VOL. VII. TfIE\FEISPLE'S JOURNAL. rUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, BY ADDISON AVERY. Terms—lnvariably in Advance: One copy per annum, $l.OO Village subscribers, 125 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. 1 square, of I'L lines or lesS,l insertlon,. $0.50 • 3 insertions, 1.50 every subsequent insertion, Eloi.e and figure work, per sq., 3 insertions, 3.00 Every subiequen: insertion, .50 1 co:utun, one year, 25.00 1 co'u:nn, six mon.hs, 15.40 Adininistra.ors' or Executors' Notices, 2.00 glteri Ps Sa!es, per tract, 1.50 Profession LI Cards no: exceeding eight lines isser.ed for ss.od per annum. L -v- All le.ters on business, to secure at tendon, should be addressed (post paid) to the Publisher. eStirct I,3oetr. GOD IS GOOD Morn amid the mountains! Lovely solitude; Gushing sireams and fountains Murmur, " God is good!" Now the glad sty; breaking, Pours a golden flood! Deepest vales awl, - king Echo, " God is !" Hymns of praise are ringing, Through the lolly wood, Songsters sweetly singing, Warb:e, ', God is good!" Wake and join the chorus, Man ivilh soul endued; Be whose smile is o'er us, God, 0, "God is good!" WEER UP TEE MOUNTAIN CLIMBING When up the mountain climbing, I sing this'inerry str La, a, &c. The echoci catch my music, And send it back again; La, la, &c. When on the summit standing, 11 , gh 'mid the em:Fess blue, I riti..e my vo.ce right merrily, And hail the wor.d below. La, la, la, c. When lightning, hail, and thunder, Loud (lash and roar, La, la, &c. I stand aim% e their threat'ning, And sing übtwe their roar; La, la, &c. But then the sun is sinking, And shades are d •rk and long, I call my ,heep from wand'ring, And lead them home with song. La, In, la, & c. THE MARINER'S SONG The mariner loves o'er the waters to roam, Whi'e he thinks of the groves, of hts own un live home, hark., hark, hark! Ilow sweetly is stealing the .mariner's song, The mariner's song, the mariner's song, The winds arc now bringing the mariner's ME Ah, loves he moonlight as over the deep, When the winds are all hushed, and the world ie asleep; Hark, hark, hark! The vesper stealing so softly along, The mariner's song. &c. From the Pittsburg Journal KANSAS ELECTION. Letters from the doomed Territory are pouring in upon us, and nearly all the public journals are publishing to the world records of sin, shame, and orime that would disgrace the annals cf Hottentots or Bushmen. We pub below one selected from many. The result plainly denotes a foregone conclusion. The object in passing the Nebraska Bill was plainly andsimply to 'make slave territories. Every movement since has been to that end. Even the honor and dignity of a seat in the Vice Presidential chair could not withdraw Mr. Atchison from his congenial labors upon the Western frontier of Missouri, last autumn. There all the schemes matured doubts less at Washington, were put in train; the money was distributed, the orders given each cohort, and in an unbroken phalanx the chosen vanguard of Slavery marched across the border and swept ail before it when the proper time arrived. That Kansas will be event ually a Slave State, we have not a shadow of doubt. The same hordes that have carried the recent election will demand, nay, are demanding an other Governor, who will without doubt be appointed by our facile ex ecutive to their liking. Under his away, immigration for election pur • poses will be encouraged, and the fate of Kansas .permanently fixed before th e lapse of two years from this time, What the friends of law and order cats do in such a case we leuve to the advocates of Popular Sovereignty to tell us after they have read the follow ing: Correspondence of the N. I'. Daily Times: KANSAS, Saturday, Marc:131,165. The election (su called by way of courtesy) which was expected to pre vide this fine Territory with a Legis- - lature and special laws, was held yes terday—and enough retnrns have come in to enable me to present the whole thing without naming‘a single majority, In fact, figures have noth ing • whatever - to do with the result, THE PEOPLE'S JOUI-NAL - unless it may he such rhetorical ones as are.neiessary.to descri l l e adequately the fraud again practiced upon the citizens of this Territory and- the Unb.n. Hereafter, it seems to have . been decreed by_ the slaveocracy that the'election returns shall he prepared beforehand, and the programme be carried flit by brute force. It mat ters not what may happen to be the views of the simple citizens who were weak enough to suppose that the 'popular sovereignty' of Southern men could menu anything but abject submission to their dicta—the only material fact now entering into the political calculation, need only be what number of marauders shall he detailed from Missouri to bring the pro-slavery majorities up to the neces sary point. In sober fact, the outrage of last ' Fall has been repeated with circum7 stances of fresh atrocity. Funds have been raised in Missouri, and men hired by thousands to come over into the Territory and do all the voting. Three thousand men are said to have been encamped about Lawrence, and to have voted without the slightest regard to actual residence. The same thing, to a less extent, has been prac ticed everywhere. In the Douglas precinct, the first Missourian offering a vote refused to take the prescribed oath, and the mob said seriously to the Judges, ' Yield us up the poll book and let us select judges of our own, or we will in five minutes unroof the house and storm it.' The judges saw preparations made to do this, and yielded—lint the poll hook was not to he found. At last it was seized in possession of the Cork, and he con !relied, under the must solemn prom ises of being instantly hung if lie efused, to deposit a pro-slavery vote. Instances are numerous where candi dates have been made, under penalty of instant death, to vote a pro-slavery ticket—in si me cases to make pro slavery speeches.' Not the slightest regard was paid to the legal require ments—the polls were seized and the drunken cohorts marched up and per mitted to vote without challenge. And so great was the preponderance of - numbers that the Free-Soilers saw it was in vain and would he madness to resit—and so, in many precincts,. refused to share at all in such shame ful m. ckery. 0! the glory of the free elective (franchise! It was thought that an attempt would he made to make every voter seem a residentbut the apprehen sions of the-fire-eaters were too great for their discretion. It is now openly proclaimed that Missouri will turn the balance with her heavy hand. Threats are rmde against the Yankees, that in a civilized land would oblige tl.e maker to give bonds to keep the peace. If asked whether they suppose that Gov. Reeder can sanction an election so acknowledgly fraudulent, the reply is, that if he does not, his life shall pay the forfeit ; he will never see his friends again. And it is understood that, at this election, Rev. Mr. Johnson has been balli.ted for (and of course elected !) for Governor—and that he will grant certificates, and President Pierce shall remove Reeder and ap point the choice of the people ! Can bravado go further I EXTRAORDINARY Wni.t..4n an inter esting letter to the New York Courier. t and Enquirer, M r.E. Meriam, the New Yolk meteorologist, states that there is in Lockport, - N. Y., an :artesian well four hundred feet in depth, -from the bottom of which arises a vein of salt.wa ter, holding a combination a large per centage of diliquescing chlorides, which mingling with waters of other veins, prOduce instantaneous crystal izations of beautiful selenite, in flat tened eight sided prisms of about an inch in lenght, an eighth of an inch in width, and a sixteenth of an inch in thickness, The laminae of these arc so perfect that a single crystal may he divided by means of heat, into two dozen distinct sheets. This well is peculiar in mote respects than one.' It is accustomed to spout salt water for but a few moments at a time, and then subsiding -remains quiet for the shave of an hour, at the conclusion of which it again begins to puff and r.iar and shoot forth its saline jets. When the 'workmen were sinking -this well, the auger, upon attaining a depth of two hundred and thirtOive feet, fell suddenly about fourteen feet, and reached the bottom of a subteiranean . river, flowing with so strong a current as to produce a perceptible motion in the upper part of the stem of the auger. IF kings would wily determine no: to extend their dornitd(ins, until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short, for the full accomplishment . of so grand and 'so noble an ambition. DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES. OF DEMOCRACY, AND THE DISSEMINATION 'OF MORALITY,•LITERATURE, AND NEWS COUDERSPORT, PUTTER. COUNTY, PA., APRIL 26,1855. From the Oienn Journal OTRI KANSAS CORREEPONDE:IiCE: KANSAS, Mo., March 28,1855. FRIEND ALDRICH : Since I last wrote you, 1 have been detained here. Death's remorseless form has visited our little family. circle of three, and taken one to that world which no human .vision can penetrate. The youngest, the innocent, whose pt attling voice, overflowing with joy and glad 'less and affection, cast its chat ming influence over the heart, has passed from time. to etertity. There - is a vacant place at our fireside now—a night of -glief upon our hearts. That vacant place will-never again he filled —that night will rest forever upon us. How bitter the. reflection. that the vacant. place must ferever remain va cant ! Our little daughter's sickness had no connection with the climate. It was a scrofulous affection of the liver, with which she had been troub led, aggravated by whooping-cough. Thus fade and wither our brightest hopes. Uncertain as the wind is the future. All around us—each transpiting event—tells us that affliction and grief', wrong atfil outrage, fill the earth. • In no part of our own country can he found clearer evidence that man kind are not always governed by the principles of truth and justice, than has been exhibited around us here for the last few days. No one, from the demonstrations along the borders of Missouri, by the line of Kansas, would suspect the near approach of the time when men will " beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning books." Next Friday is the day fixed for the election of the first Teri itof lid a ture in Kansas Ten itory. For tour or five days the roads from Missouri and the Territory have been filled With men on horseback, armed with revolvers and rifles, all traveling west ward. It is boldly proclaimed that there will-be six thousand men sent from Missouri to vote in the Territory. Men openly say that they never. ex pect to reside in the Territory, but they'll " he'd—a if' they don't go in and vote on the Tertitory at this elec tion." Every revolver and rifle. and everything that will shoot. has been put in requision. Prominent men say, " We'll be d—d .if we don't make. Kansas a slave State, by foul means, if' We can't by fair." - They will un thinhtedly carry the great part 4 the Members in both Houses, and I should not be surprised if they did all. They have sent their men to different points. Several hundred of them are encamped near Lawrence. There can be' no pretense that they intend to make claims there, as the land is all taken up around Lawrence. One man, who figured conspicuously in the Westport meeting about a year ago. as the most ,ultra of the ultra fire-eaters,-has gone out into the Territory to the election. He oWns large - laid) close to this place, and is one of the largest farm ers resident about here. Many such.' among the Missourians have gone to the election. I fear blood will . be spilled. A large class who have gone are armed also with pocket pistols which always shoot into the mouth. I entertain the most serious appre, hensions that neat Friday is the _most important day - through which our. Union has ever passed. 1 fear that the cloud which looks so ominously dark will burst- in such a thunder-crash as tit shake our republic from center to circumfbrance. The pro-slavery men are -bitter in their denunciation of Governor Reed er, because they cannot make a . tool of him -to carry out . their wishes.— They have threatened to tar and feath er him, and some even to shoot him. They say be will be removed by the Pte: . and some man who will carry out their wishes will be ap pointed. They say Senator Atchison has said Reeder will be removed. It remains to be seen, however; whether President Pierce will suffer himself to he maid the tool of the slavery pro pagandistswbether- the administra tion will become a party to the out t age which, is being perpetrated.— Fur one; I cannot believe it possible. The pro Slavery men want the Rev. Thos. Johnson, one of the Shawnee Mission, appointed. He is one of the ultra file-eaters. Senator Atchison's opinion, that Reeder will be removed and Johnson uppoitrxd, is curt ently reported. If )the P -evident removes Reeder, he will marl - himself with 'a brand is deep and damning as that upon Cain. - The free state men in Kansas have enlisted till victory shall crown their efforts. if the Territorial Legislature legalizes Slavery, we shall raise the cry of repeal. Our motto is "Kansas must and shall be free." We trust that our motto will find a hearty response at every fireside through the free States. Let it be the watchword of every frieud of the rights ofmar.—the eternal principles of truth—from one extremity of the county to the other. We have I eacl,cd a .crisis in the glorious career of our country, before which all other agita ti•ms and excitements fall into insigfi cance. We must overwhelm the slave power by the voice of those who make Kansas their homes, or I fear our ship of State will be cast upon the foaming breakers, as uncontrollable as a' ship Without rudder in the wildest ocean snort). There is a steady emigration from the free States this *jug. Alt eady several hundreds have unwed. Men :with families should not come unless they can come so as to have two or three hundred dollarsin cash left when they get to Kansas City. Every man must build his own shelter, or have it built. Houses cannot be rented in the Tertitory. Everything is full to overflowing. There will be thousands of dwellings erected this season, and those who come after that will have little conception of the state of things now. What we need most is saw mills. When we get them we can make ourselves comfortable: There will be a large number of saw-mills put up in the Territory this silting. Steam saw-mills are what are wanted. • Plenty of good points for them can be -found. It is the opinion , of every one bete that steam saw-mills arc at pres ent as good an investment as a , man can make. We have had considerable cold weather during this month. Some snow, and otherwise quite wintry. The oldest settlers say that they never knew such March weather. Even the pro-slavery men, who use every . effort to.frighten people from the free States. from settling here, admit the same fact. lam fully-satisfied myself that the weather is as extraordinary • for this country as the drought which extended so universally last season. Keep up the emigration from the free States ; pour into Kansas • the- men who will adhere to the cause of Making -it a free State under all circumstance:; —raen who will nut shrink under dis couracrement—men who 'will adhere to the right through darkness and storm, looking forward with confi •dence to the ultimate triumph of the principles of truth over the dark spirit of slavery—men who will not falter until Kansas is safe from the curse of that institution which casts its mildew blight over all. around—men who will persevere with the unfaltering deter minatiorr that Kansas shall never be • "A laud of ty'rants and a den of slaves." Yours, truly, N. V. Gomm-tett. RESULTS OF TEM MAINE LAW One of the Results In conversation, a few days since, with one of our city coal dealers, about the number of destitute persons supplied this winter with coal, by the town, lie remarked that the number would have been much- larger but for': the Maine Law. Among tither fund lies helped last year by the town, but this year not requiring such asistance, he mentioned particularly the case of one. A woman who had previously called . for assistance for herself and children, Was asked how she was get ting along this winter, replied : "Thank the Lord, we have every thing nice and comfortable, now—rum is gone, and we have no need to ask for help," "Rum is gone"—bere was the se cret; poverty had lied with it, and peace and plenty taken its place. So ber industry now made home cheerful and happy, and the town was relieved of its former burden. And this case is by no means a solitary °i.e. Had money and work been as plenty this year as fin three or four years past, the calls upon the town for assistance. _especially by native citizens, as com pared with former years, would have been very materially lessened. But those have asked for relief this year, • who never asked before; and on the Other hand, many who have formerly asked, now have no necessity for doing so; the Maine Law has come in to their relief; the money previously spent for rum - makes home cheerful art] com fortable—a home of peace and plenty —a home that makes glad the hearts of wife and, children=a home, indeed, to him who formerly cursed it with his presence. "Rum is gone",—sobriety reigns— "every thing is now nice and comfor table." Such are the results of the Maine Law !—Neu; , Haven Advocate. SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING.—It is a fact not generally known to farmers that there are two parts to the potato which, if separated, and planted at the same time, one will produce potatoes fit for the table eight or ten days sooner than the other. The small end of the potato. which is generally full of eyes, is the part which produces the earli est; the middle or body of the potato, the late and always larger ones. From the Tinga Engle REMEDY FOR HARD SWEARING. There is a good at tide upon this sulject in a late number .of.Puttam's Maga . The writer defines swear ing to he, "a scape-pipe throne) which men let ofr their anger, their. good breeding and their morality." This is enough to show us his opinion of it. He tries to find nut what it is that leads men to swear. Phrenologists tell him, about the Lumps of veneration. being small in the beads of swearers. But he says: +' I- have ibund mountains of veneration on the heads of the hard est 'swearer; and mule-hills of rever ence over-topping mouths that were never defiled with an oath." He-then looks at the opinion of Gen. Pauli, that all barbarous nations-1 swear from a certain violence of tem per. This is not satisfactory to him. For he finds that the Indians who were barbarous and violent enough, did not swear at all, till the Pale Face taught them how. Neither of these theories being sat isfactory, he concludes that swearing is a habit, that like one's coat may be put on or Mr, at will. In proof of this, he says;" "the hardest swearer will remain for hours, and even days, in the society of ladies, or in company with a parson, without an oath. A sailor never damns the eyes of his captain; a trooper will not swear in presence of . his commanding officer ; nor will an Urchin in ear-shot of his father; even Byron, though he thought sweating a heavenly invention, seldom cursed in pint." - . This theory was nearly upset, when he heard men swearing upon -a church steeple. And he asked himself how . it was, that people would reffain from swearing beibre a priest or a parlor, but would not be restrained upon so sacred a place as a church steeple. He concludes then that curses are as necessary to masonry and .to wood work, us. are brick, mortar and boards. On no other principle can be explain the sixty oaths which hourly proceed . front the church steeple. This sets him thinking. He is as tonished at the amount of swearing it must have taken to build the walls of Babylon,. 350 feet high—and the spire of St. Peter!s, 51S feet high—and the tower of Babel, CO.'2 feet. He is tempted to suppose that the rear on the Washington Monument, at the Capitol, rises so slowly, is Lecatrse the hard swearing has been omitted And lie proposesthat either a compa ny of swearers he sent, on to _.W;t:t ington, or tlrrrr the •Representatives and Senator be commissioned to do the "cursing." He thinks, from what he has heat d of some of them, that they would undertakdthe job. _ But utter all lie seems to feel thnt lie has not reached the bottom of the difficulty. He takes a juster and deep er view. And lie concludes that the Devil is at the bottom of that church cupola, swearers and all. lie accepts his Satanic majezty, horns, hoofs and all--and belies e 4 him an active, wide awake, trap-setting, plotting, sulphur- - eons fiend. Here hiS meditations are interrupted by heating one of the men calling itti a loud voice upon God to damn him. About this he says: "I cannot see why this man should invoke the Di vine aid in a matter so easily arranged without it. Why call upon God at all in this em rgeney ? What with a fall of6o feet, diversified by an occasional corbel, and terminating in a pile of slab stones setting.up edgewise at the base of the steeple, it does strike me, and it strike the experimenter even more forcibly, that a man of mod erate abilities might contrive most effectually to damn himself, by simply leaping from the steeple to the stones. He who takes the leap may rest as sured he will never be hung; and with no better passport into geaven than the oath last upon his lips, I can assure him St. Peter will never grant him admittance. Having thus settled down upon the cause, a remedy is discussed. Vari ous suggestiens are made. To dig him up—to root him out— To exercise himr—to lay or quiet • him in some way— To spill a th6usaud of brick upon the old reprobate, so as to take him between the horns. To say "thunder" instead of ' . To have the swearers meet an.hour before work and take a private "cuss" that will last all day-- . To mount a parson on the steeple— TO put a commute of ladies there. • But all these plans are found it:ft practicable. And then a lucky moment the plan suggests itself. And as the idea may oe found useful, not only on church steeples, but in stores, (jices, groceries, tacerns and so on, we will mention it to your readers. his to sink deep.into the ground a wide .and roomy pit. The pit must be cov ered over with stanch—stout boards, all tongued and grooved. In the . cen_-_ . ter, let there be a tube conducting into the - pit, and from this tube, let there proceed tubes to every ladder and platft;rm mound the building: When ally one wants to swear,- let him apply. his mouth to one of these•tubes and fire away. It is a good plan.• If the Devil has his own coin sent right back to him .again,. without tempting youth or shocking morality, he will invest . his peculiar talents'in some other line. For my part, I •am about tired of being a servant to that old scoundrel, to retail his speeches - And who is nut'? ' A GEORGIA Mon.—A young man from Massachusetts went to Gaines borough, Ga., anti, being askod if bo was an abolitionist, answered that be was He was advised to leave - town, and he started for the railroad depot in order to . do so, but a mob, beaded by the sheriff of the place, pursued and caught him, rode him on a rail car ried by niggers, blacked his face and sold him• at auction- for a nigger, and then took him to - a drinking-houso and made the niggers bug and kiss -him. They warned hini,that they would kill him if he lified a finger to resist, 'and the sheriff, though the victim did not resist, aimed a pistol at him and would have shot him but for the interference of a by-stander from another 'State. . No act whatever was alleged against the young man, and, when his baggage was searched, no abolition document was discovered except a single number of the New York Tribune, a paper which is extensively taken in . every Southero State in the Union: Under such circumstances, the acts of the mob were outrageous and infamous. If every Northern man, who dares to say in the South that he is a Free-soiler, is to be mobbed and sold at auction,: how long may it be before any South erner, who shall presume, in reply to a question to avow himself in the North 'a pro-slavery man, will,probably be subjecetd to similar treatment? To be sure, thecases are not exactly parallel, but when, did the roused spirit of re talliation ever stop to run nice paral lels ?—Louisville Journal. AN Irish noblemr n,. on a journey was informed that his way lay over a -ruined bridge, which he would _be obliged to pass at night. He ordered hi 4 postillion to call him when they reached the dangerous place, then wrapping himself up in his cloak went to sleep. When they reached the bridge the postillion called, but as his master did not awake, ` he drove on and passed safely. Some time after, the traveler awaked and called out : "How is this, John, have you passed the broken bridge 1" • "Yes, Your honor." "WhY_did you not wake me, as I or dered you to do ?" "I did not like to disturb your bon- EMI "Upon my honor, if we had fallen into the water and drowned, I would. have put a bullet through your head." "Ilv all the martyrs, if you had, I would have left your service the next minute, if I had starved." RAINING BRIMSTONE.-A gentleman from Chulahoma, 'Mississippi, informs us that there was "a shower of brim:: stone" in that vicinity durirk _the last rain, about two weeks since. Parti cles Of brimestone (he says) were scraped from the ground the day after the rain by spoonfuls, and by tasting and burning were fully decided to -be brimstone, and nothing else! Brim-. stone is said, also, to have fallen throughout De Soto and Marshall cOun-- ties, Mississippi, during the same rain; and reports ola similar shower were in circulation here about the same• time. We hope our Mississippi friends arc not alarmed. Such showers fre quently occur in thetropics and .adja cent countries, when the trees are m bloom. The pollen of the flowers is taken up by the wind and distributed far and near, and out of such material was our shower of brimstone made. —Memphis Eagle:" ". • Freedom is a progressive thing —a growth. Every:one is born a slave—Ahlt ts, he is born dependent for everything upon the good pleasure of others. IVhen, at the age of sixteen, he begins to work, he is enor mously in debt to the universe ; he has been drawing rations of all kinds for sixteen years, • without rendering any service in return;- and. therefoie, nothing is more just than that in - his eariy.years of manhood he should "bear the yoke." Whe.her he shall continue to bear it, depends chiefly upon himself. We call ours a "free country," not because every man can vote, not because we are such con- • summate fools as to change our public ser vants every year or two, but because here an honest man has a tolerably unobstructed chance to Work out his own freedom, if he will.—Life Illustrated, • NO. 49.
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