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Year: 1859

lFrCm the Cleveland Herald, 9th ult.l


From all about US come back the opin.
ions of the press relative to the trial of
Bushnell; his condemnation by jury CON-
posed solely OF Democrats, and the mon.
strous demand of the Government prosecu-
tor that all the defendants should be tried
by the same jury. Such conviction carries
no moral weight; they but intensity the
hate Northern, unbought freemen have OF
this odious law, and they but hasten the day
when the law will lie in our judicial high
way putrid carcass that neither friend nor
foe will touch. That the Fugitive Slave
Law cannot be enforced in the Free States
for the reason that no law running coun-
ter 10 public sentiment can be enforced-is
coming to be more and more palpable. In
the first place the Shareholders cannot -e.
capture their slaves, and in the second
place it will soon come to be felt that it is
not paying business for witnesses from
Slave States to lie in custody of the Mar.
shal from the beginning to the end of the
tria' OF rescue case, liable at any time tc
b. indicted and arrested fos kidnapping.--
The base Fugitive Slave Law is now giving
its last kick and very soon will lie still-s
dead cock in the pit--a dead letter upon
the statute book. In speaking of the course
of the prosecution in the Bushnell case, thai
old, reliable, conservative. high-toned paper
The Ne'o York Commercial Advertiser, says


"This action Of the official authoritie,
was wantOn, cruel, and unusual, and in thi,
effort TO enforce an act which has not, anc
never will have the sympathy OF Northern
men, they have sown the seeds Of public
opinion from which will be gathered a har
vest of votes in Ohio and in other States
that will tell her Willy against the Admins
,raiion. and the party under whose auspices
such things are done.





A law to which the public sentiment il
Year: 1859

more epindles, weave more cloth. swing
more tilt hammers. propel more mills and
do more labor than any eastern mannfac
turing points, that power will be sure to be
put into requisition that mighty power
which has 80 long been slumbering will
be harnessed With iron bands TO the great
wheel Of improvsm ent, and be made to per-
form labor Of immense magnitude.


The peculiar situation Of these three
points has q very favorable bearing. It IL
Q matter almost certain that the city of
Moline will ere many ysars be making rap
i'd advances down the river. and will un-
doubtedly meet Rock Island more than half
way; while the immense water power of
which Davenport can avail herself at any
time will have tendency to extend our linn
its up the river, and thus make up city.
which divided only by river. shall rank
among tho first and foremost in the Union


This reasoning may strike our readers as
being visionary, especially in these hard
times" but We must abmit that ii it be
speculative. it is Of that kind of speculation
which has ample found dstion. We have the
elements-sU the elements for building up
the largest manufacturing point in the
Valley Of the Mississippi. and We as much
believe that those elements will yet be
put into requisition. % We believe that the
Upper Rapids of the Mississippi River are
in existence.
Year: 1859

DEL1GHrrUL.-Yesterdsy was most
beautiful day, and did more to raise the
spirits Of the public than anything else We
have seen for many day. We only hope
that It will continue. The rainy season has
been long and disagresable one-and has
driven more men into fits of blues than did
the financial crash Of October 1857.
Year: 1859

L1vELY.-Thcre was . large crowd
on the levee yesterday, while the Canada
was stopping there. A warm sun and q
steamboat was Q sufficient inducement to
bring out the people who have been cooped
up so long by the dismal weather.
Year: 1859

A COOP THING.-We understand
that the, ladies of the First Baptist Church
cleared upwards of eighty dol IS by their
Festival on Friday evening. 1t was really
a pleasant affair, and those who purchased
ticket got their money back several times.
The lecture was we'll received by all, and
we are pretty we'll convinced in our own
mind that the supper was also. Consider
ing the state of the weather we should cay
that the Ladies were eminently successful in
their good work.
Year: 1859

THE RoADs,--The roads are in an
almost impossible condition Nobody but
Pike Peakers attempt to travel. They are
stuck In the mud half the time, and use up
the other half in getting back into it.
Year: 1859

WATCH Losr.-Especlal attention is
directed to the advertisement of watch lost,
in another column. The person finding the
same will confer great favor by returning
it to the owner, as it is Of great intrinsic
value to him
Year: 1859

TOWNSHIP SCHOOL ELECTION.-The
election of the Board of Township Trustees
takes place, We learn. to morrow; but we
do not think it is generally known, as the
Secretary has neglected to give the matter
publicity for some reasons unknown to u.s.
Why is it that any public election should be
made without first giving proper notice we
cannot say, There may be something that
the public should not see, but we hope not
It may be q mistake or an oversight on the
part Of the Secretary. We are unable to
state who the candidates are, but those who
attend the polls will probably be informed
on that point
Year: 1859

The volume cannot fail to gain wide circula-
ton. No one can contemplate the scenes which
are here so naturally set forth, without new con-
viction of the hideousness of the institution from
which the subject of the narrative has happily
escaped.-N. Y. Tribune.


We think the story as affecting as any tale of
sorrow could be.-N. Y. Evangelist


Next to Uncle Toms Cabin, the extraordinary
narrative of Solomon Northrup is the most re-
markable book that was ever issued from the
American press.-DetroI Tri5.


He who with an unbiased mind sits down to
the perusal of this book will arise perfectly salts
fed that American slavery is hell of torments
yet untold and feel like devoting the energies of
his life to its extirpation from the face of Gods
beautiful earth.-EUening Chronicle.
Year: 1859

The undersigned desire to make grateful
acknowledgements to the numerous individu.
ais who have favored US with their patrons
age and encouragement in our endeavors to
build up q REPUTABLE Day GooDs EsTAs
LIsHNEST, which we hope will be credtable
TO the city, as we'll as to ourselves, and use
ful to the community as a medium through
which class Of goods are supplied that all
are compelled to have and oil prefer to buy
where they can have confidence that no
deceptive representations will be made, and
no exorbitant prices demanded. We have
endeayored to give such character to our
business and though but n little more than
a year and half since our commencement in
Dayton, our efforts have already been rewar
ded by patronage so great, as to require
much larger store to meet the demands OF
our numerous customers.


In order to carry out the original designs,
and to serve acceptably, all those who call
on us, we have taken the LARGE NEW STORE
ROOM, No. 76. MAIN STREET, which has been
recently fitted up for us at very great ex'
pense, which renders it Il very handsome
and attractive place for business and by
our own exertiOns to serve and please all
who favor US, we expect to make it place
of general resort and we will guarantee
that no pains will be spared on our part to
see that every person who enters our estab-
lishment will be dealt with ir an honorable,
upright and gentlemanly manner


n. P. DOUGLASS, 4 co.


NORvAL Z. DOUGLASS,
Year: 1859

s@- There is dilapidAted frame shanty
on the corner of the alley on st. Clair street,
between 4th and 5th, which is always ten
anted by trashy people. On Saturday eve'
Mug last, the community in that vicinity
were aroused by screams proceeding from
that place, and it was soon ascertained the
fellow Fitzgerald, who now lives there was
cruelty beating his children. Several per-
sons were irresolutely standing about the
door, when an lrishman came up, and learn
ing the state Of affairs, went in and gave the
brute beating. We learn that the Marshal
hos ordered the follow to leave town, and il
is to be hoped he will do So But the shsnty
will remain, and will be again tenanted By
Just such another gang.
Year: 1859

n9- The inquiry continues to be made
Who got the money that Clark took from
the Treasury lie didn't spend it all. Is
any part of in the possession Of either Of
the candidates on the democratic county
ticket Journal.


The man who would deliberately ren the
above infamous sentence should as deliber
ately be written down = dishonorable man.
1t is an outrage upon all that is held to be
decent between gentlemen; and we need not
say that it is as false as the heart and soul
of the creature who penned it. No one
republican or democrat--will read it with.
out oondemning it, and feeling a contempt
for it's author It is an outrage upon the
most ordinary political fairness and decency,
which should forever preclude the author
from association with gentlemenl
Year: 1859

S~Wstch the intsrlopersl We are cred-
IDLY informed that quite number Of men
are in the city who are NOT entitled to vote
here, and who intend to try to vote for the
Republican ticket. Watch theml Don't let
one of these follows put in a ballot to-day
Look out for theml
Year: 1859

14-The journal this morning was filled
with another instalment Of falsshoOds about
US and our affairs We have already shown
the ialsity Of the Journals statements in de,
tail. We don't believe the public expects
us to answer the outrageous and exploded
falsehOOds daily emenating from that stink
pot Of the opposition.
Year: 1859

HA-We were up pretty late last night
and of course were posted tolsrably well as
to the condition Of the denizens Of our city.
1t was unusually quiet and we take Pleasa
ure in making note of it Blub says it
was the calm which preoedes the storm
Every body" said Blub, was saving up
for to-night1
Year: 1859

Ig- The boys played hob with the goods
boxes last night in main street. Some of our
Republican friends who greatly admired the
zeal Of the boys at the time, were not so ju'
bilant on their return to their places Of bus
mess, and found out where the light came
from
Year: 1859

WANTS THE MoNEY.--ln former years,
under the loose system of keeping tue pub,
lie money, the journal men had their arms
into the County Treasury up to their elbows,
and used the public money to carry on their
business. Now that the Democratic party
have stopped that game, by the lndepen1-
ent Treasury Law, the Journal is frantic for
a change to the old system, so that it can
use the public money The Democratic
bolts and bars are not what they want;


hence their opposition to it The people can
see through their silly nonsense and CAB
bling; they know that under the present law
the peoples money is safe, and they also
know it is THAT that makes the journal 90
venemous
Year: 1859

O1rsee that your ticket is all right before
voting. There will be likely spurious tick
cts circulated in order to save one or two
candidates on the Abolition ticket, Vote
the whole Democratic Ticket without scratch
or mutulation--from Governor to Coroner
Year: 1859

~ Let every Democrat remember to. day,
that if there are SOME things in the Demo.
cratic party you don't quite like, there are a
GREAT MANY things in the Opposition you
can't stomach By voting she Democratic
ticket you gain for yourself and others, the
greater amount of what you approve. Re-
member this, and vote the Democratic ticket
Go to the polls at oncel
Year: 1859

BeA. The Journal men talk about debts2--
Talk about people owing money! That
would be amusing to the people generally
who know them were il not that il brings
up "reminiscences of their own indebtedness
in every nook and Granny of the city They
eve every body. Talk about owingI Why,
they have no shame And oil this sinking
of their self-respect-this prostra,ion Of
honorable manhood-is done for the purpose
of electing the opposition ticket--and--and
putting county affairs in such SHAPE that
they may procure something to keep up
their smut machine. That is all
Year: 1859

Jusr As We ExPEciEp.-The Journal is as
foil Of Misrepresentation and falsehood this
morning as an egg is full Of meat But nearly
all its falsthoods have already been publicly re


futed a dozen times. We couuled about 90
lies, and about 30 Misrepresentation Ifthat
isn't enough to damn the Deacon without hem
eht Of clergy, We don't know what would do II
Year: 1859

B6g-To people who are in the habit Of
criticising severely such errors as appear in
the daily press, caused by the haste with
which the matter must be prepared, set up
and corrected we commend the following
extract from the Atlantic Monthly for OctO'
ber--a periodical which is supposed to be
got up with peculiar care and correctness in
all respects In story called "The Won
dersmith, page 463, we read


"The bit Of orange peel lying on the side,
walk inspires thought Who will fall over
in who bot the Industrious mother Of six
children, the eldest Of which is ouly nine
months old, all Of whom are dependent upon
her exerlions for support
Year: 1859

The reading public will be glad to learn that
the story, entitled The Minister'S Wooing,"
commenced in the Atlantic Monthly for De-
cember, is the beginning of serial novel
from the pen of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe;
and that portions of it will appear from month
to month until it is completed. The story is
marked by all the characteristics of style and
spirit which have made the authors former
works so famous The scene is laid in New
England Immediately after the Revolution,
the period when all that was most simple,
quaint and peculiar in character and manner,
was in full force. 1t was the era before rail-
roads, steamships, lightning presses, fashion
able churches, and fashionable clergymen,-
in short, the good old times of which the pre-
sent generation have so often heard. We
look forward to see a mastery portrait of Pu.
ritan life sketched in this romance. However,
it is not necessary to do more than to an
nounce the fact !; an author whose name and
works are known in more than thirty Language
es, and whose two novels have reached sale
OF more than eight hundred thousand volumes
IN this country alone, will surely not want
for readers. We shall look for the coming
numbers Of "The Minister'S Wooing,,- with
great interest.
Year: 1859

We learn that the city, having paid the cor
poration gas bill to the Gas Company, of which
Mr. OAKEsis Treasurer, DR.. BoRuP immediate
ly availed himself of the 5000 endorsed City
Scrip thus put into his hands, to attempt a
run upon the city s bankers, PEAsE, CHALFANr
& Co., for the gold.


Of course the demand was promptly met !;
but the intent of the operation was plainly to
embarrass the bankers, and if possible, again
depreciate the City Scrip.


We do not think this operation will have
the sanction of the Company but if, on in
vestigation, the City Councils find that it was
a Company operation, instead of an exhibition
of DR.. BoRUP's own malignancy against the
city's interests and credit, the corporation gas
bill should be paid in the same species of cur
rency they formerly received; to wit: Un-
endorsed Scrip, worth Is cents on the dol
lar.


If the Gas Company prefer Scrip that they
must sell at discount of 25 per cent, it is
but just that they should have it


If our friend Mr. Hoy, who built the Gas
Works, and whose Gas Stock BoRUP & OAkEs
are understood to represent by proxy, will
take note of this little manoeuvre, he may
come to the conclusion that his agents here
are acting more for their own interests than
for his. A word to the wise ..
Year: 1859

deprived the young fishermen Of our city Of most
OF the pleasure usually enjoyed at this season of
the year, With their hooks aud lines. An occa.
sionsl urchin dips his line, aud for his labor
draws out 3 "cat" or an ,"eel,'' but the pretty
white perch refuse to nibble, much less bi te
at the bait. When the river is very muddy and
rising fair sport may be had in any of the creeks
where the water is backed up, if the fisherman
will take the trouble to visit such places and
throw in his hook just above the point at which
the back water and creek come together
Year: 1859

ing herself Rebecca Chandler, aged abcas fourteen
years, was committed TO she first station house last
Saturday night by watchman King, for being dis.
orderly and using obscene language in the street.
Not more than ten days sincs this same girl, with
another street walker of her age, before the
Mayor for bad conduct at night, and then released
on promising better behavior in the future; pu.
when girls OF this age have the hsrdhood to boast
their depravity and the daring to defy the law
and its officers, the sooner they locked up and
removed from bad associations, the sooner the
community is relieved of a pest. Richmond has
90 place iu which to pat such characters for safe
keeping, and if she had there wond be very little
hope OF reforming thom, but they might be kept
out OF The streets, and ought be, prevent the
spread of their concentrating Influences. The
prisoner will appear before the Recorder this morn.
ing for hearing, aud az he 10 rm aud decided 10
his opinions it is thau probable that he will
commit her TO the shades of the Valley.
Year: 1859

FRUIT AT THE WEST.-A we'll known fruit grower
of ofCncinnat Informs the editor Of the Gazette that
the prospect for good crop, on his 5000 or 1000
trees is ne that If all the fruit now ON the trees
romans to maturity, the limbs will require props
to keep them from breaking
Year: 1859

NECK TWISTING. There are practices
in religious congregations which Chris
tians, who are jealous for the honor OF
their masters house, should utterly con-
dem. Decorum is the handmade of de
votional feeling, and for this reason the
house of God should never be disturbed
by the slightest approach to irreverence.
1t is part of my religion, said pious old
lady, when asked why she went early to
church, at is part of my religion not to
we believe many country congregation
made it Il part of their religion not to
twist their necks almost out of joint to
witness the entrance of every person who
passes up the aisle of the meeting house
it would be better for both their necks
and their religion. A gross abuse of re
ligious decorum sometimes needs harsl
medicine as remedy.
Year: 1859

DECLINE IN THE VALUE OF GoLD.-In
M. Chevalier's recent pamphlet, he pre-
diets decline of or 4 in the value of gold.
Mr.. Golden, by translating and introduc-
ing the work, confirms this idea; but it
would seem that the increase is spread
over such a large surface that this result
need not follow. The accumulations of
gold have been very great since 1919,
without as yet disturbing seriously the
relative values between gold and silver
The additions to the stock of gold in the
decade have been estimated at the i'm
mense sum of S758,3S0.000. During the
seven years ending with 1857, the export of
silver to the East from Great Britain and
the Mediterranean was more than two hum
dred and fifty millions of dollars.
Year: 1859

EN- An editor says his attention was
first drawn to matrimony by the skilful
manner in which a pretty girl handled a
broom. A brother editor says the man
ner in which his wife handles broom is
not so very pleasant.
Year: 1859

You, should inquire fully into this matter.
and if it be true that polygamy does pre-
vail in this Territory, and is sought to be in
corpcrated as one of our socialinstitutions,
intothc social and political body of the
country, it is proper that SO extraordi-
nary pretension should be presented to
this Court. under the solemn sanction of
your finding inquire into the extent to
which the practice prevails, and report to
the Court your conclusion ON the subject
Ii the Legislature of this Territory then
desires to conform to the code of each and
every State and Territory in the Union,
upon your presentmcnt they will know the
fact that polygamy does prevail here, and
they can act accordingly. IfC Congress can
stretch out its arms TO enforce the princi-
pies that un.lerlie the American social fab
ric, upon your presentmcnt Congress then
can act. 1i r'Tssni 81


Truth can harm nobody Find that
truth gentlemen, IN respect to this question:
and, according to nay reading of the law.
your responsibilities and those Of this Court
will he at an end respecting polygamy.
Year: 1859

I am happy to say the house of Alsop Co..
with but one single exception only, an Amer,
lean mercantile house in this city, has frowned
ON the petition, and having tried to uphold the
Consul in his proceedings. They know how
valuable it is to have a flag, and one Which
must be respected, and to which you can fly in
case of need.


The politics of the country are in ferment.
We do not know from one day to the other how
OF where the governing power will be vested.
Pedro Leon Gallo, the head of the opposition
party, is at Serena, the capital of Coqumbo,
where he is recruiting. He has enthusas-
tic army, elat.d with their recent victory over
the regular troops in the battle of the l4th of
this month. The government are making all
the exertions in their power to raise an army
! to compete with him, and are sending troops
! off daily to concentrate somewhere in his vi
icinity to give him battle the result of which
| is very doubtful. It cannot be denied that
FGallo is patriot. He tries to evade the effu-
sion of blood and denies his army any pillate,
supporting it entirely from his own private
| purse. 5s..s
Year: 1859

but on the quart principle the greater proper
ton of liquid misery and ruin is given for the
money. But call it honest, for the moment, if
you can, and what then ? Not "whatsoever
things are honest" simply, may be praeticed,
but those that are honest IN the s:gLt Of men,
nay, in the sight of all men. Whatsoever
things are just" is good account, but it will
not fill the bill; "whatsoever things are topety
and of good report" must be added, if there
be any such things as virtue and praise, such
realities as character and reputation. Not on
ly must we shun evil, but the very appearance
of evil.


Such is the law of God. The traffic in ar
dent spirits, Judged by this law, is cursed o
God and man, whether that traffic lie licensed
or unlicensed, save in that which is used as a
necessity. No man can, in fact, whatever may
be in form, hold a good standing as christian,
in violation of this, even though adhering to
the letter of the law of Caesar.


No man who buys, even for necessary uses,
where his example can encourage others to buy
for beverage, is blameless. For such purposes
go to conscientious druggist.


The distillcr and they who furnish him corn
and fuel, share the curse of the text.


They who allow their sons to haunt groceries
share it; still more they who frequent them
themselves.


They who ratronize liquor-selling groceries,
where they can avoid it, share the curse.


Let she Church take her stand and lead COM
munity in frowning down, as far as may Re,
this Curse-of Ram.