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The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-09-12
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WAs.iiNofoS, Sept. IT.. n.
Joseph Il. brown has been appointed In
dian agent for the Sioux Indians in Mime
sofa, vice Flandran. resigned.
Mr.. Jackson, of Miss, has been appointed
Secretary OF State for New Mexico, wee DAVIS
resigned. nj ~. f
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WANTED.

lNITY and County Orders, for tax-paying pur-
~ posesa The highest cash price Wilt he paid.
septi-dSt THoS. Z. GARyIN, I'd st.
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sB- The DR.. Kane from Pittsburg, put
out a heavy lot of Dry Goods yesterday, fol-
Evansville merchants.
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stNDRIEs.
ohLTPETRE, Epson Salts, sulphur, Roll Brim-
- stone Alum, Perry Davi. Pain Killer, saleraus,
Soda, Almonds, brazil Nuts, English Waluuts, Fill
berts IaDte Currsnt, Cotton Batting, Becords reel
and dozen hemp and MANILA, Backing, Camrhor,
tTeam Tarter, Cigars all kinds, Copperas, Cloves,
Ciunamon. Essence Of Coffee, Glass Flasks, Jars,
Lanterns Ginger ground and reserved, Herring,
Goldfish, Mackere Indigo, LogwOod extract and chip
ped, Mustard, Matches NeTcantileW ring Fluid, Nut
megs, Lohsters, Oysters, Paper letter foolscap ard
wrapping, Envelopes, Percussion Caps, Powde, Safe
~ Fuse Pepper Sauce, Pepper, Spice, Stone Pipes,
Pitch, Tar, Resin, Table Salt, SalSoda Extract Of
Srsayarla, stonewar Soap har ard fancy, Sardines,
SnGn spirits OF Turpenue, Tobacco assorted, Twine,
Teas, Tar, Vinegar, &c. &c. &c. for sale low by
S. GILBERT CO,
aug3-u sycamore street
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FLCCRlNC! FICCRINCM
FLOER AGENCY

f1'TlE undersigned having procured the rency o
several Country Mills, will re daily in receipt o
Flour in BARRELS and Sacks! Bakerd ard other consu
mers Of Flonr, are resi- ectfully invited 10 call
augj2l .. WM. REFILL.
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Dissolution of Partnership.
TENIE Copartpership heretofore existing hei"een the
uuiersigfed,f under the firm and style Of LEIGH
& yerng, is this day dissolved by mutual consent
Peter yerling having sold ont his entire interest in
the concern TO Charles LEIGH, who will assume and
pay all the liabilities If the old firm, and Is alone au.
horzcd 10 use The signature Of the old firm, in lqui
da.ion Of their business. %
CHARLES LEIGH,
Sept. lst-spi-lm - PETER NIERLiNG.
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NEW GOODS comprising most ev,ry, article IN the
~ Notion line. just received at A. q. PUSHEE' :
No. 6, MichePs Block, Main street Ladies and zen.
tlemen are very respectfully invited to CALL where they
ell Scid as low as S tho iosa;; 4 g. PrsHEE,.
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SEALED Proposals will be received at the City
- Clerks office until Saturday next, September IL
for the gradiRg Of Oak street from the canal to the
river, according the plans and specifications Of the
City Engineer, at said office. -,.F~ Eft ~ r, -.
By order of the Common Council.
septS -Fff WELL. III. WALKER, Clerk.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
Great improvements in Aerial Naviga-
siOn---WOnderful, if True.

A Paris journal publishes a strange &C.
count of an ;erostatic excursion, which, the
articles declares, has solved the long cam
vasscd problem of directing balloons. The
persons who are stated to have mad the eX-
cursion are the Count de Pleuvier, NJ. Mi
gnn, Mr.. Falconer, Gan English seronaut,)
and Mr.. Henri Page, the writer. The appa-
ratus used is said to have cost net less than
100000 francs, the greater portion OF which
was furnished by Count de Pleuvier. The
machine is represented to consist Of two bal
looms united together, of a spherical form,
each able to contain one hundred cubes OF
pure hydrogen gas. The directing power is
Il modified screw, communicating with a car
and rudder, made principally of whalebone,
to change the direction when required. NJ.
Gavarni. the inventor, it is declared, can OBJ
tain the upward movement of the balloon
without throwing out the ballast, which soon
eXhausts the resources of the very best con-
structed balloon, and becomes an invincible
obstacle to long excursions in the air. The
loss Of hydrogen is instantaneOusly repaired
by a chemical proceeding, of which NJ. Mi
g. on is stated to possess the secret, and by
little apparatus also invented by Mr.. Ga
varni. The descent is effected as hitherto,
by letting the gas escape. The departure OF
the ;eronauts on the occasion referred to
took place on the 18th January at 10 o'clock
in the morning, from the Park of Ferrieres,
in the Solongue, and the next morning at
O'Clock a safe descent was effected within
half mile of Algiers. The aerial travellers
remained on the African soil only thirty
hours, ami eft at noon the day after their
arrival, III sight Of an immense multitude to
see them ascend. The return was effected
without the slightest accident, but with
much greater rapidity; at q O'Clock the
next morning they alighted at the spot from
which they started, in the park of Count de
Plcuvier.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

The ST. Joseph (N1o.) correspondent Of
the Missouri Republican, writing from ST.
Joseph under date of March 18th, says:
"The emigration to Kansas reminds me OF
that to California IN the days of its greatest
allurements. Trains upon trains are pouring
in from ever quarter, but particularly from
the free States. | had once thought, as |
used to write you, that Kansas would be a
slave State, but am now forced to alter my
opinion from the overwhelming evidences to
the contrary that force themselves upon me
every day.
"Our ferry boats are busily engaged from
daylight until dark in carrying over trains,
and the proportion Of Free Soil to the Pro
Slavery emcrants is as fifteen to one. This
is not confined alone to our point of crossing,
but it is SD at every other that l can hear
from, and it satisfies me that the political
destiny of Kansas is fixed beyond ali ques-
ton
"Wars and rumors Of war she will know
no more, but peace will brood over her beau
tiul prairies, and prosperity will re On
throughout her borders. | am Pro-Slave-
ny man, and would prefer to see my favorite
institution established there but am, new
ertheless, convinced that the energetic. en-
terprizing Yankee will develop the resources
and build up the country sooner than we
could do. and that by living in harmony with
TEN as our neighbors, they will do us no
injury in our peculiar property
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
Ceser's Opinion OF his Likeness in WOr-
sted Work.

In review of " The Apocatastasis," a
work against spritualism published in 1854,
at Burlington, VT, the Boston Daily Adver-
tiser tells the following story:
GA most respectable, though not very
cultivated lady, once invited us to a private
exhibition of rappings and scratchines, by
which she believed that she held converse
with her own deceased friends, as well as
with many people who had been ilustrious
in their day and generation. As we were
looking about her simply furnished parlor,
our eyes fell upon screen whereOn an his
torical scene-the passage of the Rubicon,
we will call twas depicted in worsted
work. Now, any one familiar with the spe-
cimens of this art which are sold at our
country fairs will agree that, however, inter-
esting they may be as monuments OF human
patience and human eysight, they do not pos
sess the interest Of greatly resembling any
territorial objects with which We are acGuain-
ted. The viSage of Caesar upon the screen
was no exception to the rule; square patches
of red were driven in to represent the flush
of three stitches, did duty as his eyebrows,
while his eyes were glass beads that started
in different directions. As this screen was
evidently the ornament Of the house, we
haZarded the observation that it must have
taken long time to work tor something
of that sort Yes" replied our hostess,
but that is the least part of its interest !;
for Julius Caesar came here the other even
ing and told lis he considered it capital
likenessn"
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

CHINESE TORTURE OF MISSIONARY
We find in the correspondence lately printed
the following statement addressed by M.
Livois, Procureur-G General of the French
Mission in China, to Sir John Bowring, UNI
der date Hong Kong, July IL, 1856:
Ihave just learned that NJ. Chandeaine, a
French missionary Of our society, was put to
death on the 10th of last February, by the
mandarian of Slim, place situated to the
west of Quang 81, near the frontiers of w.
| nan.
Arrested on the Oath of February, he was
brought before the tribunal; the mandarian
began by ordering 100 blows on the face, to
be inflicted On him with leather shoe sole.
He then made him lie down, and he was
beaten with 5000 strokes of cane. As dur
ing this double torture NJ. Chapdelaine ut
tered no complaint or groan, the mandarian
attributing this long suffering to the in.
fiuence of some charm, caused the throat of
a dog to be cut, aud sprinkled the DOOR suf-
ferer with his blood, in order to dissipate the
magic. Next day the mandarian learning
that NJ. Chapdelaine was still able to walk,
he ordered him to be beaten till his strength
should be exhausted; when it was announced
the victim could no longer move, they put
him upon sort of apparatus with springs
that crushed him as in press. In this con-
dtion he was hung up. Lastly, when on the
point OF death, he was decapitated. His
| head was hung up to tree, but the children
pelting it with stones, it fell down and was
devoured by the dogs and pigs. The body
was, some way, inferred; others affirm it
was thrown into the sewer; but previous to
this it was opened, and the execntioners tore
out the heart, cut it in pieces, cooked it with
fat, and ate it. Two converts were decapi-
tated with their pastor for having refused to
renounce their religion. Fourteen or fifteen
more were in prison.
That, dear sir, is the way treaties are OBJ
served in China, and that is the manner in
which the chiefs ola people, which is often
boosted of as polished nation, actually con-
duct themselves.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

NAPOLEON AND FULToN.-It has been fire.
quently asserted that Napoleon contemptu-
ously rejected Fulton's proposition to apply
steam power to the propulsion of vessels, and
even pronounced Fulton g charlatnn =" This
error has at length been conclusively refuted
by the publication by NJ. Rapetti, in the
Moniteur Of the 18th inst, of the following
holograph letter, which forms part of the
forthcoming Napoleon correspondence
Monsieur de Compagny Il have Just read
the scheme Of Citizen Fulton an Engineer.
which you have been far too late submitting
to me, inasmuch as it may change the face
of the world. Be that as it may, it is NV
desire that you forthwith entrust the exam
inatlon OF it to commission composed of
members to be chosen by you from the
different classes Of the Institute. 1t is to
that body that scientific Europe should look
for judges to solve the problem in question
A great truth-a physical, ralpable facts
apparent to me. 1t is now the business Of
those scientific men to perceive, and to en-
deavor to appropriate that face Their
report, as soon as made, will be sent to you,
and you will transmit it to me- Contrive, if
possible, to have all this done within eight
days, for | am full Of impatiencc
NAPOLEON.
Camp Of Bou'ogne, olst July, 1904.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

MIsTAKEN.-When General jackson, Just
before the battle of New Orleans, used the
following language in his address to his col
ored soldiers, he little know what bunder
according to our Supreme Court) he was
making in speaking Of "vour white .f;llo'g
cuizens":
"When, on the banks OF the Mobile call
ed you to take up arms, inviting you to par
take the perils and glory Of your WHITE
FELLOW CITIZENS, egpected much from you,
for was not ignorant that you possessed
qualities most formidable to an invading enc
my. | knew with what fortitude you could
endure hunger, and thirst and all the fatigues
of a campaign. 1 hnew areU how you lore1
yOuw NATIVE COUNTRY, and that you, as well
as ourselves, had to defend what nan holds
most dear-his parents, wife, children, and
property. You have done more than eX
pected. In addition To the previous qualities
| before knew you to possess, lOUndamon@
you a noble esdhpsias@ whch leads to the
performance OF great things.
Such is the noble language addressed 10
negroes when We want t EN- to fight for us
but when we conc to raising cotton the sal
utation changes to" Down, you black
beast! or you'll taste citizens whip"
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
The Interior Of Africa.

Rev. J. B. Bowen, through whose instru-
mentality bill for the exploration of the
river Niger was recently introduced in Con-
gress, has just published volume of African
travels. lie argues strongly in favor of fos-
tering Africn commerce, as the pioneer of
civilization and social advancement on that
continent. The people of Soudan, in the in
terror, lie regards as affordng, at this time
the most hopeful field of effort, as they are
more civilized and in all respects superior to
those on the western coast. The heavily
wooded Countries Of western Africa, more
over, are far more unhealthy than the open
and elevated plains of the interior. 1t is
therefore proposed to run line of missionary
stations from Lagos, on the Blight of Benin,
directly through the Yoruba country, to the
remote interior, and there to extend mis-
sionary operations on all sides, in a healthy
climate, among semi-civiized people. No
part of tho Yoruba kingdom is much more
than hundred miles from the sea on one
side, and the Niger on the other. This fav-
orable position, its healthfulness, and the
facility with which roads may be construct
ed, all combine to make it one Of the most
important portions of the African continent.
1t was in behalf cf this country, through the
heart of winch the great river Niger flows,
that the project for an American steam ex-
ploring expedition was recently introduced
to our national legislature. Mr.. Bowen says,
if coionized by civilized blacks from Ameri-
ca, and properly conducted, it would soon
command the trade of all Central Africa. to
which it is the natural key. Almost the
whole of lOriba is an open prairie, scatter
ed over with small trees, and occasional for
ests on the rivers. The easterly portion, bor-
dering on the Niger is almost without in
babitants, those who formerly occupied it
having been driven off by hostile tribe, but
is represented as very fine country. capa-
BILE of giving ample sustenance to 3oO,ooo
colonists, and possessing unusual advantages
in regard to soil. climate and facilities for
traffic. The people are not idolaters, but
worship certain imaginary creatures which
thew regard as mediators between man and
the Deity Including the surrounding tribes
of the same family, it is estimated that three
million people speak the Yoruba language
They have several important towns, OF which
Lillorin and Ibadon have each 10000 inhab-
;tants : Abbeokuta 10000; and there are
sixteen Others which have population vary
ing from 10000 to 10000. There are also
numerous smaller towns, containing from
1000 to 10000. The trade of the country
is already quite extensive; but Mr.. Bowen
saws. cit is not 1.-THE of what it might be,
even with the present population. The sim
gle article of palm oil-to say nothing of all
sorts of tropical productions no assign
able limit, as regards either the production
or consumption. The little palm nut is the
greatest enemy that has ever reared its head
against the slave trade-for civilized nations
will soon find negroes too valuable in Africa
to suffer their expectation to other coun-
tries"
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
Maple Sugar In Wisconsin.

The Madison Patriot of a recent date gives
some fact in relation to maple sugar in Wis.
consin.
Wisconsin in 1850 produced according te
the census tables nearly 10000 lbs, but as
most of the "sugar camps" were out of the
beat" of the census takers, perhaps not
over one-half of the maple sugar was "reck-
oned in" The present season is no doubt a
favorable one, and the produce of the 'maple
orchards " of the State must reach an ag-
gregatc of millions of pounds, and at the
present and prospective prices of the sweets
OF lie, be highly remunerative.
In the counties of Dorr and Outagamie are
to be found the finest sugar districts of this
State. In one township alone in the latter
county, several years since, II 800 lbs. were
manufactured, exclusive of what was turned
out Of Indian camps. The counties of Calu
met, Manitowoc, Brown, Oconto, Shawanc
and Winnebago, also contain some of the
best maple lands in the west-all of which
will be opened up by the railroads about to
be built. When these counties become thick
ly settled the sugar yield will be immense.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

MIsUNDERsTANDING.-The other day the
conductor OF train on New York railroad,
discovered an Irishman in the car soon after
starting from Rome, and demanded his fare.
" BE the piper O. Moses, an sure I've got
no money, yer honor" said Pat with the q Ut
most GOODNESS.
The conductor, after lecturing him, told
him to leave at the first stopping place, not
tar distant. Accordingly, Pat was one Of
the first to get off at the next station. But
judge of the conductors surprise and wrath
to find him aboard when fairly under way.
"Did not tell you to get off?''
"Faix, an sure did, too"
"Why, then, are you here again2n
"Be jabers and didn't yer honor call ont
sAll aboard @"
The conductor gave in. Told him to get
off at the next station, and he would tsfe
care that he shouldn't come on again. But
the next station was as far as he intended r.
go, and Pat chuckled not q little to b;mss1f
at the mandate. ~ A''A'el'
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

JUVENILE LoGIC.-"That which thou hast
to do. do it with all thy might" said cler-
gyman to his son one morning.
so l did this morning. replied Bill,
with an enthusiastic CLEAN in his eye.
All. what was it darling 2" and the ia.
theirs fingers ran through his offspring
curls.
why, I walloped Jack Edwards" said
the young hopeful, till he yelled like
thnnder,-you should just hear him boiler,
dad"
The father looked unhappy while he ex-
planned that the preccpt did not apply to any
act like that, and concluded mildly WITH
" You should not have done that my
child.'
"Then he'd a walloped me, }" replied young
hopeful.
" Better" said the sire, "for you to have
fed from the wrath to come"
/" Yes, but" replied hopeful, by way of
a final clincher, "Jack can run twice as fast
as can"
The good man sighed, went to his study,
took up pen, and endeavored to compose
himself.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

Novel MEETING.,Dr. \. attended mas
Querade ball. In the motley and happy
throng, lie falls in with fair pilgrim in
black silk, whose charming person, snow
white neck, and bewitcllingly coquettish airs
ava ened in his soul the most raptnrous
love. She casts upon HIM looks Of the mos.
langushing tenderness; he reveals in the
hope of having made blissful conquest
He masters up his courage, and ventures to
address her.
"Who art thou, lovely mask?" asks Dr.
", almost melted in the glow of love.
SIS it possible you do not know me, Doc
tor?' lisps the lady in bla k silk.
mo, upon my honor, do not know
thee"
Bethnk yourself Doctor"
"Ah thou art surely the gracious fairy
who has appeared to me to-day. for the
fourth time, to open to me the gates of hiss. "
"You mistake. Doctor, l am no fairy
"Ah-who art thou, then2"
g am the well-known lady to whom You
have now these nine weeks been indebted in
the sun, Of two dollars and seven shllllngs
for washing and ironing"
The Doctor stood like petriied herring
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18

"Do YOU cast things here +? inquired a
Yankee, as he sauntered into foundry one
day.
awe do" said the boss.
"You cast things in iron q
"Certainly. We cast anything-cast you
if You like"
Can you cast my shadow 2"
Cob, yes, we'll do that for you, dirt
cheap. Here" cried the boss, some half
dozen of you men put this man into the red
hot furnace. He wants to be re-cast."
Yankee excused himself as the weather
was rather warm. and made tracks some
what eXped;tiou>'v.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18
Education I'm Canada.

The report of Mr. Chauveau, Superinten-
dent Of Education in Lower Canada, shows
wonderful progress in that somewhat slow
State. It appears that at the present mo-
ment more than half the boys and girls who
are all age to learn are in receipt of a regu-
lar education from com etent teachers.-
The proportion would be much larger but
Tor the spareneSs Of population in Lower
Canada, the length Of the winters, and the
nece :s:ry difficulties of loco;notion in such
a climate As is, the figures sh graf
flying advancement since the department
passed into the hands of its present ncunl-
bent.
Upper Canada is in advance Of the East
ern province, rs was to be expected from the
homogeneous character Of its people, the SUI
peiior density OF settlement. and generally
TIE greater ;nalogies between it and the
great States OF the West. 1t nearly rivals
New England and New Yorl; in the greatest
Of tie elements of civiization-sound edu-
cational institutions.
There are but lew States in the Union
which can now afford to look down upon
these provinces, which, Il few years since,
afforded little satisfaction to the sta esnan
and so little hope to the economist.--N. Y.
HarUH
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-18


A TERRIBLE LEAp.-A female named Su-
san Lent, who had decoyed countryman
into an oyster saloon in New York, and az
ter Supplying him with drueged liquor, rob-
bed HIM of his watch and money, was ar
rested by an officer. who found her in the
third story of a house on Worth street.
After her arrest she requested little time
to arrange her dress, which being granted,
she opened the window and leaped out into
the rear yard-falling distance of nearly
fifty feet. On striking the ground she gave
a loud screrm, when the officer ran down
and found her helpless and nearly insensible
from the injuries she had received. She was
removed to the hospital, when the examin.
ing physician, on making an examination
that both her ankles were dislocated, besides
which she received fearful injury to th'
spine which may prove fatal. She lies in {
very critical condition.