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HELLEVUE GAZETTE. News and Local KJltor. DELLEVUE, N. T. THURSDAY, MARCH 11,1853. Poppleton a Know Kothlnf. Omaha City has just passed through a heated and excited municipal election. Poppleton and Dyers were the candidates fof "Mayor.' We believe Mr. Toppleton received 68 majority, and we know that both hare claimed to be Democrats si monpvrt; and at to the Democracy of Mr. Hjorsj we have nothing to sny, as we have never heard any charges ngninst it, and only know him a n goutleinau. Mr. Poppleton was a member of the first Legislature, and we think it is due him in point of position to My, that with the help of A. J. Ilunscom in always recognizing him fir si, when he rone to speak, provid ed he obtained the floor He (Pop pleton) was the leader of the clique and also leader of the majority of the lower Iteuse, at least as far as cheating the peo ple out of their just rights, ly every spe cie! of unfair and illegitimate legislation was concerned. He was also a member of the last Legislature, and the body he was a member of, had the good sense and intelligence with a proper regard for his previous connection with the affairs of the first Legislature to leave him in a miserable minority. In the interim of his being a member of the first legisla ture and up to the time of his nomination far Mayor of Omaha, he was at many primary meetings in various parts cfj tho Territory assisting to organize the grqat Democratic Tarty. Mr. Poppleton is a prominent lawyer of Omaha City, and is, as in justice we must concede, a yoang'msn of some ability, but it is now charged, and upon oath too, that he par ticipated in running an institution in Oma ha styled and known as a Know Nothing lodge. This we confess is a grave charge, especially against a young man of Poppleton's Democratic pretensions. Again we understand thnt the Lodge he assisted in running was not instituted by the regular order. We think it would be sufficient to damn nny young politician of any kind of pretensions, for nil future timo, to have acted with the Dark Lan tern, prescriptive set of secret politicians, bill to belong to a Bogus Lodge makes the deed doubly reprehensible, n e call at tention to the atlidavit belo', charging Mr." Poppleton with Know Nothingism, which was posted in Omaha City, on the i m s I s u oay oi me last municipal election. e hope Mr. Poppleton will, if he can, ex plain away these charges: Affidavit. , "I, William N. Dyers, do solemnly swear that, sometime in the coring of 1655, 1 was invited by Andrew J. Pop pi ton to visit a room on the second floor, and in the south-east corner, of the baud ing Knowu as tne "Uiu state House, m Omaha City. - As we were passing up the stairs to said room, 1 asked Mr. Poppletou hisob t'ectin vis'lhg said room, which question ib declined answering, saying I would soon see. Upon enteritis said room, we were met by A. J. Hanscom, with a book or paper in his hand, from which he read an oath which he desired me to take, I enquired what thy were doing, and re ceived in effect the following answer: We are KNJW NOTHINGS, and are organizing a lodge here.' I asked who started it, and they said Mr. Jones, of Iowa; who I then remembered having seen in Omaha sometime before, and to whom I had had an introduction but no further acquaintance and I do not re member bavin? seen him since about the time of which I tpeak. I then aked them for what purpose they were making the organisation, and received-in arwer, from either Mr. Ilanswrn or Mr. Poppleton, the followiug words: 'THE DAMNED IRISH ARK GETTING SO THICK HERE, that we want something to whip them with. By God, we will show them at the next election whether they will compel us to elect such men as Bill Clancey to the next Legislature.' I think Mr. Purple was in the room at the time, and that he was a member of the lodge. After the above conversation. Mr. Poppleton went down stairs, and returned with Mr. J. W. Paddock, who was met at the door by A. J. Hanscom, who again repeated the Know Nothing oath, which Mr. Paddock also refused to take, and he and myself withdrew from the nom and went down staira, and that is the last time I ever entered a Kuow Nothing lodge, and I never expect to again. I was only induced to enter the said room by the earnest solicitation and persuasion of raid A-J. Poppleton, and would have done o under no circunutauces, had I known the object for which he invited me; and 1 now declare that I am not now, nor was not then, a Know Nothing. I did not subscribe to any oath, book, or paper of any kind whatsoever, and never had any knowledge whatsoever of any other Know Nothing lot. Wiit.it.y N. Hvriit. Sworn to and subscribed hrforo "me this S7th day of February, 185S. J. (J. SEELY, Juittct of Iht Ftact. ftecretarr f Nebraska. Some of our cotempories have Riven credence to the rumor that N. E. Welch is to appointed Secretary of this Terri tory. We are unwilling to believe the Administration tan inflict so great a wrong upon our people. We do not re cognize Mr. Welch as a resident of Ne braska, nor do we consider him a proper person to hold so important an office. Du ring his four months stay in the Territory, he became universally unpopular with our citiaens, and so strongly is the feeling against him, we are confident that ninety nine out of every hundred persons who made his acquaintance, would protest against the nppointinent. The success of an Administration de pends much upon the efficiency and popu larity of its appointees. This is particu larly true of the Territories. Then why should we be buriheued with official whom our people cannot respect I We re-iterate what we have more than once before asserted, that T. B. Cuming, the present worthy incumbent of the office of Secretary, has the confidence of our poo nlo who would greatly deprecate the change proposed. We find the above in the Nebraskinn of the 3d inst., which is in keeping with everything of a personal nature, appear ing weekly in that sheet. If the people of Ncbras'.a should speak they would pronounce the article false in three par ticulars ; first, a thousand residents of Nebraska know, of their own personal knowledge, that Mr. Welch hns been a permanent resident of Nebraska, living in Omaha City, not forty rods from the office of the Nebraskinn, the last eight months raft; second, "that there is a strong feeling against him," is as un- ushingly untrue ns the first charge. Mr. Welch is a young man with o polish ed education and gentlemanly bearing, with urbane and social qualities that made im a great favorite with tho people. And with one exception, the editor of the Nebraskian is the only one we ever heard speak a single word against the purity of his character, integrity of his purpose, or his unpopularity as a young politician; thirdly, that "T. B. Cuming has the con- fitUtice of our people." Now we do not desire to repeat what has so many times been said by almost everybody in the Territory, and rehashed again through every paper in the Territory, except the Nebraskian, about Cuming and his course in this Territory ; for we believe that God and Providenco have much to do with ealing justice to the eminently wicked and corrupt, and by such an affliction Cuming is receiving all the punishment he can bear. Truth will out. Welch was not a sup porter of Chspman for Congress Cum ing was. The people of tho Territory fully understood all this, but the article was written against Mr. Welch for the purpose of infusing a little poison in old Buck's ear, to make another strike for Chapman, Cuming & Corruption, at the expense of peronol reputation, consisten cy, justice and truth, but, thank God, we have a President in old Buck with enough of the Jackaonion mettle, as we have seen in his appointment of Governor and Chief Justice to respect the wishes of the people. We presume the President will be fully advised as to the character of Mr. Welch by Gen. Cass, for whom he was private Secretary, for severa years. Although we say this much in justice to Mr. Welch sts a gentleman and an honorable man ; we say further that he is not our first choice for Secretary The Hon. P. C. Ward, uf New York who we believe has claims to this position is our choice. We know him to be gemlf man, of that business and politico experience, that would peculiarly fit hirn for the position of Secretary of the Ter ritory, having- sustained for the last fif teen years, since his entrance into politi cat life, first in Pennsylvania, his native State, then in New York, an unspotted and untarnished political reputation as a reliable, consistent, sound and uncompro mising XJeinocrst. Having tilled many positions of honor, boiu elective and by appointment, and refusing many sought to be thrust upon him. he would if ap pointed Secretary of the Territory bring that ripe experience and sound practical ability to the discharge of its responsible duties, that we so much need in a young Territory like Nebraska. Laws paused aC Florence. The following are the acts passed by he Territorial Legislature at the close of tits session at Florence : Joint resolution relative to printing the Laws. 1. An act to provide a Criminal Code. 2. An act to establish a Ferry across the Missouri River at Aspinwall in N i itnh:v (V.mty, 3. An act supplementary to ah act en titled an act to create a new election dis trict in the northern portion of Douglas County. 4. An act to incorporate the town of Parkersburg. ' 6. An act to incorporate the Nebraska Pomological Society. 6. An act to provide for the election of four additional representatives. 7. An act to incorporate the Parkers burg Land Co. 8. An act to amend the charter of the Bank of Florence. 0. An act to create a new election dis trict in the northern portion of Douglas County. 10. An act to incorporate Marietta. 11. An act to incorporate the Emerson Land Co. 12. An act relating to school lands. 13. An act to organize the County of Green and locate the County seat thereof. 14. An act to dissolve the bonds of matrimony between Jas. B. Hickman and Salinn II. Hickman. 15. Joint Resolution to Public Printer. 16. An act to amend an act entitled 17. Joint resolution relative to public printer. An act to provide for the collection of levenue," approved Feb. 13, 1857. 18. An act to re-locale the seat of Gago County. 19. An act to provide for the election Coroners. JO. An net to incorporate tho town of 'lutiford in Sarpy County. 21. An act to incorporate Tecumseh in Johnson County. 22. An net to incorporate the town of Liberty in Cass County. 23. An act io incorporate the town of Beatrice in Gage County. 24. An act to authorize the Commis ioners to locate a Territorial road from )esoto to Tekamu. 25. An act to incorporate the town of Cambridge in Otoe County. 26. An act to incorporate the Monroe erry and Bridge Co. 27. An act to establish a Ferry across tho Missouri river at Liberty in Cuss Co, 28. Act to incorporate the town of Watervillc in Cass County. 29. An act to locate a Territorial road from Desoto in W ashincton County to Elkhorn City, Douglas County. 30. An act to locate and establish a Territorial road from Nebraska City to Rock Bluffs. 31. An act to locate a Territorial road from Bellevue to Omaha City. 32. An act to locate a Territorial road from Peru in Nemaha County to inter sect the Millitary road leading from Leavenworth in Kansas to Ft. Kearney 33. An act to re-locato the seat of Government. 34. An act to exempt the homestead of families from forced tale or execution to y debts. I.ola Monies on Gallantry. On Weduesday night, Lola Montez de livered a lecture in New York, on the subiect of "Gallantry." She thus dis posed of ihe King of Bavaria ond Jona than : " Of King Louis of Bavaria she spoke at some length, extolling his love ot art and his platonic love, remarking that those natures which were too gross to consider the latter could not realize how it could be experienced by others. His negligence of d ess she noticed, remark ing that in the matter of old coats he would rival a celebrated American editor, (Laughter.) He worshipped beauty like one of the old troubadours. The Inited Slates was too practical a nation to enter tain a tpiril of gallantry. It required too much leisure. She did not mean that there was not plen-.y of courting, but the love o' the United States seemed to her too much a business. The gentlemen made love in a truly businesslike manner. They would manage the heart of a pret ty woman as easily as they did the slocks on 'Change, (laughter.) and the panics which they creattd in the social markets beat the revulsions of stocks in the re gions of business. She believed that the American was regarded as a dull fellew who could not win the heart of a lady, make a thousand dollars and Hart a bank of a million dollars capital before break- fust, (laughter.) But for all this, there was a good deal of honest love for wo men, and our gallants could dive deeper and come up drier than any other men in the world. (Liughter. ) She related the reply of Franklin to Madame Helvetius, I l I 'SIS' I wnen sue wuneu nun to postpone hi journey for her sake, that ' he would post pone his enterance to Paradise from b o'clock in the morning till 4 o'clock in the afternoon, for the privilege of an hour with surh a lady" and remarked that this could not be extravagant, for there wai no extravagance in love ; and she had never met a Frenchman who would not postpone any idea of Paradise alto gether for the take of a pretty woman. The Senate Committee on Territories will report against the admission of Ore I rn, Invade of an in"vPWTt pppu'virtn. . Correspondence of the Gstette. Omaha, N.T., March 4, 1S58. Dtat Gaxtttt: Whew, whew, what a smoke our municipal election has caused ! It's hardly cleared away yet, not exact ly certain what's did, and what's not did. 718 votes cast for Mayor, Poppleton re ceived 392; Byers, 326. 650 voters didn't care a " continental damn" which beat, fell just like the old woman who saw her husband in a desperate struggle with the bear, says she, "go it old hoss, go it old bruin, devil of a bit do I care which whips." Nobody would consent to take the office that the people wanted, consequently the field was left to Byers and Poppleton, old cronies, old partners. The people fell as f they might as well vote for one as the other. Generally the same objections that applied to one, applied to the other. People 5U;picious. dark hints about Know Nothingism. Pop's friends charg ed Byers with having opposed the intro duction of foreigners into the Territory. Byers retaliated, came out in an affida vit on the morning of the election, swore that Poppleton and Hanscom undertook to initiate him into a Know Nothing Lodge here in Omaha during the first session of the Legislature. Some people aken by surprise, others, not. Top got lold of the affidavit, read it, jumped right up four feel, liked to have fallen tackwards, one hand raised high up in the air, he swore 'twas u " damned lie, got up for electioneering purposes," then took a shoot for Irish town, as striaght as a bee line, met a son of " ould Ireland," shook him by the hand, treated to bad whisky then at a 2-40 pace to the Doug- as House then around town generally, coat tail out at angle of 45 degrees. Say old follow, did you ever see a pig ump, " cut up" and run, after his tail had been eliminated from his body ? Well, if you have, you can approximate to a faint idea of what a figure Pop cut while run ning through town. He finally subsided into Things looked queer, Hanscom cuss'd inardly, said 'twas true, but 'twas a shabby trick in Byers to tell on 'em. Sal isbury winked, Rediek looked down, Rankin tickled, "laughed in his sleeves," glad to have company he you know, was a Know Nothing at Keokuk, always has been a blot on his democracy. He is glad to have Pop and Hans in the same fix with himself. It turns out that all three, (they, who claim to be the sunon pure true blue democrats, and who lately at tempted to organize the democratic party for their own especial benefit,) have nl been members of the Know Nothing or der. Well, you know the old adaue. " when rogues fall out," See, but it's just as true, they tell the truth on each other. Pop comes o l with a printed disclaimer, but he only denied being a Know Noth ing at the pitsent time, he didn't deny having been one at some former time. Nobody charged him with being one at present. Well, Pop is elected, but it is worse than a defeat. The democrats who voted for him, say they have been deceiv- ed, never suspected him of having been a Know Nothing. If the affidavit of By ers' had come out three days before the election, neither Pop nor Byers would have received fifty votes. However, it is just as well as it is. The Clieque is done for. The developments are rich, more are promised. Yours, fitc, QUIZ. That Rankin, or any one but ourself writes the editorials of the Nebraskian, or any portion of them, is as false as Bovven and Strickland are la. Nebraskian. Mr. Robertson, we will bet you a cot ton hat, an Omaha Scrip Lot, or fifteen cents, hard money, that you do not write ! all the editorials of the Nebraskian; and further that Rankin did write the article for the Nebraskian, that we alluded to; and still further, that tor can prove it. Imitation or a High ExAMrte The Senate of Tennessee has caught the Grow and Keitt infection at Washington, and "gone in." The Senators from Maury and Shelby, Messrs. Whitthorne and Walker, struck up a little muss to en liven the monotony. The Nashville Pat riot of Tuesday says of it : Mr. Whitthorne rose to a point of or der. Mr. Walker, interrupting, said the gentleman from Maury had risen to a point of order, but was proceeding to the discussion of something else. Mr. Whitt horne replied, that sl owed how little he knew alout it. Mr. Walker rejoined that Mr. W hitthorne had been drunk all the morning, and wondered if he thought him so. Mr. Whitthorne retorted that that was a damned lie, whereupon Mr. Walker struck him in the face wiih a book, and the parties cliiichcd. They were separated without material injury to ith'-r. We recognize the Nebraska Adverti ser, R. W. Furnas, editor, as one of our best local exchanges. The last number, March 4, is replete with local news. The editorials bear marks of that candid, im partial and diguified character which should characterise a public journal. While Robertson is makirg such heavy drafts upon his demented brain, to retail slanderous and libelous scurrility agains( Furnas, he would do well t a look over the editorials of the Advertiser, and take due notice thereof, and govern himself accord ingly. Destructive Fire In St. Louis. One of the most calamitous events that has ever occurred in this city, involving a fearful extent of loss to life and property, transpired on Saturday morning, Feb. 20, between the hours of three and four. The Pacific Hotel, situated on the corner of Poplar and Seventh street, together with the contents of a number of stores on the hrst iioor beneath, was entirely consumed by fire, nothing remained but the blackened and crumbling walls. The loss of .property, tho' large, is nothing to the destruction of human lives which this catastrophe has occasioned. From the best information we can gather there were about one hundred persons sleeping in the Hotel nt the time of the occurence. It appears that the entire building was enveloped in the raging ele ment before scarcely any of the lodgers were awakened to a full sense of their danger. And when the inmates were finally aroused it was only to find all op portunities of egres closed to them, for the staircases in front and behind were already gone or so nearly so that an at tempt to escape by those means would be only rushing into the arms of inevitable death. The scene that enucd baffles any effort nt description. The rushing of men, women and children to and fro to avoid '.he blistering heat and to search for ways to reach the street the shrieks of the terror-stricken ond ; the groans of those bound to their rooms by walls of scorching fire the thouts of those who had been called to the spot from the sur rounding neighborhood the clambering over swojing and reeling joists the fall ing floors with their load of heavy furni ture and their dearer burden of human lives all this and more that was intense ly terrible and fearful, it is not given to our pen to adequately describe. The stairs gone, the roof and floors inch by inch, giving way, and the lurid flames shooting up momentarily thicker and hotter, many sought to escapo the impending hazard of being burned to death, thro' the scarcely less dangerous prospect of jumping from the windows Besides the loss of a great number of lives, estimated as being between twenty ond thirty, of which thirteen bodies have been found, about $40,000 .worth of prop erty was destroyed, insured for about 820,000. Had the boks of the Hotel been saved it nvght have been easy to estimate the number of the lost. But it is even dim cult to enumerate those who have escaped, tor they are scattered about in various parts of the city, and the whereabouts of but few is yet ascertained. Vo. Rtpub lican. , "-, Gas Explosion. A singular and fearful explosion, from defective gas-pipes, took place on the 19th ult., in tho Methodist Protestant Church, on Sixth street, near Race, by which some ten or twelve person were seriously in jured, and two or three of them, it is fear- ! ejt fatally The church has been recently refitted. I indeed almost entirely rebuilt, ond was opened for religious exercises for the first lime last Sunday. A protracted meeting or revival ha- been in progress for a few days past, and about seven o clock some fifteen persons entered the basement. where evening service was to be held, when a strong odor of gas was observed, causing much remark and an effort to discover the locality of the leakage. A man named James Morgan obtained a candle and ran it along a portion of the pipe, which was laid under the floor of the basement ond above the ceiling, under tne noor ot the church, but perceived no evidence of the escaping gas. He then applied the light to the box containing the meter, behind the front door, and a blaze burst forth, so frightening two or three persons that they rushed into the street. An alarm of fire was sounded from the tower on the Mechanic's Institute, and water having been brought in buckets, the flames were soon extinguished. Persons were moving about the base ment whi'-h h divided into a lecture room in the rear, and three or four small apartments, separated from each other by a main entrance end believed the cause of the ias odor had been discovered, when of a sudden a tremendous explosion took place, tearing up the floor, shattering the walls, and making a wreck of the basement. In the church above, half of the pews were torm up, the windows bro ken, portions of the floor blown as high as the ceiling, and the doors forced fioin iheir hinges into the street. The exnlo sion was heard at the dis'ance of half a mile, and its force equaled that of gun powder Of course, everything was confusion and consternation at once. Those in the church, it was supposed, were killed, and n lar? crowd f persons, drawn thither by the noise, collected in a few moments near the Fpot. A search was immediate ly begun for the injured, some of whom were taken from ainona broken limber. and fractured wall, in a condition that j renAer.A ;, ;mnftB1;v,'u ,n ctt.r.t of ,heir' mine the Cvxrinnili Enquirer, t Local & Territorial. Thc M issocai on a BtPDia. -The Missouri, which has been closed at this point but a few weeks, broke up early Monday morning, March 8, and is now filled with floating ice. We Understand that the ice gorged near the mouth of the Pappillion Creek, and piled up on the Ferry Boat, Vhich was sunk near by, rendering it impossible to raise it, and is now a total wreck. At Omaha, the breaking up of the ice was attended with equally as disastrous results. Steam had been kept up on the Ferry Boat all day Sunday and the fol lowing night, but those having the boat in charge, neglected to keep a safficient quantity of wood on board, and about 5 o'clock, Monday morning, when the steam was nearly exhausted, the ice commenced to move down and pile on the deck of the boat, making it necessary to shove it into the stream, to save it from being crushed. It floated down the river during the day, within two or three miles of Bellevue, and made a landing high and dry on a sand bar, where it remains,' pretty effectually used up. . - . , The Washington City, Gov. Cuming's Hotel, which has been anchored at Omaha since last spring, caught a migratory spirit and concluded to take French leave. , It set out before daylight on a sort of privateer ing expedition, without as much as saying, ' by your leave," to its proprietor, carry ing with it a man by the name of Hulburt, who was sleeping on the boat. He was awakened from his slumbers by the crack ing of the ice, and supposing that the boat was going to pieces, run to the hurricane deck, without stopping to complete his toilet, and frantically seizing the bell rope, commenced . furiously le ring the bell, at the same time shouting at the top of hit voice, "Fire! Fire !! Murder! Murder!! Help! Help!!" till the boat finally made a landing, some distance below its starting point, where he was afterward reliered from his agonizing situation, more scared than hurt. The river broke up last year on the 26th of March, and the first boat, the St. Mary, arrived on the 2Sth. We shall probably , have a boat here from St. Louis, in a short time " Let it come, we repeat it sir, let it come !" . . Fire. A fire broke out in the Black smith shop of P. W. Lane, Tuesday even ing last, consuming the building, and all his tools. The loss although not a large one, will be ssverely felt by Mr. L., in these hard times. Mr. Lane is an in dustrious and hard working mechanic, and we hope our citizens will not fail to render him all the assistance that he may need, to build another shop. J There are several buildings in the pro cess of construction, in this city, ' not withstanding the hard times. The weather during the past few days, has been exceedingly fine. Yesterday, at 2, P. M., the Mercury stood at 62 degrees above zero, in the shade. This is the high- est point the Mercury has reached this year. Our farmers will soon be able to commence plowing. Averill Si Co., are erecting a large two story frame building, for a store and dwelling, on Main Street. Joseph E. Pray, is preparing to erect a frame building on Main Street, nearly op posite Horn & Go's Store. T. M. McCord, who has been absent fromour city, a short time, on a visit to' the east, arrived home last Tuesday. Large numbers of wild Geese and Ducks are winging their way northward. We acknowledge the receipt of the New York Tribune, Times, Herald, Por ter's Spirit, Ballou's Pictorial, and the New York Ledger, from Wool worth, Omaha. Tboso that wish to procure cook ies of the Ledger, containing Mrs. South, worth's " Bride of an Evening," can la accommodated at Wool worth's. He has on hand, all of the back numbers contain-, ing that tale. Our readers will not fail to read the pro posals for building the Court House, to be found io our advertising columns. Now is the time to plant Fruit and Shade Trees. Let do one that owns a ' foot of ground, neglect it. We hepe er cry farmer in Sarpy County, will aet out large orchards this season, and in a few years tbey will be rewarded with a boun taful supply of luscious fruits. ' While a MAM'inM r. rA will nknA tK valllSl of your fanns, there is no occupation that is more elevating and enobling than that of raWnj fmit anJ fruit trees. . ' ,. ".
