davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20


RIVERS AND HARBoRs- General Cas-.
For the benefit of the friends Of the
distinguished Senator from Michigan, we
publish the following letter which was
written during the pendency ofthe River
and HarbOr Appropriation bill in the
House Of Representatives:
Washington, Jan 25, 1851.
my Dear Sir;-I have just received
your letter, and hasten 10 reply to it. l
think The appropriation bill for the i'm
provement Of rivers and harbor will pass;
and if It does, the appropriation for our
friends the HolIanders. will certainly sue
coed; there is no doubt of that. OfCourse
it will receive my vote and support heart
lily, mig "ChicdgO letter" TO The contrary
notwithstanding. know ONO improve.
ment more just and necessary. and you
may depend upon it that it will receive
the entire support OF our delegation. l
am, dear sir, truly yours,
"LEwIs CAss.
''JoHN r. KELLOGG, Esq"
1t is true that when the bill was under
consideration in the Senate, Gen. Cass'
conscientious ~scruples would not permit
him to vote after IL o'clock on Saturday
night, and his conscientious %scruples
would not permit him to vote after IL o.
clock Monday evening before the adjourn
menl; and it is equally true that he was
the author of an amendment and voted
for il, which was designed to kill the bill
but W suppose his consistency will
be defended by his friends and his hon
esty in writing the above letter fully ad.
mitted.
We think Mr.. Cass, whatever may be
his inclinatious in the matter, will
hardly be the candidate for the next Pres
idency upon the part of the Democracy,
aud to save his credi, he had better
write no public letter contradicting his
promise To Mr.. Stevenson never again to
be "A candidate for that high station. If
he was too well known in lS4S to receive
the vote of the people. recent develope-
ments will by no means add to his popu-
larity.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

Who II YOUR ARTsToCRATs.-Twen
ty years ago this one butchered. that one
made candl s; another sold cheese and
butter; a fourth carried on a diatillery;
another was a contractor on canals; 9TH
ers were merchants and mechanics
They are acquainted with both ends of
socieIy-as their children will be after
them. though it will not do to say 50 out
loud. For often you shall find that those
toiling worms hatch butterflies, and they
live about a year. Death brings division
of property; and it brings new inanciers;
the old gent is discharged, the young
gentleman takes his revenues. and be.
gins to travel-towards p verify, which
he reaches before death or his children
do, if he do not. Though intact there
is a sort of monied rank. il is not hered
itary; it is accessible to all; three good
seasons OF cotton will send a generation
Of men up; n score of years will bring
them all down, and send their children
again to labor. The father grubs, aud
grows rich; his children strut, and use
the money; their children inherit the
pride and go to shiflless poverty; their
children, reinvigora,ed by fresh plebian
blood. and by the smell ofthe clad, come
up again. Thus society, like a tree,
draws its sap from the earth, changes it
into leaves and blossoms. spreads them
abroad in great glory, sheds them off To
fall back to the earth, again to miugle
with the soil. and at length to re appear
in new trees and fresh garuiture,- Hunts
Merchants Magazine.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
A RARE
A Valuable Farm For Sale,


WILL, as Executor of the Estate JouN AUGUSTUS,
Il Sen, deceased, offer at public sale at the door of the
courthouse in the town Of Lancaster, on Saturday
the 2lh day Of May, 1851, the homestead farm OF the
said deceased, situated in the county of Fairfield, Clear
creek township, within six miles of a depot on the
great Central Railroad now to be made from Cincinnati
to GAINESVILLE.
Said farm was selected with care by the late owner
and bought second-handcd in April, 1906. 1t contains
1921 acres, about 30 acres of which are in timber lots
and arc valuable, with a sugar camp that has not been
used much. The balance is in a good state of c~ultiva-
ton and incumbered only with thirty acres of wheat.
About 60 acres are in grass, II of which is meadow
Tho improvements area good log house weather
boarded, a first rate barn and other out hou es and
two good orchards of grated fruit chiefly winter APP
pies. Upon the premises are springs Of limestone
water as good as any in the county and running streams
for stock.
TlermS.--One-thr the purchase money in hand
andthe balance in ono and two years with interest
Possession will be given on the first day of August
next or on the day ofsale, to be made known hereafter,
Any further information that may be wanted, will
be givonby calling on the subscriber at his residence
in Lancaster, Ohio.
DAVID AUGUSTUS, Executor.
March G, 1851. tsi4
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

Nor DERANGED.-We are g,aiified in
being able TO state, on the authority of a
gentleman intimate with the family of
Mr.. Rogers, of Baltimore, chief engineer
of the Atlantic. that the statement that
has been going the rounds Of the press
to the effect that his wife, Mrs. Rogers,
had gone hopelessly deranged on account
of the anxiety of mind relative to the
safety of her husbands entirely without
foundation. He further adds that Mrs.
Rogers never, even for moment, doubt.
ed the safety ofthe Atlantic Bait Sun
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
Mr.. WEBSTER AND n SEcRErARr.

Mr.. WEBSTER AMI THE SECRETARY.
sHIP.-Re Ugfouaded CAerges.-T The
following is the letter written by Mr..
Webster to Mr.. Haven, of Boston, which
was referred to in the particular state.
ments of the late charge against the Sec.
rotary t State, as to his being bribed,
&c. in accepting office, and which was
supposed to contain matter sustaining
that charge. The letter, 1t will be seen,
is a very innocent one. The person al
luded to, whom Mr.. Webster could find
without going out of Massachusetts," is
understood to be the Hon. Edward Ev-
ereIt. MIR. Haven says it is the only let.
ter which he ever received from Mr.,
Webster in relation to the State Depart.
ment, prior to his announcement to him
that he had accepted that office:
Washington, july ~, 1850.
My Dear Sir: You will hear various
rumors respecting appointments io the
Cabinet, but none Of them will deserve
credit. any further than they rest on gen.
eral probability. Nothing is decided, as
yet. The present Cabinet have all ten
dered their designations. but they will
not be answered ill after the funeral.
the three important departments are
State, Treasury, Interior. have no
doubt some man known to be thoroughly
sound on revenue matters will be ap.
pointed to the Treasury. tot the State
Department, have no doubt who will
have it, although, if The power were with
me, think | could find man, without go
ing out of Massachusetts, who has talent
enough, and knowledge enough, but
whether he is, at this moment, so fresh in
the minds of the people, that his appoint,
ment would strike the public mind favor.
ably, may be a doubt.
Nobndy car well be Secretary of State
who has not fortune, unless he be a bach
elor. The Secretary of State is the
head Of the Administration, and he must
have a house, sometimes, to receive
guests in. He is of course necessarily
in daily communication with the diplo.
matte corps, which | believe is twice as
numerous now as it was twenty years ago.
My dear sir, you see the spirit Of good
will which is manifesting itself here
This is the golden opportunity be assured
The opposition gentlemen are deter
mined, all the conservative part Of them
at least, to give the administration fan
play. Mr.. Fillmore is well mentioned
and discreet. He will meet with annoy
ances from the rather overbearing spirit
of a certain quarter, but | hope he will.
stand stiff. If he is successful in forming
his administration, | verify believe a pros.
pect is before us for a better state OF
'hings than we have enjoyed for twenty
years. Yours truly,
DANIpI WrDenpD
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

DESTRUCTION OF SHIPs BY SPONTANEOUS Com
BUsTIoN.-SiRgHlar Fatally. Capt. Bates, OF
ship Nonantum, from Baltimore for California,
which was destroyed by fire from spontaneous
combustion of her cargo Of coal, tnok passage at
the Falkland Islands in the Scottish ship Berma'
COON, Captain M'Kenzie, for Valparaiso, with
coal. but when 10 days out, west oil Cape Horn.
this ship also took fire from spontaneous combus-
ton, and every effort to smother it proved una
vailing. They took to their boats and were pick
ed up soon after by the British Ship Symmetry,
Capt. John Thompson. Of Liverpool for Acapul-
co, with coal. Capt. T, would not deviate from
his course to land capt. Bates and wife, or the
other ships company; Int Dec. Is, in latitude as
s.. longitude 70 W., they fell in with ship Fa-
chon, Of Newburyport, from Baltimore to San
Francisco. with coal, which also took fire ami was
destroyed, as before reported, making the third
ship burnt by that means within a few months,
wkile Capt. B.. and his wife were on board.
Capt. Thompson Of the Symmetry had the cru
city to demand and receive Of Capt. Dates, for
the 10 days he and his wife were ON board his
ship thirty pounds sterling. taking IN advantage,
uneSampled in meanness. Of persons who had sui.
lered a double shipwreck and had no means Of
redressing themselves, Capt. Bates and his wife
were at Payta Jan, 26. on their way to San Fran
cisco.- Boston Daily Advertiser,
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

john MCCUNE's CAsE.-We have re-
ceived a copy of speech made by Mr..
Grimes of Guernsey, in favor Of Mr. Nc
Cuno's case, %relative to work done some
years since on the Mnskingum improve
ment. If our memory serves us prop.
erly. the discussion of this matter cost the
State more than Mr.. McCune asked as
justly his due. Legislation sometimes is
a great blessing.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
m ondny Evening, MarcI, ~. 1881

Ono U. S. SENATOR Our telegraph
despatch on last Saturday, informed our
readers that BENJAMIN F. WADE. Esq.
of Ashtabula, was elected United States
Senator for six years from the 4th Of the
present month. Mr.. Wade is one of the
live Wings of the Reserve who did not
run wild in l64S and forsake the party to
run after strange gods. W. always take
it for granted that the man. who voted for
General Taylor. in ls4S aud remained
true to the Wing party, amid the general
desertion Of that year upon the Reserve.
lisa live. whole.souled Whig-and es.
pecially is this the case in Ashlabula
county. Though our preference was
elsewhere. we are satisfied with the cleo.
ton, in so far as il resulted 10 the choice
of Mr.. Wade.
Having said this much, we rest our
case for the present. We d" not now
understand the Influences which brought
about the election, and Of course cannol
speak advisedIy. There are rumors OF
coalitions. but these we cannot credit un
Ill subsequent elections indicate the true
state of affairs. We do not believe the
Wing members of the Legislature h We
done that, which they said they would
not do.
Later.-The intelligence is more in
tereSting. See Geographic report.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

A COMPLIMENT WORTH HAvING.-A
Mexican history Of the Mexican war,
lately published, says Of Gen, Scott:
His humanity on all occasions, his
Kindness. as evinGed to every individual,
and his sympathy and attention 10 the
sick and wounded. endeareG him to the
whole army, officers and men In fnct, the
very generosity aud excellence of his
heart led him sometimes too far, and he
has since reaped in ingratitude tho good
seed sown in the fulness Of his noble sen
abilities"
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

Tux RESuLT OF DAD TAsrE.-A New York
letter chronicles the following:
"a queer case came up yesterday before Justice
McGruth, Of tho lower police. A young man by
the mmc % William tloyt, %icwelcr, Hester st..
WINS brought upon n charge # seduction. The
lair complainant wuS a colorci lady. black MS The
nee al spades. mm0d Henrietta Tcozle. She pro.
dnced n hlnck baby In evidence, etc. 4 good
many wooly hends were in court, hooking to ace
TINT justice was done the fair Henrietta, The
poor devil oI n ppm looked daggcrs, but there
was no getting oil! The Justice decrced ,hnt he
should pny si.j0 per week, for the support orlhe
pHpoOso and SIS Tor costs Of suit"
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
March G, 1851.

FSTATE OF HANNAH INCONSISTENCIES is
~ hereby given, that the undersigned has been APP
pointed and duly qualified as Executor of tho Estate
of HANNAH AUGUSTUS, deceased, late of Clearcreek
township, Fairfield county, Ohio. All persons having
claims against said Estate will present them for settle
ment, legally authenticated within one year-and all
those indebted will make immediate payment to
WILLIAM HAMILTON, Executor.
March6, 1851 Iw41
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

POPULATION OF New ORLEANs,-A city
ensus Of New Orleans, just completed,
makes the whole population 100, 95l, and
the number of voters l2,46S, In 1910,
New Orleans had a population of 1922,
053. This is not a very rapid increase
compared with our Northern cities.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
MEnICAL NOTICE.

JONATHAN FLATTERY, NJ. d Having become
- located in Gahanna, Franklin county, Ohio, would
respectfully inform tho public that hence his attention
win be devoted to the practice of Surgery.
All operations deemed necessary will be performed,
with, or without, the use of the Lcihcon Gas, as the
patient may desire.
N. b, DIR. Flattery will remove cancers and tumors
without the use of the knife and corrosive plaster.
Gahanna, Franklin county, Feb. 10, 1851 ly4l
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

EVWe are indebted to Mr.. Cas- s, for
a copy Of his speech npon the river and
harbor bill. He claims that he is in ia.
vor of such improvements, notwithstond.
ing his "noise and confusion speech"and
his Chicago letters" and only pu'sues
his non committal course because his
Southern friends are not with him upon
this question. Whenever he is satisfied
that his chance for the Presidency is very
slim indeed, he will then be ready to car
ny out his professions.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
Wure v,oroRy IN DnrRolr.-N

WHIG VlCroRY IN DETRoIT.-We
have the satisfaction of announcing to
our readers that Detroit, the home of
General Cass. has been redeemed bv the
election ola Wing Mayor, an unmistake
able friend of Internal improvements
carrying every ward in the ethyl 1t is
feared that the noise aud confusion
which this revolution has created, will
operate very much against she General
being heard in the next Democratic Ma.
tional Convention -SteabenViHe Herald,
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

PosTPoNEMENT OF VIRGINIA ELECTIoNs
Senate of Virginia, on Wednes-
day last, passed a bill for the submission
of the new constitution to the people on
the 4th Thursday in August, and the
p~ostponement of all the elections poth
for Congress and the State Legislature,
until the 4th Thursday in October next
1t is thought that the bill thus amended
will be %concurred in by the House of
Delegates; that body have already by a
majority. voted in favor Of the post
ponement of the elections.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

ANOTHER STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION
The steamer G. w. Kendall, exploded
her cylinder when opposite Bradensburg,
on the Ohio River. on Thursday last
One person was killed and a number of
wounded.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

G-JH When Alexander the Great saw
D%iogcncs in cemetery, he asked him
"what he was doing lhere2" III am seek.
ing" said the philosopher, "for the bones
of your ancestors among those Of beg.
gars; but every hing here appears to he
so confused aud mingled together, that |
cannot distinguish them"
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

'IoRALs Of NEw YoRk.-It appears,
from a report of the police department OF
New York that The total number of an.
rests made in that city,for various Crimes
since July l5tl, lS45, five years, is 1I4,r
364
" In Boston, a boy of is was impris-
oned'to answer to a "breach ofpromise,''
alleged to have been made TO a
over 40. On this, the Providence Jour-
nal remarks, this catching boys Is years
OF age, and making them marry women
old enough to be their mothers, is worse
than the fugitive slave law"
u Mrs. Zaveria Wiseman, mother Of
Cardinal Wiseman, died on the Eth ult.,
at Fano, in Italy.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

TuE QuAErns oX ruE C,THotic QUsrIoN -
The Society Of friends have published. in Srald.
lug, England, n hnndhill, stating some Of their
reasons why they have rclrained from uniting with
others IN any sddrcss IN the Queen; amongst
these reasons il is observed. "they believe the
Church Of Chris, is II spiritual body, aud they nc.
knowledge him To he the only head;' aOd "ihey
believe that the assumption of u large portion Of
the Church of England. us.well as Tint of Rome,
proceeds from the same spiritor Aulichrist."
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
Edward Sttff,
WASHINGTON, March Is.

Edward Stiff, formerly editor of the Cherokee
Sentinel, who killed DR. WIN, Gilbert in De Kalb
county, A%labuma, in May, 1917, aud who was
ant on bail, WINS arrested here this morning, by
Ehenezer Pitts, one Of his bail. who followed him
he having fled,
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

A VETERAN CLERK-Juhn Monrz, City
Clerk of Georgetown, ID. c., was elected
to that office in 1901, and this is. there
fore, the sixtieth year of his official life
He is a most esteemed man in that COM
munity,
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

ID DAD NOTICE.-Notice is herebygiven, that
petition will be presented to the Trustees of
Walnut Township, Fairfield county, Ohio, at their
annual meeting on the first Monday Of March next,
to have as much of the Town hip road vacated as
runs through the Southwest Quarter OF Section No,
4 PETITIONER.
February 90, 1851 Al
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAnRoAD.-The
Auditor Of the State of Illinois has made
a map of the land through which the
above road is to pass, and has found that
the vacant lands on the main track be
tween Cairo and Peru, granted by Con
gress, 3.l74,000 acres. In exchange for
these lands, a company of eastern capt.
%taIists have offered to the State of lii
nois to build the entire road hy July,
1854, with a single track.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

Our SEHAToRIAL DIsTRIcT.-lt will be seen
that the wisdomand kindness OF the Constitution
al Convention have cut the relationship we have
ever sustained with our sisters. Meigs. Gallia, &c
on the SOUTH, and attached US To onr dear cousins
of tie dark hills OF Huckiug aud Fairfield. Well,
now, that's richl For The good old county Of
Athens To be represented 10y a Demncrot in the
Ohio Senate, would be an anomaly as strange Ms
10 see Massachusetts sending a Locuiuco TO tue u.
s. Senale or Missouri Wing!
Well we suppose we have got To bear it, but we
dohtlike To part company with the friends with
whom we have so long bailled shoulder 10 should,
er-especially to engage in a marriage contract
with those with whom, politically we have Meth.
er love, affection, sympathy, community Of feel.
ing. interest or anything else.
The only Course we can see left for us, should
Tue Constitution be nd0pied. will be TO catch aud
tame our wild friends above. aud bring them in
old Hooking is being rapidly reformed by re
ducing her seven mud eight hundred Democratic
m'jorily 10 two hundred. aud if friend Weaver
lie Lancaster Gazette can manage his "Sngal
Grove friends and reduce old Fairfeld's majority
To a moderate degree, we think We'll have 'rm.
Friend Case, of the Sentinel, will join with us in
laboring with the Hockingites, while old Athen,
VIII just step in and overbAlance The two! ltSi
pretty large undertaking, bat we guess it can he
did! Atany rate We are in for n big fght-Ah
ems Messenger.
Wen try. But we greatly fear oul
Sugar Grove friends are past redemp
ton. We rather guess for few years
we will send a Locofuco Senator TO ca.
Iumbus, Notwithstanding the efforts d
our Athens contemporary. We wish i
generally understood in The outset, how
ever, that nc are enlisted for a ten years.
campaign.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
Washington Gossip

WAsmNGroS, March II.
1t is currently reported that the National Intel.
ligenccris No longer the otlicinl organ-thnt tho
Republic is now alone in the field.
Father Rilchie hos sold ont The Union for $780,.
600 To Maj. A. J. D%uneIson, adopted son Of Gen,
Jackson,
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

CusroM House. APPROPRIATIONS Among the
itrnS Of appropriation in the civil and diplomatic
bill. pissed by Congress last week, We're the FOL.
lowing items for custoln.houses in The cities named
New Orlcrns, se50,0 OG Charleston, 500 O0Oi
Savannah. $93. 0O0: San Francisco, 5000 000; st,
Louis, $4,000; pittsburg. $4,000; Louisville,
s75.OO0; Cincinnati, s25 400.
The appropriation for P%iltsburs c%ontemplates
the erection Of II building which will accommo-
dalo the custom.house, the post-ofice, and tte U.
5. courts.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

GEN, ScoTT,-The Meigs County Tel
egraph has hoisted the name Of General
Scott, who tho editor says, is the choice
OF the Wings ofrhat region for the next
Presidency. Sensible people, they are,
down there.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
The Mississippi

Ngw ORLEANs, March lith.
The Mississippi hns risen to a great height and
continues rising. Fenrs Nprrehended of another
crevnsse at Bonnet Carrie; much damado hns al
ready been done along the river.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
Gem. Jnmca n Wing

P%HILApELrHlA, March Is.
The Providence Rhode Island Journal publish
es n letter from Gen. James. U \. Senator, in
which he avows himself in favor of tho leading
wing measures
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
Horrible.

Ngw ORLEANS. March 10th,
A negro in Paulding, Miss, violated the person
white lndy, aud afterwards murdered her,
aud her son. The citizens turned out nnd burned
the criminal alive.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
New Hampshire Election.

NEW YoRK, March ii
The House Of Representatives sn far as enrd
from stands, Wings ll6, Atwood men 30, regular
democrats SO. Last year, it was Wings 80, dem.
ocrais 1873. In TO towns. the democratic net loss
for Governor is 8.98l.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

ANOTHER New LIGnr has arisen with.
in a few days, which in its brightness is
to entirely eclipse that of Mr.. Paine. OF
the honor of this discovery, Springfield
Mass, is undoubtedly entitled to claim a
share, the inventor being M other than
the Rev, Mr.. Admins, formerly an Episco
pal minister in that town. Mr.. Adams,
claims that by having holIuw h%elices, ell.
ed with mercury instead of water, by
constructing the electrodes according To
his new centrifugal theory Of electricity,
and by constructing his connecting wires
in the same way as the helices. he has
been enabled To as far outslrip Mr.. Paine
in making gas, as Mr.. p. has every other
who preceded him. The expose IS Ia be
made in a few days.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
nw Mnmnshiro EleotIon,

BosToN, March 18th
The Concord Patriot says the House will be
Democratic by 3 or 10. Tuck's majority in the
LIST District is $50.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20

~ During January last, 2,692 foreign.
ers entered Paris, and among them 1913
Americans.
The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-03-20
John II. Cough.

Columns, March II.
John B. Cough is l%ecturing nightly to immense
crowds. Hundreds go away unable to procure
admission.