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The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

MATERIALS FOR A RONASCE.-Twenty years
ago, says the n. Y. Tribune, a woman seduced
by farmer in Albany, gave birth to a little girl.
She afterward went to Columbia county and
married mechanic, while the farmer also welded
and prospered. In course of time the girl came
to this city as a servant, and short time since,
married young mason here. The farmer com
ing to town with produce, was attracted by the
girls appearance, and led to a course Of inquiry,
which resulted in establishing the fact that she
wa his lost daughter. His wife had never
known Of his criminal love, and he dared not
reveal it to her. For several months he wrapped
the secret in his own breast till at last paternal
affection would no longer allow him to remain
silent, and he made himself known to his daugh-
ter, told his wife all, who wisely forgave him,
and consented to receive her as one of the fam
lily. The daughter is happy in the possession of
. fathers love, and will be joint heir of his
property.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

ST. LOUIS FAIR.-The results of the Animal
Fair at ST. Louis, which closed October 18th, we're
highly satisfactory. The display of animals was
never perhaps equaled in this or any other
country. The array Of machines. agricultural
implements, textile fabrics, and specimens of
handcraft generally, we're unusually comprehen.
eivs; while the varied fruits and flowers were
very credi,able to the horticultural progress of
the West. The attendance on the grounds
during the entire seven days was unprecedented,
and the receipts amount to nearly $50, 900. The
Directors contemplate the removal of the present
amphitheater and the erection of one double the
capacity.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

4 DESERVED REBUKE. - Old Prof $. was one
OF the instructors az Dartmouth College years
ago, and was ~ithal about az blunt and straight
forward specimen of humanity as ever walked,
being considered hnie Grabbed by iutimates
One day in the early summer he was taking his
usual stroll around the village, keeping his "eye
out" for any fast" student who might be of
duty, when he Glanced to meet Mr. Page, a
sturday farmer from East Hanover, with a load
of wood, trudging along the dusty street bare
footed and cOatless; but he wa fine represta-
tive Of natures noblemen"
"Iiullo! Mr.. Page" growled the Professor,
" ] should like to know if all the people AZ East
Hanover 60 barefoot"
Part on EN- DO, and the rest on EN- mind
their own busines,:" was the rather settling
reply.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

GREAT SLAUGHTER OF DUcKs.-Large aocss
Of teal duck now come swarming into our bay.
Gus from the North. Last THURSDAY J. T.. Ste.
vens, Esq, bagged ffty-one in three hours, and
next day friday secured forty -four in less time
by twenty minutes. Col. Bob. Gephart. o.
Niles, on Saturday last killed seventy-tour duck,
in the bayous near here. They were mostly OF
the teal species. The Colonel is an excellen,
shot, as the above figures show. Sportsmen are
having fine times killing them, and everybody in
fact can feast upon this species of wild game by
taking the trouble TO go into the bayous and
shoot i.-St .ToseDk Tydye{ler
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11
SLAVERY IN MrssorRl.-The New York I

SLAVERY IN MISSoURI-The New York Tri-
Missouri with great rapidity. The owners are
selling them to the South, and very soon whole
counties will be without single bondman. This
is not surprising. IL is certain that the State
will soon provide by law, for the emancipation
proprietors of that species Of property naturally
prefer to sell them for the high prices now pre-
vang in the market, rather than to have them
taken from them year or two hence at the es
timation of public appraisers The Southern at
tempt to force Slavery into Kansas by fraud and
violence, is bearing the blessed fruits o. Liberty.
The 'irrepressible conflict is peacefully advan-
cling toward its conclusion
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11
Thieves and Rufians appointed 10 be In.
spectors OF Election.

THE OUrRAGE-We notice, with much salts
faction, that the press, weekly as well as daily,
has almost unanimously denounced the outrage
perpctrated by the Board of Supervisors, in ap-
pointing certain ill-famed fellows 10 the position
Of Registers Some OF those so appointed, and
so complained Of, are fresh from acts OF rufiian-
ism, which have made their already notorious
names more intensely detested. If anything
were needed TO render Tammany Hall more odious
aud contemplate than il is, the part OF It's pro-
gramme thus carried out would be too weighty
disgrace for it to bear-N. \. Nslcs.
The Albany Journal ADDS: Such is the COM
ment which even a Democratic journal feels COM
PEELED TO make upon the late action Of the y. \.
Democratic Supervisors.
Nor is the picture at all overdrawn. We are
informed by those who have heretofore had oc-
casion TO deal legally with some of these APP
pointees, that among the Registrars appointed
for one ward is the man who assaulted the editor
Of the News, man associated with the Bill
Poole murder, and a man now under Indictment
for obtaining goods by false pretences,
Such are the men W HON Democracy delghteth
To honor, Such are the men to whom is 10 be
entrusted the business of stufling the baot-boxes
of New York nth fraudulent votes, in the hope
of overriding the honest sentiment OF the masses
OF the State
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

"DoS'r STAND on THE PLATFoRx."-Such is
the notice usually stuck up On the platforms Of
railroad cars. II seems tina. railway coach plat
forms are not the only platforms that are DANCE.
rous- The following incident, which occurred
while old Sam Houston was addressing large
audience in Sacogdoches, is an illustration of the
truth:
Houston-"I have told you that platforms,
when they are used 10 blind people to the designs
Of men, are dangerous" Here a part Of the
staging erected for the audience fell down. bring.
ing number Of the sovereigns TO the ground. I
Houston, resuming-"Ihere! did not tell you
platforms were dangerous"
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

Senator Bingham, who has been aiding in the
Minnesota canvass, has returned, and writes to
US encouragingly of the prospect. His letter,
which bore date at ST. Paurs, did rot reach US
until too late for last weeks Republican, it hav-
ing been DELAYED somerhere ten days on the
way.
Senator Bingham adds: ~ left Chicago on
Saturday morning, taking the horthwestern Rail
road, through GAINESVILLE and Madison, to Prairie
DuChien. The country had been dreadfully
parched with drought, no rain having fallen tor
three months, and there was no sign OF green
vegetation except on the very lowest grounds.
To add TO this calamity, the frost had been very
severe. and | did not see field OF corn from
Chicago TO the Mississippi that | think will have
sound corn enough TO pay for harvesting The
corn crop Of Northern Illinois, and all Wisconsin,
is nearly an entire failure. The same may be
said of potatoes and uckHheat, the first failing
from dry weather, and the last from frost. As
assembled the Mississippi, the frost has been
lighter; and here in Minnesota, upon all the ele-
waited table lands, the corn is both green and
very heavy.
business is very dull here. The new State
Government set OF in the most extravagant
STYLE, appropriating nearly 100000 the first
year, and they are now about to levy their taxes
upon people that are distressingly poor
"Mr. Buchansn's swarm Of Government Off
GERS have been proving like locusts upon an I'M
poverished people, who are waiting till the lih
of October to vent their indignation-to displace
the robbers and substitute honest men, who
must Immediately institute the most rigid econ
omv. or the tide Of emigration viii be from
instead OF 10 Minnesota From all that ! can
hear, think there can Ia hut little doubt that
the entire Republican State ticket, with members
of Congress, and a majority 81 ~" Legislature.
will be elected That will secure IL another
Senator of the right stamp in Congress. know
il will rejoice the hearts of thousands TO welcome
Minnesota, our Youngest sister on this side OF
the Rocky Mountains, to the family Of Republican
States. In all their political meetings, they cS-
hibt an enthusiasm which reminds me of the
battle of 80. which it seems to me is a certain
augury Of success.
"Mr. Hale, Mr. Grow, Mr. Coliax, Mr.. Farms
worth from Chicago, and the eloquent Carl
Schurz, are speaking to large and enthusiastic
audience"
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

A PLEAsANr EsCoRr.-The Alegan Record
states that at Allegan, on the last day of the
Fair, horseback procession, consisting of four.
teen gentlemen and as many ladies, preceded by
the Brass Band, escorted Senator Bingham from
his stopping place in town, to the stand erected
for him on the Fair grounds. At the conclusion
Of his address, the procession was reformed and
be was in Ike manner conducted back to town.
The cavalcade presented very nice and impos-
ing appearance
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

The atlantic Monthly. From the pen OF
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes. we have in the
October AHdntic, the following tasteful stxnzas
Her hands are cold; her face il white;
NO more her pulses come and 60,
Her eyes are shut to life and light;
Fold the white vesture, snow on snow,
And lay her where the violets blow
But not beneath a craven stone,
To plead for tears with alien ewes,
slender cross Of wood alone
Shall say that here a maiden lies
In peace beneath the peaceful skies.
And gray old trees Of huye-t limb
Shall wheel their circling shadows round
To make the scorching sunlight dim
That drinks the greenness from the ground,
And drops the dead leaves on her mound.
When DER their boughs the squirrels run,
And through their leaves the robins call,
And, ripening in the autumn sun,
The acorn and the chesnuts fall,
Doubt not that she will heed them all
For her the morning choir shall ring
It's maths from the branches high,
And every mlnstrel-yoice % spring,
That trill, beneath the April sky,
Shall greet her with the earliest cry.
When, turning round their dial-track,
Eastward the lengthening shadows pass,
Her little mOurners, clad in black,
The cricket-, sliding through the grass,
Shall pipe for her an evening mass.
At last the roOtlets Of the trees
Shall find the prison where che les
And bear the buried dust they seize
In leaves and blossoms to the skies,
So may the soul that warmed il rise
II any, born Of kinder blood,
Should ask, What maiden lies below
Say only this: A tender bud,
That tried TO blossom in the snow,
les Mirherei WHO'RE the yinlefs hlnE
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

ADDRESS rY Hos. j. r. WILLIAMS. - The
Hon. j. II. Williams, to the st. Joseph County
Agricultural Society. 1t will occasion general
regret to be informed that Mr.. Williams has
been abOring under serious and protracted ILL
ness. OF course he was unable TO be present nj
Just what the public always expect from Mr..
Williams, an able and thorough treatise upon
practical agriculture, such as only could have
been produced by man of his keen sense and
close attention to the minutest operations of an
occupation which has long engaged large share
of hs'attcntion.
1t was voted by the Society, on the last day OF
the Fair, that the addrdsS be- published
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

tooL.-The motion for a trial in the case
of Thornton for the murder Of Mr.. Charless was
overruied When the prisoner arose, and was
asked if he had anything to say why he should
not suffer the penalty OF his crime, he simply
answered Nothing" in firm voice, and pro-
ceedef with the utmost cslmness to refresh him.
self with drink OF ice water His Honor then
sentenced him to he hung on Friday, the Ilth
day of next November, in the performance of
which solemn duty be was deeply moved The
general officers Of the Court and many spectators
were also effected to tears, but the prisoner wa.
imperturable throughout.-N T. TIT.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

To SUPERVISORS. - Supervisors throughout
the State are reminded that the school tax OF
one mill on the dollar, was changed by the last
Legislature, to two mills and the Supervisors
are now required to assess two mills on the dol
lar instead of one, as heretofore This additional
tax is not an increase Of taxation in the aggre-
gate, but takes the place of the dollar on each
scholar, which Districts could raise, but which is
now abolished
VIII editors throughout the State please
notice?
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

THE "CoNFIDENCE' TicEEr The Clarke
Journal, published at Bcrryville, Clark county,
Va, dominates Mr.. Hunter tor President and
Mr.. ID. 5. Dickinson for Vice President At the
same time it says that 1.-THE next election is TO
be conducted on the simple principle of CoSFI-
pENcs." Accordingly it supports Mr.. Hunter
as the greatest confdence-man in the country.
The only thing that can be brought against him
is his votes against the Homestead bill and that
the Clarke .jotr"ol clores in as great conserva-
tive vote.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

TEsr.-The following is copy of the let.
ter addressed To Mr.. Douglas. inviting him 10
visit and address the citizens of Indiana, which
is now being circulated for signature. through
that State. Ii has been very numerousy signed
in Marion and many of the central counties II
is supposed the letter will bear twenty thousand
names. The signing of it is made the test Of
Anti-Lccomptcn Democracy 10y the Douglasites !:
10 the Hon. Sfrrhen 4. Douglas
The undersigned, Democrats of - County,
Indiana, representing the wish of the masses Of
the Democracy Of this locality, earnestly request
that at your earliest convenience you will visit
our State, and address the people upon the polit
cal topics OF the day.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

CANDID.--Mr. Storey, the editor of the Detroit
Fro Press, who expects pair of shoes of Shoe
makers wearing, says, with the utmost candor:
at is perhaps proper that we should state that
certain parties are wholly incorporating the
case Of Mr. Collector Shoemaker, now pending
before the Treasury Department. He has not
been attacked because he was appointed from
the country. The allegation that he has been is
without color of truth. II he shall be removed
from office, it will be in consequence of malfeas-
ance in office not justified 10y any precedent. II
he is not guilty of such malfeasance he will GER
tainiv not be removed. His case will be deter
mined upon facts, and not upon Influences IA
vorlble or adverse tn him, from whatever
quarter. We sincerely trust that the determi-
nation may be that he is blameless
This much We deem it our duty to say at this
time"
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

la MoUNTAIS HEARD FgoN.-The bal'ooniSt
sends the following note from ottowa:
"Lost ALL Landed BOO miles north Of Water
town, in the Canada wilderness. We were four
DAYS without food Brought out by Indian
guides in canoes, &c. Please inform my wife
Signed. JOHN IA MOUNTAIN.
The y. Y. Tribune adds:
OTTAWA. 9. W, oct. 3, 1889.
Prof La Mountain and AIr. IIaIdcck came in
to Ottawa to-day, having landed 100 m les north
of Ottawa, in the great Canada wilderness.
They were brought out by Indian guides in
bark canoes.
They travelled in their balloon 300 miles, and
were up in the air only from four to five hours.
For over four dsvs they have been in the viii
derness, without food AMI with no means Of Stri-
king fire.
They were rescued most providentially by
Mr.. Cameron, who was hunting timber with In
dian guides
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

ONLY PARTIAL SUCCEsS.-The Alton Ull)
Courier learns that five slaves recently escaped
from Missouri and made their way across the
Mississippi into Randolph county. On Sunday
night, 18th inst, their pursuers overlook them
about FIVE miles from Chester, and fred on them
as they attempted to escape. One of them fell
mortally wounded, with about two hundred shot
in his body, and died on Thursday morning fol-
lowing. Two of those who escaped were also
wounded
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

PoLEuIC--A Boston paper tells us that the
country has been cursed with the slavery issue
more than twenty-five years. The Gospel men
tious the case OF woman who had all tissue"
eighteen years and she could be cured only by
Divine interpositon.-jonr Con.
The Albany E"ening .Ionrnai adds, Thomas
Jefferson said 1.-THE Almighty had no attribute
in sympathy with Slavery" In the event Of
"piyine intcrpo>ition,' therefore, the result
would be adverse 10 the institution in such favor
with the Jomrn1i "t Commerce.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

DoESrlCES BF,Ts>.-When DoeSticks visited
Rhode Island, he acquired an appetite for break
fast by walking couple of times round that
State. But there is a printer in Utica who has
just finished walking six hundred miles before
breakfast. He commenced 18th April last, and
has walked every morning, before breakfast,
from two TO ten miles, the average being four
miles per day, twenty-five miles per week, at
the least calculation. He has gained both flesh
and strength Silence he began.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

REPUBLICAS SrCcEss ~ kASsAs-ADoPrIos
or The STATE CoSsTITUTIOS.-Di-pstch from
Kansas announce that the election yesterday re-
suited in the acceptance of the Wyandotte Con-
sti;uiion by decisive majority; the Republicans
voting untedly in its favor, and the Democrats
opposing IL. 1t now remains 10 be seen whether
they will push their hostility TO her admission as
a Free State to the extent Of attempting to
defeat the Constitution when it comes before
Congress.
LeavenwOrth gave 23l majority for the Con-
stitutlon. Atchison small msjOrity hiJany
.iunrunI.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

PRUDENTIAL.-Among the resolutions intro
duced at the recent Western Virginia n. f.
Conference, we find the following:
Whereas, Brother Clawson has up TO this time
been disappointed i'll hi- expectations of antici-
patci fortune, and .cLereaS, his antcipations
haze been the means of producing financial diff.
culfics,
EsSofc,i, therefore, That this Conference
neStv solicit the brother hereafter To incur no
further debts on the expectation OF said fortune,
until developments shall bc made sufficient to
warrant AN assurance that said fortune will abso-
utcly be realized
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

The LAST REFINEMENT IN BUSINESS DRUM
vISG.-The financial editor of the " Y Elde.
pende1it, referring to some OF the modern cxtrav-
aganees practiccd by jobbing-houses at Boston
and elsewhere. in the way o. counting custom,
says: eve are reliably informed that a large
business firm in this CITY have now connected
with their establishment in full blast, well fur
nished eating, drinking and smoking saloon
where the customers of the house are regularly
introduced at certain hours. and. if occasion re-
quire@, at intervals several Tires between" The
" institution" aforesaid, il is remarked, is highly
appreciated by the "traie, and works adIni-
rably.' IL sometimes happens that the custom.
er. of this popular house" in consequence Of
other engagements are unable 10 call upon them
daily. \ note Is made of such absence and. i.
it is too protracted, young man i dispatched
in the evening 10 the hotel, with bottle Of
wine, to Jog the memory Of the delinquent
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11
Also the following property belonging to hire

| trust the honey may give them the cholic,
the shawls and robes a sweat; that they will cut
their Threats with the razors, and then hang
themselves with the WOODEN yarn, before they
have time TO wear out the old clothes But as
the property may not serve this desirable pur-
pose and AS il should not benefit the thieves, the
person or persons who will return it To me shall
receive reward of $50, and the like proportion
for any portion OF IT, Any person or persons
who shall furnish information by which the Grim
nals can be detected and brought To Justice,
shall receive an additional reward of $50 on con-
victon of the thieves or thief Also any person
that will restore To me the feelings of safety and
security that have enjoyed here for twenty-iour
years, portion of the time surrounded by sara
ges. and is nothing more than every man is cnti-
tied TO that is willing to live by his own honest
labor, shall receive II reward Of $500. Until
that time | notify thieves that they had best
contine themselves IA heretofore, to outdoor
practices, such as eating fruit, which is equally
mean and criminal, while attended with less
hazard. They shall not enter my house without
exhibition OF more skill or more noise and in
the end if they succeed, l will endeavor to give
them the reception they deserve All honest
men will do well 10 guard their property aud he
on the alert for thieves; the time has come for
bolts, bars and locks.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

BLoODY.-A sangunary and fatal duel was re-
Gently fought in the new diggings on the Color
ado between +. Warren of Indiana and G. W.
Harrison of Virginia. Both were candidates for
Justices of the Peace, and Harrison was cleo
ted, from which arose the difficulty They
fought with Colts navy revolvers, at fifteen pa
ces. At the second fire Warren WAS killed,
the ball penetrating his heart
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

An AMERICAN GREAT EAsrER>."-The sail.
ing OF the Grc0t Eastern rcvives "reminiscences.
OF an American Ship very nearly her size She
was launched about thirty years ago on the :,
Lawrence. and was called the Baron Of Rem.
irew. She was Goo feet long, and was compo
sed OF long logs OF timber clapped together in
the toughest manner She crossed the Atlantic
safely, and Immediately on her arrival in England
was broken up and sold. She was, in fact. AN
ingeious expedient 10 get rid of the timber duty.
which was then excessive, aud was sort Of mag.
nified and finished Ocean raft The government
would not allow the experiment TO be repeated,
holding it Ia be a violation OF the Revenue Law
AID. Jour.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

MoRH FILLIBrsrERING.-The Eray-cved man,
Walker, has got away from New Orleans on the
steamer Philadelphia, with a party of one hun
dred and fifty flbuSters. 1t i given out that
they are bound for the Chriqui dig-incs. Pres
ident Buchanan, who had personally attended to
the matter, had just got ready 10 stop them
Walker g denies the soft impeachment OF being
freebooter, by admitting himself robbeF OF
graves.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-10-11

CAIIroRNIA.-The \. Y. Tribune of WeGnes-
DAY says; Letters overland from San Fran
cisco to the l2th ult. inform us that the entire
Lecompton State ticket and both candidates for
Congress OF that stripe have been elected The
Legislature is the same way in both branches
The Peoples Reform tickle, was successful in
Ban Francisco. Judge Terry and Senator Brod-
enck tried to have duel on the day the mail
Ssfs but the police stopped it. There is nothing
later from the Boundary region"