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The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

0ATThe German settlements in Western
Texas are described by arecent traveller as
being models Of good order and industrial
thrift.
GrIfwe may believe the census, every
fifth person in the United States owns a
horse, and every tenth adog.
GrFrancis, a coloredwoman, lately died
at Mobile, and Is said to have been l46
years Of age. 2
G-The town Of Bratteboro', VT. has ap-
proprated $4,000 for th' erection Of a new
town hall.
6rA man named Pat'ick McNama was
assassinaled in New ORLEANS few nights
ago.
r1-Thsre are 97,2s3 barrels of Pork
stored at Milwaukee.
s Good butter is only ten cents pound in
- .t - .Is
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

The NEw STATE HOUSE. BY the annual
report Of the State House Commissioners
Tor the year 1853, which has been laid upon
our table, we learn that the total amount
Of appropriations up to November Is, 1853,
amount to S53l,575. There is an unex-
pended balance on hand of Sl7,600 In
June last, contract was awarded to Ambos
d. Lennox for the iron work for the recep-
ton OF the roof Of the building. The con-
tractors have gaeater part Of iron work in
its proper place, and will have the balance
in readiness for the reception Of the copper
roof during the present. spring. The Com
missioners say that they have prosecuted
the work as rapidly towards completion as
their means would justify. In order to
complete the building prior to the next
meeting of the Legislature, an uppropria-
ton Of 100000 will be required for the
years 1854 and lS55.-Siqte Dem.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

( AssAssISATios Violence IN q
Court Of Justice. The Indiana Free Pres,
states that on Saturday morning, Feb. s5
scene-Oceurred 10 the Court House at Gen.
treTille, Wayne county. which came near
terminating the life Of Hon. George W. Ju.
Ian. The circumsia6.es, as relaled, are as
follows:
Mr. Julian was engaged as counsel for the
pla,niig,in certain ease. md Michael vii.
son, Esq, for the defendant. Mr.. JaliaD
had nade motion 10 bsge the answer filed
oy Dir. Wilson, set aside, OF the ground that
II was intended merely for delay, counsel
having admitted that il was 50 Intended, and
ne Haae atfdavi. that such was the fact
hr' W l!son reply iDg that the affidavit was
uhI'oe' Mr. Inlian,' who wBs HBdiDg near
Nh " Z, tnFned roaad 10 him and laid the
back Of his hand gently against Mr.. Wilson,
esuiioning him TO weigh we'll his words, q
repeating it once or twice in mid voice.
Dir. Wilson then struck dr Julian with
knife which be had concealed in his hand
aiming Il directly nt his throat, and iBfiet-
ed wound nearly three inches in length.
Fortunately the wound proves not 10 be
a dangerous one, but il was truly a hair
breadth escape. The physicians who dres-
sed the wound say that a variation OF an
eighth Of an inch either way would, 10 all
probability, iaye proved fatal
Dir. w llsoa was spprised beforehand of
The nature Of the affidavit, ADD that the mo-
ton to set aside his answer would be made
Mr. Wilson was Immediately taken into
custody, bat was set at liberty on giving
bail in the sun Of $1,000, and the further in
vesisation Of tile matter deferred till Mon
day.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

AWFUL MORTALITY FROM CHOLERA. Mr.
Geo Moore, of Crawford county, Geo,
emigrated to Grimes county, Texas,a couple
of months ago, with his family, consisting
of Is persons, and about 60 blacks. Soon
after arriving out, the cholera appeared
among them, and at the las. accounts IL OF
his family, including himself, and 20 of his
slaves were dead, and the disease was still
raging among them. It's supposed to have
been contracted on the trip from New Or
leans to Galveston, as they went out in a
steamer having 400 other emigrants on
board
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23
.,Chursday Evening. .SEarch G,Is5A

ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE.--Mrs. Gwin,
wife of Senator Gwin, California. it is stat
ed, has just come into possession of not less
than 90, 900 acres, and probably as much as
100000 acres Of land, in Texas, advantage
ously located, covered with settlers, and
worth from 50 to $40 per acre. The pro-
perty formerly belonged to her first husband,
Mr.. Logan, wealthy citizen of Texas,who,
some years since, died suddenly, without a
WILL but it has for several years been in
the hands Of administrators. Rec emily,
however, case instituted by some of Dir.
Logan's heirs against the administrator, IN
the Supreme Court of Texas, was decided,
and Mrs. Gwn declared to be entitled to the
whole estate. Mrs Gwin,ilis also sad,kne
nothing of the decision until DR. Gwn, re-
ceved a letter signed Justice" calling his
attention to it, and subsequently received
confirmation of the Intelligence from Sem
tor Rusk. The New York Times, from
whchwe condense the foregoing, says:
Upon inquiry, DR.. Gwin became satisfied
that the author of the anonymous letter
calling his attention to the right of his wife
TO this estate, was Richard p. Robinson, of
Helen Jewett memory, who, as is well
known to many persons, settled in Texas
years ago, where he is a respectable and
wealthy farmer, enjoying the confidence and
respect Of the community where he resides.
He insists upon it that, many years ago,
when he was an outcast from the world,
which pursued him with scoffings and de-
nunciations, DR.. Gwin, then residing in
Mississippi, took him by the hand, and by
his counsel and aid, taught himto hope
BY singular coincidence, the lady who is
now Mr.. Robuson's wife, was also ndebt.
ed to Mrs. Gwn for kindness manifested
towards her, when in trouble, years ago
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

The FIGURE NINE.-This is peculiar f T.
ure, with which numerous tricks may be
performed. Not to mention the fact that
the fundamental rules Of arithmetic are prov
ed by the 9, there are among others the
following curiosities connected with the fig
ure:
Add together as many mines as you please,
and the figures indicating the amount, when
added together will be 8, or Q repeated. =
The same is true in multiplying any num-
Der of times-the sum of the figures in the
product will be 0 OF a number of mines. For
instance:
Twice are 1873 and are 8,
Three times 9 are 27-2 and 7 are o,
Four times are 36--3 and 6 are 9.
And SO on until we come to eleven times
9 are SO; here we have mines, or lS, but
and are 8,
Twelve times are 1851 and and 8
are 9.
The curious student may carry this on
still further for amusement.
Another curiosity is exhibited in these diff
terent productions Of the when multiplied
by the digts, as follows the products being
Is. 81, 36, As, &C., reverse these and we
have the remaing products, 81, So, 1881.
The 8 digits, l,2, 8, A, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, when
added, amount to times 8; or instead of
adding, multiply the middle figure by the
last, and the amount will be the mysterious
mines, or As, and and 5 are 9.
Once more. Let the digits as written be
l23456789
9S765432I
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

WILL OF PETER THE GREAT.-M. Lamar
liniere, in French pamphlet on the East
ern Question, gives document in several
articles containing advice with respect TO
the policy Of his successors on the throne
Of Russia, in which he advises her to make
great advances in the direction Of Constan-
tinople, India &c, and advocates the parti-
ton of Poland
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

Trouble AHEAD. "A private letter from
highly respectable source in Washington,
remarks the Baltimore Sun, says: "Thsre
is trouble brewing with Mexico-and you
need not be surprised at any news from that
quarter"
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

ANOTHER ALLEGED MAIL RoBBERY.-W.
c. Beman, formerly employed in the post
Office at Augusta, Geo, has been arrested
on charge Of mail robbery. There was n.
bout $500 found in his possession, besides
$1,000 expended by him, which he could
not account for. He was held to bail in the
sum of $4,000.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

SEVERE, BUT RIGHT. In speech made
in the United States Senate, on the 10th
ult., in relation to the movement of Senator
DOUGLAS in favor Of slavery extension, Hon.
TRUMAN Smith, of Connecticut, gave the
Illinois demagogue the following broadside.
1t is pretty severe, but the sentiment is per-
fectly rights
"I hate Northern anti-slavery dema-
gogue, and hate Southern pro-slavery
demagogue. think meanly of them all:
but of all the meanreptiles which God, for
some inscrutibe purpose, suffers to crawl
and TO beslme the earth, think Northern
pro slavery demagogue is the meanest."
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

rTA young man was sent to State Pris-
on from Pougbkeepsie few days since =
While lis mother was getting into wagon
to bid adieu 20 her unhappy son, the horses
started, and she was thrown on the. ground
and her back broken. She lived but a few
hours afterwards.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

Gen. JAMES MORGAN, an early graduate of
the Chillicothe Advertiser, and long connect
ed with the democratic" press of Ohio and
Iowa, and now editor of the Burlington Tel
egraph, speaking ofth speech of Senator
DoUGLAs, says: "a speech more unsound 10
argument, bad in temper, and wide of the
facts, was probably never delivered in the
Senate of the United States, or elsewhere.
Jour-
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23
WHOLE NO 1855
SATURDAY frENfMc.
How sweet the evening shadow, faII,

How sweet the evening shadows fall,
Advancing from the west
As ends the weary week Of toll, ~
And COMES the day Of rest
Bright DER the earth the star Of eve
Her radiant beauty sheds;
And myriad sisters calmly weave
Their light around oar heads.
Rest. man, from labor. rest from sinf
The world's,hard contest close;
The holy hours =ith God begin
Yield thee TO sweet repose.
Bright DER the earth the morning ray
It's sacred light will cast,
Fair emblem Of the glorious day
That eyermoFe shall rest.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

BT The Salem Mass.) Gazette says Mr..
Newcomb, the elected Mayor, positively, de-
clines to accept the Office. 0
OJA statue to Daniel Webster is con-
temPlated by his friends in New York.
The Legislature Of Tennessee adjourned
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

There will be an extraordinary eclipse
Of the sun on the 26th of May next, such an
one as none but the o ldest Inhabitants have
witnessed in this vicinity. 1t will be slmi-
lar to the great eclipse Of 1906, since which
there has been none resembling it nearer
than that of 1880, when eleyen-t&elfths of
the sun were obscured.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

~ The German citizens oil Cleveland
held a meeting few days since, to elect
delegates to represent them in the Mass
Convention 10 be held in Columbus OH the
22d inst. DR.. ]. II. PULrE, c. w. SCHMIDT,
and JACOB MULLER were chosen. A COM
mittee of finance was appointed; and the
meeting adjourned to meet again after the
22d, to hear the report Of their delegates to
the onvention.-Jour.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

THE NEGROES, VS.. THE DUTcH.-It has
been the habit of the Democracy to arrny
the prejudice of the Germans against the
Wings by all sorts Of false and ridiculous
charges. We have no disposition to sane
ton that sort of operation by resortng to
similar tricks There arc'some facts that
have lately come to light which are worthy
the attention of the Germans OF the country.
We refer TO the feeling manifested against
them BY The friends oil the Douglas Nebras-
ka bill. Mr. Atchiun of NJ, moved to
strike out the provision that allowed for
eigners to vote who had declared their in
tenton to become citizens This prevailed.
We also wish to call their attention. TO the
language OF Senator Butler OF South Caro-
lin, leading Democrat of that body. The
Washington corr espondent of the Phlladel-
phia Lcdyer says, that Oil a recent OCCASION
Judge Butler declared frankly, in his seat
that he should prefer negroes in Nebraska
to the "emigrants from the land Of krout."
The preference is natural enough. The
negroes may be.ownel, while the German
farmers in the West generally own enough
themselves to make useful and Independent
citizens. 1t is not on account Of any vicious
habits that emigrants from Europe are dis
liked by the chivalrous Senators from the
South, but simpy because til y bring down
the price ofnegroes. Here is a prominent
Democrat who does not hesitate TO declare
that he prefers negro slaves to "emigrants
from the land Of krout." Suppose Wing
Senate had voted to exclude Germans from
the territories and Whig Senator had ut
tered such sentiment, when should we
have heard the last of t! We call the at
tention of our German population to these
evidences Of love and good will.-O. s.
Jour.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

PLEAD GUILTY. iuras. the teller of the
Lewis county IN. W Bank, who, it was
alleged, ran away with the girl whom he had
scduced, and the money of The bank, has
pleaded guilty to the charge of embezzie-
ment, and will be sentenced to the State
prison for term of two or three years
He married the girl a d restored the mon
au
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

THE Black WARRIoR.--The state offacts
as now presented with respect to the seizure
and confiscation of the cargo Of the Black
Warrior will no doubt induce some decided
and efficient action on the part OF Congress.
The matter must be thoroughly understood.
It is dueto the people of the United Sta'es
that the action of tue Cuban officials should
be fully justified or on the other hand, that
ample indemnify and apology should be
made TO the United States for the
wrong that has been done. The peculiar
colonial relations Of Cuba to a European
government is likely to be frequent
source of annoyances to the people: OF the
United States The capricious exhalations
of power at Havana are to be submitted TO
by our people unresistiDgly 1t seems; and
the process Of redress, il ever obtained NJ
is TO be effected through the slow oper-
alton OF diplomatic intercourse between
Washington and Madrid. Well, VIC shall
all have an opportunity to'ineulcate the yir-
tue OF patience, under system 50 conducive
to the exercise Of 1t. -
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

6FA bill is before the Massachusetts,
Legislature TO increase the salary of the
Governor of that State to $4,000.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

Gs5-Fhe Duke D'Alba, one of the parties
in the Soule dusls,was in Paris at last dates,
and on visit TO the Tuilleries.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23
lll1llll0

and we have ones and of course once
more.
Or let the upper series Of numbers be sub.
tracted from the under:
98765432l
l234567S9
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN CALuoRsIA.-The
California State Journal says that two white
men, named Guild, the other Ingalls, while
on prospecting tour, in company with
nineteen Cinnamon, were lately murdered
on McCloud's river, twenty miles east Of
Pittsbnrg, Shusta county, by the Indians
They camped,and fifteen Indians came into
the camp. The Indians appeared friendly
at first; but at word from the chief they
seized the guns and ran with them. In
gals seized club and struck the hindmost
Indian and knocked him down. The Indi
ans Immediately commenced firing on Guild
and Ingalls,and also at the Chinanen. Six
OF the Cinnamon escaped, and came to Pitts
burg. A party started out imme lately, and
found the body of Ingalls,; one arm cut off
at the elbow,and his head smashed up horri-
oily with stones, They also found the bodies
of thirteen Chnamen; three had their arms
cut off; and all their heads had been smash
ed in with stones, The body Of Guild could
not be found.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

FREE NEGROES IN MrssoURI.-A case as
recently brought before one of the Superior
Courts of Missouri, in which it was sought to
expel mulatto from the State under sta
tute of Is47, which declares that no free
negro or mulatto shall come to that State
under any pretext whatever. It was con-
tended in reply that this statute was uncon-
stitutional, and that Missouri was bound by
her solemn compact and agreement, by
which she had pledged herself never to pass
any law prohibiting any citizen of one Of
the States Of this Union from emigrating
to Missouri, and enjoying all the privileges
of citizens Of like class in that State. The
court sustained the motion and dismissed the
proceedings, declaring that the Legislature
of that State had no right to disregard and
violate the solemn compact entered into by
Missouri in order to be admitted as State
Of the American Confederacy, and there,
fore that the act prohibiting free negroes
and mnlattoea from emigrstiDg 70 the State
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

~ apostles! that ~ dessy sPlen-
dor wsepwillIoat woe, and bush witheut
a crime -Hoyace Smith.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

PRoNuEcIArIos OF BIBLE NAMEs ihe
clerk of retired parish Ia Northwest Pc
Won who had TO read the hfst lesson always,
used to make hash Of Shadtac Meschac
and Abednego; and as the names are twelve
times repeated 10 the third chapter Of Dan
ieI, after &eiting gthroaghthem the hrst tine,
he eailed lbeln alhe aforesaid genttemsn"
.afarvatls
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

AN "indignation meetlng' against Cuba,
for seizinglthe Black Warfor.is talked Of By
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

Tue SACREpNEss OF TEARS There is Il
sacredness in tears. They are not the
mark of weakness, nor ef power. They are
the messengers of overwhelming gri~f, OF
deep contrition, Of UnspeakaSle love. II
there were any arguments to prove that
man is not mortal, would took Tor itin the
strong coavulsve emo ions Of the breast,
when the fountains OF feeling are rising, and
whea the tears are gushing forth 10 crystal
streams. Oh, speak not harshly to the
stricken one weeping in silence; break not
the solemnily by rude laughter or obtrusive
steps. Despise not woman's tears-they
are what made her angel. Scolf not if the
stern heart Of manhood is sometimes melted
to tears of sympathy-thcy are what elevates
him above The brute. love tosee tears oI
affection. They are painful tokens, but
still most holy. There is pleasure. in tears
AN awful pleasure. Ii there were none
on earth to shed tears for me, should be
10th to live; and il no one to weep over my
grave, | coull never die in peace.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23


HORRIBLE BUTCHERiEs AT AMoY.-The
imperial forces of China since their recap
ture Of Annoy, have been committing un-
surprising cruelties upon the insurgents
a letter from that city to the New York
Journal of Commerce, thus depicts The bru.
tai scenes:
MANY we're pui on board the Government
war junks,o which some sixty were anchor
ed in the stream and after being bound hand
and foot, were throwa in'u the sea and there
pierced with pixies as often as they rose TO
the surface of the water. Hundreds were
taken 10 the jetties ami beh4ad4d by clum-
sy execu'ioners; and their knives growing
dull under so mnch butchery, they were of
ten obliged TO strike thFice or more before
the head could be severed from its body
More horrible still wers other scenes in
this dwfnl tragedy. Some were put to death
by the slower process Of dismemberment.
Ftrst,.a single leg was hewn of. then the
other; after that The arms were taken, in
the same way; then came the tearing off
great strips of flesh from the body-an
cropping oCthe nose aud ears-disembowel-
ing, and last, decapitation. During all this
torture, it is said that ~ word Of compluiut,
no ilook or expression Fl the agony they
were suffering, escaped from any of these
poor wretches: a trait OF character which
strikingly assimilaies thes, MoGgols with
the American Indians
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

SERIOUS RESULT OF AN EXPERIMENT WITH
CASA gas explosion took place in the
Daguerrean gallery of Mcssrs. Maury d
SiIstJee, Boston, on Thursday evening. 1t
seems that they had been experimenting
with some new con,rivance by which they
had hoped to take miniatures by gasllght'- =
The apparatus burst, and the escaped gas
caused an explosion which not only shaiter,
ed the effects in the gallery, but disabled
the operators in serious manner. one Oh
1 Mr.. Maury's eyes was actually blown out
/ Of his read. and he was in other respects IN
iured Dfr. w. II. Getchell, in addition to
many severe bruises, sustained broken leg
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

O1TDo good with what thou hast, or It
will DO thee no gead.
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23
S64l97532

Add the figures of the difference, and
once more we have the mines or AS, OF 9.
We will now multiply the same figures
by 8:
1234567S9
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

THg DAR1kx ExPEDTIoH. "A slip iroin5ihe
Aspin wall Courier announces ihatFredeack
e. Foster, and the portion ot}the party u.at
went out with Lieut.. Strain, consisiingOf
Messrs. Holcomb, Winthrop anithree 9TH
ers, returned to the ship within q few days,
having been separated--the oiherss 27 10
number, are YET, missing. ~
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23

tYThe man who ''harbored'' thought,
is supposed to live on the sea-sh re,
The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-03-23
CITY OF LANCASTER;
7. $. 8LAUGHTER EOITOR ANO PROpRlETOR.

ruDusHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING