Tile Great Freshet,
We colloie from our exchanges, «uch items
ot in formal ion relative 10 (he great freshet in
various parts of the country, as Aiay prove
of general interest lo our renders. Great
damage has been done to public and private
properly, the channels of travel have been
impeded, and much irregularity in the mail
service experienced. The immense quantity
of ice in the streams has caused the Dels
ware, Susqurhana, and Hudson rivers to ex
ceed nny previous rise in many years. Al
bany is half submerged, and Trenton has
suffered seriously.
Tn exton, Feb. 10. —About 9J o’clock
yesterday, Washington row was surrounded,
and the families occupying the row had to
leave the best they could, and were laken in
by the neighbors. Union from the
water power bridge for more than two hun
dred fret was impassable. Six families in
New street had to leave their residences and
find shelter elsewhere. At the lowest end of
New street, near the water power, the water
was three feel deep. Lower down in Ferry
street, tho row of brick houses recently built
by. Mr. Wood, were completely surrounded
with water, and Iho people ranch alarmed
for their safety. Most of (he families ore
without coni or wood, and they may be seen
fulling for what was once their coal heap.
Large masses of ice were piled up on
cither side of the river ns far as the eye
could reach, while that on the gravel was a
complete iceberg from one end lo the other.
About nine o’clock yesterday morning the
river again began to rise, partly from another
jam having taken place somewhere below,
and partly from the increased freshet from
above. In a short time it had risen several
feet. The river, which in the morning was
comparatively clear of floating ice, again be
came filled from shore to shore, and fears
were entertained that great damage would
ensue
Ai-iuny, Ft-b. 10.— Tho wafer receded
Considerably iasl night, bul is slill very high.
li is reported that Iwo families, on the
Island opposite the city have perished.
St. John's Church has been seriously dam
aged bv thertoOd which ripped up the pews.
Much suffering has been occasioned from
the want of drinking water. All the water
pipes in the lower part of tho city are either
frozen or submerged.
Largo quantities of grain stored on the
second floors of the warehouses have been
damaged by the water rising above them.
Chicago, Feb. 10. —The flood has d£ca■
sioned immense damage in this vicinity, to
the railroads, bridges, mills, telegraphs.'&c.
On Friday last, at Aurora, two bridges, a
saw mill, a pinning mill and carriage factory,
with large quantities of lumber, were swept
off. It is also feared that several lives were
lo ; .
Tito Rock Island Railroad bridge at Mor
rie ls gone, and also tho Michigan Central
Railroad bridge at Ypsilanti, and the bridge
at Niles, together with several over the St.
Joseph’s and Kalamazoo rivers.
Both branches of the Chicago river rose
several feel on Saturday. The southern por-
Itons of the city are still submerged, bul the
river is now fulling,
The damage to ‘.he Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroads is estimated at 8100,.
OOC
St. Louis, Feb. 9. —The Mississippi has
risen about eighleen feel since Saturday
morning, and is still rising, and immense
quantities of ice are coming down. The Mis
souri is open above Jefferson city, and is pour
ing out a "high flood.
New Haven, Feb. lO.—The late thaw
has produced a tremendous flood in the val
leys of the Iluusalonic and Naugatuck. The
towns of Derby and Birmingham are com
pletely submerged. All the factories have
suffered damage to an immense amount. —
Several bridges, barns, and houses have been
swept away. The Naugatuck Railroad de
pot Is completely flooded, and large quanti
ties of merchandize in it have been damaged.
The railroads are impassable on account of
fho flood.
The Susquehanna. —We learn from
Harrisburg that the Cumberland Valley
bridge has not been carried away. Several
of the piers were injured, but not materially.
The tee on the railroad between Harrisburg
and Middletown has been removed.
Columbia bridge has been injured, but not
seriously. A great deal of property along
the river hqs been destroyed.
The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, cross
ing the Juniata near Birmingham, has been
washed away, but it will not interfere mate
rially wiih the travel on the road.
Ovstf.rs Almost Exhausted. —N. Y.
Times of Monday last, says that the oyster
business of the past week has been without
precedent for dullness. For lack of the bi
valves full seven eighths of the places where
(hey were sold have been shut up, the pro
prietors occupying the leasure time in collect
ing old dc-bie. Save a dozen barrels or so
from Perth Amboy, and a solitary schooner
land from Virginia, no oysters have been re
ceived in the City for several weeks. This
schooner fortunately for her owners, was la
den before the icr embargo was laid on the
oyster-beds, and as soon as she could gel dear
of it she started for the city and safely arrived
last Thursday. No sooner was it known that
fl cargo of the much-needed article had ar
rived, than Jtn crowd of purchasers col
lected on board of her, and her freight was
speedily bought at unprecedentedly high pri
ces. The nett sum the cargo sold for is said
lu be OB, while in ordinary limes it
would only have brought from sl,4oo iosl,-
000. rito name of the craft was John Gf.
Ferris, and that of the captain Nick Bush,
nnd that ho arrived with his bushels in the
very nick of time Capt. B. feels quite satisfied.
It is reported that a fleet of oyster-craft await
the oltanco load and speed to the City when
'he jee breaks up, but it is impossible to pie
diet when that lime will be. The large fan
cy saloons of Broadway received on Saturday
the last ofthose reserved for them-~-but so few
"era they that the proprietors didn't expect
them to last till to-day. The smallest oysters
ever seen for stewing purpose* sold Saturday
at an advance of 75 par cent, by the single
quart over regular rates.
'f’ho population ol New York is dying at
•hoot (he rnle of one in every seventeen mjn
oi<--, day mid night, all the year round.
THE AGITATOR.
Iff. H. Cobb, *"V* * • *>,•.... -'..Xltlitor.
WELLSBOROUGH, PA.
Thursday Morning, Fob. 19.1557,
«• All Easiness,and other Communications must
be addressed td llie Editor lo insurd attention.
We find nothing interesting In either the Con.
gressional or Legislative proceedings for lha past
week:
The Charleston Band treated the Borough to a
Grand Serene de Tuesday evening. Tills Band it
now one of the finest in the eonntry. Wander if
the members would conclude to. givqa Grand Con
cert at' the Court House before long ?
We learn that Dr- C. K. Thompson is delivering
a course of Lectures upon Anatomy, Physiology,
end Hygiene, at the Round Top School House, to
crowded bouses. Why not invite him to favor this
village with a similar course?. We patronise itin
erant lecturers on those subjects, and very profitably.
Til* Bust of “ Spring" —one of the handsomest
pieces of statuary oiferedas a prize at (lie late draw
ing of the Cosmopolitan Art Association of Sand
usky, Ohio—was drawn by Mrs. Emu L. How.
UNO, of Cedar Ran, Lycoming county, Pa.—Elmi
ra Adttrtuer,
The friends of Mrs. H., in this place, will bo glad
lo hear of her extraordinary good fortune. The
buet is reputed to be one ot the most beautiful works
of art ever exhibited in this country.
_ Preaching Politics.
It is with some hesitancy that we again lake up
this subject. It bus become hackneyed to us, and,
we dare say it lias lost its charms for everybody ex
cepting only our Shamocratic contemporaries in the
east and south counties of the State. Their per
verseness in misunderstanding pertain remarka of
oura under tliis head some little time since, make a
it necessary to recur (o it again.
The gist of a very clever article in an exchange
may be slated in Ibis single question ! -‘ What is it
h> preach the Gospel ?" Tho article alluded to is
altogether tho most reasonable that we have yet seen
from that side ol the house. Its positions are well
taken, in view of the common acceptation of the
term, “ Gospel,’* but neither, we apprehend, well la.
ken nor at all sostained when that term is consider
ed in its true and catholic sense.
To preach the Gospel, as wo understand it, is to
preach the truth. All truth is divine—is God’s rev.
elation to man, whether it be found in the Scriptures
or whether it be discovered by the philosopher of
this age. According to Burke, •• any general doc
“ trine touching the higher development of the true
'• man,” may be expressed by the term.
We believe the pulpit to be “ sacred" to the pro
mulgation of truth, and in that respect only. In
animate wood has no inherent holiness any more
than water blessed by priestly bands. It is Ilia use
to which things arc pat which sanctifies or defiles.
Every, question, therefore, which involves human
welfare, or any of its conditions, be they moral, pliys.
teal or spiritual, may be rightly discussed in tho pul
pit. It is the office of the preacher to teach men
how to bear themselves in the manifold relations of
this lifers well as to warn them of the danger of
neglecting a thousand unessential observances, to
the end that organizations may gain power, simply.
Every wrong that causes a sigh of sorrow, or a
tear of anguish, should be exposed and denounced,
in the pulpit or out, and that without reference to
sects and their creeds, or to parties and their plat
forms. It is not the duty of a .minister either to
build up sects or parties, as such'; but he has the
right to applaud or denounce principlet in accord
ance with his estimate ; and if any party or sect saf.
fer thereby, that is no concern of his. Sects an.l
parties can have np virtue* me Horn the prin
ciples which form the nuclei of their several organ
izations.
It was proclaimed upon the Judean hills nearly
2000 years ago—“ Peace on earth and good will
to men —and “ Glad tidings of great joy, which
shall be to all people!” Such wai the proclamation
of the Gospel in its morning. Its ministers, then,
are bonnd so to preach the gospel as to make it to
subserve those glorious ends. To do this, it not on
ly to preach deliverance to the captive of sin, bnl to
the captive of Greed and Ambition as well. The
truth enslaves not, but makelh free indeed; and the
truth must be preached fearlessly, by priest and lay
man, before the chains that bind innocent millions
can be loosed. Or, will men higgle about noncsscn
lials until the rod hand of Rebellion emanneipates
the wronged ? Let men be taught that every sin
cere and well-intentioned act of their lives, when
and wheresoever it may bo consummated, is a re
ligiousacL That sincere actions arc worship Men
testify their gratitude to Heaven for the faculties
will) which they are endowed, in the best use of
those faculties. There is no worship in lip-servico,
no piety in mouthing sanctimonious terms. Men
are religious even as they are true to tho trust re
posed in them by Almighty Wisdom, as they prove
true to themselves and their fellow men. Nor does
ministerial duty stop with bolstering up soulless
dogmas, which, so far from ameliorating the condi
tion of the race, only too often set very good men
by the ears.
Our coolomporarlos sit uncr tho preaching of min
isters who nearly every Sabbath insult the good na.
lure of (heir hearers by their vigorous onslaughts
upon the beliefs of other denominations, and in the
absence of those denotninaliuns. Yet they have no
condemnatory words for such preaching. Such
nreat-hing legitimate, because Custom has said iL
We have nothing to say against such preaching, in
tins connection. Be it proper or improper—piety
or impiety, we have no time to quarrel over it, and
especially as (he harm done by it, if any, affects on
ly tho preacher, ordinarily. We da not believe in
such preschiifg) however, nor da we think it proper
(or minister to harangue his audience on the subject
of party politics. As previously stated, lie has no
tiling to da with parties and sects as such : but lie
has some duly to perform relative to the public acts
of political parties. Are those acts detrimental to
the sacred interests of humanity, or subversive of
whatever is good, beautiful and true in otir institn.
tionr, then he is in duty, bound to arraign those in.
famous deeds at the bar of moral justice. He has
something to do with tho prineipltt of all parties,
pnd when a parly makes a bad principle Uie nucle
us o(‘ jta organisation, it is his duly "to denounce that
bad principle, though a thousand parties go down in
one andistinguishabh> mass of ruin. And his is the
duty of holding up (he infamies of public men to
public view, so that men may learn to hate the trea
son ond shun tne traitor. If, then. Slavery be a
crime against humanity, it is the minister’s duty to
denounce it, even as be denounces other crime in
the black catalogue.
M But,” aayt a paper now lying before ns, “ a
■‘preacher,ln bis ministerial capacity, has nothing
to do with human governments.” indeed t what
discovery will next thunderatriko the world J Wo
had come to look upon the Christian Era oa an Era
of Civilization, Refinement and Mercy. Upon the
Christian doctrine as the Civilizer and Saver of the
world. We bad traced the progress of government
d) forms up through the vista of two thousand years
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOB.,
. ' V?-> 1 . ft . *■* _ii
anfrn tbfe mild of the §|tiatian Siuj.i
And we bad nwj&ed bow the'.noat humane and
wero in Ibjn States white the
brightest r|jf» of Ibut djtrjnclj
San, (ML, And we awttialin thuja Slalei
the press, tho pulpit and the forum' wero Ica-l rc
etrained of Utelf proper liberlios, and (hat bold prea
ching-and-freedom ever-went together.. Christiani
ty pruned the codes of those hafitfrts of their hirin'-
summand inclined the ear of justice to the pleading
lips of Mercy. And we had supposed that the min
isters of Christianity had aided in the great work of
governmental progress and reform; in thoJJ, (hat
(he Christian religion, in tbe hands of its mlnUtets
always, from (lie beginning, had, and still has a vast
deal to do with the shaping ot tho political institu
tions of every,Christian State. So much we bad as
sumed to be true before reading the article before us.
And with all due respect to oar contemporary, we
must say that bis learned argument does not induce
itftns any change of opinion.
But the writer of the article in question Gills back
upon precedents. He says St. Paul never meddled
with "the Powers that bej” therefore, the clergy of
this day should not stir rip the people to rebellion
against the existing powers. Then our editor holds
that what St. Paul omitted to preach, should not be
preached. He will have to qualify that inference, or
bring the modern clergy in guilty of not a few seri
ous sins of commission. We are somewhat famil
iar with St. Paul’s sermons, and have never yet been
able to convict him of the paternity of the hundreds
of sects which exist at the present lime. But we
do not therefore conclude that the clergy have com
mitted deadly sin, because they have done some nets
that tho Apostle did not do. It is more charitable
to say that they have preached the Gospel as (hey
understood it, hence the differences of opinion.
That editor.will see that his rule is only (he old
doctrine of the divine right of kings, reproduced.
Its promulgation is tlie work of tyrants everywhere,
and in all limes, and its advocacy by tho magnates
of the Anglican Church brought upon England some
of tho deepest of her dark brood of sorrows. The
bloody reign of (he bigot James might have been
shortened some bloody years had it not been for the
promulgation of this dangerous doctrine. Our own
Revolution was prolonged by (he same cause. The
doctrine strikes at the right of the oppressed to
strike down the oppressor, and may not be set ap in
a country that owes not only its existence, but all its
liberties to a successful rebellion. We aro nut sur
prised that the modern democratic parly ere now at
tempting to revive the doctrine. It has been the
trick of expiring dynasties fur COO years.
Let the Press Speak Out. —The question is now
before'the people whether they arc going to allow
factiooists to distract them in another contest with
Locofocolstn, and by divided action make their eff
orts-for success hopeless and lolile. * * The
question now presents itself whether we are again
going to be weak enough to allow these enemies to
shape our policy for as. They will endeavor to keep
faction in the ascendant; success demands that fac
tion shoald be burled. Which shall guide us 7
For ourselves, we no longer hesitate. We are sick
of the nauseous doses of these factional quacks,
whose mean Utilequarrefsand bickerings have been
permitted to annoy and distract the parly quite 100
long already. We trust that the press generally will
speak out frankly on this matter. Don't postpone
or hesitate. The times demand prompt and manly
action,— Lebanon Courier .
Wo honored the demand of the limes last week
by speaking frankly out on this matter. Wo under
take to say that we shall be sustained in the posi
tion assumed in that article, by at least five-sixths
of the Republican voters in Tioga county, if not,
indeed, in this District. That position was deter,
mined upon six months ago and we shiHl not budge
from it an inch. “ JVo more fusion toith the Amcri.
can party that is where we have elected to »tahd.
And sooner than abandon it, we can afford to leave
liybt id-politic* i« «■<—*
aiion. Wo fully endorse the action of Mr. Gibbons
in calling a Republican State Convention on (lie 25(1)
of March. It was right, and therefore expedient.
It was politic, and the Republicans will take Hie re.
sponsibiiity. Let us have a pure, Republican organ
izalion—Black Republican, if you please—names
never annoy men.
Defeat is a great bugbear with our down-country
friends. They would strike bends with the devil to
escape present defeat. Wo invite them to look Ihr
ther ahead. If our cause be just, and it certainly iv,
then we mast triumph one day. That day may not
dawn for the editors of the Courier, Reading Jour
nal and Harritburg Telegraph, or for ( o3 j but it will
surely dawn for somebody. That faith nerves our
arm and quickens our heart in the discharge of pres
ent duly. None can labor for self alone, yet .do his
whole duty. For one, wo are done with compromi
sing and patched up lusions. Fusion is but a sneak
ing bargain to divide the spoils, best side out.
Whit the Courier copies from the Reading Jour
nal is, speaking alter the manner of men, both.
This talk about “ People’s Conventions" and “ Poo
pie's Candidates,” may do, down country ; but the
Republicans hereabout understand all about such
movements. It is only another name lor fusion.
Brother Worth insists that no Convention in
which every huo of the opposition to Slmnocracy
shall not be represented, ought fo be hold. There
is no bona fide opposition to Slmmacracy, outside of
the Republican parly, good friend. The elections of
1856 conclusively show that. Thcro is a permanent
affiliation of the Know Nothings with the Shamo
crals, the former being so much properly in the pos
session of John P. Sanderson, to be disposed of to
the highest bidder. Fuse with such chattels 7 Never!
In conclusion, for one, we shall remember the old
saw—
“ If a man cheat me once, shame on him;
If he cheat me twice, shame on me!"
“ Has the mail come yet 7"
“No.”
“ Don’t you think it will bo along by to-morrow 7”
Can’t say, really.”
“ Well, when do yon think it will come 7”
" Haven't much thought about it.”
Such colloquies have formed the burden of con
versation for a week past, in our streets, and places
of public resort. From Monday the 9th to Monday
the ICth, no New Fork mail was received at this
Post Oflicc, owing to the impassable state of the
Erie Railroad. On Tuesday, the 10,h, we noticed
a great many anxious looking laces when the an
nouncement that no eastern mail had come was
made. The public had been feasting on the details
of tbo Dond.st murder, and it was unpleasant thus
to find the supplies cut off. A like announcement
on Wednesday resulted in a marked elongation of
the publid visage, and a corresponding heaviness of
the public step. On Thursday the ravages of lam
ine made their appearance in the restless glance of
ho pnblicieye. Everybody looked ravenous. Ev
erybody pitched into the Post Master General and
the Railroad. On Friday, we began to feel uncom
fortable in walking the street, lest, from being in the
newspaper business, we might be devoured by the
Ikmisliing populace. Oh Saturday the excitement
reached its grand climacteric—so to speak. The
public bead wagged menacingly, its eye flashed with
the untamed ferocity of famine; and from several
expressions, we gathered that this people sometimes
read newspapers as well as the Scriptures, of a Sun
day. Everybodylookcd cross, snappish and ancon'
genial.
/On Monday murping there seemed to boa 1 deep
and sullen despair|petlled upon the whole commqni
tf/and this conlintjoduntil the arrival of two pleth-i
oric maijl-bags aU.lioon,‘When a broad, good.hnmor
ctl grin broke out. Upon the public face and q'licltly
extenqed to the remotest parts of the public body.
Since reading (Ve residue of the Bond-st,, inquest,
we aro glad to bo able to announce that the public’ i
has regained Its wonted tons and temper.
Communications
For Tbo Agitator.
Mb. Conor flamy former communication
several iy|)ograpjhical errors exist. “ Coun
try” is changed to “county.” “ Profess no
science” is substituted in place of “ possess
no science.” “ Possess a great share of gen
eral intelligence” is rendered “ profess a
great share of gederal intelligence.’’ Several
other smtlll errors exist; but I suppose the
“ devil’k to blame.” 1 wish yoputgould have
a talk with him, and make him promise to
do heller in future. 3
I wish to be understood as speaking of
farmers generally, and not of the farmers of
this county alone. This county is compara
tively new and the farthers are not as farad
vanned as the farmers of some other sect'ons
of the country. Still I think this county
will compare favorably with many other new
counties in regard to agricultural improve
ment.
Some persons ma'y consldeamy remarks,
in my former article, rather severe. To such
I would say that I was not speaking of the
intelligent farmers who might bo cited here
and ihere in every community. I spoke of
farmers ns a class. By this I meant all per
sons who cultivate, or pretend to cultivate
land. And I still venture to soy that, as a
whole, they ore very much lapking in educa
tion and general intelligence, and have not a
sufficient knowledge and understanding of
their owtjt business. It is all nonsense to
pretend that farmers are the most intelligent
class in this nation. We cannot properly say
that any class is the most intelligent. In
telligence is pretty generally diffused amongst
all classes in this country : more so perhaps
than in any other nation now in exis'ence.
I proceed next to point out the means by
which farmers may obtain a belter knowledge
of their own business, become belter educa
ted and more intelligent, and be, more re
speced. The means aro few and simple.
No extravagant outlay of money, no college
course is required. Reading arid study—
this will do the whole. Let the older farm
ers read more; and read better books and
better papers. Let them read books of in
struction upon all subjects. Any kind of in
formation will come in play, especially let
them read good practical farm papers and
farm books, and good, newspapers. The
older men amongst farmers cannot go back
to childhood and learn the rudiments of sci
ence; byl they can educate their children.
All boys who arc to become farmers should
learn the rudiments thoroughly—not slopping
short of a good knowledge of spelling,
reading, writing, Arithmetic, Geography,
Grammar, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry,
and the first principles, at least, of Geology.
In addition to this they should read, at their
leisure, history, books of travel and any and
all books from which they can obtain valu
able information: and
tip, through the netjjgpapers, in regard to
what is going on in the world around. They
should of course rend bonks and papers upon
farming. But they should not read the trash
with which the country is Hooded—those silly
hlood-and-murder love-»nd-gct-married news
paper stories and novelettes which are spread
abroad into every nook and comer ol the
land, poisoning and vitiating the tastes of
all who read them.
Farmers should send their boys to school
four or five months in the year instead of
three. And the boys should study their lessons
when at school instead of“ carrying on” and
“sparking the girls” ns many of them do.
No young men need make the excuse that
they have not time to rend. Many of them
do little or nothing during the Winter; and'
all of them have Winter evenings at their*
command.
Once let farmers become as well educated
and well informed as men of other profes
sions and they will be equally respected ;
and their low calling will then be considered
a noble and desirable profession.
The arrival of the Ggprge Law last even
ing from Aspinwall has pul us in possession
of some important intelligence respecting the
position of Walker in Nicaragua. It seems
that the Allies hold the Western as well as
Eastern terminus of the Transit Route, and
that when the Sierra Nevada arrived at San
Juan del Sur, she was not able to li&d her
passengers, and had to lake them back to
San Francisco. ’ Walker is thus surrounded
and cut off from supplies as well as reenforce
menls. It is, perhaps, possible that the con
siderable body of recruits who have lately
gone out to him from this country may suc
ceed in forcing a passage up the river, but we
do not believe it. His position is constantly
becoming mere .desperate.— Tribune.
A Family Froze to Death.—The Hemp
stead (L. I.) Inquirer, says that a colored
woman and three children were froze to death
at Cedar Swamp during the'severe snow
storm of last week. She lived in a hut which
was very open, and which freely admitted the
wind and snow. On Monday, the neighbors
not seeing any movement about the house,
and the door unopened, and knowing the hus
band was away, went over and enjered the
dwelling, and found the woman and three
children in bed, frozen to death.
A Curiosity.—A few weeks ago, Charles
Schoch of New Philadelphia, 0., was culling
into a log, when his axe struck n cannon
leaden slug, weighing three and a half pounds,
which was imbedded in solid wood about five
or six inches from the surface. The free,
from which this slug was taken, grew in the
river bottom about two miles from that town,
and near where Gen. Wayne and h!s army
encamped during the summer, of 1794, whett
he marched to the Northwest Territory to
to attack the Miami Indians. The probability
is, that it was fired from ohe of his connons,
and lay imbedded for more than half a cen
tury.
; FJKOSI KANSAS.
, Frofn Kansitts we lenij that the Land Office
js to bffopened at Lecompion, within a few
■ receiving payments upon preemp
tion claims. As between the Governor and
the Bogus Legislature things do hot go very
smoothly. To a call from that body for the
reasons of his neglect to commission one W.
T. Sherrord, duly appointed, under the bogus
lows, ns Sheriff of Douglas County, the Gov
ernor replies that Sherrard stands charged
with having been engaged in several drunken
brawls, ” fighting and -shooting at persons
with pistols, and threatening others,” and that
unlit these mailers are cleared up shall
not have his commission; nor will he com
mission any one laboring under such charges
as would impair, if not entirely destroy, his
usefulness, or whose passions and habits
would render unfit for the proper discharge
of‘his duties, or which might in any manner
endanger the peace of the Territory. Such,
he says, are his instructions, and ho means
to carry them out.
He has also returned, with a short but
strong veto message, the bill passed by the
Legislature authorizing bail in all cases.
There is evidently a radical difference be
tween Governor Geary and the Bogus Legis
lature, not only as to the qualifications of
Sheriffs, but generally as to the principles on
which The affairs of the Territory are lobe
administered. It is perfectly plain that an
administration of the Territorial government
in accordance with Governor Geary’s views
can only be secured by the passage of the
bill already reported in the House of Repre
sentnlivesat Washington for the relief of the
people of Kansas, I>y setting aside altogether
the bogus code and the existing Bogus Legis
lature, as one of the fruits of it, and com
mencing the work L of Territorial legisla'ion
anew through the medium of an entirely new
and fairly elected Legislature. The attempt
to get on by combining a Governor like
Geary with a Bogus Legislature like that
now silling at Lecompion, is but a repetition
of the ridiculous experiment of putting a
patch of new cloth upon an old and rotten
garment, whereby, ns we know on high au
thority, the rent is certain lobe made worse..
There is palpably in this case only one course
consistent with common sense, and that is
to commence anew. As well might a live
man be tied to a dead and putrifyihg body,
as Gov. Geary bo required to act in concert
with suth a body as that now falsely claiming
to represent the people of Kansas. So long
as that Legislature is allowed to go on, of
what avail will Gov. Geary’s voles be, no
matter how well argued, or how strongly put?
The veloed ncls will be passed over his head,
and the Governor will thus be called upon to
execute laws against the passage of which he
has protested as not merely impolitic, but
unjust. There is only this alternative:
Either this Bogus Legislature must be re
moved out of the way, or Gov. Geary will
be obliged to resign. It is absurd to suppose
that both can go on together.— N. Y. Trib
une.
Wliat Wo Want in Kansas.
Our friends in the Free States have nobly
responded to the call for aid; and, by the
opportune arrival ofclothing, provisions, <Sec.,
want,- wwtcti had looked In'uponmany a prai
rie home, has been driven back, and the Win
ter will be'passed in comparative comfort by
those who would otherwise have suffered.—
The future has to be looked to as well ns
the present; and we propose to suggest a few
steps to our Eastern capitalists as to what
Kansas needs, and the way to help her citi
zens to help themselves.
We shall be enabled to gel through the
Winter with the present aid; but in the Spring
when the river opens and emigration comes
pouring in upon us, something must be
done toward providing suitable employment
for the new comers os well as for the old set
tlers. Building material will be in demand ;
household furniture, and all the varied anicles
necesS&ry for ihe making of a new home in a
■mew country, will be wanted.
At present we are dependent upon Missou
ri for our supplies of most things necessary
for the use and comfort of our population.—
Sash, furniture, cabinet workof kinds, have
all to be purchased at St. Louis or the border
cities at exorbitant rates. Now, what we
want is the erection, at Lawrence and other
central points, of large buildings provided
with steam power and suitable machinery,
to be used for manufacturing furniiuro, doors,
turning, planing, cabinet work, and all kinds
of mechanical business, in which machinery
is required.
The investment of capital in enterprise of I
this description, and ihe establishment of fac-1
lories in the most central points in the Tern- I
lory will materially aid Kansas and help her
citizens by affording them employment, keen
ing the money of the Territory circulating
within its borders, and will pay handsomely
for the capital invested.
All kinds of manufacturing business will
be of great advantage to the country by giv
ing employment to our mechanics and de
veloping the resources of the Territory. If
capitalists wish to aid Kansas, they can oo it
in no better way than by carrying out our
suggestion. We havo Ihe stones for building
purposes, the coal for fuel, and iron ore in
abundance, so that all we need is the skill
and capital to turn them to use.
Farmer,
A Noble Fellow.—On Iho morning of
Dec. Ist, four little'boys broke through the
ice on the take near their school hobse in
Walerville, Wisconsin. The villagers hasten
ed to the spot, but the ice was so thin that
none dared venture to their aid, mo
ment just as the boys were sitting, a young
man, eighteen years of ago, named John
Adams, sprang forward, seized a (hiring
spear, and leaving most of his clothes on the
bank plunged into the lake and saved two of
(he boys. He then made another dash, and
saved the third. Adams was now almost ex
hausted, but the mother of the fourth boy,
was standing near, in horrible agony, and
Adams said to her, “ I will save your boys
or die,” Tying a rope around his waist, ho
told those on shore to pull him in if he sank,
an'd cried out, “Standby the rope, I am
going to him." He then plunged in, swam
out some ten rods, breaking the ice with his
.hands, seized the boy, who was sinking for
the third time, carried him ashore and re
stored him to his mother’s arms.
From tho Laurence Herald of Freedom.
Tbe Verdict iu the Borden ffln t _
der Caic.
State .of New York, City and County 0 f
NeiO‘Tork, it. —An Inquisition taken at iha
house of the . late Doctor Harvey Burdell
No. 31 Bond street, in (ho Fifteenth Ward
of the City of New-York, in the County of
New. York. Ibis 14th day of February, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifty-seven, before Edward D. Connery,
of the said city and county aforesaid, on view
of the body of the said Harvey Burdell, | v .
ing dead at No. 31 Bond street aforesaid, upon
the oaths and affirmations' of twelve good
and lawlul men of the Stale of Newt York.
duly chosen and sworn or affirmed and
charged to inquire on behalf of said people
how and in what manner the said Harvev
Burdell ' 'Came to his death, do, upon their
oaths and affirmations, say that the said Har
vey Burdell on the 30th day of January,
1857, at No. 31 Bond street aforesaid, was
feloniously murdered, and came to his death
by being stabbed in various parts of his body
with a dagger or other sharp instrument:
and the jurors believe from the evidence, and
therefore find, that Emma Augusta Cunnino.
ham and John J. Eckel were principals in iho
commission of said murder; and the jurors
aforesaid further find that George Vail Snod
grass either joined the said Emma Augusta
Cunningham and John J. Eckel in the com
mission of the said murdery-or was an acces
sory thereto before the fact, counseling, aid
ing or abetting the said Emma Augusta Cun
ningham and John J. Eckel to commit he
said murder; and the Jurors aforesaid fur
ther find that Augusta Cunningham and
Helen Cunningham, daughters of the said
Emma Augusta Cunningham being in the
house No. 31 Bond street, wherejhe said
murder was commitied, have some know),
edge of the fatls connected with the s.nu
murder, which they have concealed from the
jury, and that it is the duty of the Coroner
lo hold them for the future action oi he
Grand Jury. In witness whereof, we. .tie
said jurors, as well as the Coroner, have o
this inquisition set our hands and seals on he
day and place aforesaid.
I (Signed by the Jurors.)
We give a place in our colmns this morn
ing lo the report brought from Nicaragua &v
Col. Sturges, lo the effect that Walker’s so
silion is not desperate, that he is about .0 re
take the boats on the river, and that the Costa
Ricans were deserting to his standard, fur
very good reasons we place no reliance on
these rumors. !f there were no other indica
tions, the fact that they are greedily snatch
ed at by Walker’s friends here as groundsel
hope, would alone suffice to show that he is
at the last gasp. But we have information
from another source, which we consider more
trustworthy, that dissipates all probaotiitv
lhat reenforcements from this side can .-earth
the now surrounded and doomed lillibusters.
The forts on the San Juan River have seen
pul into’“thorough order by the Costa Ricans,
under the direction of the Americans md
Europeans who are engaged with them, fort
San Carlos alone, with a garrison of 400 men,
has seven pieces of cannon—one or two 01
them carrying 24-lb. ball—and an abun
dance of ammunition, captured on board 1
river steamer along with arms said lo htvo
been sent out by our fellow citizen, Mr. Geo.
Law, The Castillo fori, and the inlrenchmems
at the mouth of the Saraptqut, are also oosta
cles of some account in the path of an .nvaa
ing parly on their way up the river.
Tho idea of recovering the river boats s a
delusion. They have been taken up the Sara
piqut, a great part of the machinery 'alien
out, and a guard put on board with instruc
tions and arrangements to set them on lire tlta
instant (here is any danger ofthetr recapture
by the filltbuslers. There remains at Grev
town a' precarious and fragile stern-wheel
steamer of small capacity, .t could hardly
servo lo carry a force up the river, even were
there no hindrances in the wav. But, above
all it should not be forgotten that Walker
cannot move front Rivas, or from St. George,
two miles distant from Rivas, at one of which
places he now is. even to ootam means 01
sustaining life. The loss 01 the two latte
boats, San Carlos and Virgin has deprived
him ol the mobility which for some time naa
been his chief resource. The Island Ometepe,
in the lake, fifteen miles from Rivas, and tlte
coast of Chonlales opposite, some fifty mite*
distant, have supplied him with provisions;
but now, with his boats and schooner lost. :ne
strong north-east gales which prevail on -nc
lake at the close of the rainy season and ren
der its navigation impracticable to bungos, wt.i
absolutely confine him to Rivas. He can no
loader procure food to supply the men whom
fever and the enemy have soil left him. W*
see no alternative for him but lo capitulate or
starve.— N. Y. Tribune.
The United Slates Mail steamer George
Law arrived last evening with dates iVom San
Fraicisco 10 the 20th of January, being '«o
weeks later nows. She brings to this port
§1)096,540 64 in gold. Gov. Johnson in ms
message to the Legislature recommends me
payment ofthe State debt, and opposes re
pudiation, in which it is believed he expresses
the general sentiment ol the citizens 01 Cali
fornia. It is stated that the election 01 Uni
ted Stales Senators was the result of a oar
gam between Broderick and Gwin, by which
the (alter agrees to forego all claims to influ
ence in the Federal appointments. On the
9th an earthquake occurred which was fell
Ihoroughoul ihe entire Slate, but no damage
followed. The Supremo Court has decided
the lax upon (Chinese immigrants to be null
and void. The news from the mines is en
couraging. The vole for Senator for long
term stood!: Broderick 79; Stanley, 14;—
CofTroth, Ilj; Weller 1; Bynum, I. ?ot
the short term it was; Gwin, 82 ; Cranb,
17 ; Sargcant, 11 j Stanley, 2; Shafter,
The newly elected Senators, together wu*
the Hon. Mr. Bigler arrived here yesterday
by the George Law.— Tribune.
An ndmoniiion against hasty funerals oc
curred last week at Fremont, Ohio. Damn
Slearnes, who had been sick with a fever, sf
parently died. All arrangements were mnoa,
and the friends and clergyman were assem
bled to pay the last tribute of respect to me
deceased, when the body appeared warm m
the touch. Restoratives were administereO,
and, in a few minutes, the man who came so
near being buried alive was silling up. r|9
is now in a fair way of recovery.
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