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White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-12-01

Fomey's Press says that Mr.. Buchan-
an ia evidently the butt of Fortune. II
we consider Fortune personifcation,
the remark is unquestionsbly true.-LOH.
Journal.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-12-01

DEATH or JoHS AxoELL JAHEs.-Ths
Rev. John Angel James, suthor of ssv-
eral practical religious trsstises, which {
have had very wide circulation, died
on the list inst, at Birmingham. England
where be had. for more than half oentu-
~. been pastor Of dissenting church
He was not far from IS years Of age.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-12-01
ANEW VERSION OF AN OLD SONG
nEUsTa1rrso TIE GROWTH or PUBLIC sExrrzESr.

nLUsTRArISG TIE GROWTH or PUBLIC sKSrIzESr.
AR-"oa Jols Brora Aal Linls IsjEA'
old John Brown had little niger,
Old John Brown had a little niger,
Old John Brown had . little Niger,
ossites niger boy.
CHORUS, BY SEVERAL voIcEs)
District .7tfOrHrT OHll-one little, two liI',
Secretary FiOyl-three little niger,
HaLlGaiigLaa-Four little, Eve little,
Mr.. BHekaAaH-siG little Niger,
Gorera0r Fiss-seven little, eight little,
FasAiAgts1 C0zsttEtiOE-nine little niger,
Nee York Herali-7sa little Niger boy.
Democratic Press tArgsgkoEt the coaHtrv. n rscis-
ve.)-Ten tAOHS<Ad little niger boys, all armed with
pitchorks eighteen feet long, and commanded BY treaty
honsaHd Abolitionis;s.
Interval, in which the election Is supposed have
1assei)
Herald and CoHsftEtiOA-Ten little, nine little,
eight liuIe niger.
AafL0rities Of PIrgiais-seven little, SiI little,
Eve little niger.
AEfkS-ities at FssLiAgtOa-Fouf little, three lttls
two little Niger.
People Of tie Country, Tin accents Of surprise al the up
hot Of the whole. -0ss littis aigEsr b0r!H
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-12-01
Popular Sovereignty to be illustrated
BY Wood-Cuts.

The New Orleans Delta thinks that
Douglas and the Hsrpers committed q
great oversight in their copyrighted po-
litical essay:
At moment when pictorislism is all
the "rage" in popular literature. Doug
las momentous contribution to Harper's
Magazine appeared without a solitary
wood-eut to illustrate his romantic histo-
ry of the Territorial question. There's
not so much as a mark to denote the d.
viding line between Federal and local
authority. Such an illustration, we take
it, would have been very simple. 1t
would not have been necessary to sketch
a snake of changeable hues, which,
"wlndug in and winding out.
Len the observer still In doubt,
Whether the snake that made the track,
Was going North coming back"
1t would have only needed to draw On
ugly reptile Enthusiastically black, or rath-
er, to use the more appropriate political
adjective, Black Republican from head
to tail. encircling the Territories and en-.
deavoring to swallow the States.
There might have been, too, some very
happy illustrations of Douglas classii-
cations Of opinion on the Slavery ques-
ton in the Territories. For instance, the
opinion that the Constitution establishes
Slavery in the Territories, could have
been represented by huge. but dingy
and dilapidated roll of parchment, sup
porting in an upright position a dead
niger on the borders of Kansas, while a
gang Of Abolition shsrp-shooters, headed
BY Jim Lane, are making target of the
carcass. As for Douglas own doctrine,
that Territory. from the beginning, has
all the powers of the States, and much
more besides, without owing any obligs-
tions either to the States or to the Fede-
raj Government, that might have been
presented in the picture of a retired sea
pirate, Squatting upon beautiful island,
nominally the property of the United
States, and Justify singing from morning
till night-what time he was not engag-
ed in rightfully robbing unfortunate voy-
ayers, or helping emigrants-the sublime
song of Robinson Crusoe:
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-12-01
81 am monarch OF all | survey,
My right there is none 10 di'putsi
From the centre all round to the sea,
Ian lord ofthe fowl and the byuts -

What honest support Douglas has at
the South. could have been easily enough
and eloquently pictured. An immense
donkey, ridden by a gigantic fox. would
have done the business beautifully.
In view Of all this, we may be pardon
ed for hoping that Douglas and Harper
will yet decide on issuing q pictorial edi-
ton of the famous Essay on Squatter
Sovereignty in question.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-12-01

People Of the coHatrV, Gin accents Of surprise Al the up
shot Of the whols.)-Oss lit,is sigE1 b0r!D
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

EGys Gov. Willard vetoed the embezzle-
ment bill-by the defeat of which his favo-
-4.----..4---eL--- -,,eaLA $l -
900 or $4,000 by the. use of public money
on the ground that it would be unjust to
punish as felon public officer for the loss
of public money deposited, as the officer
supposed, in safe place, when the State
had prepared no place''of deposit of its own,
wherein to place its money. The Governor
makes this the sole reason for his veto,
when there was upon his own table, and
that of every member of the Legislature, a
law Just passed over his veto, which con-
tanned this section ordering the executive to
provide place of deposit and make it am
ply secure, with orders to keep the States
money therein "The Auditor and Treas
urer of State, under direction of the Gov
ernor, are required to provide such addi-
tional locks, safes and vaults as may render
the public funds absolutely secure against
fire and burglars, and appropriation is here
by made of such money as may be neces-
sary to obtain the same" The real reason
was, we presume, the place was to have too
many bolts and bars for convenience in
opening it for the ready disbursements of its
contents.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

Nothing was done in either House on
Monday, except the exchange of formal mes
sages with each other and the Executive,
and to adjourn, sine die On calling the
House, only As members were present, and
only 80 in the Senate.
The Indianapolis Journal alludes to
number of important measures which have
been adopted, which will render the late ses-
sion memorable in the Legislation of the
State.
LIST. The management of the offices of
State, which has been allowed to pass IN
questioned for four years. has been investi-
gated and some enormous abuses exposed.
A full and connected history of the whole
Sues business, including these exposures,
is embodied in the final report of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means, which is docu-
ment, when published, willb found ofgreat
interest to the people of the State
I'd. The revenues of the State have been
brought into order, and set square with the
wealth and strength of the State. Appraise-
ment laws have been passed that will large
ly increase the revenue without increasing
the rate of taxation.
Sd. Provision has been made for the debts
of the State to the Sinking Fund, or, to the
schools, by law which reimburses to the
Fund $4,000 with interest, making $780,
900, in 1860, and by law which gives the
States bonds for the rest of the money bor-
rowed of the Sinking Fund years ago. This
last provision covers over S1,100,O00 II
becomes part of the State debt, but the in
terest, instead of going abroad, goes to edu.
cate the children. The rest of the fund.- in.
Guiding the amount to be reimbursed il
1860, goes, after the payment of the Bank
bonds to the various counties to be loaned
on security, as provided by the Distribu
ton bill, the proceeds to be applied to tbs
schools. These various provisions make sys
tematic, complete, and available, the States
debts and relations to the Sinking Fund.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

BgE~ We learn from the Warrick Demo
erat that heart-rending accident occurred
near the residence of Jas. E. Lowell, about
three miles from Boonville, on Thursday of
last week. Medora, the eldest daughter of
Luther NJ. Miner, of Newburgh, while on
visit to her uncle's, Mr.. LOVELY, was SO
terribly burned by her clothes taking fire at
a sugar-camp, that her recovery is thought
impossible. Her body, arms and hands, we
are told, were burned almost to a crisp
She is a very interesting and remarkably in
telligent girl, aged about ten years. We
deeply sympathize with the afflicted parents.
We also learn from the same paper that
Mr.. John McNeeley, of Pigeon township,
was instantly killed on Thursday of last
week by the falling of tree. He was pass
ing along the road on foot at the time the
accident occurred. Mr.. McNeeley was about
twenty-five years of age, was raised in War
rick county, and was highly esteemed. He
leaves wife and two children to mourn his
loss.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

gs@A slip from the Office ofthe Memphis
4Ualanche of the Sd inst, gives an account
of the destruction of the office of that paper
in the recent disastrous fire in that city, in
which nearly 5000, 900 worth of property
was consumed. The office was in the midst
of the most valuable buildings and extensive
stores on the principal business street.
There was no spot where fire could have
have been much more destructive. The
AUaldnche declares the fire to have been the
act of an incendiary, who from some unre-
lanting enmity to that establishment, had
made four previous attempts to fire the Of
fee. He succeeded in his nefarious design
at last and brought heavy calamity upon
the whole neighborhood. The Office of the
Eagle & Enquirer, the largest in the city,
owned by L. D. Stickney formerly of this
cisy) and others, was involved in the de-
struction. Both papers, through the gener-
GUS support they enjoy, will rise from their
ashes in few days with renewed strength
and beauty.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

LARGE CoTToN PLANTERs.-The largest
cotton planter in Georgia is said to be Col.
Bond, whose crop last year was 2,lOO bales
The Natchez papers enumerate several plan
tiers, whose estates are in the Parish of Con-
cordia, in Louisiana, opposite that city,
crops of which exceed the largest Georgia
planter. Among them is L. R. Marshall
whose crops in that Parish usually exceed
3, 500 bales. Mr.. John Routh is the equal
of Marshall. Mr. Stanton raised the last
year $500. These gentlemen have planta-
tons in other places, and Col. MARSHALL 8
product from all his estates is about A, 900
bales; Col Duncan raised about 3, 900 bales !;
the estates of the two Messrs Luzetts pro-
duces each from 1000 to 5000 bales annu-
ally. These are all gentlemen living in the
city and vicinity of Natchez, place that
can boast of more private fortunes than any
town of its size in the country.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10
The Morals of washington City.

The Morals of Washington City.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette
says;
/ can very well see how 1.-The country,
startled by the fact, made so conspicuous by
the ability, the high social and political
standing of the parties, will hasten to the
stereotyped conclusion that the city of Wash
ington is morally horrible place. Such a
conclusion is very unjust. Take Washing
ton proper and more moral city cannot be
found. By this l mean the resident popu-
lation. Not only is it refined, in the true
sense of the term, but with that refinement
there are quite well founded reeognitions of
the rights of humanity, and the laws of re-
ligion, extremely rare in the cities of the
United States. To get at this fact one must
go from Pennsylvania Avenue into the
homes of those who have right to be con-
sidered the citizens of Washington. The
strangers who carry away these terrible &C
counts Of life at the Capitol, are the very
causes of the worst side of our beautiful
city. do not mean to say that they are
worse than what we may find in other
places of like size, but, from an unhappy
tradition fixing in their eyes the character
of the city, they are under less restraint
than at home. But including Pennsylvania
Notwithstanding the crowded hotels and
the dens of infamy that our journals are SO
fond Of Washington City will
yet compare favorably with cities of larger
pretensions. -
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10
The Suspension OF Mail Routes.


The Washington Union says the defeat of
the Post Office appropriation bill will COM
pei the Department to "promptly suspend
a great many routes, and reduce many 9TH
ers." 1t says eve see no way, after the
30th of June next By a0hich the country can
be provided NTH mail facilities and the pres
ent system, before that time, mast undergo a
most disastrous curtailment. Let the res
possibility rest upon those who have
achieved this signal victory over the great
interests of the country"
Upon whom does the responsibility of the
defeat of the bill and the arrangement of
the most important department of the gov
eminent rest2 The difficulty first arose by
the Senate appending to the Post Office ap-
preparation bill, from the House, a section
raising the rates of postage to five cents
AS this was provision for raising revenue,
the House declared the amendment an in
fringement upon its constitutional right to
originate all bills for revenue. To save its
rights, and avoid difficulty, the House, in
stead of rejecting an important appropria-
ton bill that had been matured with great
labor, adopted resolution that the bill be
returned to the Senate, with an intimation
that the amendment raising the rates OF
postage was in the nature of revenue
measure, which could only be introduced
by the House.
On the return of the bill, heated discus
sion arose in the Senate, upon the aggres-
sions and assumptions of the House. A COM
mittee of conference was finally appointed
who agreed that both Houses should, for the
time, waive the question of constitutions
right-that the bill in controversy should
be adopted as House bill. The terms o
the conference were carried out in the House
but when on the last day of the session, thu
bill came to the Senate after it had beer
read a first time, ON motion to dispense will
the rules to have it read a second and third
time, Mr.. Toombs of Georgia objected; an(
he persisted in his objections, and continued
the ulScuSSlon VI tHe puACtilAOS pot"soi 'n'
two Houses-insisting that the Senate coult
not yield without sacrificing its dignity ant
constitutional rights, till the hour of l.
o'clock arrived, and the Vice President ar
rested all proceedings by declaring the tern
of the existing Congress had expired.
was the factious opposition of the Georgi
Senator that brought the calamity upon tn
country. If all laws against common CARR
ers and private Expresses carrying maj
matter had been repealed, the departmen
might suspend all its chief mail routes, with
out injury, and perhaps greatly to the &C
vantage of the country.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

TRIAL OF THE Rev. DR.. DoWNEY-A
QUEER JURY.-It is now going on two
years since the Rev. DR.. Downey, Catholic
priest, of Staunton, Va, was thrown into
prison on charge of having killed a man
named VIM. Mullins, in Stanton. This
Mullins was single man, and, accordingto
report, rather addicted to fooling with sim
pie minded Irish girls by promises OF mar
rage, with very little regard to the per-
Torrance of the same. Mullins seduced, I'M
der such a promise, young girl IN the en-
ploy. of Dr. Downey. Her character pre-
viously stood untarnished. Her employer
wanted that the wronged girl should have
Justice done to her, and in his effort to make
Mullins keep his promise and marry her,
dispute or scuffle arose between them, and
Mullins got shot, as alleged, by the priest
Downey. On this charge the accused has
stood three trials and is now incarcerated
to stand his fourth trial about May next, in
Albemarle county. The last jury, who fail
ed to agree on his case stood in the follow
ing remarkable manner: Three were for
instant acquittal of the prisoner; three
were for his Imprisonment in Jail for one
year, but in order to agree they would pre-
fer going for his acquittal The six who
opposed a verdict of "nOt guilty stood as
follows: One for five years confinement
in the penitentiary or hanging one for
eight years in the penitentiary one for
eighteen years two for fifteen years and
one tor two years. 1t is said that seven
men of this jury had been twice married and
had eighty children. About Staunton,
the more the matter and evidence in
this remarkable trial are examined and dis
cussed the more the popular opinion and
sympathy work in favor of DR.. Downey,
and the opinion is fast spreading to the eff
feet that this persecution against him is be-
ing carried too far.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
1O.u.uFssfO .N.FRs SIZE

& FUsHaWESSKUs NEH'S 3 n II n Il 2
u virtue of an order of tina Court of Common
Pleas of Nanderburgh Comfy, made at its Sep
TENDER Term, 1885, in suit for partition wherein
Charles Long was plaintiff and Louis Long and
Others were defendants, will, on the 11th day of
April 1859, sell at the Court House door, in Evans
Vile, Indiana, Lot No. twelve t12( in Block No
two (2) in Lilleston & Lockhart's Enlargement of
the City of Evansville aforesaid.
TERMs-0ne-third cash (; balance in six months
from the day of sale, the purchaser giving note
with approved security, with interest from date
waving valuation laws. THOS. +. GARvIN
marl9-3tw<d Commissioner
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

BALIzE BAR-The difficulties at the
mouth of the Mississippi increase rather
than diminish At the last accounts there
were about seventy large ships embargoed
at the Balize outward and inward bound
The value of their cargoes is estimated at
about Ss,OOO,OOO; the interest on the
the owners by delays and injury-is about
81, 500 day. large portion of the car
goes of the inward bound vessels are goods
for places on the rivers above, whose own
ers are suffering great inconvenience. Con-
gress has adjourned without making any
appropriation for removing the obstacle,
and it appears as if nothing can be done to
remove it, unless it be undertaken by the
city of New Orleans, for the State Legisla-
ture, absorbed in its political difficulties,
will not be likely to do anything to help the
city. If the bar be permitted to increase
for another year, it will almost close the
port and annihilate its commerce. The in
terruption will throw an immense amouts
of transportation on the railroads and rivers
of goods from the East to the points in the
Southwest, even down as low rs New Or
leans
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10
4. The State Funds have been guarded by


a close and stringent law from the losses
that have hitherto occurred. The vote of
the ENLIGHTENMENT Bill nullifes the most eff
fective part of this division of the Legisla-
lures labors, and leaves the State open to
the cold picking and stealing" system, but
what has been accomplished is good as far
as it goes.
9Th. The township system has been radi-
cally changed, for the better probably.
9Th. The schools, by the provisions of
Mansfeld's bill, the author of that measure
thinks, will have near 100000 in 1860,
for distribution, instead of about 100000
which they have now in other words, in
stead of tsco months there will be secured
about sac months free schooling each year
If this be accomplished, it will be the most
benefeent act of the whole session.
9Th. The shame of our divorce law is re-
moved, by provisions which will prevent
our State being hereafter the resort of
prohigate divorce seeking parties.
9th. A Temperance bill has been adopted
which, if the cities choose to use the power
it leaves them, may greatly reduce the traf-
flic in liquors, and the pest of doggeries.
10th. A constitutional convention has
been authorized, if the people will vote that
it is needed. The Importance of the mea-
sure cannot be overestimated. 1t is the only
mode by which we can get rid of the crush
ing weight on our school system, which the
Supreme Court has placed on it ! the evils,
if they are so, of biennial sessions and of
the evils of fraudulent elections, which
must be irremidable while the constitution
is held to stand in the way of any resi-
dence or registry law.
| 18th. A new penitentiary with means to
make certain necessary changes in the old
one) has been authorized, and Commission
ers will soon be appointed to locate it.
18th. All required expenses of the gov
eminent have been provided for by suitable
appropriation bills.
| 18th. A new rate of salaries has been
adopted in the main wise and fair, but I'M
| der the veto of the embezzlement bill, il will
secure to the Treasurer not only the iRereas
ed salary (which was intended to compen
safe the removal of his perquisises), but i
leaves him the perquisites too. This viii
make the Treasurer's place WORTH, probably
$4,000 year, with the increased reve
nues of the new appraisement bill. Thi
enormous grab is the work of Goyerno
Willard.
14th. Laws arranging Limited partner
ships" and providing for the settlement o
the estates of assigning Debtors" wer
also passed, two sensible and useful reforms
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

Hg The Mercantile Library Association
in New Orleans is about to disband, from
the pressure of debt and the impossibility of
raising funds. Such an occurrence viii be
a deep reproach to city of SO much mer-
camille and boosted liberality. -
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

DsgF A species of African sugar has been
grown in Florida this year, that produces
syrup superior to the best New Orleans mo-
lasses; the yield is from so to 60 gallons to
the acre.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

BGs- The Wheeling EnteEhgencer mentions
a bellicose bull that recently attacked
train of cars on the Baltimore and Ohio
road the other day. He valiantly advanced
to meet the engine, and was transformed
into "jerked beef in a twinkling
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

New MEXICO A SLAVE TERRrroRY.-The
last mails from Santa Fe bring copies of
some stringent laws passed by the Legisla-
ture Of New Mexico, tie protect property in
slaves, and totally prohibiting emancipation
in that Territory.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

BSP The New York Sun has proved to
the satisfaction of the Post Office authorities
that its circulation greatly exceeds that of
the Herald, and it has, therefore, been
awarded the uncalled for letters advertise
ment which has been given to the Herald
for several consecutive years
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

BIS" One hundred and ten thous and dol
lars have been raised in New Orleans for
the erection of a new Opera Housea
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10

R@lThe story of gold being found in
Bartholomew comfy, near Columbus, is a
very silly hoax.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10
For Sale on Consignment.
HNI@E IRE K.S' REGREFT DIRECT

w from the celebrated Poplar Grove planta-
ton, Louisiana, loo hhds CHOICE SUGAR and
213 u bbls of superior MOLASSES, in good pack
ages. Also, from New Orleans
10 TIERCES RICE,
rs BBLS. TAR. For sale low to close con-
Segment. mar9-3m ALLIS & HOWES.
The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-03-10
RE4T SIZE oF corr .a.s.D

Wv SILVER WATCHES, FINE GOLD JEW
ELRY, SILVERWARE, DC, &c, AT AUCTION.
eiry, Gold and Silver Watches, &c, embracing the
latest and most beautiful Styles elegant and cost
patterns OF the above description of goods, ever
brought to the West, comprising in part,
Ia A