(Cr sided its the State a Year. Returning to Phil- ' adelphia, with rather a limited opinion of the profession in Bucks county, he asked the ad vice of Charles Chauncey, Horace Binney - and John Sergeant, all 4 whom took great interest in his success. Acting upon the advice‘ , ese distinguish el geneernen gave him, Mr. . :e ng directed his steps to Reading, reaching at place in November,- 1832, with less t n. $lO in sits peekat, owing t4OO unacquat ed with a single individual in the county, knowing nothing ofthe pinctice of Pennsylvania courts, and being unable to speak or understand a word .of the language spoken generally by nearly every one about him. These were ratbee digcouraging circumstances, but Mr. Strong was bound to succeed, and be did, as every one else who has the gift of continuance. At the end of the year he found himself mas ter of the German language, and in posses sion of .a fair, living practice, his previous thorough legal education giving him an ad vantage over most young lawyers of that day. tie thus realized the benefits of the many hours he had spent in hard study ,while his companions were sleeping. We have thus followed the subject of our sketch, until we find him firmly established in that Gibralter of Democrecv, old Berk. Although a Democrat, firm and unwavering, be always declined being a candidate for the Legislature and other positions which his friends were anxious for him to accept, pre ferring the'walks of private life, until 1846, when, owing to his health failing, on account of severe application to his profession, be was induced to accept a nomination for Con gress, which resulted in his triumphant elec tion,—and although comparatively a stran ger, be ran nearly eight hundred votes ahead of the Democratic State ticket. Mr. S. com menced. his Congressional career in the XXXth Congress, with a Whig Speaker, and being a new born member, was not as . signed a very prominent* place on Committees. being placed on the Committee on Revoln tionary Pensions. In this, as in all things else with which he was entrusted he discharg ed his duty faithfully. Among the speeches - made by him during this, Congress, was one in defenceof the Mexican War, and sustaining the position of President Polk., The speech was highly eulogized and widelY circulated at the tiine of its delivery. He also delivered a very able speech against the,system of con tracts for Ocean Mail Steamer service, which was the first important speecVmade iu either House against this system of plunder. In the fall of 1848 be was re-nominated unanimously, an event tinnsual inThis district, and re-elected by a majority five hundred greater than that given. the Democratic ean didate for Governor. Oa the appointment of • the Committees for the XXXIst Congress, Mr. Strong was placed at the head of the Committee on Elections, and appointed a member of the Committee on Rules. -At the expiration of his second term, he declined a re-election to Congress, and resumed the prac Lice of his profession. -He has always been a sound, national Democrat, but tnore of a student and a law cer than a politician. The is a fine, noble looking man, about six feet high, of pleasant and agreeable Te.anners, with. a gentlemanly and dignified hearing. _ En wan. "It• will be F.F.3a at a glance that there now remains hut little hope for the friends of free dom. Iler des:tin; is evidently sealed—her virgin soiband salubrious climate will soon be desecrated by the accursed institution ,cf human bondage. Soon the gentle ; zephyrs that now gracefully fan the ild untroclien _Fade, will he Made to echo to the sound of the clanking chairs, 'and of the overseer's lash. It will then be no lervser a home for the honest white laborer who obtains his • bread by an honest livelihood. No longer will it be a mart for trade. No longer will . the enterprising young man repair to this in viting field to seek a home and his fortune in. the far off West." . Thus discourses an alarmist print of_the Enst,in the coarse of a rather lengthy article. Why it should do so we are at a loss to isay. People of all shades of polities, - here in Kan sas; freely and unhesitatingly say that this must be a Free State. -The prospects of free dom never were brighter than to-day. The world does move and that aright. Error may for a time bold stray, but Truth will eventu ally prevail. We are not of the desponding class, but we are ever hopeful of the right: No person well acquainted With the state• of affairs in Kansas would have,in truth writ ten the above, and we do entreat the friends of freedom to be cautious bow the give cir culation to such injurious reports. Such ac counts from professed friends are doing much to retard the prosperity of our growing count From reading the above article from which we have extracted, one would be led -to believe that our case is hopeless.. •It • is, however, a. willful perversion or. the emana tion of ignorance. If Eastern papers cannot speak or Kansas without making prophecies which will never be fulfilled, we advise them .to be silent. Come to Kansas-and converse 'with the inhabitants about this matter and if the most dubious have not their doubts dis pelled we will be much .mistaken. Let the "enterprising young man repair to this at present inviting field," and do not endeavor to discourage him. The cry about slavery in Kansas at the present time is all humbug.— Kansas Herald of Freedom. THE TIIIRD DISTRICT . OF 0210.—The con test for the seat in Con7res9 between Mr. Val )andighatu and - Lewis D. Campbell will no doubt result in the success of the former. The Hamilton Telegraph says the evidence to be placed before Congress has been fully . ta kep ; Mr. Vallandighatn.has a majority of bout forty—Mt, Campbell has taken no evi dence—he bas not shown that his Opponent, N. V.l received a' singi.e illegal rote, and it m now too late 'to do so. A sufficient number of negro votes, the proof shows, were cast_for Campbell to mike tlu full sum of his preten es.