■■ h seems to us a monstrous wrang (hat jour nals which .pretend to soma respectability of charades should persist in representing the course of, the National Executive, toward Kansas as evincing fairness, and the proposed Constitutional Election in Kansas, under the tmthoriiy of the Territorial Legislature, as off •rding’lhe Free-State men a fair chance, nnd one which they ought to improve by votiog. .We ask all who pursue this course, to explain or confront these undeniable fkcls: I. All the appointments recently made for Kansas by the new President are of the most active, biller, unscrupulous leaders of the Pro-Slavery faction—Whitfield, Emory, Ran som, Woodson, &c. While not one man who was previously known as sympathizing with the Free-State movement in Kansas has ever been appointed to any post whatever hy either Pierce or Buchanan, the men who planned and consummated the gigantic fraud and usurpation of March 30, 1855, have been and are the dispensers' of Federal pal ronage in Kansas, and themselves the recipi ents of the most desirable offices. Some of them have led marauding bands of Missouri nns in their repealed invasions of Kansas; Federal officers are known as having them selves fired at and killed unarmed Free-Stale men, but no one was ever removed or public ly rebuked, by his superiors for such slight misdemeanors. In short, no outrage coni'- mined on Free-State men in Kansas by their antagonists has been punished or rebuked by our National rulers; nnd no merit or service on the part of a Free-State man has sufficed to obtain' for him an appointment at their hands, H. While Gov. Geary ia replaced in Kan* aas by Walker (for the present, by F. P. Stanton), Chief Justice Lecompte, whom Pierce made n show of removing, is still con tinued in office, and there is not even a pre tense that he or Cato is to be superseded.— Thus the Judiciary, the Land Offices, the Public Surveys, the Marshalship, and every department of administration or avenue to power in Kansas, are in the hands of ene mies of the Free-Stale cause, and nobody but the new Governor (who is not going to Kan sas at present) makes any professions of im partiality. 111. Putting the Land Offices of Kansas in to the hands of Whitfield, Woodson; Emory, &c., is in effect .advertising all claimants of disputed or doubtful preemptions .therein — which includes about everybody now in the Territory—that, if they want decisions in favor of their- claims, they must be on the Pro-Slavery side. And the viva voce voting proscribed by the Territorial Legislature at us late session precludes all attempts at dis sembling. I No man can vote a Free-State ticket and not be known tTnd marked as so doing. IV. The act under which the People of Kansas are called to decide the question of Freedom or Slavery therein is the identical measure vetoed by Gov. Geary because of its manifest unfitness and unfairness, but passed over his head by the bogus Legisla ture. V. This act allows no-man to'vote-who was not in Kansas on the 15lh of March— ol which date thousands were over from Western Missouri grabbing Indian lands, staking out claims, &c., while the Free-Stale immigration for the season had barely com --menced. The rime was carefully pitched on as that which' would give the largest Pro- Slaverv and the smallest Free State vole. VI. The census is to be taken, the voting lists fiysfrande up, then revised, and the dis tricts laid off, and the votes canvassed entire ly by the creatures of the bogus Legislature —every one intensely Pro-Slave-y. The I’rce-Siale men have no voice in the premises from first to last, nor are the Federal officers allowed any real power in the premises.— Gov. Walker and Secretary Stanton are al lowed to say, upon the presentment of the bogus Census and List of Vo'ers, how many of the sixty delegates to the Constitutional Convention must. be apportioned to each of the nineteen Election Districts respectively; but this is a mere problem in the Rule of Three, and allows no discretion whatever.— Gov. Walker, Gov. Geary and Gov. Robin son, if severally required to make this appor tionment, must each figure out exactly the same result. Nor has Gov. Walker any power whatever, so long as he recognizes and upholds the authority of the bogus Terri i'nrial Legislature, to make this Constitutional Election a fair one. In view of these facts—and wo .challenge contradiction on any point above slated—is it not morally certain that the Free-Stale men, by voting at the bogus Constitutional ■Election, would only stultify themselves and .seal the inevitable'triumph of their enemies ? With no shadow of a voice in ordering this E eclion, fixing the time, taking the census, npportionating the delegates, holding the polls or counting the rye to be led like sheep to the slaughter; ond'lheir only choice is between giving their voluntary sanction to the outrage, or stigmatizing and scouting it from the start. Can a single earnest believer that Kansas should be Free hesitate as to their proper course.—JV. Y. Tribune. Long years ago, President Jackson ordered Mr. Secretary of the Treasury, Duane, to re move the deposits from the United Stales Bank, in defiance of lawt Mr. Duane refused and resigned. A lawyerin Maryland, Roger B. Taney, was apppointed in the place of Mr. Duane and was made the tool of the self willed President, and for/this act of human subserviency, this same-Taney was appointed Chief Justice of the United Slates Court, upon the death of the lamented Marshall. Years hive passed avyay, another act of subservi ency must be,performed, and this same Roger B. Taney it tbe supple tool of the slave power, himself the very slave of the pro dayerr party. A Rich C*se.—Memphis is decidedly a greatplace in itsway. A fern days «ince a / casewaapendirrg ip the common low court of that city, in which 4 Mr. and Mrs. Delbiog had sped Philip RrßoWen;-for breach of mar riage contract, in failing to pjafry Mrs’.Tjel bjog when phe was Miss Agnes Hamj worker,’ and tho jury Kas . given' the injutad ’parties *1'250-damo(jM, The idea of Eielbiog sue-, itig Bofilen because he did not marry his wife is certainly the richest thing in this fast age. The Storm. — A severe snow storm set in about 3 o’clock, on Sunday last and has continued with little intermission op to the present time (3 p. m„ Tuesday). Two feet of snow fs reported on the hills in this region, and roads arc generally blocked np. The snow is very nearly saturated with water. Had it fallen dry and light the depth could not have been less .than 3 feet on a level. The flood is inev itable. Success to those who have patiently waited for “ largte water." The “ Western Fever" ia raging tearfully in this village. It is violent in its attack . and generally proves fatal. In some cases the victim docs not sur vive the attack more than 24 hoars. Others are ta ken down, partially recover, and continue along for months in a scmi-convalcscent slate. A goodly number of our young men have gone off with it within the week jast past. AH departed with bright anticipations of life in a better land. We refer the lingering afflicted to the prescription ol our old and valued friend McDodoall, in another place. The Republicans of Connecticut have elected their entire Stale ticket by an average majority of 500. The Senate stands 15 Republicans to 8 Stavcocrats. The House stands 140 Republicans to 93 Hunkers. We have lost two members of Congress, and elected five of the eight Sheriffs. The Fillmaurners voted with the Bachnneers. Last year there was no elec tion of State officers by the people. Another case of reaction. Indianapolis, (ho capital of Indiana, gave (he Cin cinnali Platform a good majority last November. At their charter election last week, the Republicans elected their entire ticket by a majority of 200. Another melancholy ease of reaction u Apologists of Crime. Suppose for a moment that an individual in any community in Northern Pennsylvania, should avow himself the defender of Polygamy—speaking boldly in its behalf wherever others should assail it, and if it ever became a question at the polls, should cast bis vote sad influence for it; —how would be be be looked upon by his fellow-citizens 7 Probably, he would be considered a social monster and his claim to the respect of his neighbors, ignored. We can well imagine that every pulpit would hurl de nunciation at that rash individual, and every mother would teach her little ones to avoid him: in a few words, such a man would become by universal con sent, a moral and social outlaw. ' Notwithstanding this abhorrence, this righteous abhorrence, of polygamy and polygamists manifest ed in welt regulated communities, the advocates -of that'abhorred marital abuse parry their heads high and insolently everywhere in the best communities; ymd not only in society, but ns well in ' the various church organizations in the land—and these escape with seldom reprimand and rebuke. And these and kindred offenders, will continue to occupy high pla ces in the sanctuaries ol our land until the Pulpit islifled above dependence upon worldly favor. Then and only then, will our ministers attack moral evils without fear or favor, without distinction and with out reference to their advocacy, whether by isolated individuals, or by powerful political organizations. We have charged that the advocates of Polygamy hold up their heads and apologize for (hat monstrous iniquity in the best regulated communities, and yet escape the biller denunciation dealt upon the heads of the Saints ot distant Utah. This charge is easi. iy sustained. Slavery involves the crime of Polyg amy, though without (he mockery of legal ceremo nies. Tiie slavedriver conducts these matters ala Turk. His harem is as large as fais fortune, and he adds to it from lime to time without so much as saying—“ by your leave!” That such is tba fact, the gradual"(fading out of the black race on South ern plantations is sufficient evidence, even though there were no other. ■ It inevitably follows, then, that those who defend Slavery defend the crimes peculiar to and insepara ble from it. And they who vote to sustain and ex tend Slavery, vote to sustain and extend Polygamy. Further, such cannot, and probably will not, object to the adraissipn of Utah, polygamy and all. They dare not object to Utah because of her practice of polygamy ;.for in so doing they'strike at one of tbe Hfe-cbords of Slavery. These two are twin crimes against human nature, and wherever you find the one, there will you find the other. Tliai these defenders of crime should be winked at by the pulpit and a goodly proportion of the vir. lue-loving in community, is hot altogether surpris ing. We have few Pauls now-a.days, to enter Idol, airous Athena'and denounce social crimes arid aba sfca-withoat reference to earthly backing. ■' There' * time when the church stood tar ahead of the Worid and swayed-to life men op to t higher plane ofiedofli !)Sfotr,.tbe cbordi seems to have {alien behind the secular organisations, as a whole. Then, the Church bad nothing of earthly and visible pow er and glory to lose*- She wes then a unit. Now, she is divided and jmbfliv ided into keels, Hie noblest endeavors, (becao®e'the,Blrongc«‘.),of each being di rected to the preservation of non-essential distinc tions. .Some sects even'.refuse -fellowship to mem bers of other seels, agreeing with them in every : UiTrig by’common acceptation deemed essentia), and jet, as a church* continaidg to "break the bread and share the wine of Communion with man-stealers, womaiMvhipperfi and polygamists! If this'be con sistent with their ideas of-Christianity, they may-) well forbear sending such gospel to the. pagans of other lands, since it can teach men, at most, only “ to strain at a gnatand swallow a cartel.” That Slavery should have its apologists and de fenders even here, is not so marvelous after all. All crimes have their apologists and defenders. Gloomy and grand Robert Pollok wrote somawhat pro phetically of these troublous times, as may be seen In the following extract from his Course of Time; “ {fence the eternal strife of brotherhood. Of individuals, families. aommonwealtliK. The root from wlnch it grew was pride,bad root! And bad the fruit it bore. Then wonder not Thdi long the nations from it richly reaped Oppression,slavery,tyranny and war; Confusionfdesolation, trouble, shame.. And marvelous tho 1 it seem, this monster when It took the name of Slavery , as oft It did,Jhzd advocates to plead its cause Beings that walked erect and spake like men 1 Of Christian parents oil descended 100, ’ And dipt in the baptismal font os sign Of dedication to the Prince who bow’d ■ To death, to set the sio-bound prisoner free. Unchristian thought! on what pretence soe’er Of right inherited, or else acquired ; Of loss or profit, or what plea you name,' To buy and sell, to barter, whip and hold In chains, a being of celestial make— Of kindred form, of kindred faculties. Born free, and heir of an immortal .hope!— Thogght villainous, absurd, detestable! Unworthy to be harbored by a bend !” Ten years ago this judgment of the propbeUbard would have been universally approved in the North. Now, the cause of Slavery lias its advocates in ev ery community; “ beings who walk erect and speak as men.” We suppose that it is necessary to the ex ecution of some Almighty purpose; end therefore that we should judge them charitably, as we judge Judas. Still, th-8 rule would apply to the advocates of every crime under the sun. It would be well enough to-know how men pro pose to destroy crime by permitting its apologists to go unrebuked. They pursue the man who steals a horse with an energy of purpose that oftener savors of vindictiveness than of a love of justice; but who thinks of offering a reward for the arrest and con viction of the man who steals and sells women and children ? Ah! We forget that this kind of stealing is constitutional; and moreover, that snch thieves find asylum in the bosoms of the churches. These dispensations assuredly ought to silence the sinners who clamor against slavery and polygamy; for when statesmen decide that the Constitution protects the manstcaler, and Doctors of Divinity write books to prove that manstealing is not only permissible, but orthodox, it is time to defer to these high authorities, for a season, in order to systematize the opposition. Bat we must pause only to gather there is any doubt as to the direction in which Da ly lies, tar there is none. The path lies strait ahead. Wherever Tyranny frowns, there must we strike, [yer aids and abets the tyraqt, let him receive .his treason in the contempt of all .follow fawning, tho world is ing -of things we Ibed by the price honest, men. If l blamable. In the present seem to be approaching the evil days the poet, and with which we can very upproprml dismiss the subject for the present: ** Then was the evil day of tyranny, Of kingly and of priestly tyranny That bruised the nations long. As yet no slate, Beneath buid v wim, Though loud of Freedom was the talk of all. Some groaned more deeply, being heavier tusk’d; Some wrought with straw, and some without; but all Were slaves, or meant to be; for rulers still Had been of equal mind, excepting few, Cruet, rapacious, tyrannous and vile, And had with equal shoulder propped the Boast.” “Truth is strange, stranger than fiction;” but not a whit more strange than the mutations of parly. In 1819, the Legislature of this State unanim ously protested against the extension of Slavery in to the .Territories of the United Slates* ‘This pro test was urged by the Democracy in State Convene lion, even so lately as 1849. That party held fast to the non-extension principle up to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, and hundreds of men within our range of acquaintance and observa lion, indignantly refused to fellowship with a parly that couldxso coolly and impudently spit upon past principles and platforms,the major part of whom still are and will ever remain etedfast; a few return ed lo their vomit, and in their devotion to the Black Power, out Douglas Douglas. Now, who has chang ed?—'those who stand just where they stood 38 years ago, or those who stand exactly opposed to their then position ? A friend has called our attention to the /act that upoixjhe Republican State Central Committee, pub lished in another place, will be found the names of the only surviving members of Governor Skunk’s Cabinet— Jobs N. Puetiance and John Lapoetb. These men , have survived the mutations and (rans mutations of parlies, policies and platforms, and have always been prominent advocates of democrat ic principles. They stand where they stood when members of a democratic Administration—opposed to the extension of Slavery another inch into the Public Domain. There is where the Republican party stands; that Messrs. Laporle and Purviancc should be found upon the Republican platform, is not/then, a matter of surprise. ft is an undeniable fact that the staunchest and truest men in (he democratic party are standing firm in their devotion to Freedom,‘while the party is fil ing into the fold of the Slave Power. The men who gave dignity to the democratic party and character to its deliberative policy, are now leaders in the Re publican party. They have not changed; on the contrary, they have 'been abandoned by their party. They are not demagognes or place-hunters—neither of these care for principles, but trim their sails so as to catch die popular breeze. The trausraoladoo ot the ardent federalist, James Buchanan, into the zealous democrat, James Buchanan; and the latest transmutation of the Berks county Letter no-slave ry-extension James Buchanan into the nllia-pro-alav ery Cincinnati Platform, ace the .unmistakable signs that oark the course of the place-hunter and the demagogue. You will,discover no such trimming in the political,course of the Republican leaders. / Sec David Wilmot, in the very morning of bis political success, spurning the tempting bribe of cer. Uin preferment under the auspices of a party then in the zenith of its power and § lory, and resting all his Mure upon the ultimate triumph of principle' Snell is the chief of the Republican parly in Penh' •ylrahia. Id Bocha.ni an we the ibds b sacred trust, freely and fearlessly. : HU hbpe is an chored where the fitful gales of gtovcling. ambition' can never disturb the serene, faith .of his soul De feat under the lead of such a-man would be more' glorious than victory under ordinary circumstances. Far every sach nominal defeat-most be a brilliant moral victory. THE AGITATOR. IW. 11. Cobb,..'.. JBditer. WELLSBOROUGH, PA, Thursday morning, April ISST. All Business,arid otherCommuntcationsmast be addressed to the Editor to insure attention. Republican Nominations, 1 For Governor, DAVID WILMOT, Of Bradford County, For Canal Commissioner, WILLIAM MILL WARD, Of Philadelphia. Fbr Supreme Judges, JAMES VEECH, 4 Of Fayette County, JOSEPH J, LEWIS, Of Chester County. Slate Ccutrat Committee. .The President of ibe late Republican Convention has appointed the following' Slate Centra) Commit tee, viz; LEMUEL TODD, Chairman. Simon Cameron, Joseph Casey, John J. Clyde, Geo. Bergner, John M. Sullivan, Wm. D. Kelly, Joseph B. Myers, J. M. Sellers, Henry White, James Edward*, Lindlcy Smith, J. B. Lancaster, P. C. EUmaker, Jacob L. Gossler, H. Lt Benner, Edward C. Knight, David Newport, Edward Darlington, Wm. H. Kcim, Wilson Cowell, Peter Marlin, / T. J. Worth, Peter S. Miclilcr, Sami. E. Diramick, Tlios. E. Cochran, David E. Small, I E. C. M’Pherson. J B* Rush Pctrikcn, John Penn Jones, W. P. Miner, John Laporlc, L. P. Williston, D. Gillespie, C. B. Curtis, John N. Parviance, D. L. Eaton, Robert P, M’Dowell, D. E. Finney, John H. Wells, J. R. Edir, T. J. Coffey, John Covode, Joseph Shnntz, A. J. Fuller, Robert M. Palme, REV. W. H. GOODWIN, P. E. of Hornells. vtlle District, wilt preach in the M. E„Church in Wellsbaro’, Friday evening, 24th insl., at 7 o’cl’k evening. THE TIOGA COUNTY 4G.ITATOH; Mr. Cobb—Siri Herewith I send you four small cakes of sugar,—one for yourself,one for each of your “devils,” (I believe you have two,) and one for the prettiest girl in Welbboro*. Yours respectfully, O. A. S. - P, £ , -It is presumed that the last- donation will createpn unprecedented demand for sugar in your ndrgbborbooA’; . .. . . . o, a.-a. P. P. S. I add another cake to be given to the homeliest-old maid in Wcllsboro*. If you keep it until it is called for it is supposed that nev er be out of sugar. We are exceedingly obliged (o you for our share of the sugar: the share left. u for the, prettiest girl,” we agree to hold in trust for tlml multitudinous per sonage until site shall apply for it. Not consenting to sit as umpire, however; that-duly will be dis charged by a young man about the establishment, supposed to be something of a connoisseur in that brand) of the hoe arts, and in whose judgment re garding u women and things,” the fair applicants may rely with the utmost confidence. He will like, wise undertake to deliver the last mentioned cake of sugar to the unfortunate spinster designated. He will prepare for this delicate task by submitting to the decrees of Futc, whatever they may prove to be. We beg our generous friend to bear in mind for tho future that we are consciously possessed of but one “-devil;” though we should not object to anolh. er, equally as human and respectable as our present faipiiiar. Wc have thought best to bestow the odd one cake upon the young gentleman referred to, tlfough he a Sects to believe that he shall get a *** sweetener” on his visit to tbe maiden lady. We hope he may. The “ devil” accepts his cake with due meekness. He says it has a remarkably “ mapteish” flavor and is as fresh and sweetas the lips of the Utile girl that gives him a kiss for the Agitator every Thurs day morning. He says warm u viltles” are most natural to his climate, but that u cold willies,” if they are sweetened, will be thankfully received. To Correspondents.— M. L. D., Grcencaslle, 10. wa. VVe despatched a note to your address on Tues day. Also a paper to your address at Newton. “ Faeherhas on excellent article on file for next week. Subject—culture of corn-, with a ply hit at Sorghum. Several communications await their turn. Wc u segregate” a few beauties from the poems of the new poet introduced to pur readers last week. Thcy.tcvlnce a great deal of poetic fire and outlliun der Niagara—listen: Ho I am from a distant nation, Then let the banner of Freedom wave far and near, Yes let the name cf .liberty ring over all creation, 0 America beautiful Land, boa* sweet, 0 how dear. To the top of the mast, with the banner of freedom tot vail with every breeze. 0 that It might be with the Ocean's was<*. And then our ships can sail aertwt the most distant seas. And Did defiance to the Southern ruse. j Come then brother let ns cross the roriog sen, J To affrica happy shore. 1 And here boon stolen from in under liberties tree. 0 the thought of their distant, left for ever more. 0 now my southern friends, yon hore lost yonr chattlee and your slaves. God Is with them, they hare gone to their distant home; Yes thy bid tho banner of freedom wave, { * While they on tho plains of affrica romc. We have received Peterson’ » Magazine Tor May, and are glad to notice a great improvement in Ihs Art department. Its plates now rival those of the three dollar Magazines, and the literary department is well and choicely filled. \ From the Chicago Tribune, April 11. GOV. GEARY'S FORTHCOMING BOOK. We are lold by a democrat of unquestioned faithfulness to his parly, himself a Governor, |n a late conversation with Governor ;arned that that gentleman is pre faithfully kept during ,gf events in at Geary paring from his his administration a sumrfl; -JTancAo, no lhoy oame utiller lllij OWQ or official observation. We are told by the same authority that in that book, when it is given to the country, the allegations of the Republican journals in,relation to the fiendish atrocities practised upon the free-state men by the border ruffian invaders will be not only confirmed but fully proved. It will be stated , that during a trip on a much frequented road , soon after his arri val in the territory , the Governor saw the bodies of twenty-six murdered free stale men. Some of these had been shot or brained, and thrown out by the road-side to rot under a burning sun. Others had'been scalped as Indians scalp their victims. One was pinioned to a tree by a bowie-knife driven through his heart into the wood at his back; on his breast was fastened a written warning to all other “abolitionists.” Some were buried just be neath the prairie sod, their hands and arms left slicking out of the shallow holes into which they had been thrown. Upon others the nameless mutilations of private parts, which characterize the ferocious joy of the Indian in the moment of victory, had been committed. In all classes, brutality seemed to have exhausted himself in insulting what, among all civilized men, whether friend or foe, are looked upon with respect —the bodies of the dead. Had these things appeared in the letters demiting events in Kansas between ,May and -November last, !he journal publishing them would have been suspected of exaggeration, even by its own political friends; and more than one of the atrocities which the Governor will describe was written out by faithful cor respondents for our columns, but we refused publication for (he reasons alleged above. Warning to Post Masters. —Within a few days past two Post Masters—one in. the Eastern and the other in the Northern section of the State—have been detected in defraud ing the Post Office Deparlment-ef its legiti mate revenues, by amounts of transient printed matter in the mails, with oulrendering any account of the postage re ceived for the same. We learn from the Owego Gazette, that the ever vigilant Col. Samuel North, made the discovery, in each instance, by tracing large packages of pre paid, printed matter to the respective offices aforesaid, and ascertaining that in neither of l.liem had any account of this' description Of postage been kept. In one of the cases, by dilligent enquiry and parsevering investiga tion, the Col. was able to exhibit to the re cusant official an indebtedness of between 0400 and $5OO, and .in the other of a very handsome amount lof postage of which no account had been kept, and for which the Col., required them to sign (he proper acknowl edgements as vouchers to the' department.—; One of the offices being of littlo importance or convenience lo"anyb6dy 'except the Post Master himself, was recommended to be dis continued j and the Post Master at ,tha.other has undoubtedly,-cre this, been rotated out oi the service of the .department—exceedingly mild penalties ,ta say. the least, in view of the nature of. ibeirroisoouduct.-—2JZmtra Ad vertiser. ©ommunCcattontf, ©ottcsjion&tnct. For tho Agitator Winona; Min. Ter., March 30,1857. Leat: - . “It’snobelter than stealing.” “Tut! tut! that’s no way to talk.” “Well, ’tis no belter than stealing any how, and I ai’nt afraid to say so neither. Borrow! borrow! borrow! If they’d only bring one’s books home when they’d iread them IhrOugh, one could get along, but this keeping them eternsjly shows conclusively they never in tended to return them.” Mr. Cobb; If ear Sir: I have only ti ma to say a few words, and that is to those who wish to settle on the lands of the Territory, The Government has withdrawn all the lands from market to enable the railroads to select' there, lands. But the act of Congress provides that the railroads shall have the sec. lions of anodd number, within six .miles of their track. The settler is perfectly: secure in locating and improving the sections bavin® an even number, but will not probably he obliged to pay for it under ayear;-but he must be on hand to bid off his claim at the land offices when the sale comes on. If he locates within six miles of the ratlroad he will have to pay 82,50 for (he land, but it will be as well worth it as land farther off is 81 25. The present stale of things is.betier for the settler, but not so good for the speculator. Okie hundred thousand will come to the Ter ritory this year, if they are not deceived in consequence of the closing of the land offices. T|te growth of the Territory is beyond pre cedent. If a new census is taken before they vole to elect delegates to the Constitutional Convention, the. Republican’s will have about two-thirds of the members. Gov. Medarv has not been beard of yet, some say he is sick.’ There is a strong feeling in the south ern part of the Territory in favor of dividing it by an east and west line, sixty miles north of St. Paul. “Haven’t you got some borrowed books ?’’ “No!” “When did you-send them home?” “After I’d got done reading them of course.” “Some lime after,” “Well, that’s nothing to the case; and I don’t want any of your impudence either.— Now there’s a Latin Grammar I’ve got to buy, because somebody has borrowed the one I bought for Tom; and a new Philosophy, and a half a dozen other school bpoks, all gone. Each one must have a new set, be cause as soon as one child is done with them, somebody wants to borrow; and of course they never bring home a school book.” “But you have to buy a new kind for every new teacher, and it’s no matter if-you do lose the old ones.” “Well, if they would only borrow them it would do ; but if perchance, (per small chance I admit,) there is one that isn’t dis carded, that’s the one that’s sure to be bor rowed. School books make but a small part of the plunder. Only yesteiday I wanted the pamphlet containing the decision of Judge Fox, who used to lead tbe darkies up to tbe polls to vole when they’d vole on his side, but ns soon as they wouldn’t, decided they were not voters under the Constitution, but I couldn’t find it. Jtwas Tent. And then there’s the first volume of Buckingham’s Bridgewater Treatise, for which 1 paid four dollars, that’s lent too, nnd has been keeping lent this three years; and there’s—-but it’s, oa use talking about it. It’s.enough to make ono mad.— Borrow I borrow I borrow I and never send home—confound it.all.” “Ain’t you a little- bilious V' Flour is 86 per barrel, Potatoes, Corn and Oats, $1; Pork and Beef, 15 els per pound; Beans, §4. I hope to be able to furnish, you, with soma more useful reformation soon. The ice wiif probably be out as far up the Mississippi as lake Pepin to-morrow, also from the uppet end of the lake to St. Paul. “No I am. not bill-io.ua y If I was, I’d buy books for every ons that wanted to borrow, so that I might occasionally have the privi lege nf reading my own. Here, Sam, lake this down to the printer and aslc him. if he will insert it a I yearly advertising rates. Off with you y and tell him to charge it ta J'BH.OSOf’HATi”' Prom tbo Washington Star. (Admlnidtratioja- Organ.) April? The Administration Declares War Against Ctcarj', Their Game kot Played Out.—Gov. Geary, accoiding to the newspapers, is en gaged at the North, in retailing to the letter writers of the abolition press his budget of slanders upon the pedple of Kansas, who would noi or could not see the’ propriety of throwing overboard those who had proved themselves wonky, and uniting upon Ipm,as one of their candidates for the United States Senate from Kansas, when admitted into tho Union as a State. In Chicago,-according to one of his cor respondential amanuenses, he went a few inches further than when in Washington, and abused the administration as roundly as, while Ttesejiecontonled himself with abusing those whose oHence was demurring to his plans of personal advancement and to his efforts to palliate the murder of the poor young Sher rod, and to screen the gang of his immediate coterie who were aiders and abettors as well as principles in the perpetration of that cow ardly and heartless act. He evidently aims to become a second Reeder in the,estimation of Abolitionism; the “Original Jacobs’’ bavingdied out politi cally, like the dirty snuff of a dip candle. His (Reeder’s) light is no more seen, (in the newspapers,) while even the offensive' odor his career in Kansas generated in the nostrils of all honest people who are not crazed on the Slavery question, is well nigh entirely forgotten. Geary is to be their'next grand agitator; and not,having been endow ed, like his distinguished predecessor, with a gift of gab, he essays to make his desjlred abolition capital through the pens of writers for the Free-Soil press rather than upon the slump. . That ho is in the course of the cur rent year to be bubbled into a hero—though he did run awav from Kansas on .the first oc casion wherein the stuff he is made of tested—is already apparent. Our impressioiT is that he is destined to make even a poorer hero than Reeder was ; that he will never , become more than a five: days’—not a nine "days’ wonder. By and by, he 'tells the truth in asserting (bat the administration rejected his advice with reference to Kansas affairs.* Thai’s evident in the selections so recently made of new federal officers for the Territory, every man of whom is a Democrat of the right stamp , entertaining no sympathy with Abo litionism i evidently opposed to all Geary's schemes for his personal political advance ment. Hon. G. A. Grow —though not yet recov ered from the malady by which be, in com-’ mon with so many of the boarders at the' National Hotel, at-Washington, has suffered —delivered an effective and eloquent address to his constituents, in Montrose, on Monday" evening Inst. ; - , . Wo shall not attempt to give eyema sketch of his remarks on the Dred Scott, decision, VBuchanan and Free Kansas” &c., to the cowardly insinuation of the Montrose Demo crat against his integrity in the matter of the Collins Steamers—an answer, which, must forevet' silence that base' slander. Mr. Grow said, a' reference (o the' Congressional Globe would show his vote recorded, in , every in stance, against the Collins Steamers. Collins would hardly pay any one for voting against him! o ' , I , ' M See how pitiful a position the 'Democrat occupies from having followed the lead of the, knave who edits the Philadelphia-Daily Netcs.—Montrose 'Republican. A gentleman of wealth in New York offers to support during a few.yeats’ courte of study, fifty young men who site desirous qrentering the ministry. ■ The.expense is ' estimated at 0300 each potyear;, making the sum. of 860,-, 000 for all of them(during the four years. Letters will reach me if sent to Wabashaw,. Minesota Territory. Truly. W. W. MeDOUGALL. Wabashaw, Min- Teb., ’April 7,1857. Mb. Cobb; Dear Sirt The first steamboat ran up to lake Pepin on the 4th inst., which is earlier than the average. I wish to say a few words more in relation, to the right-of preemption in this Territory., We are now informed that preemptors wilh enjoy the same rights as last year, until the railroad companies are incorporated by a Le., gislature which will meet 00-the inst., and have fixed the exact location of their roads, which, will not be before the first of Augustafer which lime the railroads take the sections having an-odd number. With, reference to the Valuegf the right to. preemption let me say a word. An iniellt-. gent man.here who.had not yctnised his right, of preemption told.me that he considered his right worth fifteen hundred-doliars. He is.&, surveyor and-would be able to select a better quarter section than most persons; but it is. safe to say, that to any man who chooses to ipse it, the right is worth, not less than four or five hundred' dollars. So that, after expend-, iig in time and- money, as. follows : : Fifty dollars for improvements, and- two hundred', dollars to the Government for the land, mak-. ing 5250 in all, he has a quarter sect'on. worth not less than $7OO, and in many cases from one to two thousand dollars ; for those, persons who-took good'limber land, are now selling for ten and fifteen dollars an-aerc. , 1 was astonished in traveling, 1 through the country on foot, to see what-a large portion, of the land has been already taken. In many counties nine-tenths of the land is already secured. I suppose that in the.section about this place for thirty-five miles up and down the river and sixteen miles back, there is. more unclaimed land than in any portion, south of St. Paul, from the fact that this tiact.wos reserved for the Indians, and their title has been extinguished within the last two. weeks. ; ■ None of our Tioga friends can lake except lions K> the .soil, Ihe character of ibe settlers generally, nor to the character of the water,. Reports are generally correct as to the steady 'cold weather for four months in the winter. They all testify that when the spring opens, about the'first of April, the seasons of spring, summer and autumn, are much more agree able than in the eastern and middle States. What I say in favor of the soil, and the character, of the people must apply to the territory back from the rivers. The rivet bottoms are generally composed jif coarse .sand and gravel, and much inferior to the high prairies which compose the great bulk of the land. The valleys along the streams are generally narrow, Truly, W. *W. McDOCJGALL. A Witness from the other Side. —We had.a friendly tail yesterday from Dr. Leib, of Chicago, formerly of this city, wl.o is on his return'from Washington, where he had been to see the powers that be. The Doctor Was a strong Buchanan man, and stumped Illinois lor him during the last campaign.—> He also published a German paper which had a wide circulation and great influence, and was probably the cause of giving that Stale to .Mr. Buchanan. He says that in his paper and on the stump he pledged himself andtha Democracy that Mr. Buchanan would mats Kansas a Free State, and give the North her full rights. Such was bis own belief. But he finds that he was deceived. He says that the appointment of Walker, his Secretary, and those ultra border ruffians in that Territory to .offices, has ;seltled the matter, and that Kansas i* doomed to be a Slave Slate ; for these men will go all lengths to accomplish that purpose, and the Admin, islration have clothed them with full power to the object. The Doctor was in Kansas wheqlhe troubles to that Territory commenced; and is,well acquainted with the condition of; things there, He knew Mr. Bu chanan, and was strong in the belief that ho entertained the same opinion of hostility l ° the extension of slavery that he had avowed sproeyears ago; but he finds himself most grievously mistaken ; and he prophecies that the course of the new Administration on ihja subject will utterly annihilate the Democratic party, so called, in the. North, which was so terribly shattered at the elections last year.-= Zqncatter (Pa.) fFAig;, TJie real estate of Mr.ijimmerroan, lately kille'd'intheCanada railroad accident i* e, ‘ timated to be worth $7,000,000,
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