TERRIFIC TORNADO! THREE PERSONS KILLED— A HOUSE CAR RIED UP IN THEALR—TERRIFIC EFFEC TS OF THE WHIRLWIND. [Prom the Chicago Tribune of May 24.] Never before has it been our duty to record go awful a calamity as that to which we now sit down to write. The scene of the tragedy is still before our mind's eye ; the wrecks of j the tempest are still lying scattered about ; but j were it not for the unimpeachable chaancter of ' our informants, eye-witnesses of the dreadful calamity, we should be inclined to believe that they had been laboring under some mental hallucination, and that what we are about to relate was but a dream of the imagination - - The reality however is too true. The bodies of i the three victims and the wounds of the other persons constitute evidence too palpable to be j set aside. Our readers will remember the violent hail storm that took place in this city yesterday af- i ternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock, and the* op pressive heat of the rest of the afternoon. At ! the same hour the events to which we allude ' took place in the town of Jefferson, uear Jeffer son Mills, sixteen miles distant. A cloud of peculiar shape was first observed approaching from the north-west and terinina- j ting in a funnel-shaped point, the apex toward j and nearly approaching the earth. As it came nearer it was discovered to be a whirlwind, rapidly revolving and whirling up various ob jects, iu which were plainly seen large sticks of wood, boards, small trees and chairs. It was coining toward our informants, but did not j reach them, lint turned to their right, deserib ed a semi-circle, and fell upon a large frame house. In an instant, and with a crash, the j roof was torn off, aud immediately the whole house was lifted from its foundation, literally torn to pieces, and carried up in the horrid vor tex. The furniture in the house, all of it, shared the same fate, tlie weight of the arti cles appeal ing no obstacles to their ascent what ever. And now we come to a part of the narrative sad indeed to relate. In the house were nine persons. They were all drawn up into the air, and fell, at different distances, with great vio lence to the ground. The wife of one of the eye-witnesses, Mrs. Page, aud two of her chil dren, were instantly killed. All the other per sons in the ltouse were greatly injured. The injuries, with two exceptions, consist of singu lar and heavy bruises all over the body. One man had his arm brokcu, and another'his wrist badly sprained. Mr. Page only saved himself from being drawu up iuto the air by holding on to a large rock. The house stood upon four large granite bowlders. These were all moved several feet from their places. The whirlwind went on and passed diagonal ly across a post-and-rail-fence. Of this it tore j up twenty rods so effectually that there is not the slightest vestige of a fence remaining.— From this it passed to the barn, tore away one side of it aud threw it against a horse, causing its death. The side of the barn then fell down on three calves and injured them so badly that they died during the night. The whirlwind seemed to pass off in a south : ward direction. Many of the fragments of the buildings, A*c., fell to the ground from a great height.— Iu coming down they fell nearly perpendicu larly and entered the ground like stakes.— Hundreds of these were couuted by our infor mant. The force of the storm was tremendous.— Not only were the boards torn off from the beams to which they were nailed, but the beams j themselves were wrenched asunder. TLo vluslwLud woo cwA-viujmu'ml VjJ tt MOT"HI of hail, many of the hail-stones being the size of walnuts. Some of them were uiue inches in circumference. An Elephant's Fraternal Feeling and Affection. [From tbe Buffalo Democracy.] While a wagou drawn by several elephants was passing our office yesterday foreuoon. the following story was told, which we vouch for as true : Last season a menagerie visited the village ' of Johnstown, Herkimer County. When the cavalcade left town it passed over a bridge I which the road crossed, leaviug two elephants to briug up the rear. These were driven to i the bridge, but with tbe known sagacity of the i race, they refused to cross. The water of the ; creek, which flows through a gorge in the slate : formation, presenting at that point banks of : precipitous character aud thirty feet iu height,; vas low, aud by taking a course across acorn field, a ford could be reached. But the pro-, prietor of the corn-field refused to allow his j property to be so used except on the payment j of an exorbitant sum, and this the agent of the menagerie refused to submit to. Accordingly j the elephants were again driven to the bridge, and again they refused to attempt the crossing. They would try the structure with their great feet, feel cautiously along the plank with their proboscal fingers, but each time would recoil from makiug the dangerous experiment. At last, however, goaded by the sharp, iron instrument of the keeper and accustomed to obedience, they rushed on with a scream half of agony, half of anger. The result showed the prudent prescience of the poor animals to have been correct; the bridge broke and went crashing to the bottom of the gorge, carrying with it both the monstrous beasts. One of them struck upou its tusk and shoulder, breaking the ! former and very badly injuring the latter ; the I other was,strangely enough, unhurt. Xow was ! shown the most singular and remarkable con- j duct on the part of the brute which bail escap ed. Its comrade lay there, an extempore bed i being provided for its comfort, while no temp tation, no stratagem was sufficient to induce the other to leave and proceed with the main portion of the caravan, which finally went on. leaviug the wounded beast aud its companion under the charge of their keeper. J)ay after day the suffering creature lay there, rapidly failing and unable to move. At the end of three weeks the water in the creek commenc ed rising, and there was danger it would over flow and drown the disabled elephant. The keeper desired, therefore, to get it up and make it walk as far as a barn nearby, where it wonld be out of danger and could be better cared for. ! But it would not stir. He coaxed, wheedled and scolded, but all to uo purpose. At last enraged, he seized a pitchfork and was about plunging it into the poor thing's flesh, when the companion wrenched the fork from his hand, broke it in fragments, and flung the pieces from it ; then with eyes glaring aud every evi dence ol rage iu its manner, it stood over its defenceless and wounded friend as if daring the to approach, which the man was not so green as to do again with cruel-purpose. Thus the animal lay there until it d e.l Yrv u Sfttbfiei! that it could no lor.ff.-r ' be of service, the other quietly tollovved the keeper away from the spot, and showed no de sire to return. If this was not reasoning mingled with an affection some men might pattern after, we should like to know what call It. [Fr;a Independent Democrat, (C-mcord, X. E ] The Coining Crisis. It is clear that our nation is approaching a crisir which must settle or unsettle American politics for many years to come. The great battle between Freedom and Slavery, toward which the partisans of the latter have been hurrying U3 for many years, has actually begun. It is no longer a war of words or of ideas.— It is no longer a question for the ballot-box, but for the cartridge-box. For the first time in the history of our Government, its authori ties, its laws, its officers, are powerless to pro tect American citizens on their own soil ; and, what is more alarming than all, there appears ! to be no serious attempt to sustain the laws or ! the officers :—the Government itself apparently winks at the violence that tramples its own 1 authority under foot. What is to be the end of these things? Where are these outrages to stop ? If a terri ; tory large enough for an empire can be invaded ; by an armed banditti and its laws struck down with impunity for the purpose of planting : Slavery there, what security have the States that when Slave-power shall have gained the complete ascendancy it now contends for they 1 shall not share the same fate ? The power | that tramples upon the dearest rights of free- S men in Kansas will not hesitate to do the same thing in any State of this Union when oppor- I Minify offers or occasion demands. Slavery j knows no law but its own will. It respectsuo right but might. Itself the offspring of war, its hand is ever agaiust Liberty and all the muniments of Liberty. Tiie issue which Slavery makes in Kansas //: must be met now, or not only Kansas is lost but our national liberties arc all lost. The day that sees the conquest of that immense ; and fertile Territory " acquiesced" in by the l people of the Free States will see the hearse and shroud of American Freedom. The people of the North must never acquiesce. From hill top and valley, from farm and workshop, : from the pulpit, the school-house and the tire side must the word go forth, " Kansas shall ! never be given up to Slavery. It was guar anteed to Freedom by oxir fathers and the fathers of the Republic, and free it shall be i though a thousand Unions aud millions of free men fall in its defense." The Free States have already been pushed to the wall and can retreat no further. They must now turn on the aggressors or be crippled and subjugated forever. The struggle in Kansas is their struggle. The result will be theirs. If mob law, the bowie-knife and Slavery conquer Kansas the North is conquer ed. The day that sees that Territory a Slave State of this Union sees the sceptre of Slavery wave over the entire American Continent. It must never be. The spirit that uerved our fathers in the days of our country's earliest struggle for liberty must nerve the arms and hearts of their children now against a far more relentless tyranny. If the National Govcrn will not do its duty and protect the liberties of the people the people must protect themselves. The Free States must take the weapons into their own hands and use them, Don't tell us that it will dissolve the Union. The failure of the Union to protect the rights : of the people and to protect the public tranquil : ity is itself a dissolution of the Uuion. By I that failure it absolves evcrv American freeman ; from bin allegiance to tne <J nion and proclaims ; the right and duty of all to protect themselves. ■ The ouly Union to which the people of the ! Free States owe allegiance is a Union for i Liberty under law. And when it becomes per verted for the overthrow of Liberty and Law, it has no rightful sovereignty over the acts or i consciences of Americaus. Disguise it as we may, to this it is coming, and that rapidly. We must bring the Uuiou back to the policy of the fathers, or it will be dissolved. It cannot be sustained by the bowie-knife and revolver. It ought not to be if it could. And the sooner the North comes to look this thing in the face the better. With such men as are now defying all law and authority and all decency in Kansas, no Union can be other than a disgrace aud curse to the people of Free States. Away, then, with all bug-bears fears of a dissolution of the Union. It can never be dissolved while true to the purpose for which it was formed. When it become hopelessly false to those purposes, its end cannot come too soon. LIGHTNING.— The Portland (Me.) Advertiser of the 18th, states that on Monday last, the bouse of Capt. David Upton, of Great Che beaque Island Me., was struck by lightning.— A neighbor who was looking at Mr. Upton's house at the time, perceived a ball of fire, apparently a foot in diameter, with a trail thirtv yards long, descend upon the chimney, and immediately after a volume of smoke began to ascend as if the house wasou fire. Hastening to the house it was found a wreck, but not on tire. The Advertiser savs : Hie family, of six persons, were at supper, and their escape with their lives, is a miracle. Old Mrs. Upton's right arm is cut to the boue, above the elbow, and she is otherwise badly bruised. Her grand daughter, Marietta Hamliton six years old, is so bruised as to be purple from the hips to the feet, and is in a precarious condition. David Upton, Jr., is badly bruised about the lifcad and face. His child, in his arms, was unhurt; also his wife, standiug near, and old Mr. Upton, likewise un hurt. HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILROAD COM PANY. —The case of Charles H. Browne vs. New York and New Haven Railroad Company, which has been on trial in the Supreme Court at Ipswich, Massachusetts, was finished on Satur day. The case was brought by Dr. Browne, who was one of the survivors at the Norwalk accident, for injuries which he received at that time. The trial lasted for several days, and the principal question was, as to the nature of the injury, which was supposed to have brought on a disease of the heart. Many of the most eminent physicians of Boston were examined on both sides of the case. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for sixteen thousand dollars. TIIE effort made on the part of some of the Government officers to indict S. M. Booth, of the Free Democrat in Milwaukie, for perjury for making oath some time since, be fore Justice Smith that he had been falsely imprisoned through the agency of Judge Miller and District Attorney Sharpstein, met with a failure ; the Grand Tury throwing out the bill by a vo'e-0f.,14 to 3 iVrabforir Ucportcr. E O. GOODRICH. EDITOR. TOYrANDA : Botnrhap fflormnn, 3tme 2. 1835. TO THOSE INTERESTED. But one more issue remains of the present volume, when our new terms will go fully into effect. There are still upon our books the names of many of our subscribers who have not paid any attention to the proposition we have made. Hat one more week remains in which to avail themselves of the discount we have offered on old arrearages, to those settling before the 9th of June. We trust that every one will take advantage ot our offer. After that time, ice shall expect the full amount of all arret rages, and shall immediately proceed to collect ichat is outstanding. We have now given over six months notice, and no reasonable complaint can made that ample time and opportunity have not been afforded. There appear to be some who are not cer tain about about the safety of sending money by the mail—but it may be done ut our risk. THE BEGINNING OF THE END. It is but little over two years since a Chief Magistrate of this Republic was inducted into the office to which lie had been called by Un people with unexampled unanimity, and who amidst the pageantry and enthusiasm of the Inauguration, declared to his fellow-citizens, the spectators of the scene, in regard to the slavery question—" I fervently hope that the question is at rest, and that no sectional or ambitious, or fauatieul excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions, or obscure the light of our prosperity." And in his first message to Congress, Presi dent PIERCE congratulated the country upon the sense of repose and security which existed in the public mind in regard to this delicate question, and gave the assurance, " that this repose is to suffer no shock throughout my of ficial term, if I have power to avert it, those who have placed me here may be assured." In like manner, the National Conventions, speak ing for the two great political divisions of the country, had resolved to discountenance the re newal of the slavery agitation in any shape, and emanating from any quarter. The coun try generally, at the time of which we speak, was quietly " acquiescing" in the recent settle ment of the protracted controversy, and peace and quietude seemed to have settled upon the Nation. Now, how stands the matter? In a few short months the fire has kindled with renewed fierceness ; the question of slavery-extension again obtrudes itself into the National Coun cils, producing animosity and ill-feeling, and loosening the bonds of brotherhood between the States. The Nation is shocked by the conception of a foul design to outrage the rights of the free States, by repealing a soleniu com pact of ihr.'ty-four years stuadiag , Ly a pro position to break down the barriers of freedom, and give ijee access to slavery into a fair por tion of the National domain—and by the ap pliances of power aud patronage wielded by the General Government, this great wrong is consummated. Despite the felicitations of the President, aud the resolves aud reiterations in National Conventions and in Congress, that this delicate and exciting question was finally at rest, and the couutry safe from all danger in the future, it is again thrust into Congress ; and for what purpose ? By fanatical abolition ists to invade the Constitutional rights of the South ? By persistent Free-Soilers to prevent the aggrandizement of slaveholders, and the perpetuation of the curse ? Oh, no ! but for the purpose of repealing a Compromise passed years ago, and cheerfully acquiesced in, to give new fields to slavery extension. The excitoment which the last year has wit nessed has been produced in the same manner in which all slavery excitements have arisen— by the desire and determination to extend the area of slavery. When the Disunionists have no plans to carry, to acquire new territory for slave-labor, the country becomes quiet and no excitement or discussion takes place. But the leaders of the powerful party desirous of mak ing slavery universal over this Continent, are not content to remain in the quiet possession of the rights guaranteed them by the Constitu tion—they are constantly engaged in plans by which to strengthen the slave-power of the na tion, to extend its territory and perpetuate its existence. Presidents may congratulate us that quiet has settled upon the country—we may be assured from high sources that the question is at rest, but such assurances are de lusive. Northern freemen may be certain that there is to be no peace, until Freedom or Sla very is dominant, This question will never be at rest, until a bound is put to slavery, its lim its defined, its power circumscribed, or until the North shall bow in the dust before the Moloch, and confess that Slavery is a Nation al blessing, its perpetuation and extension the object of our free institutions and the design of those who achieved for us our Indepen dence. This is the question which is now to be solved. There is no longer an opportunity to evade it. Cowardly dough-faces, can no more "bend the suppiant hinges of the knee," before the slave power, and in the same breath, declare to the North that they are not in favor of the extension of slavery. The matter is now to be met, when there will be no skulking or dodg ing. The recent outrages in Kansas have de veloped the plans of the slaveholders. Slave ry is to be extended in defiance of the wishes of the settlers in that territory—elections are carried at the point of the bowie-knife and with the aid of revolvers and rifles—the officer ap pointed by the President to govern the terri tory is insulted and defied—his authority set at naught, as well as the power of the Gener al Government. Peaceable citizens are endan gered in their lives and property by the myr midons of slavery. In fact, in all the details of its deformity and hideousness is this ques tion now developed. The Northern adjuncts of slavery are required to endorse the proceed ings of ATCHISON and his crew, or they will be denounced as Free-soilers and abolitionists.— Such is the state of the matter. We thank the South for the position in which they have placed the question. For the first time it now comes fairly before the people, stripped of all specious and false pretensions. We say that the recent outrages in Kansas are but "the beginning of the end." What that end will be Gon in His merciful Provi dence only knows. Hut Northern freemen may ! rest assured that the triumph of the marauders | who have invaded the soil of Kansas, will be the triumph of slavery propagandism, and the knell of Freedom. The issue must be met bold ly and with determination. If slavery eau be carried by such means into Kansas, and ac quiesced in by the North, then our liberties are nut worth preserving, for they will lie in dan ger of constant encroachment from the South. We see now a sound and healthy state of public sentiment in regard to the recent out rages in Kansas, and a general determination in the North to stand by Governor REEDER. Even the democratic press of Pennsylvania is denouncing ATCHISON'S proceedings and calling upon the President to strengthen Gov. REED ER'S bauds in doing his duty. Ilut we must confess, that while we are gratified that snch should be the ease, we cannot forget that once there was equal unanimity in regard to the Wilraot Proviso ; and yet, at the bidding of the South the press and the politicians of this State receded from their honorable position.— We trust it may not be so in the case of Gov. REEDER ; but we fear that when the Sonth j shall demand as a test of faithfulness and as i the passport to patronage, that Gov. 11. shall | be condemned and proscribed, that be will first ; be assailed in the house of his friends. ! Sorft: and PERRY.— Mr. Perry, the Ameri | can Secretary of Legation at Madrid, publishes in the National Intelligencer a long letter, ad j dressed to the President of the United States, replying to Mr. Soule's letter of March 24th. He charges Mr. Soule with wilfully aud know • ingly mismanaging the Black Warrior affair, so as not to obtain the redress this government desired. He says Mr. Soule neglected the instructions he received, suppressed, for five , months, au important despatch from Secretary Maivy, intended for the Spanish Government, intercepted the official correspondence of the charge d'Affaires of the United States at Madrid, with the Secretary of State, at Washington, and endeavored to seduce Mr. ; Perry to abandon his post, for the purpose of | procuring an appearand of a rupture of di plomatic relctiou with the Spanish court. — ! These charges will of course be replied to by | Mr. Soule. te?" The census of 1850 shows that the old est person living in the United States was 140. This person was an Indian woman, residing in North Carolina. In the same State was an Indian aged 125, a negro woman 111, two black females 110 each, one mulatto male 120, and several white males and females aged from 106 to 114. In the parish of Lafayette, Louis iana, was a female black aged 120. In sever al of the Stutes there were found persons, white and black, aged from 110 to 115. There were in the United States, in 1850, 2,555 persons over 100 years. This shows that about one person in 9,000 will be likely to live to that age. There are now about 20,000 persons in the United States who were living when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. They must necessarily be about 80 years old now, in order to have lived at that time. The Freuch census of 1851 shows only 102 persons over 100 years old ; though their total population was near 36,000,000. Old age is, therefore, attained among us much more frequently than in France, NEW-YORK MONEY MARKET. —The financial article of the Evening Post says that the week closes upon a listless, yet abundantly supplied money market. The banks, brokers and monied capitalists all have more money to employ on temporary investments than than they know how to use satisfactorily, and long investments or stock investments having an uncertain future are not to their liking. The amount of good paper offering for dis count is exceedingly light. The heats of sum mer must come aud pass before much new mer cantile paper is made and offered. The ten dency of the market is, therefore, to lower rates lor loan and discounts. The closing quotations range from 5 to 6 per cent. ; for call loans, 5 1-2 to 6 for good paper, 60 days to six months, and 7 per cent, for second class. JUDGMENT AGAINST COL. H. L. KINNEY.— In the Superior Court of New York, on SatUr day, judgment was given against Col. H. L. KINNEY, for $14,500 for merchandise delivered in 1837. A IRGINIA ELECTION. —The Virginia election took place ou Thursday week, and " Sam" has met with a complete overthrow. The whole State has not yet been heard from, but the election of WISE is certain, by a majority of probably 10,000. The delegation in Congress are all democratic, and a large democratic ma jority in the Legislature. .* . FOREIGN NEWS. —The steamer America arriv ed at Halifax on Sunday night last, with two days later news from Europe. Official advices from Sebastopol are to the 10th, on which day the Russians made a bold sortie but were re pulsed. The relative positions of the con testants are unchanged, though the story is that the Allies are making slow but sure advances, and are sure of success if not forced by the Russians to raise the siege. It is said that after the arrival of certain reinforcements. General Canrobert will attack the Rusian field positions. The English army is in better health. Four thousand Sardinian troops had arrived. The English Press admit that all hope of peace is gone, that Austria will not aid them, and that Great Britain aud France have got to bear the burden aloue. There was nevertheless a motion in Parliament look ing toward a renewal of negotiations. The English fleet in the Baltic is working up toward Gothland. The Loudon papers tell a story of a Yankee speculation in that quarter which is characteristic if not true. It is of a vessel with an alleged cargo of cotton, but really laden with muskets, and revolvers, getting into the Baltic sen and safely to a Russian market before the contraband goods were discovered. M. Drouyndel'lluvs, French Ministerof War, has resigned, and is succeeded by Count Walewski, late French Minister to Great Britain. The story that Count Buol has re signed is not confirmed. The very latest war rumor is that Austria and all Germany arc on the point of declaring their strict neutrality. Redscbild Pasha has been superseded as Grand Vizier bv Mahomet Pasha. The man who made a target of Louis Napoleon, and proved himself a very bad shot, has been sentenced to death. Parliament has passed a bill abolish thc newspaper stamp tax. Mr. Layard's reso lution inquiring into the management of the Array is temporarily postponed, but the Roe buck Committee is still in session. It is said that Palmerston is losing popularity even more rapidly than Aberdeen did. Several changes, or rumors thereof, in the French Ministry are noted. A mare's nest has been discovered by the French Police—no less than a concerted plot throughout Europe fur a revolt against Kings and Emperors on the day that Pianori fired at Napoleon ; and therefore Pianori is to be kept awhile in the hope of getting further light upon the dark conspiracy. It has been officially declared that the Democratic party in Spain had never entered into any negotiations whatsoever with Mr. Soule for the sale of Cuba. The only active thing in Naples is Moui.t Vesuvius, which is just now breaking out in violent pyrotechnic displays. Russian authori ties confirm the report of an insurrection in the Ukraine, and say that Poland is very uu easy. LATER —The steamer Pacific, arrived at New York on Wednesday morning last, bring one week later intelligence. The news brought by the Pacific, although not of decisive im portance, is of varied interest. The siege of Sebastopol progresses very slowly indeed, and as the telegraph is now in the hands of the Government exclusively, it is difficult to decide from the imperfect hints supplied whether the besiegers or besieged gain most advantage.— Symptoms have transpired of extended opera tions beiug about to commence on the part of the Allies. A force of 15,000 Turks. French and English hastily embarked on board all the available ships near Sebastopol, and stood away in the direction of the sea of Azoff. In a day or two they returned and as hastily dis embarked, Oilier Pasha and his Turks making all speed to ensconce themselves in Eupatoria. Gen. Canrobert had reviewed the entire French army, and assured thein lie would soon enter Sebastopol either by the door or window.— Negotiations between Austriaand the Western Powers remain where they were, but be tween Austria and Prussia relations are be coming more intimate, and have for object to preserve strict neutrality. Russia has directed her representative at the Court of Darmstadt to notify all the German Governments that Russia will only hold to the first Two Points of Guarantee on condition of the perfect neutrality of Germany. France and England have prescuted an ultimatum to Sweden, to which the Swedes have replied by incorporat ing their militia. In England many incideuts tend to mark the Democratic change that is coming over the uatious. The Queen has con descended publicly to bestow medals on private soldiers in the streets of London. In various parts of the country " administrative reform" j meetings have been held, and in the House of Lords a debate on Ellenborough's motion drew forth an extraordinary amount of Democratic speaking. The Paris Exposition has been opened ; as a spectacle the opening was a failure. Pianori, the would-be assassin of the Emperor has beeu guillotined. From other parts of Europe there is nothing remarkable, excepting an eruption of Vesuvius. Liverpool Cotton market has been animated, at a farther advance l-Bd. The Corn trade continued steady. Provisions generally active. Money plenty. Exchanges steady. Consols advanced to 89 5-8 a 3-4. Mrs. Dillion, of St. Albans, Vermont, was receutly found guilty of twenty-five offen ces against the liquor law, aud fined S2O for each offence, makiug in all SSOO and costs. — She was also sentenced to four months' ad ditional imprisonment, making nine months in all. PROHIBITION IN DELAWARE. —The Maine Li quor Law went into effect in Delaware on the 2d inst. An increase in the price of boardiug at the hotels went into operation at the same time. A general storing away of liquor was observable for several days previous. [From the Rochester Democrat.] Another Shameful Outrage in Missouri A Free Citizen in Kansas Kidnapped and o> r ried into Missouri—His head shaved f rr ~ Hacked, end then sold at auction by a Nepro In one of our issues of last week, under tl head of " Pluck in Kansas," we published -m extract from the Piatt Argus, Atchison'* or gan, printed in Weston, Mo. In that article it was stated that the pro-slavery men of Leavt a worth city, K. T, had arrested a lawyer nam ed Phillips, of that town, and commenced pre parations Tor tarring and feathering him | m t upon the collecting of a band of freeman de tcrmined to rescue him, lie was set at libertv again Ly the lawless gang who had seized his person. It seems tl.at the offence of Mr. Phillips ; s that he is a Free-Soiler. And it is pretended by the pro-slavery men that he handed M'Crea the revolver with which Malcom Clark was killed. This is probably false, as responsible men declare that Phillips did not at all inter fere in the matter. That outrage, it appears, was but a failure of a conspiracy against the rights and person of an American citizen. The sequel has at length transpired, and we invite the close at tention of every citizen of the United States I to an examination of the principles outraged j and the rights trampled on the proceeding I On the 1 Tth of May, (Thnrsday,) Mr. Phi]. I lips was decoyed to the bank of the Missouri j river, where he was suddenly seized and forced into a skiff and carried across the river, into ! Missouri ; thence he was taken seven miles to | Weston. An old warehouse stands just below ; the town ; he was taken there, his head was shaved, lus face blacked, he was tarred and ; feathered, and then ridden upon a rail through I the streets of Weston, while music horrible and ; hideous accompanied the procession. Before the hotel they exhibited him ; and then a ue ' gro was compelled to sell him to the lowest bidder, and they offered to him every insult in their power. After detaining him several hours, in this manner, repeatedly telling him that if he would not leave the territory, or give them his promise in writing that he would leave, they would hang him. lie having firmly aid ; steadily refused, they let him loose. His bro ; ther, who had come from Leavenworth after I him, took him into a carriage, and late in the ; afternoon started for Leavenworth. ! These are the facts briefly related, as they ; come to us, and they can be most implicitly re- lied upon. THE KINNEY EXPEDITION.— The steamship United States was to have sailed vesterdav afternoon for Nicaragua, but was prevented by I the presence of a formidable naval force j stationed in the East River to prevent her j departure. The vessels engaged in the service are three steamers aud a sloop-of-war. Earlv yesterday afternoon the steamer Corwin took i her position nearly opposite the foot of Six j teenth-st., so as to guard the passage through Hell-Gate ; the propeller City of Boston was stationed about opposite the foot of First-st, and one of the Revenue cutters cast anchor near the foot of Graud-st. At noon to-day the steamer Vixen came np abreast of the United States and anchored just off her dock at the foot of Eiglit-st„ so that any attempt to escape would be frustrated at the outset. All through the last night steam was kept up and the Government steamers were ready for immediate service. Our Reporter paid a visit to the United States this morning, when the officer of the deck informed him that the vessel had all of her coal on board and was ready for sea When she would sail or what cargo she would . take out to Nicaragua he was unable to sav | He was not aware that she was about to sail on Monday afternoon. He was the engineer of the United States and had not yet received any orders. On every point lie was a " Know-Nothing.'' lie did know one thing however, that if his steamer got ten rods the start of the war steamers she would leave them so far behind in one hour that they would not know where they were.—A". I*. Tribvne May, 29th. WHEAT CROPS AMD LOCUSTS AT THE SOUTH The Talladega W r atchtoicer of the 9th inst.. savs that there have been in its region general and refreshing rains, and that " oats and wheat will make fair crops now,certain." In another place it has the following pleasant picture : Good news from the wheat crop must gladden the hearts of the nation. Since our county was stripped of its primeval growth, never have the prospects l>eeu so flattering. Notwithstand ing the unprecedented drought, and with the help of only one rain, vegetation is more luxuri ant than ordinary, and everything vegetative, barring oats, lias done wonderfully. We were in a wheat field a few days since where the heads were up to the neck. large, and promising to be well filled. So vigoron is the growth that our hat, not an old greasy one was sustained on unbent stalks Corn is also looking finely and grown? rapidly. The staud is injured somewhat by the cut worm on the low lands. We learn from the same paper that tV woods around the village are verv local w;tii the seven aud fourteen year jcusts. They commenced coming out of then holes on the 28tli ult.— Mobile Tribune. MURDER IN SUSQUEHANNA—SUSQUEHANV DEPOT, Monday, May 21, 1855.—'The bodyo: a man was found yesterday on Griswold Island, in the Susquehanna River, nearly oppositeth~ village. He has been recognized as au Ins s " man by the name of ,o'llerron, formerly s workman in the shop of the Railroad Compaq He has been missing about ten days. H |s brothers, of whom he has three in this say they supposed he had gone to Buff; l ' o Binghamtou. When found his head, face-H" 1 neck had the appearance of being bruised 1"' fore death—-one blow on his head being SB Pj posed to have caused his death. He was wc dressed, but no money or papers were founds his person. ITe is supposed to have beW murdered and thrown into the river, whence lie was washed upon the island. The Coroner' Jury have not, as yet finished the investigation MR. JW. PARK.— This gentleman, the edi tor of the Parkville (Missouri) Lumi*o r , materials of which were receutly destroyed , T a slavery mob, is a man worth about a ^uart<- r of a million of dollars, and is besides an e- Xi < • sive slaveholder, lie is a native of crffi° j " DEMOCRATIC REJOICINGS. —The Democrat.- Washington city fired one hundred guns °" Monday night, in honor of the result in L' ginia. Mr. WISE left Washington on Moadtf afternoon for hi-- - home in Accomao.
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