his master's written pass iu order to leave the
plantation.
M ilh the shout of law ami order you lay in
ashes the houses of peacahle citizens, destroy
their printing presses, and with cannon batter
down their public buildings. With the shout
<•! law and order you disarm the citizen, while
thf Constitution of his country declares that
the right " to keep and boar arms shall not lie
infringed." With the shout of law and order
you search and take from the houses and per
sons of the citizens, without legal process, their
papers and effects, when the Constitution of
the country declares that "the right of the
people to be secure in their persons, papers,
and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated and no search
shall in any case be made without a warrant
issued on oath, describing the place to be search
ed, or the person cr thing to be seized. With
the shout of law and order you seize law-abid
ing citizens, and by mob law exile them from
their homes for declaring that slavery is an
evil, and ought to be prohibited by law, while
the Constitution guaranties freedom of speech
and of the press. With the shout of law and
order you arrest and put in chains order-loving
citizens, on a charge of a high treason, for
peacably assembling and petitioning the Gov
ernment for a redress of grievances—thus
trampling upon all law and the most sacred
guaranties of the Constitution of your country.
haw and order is the excuse of despotism,
the world over, for all its enormities. It was
to preserve law and order that Poland was
blotted from the map of nations, and the dun
geon and the rack silenced the voice of patrio
tism in Hungary. To preserve law and order,
the streets of Naples arc crowded with chain
ed gaugs, and its quarries are covered with gal
ley-slaves, guilty of no offence save that they
hate oppression and love liberty. For the
.-ante reason, some of the noblest sous of France
are to-day pining iu hopeless exile, and Sibe
ria is full of hearts too large to be contained
by their native land.
The law and order that reigns over the
graves of crushed humanity is more to be dread
ed than all else ; it is the order of death. Or
der reigns in desolation—reigns every where,
when you close the mouths of men, either by
brute force or under the sanction of law. The
scaffold sends its victim to a quiet rest, and
order reigns over his grave. The order of!
Kansas is the order that reigned in Warsaw
on the 7th of September, 1831, when, with
it.> streets red with the best blood of its citi
zens, and the shrieks of liberty stifled as her
last votary fell, Paskicwith sent to the Czar
his memorable dispatch, " Order reigns in
Warsaw." The satrap of this Administration
i:i Kansas exhibits u like love of law and or
der with his prototype, whose example, with
becoming propriety, he might well imitate, if
he succeeds in crushing out in Kansas the spir
it of liberty, by sending a like dispatch to his
superior " Order reigns in Kansas,"
Law and order enlist in the service of any
master who, for the time being, chances to
hold the sceptre of power. They are just as
efficient for oppression and wrong as for free
dom and right. When enlisted in behalf of
despotism, I pay no homage at their shrine.—
Hut liberty and law are the twin divinities
who guard the rights of man, anil watch over
his happiness. At their altar, all good men
will lay their offerings. Rut the law and or
der of despotism is to be execrated tlie world
over ; and the day has passed away when out
rage and wrong are to be vindicated by the
crv of law and order.
In view of the wrongs and outrages perpe
trated upon the people of Kansas, the patriot
may well exclaim, in the language of Madame
lloluud on ascending the seatfuid : " Oh, lib
erty' what climes have been committed in thy
name I"
Mr. Speaker, were there no precedent for
the admission of a State under like circumstan
ces, those surrounding this case would, of them
selves, be sufficient to establish one, Truth,
justice, and humanity, need 110 precedents ;
they make them. It i old abuses and time
sanctioned wrongs that entrench themselves
behind formulas.
W hy should an American legislator hesitate j
in the performance of any act that- his judg- |
incut approves, for want of a precedent? The
existence of the Republic, and its whole his
tory, is in violation of all precedent.
There is not one of the universally recog- j
ni/.ed truths of to-day, but what was the rank- i
e>i heresy when first proclaimed, and the fagot '
and the rack dripped with the blood of its mar
tyrs. The word's conservatism trembled when
fifty-six bold merchants, farmers, and median
ies, proclaimed the inalienable rights of nmn.
As for myself, there is but one hook of prece
dents that can in any way control my uctiou ;
as a legislator, and that written upon my heart
by the finger of llim who made it.
" I.ct the dead past bury its dead ;
Art, net, in the living present,
Heart within and G"<l o'erhead."
One word here, in answer to the gentleman
from Georgia, [Mr. SrKi-iiKvs, who thought
these troubles the result of other causes than i
the repeal of the Missouri Comjiroini.se. The i
wrongs of Kansas date from the day that the
Missouri Compromise was repealed. On the
heads of its repealers rest the blood shed in
Kansas, and the wrongs and the outrages which
have been heajied upon it. The repeal was
tor the purpose of making Kansas a slave ■
fcjtato. It was a conspiracy from the start ;
and it has been carried out with violence and 1
brute force. Without that repeal, Slavery '
could never have gone there. There would ;
have been no effort to force it into the Terri- ;
tory. ithout it, Kansas would have been !
saved from civil war, and the repose and har
mony oi the Republic would have contiuued 1
undisturbed. On the heads, then, of the re
pealers rests the responsibility for nil these
troubles. Strife, anarchy, ami bloodshed, are i
the first fruits of that repeal, and the second
seal is uot yet opened.
Rut the gentleman says that the country ;
i- at peace, and is prosperous and happy. True, !
but the agitation in the country is not based ■
upon dollars and cents. It is founded upon j
principle—a principle underlying the founda- !
lion of our Government—a principle which 1
enters into the spirit and genius of the Kepnb- i
lie. And 1 ask the politician, if this agitation
is not the result of the repeal of the Missouri j
Compromise, how it happens that but nine of!
those from the North who voted for that repeal
were •returned to this House, while some forty |
who voted against it occupy seats here to-day '( I
How happens it that every election for Sena
tor in the North, siucc the repeal, with one ex-!
caption, has resulted in the election of an ojv '
puneut to that repeal ? Does he lielieve that j
the pouple remain quiet and satisfied with the '
existing condition of affairs ? If so, how does i
happen that in every State election, save
held in the North siucc that repeal, the;
''.tnocratie party, which was the instrument j
; I>y which it was accomplished, has ♦teen de
feated, ;nt< 1 its banner trails in the dust on the
proudest folds of its former triumphs: / And
wfiy dot s it rejoice to-day iu accessions from
the ranks of its old enemies, to save it front
hopeless ruin ? It trampled on the holiest
and best impulses of the human heart, and it
must now receive, its retribution. I desire
I here to quote a reason which 1 urged against
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise at the
i time, a part of which, results have already
! made prophetic, and each day is verifying the
correctness of the balance of the prediction :
Bat, Mr, as an early and lou.-tant friend of this Admin
i-Oatinn. I desire the defent f tbis ldll : for its passage
will. in my judgment, insure, beyond a doubt,an ;utti-Ad
ii.ini.-tnition nmjority in tlie next Congress. As an car
n*'-t and devoted friend to the Denmeratie party, to which
I hue cheerfully give my l*>t energies iroiu my earliest
political ru-tion. I desire the defeat or this hill ; for its
passage will blot it not a- a national organisation, and,
leaving but a wreck in cwry Northern State, it will live
o-jly in history. As a lover of peace, harmony, and fra
ternal concord among the citi/.ens of the Confederacy,
and us a devotee at the shrine of this Union, with all its
previous hopes to man, I de-ire the defeat of this bill ;
for its passage will tear open wounds not yet healed, lac
erate spirits already frenzied, and •• the bond of con tide nee
which unites two sections of the Union will be rent asun
der, and years of alienation and unkindness may intervene
before it an be restored, if ever, to its wonted tenacity
and strength."'
If you would calm the spirits that you have
frenzied, heal the wounds you have inflicted
upon the country, and restore peace and har
mony to the Republic, admit Kansas as a State
| with her free Constitution. And if you would
end this sectional strife forever, return to the
example of the Fathers of the Republic, ahd
cease your efforts to propagate Slavery under
the protection of the flag of your country, and
desist from the attempt to nationalize the in
stitutions of human bondage.
Ruiur T. HERBERT IX CALIFORNIA. —The
San Francisco Bulletin, thus assails the char
acter of Herbert, who shot Keating, the wai
ter, in Washington :
" His previous history is very much like
most of our public characters—one of infamy
and shame. He is well known under the title
of the ' Mariposa gambler.' He is a gambler
by profession, aud we are told formerly dealt
" uionte" somewhere in Mariposa county, and is
without the slightest qualification for the re
sponsible position he now occupies. We are
much of the opinion that if justice be not doue
him in Washington, he may be a lit subject
for our friends, the Yigilants in Mariposa, should
he ever disgrace that place with his presence
again. We are not surprised in the least to see
John B.Wcllcr,the Senator from this State,the
friend and supporter of the gambler McDuflie,
volunteer his services to procure Herbert's re
lease, even from a preliminary examination, oil
account of his position as the Representative
of a sovereign State. We are incliued to think
they aremistakeu in the material of which ju
rors are composed iu Washington.
Kmx.vrrixc. FREE N ERRORS. —Yesterday r.
M., a respectable looking and gentlemanly ap
pearing negro was quietly passing through our
town, when he was accosted by one of our cit
izens, and claimed as his pr's >ner. The negro
asked for what. Allen Brooks, his captor, pre
sented a revolver, and gave him to understand
resistance would be death. He told the negro
he believed him to be a runaway slave, and he
should take him to Missouri. The negro af
firmed himself to be free—that he never was a
.-lave—that he had a wife and children iu
Cincinnati, Ohio —that he had acquaintances
iu Keokuk, and if he could have the time, he
would send for witnesses that would testify to
all that he had said ; but he was ordered into
a wagon and taken to a slave State. Soon af
ter he was thus rudely taken from our town,
and liberty from hiiu, there came a responsible
man from Keokuk and testified to all the negro
had said. Our citizens got out a warrant to
try Brooks for kidnapping, but lie eluded their
vegilance, and lias escaped, no doubt pocketing
two or three hundred dollars for his slave.
These are the beauties of slavery.
A DELI A CAMIX
Charleston, lowa, June 8, 185 G.
I\EEr IT BEFORE THE PF.OITE. —That the De
mocratic party is doing everything in its pow
cr to dissolve the Union unless the North will
admit slavery into territory now free :
That it is endeavoring to make a sectional in
stitution national.
That it recognizes polygamy as consistent
with our laws and institutions;
That it encourages and incites civil war ;
That it employs the ruffians of Missouri to
take the lives and destroy the property of the
Free State men of Kansas ;
That it justifies the murders and robberies
of innocent and unoffending citizens of Kan
sas ;
And that it arrests and imprisons FRFK
State men there, who have committed no of
fenee, and have always been true and loyal
citizens and firm friends of the Wee Institu
tions of our country.
PRO-SLAVERY SCHEME.— A new scheme is
said to be on foot to achieve a more complete
triumph of the Slave Rower than would oth
erwise be possible, in case the election of Rres
iilent should be thrown into the House of Rep
resentatives. The plan is for the Senate to
elect Breckenridge Yiee President, and then
by the House holding off'and failing to elect
a President till after the Fourth of March, the
Yiee President will become acting President,
in accordance with a provision of the Consti
tution. Thus the Slave Power would secure
a Slave holder ami prominent champion of the
Nebraska bill in the I'residential Chair, in
place of a doughface, who only consents to
sustain the aggression of Slavery because his
sole chance of obtaining office is bv so doing.
\Yc hope that the freemen of the North will
take care to prevent such a contingency by
electing the standard bearers of freedom—Fre
mont and Davton.
6r3]f-\Ym. Y. Roberts, elected Lieut. Gov. of
Kansas (late a Democratic Member of the
Legislature, from Fayette Co. Rn ) in a public
letter denounces Deuglaas' new bill as shutting
out all hope for Freedom. If it pass, it will
legalize the Missouri mob Legislature— put
the whole machinery of the election into their
hands—and their Constitution (pro-slavery of
course) is m>t to be submitted to the people for
approval, but will be enforced by the bayonet!
JOHN- C. BRECKINRIDGE, the candidate of t lie
"Black Democracy," for Yiee President is
thus described by the editor of a Kentucky
paper :
"lie is a large slave owner, and is under
stood to cordially approve of all the efforts
made to extend ihe institution by fair means
or foul, into Kansas, lie possesses considera
ble ability as a popular orator, but more as
a raurksiuan, being a noted duelist.
ilqiortor.
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warnla, on SATURDAY, the 2<l day of AUGUSTnext, at
2 o'clock, P. M. The following named persons compose
said Committee :—Allen M'Kean, E. 0. Goodrich,Wm. C.
Brtgrart, <l. P. Mason, J. H. G. Balicoek, Eugene Heeler,
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July 21,1858. ALLEN M'KEAN, Chairman.
MR. GROWS SPEECH.
We give our readers this week, Mr. Grow's
admirable speech, closing tlio debate upon the
bill admitting Kansas into the Union, as a
free state. The statements and arguments
contained in this speech will satisfy every in
telligent ami caudid reader of the entire law
fulness and propriety of the action of the peo
ple of Kansas in calling a Convention, adopt
ing a State Constitution, and applying for ad
mission into the Union.
It will be observed, that in the eases of the
Territories of Arkansas and Michigan, the
state constitutions were formed, not only with
out the authority of Congress, but in opposi
tion to the wishes of the Territorial govern
ment ; that in the ease of the former stated
the then National Administration fully recog
nized the right of the jample to assemble and
form for themselves a state organization, pre
paratory to admission into the Union. There
is nothing in the history of the country, nor
any provision of the constitution, nor any con
gressional enactment, which forbids the people
of Kansas from performing what they have
done—and yet a tyranny more odious and des
potic than ever ruled under the sun, has dis
persed the legislature, indicted the active men
of the Territory for high treason, destroyed
the freedom of the press, and burned their
towns.
In the days of General .JACKSON, the right
of the people of the people of a territory to
take the preliminary steps for admission into
the I nion was fully recognized. It was a right
iuherent in the people, and not dependent up
on the action of Congress, nor of the Territo
rial legislature. ludced, the latter could con
fer no authority for such action. So long as
the people confined themselves to what might
be considered petitioning for redress of griev
ances—so long as they peacefully assembled
to consider measures and take steps for admis
sion into the Union, though they were but a
small proportion of the people of the territory,
yet they were engaged in a lawful and legiti
mate enterprise, and their action not treasona
ble, but worthy the consideration of Congress.
In like manner, the people of Kansas, over
powered at the ballot-box, by invasions of Mis
sourians, suffering under monstrous and unjust
laws, enacted by a Legislature elected by
fraud and violence, saw uo way to redress their
grievances but by revolution, or by the forma
tion of a State Constitution and by admission
into the Union. All the steps taken to form
that constitution were perfectly proper and le
gal. In doing so, the people were but exer
cising their natural and constitutional rights,
as recognized in the formation of many State
governments previously, and as particularly
specified by General .JACKSON, in his instruc
tions to the territorial Governor of Arkansas.
lint now the fell spirit of Slavery assails the
birthright of freemen, and denies to them the
exercise of the rights and liberties guarantied
to them by the Constitution. Not content
with the enactment of the worse than barbar
ous eode of Kansas laws, with the brutality
which has been perpetrated upon peaceable
citizens under pretence of enforcing those laws,
it denies to Freemen the right to assemble for
the purpose of a redress of grievances. To
what lengths will not this arrogant and intol
erant power presume ? If its dictation is sub
mitted to, what will remain of our liberties
worthy of preservation? If successful in its
present assumptions, a tyranny will be inaugu
rated upon the country, more odious and ex
acting than exists upon the earth—one which
will deny to Freemen the exercise of any of
their rights—denying the people the /iglit to
assemble to petition for a release from evils
under which thev may suffer—destroying the
liberty of speech and of the press—and sweep
ing away all those most saered privileges for
which our forefathers fought, if the people
I sanction by their suffrages, the proceedings.of
the Jnvery-propagandists in Kansas, our free
institutions will receive a shock more terrible
, than any yet experienced,—one of the most in
estimable rights and safeguards of the people
i will be wrested from them, and henceforth they
must suffer in silence all the evils which a reck
less and grasping oligarchy may impose upon
them.
Fike at Canton*.— A lire broke out iu Can
ton, at 11 o'clock in the evening of the Oth
: inst., originating in a shed attached to the old
! tavern house, lately occupied by Nathan Tut
tlo, and destroying several buildings. The
following is a list of the sufferers :
lied tavern stand, now owned by Lee &.
Harding, and occupied by Abnor Doty as a
store and dwelling, floods mostly removed,
and insured.
.Mix A Hooper's Clothing Store, goods most
ly removed. Insured.
11. F. Tattle's grocery, from which most of
the contents were removed. Also insured,
i The dwelling of John \V. Griffin was buru
j ed. The furniture was mostly removed. Mr.
(1. has an insurance upon the house and fur
; niture.
FTAV" \Y.M. C. RHODES, Esq., lately of the
Sim ben Farmers' Advocate, has purchased the
! Ehnira Gazette , and brings that paper to the
support of the two H's. Had MASON survived,
• that paper would now have been zealously and
efficiently aiding the cause of Freedom. Our
| friend RHODES seems to have forgotten the
principles which lie was so zealous for in 1848,
and has gone over into the party that lias al
, way opposed the doctrines lie onec professed.
' The radical democracy of Chemung, of course,
; are not included in the purchase, uud will tes
: tifv at the polls their devotion and adherence
to the cause of Freedom.
Godey's Lahys' Book, for August, has been
received, and is fully equal in merit to its pre
decessors. We can recommend Gooey as wor
thy of patronage Our only wonder is, how
any lady can be without the work. As we
cut the leaves, month after mouth, and turn
through the variety of " women fixius" it con
tains, we are not at a loss to understand why
such a caterer to their tastes, should be so
popular with the ladies. May he live to enjoy
their smiles a thousand years.
The terrible calamity on the North
Pennsylvania Railroad, of which wc publish an
account in another column, will awaken the
liveliest sympathies of every reader. The sor
row of the occurrence seem to be heightened
by the fact that most of the sufferers were
children, and the occasion one of festivity and
recreation. It lias produced an excitement in
Philadelphia never before equalled.
Hon. D. S. I >icin\so.v, more familiarly
known as " Scripture Dick," iustead of coming
to deliver a partisan haraugue at this place on
the 4th ot .Juh, sent, a letter, in which he says
•' we intend to form a base for the column of
democratic votes, commencing with 35 from
New-York." We opiuc that Mr. DICKINSON'S
" column" will be somewhat like his " base''—
there will be neither column to rear, nor base
to support.
Finn AT ATHENS.—A fire occurred at Athens
on luesday last, destroying the barn and sheds
attached to the Kxchange Hotel, and the dwel
ling house of Dr. Win. Kiff. The fire was
first discovered in the barn, and spread with
great rapidity. Through the exertions of the
firemen and citizens the Kxchange Hotel, tho'
in great danger, was saved.
The furniture was mostly removed from the
Hotel. We did not learn the amount of loss
sustained.
FIRE AT CORNING.— A fire broke out at
Corning, Tuesday night, in Dyer's block, and
before it could be subdued forty tenements of
the business part of the place were left smol
dering in ashes. The 1 siblings were of wood,
and the fire raged with the most intense furv.
Kvery building on Main street east of Dickin
son house were consumed, with the excep
tion of one store. Only six stores are left in
the place. The loss is estimated at $120,000
to $11)0,000, of which $40,000 is insured. The
fire is supposed to have been the work of an
incendiary.
JfesS" Mr. Zimmerman, of Berks county, w ~
never voted anything but the Democratic tick
et, is now in Kansas, and writes to the Head
ing Journal that the worst of the sufferings of
the Free State people has not been told. The
persons of females are violated, houses burned,
robberies are committed, by Pro-Slavery men,
with impunity. The only civil laws that are
attempted to be put in force are those of the
Border Ruffians against the Free State men !
I'op - PRESTON S. BROOKS, of bludgeon noto-
toriety, has written a letter to his party friends
in South Carolina, endorsing the nomination
of BUCHANAN, and congratulating the South
ern Democracy that they have on their muster
i roll such brilliant names as those of Messrs.
PIERCE anb DOUGLAS. We wish Mr. BUCHANAN
joy in the acquisition of his noble ally,and liope
that he will duly appreciate the honor confer
red by his offer of support.
ftaT' The propeller Tiuto was burned on
Thursday nijrht ofl' Nine-Mile Point, Lake On
tario, and twclVe persohs lost their lives.
CONGRESS. —The resolutions in the House, j
to censure KEJTT and KOMLSIISOX for their com
plicity in the Sumner outrage, earnc up on
Tuesday. The House voted to censure K F.ITT
by 106 yeas to 96 nays, and the resolution to
censure KI'MLNIJSON was lost by 60 yeas, to 186
navs. Mr K. addressed the House on Wed-
I nesday, and concluded by announcing that he
| hud tendered his resignation to the Governor
, of South Carolina.
The Illinois contested election case, came
jup ou Thursday. The majority of the Coni
i inittee 011 K1 actions reported tliat Mr. AKCHKK
the contestant, was elected by two majority,
' while the minority elected Mr. Allen the sit
ting member by one vote. The ltuehaniers
and Fillmore men united, and voted down the
resolution of the majority of the Committee
declaring Mr. ARCH Kit entitled to his seat, and
litiully the whole matter vvus referred back to
the people.
THE CKQRS. —The crop of wheat in the
Southern and Middle States is nearly all har
vested, and the yield is said to he very fair,
though there is some grumbling among far
mers in consequence of the low prices. In
Ohio and Pennsylvania the crop is good. In
Michigan, Wisconsin and apart of Illinois and
Indiana, it has been injured bv drouth. Mis
souri has a great wheat crop, so has lowa ami
i Minnesota. In central New York the crop
is vcrv fair : in Gcnnessee vallev there art
some dejiredations by the midge. In Tennes
see, Northern Georgia, and in Texas, there is
a great wheat crop. Corn in Texas is suffer-
ing front drouth, and in the Western States it
is backward. The accounts from all quarters
make it certain that the crop* generally will
be very large this season, the few failures not
being suflicieut to affect the general average.
fcslf" A fugitive slave having arrived at Bos
ton surreptitiously, on board a brig from Mo
bile, the Captain attempted to chain him in
order to return Jiiui to slavery. Thereupon he
jumped overboard, but was retaken. The
Abolition Committee hearing of it, a writ of
habeas corpus was issued. No claimant ap
pearing to demand the slave, the Judge dis
charged him. and he was sent to Canada.
MY" General IV F. Smith, on arriving at
Leavenworth City, Kansas, was called upon
by a Committee of citizens, who asked him to
protect them from tlie armed hands of marau
ders along the river towns lie replied that
he had no authority to so, a* these men were
were acting as local militia undercolor of law 1
If this be so, why was Gen. Smith sent thith
er ? Shannon and Suiuner have *aid and done
the same thing.
EK&" A so called-Whig State Convention
has been held in Virginia, at which a resolu
tion declaring that the members belonged to
no other party was referred to the committee
on permanent organization. After this, a
speech was made in fat or of .Mr. Fillmore.—
These so-called Old Line Whig Conventions
appear to be queer mixtures of persons belong
ing to other parties.
Another dreadful catastrophe comes
from the est. The fine steamer Northern
Indiana, while on her vovage from Buffalo Vo
Toledo, at about 11 o'clock Thursday morn
ing took fire and was burned to the water's
edge. It i.* supposed thut nearly fortv lives
were lost. The greater portion of the passen
gers were taken oiT by the steamer Mississippi.
tejj- The resignation of Messrs. Brooks and
Keitt have reached Gov. Adams of South
Carolina, and he has ordered a new* election
on the 28th. The CvlumbiA Times says both
these heroes w ill be sent back without oppo
sition, and with a very large complimentary
vote.
ffetSr-Another South Carolinian has beaten
: a Massachusetts man with a cane. It occur
| red Wednesday, at the Metropolitan Hotel,
New York, where the Massachusetts man pro"
t 11 mi need the assault on Senator Sumner bru
tal and cowardly.
Captain Fate, of Missouri, Wednesday
in \\ ushiugtou, assaulted a correspondent of
the New York Tribune, for publishing com
incuts on his conduct in command of the bor
der ruffians in Kansas, where he was taken
prisoner.
tt'o" John Forsyth, of Alabama, was nomi
nated b the President for Minister to Mexi
a place of Gen. Gadsden.
prr"" W ilmot's District"—Susquehanna,
Bradford and Tioga—is an eye-sore to the
Pro-Slavery Hunkers. A great effort was
made last year to shake it—and a more des
perate is now being made. Ward, the last
President of the Towanda Bank, is the Chair
man of the National Campaign Committee at
: Washington. A new press is to be establish
| ed, Hau l S. Dickinson of New York and Jno.
L. Dawson of Fayette Co. are to speechify,
and a State Mass meeting is to lie hold—all
to satisfy the people that it is right and best
to fasten the cancer of Slavery upon Kansas !
Well, let them try. We know the people of
j that district well ; they are mostly of New-
England origin ; and when those foreign agents
: have done all they can to corrupt and deceive
them, they will resent all these insults to their
patriotism and intelligence by giving FREMONT
more thousands of a majority than they gave
Pierce ! — Leuisburg Chronicle.
A PACT FOR THE I-KOPI.K. —Not a member
of Congress who supports Buchanan has, in
his place condemned the outrage perpetrated
by the Missouri ruffians upou the Free State
men in Kansas.
A Fremont and Davtou Electoral tick-i
ct ha* been formed in kcntu< kv.
[Fran the I'li.laJclphia Ledger, July 1* j
Appalling Accident on the North Pen
sylvania Railroad.
We are called upon this morning to
one of the most appalling railroad aeci!fi>?
which has ever occurred in tlnseountn
i by a collision between two trains 011
Pennsylvania Railroad, one being an ev '
j train, with six hundred children MMJI"?""
the Sunday School of St. Michael*! ' ' '
I Church, Kensington. 8 Ul^h
j Tins train left the Shachamaxon de„r,
five o'clock yesterdav morning with it " l
[ freight of happy children, their parent '"I
; te.'hiT(, forward i„
, the pleasures and enjovment of H dav
, amid the beautiful scenes of
j ley Hie excursion was so large lfi,-
: twelve hundred tickets sold we nr.- ,''!■
! that it was divided into two train l,'"rn!'lJ
carrying 600 persons. It was under tJeh
.jf Alfred F Hop,l,
| duetors on the road. Owimr l( , ,i, l0u "
jiersons in the .■ars.nhe train wa>
yond the time appointed for it to *f a r"'i
the speed was increased on the way ZT
up tlie tune thus lost. ' e
! At a few minutes after six o'clock th,
j ciirsionists ranched Camp H ill, „; ur '
: Washington, *ome thirteen miles from }>[, i
! delphia, and while pacing around .he ei.rv!*"
i this point, and the track being also hid I • '
deep cut the locomotive, while pulli„.,V
tram at the rate of about thirtv miles
j carae m collision with tin* re-r„i.,,. ' •
! train which left Gwynedd'at ,*7x
which was under the charge of Mr Win Yn,
: stuvoren The engineers on the train did not"
see the danger until they were within \m
j yards ol each other ; the breaks were imi„'
.diatcly put down and the engines rovers',]
j but not in time to break the force of the eon'
j cussuou. U1! "
I I tie fireman on the excursion train, John
| Luteher, was thrown about 80 feet in a tie|,|
and escaped with but slight and not at all,ln
gerous wounds. The engineer Mr TL„,
Harris, fell between the engine ami tender and
was almost m-tantlv killed. Five 0 f the
; L-m-sion cars were broken to atoms, seat'terinl
; their living load upon the ground. To a,','7
; tlie confusion and horror of the scene, sew-' l '
of the cars were set on lire from the tire-beYuf
j the locomotive, and many of the pa.s.*ei„r ( . r i
j crushed beneath those who were endeuvoriii"
: to flee from the burning car were suffocate,] „r
burnt to a crisp. Among this number was the
pastor of the Church to which the Bundav
School was attached, Father Sheridan I|,
was so badly disfigured that h:* face could i •
be recognizi d.
; The down train escaped with but di-ht
} damage, and no one upon it was scriou.dvini;r
j except Joseph Edwards, the l.aggaue ma-Mr
1 who hail one of his legs broken" caused we
understand, by his jumping from the -rain
The scene at this time is described a- mint
terrible. Tlie shrieks of the dying and wound
, ed, and the lamentations t>{ those who had i>.
j raped themselves but lo*t relatives or friends
i b\ the accident, all c unbilled to render the
! event one of the most appalling tj ;at j, as ever
occurred in our State. 'A< MOII a* the news
reached the city terror and alarm seized n;.v,
those who resided in that portion ut the citv
where the excursionists came from. Tiiousanis
| of persons flocked to the Shuckamaxon [Vjet
ut \\ usliiiigton and Montgomery street* fur
I the purpose of ascertaining the extent of the
i act idem uud the fate of lln ir friends and re
latives.
At the appront !i to the Stat "ii-hoo*? of the
tiuin inch had bcon .>rnt down to tiio citv,
i the rusn of those desiring aili!i;**ion was s<>
; great that it wa> with difficulty that a large
; police force could keep them out. The build
; ing was then surrounded bv weeping friiids,
i while inside tlie shrieks of the wosuded nude
| 11 to scene very appalling. The carjieuters in-
I side, and a number of persons to ai.-t tbiM.r,
1 were busily engaged in constructing tern], "fu
ry litters, to remove tlie woundi d. The dead
j were placed side by side, on a platform ere •
; ted for the purpose.
| As soon as the wounded and dead were re
moved from the ears, thev w.v: again despatch
: ed to tlie scene of tlie accident, for the pur
! po>e of bringing in the bodies that lmd fr-Mi
j removed from under the ears, at the time of
| the leaving of the fir.-t train.
UEXERAI. FACTS AXI) l.Xl'UifWT*.
1 The ground of the road i* " innd-v an em
bankinent running along for about 1 ul) or 100
: yards. This embankment is about 2>> feet in
height.
j The track is single, ami when the loroMintiw
i rushed together they reared uj IIJIOTI end.dash
ing each other to pieces and lammingamak's
| mated as it were in an apparently iitoxfric! 1 "-
! mass of iron and brass. The bottoms of th"
; two engines struck together and the entire
: mass fell over upon their side upon the western
slope of the embankment. Three of the
! of the excursion train caught lire/ > n ''
j and in a very few moments nothing was ••
I them but the wheels, the other iron work
! a few charred timbers and smouldering p'""'
of the human frame. There are two h"t -
| two dwelling houses, a blacksmith .-'op. r ''. 3
small shed, within about 806 yarn* "i !,il
: scene, and to these places the wounded r
i first carried Not a tree is to he -cen f* a
■ considerable distance on any side, ami
fierce *un beat down upon the dead. the' v - ■'
I ed, their rescuers, and their half-crazed v.-'
who were flocking to the scene, all nniiiing '
foot, in wagons and every spe ies of vei.-v
that could be procured in the city.
A\'e will not slnx k our readers by a
j tion of the condition of these bodies Y.
burned in the most horrible manner, and e
j whole number there were many that wcis 1 •
i mutilated tliat there is not the slightest 1 T
| of their being identified, few had V
! vestige of their clothing left on their
I and the heads and limbs of many were bur ■ •
i entirely off ! This morning there ware file
j bodies at the Master street IVpot that ran
possibly be recognized.
Some of the liodies of the victims wr'' 1 '
out doubt, entirely consumed. E.\ Lici'e
! Davis, in searching among the nslies
j some portion of the machinery, found n s
calcined human bones in two places '•
were, without doubt, all that wa> left
j human beings ! Tlie remains of Dotn c••
- readily be held in the palm of the hand
Two or three trains ran to and tro ,
i the city and the scene of the disaster ""■ ■-
i the afternoon. The friends of the
i crowded upon the up trains despite the
tions of the [Milice to prevent a rush, an •
i of the more daring ones actually rode"!"'•'
| cow-catcher in front of the locomotive. _
The suicide of the conductor t ll ', Jpr .
train is one of the tragic incident* o! ' •
rible affair. Mr \ anstavoren. nttet t "
dent, proi-ured a vehicle and came to '
with ifie dreadful n- H• ' vt •