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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-05

DEATH FROM vIoLEscE.-On the 26th Of March,
Thomas Sheridan, native Of Ireland, aged Al yearA
admitted 70 the Bellevue Hospital, suffering iron
Inflammation Of the abdoRen. He informed pstisna
who lay near bin in the Hospital ward, that the in
Aammation the result Of kick which he received
few days previous his admission 70 the Hospital
He said that on the occasion Of bis receiving the in
jury he went the drinkngssloon ut the corner a
Mulberry and Park streets, and called for some bess
On receiving it, he remarked that il very muddy,
when the barkeoper became very abusive. He thea
started to leave the saloon and in doing 80, received
kick in the lower part of the abdomen from the bar
keeper which was the occasion Of his sickness. The
keeper Of the saloon referred summoned before
the Coroner, but he denied all knowledge Of the de-
ceased, or of any disturbance at bis place the day
mentioned. The Jury rendered verdict Of death
from injuries received in some manner to them N,
known.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-05

WORTHLESS CHrcK.-Detectives Sampson and
Dc Voc yesterday arrested Andrew J. Hull CONTRACTOR =
charged with having passed worthless check for go
fots BIO. and spoe d-ssr No. Nassu street
seeed about accused purchsss1
the complainant bill Of goods rendering in psymsns s0ecs
By John Downing Hull IL ssd that Dewnine
worth sioeVSe and hep an account tho Artisan. nss
money forthcoming the 1rest Of Hull fo!2wsa
prisoner committed to the Tonbs BY Justice ssh u
f.ut OF 4 l. 800 bali.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-05

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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-05

A DERASoED WoAAs CoMxITs SuiciDE.--hn
Frederick shutz Of No los Ridge street committee "c,as
hss heen dstsnrrd for several months and eqaIea
waching On "Wednesday she wAs s sione lor ~
She was picked up the sisswsA N an i.,ses % ~
S 49, ths ssees Of injuries she bad reosived conos
ssirmsr held an inquest the body yeetsfdaS ne y &
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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-05
IAdvertissmsntl

EDWARD 81. DIXON, N. D., Editor Of TAs
scapei and Operating and consultins suys n Ne 2 hss
ysossu Rppturs Plea Vaiosoes sae FisA rsAAssy ea4
without the tnifs er nssserN Oacs hsan fsu se lte
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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-05

,s of the most amusing things in this city b tie
T,u,nIrrox a. BAasux's hgsEvn psricuAxy NE pelk
81 ar me citing With Herr Desbssh mailing ssssp spese
md The Bsars ehsszs him after tie best Pssn q - Tsne
ny or Mozart.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06

country. The steldy increcse of our COM
MERGE struggling with hers for mastery upon
every sea, and the rapid growth of our man
ufactories, threatening soon to contest with
hers in the markets of the world, have alarmed
the English Nation. Something must be done,
and experience had taught her exactly what to
do. The old policy which she had pursued to
wards Ireland, ''divide and conquer" must be
adopted and inaugurated in this country. Re
ligiOn was the lever with which she divided the
Irish people; Abolitionism was the lever she en-
ployed to divide the people of America. Exeter
Hall poured out her gold into the hands of the Alb
oltonsts; the English press teemed with diatribes
against slavery; the North patted on the back
and told to go on in the work of philanthropy,
civilization, and christianity" the pulpit was in
duced to lend its great influence to the ''holy
work. Never were people so completely en-
shared as ours They fell into the trap set for
their destruction, and after the Union is reft,
England then displays her hands. The same gold
that flowed into the hands of the AbOlitionsts
will now be freely poured by the commercial and
manufacturing interests of England into the cot
fers of the South; their independence Will be ac
knowedged; England will buy her cotton, and
sell her clothing, ETC., all carried in her ships;
and thus her longed cherished design of crippling
the commerce of this country and building up
her own, and of destroying our manufactures
and enrichng hers, will have been accomplished.
And all the work of our own hands! "What a
Bedlamite is man." PEN.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
Kansas a state.

BY reference to our Geographic report. il will
be seen the Kansas bill with Fitch's amendment,
passed the House on Monday by vote of IL to
II. All that is now necessary to clothe us with
State sovereignty, is the endorsement by the
President of the action of Congress, and which
will be accomplished in day or two at least.
The news reached here yesterday morning and
soon after its arrival cold Kickapoo was brought
into re1uisiton. and fifty rounds were fired in
honor of the new born State of Kansas.
The rejoicing over the momentous event was
quite bostrous, but by no means general. The
principle participants were State officers elect aud
individuals who are not burtherned with taxes.
Could the citizens of Kansas be divestdd of po-
litical bias on the subject, they would soon real
ize that our admission places us in n situation
similar to the man who bought the elephant, and
impoverished himself in satisfying the capacious
nav of the monster belst A State government
adds about four hundred thousand dollars, the
first year, to expenses, and of course must be
raised in the form of additional taxes But the
thing is done, and ait is useless to worry over
spilled milk"
As soon rs official information is received of
the signing of the bill by the President, Governor
Robinson will assume the chair gubernatorial and
convene the State Legislature oenrorth,
Kansas, Herald
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06

whelming voice of the people demanding cOmpro-
mise and peace? Are they blind to the perils
that environ us-to the dark portents that chang
on all the arches of the horizon?" Can they no
see the sure and inevitable ruin that awaits this
country unless it is averted by moderation and
compromise? Or, are they Indifferent to scenes
of bloodshed, desolation and ruin? Has God, in
his infinite wisdom, visited these men with mad
ness, as a forerunner to their destruction?
Is the patriotic voice of the conservative men
of Indiana TO be smothere1, and the country
dashed to pieces the Scylla of disunion, and
the Charbdis of civil war, by these mGdmen
whom chance has placed in power Is there no
way to save the country from the terrible doom
to which these lunatics would consign it Oh,
for one hour of the patriot sires of the revolu-
ton. Oh for the wisdom, the forbearauce, the
compromising spirit of WASHINGTON, JET
PERSON and MADISON Oh, for the stern de-
termination of a JACKSON, and the stirring elo-
quence of a CLAY, to rebuke this treason to ''tho
hopes of humanity % Alas, they are in their
graves, shrouded in the sleep of death, and ia
natics and madmen rule the country they ex-
pended so much labor and suffering to maintain
in its independence and freedom, and to raise to
an eminent position among the nations Of the
earth.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
An Incident for the JournaI.

The Journal has been giving special attention
to the chivalric demonstrations of Messrs. MEI-
LIT and WAGNER in the Senate, in charging trea-
son, and such ike trash, on Democratic members.
There is one incident that tended to tes. the
chivalry of Mr.. MELLEr, that occurred in tie
Senate on Thursday, while he had the floor, and
lest the Journal should forget it we viii make a
note of it. Hr. MKLLKr made some charge
againss ~ RAJ. IN connection with the charge
Of treason. Shen Mr.. Ray rose in his seat and az
rested The eOorsc Of remark. and charged Mr..
AEILEr, speciacally and directly. with falsehoOd,
and that the Yeace Of the Senate could not be
preserved unses the same were at once retracted,
and the necessary retraxit and explanation was at
once made. The paragrAphist of the Journal
viii net fail, We trust, to give this item place in
his record Of Republican chivalry.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06

The Legislature of Ohio has had quite an ex-
citing time over the proposition to send Commits
sioners to Washington on the 4th Of February.
The rugged ISSUE Republicans took decided
ground against it, and sought to whip in the min
ority in their party through King Caucus. The
State Journal Numbered its anathemas against
them in such choice epithets as pseudo Republi-
cans" "deserters from the Republican to the
Democratic ranks" etc. But the conservative
Republicans in the House, nine in number, stood
firm and decided. in the words of one of them,
denying that party fealty requires an unqualified
submission on the part of the minority to what
ever policy and doctrines the majority may in
their wisdom dictate" and declaring explicitly
their unwillingness "to merge their private opin-
ions and personal independence, in all cases, and
become mere tools" The caucus resolutions
were defeated by ten majority. and resolution
adopted by vote of So to As, appointing THos.
EWING, REUBEN HTcHcocK, WM. S. GRoEsBEcK,
JOHN MCLEAN and JOSEPH R. SwAx-three Re
publicans, one Democrat and one BELL man-as
the Commissioners on the part of Ohio.
This resolution will also pass the Senate. Mr..
Harrison, the leider of the conservative Republi-
cans in that body, and Chairman OF the Commit
tee Federal Relations, reported il back from
the committee, and recommended its passage. 1t
was Immediately assailed by the radical Republi-
cans, who avowed themselves opposed to all
compromises and concessions, and defended with
great spirit and determination by the conservative
Republicans. The Columbus correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette says that doubt exists of
its passage through the Senate. Thus does Vir-
ginia's elder daughter respond to her invitation
Thus does Ohio conclude to sit down with her
staid old mother at the family altar of our COM
mon country, and talk over with her the glorious
theme of the Union; the blessings it has showered
upon both and the best means for its preservation
and enduring permanency.
Will the younger daughter, Indiana, be absent
from the family council? Is there not patriot
among the Republicans of Indiana to break
through the shackles of party, and throwing off
the dictations of king caucus, proclaim himself
for the country? Is there personal indepen-
dence, no conservatism, no love of country among
them? Are they deaf to every call of patriot
ism, every prompting of duty, to every requi-
stion interest, to every emotion of an honest
pride in the growth and prosperity of united
brotherhood Of States, to the indignant and over
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
oBarkis fs wiIling.p

Mr.. Speaker ALLEN. in announcing his deter
mination hereafter not to permit any more refec-
tons in the House on motives and character, also
said:
The gentlemen on his right (the Democrats)
now could not complain that they were not ut
least equal to those on his left (the Republicans.
oh, no. Mr.. Speaker. the Democrats are per-
fectly willing to crest the case" here, as the
lawyers say, If the Republicans, including the
chivalrous MooDY and the war-like FRAZIER are
willing TO play quits" why we, at least, should
not complain Mr.. Speaker ALLEN is shrewd
man. He came to the rescue of his party friends
in the very nick Of time. A few more such dis
plays on the part of the Republicans as Fridays
debate exhibited, might convince the Southern
''rebels," and other people, that the "irrepress-
bles" are not half as dangerous as they would
have the world believe.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
The Border state Proposition.

In order to give our readers full possession Of
all the pending propositions for compromise, we
give what is called the border State PROPOSE
tiOn:"
1. Recommending the repeal Of all the personal
liberty bills.
2. That the fugitive slave law be amended for
the preventing of kidnapping, and so as to provide
for the equalization or the Commissioner fee.
etc.
3. That the Constitution be so amended as to
prohibit any interference with slavery in any Of
the States where il now exists.
4. That Congress shall not abolish slavery in
the Southern dOckyards, arsenals, etc. nor in the
District of Columbia without the consent Of
Maryland and the consent Of the inhabitants OF
the District, nor without compensation.
). That Congress shall not Interfere with the
inter State slave trade.
6. That there shall lie perpetual prohibition
of the African slave trade.
Z. That the line Of Sc degrees 30 minutes shall
be run through all the existing territory of the
United States; that in all north of that line slave
~ shall be prohibited and that south of that line
neither Congress nor the territorial legislature
shall hereafter pass any law abolishing. prohibit.
ing or IN any manner interfering with African
slavery; and that when any territory containing
a sufficient population for one member of Con-
gress IN any of 60 900 square miles shall ap-
ply for admission a State, il shall be admitted
with or without slavery, as its constitution may
determine
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
The Position of the President Elect

The New York Tribune, of Wednesday last,
gives the following the position of Mr. LINCOLN,
which is announced with as much positiveness as
though it speaks "by authority
The Express and the Herald loudly declare
that Mr. Lincoln has listened to the compromises,
and is inclined to sacrifice the principles of the
Chicago platform. The same rumor was yester-
day repeated by the reporter of Washington Cos
sip for the Associated Press. We do not hesitate
TO sag that these statements false and calumni
GUS We have the best authority for saying that
Mr.. Lincoln is opposed to all concessions of the
sort. We knotc that his views are fully expressed
in his own language as follows:
81 will suffer death before will consent or
advise my friends to consent to any concession
or compromise which looks like buying the priv
ilege of taking possession of the Government to
which we have a constitutional right; because,
whatever / might think ofthe merit of the various
proposition before Congress, | should regard any
concession in the face of menace as the destuc-
ton of the Government itself and consent on all
hands that our system shall be brought down to
level with the existing disorganized state of af-
fairs in Mexico. But this thing will hereafter be
as it is now, in the hands of the people; and if
they desire to call Convention to remove any
grievances complained of or to giye new guaran-
ties for the permanence of vested rights; it is not
mine to oppose"
This is not only to be taken Mr.. Lincoln 5
declaration of his own views, but it amply ex-
presses the conviction of every mistaken Repub-
lcan as to the duty of the hour. First inangurate
the new Administration and determine the ques-
ton of questions whether we have Government,
or only a Mexican anarchy; and when that prob
lem is disposed of il will be time enough to con-
slider and settle matters of inferior consequences.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06

failure, and the only good done be to those super
numeraries who will have gotten useless pay out
of the State Treasury for going on committee
business.
In conclusions: we have no hope that any good
result will now come out of the investigation-as
we had hoped there would-fOr it is high time
that the perpetrators of fraud of every party
should be known, and marked so that they
longer intrude in places where they can defraud
or defile
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06

WHAT LINCOLN INTENDS TO Do.-Every body
has been specializing for months as to what policy
the President elect will pursue. Day by day we
dosed with news by telegraph, by word of
mouth, and by correspondents, as to how Lincoln
will act of the great sectional issue. And every
time we hear from honest old Abe hear a different
story. No mortal can tell what he does mean to
do-;n fact he don't know himself Old Abe,
like the immortal Macawber, is Choking for
something to turn up.''-ChieGgo Times.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
WEEKLY SENTINEL.
The South In Dnnweri

We learn that after two weeks fling and
drumming, to rouse up the war fever to the fight
ing point, the "irrepressibles" of Hamilton county
have actually succeeded in getting nineteen vol
Snteers for the purpose Of fighting the Southern
"rebelsP - When it is considered that Hamilton
county has population of IL $40, and is Repub-
lcan by very large majority. We are lost in
sstenishment and wonder at the aIaerify and num-
eess with which they have rushed to the rescue of
our imperiled Aagi Let South Carolina tremble
In her very boots
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
The Ohio commissioners.

The Columbus correspondent of the CnciH-
natl Commercial, is "credibly informed that six of
the Conference Commissioners are favorable to
the Border State Compromise Chase being
opposed
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
The Chri.ti.nizstien Of Negroes.

The four millions of negroes at the South are
the most civilized and most Christianzed of any
four millions of negroes ever known to exist upon
the face Of this earth; and any rational person
negro. that if the supremacy Of the white man
over him were abolished, he would soon relapse
into his original condition of savagry. The
Edueafis nal Journal, of Forsyth, Georgia, gives
the following as the number of negro slaves"
connected With the different churches South:
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
The Proposed Military Organizations

The Proposed Military Organizations.
The Republicans have introduced into the Leg
islature an elaborate bill for the organization of
the militia of the State Without going into de-
tails it is now sufficient for purpose to state
that it contains many obnoxious features, which
the people of Indiana generally would deem rep
rehensible if uninluencel by partizan feeling.
And as it is, we do not believe that the Republi
cans even, il they take time for consideration,
will be willing to become responsible for the
scheme. The present militia laws of the State
are ample for any organization of that branch of
the public service, which the exigencies of the
times demand or any that it is at all likely will be
needed. We object to the propositions for the
reorganization of the military of the State. and
especially to the bill introduced by the Republi-
cans, through Senator ANTHONY, for that purpose,
for the following reasons:
l. No necessity exists for the organization of
a standing army to protect or defend the State.
There no danger Of invasion and none is even
threatened. Neither is there any apprehensions
of instructions. And even if we needed troops
to defend the soil or maintain the honor of the
State, there would be FIVE who would volunteer
their services where one could be employed.
Such was our experience during the Mexican war
and so would it be again if any occasion should
arise for military services.
3 We object also on the score of economy.
The proposed bill if enacted, will add largely
to the burdens of the tax payers, already griev
Gus, without any corresponding advantage. The
public expenditures should be retrenched instead
of being increased. The patronage of the govern
ment is already too large for its good. And the
proposed military organic ition would increase the
army of Office holders, Of non-producers, to elt
up the substance of the people.
3. A standing army, or military Government
is opposed to the spirit of Republican institutions
This is radical objection to the proposed scheme
With the increase of military power in the Gov
eminent there will be less of liberty. 1t is the
military power which sustains despotism-it is the
support of all despotic Governments. Without il
absolutism could not long survive.
A. We are opposed to large and efficient MILL
tary organization being placed in the hands Of
good men, much less in those of bad and sedi
tious citizens, who might abuse the power to stiI
up civil strife and internecne war.
| For these reasons, and others which will sug
gest themselves to those who take an interest in
public affairs. hope every good citizen will Sc
himself determinedly against all schemes which
look to the introduction and maintenance of sucf
dangerous power in the Government.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
rotnl oolored member,hip South $50. ass .ol


at Is safe calculation" remarks the same
Journal Sto say that three for every one connec-
ted with the churches attend divine service on
toe Lords day. In the extreme southern States
there are more. for the owners and overseers re-
quire them, in many instances, to turn out to
preaching. Then 1853, 900 multiplied by three
gives Us ,395 900 slaves in attendance Divine
service in the South every Sabbath.
millions Of dollars have been spent. and
hundreds Of valuable lives lost in the attempt
70 evangslize Africa, and yet slavery-abhorred,
cursed, and reviled institution of slavery-has
brought US FIVE times the number of negroes
into She Church than all the missionary opera
tons of the world combined.
"These facts are food for reflection. Self
righteous and above the ways Of humble godIi-
ness, as political preachers generally are, one
would suppose such practical results would
stagger their selfconceit and overweening con-
fdence, that they are right in denouncing slavery.
end God wrong in permitting it,