
A well attended public meeting was held
here this noon, for the purpose of making
appropriate arrangements to do honor to the
memory of Thomas H. Benton. Brief eulo
gies were pronounced by several gentlemen,
appropriate resolutions adopted, and a com
mittee of prominent citizens appointed to
take such action as may be necessary for a
public demonstration ot respect for the re
mains of the deceased, when brought hither
for interment.
From Waihlugtsn.
New York, April 10.
A Washington Correspondence states that
the Printing Investigation Committee have
substantially agreed upon the bill of Mr. Tay
lor to establish the Gevernment Printing
Office, under a Commissioner, and the Sec
retary of the Interior.
The Committee will probably report next
week.
The Tariff Investigation Committee will
also report next week.
It is said that Gov. Banks has had an in
terview with the Chairman, Mr. Stanton,
touching the developments before the Com
mittee.
The bill of Mr. Douglas, creating an addi
tional judicial district in New Mexico, makes
the submission of the constitution to the peo
ple hereafter requisite for admission in all ter
ritories of the United States, excepting Utah,
and dispenses altogether with an enabling
act.
There will be no acceptance of volunteers
by the President until the final passage of
the Deficiency Bill.
Senator Davis is regaided as convales
cent.
The amount in the Treasury subject to
draft is over $6,000,000. Receipts last week
were nearly $4560,000.
Lieut. Henshaw has been appointed to the
brig Bainbridge, preparin at Norfolk to join
the African squadron.
From New York.
New York, April 10.
The bark Anna from this port to Galves
ton, was boarded on the 27 tu ult., off Ha
vana by a boat from the British war brig
Styx.
The steamers Vanderbilt rnd City of Bal
timore sailed to day for Europe. The former
took out $235,000, and the latter $5,000 in
specie.
The Commercial understands, though not
officially, that the mission of Mr. Moran has
been so far successful ; that the Erie Rail
road is extricating itself from the present em
barrassment attending its suspended floating
debt, and that it is now paying it oft by in
gtallments.
Later From Mexico.
New Orleans, April 10.
The steamer Tennessee, from Vera Cruz,
is coming up the river. Sho brings import
ant news from Mexico.
Gen. Ozollo took the city of Guadalajara,
capturing the entire government force under
Janasez. Janasez aud his officers were per
mitted to leave the cour>tr) T .
Ozollo was on his way back to the city of
Mexco,and would probably be declared Presi
dent.
Vera Cruz still holds out for the Constitu
tionalists.
Tampico was beseiged by Garsea.
Additional News by the America,
New York, April 10.
The following are additional details of the
Foreign news:
France.— The Paris Constitutional has an
aticle in large type on the English alliance
It expresses iqqst friendly sentiment
throughout.
Petitjons for a reduction in duty on sugar
and coffee are pouring in,
The Minister of the Interior has ordered
the artillery of the towns of France dismoun
ted and deposited iu the arsenals. The plea
for such an order,is that they are to be repla
ced by others in a better condition. The im
pression prevailed that the guns were remov
ed lest they should fall iuto the people’s hands
in case of a rising.
Spain. —Some slight disturbance had oc
curred at Valencia, but were quieted.
There were doubtful rumors of disturbances
at Saragossa.
The government had presented a project
for abolishing slavery in her colonies.
Count CavOur sent a very energetic note
to Naples on the refusal to give up Caglia
ri.
Russia.— -There is great agitation in Russia
in consequence of the opposition of the no
bility to the emancipation ot thpir serfs.
Many great families had fled to St. Peters
burg in fear of their lives.
A camp of 100,000 is to be formed in May.
It is considered as a manifestation against
Austria.
Turkey —Eight hundred Montenegrins
violated the Austrian territory and penetrat
ed Hersegenia, and 400 entered Suternia and
burned everything.
Turkey refuses to submit to the treaty for
the Danube.
Fires.
Petersburg, Va., April 10.
Tassey’s Southern Foundry in this city was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $12,000, partially
insured.
St, Louis, April 10.
The foundry of Newman & Graham, was
burned last night. Loss 40,000; insured
$6,000.
Oswego, April, 10.
The propeller Jefferson arrived here last
night from Cleveland.
The Wellapd Canal is in good condition
and vessels are passing through it freely.
Later from l T tata.
St. Louis, April 12.
Col. Strain arrived here yesterday from
Santa Fe, in advance of the mails.
lie reports that Capt. Marcy left the camp
ground 40 miles from Fort Union, the 18th
of March. He has about I2QQ animals,
mostly mules. Trier© was an abundant sup
ply of forage, and plenty of provisions for the
men.
He has 150 regular troops, and the same
number of mountaineers and herdsmen with
him, and expressed his entire confidence in
being able to reach Camp Scott without dif
ficulty. He intended to travel slowly, so as
to keep the animals ip good condition, but
expected to join Johnson before the Ist of
May.
An express from Fort Leavenworth with
orders to Gen. Garland to furnish money and
strong escort, met on the 19th ult., 60 miles
east of Santa Fe, a large number of Indians,
all of whom expressed their desire (or peace
with the Americans.
The grass was growing rapidly.
The Republican learns that on the 27th of
March a hurricane passed over Bentonville,
Arkansas, blowing down nearly every house
in town killing 25 persons and wounding a
great number.
A Miser in Trouble.
A friend from Olmsted County tells us of
an amusing incident of an old lady who is
endowed with an extraordinary gift of love
of money. She toc,k a claim last (all in the
vicinity of Oronoco, and having several hun
dred dollars i,n gold, she took the precaution
to bury it near the river in two separate par
cels, but like the foolish who built on
the sand, the winter floods came and so
changed the face of the earth in the vicinity,
that the old lady could not find the spots
where her treasures are huried—She related
the facts to the friend above alluded to, who
describes her as being clothed in the meanest
and most ragged garb, and as living in the
most (apparent) abject poverty, having begged
her way into the country. —nasioga Gazette.
Death-Bed of Benton.
Corresjiondence of the N. )'. Tribune.
Washington, Tuesday, April 6.
Col. Benton is (lying. Ills disease, can*
cer of the bowels, has made such progress
that lie cannot survive much longer. lie
sutlers extreme pain, aud iS exhausted to al
most the last degree of physical prostration.
But his miud is as clear and as powerful as
ever, and that high, resolute, Homan spirit of
the old statesman struggles with indomitable
euergy and fortitude against sickness and
weakness, and the awful presence of the
King of Terrors. lie dies in harness, work
ing to the last for his country and mankind.
An old and intimate triend from Missouri
called upon him this morning. Benton was
in bed, scarcely ab'e to move hand or foot,
and not able to speak much above a whis
per. But he was hard at work, closing up
his Abridgment of the Debates of Congress,
which he has brought down to 1850, to the
passage of the Compromise measure. He
was dictating the closing chapter of the
work. His daughter, Mrs. Jones, sitting be
side the bed, received it, sentence by sen
tence, whispered in her ear, and repeated it
aloud to her husband, who wrote it down.—
It was then read over to Col. Benton, and
received its corrections, made with as much
anxious particularity as if were the maiden
work of a young author.
Resting a few minutes from his task, Col-
Benton entered into conversation with his
Missouri friend. He told him that in review
ing the events of 1850 he was glad to find
that the animosities of the past had died out
in his heart, and he was not only ready but
eager to do justice to his former rivals and
opponents. He spoke with much feeling of
Mr. Clay, to whose merits and services he
had awarded the highest praise in what he
was writing about the Compromise period of
1850. He dwelt particularly on the service
—the great service Mr. Clay had rendered
to the Republic at that time by baffling and
putting down the traitorous Secessionists of
the South, who were seeking to destroy the
Union, and plunge the country into civil war
for their own selfish and ambitious purposes.
The inspiration of this theme fired the
languid blood, and reanimated for a moment
the failing frame of the dying patriot. In
energetic whispers, he told his visitor that
the same men who sought to destroy the Re
public in 1850 were at the bottom of this ac
cursed Lecompton business. Among the
greatest of his consolations in dying was the
consciousness that the House of Representa
tives had baffled these treasonable schemes,
and put the heels of the people on the neck
of the traitors. Few events in our history
had given him so much satisfaction as the
defeat of Lecompton. He warmly praised
the intrepid and incorruptible Douglas Dem
ocrats who had resisted the power and wiles
of a corrupt and deluded Administration.
In taking leave of his friend, Col. Benton
said that, although there was much in his
life that he regretted, he could honestly feel
proud on his death bed of his devotion to his
country ; iu whose service he had never been
faithless or negligent.
From Washington.
Special Dispatches to the N. Y. Tribune
W~ashi.vc.ton, Friday, April 9,1858.
The plan of the Lecomptonites as disclosed
to-day, is to take up the Kansas bill in the
Senate on Monday, at one o’cl.xjk, to vote to
insist and demand a conference. Then to
take the bill immediately to the House and
put it through if they can.
The Administration is using its power to
the full extent to insute success in this final
struggle. Promises to Embassies and other
offices, of fat contracts and of Southern votes
lor favorite measures before Congress, are
freely made to members supposed to be wa
vering.
Secretaries Cobb and Thompson threaten
to resign if Lecompton fails, which threat
tends to cool rather than to inflame the Le
compton ardqr of certain Southern members,
by getting them to speculate on the succes
sorship to the vacant post.
After the first defeat of Lecompton, a week
ago, the Presinent wrote to Qqv. Wise a very
Iqng letter, deploring the evil which this Le
compton business had brought upon the Ad -
ministration, asking Gov. Wise for advice,
and beseeching him to help save the Admin
istration and the Democratic party, telling
him at the same time, that The Union was
not Mr. Buchanan’s organ, and that he had
not approved its proscriptive and vituperative
course. The Richmond Enquirer immediate
ly came out against the course pursued by
The Union.
From a Special Correspondent.
Washington, Friday, April 9, 1858.
An unfounded rumor of Colonel Benton’s
death was circulated this morning, upon the
strength of which the House adjourned. E(is
condition is about the same as heretofore,
though he is evidently sinking. He is ex
tremely vveak, having subsisted on milk and
ice cream for weeks, dictated sqverql
private letters in the forenoop, and this after
noon was trapquil and easy. He has been
attended all along by his daughter, Mrs. Ca
ry Jones, who resides with him. Another
daughter, Mrs. Jacob, of Kentucky, arrived
yes'er Jay. Ilis two remaining children are
not here, Mrs. Fremont, having gone to Cali
fornia, after parting with him a month ago,
not apprehending that he was in a critical
state, and Madame Boileau,. beipg in Calcut
ta, the wife of the French Consul-General.
At this time, hisybudgest grand-child lies in
the room Overhead, at the point of death.
Thus extremes meet.
Sympathy for G;en. Johnston’s command
and himself saved the deficiency bill in the
House to day. Nothing else b,ut that and
contracts involving the good faith ftf the
Government. The Adnpoistvation aide at
tempted to dodge responsibility, but were
compelled to face the music.
There is not one word of truth in the'ru
mors, representing that the President con
templates sending in a Message hostile to
Spain, and looking to the acquisition of Cuba
as a set-off for ther defeat Oh Lecompton.—
No sqch purpose has been or ia entertained.
It is eyen scouted at. Buchanan looks to
that object as the great point of his Admin
istration, but through the negotiation only
knowing the hazards of acting otherwise
He considers Paris the focus of available di
plomacy, and hence his anxiety for Slidell’s
acceptance of the mission. He has the fullest
confidence of the President, ad is considered
an expert manager besides.
Mr. Stepens intimate^to-day that the “ad
herence’ oa the House would hardly return
from the Senate hefore Wednesday, and per
haps not at all. They are trying to patch up
a compromise.
Tue weekly statement of the Treasury is
as follows:
Amount sub. to draft $6,148,823 22
Dec. from last week •42W,20C 86
Receipts f»55,848 02
Drafts paid 1,103,879 59
Drafts issued..., 976,043 89
As will be seen, the receipts are a little
above the half of those last week.
Mr. Wm. H. Appleton, one of Col. Ben
ton’s publishers, arrived to-night, and will
be allowed an interview at the Colonel’s re
quest, though visitors are no?/ interdicted.—
Great numbers cf anxious friehds in both his
public and private life have thronged Col,Ben
ton’s residence this afternoon and evening.
Loan Iffeetlne In Red Wins,
Messrs. Berry and Reqrce, of Winona, ad
dressed oyr citizens on’ Wednesday evening,
upon the subject of the 5,000.000 loan. The
speeches were but a recitation of what every
one has read and heard a dozen times,
the converts made upon the occasion were
precious few. But a small crowd were out.
—Red, Wing Rep., April 9.
Personal.— We were pleased to meet
yesterday Ex-Gov. Ramsey of Minnesota.—
The Governor has been spending several
weeks in his native State, Pennsylvania. He
returns in the best of health and spirits, and
has justly a high opinion of Minnesota, his
adopted State. Had it not been for the most
glaring fraud, a vice which has become chron
ic with the bogus slave holding Democracy,
Gov. Ramsey, instead of being an Ex would
have been the real Governor of Minnesota.—
That kind ol Democracy, however, will soon
be “cleaned out”—gone forever
Press, 10th. .^ntcago
Beault of the Election at Red Wing.
From the Republican.
The election held on Tuesday last was
warmly contested, and the result a very close
one. Both parties had their strongest men
in the field, and the entire strength of each
was polled. The total vote cast was 418,
some 260 less than was polled in the precinct
last fall Our friends abroad will understand
there are upwards of 300 voters within the
reside outside of the city limits ; this fact
will also account for the reduced majority of
the Republican ticket, as three-fourths of tho
outside voters are Republicans. The pre
cinct itself is always good for 150 Republican
majority. The following is the vote cast:
RBPCDMCA9. DEMOCRATIC.
Mayor.
Volney Brundage 208 | William Freeborn *2Ol
Councillors.
S. S. Granni* *2lb I Leman Bates 501
Joshua Ashton *224 j Jesse M’lntire 198
Seth Washburte *2lO | George Wilkinson 190
Clerk.
Francis Ives *2ll | Ohas. Betcher 199
Justice.
D. 0. Hill 205 | F. F. Hoyt *2ll
'Elected.
Minnesota.
The man of all men for a dashing proposi
tion is Mr. Toombs, of Georgia. He pro
posed the other day iu the Senate, that Min
nesota should have, for the present, three
Representatives, and hereafter, such number
as a census might show her to be entitled to.
That is, he proposes to give seats to the
three Democrats now elected, (who are said
to be Lecompton Democrats) but hereafter
to reduce the delegation, (which may be Re
publican in the next Congress) and conse
quently to reduce the Presidential vote in
1860 to the proportion of her actual num
bers. It is easy to see that this proposition
harmonizes with Mr. Toomb’s party interests,
but not so easy to reconcile it with the Con
stitution of the United States.
Minnesota is entitled to one Representa
tive at all events, but to nothing beyond, ex
cept upon the basis of numbers. The case
of California is precedent for setting aside a
palpably erroneous census, and arriving at
numbers in some other way. We dispute
neither the precedent nor its application to
Minnesota where the recent census is shown
to have been glaringly erroneous. But, af
ter all, numbers must be ascertained and ad
judicated in some way as the basis of rep
resentation, and however this number may
be adjudicated,the representation based upon
it cannot be changed until the general re-ap
portionment under the next census. Repre
sentation is n.jt to be iccorded temporarily,or
as a matter of favor. Congress cannot to
day give Minnesota three Representatives,
without deciding judicially that her popula
tion is large enough for that, and when that
is so decided, the representation cannot be
altered again until after the census of 1860.
If we must take these three Lecompton
Democrats now, so be it, but let us have the
chance for the three seats in the next Con
gress. and let us have the weight of these
three votes in the next Presidential election.
Mr. Toombs should not take everything to
himself and his friends.— Washington Re
public.
A Moses to lead us out of the Wilderness.
The last Chatfield Republican contains the
following paragraph:
Seuator Jones, we learn, has gone to Wis
consin, to raise some loan bill assistance.—
We have heard it suggested that the Hon.
Gent, designed bailing the celebrated crisis
lecturer, SI. M. Strong, out of Jail, at Madi
son, and bring him back, to enlighten the
benighted Slinuesotians again, on their duty
to R. R. Co’s.
Bring on the Missionaries, Gents.!—let the
work of conversion go on 1 The people of
Wisconsin are nearly all converted !—Minne
sota comes next in order!
How Very Strange !—lsn’t ft.
A writer in the Pioneer, in speaking of the
Loan Bill and its opponents, says :
“llow strange and unaccountable is it,that
this most unjust suspicion of fraud haunts
forever the minds of the most zealous oppo
nents of the proposed amendment ! They
utterly repudiate the good olrl-fashioncd doc
trine, that “every man shall be presumed to
be innocent until he is proved to be guilty,’’
and, indeed, reverse it, and presume ail (pen
guilty until they arc proved to be Inno
cent.”
is strange, isn’t it, that we should
have suspicions of Railroad Companies now
a-days !
Look back over tho financial history of
our country for the last few yesuy, and see
what is the they hafi left !
Trace their operations from Schuyler down
to the last great fraud in Wisconsin,and it you
please, even later, to our own 'jefrifiory, aud
what a list of frauds and deifications {
The world has povcr produced a parallel—
never 5
And yet, this sapient writer thinks it strange
that this “most unjust suspicion of fraud should
haunt” our minds.
Yes, —it is straug a, isn't it.
And then too, when we see who are the
authors and abettors of this swindle schas*e»
it is still more strauge.
They are the very iacu wh j have nearly
destroyed the magnificent grant given to
Wisconsin, and whose frauds and rascalities
are now being brought to light by the k<egfslutive
investigations there !
Had we not foftd m Wisconsin for years,
and did we not ko,ow Moses M. Strong and
Kilb"Urue and their clique, to be a
rno.ng the biggest ittapfja in all the west,
then it tgigki appear still more strange.
Wd we not know, and did not everybody
know, that these same men were at St. Paul
with thousands of dollars of their bonds
with which to buy their way through our legisla
ture, as they did that of Wisconsin, then too,
it would appear more strange
If tho friends of thissoliem© at home, had
not ybted dowrr an attempt at investigation
here, thep too, it would seem still more
strange !
Rut such a record as this before their eyes,
the people of Minnesota YAlleyarenot going
to swallow any such hook,no matterhowwell
baited ; nor will their suspicions of these
companies be in any wav lessened, by the
plain evidences of dishonest intention con
tained in tins bill,
You mistake, vyry much sir, when you say
we revc rso the rule that ‘‘men are to be pre
sumed mnecent until they are proved guil
tv.”
The fact is,have they been pronounced guilty !
They have been convicted of almost every
crime of which soulless corporations could
be guilty.
They have robbed their own state—de
frauded i,heir own creditors—corrupted their
Own Legislature—in short, done every dis
houest act in their power to do.
And if they would do that there, what
have we to expect of them here ?
If they intended to be honest why did they
vote down the reasonable amendment propos
ed to the bill.
Anchor us that, will you ?
Men who are dishonest at home , are not to
be trusted abroad.— St. P-ier Free Press.
A western pettifogger, while conducting a
suit before a justice of the peace, seeing that
his ease was going against him, broke forth
in the following indignant strain :
“Go on with your abuse, yer infernal bull
heads. I s’pose likely you think you are go
ing to get the case. Well, mebby you will
get it, my client can’t get no justice done him
ajore tl/is court. But, sir, we’re enough for
ye, the whole of ye. Me and u»y client can’t
never be intimidated nor tyrannized over ;
mark that. And, sir, just so sure as this
court decides against ns, we’ll file a writ of
progandor, sir, and we ”
Here he was interrupted by the opposite
counsel who wanted to know what he meant
by a writ of progander.
“Mean, why, sir, a writ of progander is a
—a—a it’s a— wal, I don’t just remember
the exact word, but it’s what’ll knock thun
der out one horse Courts anyhow. ’■
The Assembly of Pennsylvania has voted
by 50 tp sell the State Canals. If they
can’t sell them money will be made giving
them away.
Cabinet Changes.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald foreshadows important
changes in the Buchanan Cabinet. He
says:
There are rumors running deep among cer
tain leading men here, of a possibility, and
some say necessity, of a change in the Cabi
net. They say there must be more vigor
and less circumlocution in high places.
This is evidently aimed at Gen. Cass, who
is, as every body knows, quite unfit for the
arduous duties of the State Department.—
He was appointed because of his antecedents;
but John Appleton, of Maine, is really Sec
retary of State.
Proposed Muster of the Firemen of the
United State* In Boston.
We arc informed that certain parties are
interesting themselves in the subscription of
a sum of SIO,OOO, which they design, with
the approbation of the parties interested, in
authority and otherwise, to offer us prizes to
whatever fire company in the United States
should throw a stream the highest, draught
ing and playing through four hundred feet of
hose, ana using such nozzles as they should
choose—the competition to come off on Bos
ton Common in August or September next
as might be agreed upon ; also to hose com
panies for the running a half a mile and un
reeling five hundred feet of hose in the short
est time.
It is proposed to classify the engines. The
first class to be engines with cylinders seven
inches in diameter and upwards ; the second
class to consist of those with cylinders from
six to seven inches in diameter ; aud tho
third class to comprise all engines with cylin
ders under six inches in diameter. Each com
pany is to have the privilege of selecting from
their own towns, or immediate localities, as
many men as they choose to work their en
gines. &c.
The prize for excellence in the first class
is $2,000 ; for the second class, $1,500 ; and
tor the thud class 1,000. The prizes for tl o
hese companies are to be for the winner,
SI,OOO ; for the second, SSOO. These prizes
include $6,000, and the remaining $4,000
are to be devoted to the payment of inciden
tal expenses of competitors from a distance.
It is designed that the competition shall last
three days. —Boston Ledger.
An Incident In the New Y ork .Prayer
Meeting.
The Albany S'atesman chronicles the fol
lowing as one of the items of the New York
revival. It says:
A-curious incider t occurred at one of the
prayer meetings down town last week. An
unctuous brother who, it appears, is a kind
of cut-door clerk for one of the lottery swin
dies, situated in a Broadway basement not
far from the Park, and who has been long
noted as one of the hardest kind of charac
ters, and most dangerous order of Revivalists,
after chuckling out in nasal spasms a general
confession of his sins, and exulting over his
curious “ conversion,” besought the prayers
of the assembly in his behalf.
His request wa6 immediately complied
with by a younger brother, who seemed well
posted on tne past career and present mode
of life of the oily “convert.”
This gentleman instantly set up a fervid
prayer in behalf of “Brother L , ’’ He
implored for mercy for the corpulent sinner,
alt hough, as he averred, “ Brother L ’s
long life of fraud seemed beyond the reach of
iueroy that was not infinite in its nature.
Brother L. rather winced at this literal com
pliance with his own solicitation, hut quite
regardless of this, the scathiug supplicator
went on. “ Thou knowest,” he proceeded,
“that no sinfifi wretch stands in greaterneed
of mercy than Brother L •! Forgive him,
for his robbery of the widow and the poor
forgive him for his long life of fraud ! Turn
his heart this day from lusting alter the nefa
rious profits of the policy business! Awaken
him to a knowledge of the sinfulness of false
pretences, and the purchase of stolen, goods
and inspire him with a detprifijaation to pay
his debts ! ’
Quite a lively allocation ensued outside in
a fe\y minutes afterwards, between Brother
I crrrr. afid the gontleman who had prayed so
pointedly in his behalf, which would proba
bly have terminated unpleasantly but for the
interference of an unconverted policeman.
Sequel ta Judge Lortug’s Removal.
The Massachusetts Legislature has very
properly followed up the removal of Judge
Luring by voting the sum of $3,500 to Wil
liam H. Ela, as an indemnity for injuries re
cieved by a ehargo upon him by a portion of
the Boston Brigade, at the time of the ren
dition of Anthony Burns.
This unfortunate young man, who happen
ed to be passing on the business of his em
ployer, through one of the streets occupied
by the military, with an ink buttle in his
band, was furiously set upon by a military
captain, under thp suspicion that the bottle
contained sulphuric acid or some other for
midable liquid, by means of which Ela in
tended to dispeise tho Boston Brigade aud
rescue Borns from the clutches of the Mar
shal. Ela, who was severely and perma
nently injured, brought this action against
the Mayor who had ordered out the troops,
the Marshal in whose service they were, and
the Goueral who commanded them, on the
grouud that the calling out of the militia in
this case was not authorized by law. The
Supreme Court sustained this view of the
case; but the jury before whom the question
was sent saw tit, (hi; some reason best known
to themselves, to give a verdict for the de
fendants. Under these circumstances, the
Legislature has handsomely stepped forward
and voted Ela the compensation above men
tioned. Thus at last is closed up the case of
the rendition of Anthony Burns, not with
out a heavy outlay to all the parties concern
ed in it. It annihilated the political party
which had ruled Massachusetts for thirty
years ; ousted Loripg from his professorship
and seal on the bench; cost the United
States an enormous bill of costs, and has now
finally taken $3,500 out of the Massachusetts
Treasury.—AT. F. Ti 'ibune.
Very Satisfactory.
Pending the vote on the final passage of
Lecompton swinule through the Senate, Mr.
Iverson, of Georcia. said he should vote for
tue bill, but hi doing so wished to protest
against the doctrine that the people of Kan
sas could alter Constitution before 1864. He
did not believe they could do any such thing
under the Lecompten Constitution. He had
lost his interest in the passage of the meas
ure admitting Kansas under tho Lecompton
Constitution since the manifesto of John
Calhoun, declatirg that he should issue cer
tificates giving Leavenworth county to the
Free State party, which would give the major
ity of the Legislature elected under Lecomp
tou to the Free State party. He regarded
this usurpation on the part of Calhoun, who
had no right, to go behind the face of the re
turns, (Delaware Crossing vote.) He regret
ted to be compelled to say that he under
stood, from reliable authority, that he had
pursued this oourse under advice from South
ern men. Its effect was to make the passage
of the bill a barren victory for the South, as
no one could doubt that the Abolitionists
would soon make that State too hot a place
for the residence of decent Southern men.
Mr. Wade, of Ohio, in response to this re
markable admission, asked the following
question :
I wish to ask the Senator from Georgia
whether I understand him to say that Mr.
Calhoun proposed to give his certificates of
election on the advice of certain Southern
members, or according to the truth of the
vote ? x.
i hat struck me a» a very extraordinary
statement, and I sfeould like to know wheth
er I understand it correctly.
Mr. Iverson, responded very satisfactorily
as fialiowa: . A
I do not recogmze the nght of the Senator
from Ohio to catechise me op the subject,
and, therefore, I decline answering.
The Public Schools of St. Paul o»pen again
on next Monday. An otfioial notice wul be
found in another column.
More of Lecompton*
The Herald's correspondent after the vote
in the House, on Thursday last, sends the
following:
Washington, April 8.
The Administration party in the Senate
and House still have strong hopes of passing
the Lecompton bill. The Senate will strike
out the Crittenden Amendment and insist on
the Lecompton bill, and will ask a committee
of conference. The House will accede to
their wish. The Republicans proper, howev
er, will vote against it; but English, Groes
beck, Pendleton. Underwood and McKib
bin will vote with the Democrats for a con
ference committee, which will carry it. There
is hope that from the indications of wavering
with two or three doubtful Democrats to-day
that a sufficient number will recede or ab
stain from voting, and that the bill may be
ultimately carried.
The original Lecompton is surely dead, but
its ghost has yet to be laid.
Early Radishes Early Plowing.—
Martin D. Clarke, Esq., who lives down the
river a few miles,yesterday presented ns with
a bunch of early Radishes well grown, of the
“Mt Moriah” kind, raised on his farm. This
will do for April 7th, and we advise those
who think some things can’t be done as well
as others, in Minnesota,in the early vegetable
line,to make a note of this. Why, we have be
fore us a letter written by M. Y. Jackson of
Lakeland, Washington Co. to the Messenger,
on the 21st of March, that so effectually ex
plodes the common idea that our farmers
have to wait until about June 1. before they
can do anything, we feel inclined to give it iu
full.
Hear Messenger :—lt is known in this neigh*
borhood, and perhaps throughout Minnesota,
that we are having spring. But what is well
known here, may not be known or even sus
pected iu the States further south and east of
us.
In the States,—three to five hundred miles
south of us, —this is the season of mud, rain,
snow, and sleet, cheered by the merry music
of frogs. And in that favored land familiar
ly known as Down East, the farmers have
scarcely ventured out into the fields to see if
the stones have thawed loose enough to be
gin the picking up and hauling off operation
that has to be repeated every year.
But here, in Minnesota, north latitude 45
—just half way from the equator to the north
pole—“away up north,” in the reg ons of buf
falo, beaver and squaw corn, we are plowing.
Yes, plowing, harrowing and qcietly enjoy
ing our spring work. I commenced plowing
»m Wednesday, 17th inst. Not merely plow
ing an early potatoe patch, to say that I have
plowed in March, but pitched into a thirty
acre oat field, and have now some ten or
twelve acres nicely turned up and ready to
sow.
This may, and perhaps should be consider
ed rare. But this is my fifth spring ii Min
nesota, and twice have I witnessed gooj
plowing weather in March.
In the Marine Court of New York, it wa3
lately decided that the use of the term “&
Co.” appended to the name of a person in
trade, having no partner, is a misdemeanor,
punishable by imprisonment.
MARRIED.
On the 11th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Patterson, Mr. Wil
liam F. Worker to Miss Aones Stackpole, both of this
City.
At Cincinnati, 0., on the 7th inst., by the Rev. Mr.
Nicholson, Sam. A. Medary, of Minnesota Territory, to
Sallie F., daughter of the late Hon. David T. Disney.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
IbfORTGAGE SALE—WHEREAS DE-
AvA fault has been made in the condition of a certain
indentture of Mortgage executed by F. Wilbur Fisk and
Sarah A. Fisk, his wife, of the County of Steele, and
Territory of Minnesota, to Philip Smith, of the same
place, dated the 6th day of October, A. D. ISSC, which
mortgage was duly reoorded in the Office of the Regis
ter of Deeds of tho said County of Steele on the seventh
day of October, A. D. 1556, at 9 o’clock, A. M., in book
A. of Mortgages, pages 35, 86 and 87, whereby said
F. Wilbur Fisk and Sarah A. Fisk, his wife, did grant,
Uarjam, sell and convey to the said Philip Smith, his
heirs and assigns, forever, all that tract or parcel of
land lying and being in the county of Steele and Terri
tory of Minnesota, described as follows, to wit
The south west quarter of the north west quarter
of section twenty four, in township one hundred
and eight, north of range twenty, west —containing
forty acres more or less, according to the United
States survey: to have and to hold the same, to
gether with all the hereditaments and appurtenances
thereunto belonging, or in any way appertaining to tho
said Philip Smith, his heirs and assigns forever , to se
cure to said Philip Smith, bis heirs, executors, adminis
trators or assigns the sum of one hundred dollars, on or
before one yeas from date, with interest at twenty-live
per cent, per annum, according to the condition of a
promissory note, bearing even date with the said mort
gage; which said mortgage was duly assigned by said
Philip Smith to David Smith of the Countv and City of
Albany in the Staje of New York on the 12th day of De
cember, A.D. 1857, which assignment was duly recorded,
in the office of the Register of Deeds of the said county
of Steele, on the 14th day of December. A.D. 1557, at 7
o’clock, A. M. in book A. of Mortgages at page SI.
And whereas, there is claimed to be due and is due
and unpaid upon said mortgage at the date of ibis notice
the sum of one hundred dollars, and interest thereon at
the rate of twenty live per cent, per annum, from and
since the sixth day of October, A.D. IS5*, and no suit or
proceeding at law having been had or instituted to re
cover the debt secured by said mortgage or any part
thereof,
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of the power of
sale In said mortgage contained, and pursuant to the
statute in such case made and provided the mortgaged
premises above described will be sold at public auction,
at the office of the Register of Deeds in the said county
of Sleek-, on Monday the 31st day of May, A J). 1858, at
ten o’clock in the forenoon of that day, to. satisfy the
amount then due on said mortgage, with interest and
the costs and expenses allowed by law.
Dated Faribault, April 7th, 1858,
DAVID* SMITH, Assignee.
Berrt A Perkins, Att’ys for Assignee. apl7wlw
Notice.— the members of the
North Western Pioneer Land Company, are hereby
notified that an assessment of one dollar per share must
be paid into the treasury on or before the 15th day of
April, 185 S. All shares on which assessments remain
unpaid over thirty days, will be forfeited to the Company..
apl7-wt OHAS. A. DPHAM, Sec’y.
NEW YORK TRIBUNE—IBSB.—THE
TRIBUNE commences its eighteenth year on the
10th of April inst. It has nearly complet* d arrange
ments, by an outlay of more than SSO,CuO on a new
Press and other machinery and adjuncts, to reduce to
the lowest point the time which must tlapse between the
making up of its forms and the reception of its issues by
its patrons. No expense or labor will be spared to ren
der its advices from all quarters as prompt, full, graphic,
and reliable as those of any rival. With correspond
ents at the most important points in either hemisphere,
and an editorial staff chosen from the best writers in.
our country, it endeavors to deserve the unequaled cir
culation which was accorded it some yems since, and
which, in spite of the hardness of the times, it still re
tains.
The Tribune's course on the great questions of the
Jay is guided by principles which stilt stand the test of
ages. It wars upon Slavery, “not in the abstract mere
ly. but in the United States,” regardless of the fact that
the slaves are a poweness caste, and belong to a loathed
and down-trodden race, because It realizes that unjust,
oppressive laws are a curse, not merely to their imme
diate victims, but tke whole community which endure*
and upholds them. In the same spirit, it opposes Filll
busterism and every form of national rapacity or ag
gression, profoundly convinced that “Righteousness ex
alteth a nation,” and that territory won by conquest or
spoliation never did and never can truly strengthen tho
nation thus aggrandized. Regarding f reedom in U.bor
as the only safe, benificent basis of national grow th and
prosperity, it contends for that Freedom not only in
Kansas but on every acre of the Federal Territories,
seeking no favor from and granting none to any party,
interest, doctrine, or tribunal that would render them
the nursery and home of Bondage. The varied devel
opment and diversification of Home Industry, the re
pression of Intemperance, Violence, and Crime, the im
proveraent, by every prsctlcflble inciiiis, of tlic condi*
tion of the’needy and unfortunate, are among the ob
jects to which our efforts are steadfastly directed. In,
short without assuming to be wiser or better ttan
others we aim to be found always the foes of Wrong,
Abuse and Evil, and the champions of Truth, Virtue,
and Reform.
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New York, 1858. apl4wt.