abut which, we'rear, the 'Ettquirir and ourselves would not be as unanimous as upon the profound theorem we have quoted from its columns, that "the southern - system - of slavery is es wise and just in its nature as'it is beneficent in its operation.—N. Y. Evening Post. The Contest in Pennsylvania. -We invite attention to the article in another column, headed 'The Next Governor,' from the People's Jottrnal, prefacing some remarks of the Lancas ter mig, respecting the approaching election in this State. The Whig is edited by Tut:o. FENN, Escl.,'who for many years so ably presided ie oderr*° colunms of the Harrisburg relegrcTl, No man understands the politics of Pennsylvania iribre thoroughly than Mr. F., and his advice should not pass un heeded by his Whig friends. In the presek juncture of political affairs it was desirable that such a lib eral Spirit would characterize the coun sels of politicians, that all who are op posed t) the subjugation of the country to the iron rule of the slave power, could fraternize together; that by what ever name they have heretofore been called, henceforth they would present a united front, basing their action upon the only questions that have any vital ity in them. In such a union we had no doubt ef . success. The people of 'Pennsylvania do not love slavery; and it is onV by the deception practiced upon them by political demagogues. who aria league with the slave power, that they are found' doing its work. It was in the'powcr of the Whig party in this State, to have done Much towards the accomplishment of this desirable end ; and nothing but the perverseness of the commercial Whigs of Philadel pltis has prevented it. Had the Whigs foregone a strict party Convention, and a call been issued for all the friends of rrifocm and opponents of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,—where all such could meet in perfect equality— a Dd a judicious selection of candidates beta made, Pennsylvania would have 'Deep redeemed front the degraded posi t tics she occupies, of being under the control of as contemptible a race of ser • riles as ever trod the earth. But a • blind attachment to the name of IFltig • —for, whatever peculiar principles the party may once have held, the name is :11l that is now left—has urged the lead rrs of that party to the adoption of a nascriptive course, the result of which I kilt leave them in a 'hopeless minority. - ...Mercer Freeman. From the New-York Tribune. Dumors of the Day. We have hitherto been too. anxious and apprehensive as to the late of the - Nebraska bill to enjoy or indulge in pleasantries concerning it, but the sud den lighting up of the horizon caused by the decisive vote of the Ucuse which sends.the abomination to the Committee the Whole impels a livelier mood, wherein we gladly hail such sparkles as the following : "John Brown, Ferryman," writes to :the ,editor regularly favored with his correspondence as follows : P. S.—l understood you to say the other. day, in the 'Evening Post, that the. President was . in favor of leaving the subject of Slavery in-Nebraska to the settlers. Trill you please inform laze whether the New-Hampshire election i& One: of the s settlers' he refers to ?" And this from the New-Hampshire Telegraph (Nashua) is some : a Ater appearances began to indicate that the. Democracy had got a pretty severe drubbing at the late election, one of the Ut.tenified vtas explaining the cause to another, and attributed it to the Nebraska bill. 'The Nebraska bill,' said the intelligent sovereign, there's money -,enough in the treasury—why don't they pay the d—n thing, and h t eit out of the way ?" And this, from one of our own corres pondents, teems in our altered state of .fueling, not, very bad : "leg DOVOLASES—A SWOP. Let slavery now stop her mouth, And quiet be henceforth: We e got Fred Dm:glass from the South— She's got Steve from the North! But•that no difference should be paid, 'T were hardly fair to ask her. We 'ye made so much the better trade She claims to boot—Nebraska! Rill Nebraska and General Rum. The result of all the elections which bare taken place recently, has been, without exception, one way—a dead hit at Bill Nebraska and Gen. Rum. They seem to stand or fall together—thus far ,they, have invariably fallen—and so it will he. We agree with ourscotempo. nary of the Butler Democrat that there will be only two sides to the campaign this fall, and mark the fate of those who attach themselves to the rum traffic and slavery propaga i rfdism. It is no use in striving to conceal the fact—those are the main issues now before the -people, and every candidate receiving the nom ination this fell, will be expected to ans. r wer for himself. The candidates, and mot the parties, will be held responsible for the opinions they may respectively entertain on these questions, and he who refuses to answer will be held equal with him who goes in for rum and slavery, ...Westchester Herald. CiP The day laborer, who earns with horny hand and the sweat of his face, coarse food for his wife and children, what 'he loves, is raised by this gen eroulMotive, to true dignity, and, though wanting the refinements of life, is a liobler being than those who think them 'selves' absolved by wealth from serving Channing. THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. IND. S. MANN, EDWIN HASKELL, _I EDITORS FIDELITY . TO 'PHI PEOPLE COUDERSPORT, FRIDAY, MAY 12;1854; Free Democratic State Conven tion. Resolved, That a Convention of the Free Democracy of Pennsylvania, for the nomina tion of a State ticket, and for promoting the organiaation of the party, be, and is hereby called, to meet iu Pittsburg, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24th, next, at 12 o'clock M.; and that Free -Democrats are requested to meet in their respective counties and appoint delegates, and likewise to attend generally . as individ uals, especially from those counties in which no appointing meetings shall be held. By the Free Democratic State Oentral Com mittee, • %VM. 13..THOMA$. Chairman. C. 13. JONES, Secretary. May 1, 1854. " 52-'2l IV" On the outside is an excellent address, read by Rev. R. L. Stilwell at the mass meeting on the 27th of April. We hope none of our readers will.pass it by. 1:1?" Governor Bigler has signed the bill for the sale of ,the main line of the public works. Very good. Now let the Canal Board be abolished, and we shall have some hope of paying of! our enormous State debt, and of a reduction . of the oppressive taxes which cripple our prosperity. I Our friends in Ulysses who left a notice with us for a meeting to make arrangements to celebrate the coming anniversary of our nation's birth-day, will excuse its non•appearauce, when we state that the day of meeting was the same as the next issue of our paper. Whether this was a mistake in writing the notice or not, we do not know. L There are forty-five students at the Academy, preparing they selves for future usefulness: We dr / lipped in a moment on Wednesday morning, and found Mr. Bloomingdale drilling as hap py a set of pupils as one need wish to see. May their numbers increase till our indefatigable Principal shall cry— Hold, enough !" rir We call attention to the commu nication of Silex Flint, on the first page. This article Is a leetle stronger ,in its terms than we deem profitable ; but there is so much miserable cant used in relation•to the proper sphere of minis ters,that we exonerate our correspondent from all blame for his hot words.— Though inclined to be over mild-in our Awn language, we sometimes feel indig nant at the prtuiwa. is sought to be put on the ministers' mouth. nr The Norristown Olive Branch, an independent and progressive paper, has been greatly improved of late, being newly dressed in handsome style.: We rejoice in this evidence of prosperity, for the Olive Branch is one of the few papers in Pennsylvania that dares to say what the editor thinks the occasion re quires. We hope the men of Mont gomery, Bucks, and Chester counties will see that such a paper is generously sustained. la. Our friend TILER, of the Drug and Book Store, has added greatly to the interest of his establishment by securing for sale an early copy of all the desirable monthlies. We are under obligations to him for much good- reading, in Putnam for May, which we consider the Ameri can monthly. This number has an excellent article on Nebraska, which ought to secure for it a rapid sale. Then there are two articles suggested by the war in the East, which are timely, and full of interest. Stage-Coach Stoles," '" Fireside Travels," and "New• England Spring Flowers," are sprightly i and agreeable production - We knowo no better way of procuring a rich treat for a quarter than to step into Tyler's and get Putnam's monthly. _„ ~, _,_r_-_,- IMEP We have received a feiv copies of the Juvenile Ins'ruder, a semi monthly, published at Syracuse, N. Y., by Lucius C. Matlack. TEENB—INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. For single copies, ' $ 25 Five.to one person 1 00 Ten 170 Twenty, "3 00 Postage paid, 400 Thirty, , " 420 575 Forty, " ' " 540 II .11 730 Fifty, " " 600 II If 860 One hundred "12 00 " " 17 40 This is decidedly the best publication for children that we have yet seen,— notwithstanding the constant bragging of the Lillie Pilgrim. We shall say nothing against any other paper, but we advise all our friends to make the ac quaintance. of 'the Juvenile Instructor before subscribing for a : youth's paper. Specimen numbers may be seen at this office. The _Prohibition Question. We thank-the Pittsburg Dispatch for its full and intelligent answer to ;our question as to what possible good would come of the passage of tho House liquor bi 11... Its article satisfies us that a very good argument may be made in favor of the course it recommended, but we are not- yet - satisfied that any good would _come of such a bill. As for. the miserable abortion which the Comilittee of Conference agreed on, it is tco don ' iemptible to receive attention ;, and therefore we think our friends are in a better position-than they would be if a bill had been passed which in fact amounted to nothing, and yet ;having enough in it to secure the partisl sup port of the Temperance strength. We think our true position is, the Maine Law or nothing; and that the thing passed is near enough to nothing to give 'us an open field and a fair fight. The Butler. Democrat, in the follojzing, speaks our sentiments : We differ entirely with our frield of the Pittsburg Dispatch in relation u the House bill. no.v being up in the! Sen ate," and sincerely hope it may never pass. It is worse than nothing. 1. does seem there is a short-sightedness is this matter. The examples set._ us by the Legislature of Wisconiin and by, Con gress in relation to•the prohibition ques tion in the District of Columbia, ere sufficient to satisfy us that- oothing, less than petitions with boots on will answer our purpoSe. Politicians must be made to feel that they are the servants and not the masters of the people, ere they wilt try to do right. Pass the bill as prayed for by cur eateemed_ friend of the Dis= -patch, and you will do a vital injury to the cause. You defer living action on the subject for two years, and may be for a longer time. We would give it as our decided opinion, and we think we have viewed the matter fairly, that the best thing the Senate can do, is to insist; and if in consequence ; the bill falls, let responsibility fall upon the right quarter. Our course is onward, and •upward." Important to School Directors. The school law which recently passed the legislature, and received the sanction of the Executive, makes it the duty of the school- directors of the several coun ties of- the Commonwealth to meet in convention at the seat of justice of the proper county, on the first Monday of June next, and on the first Monday of May in each third year thereafter, and select viva vote by a majority of the whole number of directors present, one person of literary and scientific acquire ments and of skill and experience in the art of teaching, as county superintendent for the three succeeding school years, and the school dirpctors, or a majority of them in such a6nvention,' shall deter mine the amount of compensation for ni - i.Printendent„which said compensation snair ue • perintendent of CoMmon Schools by his warrant drawn upon the State Treasurer in half`-yearly instalments if desired, and shall be deducted from the amount of State appropriation to be paid the seve ral school districts for said county.— Harrisburg Morning Herald. The above is a. Try important duty, and we trust the chool directors of this county will faith( Ily discharge it. • We wish the act had ade it the duty of the directors to meet in County Convention annually ; and if the plan works well we have no doubt but such a change will be made next winter. . THE PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAIII.-WO learn by the last number °fah's excellent little paper. published at Idazenovia in this county, , that it is hereafter to be issued weekly, instead of once in two weeks, as heretofore, and that thei sub scription list of the De Ruyter Banner into be united with it. This arrange. ment we trust will be advantageous. Dr. Pryne is an able and logical writer, and is doing good service in the cause of Reform. The Progressive Chris tian is devoted mainly to the advocacy of Christian Union in opposition to Sec tarianism, but also aims to embrace in its discussions an advocacy of all true re forms—to be in fact a faithful• exponent of what its name implies. We wish it. long life and prosperity.—Oneida (Mad ison Co., N.Y.,) Telegraph. We have seen frequent favorable notices of the above named advocate or reform, and should be pleased to make its acquaintance. t" The Legislature of this State adjourned on Tuesday last. It was a great improvement on its predecessors, which is we confess but a sorry compli ment, but it is the best that can be said of it, for it failed to do what the people desired to have done, on the most im• portant question that -came before them. And thus it always is with sham dem ocrats. ['."lt is a degree towards the life of angels, when we enjoy conversation wherein there is nothing presented but excellence; and a degree ,towards .ernons wherein nothing is shown but in its degeneraCy." Consistency: Most of our readers have doubtless reflected somewhat on the inconsistency of making the foreign slave trade piracy, while, we treat the domestic slave trade as an honorable occupation. The following extract from the Bos ton correspondent Of . the Anti-Stlavery Standard showS u p this inconsistency in a particularly happy vein. By the way, this Boston writer has always been a favorite of ours, and , we would tell him so, if - we only knew bow to reach bim with such important news. But here is . his comments on a late arrest for intending to take a few sav ages from Africa to kind masters in the South : WE were refreshed• last week by a fanatical demonstration in a quarter whence it was strange to see it come. A. vessel was bought into port, the crew in irons, and taken charge of by the United States Marshall, ind prose cuted by B. F. Hallett the United. States District Attorney, and all for what, do you think ? Why, merely for proposing to go to the coast of Africa and get a -cargo of the raw material out of which the Corner Stone of our Republican In stitutions has been hewn ! Had he been engaged in carrying away slaves from the coast of Maryland and Virginia, in the wrong direction, there would have been some sense in it. The Cap tain was 'taken before a United States Commissioner, and instead of being. invited to a public dinner, or nominated for the Presidency of the United States, he was committed to jail to await his trial. It is odd what a difference lati tude and lon g itude make in human ac tions ! Had this- enterprising mariner only directed his operations to the coast wise traffic, instead of going into the foreign trade, he would have been eli gible to office; and might become a fruc tifying member of any church, and had . the chief of the respectability and of the piety of the country toltand by him.. It is hardly necessary to say that he is a foreigner. A native American would hardly be guilty of such an indiscretion. And we cannot but hope that after a brief detention, he will be acquitted by, a jury of National patriots and be bid to go and sin no more, but to engage in the honorable and fair trade in negroes from Baltimore and Georgetown instead of the Guinea coast. We should be lenient towards those who, from the inisfortune of not being born in a free and enlightened country, fall into the venial errors of this unfortunate gentle man. It would not be a bad idea in these days of Emigrant Societies and Associations for the Information of Stran• gers, to have one established for the instruction of foreigners in the niceties of our polity, so that, when they think they are in the highway to the steps of the White House they may not find themselves mounting those of the gal lows. al Had a Dream:, Any one wno rc“. of Congress in January lett, when the little giant from Illinois was pompously pro claiming that nobody opposed his bill but Abolitionists and preachers, and thbt it would become the law of the land in ten days, will not fail to perceive that a change has come over the .spirit of his dream. We find this change graphically described in a 'Washington letter of the Philadelphia North .9inerican; as fol lows : APRIL 24, 1854. Mr. Harris (of Mississippj) to day discharged a volley of hot shot into the Nebraska bill. Mr. H. is a fire-eating Democrat, and opposes the , bill because it is useless to the South in the conces sions which it proposes to make, and and pernicious in the leveling and ar gmrian principles which it establishes. The speeches of Mr. Harris and that of Mr. Benton yesterday, are joy some called invectives . against Nebraska. _There never was a more undeserved epithet. They were merely funeral dirges, in tended to signalize the death, and com memorate the infamy of the deceased. Mr. Douglas is humiliated. ,He and his friends do not court public observa tion. They walk in shady places. Their careering and cavorting has de clined into a cat-like gait, which seems practising itself for getting' through the smallest boles, so' that if the litile end of the horn, which they now find full in titw, be of unexpectedly diminutive proportions, they may still slip through. How different all this from the insolent rilaldry which they , so naturally Eis suned a few weeks since. Virtue is its own reward, and so baffled crime begets its own punishment in the contempt which it excites, We commend the above to our anxious friend of the Al'Kean News, with the suggestion. that its attentive perusal will be cf more service to his watch-chain °rimy than any lees he will receive for advocating the Douglas fraud. Whatsoever convenience may bethought to be in falsehood and dissim ulation, it is soon over; but the incon venience of it is. perpetual: because, when, a min bath once forfeited the reputation of his.integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then servo his turn— neither (rah nor falsehood." The Ward Case. • The Press all over the country, regard the WARD trial.as a farce, and denounce if as such. ; It was brought to its con cluaion by a combined monied -and so cial influence,. wherein men" figured, and "rich men" paid the piper. Alas ! that it should be so t - lIL But it will tell its story and teach its lesson—an end will be ,put yet. to thii foul conduct in old Kentucky : for the people there know what justice is, and will have it. The case, simply stated, stands thus : The younger WARD is punished in school, land admit now that BUTLER was severe or unwise in administering it, which was not the fact,) and imme diately leaves it. •He repairs to his brother; tells his story. -They arm; they take pistols. and knives as well ; they march into the school room ; they abase poor' BUTLER ; when in reply to their bitter tied burning words of denun ciation, he asks mildly to explain, they brand him us a liar, and because he manifests indignation—not anger—they shoot him dead—and a Kentucky Jury says-this is all right! If a mechanic had acted thus,- what would have been his fate ? Or if some poor boy, upon greaterprovocation, had gone into Ward's room and shot him, what would have been his fate ? No fouler murder was ever committed than that of WARD upon the poor schoolmaster at Louisville.— Cleveland Leader. Here • is another illustration of the way slavery corrupts "the manners and morals" of those connected-with it. These Wards committed murder, in open daylight, before a score of witness es. Why were they - not convicted ? Because the murderers were rich slave holders and their victim was a poor white school teacher. The Philadel phia North .dmerican, a paper noted 'for its indifference to the encroachments of slavery, contains a 'very able review of this trial, in which it makes the fol lowing statement : I WE start with declaring that, in our judgment, and we dare say in that of ninety and nine men in every hundred, equally alien and indifferent as ourselves to the affair, the killing of Professor Butler was an atrocious murder. The essential facts of the transaction have been fully disclosed, and the act of the accused, viewed in connection with its immedidte antecedents, cannot, under a just interpretation of the law, be con strued is being anything less than a deliberate and cold blooded assassination. A customary and proper reprimand of the younger Ward for some breach of the rules of the sc - filol had been inflicted. It is not even'\_alleged that the punishment vas excessive or cruel.. Upon this provocation, the boy who had, been punished and an elder brother, Matthew F. Ward, having first armed .themselves to the teeth with piitols and bowie knives, proceed to gether to the school-house, call out the e , teacher, demand an explanation of a chastisement performed in accordance, with its 'usual and known custom. and in [ the necesaary maintainance of the culat , ""- 1 ". acattemy, and having, in'the beginning of his apologeot..A.... meat, pronounced Proffesor Butler a liar, emphasizing the charge with an oath, Matthew F. Ward seizes the first , intimation of ,* resentment which he had I Wantonly:and; basely provoked, to shoot him down likp a dog. Such are the legitimate and every day results of maintaining an institution in ,one half the States, which permits "one half ofthe citizens to trample on the rights of the other," and thus "trans. forms them into despots, and then into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patria [love of country] of the other." The, N. Y. Tribune in noticing this trial pertinently asks : " What business had the poor wretch to be a schoolmaster in a State where the rich and strong live in luxury on the stolen labor of the poor and ignorant ?- His trade is a dangerous one, and the nuisance may be . summarily abated. Had a schoolmaster burst in upon one of the sons of the chivalry, as Ward did 'upon Butler, and treated him exactly as the, former did the latter, he might have thought himself lucky indeed if he were permitted- to have a trial, and be deco rously hung according to law. The probability is, that he would have been strung up •to the limb of some conve nient tree svith'n an hour after his crime. But-chivalry deliberately arms itself and kills a schoolmaster, whose utmost pos sible offense was an error of judgment in the government of his school, and a Kentucky jury justifies the deed !" ®" ,, Mutual good humor is a dress we ought, to appear in wherever we meet ; 'and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselyes, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice." - far" A place for everything, and everything in its place," ought to be the rule of every person who has anything to do. t It is proposed to take up Darid Wilmot for Gov. of Pennsylvania, and put , . him right - through by the people, the , Whigs sustaining him. Nothing better could be named, but we fear par ty bigotry , will prevent, as it ever does, the; public welfare.=-:Portlanit (Me.) Inquirer. , The Higher Law. )- The Syracuse Chronicle; i n an able ai",," ticle on the position of the Free Democ. racy and its aims, after stating that the\ party aims to work within constitutional limits, and to overthrow the Slave Power by the legitimate use of legal means, closes its article with the following allu sion to another class: This we understand to be the pagition of the Independent Democracy. They believe this to be all that they can con sistently aim to accomplish, as a party. and under the Constitution of the United States. This much faithfully carried out they believe to be all sufficient to cripple and destroy the effect of. this unrighteous claim upon the Northern States, and thus under their, own bond, the slaveholdera may be practically de-. feated. And now we confess that over and above and back - of all ..this,- there to a deep-seated, unconquerable determi nation (rivolutionary in.its nature sad bearings, if you choose to call it so) ani mating a large and daily { increasing prOportion of Northern hearts, that the law of kindness, the law of • human brotherhood, the law of god shall not be over-ridden by any such statute where they can prevent it ; in short; law or no * law, Constitution or no Constitution,— political remedy or no political remedy, no living man shall be carried by force front a free Slate to the South, on the pretense that he owes involuntary ser vice to a slaveholder, There are a great many of this sort around Onondaga County—they are neither Whigs, Dem ocrats, nor Independent Democrats, but men of all parties, and " Jerry men"— who, as one said, „ don't care nothing about pints o' law, Salt Pint is good 'enough to clear a fugitive on"—and with reference to this class, need we add, we are "one of 'em ?" For the existence of this Revolution ary party, the Slave Power may thank themselves. Their insane course• its 1850, in pushing through the infamous , fugitive slave bill, and their monstrous. proposition of 1854 to repeal ths Mis souri Compromise, have laid the founds- Lions of a Refolutionary party, that-trill strengthen and grow until slavery shall die. The Next Governer The last New-Castle Gazelle asks a very important question, and puts forth a strong appeal. which we hope will be heeded. Speaking of the next guber natorial election, it says : " Are we•willing, as Pennsylvanians, to make any sacrifice in order that the, wide world may see and know that we • are the eternal and uncompromising enemies of slavery and oppression? If so,.let us now, when the opportunity is offered, signify our principles by uniting rnilthe great question, as many other States have done. L..t all the material in the State opposed to the Nebraska outrage, unite on the same men for for principal offices for State and for Congressmen, and then we will tell the spoilers, north and south, such tutale as will convince them for the finwf6 time, that rennsytvania still has rights and' principles which she will not sacrifice even to parties or southern dictation." We heartily endorse the above, and hope friend SIIAW will be found uniting his strength on a ticket we can ALL rally around. We want no party can didate, and will support none. Bring out an independent man, one who is right 'upon the great questions of the tunes, and we will forget our attachment to old organizations, and we will rally around, and elect him in spite of oppo sition. The Whig press have this ques tion in their hands, and on them be the responsibility. If they wish to see the opponents of Wm. Bigler and slavery misrule defeated, let them hoist the name of WILMOT, or LARlMER—pro vided always that they are • right on the temperance question—and we will'prom ise them a rictory worthy of the. cause. Thousands on thousands of Democrats stand ready to unite under an indepen dent banner, but will never be found supporting the oolforts Of Whiggery.-- Conneattlville r:ourier. It is now apparent that Judge Pot.t.ocx is not satisfactory to the independent, anti-Nebraska voters, and that unison of action among the opponents of Bigler and Hunkerisrn can be only secured by bringing out an independent candidate, It is not yet too late to concentrate tho State Reform, Maine Law, and Whig Tote on a ticket that will sweep all be fore it. If this result is not- accom plished, the responsibility will rest on the Whigs, for they alone have it in their power to open the way for such a ticket to be presented. GP Tile New York i•Hards" hay. pasted the following resolution : Resolved, That the National De mocracy of this city and county approve of, and sustain the course of Hon. Fran cis B. Cutting, and other Democratic Representativss in Congress, in thwart ing the effort of thel Administration to force the Nebraska bill to a vote without discussion, by a preconcerted plan of dragooning and attempted intimidation, and that we applaud the chivalric con duct or Air. Cutting in promptly meet ing the,attempt of the Administration,to coerce members of Congress into coat , pliance with executive will."