Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1857-06-23

              mm sWi.e-.,fc f VOL III. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY MORNINO, JUNE 23, 1857. NO, 32. fl v: i ... ii I CENTRAL OHIO HEAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION, COLUMBUS, OHIO. h THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC 13 RE-tpectfully lollcitcd to this Association. The property enumerated in the Schodule bolow, in among the moit valuable in the City of Columbus and Franklin County, and ii rapidly Increasing In value. 'It 111 be distributed among the Shareholder! on the FIRST DAY OF JULV, or soonor if the Shares aro all disposed of. The distribution will take plaoo under the immediate supervision of a Committee to be appointed by. the Shareholders, in each county and State, where shares are hold, the number to be appointed aeoording to the number of Shares held in itieh county. The total expenses of the Committee will be paid by the Association. Any oue ean become a Shareholder bv the navi vent of ONE DOLLAR, which entitles him or her to one Share or Stock. Think of it for a moment by the payment of only One Dollar you are constituted part owner of over $50,000 Worth of Eai Estate, And $25,000 worth of other property. In the distribution an ELEGANT HOCSE AND LOT, valu'.d at , 13,000 may be allotted to you. In any event you cannot lose more than a few cents, as there is 75 Thousand Articles, To be distributed, and there is only that number of '. Shares, so that you will see at once, thatevery Shareholder gets something, of more or less value; The Dollar that you pay for your Share you would not miss, but ijs all probability would spend it for something of no present or prospective value. If after reading fte above you are not convinood, and still f00' disposed- to stand in your own light ' K'EAD THE FOLLOWING: .. For $3 we will send any $3 Magazine published -ffof ono yoar, and one CertiBoate of Stook, entitling ' theholder thereof to one share in the distribution. '" - For $2 we send any weekly papor published at ' ' $1,50 par annum, for one year, and ono certifioute of Stock. For $5 we will send any of tho $3 Magazines for one year, and two oortidcatos of Stock. To those who would profor to snbsoribo for the Stock alone, we make the following offer t For One Dollar we will send ono Certificate. For Ton Dollars wo will send eloven Certificates. For clubs of fifty and upwards, we will send ono certificate for every ten ordered, and allowing the 1 getters up 5 per cent, on the amount they remit. Parties ordering Certificates Bhould be careful to ' write their names, Post Office, County and State in " full, as each name is registered, so that we can for-' ward them a Sohedule after the distribution. , " We invite your earnest attention to the Schedule below, and would remind you of the oldndge, " Noth-' injr ventured nothing Gained." Bank Notes current in any of the States whore is-e nod will bo received at par. For all sums of Ton Dollars or upwards, please send draft on Now York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, less the premium. Ad-' dross all ortTers to R. H. SXOWDE.V, Sccrotary of ' tho Association, Columbus, Ohio. 1 Elegant Brick House on Town at. Columbus, Ohio, valued at 1 do do on Cleveland Avenue, -1 Framo Cottage on Mound streot, $8,000 3,500 1,500 1,200 1,100 1,000 1,000 too 775 725 3,500 2,200 1,800 776 723 3,500 ' 2,200 1.800 2,100 1 do '1. do '1 do 1 do do do on Pearl do do do do do do do do do do 1, do do do 1 Fine Building Lot on Washington Avenue 1 do do do do do S do do do do $700 each, 4 do do . do " do 5S0 " 4 do do do do 450 " I "do do do do on Friend it 1 do ' do do do. 5 do do do do $700 each 4 do do do do 550 ' 4 do do do do 450 " 0 dD i.' do ' do Cherry st., 350 " ' 4 do do - do do .'00 " 6 do do ' do do ' 404 " 1 Fine Farm in Norwich Tp., Franklin Co., " O., in an clogant stato of cultivation, 1 do do . do do 2,000 2,320 3,500 3,300 $50,600 Totalamonnt of Real Estate, 12 Elegant Gold Hunting Cased Watches valued at $1,25 each, 12 12 12 12 12 12 25 1,200 000 720 600 610 360 500 420 1 Eleeant Solid Silvor Tea Sett 6 r. 20 Setts hoar Storling Silver Tea Spoons do do do do 100 " do do do do 75 do do do do 60 - do do do do 50 ' do do do do 45 " do Silver do do 30 - do do do do 20 " $8 a sott 160 20 do do do do 7 140 24 do do do do A " 120 20 do do do do 5 " 100 20 do do da do 4 " 80 It do do- do Table 35 " 350 10 do do do do 30 " 300 10 do ' do do do 25 " 250 10 do do do do 20 " 200 10 do do do do U 160 1 Diamond Ring valued at 60 I do do do 40 It do do do $20 each, 200 I . . do "Breast Pin do 60 1 4a i da do 40 10 4 do do $20 each, 200 504 Gold Pencils, Rings, to., valued at $3 each 1,000 1000 Subscriptions for one year to any $3 Magasine, 3,000 C6t0 Subscriptions for one year to any Weekly Paper published at $2 2,000 721(1 Assorted articles which want of spice .accents our enumerating 8,330 JOOi cW&eatoe, at $1, tl $75,000 ... i t, RAGUET, . - Agont, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. TOAOEVT8. We want Agenta ia every section of the country, to whom we moke the fullowiag liberal offers : To toeteTen Agent wa sell the largest number of Certificates, (im additioaio a liberal eooiDtioion allowed tteea for celling,) we will present with the following: fa the irst, 1 Elegaat Gold Watch and Chain worth $10. To tho seeoad,-1 Elegant Gild Waten aad Chain worth $76. To the third. 1 Ele giac Cold Watch and Chain wort $M. To the foarA, I Gold Watch worth i0. To the itth, I Pat ent Lever Silver Hwang Kim worth fW. To the tilth. 1 Patent Lever Silver Hunting Cue worth $25. To the teveata, 1 fiimtood King or Breast Pia, (at til opt, ) worn wzv. i uo eigntn, i uiaansta Kiag r Breast Pia worth $16. To the ninth, 1 Diamond Riagor Dresut Pin worth $14. To tko tenth, 1 Heavy Chased Gold Ring werta $3. Those wishing to act aa Ageats mast tend ns a written eommanieatioa signed by some respoasible person in the place where they rosido. rJC any iWUnr information addre't K, U. SNOWDES, Bee'y. Colcmbus, Ohio. t Poneaa ordering tickets or askiagfor Information are requested to tend a three cent stamp to pre- pay pottage. I'm Packages of eleven tickets will be sent tor ten dol lars.- ! , Biay6 - Land Warrants. LAND Warrants bought and sold on oonualaiioa at my office. W. H. COCHRAN-, net 23-t ' ' ' Real Entate and Oen'l. Agent. . COMET COMING ! G RANDY A PHELPS ANNO0XjCB TO ALL people that 4bey hav just received from the Eastern Market a well selected assortment of Clooks, Watohas, Jewelry, and ail kinds of Musical Instruments, whiah thy an selling at low fignrea. Repairing of Clocks, Hatches, Jewelry aad Musical Instrument, done on short notice, and all work WARRANTED. Pianos, Molodooni and Aooocdioat tuned on short ootie. Mr. Pbef pa, ' of '"" 1"ing hod a large share of experience in tho manufacture of Mdedeont, and baler nteened a good Musician, will take pleasare in girinrallraasoaable latraotions to pur-enaeers, la regarda to ta aie, Ac, of kasica In' strumeuU ' W wiib k understood, that havirg purehasod on favorable terms, at shall not be under-fold, aad that no reasonable paint will be sparod la ear Ym to five aatiKottua to oar ewituanrr. Friends and neighbor yow that hart t Music in your souls anddiune l yoar pocket, aieatr give at aeall before purehMiaejeltewbere, FredericVawn, May i, 1M. tT ADiEa YOU CAN n5 THE BT A-tartmentand thtnpeH Drett Goods, Boons U, ' hvii, Hhawl, Ac, In tht elty at Mar 20, 1857. (f WABXEB MILLED S. , , For the Mt. Yernon Republican. AIR. Air is one of Heaven's most bountiful blessings. Pure sir Is a universal necessity to animal life. Scarcely any thing Is more deleterious to health, than breathing an atmosphere pent np and contaminated by hundreds of living, breathing creatures. Nothing Is more necessary to human health and comfort, than free ventilation of ehurchei, in summer. If the following poem shall serve, in any degree, to mitigate the evil under consideration, the objoot of the author will be, at least, in the same dogree, attained. e Last Sunday morn the breeses wero abroad i Refreshed humanity prised the heavenly boon That rich munificence of our bounteous God, The gentle balmy breath of flowery June. And every tongue was earnest to applaud, And every heart's doep harpstrings were in tune The sun dispersed o'er all a softened sheen, And Nature spread abroad her fairy scone. To church I went, 'tis no one's business where, . And makes np difference who I am that went ; A cititcn froe, am I, and littlo caro For any body's objection or oonsent. I went to church, I told you, and was there, In strict conformity with my own intent, The air was odorous, as already stated, And many a lady's skirt seemed well inflated. But that's a subject I did 'n't intend to touch on, And one that's foroign to the present theme ; And yet 'tis one I possibly might make much on, Were it within the purview of my scheme ; Howe'er inflated, certain it U, no such one Is here considered, and I do not dream That suoh will play so great an incivility, As "coming betwixt the wind and my nobility." Out tide the church, it was, the air, was good, Intidt 'twas like a prison, closo confin'd : The doors were shut, and windows closed, as would Excludo the storm-king, and the wintery wind. I wish to have this circumstance understoed, . For 'twos the dearth of air disturbed my mind. I can't conceive why men should be so chary Of God's free gift, whon all orcat ion's so airy. The choir at length struck up the organ. played, It seemed a prelude, chant, or voluntary ; And then the parson, as is usual, prayed, For every good, eternal or temporary : Music, again, and proaohing, wore essayed ; But without air, they, neithor, could well be airy ; So every effort seemed dull, and languid, and plod ding; ' I roused me up, and caught tho deacon a-nodding 1 I looked around, and counted half a scoro, Or more or less of them, in like employment ; There wore, I'm sure, a half-a-dozen, or more, Who seemed intensoly rapt in the enjoyment ; I'm sure I alnmt hoard the deacon snore, And momentarily looked for that annoyment. Tho slips are rented 'twas exceedingly funny, To see so many a-gotting the worth of their money 1 T was there, and seemed supremely blest, Nodding assent, and manifesting his gratitude ; The senior S , his caput mortimm press d Against the wall in comfortable attitude ; Whilo C , as usual, laid him down to rest, Longitudinally, in disregard of latitude : And I declare, for truth and conscience sake, A special wonder, for once, ho kopt awake I But J oould not--'twos not a practical thing, To breathe without air, and yet not go to sloep ; For to keep wakeful, e'en before tho king, Deprived of air, is a difficult thing to keep ; But when, at length, the choir oommene'd to sing, He roused and startled, like a frightened sheop ; But since I've got a little before my story, I'll close this verse. O mora I 0 tempor$ I And B was near me, nearest perhaps of any, Of the most prominent of the " sevon sloepers," And soemed to enjoy his nap better than many Among those wearied ones, who closed their peep era; L appeared dreaming of the now-coined penny, That wee thing promised by our treasury keepers. Each manifested, by the nodding hood, Assent to evory word tho parson said. At length the sermon closed, and I was glad, For I was nearly dead, for want of air j A little longer would have driven me mad, And I, for one,denouaco it as unfair, Unjust, ungenerous, and outrageous, bad, For those, who of our churches have the care, To smother folks, when air's so plenty and froe, I call It murder, in the first degroe. Throw up the windows ! lot the air eomo in I 'Til God's free blessing in the summer time, 'Til a necessity, and hath ever been, To all God's creatures, of whatever clime To cheat them of it is so rank a sin, I cannot well express It in my rhyme, Wnere many congregate, let in all you can, Or don't protend to be a sensible man. Mt. Virkok, June 8th, 1856. t. A MODEL WIFE. A pleasant little Florentine story reached mo the other da. One of our famous American sculptors, residing in that delightful city whither all thj genius,6f England and America seem to tend, was one day seated in his studio at work on an Apfllo for which, by the way, he might stand as model himself when kia attention wag attracted by tremendous traaspling of horses in his courtyard. lie looked oat of tho window anj beheld a lagnificeot carriage with outriders' drawn up before his door! Presently a gentleman claimed admisiion to his studio, and announced himself as Prince di B . He came to give the sculptor a large commission. His daughter, who had been struck by soma statues of the American that she had seen, wished to sit to him for her bust. Sho was then below in the carriage. Was tho sculptor at leisure ? Price was no object ; all that was necessary was to gratify his daughter, who was an invalid. ' , - The sculptor expressed his willingness to begin the work instantly, and the Prince ma king sign to his lackeys from the window, they proceeded to lift a lovely girl, who seemed about eighteen, oat of the carriage, and bore her ia their arms carefully up the stairs to the artist' studio. The sculptor could not repress a took of surprise at this curious mode of keesxitt, particularly as the lady did net bear the tightest trees of iltnesai io her eoonteaaaeeV ft P'riseo interpreted his glance ana replied to & "My daughter h:i boon parafyzvrj as afl aa her limbs," he said, " for the last two months, It is a sad thing. She has had all tho medi cal aid in Florence, but without avail." The sculptor looked again at the invalid. Nothing mora beautiful in face or form could have been dreamed of by Phidias. A face like Cenci's before it was clouded with tho memory of crime ; mosses of rich, lustrous auburn hair, framing a clear, palo face, with deep blue eyes swimming beneath a fringe of the silkiest black lashes. Through her deli cate muslin robe the contour of a divinely moulded form were indicated, and when the young Signori cast upon the sculptor a repaid glance, soft as starlight, piorcing as electric firo, he folt his heart leap, with a mysterious presage of soma indefinable catastrophe. She sat. The sculptor worked at his model like one inspired, and a pang struck his heart as tho hour for her retiring came. The Prince and his lackeys bore her again down stairs in their arms. Tho carriage door closed on her ; tho horses swopt through the gato. The sculptor did no more work on that day. To-morrow she was to come again. He lay awako all night dreaming of her. Then he would shudder and say to himself, " It is not love, but pity I feel. She is a paralytic ! " The next day tho same scene was repeated, with this difference, that the prince having seen his daughter posed by the artist, excused himself on the plea of a business engagement, saying that he would.return in time to conduct his daughter home. Poor girl, although tho sculptor was a model of manly beauty, her deplorable condition was, in her father's opinion, a safeguard against any of the dangers which ho might othorwise have anticipa ted. Ho left the room and drove away in his carriage. A silence ensued. The sculptor dared not look at his model, but worked away on his clay image without raising his eyes. Still a silence. Then it seemed as if a slight rustle hud filled the room. A small white hand stole across his mouth, and a burning kiss was printed on his forehead. With almost a shriek, he leaped to his feet, and there, with blushes crimsoning her pale checks and alabaster neck, knelt the paralytic girl, with her beautiful eyes imploring pardon. " I saw you a long timo ago she said (an Italian woman when she loves knows no half measure) "and I loved you. My father was very strict with me. I could not move with out being watched. It was impossiblo for mo to meot you or see you. I feigned par alysis. .For two months I have scarcely mov ed. In his pity for my condition my fathor relaxed his surveillance of my motions. He gratified every wish, and as an invalid I ex cited no suspicion by desiring to become your sitter. I have said that I love you. If you do not return my love, I can only die." What answor made the American? We need not inquire, only when the Prince di B - returned he found nothing in tho studio but a clay model of his paralytic daughter. The original was nowhere to be found. A few days afterward, in a small town of Franco, the Florentine princess sunk her nobility in the name of an American sculptor. Mrs. Jordan nod the lUclbodlst Treacher. Whilst tho celebrated Mrs. Jordan was performing, once, at Chester, her laundress was arrested for a debt of eight pounds sterling, which Mrs. Jordan paid. Walking out in the afternoon of the same day she was compelled to tako shelter from a shower of rain under a porch, where she was espied by the liberated widow, who fell upon hor knees and blessed hor tho children, distressed at the position of their mother, contributing to make up a very affecting scone. - Mrs. Jordan could not conceal tho tear of feeling. Stooping to kiss the children, bho slipped somo money into the hands of the mother, saying, "There, there, it's all over ; go, good woman ; God bless you ; don't say anothor word." This interesting episode was witnessed by another person, who had token shelter near to the spot, and who now came forward, exclaiming with a deep sigh, " Lady pardon tho freedom of a stranger ! but would that tho world wero all liko thee !" The penetrating eyo of Thalia's votary soon developed the profession of hor new acquaintance, whose countenance and attire declared him to be a Methodist preach er. After listening to a brief sermon on the sisterly lovo that had beon evinced, and of the fulfilled command to feed the hungry and relieve the distressed, Mrs. Jordan interrupted the discourse, by observing, "Ah t you are a good old soul, I dare say ; but you'll not like me when I toll you that I am a player." Tho proachor, with a complacent countenance remarked, "The Lord bless thee I whoever thou art ; and as to thy calling, if thy soul up-braideth thee not, the Lord forbid that I should." Thus reconciled, snd the rain baring abated, they left tho porch together, on tL'e way to Mrs. Jordan's dwelling. The offer of the preacher's arm ,was accepted, and the old streets of Choster beheld the serious die-ciplo of Wesley walking arm-in-arm with the female lioscius of comedy. ' fjT" Tho capability of improvement, intellectually and morally, is a proof that a man is an unfinished boing ; he is incomplete ; he is io tho infancy of existence. He is in estate of pupilage and progress ; and the degrees of intellectual endowment which characterize different men, impart Variety to the commonwealth, and teach that difference of opinion must be expected, and that liberty to express opinion is the birth-right of every man. A FuHEitAt, Ankcdotb. In one of oar Connecticut river villages, venerable and well-known divine, who stilt flourishes in "that ilk." was tailed upon by one of the overseers er thvpoor, who required bis services at sAmeraL " Yon need not trouble; yourself rrruch ho said ', " 1 only want a short ooraroon sort of prayer " 'Twas "onlyapau- DOLLAR NEWSPAPERS. Messrs. Wilkinson & Hitchcock, announ ced in this week's Metropolis, that tho pub lication of that paper will again bo discontin ued for want of adequate support. We had wished, but scarcely expected, for them a better fato. We have seen enough attempts to publish "Dollar Weeklies," in small towns and cities, to satisfy us that it won't pay, and ho who enrages in such an enterprise must do so with the expectation of " working for nothing and boarding himself," hardly an ad equate reward for tho arduous labors of a publishor. Scioto QazctU. We would sooner risk making a living by giving concerts n the Jews-harp, than by publishing a paper nt one dollar per year. One dollar and a half is ruinously low. Two dollars is the figure that we will all have to come to yet. Thirty years ago, our weekly papers, not larger than a foolscap sheet, were two dollars per year. While corn was ten cents, potatoes fifteen to twenty-five cents per bushel, and flour $3 to $3,50 per bbl. Now, with labor, produce and evory itom ef expense in living or publishing advanced from ono hundred to four hundred per cent, the prin ters are foolish enough to publish their papers, doublo and quadruple the sizo at $land $1,50 per year. Tho great error was in attempting to cora- poo with the city papers. Country papers can not do this. The country papers cost as much to bo put in type as the city papers, and where the latter has thousands of subscribers all over tho Union, the former is limited to a few hundred subscribers, in its own and adjoining counties. The home paper is worth $2 per year for it s local news. The city paper contains geno-cral news. AH intelligent farmers ought to take both. A paper at $2 per year costs the farmer loss than 4 cents per week. Sometimes, upon asking a farmer to subscribe for our weekly paper, he tells us that " he takes too many papers already." Any reflecting man will see the injustice of such a course. No man out to be so partial to foreign papers as to bo unable to take his own. Recollect your home paper is the medium thro' which you call public attention to any contemplated improvement or enterprise. Through it you make known any grievance or outrage. It is your medium of expression for public sentiment upon all questions in which you are interested. ' If you hold a meeting at your school house to express the opinion of citizens in your township or school district concerning the construction of a public road, the erection of a meeting house, tho election of Mr. So-in-so to tho Legislature, to Con gress or to the Presidency, where dp you go to get tho proceedings published ? Do you go to the New York Saturday Post, the Phil adelphia Dollar Highflyer, or the Boston Noo-dlo ? Not at all. You would mount Pompy and ndo straight to tho editor in Portsmouth, who receives you kindly, talks an hour or two about tho object of your meeting, and publishes the proceedings, adding an editorial comment, all for nothing. Yet when the editor modestly says, ''Hadn't you better subscribe for our paper," you ram your hand into your breeches, give yourpock-ot-book an affectionate squeeze, and tell him " Oh no ! I'm taking too many papers al ready." This is no over-wrought picture, but ono of actual occurrence almost every week.. Not long sinco an old gentleman, worth $25,000, found that he had beon so extravagant as to take the Weekly Tribune one year on credit. In consideration of his poverty wo let him off for $1,50, rather than be bored with a long talk, as we wero in a hurry, and sometimes an hour's timo is worth more than fifty cents to an editor. Our terms were properly $2. He squeezed out the $1,50 slowly and dubi ously as you would squeezo blood from a tur nip, and told us that he could not afford to toko the paper another year. He "liked to read it, it was a nice paper," &c, but really it was " needless for him to take it." Wo pitied the distress of old Beeswax, and as wo bowed him out of the office, it occurred to us that if he should die, in all probability we would be called upon to publish a long obituary notice, telling people what a great loss community has suffered, how liberal and kindhoarted the old man was," ta, oVc. Printers do these things for nothing. A work has been written called " Ten years among the Mail Bags." It details incidents occurring at the Post Office among thoso opening and reading letters at the place of delivery. It was very interesting in showing tho various phases of human nature. There is material for ono more work yet It ought to be called " Ten years among tho Types." TorCsmouA Tribune. Ell Thttycr's Emigration Scheme. Mr. Undorwood, the Secretary of tho New England Emigrant Aid Society, gives notice that tho important manufacturing site at the falls on the Rappahannock river, in Virginia, has been secured for improvement, and he published a letter from the Mayor of Fredericksburg, conveying to northern capitalists and emigrants who desire to settle there, assurance of fraternal feeling and cordial good will Ball. Sun. Tm Chow. A most extraordinary change has taken place in the appearance of the crops within the last two or three weeks, and fields of grain which, hi the middle of hut month, promised but little yields, are now presenting a very different aspect . Grass fields are much improved also, and the general impression is, thttunlcs some Unforeseen occurrence happens to roar the present bright prospects, the crop of this year wiN be more than go avcrago one. Trenton Tritt American. THE DEFALCATION AT COLUJHBU1. Tho nocessity to provide the means to pay the July intorest upon the debt of the Stato, has probably been the occasion of bringing to light a condition of things in the Treasury department which has boon previously suspected by many, though perhaps known to but few. A sum of money reported to be equal to half a million of dollars, presumed to be in the hands of tho Treasurer of Stato, is missing from tho public coffers without any vouchers to account for . its expenditure the official custodian of the public funds has resigned, and his place has been provisionally filled by the nppointmont of tho State executive ; and an investigation is being mado into the actual condition of our financial affairs. To men acquainted with the character of those who, for ten years past, havo surrounded and controlled the government, dictated its policy, and originated and directed its enterprises, this denouement will not be a matter of surprise There aro thoso who havo known, and with their own eyes seen, that the politics of the State were directed by men who employ the influence and powor which they possess as a means to dopleto, under tho forms of law or otherwise as was most convenient, tho general and local treasury's that public funds wero clandestinely token and employed in business in speculation, and in gamdlinq. Gamblers have holden tho keys of our strong boxes ; and the tables of the faro banks in Baker street' have been the places whero thousands upon thousands of State, county, and city moneys have been spread out for deposit, and absorb ed. There aro many persons in tho State who have all along had their doubts whether the exposures made by Mr. Brcslin, the late Treas uror, of sums of money deposited with certain firms in Toledo, Cleveland and this city, and rendored unavailable by the failure of those concerns, covered all the funds that had disappeared from tho treasury during bis admin' istration. They suspected, to say tho least, that the exigences of the party and of individuals and the notorious extravagance, profliga cy and recklessness of thoso who, if they did not keep the keys to the treasury, governed the strings which controlled the Troasurer, had rendered necessary heavier drafts than had yet been disclosed, and, 'therefore, will not be surprised at the present explosion. One thing, it is to be -hoped, will now take place a completo exposition of the facto as they are. Let the people of Ohio know how much they have been swindled, and by whom Without regard to tho feelings of individuols or tho interests of parties, let the whole truth be told, and tho man, clique, party, officer, or public journal that attempts to turn aside or hinder tho investigation, or cover up tho facts which it discloses, lot them be branded at once as partakers in tho guilt. Mr. Brcslin, on coming into office, found his predecessor, Mr. Bliss, a defaulter to the amount of some sixty or seventy thousand dollars, which the latter had invested, or expended, or sunk in speculation. With an am iability which has gained in somo quarters much commendation, Mr. Breslin permitted himself to bo prevailed upon to represent the accounts of his predecessor as balanced, and to assume tho risk and responsibility incident to such a proceeding. Mr. Bliss has, it is re ported, restored the sum that was due, and taken his final receipt lor tho same ; but the ugly and dangerous precedent remained to plague at least ono of its inventors. Mr. Brcslin came into office with unboun ded confidence in tho very unscrupulous and needy clique of politicians who raised and pla ced him ther. Ho was elevated with an express view to tho end for which ho was em ployed, and has run tho very career which, knowing them and him, any sagacious man would havo predicted. That tho defalcation now exposed mainly took place during his ad ministration, there is little room to doubt ; and it is duo from him, in atonement, at least to lot all tho facts of the case be fully known. Mr. Gibson is the brother-in-law of Mr. Brcslin, to which circumstanco it is believed by many, he owos tho successorship. There wero members of tho Democratic party who undoubtedly took a deep interest in securing his nomination ; and there aro circumstances which go to show that when he sought the office Mr. Gibson was aware that Mr. Breslin was a delinquent ; and that it was in relation to that delinquency that it was desired. At any rate he could not have been long in his place without discovering that a defalcation existed ; in which case it would havo been his duty as well to the publio as to himself, to have made it known immediately ; instead of which ho appears to havo used every means in his power to conceal and delay the expo sure. JV hethor thore wa? a community of interest betwocn himself and Mr. Brcslin, or whether ho was actuated only by feelings of friendship toward him, we do not know ; but thus much is certain that by his doings io tho premises sinco tho timo whon he must have been awaro of tho facts, Mr. Gibson has subjected himself to tho cTiargo of being an original wrong door a particepi in tho felonious abstraction of moneys from the treasury. It is not probable that through any direct peculations of his own Mr. Gibson is a defaul- .tor. At the time when be assumed to cover up the delinquency of Mr. Breslin, he doubtless found the contract larzo enoueh without augmenting the lalwr by any original operations of bis own. If, however, he has, by his own acta sided in enlarging the absent total, it has, we presume, been done under the pressure of necessities growing out of that melancholy successorshipin wrong to which he permitted himself to be inaugurated. . Threatened as be was, and pursued with investigations, it would have been unsafe to make any material inroads into funds already so much diminished ; and there is littlo likelihood that Mr. Gibson would hare dared on his own account to enter upon so tmwiso s proceod- liog. Ciiu Com., Junt 15fV . From t'le Clnelnnati Commercial, Junt 14. - Another Fugitive Slave Case ! TERRIBLE TRAGEDY! U. S. DEPUTY MAE8HAL STABBED ! RUNAWAY NEGRO SUOT 1 1 Dishonorable Conduct of the Enquirer. WHO MR. W. M. CONNELLY IS. About ten o'clock Saturday morning, a bloody affair took place on Vine street, east side, a few doors above Fourth. Deputy U. S. Marshal J. C. Elliott was scrorcly stabbed by a runaway negro whom be was attempting to arrest, and the negro shot and desperately wounded by another of tho U. S. Marshal's posse. It appears that two negroes, Irwin Broadus and Angcline Broad us, (man and wifo.) slaves of Colonel C. A. Withers, of Covington Superintendent of the Covington and Lexington Railroad had for some days been concealed in room No. 18 of the building adjoining the Gazette office on the north, which apartment was rented as a lodging room by W. M. Connelly. It is said that in-formation concerning their whereabouts was given by ono of tho Underground Railroad folks whether from the prickings of con-science, the temptations of gold, or tho instigations of malice, we have not been informod. Friday night tho room was watched, and Sat urday morning, warrants having been procur ed for the arrest of tho fugitives, Deputy U S. Marshals Jno. B. Andorson, B. P. Church-hill, J. C. Elliott. J. KLowo, Jos. Woodward and E. B. Carty, proceeded to bag tho game treed. Woodward was stationed at tho trap door on tho roof of tho houso, to prevent the possibility -of cscapo in that direction. The others approached the room by tho stairs, and knocked, but no response was given. The Enquiror of yesterday describes that which followed, thus : " Mr. Elliott clambered up to tho transom window over tho door, and looking in remarked that " they were there, for he saw their dinner." Forcing his body partially through the transom he saw the parties in a small room adjoining and exclaimed "here they are." He thon endeavored to get into the room, but instantly fell back on the floor upon his feet, and said he was stabbed. ' Marshal Andorson then endeavored to kick the door in- but riot succeeding grasped an old bedstead post near by and burst it open. At this mo ment a shot was fired at the negro, who was standing fronting the door, knife in hand. He fell to the floor, and after a short scuffle, in which he fought desperately, the knifo was wrenched from his hands and he was pinion cd." . Elliott received two wouuds, one in the breast, near the left shoulder, the other in the ioic arm, near uie cioow. Tne negro was shot in the abdomen. ' The instrument with which Mr. Elliott was wounded, was a sword cone, tho blade of which was bloody for eight inches. Dr. Blackman attended Mr. Elliott, and found that internal hemorrhage ensued from the breast wound. The captive negroes were token at once before U. S. Commissioner E. R. Newhall, and in a remarkably short space of time were as certained of his satisfaction to be fugitive slaves belonging to Col. Withers, snd reman ded to thoir master, to whom they were dis patched in hot haste, the woman accompany ing the Colonel in an omnibus, guarded by two Deputy U. S. Marshals, and the man being moved in an express wagon, with a guard of three of tho Marshals. A warrant was issued for Connelly, in whose room tho fugitives were found, but at tffe latest accounts his whereabouts had not been discovered. Yesterday's Enquirer makos a malignant effort in this connection to cast odium upon us, roundly asserting that Connelly was " one of the Editors of the Commercial." This the writer thereof knew to be a lie. Mr. Connelly was however, ono of our employees, and was engaged in reporting the proceedings' of the City Council, and the school Board, and oc casional! jr gave sketches of lectures snd reports of trials, and furnished local items but he has no control whatever over our editorial colums. This is Tory well known here! and wo only montion tho fact that our friends in distant places may not, through the malicious and indecent lies of the Enquirer, bo led to misunderstand our position. We yesterday received a letter from Mr. Connelly, which appeared to havo beon written the day before, informing us that ho considered it expedient to be absent for a few days. He says in tho letter referred to : " Tho negroes arrested to-day are not slaves, but free. The woman was sent to Ohio by her owner, and resided months by his consont, near Waynesville, O. The man was allowed for along time to drive a cart or dray in Cin cinnati, and his tuastor procured license for him from the Mayor of Cincinnati." . How much troth may be in this, we have not at present means of awrtainini. As many absurd stories are circulated regarding Connol ly, it is proper to say that those accusing him of vicious propensities are absurd. Ha ha bowever, carried too much sail for the ballast and cargo aboard, and though amiable in disposition, was foolishly injudicious in dinoosina of himsolf. His eneroy in rOfmine down an "item" was unexampled, hence hia valua In the position which he filled in this office. His incomparable legs will .probably - prove to be his best friends now. His sodden departure without leave of absence, has sared ns the trouble of formally granting him the htr-gesl liberty in that particular. ' P, S. We saw Marshal Elliott ktst even-mg, He was still in the office of the United States Marshal. He was urinrt an Awus-im tag fatM dotting, ahj evidently suffering mucn, oomng ana moaning. At Bin o'clock last evening,.!. lilackroan reported bim as mproving, with proirpocta of recovery. At five o'clock Utt evening, the wounded aegro wa considertd itueb better, " Western Speesilntlou., , Tho following from the Chicago Tribuntof hibits the truth in relation to Western specu lation : ' , ' it.-.' Though the rage for speculation in land may be somewhat moderated in southern Wisconsin and Illinois, It continues unabated in Iowa and Minnesota, where it has, for two years past, been the prevailing diseaso.- In Minnesota, the epidemic is at its height and sinco tho wild days of 1835-6, the country has seen nothing equal to it. . - ; ,, Tho basis of all operations in Minnessota is credit ; and upon it thore are built np thousands of fortunes that are, to their possessors, solid as a rock, but to others of clearer vision as thin as vapor. The territory's resource are in embryo; it has no agriculture which furnishes a surplus for export, no manufactures, no commorco. The money and fire-per cent, a month, the common rato of interest, is sufficient testimony that there is but little of that in circulation from hanJ to hand is that carried in by new emigrants. Credit is the basis of all credit which has only pure- , ly imaginary valuations of lands and town lot as its foundation. The bubble will burst- Though it has been blown up to a ridiculous diameter, and is gold-colored to so many eyes, it will burst A yoar of short crocs in the Northwest; a year of cholera, by which emigration will be kept back, a panic in the monoy market, produced by whatever cause, will let the gas out of it in n single summer. The Trlni ot Mayor Wentworf h. Paul H. Dennis, local mail agent in this city, has just been out on a hunt after the largest Bpccies of gome, with not what we believe, and certainly what has not proved, the best chosen kind of ammunition. -. The Mayor in all his length was up before Judge Drummond on Tuesday, upon a com plaint preferred by tho sharp set mail agont, for stealing the government mail bags 1 Thero had been a search warrant, and numerous sacks at the Summit were emptied of their peaceful agricultural products and brought to town by the local mail agent, to bo turned to damning proof against the ex-M. C. The sacks in question were the coarse duck sack, or bog, used for the transmission of " Pub. Doc's to members of Congress, in which capacity Long John had received some doscn or mora of them. ' It was shown in evidence that M. C.'s never returned these sacks. That Judge Douglas never had returned them in any case ; that they passed by common acceptance as envelopes, and wore not mail bag at all . : : .- Thus "bang" went Mr. Dennis' gun, and not a feather was disturbed. The Mayor came off with flying colors, Judge Drummond refusing to hold him to bail. The Court room was crowdod with spectators, and the fkree was a taking one. Chicago Prtsi. The Kansas Correspondent of the Cttl eafo Tribune. A letter from Leavenworth to the St. Louis Democrat relates tho following of the Kansas correspondent of tho Chicago Tribunt A well known editor of an Eastern Journal was passing the residence of a notorious " National Democrat" in this city few days since, and overheard him remark to a compan ion, " there goes that G d d n red-headed abolitionist!" Our friend turned towards the rnffian and with a mildness and politeness) characteristic of the editorial fraternity, remarked, "aiilurn if you plane." The Democrat was taken by surprise, he was complete ly dumbfounded ; he did not comprehend at first such extreme coolness and politeness of manner ; for a fevr seconds ho stood in apparent amazement, and then breaking out ia a loud laugh, joined by his boon companion, ho said, "that is a d n good fellow anyhow, if hp is an abolitionist ; I'll make his acduaia-, tanco if I car.." Quito n Mlstake Tho Bultimoro Republican tells a story of S . young man who fell in love with a young la- r dy residing in ono of tho residences of Upper . Tendom. The lover (oaring a repulse from f the head of the family, conducted his courts ship in a clandestine manner. The upshot of the matter was, Omt an elopement occurred and the parties were married. After the marriage the bridegroom proposed that they should return home and procure tho father's pardon, ' Judge then of his dismay when, with a traui' ' bling voice, sho informed him that although she possessed tho tiame of the gontleman ia ;' question, she Was not related to bim ia the-slightest degree, snd was employed in hit dwelling in the capacity of a seaaistrcsaw Thus alt his visions of a secured fortune a cre scattered to the winds' ; and the scene of re . crimination which ensued tua terriUy out of ' character for a newly married Couple. ; Peart Ilnniert. We learn from country pxpvrf that I Me- ' ral pearl-hunt is now going an all over the-I'm tod States, in all the little rivers, for pearler By every mail wo karo that the pearl ftvV has spread to new region, and . that, ed Wednesday last, Fat mar Oirla, of Corn county, found in Weddysquawquwa Creek, several - pearfs which the watchmaker ef mrt villas, ' thinks may possibly be worth several thou- ' sand dollars. . Our en tire population has tarnv ' ed out mussel hunting end we burr oar per pur to press that wo miy also go i fcr tbt glorious) chafrceaoor youngest sow having-privately informed iM that be know ef an) i immense, bed of the article." Ollwr -, contain aneeJotos of pviarU fuuird lovjg aj fijJ . kjnorantly split to piece, or thrown - eirt regret, Arobtlcw lbo,r Pm"- wereeaawofawiY- "''m ,0 th,nl H I