HOLLAS PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
TOWANDA:
{linrebiw fllornmn, ©clobct 30, 1858.
(Drigiual soctrn.
[ For the Bradford Reporter.]
WAIL FOB FREEDOM.
Ti'N'K—" 'l'kt Watcher.''
The fertile plains of Kansas
Give nut a mournful wail,
Kor Moloch's ear advances
Where springs the western gale.
His chariot wheels are crushiug
Out Freedom's vital breath.
And ruffian hosts are rushing
To haste the work of death.
Foul Slavery's breath is sweeping
Across its verdant dales.
His hungry bloodhounds leaping
Wherever Freedom trails.
Iler prostrate form and bleeding.
Her guardians behold ;
Hut mockingly unheeding.
They're chained by Moloch's gold.
And Freedom lies forsaken,
lb r champions are slain.
Hr crown and scepter taken,
She never can regain.
Unless her sous determine
Her kingdom shall not die ;
Assume the usurped ermine
And speak for Liberty.
W his. .. pt. 10. H.
[For tin - Bradford Reporter.]
Mr.. KHITOR : Will you give me some little
rnnicr of your pajier to record the following
fart< :
On Friday evening, Sept 10, 1850, a great
|,ro-<': very hunker meeting was held in the
lirwiiy school house of Overton township,and
tii, champion of said nigger-driving meeting
M- no more nor less than Judge JONES, of
S dlivait County, he heing, as I understand, a
i mlidate for sonic " big" office in that County.
After organizing, tlie Judge coinmenced by
diiiiating that Bradford and other eastern
■ •unties were led by Judge WII.MOT, whom in
i the course of his remarks he denominated
Judge Stumper."
N \t came the eulogy of the soundness and
p't'a;aticncy of the Democratic platform—at,
or about which time the bench, (platferm)that
the officers occupied, broke down, accordingly
down went the officers flat upon the floor.—
Was tliis not a complete coincidence of the
p'rimim-ncy of that platform ? Next came the
ii|iulogy for the fugitive slave law, " which,"
siid lie, " was only a bargain between the
North and South, and it must be adhered to,
if it is n hard bargain. We must not break
it.fur we (the Democrats) are a bargain-keep
utg party.*' Next in order came the Kansus-
Nebraska act, which he said was necessary in
order to pcr|>etuatc that great principle of De
mocracy, viz : equal rights for the states con
••rning their domestic institutions. Now the
.i>iiugy for the caining of Sumner by Brooks.
After stating how insulting Sumner's speech
va., inasmuch as he said Brooks' friend was a
falsifier, Brooks, of course, in a cowardly way,
ve liiin a good caining, " and," said our
champion, " it is generally customary through
out the country, that if one man tells another
he lies, the chances are ten to one the former
jets knocked down by the latter; and, said
K. 1 think the morals ought to be adhered to
m the Senate as closely as in the country, or
rds to that effect. And lie at last closed
i - ntmuraik speech by trying to make his
hearers believe that the so called Democratic
wty were truly anti-slavery. I suppose he
thought by all appearances that the audience
halloaed it like a sweet morsel, and that we
knew no better back here than really to be
aif he said. But alas, to his apparent
1 "i'ieatiou, after lie had taken his sent, WM.
was loudly called for, and after ris
'iijand requesting permission of the chairman
review the remarks that the Judge had
sade, was pr. mptly and flatly denied the privi
After some confusion, however, they said
' Walinati might speak a short time. But
hitman then gave notice that he would re
laid speed wi the following evening.—
' 'veiling arrived—considerable of an audi
f a.v-embled—some of the pro-slavery party
•>. minus tlie Judge. After organizing, Mr.
commenced bis speech,' and it was
• i') astonishing to see a man, who, making
Intensions to any facility in public sjcak
-. apply *||,. dissecting knife of truth to Mr.
, /" s projx>sitioiis ; they seemed to vanish
fg In-fore the wind. He taking the ar
■ -iib advanced by Mr. Jones, showing
rotten fabric the party was based upon ;
; !i fine, scattering Jones' arguments to the
' winds. This was a fine jubilee for truth
; Ikepii'ilieanisiii. After speaking about
' iwur and a half, the meeting adjourned
' three rbeers for Fremont and two groans
"tU'liaiiaii. KAITA.
hverton, Sept. 22, 185 ft.
At mie of the Fremont gatherings In
Hampshire, a rough-looking countryman
i with a rude rattle-trap of a wagon,
" Fremont,'' hut with a pair of fine
• " Such a wagon as that wonld, of
for Fremont," said some Demo
bystanders, " bnt your. horses are for
"oianan, are they not?" No sir\'tof
; are Fremont horses, but," said be,
'* r e a miik at home that goes for Fill
j ami a for Buchanan !" The
TOs sloped.
!I TTALI BIC.HT.— " I stand," said a
*hi"j) orator, "on the bread plat
to J' of '9B, and palsied be
desert 'um !" " Von stand on no-
I " 'he kind !" interrupted a little nboe
! the crowd : " you stand in my boots,
; "VUT paid mc for, and 1 want the
THE BRADFORD REPORTER,
The Election in Kansas.
The election in Kansas took place ou Mon
day. The pro-slavery journals of Missouri had
previously informed us that their party in the
territory was thoroughly organized, and that
in addition to the members of the assembly,
for whom an election was appointed by the
laws of the spurious legislature of 1855, a
delegate to Congress would be chosen. All
sensible men must agree with the New York
Courier and Enquirer that the election will be
nothing but a form and a fraud, possessing no
particle of legality or fairness. According to
these assumed laws, the men of 110 party, but
that fuvorable to the establishment of slavery
can vote. All other citizens have been prac
tically disfrancised. Tests and qualifications
have been imposed, which effectually shut them
out from the polls. The edicts prescribing
thcra have been denounced as atrocious, in
famous, and unconstitutional, by such devoted
democratic partizans as Gen. CASS and Gov.
WF.LLER in the Senate ; but Gov. GEARY has,
nevertheless, declared his intention of enforc
ing them, and they will be enforced. But if
the new Governor had resolved not to perpe
trate this glaring outrage upon the rights of
the citizens, that would avail them nothing.—
lie has effected the same object by other means
not less flagitions. He has banished from the
territory Gen. LANE, ami nearly nil other ac
tive men 011 the free state side. They are
hunted, without an allegation of crime, so far
as we have seen stated, by United States troops
and border ruffian militia, like wild beasts, us
rebels and traitors.
A party which has lost all its leaders, whose
best men have been slain or imprisoned, or are
placed under the ostracism of power, who are
subject to the violence of an infuriated uiob
whenever they appear under any form than iu
companies armed for the protection of their
lives, cannot go to the polls, or hoje to exer
cise the American right of voting in the choice
of their own rulers. For them 110 government
exists in Kansas, but of an absolute military
dcs|>otism. The people can have no form of
organization essential to success in a peaceful
struggle at the ballot-boxes with their enemies.
We presume they will make none. They have
no presses, can hold no meetings, and would
undoubtedly be murdered by armed liordts
from Missouri if they appeared in sufficient
numbers, and deterin ination to deprive those
persons of their present control, as they were
at Leavenworth, in the very face of a large
force of Government troops.
But Governor GEARY is manifestly in a tho
rough league with the Pro-Slavery bands that
infest Kansas. We have carefully and can
didly scrutinized all the evidence furnished by
the Missouri press, and the letters from free
State correspondents in Kansas, and we have
been forced to this conclusion. He has arrest
ed one hundred free State men, armed and or
ganized for their own defence in the neighbor
hood of Lawrence, at the very moment when
that place was throated by an army of two
thousand seven hundred marauders from Mis
souri, under the command of ATCHISON, REED
and TITUS Those free State men he has dis
armed, and caused to be bonud over for trial.
He held a friendly conference with the armed
traitors and rebels of the free companies of
Missourians, while they were in arms against
the authority of the Territory and of the
United States, uot even pretending to be citi
zens of Kansas, nor anything else than what
they manifestly were, armed invaders from
another State come upon an erraud of robbery
and murder alone.
With an abundant regular force to expel
these self-confessed villains, he persuaded some
of them to pass beyond his jurisdiction and
power, and took the balance of them into the
service and pay of the United States as terri
torial militia ; and he adopted the recommend
ation of some of the worst and malignant of
them, REED for example, the butcher, upon his
own admission, of Ossawattomic, to appoint
Tin's commander of the militia thus raised.
This Tires was not only one of the most
guilty leaders of the armed mob collected be
fore the Governor, but he was the inure offen
sive to"all good citizens as having been a ring
leader in the sack of Lawrence in May last.
In all this we recognize the acts of a man
pledged to drive out the free state settlers from
Kansas, or to reduce them by force to submis
sion to the mockery of legislation which has
excited the disgust and horror of the whole
countrv. Tne simple truth is that Gov. GEARY
has shown himself an accomplice in the plan of
forcing slavery upon Kansas, and being an
abler man than his predecessor, lie has been
more successful.
What authority exists for an election for
delegate to Congress we do not know, but we
presume the House of Representatives will
treat this effort to foist any pretender upon
them until after due authority shall have been
given for an election, cither by a territorial
legislature or by Congress, in the manner that
they have already done.
CLAY'S OPINION OK BUCHANAN. —Mr. Alex
ander Cummings, who made an able speech in
favor of FREMONT in Williamsport, Pa., Octo
ber 2d, accused BUCHANAN of helping" to per
petuate the fraud in 1846, by which Pennsyl
vania's industry was stricken down —a fraud
which the gallant CLAY remembered to his
death, and which he (Mr. C.) had heard Mr.
CLAY denounce in the bitterest jet just terms.
When Mr. CLAY heard of Mr. BUCHANAN'S
speeches in Pennsylvania on that subject, Mr.
CLAY— could not believe them ; but when as
sured of the fact that he did grossly misstate
his opinions for a base pnrjiose, the statesman
of Ashland wound up one of the severest de
nunciations he had ever heard, by using with
scornful emphasis, which ouly he could give
the stinging, but truthful words, ' that JAMES
BUCHANAN was a faithless and heartless fellow
and had not a particle of manliness or states
manship about him.' Mr. CLAY forgot or for
gave Mr. BUCHANAN'S baseness in 1824, but he
never forgot or forgave his infinitely greater
baseness in 1841. He despised Bucfr.TN.lN to
the day of his death, as every friend of t lay
desvrved to do white life was in his body.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH;
" REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER."
How the President and Vice President
are Elected.
The following is a summary of the constitu
tional requirements and the acts of Congress
upon the election of President and Vice Pres
ident of the United States :
1. The Electors are chosen by the votes of
the people on the first Tuesday after the first
Mouday in November.
2. Electors meet on the first Wednesday in
December, and cast their votes. They then
sign three certificates—send the messenger with
one copy to the President of the Senate at
Washington before the first Wednesday in
January—another by mail to the same person,
and the third deliver to the United States
District Judge where electors meet.
3. Each State provides by law for filling
any vacancy in the Board of Electors, occa
sioned by absence, Teath or resignation. Such
of the electors as are present are generally
authorized to fill any vacancy.
4. The Governors give notice to electors of
their election before the first Weducsday in
Dei ember.
5. On the second Wednesday in February,
Congress shall be iu session and open the re
turns. The President of the Senate shall, in
the presence of the House of Representatives
open the certificate of return, and count the
votes. The person having the greatest number
of votes for President shall be the President
if such number be a majority of the whole \
number of electors appointed. And if no per
son have such majority, theu from the persons 1
having the highest number, not exceeding three
on the list of those voted for as President, the
House of Representatives shall choose imme
diately, by ballot, the President ; but iu choos
ing the President the votes shall be taken by
States, the representation from each State hav
ing one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall
consist of a member or members from two
thirds of the States, and a majority of all the
Suites shall be necessary to a choice.
6. If the choice devolve upon the House of
Representatives, and they fail to make a choice
before the 4th of March next following, the
Vice President is to act as President.
1. A Vice President may be elected, or
chosen by the Senate, as above provided, be
fore an election or choice of President.
8. The day fixed by act of Congress for
opcuirig and counting the votes of the electors
and, in case of its being necessary, for the elec
tion of President by the House of Represen
tatives, and of Vice President by the Senate
of the United States, is the second Wednes
day in February, after the appointment of elec
tors.
9. There is no constitutional provision for
the case where there is neither a President or
Vice President elected or chosen, in the man
ner directed by the Constitution. The act of
Congress of 1792 provides that, under such
circumstanced, there shall be a nevf election.
ELOQUENT PASSAGE. —Senator Wilson, of
Mass., made an eloquent speech before the
working men of New-York, Saturday evening.
We give a single pai agraph :—-
And these same men threaten that if we
elect John C. Fremont, the man who has pro
claimed free labor to be the bulwark of free
institutions—they threaten that the Union of
these States shall be dissolved, and the Go
vernment broken up and scattered to the four
winds. He would tell these men that if Fre
mont were elected—as he believed he would
be—(loud and continuous cheers) —that Sla
very should not advance a single inch further
ou the North American continent. If wo place
as we mean to place, the reins of Government
in the hands of John C. Fremont, we make
proclamation to the country and the world,
that Slavery shall be blotted from the soil of
Kansas, where it is sought to be placed by the
red hand of violence, that the foot of the slave
shall not curse the soil of Utah, New Mexico,
Oregon, Nebraska or Miuncsota ; nay, we will
go further, and declare that wherever the flag
of the Republic waves, its stars shall glitter
only ou free men. It may wave from (Quebec,
the Gibralter of the West, it may float in the
Arctic seas where Kane first engraved the
Christian symbol of the cross UJMYII the icy
cliffs, as Fremont inscribed it ou the Rocky
Mountains—(loud cheers) —it may wave over
the Cordilleras of Mexico, over the mountains
and plains of Central America, or over the
Moro castle, but it should wave only over free
men forever. He would have his Southern
brethren to understand that he did not wish
to interfere with the institution of slavery.—
It was their responsibility. The world, hu
manity, God woa'd hold them to account for it,
but God, the world, humanity, would also bold
us to account if we permitted the foot of
the slave to press any portion of free territory.
Is NOT JAMES BUCHANAN A <;OOI> FINANCIER ?
—Previous to the 30th of June, 1855, Minis
ters to foreign countries reciered an outfit of
S9OOO, a yearly salary of S9O(TO, and no infit
of $4,500. Under this law, if a Minister re
mained hut a week at a foreign Court over a
year, he received two years' pay ; in other
words, for the least fraction of a year he al
ways received pay for a full year. Mr. BU
CHANAN went out Minister to ftngland in May,
1853. At the session oP 1854—5, Congress
passed a new Diplomatic and Consular bill,
raising the salary of a Minister to England
to $16,500 a year. The act went into opera
tion on 30th day of June, 1855. Upon that
day Mr. BUCHANAN had been two years and
about two mouths in England, and as this was
a fraction over two years, Mr. BUCHANAN
pocketed 27,000 dollars, or the |iy of three
years at S9OOO per annum, although he had
served but two years and about two months.
Nor is this all. Mr. BUCHANAN left England
in April, 1856, nine mouths after the new Di
plomatic and Consular law went into opera
tion, and yet he pofcketcd scveutecn thousand
five hundred dollars for only nine months ser
vice When money is to be put into his own
pocket, is not J AMF.S Burn AN AN an admirable
financier ?
Atrocious Sentiments.
Senator HUNTER, of Yirginia addressed the
BUCHANAN mass meeting at PonghKeepsie last
Wednesday. In the course of his speech he
uttered the following atrocious sentiments :
" Fellow-citizens, what is property in man,
and what involuutary servitude ? Property
may be absolute or limited, it may be in fee for
a term of years. In practice, one man may
hold property in the service of another for life,
as in the law of shrtnf j for a turn of years,
as in an apprenticeship ; or for months, weeks,
days or hours, as in the case of domestics, or
mechanics, or lawyers or doctors. In Civilized
society, there is no man, except in the rare
cases of those living on accumulated Capital,
who does not sell to another a property in his
service. This is servitude, and if constrained
by the necessities of poverty, it is as much in
voluntary as if it were forced by any other phys
ical necessity. The ceils which are ascribed to
one form of ihisf servitude are common to them
all, and so claimed to be by this socialist sect
of which I have spoken.
Are hard cases of separation in families to
be found where slaverv exists,DO THEY NOT
ALSO OCCUR WHENEVER A MAN IS
FORCED BY HIS NECESSITY TO SELL
HIS LABOR IN TUP] HIGHEST MAR
KET? ARE MANY REVOLTING IN
STANCES TO BE FOUND OFTIIE SUB
MISSION BY ONE MAN OF HIS WIFE}
TO ANOTHER IN THE ONE CASE, DO
THEY NOT ALSO OCCUR IN THE
OTHER? WHATEVER EVILS ARE
ASCRIBED TO IXVOLUNEARY SER
VITUDE IN THE ONE CASE, CAN AND
HAVE BEEN ASCRIBED TO THE
OTIIEJR. Shall we for this reason proclaim
that no man shall be allowed to sell his labor,
or give a right of property in his services to
another ?"
According to Mr. HUNTER, all men who
live by labor are slaves. He who consents
voluntarily to labor for a compensation satis
factory to himself, is as much a slave as he who
is bought and so!d,nud transferred, like a horse
or ox ! But infamous and insulting to all free
men as that sentiment is, it is trifling in com
parison to the damning slander upon free so
ciety contained in the second paragraph. A
party that A'iff invite such a speakc* to the
free Btate of New York and endorse his senti
ments, ought not to have the first vote within
our limits.
Two or three months 6iuce, in conver
sation with a leading intelligent Fremouter of
Bradford County, Pa., we asked him what
would be the probable vote of that County for
President. He answered : " I can tell you
very nearly : The total vote of our Comity is
between eight and nine thousand ; and the
Buchanan, Fillmore and doubtful are just
2,130; the rest are for Fremont." The offi
cial canvass of the votes cast at the State Ejec
tion have just reached tn, and the Fremont
aggregate ranges from 5,909 to 0,082, while
the Buchanan runs from 1,971 up to 2,041 ;
.showing an aye rage EVeinont majority of a
little over 4,000. O'uf Tetter says, "We can
increase it five hundred at the Presidential
election," and we trust it,', .
Had every County ift Pennsylvania been as
well organized and as well canvassed as Brad
ford, we should have carried the State last
week by Thirty Thousand, and ten days hence
by at least Fifty Thousand. Wherever an
earnest and industrious canvass has been made,
on Republican principles, we have done nobly;
where another element has shut Republican
ism from public view, or no such catiritis has
been made, we have nothing to record but
disaster.
We entreat the Republicans of every Coun
ty, of every township, to lay this truth to heart.
There is yet time to do all that is needful if
the right spirit is evoked, and the right work
done in the right way. Let the few days still
to intervene before the election be devoted to
organization—to quiet, practical, business-like
efforts to secure the attendance of every Fre
mont voter at the Polls on the first Tuesdny
in November. There are voters enough who
earnestly desire to save Kansas to Freedom to
give us the victory. We only need to bring
them to the polls and keep out illegal votes.
Republican reader ! is your township or
ward organized ? Have you a working Fre
mont Committee ? Does that Committee know
who are with and who against us ? Has it a
list of the legal voter*, as also of those who
may attempt to vote illegally ? Have they
secured the aid of volunteers on whom they
can depend to start, rain or shine, with a capa
cious wagon at either extremity of the town
ship early in the morning of November 4th,
and take up every Fremonter who shall not
have already started and carry him to the poll ?
When his conveyance is full, (and the commit
tee should ascertain and indicate beforehand
about the point at which this will occur,) let
another volunteer take up the work, and soon
till every Fremont voter in that part of the
township shall be brought to the poll by 10
a. m. Thus let them come in from every quar
ter, with banners Hying and cheers for Free
Kansas and Fremont, and let the check-list be
marked off as each man votes, until every Fre
monter shall be on the ground, which we trust
will be by noon. And let none go home who
can stay nntil the last vote shall have been
polled and the boxes closed, and then let a
strong volunteer guard be detailed to watch
the canvass and sec that the votes are fairly
counted and the result truly recorded. Then
they may go home with a full consciousness,
that, if the Republicans elsewhere have done
their doty as faithfully, John C. Fremont is
President elect, und William L. Dayton Vice-
President, for four years from the 4th of March
next.— N. 1". Tribune.
teiS- A modern philosopher, taking the mo
tion of the earth on its axis at seventeen miles
a seeoud, says that if you take off your hat
in the street to bow to a friend, you go seven
teen miles bareheaded, without taking cold !
One Lie Less.
Among the most vehement apd qialignnnt
champions of the doctrine that Americans
should rule America, says the New-York Tints,
is a weekly sheet called the Crusader, edited
i by ars responsible nd
venturer, and devoted to the propagandism of
his peculiar " faith." This sheet recently sta
ted as a conclusive proof that Col. FREMONT
was a catholic, that Rev. Dr. PISE, a well
known catholic priest, hail administered the
Eucharist to him. Father PISE puts his foot
ou this story very effectually, in a curd which
has already been published in our telegraphic
report. j>, ....
The veracious MCMASTER is also out in a
card, half apologetic, half abusive, and whol
ly characteristic and mendacious. Ilis prom
ise to prove Col. FREMONT a liar, on certain
conditions, he says was strictly private. The
man to whom it was addressed had np. business
to publish it—and inasmuch as other persons
have also said that FREMONT is a Catholic, he,
Mr. MCMASTER, does not consider it proper
" tu force the agitation of this issue by needless
ly furnishing campaign documents for the can
vass one side or the other !" In this style Mr.
MCMASTER sneaks out of the scrape. His
promise to prove FREMONT a Roman Catholic
was purposely based upou a condition which
he knew was impossible, and was never iuteud
ed to be fulfilled. It was a mere trick of a
political gambler—just like the swuggeying of
fers to bet SIO,OOO on the success of BUCHAN
AN, that one may hear by the hundred in the
Pewter Mug and other hotels, from men who
havn't ten cents in the world. It was design
ed to create an impression hostile to FREMONT,
without involving the m'tM frho made it any
unpleasant necessity of proving his assertions.
The bully is always a coward.
ACCIDENT AND DEATH. —Philemon Cole, Con
ductor of the Express Freight Train cm the
Lackawanna and Western Railroad, while his
train was in rapid motion between Greenville
and Dunning, about four miles from this vil
lage, foil between the cars and was literally
smashed from the hips down, and lived only
about five minutes. Mr. Cole was highly res
pected by all who knew him, and leaves a wife
and three children to mourn his untimely death.
The Coroner's Jury, under 11. W. Derby, Esq.,
rendered a verdict in accordance with the above
facts.— Scranion Republican.
Freemeir, Remember.
That every vote given for Buchanan and
Breckinridge, is a vote giveu for tjlavery and
a Slaveholder.
REMEMBER,
There is but one issue to be decided at the
coming election, and that is Freedom or Slave
ry -
REMEMBER,
There is no middle ground in this renewed
struggle for Freedom. The question is—shall
Freedom or Slavery be restricted to their pre
seut limits.
RKMEMRER !
That Fremont and Dayton are the only can
didates, and the Republicans the only party in
favor of restricting Slavery to its present lim
its, and forever prohibiting it in all the Terri
tories of the Union.
WHERE DO VOL* STAND?
On the side of the enslavers of Kansas—
on the side of that oligarchy that is aiming
not only to enslave the Press and the Freedom
of Speech, but to enslave the Free White
Laborers of the North,
O It,
Are you standing on the side of Freedom—
Justice—Humanity, ami the rights of the
Free Laborer ?
YOUR VOTE WILL TELL,
THF. DIFFERENCE. —WhiIe slaveholders in
the pay of the Democratic party are perambu
lating olir State, showing the beauties of slave
ry and the rightfulness of slavery extension,
Pennsylvanlans dare not go to a slave State
and hold a Republican meeting to advocate
Republican principles. Is this the liberty we
are to have ? Is the constitution to be a dead
letter in the South while it is enforced in the
North ? Talk of sectionalism, what sectional
ism is meaner, what tyranny more relentless
than the despotism which exist in the fifteen
slave States ?— True American.
LIBERTY. —What a high value we ought
set ou Liberty, since without it nothing great
or suitable to the dignity of human nature can
be possibly produced.
SLAVERY is the fetter of the tongne—the
chain of the mind, as well as the body ; it em
bitters life, sours and corrupts the passions
damps the towering faculties implanted within
it, and stifles in the birth the seeds of every
thing that is amiable, generous and noble.
Reason and freedom are our own, and given
to continue so ; we are to use, but cannot re
sign them without rebelling against Him who
gave them.
Some political economist has been " fi
guring up" to find who it is that the public
pay best ; and the following is the sum total :
First: "We pay best those who destroy us—
Generals.
Second : Those who cheat us--Politicians
and Quacks.
Third : Those who merely amuse us—Sing
ers, Actors and Musicians ; and,
Lastly, ami the least of all : Those who in
struct us —Authors, Schoolmasters, and Edi
tors !"
tkif- It is an inexplicable fact that men bu
ried in an avalanche of snow bear distinctly
every word uttered by those who are seeking
for them, while their most strennous shouts
fail to penetrate even a few feet of the snow !
JSQT - He dies like a beast wiva has doue no
good while he fiied. ,
voiu. xvir.— NO. at.
Free State Prisoners in Kansas.
-Gov. GEARY is playing the tyrant over tho
free stute men jp KUDSHM in the most approve*!
border ruffian style) v Up, 2Gth of Sep
tember, says t.he
ernor be issued 418 warrants fur
the arresf pf< tree state ineu charged at rau
dorn \\jtfi felonies. One huudred and thirteen
i wtjfc under arrest. The others had fled tho
territory or were in concealment to avoid the
restraint of their liberty. Not a single arrest
of a pro-slavery man had been made, nor had
the Governor caused a warrant to be issued
for the arrest qiT ( ,..bo i rder ruffian. Could a
! more efficient mode of " crushing out" free
dom in Kansas be devised ?
The offence of the free state men was de
fending their property and lives against the
depredations and attacks of the border ruffians
They were forced by the highest law of nature
—the law of self-preservation—to take up
arms against the pro-slavery horde-: from Mis
souri uud the south, who were desolating the
territory with outrage, robbery, arson, murder
and massacre, and who had sworn to drive
every free state mau from Kansas.
When they had soundly thrashed their ene
mies in several bloody conflicts, the new terri
torial Governor stepped in, premised the ireo
state inhabitants they should be protected, in
duced them to disband their forces, then arrest
ed them for murder, and added insult to treach
ery by t placing the prisoners, under the guard
the iu'-'atiug ruffians-he had enrolled as territo
rial militia, under United States pay and feed.
MARION AND THE BRITISH OFFICER, —The
Mobile Tribune, in its " American Ami,*' ha.-,
the following,- , ,
i ,'fhe story cf .Mariop.s Inviting tho British
officer to dine with Jji;ri, on potatoes and co!l
water, is literally {rue. The young English
man had fipst invited by Marion's aids to
idine with them, and had accepted the invita
tion ; but, being subsequently invited by the
General, lie requested to be excused. Mari
on, with his usual sagacity, hail perceived that
the youth was sensitive, and concluded to try
him by a ruse. The potatoes were served up,
and, when Marion peeled them, the skins were
carefully placed by the side' pf the pine plate.
They had been roasted rind' brought on by Os
car, his favorite servant—his foster brother—
who was, therefore, frotn infancy, always call
ed Budde, or brother, by the General, when
spoken to by hitn. After dinner, Marlon said,
" Budde, bring us something to drink," and
i Oscar brought a gourd full of water, cf which
the officer was invited to driuk ; the General
then drank heartily from the same gourd. He
then ordered Oscar to briug his horse Roger,
and the General handed to Roger the potato
skins, all of which were eaten by Roger from
Marion's hand. The sequel of this incident
was, that the young officer resigned his com
mission, and with a determination uever again
to draw his sword against men who so bravely
and conscientiously oppose# his King, and Go
vernment, suffering privations and wants of
every kind, without pay, clothing, forage, arms
or ammunition ; compelled to reside in sickly
swamps, without tents, to shelter them ; with
nothing to drink bu,t water, nothing to eat but
roots, and feeding tbpir horses 011 the skins--
the refuse of this homely and scanty fare.
S : , . \
" THEY ASK TO BE RET A ipst." —" The ven
erable Josiah Randall, of Pennsylvania, who
has known all the Presidents," we arc told bv
the Democratic papers, has made a speech in
Tammany Hall, and uttered what they call
the " eleTefvfft commandment f ' —that is, to
"let the south-, alone." " All they ask is to lie
let alone " says the venerable sage. While
the south afc hesitufiAg at no means to extend
the institution of slavery over free territory,
" nil they ask is to be let alone." When they
are marching into free territory, and seizing
upon thp, ballot boxts and driving the frea
voters from the polls at the point of the bowij
knife, and themselves voting instead, without a
shadow of right to do so, " all they ask is to
he let alone." When they suck and pillagw
and burn.the houses, cf qniet, freedovn loving
citizens and then murder them, " all they ask
to be let alone." When they beset the high
ways and fob and plunder northern emigrants
amj. send them back whence tliev came, " all
they a'slt is to be fcf alone." When, by and
by, in fulfilment of a threat often rojieuted,
they attempt to call the roll of their slaves 0.1
Banker Hill, " all they ask is to be let alone '
—Sa ruin flu Jirgislrr.
MURDEROUS AFFREY.-—A yon man named
Robert liol nd was seriously if not fatally in
jured by stabbing at fvuo.tville, Monday even
ing. A party of young men and ladies were
returning from singing school, when some mis
understanding arose between Rowland and a
German named Ilcrbeiicr which resulted in a
scuffle. Ilowland had disengaged himself and
passed on, when Herbcner came up behind him
and stabbed him in the left side. 1 lowland
cried out that he was stabbed, and after run
ning a few yards, fell. His wound is pronounc
ed dangerous, if not mortal, lie was uut c.\
pected to recover at last accounts.
Herbener was arrested and lodged in jail
Tuesday morning. We forbear conn., mt until
the matter shall have beeu legally investigated.
Tivga Agitator.
AMERICAN CONSTITUTION. —This is a beauli
ful figure of Winthiope's. in reference to our
Constitution, where he says : Like one of those
wondrous rocking stones raised by the Druid-,
which the finger of a child might vibrate to : "s
centre, yet the might of an army could n>t
move if from its place, our Constitution is vi
nicely poised, that it seems to sway with every
breath of passion, yet so firmly based in tho
hearts ami affections of the people, that tho
wildest storms of treason and fanaticism break
over it in vain.
Too BAD. —A gentleman having BEEN Aked
on his return from a party Jho other evening,
whether he had seen M' A—, a young lad*
noted for her deeoL'c le of tlress—r-■ l *ed
that he hod yen a good deal of her.