()c jMfcrsoiiinn. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1858. 663-We refer our readers to Advertise ment of Novelty Sewing Machine Com X'any. SST Gov. Packer has appointed lion aGaylord Churcb, of Crawford county, to be a judge of tho Supreme Court, in place of Hon. Wm. A. Porter, resigned. OUR TAXES. There is scarcely any subject that so derply touches the interest, principal and all, of the people as that of taxation it h an old sore. an annovmc corn on the public toe, of which the patient is ex cccdingly tender. Nevertheless the wound inu-t be probed and the nature and ex tent of the injury known, before a remedy can be applied; and the subject of taxa tion must be violently agitated, before Monroe county will collect her taxes, end the Borough of Stroudburgpay her debts That there is something wrong some where, must bo evident to all. When we know that not a cent of money ever reach es tuo ircasury, mat iresn dents are accumulating faster than old ones are can celled, that taxes which are assessed are not collected, that there are men of prop erty in this county who have not paid a tax for the last five years, that the school in this Borough which should be open ten months, is now open but four, what are we led to conclude from all these facts ? "Why that somebody is remiss in the dis charge of his duty, that there is some thing "rotten in the state of Denmark.' Now we do not wish to charge this fault upon any one man, or set of men ; wo ouly- state facts, and leave our read ers to draw their own conclusions there from. We know that all men are sub ject to the weaknesses and infirmities of human nature, (we have a prominent ex ample of this in. the chief magistrate of the Nation) and we i-Jbould not therefore expect to find County and Township col lectors exempt therefrom. If the integrity of the head of this great nation, the President of these United States, is not .- proof against tbe seductions of office and of power, bow can we look for anything better elsewhere! On the contrary it h ex tremely natural for a collector; who is desi rous of re-eleetion, to be very careful whose toes h" treads upon, whom he offends; ju-t as it is extremely natural for a Pres ident who in anxious to secure a re-eleo-lion, to kiss the dut in servile submission to hia Southern masters, and to say to his overseers "do with Kansas as you will.' TT T.I . in-nee, aituougn mere is a taw upon the Statute book giving to Collectors tbe power of sciiing upon, and selling proper ty, giving ten days public notice of the same, if the owner refuses or neglects to pay his taxes, for thirty days after being called upon, yet we cannot "reasonably expect a prudent collector, and one who has his own self interest in view, rather than the performance of his duty, we cannot, I say, expect him to do an act so fatal to hi popularity, unlesslie is by law Compelled to do so, because forsooth, it would make an enemy, and enemieB are deucedly inconvenient institutions to a candidate on election day. So with all these considerations before us, we can easily enough account for an empty Trea- sury, and an inundation cf Borough Checks. Now for the remedy. And as the main object appears to be to make the patieut cblccl, I would recommend a strong dose of-oollectors who are not afraid to do their Huty, promiscuously and perseveringly applied, and If the leeches fail to briug the blood (or the dough) I would take the lancet of the law. - . Really this Snancial embarrassment is getting to be a 6erious thing, and if no Better way can be devised for relief, a law fhoold be passed, or the statute as it stands at present altered, so as to give the collector not only the power, but compel Mm, to use tlialpoicer of seizing and sell ing property to the amount of the taxes and costs accruing, when they can be ob tained in no other way. But a better way still would be to dis pense with the office of collector entirely and let the treasurer appoint a certain day on which he will meet the tax payers o suoh and such districts at such a place. , .Let all who choose to meet the Treasurer at the appointed time and place, and pay their taxes, be entitled to an abatement of say five per cent therefrom; and fhen let the Treasurer be by law compell ed to issue notices to all delinquents who fail to make such payment at puch time and place, giving them ten days in wtiicli to leave the money at his ofSocj in default whereof, at the cxpiratiou o'f'the ten days, let property to the a mount of the tax.es and costs be promptly I attaohed and sold; and if property to the amounf-of sa3 taxe and cdsts cannot be found,- belonging 16 the "delinquent, let him 16 deposited in the county Jail, there to remain, until the full amount of his in debtedness nhall be discharged. The Law on the point is, we beliore, some what similar at present, to the outline here given, and might answer very well if it could only be enforced, but we des pair of finding a man to enforce it unless he is himself forced. The only material alteration I would make in the law, is the dispensing of col lectors. People can just as well pay their taxes directly into the bands of the Trea surer, and thus save tho collector's per centage, as to give a man five per cent for leaving the work undone. We have thus thrown out a few hasty and unprc meditated suggestions in record to this important subject. We have given faint outline of a system, that would, we think, le an improvement on the one now in vogue. We would liko to see this sub ject agitated, and public attention called to the public wants: it is the only way in which reform can ever be expected. Let us hear from others on this subject. CIVIS. Letter of Hon. Archibald Dixon in reply to Hon. L S. 1 oote. Louisville, October I, 1658. To the Hon. II S. Foote . My Dear Sib : However unexpected was such a communication as that which you have done the honor to send me, yet, as it relates to a matter concerning which my views have been ever of a clear and decided character, and as the questions propounded by you stand connected with public interests dear to every patriot, 1 do not feel at liberty to refuse a prompt and explicit response to them. I shall not answer them specifically, but make such general statements of facts and o pinions as I hope will meet your wishes. I have watched the progress of the sen atorial contest in Illinois with the most intense solicitude, and shall continue to do so until its result shall be made known. I consider tbe success of Mr. Douglas cs sentiai alike to the peace of the Uniou and the safety of the South; and the un blushing and profligate attempt to break him down by the corrupt and unprinci pled use of Federal official patrouago and executive influence, I regard as eminent ly disgraceful to all concerned therein. Mr. Donglas, in his present position, is in my judgment, entitled to the sympathy of every honest patriot in the land, and 1 venture to predict that the time wil speedily come when an overwhelming ma jority of honest and enlightened freemen in tho slavcholding States of the South will recognise him as their bold and fear less champion,and the eloquent vindicator of their rilit and safety. There are points which have arisen in the contest between Messrs. Douglas and Lincoln in relation to which I do not entirely con cur with either of them; but, in reference to everything deemed by me at all mate rial, my views are in perfect harmony with those expressed by the former. Th exposition made by Judge Douglas last wiuter, in tho national Senate, (and yet a a . . - adhered to by him,; of the true intent and meaning of the Kansas-Nebraska aot has always' received my hearty sanction; and for reasons unnecessary to be ben particularized, I condemn, as strongly as ae can uimseu uo, me rrcjiaential message of last winter in relation to the Lecomp- ton Vjon&titution, and that the monstrous legislative abortion known as the English bill. The changeful anl vacillating course pursued on this subject by Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet has awakened niystronf- est disgust; and 1 hold the insidious inter medling which they are now practising in Illinois to be vicious aud censurable in the extreme, supplying a precedent, which if hereafter reupccted and acted on, will be inevitably fatal to everything wbich i: valuable in our civil institutions. I have heretofore freelv d.nnnnoi? J UWbUWVVj and shall hereafter take the liberty of de nouncing in language of unmistakable plainness, the conduct of the Aministra tion for some months past, in their efforts to deleat and put down a meritorious and accomplished statesman by such moans as have never been heretofore, to the same extent at least, resorted to, because ne was not wining to prostitute his own conscience m obedience to Executive be hests, and I have charged, as I shall con tinue to charge, Mr. Buchanan and hie constitutional advisers with bavins shown meraseivee ajiKe untaithtul to the best n- tcrests of the Southern States of tbe Con ledcracy, and to the vital principles of popular ireedoui everywhere. I charge them with having trampled underfoot all the essential principles of republican gov ernment in the scheme projected by them ior tne esiannanment ot a written Consti tution over a portion of the American people, over whom it was to be supreme iu us operation, wuicn so-called Uonstitu- ftttution not only did not embody the will of the people among whom it was to bear control, but to which every reasonable man on the coutinout knew them to be utterly opposed. I accuse this Adminis- tration ot having attempted to revive the mom aistinguisiiimr leature of the Misson ri Compromise; for it U most evident to my wind that if the Federal Government with itf coufefcsediy limited powers has .1 Ti . II ' auiuorny virtually to ordain a State Con stitution shall in terms provide for Hip tablishment and maintenance of slavort. tho same Government can also at ; pleasure, cause to be promulgated, and put in execution, a Uonbtitution prohibiting luc miruuuciion or continued exiBteucu of slavery altogether; and, by doing so, to render the act repealing; the Missouri restriction altogether null and ineffective. I hold this Administration resnonsihlfl or dariWto nroclani. in a rnvfi fflif,l documentvmVrked with the fullest delih- eration,-tbe dangerous, heretical: . ind fr... anti-rrpublicun doctrine, fhat a bare. maioritv of the voters may. at their dis cretion, change, modify, or overthrow the in law. in violation of all its own forms and restrictions, wnicn aosura, . .... 1 1 . 5 anarchial, and mob -justifying theory, u carried into practical operation, would" prove fatal to Southern institutions, and tho institutions of the whole country. " I denounce this most blundering and mis chievous Administration on account ol the cordial sanction which it has given to the alarming principle embodied in the English bill, that a sovereign State may be admitted into the Union with a popu lation less than the ratio of representa tion established by Congress; for if this principle be carried into effect, (with the certainty existing that there will be twen ty free States hereafter applying for ad mission to one slave State,) it is clear that all such new States would bo admit ted, with the advantage of being allowed a representation in tbe two Houses of the National Legislature with a population however inconsiderable in numbers, whilst tbe other States of the Union, heretofore admitted, would bo required to have a popblation far more numerous. I disapprove iu the fullest manner the couduct of tho Administration in bring ing the patronage of the Government in to coufiict with tho freedom of elections, and regard its course in this matter as an ti-Dcmocratic, arbitrary, and uucousti tutional. The whole course of opposition to Judge Douglas and his political friend. in Illinois, so far as Mr. Buchanan and bis Cabinet are concerned, I regard as il liberal, unjust, and impolitic, deeply dis graceful to those concerned in it, and dan gerous to the Republic itself. The mo tives that have led to a course so wrong and mischievous are not at all difficult oi detection. Ho is reoognized as an aspi rant to the Presidential station, and it it hoped that if be can be put down in Illi nois, there will bo an end of his claim to the Presidential dignity. His whole -in, letting his own adversaries be his judges, is that be has nobly remained steadfast in the support of his own long cherished principles, whilst others, pledged in ever way to their maintenance, have meanly shrunk from their support. It is present ly to bo seen whether the American peo ple will permit such a course of heartier atrocity to succeed; whether they will al low genius and moral worth, and high accomplishments, and statesman-like wis dom, and true moral courage, and ill us trious deservings every way, to be crushed by imbecility, and unscrupulous ambition and corruption clad in official robes, and faction organized for great public mis chief, and political tnoKcry Daeued nut: sustained by the accursed spoils of office, Touching another grave and inUrc-tiug matter to wnich you have aone me th honor of calling my attention, I will offer a few suggestions. I agrco with you that there is no party organization now exist iog capable (iu itself, or by the aid of oth erorganizations heretofore hostile through tbe instrumentality of any process of fu sion yet projected) of remedying cx:tin evils. The people themselves mu-taehievc their own redemption from party thral dom by tbeir own noble energies. Thr people must arm against the monster cau cus. lhe people inuat cleanse the Au gean stable, and weed away the plants o corruption. A spirit is abroad which promises great and speedy reform; and a?- a man not closely connected for severa years past with any party organization, i am prepared to do all in my power as : true patriot and a lover of freedom in co operation with such others as may be found willing to enlist in tho fierco and vital struggle now at hand, to free th land from oppression and dishonor, and renew tbe felicity aud tbe glories of our past history. Of Judge Douglas personally, I have a few words to utter which I could not with hold, without greatly wronging my owu tin r . . "... conscience. When 1 entered the United States Senate a few years since, I found him a decided favorite with the political party then dominant both in the Senato and the country. My mind had been ureal ly prejudiced against him, and I feltno dis position whatever tosy mpathise oroorrobo rate with him. It soon became apparent to me, as to others, that he was. unon th whole, far the ablest Democratic member of tbe body. In the progress of time my respect for him, both as a gentleman and a statesman, greatly increased. I fouud him sociable, affable, and in the highest uegree entertaining and instructive in so ciai intercourse. His power, as a deba. ter, seemed to me unequalled in the Sen ate. He was industrious, pnnnrnjif. hnM J t . - .. ' ana bKinui in the management of tbe con cerns of his party. He was the acknowl edged leader of the Demoeratio party in the oenate, and, to confess the truth, seemed to me to bear the honors which encircled him with sufficient meekness. Suoh was the palmy state of his reputa tion and populority on tho day that he reported to the Senate his celebrated Kan sas and Nebraska bill. On examining that bill, it struck me that it was deficient in one material res pect; it did not in terms repeal the re strictive provieion in regard to slaverv embodied in the Missouri Compromise. This, to me, was a deficiency that I thought it imperilously necessary to supply. I ac- cordingly offered an amendment to that effect. My amendment seemed to take the Senate by surprise, and no ono an. TiOamA t n tn mnmr. J at T 1 v . w wo uiuiu siuuiuu man ijuuerp Douglas himself. He immediately came io my seat ana courteously remonstrated against my amendment, suggesting that the bill he had introduced was almost in the words of the Territorial acts for the organization of Utah and New Me;. that tliey being a part of tho compromise measure or loou, ne Had hoped that I a known and zealous friend of the wise and patriotic adjustment which had then ta ken place, would not be inclined to do anything to call that adjustment in quos tion or weaken it before tbe country. I replied that it was nrnnilv ko. - J' - ivbuuav l had been, and was. a gpalnus the Compromise of 1850. that I felt b mind to persist in-the movement which I had oriTinnfnn? ftiat T n ' . a -. L'vr . eu sat,suod that the Missouri, restriction,, if not expressly repealed, would continue to operate in the Torritory to which it bad been applied, thus negativing the great and salutary principle of non-intervention, which con stituted the most prominent and essential feature of the plan of settlement ot loou. We talked for some time amicably, nno n i r. .1 T.. A separated, oomc uays aiterwaras o uuv Douglas came to my lodgings, whilst l wa- confined by physical indisposition., and urged me to get up and take a rid with him in his carriage. I accepted his invitation and rode out with him. Du ring our short excursion we talked on tie subject of my proposed amendment, and Judge Douglas, to my high gratification, proposed to me that I should allow him to take charge of the amendment and en graft it on his Territorial bill. I acce ded to the proposition at once.whereupon a most interesting interchange occurred between us. On'this occaon, Judge Douglas spoke to n e in substance thus : "I have become peefectly satisfied that it is my duty, as a iair-miuded national statesman, to co-op- . 4. " erate with you as proposed in securing the repeal of tbe Minsouri Compromise restriction. It is due to the South; it is due to the Constitution, heretofore palpa bly iufracted; it is due to that character for consistcna which I have heretofore labored to maintain. Tho repeal, if we can effect it will produce much stir and commotion in tho free States of the Uni on for a season. I shall be assailed by demagogues aud fanatics there, without stint or moderation. Every opprobrious epithet will be applied to me. I shall be, probably, bung in effigy in many places. It is more than probable that i may be come permanently odious among those whose friendship and esteem I have here tofore possessed. This proceeding may end my political career, isut, actiug uu der the sense of the duty which animates me, I am prepared to make the sacrifice I will do it. lie spoke in the most earnest and touching manner, and I confess that 1 was ceepiy ancctea. i said to mm in reply : "Sir, I once recognized you as a demagogue, a mere party manager, sel fish, and mtriguing. I now fii:d you a warm-hearted and bterlin? patriot. Go forward in the pathway of duty as you propose, aud though all the world desert you, I never will." The subsequent course of this extraor dinary personage is now before the couu try. His great speeches on this subject in the Senate and elsewhere, have since been uiado. As a trffe national states man ae an inflexible and untiring advo cate and defender of the Constitutien his couutry as an enlightened, fair-min ded, and high-soulcd patriot, .he has fear lessly battled lor priuciole; he has with siugular consistency pursued the cours i i wuicn ue promised to pursue when we talked together in Washington, neither turning to the right nor to tho left. c "a I hough sometimes reviled aud ridiculed by those most benefitted by his labors he has never been beard to complain. rersecuted by the leading men of the party he had so long served and sustain ed, he has dameaned himself, on all oc casion?, with moderation and dignity though he has been ever earnest in the performance of duty, energetic jn com batting aud overcoming tbo obstacles which have so strangely beset his path way, and always ready to meet and to o verthrow such adversaries a.-? have yen tured to encounter him. He has been faithful to his 2)lcdge he has been true to the South and to the Union, and I intend to be faithful to my own pledge. I am sincerely grateful for his public services L kel the highest admiration for all hi uoble qualities and high achievements aud I regard his reputation as part o the moral treasures of the nation itself. And now in conclusion, permit me to ay that the Southern people caunot en ter into unholy alliance for tbe destruc tiou of Judge Douglas, if they are true to themselves, tor he has made more sac rifice to sustain Southern institutions than any man now living. Southern men may ana uountiess have, met the enemies o the South in the councils of tho nation aud sustained by their votes and theii speeches, her inalienable rights under the Constitution of our oommon country Northern men may have voted that those rights should not be wrested from us-; but . ' it nas remained forjudge Douglas alone iormern man as ne is, to throw himsel T .l 1 " . "into the deadly imminent breach." and ! . 1 . . . line tne steadlast and everlasting rock o the ocean, to withstand the fierce tide of fanaticism, and drive back those anrv oiuows wuicii threatened to engulf his country a happiness. JL have the honor to be, very resnect fully and cordially, your friend and fel low-citizen, Alien. Dixon. Denver Dissected. Gov. Denver of Kansas has found oc casionit seems to us but a flimsy pre iexi ior addressing us a rohini. we print herewith, asking for not only bis statements but its animus a very careful I II U 1UII attention. If we do not mnlrn tUn and his client regret its production, thoir - n V MtllUI case is oetter than wo had supposed it Uov. Denver is a partisan and benefi ciary of the present Administration, and lett a very good pormaneut offi whinh it gave him in order to accept temporari- In 4-1. a I r TT- 'j luu guveruorsnip or Kansas, vacated by the repudiation of Gov. Walker aud the outright removal of Secretary Stan ton. Why were Walker and Stauton discarded by Buchanan, as Keeder and Geary had been turned off beforo them? Does Gov. Denver suppose that he can efface tho facts from the public mind? Why but because tho,e Democratic ap pomtees of the White house had incurred the hatred of tbo Pro-Slavery faction in Kansas by failing to serve its purposes and beginning to defend and uphold the oppressed, outraged Free-State majority against their machinations? . Why. was it necessary that the same authority which had successively cbosen those chief mag istrates of Kansas should, eacli in his turn, repudiate in d stigmatize them?: What is it. that has made Kansas "n graveyard of Governors?" The intelli gent public knows W'hat it is, and it is not in the power ot governor uenver to confuse its perception of the truth. He repels our surmise that he in bis turn was becoming obnoxious to tno slavery Propaganda and would probably be ro moved, and he gives'ample reason for this when he states that all hope of making Kansas a Slave State has at length been abandoned. Hence no more gigantic villanios are enacted the polls of Kan sas arc no longer usurped by Missouri ruffians voting fifteen or twenty times each there is no moro call for a change of Governors, and be might serve a doz en years without provoking any urgent . 1 IT demand lor his removal, zie is coming away so soon as he may, simply because he has had enough of Kansas, and likes bis Washington office better than the Governorship. Mr. Denver, as in duty bound, gives his master a general and sweeping certi ficate of good character. Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet bavo been always anx ious for the peace and happiness of Kan sas, and always desirous that bcr people should enjoy tbe fairest opportunity for settling all questions vitally concerning them at the ballot-box. Governor! tbi will not go down! The notorious facts connected with the repudiation of Walker and dismissal of Stanton prove it untrue. What your superiors may have said oi written to you, may indeed bo fair, a talk is apt to be; but their acts refute your eager inference. Had your masters real ly purposed to treat Kansas justly, you never need have gone thither. Walker and Stanton did just right in rejecting the impudently fraudulent returns trumped up at Oxford, Kickapoo, &c, last Octo ber to secure a Pro-Slavery Legislature tbey would have been recreant to eve ry principle had they failed to do so All through the struggle of 1856 you know it, Gen. Denver! for you were a Member of the last Congress the cry of your party was, "Whydidn t Gov. llee der reject all the fraudulent returns if such there were of the election of March 30, 1855?" The late Administration were held blameless in the premises, be cause one who was then their Democrat ic appointee, but is now a Kepublican, did not nullify election frauds of which he ap pears to have had no seasonable notice. Well: Walker and Stanton did, upon ample evidence, what your party said liccdcr should nave done, evidence or no evidence; aud they were repudiate ! and s.upo.aseded therefor. Do you think you oan obscure these facts? Then came the Lccompton fraud, in all its hideous proportions. One of Mr. Buchanan's office-holders bossed that job was he removed for it, as Walker aud Stanton had been? True, he has lately been supplanted; but is there the least iu- timation given to the public that the bo gus Election frauds aud caudle-box re turns were a cause moving thereto? Did not the Presidedt adopt that monstrou- fraud, by trying to force it through Con gress by the most desperate abuse of pow er and patronage? Why did the concoc tdrs of the Lecompton Constitution so carefully preclude its submission to the People? Why was not tho Presidential influence put forth to secure its submis sion, rather than its adoption by Con gress after it had been emphatically re jected by Kansas? Do you think the People do not see that your supperiors are always potent when a flagrant wrong to Kansas is to be consummated or glaz ed o?cr impotent only wheu.-uch wrong is to be redressed or prevented? Mr. Denver is mistaken in asserting that the destruction of a ballot-box at Sugar Mound by Capt. Montgomery was suppressed by tbe Free-State journals. It has been iepeatedly alluded to in these columns, though it was uo case of fraud ti - at all no case of wrong or injustice to Mr D.'s party. The case was substanti ally this: An election bad been ordered by a Constitutional Convention which the brec-State men considered bogus and u- surping. ihc Free-btatc party held a Convention and decided to take no part in that cleotion, not wishing to recognize its callers as vested with any port of au thority. A minority of tho Free-State Convention seceded, repudiated the de- cioion oi tne maioritv. ano nominated a r.i i , ticket. A division of the Free-State par ty necessarily followed. One fraction persisted in not voting, the other voted. While the cleotion was going on at Sugar Mound, Capt. Montgomery and his party came thither, and, considering that th votes cast there (entirely by Free-State men) were cast under a misapprehension of the facts, stopped the poll and destroy ed the ballots, without resistance or (o tar as wo unow; objection from any one. ii o uuiti juauuuu una aci; nut It was quite other than a deliberate fraud. But tho vital question is not ''Have fraud and outrages been committed by both r.ft Kln mm n 1 V. ...... 9 T ! 1 1 i I Tl .1 fauna uj uuij uv uuui out "lias tne Federal Administration winkod at aud shielded the frauds of the Pro-Slavery party, and of that party alone?" Does bov. U. plead to the indictment? Has me prosent federal Jxecutivo ever put one active, earnest hreo-Stateman bare- y oneinto office in Kansas,? Has it turned out a single Pro-Slavery man be cause of frauds and outrages committed under his eye and with his connivanoe? lias it not conferred office on several of tho most notorious and abominable Pro Slavery ruffians on Whitfield, the bogus Delegate- on Clark, who killed Barber, an inoffensive, unarmed Free-State man, near Lawrancc. in December. 1855 on ilmory, who led tho Pro-Slavery banditti who ravaged Leavenworth, drove out all nown Free-State men, and killed Willi am Phillips iu his own houso, Oct. 1st. oou and on bamuel J. Jonos CShdrifl Jones") who led the ruffiinn banditti who sacked Lawrence during tho summer of tuat year.' Uo you hoar, Governor!- Gov. 3). thiuks WO have renresnnted lansaa as more quietly and orderlv un- der his rule than the facts will warrant- nut perhaps he has not road The Trib une, so carefully as some other iournnls whioh habitually ignore at seoff and "bleed - mg. iMnsas" as a politician's fable. Tn -nil that he says and insinuate n? tn outrages haying been committed by Freo- Stato men, we make answerMr. Den verl you are Governor of Kansas, atari as such appointed and paid to preserve order and punish crime. You have tho Federal Judges, Marshals, &o., at your back, with the Army close at hand to be used in enforcing your dictates. Your Judges and Marshals could find a Grand Jury to present tho Fre.e State hotel and printing-offices in Lawrence as nuisances aud decree their destruction surely they can find ono to indict robbers, rioters, bruisers and assassins. If, then, crimes have been committed in Kansas no mas ter by which party since you Have be come her Governor, and you have not of fered rewards for their perpetrators, had1 them indicted and brought to trial, you' are guilty by confession of gross neglecti of duty. All your charges against Free State men, therefore, come home, with crushing effect to yourself. Why are you not now trying to bring the offenders to justice iustead of seeking to make party capital out of them by letters to the jour nals? No matter who have douo wrong, let them be arrested, convicted and pun ished. Your fling at hired reporters-of Eastern newspapers," passts by u.-, since we have had no hired reporter in Kansat for months; but when you say perpetra tors of criminal outrages are running at large without an effort to arrest them," you compel us to say that you seem to have a very imperfect notion of your du ties, and to bo dubiously earning"5' jour salary. But, Mr. Denver! your account of last Winter's outrages in Southern Kansas is essentially dishonest and tricky. You speak of tbe acts of Montgomery and his band, as if they were unprovoked, when you cannot help knowing that ibo contrary is the fact. Montgomery, born and reared in a Slave State, went to Kansas to help make her a Free State. For this only this he and others likfc him, were habitually pluudcred and grossly abused by the Border liuffians. They lived for months in daily fear df death. This violence at length drovo them to violence in turn they were im pelled to spoil their spoilers until tbo latter were compelled to cry, Enough! We do not justify their course we only state the facts wbich you dishonestly sup press. The game of spoliation and out rage in Kansas was deliberately begun by your party that whose cause you petifo with whose interests jou fully i dentify yourself. They bad it all their own way for a while, but Sharp's rifles aud Northern immigration at length turn ed the tables upon th.m, aud they arc now back in Missouii or. have pa-bed"ou to Arizona and Sonora. They did- not make expense at horse-stealing aud house breaking during tho last year of their Kansas experience, and we tre not sor ry for it. But for you, Gov. Dinver! to hold up Capt. Montgomery and his do ings as tbe provocation if not an excuso .for the" cowardly seizure and murder of several unoffendiug Free-Stute men while peacefully at work on the Marias Des Cygnes last Spring, is what we could utit have expected, even from a satrap of James Buchanan. And when you speak of the outrages at the South as occurring "iu counties where the Free-State men have all the local officers,'' you are guilty of tbo grossest prevarication. Bourbon Connty did not have a Free-State Sheriff till late last Spring as you kuow very well, for you appoiuted him and as to Linn, where the cowardly murders of the Marias des Cygnes were perpetrated, you", know that the murderers were hiding in Missouri within two hours alter tbeir butchery was perpetrated, and beforo the scattered pioneers could hear of their crime and gather on their track. You J. W. Denvet ! ought to have followed aud tracked out those assassins! You should have called on your political crony, the Governor of Missouri, to help you why have you not done it? Why are you writing apologies for the miscreauts whom you should be bringing to justice? You say, Sir, that we make another "complaint of the President that he has twice potponed the land sales" in Kan1 sas. No, Sir! nothing like it! "We com plain that he ulakes such po-tpdnement an act of clemency aud favor toward the pioneers, when it is one of s-iuiple and ob vious justice. We complain that he and his satelites are tryiug to make party cap ital out of it, as your letter bears witness. We cosnplaiu that the President's parti sans iu Congress l&st S ssiou defeated Mr. Grow's beneficent bill, allowing ten years to elapse after tbe survey of each tract of the Public Lands before it shall bo forced into market a bill wbich would, if passed, shield the settlers from those premature and disastrous sales" of the lands on which they have squatted, by which they are too frequently driven into the clutches of remorseless usurers. Pass Grow's bill, aud there will be no more occasion for Presidents to make an insultiug parade of clemency toward set tlers on the Public Lands, nor for Gov ernors to try to coin those settlers1 appre hensions and their sense of relief into' dir ty party capital. This is our position, Gov. Donver! If j'ou will read Tun Tribune more ear fully, you will notbe-able to misapprehend", however eager to pervert, it. Tribune: itJAJUIlflEI, In Stroudsbunr. Oct. 22d. 1858 bv tha Rev. J. E. Miller, Mr. Daniel II. Staples. and MiSM HUnn Trieftf - Administration Notice : Estate of Dr, Samuel Stokes, laflTpf' Stroudsburg, Monroe county, decea'adl s r Notico is hereby given that letters of administration upon tho above named' ci tato have bcou granted to the Undersigned by the Rogistorof Monroo County.- Therefore all persons indebted to' fhl Vaii estate will please make im media tepayi nient, and pcrsous having demands, will please present tbem to tho underail'ned for settlement. . f ANNA MARIA STOKES? j . RACHEL S STO'KEf;8! hd Adm i n isiralhxesi. Stroudoburg, Oct. 21,.1853. ' W
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