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The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-06-15

s1 IN consequence of the accident
to the steamer Niagara, new pro-
CANINE lss to be made respecting the
movement hence Of the japanese. Il
is now thought that they villsail dirict
for Japan in the Niagara. They are
anxious to return to their couatrY atthe
earliest practicable period.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-06-15

10 Hon. HeuFy II. Philips, Of PEN
sylvania, has Been tesaefed by the
President be ofIlee of Commissioner to
adjust ha elaias under the treaty With
Taraga
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1860-06-15
mEAsuRE EoR MeAsuRE.

We may be mistaken in our calcula-
tionF. There. is no accounting for
such men as 7ancey. Our honestand
candid opinion Of him is. that if he had
the Femptest idea that he could burst
The IFnipn into ten thousand atoms. and
get she exclusive control of the small
est particle of it, he would not for a
moment hesitate to do so. But let
that be as it may, the Richmond farce
will be ignored by every honest, true
hearted citizen, if the proper man is
nominated at Baltimore and Yancey
will be driven to the wall--a fate thai
he Justly deseryes.--Minden Adyer-
tiser
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31
you,h Carolina and Virginia In CahOot.

sOuth Carolina and Virginia In CahOOt,
Mr.. Memmiuger the Commissioner from the
State Of South Carolina TO tho State of Virginia,
has delivered bis reasonable speech to both
Houses Of the Legislature The Richmond Eu-
quiror prOnounces the occasion ''mcmorable in
the history of Virginia" and lands his address
as "the ablost ever delivered in the House of
Delegates" Tho Hall was filled to its utmost
capacity. The Senate, the Judges of the three
Courts of Appeals tho Governor and Lieutenan
Governor of the State, Judge Daniel of the U.
5. Supreme Court, and o,her Southern mag
mates, were in attendance. Two military cons
panies escorted the Commissioner to the Capt.
tol, part of the same corps probably that es-
cor,ed John Brown, the lesser traitor, to the
scafFold
According to the Enquirer, Mr. Memminger
in "a track Of luminous argument demonstrated
the existing necessity for Conference Of the
southern States" and the Enquirer declares
its belief that it will not be opposed by any
man who is not willing to fall down before tho
Union with Seward as its chief and adds:
The people of Virginia have already express.
ed, by public meetings, their determination not
to submit TO the election of Black Republican,
and it well becomes the Legislature to accede
to this Conference, and enable the Southern
States, by an interchange OF views, to docide
upon the course of action best and proper for
tneir adoption. We, therefore, most earnestly
hope the proposition of South Carolina will be
speedily aceeded to, and the Commissioners ap-
pointed.
The plan of the South Carolina Democratic
Disunionists ia to procure a Convention of the
Slave States to meet at Atlanta, in Georgia,
each State appointing three Commissioners--Or
rather candidates for hemp had the Federal
Government but Jackson or Taylor at its
head.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31
The OH Excitementin In Penusyl ania.

The Oii Excitement IN Fenusyl uhi1'
Pixies Peak is nowhere beside the oil produc-
ton and fever OF Western Pennsylvania. The
reports are almost incredible, for the successful
tappiugs indicate a vast oil reservoir underlying
large tract of country. The Eric American
states that claims have been taken up all along
Conneaut Creek, from It's head to Albion The
'rawforl Journal says that by the lst Of May
there will probably be fifty oil wells in opera
ion in that county Ycnango is the great oil
county, and according 70 the Pittsburgh Chron-
Gle la'e accounts from the oil districts near
franklin report that the supply continues good,
and that every day new discoveries are being
made. The well of Mr.. Drake, and the we'll Of
Mr.. McClintock, yield about one gallon each
per minute They have each been offered $780,
600 for their property. The wells are about 70
feet deep Mr. Arnold, of Kttanipg, about
mile from Oil Creek, at the depth Of BIS feet,
struck vein which yields two barrels per day.
Messrs. Hoover d Stewart struck strong vein
a mile below the Big Rock, at 20 feet. James
Evans has good show for oil in franklin at 81
feet At Big Walnut tree oil has been found
at 80 feet, Tie Pittsburgh Chronicle says;
There are many other places that give prom
Use of paying abundantly, so that, altogether,
the prospects of those engaged in the boring
business appear highly promising. There is no
difficulty in obtaining ties by giving per
centage of the oil, and there appears 10 be a
general pitching in" by those desiring to try
their luck
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31
NIessrs. CIddlngs, Plumb, and Brown.

Mr.. Giddings, if the despatch from Marshal
Johnson reached him, we presume has gone TO
Washington; and we understand Mr.. Plumb,
of Oberliu, has also gone to Washington to tes-
tify before Mr.. MasOn's investigating Commits
tee
We learn by the National Democrat that Mr..
John Brown Jr has written to Marshal john
son his reasons for refusing to 60 to Washing
tor. The first is, that in going to and returning
from Washington, he must necessarily pass
within the jurisdiction of Maryland or Viz
ginia, and he is unwilling to trust himself in
either. The second the Democrat gives in his
own words, in part, as follows:
"The second reason why refuse to appear
before that Committee is, that in swearing to
tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth, so far as my knowledge extends in
reference to the facts sought for in the investi-
CATION, should obligate myself to make known
that which would implicate others, which, as
the Lord liveth, will not do. You say that
by giving my testimony can exempt myself
from further trouble In answer, have to
say that cannot purchase immunity from fur
ther prosecution by an act of treOeherg," &c.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31
GrnoO greenwood in Prison!

Start not, the gentle and gifted lecturer has
not invaded .chivalrie Kentucky or Virginia,
but like an angel of mercy has been minister
ing to the spirits in the Ohio Penitentiary.-
During her recent visit to Columbus the
worthy Chaplain invited her to deliver her
lecture on the Heroic in Common Life to the
prisoners on the Sabbath, an invitation Mrs
Lippincott gladly accepted. About one
thousand persons we're present, and her in
troductory remarks on the endearments of
home, fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters,
were exceedingly affecting, moving many to
tears. She expressed deep, peculiar sympa-
thy for that class of men and women TO
which her audience belonged, and said that
more than once in the Old World she had
turned from the palace to the prison, as pos
sessing for her the most human interest, She
urged upon them the heroism of brayely, yet
meekly submitting to the hard penalty Of
their fault, as a wholesome discipline for
their good, and said in concluding:
You can have great help, if you will accept
it. Prison walls, bars and bolts cannot shut
out from your souls the sweet and sacred
memories of home and happy old times-of
the faces of your mothers-sorroWful and
worn, yet full of love and forgiveness-of the
piteous gray hairs and bowed heads Of your
fathers-of the faces of brothers and sisters
wives and husbands-snd the dear little
faces Of your children. All these memories
and loves plead with you, to lead true and
noble lives henceforth. Nor is this all
Gods love follows you within these gloomy
yalls-even as His beautiful sunshine finds
its way through these grated windows this
morning, and falls upon your heads like
visible blessing. And even when you are shut
into your narrow cells at night, you are not
alone. Gods plying angels stand at your
bedside, and watch over you poor stray
children of the Father-With yearning ten
derness-bringing you sometimes dream of
home and your dear ones-sometimes hope
of pardon and heaven. Oh, take heart A
pure and honorable life is possible for you all
God has not lost his hold of you yet.
During the Introductory remarks and
throughout the lecture, the closest attention
was paid. She held up to the admiration and
wonder of her hearers the character and
qualities of heart of Florence Nightingale,
Dr. Kane, Lady Franklin, and many others,
and retired from that singular audience with
blessings from those whose feelings were
wrought upon as only they can be touched by
a lady Of Grace GTeenwOOd's gifts.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31

BIRD Trade OF FNDLAY.-The Courier
states that the number of Quails shipped from
Findlay, Hancock county, o., Tor eastern mar
kets this season is I2,492, to which add the
number ueed in town makes a total of $4,000
Quails brOughtlO the Findlay market. The
Northwestern part of Ohio has done large
and profitable business this season in poultry,
birds, and venison for shipment my rail.
The increase of QuaiIs the past year in the
bird regions OF Ohio was wonderful. The
game law protected them in the season Of rais>
ing their young, and the great demand for
skunk fur year ago completely thinned out
those rsscally little depredatOrs on the eggs
and bodies of the innocent and delicate quail.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31
Recnnt Rnrthnnnkes.

Charleston papers record sensible shaking
of the earth in that city on Thursday of last
week, the buildings being Ocked, Iumbling
noises heard, and decided electric OdOrs Percsp-
tble. The irOa tubing of an artssian well
which had been fast since the first of April,
sunk some fifty feet during the shock. The ad-
jacsnl country slsO felt the tremOr.
English papers give an account of an earth1
quake ielti in Yorkshire county Dec 18th. 1t
occurred between 2 and o'clock, on bright
clOudless morning. The noise and VibratOry
motion aroused and alarmed great numbers Oi
the sleeping inhabitants. The shock was dis
tinctly felt over an area of more than 200 square
miles. Some miners were at work at the mo
ment on Grassington. moor, go fathoms or 800
feet beneath the surface, and 200 fathoms from
the opening to the day. Those men heard dis
tinctly the noise attending the shock, and mis-
took it for the falling in Of the mine.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31

AIr Bigelow, the editor of the New York
Evening Post abroad, writes from Paris, Jan.
4t5, that there is to be no Congress Of the Eu-
ropean powera The EmperOr's pamphlet has
the credit Of having brought about this STATE
OF things. lie thinks the Italian question is
not ripe for the Congress. The Pope is deter
mined not to make the desired eoncessions, and
the Congress would probably fail to agree
Therefore the Emperor desires no Congress,
rather than one not strong enough to biRd the
ulramontsnc powers hand and foot
The Posts statement is sustained by Paris
dates Of the Ilth. A Paris despatch says it
becoming every day more doubtful whether the
Congress would assemble, and the Paris cor
respondent Of the London Times represents the
chances Of the Congress meeting to be Of the
most shadowy character.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31

Our Ohio exchanges both Republican and
Democratic come in ladened with articles, edi-
brial and communicated, protesting against the
threatened suspension of the Library clluse Of
tls School law. The peoll, Of the State are
opposed to relrenchment in this direction-and
in this, they seem determined to be heard-if
not now, we doubt not they will insist upon it
at the ballot-boK when an opportunity occurs.
This almost unanimous expression of the
press and its readers, seem to indicate a rapidly
growing interest in this feature of the School
law. We doubt if its suspension will be passed
over as lightly as it was in 1856 when the law
was suspended for two years I.has a stronger
hold upon the people-they clamor more at the
msntion Of any interference with it and will un-
dOubtedly repudiate the rough hand that is laid
upon it.-Stats Journal.
Putting out the light is poor business
when q whole people are to be left in darkness
by it. No marvel the voice Of remOnstrance is
heard from all quarters.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31

E:The NOr'-Wester'' from the North West.
The printer has found his way to the Red
River Settlement Of the North West, and q
newspaper has been established there called
1.-THE Nor Wester." The initial number was
issued Dec. 2sth, Msssrs. Buckingh am & Cald'
well, formerly Of Toronto, editors and PrOprie-
tors. The size is small, the execution good,
and it has the merit of being entirely filled with
interesting matters pertaining to the Out-Of-the>
way section Of the foctstoOl where it is pub
ished.
A weather-paragraph in the Nor'Wester tells
of cold times. On the morning Of the 7th
December the spirit thermometer registered SO
degrees below zero; on another occasion it
dropped As. below. Moderate days however
followed, and "fue Christmas weather" wound
up the month The winter had made the
wolves sharp ret, for it is recorded that large
hungry packs are proWling about the outer set
Elements. Farmers produce is quoted at
remunerative rates. Wheat As Cd to 5s sterling
per bushel, -four 2Os sterling per lI2lb Wheat
crop of 1859 an average yield of fifteen bushels
to every bushel Of seed, or thirty bushels per
;cre Of sixty-six square yards Red River
lands cultivated judiciOusly, the EOr'Wester
says, reap forty, fifty and sixty bushels of
wheat per acre. Barley, oats, potatoes, beef,
port utter and cheese, must be plenty judg-
ing from the prices quoted. All traces Of the
grasshoppers which eat up the crops on the
Red River in 1867 have disappeared, and the
Nor'Wester insists upon it that the AssinibOine
and Red River region is zone of the best agri-
cultural countries on the face of the glObe!'
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31
winner Lie ar the cold nIInes.

Peter Murray, formerly of Clark county, Ohio,
is mining with considerable success as he writes
to the Springfield Republic, by running GeOr.
gia rocker, on the Nevada gulch. 1t yields
about twenty dollars day, being run five hours
by three men His claim has four feet of strip
ping on top of the pay dirt, then about eight
feet deep OfPay dirt. Two steam quartz mills
in operation, one in Yreca District, and one in
Mountain City, are doing well. The two mills
have only nine stamPers, and yield from $500
to S40O per day. Another and better mill is
being erected at the mouth of Nevada gulcb.-
Mr.. Murray says there is plenty of quartz to
keep one hundred mills going, in a tract of
country not exceeding ten or twelve miles
square.
Mr.. Murray is evidently jolly fellow, and
makes the best of miners life on the wild Me-
vada Though the mercury has been % degrees
below zero. he thinks the winter very pleasant,
there having been no rain since the first of Sep
tember. Snow, the 9TH of January, nearly all
gone on the south side of the mountains. We
clip Mr.. Ms account of bis winter life at the
mines
In the first place, / must say that am well,
and able to enjoy as many of the comforts of
life as are consistent with our region. l am
still living at my old stand, in my little log cab
in, and expect to do so this winter and next
summer, unless the gold fever gets so high in
some other quarter that / cannot withstand the
temptation. have put in q very pleasant and
agreeable winter, and 1 think, can enjoy my
self out here as well as could in the States
For the last two months, we have bad deba-
ting club, meeting at my cabin once every week,
debating a variety of subjects; and have the
honor of being its President. also have SPELL
ing school at my clbin once every week; we can
raise about twenty-five members. And, just
about Christmas, had party to meet at my
cabin to hear some music; we had an old violin
and our musician was none of the best, but yet
he answered the purpose. l had oneshalf the
| ladies in the Nevada District there-which was
one;-notwitstanding all this, we had dance.
The lady present did not dance, (she is the wife
of my next door neighbor,) but we made men
answer the purpose of ladies in the dance, and
the only difference you could see between our
men and ladies' was, that the men wore hats
the ladies did not. I know my old acquaintsn.
ces must have taken good laugh to have seen
me, dressed as was, and dancing on dirt floor.
had an old hat, old coat and vest, woOlen shirt
buekskin pants, aud heavy coarse boots; not
withktandng all this, danced in good earnest
and enjoyed the fun. Several of the taller ones
went home with sore heads, not from the effects
of liquor, but from the effects of coming in con-
tact with the timbers in the roof of my house.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31
Newport, Ky, Jan. 27, 1860.

A MILD RULE.-The Frankfort Journal, in
its number for December %, publishes from
official sources mass of Austrian statistics,
referring to various departments of the Vienna
State machinery. Under the item of "E1ecu-
tons" the document registers: In 1852, e1ecu-
ted (mostly for politics., s2s persons; of which
total Venice supplied lls, LOmbardy 49, Hun.
gary II. In 1858, hanged or shot, total, 2s6
persons, of which in Hungary l29, LOmbardy
90, Venice 64. In 1854, total executed 1876,
Of which Hungary A, Venice 10, Transylvania
IL
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31
The render nIercIes Of slarery.

A Charleston despatch Of January 2sth,
states that Francis Mitchell, porter of the
steamship Marion, has been sentenced to be
hung on the ID Of March, for assisting slave
in bs attempt to leave the State of South Car
olius. Charleston is a very fit selection for
holding a pro slavery Democratic National
The Rev. Daniel Worth is still kept in jail at
Greensboro, N. O., for the crime of abolition
ism. BIS cell is wholly unsuitable for person
to live in, the jail is strongly guarded, and his
wiie and friends are not permitted to visit him.
Some of the Quakers imprisoned shout the
came time have been let out on bail.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31
.Nynrn RoTues FaIL Out,9 &c.

Since the election Of the corrupt Bowman
of the Washington Constitution to be Senate
Printer, fresh trouble has broken out
Bowman at once contracted with Rives, Of
the Globe, to do the printing in his Office,
whereupon Wendell, who sold the Union to
Bowman, has sued out an attachment against
the Constitution newspaper Office, claiming
$4,000 damages-that being the price he
was offered for it by the friends of Douglas
previous to the sale and transfer TO Bowman
and Buchanan. Wendell claims that one Of
the terms of sale was to the effect that he
was to be employed to do all the Government
printing that should be given to the Consti
tuition Ofice-he paying Bowman a certain
percentage on the work. The suit if prose-
cuted, will bring Buchanan, Black, Floyd,
Bigler and other political tricksters on to
the witness stand and disclose some of the
wire-wOrkings of the Democracy to sustain
and reward organ-grinders at the Federal
capital
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31
Couusetleut RepubIican Convention.


The State Convention held at Hartford, Jan.
25th, was spirited and harmonious. Out OF
I57 towns in the State, only l6 were unrePre-
sented. The present State officers were rec
nominated by acclamatiOn, and men of sterling
character were appointed Delegates to the
Chicago Conven ion For the State at large,
Messrs. Gideon Wells, E K Flsler, Chauncey
F. Cleveland, and A. II. HOlley. District
Delegates, S. o. Porter, L. E. Pease, S. W.
Kellogg, A. B. Calef James Gallup, H. Ii.
starkweather, E. S. Tweedy, and George Il.
Noble
The resolutions were spirited and to the
point. They frown upon all attempts to viO-
late the Constitution and threats to dissolve
the Union; deplOre the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise; condemn John Browns raid on
Virginia as wsfl as the invasion of Kansas by
armed ruffians oppose interference by the
Citizens of one State with the institutions Of
another; favor a tariff for the protection of
American industry commend Homestead
law; and reafirm in the strongest terms the
uOStluLy OF letpuBuCaue " sto CAtSASASA "
slavery into free territories. The following
from the series shows the spirit of Connecticut
Republicans
Res0lced, That the threats constantly made
by leading Democrats in and out of Congress,
to dissolve the Union in case Of the election of
o Republican President-which threats receive
no rebuke from the Democratic press, or at
any Demo ratio meeting-brand that party as
disOrganiziDg and revolutionary, and give the
lie to all its pretended love for the Union. We
avOw that no party having any confidence IN
the soundness OF its principles would aim to
succeed by such means; and we hereby declare
our utter contempt for such childish attempts
to flight n American freemen and to influence
their votes, and our determination to use all
honorable means to put down the disorgsnizers,
disunionists, fiIlibusters. and slavery extension
lists now in office, and to restore peace and good
government to our country by the election Of a
President the opposite IN every particular to
the present incumbent
n choice of Presidential candidate was ex>
pressed, and the delegates will go to Chicago
entirely unplsdged. The Hartford COurant
makes no mention of the preferences of dele
gates, but the Boston Journal says they are
supposed to be pretty evenly divided in their
choice for candidate between CIV. Chase and
Edward Bates.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31

The HARPER's FERRY TRIALH.-We under
stand that the trial of Aaron d. Stephens, one
of the parties implicated in the affair at Har-
per's Ferry, will commence on Monday next, at
a term Of the Circuit Court of Virginia, to be
holden at Charlestown, in that State. 1t was at
first proposed that he should be tried before the
U. s. Court, but subsequently it was decided
that he should be tried before the same tribunal
where John Brown and others had been con-
victed, and special session is to be held for
that purpose. Mr.. Sennott, who is counsel for
Stephens, left for OharlestOwn on Thursday
Boston TTau 9Th.
Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-31

Ec11psEs FOR ls6O.-The first eclipse Ofthe
sun was on the ed, and invisible. The sec
ond, a partial eclipse of the moon, will take
place February 9th, in the evening, visible here.
The third, a total eclipse of the sun, July 18th.
in the morning; this eclipse is visible here, but
only total in Europe, Asia, &c. The fourth a
partial total eclipse of the moon, August lst' in
the afternoon; visible on the opposite side OF
the earth