ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. 'j'OW A NDA : Cifttnrhan fttorninn, fltaß 3, 1855. Sclctttb jJoctrn. "PAY THE PRINTER." BY HENRY BRADY. As honest men, attend and hear, The serious fact the times are dear ; Who owes a hill, 'tis just as clear As star-light in the winter, That he should come without delay— That's if he can -that hill to pay, And ere he puts his purse away, " Fork o'er " to the Printer. The Printer's cheek is seldom red, The fine machinery of his head Is working when you are in bed, Your true and faithful " Mentor;" All day and night he wears his shoes. And brains, to furnish you with news ; But men of conscience ne'er refuse To pay the toiling Printer. Tis known, or ought to be, by all. His dues are scattered, and they're small, And if not paid, he's bound to fall In debt, for fuel, bread, rent, or l'erliaps his paper ; then to square Up with his help—a double care Bows down his head—now, is it fair That you don't pay the Printer ? His wife aud little prattlers too, Are now depending upou you ; And if you pay the score that's due, Necessity can't stint her ; But if you don't, as gnaws the mole, Twill through your conscience eat a hole! Ana brand the forehead thus—" No soul Of him who cheats the Printer. The eat-* will mew between your feet, The dogs will bite yon in the street; And every urchin that you meet. Will roar with voice of Stentor— '• Look to your pocket 3, there he goes, The chap that wears the Printer's clothes! The proud, though every knows, The grub, he gnaw'd the Printer! Be simply just, and don't disgrace Yourself, but beg the " Lord of Grace," To thaw that hardened icy " case," That honesty may enter ; This done, man will with man act fair, And all will have the " tin" to spare, Then will the " Editorial Chair," Support a tcell paid Printer. P is tt 11 sue on*. The Fat Cockney. I was bound from New York to Boston ; and it was of a Friday afternoon, in the month of March, that I took the steamer at Provi dence. The day had been chilly and bluster ing, with the wind due east—cutting, so as to pierce, like needles, to the very vitals—while the "mackerel" clouds that had been gathering over the sky, portended, with an almost abso lute certainty, the near approach of one of those driving and blue-devil storms, in which no quar ter of the world can proclaim itself New Eng land's counterpart. Even as I stepped on board —shivering, and buttoning my overcoat close about me, the big drops of rain and sleet dashed against my face, and chequered the deck. Being a inau of curiosity, and unwilling to burrow, like the hundreds of other passengers who were on board, in the close cabin, I sta tioned myself to the leeward of one of the smoke-pipes on the upper deck, that 1 might derive some consolation from its genial warmth, and lifting my umbrella—although the wind threatening every moment, to tear it from my grasp, or rend it piecemeal, for my temerity in braving its fury—l busied myself in noting the process of casting loose and getting under way. The big bell tolled—the voice of the mate echoed "All aboard!" the little bell of the engineer tinkled, and the wheels splashed in the water, while the huge bulk of the steamer yielded to their force, and moved majestically along the pier. Just then, a carriage which I had noticed and heard whirling and creaking along the roud by the water side, with the horses at full speed, was halted at the head of the pier- the door was hastily opened—and a tall, burly man, with a very protuberant ab domen, and little eyes, half hidden by his cheeks, bundled himself out, and ran down the pier fast as his legs could carry him, screaming as he came, in a soft voice, siugularly inconsis tent with his size : ' Ere, you cap'u ! 'Old lion ! 'Old lion ! Ere'.? a passenger vot's left! 'Old hon ! 'Old h" n ! Oh, my, it's too late !" If the officers of steamboats were accustom p'i o stop their engines for every laggard who tfr 'uld go on board, they would never leave the narf. Our captain, in the present instance, ensconced in the .wheel-house, into which, not withstanding that the windows were all up, and 'he now fast falling rain patted merrily against lllP m, the voice of the petitioner penetrated, 0!il y turned his face towards him, and unmov ed by his imploring accents, gave no command l ' stop. But the few porters and coachmen V fbe wharf, were more considerate —whether 'nrough a perception that here was rich game ! 'J r a joke, or through real pity of the mischance the anxious cockney, I cannot determine.— 1 ''ispering a moment with each other, they ; P r ung towards him, and without explanation, ? r rou'-'h as "By your leave," seized him by ari D s and legs, overturned him to a horizon position, hurried him to the corner of the i' r round which the boat was swaying, and ter two or three preliminary swings, back * jr 'l and forward, to obtain a sufficient impe while others threw in his luggage, let him ' ~ 0 jand wherever his good or evil fortune AA d'SjiOße of him. As good luck would lir ' l'-' l ' lo Wa * Ver y ' OW aU( * d eC k . *nieh J stood, nearly on a level with the ! fj f , ie cockney struck fair and plump be- t the wheel-house very near me, and, in his ' ' rr " r and amazement, would have, floundered J 'he water, from the inclining as wrll as THE BRADFORD REPORTER. wet aud slippery deek, had X not sprung to his assistance. I got him shortly to his feet, though I lost my umbrella in the effort; for the wind that had been striving with me so long, took advan tage of my humanity, and while X was engross ed by my good offices, struck it from my baud, and launched it in the water, an eighth of a mile distant, whirling it over and over in its triumph. In spite of this misfortune, I could scarcely restrain my laughter at his ridiculous appearance. The dirt upon the deek, had, of course, adhered to, and the water saturated every part of him that had come in contact with it, which included every prominent por tion of his system, aud his hat, which had come violently in collision with a beam, was ludicrous ly curtailed of its fair proportions by the con densing jam. " Veil, hif this 'ere hisu't," said he, dolefully lifting either arm successively, and surveying himself before and behind—" 'Ows'ever, I'm werry much hobleeged to ye, for 'clpm'me, mis ter. Oh, my, vot a state I am hiu !" Some servants of the boat had, by this time, removed his luggage to place it under shelter, and I followed him into the cabin, wherein a bright Lehigh fire, in a tall Kbit's stove, com municated a gratifying warmth to my half tor pid frame. slv cockney friend speedily disap peared behind the berth-curtains with a tra velling bag, and joined me after a short time, with his sorry appearance materially renovated aud improved. " Hare you werry sure this 'ere cap'n's a careful man ?" he asked, as we seated ourselves by a table in conversation. " I'as a mortal : 'orror o' these 'ere steam wessels ; acause the cap'ins hin this 'ere country is so werry went ersome." I assured him that he had no cause of fear, and all went well until we reached Newport, where it had been concluded by the officers to lie, at least until after midnight, as the storm was too violent to excuse a venture round Point i Judith. The thuudering sound which accom panies the blowing off of the steam, made our cockney start to his feet and turn wofully pale, as he faintly gasped, " Oh, my, vot's to pay now? Isn't ve blowin' up ?" and justified his previous admission of the fear which he entertained.— My explanations calmed his perturbation, and we recommenced our conversation, which lasted uutil until bed-time ; in the course of which I learned that his name was John Todsley, of the Strand, London, haberdasher ; on a tour of pleasure in the United States. Bidding him adieu for the night, I " turned in" to my berth, which was in the middle range, and directly abreast of the stove. After an examination of his number, and a search among the berths, my friend Todsley found his two and-a-half-by-six receptacle to be directly be neath my own. With a remark, iutended to be very facetious, upon the fates which brought us together, he divested himself of his coat on ly, donned a white night-cap, aud clumsily laid himself down. He was not destined, however, to obtain repose so easily. A moment or two brought the steward and a brace of servants to his side. " Hello, my friend," cried the steward, "you must rouse out!" " Vy, vot's to pay ?" cried Todsley, thrust ing the night-cap out of the bed with his head in it. " Come out, and I'll tell you," replied the steward. " Yell now, this 'ere's werry hunreasonable conduct, sir, to disturb a gemmeu barter 'e's laid down, hand give no hexplanation vot hit's for—werry, hindeed ! I shan't do no such thing, sir !" and thereupon Todsley pulled in his night cap, and placed his head on the pillow in extreme indignation. At this answer, a servant held up to his vis ion, a framed placard, to the efl'ect that "Gentle men are requested not to get into their berths with their boots on." " Look at this, aud I guess you'll know what you must get out for,"cried the steward. Again the night-cap was protruded. "I've read that 'ere, sir, an' it hain't nothin' to do vith me, hanv 'ow, ncanse I vears shoos !" and Todsley thrust out one leg, to the extremity of which, covered, indeed, by a shoe, he apj>ealed in proof of his exemption from the requisition of the placard. A laugh from the neighboring berths, which greeted his reply, somewhat vex ed the steward, who seized the offending shoes, and pulled them off without consulting Mr. Todsley's views upon such summary conduct. Todsley offered no resistance, however, and contented himself, after the retirement of his tormentors, by muttering himself to sleep. I was awakened, at what hour of the night, I know not, by the preparations for departure. The disturbing sounds had evidently alarmed Todsley, for a faint " Oh, my 1" frequently is sued from his berth, and now and then the white night-cap bobbed up, as its owner took a survey of the premises. The ringing of the bell and splash of the wheels, in starting, dis composed him sufficiently to make him leap to the floor, but finding all still in the cabin, he " turned in" again. There was no sleeping more. The increased rolling of the boat herald ed our approach to the Point; and finally, the guards were plunged in the water with every fierce wave, while the timbers creaked ominous ly. Todsley was evidently growing desperate with fear. The night-cap bobbed out and bob bed in again every two minutes, and I heard him talking to himself all the time although I could not distinguish what he said. At length a desperate lurch threw several sleepers from their berths, on the opposite side, and terrified all. I started up, aud as I was about to de scend to the floor, a second careening proved too violent for the gravity of the tall stove, which slid along some feet towards us, all glowing hot as it was, and then was falling di rectly upou us 1 Todsley had got well out, with the exception of one leg ; and with more self-possession than I should have given him credit for, he grasped the poker which lay by him, and thrusting it against the stove, using his leg for a brace, unheld it by main lorce.— Then his terror found free vent. " I Ho, 'ere ! 'Elp! 'elp! Vy doesn't ye come? Ve're burnin' hup ! 'Elp ! 'elp !" The rolling of the boat after the wave had PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " ITESARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." passed, restored the stove to a perpendicular • position, and Todsley, dropping the poker grasped his coat and shoes, and hastened to a securer situation, which example I was by no means negligent to'imitate. Hurrying on my clothes, X ascended to the deck, where all who were not prostrate with sickness, had congre grated. It appeared that the boat had been broached round into the trough of the sea, and that our danger had been imminent. The aspect of the waters was terrible to look upon, and while I gazed in awe and admiration on the huge white-crested waves, a shaking hand was laid upon my arm. I turned, and lo ! there was Todsley, livid, and with horror, the white night-cap, which he had for gotten to dislodge still sunuountiug his globular cranium. "He is lost now !" lie cried, in a hardly audible voice, half interrogatory, half exclama tory. I could not offer him much consolation, for my own fears were excited ; and shortly after, descended to the cabin. Todsley follow ed, and through the remainder of the night, adhered to my side with almost childish trust in my companionship. His misery was too inteuse to be any longer a source of amusement. He seemed at any time, to be devoting thoughts which he presumed to be last ones, to his distant friends, for X heard him, now and then, utter a name, with endearing epithets.— Every frequently plunge of the guards, in the meantime, dieted an " Oh, my !" of agony, and sometimes a stifled sob. Day dawned, and we were in smooth water, off Stouington'to which, the nearest harbor, our course had been directed for security. We lay therein until the afternoon, and then an attempt was made to resume our course. AVe braved the violence of wind and wave until into the night, but the courage of the officers be came exhausted, as well as the stock of wood —forcing them put about into New London, to reach which, required the consumption, as firewood, of every practicable article. AVe reached that port somewhat before daylight, ou Sunday morning. Sunrise brought a change of wind, and a cessation to the storm, and by nine o'clock, with a replenished stock of wood, we once more turned our prow New York-ward.— Todsley had all this time said very little. He j showed the strongest symptoms of the con-1 tinued possession of his faculties, when he discovered, on Saturday afternoon, some fifteen or twenty life-preservers strung upon a pole. " Vol's them 'ere ?" he asked, forgetting his anxiety in a spasm of curiosity. I explained to him the intent of these articles, so interest ing to the drowning man. A smile of satisfac-, tion lighted up his countenance at the informa tion ; and somewhat composed in mind at the propiuquity of this resource of danger, he went to his birth, to refresh his nature, exhausted by long watching and mental distress. The majori ty of the passengers, equally wearied, were sunk in the oblivion of sleep. For myself being acquainted with the cap tain, I went to the wheel-house, and while engaged in conversation with him, a clergyman, a passenger, came to the door and suggested that, as there might be those on board who would be pleased to attend divine services, if they knew a clergyman was among them, de-- sired that notice might be given to that effect. The captain readily complied, and guve orders to the steward to arrange accordingly. I stood on the cabin stairs with him, as lie merrily jingled his bell, and shouted " Divine services will now be attended in the saloon !" The effect of this announcement had not been anticipated. But this one idea seemed to possess all simul taneously, that we had sprung a leak, or burst the boiler, or that some mischance of equal de vastation had occurred, and that these divine services were in the light of " extreme unction" —prayers that Heaven would have mercy on their souls, halting on the verge of eternity ! The words had no sooner left the steward's mouth than from every berth jumped a miser able wretch, and without a thought of his lack of attire, in his extremity of fear, rushed, amid shrieks and yells to the stairs. I instantly ap preciated the terrible error, and escaped to the dec';; but the poor steward,dumb and riveted to the spot with amazement was knocked over and trampled upon by the eager throng. Attaining the deck, some ran wildly to and fro ; while others, possessing a degree of self possession, dashed into the ladies cabin, shoal ing aloud the name of wife, sister, or child.— The alarm was thus communicated to the fe males, of whom there was a goodly number, and who, rendered equally careless in the abandonment of fear, poured out upon the dock in night attire, their countenances blanched with affright. 1 was too much disconcerted for a time, by the general phrenzy, to explain matters ; and when I recovered myself, and was about to speak to those around me, a .sight struck upon my eyes, that made me laugh out right. There was Todsley, with every cue of the fifteen or twenty life-preservers girded about! him, and not a solitary one of them inflated, skulking in a corner for fear of being seen and robbed of his treasures. But his precaution was vain. The negro wench, who officiated as chamermaid, and who was of enormous bulk, espied him, and darting upon him, commenced a direful struggle. Encumbered with the life preservers, Todsley could not offer effectual resistance, and soon measured his length upon the deck, the negress falling plump upon him.— There they lay, rolling over and over in the continued conflict, Todsley holding fast upon his possessions and kicking and thumping, while the black pulled, scratched and tore. The smiling faces, and explanatory words of the crew and myself, who now mingled with the half naked crowd, gradually brought them to their senses ; and as they severally detected their semi-nudity, and the peculiar intermingling of the sexes, males and females retreated blush ing to their cabins. I could not persuade Todsley to divest himself of his life-preservers under half an hour. It was all irresistibly ludicrous. I know not. what has become of Todsley.— Perhaps he has safely regained bis native land, and is now pursuing bis vocation, exulting over his " air-breadth 'scapes, and orrid weuturcs. Wherever he is, success to him, for the remem brance of him has been to me a never-ending fund of amusement. Ax INTERESTING FACT IN AMERICAN HISTO RY'. —The first American who discharged his gun ou the day of the battle of Lexington, was Ebcnezer Lock, who died at Deering, N. n., about gfty years ago. He resided at Lexing ton in 1775. The British regulars, at the or der of Major Piteairn, having tired at a few " rebels" on the green iu front of the Meeting House, killed some and wounded others, it was a signal for war. "The citizens," writes one, " might be seen coming from all directions, in the roads, over fields and through the woods— each with his rifle iu his hand, his powder-horu hung to his side, and his pockets provided with bullets. Among the number was Ebcnezer Lock. The British had posted a reserve of in fantry a mile in the direction of Boston. This was in the neighborhood of Mr. L., who, in stead of hastening to join the party at the green, placed himself iu an open cellar at a conven ient distance for doing execution. A portion of the reserve was standing on a bridge, and Mr. Lock commeueed firing at tliem. There was no other American in sight. He worked valiantly for some minutes, bringing down one of the enemy at nearly every shot. Up to this time, not a shot had been fired elsewhere by the rebels. The British, greatly disturbed at losing so many men bv the random firing of an unseen enemy, were not long in discovering the man in the cellar, and discharged a volley of | balls which lodged ou the walls opposite. Mr. Lock within—remaining unhurt—continued to load and fire with the precision of a finished marksman. He was driven to such close quar ters, however, by the British ou the right and left, that he was compelled to retreat. He hud just one bullet left, and there was now but one way to escape, and that was through an orchard, aud not one moment was to be lost— he leveled his gun at the man near by, drop ped his gun, and the man was shot through the heart. The bullets whistled about hiru. Lock reached the brink of a hill, and throwiug him self upon the ground, tumbled downwards, roll ing, as if mortally wounded. In this way he escaped unhurt. At the close of the war he moved to New-Hampshire, where he resided till his death twenty years after. He lived iu seclusion and died in peace." HORRIBLE REVENGE. —Dr. Radcliff, who was fond of the pleasures of the table, was one af ternoon comfortably disposing of a bottle of i wine, wheu a countryman entered the room, and begged him to come immediately to his wife who was dying. " I can't help it, my fine fellow, I can't come till I have finished my bottle." Now it happened that the countryman was a large strong man, and the doctor a very small oue ; so it occurred to the former that his best plan was to seize the doctor, and carry him off on his shoulders. He did so ; and while he was bearing him along, the doctor, bursting with rage, exclaimed : " ou villain, I'll cure your wij'ef' and he was as good as his word. "Now."—"Now" is the constant syllable ticking from the clock of time. " Now" is the watch-word of the wise. " Now" is the ban ner of the prudent. Let us keep this little word always on our minds, and whenever any thing presents itself to us in the shape of work, whether mental or physical we should do it with all our might, remembering" that " now" is the only time for us. It is indeed a sorry way to get through the world by putting it off till to-morrow, saving—"Then 1 will do it." No. This will never do. JVow is ours; then will never be. A QUAKERESS, being jealous of her hus band, took occusion to watch his movements rather closely, and one morning actually dis covered the truant hugging and kissing a pret ty servant girl whilst seated oil a sofa by her side. Broadbrim was not long in discovering the face of his wife as she peered through the half open door, and rising with all the coolness of a general, thus addressed her : " Betsey, my wife, thee hadst better quit thy peeping, or, thee will cause a disturbance in the family." The efl'ect was electrical. A SHARP HIT.—BENJAMIN F. HAI.I.ETT was was telling a witty Bostoniau how terribly he was abused for his exertions in returning fugi tive slaves, saying that not only the abolition ists, but good conservative, cowardly folks now spoke ill of him, and applied names to him ; that tliey even called him Judas ! " But,"says II ALI.LTT, "I don't care if they do call me Ju das." " Oh, yes," replied his friend, "it's all very well for you to say YOU don't care, but how do you suppose Judas likes it ?" " We once knew an eccentric old man in the " Nutmeg State," in its Northern part, who went to the familiar title of " Uncle Aaron." The old man had raised a large family of boys, the youngest of whom —a wild roystering blade —was named after himself. In speaking of his family, the old man said, with a very long face : —Among all my boys I never had but one who took aft er his father, and that was my Aaron ; he took after me— With a club. "Xtia A black man once went to Portland, and attended church. He went into a good pew, and the next neighbor asked the man who owned it, why he put a nigger in his pew ? " Why, sir, he is a Ilavtian." "Can't help that, he's black." " Why, sir, he's a correspon dent of mine." " C'au't help that, he's black." "He is worth a million of dollars." Introduce me." feaT An Irish tailor, making a gentleman's coat aud vest too small, was ordered to take them home and let them out. Some days after the tailor told the gentleman that his garments happening to fit a countryman of his, let them . at a shilling per week. " poplar jpokragntn." [From the Easton Argus.] KANSAS. The result of the late election in Kansas Territory has already beeu announced through the Union, and it is very generally understood how it was conducted. According to the cen sus, taken but a few weeks previous to the I election, there were a littlo over 3000 legal j voters iu the Territory, and yet the returns showed a vote of between seven and eight thou-' sand. It is to be deeply regretted that such I a state of things should exist iu this interest ing Territory and that so little regard is paid i to the action and directions of the constituted ' authorities of the government. Any such vio-! lation of the principles that govern us as a peo-1 pie, while it agitates and convulses the entire j nation, will go far to shake the faith and weak- j en the confidence of the democratic party of the North, iu the principle of "popular sover-1 eignty" as recognized in the Kansas and Ne- j braska bill. There are thousands of warm, true democrats who approved of the plan, deem-' ing it no more than just aud fair and in keep- j ing with republican principles, that the citizens ' of every Territory should mould their own in stitutions ; but if such scenes as Kansas has witnessed are to be enacted whenever a new territory is to be organized—if the " actual re sidents" in each instance are not to be permit ted to carry out the iuteut of the law—if the people of another State are encouraged or sus tained in a systematic aud formidable invasion —they will soon arrive at the conclusion that it were far better that no such bill had ever passed. We speak plainly on this subject aud j wish to be properly understood. We were an ardent supporter of the Nebraska doctrine of " popular sovereignty"—we are so still, if it, can be properly aud practically carried out.— | We desire to see those who have a right to vote in a new territory, exercise that right without 1 hindrance or restraint. When they are notal-: lowed to do this, the doctrine becomes a farce ; and a humbug. And if this course is to be persisted in, we regard it as the bouuden duty \ of the National Administration to enforce the spirit and the letter of the law, even if it must i be done at the point of the bayonet. What is I it but rebellion against the laws of the United ' States ? What is it but self-constituted mob | law ? Suppose the people of New Jersey or j New York should come in large bodies to Penn-; sylvana, disregard the acts of our legal authori ties, seize upon the ballot boxes, thrust out of their places the legally chosen election officers, fill the vacancies with men of their own selec tion and do all the voting to the exclusion of our own citizens? Would we not be justly in dignaut, and demand the interference of" the government in our behalf ? That this has bceu done in Kansas no one pretends to deny. Aud yet the citizens of another State have 110 more right to overrun Kansas and over-power her people than the residents of New-Jersey have to do so in Pennsylvania. Such conduct, let it come from what quarter it may, should not be tolerated, and the sooner it is cheeked the better for the peace and the happiness, not on ly of Kansas, but of our whole country. Governor REF.DER has proven himself, in this crisis, a brave and an honest man and a true patriot. He fills a position that calls for the exercise of much moral courage and firmness. Those who knew the man felt satisfied he would never flinch. Knowing him as we do, from a long and intimate social and political acquain tance, we have no fears from him. Bad ai d 1 reckless men may threaten to " hang" liim, but no power on Earth can force him to swerve from what he feels to be his'duly. He will die at his post before he will be forced info a wrong act. He has too much of the spirit of old Hickory in his composition, to be driven into any step that his conscience does not ap prove. If threats of assassination make him yield oue inch, then we don't know the man. It is very evident those who made them did not know liiiu, or they would have spared tl\,em selves the trouble. The following articles from the Lawrence (Kansas) herald, prove our es timate of the man : TRUE STEEL. —We feel proud of the Gover nor of Kansas. He has shown himself to be true steel during the exciting times of the last week. The Missouriuns waited on him in per son, and threatened to hang him unless he would give the pro-slavery candidates certifi cates of election. His reply was : —" (iGentle men, two or three of yon can assassinate me, hut a legion cannot compel me to do that which my conscience does not approre." Such a man de serves well of the country, and the people of Kansas will not be slow to do him justice. THE GOVERNOR.— -Our news from the Gover nor, at the Shawnee Mission, is down to Fri day noon. The state of matters there had as sumed a pacific aspect, aud no apprehensions of violence to any one were entertained. It is represented that a committee from Missouri waited upon the Governor and told him he had the choice of one of three things : "To sign the certificates of election within fifteen minutes, to resign, or hang." The response was ready ; " GENTLEMEN, MY MIND IS MADE UP WITHOUT FUR THER ADVISEMENT; I SHALL HANG." The fact that the Governor is still living is conclu sive evidence that it was deemed risky business to attempt mob violence ou the Executive of Kansas. He had friends in the crowd who would have been at home in a practical enforce ment of this threat. [From the Evening Post.] Outrages Committed on American Citizens Governor Reeder, it seems, finds that he can not perform his duties as Governor of Kansas. His power is taken out of his hands by a set of lawless desperadoes from Missouri, who swarm over the frontier, vote in the elections, keep the actual residents of the country from the polls by demonstrations of violence, and insist that Governor Reeder shall give the candidates for whom they have voted certificates of their elec tion on pain of being lynched Thf Governor naturallv dislikes this ..ort of treatment, and vor, xv r . — NO. 47. would naturally prefer to govern the territory himself. He is now on his way to Washington, to lay the matter before his friend the Presi dent, ami to say that if he eau be properly supported by the government he will order a new election, inasmuch as an election by the people has been forcibly prevented. The Chief Magistrate has but oue course to pursue. Ho must stand by Governor Reeder; he must see thdt the real settlers of Kansas elect their own legislature, aud if they are dis turbed and hindered by bands of ruffians from any of the States, the disturbers must be put down by the strong arm of' the government.— We have raised a few new regiments lately for the purjMise of protecting the people of Oregon and California from the Indians. In both those parts of the country the Indians are now quiet; not a rifle is likely to be aimed by a savage at a white man for months to eoine. nor a cow or horse to be driven off from the neighborhood of a white man's cabin. It is the settlers of Kansas who are in danger; they are ten times more exposed to the incursions of marauders than the settlers of the region beyond the Rocky Mountains. If they are not to be plun dered of their property, they are to be robbed of their political rights ; the plot is laid by a tribe of savages bj whom the Indians on the Pacitic coast are quiet and pacific, and blood is to be spilled by the arim d and drunken crew who go out on this profligate errand, rather than it should fail of execution.. Here, then, is the place for the new regiments ; a detach ment of men in military order to guard the polls when any disturbance, any violent intru sion of the bullies sent out from Missouri, is expected. There is not one man iu ten thro'- out the whole country, who would not say that this is the best use to which our troops can be put. Some of the newspapers are talking of 1 insults inflicted by the Spanish authorities ou Ameri can citizens, and calling on our government to interfere. If our government desires to distin guish itself by protecting its citizens from insult here is an opportunity. Take all that Spain has done from the beginning, put the worst face upon every case, adopt every complaint without selection, and form them into the lar gest possible aggregate, still they are nothing in comparison to the injuries winch the Mis souri ruffians have inflicted upon our country men in Kansas. What are tiie cases of Mr. Thompson and Dr Peck in Cuba, to the scores, hundreds, thousands of American citizens in Kansas stripped of the right of suffrage by a combination of violeuce and fraud ? What is a shot fired in the air. by a Spanish vessel of war in order to bring to the steamer El Dora do, which was afterwards allowed to proceed on her voyage, compared with the wrong done to the Kansas electors, by a party of drunken ruffians taking possession of the polls, with ri fles nnl revolvers, making it necessary for the genuine voter to take his life in his hand if he upproa<'hed/thtMi'{ Wi>at case of avice cousul in Cuba, arrested, liberated and com pensated for his detention, compared with that of Reeder, the Governor of a territory, receiv ing his appointment from the President of the. United States, beset and Dai ted by those bul lies threatening to take his life if he refused to set his hand to a false certificate of the legal election of those men for whom they had given their votes? If the government should submit —and we think it will not—to indignities of this sort, if it should allow its representative j in Kausas. and the people over whom he was I placed to exercise the Executive power, to be treated in this manner, the present administra tion would deserve to be regarded as one of the most feeble and spiritless that ever had the management of public aflairs in any country. Governor Reeder, it is well known, cherishes no particular enmity to slavery, lie approved | of the Nebraska bill ; lie was a democrat of the genuine Pierce stamp, unsusjiected of any tendency to abolitiouism, and was appointed to the post lie liils partly ou account of these qualifications. He might, tin reforc.oae would suppose, have expected some forbearance from the agents of Mr. Atchison. He simply re fused to go all lengths ; he would not consent, to make himself infamous, and for this he was driven from the territory. It will he the bnsi ne:S of the government to send him back with such support as will make him safe in the ex ercise of his functions ; and if lie is not willing again to face the bullies from Missouri, to scud somebody who will. Our readers may not perhaps he aware that Atchison and his bullies have their newspaper organ in Missouri, entitled the fyu-atter Sw. reign, conducted by a man named Sstrongfeh low, which, during the election and immediate lv afterwards, was tilled with inflammatory ex hortations to commit violence on the Govern or, whom it called a perjured villain, a white livered abolitiouist, fu\ We quote a passage or two : " There is a feeling rising in (lie territory against (he Governor, (hat only lii.s absence will prevent the general outbreak. . Revolution is in every mouth, and. if the President still persists in forcing R-eeder upon us, God only knows what the e