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Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-02-28

We have often heard it said that '.high
prices make plenty and while butter was
selling at 25 cents per pound, there was an
ssbundancc--of lard with little butter on
the surface!
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-02-28

Wonder what Logansport Insurance
money is worth on the dollar?
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-02-28

Commissioners Court meets next Mon
day.
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-02-28

The Circuit Court in this place adjourn
ed last Saturday, at sr being in session two
weeks and continuing about one half of the
business.
The Grand Jury was called together (as
was represented, to attend to some very
important business, but it seems from the
fact of their not finding any more bills,
that there was no necessity of assembling
them the second time.
From the Clerks certificates We find the
cost which the county has to pay for the
last court, to be TIE modest little sum of
$3.50, Is, exclusive of sheriff fees for sum
moning Jurors. dc.
Fees If Grand Jurors were. SIP 80
Fees of Petit Jurors were ....... 227 rs
Fees of Sheriff Bailiffs and Clerk. 90 10
TOTAL, S1oU 10
The county will have to pay something
near five hundred dollars in all. for expen
ses of the last Court 1t seems to be a
query in the minds of some why our taxes
are SO high; in order to enligbtcn such to
some extent, We have given tie above fig
urcs.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

The INITIAL QUESTION The newspapers
being somewhat exercised on the iniuaIity
Of may coin n wordl Of the approaching
Presidential contest, beg that they will wait
patiently till Nov. when the mystery will be
made plain and they will lie fully initiated.
For example, the friends Of the ," double 81
ticket buchanan and Breckenridge on ask
ing Information as to the state Of the polls
as the lightning flashes the report from VA
rious portions of the country, will discover
that their chances are" " Better and Better
The double i" men (Fremont and Fill
more) Will find their votes to have been
= Few and FAR between" And the friends.
Of the " double ps' dayton and Doneson0
will receive the melancholy intelligence that
their candidates are Dying and Dead
Richm0nd Enquirer.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29
From The California Express Extra.
Arrival of the Golden Age.
o A,o oS-11.3O A AZ

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 26-ll:3O A. NJ
The p. NJ. S. s. Cos steamer Golden Age
arrived here this morning, bringing Londcn
dates to the 2lst July, and n. Y. and Bos-
ton to the 4th August
EUROPEAN News. European newsto the
2lst July The proposals for the settlement
of the Central American question made TO
the British government by Mr. Dallas had
transpired in England, through the medium
Of the London Times, and had given gener'
al satisfaction They may be briefly sum
med up as follows:
San Juan to become free port under
the sovereignty of Nicaragua; the Mosquito
Indians to be concentrated on territory
clearly defined as to extent, and an annual
pension to be paid to the chiefs; England to
restore Island Bay to the State OF Honduras;
Baize to remain in possession Of the Eng
lish. with the same limits as in 1880. Last
ly. portion of territory TO be taken across
Central America, in order to establish n
communication between the two oceans
The chief feature Of interest in the news
is the critical position to which the liberal
party have brought in Spain by the success
of the recent coup detdt on the part of the
Queen. or rather of the Christian Camarilla
aided by the treachery Of Colonnea. itnp-
pears that the latter, in order to further the
object OF the conspiracy, had concentrated
about $4,000 troops in Madrid, with whom,
after eighteen hours desperate resistance,
he succeeded in disarming the citizens and
National Guards 1t wus reported that Es-
parterO had been arrested in the Capital,
but the rumor required confirmation.
In Aragua the popular party were victo-
rious and the revolution was certain to ac-
9ure strength, from the fact that legal
quorum of the Cortez had assembled at Sar-
agosa, and proclaimed the Constitution
Another circumstance which was likely to
aid the popular cause, was the fact that
Convoy Of $4,000 600 of francs from the cred
it of Mobilier, which had entered Spain pre-
uious to the news of the insurrection being
received in Franco, would have to pass
through the district, through which the lib
erals were in greatest force The exile chris
tians with Narraez as their head, were has
tening from Paris to the frontier, and the
French Emperor had ordered force of 5000
cavalry to assemble on the frontier US a
measure Of precaution.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

INDIAN WAR on KINGS RIVER. The San
Joaquin Republican learn from MIR. 5. ".
Allen, who has just returned from King 5
River, that serious difficulties have broken
out between the settlers and the Indians in
that vicinity. The trouble has grown ont
of cattle thieving depredations committed
by the Indians. The settlers demanded the
punishment of the thieves, but receiving no
reply, party started out in pursuit and
engaged the Indians in battle The fight
lasted several hours, and six Indians were
killed md portion OF the stolen property
recovered. Further difficulties is appre
hended.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

Blair TO Congress from the ST Louis District
and the success Of the elective Benton ,icses
The vote for Benton in ST. Louis, was D, ,lS9;
Ewing, 4 053; Polk, 2,l5?.
The Commissioners at Panama from the
United States, having performed their du-
ties, have returned hone
The British have seven men. n.of.war at
The Penama Star states that Riyas is for
tfying himself against Walker, and con-
tends that he s still President.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

G0-RowE s SMITHS Pioneer Circus will
visit us again, for one day only. on Sunday,
Sept. 7th We can stand such amusements
as this magnificent Equestrian Company
offer rs. They are good all the time. They
are always new When we look at their per-
formanee we are witnessing something that
cannot be excelled.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

re- The City Hall Of San Francisco
which has cost nearly 100000, is adver-
tised by the Sheriff to be sold to-day. for a
debt of $50 900. If it is sold, the City lose
near half a million of dollars Why don't
the Vigilants, who have usurped the 60
vernment,' save this for the people'
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29
AOR CORONER.
DIR. J. ID. BROWN.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION

ht n meeting of the California Democratic state
Central Committee held in the city of Sacramento,
on the 10Th day of july 1856, 1t resolved That
Democratic State Convention be called tO meet in
the city of Sacramento. on TUESDAY, the ~h day oi
September next, for the purpose of nominating TWO
members of Congress- n Clerk of the Supreme Court,
superintendent of Public Instruction, II State Prison
director. and four Presidential Electors
The State Central Conn ittee suggest that S0tur-
iny the ODD day of August, be the day selected by
HE different counties for the election Of Delegates TO
tnid Democratic State Conventions
The following is the appOronrnent OF representa-
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

CoNtSpRuM Why should the Black Republicans
be considered an economical partyY Because NAT
ural color needs paint, and natural odor no per-
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

to american says:
A vote was taken in saloon, in this city,
the other evening, which resulted as follows
For Fillmore. .....................7
" Buchanan NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
'' Fremont. ..................1
We are not afraid to wager that it was q
regular rot gut saloon, where topers most
do congregate, or the vote of Buchanan
would have been larger. Show US well
kept house, and we will guarantee better
vote. .-.Mar uspiNe Express.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

EK- We surrender large portion of this morn
ings paper, ITO the important news brought by the
Steamer Golden Age.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

MINING ON WEST BRANCH.--Our friend,
Col. Staunton, has just returned from trip
to Messilla valley, Spanish Town, and Club
Gulch, and gives most aattering accounts of
ming in those localities.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

KEY HOLE MINING COMPANY COM
pany has just got down in their claim, and
ave struck it rich With three men in
five days they took out two hundred and
forty dollars.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

THANKS We are under thousand obligations to
G. b. FOWLER, ESQ, for a copy of the Marysvlle
Express Extra containing the news Of the arrival of
the Steamer Golden Age.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

REPuMcAS COVE NTIoN.--The Republican State
Convention met at Sacramento yesterday, and or
gpnized by choosing Gen. Chas II. 5. Williams,
President. and Wee President from each county in
the state, among which appears the name OF C C
Lincoln OF Butte. The naIn"s of G. G. Lincoln and
John Dick, of Butte county, have been proposed as
candidates for Black Repblican Presidential Elec
tors Amun get The names proposed for Compress; i:
that es ewis Cunningham. OF MarysVille. He de-
clined being candidate, wheTeuPon The Convention
refused to let h In decline. lie il supposed to be
mooiei u.an. and they eyines a discrimination to
sian his hank The Rev. Mr. Mysrs openai the
Convention with prayer, aller .h.cs the e.ag a
song to the old Dnrkey tune OF
Il bet my money on the longheeled nag,
Dn dab, du dab day"
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

A FAILURE.-The Mountain Dcmocrd!
says that the Know Nothing meeting, held
at Placeryille the other day, was n complete
failure.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

BUSINESS SIGNs.--We have, without any
doubt, Artists of all kinds in Oroville, that
would compete probably with those of any
Town in the State, more particularly do We
head the list in fancy Sign and Ornamental
Painting.
The sign of WatsOn's News Depot, which
is to be mounted on the new brick office, is
one of the most beautiful pieces of workman
ship that we have seen in many day.
1t is the work of our neighbor, Mr. Hay
den, to whom it does great credit.
Signs. like advertising. will tell.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

CORRECTION France, the person men-
toned by us a few days since as having shot
himself through the arm, in an affray at
Pike Hill, says the statement published by
US is incorrect, and furnishes the following
account Of the affair. lie went from here to
Iowa Hill where his wife resides This state.
ment is furnished by the Editors of the Iowa
Hill .NeiCs, who also vouch for his re-
spectability and standing We cheerfully
publish the correction lie says that on
Sunday, 18th inst, while passing the house
Of Mr. Barnhart, at Pike Hill, friend Of
Barnhart called him into the house lie
went towards the house, and had some words
with him, (B. s friend Barnhart interfered,
and La France, knowing that Barnhart was
larger and stouter man than he, told him
if he would lay his hand on him he would
shoot him. Being no doubt considerably
excited at the time, he put his hand in his
breast and grasped his pistol, and doubtless
cooked it, and it Immediately exploded, the
contents passing through the lower part OF
his arm near the wrist lie did not try to
shoot Barnhart, as stated in the Rrcord.
His arm was dressed by physician in Oro-
Vile Next morning, he was at Parks Bar,
on the Yuba, and another physician dressed
his arm there. lie left Parks Bar, and was
followed by this same physician and two other
men, who arrested him at the Empire Ranch
took him back to TimbuctoO, and brought
him before n Justice of the Peace, who asked
him some few questions, and Immediately
discharged him.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29
OrOyilIe Buchanan Club.

The regular meetings of this Club are held on
Thursday Evening of each week at the United States.
ID. HARRIS, Rec. sec'y.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

SAN FRANCISCO Liquor SToRE.-Our
friend Charley Brown has established him.
self in Randall & McDermot's brick block
in the Wine, Liquor aud Cigar business
He has choice lot of goods and stands rea,
dy to supply the trade at fair living prices
See his advertisement
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

How is 1T.--IIow is it that Gov. johnson,
who short time since was ready to spend a
million Of the public funds to equip reg-
ments to march against the Committee OF
Vigilance at San Francisco, cannot appro-
pirate one dollar towards organizing a small
company to put down those organized bands
of robbers which now infest every part of
the State Sac. Times.
It's because the Vigilance Committee have
the State arms, and refuse to give them up,
even for the protection of the defenceess
inhabitants of the North, who are being mur-
dered by inhuman savages, and of our citi-
zens who are being plundered by organized
bands of villains. Never in the history Of
California, has crime been so rife as it has
been under the reign of the Vigilance Com
mttee. They have plundered the State of
the means of protecting her citizens, and
are incapable of doing ii themselves, and
yet the authorities are tauntingly asked
why they do not protect our citizens from
bands of thieves and merciless savages !
Thus adding insult to injury, and turning
their victims over to be murdered and plum
dered by savages and thieves. Is the Times
answered.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

COUNTING THE CosT There are about
four thousand Indians on the Grand Rhonde
Reservation, Ooregon; of whom eight hun
dred are warriors; the rest are squaws and
children. They require fifty beeves and
twenty five hundred pounds of -four per
week, to keep them; making the cost to the
Government about $l25,0oo a year. The
Oregonians think the plan of feeding them
cheaper, but not so effectual as fighting
them.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

NEGRO INsoLENCE The Times, the Ne
gro orgsn of State, published at Sacramento,
calls the Democracy of Butte the Drom
edaries," If this is specimen of their in
science now, what would it be if they should
happen to get Office Negro official inso-
lence! Whise men wonlj be no iphGr. Ii
a white man expresses the belief that the
Republicans belong to the human family
negro-like, the Republicans retort. by call
ing the white man an animal.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

DRuGs AND MEDICINEs.-ify you wish fine article
at fair price, 90 the 0roville Drug Store on Mont
gomery street, near the Orleans Hotel aug22
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

We are under oo igations to Bob O'Neal
for Marysville and Sacramento papers, and
other favors.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29

Thanks to Ii b. Garnham, for papers of
late date.
Also the obliging Watson for usual favors.
Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-08-29
FILLMORE UNION CLUB.

The Regular Meetings Of the Fillmore Union
Club will be he'd every Tuesday and Friday
evenings, at the CLUE ROOM, in the L. s. Hotel.
aug22 +. G. AYRES, Secretary.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-05-10
AN IRISH MODEL FARM

Extract from a recent letter of PARKER Pills
BURY, dated at Dublin -
Il have been this morning to visit a Model
Farm Probably we saw there ONE sights that
would crafty any one, but especially any one like
me, brought up, or rather, droee up h farmer.
The young Irishmen are placed there to be in
structed in the arts and mysteries of agriculture,
in all its various departments, on the most scicn-
ti6c principles, and l know of no branch of bust
ness that really admits Of the exercise of more &C.
MUS, or more through training 1t is an insulting
burlesque and mockery to call that roofing up and
scratching of the surface of the earth which we US
ed to do, farming. You might as justly call the
mud-balls the children roll up wheaton loaves and
plum buildings. 1t vexes nc now to think how we
did it. There was a dairy-room that you could see.
and smell, with unmingled satisfaction, and some
butter that would tempt n Grabamite.a and cows so
clean and nice, you would think the French EN-
peror might suckle the royal baby on one of them.
And then the tables of the young men and boys,
their beds, their books, their school-room, cabinet
Of minerals, collections of grains and grasses, and
paintings of animals, of flowers, of huge garden
vegetables, Of plans for gardens and plans Of build
ings, were such as as to lead one to hope something
yet, even for Ireland and it is a pity all the young
men, and and women, too, could not spend three
years here before emigrating to America. They
would not then have to dig and drudge for us, as
they do at present-and get little for it at last
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-05-10
AN OLD PRINTER.

We have in our Office an old printer, seventysix
years of age, who commenced his apprenticeship
Of seven years in the Kings Printing Office, Lon
don, in l7s4-sixty-four years ago. He was a sci
der under Sir John Moore at Corunna, in Spain in
lie was present at the burial of Sir John Moore,
and the minutest particulars of the
scene. He was also with the Duke of Wellington
through his whole campaign, and lost an ankle
bone by a grape shot in the battle Of Waterloo.
This old man, after all his hard service, is still one
OF the swiftest and best compositors VIC have ever
known, and, though lame from his wounds, is still
able, at "early morn and dewy eve" while young
err men are wasting the golden hours IN pleasure
or snoozing them away in bed, to ramDle over the
fields and through the woods'in search Of wild iow-
ers, with which he forms tempting boquets for the
bells Of the village OF to crafty the wishes of some
favorite little girl. 1t speaks well for the heart of
the Soldier that all the children love him.-Biach-
stone (Eng.) Chronicle.
We cut the above from the Rhode Island Coun-
try Journal of last week. 1t also appeared in the
Boston Evening Telegraph of the 18th inst, and,
before now has probably been copied by other
papers as a fresh item of foreign intelligence. The
paragraph, however, is of domestic origin. having
been originally published in the Blackstone(Mass !
Chronicle OF May 30, 1913. 1t went the rounds Of
the press at that time. How it happens that, after
a sleep OF almost eight years, it has taken another
start and that too as q foreign item, we do not
know. Whether father Scowell' the odd Printer"
alluded to, 'still lives" or, like The Blackstone
Chronicle, has ended his earthly existence, we are
not informed.--A. S. Standard.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-05-10
THE FIRST AMERICAN NEWSPAPER.

The first attempt to set up q newspaper in North
America, so far ms can be ascertained, was made
in Boston, 1890. OF the paper then issued, ONLY
one copy is known to be in existence; and that
copy is deposited in the State Paper Office in Lon
don. Number one, of this paper, and probably
the only number ever published, is dated Septem.
Der 25, 1890. 1t is a small sheet of four quarto
pages, one Of which is blank, and contains q re-
cord of passing occurrences. foreign and domestic.
Immediately on its publication, it was noticed by
the authorities. Four days after, they spoke of
it as a pamphlet; stated that it came out contrary
to law, and contained reflections of a very high
nature;" they strictly forbade anything in print,
without license first obtained from those appointed
by the Government to grant the same" 1t was
printed by Richard Pierce, for Benjamin Harris.
The latter had a printing house in Boston, and
printed chiefly for book sellers. lie was born in
London and returned to that place about the year
1854. Dunton an English bookseller, who had
been in Boston, in his Life and Errors printed
at London, in 1905, says of Benjamin Harris: ale
was a brisk asserter of English liberties, and once
printed "A book with that very title. lie sold n
Protestant Petition, in King Charles reign, for
which he was fined five pounds; and he was cnce
sent to the pillcry, but his wife--like a kind rib
stood by him to defend her husband against the
mob. After this--having a deal of mercury in
his natural temper, he travelled to New England,
where he followed book selling, and then printing,
but continued Ben Harris still, and is now both
bookseller and printer in Grace Church ST., as
we find by his London Post. So that his CONVEX
sation ia general--but never impertinent-and his
wit pliable to all Inventions"
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-05-10
THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE.

the immediate consequence, and the youth accep.
ted it, to combat with pistols, at ten PAGES
The interview took place the next morning at
sunrise, on the bank Of the Arkansas river, half n
mile above Little Rock; and never did n greater
conoourse of spectators swarm to behold n similar
scene.
Al the appointed hour, the seconds, Elias Whar-
ton for Woods, and Fent holland for Coleman, sta
toned their principals in position, and the anxious
throng actually trembled in fearful expectancy of
the brutal signal. Indeed, the proximity Of the
foes was so close that the escape Of either with
life seemed altogether hopeless.
In the meanwhile q wonderful change had been
wrought in the aspect of the formerly mild and
merciful minister. Ills blue eyes looked luminous
as f~re-balls, aad the thoughtful sadness Of his
countenance had been replaced by a perpetual
smile-but such q smile, fierce, scorching. muir
derous, as appeared to haYe the power Of blasting
the gazer's sight, like the flash Of lightning from
a hunder-sloud.
AS Fent holland left his friend, he whispered in
his ear: "Be sure and aim ut the encmy's head,
and fire at the word; it is your only chance"
At length the signal sounded, and both weapons
roared apparently together; yet, in fact, Coleman's
had the precedence by some half q second, and
that diminutivc, fragment Of duration made all the
difference of an entire eternity in the result.
Woods fell to the earth Ike q stone dropped
from the hand, with a bullethole through bis right
temple, while his own ball whistled the fourth of
an inch above his adversary head!
From that day the fame and fortune Of Levi
Coleman might be considered firmly established.
He was installed forthwith in the editorial chair of
the Arkansas Wing and welded pen and pistol
with the same triumphant success, until suddenly
the angel of pestilence cut short his brief and bril-
lient career.
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-05-10
Pleasant Lake, Ind.
FOR the Dugie.
n U S I N G s d.
A, E, l.. r.

Calmly blew the south breeze, coming in at my
open window laden with the perfume of a thou
sand flowers, just bursting into life and beauty.
Merrily rang out the morning carol of the birds
the Joyous happy b~irds-whose songs of overflow
ing Joy und gladness pour forth from their tinny
Threats in one harmonlal strain of joy. Beautiful
ly smiled the glorious sun upon the green old
earth dissipating the reign Of darkness from her
securest Businesses. All was light and life and
10y. Was not earth q Paradise-a Heaven Of
Peace and Love.
/ asked the balmly south wind.
Mournfully came the reply, l come from an op
preston, where man cruelty, fendishly enslave;
his brother. Where there is no rest nor peace fol
Gods children. Where wrong, and woe, and mis-
rule bear uEresisted sway, and bear upon m,
bosom the signs and groans, the great hearsbreal
of bleeding, suffering, crushed humanity.
1 asked the merry ~carolling birds, and their SOM
of joy died away into a death wall over their loveC
ones gone. Murdered cruely, caus elessly murder
ed, by the hand of enlightened Christian man.
l asked the beautifully beaming sun.
l shine upon millions of eartb's sons md dangh
ters, eking out a miserable existence in the hare
fought battle of Life.
Toiling for food under the rule of the Despo
Capital. The same ray which glances in brillian
lustre from the gli.tering carriage of the marble
hearted millionaire, illumines the faces Of thousands
of the best and bravest of earths sons and daught
ers, wasting, dying, bereft of their God-giver
rights to life by arrogant, purse-proud aristocrats
How long, o, Lord, how long shall these thing
be! II. L. ALEXANDER.