is i* s 05 s-ST ctvj- i »t i ? —~t' , , y ~ From tbs St- Lauia Donwcrwt, toy, -Ji. , Another StarlUng Tragedy. ELDER KILLED. Wq have, received to-day- another’ painful; 'narrative of Mormon, iniquity, seduction end -villainy, followed up in this instance, however, hVH .will be seen, by a summary - vengeance i from ihe injured husband.’ The account which .we publish below is taken from The Van vfeuren (Ark.) Intelligencer, and gives in brief J-ihe facts of the case pretty much -as they have occurred.' From The Fort Smith Her ald and The New Orleans Bulletin we also have confirmation, whole story, up to ihe-last act in-the drama,-the tragic-death-of Klder Pratt, the Mormon Apostle. Thus it will be seen whWtltler ruin and devastation h s been wrought in a virtuous family by the designing arts of a sainily scoundrel and the lures of a false and licentious faith. Here'is what The Van Boren Intelligencer records of the lermibstioh of this affair : ‘•TRAGICAL. •‘lt isrwilh regret that we have to'chronicle the homicide, committed in our -vicinity on Wednesday lasi, by- Mr. Hector H. McLean,, late of' San -Francisco, California, upon the pet son of a Mormon preacher. More than •all do we deplore the melancholy* aflair that -led to. its commission. The deceased, whose name'was Parley Parker Pratt, was a man of note among the Mormons, and judging, from his diarjj and his letter to Mrs. McLean, he was a man of more Ibao ordinary intelli gence and,ability. He had been a preacher ■and missionary of the Mormons at San Fran cisco, California, where he made the acquaint ance Mrs McLean, whom he induced to em brace ihe Mormon faith. “Shn wns ntjhal time living with her hug band, Hecfor Hi McLean; they were happy «nd prosperous until she made the acquaint ance of Pratt and embraced the Mormon frith. She is the mother of three children by McLean, two boys and a girl, and seems to be an intelligent and Interesting lady ; con verses fluently, anctf with more grace and ease than most ladies. About two years ago. and soon after she became a convert to Mor monism, she made an attempt to abduct two of her children to Utah, but was detected and prevented -by her brother, who was then in California and residing with his brother-in law, Mr. McLean. She soon after, however, foun.d means to elope with said Pratt to Salt Lake, where, it is said, she became his ninth wjfp. “After the elopement of Mrs; McLean, her proems who reside near New-Orleans, wrote to Mr. McLean/in California, to send the children to them. Hedidso. Several momhs nftpr this, Mr. McLean received news that his wife had been to her father in New Or leans, and eloped with the two youngest children. He immediately left San Francisco for New-Orleans, and on arriving at the house of his father-in-law, he learned from them that Mrs. McLean had been there, and after an ineffectual effort Vo convert her father and mother to Mormonism, she pretended to abandon it herself, and so far obtained the confidence of her parents, as to induce them lo entrust her in the City of New-Orleans with the children ; but they soon found she had betrayed their confidence and eloped with the children, “They.then wrote lo McLean in San Fran cisco, who, upon the receipt of their fetter, went to New-Orleans, and, learning from them the above facts in relation to the affair, immediately s'arled in pursuit of his children. Up went lo New-York and then to St. Louis. While in St. Louis he learned that the woman and children were in Houston, Texas. On his arrival in Houston, he found that his wife hnd left some time before his arrival, to join a large parly of Mormons en rou’e for Utah. He then returned to New-Orleans and from there to Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee Nation. w'uh the expectation of intercepting his. wife hnd children at that point. “On arriving at Port Gibson, nnd while ihrre. he found letters in the Post-Office to his wife from Pratt, some of which were mailed at St. Louis, and others at Flint Post-Office, Cherokee Nation. We are unable to give the contents of these letters with particularity, hut they -contained the fact that McLean was on the lookout for her and the children, and that they were betrayed by the apostates and gentiles, and advising her to be cautious in her movements-; and not to' let -herself be known only to a few of the saints and elders. McLean then, upon affidavit made by himself,, obtained a writ from the United Slates Com missioner at this place for their arrest, and succeeded in gening them arrested by«the United States Marshal. They were brought fo this place for after an examina tion before the Commissioner, were dis charged, - u • ’ “Pratt, ns soon as released, mounted his horse nnd left the city. McLean soon after obtained a horse and started in pursuit, and overtook Pratt about eight miles from the city and shot him. Pratt died in about two hours after receiving the wound. This is a plain narrative of the facts, as we heard them from the most reliable ’resources, which we give to our readers without comment, as we feel that we are unable to do so with justice m ail But deeply do we sympathize with MeLeanlin (he unfortunate condition in which Mormon villainy and fanaticism has placed him.” Miraculous Kscate.— On Saturday even ing lasi, one of Ihe. freight trains on tlje Central, while crossing the iron bridge oppo site Cambria City, came upon an Irishman, who was about the centre of the bridge, un expectedly and unobserved; The Irishman instantly realized his perilous position, and knowing that he must either “clear the track” or suffer the fearful consequences of being run over, preferred the former, regardless of the danger that he incurred in doing so. He left himself drop between the crevices'of the bridge, and grasping the pier with all the tenacity of a person to whom death seems inevitable, retained his hold until the cars passed over him, and also until some laborers, who fortunately' discovered his critical con dition, rescued him from tho'jaws of death.- —Johnstown Echo. 'A. woman, in one of the towns, of New Hampshire, who had been ill used .by berhus baud-, on finding him asleep: ona.day, quietly sewed hira up in the bed clothes, and-' then gave him a tremendous thrashing. THE AGJTAfO|I HI. If. Cobb,, WKLLSBOROUSH, PA. Thorida^Jlor n i u £ T -JCaae~4t -WMi All be addressed to the Editor to insure attention. ’ Republican Nominations. For Governor^.. - DAVID WILMOT, Of Bradford County,' For Ganal-Commitsionrr, - WILLIAM MILLWAED, Of Philadelphia . For Supreme Judges, JAMES VEEGH, f ' Of Fayette County, JOSEPH J. LEWIS, ' ~Of Chester County. Our citizens should not fail to attend the Lectures of Prof. Edgcrton at the Methodist Church, upon “The’Progrcss of Creation, 1 * GeologciaUy and As tronomically illustrated. Prof, E-, has some fine maps of the Earles crust, giving a very fair view ol the Coal formation as well as the primitive rocks. He is at home with the subject. There is not a very full attendance upon Court. The lateness of Spring and the absence of very ma ny litigants-»-down-the Elver,”-combine to -render the attendance slim. Wc are glad to slate that our subscription list bears substantial witness of the liberality of a goodly number of those in attendance. Our friends will please accept thanks for their pat ronage. The weather continues very beautiful. Tuesday was one of the most magnificent days our cyjs ev er beheld. Spring work is progressing rapidly and the forest is in lull leaf Orchards are while with snowy blooms, the air is loaded with fragrance. It Is a glorious Spring after all, and mortals may as well make the most of it as it melts into June, The summer will fly swiftly, and autumn, with its golden fruits arid wintry rime will succeed the joyous sum mer-time. Take care of the prd&nt. We observe that the Apportionment Bill, which will be found m another part of this paper, is not well received by our Republican and American co temporaries. That the Republicans been pret. ty extensively Gerrymandered in the Apportionment is evident. Gut it is fully as good as we expected from the old logy Legislature which has expended so much time and .money in doing, nothing. We almost expected that the Governor might velo.it; but as he did not, we agree -with the Harrisburg Telegraph that it is policy lo go to wort and redeem the dark places. Since the mountain won't come to to Mahomet, let Mahomet go lo the mountain. A Dilemma. The Southern Democracy, through the Press, de. niand that Kansas be given up to Slavery. They openly repudiate, as their Northern brethren do in secret, the Douglasian doctrine of Popular Sover cignty. and insist that the probably pro-slavery Con stitution of Kansas shall not be submitted to the people for their acceptance or rejection. On the oilier hand, the masses of the democratic party North actually look to Mr. Buchanan as one pledged to make Kansas a free Slate. They do not understand Popular Sovereignty, any more than the leaders who know nothing about it and yet pretend to UnOVV all about it. The Northern masses arc an. ti-slavery at heart. They voted for Mr. Buch. an»m, generally understood him to be in favor of free Kansas, —we refer now to the masses, not to the leaders; for these latter have no sympathies iu com. mon with ‘freedom, and moreover, knew that Mr. Buchanan cared as little for freedom In Kansas as did the most unscrupulous of the place-hunters who advocated his claims. Now what has Mr. Buchan an done to confirm the belief of the masses who vo ted for him? He took occasion in his Inaugural to discredit events in ibe history of Kansas as well aulhentica. led as any recorded either In sacred or profane his. lory He belittled the great question which now attracts the attention of the best of men everywhere- And more than all, and most' glaring, he lugged in an extra-judicial opinion concerning the constitution, alily of any national restriction of slavery. He promised that the vexed question should be settled in a lew. days by the highest tribunal in the land— thus foreshadowing the infamous Opinion of Lord Chief Justice Taney, and recognizing in the So. prcrac Court a higher tribunal than the People. His. next official step was a refusal.to sustain the Administration of Gov. Geary, in Kansas. This | was, in effect, equivalent to a removal of Geary from that post. At whose instance? At the instance of Northern u fanatics” ? Never. The most unfair of our opponents docs no! allege that At whose in stance, then, did Mr. Buchanan refuse (o 'sustain Gov. Geary, thus forcing him to resign? Wc can answer that question : It was at the instance of the Atchinsons and Stnngfellows of Kansas and of the McMullins, the Davises and the Brookses of the South; The evidence is in the reproach heaped by that class of politicians. North and South, upon the acts of Gov. Geary. For what cause 7 ' Because he discovered that the democracy of Kansas bad de generated into a horde of whisky.drinkingatid mur der-doing ruffians, and said it aloud. He found that . under Lccompte, mnrder,*when perpetrated by a Kansas democrat, was a bailable offence, while a Frce-Slaleman, arrested for taking his own horses from a democratic horse-thief, could not be liberated upon any security whatever— not even for the pur pose of vieiiing the bedside of his dying wife for. one short hour! And such are the Courts, such the judges, sustained by James Buchanan and the under - leaders of the democratic parly, when the former re moved and the latter applauded the removal of Gov. Geary. Where are those conscientious democrats who denounced the removal of Geary as an outrage 7 And those who denounced the Taney Opinion as be ing glaringly anii-democrulic 7 We distrust such short-lived indignation. If the Taney Opinion was wrong one month ago it is infamous now and forev er. A decision in contempt of principles to-day so blots the statutes of this nation everlastingly. Do those democrats stand like quarry-slaves under the scourge, waiting for the coming ‘blow, hoping against hope that the next stroke shall be lighter, or the lasi 7 They donfide'in dust and ashes. Men who applaud such monsters as Lccompte never dreamed of mer cy. Better appeal to the hyena that it may not dis turb the repose of (he dead. The end Is plainly re. vealed. There is an effort on the part of the lead ers of/ the Qligarchy to so indurate the consciences of the masses that they may be leddown the decliv. ity of political bVime, step by step, unconscious any downward progress. It rests with the masses whether they Will submit to be led downward.or obedient to the dictates of conscience, arise to the lolly dignity of an IndependentfreenAnhood.' 'The distinctive existence of'thfi prostavery patty as*a natif ial organization, in od . important degree depends-upon tfib;tCabsa«*policy of the Administra TTJE £I OJ&JL* 4GITATO:Bvr tioo. There U U? mafa. a dieplay of; fair ness In regard los|e\cominf efti&ion of demotes to Um Kansas CorisWulioiial Cdovenlion. phi il is Well to remember thijl there arejnot a few things ittfhe-past history- of Kansas fegfehtioa that’'■can. notbe covered. of.falrnesa "in present affairs. There are the laws of an usurp-, by the citizens of Kansas, but by force and arms at the hands of non residents. la that a legally con atitnled Legislature? .Ko-inanof seiviepretends:it■ . The. Oligarchs deny that such is.Xbft-iacU.r- We pro duce in evidencethe report of] the Congressippal In rcfligaling Committee. They deny' the authority- And yet, tint the present Kansas. Legislature is a barefaced fraud, and its every decree therefore null, we have more, and (in law) better evidence than we have that such a man as George Washington, ever existed. .^Editor With the President the question.now is, “which? w the Right, or the Left?" If.he gives bis influ ence to a submission of the Kansas Constitution that is to be to a popular vole, the' Southern wing* of the party will secede. If be favor the Ruffians and per mit the law of the bogus Legislature to force a pre slavery Constitution upon the people of that Terri tory nolens volens , then the honest rank and file of the Northern wing will stampede. Mr. Buchanan and his advisers can get out dilemma the best way they can. We don’t believe the people can be hoodwinked into the snpport of an Administra tion winch plays fast and loose—not that the Re public may be rendered glorlons, but that the lead ers of the Oligarchy may continue to grow fill up on Uie people’s substance. O’We are permitted to extract the following from a private letter written by Mr. F. A- Root, Inlca resident of this village, but now residing in Kansas. The writer iswell and favorably known to our citizens, and wc therefore cheerfully give place to this fresh evidence of the barbarities practiced by the Democracy of Kansas upon men whose greatest offence was that of preferring Freedom*before. Slav ery. The letter is dated—-“ Lawrence, K.T., May 12,1857.’* He writes: ■ “ When in Wcllsboro, I thought the Kansas sto-, pies were exaggerations, to a great extent; but I find hundreds and thousands of wrongs have been committed here by the pro-slavery party which have never reached the East. A great many have heen found in the woods suspended by the neck, suppqs ed lu be Free-State men. In the little lime 1 have been here 1 have learned more about Kansas lhanil ever knew before.” > Mr. Root goes on to say that he regards the free dom of Kansas as ceitain. That the Frcc-Slate men will resist every attempt to enforce the Territo rial laws and the collection of taxes under those laws. We sincerely trnsl that our friends may stand fast in that good resolution. The men of the Revolution precipitated the country in a long and bloody war for a less oppressive cause. Give tins wicked Administration war to the knife and knife to the hilt, rather than submit to the establishment of a dangerous precedent. It is belter to strangle the cub than to contend will) the full-grown wolf. The editor of the Lockhavcn Watchman was vis ited last week by a gentleman who legally invited him to take a trip to Philadelphia at the suggestion of Messrs. Sanderson & Flanagan, of the Dally Neics, The fVateliman chanced to publish some information relating to an alleged sale of the Am. erican parly by the publishers* of the News, by which sale the SlatC/was given to Buchanan. .We can’t help thinking that the libel will-be hard to es tablish. But should the News gentlemen recover, the Republican papers in Norlh Pcnnsj-lvania have a right smart prospect of litigation ahead; for most of them published the alleged libelous article, if we are not much mistaken. Friend Dunham is select, ed as a lest-victim, to or not to bleed, as the Court may determine. Should our afflicted cotem porary bleed, (hen those in a like pickle must toe the mark and fork over. He once sailed under the fol lowing' audaciously inscribed flag : “ Devoted to Lileratnre, Fun and Making Money." Perhaps he may be able to trace the visitation of which he hu morously makes mention back to tins instance of editorial audacity. In any case, we wish him safe* Uy out of the clutches of the Philadelphia lawyers. The Philosophy of Education. —Such as may have been present at the Lecture upon this theme by Prof. J. L. Edoerton, will not think it too high praise if wc pronounce it the best discourse on the Practical that we ever listened to. Fruitful as wc knew the theme to be, we were not prepared for the skillful elaboration with which it war wrought out in the thought of the lecturer. The lecturer commenced by making a very prop* cr distinction between Knowledge and Education. Ashe happily expressed it—“ The difference Isas w palpable as that of building a storehouse, or filling iW a storehouse. To educate is to build a storehouse; ”to get knowledge is to fill the storehouse.* 1 Eda cation hr the process of expanding the mindV ca. pacities—the process by which Mind is endowed with ihd* power of comprehending Ihc principles of tliings t '»nd being endowed with which, it straitway becomes its own teacher. The duty of the teacher, he said, is. not to fted the pupil’s mind, but to disci, pline the mind so that it may feed itself; not to :e. liete it from the necessity of reasoning, but by ar* ousiog a spirit of inquiry to compel it to reason. I Ho animadverted strongly upon tire pernicious { practice of forcing the .minds of children through books to the utter neglect of the subjects therein j treated. We would suggest that parents are more j to be blamed for this than teachers. li-is generally I considered an <ndication of smartness to keep up ! with one’s classes. The lecturer did not so consid. er it. Our experience teaches us that his position is the cot reel one.. There is nothing more easy than j to keep up with one’s classes. It is a mechanical effort and nothing more. To reason one’s way up ’ through (he realities of the science of Mathematics 1 is no work of a three years’ collegiate course, but of a lifetime. la language of the lecturer— tt Men must grow to everything.” We cannot educate ourselves outside the realm of reason and invesliga tion any more than wc can learn lo swim without going into the water. The lecture upon Religions Education on Sunday evening was likewise excellent, necessarily involv. ing the principles wrought upon in Scientific Edu cation, though applied to a different class of facul tics. “ How to Behave: A Pocket Manual of Republic, an Etiquette and Guide to correct Personal Hab- I its. Price, post paid, paper, 30c., muslin, 50 cts. 1 New-York : Fowler it Wells. 308 Broadway. As distinguished from works upon the subject of Manners that‘we have before- met with, this book deals fearlessly and ably with the principlet which underlie true Politeness. The anlhor 'does not on dertahe to make Manners for men find-woipcn, bnl men and women with Manners inbred. He shows that to be tv gentleman* or a - lady, is-to be H Chris tian. He bases the formalities nl' sooial life upon a Common Sense foundation—rejecting .the falsities engrafted upon the social code by Snob, Nippy Sc. Cot, rejecting everything which tends to build, op an aristocracy of Manners upon a rigid , observance of dumb- form*, and accepting every good suggestion r rum other, authors. This Manual is one of a scries of the saß»sßtyle and by the same ablhor.' He of the series, respectively . Xi’-WrUe," “ How to Talk,** and; w ;How tjf These llirce boohs may be had postpaid, for $l;50. was such a mass of'ate 1 solulely necessary Information offered to the public. I for sU small a sum of money. I Editoi^o^thS Agitator! •» * - - . Permit me through the columns of your paper to speak of the skiHfuT riianncr in which a critical op eration was performed iit Uiis village* by R. H. Gil bsrt, M. D.. of Corning, N. Y. ' The youngest daughter of JudgVDvER, had, from infancy* been afflicted with a slow and painful dis ease in one of her limbs, and which baffled the skill of several eminent physicians and surgeons,. It re suited In a loss ol the use of the limb, rendering an operation necessary, in the opinion of her friends and .medical advisers. Dr. Gilbert was gammoned -tp amputate the limb, at which time the usual cour tesy was extended to the medical faculty of this place, who .were present to witness the skillful mao ncr in which Dr.G.* performed the-operation which resulted most favorably, -All who know Dr. Gilbert award biro llie praise truly duo his scientific acquirements. Covington, Pa. jj, [ ' *** ' The above communication should have appear cd last week, but an accident prevented. [Ed. Apportionment Bill. The bill Q&t&greed upon by the Committee of Conference, and passed by the Senate, and House, arranges the district representation in the following manner: SENATORIAL DISTRICTS. The City of Philadelphia.... 4 Chester and Delaware, v...... 1 Montgomery,. 1 Bucks, 1 Lehigh and Northampton,....., I Berk*, • • • * I Schuylkill, ~...• 1 Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne 1 Bradford, Susquehanna, Sullivan and Wyoming,. 1 Luzerne....... .......... 1 Tioga, Potter, McKean and Warren,....,.* 1 Clinton, Lycoming, Centre and Union,. 1 Snyder, Northuxnb’d, Montour and Columbia,. •. I Cumberland, Perry, Juniata and Mifflin. 1 Dauphin and Lebanon,. 1 Lancaster,. 2 York,. 1 Adams, Franklin and Fulton, 1 Somerset, Bedford and Huntingdon I Blair, Cambria and Clearfield,, 1 Indiana and Armstrong, I Westmoreland and Fuyclle, 1 Washington and Greene, 1 Allegheny, 2 Beaver and Butler, 1 Lawrence, Mercer and Venango,.. 1 Erie and Crawford, 1 Clarion, Jefferson, Forest and Elk, 1 Whole number of Senators, REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. Philadelphia City, 17 Delaware County, 1 Chester, 3 Montgomery 3 Bucks, 2 Northampton, 2 Lehigh and Carbon, 2 Monroe and Pike,. J Wayne, 1 Luzerne,. 3 Susquehanna, 1 Bradford 2 Wyoming, Sullivan, Columbia and Montour,... 2 Lycoming and Clinton, 1. 2 Centre ~.7 Mifflin, 1 Union, Snyder and Juniata, 2 Northumberland,. ; 1 Schuylkill, 3 Dauphin,.. , o Lebanon, ) Berks, 3 Lancaster,.., r, - 4 York, ; 2 Cumberland and Perry,. 2 Adams, j Franklin and Fullon 2 Bedford and Somerset, 2 Huntingdon,....' \ Blair, .... j Cambria, ‘; 1 Indiana,....; j Armstrong and Westmoreland, 3 Fayette, y Greene, ] Washington, o Allegheny,.— ... i 5 Beaver and Lawrence, 2 Butler 2 Mercer and Venango, ’2 Clarion and Forest. 1 Jefferson, Clearfield, Elk and McKean, 2 Crawford and Warren, "2 Eric,... . 2 Potter and Tioga, .* 2 Whole number of'Representative? 100 Special Dispatch to The N. T. Tribune. Cincinnati, FHday, May 29, 1857. Excitement in Ohio.—Fight between State and Federal Officers* —Deputy United States Marshal Churchill and eleven assist* ant left this city lasi Tuesday, to arrest four persons in Mechanicsburg, Champaign Coun iy, this Slaje, charged with harboring fugi live slaves .nine months ago. " The arrests were made on Wednesday, when a writ of habeas corpus was taken out, but before it could be served, the United Slates officers, wifh their prisoners, were beyond the bounds of the county. Another writ was taken |out in Green Countynnd served by the SheHff, assisted by a large crowd of citizens. ■ The United States officers resisted, and shots were exchanged, but finally the Uillted Slates officers were overpowered, taken pris oners, and brought lo Springfield for trial for' resisting the Sheriff in the discharge of his duty. The greatest excitement prevailed.— The' United States Marshal telegraphed the Secretary of the Interior for instructions, hut the nature of the instructions received in reply has noi yet transpired; Judge Levitt U. S. District Judge, issued a writ of habeas corpus 19 day, and the Marshal has gone to- Springfield lo serve it. In case resistance is offered, it is reported that (he United Stales troops will Jie called out. Runaway Negroes. —On Saturday night last a regular stampede look place among the negroes in ibis neighborhood. .We learn that two negroes belonging lo ,Mr. Wm. Heysnr, near town, one of Mr. Joseph Rench’St and one of Mr. John Booth's, iq town, and it is supposed a number of others of whom we have not yet heard, started fur the land where negroes have the-privilege'of keeying Ihemsefves. They took‘with them a horse belonging to Dr. E. Weis, and one of Mr. H. K. Tice’s, logelber with a carriage of Mr. F. J. Posey, and Mr. Jos. P. Mong’s buggy. They were pursued,.■however','.and arres’ed at Chpmbersburg, Pa., on Monday. —Hagerstown Chronicle. A fire: occurred'4t Addison N. Y.’on Wed nesday.last, which consumed 39 dwellings and places of-business. Estimated joss, 830- 000. Puriially covered by insurance. "•■I, f l^orcc^dn&nicr. t fetter Fro* Kansas; L JfiDiiWAHo, K, Th. May, 24,1857. Fbiend Cobb : I hasten to write you again." Tnrnved here from Lawrence on Fri dtty afternoon, 15tb inst. Quifidaro is situated on the Missouri River, about Six milts above the mouth of the Kansas, and a b0m,30 miles below Leavenworth. The town .was jsnrveyed in December last, and the first..building.put up in January. Now il contains' a|hput 5,00 inhabitants, and is fast increasing.; It has a superior rock landing for a mile and a qnar.- ter. About forty or fifty hands are at work grading the Levee. The place hai two ex cellent hotels, two dry gopds stores,)wo com mission houses, an apothecary '.shi>p, a saw mill, stone yard, carpenter shops, several land agencies, a surveyor’s office, &c. There are also sixteen business houses in {course of erection, most of which are being built of stone. Two stone churches ate njow under progress, and will be finished this season. Back of the town for twelve miles is a dense forest o.f huge walnut, hickory, ash and oak. The Chindoman, a Free Slate paper at this place was commenced on the 14th inst. The Sqvatter Sovereign, published at Atchison, the organ of the notorious!. B. Stringfellow, has been purchased by the Free-Stale men, and will be continued at the former place. There was considerable excitement in town this evening. The steamer “New Lucy” came op, and had on board Gov. Moniker and Senator Wilson. Mr. Waiker was introduced by Gov. Robinson, and made a| brief but stirring speech. . On board ihe Boat was a Brass Band, which played several tunes while lying at ihe wharf. There is a great emi gration 10 Kansas this spring. Every Boat chat arrives is filled with passengers. - A ma jority of the people are locating in the Neoshu Valley. There are plenty of claims in that Valley, at present, but will will nol be after a while.l The people are swarming in there like tecJ. Emporia will he the great trading point in (that valley. There are pew towns starting up ail the while, some of which will not omomil to much. New Free Slate papers are beingstarlcd -everywhere in theiTerrilory, some of which will “fail,” 1 think, alter the first number. lam very anx'oud to see the Agitator; have not seen a copy: since 1 have been in the Territory. I will write! ytju again soon; Respectfully yours, Afraid of School Books. Slavery like the snail, is a slaw moulded creature, but always draws in its head at the first approach of imagined danger.; What an acknowledgment is contained in [the article below, which we copy from ihe New Orleans Della. Reader this is-the 19th cpntury, past the middle, of the Christian Era. This is the. United Slates of America,) the freest nation on iho Globe Yet read the following and see the system of robbery and outrage upon 4,000,000 of men, women end children, which is so great that they dare riot lot their children read'ihe ordinary school books of the country. —Chicago Ledger. ■ W ll at the Morning Papers Say. —The Bulletin refers to the meeting of ijio commh tee appointed by the Commercial Convention, which is to meet at Columbia, SI C., on the ISlb Alay. to select and prepare! a aei-iea of school books adapted to the Southern instilu lions of learning, in every dcpja'rltnent of study. It says; !, “A thorough and searching investigation into the character of our school books is de manded from every consideralioh of public policy, and its necessity exists to a greater degree in Louisiana than in jany other Southern Stale, and simply from the fact, that from the lenient nature of our laws, and from usage and custom, the colored popula tion in this Slate enjoy, a larger share of legal, personal and social privileges, than in any other Slave Slate. The public jschools are not accessible to thid class of population, but there is no scarcitylof private schools for the education of.colpred children, and there are abundant instances at hand, jof not dnly well-educated quadroons of both sexes, but of those whose ifiinds have been highly culti vated with all the advantages of a thorough education, in the ornamental as well as sub stantial branches enjoyed and improved. The importance of instituting a critical inquisition into the character'bf the text-books used in our schools in such a community ,as our own, ii 100 obvious lo require any urgency in the way of argument or example. The desired revision of Northern class books,! and the ex purgation of all objectionable mayor in them, can only be accomplished in the way recom mended, by the action of a general and com petent committee, acting for all the Slave States! ' j" . The Kansas treason prisoners, after four months’ close confinement in miserable tents and shanties, with a detachment of troops to guard them, and being kept for eight months longer under heavy bonds—and,|in the case of several of them, an arrest while on their way to the East, and a forcible reconveyance Ip Kansas lo the great damage and interrup tion of their business—have all last, been discharged on a nolle prosequi. ; Who is fo recompense these gentlemen for having been made, through the agency of the 1 United States Government., and Iby the con trivance, if not the direct procurement, of the Administration at Washington, the victims of what this nolle prosequi admits, lb have been a miserable Pro-Slavery political trick I In fact, Mr. Buchanan's Administration, by con tinuing in nffice Chief Justice 1 Lecomple, whom-even Pierce bad the decency lo super sede, may be considered as haying assumed the responsibility of this wretched and dis graceful political maneuver. Nor has the nolle prosequi, been entered for nothing. Not only is great credit lb be taken far the Border Ruffians in not trying and banging, as well as arresting and -imprisoning these parties, but their discharge is lo be. made a pretext for the discontiauanceofall lhaj indictments for murder, robbery and arson, hanging over Buchanan’s chief office-holders in Kansas.— N. Y. Tribune . i . : ! A fund of 806,000 has been subscribed, jo Vicksburg, Mississippi, to a planta tion. lo be presented jo Ex-President Pierce,. 84,000 more are wanted, the aura required for the estate in view being §lOO,OOO. i 1.. / ’ i ,'t. 'A. pAIfTItER FISTICtrFFED AND UdOTBUTO Death.—Mr. VV. &. Siockend, a sinewy, stout, active young Scotchman, nassociated i a farming' with Mr. T. Linklaler, Tenalqapi Plains,- in this -county, recently killed quite a large panther, six feet seven inches in lenoth. in a fair fist and- bool fight—the citcumnan ces attending which are related as fellows: It seems that at the farther end of a lar"e field, about a quarter of a mile from th e house, Mr. Stockend discovered quite a move ment and disturbance among a lot of ho«s that were kept in the field. He at once pro-, needed in the direction to ascertain the cause when to h ; s surprise, at a short distance front the hogs, he saw that a favorite young dog was engaged in a conflict wiib a panther. Determined to save the dog at all hazards, he resolved to interpose in the fight, expecting to frighten the panther up a tree, that Stood bard by, when he could return to the house for his rifle, and bring it down. He accor dingly gave the .animal a substantial kick, when it ceased its engagement with the dog, straightened itself erect on its hind legs, and pitched into him; inlbe.meantime the youno dog made a hasty retreat for some distance. The conlesl now seemed to be a desperate and very unequal one, but there was no escape from it for our friend Stockend. The pan. ther made a furious dash at him, but retaining his full presence of mind, be met it with a furious kick. The fight now assumed the character of a “rough and tumble,” and a volley of well directed blows and kicks disa. bled the animal somewhat. He called his dog back, and the faithful young animal, as if ashamed at having deserted its master m the hour of peril, and as if to make amends for Ungrateful conduct, entered' into the cod. diet with unequaled fierceness. Mr. Stockend .finally succeeded in gelling one foot firmly planted upon the neck of his assailant, and keeping the other in rapid motion in the di. reclion of tho animal’s head, soon brought the contest to a close. He has no doubt but that Ihe long heavy boots which he had on were the means of saving his life. The fight lasted, first to last, about fifteen minutes, in the course of Stockend was somewhat severely handled. His shoul der was badly scratched—he received a severe wound from the teeth of the animal in the thigh, and was badly scratched in several places, although by no means dangerously, or by which he will hereafter be disabled. Can any of Our colemporaries beat the panther fight of our friend Siockend I —Washington Territory Pioneer. F.A. Root. The New Law of Evidence. —A breach of promise case recently tried at Rochester, in « bich, under the operation of the new law of evidence, the parlies were called as wit nesses, illustrates most strikingly the benefits of a practice which has been familiar to the English Courts for several years. Stray facts, suspicious circumstances, or inferences, which might, under the old practice, have satisfied the jury that the defendant had con tracted to marry the plaintiff, were dissipated at once by the statement of the latter under oath, that the defendant had never promised to marry her ; that no express engagement existed between them. The evidence of the defendant corroborated this statement, and the question was at once disposed of. .A few months experience will satisfy lawyers and judges that the law will prove one of the most effectual promoters of peace justice that legislative enactment has given us in many years. It only remains to render its operation more comprehensive.—iV. T. Paper. Protestant Evangelism. —Evangelism on the part of Protestants is gaining great triumphs in France and Germany. In many places, it_is~said, the churches can hardly contain The numerous inquirers.- The French Government has been strongly urged by the ultramontane parly a|nong the clergy to pul a stop to this system of proselyt/sm ; but M. Porlaul, (since dead) the Minister for Educa tion, opposed himself to every such effort, and his course in this matter received the approval of the Emperor, from regard, it is understood, to the good opinion of England. This tolerant spirit has also been manifested in a very special manner by the withdrawal of the order to close the places of worship. Slave Whipped to Death. —A man in Pulaski County', K y., a lew. days since, whipped his slave to such-an extent he died. He punished him six mornings in succession, and on the seventh day the slave died. The negro desired to see bis wife, who was owned by and lived with another party. The master refused permission; the negro disobeyed, and visited his wife in the evening, returned early next morning. For tilts the unfortunate man was whipped to death. The brute who com mitted the inhuman act made his escape, and is being pursued by the officers.—Cincin nati Gazette. Retributive. —A man residing in Mora via somewhat distinguished for severity, and knowp as rather a hard man, in order to gratify his penchant for blood, braided a wire into the lash of his whip with which to cut his horses. His little boy besought his father again and again not to do it, but he was inex orable. He finished his cruel instrument, but at.the very first stroke at his horse he hit a buckle or some bard substance, breaking off a. small fragment, of the wire, which flew back and struck the eye of the cruel man, and put it out. We withhold his name.-" AuJjurn. Advertiser. On Tircrn Winding W A /earn lhat a number of escaped slaves (how many we' do hot know) arrived in this place, on Sunday-night last, from Washington county, Md., in a buggy and carriage, which, together with the horses, were found in the yard of the hotel of Mr. J. Bfand, on Monday morning- It appears they succeeded in getting on tbs 5 o’clock tram of cars, and are now on th pip “winding way” to the land of freedom, some where in Queen Victoria’s dominions.— Chambersburg (Pa ) Repository, , Gov. Pollock-. reached home a few days since, and looks quite well considering th fl arduous duties he had to perform during lh. o recent session of the Legislature, He has examined and approved of morq bills tb aa any of-his, predecessors, and is doubtless ta ' jpiced to breathe our pure mountain air ones more, in the midst of his family and friends —Miltonian,
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