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Nor DrESEp DoH'S.--Mr. S. Schlesinger, pro-
prietor Of the Sheepskin Mandatory near the
Stone Quarry, on the west limits Of the city,
called on us yesterday to state that the fire of
Sunday last destroyed only IN old disased shed
on the quarry grounds, and did not affect or
reach his premises at all. We make the item
in correction Of tue statement in Mondays
ISSUE
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VAO AkAVA Az ASA% N0"NANa
Tie evident meaning Of tl,e dispatch wlsicl,
1vc publish elsewhere relative 10 the hanging
d JOHN Brown is, tint tho brave old man is 10
90 gagged On Tie gailows. \ file Of soldiers il
to I've drawn around tho scadvl1 to keep Ill
persons at least one mile from tho place Of exc
cutioD. 1t is added that under such IN mr.
ransemcEt ii will be impossible for any one to
hear anything the dying nun may have to say
'.elorc takiEg leave Of the world. Engini;a
:4sa ha1 one spceci. loo many from John
Brown. The devico put forth hy Gov. Wiso
in c1tcauation Of this proceeding wit, that
III case Of an attempted rescue tho soldiers
will be compelled to suoo: tue prisoner, and il
tic crowd were near the gallows somebody
might get hits tho mefcst tom fooleTy.
Equally with Ju!,n Browns bullets, Virginia
fears lis IDEAS. H4viug placed herself out ol
rcatl' Of the former, sho is bound not to take
:l:.u:1,er luso of the latter. Size will rather g.
I. milo out Of the worli TO choke him to death
1t would be quite in keeping with tue other ar.
sangenlcnts il the military were privately or
dercd u fire on the !angn,an as soon as the
breath is out Of Browns body-on tic rr3ncl
plo .ha, dc2l men Tell no tales
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D11Ax1, BILL GSrRA1-oss COMMERCIAL CoIlxss,
CHICAGO. Nny, r. l.3y.

CaJcA11. Anr. ~ 1s3y.
To the Board Of E1uc.ton Ct tie City Of Chicago:
GExrLkxEx The undersigned, regarding
our Public School system as aGordinR firm
foundation for success ia every department Of
knowledge, aud especially important in prepar-
commercial education, and feeling deeply grate-
ful Tor the liberal patronage extended 10 us By
the citizens Of chieago; DO hereby offer and pro-
pose to your honorable body. 10 give und do
nate Life Scholarship or Membership Of our
College. A. the close Of each School year, for
the term Of ten years from the acceptance here
OF, to tue most deserving scholar in ~ Scholar
ship. Department and Attendance averages " in
1he Masters Division, in each CT the Grammar
Schools in this city; and also TO two Of The mot
dc+ersiug Of the graduates from the "u,gh
School, one Of which shall be selected from
the Normal Department Of said school
The recipients Of said Scholarship to he de
| teru,ined by the Board in such msnner rs they
shall direct, and thcr shall hare been members
Of the SCHOOL from which they receive the same,
| one year.
I
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Tue WEAruER.-We are favored just now
with c1ea. mild weather, with just enough Of
freeze o'nights to stiiieu the mud. 1t is au c1~
tension Of the season Of out Of door labor Of
priceless value to all interested ia tho various
b,,;1,t;r,v mi erprisee a}.nut fnNu
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The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22
Important Haul OF COunterfeiters.

On Monday night a posse Of officers. United
States Deputy Marshals and Others, reached tins
citv having in charge three men arrested ana
largely identified with the manufacture OF bogus
money, chiefly silver coin.
These men constituted q mes; of counterteters
broken up az Cordoya, in Rock Island county
on the Mississippi river, eighteen miles above
Rock Island, on Saturday night last, aud brought
thence TO the city OF Rock Island, where they
passed the Sabbath.
The officers having got things IN proper trim,
went up from Rock Island on SATURDAY afternoon
70 Cortoya, and that night after some sharp
mIHage ment, succeeded by sharp fight, found
their birds busy at their bogus work, and caught
them in the act taxing possession OF their entire
oDtf, OF tools, &c &c. The persons arrested
are as follows: Timothy l.. Bigelow, man 90
wears old, who has family, consisting OF wife
several children. aud who has been a resident OF
the county for the last five years. Chester [.
Clark, aged - or -, who Is SAID 10 have come
from Michigan, and had been with Bigeow two
or three wears. James Smith, aged % or -
wears, formerly an employee on the NJ. y NJ.
Railroad. and lately the keeper Of house OF ILL.,
fame in Cordovo.
The old man Biselow aud Clark are said 10 be
accomplished enCravers, and expert counter
tciter-. BigelOw has served term or two IN
the pcnitenthrY. lheN nad on manu-, I'D an ull-
finished state, some five hundred dollars Of their
gold coins, and bag OF their fifty and twenty
i've cent pieces.
Bi-clow, now in jail here, of this party, seems
to think hc has been poisoned by some OF his
coufrierates. The story told by this old man of
this attempt upon his life, is one OF the most re-
markable in the annals of crime. OF the truth
OF the same, he bears in his person unmistakabc
tokens that 20 10 attest the same. lie SAYS that
in Nav last he started To 20 down the river 10
New Orleans; that he stopped on an island with
some OF his confederates. lie had Il en- on his
person II 900 in gold in a belt, and gold watch
and chain valued at $500. They mixed his
liquor with something that supplied him, or
probably, as they believed, killed him. What
next he knew was when he recovered his iacul-
ties and found himself in darkness, pressed down
with n heavy weight. With long and severe
labor he released himself, and found himself
alone on the island, we'll nigh naked, and robbed
Of al his vauables The cowardly wretches,
bis would be uuld,-crs, had actually buried him
alive, beneath a heap of logs and brushwood.
The old man j. perfect wreck, and can scarcely
walk a rod without upport.-Chicdgo Press
and Tribune, l1n..
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22
Correspondence 81 the y. Y. fs". io-t.
The Ei,eiiou %cWs-s:roans from the Adj
IHins~tr.iion DrGmns-inSry DIR. Euchnn-
G.ii have hi1 .srNenge-Jo.sn Brown
W,SUINGToS. NOV. IL. lSgq.

WASHINGTON, Nov. IL, 1859.
The election news from your State comes down
upon u Ike a thuudcrbolt from "a clear sky.
our democratic politicians were certain of carry
ing the States OF New York and New jersey
the Administration, indeed, Through its organ, }
had -tIhed It's very existence upon a democratic
triumph The clear majority of the Republican
ticket Is a terrible blow To those Journals among
III which made such = tremendous noise over the
John Brown affair. The poor ConajtatoH
feels good deal ike the negro who dirticd his
best coat in "A mud puddle for nothing, tancying
that he was listening to Whitfield. just think
four Thousand copies of one number OF the
Constitution were sent TO New York 10 influence
the election. Ii contained an attack upon Mr.
Seward, the Stiffness of which was only surpassed
hy H. mali guiy. lt was, Ike the address of the
Filth Avenue Committee, IA capital political doe
uncnt for the Republicans. The Presidential
organ i li'tlc ashamed of it, course now that
the election i over and the results are 80 dis
heartcning, especially as srv,ri! prominent dem
oria;s cri;ci-c It with severity
Mr.. Buchanan i So angry over the elections
that he meant to le: of his pcnt-up passion IL
.lii,-t all northern men mho have corr..spondcd
or shaken hands with cd Brown within two
wears The t..si ol Stephens in a federal court
j. merely a POI tied tricl, on the part Of Gov
=
Il vas Hn' enough far linn 80 trot down TO our
Railroad depot calamity Ia see the marines of
N" must show ID, nytllc. now that Goycruor
Wis has gwen his counsel, by hauling Il few
northern aEij--ltycry iH,n over the Goals. Ger
rit Smith, Dr. Howe, few Ia Ohio. possibly GOV.
Seward and Jack Hale are To be summoned dos IA
uto Virginia witnesses. Once there, il il i
pn-~itlr 20 coLiUrc up ANY suspicious c.rcur-
stance AGAINST them, they are t" De na.hrd ,ai
pm, ou tr-I before Il sl.v-hol.irg irry tbs
l. TIA Programme" understand, hat IL NAV
bc modified before the uial "f Stevens takes
place.
lur mob-iuc.tiug Doug'4, organ, the Stairs,
must have had H. feelings deeply hurt by the
conduct IF our Washington Republicans. They
got ogt Hass, fired guns, and were particularly
IS, this wa all done openly. l. it not high time
that tho-n bold traitor, were driven out of the
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22
Th. John Brown Fund.

To tie Editor Of tie y. J. Tr.bame-SlR
Thirty five dollars have been sent Ia to-day on
the first short notice tina, practical way Wa
opened 10 relieve John Browns family Tui-
hearty and instantaneous response satist ne that
there viii be 10 difficulty in dispo-in- Of 10000
copies of the oil mans photographs the momeu,
the news spreads through the country.
\ correspondent asks the following questions
First. " Mr.. Hyatt, how can you get 30 many
autographs: j. old John Brown busy writing
them nov -
Second. " How soon viii you commence deiv.
erin. the pictures, and vii they all he actua
photographs or eugraving-:'
Third. d" How viii you deliver the pictures =
reply: The autographs viii be Photographic
copies OF the old mans signature, taken al the
same time with the likeness. The pictures vii
be ready 10 commence delivery on the first o.
December. City subscribers viii receive their.
q; the Tribune Office. They viii all be photo
graphs and not en-ravin-s. Subscribers through
tie country vii receive them By mail, unles:
otherwise ordered. The pictures will be deliver
81 on the principle Of Z" first come first served :;
the earliest orders viii be frs, filed.
New York, Nov. Is, 50. THADDEus HYA1T.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22
Old brown II to Dissolve the Union.

The South has stood everything-bu: sympa-
thy for old Brown, even while under sentence OF
death, the South canno. stand.
We quote the following paragraph from the
Washington Star, 10 show how mistakenly sla-
very regards the Northern sentiment toward
Brown. That sentiment has 10 relation to his
schemes. IL is a natural feeling only tor his sut-
ferings-sutferings in the loss Of his children, OF
his property, and of his life. This sentiment,
coupled with his courage and manhood, account
for general and deep sympathy, without taking
the trouble to go to the extent OF supposinS
every Northern man to be- in favor of incl
ting a servile war.
The People Of the North, a. a body however,
look upon slavery as wrong and an evil, and
would be glad to be rid Of it, and for that mat
ter, not small proportion of the Southern
people, do the same. IL dissolution is to come
now, from this fact, it will not be many years be-
fore the South will have to dissolve again, be-
coming weaker every time. The Star says
"That the South can afford to live under a
Government, the majority of whose subjects or
citizens regard John Brown a. martyr and
Christian hero rather than n marderer and rob-
Der, and act up TO those sentiments, or couEten-
ance Others in SD doing, is preposterous idea,
as will he comprehended by all at the North ere
the end Of tie merit session Of Congress- IN the
course OF which the chances are that, i'll pursu-
snce of an address from nine tenths Of the
Southern Senators and Representatives, the Gov
errors Of the several slaveholding States will
call together their respective Legislatures. to
authorize regular election of Southern States
Assembly, charged with the duty of devising
measures Of self-protection against AbOlitOnsm,
the Governments of the Northern States being
almost all Of them in the hands OF those whose
political teachings have Matched all the mischief
brewing to the future integrity of the Union.
In view of the great Northern unanimity in
sympathizing with Brown, and fellow convicts,
with the certain consequences of the general
manifestation OF that sentiment, that such action
will be taken by the South is the opinion of al
most every public man, of both parties, through
out the slaveholding States"
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22

ONr OF rHK FAMILIES VIZ READ cr.-At the
Gibson County (Ky.) Fair, the other day, about
3 O'Clock, Mr.. Stephen Meade and his wife en-
tered the ring, followed by twelve sons and two
daughters, each on gray steed, and in the order
of their ages. They proceeded around the ring
while the band struck up Hail Columbia, and
drew up in front of the Executive, when the
President made some very appropriate remarks,
after which the mammoth family was vocifer-
Ously cheered from one side of the grounds to
the other. We give brief statement Of this
amily: The Old gentleman was born in 1892,
aud came TO this country in 1919. Mrs. Meade
was born in 1903. The two were married in
1871. The Oldest son is Sc, and the youngest
IA. The Oldest daughter is y, and the younger
IL. Eleven are married, and have twenty-five
children. The fourteen children of Mr.. Meade
were all born in Gibson County, and all now live
there but one, and are the best of citizens None
of the family have died, and all now look hale
and hearty
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22
General Cas-.

We observe that the venerable Secretary OF
State is reported 10 have said, since the New
York election, that he Witnessed the beginning
of this government, and thinks, sometimes, he
may witEess the end. We would willingly say
or do something 10 quiet the apprehensons OF
Gen. CasS, but We fear the attempt would be
labor lost The General is certainly no Younger
than he has been for several wears, and 1t is not
fair therefore, 10 suppose that his constitutional
tmdity has abated. His usual condition is that
of chronic alarm. For some years, while in the
Senate, he greatly apprehended war with Eng
land. He said over and over, till il became a
byword, that war was inevitable. But the
war didn't come. About the same time, he Was
a great Wilmot- Proviso man, and came 10 the
cona'c one 10y ~i.h ~esL ~, IL IN ms nat.
lie did not deliver il, and when Reverdy John
son pressed him in his place, 10 know why, the
General confessed that the South made such a
fuss, that he afraid to DO it. He soon
turned a short corner on that question, and has
considered il 4 disuniou measure ever since
He was equally exercised in his mind when Mr..
Claws Omnibus bll failed, and he thought the
country was on the high road 10 ruin then, aud
only had his equanimlty restored by the passage
OF the Compromise measures. In fact, whenever
anybody talks big, Mr.. Cass il sure 10 come
down. The Southern gentlemen particularly
nave great hllach III frightening hlifi ihelr
talk now has produced one of his old fits of
tremor. A Vet, il has not taken violent form,
and probably viii not until sometime after Con
gress meets. When the Southern grand anti
Seward, anti-Republican, anti-o sawatomic Brown
pratorio i in fall blast, NAV look Ia see the
venerable politician declare that the end of
which ne speaks is "inevitablc," and then We
shall have il. Just as We had the " ineyitsble"
war with England. Gen. Cass had a good deal
to do in founding the old Boohoo party, and has
done good service in lis ranks. We think no
true friend OF his will insist upon his doing any
further work in that company. Pray, gentlemen,
allow Gen. Cass TO retire in peace ec York
Tribune
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22
buchanan PrOspecss.

The y. Y. IriJane's sivices from Philadel-
phia, are to the following effect: 1t is conceded
that the Buchanan oiiicc-holders here have
bought their way through into a majority OF
Delegates to the Convention which ia to choose
Delegates to Charleston. All this is with an eye
to put Buchanan himself on the track for sec
Ond term. Every art of official hope and terror
was exhausted TO secure this result the Post
Office, Custom House, and Navy Yard, turning
out, with shameless impotence, their crowds OF
employees to override the rank and file. Even
the Mint has been degraded to the same low
partisan object. Up TO Gen. Jackson's time,
this institution was kept untaintcd by this form
Of corruption, but since then it has undergone
the fate Of every other public trust which has
fallen under Democratic rule. Ii is now degra.
ded to headquarters of the most ultra parti-
sanship. All its understrappers, from clerks
down to watchmen, were active in their hbors
to insure the oilice-holders a triumph. Ii is now
crowded with employees, more being in it than
can be usefully employed, Yet any number of
outsiders were promised berths as the reward OF
success. Thus every public institution becomes
prosttuted into an engine for the pcrpetuat,on of
the power Of the Sham Democracy. Yet this
trifing success in the Charleston programme is
q meager equivalent for the renewed and stun
ming overthrow they have received in New York
and New Jersey. Those results were not written
down "a part of their philosophy. Browns
raid in Virginia has not turned up the trump it
was expected to be, and the party now begin to
suspect they have run the matter intothc ground.
As the past campaign has covered all their bat
tie grounds with broken hopes, so the future
looms up as gloomily to them "a it does glori-
Gus to us.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22
SIGN A

4 SEASON az HoRRoR.-From the Oshkosh
Democrat We learn that the first Of the Ter.
rlble disaster Ia the excursion train that had
many OF its citizens ON board, was brought 10
that place 10y freight tran-thcre being no TEL
egraph To that point-and the tale, as brought,
was that one hundred had been instantly killed
of whom twenty five belonged in Oshkosh. The
| democrat SAYS:
The intelligence spread through the city Ike
! fire. Scarcely a family but was represented by
one more loved ones on the train. Who Was
lost, who safe Z None could answer. Ina
few minutes the city was the scene of the widest
excitement. Persons distracted with fear, ran
hitler and thther, shouting the alarm at the top
OF their voices, Others were wringing their hands
and waiting in perfect despair, while Others were
| taking measures 10 prevent friends from having
their fears unnecessarily excited.
| lt was known that the train was on lis way
| back. No more intelligence could he had until
the cars arrived. They were due at hali-pas six,
and by that hour thousands crowded the station
and the grounds around, in every stage of excite.
meni, waiting the confirmation or the dispeIling
of their fears. Halt past six came, seven, eight
nine, the crowd only augmented, the feeling grew
more intense. Ten o'clock struck The suspense
was becoming intolerahle. Tears streamed down
the bronzcd checks OF hardy men, who would
have faced death themselves unmov.d. Exca-
nations wrung iion the bottom of broken hearts
burst from trembling lips. "oh, God my wife
is there, and ! urged her to CO." ''Oh, my chl.
drer, my children. would To God I had been
there instead OF YOU"
The scene beggafs any description. The hea.
West curse one could wish deadly enemy, would
be that he might endure such n six hours Of har.
rowing, deathy suspense, - the thousands Of
pale, anxious watchers about that station endured
last Tuesday night. About eleven o'clock the
train came III sight Slowly aud silently, vithou,
whistle or noise, like Il funeral procession il crept
up To the station. Then came the wild rush for
the ears, the eager, anxious often frantic, enqg.
rcs for friends while the heartfelt ''thsnk God"
followed the answer ''all safe, and mingled With
the crushing sob and low wall OF those whose
dear ones they would see no more alive. And
thus ended the day, begun with the highest an.
tcipatiOns OF pleasure, with Joy aud laughter and
song, and closed with all these bright hopes dash
ed down with SORROW aud mourning aud woe, too
deep for uttcrance.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22
Old Browns Fate.

A Philadelphia correspondent Of the y. I.
Tribune, gives the following views in respect TO
the prospect of Executive clenency toward
Brown: "Goy. Wise has numerous friends in
this city. DO not mean political supporters,
because events have not yet taken shape 10
require them to show their hands. But he has
personal friends, with whom he may be in cor
respondenco, some Of whom, learn, profess TO
be able TO foresee his action in the case Of Brown
and his companions. 1t is alleged that the pres
sure on the Governor, from every quarter OF the
South, demanding that the prisoners be hanged,
is fierce and unexampled, and that even II he
were disposed to commute Browns sentence,
this pressure is 40 strong that he will fad him
self constrained to yicli TO it. IL would seem
that slavehodng vengeance can be gratified
with nothing short Of death to all the Misguided
prisoners IL NAV be that political calculation is
TO be mingled in the decision. Brown has 50
far been treated "a trump card in the hands OF
the Democracy, and that card will undoubtedly
be played with a determination 10 win. But
many persons believe that Gov. Wise, no matter
how erra;ic and impulsive he may be, will no,
be forced by any pressure, whether from the
North or South, to do any act which he does not
believe right and proper under the circum'ttn-
ce.. OF all others, he ia perhaps the very Tn,u
to form fair and generous estimate of the ante
dent conduct and present merits Of poor Brown.
What an opportunity lie now hs- 10 signalze
a. L.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22

RAILROAD AccIDESr.-By our exchanges We
learn that terrible accident occurred on the
Indiana Central Railroad on Wednesday, near
Cambridge City. II appears that rail on the
track running over a bridge had been taken up
for repairs, and before it could be replaced a
train of eighteen cars, filed with hogs. came
along at high speed. The engine and thirteen
cars plunged through the bridge into the river
The conductor, brakeman, and drover were
killed, and several firemcn were injured. Over
500 hogs were killed. The cars were literally
smashed 10 atoms.
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22

A SLAYER CArrURsp.-A slave ship, called
the Emily, under American coors. was captured
on the coast of Africa, on the 2lst of Sept. by
the L. S. steamship Portsmouth, and has been
brought TO New York where she arrived on Fri.
day last. She was in the interest of the southern
constantly declare do not wish 10 reopen the
African slave trade. This is the fourth SLAYER
that has been captured recently, AMI the activity
of our fleet in that vicinity really looks as though
traffic Is Buchauun getting frightened'
The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1859-11-22

THE BATTLE BFGINSI>G.-W Writing Of the Re
publican candidates for Office in the House OF
Representative, the Washington correspondent
os the Y. \. Post saws:
Candidates for the elective Offices of the
House are already thick a. blackberries Sher-
man and Grow are talked OF for the Speakership.
For the Clcrk>hp new men are coming forward
with claims every day. FOney, Mckibben, Tn.
derwo0d, Schouler Hoffman and Others The
last named gentleman Is defeated MARYLAND Con-
gresham, and claims the vote Of Republicans o.
two grounds: first, because he owes his defeat
TO the lllrper's Ferry outbreak; and again, be-
cause he owes his defeat 10 the fact that when
last in Congress he voted for the expulsion OF
Bully Brooks. For the postmastership of the
House, is Lewis Clephane, of this city. Born on
slave soil. he has for ten years worked faithfully
against SLAYER, extension, and in the elections OF
the last tour years has in connection with the
Republican Association here of which he is Sec
rotary, sent off millions of documents TO the Free
States. He has never sought or received Office
nor pay for his work, and he is the special mark
Tor the arrows of our prominent Democratic bull
lies in Washington. Mr. GOodlOe, of the Era.
hear, Is prominent candidate for the Public
Printing