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Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14
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LFor the Indiana Sac sentInsI.

SPENCER, OWEN Co, IND, Aug. 6.
EDITORS SENTINEL:-Being well satisfied
that you have an abiding interest in the
great cause Of Democracy, 1 thought that you
would like to hear from your Spencer
friends. Well, we are right side up, and
standing erect on our pastens, and poised on
our own individuality.
| can say, without ~exaggeration think, that
the prospects in old Owen are fattering.-
Two years ago, when the blight Of Know
Nothingism swept, like swarms Of Egyptian
Lecusts, over the State, we stood firm and
gave the State ticket an average majority of
over one hundred; and in my opinion we will
do much better this year, for l know Of
several who voted against us in "a, who are
now the NEST enthusiastic supporters Of our
ticket We have about $500 votes in our
county. Out of that number, / can safely
estimate the Fillmore vote at 800, and the
Fremont vote viii not exceed three or four
hundred, so that estimate will give old Buck
500 over Fillmore and 100 over both Fin
more and Fremont If we poll $500 votes.
you will see that l am about correct in my
estimate. Gov. Wright will be here to-mor-
row, and we expect to have a grand time:
the old sovereigns of Owen will be out Ca
masse to hear the Governor.
We have quite an interesting time of 1t in
our District for Congress. Our candidate is
John G. Davis, the opposition is John p
Usher, who is a Fremonter-the Fillmore
ties do not fancy him very much, and have
got up a kind of Kilkenny cat fight with
the Fremonters. You can, of course, imagine
that it is very amusing to US to stand off and
hear them quarrel. Usher is quite eloquent
in his exhortations to the opposition, to stay
together until after the State election; In
other words he is very anxious to be elected.
He says that after Zee State election it will
be time enough to quarrel about Fillmore AID
Fremont. Davis and Usher met at Gosport
on Wednesday last. Davis more chan salts
fed his friends-making Usher take water
on both the Fillmore and Fremont Mat
forms. Usher disappointed his frendA-
They expected TO find a man of mors abil-
ity. The race for Congress will be n pretty
close one, but / feel very confident that Da-
Wis will succeed.
Since / saw you re have distributed over
twelve hundred Democratic speeches-inclu-
ding Douglas report and speeches, Cass'
Pugh's, Benjamin's, Bruller's, Clay's, &C.,
and feel well satisfied that they have besu
Of immense benefit TO our glorious cause.
Allison is still of the opinion that thu
"Aborigines" will 60 for Fillmore-says thai
he has no such word in his "uocobularv, a.
defeat. Allison is a good fellow, and I cam
help but feel sorry for him-I believe that be
thinks Indiana will go for Fillmore by .
large majority. Won't he be awfully mista.
ken? 81
Your friend, dyed in the wool, mot in mig
ger WOOL b. III.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14

@The n. Y. Herald is making a great
flourish over its newspaper statistics" pre-
tending to give complete returns of the cir
c~ulation of the several papers in the differ
ent States, their political predictions, &c.
The correctness of the HeTald's tables is
sufficiently shown by its classification Of the
newspapers Of Pennsylvania. The whole
number Of papers in that State, the Herald
puts down at t~wenty-four. The Eastern Or
gans takes up the list, and names eighty-one,
of which sixty are printed in English and
twenty-one in German. The Pittsburgh
Post also m thirty-one BUCHANAN papers
published in that part of the State lying
west of the Allegheny Mountains, which is
seven more than the number given by the
Herald 10 the entire State.
The Hsrald's enumeration of the papers
IN Illinois is off the same piece with that of
Pennsylvania While the Black Republi-
cans credited with a larger number than they
can justly claim, fully one half, ifnOt more,
of the Democratic journal are left out of the
account entirely.
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From lac Journal of Commerea

MEssRs. EDITORS The New York Tn
bune OF to-day, through its Saratoga cores.
pendent, unwittingly shows..up the staple OF
the travelling votes for the Presidential can.
didates. The correspondent says
Saratoga is a perfect hive I; only that the
occupants are for the NEST part genus drons.'
' politics are the current theme in
spite Of Father Meriam's thermomster.-
Among IS gentleman gathered in the parlor
of the Columbian Hotel, a vote was taken
yesterday which resulted, 81 for Freedom
and Fremont, 8 for Fillmore aud 'Ersstus,
and 5 for Bachelor Buchanan
II this be a fair illustration of the " drone "
vote, we can reasonably hops for something
per-contrs from the oorLssg vote.
EX PEDE, Sc.
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Thou Inay'st sing OF the . bright side . OF life, deares
girl,
And, the slar-nag of Peace AMI c~ontsntment unfurl,
But, as slumbers the storm in the Oceans lone deeps,
The fell hend, Despair, in the human heart, sleeps!
With q fail " rope OF sand,'' the impetuous rush
or the wild torrent, stem, and its mad roarings hush;
But, seek not with idle Philosophy's snare,
To check the outpourings OfdOubt and Despair.
With a fine, silken thread weave a fabric Of might
With single span measure the Heavens blue height;
The legion Of stars, on its surface. count DER,
And the atoms of sand on the waye-beaten shore:
Bid the turbulent pillows their wild rawlings cease;
And the tyrani, grim Death, its pale victims release
Bid the earth, on its axis, revOlve not again,
And the shells, in the Ocean, no longer remain
For these are but " trnfes- cen lighter than " air.
To the task OF subduing the giant, Despair,
For n sceptre Of thorns IL, all merciless, yields.
Till the heart. in its phrenzy and agony, yields.
ST. Ior1s. Aug. 9TH.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14

Rally around the Mighty Giddings and his Old
Guard.-BuRLSGsNE.
~Burlingame. in his Dayton speech, invoked
his hearers TO orally around the mighty
Giddings and his Old Guard" He said thai
they were the fathers, the pioneers of the
great movement against slavery-that thew
foresaw the present struggle-they had laid
their ears to the ground and heard long ago
the first mutterings of the storm-that they
had first observed the little cloud, once no
bigger than a man's hand, but which now
ove~rshadowsd the land.
Several of ~Burlingame's hearers, seeing
pretty plainly the way the cat jumped, and
not willing to hug Giddings and the old
Guard in their arms, nor TO follow their lead,
turned their backs upon the speaker and his
candidate. ~Burlingame's invocation was
more than they could stand, and, as one of
them said, although they got up Fremont
men in the morning. they went to bed that
night good Buchanan m~en.--Dayioa En-
pire.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14
Stopping the Supplies.

As the end of the session of Congress APP
proaches, the Black Republicans seem to be
gathering some of that reckless courage
which results from desperation. They now
threaten, unless the Democratic majority in
the South submit to their dictation, aud agree
to re-adopt the Missouri restriction, that they
will stop the supplies. This is what they
call blocking the wheels of the government.
The army appropriation bill has passed the
House, with several amendments. which, il
they become a law, will effectually prevent
the army from being employed in Kansas
for the preservation of the peace and order of
that Territory. OF course the Senate will
reject amendments. The patriotic gentle
men who still control the upper branch of
Congress cannot be driven into submission
to measuses which would entail anarchy,
bloodshed and all the horrors of civil war,
upon one of the Territories Of the United
States. The Black Republican majority in
the House threatens, in this case to refuse to
vote the supplies which are necessary TO car
~ on the government.
Let them carry the threat into execution.
Let them the resolution 10 this
way, and the people, in November next, will
scatter their forces as the armies of Sena-
charib melted away before the breath of Je-
hovah. But nobody believes they are in
earnest, when they attempt to terrify the
Democratic party into submission by a resort
to threats OF stopping the supplies. They
would not recoil from the proposition were
it to affect only the Federal Government
But the leaders, who are fighting, not for
principle, but for plumber, who are aching to
plunge their rms shoulder.deep into the
Treasury, would sooner give up the contest,
than stop the supplies. You might as we'll
expect a starving man to refuse a luxurious
meal, as 10 imagine that q Black Republican
politician would forego any chance of plum
der or pay. Anybody who supposed that
Thurlow Weed, William H. Seward, George
Law, and their gang of trading satellites
would affect any obstacle to the ready flow
Of money from the Treasury, is green enough
to believe that their shrieks for freedom
mean anything more than the bellowings of
hungry INSCRIPTIONS speculators.-M. y.
Campaign Democrat.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14
The difference.

During the canvas not a word has been
breathed against the personal and official in
tegrity of James Buchanan. During a long
life of connection with public affairs, lot an
instance can be shown in which he has used
his official position to promote his private
interest. How immeasurably in this respect
does his character tower above that of John
Charles Fremont. And in this prominent
feature Of Buchanan's character, his personal
and official purity, the American people have
a guarantee that in his hands all the great
interests of the country will be safe and that
no Galphanism, no C~ollinsism, no rafting at
the public crib will be admitted during his
administration
Look at the other side. Fremont has new
er failed to use his official position to put
money in his purse. 1t has been proved by
the highest authority that he used govern
ment funds while in California to speculate
in cows, and in breeding calves. And all
through his military career in that Territory,
peculation or speculation seemed to be first
in his thoughts. He is a p%rincely Spectator,
as his Mariposa claim will attest; a body o.
land which in Europe would cover a king
dom, and which is settled by a hardy elias:
of pioneers, whose title to their property and
whose earnings made by the sweat of theil
brow, are at once swept away by al old
Spanish title which John Charles Fremont
purchased for a mere song. And this is the
mar whom the yeomanry of this country
the labor;ng man whose industry has giver
wealth and progress to the nation, are called
upon to a place in a position Of high homo
or which may be perverted to gigantic specu.
lating schemes to secure and make available
his princely possessions, and to make ricl
such scheming politicians as Greeley, Ben
nett, law, Collins, Webb and Others, VIII,
are using every foul means to secure sue
cess.
Such is the character of the two men, anC
the choice lays between Fremont the specu
lator, and Buchanan, whose life attests hin
an honest man. Fremont will suit Bankers
Spectators, and Land Jobbers, but Buchanan
will be the choice of the honest yeomarr,
whose productive industry is at once tn
wealth, the honor and the safety of the ma
| tion -T,foDeHe american
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Terrible Destruction Of "Provender.
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Terrible Destruction Of "Provender.''
Some idea Of the mighty gathering a
Conuersville. on Thursday, may be formed
by an estimate Of the vast amount OF eat
ables" that was consumed I; the amount
as large as it was, but little more than suf.
icing to appesse the hunssrcf fhe female
portion of the vast assemblsge. The editor
of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who was one Of
the speakers of the day, gives a statement Of
some Of the staple items of consumption, as
obtained from the abstracts Of the Commit
tee. By these it appears that there were
supplied for the occasion five hundred hams
five thousand three hundred aud forty
chickens, seventy-6ve sheep. fifteen beeves
and three wagon loads of bread. Here was
forage enough for a good sized army, and
yet thousands had to look elsewhere for the
whercwithal to satisfy the Cravings oil
hunger.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14
From the ALBANY Argus
IFTum Ie AIDan! August
Fugitive Slave Law a Part Of the Missouri
Compromise.

compromise.
MEssRs. EDITORS Mr.. George Law, in
his letter to General Scroggs, repeats a very
general misapprehension concerning the ma
ture of the Missouri Compromise, which
ought to be corrected. While ~denouncing
the Fugitive Slave Law, and MIR. Fillmore
as its author, Mr.. Law applauds the Missouri
Compromise. Now, what is the Missouri
Compromise |? Please insert it, right here,
Messrs. Editors-it is the 9Th section Of the
act of 1820--snd you will observe that II
contains as a proviSo, a condition, a sine qWu
non, the FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
SIC. 8 And be IL further enacted, That in all
that territory coded by France to the United
States, under the name Of Louisiana, which
lies north Of thirty-six degrees and thirty min
ules north latitude, not Included within the
limits of the Stale contemplated by this act
slavery and involuntary Serfludc, otherwise
than In the punishment of Crines, whereof ih'
parties shall have been duly convicted, shat
be, aud is hereby forever prohibited Proridei
alDGys, that any person escaping into the same
from whom labor or service is law fully claimed
in any State or Territory Of the United States
such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, anC
conveyed to the person claiming his or her la
Dor or service. as aforesaid.
Docs the Republican platform insist upor
a restoration of this Compromise ? vii
they abide by its sacred compact ? Have
they ever performed this part Of it VIII!
then denounce the South for repudiating
compact which the North refuse to fulfil :?
Again Mr.. Law talks of the Compro
mise as a Northern measure Why, sir
every Northern man who voted for it wa
defeated, and denounced as a doughface
Just as they arc now denounced for its re
peal. Mr.. Lane, the President of the Re
publican Convention at Philadelphia, com
mitted the same blunder, of applauding tn,
Compromise aud %denouncing the Fugitiv
Slave Law in the same breath but the plat
form is %ominously silent upon both thes
points, and confines itself TO a denunciatiot
Of its repeal, without committing the part
TO its restoration. The wire-pullers shoul
enlighten such men as Mr.. Law and Nj
Lane, that they may sing tremendously, an
save themselves from the absurdity of advC
eating the restoration of the Missouri Com
promise and the rspeal of the Fugitive slav
| Law NJ.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14
TIL q Ladies' In the Field.

II there had been any doubt of the fact
that the ladies Of the country are on the side
Of the Democracy and the Union" in tho
present contest, a visit to Connersville, on
Thursday last, would nave dispelled that
doubt. Such a magnificent turn out of the
fair sex was never witnessed on any occasion
in the State of Indiana.
As another token Of interest felt by the
ladies in the result of the issne now before
the people, we may mention a little incident
that occurred in Dayton, Ohio. q few days
since, the particulars of which are given at
length in the columns OF the Empire. A
stately hickory tree, eighty feet in height,
crowned with foliage, carrying aloft a flag
emblszoned with thirty-one stars so arranged
as to form, of themselves, a single star-the
whole adorned with branching buck horns,
bearing q tasteful wreath, and encircled for
twenty feet below with evergreens and fow-
ers, was planted at the corner of two of the
principal streets of that city, by the fair fe-
male residents. When all was ready, some
fifty ladies grasped the guide ropes, and the
splendid hickory rose into the air to the mu-
sic aud shouts of the surrounding crowd
To secure it to its place, shovel and spade
were handled by the fair tree planters, with
a zeal and alacrity that was complimented
by cheer upon cheer.
When the work was completed, speeches
were delivered by several gentlemen who
were present to witness the proceedings
Before dispensing, cheers were given by the
multitude present, for the gallant Buchsneer.
esses, and for the Democracy and the
Union.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14

hepublicanism Uneasy ahout Judge Mclean.
In the Cleveland Pkainzaaler we find the
following article. We have no doubt that
many in the Republican party, who cannot
fully understand why Judge MCLEAN was
sacrificed in the Philadelphia Conve,at;op.
seek light from the action of the .Inaga al
to whom he will support. TIE Pd;udealer
says:
This distinguished jur.st and late candidate
Of the opposition partv for President. is 4 pu,.
ne : lne Diack er,oblicans about these DAYS.
nc a osen severn weeks holding court in this
cii,y' and is The. only man in the United States
VINO can ho'r- his tongue on politics. or rather
ressuen'DA candidates, and breathe the fester-
ing iusiorJ air Of this ~fanaiical town.
ne ms been besieged by Fremonters Of evarx
stripe, from the slightly KTSKED, up 10 ths
thcrough bred +" coal black Republicans. AMI
eVsry expedient used 10 draw him Out as 10
how he is going to vote"
The Judge, most proyokingly, would 90 into,
q learned and argumentative disquisitio1 unon
the qualifications the candidate FOR the Pres;-
dency of this great and growing nation sbould,
have claimed he should be a man Of snovn
character. age, experience as a statesman. ana
OF undoubted personal integrity-afwavs AZ.
scnibing a character the reverse Of the Mar;no.u
candidate.
last the Fremonters gave il up, and when
asked by the Fillmoreites with a know;,~
wink" how the Judge was going 10 vote ,
vote by ballot or"
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14

RELIEVE TIE AFFLIoTED.-Broke into the
pocket of the editor of this paper, some time
during the past week. a ten-ceut piece. Who
1t belongs to, or where it came from, is q
mystery to US, and we earnestly request the
owner to come and take it away. We have
been without money so long that it's use is
entirely forgotten. Upon one side is a beau
tiful young lady, with her handkerchief to
her eyes, weeping to think she has no mate,
and her nightcsp on a pole as a signal Of
distress. Once, getting angry, We punched
her severely, but she wouldn't come to
quarter" and now we beg that some one
will come aud take her swsy.-Erdange.
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UNIoN Cry. Ind. Aug. 9 1856.

EDITORS SESrIsEL 1t is a charac.er,stic
OF the policy Of the Black Re- ablicans to
~misrepresent. and in.nothiHe Is this character
istic so manifest as the.sr reports of votes said
10 nave been TAKEN on such and such trains,
steamboats, q canal packets.
rassrdg over the /. P. and c. r. r. to-day,
liSarned the result of three votings taken on
three different trains on that road yesterday.
Perhaps the Black Republicans will say the
report is a Democratic le-such is their way.
But if they do so it will not alter the fact
that by the votings l speak Of the result.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14

o. The following, from the Keokuk
Times, will show conclusively the character
OF Col. LANE and his company of Free State
men who have lately passed through this
State:
In Sigourney. Keokuk county. while I..,.
was encamped there, his men went out at MD.
nlgnt 10 the store OF a respectable German
apothecary, and ordered him TO get up ana -:-u
them liquor, under threat Of pulling dnwe 10
house, aud he was compelled TO tg.D ont h;s
liquor TO them. ~ ~
They called at the house Of q,
aged widow women, near Spr;nf.ld KaotaL
county, to get water, but the well ra,a.Nn1
broken; and there Ls;ng a pile Of rock nes, -
well, placed to lay the fovndstion Of : ho.- me
these rafians filled the eid lady's wei, - ,ss
top with rock. mo
They entered a stor. at Mon,.xuu
toek whatever they wanted without saa
for il. ' paying
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IFor late sentIneI.I

Eprrons SENTINEL: On Saturd. 1y night
last had the extreme s%ratiic alton of at
tending a hastily gotten " hickory pole
raising in the south part cf town, familiarly
known as "Tower Tow1ship.n The Democ-
racy in this precinct are unterr1fed, and their
efforts in behalf If the FORMULATION Of
Nationa Demoor Aic principles win. at the
approaching elections, prove a terror TO all
political evil d4oers.
The most. interesting feature of the occa-
sion was. that owing to the ~lateness of the
hour, toe getters up of the concern had no
opportunity of procuring a speaker, conse-
quenfiy they went at it themselves, and the
true principles of the country were ably dis
cussed by Messrs. Weaver, McCune, Gosney.
~, in a manner truly gratifying to Union
lists, and terrible to Disunionists. When we
see hard -~laboring men, unaccustomed to pub
lie speaking, so aroused, we may rest assured
that all Is right. A. r. p
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The Democracy Of Michigan have nomi-
mated Hon. ALPHEUs FELcH, Of Ann Arbor,
for Governor, and z. ii. LATHRoP, Of Kala-
mazoo, for Lieutenant Governor. Mr.. FELcH
was elected Governor Of the State in 1845,
and resigned his Office on his election TO the
u. s. Senate in 1847. Shortly after the ex-
pirztion of his Senatorial term, he was ap.
pointed, by the President, one Of the Com
missioners of Land Claims in California, where
he has remained ever since, in the discharge
of the duties Of his Office, till his return home
about two months ago. Mr.. +. has always
been a great favorite with the Democracy Of
the "woolverine State and will poll a larger
vote than any other man the party could
have nominated. e
The State ticket is a strong one throughout
and viii certainly not injure, if it does not
add to, the chances of success of tho Presi-
dental ticket. .tsis 81
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-08-14

NKw CoUSTERFEIT.-A new counterfeit has
made its appearance, and is well calculated 10
deceive. The bill is of the denomination of
so, and it purports to be on the City Bank of
Cleveland, LESUEL Wick, President, aud W. H.
STANLEY, Cashier. 1t is neatly altered from a
one dollar bill on the same bank, and has FOR
its vignette a female. sheaf Of grain aud agricul-
tural implements. Look out for it.
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By this it will be seen that the "Mustane
Colt" is not so popular as Willard Fillmore.
Seeing the train boy have among his peri
odicals copies Of the Life of Fremont, | said
"You ought to have some of Buchanan's Life
too"
Had" said he, " but sold them all.n
DO you sell many Of them ?' asked.
Huh! could not get along without them,
Was the reply. Yours,
YORICK
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Damage by the storm or Y-.,,.,m

The successive thunder showers of 1~sc,J.-
were The most severe for many yssra.
An unprecedented quantity q min s.u -
Eahsns % hunerous towns were struct -
hgrlnipg, including several churches. "
feet "' A'''imac River rose at Mapchess~r +,
aons - ~ aanPshire much damage had 49,
soSs ana s'o property By the sxtrsordiasrv oss
Psd'd, "a TIE rsarosds had bsssi1s
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Lighthouse Burnt.

NEwBURrPoRr, Mass, Aug. y.
The southern tower If the Lighthouse on
Rain Island was struck by lightning ysStsr.
day and burnt.