.4;A , Oyu lite. forma in ,the .4;10. sett-_ cony, reaping, mowing, and even oti occasiotp; and tlt bum spinning wheel welt hia . td in v house. An athletic, actis , e, in ,drmitable, prolific, long-lived race. . • 4 t: to a couple to have a dozee.children, marl for all the twelve t' reach maturi- w, to rna,rry, to have large families, Ln~ to die at a good old age, seems to baen no caseuncommon arum% the original Londonderrians, - LUVeL of fun was ono oftheir marked ct-i.racteristics..On© of their decendants 'll'in Rev. J. H. li.lerrison, has written— pretpuient trait in the character of She Scotch4rish was their ready wit. 'No subject was kept. sacred from it ; the thoughtless, thograye,the oh), and . 1. he young, apliepnjoyo4 it, Our fath ers \rem serious, thoughtful men, but they Ju:pt no occasj.ori syhi < ci} might prya,lise spurt. lyedditigs, bushings. log : rullings and raisings—what A host of ,queer stories is connected with there! -Oar ancestors dearly loved tun 7' here was a grotesque humor, and yet a seriousness; pQ..tlios and strangescis • about them, which in its way has, per haps, never bean equalled. It was the bliirlillOSS of the Scotch Covenanter softened by n century's residence. abroad, amid persecution avid trial, wedded to the comic humor anti pathos of the lash, and ,they grown wild in the woods argon their own Now-Eng- jaw! mountains." There never existed a people at once so jovial and religious, This vulumo euuld be tilled with a cul- leetion of 11}eir teligiutia repartees and pious jukes. It was I'at Larkin, a Se'utcli-lrislunan, near Londonderry, rho„wlien lie was accused Of being a Catholic, because his parents were Catholics, replied : "Ii a man hap- peuud to belfurn in astable. wutild that make him a horse?" Enid he won hisbride by that gtut:l,y speech, *buhl, and witty were the old Scotch-Irish clergymen, the men of the siege, as mighty with carnal wcapons as with spiritual. There was ist taint of the tauctimunioms iu their tough, honest, ai.d healthly natures. 'qurios 014 VrencEl war, it is re lated, a 13iitish otljcer, in peculiarly :' stunning" uniform, came one Sun day morning to the Londonderry Meet ing g Rouse. Deeply conscious was this individual that he was exceeding ly well dressed and he took pains to display his finery and his figure by standing in an attitude, during the de pvery of the sermon, which had the effect of wiibdt awing the minds of the young ladies from the same. At length, tee minister, who bad both Might and Preached in Londonderry a' at home," dud !eared neither man, beast, devil, tier red -coat, addressed the officer thus t "to are a buff lad; ye Ita'e a braw suit of claithes ; and we ha'e a reed them ;ye may sit dozen." The otlirer subsided instantly, and old Dreadnought went on with his sermon as though nothing had happened. The fame clergyman once began a serreou on the vain self-confidence et'S . t. Peter, with the following energetic remarks : !'Just like Peter, aye, mair forrit than wise, ganging swaggering about wi' a sword at his side ; an' a i& hand he i:dscle of it when he came to the trial; Ipr lie only cut off a duel's lug, an' he ought to ha' split down his head." On another occasion, he is said to have opened on a well-known text in this fashion " 1 can 4o all things ;' ay, Ns yo Paul T Pll bet ye a dollar o' first (placing a dollar on the desk.) But stop I let's see what else Paul says : ! 1 can do all - things through Christ, eshich stretigthetieth mo : ay, sae can 1, Paul. l draw my bet," and he return ed the dollar to his pocket. They rayed a juke scdrietinleS, th'.se Scotch- Irish clergymen. One pastor, dining pith a now settler, who had no table, !tad served up his ciinder in a basket, implored Heaven to bless the man 'a in Ilia Lasskit, an 4 in his storo i" which heaven did, fig the. man afterwards grew rich. " What is the difference," 161ted a youth, I' between the cougro- Fationalists and Pretthyteriansp '"i'he difference is," replie4 the pastor, with stowing gravit;y, a' patthe Congre . , unalist goes' home between the eel-Vices and'eats a rep' ler (jimmy ; but the Presbyterian ptlta off h 4 till after meeting." And how pious they word For Nanny years after the settlement, the tamitisien'of the daily act of devotion e ,''single household would have ex /shod a general alarm. It in related salt:tact, -that the: first pasteiroftb. donderry, being informed one evening that an individual ,was'• becoming lieg leetful 'of family i;Voy,r l hp, immediately re sired to his divalkim. The family ha retired ;he reed the master 'of.the house, inivired if the report were r true, and as . ed him whether he , lad'Oniitted family . prayer that even ing. TI é man confesse4 that be had ; and the pastor, having Admonished him of his faµlt, ;dulled_ to leave the Vous° until the delinquent had called up his wife, and performed with her the omitted observance.- The. first settlers of some of the'towns near Lon- ilonclerry walked every Sunday eight, ten, twelve miles tojchurch, taking their chilclieri'lyith them, and crossing the Merrimac in datum° or-on 11. raft, The first publid enterprises of every setae roent were the .buliding of a church, the construction of a block-house for defense against the Indians, and the establishment of a scboUl house. In the ertrly times of course, every man went to chui - cli with his gun, and the minister preached peace and good-will with a. lothj_ei n3tigket peerin above the sides of the pulpit. The Scotch-Irish were a singularly honest people. There is i;tn entry in the towo-tecord for i 734, of a com plaint against John Morrison, that, havina found an axe on the road, lie did nut leave it at the nest tavern, " as the Jaws of the country doth require." John acknowledged the fact, but plead ed in extenuation, that the axe was 9f so small value, that it would not have paid . the cost of proclaiming. The session, however, censured him severe- ly, and exhorted him to repent of the evil. The following is a curious ex tract from the records of a Scoich-Irieh settlement for 1756: " Toted, to give Mr. John Houston equal to forty pounds sterlingin oldtenor,asthelawshall find the rate in dollars or . sterling money, fur his yeetly stipend, if he is our or dained minister. And what number of Sabbath days, ann4ally, we 'shall think uurseWes not able to pay him, he shall hare at his own use and disposal, fle4cteti out of the aforesaid sum in proportion." The early records 'of those settlements abound in evidence, that the penple had an habitual and most scrupulous regard for the rights cf one another. Kind, generous, and compassionate, too, they were. Fa) back in 1.72.5, when _the little - colony was but seven years old, and the people were strug gling_with their first difficulties, we find the•session ordering two collec tions in the church, one to assist James Clark to ransom his son from the In dians, which produced five pounds, and another for the relief of William Moor,- whose two cows had been kill ed by the falling of a tree, which pro duced three pounds, seventeen shil lings, These were great sums in those early days. We read, also, In the his tory of Lcndonderry, of AlacGregor, its first pastor, becoming the champion and defender of a personal enemy who was accused of arson, hut whom the magnanimous pastor believed innocent. He volulteered his defence in court. The man was condemned and imprison ed, but MacGregor continued his ex ertions in behalf of the prisoner until his innocence was established ttrid the judgment was reversed, Tbat they were a brave people need scarcely be asserted. Of that very MacGregor the story is told, that when he went out at the head ofe committee, to remonstrate with a belligerent party, who were unlawfully cutting hay from the got lands of Londonderry, and one of the hay-stealers, in the heat of dis pote, shook his fist in the minister's lace, saying; "Nothing saves you, sir, but your black coat," MacGregor in stantly exclaimed, " Well, it shan't save you, sir," and pulling off his &oat, was about to suit the action to the word, when the enemy beat a sudden retreat, and troubled the Londonder rians no mole. The Scotch-Irish of New Hampshire were among the first to catch the spirit of the Revolution. They confronted British troops, and successfully too, Lifore the battle of Lexington. Four English soldiers had deserted from their quarters in Boston, and taken refuge in Londonderry. A party of troops, dispatched for their arrest, discovered, secured, and con veyed them part of the way to Bos— ton. A hand of young men assembled and pursed them ;and so overawed the Pritish officer by the boldness of their demeanor, thathe gave up his prisoners, who were escorted back to London derry in triumph. There. were re markably few tories in Londonderry. The town was united almost as one man on the side of Independence, and sent, it is believed. more men, to the' war, and contriboted more money to the cause, than any other town of eqoal resources in New England. Here are a few of the town-meeting " votes" of the first months of the war : " Voted, to give our men that. Kaye gone to the Massachusetts government seven dol- - lars a mouth, omit it be known what' Congress will do in that affair, and that the tapers shall have as touch pay as those in the Ray Government."—'t Vo ted, that a committee of nine igen be chosen to inquire into the conduct of those men that' are tholight not, to be friendsOf their country."-- r " Voted, that the aforesaid corqtrlittett haye nq pay," Voted, that twenty more men be raised immediately, to be re*dy upon the first emergency, astaintpetZlNO—lt . IrdeB, - tbet twenty miste — litibti 'been= listed in Capt. Aiken's company, ce Minute men."—" Voted, Ihar the: re mainder of the stockof pbwder shall be divided .out to every • one that bath• not already received of the same, as far as it will go ; provided he :produces a a gun of his own, in good order, anclis willingto go against the enemy, and promises not to waste any of the pow der, only in self-defense; and provided, also, that ho.showtwenty good bullets to suit his gun, and six good flints." in 1777 the town gave bounty of thirty pounds . Tor every man who enliSted for three years, .All the records and tra ditions of the revolutionary period breathe unity and determination, THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL srm JOUN S. MANN, EDITOR• - COUDERSPORT, PA TIWRSDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1856 To the People of Potter County, All who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to the ex. tension of Slavery into the Territories, and in favor of the admission of Kane sas as a free State, are earnestly iu , vited to meet in Coudersport on the 3).st day of May next, at I. o'clock, P M., for the purpose, of effecting a more perfect organization in our County, pre paratory to the ensuing _Presidential and State elections, and of choosing delegates to the Philadelphia Conven tions. IsAAc BENSON, Chairman ado Cotinty Executive Committee Coudersport April -Ith, 1856, lar We publish on the first page of this number of the Journal, the re marks 0f.n0n.13, F, Butler, en taking the chair at the monster meeting in Broadway Tabernacle, to protest against the extension of slavery. Mr. Butler Is a Democrat of the old stamp 1 —was a member of General Jackson's administration and is a statesman in the highest sense of the ward. We com mend his counsel to the People of this county, as being entitled to a little more weight than the tortuous recom mendations of the small politicians of this county, who seek to keep the masses in support of slavery. Read 1 the calm appeal of Mr. Butler for free- . 1 dom in Kansas, and compare it With 1 anything that emanates from the advo - Icates of Pierce Democracy, and choose Iye whom to serve—A l iberty or Slave 7, . . . . rar We have a private letter from Loudoun county, Va., assuring us that " the cause of Itepoblicaniim is -gain ing ground in this region,'•' and that the recent commotion paused liy the discussion at goose Oree.ls church, will not retard it, although 010 of the speak= era at that meeting has been obliged to- leave the State. ; Such is the des. potism of American slavery, that a citizen of Virginia is obliged to, fly from his horse for having expressed the opinion that Kansas ought to be a free State. 4nd yet there are men in every township in this county, who will at the next election vote to extend the Despotism which crushes Virginia, over the free soil of Kansas. Shame on such degenerate eons 'of noble sires! [a" The quarterly meeting of the Coudersport Library Association on Saturday, was a very pleasant, and we hope a profitable one. There was a free interchange of sentiment as to the best method of making the Association useful ; and as will be seen from the proceedings, steps were taken- to in crease the interest of the meetings hereafter. tar The troubles in Kansas . are in creasing. On the 23d of Aptil, Bo gus Sheriff Jones, who has been con nected with all the late wars, was shot by an unknown hand, we regret this event, but we do not see how it could be expected that the shooting should be all ou outs side, Particulars next week, Gr Our Kansas correspondent will see that his comumnicatigns need ab breviating for oar aolnrens. Mr We trusrourtrien& are " reek ing arrangements to attend , the County_ Convetition on the 31st of this month, in goodly nambets. Bear in mind that thi tone of the- campaign in this CeuntY will be much influenced by, thit,ineetlng, and you will see the im portance of giving it a proper direc— tion, and of starting it with due energy. Come then from every Township, and let us take counsel together, as to the best method of discharging our whole duty. in the present emergency. I See article on first page as to Ike best part of the potato to plant. lar We h;:tve the pleasure , of again receivingthe Williamsport Independent Pro:among our exchanges, We hope it will be liberally sustained, as a good paper at Williamsport, is almost a necessity. So important a town ought not to be without an advocate of Tem porance mid - progress in general. The Press was an excellent paper while un der the care of J. \V. Barlett, and we are confident did much good. ' The " platform" now laid down fdr the paper is pretty good ; this part of it first-rate t Holding Liberty to be the inaliena- We birthright; of all men, we will ear nestly oppose the ex.teusion of Slavery over any soil consecrated to freedom ; and whilst disclaiming any right or purpose to interkeddle with the peen liar institutions of the South, it will be held as an imperative duty to rebuke sin everywhere, and so far as our social relations permit. strive to ameliorate the condition of of all classes el suffer ing humanity, We submit that supporting Millatd for President, is not opposing the ex tension of slavery, but just the reverse. " Water, verdure, and a beauti ful face, .are three things which de• light the heart," A KUMThIATTNO PAM The treachery to freedom of the Northern leaders of sham democracy, is-a glai - lg. - fact disgraceful to hirmani ty ; for the sole motive to it is the, de sire to hold office. Hence - Timothy Ives jump■ with alacrity upon the pro slavery platform ilopted .at Harris burg, in the face Of his. public profei sion in this county a short time before, of his opposition to the i epeal of the Missouri Compromise. Were it not for this treachery of Mr. Ives 'and his associates, Kansas would be admitted into the union afree State in less than a month. Read the following extract frOm a Washington letter, and then mark the traitors to freedom ; From the N. Y. Tribune, Wssuisazos, Tuesday, April 22, 6 1855. The first half of Senator Clay's speech on Kansas was read to the Senate yesterday, and the remainder to-day. The Southern speeches for Slavery are purely amateur performanees.• They count fer something at home, by de noting the officions• ardor on the part of the performers, but are not reckoned of any con- sequence as being necessary parts of the drama. The-real battle for the extension of Slavery is handed over to the Northern portion of the Shim Democracy . , whO are relied on to de : . hooch their .constatnencties to a sufficient ex tent to secure it. Slavery dues not need championship at horns, but abroad, It has got it tbrough , the corruption ef the De.nocratic organization and the demoralization of its leader, in th e North. - The South• being 'a unit in behalf of Slavery, the only re :I work to be dons is in the North. Southern men cannot help much in this. except by cracking the whip over the doughfaoes.. LIBRARY HEFTING, The Quarterly meeting of Couders. port Library Association, held on Sat urday, May 3d, at the house of the Librarian, Mrs. M. W. Mann, was called to order by the President. Re port of previous Meeting read and ap proved. The follor?ing officers were elected to fill vacancies : Mrs. M. R. Jones, Tieasurer ; R. 0. Goodrich, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. M. W. Mann, laid heforo the society for consideration, an additional by-law, being Article 7, @ectiorli 2,3, 4,5, and 6, of the by-laws proposed in November last, to tke acted upon a: th• next quarterly rueetipg. Remarks were submitted by the President, Mr.liendriek,. as to the propriety pf serge literaty effort by the members of the 4.ssociation, hoping thereby to enhance its interest, and extend its influence. Motion was made by 7. S. Mann, that at the next quarterly meeting in August, a lecture be delivered, and a literary paper read. Motion adopt. ed. Moved that the Directors be 'com mittee to secure said Lecture. An order of. $7 50 in favor of J. S. Mann, for printing catalogues, 4c., was drawn by the Directors. On motion, adjourned till 2 s'oloek P. IC 'thiiffreit Saturday is "August . . An attendance of tha_steck-holdest is earnestly desired, and xbe public generally are invited to give. both thought and action to an organization so insughi pith individual interest and public good. W. BuTTertwunTu, Secretary. LLWISZNOI CITY, K. T. APRIL 18, 1856. • EDITOR or THE Joel:mit :-Day be fore yesterday we took the stake from Kansas City to this place. In about. , an hour we reached the village of Westport, Missouri; and though the Territory'is within sight of Kansas City, yet.the road to Lawretide passes through that State for about five miles. The reason is, that instead of makiiig, the new road,.the emigrants have fol lowed the Utah and Califi'rnia Road which lies South of, and in the vaPey_ of the Kansas River. When we got into the Territory about a mile, that is, about six miles from Kansas City, we had'a fine view of the Methodist Mission, better known as Shawnee manual Labor School, and more wide ly known as the sent of the-Bogus Missouri Legislature which passed those infamous and tyrannical laws which Pierce indorses, but which are spilrned by - the people of Kansas.— rt" is alarge, well-shaped, brick build ing. with several smaller ones around it; but, as it was %wine distance from the road, , I cannot describe it as well as its notoriety deserves. About two miles farther along the road, we saw the church of the Shawnee Baptist Mission; and two miles farther still, that of the Quakers. The other build ings of the Baptist Mission were not visible from the road, but the church is of wood and resembles in size and appeat'ance, the -First Presbyterian church in Coudersport. The Quaker buildings were also of wood, and the fat ins of each of these Missions were as good as I ever saw in this country. I was told that all three of these Mis "sions, always in harmony with each other, had done a great deal, not only in civilizing, but also in Christianizing this tribe. By reference to a 'map of Kansas, you will see that the Shawnees have a government reservation ofthirty miles square, and the road passes through it the greater part of the way to Lawrepce. • On figuring, I found that the pas sengers on board the stage Were two Slave State and four Free State men; not counting the driver who took oc casion to say, early• on the journey, that he was a Siler, and voted for:Rob inson for Governor. Ho was a Boston Yankee, a fine fellow, and "put us through" from Westport to Lawrence a distance of :forty miles, in eight hours. One of the pro-Slavery men was a merchant of Lecumpton ; the other said •he was a Border Ruffian, and it was very amusing to hear him read the account of the Kansas aid meeting at New Haven, where they subscribed the fifty rifles, and at 'which H. W. Beecher figured. It Is a ie markable fact that neither of these men could be led into a discussion of the question of Slavery or Freedorii in Kansas. I told these men, the statement - madame by the kicka'poo Editor,. that Gen.-- was' com:.ng with Over a thousand men from the South to save Kansas, "Yes; I know it, sir," said the merchant 4, and after they have eat a few dough nuts and pies with the d—d Yankees, they will become first- rate abolitionists just as others have done. They're the gen uine Southern article, but you can't depend on them." I found 'since I came here that he had some reason to speak so of the Southrons; for yester day I asked a young Tennesseean what he thought of the future of Kansas. and he replied as follows: • " Young man,'l. c;.:ne here Sound on the goose; Imade a claim and shortly after doing so, I made op my mind that my claim would be forth more in a free than in a slave State; so that I aint so sound) on the goose as I was, and I will vote for Freedom in Kansas when the time - comes.. I say that opeu and above board." How much has selfishness to do in shaping our political destinies! And here iet me say that a man who openly, honestly, and earnestly, but unobtrusively ;vows his positiOn, gains more respect from Border Ruf fians than he whose lips are hermeti cay sealed, kit if he speak he will offend some party. So that a man must show his colors her. atone., and once hoisted he must be prepared to give even his life in their defense. But I have been digressing. About nine miles from Lawrence we crossed the Wakarusa, a small tir• er which empties into the Kansas, Hero we had a good opportunity of judging of the soil, as the recent flood had sliced it down, and we had a good view dile layers of the different kinds of strata, for twenty feet, Of this there was between - three and six feet of rich black soil, about ten . or twelve feet Of a hard 'subsoil, a layer of clay, and then the hard limestone- rock which forms the bed of the river, I will not say that this is true of all of Kansas% for these strata of soil and subsoil may have accumulated by fro. quent ovefflowingsofthe river; but I ard told that' there is no better aril in the world than there is in any part of the Kahsas Valley. This river , the Wakarusa—you will please recollect, is celebrated in history, as. upon its banks, and .near where we croqsed was once encamped One wing olGov. Shannon's . army, of sumo two thous. and drunken Missourians, for a .week or so ; and here in this classic spot he announced to the valiant chivalry the conclusion of the treaty with the - "re bels, and bade them disperse: The first view we had of Lawrence was from the South. -It looks better at the distance of two miles than when close at nand; for,- in the firs: place., you see it as a whole, while in it you see each house separately, there being no closely built blocks yet. But I will describe it fully in my next.. Th• Mace of the country generally is a toll- ing prairie, dotted at almrt intervals with patches of woods composed chief ly of oak, walnut, and sycamore.. The banks of the rivers are wooded, ai a general thing, to the width of from one to four miles on either There is therefore wood enough for all pus- poses, and coal has hems discovered four 'tiles S. W. of this City. ?ft, wonder then, that with such a soil, such resources,' and such a geogra• phical position as it lias, that mon can be found to - defend it from Slavery with their lives if necessary; and to men with the least spark of manhood —tine manhood— it seems an ince-. mous desecration- eveu to attempt to.. curse such a spil with such a blight. . Gen.. Wright of Georgia, and Gen. Whitfield Were the speakers at a pub= lic meeting held in Leavenworth ye. - terday by Atchison and Stringfellow. Neither ofthe hitter spoke, although both were invited to do -so by Ts' crowd. It gener,ally suppoged that Senator Reeder, who ‘va present would reply to Whitfield's speech, in which case the Border RufFtans would- -. put him in the rker, but he made nu reply, there being nothing - to reply to. To-day the Kansas Commission.. mints Oliver, accompanied by Senator Iteeder, 'strived here on their way. to Leconiptuu, the seat of the Tetitorial Gevertiment, where they will g,) for tho necessary records, and return to Lawrence to begin their investigations. Mr. Oliver was supposed to be at Leavenworth, but is now supposed to be at Lecompton. - 1 have just returned from a public meeting at the Free State dote', held to welcome several large cumpanies. - of emigrants from the East. Speeches were made by Senator Reeder, GOY. Robinson, (who had just returned from Wa.shingtou this alternoott) Col. Wood, and several others. Senator Reeder's was an able speech, and I am now convinced that his courage amiability ate equal to any emergency which may arise here or eisewhete.— Atter Reeder's speech valet: cheers were gi%eu tot'Uuv. Rubinson and the State of liatnath," and "Guy. Child!, and the State- of Uhio." - rue best . feeling prevailed. • the ernagrattou to the territory fa said to be 1:4:(/ thou:grid a week,- uino teuttis of which are to favor of a Free H. Y. Effil3 P.S. I open this to say that to=day (Saturday aiternuou) Bogus Sneiiff Junes attempted to arrest Cul. Wood wins at Ilia nerd of twelve men, res cued Branson, - wmcb must 'ut your readers will recollect. ‘Vocri Liu pit come I : rural/Ulu with — a large com pany ut emigrants; but durteg nks.ab titiflCO lAe was indicted by, a Cirasii Jury. In the scuffle Wt.md took Jona revolver from nim, and related to be arrested unless by a M,5, Mari ehal. Jobeg left Lavvreace,-aed .111
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