lerest . not/because the country is bankrupt.
The country was never richer than at the
present moment. It is true the country owes;
Si0(),000,oba abroad, for the building of
r lilruads, but the railroads are constructed,
a>d form pari of the real wealth of the
country. In nine cases out of ten, where
fiilures or suspensions have occurred, it has
not been in consequence of want of means,
for it has been shown that their assets far
exceeded their liabilities.
How can the Government assist in brias
inn back the business of the country to its
ordinary course 1 It cannot be done by
IcgHation, I admit. But when you are pro
viding for raising the revenue with which to
pay your|debts, if you can aid in accom
plishing that result, it is your duty to do it.
li is the duty of the Government, under the
circumstances, to take such steps, sp'far as
may be in its power, as shall draw out of its
hiding places some part of the $1000,000,-
000 which is thus withdiawn from circula
tion.' The Government has but to advertise
for a loan, to obtain in three days all it wants,
ifall street is as full of specie as it ever was.
You then secure to the circulation the amount
borrowed, and thus aid in. relieving the busi
ness of the country.
I.etlei- from an Army Officer.
Cami‘~Scott, (near Fort Bridger,) )
U. T., Dec. 10, 1857. 5
My Dear N.: A member of the firm
smiling for the 10th Infantry, starts for the
S'ates next Monday, and has kindly offered
to carry letters, ana if you gel this, you may
thank him, as well as me, for it.
I should not wonder if you should see in
the papers, before two months, letters calcu
lated to produce the impression that this
army is in a suffering condition. Let me
tell you\ beforehand that such is not the truth,
and that the prospect is very flattering that it
will not be the case; but that when tbe Win
ter campaign is over, we shall had ourselves
in one respect, and only one, like Mr. Qlay’s
slaves—“fat and sleek.”
The supply of clothing, so far as I can
learn, was only deficient in two articles—
.•-hoes and stockings. But this defect has
been cured by the Quartermaster’s purcha
sing the slock of the sultler, and that of one
or two merchant trains, now here, which
were freighted with goods, for the Salt Lake
trade. Cut. Johnston has laid an embargo
on these trains; so that the enemy is likely
to suffer some inconvenience, as well as we,
in consequence of his deviltry.
You will probably see it slated that we are
on short “grub.” This can hardly be con
sidered a true presentment. The flour ele
ment of the ration has been reduced five
ounces (leading the daily allowance to each
s f *ul, asvilso to every person without a soul,
and entitled to subsistence, thirteen ounces)
but the beef component was at the same lime
raised (increased) eight ounces, the other
items remaining as heretofore.
This reminds me of a little matter it is as
wqll to mention. We have bad no salt for a
month or more, so that, as regards that item
of the ration, “heretofore” must be consid.
ered inapplicable. But most of us don’t miss
it much now. It is well enough, used in
moderation, when we can get it; but not
being able to get it, at this ptesent, for a rea.
sonable price, we have made up our mind,
that ire can do without until we go into Salt
Lake City, which will be before we can re
ceive supplies from home.; And we have
also arrived at the concldsion that “to do
without salt” is one of the things for which
we covenanted when wp undertook the expe
dition. D tublless the reopening of the cam
paign will us fresh and vigorous. This
little slip-up of the Subsistence Department
is a high-flavored (not with salt) joke.
. This Subsistence Department of our army,
always ready, always prompt, obliging and
kind beyond what we could reasonably ex
pect if we did not know it, seems to have
thought that sending salt to Salt Lake City
«as like “sending coals to Newcastle,” and
sent only what was thought sufficient to carry
us to the festering city, but it sent salt kettles
to manufacture the article when we should
get there, never anticipating the blundering
operations which have resulted in anchoring
ns here, a little more than a hundred miles
from the briny waters. It is so seldom the
Department is caught napping that we can
hirdly ever find cause for being querulous
with it, but (bis joke is magnificent; we have
‘got,’’, the Department very “low,” and
most of us would rather do without the salt
than (he jdke. That salty joke will never
“lose its savor”—it lyill'always be fresh.-
Buffalo Commercial, Feb. 3.
Matrimonial Infelicity. —Theie is a
curious difficulty now in progress in one of
our colored ctiurches, the facts of which we
give as nearly as we can from a somewhat
roundabout hearsay. Two members of the
church—man and wife—are so unfortunate
ns to live unhappily. The, husband—whether
under Olhello-pangs of jealousy or simply
b“cause he was worried by a colored Xan
ttppe—found his life so uncomfortable that
he resolved to take some means to rid him
self of his conjugates, and be once more a
man and a brother, but not a husband.—
There being no Joe Beigleral band to jvhom
he might apply for “a cup of cold pisen,”
and having a distaste for any of the more
vulgar means of divorce, such as are said to
be prevalent in Rochester, the “cullud pus
son” in question falls back on the Fugitive
Slave law as a resource. His wife was a
fugitive who came here by underground rail
road—he wished she had stayed underground
—and so he writes to her master down South,
imploring him to come North, prove pro
pertt/, pap chargee, and take hie helpmeet
back to chains and Slavery. The (act
leaked out, and (he matter is now dividing
the church. We learn that a portion of the
elders think that this remanding his own
wife back to Slavery was not just the fair
thing, whilst others look upon it as justifiable.
They argue that the- husband may have
suffered so severely under the bonds of wed
lock, that the booda-of Slavery would be no
more than a sufficient punishment for the
wife. There the mal'er stands. The church
is divided and distracted, and where it is to
end nobody can tell.— Buffalo Com. Adver
tiser. 1
New York has nearly five hundred miles
of paved street.
THE A#H|AfO|l.
M. 11. Cobb,* Editor * Publisher.
WELLSBOROUCrH, PA.
fltornln?, Feb. 11, W5B.
%* AM BusrDC£sinftdolhcrComm'DnicaUoD?tnu»l
beaddresscdtolheKditorldinsDreaUention. ’
TVc cannot publish anonymous communications.
-Tuesday..4 p. .m.-rTlu*. region is. enjoying, the
luxury gf a snow slorra. Wind S. E. Blowing
strong, i
- -We do not-think it will dtMiny'good (o pnblhih'B.
D*s m communication sod therefore it is declined,
ti is keens satirical and humorous, but could benefit
nobody.
Wc must ask the indulgence of oor correspond,
cnls, both general and particular, for a few days
We arn overran with business (hat demandsimme*
diale attention to the neglect of epistolary duties. -
Our temperance friends will be gratified to know
that the long dismantled sign.posl of the Crystal
Fountain Hotel is dismahtled no longer, Its wide
awake Proprietor, Mr. D. Hart, has (band that he
cannot frighten, his olj customers away by taking
down his sign and advertising that he doesn't keep
tavern ; so he has very wisely concluded to put up
the sign and open his doors for the accommodation
of the public. We are glad that he has
and trust that the public will accord him an abund.
ant patronage.
The February Term Quashed! Tbe Quarter
Sessions were conducted t« a summary adjourn
ment on Wednesday, 3d iost., by some of onr law
yers, H. Sherwood, Esq., leading. The cases of
some of our trafficking friends were taking oo a
desperate color in the hands of (he Grand Jury, and
the prospect of being swamped with indictments
led them to seek for some unfrequented way out of
trouble. On examination an irregularity in writing
(he names of jurors (the law requires that the chris
lian names of jurors be written in full) was dis*
covered, 4s also that no return had been made to the
venire. The Court sustained theexcepUon and or
dered the proceedings of (he Grand Jury to be set
aside. The Jurors in attendance were dismissed.
We learn that this irregularity in writing the
names of Jurors' is no new thing, but that, on (he
contrary, it has been the rule for many years. Uis
best (o have Court matters preliminarily' correct j
and therefore we are not disposed to find fault with
this summary setting of things to rights. It is a
pretty cosily job for the county, however,and under
taken for (he benefit of (he individuals who had on.
niistakable cause to fear the action of the Grand Jo.
ry; bul this class is bound to be a public expense—
in one way or another.
At tUe Eleventh Hour.
Six months ago there was not a mulatto-demo
cratic journal in the Republic that could be coaxed
or driven to admit the perpetration of frauds and
outrages in Kansas. No matter through what chan.
Del the information came, it was ?II lumped together
and denounced as . u Black Republican lies I” and
ihe readers of those journals mcl one at .every turn
will) a stereotyped, impression of that charge upon
their lips, ll affected (hem not that Reeder came
back with a soul ftjdl of indignation at the terribfe
wrongs permitted io stalk there unrestrained by Ibe
General Government; it affected them not that Gov.
Geary returned in disgrace because he could not
be a party to the outrages permitted there by a wick
ed and perverse Admin'etration; it affects them not
that \Valker has abandoned his position because he
could not aid to establish a tyrannical minority in
power, in obedience to the mandatesof Mr. Buchan,
an and his advisers; nor that Secretary Stanton
returns decapitated because he could not submit to
the rale of a turbulent and ruffianly minority.; All
these strange developments passed fur noughljwUh
our mulatto friends until Messrs. Forney and Doa
-1 glas brought their axes to be ground. Then (he
scene changed.
Taking up a copy of Mr. Forney’s Pres# a day
or two since, we were astonished to lea'rn that the
political history of Kansas is bul an uninterrupted
record of usurpation from beginning to end. We
were driven to infer, likewise, that those usurpations
were, in some sort undertaken and prosecuted with
the implied concurrence of both the last and the
present Administrations. We led to congratulate
Mr. Forney upon this return 1o his senses, at (he
eleventh hour though it be. We are glad to witness
these signs of repentance in the man who placed
Mr. Buchanan where he is simply by gagging the
democratic press in this State so that the facts in
the mailer of Kansas usurpation should not trans
pire, so far as readers were concerned. We
feel to congratulate our friends upon having one pa
per of (heir own stripe which is ready to acknowl.
edge, even in 1858, what has been patent among
the Republican masses since 1855, to wit, that the
(lie rights of (lie majority in Kansas have been put
under foot by permission of the powers at Washing,
ton. Belter late limn never, gentlemen:
“ For, while lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return.”
Walk up to the confessional, friends, and unbosom
yourselves. Fling false pride to the winds. Give
yoar readers the tacts and leave the consequences to
dish the present Administration highland dry.
Our readers may be aware that Mr. Buchanan has
sent the Lecomptou Constitution to the Senalc, with
a Message urging the immediate admission of Kan.
sas as a State under its Infamous provisions. That
Constitution was framed by a minority Convention
it legalizes Slavery in Kansas, which, says Mr. Bu.
chanan, “ already existed there under the Conslitu*
lion of the United States.* 1 And this is the Mr.
Buchanan who was trumpeted by Bigler In the cam.
paign of *56 as being in favor of “Free Kansas!**
This is the Mr. Buchanan who, we weic repeatedly
told during that campaign, would make everything
strait that Pierce had made crooked. What has be
done ? He has out.Picrccd Pierce in subserviency
to the Oligarchy ! He has premeditated the rankest
treason against the liberties of a free people and in*
stigated rebellion against a corrupt General Govern*
ment. He persists in recognizing the Lecompton
Constitution as the expression of the majority in
Kansas; and yet both Gov. Walker and Secretary
Stanton solemnly assure him ond the people of the
Republic that that Constitution is an infamous fraud
—concocted'by desperate men; and thaltbend.
mission of Kansas under that instrument will light
the torch of civil war. This old man in his dotage
—this wrongheaded old man—what does he? He
rejects this evidence from ills own chosen officers;
be does worse—-deposes them from office because
they dare to speak the truth about usurpation in
Kansas. He Ignores the facts touching the high*
banded frauds which entered into .the formation and
establishment of the Territorial Government, rejects
the unimpeachable testimony of a host of witnesses
who testify that the first Territorial Legislature was
.lien to the Territory end elected by non-resident
voters. A.ll these facts be studiously keeps out of
«ight and proceeds upon tha hypothesis that the peo
ple are as morally obtuse as himself; that they will,
in the end, prate as subservient to the Oligarchy as
■THE TIOXiA OQUifTY ATGITATOB.
' 'i
himaelf. *He mistakes the temper ofi the mkssep.
Thejr will bury tipi with hs predecessor
hia grave with briers and bramble*. They will re.
in clobber him as they remember Ifcro and Culi£ula.
as he pleads for in *th'e winding up ol his "Mess,
age, he gain a-place in (he affections of-this-people,
it will be as a rankling thorn that will not be cast
out' ' ‘ : ’* -
It is noUyet possible to say what treatment the
Lecomptoo fraud will receive at the hands of Con.
gross. Whoever examines the' record, newspaper
and officiaf, of the days rendered memorable by the
passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, will observe
a striking sameness In the events and public opinion
-of that day-and this. Tbrough lhe -counlry- we
notice the same threats of secession from the ranks
of the democracy if Lecomptoo prevails; and if it
prevail; we shall see-the same final acquiescence on
the part of the leading malcontents. The press is
taking the same positions it then took. The com.
tneocement of the struggle in Congress is marked
by the same scenes of confusion. That the Admin,
(stration will bear down all opposition on the final
vole is just as probable now as it was then. It has
immense resources in the patronage it commands,
and it will not be backward in rewarding friends
and punishing enemies. There is no power like
patronage; mightier than levers, simple and com
pound, mjgblier than the mightiest engine ever yet
wrought out from the human brain. If any servant
refuse to obey (he great political master, down goes
' the ax of Executive displeasure and off* goes a head.
On the other hand, if one cannot conscientiously
do his master’s bidding, another bail be found who
has no scruples of conscience to (rouble him. Don.
glas'was not qatle enough abandoned to acquiesce
in the designs of Mr. Buchanan. But Pennsylvania
furnished a Bigler, always ready like (he infamous
j client, Marcus—
“ With loins girt np to run with speed, bo the errand
what it may,
And a flickering smile upon his cheek at what bis
lord might say.”
—such a man the President found in Mr. Bigler.
Tyrants will always find men enough to do their
dirty work. So many
“ crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
That thrift may follow fawning.”
—that the high seats do not lack pimps and obse
quious slaves. This Republic is debauched with
a guilty love for place. The President has but to
touch these with his wand and the passage of Le
compton is secured. Will he do it 7 We think be
has done tU
CONGJUESS.— Reader, do you know anything
about jumbles? We do—lhalia, we remember an
adjeoldre of a jumble , away down in East Jersey,
not too years ago. But the Jersey jumble could not
compare with that winch turned up in Congress on
the nighi of Friday last. We never think of dig.
nity in connection with that body, nor does anybody
else that we know of. From the day that the chiv
alrous McMuffin threatened to deluge the Capitol
with his blood if Banks should be elected Speaker,
there has been no jumble to compare with that of
Friday night. It followed upon the presentation of
the President's Lecompton Message and raged all
night with varying intensity. The onti-Lccomplon
men offered a resolution referring the Message to a
select Committee, while the Lecomptonites endeav.
ored to stave off all action on the Message by piling
motion upon motion and putting the House through
the tedious process of the yeas and nays on every
one. During (he confusion, after many ineffectual
attempts to adjourn, and while the members were
scattered about the hall, one member asked leave to
seed for a dagoerreotypist to take a view of the
scene. The Speaker said that it would not he ex.
actly in order; upon this some one asked, “ how In
the devil can they take piclnres by at
which the honorable body indulged in a general
guffaw. Then uprose Davis,of Mississippi, and ap.
pealed to the Republicans for liberty to speak -for an
hour; alleging that his personal popularity depended
upon so doing. This appeal moved the honorable
body to renewed laughter. .Following this, several
motions were put, some to excuse .members from vo.
ling and some to adjourn—the Utter *being lost, -
At this juncture, up popped Davis, of Mississippi
to a privileged question, complaining that his bead
(being bald) was blistering with heat from above.
He therefore asked for unanimous consent to wear
! a handkerchief over it. At this the house went in
to convulsions, from which it hud scarcely recovered
I when Florence, of Pennsylvania, arose and objected,
‘ on the ground that he was likewise bald, and the
honorable body relapsed into a boisterous guffaw.
At 10, P. M., Mr. Florence raised a laugh hy ask.
ing when the morning hour would expire.
At midnight, a motion to adjourn was negatived
by a vote of 76 lo 102- Mr. Boyce then colled for
the regalar order of business; the Speaker informed
him that, technically speaking, the morning hour
had not arrived. Mr. Boyce referred him to tho
clock which indicated 12J. The honorable body
indulged itself in another laugh. ■
At 2 o’clock on Saturday morning, an affray be
tween Mr. Grow, from this district, and Mr. Keill,
of South Carolina, took place, in which, according
to the following account by'an eye-witness, Mr. Keilt
caught a Tartar. Here is the account:
“ Mr. Grow objected to Mr. Quitman's making
any remarks. Mr. Keilt said, ‘lf you’re going to
object, return to your own side of lire Honse.’ Mr.
Grow responded, 1 This is a free Hull and every man
has a right to be whore be pleases.” Mr. Kent then
came up to Mr. Grow and said. ‘ I want to know
what yon mean by such an answer as that ?* Mr.
Grow replied, ‘ I mean just what 1 s.iy—litis is a
free hall and a man has a right to be where he plea
ses.’ Mr. Keill, (taking Mr. Grow by the ihroal)
said, ‘I will let you knew that you-a re a damned
Black Republican puppy !’ Mr. Grow knocked up
bis hand toying, ‘ I shall occupy such place in this
Hall as 1 please, and no nigger driver shall crack
his whip over me.’ Mr. Keitt then again grabbed
Mr. Grow by the throat, and Mr. Grow knocked his
hand off; then Mr. Keill came at him again and
Mr Grow knocked him down. The fight look
place at 20 minutes to 2 o’clock.”
We hope Mr. Grow will just keep strait ahead and
chastise every mother’s son of the nigger drivers
who may undertake to crack their whips over hit
head. Mr. Grow has acquitted himself creditable,
and his constituents will sustain him in every man
ly defence of bis rights in that Hall. The case
now stands: Wilmot District os South Carolina.
Dett, mulcted in the sura of one bloody nose. Hur.
ra lor our member!
Il is not a little laughable' to watch the war
waged by oar Mulatto exchanges against those rev
erend gentlemen who are from lime to time caught
tripping. No sooner does some unworthy minister
succumb to temptation than the mulatto press de
scends upon him like an avenging angel, shouting"
—“ Another Freedom shrieking wolf in sheep’s
clothing fallen i’* They conclude that he voted tor
Fremont as a matter of course- Now, this by no
means follows; but admit that it does, what does
it prove 1 Just this: that ninety-nine hundredths
of the entire clergy North having voted lor Fremont
it follows that more Fremont clergymen wifi be
found delinquent than of the Mulatto one-hundredth,
even as you wilt find more whites than negroes in
.the Penitentiaries. But because there happens to
he a greater Dumber of whites than blacks in the
Penitentiaries, we confesajlmt we liave yet to find a
democratic editor who bases a claim for the superi
ority of the black over the white race thereupon.
If the argument bo legitimate on the one hand it ia
just IS legitimate on the other.
After-Breakfast View* of the
/ |gt(Hg{SlC.
!Ctorrespb»dcuco of|he -N. Y. Tribune. >
Washington, Feb. 6, 1858,
' The triumph of the Opposition, after their
long strogglexjf nineteen hours iirthn House,-
4s very gratifying, not only for its immediate,
result'upon the fate Of the Lecomptoo Con
stitution, but for the assurance it gives of
parliamentary pluck and skill on that side of
the House which has not heretofore been
eminently distiriguisheJTof those qualities.
’ The personal conflict on-the floor of the
House Is the theme to-day of universal dis
cussion and universal regret. It was dis
graceful to the country, to Congress, and to
him who. wasthe causepf,U ; and yet a good
deal can be fairly said in palliation of it. It
was q hasty, unpremeditated affair, a mere
ebulition of quick temper on the part of an
irritable, excitable man, who undoubtedly
deeply repented of his own weakness as soon
as he had time and opportunity for reflection.
Mr. Keitt, I am told, admits that be acted
foolishly,.and expresses much regret that he
should have allowed his passion to get the
better of his judgmen'.
The occurrence will probably call forth
unmeasured, abuse of the House of Repre
sentatives, as a disorderly, turbulent body, a
bear garden, a cock-pit, &c. And yet nothing
cap be more unjust. There is no assembly
in the world of the size.of the'(Jolted States
House of Represeoiatives which is mors or
derly,.or more courteous, or which is habitu
ally more observant of parliamentary pro
prieties. The disturbance this morning, of
which I sent you an account by telegraph,
arose in great part from natural and excusa
ble misapprehension. The primal cause was
the insolence of Mr. Keitt, who not only in
sulted Mr. Grow with blackguard language,
but offered him personal violence by seizing
him by the throat. Mr. Grow promptly
knocked him down by a scientific blow be
neath the ear, which sent him sprawling
prostrate upon the floor of the House. Mr.
Keitl’s excitable Southern friends, in the
midst of whom Mr. Grow happened to be
when ibis look place, rushed to the scene of
conflict, some to help him up, o'hers to assail
Mr., Grow, and others to restore order.—
Among these last was Mr. Davis of Missis
sippi, of whose motive for interfering in the
fight [ was not aware at the time I sent my
telegram. I have since learned that he
actively exerted himself to preserve peace.
Mr. Grow who aiood his ground.firmly, was
thus instantly surrounded by a ring of South:
ern members, all apparently and some really
attacking him. Conspicuous among them
were Messrs. Davis, Barksdale and Lamar.
Supposing that the whole group were attack
ing Mr. Grow, Mr. Poller of Wisconsin
dashed in among them, dealing heavy blows
on all sides’, and receiving some very severe
ones in bisWace and on various parts of his
person. Washburne of Illinois at the same
moment sprang over’chairs and desks to Mr,
Grow’s assistance, followed by his brother of
Wisconsin, by Tappan of N. H., and other
Republicans, The Southern members thus
furiously assailed of course defended them
selves, and some who entered the arena as
peacemakers' left it as combatants. The bat
tle was severe while it lasted, and revealed
a very unexpected readiness for fight .among
the Northern men.
The affair, however, does not seem to have
left any ill blond on either side, and it is not
probable that anything will result from it.
Mr. Davis, and the other Southern members
who were engaged in the fight, came over
and conversed with their opponents in a very
frank and courteous manner during the rest
of the night session ; ■ and certainly if the
Southern members are content with their
share of the transaction the Northern mem
bers have no reason to be ashamed of theirs.
As seen from the Reporter’s Gallery, it
presented a droll enough spectacle. There
wore some fifty middle-aged and elderly gen
tlemen pitching into each other like so rnnny
Tipperary savages—moat of them incapable,
from want of wind and muscle, of doing
each other any serious hurt, Mr. Barksdale
of Mississippi, who was among the most
active, encountered at one moment, Mr. Pot
ter of Wisconsin, who was decidedly the
champion of the wring.* Potter grasped
Barksdale by the hair, with the evident in
tention of putting that gentleman’s beatkimo
chancery. To his unmierablc surprise and
disappointment, the hair came off. Tho Mis
sissippian was scalped. He jumped about
bald-headed, making frantic efforts to-recover
his wig, which Potter had disdainfully tossed
among the crowd, some one of whom kindly
restored it to its proper owner.
About the best bilj that has been submitted
to either House of the present Congress with
any chance of being passed is that of Mr.
Grow of Pa., by which it is proposed to for
bid the proclamation by the President of Pub
lic’Lands for sale until fifteen years shall
have expired from the date of iheir survey.
The object of this bill, as;we judge fmm its
title, is to allow the pioneer actual settlers
fifteen years pre-emption of their respective
quarter-sections before they can be compelled
to pay for them or surrender them to any
speculator who may see fit to buy over their
heads, VVe do not consider this so good as
an absolute Free Land bill, but it is probably
easier to pass ; and we entreat all earnest ad
vocates of land for the landless to unite in
support of this, if a more radical mensuie
cannot be carried at this Session.— N. Y.
Tribune.
Breach of Promise Case— slo,ooo
Damages. —We give in our law report the
details of a breach of promise case, which
was tried ia the Common Pleas yesterday.
Mary Jane Cribbet sued William Mathers for
not fulfilling his promise to marry her, and
in aggravation of damages, it was in evidence
that defendant was the father of an iJJegiti
mate child, born on the 23d day of March,
1857. The complainant was 19 years of
age and quite good looking'. She testified
positively to the' marriage contract, and to
the various subsequent acts of defendant,
which resulted in the present suit. The
damages were originally laid at $lO,OOO,
and the jury, after an absence of half an
hour, returned a verdict for the full amount
asked for bv the complainant.—Cin. Gtts
Jan. 26.
Communications
Mb. Cobb; Your issue of the 28th inst.
contains’ an advertisement signed by C. E.
Todd & Co., and you give it an editorial puff
in which you say, “Those wishing lo procure,
(a) (you do not say purchase) a fine gold pen
cil; cannot do better'than send their orders,”
&c. And again you say, “their; pencils ate
such as are usually retailed for five dollars.”
Presuming from your language as above, that
you are “an expert” in the gold pencil and
gifr business, I Wish to ask a question or two,'
viz: i
' As Todd & Co. pay-their agenis one dol
lar, and a “gift’’ to each purchaser worth
from two dollars to five their “mas
sive gold pencils” cannot cost them more than
from one to ono and a half dollars each. —
Are such “usually retailed at five dollars 1 (h)
Do you know that such a firm exists as
“C. E. Todd & Co.” manufacturers of gold
pencils, and that it is not a Peter Funk con
cern ? (c) j
Do you bold that such “gift” operations as
the above, with the “Cosmopolitan” &c. are
not gambling ? (d) and is not tbe,“procurihg”
of pencils, books, pictures &b., in those
schemes a gameol chancel (t) |
Will you explain the modusjoperandi by
which my neighbor can give me $5OO for $5,
and make a l ,profit by the operation? If he
gets value received for his ss, [and a profit I
beside, out of whose pocket does it come? ( f )
Are not the prizes distributed |by lot, and if
so is it not a lottery and a game of chance?
(S’) Do they not appeal to the same feelings
and foster the same passions in the human
heart as does a game of billiards, euebre, or
crack 100 ? (A)
rls there a moral distinction to be made be
tween my going into a gambling bell, throw
ing the dice myself, and thus appropriating
niy neighbor's money and my employing an
agent three hundred miles awfay to throw
'hem, and so to “procure” and forward to me
my neighbor’s property ? (t) i
Is the money over which the professed
gamster gloats on his return from the card
table less fairly earned, than the! “gift” jewel
ry over which the professed Christian, bows
himself when he prays ? (J) i
Is the nngilt worse than thej gilded gam
bling? and which is the most likely to decoy
and entiap the youthful and the (fc)
I understand you to be slraiily opposed to
gambling ; will you answer ihje above inter
rogatories and oblige ? (/)
Yours
Reply,—
(a) This is a mere verbal
our friend wished to procure a f
he would go to the grocery lor
ii.° That is what we meanly
(6) The pencil shown to-ms is of such as
are usually relailed at $5. .What its intrin
sic value may be we know not. A thing is
worth what it will sell for, by the laws of
trade. A gold watch which retails for $5O,
intrinsically, may be worth $25, or less—
yet be a good watch for I lie-price.
(c) All we know of the genuineness of
Messrs C. E. Todd & Co., is, (hat they pay
full prices for advertising in advance. Print
ers consider this a sufficient evidence of the
genuineness of their patrons ; qs humbugs in
variably cheat the printer; honest men do
not. Besides, it is a rule with publishers to
hold the payment of such matters a guaranty
of good faith. j.
(d) We do. In gambling Inhere is no val
ue received —all is risk. The Cosmopolitan
Art Association as well as Todd & Co., pro
pose to give lull value in goods for money re
ceived. Whether they do so, jor not, must be
decided by the purchaser. VVe shall not de
cide for others. The propositions of both
accord with legitimate business transactions.
It is not for us to say whether either can af
ford to present each purchaser with a gift of
any value whatever. That is their business.
They are very great fools to do so if they are
thereby losers. Every man Who buys land
at Treasurer’s sale gambles in precisely the
like manner. j
(ej No, sir. Should you buy asl book
of Mr. Young for $l, or a sai picture for $5,
or Harper for $3, and he should give you a
pound of sugar with each, i) would not be
gambling. He deals in booths, pictures and
magazines and wishes to extend his business.
He offeis the gifts (which he does not deal
in) as inducements.
(f) If a man has 10,000 ihals, worth at
wholesale $2 each—at retail $4 each, he
could afford to give his customers $20,000 in
gifts and still realize wholesale profits—es
pecially if he wishes to clear put his stock
and continue manufacturing, J '
( g ) If a man should makei you a present
of one package out of 10,000, would there
be anv lottery about that 1 1
(A) Did we thioh so, we should not permit
their advertisements in our columns,
(i) This is but repetition.! We have an
swered the question twice already.
(j) We think so. This question is em
braced essentially in your lasi,
(k) VVe know no difference, indeed, be
tween gambling for money,|for oysters, or
fur anything else. Gambling is gambling,
(l) You understand us correctly. We ore
opposed to gambling, in stocks, lands, money,
flour, pork, and all things else. We advise
no man to buy that which he does not want,
simply because it is cheap. | VVe advise no
man to purchase either books or papers un
less he wants those articles. I We vouch for
no man’s integrity unless we know him.—
We thank our correspondent lor his courtesy ;
and freely offer him these columns to show
up any and all schemes which he may deem
w f“ng». [Ed. Agitator.
Southern Christian Fellowship. —A
man, whose name is West, walking in con
siderable haste through the streets of a town
in Indiana, a few weeks since, was followed
by another named Carmicah Mr. West is a
member of a .Methodist church, and Carmical
a member of a Presbyterian church. The
Presbyterian was anxious fid commune with
his Methodist brother; but the Methodist did
not hold to that kind of communion, and in*
his speed. Offended with this un
brotherly conduct, the indignant Presbyterian
fired upon him with a revolver, . The parties
were both from the Southern States. I The
Methodist teas a slate; the Presbyterian
his owner.—War Yorl; Tribune.
Gov. Wise on Free tabor Emi~.
(ton. ia "
Gov. Wise, Ihe redoubtable de jure a d,
facto ruler of the Old Dominion, has
another letter in regard to northern emigre
lion into Virginia, from which we make it« :
following extracts:
Yours of the 15ih instant was receive!
this morning, and I reply to it immediately
that “Mr. Eli Thayer’s emigration scheme,’’
in Western Virginia or any where else, has
never been submitted in any manner what
ever for my approval or disapproval.
I am “cognizant” of no matter appertain.')
ing to the origin, objects and probable results !
of this “enterprise” which have not been gjy,
en to the public. Officially, I have nothing
to do with the subject, except it be made ap.
parent by proper and sufficient proof, that
combinations or associations are termed, in
or out of the State, to cause invasion or in.
cite insurrection, or to prevent the execution
of our laws. Any association or combine,
lion, formed under any pretext, coming into
our limits with the avowed or manifest pur.
pose and act of impairihg'tba value of prop,
erty in slaves* would be against the laws of
the Commonwealth, which I will “take care
shall be faithfully executed.” But iu saying
this, I disclaim all meaning to interfere with
peaceful and lawful iromigfqdfe into the lira,
its of our Commonwealth, State needs
settlers to develop her vast- resources ; and I
would, from policy and without fear, encour.
»ge immigrants to come to our waste lavfc.
and improve them, to increase our population,
our wealth, our revenue and our* Stale and
Federal strength. And so conscious am lof
the power of Virginia to prptcot and defend
her institutions, and the persbns.and properly
of her citizens, in her own limits at least,
that I would neither feel, nor betray any fear,
if felt which would repel lawful immigration
and settlement. That Stale must be weak
indeed, which would from mere apprehension,
arrest the progress of her development, lest
she could not preserve her peace, protect her
persons and properly, and enforce her laws,
I have no fear, therefore, that any emigration
scheme intended to affect Virginia, can en.
danger either her honor, her rights, her pos.
sessions or her peace in her own limits.
No matter what may be the newspaper
rumors, however calculated to alarm the tint,
id or excite the excitable, or to add fuel to
the fires of agjtation, my counsel is calmly
to invite sellleri to our lands, to offer them
every facility) land favor of good neighbor
hood ; logive them all the protection of peace;
to encourage them in increasing plenty by
multiplying the hands and vocations of labor
—and to allow them to abide with us under
our laws so long as they will obey those laws,
and respect all rights under them. Indeed, I
know of no laws. Stale or Federal, which do
not require this rule to be observed toward
all emigrants of good behavior. The right
to remove from one Slate to anmher is a
right guaranteed to every citizen of the Foi
led Stales.
&c., 1.
jcriticism. If
tound of sugar
it, and pay for
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.-
House, Jap. 26.— Mr. Miller, ol Crawford,
presented the following preamble sad resolu
tions ;
Whereas, it is the imperative and indis
pensable duty of the government of theUnitei
Stales to secure to any inhabitant of Kansas
the free and independent expression of ills
opinion by bis vote:—to leave the peopled
the territory free from all foreign interferes
to decide their own destiny for themselves
and to protect them in the: exercise of their
light of voting for or against the constitmioa
without the fair expression of the popular
being interrupted by fraud or force; and
whereas the organic act under which the
territory of Kansas is now governed, ex
pressly declares its true intent and meaning
to be to leave the people thereof perfectly
free to form and regulate their domestic in
stitutions in their own way, subject only M
the constitution lo’f the United States : thers
fore.
Resolved, By the Senate and Housed!
Representatives, of Pennsylvania, in General
Assembly, met, that our Senators be, and me
hereby instructed, and our representatives
requested, to resist the admission of Kansas
into the Union as a S ate until a constitution
is presented that has been fully and fairly
submitted to the people and received the un
qualified sanction of a majority of the i o ’ ul
citizens of the territory.
You cannot copceive what a sensation lb*
presentation of this simple preamble au“
resolution created. At least a dozen mem
bers sprang to their feet to make side motion 5
to prevent irs discussion. One warned to po s! *
pone for the present, another ro postpon®
indefinitely and a third to refer it to a COW'
mitlee. They would not let it go In a second
reading—the point at which, under the rules,
the right to discuss accrues. They referred
it upon the first rending 10 a special commit
tee of three. AH attempts to enlarge ths
number of the committee were useless.
Willision, of Tioga, to,still farther test
their sincerity, offered a resolution which in
structed our Senators to vote against the ad
mission of Kansas upon the basis of the L®-
campion constitution. This they refused if
a strict party vote and refused to let it g ol3
second readina.
The Stebbins Platform.— Everybody
says the Providence Journal, remembers it*
platform on which the great Stebbins plantel
himself when he run for President of it*
United States, When asked how| be stood
on the Maine law, he promptly answered lb* l
he was “in favor of the law, but against®
execution.” This admirable political position
has been assumed in New Hampshire >•“
other States by the Democratic parlv, in fes,
olutions expressing unabated confidence ‘ a
Mr. Buchanan, and pronouncing against ill*
measure on which ho has staked his Ad® 18 '
istration.
> Disappointment and Suicide.—A M't*
Mary E. Emery, a school teacher of spoil®*
character committed suicide by taking siryW'
nine,, at Okaloosa, lowa, on the 10th inst. - "
She was engaged to a wretch named D* s '
comb, and the wedding day was appoio' 6 "’
but the night before the ceremony was j
performed he absconded with a wonts®. °
bad repute. Tha suicide left a letter
full instructions as to her burial and shn*®*
Chat her determination was cool and den
ate. The man Dascomb bad a family l |f ' i
in Elmira. N, Y.— Rochester Deir>" erS •
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