Ti 2 *1 tti it S* Xhe Approaching Election. Oorrwpondcnce of-the'N'. T. XHbun®. ’ '■ BubtiNOAitji, K. T., May!}, 1 1857. We see that opinion-*! the East,'as well as in tills' Territory, is greatly divided asto ihecouise that the Free;Stale men here ought to take m'lhe coming June election. It is true ihe law appears oh its.face, as' a'whple, fair and equitable t and so it would he if it had been passed by an Eastern Legislature, where no suspicion could arise with regard (o its administration. ’' But 'in this ' latitude, judging from the antecedents of pur officials, no reliance can be placed on their integrity in-carrying out its-provisions. Our suspicions pa ibis head are now being confirmed, and the wotfciug of the law in the handset the officers is furnishing us proof positive of what was asserted by the Free- State men on (bis head. To illustrate - : This settlement is purely a Free-State one with a small sprinkling of those of the other stripe, and contains, perhaps, one hundred and over voters. No notice or no officer has been among us to lake Ihe census, though the time is now fully up for taking the same and com pleting the registry. And this is the case very generally, as I understand, of western Free-Stale settlements. Messrs. Niles Bc, -Elliott have justopened a new and elegant slock of Goods at the old stand of Bachc & Ross, in this village. Their stock embraces all varieties and styles, from common Jeans up to the best quality of Silks. They likewise deal in groce ries and provisions. Thus we are, by the terms of the law, en tirely disfranchised and cut off from the privi leges of the ballot-box; Perhaps out- oppo nents will say at the East Ihal this is 'our fault, tor we ought to 'have seen Ihal our names were pul on the Registry. I answer this as ! answered the same reply from acting Governor Staunton, a few days since. 1 called on him to make these things known to him ; he received me kindly, and expressing surprise at such a neglect on the part of the officers, appealed to ex-Secretary Woodson how such'a thing could have happened. No explanation could be given, ekeept that the former Sheriff had seen fit to resign. And a new one had been appointed who was a Free- Stale man. “Then,” says his Excellency, “you should not complain 1 if one of your own kind has neglected his duly ; and further, you have your’remedy, take Ihe names of ( your men, and, go to the Judge and have them pul on ihe list.” “Yes, Sir, true; but; we thought it the duty of the Marshal to visit ; our homes and lake the names. The expert- : ses and the lax on our lime will be very 1 onerous, and none of us are in a situation to | bear it; and further, we do not know who the Judge is aiid where he can be found.” ! To this he replied, with much suavity of! manner, that he regretted it much : and his sjrrow was increased because we were a a Free-Stale community. He wished he had the power to appoint men to do the work or pay us for doing it, but recommended that we should by all means collect, the names and take them to the list, and have them put on. This interview was on the last day of April, and the" last day fixed by the statute {or cor recting the registry lists. ' So we are debarred from approaching the polls, not by the laws specially, but by the unfaithfulness of the officers; and this vindicates the position taken by the Topeka Convention. The law says, Bth sec.: “And a! such election no person shall be permitted to vole unless his name shall appear upon said corrected list.” A paper has been circulating in Lawrence for names, got up by Gov. Robinson, as I am fold, proposing to the acting Governor, that we would vple on the conditions that he would order a new census and appoint new Mar shals to lake the same, and new Judges of Election. This movement can avail nothing, as the Executive has power under the laws to appoint only in certain cases. Can you see anything else, in the future for Kansas but this anomaly, that she is to he a Slave Sta’e with nineteen-twentieths of her bona-fide settlers opposed to it 1 That NationaJ Democratic parly, is a singular in stitution. Ppilip C. SCHUYIER. Killed. —Wc learn that a man was killed at Blossburg on Monday morning, by the accidental descent of a car on the plane at that place. The draught rope parted, when the car shot down the plane with fearful velocity for about*a hundred foci, where it lefi the track and crushed the unfortunate man to death instantly. May has gone a Maying. To-day is the 19th, and the Mother of the Flowers, as somebody has called her, still permits Father March to drive her car- Wc doubt the propriety of the name u May “ Perhaps,’* would be a very good substitute, and a vast deal more expressive. The out-door aspect is cheerlessly somber and au tumnal We look to the wooded hills for relief; the trees are leafless and bare, and voiceless. They ; speak not to the ear, but to the eye they speak, of ! blight, desolation and death. . Wc turn to the skies. I The clouds bang heavily down like the curtains of the room where we lay our dead for a season ere we resign them lo their original dust. There are no patches of blue on the face of the sky, no sunlight upon the hills, no violets by the brookside, on bird-songs in the air. The west-wind is chill, and as it moaned through the shutters last night we rec ognized the voice of November. It needed but Ihe sad, low sighing of the dead leaves Id complete the' illusion. Under such a wintry sky the bum of labor jars discordantly upon the ear. The sound of the axe, the saw and the hammer fall like audible shad ows, chillingly and forbiddingly. Nature speaks, but in a solemn undertone. She speaks, but there is no promise in her tone. She speaks, but we grow sadder as we listen. Under these somber skies the soul struggles back into its Past—not willingly,but with tears and sighs with earnest protestations, with a thousand voice less lamentations. It goes back to wrestle with its unspoken griefs, ank returns vanquished and sick at heart with the details of its earthly pilgrimage. It sits down by the graves of its departed and plucks the flowers watered by tears in the Long Ago. It walks in the old sunlit paths and frequents the old time haunts. The same flowers bloom, the same genial breezes blow« the same bird-music thrills the heart-strings as in the days ere it tasted the gall -1 dregs of life. But (here were (ones which (hen blended with its life-psalm like a sweet chord—a leaven of love and its celestial train of unspoken joys—but which are now silent as a stringless lute. The soul listens for those loved tones. It listens but tfie ear is pained with silence. It listens, but 'remembers the painful thrill of the last kiss of icy lips. It listens, but remembers the pang of parting and the long agony of separation. It.wails, because it loves to deceive itself and thus forget the unful filled duties of the Present. We know that many will recognize their secret 1 wrestlings in this brief record of a soul's experi. | encc. The gloom that shrouds the outer,and visible I world, imparts a somber hue to thought, and thus it ‘ is that the moods of men are variable. P. S.—A Louisiana- gentleman has just said to me, (hat the lately appointed Sheriff of Shawnee County is not a Free-State man, and that Woodson knew that he was not. P. C. S. Cant. The Daily Nnos, Philadelphia, has periodical at tacks of moral and religious anxiety, under which it cries fiercely for the rack and the wheel, the axe, the stake and the thumbscrew. Up to a quite re cent period it lias been fully and zealously occupied in shaking its paper fist at.his Holiness Pope Pins; it has been endeavoring to out-thunder the Vatican, and has heretofore seemed to be satisfied with its efforts in that direction. We regret that <t should' have thought proper to raise its siege of the Holy City, even for a moment, in order to expend its am munition upon evils nearer home, as Rome is (bus granted an armistice in which to repair damages, and to perfect her defences. The News is vigorous, ly and somewhat ably conducted—we had almost said savagely conducted—but it has made a bad and ruinous move for once. A good general-does not abandon a siege without the formality of a council. Our legislators at' Harrisburg, influenced by the cleft-footed gentleman, as the N‘etas evidently pre sumes, have endeavored to repeal that illiberal and savagely intolerant law on our statute-book which incapacitates heterodox persons train giving evidence in courts of Justice This, the News denounces as an “infidel movement” It thinks the people of Pennsylvania will indulge in a “general burst of in dignant protestation, from one end of the Slate to the oilier.” We guess the people will do nothing of the kind. We rather think the people of Northern Pennsylvania have common sense enough to per ceive that heterodox persons are just as truthful and honorable as a class, as those claiming to be ortho dox. Under the present law, no Universalist can be permitted to testify in a coart of justice, because, if old School, members of that sect do not believe in future rewards and punishments We do not pro pose to consider the reasonableness of the belief of any sect; but only to inquire whether, under the Constitution, men arc not permitted to worship God according to the dictates of their consciences, and that too without working any forfeiture of rights and privileges as citizens. fe To believe that the framers of our Constitution intended to ban the be lief of any individoai in any way whatever, and af ter guarantying liberty of conscience to all, is diffi cult and humiliating. On the other hand, to sup pose that they intended to make the tolerative clause of (he Constitution the merest farce in its operation, strips them of the dignity with which we are wont to clothe patriots and statesmen. We basted to avow our abhorrence of this law, and of any measure interfering with the religions belief of any sect whatever. We have no vulgar prejudices against any man because of his religious opinions, and shall continue as we have ever done, to war with such intolerance to the end.’ And there fore we propose (bat the status 6f any individual on the witness stand cannot be, and really newr'is, de termined by the lenorjpf his or her reltgtousopinions. How do lawyers usually impeach IbcNcMimony of- The lowa Election*.- —Alter all the weeks of shouting by our adversaries over their boasted victory in lowa, it dwindles (o a very small affair under the, test of (he official canvass. The election was for three Slate Officers only, and they have carried but two of them, while the vole is but two-thirds of a full one. The Chicago Tribune thus sums up the result: The official result has been announced and (urns out to be a drawn game. Bugbee, Dem., for Superintendent of Public Instruc tion, has 505 majority ; Parvin, Dem„ for Register of Land Office, 502 majority ; Man ning, Rep., for Commissioner Des Moines River Navigation, has 315 majority. Seven counties were not returned, no elec tion having been held in them. Last Fall at the Presidential election there were 91,004 voles cast, being 27,276 more than this Spring . It is notorious that a large portion of the Fillmore vote of last Fall went to the Buchan eers this Spring. Add to this that hardly two-thirds of the Republicans went to the polls, and the result is not astonishing. We are glad to sec the Pro-Slavery papers and j politicians taunting and boas'ing so loudly I over this partial victory. It will produce an ! excellent efiect on the i 5,000 Republicans! who were 100 lazy to attend the polls. Special Die-patch to The N*. Y. Tribune. Louisville, Thursday, May 14,1857, Riot at Louisville; —The four negroes accused of murdering the Joyce family some months since have been acquitted. One of them turned Slate’s evidence, but his testi mony was not legal or corroborated. There was considerable egcitemenl about the Court- House during the trial. SECOND dispatch, About dark a mob broke into the cannon house and gpt a cannon which they placed in front of the jail. Several shots were fired by the mob and from the jail. The jailor, fearing the escape of the prisoner*, formally surrendered two of them, who were hung by the mob. The third cut hia throat with- a razor, but the negro who turned State’s evi dence was unmolested. THIRD DISPATCH . The remaining negro implicated in the Joyce murder was hung by the mob last-night -making Jhree banged and one suicide. r |ME TIQAA AGITATO-- T¥ wijnfcsaca? N>proving Haiti witnesses believe thikor diabclicvo'lhal; but iheyVct to prove that the reputation of the l&ividual fof truth, iv, belong his neighbors, bad. ' This is the proper rfojTto deslrdy'lhe' evidence orwitnesses j Tnd the advocate who stoops to-lake-advsnloge oflcgaltech nicajities in acspmplishing speh a work,,manifests, maid 1 1 greater hone for success limn Sot truth end justlae. ■ We have the amplest evidence that a belief in 1 future rewards and punishmentsdots not make melt 1 either truthful, or honest. "It maybe safely coropu* ted that not one-half of civilised mankind actually and intelligently believe in any future life at all.' . More than five-sixlhs of the. evangelized world do not evidence any ,soch belief in their' daily walk. They compete with infidels end scoffers in the ac. comolation ■of perishable' gold.. They build got. geous palaces wineb frown- down span the hoeels of the poor. They make feasts, but they do not seek guests in the highways and byways They con tribute munificently ID; Christianize the heathen over the sea, but are as depf as adders to the moans of the miserable poor at their very doors. They war. ship a popularized God and subscribe to a popular ized charily. They are professing Christians, and if they are anything more, then the Bible, in their hands, suffers fully as much os docs the Constitution in the hands of Lord Chief Justice Taney. Without doubt a living,intelligent faith in im mortality tends to make men honest and upright. It would seem that every truly virtuous life must proceed from such a faith. But it does not therefore follow that there are no honest and upright men among those who disbelieve in immortality. We suspect that such are known as disbelievers simply because they are honest’enough to confess it when questioned, and that if more had moral courage to avow the truth the number of unbelievers would sensibly increase. IHs admitted that an honest man will tell the truth as soon without as with the formality of an oath. An oath may, and probably does, restrain some men from lying; but we never 'yet happened to meet the man who wonld say that it operated thus with Mm ; and should \vc chance to sit in judg ment as a juror upon the evidence of such an one, wc should believe him just so lar as circumstances would warrant credence. To return—it is not, then owing to their fears of pains and penalties hereafter that such witnesses tell the truth ; for the same pen allies await the common liar and the perjurer, in the future life. Remove the punishment of perjury beyond the jurisdiction of earthly courts, and perju rers,-'Will become as plentiful as common liars; for the masses have quite as vague an idea of “the great day** as quarrelsome theologians seem to have when discussing that point among themselves. We repeal, it is Ihe Penitentiary and not Gehen na that prevents liars from blackening their souls with perjury, as most Judges are tolerably well con vinced, and lawyers as well—-if they choose to say anything about it. It is no risk then to justice, to admit the atheist to testify in courts. Enact a law to which he shall be accountable, since he rccogni. zes none higher than human courts. 'He can be im prisoned for lying just the same as if he were a member of an evangelical church, in good standing. And this would most assuredly remove every objec tion urged against this w infidel movement 1 * by that model of intolerant piety The Philadelphia Daily News. Its long commentary does not contain one objection that cannot he as justly urged against an orthodox man as against an atheist or an infidel. But the News caps the climax by quoting from tlio Lancaster which says of the movement that it precedes the establishment of d Reign of Terror, such as prevailed in France, the closing of the churches, and the inscription upon the gates ot our — u Death is an eternal sleep !** Well, wc are not surprised at that. That paper is Mr. 6uehunan*s home organ, and it patron izes that kind of religion which permits its follow ers to buy and sell each other. We are'not sur prised tliat its editor is horror-stricken, nor should we be were the News to announce that the Intelli. gtneer man walks un four legs and is partial to thistles. ding ace that wflkld take all, and more thin. ourf ■ prssant subscription. 'This we hope they ore twv wise to,&>. —* ’ I wood building, to cost not more than e lwfr* Wouldacconimoditcuucscholars for at least 50'yeaia-- to come—would allow means to furnish the house comlbrlahly-and-well, and enable ns lo improve and beaqtily the grounds. la not this fat tetter than Jo go beyond, 'em jrfppns^ lfave at» fihfinjslisdi Spwlgi, a heavy debtor perhaps both T Oar people have so generally subscribed to the extent of their abilities, that bat q few, hundreds mote, can be obtained. Do ndflet ns be too ambitious of doing a great thing.—if the--place be ptoeperons, the people.who. may be here in. 1300 wil) very, probably be dissatis fied with any bouse that we can nov? build; and it is useless to attempt to please them. But it is for the children-who now surround ns, particularly those who have-nearly reacllctlthe- estates of men and women, that wc we are now concerned. The loss of s'good school for .'the, next (.wo or three years will be to them of vital importance, and tt is for their sakes that we wonld beg of the Trustees that prompt, energetic and immediate: action may be ta ken. • 1 1 Do not let the people-of Mansfield rebuild a Sem inary, before we can build an Academy. Riot In Clearfield County. On Friday last, a desperate affray took place between the raf.men and -log-coalers engaged in iheir different vocations on Clear field Creek. It occurred at a point called Driftwood Island, and resulted in the severe wounding of.five logmen, and the destruction of a, quantity of provisions, tools, &c., The following persons were injured : Geo. Chandler, shot in the back. X F. Parsons, shot in both legs, David Cameron, shot in both legs. Geo. Miller, shot in forehead and bands, A Frenchman, name unknown, was also shot. The logmen were completely routed, the raftmen being well supplied with firearms, and nerved to desperation by long suffering, having resolved lo wirMhe field or die. Im mediately after the rout of their adversaries, the victors belook themselves to the destruc tion of their property, tearing down their cabin, destroying their boats,” three in number, and throwing their provisions into the creek. They then burnt the tools of the logmen, throwing the iron portions inlo the water. None of the raflmen.were injured, so far as we have heard. The outbreak Was not unexpected, but has long been feared by the peace-loving citizens of Clearfield, The two parlies have long maintained a threatening position towards each other, and the affair we have recorded is but the natural consequence of long stand ing animosity. The raftsmen have suffered great inconvenience from the running of loose logs, and have made repeated efforts to pre vent it; while the log-floaters, deeming their pursuit perfectly legal and honest, have per sisted in their course. But -the matter has now come to a crisis, and the lime has ar rived when the strong arm of the law must interfere lo prevent the recurrence of such scenes hereafter. The contest of physical strength has now commenced, and until the difficulty is finally settled, Clearfield will be a miniature Kansas, and the fights between the opposing_parties .will be as.frequent and sanguinary as the feuds with which that Ter ritory was recently diffracted. A bill lo prohibit log-floaling has been for some time before the Legislature, and we hope some definite action will soon be taken On the subject. As lha cacs n aw stands, neither party understands their real position, each deeming the other wrong, and looking upon themselves as much aggrieved and in jured. This stale of affairs should be no longer permitted to exist, and the only way to end it is to dispose of the bill now pending at Harrisburg. Pass the bill or kill it, gentlemen of the Legislature, and the people of Clearfield will abide by your decision, be that what it may. Tyrone Herald. And when it is (nrllicr objected that tho proposed law would legalize atheism, we reply that atheism is already legalized under the organic law, which permits men to choose their own religion, dr choose none—as they please. Civil law can do nothing for religion except to grant the broadest toleration in matters of belief. To suppose that civil law can make or unmake, license or restrain, atheists, infi. dels or Christians, is to suppose an absurdity. We regard atheists and bigots as objects of pity and compassion rather than as subjects of penal law'and unchristian persecution, Chiistianity never called in the aid of racks and wheels and thumbscrews; Bigotry did that, and bigotry would do it to-day, if bigotry were not a coward. . It burrows with Igno ranee yet affects wisdom only to become the laugh, ing-stock of children. We hope the bill referred to will pass the House—it has already passed the Sen ate by a sweeping majority, thus showing that no parly spirit enters into the measure. And the News is hereby notified that we have considered the question outside the arena of politics and as a man —not as a politician. And we therefore insist that neither Col. Fremont, Judge Wilmot nor the Re pnblican party shall bo held responsible for any trea son it may chance to spy out in this article. The Marriage Contract—Look Oct, Girls! Beware, ye Boys!— A case of breach of promise of marriage has recently been tried at Rochester, New York, (a great place by the way, for novelties,) in which the following is .given as the substance of the Judge’s charge to the Jury : “The Judge charged that it was not neces sary to maintain the existence of a promise of marriage to prove that defendant in ex press words or terms made a promise to plaintiff 1 . Any circumstances which usually accompany parlies while holding the relation of an engagement of -marriage, might pro perly be laid before a jury, and if sufficient to warrant the opinion that such an engage ment existed, it was all the law required. It is not necessary, that there should be a promise of mariyage in direct phraseology —no formal promise is required. Frequent visits of the parties—retiring from the soci ety of others—'seeking to be apart by them selves —expressions of attachment—presents —going together to places of amusement — walks and occasional remarks in hearing of others, are circumstances usually relied upon to prove that a marriage engagement exists, and if such are strong enough to produce conviction upon the mind, they are all that is necessary to answer the law.” “ The Spiritual Age, —We have received two numbers of this new Journal devoted to the Facts and Philosophy of Spiritualism. It-is conducted by Rev. S. B. Brittan, assisted by W. S. Courtney, and its articles arc characterized by that dignity and candor for which its able and eloquent conduc tors are distinguished. As we glanced over its broad column-s and perused its manly and temper, ate reasonings, we could not but regret that some not over-wise men of our acquaintance would not subscribe lor and read the Spiritual Age, not that they might become converted thereby, but that they might at least oppose Spiritualism intelligently —a position to which they have not yet attained, and to which, judging from present indications, they do not desire to attain. We commend Ihe Age to such as desire to inform themselves in regard to the facts and philosophy of tho Manifestations which are at trading the attention of scientific men everywhere, and the Spiritual origin of which is held to by up ward of 3,000,000 of people. The Age starts off with between 20 and 30 subscribers at'this Post of fice. It is a fine specimen of typography and cheap at its subscription price—32 per year. The Mormons will Fight.— The Deseret News, Brigham Young’s organ, assumes n defiant and warlike lone, declares that the principle of squatter sovereignty shall be vin dicated by the Mormons, and that under it the people of Utah have the right lo choose their own rulers and model their own insti tutions, without regard to the general gov ernment. The Colonel of the Ist Invinci bles advertises a school for the Legion, where the poor will bo taught the infantry and cav alry drill free. President Kimball, boasting of “what the Lord had done for him,” in an exhortation, said he had twenty-three boys living, ten dead, and lots of girls. Ptlerton's Magazine Tor June lias 40 articles and 50 engravings. It has a very pretty line engraving entitled “ Our New Carriage,” and altogether; is progressing finely up to the front rank of Magazine dom. 92 per year. Wo are again publishing advertisements of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. This medicine is taking a very strong hold upon the good opinion of the people. It is regarded.gen erally as a most excellent remedy for Pulmo nary Complaints, Coughs and Colds, Having found it an excellent medicine, we cheerfully endorse it. —Miscellany Detroit. Godey for June has one of the finest lino engrav ings we have seen, entitled “The Nearest Way In Sommer.” The Fashion Plate will please those who do not lake tor their motto—“ Natural Waists, or no Wives.” The literary department is choicely filled. Two copies 95. Harrisburg, Friday, May 15,1757, Mr. Editor : 'We hear so constantly the inquiry —“ What are our Academy prospects t" —that I have taken the liberty to ask if you can tell ns any thing about the matter. Some personsjafe fearful that it is the intention of the Trnrlcca'to undertake a very expensive boil- Another Victim op the National Ho tel. —Mr. John M. B. Petriken, a member of, the Pennsylvania House of Representa tives from Lycoming County, died this after noon of disease contracted a< the National in Washington. *4 *■«» I* - . £0 r dT, I For Th* Agitator. '■t Ste»Br fromfthfl West. "r HtpjpoHiSWiscoNsm, May 7tb., 1857. . . FBifeNo-XJoBB: Itiselot my purpose here by to acknowledge the receipt of the “Agita 'tor," arid Velum thanks’Thefelbr, for during a residence in Ibis Great North ' West, t have hot been pertained lo gaze upon its “old familial face* 1 but once, and in that instance the priraa facie evidence exhibited in the chirography of the address nnd lhe post age stamp exculpated you from all iblame in thapfe bribes. Neither do I propose to scold you for ypur remissness, for if 1 should do so you would doubtless (with the characteristic meanness of editors-in general,) remind me that I bad not paid the “almighty dollar’’ subscription price—(a (bet I do not choose to have your readers know); and moreover editors get so used to scoldings that I some times think they pjriae them as luxuries. Nb f I’ll neither return thanks or scold, but am determined bn revenge, and hence 1 doom you to the perusal of this manuscript; and if, after undergoing this punishment, you wish to do farther penance, why, just publish it and my revenge will be compete. My conscience will permit of no punishment worse than this, and hoping in futitre to re ceive the Agitator in due. time, F adjourn Court and proceed' to-give your Readers a synopsis of the result of ray observations and experience during a six months residence in this upper country, together with some of the advantages and disadvantages attending emi gration from the east to this country ; hoping by a plain statement of facts, to enable many of my friends in old Tioga who cojntemplale a move westward, to come lo a satisfac tory conclusion as to the policy of such move than they can do from the vague and desul tory information generally obtained in the east. Western correspondents usually] speajc in general terms of the,“whole wes|,” of the broad prairies and mighty rivers, &c., but I propose now to speak of it in detail!, end give less of the romantic and more of the real than is usually obtained in “letters from Ihe west.” " 4 With'these prefatory remarks I will now proceed; only premising that what follows, your sense of propriety will not permit you to read as it is intended for your readers and not yourself. The particular locality of which '! now pro pose to speak, is that lying between the Mis issippi river at its couffuence with the St. Croix, and the west end of lake Superior— taking as a .base line the' St. Croix river as far as it constitutes the Slate line between Wisconsin and Minesota Territory, and from thence along said Slate line to Black river, and thence down that stream to ti e Nemaji river, and down that lo the bay of Superior. A description of this particular district ’will apply in all its main features lo whole of northern Wisconsin and Minesota, and, in fact, lo the whole North West, through to Pembina and the Red nver of the north, and along the Missouri river from northern lowa to the Rocky mountains. I propose in the first place lo speak of Ihe climate, of which nearly all eastern people obtain erroneous opinions. It is unquestion ably true that in ihe aggregate we nave more cold weather here than syou do in Penna.— Yet we have no greater'epremes of cold and heat than you do there. The mercury does not rise higher or sink lower than with you. VVhen our winter begins, we have continued winter until it ends. No fluctuations, no sud den changes, but often from’the first snow it is good sleighing until it is time for the plow. We have no Fall or Spring as in Fa., but an almost instant transition from summer to win ter and from winter to summer—thus freeing us from all the unpleasantness of the “half and half” seasons of the east. We have during the winter, very few storms and none of rain—the weather for the most part being clear and cold ; and although the sun will shine bright through the whole da|y, and for days in succession, yet such a thing as a “thaw," with ils disagreeable slopishness is not known. We have very little windy weather, and what wind we do have is usually from the west or north-west, and ss wp are situated west of the great chain of lakes there is great dryness of the atmosphere which divests it of the penetrajhng chilliness we feel with such winds during the same sea son in the east. To this variety and dryness of the atmos phere must be attributed a great feature of the winters here, which is, that none realize the cold here as they do east; and were it not for the thermometer, people residing here could not be persuaded of its intensity. As an illustration of how welt these winters can be endured, I will give a sketch of my expe rience during the past winter, which is noted for having been the most severe kitown her* for years. On the 25th of last December I started from Superior with a parly of axe men to open a supply road along the line of the St.. Croix and lake Superior R. R. to Hud son, on the St. Croix lake; the first 65 miles of which route was a dense forest, unbroken, and uninhabited except by wild feasts and’ Chippewa Indians. Our equipment consisted for each man of a Mackinack blanket, an axe and one week’s provisions. The provis ions were rolled in the blankets and formed a pack, which was lashed by a strap to the back of each owner, and with the axe on the shoulder we look up our line of march. A'"ter following the “old military road” about lour miles from Superior, vye came to thd starting point of our road and commenced operations. At night .we built in the woods our first camp fire, and gathered around it to cook and eat out first supper on the work.— After supper was over our met gathered sptuce boughs and covered the snow round about our fire, and thus formed our first prim itive lied. The evening was spent by the men in smoking the pipe, telling sloties and singing songs; after which, each man rolled himself in his blanket and prepared to resign himself to the “arms of ■ Morpheus” with at least but a small chance of being very much “crowded” as we had the broad {expanse of “all out doors" for a bed room. There was very little sleeping done this first night—not that we were uncomfortable, but ;o many of us this sOrf of life was novel, and we found it hard lo realize that we had “gdiato bed,” and therefore could not consider ourselves under any obligation lo go to sleej, We got cured of this deluatwv ta thicoasse of ■ fe w daynand after that did our share of boaaea to the “dreamy gotk” The neat dayjg cut odr way stiff farther into the wilderness, abd at night camped as before, aad we continued on until,«» arrived on. the Ist of March at the crossing of the Sr. Croix r j, er and to the open prairie. We had passed over this distance of 65. miles, packing oar provisions on the backs of men, and camping where night overtook us, as we commenced the first night, wiih the exception that after the first few nights we ceased to gather boughs for a.bed, but chose to lie in the soft snow la, stead, it being more pliable,and fully as warm as the boughs. Very often we built no fire at all, but simply wrapt our blankets about us and laid dowrvialhe snow and slept soundly. After seaching the St. Croix crossing we pushed on over llje prairies and through the strips of woodland to Hudson, where wear, rived on the 21st of March. Outing this whole time 1 did yot sleep in a bed (with, the exception of one week while on a trip to So perior, and daring the whole time the party enjoyed uninterrupted good health; sot one had a cold or cough,- or any indisposition, . whatever—so one had an ear or toe or any pan of the body the least bit frost-bitten du ring the whole winter ; and for myself I can only say that I have passed winters in Pa. in which t have suffered os much with cold as I have during the past winter—of course it was cold—the mercury often getting as low as 35 to 38 below zero, and sometimes a de gree or two lower, and scarcely much above 35 before the first of March. Yet the at, mosphere was dry and the system very readi ly accommodated, itself to circumstances. The winters here are long; there being usually about four months -good sleighing.— Navigation in the streams, by steamboats, is usually interrupted about five mouths, owing to the fact that the ice never goes out. of the streams here by flood, but by'theslow process of the sun. The consequence is that farmers frequently have in their spring crops by the time navigation is open. We have had no rain storms here from the middle of November to the middle of April, and I tin told that this is usuSlly the case. There has been no muddy or bad going, but as soon as the snow was gone the roads were dry, and all our roads are in fine condition for the wagon.' Of the summers here 1 am unahla to speak experimentally, but am told that they are all the most sanguine could wish, eatbh day being like its fellow, steadily warm and freshened with just showers enough to supply the wants of vegetation ; and while mention, ing “showers” 1 will not omit the fact that this country- is noted for its terrific thunder storms —said to exceed anything of the kind in the east. This is probably owing to the melalic base which underlies and crops out all over this noith western country. Ido not learn of many accidents occurring, but they are said to frequently frighten the timorous and such as are “afraid of thunder.” All kinds of vegetation is said to mature with as. lenishing rapidity, of which I have no doubt, as the soil and climate are such as to war* rant this statement. This country may be styled in the fbllesl sense a healthy one, for we have no prevailing epidemics incident la it. The water is pure, the seasons are not subject to sudden changes, and the almos, phere pure and invigorating ; and in Ibis re spect is farjirafetable as a residence than any other portion of the “west.” Having said thus much about the climate, I will next endeavor to give' some idea ;of the soil, products and such other things as may present themselves as' worthy of note find of interest to your readers. C. V. E. New Rate of Fare on Railroads.— The law making changes in the rales of fare on railroads, went intmeflect on the Ist inst. The rales are so' arranged as to make the fare in all cases, consist of dimes and half dimes. Wherever the fare has heretofore been over live cents and-less than ten, it is now ten; and so on, increasing the rate wherever it has heretofore consisted of odd cents. In no case is the fare reduced. There is another feature of the new law that people will do well to heed. Tickets must be pur chased at all stations where they are sold, before passengers lake seals in the cars, or they will be subject to an extra charge of live cents. The ticket offices are required to be •kept open for an hour previous to the depad. tore of any train between the hours of 5 a/M. and Up. m. —Elmira Advertiser. ■ Elopement op a Clergyman, —The (Mich.) Republican records another case of clerical delinquency. Rev. D. W. Pierce, of the north part of the town of Bellevue, in Eaton county, recently deserted his wife and two children, and left for parts unknown, in company with a hired girl who had been living for some time in his family. While on his flight he wrote a regretful letter to Mrs. Pierce, staling (bathe would .not have left her had he not felt constrained to do so by the unhappy predicament which he and the unfortunate girl had found themselves in. The creditors of Mr. Pierce have since at-* tached his property. An attempt *as recently made on the life of Louis Napoleon, but the fact is disclosed as little as possible in France. It seems he was on one of his amatory visits to MadartW- Casliglione, when he was shot at. A coat o( mail, which he habitually wears, caused the ball to glance harmlessly off. A hundred sospected persons were arrested and imprison ed. It is stated that there is a secret organi zation, embracing many thousands of despe rate men, who are pledged to the assassination of the Emperor. The Madison (Wis.) Journal, April Sh says that the recent election of Chief Jostica Whiton shows that there is no diminution to the depth and extent of the Republican senti ment of Wisconsin. His majority, as far as heard from, is 10,347. The counties not heard from gave three to four thousand ma jority for Fremont. On Friday last the people of Massachusetts voted on some amendments to the. State Con stitution, and carried them. Th 6 first one denies the right to vole, or eleglbih’ly to office, to any one who shell be unable to read tba Constitution of the Stats in the English fan guage, and write his name. j«- Xk* THE ACfltAtOE. Hr. 0. Cobb„-., .i ;.EdiCbr. WELLSBOROUGH, PA, ‘ Thursday- Morning, May9l. tSS7. *,* All Business,and oilier CommunicilioßsmuS be addressed to the Editor to insure attention. Republican HonilnaUans. For Cwwniw, - • DAVID WILMOT, : *< Of Bradford County . T'or'XJanal Commissioner^ WILLIAM MILL WARD, Of Philadelphia* For Supreme Judges* JAMES VEECH, Of Fayette, County* JOSEPH J. LEWIS, Of Chester County.
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