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Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-09-16
S II Ell F S Al E.

On the corner South OF The Edwards House.
Sept l4n43. RICE & SMITH.
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-09-16

The Lafayette. Ind. Courier says tina
large quantities of sugar cane will b
raised in the Wabash Valley this season
and that many farmers expect to produce
all the sugar and molasses necessary fo
their home consumption.
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-09-16

S. B. CoRBALEY, SEc'Y.
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-09-16

We learn from the State Sentinel, of
the 9th inst, that Lin.ericl. Parks, of La
grange county, Ind, was brought to In
annapolis the day previous. charged with
stealing money from letters. while acting
as postmaster.
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-09-16

The price paid on the coast of Afric
for negroes, is from 80 cents to 5 pc
head, and the cost of transporting ther
TO Cuba is not more than S1O or 81
where 500 Or $500 is easily realized fc
them.
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-09-16

Jonathan F. Gardner has been nomina
ted for Safe Senator, by the D-noc rats
in the Fa cite and Union Disrici in In
diana.
Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1858-09-16

Morphy. the Yankee chess player, now
in England, was still ahead in his match
for $1,000. He had but two more games
to play at the last accounts.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17
4 MORNING. SESSION.


LOST BoY's.-The Saltwater MESSENGER
Of the 18th, says that two little bows, sons
of MIR. George Wells near that place, aged
II and Is years respectively, left Stillwa-
ter for their home-slnce which, nothing
has been seen or heard of them. When
they started home, it was raining slightly,
and was near night, and it is supposed they
got off the road and wandered into the woods
or prairies northwest of the city. The
family supposed they had stopped with some
friends in the city, and did not become
alarmed about their absence until late YES
terday afternoon, when inquiry was insti-
tuted. Last night large party from the
city secured the country adjacent, but we
understand without trace Of the boys.
A call upon the citizens to turn out to
search for the lost children, had been issu-
ed by the Mayor. ........;
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17

The men and women who spend their
midnights in the feyerish excitement Of
cards, are not the people to govern states Or
rear families Of freemen.
We appeal principally to the women in
this matter, because they have right to be
as much better than the men as they pos
sibly can be. They have right to guard
every avenue by which the enemy might
enter their homes, or the community, to
lead the unwary into sin.
Women have right to be very nearly
a, squire as the angels are; and every one
should strive, above all things, to obtain
that right, because it is worth more than
all others. Their influence should frown
bad men away from the appearance of evil;
and wherever the card table comes, there
lis an appearance Of gambling, and drunk
enness and despair and suicide and fear
full looking for of Judgment to come. ~;
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17
From Utah.

.F&s O1. AOUA61 ~ VIZ D.
The Republican Leave nworth oor1espon.
dent learns from man who left Camp
Scott on the 9th Of May, that the troops
would be out Of beef BY the 18th; othsr
rations would last until June first.
No dispatches had been received in the
Camp from Gov. Cumming. T..
+: Nothing had been heard from Capt.
Marcy. He was expected to reach Camp
Scott about the first Of June. s., aS$assz
Col Hoffman and command was snow
bound beyond Laramie.
The most advanced trains of Russell Ma.
jor and Waddles were met near South
Platte. The trains were gathering along
finely until they reached Big Blue, where
heavy rains caused serious detention.
A Mormon named Williams, living near
Leavenworth had received, q letter dated
Salt Lake City, May 9Th, which represents
everything as being quiet in the Valley
Gov. Cumming was in the City at that
date. The people had given up all idea of
fighting and had gone to work on their
farms.
A Leavenworth dispatch of the 7th, says
the 9th column of Utah forces under Col.
Sumner marched Saturday 9Th. The last
column under Major Emery leaves We'd
nesday. The head quarters will move IN
Thursday.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17
CORR ESPONDENCE.
MAnYsyILLE June 9Th. 1858.

Best way to manage prairie squirrels is
to goto work and make a number Of board
traps and set them around your pieces of
corn or whatever they trouble, fifteen or
twenty rods apart.
They can be made and set with half the
time that It takes to shoot them; making
them after the fashion Of the figure 4 or a
better way is to use hoop at the open end
to hold the board up with the spindle at
tached ty the back end with string. Set
them on hard ground SO the board will shut
down snug; split the spindle and put some
corn in, scatter few kernels each way of
the trap and put plenty of weight on the
board and you will find it ten times better
than shooting poisoning or any other way
for you are sure to get all the shy ones and
they will watch the piece while you are
gone. ... ..s....
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17
Very Respectfully, &C.,
THOS. A. HENDRICKS,
Commissioner.

Emigration is going on with renewed
vigor. Yesterday Mrs. Swisshelm, with a
party OF pioneers, old and young, started
west in wagons well loaded with necessa-
ries for frontier life such as provisions, chill
dren, fishing tackle, young ladies &C., &c.
Destination Grand Lake, twelve miles from
St. Cloud.
We hope cur readers will excuse the
lack OF the usual editorial items this week,
and be assured that another week will find
emigration subsiding, and the pioneers
back enjoying the noise and confusion Of
city life.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17
Correspondence of the Times.
WINONA, June 10th, 1858.

Work COMMENCED ON THE TRANSIT
RA1LRoAD.-Yesterday the Transit Rail-
roads broke ground on their Road. The
contract has been awarded to Mr.. A. De
Croft, reliable contractor throughout the
United States. The terms of the contract
are, thirty miles to be graded by the first
day Of January, 1859, and seventy-6ve
miles TO be graded and fifty in running
condition by the first day of January, 1860.
l believe this is the first work done by the
Railroad Companies in our State. About
two thousand people were present, and
speeches and cheers were abundant. Mr..
De- Croft has about fifty men to work now,
and is adding to the number rapidly. It
is intended to have force of one thou
sand five hundred men at work by first Of
July.
This is what the people expected when
they voted so enthusiastically for the Lean,
and we are glad to record the Transit
Railroad as the first to show themselves
ready to fulfill their promises.
Truly Yours, MINNESOTA.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17
Our RA1LRoADs.-Our Railroads in VI

Our RA1LRoADs.-Our Railroads in Va
rious parts Of the State, have commenced
operations, and will be pushed forward as
speedily as possible. A, correspondent
writes us. from sWinona that the Transit
road has set men to work, and will soon
have fifteen hundred more men employed.
The Cedar Valley Road is pushing ahead,
and the Northern Pacific have squads Of
men engaged onlthes road between St. Paul
and St: ANTHONY. We hope the necessary,
money will be forthcoming soon, and that
no pains will be spared on the part Of the
Companies, to comply with the. full re-
quirements of the law. Beyond St. An
thony the work will be prosecuted with
vigor, and at once.-!M. Paul Times.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17
Il. A Bow Letter.

We find the following in the Editors
Table" Of the May number Of the Knick-
erbocker Magazine: = ..e. ~~a.
ss4 ri take liberty" recently writes friend
from the Illinois State Hospital for the In
sane, 'tto send you letter received by an
insane lady in this hospital from her little
boy at home, six years of age. 1t has
seemed to us, from the circumstances Of the
parties, an extremely touching expression
Of child-like Affection : .;:,-,
And SO it is, dear sir; so every mother
must consider it, and every other person
who is capable of approaching parents
feelings. The letter is genuine coming to
us with the post-mark, and in the child-like
handwriting of the dear little boy himself
We shall not attempt to punctuate it, or
alter it so much as by a single word:
j. a:.... GALENA March 20 1885,
Il DEAR MOTHER Do write to me moth
er, and come home by the time summer
comes. Will you dear mother and will
gather you ever so many flowers, and ey-
cry saturday will go out on the hills by the
brewery where / know there are a great
many flowers and | will pick them for you.
l will bring home large lunches of them
and you can pick out such as you like best
and put them in your china vases, which
have been on the mantle piece where you
used to keepthem eversince you left home.
Then 1 have little garden back of the
house which has in. it ribon grass, arons
rods, yiolets, culumbine, and several other
flowers, and you shall have them all if you
will come home. And I have some straw.
berry plants and if they bear berries will
give them al to you. Beside I want you
to walk with me as you used to do. You
will come wont you mother and will write
me and tell ME when father shall come and
bring you homo. :, =
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17

The new ferry boat at lower town owned
by n. J. Fowler, is doing fine business,
and in the absence of Brott's horn, Fred
is always at hand to blow for the dimes.
and do the agreeable generally.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17
Correspondence of the Times
The Accident on Lake Pepin.

Inc xAcc1Qe4C on Lake fep10.
LAKE CITY, Saturday, June IL, 1858.
Our village is shrouded in the deepest
gloom. -Four young ladies who left our
levee this morning on pleasure excursion
to Maiden Rock, distant five miles, were
drowned by the upsetting Of the sall-boat.
Two Of the doomed we're residents of Lake
City, sisters daughters of Judge E Stout;
the other two were young ladies' of Maxep-
pa, visiting at Judge SIS They also were
sisters, and sisters Of Mr.. Hyde, Post mas
ter of Mazeppa. Mr.. Hyde came to Lake
City after his sisters to-day, arriving only
an hour or so before the fatal event took
place. -.4. '---> .@l
None of the bodies recovered. The
deepest gloom pervades our community
In haste yours. 49,. w. - =. - 2s'.se
- .ar .--,. s..2..f- D. c.. s.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17

A short letter TO- a distant friend is. in
my opinion, an insult, like that of asli ght
bow or cursory ealntation. johnson,
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-06-17
Correspondence.


EDITOR OF THE VIs1rER Through
your paper we would like to make few
enquiries in reference to Railroad lands,
outside of six miles. .ss -.
1t appears by the act of Congress that
after the roads are located and there is a
deficiency of land inside of six miles that
they can select from odd No. sec. enough
to make up the deficiency by going fifteen
miles back. Now we wish to know if they
have done this or have they merely fled
in on it with the chance of having year
or two to select whatever they like and let
the rest fall back to Government. It GER
tainly would not be fair that they should
have that privilege over the honest settlers
that are coming in daily and wish to get
land for farms. And further we would
say to the company that they should be
gracious to few sparcely settled neighbor-
hoods and leave them land enough adjoin-
ing to form decent sized neighborhoods
that they may have schools and social priv
ileges as well as the rest of mankind.
Marysville June 1858.
j. NJ. K.
We know Of no better way to answer
the above enquiry than by copying part of
private letter from the Commissioner of
Of the General Land Office to one of our
citizens, in direct reply to similar ques-
ton.
Since the R. R. Co. fled their plats in
the Land Office here, there has. been a
great deal of anxiety upon this subject, on
the part Of those who have made claims
since July 9th, 1857; Cthe time at which
the lands were withdrawn from prevention
for four months, and the people have not
as yet had the means of relieving their
suspense, for the Official Instructions from
the Department to this Office were slow in
coming, and when they did come, were so
ambiguous that their meaning could scarce
be defined. Mr. HAYES, the Receiver,
(the Register is absenD says that this let
ter is more clear and satisfactory than any,
thing that he has received, and that he
shall act in accordance with its purport.
But we give place to the letter, which
will speak for itself:
GENERAL LAND OFFICE,
WASHINGTON April 9th, 1858.
j. N. MASON, ESQ,
SIR I'm reply to your letter of the 18th
ult., [ have to inform you that Sec. II, T.
123 R. 20 west, in the Sank Rrpids Dis
trict, appears to be outside Of the six mile
limits of the Branch Line of the Minneso-
ia and Pacific Rail Road, and if so your
claim on said Section will be good, provi-
ded you have complied with the pre-emp-
ton laws. "@
Ihe right OF the road attached to the
odd numbered sections within the six mile
limits Of the route from the dates of sur
veying, making and stalking off the same,
from point to point, on the face of the
ground. But the odd sections outside of
the six and a0ithi's the fifteen mile limits
of said road and branch line continued SUBJ
ject to presumption until the 18th of JAM
~ary last, at which time they were selected
for the road by the authorized agent, and
ceased to be pre-emptible, except to per-
sons who had made bona jfde settlements
prior to that date. a
- X X
Very Respectfully, &C.,
q THOS. A. HENDRICKS.
Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-25

For the Spy.
To the Firemem of WOroente

10 the h1remem of w OrCeRter.
Many of our citizens are freely expressing their
fears respecting the approaching muster in our
city. They claim that it will be attended by ex-
cessive drinking, and, of course, by confusion
and revelry, it may be by riot, turbulence, and
every evil work.
1t is with you to prove these men misguided
prophets, conjuring up terrors for which there is
no ground save in their disturbed imagination.
Will you do this by entering into an obligation
that no Worcester freman's uniform shall be dis
graced by its owners touching liquor during
those important three days?
Consider the interests at stake. First, your
own honor. You will be the observed Of all OBJ
servers. You are no strangers to the fact that
the appearance and good conduct of your compa
nies depend very much upon the GOODNESS, self
possession and readiness of every member, both
officers and men. You are fully aware, too, that
undue or il-timed drinking puts all these things
out of the question Your interests, your good
name, then, demand that during this time the cup
be banished from your ranks
We wish to point with pride to the high ground
which our Worcester companies will hold, and to
the safety with which they pass through this
ordeal. We appeal TO your honor
But. again, the honor of our city is in your
hands However it may have been with other
places, let it be seen that at Worcester a fire.
mems muster be held, aud everything lie
done so decently and in order, that the veriest
croaker among us cannot 6pd fault. This was
very nearly the case last year. We were proud
of Worcester, and of you, its fremen, on that oc-
cason, but "EIeeIsiOr," !" "6etter yst," should be
your motto.
Do you say that companies from abroad will
have their own opinions and have their own way
in this matter T! There companies present,
last year, whose members strictly temper
ate. There were others of a different class.
Which did the most to honor the occasion
Nay, which course would secure the highest
pleasure, the most real satisfaction, both at the
time and in the recollectioni Now, your wish.
es and determination will go far in settling which
Of the two classes shall give character to the oc.
casion. You are the hosts Of the entertainment.
Do guests insult their entertainers by wantonly
going contrary to their known wishes Is that
the usual courtesy among brother hremens We
do not so understand it.
But on the other hand, does any one maintain
that abstinence on your part will look like mig.
gardliness Let US show our generosity by album
dance Of good cheer in every department, save
that when Stimulus, under the guise of increasing
friendship, leads only to hatred and violence. We
believe that almost every ono, whose good opin-
ion is worth having, would honor you for taking
the stand proposed. Certainly the thanks OF
thousands would be most heartily awarded you,
WHAT SAY ?
Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-25
25. / 8 B 8.

EXPERIMENTING ON TEE CABLB.-It ap-
pears that the utmost success of Mr.. White
house, of which the public thus far have any
knowledge, is to send through the Atlantic
cable nineteen words in eighteen minutes,
Hughes, on the other hand, has transmitted
six words in one minute. The experiment
was made in England under disadvantages,
and he is now confident that he can send
through ten words in minute each way, at
the same time, making twenty words a min
ute. But no arrangement has yet been en-
tered into with him by the telegraph compa-
ny, for a renewed trial of his instrument
and the line from the start has been exclu-
sively in the possession Of Whtehouse. who
has spent, it is said, over 800, 900 in his ex-
periments on the cable since it was manutac
tured. 1t is fair to presume that Mr., Hughes
will yet have the privilege of fairly testing
the powers of his invention upon the sub
merged cable. The New York Herald says;
ga proposition has been made to Hughes
to put his instrument on the submarine line
between Sardinia and Malta, as by the system
now used it is impossible to obtain a higher
rate of speed than four words a minute. We
may state also that the Red Sea line has en-
tered into negotiations with HIM for the use
of his machine, and we have no doubt it will
eventually supersede all others in the work
ings of submarine telegraphs throughout the
world. boston Journal.
Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-25

The advices from Canada (private letters in
particular, strongly exhort young men, and
especially those who are unable to perform
the toughest and hardest work, not to think
of emigrating to that colony, at any rate at
the present time, as it is utterly impossible for
them to procure employment at wages which
will keep body and soul together. Returned
emigrants tell the same story of an overstock-
ed labor market.
There was present at Niagara Falls, on
Thursday last, the largest number of visitors
that have been there III any one day siuce the
summer of 1853. About 100 left one house
alone, to go down the Lake to Montreal and
other places in that direction, but their places
were Immediately filled by new arrivals. That
night all the great hotels had to refuse appli-
cants for accommodation.
Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-25

Col. Bullock has administered a very pointed
rebuke to the Transcript for its impertnence in
bringing his name before the public in the man
ner and connection spoken of in our paper. yes
terday. In letter to the editor, yesterday, he
says the article in that paper is the only intima-
tion he has received of any such combination
as is there spoken Of and adds, in substance, that
if the statement had rested on the authority Of
that paper alone, he should not have noticed it,
But, he has seen it repeated in papers published
outside OF the district. and he adds:
1T may therefore not be improper for me to
say that there is not, on my part, at least, any
foundation whatever for this rumor. am not so
much as a candidate for any nomination for Of
foe Nor is it quite easy to suppose that there
can have existed in the Democratic party of the
distict any expressed or cherished wish of the
kind referred to. Certainly will do them the
justice to believe, that, when they shall have oc-
cason to turn their attention to the selection of
candidate for Congress. it will be directed to-
wards some person hauing higher degree Of con
fdence than mine in the presiding genus and the
preUaiiing policy Of the present national admins
tFata0a."
Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-25

$40, 900 IN MONEY AND PROPERTY STOLEN.
On the night OF the 9th inst. the warehouse
of Oliver Newberry, at Detroit, was entered
by means of false keys, and the safe robbed of
money and papers to the amount of $4,000.
There were IN The safe bank bills to the
amount of $lIOO, of which only $500 was
good. of the papers, $4,000 was in good
notes of hand; the rest consisted of deeds,
mortgages, land warrants, sc. The robbery
was kept secret for the purpose of detection,
and the matter committed to private detect
ives, who traced the rogues to Toronto, Cana
da, where they obtained possession of carpet
bag containing all the valuable papers and
uncurrent money. The thieves, with the $500
in good money, are still missing.
Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-25

SOUTHERN VIEW oF THE CABLE REJoIc.
INGs.-The following, from the Savannah
Georgian, is an illustration of the sectional
light in which Improvements and progress in
any department of enterprise are regarded in
the benighted regions of slavedom:
"We see great preparations making for a
telegraphic jubilee all over the Northern
country, and it has been suggested by some
one that the citizens of Savannah should
unite in such a proceeding. The Northern
people are easily excited, and anything which
will serve as an escape valve for their orators.
and to fill their newspapers, is quickly seized
upon, whether it be the Burdell murder or
the Atlantic telegraph. We of the South are
in the habit of taking things in more quiet
and philosophical way, and although we ac-
ence, we do not explode with the thunders of
popular clamor over every event of the day.
As work of science, the Atlantic telegraph
can scarcely be said to have added anything,
but every scientific principle involved has been
long since known and put into practical oper-
alton. 1t is certainly an effort of human in
dustry and perseverance wonderful to con-
template. 1t is great work for England.
1t puts Canada nearer to her than Ireland
was twenty years ago, and we shall hear no
more of that province desiring annexation to
the United States. With both ends of the
wire in possession of England, in time of war
we should have jubilee at which there
would not be much rejoicing"
Worcester daily spy., 1858-08-25

NAVAL GLoRy.-The Boston Journal, in
an account of visit to the steam frigate Ro-
anoke says that she carries thirty eight six
and eight inch guns on her main deck, be-
sides two ten-inch pivot guns, and adds
1.-The projechle intended for them in ac-
tive service is shell of such destructive
force that the explosion of one or two of
them on board an enemy would sink his YES
sci in very few minutes and should her
antagonist be armed with the same deadly
missile, it is quite likely the victorious ship
would share the same fate Indeed, so dan
gerous has modern naval warfare become in
consequence of such inventions, that one of
the officers of the Roanoke jocularly remark.
ed to US that he intended to recommend the
towing of another ship after an action, as the
crews OF both victor and venquished would
be certain to 90 to the bottom, unless they were
provided with such refuge