miraculous Mealing.
The following almost incredible statement,
is copied from a late number of the New
England Spiritualist. It seems too authen
tic to be seriously doubted, and at least chal
lenges denial. VVouderful events are coming
to pass.
Toe Lame made to Walk. —A friend
sends us the following extract from a letter
received by'him, from Dr. J. B. Dods, who
ha's been lecturing on Spiritualism, al Prov
incetovvD.The case described seems to. have
been somewhat remarkable; and had the
writer lived eighteen hundred years ago,
doubtless the religiourworld would have pro
nounced him a ‘saint’s ’
.“A lady, the wrfe~of Philip Cook, who
had been an invalid six years, and doctored
by (he'physicians in' Provincetown and Bos
ton, and to no profit, sent, for me, I found
her confined to her bed, unable to walk, and
in so much pain,.from ’ neuralgia, os to be
compelled to sleep : under, the influence of
morphine, to gel any ease. She was also
subject to nervous spasms. I found that she
also spent eight months at Northampton,
under the care of the celebrated Dr.Halsted,
at his water-cure establishment, where she.
paid $l3 per week', —in all $3OO. She was
but little bettered, and could walk about the
morn a little, and a few times went into her
next door neighbor’s bouse, which was not
two rods distance from her own. But she on
undertaking to ride out in a carriage, again
relapsed and for thirteen, weeks' had been
confined to het bed, unable to walk.* This
is the sftnn'ion in -which I found her.
1 tried lo produce upon her' psychological
impression, but failed in effecting the slightest
result. I could not even close her e\ es. 1
then told her candidly t could do nothing for
•her As 1 left the room of this distressed
lady, she burst into tears. This was Satur
day night; on Sunday night I had a most
brilliant vision of seven immortals, —her
Taiherrmother and brother, my father and
mother, Joseph Alknis and Charles Parker,
both formerly of Provincetown, —constituted
the group. They told me what lo do, and
she should be made lo walk and be healed.
On Monday morning, I communicated the
'vision to her. She was not a Spiritualist,
and would not believe. I frankly told her it
seemed, in the usual order of-.things, almost
impossible, but as my visions had never de
ceived me, so 1 had full confidence in the
result.
Thar (Monday) evening X lectured at the
Ocean Hull, and announced my vision to the
audience; that I would, on Friday evening
(for the hall was engaged till then,) have
Betsy Cootyiakon from her bed, brought into
the hall, and by 1 spirit power made to walk
before (he audience and be healed. They
almost laughed me loacorn. I replied firmly
to their mockery, and said that I could stand
the shock of any human earthquake, and I
would poise the whole truth or falsehood of
Spiritualism upon that single refkftt. The
evening came; the hall was jammed; I
stepped upon the stage amidst the long-con*
linued applause of the audience. I staled the
circumstanced of the casdj^—called up six
persons out of theaudjgnce whom the vision
had desired me to lake, myself making the
seventh. These formed the circle, on which
.the seven spirits of my viarorr-wero try
rand through whom they were to heal the'in
■valid, I then ordered her to be brought into
the hall, Two strong men went and look
her from her bed, placed her in a large rock
ing chair, covered her well up in blankets,
carried her up stairs, and placed her on the
stage and uncovered her. The solemnity
and silence of the grave reigned ! The cir
cle was formed; I brea’hed a short prayer,
tu a solemn voice, proceeded to the ceremony,
us directed by my vision, and soon the seven
immortals appeared, each one of whom acted
upon each one of the circle. Myself and
ono other person at the other end of the circle
laid our hands upon the head of Betsey Cook,
When the ceremony was ended, I called
upon her to arise and walk ; and, to the as
tonishment of myself and all, she did so,—
walked back and forth, several liflaes, the
length of the stage; descended the steps of
the stage ; walked back and forth over the
hill; returned to the stage ; declared her
self free from pain and weakness, and took
h'T seal and rem lined until the lecture closed.
She arose, and though it stormed, without
any covering except a shawl, feft the hall,
ami ran down stairs as light as a bird, and
got home as soon as her husband. Next
morning, she took a walk of a quarter of a
mi!*, spent the day at my daughter’s, and
has been walking the streets, visiting her
neighbors, and about her house, ever since.
The whole town was excited, as though in a
hornet’s ne»t. The most of my opposers
are struck dumb.” ? !
The North and the South. —The most
eloquent of all Southerners, as I think, MrT
Prentiss, of Miss., was addressing a crowd
of some 4000 people in that Stale, defending
the tariff, acd, in the course of an eloquent
period which rose gradually to some beauli
ful climax, he painted the thrift, the energy,
the comfort, the wealth, the civilization of
the North, in glowing colors, when there rose
up on the vision of the assembly, in the open
air, a horseman of magnificent proportions ;
nod, just at the moment of hushed attention,
when the voice of Prentiss had ceased, and
the applause was about to break forth, the
horseman exclaimed, “D—n the North!”—
The curse was so much in unison with the
habitual feeling of a Mississippi audience, that
it quenched their enthusiasm, and nothing but
respect for the speaker kept the crowd from
applauding the horseman. Prentiss turned
his lame foot around and said, “M >jor Moody,
will you rein in that steed a moment V* Ho
assented. Said he, “Major, the horse on
which you sit came from Upper Missouri;
the saddle that surmounts him came from
Trenton, N. J.; the hat on ,your head was
made in Danbury, Conn.; the boots you wear
came from Lynn, Mass.; the linen of your
shirt is Irish, and Boston made it up; your
broadcloth coal is of Lowell manufacture,
and was cut in New York ; and if to-day
you Surrender what .you owe the “d—-d
North,” you would sit stark naked,” (Laugh
ter and loud applause.) —Speech of Wendell
Phillips. 9
Hay is sixty dollars (per ton in St. Paul,
Minnesota,'
We shall publish another letter from our esteem*
ed Western correspondent C. V. E, next week.
Grass and grain look pretty well in tins region.
Corn is likewise healthy and vigorous on dry land,
or on land well ridged up.’ On low land the heavy
wet has kept it back and rendered it rather pale and
puny. Wheat shows (he effect of extreme cold In
exposed situations, iboug it U not badly winterkilled.
Orchards promise an abundant crop.
The skies drip with showers still. June the blue
eyed lingers somewhere, and scarcely a glimpse of
her beautiful face, has been vouchsafed us. The
skies are heavy and the green hills pine for a little ,
sunshine. People are not half enough grateful for j
the sunshine. It Is one of tiie most lovely of God's
manifestations. What smile is to the coun
tenance of woman, the sunshine is to this strangely
beautiful earth. It is the beaming smllo of the
Creator; and when it is withdrawn there is no weak
ness in grieving its absence. He is to be pitied who ;
suffers the yellow gleam of gold to eclipse the sun.
Belter than the gold of a thousand mines is the full
flood-tide of a cloudless June morning. You can
not make it .into ingots, but you can coin it into glu
nous and unspeakable thoughts and thus enrich the
life of the soul. Give to us the golden sunshine
and a crust, and we would not exchange it for the
gold of a hundred mines under asunlesssky. Huz
za Tor the sunshine I
A New Organ.
We have received the first tiumbey of a neatly
printedand vigorously-conducted Democratic paper
published at Philadelphia by J. 6. Jones, Esq., and
entitled the Southern Monitor. It is established for
the avowed purpose of disabusing the Northern
mind of its erroneous notions of Southern society.
Tiie editor prefaces his salutatory with the to us
.rather surprising allegation, that, “Hitherto the
“ Southern States have had no voice in the North,
“ and hence they have been misapprehended and
“ misrepresented, and often condemned by good men
i» whose sympathies might have taken a different di
rection, if they had received proper information from
authentic sources.”
The editor of the Monitor must be cither badly in
formed as to the Philadelphia press and the North
ern Buchanan press generally, or he has a different
idea of the institutions of the South for elaboration.
Wc can assure him that the South has a Monitor in
every neighborhood where a Buchanan or Fillmore
paper is printed. Philadelphia has the Argus , the
Pennsylvanian , the Ledger and the News —all pro.
slavery papers of the straitest sect, and all Southern
Monitors, whose labors are directed to the building
up of Slavery. What necessity, then, can exist for
the publication of a new paper devoted to the same
object 'I After a careful perusal of the Monitor wc
have a clue to Dial necessity. It is that the pro-slav.
cry press of the Nortli lacks honesty and backbone.
True, there is no direct charge of this kind ; but the
publication of this new organ is an imputation ’of
a lack of stamina In the Buchanan press, and the
bold grounds taken in its columns put the hypocri
sy of that press to blush. Such language as the fol
lowing is clear, candid and unmistakable:
“ The Union, being contracted by slaveholders, it
could never have been contemplated to refuse admis
sion to other slavcholding Slates. Slavery Is consti
tutional. It is national, and not sectional, being le
gally made so by royal charters; and especially so
by tho treaty of 1783, to which England, France
and the United States were parties.”
The editor proceeds to slate that as the sixth ar
ticle of the Constitution expressly decrees that all
treaties made, or that shall be made under the au
thority-of the United States, shall be the supreme
law of the land, therefore, slavery, being established
by the treaty of 1783, is national by the supreme
law of the land, and* that by the same authority,
slaves are property, and cannot be made citizens.'
We do npt purpose in this article to argue the
points sought to be established by the Monitor , but
to exhibit them fairly. We may, and probably shall
consider the treaty of 1753 in its bearings upon the
question, in our next number. It is. sufficient at this
time (o exhibit to oui readers the bold and defiant
altitude assumed by this new organ of the Demo
cratic parly upon the Nationality of. the God-abhor.
red institution of Slavery. In reference to Repub
licans it says:
“ If they can prove to the satisfaction of the peo
ple that the now unequal South ts perpetrating en
croachments on the preponderating North; and
make them believe it was the design that no more
slave Slates should be admitted into the Union—in
the face of the incontestable fact, that of the first
eleven added to the original thirteen, six were slave
States—be it so ! But let no man, as he hopes ibr
justice in the Eternal Hereafter, condemn the South
for that which must follow.”
The Monitor is assured that nothing is more easy
to believe than that the framers of the Constitution
were averse to the extension of Slavery, and no his
torical matter is more susceptible of complete sub
stantiation from tbe record. In a further considera
tion of this mutter we shall produce the 1 record in
evidence. Wccan also assure the Monitor that the
ifepubllcan masses are prepared to do their whole
duty without fear of unpleasant consequences; nor
would they be m the least- surprised or, frightened
should the SjuLW rashly execute the threat contain
ed in the above extract by an appeal to arras. Re
publicans Jove peace while it is unuUisd to dishunor-
Bul should Slavery cry for blood, we hare no hesit
ation In saying that the North will accommodate
them to their complete satisfaction, But to our ex
trails: . t . " %£
jwJThe Soulh«|s .Stales arc gipw watching the
K&slonc of Once outfit falls
fotevcr. If' \ysJmotothe cl the Free-Suil
party* be elected-—thus ralilying-£he decree.of Black
Republicanism, that a wall of iron is lo circum
scribe thcrSooth—Urcirtbe last fralenjahliuk of the
Unien will be broken**,
It.wfll strike with a peculiar, signifi
cance—this newly broached doctrine that the people
of Pennsylvania cannot elect a decent man Govern
or without dissolving the Union. Tho South had
belter deposit tins delicate thing called »‘TheUn.
ion” in a.bandbox, and place it in. the bands of votve
-mtllinctVVpprenlrcc for safe keeping; It is much
100. delicate ibr utility. But the real meaning of
the SquUi is, Jhat.Pennsylvania must submit to elect
such a man as it slfali point out, of tl will dissolve
.the Union; .Mr. Monitor., you are remarkably can
did.. Yotu are .as .unsophisticated. as a milkmaid.
Your first number pleasurably reminds us of'grassy
Helds, running waters and kitchen gardens. - We do
•believe.in your honesty us we believe in the truth
of the lass >vho religiously believes that .handsome
young men arc gods in pantaloons,or the lad of six-
Iceu who believes,that nice yards of calico and a
pretty pair.of ancles make oue angel. We have
Concluded lo act as your agent up here hi old Tioga,
and shall do so in good faith/ And those desiring
the honcslcsl and the ablest democratic paper in the
North, can procure the same by sending $2 lo J. R.
Jones', Philadelphia, or to the editor of this p.ipcr,
who hereby pledges himself losend the same to Mr.
Jones without fee or remuneration.
Wo clip the following interesting advice to aspir
ing Democrats, froil) the same paper;
A Democrat* is very good and very kind and
no doubt very candid in tils ndvipc and admonitions.
But as a politician, ns one, perhaps, who casts an
eye on the spoils, we think lie should make belter
calculations. It is true, the 1 President himself is
a resident o( the North. But is it nofequalty Irue
that ihe Pawn that makes Democratic Presidente re
sides in the South ?
‘•Then, if the Democracy be the Union party and
the South the Democracy, does it not follow that the
maintenance of the principles and institutions of
the South, is the maintenance of the Constitution
and the Union? It seems to us that any politician
and especially ‘ A Democrat,” looking for 'prefer
merit in the future , acts very unwisely in arraying
himself against theSoilth.' 11
Can it be that some of the Democrats in Tioga
took counsel of this editor during the last campaign 7
The Philadelphia News is a model newspaper in
its peculiar way. It carefully conceals from its pa
trons every disaster which may befall the Know
Nothing party and studionsly Inculcates the lesson
of eternal hostility to David Wilmot and the Re
publican party. no important objections
to offer as to the course it has chosen to pursue.
But when it persists that the K. N., State Conven
tion lately held at Lancaster, was largely attended
and harmonious, we feel like asking Mr, Sanderson
if his conscience has not stepped out at the “side
door.” It is a notorious fact that but nine out ol
the sixty-three counties composing this Common
wealth were represented hi that Convention, and
that its session was about as harmonious as a tem
pest in a tea-pot. It managed to nominate Isaac
Hazlchursl i>f Philadelphia, for Governor, with Ca
nal Commissioner and Supreme Judges dt the like
stamp. We now have a triangular fight in prospect.
Republicans have nothing to regret in this shaping
of things, but much to hope lor. We want a purely
Republican army, marshaled on a purely Republic
an platform. It is not presumed that Catholics or
Know-Nothings will vole for Wilmot, for both hate
Republicanism as intensely us they halo Religious
Freedom. For one; we recognize both the Know-
Nothing nnd Romish Churches as faithful allies of
Slavery and as corresponding wings of the “ great
Shamocratic party." They worked in'the same
harness last year and they arc doing the like this
year.
Tiic News forgets to inform its readers that the
Know Nothing press exists to no great extent out
side of Philadelphia. The Lockhavcn Watchman ,
Muncy Press and Jersey
Shore Vedette —a!!.Filimarn papers last year, have
spewed out Fillmoreism and now stand on the /Re
publican platform and battle for Wilmot. The Fill
more Americans cannot bo rallied again except in
Philadelphia and its immediate vicinity. Mr. San.
derson cannot trade them off again.
— « ——
Tfj,c late purgation of* the N. S. Presbyterian
Church in the secession of the Southern wing under
the lead of Rev. Dr. Ross, of Alabama, is, on the
whole, one of the most cheering signs of the limes.
Dr. Ross certainly takes the correct view of the
matter ; we agree with him that there is no prospect
of a cessation of the agitation of the question. lie
could as well expect a cessation of hostilities against
any other crime in the dark catalogue as against
this. We are only surprised that the Assembly has
not forced this secession long before. In fact, as
great cause for secession existed 70 years ago, and
has continued up to the present time. The Assem
bly declared against the sinfulness of Slavery in ’B7
and again in ’93, ’95, and To. In 1818 it condcni
ned the system as a crime against human
as totally irreconcilable with the spirit and princi
ples of the gospel and as destructive of domestic
peace and violative of the sanctity of the marriage
relation. This was reiterated and reaffirmed up to
1849. The Church South in some sort acquiesced.
Still, many of the Southern Presbyterian divines de
fended Slavery as an ordinance of God in spile of
the frowns of the Assembly.
It has always seemed strange to us that the As
scmbly'did not depose these Slavery upholding and
slave-breeding, clergymen, even as it has deposed
others for practices *' irreconcilable with the spirit
and principles of the Gospel of Christ.” It has
ever been quick to suppress what, in its judgment,
it is pleased to call “ heresy.” and which heresy
would no more countenance Slavery than it would
polygamy or stealing. All churches betray tnoro
jealousy of their dogmas than they do of the con
travention of divine law. It may be politic so to.do,
but to our unregenerate vision it seems a stupend
ous wrong. We regard the various churches as the
engines of moral progress, and do notlhink that one
of the many sects could be spared without detriment
to the cause of human progress ; but we. also think
that they should lead in all reforms, rather than fol
low. They should occasionally manufacture public
opinion as well as build upon that produced by ex
traneous influences.
Bat lot us “thank God and take courage.” The
slaveholders’ church is removed south of Mason &.
Dixon’s line, in part.
Some men lake a surface view" oF everything.
Tfiey look upon the unruffled bosom of Uie calm
deep river, and say it has no strength, no power.
Yet its current is irresistibly mighty. They recog
nize no strength but in headlong passion, no power
but in selfish impulse. They pass by the silent and
unassuming worker and deem that (lie machinery
of civil government depends in nowise upon such.
They pause before the wordy babbler on the street
corners and conclude with open ears and bulging
eyes that the wheels of government would stop with
his tongue. They know little jof the philosophic
calmness resulting from.determination, and less of
the leavening influence'of righteous principles in
the hearts of men who have girded up their loins to
the AGITATOR.
M. H. C0bb,....i.......
Edjior.
WELLSBOROUGH, PA.
Thursday Morning, June IS. ISST.
* # * All Business,and oilier Commanicalionsmust
be addressed to the Editor to insure attention.
Republican Somillations.
. . Par. Governor, ~
, DAYID WILMOT,
Of Bradford County.
Tor (JanaTCommissioner ,
WILIAM MILLWAED,
Of Philadelphia.
For Suprejne Judges,
JAMES VEECI-I,
Of Fayette County ,
■ JOSEPH J.EEWIS.
Of Chester County.
NOTICE is hereby given that books will be open
ed for subscription to the capital stock of'the
Tioga County Bunk, at the office of
scy, in Tioga'Village, from the 22d to the 271 h .of
June next, inclusive, between the hours oflO o’clock
A. M., find four o’clock P. M., and if the capital
stock' shall not then have been all subscribed, the
books will bo opened al the Prothorolary’s office in
Wcllsbnro, June 291 h; at the house .of L.D. Taylor,
Covington, June 30; at the house of B. R. Hall,
Blossburg, July 1; at the house of Guerdon Fuller,
Mansfield, July 2; at the house ofNathanicl M-inn,
Lawrcnccvllle, July 3, between the hours of 10 o’,
clock A. M. and 4 o’clock P. Al.
May 23,1857. By order of. Commissioners.
Two, or more of the Commissioners w.tl be in at
tendance at (lie several places above-mentioned.
THE TI(XGA COU.N-TY 4GITAT(^E V ;
fight
the undw-currenjayfiowing from the fountain of -ttua
mtiu integrity—-great under-currents whiclt
, havejijjrept awaylhe lootholds and thrones of ty
rants in the past, and which are destined lo sweep
-nway-tho wiokedoppressoraof the American people,
j They forget that thought is the seed oi every great
' fcnddaVor aniHhat works.are th&frcrit of thbdght.-'
Such men have no confidence in integrity of
the people—the masses, and of such men are the
leaders of llic Democratic parly in the North. With
them, the masses are so many rounds in the ladder
by which, they are to ascend into place and power.
They meet the hard-handed and sun-burned visaged
worker with .a condescending bow and a deceitful
smile, and the frank.hearted man forgets that Jesus
Christ was betrayed with a kiss. When be discov
ers that he has been cheated he becomes indignant,
and he mentally resolves to bo Irs own leader for
the future. And then'he encounters that, devilish
leer which a just Ileuvch has branded upon the fa
ces of'thc priests of Slavery, and straitway forgets
thal'a man may bo
A smiling, damned villain t”
and repents his credulity a second lime, in dust and
and ashes, and a painful humiliation of spirit.
Good people, when shall we all get wiser ? How
muc!) longer shall we worship parlies and fallible
men to the shameful neglect of those alUupholding
Principles which were never intended (o triumph
iudppendenlof human endeavor! Wccomplain that
the yoke of the Black- Power chafes our necks.
How came it.on our necks? Has there been a
great strife on Us part to yoke us ? There has been
no such slnigglci We stooped pur beads for the
yoke like thoughtless, children, and we not only per*
milted ourselves lo bo yoked, but posterity os well
Wo rejoice that the yoke chafes. We trust that it
will leave a life-scar os a warning to those who shall
come after this generation. This North deserves
no pity, nor would It though its sufferings were ten.
fold as intense. We did not elect to be free .in the
outset, and this painful humiliation is legitimate.
Dye's Wall Street Broket of the 6th inst., has a
fee-simile of a coin sald to ba - that received by Ju
das for the betrayal of Jesus Christ. We confess to
same little doubt as to the preservation of the coins
oi that remote period,; still, Mr. Dye gives some
very fair reasons for believing the coin to be identi
cal wjth that paid Judas. Anticipating a demand
for this curiosity, be has procured diep from which
he has coined copies of the, same, which anyone
can obtain by sending 25 cents to lift address, 70
Wall-st., New-York, He furnishes copies o of pure
silver at $1,50 for a single piece, or $l2 per dozen.
The people of lowa are lo vole in August
on ihe question of allowing colored men to
vote on the,same terras as other men.
Gen. Wilson in Kansas. —Senator Wil
son went up lo Kansas from St. Louis in the
sime bo.it with Gov. Walker, and left at
Quindaro, wheie the boat stoppei, and Gov.
Robinson and'other citizens paid their respects
to the new Governor.
ridge.
Counterfeit new ccnl pieces are in circula
tion already. They will easily deceive per
sons at a casual glance, but being Tnade
mostly of pewter, like all that kind of coin
they have a greasy feel and a dead sound,
which may lead to iheir-deleclion.
At Cleveland, Ohio, a few days since, n
lady look her seat in the cars, who had just
discovered n loss of her pocket book, contain
ing §S0 —-her all—and she was nearly
overcome vvhh -grinf, when 17.1 ward.Munrctl,
who happened lo be aboatd, assisted in raising
a subscription of 576. The lady had two
children with her, and said that she was on
her way to Boston.
The editor of the Fulton Republican says,
he has fnr sale a set of “carved mahogany
sofa chairs 11 I” This is the first instance
we can remember of an editor possessed of
such traps, and we think we’ll have to call
up there and see what he looks like.
A large reptile was recently taken from
ihe stomach of a lady at Fort Wayne, Ohio,
from two or three feel long, and an inch in
diameter. It had scales and bones. The lady
ihinks she must have drank it in some water
some years ago, as she has been ill for a long
time.
The Newduug Thageuv. —Some weeks
ago the inhabitants of Newburg, N. J., were
thrown Into a state of excitement by the. dis
covery of the body of a murdered female in
their midst. At first no one knew the re
mains, or knew of any one missing, but it
was finally recognized as the " body of one
Sarah C. Bloom, ariefa man named Jenkins
was arrested as having been seen in her com
pan/’jhe evening previous. But to the sur
prise :of all Miss Bloom turned out lo be
alive, and made Iter appearance at court
thereby convincing the jury that they must
look elsewhere for a clue to the murder.
Time passed’ and the mystery remained un
solved, till Brown, a negro from Boston, iden
tified the corpse as that of his wife who was
awhile woman, but again the alledged mur
dered woman came into court. It was not
Mrs. Brown. Who she was, who were her
murderers, and what circumstance led to the
commission of the crime, are yet a mystery.
It is supposed that the real relatives of the
deceased preserve silence lo avoid the scandal
and perhaps odium which would accrue to
them were they lo make themselves known.
David Wilmot, the Republican candidate
for Governor in Pennsylvania, has issued a
very able address to ihe people of that-State
on the issues now Before the country. He is
politically and intellectually one of the
strongest men in that Slate, greatly superior
to any man they have had as Chief Magis
trate since the daysof McKeon and Snyder.
He has Ihe ability of the former and firmness
of the latter.
In his antecedents and from honest con
viction, Judge Wilmot is a decided Demo
cratic Republican, and ten years since was
one of the most influential leaders of the
democratic party in that commonwealth.—
Being a firm Stale rights man, ho has opposed
ihn extension and "nationalizing of slavery,
and the democracy of northern Pennsylvania
ha ye stood with him by their old principles,
the old Jackson forces through that" whole
region giving large majorities for Fremont in
the late presidential election. -There are
strong and favorable indications (or the Re
publican cause in Pennsylvania, and in
making Wilmot their candidate they have
displayed wisdom and sagacity. The elec
tion of no other man would give greater sat
isfaction to the'' Republicans of the whole
coun'ry. — Cotin. Press.
'S ■
Eufdpfceiaent of Bogus' Au
■ P’' P lUorlty. , i
CorrcBgpndeufi££of the 2s'. yvtribimo. ;
Lawrence, fifT., June 1, 1857.
This afternoon Lawrence exhibited a little
of the old--Spartan feeling that has so ■ often
characterized, its citizens. The first fruits of
Go /, Walker's ndw administration have been
seen. The declaration made in the luaugu.
ral jhat the Governor’s* instructions from
Washington are, “Sustain the regular Leg
islature of the Territory,” - is beginning to
work. The insignificant representative of
bogus law and rufiian dominion, ffm. P.
Fain, paid a visit to -Lawrenee this morning.
Nominally, he came to collect taxes, really
he came to work mischief. Gov. iWalker
had enma to the Territory, the representative
of mote power than any other Governor had
ever, been able to bring. Like ail his illus
trious predecessors, he had opened his mouth
when he reached the Territory; and out
leaped, “maintain the auihority of the Ter
ritorial Legislature.” d I
The Pro Slavery men of Kansass are
cunning. They want (o see how far that
authority will be maintained. VViih them
bogus legislation Bock Border-Ruffian domina
tion are not a “sounding brass and a {tinkling
cymbal.” : j
Deputy Fain came to Lawrence ip-day lo
collect the taxes. He did not expect to col
lect them. He knew the thing had never been
done except in ihe few communities under.
Ruffian power. He knew he could pdt collect
anything himself. All. he wantedjwasan
excuse for gelling Walker and the United
Stales dragons to do it.', '
• No sooner was his presence knownihan a
fluttering was visible among the people. A
meeting was Convened in the public s.quaire in
front of the Morrow House. The old back
bone of 1855' projected very unmistakably.
It was bad enough to send any bogus Tax
Collector or Assessor to Lawrence, but to
send the man who had been made the prom
inent instrument’in the sack of Ljawrence
last Summer, was heaping insult upon injury.
So it was felt, and such was the ! spirit that
gave lone to the following proceedings :
“Al a meeting held in on the
Ist day of June, 1857, op the occasion of a
visir of fc “Depaiy Marshal,” “Deputy Sher
iff,” “Assessor” Fain to assess ihe <properly
of ihe citizens of Lawrence, Mri. James
Blood was elected President, and Si F. Tap
pan and Wm. A. Phillips, Secretaries.
“On motion of Judge Conway, a [Commit
tee-of five persons was appointedjto draft
resolutions. It was composed of! Messrs.
Wm. Hutchinson, Charles E. B.
Whitman, Charles Stearns and S.IW. Eld-
“Mr, S* N, Wood was called; on, and
briefly said, that he was more willing lo de
fine his own position than lo advisd others.
He would not pay taxes. The Territorial
Legislature, even when legitimately conven
ed, had no right lo assess or.collcct taxes. No
lax could be collected on real estate.
“Mr. G. W. Hutchinson, called on, rec
ommends unity of action. Thinks when the
people of Lawrence conclude to pay taxes he
>will leave this town. |
' “Wm. Philips was called on, and! stated
that this was merely a feeler pul oill by the
anwny, irv—lasl I ha. fidelity af- t-ha-ipanpla-iiv.
Their principles, and 5 the devotion! of Gov.'
I Walker lo bogus law. They should give it
an unmistakable answer. t
[ “Judge Conway was called on, pnd made
lan eloquent appeal, recalling the instances of
John Mampdcn and the patriots ofj’76, who
rcpudiaied taxation without representation.
“T. Dwight Thatcher, esq., whs called
out, and responded in a speech which was
very well received. - Me stated thajt he was
too much of a new comer to wishj to
adviser, and would rather be a listener ; but
he had fixed his lot in Kansas, and. he rec
ognized a principle at slake, on I which ho
could speak- when called on. Me skid it was
the same question that so many Governors
had come to Kansas lo settle, and hid failed
in settling—the enforcement of Ihe bogus
usurpation. Me would never submit to it,
and he believed the people would never sub
mit lo it.,
“[Cries of ’Never’.J
“Mr. Wm. Hutchinson, Chairman of Com
mittee, made ihe following report:
"Whereas, We understand that a person
claiming to.be Deputy Sheriff and-Assessor
of Taxes, under ihe authority of the bogus
Legislature, is now in our midst ; and whereas
we utterly repudiate the authority cjf all per
sons claiming to be officers of that Legisla
ture ; and tcAercasthe monies so fraudulently
collected from our people have beenj and may
again be appropriated in part, lo defray the
expenses incurred in burning hotels! and pri
vate dwellings, destroying printing presses,
sacking towns and plundering lhe{ property
and outraging the dearest rights o| our citi
zens—Therefore, }
“Resolved , That, in the opinion of this
meeting, no good citizen will in any manner
furnish ‘aid and comfort’ lo the Assessor or
Collector of Taxes, or render him a list of
the valuation of his properly. j
"Resolved, Thai, recognizing the princi
ple established by the blood of our fathers,
that ‘representation and taSalion ace insepa
rable,’ we will never violate that principle by
the voluntary payment of any taxes levied
by the present Territorial Legislature.
"Resolved, That a Committee o'l five be
appointed to present these resolutions lo all
our citizens for their signatures. |
“Resolved, That a Commit 100 of five per
sons be appointed to present a copy'of these
resolutions to any person who may visit this
community in the shape of an Assessor or
Collector of Taxes, and that a copy he sent
to his Excellency Governor Walker.
“Oa motion, the following Committee was
appointed to carry out the fourth resolution :
“Messrs. R. - Morrow, G. W.l Dielzler,
Charles Stearns, John Cook, arid G. W.
Hutchinson. f
“The following gentleman wertfrelected to
carry out the second resolution : :
people were prepared to drive the intruder -
out of town,-or to tar and feather him if
necessary. -The stronger-the -sentiment, the
more enthusiasticilly was it received, and
several., persons-' gave vent t 0 w f )at
they thought ought to be done with the Tax
Assessor.- The resolutions and the proceed,
ings wete tempered by those whiT took an
active part in it. ' • 1
“Messrs. G. W. Dielzler, f. H. Kagi, John
Cook, and S. N. Wood. I
“On motion, the meeting adjoursed. ■
“JAMES. BLOOD, Chairman.
“S. F. Tapp a hr, Wm. A. Pint Lips,
Secretaries."
. Tjie sentiment of the masses pijesenl was
much more radical than the above. The
During "the progress.of the meeting the
Assessor thought it advisable to decamp. He
had received no notification, but little notice
had been taken of his person, and he went
voluntarily, as he came.
Witt Gov. Walker collect the'bpgds taxes?
Will he'sommon theUniled Stales soldiery
and have bodies of them trooping over the
country at the heels" of such scoundrels as.-
Fain, to steal every mao’s horsa or cow,
under pretense of collecting taxes? It cer
tainly can he no part of the policy of even
a shrewd Pro-Slavery man to do.’ He has
taken one false -position, and- must recede or
take another. But he may dodge. Yes, he
is a politician, and will at least try to dodge.
He will learn that iris difficult to ■ dodge in
Kansas.
Let there be no secrets in medicine, or
rattier no pretended secrets. The Medical
Faculty publish as soon as made, all their
discoveries, and ajmost all that is known of
real value for ihe cure of disease, has been
discovered by them. Dr. Ayer takes the
honorable honest course, and right because
it is honest. He goes to work and -invents
the best remedy which medical skill can de
vise for the cure of certain complaints; then
publishes what it is and maintains bis mo
nopoly of it solely by. making it cheaper,
belter, more perfect, than anybody else can.
If the people would exact this of all who offer
medicines, they would have much less treacle
and trash to swallow.—New Orleans Organ.
Dr. G. A. Culler of Topeka, Kansas, writes
to the Indianapolis Journal, in refutation of
the current calumny that the Free-Stale men
of Kansas refused to vote at the Consltlu-'
tional Election merely because the call ema
naied from the bogus Legislature. He says:
“The village of Topeka contains from 800
to 1,200 inhabitants, a majority of whom are
voters—the male population being largely in
the preponderance all over the Territory.
With the vote in the surrounding country,
she would probably be able to cast six or
seven hundred votes, and, 1 believe, with two
exceptions, all Free-Slate men.
‘'■There never has been an officer here,
either Sheriff or Deputy, to take the Census,
arid consequently the citizens, no matter how
anxious they may have been, have not had
it in their power to register their names, and
are, therefore, disfranchised. Suppose we
wanted to vote, what are we to do ? Must
we neglect our business, and throw away our
timto, which to us is viluable, in hunting up
these bogus concerns, and begging' them to
place our names ou the register, and thereby
make citizens of uir? I doubt much whether
you could prevail on many of our farmers,
at this season of the year, to throw down
their plows, and start d nvn to Missouri in
search of the bogus Sheriffs or their deputies.
Nor is Topeljm the only place that is slighted
in this manner.' Every Frce-S;ate town in
the Territory that I have heard from, and I
believe-l have heard from nearly all, are
treated in the same manner. While in those
in which there are both Pro-Slavery and
Free-Stale men, the former are scarcely ever
slighted, the latter invariably arc.
Tiie Li'gislatuiie.— The democratic jour
nals of this State are abusing in round terms
their political majority in ihe Legislature,
accusing them of treachery to the interests of
the Commonwealth, extravagance, corruption
and evil practices generally. They are no
doubt correct in these striking portraits of
the ; r. friends, but their motive in thus rating
them is apparent. They desire to shield their
party from the accountability to which it will
be held by the’ deceived people at the next
election. The sacrifice of a few individuals,
who, no doubt, acted in accordance with the
instructions of their leaders behind the scenes,
will not save the party from the fate it de
serves, as in its organized capacity it is alone
responsible for the power which it has abused.
The history of the present legislature will
illustrate in strong cojors the unworthiness
and want of faith of the Sham Democracy.
Let them, through theif representatives on
the' State ticket from Governor to Canal Com
missioner, be held to the reckoning.
Gun. Packer, should he muster courage
sufficient to take the stump, will adopt the •
usual democratic mode of electioneering, by
making great professions in favor of economy
in ihe State government —short sessions, with
other democratic catch-words, by which the
people have been*deceived for years. The
usual professions of hostility to monster Cor
porations, Banks, &c., will be repeated again,
with great unction, and considerable “flourish
of trumpets.” But we cannot see how they
can have any effect, with the proceedings of
the present “democratic” Legislature ia the
recollection of the people. —Pittsburg Ga
zette.
The Report on Slavery presented in the
New School Assembly at Cleveland, on Mon
day, stated that 27 memorials on the subject
of Slavery were handed to the Committee, of
which number, 11 came from Ohio and 3
from New York. The report is signed by
Rev. Drs. Allen, Wallace, Burchard and
Cleland, and Messrs. Griswold and Hastings.
It declares that Ihe Assembly can nqver con
sent to the idea that Slavery ought to bo
perpetual, and that the Apostles never thought
that Slavery was on a level with the natural
relations,'but that they simply bore with it
for the time. The report divides the question
into two classes, and counsels 1 moderation
and charily, but in the main censures tho
practice of slave-holding. Its reading cre
ated a great excitement.
The Lancaster Intelligencer , which hith
erto has been the home organ of Mr. Bu
chanan, and whose editor is said to have
been an expectant of one of the offices in the
Custom House of Philadelphia, announce*
the appointment with the following quaint
cqmments :
a “We congratulate several of the above
gentlemen on their extraordinary luck, in he
rotated out of good offices, which they have
held for a number of years, into boiler ones I