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K i A ste*Jrtfca FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1S43. Democratic Republican JS'omittation, ron nr.LF.OATK TO COr,KFSS, AUGUSTUS C. POPCIE* Township Meeting the D« will be A mee.inr of ih. Demoorat, of BloommH held at the on Saturday 26th n Township, i Kitiset in Bloomington, •„.*«. at 2 o'clock, P. M. for the purpose of ap ,„,iniing Delates to the bounty'Convention ,r the nomination of a candidate for the I iouse of Representatiyes, and County offices. A wneral attendance is requested. By order oflhe Township Committee. Aug. 18. DEMOCRACY TRIUMPHANT! AT i, IfAlL KENTUCKY! ALL HAIL IN «, \X\" GO IT NORTH CAROLINA!!! WELL DONE. ILLINOIS!!! SHAME ON uU TENNESSEE. BRING OUT THE BiG GUN, AND TELL CHAPMAN TO KO\V{! The result of the late clcctions is astonishing to Vioth'partics. In Kentucky, tho lion has been beard rd in his den. Five Democrats, viz: J. W. Tib bats, Judge French, L. Boyd, Stone, and Calwell, b-JVC been elected to Congress. The Whigs have hjoffd an equal number, White, Davis, Thomas sjn and Grider. The Whigs have a small msiorily in ea«h branch of ihc Legislature. INDIAN\ has elected Whitcomb and Bright, and it is certain that but two whig*, and probably hut one have been elected to Congress. Robert Dale Owen is one of the Democrats elected, and David Wallace, brother to our William H. Wallace, and former Representative, it will be remembered, opposed an appropriation for Iowa, is among the de feated whig candidate*!. Whitcomb will be the first Democratic Governor Indiana has ever had. NORTH CAROLINA.—Whig Governor and Legislature, and 5 whigs to 4 demoerats supposed to be elected to Congress. Stanley is beaten. TENNESSEE.—Whig Governor and Legisla ture elected, but the Democrats have elected a ma jority of Representatives to Congress. ILLINOIS has done a little better than we sup posed, having given larg majorities tht* w« have before reported. •Jy® Upon the opening of the Canvas for Delegate to Congress, we were, from the tone and spirit of the whig press, led to anticipate a calm and dispassionate discussion of princi ples solely, on the part of the friends of Gen. Dodge, and 6f the one who might be selected or offer himself as his opponent but our hopes were of shoft duration. Sometime ag® we no ticed in the Davenport Gazette, over tho sig nature of Tindex," an ill tempered commu nication casting •ensure upon Gen. Dodge, and also upon the editor of the Hawkeye for having intimated that no regular opposition would likely be made to the election of Gen. D. In the Gazette of the 17th inst. we find a second addition of Vindex," in which, af ter charging the editor of Ihe Hawkeye with advancing the Whig cause "backwards," through fear of saying anything, however true or necessary to the success of his principles, which might gi*o offence to the Democrats,' he says: "1 saw the late mails 'loaded down with a certain slang document concocted by the Lo cos at Iowa City, and franked by A. C. Dodge. Yes, Whigs of Iowa, your amiable represen tative felt that his duty to the party, required: him to affix his frank to this document filled with tho most glaring and disgusting false hoods and the most fulsome adulation of him self! Very modpst man, this militia general. Perltaps the 'Whigs in the plentitude of their benevolence, will give him another frank to prostitute, just because he's such a 'dev'lish clever fellow.' w_ 1---1 —. Uof.vro aap j, or heard of any doc uments passing through the mails under tne frank of Gen. D. since tho adjournment of Congress, and took the pains to enquire of the Postmaster in this if th# statement made by ••Vindex," was true, and from him learned that a very few numbers of the Territorial Ga zette containing the proceedings of the Demo cratic Convention were received at this office, and he recollects having seen what he suppos ed to be others, in the mail, but the number was by no means large. What is there so e normous in this? It is well known to every individual of knowledge sufficient to keep him cut of an insane hospital, that under the laws of the United States, every member of Con press is allowed the privilege of franking, not only public documents, but anything admitted to the mails if the U. S., 60 in sending the documents alluded to, Gen. D. only exercised a right secured to him by law. Such was the desire of the Democracy that the proceedings and address should be generally read that we received orders from adjoining counties, for extra copies of our paper, which were paid for, and sent by mail, at the expense of those ordering them. Does it look wrong in Gen. D. to do that for himself and the cause of De mocracy, which others less interested will do at the expense of their own pockets? The ''xercises^of 6uoh a right in spreading before Uie people, not only the views of those select-' cj by themselves, but the news ortbe day in a periodical, is pronounced by Vinde*" to be a prostitution of his office. When such tfaiugs zxe seized npou with avidity by the op pr*ents of Gen. Dodge, what may we not ex pMt tfom ihfm whcajlie ctaicst waxes warm er! "Hw fcfhig Convention which was to -jVi come off on Saturday last was a perfect nobody attending. N0 nomination w Keen made, Mr. Woodward is of course npon the track in opposition to Hcrace Dem i&g ai.d the. man whom the Democratic Con tention may selte*. The Senior of the Miner*' Express, vs. ihe dtttor of the Herald* While for months past, the senior editor of the Miners' Express, has been weekly assail ing the private character and political Standing of the editor of the Herald, we have been de bating in our own mind, whether we should again trouble our readers with a notice of his prodnctions, and of his own follies and impro prieties and had about come ti the conclusion to let him remain in his wonted insignificance, but finding that he is not content with the abuse he is able to heap upon us, and has set himself about misconstruing our language, and using it for the purpose of injuring our place abroad, where neither he or ourself, or our respective places are known, we have, reluctlantly, we confess, concluded to again bestow a little no tice upon him, that our readers, at least, may know what estimate to place hereafter upon what may appear against either us or this place in the columns of that paper. For it we ask the pardon of our subscribers, which, from our indulgence to them, we trust will be freely granted. The senior of the Express, in a!?rfte number of that ppper gives what he calls the origin of the unpleasant controversy "between the two papers, the truth of which we cannot concede. As the Express sent in exchange for the Her aldis the only one read in this place, the public cannot be familiar with its statements, so we shall briefly cile its statement of the origin of the controversy. It says the controversy grew out of some of its good natured remarks 'con cerning our sopport of the Valuation lsw en acted last winter. The senior says: "We strenuously opposed this act of'the Legislature, and in an article took occasion to speak df the editor of the Herald, in a joking manner—we ridiculed, in a friendly way, his democracy—for instance, we advised him to divest himself of his fiery ramparts' "—and called him a thrippence democrat," &c., not doubting but that the same kind of fun and ridicule would be returned by him—indeed our long acquaintance with Ihe editor of the Herald"seemed proof against the idea that any real offence would be taken at what we had said. But to our regret we discovered that we had wholly miscalculated. The next Her ald that came to us, containod an article in re ply, which, in style and character, was not only recklessly abusive, and wholly irrela vent[we quote correctly.] Is it joking in a friendly way to pronounce one who has ever labored zealously for the success of the Democratic cause, a "fhrip pence Democrat," and say that if he is a Dem ocrat, he must prove it? Again, in the same article, the senior says: From that day, (which was in March last, we believe) the war has been growing thicker and hotter—though for some tima the nghting was all on one side, though at pretty long shot. The Herald commenced the war of personality, and continued for several weeks to single out the jr. editor of this paper, and assail his char acter in Ihe most reckless and ungenllemanly manner and we did NOT resent it, in the same strain, until compelled to do so in self-de fence." No ir, for our version. Called from emrpost to arrange matters for the setlement df the af fairs Of a deceased father's -estate, we invited a gentleman, well qualified for its duties, and as pure a Democrat as ever breathed, to attend to our duties during our absence. While ab sent, he took occasion to review the Valuation law, and wipe away some of (he objections whioh had been urged against it by the Bur lington Gazette, and perhaps so far forgot him self as to notice the Express. After qyr re turn, we found (hat the Gazette was disposed to further discuss the law, and we suggested to our worthy tub, that as it was his contro versy, he might carry it on under the editorial head as before. He did so until the affair with the ^aftette was settled, about which time the' n«rr»a« «m« nut with its personalities con cerning us, when the controversy or quarrel, rather, became ours. It is true that the lan guage used towards us was so absurd and ri diculous as to merit little if any attention^ but having been on the most intimate and friendly terras with the junior of the Express, and re mained several days in Iowa City in order to assist him in obtaining an ailowance of $100 upon his bill -for printing, which had been un justly withheld from him, we thought the re marks of the Express, aside from their injus tice, the most ungrateful and ungenerous. Having no desire to injure, even had we indis putable grounds, we retorted in no "reckless" or ungenllemanly manner, buv. twitted him a bout his "dandyism," and fondness for the la dies, as shown in his praises of the "angelic" bogus daughter of the bogus Bill Johnson. At this time we had not the most distant idea that they were the productions of Keesucker, the senior editor, knowing that he was incapa ble of writing even common nonsense. On the evening of the publication of one of oursquibs, fired at the junior, we started for Dubuque, upon the spur cf the moment, and forgot to take a number of our paper with us. We spent a few days among our old friends, aud return ed. The next number of the Express charged us with having left thro' fear of their ven geance, and with having boasted of our pros pects for a seal in the next Legislature, closing -with the expression of a hope t^a! the people of Muscatine would select some one who is both capable and decent, neither of which qual ifications he says we are possessed bf. Both of these charges are false. To show that we feared them not, we publicly offered to meet 4hem and afford them an opportunity to ap pease th«ir vengeance, but our ofler was decli ned. We never boasted in the least of our prospects for political preferment, but when asked as to the person to be run by the Demo cratic party, we replied by simply mentioning the names spoken of. Upon our return, a letter was handed us from a motual friend, who stateed that he had BO-desire to meddle with our difficulties, but as an act of justice both to the junior of the Express and ourself, he would inform us that we were in error in attributing the aulhorship1 of the abusive articles to the junior, whom he said expressed a feeling of sincere friendship for us, and keenly felt the force of our remarks concerning him—'that Keesucker was their author. Time for a reply to oar last notice having elapsed, and no reply made, nor the attack renewed, we concluded that the war was at an end. Feeling regret at having di rected our fire at the junior, while he was in nocent, and wishing to close the matter, we acquitted the junior of the charge of their au thorship, let the guilty pass, and tendered them the hand of friendship. Whereupon the senior flies into a violent passion, falsely char ges us with busying ourself in enquiring who was the real, writing editors of the Express, and says it is hard to tell which is the mean est, the one who sought the information or the one who gave it. After alluding to our tender of the olive branch of peace, he says we were always known and recognized id that place as a "remorseless villifier—lost to every sense of decency and common humanity and if some gentlemen condesended to extend to him (us) any courtesy, it was done for the purpose of sustaining the MOHAL REPUTATION of our, s(iheir) town." Sustain the moral reputation of a town by its gentlemen extending courte sies to a remorseless villifier—one lost to eve ry sense of decency and common humanity! Beautiful idea that. He continues," He may bury hishatchet whenever he pleases—ive tbill not bury ours/" Now read in connex ion with it, an expression which follows a mean and contemptible notice of the senior of the -Reporter. -He -says: We sincerely hope that the-quarrell between the Herald and Express is at an end—and we 'Will not, if we can help it, suffer ourself to be dragged into a new one." flas he discovered the impoten cy of his attacks? It was our intention lo have prosecuted a libel suit against him, but found that we should be obliged to do that which is impossible, viz prove that we had suffered injury from his lies. "Such a man as Keesucker is incapable of injuring us in the estimation of any who know him, and whose ill-will we would not prefer to their friendship so we abondoned the idea, and would not have again noticed him but for his again, after saying he hoped the quarrel was at an end, indulged in ungenllemanly language to wards us. In the last number of that paper, he quotes a paragraph from the Herald of June 16, in which we spoke of the high prices demanded for town lots retarding the growth of our placr, and from an unwarranted misconstrue tion of our language, attempts to create the impression that our town is going down, and excite jealousy between this place and Du buque. As he must fail in the latter, we shall not trouble ourselves to counteract what he may say but as by it he shows a determina tion to continue to assail us we came to the conclusion to give him a farewell shot, in showing the kind ojf-A-character which has been assailing us. A friend acquaints us with the cause of his continued firing at us. He writes us that it is to prevent us from receiving the nomination for the House of Representatives, where, if e lected we might oppose Keesucker's applica tion for public printing. In noticing the ven om with which the Express has assailed us, and backwardness of the Democratic press^in defending as from its foul aspersion, the edi tor df the Hawkeye, who knew us ten years ago, and with whom we hava had many un kind tilts of the lance, thus speaks of us and our labors in the cause, which, coming from the source it does, shows it to be no idle flat tery, but a desire to see mere justice meted out to us he has our thanks for his kind wish-* es and unlooked for assistance. He says 41 Jno. B. Russell has worked hard and faith fully for his party. He was among the first to advocate the cause of Van Burenism in this Territory. And how has he been treated His party have taken to their arms and hugged to their bosoms dandies and popinjays and lav ished upon them the spoils of office, while Russel has been treated with neglect and con tumely. In the Whig pauy we do not look for the kind of gratitude of which we are speak ing—else We should have been rewarded long ajro—but?/ any man in this Territory has a claim on the patronage of his party, that man is John B.Russell. These are our honest sen timents. Let the Democracy of Muscarine take him up, and place him in the Legislature." One word about the latter sentence. We have no claims to a seat in the Legislature, because of our long labor for the party. We labored as do others laborers—for our bread, and being Democratic in principle, we done but our duty in devoting our labors to thenup* port of our principles. It is the duty of all to do all in their power to support their cause, and however much they may have accomplish ed, no one who has not the qualifications for the duties of office, should receive enqaea re ward. A few words concerning Keesucker, and we are done. We have expressed feelings of res. pect for him on a former occasion, and a differ ent feeling looks a little inconsistent, rn us,, but so it is. We knew him Several years ago, when he was too penurious to purchase bed clothing, to keep him warm, and for most of one winter, the only sleep he had, was in a chair, his head resting on a table, save when he was too drunk to set up. He frequently became beastly intoxicated, when some friend of humanity would stow hiin away in the back room of a grocery or out house, as many in Dubuque know perfectly well. And if he is to be believed, he is a deserter from on board a U. S. man-of-war, of some other U. S. ves sel. While in our employ we hare frequent ly heard him iell of his desertion during the Northampton insurrection, and of deserting in foreign ports, his arrest, his being tied and pitched feet foremost into a muddy cellar, ta ken on board, and chastised.—He says he has a mother 4n Virginia, who&i he has not *een for upwards of twenty years. Does he fear being arrested if he visits her, or has he lost all feeling for her We had hoped that a few years df sobriety had wrought a cbangcin him, and thought him deserving a little credit for rising a little from his infamy. We would gladly have avoided the necessity of thus ex posing him, bot as he pursues us like a blood hound, assailing us in language that we should resent in one way if he was a gentleman, and could in another if he was not incapable of in juring us, we have, in self defence, chosen to show the people the kind of a character assail ing us, that they may no longer look for any further resentment from us. He is a beauti ful chap to talk about sobriety, [decency, &c. We have done with him. The Hawkeye attempts to explain Mr. Wallaces dodging Gen. Dodge in Henry County by saying that Mr. W. had appoint ments in another couirty, before 'hearing of Gen. D*s. It says that Mr. W. is' anxious that they should visit the people in company. We believe they are on their tour in the west ern counties, and after visiting the north, will pass through the river countiea their re turn. ^7* The name of Ex-Governor Lucas is be fore the people in the Chillicothe district in Ohio, for the nomination ais a candidate for Representative to Congress. John A. Noonan, Editor the Mil waukee (Wisconsin) Courisr, has been ap pointed Postmaster at that City, in place of Solomon Juneau, removed.' Blf# N. is thorough-going Democrat. (t/- Our readers will observe in another column that the agency of Sherman's Lozen ges has been changed from J. B. Dougherty to J. R. Bennett, where they may be at all times supplied with these valuable articles. jjy" A crazy old Frenchman lately died at Paris leaving $100,000 to Fanny Ellsler— Wonder how such a. fool .ever becamtpossess ed of such a sum. ST. Louts MARKET TfcLYlO. FLOUR.—The demand for this article is UN usually languid** Sales of small lots at from $3,75 to 4. WHEAT.—'Good quality brings 65 cents, and inferior 55 a 60. Large quantities of the latter in market. CORN is in demand, at 25 cents in sacks, and 20 without. Large lots would command a few cents more. Pt)RK.—Mess $8,50 a 9.~Prime fltf de mands at from 3 to 3 1-2. Hams at Iroift 8 1-2 to 2 3-4. Shoulders 1 3-4. $7»l)emocrats of Bloomingtcn Township remember that to-morrow is tho day for hold ing a meeting for the appointment of del egates to the County Convention. We understand that Col. CHAPMAN, for merly of this, but now of Wapello coun ty, is a candidate to represent Jefferson county ana the country attached in (he next Legislature.—Burlington Gazette. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE HON. MR. WICKLIFFE,.—On the arfival of the steam boat Georgia, last evening, from Norfolk, our citizens were startled, with a rumor of an at tempt to assassinate the Postmaster General, during ber passage up the bay, by John Gard ner, son of Col. Gardner, late a clerk in one of the departments at Washington. The oc currence took place as Mr. Wickliffe, with his daughters and niece, were advancing tO' wards the dining saloon, when Gardrrer en countered the party, and before his purpose could be welt conjectured, suddenly raised a knife with which he had been cleaning his nails, and with great violence stabbed Mr. W. in the chest. Gardner was instantly seized by Lieut. Bradford, and prevented from re peating the blow his person was then prop erly sccured and he was in guarded custody until the boat arrived at Baltimore. Mr. W. was conveyed to his berth, and such relief af forded him as the circumstanccs could afford, hut when he arrived here he was in severe pain. Dr Smith was instantly summoned to attend him, who upon examining the wound pronounced that was not dangerous, the knife having struck upon the upper part of the sternum or breast bone without haviog pene trated it. The shock from the violence of thq blow, if was supposed, occasioned the pain which Mr. W. experienced in his side, and inasmuch a» there appeared no immediate ne ct 'sity for his removal, it was thought expe dient that he should remain on board during the night where every necessary attention could be paid him, and the excitement of his removal avoided. Gardner was committed to jail. Mr. Wickliffe expressed his conviction that Gardner was deranged spoke feelingly of the young man's relatives, to "whom he re ferred as intimate friends, and despatched a person to prevent, if possible, the commit ment of GarJner to jail.—Bait. Sun. Considerable excitement is said to exist in Hancock county, Illinois, against the Mor mons. A meeting of the people of that coun ty was to be held at Carthage, on Saturday, last, and it was feared that a serious disturb ance would take .pi ace. HEALTH OF THE CITV—If any evidence were wanting to prove that New Orleans is at present healthy, it wouid be sufficient to state that on night before last, at one tenpin-alley, there were not less than SEVEN of our most respectable physicians engaged for a Ion" time in the healthful sport of bowling. Such is the fact.—New Orleans Picayune of the llth instant. 44 The Alton Telegraph of the 19tli inst., contains a long statement,—-accom* panied by several vouchers as to its veri* ty,—from Dr. Benjamin T. 441 Edwards, of an operation performed by him in the re moval of a wen from the left side of the face of a Miiss Eyres, aged 18 years, of that city, while under mesmeric influence. The base of the wen was one inch and seven-eighths in length, by one inch and five-eights in width the upper part of it being just opposite and near the opening of the ear. It commenced forming when she Ivas about two years old, and has been gradually increasing. We give below the main features attending the case, from the pen ef the acting editor of that paper, and which are worthy of every consideration —St. Louis Ev'g. Gazette The patient has been considerably ag italed during the morning. She was sea ted in a room in which there were a num ber of gentlemen, most o'f whom were strangers to her, aiid Dr. E. placed her under mesmeric influence in about five minutes. After ascertaining that she was in a profound sleep, an incision was made one inch and three-eights in length, and the tumor was removed. Although, the operation was necessarily prolonged to nearly fifteen minutes—the"Doctor not be ing able to use freely, but one hand, as it was necessary for him to act at the same time in (fie double capacity of mesmerifcer and operator—yet the •patient sat with the hands quietly resting in the lap, the coun tenance was placid and serene, and the whole attitude that of reposei not the slightest trace of mental emotion was per ceptible, not a twinge or movement of any kind was visible, or the least change in respiration. She was kept in the mes meric state just one hour. As soon as she was awakened slie .pla ced her hand upon the bandages and ask ed what is thisi" The Doctor feari»g that she might disturb them, immediately removed her hand and replied, know that you told me you could," she laughingly replied,44 but I did not believe it." She appeared to have no remembrance of any thing that had taken place. It would be difficult to determine u'hich party evinced the most delight and astonishment—the one having witnessed this novel and most astounding phenomenon, or the other who had been unconsciously and almost magically relie ved from an increasing and troublesome tumor. Numerous ca&s of surgical operations without pain, in the mesmeric state, have been reported in England several, also, have been reported in this country, but this is believed to be the first that has been performed -west df the Alleganies. The Liberty Mb. Banner of the 4th iritft. says 44 The son of Secretary Spencer, is now in this part of the State, purchasing an outfit, as he says, for the purpose of again joining Cpl. Sni'velv, and from thence to proceed to New Mexico to take possession of that country. Young Mr. Spencer, is one of the persons whom Capt. Cook, of Fort Leavenworth, captured n6ar the Mexican line in the Territory of the United States, on hi3 late expedition to accompany the Santa Fe Traders', 19ihe Big Arkansas. ABOLITION OF SLAVERV IN TEXAS.—We find (he following important announcement in a late number of the New York Herald, in re gard to a movement which is going on in England, through an agent of the abolitionist of this country, for the abolishment of slavery in Texas, with a view of forwarding the cause of emancipation in this country. The intelli geneer was brought otit by the'Caledonia There is at present in London a Mr. An drews, who acts as the agent df ihe abolition ists of Texas and he has had several inter views with Lord Aberdeen, to whom he has fully submitted his projfet for the abolition of slavery in Texas. His project is this—the organization of a society *in "England who shall advance a sum equal to the value of the slaves now in Texas, the government to pay over the money to the owners of slaves, and changing the constitution so as to effect au thoriti vely the abolition of slavery. The favor with which this project has been leceived, is sufficiently manifested by the fact, lhat Lord Abehtaen has agreed to recommend that the British Government shall guaranty the pay ment of the interest on the loan, upon condi tion that Texas become a free State. A num ber of influential Quakers are taking an active part in favor of the project, as, in their opin ion, it presents a very auspicious means of ef fecting the abolition of Slavery in the U. S. In the meantime, the project is opposed by the party in favor of free trade with this coun try, because in their judgement the movement is likely to be led to a serious disturbance of the present amicable relations of the two coun tries and we have learned from the best au thority, that a powerful party, with Lord John Russell at its head, will be organized with the view of effecting a change of Ministry on this issue alone. Judge SEM*LE, of Alton, has been ap pointed to fill the vacancy in the U. S. Senate, occasioned by the death of the Mon. Samuel McRoberts and James Shields, Esq., of Belleville, takes his place on the Bench of the Supreme Ccfurt of Il linois. CAPT. STOCTOS'S PITCT or OKDNATTC*.—An experiment was made last week with this e normous piece of ordnance, that carries a 243 pound ball, at its station near the light-house below Sandy Hook. A point blank shot struck a line on a target three miles distant, and pen etrated through and through the target, whicfr was constructed of iron bars and wood com bined, rendering it more strong and solrd than the hull of the largest seventyifour. The gun is made of wrought iron, and is Gf immense,, a single Steam Boat threw its pale j.ie3rn eight, over the waters of the Great "Lake* And the was doomed to wander, for no h0 of the weather-beaten bark sent the gleam of its Pathos to welcome her to a ter from the tempest that shrieked over th darkened billows. She went ALONE, AND JI Indian of the wilderness sem forth hjs n war-whoop, and bounded into the thicket wh the strange roaring of the steam broJ,e his ear, and trembled at the dull rumblin the cable a^ she swang round to h*i an V roadstead No spacious harbor threw its sturdy arm from the lone shore of r' gan as if seeking her embrace. Milwa,^ the rival of the West, had then no ^SALYING fcnnex a 4* I have taken out your wen." She looked about In perfect astonishment, and interrogating ly repeated, 44 Taken out-my wen?" 'Yes* replied the Doctor, 41 you know that! told you that would titke'it out without your feeling it?" lenn|,eil7" Pier holding its ready lap to catch the freiV age that was borno upon the bosom 0 fV great inland seas! Lonely she wandered lonely she lay, and the tumbling surges dV cd unbroken againal her sides, as she sat het ving amongst them. Now—how charmed 1' the scene! MAN! the lord of creation—he whose works are an inexhaustible subject of wonder even to himself, has been here, and these sights tell a tale of laudable ambition generous emulation and active enterprise thai explains to every man the reason why Mtl waukee is what she is, the leader of the West in the march of improvement—.Milwau kee Sentinel. A»D preserves BUTTE*.—.'W» receipt upon this subject, and wi take the occasion to say, thai we have doubt it is a good one, tho' we 6hould prefer one we have used and know to be good, jy paragraph below states that butter packed 1 way as therein directed, will keep ten years Upon this part of the subject we cannot spe* from any knowledge of our own but with re. gard to the time it will keep, put away agree ifbly to the receipt we shall give, we are en-, bled to speak advisedly, as our butter was potted in the month of june, and was as fresl and sweet when opened for use in the month of December 'following, as when first made having preserved all its richness of flavor. We took six ounces of fine Liverpool blow salt, four oances of saltpeter, and six ounce? of loaf sugar- and after -pulverizing the whole, so as to make a-fine powder, we incorporate!! it with the butter, after the butter-milk haJ been thoroughly worked out at the rate of ODE ounce to the pound then packed it awa stone jars, the tops of which we covered, fi* with clean cloths, and then with bladders, s. as to completely exclude the air. Thus trea ed when fresh and well made, we have rr hesitation in saying that butter would ny desirable length of time, though we stioj'j be unwilling to risk Ihe opinion that it woe. keep, as maintained in the receipt below, :e years.—American Tarmer. To Salt Butter.—Beat well up lorrtici a marble mortar, half a pound of common with four ounces of powdered loaf-sugnr every pound of newly made butter, (the mi' being well drawn off by beating,,).put en mm* of the mixed powder incorporate it well p:: the butter in pots for keeping. In ahoai: month—not before—it will be fit for sr. it will continue for ten yearrs as good ter newly salted. HTFN. A"MOS KENDALL..—-Mr Kendtli he celebrated the fourth of July "in the p* on limits of Washington." It will hen« bered by many of our readers that tliU ii iii ful public officer and upright man is sub/M -to this shameful restraint on account oi ii. itif-s incurred in the conscientious discln?? of his dtities as 'postmaster genera!. 1 shame, a living disgrace to the country he is thus punished and we trust a uex cratic Congress, among its first act6, ivi'i erate him by paying the judgement u which he is imprisoned. It will be not an act of simple justice, against plausible objection can be urged, hvrt Vt manded by a due regard for the public it fare. If an officer is likely to be subjected such consequences by a faithful and const tious discharge of his duty, few hours! faithful officers will be found ere Ion? a? responsible stations in the government have to be filled by those whose COOSM* are so pliable that they will snbuiit to ax' any demands of public creditors, risk the personal fconsequence of a rt: The interests of tfre people will be sarrtEc" in every case where there is a dcuK consequences of a wrong decision 3'' borne by the officer in 1ns own persoo ell Patriot. PUBLIC LNND3 IN IOWA —Froma publication made by the Treasury D*?3" ment, (a copy of which has been t|DU forwarded to lis by Senator ^tciiAKiS Pa.,) we glean the following inform^ in relation to the public domain within the Territorial limits oflowa Land* to which the Indian title Nf?e! extinguished, 16,913,972 acres stir^ 6,488,292 unsurveyed, 10,425,680.'( number of acres of land sold up i"*" Sept., 1842. was 1,251,588, and theP duct in money, $1,565,631. This ami*1 wa* taken in as follows, viz: J" Jt $343,664,26: 1839, $373.lS0.46i $710,089 89 1841, $02,103-30 up to 30th September, $46,594 31. Gazcttc. LOVE ANB PARSIMONY.—'Gal'g"3".1 that a remarkable instance of the spir conomy is given by a Journal of die '5a* A man went a short timn to the Schelestatt, and gave instructions/or'.,pj lication of a marriage between himse _. person whom he named. After tlje laP fortnight he went again to the s a e a e a a n e i s u leoted another wife, and wished hern be inserted instead of that which be n® in. He was, however, informed -could not be done without the pr0 u fresh certificates and other neccssajj inents, involving additionally fee8 mount of 61. 5s. This took the Benedict all aback, and, after debating er this new expense should not be spa finding it to be indispensible, he co°' up his mind to save it, and decide" "I king the first named girl for his spoo FOR PARITNTS.—How to ruin A s0^ him have his own way—allow of money—suffer him to rove where him W to es on the Sabbath day—give to wicked companions—call him count for his evenings—furnish hi® .^ stated employment. Pursue any o°e ways, and you will experience a w vellous deliverence, if you have no' over a debased and ruined child I have realized the sad result, anJ_ i a o o n i o o e i a v e s