Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1856-05-27

              J wtl if VOL. II. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 185G. no: 23 I- MT VERNON REPUBLICAN. ttRki b : $2,00 Per Annum, if in Advanoo. ADVEUTISING- Ths Rmuhvoah h the largest circulation Intheeouutfsnd U.theroforB.the be.t medium through Which businessmen can adverlUe. Ad TdrttsemeuU will b. Inserted at tho following RATES. . Ji $ Si n o 1 - . ' n. e. . b . e $ o. 4 T 00 I 25 1 75 2 25 3 00(3,60 4,50 (i 00 nqrt!",,r75 3 85 3 25 4 25 5 25.00,6,75 8 00 3i7" aTo 30 r iToo e 007,00 8,o"o 10 riqrv'.'sli) 4 00 5 00 6 00 7 00 8,00100012 1 square changeable monthly, $10;weckly, $15 rliancuable Quarterly 15 1? Miitimn rhnnirial)le auarterlv 18 column changeable quarterly 25 1 column changeable quarterly 40 U"Twelve line in this type.are counted ata square. .... Wo jtinH:nl nnt .b nr nlffArr.iRiiiinentfl. or calling attention to any enterprise Intended to bouent lnaiviuuais or curjjumi.iuiio, uu ..I .1 fn. Ika rnta nf lOefltlta TlPf UllO. Special notices, before marriages, ortaking precedence oi reguiur uiraiiii"ii uu.v usual rates. CTNotices for meetings, charitable societies, fins companies. Ac, half price. IET Advertisements displayed inlnrge type to be charged one-hull' more than regular rates. UTAH transient advertisements to be paid io advance, and none will bo inserted unless for U definite time mentioned Important from Kansas. Tottimony before the Cousrcssionnl Investigating Committee. Lawrence, Kansas, May 7, IGuG. To the Editor of the Missouri Democrat: The Investigating Committee is in session. Gov. Reeder examines the witnesses. He is seated at the table smoking a Dutch pipe, with a stem about four feet long. Mr. Whlfield bus not returned yet. I subjoin the following: Mr. Moore sworu Examined by Gov. Reeder I dime inio Kansas fiom Indiana in August, 1854, and settled on Oitomic creek, and have lived there ever since. I was at the elec ion on the 29;h November, 1854, in thai dis riot. At that time my acquaintance was limited, but I da not think more than 30 legal votes were cast at our polls. I saw great numbers of strangers there. I enquired where they nil came from. 1 was told they Were from Missouri. They were encamped ab mt three hundred jardg from the place of voting, on the banks of the creek. They were armed with double barrelled 6hot-guns, pistols and revolvers. I heard them say they had as good a right to come fiorn Missouri to vote there as Yankees had to come to vote from New England. The principal portion of them returned home in buggies, carriages and wagons talking loud, shouting, using profane language, and they appeared to be under the influence of liquor. I saw them vote. Cross examined by Mr. Oliver I aid not know many of the slrangers,'i knew one of them. I understood he was from Missouri. I heard at least a dozen of them say they were ,from Missouri. I saw at leust twenty five of them vote. I have resided in the district since November. By Gov. R-eder I was at the election on the 30th March. I had by this time became betti r acquainted with the people of the District. My son was appointed one of the Judges. I went early with him to the polls. The polls had been appointed at Dr. Chapman's house. On arriving there, I found that the precinct had been moved to a house half a mile from there. I went there. I saw a great number of men, buggies and horses. With few exceptions the men were entirely strangers. I had little conversation with the strangers. I recognized some of the strangers, men win m I knew to be citizens of Missouri. There appeared to be two elections. One Appeared to be kept in a house without a cover on. One man appeared to act as judge, clerk, and receiver. He said he was taking votes fur a new Governor. I asked him if Governor Reeder was dead? He said he had run away. (Roars of laughter, in which Keeder participated.) More than that, he said Reeder was a one-sided Governor! (Laughter.) He kept hallooing out for more votes, saying they surely had hot all voted who wished to have a trtdsided Governor. His name is Timothy Keizer., Bj Mr. Howard I think there were, at leflstj one hundred illegal votes cast. I did hot stay there longer than two hours. I heard them say they all were Whitfield men. The Governor they voted for was Thomas Johnson (Rev. Thomas Johnson, of tho Shawnee Mission, I presume, was the candidate for two-sided Governor.) ' The neJtt witness called was Dr. West-fall; but, as I have already sent you his testimony, I will not repeat it. I subjoin a synopsis of tbe evidence, not yet posted, taken at Topeka and Tecumsehi James Reed, sworn 1 reside atWash-1- Ington creek. I have lived there nearly , two years, and am well acquainted in the ' District.'' I was at the election at Willow . , Springs oil t ie 1st of October, 1855. I saw a great number of Missourians there. Mr. Whitfield was the candidal they voted for. Some free State men came to vote for Governor Reeder, but when they found he was not to be voted for till eight days afterwards, they left and did not Vote at all. I came from Missouri. '. W.'A. M. VaUjbaO (pro-Slavery) was called upon and sworn 1 lived at Tecum-seh on tbe 30th March, 1855. I have '' lived (here since September, 1854. I came from Missouri. I saw a great number of strangers here on the day of election. Some were on horseback, some in wagons, other in buggies, I was in there camp on (he Shing-ga-minga. There were several men there. I was introduced to them. I don't know tSat I heard where they were from. Thi'l'o were several nanus on the poll hoi ks whom I knew to bo Mis-iuurinns. 1 saw several men whom I knew to be Missourians in town. These men had hemp in their but'on holes, and would pass in their votes saying, "All right on the hemp!" I saw no nian vote on ihst day who did not wear hemp. They would swear they had claims; they were there, Sio, I did not go out and see any of the delegates when they came in, but when they arrived the fact would be announced by cheers and speeches. A great deal of drinking was done, and threats made against "the abolitionist." There was no free Stale ticket there that day. We contemplated having one, but on ascertaining that they intended to come over in overwhelming forces, we abandoned the idea. We could have carried the day by a large majority if the Missourians had remained at home. I had a list of the aotuul settlers who voted on that day, but my house was burned down during the invasion and the list with it. These men got to fighting among themselves. I saw an old man and a boy, about ten years of age, who were bta en by them, and were bruised and bloody. These men were armed. I heard persons declare, at Weston, Mo., that they were coming over. I heard it publicly announced that these men came from Missouri. Mr. Kellough, a pro-slavery man, who was a candidate, refused to run because the Missourians came over to vote. If any man had protested against the election, his life would have been in danger. I refused to 6ign the certificates to the Governor, stating that the election was not fairly held. E. II. Zimmerman sworn. I came here in December, 1851, from Pennsylvania. I settled in Kickapoo, and have resided in that district ever since. I was one of the judges of election on the 30th March, at Hayes, about seven miles from Kickapoo. 1 went the afternoon before election to Hayes, and siw camp fires all around Next morning only one of tho other judges appointed by Gov. Reeder appeared at the pulls Ihompson. A crowd of slran-i gers soon began to gather around, demand-1 ing that the polls be opened our residents j left. Ihompson and I appointed another judge, and selected two clerks, I had considerable difficulty insetting the judges to open the pulls. They would go out and whisper to the crowd outside. They were both pro-slavery met. We agreed to an oath to admini.-ter to the voters. The first m in that came up, in answer to the oath, he said, "I'm here." He, finally took the oath, swearing be was a resident. The other judges wi re di-posed to take his vote j without swearing him. Cross examined by Mr. Whitfield. D.' A. M. Grovcr was the candidate for the! Cuuncil, and Dr. Harris and Weddell for the House. 1 did not see any one prevent-; ed from voting. I say Gruver, Harris and Weddell did not get a majority of tbe legal vdios of the district. I have been in the Weslern country since December, 1841. Mr. Whitfield Are not the elec ions here noisy and quarrelsome in the Western 1 Country? Witness Our free State elections have all been orderly and quiet when the invaders come over they have been stormy. I was not personally threatened, nor do I know of any special threat against me if I should protest; but it was common talk, 1 among the pro slavery men, that it would be dangerous for anybody to protest. And we so regarded it. I By Mr. Reeder I was carrying notices concerning our Convention for lorming a constitution through our district. At the hotel at Atchison, a man Irom Missouri pulled ihe papers away from me, read them to the crowd, and insulted and abused me. They asked me if I had read the Squatter Soverign? If 1 did not know they would not permit anybody to put up such bills here? If I did not know I was guil-, ly of high treason? They talked about try ing me before a Justice of the Peace. J They look my papers from me and used them for lighting their cigars. At night the landlord gave me a room. I heard men, among others Mr. Kelley, associate editor of the Squatter Sovereign, using threaining language. . Mr. Whi field objected Mr. Oliver objected. Mr. Whitfield and Mr. Oliver did' not wish the Committee to investigate every little trouble. Of course not. Gov. Reeder said that he wished to prove ' that it was impossible for a man enjoy his political opinions peaceably in the town of Atchison, and the District it can overawe. The majority of the Committee decided to receive tie evidence. Witness Mr. Kelly said that it would be a good plan to hang me and set an example for all abolitionists. Another said I had better be put on one side of a rafti and my puny on the other and sent down the Missouri. Another said they had better keep me there until the day the speaking came off.and have some fun when Lane and others came there. Next morning they came to me and asked me where I was going? .What all this meant? I told them the object of it. After ibis conversation I went down home, as I agreed, by the other side of the river, in order to pacify them. They advised me never to call there again with abolition documents. If I did, they said, my life would be short. II was against the law, they said, and treasonable.Messrs. Oliver and Whitfield's nervousness visibly increased. They objected. Tbe resolutions of instruction to the committee were read by Governor Reeder. Tbe majority decided that it was their duty to inquire minutely Into everything concerning which the wiiress had testified. By Mr. Oliver-This conversation at night referred to me as carrying about these handbills. They said they would Lave no Free Slate men speak in their town. By Gov. Reeder I had handbills in reference to the election of delegates to Congress; in regard to the Constitutional Convention, and another announcing meeting at Atchison, at which speeches wonld be delivered upon the political issues of the day. By Mr. Whitfield I was asked by Robert Riddle, of Leavenworth, to distribute them. I understood that the movement for a State organisation was not participated in by one parly only. I know of many pro-slavery men who voted for the Constitution. I was nevor at any meeting where they resolved to repudiate the laws. I was at a meeting at Leavenworth when the object of the State movement was staled by Mr. Purroit to be to nominate delegates for a Constitutional Convention lo be voted for by the people. Pro-slavery men were nominated us candidates at this lime, but declined. James F. Merriam, called and sworn I was at the election in this district on the 20th of March. I saw from three lo four hundred Missourians thcro. After driving from the pulls two of the judges appointed by Governor Rjeder, and selecting two others pro-slavery men they proceeded to vote. There were threats made against the d d abolitionists, I heard a man make a Bpeech nnd say that he heard that the abolilionijts. were coming from Pawnee and Tupeka, in ihe afternoon, to take possession of the pulls. He said he had a farm in Missouri and had spent about a week in coming here, and did not want to come here for nothing. He nd-vised them to stay and guard the polls.and remain until the candidates elected should receivo their certificates from the Governor. The men were, many of them, drunk. I did not vote, because I did not consider the election legal. I have not space for any fuither evi dence. The laws must be enforced, says fierce. Are you quite sure ol thai fact, fllr. f resident J. R, THE TROUBLES IN KANSAS. IIow a Witness before the Consression at Commission is Treated, The Amiable Sheriff Jones Again. Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune. Lawrenck City, K. T., May 2, '50. Having an opportunity to send as far as St. Louis by private conveyance, (for the mails can't be trusted,) 1 will peu you a few lines, relative to the latest outrage, Un Wednesday last, Mr. J. ri. Mace, for nierly ol Newburyport, Mass., who resides alone upon a claim four miles north-west from here, on the prairie, testified before the Congressional Commission, now in session at this place, relative to the invasion of the polls at Bloomington, at ihe election of the 30th of March, 1 855. He gave a plain STaightforward statement of what he saw and heard. Among other things, he exposed the villainy of bogus "Sheriff" Jones, the lately shot-tit, on that occasion, who was then Poxtmaster of Weston, Missouri, but who left his home, and crossing the border into this Territory, proceeded, with a gang of ruffians from his own Slate to Bloumington, and there took possession of the pulls driving lfree elate men away by brandishing weapons and thn alening their lives. He held his watch in his hand and notified the Judges of the eleciiou that they. could have, live minutes to retire, and would be shot if they failed to obey I The Free State Judges did not budge an inch, butremaiued at their pn-d. The five minutes expired, nnd the chivalrous Southern Jones extended the time to one minute more, that they might have an opportunity tobliiss themselves. Befurethis minute expired, however, Jones was called out of the room where the balloting was going on, and did not return to complete his contemplated murderous work. This was the kind of testimony given by Mr Mace, and has been corroborated by other witnesses. We will out the story short, and come at once to the sequel. About 9 o'clock on Wednesday evening Mr Mace was called lo the door of his cabin by the barking of his faithful Newfoundland watch dog, which was lied justoulside the cabin, He untied the string and let the dog go, holding on to the other end of the siring himself, it being so dark that he could not see very well. He supposed the dog had seen a wolf. Tho animal led him to the brow of a bluff, the descent from which led down into a deep ravine. Here Mr. Mace stopped, and instantly two pistols were discharged at him from below. The flash developed the presence in the ravine of two men. One shot grazed his right shoulder, and the other entered his lelt leg below ihe knee. He instantly fell, when the men gave a hellish "ha! ha!" and one of them exclaimed: "There it more d d abolition bait for the woloee." Mr Mace, occupying a position upon the brow of the bluff, cou'.d easily be seen from below, so great was ihe contrast between an object and the horizon. Seeing him (all, and supposing him dead, the valorous ''Border Ruffians" fled, chuckling to themselves, no doubt, that they bad done a brave thing. Mr. M. crawled to his cabin, his faiuful dog and only companion keeping close by his side. He sal up and bathed his wound, and bandaged il as well as he could, and suffered through Ihe remainder of the night, expecting every moment another attack from the same party. Morning at last came, and. suff ring though he was, he succeeded in reaching Lawrence, where he obtained medical aid, and is now doing well. What will the Border Ruffian papers say about "cowardly assassins" now? Which is the more cowardly, to confront a "picket-guard" in a comparatively populous city, surrounded by people and lights on every hand, and shoot down a man in a lent in tbe presence United Slates soldiers, as was the case when Jopes was shot here, or to go in tbe deep darkness of midnight, to Ihe lone cabin ol a quiet, harmless, industrious man, out upon a lone prairie, miles away from another inhabitant, and after decoying that man from his litlld cabin, where he would have met them with sharp arguments, under the cover of the deeper darkness of a ravine they both shot him down like a dog? Which of the two is the brave or the cowardly assassin? Understand me, 1 justify neither act. Both ars outrages that should be, as they have been by this community, condemned. But mark the position of the two men. Jones had not only outraged the people, the actual settlers of Ihe whole territory, time and lime again; had not only mode bitter personal enemies of pro-slavery men in the territories by attempting to wrest from them tin ir riilitful claims, but, on tho very day of the evening upon which he (Jones) was shot, he tMd, by his private, drunken, iindb igus official conduct, endeavored and succeeded in exasperating this whole community against him. His whole language and action was defiant, as I showed you in my last letter. Is it any wonder, then, that such a being should be shot down? It is the greater wonder to me, that, In a bowie knife, revolver, and riffi country like this, where every man and nearly every woman and some boys go armed, he, and sUch as he, have not been despatched before. THE KANSAS BLACK LAWS. A2f ACT To Punish 0encee Against Slave l'loperlg. 1. Every person, bond or free convicted of raising a rebellion of slaves, negroes or niulattoes shall suffer death. 2. Every free person who shall aid in auy rebellion of slaves, tc, or do any over act in furtherance thereof shall suffer death. 3. If any person aball by speaking, writing, or printing, adviso, induce, ic, any slave to rebel, conspire against or murder any citizen of Kansas, or shall import or at I in importing such documents, be shull sutler death, 4. If any person shall entice, decoy or Carry out of Kansas, any slave belonging to another, with the intent to deprive the owner thereof of such slave, he shall suffer death or be imprisoned at hard luhor for not less than ten years. 5. If any person shall assist in enticing, Asc, (as above; shall sulkr death or be imprisoned at hard labor for not less thun ten years. 0. If any person shall entice or carry away out of any Slate or Teriitory of the United States any slave and shall bring such Blave into this Territory, etc., he shall sutler death or be impris oned at hard labor for not less than ten years. 7. If any person shall entice any slave to escape from the service of his master or owner, or shall aid any slave in escaping, he shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than live years. 8. If any person in the Territory shall aid or haibor any escaped slave frum an other Mate, such person shall be punished in like manner as it such slave had escaped from his master in the territory. 9. If any person shall resist 6uch officer while attemp.ing to arrest any slave that may have escaped or shall rescue tuch slave or aid such slave to escape from the officer the person so of fending shall be imprisoned at bard labor for not less than two years. 10. It any marshal, sheriff or constable, or the deputy of any such officer, shall, when required, refuse to aid or assist in the arrest or capture of slaves that may have escaped, such officers shall be fined not less than $100 nor more than $500. 11. if any person print, write, introduce into, publish, or circulate, or cause to b.. brought into, printed, written, publi-hed or circulated, or knowing'y aid or assist in bringing into, printing, publishing or cir. culating within this Territory, any book, paper, ifec, containing any statements, doctrines, &c .ca'culated to produce a disaffection among the slavi s of this Territory he shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor fur not less than five years. 12. If any free person, by speaking or writing, nssert or maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves in the Territory, or shall introduce into Kansas, print, publish, wri'.e, circulate, or cause to Oe introduced into the Territory, written, printed, published or circulated in this Territory, any book, paper, magazine, pamphlet or circular, containing any denial of the rights of persons to hold slaves in this Territory, such persons shall bo deem ed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment at hard labor fur a term of not less than two years. 13. No person who is conscientiously opposed to holding slaves shall sit as a juror, on the trial ot any prosecution of any violation of any of the sections of this act. Cut this Out. A correspondent of tho London Literary Gazelle, alluding to the numerous cases of death, from accidental poisoning adds: "I venture to affirm, there is scarce even a cottage in this country that does not contain an invaluable, certain, immediate remedy for such events nothing more than a dessert spoonful of mad' mustard, mixed in a tumbler of warm water, and drank immediately. It acts as an emetic, is always ready, and may be used with safely in any case where one is required. By making this simple antidote known, you may be the means of saving many afellow-creature from an untimely end." Where are the Heirs! The public administrator of Nevada county, California has published a statement of the funds belonging lo various estates, as follows: . Ebenezer Reeves, $1,845; John Win-gate, $3G; Tbos. Hickland, 8102; W. P. Brown, 9127; Michael Reynolds, S222; Michael McUiijIilin, appraised value of estate, 1829; S. Hulchings, $27,90; C. Hanson, $117; W. II. Harrison. 1217; A. A. Carle, $92; G. 11. Russell, 198; Hugh Grant, $812; John Boyce, $04, and Israel Joiner, appraised value of estate, 8920, The publication is otucial, having been made by order of the county judge. A Judos or a Horsk. A man who wanted to buy a horse, asked a friend bow to tell a hnrsa'a aire. "Bv his teeth." was D " . " the reply. The next day tbe man went to s norse ceaitr who snowea a spienuiu black horse. The horse hunter opend the animal's mouth, gave one glance.and turn- ea on nis neei. "i aon i want mm, saia he; "he's thirty two years old." He had counted lbs trelli. The Prion of two Fotatoes in 1803. The following anecdote of the first Napoleonthis necessity of discriminating between the two Napoleons is a little inconvenient is related in a letter from a correspondent, who was a oonideub)e lime in the Frenoh military rervice, and who vouches fur its authenticity. We might say of it, Se nou e vero e ben trova'o: "The evening before the battle of Ulm, when Napoleon the first, in company with Marshal Berthier, was walking incognito through the camp and listening to the talk of his soldiers, he saw in a group not far off a grenadier of the guard, who was roast-ling some potatoes in ihe ashes, '"I should like a roast potato nbove nil things,' said the Emperor to tho Marshal; 'ask the owner of thtm if he will sell one. In obedience to the order, Berthier advanced to the group and asked them to whom the potatoes belonged. A grpnadier stepped forward nnd said, 'they arc mine.' "Will you sell ont?' 'i'l have only one, and that is scarcely enough for my supper.' '"I will give you two Napoleons if you will sell me one.' "'I don't want your gold; I shall be killed, perhaps, to-morrow, and I don't want tho enemy to find me with an empty stom ach.' "Berthier reported tho soldier's answer to the Emperor, who was standing a little in the back-ground. " 'Let's see if I shall bo luckier than you,' said the latter, and going up close to ihe grenadier he asked hini if he would sell him a potutoe. "'Not Ly along shot,' answered the grenndier; 'I havu't enough for myself.' " 'But you may set your own price, Come I am hungry, and havn't eaten today.'" 'I tell you I havn't enough for myself besides all that, do you think I don't ki.ow you in spito of your disguise?" "'Who am I then?' "Bah! The little corporal, as they call him; am I right?' " 'Well, since you know mo, will you sell me a potatoe?" "No, but if you would have me come and dine with you when we get back to Paris, you may sup wi;h me to night.' " 'Dunel'said Napoleon. "On the word of a little corporal, on Ihe word of un Emperor.'" 'Well and good. Our potatoes ought to be done by this time, and iliere are the two largest ones, the rest I will try myself.' "The Emperor sat down and ate his po tatoes, and then returned with Berthies to his tent, merely remarking, 'The roguo is a good soldier, I'll wager.' 'Two months afterwards Napoleon the Great was in the mi. 1st of a brilliant court at the Tuileries, nnd was just sitting down to dine, when word was brought him that a grenadier was without, try ing to force the gui.rd at ihe door, saying that hd had been invited to dine with the Empeior. 'Let him come in,' said his majesty . The soldier entered, presented arms, and said to the Emperor: " 'Do you remember once having supped with me off my roust potatoes?' ' 'O! Is that you?' 'Yes, yes, I remem ber,' said the Emperor; 'and so you have come to dine with me, have you? Rustan, ; lay another cover on your table fortius brave fellow.' Again the grenadier pre-1 sented arms, and said: " 'A grenadier of the guard does not dine wHi lackeys. Your majesty told me j I should dine with you that was the bargain and trusting to your word I have come hither.' j " 'True, true,' said the Emperor, 'lay a cover here near me; lay aside your arms, mon ami, and draw up to Ihe table.' "'Dinner over, the grenadier went, at his usual pace, touk up his carbine, and turning to the emperor, presented arms, and said: " 'A mere private ought not to dine at' the table of his Emperor.' I " 'Ah! I understand you,' said the Emperor, 'I name you Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, nnd Lieutenant in my com-! pany of Guards.' "'Thank you heartily. Vive V Empe-' reur!' answered ihe soldier and withdrew.". 3 Lord Lindsay states that in the c urse of his wanderings amid the pyra-1 mids of Egypt he stumbled on a mummy, j proved by its hieroglyhics to be nt least 2,- j 000 years of age. On txamining the mum-. my, alter it was unwrapped, ne louna in one of its closed hands a tuberous or bulbous root. He was interested in the question how long vegetable life could last, and he, therefore took that tuberous root Irom the mummy's hand, planted it in a sunny soil, allowed the rains and dews from heaven to descend upon it, and in the course of a few weeks, to his astonishment nnd joy, the root burst forth and bloomed into a beautful dahlia. JtSTln a neighboring city a young member of the bar thought he would adopt a motto for himself; and, after much reflection, wrote in large letters and posted up against the wall the following: "auum , cuique," which way be translated, "Let every one have his own." A country cli-i rnt coming in expressed himself much gratified with the maxim, but added, "Vou' UOO I spell lb ijgm. xuuuru, ,ia;u uuit ought it to be spelt?" The visitor replied, .i ,. n t. i, i.r-.r.. .1 .u,.-. l "Su em quick." Morals oxIkdiana Pouticiaks. The Lafayette Courier tells the following: . We heard of a conscientious Old Liner i the other day, who declared he would not. vote for Willard. "for," said he, "if he s elected, he'll gamble away the State House." After the nomination or Judge1 Hammond, the Old Liner aforesaid declaf-l ed that it was right now, "for if Willard gambled the Slate House away, Hammond would win it oacir- tHr "So you would not take me lobe twenty!" said a young lady to her partner a few evenings ago. 'What would you take me for?' 'For belter or for woue,' l replied. ... From tbo 8t. Louis Republicm. RUSH F0a LAND IN IOWA. We have had many accounts of the extraordinary rush for laud in Iowa during tho last year or two, but it suems that all of them have left an inadequate Impress ion upon our minds as to the exit nt that entries have been made. We have before us a letter, written by a gentleman oonnccied with the Surveyor Geneiul's office in Iowa, in reply to a gentleman of ibis city who had requested the forcer to secure a tract of land of a given character, from which we copy the folloing extract, believing it to ountain information that will be of service to the public: "There has not been such a tract of land as your letter calls for, in the State of Iowa, for the last three years, which was nut claimed or pre-empted, if surveyed; and there is not now in the Dubuque Land District, which extends West of Dubuque 111 miles, any tract of land vacant that has three acres of limber on it; nnd the biime. ibing may be said of tliu Dcuorah and Fort Dodge Districts. Strange as this may seem, it is true to tho letter, I assure you. (The land detired was part limber, part prairie with a living spring or strenm on it.) I assure you that of the little land that remains in this District, there is not a five aero tract that has not been gone over many times by speculators or their og'-nls, consequently none remains but the very refuse, and this would all be taken up, but the Land Office has been closed ever since the Receiver was removed. The present Rcgiiter assures me that the office ai Dubuque will be closed in four weeks after it it is opened, sufficient applications having been made to reduce the quantity to the amount ihe taw requites shall close it. 'I regret exceedingly lliat I cinno't comply with your request, but lo tell you the truth, I could nut help laughing at your ideas of our country. Why, they are full ten years behind the lime, and for less valuable lands than you have described, awny up in Minnesota they have used the pistol and bowie-knife freely. At Brownsville and Winona it is albged that several men were killed; and in some instances claims were run up to twenty dolhits fier acre, when offered for sale by the Register. "Now if your friend can be satisfied with such prairie land as is for sale ht this office when it again opens, I will stlect the best of it with ihe greatest pleasure, but no timber will be nearer than ten miles, sure, and water may be had by digging ten or fifteen feet, and this is the best that can be done here. If, however, I was going to enter land for speculation, I would losk for it in M nnesoia; but the great trouble is that most of the Minnesota lands are not in market, and the emigration is so great tbt before they are brought in tho best may be claimed. Idleness. No grcalcr truth was ever uttered no words moro Iraught with substantial meaning, than that " Idleness is the parent of vice. Every parent, without regard to his circumstances, should become deeply impressed with tins mi pnrtant truth imp taut, as touching their own happiness and welfare, as well as that of community at lurgo. Idleness and crime, and the whole host of iniquities, are boon companions Idleness may be set down as the very corner stone of all wrongful doing. It is no excuse fur idleness that the pareutsare rich: for, in a mor al sense, it is universally wrong. Yet parents are sometimes foolish enough even those who have clambered up-hill to a competency, to encourage so monstrous a vice in their children, vainly thinking to give themselves a ehade of superiority in society. But such instances are comparatively fuw. All good and wise men up. hold tho nubility of lubor and deprecate idle ness. In fact, we are so organized that ire are only happy in proportion to our usefulness. Let not parents, then, bring iheir sons and daughters up in idleness, but teach them to la bor, Willi iheir hands and their hearts, thatthoy may be an honor to themselves and to mankind. A Wealth? Proprietor. A large portion of ihe rich valley of Gcnessee, in New York State, is owned by James Wadsworth. He owns 8,000 in one town, as many in Goncee, a"iout 0,000 more in the adj lining town of Rush, 5,000 or 6,000 in the town of Caledonia, and a grealmany thou sands in other towns and counties. His landed possessions exceed 50,000 acres; it is nearly all good land the best in the State, and constantly increasing in value Kossuth Givks up. Kossuth's hops of Hungary has all been based on the continuance of the war. Peace hns stricken him down. He publicly announces that the opportunity for hisnaiive laud to obtain its independence, is past, rot to return again during life. Kossuth is an honest, earnest, and in some respects a noble man, but he has bem chasing a phantom for the last seven years. His heart has now sunk within him. He says so. t3T A few nights ago a Mr. Bodkin, on going home late, borrowed an umbrella, and when his wife's tongue was loosened. he sat up in bed, and suddenly spread it out. "What are you going to do with that thing?" said she. "Why, my dear, I expected a very heavy storm to-night, and so I came prepared." Very considerate, eh I IIolisess. We love to see a women trending the high and holy path of duty, unbliuded by the sunshine, unscared by tho storm. There are hundreds who doso from the cradle lo the grave heroines of endurance of whom the world has never heard, but whose names will be bright hereafter, even beside the brightness of angelF. X3T During the siege of Sebastopol, a Russian shell buried itself in the side of a hill without the city, and opened a spring. A little fountain bubbled forth where the cannon shot had fallen, and during the remainder of the siege afforded to the thirsty troops who were stationed in that vicin ity, an abundant supply of pure cold ; tir. LOCAL NEWSPAPERS. ! ,VA The Norwich (Ct ) Biigle has tbe following lentible article ou the value -of lo- cal newspapers, which we commend to those persons who patronise "Dollar Weeklies" lu preference to their own home papers: .. . . .. V. "The people seem at labt tohve awakened to the nature and importance of local newspapers. Hitherto a sheet might linger along and die at home, just because it was printed at homo. People wanted, or thought they wantod, something that came-from a distance and coat more labor than that which originated nearer them. Now the case, for good reasons is very different.' The telegraph has placed the extreme limits of the country at the disposal of any village print, and the news can be bad ex' nelly as well as if it had been put iu type a thousand miles away. Besides this, the-home editor, Laving the field so extensively at his command, learns how to give a clean slid readublo epitome of current events, for whose history the reader might in distant sheets be compelled to hunt idly over dreary pages. We think If the local press can ever be made compact nnd spicy, it is in these steam and telegraph times. Every column is worth what a volume for-1 merly was. - But a valuable local journal the people in its neighborhood ought to consider themselvhs bound by something like honor to sustain. It is, in fact, an iudex of their own situation and prospects. If it thrives, then it is understood those who support it thrive also. If columns aie filled wiih the cards of the lucid merchants, mtchanica and traders in its vicinity, it signifies very plainly that thtre is business going on among them, and that each understands his own best interests. A sterling newspaper tells a greater story in behalf of its friends and supporter than thev have a just idea of. By an indirect metliod it enchances their importance to a wonderful degree. They bpcome the recipients of the large bounty produced by its effects. Strangers generally wish to know nothing more of a place than that its journals are well sustained. As for the requirements of business, we may safely say that no place was ever known toaavance to a largi: prosperity who3e population was too niggardly lo be represented Detore tne worll by a high toned and well conducted papeff " ' Tlit,ast Administration Ontrags.-Our telegraphic advices from Kansas and Missouii are of a highly important and exciting character. Il they are correct, ns there is every reason to believe they are, an unparalleled net of Executive tyran ny and ludicial fraud is about to be perpe trated upon the peaceful, libstly-ioving people ol Lvansas. 1 he Administration bas ventured upon its last act of treasonable folly. The arresls of prominent officials of ihe'Kree Stale Government have been made on indictments for high treason! This is presumed to be in pursuance of the threats of the nun who libels (he name, and disgraces the office of President. We refer ihe reader to our U-legraphio dispatches for the particulars of this outrage, the circumstances attending which give a stilt deeper hue to the inlamy of the act itself. Gov. Robinson left Kansas on the 10th inst., for the East, via St Lou:s. On bis way down the river, at Lexington, Mo., he is detained by a "committee of citizens" of Missouri, as a "fugitive" from arrest,-This is dune without warrant or official authority of any kind and done, not by citizens of Kansas, but by people of an adj in-ing State, upon a rcpoi ted indictment, which had not been made public at the time, in the former jurisdiction. IIow did the Mis-sou: inns acquire this knowledge, even before the accused was possessed of it, unless they understood Jthat the indictment was athing pre-tft'iV'minerf, andpre-ordained, by the unscrupulous territorial tools' of a corrupt, law-profaning Administration? The whole course of events for months past, dating back to Pierce's Ust annual mess-. age, and Kansas "Broclarntilion," has tended to this result; but there was art almost universal belief .that the mingled madness and folly which seem to have supplanted all sense of reason and justice in the President's mind, would not carry him to the extreme point indicated by his threats.- That hope, it now appears, was fallacious. Those insane threats are fullowed by aota as insane, by a political madman, who, unfortunately for the country, is temporarily vested with dangerous power, at a dangerous crisis. Mr. Pierce's great oltjert seems to be to goad the inoffensive people of Kansas into some overt acts of resistance to the United Stales aulhoiiiy; and as if to inspiie them with the necessary reel It 8sness, he arraigns them in advance, for the very treason lo which he is tempting them by such mockery of justice, and such perversion of law. In these indictments and arrests, made under his official sanction, publicly pledged io advance months ago, lie is taking the surest wny to precipitate the collision, vj long threatened. Should it reach that pass the oppressed people of Kansas will not be responsible. He is the traitor, and tbe treason, if there be any, and its consequences will be his not theirs. Sandusky Big-is'.cr.A Somo for Spring. There is no prettier song of Spring than that of Solomon, which is worth publishing as often as winter departs and spring with her sunshine and drapery of green appetrs: ' "Lo, the winter is past: the rain is. over and none: the flowers appear on the earth: the time of the singing ol the birds is tome, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land: the ft tree puttclh forth her green figs: and the vines of the lender trrspei give a good smell." , -. 11 . r An Australia Lkqislatoh. Mr. Dan iel Cameron, who was elected represenfa- lor tbe d'ggmg district of Woobbed, Alt' tralia, had the compliment paid to binr bv his supporters of having the horse he r de on at the time of the contest shod witn solid gold. He was also presented with mm of 1,5 -JO. - 1 ? " .I,, i .I... ' . 1 ' 1 1 11 I 7 rv