The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-05-24
Thing, GROWING worse in Kansas.

| can nearC winch does nOL DuTH Will luulSHd-
ton when such facts are presented to it as are
recorded in those dispatches? The people OF
Kansas who are opposed to slavery in its bor-
ders, are threatened with mob of Infatuated
men who have no more reason nor mercy than
any other enraged mob-yet strange to say,
the very leader of this mob, the very power
which gives it strength and its adversaries
weakness, is the President of the United
States, acting through his tool Shannon, who
backs himself "by authority" with United
States troops. In the history of the civilized
world there never was greater iniquity than
that now passing before the eyes of the Amer
lean people, and trenspiring in and about one
of their own territories. We behold man re-
Gently Governor over this territory by appoint
ment of this same President, dismissed be-
cause he would not become tool Of Missouri
Rufians, afterwards elected Delegate to Con-
gress by the Representatives of the people of
Kansas-now perhaps the prisoner of a mob
for treason! Another man, elected Governor
by the people Of Kansas, also prisoner in the
Commission sent by Congress to ferret out
everything relative to the past unhappy con-
diton of things in Kansas, insulted, threaten
ed, and probably by this time, abused in their
dence, they dared not trust this to their own
keeping, but had to smuggle it away for safe
ty, and the dispatch informs us of its arrival
at Chicago. BUTT is useless to speak further
of these things. In this last matter Congress
has been insulted, and through it the American
people have been insulted.
The future history of Kansas is filed with
gloom. 1t must prove dark field of moboc-
racy and bloodshed. And yet all is the natu-
raj result of the Kansas Nebraska Law. Upon
Douglas and Pierce's heads rest every drop of
blood shed and yet to be shed in these Kansas
difficulties. There is terrible moral res pom
sibility upon them, and we trust it will prove
equally terrible to them as political response
ty-terrible enough to annihilate them.
The above was suggested by the dispatches
headed Important from Kansas" Since
then we have received dispatches expressly
for this Office, giving the substance of news
contained in the st. Louis Republican. We
have more than once told our readers that any
and all news from Kansas published in the Re-
publican must be taken as the Border Ruffian
account, and therefore entitled to very little
belief. This despatch says, war has COM
menced. We call the attention o. our readers
to the closing aragraph-"Kickapoo Leaven-
worth City, Donephan and Atcheson, were al
most entirely destroyed, the men having prob
ably obeyed the call of the Marshal to aid at
Lawrence" Are we to infer from this, that
the ruffians called to aid their brother ruffian
Marshal have destroyed these places We
shall anxiously await further reports.
Two Children Poisoned.
/ DEATH FROM ToBAcco-We have been in
formed of a whole family, consisting of five
persons, who were poisoned near Bladesville,
in the Northern part of Illinois. in very sim
gular manner. Mr.. Donough had purchased
some articles in Bladesvlle for his own, and
family use, among which were quantity of
parched coffee, and several papers of fine cut
chewing tobacco. The coffee was carried
loosely in a tin bucket, and the papers of to-
bacco thrown on the coffee in the same buck
ct. The Earring of the wagon, it seems, caused
small rent to be made in one of the papers,
which escaped the observation Of Mr.. Den
ough. By means of this rent considerable
quantity of the tobacco got mixed among the
coffee, and on being used shortly afterwards,
at the breakfast table, it was more than once
observed by different members of the family,
that the coffee had peculiarly bitter favor
but attributing this to imperfect parching or
some other harmless cause, they still contin-
ued to drink it. Very shortly after breakfast,
some of the younger members of the family
were seized with nausea, speedily followed
by commissions. In less than an hour the
whole family were sick, and medical assistance
was called in. Two Of the children aged seven
and eight years. died before night third is
in very dangerous condition. The father
and mother are doing BETTER and may recover.
The circumstance led to an examination of the
coffee Mr.. Donough had purchased, and a
quantity of loose tobacco was discovered in
termixed with it, and the sad affair was traced
to the true cause.
DID You EVER THINK OF T.-Each individ-
ual who purchases lot in Haubstadt or in
any other town becomes we'll posted hand
bill whereby the advantages of the place are
published to the world. Hence the proprietor
of Haubstadt intends to have his place adver-
tised hy this means REGARDLESS of the nrice