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The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

KANsAs.-The Hon. A. P. Grange, Black
Republican member Of Congress from the
Onondaga District, in New York writes home
to his constituents from Washington, that
"Kansas is to come into the Union as free
State, easy" lie says, hard as it IS, the
South will retreat from the battle field, ant
abandon Kansas as nell as all the mighty IPe8t,
the centre Of future empire, rather than do
wore" So ''the mighty West, Kansas, Ne
braska. Minnesota, Utah, New Mexico, Ore
con. Washington and California, are to be
exempt from slavery" We have been declar-
ing these views for months, but instead OF
gaining any credit for honesty and sagacity,
we have been accused for 'crying peace. when
there was no peace" Mr.. Granger says eve
have put the slave trade where there is none sc
poor as to do it reverence" If all these
things be accomplished, what good reason !;
there for keeping alive the agitation? What
is the use to insist upon Congress passing F.;
law to prohibit slavery in the territories, /
there be no danger Of slavery ever intrudin9
upon them? Men do not like to be prohibited
from doing even what they may never wisl
to do when it destroys an apparent eQualit.
with their fclow-citizens.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

~ Ship building at the East during the
past year, as in the previous one, was greatly
depressed. Clipper ships have become unpcp-
ular, and the number launched last year was
not one halfa as great as in 1853. The bust
ness has fallen to a lower point than at any
time in the previous ten years. Many Of the
fine ships built for sale, remain ON the stocks
in the ports Of Maine and Massachusetts, with
cat finding purchaser. Vessels Of noder-
ate dimensions are more in demand than they
have been, as they are more easily managed
and more acceptable to the Insurance Offices
The number Of barks constructed this year is
unusually large. Propellers are coming more
ana more into use; and iron ships are rccciv-
ing more consideration, and will gradually su-
perscede wooden structures In the year
1854 two hundred and fifty iron ships OF
various kinds were built at Glasgow, Scotland
In England Iron ships can lie built for S15
per ton cheaper that wooden yesselS,-and an
Iron vesscls Of the same external Dimensions
as q wooden ship Of 1900 tons burthen, will
carry 2100 tons Their durability, safety
anc capacity viii, as timber becomes moro
expensive introduce the rolling mill and
foundry into the ship yard, in place Of the
urge piles Of timber.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

* The magnificent Custom House, which
has been ten years in building in New Orleans.
Of massive granite brought from the hills of
Massachusetts, is gradually sinking into the
earth. The roof is not yet put on, but the
walls have already sunken seventeen inches.
It's foundations were laid at enormous cost
and with great care. FIRST upon cypress timber
fifteen feet long, placed crosswise of the wall,
and inverted arches of the same width built
upon this timber basis. If the walls have
sunk so rapidly before they have attained
their height, they will be unsafe when the
ponderous roof is added and the many mil
lions expended in its construction, may be
as it were sunk in the mud.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

A BURGLAR ARREsTED.-A young villain
by the name Of R. S. West, formerly of Vim
cennes, has been arrested at Muscatine, To-
wa, for a burglary committed at Chicago, and
brought back to the latter city, where he
has been tried, and is likely to go to the
pententiary for few years. Letters were
found upon him from his cOnftd erates in
Knox county, that led to the belief that he
was the person who robbed the post-otiice in
Vinccnnes, a short time ago, and for whose
detection a reward of $500 was offered.
Flom the correspondence it appears, there
was band whose operations were on joint
account. The disclosures will probably lead
to other arrests near home.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09
The License Law.

We shall be in favor Of any law that shall
restrict the traffic in liquor, and gradually
aba!e the evil of drunkenness. We have no
objections to the plan Of our esteemed CORES
pondent,-whose inintials will be recognized
as one Of the oldest contributors to the Jour
nal,-if such a law could be obtained. But the
popular objection to it will be, that it APP
breaches too nearly to total prohibition at the
start; and we fear our Legislature cannot be
induced to adopt the plan. Our plan for open
ing the privileges oflicenses to public c0mp5-
tition, to persons of the proper moral charac-
ter, who could give the required securities,
would run the prices Of the licenses up so
high that the profits of the business would be
absorbed in the cost of the licenses, and few
would be taken and the system would gradu-
ly reduce the number, and would finally work
its own cure, and result in the same thing
that is recommended by our friend; that is,
the cost of the license amounting Of itself TO
a practical prohibition,
For the Evansville Journal.
F. Y. CARL1LE, Esq.
Sir: | wish to make few remarks on the
liquor question, which was brought under my
notice by an editorial in your last Journal. -
To remove all the objections to the different
plans you adduced, | would recommend a
plain and easy plan, and one that would he
unquestionably constitutional before any tri-
bunal in the United States. II would lie for
the Legislature fearlessly to fix a uniform rate
of license for the whole State, one that would
amount almost, Cor entirely) to a prohibition
say two hundred and fifty on retail, and five
hundred dollarsOn wholesale dealers in spirit
Gus liquors and wine; and 10 say nothing about
beer cider, or the pure juice of the grape; pro
hibitiug no person who wants to engage in the
traffic under such license. The sum arising
therefrom added to our school fund, or used in
part to aid those who might be injured by the
traffic, would in some degree counter5alance
the evils arising from it. To say chat the
Legislature cannot fix the rates Of license, by
general law, without causing great inequality
in its operations in different communities
would imply an obligation on the Legislature
to gaurd and watch over the interests Of those
engaged in the ungodly traffic, the same as
though it were an establishment or institution
for our good What matters it if not more
than one in ten thousand could afford to engage
in it under the circumstances? | would con-
slider that among one the greatest advantage;
OF such a law.
To fix such rate of license, Cor even high
er one,) would be the simplest and at the sam,
time the most efectsal liquor lal0 that ,0as ecsJ
passed.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

81 The Republican Editorial Convention
did not prove to be ! very numerous or in
Nuential coHcIaye The delegates assembled
did not represent The numbers, the respccta-
b;iIty, nor the talent Of the Republican press.
The convention by its paucity Ct members.
lack Of enthusiasm and the absence Of some
leading spirits in it to give direction and aim
to the efforts Gifts members, Will impair mora
than strengthen the cause it designed to pro-
mote. 1t re-resolyed the Philadelphia plat
form Of June last without any change, or
addition Of new doctrines TO suit the altered
circumstances Of the country and the times.
1t adopted The following resolution:
That as the "Old Line" Senate Of the Leg
isaturo Of 1855, refused to pass an apportion-
ment law by which the State should be fairly
and honestly represented, thereby su9jcctin9
/ the people to submit to an infamous and I'M
/ jast act Of mandering-reluscd to go into
Ijoint Convention for the election Of a u. 5. Sen
ator and other oficers,an refused to pass law
! prescribing the mode Of election Of u. S. Sena-
/ tors, tits but just and proper that the opposl-
/ don members Of the approaching Legislature
refuse with tirmness and determination to go
/ into 4 Joint convention for the election of any
IoihcerS, or consent to the election OF y. )
Senators in any other manner than 10y a
separate vote of the two Houses.
Il then resolved itself into permanent
association, to be known as the Republican
Editorial Association, which association we do
not believe Will ever set the State in a blaze
/ by It's light or feryor.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

0HrProG Wheeler Of the Boston Medical
College, was recently arraigned before the City
court, by the city physician, on the charge Of
being insane. Dr. Clark, his accuser, was the
principal witness in the case, and stated as the
ground Of insanity, that the professor had be-
come mad from his belief in Spiritualsm-
BY the way Of retaliation the Professor told
the city physician that he believed he killed
more than he cured. The Judge thought from
the Professors last remark that he ev.nced
so much ''method in his madness" that he
refused to commit him. The City official re-
torted upon Ills Honor''-that If his conduct
was thus sarcasticaly adjudged by high judi
cal authority, he Tad better quit the bust
ness, and he straightway resigned.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

PEaclyM THE PoEr-Mr S. G. Goodrich
gives the following explanation Of PoroiyaPs
unhappy career:
81 think he had been deeply injured-nay
ruined, By the reading Of Byron's works at
that precise age when his soul was in ali the
sensitive bloom Of spring and its killing frost
Of atheism, of misanthropy, Of pride and scorn
fell upon it and converted it into a scene 81
desolaton. The want of general apprccia-
ton, Of love and friendship, around his early
life, caused its malignant influence to deepen
his natural shyness into positive and habtual
selfbanishment from his fellow men Such
is the sad Interpretation put upon his career. .
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

RHODE ISLAND BANKs-The Providence
Journal publishes the annual statement of all
the Banks in the State, and says that ninety
eight banks upon examination have proven
themselves in sound condition, and equal to
those of any other State in the Union, The
average dividends amount to fraction less
than IL per cent per annum. The counter
feits on some of the banks are said to be quite
numerous.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

o. A young clerk in New York, being
discarded by his sweet heart, because his sala-
Try was insufficient to support the lady in the
style she had been raised, undertook to com
NIT suicide by shooting at his daguemcotype
Rents and furniture must come down, or the
next census will show a deplorable state o.
things among the domestic relations"
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

o. Greeley says, there is not, perhaps, a
more harmless, and certainly not more
helpless set of people in the world than the
free negroes in slave States" And there is not
more wretched, worthless, outcast set on
the face of the earth, than the free negroes in
the free States Of the North. And why is it
that the free black prospers more, is more re-
spectacle in character, IS more correct in NOR
als-has more self respects happier-and
prefers to live in a slave State rather than
in a free State? Compare the condition, the
habits, and the characters Of the free blacks
in New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah and
Charleston, with the blacks in Philadelphia,
New York and Boston, and any truthful, can
did man will admit without hesitation, that
the comparison is most obviously and greatly
in favor ofthe slave cities. Who will tell the
reason? It lies in a nutshell, and is as OBJ
vions as Tie day.
These noisy and passionate advocates for
the ndiscriminate and unconditional applca-
ton Of the abstract principles Of liberty to tie
blacks have no genuine sympathy, no actual
; christian brotherhood for the negro. Thee
would free him, but still leave him Parah
whom to touch is contamination Amidst
slavery with all its evils, expressions, suffer
Iings and wrongs. there IS chord Of human
feeling between the black and master. Say
what you will, the blacks feel they are thero
, within the pale of human sympathy; thougI
oppressed and wronged and suffering deep il
: justice, there is a great share Of the time in
, which they are the chief concern of those
with whom they are allied: and such rela
I tons cannot continue without breaking doTE
the barriers of prejudice and opening th'
! heart to human sympathy. The writer h1
now man, his wife and children, once hi
= slaves. bat for years free, in Cincinnati, with
good trade, and the means Of self support
signing to escape the cold frisid neglect ant
. out-cast condition Of the free black in Ere
i. State to return to the kinIli9r AMI warmc
r sympathies ofthe white race in the sIaycStates
$ lie begs even to return to slavery with hi
+ vile and offspring, to lie admitted into
+ sphere Of human brotherhood and sympathy
/, which, he says, IS denied to the blacks by til
j whites in the free States.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

~ 1.-THE city election in Coyinston, KY.
for city officers on Monday last, the Demo
crats succeeded in cIecting eight Of their
officers, and the Americans nire. The cleo
ton was closely contested and a full vote was
drawn out. The paramount issue in the con
test was the hog question, hog or no hog in
the streets. ! Cincinnati reporter says that
the "no hog" men were insloriously defeated,
and hereafter porkers large and small, with OF
without curly tails, will be permitted TO per-
ambuatc the streets in all their pristine beau
IT.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09
F0zs TEEG JOURNAL.

F0zs TEzs2 JOURNAL.
never 'spjr'd tow be poit,
Ct n>e4'at tell. 'spose you IT'D
Bltif thawt there's virtu init
Darn'l II I would Mt in miniti
Bat VI IN you tau K Of dog ratypin,
We6ster's rouri and takes delite in
D5d or live he'll stamp your feeturs.
And '-bebiz" tow deer little creeturs.
On paper. iron. glass or plate.
He'll - yewr sha3jcr as fate.
So natral and so trev to life,
When yew re- away Twill fool yewr wife.
nov25-d5f TILESTnN's Gallery.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09
NEgW ADVERTISEMENTS.


square lines less time zoe: three times Ell
week, 81 weeks, 81 5O month. 81; three
81 six months SIC; SI5. Discount
larger Advertisements Cards of six lines under. So
No charge for marriage death religious notices
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

ADVANCE IN SHEETINGs.-Owing to the
continued advance in the raw material, the
price Of Cannelton shcetings has been ad-
yanced 1 cent, and the wholesale price is now
81 cents. The Cannelton is hvorte brand.
We presume a corresponding advance has
been established in the sheetings of other
mills. A further advance is anticipated.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

ACCIDENT ON THE B. & o. RAILRoAD.-On
Wednesday, the 3Ist, locomotive exploded
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, killing
two persons and fatally wounding two otI-
ers. Some 40 hogs were killed, or badly mu-
tilated
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

% The Nashville papers state that there
are seven steamboats, laid up at that city, in
consequence of a lack of freights.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

a. There is both truth and poetry in the
following lines, written i,y school girl, and
we dare say that the recollections Of those
early dreams, 50 strangely different from the
actual experiences Of life. are still the most
pleasant of all memories. There is no sun
shine like that Of childhood. 1t CLEANS
through all the clouds Of disappointment, and
smiles upon US till the river OF life min5'es
with the ocean of eternity:
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09
GUSDRfES.-

SstUNDRiES-
- 100 doL fresh Eggs;
- lbs Buster warranted;
80 bushels PotEtoes; bbl Sweet Cider Just receive
az 4 tor sale at TpOS. LANGLEY
iaL s. I'D Corner Oak and st 4 I'D
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

e. An old Shylock of landlord in Bos-
ton, is down on non liquidating tenants with
vengeance, maintaining that when man
is too poor to pay his rent, he should build a
house for himself
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

DR. T. II. CAvAEAU9r.-yJ r,Ull c~fi sttanticn
gentleman other ciHrn of which
r3rits the Of the afflicted The Or Is CID and
thoroughly curaeG r5s~cian aud has devotrd hs lo
sp-ea1 Diseases be H1vcrsos He brings
let r. Of high recomue cation the
sonvije. his late home. Chicago Journ May 18th S5j
dsc3i d&w KELLER. FARNsLEY & co.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

0rr Jesse D. Bright arrived at Indianapolis
on Tuesday, and took his rooms at the Palmer
House. Could their walls reveal the traffick-
ing within them, "what tale they would
unfold"
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09
EDs,Es ssEE.

ENTE have this day (Januar 6th 1857 sold ouS or
GS tire stocks Of Family Groceries, &C.. to Mr. sam
NIcaery.
take pleasure in returning sincere thanks to our
numerous friends and customers for heir liberal
extended and solicit continn2n the
successor. Ian7 UERSHBERGER d ca RS ON.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09
yzGS&sEs.

" O&SEsa
Persons wishing wood he supplied b. leaving their
orders with Wheeler Riggs Grocery Store Main
Chips for sale also. j2a9
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09
CEE &c

TH AVINI bought Mes5rs Hershberger Carson stool
Z II Of Family Groceries. Produce &c. would be glad
TO receive the patronage of the customers late
Also that my old friends and the public geuer
promising on my part to do give
actien all.
will remain for days in the store occupied by
the late firm previous locating permanently in tn,
Nenueuan old star5.' corner Of Main st here
"ill endeaToro 6eep such stock ofgood
as the wa Is OF families demand.
J-H7 SAN'L VICKERY.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-09

7 could ~ 90 my lesson,
WI the book before iay cen,
For tie thoughts o. Cauny Wuiio
Came U0JDi4' in between.
The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-11-11
THE NOR MONS.

This despised and despisable band of Ish-
maelites, who set at defiance the laws of God
and man, and who have therefore been driven
out from among men, have abated--says the
st. Louis Evening News-none Of their de-
FAINT tone, nor signiaed their willingness to
submit and bring to justice the perpetrators of
the outrages upon the federal officers. They
are levying armies Of their own, raising in
fantry, equipping cavalry, and organizing for
desperate resistance the approach Of the United
States troops. They are building forts, laying
in provisions, and preparing to defend them
selves. Nor will they act solely on the defen-
siye, but take the field and meet the United
States troops in advance Of their city.
The Government have undertaken a heavier
job than that Of shooting unarmed citizens at
the polls, but we hope they will come off with
quite as much honor in this warfare as they
did on Bloody Monday" Where is Mayor
Magruder and Major TylerH Send them out
there, and there will surely be bloody work.
The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-11-11
THE MAYsvILLE CKY.) EAGLE.

We have at length this excellent old stand
ard paper among our exchanges. The Sd
instant was the forty third anniversary of this
paper, with which we have been familiar for
nearly twenty-five years. We are happy to
hear that "the Eagle has been prosperous and
successful" and "that it may continue TO
retain and to merit the esteem and good will
Of its subscribers and the country" we join
in the wish Of its editor, not in Che least
doubling that it will; and with him we most
cordially say, "Could our wish control its
destiny, the expiration Of hundred years
from its natal day would still find il the same
unpretending, but answering, friend Of
truth, of justice, and of correct principles,
which has hitherto given an honorable con-
sistency and utility to its long career"
To the Frankfort Commonwealth, of the
same State, we wish the same career of use
fitness, success and longevity, for it is
equally deserving.
The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-11-11

80 far as Baltimore is concerned, on one side
there are the victors and on the other the vic
tins Of an almost unqualified and overwhelming
anarchy. There has been show Of law and au-
thority just sufficient TO add insult to injury"
The above is from the Baltimore SYn--a
paper which heretofore, under the mask Of
neutrality in politics, has always manifested
the most decided Locofoism and subserviency
to those in power "
That il is permitted to defame and caum-
Mate the city and its authorities, in which it
had its exi ,ence, and is getting rich--that it
is unmoested in its work of malevolence, is the
best proof that its defamatory assertions in re-
gard to the lawlessness and rowdyism Of Balti-
more are sheer falsehoods. o.
But that americans should take and adver.
tise in such papr, is to us incomprehcnsi-
BILE! We should as soon suppose they would
keep in their employment a domestic that was
on all occasions putting poison into the coffee
served Mt the family table ...
The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-11-11
LEGITIMATE FRUITS.

In our last issue we gave some extracts from
that arch Jacobin, Mayor Woods communi-
cation to the City Councils Of New York, pro-
posing to employ all the idle at the public ex-
pense, and intimating that that class would
have bread even If it had to be obtainel by
blood, thereby giving the hint to lazzaroni of
that Sodom how to help themselves.
To these a second hint is not necessary to
bring them out, and accordingly, as the New
York papers inform us
al squalid troop Of men, old women, boys and
girls tore down the wooden ratings which sur
rounded Tompkns Square, and carried them off
for frewood. Hammers and axes were vigorously
piled to root up the posts which remained fast in
the ground, and so successfully was the work ac-
complished that, were IL not for the trees, the
square would now present the appearance Of a
vast vacant lot. Even the benches were carried
off Another party encounLering bakers wagon
in avenue b, made an attack upon il, and seized
some fifty loavcs. Many articles were stolen from
stores where they were placed upon the sidewalk
for show, and general closing of stores Of all
kinds was the necessary consequence throughout
that quarter of the city"
This was but beginning, and encouraged
and sanctioned by such men as Mayor Wood,
who, in that city or elsewhere, can call his
house, his furniture his fuel, his meat, his
bread, or anything else, his ownP How soon
may whole cities, villages and farms be stript
by the mob, and present the same desolatc APP
pearance as the public square they thus de-
nudedR From the ravages of hungry and
lawless rabble good Lord deliver us.