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|u'HE JOURNAL Is SOW ENTERING IT'S
X Thirty -rcyeuth voluhe. IL was established
IN 1922. and Il The oldestpepcr In Indiana IL 4
equal IN are to ihe Cin Of Indianapolis, and Il
nearly a. old ~ our State Government. II was es-
tsbiishcd when Indiana vas little else than viii
lefness. aud when indianapolis scarcely existed cx'
eept Ia nnmr Ia}<klked and grown upon is own
me'it.-. ssI's, ial patronage Or sg y,
vofdH thfon shoul DE iHylh ad breadth Of the
State, ond IT. poahoa upon all pablo uet'efs--po
iieal or o,hsfwlsc-la - wen known TN, anything
'ad n refefeneeto IL course upon any Of tae qaes.
ions now before the people would be supofhuoas.
While the journal viii continue 10 advocate The
great principles Of freedom, and give its support IL
the Repnbllean Party, n the party Of the people
acting With the party when right, and rcpudlnung
when wong-it will be Tor the coming year more OF
family paper thanit has ever yet been, and be
made more acceptable TO the general reader than
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Tho Session OF cangresg under anew Admlnistra-
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10 the Welfare Of the country, and the present Sea
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literally. The past course Of the Journal viii be
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Brookville American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-06
THE AUTHOR.

"Tho author, Mr. James Parton, II scholar and
Of the hlghVst attainmens. and hc has brought
20 his task all tho requisite qualtIcspatlncc, toll,
study, care, reflection, aud rescarchso indspcnsa.
bile TO NJ undertaking Of 30 much docacy aud ian p
portanf e."-l Home Journnl.
"Not until We read this volume had we the slight.
cat Idea OF Mr. partone ability, either ~ compiler
| or historian. =. The tragic story Of the
hero Il told With the power aud simplicity Of gca-
uine poet. "-lioston Post
Gle has performod his task with the veal Of an
antiquary and the taste OF an artist The lrlsome
details Of political life have been carefully sllcd
and a certain fine, vltalikng genius has given anil.
nation aud harmony 10 the mpss. His honesty OF
purpose Il no less conspicuous than his originality
expression and illustration. He certainty possesse,
rare talent for biographical delincation. - New
York Tribune.
THE BIOGRAPHY.
az volume worlhy Of the subject aud times on
which hc has ,riltcn."--[ Boston congrcgatonalirt
ut has net a dull page In II. One,
opepod, and me readers attention II secured-authoI
aud yajcet combining to wake him captive. -
| Boston Traf.
Utmost a model biography. "-[phllad Press
"Cerlnniy the most deeply interes ting, fascna-
ting book that has been laid upon table In many
a long day" Y. cominssionairc.
As an interesting biography, no work lately pub.
lishcd begins TO equal it, Boston journal.
1T Is impossible TO read Il after one has begun
work Of Almost unequacd interest. ~
! [Boston Post.
"0f peculiar and absorbing interest. - Boston
| Transcript.
More exciting thsn romancc."-IN. y. Evan
gcist.
"Morc real knowledge Of our early history cnn be
obtained from It than from many works devoted ex-
cluairely TO that pcriod."- Life Illustrated.
| "0nc OF the most fascinating biographies Of bad
man ever written."--lN. Y. Observer.
His life Is skctchcd in a that will not fail
10 he interesting, or 10 exert warning voice Ia
Young America Of the present day Chistian
Observer.
Portions life and Times of Aaron Burr may be Oh.
tanned Of Dookscllcrs, or will I've sent by nail nost
paid, receipt Of the adycttiscd price. published
| by MASON BROTHERS,
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Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-11
Farmers Scrap Books.

F. 7. X, of Ottowa Co., H., writing TO
the AyricUlturist, adds the following note
containing an oft repeated, but none the
less valuable suggestion: "Persons very
often meet with items of valuable infor-
nation lu old newspapers that they do not
keep on file. If all these scraps were cut
and laid carefully away, and when a sufii-
eient number were collected (say once a
month"; were neatly pasted into a blank
book, Alphabetically arranged. they would,
in a short time, form a valuable fund of
information for future reference. In this
way an 1yricu'tural Scrap Byok or a
HousekeCPcr's Scrap BooL might be made
that would be in constant demand for rec.
ipes and other information, besides fur
nishius pleasant occupation for leisure
hours"
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-11
Important from Kansas.

Nrc Pro- Sarc,y Mr3ers-FIee Free
State Men Kitcd IN Cotd Bloo1, and
Fire ottcrs IIouaIcd.
From the Lawrence EepuJcan-Extra.l
CLAwRENCE, May 23-!0 A. M.-We
hasten to lay before our readers the fol-
lowing communication just received from
a gentleman whose character for veracity
is unimpeachablc
MoNEKA, LINN Co, May 20, 1853.
Yesterday, a party of pro-slavery men
from Missouri came into the "Trading
Post" situated on the military road lead
ing from Fort Scott to Fort LeayenwOrth
where it crosses the Usage river, about
three miles from the State line. They
were not .een till they emerged from the
timber, and rode up to the store. Here
they took Mr. G. W. Andrews and John
f. Campbell, prisoners. They then STAR
ted on the road towards Kansas City.
They overlook here a Mr.. Stillwell, from
Sugar Mound, who was going up to the
river for load of provisions. They took
him prisoner, aud ordered the other to get
into his wagon and ride. In half mile
further, they came to a missionary by the
name of Rev Charles Read. They order
ed him into the wagon and dismissed An
drews. They continued on for two miles
and a half, when they had taken twelve
men. These men had been taken when
at their work, without resistance, and un-
armed, and had never been Implicated in
the troubles in Kansas. They were con-
servative.
On arriving at deep ravinc, in skirt
of timber, the commander called a halt.
The prisoners were formed into line, about
fifty yards in advance of the horsemen.
The command was given to "present arms.
fire. Every man dropped. -Four were
killed dead all but one of the others were
badly wounded The rufiians then wheel
ed their horses and galloped off. In
few minutes three of them returned and
searched their victims for money. They
kicked the men, and rolled them over very
roughly to see if they were dead. Find
ing one only slightly wounded, Iuflian
put revolver to his ear, and fired remark
ing that he had always found that the
most certain shot he could make. He
took the key of the safe out of Campbelrs
pocket, saying "there was money in that
safe, and he would come back some night
and get it.
The names of the killed are William
Stillwell, of Sugar Mound, recently from
Iowa. lie is young man, and has
q young and beautiful wife, and two
young children. He felt perfectly safe,
rcmarking to companion that "he .
was Free Mason )" and it is said that a
Free Mason, DR.. Hamilton, Of Fort Scott,
shot him. lie was killed with double
2arreled shot gun, loaded with pistol balls,
he charge entering his left breast. He
vas highly esteemed in this ncighborhood,
md his death will be avenged !
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-11

The Senate will do well to look these
great facts in the face. They constitute
broad and deeply marked departure from
the tone Of public feeling which should
exist, if the United States are not retro
grading. The slave trade is hidcous
form of piracy, and its prosecutors would
capture a rich merchant ship as quickly,if
they dared, as they would ship Il barracoon
of negroes in Guinea The declaration Of
this government, half century since, was
not a mawksh sentimentality, and thing
from which we may return to the piratical
times of half century still earlier. We
have a duty to discharge, wholly indepen-
dent of England, and one from which 20
real or asserted insolencc by British Off
GERS can excuse Us. What has our squad
ron of eighty guns done for fifteen years
past in this suppression How many of
the hundreds Of cargoes landed in cWest
Indies has it captured, or even seen !?
What force do We employ to-day in de-
tecting the innumerable transformation Of
American vessels, built for regular COM
merce, and for time engaged in legiti
mate West India trade, into slavers-one
half Of which the British capture aud con-
demn, but the other half arrive safely with
the negroes, making profits amply sufficient
to repay every loss !
The country has conscience and duty
in regard to this trade, wholly independent
of the British. This gigantic piracy is not
thing of which our hands are quite
washed. When the port of New York
ceases to fit out slave ships, and when our
African squadron has a capture or two to
report, we may make a beginning in the
case Bu. nov the Senate may better look
well to the assumed facts reported by out
ragged Spanish officials, who fear a cessa-
ton of rich subsidies, and by outraged
New Workers, who have seen their ships
likely to be question ned in the very ports
of Cuba, where, heretofore, the business
has had a latitude and indulgence which
even the De'to might envy. The slave trade
is in the fall tide Of successful operation,
and powerful interests are pushing for its
practical increase, until it shall have en-.
tire immunity in the mare clausuns which
they hope to make of the West Indian
seas. If these facts do not constitute a
dark and discouraging feature of the times,
We can hardly conceive Of facts which
would d-NJrH Ln,erican
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-11

officers of the several banks For spcci-
men, take the Shamokin Bank. As ano-
ther humbug in these platforms, look at
the tariff In 1911, the Democrats had
on their banners, "James X. Polk and
the Tariff Of lS42..we dare the " higs
to repeal it." Polk was elected, (Old
Buck his chief cabinet officer and the
tariff repealed, our manufactures crippled
and destroyed, the result CT which was
that the goods we're brought from foreign
countries aud hundreds of millions Of dol
lars of our hard coin was sent away. This
has brought about the present lamentablc
calamity which hangs over our country
and by which hundreds and thousands of
families have been thrown out of employ
ment. This platform must also be built
to tell the people that something else is
the cause of it. 1t now must be built to
suit the South and blindfoli the North
If this cannot be done, it is generally be-
licved that whenever old Buck will get
hold of it that he will throw it down and
break it as Moses broke the commandments
on the table of stone. The platform also
must contend that territories of our coun-
try shall have the full and free right to
form their own government, and that the
,noioritv shall ru ula-unlaSs {os afterwards :
explained) it pleases old Buck and the
South to Withhold that right This all must
be put under the cloak of Democracy,aLd,
if any Of the party should not be satisfied
with any part Of the platform, they must
be told by the leaders that it is Democra-
tic, which is sufficient to satisfy many Of
the party, who will throw up their hats
and cry out, hurrah for Democracy.
\ TRUE OnsEpVEp
FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-11
Use of Lime.

This article may be used in several
ways, very advautageOusly, just now.
Scatter it around your ecss-Pools and
kitchen drains, and over the floor Of vour
cellar, where vegetables have been stored.
1t is powerful disinfector, to prevent un-
pleasant and UNIV holesome odorS. Use ii
liberally, also, as whltewash. Have you
old buildings not worth coat Of paint,
fences, sheds, hen-housos, and granaries
in the same condition? Give them a
dressing of whitcwash. And don't for ct
the inside walls Of your cellar Nothing
will make the air below stairs 50 sweet
and healthy as this.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-11

Glorious Enterprise, and Perpetual
Contract Procured.

MEssRs. EDITORS-l congratulate you
with the cheerful news of the perpetual
contract which Messrs BAUM, SMITH &
Co. have made, to saw, at their new saw
mill in New Berlin, plank to build all the
new Democratic platforms for years to
come. 1t is agreed that they shall write
to all the office holders in the United
States for instructions 1t is the wish of
old Buck & Bill to have them built with
kind of sliding scale attached to each,
and that they be fastened on strong
pivot, so tina. il can be turned several
times in year and especially at election
times. They should have at least one
half dozen platforms on hand at all times,
to suit the different sections of the coun-
try, Just as the office holders find it neces-
sary to humbug the common people.
Bills plan is that the leaders Of the party
shall contend for one thing but mean the
contrary. For instance, if they contend
to oppose the sale of the public works,
why, they wish to have them sold. If
they talk against Lecomptonism, still, they
support the Lecompton party. Thus they
built SO as to humbug the common people
in regard to "hard money" When the
rccharter of the United States Bank was
vetoed, the leaders of the party told US,
in public meetings, that, in few years,
they would have gold and silver plenty,
and that paper money would not be need
ed any more: they generally had few
pieces of coin, as a seducer, which they
called the "Benton mintdrops" This
took like hot cakes with the people, who
have been looking from year to year to
see these yellow boys, but all hopes were
vain. They also opposed all the State
Banks, and passed Resolutions at public
meetings to vote against any candidate
who would not pledge himself to oppose
the charter of any new Bank. The tune
has now changed. Instead of having
plenty of hard coin, O,d Buck has now
issued millions of dollars which we might
call shinplasters, and our young State /
biiiy's plan now holds good to oppose
nanks before the people, but whenever the
legislature Is in session they will aid to
ses banks chartered to suit every Demo
cIa' IN the State, and work them in as
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-11
To Repel Bugs from Vines.

Gardeners will fud this "leafy Jdne, y
this "month Of roses" busy season, and
not an unimportant part Of their work will
be keeping bugs off from the cucumber,
melon, squash and similar plants. We
therefore detail several modes Of fighting
this enemy.
A decoction Of tobacco and red pepper,
sprinkled on the leaves Of the young
plants, will repel the bugs. Even the
pepper-tea alone will be too strong for all
that have weak stomachs. 4 mixture Of
two quarts flour aud black pepper, busted
on the vines while wet with the dew, an
swers as partial protection at least.
Open boxes, six inches high and foot
and half square, set over the young
plants, will answer good purpose; or a
cheap and convenient protector may be
made of birch bark, paste. board, or what
is still better, old floor oil-cloth, pegged
down. They may be six or eight inches
high, and of any desired size. Where
the two ends meet, it is well to tack them
to one of the pegs. Place them around
the hills as soon as the plants begin to
break ground, banking up so that no bugs
will work under them. Very few Of the
insect tribe will 60 over them. Bugs do
not appear to be skilled in fence climbing
Simply standing bricks on edge around
the plants usually keeps them out.
Liquid manure, made from hen-luug
and left to ferment, will drive of bugs by
its offensive smell. Two sLovelfulls Of
hen droPpings to four gallons Of water
will make it of the desired strength \
half pint of this liquid scattered over each
hill, on every alternate day, will repel
the bugs, and give the plants vigorous
growth.
y neighbor Of ours says lie has treated
his bug-visitors, for twenty years past, to
a pinch or two of good Scotch Snuff !;
they think this is something to be sneezcd
at, and therefore leave in disgust.-1mer-
icdn igriculfHIist
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-11
THE CHRONICLE.
NJ HENRY Co, Ill, May 80, 1858.
MONDAY, JyNE :. IS5S.

.NOl4Nsl'hu'h'S VI tl4t LN"lHudl5 NiToulic.l
NHENRY Co, ILL, May 80, 1858.
A too strong attachment to the land of
our nativity is kind of mouomania,
gripping the enterprise of youth. There
are many in the Eastern States who know
comparatively nothing of the West True,
they may have gathered much from read
ing and from conversation, but they do
not, can not comprehend It's rapid growth,
the beauty Of its prairies, the salubrity
of its climate, and the many cities, towns,
and villages that have sprung up as if by
magic. Even those of Us who have grown
up with the country, are astonished at the
rapid growth of Northern Illinois When
l look back to the time when my father
brought us here 1S37, when all was in
a state of nature, | can hardly realize
the facts as they present themselves. |
well remember riding over one of our
prairies with a friend, and making the re,
mark to him, that it might all be settled,
some time, but not in our day and gcncr-
alton the same tract is now under good
cultivation, with substantial brick dwell
ings thereon.
We have had rain here all this month,
with fair prospects for more. Business Of
all kinds is dull-moncy scarce-and
grain low Many of our farmers have
their last crops of wheat on hand-will
not sell at the low figures. Potatoes can
be bought for 10 cents per bushel, oats
for 20 cents, and corn lG to 20 cents per
bushel in the ear Yours &c.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-11
Building Upon the Sand.

'TIs well to wed, 't.s well to WOO,
For 80 the world has done
Since mvrtleS grew, aud roses blew,
And morning brought the sun.
But. have a care, We young and fair,
Be sure We pledge with truth;
Be certain that your love will wear
Beyond the days Of youth.
For, ye give not heart for heart,
As well as hand for hand,
You'll find you've played the "unwise" part
Aud -built upon the sand"
lis well to save, lis well TO have
4 cooily store Of gold,
Aud hold enough of shining Stu0,
For charity IS cold.
But place not all your hopes and trust
In what the deep mine brings;
We can not live on yellow dust,
Unmixed with purer things.
Aud he who piles up wealth, alone,
VIII often have to stand
Beside ms Golfer chest and own
'TlS built upon the sand
'Tis good to speak in kindly gusc,
And sooihe whate'er we can;
For speech Shonld bind the human mind,
And love link man 10 man.
Bat stay not at the gentle rords.
Let dseis with language dwell;
The one who pItles starving birds,
Should scatter crumbs as well.
The mercy that is warm and true,
Must lend helping hand,
For those who talk, yet fail 10 do,
But build upon the sand"
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-06-11
Mary Malonev's Idea Of a Lover.

"What are you singing for ?" said to
Mary MalOney.
ooh, | don't know, ma'am, without IFS
because my heart feels happy"
"IIappy, are you, Mary Maloney? Let
me see you don't own foot Of land in
the world"
"Foot Of land, is it?" she cried, with
hearty Irish laugh. "Oh, what a hand
yc be for joking; why, haven't pen
ny, let alone the land"
"Your mother is dead"
"God rest her soul. yes" replied Ma
ry, with touch of genuine pathos, "may
the angels make her bed in heaven"
"Your brother is still hard case,
suppose"
"Ah, you may well say that. It's
nothing but drink, drink, drink, and ba-
ting his poor wife, that she is-the
crature.'
"You have to pay your little sisters
board"
"Surc the bit crater, and she's good
little girl is Hinpy, willing to do whatev-
er l axes her l don't grudge the money
that goes for that"
"You haven't many fashionable dresses,
either, Nary Maloney."
Questionable is it? o, yes, l put a
piece of whalebone in my skirt, and me
calico gown looks as big as the great Ia
dies But, thin, ye says true hasn't
but two gowns on me back, two shoes on
me feet, and one bonnet on Inc head, bar
ring the ou!d hood ye gave me"
"You haven't any lover, Mary"
go. be off wid ye-ketch Mary Malo-
ney getting lover these days, when the
hard times is come. No, no, thank lIeav-
en- amt got that to trouble me yet-nor
| don't want it."
"What on earth, then, have you got to
make you happy? 4 drunken brother, a
poor helpless sister, no mother, no father,
no lover; why, where do you get all your
happiness from ?"
"The Lord be praised, Miss, it growed
up in me. Give me a bit of sunshine, a
clean Aure, plenty of work, and a sup at
the right time, and I'm made. That
makes me laugh, and sing; and thin, if
deep trouble comes, why-God heIpin
me. III try to keep my heart ur. su,e
i, would be sad hnyy i Patrick VI Grue
slouM taL,e Il into his head TO come and ar
me; Jnt, tie Lord UWns' I'd try to Jem
up omder it."
The last speech upset my gravity. The
idea of looking upon lover as an aflic-
ton, was SO droll . But she was evident
ly sincere, having before her the example
of her sisters husband and her drunken
brother.