From <h* Illinot. State .tournat.
Fort Snelling Swindle Outdone.
Halt of Fort Ripley —s7,ooo Acres, at
Four Cents Per Acre. -
Tho (iretcnt Administration is making
itself famous or rather infamous by Us gross
and barefaced swindles. The people have
scarcely recovered from tho astounding in
telligence of the fraudulent sale of Fort
Snelling, when they ate again startled by
the announcement that Fort Ripley .has also
been made way with by the national'!bieves
of Minnesota Territory. And what is worse,
President Buchanan, instead of rebuking such
transactions,.tolerates, encourages, and con
cocts them. U r e have now definite intelli
gence, fully confirming the rumor of last
week, that the Fort Ripley reserve, consist
ing of fifty-seven thousand acres, has been
smuggled from the Government at the rate of
FODR CENTS AN ACRF! —filiy-seven
thousand acres of as good land as Minnesota
holds, worth at the lowest estimate of culti
vators of the soil fee dollars per acre , and
for which the Government have re
ceived one dollar and iwenly-fve cents per
acre on the day of sale. In short, fif’J
teven thousand acres of land have been do
nated to knaves for $2,280, instead of being
sold to farmers and acttlal occupants for
862.250 —ot instead of being made to bring
into the Treasury its full worth, $285,000.
We condense from a correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune the following circumstan
ces of this foul transaction, The Fort Ripley
reservation is .situated in Todd county, on
the Upper Mississippi. It was occupied, le
gally or not, by fifty or sixty Democrats.
They resided on the land, and intended to
secure their claims like regular pre emption
ists, or perhaps much in the wav Indian
reservation sales are managed. These per
sons formed a claim association, which met'
• the / day before the sale, to adopt measures
for securing their titles. Tho Government
agents, or a few confederate scoundrels who
were employed for that purpose, sent in n
proposition to the claimants, that if they
(claimants) would not bid on the lands, they
(Mr. Buchanan’s agents) would cut off the
whole tract, and guarantee the occupants
their titles at one dollar per acre, or twenty
five cents per acre less than they were ex
pecting to pay. The sale came off duly and
regularly, and the agents bid on the whole
domain at no average of four cents per acre.
Some of it, fot the fun of the thing, was run
up to twenty-five cents! and a still greater
portion at one cent per acre. The average
was four cents. When, however, the sale
was over, the scales dropped from the eyes of
the settlers. They saw that these yf.iilhful
servants of the peopfe had lied their homes
away from them for nothing, and were now
proposing to steal one dollat, or, more accu
rately, ninety-six cents, for every acre of the
purchase. But they allege in excuse for
their blunder, that if they had not accepted
these terms, the sharks would have run the
land out of their reach.
These agents are the same that sqltl Fort
Snelling reserve, and the Lake Pepin Indian
half-breed tract. They said that this sale
would verify the statements o( the Demo,
cratic journals throughout the country in
extenuation of the Fort Snelling sale, that
■ wgy — T I w aoj jixaworvl
ibo Fori SneMing’ lands brought more at pri
vale sale than they would at public sale I
What can be more barefaced and fraudulent
than such a transaction 1 Well might the
people demand the appointment of a police
to select national thieves. The history of
the country has no parallel to the frauds
which are being perpetrated in that and other
Territories by the appointees of the present
Administration ; frauds, too, which are en
couraged-and concocted directly under the
eyes of the President. - Let the people mark
them, and beep them in remembrance.
The Micnnißßs op Fraud. —The Le
complon Constitution provides for an entire
new set of eieo'ion officers, to be appointed
by Surveyor General Calhoun, and makes
him the arbiter without appeal from all re
turns, thus superceding Governor Walker
entirely-
The election officers will be as biller and
unscrupulous partisans as Mr. Calhoun is
himself.
Why is Gov. Walker superceded ? Fur
what other reason than that such returns ns
those from McGee county and Oxford pre
cinct,* rejected by him, may be received by
Mr. Calhoun 1
Among the qualifications of voters pre
scribed by this Constitution, that of a pre
liminary residence, even for a single day, is
not found. This is intended to render it
easy to carry all the border counties by in
vasions from Missouri.
The apportionment of the Legislative dis
tricts* is marked by the same features of
unfairness which have distinguished all the
previous apportionments made by the same
authority.
If this catalogue of frauds is practically
consummated by the recognition of Congress
of the Lecompton Constitution, (he while
people of Kansas are slaves, whatever may
he the condition of the negroes. There is
no escape from it, short of an appeal to arms.
Elmira Bank Bills have been looked upon
with suspicion by some within the last few
days on account of their having been thrown
out by the Metropolitan Bank in New York.
AH there is of this, is the fact that the Elmira
Bank refuses to come into the araangemenl
lately made for the redemption of the bills
of Country Banks in New York. The Bank
is as sound as ever and has been paying
some of its alarmed depositors promptly on
demand as usual. We will take any amount
of the bills that may be offered us in exchange
for our own bills for printing, and glad to get
th em.-—Elmira Advertiser.
PEXNSYtvAStA lbon Wokks.— The Great
Western iron Rolling Mill, at Brady’s Bend,
haa discharged, about 700 operatives. It has
been engaged in making railroad iron largely,
and the demand for that article having fallen
off maierialty, it j a curtailing operations, to
suit.
The Pittsburg rolling mills are nearly all
njnnmg half time, and the owhers are storing
the product. They will be well prepared lor
a brisk Spring* season, hut have been com
pelled to forego; the Fall seaaon’s trade almost
altogether. '
THE AGITATOR.
M. ft. C«l>b,.;.-.f -Editor.
WELLSBOROUGH, PA.
Tlmrsflay morning, Bed. 10,1857.
• f « All Business,and ollicrCommunlcalronsmuat
be addressed to the Editor to insure attentions
We cannot publish anonymous communications.
Hon. G. A. Grow-will please accept our thanks
for valuable documents. ■ - , v
„The farmers hereabout hold their wheat at 10s
andWlcr lias gone up to 20 cents. Pork is 7aBcls
per pouooitndLbecf 4*5 all around—so wc ore in.
formed.
Miss Helen Coon, Assistant Teacher in. the.
WelUboro Academy, will open a Select School in the!
room over A. P. Cone's Law Office, Main-sl., on the
2fsl of December, instant. Miss C., is a lady of
education and refinement and deserving of the con.
fidcncc and support of the public.
There is a very good attendance upon Court and"
the people seem to be in good spirits in spite of the
hard times. The weather at present is lovely-—Sep.
tembcr.likc. The nights are just cool enough to in*
duec refreshing sleep, and tlie days are just warm
enough to make one apprehensive that 10-morrow
may pome on the wings of a snow-storm.
Large Gave. —Mr. G. W, Sears, of. ibis borough*
recently killed a black Bear weighing 400 pounds,
while stalking with dog and gun in the region of
Babb's Creek. Jas. Locke, also of this place,
has trapped six of these varmints within a few
weeks. Wo learn that upwards of twenty bears
have been shot, trapped and taken alive within the
lour weeks just past, in this region.
We arc unable to present our readers with any.
very definite Kansas news. The breach between
Douglas and Buchanan dues not heal as yet, but as
to its bearing upon National politics nothing is dis
closed to our comprehension. It is but a bid for
the Presidency in 1860, at best, and may result in
an undignified scramble of the Sbamocracy for the
plunder—nothing more.
Mr- 6. H- &rEnnius, oF Rochester, N. Y,, lector*
ed at the Coart House Monday and Tuesday eve
nings, to very good audiences. His subject on Mon.
day evening was—•‘The True Reformer—lns Idea
and his Mission.** On Tuesday evening—-“ The
Evidences of Immortality.* 1 Wc were unavoidably
detained from both lectures, but hear them spoken
of in terms of high praise by many in attendance.
Mr. able reasoper and an earnest la.
borer in the behalf of Man.
- ' subscribers lo the Tribune in
the December Club, arc hereby notified that their
subscriptions expire on the 13th iu#l. The Club is
being renewed at this office, and it is hoped that all
who wish lo join will hand in their names immedi
ately, as we desire lo forward the money on or be
fore the 14th instant. It is hardly necessary for uc
to say that in no other way can one dollar be so
profitably invested, or that no family should be with
out this beat rurally newspaper. These facta are
well known by our readers.
Rejoicing In a happy release from 11 the Tombs,”
(to the gloomy horrors of which one in daily com
munication with the 41 devil” remorselessly consign
ed us two weeks since,) refreshed and invigorated
by a respite from the cares of business, contact with
the outside world and heart-gladdened by a visit to
home, friends and relatives after an age of absence,
you for the
ago. Wc feel-ten years younger lor the journey;
the sun shines more brightly, and our purse is now
not lighter than our heart—a very pleasant state of
things, truly; for a light purse and a heavy heart
agree no belter than an empty stomach and a lean
larder. Give us your hands for a family shake J
Our readers have been served with three half-sheet
numbers. Well, they were first-rate half-sheets—
worth two cents each, certainly. Wo promised pat
rons short commons before leaving and were bound
to make our word good. The young men In the of.
fico needed a little rest as well as we; and then Uio
office was overrun with Jnb work, which is the
strawberries and cream of the business. Of course
none but a savage will say that printers should put
off strawberries and cream and take the pork and
potatoes of (he business instead. Of course not.
Dog Noble Brooks.
Wo publish in another column under the head of
“ Kansas—What is Submission 7”—an article from
the N. Y. Express of the 3d inst. Tho Express is
a Know Nothing sheet, having an unmitigated hor.
ror of foreigners in general and of Jesuits in par.
licnlar—at least, so it professes. But whoever ex
amines that article carefully, cannot fail Ip delect a
Jesuitical mode of reasoning which cnrld not have
been bettered by Orestes A. Brownson, or 1 John,
Archbishop of New York.
But llie reasoning is not only Jesuitical ; it is in
utter disregard of patent historical facts and opin
ions of eminent jurists. Thus, flic article itself is
as flagrant an outrage us the evil it complains of.
The subjoined extract will explain more distinctly
(ban we can do, the length and breadth of Human
Right and Justice as estimated by the high.priesl of
the Know Nothings:
“ Now, scll.governme'nt means, not African gov
ernment, but American government,—that is, the
government of while men over while men. Negroes
are but incidents and accidents of our institutions.
Tie Federal Government ignored them in name and
in substance and created a government exclusively
for white men.- Self-government, then, means the
government of white men by while men. Slavery
is not an institution of general, only of partial exis
tence,—but while men's government, and the right
of wit rto men to self .govern themselves everywhere
in every Slate of our Union, is."
Now, the foregoing argument would be very just
in some respects were it not deduced from false
premises, namely, that “ the Federal Government
“ ignored negroes in name and in substance and
u created a government exclusively for while men.”
It mast be remembered that this government exist
ed prior to lire foaming and adoption of the Federal
Constitution; and it is declared in the Constitution
that the citizens of the several Stales under the ar
ticles of Confederation, should bo considered cili
sens of the United States. Now, if it be shown
that negroos were recognised n citizens in the «e».
eral States under (he Confederation, then the ape
cions' pretences of Mr. Brasilia Brooks will appear
in all their hideousness. This we elinll show upon
unimpeachable authority.
,In reference to the question—“ Were negroes
citizens in «ny 0 f the States qf tbs Confederation 7"
Judge Curtis, of. the U. S. Supreme Court, in his
Dred Scott Case Opinion, said:
“Of-this there can be. no doubt. At the time of
the ratification of the Arliclea of Confederation, all
foeo native-born inhabitants of the States of New.
Hampshire, Massachusetts New York, New Jeraev
and North Carotins, though descended from Africa'n
flirts, were not only citizens, of those States, hut
poch of them as had the other oeeessary qualificn
lions, possessed the franchise of electors on equal
terms with other citizens." *
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.
Judge Curtis farther cites the Opinion of Judge
Gaston of the Supreme Court of North Carolina* as
to the status of free negroes in lhalSUte. We give
a brief extract—enough' to put Ihemnlter in a clear
light; the skeptical can see the balance of Judge
- Gaston VOptntoQ'fis^ited-by Judge Oortis, bycaffc
mg upon as. S&ys Judge. Gaston,: _
“Slaves, TmmnmiUed here; became freemen, and
therefore, if born within North Carolina, arc citi
zens of North Carolina, and all free persons boro
within the Slate are-born citizens of the Slate. -The
Constitution extended the elective franchise to cv
cry freeman who had arrived at the age of twenty
.onCi&nd paid a public tax; audit is a matter of un.
iversal notoriety, that, under it, free person?, without
regard to colors claimed,and exercised liie Jranchi.sc
until it was taken from free men of color a few
years since by our amended Constitution.”
Thus,'U appears that the Federal Governmentdid
not ignore the negro, but, on the contrary, that the
elective franchise was enjoyed by free men equally,
without distinction of color, even In North Caroli
na, under the present Constitution. Therefore the
framers of the Constitution meant by
men/, a government by the people without regard to
color, and not “exclusively lor white men,” os the
Cxfress jcsuiticalty argues.
Apart from documentary evidence, we hold that
this Government was -established for the protection I
of all who live under it, black or while. And wc
contend that the 5,000.000 of Africans in this land j
have as much right to assist in governing them
selves as any 5,000,000 of white people in the land.
Certainly, anti-slavery men arc everywhere charged
with ignoring the interests of the 25,000,000 whiles
In their solicitude for the live millions of blacks;
but this.is not true. Anti-slavery men, in remem
bf ring the white race, do not forget the fewer Afri
cans. They also understand that there is a commu
nity of interests which includes all degrees and col
ors under this Government, and that a blow struck,
at the rights and liberties of one man or woman, 1
white, or black, is a blow struck at the rights and
liberties of every man and woman on American soil.
These negroes did not lose their liberties under
the Conslilotion,nor were colored citizens deprived
of (he elective franchise by that instrument. The
several Slates found it convenient to disfranchise
them at one lime or another; but they did not Jose
their citizenship thereby, so long as the generation
on the soil in 1787, lasted- It was held by the
Southern Courts that while the negro was a chattel
as a slave, he became a person, nl the moment of his
manumission. Admitting this, it follows that in
the very moment be becomes a person he becomes
possessed of the political rights of persons and is
entitled to all the privileges and immunities oi a
citizen.
A government by the people is a government by
the whole people; anything less cannot be properly
designated as a popular government. To deprive
an American citizen' of his franchises is to recede
from (he (roe .democratic standard. To say that
a man shall not be admitted to a political equality
with his fcllow.mcn because he is not socially and
intellectually equal, is to decree that every man
shall be born a genius and with the polish of a
Chesterfield under penally of disfranchisement;
and to ibis narrow point is the mutter in hand now
dwindled down.
As to the philanthropy of the men who make nsc
ot such Jesuitical reasoning we have an abundance
of incrcdulitv. They arc men through whose veins
the blood courses with an Arctic chill. They are
reptilemen, delighting never so much as when phi
losophising upon the misfortunes of other and bet
ter people.
The Pittsburg Post propose* a Convention of
Sl)am democratic editors of this Slate, to come off
not think that any good will come ont of it. We
are glad lo be able to agree with cmr Tunkhannock
friend for once, and may say that it any good aho’d
come out of a Convention of Mulatto-democratic ed
itors, it would be as wonderful as making a
whistle of a. pig’s tail. They might get together
and try the experiment. In the meantime we trust
our friend will not get in a pet as is his want when 1
we endeavor to agree with him.
Fernando Wood ia beaten. His defeat is not a
Republican triumph, however, but the result of a
fusion of the respectable of all parties against the
Dead Rabbit order; or, as an intelligent democrat
remarked to us on the afternoon of the day of the
day of the election— u It was a contest between Vir
tue and Vice, and Virtue is the victor by a paltry
two thousand I” This was a just statement of the
facts, doubtless.
Congress commenced its session on Tuesday.
The Republican caucus was held on Monday, but
the result of its deliberations have not reached us
at present writing. It is thought that cither Mr.
Grow, Mr. Blair of Missouri, or Washburn of Me.,
will bo Us nominee for Speaker. See Washington
news in another place.
The Atlantic Monthly, Phillips, Sampson Sc Co.,
Boston. The December number of this new Mag
azino is overflowing with jewel-thoughts of the best
intellects in the country. It has already reached a
circulation of 25,000.
[Wc commend the inquiry contained in tho fol
lowing letter to the consideration of Our subscribers
in Charleston township. The letter was addressed
to Mr. John Bailey, P. M.,of Charleston. — Ed. Ag.]
Georgetown, Ky., Nov. 1857.
Sir ; Many years ago ihere resided in
your town n colored man by the name of
Jacob Free—who was respected and owned
some property, a farm I think. His wife ac
companied a family by the name of Monlier
to this plnce, for her health, and died, leaving
their lillle child, a girl named Charlotte, to
iheoareof her white friends (ill such time
she could ,be conveyed back lo her father.
No such chance occurred. Years passed
away, Ihe child has grown (o womanhood,
and feeling a great desire lo know something
of her father, has embraced lha first oppor
tunity lhal has offered itself to her of having
a letter written, hoping by your kindness she
may ii he is living obtain some knowledge of
her father so that she can write to him.
Charlotte is an. intelligent and clever
woman, and maintains, herself respectably
and her two children by h er needle. Her
oldest child is n very smart boy of four years,
who would be n source of pride and pleasure
to his .relatives if alive.
You will ’Sir confer a great favor on
Charlotte and her white friends if you wil]
be so kind as to make some enquiries as to
the person in question, and at as early a lime
as possible let me have any information you
may acquire. . lam respectfully,
CAROLINE BANG?.
The Democratic' paper in Columbiana
county, Ohio, has a long article upon.what
the incoming Legislature should do. 'Among
the reforms which it advooales is ‘‘the total
abolition of the public sehoolsvalem.”
FroniTVaslilnglon.
** To ffio Associated Pros*. *. * • f
.Washington, Friday, Dec. 4,1857. .
TiW'Conatiuition-framed by ihe lecent Kan
sas is. watro.ljL.BP--
provid by Senator Bigler and other, promi
nem Alfboggh Senator'
has freely expressed himself against the Le
cbmp’on movement, ihe opinion is current
thnl’he Wi|l not place, himself in" direct antag
onism-to the-Administration. .
Tha appearances,ate that the House will
effect an-organization on Monday without
trouble. The..cooteat is, particularly warm
for Postmaster, Doorkeeper, and Printer.
It is* now conttjmplaied lb send the Presi
dent's Message in advance only to New York,
Philadelphia and :Richmond. A decision in
the mailer will probably ,be arrived at to
iporrow. , .i
It is understood that the Republican caucus
will be held at 10 o'clock on Monday morn-,
iag. Mr. Grow of Pennsylvania, Mr. Blair
of Missouri, or Mr. Washburn of Maine will
probably receive the nomination for Speaker.
The present intention is to make no other
nominations.
[TUf'patch to the N. Y. Express.]
Senator Douglass to-day again lakes just
as strong ground as Gov. Walker against the
Lecomptpn Convention, and pronounces their
acts as an utier violation of the Kansas and
Nebraska bill. He has pledged himself to
resist the one-sided views of tho Convention,
and stand or fall, he will not falter in his po
sition. The -President has heard this from
Walker’s own lips, and In addition has the
Assurance that Kansas would flow with, blood
if an attempt should be made to force merely
ihe Slavery'cause upon the people, and to
prevent a vote upon the Constitution as a
whole. - r.
Gov, Richardson of Illinois, the M. C,,
who piloted the Kansas and Nebraska bill
through the House, has just come in, and is
equally explicit wi h Douglas and Walker in
denouncing Ihe acts of ihe. Locompton Con*
-vention. •
Should the President not. yield, there will
be such a struggle in Washington as has not
been seen for years, and it is believed that he
will before Monday abandon all intention to
sustain the one idea in the new Constitution.
" Mr. Stanton has not written to the Presi
dent, withdrawing his resignation, as stated
in the Tribune,
Letters from Kansas received hero repre
sent almost nine-tenths of the people of all
parlies ns against the Lecompton Constitu
tion, including slaveholders, Free State men
and others.
Washington, Saturday, Dec. 5, 1857.
The Democratic caucus was held in the
hall of the House of Representatives, and
was organized by the election of George VV.
Jones of Tennessee as Chairman ; Mr. llufiin
of North Carolina and Mr. Phillips of Penn
sylvania as Secretaries.
One hundred and fourteen members were
present.
Mr ps of Missouri, having previously
wilh , proposed Col. Orr for Speaker,
who manimously nominated.
-./File Republican members held a caucus
in the room of the Committee of Commerce.
passed unanimously reassor.ing ihc doettines
of the Philadelphia platform, when, without
transacting further business, n motion was
carried to adjourn until Monday morning at
9i a’clock. A nomination for Speaker will
then he made. The Hon. G. A. Grow of
Pennsylvania is the most prominent candi
date talked of, and it is believed will get the
nomination. Many of the Republicans are
in favor of making straight nominations for
other offices. Some oppose if.
Col. Forney is here, and is very decided
in his condemnation of the Lecompton Con
stitulion. Senotor Douglas aiso expresses
himself very freely to Ihe same purport.
From the Han Francisco Herald, Nov. sth.
Summary of the Fortnight’s News.
| State. —Ths most important items of
j news from California, by the steamer Golden
, Gale is the display -before the public of a
1. large amount of evidence, going to show lhal
| the one hundred and eighteen immi
grants, massacred in lha southern part of:
Utah, while on their way to California—news
; of which occurrence was sent from here by
| ihe last mail—were murdered by Mormons.
! Mr. George Powers arrived days since
nt Los Angelos, from Salt Like, and reports
; having heard many Mormons threaten to kill
Gentiles passing through their country. He
met n mixed parly of Mormons and Indians
going toward a Mormon settlement frqm Ihe
scene of the massacre, and they had in pos
session bundles of clothing and other articles,
apparently the spoil of the murdered ; and
tho whole party appeared to be on very
friendly terms with one another, and to be in
high spirits. This Mr. Powers also stales
that in Sun Bernadino he heard Captain
Hunt, a man of authority among the Mor
mons there, say he was glad for Ihe massacre,
and believe the hand of the Lord was in it,
whether it was done by the whites or red
skins. P. M. Warn, of Genesee county New
York, who came through about the same
time with Mr. Powers, believe also, from
numerous facts observed by them, that the
Mormons are guilty, of the bloody crime.
Messrs. Abbot and Fine, (wo gentlemen who
have lately been at San Andres, from the
Humboldt'river, report great hostility on the
part of the Mormons towards (He immigrants
coming to California by the South Pass; and
great friendship with the Indiana, who bad
made attacks on immigrants. Both Mr.
Abbott and Mr, Finn know of cases where
trains were attacked In the Mormon country,
by Indians led on by numerous white men,,
supposed, to be Mormons. Mr. Abbott says
five hundred immigrants have. been, kilted
this year on the.road between Salt Lake arid
California by Indians and Mormons, but this
estimate is certainly very much exaggerated.
- There was a little.brush-of a fight between
the-settlers at Honey Lake—a valley; cast
of the main divide of (he Sierra Nevada, in
lattitude 39 degrees north—and the Indians,
but peace has-been restored. ■
The newspapers contain reports of the dia
covery of a coal vein in Sonoma county,
near Patalumaj hut wo attach no-importance
to (he report.
Kansu »~What Is Submission ?
Submission to ihe people of the right to
frame their dWn institutions—a Democratic
principle—meant when in 1860, under the
-Prti more-Admin istratioorit' waa-iftcotporateff
in ihe.California, NewMeJicoandUtah Bill,
Seif Government.- The Pierce Adminis
(ration, in 1854, rc-enacfed the principle.—
Mr. Buchanan committed himself,'in his In
augural, in his instructions to Goy. ,Walker,
and in his very-excellent letter to 1 the New
Haven divine and literacy gentlemen.
‘ Now, self-government means, notfAfrican
government,-bm American government—that
is, the government of white men oyer white
men. Negroes are but incidents and acci
dents ofour institutions. The Federal Gov.
ernment ignored them in name, and in sub
stance, and created a government exclusively
for while men. Self-government, then, means
the government of while men by white men!
Slavery is not an institution of general, only
of partial existence —but while rain’s govern,
ment, and the right of while men io self‘gov
ern themselves everywhere in every Stole of
our Union, is. - X
Apply these acknowledged principles to
Kansas. A constitution is made there, though
of legal, yet of spurious origin. 1 It lakes
from the white people of Kansas ; all white
rights of self-government, and leaves them
only to act upon blacks, upon African gov
ernment —upon the isolated and
tively very unimportant qoeslidn-r— whether
(hey shall hold the few blacks in Kansas as
slaves or not. In short, all Ihe self-govern
ment rights of white people are ignored—all
taken from the while people—and the only
thing left them is to act upon the rights of
the blacks. It is not true, ns said, (hat the
white people can, right off, amend- and alter
this constitution, if they don’t like it—while
it is true, that the constitution , fprbids any
amendment until “after the year 1864,” and
then only to be initiated by a two-jthirds vole
of the Legislature of the new St^te! Thus
until “after 1864,” self-government begins
not in Kansas! - : }
Now, a quibble, a cheat, or a fraud, is at
tempted to excuse and disguise the robbery of
Ihe people of Kansas, of self ■government. —
“Slavery,” it is said, is tlie oolyjibing the peo
ple of Kansas care about, and, therefore, it
is the only issue that should be (eft to them.
Csre they not for ibis stipulaliqn, that the
Constitution to be imposed upon;' them shall
not be touched till “after 1864(J’| Care ihey
not for thus being tied up in their right to al
ter and amend their own fundamental laws,
in their own way 1 j j
We pronounce this a fraud upon the Dem
ocratic and. Republican principle; of self-gov
ernment—because withholding from Ihe peo.
pie the right to act upon all llieit; institutions,
and substituting, in lieu thereof, only one “in
slitulion,” and that not concerning their own
white race, is a quibble, a cheat,; and a fraud.
Southern gentlemen,- who are above quibbles
and meannesses, must scorn thisjsort of trick
ery, just as we scorn it—and wefbelieve thou
sands of them will’ look upon if in the light
we do, as a mean, miserable Iprece of trick
ery, scarcely worthy even, of|a faro table,
much less of being made pare of a funda
mental law of a Stale. | j
Thompson’s Bank Nole Reporler of the
l»t .1 — u<~><s.outite rnfnK, wntci* m*--
dicales to Ihe public that Tliotaosoh,
& Co. do not buy its bills at atiy rale of dis.
couni. The tendency is to [discredit the
Bank. Hence we deem an explanation suit
able. (
' l«*
John Thompson, at (he limeW his failure
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and for some years previous,;was buying (he
bills of the Honesdale Bank' at half of one
per cent discount, underran jarrangemem,
which was that he should deliver the hills in
packages to the Merchants Exchange Bank,
receiving one-eighth of one pet- cent for his
services. | j
When Thompson, Morse Co., took up
the business of John Thompson, after liis
failure, they wrote to ibe Hq'nesdale Bank,
soliciting a continuance with! item of the ar
rangement which had existed with him.—
This request was granted, and ihey proceeded
to act under it. ' | |
Shortly afterwards the Philadelphia banks
suspended, and most Pennsylvania bills fell
to five of six per cenl discount Thompson,
Morse & Go., in violation of (he arrangement,
took the same discount on Honesdale bills as
any other hills of this State, and instead of
presenting them at the Merchant’s Exchange
Bank, sold them at one per cent, to one of
the two other brokers who did not fly from
their engagement. The President and Vice
Pres'dent of the Honesdalej Sank called on
Thompson-, Morse & Co., and remonstrated
with them. All the they got was
an intimation that if the Bahkpwould furnish
them $lOOO, without inlerest.jto use in their
business, they would go back io the arrange
menu This offer was declined.
In a little lime it became so well known
that the Honesdale Bank wasimaintaining its
regular J redemption that the; holders o° its
bills in the city would not sutynit to the high
rale of discount which Thompson, Morse &
Co. had been demanding. 1 Then that firm
wrote to the bank, asking a renewal of the
old arrangement, which was;ddcidedly refused.
Upon receiving this refusal! they sent up by
express a package of bills, demanding specie
for them, which ihey did notjget. As a lasi
effort to force (he Bank into! measures they
have starred it, going as far ,as they dare to
cast suspicion upon its circulation.
From (his statement of facts the publio will
be able to draw the proper. inferences,—
Honesdale ’Democrat .
Improved A
new Telegraphic Machine,jtisTinvenied after
many years of invesligaiioii and labor, by
Mr. Edmund F. Barnes of Nbw York, is now
in actual and successful operation between
distant points. ' The peculiarities of this new
patent are several, l’Whicb may bs
named the following ; Ist.; It requires no
skill to use it, nod-any one ! can operate with
it on the first trial correctly and satisfactorily
2d. It writes in alphabetical characters,’
though worked by a singlp-pejeon with ease
and rapidity. 3d. The maohihery is very
simple and very strong, abd ! not at all liable
to get out of order. 4lb. , -It is not deranged*
by thunder storms, but hah be worked with
equal fidelity in all weathers.. slh. Being
very simple, it is very inexpensive.
■Fronrtho N. T. Express,
■ On the morning of the 22d inst., the most
fatal and heartrending affray took place ever
witnessed in this county. It appears that
while Dr. C. S, Swan and his partner, Dr. .
G.-C.' Webb, were dining at Col. B. K. Rod.
gers in this place, and with them their friend.
Dr. G. W. Burney, Dr. Swan was informed
of some one at the gate who wished to sea
him. He, according to request, went oat to
see what was wanting ; the balance of the
company, Drs. Webb and Burney, accompa
nying him. When arriving at the gate, they
found on horseback, Isaac Felsenthrall and
Mr. Hutchins. Mr. H. rode close to iho
fence and handed Dr. Swan a letter from Mr.
Travis, Professor and President of tho Fe
male Institute at Searcy. The character of
the letter proved none other than friendly.
While Dr. Swan was engaged in reading,
some words look place between Felsenthrall
and Dr. W., when Felsenthrall gave Dr. VV.
the lie, and, jumping down from his horse,
made a move as if to draw a weapon, when
Dr, Swan and Burney jumped between them,
saying “Gentlemen, no weapons,” when- Fel
senthrall declared he “had no' weapons, and
d—n him he was going to fight Dr. W., and
fight him a fair fight." They then came to
gether, Dr. W„ having but a small walking
cane, which he held in his left hand.and was
about to drop it, when he discovered Felsen
thrall drawing a pistol from the sleeve of; his
coat. The proximity was then so close ho
saw his otily chance was to strike with the
cane, (that he Was about to throw down) to
save his life. He struck with his stick, but
it being too late to produce the desired effect,
Drl S. sprang to_ seize the pistol, but, alas!
too late; he had shot Dr. W. in the left re
gion of the abdomen, depositing two balls in
the muscles of the right hip near the surface.
Dr. W. fell mortally, wounded.
Dr. S. immediately commenced the dress
ing of his wounds, while Dr. B. followed the
black hearted assnssian, who tan to the house
of R. K. Rogers, and seized a gun (that had
been loaded with buckshot foi a deer drive,)
to defy the friends of Dr. W. whom he had
just shot, when Col. Rogers wrested the gun
from him. Felsenthrall then ran to the hoists
that Hutchins rode when they came, and
mounting it, commenced making his escape,
when Dr. Burney immediately appeared with
the same gun, handing it to Dr. VV., saying,
“You are now armed.” Dr. W. said,“l am
disabled; be has killed roe; use it for me.
Shoot him —and don’t, for heaven’s sake, let
him escape—see, he is doing it." Dr. B.
leveled the gun and fired. The murderer
bad rode but a hundred yards at full speed
from tho place of the affray, when three of
the shot passed through his head andjl&dy,
killing him instantly.
Many of the peopJe'of the town hastened
to the place of the affray. Many of the
Searcy people came down ; great excitement
prevailed. Some said they would be avenged,
that they wbuld take up arms and march
against West Point for letting the Des Arc
and Memphis boys kill their Dutchman (Fel
senthrall.) Others remarked that it was a
noble act on the part of Dr. J. VV. Burney,
and that he did no more than any true-hearted
man would have done under the circumstan
ces, and that (hey knew it was premeditated
■nn'ttie'parroT'Felscnlhrall to have a difficulty
with Dr. W., and look this method to bring
it about.
Fugitive Slave Case at A.v.v Arbor,
Michigan. —We are informed that several
detectives, among whom we have only the
names of officers Sprague and VVilcoxsor,
took a supply of small arms, handcuffs, &c.,
and went to Ann Arbor /or the purpose of
catching a couple of fugive slaves, who were
at work near by. They had arranged for an
amicable partition of the reward. They had
“a dead sure thing of it,” .but unfortunately
they were so well pleased with the ingenuity
of their arrangements that they told their
business to several of the citizens of Ann
Arbor. The negroes were informed of wbst
was going on by a messenger sent to the
farm-house where they were working, and
they immediately “laid dqwn the shovel and
the hoe,” got aboard the cars on the Under
ground Railroad, and are now safe ip Canada.
The detectives heard of what (fad taken
place, and offered §5OO in gold to any one
who would catch the two black boys.—De
troit Tribune, Ist.
Apples. —-The New York Journal of
Commerce says : “Newtown pippins, which
were in such high favor last year for export,
are almost ao entire lai’ure, so that the num
ber be shipped this season will be insig
nificant. Such as are sent out, are in small
lots, mostly designed as gifts. The value of
last year’s exportations of this choice fruit
was not less than $lOO,OOO. Mr. Gilmartin,
the largo fruiterer in Front street, alone sent
out 85000 worth. The market price is quoted
at s7aB per bbl,, packed for shipment, and
Ssa6 per ‘ bbl. as they runi The cjop in
Western New York is fair, but in other por
tions of the State. and .through the country
generally both quantity and quality are in
ferior. The wholesale price. is §3 per bbl.
It is-conjectured that for several years to
come, Ibe principal reliance must be on Wes
tern New York, as the orchards elsewhere
have greatly deteriorated from age and yield
sparingly.”
Another Split.—Splits are becoming
common in the Presbyterian body. La#*
week the Synod of Missouri, consisting of
four Presbyteries and 57 churches, held its
annual session in and after a long
discussion on slavery, resolved to-form itself
into an independent body. It refuses fellow
ship with the New School body, on account"
of its action at Cleveland last summer, and
declares it cannot go with the Richmond con
vention. It determines to remain nn inde
pendent synod, ■** until the Providence of God
shall seem to make clear the way of duty.
By this action the Presbyterian church in
the United States is therefore divided into
four distinct organizations—the Old School,
the New School, the Southern School and lbs
Missouri School. appears to have
been some conflict of opinion in the meeting,
but the final decision waa arrived at harmo
niously. Among'the distinguished gentlemen
present was tbs Rev. Thomas A. Mills, who
has taken a - prominent part in the slavery
discussions of the Church,
fatal Affray lb Arhanjai,
West Point, Arkansas, Nov, 25,1857,