Tile Great Freshet, We colloie from our exchanges, «uch items ot in formal ion relative 10 (he great freshet in various parts of the country, as Aiay prove of general interest lo our renders. Great damage has been done to public and private properly, the channels of travel have been impeded, and much irregularity in the mail service experienced. The immense quantity of ice in the streams has caused the Dels ware, Susqurhana, and Hudson rivers to ex ceed nny previous rise in many years. Al bany is half submerged, and Trenton has suffered seriously. Tn exton, Feb. 10. —About 9J o’clock yesterday, Washington row was surrounded, and the families occupying the row had to leave the best they could, and were laken in by the neighbors. Union from the water power bridge for more than two hun dred fret was impassable. Six families in New street had to leave their residences and find shelter elsewhere. At the lowest end of New street, near the water power, the water was three feel deep. Lower down in Ferry street, tho row of brick houses recently built by. Mr. Wood, were completely surrounded with water, and Iho people ranch alarmed for their safety. Most of (he families ore without coni or wood, and they may be seen fulling for what was once their coal heap. Large masses of ice were piled up on cither side of the river ns far as the eye could reach, while that on the gravel was a complete iceberg from one end lo the other. About nine o’clock yesterday morning the river again began to rise, partly from another jam having taken place somewhere below, and partly from the increased freshet from above. In a short time it had risen several feet. The river, which in the morning was comparatively clear of floating ice, again be came filled from shore to shore, and fears were entertained that great damage would ensue Ai-iuny, Ft-b. 10.— Tho wafer receded Considerably iasl night, bul is slill very high. li is reported that Iwo families, on the Island opposite the city have perished. St. John's Church has been seriously dam aged bv thertoOd which ripped up the pews. Much suffering has been occasioned from the want of drinking water. All the water pipes in the lower part of tho city are either frozen or submerged. Largo quantities of grain stored on the second floors of the warehouses have been damaged by the water rising above them. Chicago, Feb. 10. —The flood has d£ca■ sioned immense damage in this vicinity, to the railroads, bridges, mills, telegraphs.'&c. On Friday last, at Aurora, two bridges, a saw mill, a pinning mill and carriage factory, with large quantities of lumber, were swept off. It is also feared that several lives were lo ; . Tito Rock Island Railroad bridge at Mor rie ls gone, and also tho Michigan Central Railroad bridge at Ypsilanti, and the bridge at Niles, together with several over the St. Joseph’s and Kalamazoo rivers. Both branches of the Chicago river rose several feel on Saturday. The southern por- Itons of the city are still submerged, bul the river is now fulling, The damage to ‘.he Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroads is estimated at 8100,. OOC St. Louis, Feb. 9. —The Mississippi has risen about eighleen feel since Saturday morning, and is still rising, and immense quantities of ice are coming down. The Mis souri is open above Jefferson city, and is pour ing out a "high flood. New Haven, Feb. lO.—The late thaw has produced a tremendous flood in the val leys of the Iluusalonic and Naugatuck. The towns of Derby and Birmingham are com pletely submerged. All the factories have suffered damage to an immense amount. — Several bridges, barns, and houses have been swept away. The Naugatuck Railroad de pot Is completely flooded, and large quanti ties of merchandize in it have been damaged. The railroads are impassable on account of fho flood. The Susquehanna. —We learn from Harrisburg that the Cumberland Valley bridge has not been carried away. Several of the piers were injured, but not materially. The tee on the railroad between Harrisburg and Middletown has been removed. Columbia bridge has been injured, but not seriously. A great deal of property along the river hqs been destroyed. The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, cross ing the Juniata near Birmingham, has been washed away, but it will not interfere mate rially wiih the travel on the road. Ovstf.rs Almost Exhausted. —N. Y. Times of Monday last, says that the oyster business of the past week has been without precedent for dullness. For lack of the bi valves full seven eighths of the places where (hey were sold have been shut up, the pro prietors occupying the leasure time in collect ing old dc-bie. Save a dozen barrels or so from Perth Amboy, and a solitary schooner land from Virginia, no oysters have been re ceived in the City for several weeks. This schooner fortunately for her owners, was la den before the icr embargo was laid on the oyster-beds, and as soon as she could gel dear of it she started for the city and safely arrived last Thursday. No sooner was it known that fl cargo of the much-needed article had ar rived, than Jtn crowd of purchasers col lected on board of her, and her freight was speedily bought at unprecedentedly high pri ces. The nett sum the cargo sold for is said lu be OB, while in ordinary limes it would only have brought from sl,4oo iosl,- 000. rito name of the craft was John Gf. Ferris, and that of the captain Nick Bush, nnd that ho arrived with his bushels in the very nick of time Capt. B. feels quite satisfied. It is reported that a fleet of oyster-craft await the oltanco load and speed to the City when 'he jee breaks up, but it is impossible to pie diet when that lime will be. The large fan cy saloons of Broadway received on Saturday the last ofthose reserved for them-~-but so few "era they that the proprietors didn't expect them to last till to-day. The smallest oysters ever seen for stewing purpose* sold Saturday at an advance of 75 par cent, by the single quart over regular rates. 'f’ho population ol New York is dying at •hoot (he rnle of one in every seventeen mjn oi<--, day mid night, all the year round. THE AGITATOR. Iff. H. Cobb, *"V* * • *>,•.... -'..Xltlitor. WELLSBOROUGH, PA. Thursday Morning, Fob. 19.1557, «• All Easiness,and other Communications must be addressed td llie Editor lo insurd attention. We find nothing interesting In either the Con. gressional or Legislative proceedings for lha past week: The Charleston Band treated the Borough to a Grand Serene de Tuesday evening. Tills Band it now one of the finest in the eonntry. Wander if the members would conclude to. givqa Grand Con cert at' the Court House before long ? We learn that Dr- C. K. Thompson is delivering a course of Lectures upon Anatomy, Physiology, end Hygiene, at the Round Top School House, to crowded bouses. Why not invite him to favor this village with a similar course?. We patronise itin erant lecturers on those subjects, and very profitably. Til* Bust of “ Spring" —one of the handsomest pieces of statuary oiferedas a prize at (lie late draw ing of the Cosmopolitan Art Association of Sand usky, Ohio—was drawn by Mrs. Emu L. How. UNO, of Cedar Ran, Lycoming county, Pa.—Elmi ra Adttrtuer, The friends of Mrs. H., in this place, will bo glad lo hear of her extraordinary good fortune. The buet is reputed to be one ot the most beautiful works of art ever exhibited in this country. _ Preaching Politics. It is with some hesitancy that we again lake up this subject. It bus become hackneyed to us, and, we dare say it lias lost its charms for everybody ex cepting only our Shamocratic contemporaries in the east and south counties of the State. Their per verseness in misunderstanding pertain remarka of oura under tliis head some little time since, make a it necessary to recur (o it again. The gist of a very clever article in an exchange may be slated in Ibis single question ! -‘ What is it h> preach the Gospel ?" Tho article alluded to is altogether tho most reasonable that we have yet seen from that side ol the house. Its positions are well taken, in view of the common acceptation of the term, “ Gospel,’* but neither, we apprehend, well la. ken nor at all sostained when that term is consider ed in its true and catholic sense. To preach the Gospel, as wo understand it, is to preach the truth. All truth is divine—is God’s rev. elation to man, whether it be found in the Scriptures or whether it be discovered by the philosopher of this age. According to Burke, •• any general doc “ trine touching the higher development of the true '• man,” may be expressed by the term. We believe the pulpit to be “ sacred" to the pro mulgation of truth, and in that respect only. In animate wood has no inherent holiness any more than water blessed by priestly bands. It is Ilia use to which things arc pat which sanctifies or defiles. Every, question, therefore, which involves human welfare, or any of its conditions, be they moral, pliys. teal or spiritual, may be rightly discussed in tho pul pit. It is the office of the preacher to teach men how to bear themselves in the manifold relations of this lifers well as to warn them of the danger of neglecting a thousand unessential observances, to the end that organizations may gain power, simply. Every wrong that causes a sigh of sorrow, or a tear of anguish, should be exposed and denounced, in the pulpit or out, and that without reference to sects and their creeds, or to parties and their plat forms. It is not the duty of a .minister either to build up sects or parties, as such'; but he has the right to applaud or denounce principlet in accord ance with his estimate ; and if any party or sect saf. fer thereby, that is no concern of his. Sects an.l parties can have np virtue* me Horn the prin ciples which form the nuclei of their several organ izations. It was proclaimed upon the Judean hills nearly 2000 years ago—“ Peace on earth and good will to men —and “ Glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people!” Such wai the proclamation of the Gospel in its morning. Its ministers, then, are bonnd so to preach the gospel as to make it to subserve those glorious ends. To do this, it not on ly to preach deliverance to the captive of sin, bnl to the captive of Greed and Ambition as well. The truth enslaves not, but makelh free indeed; and the truth must be preached fearlessly, by priest and lay man, before the chains that bind innocent millions can be loosed. Or, will men higgle about noncsscn lials until the rod hand of Rebellion emanneipates the wronged ? Let men be taught that every sin cere and well-intentioned act of their lives, when and wheresoever it may bo consummated, is a re ligiousacL That sincere actions arc worship Men testify their gratitude to Heaven for the faculties will) which they are endowed, in the best use of those faculties. There is no worship in lip-servico, no piety in mouthing sanctimonious terms. Men are religious even as they are true to tho trust re posed in them by Almighty Wisdom, as they prove true to themselves and their fellow men. Nor does ministerial duty stop with bolstering up soulless dogmas, which, so far from ameliorating the condi tion of the race, only too often set very good men by the ears. Our coolomporarlos sit uncr tho preaching of min isters who nearly every Sabbath insult the good na. lure of (heir hearers by their vigorous onslaughts upon the beliefs of other denominations, and in the absence of those denotninaliuns. Yet they have no condemnatory words for such preaching. Such nreat-hing legitimate, because Custom has said iL We have nothing to say against such preaching, in tins connection. Be it proper or improper—piety or impiety, we have no time to quarrel over it, and especially as (he harm done by it, if any, affects on ly tho preacher, ordinarily. We da not believe in such preschiifg) however, nor da we think it proper (or minister to harangue his audience on the subject of party politics. As previously stated, lie has no tiling to da with parties and sects as such : but lie has some duly to perform relative to the public acts of political parties. Are those acts detrimental to the sacred interests of humanity, or subversive of whatever is good, beautiful and true in otir institn. tionr, then he is in duty, bound to arraign those in. famous deeds at the bar of moral justice. He has something to do with tho prineipltt of all parties, pnd when a parly makes a bad principle Uie nucle us o(‘ jta organisation, it is his duly "to denounce that bad principle, though a thousand parties go down in one andistinguishabh> mass of ruin. And his is the duty of holding up (he infamies of public men to public view, so that men may learn to hate the trea son ond shun tne traitor. If, then. Slavery be a crime against humanity, it is the minister’s duty to denounce it, even as be denounces other crime in the black catalogue. M But,” aayt a paper now lying before ns, “ a ■‘preacher,ln bis ministerial capacity, has nothing to do with human governments.” indeed t what discovery will next thunderatriko the world J Wo had come to look upon the Christian Era oa an Era of Civilization, Refinement and Mercy. Upon the Christian doctrine as the Civilizer and Saver of the world. We bad traced the progress of government d) forms up through the vista of two thousand years THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOB., . ' V?-> 1 . ft . *■* _ii anfrn tbfe mild of the §|tiatian Siuj.i And we bad nwj&ed bow the'.noat humane and wero in Ibjn States white the brightest r|jf» of Ibut djtrjnclj San, (ML, And we awttialin thuja Slalei the press, tho pulpit and the forum' wero Ica-l rc etrained of Utelf proper liberlios, and (hat bold prea ching-and-freedom ever-went together.. Christiani ty pruned the codes of those hafitfrts of their hirin'- summand inclined the ear of justice to the pleading lips of Mercy. And we had supposed that the min isters of Christianity had aided in the great work of governmental progress and reform; in thoJJ, (hat (he Christian religion, in tbe hands of its mlnUtets always, from (lie beginning, had, and still has a vast deal to do with the shaping ot tho political institu tions of every,Christian State. So much we bad as sumed to be true before reading the article before us. And with all due respect to oar contemporary, we must say that bis learned argument does not induce itftns any change of opinion. But the writer of the article in question Gills back upon precedents. He says St. Paul never meddled with "the Powers that bej” therefore, the clergy of this day should not stir rip the people to rebellion against the existing powers. Then our editor holds that what St. Paul omitted to preach, should not be preached. He will have to qualify that inference, or bring the modern clergy in guilty of not a few seri ous sins of commission. We are somewhat famil iar with St. Paul’s sermons, and have never yet been able to convict him of the paternity of the hundreds of sects which exist at the present lime. But we do not therefore conclude that the clergy have com mitted deadly sin, because they have done some nets that tho Apostle did not do. It is more charitable to say that they have preached the Gospel as (hey understood it, hence the differences of opinion. That editor.will see that his rule is only (he old doctrine of the divine right of kings, reproduced. Its promulgation is tlie work of tyrants everywhere, and in all limes, and its advocacy by tho magnates of the Anglican Church brought upon England some of tho deepest of her dark brood of sorrows. The bloody reign of (he bigot James might have been shortened some bloody years had it not been for the promulgation of this dangerous doctrine. Our own Revolution was prolonged by (he same cause. The doctrine strikes at the right of the oppressed to strike down the oppressor, and may not be set ap in a country that owes not only its existence, but all its liberties to a successful rebellion. We aro nut sur prised that the modern democratic parly ere now at tempting to revive the doctrine. It has been the trick of expiring dynasties fur COO years. Let the Press Speak Out. —The question is now before'the people whether they arc going to allow factiooists to distract them in another contest with Locofocolstn, and by divided action make their eff orts-for success hopeless and lolile. * * The question now presents itself whether we are again going to be weak enough to allow these enemies to shape our policy for as. They will endeavor to keep faction in the ascendant; success demands that fac tion shoald be burled. Which shall guide us 7 For ourselves, we no longer hesitate. We are sick of the nauseous doses of these factional quacks, whose mean Utilequarrefsand bickerings have been permitted to annoy and distract the parly quite 100 long already. We trust that the press generally will speak out frankly on this matter. Don't postpone or hesitate. The times demand prompt and manly action,— Lebanon Courier . Wo honored the demand of the limes last week by speaking frankly out on this matter. Wo under take to say that we shall be sustained in the posi tion assumed in that article, by at least five-sixths of the Republican voters in Tioga county, if not, indeed, in this District. That position was deter, mined upon six months ago and we shiHl not budge from it an inch. “ JVo more fusion toith the Amcri. can party that is where we have elected to »tahd. And sooner than abandon it, we can afford to leave liybt id-politic* i« «■<—* aiion. Wo fully endorse the action of Mr. Gibbons in calling a Republican State Convention on (lie 25(1) of March. It was right, and therefore expedient. It was politic, and the Republicans will take Hie re. sponsibiiity. Let us have a pure, Republican organ izalion—Black Republican, if you please—names never annoy men. Defeat is a great bugbear with our down-country friends. They would strike bends with the devil to escape present defeat. Wo invite them to look Ihr ther ahead. If our cause be just, and it certainly iv, then we mast triumph one day. That day may not dawn for the editors of the Courier, Reading Jour nal and Harritburg Telegraph, or for ( o3 j but it will surely dawn for somebody. That faith nerves our arm and quickens our heart in the discharge of pres ent duly. None can labor for self alone, yet .do his whole duty. For one, wo are done with compromi sing and patched up lusions. Fusion is but a sneak ing bargain to divide the spoils, best side out. Whit the Courier copies from the Reading Jour nal is, speaking alter the manner of men, both. This talk about “ People’s Conventions" and “ Poo pie's Candidates,” may do, down country ; but the Republicans hereabout understand all about such movements. It is only another name lor fusion. Brother Worth insists that no Convention in which every huo of the opposition to Slmnocracy shall not be represented, ought fo be hold. There is no bona fide opposition to Slmmacracy, outside of the Republican parly, good friend. The elections of 1856 conclusively show that. Thcro is a permanent affiliation of the Know Nothings with the Shamo crals, the former being so much properly in the pos session of John P. Sanderson, to be disposed of to the highest bidder. Fuse with such chattels 7 Never! In conclusion, for one, we shall remember the old saw— “ If a man cheat me once, shame on him; If he cheat me twice, shame on me!" “ Has the mail come yet 7" “No.” “ Don’t you think it will bo along by to-morrow 7” Can’t say, really.” “ Well, when do yon think it will come 7” " Haven't much thought about it.” Such colloquies have formed the burden of con versation for a week past, in our streets, and places of public resort. From Monday the 9th to Monday the ICth, no New Fork mail was received at this Post Oflicc, owing to the impassable state of the Erie Railroad. On Tuesday, the 10,h, we noticed a great many anxious looking laces when the an nouncement that no eastern mail had come was made. The public had been feasting on the details of tbo Dond.st murder, and it was unpleasant thus to find the supplies cut off. A like announcement on Wednesday resulted in a marked elongation of the publid visage, and a corresponding heaviness of the public step. On Thursday the ravages of lam ine made their appearance in the restless glance of ho pnblicieye. Everybody looked ravenous. Ev erybody pitched into the Post Master General and the Railroad. On Friday, we began to feel uncom fortable in walking the street, lest, from being in the newspaper business, we might be devoured by the Ikmisliing populace. Oh Saturday the excitement reached its grand climacteric—so to speak. The public bead wagged menacingly, its eye flashed with the untamed ferocity of famine; and from several expressions, we gathered that this people sometimes read newspapers as well as the Scriptures, of a Sun day. Everybodylookcd cross, snappish and ancon' genial. /On Monday murping there seemed to boa 1 deep and sullen despair|petlled upon the whole commqni tf/and this conlintjoduntil the arrival of two pleth-i oric maijl-bags aU.lioon,‘When a broad, good.hnmor ctl grin broke out. Upon the public face and q'licltly extenqed to the remotest parts of the public body. Since reading (Ve residue of the Bond-st,, inquest, we aro glad to bo able to announce that the public’ i has regained Its wonted tons and temper. Communications For Tbo Agitator. Mb. Conor flamy former communication several iy|)ograpjhical errors exist. “ Coun try” is changed to “county.” “ Profess no science” is substituted in place of “ possess no science.” “ Possess a great share of gen eral intelligence” is rendered “ profess a great share of gederal intelligence.’’ Several other smtlll errors exist; but I suppose the “ devil’k to blame.” 1 wish yoputgould have a talk with him, and make him promise to do heller in future. 3 I wish to be understood as speaking of farmers generally, and not of the farmers of this county alone. This county is compara tively new and the farthers are not as farad vanned as the farmers of some other sect'ons of the country. Still I think this county will compare favorably with many other new counties in regard to agricultural improve ment. Some persons ma'y consldeamy remarks, in my former article, rather severe. To such I would say that I was not speaking of the intelligent farmers who might bo cited here and ihere in every community. I spoke of farmers ns a class. By this I meant all per sons who cultivate, or pretend to cultivate land. And I still venture to soy that, as a whole, they ore very much lapking in educa tion and general intelligence, and have not a sufficient knowledge and understanding of their owtjt business. It is all nonsense to pretend that farmers are the most intelligent class in this nation. We cannot properly say that any class is the most intelligent. In telligence is pretty generally diffused amongst all classes in this country : more so perhaps than in any other nation now in exis'ence. I proceed next to point out the means by which farmers may obtain a belter knowledge of their own business, become belter educa ted and more intelligent, and be, more re speced. The means aro few and simple. No extravagant outlay of money, no college course is required. Reading arid study— this will do the whole. Let the older farm ers read more; and read better books and better papers. Let them read books of in struction upon all subjects. Any kind of in formation will come in play, especially let them read good practical farm papers and farm books, and good, newspapers. The older men amongst farmers cannot go back to childhood and learn the rudiments of sci ence; byl they can educate their children. All boys who arc to become farmers should learn the rudiments thoroughly—not slopping short of a good knowledge of spelling, reading, writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the first principles, at least, of Geology. In addition to this they should read, at their leisure, history, books of travel and any and all books from which they can obtain valu able information: and tip, through the netjjgpapers, in regard to what is going on in the world around. They should of course rend bonks and papers upon farming. But they should not read the trash with which the country is Hooded—those silly hlood-and-murder love-»nd-gct-married news paper stories and novelettes which are spread abroad into every nook and comer ol the land, poisoning and vitiating the tastes of all who read them. Farmers should send their boys to school four or five months in the year instead of three. And the boys should study their lessons when at school instead of“ carrying on” and “sparking the girls” ns many of them do. No young men need make the excuse that they have not time to rend. Many of them do little or nothing during the Winter; and' all of them have Winter evenings at their* command. Once let farmers become as well educated and well informed as men of other profes sions and they will be equally respected ; and their low calling will then be considered a noble and desirable profession. The arrival of the Ggprge Law last even ing from Aspinwall has pul us in possession of some important intelligence respecting the position of Walker in Nicaragua. It seems that the Allies hold the Western as well as Eastern terminus of the Transit Route, and that when the Sierra Nevada arrived at San Juan del Sur, she was not able to li&d her passengers, and had to lake them back to San Francisco. ’ Walker is thus surrounded and cut off from supplies as well as reenforce menls. It is, perhaps, possible that the con siderable body of recruits who have lately gone out to him from this country may suc ceed in forcing a passage up the river, but we do not believe it. His position is constantly becoming mere .desperate.— Tribune. A Family Froze to Death.—The Hemp stead (L. I.) Inquirer, says that a colored woman and three children were froze to death at Cedar Swamp during the'severe snow storm of last week. She lived in a hut which was very open, and which freely admitted the wind and snow. On Monday, the neighbors not seeing any movement about the house, and the door unopened, and knowing the hus band was away, went over and enjered the dwelling, and found the woman and three children in bed, frozen to death. A Curiosity.—A few weeks ago, Charles Schoch of New Philadelphia, 0., was culling into a log, when his axe struck n cannon leaden slug, weighing three and a half pounds, which was imbedded in solid wood about five or six inches from the surface. The free, from which this slug was taken, grew in the river bottom about two miles from that town, and near where Gen. Wayne and h!s army encamped during the summer, of 1794, whett he marched to the Northwest Territory to to attack the Miami Indians. The probability is, that it was fired from ohe of his connons, and lay imbedded for more than half a cen tury. ; FJKOSI KANSAS. , Frofn Kansitts we lenij that the Land Office js to bffopened at Lecompion, within a few ■ receiving payments upon preemp tion claims. As between the Governor and the Bogus Legislature things do hot go very smoothly. To a call from that body for the reasons of his neglect to commission one W. T. Sherrord, duly appointed, under the bogus lows, ns Sheriff of Douglas County, the Gov ernor replies that Sherrard stands charged with having been engaged in several drunken brawls, ” fighting and -shooting at persons with pistols, and threatening others,” and that unlit these mailers are cleared up shall not have his commission; nor will he com mission any one laboring under such charges as would impair, if not entirely destroy, his usefulness, or whose passions and habits would render unfit for the proper discharge of‘his duties, or which might in any manner endanger the peace of the Territory. Such, he says, are his instructions, and ho means to carry them out. He has also returned, with a short but strong veto message, the bill passed by the Legislature authorizing bail in all cases. There is evidently a radical difference be tween Governor Geary and the Bogus Legis lature, not only as to the qualifications of Sheriffs, but generally as to the principles on which The affairs of the Territory are lobe administered. It is perfectly plain that an administration of the Territorial government in accordance with Governor Geary’s views can only be secured by the passage of the bill already reported in the House of Repre sentnlivesat Washington for the relief of the people of Kansas, I>y setting aside altogether the bogus code and the existing Bogus Legis lature, as one of the fruits of it, and com mencing the work L of Territorial legisla'ion anew through the medium of an entirely new and fairly elected Legislature. The attempt to get on by combining a Governor like Geary with a Bogus Legislature like that now silling at Lecompion, is but a repetition of the ridiculous experiment of putting a patch of new cloth upon an old and rotten garment, whereby, ns we know on high au thority, the rent is certain lobe made worse.. There is palpably in this case only one course consistent with common sense, and that is to commence anew. As well might a live man be tied to a dead and putrifyihg body, as Gov. Geary bo required to act in concert with suth a body as that now falsely claiming to represent the people of Kansas. So long as that Legislature is allowed to go on, of what avail will Gov. Geary’s voles be, no matter how well argued, or how strongly put? The veloed ncls will be passed over his head, and the Governor will thus be called upon to execute laws against the passage of which he has protested as not merely impolitic, but unjust. There is only this alternative: Either this Bogus Legislature must be re moved out of the way, or Gov. Geary will be obliged to resign. It is absurd to suppose that both can go on together.— N. Y. Trib une. Wliat Wo Want in Kansas. Our friends in the Free States have nobly responded to the call for aid; and, by the opportune arrival ofclothing, provisions, <Sec., want,- wwtcti had looked In'uponmany a prai rie home, has been driven back, and the Win ter will be'passed in comparative comfort by those who would otherwise have suffered.— The future has to be looked to as well ns the present; and we propose to suggest a few steps to our Eastern capitalists as to what Kansas needs, and the way to help her citi zens to help themselves. We shall be enabled to gel through the Winter with the present aid; but in the Spring when the river opens and emigration comes pouring in upon us, something must be done toward providing suitable employment for the new comers os well as for the old set tlers. Building material will be in demand ; household furniture, and all the varied anicles necesS&ry for ihe making of a new home in a ■mew country, will be wanted. At present we are dependent upon Missou ri for our supplies of most things necessary for the use and comfort of our population.— Sash, furniture, cabinet workof kinds, have all to be purchased at St. Louis or the border cities at exorbitant rates. Now, what we want is the erection, at Lawrence and other central points, of large buildings provided with steam power and suitable machinery, to be used for manufacturing furniiuro, doors, turning, planing, cabinet work, and all kinds of mechanical business, in which machinery is required. The investment of capital in enterprise of I this description, and ihe establishment of fac-1 lories in the most central points in the Tern- I lory will materially aid Kansas and help her citizens by affording them employment, keen ing the money of the Territory circulating within its borders, and will pay handsomely for the capital invested. All kinds of manufacturing business will be of great advantage to the country by giv ing employment to our mechanics and de veloping the resources of the Territory. If capitalists wish to aid Kansas, they can oo it in no better way than by carrying out our suggestion. We havo Ihe stones for building purposes, the coal for fuel, and iron ore in abundance, so that all we need is the skill and capital to turn them to use. Farmer, A Noble Fellow.—On Iho morning of Dec. Ist, four little'boys broke through the ice on the take near their school hobse in Walerville, Wisconsin. The villagers hasten ed to the spot, but the ice was so thin that none dared venture to their aid, mo ment just as the boys were sitting, a young man, eighteen years of ago, named John Adams, sprang forward, seized a (hiring spear, and leaving most of his clothes on the bank plunged into the lake and saved two of (he boys. He then made another dash, and saved the third. Adams was now almost ex hausted, but the mother of the fourth boy, was standing near, in horrible agony, and Adams said to her, “ I will save your boys or die,” Tying a rope around his waist, ho told those on shore to pull him in if he sank, an'd cried out, “Standby the rope, I am going to him." He then plunged in, swam out some ten rods, breaking the ice with his .hands, seized the boy, who was sinking for the third time, carried him ashore and re stored him to his mother’s arms. From tho Laurence Herald of Freedom. Tbe Verdict iu the Borden ffln t _ der Caic. State .of New York, City and County 0 f NeiO‘Tork, it. —An Inquisition taken at iha house of the . late Doctor Harvey Burdell No. 31 Bond street, in (ho Fifteenth Ward of the City of New-York, in the County of New. York. Ibis 14th day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, before Edward D. Connery, of the said city and county aforesaid, on view of the body of the said Harvey Burdell, | v . ing dead at No. 31 Bond street aforesaid, upon the oaths and affirmations' of twelve good and lawlul men of the Stale of Newt York. duly chosen and sworn or affirmed and charged to inquire on behalf of said people how and in what manner the said Harvev Burdell ' 'Came to his death, do, upon their oaths and affirmations, say that the said Har vey Burdell on the 30th day of January, 1857, at No. 31 Bond street aforesaid, was feloniously murdered, and came to his death by being stabbed in various parts of his body with a dagger or other sharp instrument: and the jurors believe from the evidence, and therefore find, that Emma Augusta Cunnino. ham and John J. Eckel were principals in iho commission of said murder; and the jurors aforesaid further find that George Vail Snod grass either joined the said Emma Augusta Cunningham and John J. Eckel in the com mission of the said murdery-or was an acces sory thereto before the fact, counseling, aid ing or abetting the said Emma Augusta Cun ningham and John J. Eckel to commit he said murder; and the Jurors aforesaid fur ther find that Augusta Cunningham and Helen Cunningham, daughters of the said Emma Augusta Cunningham being in the house No. 31 Bond street, wherejhe said murder was commitied, have some know), edge of the fatls connected with the s.nu murder, which they have concealed from the jury, and that it is the duty of the Coroner lo hold them for the future action oi he Grand Jury. In witness whereof, we. .tie said jurors, as well as the Coroner, have o this inquisition set our hands and seals on he day and place aforesaid. I (Signed by the Jurors.) We give a place in our colmns this morn ing lo the report brought from Nicaragua &v Col. Sturges, lo the effect that Walker’s so silion is not desperate, that he is about .0 re take the boats on the river, and that the Costa Ricans were deserting to his standard, fur very good reasons we place no reliance on these rumors. !f there were no other indica tions, the fact that they are greedily snatch ed at by Walker’s friends here as groundsel hope, would alone suffice to show that he is at the last gasp. But we have information from another source, which we consider more trustworthy, that dissipates all probaotiitv lhat reenforcements from this side can .-earth the now surrounded and doomed lillibusters. The forts on the San Juan River have seen pul into’“thorough order by the Costa Ricans, under the direction of the Americans md Europeans who are engaged with them, fort San Carlos alone, with a garrison of 400 men, has seven pieces of cannon—one or two 01 them carrying 24-lb. ball—and an abun dance of ammunition, captured on board 1 river steamer along with arms said lo htvo been sent out by our fellow citizen, Mr. Geo. Law, The Castillo fori, and the inlrenchmems at the mouth of the Saraptqut, are also oosta cles of some account in the path of an .nvaa ing parly on their way up the river. Tho idea of recovering the river boats s a delusion. They have been taken up the Sara piqut, a great part of the machinery 'alien out, and a guard put on board with instruc tions and arrangements to set them on lire tlta instant (here is any danger ofthetr recapture by the filltbuslers. There remains at Grev town a' precarious and fragile stern-wheel steamer of small capacity, .t could hardly servo lo carry a force up the river, even were there no hindrances in the wav. But, above all it should not be forgotten that Walker cannot move front Rivas, or from St. George, two miles distant from Rivas, at one of which places he now is. even to ootam means 01 sustaining life. The loss 01 the two latte boats, San Carlos and Virgin has deprived him ol the mobility which for some time naa been his chief resource. The Island Ometepe, in the lake, fifteen miles from Rivas, and tlte coast of Chonlales opposite, some fifty mite* distant, have supplied him with provisions; but now, with his boats and schooner lost. :ne strong north-east gales which prevail on -nc lake at the close of the rainy season and ren der its navigation impracticable to bungos, wt.i absolutely confine him to Rivas. He can no loader procure food to supply the men whom fever and the enemy have soil left him. W* see no alternative for him but lo capitulate or starve.— N. Y. Tribune. The United Slates Mail steamer George Law arrived last evening with dates iVom San Fraicisco 10 the 20th of January, being '«o weeks later nows. She brings to this port §1)096,540 64 in gold. Gov. Johnson in ms message to the Legislature recommends me payment ofthe State debt, and opposes re pudiation, in which it is believed he expresses the general sentiment ol the citizens 01 Cali fornia. It is stated that the election 01 Uni ted Stales Senators was the result of a oar gam between Broderick and Gwin, by which the (alter agrees to forego all claims to influ ence in the Federal appointments. On the 9th an earthquake occurred which was fell Ihoroughoul ihe entire Slate, but no damage followed. The Supremo Court has decided the lax upon (Chinese immigrants to be null and void. The news from the mines is en couraging. The vole for Senator for long term stood!: Broderick 79; Stanley, 14;— CofTroth, Ilj; Weller 1; Bynum, I. ?ot the short term it was; Gwin, 82 ; Cranb, 17 ; Sargcant, 11 j Stanley, 2; Shafter, The newly elected Senators, together wu* the Hon. Mr. Bigler arrived here yesterday by the George Law.— Tribune. An ndmoniiion against hasty funerals oc curred last week at Fremont, Ohio. Damn Slearnes, who had been sick with a fever, sf parently died. All arrangements were mnoa, and the friends and clergyman were assem bled to pay the last tribute of respect to me deceased, when the body appeared warm m the touch. Restoratives were administereO, and, in a few minutes, the man who came so near being buried alive was silling up. r|9 is now in a fair way of recovery. 1
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