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E E N I E
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
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(DlJ(bTTT7
Lower Town.
Will make collections, inyest money, buy,
•ett er lean land Warrants, and enter purchase
er dispose of Real Estate. A
A E 3 McK BI^VY,
•TTOREEl & COUNSELLOR AT LAW,Forever
ST, QLQTJI),
vi Lower Town.:
Will make collections, invest money, buy,
sail er lean Land Warrants, and enter, purchase
or dispose of Real Estate.
W A S O N S
COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
OrNCR WABIUXUTON Avr.su*:,
Cerner of Monroe Street—Monti's Building
8 CLOUD Min
E O A N O S E
(Late.01 St. Anthony,)
ITT0RNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
O 1 IK MCCL.( XU'S (PUCENIX) BLOCK,
NFAR IHB /uiias.
8T. PAUL Min.
W S O O E
ATTORNEY IND COUNSELLOR RTaRW
8 A RAPIDS Min.
I MILLIK. BRKRY SWISSUKI.M
E A E S A E A E N
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA.
PRE undersigned offer their services to loan
1_ money upon best real estate security and
re purchase and sell property.either real or
peraenal, for a reasonable commission.
They have now for sale, at low prices:
80 quarter sections of good land.
SO lots, (some improved,) in St. Cloud.
'20 In Nininger addition to St. Paul.
In Nihinger city, tu &m
10 in Mound city, Illinois.
MILLER & SWISSHELM
St. Oloud. May 13, 1858.
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BOOKS, STATIONARY, WALL PAPER,
fISHINO TACKLE, POCKET CUTLERY,
fANCY ARTICLES, TOYS, A
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'RE undersigned take* thut method :of
Oiose who, may have 'houses
mlRete frame, er carpentry and joiner
ia any er all of its braaehe*, that he is prepar
ad take eeatraeta, and do all kinds of work
In Ihb line, en the most reasenable term* and
H. BARRETT
Ottlt En^lmevT and Surreyor.
W^^0^~^JFti^\&!0t Lower St. Cloud
Mane aE surveyed lands, and plate of al
the leading town of Northern Minnesota, can
had at all times at my oSce. A
R- MITCHELL, JeVcAoni, Lower St. Cloud,
Has reee'ved a large Stock of New Goods,
i/iich he will cffs.tp for CASH.
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M.I :.. .,,,.,,..,,• ,Mn- j*_^±^—rV.:. ——, „,.-, s—u£ a
When the dim presence of the awful Night,
Clasps in its jewelled arms the slumbering
earth, .9 -, ,•*, ...!
Alone I sit beside the lowly light
That like a dream-fire fliokers on my hearth,
With some joy-teeming volume in my hand—
A peopled planet, opulent and grand.
It may be Shakspeare, with his endless train
Of sceptered thoughts,, a glorious progeny
BoWteen the whirlwind of his mighty strain,
Through vision-lands forever far and free,
His great mind beaming through those phan
tom crowds, r, ,'i
Like evening sun from out a wealth" of clouds
It may be Milton, on his seraph wings,
What then to me is all your sparkling dance,
Wine purpl'dbanquet,or vain Fashion's blaze,
hus roaming through the realm ofrich Romance
Old Kooliworld, and its wealth of royal days,
Forever with those brave and brilliant ones
That fill Time's channel like a stream of euns.
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Soaring te heights of grandeur yet untrod
Now deepwhere horrid shapes of darkness clingi
Now lost in splendor at the feet of God
Girt with the terror of avenging skies,
Or wrapt in dreams of infant Paradise.
It may be Spencer, with his misty shades,
Where forms of beauty wondrous tales re
hearse,
With breezy vistas, and with cool arcades
'Opening forever in his antique verse.
It may be Chaucer, with his drink divine.
His Tabard old, and Pilgrims twenty-nine.
Perchance I linger with the mighty Three,
Of glorious Greece, that morning land of song.
Who bared the fearful front of Tragedy, ..
And soared to fame on pinions broad and
strong .,- .'.
Or watch beneath the Trojan ramparts proud,
The dim hosts gathering like a thunder cloud.
The rust of time can sully Quixote's mail,
In wonted rest his lance securely lies
Still is the faithful Sancho stout and hale,
wide his wonder-stricken eyes
And Rosinaute, bare and spectral steed,
Still throws gaunt shadows o'er their every deed.
Still can I robe me in the old delights
Of Caliph splendid, and of Genii grim,
The star-wealth of Arabia's thousand nights,
Shining till every other light grows dim
Wander away in broad, voluptuous lands,
By streams of silver, and through golden sands
Still hear the storms of Camoons burst and swell,
His seas of vengance raging wild and wide
Or wander by the glimmering fire of hell,
With dreaming Bante and his spirit guide
Loiter in Petrarch's green, melodions grove,
Or hang with Tasso o'er his hopeless love.
From Glenson's Pictorial.
E O N O A E S
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PILOTED BY PROVIDENCE.
BY GEO. S. RAYMOND.
CONCLUDED.
It was an hour past midnight—dark as
the deepest, gloomiest cells of ah inquisi
torial dungeob, save when the vivid light
ning's flash lit up the Cimmerian black
ness with a glare rivaling that of the
brightest noon day sim.
Some ninety miles to the eastward of
Shiidy Hook, lay hbVe to a noble ship, in
ward bound, in one of the most 'teWific
gales that ever swept along the northern
coast of America. The gale had set in
about an hour before sundown, and ever
since dark the ship had been hove to under
the shortest possible canvass, heading up
southwest, with the gale coming in violent
squalls out 6r northwest.
HiQ0 you think there is any danger to tts
or the sKip, captain inquired one of the
three passengers, who stood near the coni
mandcr of the ship, partly sheltered from
tbesiorm by the projecting roof of the
round house. A ]-s•.••-.
"Not the least, Mr. Kinsley. You aftin
as safe here as yotf1Would be at our own
house in New York. She is a bratf new
ship, and I have had no opporturiity of
tryl«gj(he¥ hove to before but I am pef
"feclly'iatisfiedwith her behavior, fact,
I never saw any craft conduct herself quite
so well iii a hurricane like this. 'I'is a
terrible night however, and God help those
who may chance to be out in a less able
erafl than burs! For the last hour 1 have
been thinking of my wife and children.—
My wife will not sleep one wint to-night.
She can never in a storm like this when I
am from home. Is was cast away once on
the Long Island shore, not half a mile from
home, in just such a gale only it was sputhi
east. I would give a hundred dollars this
moment to be at home, only for my wife'*
sake. But we iaust—my God, what is
di'Jk. continuous flash of lightning lit upmere
the surrounding space, and as the dark
nest shut in again a faint, but clear and
distinct "Ship A^oyt'^utfcered either by
a fenialc or a child came down on the blast
from directly to windward.
A moment after the hail was repeated,
and another flash of lightning revealed a
unto the children of Israel that they go
¥bL .. ST.• CLOUD, STEABN'S CO JrtlESOfffS 3OT1&DAY> MARCH 29 186a"
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& O E O A O O W O boat driving square down befbre th a a it a it E
S A
ahdlWniost under the ihipVqtiarter. S I rrrri I
boat driving square djbw beiorciihee galel,
and alhios under the ship's quarter."'"'^Ere
one could count five the shrill, quivering
cry came .up from the boat, as it shot past"p:iffbb'lfemoerats
the ship, not three,, fathoms clear of\ hit
rudder. .. .!
"Merciful Heavens! There' are three
children in that boat yelkid Mr. Kins
ley, who, with," the captain, was peering
down over the taffrail as the boat flew
paSt. fj" •::,:
'•iPiit your helm hard up, my man, "said
the captain, in a voice as calm as a -man's
voice could be and then calling the chief
and, third mates, who were both on deck,
he informed them of the fact that a small
open boat, with three children in it, had
just gpne past, and then gavo his orders:
"Mr. Casey, please, go out on the flying
jibboon and keep a lookout for the boat
and mind, Mr. Casey, if we come tip with
it, you can lay the ship so as to bring-the
boat close aboard on the larboard side—
larboard, remember, Mr» Casey. Don't
for your life, make a mistake.
Raj
J($o
forward,
now, sir, and if we Save those children,
five hundred dollars shall be your re
ward." ..
Then turning to the chief mate, he con
tinued:
Mr. AVinsor, you will brace the yards
all square, which, without making any more
sail, will send the ship through the water
something faster than the boat is going.
Having done this, rig six single whips-^
two on. each of the lower yards—oh the
larboard side. Place the blocks far
enough out for the falls to drop about a
fathom clear of the ship, and then reeve off
good stun-sail gear, bringing both ends in,
on deck, with a running bowline in one
part, and the other led along for a fall,
stationing three good fellows at each. In
the meantime, I will get. the ship steady
before the wind, and Frank, my man, you
keep her so. Don't let her yaw an inch
Steer her^as if your very soul depended on
it and within an hour after the ship reach
es New York you shall have a hundred
dollars."
"And now, Mr: Kinsley, will you please
call up second mate and all the gentle
men passengers I want them to stand
by the whips, in order to assist the sailors
if necessary. W must save those chil
dren, and do it, too, without the boat com
ing in contact with the ship, as that would
be instant destruction to it and them, in
such a sea." •»-,
"All ready, the whips, sir!" came from
the mate, and the next moment the young
third mate's, voice rang from the jibboom
end :—r"Boat right ahead! Steady, as you
oo!"
"Now then, my lads, who'll into these
running bowlines with me and stand by to
pick up the.children anxiously inquir
ed the capt in.
"I, sir," and "I," "I," "I," came from
a dozen reiidy sailors, in a moment.
"Thank you, my lads but I only want
five. I go in one of the bowlines myself."
The selections, were soon made, and
(here they stood in the fore, main and
mizzen chains—the commander and five
noble fellows—with bowlines under their
arms ready to risk their lives to save the
three children.
"Steady!. Stand by, now!, Here they
come! Look out!" screamed the officer
from"the jibbooniydnda moment later the
dim outlines of a boat loomed up by the
lea-cat head. Another moment of breath
less suspense, und the boat.was.abreast of
the fore-chains.
WStand by-tbe^ for'ard whipsV Look
out there in.the main chains! Veer away,
men! now, Harry, note I" and down went
the captain and his companion into the
boat. *.
A breath later ancUhe shout came ring
ing up, ''Look out, mam and mizzen chains!
Sway away on deck!" and up by the
came the two men, each grasping a
in hisarms. -1
"Main chains, there! In Grojf's name
have you got her!" soreamed tlM? captain,
rushing aft with the boy he haa saved still
his arms.
"Ay, ay, sirJJ AH. rightl'V answered a
brave fellow, clambering in on deck, with
little Jenny grasped tight by her clothes.
"Father!" exclaimed the girl^ clasping
the captain about the neck. "Father!"
"Father!" echoed back two treble voices,
"Almighty God, I thank thee! Saved
saved—saved!" and Captain Lester Wal
ton sunk fainting to the deck. knew
the children were -his own from the mo
ment they passed the ship's stern, and his
indomitable selt-cortrol had borne him up
till they were rescued, when the reaction
came, and he sunk down insensible.
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At an hour before sunset on the follow
ing day, the ship was at her berth in New
York, and the meeting between the 'dfe
tracted mother and her loved children
there, in the cabin of her husband's ahip,
is too sacred a picture to be profaned by a
pen and ink copy, .ylhoistri fegdi*
Young Peapod fell in love yesterday.
Says that he felt like a barrel and a halt
of uew maple sugar sliding down a' rain
bow, greased with butter at forty cents a
pound. Peapod soon after left to got \m
life insured.
forward."T-EXODUS, CHAP, XIV TERSE
ta 8 ••i"^l'.?ffft uiaJ war-
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Tliee1 Democratsaand
Jefferson warned the country against
the encroachments of the Supreme Court.
Jackson denied the power of th,c Supreme
Court to prescribe rules for his action.—
Taney, in the cabinet, and Buchanan, in
the Senate, upheld him in his war upon
the Court. But times change and meu
change with theiu,_,Jefferson and Jack
son have gone to.their graves. Buchanan
lives to denounce*' his own Senatorial
speeches, and Taney ska on^ the Bench
to repudiate Taney off of it I
In 1*798 the Democratic Judges of
Pennsylvania denied the over ruling pow
er of the Supreme Court. In 1818, the
Democratic Judges of Virginia refused
obedjence to the Supreme €ourt. In
185i, the Democratic Judges of Georgia
treated the mandates of the Supreme
Court with contempt. But in 1857, the
Supreme Court declares that Slavery goes
everywhere under the American flag, and,
presto change !. up starts a Black from
Pennsylvania, a Wise from Virginia, and
a Toombs from Georgia, to swear the Sur
preme Court is infallible and omnipo
tent
The Supreme Court, once upon a time,
decided that Congress had power to char
ter United States Bank. The Demo
crats, in their next convention, resolved
that Congress had not the power to charter
a United States Bank, A every conven
tion since, they have persistently reiterated
their defiance of the Court and Bank-—
The Bank is dead and gone, but they
continue the war against its ghost and the
Cdurt, by still denying that Congress has
power to charter a Uuited States Bank!
Before the Democrats undertake to
pronounce "Traitors" of all of us who fail
to see a Supreme authority in the obitar
dicta of Supreme Court Judges on ques
tions not before them, let them go back
and revise their own record Let. them
recanttheir platforms, back down from
their State Decisions, and explain away the
opinions of their.founders! /Then, perhaps,
it will be believed that their reverence for
the Dred Scott Decision springs from their
zeal for the constitution, and not for their
zeal for Slavery.—Albany Journal.
The Viptory Won. A
Wo stop the press to"'announce the
joyful tidings that the bill prohibiting Sla
very in Kansas has just passed" both
branches of the Legislative Assembly, by
ths requisite two-thirds majority over the
Governor's veto, and is now the law of the
land*!* Six years ago the"! ^democracy
abolished' the time-honored ordinance I of
Freedom, and threw wide open the gates
of this beautiful Territory to Slavery. To
day, the PEOPLP, striding defiantly over
the veto of a Democratic Federal Gover
nor, and the votes of a majority of that
party, in both branches of the Legislative
Assembly, have re-established the old
Ordinance of Liberty, in these words
^Slavery or involuntary servitude, except
yor (he punishment of crime, whereof the
party shall have been duly conv'cted, is
and shall be forever prohibited in /his
Territory!" -This act shall tah^ effect
from and after, its passage. I.
The victory is at last won. Now let
us see whether the Democracy in Congress
will dare to pass a slave code.^—LaiO'
rence Republican.
_,:A, scene occured at our depot, writes' a
Missouri friend, the other clay, which) for
cool impudence, I have seldom seen paral
leled. I was standing there on the arri
val of the St. Loms packet, when a.gen tie
man came up and addressed a man stand:
ing close by me, and evidently a stranger
to him, with the common Western ques
tion "pojpu.useltobaccor
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of the whole
Are prepared'to submit cheerfully to the
adjucjtation, of the highest judicial tribunal
of thp Nation in relation to, any. further
questions of' constitutional" construction
which may arise —Albany Argus.
The Democrats are now prepared to
submit to the.. Supreme Court, because
the Bench oi the Supreme Courtis occu
pied by the Deriiocratic partizans. Their
conversion to the doctrine of the infalla
bility of the Supreme Court, only dates
from the time of the Dred Scott Decision.
For half a century before they clamorous
ly denied the Court that authority they
now clamorously claim for it,
l"YiB8,
sir,"
he graciouslyfrepned7 and producing a
plug of the hughest dimensions he handed
it to the applicant, who, taking out his
knife, cut off about one fifth of it, witli
the observation, "There's tobacco enough
for any man, ain't there V\\ "Well,,. I
should think there was/' indignantly re
pled the man. "Very,well, ypu take it
then/^andhanding him the Small piece,'
he put.the plug in his pocket.and walked
away.
l!+£"%
£'-3"-'^"fl *J"St'?
AHogan, the S Louis Postuiaster, has
intercepted 1,500 copies of Helper's
Book, passing through his office .and
burned them. This a country of free
speech, is it'!
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What .most surprises us in politics just
now is the seeming confidence of the par
tisans,of: Senator Douglas that he will be
nominated by the Democratic Convention
at Charleston. That men of ordinary in
telligence should be deluded by the clap
trap of manufactured public opinion,.into
an idea that it is even possible to nominate
Judge Douglas, is quite surprising. It is
merely a game of brag. ., The attempt of
the Douglas men to divide the South is an
absurdity, and the pretence that the vote
of the New England delegates will be given
to him is a palpable cheat. The wire
Working politicians among the Yankees
are not for Douglas, for the simple reason
that they have no faith in his ability to
win. Xtte iaut .tii«it ufe nas no claim upon
the Democratic party, which he has done
more to break down and ruin than any
other living man, is hot necessary to be
urged against his nomination to defeat it
The fact that he cannot figure up the votes
to secure his election will settle his hash.
He will undoubtedly be a strong candidate
before the Convention, as he was in 18j2
1856, but he will probably not be able to
show any more votes than he commanded
cri those occasions and these must mostly
cOnic from States that can do him no good
in the contest. We fancy the first business
that the smart politicians wiil do, when
they get to Charleston, will be to "kill off
Douglas." will, of conrse, be allowed
16 get just Votes enough hot to be nomina
ted, and when the thing is all fixed, his
throat will be cut as quick as lightning,
while all his pretended friends of to-day
will cry—"Amen!" The South don't
want Douglas and will not have him. The
same may be said ot New York, Pennsyl
vania and California:—N. Y. Alias [Dem
ocratic.']
Good if True.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Press and Tribune, (who is one
of the editors,) is responsible for the fol
lowing political information
"It is reported oh what seems to be
good authority, that Ex-President Fill
more has got tired and disgusted, with the
company of the Union savers, and hasDemocratic
signified his intention to support the nom
inee of the Chicago" Convention j" whether
it shall be Bates, Lincoln, Chase or Sew
ard. It is even affirmed that if Seward
shall benpminated, Fillmore wdl ifuftp
\innsylvania in his behalf! You recol
jct Fillmore's letter to 'the New York
Jnion-saving meeting It contained a
sharp rebuke of them, and advised 'those
patriotic dealers in 1 Southern staples to
level their guns at the disloyal fire-eaters
of the South, instead of the Union-loving
Republicans of the North.
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A neighbor bii mine missed com from
his garner, and his suspicion rested upon a
reckless fellow named "Sam." The cor?
was kept in a1 chamber over the kitchen,
adjoining the woodhouse, towards which
Jhe ehamber was left
:open
rwatch.
ra
The mother of Cassius M. Clay»avcpeT
rable Kentucky matron of eighty years old,
or thereabout, was told !of a report:: which
had got abroad, that thezealous Pro-Sla
very men of the country in which, her S911
lives, had given, him notice to quit.—r
"They need not give Carina noiioe to
quit, said the resplute old lady, "he will
not go* aifld! for my part Iliad rather see
him without his head, than hear of his
deserting the. post of du^J»'.' t'-
The Charleston papers confirm the
statement that $5 a day will be the estab
lished price of .board'at the hotels of that
city during the holding of the Democratic
National Convention.
The MISSOURI E O I S A E
Lbus,
March 8.—-The bill excluding'free
negroes from the State, under the penalty
of becoming slaves, was passed by the
Senate yesterday.. It had previously been
passed by the House. The same bill was
passed by both Houses at the last session,
but failed to receive the signature of the
Governor.
allthe States iu favor of his nomination
Sain
and accessible
by a ladder. The victim of this midnight
"theffery" as another neighbor calls it, de
termined to' satisfy himself concerning the
identity of the thief^ made a' temporary
bed upon the kitchen, floor and lay down
to
About the ,hour when "church-
yards yawn" he was aroused from a par
tial slumber by the rattling of the ears
oVer head, when he suddenly called out at I
the top of his voice-^«Sam!" "Hello!
responded the thief, taken entirely off his
guard by this sudden call. "Don't take
more than
bushel "Then I shall have
to pour it out, for I've got two in the bag
already!" !••••. baa .-'
I uiTI 1 'T*1 if? •••. kit*
STatoOTttror A he ms-1 W a ii a 1 daapnsi
sippiiaw saya: j^The sttbngth. of Mr! W A toffea^W-^
Douglas may be stated as follows: Hc.has
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EDITOR A N PRC PROCTOR
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"SHEWS ITETMrS.
A I S SUSTAINED.—Th citizens of
Cumberland, Maryland, held a public
meeting on the 16th of February, and
adopted resolutions approving the course
of Hon.' Henry Winter Davis, in voting
for Pennington for Speaker of the House,
after failing in his efforts to secure the
election of Smith or Gilmer. Maryland
is coming to reason.
MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICA N CON-
VENTION.—Worcester, Mass. March 9.—
The Republican Convention of this State
met yesterday, and elected John Andrews,
E. Kellogg, George S. Boutwell, and
Linus B. Cqmmins, as. delegates to (h
Chicago Convention. Messrs. Andrews
and Kellogg arc. said to be in favor of Mr.
Sewarl for the Presidency Mr Boutwell
favors N Banks, aud Mr. Commins ia
noncommittal.
A E EM ALL so.—The Chicago Times,
a Douglas Dred Scott paper, feels badly
over the recent election in that city, and
Calls the details which it-publishes "unin
teresting and "rather, disgusting whereat
the Journal retorts:
'That the details of the election are 'un
interesting' and 'rather disgusting' to our
neighbor, we admit, but then they make
'em all so now-a-da\s!"JJa-d
CASSIUS M. CLAY is proposed as a can
didate for the Presidency by a Jcrs«-y City
correspondent of the New York Tribune.
The heroic and devoted Kentuekian's
name would be' most welcome, to many
lovers of Freedom. certainly has
worthier qualities and stronger elaius
than many who have been pressed for the
nomination.
•QT- The Harper's Ferry Committee
have not yet decided whether Governor
Wise shall be summoned or not. sta
ted publicly that no consideration could
induce him to reveal all he knew concern
ing Brown's raid, which may be the rea
son his friends hesitate to call him, because
if he refused to testify they would be con
strained to treat him like other contuma
cious witnesses. It is not improbable the
'question will be finally submitted to the
Senate, when it will be seen whether the
side will vote as they did in
Mr. Hyatt's case. ..•/..
•Qu. Rush Floyd, a brother of the Sec
retary of War, died suddenly in Washing
ton, on Wednesday evening last. was
preparing to start to Richmond, to attend
the Democratic Convention at that place,
when he was suddenly attacked with par
alysis, Placing .his. hand on his side, he
remarked to his sinter that he had a severe
there, and unless immediately relieved
must surely die, This was at six o'clock:
in fifteen minutes after thai time' be. was
a corpse,. ..
...J, !:.". Jiii ^.iiSi'l-i. If-c vVRl
K3„ On the first introduction' of our
late minister, Mr. Mason, to the French
Court, at a levee, it is said be was awfully
embarrassed at being left alone with the
Russian ambassador, to whom he had been
introduced. The Russian commenced
"Paries vouFraucaLs, Monsieur!" ."U«
pew," said the quaking functionary, and
immediately charged on the Russian, with
"Do..,you rspeak English, Sir 2" Jr A
schmall!" said the Russian, and Mr. Ma
son felt l'clicved. It is said that ourncw
French minister, Mrf ^aulkner, will bo
similarly smharraSse^.*
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i~-i-..\: .-. ~'H..—u: A: zjbna
genuine xaukeo is the fullow
whb^urned the "oit excitement'1 in Wes
tern Pennsylvania to such good account.
He bored a hole iu his land, poured a bar
rel of oil in it, and then called his neigh
bors to see the large, yield. The result
was that he sold his land for $2,000 in
cash, pocketed the money, oiled his- hoots,
and "slid."i .n:. tnihietn'l Tsw
1 Every gold dolbr coined at the
Dahlonega U. S Mint in Georgia, is said
to cost twelve cents, and every dime coin
ed at Charlotte, North Carolina, one cent.
If true, these public institutions, located
at the South, ought to he abolished, as
being decidedly more plague than profit.
fceu Maj. B. it. Fre*cK .Coombs,
L. A. Hall, an*! lv vis iiph me hare been
appointed by the Uepjibhcau As.vciation
of .Washington,
Conven (ion.
d1.Tega.te5 UJ 11-e Cliicago
It I he ii^-nJi.lKT,f i\c War Dc-
partmcnttycunl^.rfjai^iS^ thou
sand: troops upon the Mexican fiqnjtier Ly
the last or May. TliewHidtiwal ^troopn
fVom Utah for thw purpose »t feared'
will I renew the difficulties in 4hat Territory.
Gerrit Smith has instituted" Suits'fbr
slander against the Fifth Avenue -Hotel
Committee, for cluurging him .with coni
plicity in thexI{arper's J'erry I'ail.
The members of the committee appear'
severally anxions to avoid the ocwsitf of
a a a
a
aSe«58atc
which areccftain ttbt to yoteforiiinlin Gov. Letcher, of Virguiia has made a
election, and all the States opposed to him requisition on Gov. Dennison, of Ohio, ior
whose vote for the nominee is clftfally fthz deHveYvbrOwen ^row^bui^^fneTtU
sure.
1
0 0 0 In each suit mnkin-
Ot^a iritllioii and a half,
ter refuses to comply.