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LIKES ADDRESSED TO COUDEESPORT
ACADEMY
I Would not paint thy time d irk scenes of yore,
Or in dliant hopes that center'd round thee then
not I would on the eve of thy awaking
From a long an i restless slumber, wish for
Thee, and sue the muses gentle power
In thy beha:f, and look in nature's face
For Omen.
kayos for Omen, and I find it bright
Portestious of a. brilliant fide.
The lowring clouds that spr••ading o'er the
Wide horizon, hid far off worlds in dark
Of drearest night, have moved a pace and the
Ethereal blue comes smiling in the east,
The howling winds have ceadso their ontln-
our MOlll
Or sunk away in shams or natural death,
And trailing stars are come, fit club:Gina
Of thy yet triumphant course.
And the gloom dark olouda,
Have fled away, proving but a vap'rous fog,
And their ihreatniag force b it a eindow phan-
Thus may it be with threatrUng storms around
Thee, thou beauteous tempie ou the green hill
_ side,
ILO of our own loved Potter and smiles of
brilliant faith
Be acne from tke true heart■ love,
♦nd frith which kuoweth not depart, rata
round
Thee, to ward tho blow of evil plot, or
Envious prowliug of thy secret foes,
ATe, yet, thy fate is bright, and fame bright as
The star lit Heavens when myriad ■tara shine
There, is thine ; and mind as brilliant as the
Brightest star, shall chine in thy mnbr .ce.
VIOLET Ss ow.
•
Coudersport, Deo, cud.
Frotu the Louis intelligencer
OUTBREAK n KIMAR.
It appears from our dispatches that
we are having a hot political stew in
Kansas at last. The story, as it comes
to us, is tins; Thi.t three Free Sellers
went to a settler's house named Cole
man, who is a Pro-slavery man, aml
ordered him oft They were armed,
and gyve the man only ten minutes to
leave. He left for a short time, but
returned well armed. He metone ofthe•
three men, Who renewed his threats
and attempted to shoot Coleman, but
his gun missed fire. Coleman then
shot his assailant, who died immedire
ly. Coleman gave him-3elfup for trial.
A mob of Abolitionists, armed with
Sharpe's rifles, repaired to Coleman's
house, driving his wife and children
oft burned his bowie, and ordered oth
er Pro-Slavery mon to leave and burn
ed their houses. Deputy Marshal
Jones arrested the leader of the mob,
and obtained the names of 20 others,
Jones is now at Lecompton with two
prisoners and fifteen or twenty assis
tants. The Abolitionists are gather
ing at Lecompton, and demanding the
release of their comrades and the sur-.
render of Coleman. The Governor
has issueda proclamation calling the .
011ie to the assistance of the offieera.
. Now, we have a few remarks to of
fer.on one feature of this case unly.- 7
We shall attempt no surmise as to the
falttruth of the story as it comes to us.
There are, however, it is well to le
member, always two sides to a story;
and one will do very well till the other
cornea
But we will rake it for granted, fur
prasent, that we have received the
full and veracious account of the origin
of the violence and bloodshed that
have just disgraced the soil of Kansas,
and that will, from the peculiar ,stato
Of the public feeling at this time, send
a thrill of apprehension and honor
throughout the country. The feature
pf the case that we wish to comment
on, is this : The first news of the af
fair that reached Jefferson City, where
the 21.11.,50uri Legislature is in session,
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1 JOUR N AL. _
COUDERSPORT POTTE • couNTY;.. DE CE M R 20,,
was by a dispatch froin Mr. Bone, a
citizen of Jackson County, MiiFouri
Legislature.. That dispatch contained
this sentence
$l.OO
its
We want help: CornaLun;eate
to the friends."
Now, in the devil's name, who is it
that " wants help ?" And what ti
they : want that " help" • for? Do the
citizens of Missouri want " help ?"—,
Who or what is putting the citizens of
Missouri in peril so great that the Leg
islators and " the friends" at Jefferson
trust " help 1"
Is it not the Government of Kansas
that wants help 1 If so, let them call
President Pierce for assistance: - Kan
sas is under the care of the Federal
Government. Missouri has no duty
to perform in the •premiies. If the
National Government cannot take care
of its own pets and appointees, its
Reeders and Wilson Shannon 4, why
let Pierce re.ign, and a new Govern
ment come in. The poiyle of Mis
souri are not the ones to ho called on
to back up the miserable political pup
pets that Frank Pierce shall send out
from the Eastern States to play the
fool and•iutroduce bloud.,lied and an
archy in Km-mi. If the poor imbecile
of the White House had possessed the
good sense or the justice to put ovet
Kansas, at the beginning, a Western
man of high character, 'cot.raio and
experience, there never w..uld .have
been a },article of trouble in forming
the community there into ay--quiet and
thrifty State. But instead of that, w,:
had Reeder and his Free Soili4m, then
Shannon and his Pro-Slaveryilm—all
wretched, time serving, place-seeking
demagogues, who have played out
their reckless games for political ag
grandizement, and drawn upon poor
Kansas the curse of lawlessness and
blood
Naw,let Pierce reap the flints of
his imbecility: Let not the people of
Missouri, by any urgent appeal or
cunning device, be drawn into the in
ternal feuds of Kansas. It looks very
much as if there were it pre-conceited
. efr•,rt to do this very thing. Oar dis
patches from the Westsay that parties
have already proceeded from Inde
pendence into Kansas, and that "meet
ings have be to held at Weston and
St. Joseph - , and companies funned to
go to Kansas." •
Thero it is ! N w, iS not this con-
duct most fatal to Missouri interests
and honor I In. heaven's name, let
Pierc3 and his political pets—his Kan-,
sas officials—take care of themselves.
Have we not been told, time and again,
the Pro-Slavery party were the people
of Kansas—that four-firths of the actu
al settlers of Kansas were supporters
of the Territorial officers t.nd the Ter
ritorial Legislature, and that the Free
Sailers ware an insignificant squid
out about Lawrence, who were as .de
void of courage, and fit only to be
laughed at ?
And now, forsooth, the United
States officiali in Kansas, and the all
prevailing Pro-Slavery people or Kau-
sas, are in deadly petit, and " dispatches
froM We-ton and St. Joseph, tte that
large meetings of the citizens have
been held and companies frined to
go to. Kansas." All to protect that
country from the " paupers and • hire
line lately shipped to Kansas, like
so:many cattle, we were informed, at .
the expense of Emigrant Aid Societies.
It does seem to us that one of the
devil's own choicest humbugs is ex
ploding in this call on Nlissouri for
help."
HOW TO TREAT FRIENDS.
True, reliable friends, are . not so
common in this selfish world, that we
can afford to estrange and to alienate
them from us for slight and insufficient
causes. And yet i how often is this
done? Some people have a happy
faculty of making friends, and a most
unhappy manner of cooling their at
tachment, and not unfrequently of driv
ing them into open and avowed hostil
ity. A word fitly spoken is like ap
ples of g old. in pictures of silver ; but
an unguarded,- unkind word, drives
the iron into the goal: and often sepa-
DEVOTED TO TILE PRINCIPLES-OF DEMOCRACY, AND TIIE , 'OISSBIIIINATION OF MORALITY, LITERATURE;IAND:NFeWS
- rates chief 'friends. Few rippOciiite
the full import of the divine injunc
lion,. •• be, courteous." C. , u:tesy
plies more than external.afrability it
: includes kind word•, kind actions, I
prompted -bv a kind heart, as well as I ,
a becomie g deportment. ELIE' the
jars in tiro domestic . circle, and half
the cm loess and estrangement lietween
friend 4.ari.se from those ebullitions of
passion, which may and ought to be
checked and • supressed. Uniform
courtesy and -kindoeis in our inter
course with friends cement the bond
of attachment, and give t•i life lasting.
ettim , . A fretftti,-irra •ciblo temper is
th e . h tns• of friend ,hip, and the poisc;-
nor of datuc,tic bliss. A harsh word
spoken cannot be recalled: It may
be apologized flu.; it may be repented
of; but still it rem:rios upon the' tablet
of the mein o'y, aol giviis pain in the
remembrance. A person possessing
a hasty, ungovana le temper, cannot
too anxiously and carne-thy set about
a reform. It will not do for him flo
say that is my infirmity, and niy friends
mu 'overlook it.
They will not overlook it, nor will
they endure it unles the evidence is
plain and Falpable that you are striv
lug to . col rest it. You mty have
other good qualities its no stinted
measure. but. if you exhibit a petulant
irrascihle temper, your redeeming
traits will not render you a pleasant
or an tigreeable friend. Some errone
suppoie. that they have position,
or talentA, or wealth en nigh. to hear
them up and to curry them through,
in spite of those unamiable moods in
which they are wont to indulge. But
it is A gt . i.troui mi-talte. No man has
standing (ii• capital enough to warrant
him in the issUreptioti that he can
violate, with iiimu:iity,thoie duties - of
friendship which are universally bind-
Sun.
The Pursuit of Wealth.
One of the most crying. evils in this . ,
country, is, the inordinate greed * of
gain of its inhabitants. Like other
evils. it is productive of great matetial
good—it fells foreo:ts, it constructs
railroads, it builds up givittic cities,
it links t' ether ocean with ocean, it
anitihilates space, it outstrips the wings '
of the wind. But how much
happiness is wrecked in. this war
ship of mammon! It is estimated that
out of every hundred men engaged in
the lottery of mercantile fife, ninety
fail. Of the successful few, how many
have the taste to enjoy their accumu
lath) is-o--or. having the taste, find the
health of mind and hody at the end - of
their successful career requisite to
employ and enjoy their acquisitions ?
To strive fon competence,' s• a praise
worthy effont ; to strive for more, is
unphilostophical and unwise. The end
which Pyrrhus" proposed after con,
yocring Italy, Asia, and Africa, which
comprised the then known world, was
to sit down and enjoy himself. " But
why," was the reply of his philosophic
Prime minister, not " now sit doVn
. .
and enjoy yourself?"
Wealth, after all, has but a fictitious
value—its existence Is only in. corn
pat ison. Stephen Girard is reported
to have said, " A nun is as well off
with half a million, as if he were a
rich man." It.ithschild, on readily , -
that Louis Philippe's income, at the
zenith of his pro s perity, was fifty dol
lars a minute, burst ba i t, tears, and de
clared that he was never before aware
of the exigence of filch destitution.
Tr ue wealth exists in the mind and
heart—the rust is but dross—strips of
paper, and bits of white or yellow
metal. These are consolatory reflec
tions to men who are compelled to
'refrain from California—and some of
those who , have gone, are aware, by
this time, that heaps of yellow dust
are a poor cornpcnsation for health,
comfort, and dcimestic endearMents.
Money. is dirt; but as it is a dirt we
have washed our hands of, we shall
phrsue the subject no further.
WASTE
What a little word, this is; but
what a big meaning it has l It seems
to he in .some way inseparably con
nected every..transaction . and
every: act of our live's. Even life itself
is one continual : waste—animals and
plants, from .maturity to death; but
that is natural waste nature obeying
nature's laws. The waste that we
commit is unnatural and contrary to
the laws of propriety• and common-
EIZE]
Leek into every kitchen; not only
at the fat in the fire, but at-the waste
ful manlier in which all of our cook
ing is dune ; beside Ale . waste of food
at the table. See how that delicate
appetitemade delicate by waste—
picks out a few choice morsels and
carelessly dusts the rest aside, to ga to
waste.
It Li safe to say that more . food is
wasted every day in this city than is
eaten ; not alone in the kitchen, or at
the table, but in our mat kets and store
houses, where whoie cargoes of grain,
meal, flour, 'meat, fish, fruits, and
vegetables, are continually being
wasted through bad packing or bad
management.
What a waite, too, are -all of our
retail puichuses; and because it is
fashionable, buying 'food that wastes
the nto!:t.
Is it any wonder that the poor suf
fer fur fojd after 'committing such ex
travagant waste 'I Look at that man
paying a dollar and a- half—the price
of a whole day's work--4,r a rib-roast
of bvef, to he cooked in the most waste
ful way, when one half the. money ex
pended in a cheaper piece of meat,
cooked in a different manner, with
vegetables, bread, and gravy, would
serve his family twice as iOng. But
not so fashionable, and genteel. Nu,
and not so wasteful. Almost the whole
system of Atherican cookery is based
upon a btate of things that existed
when we had such a surplus of food
that the idea of Waste. was not taken
into account.
There was a time, within but a few
}win; past, at the West, when wheat
could he purchased for twenty-five or
f. ! ;lty cents a-bushel—corn" for ten or
fifteen cents—pork for one to two cents
a pound—and other things in propor
tion. • It would be idle to talk to peo
ple about saving every iota of such
cheap food.
To some extent the same cheapness
has prevailed all over America, until
the people have fallen into wastefult
habits,' both in keeping, cooking, and
eating their food, that need reform..
It is - probable that one half of the
cooking in the kitchens of private
families, in this city ; is done by Irish
servanti, who possessed no higher art
when they landed upOn our shores
than in required fo boil and roast pota
toes, or make an oatmeal cake or mess
of porridge. The only art of saving
they have a knowledge of, .is -not'to
have anything to save. All that should
be saved is hurried out Of sight in the
basket of some of their own country
men at the basement door, thereby
encouraging another great waste—the
waste of time of these lazy beggars.
We should like to know the percent
age of waste of coal, updn all that is
burnt in priVate houses in this city,
where grates seem to have been con
structed with apparently little or no
object in view except waste,. both of
heat sent up the chimney, and unburnt
coal sent to the ash liarrel;
The latter su. great as' to afford
constant employment to•some thousand '
pm sons who are constantly going about
gathering the fragMents of coal from
the ashes ; and still thousands of tons
every year are carried off in the ash
carts to fill up and build • out some
wharf whereupon to land more coal.
The waste of beat in our consumption
of fuel is, to say the least, full one-half.
In fact if all the wasted heat of all :our
coal burning fires in the city, was
saved and properly distributed, it is
likely that the consumption would be
reduced to one fourth
. the present
•quantity ; because it has been demon
iti.ated in. the beating of large build.;,
ings, that :heat could be carried any
required distance in pipes, .as wallas
ME=llEim!le! ,
gas or water, aid by surrounding the
pipes in,the ground with suitable non
conducting substances,yery little heat
would be lost.:
Food and fuel: are the two most im
portant items Of waste in our economy
of life, and of these we haie only hint
ed, without. touching a host. of others.
,We will only notice one other waste
now, and only, do thatito save a waste
of time in another place.'
SoMe men waste 'their lives in find
ing out cunning inventions, which they
hide under a bushel, or in some other
wasteful place, where their light never
can shine out upOn the world.
We have a case point:* A. short
time since we gave notice to the world
that some man had invented d window
balance, •to supersede weights and
pulleys, and that the invention was a
useful ; one. Now, .a -correspondent
- writes that he. is very anxious to know
more about it, and says:
"Can you send -me a - picture, or
-drawing, or description, or the cost;
or whose I can write the inventor,
agent, or inanufactuter, or anybody,
-concerning it?"
No, Sir ; wo can't do any thing for
you. We are not disposed, in notic
ing new inventions, to make the notice
an advertisement—We cannot afford
to waste our time and money fin• that
purpose. The inventor wastes both
time and money in not letting tile
world know where ho keeps his wares
for sale. Neglecting to advertise-is a
.waste of common-sense, and of that
there is a greater waste than of all
other commodities in this great corn
munity:—City Items of the Tribune.,
From Corre;poodmico . of the •Tribune
8417ATTER SOVEREIGNTY-HOW IT WOBSS
LAWRENCE, K. T., Nov. 26, 1855;
Monday, before daylight.
Late last night I arrived at this
place. and learned that there really
was cause to apprehend serious trou
ble here.
The scene of the late tragic occur
rence, was Hickory Point, a settleMent
some twelve miles south from - Law
rence, near - theVaukarusa river. In
that settlement there • are several fami
lies of Missourians, pro -slavery men.
One of these, a Mr.. Coleman, "jumped
the claim" he now holds, and built the
house ho has been k occupying,. from
Materials fur the house of another
man. Lately • there has been some
difficulty between this Coleman . and,a
young man 'named . Chas. W. Dow,
who had a claim near the same place.
It seems that Coleman and one or two
of" his neighbors and friends have
burned a limekiln on Dow's land; cut
ting the timber therefrom. This, of
course gave offense, and Do* prohib
ited them repeating the trespass. It
'appears, however, that they had made
up their minds to do so.
On last Thursday Mr. Dow had gone
to the bfatitsmith's shop which is near
Coleman's residence, and while there
met with Coleman. It appears that
they left the blacksmith's shop togeth
er, and came alert - the' road in com
pany, wrangling about tile subject in
dispute. While close to his house
Coleman left Do*, and the latter, af
ter going a few steps, heard a cap
burst on a . gup. Instantly turning
around, he saw Coleman with a piece
presenting at him He raised his hand
and said " Don't shoot ;" but' at that
instant Colemanoviro bad, put another
cap on his gun, fired—the contents, a
heavy charge of buck-shot, lodging in
the breast of the unfortunate Dow,
and killing him. Two of the balls
had pierced his heart. Several other
persons were present, friends of Cole
man, and settlers from Missouri. The
. names of these men are Hargus, Kirk
', ley, Moody, and Wagoner. Two of
' them had participated in the lime
burning, and were doubtless accesso
ries to this niust atrocious murder
which had evidently boon coolly pre
meditated.
Coleman fled, and the body of his
unfortunate . victim lay where it had
fallen in the wheel-track of the Santa
Fe road. The friends, of Coleman al-
lowed• him thus to lie, and never in-
terfered nor apprised any one: '
• Yesterday a meeting was held -aC
ilickery•Nint, and nearly a hundred
persons assembled. The body vas
examined, together with all the testi
reony•that could be elicited.. All the
evidencenbtained, was from the friends
of Coleman, as given to the neighbors
who had first found the body. The
meeting: passed resolutions, and ad
journed about dark last night, having
determined on means to secure the
murderer and bring hira to justice.
Now came the second act in the
drama. It appears that Coleman had
fled to Gov. Shannon at the Shawnee
Mission. What there transpired I
know not, further than 'that , the mut.,
darer returned to Lecompton, where
.Court is to be held next week. Fear
ing. thc.testimony of a Mr. Brauson,
the pelsou , with whom. the murdered
man had boarded, a warrant was placed
in the hands of ShetiflJones, an officer
elected by the Legislature of the Shaw
nee Mission, for the arrest of Branson,
under the pretense that he had used
threats. The real object was to rail*
his tostimenj with a Jury, as he was
one of tha t most important witnesses
in the case, next to the pto-31avery .
men. The Sheriff summoned a passer
of fourteen then, who armed them
selves, and .proceeded to the house of
Branson, where they arrived. about 9
o'clock last night. :Tones neither read
nor produced his warrant, but in a.
profane amid domineering way - -told
Branson he must come with them, ur
they would "blow him to hell." There
being no other alternative, that g en
tlentan complied:.
Scarcely had they gone when, with
a speed most necessary, a Free State
man near, who was apprised by Bran
son's- family, galloped for neighbors,
and soon a company of fifteen men.
eleven of • whom - were armed wit'
Sharp's rifles and one with a double -
barreled gun, were in pursuit. By
rapid detour they contrived to howl
Jones's party, and planted themselve t
in the road near Blunton's Bridge cot
the Waukarusa. Jones's party ap
proached the spot they wete boasting
of what they would do, saying they
wished they had got there when th
meeting assembled and they woul:t
have done so and.so to the hundred."
men congregated there thatday. Whea
they approached . the rescuers the 111-
ter, drawn across the road, - -ordered
thernto stop. The numbers were ex
actly equal, only Jones's fifteen me.t
wore all armed to the teeth and tit."
Free State men in the hurry tiad not
procured arms; but the Sheriff's pose
seemed to have no inclination to,figh: - .
One of the rescuing party requeste , i.
Mr. Branson to step out; a voice from
the other crowd told him they woul.l
shoot him if he did, but Branson join
ed his friends and there was no show
ing,. Jones here swore and tht:oatene L
terribly; said the Governor had prom
istscl they shodld have 10,000 men t.p
enforce the laws of the Legislature 01 -
the Mission, and that they should
immediately hear of it. The two par
ties .then separated.
Early this morning s long before dal - .
the drum beat in Lawrence, and sally
ing out we encountered a party well
armed, the long, dangling sword of .
their leader gleaming In the cola
moonbeams., The war spirit was up_
The people here are most: peaceable.
but as they look for Gov. Shannon and
some 2,000 or 3,000 . Missourians to
morrow or next day, you may est:tont)
the sentiment that prevails- A -taiet
ing will be held at daylight.
LAWRENCE, N0v.27, 1855--Noim
I wrote by the mail this morning at
daylight and gave you an account of the.
murder committed at Hickory Point
last week, and the rescue made last
night, of Mr. Branson who had been
taken in a very irregular Manner 14
one Joues, Sheriff elect of the Shawnes
Legislature for this county, but who
at present is Postmaster at Westport
A meeting was called Here tk
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