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American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-12-13
DENTI Y
WILLIAM n. KING.

IS returned to the city, where he expects 4. re-
u main permanently In tho practice Of his profession.
Grasefuifo past favors, he hopes by attention 10 busi-
moss TO merit the patronage Of his old, friends and the
pubNe generally. Office, Main Street, two doors EasI
ofthe Ohio Eagle. Lancaster, July 10, ls55-3mlI
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-12-13
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald. ts &
SOMETHING WoRTH KSowIHo!-By using Professor
Woods Hair Restorative, gray hair can be permanent.
ly restored to Its original color. The subIoined certi-
.hcnte was received from johnson & Stone, Gardiner,
Maine, and is but one OF the many Instances that are
daily coming to our knowledge Of its effects. II is no
longer predetermined, but 4 self-evident truth, as hum
dreds in 0ur eommunity can testify. -'
GARDINER, (Maine.3 June 90, 1854,
WILLIAM II. DYER,-DeArS iF.AIhave used two b6t-
tics Of Professor Woods Hair Restorative, and can
truly say tits the greatest discovery OF the age for re-
storing and changing the hair. Before using Il I was
as gray as a man OF seventy. Ny hair has now ATTAIN
ed its original color. You can II to the
world without the least fenr, as my ease was one OF
the worst kind. Yours, D. N. MURPHY.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-12-13
CINCINNATI, WILMINGTON 4 zANESVILLE
RAIL Roar orrS THROUGH TO zANEsvILLs. :
n. W. GRAHAM & Cos

DR0PRIET0RS ola regular Line ofsteamersr run
ming from Evansville to Wheeling and Pitts
burg, and sole Agents for tho Pennsylvania Central
Railroad for this valley, WaysA0sss0n the CaHals
ZaResUiIIe, o.
Only one drayagc to or from the Rail Road to Boats.
Shippers Of Flour and Produce generally on the
Line Of the G. W. z. Road, will find this the most
expeditions route u the East--and We think quite as
cheap as any other.
property entrusted TO our care. = t~s.1atpSar
No charges on property, excepting actual drayage.
Through Receipts given TO Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York or Boston. N. W. GRAHAM & Co.
Dec. 8, 1sj5-0m3l.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-12-13

Prom ths Herald Of Freedom (Kansssl Extra
Murder Most Foul.
American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-12-13
,eiraDle City Property for sale.

4 TOtAl l.Ilo OV
49, JOHN O.. WEAVER, Treasurer
Dee.G Of Fairfield County Agricultural Society.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-23
DIR STATE CANALS.

II ia now some twenty years since our state
commenced, under the auspices OF the Democratic
party. the policy of trebling the capacity OF her
Great Erie Canal, while considerably extending its
branches The original design was to proceed
only so fast as the surplus tolls would defray the
expense-say at an average outlay of Sl,OOO,OOO
per annum But ii was then estimated that the
entire Enlargement would cost only S9,OOO,OOO ;
whereas il was afterward ascertained that
the cost would range from S2OOOO,o0O to
S30,000,O00. Meantime, Railroads were being
constructed and brought into use-one principal
line running almost parallel with the Erie Canal,
and profiering considerably shorter as well as
incomparably quicker means Of transit from tide
water TO the Great Lakes. Had the Canal remained
uneplarged, the Railroads would have nearly strip
ped it of business.
The Wings proposed the policy Of More Speedy
Enlargement-that is, of borrowing to expedite
the conclusion Of the work The Radical section
of the Democratic party resisted, and a long and
bitter struggle ensued 1t was finally terminated
by the conservative Democrats uniting with the
Wings, and effecting an amendment OF our Re-
formed State Constitution, by which additional
loans to the amount of So 000 900 for this express
purpose were authorized. Every conceivable
safeguard was thrown around the expenditure
Each contract is to be let to the lowest response
bic bidder, cutting off all chance for political or
personal favortism. And we are reliably assured
that the 100000 authorized by the constitu
tiona amendment will very nearly complete the
work.
The battle has been fairly fought out II has
run through series of years, and the people are
weary of it, The work is going rapidly forward,
and will be completed within two or three years if
no impeachment is encountered. We believe there il
no considerable portion OF our citizens in favor Of
arresting it. 1t would have been finished ere this
but for the Stop and Tax policy of 1872 and the
Judicial arrest of 1851.
The Journal Of Commerce, for purpose purely
factious, attempts 10 revive the Stop policy To
do this il pretends to figure out the completion Of
the Enlargement ard Lateral Canals in 1856 from
the surplus Tolls alone if no dollar had been bor-
rowed since 1886. But this is ciphered out BY
concealing the fact that the capacity, the efficiency
and of course the income, Of the Canals have been
largely increased by means OF the borrowed money
expended on our Public Works since 1887 Thus
the gross Tolls, which were but 81 325 500 in 81,
had risen to s., 463,7l0 in AZ; in good part, be-
cause the capacity of the Canal had been 80 en-
lsrged that Western Produce was attracted through
this channel from far wider radius than formerly
while Railroad competition had not yet become
formidable Since lS47, our aggregate Tolls have
rather fallen Of, from the effect Of Railroad com
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-23
KANSAS For FREEDOM.

The vote for Gov Reeder at the Prostate Elec
tiou on the 9th int will doubtless far exceed that
for Whitfield on the lst And the former was cast
entirely by bona fde residents of Kansas, while
more than half the votes for Whitfield at his went
over for that express purpose in fact two-'hlrds
of Wbitfeld's entire vote was poled in the settle
ments along the Missouri border; back from this,
there is substantially no Pro-Slavery party in the
Territory The fraudulent voting, the imposed
Legislature and the tyrannical laws of the Missouri
invaders, have united the settlers upon Reeder aud
in an earnest desire TO be promptly admitted into
the Union as Free State. Such is the substance
Of many letters and other advices from the Ter
rtory. Kansas can only be dragooned into
submission to Slavery By the recognition at Wash
ington of the Missourians bowie knife assemolage
as bona .fde Kansas Legislature, and the conse-
ouent enforcement of its acts as binding laws OF
Kansas Should this be done, either directly or
through the recognition of Whitfield as Delegate,
Kansas becomes a conquest of the slavehOlders-a
mere sppendage of Western Missouri. Her GAL
LIANT pioneers can defy their oyerbearing neigh
bors; but they cannot measure swords with the
Federal Government. Let the power Of Congress
and the President be thrown into the scale Of
Slavery, and the settlers must succumb All that
remains to be done is to bring public opinion to
bear on Congress, so as to insure the reception OF
Reeder as Peleg.te and the admission Of Kansas
az State under the Free Constitution which will
speedily be framed and adopted. Let New-York
and Massachusetts, speak decisively and unmis-
taksby their demand that all legal and foreign I'm.
pediments to the admission Of Free Kansas shall
be swept away and we shall have her fairly in the
Union and ready to east her vote for Republican
President in 1856.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-23

petition, save in the single year 81; yet we enter
tain no shadow of doubt that the State has COL
lected several Millions more Of Tolls since 81
than would have been received had no borrowed
money been expended in has.ening the Enlirse-
meut II the Erie Canal were now no larger than
in 1s3,. we believe its Tolls would be a. leas, One
Million per anuum below the present amount
Every consideration of prudence, police, fore
sight economy, dictates the earliest possible com.
pletion Of our Canals. The amount to be e1-
pended is scarcely one third so much as the En-
larpement has already cost while the cost Of
transportation will be vastly diminished and its
volume propOrtionately increased by such com
pletion Two thousand barrels of -four will then
DO a moderate boat.load, and the total cost OF
transportation from Buffalo to this city will be
less than were the canal tolls alone only few
years ago. We are receiving but partial benefit
from work that has already cost US over Twenty
Millions, for want of an additional expenditure of
only some Seven or Eight Millions. The landlord
Who has half built block OF stores, and lets them
stand unroOfed and untenaDted dozen years while
the accruiDg rents Of another block shall suffice
TO complete them, is fair example OF the
wretched economy which The Journal Of Com
merce would now urge upon US. This City has
the deepest interest in the early completion OF our
Canals. and we trust she will manifest her appre-
-. e
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-23
The Tribune for Europe.

We shall issue THIS MORNING an Edition Of
THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE for circulation IN
Europe II will contain all the latest News up to
the time Of going to press. Single copies in Wrappers
ready for mailing be had at the counter IN the
publication Office. Price Six Cents. The steamship
Canada will leave Boston for Liverpool ToMorrow
at II o'clock
The Mail by this steamer will close in this city at
II O'Clock this afternoon.
Subscriptions and Advertisements for The NEW
York TRIBUNE can be left with the following Agents:
PARIs.-Charles Hartwck, No. Is Rue Vivienne.
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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-23
SCIENCE AND PROHIBITION.

We publish herewith correspondence between
Edward c. Delavan and E. L. Youmans elucidat.
ing the Scientific Basis of Prohibition or the right
and duty of suppressing the Traffic in Intoxicating
Drinks, which has rarely been excelled in clear
ness of statement or cogency of logic. We ask
our readers not merely to give it careful and dis
passionate perusal, but TO commend it TO their
friends and neighbors so as to secure for il the
widest Pc ssible attention. We who stand for Pro-
hbition are utterly inexperienced by the great
mass of our adversaries. They viii not understand
that, in view, drunkenness is not the sole evil
10 be syoided-that the useof Alcoholic Beverages
would still be hurtfu and unwise if no man were
ever more 10 drink TO ntoxication-that the differ
ence between the moderate and the immoderats
drinker is one of degre purely and not of kinds
like that between breaking ones leg and his neck
How often have we met those who will say, Yes,
" drinking is bad thing, as you say but never
drink enough to hurt me = when in truth no
man can drink at all matter how mOdera tely-
and not be harmed by so doing Idly, vainly
shall we seek to stop excessive drinking so
long as We permit drinking at alias well
might YOU encourage men to drift over Niagara
Falls but e1hOrt them to be sure to stop when
half way down. For Alcohol is poison and
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-23

after election Why arc they uniformly bro,v,s :.
short tins before the elcc,ios that the whols go
cannot be ELECTED till after il has p.ssed We -
not saying whether any or all Of the indicted iedi,S
uals are innocent or guilty. But Il ned not -
affirmed that The moral effect Of their coayic,,,
will be lost in consequence of Tia prev siisz h.,
preston hat 'Nei' prosecution w.s moved pr-n wi,
b, motives Of apersonal or psrtiss' nsiure. II -
dicnens can be brought At 90 othsr tirae hsn darn,
the Fa term. Of the courts let the election iof 81,
officers BE- Tui OF till Spring
The Coaritr is in error. In 1853, in the mouth
Of February Mt Erben being also then foren.,
of the grand jury, Aldermen Wesley smith El.v
enth ward and Jsmes NJ. Bard ,FourteenA Esrd)
we're indicted for mal'easlnce in Office. II would
be better, if possible, always to have such indek
ments in other than ele,tioneering periods bat
it is saying too much that they will be considered
as cooked NJ for partisan purposes because Of tie
time when they take place. We have never
known Mr. Erben as psrti,an ia the sinister seae
of the term and we think the ding Of Tae Cssrsr
does him injustice by the proof we have broush.
sganst its argument.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-23
NATIONAL DELUSIONS.

The people Of this country are the most
thoroughly deluded the face of the globe, their
means of illumination considered With the
power of having Democratic government, they
allow an oligarcby Of seventy thousand slave
holders to determine not only the recipients Of
Government bounties now amounting to seventy
millions dollars a year, but to measure the very
profits Of the workman not yet enslsved, as the
ogarcby hope to enslave the North. Our industry
is absolutely at the mercy of these oligarchs, who
as class are Free traders-that is, men who be-
lieve in the exchange Of American raw products
for European fabrics-tbe country meanwhile to
be kept in ignorance of art and handicraftship and
but ole remove above barbarism. We do not state
the case too strongly when we affirm that the
olgarchs as class have the deadliest enmity to
Northern industry though were it not for our ship
and engine builders and our labor saving machines
and ingenuities the South would be desert
What does the South produce Beyond cotton, use
less without Connecticutgins and sugar, impossible
without New. York and Pennsy lvania machines, her
contributions to the common national stock are in
sufficient TO keep us above barbarian. The Patent
Office would have no existence if it depended on
southern mechanical ingenuity, for that does not
EXIT. The same reason which keeps the negro
ignorant keeps the white ignorant, for no man can
create an ignorant atmosphere around him and
expect to be intelligent. 1t is simply impos.
sible. We breathe intellectual atmosp here as Ger.
tainly SIS physical and that polluted with Slavery
ignorance follows.
The Winter is now approaching Already have
we signs Of the restitution and suffering which are
to specially mark this city, because the people of
the North, under southern domination, do not de-
termine their policy. While Archbishop Hughes
boasts in her Majesty's colonies that his church
aid flock are untainted with abolitionism thou
sands Of poor Irish haunt our streets wanting en-
ployment, or improperly recompensed, because the
southern oligarchy keeps them poor in America in
the same way that the British oligarchy kept them
poor in Ireland. While we have to record the
closing Of the last Of our wooden mills-we arrive
BY accident st the boast of the British minister at
Washington, incarnatirg the spirit of bis govern
ment-thst not house fails in Liverpool but all
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-23
sw1spLIyG INSURANCE COMPANIES.

Gen. JAMES NJ. Cook Controller Of our State
Finances continues to search out and follow up
the bogus Insurance Companies which protesting
to have pnd-up cash capital of hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars, are taking money for insurance
which they are utterly unable to afford. Under
bis direction, some six or seven companies have
already been detected in doing business without
capital, mostly through the immediate agency OF
William Barnes, ESQ., of Albsny, whom the Con-
troller has employed in this work. The latest
discovered of these decisions is the Toatine Fire
Insurance Company, organized in May last under
the act of 1853 and claiming to have apaidup cash
capital of 100000. But it appears on investiga-
ton that this entire sum was borrowed Of a banker
at enormous usury and deposited in Bank for the
purpose of organizing this Company on an apPa-
rent capital that said money, though deposited in
the name of this Company could only be drawn On
checks countersgned by the lender aforesaid and
in fact it was go drawn within the succeeding three
or four days, leaving the Company not only with
out capital but actually in debt $4,000 for the
. shave" on its pretended capital for the two or
three days it could make show of having any
yet this Company immediately set to work insur-
inst, had issued 4l6 policies and received $500
thereon. beside 1912 remaining unpaid; had
sustained and paid two losses, amounting to-
getber to $685., and now has about twenty
agents employed in soliciting risks in different
parts of this cOuatry and Canada, at an average
compensation of ten per cent on premiums received
and five per cent on the profits realized by the
Company on the business of the agency, beside
general agent in this City and subgenera agent at
Louisville, Ky. This Company has now outstand-
ing risks TO the amount of hundreds OF thousands
of dollars, TO meet which it has 1926 in cash and
81 500 (nominally) in mortgages 10y stockholm
ers) on lots in Buffalo, Newtown and Bedford,
n. Y, while it owes salaries to the amount ofsome
$3.50, and in nnearned premiums at least $5,500.
Mr. Barnes Of course reports il insolvent, aud the
Controller 10 proceeding to deal with it accord
inply Yet James PiersOn, President, John Will
son Eeeborn Secretary, attested on the 10Th day
of May last that the full capital of 100000
had been subscribed and in good faith paid in to
constitute the capital stock of said Company, and
that the sad capital in cash was then deposited in
the Bank of the Republic, "and that there is no
intention or design existing of any person or per-
"sons whOmsoever to withdraw from the said
% Bank any part or portion of said moneys, until
the same is wanted to be invested or otherwise
used or appropriated to and for the sole and ex.
elusive use and benefit Of said Company"
Such is the substance of Mr.. Barnes's report,
made on Friday last to the Controller, and promptly
acted on by him. The thanks of the community
are eminently due to both.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-23

JUDGE KANE AGAIN Yesterday, In the United States
district court at Philadelphia, petition was pro
sented to Judge KANE, by VIM. M. Meredith, Ch'res
Gilpin and Z. Hopper, Esq, counsel for Passmore
Williamson.
The Judge said that Mr.. w. had night TO apply 10
the court TO purge the contempt this must be the first
step; if this petition Is such purgatoD, then 1t will
be received otherwise il will not
NJ Meredith argued that Mr.. Williamson should b
heard In court.
The Judge said that upon reasonable notice beng
given TO the district attorney be would with pleasure
hear the counsel in the Gaze upon any preliminary
question arising in il.
District attorney Vandyke stated that he hsd no no
tice whatever of this application. He thought notice
was necessary. He asked that copy OF the oppics-
ton should be furnished him, and in any reasonable
time he would With pleasure come in and argue It,
Judge Kane then said: AZ at present advised, an
of opinion that / can receive no communication ron
a party who remains in contempt. Inc drst step, pre-
limnary 10 all Others, il appLcat on for leave 70
pure himself OF biz contempt. The purgation COM
peted be ia repstated before he court and ha. the
ZANE rights as before the adjudication under which he
was committed. If, In the opinion OF counsel, this
view of the courts duty is erroneous shall be happy
10 avail ms self Of their learned research for my future
guidance. -
The Judge declined receiving the petition, stating,
however that upon the question Of his gnt 10 receive
il he would be happy TO hear an argument
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-23

all mixtures containing Alcohol are poisonous
at least in the ratio that they are Alcoholic. very
many contain also other posons-nux vomics
coculus indcus, qusssis, grains of paradise, &c
and ~ are far more deadly than though they con-
tanned no other bane than Alcohol but If they con-
tain this and none other, they are as really II not
az intensely poisonous as arsenic or prusslc acd
False science-faIse assumptiOus-truthsw warped
and twisted 70 meet the demands OF seli-seekins
crsft-,bound on every side Men whose a9pe-
lite. nnel them TO wish right and wrong inter
changed or COMPOUNDED read such en- article as
that lately put forth by The Westminster Rerietc'
and, though it confDtes itself say, This 10 cogent;
aths is unanswerable that Is, they don't want
il answered They bate to give up their Cherished
INDULGENCE they are careful not to scrutinlze aud
crossexAmine the sOpbistry that lulls conscience
10 sleep and so the truth receives no fair play at
their bspds. Were 10 man warped By a love OF
liouor. we could demonstrate the urgent proprety
Of Total Abstinence ard Legal Prohibition to the
perfect conviction OF ninety nine In every hundred
rational beings Thousands can't see the propriety
of Prohibition because they Ike a little-just
little-of something 10 take five could change
their appetites we should have no difficulty in con
yipcipe their minds. As it is, they can't realize
that Liquor is so bad when their palates aud nerves
so crave and relish it,
Weare on the eve of an Election which must go
far TO decide the contest between License and Pro-
bibition. If Judges and Legislature favorable
to Temperance shall be chosen in our State next
month, II will be hard for the Liquor Interest to
recover from the blow 1t is all.important that
the People should be brought to realize the chaf'
acter and mminence of this contest We have
had season of anarchy on the Liquor question
through the action of certain judges but the
People make and unmake Judges Abstainers-
Probibitionists of New.York fail not to do your
whole dutyi