V ‘ 5’
little ii kiw aM< V .
Fit*..hundred ‘tbouaqpd, fejtlfirt, Wjrelh o
Kansas UemU of
mod a ted with. the bwi l«pd* W wqrifr by
locating immediately.' o The
(Oil ia or the ricffe* 1 ctahtrtw.
eighteen inches to fivofett, tD ftfrdtf »• cli
mate salubrious* the .thermometer ranslyjSC.
never rising «bo»* W 5 deg tees ip theehede.
la Pennsylvania, where wo resided dttnpg
the last suiiimer, it Hot# for ‘
sion at 108 (fog. from ten ocldck, in
forenoon uj three !*» the aneraowu T“®
winters pro comparatively mild with
subject to frequent changes, on atoWnl of
the high altitude of the country. T\ w W
ductions of Missouri, Kentucky and. Ohio
grow here in great abundance. Apples, pea
chea and pears seem well adapted to.the isoil.
Mr. Walker, the intelligent provisional "Gov
ernor of the Wyandot Indians, arid formerly
from northern Ohio, says he raises annually
the most lucious peacherhe ever saw. Mel
ons grow, of mammoth proportion*.
The agriculturist who seeks a new home
in the West should not stop to make a loca
tion until ho has visited this Territory. The
organized emigration of the world is how
turned towards il,'nnd it possesses advanta
ges on this account which are not oflirred by
any western State.
In December last, the Superintendent of
Indian affrirs for the Indian Territory, in hi*
annual report, said, in substance, “ Aside
from the government agent*, troops and mis
sionaries, there are not at tbit lime, three
white inhabitants ih all that region lying
west of the Missouri, and embraced in the
limits of Kansas and Nebraska.” But ten
months have passed since then, and now-in
stead of a population enumerated by a mono l
syllabic, the are many thousands settled all
over the country, and hundreds are pouring
in daily, selecting and staking out farms, on
which they purpose locating wi'h their fami
liar
We confidently predict that in less than a
vcar from this time, we shad number fully
one hundred thousand souls. The lintes in
dicate it. In all the northern Slates; indeed,
in nearly every county, there are movements
Kansas-ward, and frequently the numbers
are so great as to deteriorate the value of
properly, particularly real estate. And why
not ’ Lands in many parts of the north, not
favorably located for a market, or peculiarly
productive, command from thirty to fifty and
seventy-five dollars per acre.
Here the government price is but one doll*
iar and twenty-five cents, and the title deeds
are from the government, hence no question
us to their validity
The cost of turning over the praii ia ran
ges from two to three dollars an acre. The
first crop—usually of corn—will pay the ex
penses of culture : then the farmer with his
hundred acres of the richest land in the
world, perfectly subdued, and capable of
raising any species of vegetation, finds it
costing him from three hundred and seventy
five to four hundred dollars. It is in a con
dition which twenty years of.hard labor in a
limbered country cannot make it; and he
finds himself enabled to produce a luxuriant
cron of vegetation with nearly one-third the
labor required on the " hard pan" soil of
most of the northern and middle States.
Il is true many of the conveniences of a
timbered country are wanted hers ; but those
can oil be supplied by the hand of labor.
“But,” «ays the inquirer, “what will be
done for fences! You have no limber, or
not sufficient, to he used for fencing purposes,
and appears to me impossible to gel along
m suen a country.” In some of the western
PMinc Stales they hare got along very well
"t'iioul limUer, and here, in Kansas, »e ex
pect to gel along still belter. The Osage
Orange, which Is used for hedges, grows in
years, and produces a natural fence capable
of turning aside the largest animals. The
severity of the winter in more northern iali
ludes makes this useless to the prairie far
mers of lowa and Wisconsin ; but here il
will increase, in value from year to year, and
is worth more than a .dozen rail fences,
which'cost such an immense amount of labor
to erect
ll is objected that our market is too far re
moved To those' who are not at all ac
quainted with' our'position la the Republic,
the objection is insuperable ; but to those who
have observed that wejbave bad excellent wa
ter communication with all parts of the worlTT
and that-in two years, at the furthest, we
shall be banded with 'iron, and a railroad
connecting us with Boston and New York,,
along which the steam horse will bo propel|gd
at the rale of from thirty to forty miles an
hour, the objection is worthless. The whole
valley of the Mississippi will furnish us a
market, as will the government trains which
cross the plains (o New Mexico and the
Rocky mountains to Utah, Californio, Ore
gon and Washington territory. Besides this,
we expect a large home market; for me
chanics have already commenced, pouring in
by thousands, and (ha numerous articles
which are imported into other western States
will be manufactured among us. Agricultu
ral implements of every species, which are
imported into other western Steles wilt be
constructed In the Kansas Valley. We are
already talking of our commercial city,
which we claim is to rival the growth of any
western town. Chicago, with its population
ofTO,OOO in twenty-two years; will find her
growth less rapid lhan the Great City of the
Plains, which is to be tbeta!f-way bouse be
tween the Atlantic and Pacific, and the com
mwoia) emporium of North America.
j%a Pacific Rail way will be completed du
ring the next tep yean. It must necessarily
pass along the sQutfiero bank of the Kansas
and up one of its principal tributaries to the
south pass in the Rocky mountains. While
this road is being constructed the surplus
products of the rich farms wfitetr firticy sees
already, covered-with " bending grain and
goldemrinded fruit,” will btPijeeded to aupply
the wants oflt* laborers; ah#the modpyWill
be required in return to .'meet.
wanjtLof ihe Kansas farmer- ■/, -
. i*%io we M]t r «emLoa4iw--fiye hundred
thousand, farmers, wrthiha*
•Ad-we-will
fpfms and the
bounties of
ever shonetipon’.-l"
Apple* are * drug in the down ebat fnftrkct
THE AG'
iraurgaßiMwyjilJUi.jflwT.W, »M-
• j gara the .poor ifovil edffUr, and bads fills go
aboutMe bwnotee!” ■
. RetkswdidyoQgive it t—Oti»dgicgly,.or.as.if
St was a pfeeeant doty J Wu Upteapy kart i* r il I,
Or WW lM coin dung at himwttfi on emphasis thst
mid pUtnerth»i» w«de n“,Yoft.maybe.needy,or.
job m*y °etj hen’s *dqOar to get rid of yen—
cheap at tbit!" If tbe Uttar hs true, good sir, yon
only wounded the aensiiim heart of,poverty (pd
misihrtaas move deeply. Bread IwgfiA *W that
delist would prow tike the heart sfths fabled
Dead Sea spple upon tbs tongue of. Ifif Cfttor- Then,
is little comfort ie osting aßHwaefJiven grudgingly,
even with the aharpened appetite of famine.
Eloquence consists eatenlifllyin Uw.mswiMysp..
propriateneas of. gesture, (he intonation end even in
the expression qf.tbe.sjgcaker's eja. jTbqntoetheaa.
liful imagery and ,the ntpyt eiaUed septiroentaspay,
be tortured into common place by a boogl ing sposk
er. And ao ilia in giviog. There if ,it certain
something conveyed in tbe roonrier.thal precede*
the gill end sonctiilea.it, or impeita it* fiheuty with
the recipient, may- be ; nay, (t is so.- A tender heart
never distils,its bounty coldly, neither doee an on
feeling heart dispense bounty feelingly. Tto one j
acts instinclive)y, iho other roochfiiicalfy: '
Tho charity of kind words' ia TpyeJy beyond des
cription. It rivals the good-will of ahgdif, end ms.
oy a braised bfsrt, end many a broken spirit fade
been healed end lifted np,,aod restored to the path
of virtue end nseffibiese which had’ almost been
abandoned in (he dark hour of misfortune. A kind
word is to easily spoken, and being this offspring of
kindly impulse, la it not strange that the world
should be to chary of diem ? More precious than
fine gold—thh wealth of Terror (he gemsof Gof
conda, and moKyrslefot to the sinking eeUsee then
the balmy winds of Araby, yet coating (he giver
nothing—why should men end women withold the
boon from tho famishing soots amend them?
Misfortune it a common inheritance, and none can
claim immunity from its scourge, lie rich, or its
wheel. Your neighbor may he struck down hfedey,
but boast not—an invisible hand may tmite you to.
morrow. T-ssterdsy be eat down in the lap of
Peace and Contentment, and tbe sunlight of Pros.
parity, fell full upon bis hearthstone. To-day, his
bark it a-wteck oa a shore wrapped in alrppst im
penetrable gWn. To-morrow you may be like him
—no hearth n secure from the terrible visitation, no
hopes sod no heart-flowers are secure from blight.
How many homeless orphans have ■ hailed for a
a season open (he narrow bound that separates a
life of virthe and usefulness from one of vice and
crime, yearning to go back, yet perceiving no sign
of friendly welcome. sn d at last go' downward into
tbe yawning gulf and are lost to the world forever!
And this, when one kind word and a glance of sym
pathy might have saved ! But the world is so ab.
sorbed in plans of selfish getting that it has little
heart for such charity. And so the friendless sod
unfortunate too .often receive instead of the broad of
sympathy, the stone of indifference, and reject the
insulting proffer only to accept the wages of dis
grace andf come. O. careless, thoughtless’ world !
Lei US pus to the charity of judgement and con
demnation. ~ •
There is no lack of means for the punishment of
crime in the civilised world, end no dearth of plans
for the reformation of criminals. Prisons and work
liooscs, gallows, guillotines and scourges—there »
s sufficiency of all these, but how few plans (or the
prevention of crime except in so much as these
differeni modes of wreaking legal vengeance upon
offenders may Betas a preventive by the terrors they
inspire. The philosophy of oar legislators seems
remarkably deficient in respect to the most natural
method of lessoning vice and crime. By far the
greater portion ol our criminal code is os soulless
as an iceberg. The punishment Of-crime seems to
be the grand object, while prevention is secondary
and incidental. Whereas, the prevention of crime
should bo the great object, and punishment only as
a last resort when the means for prevention fail.
’Perhaps civil law can never be an efficient helper
in the prevention of crime, that is, considered as a
direct agent. It may, and should guard the avenue*
through which men find the way to a course of
criminal conduct —il may remove tho incentives to
pursue such a course, in a degree. Bat there are
inducements to do wrong which tho law, however
cunning, cannot remove. Custom must effect their
removal if they be removed. When men and wo.
men learn their duly, and do it, half of the criminal
laws that now lumber the statute books of Christ,
endom, will become useless; fbr one great cause ol
crimeand immorality* Ties in the'World’s habitual
nncharitablcpess in judgement and condemnation.
Look at it If a young than from false education
or from weakness in tbs bewilderment of a moment
of temptation, chances to make a misstep, what is
the world’s action 1 Ob, down with the shameless
rillain 1 Kick him out of society—out of decent
society, beyond the influence of good example! But
what is his crime 1 It may have been bad luck, or
bad management in that bankruptcy was
inevitable. Or, it may be that Rum in an ongoard*
ed moment, wrested the reins of judgment from the
bands of Reason. Or, be may have fallen (or one
short hour, tempted by the davit of the gamingta
ble. No matter, say* the world, down with him,!
He wilt pollute the hearts of oar children, and se
duce them from the path of virtue s
This is all wrong—cruelly wrong. One misdeed
cannot mar the beauty of a good.,character beyond
fbrgireness and reiteration. Thousands of yonng
men have been driven by each uncharitable eandem.
nation to strike out in the moet fitting recklnssnpes
of conduct. The drunkard's grave has swallowed
np ila thousands and tens of thousands, because of
the world’s harsh judgements. How deep ie the
wrong! A mild reproof, a kihd word fitly spoken,
a friendly band extended to the erring man in the
dark boar of awaking mean,' When the tear of re.
pentance steals down hi* Cheek—these things would
rescue IbauCands IVom Crime and Tttin, and tender
them bonefietora of their fellow men, rather than
haters and contemners.
- When I ha world sbaD substitute kind word* and
gentle reproof' fcr id hank judgements, it wiß ham
made a long stride toward the pretention of crime
and Immorality. Bat now, wo to tb* woman who
it dragged befora it* tribunal, the riclim of. tlUalay
and detfeH. Judged by the peers of her sfealroyer,
or the associate* of hey days pt innocence, the may
not hope for mercy. Betrayed* *be it not upfitrtoa
atc, but a criminal, and cannot escape the wrath of
the pHilcaa world. She must go down the broad
toad bpdugfaee and fuin,aoontca»Unsypgoatoastj
—denmad to wallow hUhft Viec ootid erery
rirtuoue inclination j* noted not Wer'crime,*
& *nbtno the
(WslkWaas the: wails vwmd rim
I
shalUnt pp jmf *ho.jbaJt panne with
U» normal endowed «n£'oomthlaiU&r
ed us a guatU'mn nnjcl, how i« it that woman puts
is*
/f~\ T»B TIOGA IC QITMf. AGITATOR.
§s"
off befjoreUeetgaljfejouenine' thejpf a'fiend inch#««» happy# lhe receipt
em# Scute egfewMboee erringboee driven ie taif;* ef cAcM po&tbe*,two baoneiif
peOraNibe wuU’wjreet djllee, bat might hate been be«4rnf e&ege •MmOrf- Other beculenU, jdfl »
recW«md throagt'tbe ahuilabW mierciee of diet ae itrenp ceUare.,
|Bd^CwJncquioa! A «ster, not more foil The timely gift had the gcnul effect to disperse the
i 4 * hroWi*»d~
el deetb, bywooum t 1 fortbewel&re-ofeun'e eelre.ee watt Mbwhodiee
And whet ie the fctejrf the betrayer.! Too,e(sen». j tyat if nM ,'ft torn the way
; land £y the aanlight of wonum’e emilce, he of manauctanoc booth mod ehoe* to order. Aitfaey
rcturna into the booomof that comraonity which are ahd'iuthfaTto'lErieffrrtfdßewfttty so.
lw M oai of ite bright-; licit , jptoeronl fam it |bp (*«*/■ |h^
. eet onumento. TJiere ie Utile rtbake far him in the them. P. EL A« there nee been n ooaelent’ (bower
jinghing jeriTprwqa»»h=4l » ree*rted forth* ter of tofßlpetOdpeteteorwrw»rdr dno* oaretreithe.
tray pardeled|-Hnqll fc*the betrays .ndmpr- cetoe kb*wn tootupotrone, emnhett bwahfejui mm
derer,' She UlhnuiettUlde the pahdf'goeieoete- tioueba in aptlghtneea end eethftftien (hr me.
ty, where the nuHghtpfJoeepeeerfalli, and beyond tiawlnmme. i
the genial influence of good ensmple. Ie tbie the
boeited charity of woaun
Ae yoa hope fat merdy, b* mereifaL If .11 here
not einaed, it i* oqoally reruin that all hare net
been Umptad, Remember that erery kind word
beatawedoo.ee erring woman, pot. e ee. of lore be.
tween her endutldr rain; ee erery henb judgment
pale anangry eoeap of eeora between her end rir.
toe. Lore only can reclaim—acorn, never. Bat
tbannnde wh* are reedy to pereecale lhaee who
diSsf with them in non-eefontieU, forget (may Cod
furgire them!) the. chuity of the .Muter when he
■aid—“ Neither da I condemn thee—go, and (in no
more!" . '' '
Ej/J-i
How Godlike Uut jndgmbnt! Let men end
women ton fion it end look'abroad upon the rain
their opchertlnUeneae has nude. It is » nil eight
— the plsguejpot of Tied purpling in the imtnartal
eoiil! Andfixta&kra by the world's oncheritehle>
near I Virtue il surpassingly lorety, hut it need* no
baptism of teen to sanctify it.
The relatione subsisting between an editor and
correepoodents ere continually miaepprefaended.
Not long since, we reccired a communication on
Land Reform, not without merit, the chief of which
was brevity. Thil communication waa anonymous,
and we slated in a notice that no anonymoua arti
cle* would be published, though we bad no objection
to publishing article* when convinced of the ability
and good faith of the author. Soon ai.er, the author
wailed oa 01, and after a little conversation, wo can
didly told him that we did not think he would be
abb to sustain the part he wished to undertake; add
ing, that «hould be please to write ont the whole »r
-gameut and submit it, we would do with it a* judg
ment dictated. After examining the argument, we
became convinced (aa our readen will be,) that our
first impression* were just. Judging mildly, we can
only aay that aa literary productions, the articles
in question may raok with Mother Goose's Melodies
done into villainous prose by a Hottentot. We ex
tract some of the most juicy portions for the edifica
tion of oor reader* —premising Ural Parnassus never
echoed such sublime strains: I
“ Beasts jn forests ramble free, birds can sing on
bush and tree, unmolested till man decree that (hey
be removed. Does he suppose they ever loved their
forest glens, their rocks and fen* 7"
We rather, giiets not; Listen:
- “ But be loves to hear the kx resound and (he trees
fall down! and it is right he should. And if he did
not claim more than his share, there would bo enough
for him and the bird* that fly in the air 1"
Undoubtedly I Bat hear him :
* Do the; crave the !»nd 7 No, HU not the landt
His •tuning yellow coin, which men have thought
bad power to utc. If bread could not be bought
with it where would be ita power 7 can it 'heal -the
•ick or raise the dead 7"
No; bat it might bay a (traitjacket for oar friend
greatest need at present. Again—-
•* But prophet* have foietald, a {time when god) of
gold, and wood and stabe would •be demolished.
When will that prediclioo be (lilfilled 7”
When oar friend comes to bis senses, probably ,
“ Why are (he poor disdained T wby are so many
warriors trained, on bolds of battle (lain 7 Men arc
bound to die—bat there is no reason why 1”
This will bo news to most people, probably. Bat
here’s something heroic;
» Then wby should man to bla own brother say,
you must starve and you must pay for a place where
you can slay, until your soul is called away, from
earth!’’
Across tots and a crying—should be added to elab
orate oar friend’s idea. Here's a bint at what land
sharks may expect at the Bumming up at alt things:
"Yon never fed Uie hungry nor took tho stranger
in! yes, you took him in, tor yon made him pay tbr
what belonged to him ! you took him in as Satan
took in Eve, when be made her believe that forbid
den fruit waa good 1”
And—
" When you wouldn’t feed bis lambs, nor keep
them (tom the cold, when yon claimed >D the (bid,
and placed lions bold to watch the door. You did
not till a single Util nor vale, but held them all for
tale!!!" I
What nnmitlgaied villains!
This, reader, is a sample of the trash sent us by
Ibis scribbler, with a threat that be will stop his pa
per if we dont print it. Had the threat not been
made, we should not hate exposed him; but we
cannot be bribed nor bullied into printing such silly
■tuff for anybody. Slop the paper by all means,
friend, bat remember that you owe os 60 cents for
it, and settle up.
A distressing accident occurred in Mtddleboty
tovnabip on Sunday last, by which Mr. Zephaniab
Wotden, a scry respectable citipen, lost bis life.
Through the kindness of Ur. I* I. Nichols, we are
in possession of the following particular* i
Sometime in the forenoon, a nephew of the deceas
ed proposed a ramUs in iba neighboring woods,
which was finally assented to. The nephew took
hifirifie along, not, however, eo much with the in
tention of hooting ss'from habit. On their return
heme, in getting osar a bosh fence, the rifle was ac
cidentally discharged, inflicting a mortal wound op
on Mr. Worden, who waa a few pads* in advance
The'halt entertd' behind, jutt above the right hip,
paving entirely through the My‘tad coming ont
oB the lift: side above the hip. The unfortunate man
lingered ibraegb the dsf eed oight iad died on
Hobday. He tesvr* n Wife in foehle btallb, and a
helpless fkmily to dnOorn Ue onlimely '
Mir. WordeO wti a temperate, honest and indns
trioes man, sod highly respected by iB who knew
torn.'
AWhul.—A mufDomed Cnif,io tb« employ of
Judge Nichols at bis Saw-raj!! in Middlebary, bad
a head, badly jammed last- Friday. He wot crowd
ing W log from Iba shoulder of the head-block, when
the beU of tbeauil bar suddenly gave oat. bringing;
hta hand between thahv and tbe descending saw
goi* by whichU wsshemWy ertisbed. •,
latest' rttnmS indUaU CUtkV d*eU*o M
Qo»eh>«r)of New Ydrkv hy- a jwejorilj «f « (ew
IraUdriM'Hfek. , W«:i*n'l «rev till the SUlaCeo
ru* lifbuui »nt of the woods:
[ TW'to
'ip'WSik |jHoo (jtity iij- |JS«)aib«r,
Rtitf Jhtw aeWwtfred poe) rodhtiM.
will lecture in. February.
A Word f Certeipoßdenli.
Here’s a quid for land-sharks:
* When they compel poor men to roam to distant
lands afoot and alone—"
Casualties.
tjj'Tlis puMioftomioo of ibAWstiaWy
came oIT at flUchjnt Hoot* 1 lut'tfrUay ciedlogl
The mernlwis cdnsiiledbfdepUOTstion'aiMl r*4dln j
papers, aleetorehy&eV. J, F. Cifklris, all pleasant.'
ly relieved' with music, birth' vbcsl an t (tlslrhroental.
The declamation wad generally 1 UdiM**-iifrad di twb'
instances a jpjofTstip above the sWrkjfA ’’ 'A* a
whole, the exerbWa Wera mulch leu 'ioonotiMons
than Is usual in ‘ such exhibition*. TvdA of the era
lions elicited much applause, and the Lecture end
Valedictory are wei) spoken Of Thd ifiUsid'W** ex
cellent, psTtieularfylhe InstintnienUl. ,
dodging by Ifao cbeihg exertise* of the fioarter,
we consider the Academy under ftrxt rate manage
ment Mr. Reynold* la doing bit best to raise the
school shove the arsrag* of its and be wUJ
succeed- We commend the School In the patron,
age of ptvedta everywhere.
gspsleen Swtale.
A well-informed correspondent at Paris as
sures us, says (he N. Y. JTribvne, thst the
article on the relations of. Prance and the
United States which we copy, from the Con-
was written, or at least inspireilj
by a personage no less august than the. E
mperor himself We believe this is the fact;
but, even if it were not, the significance of
such a manifesto is hardly diminished. In a
country where the press is iso rigidly shack
led as in France, the Government subjects it
sejf to the inconvenieut responsibility of in
dorsing all the political speculations which it
permits to be published, and no one will pre
tend that such aft article as (he
net's would have been permitted to appear in
any Parts journal without a coreftd conside
ration inthe Foreign Office if not in the Tui
leries. This, therefore, is si least virtually,
and we believe it is actually Louis Napoleon's
bill of complaint against our Government—
his justification of the indignity offered to this
Nation in the person ol its representative, Mr.
Souie. It is the defense proffered to France
and the civilized world of the extraordinary
refusal to an Envoy of the United States of
a passage through the France to the Court to
which ho was accredited.
The grounds on which this grave discour
tesy is justified, it will be seen, are three —
namely::
1. Tho quarrel and duel between the
French apd the American Embassadors at
Madrid';
2;‘ The disregard of M, Dillon’s Consular
immunities at San Francisco;
3.' The Republican aod antirimperal de
monstration of the French exiles in ibis City
in presence of the French fleet then to this
port.
—lt thus appears that of the three grounds
of Mr. Soule’s expulsion from France only
one had any relotion to himself or could pos
sibly have been .averted by him. The Mad
rid quarrels and duels were unfortunate ; we
wish Mr. Soule:and his son hod avoided
them ; yet it must be remembered that their
original cause, so far as any cause is known
to the public, was a very wanton, rtide and
foolish fling at Mrs. Soule, by the younger
Frenchman involved, styling her “ Margaret
of Burgundy,” one of the most profligate and
scandalous women known tollhe French an
nals—and (his with no other oasis than some
alleged resemblance of costume I We readi
ly adroit that it would have been wiser and
nobler in her sop not to have noticed this
silly insuli; and her husband to have hushed
up rather than aggravated this unhappy feud;
but we do not think Franco, her Emperor, or
her Embassador, have any right to claim re
dress for that business.
As to the treatment of Consul Dillon at
San Francisco, it was stupid, brutal, absurd
—anything bad you please to name it—but
was no purpose in it; nothing more culpable
than ignorance and incapacity on the part of
its authors. If our Govern mend has not al
ready apologized and made ample reparation,
it is clearly in the wrong, and i ought lo re
dress the wrong promptly and thoroughly.
We would justify the Emperor in making a
most peremptory demand for redress in the
premises ; but it is neither,.wise npr well to
revenge an unintentional injury as Napoleon
has done.
The. alleged insult to the French flag, and
nation in this oily is no insult at all—at least
none for which our Government can justly
bo held responsible. This is a free country,
in which any .French Baoapartist has a right
to yell “ Free V. Empertur I ” till he is hoarse,
and just as free lo shout “ Fire ia Repub
liquet” if that suits him better. Certain
French refugeesinow residing here ssw fit to
go in a body to ihevicinitypf certain French
ships of war then in portend there indulge
in ejaculations which, would baye been deem
ed treasonable in Paris, . This. may have
evinced: bad lasts.Oß their part—-you may
call it dostaidly, if you will-nMjhpre' you
must stop., They were on American ground,
and they broke Wb American Iswsj . .They
had n perfect right lo sing the Mersellaise or
cry “ Down with the pirjUted despot f’ any
where within our' territory, and those who
did hot ebbose to bear them were at liberty
to keep or go away. So there U really no
thing in thwalleged grievance, -
The JWint which’ giro* all its importance
lo the Conttilutlonntl's article is this: Tke
stoppage of out Ekbattddoi- 6h hlk trtry to
Spain vat a premeditated idcMhtg to the
Vniled Slalu—a retaliation for apts which
Jo djd not and
cpuld notpreyent. He, from
French territory because of .National
misdeeds, and_ notmcrcly or mmptjj hebause
of hiaowp. ~||nqe ytp h?l4.%j??<« l 'hemon
Go Whmo.olrfCt regn4jtho V WsdepiOD
“ but as an Embassador,
the United States, and lo treat it accordingly;
r & n
ifhM^ e E ,r
p We dßpiio|||d ■ few ttys since tpe burn
mgofTMTunn'e! bridge 6p the. Baltimore
■and Susquehanna Jj re miles
south of York, and aince learn that the con
followed by
onao/L lhe rocsH terrible diaaaterajha baa late
ly occurred in railroad travel. It it supposed
that the bridge took ‘(ire from the freight |
trams, which paasedabout half-peslTo’clock
in the.pterpirg, aqd the structure -waai total- J
ly enVeloj»ed in flames before it was diacoir-1
«red by -the- residents in the vicinity. At
about ft o'clock the-frame work of: the bridge
fellthrough, arid among (he spectators, tome,
twenty-in number, was a little- boy . about
twelvoyeara of age, named Eli Rheem, who,
remen&betiag that the express passenger train
was then about due .from York, [started off
ol ihe top Of his speed to endeavor tp, stop
the t#aiDv whtch he knew must be close at
band.' A|s soon as he reached the curve,
about two hundred yards from lliej bridge, he
observed the train coining on at full, speed,
end fearing that he would be .unable to stop
them unless by the ■ use of extraordinary
means, the noble little follow look his position
oo thatrnck, »nd running towards the ap
proaching train with hit. hands raised, caught
the attention of the . engineer, who immedi
ately reversed his engine, and stopped within
four hundred yards of impending destruction,
the piers being some twenty feej, from the
‘rocky bed below, and the gap some sixty feet
wide. Had the boy not placed himself on
the track, be would doubtless bajve failed in
his noble effort, as the engineers are so often
cheated by mischievous boys or| the route
that (hey seldom pay any attention to them.
Even whence slopped he thought that be
had been cheated : |>y a youngster more daring
(ban his hssociates, and was surprised to see
the little flaxettiheaded follow] stand bis
ground, pnd endeavoring to recover his lost
breath to answer his question as to the cause
of his interruption. .We learn tjial the pas
sengers, when they ascertained the cause of
the stoppage of the train, and. viewed the
precipice over which they were, near being
dashed, liberally rewarded the boy for his
presence of mind and daring, and that the
board of director*, at their meeting yesterday,
appropriated ftlOO as an additional recom
pense. Eli Rheem, a boy but twelve years
of age, was the only one of twenty persons
present, most of them men, who had fore
thought sufficient for the occasion.—Balti
more American.
Trial (or Harder while Attempt
ing to Kidnap a Negro.
An individual named McCord was tried at
Xenia, Ohio, last week, for the murder of a
negro whom he was attempting to kidnap,
and was convicted of murder in the second
degree.
“ McCord, riding in a buggy, overlook the
negro, who was afoot, and invited him to
ride. Being then in an Anti-Slavery neigh
borhood, it was agreed between them that The
negro should represent himself as a fugitive
slave, McCord passing for an agent or con
ductor of the underground railroad, the firm
being organized for the purpose of making
a raise" out of such ‘benevolent persons as
they might chance to meet, for the joint ben
efit of the partners. The business, however,
did not prove very lucrative. The only per
son that they met was a lapsed disciple of
George Fox, who replied to their story, that
gold and silver he hud none, but such as he
had they were welcome to, pulling out a bot
tle of whiskey and treating (hem.
“ The first house at which they slopped
was that of Chapman, who informed McCord
that he and his family were Virginians,
and had od sympathy for runaway negroes.
Upon this him,‘McCord changed his plans
and having found the right kind of assistance,
proceeded to cap'ure and bind his late part
ner, with the view of selling him to the near
est market for such commodities. The ne
gro stoutly refused, and even after he had
been secured, as was supposed, he broke loose
and ran, McCord and two of the Chapmans
pursuing, catching and overpowering him ;
in doing which, they so injured him by blows
on the head that be died sijon afterward.—
Life being extinct, they placed the body in
McCord's buggy, and look it some distance
away, where it was found the next morning,
exposed, in a sitting posture, against a tree.
Two of the Chapmans (father and son) were
arrested on their own confession, as partici
pants in the outrage, and indictments are now
pending against them, for trial at the next
term of the Greerie County Common Pleas.
Meantime, they are at large on bail, nnd will
probably leave the country.— N. Y. Tribune.
Miraculous Escape op a Railroad
Train. — A few days ago, when a train on
the New York and Erie railroad was within
half a mile of a bridge, it was hailed by two
or three men, but the engineer supposed them
to be intoxicated, paid no attention to them,
and dashed on at full speed. When near
ing the bridge, however, he discovered that
all did not appear right, and immediately re
versed the engine, and put on the brokers,
and succeeded in sloping (he train just as the
fore wheels of the locomotive ran on the
bridge. The bridge gave way under the lo
comotive and fell about three ieet, and caught
upon some limbers, Which sustained the weight
until the locomotive was lifted and backed off.
One minute more and (he whole train must
have been precipitated a distance of some
sixty feet into a rocky ravine. About two
hundred passengers were on the train. The
bridge was being- repaired, and was suppor
ted by temporary props, whidh could not pos
sibly have born up under the train. : It was
truly a woderfbl escape.
Straw at the White Mousy aiks.—A
correspondent of the Newburyport Jieralit,
writing from (he While Moun
tain*, stated .that he tsfas on Mount Moriah
last week,-and found plepty of snow, bp the
summit. .The snow is three feet deep on the
top. of Mount Washington.
. Baeim aM> Past Snows.—The bachelor
editor of iba Boston Ehrtiiiicle writes ss fol
lows : Wo don’t .believe in baby shows.
Babies are ralsed’fesl enough, already, with
out baby Socfdtiek 1 offering• prittes to make
them grow faster Wo objfctt to
bahVM. ..especially when they talk of getting
op conTentione bf tnctn.’’
Dotraodri fin 111 Mmmtrmtet
Ihenfy-eifit BviUingt Burned!
The mosldestructtveSre that erer visited
Montrose, ocouredon the. morning of Friday
last, November 10th. At about 6 o’clock A.
M., the alarm was given, and two contiguous
buildings, the Store of Bentley & Read tod
A. Baldwin’s Saddle and Harness Shop, were
found to be on fire/ The Fire Engine was
speedily on (he ground,'hut the flames had
made so mucji. progress that all the efforts of
firemen and citizens seemed of little avail,—
With a compact raw of wood buildings, filled
. with inflammable materials, before it, the fire
spread with remarkable rapidity. Sweeping
westerly beforotbe wind, it destroyed ill th e
buildings on the South aidu of Turnpike it.,
from Bentley & Read's Store to the residence
of Allred Baldwin, which was saved by great
exertions. -Towards the East it extended to
M. S. Wilson’s Store which was destroyed
but his dwelling house was saved. Front the
corners of Turnpike and Main streets, it
spread towards the South, and all the build
ings on both sides of the latter street were
burned, as far down as Hawley’s Blacksmith
Shop and the buildings next above Keeler’s
Hotel, on the East side, and on the other side
as (ar es the' residence of the widow and heirs
of thp Jale VVilliarrf Turret!, which,
though’several'limes on fire, was finally sav
ed. Searle’s Hotel and the. Store of Isaac L.
Post dc Co., on the corners of Turnpike at.,
and Public Avenue were in imminent danger,
and they, as well as a number of other build
ings on the North side of Turnpike street,
were at times on fire. The Livery Stable of
D. D. Hinds escaped with a severe scorch
ing. L. Post's residence was the only
brick building cteslroyed, and, indeed, the
only one in town except the new Court House.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Montrose Register,
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)trac-
The Pennsylvania Telegraph.
Wo warn five thousand new Subscribers lo
ihe Telegraph, and give the following rea
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First. —lt is the only English paper pub
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Administration of JAMES POLLOCK, ana
oppose the inquiries of Franklin Pierce & Co.
Second. —The approaching SESSION OF
THE LEGISLATURE, owing to its peculiar
construction, will be one of unusual interest,
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Third. —We have been deprived of some
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Fifth. —VVe shall wage exterminating war
fare against the NEBRASKA INFAMY, ana
POLITICAL ROMAN CATHOLICISM
we shall advocate immediate and stringent re
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hopes fixed upon PROHIBITION; we snail
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but Americans be placed on guard anu
aid in procuring iho extension of ibe| proba
lion of such foreigners as shall lord upon our
shores after 1855, to twenty-one years ; »e
shall oppose (he extension hf slavery to terri
tory now free, and battle for the immediate
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