THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL,
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JNO. S. MANN, A. AVERY, Editors.
bouioE
SPORT, PA.:
TIiURSDAY MORNING, JAN.! 11, DEW
13? - ' Lams than is an agent for this piper,
and is authorized to receive and receipt sub-
icription9
EirJohn S...lsLnn will lecture be
fore the Litetary Association en Tues;
day evening next.
The Life of Horace Greeley
and other new books just received at
the Journal Book Store.
[''Governor dlark of N. Y., has
hent to tile Legislature of that State,
ime of the best messages we hare had
the pleasure_ of reading in many a
flay: .
Don't fail to read the article on the
iirst page about "Preaching Politics."
There is more wholesome truth in it
than some minisfers often get 'into a
ierhtidn.
110' We call attention to the pro
feedings of the Educational Meeting
in Ulysses on the 3d inst. We hope
io have the pleasure of publishing the
frioceedings of similar meetings in
every township in the county. Keep
the ball in motion, friends; and you
will soon reap a rich reward. Sharon
ioWnship has manifested a spirit of
progress on this question, and we
(rust her enterprising 'citizens will
take hold of this movement-in earnest:
Call Yonr meetings - and- invite,the-
R 6+. 3: B: Pradt, County Superinten
dent, to VII present, and we will War:
tint a good meeting,.
THE RIGHTS OF MUMS
The glory of the common law is its
ilniversal Trial by Jury. In fact, no
man's liberty is worth a fig, when the
writ of habeas corpus and the right of
trial by jury are not within the reach
bf every person. Hence all oppress ,
.ors, and all apologists for oppresion
ate constantly making efforts to de-
stroy.or fritter away the influence of
Julies. Hence the denial of this great•
safeguard of liberty in the Fugitive
blave The slaveholder knew
perfectly well that he could always
Purchase a ten dollar- COmmissioner
whb ivould do his bidding. gut to
Lis.claim to the bones and sin-
ews of a man, to the decision Of twelve
independent citizens of a free State,
ivas not to be thought of, because
these wc . iild scrutinize the evidence,
and if there,' were any douhts in the
ease; *ould decide in favor of liberty.
Yes, the trial by Jury is the only
barrier between the oppressor and
the oppressed: Destroy that, .and
the people of the United States would
soon be no better ofl than the people
bf Russia.
Whoever ridicules or endeavors to
hold up to public contempt an honest.
juryman, who feels compelled by the
aw• as raid down by the Judge, and
the evidence as detailed *by the wit
nesses; to dissent• from the other.
Jurthrs; does what he can to destroy
the trial by Jury. Such a man is not
wolthy of the rights of an AmeriCan
- It is the duty of every Juryman to
ideeide the issue in question, accord;
ing to his own best judgment, and
Wlioeter goes over tot the side of the
tr4otity without being first convinced
that die majority are right, is a per
jured man!
• And a JurYnian who does consci
Eirtiouslf aiscbargo his duty, in an
independent, unbiased manner, has
is ilkhit to , be exempt from a public
IltsCussioii of his conduct, even though
jie should, on his bended knees in the
Jury btS:l, address 'the Judge of all
'causes, asking for. light to come to a
'ccrtre'ct understanding of the duty
before him. To attack such a Jury
bawl in a public print, we call an out
iage, no greater it is true than to
httack one of the Judges some time
before for bailing the Defendant in
the same case, but having more at
stake iri ih independence of the Jury,
wO cannot let this late attack pass
Without rebuking the impudent author
bf it, Who does not deserve so much
ktientiori; except that his weekly false
hoods may, by and by, be believed
by a few innocents.
car" Every man is responsible for
isvils which result from his own self
iahness or indifference to the lives of
THE ADVANTAGES OP PARXI!O.
Now that the comnfercial world is
all confusion and dismay at the pew
cuniary difficulties under which it is
laboring, and the manufacturing busi
ness of the Nation is almost stopped,
we trust our fanners realize the inde
pendence of their position. We do
not knoW a single . man who - Las kept
steadily at work on his farm, be it
ever so small, and no matter of what
qtiality, but that has made money.
We no - doubt but there are sev
eral men in this county, who; if they
had kept an exact account of receipts
and expenses, could report quite as
favorably as the New Hampsiiire
farmer alluded to in the extract.beiow
from the Pittsburg Journal 4. ViMer.
We trust quite a number will begin
now, and at the clime - of the year give
the public the result of their labors
for the year 1855. We publish the
folloiVing account of small.farming
for the encouragement of ' all• who
have land to till; and we are very
confident, that farming is, after all,
the surest and best business which
any itritcan
Many seem so think that unless
they can purchase some large tract of
land, it is useleSs to get any. Now,
in this we think there is a grand - mis
take. A. man can iet rich from the
product of half a dozen acres, prop
erly cultivated. Take an extreme
instance. There is before us at this
moment, the statement of a farmer of
a bleak and sterile region of the State
of New Hampshire, showing what
was effected on seven acres of poor
swamp land,. in the course of a few
years. He paid for seven acres of
this swamp $639, in payments such as
he could meet by thrift and industry, -
as they fell due. The price
.was:
thought to be exorbitant, and prob
ably the looker Ott called -it wasted
money. The land, in fact, had been
counted a useless spot, neither fit fir
pasture nor tillage. In Tess than nine
years from the time of purehase, he
had cut 31- tons of hay-from an acre of
it, at one cutting. This farmer was
not only a practical' but a benevolent
man, for he kept an exact account' of
all his expenditures upon this strip of
swamp land, for nine years, in the
doubtless, that farmers may be
indUced to keep such accounts, and
that their faith in the gratitude of,
mother earth to her sons for their
attention to her, may he increased.
The balance shows, that his exdendi
tures and the interest on the cost,.
exceeded eight hundred - dollars in the
nine years, and yet, at the lowest
price for hay, the lot has repaid it all,-
and much more. This - rejected lot of
land paid all the expenses of labor,
fencing and manure, 6 per cent inter
est annually, and $134, 46, more.
But if one stops here, the account is
but half complete. Most of the lot
when purchased, as we have said,
was a swamp, filled with decaying
logs, grown aver.with bushes in part,
and in part bristling with stumps.
Six yokes of oxen were required to
plow it at first. "Now," says the
statement, "the whale is a clean, level
mowing - field, free from all obstruc
tions, except a few open ditches."
The land which a looker on, with
hands in. pockets, called a bad bargain
at a gift, is now' valued by the owner
at $2OO. per acre. He sold enough of
the lot last year at $166,75 per acre,
to bring him $565. In 1851 'he sold
one acre for $340, This land abuts
upon no village nor popular street.
It was bought and sold entirely for
agricultural purposes. Thousands of
acres, answejing to the description
given - of this, can be bought in Penn
sylvania or in almost any State in the
Union, for $lO per acre to-day ;in the
fertile plains of the west for a mere'
song, with a clean title from the Gov
ernment. Our New Hampshire far
mer goes on to say that he put forth
no special effort on this land. He
attended to clearing up and .draining
it at leisure times when the weather
was not favorable for other work, or
when he had nothing better to do..
For every day's work of a man, Jor
yoke of oxen, he paid one dollar.
His account shows that the hay, which
is put down as first quality herds
grass, sold at only from six to eight
dollars per ton, until 1852 when it
settled down steadily at about nine
dollars. The matter then stands thus,;
these seven acres, the number first
purchased, have paid all the expenses
of tillage, fencing, etc., paid their own
original cost, and left. a balance in
favor of the farmer of $134,46. Four
acres and a half which have been
sold, yielded 8905, and the two and'
a half still retained are valued at $2OO
per acre. Any one that understands
addition can see how much that man
cleared. '
Now the above is an extreme case.
There is no need that a 'man should
purchase the worst piece of land he
can find, nor is that the point of the
argument, of course. We have shown
from the facts ) .what a man can do
even with the worst 'land under an
unhospitable sky, with enterprise,
thrift and industry; • The same can be
4ene elsewhere, and with much-.less
labor than was required in the aboie
case.
With what pride may thasman kr&
Upon the fruits of his labor. No:Mat-
ter what the state of the stockmarket
may he, or Whether somebody fails,
or struggle's-th?ough sleepless nights
and wearisome days to keep.above
water. There is my land, I have
made it what it is. Its products, are
in the cellar, the granary and the
barn A little , strip of land; -my
friend, carefully watched and tended,
even if you have no time to tend it
but in the twilight of a summer day,
'a strip of lami. out of the smoke and
noise of the city, a little garden to
watch, and a little home to love, these
are what we all need; these will.raise
us above the sweeping blows of ill
'fortune, and the blasts of chance and
change
WHAT WAB SETTLED
..We *ere never more surprised
than when we saw, in a Temperance
paper a long article endeavoring to
show . that : nothing was - settled by the
fall elections. We thought more bad
been settled than at any election since
our. time. We still think so, and we
find• all of our reform papers enter-
tain the same opinion. We think it
quite important that our triumph
should be well understood by, al
classes, and for this reason again al
lude to the. subject.
The Prohibitionist, one of the ables
Temperance papers published, speak
of .the New-York election, says :
. This election has. settled one thing;
at least—that the people of New-York,
by'a majority of nearly two, to one;
t ?
demand a Prohibitory L'quor Law.
The election of member of the Leg
islature shows this. - Th guberuato-
rial vote also allows it. Mr. Seymour
went before the people on this single
Issue : the effect was, to a great-extent,
the obliteration of old . party , lines.
Some temperance democrats doubt
less voted for Mr. Seymour, and some
anti-temperance whigs for Mr. Clark,
under the influence of old party asso
ciations • but, as a general thing, the
Liquor Interest was concentrated upon
Mr. Seymour, and his vote probably
represents its utmost strength in the
State.
The triumph of the temperance prin
ciple would have been even more
marked and significant, bad not the
strength of its adherents been divided
on two gubernatorial candidates. But;
kor this, we believe Mr. Clark would
have been elected •by a plurality of
-from 50,000 to 75,000 over Mr. Sey
mour.. This division, which nearly
resulted in the defeat of our Maine
Law Governor, was, we doubt not,
most adroitly planned by our enemies ;
but this would have availed little, had
it not been ultimately aggravated by
an absurd panic among our friends,
before which the most solemn • and
reiterated pledges, the commitments
of interest, and of principle, and every
maxim of Tolicy and sentiment of
chivalry,-were swept. away as the chaff
of the summer threshing-floor before
the wind. •
Thank God, the right has triumphed.
Mvnoiv H. CLARK, who hesitated not
to commit himself to the Maine Law
in the days of its unpopularity, when
politicians shrank from it as they
would shrink from contagion—who,
through a three years' senatorial ca
reer, gave it an unswerving and vigo
rous chatispionship, that indicated the
Christian statesman rather than the
self-seeking politician —.MYRON H.
CLARK, the faithful friend of temper
ance—the honest. independent, clear
headed Senator, who never shrank
froth the . performance of a duty, and
never ,betrayed a public trust, and
whose intelligence and integrity have I l
always proved an overmatch for the
cunning and ambition, though backed
by position and ._talent, which 'hare.
been pitted against him--MYRON H.
CLARK, the man of the people and the
man for the times, is Governor elect
of the State of New-York !-and upon
him, we doubt not, Will - devolve the
signal honor, so insanely rejected by
Horatio Seymour, of signing a Pro
hibitory Liquor Law for New York,
and thus identifying his name with an
act of legislation, alike wise and be
neficent, and freighted with blessings
to the State at large, to the age in
which we live, and to generations yet
unborn. .
rif Hallo ! there, Messrs. of the
Wellsboro Agitator, would it be any
more wrong for the Associate Judges
of your county to grant the petition
for Tavern Licenses, than it is for you
to publish their petitions?
"I belong to no party in politics or
religion. I fellowship all who are
ardent in their efforts to relieve human
misery, and make mankind better and
happier.—H. W. Beecher." • .
That is a glorious position to..beu
py, and every man should fa eto
reach it,
We Cannot undprstand the humility
"woman t makes a woman - t ink so little
of herself that the ch ap or material of
her bonnet or dress a ds to or dimin
ishes from her r.: ectability. ,
A*, ia RA, scu:im 3. L141 00A. II
...Hesiussii.np,lap: 2, 1855;"
orgenitation'of the house. took:phice:
herw' this morning...on: the fink ballot for
Speaker, Henry K. Strong, tile, Whig and
Native American candidate; was - -elected, re-
Ceiving76 votei—scattering, 21.
The Senate will meet , at 3 .o'clock. Mr..
Hendricks is the - Whig caucus candidate for
Speaker, and: Mr.- Hamlin the Democratic
candidate. „ •
SECOND D/SPATCB
The Senate met at. 3 o'clock this afternoon,
and : Made three unsuccesedl ballots , for Speak
er' with ther,following result::
B. D. Hamlin, (Dem.)
3'ohn Hondricks, (Whig.)
Scattering,
Adjourned till to-morrow,
We have an account of nineteen
more ballots for Speaker of the Seriere,
with' the same result as the above,
which shows . that no party has a Ma:
jority in that body.. ; We•are, glad of
it ; for we have had quite enough' of
mere partylegislation. We hope some
'better man than B. D. Harrilip : will be
selected to preside over our, Senate.
f r il. man who will misrepresent. his Con
stituents as Mr;11. 'did on. the Anti-
Nebraska resolutions of lust' Session,
deserves retirement instead . 9f promo
tion. We want men to preside . over
our legislative bodies - and not mere
party tools. •
' Since the above was in type, we
have received the following, show
ing that B. D. Hamlin was dropped
by the Democrats, and Heisterelected.
All right. If we must, haVe a pro
slavery man to preside in the Senate,
let it be one who does not come from
the free North..
HARRISBURG, Jan. 5, 1855
Wm. D. Heister, (Dem.) of Berks, was
elected Speaker of Senate; on the twenty
seventh ballot—havingHteen votes.. 'Skinner
(Whig) had eleven votes; Frazer (Whig)
two. Darsie (Whig) voted for Heister. Price
(Whig) did not vote.
"Fear none of those things which thou shalt
suffer."
"They are • all rotten; every one,"
said little- Emily, mourning over her
basket dapples. But when she care
fully examined, them, she found a
number. .that were sound and fair and
sweet, though sadly begrimed with .
the decay of others; se badly that
they, looked nearly all alike., TSo do
we often, when we see evil around us,.
one and. another doing things against
which our moral sense rises in indig-.
nation—when 'sometimes -th'ose near
and dear to us disappoint our expect
ations and dish to earth Apr high faith
in them-7wheti perhaps, - our own in
tegrity fails to meet the demands upon
it..--and we bow our heads in deep
humiliation over some hitherto unsus
pected selfishness,, conclude, as did
little Emily,' that all are bad. Thus
in our hearts we commit another
wrong; we do injustice to the' good
and pure who . though subject to fail- .
ings and errors; live in the earnest
effort to be feithful to the highest good
known to . them, and. may . thus be
counted by Que who measures justly,
with Zachariah and Elizabeth, . who
"walked in all the commandments of
the Lord blameless."
In all the trials of life, in all our
intercourse. With one another, it is a
great comfort to feel, that there will
come a time!when our vision shall be
clear, when the thick, clumsy veil of
mortality will be put off, w h en we
shall see each other eye .to eye, and
• !
heart to . heart—when many a sus
pected integrity shall be revealed
unstained,
gladly
some of whom we
would gladly think better - than we
do, shall stand revealed to us in the
snowy purity of the chosen. Who of
us shall not rejoice then in seeing and
being seeu Clearly. How many harsh
judgments and sweeping' condemna
tions will then be cast aside. • G.
An exchange has the following
good hit aria class of wen to be found
in *lost 'every town: •
HOsrE POLICY.—If you wish to keep
your. town 'from thriving, turn the
cold shoulder • to every: young me
chanic or beginner in business, look
upon every new corner with a - jealous
scowl. . Discourage all you- can.; if
that won't do, decry his work, and
rather go abroad for wares of his kind
than give , him , your money..: Last,
though not least, refuse •to patronize
your Vill'age japer. Then "go to
seed."
. .
MORE EMANCIPATION,---Five little
negroes belonging to the :editor 'of the
North Carolina Standard,were burned
to death in the the kitchen on his plan
tation in Richmond county, -on the
evening of the 7th inst. It seems . the:
little " chattels" were left • in, charge
of a.\ purse, who went off and left ; them,
ici
when` t he building was consumed, for
gether *th the children. The. editbr
appears o feel his' loss very sensibly.
It probab . , amounts to 3500 t . - : ,
THE MIMI 'INDIANS AND THEIR
PROTECTORS.
Our readers may remember that,
dtirineiheittringnf the preient year
COlonel Mituypenny, the Commission-1
et of IndiarrAffairs, went to the ten i
tories of Nebraska Intl Kansas, with - a
view to open their' for -settlement byl
• extinguishing a number of the Indian
titles -which interfered- with this -ob
ject. Nearly fifteen millions of acres
were ie. this_ way
,opened for the accu
pation of white emigrants. Most of
the cessions thus made vest 'the title
unconditionally in the United States
government; but in the case of the
lowas, the confederate band of the
Kaskaskids and 'Peones. \Areas and
Prankeshaws, and the Delawares,' a
different arrangement was 'made, and
one which,in view of 'the forced . re
moval of these ,tribes from their for
mer hunting-grounds since 1 8 30, our
government is under the strictest and
most solemn responsibility to observe.
This' agreement is, that the land
ceded by the tribes just mentiimed„
with the exception of a strip called
the "Delastare outlet," shall be offerecll
at public sale and sold to the highest
bidder, after which the - portions re
maining unsold, shall be - subject to•
entry at a dollar -and' a quarter art;
acre, the Indians having the proceeds
of the sales, after deducting necessary
expenses. The Delaware reservation
in Kansas; to which this stipulation
applies„ comprises 538,600 acres of
one of the richest agricultural regions
in the, world, bounded on the east by
the Missouri river; and watered by
the streams of the Stranger and Sau
telle. Our government knows the
value of these lands ! , which would now
sell for more, perhaps, than all the
rest of the territory - , and we under
stand it would willingly give for them,
in their present uncultivated state,
one hundred' dollars an acre. So,
also, do the Indian proprietors, and
hence their anxiety to dispose of them
at, auction.
El
But, unfortunately, the wishes of
the Indian owners and the treaties of
the'government are likely to be frus
trated by the unscrupulous avarice of
speculating. adventurers, who are paid
from the national treasury to guard
,the rights so solemnly guaranteed to
the red man. COmmissioner Many
penny; in his last annual report, (which
for some reason or other has not had
the publicity which is usually given - to
publid. documents of this. kind,) says
"An association of persons has undertaken
to appropriate to their own use a portion of
the land ceded.by the Delawares, fronting on
the Missouri river, and south of Fort Leaven-.
worth; have laid out a city thereon, and.
actually had a public sale of the lots of tho
same, on the 9th and 10th of October last.
These unlawful proceedings have not only
taken place under. the eyes of the military
officers stationed at the fort, but two of them
are said to be members of the association, and
have been active agents in this discreditable
business. 'Encouraged by these proceedings,
and prompted, by those engaged in them,
other persons have gone ou other portions• of
the tract ceded by the Delawares in trust to
the United States, and pretend to have made
. and are now making, such 'claims' as they
assert will .vest in them the lawful right to
enter the land at the minimum price usider
the law of July 22, 1834."
In Order to obtain the sanction of
Congressto these lawleis invasions,
we understand that petitions are cir
culating in different parts of the coun
try for an alteration of the treaty with
the Delawares, 'malting the lands so
encroached upon subject to entry at
the minimum - price under The late
preetriptien law. The administration
has been apprised of these facts for at
least two months; it knows that on
this forbidden reservation of the Del
a Wares four cities are :ab eady started,
in which, 'as .was stated some days
since by a Washington correspondent
of this paper, five hundred votes were
illegally polled . in the late elction of a
delegate from Kansas. Why is not
something done to restrain the mili
tary speculators of Fort Leavenworth 1
Our army officers, with all their enor
mous mileage. and transportation fees,
are now clamorous for an increase of
salaries, and . the administration is 'ex
tremely urgent to gratify them. Will
it not show an equal zeal to restrain
their violations. of the faith plighted
by the nation to an. ignorant and de
fenceless people?—Eve. Post.
About two years - ago eight Ameri-•
can Christians conceived and carried
out the novel idea of planting an
American 'colony in' the Holy Land.
They first located near Jerusalem, but
subsequently removed to a-place near
Joppa in the plains of Sharon.-- Mere
they devoted themselves to the arts of
agriculture 'and' to the cultivation of
friendly relations with the Arabs ;
procured agricultural implements, and
now •in their letters home give the
most glowing and attractive descrip
tions of the TertilitY of the soil.• They
are able to' raise -three crops in the
year—two in Aiummer, by means of
irrigation, and' one in winter, when
they have the aid of the winter rains.
' The crops grow luxuriantly; and yield
more abundantly than ;in the United
States;• and nearly every kind of veg
etables, fruits-or- raised in this
• country' can be procured in Palestine.
Americana in the Holy Land.
From the We? Moro Agitator. -
•-• EIOOD TEICPLA.I3.,
The - Annual 'Session of the Mae
.
pendent. Order Hof Good Templars of
Pa., was held at Troy, Bradford C 0.,.
On thert9tb and 20th.ult., and was very
laigety• attended: About three hen.
dre&delegates and P. W. C. T. 5 from
van us parts of the State, befog pres: .
ent., : Two - . hundred and forty-nine.
Lodges were reported with. a latge•
membership, and the Order appears to
*be in a floanshin i g condition. Resolu
tions were unanimously passed in fa.
vor of. asking a Prohibitory. Liquor
Law for those counties which voted in
. favor of Prohibition, and strongly 'ex;
pressing the opinion that on a vote•of
the whole State. being. taken, at a time
when there were no political issues,
the people would, by a decided -vote,
sanction theineasine. As, to a pro
hibitory law for prohibitory counties,
can any one doubt its propriety ?
Bradford county,-for instance, gav e a
majority of twenty-six hundred in fa-
vor of prohibition—and shall the wish:
es of her citizens be• disregarded,
because perks, Schuylkill, and a few
other counties, choose still to be
vatted with the traffic in intoxicating.
liquors. •
The officers for the ensuing year,
are ::
Joel Jewell,Bradford Co., G. W.C.T
Charles Perkins, Luzerne Co., G.
W. Counselor:,
Warren Skeels, G-.AV. V. T.
Mary e: Emery, Tioga, G. W. S.
J. S. Hoard,. Tiogq, G. W. T.
0. A. Warren, Susquelianna,G.W.C.
Reuben McLellan, Erie, G. W. M ; '
Josephine Willard, Lycoming, G.
W: D. M. L .
Lucy Snytier,Lycoming, G.W. I. G.
C. W. Stevens, Bradford, G. W.O. G.
. The next annual session will be held
at the city of Erie, on the third Tues
day of December, 1855. The Quar
terly Sessions Bare at Harrisburg the
third Tuesday of March, at Smethport
the second Tuesday in June, and at
Scranton the third Tuesday. in Sep
tember. . •
Financially the Grand Lodge is in a
flourishing condition--there being at
the end of this year about three hun
dred and fifty . dollars in the Treasury,
and no outstandin g liabilities. Much
of its prosperity is due to the efficient
Secretary, who, we are happy to say;
is reelected. The Grand Lodge also
in view of the increased labor, and the
efficient manner in which she had per
formed her 'duties, presented her, by
a unanimous vote, the sum of one
hundred. dollars, in addition to the
salary Votediser at the commencement
of the year. The Order has extended
into twenty-four counties in this State,
an& if it increases as it apparently
promises, it will, at the end of another
year, have extended into every corner
of the State, Two years ago the Or,
der was not known ; there are now
Grand Lodges iii New York, Penn-,
sylvania, lowa, Ohio, and Canada, and
Charters issued for Grand Lodges kt
Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan,' each of those States
having within their .borders a large
number of Lodges. No Order of the
kind has ever increased with such un
parallelled. rapidity ; and therecan be
no doubt but It' is destined to exert a
favorable and wide-spread influence
in . favor of Temperance .and sound
morality. PiNNSALVANIA.
Dec. 30, 1.854. •
. From the Portland Inquirer.
The Author of "Ida Nay" at Last Ascertained
IDA MAY—TO4T. AtITHORISS,--It gives us
pleasure to be first to announce, upon reliable
authority, who' f all the women of this coun
try is henceforth to be recognized, honeyed,
and celebrated the world over as the authoress .
of Ida May. In making the announcement,
we violate no. vow of secresy. and we are un
willing_ longer, that our readers curiosity
should be unsatisfied, especially that •they
should be unnecessarily delayed in sharing
with us the gratification of knowing that to
the widow of the lamented Torrey are they
indebted for this beautiful and powerful pro
duction. To us there -is more \ than a poetic
fitness and justness in this fact—it is a most
fitting and striking retributive providchce.
The heroic TOrrey died in prison, the victim
of slavery—a noble martyr in the cause of
human freedom. Most nobly does his widow
avenge him by this work of genius and love.
Mrs. Torrey's 7 maiden name , was Mary-Ide,
daughter of Dr-Ide, of Medway, Mass. She
felicitously names her literary offspring his
May, after herkelf, with slight variation. To
WOM3D'S genius i do we owe the tweimost me
cessful and splendid productions of the day.
Let the Women of. Maine be proud of-the
fact, and by the reading and circulation of suds
anti-slavery works, and the wholedle agita
tion thence resulting, do their part in establish'
ing freedom in this and every land.
, •
JOIN MITCHIELL.—The most hopeful sire
pf the times which we' have lately noticed, is
the retirement of John Miteizell.to private life,
and the effect that followed - his longings for
that Alabama plantation. The boys were
wont to say that the Citizen was Besherio d '
which turns out to be nearer the truth thin
.
was at first supposed.
12F' In the organization of the Illi
nois Legislature, yesterday, the Doug
laa Nebraska candidate for Speaker
was beaten out of sight by a decided
opponent of the. Missouri Compromise
Repeal. Another of Mr. Richard
son's populaz,ao.vereignty. victories. —
Tribune, Jim 3. •