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St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14
JULY IL. = 1869. = :.
!. ANOTHER. CHAPTER OF. FRAUDS IN
:KANsAs.--We3 learn from q source enti-
tod To fa1llost. orodanoo aora thu Ch;nano

= ANOTHER. CHAPTER OF. FRAUDS IN
KANsAs.--We learn from a source enti-
tied to fullest credence, says the Chicago
Tribune, that elate election for delegates
to the Kansas Constitutional Convention
was conducted on plan hardly inferior
in point ofopen daylight swindling tothe
candle-box affair Of October, 1857, the re-
turns Of which are still playing hide-and-
seek in the lbreeches pocket Of John G.
Calhoun. Sam Medary, Governor Of Kan
sas is employed BY the Democratic party
ct. carry Territories: - Long experienced
and famous in ,the art Of jcolonizing the
State of Ohio, Whenever the exigencies of
his party required maj ority in the Leg
islature, his qualifications for the Office of
Governor of Minnesota in 857,where two
United States Senators were pending ON
the result of the first State election, were
undisputed. He went to that Territory,
and by dint Of filing up doubtful coun,
ties with wild Irish, putting the Winneba-
goes and half savage tribes Of the back
woods through the voting process, perpe-
tratings the .Pembina fraud, &C., he. succee-
ded in sending Rice and Shields to the
Senate, and giving Sibley the Gubernato-
rial chair. After this display of sagacity
in cheating, he was selected as the fttest
successor of Calhoun in Kansas, and de-
spatched to that territory with Instructions
to carry the first elections prior to the for
nation of a State Government at all huz-
oras. This he promised to dc for cer-
tain amount Of money to be expended in
the transportation Of voters The money
was raised and paid in Washington, and
the Governor expended it faithfully and
judiciously. Three days before the election
six or seven hundred Irishmen were put
through the swearing process in Leaven-
worth and Doniphan Counties, and took
out applications for naturalization. Not
satisfied with this, acquisitions were made
on Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo, and
hundreds ofvoters were landed on the day
of election at atLeavenworth and other points
on the River, who marched strai ght to the
polls and deposited ballots for the Pro Sla-
very delegates. Arrangements had been
made. in this!way. to secure majority Of
the Convention, but the Republican vote
upset all their calculations Atchison Co.,
which Medery calculated upon without
fail, elected the, entire Republican ticket,
and johnson, Lykins and Bourbon, which
were supposed to be safe beyond question,
gave. a divided delegation. The Conven-
tion is secured to the Republicans, as We
learn, by at least seuen majority, and its
first business will be to look into the cleo
ton and qualifications Of it's own members.
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. ~ For the st. Cloud Democrat.
THE PRINTER.v -

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Nor starve, for the lack of employment.
His task is hard one, -
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The servant, as well as the guest Of us.
Then here s to- the Press,
And the Printer no less,
Health, wealth and long prosperity;
And o little Of evil,
To the Printers Devil,
In the shape Of a gift of Charity: ....r
And finally here
Is q blessing to spare,
For the whole Editorial fraternity;
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St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14
England To Side with Austria a.
/: Mr. Bigelow, one Of the editors Of the n
Y. Eveniag Post, writes in his Hast letter

/; Mr.. Bigelow, one of tho editors Of the N
Y" Eveaiag Post, writes in his last lcttel
frou Paris:. ~. -. p ~.,-, ::
There seems to be an impression here
fthat England is destined to side with Aus:
tria, and I have heard bets offered within
three, days. that, within six months Eng
land and the German powers would be
fighting with, Austria against France and
Russia T think anyone Who had taken the
bet would have won it. though tits not tc
be. supposed that England can look. with
much 1complacency z upon "a war which
threatens to- end in giving the commerce
of the Mediterranean to France, and to
=! place a halfdozen Italian thrones at her
disposal, and also to give Russia that long
covetoo &c cess IS to the ocean * the way q
her southern frontier. Ine u,sz..,... -, !,
not say "a word against tie ostensible ca,,ss
OF this war, the liberation Of, Italy. ~
have not met one that feels eoe- Ut 7
ps fSi1 fhSy "a are .ied at tho au' uttee tee
..le :: A NoWleys mission nj not h.
o4'-s it failed to give "a, peace hnt NJ =
tc'aanse cans Sit it showed that Engiand,s infInen"o -
apon 'saS continental poloties IS longer
~ USED g e, e, ana that France and and Rns.;s
gre playing the game without much resnccts q.
IorE her assistance Or advice. They Law.
counted England out, and I it Is { 1 this
which has SO enyenomed the Derby minis
try against France; and, let mo add, & & Is n
this, in al probability that has sent j, ! large
British: feet into the. AdriaHc, of which @ |
!on will 1aoubtlesss receive full particulars
through ygpr English 4l tle files 4; III, 81.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14


:. NARROW ESCAPE OF .NAPoLEoN.-In
his visit to the field of battle at Monte
bello, the Emperor Napoleon narrowly cs-
capped being made prisoner: He had
pushed on as far Castegsio, and was ebser-
wing with his telescope the movements of
the enemy between Barbiancllo and the
Portico del Stella upon the Pc, when sud
denly detachment Of Austrians presented
themselves before him, only two hundred
PAGES distant. Whether, they had lost
their way or whether they had adyp- -ooa
thus far from mere hardihoof'c, cannot a ba
told but it is probable ss~tib = ibc last ] sumo. @
sl'lon IS Goriees' .,s,nuch as thesadvanced
t.,so,:o posa, - W. aus trians are much more en-
W. ,..c and daring than those of the Franco
sardinians: :, Directly, however, the En-.
peror saw them, :. he ousnged color, threw
away aus cigar, drove the spurs into his
horses tanks, and galloped back to Vo-
l--'--. at pace which would have done
-. ~ s',- na-hv Louis
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14
St. Cloud, June Goth, 1859. ;

Ebell;~ VA % large, unsteady. re-
&, eyes too, that look as if they could
nash, whether they could met or ~ not; and
Win lips to- back, the eyess assertion
a p1quant, spicy little body, done .up, for r
'tae nonce,iin an affectation Of Quaker hid
Seouslness 2 Of costume, just such q little wo.
man, tor all the world, rs it reGeshes ones
soul to quarrel with. - iEIztract from j.
Democrat. Mn. .z1,z.<,<,
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14

], One Of The Ss;lsraa tsrawiberiiess. wsib he et1;.
= tor d of the Pittsburg Chronicle, has eated,
8, stfawb ;, . afx' inches in circumference
ana ana wefsl'ing eighteen penn yveigbts I
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14

, The Washington Union says the cate.
Of hell cannot prevail against the Demo-
cratic party. Certainly not J; on the con-
=, ,.safy' re gates VIII readily give way and
Yet the whole concern ii. II g Tent;ce. D
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14

A MiaarI MIasoz iaii,,ssSol, lsc the. Fifth
Avenue Hotel noH building, kas co.e from, from,
!, ,par1s It measures 66 By 1882 iiisk es and
cost osesa This deess saot Count miile
frame I 1T Ihs doosl slargeste be. sEipps,I hi.hcr
Otherwise than as 9 part Of. a Ships aecI losi,
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14
JAnxs NJ. McKELvY. STEPHEN MILLER
M Q X DLVY & Mill Err

-. Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
-, --i-'5 ST. CLOUD, MINI:
VIM make collections, invest money, buy,
s.l or loan land Warrants, and enter purchase
- dispose of Real Estate,
:.nt* t2s,a KEfEkENCES.
Hon. SIMON CAMERON U. s. Senate,
WlL11AN MITCHELL Esq, Harrisburg, Pa
Gov. ALEXANDER RAMSEY, St. Paul, Mlnn
- Hen W1LI1Ax WILKINS, Pittsburg, Pa.
Hon. THeNAs WILSON, Winona, Minn
+. N. HESTER, ESQ.,, Philadelphia, Pa.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14

MISCELLANEOUS WAR ITEMs.-A Vienna
letter says that by the middle of June the
Austrian army in Italy will probably be $780,
600 strong, with Is, 900 horses and $50 to 900
guns. A conscription of 100000 men was
expected to- be made in Austria in a few days.
a dispatch dated Berne May 26, says
that Geribaldi had made prisoners the Austri-
On officials. of! the town Of Narese, and that,
according to report, he had under. him force
Of $1,000 men, but neither cavalry nor artil-
The Turin correspondent of the
London Times says the feeling there, and in
some other parts Of Italy was particularly
hostile to ENGLAND. = The first Austrian corp,
d'arnsce, 10000 strong, was to be sent from
Bohemia into the Tyrol, by way of Dresden
and Munich The accuru uiation of troops in
Munich was SO great that 1000 beds had been
made up in the Cyrstal Palace.-The Aus
TRANS have their head qua: tcrs still at blorta-
ra. They have at this time twenty bridges
across the Po, either to attack or secure their
retreat. The Austrians' attack on Casteggio
would favor the conclusion that they intend to
defend Yigorously'th line between Pavia and
Piacenza.3 On that point, indeed, the bulk Of
the two armies is collected. It is reported
that Gen., ,MacAIahon has succeeded in throw
ing part Of his corps arnaee on the left bank
Of the Po. = The report that neutral Powers
had protested against the occupation Of Tus-
cany is contradicted = but it was believed that
the English and Prussian ambassadors in
Paris had, made observations on the subject
which were not very well received. "A dis
patch from Trieste says that about sixty
French men-of-war were in the Meditsrrane-
an cruisings between the Adriatic and the Le-
want. Z. A. f1otilla Of gun--boats was ready to
sail from Toulon, and was shortly to be follow
ed by second. 1t, wasa:upposed. they were
intended TO act against Venice. Five gun
boats, which could be taken. to pieces and re-
mounted, had been sent to Genoa. They were
intended for use on Lake Maggiore.-1ss'
tiers from Rome state thhat the ct
siasm was PRODUCED e-.z- 90 = -. .atest enthu-
IA 3 't'' .,,r- tho ,>n~~e >-
,vx g. Z ts1.v. r~si,Ay s''Au u0, w .
+.oons by the news Of the @ crionFn T.;a .,
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n honor to the winner OF INC q .ar>.
Napoleon has faultsit must be admitted:
ont that Of wantonly exposing his. person
20 1he enemy, cannot certainly be numbered
among them s. ss,s.ss@a - 49, ~
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14

Crops are in ne. !. forward state and ever
thing looks promising, q,4s r.af,,,z<..; -.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14

I french arms at MontebUl.o. -.
cor cosrsspondent Of Of the London Deity Ne,ps tele.
spot, establishes tile fact that tie
ley1edG le Gby thesAustrians at Verceli, and which
.he special correspondent Of. the London, T;,a..
oeclared * had not been raised, amount = ~
sum sum OF two million francs. THE Paria 80.
respondent responder Lof the Londen Times says that
3independl iy of the eight. divisions already .,,
' designated to form the army Of lobseryation
uluer pellssler four additional divisions were
9eing ng organized for thesaA object Fitl,1uro
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14
T. n. BARRETT,

=" =. II. BARRETT, p
E: sists / hns1te.1 q :4YF IN,
az rGtvt1sE Engineer and Surveyor, ]
~ omee.on First Street. Lower ST. Cloud.
- Maps Of all surveyed lands, ahd platsof all
the lea ding towns Of Northern Minnesota, can
be haa g ~ times '|s't ny Office s..
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-04-20
The Fourth an.

The honors for which veterans fight and die
crowd thick and fast upon the heir to the throne
of France, and his imperial infancy is likely to
be smothered with the weight of the uniform
of the Imperial Guard, which has just been
added to his suaddling clothes by his father
with the usual amount of military pomp and
parade. A Paris letter in the New York Her
aid gives the following account of the cere-
mony:
Meantime, that Napoleon the fourth may
the education which is to make the
Lurels Of the mighty captain, his illustrious an
cestor, sit gracefully on his brow, on Sunday
last he was duly initiated as a member of the
Imperial Guard. Twenty-six battallions, TWEEN
ty-four squadrons, twelve batteries of artillery,
two companies of engineers and a squadron of
the military train, making in all $4,000 men,
poured in from st. Germans, Versailles, Fon-
tainebleau, Meaux and Compiegne to do honor
to the occasion on the Champ de Mars, where,
beneath a summer sun, and in the presence of
half of Paris assembled to witness, the Emperor,
surrounded by a galaxy of marshals and gener-
ais of division, and accompanied by the EN-
press, the Princes Jerome and Napoleon, re-
viewed them. The "petit corporal the in
FAINT Prince Imperial-wore the uniform of a
g~renadier of the Guard, with the corporals
stripes on his shoulder, and sat beside his i'm
perial mamma, looking as valiant as the Grand
Monarque ut an age very similar did before
him. They were q very select body of troops,
and the warlike state of the barometer rendered
their assemblage on the Champ de Mars an event
of considerable interest just now. 1t was antici-
pated that some diversity of feeling would be
displayed by the populace, although I confess
/ was not among those who expected anything
of the kind. Great, well dressed Parisians utter
diseordant sounds in the face of the adored SOL
datT and whatever may be said of the present
commercial spirit Of France and its pacific in
clnations, the old eoacbman still likes the crack
Of the whip, and the very sight of the pride,
and circumstance and panoply of war is always
quite enough to rouse memories fUeteris vertigiG
Fanna sufficient to elicit cries of Welcome
Accordingly the sounds of i" Fire PEnapersur,"
+" VUe PEmperatrice," Nve FPrince Imperi-
al" and occasionally a rioat from Ekalie, were
echoed and re-echoed with great enthusiasm.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-04-20

HSrNo candid man of any party can be per-
suaded for a moment, from anything which has
appeared against Gov. Chase that he has not
discharged his whole duty in regard to the
Defalcation case aoih rare energy and discre-
tion, and with entire uprightncss. Fep men
IN the Gu6ermatoriol Office could hare carried
the State successfully hro' that great crisis as
he did. No man could have done it better
Gdzctte.
We should like to have the Gazette tell us
what acts Governor Chase performed that enti-
tied him to commentator in the "Defalcation
case" Nearly one hundred thousand dollars
of the State money was lost by his letter to
Breslin requesting him to deposit money in the
Cincinnati Bank, which afterward failed. He
had been Governor a year and a half, having
constant intercourse with the Treasury Depart
ment, and clothed for a part of the time with
considerable power over it, before he discovered
that there was anything wrong. He did not
take any steps to have Brcslin arrested, al
though the latter was in Columbus for a week
or so after the defalcation was discovered. He
is mixed up with the purchase of the Journal,
by State money, in a manner hat reflects no
credit upon him. Finally, he went around the
State declaring that no Republican State off,
Ger had any of the money, which time has
show to'be falsc.-Enguircr.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-04-20
Shipwreck-Lives Lost.

NEW YORK, April Ia.
The Courier des Etats Unis gives a long
statement of the loss of the ship st. Paul and
the massacre of 500 persons on board, both
sailors and passengers. The st. Poul belongs
to Havre, and was making at the time of her
loss a voyage from China to Australia with a
load of Chinese emigrants. 1t was one of the
numerous Islands of the Louisade Archipelago,
that the vessel was lost. The wreck took place
on the 4th Sept, but the passengers escaped
from this peril and an English vessel was hailed.
1t was too small to carry away all the unfortu-
mates, and $50 were left till word was taken to
Sidney and another vessel was sent to their re-
lief. This relief expedition arrived at the
place in Dec. or JAM, and found that of the
$50 individuals, but one, a Chinaman, had been
saved-all the others having been massacred
by the savages amidst the most ~frightful tor
lures.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-04-20

DIvoRcE-SEEKERs.-The Chicago Tribune
thus Classics those unhappy persons who seek
Indiana from abroad for the purpose of finding
relief under the divorce laws of that State:
"Grass widows, with whom husbands would
not live; grass widowers, with whom no decent
woman could live; gtrong-minded women, who
claim as God-given the right to say how many
children they shall have, and by whom they
shall be tathered strong-minded men, who
agree with strong-minded women in their the.
cries, and lend their aid in carrying them out
fast women, who feel that all husbands are nui,
sances; fast men, who prove the fact, in part
silly women, who have married in haste, and
are repenting at leisure silly men, ditto, dit
to unfortunate women who find themselves
tied to sots, beasts or debauchecs, who hate pu-
rity or innocence of women-all these have, by
thousands-literally by thousands-sought the
benefit of avs which the Legislature Of Indi-
ana was foolish enough to enact.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-04-20
Black Republican of6cers and Bank

The report of the Treasurer of State disclo-
s s some of the beauties of banking and dishon-
esty of Black Republican officers.
1t appears that GIBsoN's Seneca County
Bank was allowed by Gibson to issue in def
ance of the law, about $4,000 of circulation
over the amount of stocks deposited with him
as a Treasurer of the State, to secure the circu-
lation. This was not only fraud, bat crime,
and Gibson and his accomplices in the crime
should be brought to the bar of justice, and
punished as such felons deserve. To make
matters worse now Thrall, the Black Republican
Treasurer of Ssate, advises that the State, or
rather the people, should pay for this crime OF
a State officer, by assuming the payment of an
over-issue of circulation. He saws:
1.-THE opinion seems to be very general that
the State, in good faith, is not only bound to
take up the over-issue of this bank, but also of
the Canal Bank of Cleveland. The opinion is
undoubtedly founded on the rule of the law,
that a principal is bound by the acts of his
agent, SO far as he has authority to act for him.
These frauds could not have existed, except by
the acts of an agent of the State. 1t is also
equally true that the law positively forbids
the Treasurer from issuing more circulating
notes than there were stocks deposited. But
having consented to become a Kind of stake
holder between the bill holders and the Banks.
it is at least a debatable question whether the
State is not morally bound to assume the re-
sponsibiity of the acts of its agents"
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-04-20
Our Country.

The greatest cataract in the world is the Falls
of Niagara, where the waters accumulate from
the great upper lakes, forming a river three
quarters of a mile in width, are suddenly con-
tracted and plunging over the rocks in two col
umns, to the depth of one hundred and sixty
feet.
The greatest cave in the world is the Nam.
moth Cave in Kentucky, where one can make
a voyage on the waters of a subterranean river
and catch fish without eyes.
The greatest river in the world is the Missis
sippi, four thousand onebundredm miles in length
Its name is derived from an Indian word mean
ing "the father of waters"
The largest valley in the world is the valley
of the Mississippi. 1t contains five hundred
thousand square miles, and is one of the most
prolific regions of the globe. -
The largest lake in the world is Lake Supe-
rior, four hundred and thirty miles hong.
The greatest natural bridge in the world is
that over Cedar Greek, in Virginia. 1t extends
across a chasm of eighty feet in width and two
hundred and fifty feet deep, at the bottom OF
which a creek flows.
The greatest solid mass of iron in the world
is the iron mountain of Missouri. 1t is three
hundred and fifty Feet high, and two miles in
circuit.
The longest railroad in the world is the Ger
trail Railroad of Illinois, which is seven hun
dIed and thirty-one miles long-cost fifteen
millions of dollars.
The greatest number of miles of railroad
in proportion of its surface, in any country n
the world, is in Massachusetts,, which has owe,
one mile to every ten square miles of its are
The greatest number of clocks manufactur
ed in the world, is turned out by the sma
State of Connecticut.
The largest number of whale ships in the
would are sent out by Nantucket and New Bed.
ford.
The greatest grain port in the world is Chi
cago.
The largest aqueduct in the world is the
Croton aqueduct in New York. 1t is forty and
a half miles long, and cost twelve and a hall
millions of dollars.-Steu6enriHe Union.
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a Gaines. neil.

~
4 correspondent Of the Bahissore Ameri-
can, thus describes a representation of the pun
ishment of the wicked, after death, according
to the Buddhist theology, which he witnessed
In the suburbs of Canton:
After a walk of abouta mile, we came to the
1Tenple of Horrors" This is a horrible place
that is, the scenes are hideous. The inten-
ton is to represent what a bad man would suf-
fer death. It is composed of ten different
groups of statuary, made of clay, and many
of them are crumbling to peiees. The first
group represents the trial of q man; he is sur
rounded BY his family and friends, who are try
ing to defend him; the second, where he is con-
demned, and given over to the executioner; in
the third, he is undergoing a semi transfer
nation from the man to the brute; the
fourth, where he is put into a mill, with his
head downwards, and is being ground up, his
dog is by the side of the mill, licking up his
blood. In the fifth scene, he is being placed
between two boards. and is being sawed dewn
,lengthwiss; sixth, he is undo . large bell,
which is rung until the conclusion kills him;
seventh, the man is placed upon a table, and
two men are padding or spanking him with
large wooden paddles; eighth, he is upon a raek,
and the ~executioners are tearing his flesh with
red hot pinchers; ninth, he is in a cauldron Of
Boiling lead: the tenth scene represents him
npon a gridiron, undergoing the process of
roasting. In all of these scenes his family are
present; also a large figure who represents the
Judge, executioners, little devils, and various
instruments of torture.