President, and, we present it as we find it.
_ and to all posterity, in the attitude of
. memorial, without date, was placed in my
I from gentlemen of your high character,
, fore making them you should have clearly
' Presidential office, on the 4th of March
’ had recognized this Legislature in defi‘er-
Presidcnt Buchanan‘! 1-6113!‘-
Then correspondence between Prof. Sil-
limau and other distinguished gentlemen
of this State, and President Buchanan,
has been furnished to the papers by the
It will be seen that Buchanan avows his
determination to sustain all the iniquities
practiced in Kansas, and to force on the
people a constitution “adopted by those
who may be entitled to vote under its
provisions,” thus following the hint of the
Union, and preventing the Free State set-
tlers voting on the adoption of the con-
stitution. _
run Lnrruiz are run PRESIDENT.
The undersigned, citizens of the United
States and electors of the State of Con-
necticut, respectfully offer to your excel-
lency this their memorial. The. funda-
mental principle of the constitution of the
United States and of our political insti-
tutions, is that the people shall make their
own laws and elect their own rulers. We
see with grief, if not with astonishment,
that Governor Walker, of: Kansas, openly
represents and proclaims that the Presi-
dent of the United States is employing
through him (Walker) an army, one pur-
pose of whiclfis to -force the people of
Kansas to obey laws not their own nor
of the United States, but laws which it is
notorious and established upon evidence
they never made and .rulers they never
elected. We represent, therefore, that
by the foregoing your excellency is openly
held up and proclaimed to the great der-
ogation of our national character, as vio-
latiug in its most essential particular the
solemn oath which the President has ta-
ken, to support the constitution of this
Union. We call attention further, to
the fact that your excel_lency in like man-
ner held np to this nation, to all mankind,
“levying war against a portion of the
United States” by employing arms in
Kansas to uphold a body of men and a
code of enactments purporting to be leg-
islative,.but which never had the election,
nor sanction nor consent of the people of
the territory. We earnestly represent to
your excellency that we also have taken
the oath to obey the constitution, and
our excellency may rest assured that we
shall not refrain from _the prayer that Al-
mighty’ God will make your administra-
tion an example of justice and beneficence,
and with His terrible majesty protect our
people and our constitution. ‘
THE ’1=RE'SIDErIT’S REPLY.
Wasumorox cm, Aug. 15, 1857.
Gnivrnnirnn--'-_.,On my recent return to
this city after a for.tnight’s absence, Y0“?
hands, through the agency of Mr. Hora-
tio King, of the Post Office Department,
to whom it had been entrusted. From
the distinguished source whence it pro-
ceeds, as well as its peculiar character, I
have deemed it proper to depart from my
general rule in;such"cases, and to give it
an answer. -
You first assert that "the fundamental
principle of the constitution of the United
States andof our political institutions is,
that the people shall make their own laws
and elect their own rulers.” You then ex-
press your grief and astonishment that I
should have violated this principle, and
through Governor Walker have employed.
an army, “one purpose of which is to
force the people of Kansas to obey laws not
their own, nor of the United States, but
laws which it is notorious, and established
upon evidence, they never made, and
rulers they never elected.” And as a
corollary from the foregoing, you repre-
sent that I am “openly held up and pro-
claimed to the great derogation of our
national character, as violating in its
most essential particular the solemn oath
which the President has taken to support
the Constitution of the: Union.
These are heavy charges, proceeding
and if well founded, ought to consign my
name to infamy. _But in proportion to
their gravity, common justice, to say noth-
ing of Christian charity, required that be-
ascertained that they were well founded.
If not, they will rebound, with withering
condemnation, upon their authors. Have
you performed this preliminary duty to-
wards the man who, however unworthy,
is the chief magistrate of your country?
If so, either you or I are laboring under
a strange delusion. Should this prove to
be your case, it will present a memorable
example of the truth that political preju-
dice is blind even.-to the existence of the
lainest and most palpable historical facts.
0 these facts let us refer. _
When I entered upon the duties of the
last, what was the condition of Kanzas?
This Territory had been organized under
the act of Congress of 30th May, 1854,
and the government in all its branches
was in full operation. A Governor, Sec-
retary of the Territory, Chief Justices, a
Marshal and District Attorney had been
appointed by my predecessor, by and with
thegadvice and consent of the Senate, and
were all engaged in discharging their res-
pective duties. v A code of laws had been
enacted by the Territorial Legislature,
a.nd the Judiciary were employed in ex-
pounding and carrying these laws into ef-
fect. It is quite true that a controversy
had previously arisen respecting the va-
lidity of the election of members of the
Territorial Legislature and of the laws
passed by them; but at the time I on-
tered upon my official duties, Congress
ent forms and by different enactments.
The delegate elected to the House of
Representatives, under a Territorial law,
had just completed his term of service on
the day previous to my inauguration.
In fact, I found the government of Kan-
zas as well established as that of any
other Territory. Under these circum-
stances, what was my duty? Was it not
to sustain the government?-—to protect it
from he violence of lawless men who were
determined either to rule or ruin?—to
prevent it from being overturned by force?
in the language of the constitution to
“take care that the laws be faithfully ex-
ecuted?” It was for this purpose, and
this alone, that I ordered a military force
to Kansas, to act as a posse comitatns in
aiding the civil magistrate to carry the
‘laws into execution. The condition of
the Territory at the time, which I need
not portray, rendered this precaution ab-
solutely necessary; . In this state of affairs
would I not have been justly condemned
had I left the Marshal and other ofiicers
of a like character, impotent to execute
the process and judgments of courts of
justice establishedby Congress or by the
Territorial Legislature, under its express
authority, and thus have _sufi'ered the gov-
ernment itself to become an object ofcon-
tempt in the eyes of the people?‘ And
yet this_ is what you designate as “forcing
. ‘A Important Invention. Superior Court--A.-ugust Te! 31-
been by Congress, to illegal violence, and
thus renew the scenes; of civil war and
bloodshed, which every patriot in the
country had deplored? '.l‘his; would in-
deed have been to violate my oath of of-’
fice, and to fix a damning blot on the
character of my administration. .
I most cheerfully admit; that the neces-‘
sity for sending a mihtary force to Kan-
sas to aid in the execution of the civil
law, reflects no credit upon the character
of our country. But let the blame fall
upon the heads_of‘the guilty. Whence
did this necessity arise? A portion of
the people of Kansas, unwilling to trust to
the ballot box-the certain American
remedy for the redress of all grieva.nces—
undertook to create an independent gov-
ernment for themselves. Had this at-
tempt proved successful,it would of course
have subverted the existing government
prescribed and recognized by Congres,
and substituted a revolutionary govern-
ment in its stead. This wasa usurpation
of the same character as it would be for
a portion of the people of Connecticut to
undertake to establish a separate govern-
ment within its chartered limits, for the
purpose of redressing any grievance, real
or imaginary, of which they might have
complained against the legitimate State,
a principle, if carried into execution,would
destroy all lawful authority, and produce
universal anarchy.
I ought to specify more particularly a
condition of afi‘airs which I have embraced
only in general terms, requiring the pres-
ence of a military force in Kansas. The
Congress of the United States had_ most
wisely declared it to be “the true Intent
and meaning of this act (the _act organ-
izing the Territory) not to legislate slave-
ry into any Territory or State, nor to ex-
clude it therefrom, but to leave the peo-
ple thereof perfectly free to form and reg-
ulate their own way, subject only. to the
constitution of the United States.” As
a natural consequence, Congress has also
prescribed by the same act that when the
Territory of Kansas shall be admitted
as a State, it “shall be received into the
Union with or without slavery, as their
constitution may prescribe at the time of
their admission.” .
Slavery existed at that period, and still
exists in Kansas under the constitution of
the United States. This point has at
last been finally settled by the highest
tribunal known to our laws. How it
could ever have been seriously doubted
is a mystery. If a comfederation of sov-
ereign States acquire a new territory, at
the expense of their common blood and
treasure, surely one set of the partners
can have no right to exclude the other
from its enjoyment, by prohibiting them
taking into it whatever is recognized to
be property by the common constitution.
But when the people—the bmut jide resi-
dents of such territory—proceed to frame
a State Constitution, then it is their right
to decide the important question for
themselves, whether they will continue,
modify, or abolish slavery. To them,and
to them alone, does this question belong,
free from all foreign interference.
In the opinion of the Territorial Legis-
lature of Kansas, the time had arrived
for entering the Union, and they accord-
ingly passed a law to elect delegates for
the purpose of framing a State Constitu-
tion. This law was fair and just in its
provisions. It conferred the right of suf-
frage» on every bona fide inhabitant of the
territory; and for the purpose of prevent-
ing fraud and intrusion of citizens of near
or distant States, most properly confined
this right to those who had resided there-
in three months previous to the election.
Here a fair opportunity was presented for
all the qualified resident citizens of the
Territory, to whatever organization they
might have previously belonged, to par-
ticipate in the election, and to express
their opinions at the ballot box, on the
question of slavery. But numbers of law-
less men still continued to resist the regu-
lar Territorial governments. They refused
either to be registered, or to vote, and
the members of the convention were elect-
ed, legally and properly, without their in-
tervention. The convention will soon as-
semble to perform the solemn duty of
framing a constitution for themselve and
their posterity; and in the state of incip-
ient rebellion which still exists in Kansas,
it is my imperative duty to employ the
troops of the United States should this
become necessary, in defendin the cou-
vention against violences wh' st framing
the Constitution, and in protecting the
“bonafide inhabitants,” qualified to vote
under the provision of this instrument, in
the free exercise of the right of suffrage
when it shall be submitted to them for
their approbation or rejection.
I have entire confidence in Gov. Walk-
er, that the troops will not be employed,
except to resist actual aggression, or in the
execution of the laws ; and this not until
the power of the civil magistrate shall
prove unavailiug. Following the wise
example of Mr. Madison towards the
Hartford convention, illegal and dange-
rous combinations such as that of Topeka
Convention will not be disturbed unless
they shall attempt to perform some act
which will bring them into actual collision
with the constitution and the laws.
that event, they shall be resisted and put
down by the whole power of the govern-
ment. In performing this duty. I shall
have the approbation of my own consci-
euce, and, as I humbly trust, of my God.
_I thank you for the assurance that you
will_ “ not refrain from the prayer that
{lmlghty God will make my administra-
tion an example of. justice and benefi-
cf%n_ce.” Ypu can greatly assist me in ar-
riving at this blessed consummation, by
exerting your influence in allaying the
existing section-il excitement on the sub-
ject of slavery, which has been produc-
tive of much evil and no good, which
if it could succeed in attaining its object
would ruin the slave, as well as his magter_
This would be a work of genuine philan-
thropy. Every day of my life I feel how
inadequate I am to perform the duties of
my high station without the continued
support ofDivine Providence : yet placing
my trust in Him, and in hiui alone, I en-
tertain a good hope that he will enable
me to do equal justice to all portions of
the Union, and thus render me a humble
instrument in restoring peace and harmo-
ny among the people of the several Sutes.
Yours, Very Respectflly, —
JAMES BUCHANAN.
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QWA lady of New York, not exact-
ly pleased with the handling without
gloves that her sex and their foibles re-
ceived from the author of “Nothing to
Wear,” has written a poem, in the same
measure, on “Nothing to Do.” Some of
the hits are as good as any to be met
with. Here is a specimen: ' '
“And the cause of ‘this Pl] whiapgr to you,
’Tis to please the young men who have nothing to do!
’Tis a fact undisputed from Pekiu to (hdiu,
That the tdstc of the men is the guide fiirthe India,
And the idols of hlhion would shortly expire,
-If the male devotees would cease to admire;
And I ask those whoronon from v.Infv!r.-l ls»--4
the people of Keuzas to obey 1-v.'.<: I27?
.2 r :1! 1"” V» '."~:iaio5{’
you he as (. .-.:icunc,ed
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' or ought
A; in: -.-.=3:.-.-.-c.
lodlliaveldouef Wouldyou have ,
- desired that I should abandon the_.'I.‘cl’!'.'l.'-
torial governmeut,.sanc_tioned as it he
W‘--» _fLTd:" be rend;-:aa‘Z~-t.?:e r.,[icc.'. yr ' "N131-.":?”
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i .§~‘:i23r- J‘1.Lll70lll{?l.'-CG .‘..é=«.a:kwell,
T-4.ril.§‘.: iwi hushaiid, is ‘g_,,-...§..’li—"- at New-
ark, N. J. It is not-.1:rue that she has
anently retired from public life, ‘she
will return to her whiloin ways “ as soon
as airoiunitaim will p,erinit.",
-.
7‘
In-
fiflorwalk, Tuesday, Sept. 16,1857.
3' “Let our object be OUR COUNTRY, OUR WHOLE
COUNTRY, AND NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY, and by
the blessing of God may that Country. itself become a
Vast and Splendid Monument not of Oppression and
(error, but of WISDOM, of prison, and of LIl_!ERTY,
upon which the world may gaze with admiration for
ever. ’ ’ DANIEL WEBSTER-
Mr. Buchanan’: Letter.
Uponlthe adjoining column ofto day’s imne
may be found the correspondence, which has
recently been had between certain gentlemen
of Connecticut and the President of the United
States. The impression which they ‘are cal-
culated to produce upon every true hearted-
right-miuded citizen is one of mingled shame
and alarm. We have here, 1'01‘ the 3'“ mne’
the distinct declaration, by the chiei_Masis-
trate of the Republic. W3‘ W81‘ W01‘! “W11 °f
the national domain, the °xi5t°“°° °f 31”"!
is guaranteed by the solemn compact! of the
Constitution. No matter though every tyro
in constitutional history may know “IN? the
declaration is false, a libel upon the organic
Law, a slander against the founders of the
Republic, and a contradiction of the very
terms of the great Instrument in which our
Fathers renounced their allegiance to op-
pression in every foi-m,—still such an enuncia-
tion from such a source must awakena feeling
of alarm in every patriotic mind, and kindle
a blush upon every patriotic check. For his-
tory has been written in vain, if men have not
yet learned that a slaveholdiug republic, 0110:
in which bondage is made a national iustitu.
tion, cannot endure; and the hopes of the
lovers of freedom every where have been buta
bitter mockery, if, in this western world, the
old lie is still to be believed in, and acted
upon, that slavery is the righteous lot of La-
bor. .
We confess, indeed, that we think that the
forty odd gentlemen, merchants, lawyers, doc-
tors and clergyman, who addressed their lot-
ter to the President were rather green,if they
expected any good to come of such an opera-
tiou. Mr. Buchanan is a politician of forty
years’ standing; and during all that long pe'-
riod, his great inquiry has been,on which side
were to be found the best chances for his own
advancment. As a matter of course, he has
been by turns, upon all sides, expediency, not
principle has been his guiding star, and the
confirmed habits of almost half a century can-
not be uprooted now. We have never placed
one moments confidence in the detected slau-
der of HENRY CLAY, and the solemn appeals
of the New Haven letter to the God of nations,
would fall upon the pliable conscience of the
President like snow-flakes upon the water,
"A moment seen, then lost forever ;”
The reply of the President is in the petty-
foggiug style of a Mississippi stump speech.
His correspondents request him to withdraw
the government troops from Kansas, or, at
least, not to employ them in enforcing the laws
of a foreign jurisdiction over a community of
freemen. He answers,—without denying, and
therefore, tacitly admitting, all the force and
fraud whereby those laws were foisted upon
the Territory,--that on the 4th of March, 1857,
he became President of the United States, and
therefore the statute of Missouri shall ‘be en-
forced in Kansas at the point of the bayonet.
Therequest of the New Haven gentlemen was
that he would do, that which every man of
sense knows would. at once, put an end to all
the troubles in the Territory; for it is as clear
as the sunlight that with the present popula-
tion of Kanzas all that is necessary to be done
is simply to let them alone, and law, order,
and freedom would be forthwith evoked out
of the chaos which has followed the passage of
the Nebraska Bill.
The President avers that the last Congress
recognized the validity of the Territorial Stat-
utes, an avermeut which he, as well as any‘
man, knows to ‘be utterly false. The last
Congress sent a commission to Kanzas to in-
quire into the origin of those laws, and upon
their report the House of Representatives pro-
nouuced the pretended code to be so contami-
nated with fraud and violence as to be utterly
without validity. That report, a document of
some twelve hundred pages, is a part of the
official record of this government for the last
two years. As such it" was officially before
the President, and no candid man could read
it, and rise from its perusal without the con-
viction that the action of the House of Rep-
resentatives was right. And yet the Presi-
dent ignores all this, and takes shelter, for
his own remissnesa, under the mantle of his
unhappy predecessor, FRANKLIN PIERCE !
But the President is not content with plead-
ing a statute of. limitation which began to run
on the 4th‘ of March, 1857, and misrepresent-
ing the action of the national Legislature; he
goes further. and lays down the broad princi-
ple, upon which we commented, in the outset,
viz: that the constitution of the United States,
by its own intrinsic force, carries slavery all
over the‘national Territory. He says:
“Slavery existed at that period,” (the pas-
sage of the Nebraska Bill) and still exists in
Kansas under the Constitution ‘of the United
States. This point has at last been decided
by the highest tribunal known to our laws.
How 11- counn EVER HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY
DOUBTED is a mystery.”
That is, the legal condition of the Territories,
under the Constitution is, that they are all
slave territories, and must continue so till
slavery is abolished therein by positive enact-
ment. And here by the way, we see the in-
fernal cunning, with which the schemers in
Kansas are preparing their new_ Constitution
They intend to say nothing of slavery, for it
"existed and still exists there, under the con-
stitution of the United States,” and so long as
it remains introduced by positive enactment,
Kaunas remains a slave State.
We have no heart to comment upon the
slate of things thus revealed in this letter of
President Buchanan’s. It isjust such a docu-
meat as might have proceeded from the pen
ofPreston S. Brooks, only not quite so straight-
forward as he would have been. It reveals
the so called Democratic party, in its true as-
pect of the Pno-Suvnnv party; Pao-Suvsnx
alike in South Carolina, and in Kansas; in
Connecticut and in Mississippi; reckless of the
glory, the honor and the lasting prosperity of
the counties, false to the principles which uu-
derlie our institutions, to true Democracy and
to civil liberty, and true only to a, selfish and
iusatiate determination to maintain its tempo-
““7 8|‘!-Sp upon the reins of government at
any risk and at whatever sacrifice.
A
v
Coivcnnr AT New Csium.-The Episcopal
Society of New Canaan, actuated by the land.
able desire to improve their church edifice,&c.,
P1111039 SW38 a sacred and miscellaneous
Concert on Wednesday evening of the present
week. 1-‘. H. Nash, and Messrs. column 5,
Bristow of New York, are among‘ the talent
engaged for the entertainment. '
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Personal.
Rev. J. B. Chaplain, some years since, Pu.
tor of the Baptist Church. in this place, has
had the honary degree ofD. D. confered up-
on him, by Watci-ville College, Maine.
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5 Our thanks are due to Hon. Wm. W.
Weloh, for copy of the Pacific Railroad ex-
plorations and surveys. ‘
.9»
Q If you wish to to get “ fits” in the
clothing line, go to Rileys, Phoenix Block-
“ * W031! to the wise to’!
Pairfield Agricultural Societi-
The Messrs. Osbornes of the Danbury Time!
have just issued the apnuali Bills for our
County Agricultural Fair, which 01)?“ We
A Good Exhibition.
The well known Panoramic Mirror Of the
(,v,.,,m',,,, and _D¢Iug(: is to be exhibited at
Phoenix Hall, several days the present week,
commencing this Monday evening- It is sel-
dom that so instructive and entertaining an
exhibition is afforded us; “"1 Wh°eV9P 8095
Wm not regret the time or money it costs.
. .
Beautiful workmanship.
Our “ fi-ow ” bids us acknowledge the re-
ceipt of a pair of gaiters from the store of J.
N. Lockwood & Co. (successors to J. P. Hau-
ford), which, in point of exquisite workman-
ship, we presume have never before been
equaled in this quarter. We édvise the ladies
to call and examine his stock, as we learn he
has “a few more left of the same sort.”
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Money Matters.
There is but little change in the aspect of
the money market, though we think there is a
more cheerful tone among business men, and
a belief that we have seen the worst of the
pressure for the present. It is to be hoped
that this impression will be borne out by the
facts.
The banks are very rapidly improving their
strength, and having attained a stronger po-
sition themselves, it is hoped that they will be
enabled to aid their customers more materially.
The Fairficld County Bank stands up under
the pressure heroically, and has continued to
afford all its local customers a reasonable line
of discounts, thus keeping our many factories,
workshops, &c., in full operation; this has had
the efi'ect to keep business brisk,’ and the
masses contented and happy, hereabouts. Our
new Rank has not yet got into operation, and
even if it were ready to issue, in the present
state of the money market, the faith and works
of him who invited Noah to “ go to thunder
with his old ark, for he could wait till after
the shower,” would serve them a‘ good pur-
pose. lndicidual industry and economy will
bring better times and brighter skies.
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Illnesa of Ex. Gov. Biuoll.
We learn just as we go to Press, (Monday
Evening) that Hon. Clark Bissell is rapidly
sinking, and can scarcely survive till morn-
ing.
}so———4—.—
M‘ On Saturday last, in New Fairfield, a
man named Isaac Leach,stabbed another man ,
named Bouton, fatally, in a dispute. Laach
has been arrested. ‘
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Sudden Death.
We learn the wife of Mr. L. W. Smith, re-
siding near Judge Smith’s on the Newtown
turnpike, fell and expired almost instantly,
on Monday afternoon. She was a hearty ro-
bust woman and the Doctors have not yet as-
certained the cause of her decease.
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Coat Robber.
A scape grace “staid over” in Norwalk
one night last week and between the hours of
earliest dawn and sunrise, succeeded in steal-
ing some half dozen coats, which were all
doubtless pawned in some one or more of the
“hells” which now adorn almost every corner
of our streets. Among those taken is said to
be the veritable one in which our friend the
“Commodore” pursued and caught the cofi‘ee
thief, only last week, and also that inimitable
swallow -tailed blue, with high collar and
brass buttons, the only relic of “Bloody Tip-
perary and Donnybrook Fair,” leftiu the pos-
session of our never to be forgotten friend
Bren nan,—-that same, who will any time leave
a chance for a month’s wages, for a" drink of ‘
bad whisky or turn the wheel for the Gazette
Power Press. ' ' \
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_fi* Camp Wooster, at Danbury, broke up
on Thursday evening, after three days’ review,
attended by Generals Guyer and Arnold, and
Brig. Gen. Fowler,of the Wiaeoneifmilitia,
and formerly Captain of the steamer Pacific.
The weather was very fine, and the Standard
reports pleasant champaign and hard drink‘
ing. From what we saw at the ball-room of
the Wooster House, we conclude that the
ladies were not omit'ed in the exercises of the
‘- hop.” Gov. Holly was not present, on ac-
count of illness. Wait N. Hawley, Esq., of the
Goveruor’s Aids, was present, and, in company
with other distinguished military men, re-
viewed the regiment—among,whom was Adju-
taut Gen. Williams, of Hartford, who was
overheard to remark that he never witnessed
so much ekill and perfection as was evinced;
by the soldiers of this county in their drill.-'—
a compliment worth making a note of. ‘
—m—o
Q The new steamer “citylof Bridgeport,”
which has just been placed on the route be-
tween that place and New fork, is said to be
C. Goodrich, for Clerk; and why should
she be popular? "
04.».
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT Sourn NORWALK,
CoNN.—-—The manufactory of the S. D.
Northway Manufacturing Company of
South Norwalk, Conn., was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the 6th
inst. Loss, 15,000; insured to the amount
of $12,000; in the [Etna and Phenex
Companies, Hartford, Conn.
3- The Tribune means South Norfolk.-
Our South Norwalk sister has no fire engines,
no fire companies and no fires; at least not
within the ken of the oldest inhabitant.
?'*%0<.>-00¢:
MI'NNESO'1'A.—Ex-GOV. Alexander Ramsey of
St. Paul, has been nominated by the Republi-
cans as the first governor of the future state of
Minnesota.
T. M. Newson, Esq., of the St. Paul Daily
Times, arrived there on Thursday the 27th ult.,
with his new wife. He will “pitch in” with
renewed energy, after his three ‘month’: voca-
tion; the Republicaus of the embryo state
have none who wield an abler or more effec-
tive pen in their behalf.
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fir In that m yelerioiu case at New Haven ,
the Jury of Inquest found that the woman,
Ann Wilson, died of “disease of the brain,
aggravated by her mode of life, and by an
over dose of laudanum.”
The man named Lyon, who brought her to
the city, came, it is said, from .Danbury.—
She took the laudunm of her own accord, and
died while Lyon had gone after a physician.
Her name is given as Wilson alias .Bibb.—
Her husband, Bibb, from whom she had been
separated, resides in the town of Orange.
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§~ The comparative comfort of the bet-
ter and more intelligent portion of the white
working men of the North and South,-,may
be inferred from the following paragraph.
which we cut from a Georgia exchange. In
speaking of an address to the Democucy, by
Hon: A. H. Stephens, the editor says:
“We have spread it before our readers in
sizeable type, as we know that many of them
will read it at night by the pine-light of their
fire aides.
At the North, the intimation that many
subscribers to a newspaper would read it by
“W "8111: of a fire would be considered an
insult.
3- The N Y." Journal of Commerce
announces the failure of the Hugenot
Bank of New Paltz, Ulster-county.
one of the institutions. She is magnifi tly
fitted up, is fast, and has our old fiie
‘yr:
Anothcr Horse Show.
Springfield, Massachusetts, is a pattern
town. Some of its enterprising inhabitants
got up the first national horse show—uot a
horse race—but a genuine show of valuable
horses for work as well as speed; and now
they are going to have another grand show.
tiune several days. But these live Yankees
are not content with a show. in a mere tempo-
rary iuclosure, upon somebody else’s land,
so they bought a field with—we don’t know
for how many peices of money, and have gone
to work grading,'and fixing, and fencing. and
improving it, and making it into a fine park
for the use of the city as a drive, or for future
shows; in fact doing just what one might
suppose a set of sensible, industrious, well-to-
do, Yankee population would do upon, in
and about such an occasion. It is to be
called ‘-‘Hampden Park,” and it will be an
ornamental feature of that lovely town. They
have a cemetery there that is sweet enough
to tempt one to die there, and now they are
to have something to add to the pleasure of
living there.
The very clever, paper, The Springfield
Republican, says: _
" It is well, as we look at the future of this
beautiful spot, to remember who bought it,
and for what puposc it is designed, It was
purchased by good men—good citizens-men
who have an_iuteresI. in the welfare of society
who have children growing up to become resi-
dents in this community. The riff-rafi‘ of so-
ciety have not contributed to the purchasefof
this Park. They do not contribute to things
of this kind. It was procured for the service
of an icnltural society, that upon its ample
acres t a farmers of the county may, for all
time, enter into those‘ competitions which
tend to develop the interests and influence of
agriculture, and make the farmer’s calling.the
noble thing that it will be when it zhall
achieve its possiblities. There is nothing im-
moral in all this. There is nothing in it upon
which any Christain man may not conscien-
tiously heartily invoke-the blessing of Heav-
n.
“ But the,,serpent entered Eden, and will
be very certain to enter Hampdeu Park, un-
less he is watched and scotched. There is
something in a half-mile or mile track very
invitin to genteel sportsmen and gamblers.
If they ave fast horses, kept for the porposes
of gambling, they love to air them in the
Park and exhibit their points to idlert, or to
exercise them in preparation for their regular
operations. Attempts will be made to get up
matches in which there will be covert or open
gambling. Efforts will be instituted to get
ment as to divert the use of the Park from its
legitimate purposes. Against this we must
always be upon our guard. Such a use of the
Park is a desecration. We propose, in a few
weeks, to enter upon the Park with religious
exercises-to utter there the voice of prayer,
and sacred song, and manly eloquence, dedi-
eating that beautiful field to a high and noble
purpose. It will be a manly and Christian
proceeding, to which will gather the lovers
of goodness and of progress ; and never should
there be a transaction publicly entered into
upon that grauud to make that dedication a
mockery, or to desecrate what has been set
apart to legitimate social and material pro-
g ess.”
To all of which “progress” we bid yon» in
,1 all sincerity and hope, God speed. —Tribue.
.
A Desperate Offender.
Another clergyman has been found guilty
of an offence against the laws, and been con-
signed to a penitentiary. The number of
ministers who are tried and punished in
these day’s is quite remarkable. There seems
to bea general laxity in the profession “ or
something.”
“ Zion’s Herald,” the Methodist paper gives
the particulars of this last case of clerical de-
pravity as follows:
" The culpret is the Rev. Samuel Green, of
Camebridge, Do'cester Co., Md. We had pre-
viously noticed his crime and punishment. but
were not then aware that the criminal was a
minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Notwithstanding the disgrace of it. we are
bound to acknowledge the fact. The crime
of the reverend ofl'cnder was “having in his
poseesion a copy of Uncle Tom’s Cabin !”
The desperate wretch is at last safe, gone
i to the penitentiary for ten years! This divine
is already past the prime of life, and _will
‘probably, before the ten years are expired
breathe out his soul from the walls of a prison
and go to receive a second award from the
jud e above. Unlike Paul he does not appeal
to incur, for there is no Cazsar on earth from
whom he can expect any reversal ofhis doom.
“ Let justice be done, through the heavens
fall.” Let the reverend, white headed Uncle
Tom reading preacher go to jail, though the
heavens fall I What in Heaven or Hell com-
pared with Slavery !”
.__.___4.‘...>_?_..
g‘ Judge Goodhue, of Kentucky, has
decided that naturalization in a State Court
does not give a right to vote. He says the
power to establish uniform rules of naturali-
zation is exclusively vested in Congress, and
cannot be exercised by the States. The pro-
cess of naturalization. he says, under fheact
of 1802, is a judicial one ; and that Congress
has no power under the Constitution to confer
jurisdiction or impose judicial duties on the
State Constitution and laws of their own State
for grants. of jurisdiction; and as there is
nothing in the constitution and laws of Ken-
tucky conferring jurisdiction upon any of her
courts to hear and determine naturalization
leases, their judgements and certificates are
' and confer upon their holders no right
———-—-4o-40>-oj——
p- The Springfield Republican considers
that Hartford, “ widely celebrated for the ex-
ceileuce of its pistols, percentage, and ortho-
doxy,” possesses superior facilities for trot-
ting matches also.
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ELMIRA, N. Y., Sept. 5,1857.
About 20,000 people assembled upon the fair
grounds, to-day, to witniess the great contest
between Flora Temple, Lancet, Miller’s Dam-
sel and Red Bird. The race was subject to
these conditions: Mile heats; best three in
five ; Lancet to go under the saddle, and the
others to harnes. Three prizes were awarded,
viz: two thousand, and five hundred dollars.
The following is the result: Flora Temple,
first, Lancet, second, and Red Bird, third.-
Three straight heats were trottod. Miller’s
Damsel was withdrawn after the second heat.
The time made was 2,26 5 2,27 and 2,25.-
This is the best time ever made in the Uni-
ted States, with the exception of that made
by Flora Temple in her great trot over the
Union Course, some time pgo, in 2, 24 5.
Q In speaking of the isspuri election,
the St. Louis Democrat re ark: W‘
of tho“-gross
“ If we had any‘ onbts ‘for _
and glaring frauds} hich _aye eeu practiced
in regard to _th9»’i‘p i ._;up. re ._ I19.
ever since eigh «co . " “P56 ,0“:
we have none 11 " . co?
the face of them, and-
fidence that it will‘ '~ , . ,
the General Assemlyqlbyf w ~
and vigilant, of “NP. ‘ ‘
as to invalidate the ass _ f
has been elected.
he has been defeated by
votes - ofllcialy he is l'etll§_l|¢,(l§‘.iIh 334 ma-
jority.’ We shall, however,’ he anotlfpir oc-
casioh to show the specific; _ s of foul
play from DeKalb C_o. down to ' lay do Rey-
nolds counties; it will re'ifiiii'~,_fd_r « t public
to right such a high _ nded . ud afllx
the stigma where it) lybg
A New Woux2—We understand that Messrs.
Weutworth at Co. of Boston,are about nblish-
lug a new work entitled Tun Youxo who-in
Faiunn; or, The Duties, Trials, Love: and
Hope: of Woman. By Rev. Daniel C. Eddy,
of the Harvard Street Cliruch in that city, so
widely known as the author of the “ Young
]lan’s Friend,” “Angel Whispers,” and other
publicationts which have had an extensive ci_r-
culation. Perhaps or writer of our times is
so popular among all classes of people as Mr.
Eddy, which is no doubt owing to his attract-
ive style and his peculiar talent fonrcndertng
the most profound truths intensely interesting
by his beautiful and dramatic manner of‘pre-
senting them to the minds of his readers. We
hail therefore a new work from his pen with
great satisfaction, and presume that the mis-
sion and sphere of woman will be treated pa
in a strain of eloquence and power that will
fascinate both old and young, married cm‘. ;
In-I10. mother and dlflslltcr. .
Itis to open on Wednesday, Sept. 30, and con- ~
into, and so to influence or control the manage .
Mr. Ashley, at present a resident of the ad-
joiuing town of Wcstport, has shown us an in-
vention of his which we think is destined to
become of universal use on board all our
water craft. It consists in an ordinary fire-
proof safe, so constructed as to float under all
circumstances_ when thrown into the water-
It is designed to transport ship’s papers, mail
matter, specie, jewels, and in fact. every de-
scription of valuable matter, and is so consti
._.__._;..,
JUDGE McCiInm'.
We condense the following from. the
Danbury Times :
Iron Bank vs. Philo F. Barnuui.- —Ac-
tion brought to recover the value of good
attached by Israel Kelsey, deputy ‘Sheriff
of Bridgeport, belonging to_ the Bulls
Falls Iron Bank. At the 1111119 T01‘ the
delivery of the goods they were not forth-
coming. Jury could not agree.
tuted, that in case of sudden accident It may
be easily and quickly thrown overboard, or
in case of sinking with a vessel, under decks
so soon as the vessel’s decks shall swell and
burst, as we believe is" always the core, it wil
rise to the surface and float for all time. It is
perfectly impervious to water or dampness,
and should it be punctured by striking in any
filled with numberless air-tight chambers that
it would be an utter impossibility to sink it.
Mr. A. has also applied his principle to
shi1.’s berths and furniture in general. His
berth is so constructed that it can be removed,
and when thrown overboard will constantly
maintain an upright position. Had these been
in use on the propeller run into, opposite New
Haven. in. few weeks since, every soul on board
might have been saved. We deem these in-
vontions of the most vital interest to all con-
nected, in any manner whatever, with marine
matters.
The Atlantic Telegraph.
The London Times states that the directors
of the Atlantic Telegraph Company have re-
solved to renew in October the attempt to lay
down their cable between Ireland and New-
foundland. On the other hand, the summary
of news, prepared by the agent, at Liverpool,
and brought by the Kangaroo, says that ru-
mors to that effect had been put in circulation,
but they were unfounded.
The following is the report of the ofiicers of
the expedition to the Directors. It will be
noticed that the ofiicers do not believe in the
existence of an under current:
“To the Board of Directors of the flllantie
Telegraph Company.
Loxnox, August 21, 1827,
Gnxrnniiux :—We the undersigned com-
manding ofllcers of the several ships compos-
iug the Atlantic Telegraph Squadron, have
great pleasure in expressing our opinions with
reference to the Atlantic Telegraph. ,
We are of opinion, drawn from our several
observations and experience that no obstacles
of a nautical or physical character exist in the
way of the enterprise, and that the efiiciency
of the form of cable adopted by the Company
is in every way adopted to its mission.
With regard to the machinery, we are of
opinion that the form of controlling power
adopted, and mode of lubricating and unjust-
ing the brakes admit of very great improve-
ment.
We are thoroughly convinced from the
soundings made by Lient. Berrymau, United
States Navy, on the plateau between New-
foundland and Ireland,sub_sequently confirmed
by Lient. Dayman, Royal Navy and the inves-
tigations of Lient. Maury, United States Ob-
servatory, aud from our own nautical expe-
rieuce. that no under or surface current ex-
ists between these points to interfere with the
successful laying of your cable.
We all agree in thinking that no. form of
submarine telegraph cable could be devised
more suitable in every respect to the object
intended to be accomplished; that its light-
ness, toughness and flexibility adapt it in
every way for the purpose of being laid. be-
tween Newfoundland and Ireland, and we are
unwilling to recommend its modification or
alteration in any way. We are also of opinion
that no natural obstacles exist to prevent its
being successfully laid between those points,
and our views to the future prospects of your
enterprise are sanguine.
We have the honor to be,
Gentlemen, yours faithfully,
J. W. B. WAINWRIGHT,
Captain of Her Majesty’s ship Leonard.
Josuux R. SANDS,
Captain of the U. S. frigate Susquehanna.
W. L. HUDSON,
Commanding the Niagara.
C. Nonnsnn,
Commanding Her Majesty’s shipAgamemuon.”
3.. The Independent of this week re-
ports Daniel W King, of Sufiield, Ct. as
failed. We presume he is the same per-
son who is prosecuted for forging the
name of his father, and others.
Du. CA'l'LIN.——TlllS notorious physician
is still incarcerated in the Tombs, where
he is held as a witness against Mrs. Cun-
ningham in the matter of the bogus baby.
The rumor that he has made disclosures
to the District Attorney regarding the
murder of Dr. Burdell, or the pretended
marriage, is authoritively contradicted.
To a reporter who visited him yesterday,
hegsaid : “ My character is gone, my bus-
iness in Brooklyn is broken up : my wife
left me ; I have neither money nor friends,
and.I do not care to expose myself to the
derision of my enemies. Besides, I have
long had a desire to live for a time the life
of a recluse, and although the Tombs is
not the most desirable place in the world,
yet I am well treated here, and do not find
it at all uncomfortable. N o, sir, I have
not made any efforts to get bail, and shall
not. I don’t know that 1 could get bail
if I would, and I am certain I wouldu’t if
I could. I shall remain here, contented,
until I have given my evidence in the
case for which I am detained as a witness,
and then I intend to start immediately
for Australia.” He was taken before
the Grand Jury yesterday. _
New York Evening Post, Sept, 10th.
INCENDIARISM.-—AIl attempt was made
to burn the Steam Planing and House
Building establishment of Stevens, Ives
& Co., in Danbury, about 11 o’clock on
Saturday night last. A "quantity of
Shavings and shingles had been conveyed
to a small out-building attached to and
in the rear of the main edifice, and there
fired. The flames had reached the main
building, when they were fortunately dis-
covered by' two young men who were
passing, who gave the alarm, and the fire
was speedily extinguished. A reward of
$500 is offered for the arrest of the vil-
lains.
A N EW Doncu.—At Stamford, was
seen, a few days since, what was suppos-
‘ed to be one of those terrific water spouts
that have caused so much destruction in
various parts of the country" during the
past summer. The phenomenon was of a
globular shape, with a thin appendage, or
taii, attached to which were excrescences
of some sort. It settled dnwn slowly
over the village, the panic-stricken inhab-
itants flying to their cellars for protection.
At length it alighted, and was found
to be a balloon, with a tail six yards in
length, upon which were fastened, at reg-
ular intervals, fifty . irculars of the “New
York Looking G s and O ental
Frame Factory!” / . U
Qnicxusr Turn.-— r cent race for the
Goodwood Cup, in ngland, has revived
the question as to the best time ever made
by race horses. Porter’s Spirit of the
Times furnishes the following data:
Prior has run one mile heat in 1 min-
ute 45 1-2 seconds.
Prioress has run one mile heat in 1
minute 45 seconds.
Lecompte has run 1 mile in 1 minute
and -id; seconds, and ran 4 mile beats
in 7 minutes and 26 seconds, which is the
best time ever made except by Lexing-
ton, who ran 4 miles in 7 minutes and 19$
seconds. "
The fastest time on record was made
by Henry Perrett, an American horse,
who run one mile in 1 minute and 42
seconds. ‘
The time of Prior and Prioress is 4 or
5 seconds better than that on record of
'\
" -Sing’ Elngliah horse.
way, it would still remain buoyant. as it is s '
_ with one Mr. Bruin, on a mountain in Nor-
§%iflitétion and commission merchant of
Haight vs. Fowler.—A son of Haight
sold a drug store in New Haven to Fow-
ler, receiving in payment a note of $1,000,
Fowler’s note of$1,500, and a note which
Fowler held against a man named New-
ton, of $1,500 more, which last not
Plaintiff received from his son. Defend-
ant claimed that this last note was given
without recourse. Verdict for defend-
ant.
Appleby vs. Shcrwoorl.r—This was an
action brought to recover $72, with in-
terest, the value of two cows sold by
plaintiff defendant, Defendant claimed
that the cows were diseased. Verdict for
Plaintiff, $72 and costs.
State vs. Ebenezer Tlioi'pe,—chargcd
with burning his brother’s barn,‘ in Wilton
Verdict not geuilty.
State vs. Michael O’Brien.—-—Plead
guilty of assault and battery. Sentenced
to jail fifteen days.
State vs. Joseph. Lockwood, Reclding.
charged with perjury, committed at the
late term of the Superior Court. Acquit-
ted.
State vs. David Wilson andWm. Jud-
son. The accused were arrested in Mas-
sachnsetts by deputy Sheriff Morris, for
breaking into the hat shop of James
Shepard, of Great Plain. Convicted and
sentenced to State Prison for one year
each.
State vs. Mary Hurly.—Charged with
selling liquor in Danbury. Bonds forfeit-
(1.
State vs. John Cormody,—-—same
charge. Bond forfeited.
State vs. John Doran.——Assault and
battery. Sentenced to jail four months.
State vs. Maria Darling, (colored)——
plead guilty to the charge of assault and
battery. Sentenced to jail five days.
State vs. Valentine Knox, Norwalk,
convicted of theft. Sentenced to jail
thirty days.
State vs. Walter H. Worrall,—fonud
guilty of burglary. Sentenced to State
Prison one year.
State vs. James T. Maxfield,—same
offence. Sentenced to State Prison one
year.
State vs. Asbury Therwood, Wilton.-
Iu this information there were two counts
—assanlt with intent to commit a rape,
and assault and battery. Convicted of
the last charge and sent to jail thirty
days.
State vs. Edward VVheeler, Fairfield,
a boy ten years old, charged with murder
in shooting another boy. Proved to
have been accidental, and a nolle entered.
State vs. Catharine Wil'liams,—chai'g-
ed with keeping a house of ill fame in
Bridgeport. Acquitted.
State vs. Henry Sirrine, Danbury,—
charged with assault and battery on his
wife. Plead guilty, and sentenced to sixty
days to the work House in Bridgeport.
State vs, John Durgy, Bridgeport,—
charged with assault and battery. Ac-
quitted.
From fifteen to twenty divorces have
been granted.
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3.. A gentleman by the name of Per-
ridge recently had an interesting interview
them New York, while hunting deer in
neighborhood of Racket Lake. Before
coming to close quarters he discharged
his rfle at Bruin. Missed fire. Bruin
comes unpleasantly near. Mr. ‘Perridge
says :
I commenced beating him off with my
gun, but through some mishap I lost hold
of that, and the bear and I clinched. I
threw him down, but I soon found that
the under side was his advaut age, for he
tore my skin and clothes uumercifnlly.
We struggled and rose up again. I
thought of my knife, but he hugged me
so close that I could not get at it. _ He
attempted to bite my face, and taking a
hint f'rom my enemy, I caught his nose in
my teeth, and you had better believe I
shut down on him tight, for he loosened
his hold around me so that I had an op-
portunity to reach my knife, which I im-
proved without delay. Being thus arm-
ed, I gave him several cuts and thrusts in
rapid succession, and beat a retreat. He
did not go far, however, before he fell
having been mortally wounded. After
the fight Mr Porridge sat down to take
breath and thought of home and the dau-
ger he had escaped. He says :
While I had the old f'ellow’s nose in my
mouth, I discovered he had a. very bad
breath, and nothing but my critical situa-
tion enabled me to withstand it. Deliver
me from being obliged to kiss or fight a
beal'.—-Ezzre/umge paper.
._%:—%
®"’ Some of the Democratic papers
are very free with their phillipics against
“ Republican \Vestei'n Rail Road Land
Speculators” We concur with them in
all they say against the general policy of
those grants. It is an effective process to
make the rich richer by robbing the land-
less poor. But we insist that they should
let their readers know that Stephen A.
Douglass is the father of this 3:1/stem. The
Illinois Central Rail Road Grant was
the first of the series. By that he is now
one of the richest men in the West. The
“ poor,” for whom he professes so much
“Democratic” love, are obliged to pay
$20 an acre for land which, but for this
Douglass grant, they could have bought
for 1,25. A large‘ per centage of the
excess goes into his own pockets l
JlI2'lwa.u/tie .Dcmoe—rat.
.—joo<Q>o+——_
36'” A Boston correspondent of the New
York Tribune, says ; “ Flaws can be found
in any man by those who are disposed to
search for and point them out ; but in the
affairs of life, -and especially in political
affairs, sensible men do not continually
scrutinize their friends with a microscope
to see if they can find defects to show up
to the world ; they leave that sort of
work to the en my.
)7
0 . , .
36“ A New/Yor /poiibern lately sent
a con, gnineqf,/of 30 0 pairs of shoes to
avenport, Iowa. Whereupon one of
their enterprising newspapers announced
to the world that during the year six thon-
sand soles had been added to the pop-
ulation of Davenport.
Q, Deborah, widow of the late Hon.
Mr. Cochrane, of the Canadian Parlia-
ment, was arrested in Albany, last week,
for keeping a house of ill fame.
3'' Rev. Ethan Osborne, of Fairfield,
New Jersey, a native of Litchfield, Ct...
on Friday, the 21st ult., entered his one
hundredth year of age. He was ii“-sold.
icr of the Revolution, and graduated at
Dartmouth College in 1784,
E» The Bergen County Gazette advi-
ses the holders of the notes of the Ber-
gen County Bank to make no sacrifice
upon them, and expresses a belief that
scrofula, or lung complaints.
or disagreeable _cxtei'nal appliction is -
essary. Full directions will be foun . ~
the wrapper.
change.”
lant man, “ that would be no‘ chang-
all ; you go shopping every day.”
_
The Maine Election.
The State election-in Maine occurs to-
day. The Democratic party has “burst
“P.” and the organization which supports
Buchanan consists of the two setts of -old
Democrats and old Whigs who want the
1‘ cdcral oflices_
1VI.ic.in.i FALLS. Sept. 11, 1857.
A man who registered his name as W.
T- A119". from New England, threw him-
Self fI'0n1 Table Rock this afternoon.
Ob-...—__._
@ The suspension of theBa.nk of New
Jerse_1/, at New Brunswick, is announced.
It is stated that the Bank is abundantly
able to redeem its bills, and that 9, re-
sumption may soon take place.
<0
Horse Thief,
On Wednesday, a genteel appearing
rascal who gave his name as Willett, ap.
plied to Messrs. Jones & Aldrich for a
horse and carriage to go to Trumbul.
Not returning at the time appointed, the
owners of the establishment began to
have suspicions that all was not right.
They were fully confirmed in these yester-
day, when they heard that Willet, with
the horse and carriage, _had been seen at
Darien, going towards New York. Mr.
Aldrich started in pursuit, but we have
not as yet been informed of his success.
Willet is_a.light complexioned man, with
light hair and light moustache, The
horse was a long tailed, middle sized, light
grey animal. The buggy was nearly new,
lining blue. Pllflnlng part of a chocolate
color. Messrs. Jones & Aldrich have of.
fered a reward of $50 for his arrest and
the return of the property.
Bridgeport Farmer, 12th.
Q, A dispatch fhom Washington says
that Col._ Benton is lyi ng there in a crit-
ical condition. His disease is constipa-
tion of the bowels.
o
Isa... It is said that the Hon. M. Fill-
more, late President of the United States‘...
is about to marry a lady of Montreal.
-——-<9»-——
lé’ Appleton R. Hillyer, Esq, has
been appointed Cashier of the new Etna
Bank at Hartford. He is a son of Chas.
T Hillyer, President of the Charter Oak
Bank, in which institution he has been
several years a Teller.
0-‘. —
“ Deutche Zeitungfnr die lVew England
Staaten.” ‘
This is the name of a new German
paper puplished at Hartford.
::—£
:6‘ Sixty-five barrels of molasses, made
from the Chinese sugar cane, were re-
ceived at New Orleans a few days since.
It is considered an excellent article.
.
36* Horse stealing is common in Litch-
field county. The rogues escape over the
New York line, where they are consider-
ed safe.
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E” A letter from Kansas narrates the
following “ sell” upon Gov. Walker.
When at Zanesville, he, (Walker) left
a sick dragoon there. When the Govern-
or was absent, the dragoons’s horse died.
The wags of the place got up a long pe-
tition, carefully prepared, so that until
near its close, it was impossible to guess
its object. On the Governor’s return, the
petition was presented to him. He read
on and on.
It set forth, finaly, that the horse had
defunctcd; that the sun was uncommon-
ly hot in these days ; that the heat had
the effect of decomposing dead bodies;
that carcasses, in that condition, emitted
an efiluvia obnoxious to the sense of smell-
ing, aud unfavorable to the public health ;
that many desired to drag away the
horse, but finding nothing in the organic
act authorzing them to do so, and having
obtained no charter from the territorial
legislature, or even the Topeka ge . ;:
assembly, for that purpose, they wfsbcd
they would be justified in assuming iizc
responsibility of removing the nuisance
themselves!
it is said, made _the little man swear ex- .
cessively.
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Q, Ninety nine extra sized angle
worms locomoting at high pressure speed
about a garden walk of a showery after-
noon, and being perpetually turned back
when they get to the edge, and compell-
ed to cross each other’s trail in innumera-
ble directions, would, if the ground were
soft and their every footstep plainly visi-
ble, draw on the garden-walk aforesaid a
tolerable accurate map of the city of Bos-
ton. It is crookeder than nine acres of
ram’s horns, and has got more cor ~
than a cord of cross cut saws.
The streets look as if they had l..»=.='.~.:
made some where else, and dumped ‘-.v .r=.
in a edge tangle, and nobody had uvcu.
taken the trouble to straignten them out
again. It looks as if somebody had been
building a lot of cities by contract, and
the job had’nt come out even, and he had
thrown down his remnants of streets, and
odd ends of alleys and little snipped off bits
of lanes and avenues, and called it Be?’ -:
If any street in the town should be ( 2.
straight pile in any direction, it won"-‘ :;-ts
through a dozen private parlors and f ,-
five public music halls. In fact, B(
looks as if first-rate material for an e"
lent city had been melted and pct
through a wooden sieve on a side hill ’.
left to cool.-—Picag/nne.
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of this complaint have at least two‘ ..=
drcd testimonials of the most pos v
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been laid up for months, and some w. .
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frightful manner, whose permanent r‘. 1
has been speedily effected. Do not sais‘:-3. -
from it a day, while the remedy is at li ~,.
This preparation is worth all the nostrz. . .-
that ever was lauded to the public,
not only removes the pain, but at '----v~
same time the cause of pain. The \l
circulating fluids of the system are cl.
ed by this invaluable preparation, .
restored to perfect health. It is eqi; r
efficacious with Rheumatism, as I
No gr-V.
See advestisement.
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am. “My dear,” said a smiling sp -~‘ ‘-
to her other half, a morning or two s
“I’m going a shopping, and want al
“ Pool: I responded the n:
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ffi‘ George W. Jennings, our wide av --‘.7
newsman, has handed us No. 1, of another
Magazine, from that versatile publisher F =
Leslie. Like all of Leslie’s publication . it
in good attractive and cheap. Everyrbil.-1. in
the Newspaper or Magazine line can all‘J»L‘j’§
be found at Jenning’s. See adv. - ‘ ‘
3,45. singular application 1_IB8.bs:eu
made for entry upon the Spi'ingfiel<.,.‘:
Horse Show ground. The’ ‘propi-id»: ’>:'
of the famous old “ Vermont Blls. .:
Hawk ” and “ Lad)’ Snfiblli,” both v
ceased have had their skins stuffed at 1
expense of about $1,000. They are re.
'-it
the Bank will resume payment during the
present week. '
resented as exceedingly life-like, and tilt .2
it is proposed to «inter and exhibit.
to know from his Excellency, wh«'.-i.’i:e:i-' ‘
This satire on his Lawrence movement, .
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