davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
BresIInand the state Legislature

In our last paper, [says the Newark
Advocate, we felt called upon to give
publicity to the fact, that John G. Bres-
lin whom Gov. Chase has refused to take
effective steps to bring to justice, has
made deposition in which he swears up
on himself all responsibility for the
treasury defalcation of $550,00O which
occurred under Treasurer Gibson in
June, 1857. In addition to this, we are
also Informed that another deposition
has been made by Breslin in which he
alledges that $500 became a loss to
the State by his (Breslin.s) improper
use of that sum within certain months
in the first year of his second term, du-
ring which months his official bond S re-
NAMED open to be strengthened by the
names of additional s~ureties before its
acceptance by the Governor. The OBJ
iect of the first deposition here referred
to, is to clear Gibson and his bail from
their liability; the object of the second
one is to release the bail Of Breslin from
liability for his acts and the purpose
and effect of both dopositions is to cheat
and rob the State by throwing the en-
tire liability on Breslin, whose property
is almost wholly concealed and covered
up.
That these dispositions arc, in the
main, rank and long concocted %periuries,
we have scarcely a particle of doubt
To save them from successful contradict
ton and exposure, it has been stated to
us on what we deem good authority,
that still another fraud has been perpe-
trated, and that certain records have been
distracted from the State Treasury that
would fully establish the falsity of Bres-
Inns dispositions.
In view of the startling robbery of
which Breslin swears himself to have
been guilty in view of the great wrong
which has been done a confding people
and a pillaged treasury, we again ask,
what is the duty of the Legislature?
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
Kansas and the Administration,


The Kansas policy of Mr.. Buchanan's
administration, remarks the Washing
ton Union, has been assailed with a
b%itterness scarcely paralleled in the an
nails of political warfare. For two
months past all black republicandom
has resounded with d~enunciations of
the Lecompton constitution, its friends
and supporters. 1t has been branded
as an infamous fraud, a stupendous
swindle, a slavewrought forgery, which
Mr.. Buchanan and the democratic par
ty are end~eavoring, by all the means in
their power, to force upon the people of
Kansas. But it is a little remarkable
that in all that has been said against
this instrument, no one of it's enemies
has yet raised an objection to it uncon-
nected with the slavery question. That
element in its character has been fierce
ly assaulted, but aside from that it has
not been attacked. It is admitted on
all hands to be republican in substance
and in form, and allowed to be we'll
adapted to the wants and necessities of
the people for whom it was framed
All that has been said and done against
its acceptance, both in and out of
Congress, is, either directly or Indirect
ly, attributable to the single fact that
it recognises and protects the institution
of slavery. No other feature in it, we
has been seriously assailed, and
nobody, in or out of Kansas, has really
to it upon any other ground.
This being SO and the people of Kansas
had a fair opportunity of ratify-
ing Or rejecting this feature, the ques-
ton naturally arises, what wrong has
been done them by the failure of the
convention to submit for their ratiica-
ton or rejection the other portions
unobjectionable portions-of the con-
;titution. The real question at issue,
and the only one about which there W.. !
my serious difficulty in the formation of
he constitution, was Inc slavery question.
This the convention very properly sub
to the people; they passed upon
and resolved by their votes to adopt
as one of their domestic i%nstitu-
ton; hence the cry o film Lane and his
followers, here in Kansas, that the Lee
compton constitution is a fraud and a
'windle. Had the people, on the other
hand, stricken out the slavery clause,
resolved to make Kansas a free
State, the Lecompton constitution, judg-
ng from the fact that no other objection
las been made to it than the one allu-
led to, would to-day have been without
n enemy among the republicans in the
rational Congress, or in the Territory
# Kansas. We must conclude, there
ore, that all the noise and trouble which
las been raised over this matter is ow-
ng far less to any belief that a wrong
las been inflicted upon the people of
Kansas in not having their whole con-
.titution submitted to them, than to the
act that they have chosen to engraft
lpon it the clause recognizing and pro-
institution of slavery.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
All Ugh

We clip the following from the Cleve-
land PIuindeaIer of Saturday:
The Telegraph also says, that CAL
HoUN has concluded to give certificates
to the Free State candidates on the Leg
~islative and State Ticket, which fact will
no doubt hasten the compromise as it
will add two more free State Senators
and one Representative to the Northern
vote. 1t has also been declared by the
President and reiterated by several
Southern Senators, that so much of the
Lecompton Constitution as claims to
make the same irrepealable till after
1864, should be repudtated as null and
ooid; which takes away a formidable OBJ
lection to the adoption of said Instru-
ment, as it leaves the people at liberty
to change their fundamental Law in
thirty days after admission as a State.
With all these concessions and expla-
nations we see no necessity of prolong-
ing this contest, and the Presidents
wish to have Kansas admitted this SEES
sion and take this vexed question out
Of the general politics of the country,
will be shared in by all well disposed
people of all parties.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
Duel Between Lieutenlnts Bell
and Williams.
WASHINGTON, Tuesday,

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Feb. %.
Licutenants Bell and Williams, who
had a collision last Sunday mtrning
in a BARRIERS shop, had a duel this morn
ing beyond Bladensburgh, at five o.
clock. They were accompanied by their
respective friends.
1t is reported that Bell fred at the
word %"one," his bali penetrating Will
liam's hat. Williams, who was the as
sailing party, having given the satisfac-
ton demanded, discharged his pistol in
the snow.
A reconciliation took place, and both
IParties returned to Washington.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

pAA Within the last four years, says
the Rochester Democrat, owe one hun
dred persons have been convicted in the
United States Court for the Northern
District of New York, for counterfeit
ing, forging pension papers, and viola
ting the post Office laws.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

s-The Telegraph of Tuesday last
informs US of the death of Judge KANE,
of Philadelphia. AT the time of his
death he was the United States District
Judge of the Eastern District of Penn
sylvania, and was the father of the cele-
brated and lamented Elisha Kent Kane
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
Twenty second of February.

Last Monday was the birthday of the
immortal Washington, and we are sor-
ry it passed off without any demonstra-
ton upon the part of our citizens to
commemorate it. Almost all''our neigh
boring Cities have celebrated it by some
display or other and why should we not
have taken some means by which to
let the world know that in old Preble,
the noble and memorable Washington
lives in the hearts of the people? We
do hope another birthday of the Faith
-er of our Country will not be permitted
to pass by, and the citizens of Preble
county found sleeping upon their
arms" Arouse! Arouse! !! and let the
welkin ring with
a.- ,tIT-.l N.I...ls Io--r oJ
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
Money a Drug

Money is becoming so plenty in the
Eastern cities that capitalists hardly
know what to do with it. The follow
ing item from the New York Evening
Post, of Monday, is very significant:
"The gfut of money is becoming even
greater: brokers are refusing it at five
per cent, for a specified time. The rates
of discount are easier. ss.ray ilJ-
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

R1-It is said to be true, that the two
greatest attractions to lady visitors, at
Washington, are President buchanan
who has no wife, and Mr.. Mormon
Bernhisel, who has a dozen.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
Will Kansas be Admitted,

The question of the admission or re-
lection Of Kansas under the Lecompton
Constitution, says the Missouri Demo-
crat is one of great concern to the peo-
pie at this time, and various are the sur
misses as to the result in Congress, when
the final vote comes to be taken. By
reference to the proceedings in the House
of Representatives, on the question of
referring the Presidents Message and
the Constitution to a Select Committee,
on Territories, it would seem that the
opponents of the Administration sue
ceeded in their design. But we appre-
bend, it will prove to be but a short-lived
triumph, even admitting the voting to
be q test of the relative strength of par
ties. We have no doubt there were sew
eral votes given in favor of the reference
to Select Committee, under the belief
that it would be more satisfactory to the
people generally, than the other mode.
But when the naked question of the ad-
mission or rejection of Kansas, under
the Lecompton Constitution, comes be
fore them, and when preliminary ques-
tons are no longer in the way, we firm
ly believe that the policy of the Admin
istration will be sustained by a hand
some majority-even in the House
AS to the Senate there never was any
trouble in the pas age of the Lecompten
Constitution through that body.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

Bg~Two hundred and sixteen mar
rage license were issued by the clerk
Of Hamilton county, Ohio in the month
of January last-twenty-fve less than
the usual aveage.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

Bg~Mr. Granville J.. Penn, gra nd
son of VIM. Penn, leaves Philadelphia
this week fqr a tourin Europe. He is
the last male representative of the fam
lily of the founder of PennsYlY ania.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

HaThe Tennessee Legislature has
at last passed a bank bill. 1t requires
that the banks shall resume specie pay
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

The Missouri Compromise was hateful
to the South. And why? Because it
denied US that equality in the Union
which is guaranteed by the Constitution.
Because it prohibited the Stakeholder
from carrying his property into the con
mon territories. Because it conceded to
Congress the right to legislate upon the
subject of slavery in the territories
The South demanded the repeal of this
unequal enacment. 1t was annulled,
and the right of establishing or repudi-
ating slavery in the territories about to
become States, was thus remanded to the
people of those territories, as the South
desired. And hence We hold that the
principle has been carried out, and the
Lecompton Constitution should not be
returned. We-do not believe the peo-
pie of Kansas arc in favor of establish
ing slavery there. And, they add, it is
because we wish to carry out the very
principle which the South demanded in
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
that we wish to return this constitution
for a fair and full vote of the whole pco-
pie.
The Black Republicans themselves
have abandoned their original ground
ofFcderal Intervention, on this question
since they are compelled to acquiesce in
the exclusive right Of the people of Kan
sas to accept slavery or reject it. We
thus see that if the Lecompton Consti-
tuition is returned by Congress for pop
ular ratification, there will be no viola
ton Of the principle to which the South
adheres as in safeguard of her i%nstitu-
tons and her honor. On the contrary,
it cannot be denied, that it would be an
other instance of its enforcement.--
Where, then, is the cause to talk of. a
dissolution Of the Union? Can the
Southern people oppose a principle
which is the sheet anchor of their insti
buttons, which they insisted upon in the
Nebraska Kansas act; and for which
they are now strenuously c~ontending in
advocating the acceptance of the LIE
compton Constitution. Whether the
advocates or the opponents of the recep-
ton of this Constitution succeed the
same principle will be carried out
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
RELIGIOUS Notice.

Rev. G. T. FLANDERS, Pastor of the
First Universalist Society of Cincinna-
ii, will preach in the Christian Chapel,
Eaton, on Thursday evening the 4th
of March proximo, at early candle
lighting.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

pa Ex-Governor MEDARY has re-
ceived the appointment of Postmaster
at Columbus. This will, without doubt,
meet the appreciation of the entire dem
ocratic party of Ohio. We hope he may
get control of the Statesman before it is
entirely given up to Black Republican
ism by the Democracy.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

rsA An old bachelor left a boarding
house, in which a number of old maids,
on account of the miserable fair set be-
fore him at table.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
T O., E Is, 1853.

. Asa-The date on the first page of this
weeks paper should be the 25th instead
of the 26th, as we have it.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

nIHon. GEO. E. PUaH, and Hon.
A. G.. Brown, of the U. S. Senate, has
our thanks for valuable public docu-
ments.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

nm GOOD morning Jones. How
does the world use your" at uses me
up, thank you"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

The following notice appears on a
country meeting house: "Any person
sticking bills against this church will be
prosecuted according to law or any 9th
err nuisance"
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

MURRAY & LANMAN's FLORIDA WA
TERI is not difficult to distinguish
the lady of delicate tastes and instinct,
from the less refined of her sex, by the
quality of the perfumery she uses. The
fashionable danes and demoiselles of
South and Central America prefer MUIR
RAY & LANMAN's Florida Water to
every other odeur for the handkerchief,
and have chung to it for twenty years to
the utter neglect, of Lubin's entraits and
other full-bodied, bnt by no means re-
freshing perfumes of Europe and the
United States. Our own ~elegantes are
now ratifying the Spanish verdict On
this most fower-like of all floral essen
ces.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

ssAL In Alabama and other Southern
States, the winter has been so mild that
it has been found difficult to preserve
pork after it was made ready for sailing
and barreling. The hogs after they
are killed and cleaned, are left lying on
the ground during the night in order to
render them cool enough for sailing the
neKt morning.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
HeartIcss DesertiOn.

We see by the Cincinnati CONNER
ciaE that CAPTAIN SUMMONS, one of
the Oldest pioneers of the Western wa
ters has been most heartlessly deserted
by his wife. A few days since the
Captain, after an absence on the River
of a few weeks, in company with a
friend of his visited his home, and
found upon IN entrance into his house,
the empty walls of a once magnificent
ly furnished palace. His wife had cal
led in an Auctioneer and disposed of
all the furniture, at a great sacrifice, for
$1,000, and in company with a daugh-
ter eloped to join the paramour of this
daughter, the notorious and Infamous
Joe Darr, Jr. 1t will be recollected
that but a few years ago this whole fam
lily was poisoned by their son, Jim
Summons, who was convicted in Gin
cinnati of murder in the first degree for
the offence, and whose sentence was
committed to imprisonment for life,
where ne is now serving out the MISSION
of the law in the Ohio Pe~nitentiary,
and now, again, when poor Captain
Summons head is ~silvered DER by age,
and in an hour when he should sit in
his easy chair and enjoy the labors of
a virtuous and we'll spent life, a heart
less william and v~agabond ereeps into
the affections of gay and unworthy
daughter through whose influence the
companion of his bosom is snatched
from his embrace and the sunshine and
confidence of years of affection made
a dark and gloomy waste. Those who
are personally acquainted with, and
have travelled with the Captain will
deeply sympathize with him in this, his
most severe affection.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

Two MORE MEN HUNG.-The Greg
ulators" in Noble county hung two more
men on Saturday, Kendleville. The ex-
element in Noble and adjoining coun-
ties continues great.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
aHail Columbus happy land"
sa The Reqister mel crowd into Il

Ra-The Register men crowd into the
last issue of their paper two mortal
columns. of the speech of Ex-Secretary
Stanton, delivered at the anti Lecompton
meeting, held in Philadelphia re-
Gently. Anybody reading his speech
delivered at that meeting andthen turn
ing to his message to the Free State
Legislature of Kansas, can very easily
see that in one or the other he has
most wantingly mis-represented matters
in that Territory. In hat message
he said
"At the election for delegates to the
Convention on the 18th of June last,
the great body of the people refrained
from voting. That refusal of the ma
jority to go to the polls was too unfor-
tunate to be now denied. 1t has pro-
duced ALL the evils and dangers of the
present critical hour. 1t has created
the present profound excitement"
If the opposition and their allies can
make any capital out of the speech of
the man who has so basely stultiied
himself, they are welcome to it.
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25
Dying DeciaratiOm OF Murderers:

Henry Fife, and Charlotte Jones,
who murdered the old couple at Nc
Keesport in Pennsylvania, paid the
penalty of their awful crime on the
scaffold at Pittsburgh a few days ago
They declared in their last words that
Monroe Stewart is an innocent nan,
whereupon the Sherif7s Jury immedi-
ately signed a petition for a stay of ex-
ecution in regard to Stewart who was
sentenced to be hung on the 26th of
this month, Friday next.) Although
Stewart was caught in bad company we
cannot think that humanity can
be SO far degraded as to face God in a
diving moment with a lie upon their
hos, consequently if Fife and Charlotte
are to be believed, even upon the very
threshold of death and judgment
Monroe &tesoarf, is an innocent and deep
H injured man
Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-25

ments.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-10
From Washington.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9th.-Charles S. Jones'
the Democratic caucus nominee for Doorkeeper
OF the Senate, was elected to-day by 81 votes.
Y Republicans voted for Lewis Clephane
the clerk Of the National Era office. Four
votes were also cast for two other gentlemen.
The Democratic Senators, in caucus, have
arranged the Standing Committees. The most
important change is the substitution of Mr..
Green for Mr. Douglas, as Chairman of the
Committee on Territories.
The Spanish Minister has addressed a note
to Gen. Cass on behalf of his government.
Judge Eekles had an interview on Tuesday
might with the President on the subject of sup
preston of polygamy in Utah. The President
did not indicate what course he would recon-
mend in the matter Gen Cass is understood
to be favorable to measures for suppression
1t is said the Nicaragua filibustcrs have
their rendezvous in the Florida Keys There
is little, if any doubt, that the steamer Fashion
which left Mobile on the LIST of Decembe, pro-
tessedly for Texas, carried out a large number
of emigrants, together with ammunition. Our
government is not kept fully advised of their
plans and movements. New Orleans papers
of Friday, state that the u. s. District Court
at Key West, declared the eondemnment of
the barque Lyra and hsr cargo that vessel
having been seized on suspicion of having
been fitted ont for the slave trade.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-10
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA,

Arrival of the Quaker City at New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, 9th-We have the following
additional news by the steamship Quaker City,
which arrived at this port yesterday, with San
Francisco dates of the 10Th ult.
The Sixth Regiment arrived at Benicia on
the 10th ult The ship Lucas was lost on the
9Th ult. The State had sued Messrs. Wells,
Fargo& Co., for the So, 900 of the 100000 in
specie stolen from their custody. Mining was
good, Rain was much needed, and the cattle
were suffering for want of feed.
The application for the appointment of
receiver for the new Almedian mines had been
denied by the Federal Court, and the injunc
ton continued. Rents were advancing and
houses were scarce. Discount had improved,
but the markets generally were unsettled.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-10

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 9th.-The overland mail,
with California dates of the 18th, has arrived
here. -Four through passengers, among whom
is Mr.. VIM. C. Jewett, who furnishes the fol-
lowing summary of news The camels which
strayed from Fort TETON, had all been recov-
cred, The Alta Express Company had failed
leaving the whole field to Wells, Fargo, & Co,
Thomas 0. Larkin's will was published. He
leaves property worth half a million.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-10

Troy, N. Y, Dec. 9.-The extensive brush
factory OF ). G. McMurray Co. of I.ansin-
burg, ~ T., got ON fire this morning, and Is
now IN runs Some two hundred hands are
the fire. H'''''OS vi
2 o'cOeh, y. M-'rhe fire has spread 10 tbc
adjoing buildings, and is still raging, A num.
Der Of fire companies have been sent for
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-10
THE drv goods store of Bowen &, McNam

THE dry goods store of Bowen McNamee,
corner of Broadway and Pearl streets, New
York, was entered by burglars on Saturday
night Or Sunday morning, and robbed of over
$1,000 worth Of choice silks. The burglars
effected an entrance to the store by boring
through the wall of a room in the fifth story of
an adjoining dwelling house in Pearl street,
and then boring through the rear wall of the
store.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-10

In the Superior Court at Norwich, Conn,
last week, the suit of Henry D. Langworthy
u.s. the N. y P. and B. r. R. Co., was tried,
and verdict of $1,000 damages rendered for
the plaintiff, who was injured in Stonington
last March, by train running upon the car
riage in which he was driving over the street
crossing.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-10
Filibuster schooner Esoaped.

mobile, Dec. 9.-The schooner Susan es-
capped on Tuesday afternoon. The Cutter Nc
Clermand got aground in the Navy Cove, and
when got off the schooner was about four hun
dred miles away. The flibusters here are
greatly elated
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-10
The Echo SLAYER Case.

COLUMBIA, s. c., Dec. 9-The Judges of
the Federal Court have declared the law of
1920 constitutional, and have remanded the
prisoners in the SLAYER case to wait the action
OF the Grand Jury, at the next term of the
court, on the charge Of piracY.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-10
A Rnmor.

HALIFAX, Dec. 9.-Lord Bury has reason
to believe that the rumor of the loss of Lords
Cavendish and Grosvenor, and Hon. Mr.. Ash
ley, is incorrect and says he understood that
they had arrived safe at fort Garryz.