Kansi's Correspondence of the N. Y. News.
fetter time coming—nontgoutery's
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LITTLE OSAG EC, Bali:BON con rrrv, K. T.,
-
v - June 27th, 1858..
The detestable.falsehoods published in the
Estern papers, and especially the, New Y• . •
• Tribune; about Kansas Affairs has long been a
subject of. note, but the Attempt to white
wsh the character oC James Montgomery, 0.
yial. Bayne,. and their oonfrerees, is most as
s redly the coolest piece of impudence ever
tempted even by them. Permit me to give
it a `awn and `hasty synopsis of affairs as
they have been in' the smithern portion t4this
-Territory fo u r the last six month.
L The troubles_ growing ont_of the slavery
question were all ,settled, and have been so
for some time.
_No sane man now expects, or
even hopes. that slavery - will over will be es:.
- tablished here, and entire peace existea
through-the northern portion of 'die Territory
and for fifty miles to the south of Kansas .Ricer.
. There, was no reason why it should not haye
existed there savet his: ThecOunties of Bour
bon and Linn, hothlyinglsn dr, herder, had
' been settled very early , fokm Missouri, and-the
original settlers had. good ferns, good horses,
" good cattle and plenty of monet and provis
ions. These a portion of men calling them
selves Free . State men had. !Mt; and they
Came ,to the sage conclusion that if they
could bring about
• - "That good• old plan,
That they should take who have the powet and
.. they should keep who can,"_
it would be hater foi their priiate interests
than to have peace, quiet and industry pre
vail. With this view a body of them from
LinnADounty, about the first of January last,
went - doin on to little (Nate and-commenced
. • ordeiino—off men whom they choose to call
pro-slavery men. Several of this band were
arrested, but - hoping that - they would end the
matter,:. the Officers were not very stringent
and they escaped. But now the wiseacres of
the Legislature attempted to pass a law
rnaking,that arch demagogue Ind murderer,
•J. H. Lane, commander of the Kansas militia.
He immediately commissioned James Mont-
gomery-of Lynn - County-and O. P. Bayne of 1
• Osage is: Captains, both, of whom had' bean
engaged in the abiive named, foray.
• They irpmediately gathered-their men on
Little Osage and a regular system ofilealing
horses and ordering off -men, women an..
children as they fit was commeuced. The
Marshal, with his posse .went•out toendeavor
to arrest them-; they forted themselves in a
•timber house impervious to ball, and fired on
the Marshal and his men, wounding several
and. killing their horses, and obliged him to
desist from the attempt to take them. United
States troops were then called for.
In the -.meantime they bad ordered .off a
man•by the name of Tumult. Ile did •not
. leave, and in the night some fifty;of than
surrounded his ho,nse disguised, ktfocl:ed at
the Aoor, and as it was openedlshot him
through ihe—body and left him for dead. The
nest night two-'of the men who tad been en
gaged in this` murder were killed - by the
- fiends rn
ds of Tuult.• This increased the ex
citement. _An old man 70 rears old, by the
,name of Travis, was-arrested by Bruin's party,
accused by them of knowing Something about
the affair, was tried and cleared and dis
charged by them. lle was followed by a
portion of them, who overtook him 'at, the
house oftwo brotkers by the name of -Was
son, shot him dead on are spot and despe
rately. wounded the \Vassons, ' leaving them
for dead, robbed
_them of over two7'tbousand
dollars worth of property, and have taken pos
session- of their farm.
They' now commenced robbing by Wit Ole
sale; about fifty of them - fully armed riding
round the country "cleaning oat" - every man
they saw - fit to call -a pro-shivery man, no
. matter whether he was so or not. A detactr
_
ment.of United States - troops were sent after
! therm, and they fired on the troops, killing
one soldier - and woundrivr several others and
4n:taking their escape. At this time the-wviter
passed through these distlicts. -As he went
down'he.met over one hundred families,Vmen,
women and children, bare - -footed 41•1:- half,
clethed, Without money orprovisions r ativing
from the hell-hound, Montgomery, and bis
gang Me i n were robbed, women subjected
'to the lust and ()mire, and children turned
out naked in the cold, and in some cases tor
tured with fire to'make them inforin where
/ their parents were concealed, and all in-the
• name .of 'freedom, and wiTbOut even a show
' of resistance from t he terror-stricken people
who rma for eighteen months been at peace
and were entirely unprepared.
These were the noble deeds of the than the
Tribune calls the "Hero of the Marmiton
and Little Osage:", .
Among the men driven out from Linn.
County was'Captain Charles parnilton, who,
nito that time, had an envitable reputation
as.a.gentlernan and- a Christian. It would
seem that hiS wrongs and those of his neigh
bors must have .driven him frantic. He Bath
` ered a band-of about twenty men, driven out
like himself, and came back into the Marais
Dealygnes, and arrested ten men whom
be accused _of being concerned with Mont
gomery, 'and shot theni in cold blood '• fire
of them - were killed and five wounded. Most
of them were undoubtedly innocent men, Mad
the, effect was to create an impression through
'the country that Montgomery must be main
tained to fight.Efamiltcm. Hamilton Was de
. trounced by all, and without support he fled
for his life.
•
• Montgomery was abashed, and
_seemed to
&entbat be_mtist do- something that would
exceed the atrocity of the slaughter by Hamil
ton, and was not long in ueciding on the.
manner. -He and his supporters had been
in,thesbahit of denouncing a _portion of the
people at Fort Scott, and that point was se
lected by him. In the middle of the night,
_while we were all hurried in slumber. he,
with his band of absut thirty, entered .the
place, piled: bundles of hay against one of
• the houses, set it on ftre,;.and then going back
about two hundred and fifty yards to a tim
bered ravine, where he could easily lide or
run away, rained into the town some two
hundred Sbarpe's rifle balls, - firing indiscrim
inately among/friends and' foes, women and
'children, and as soon as the people,. alarmed
by - the firing, turned-out to resist, bravely
running away.
, • Forytuately,:very wonderfullyno one was
-- hurt, though many houses had from ten to
twenty balls shot: -- through them. This is the
last grand outrage, for'robbing homes,
ssteal
, iug horses and insulting the unprotected, are
but Minor every-day affairs. Since this, Gov-
ernor Denver has been down, and has roused
the better portion of the people to assert their
rights and the majesty of the law, and though
14ontgoinery is still at large, public opinion
denounces him, and be will yet meet with
' punishment. This is the "'hero" of_ the Tri
bune,.and it is to such men as this, headed
by the murderer Laue t that the . greater part
- of our troubles- are to be assigned._ lam a
Free,State man born and raised:--but I do,
not hesitate to say that more crimes have
been : committed in Kansas difder the name of
Freedom by these men, headed by - Lane and
Conway—(l do not inoluile Dr. Robinson)---•
and their set, than by slaveholders in half
the slave Statesin- "the Union kith Kansas
tbrowwin.
It is not slavery they are _now fighting, but
- Democracy, and the attempt to kelp up the
Old issues is whitthrings about these atroci•
ties andsfills the Tribune with "heroes."
God may forgive Horace Greeley, but 'the
American people, and especially the people
of Kansas, ought not to do so; and if he ever
does leceiVe punishment hereafter, the most
'that could be -wished for him would be, that
he might lei lef; in the company of his friends
Lane and Montgomery. -
It is amusing to, note
_the, easiness,with
which the_Tribune correspondents lie. In
their description, for instance, of Montgomery,
they give him jet' black beard and hair,
piercing ble6k eyes, a high forehead, and de
.seritra him as tgll and largenot one word
even of that description is true. Ile is about
five, feet ten in bight, never relies his-eyes to
your face, has a stoop, beard Jight brown,
eyes light gray and almost alwavi castl down.
In fact they can't possibly tell the truth even
on such trivial matters as this.
OS kG E.
From - the Washinion Union
The
,Sub-31arislie Telegraph.
Anxiety is• on. the tip-toe of expectationi
yet, up to the moment ir,of this writing, noth-.
ing has been heard from a ileet.of vessels en
gamed in -laying down--the sub-marine cable.
The general opinion now is that it has been
a failure—that new and unforseen difficulties
have ptesented themselves, rendering the ac
cOmplishment of thilgreat work an impoos'si
bility. Yet we continue to hope for the best.
In the meantime ] we append hereto a note
from Tal. P. Shaffner, Esq., on. the subject,
addressed to us some weeks since, - predicting
a failure. We -placelli. Shaffner 's note be
fore the public at this time, without any con
sultation with.him, merely as a matter a
public interest:
• . WASHINGTON, June 18, 1858.
To TIIE EDITOR
, 0F TILE :—lt is use
less to enter into a discussion upon this sub-,
ject at present. • There is no probability that
the contract will ever be made, for two rea
sons : First, the'cable can never be worked if
laid i • second, there are reasons--some of
which have been made known , to the qovern
ment—which will prevent the execution of
any-contract with th:tt company. "
I have some pretensions to a knowledge of
the, science and art of telegraphing. Four
years ago I. published to the world in Anted
: nd Europe that my studies .and experi
ments on both.continents satisfied me that a
currrent of electricity of any known form or
mode of generation could not be transmitted
for telegraph service from Ireland to New
foundland. Since that time there have been.
no new discoverieS in galvanic or other elec
trieJeveloping powers changing-the state of
science, then calculated upon, in the demon
stratiori of the impracticability of the pro
posed telegraph. -
It has been stated, that a current of elec
tricity! has been transmitted through the
whole 3,000 'miles of the Atlantic: - cable in
the ships,-and therefore there than be no doubt
•bUt what the climax has been attained.—
This imposition has been fully exposed in-my
memorial to Con g ress. When the cable is
laid in the water, ate element of retardation
then commences its fUnctions. " The further,
they lay,out the cable the feebler will-be the
current," until it cease to traverse the wire.
- I, predict—not as a matter of prophecy,
but as a certain result springing from the
fixed laws in electric science—that the cable
will be laid perhaps 1,000 or more miles, and
it will be found unavailable for telegraphing.
In this dilemma the company will haves the
cable broke again, and the =Wait will be
charged lo Providence! This will be the,
finale,, Very respectfully, &c. &-c. ,
TAL. P. SIIAFFNER.
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PORTER, inc gi•NDAY SCIIOOL I.I.EFAL - I,TER.
:—A correspondent -of the Boston Journal
. says Mr. Fred. W. Porter, ,the defaulting I
agent • c American Sunday School Union,
wh• fall made such-a sensation a shot t time
:nee, hay at length made a full and complete
confession of the great wrong he has done..
He stood very high in the Society and in the
Church, and'he was almost the last man who
would have beeti suspected to be guilty of a •
foul a deed. In a letter recently laid before
the Board of .the Sunday School Union, he
has made a complete cCinfession. He began
his wrong-doing nineteen years ago I The
plan was the same that he pursued to the
last. His temptation began with the inn!.
berry and silk-worm speculation nineteen
years ago,-and under the garb of religion he
has fur that long time carried on his dishon
est .plans.. He allows that at the ,start he
knew it was wrong, but he hoped to be able
to meet the notes as they matured. But as
he was unable to do so, be was compelled to
renew his notes and pay•a. heavy bonus.—
Thus for nineteen years, he had been treading
the thorny path of sin, praised for virtues that
he . knew be did not possess, and taking of the
sacrament; which according to his own pro
fessed faith was adding damnation-to himself
with each unworthi reception. Ile defrauded
i-tbe -society out of over $80,000: but the-
Philadelphia broker who aided him to the
dishonest gain, promptly Paid all the notes
that - hismanre was on; nud the loss was les
stened nearly $40,000. Mr. Porter confesses
that in the nineteen years of fraud, be has
used the name ofthe society to the large
amount of $500,000, by renewals and re-is
'sues. No wonder he is a sick man—one
whom, if the law does not reach, the grave
will soon cover up. Nineteen years of fraud
and crime, and perpetrated in the name of
religion—with'despaii /looking him in the
z . posure waiting for him it the cor
hers of each street—with remorse gnawing at
his heart—and the worm that dies not hasten
ing to his repastb.,,Mr. Porter's confession
will soon be made public.” •
Tics JIIS LANE TRIAL—The. manner in
which the notorious free State leader and
murderer, Jim Lane, iA being examined for
the killing of Jenkins, - is thus described.by a
correspondent of the Cinennati Gazette, free
Stale paper :
LAWRENCE, K. T., June 22.
The= Examining Court in Lane's casgls
still engaged in bearing testimony for the de
fence. -Yesterday while Gates—Line's hired
man--was'undelexamination, he Was called
upon to point out on a plot made:by Sear!,
the Surveyor, the spot where lie stood at the
time. of the firing, and other "'points. Lane
stepped' up-to the table with - the witness—
stood close to him, and when a question was
Rated about any spot on the , plot, put his
fingers on the place, and the witness then re
plied," there's the piaee.P .
• Lane quite lionizes over the affair. The
Court adjournd to a partiOular hour, but this
is a mere matter cf form. It' orens -whet . ;
Gen Lane comes. He sometimes keeps them
waiting an, hour, but nobody dares grumble
at the great- Gengral Lane-
While the Court is in session, \belrequent
ly
. paces the floor back and. forth with an air
of great self-importance--recaires -the con
gratulations of his frfendkand converses with
them without anv restraint or regard for the
business of the Court, and occasionally in
terferes in the examination of aswitness.
Tbe.wbole thing is a , farce. Line has
'warm political friends here, who will sustain,
him is anything.
I doubt if be will be held even' for trial;
but if 'beis, there are too many Lane men
here to render a conviction. possible.
Votttrit peinotni.
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0.;177.0g3E,
Thuirsilliy. July 15. ISSN.
DEHO'CRiffIC NOMINATIONS
*UIIa:MI.; JUDGE:
, WILLIAM A. 'PORTER, ,
PIMA DELVIIIA
CA .or'A COMMISSIONER
WESLEY FROST,
I E OYETTE:
Spicial Notice.
AL L persons !indebted to thelate firm of
McCollum is Gerritson for subscription
to the Montrose Democrat 100 hereby forbid
den settling witl J. B. McCollate, or nny
person in whose I hands he may, placellteac
counts. Said aocounts lave not yet been a+-
signed -toirini, in -consequence of his having
refused to rend‘r value for them as agreed
upon before the firm was dissolved; any col
lections which be may make will be frriudu
lerit, and his recipts void, until further notice
be given.A..l. GIIRBITSON.
Montrose, Apti i,
l Ist, 1858.
Notice .J b wolkr trausiatt advertising,
and ALL orders frtun a distance, or from strangers
—cask. Papers sent out of the county must
be paid Tor ila(2ltc:. Itf.
jar Doctor 0. V. Thayer of the Bing
hamton Water Cure, will be in Montrose,
Thursday, Augikt sth. See advertisement.
Or Reports from Kansas state that Jim
Lane, thkcold-blooded murderer of Jenkins;
has been set at 'iberty ,If so, the gallows
bas been cheate' —for a lime.
shower of rainoiccompanied
lightning, passed over—our
afternoon last. The light
telegraph somewhere in the
depot, ran into the borough
'tatking several posii on its
ended its career in the tele
•uring the apparatus. slightly,
ustotned to receive such 1)&4-
ef the fluid. Fortunately, the
Or A heav
by thunder an'
town on Sundai
ning struck th
direction of the
upon ':he wire,
way, and final!
graph office, i
it not being ac'
erful quantities
operator•wasn't,
,t resent to receive the dispatch.
KILI.ED BY L G lITNING. — Wo have received
a letter from Horse Race Dam, Wyoming
Co., stating tt on Sunday last, twe young
men of 17 yea . ' s, named Wm. B. Idelhuish
and Henry A. Palmer, were bitting under
sapling by theaide of the road, when a,sh v aft
of lightning. a ruck and killed tec4ormer,
and — slightly injured the latterVrhe sun was
shining at tP time / although a cloud was
passing to the north of them.
"Old Indian Doctors," "
Mis
who sport filenames of Roach,
nd Burns, who have honored
1 - pective circulars and• orders,
Zer If the
sionaries,"
Uncas Brant, :
us with their
will be'so kind! as to send us copies of the re
ceipts, direcqoils, &c., with which they wi4l.
to render the public so• great A benefit, to
gether With good city references as to their
respectability nod responsibility, and funds
to pay us forlwhat they 'wish us to do for
them, Oct will Ihe glad to attend to their bu
siness, otherw4e we advise them to save post
zsge uy ceasing to uotner..us.
itig - We lirk.e received circulars from the
agent of a self-Styled "Land Company," which
proposes to sOl frumk . for $5, but thinking
that the myltery of affording farms at that
low prie'n wasl l too deep for us to solve this
hot weatha r ie paid no attention to it. The
New YorMws of Saturday notices, it and
remarks that, " Any person wishing to .be
swindled out cf e,5 can have no more effectual
way of effectiifg that result than •by sending
the amount 0 "Mr. Thomas J. Neary, Secre
tary of the Ariserican Homestead Land Com:
pang, at Nlishington, D. C," and for 'the
same you ma:11 have his distinguished guaran•- •
i i
tee of getting rt - tract of land in Wisconsin,
varying from orty to me thousand acres, at
"their last dis ribution," which will take place
" as soon as the balance of the :shares are sold."
This person, in his circulars, assures the public
" that there are no blanks in this distribution,
and that the Ilands are good farming lands;"
and by way .f a additional inducement, he
throws in fo each subscriber a copy for a
spress, Tribune, Times, News,
• Journal and other city papers.
ny have the impudence, to refer
dozen ex Governors of Wiscon-
year of 'the
Ledger, Horn
The Comp •
to some half
to the quality and value of the
ith the utmost coolness thrust
,ars tow, of Janesville, Wis., and
aulding, Eq., of Jauncey Court,
New York, into the office of
Friday morning, Officer Ilan,
sin, " retake
land," and •
ex-Governor
Alexander S
Wall street,
Trnatees. 0
of the Mayor i ts.squad, called upon Mr. Spauld
ing at his Otte and was informed by that
gentleman tlttt he had nothing whatever to do
with the concern, and could state the same as
regards Goriernor Barstow, whom he had
quite recentl4 seen. The attention of the Post
Office ,authorites at Washington will be at
once called k a the correspondence addressed
to "The Amdrican notnestesdLand Company
at Washingtim, D. C.," and as it is a swind
ling concern their letters will be sent to the
Dead Letter -.Eke • ,
• 1 For the Montrose Democrat.
Letter from Prof. Stoddard.
OrratwA, June 22d, 1858.
To MY YoF No FRIENDS :--Yrom 4 gingston,
a ride by railway of about sixiy miles, brought
us to Prescott, and from Prescott a ride of
fifty miles brought as to Ottawa City: .That"
anada which is drained by the
and it numerous tributaries, has
portion of
river rYttrvsve
een little vi
.ited by people from - the United'
her countrila, and, indeed, byi
States or o
ttnselv'es
Canadians t
valley of basin of the Ottawa be
eater of Canada, the river itsef
The-greats
is the very
dividing U
oMding neali
tent. That
er from-Lbwer Canada sod ii
/ly one-fourth of its territoriatist
i
part of. the Ottawa called tte
' f ake, is about thirty miles in
ting Southward towards its upper
lon3 one to• two miles in breadh ;
16.11%ov:big, the Ottawa fiegits to
'the stream . to become rapid and
jrhe interruption of the Hata
es for upwards of five mils, in
d three short but distinct ipida,
ne, the Resumoko r and the Little
Chaudiere I
length wide?
end and is fr i i
gxad ttalty ni
close in and
turbulent.
don elastic
which we fi
the\ De Ch.
Chaudiere. These rapids, together, fall a dis
tance of about sitty feet over'a bed of dark
limestone, until.at length, the mighty stream
passes in thunder over the rocks which arrest
its progress, (pgr'eaps I should say hasten
instead of arrest,).at the city of Ottawa, form
lug the well knovn Chaudiere Falls. To oue
who has seen the Niagara, these appear but
Editor.
secondary, and yd. they are distinct and dif
ferent,—of arnsUer compass and depth, yet
magnificent in v4ume, power, and variety of
ifferent cascade; forming one roaring, tuna-
Wing, and seethisg mass.
-
Our view ivan taken mainly from the Sus
pension bridge, irhich crosses a few feet be
low the Falls, a. is supported by eight wire
cables about tltip cites in diameter each.
From the Bridg: and its surrounding points
of observation, w: °old see the seething mass
anti risings ray- r) the " rot," an e.notruous
hole, tonne from wearing the rocksinto that
shape, and wherq they say, ,tbe water falls
but to pass off in , some underground lunsege
to come distant and tinkn'ourn Donal. , The
shape of the Fall is very near that of the let
ter S, and the flat limestone over which the
water passes, has been worn into almostevery
conceivable shape; forming as many different
varieties of waterfall and cascades as. can be
imagined, each in itself worth a journey to
see: The river at the present.time is very
high, and consequently the view of the Falls
is the finest. It is *sorted that during the
Spring, when the Ottawa is at its highest,
such is the volume of water passing over the
Cbaudiere Falls.Trom the Lakes shoo), that
the mass almost, if not quite, equals that pas
sing over the (treat Niagara
The fall of the Rideau, og the eastern boun
dary of the city, is well worth' a visit. The
river Rideau is about one hundred and six-
teen miles long, is deep, rapid, and not very
wide, and empties itself into the Ottawa' ,
short distance helot, the city, falling inztwo
heavy sheets over a smooth and rine-ptlrpen - -
tlicular bed of blue limestone, frynt a height
of fifty feet. We vere verpf6rtunate in our
view of these falls at9/Many other of the
beauties of Ottawa rough the kindness of
Mr. John Durie y alrorninent merchant and
an old setflei- hen: Taking his beautiful
light roalioat, m 3 friend, Mr. Durie, - and
myself z startcd dovn the river. It was a
charming trip . ;—absve us the high banks of
the river covered with a velvet of 'green, and
trees of moderate growth, with' here and
there fine residence:; around us raft's innu
merable, composed cf square pine timber from
30 to 80 feet long, freighted with jolly rafts
men ; below us the smooth -dark brown wai
ters of the Ottawa moving at the rate of five
miles an hour, in its majestic might, to join
those of - the St. Lawrence. The eastern bank
of the river extending for a long distance is
quite abisnpt, being some sixty or seventy feet
in height; and what added more beauty to
the scene and surprised us much was, as we
glided swiftly and gently rand a corner in
the river, by the aid of enrrent and oars,
to come suddenly upon a huge mass of water
pouring directly over the bank and seeming
to form a part of it. We rowed very near,
;.,,„ t he spray, and thus
upward view of the Falls. They resemble
very much the American Falls of the Niagara.
These falls are divided into two, nearly equal
in width, by a jutting spur of the bank, pro
bibly two, hundred -feet long. , .one-lalf,
however, was nearly hid front our view, es we
descended the river, by a saw mill and piles
`if boar'ds and lumber, that seemed to stand
quite oat in the river. From this.point,
striking across the river, we shot tip into one
of those chartuirg quiet little Bays, the banks
cf which Ilattne in her kindliest mood has
decorated with all imaginable loveliness.
' My friend thinks this Bay is just suited for
moonlight sails, with music, Or better .4111, for
pic-tic parties on summer afternootiS, with
plenty of ice team; sweet girl:,
Away we went up the river into the rapids
formed by the Chaudiere „Falls, and landing,
saw the "cribs" go through the "slicibts"
formed to carry the timber around the Palls.
These "cribs' when they get into moderately
still water we formed into rafts of enormous
size and : prcced down the river to Quebec for
shipment to almost all parts of the world.
The Pi:thau Canal forms its northern ter
minus hero. This canal costing the Ecglisli
Government neatly five million of dollar?, ex
tends front Kingston to this place, a distance
of 120 mles,—the difference oflevel, (458 ft.,)
between hke Ontario and Ottawa being over
come by 47 locks, each 134 feet long and 33
feet with, eight of which, riking one above
the otter, lie within thirty or forty rods "of
Ottaiva river. The masonary of these locks
is very - massive And beautiful, there being no
work cf the kind equal to it in the States, so
far as I know ; and the arrangement for emp.
tying and filling the locks is certtinly very
fine. 'Boats traverse this eanal by steam, and
not by horse-power. s Barrack fill,' in. the
center of the city, affords a magnificent view,..
This hill rises to a great height above the
strike of the river, which it immediately
overhangs. Standing on it_ we have, in front,
the broad expanse of the noble river bearing
on its bosom huge rafts, like &rating islands;
aches the r(Ver, the richly wooded land, with'
hire and there fields of waving grain, backed
by a chain of huge mountains from which
Pennsylvania gets her beat iron ore;- on the
tight, (bank,) the lower, and the left, the
tipper Citty is spread out before us stretching
away is strangling fashion ; to the left, farth
er up the firer, on either side,- "cribs" hot;
a hundred to two hundred feet in-slength and
about forty feet in 'width darting out front the
"shoots" into the bounding rapids and hurry
ing down the river, the 'raftsmen working
with all possible diligence to direct them out
of the rapids intct smooth water where they.
can be joined together; and still farther up,-
the Suspension Bridge, the mitt and spray
of the Great Cataract;- and still farther be
yond the broad expanse of the river studded
with its many green and 'wooded islets.
The city of Ottawa has- been designated as
the future capital of Canada, by-the Qireerr,
and -the Parliament Buildings are to be erected
on Barrack Hill.
At some futhrelime r will endeavor to give
you a brief` account of our trip down the
Rapids of the St:Lawrence.; orrour visit at
Montreal, the largest city in Canada, con
taining from sixty to seventy. thouparrq in
habitants; of Quebec, the Gibraltar of Amer
ica ; of the Falls of Montmorenci, about two
hundred and fifty feet in height, tlpwards of
sixty feet higher than the Niagark Falls, tkc.,
_&c. The letter on the Normal Schools of
Canada, and elencentary instruction will be
included in the second "&t..‘" '
I have just been, down to the River to see
some four, or five hundred soldiers of the
"100th" Regiment, rait.ed in Canada; go on
board t he - steam ship "Novascotian," which
will sail for England to-morrow morning,
about the time we leave by the steam ship
"Lady head" for Nova Scotia.
These soldiers are a hard appearing set,—
the Province, fpresume, will deem them no
loss;—many of them were so drunk. when
they went on board, that it took two others
to hold some of them 'up. The officers of the
army here are men and. beardless boys that
belong to the Aristocracy of Es.glancl,— a
meager, crooked set,—to all appearances, hot
orte intelligent, energetic man among them.
The majority of the b , ,oy officers are fretb 16
to 23. years of age, and appear like goslings
that have been brought up on `vinegar-planar'
and seem to possess about enough energy
And latent Co direct the energiesof a regiment
of sickly calm.
While passing through Canada, I have oc
casionslly, been questioned in relation to the
"religious, awakening" in the States. Many
seenito feel deeply interested in the work , and
_ . .
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QUEBEC, Tulp 2;--18.58'
-- vi the peopk.
denominations,
the Methodist Conference, (be
it said-to its credit) acting upon the gener
ally received opinion, that drunkenness and
gambling cannot well be carried on, at. least,
to any great extent., without the aid of the
use of tobacco, has gone so far as to forbid,or
at least to Itrongly condemn, the use of this
pernicious weed by its Ministers. As yeti
.therp is no eery perceptible improvement,
owing, probably, to the fact that the stock of
the charming mircotie -they bad on hand
at the time of the passage of . the condem
natory resolutions refered to, has not yet.
been converted _into smoke or dissolved in
salina, and of course it would be a' pity to
waste it.
The Americans do not compare'favorably
with the people of Canada in the filthy use of
this filthy narcotic. I think, however, our
people" are not as well instructed in their
youth, in this department. Mill, I must hear
testimony fayetble to the commendable
zeal manifested by very many of the able
Principals, Presidents, and Professors of our
Academies and Colleges in this particular.
Their efforts, I believe, as a general rule, are
crowned with admirable success, as but very
few. young men here been known tosattend,
for any great length of time, any of the Insti-
tutions that. give favorable attention to this
important subject, btit who on their return
home have not been able to smoke or chew
(and perhaps .loth) tolerably well, and in
many instances have become well skilled in
their usually attendant accomplishtnents of-a
still higher order. I do not wish to convey
".. idea that the class of our worthy educa
tors to whom3,4...nn rP has been tirade are'
willfully derelict in ' impirtiux to their
Students a practical knowledge ot'thes.t.
.elementary accomplishments. They feeling
the force of the sentiment, "Men must be
taught as though you taught them not," &c.,
and believing this it applies with equal force
to - boys and young men, hale, in this depart
ment, adopted the generally
.approved and
'more efficient method of instrac tion,--namely,
more by example and less by precept: _ Hence
if they fail to compete successfully with the
most noted of our Canadian brethren, it
must be attributed t rror of the head and
not of the heart. ,
I will mention for enefit - of some who,
perhaps, are, desiring information on this
subject, that in Quebec, I found the "Model
Institution" in this department. It is sup
ported by Government, the endowment being
sufficient to procure all the requisite appa=.
Friths for carrying on this department with
out burdening the students with, expense.
Three times a day the Priests (who are Pro
fessors of the tChool,j- in their long black
gowns and College 'caps, seat themselves on
Me steps and benches outside of the bitilding,
each with a -good large, old failioned pipe,
instead of cigar, and -then, by the aid of a
large number of students, seated . urcund and
similarly equipt, the exercise begins. They
soon manufacture a dense smoke, in the
midst of which they jabber French. Per
haps, however, there are conversational Lec
tureron the specific gravity of air and smoke s
and the comparative effects and adtansages
of the use of tobacco - and rum. Still, I am
not able, to say in regard to these points, as I
do not understand the French language.
One thing, hbwever, is very, obvious, they
were all delighted with the lesson, which
speaks well for the Professors.
Let me assure you,l hate met with schools
very different from this, of which I will write
soon.—lo haste, •
Yours respectfully,
arThe opposition
. have been very busy
repOrting that Mr. Montgomery of this State
has received the re-nomination of his party
for Congress as an opponent or Jamei
Buchanan. The following letter from him,
if it means anything, shows thatilelected he
is pledged fa the usages and doctrines of the
party without referent'e to his course on the
Kansas bill. It will be noticed that he an: ,
iluiesces in the English bill :
MY DEAR SIR :—Your kind letter,. inform
ing he that my enemies were industriously
circulating a report that I in•end; if ram
not nominated, to be an independent candi
date, bas Been received and read whir some
sUrpfise.
I am sure that none but the Most reckless
would give currency to such a statement.
have no such intentron, and I afttbotiize' you
fo give the report a most qualified denial. 1
have invariably, in all parts of the district;
said to the people, that I was not a "Lecomp•
ton" candidate,nor an"Anti-Lecompton" can
didate; but simply an old fashioned Lrenfo
erotic candidate, subject to the customs and
usages-of the party. We had some differences
of opinion amongst ti's on the itansal ques
tion, but now that -controversy is terminated
by a bill which, if it is not all we could ask,
is yet a compromise which we,as good citizens,
should faithfully carry out. The cbUrse Of true
‘viisdom denitards, of every IYeinOcrat tlietert
his whole influence to harmonize and unite
the - party. Ifecause wt: . dAred, on the &tr
ans question, must we never agree' again'
Yotik citizens have often differed on other
que,s,tions ;—yet, when the controversy was
ended, you all came baraioniOusly together,
as though you never had been ,on opposite
sides.
:Now that the Kansas question has been
comiirOinised, 'will we be, so silly as ttfrefuse
to forget, Mat 'we differed about the details
of : the bill to terminate the question. 'B*
cause we differed about the iidniissia of
Kansas, are we never again tO be united 'I
I am the earnest advocate- of union and har
mony. Let Lecompton and Anti+ecomptoo
men forget that-such divisions ever existed in
our ranks, and remember only tl-avehav are
Democrats. 0. = " 1
These are my sentiments, and these sire the
doctrines I teach wherever I go aitiongst the
,people. I have ne've'r tselonged to any other
party than the old Democracy, and never in
tend to. To that party Lam indebted for all
my political honors,and the liveliest gratitbde
r ?
of my heart is the remembrance of their d
votion to me -in the struggles of the st,
The principles of that party ale_ my ", ncip
!es, and my destiny, is insepara united
with its fortunes. : Should not 'ii earnest;
unfaltering :devotions of m life convince
the most incredulous of y fidelity to my
party, • •
When a man a ounces his name as . a
candidate ft;r h ' ination by. any party, I
, Olsider 'tiro oborably bound to submit to
the result difhe is not notainated_he owes
to it. hi sepport and in fl uence, When the
.nom .
_atiobs are fairly made at all honest
•liction, if the unsuccessful candidate is an
i honorable man, and a true Democrat, be
I will submit . to .the decision without a
murmur. •
I ask from the Dettiocratic party 'a second
term—mot honor which for .fifirsix years has
not been denied to any Democratic ttepresen-
Ore. *To dewy it to me-is to pronounce me
unworthy what has been conceded to all my
iiredece=sors, and would disgrace me forever.
With my coinpetitOrthe nomination is. a mere
matter of office—with me it is a question of
honor and disgrace.
The Steasight-out Platform;
The Philadelphia arlaily News," says the
Patriot atut Ufiion, as the organ of the
straight out American party dutibg the Pt esi
dential canvass,' when -it supported Fillmore
in opposition ,to Fremont; and in the late
election for Governor lampooned Wilmot and
his supporters with even more hearty energy
than the Democratic press. Well, this true
blue Know Nothing organ has not changed
its colors, but by the tepid ttatisforreaticiti of
the Republican patty has become one of the
leading artificers of the new craft which is
soon be launched upon the political sea,
under the name of the "People's Party." Al
though wetave no very warm friendship .for
the motley crew that is to man the new Yes•
set, it will certainly be a happy and refresh
ing sight to see this' straight out liod ; which
was one year ago denobbeed by all the Re
publican papers in the,State as a very_treach
erous beast, offensive and repulsive ib the ex
treme, lying down with •Ahe Republican
lambs. Who bould'have dreamed that with
in a twelvemonth this audacious., monster
would be found grow'ing put laws to the
whole herd of Repablidan putsuers, and - that
they'would bear it all with penitent fotbear
rine°. Yet so it is. The following article of
the "News," of the 9th inst.. we affeetionatbly
commend to the careful petu-al of the Re
publicans. They need tarniutand nothing
can be better calculated to put them
,in
propet frame of rtiind for working zealously
id the janks of the "People's Party"
Ot4eosEn TO U:CION.—SOMO of our Re:
publican contemporaries oppose the union
which has been agreed upon by the different
divisions of the oppo-i ion to Bac!tattan's Af.t.
ministration i and refuse to adopt the proposed
basis of action, to wit t "ProteCtion to
American Ind ust ry,and Popular Sovereignty,"
nrinciples were not recoittiied
in the Republican issd .
A union county Convention was hem 1..
Nonistown, on the 24th tilt:, which adopted
a series of resolutions,_ath6ng which was the
following
"Resotcell, That we recognise the, sacred right
cf the people of a Territory, when making ap
plication for admission as a State, to form and;
?egoist° their awn Constitution and laws with
out any interference try Congress whatsoever ;
and any attempt to force upon Both a people a
Constitution and laws, in—opposition to their
lawfully expressed wishes, deserves and should
receive the severest condemnation."
A similar resolution was passed at a union
meeting of the opposition of Cite:her cotaitf,
and commenting upon this, the Norristown
Republican devotes two columns to Wow.
that the - Republicans of 1856 opposed this
principle.. Two - lines would have \ been
sufficient, foi no one has any doubt upon
that subject ; or will pretend to dispute what
the "Republican" asserts. . But the lie:
•publican leaders of 1856 abandoned their op
position to popular sovereignty ; and when
they did so, right-thinking men of the Other
parties united with .them. This union upon
a principle so obviously right was hailed with
delight by the people of all partti of the
Union. The. Americans gladly agreed to
slich a basis of union,benanse they bad never
opposed the right - of aciciowledged citizens
to vote itr dielormation• of theft own'Consti•
Union, and consequently they abondoned - no
principle in accepting it. It was manifest to.
every intelligent person that the Reptibfican
party have gained nothing by insisting apon
the right of Congress to coerce the action of
the people of a territory in fOrMine a Consti,
tution, and that a great national party cotdd
not be formed upon a sectional basis. The
attenapt of a few newspapers to revise this
exploded doctrine, can only tend to divide
those Who would otherwise heattily unite. In
'56 and in '57, the Americans who refused to
unite with the Republicans, because union
-then would have inVolved the sacrifice of
their principles and organization, were most
bitterly retiled and tradUced by the very
papers which now refuse to support a union
which has been agreed to by the leaders of
their own party. Should this corrturtnicy
rer
suit in benefit to-the Buctratrarr putty; who
will our:Repliblicran eoternsporaty soy "were
sold to the Eferriontats f"
.1. P. S
I=l
INDIAN BEAUTIES IN, li : ANESS.—CIUiDdAtO
is on the
. Wyandotte Indian lands, and there
are Indiarr Beauties around here in every di
rection- 't he names of scurre of them aro pe
culiar: Among thenti, I met Polly Bigfoot,-
Idary Mudzeater, Susan
. .lolmnycake, Polly
Between - the-logs , -- and Sally Spate. The
Wyandotte Belle'lives two miles below here
—a bright-eyed; round-faced, übby-clreeked
girl of some 225 ears, but afflicted with- that
bled: sickness so common to white girls--
melancholy. I imagined at fast that bet
sombre' mood proceeded from a consciousness
that her Indistr, blood precluded her from
white society; btet found it only tYnteituited
love. Indian girls bere-of any ambition will
not Marry Indians ; for Most of the tribe have
become drunken anti worthless. 'they there
foie . tore their eyes to white alliances, and. to
be distippoOpesl it) - it white . love is doubly
painful.— Corresiounienee of Cincinnati Gaz.
IYEAtir WATIRANII3.—Gov. Packer, on
thursday issued the death warrants of tbe
folloWing persons :—John Lutz t Allegheny
county, to be executed October Ist. Wm
John Clarke, Montour county, to be executed'
September 24th. Mary Tvriggs, Montour
county, to be executed October 201.
1:iME:11
or We clip itik following from i Gen.
Ctribing'soration before the Tammany Oocie
ty of New York, on the occasion of tb4 cele-
bration of our National Anniversary :
I do, i ndeed , sometimes hear men4lk of
the dhs.s.Olufion 6f the Union. A set ofj noisy
kid, half eramy agitators here in ,the Nor tell
utN that the Union ought to be disqolved,
because they say the Constitution 4f the
United States-is a iitinvenant with_death and
an agreement with bell ; and therenpOn the
echo of their outcries occasionally retu'rns to
Us in a declaration upon the,South; that the
Union must be dissolved because of the fact
that so many ofthese wild theorists ofNegro. '
philism, - and/ Free Love, and Woman's
Rights, a. f• Irreligion, and Socialiina, and -
pine to a Spiritualism are altowKl to get at
lay . in the North.
' 'oh persons, it's true, do exist amilong 'lts;
denaturalized women, unhappy that they are
not men, and denationalized men, nnlworthy
even to he women.. They, alma, will assemble
somewhero to-day, not as Americans, 'lbut las
libellers - and vituperators of Americ4ns—to
desecrate some',venerable ' church,, or , defile
some sylvan shade—to say boy yluc,h they
love ali.black men, and how : meek tney. de
test ail white ones—and in theYprofaned
name of Liberty to toronla t im their unappeas
able 'enmity; to the Union;to the Constitution,
to the I3ible, to their Country.
Well, be it so. What then-2 aril ‘Lere
not Americans enough—in heart 'as !well as
name—to preserve the integlity of th Union
in spite of all these ravinß of unloo d Bed
lamOfl
? Aye, ten, twenty millions. such—
Amerienne devoted to the Union,.a d who,
if' need were, could and would, occasion te
quiring, devour and swallow up this artlful
of negrophilistUnion-haters, as_Alie boiling
whirlpool of Niagara overwhelins the slight
skiff of. seine intoxicated Indian:- .'et, moire
art strong enough, in the light of our reedom
and in the vigor of our Country, to !tolerate
*hd to pity alt such impotent foe s of the
Uniott. I say, to tolerate and to,pity them ;
for, when I witness their ebullitioujof wild
wrath as they speak of the American Union,
I become sure that their heads are Writhing
with distracted and 'troubled thoughts' of the
Fallen Spirit. Each one of thern,as le gazes
at the ,daystar of the' Union, seeMs with
desperate passion to say : '
0 thou that with surpassing glory croitned.
Look'at from thy solo dominion,like th God - '
Of this New World * * * to thee I call,
'But with no friendly voice,and add thylname;
0 Stitt, to tell thee how.hate thy beacns'
,Is it not so I Is it not a true picture I
Well,' them hate and rave. They are,
indeed, to us in the North,- where they hold
their annual convention orgies; the drunken
!blots or the Common'wealth—weful to
show fOrth tke ugliness of infidelity and of
treason; for the edification and admonition of
the ingenious - youth of our 4:aced:l:mon
North.
Dissolution of the Union by such influences?
I-scorn the'very idea.
t Alluding to that class, of which Senator
. I'
Wilson is a leader,those who shriek for `flee
dom,' Mr. Cushing said t—Theit incessant
cry is the 'slave power.' If, perchance, new
realms are to be added to the magnificent
'domain of the Union, though such addition
be for the desire ;Ind superior benefit of the"
population and commerce bf tire North, they
cry out on the-Slave power. If the r,-venue
of the Union is to be modified, though it be •
done with their own hands, and fur the al
rantage of the manufaeptrers of the North,
Azain they cry out on the SI tve-powt t knew
Territorial Governments are; to-be orgatii , Led
in the West, though such. organization be in
the interest and to the gain of the Nortb; : -till
they try not on the Stave-power. It the
dignity and, honor of the Union are to he
I vindicated fq war, though the g iev..n •es to
! -- be redressed, and the seeiritie, to h e e on .
Tiered, are sit tiro North , altsays ti
out on the Slave power. Shaine on the par....
cry ! Never, in the corns An s 4. of thn
worst factions of Greece or Prom; of England
or France, was there a More great' effort to
inflame the popular passions by falsl3 appeals
"to prejudices—never a more wanton abd-e of
the freedom of republican speech—never
more abominable attempt to gratify personal
ambition itt the etrittrise of a ctruntry's wet
fare and peace. Slave power i
.It is thecry
of `stop thief' on the part of the burglarliee-
Mg from the purstlit the oflicers oflustice.
TEREIELE ET:PLOSION AT SMITIIF/ELIL R. 1:
The Pawtucket (It. 1.) Gale:le, gives the
following particulars of the fatal tinder ex ,
plosion at Smithfield, B. I.; on Thursday :
At about 10 o'clock yesterday forenoon,ftwo
boilers at the Manchester Print Works; in
Smithfield,-, R. 1., owned, by Joseph Smith; of
this place ; and operated by trctwrt, Veen &
M'Cready, exploded, killing. two men and
scalding and wounding many others. ' David
Stewart, fireman, was killed. His body was
eomplet ly 'cut in two, and the loWer part
blown at least four hundred feet from the'
place where he was standing at the time, of
explosion. Patrick Clark, aamer for Joseph
Smith, was killed. Edmund Clark was watk•
ing across the yard, and was struck by . a
flying brick, And had one ear nearly cut oft.
Michael Cavenagh, was at_ . work in the drying
Mom; and was terribly scalded and burned.
It is doubtftil whether he can recover. James
Pollard was injured about the face, but not
seriously. Jas. Duerr had his •forearm frac'
tared: A boy had a foot badly injured:
'two men are missing,* of whom. we could
leant nothing definite. It was feared that
they were buried under the rainß:llle honer
house was entirely destroyed,. the dye house
and dye room badly darnaged,and the bleach
house somewhat injured : One of the steam
chimneys is so badly injured that it will have
to be taken down. These print. works seem
doomed to disaster. Tbis is the fourth time
they have been 'blown up by explosions or
destroyed by fre.. These works had been
recently put in operation after lyin idle s
hoat two years.
- .
LAvoirrEn.—Laugliter is not altogether
foolish thing. Sometimes there is even wit;
dom in it. Solomon says there is - a . time to'
burgh, as well as A titne to tYioutri.• Man only
laughs—man, the highest orgatiteci being
and -hence the deenitioe been proposed of
"man, a laughing aniinal/" Certainly, it de-
fines him as well as a "cooking animal," a`
"tool-,baking aninittri" A " Money-making
animal," a , " political animal," or such like.'
liaughter very Often' shows the bright Fide of
e man.
.it btings Out his happier nature, and
shoWs of what sort of stuff he is really Made:
Semehol We feel as if , we never thoroughly
know a an until we hear him. laugh. , Wa .
do not feel at home with''him till then. We
do not mean a mere snigger,- beta good,
round, bearty , laugh.,The Olemn, sober vis
age, like a Sunday's dress, tells nothing of
'the real man. Ile may be very silly or very
profound ; very cross, or very jolly. Let us
hear him lade', and we can decipher him , at
'once, and tell hbw bears beats. We are
disposed to• smpect the man who inter'
laughs: At all events,- there is a repulsion
about him whieb we cannot get over. tsv
stet' sayS.:;" Shun- that man Who_never laUghS..
Who dislikes limbic or the glad fai3ifolt iv - child."
This is what everybody feels,-and' none more
than children, who are quiek at-reading char-.
miters ;- and their strong, instinct rarely dew
ceives them.—Black-w004,-