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Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16


Hon. w. d. REED distinguished old line
wing of Pennsylvania, in recent letter an
nouncing his discrimination to support Mr..
BUCHANAN, thus eloquently speaks to bis
friends and neighbors relative to the border
line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
remember, years ago, on bright summers
afternoon, toiling up the turnpike road on the
Cove Mountain, in your county, and when /
reached the summit, turning TO gaze on as
beautiful scene ever gladdened my eye
the valley of peaceful beauty which stretches
off to Maryland and towards the Potomac. 1t
! Is q familiar scene TO most of you. To me it
was new. and its impression has never faded
from my mind. As far as the eye could reach,
there fertility-the sigas Of tranquil in
dustry all was beautiful-aIl was peaceful
/ 1t looked, as it was, like the abode Of happy
and united people. The political line separa-
I ting Pennsylvania from Maryland, traced by
those old fashioned surveyors, Charles Mason
and jeremiah Dixon, was visible to no eye
The trees on which they marked it had long
been felled or disappeared. Many farm was
separated by it, but, except in the eye of the
/ law, no one knew 1t or cared about il. | have
oiten--for painful thoughts are thrustiUg them
/ selves upon me-recalled that scene of actual
| beauty and united interest, and realized what
| 1t would be-what your condition will be
what must be the condition of every county of
this commonwealth lying on the Maryland line:
Chester, Lancaster, York, Adams, Franklin,
Fulton, Bedford, Somerset, Fsyette and Greene:
| if disuniOn be forced upon Us, and the fracture
4 be, rs 1t would be, between what are popularity
but falsely called the free and the slave States,
between US and Maryland. L " ish every man
could be made to understand what frontier is.
even that Of civilized life. Its daily, hourly
vexations and dangers-its line of custom
houses to keep the smuggler 10 and out-the
crowds Of fugitives from justice and labor il.
Testing every avenue aud concealed in every
tlicket- the murderer striking down his victim
to-day, ana flying with the fresh blood on his
hand to foreign territory to morrow--the bick-
ering, the strife, the hot blood of conterminous
dispute--all this would be the daily doom of
every southern county of this State and across
u the beautiful valley have spoken of would be
distressingly visible, the actual, broad, perhaps
bloody line which dsunon must trace. This
is true, though hard to conceive. Pennsylvania
and you Of Franklin county, have so long re-
posed in the very center of the Union, that you
| cannot understand how you can become a from
tier, aud how you will suffer when you do.
The line separating Pennsylvania from
Maryland will be visible to no eye SO long as
the Democracy shall have possession of the
reins of government but a faction is now
endeavoring to obtain control of those reins,
whose success, and the carrying into effect of
whose principles, would convert that as yet
unseen division into the broad, bloody line of
disunion. God grant that change SO fatal
TO the interests Of liberty and humanity may
never occur
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16
Still at their Old Game.

The rscklessness and effrontery with which
the Abolition press manufacture kansas out
rages'' to pander to the morbid appetites Of
Northern fanatics, is absolutely astonishing
If they have come to the conclusion to lay
aside all respect for truth and decency, lei
them say so at once, ard they will be treated
accordingly.
In the Chicago Democratic Press of Satur.
day last, we find a leading editorial enlarging
in the most pathetic mood Of the writer, up
on certain outrages upon the steamer ''Genos, y
said to have been sunk on the Missouri Riv.
er, near Omaha City; on the 30th ult. The
Press pretends to have gathered the fact.
from citizen of Chicago who was ON the
boat at the time, and who had returned home
through Iowa.
After describing the boarding Of the steam.
er by "band of some twenty-five or thirty
Missouri marauders, headed by fierce look
ing rufian, bristliDg with pistols, a bowie
knife aud revolver" and their insolent Ian
gusge to the passengers, tho editor very grave
| ly says that the Hon. HOWELL CoBB, of Geor.
gia, happened to be on board, and his e1pos.
tulatiOns with the the leader, induced the
party TO leave without further molestation &c
| the passengers.
The editor Of the Press, by this unfortunate
use of Mr.. CoBB's name, stamps his whole
tale as miserably concocted falsehood.-
Had he kept himself half as we'll posted il
| reference to political movements in the East
as he processes to be in "border rufian" move
ments in Kansas, he never would have laid
himself open TO be so easily detected. Every
intelligent reader of the newspapers know.
that ever since the adjournment of Congress
Mr.. COBB has been engaged in public speak
| ing in Maine, in Pennsylvania and this State
At the time the occurrence, so unctiously de
tailed by the Chicago Press, was said to have
taken place, Mr.. COBB was in Pennsylvania
The whole story is, of course, of the same
piece with that portion of it which recount'
the appearance of Hon. HOWELL COBB, and
his successful expostulations with the leader
of this "gang of Missouri marauders."
People can thus see what miserable, con
temptible stuff they are treated to through
the columns of the Abolition papers. L refer
ence to Kansas.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16
Correspondence OF the Indiana State Sentinel !
Letter from Kansas.
LEooMPToN, K. T., Oct. Sd, Is


j. j. BINGHAM, Dear Sir Il have very
agreeable recollection of my interview with
you at indianapolis, and have not forgot
ten my promise to write to you. have, how
ever, been SO much engaged since my arrival
here on the 21st ult, and events of such
thrilling interest and moment have crowded
SO thick and fast upon us that letter writing
was out of the question.
Now, however when peace reigns in Kansas
when the sharp crack Of the murderei'S rifle
has given place to the music of the saw, the
anvil and the loom, when people are return
ing to their claims and are running riot with
Joy at the glad prospect before them, will
avail myself of the general lull TO redeem
my promise TO you.
Your paper of the 18th ult, was received
here few days since and read by me with
great attention.
Your estimate of Gov. Geary is not too
exalted, and the good you have anticipated
from his administration is already realized
here. He arrived on the 9th ult, al Fort
Leavenworth and reached this place on the
11th. At this moment the misfortunes of
this beautiful Territory had reached their
climax. Instruction and civil war of the
bitterest character prevailed aud the two
leading factions saw no hope of peace save
in the determination of each other. Murders
and cold blooded asassinations were of every
day occurrence, arsons, highway robberies and
larccnies were SO common as to excite little
attention, men were forced from their claims,
delicate women were driven naked, at the
dead hour of night, from their blazing homes,
the Territorial Government was entirely par
slyzed, all authority condemned, all conf
dence between men destroyed and the 'reign
of terror began.
The sad consequences Of such state of
things are too evident TO need any draft on
my imagination. The people were i'm
poverished, harvests neglected, families in
mourning, and gaunt famine was fast stealing
over this land of plenty.
The iron will and indomitable courage of
one man stayed this destructive torrent, and
saved this heaven blessed land from all the
horrors Of fratrcidal strife and civil war.
When the Governor reached Lecompton,
an army of 200 Missourisrs, under Gen.
Ried, were marching upon Lawrence with
settled purpose of burning that place and
massacreing its inhabitants, and then Topeka
was TO have the fate of Lawrence, and the
Free State men were to be driven from the
Territory.
On the other side the Free State men
were concentrating at Topeka, and Others
were marching through Iowa, and they too
were determined to expel the Pro- Slavery
men,
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16

Those outrageous laws passed by the Kan
sss Legislature constitute the chief stock Of
eleoaoneering matter of the Republican press
aud Republican orators. II it were not for
those laws, they would have nothing about
which to write or speak, unless 1t would be
TO BLACKBOARD the Democratic party. They
sid thoee laws are infamous. We admit 1t |;
and the Democrats in the United States Sem
ate passed bill to wipe out those laws, but
the Republicans In the House unanimously
voted against and defeated it
They cay they are infamous and yet the
Republicans in Congress unanimously, with
a single exception, by voting for DUNN's bill,
recognized the validity Of the Legislature
that passed them
They say that murders, robberies, and vio-
lencs have prevailed in Kansas, and yet they
vote for DUSs's bill, which repealed all the
laws in the Territory for the punishment of
crime
They say that slavery is the grandest sys-
TEN of wrong and iniquity ever devised, and
yet they vote for bill establishing this sys-
TEN in Kansas, and making every innocent
black child burn there of slave mother a
slave for life, and had it not been for the
Democrats in the Senate voting against it,
this bill would have passed Congress.
They say the Fugitive Slave Law is dis
grace to the age and to the administration
under which il was passed and yet DUSN's
bill, for which they voted, extended the Fu-
gitive Slave Law over all Kansas, and large
portion of the western territory besides.
They say the members of the Kansas Le-
gislature were fraudulently elected, and they
all vote in Congress to recognize the acts and
doings Of this Kansas Legislature.
They say that popular sovereignty" is a
humbug and yet this same DUNN's bill re-
cognises the doctrine Of popular soyer-
eighty" 1t provides that every "white male
inhabitant being citizen of the United
States, above the age of twenty-one years
who shall have been resident of said ter
ritory at the time of the passage Of this act,
shall be entitled to vote at the first cleo
ton"
What Inconsistencies are there of which
the Republican party are not guilty?
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16
The Presidential Elociion-The Latest Iuteli:-
geuee-Good News from Pennsylvania and

The Presidential Eleciion-Ths Latest Iutell;-
geuee-Good News from Pennsylvania and
Illinois.
The Washington Union estimates that in
the FIVE great German counties in Penusyl-
vania-Berks, Lancaster, Lebanon, North
ampton, and Lehigh-the Democratic gain
will be FIVE thousand at the October Election
over PIERcE's majority in 1852, when he
carried the State by twenty thousand ma
jority. The Union has no doubt that the
Democracy will beat the whole combined
opposition badly in October.
As corroborative OF this statement, we find
in the New York Daily Me10s, letter from
the National Democratic Committee-rooms
at Washington, which says;
am satisfied that Fremont is a dead cock
in the pit, beyond the hope of resuscitation (;
and make this assertion upon better, more re-
liable and truthful data than such a paper, ed
tied by such man rs Bennett, could possibly
obtain. l have seen letters from every county
and nearly every township, and tell you, and
through you the country, that, if there is truth
in man, Pennsylvania will cast her vote for the
Democratic ticket in October next by ten TO
twenty thousand majority. The majority at
the Presidential election will be more than
double this
a. We have advices from Illinois which set.
ties the question in our favor. One of our
friends saw here to-day, who says that he
will bet on Illinois giving larger proportion
ate majority for the Democratic ticket than any
State in the Union.
Bets are freely offered here on PenDsylva-
mia, New Jersey, Illinois, and Indiana, and no
takers.
The Fremonters are badly frightened. As
an evidence Of this we hear that q letter was
read at Woodstock. Vermont. from Thaddeus
Stephens, OF Pennsylvania, in which he sor-
rows over the certain defeat of the Fu sionists
in that State.
Our count here is that the Democrats are
desd sure to carry the following States Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois and
Michigan, of the Free States, and the vote Of
every Southern State. This elects. But we
20 further and confidently believe, from the
present favorable turn Of events, that we shall
carry Connecticut, New Hampshire. Ohio and
Wisconsin.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16
w nat Inconsistencies are there OF viii
the Republican party are not guilty?
Maryland.

The Washington Union, of Saturday last,
publishes letter from one hundred and
seven Old Line Wings of Bryantown Dis
trict. Charles county, Maryland. in which
they announce their intention to do all in
their power to secure the election OF JAMES
BUCHANAN and JOIN G. BREcKIsRIDaE-
The substantial evidence which Maryland
has given since the meeting of the Cincin-
nat; Convention of the National feeling
which pervades the minds Of her citizens, is
sufficient TO remove all doubt as to what she
will do in November The hundreds of en-
inent and influential Wings who have en-
rolled themselves under the Democratic ban
ncr, render it impossible that the electoral
vote Of the State can be given to FILLMORE.
The disgraceful scenes that attended the
recent charter election in Baltimore, is re-
acting with fearful effect against the Know
Nothings, throughout the State.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16
is inevta5l
Signs Of Distress.

The friends and supporters of Mr.. Ere.
MONT, says the New York Journalof Com.
n'erce, are beginning to feel that their cause
is not likely to be so successful as they desire
or as they have represented. A circular has
been issued to the faithful, Cor those sup
posed to be SOY calling upon them to contrib
ute both by their presence and purse, to help
the sinking cause. This is quite consistent
with the prudent advice given them by one
of their leading organs on Saturday, to " tenn
per rather than to increase their confidence
in the election of Fremont and DAYTON.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16
Iowa.

A friend writes US from Iowa 1--WE ex-
pect to carry this State for BUCHANAN. You
may calculate on different result from the
August vote. FILLMORE will carry the Wing
vote, which will weaken the Republican
strength sufficient to give the State to b.
cHANAN."
Another friend writes, "Towa is thought
10 be ours, also, with much and increasing
confidence every day. The FILLMORE men
have made division in the opposition ranks
sufficient to give BuoHASAN the State. This
opiaion is confirmed by candid and intelli-
gent FILLMORE and Fremont men all over
the State''
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16
Getting Dosr, crate.

The Black Republican leaders have resort
ed to every deception possible to secure Ger
man votes. The last dodge we have heard
OF, is privately reporting that prominent Dem.
ocrats have recently changed TO FREMONT
for the purpose of operating upon those who
could not be influenced in any other way
We caution our German friends to beware
for every species of trickery and deception
will be resorted to by the Black Republican:
to impose upon and deceive them
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16
Lat est from Kansas-The Election
W. havo nam, J;root from Kansas s;no,

We have news direct from Kansas since
the election on Monday, the 9th Instant
The election passed off without disorder Of
any kind. Many of the ultra Free State
Abolitionists declined voting, on the ground,
that if they voted. they would thereby
acknowledge the force and obligation of the
law regulating the election. The more
moderate Free State men voted.
When our informant left, on Monday eve
ming, returns from Leavenworth gave WHIT
FIELD, as delegate to Congress, about $50
votes At Wyandott, he had 800. AT Lee
compton, the polls were regularly opened,
and every legal voter invited to vote, but
only five or six votes were polled up to IL
O'Clock, and those five votes were cast by the
officers of the election.
At Lawrence, which is the headquarters
Of Abolitionism, few or no votes were taken
the Abolitionists refusing to vote for the
reason above stated. They say they have
large majorities Of Free State men, yet they
will not elect a Legislature which would al
ter or amend the laws of which they com
plain. They prefer violence and bloodshed
to order and peace. If the pro-Slavsry men
carry the Legislature, it Is their own fault,
and upon them must now rest the cosse-
quences, and they should not hereafter COM
plain.
We derive the above facts from Col. w
NJ. F. MoGRAw, who is the U. S. Mail Agent
for carrying the U. S. Mail from Indepen-
dence to Salt Lake and they are true beyond
doubt. Colonel MoGRAw left the Territory
on Tuesday evening. WHITFIELD is the man
that the Fremont House of Representatives
unlawfnlly turned out OF his seat in Con-
gress, and he is now sent back without any
opposition.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16
The Enspecs0rs % Elections Telegraph
Operators, NcHgEp0 psrs. and Reporters
Throughout the Union.


The public viii look Tor the result Of the
Presidential election on the 9th Of November
To enable the newspapers of me Union &c
declare the result on the following morning.
il viii be necessary for Inspectors Of Elections
throughout the United States TO all the tele.
graph operators and editors in every town.
village and city, and for the editors and re-
porters 10 aid each other. This can be done
by confning their labors on the night Of the
election 10 the PresideT IS vote alone. Let
the inspectors everywhere count the electoral
vote first, and the telegraph transmit that vote
only on the night Of the election. This plan
viii enable the press TO announce the result
the morning after the election, even IL the
election be a eiose one. We hope this plan
viii be adopted; no other viii succeed. IL
will simplify the labor and make it easier.
save time and satisfy the people Of the coun-
Try.
City editors viii promote the object in view
By publishing in their editorial columns this
notice once or twice week until the zth OF
November.
NEW YORK ASSOCIATED PREss.
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16

COMMUNICATION. GEORGE WnLIAMsos, Of
Texas, in speech at New Orleans lately, de.
elared that Gov. WILLARD, of Indiana, had,
during thepresent canvass, travelled more miles.
and done more speaking, for the benefit of his
country and his party. than any man now liv.
ing, and that his enthusiasm was never surpass-
I'd by any. even of the mighty dead"
Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16

Ex-senator BENJAMIN, Old line Wing, is can.
wasting louisiana for BUCHANAN and BRKcxrs.
RIDGE. He made his first speech at New orlean.
on the 23d ult
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-28

The relatives and friends OF the family also the members
OF the En@es B. B. s are particularly invited.
On .uesosy. 4Ay =, aAxY q. IUssEsKAse. Assd !
year, months and IL days
Inc relatives and friends respectfully invited to At
tend the funeral from the of her pareats No.
100 avenue A, this cay wednesday, at two O'Clock.
Her remains viii be taken to Greenwood.
On Tuesday, May ~ Of consumption, JAMES DIVINE, Ia
the 6lst year OF bis age.
fully invited to attend his funeral from his late resi-
dence, No. 80 West Broadway, tomorrow (rhursday)
afternoon at three ocock, without further invitation
On Tuesday evening, May q, of dropsv GEORGE SAP
PAR, In the 57th year Of his age.
The friends Of the family and those of his nephews
Joseph and George Fender respectfully invited to
attend his funeral from his late residence, No. 100 dix
O'Clock without further invitation. His remains will
taken to Greenwood for interment
On Tuesday, May q, HARRIET 8. ANDREWS, eldest
daughter Of E. W. Andrews. Esq, sged Is years.
Friends invited to attend her funeral tomorrow
(Thursday at two O'Clock p. NJ from the residence OF
her father, No. 20 Morton street, East Brooklyn.
On Monday May &c. at her residence on Staten Island
Haly, in the f6th year Of her age.
Her remains VIII be inferred In Greenwood, this day,
at three O'Clock.
Waterford and Tpperary reIand) papers please copy
At Peekskill, On Monday May 26, SHARKS W. youngest
Of lamar Letitia and the late Cornelius Conkn,
the 9th year OF his age
The relatives and friends Of the family invited to
O'Clock, from the residence Of his uncle, Starks W..
Lewis No 20 West Twenty street. without fur
Their invitation.
At Montreal G. W., on Tuesday, May ~. JANE s., wife
OF Robert w. Lesiie ESQ., and daughter Of the late Alex
ander AcGresor Ba *, Of this city, aged % years.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-28
City Politics.

CENTRAL FILLMORE AND D0NELsoN CLUB.
Pursuant to announcement, meeting OF delegates
from fundry Fillmore and Donelson Clubs held last
night at Military Hail. in the Bowery for the purpose of
forming central union.
DR.. JOHN WETHEREII Of the Seventh ward, called
TO the chair, and Henry A. Jackson, o. the Tenth
ward, was appointed Secretary.
On calling ever the roll, it appeared that delegates
present from The Sixth, Seventh Tenth Thirteenth
Fourteenth, Seventeenth and Twenty first wards in AL
wards were represented and nine clubs twowards
the Seventh and Tenth, bsirg represented by dele
gates from two clubs in each.
On ticking the chair, DR.. WETHERE1L stated that
the object of the Organization was to combine
the local ward clubs in tuch q manner as
a. to make their action felt. The Fillmore had
county organization, and this would give them
Professions were to be gotten up and meetings
held ana this Central Club to this necessary
business.
delegate from the Eighth ward stated that delegate
meeting was to be held this evening at Merritt Hall, in
Spring tti eet, TO brig about the same result.
Acommitee Of ons from each ward present subse-
quenty appointed to confer with the Spring street meeting
Some quarrel'ipg here ensued between the delegates
who represented different clubs in cash ward when it
was resolved to allow each ward six delegates to be
equally divided between the clubs in the respective
resolution also passed inviting other clubs to send
81 the future meetings OF the Central Club The Central
Club then adjourned, to meet again tocay "wednesday
week ut the same place.