them according to ilieir deeds. We boar the
most encouraging accouuta from the great
West. By the lime November comes, the
great Democratic party in that section will have
scatterod like the leaves of the forest after a
tornado, tboy have cheated ana defied the peo
f le, they have provoked their wrath aud laugh
ed at their moaning®, let them now prepare to
meet the doom that awaits them, for nothing is
more sure, nothing more terrible.
Union is the watchword here and must be
everywhere among the opponents of misrule,
jugglery, extravagance and corruption. Bu
chanan is not only goue over to the south, but
to the disunion men of the soulb, and it is
they that control him and the Democratic par
ty. If the country knew as we do their de
termination to force Slavery on Kansas, to
crush freedom and oppress the free laborer of
the North, their total disregard of the great
interest* of the people, and the rapid tendency
to despotic rule, it would uot be necessary to
rshort them to displace the oppressors from
power.
Truly vours,
JOHN COVODI3.
Hi;DO)I!!) I.NUUIIiEH,
iHlNSllr
CSSESf \
BEDFORD, Pa.
I'* Idaf Morning, June IS SSSB
"FEARLESS AND FRE£.'j_
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i 13. OVER-Editor and Proprietor.
STATE COXVKMIOX. "
Tbe United American, Republican, and People's
Committee of Superintendence for the City of Phi
iadelpbia, earnestly desirous to extend ..ml perpe
tuate that union of the elements of opposition to
the present National Administration, whieh in tiiis
City has lately resulted in srcii brilliant success,
do hereby respectfully suggest, and recommend to
the State Committees representing those several
elements of opposition, that ;hc-y call upon the
citizens of Pennsylvania, who are opposed to the
present National Administration? especially to its
despotic and fraudulent Leccnipton policy, and its
v, ill el neglect of the just claims of domestic in
dustry; and who are in favor of the sovereignty
or ti c people over their own b>c.il concerns, ol
American institutions as against the policy and in
tiigu sof foreign Governments; and of adequate
protection to our home labor, to assemble iti their |
ri spective Senatorial and Representative Districts,
to (le ose delegates to a State Convention, to met t
at II irrisburg, in the Hail of f lie House of Rep
resent at ires, at 2 o'clock. P. At., of Wednesday,
tie Hth day of July, 18-58, to nominate candi
dates for Judge of the Supreme Court and Canal
Commissioner.
LEONARD E. FLETCHER, President.
J. R. FLANK, EN, 1
(ho. A. COFFEY. \ Vice Presidents
W. .1. P. VVHITE, )
M. V. B. SUMMERS, I 0 .
J. R. LYNDALL, J Secretaries.
Philadelphia, May 20, 1858.
In view of the above recommendation, and its
T Stafc"Ci.'nvt ; ntTbii. "Tsstiett by me, for the "8th""of"
July next, and esruesih request the American Re
) uhiicans of the State to accept it, and participate
in ihe li-ctinn of Delegates to said Convention.
Bv order of the State Committee.
I.ESI'L TODD,
Chairman A. R. State Committee.
An si — EDWARD M'PIIKRSOS, Sec'y.
t V i: LISLE, May 81, 1858.
T.• :he Jlmeri-anr of Pennsylvania :
The above recommendation having been submit
ted to me for my approval, alter consultation witli
the in j'.rity of the members of the American State
Committee, and a large number of the prominent
Americans of the State. I cheerfully adopt it as
our call tor a State Convention, and urge the, urem
ia.;, of the American party throughout the State
t<> participate in the election of delegates.
11. BDCHER S VVOOPK,
Chairman of American State Committee,
CurAßriEtp, May 29, 1858.
Ti'. smuch as the above recommendation and
ca'i- point out the plain road to practical, decisive
and enduring victory over the present National
Ad." inistration and its tyrannical and sectional
p'iicy, I therefore request tire Republicans of
Pennsylvania to unite in the election of delegates
to the above Convention.
WM. B. THOMAS,
Chairman of Republican State Committee.
PHILADELPHIA, June 1,18-58.
TIJE MORMON WAR.
Intelligence has been received from Salt
Like, which represents everything quiet in that j
city. Gov. Ucmtuiug bad arrived and was weli .
received by Brighaiu Young, who wus willing
to transfer to him all authority, and had en
joined upon his followers to recoguize Liui as
their future Governor, and aid him in the dis
charge cf his duties. The people have gone i
to work ou their farms. The army at Camp !
Scott was suffering terribly from cold weather '
and Lunger. From this, it will he sccu that
we were tight iu what we sui i a few weeks ago, :
that the war was over before it was begun.
The Locofocos are much chagrined that their
principal capital stock for political purposes is
taken from them. Buchanan is afraid to re
sent the British outrages, aud war with that
proud and banghiy nation is out of the ques
tion. Probably be will get up a fuss with the
dozen Indians yet iu Florida, tho Mcsquitos,
Mexico, Central America, or some other weak ,
and defenceless nation, as military glory is all '
rhat will now help to raise his imbecile admin- i
istrution to any consideration. To Col. Ivanc
is due all the honor of the termination of out !
Mormon difficulties, and the blundering admin
istration therefore hate him accordingly. Its
capital is gone.
'•TIIE GOVERNMENT LOAN".
The last nrggor-orgttn has an article under
this head in which it attempts iu part, to explain
uway our article of week before last on t his j
question. The government is now casting us '
u hundred millions, and running us into a j
vast debt in the shape of leans, &c. That pa- j
per says that part of this was occasioned by I
the thirty-fourth Congress, in increasing their !
pay, etc. This is all humbug, Mr. Myers, and
you koow it. It is true the opposition bad the
House, hut the Locofoco party bad a majority
of two-ibirds iu the United States Senate, and '
! the President, and without their consent no
law could be passed. Locofoeouiu is ulone i
responsible for that, and alone responsible for
the preseut extravagant expenditures of the
people's money, at tLey have tbe House, the
Scnato and the President. Try agaiu, Mr.
Myers.
The last Gazette has a half-colutnu editorial
'OP the united call of the opposition in this
: State for a Convention to nominate a State tick
!ot on tbe 14th July next. It refers, in a soft
i soldering kind of away to several gentleman
of our party, and, we presume, in so doing,
thinks it nnke9 a decided bit, —it wont take,
nigger organ, these gentlemen, like tbe Phila
delphia Daily JWWS, the organ of t he straight
Fillmore and Hazlehurst men, desires to see
just such an honorable and cordial union. The
following from the Chambersborg Depository is
to the point, aud explains exactly the reason of
| the Giz ttee and other niggir-orga/u chagrin ,
- at the recent call :
'■lt is really rmusing to see with what luneor
! and ill-humor the journals of the Nigger Do
: illiteracy receive the call that has been issued
; for the holding of a State Convention in ilur
-1 risburg for tbe purpose of securing concert of
1 action on lite part of the Opposition elements
|of Pennsylvania at the next Elcotion. We do
not wonder at their chagrin. They have here
tofore triumphed, not because they were iu the
majority, but because their opponents were di
vided. That is their policy—divide and cou
quor. They would not now be iu power, iu
the State or General Government, but for the
divisions that have existed in the ranks of the
opposition, and they know it. Now that there
is a fair prospect of healing those diffcraoces,
the trepidation of the Nigger Democracy is
really amusing. They have awful foreboding
as to future results.
BEDFORI3 SPRINGS.
The improvements at the -Springs are ueaily
all finished. They were opened on Wednesday
last, and there are several visitors now there. !
Mr. ALLEN, the former Superintendent under J
Mr. Anderson, Ins feeu engaged by the Com- -
puny fc this season, and that he will give gen- '
oral satisfaction to all visitors, all know.
The improvements at the Springs haYo Lecu
of tbe most comfortable kind, — the buildings
arc sufficiently com mod ions to accommodate
nearly one thousand persons. The healthful
aud life-invigorating properties of ihe water
arc well known, and the cool mountain air, and
picturesque scenery cannot be surpassed in the
world. Let all, then, who desire health and
recreation, visit the BEDFOUD SPRINGS, and
1 our word for it, they will never regret the
visit.
The means of celling to Bedfoid are now
i easy. The Huntingdon and Broadtop llail
| Iload terminates at Hopewell, and the balance
and good turupike road.
A SPLENDID GARDEN.--WC visited the
garden ot the Springs tLe oilier doy, and were
agrceaHy surprised at the beautiful manner in
which it has been laid out by tbe gardener,
Mr. John Flemming. Tbeie are vegetables
I there of all the choicest kinds; flowers, Sic.—
I Ou'umbers fit for use, six - r eight weeks ago,
sonic now going to seed, aud tomatoes now as
| large as a walnut. Peas, fit for use, in abuu
! dance, and the potatoes, beans, radishes, onions,
; &c M wc have no doubt, cannot bo surpassed iu
j the State. Mr. Flemming is one of the best
| gardeners in the country, and the garden at the
i Springs proves that the Company were quite
fortunate in securing Lis services.
!. T .
Notwithstanding the Loeofocos of New Or
leans got up the laic excitement there, the
\ igilance Committee, fur the purpose of brow
beating down the American party and carrying
the election, the Americans gave the Vigilance
j Committee and the Locofoeo party a complete
i drubbing. A'.l tbe American officers wcie
; elected. The Vigilance Committee has dis
j banded. The ringleaders were taken up on the
| charge of high treason, but through tbe mod
eration and forbearance of the American offi
cers of the city, the charges were dismissed.—-
Locofocoism resorts to desperate means to car
ry ou election.
THE NEW MILITIA LAW.— Adjutant Wil
j son has icsued a circular to the Commissioners
j of the different counties in tbe Slate, requcst
. ing them to carry out the new militia law witli
! in their respective counties, ia default of which
j ho threatens to visit upon them all the penal
ties of the act for neglect of duty. The law
j is a monstrous moan one, and will be repealed
! by the Hext Legislature, if the proper efforts
; are made for that purpose. All in favor of re
! ducing the already too high taxes of the la®t
| Locofoco Legislature, and previous ones, will
i go in for repeal.
The Locofocoe carried the election iu Wash
ington city, the other day, aud as it has been
the first election they have carried for the last
six mouths, they are rejoicing greatly thereat.
We have no doubt the nigger-organ of this
place will be in extacies. Tboy, however, car
! ried Washington city at the last election, and
even this present success is no Buchanan vic
tory, as the eaudidate, James Berret, elected
! Mayor, was dismissed from office by Buchunan,
j and was run aDd elected as tbe Douglas candi
! date. Tbe day passed off quietly with the ex
ception of a few skirmishes in which two or
' three men were killed.
i
PROHIBITION RATIFIED. —At an election in
Maine, on Monday, the Prohibition question
was submitted to the people, when it was rati
' fied by an almost unanimous vote,
BSBFOR® INQUIRER.
BEDTOUD RAILROAD'
We understand that quite au amount of
slock i 3 ye being subscribed for the Bedford
Kail ltoad, so much, we believe, if continued,
as to warrant the assertion that the road will be
made. Let every one subscribe bis share, ac
cording to his means, and it will not be long
until the hoad is under contract. But if the
rich farmers, aud others, hold back, and ex
pect the more moderate class to:build the mad.
it may never be made. Let every man, then,
do his duty, and the result will be moot grati
fying.
MILITARY.
Governot Packer has ordered thst a camp of
instruction be held at Wllliamsport, Lycoming
county, the present year, under the direction
of the Adjutant Genetal of (ho State, Edwin
0. Wilson, who has fixeu upon Tuesday, the
7th of September, for commencing the "camp,"
to continue until Saturday, the 11th of the
same t niontb. This ecoampmeut is intended to
include the uniformed companies throughout
the State.
DEATH OP COMMODORE JONES. —A des
patch from Washington states that Commodore
Thomas Ap Catesby Jones, expired at Lis resi
dence, near Georgetown ,on Sunday evening a
week. This veteran was born in Virgiuia, in
1789. He entered the navy in 1805., and du
sing tlie war of 1812 he was frequently in ac
tive service sharing the IpurcJs won by our in
fant marine. During the war with Mexico,
Commodore Jones had command of ouj squad
ron in the Pacific, but he bid no opportunity
for distinguishing himself. After having faith
fully served his country for about fifty years,
the commodore was placed oa the Retired List
by the Naval Board. Since the olose of the
Mexican w.ir, lie has resided near Georgetown,
where lie breathed his last.
The late heavy rains caused serious floods in
the Ohio, Monongahcla and Missouri rivers.—
In many instances whole green trees with heavy
branching limbs, standing upon the banks,
were uprooted and borne along upon the swol
len tide with the speed of a steamer. The
amount of lumber, shingles, rafts, barges,flits,
haystacks, boxes, barrels, cotton, and drift
wood of every description afloat iu this river
was enormous.
North Carolina is a bad State to indulge in
more than one wife. At the Cumberland Su
premo Court, week before last 11. C. B.irtlett,
convicted of bigamy, was sentenced to be
branded on the left cheek with the leMer 8.,
to receive thirty-nine laabos on his bare back,
to be imprisoned thirty days, and then, to.re
■oeivtj ■ tnrrty-mne iasfies more, and to be let
loo.se. He had married four wives.
CARE OK THE DEFEATED —President Bu
chanan appears disposed to take care of those
who have fallen from favor with the people in
consequence of an advocacy of his Kansas pol
icy. the Hon. Richard Vaux, vvo are inform
ed, has been appointed Change to either Rome
or Naples. Tha appointment is a good one,
especially as he was always a strong anti-Bu
chanan man,
U. 8. SENATOR. —Hon. U. B. Authony, cx-
Goveruor ot the State, and editor of the Prov
idence Journal, was elected by the General
Assembly ot Rhode Id md, United States
Senator, for six years from the 4th of March,
next, receiving 92 of 100 votes cast.
ONE Hundred Millions of Dollars will not
probably cover the exncu liturcs of the gener
al government for the next year. The sum is
enormous, needlessly so., for there is great ex
trnvaganco in many departments of the ser
vice; but the extravagance is not the worst
feature. The men who order the expenditures
fail to provide the means to meet them. With
such figures staring them in the face, Con
gress adjourns and the administration asseufs
to it without any recommendations for addi
tional means of revenue. The consequence
will be a new national debt. A year ago wo
were calculating how the treasury might be re
lieved of the inconvenient accumulation of the
surplus revenue; and soon we shall he, with
far grea'cr anxiety, calcul iting how we can
supply the deficiency, aud meet the interest on
the loans.
It is marvellous that in such a condition of
things the men who are charged with the re
sponsibility of the finances cau remain indif
ferent, can refrain from prompt and vigorous
measures for restoring the equilibrium between
the receipts aud expenditures. The only wav
to do this is by a thorough revision of tho rev
enue laws.— Prov. Jour.
We have funny stories about the freshets in
the west, but here is one from tho Memphis
Appeal, which is a trifle ahead of any of the
others:
"The Kate Frisbee on her last ttip had
among her passengers a geDtleman of Bolivar,
who was going to see a friend of his fifty miles
up the river, llis business was this: One
day last week ho saw a nondesoript sort of ar
ticle floating down the Mississippi uear his plan
tation; it resembled a miniature Noah's ark,
with the hull knocked off. Curiosity lec! him
to board it, when he was astonished to find him
self in the store of a friend residing fifty miles
up the river. The contents were not greatly
iujured. lie tied the store, and slatted off to
lot his trading friend know where he might find
his lost place of business."
TIT FOR TAT.— The last of the Whig Par
ty.—A firm in Chicago shipped last week, di
rect to London, eighteen thousand coon-skins.
- -Exchange.
The last of ihe Democratic Party. —A party
of enraged women, iu a town out west, entered
a groggery, a few weeks ago, and demolished
some forty odd barrels of whiskey, which t'-c
proprietor had been usiug to debauch thc-ir t a
bands. — Savannah Republican.
The Hilliug of Jenkius, of Lawrence,
by tieu. Lane.
[From the St. Louis Democrat of the 18M.)
The fact that Gaius Jenkins, of Lawrence,
was killed by James 11. Lane, on Friday last,
has already been reported by the telegraph.—
The particulars of the horrible aflair, as we
learn from a gentleman who left the Territory
on Saturday morning, are as follows:
There was a dispute between Lane and Jenk
ins concerning a valuable land claim, lying iu
close proximity to Lawrence. This dispute
engendered a cmlia-1 hatred, which extended
to the private relations of the parties. Bome
weeks ago Lane's family arrived in Kansas,
and Lane took them upon the contested claim,
without having a legal title to the same—the
suit concerning the title being still before the
proper tribunal. This action on the part of
Lane excited Jenkius, but nothing passed be
tween them till Friday; the 4th iust iiit On
this day Jenkins iufflrmcd Lane that ho inten
ded drawing some water from the well, on the
claim. Lane told hiiu to refraiu, but Jeukins
paid no attention to the caution and made his
appearance near the claim daring tiio day. lie
was provided with a gun aud an axe, and was
accompanied by three companions. As he ap
proached he hud down his gun, and took up
iue axe to knock the ch-itl fiOm the lock by
which it was fastened. A Gic stepped forward
Lane appeared in front of tho armed
with a loaded shot-gun. Jenkins give a look
of defiance at his cneiuy, and in the next mo
ment fell to the earth, a corpse, having re
ceived an immense charge of- buckohot in his
breast
As Jenkins fell, one of his friends fiied three
times at Gen. Lane, one ball missing him, The
other grazing his forehead, aud the third bury
ing itself in the calf ot his leg, bringing him
to the ground. It was a harrowing spectacle.
The body of Mr. Jenkius was suou removed
and Line taken iuto custody. Mrs. Jenkins
was nearly crazed at the feurtul intelligence of
the death of her husband. She is lying in a
dangerous condition. Jenkins bore an excel
lent character, and his loss will be deeply re
gretted.
It ts proper to stato that Gcuerul Lane claims
that he was fully justified in rliootiag down
kjs adjutant general—for, strange as it may
seem, such Jenkius was—and asserts that he
nan establish his justification before the courts
of bis country.
The feeling arrainst Lane was geuera! dirouglt
cut the Territory.
L '.st reports im ; ieatc that there was some
talk of lynching Lane, but it is hardly proba
ble that this will bo done. Lane is at present
iu close custody, and his trial will come off vt
an early -jay.
FELLER PARTICULARS.
The Evening Bulletin , publishes a letter,
dated Liwieucc, June Ji, giving the following
version of tho affair :
Gen. Lane stated the facts of the ca-c to be
in substance as follows: "There lias been some
dispute as to tho right ho has to take water
ffota tne wetr, and as he abused my wife in
this connection I decided to nail the gate leg 1-
ing tu his premises, and also to put a lock on
tlie well. This morning lie sent me word by a
young mm, saying he should come this noon
and take soine water, and shoul 1 not be fright
ened out of it. 1 replied, tell Jenkins for
God's sake not to come, that 1 do not intrude
on bis premises, not even to visit the grave of
my daughter, back of Lis house, and that 1
cannot have him intrude here— tell him i beg
him not to come. Immediately after dinner I
looked out and saw Co). Jenkins beating down
the gate with an axe, in company with three
aimed men. I went out. to the gata and told
liirn to desist, lie replied with oaths, saying,
'You cannot alarm me, u-.d I will have water
at all hazards.' He then entered the gate,
when, being unarmed, 1 returned to my house
to got my guo, (the distance being about 100
feet.) I returned aud met their, a short dis
tance from the fence, approaching the well. I
ordered them to stop, which was disregarded.
I then said, do not advance a singlo step at
the risk of your lives ! (or something to this
effect.) They continued to move forward ;
Colonel Jenkins swung his axe in a menacing
manner, and bis men presenting their pistols.
I again begged them uot to move another step,
but 'twas of no avail, and feeling my life in
j-mpardy, I put mv gun to my shoulder and
fired. (Tho distauce was about twelve feet,
and Col. Jenkins fell on his face and expired
immediately.) One of his men then discharged
a pistol at me; the distance was only about six
or eight feet, aud as I looked into the pistol, I
suddenly moved my hoad. At this moment he
fired, the ball striking my hair, beside my fore
head. I then received a ball iu my leg, and
being unarmed I retreated to my house."
It appears that owing to tho caps being bad
the pistols were not discharged as often as in
tended. The ball struck Getl. Lane in the
side of the left leg just below the kuee, and
run upwards. It is feared it will make him a
cripple for life. He regrets hiving killed Col.
J , but feels justified iu shooting him, as ho
felt compelled to do iu self-d f 'r.nce. The. mus
ket was loaded with shot, ninety-five of them
entering his breast. The size of the shot were
KB, the ordinary squirrel shot. It is very evi
dent that Gen. Lane did uot premcdilutc an at
tack upon Col. J., as his pistols were away be
ing cleansed, the shot gnu being the only wea
pon remaining on the premises.
The feeling occasioned by this calamity was
intense. Among Col. J.'s friends there was
some talk of lynching Geu. Lane, but this feel
ing grew out of the immouse excitement felt at
a tragedy so unexpected: it soon abated, and
their better judgment yielded in favor of giv
ing him an impartial hearing, -aud a pur.bhmeut
descrviug of the crime.
For a long timo there has existed between
the above parties a very bitter feeling. Threats
of shooting each other have not been uncom
mon. Col. Jenkius remarked to a friend du
ring the morning that he anticipated a row
with Gen. Laue after dinner, and did not know
but'twould be an ugly one.' Col. Jenkins'
friends do not deny that his workmen who ac
companied him were ail armed, and state that
Col. J., put his rifle beside tho fence, and took
the axe to cut down the gate, and after accom
plishing this object, he laid it down beside the
fence.
This statement differs from Gen. Lane's,
Mrs Lane's, and those of two or more other
witnesses. I think it will bo proved that he
retained it in his hand until he was shot. Mrs.
Lane (the wife of Gen Lane) give me the fol
lowing particulars: "When we move i i:i this
house a few weeks ago, we found it exceeding
ly dirty and required a great deal of water to
cleanse it, consequently the water in Ihe well
Was very low and dirty. Co!. Jenkins' men
frequently came for water : wo spoke to them
about tire condition of it and urged them not
to got any more of it; they disregarded this and
the water was still uu-ettled, so my husband
decided to lock the Well. Col. Jenkins came
soon after, and with an axe commenced break
ing it open. I told him I thought it very ttn
gentlemauly in him to do so agninst my de
sire. I then took hold of the axe and said, if
you insist on doing it you must get another
axe. 1 also added that my husband would
soon return, and that he ought to desist until
he came. He then went to a neighbor's house
and.got an axe, but decided not to use it.—-
This morning a young man came and told my
husband that Col. J., intended to come during
the eveuing, and w.ts determined to have some
water. My husband toid him to go back and
bcseedi Col. J , not to do it. I said to my
husband that Co!. J., would probably . shoot
him if iic resisted, and that he ought to send
for assistance. He replied, no, 1 will risk my
self. 1 then said, let me go after yonr pistol--,
you certainly will be in danger without them.
He compell d me to remain, and said he had
it siastlfl-fcarrtllcd shot gun iu case of emer
gency. After dinner I saw Col. J., chopping
down the gate with three aimed men. My
husband went to hi;u unarmed, au 1 asked him
to desist. Col. J., hid succeeded in gaining
an entrance, and was approaching my husband
with an uplifted axe. J supposed be would
kill my husband, and 1 hurried into the htuse
so as cot to witness it. (It was at this time
that Gen. L., returned to the house, got the
gun, and shot him.)
General Lane and the tnen under Col. Jenk
ins have been duly arrested, and an impartial
trial will doubtless be had. G-u. L is i.t con
siderable pain, the ball not having been extract
ed. Both were brave men and jealous of their
honor, and each determined not to -uccumb.—
This, not the water, 1 believe, was the
cause of the fatal collision. The house in
which Gen. Line lives was built by a man by
the name of Chapman, who, Col. J ulcins says,
was his agent. The digging of the well was
paid for by Jenkins, and not to have the use
of it exasperated Liui. Gen. Line maintains
that ho bought all, the land and improvement,
of Mr. Chapman, three years ago. Various
other things in addition to tiiis make it a very
knotty case. Mrs. Jenkins lias often remarked
to he'- husband tint the claim would cost him
his life. The above I believe to be au impar
tial statement of this unfortunate ati.ir.
A WHOLE ViLS.UiE DESTROYED
BY A TORSAOO.
U f e lea n that the village of Ellison, 111.
Ins beeu entirely destroyed by a Tornado.—
Fifty persons were injured nineteen of whom
are dead. Ellison is situated on a levei prai
rie a few miles from Monmouth, and is skirted
with a belt of timber.
The following extract, from the Chicago
Press will give seme idea of the terrible force
of thi'se western storms.
The Tornado struck the village about half
pas: five o'clock and during its continuance uo
rain fell. The houses were frame structures.
There was a large tavern stand aud three
stores, those of Samuel Johnson, Joseph Know
els aud another. Tiro appearance of tin; build
ings and structures after the passage of the
whirlwind is described by one eye witness 4 '.:s
if one should tear to pieces and seitter a lum
ber yard." Of roofs aud walls, and the va
rious structures there was seen in many in
stances scarcely u trace, as if a giant's hand
had rcducod and torn them to shreds and splin
ters. They lay scattewd over the fields, liere
a piece of broken furniture and there a shat
tered door, and beyoud au undistinguishable
m :ss of timbers and boards, floor beams ceiling
aud rafters. Even the bodies of some of the
sufferers were torn to pieces.
An iroa safe weighing niue hundred pounds
was taken from Johnsou's store aud carried
thirty feet.
Horses, cattle, aud hogs were takeu up by
the wind, carried ir. the air and dashed to the
earth, killed by the fall.
(.'no cow was taken up, carried several rous
and killed by the full. Her bo !y lay at a dis
tance from anything that could have inflicted
wound or injury upon her.
A heavy cut stoue door step, the dimensions
of which are given to us as being -.ome seven
feet long by three in width, and several inches
in thickness, was 'oru from its site and ear
lied more than bs length, or about twelve
feet.
The first trace of this violence is noticeable
about a milo west of the village, the place de
scribed by John MoWilliatus as "the meetiuu
of the clouds," thence on through the timber
the evidence of its force were astounding.
The trees do not seem to have been prostra
ted. They were only so in fact when released
from the grasp of the angry Storm King.—
They were pulled up by the roots, twisted,
turned about,simply, and ir. places noticed by
our informant, it seemed as if they hid been
tern up by groups, as a child would wantonly
twist the tops of adjacent weeds and tear tlicui
from the ground. Trees a foot iu diameter
were tlitis made the spott of the t iruado, and
were dashed crushed and broken to the ground.
The track of the whttlwind seems uot to
have been very wide, uor was its course a loug
one. Scattered farm bouses about the village
in various directions still stand, and though
the wind was high, were uninjured, but of the
village property only three small cabuis cr
shanties which were to the southward of the
line of desolating destruction, were spared, aud
they alone rcuiaiu of the ill-fated village of
Ellison.
Knowing that the people of Ellison had lost
everything that they possessed even to their
wearing apparel except what they had on, the
citizens of Monmouth, with praiseworthy be
nevolence, on Tuesday morning started several
teams laden with provisions, bedding, clothing
aud other necessaries to their relief. The
movement was a spontaneous one, suggested by
the pressing exigency of the case, uo formal
consultation having bocu held or committee ap
pointed.
Mr. Henderson, U. S. Senator from Texas,
died at Washington City, on Friday week.
Ex-Seoretary Stantou is in Kansas, and in
teuds canvassing the English Lecorapton bill
£?~ Tiio Ivtns.u Election on the English
bill is fixed for the Ist Monday in August, the
day of the Missouri election. A most important
point} for it cuts down "at one fell swoyp'TaH
the hopes that the pro-slavery men of the Ter
ritory have based upon their accustomed rein
forcements from Missouri.
ihe Icther of instructions from General Cass
to Gov. Denver imkes loud professions of the
anxiety of the administration to have a fair
election, and this profession is iterated and re
iterated throughout the letter : but it is a singu
lar comment upon these professions and a still
more singular proof of the correct DOSS of otir
{legations that the removal of Wem, the Dis
trict Attorney, eras made on purpose to create
a pro-slavery board of election commissioners
for the purpose of cheating in the retum>,-that
in tiie sauce "loiter the concluding paragraph
should make the following delicate sugges
tion :
"You wilt not prohibit; convene, the Board
until after the appointment of a new District
Attorney for ihe Territory. A nomination'
for this purpose will be sent to the Senate ort
Monday n xIA
1 his was a hint to give the entire advantage
of the arrangement of the election and the ma
nipulation of the reborns to the pro-slavery
men. But the Free Stale men knew a trick
worth two of that. The Uwufereoee Bill con
stituted the Governor, Secretary and District
Attorney of the Territory of Kansas, and the
President of the Council and the Speaker of
the Territorial Legislature, a Board of Com
missi tK-rs to conduct the olecti n provided
fer. Any three of tun Commissioners were
given :.utimri-y to transact all business, with
the view of giving the power entirely to theap
po;Jit'".'s of the Pre.fi lent. The presiding officers
of the Lcgial .tu:e are, of Amurso, Free State
men. W. WEIR, Esq., the District Attorney,
at the time of the passage of the Bill, was a
Douglas man, and ti;o ProsiJoa?, to make the
tiring sate and tight, removed him appointed in
Ins pi .RE A. C. DAVIS, K-q., a thorough ad
uiiui-O ration liim. But Mr. Dafis not on
hand, an J as Mr. Wctr held over until Davis
appealed, was still by virtue of his office a
member of iho Hoard of Election Commis
sioners. Now as the Conference Bill gave
authority to any three of the C .us ni-sioucrs to
transact any of the business belonging to tho
Board, -Mr. District Attorney Weir uui tho
presiding officers of the Legislature found
themselves invested with authority to take
action ia the case. "Brief authority'' was
this, certainly, as the hew District Attorney
would speedily hav-3 his commission, when tho
Administration trio WJUIJ be in power. The
Fiec State triumvirate seized the aupicious
moment, and courteously calling upon Gover
nor Danver, toll him they were ready to pro
cee ;a' once to business. At this juncture,
with the letter from Secretary Cass iu his
pocket, virtually instructing him not to con
vene the Board until the new District Attor
ney should assume tho duties of his office, the
Governor must have experienced a peculiar
sous.ition of di-co:nfi>r'. Naturally enough,
ite was very re! ic ; aut to operate immediately.
But what could ho do? Any three members
or the Board could transact any business per
taiuiug to the whole Board, an 1 with or with
out the Governor, the District Attorney, Pre
fi icut of the Council, and Speaker of tho
House, w.-re ready to take action ; and "yo
much respected Governor" knocked under.—
i lie B -art! proceeded to business without wait
ing for the ntw District Attorney, and appoin
ted the fi st Monday in August as the day of
holding the election, and so the first aud most
important step in the campaign has inured to
the advantage ot the Free State men. All
honor to th> ir smartness au I pluck.— Pitts.
Gazette.
Lettor fro:n Charles Samaer to his Con
stituents.
To the people of .Massachusetts : —Two rears
have now passed since, while in the enjoyment
of perfect health, I was suddenly made an in
vali!. Through ul this protracted period,
amidst various vicissitudes of debclity, 1 seem
ed to be slowly regaiuiug tbe health that had
been taken from wc, until I was encouraged to
bt lievo myself on the verge of pcifect recov-
Ciy ",
But injuries so grave as those originally re
ceived by me are not readily repaired, and a
recent relapse painfully admonishes tne that,
although enjoying many of the conditions of a
prosperous oouvalescnucc, I am not yet beyond
the necessity of caution. This has been con
firmed by the physicians in Bostou and Phila
delphia, most familiar with my case, who, fin
concurrence with counsels previously given bv
medical authorities in Europe, have enjoined
travel as the be3t calculated to promote my
restoration. Anxious to spare no effort for
this end, so long deferred, 1 to-d.iy sail for
France.
To the generous people of Massachusetts,
who have honored me with an important trust,
aud cheered mo by so much sympathy, I wish
to express the thanks which now palpitate in
my bosom, while I say to them all collectively,
as 1 would say to a friend, Farewell!
But these valedictory Words would bo im
perfect, if 1 did not seize this occasfion to de
clare wh it 1 have often said less publicly, that,
had I origiually foreseen the duratiou of my
disability, 1 should at once have resigucd my
seat in the Senate, making way a for servant
more fortuuate than myself iu tbe precious ad
vantages of health. 1 did not do so, because,
like other invalids, 1 livod iu the belief that i
was sOottbe to well,and was reluctantjto renounce
the opportunity of again exposing tho hideous
barbarism of slavery, now more titan ever trans
fused into the National Government, infecting
its whole policy and degrading its whole char
acter. Besides, I was oftea encouraged to feel
that to every sincere lover of civilization my
vacant chair was a perpetual speech.
OUAUI.ES SUMNER.
On board the Steamer Vauderbilt, New York
Harbor, May 22d, 1858.
THE ROMAN MISSION. —In noticing the fact
that Lewis Cass, Jr., has resigned the mission
at Rome, and that a strong iufluenco is boing
used to seetiro the appointmcut of Mr. Chaud
ler, formerly editor of the Philadelphia U. S.
Gazette, the Washington correspondent of tho
Cincinnati Gazette says:
"Young Cass will not leave this place with
any special credit, especially if a recent rumor
should prove well founded, that he was public
ly ofvastiscd by tho father of a young ladv for
an outrage which deserved even more summary
punishment Tho statement is repeated hero
uuder circumstances which give it tho fullest
credit and currency."