SfUmntyaUcr 3« £errfsetn tiefe SRcpublif JU r P XJ fr A /TJ.T T-V A r FjOT2 madjen, for Pert man bit ©timmen Per freien' A -L ‘ 4 . • Strbeiter, Per armen ©anbitrn, retc Per 25irgin« icr giftblipb Re nennb. gteie Slrklter, feiP . >. . 3br bercit, Pem ©ruilpfafi 311 6u(pi en, PaR •.•All BusM.e.s.andotl.erComft.umcat.onsmust v 1 m <• 1 ,~ f ,’ 9 >l V u q be addressed lo lue F#dilor to insure attention, titlejocißenStrbcitcr ©flatten fclnßotten? <BciP ■ __■ ibr berett, Pie frctc Strbctt fur cin mifjlungencb gefettfdjaftlictyea Srpcciment ju etllnren ? ®ut, Panu Rimmt fur Pie ©flattcnjudjterpartel unP 3omeP Studjamm! —(3U. ©tjtng.) A Scene of Horror. Nearly Three Thousand Lines Lost. One of (he items of new* by the Canada is an awful earthquake in the Moluccas in volving a loss of nearly three thousand lives. A spectator writes to on English journal: “ The glowing lava streamed downwards wish irresistible force in different directions, bearing with it whatever it encountered on Us destructive course, and causing the sea to boil wherever they came in contact. The hot springs opened np, and oast out a flood of bailing water, which destroyed and carried away what the fire had spared. The sea obedient to an unusual impulse, lashed the rocks with frightful violence, dashed upon the shore and heaved itself with a wild haste against the land as if it strove to overmaster the fire stream. The frightful picture of destruction, the horror of which was increased by the shrieks of men and beasts, the wild roaring of the tempest, and the crashing of thousands of trees lorn tip and carried away, was followed, about an hour later, by peals of thunder which shook the ground and deafened the ear. A black column of stone and ashes then shot up from the mountain to an immense height and fell, illumined by the glare of the lava, like a shower of fire upon the surrounding country below, producing a darkness that, only now and then momentarily broken by the dishes of lightning, was so intense, that people could nol discern objects close at hand, and which completed iheir confusion and de spair. Large stones were hurled through the air, cru-iiing whatever ihqy fell upon. Houses and crop-,, which had not been destroyed by fire, sunk and disappeared beneath the ashes and atones, aud the hill streams, slopped by those barriers, formed lakes, which, breaking over their banks, soon proved a new source of dc-u rumor. M. H. Cobb, sdii»r. RA, v Thursday Rt'o'rnin'g, August 91, ’56. Slate Ticket. Canal Commissioner, THOMAS E. COCHRAN, of York. Auditor Central, DARWIN PHELPS, of Armstrong. Surveyor General, BARTHOLOMEW LAPP RTF., of Bradford. The Campaign Agitator. For the accommodation of many non-subscribers, and for Ihe belter diffusion of important political in formation among the people, we offer the Agitator from this issue, (July 31,) lo Nov. 15, or for 15 weeks, on Ihe following terms: 10 copies at 2 cents per number, for $3 00 20 copies 5 00 30 copies 7 00 and for any number less than ten copies, 2 cents a week lor each copy, or 30 ccnls for the campaign. These terms are 25 per cent, less than they ought lo be in order lo remunerate the publishers. But this is not a speculator's offer. There is no pottage on the paper sent to subscribers living in the County. There are five persons confined in the Blair coun ty jail on a charge of murder. How is that, Major 1 When the news of Fremont's nomination reached California, there was great rejoicing. California is certain for Fremont by an overwhelming majority. From present appearances Buchanan cannot carry one free Stale. This lasted some hours. About midnight the raging elements sank to rest ; but on the following day, about noon, they again re sumed their work of deslruciion, wi'h renewed violence In the meantime, the fall of ashes rontinuod without intermission, and was so thick on this day that the rays of the sun could nm penetrate through it, and an appal ling darkness prevailed. We learn that Mr. E. E. Burlingame, graduate of Union College, has been engaged to lake charge of the Academy in this village, Term lo commence September 9, Mr. B. has had five or six years ex perience in teaching, and conics highly recommend cd. The editor of the Wayne. Herald is informed that there arc many men hereabout who knew Bigler the raftsman infinitely belter limn he knows Bigler U. S. S-, and that wo speak from data. What he says about our (l carly education and aristocratic tastes,” may pass for what it is worth. We com mend him to Ihe uncanonized. Scarcely recovered in some degree from their fright, the inhabitants of this desolated part. n r Sangir were again disturbed by an eruption on the 17'h March, which destroyed manv fields and a great number of trees on the Tabukan side. Since then Hie volcano has remained quiet, the oniv symptoms of its woikiog has been the smoke rising up in all directions from cracks and (issues in ihe ground. On the oilier side of Kandno., the ex . treme norih point of the island, ihe appea^ m »i ■ —v.eywtrfr i mnr w ncTl For the accommodation of our German readers we havo introduced into our paper a German de partment. We shall there present the importance of the present issue as considered by Hecker, Kcer ner, Hoffman and their compeers, wilhoul word or comment. The expense fulls upon the publishers. Should our friends sec fit lo help defray that outlay rirpiilalion »n those neighborhoods Xlie il f has la ken place al Taruna. For here, whore formerly ihere were seen extensive fields bearing all kinds of crops, and thickly planled and endless groves of cocoa nuts, we now find nolhingjbut lava, stones, and ashes. The liquid fire seems at this point to have flowed from the mountain with irresistible force and But a Tew weeks since we defined the nature ol our opposition to Mr. Buchanan, and said further: "If we understand the Republicans of Tioga Co., they do not oppose Buchanan because he has been a Federalist, or that ho is said Ur have advocated a reduction of the wages of labor, or that be is tho’l at one lime to have contemplated (he possible exist, ence of a drop of democratic blood in Ins vein* -“'A horror; they oppose him been.— -Ac rsihe open and avowed chamnio- or Slavery extension.” in prodigious quantity. Not only has this fearful flood, as it were, buried the whole district and all that was upon it, but after having caused this destruction over an o»i™t of several miles, il was still powerful enough, on reaching the shore, to form two long ton jongs (capes'! at places where the depth of water lormerlv consisted of many fathoms. The loss of life has been great. It is esti mated as follows in Ihe under-menlionod dis tricts ;—Taruna, men, women and children, 7212; Kandhar, men, women and children, 45 ; Tabukan, men, women and children, 203 k. Total, 280 G The greater number met their death in the gardens. Thev fled in all directions, but were overtaken and swaljowed up by the fatal fire stream. Some tried to save themselves in the trees, but were either carried away with them or killed by the scorching heal. At Ke. langan and Tanang the houses were filled with people who were slopped in their flight by the lava streaming down on all sides, and the streams of boiling water, and who met their death under the burning ashes and the tumbling houses. Many who had reached the shore and thought themselves safe, be came a prev to the furious waves, and many died through sheer despair and agony. mo editor of the Lycoming Gazette copies this among other things in our article, and adds: “A more wilful, deliberate and malignant false, hood never was penned by an opposition editor than that contained in the last sentence of that para graph. It is purely and entirely a Black Republi can creation. Not the faintest shadow of justifica tion has Mr. Buchanan ever furnished in his whole life, by word or act, for such an assertion.” W e bold that every man is responsible for every word he utters. When we give a man the lie we arc prepared to prove him a liar. Should we fail to prove it, then we should be honorably bound to re-, tract as publicly as we affirmed, or, refusing, to be branded ns a liar and a coward. This is a rule nc knowlcdgcd by all honorable men ; wc hold the cd ilor of the Gazette amenable to il; wc hold him answerable to us individually for bis language, silo'd we prove Buchanan “the open and avowed champi on of Slavery extension.” This we shall do. 1. In October 185-t, Messrs. Buchanan, Mason and Soule, Ministers to London, Paris and Madrid, held what is known as the Ostend Conference. A paper emanated from lhat Conference now known as the Ostend Manifesto. We learn from Ihe paper itself, that the object of that Conference was the ac quisition of Cuba, in order to prevent the possible emancipation of the slaves in that Island ' This is not inferential, but direct and explicit. That Mani festo lice before us at this moment. After saying that should Spain refuse our offer for Cuba, though the price offered far exceed its actual value, then, says lire Manifesto— —“lt will be lime to consider the question—does Cuba in the possession of Spain seriously endanger our internal peace and the existence of our beloved Union ? Should this question bo answered in the affirmative, (Acn, every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it ftom Spain, if we possess that power .” A little further along it is explicitly declared lint the casus belli in this case, is in the event of the Af ricanization of Cuba. Read it: The ’Election of Mr. Buchanan to Fasten Slavery in Kansas. —The Gettys burg Star calls attention to the fact that after Buchanan was nominated, the Locofocos of Richmond, Va., had a ratification meeting at which Henry A. Wise made a speech.— In this speech he urged as a main reason why Buchanan should be elected, that his election would result in the admission of Kan sas as a Slave Stale, which would open a new market for Virginia negroes and largely in-1 crease the profits of the traffic and the Value of the article. Under this view, we expect much of ihe South to go for Buchanan. But will virtuous, respectable, humane Christian people in the North vote for a man whose election is to give a new impetus to the abom inable and unholy trade in human beings, as good before God, ns James Buchanan or Henry A. Wise 1 Let no man who voles for Buchanan, wiih this fact before him, ever dare to talk to his neighbor about Chris, lianity, a love of freedom or regard for the Declaration of Independence. —“Wo should, however, he recreant to duly—be unworthy of our gallant forcfalliere, and commit base treason against our posterity, should we permit Cuba to be Africanized and become a second St. Do. mingo, witli all its attendant horrors to the while race, and suffer the flames to extend to our neigh boring shores, seriously to endanger or actually to consume the fair fabric of our Union." To tliis document is subscribed the name ofJas. Buchanan. Here, then, Mr. Buchanan is “the open and avow ed advocate of Slavery extension/’ as we declared in the extract quoted in the Lycoming Gazette, We have produced Mr. Buchanan's own language to substantiate that declaration; and we submit that hs who denies the truth of the premises upon which our declaration is founded, questions not oar verac ity but that of Jaubs Buchanan, The Vote op Lancster County.— The friends of Mr. Buchanan have senl abroad the boast that he will have six thousand ma joriiy in this county ! And some them have the bump of hope so marvellously developed as to credit such presumption hero. Instead of six thousand majority for Mr. Buchanan, there will bo more than three thousand against him, in this county. Mark this pre diction. No one acquainted with public opinion in the county will put it at less ; and the probability is that it will be much more. Lancaster Ind. Whig. We might properly rest here. We have made our defence and repelled the lie. No man shall impeach our veracity with impunity. When we give the lie to an opponent it is not in play—it is not in anger; it is in the spirit—that spirit which nerves all honorable men wben their honor is attacked and their manhood insulted. When we give the lie to an opponent it is done deliberately and with tire proof of his mendacity at hand. The editor of (he THE T 1 QUA CPU XT Y AGITATO r-. .. rr ■- ■ i n i' 1 GaitUe lallcr pis^utibn; maijdi' a charge&jft Uie proo(&ere prewflled; and fctfieriog him ti&w an bon«ble '.'and as BucfrifeadyVl all Un|| to repair gf in- ma, fe+ L .'■' ;l,ly f lail . “~ys i»,. jurifcj"he mayilifllei upoh hie peerar »» awatf'ms reply, llierslbre,.BjUiQPpfi!icnce—wronging hi{n not even by soapicion. The farther evidence of Mr. Bac|fcMsiibH>«s'vel^princi|&4»lp|re#W6«&tSl,' i ‘ere therefore entirely gratuitous. : • _ ( We quote from the JJicAmond Eaquirer, one bf the most zealous Buchanan papers io the Union: '•* . . “The Nebraska, bill and the Cincinnati platform correct all this, (the evil growing out of _ the at* tempi to restrain BlaVerJ W Ihb Midsopj) Cpaiprp* mise,) and if ratified by the people will prove a meaa-1 ureof peace—because they assert the-doctrine of; Stale equality,and remove lb? °f wrongdonc the South- by the Missouri Con^^"* 1 *- In e / ec f, they admit that the social system of theSoathis at tigktful,jast and expedient as that of the ivortA.* , Tiie argument properly staled is, then;— That which is rightful, just and expedient is also beneficent, and should prevail everywhere j Slavery is rightful, just and expedient , holds the Cincinnati platform; u I am placed upon a platform of which 1 most heartily approve—ichich leaves me nothing to say” — says Mr. Buchanan; and therefore, Mr, Buchanan holds Slavery to be rightful, just and expedient, and therefore that it should prevail everywhere. Kick to your hearts' content, gentlemen, there you are. In conclusion, we will forfeit ll*e best hat tltatc&ii be purchased for $5, if we cannot prove according to the beat received rules of reasoning, that Mr. Bu chanan is in favor of establishing Slavery in every State and Territory on the Continent. Provided, that any one of our editorial friends or enemies shall agree to forfeit a hat of equal value, should we succeed. Great Fremont mass meeting! 6000 PEOPLE IN COUNCIL I ' The Republican Maas Meeting at Osceola on the 13lli instant, was unquestionably the largest and most enthusiastic gathering of the people ever wit nessed in Tioga county, if not, indeed, in Northern Pennsylvania. usurped the of men, stood by idly gai- i ojh . glare of the night we did teJire knjlikn, bovver. We thought of the pof nlbr argument ngainstadmitlmg Woman to the rights of citizenship—‘•They arc uncqual to the discharge of the severe duties devolving upon citizens; it Is ii<T tinae* them!’’ All very nice, fastidious sir; but had'll not been for a few heroines on Saturday morn-' ing, tfae> fire.tad not stopped .where it did. We hear no complainkftf .Woman fur mixing in that crowd ; not et[en frptp those sexless bipeds who stood idle while she minord the waler-btrckels. Summed up, it amounts to this: She may labor when man —she may support a drunken husband and a help less family—may be taxed; but may not rote or hold office. Nicb arrangement, very. The fire probably originated m a box of ashes in Mr, G's woodhonse. Take a bint Another. —We learn that Wells’s Steam Mill, in Middlebnry, was burned on the same day evening. Loss, not ascertained. Another. —The dwelling of Mr. James Mann near Tioga Turnout, was destroyed by fire on the next day afiernoon. Loss not given. The morning was dark, chill and unpromising. Bat by eight o’clock the sun dissipated the heavy vapors and looked down upon the day and the occa sion with the kindliest of radiant faces. Wo recog. nized in the changeful morning a symbol of the progress and destiny of the cause of Freedom,’ which, but two years since seemed, perishing in clouds and gloom. It Is changed now; the sun of truth has dissolved the clouds and scattered th* gloom, and the bow of promise spans the Western sky* By ten o’clock the symptoms of a grand rash be came apparent. First came the Charleston, Wells boro’ and Middlebury delegations, headed by a band of mounted Kansas volunteers, thirty in number, from Middlebury. This troop made an jadmirable display and exhibited a good degree of discipline. Following came a long line of with freemen and streaming with flogs and banners in scribed with appropriate mottoes and various devi ces. The largest, and in many respects the finest delegation we saw, came in part from Poller county. This delegation was said to number 1,500. A wag on containing 32 ladies, bearing flags representing the 31 Stales and Kansas, was one of the 6nest ar rangements on the ground. Kansas appeared habit, cd in mourning. This wagon hailed from Knoxville as we learned. COMMUNICATION. There will be a Union Sabbath School celebration at Wellsboro’ on Thursday the fourth day of September next. The various schools will meet at ihe Presbyterian Church in Wellsboro’ at 12 o'clock P. M. from which place the procession will start at 1 o’clock P. M. Distinguished speakers from abroad will be present and address the schools. The Charleston Brass Band will be in attendance. Tioga and Lawrence came in in good style, and 111/ Sllll uaiKICtD, ZIUUpMJIiIg, V* UOUfIUII, nnui. son, over the line, sent each, fine delegations. Cly. mcr, Brookfield, Westfield, Brookfield and Farming, ton were well represented. Chatham and Dclmar were also there—making, with four bands of Music one of the most imposing arrays we ever have wit nessed. 'i The speakinir /— •«—«nceit at I, P, M. _ Rev, N, I-. Reynolds, late of this place, opened with a short, but pithy speech, in which the duly of a minister of Hie Gospel was excellently well defined. Mr. R. is now in a position where he can be useful, and we rejoice that he is determined to declare the whole truth, hit who it may. L. P. Williston, Esq., followed in a brief but tell ing speech, in which the crimes of the Slave Power were exposed and denounced without reserve. He gave way to J. C. Smith, Esq., of Canandaigua, N. Y., who spoke ably and effectively for an hour and a half. He touched the question at issue in ev ery spot, and was frequently interrupted with ap plause. Judge Wilmot was then announced, and took the stand amid cheers and a boisterous clapping of hands. Although fatigued with Several days’ unre mitting labor in the political field, he acquitted him self with that ability which underlies and sustains his merited popularity. He approached his subject systematically, and thus enabled that vast audience to follow hint without effort. He considered the State as certain for Fremont. This announcement was received with enthusiastic applause. The number present is variously estimated from 4000 to 10,000. We consider 6000 a fair and lib eral estimate. Several fights were reported, but we saw none. A crowd of drunken fellows hurra’d for Mr. Bach anan—for which that gentleman is in no wise re sponsible. No liquor, we are assured, was sold on the ground. It came in privalejugs and bottles. Fire in WelUboro’ —At about half past twelve o’clock on Saturday morning, 16lh insL, a fire broke out in the dwelling owned and occupied by Mr. S. E. Ensworth on Main sl.,and gained such headway before an effective force reached the scene that the family had barely lime to escape with such articles of clothes as chanced to lie at hand. A few articles of furniture were saved, but the greater part together with the wardrobe of the family, was de- Blrojcd. Th« dwelling of J. F. Donaldson, Esq., being rep. aralcd from the burning building by a space of only about four feet, was gulled and abandoned, as, with no engine or efficient organization, it was inevitably doomed. A stand was made at the house of Hon. R.G. While, the roof and exposed sides protected with carpels kept constantly wetted, and favored by the extreme calmness of the night, the’building was saved and the Bre arrested. As might be expected, considerable damage was causelessly done both to building and furniture. Mr. Enswortb’s loss is estimated at $4,000. No insurance. Mr. Donaldson’s loss estimated at 82,500. Insur ance $1,600. We have not heard Judge While's loss estimated. Sabbalb School Anniversary. It may be proper to indulge in a few remarks touching the general conduct of the citiiens on the ground. A great many false moves were mode; in the absence of discipline and one leader. Where all lead, none follow. But under the circumstances the defence was remarkably well made. ,We mark, ed 50 good and true men, a* few of them yet in the ’teens, but men, who never gave an inch till the dan get was past. And there were many r(oble women, there, who stood in the ranks and passed water for hours, while a few (thank God creatures who bid The following named gentlemen have been appointed commiliee of arrangements. S. E. Ensworth, John .Gray, W. W, Mo- Dougall, B. V. Ogden, Ferdinand Robinson, William Francis, Simeon Bacon, Robert Campbell, Isaac Fields, Selar Satierly, Seth Clark, Isaac Wheeler, J. L. Kingsbury, Cyrus Darll, Cyrus Callin, .Tosiah E. Lyon. A cordial invitation is extended to the various sabbath shools and day-schools in this vicinity. LATER EROM KANSAS. Ruffianism and Rascality. We copy the following, items from The Kansas (Topeka) Tribune of July 28 : On, Friday, the 19th instant, a lame man who was teaming for Mr. Barriclo, from Pal myra to Kansas City, was taken by a band of ruffians, headed by Coleman the murder of Dow, who assumes to be their captain.— His load, consisting of provisions which cost one hundred dollars in Kansas City, was taken from him, and he barely escaped with his life. The curses and threats of extermi nation of the Free-Stale settlers were long and loud among them. Several others have been robbed of both provisions and money. Horse-stealing is carried ton by this band of desperadoes on such a wholesale, that there are now hardly any horses in the hands of the Free-State settlers in that vicinity ; not only do they slop and plunder teams, farm houses, &c., but several attempts have been made to mur der. We are informed that last Thursday to be an uncompromising Free-State man, just after returning from Lawrence, while picket ing out his horse, was fired at by two ruffians, who had secreted themselves in some brush near the path, where he proposed feeding.bis hnrgp- —s?iypronTpfTy returned the fire, when the ruffians took to the bushes, onesof them limping as he went. This Coleman has erected a log fort at the head of Bull Creek, which is about fouileen miles east of Palmyra, which is manned by about 90 armed men, and three cannon. It is al this place that all the plunder in the shape of provisions,- guns, &c., is deposited by their guenilla parlies. And what makes the case still more aggravating is, that Com pany I,of the United States Dragoons—who have been enrolled by order of the Adminis tration from Col. Buford’s company, who conducted themselves so gallantly at the des truction of Lawrence, that Pierce, Douglas and Buchanan thought it necessary to lake them into the regular service, in order that they might have men to rely upon to do their dirty work—have been stationed at Palmyra, to defend the settlers, but instead of resisting the “law and order” bands which are prow” ing around (hem, thpy allowed and even par ticipated in their rascalities. Where are those four valiant companies that were brought up in battle array before Constitution Hall on the 4th of July, who were so eager to disband all armed bodies in the Stale—so much so that they even dashed through and broke up a 4th of July celebra tion ? Where are they? Echo answers, Where? when they are called upon to dis band a company of Pro-Slavery men. BRUTALITY OF COL. TITUS. We learn from a reliable source that Col. Titus—Gov. Shannon’s right-hand man, and ihe same one offering 8500 for the head of Capt. Walker, a few days ago altempled to take possession of a claim belonging to a Free-Stale man by the name of Smiih, who resides near Lecompion, and was one of the first settlers, Titus look advantage of Smith’s absence, went to his claim, tore down the house, and erected a shanty of his own. On Smith’s returning and finding- his house de molished he rallied a few of his neighbors and reerected it. He had not much more than got it up, however before Titus came along with a few of his crew, and ordered him off; which order he didn’t seem to be very hasty about obeying. Titus became impatient; and, seeing that he was much the largest man, both in regard to bulk and gas, and as he bad plenty of his crew to back him, he con cluded that he would be perfectly .safe in at tempting a fist-fight. After pounding Smith to his heart’s content, and leaving him help, less upon the ground, he ordered one of his men to gp and set fire to his building. -The man was rather reluctant about obeying so tyrannical a mandate, when Titus drew his revolver and threatened to shoot him unless he obeyed. He accordingly set fire to the building, which was burned to the ground. Shannon’s attention was immediately cal led to these facts by Smith’s friends; he ipromised them that he would attend to it, and ha did so, the day following, by ordering on a company of U, S. dragoons, to defend •Titus l&umetl n||jt to* the claim and v Damnible As this of the appointee flf President fierce immßseem to some, it is stficlljrTh ' accordahfiewilh bis previous course, and.wiihihe.spirilof this great Dera ogr£tic Administration. Every, step that has t>6en mien by and its supporters in regard to Kansas, has bad but one idea—to drive out or exterminate every Free-Slale, ’settler.' 1 1 1 They find that all lheir threats—the des* trueuon of a large amount of our property V»y fire and bail, the incarceration of some of -our-prominent citizens-in jail,-and even in irons, and the cold-blooded murder of others, have failed to intimidate us, and now they propose to resort to the last expedient, that of driving freemen from their homes because they dare to differ with them in sentiment, and yet we are told that the time has not yet come to act. We would like to know when it will come. Will it be when a company of United Stales Dragoons are stationed on every claim to protect soma hound like Titus who wishes to enjoy the fruits of an honest man's toil 1 or will it be when we are all tied hand and foot and confined under a guard of United Stales troops, or hung to the nearest oak ? THE KANSAS LEGISLATURE. from the Richmond Ta. Enqulrtr, The llnoari Compromise the parent •(. Abolition. This boasted rpeasuropfp§#ce, was la truth the parent of abolition, if. asserted the right ia Congress to exclude slavery from a portion of the territories end invited the grasp, ing and fanatical of the North to ex. elude it from all the territories: for there atas no principle which would justify its exclusion from a part, that did not equally justify its exclusion from the whole. If slavery wait a bad institution, and vie* lative ol the rights, and the moral add reli gious feelings of the people North of 36° 30 minutes, the same objections applied with equal force to ita admission South of that line of latitude. David WHmot saw this, and raised the standard of Free Soiltanv, and of total exclusion of slavery from all the lerrila. ties. Thousands docked to his standard, and had like to have rent the Union asunder.— Free Soilsm » the legitimate fruit of this boasted Compromise. But the abolitionists, went further. They saw. that this compromise rested on the as sumption that slavery was wrong and inexpe dient ; and if so it was equally the duty of Congress to remove it from the States, by the direct or incidental exercise of ail its consti tutional authority as to exclude it from the territories. The border papers are exulting over the idea that a final nonplus has been given to the Kansas Legislaiue, and even some of our Eastern letter-writers are viewing the matter in the same light. They must have got their impressions from other sources than the Free- State men, for no such idea is or has been entertained for a moment among us. The orders of Col. Sumner were to prevent the Legislature from meeting on the 4th of July, and by the aid of the United Slates army he enforced his orders. But there was no prom se given that they would not meet at some subsequent time. And when the members went to their homes, they did so with the ex pectation of being called together again in a short lime, and their expectations will be re alized. It only remains for the Executive' officer of the Slate to issue his call for an extra session, and we believe that there is not a member that will not respond to it with a hearty good will, and fulfill toihe letter the: object for which they were chosen by their fellow-citizens —the orders of President Pierce to the con'rary notwithstanding. It is idle to suppose that the people of Kan sas are to be defeated in their object, without a prompt and decided effort on their part to secure to themselves Justice, and enforce throughout the Stale the principles pf right and of self-government. Other Territories have formed for themselves State Govern ments, and have befen allowed to lake their position within the circle of the Union, when not as old as we are, and with a population not half as stable as ours. What reasonable excuse can there be lor excluding us ? There is none. We have a population sufficient for a State organization, have fulfilled all the re quirements of the General Government, in forming a State organization, have drailed and adopted a Slate Constitution—one, 100, which gives universal satisfaction, so much so lhai on the day of its adoption there was siltuVioa" wemleittP to v ?orra a'fefe ihi&B; and putjthem inio effect; and with them we intend to bo admitted into the Union, or re main as an independent §iale outWii. The . it, only as to lime. The cannon and bayonets of Pierce, Douglas and Buchan an have only delayed its operations a few days. The final result will be just the same as if permitted to go in at the commence ment. And when the Representatives of the people meet again, it will be with their con stituents around them prepared to defend them in any emergency, and enforce their enactments. The tyrants will find that it is something besides boy’s play, when they again attempt to send home the Representa tive of a Free People. PUBLIC LANDS. We have several limes heard it intimated of late, that the lands in Kansas would be brought into market much earlier than n has been generally supposed—that a trap of this kind is about to be sprung upon the Free- State settlers, in order to lake them unawares, and unprepared. While the Blue Lodges and other secret orders on the borders will be prepared with money to purchase the claims from under the Free-Stale men the moment it comes into market, as they are beipg sup plied with funds from the South, by lecturers who are there now making appeals to them in behalf of their “ peculiar institutions.” Time only can determine, whether there is any truth in those reports or not. We know, however, that it would be in aeeordance with the ideas of Pierces, Douglas and Buchanan, and if they could by any such means forci bly eject the Free-State settlers from Kansas, instead of murdering them in cold blood as they at first designed, we suppose that it would answer their purpose full as well.inas much as they find it not a very easy job to drive freemen from (he homes which they have made with their honest toil. "Where there is a will there’s sway." 1 Mr. Fillmore and other zealous abolitionists asserted the ngbt of Congress to prohibit lbs sale of slnves from one Stale into another.— Thus the Missouri Compromise brought forth Free Soil ism, and led Mr. Fillmore and the extreme abolitionists to propose, in effect, the abolition of slavery in the States, by the pro. hibiiion of the domestic slave trade. The Nebraska bill and the Cincinnali plsf form correct all this, and if ratified by the people will prove a measure of peace—be cause they assert the doctrine of State equali ty, and remove the stigma and the wrong done the South by the Missouri Compromise. In effect, they admit that the social system of the South is rightful, just and expedient as that of the North. Honorable men at the South, except in the heat of a Presidential canvass, can never be satisfied with any other terms of compromise or adjustment, than that .coatained in the Cincinnati platform. Yet we regret to find that there are honorable men at the South, now that parly excitement has blinded them, who ate ready to submit to the re-enactment of a Compromise that in sulted and cheated the South, and was the sole, prolific parent of every form of abolition. Fraught with mischief before—rila revival would be the knell of the Union. An Outrage at Cape May. — We learn that on Sunday afternoon, about 5 o'clock, an outrage, which produced considerable ex citement, occurred at the Mount Vernon Ho tel, Cape May. It appears that several young men were sealed in the room, and one of them drinking wine. A waiter, Joshua Gibbs, who is said to be a very civil and inoffensive man, was passing below, when for mischief or with some more desperate object, a glass tumbler was thrown at him. He turned and remarked, that “ the act was not that of a gentleman,'’ and then, made bis way back to the hotel with i(y> pbiecl of making complaint. At this one of the young men—the son of a highly re spectable citizen of Washington—oecame ex cited, and hastened down stairs, armpd with a pistol and a dirk ! A collision soon a/ler took place, and the waiter was stabbed in the back. The wound is said to be about aainch deep and not dangerous. A physician wae immediately called in and every attention was paid lo the sufferer. The lather of the young man expressed himself as deeply pained hy the occurrence, and proffered all the assistance and reparation m his power. The affair, however, was the theme of con versation throughout the evening, and the colored waiters generally much incensed. Wtym wil the hot headed young men of this country learn to control themselves! And when will the cowardice practice of carrying deadly weapons be abolished!— Phila. Jnqui. rer oth. Insolence of a Southerner Sternly Rebuked.—An incident occurred on Satur day in one of the cars of Ihe New Jersey Railroad, by which the overbeirance and in solence of a Southern gentleman was stri kingly rebuked by a gentleman from New York. A gentleman from Maryland, in com pany with two ladies, in drawing some water from the tank in the cars, accidentally spilled some on a gentleman from New York, sitting near, which the latter quietly brushed off, but in so doing accidentally struck his hand against one of the ladies, for which be imme dialely apologized. The Southerner, however, became much enraged, and threatened to thrash him; the reply was that the result might be the re verse, when the Southerner retorted by stri king the other in the face, for which he was promptly knocked down, landing at full length at some distance off in the car. When he arose, the New York gentleman handed him his card, saying he could find him at any time. The Southerner finding he was getting the worst of it, offered to apologize privately! which the other refused, demanding an apolo gy before the whole car load, which was done. The New York gentlemen then advised him to be more careful neat time he attempted to impose upon a Northerner with his Southern insolence. —Newark Daily Adv. Why have not the murderers of Dow and other free Stale men in Kansas, been arres ted ? Simply because the Kansas bill was passed for the purpose of enabling Slavery to go into Kansas, and killing off Iree Slate men is a part of the programme. Every prominent free state man in the Territory has been indicted for no crime whatever, except that of being a freeman, and not a single pro-Slavery man has yet been arrested for any offence, although they have robbed the free state men of their prop, erty, burned, their dwellings, and taken their lives. And the Buchanan press of Ihe stales look on approvingly, or at least silently on this monstrous tyranny. Would Jefferson recognize ' such democracy as this 1 Who believes it .-—Coudersport Journal. c “Fbemont is a Catholic,’’ shrieks some terrified Know Nothing. <■ Fremont is a bloody Know Nothing," growls a Bucbaneer by his side. “Fremont is a slaveholder,” yells some man who is going for Donclson with his 100 slaves. “Frempnt is a rabid Abolitionist and an enemy to Ihe South.” shouts the Charles ion Mercury and all the slaveholders down couth. So go the rabid opposition. “And he played on a harp of a thousand strings.” —Detroit Advertiser. Doleful. — A correspondent of the N, Y, Express writes from Stamford, Conn., as follows; “In old Stamford—l mourn to say it— and especially in the north section of the town, where once there was none, hardly but true Whigs, there are many who are now madly bent on placing an undoubted Roman Catholic in the Presidential chair. When this is done, woo, woe, to this happy nation. Bishop Hughes, Beecher, Greeley & Co. will rule us with an iron road, and horrors ten times more direful than proceed our inde pendence will flow.” Will somebody lend that fellow an onion. Arkansas.— lt is now said that the Bu chanan majority in Ibis State will reach 10,- 000, but this is probably exaggerated. It is pretty clear, however, that if getting no Elec toral Votes in the Slave State makes a can didate sectional, Mr. Fillmore will be left 10 that interesting position. - ■
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