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About Bellevue gazette. (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1858)
rue was considered a fixed fact, end ad vertiaemcnts in the paper referred to a Unking institution in full operation, ntl door to the Capuol Building, with quit a number of Mercantile hooaee nattered orer the city, apparently doing a Land Office business, when there was "nary" houM built by anyother tbaa the Mission and tha Government Cabins on the whole plateau. The Acting Governor then assumed the position of Chief Executive of the Territory, occsjoned by thedeath of Gov. Burt, and soon evinced by his cor rupt tendencies the policy; by which. he was actuated. An overwhelming array of evidence was furniehed of the stupen dous frazils practiced, and chicanery used by Omaha to secure tha Territorial Capi tol, watch eventually proved successful. An isdigsatica meeting was called et tha. Mission House, at which the stock holders of the Town Company and his Excellency were present. Gov. C as sured tha people that heavy bribes bad been offered him at various points on the river to induct him to locate the seat of Government, and that Omaha was only proof against such deep corruption that he was not influenced by siniter motive, but from firm and honest convictions of his duty, and considered that ha was best subserving the interest of the whole Ter ritory in preferring that town, being more central, to others as eligibly situated in many . respects, and possessing as good natural advantages. He promised this end of Douglas County a Representative District, providing the people would tn- dorse all his political schemes, and vote in conformity with bis diclorial rule. At thi close of his speech he retired from the room. It kindled a perfect blaze of excitement, and was replied to by a num ber ef stump orators, who hurled the bit terest shafts of venomous acorn and con tempt upon his devoted head t the papers proving his duplicity were exhibited and exposed in til their hideous deformity, and after 4 raking fire, and tearing asunder the O 'aha clique with a perfect avalanche of sarcasm, theut down highly gratified at the pe: formance. At one time I was really fearful that some one of the crowd would ' not survive ' the shock, "but time works wonders," and before I left they had gradually cooled down, and a Com mittee was appointed te draft resolutions expressing the sentiments of the met ting to be forwarded to Washington without delay. '" I regarded their explosive.elo- quence as the effervescence of a weak brain. 'repeated for mere buncomb, and wis satisfied In my own mind that many of his -opponents were as deep in the mnd as he was in the mire. ' Christmas-day was heralded in with a gorgeous flood of light from old Sol, dia pelting the gloom of solitude, and peeping viciously thro' the curtains of Miss Ptuebe's bed chamber, rousing her from an abaor bing reverie, shining with perspicuity on her fair fkee and erutxly hair, trying to steal 4 "Visa from her ruby lips; and play ing such fantastic irr ages upon the opp kite Wall, that she became seriously ap prehensive that thieves were" in the house and screamed with nervous tremulousness, "Thieves 1 Murder ! Sic. until I ran to her assistance, and soon restored ourwor thy landlady to -her usual equilibrium when she emphatically declared, "I was never so scared in my life." - Old Gril was up with the sun, suspicious of some evil genius parading in the cellar and ab atfaetinr his whisky: the Yankee was dealing ponderous snores on the unoffend mg bed pillow, and your humble servant was beating lime.t j the melodious notes j of a creaking coffee-mill. Towards noon "a sudden change came o'er the scene. The morbid sensibilities of several old bachelors were rsstored to activity by the arrival of wagons with a good sprinkling of the fair sex from the sacred precincts of Mormondom, Council Bluffs. They came over to enjoy a pie-nic txcurtion on the beautiful soil of Nebraska ; to see the germ of Popular Sovereignty, and to pay a transient visit to the wigwams of the Oraahas. I was introduced to the party by aa acquaintance, and 00 account of my age and experience was privileged to act aa guide to their destination at a grove of timber on the south side of the Psppilion, about 2 miles from the Omaha t illage. The reads were dry and dusty from the excessive drought, and many of the party were almost blind and suffocated from its effects... We halted at the Omaha village, four miles above the Pappihon, and an old centenarian invited us into. Us wig wam ; jve,csawled .under with some diflj. cuby, and Mr, Wash-eum-ne extended his head with a cordial, "Cugt-how f He - bd been Chief of the Omaha tribe whea " Lewis and Clark performed their journey up fh Missouri river, , He handed us a ppv filled with'lnnjcl," to moke and was anxious for us to partake of some "Carlo soup," but the ladies were dingus ted at the idea and could not be persuaded to taste, touih or handle. His attenuated figure, bent down with age and infirmity, drew largely upon the sympathies of all present ; he was rewarded with several stiver pieces by his visitors. We then went into the incloeure of the circle of wigwams, and witnessed quite an inter esting war-dance. Among those who figured conspicuously, we 1 0 ice White Cow, Standing Hawk and Yellow Smoke. We then saw Shun-gus-ka, or White Horse, their head Chief, a man about 30 yeara old, with an eye full of electric fire, hair black as a raven, possessing an ami able expression of countenance, and car rying a noble bearing in his manner. He spoke English fluently and was a gen eral favorite with the ludies, who were ignorant of his being a Polygamic, and were not aware that four squaws recog nised him as their lord and master. The sun was fast receding in the western ho rizon as we reached Saling's Grove, and partook of a delicious repast furnished by our lady friends. Music and dancing, jokes and witticisms and frolicing was the order of day. Night closed in upon as pleasant a time as I ever enjoyed. UNCLE FULLER. the l a r.ss in i-mawci. rhe press in 1 ranee has a delightful tune of it The journals are suspended when they say anything unpalatable to the emperor, and they are Interdicted when they keep silent upon subjects which he wishes them to discuss in the way pleasing to himself, One newspaper has just been interdicted, because it did not denounce the asasins who attempted the emperor's life. Thi is one step in despotism a little further than any other ruler has dared to attempt Tjik Winter ix Eunori. Thp follow in? is an extract irom a private letier re ceived from Guernsey, (English Chan nel.l dated Februar,' 4th: The winter with us has been so mild that many ol lie oldest inhabitants do not remember such a one for the last fifty years. 1 saw raspberries and hawthorn blossoms last month, and the vale had gooseberries as arge as green peas, not more than a month aince BELLEVUE GAZETTE. HKNUY News and m. hurt, Ixtral Kditor. DELLBVUE, N. T. THURSDAY, MARCH 19.1858. JUDGE PEROTSONS PRE-EMPTION SUSTAINED I Decision of the Commissioner of the General land Office 1 M. Gavarni, a French machinist, has perfected his atrial ship, at a com of 300, 000 francs, and made a voyage to Algiers, Africa, and- back with it, a distance of 1500 miles from his starting point. The average tpeed was about 100 miles an hour, the voyage out occupying la hours, and the return 16 hours. Si. Gavarni is to make the aitempl from .Havre to the city of New York, as soon as he has test ed the character of his invention, by a few short trips over the Mediteranean end its neighboring provinces. The time consumed from Havre to New York wo'd be but thirty hours, breakfasting at the former city and supping tl New York on evening of the next day The report of the Board of Public Works of Ohio, for the year 1857, shows that the canals did not pay their expenses by over nine thousand dollars, the de fine of income from these canals for the last three yeara has been gradually increasing. John K. Kane, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the East ern District of Pennsylvania, died at his residence near Philadelphia, on Sunday evening, Feb. 28th. of inflammation of the lungs. Judge Kane was of Irish de scent, hia grandfather, John Ke-ne. having emigrated Irom that country, ue was bred to the law, and was tor many years a member of the Philadelphia Bar. He was known as a "land lawyer," a branch of the profession which may be very lu crative, but requires little forensic talent He never was called eloquent or profound but he made money. In 1845 he was ap pointed by President Polk to the position he held at his death. Judge Kane had greatness (in a small way) thrust upon him. bat iiitle note he had is due to two rases one. that he was lite father of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane ; and the other, that he was the Judge of Passmore Wil liamson. The latter had commenced a suit against him for false iinprisment, which, of course, is terminated by his death. Is Kaksas to have A HOTBEa New Govtawoa ? There are rumors afloat both in and out of Kansas, that the Presi dent contemplates the removal of Denver, present Governor of Kansas for the rea son that be refused to "go the whole hog iu favor of the prc-slavery election frauds. The Pittsburgh Dupatck learns from a "perfectly reliable source," that Francis McKee, of Cookstown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, had received the offer of the Governorship of Kansas. Mr. Mc Kee is an ardent friend and devoted ad mirer of Mr. Buchanan. The Tribune correspondence says : "It is well understood here in the moot inti mate circles of the President' friends, that immediately on the rdjoumment ef Congress, Mr. James Gordon Bennet w ill receive his commission as U. S. Minister to Austria. This will be the simple ful fillment of one of the conditions on which the New York Ihrald gives its support to the Administration." The Herald has for some time beea a faithful supporter of the Administration, B. R. Gitsinger, the oldest printer in Chariton, djnd on 'hi lfkh Feb- CHAPMAN'S LAST DODGE! By the latest news from Washington, we learn that the Commissioner of the General Land Office had dcciJed the case of Judge Ferguson's pre-emption, sustaining the Judge'a pre-emption; who ever expected any other decision ? The testimony in the case, in the first in stance, in the Judge's favor was sufficient to have driven any decent man from fur ther prosecution of the case had it not been prosecuted as all know it was for the purpose of reflecting upon the repu tation of Judge Ferguson, and for the further and most rascally and despicable purpose of prejudicing the Judge'a claim to his scat in Congress. To what measure would not this man Chapman resort, to ad vance his own ends of corruption, and to further his wicked and vile objects of self aggrandizement ? To nay nothing of the fair fame and untarnished reputation of one of our purest and best public men which he has so maliciously and unscru pulously labored to destroy ; for only a temporary effect, he has shown tho hon est pioneer settlers of Nebraska, that his threat made during the canvass, to the effect that "if he was not elected to Con gress he would use his influence to de feat every appropriation for the Terri tory," was perfectly consonont with his character, and in peifect keeping with those treacherous acts of duplicity and double-dealing which have characterised Chapman's conduct in an eminent degree. And in the case of the pre-emption he cared not for the best interests and most sacred rights of the squatter, who left a state of plcn'y and comparative ease to pioneer and settle a new Territory that they might by the early and judicious ex ercise of the right and privilege granted them by l. digress, secure a competency for themselves and families, toiling and sweating beneath a burning prairie sun enduring the chilling winter blasts, to avail themselves of this pre-emptive boon while he was promenading Pennsylvania Avenue, with his pockets crammed with Dakdah shares, Browville lots, Nebraska City blocks, and 40 acre school lots, bright with thoughtful expectation of where he would next commence to farm out the in lerests of Nebraska, (himself and hi: brolher-in-laws ) And again after hav ing raised the hue and cry about the pre emption of Ferguson for no other purpose- than to cast a most false and foul imputa lion upon the reputation of the Judge, and finding three men base enough to assist him, prompted by personal animosity and a bitter vindictive f pint of revenge, and grossly ignorant of the consequences of sioh a disreputable course of conduct, They make affidavits to the effect that all they know of Ferguson's pre-emption is that they know nothing about it ; where upon Mr. Chapman employs a lawyei in Washington City, and leaves his brother in-law, Lock wood, in Omaha City to at tend to it here, (having failed, be it said to the eredit of the lawyers of Omah: City, to find any one but the brotber-in law who would descend from their high calling, to dabble in this low and disre putable affair.) and with his little soulless, niggardly illiberally, refuses to pay his lawyer in Washington. The case is sent back to Omaha for a re-hearing, where the brother-in-law of Chapman can appear as counsel, and where he did appear as such, and after a long and tedious trial, with the usual de gree of small, practical consummate mean ness, the prosecution refused to pay the clerk his us al fee for writing down testi mony. Having satisfied himself that there is now no possibility of getting a seat in Comgress, he has taken the last dodge he will most likely ever be in a po sition to take. With the Douglas men, he is with them on the Kansas question, and with the friends of the Administra tion, he is with them, of course. This he does hoping to secure rotes enough in the sequel to get his milesge and part salary ; whether this will win we shall see. The Ifeftrasklan and Ita Editor. Nothing can be more gratifying to us than to observe the palpable change in the tone of the Nebraskian of week be fore last, and for onco free from the vul garity and twaddle so emphatically pecu liar to itself. Its tone for once has breath ed a compliment fer which we might feel gratified, if we did not understand the object. But though the language does per ceptibly change, the spirit still remains, plunging blindly onward, with the vain and malicious hope of- contaminating where you dare penetrate. No sooner do tho scales fall from your eyes, and a gentle rebuke creep in' upon . a s you, staying tor a moment me rapu dis solution of a diseased spirit, ere the can ker worm prompts you to rite like the fubled Titan, with strength redoubled to your labors of disjnci anl infuny low vainly idle are your paltry attempts to hurl back our weapsos upjn ojrieKoi. You charge us with " baseness and inde cency," who, for your wanton offense to elicacy, received the crushing rebuke of be Senate of the Territory. Do we soy rebuke ? that alone, would insult that body, who refused to breathe the same atmos- here with yourself. Your insignificant charges are couched in an improved style speech, thus fastening the charge, (which you so shrewdly anticipatad,)that not one, but many seek the privacy or our sanctum ; if it were not so it would be but another reason why we should pay no heed to your simple aspiration ; for in that case we would know full well that ou have as yet had by far too little prac tice to improve in your mad attempt at decency. You" have no desire to bandy words with puppies." .We, with less assumed dignity, and eminently far more fraternol feeling, will not permit you to exercise the one degraded and characteristic habi of the eanine 1 tribe, without a parting word. The word " puppies," savors much of your former self, and former speech. We think his Excellency, the President, would find but little trouble in properly interpreting the word. We think your many schemes with nothing to recommend them, but ihe model articles of your mod el paper, and their complete overthrow, and the final great Post Office dodge, proves the truth of this assertion. Your exacerbation having run away with your reason, many have also affected your memory. For your benefit t we will re vive it by simply calling to your mind the the numerous malignant articles in your paper which so justly provoked the indig nation and contempt of Mr. Buchanan, thwarting your nicely pre-arranged Post Office scheme at Omaha. " Puppies," scoundrels," the base and false,", adorn your "set phrase of peech," in rare antithetical confusion ; all of which you violently, even mena cingly claim the authorship of ; your as sertions we heed not, knowing them to be the workings of a morbid imagination. Were men to assure us we were " false and bae, we would smile in scorn ; then what grief must affect us when we hear the mere say-so of one who dare not claim affiuity with such. Hok CnicAoo MoKictrsL Election. At a recent Municipal Election, held in Chi cago, Haines, republican candidate lor Mayor, was elected by 1101 majority. The Council stands Republicans 17, Dem ocrats'?. The total vote cast, was 10,123 gainst l6,015 for Mayor last spring' and 11,313 for President in 1850. . , 1 1 I.. Washington, Feb. 20. Horace Greeley was examined this morning before the Tariff Investigating Committee. All the members were pres ent. The examination wis concluded in forty minutes, when Mr. Greeley was in formed that the Committee would not re quire hia further attendance. He ex pressed his high appreciation of the can dor and courtesey of the Committee and thanked them for calling him before them. He' says they asked bini no question whioh he did not deem pertinent, and which he was not very glad of an opportunity to answer. .':.' The purport of his testimony i nnder- stood to be, that no man ever proposed to put any money into his hands to influence in any way the action of Congress on the Tariff or any other question, and 110 one suggested anything of the sort with his consent or knowledge. He never knew until the late expose in Boston,' nor ever' heard or believed that money was paid or proposed by Lawrence, Stone & Co., or any one else, whether to members or others, to influence the last Congress on the Tariff. March 2. The War Department has received despatches from Col. Johnson, dated Jan. 4th. As it is a matter of absolute neces sity that supplies should reach him by the first of June, measures for that purpose have been taken by Gen. Scott. His or der, dated Feb. 2Sth, directs that a train, to consist of at least 200 mule wagons, shall be organized with the utmost des patch nt Fort Leavenworth, to go immedi ately with Col. Hoffman to Fort Laramie, and to transport from thence to Col. John son's command in Utah f commissary stores, men's shoes and such other supplies as may be know n to be much needed. Two extra mules to provide for casuali tis are to be taken for each wagon. The waco.is nl mules and everything or the train will be the best that can be got together at tort Leavenworth, or ith n convenient reach of it. A com pany 0: cavalry and infantry will act as an escort leyonJ rort Laramie, the train will start as early as the 18th of March. In an order dated March 1st, to the commanding officer at Fort Leav en worth, Gen. Scott directs that the fol lowing be sent to Gen. Garland in New Mexico by express; v 'Col. Johnson reports that the Mor mons intend intercepting Copt. Alarcy on his return with the mules and horses, he was ordered to obtain in your depart ment. INotify the Captain of this, and see he is strongly escorted on hia return march, and well provided with whatever he may require and you can spare." Ihe above orders from uen, scott were telegraphed to Boonville, Missouri, and from thence they are to go to their lace of destination by express. ' V I'M (March 3. In a former dispatch it was stated on the authority of leading Democrats, that the calculation was that the ' Kansas bill woutd pass the House by 15 majority, but oh the contrary the leading anii-Lecoinp-tonites are. sanguine of its defeat, and are working industriously to that end. Local & Territorial. Edward Lerew, one of the early set tlers of this place, who has been spend, ing some months in Pennsylvania, arriv ed in this city the early part of this week, much improved In health. Read the new advertisements in anoth- column. . "C The ground has settled, and in a few days the roads will be in first rate travel ing condition. " - -1 DisTaicr Coobt. The District Court 1 for the First Judicial District, a Donglaa County, is now in session at Omaha. There are 359 cases on the docket. T. a. Uumixc. Ve regret ex ceedingly to learn that the Secretary's health is still precarious and that his physician deem his recovery more than doubtful. At the last issue of our paper, we were under the impression, and in fact were so advised by his friends from Omaha at the time, that he wJ rap'dly recovering, and would soon resume the duties of his office. Under that impres sion, we penned the article of last week which we are free to admit, under the circumstances, appear harsh and unfeel ing. We hope to be the last to deepen the wounds of hearts already bleeding or to make light of the ills and woes which afflict humanity whenever Provr dence may visit them. We say this much in justice to our feelings with a proper cons' ibusness of duty and justice to others uninfluenced by the course of others to ward us. The steamer Henry A. Jones, took fire recently near Augusta, Ky.. and was burned to the water's edge. No lives lost. The boat was valued at $15,000, aud in rnrod for 10,000. There are now 590 convicts confined in the Illinois Penitentiary ; 9 of which are females. Owing to the crowded state of the prison, 150 of the prisoners are unemployed. These are supplied with school books, and a regular school is now in progress, under the supervision of one of the guards. This is indeed an ex ample worthy ol imitation in all prisons, We hope the tm;e will como, when every prison will be supplied with a good library and the best newspapers published in the country ; and a portion of each day se apart for the moral and intellectual im provement of the prisoners. It does not seem to us to be the best method of re torming couvicts to keep them in ignor a nee of what is transpiring in the worl arnnd thrm. The weather is fine the river in good boating condition, and rising slowly; nvhai arrived yet one expected soon. Chief Justice Hall arrived at Omaha last Saturday. . . The farmers of. this County Lave com menced in good 'earnest to fence their lands. Piles of posts and rails are to be seen scattered over the prairies, in every direetion. More than double the quanti ty of land will be cultivated in this Coua y, this season, than in any previous year. The Sheriff of this County, John M. Enoch, is now assessing the taxable prop erty of Sarpy Co. Foundations for several new buildings have been commenced in this city- L. G. Jeffers, has retired from the ed itorial chair of the Plattsmouth Jefferson ian. . ' ' About 1000 wagons will leave Nebras ka city, this spring, with supplies for the army in Utah. Thu first train will leave' about the first of April. From an abstract received at the Coun' iy Clerk's office, in this city, from the Land Office in Omnha, we" learn that" 80,000 acres of land have been r pre empted in this county; leaving 70,000; acres subjuct to pre-emption, 60,000 of i which have been filed on. , ? An effort is being made, to es'allish a public Library in this city. We hope it may prove successful. ""' ' ' '' Mr. Crow's Land Hill. "About the best bill that has been sub mitted to' either .House of the present Congress with any chance of being pass ed, is that of Mr. Grow, of Pa., by which it is proposed to forbid the proclamation by the President of Public Lands for sale until fifteen years shall have expired from the date of their survey. The object of this bill, as we judge from its , title, is to allow the pioneer actual settlers fif teen years' pre-emption of their respective, quarter-sections before they can be com pelled to pay for them or surrender them to any speculator who may see fit to buy over their heads. We do not consider this so good as an absolute free land bill, but it is probably easier to pass ; and we entreat all earnest advocates of land ' for the landless to unite in support of this, 1 more radical measure cannot be carried at this session. A. Y. Tribune. Through the liberality of a number euf citizens, Mr. Lane,, whose shop was burned last week, has been enabled to erect another, and will soon be in readi ness to resume business. ' . ' ' , .', y A severe thunder storm occured last Monday afternoon accompanied with hail of generous dimensions. Fire Steamboats Bur nee! at Ifcw Orleans. A very destructive conflagration occur ed among the steamers opposite New Or leans on the morm ig of Feb. 21. The Virginia, Montauk, W. V. Sheman. S. S. Prentiss, and the small steamer Montgom ery (not James Montgomery) were des troyed. The loss by this fire reaches 70,000, which is partially covered by insurance, but the precise amount is un known. The ship Andover from New York was considerably damaged, and one or two other vessels were, injured. - The whole of the shipping in port was at one time in a precarious condiiiou. Ot'TRAcxous Rascality DakiAo' Attempt to kipnap a Fres Colored W 6 m in .A most infamous attemit to kidnap and reduce to slavery, an iotelfi gent free colored woman, has just come to light here. As we learn, the rircum stances are briefly these: " " ' A man - named Thomas Radcltffe, an Englishman, of Toronto, C. W., arrived in this city on Friday of last week, id company with a colored woman also from Toronto, who had accompanied him with the intention of going iivo the restaurant business in this city. They stopped at the Massasoit House, the woman, Hah-( nah Blackson, passing as his servant... . Soon after their arrival the fellow Rad cliffe made known to' a man named Burke of this city, that he was on his wayo St. Louis with the woman. Blackson, an experienced cook.' who would bring, a handsome sum; that 'all their baggage had been sent through to St. Louis; that if Burke would go with him, he. Rid el iffe, would return to Toronto for a ytl low girl whom he would persuade io joift Hannah here, and the two would sell for high prices. ' ' Burke divulged the fact to some colored people, among whom the report: spread like wild-fire, and on Monday evening they came to the Massasoit House ' and caused Hannah to accompany them. Radcliffe took the alarm and made off, no clue to his present whereabouts exist in?. " ' I- He had induced ' the woman to trust him with her watch, baggage checks, and $200 in money, and she is left penniless here. It is hoped that the scoundrel, will yet be arrested- .The woman will return to her friends in Canada. Chicago Jour. The friends and partizans of Santa Anna are expecting his arrival at Havana, 1 whence he wM proceed in a Spanish wari steamer to assume the Presidency of Mexico. . . , . ' The Leavenworth Times says the judges and clerks of the election at Shaw nee, had been arrested, and testified un der oath before thi Investigating Com mittee, that the poll book of Shawnee was taken to Westport, and 300 names added thereto in that place. Gen. Coinonfort, late dictator of .Me-y-n, arrived in Baltimore," ;h. W. ' It la stated that Mr. Saunders, th sculptor, hsa j-iat completed a nine bust of Gen. Casel mir PuUiki f In Italian marMe. It haa been executed after the best and Bidet aathentie portraits and enrravhtca, and represents Rtnt la hia Polah costume t bis fine head -and countenance expressiTe of the kindaeaa and courage which were ao predoaainatly bis char acteristics. This buat ia of coloaaal aiae, and will probably be placed in the rotunda of the l-apitoi at Washington. ' .. 'I The Boston Ledger eava 1 That John Han cock, Esq., nephew of 'Gov. John Hancock, -of Revolutionary raimofjr, will complete his 84th year on the 22nd inst., whea the H Han cock llonae " will see one of-theie hearty eld fashioned times for which it haa been hereto fore ao famous. Mr. Hancock, wears his yenrs well, end walks aNoit ever)- day.,.