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M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
The Indian DepredntIORs I'm
Texas.

A letter from Belknap, written by
Mr.. z. Harmonson, on the 10th ult.,
gives the following account ofscme Of
the outrages Of a band Of Indians,
whose heavy punishment by the Tex
as Rangers we have already given our
readers information:
They stole on the 9th and 2Sth Of
April, about one hundred Of horses in
my immediate neighborhood. They
have broken mp the country as regards
horses; not day passes, but they get
horses or shoot cattle. On one Of the
days above mentioned, at MONDAY,
they killed Cameron ard his wife and
three of his children, and Mason and
his wife in the Lost Valley; they were
horribly butchered. ! cannot in this
give you the details. 1t would make
your heart bleed. Everybody rushed
to the scene, and followed the murder
ers' trail north Of Red River. The
Indians scattered and their trail was
lost. we are IN an awful SITUATION at
this moment. Several other mur-
ders have been committed below here
A man the other day was shO dead in
his yard grinding at his steel mill
Some are leaving the country. All
the Elm Creek settlers left and came
into Belknap without their crops and
stock, and all the Race Greek settlers.
The cavalry has all been ordered off
in few days. The citizens met and
contributed sons $4,000, and hired q
company Of rangers for one month to
travel and scout constantly; we feed
them and give them one ST. per day.
Many would leave if they could; soma
are offering their cattle at So per
head.
don't even go to my COW pen with
out weapons. sleep every night
with my six shooter in bed. Campen
was killd within 60 yards ofhis house
while plowing in the field; Mason
was killed in his yard.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
The New Treasury system.

Some Of our opponents boast that
when they get the power in this State
again, they will repeal the Independ-
ent Treasury law, which was passed
by the late Democratic Legislature
and voted against by every Republi-
can member. This law provides for
the safe keeping of the money of the
people in the vaults of the Treasury,
and prohibits treasurers, under severe
penalties. from loaning it to anybody,
using it for their own benefit, or de-
posting it with banks, corporations
or individuals. This mode or keep.
ing the hard earnings of the people 30
as to secure them from the possibility
Of loss, has been advocated by the
democracy Of this State for years, and
several times distinctly enunciated in
their platforms. Every democratic
treasurer, since 1852, has been in
honor bound to carry out faithfully
this doctrine, and he who has not is
simply traitor to his party. In the
case of Breslin, although it was not
ascertained that he had used the State
funds for his own aggrandizement,
yet the simple fact that he had loaned
them to, and deposited them with,
banks, caused him to be denounced by
a democratic convention, as a fit ub-
ject for the State prison. He had di-
rectly violated the platform upon
which he was elected, and the we'll
known wishes Of o majority of the
people. Party ties, position, nothing
could shield him from this severe but
merited condemnation. The losses
which the State suffered were mere
results of the mode of managing the
treasury, in which loans, deposits with
bankers and brokers, straw security
&C., were all mixed up together, ant
formed an essential part. We do moi
believe that the opposition, should they
obtain power, will ever dare to change
a single important feature Of the new
law, particularly the one alluded to-
They are greatly mistaken if fthey sup
pose the people desire the revival o!
the old system, under which the State
lost considerably over million Of dol
lars.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
The Atlantic Telegraph.

A correspondent Of the Chlllicothe
Adrerti8er, writing from Washington,
says, that "by recent act Of the Eng
lish Parliament, important changes
are made in the government of tie
Atlantic Telegraph Company, by
which John Bull obtains decided
advantage over Brother Jonathan,
Notwithstanding the latter, at the last
session of Congress, agreed to con-
tribute $4,000 per annum in money,
and sent two of our finest vessels of
war to aid in laying the cable. Under
the new regulation, the English gov,
ernment is to have a priority over the
American government in the trans
mission of messages, until our gov
ernment will pay as much to the CON-
pany as does the English government.
1t was bad enough that both ends Of
the cable struck English soil-that
the managers o! the concern were all
or nearly so, Englishmen, and thus
indirectly subject to the will of the
English government, without pro
claiming the entire management O.
the affairs Of the company directly
under the control of Lords Commiss.
toner's of the Treasury, as is done by
the recent act of Parliament"
We think Brother Jonathan had
better keep his $4,000 and two chips
home, or employ them in protecting
the American flag in the Gulf from
tho insults of British cruisers.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
THE DEMOCRAT.
ALEX. PEARcE, Boron.
nemocrntIc MASS MeetinR.

The Democracy of Vinton County
are requested to meet at the Court
House, in Macarthur, on Saturday,
the 10th day of July, proximo, at one
o'clock p. NJ, for the purpose of elect.
ing delegates to represent them in the
State, Congressional and Judicial Con.
ventions.
BY order Of the Democratic Central
Committee. A. PEARCE,
June 10, '58.-3w. Chairman.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
A Few Questions.

Now that the Republican party is
about to give up the ghost, it would
be we'll to ascertain what good it has
accomplished in its career. The Ohio
Patriot, therefore, asks the following
pertinent questions:
What good have Republicans done
the slavel
What good have they done the poor
whites of the Soutbl
What good have they done Kansass
What good have they done anything
or anybodya
In view of their services, should the
Cause of Freedom-if there be such
thing-6less or curse them2
Let us have answers in plain words,
and without rant.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
Failures.

The Republicans have failed to have
the Fugitive Slave law repealed.
They have failed to abolish slavery
in the District of Columbia.
They have failed to abolish the in
ter State Slave trade.
They have failed to restore The Mis-.
souri, Compromise.
They have failed to procure Con-
gressional intervention for, or against
Slavery extension.
They have failed in everything they
ever undertook thus far.
What do they propose to fail at nexti
%. Patriot.
The Patriot may rest assured that
the only thing they won't fail at, is a
general split and burst-up among
themselves, which interesting opera.
ton has already begun.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
Condition OF Affairs in CasS, Bates
and Vernon Counties, Kansas.

A gentleman who has recently Wis.
ited these counties, for the express
purpose Of finding out the exact con.
dition Of affairs, growing out of the
marauding forays Of Montgomery's
band, gives as statement, in sub.
stance as follows:
A strip Of country, about ten miles
in width, and perhaps fifty miles long
in Missouri, and immediatly on the
State line in Bates and Vernon Coun.
ties, is almost depopulated, the citi.
zens have been plundered and driven
from their homes by the Kansas out.
laws, with instructions not to return
at the peril of their lives.
Five miles west ot the town Of But
Ter he visited an encampment ofseven
families who had been run out of Kan
sas Territory; they were forty.two in
number, composed ofmen, women and
children, in tents. An armed force
of fifty to four hundred men, in de-
tached parties, was ranging the line Of
these counties, committing depreda.
tions. He was informed that the cit.
izens of West Point and Montgome-
ry's men had entered into treaty, by
which the robbers agreed not to in
terfere with the citizens of West Point,
! if they would consent that Hamilton
and his men should be taken, iffound
in that town. This arrangement is
confined to West Point. 1t was said
that the people of Bates County were
pledged to the same thing, but this Is
doubted. lie was credlbly informed
that the banditti take an oath by
which they are bound to each other
that when this paper is presented to q
man and he refuses to subscribe it
no matter whether he is O Free.soil or
Pros slavery mamie is plnndered of
his property and driven out of the
Territory. This gentleman saw sev-
eral conservative Free.State men who
had been driven out Of the Territory
for this offenSe.--S Louis RcpubIi-
can, June II.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
Democratic State Convention.

The Central Committee have called
a Democratic State Convention at
Columbus, on Thursday. the Goth Of
July. The following nominations of
State officers are to be made: Judge
of the Supreme Court, Attorney Cen
eral, Commissioner Of the Board Of
Public Works and Controller of the
Treasury. The basis of representa-
tion is one delegate fol every five
hundred Democratic votes given last
fall for Henry B. Paynef for Governor.
Eleven weeks will elapse between
the meeting of the Convention and
the election, period Of time none too
long for a thorough canvass of the
State.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
Our opponSnts seem to be aware Of

Our oppcnsnts seem to be aware Of
the wishes of tho people of Kansas,
and for few weeks past scarcely a
word have they uttered in regard to
the Conference bill. They have been
completely check-matcd in a move
which they fOndly hoped would give
them decidedly the advantage Of the
democracy. Hence, they talk about
the peoples Party, ""extrayagance," "
and everything else but the measure,
in regard to which they were SO virtu-
ously indignant short time ago.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
The Right OF Search.

| Outlnb thO pooS ""
twenty American merchantmen have
been fred into, boarded and examined
by British armed cruisers in the Gulf
OF Mexico. The Indignation OF the
people, along the Atlantic coast, par
ticularly, at these Outrages, has BEEN
very general, the only exceptions be-
ing among the AbOlitiOnists who have
always sympathized with the British.
They concede to the armed vessels Of
Great Britain the right to overhaul
and search American ships on the
high seas, and are willing, no doubt,
to hang out blue lights OIL the coast Of
New England, as they did in the war
of 1912.
The New York Tribune, the Black
Republican organ, as might have been
anticipated, sustains the attacks upon
our commerce, or, what is much the
same thing, apologies for them. The
arrogant pretenSions which Great
Britain sets up to control the COM
merce of the world, and to employ her
navy as a police on the seas, have not
been acknowledged nor will they be
tolerated by the American Govern.
ment. The war of 1912 was caused
by the attempt to enforce pretensions,
Of this sort, and it cannot be doubted
that another war will ensue from the
same cause, unless our ancient enemy
Immediately backs out and apologies.
This thing ofhaving British Senti-
nels stationed about our own doors to
challenge and insult our people upon
their egress or ingress, must be done
away with, and the right claimed by
the British government to stand guard
over our country, must be given up.
This is the determination Of the gov
ernment. A dispatch from Washing,
ton says:
The British resolutions, adopted by
the Senate, conclude that the recent
outrages require, in the judgment OF
the Senate, such unequivocal and f.
nal disposition of the subject by the
Governments of Great Britain and
the United States, touching the rights
involved, as shall satisfy the just de-
mands of this Government, and pre-
clude hereafter the occurrence Of like
aggresSions; that the Senate fully ap.
proves of the action Of the Executive
in sending q naval force into the in.
tested seas, with orders to protect all
vessels of the United States from
search or detention by the vessels of
war of any other nation; and it is the
opinion of the Senate that, if it be-
comes necessary, such additional leg
islation should be supplied in aid OF
the Executive power rs will make such
protection effectual.
In no way can the question be per,
manently settled without war, save by
an unequivocal acknowledgment by
Great Britain of tie freedom of the
seas. That is, that the armed vessels
of one nation have no right to inter
cept, fire into, or search the vessels of
another nation in time of peace. This
is the only settlement which can be
acceptable to the American people,
whose motto is, "Free Trade and Sail.
ors Rights"
In view of tue state Of our foreign
relations, Congress has ordered tht
construction of ten vessels Of war, o
light draft, for the better protection o
our flag.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
Con firmed by the Senate.

The Senate has confirmed the fol-
lowing appointments by the Presi-
dent:
John Cradlebaugh, (of Circleville,
Ohio,) Associate Justice for Utah
Stanley Matthews, Attorney for the
Southern District of Ohio; 7. JEFF.
Sherlock, Surveyor of Customs, Gin
cinnati, and VIM. D. Holt, Postmast'
or, Covington, Kentucky.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
The ElOOd Below.

The Flood IN tho N,SSisSiPpi.--
The food of waters in the Lower
Mississippi has no abatement, but are
steadily increasing with over three
thousand miles of cultivated country
inundated. This far exceeds in ext6nt
the entire continent Of Europe, aud
over there it would be looked upon
as q de,u5e. Here it is called food
or freshet, and not much feared, tho
it is working the ruin Of thousands
Of plantations.
The CAPTAIN of the .4IUin adams,
at Louisville, just up from Memphis,
reports the river at that point eigh
inches higher than at the former fresh
ct. Nowhere above Memphis was
the river as high as the great flood of
1914, but below Lake Providence it
was reported higher than ever before
excepting 1928. Another small rise
was reported in the Arkansas, which
increased the food below that point.
A crevasse had been made on Dick
Phillips plantation, just below Island
Eight, which was disastrous to him
and Ohaply Phillips, adjoining, caus-
ing them to lose thousands Of bushels
of corn, as we'll as other stock and
material.
The levee had broken at Rowlett's,
in Plumb Point Bend; also, at Fletch,
er's. This occurred Sunday night,
and Captain Lamb, on his last trip,
was very efficient at those points and
other places, in saving live stock,
farming utensils, furniture, grain, etc.,
having at one time five fat-boats la
den with property in tow. From two
log cabins he rescued twenty five per-
sons.
The injuries to the Wabash and
Erie Canal the Indianapolis Sentinel
is advised, will be repaired with $685..
600, and the company have the means
on hand.
The river in Cairo, on the 10th
was full taCenty feet deep. The town
seems to be ruined beyond redemp'
ton.
Mound City-We Illinois Gen.
trail RaiLroad.-This road, in conse,
quence of the late destruction of Cairo,
together with the immense damage
done to the track from Cash River tc
said place, is now running its freight
and passenger trains to Mound City
(where it connects with the St. Louis
Louisville and New Orleans steamerS)
Mound City is six miles above Cairo.
on the Ohio River. This place will
notsustain any damage from the over
flow, except so far as to Inconvenience
few Of its citizens for short time.
The water in this place runs from one
inch to two feet over most OF the
place. This, however, will be obvia'
ted IN toto in short time, as the es,
tablished grades of the streets are
above the present flood, which is the
highest ever known at that point.
The above facts we have from re
liable source.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
Later from U tah.
ST. LOUIS, Thurs. June II.

ST. LOUIS, thurs. June II.
A dispatch from St. Joseph, dated
the 18th: per United States Express,
to Boonville, says:
1.-The Salt Lake mail arrived las.
night, bringing Camp Scott dates to
May 20, mail train seventeen and a
half days. Al the latest accounts
Captain Marcy was on the Cherokee
trail, two hundred miles from Fort
Bridger; Colonel Hoffman had reached
Big Sandy Creek, seventy-eight miles
from Fort Bridger. The Mormons
were all leaving the valley, and 60
ing to a place named Proverst,
forty miles from the city, where it is
said they intend fortifying themselves
against further molestation. General
Johnston would leave Salt Lake City
as soon as provisions reach him, indi-
pendent ofthe arrival of Captain Mar
cy. The mail party met outgoing
trains at the following places: The
first train at Three Crossings; at Bit
ter Cottonwood; the third at Ash Hol-
low, and the fourth at Walnut Creek.
The mail encountered SHOWS storms in
the South Pass, a hundred and ten
miles from Camp Scott. They met
Colonel Anderson at th crossings Of
the South Platte; Colonel May at Big
Blue, and the Peace Commissioners
at about ten miles from Camp Scott.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
Republican Convention.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Wednes. June 16.
The State Republican Convention
to day--one thousand delegates and
alternates, representing ninety.five
counties, present. Joseph Miller
was renominated as a candidate for
State Treasurer. and N. Bateman for
Superintendent of Public instruction.
Resolutions were passed indorsing the
Philadelphia Platform, denouncing
the Dred Scott decision, and reafir-
ming the power Of Congress over the
Territories.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24

" 1t is very currently reported
this morning that the wife of a late
member from Ohio, who, a few years
since, rendered certain lobby services
to certain well-known mail
contractor. has demanded of the latter
a bond for $4,000 as compensation
for those services. The contractor
refuses to give the bond, considering
it too exorbitant. The lady declares
that twenty-seven members have
pledged them selves TO do all in their
power to prevent the contractor from
securing certain mail services unless
the bond be given. A curious state
of affairs. Immaculate legislators
Ocean.mail and black-mail.- - Wash.
ington States.
And why did you not include fe.
males
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24

~ New wheat has been sold at
Athens, Tenn, forsixty-five cents per
bushel. Old wheat will hardly com.
inaud any price.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24

~ A man has been arrested at
Strasburg for offering horse for sale
under the false pretence tina. the ami
NAL had belonged to Orsini.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24

U The Dowager Empress Of Aus
tria, Caroline Augusta, who is sixty
six years of age, has the measles.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-06-24
POIygamy In Utah Unlawful.

1t is stated that Judge Eckels, OF the
United States District Court in Utah,
charged the Grand Jury, which re.
Gently assembled in that Territory,
very pointed!y and decidedly against
pOlygamy. He informed them that
polygamy was prohibited by the Mex
ican law in Utah when it was acquired
by the United States, and that the
municipal statutes, in that respect,
had not beer changed by its cession
to this country. Polygamy was, there
fore, illegal in the Territory, and those
guilty OF it were liable to be punished
BY the statute which made adultery a
crime.
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-09-15
~
MUIR DElkS.

Michael Dooar, of Mt. Pleasant, near Gin
cnnati. Ohio, shot a man named lite, ia
tally, Wednesday last. without any appa.
rent cause. Dooar was drunk at the time.
The murderer is in custody.
The names of the two murdere-s of Mr..
h. }. Hinton, in Green county, in Illinois,
are Dick Hall and James Gaffney. Hall
fired the shot, and Gaffney procured the
pistol. AS we have before announced they
are sentenced to be hanged at Carrollton,
on the 26th lust
Robert Arnold, of Pittsburgh has been
arrested, and his examination is now in
progress, on the charge of having poisoned
his motherin-law, Mrs. Walker, in March
The charge was instituted by woman
named Moore, the wife Of man who was
recently coveted of counterfeiting, on the
testimony Of Arnold.
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-09-15

~-~os
On wednesday night sboat half past 0.
o. the crowd was returning from the exhi-
bision Of fire works At the county Fair. q
Connersvilie, q frightened horse created one
Of the most fearful panics we ever witness
ed 1t was very dark-so dark that IL WAS
impossible TO see any object more than .
few yards away. Trying in his fright to
avoid the carriages 10 the street. he dashed
into the crowd upon the sidewalk, and ran
with the salky whirling and lespiae far up
from the ground at every jump. for more
than hundred yards, right through that
dense mass Of men and women.
We heard the screaming when the horse
frat struck the sidewalk in the rear Of our
position in the crowd, and thought Il only
the usual fuss Of holiday but the scream-
ing came nearer and grew more fearful each
moment till We heard the crashing OF the
horse and carriage against the tree boxes
and the rushing of the people to either side,
mixed with the shrieks right behind US,
when, understanding the alarm. and think.
ing there might be some danger, we sprang
to fence, and just reached it as the horse
dashed by, throwing down several persons
who had been walking Immediately in front
OF US. fOr moment tHere was CO01ue
ion of dust, of figures in white dresses
whirling about as in a tornado, of men scuf.
fling about on the ground, and the whole
enveloped in tempest Of screaming that
made any inquiry as to the extent OF the in.
jury done impossible.
A little boy lay OH the walk close by Us.
whom We took up and found motionless and
senseless We thought him dead His face
was covered with blood and dust His ia
tier, CT some one who thought he was his
child took him away to a doctor. Just 81
a head lady had been fearfully injured
She was carried up town. In little while
the confusion cleared enough to allow us to
learn that five persons had been seriously
injured by the accident. and one or two it
thought might die They were: Mi Shaw
of Laurel; daughter OF Mr.. Frybarger, Of
Connersville; a son Of Mr.. Houston, aud
two Others, whose names we did not learn.
Miss Shaw was said yesterday morning to
be in u critical condition, but the rest were
considered out of danger.-Indianapoii
Journal.
Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-09-15
ParsOn lBrOwnlOw and Abrnm Pryne In
Debate.

a public debate, more amusing than edi-
flying, is in progress at Philadelphia, on the
slavery question, between the famous Par
son Brownlow, the fre-eating editor of
knoxville, Tenn, and Rev. Abram Pryne,
red-hot Abolition 1t.
The debate, as far az we have seen a re-
port OF il, is exceedingly personal and full
low blackguardlsm, especially on the part
OF Brownlow who is admitted to be the
greatest BLACKBOARD in the country
Pryne is Congregational minister, now
resident somewhere in Ohio, and was FORM
erly editor of Gerritt Smith organ in New
York, called the Retorner; and used 10 fig
ure quite extensively in all the Abolition
and Women's Rights conventions at SYRIA
cuse. He is a small man, but as full Of fire
and fury as steam engine.
The two men are we'll mated, Brown
low being as physically large as Pryne is
small as intellectually savage a. Pryne is
furious and as rabid in his proslaveryism as
Pryne Is incorporating in his Abolition
ism
The debate opened on Wednesday even
ing; and was to continue until Saturday
evening. provided they didn't eat each 9TH
Ell up before that time.