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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-17
Free Congressional Documents.

We alluded. a few days ago, to the ne.
ccssity of subscriptions on the part of tho
constituents of Congrcsmen to pay fol
such speeches and reports as they may de
sire, and urged it as an act of Justice to the
members. who. paying for such document'
ont of their own pockets. are very heavily
taxed. The st. 10. Register, (Mr. Col
fax. Of last week. noticing our article
says:
An article on our FIRST page from the
Indiana Journal. entitled "Frce Congress
ional Documents" will explain to many
who never knew it before that the speeches
which members of Congress are expected
to circulate among their constituents are
not printed by Congress, but are paid 70,
ont Of the pockets Of the members them
selves. Weexpect hereafter as heretofore
without regard to the cost or labor. to pay
for and circulate good many of them.-
But the District has greatly increased
in population. numbering now about 80
900 voters, that it would cost $500 ia
send bat single speech to every voter
and the plan suggested BY the journal. oil
the people of a township raising dollar o,
two, and sending for such speeches as they
desire for their own perusal, will be an ex-
celent auxiliary in the work.
OF couse Mr.. Collax. as well as every
other member. will continne to bear this
tax. If the distribution Of necessary doc
uments cannot be otherwise effected, but
we think they ought not to be compelled
to bear it. The documents are for our
benefit. and we ought to pay for them
Such as are sent without request. of course,
we except from this rcmark.-Zsd Jour.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-17

The other day said Dick TO Joe,
Near Bedlam's confines groping,
Whene'er hear the voice Of woe
Ny hand is always open.
own, said Joe. that to the poor
You prove il every minute,
Your hand is open TO he sure, tl
but then there's pothing IN Il.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-17

A correspondent OF the n. Y. Tribune
writing from St. Louis relates the follow
ing with names in full. The Tribune sun
presses the names, holding them. however,
at the command of any one who chooses
to demand them:
ST. Louis, No.. Oct. 81. 1859.
We hail in this city not long since, a
striking illustration of the patriarchal in
stitution of slavery. A Mississippi gen.
tleman came to this State to supply his
plantation, and made his headquarters in
this city. Among the two or three dozen
he bought, was a little girl, about nine
years old, whose complexion was as fair
as the average of white children. She
attracted some attention. and the purcha-
ser related her history. She was'the child
of hsndsome mulatto woman. and her
father was the Hon. Mr.. -, Member Of
Congress from this State. SIer mother
was MT slave OF Mr.. -, but owned by
neighbor, for believe it is tho custom
among the patriarchs to make an inter-
change of civilities of this kind. A
strange coincidence happened in bringing
her to this city. She came with Others
down the river in q steamboat with her
msster, and among the passengers was her
father. He conveSsed with the owner
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-17

re- Gov. WilIarl's connection with
Browns Lieutenant Is misfortune which
we are not disposed to aggravatc, by cen
suring him for acting in accordance with
natural feeling. But suppose, instead o
being brother-in-law of Democratic
Governor, Cook had been brother in law
of Gov. Morgan or Gov. Chase? Suppose
they had gone down to Harpcr's Ferry to
labor for his acquittal? What a howl
would have been raised by the Herald. the
Journal of Commerce. and tho Fifth Ave
nue. Democracy! How zealously would
they have harped upon the fact as evidence
Of "complicity with the insurrection." As
it is, they will be silent as the graye--for
circumstances alter ses!''-ASany Ere.
Journal |f -
Every candid Democrat even will say
the above is strictly true.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-17

The monument Of Henry Clay at Lex
il gton, Kentucky, i completed snd ready
for the statute.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-17

An addition of p per cent will be made on the
above rates for Special Notices
AGENT, in other towns and cities will be allowed
95 per cent commission, but no advertisement, of
.nv kind viii be inserted at less than regular rates
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-17
Law NOTICE.

TN s. STANFIELD, of South Bend, Ind. and
A JOHNSON. Of Plymouth, Ind, have
associated themselves together for the practice Of
Law, in all the Courts of MARSHALL County. Mr..
Stanfcld will personally assist in the management
Of all Itigated business. Office up stairs in Fer
shing Block. May l9, le59-2s
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-17
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
TERMS OF ADVERTISING.

One s1u,re of22) ems. or less, three weeks, or
lea. Sl o.; each allition insertion % cents
I.srger advertisements in proportion, Less than
hslfa squire to be charged as hall a square, over
half s,u,re TO be charged as whole square.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-17

vYNHE BEST TEA in town at Is cents per
Il pound - TINNEDGE & BROWNS.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1859-11-17
Also: ALL KINDS OF
Groceries and School Books

From the superior advantages we possess IN pur-
chasing our goods. We can offer superior induce
ments to those purchasing any thing in our line.
We warrant our Goods Fresh, Pure and Genuine
and wish tito bedistincty understoodthasw will
not be underso'dby any establishment in Northern
Indiana. Orders from distance promptly attend
edso and satisfaction girenin price and4uality
PHYSICLANS PRESCRIPTIONS
Carefully compounded at any time of day or night
Remember that the place to buy YOUR goods Is At
PERSHfNG x CO.'S.
Glass FRosr BurLp1xc.
Conner o. Michigan ans Gsrro assrfs.
May IS, les9-2e
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

PLEASURE IN LABoR.-The Rev. DIR. Abel
Barnes, Of Philadelphia, states that all his
published works on the Scriptures, amounting
to sixteen volumes, have been written before
nine O'Clock an the morning. His custom was to
rise at four O'Clock, he thought that no one
could reasonably complain if he took that
time, for what seemed to be side work, before
men usually entered upon the duties of the
day. He was scrupulous about this time
that, often in the middle of paragraph, and
sometimes in the middle of a sentence, he
would lay down his pen, simply because the
clock had struck nine, and that called him to
his duties as a parish minister. In this case,
as in many others. the labor in which this
eminent theologan took special pleasure, will
bring him lasting fame long after he is for
gotten as the pastor of Presbyterian Church.
"Barnes' Notes and Commentaries on the
Scriptures are permanent contribution to
American theological literature, and have at
tracted much attention on the other side OF
the Atlantic, as well as among different Pro-
testant sects in the United States.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

THE CASE OF CAPTAIN Cook. THE
speech of the eloquent counsel for the now
condemned Captain Cock, obliterated, for a
moment from the minds OF many citizens of
Charlestown, the real blackness of the prison
ers character, and a temporary feeling In his
behalf was created. That, however, was but
short lived and the ''fair- haired boy who is
not n boy bat a man of tWenty-sl1, has
passed out OF all merciful remembrance. If
the murderous fanatic had wished to obiite-
rate in his case even the natural pity felt at
the death of q human being he could not have
accomplished his object better than by utter
ing the words he did IN his speech, before sem
tence as we find them reported i'll a Charles
town paper:
He admitted that he had been deceived as to
the desire of the slaves for freedom; for whilst
he had been almost a pro-slavery man up TO
his visit 10 Kansas, Yet there he had been in
duced TO believe the slaves of Maryland and
Virginia were eager and anxious for liberia
ton. He solely came for that purpose, and no
other. AS TO the relics which had been taken
from Col. Washiugton's, (Which he now re-
prestige Of IN the or freedom,
fathers Of the RerosutIoa had done before Ms
That they We're not taken by his command
as has been stated, but by the express orders of
Captain Brown. He had HsttheT committed or
connired any rioiatton Of faic, but he supposed
IL for The coed Of humanity and the best ends
Of the Government. l have done.''
The good of humanity brought about by
15GG pixies, placed in the hands of slaves, to
murder their masters and innocent women
and children!
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

THE M ssING STEAMER NORTH STAR.--The
steamer Daniel Webster, hich arrived at New
York on Monday with the California passen-
gers of the Vanderbilt line, brings no tidings
of the missing steamer North Star. The Web
ster left Aspinwall at O'Clock, r. NJ, of the
4th instant, at w hich time she was fully week
overdue at that port. The last that was seen
of the North Star was on the 2ist OF October,
late in the day, at which time she and the
steamer Atlantic parted company of the Capes
of Virginia, twenty five days ago. Her nom
arrival at her destination was the cause of
much uneasiness, and among the officers and
passengers of the Daniel Webster, the impress
sion that a serious disaster must have occurred
TO her was very general Being in the direct
track of vessels from the Gulf and within one
or two days sail of some one Of the Southern
ports, the news of any common casualtys such
as the breaking of her machinery, wouiG un-
doubleday have been reported long SINCE
These circumstances, taken in connection with
the fact that heavy gales prevailed along the
coast of Florida and in the Caribbean Sea since
the departure of the North Star, converts the
suspense hitherto felt into painful apprehen-
sions for her safety. A lingering hope is felt
that she may have reached Nassau or Kingston,
Jamaica, since any intelligence has reached us
from those places. A few days, at farthest,
must decide the doubts which now hang over
her fate and that Of the five hundred souls on
board of her.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

CURIosITIEs OF FLITERATURE.-AnE Encyclo-
pedia has just been completed in Germany, in
TWO hundred and forty-two volumes. The
first volume saw the light at Berlin as far
back as the year 1913, and the last has been
published this season ; so that the work has
been published eighty years without in
terrupton. Only six editors have been con-
nected with the work, and their terms of SER
vice have averaged fourteen years each. A
foreign literary journal. in announcing the
completion of the work, says:
This was steady and continuous publica-
ton, which is The most remarkable feature
about it the work never having been inter-
rupted for even a single year during the whole
period. Whatever happened-let there have
been any amount of natural, political reli-
gious conv vulsions-kings died or been deposed,
a great religious order (that of the .Jesuits)
suppressed numerous wars begun and finished,
n Trans "A tlantic republic sprung into being,
a French Revolution transacted in all its pha-
ses q Napoleon lived and died-still the pubii-
cation Of this Encyclopedia went on, some
three volumes of il yearly appearing, and as
the editor or itors OF it died off successfully,
their functions being discharged by others,
who like soldiers on the battle field, stepped
into the places left vacant by their fallen COM
rades.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

RETURNING TO SLAygRY.-By the will OF
the late David Glass, of this city, his negroes
who desired 10 go to Liberia We're ordered TO
be set free upon arriving at the age Of Is year
In accordance with the provisions Of THE wiz, "
County Court, and delivered 20 MIR. Cowan,
the agent Of the Kentucky Coloniza uon 30
ciety Mr. g. started with them few days
ago. When they reached lexington, tney ~ e. :
tresses who resided there. Mr. cowan seadily
acceded to this quest, but they did not re-
turn. Mr.. q went after them % Hnsn Tha. "a snsy y
positively refused to 60 70 es ~ N.Y. NJ
Te.nlnsa = - I. !. nss fsfen sarge of them. They
s1s ,siii fall LACK on 81 Heirs and probably be
sold - r Louisriifs tveNef'
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17
C. ]. GENNET, Treas'r U. B. Society

More agrants.-Luke Sheppard, from Lon
don, was arrested Tuesday night, while much
intoxicated, and arraigned before the Mayor
yesterday. He seemed to think that his Of
fence was not so much the fault Of himself as
OF those who had given him liquor. The name
of King Dick'' had been derisively applied
to him the previous night, because nature had
given him a shape like unto the crook backed
tyrant and he desired to protest, in presence
of the Court, against the conduct of those who
amused themselves at his expense The Mayor
sent him to place where he is not likely to
be subjected to such annoyances. Daniel Null
droon, New Yorker. whose streaming hair
and haggard face made him look like one of
Tam O'Shanter's witches, was also sent to Jail
for vagrancy. The cry is, still they come
Richmond ought to have work house. The
chain gang is something of a humbug; or at
least the "institution - has not been found to
answer the expectations of its advocates.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

STEVENS TO BE TRIED IN STAUNToN-
Judge Parker, at the instance of Gov. Wise,
has handed over Stevens, one of the Harper 8
States Marshal for the Western District of
Virginia. Unless, therefore, the prisoner,
who is severely wounded, should die before
hand, the trial will take place before Judge
Brockenbrongh, in Staunton, in May next
The object of the transfer is said to be to CON-
pei the attendance of certain parties at the
Worth as witnesses. The trial will be with
out appeal. as from the peculiar legislation
affecting the jurisdiction of this Federal Dis
irict Judge Taney has decided that no Cir
cult Court for the United States can be held
therein. Consequently all such cases as this.
In which other wise an appeal would lie to a
United States Circuit Court must be final
Staunton Spectator.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

Iowa CORN CRoP.-A correspondent who
has lately been through fifteen of the south
crop is almost universally good-say forty or
fifty bushels per acre. Corn is selling in Van
Buren county at 10 cents bushel, and in
other counties at Is or Is cents, delivered in
towns. Buckwheat, potatoes, turnips, &c,
are abundant. Wheat is not half a crop in the
river counties. The hog crop is large. 1t is
estimated for the fifteen counties named at
15Ou0O. 1t is also estimated that 20, 600 head OF
beeves will be fed this winter. The crop of
sorghum syrup is estimated in those counties
to be worth from $4,000 to $4,000.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

THE IRISH REvENUE.-A Parliamentary re-
turn shows the following to be the net pro-
duce of the revenue of Ireland paid into the
Exchequer in the year ended the 3lst of De-
cember, 1855: Customs, f., ,3i ,999; excise. f.,
$4,000; stamps, f5i3,3f2; property and income,
f556, fS7; small branch of the hereditary reve-
nue., esq., miscellaneous. including repayment
of advances, f336,s0o. Total, f6,677, ,69l. The
p riod was, however, f7,676,67S; and the ex-
penditure, f667l ,573, leaving balance in the
Exchequer at the end of the year of E ,005,-
10i The amount received from rents and
other sources of land revenue in Ireland in
1858 was f4e.7l2 IS. 1od., after deducting in
come tax
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

Hastings CoKrt-The trial of Adelia Nc
Dewitt, for receiving stolen tobacco, resulted
in verdict Of guilty-the jury recommending
her to the mercy of the Court; whereupon she
was sentenced to fifteen days imprisonment
in Jail, and to pay the costs of prosecution.
Charles K. Goode, tried for obstruciing OFF,
Ger Reins while in the discharge of his duty,
was found guilty, fined fifteen dollars and
sentenced TO imprisonment in jail for one year,
during six months of which he is to be en-
ployed in the chain-gang.
Gregory Shahee was tried for an assault
upon officer +. HI. Chalkley, found guilty,
fined fifteen dollars and sentenced to three
months imprisonment in Jail.
Samuel A. Garter, indicted for stealing to-
bacco from Francis Wingo, was acquitted.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

SPIRITUALIsM AND LITERARY MRN.--In a
recent letter 10 Mr.. Charles Dickens, Mr.. W.
Hewitt says that the ghost of Capt Wheatcroft,
Il dragoon officer who was killed before Delhi,
appeared at the war office in London and
caused correction to be made in the recorded
date of his death. The London correspondent
of the Manchester Guardian says that Mr..
Hewitt is in error, and that there was no ghost
at all. but that on the death of Capt. Wheat
croft q secret marriage of his was discovered.
The same writer adds that Mr. Hewitt and his
family are confirmed spiritualists and gTost-
seers. and that Sir 4. Bulwer Lytton is also a
believer in spirits, mediums, and the rest. Sir
Edward is the author of a story in a recent
number of Blackwood, entitled ''The Haunted
and the Haunters; or, The House and the
Brain" The theory of this story is that minds
at a distance eau manifest their will in mys-
terious and awful manner on the minds OF
others present on the scene ct momentous ac-
tions in which the haunter has borne part.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

THE WEIGHT OF THE WoRLD.-Mr. Bailly,
the President of the London Astronomical So
ciety, has been for six years weighing the
world in different ways, and is now sure that
he has obtained it's specific gravity so nearly
accurate that his figures cannot err more than
o,G05s He places it at 5,6747. The total weight
of the world in gross tons of ,24G pounds. ac-
cording to his scales, is (6O62, l65. .592 81 4l0-
ASS, 500 six thousand and sixty-two trillions,
one hundred and sixty-five thousand. five
hundred and ninety billions, two hun
dred and eleven thousand, four hundred and
ten millions, fonr hundred aud eighty -eight
thousand, and eight hundred and eighty mine
tons.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

MONEY LOST Arp HEcoyERED--Yesterday
mnrniDx, upon the arrival OF the early Wash
ington train at the Camden station, one of the
passengers, Mr.. Webb, . merchant of Rich
mond, Va, lost wallet containing drafts to
the amount Of 200 on New York parties,
besides stocks and $40 In money. The wallet
dropped between the platform and the train,
as Mr.. Webb. alighted. He did not dis
cover his loss until he reached the Giimor
House. Mr.. Webb returned 10 the station with
ali possible haste, and witaoat communicable
his loss to any one, commenced q search. Pre-
yious TO his appearance, however, the wallet
was found by Mr.. Columbus y. Davis, the sta
fisn baggage-master OF the company, who oh.
serving Mr.. Webb, restored him his property.
Baltimore Sun,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

ABOLITION PETITIONS. - In New York,
Monday night, at a union prayer meeting held
in the lecture room of DIR. Cheevers church,
urgent prayers were offered on behalf of John
Brown and his associates and two petitions
were informally signed requesting Gov. Wise
to interpose executive clemeDcy To proven the
operation of the sentence of death. The meet
ing thoroughly endorsed the spirit of the Har-
per's Ferry invaders. A black woman was
among the speakers. A meeting of abolition
lists was held at the Cooper Institute to con-
suit as to the best method of Gberating the
condemned, and to secure the passage of a
personal liberty bill.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

WON'T HEAR THBM.-Grisi and Mario were
obliged after two attempts to sing in Madrid,
to throw up their engagement and leave the
city. The first evening they were driven from
strations which made it impossible for them
to proceed. Grisi made an appeal to the pub
lie in the papers the following day, bat
second attempt to sing met with no better sue
cess. A Paris letter writer ascribes the demon
stration to a feeling against Mario, whose first
wife was a Spanish heiress whom he deserted
after he had sqnandered her fortune, causing
her to die broken hearted.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17
LOCAL MATTERS.

The Gas Explosson yesterday gave N
0rIei account ofan explosion Of gas in the house
ncSn 1s.h npaed m ny Redmond Gay, on Main, between
premises shows that its effects are more serious
man we had supposed, and the escape of the
snInates Wltnout personal injury Is indeed mi
..acuaeus. There WAS no gas meter In the house,
lIe. I1I cray having objected to its introduction,
from an apprehension Of danger. One Of the
persons employed at the works, in going his
ROUNDS on Tuesday evening turned the gas
,hrougn pipe leading into the cellar of this
ana, as there was no connection with
any otner pire, nor anything TO prevent its
escape, stream Of gas poured in and filled the
'front.' cellar. Soon after dark a servant girl
Went down TO get wood, and as she was about
e.hlerlng the door, holding a light in her hand,
tue gas lgnlted and exploded with terrific
report. The flooring Of the millinery apart
menl IN the front of the house was ripped up
Lne shelyes and counters were shattered, the
ron WINDOWS and door blown out and bon-
neis DandDoxes and glass scattered over the
pavement. Fortunately there was no person
IN inns room at the time. partition sepa-
ratirg 1t from the rear apartment was torn
ooWn, dishes and glassware were smashed
an anu M Inc oriek work and iron frame Of the
fireplace blown out. A cooking stove was
partly broken in pieces by the conclusions;
Wnile child who lay In a little carriage on
one side OF II, and another lounge directly
opposite, were unharmed! The plastering in
various places was stripped off, and the split
Woodwork in an adjacent passage, as well as
the steps leading to the upper rooms show
evidences of the terrible force of the explosion
HOW the servant girl escaped injury, is mys-
terry. The step ladder was blown out OF the
cellar way into the yard and q volume of blue
lame issued through the aperture. Mrs. Gay
and two children were landing under the rear
porcn, TO which circumst tanee perhaps they
owe their preservation,
The lower part of the tenement is complete
wreck. 1t is owned by VIM. Slater, and was
but recently built.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

C.nnisg Erssfs.--It has heen atatet, th.t a.
Wise has determined 70 Be preseut 81 shs eys.
cuti on OF the insurge nts In Charlestown. q. ner /
conn ,anies along with him. This statsmsr, /,
entir ely without authority; although. shoniS
any n ecessity exist for such proceedinr, shs
Governor will not hesitate to take requisite
measu rvs for protection in the enforcement 81
the laws.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

Bfoody- RnR Strset-We have been requested
to call he attention. of the proper authorities
to the c 3ndition Of the street leading to the
York Ri yer Railroad depot. The holes In va
rious pl aces render the passage of vehicles
somewhat dangerous.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-17

Death of Mr.. Winston.-Mr. James Winston,
a highly esteemed citizen of Richmond, died at
his residence on Church Hill last Tuesday
night, in his Goth year. The greater portion of
his life was spent in mercantile pursuits,
which he relinquished at a recent period. His
amiability of character made him a general
favorite and he leaves many friends to regret
his departure. 1t is melancholy and singu-
lar coincidence, that younger brother, Mr..
Thomas Winston, was stricken with the same
disease (pa 'alysis,) in ST. Louis, at the same
time with the deceased, and lies dangerously
\