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Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-03-17
For the Daily Telegraph.
The reward Of Mems hands shall be
given them.

The above truthful sentiment was long
since uttered by one wiser than Man. and
will it not apply as well to communities
and have we not for the last six or eight
years borne evidence to the truth of the
above sentiment
Eight years since we outnumbered our
sister city Racine our natural advanta-
ges were equal to hers;-now she outnum-
bers us Waukegan, hardly known eight
years ago. with far less natural advanta-
ges, now almost equals Kenosha. What
is the cause of all this! The answer Is
plain the fruit of our own doings has
been given us, and now an unnatural and
fierce contest is going on between Keno
sha and the rest of the county. We say
to the county, Loan your credit to the Il.
K. Company for 100000; the county
demurs and we are preparing to reduce
her to submission.
While a loan freely made by the coun-
ty (outside of Kenosha) would prove a
blessing yet if forced, would prove curse.
Gentlemen of Kenosha, persevere in
your suicidal policy, and we shall only
continue to reap the fruit Of our own do
ings. do not believe there is a man in
kenosha who would loan the Railroad Co.
100000 and take the prospective securi-
ty they offer, and why blame the County
for refusing to do the same thing!
Experience is sometimes hard school
but it is said some people will learn in no
other Have we not been in that school
long enough to profit by its teachings?
KENosHA, March Q. 1854. A. L.
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Appropriate.

The Bill to create change in the
system Of County Government. by pro-
viding for supervisor from each Assem-
bly, district, instead of from each town, or
three supervisors where there is but one
Assembly district in County was clean
ed OUT in the Assembly yesterday, after
a two days discussion.-Mddison 4rg,ts
1t is the custom of people to illustrate
their thoughts by using the technical
terms of their calling. We believe the
phrase cleaned OUT belongs to the gam
bling profession, and therefore it is quite
appropriately used by the -frgscS, but will
it tell us what it means?
The Argus could be understood by the
people better. if il did not use so much of
the vernacular of gamblers, thieves, and
horse ,jockeys.-D.
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The North and the South.

1t WAS John Randolph who first said
the North was so much dough-, which
the South could knead rs it pleased
Southern men have INDUCED in this
kind of talk ever since.
We commend the following from a
Southern Member of Congress in this
Nebraska Question to certain of our
Northern people.-D.
Well, gentlemen, YOU make good
deal of clamor over this Nebraska meas
IRE, but it don't alarm us at all. We
have got used to that kind of talk. You
have threatened before, but you never
performed. You always cayed in and
you will again. You are a mounting,
white livered set. OF course you will
oppose the measure; We expect that but
We don't care for your opposition. You
will rail, but we are used to your railing.
You will hiss, but so do adlers. We
expect it Of ladders, and we expect it of
you. You are like the devils that were
pitched over the battlements Of heaven
into hell. They set up a howl at their
discontinue, and so will you. But their
fate was sealed, and so is yours. You
must submit to the yoke, SO don't chafe.
Gentlemen, we have got you in our
power You tried to drive us to the
wall in 1850, but things are changed.
Then and before you were imperious and
grasping and would not agree to run
the line of SO deg. 80 min. to the Pa
cic and take all the territory to the
north Of that line. You were greedy
and wanted more But now you will
lose the whole. You went avoiding
and have come home tleeced. Don't be
so impudent as to complain. You will
only be slapped in the face. Don't re
sist. You will be lashed into obedience.
The Legislatures of New York, of Rhode
Island, of Massachusetts, the Northern
divines, the opponents of Nebraska eve
rywhere are mercly adders whose yoca-
ton it is to hiss; they are simply howl
ing devils who shall all be sen! to he'll"
The Eric Railroad Company have
put on their road Geographic car, which
can be taken to any point remote from
a telegraphie station. where an accident
occurs, and communicate results both
ways.
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FACTS AND FANCIEs.

GEORGE f. PCGH, the newly elected
, Senator from Ohio is not more than 81
years of age. He has been in the Ohio
Legislature. and voted for Salmon y. Chase
and the repeal of the Ohio bl.ck laws.
He is now represented to be in favor of
the Nebraska bill. which we think is quite
probable.
The general impression is that the
Homestead bill will not pass the Senate.
The Senate is one of the NaZareths out
Of which no good can be expected. 1t
would be impossible to go among the
Hotcntots, and select 60 men so devoid
of humanity, as the majority of the L. s.
Senate.
European Correspondence of the Tri-
bunc thinks the allied powers will per-
nit the Russians to take Kalefat. so the
Sultan will be disposed to listen to the
terms offered by Russia.
--Forty-two fellow countrymen ofJoh
Mitchell editor of the Citizen address a
most scathing letter to him through the
columns of the \. Y. Tribune, in view of
his apostacy to Freedom.
-Gleason's last contains some bcauti-
full yiewsof the public buildings at Wash
incton.
The Californian Farmer is the title
of an agricultural paper first started in
California. 1t is gratifying if agriculture
i'll that state is of sufficient Importance to
demand to publication of a journal espe-
cially devoted to it.
The killing Of deer and elk from the
LIST of January to June is prohibited in
California by heavy penalties.
The Michigan Supreme Court decide
that an act entitled IAN Act prohibiting
the manufacture of intoxicating beverages.
and the traffic therein is constitutional. y
This act was submitted to the people for
approval or rejection.
Preparations are making to enforce
the Maine Law with vigor and rigor
throughout Micigan since it has been de-
clared constitutional.
-"Anexaminatio Of the Mosaic Laws
of servitude, by VIM. Jay" has been re
ceived at this office. 1t is clear, searching
and thorough, and worth having and
reading to those who attach Importance
to that kind Of controversy which wo do
not We don't care a copper what the
Mosaic laws ofseryitude were. We know
that the American laws of seryitude are
abominable, which is sufficient guide
for our practical duties.
A young man by the name of John
Farrell was run over in the streets of Chi
cago on the 10th, by dray TO which a
fire engine was attached and instantly
killed.
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GTWe take the following spicy ar
ticle from the Congressional report of
the n. Y. Daily Times. We think Mr..
Wade is entirely able to take care of
himself.
Senator Wade made a capital argu-
ment against the bill on Friday night,
handling the subject with remarkable
skill, and by his ready wit, prompt re-
parties aud pointed sarcasm, reminding
his auditors of gifted son OF Ohio, not
now member of the Senate. One or
two of his points are too good to be lost.
Mr. Badger had drawn glowing pic
ture Of tho institution of Slavery, telling
in the course of his remarks, of his good
old "mammy," the negro nurse who had
amused him from childhood to manhood,
and who, he bitterly complained, he
could not take with him into Nebraska,
ii the opponents of the bill succeeded in
securingtho prohibition of Slavery there
In.
Mr.. Wade saw but one difficulty in
the case. Nobody had any objection
to tho Senator'S taking his dear, a.fec-
Tomato old NANNY to Nebraska with
him, and nobody would think of inter
tering to prevent it, the only difficulty
that the Senator woald meet was, he
couldn't sell her when he got there.
Roars of laughter greeted this peculiar
" ridiculous attitude in which this sal
" placed the Senator from North Caro-
ina A: another t!ue Mr. Wade was
arguing to show that slaves was not
property in the constitutional meaning
of tue term. If q man carried his horse
ont Of Slave State into free State,
the law made him free at once.
Mr.. Butler, interposing, said, ayes,
but they won't stay with you"
Mr.. Wade responded umid roas of
laughter
"Oh yes; l know they love you so
well that YOU have to make Fugitive
Slave Law to catch EN-.
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Thoughts and Facts

FROM ne ioLtl6 ITtSS.
The Madison Journal says a map OF
Mississippi has been hung up in the SEN
ate since the Anti-Nebraska resolutions
were killed, and thinks it very appropri-
ate as symbolizing the negro-driving pro
clivities of that body.
The Beaver Dam Republican is full of
Calls for Caucuses, District, County, and
Circuit Conventions of the Regular De-
mocracy, to nominate Candidate for
Judge. Mr. Ill., the editor, is strongly
urging County Judge Rose name for the
Candidacy, and as he is member of all
the Committees, Town, District, and
County it is safe to infer that Judge
Rose is determined ON getting the nom
nation.
The GAINESVILLE Standard takes occasion
to oppose the law abolishing the death
penalty, in noticing the murder case in
Waushara
The City of Fond du Lac has sabscri-
bed $4,000 to the Waupun Plankroad,
and 5000 to the Oshkosh Plankroad;
and the citizens of the place have subscri-
bed an equal amount to the said roads.
The Madison Journaiopposes the meas
ure of an Emigrant Agency.
The Oshkorh Courier says the bust
ness men of that City will give One
Thousand Dollars, and furnish the site,
to any one who will put upa good -four
ing mill there. with four runs of stones.
The City of Oshkosh is authorized by
the Legislature to loan its credit for Sl25-
900 to aid in building Rail and Plank
roads.
The Ripon Herald says the people of
that vicinity are opposed to a change in
the system Of County Government.
The Barr Oak has a calm logical arti-
Gle in opposition to the Nebraska Scheme.
The Temperance League, in view of
the Liquor Question being probably again
submitted to the people, urges upon the
friends the necessity of organization.
j. Jacobus, pardoned prisoner, pub
fishes letter in the Badger State, char
ging the late Superintendent, Mr.. Brown
with MISUNDERSTANDING prisoners
wrongly, feeding them on bad food &c:
The Ripon HeraH says the survey Of
the Horican Railroad to Berlin is compile
ted. and the work is going to be COM
menced Immediately.
The Waukesha Democrat opposes the
Emigrant Agency Scheme.
The Watertown Chronicle urges the
restoration of the Death Penalty.
The Mcnasha Abr0cdte mentions the
establishment of an extensive Pottery in
that place, which manufactures superior
stone ware.
4 meeting was held relative t. the
Railroad to Manitowoc, and preliminary
steps taken to induce the Town of Neenah
t. loan its credit t. that enterprise.
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To the Leaders Of the Anti-Loan Move.
lnent,


Wheatland. March Sth 1854.
Gentlemen: The few remarks | shall
make in this letter. will be only prompt
ed by strong desire TO see you succeed
in your arduous undertaking.
was somewhat disappointed at the
meeting yesterday. There seemed want
of firmneSs of purpose, and more of irri-
liability, than the deep, strong, torrent
feeling. which can be seen and felt. but
scarcely heard: but which when called in
action becomes so determinediy decisive,
that it cannot be mistaken, and would
shcw these city folks, that the carrying
out theiriniqutous scheme would be moth
ing more or less than a species of suicide:
in other words there was fear, if any
thing, little to much Gas"
The manner of some gentlemen seemed
too uncourteous to carry any sound think
iEg people along with them; that they
should feel indignant at the treatment
thew have received at the hands of the
Rail Road Company is not to be wonder
ed at, but that every individual in the
city ahould come under their vitupcration,
through the iniquitics of few. is think
rather erroneous, and placing YOU in a
position. Ill calculated to win over those.
who are at present halting between two
opinions. yet as much interested in the
subject as yourselves, or those, who, less
Interested perhaps will nevertheless rep
resent a strong force at the polls, join
which side they may.
| think they also iniure the cause ma
terially in their treatment Of Mr.. Dens-
more. To my mind, there is something
rediculously wrong in personally address
ing man at public meeting when you
know his mouth Is gagged. | felt indig
nant at the usage he experienced. / felt
wounded to see my brother Farmers, place
themselves in so questionable position.
To call aman a liar under any circumstan-
ces is to my mind not very gentlemanly,
but is it not dastardly to call him so and
attempt to prove it when you will not
let him defend himself?
Did he not attend your first meeting,
with the intention of reporting your pro-
ceedings; and justice to himself would
have compelled him to report faithfully,
and has he not altogether exhibited a
friendly feeling towards you all! how have
you treated him in return?
At the first meeting, you refused to
hear his proposals. At the second meet
ing, you proposed that he should not be
admitted to the meeting at all; thus Civ
ing to opponents the chance Of reporting
that you wished to have hole and cor
ner meeting" And yesterday wound up
by calling him personally liar.
Well might Mr.. Mooney exclaim at
former meeting, and reiterate yesterday,
let us be gentlemen Certainly there
is wanted such monitor.
Had been in position to have added
weight toargument, would have opposed
such conduct in every possible way.
| would have invited such man 30 the
meetings. | would have placed pens ink
and paper. at his command, and pencils
well pointed too, and nothing should have
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-03-17
Another SlaVin Case.

Mr.. LAWRENCE, IA merchant Of New
Orlelns, disappeared recently very much
in the manner in which it is feared Mr..
SLEytx WA made way with in that city
The Delta Of the 27th u!t.. gives the
following account Of some attending
circumstances.
In connection ofth;s unfortunate af-
fair, the following singular circumstance
is related from q highly responsible
source. The vcra,!ty of the gentleman
from whom we received the story is un-
questionable, and all the persons con
ne,tsi with the matter are of the high
ost responsibility. The wife Of one Of
Nr. Lqwrences most intimate friends,
who had for years been on terms of the
closest iBtimscy with that unfortunate
gentleman, as a mesmeric medium, and
her brother Is III the habit of oceaSionly
placing her III smesneric state. Being
at the house of an acquaintance in La
tsyelte, on last Saturday night, about
ten o'clock, (before any person had the
least intimaton that any misfortune had
befallen Mr.. Lswrence} the company
requested the brother to me.merize his
sister as many Of them were anxious to
see the effect Of meSmerism- The lady
was placed in s mesmeric sleep; and on
the request Of several persons present
that he would PROFOUND to her a few
questions he asked her, "N hst do you
see sister!'
She Immediately replied, Il see three
men engaged in fight on the levee."
eDo You know any of theme'
"Yes, one of them is Mr.. Lawrence;
the Others | don't know; one is very
tall man, the other about medium size;
and these two men are striking Mr..
Lawrence. Why don't somebody help
him! Why don't he shoot them ,
Good heavens, they have killed him."
What are they doing now 7"
TIL, tall man is taking his watch.
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The Market.
DAILY TELEGRAPH OFFICE,
MI - 80.

March l6, 1854.
The roads are improving and business
is better. In wheat we have no change
to note. and prices continue steady at 95
aSl,O2 and but little coming in.
Barley is firm at 4Ga50.
Corn is less firm. and we quote 20 cts.
for ears and shelled.
Cats are steady at q.
There is nothing doing in Provisions.
Office of the Chicago Daily Tribune.
March IL Pm.
WlIEAT.-300 bu prime winter. deliy-
cred at Michigan Central Railroad sold at
Sl.25.
CORN.-l000 bu sold at depot at 4Sc
per 60 lbs delivered to warehouse.
OATS.-l50 bu delivered to store sold
2Sc--6000 bu to be delivered free on board
On opening of navigation at 32c cash.
BARLEl.-No sales. Rates held at
j5a57c.
RIE.-Tnactive, and no operations to
report. Prices quoted at 7SaS0c
SEEDS.-300 bu Timothy sold at 50,
l2l.
PORK.-SmalI lots sold at So. 5Oa4.50
according to weight.
Office of the Daily Sentinel,
Milwaukee, March 18th.
Receipts Of grain very limited, and pri-
ces better We quote spring at Sl.l2a
LII, and winter 81, l8al ,23-the latter
at the mills for choice.
Barley 54a58. Rye 7la73.
Oats 29a30.
Corn 37Ja4S.
Pork, little doing-a few sales at $50
a4,S5.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-03-17


Asa Fowler law partner of presi
dent Pierce, presided over an Anti-N.-
braska meeting at Concord, n. III.
The state election takes place in New
Hampshire to-day. 1t is looked to with
some interest as the first election trans.
piring since the originating of the Nebras-
ka bill. We have not much hope of n
Hampshire. She is something like mud
turtle. Nothing short of fire will start
her
-ltCongressmay repeal one part of the
Missouri Compromise, why not another2
And we ask if that part of the bargain
belonging to Freedom is to be repealed
why that part belonging to Slavery should
not be too, and Missouri set back where
she started from. Is, it any more uncon-
shtutIonal to prohibit slavery in the ter
rltories OF the Union that to admit State
whose constitution is not republican,
We believe it would be wen il there 10
to be q ripping up t@ GO back to 6rst priD-
cples all round
A card has been iastred sjrrpd Ar
Senators Seward, Foot, Srairh. Fish and
Wade, stating the cause of Edward Ever
etts absence when the vote WAY eaaxenon
the Nebraska bill was illness, sRxf saatke
was unquestionably opposed to tRs Bill.
This card to us makes suspicious matter
look still worse.
A company under command of Carr
Gibbs, leaves Chicago on Saturday next
for Nebraska.
Some of the Connecticut papers put
Senator Touccy's name with black lines
around it for his vote on the Nebraska
bill. He deserves itand something worse
-lnthe early history of Chicago a man
by the name of Harper. was sold in the
streets as a vagrant. and his time was
bought by the colored man who sold him.
lie was subsequently one of the origina-
tors of the Washngtonian movement at
Baltimore.
-Morsc'S Telegraph cleared at the Al
bany Office, during the past year $4,000.
The Harper Brothers have recently
lost $4,000 by the burning of a printing
office in \. Y. City, which had consider
able of their work on hand BY the same
fire the office of the "hidepeadent," was
destroyed.
Douglass has left the Senate and turn
ed lobby member of the House, to help
the Neb-rascal bill through that body.
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and the other is feeling in his pockets.
He is taking some hand-bills out of Mr..
Lawrence's pocket; now he is taking
some gold. They are talking together
now; and now they pick Mr.. Lawrence
up aud are carrying him toward the riv-
er. Will nobody save him? There,
they have thrown him in. Poor Mr..
Lawrence is gone" She stopped talk
ing for minute or SO, when she was
again asked.
"What do YOU now seel"
"She replied, Il see a steamship lying
at the wharf. 1t is about to leave.
There is great number Of passengers
on board, and among the passengers |
sec the two men who killed MIR. Law
renee and threw him in the river. The
tall one has his watch; they are both
dressed better than they were before
| Here the company having become
satisfied with the experiment, the bro.h-
er woke his sister, and when she had
been informed of what she had said, she
laughed incredulously, remaking that
she recollected nothing of what had Ia
ken place. The sister of Mr.. Lawrence
was present, and the company were pref
ty free in passing their jokes about the
matter; and all were vociferous in their
1enunciation of mesmerism as hum
bug Little did they think that the
very scene this young lady had desert
bed was actually at that moment per
haps, Icing enacted, and that Mr. Law
renee was then no more. 1t is also a
remarkable fact that two steamships
sailed for California from the wharf, on
Sunday morning.
Mr.. Lawrence was not seen after lea
wing his office, with five or six hundred
dollars in his pocket, at a late hour or
Saturday night. No anxiety was mani
tested by his friends until monday NOR
ming, when, beginning to be alarmed,
they instituted search for him. His hat
and some other articles with blood upon
them, were found on the Levee, in the
Fourth District. then remembered
the story OF the mesmeric subject; and
mesmerism had more than one convert
in that company. Was Dumas ro-
nance Of the "Corsican Brothers all a
fiction!
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THE TELEGRAPH
Friday, March II, 1854.
BY C. L. sHoLEs AND JAMES DESsMogE
Those sEorria Abolinonis.s.

THOMAS JEFFERSON, in IVA remarked
that the Abolition of Domestic Slavery
is the GREATEST object of desire in
these Colonies, where it was unhappily
introduced in their infant state" In the
Congress ofthe Consideration he brought
forward Resolution, as early as 1884
to exclude Slavery from all the territory
ceded or to be coded by the States to the
Federal Government, including the whole
territory now covered by Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi and Alabama. 1t was lost only
by single vote, but subsequently unani-
mously confirmed in the Northwest
Territory in the Ordinance of l7s7. He
is also the man who introduced into the
Declaration of Independence the senti-
ments which applied would give liberty
to every captive on earth. He also said
he trembled, in view of American Slavery,
to think that God was just, and his ven
gance could not sleep forever.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, avowed that it
was among his FIRST wishes to see some
plan adopted by which Slavery may be
abolished by law, and that to this end his
suffrage (V0TE) should not be want
ing"
JAMES MADISON, thought it wrong to
admit in the Constitution the idea ofprop-
erty in Man"
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, was President of
an Abolition Society, and presented to
the first Congress which ever assembled
petition for the Abolition Of Slavery
At eighty-four years of age this veteran
of humanity appears at the Bar Of Con-
cress whose powers he had helped to de-
fine and establish, and solemnly entreat-
ed that it would be pleased to counte-
nance the restoration of liberty to those
unhappy men, who alone in this land OF
freedom are degraded to perpetual bon
dage,'' and that it would step to the very
verge of the power vested in it for DIS
COURAGING every species of traffic in
the persons Of our fellow men,"
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, one of Wash
ington's advisers, was member ofan Alb
clifton Society.
GovERNEUR MORRIS. of Pennsylvania,
in the Constitutional Convention, broke
out like rampant Abolitionist as follows:
He never would concur in unfolding
Domestic Slavery.-It was nefarous
institution.-It was the curse of Heaven .
Patrick HENRY, cried out from Nir-
ginia, amid confessions that he was the
master of slaves, Il will not, cannot JUS
tify it. However culpable my conduct,
Twill 50 far pay my devoir to virtue as
to own the excellence and rectitude other
precepts, and to lament my want of con
formity to them"
Happy-happy Men, who lived in day
and age when there was no Pierce to
crush them out"