Mt. Vernon Democratic banner (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1853), 1859-03-29

              --V J! wAA . vi. 4 TOLUIoE 22. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO : lilARCH 29, . 1859. NUSIBER 19.' . - ( ; f ( I: h . i 13 srsussxn imr miDiT woaatae, ; . XJY JL. UAKPEU. CZzi la7o a award's Elock, Third Story -TSBJI3 Tw Dollkrt pr taain, pjbl ia mA-rae $3,68 witUa ix tBsatht; $3,00 after the x-plraXioa f th fr. CIbIm f twenty, 9I,tO eah. a - - " From tb Ohio SttamMi. THE CEUTEAL BANK OF INDIANA. HoT7 it 4 was Oraniz 3. and V7ha - the Owners Were. Copy of the Article of Agreement, and Extract jfrom Vi4 Testimony of Otiat Bowen, fTiUiam Sturge, and Charle T. Sherman; and an Extractfrom tht Statement of John O. Bret- Toe Treunrp vommttsioa lo tbevr comments spoB lh orjanlitioa of tba " Central Bank of Ltdiana, express the opinion thut Messrs. Sber- taso, utuno, uowea ana iarges coma ooi Lavabeea iTaoraat of the fact, that in so far j Jolia G. Bresfio -was concerned la that insti-,'talloo. b laJ employed the monej of the peo pie of Ohio, taken from their treasury, for that t porpose; sod, therefore, thoae f eotlemea should chare erith hiax im the disaster to his reDutation. ef4$ Yaeli ek raVf ff miYkTT A ' " MM rt trim t tm sjiwj vbm Jr eew a vvMewtV twt eutsi illejal, use of lh public mooey. ' llr. Delano denies 'any knowledge upon the u)jecf, nd n a recent number of the State Journal proclams his innocence and complains of the Commission for unfair treatment, In his eomaanicattoa he embodies a letter from Wm. Stories, Esq., ia which the latter certifies to the innoceae and ijrnoraoce of'llr. Delaoo, and as if to five fall effect to the letter of Mr. St urges, Mr. Chas. T. Sherman certifies to its statements. After the people read the copy of the agreement and the extracts from the testimony of the parties themsetreet here following they will not we -apprehend be likely to reverse the judgment ormed by the Commission; ".V- It is true there is some rery ' marked discre- -1 a - a m pencies w um leiunoay, wnico, nowever, tor the present we leave the parties themselves to re' concUe. ' , COfT O TH AETtCLtS OF AQ8EKHEST. WUereaSf The nadersinrd have this day as-. eociated themselves together nader the general law of Indiana, for the purpose of doing an ex change and banking business, under the name of the "Central Bank," with a capital of $500,000, I be stock of which is owned as follows, to wit: WUem'-Slurges-...-... ........... $108,000 C Delano.... ...... ......... 100,000 C. T. Sherman... 150,000 O. Bewen:..........;....i........ 150,000 ' . .- " - $500,000 . Now we hreby egree, each with the other, that we will own and hold the said stock in the .hove proportion; that we will each, by the I5tbday of Uctobrr next, pay apoo said stock twenty per enL, aiid aucb further amounts as we all and each of as may hereafter agree upon and letermine. : - :. . - That we will not sell,, hypothecate, or pledge, said iovk. ir any interest therein, to any per. son or oorporai'ioa nlil after ah offVr to, and a tela b , the uther parit(s. to purchase and receive the same at the fair value thereof. . That in the case oi the death of one of the parties, that the peseonal representatives ot soch deceased party shall and are hereby din-cted and requiivd to sell at private sale, at a fair value, tion, his interest ia said bank to the surviving parties. In either case the parties to have the privilege to own and purchase in equal propor tions. : ' ' ' " . That neither f the . parties shall directly or Sadirectiy loan or ue any money or assets of aid baiik for his private uses or purposes, or be come a party or endorse upon any of its discounted psper or securities. That no part of the earnings and profits of aid Bank shall be distributed mmong the parties until the 1st day of January, 1859, but the same shall remain in said Bank, and shall eemi-annu. sJly be divided and applied to the unpaid capi ;r Stocks of the State of Virginia Warinjr six per cent, interest, and redeemable in 1857, be tng provided as the basis for the circulation of Ahe Bank, it is agreed that said stocks shall not be sold and other stocks, substituted without the consent of all the parties hereto. ; - - That O. Bowen shall be President of said Hank until otherwise ordered . by the other par . ileSfbeahaU appoint the Cashier thereof, and 'All other- subordinate - officers, 1 and s hereby clothed with all necessary powers to put said Esnk ia operation and manage the same. ' .' . .i cat ui vasnier snau torwara at tne ena oi 'every month by- tn&il to each of the parties a copy of the weekly statement of raid Bank. - It is understood that O. Bowen and C. T.Sher. raan are at liberty to transfer or bold in trust for Another person one hundred thousand dollars of the stock stsodicg ta their same, being fifty hottsaod dollars each. v . . -, - ITrr Yoxr. Sepu 17, 1853. I J, 1 - (Signed Triplicate.) C T. Sherman, ': ' ' '-" . O. Boweo C. Delano, - W. Starges. ' I do hereby sell and transfer to John O. Bres- : lie CTty thousand dollars of the capital stock of ie "(central Uo&V et Indianapolis. Indiana, g'fin&pf in mj caoie on the books of said bank, ai.;.Trijte kfra, the said . to bold tbe saaiiS, and mil the profits and benefiu arising ihere&ouj, to the sole Qse and benefit of him, lie eaia ! . . Asa xtut said is tc-eXy juthori;ed, ia tnr tunas, at any . L.B9 lemZzr, to txvxsitr the said stock into bis iowa cr us riraa oi any outer inaiviauaj oa tne tocs cf said fcaskA at his selection; and I here py ratify whatever ui said w ' . , . shall In tl tt ref -act. co in rfarence to said ftr thonsi V .19 tes'.imetjy whereof I lave berets set toy VAfc Vler,lS53. ; - ,r t j , , , . ... F - ithin Signed c zr:j tzl VansXer, ta John ' -t ! v"--ni doUsrs of the -' ' ".t"l Pa'-'t cf Jn!Jsneo i i c.y r. - -; on tbe books -; i . , I j I, ;r ! -liicris tim J L:'l tl3 t re, rhI all the 1 tr; '-,t V -;. : ; f! I l r-y : , r !ii r' " ".r, t I. f i : , c . lis r -iCi' "tny t.L:r P. r-- tion; and I do hereby ratify whatever the said snail, tn mat respect, ao is reierenee vo said one hundred thooaaad dollars of stock. Ia testimony whereoC I have hereunto set my band end teal this 71a day of Wovetn- tiAt J.ber,I853. C T.Sbckvi v. Extract from Vit Testimony of Qtiat Bowen, of art 8. 1859. Jn August or septemner, i&oi, air. oner man M e leen a Bt wrote me, requesting, . me to meet nim and ur. Delano in New York at tbe time he Indicated, . . ti t. t : savin? max . we couia mm ioiub uuiurs r- rangementa that would be beneficial to us all, alluding, as I understood at the time, to some nnrations in Bailroad stock. Accordingly we met there, and upon my arrival, I was introduced to a man named William Sturges, whom I bad never seen before to no v knowledge. Mr. Stur- gftthni recently opened a Banking House in New York City, under the name of Sturges & Ellis. Mr. Delano- was engaged by. that house as their confidential adviser or agent. During the first or second interviews between us, a pro- ?rct of orranixing a Bank, under the law ot In diana, was oroDosed. Mr. Sturges was rather urgent to have it organized. 8id he would fur nish Virginia six per cent stocks as a basis for it. He said be con id buy to em cheaper than any man in the market, and would let us have them at the original cost to him, and two and one half per cent, commission. He assured the pap ties that he bad purchased the stocks, and paid for them 106, and that they could not be bought for one cent below that In the market. Several interviews took place between the parties, some of which occurred at Mr. Delano's house, and it was finally agreed that articles of association should be signed, and the Bank or-ranixed upon a Stock basis of $500,000 end up on an actual cash capital of $100,000. Of this ataoeot, it was agreed that Mr. Delano should subscribe and pay far $40,000. and Mr. Sherman and myself should take the residue. I stated to the parties distinctly at the time, that I might wish to transfer some, of that stock to Mr, Dur- fee, my law p&rtuer, who-was engaged In Bank, ing aud other business with sne at Marion, and I required a provision to oe inserted in our agreement authorising me to make such transfer, if I chose to do so. That, at the instance oi Mr. Sherman, a like provision was inserted authorizing him to transfer a portion of bis stock to any person be might deem proper. Mr. Sturges, for reasons which I never understood, refused to have his name appear as stockholder, although be furnished tbe $40,000 paid by Delano, as I en derstood. Being induced to believe that the rep. reseo tat ions made by Sturges about tbe Bank were true ,we entered into an agreement with him for the purchase of the $500,000 of the State Stocks named, and the accrued interest, at 108, and proceeded at Dnce to pot the- Bank id to op- erauon. boon alter u came 10 ine xnowieage ot . 1 - a . a a myself and Mr'. Sherman, that Sturges bad, in point of fact, paid but 102 for the Bonds; where' upon, we refused lo make payment for anything more than the 102 and . the commission of two and one half per cent, as agreed .which resulted in litigation between Sturges and the Bank, and subsequent large losses to it. The matter was finally settled by proving 1061. .-By that fraud of Sturges, ajarge amount of the actual capital paid ia was absorbed. At tbe time of the organization, I had no knowledge that Breslin would take any of the Stock, After I teturned home,! think I wrote to mm end informed mm ot tne organization of the Bank, of the amount of Stock I had taken, and enquired whether he could take any part of it; and I received his reply in the af. urinative. 8ometime after, be sent me some $4,.' 000 or $5,000 in currency, to my residence at Marion, and afterwards, be sent me a sufficient amount, I think, ia exchange, to make the pay. roent in full for the stock transferred to bim. - There was no agreement, before the organ za tion, between Mr. Breslin and myself, that he should take any portion of the Stock. I had con. trol of the Bank during tbe time it did business, and closed it up with a large loss. In the examination of O. Bown before Messrs Wright and Sparrow, examiners of the Treasury tbe following question and answer to the same, sworn to by Judge Bowen, ot the 29ih July, 1857, are to be (bend: '. j "Que. Had he, (Breslin,) or has he now, any interest in any banking, institution or broker's office in this or any other State, or .in 4 peculations of any kind? If so state what, bow much money he invested, the time of such investment, the name of such banking institution, or broker's office, the place of such institution, and a hat be came of the money so invested? "An- I cannot state whether the said Breslin has any interest ia any banking institution or broker's office, or in speculation of any kind. I possess no knowledge on that subject and can give no information in relation thereto. Extract from the testimony of Wuliam Sturges, of the City of Chicago, taken before tht Com-, :" mission at Columbus, Dec 30, 1858. - I was a stockholder of the Central Bank of Indiana; of which O. Bowen, of Marion, Ohio, was President; and was owner of Iwo-fiftis of that Bank, and all the Banks that arose out of the Bank. Tbe eapital stock was $100,000.' The other stockholders were) originally. O. Bowen, $40,000 ; C. T. Sherman, $29.000 ; Columbus Delano, $20,000; and myselfc. $20,000. I paid in Delano's capital, and boeght his stock of bim afterwards. "It was u ode rstoooT that one half of Bowen's stock- belonged to very " secret confidential friend of bis, whose naase he was not at liberty to divulge. I bad no suspicion at the time tbe Bank was being got up, who this person was, bnt immediately afterwards became satisfied it was John O. Breslin. My basis for this belief were Bowen's movements to Columbus, Ohio, to which place be would go oe hi way borne ; and afterwards by conversations with Delano and Sherman. I sold to the Bank $500,000 of Virginia State Stocks. I believed, and da now, that there was a very large amount of money made in the Central Bank of Indiana. r Judge Bowen claims that large sums were lost, and none of the capital, so far as I know, has ever been returned. r wawwawawsasw " Extract from (he Exposition of Charle 71 SKer-man, of Mansfield, talen July 23,1858. -: "In 1855 Breslin forwarded to me, as attorney, for collection, several acceptances of that Company (Columbus and Lake Erie and Sandusky and Mansfield Bail Road Company) for $5,000 east), endorsed by Robinson and Camp individually, oa one of which there was an entry of $2.. 500 being paid, leaving the sum dee $17,500. I brocght suit upon the paper and obtained judgment. , , ' I took measures to collect the Judgment, but before any thing was collected it was tzl'Zti by Dretlla, st&d O. B. " right, of Uewark, as iieeetver. I neve? borr?TT I tscsey Crca UfesIIa, cot lad any cuoo-ied cr ollr traciaetions wlvh Lira, except as stated. ? ' 1 1-:w ro'.Lingof Lis coa nect-on miCx tsj Cl'.J ct IzilizA or cy other Bank." . . . : Extract from th rfji reJP.iX : r.. Can- ada Yi tof, January I , l 7 v . lumbus Delano, William Sturges, Ozias Bowen, Charles T. Bherman and myself. - For a snore full explanation of my connection with the 'Central Bask, I band you herewith f copy of the articles of association, also tbe original transfer to sne of my interest in the Bank from Bowen and Sherman.'? Each of tbe parties to this organization were interested to tbe amount of $20,000., I : subsequently purchased $10,000 of tbe interest of Mr. obermaa, and up on my interest now, amoentier to $30,000, 1 was repaid $9,000, leaving it as staled above $21,- ooo. , - 1 ' ' -J TUB OLD SEXTOS t wiLUAJt ALueajr. . 'Twas night the hour of evening prayer, The Sexton climbed the turret stslr, , Wearily, being very old. : The wlad ef Spring blew fresh and oold, Waklag the ssoliaa thrills, , and carrying fragranoe from the hills. From a carved eleft he leaned. Eyeing the landsoape newly greened; The large san, slowly moving down. Flushed theehimneys of the town - The same where he was Brit alive Eighty years ego and five. . " Babe he sees blntself, and beyr Youth astir with hope and Jeyj ; "Wife and wedded love he sees; ... Children's children 'round his knses; Friends departing, one by &oe; The graveyard la the setting sua. He seats him la a stony aiohe; The bell-rope sways withia his reach; : High cn the rafters ef the roof The metal warder bangs aloof; All the townsfolk wait to hear . , That voiee they knew this this many a year. It is past the ringing hoar, . There Is sileoee in the tower, Bave that on a pinacle - " ' A robin sits and tings full well.-Hush! at length for prayer they toll: God reoelre the parting soul! iirawraus CAUDLE LECTURES. CATJDL8 HAS BKETt MADE A. ItASOH MBS. CATJ- PLS ISDIOSAXT AHD CCRIOCS. "Now, Mr. Caudle Mr. Candle, I say : oh! yoo can't be asleep already, I know now, what I mean to say ia this; there's no nse, cone at all, to our having any disturbance about the -matter; but, at last my mind's made np, Ms. Caudle; I shall leave you. Either ill know alt you've been doing to-night, or to-morrow morning I quit the house. No, no; there's aa end of the soar riage state, I thinkan end of all confidence be tween man and wife if a husband's to have secrets aod keep 'era all Jto himself. Pretty se creta they mast be, when his own wife can't know em. Not fit for any decent person to know, I'm sure, if that's the case. Now, Caudle, don't let ns quarrel; there's a good aoul, tell me what's it all about? Aetpsek of nonsense. I dare savj still not that I care ranch about it still, I should like to know. There's , a dear. Eh? Ohl don't tell me there's nothing in it; I know better, I'm not a fool, Mr. Caudle; I kabw there's a good deal in it. Now. Candler just tell me a Tittle bit of it. I'm sore I'd tell yoa anything. -Yba know I would. Well? ' - ; - -' '. "Candle, you're enough to rex a saint! .Now, don't yoa think you're going to sleep, beeaas e you're not. Do you suppose I'd ever suffer you to go and be made a mason, if I didn't suppose I was to know the secret, too?; Not that it's any. ttiug to know, I dare say; and that's why I'm determined to know it. "Bat I know what .it is; oh yes, there can be ao doubt. Tbe secret is, to ill-use poor women; to tyranize over 'em; to make em your slaves; especially your wives. It most be something of the tort, or yoa wouldn't be ashamed to have it known r What's right and proper never seed be dooe in secret. It's an insult to a wotnaa for a man to be a freemason, and let his wife know nothing about it. But, poor soul I' she's sure to know it somehow for ' sice husbands they all make, . Yes, yes; a part of the secret is to think better of all the world than their own wives and families. I'm sure men have quite. enough to care for that !s if they act properly to care for them they have at home. They can't have much care to spare for the world besides. ; , : "And I suppose they call yoo. Brother Caudle? A pretty brother, indeed? ' Going and dressing yourself up ia an aproa like a turnpike man for there must be something ia it not very respectable, I'm sure. Well, I only wish I was a Qneeo for a day or two. Yd pot aa end I free-masonry, and all such trumpery Iknow. ;- 5 " "Now, come, Caudle; don't let's quarrel Eh! Yoo're not la pain, dear? What's it all about? What are yoa lying laughing there ai? But I'm a fool to trouble my head about you. r , Aod you're not going to let me know the se-eret, eh7 Yoa mean to say, you're not? Now, Caudle, yoo: know it's a hard matter to pat 'me in a passion not that I care abouftha secret itself; bo, I wouldn't gira s button to koow. it, for iu all nonsense Tm sarev It isn't tht secret I care aboat; it's the slight, llr. Candle; it's the studied insult that a maa pays to Lis wife when he thinks of going through- th world keeping Something to Wcaself rhicV hi wo'j Jet her know. ., llsa end . wifa cne, izistiU J tlov. Ilia 19 know how that cxa ts when a man's a tasjoa when he keeps a :cre5 tis.t ssts. tia and wife apart? Ha, yes c3 r,r.b lis bVs, and so yoo take good car ta larj &I l! a l?:t cf 'eta to yourselves; tiberTr9 a wc -i on -It to be allowed a divorce tca & cir.a .sz . .-.s acia, Mtsfcllaim. tcn, ii i-sa ce get a ec.t t ia Hi ts-rt v ezcril ?' ; ! , 1 i t.'-.i tlit Tm tmmA T avfinldn fttfiVSFSa sAvl enelVtstai M asT afSatV waiaavseTf wv-- w a.ees7 j KS-m wwj Uil and yoa know it, or you ought to know it by this time. I only wish I bad a secretH To whom should I think of confiding it, but to toy dear husband? I should be miserable to keep it to myself, aad yon know it, Now, Caudle? r- "Was there ever such a man! A maa indeed! A brute! yes, Mr. Candle, aa' unfeeling, brutal creature, when yOo mtgbr oblige tne and you won't. I'm sore I doa't oljeet W your being a mason; not at all, Caudle; I dare' sayVs a very good thing; X dare say it is it's only your ma-sing a secret of it that vexes me.' - Bet yoaH tell me You'll tell your own Margaret? i Yoa won't?: .You're e wretch, Mr. Caudle. But I know why: oh, yes, I can tell. The fact is, yoo're ashamed to let me know what a fool they've been making of yoo. That's it Yoa at your time of life the father of a family! I should be ashamed of myself, Caudle. - "And I suppose you'll be going to what yoa call your Lodge every night, now? ' Lodge, in deed! Pretty place ft must be, where they don't admit womea. Nice goings ' on, I dare say. Then yps call one another brethren. 7 Brethren! I'm sure yon'd relations enough, yoa didn't want any more. t : - ; "But I know what all this masonry's about It's only aa excuse to get away from your wives and families, that you may feast and drink together; that's alL That's the secret. And to abute women, as if they were inferior animals, and not to be trusted. That's the Secret; and nothing else. " r ; - . '-' "Now, Caudle, don't let ns quarreL Yes, I know you're in pain. Still, Candle, my -love; Caudle? Dearest, I say! Caudle? - One of the Speeclies. There is a quiet genius ia the lower Home of the Missouri Legislature aa original who oc casionally makes very funny speeches, one of which we have been amused by. It is so good that we give it to our readers. A bill to repeal the penalties for holding to labor, in Missouri, slaves belonging to persons residing in other States, was under consideration, and "a motion had been made to refer it to the Judiciary Com mittee, when Mr. Pitt, the gentleman we have referred to, rose and said: - ; r Mr. Speaker T was just enjoying a delightful snooze,' when the voice of the speaker from St. Charles (Buliam) smote my ear, and seemed to say, "sleep no more. It this the gentleman I see before me, with eyei) severe, and hair of for mal cut, full of high laws' and model institutions, (laughter) talking Snigger . And he is against the biHI His senses md at have surely gone woolgathering; yes, nigger , wool gathering. Genlle- mea-U psiao4ii'f ffgaltDsaleis EX' pressioo, bat, a "change has come ever the spir it of his dream." : What do gentlemen want?- Is corn so dear, and hoecake so sweet as to be purchased only at the price of having the Sute garrisoned by our enemies? Forbid it, Jeremiah! . Do you want the institutions of your State reduced to the condition of affairs away down in Georgia, where a plantation consists of two overseers and one nigger? (Laughter.) As the poet says: "I'd rather be a long, mangy, strange valler dog with a bob tail, and bay at the moon than not to say this is me own, me native State." (Great applause.) Aod I will defend her institutions so long as grass runs and water grows, Renewed applause. Gentlemen pretend such a love for the institutions of the State, but when you go to test them on such questions, they are as tender-footed as a hen on a hot griddle. Laughter. Come down gentlemen and don't he everlastingly on the political hen-roost; show your quills. If yoo ain't for us, yon are against us; yoa can't follow John C. Calhoun, and Jim Lane or Montgomery not by a long sigh L Don't be intimating that nigger property is not safe in the State of. Missouri. I say it is safe, and if it ain't we will make it so. - Applause. Gentlemen, talk. abont free labor. -Well, I know something about a certian kind of it that will work for two dollars a ,day during the bar. vest season, and get drank on the remainder of the proceeds the balance of the year. It may be a eery industrious population, but the South ron is too much of a gentlemen to mats a white man work it takes a blue bellied Yankee to pot 'em through. Laughter. Let ns wipe this restriction from our statute book, and say to the whole coon try, "Gentlemen, send on your dar kies; we have large fields for them to cultivate, and "we will pay yoo a big price for their hire." Let old Virginia, send as many as she pleases, so she keeps her precious F. P. V.'s at home; they have most too much starch ia their shirts. As has been said of them, they would not .be there but for their bright originals in heaven. Now, I say in conclusion let as follow the foot steps of thosebright originals. ; "And the star-spangled banner, in triumph shall wave, O 'er the land ef the. free aad the home of the brave, Prolonged applause. ' )' :Xfa'Je&JzU for Snrglttta. - ' Oar neighbor, Isaac Shaw, of Wintrop,. in forms ns that be has foond that Sorghum or Chinese Sugar Cane makes excellent food for hens.. .Tie bee one of the self-sbarpening straw euuers made, as many of our readers well know, by having a couple of cylinders mounted vritlt horizontal spiral s knives or projections, with a snarp pjie oetween tnem, : . - i .These, when cot ting stalks, scraps tha pieces oST tpmewfcat and thereby lay open taep::a.--While cutting sons of. the Sorgho at fvt tit cat. tie he observsd that fcis tens fo!I tp pickiog'ont tie pith which bad been thqs laid cpeo,; - As tey rppcarcd ta rc'Ish it so re!',l3 trp;!'es tbrzi r!;b a fd3?r"2 cf it every id-j, end itfj ere doing wells pon It. Co hcr-a is anotttr cc? to v.!.u!i tlia est crop c&a.te ptt, To t-s f";ax, nlVx and raoTatj-s filch can ta ?r:r:5 fioa it, jca trsy r. 'i chicijes nnd f-;i. Jrrrrr". i (DurlJalifliial latj. History of t&o Flag ot the United States. The Philadelphia I ess has an interesting article, giving a carefully prepared history of the prigia and progress of the flsg of the United States.. It was suggested by the passage by Congress at its last session of a joint resolution, proposing to give "the thanks of Congress to Samuel C. Beid, late commander ofthe privateermed brig, 'General Armstrong, for having designed and formed the present flag of the United States." We copy tbe following portion of the article i v The first flag displayed ia. the cause of American Hberty appears ,by historical dates, to be that hoisted by the heads of Paul Jones, as first lien-tenant of the Alfred, on board that vessel, before Philadelphia, in December, 1T75. During the Revolutionary war, both before and for some time after the Declaration of Independence, a variety of flags were used, typifying the especial colony that espoused the cause, and the particular arm of service. The flag known as the Great Union was first displayed by Washington upon the hghts before Boston, upon assumingcommand-in-chief of the combined army of the Colonies, oo the 2d of January, IT76. This flag consisted of the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew, with thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, through tbe field. This continued in ose probably until the 3d of September, 17T7, when a resolution of Congress, adopted on tht 14th of June, of the same year, was promulgated as follows: i Iv Coscacss, June 14th, ITT7. ; uEesoloed, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. Fronting this new constellation, Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga,. 17th October, 1777, and with it Jones arrived in France, (preparatory to his famous cruise, as above alluded to,) on December 2d, of the same year, - 1 .The flag having been instituted da the representative principle, to designate the States of the United Republic, was altered, on motion of Senator Bradley, of Vermont, oa the 13th of Jean ary, 1794, on the occasion of the admission of Vermont and Kentucky into the Union. It was enacted: . - 1, "That from and after the first of May, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, the flag of the. United States be fifteen stripes, alternate red and white that the Union be fifteen stars, white ia a blue field. ' The first Eogliab frigate (the Guerriere) that ever struck Its colors to an American ship (Con-eiltutieni seaksav th Trcata of, the poeaa before this flag. It was the flag that waved over Hull in that gallant fight; over Rogers, wbtn he cap-tared, the British packet Swallow with $200,000 aboard; over Decatur, when he made a sloop of tbe Macedonian; over Lawrence', when ha wonld not give op the ship; over Perry, in his terrible defence at Fayal, and over the cotton bales and glory of New Orleans. ": r; r j . ' The flag of June, 1777, was altered ostensibly to accommodate the progress of the Republic by the in-coming of new States. Yet 1 the act of January 1794, while it changed it to suit the pre seat, made no provision for the future; thus up to 1818 although Tennessee came ; in Jene, 1796; Ohio, February, 1803; Louisiana, April, 1812; Indiana, December, 1816; and Mississippi, December, 1817 the flag remained; with fifteen stars and stripes Only; not representing the Ststes admitted since 1794. . i : " On the admission of Indiana, the first move was made, which resulted in the happy design of our present flag, which at once chronicles the number of States by wbicn our liberties were wonjand the extept of prosperity to which those liberties have led us. ' On the 9th December, 1816, the Hon. Petr H. Vendoyer, o New York, moved for a com mittee "to inquire into the expediency of alter ing the flag;": but a bare majority agreeing, the mover did not press it then. V j . On the' 1 jth of the same month the House pro ceeded to consider the motion, aad a committee of inquiry was appointed. Mr. Vendover had not any definite idea then as to what alteration wonld be madev. Ila wanted an inquiry with the view of correcting what seemed an incongruity a flag of the United States not representing all the United States. The addition of new States, it was generally conceded, rendered some change necessary. Tbe policy and purpose of Bradley's act of 1794 seemed to be the addition of a star and a stripe for each accession to the Confedera cy; but diq not definitely assert if as a law. Even if it had, it would not have had an historical nn-iqueness ..We would be for ever ignoring the past while parading the present, It was suggest ed in Congress that we go back to the act of 1777; but that again would be ignoring the pre. sent ana recognising van past, woica wnsairesuy opposed to onr principle of progress. V It remained for Captain Samuel Ci Raid to fix the happy medium; to combine the glory of tbe past with the progress pf the present, and to give a design Sot the national flag-at once ftnique, beau tAful and satisfactory. He suggested that on the field there should bo thirteen stripes (altern ate red and wilts) in commemorstioa of the thir-teen Colonies th at took, the field for freedom, and in the Union as many stars (white : on av bias field) es tiers win States, with the provision that a new star to appear oa the 4th of July suc-ceediu each edmission. . ,vi " ....... y.:-X v Captsln Eeii's idea was adopted by lit. Ten-dorcr, 'ecJ iEcorpcritci ia his report (cf tia ts lect conmiUee) preieuted to the House &fHep-rcssst-uves, January 2,1217, '' .Tie' till occca? pinjlrj tils rercrt r :t LI ' over frani p rr;zrs cf lc:!-:r?, tr. 1 a C! wis trr-i: ZttztZ i 3rjrccJ to cn Vzz. IC, -, thrc"b I 'r. Tec -OTtr re: 1 i i t a - l ter moved to amend, by reducing the number of stars to seven, the number of states added to the Union since the Declaration of Independence, After a slight discussion, this was lost without a division. On the 25th March a motion to amend the title by substituting the word "establish' ia place of the word "alter was adopted, when tbe bill was read a third time and passed. - On the 27th the bill was read a second time In the Senate, aad referred to the Committee cn Naval Affairs. On the 20tb it was reported without amendment by Mr. Taite, and was passed next day by unanimous consent, as follows: An act to estaUish the Flag of the United Slates. Beit enacted ., That from and after the 4th day of J uly next, the flag of the United States be thirteen horisootal stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be twenty stars, white, in a blue field. Ssctiost 2. And he itfurther enacted, That on the admission of every new Sute into the Union one star be added to the Union of the flag; aad that such addition shall take effect on the 4th day of J uly then succeeding soch admission. Appro ed April 4, 1818. The first flag thus instituted was made by Mrs. Reid, in New York, and was first hoisted over the Hall of the House of Representatives on the 13th of April, 1818, at t o'clock P, iL Soch is the history of the national flag. A Youasj" "Woman 8plits a Vintor'i Hca4 7lti an Axe. It has been stated that a young man named Sparks was murdered in Newcastle, Botetourt county. Va., on the 14th inst by a woman named Polly Tucker. A correspondent of the Salem Rsgisier sayst Young Sparks, who was partially intoxicated, went to the bouse of a Miss Polly Tucker and knocked at the door, desiring admittance, which was refused. He then went to a window and raised tbe sash, and put his bead through, and in a good humored way threatened to enter the house in that way. Miss Tucker, it seems had aa axe in her hand, and threatened to strike him with it. He laughingly told her to strike away, which she did with fatal effect, striking him with the poll of the axe immediately on the top of the heed, inflicting a mortal wound. He lived about six honrs, and died apparently with, out much pain. He did not speak after the blow was given. It was one of the most deliberate and. cold-blooded murders ever perpetrated. The murderess has- sine asserted that ehe had the axe ready for two weeks, for that purpose, m& that sbacweMStetsKl $be eaarder coolly and deliberately. It has. created an intense excitement in this community. He was the only child of his mother, who is utterly prostrated in con' sequence of the murder of her son, and it is be lieved she cannot long survive the awful deed. Lynchburg Republican. . " , A Littla Child Lost ia Uis Zlou&tals. The Getty burg (Pa.) Compiler gives an ao. count of the loss of a little boy, tour years of age, a son of Mrs. Oyler. of Cumberland county. He struyed from borne, and the whole neighbor, hood started out on the search, scouring the surrounding moontain through the day, and displaying lighted torches through the night. After twe days and nights, the dead body of the little fellow was discovered nearly nine miles from his home. The Compiler then adds: The little dog, which had been the child's play, mate, and which bad accompanied him in his long and fatal journey, was found nestled ia the child's bosom, with his bead reclining on his cold and lifeless form. The faithful dog had tramped quite a path around the lifeless body of the sleeping innocent, thus betraying the affection that it bad for the youth, and in its fond caresses had licked back the hair upon the child's forehead. The corpse was conveyed home to its weeping mother, who, nnder the peculiarly afflicting circumstances, was almost frantio with pitL . . . .L; .... , : j Harder of Twenty-Six Men by Indian! An Indian Var Threatened. I From ihs San ' Francisco Herald of Feb. 16. We are put in possession ot the" fo lowing par. tieularsby Mr. Bernard O'Hamlon, who arrived from Victoria yesterday on the steamer Northern er. Mr. O'Hamlon left Semiahmoo on Thursday night but for Tictoria and just previous to his leaving a hunter came in, who reported that the Cougehan and Sticheen Indians had murdered a party of twenty-six men in the Couhegan Pass, between Frazer River and Point Roberts. It Seems that some ninety immigrants from Australia had located themselves at Point Roberts for the time being, and the murdered men are sup. posed to be of their number It was thought that tbe act had been committed in revenge for the killing of a "sec," or chief of the Slickeens, perpetrated a short time previons by some parties connected with a tradingschooner, the name of which is unknown The people of Semiah-moo are preparing to resist an attack, as the Coobegacs and Stickeens are two of tbe most warliks and determined, tribes ta'that region, ' HHMMawmMaaea -!" : Another Caicida ia' Ciaclsaatx, 't - Miss America Rice, aged about 29, daughtet cf a widow lady, 'being disappointed (a a love afair. committed SnleUa on Tuesday br talin?i atrychaine, sold her by a druggist's clerk, thocgb I lie told tig af;er purcbajuug it tat sta jxten dad to take it heraal tOa reachin? the street lis deserud and 'tLrry ul SirallowfJ a per-tion cf tls ucti, atl h&xuel li tia bca cf a f. iCi, - w s tl wit t.,s X,3m cc, Z&.czi t !1 tit jri.-.-cV Hi 1: j L:;, ;" Ti3 C:. t v-Tt:zztl3 iA tv. -::Sto rrls a!;l. r: J tr. .'.:l t 7 -1 Ci r-rac: Ci! Some Person or nersona Vtic.n ' on Saturday evening" and before day en llzziiy ! morning, did a diabolical act to the railroad tree's : about a mile beyond HartinsvUle, by drswir g out. i the spikes that fastened the railing to the track, causing the track to . spread when the train el tempted to pass In the moroiag." Tbe freight : train had to pass over first, Th eegtee and. I eight freight cars were thrown off the tracks : Five of these freight cars wra minrTt,!r m.Vff f ep and the freight scattered ia e very" d ire etioo- i Fortunately, no person was injured. Itiserrp f posed that nearly one hundred yardj were Ios i ened by drawiog out the tpikea-rCI'::.".--l ; Jidv-eriiscr cf lxa iZlh. ; Tlorrille Tragedy ia t Lzzls, ' A horrible tngeiff of the Sickles order, was : enacted at St. Louis oa Wedoesdsy. A yoo eg : man, named. James Hamilton, who had only I been married four months, became exasperated at hearing rumors of hia wife's infidelity, wi:V are said to have been without foundation, and; shot her, on the day in question, aod then shot himself! Hamilton will die, but Lis wife, thocgb, ! desperately wounded, will recover. The ramore. 1 are said to have been set afloat by Hamilton' ! brothers, who had conceived a dislike to his wLV, ! She was eighteen years old, and he twenty-three, j Liter (ron H&yti Another XnsnrrecUsa, News from Haytt to the ?5th alt, states that j an insurrecuoa againai me new uovernment naa occurred at Jeremie. Geo. Lesperance, Goven HAS et ffftsa Tlaareaaf manv - weir9 aMnaamnrYai uwe va aa ySHkiuua aaAeV easaUWt Wa7Vs the Repnblic, but bis adhesion was feigned, On the 19th of February he took poesessiooeof ta fort that commanded the town, and thence sent j agents to incite the people to rebellion. - The ex, tent of tbe revolt is not given, ; tZJ A bill has paued the Missouri Legulat ! ture giving one million and a half dollars towards the completion of the Pacific railroad, whenever a like sum is subscribed to the money expended on the road. j - Ppeak Gently to Each Other. "Please to help me a minute, sister! "Oh, don't disturb me. ; Pa reading," was tha answer, " "But just bold this slick, won't yoo, while I drive this pin through?" ' "I can't now, I want to finish this story, said I emphatically; and . my little brother turned away with a disappoioted look, in search of somebody else to assist bim. He was a bright boy. of ten years, and my only brother. He had seen visiting a young friend and had been a windmill, and as soon as be came bome'his energies were all employed in making a small one; for he was always trying to make tops, wheelbarrows, kites, and all sorts of thinks, such as boys delight in. ' He had worked patiently all the morning with saw and, jack-knife, and now it only needded putting to gether to complete it and bis sister refused to assist him, aod he had foos away with tisyoarj heart saddened. V ... - I thought of all this in fifteen minutes aftes he left me, and my book gave me no pleasures It was not intentional nnkindness, only thought-, lessnsss, far I loved my brother and was general, ly kind to him; still, I had refused to help hi ra. I would hare gone after him and afforded the as. sistance be needed, but I knew he had found some one else. But I had neglected an oppo tunity of gladlening a childish heart.: In half an boor he came bounding -in' tha boose, exclaiming: "Come, Mary, I've got it upj just see how it goett" His tones were joyous, and I saw that be had forgotten ray petulance, so I determined to atone by on usual kin4aef.s, I went with him, and sore enough on the roof of the woodshed was fastened a miniature wind mill, aod the arms were whirring around fasten ough to suit any body. I praised the wtodaul and my little brother's ingenuity, and be seemed happy and entirely forgetful of my nnkindness, and I resolved, as I had many time before, to be always loving and gentle,; - . . ,A few days passed by, and tba shadow of aT great sorrow darkened our dveWmz. Tbe joy. ous laugh and noisy glee were Hasted aod ocs merry boy lay in a darkened room with anxious faces around bim, bis cheeks - flushed '.and his eyes unnaturally bright. Sometimes hie temples would moisten and his muscles relax, and then hope would come into oar berte, nd cor eyes"fill with thankful tears.' It was ia one cf those deceitful calms of this disease that be heard the noise of his little wheel, and 4lL "I bear my wind mill. ' ' " " "Does it make your head ache? .1 a&ed, "Shall weUke it down? . , v - "Ob, no," replied be, "it seems as if I wtrsczt of doors, and it makes me feel better." He mused a moment, end then ti'eZt A . 'Don'l yog remember, -Mary, that I wartil yoo to help w tx and yoo was readier lzI told me yoa could no'.? Bat it did net c.'. 3 ary dilterenae, for mamma helped rae, .' : O, bow sadly those -words fell tfi r-y ear, and what hitter memories they t'r:;'' Cow I repented, as I Ilised LfJa H -iVs f.r Seal. tBat lever hadrpolien oc.Ic t LI .-, J7ocr of corroir went ty and r3 vfi' .1 - J V.3 cinch. t?p yrowlrg Uizlzri at ! c---,.!i ens weeh fron tia t:r! j c v ILL I cf h:sch::::ibtrt:t2, t::-::c:t: 3c f;3.:no', t'l f." 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