From the New York Evening Ppat,
Comfort for tbe BepnMicaai.
While'the Washington Union is making
iis readers happy over the Iriurap.hs of the
Administration in Pennsylvania,' it is our
privilege to comfort the readers of the Beetl
ing Post not only with Republican triumphs
m stales like Ohio, which we carried in 1856,
hut in quarters where a year ago we were
powerless. It is now sufficiently well ascer
tained that Marcus J. Parrott is elected con
gressional delegate from Kansas, by a ma
jority of five thousand, and that both Houses
of the legislature are in the hands of the Re
publicans.
When-we recal the efibrt made by the Ad
ministration to elect its partisans in that
territory ; the mission thither of Robert J.
Walker, with pro-consular powers; the tem
porary abandonment of the Utah expedition,
that, with the troops ordered to quell distur
bances in ihal quarter, his rule might be
rendered more imposing, and, as the event
has proved, that the vole of the Administra
tion party might be increased ; and finally,
when we consider the vast consequences,to
the whole Union, depending upon the success
of the free-state parly in Kansas, in deter
mining not only its own future destiny, but to
n great extent the future territorial policy of
our Government, we find ourselves unable
suitably to express all the thankfulness which
the event ought to inspire. If Kansas is a
free state, it will be one of the most extra
ordinary political victories ever achieved by
peaceful-means. It will pul an end to the
idea that ihc political power of the country
reposes any longer vjith the slave states, or
that the path of ambition runs exclusively in
a southerly direction.
Already signs of this new era are appear
ing. The demagogues, who are the weather
cocks of public opinion, already have begun
their genuflexions to the new order of dem
ocracy, which is getting possession of the
country. We have before us an article from
the Chicagn Times, which affords a favorable
specimen of an nnxious'inquirer on his way
lo Ihe true faith This paper has the credit
of speaking the opinions of Senator Douglas.
The following article a year ago would have
secured for Ihe editor, if he had chanced to
be in Kansas, a dwelling-place in its peniten
tiary for at least ten years. It now fore
shadows the doctrine which Mr. Douglas
may be expected lo profess, next year in the
United States Speaking of the Con
stitutional Convention in Kansas, it says :
“What that convention will do, or what it
will not do, we have not the means of know
ing. Bui we know that any attempt to force
a pro-slavery constitution upon the people
without voting it down at the polls, will be
regarded, after the recent expression of sen
timent, as so decidedly unjust, oppressive and
unworthy of a free people, that the people of
the United Slates will not sanction it. It
would add thousands lo the vole of the Re
publican parly in every Stale of the Union,
and give to that organization what it has
never had yet —a show of justice and truth.
To the democratic members of that conven
tion, the course is plain. The people have
‘Free"State 1 or ‘Slave State, 1 they have voted
practically in favor of a Free State. Two
thirds of the democratic parly in Kansas have
voted with the ‘free-slate, 1 party at the re
cent election, in order to make the popular
decision more emphatic. As Kansas must
be a free slate, even those persons in the
territory who are known as pro-slavery men
must recognise in the late election a decision
which ( must not be slighted nor pul at defi
ance. To that expression of the popular
will there should be a graceful, if not a
cheerful submission. Kansas is to be a free
state ! That fact being ascertained, let the
convention frame a constitution to suit her
best interests upon all other questions, and
let the prohibition of slavery be put into it,
clearly, and without quibble, plainly with
out disguise, explicitly, broadly and firmly.
Let the convention then submit that consti
lution to tbe people. If it be adopted, Kan-
come into the Union at’ the next
session, and the Republican' party will expire
for want of sustenance.’ 1
These are sound and sensible views. They
are welcome now, though they would have
been thrice welcome had they appeared when
they might have done some good, and when
for publishing them were less ex.
posed to suspicion.
Another Republican victory, more unex
pected, (hough not less important in some re
spects than that which we have obtained in
Kansas, has just occurred in the Fifth Con
gressional district of Indiana, where the Re
publicans have elected their candidate, Mr,
Charles Case, to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of the Hon. Samuel Brenton,
by nearly a thousand majority. Mr. Bu
chanan carried Indiana last year, but we
infer from Mr. Case’s vole ihqt it is more
than doubtful whether he could do it again.
lowa 100 has just elected a' Republican
legislature, one of the first duties of which
will be to choose a United Slates Senator in
the place of Jones, the present sorry-in
cumbent.
These are victories to rejoice over; olir
trophies are brought from new territory, not
from fields won in old campaigns. The
Ji/tioß does well to make as much as it can
out of its victory in Pennsylvania, but its
columns will be read with more interest when
it begins to . chronicle administration sue.
cesses in states that did not vote for Bu
chanan in 1856. 1 :
A Noted CoE.vrr.—Litchfieid county,
Connecticut, it is said, has been the birthplace
'of thirteen United Stales Senators; it has
given twenty two representatives in Congress.
It has also been the birthplace of nine Judges
of the Superior Court of'the State of New
York, and of at least fifteen Judges of the
highest courts in other Statesmen Presidents
and eight Professors of Colleges, fn 1831
the Vice President of the United States and
one eighth of the United Stales Senators were
either natives of, or were educated in Lilch
field county. In 1350, one-seventh of the
whole whole number of United States Sena
tors was found to have been educated to that
county. The list contains the names of a
largo number of individuals „f still greater
distinct 1 ' - ' oMift,
THE AGITATOR.
3f. H. Cobb,.i.i»*
WELLSBOROUGH, PA.
Thursday Morning, Oct. 29,1857.
*,» All Basiness,and"ollicrCotnmunicationEmu6t
be addressed lo the Editor to insureattention.
TVc cannot publish anonymous communications.
Wc arc obliged lo defer a communication and a
number of advertisements until next week* owing
to the late hour at which they were handed In.
Mr. C..N. Dartt, dentist, so long a pleasant
neighbor of ours, lias removed his office to his rest*
dence on Pcarl.sL,near the Academy, where he inay
be found during the winter. Dr. Webb ha 3 remov
ed to the dwelling lately occupied by Samuel A*
Mack, one door below the residence of 8..8. Smith,
E»q.
Rev. N. L. Reynolds, County Superintendent, re.
quests us to give notice that a Teachers’ Institute
will be held in this borough, commencing Tuesday,
Nov. 17, and continuing until Friday following.
A general attendance of Teachers is earnestly dc*
sired. Wc presume that arrangements will be cn
tered into with hotel keepers and others, to bring
board for the Term within reasonable bonnds.
It would be pleasant to chronicle a few beautiful
days in October, but a decent, regard for (he truth
does nut permit us to do so. We were forcibly re
minded of the wuras of :in unfortunate who fell
overboard in a fearful midnight &lonn and Boated on
a hencoop in a raging sea, during many lempeatu
ous days and nights, under u a wrathful, sullen and
despairing sky I” Such has been the sky up into
which wc, in common with others, have looked for
four days and nights. We are in the murky folds
of a December tempest. There is no sun, no
moon, no stars. ‘Day and night, the dark, troubled
sky frowns down and wheels its chill vapory squad
rons upon the hills. The wind is gelling hoarse
with piping its wintry tunes. We must have a lit
tle glimpse of the sun before many days, or the
countenances of the people will drip vinegar.
Hr, Siilffkius.
Mr. Sniffkins has had ' the remarkable luck lo
live in tills tolerably winked world two and forty
years without having been so much as slightly sur
prised at any notable event that has startled the
world around him. When the social fabric has
trembled from pinnacle to foundation, Sniffkins has
looked on without moving a muscle. He had ex
pected a social earthquake for a long lime- Indeed,
he had warned the world of its approach years be
fore .the shuck came. He had foreseen the disturb
ance and braced himself to witness the
• u war of elements.
The wreck of mailer and the crush of worlds 1”
with as little emotion as he would witness the con.
flagration of his neighbor’s house. He is not at all
surprised—not he 1 If men would not listen to his
warning, why, they might lake the consequences of
such unreasonable skepticism; and that is all he has
lo say about it.
If there chanced to come a long term of falling
weather, and just at (he lime when the farmer hoped
and prayed fer fair wcather-in which to secure his
most valuable crops, why, Sniffkins knew it would
rain—of course he knew it!—and said so a week
beforehand ; but il folks wouldn’t take warning—•
and it might rain a month for aught he cared. To
be sure, some folks would ask foolish questions; old
Dobbs had been silly enough to ask Aim, Sniffkins,
how farmers could induce grain to ripen a month be.
fore its lime, in order to avoid foul weathej that
might come by.and-hy ? and whether farmers could
turn a storm Into sunshine, even if they were told
that a big rain lay only a week ahead ?—all of
which questions, he, Sniffkins, had refused to an.
swer, because, for the life of him, he could not dis
cevcr any point lo them whatever.
Dobbs’ boy went out skating and came back with
a dislocated shoulder. Now Sniffkins saw young
Dobbs going toward the pond with his skates flung
over his shoulder ; and when, an hour later, young
Dobbs was led home groaning, Sniffkins remember
cd having seen the unfortunate young man on his
way lo the pond, and having thought, and said to
himself, Sniffkins,audibly, that the pond was doubt,
less very slippeiy, and (hat young Dobbs would be
more liable lo fall and dislocate his shoulder there ,
than he would be, silling quietly in the chimney,
corner in his father's kitchen. All this, he, Sniff,
kins, revolved in his mind and anbtbly spake, solus;
at least he related this wonderful instance of fore
knowledge lo Mr. and Mrs. Dobbs the defer, and the
surgeon who came to set the limb. To be sure, old
dame Dobbs, in the simplicity of her untutored
nature, thought it strange that Sniffains did not tell
the boy that lie would dislocate his shoulder if he
went on the pond, since he, Sniffkins, knew it was
going to happen ; and the old lady ventured lo say
as much aloud. Upon this, Sniffkins smoothed the
week-day wrinkles from his face, and said with a
solemn intonation of voice that ‘what was to be, was
to be,’ and (hat it was not for him, Sniffkins, to in
terfere with the direction of God’s wrath upon any
poor worm of the du-t Whom He might desire to
punish. At tills marvelous saying, dame Dobbs sub
sided into silence and the Doctor looked grave.
Dolly Pickens married Sam Idler, who look to
drink six months after giving Dully his name, and
in twelve months from that memorable day went lo
prison for taking without leave that which he was
too lazy to earn. Now, Sniffkins waq. not in the
least surprised that Sam Idler had turned out bad,
nut he. He knew that the Almighty would punish
Dolly Pickens for her pride and wicked independ
cncc. He thought so and said as much, ten years
before, when Dolly, who had little time on week
days that she could call her own, sewed upon a cal
ico frock for widow Sadd, a whole Sunday. To bo
sure, widow Sadd was out of health, had a large
family and hadn’t a whole frock in the world ; but
(hen the widow’s affficlloiftvas a judgment upon her
and Dully had incurred the Diviue displeasure in
daring to step between the Almighty and the object
of His wrath. He had turned the sinful, Sabbath
breaking jade over to the tender mercies of Sam
Idler. All this said Sniffkins; and when Richard
Candid ventured, in his very bluntest way, lo say
that Sam Idler bought his fi rs i and last drink of H
quor at his, Sniffkins’, Grocery, the prophetic Sniff,
kins told. Richard Candid that he would not spend
words with an infidel and an atheist, and that he
hod belter go about his business. Whereupon Rich
ard very bluntly told Sniffkins that he hoped ever to
be infidel to that kind of Christianity which sneak
ed about in underground doggeries six days and
seven mghu of the week, and occupied a cushioned
pew in Parson Policy’s church of a Sunday.
Timothy Hardwork and family, were about lathe,
come a town charge. The limes were hard and
honest Timothy could get no work lo do. Sniffkins
was indignant that Tim Hardwork’s family should
be admitted into the poor boose. He, Sniffkins. had
warned the poor-maslcre months before, that Tim
would become a town charge by the setting in o
THE TIOGA COIJffTY AG IT AT PIT.
winter. He, Sniffkins, had tbooght, and said pub*
licly, long beforc.lhat, Hardworkmerilcd Alniiglity
vengeance for bis wickedness; that he, Sniffkins,
hadasked him, Hardwork, to give something to the
Tract Society; and that Timothy replied that he
had nothing to give lo the Tract Society, and if he
had, that he Would not give iU ■ And he,'Hard Work,
gave it as his opinion, that the Tract Society might
do a more Christian work in distributing bread and
clothes oraong the thousands in honest poverty,-in
the place of tracts which people do not .read, while.,
they are cold and hungry., That he, Sniffkins, had
turned away from Timolhjrin, horror and disgust 5 ,
and that then and there he had thought and said_
that poverty and want would surely overtake the
Hardwork family by winter. And when Richard
Candid remarked with exemplary bl'untness that his,
Snifikins*, foresight as to what would befall Timo
thy Hardwork, was not so remarkable alter all, con
sidering the fact that he, Sfli6Tkins, was contempla
ting an assignment of his property in order to save
it from his creditors f and that one of the said cred
itors was Timothy Hardwork, in the sum of $3OO
for one year’s labor; and furthermore,'that he. Sniff
kins, had lately made such an assignment, by which
Hardwork had been deprived of the wages of a
year’s labor and thereby was about to become a pau
per—when Candid had said this, Sniffkins was ob
served to turn away ineffably disgusted and heard
to mutter something about •* wrath” and “ yen
gcance,”—whether divine or human, nobody knew
or cared, least of all, blunt-spoken Richard Qandid.
.-Editor.
One morning the quiet folk oi* Stubblcloo (lor all
thc&e things took place in Slubbleton—a place not
more than a thousand miles from yonr door, dear
reader,) observed a bit of crape attached to the han
dle of Sniffkins’ street door. Richard Candid, who
could not find it in his heart to pass by his enemy
in distress, dropped in and found that worthy in
great apparent tribulation respecting the sudden de
parture of his only son from this world of sin and
vexation. lie, SniffJtins, had been called to mourn,
under a most mysterious dispensation of a merciful
Providence—so he said. But he, Sniffkins, had one
blessed consolation, inasmuch as it was written;
44 Whom the Lord lovelh'he chastcnelh and again
— M No chastening for the present secmelh to be joy
ous, but grievous ; nevertheless, afterward It yield
eth the pcacable fruit of righteousness to them that
i are exercised thereby.” He, Sniffkins, had long
thought, and had said publicly that some mysteri
ous dispensation of Providence awaited him. It had
been so in all time, and he, Sniffkins, felt rejoiced
that that just man, Job, had suffered even as he,
Sniffkins,'Bnffcred. And much more of like con.
versalion passed, as Candid afterward stated. But
not a word about 44 judgments,” and the like, did
Sniffkins say to Hie hard on that occasion.
And the rest of the words and deeds of Suiffkins
—arc they not written on the tablets of your every,
day experience,dear reader 7
There is some humor in the composition of our
Wayne county friend. He has' taken to wrlting-us
down as our friend (7) of the Tioga Agitator.”
we puzzled over that parenthetic interrogation point
for a long time, in the vain endeavor to get at its
meaning. Knowing that the Herald man has un
limited faith in the sincerity of our friendship for
him, of course it doesn’t mean that our regard is at
all questionable. Wc can’t exactly say that we are
ready to go through with another Damon aud Pyth
ias operation with him. or that we would consent to
be hung in his stead ; but to show how disinterested
and pure our friendship is, we might consent to go
two or three hundred miles to see him hung—which
• w - B **
end. That ought to establish our friendship beyond
question.
Now as to the mysterious parenthetical interroga
tion point, we hardly know what to say. It is ei
liter surplusage, or it is an invitation lo stand treat.
Assuming it to be the latter, and knowing our friend
to be a teetotaler above suspicion, we take the point
referred to as an invitation, to provide oysters lor
two. We accept the challenge, and as we intend
dropping down east a few weeks hence, the oysters
shall be eaten at our expense. In the meantime,
he can inform us whether we have interpreted bis
(?) aright.
P. S. Should (?) signify “pistols and coffee,” we
must beg to be excused. We don’t drink coffee.
-We have not received official returns from the
State yet. packer’s majority will ho over 30,000.
Wilraol’s majority in this Congressional district
is 6,450.
Willislon has a majority of 2,494, over Lalhrop,
and Benson 2,845, over Dike, in this Representative
district.
OHIO! IOWA! MUSIS!
300 C!tints foMUc Trio !
Tlie news from the West ctimes to us about 3
parts sweet to one bitter. Ohjd elects, the Republic
an State ticket by a hnndsofie majority. lowa has
done likewise and secured/llie Legislature, and a
Republican U. S'. SenatpTC Kansas : lias done the
same, unless the Ruffian frauds spoken of in another
place should struggle fir Freedom in
Kansas is bat God save the Right!
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, .fbc Courts. , r
• District Codrt;— Judges Sharswood and
Hare. —A case under the new Stay law. —
An important and, interesting question .was
presented to the Court, on Saturday morning,
arising under the recent act of 13lh Oclobei,
1857,-'allowing a stay, of execution for one,;
year.
- In May,'lBs7, John Sidney Jones confes
sed a judgment in favor of Haggeriy & Co.,
for 82400, to secure the payment of three
promisory notes'of $BOO, on condition that
if any one of them should mature aud be un
paid, (he plaintiff's should have execution for
the whole amount of [heir claim. On the
13lh of October, 1857, the day the new act
became a law, the first note became due and
was not paid. On the 14th of October,'the
plaintiff’s issued an execution for the whole
amount of their claim, and the defendant now
comes into Court and asks a stay of execu
tion for one year from this time.
Judge Parsons, on behalf of the defendant
offered to show that the defendant was the
owner in fee of certain real estate, worth be
yond all incumbrances, the amount of the
judgment.
David Webster, Bsq., for plaintiffs, objec
ledtothe right of the defendant to have a
further stay, and contended—
-Ist. That the agreement on which the
judgment was confessed, provided that an exe
cution might issue, if any one of the notes
remained unpaid ; that this was a contract lie
tween the parties, and that the recent act giv
ing the defendant a stay beyotjd the period
contracted for violated the 10lh section of
article Ist of the Constitution ’of the United
Slates. Mr. Webster argued J this point at
great length, and referred to numerous decis
ions among which were Bronson vs. Kinzie,
1 Howard Sup. Court Rep. (U. S.); McCrack
en vs Hayward, 2 Howard; Grantley’s Les
sees, 3 Howard ; Eberle vs. Cunningham, 3
Wharton; Western Saving’s Fund vs. The
) City, Law Journal.
2d. That the defendant’s case came wiihin
the exceptions contained in the act of I3ih of
October, 1857.' -
3d. That the defendant had already had
his slay of execution under his agreement,
and could not get a further stay.
4th. That the agreement amounted to a
waiver of ,the new stay, as it contained on
express stipulation that the execution might
be issued if any one of the notes remained
unpaid.
Judge Parsons, in reply, argued that the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in 8 Watts
and Serg, had affirmed the constitutionality
of the Stay Law of 1842, and that the act
of 1857 was equally constitutional, as it act
ed not on the rights of parties, but only on
their remedies.
The Court decided that the defendant was
not entitled to stay of execution. —North
American.
—or me cast Century'.
John Dudley, of Raymond, a trader and
farmer was a judge of the Superior Court in
New Hampshire from 1785 to 1797, He
was a man of keen,sagacily and strong com
mon sense ; his mipd was discriminating, his
memory retentive—and he was a most ex
traordinary person. He had but little edu
cation and no legal learning. He was intent
on doing substantial justice in every case.
Theophilus Parsons said, “You may laugh
at his law and ridicule his language, but Dud
ley is, afier all, the best Judge I ever knew
in New Hampshire.” The following speci
men of the eonclusiomof one of the charges
of Judge Dudley will illustrate his ideas°of
the law. He addresses the jury in somewhat
after this style :
“You have heard, gentlemen of the jury,
what has been said in this case by the law
yers, the rascals! but no, I will not abuse
them. It is their business lo make a good
case for their clients; they are paid for it;
and they have done in this case well enough.
But you and I, gentlemen, have
else to consider. , They talk of law. Why°
gentlemen, ii is not law we want, but justice.
They would govern us. by the common law
of England. Trust me' gentlemen, common
sense is a much safer guide for us—the com
mon sense of Raymond, Epping, Exeter and
the other towns which have sent us here lo
try this case belvyeen two of our neighbors.
A clear head and an honest heart are worth
more than all the law of thelawyers. There
was one good thing said at the bar. It was
from one Shakspeare, an English player, I
believe. No malier. It is good enough al
most to be in the Bible. It is this, “Be just
and fror not.”
“It is our business to do justice between
the parties, not by any quirks of the law out
of Coke or Blackalone, books that I have
never read and never will, but by common
sense and by common honesty as between
man and mao. That is our business; and
the curse of God is upon us if we neglect, or
evade, or turn aside from it. And now Mr.
Sheriff, lake out the jury, and you, Mr. Fore
man, do not keep us. waiting with idle talk,
of which there has been too much already,
about matters which have nothing to do with
the merits of the case. Give us an honest
verdict, of which, as plain, common-sense
men, you need not be ashamed.”
Operatives Without Employment in
Philadelphia.— We are told that at this
moment there are thirty thousand operatives
and working men of various kinds without
employment in the city and vicinity of Phil
adelphia, Many of these have families, and
thus distress may be said to extend already
directly and indirectly to a hundred thousand
souls. Jn Ma'nayunk and Frankfort’alone,
no less than fifteen thousand persons,\men,
women, and children, who have heretofore
had regular employment for years, are now
wandering about in idleness and anxiety, the
factories and work-shops, in which they have
heretofore been engaged, being closed. This
is the condition of affairs now, and matters
ar» likely to become much worse as winter
approaches, unless acme means of succor
and assistance be afforded. This is no fancy
sketch. It is (he simple truth.—Permsylva
nta Inquirer, Oct. 0. 9
EROM KA]S T SAS,_
Stupendous Election Fraud.
The intelligent correspondent ;of the St.
Louis Democrat writes as follows in regard
To this’ JasY and greatest villainy :>
FraUDUI,ENT RETURNS OE Sixteen Hun
dred AND TWENTY-FOUR VpTES FROM
Johnson County,
1 Lawrence,' K. T., Oct. 15,1857
Of-all the bold and unmitigated frauds
which have been recorded in KbnSas, there
has never been one chronicled Sp unscrupu
lous, so damnable, eo- glaringly unjust, so
devoid of all the dregs of principal, which
usually lingers in ruffianly characters, as the
one-practiced at tjie Ox ford. Precinct in John
son County. Men were sent from this place
and Wyandotte, to the - differed iPrecincts in
Johnson County, to bring up the result ns
soon as the polls were closed. 1/was in Wy
andotte and saw men who did not leave until
the polls were closed, and closed finally in
all the Precincts in Johnson County. They
produced the -result, giving IbejPro-Slavery
patty 241 majority. On my airival in this
place, corroborative news was, in circulation..
No one, Free State or Pro-Slayery, doubled
for a moraet but that this District, which in
cludes Douglas and Johnson Counties, bad
gone overwhelmingly in favor of Fieedom.
Last night the.official returns reached Le
compton, and to the surprise oltall but those
who were not implicated, a manuscript just
fifty feet long was unrolled containing six
teen hundred and twenty-four cotes, all from
one Precinct, kjhown as Oxford on, the little
Sanla Fe. ' . it'
This neutralizes the entire Free-State vote,
and gives this District, which! elects three
Councilman and eight Representatives, to the
Pro-Slavery party. At this rate they will
have a majority in the. Legislature. Johnson
County polled over eighteen hundred votes
and not one-third the inhabitants can be found
in the county, to say nothing.jof those who
are entitled to -the elective franchise under
the six months’ proscription. 'The - election
was viva voee, and nowhere in the Territory
was over five hundred ballots cast in one
day. It is an utter impossibility to write the
names in two days for sixteen hundred voters,
yet Oxford overdoes it. The truth is this,
the polls were closed until the; news reached
them from Douglas County, |n ordei that it
might be determined how mitny ballots it
would require to throw the scale in favor of
(he Pro-Slavites, and all the intervening lime
up to the return of poll-books, has been con
sumed in. adding new names to the list.
The fraud is so barefaced that even Driggs,
the editor of the Lecomp'on National Dem
ocrat, spoke denunciatory of the proceedings,
and declared that Stanton would never per
mit the certificate lo be given |o any'but those
elected by legal voles —the Ffee-Stale candi
dates. The ruffians were pware that the
election could not be cariedlby fair means,
and consequently have resorted lo fraud.
They knew also that if the Free-State parly
succeeded, they could say, occu
pation’s gone*’ To them it was the death
-3ttff'W^nl^ ji^s5e L v .?Jl i n5.?P“? e bctween ,hem
a long score of accounts to fettle, w filch'are
of such a nature that it might cause s .me of
them to ‘-stand ont-nothingi'and look up a
rope.” The outrages of ’55 ,’have again been
enacted ; the ballot-boxes have been invaded ;
the government usurped by Ffro.Slavery dem
agogees, and their damnableiproceedings in
stigated and sanctioned by (be Governor and
Secretary of the Territory, J A pitiless mi
nority trying by the aid of United States
dragoons and a drunken Sfave-propagaling
Governor, lo rule with the iron heel of des
potism an overwhelming Vmajority. For
three years have the freemen of this Terri
tory struggled agaiust oppression, forced upon
(hem by the General Government, and for
what I because they preferred Freedom to
Slavery. For three years the people of this
Territory have petitioned and, remonstrated
for redress of grievances, and for the same
leng l h of lime have their; petitions been
slighted, and their remonstrances spurned
with contempt at the fiat of ajmore contempti
ble rascal than Jeffreys ever; was. Walker
is but a political trickster, sent here lo.revive
the vitiated ranks of the Pro-Slavery party.
He has quartered-the army of the United
States around Lawrence for'jjo other purpose
■ bansto convey the idea in the East and
South, that Lawrence is “rebellious and in
surrectionary,” and that the only real ruffians
belong in the Free-State party. \
Cannon of sufficient size to crumble the
citadels of Russia, and of more bodily cali
ber than the Governor has metal, are directed
upon the City of Lawrence, for the purpose
of carrying by force what cannot be done by
fraud and usurpation. The artillery drill
booms forth a warlike sound upon the ears
of a peaceable community.! If the spurious
ballots are not cast out, theye is but one al
ternative left—a resort to arms.
The free men of Kansas| deserve to be
slaves if they permit this wanton outrage to
be forced upon them. Government is con
stitu'ed by the consent of the governed, and
the people of Kansas have a right lo say
whether they will be bond dr fiee.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
says: i 1
On Tuesday the returns!were made from
Oxford, exhibiting ’BB majority for the Pro-
Slavery candidates all around.' Counting
Oxford at 88, which was alioui 80 more than
the number of legal voterS,;the Republican
majority in the District (Douglas and John
son) was ascertained to bo T;300. This was
a loss to the Pro-Slavery side ol 3 members
of Council and eight of the;House. With a
judicious arrangement of niailers in the bal
ance of the Territory this? [loss could have
been sustained without thrdwiog the Lenisia
lure out of the hands of the! Ruffians. D Bul,
singularly, the interior,,coupties have almost
unanimously returned Republican members.
The case was gelling desperate. Presto •
up comes an error of SIXTEEN HUN
DRED and fourteen voles in the Precinct
of Oxford 1 Sixteen hundred and fourteen
votes for the Pro-Slavery, ticket—not one
Free-State vote on the list! Now mark the
effect of this return. It gives both branches
of the Legislature to the Ruffians by,a ma
jority of one in each. lit I overthrows the
Republican vote of Douglas County, in which
Lawrence, Palmyra, Big Springs. &c., are
situated, and subtracts three Councilman and
eight Representatives from the Free-Stata
column. These, added to the Pro-Slavery
column, exhibit:
Council— Republicans, 6 ; Pro-Slavery, 7,
House— Republicans, 19; Pro-Slavery, 20.
There is no reason assigned as yet for this
marvelous “error.” Some people prelend to
think the. Shawnee tribe of Indians made a.
grand rush at the polls on the day succeed
ing the election, and all yoted the National
Democratic ticket ijb spile of the Judges of
Election, who knew they had no vote, but
were unable to prevent it! Among other
mysteries connected with this Oxford business
is the singular fact that the 1,614 names on
the poll-list and all three of the signatures of
the Judges are in the same handwriting. So
gross a fraud, of course, finds few apologists.
Walker and Stanton both declare that it is
too palpable—that the people shall not be
thus cheated. They will throw out the whole
precinct first, the 88 and all. We hare
learned to place no reliance on the promises
of these liars, but will lake care, of our own
action, that no such swindle arrives to frui
tion in these parts at this time. If our Fed
eral functionaries throw out the Oxford vote
they will undoubtedly open a bole for a like
fraud.either in the same place or somewhere
else in favorable proximity. But they may
make up their minds to one result ; lha;
whereas the Free-State men of Kansas bass
accepted their promises, and gone into this
election in spite of the overwhelming odd-,
of the villain apportionment, and whereas
they have fairly and honestly won back their
lost rights, they will now claim them at
whatever cost to the negro-breeding Dent
ocracy. H.
The Fall River (Mass.) Monitor, remark
log upon the great suspensionoflabor, says:
It has occurred to us that the suspension
of labor in our cities and villages is a greater
cause for alarm than the suspension of specie
payments by the banks, the latter of which
we are not disposed to took upon as half so
serious a calamity as some regard it. Labor
is the poor man’s capital, his all, and when
that is taken from him his heart fails, his wife
and children suffer, and sorrow like a canker
gnaws at his His only means of ob
taining bread is labor, work, employment,
and when he cannot obtain these his resour
ces are exhausted.
The stopping of manufacturing establish
ments and other sources of employment has
thrown thousands out of- work wfthout a dol
lar at command, and who, while they would
work could they get anything to do, are
forced to look upon a dreary winter before
them saddened hearts. The consequen
ces attendant upon such suspensions of labor
as are now filling the hearts of thousands
with sad foreboding, are most disastrous in
more than one point of view, and should
awaken in the community conviction, which,
ripening into action, should be instrumental
in preveniing its long continuance. What is
to be done—what are our manufacturers to
do!—what are men willing to work, but can
gel no employment, to do?—are question!
more easily asked than answered, and which
appeal ,u me best instincts of our natures.
Men, women, fathers, mothers, children
must eat, whether they have work or not.
and yet there are hundreds who had raiha
labor for half price than to become the de
pendents of others, and who would be satis
fied with a half loaf,- obtained with money
earned with their own hands rather than ha?s
the whole loaf supplied by the hand of chari
ty. Should the present condition of things
he of long continuance, this class of persons
wifi require looking after, as well as those
more ready to make known their wants.—
We hope our mills and manufactories will not
long be closed ; but if they are, before spring
we shall witness harder limes, and a thousand
limes more suffering thin the temporary sus
pension of the banks would occasion.
Our manufacturers are passing through
hard times. They would do better could they
do it without great losses. Nobody can blame
them for shutting down the gate, or cutting off
the steam ; but we do say that men of influ
ence and means should exert themselves in
doing all in their power- towards enabling
them to move pn again, furnishing work for
those willing, nay, desirous to labor for what
they eat, drink and wear.
A numberrof manufaclurers in Georgia
have determined upon holding u convention
in Atlanta, at an early day, for the purpose
of an interchange of views, and of determin
ing upon the measures best calculated to pro
mote the success of the manufacturing inter
ests of the State and the South generally.
The Merchants’ cotton mill, at Petersburg,
Va., has temporarily suspended. A cotton
mill at Augusta, Ga., has also suspended.
Two Statesmen Equally Astonished.
In the New Haven Reply, President Buchan
an thus expressed himself:
“Slavery existed at that period and still ex
ists in Kansas, under the constitution of the
United Stales. This point has been at last
finally settled by the highest tribunal known
to our laws. How it could ever have been
seriously doubted is a mystery .”
Henry Clay, who in his was thought
to have, some poliiical knowledge and menial
acumen thus expressed the astonishment
which he felt, on the 22d of July, 1850 :
“I am aware that there are gentlemen who
maintain Ihat-ia. virtue of the Constitution,
the right to carry slaves south of lhal line
(36 deg. ,30 min.) already exists, and that, ol
course those who maintain that opinion, want
no other security for the transportation ol
their slaves south of that line than the Cons
titution. If I had not i heard that opinion
avowed, I should have regarded it as one oj
the most extraordinary assumptions, and tht
most indefensible position that was ever ta
ken by man .”
Hobse with Five Feet. —The Tillage
Record says that a handsome black horse
attracted a large amount of attention in the
streets of West Chester a few days ago, in
consequence of his feet. Instead of being »
quadruped,.he was a five-fooled animal.—
From the lower joint of'his near hind leg.
there were formed two distinct feet—o nß
somewhat smaller than the other, but both
symmetrical. The animal was clean limbedi
and apparently felt no inconvenience from
the double foot. He was attached to a car
riage, and was regarded as a great curiosity-