FROM KANSAS. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune , Lawrence, K. T., Feb. 15.1855. More Discoveries, The Investigating Committee having pro '■n red inform alien that required the presence of the Judges of Eleciion at Shawnee nnd Oxford Precincts, in Johnson County, their Marshal, the fighting preacher, Mr. Stewan, wns sent with warrants for their arrest. The Prairie City Rifles acted as a posse, and on Monday morning last started for the scene of iicdon. Tlrey came back on Saturday night with three prisoners—a Judge and Clerk of i he Shawnee Precinct, and a candidate named Cox. The Judge’s name is McFarlane, and the Clerk’s, Godfrey. The Committee held a session the same night, and the result of the proceedings was ol an interesting character; A Free-Stale man, Mr. Brown of Shawnee, staled that ho was at the polls all day on the 4'h of Janu ary, and that a man named Bailey was the last who voted, at nine in the evening. His name ou the poll list is numbered one hundred and sixty. The Judge of Eleciion swore that Bailey was the last man that voted, nnd that he closed the polls at that lime. The whole number of votes on the Shawnee re turns, as found by the Committee in the candle-box, was otter nine hundred ! God frey, the Clerk, who is a young man, some what oblivious of the consequences of tam pering with eleciion returns in Kansas, and of a frank and open countenance, was called in and swore that -he look the returns to Westport, and that in a room belonging to Col. Boone, in which were that gentleman, Mr. Danfonh, a member of the felon Con vention, a son o( the Rev. Tom Johnson, and one or two others, and that he sat down and wrote, while young Johnson, Daaforlh, nnd Boone read from some papers—probably an old poll-book—a number of names, until the list reached the number slated above. The Judges’ and Cletk’a certificate was written on n blank sheet of paper, and then appended to the forged returns. The examination of Godfrey was rather interesting. He answered all quesuons-pro pontided to him with the utmost frankness and willingness. On being asked what was his business, he replied, “a gambler.” He Mated that he came to Kansas to make it a Slave State, and that the reason why he told these things, was that he was convinced that it must be Free, and he was going to leave. The men implicated by his evidence are among the principal members of thte Pro- Slavery party. Danforth is a personal friend of Secretary Cobb; was sent here to work for his and the extreme Propagandists’ in terest, and is the Kansas correspondent of the Charleston (S. C.) Mercury. He is a man of ability and influence. Boone is well known in Kansas history. Previous evidence possessed by the committee implicate Gen. Calhoun. The report of the Committee will be published in a few days, and will be of an extremely interesting character. From Waslilu^ton, Filial Dispatch to The Jf. Y. Tribune. Washington, Feb. 28,1858. —The Union raves al the defeat of the Army bill, ll in sultingly denounces the black Republicans and their neophytes, who have been recently initia’ed into their mysteries, viz.: Messrs. Douglas, Stuart, and Broderick, whom it elegantly •declares, “pig together in the same sty.” It snubs the Democrats, Messrs, Pugh, Tonmb*, Benjamin, &c., who aided them, ll also rejoices at the failure of the volunteer amendment, which, it says, sprung from the loving embraces of Douglas, Hale & Com pany. The article is significant, because by a re rent arrangement the editorial conduct of the Union has been taken from Major Hams and placed in the hands of Mr. Appleton, Assisi- : «nt Secretary of Stale and factotum of the President. The Administration docs not want volunteers, but regulars, with the offi cial patronage which their organization would furnish. U calculated on getting votes for Lccomp'on by means of the commissions of new regiments. The anii-Lecomptoniles are full of hope. They claim a gain of two members, and possibly of three more. On the other hand, the Administration claims three accessions. A Minister and his Wife Arrested for Highway Robbery. —The Rev. Sam uel Smith, master of the Collegiate School at Clifton, and formerly second master of Bishops’ College, England, and his wife, have been arrested for highway rohberv and at tempted murder. The wife of Mr. Smith was a Miss Mills, and about nine years ago, before her marriage, numbered among suitors a Mr, Leach, contractor. The m ilch was broken off and Mr. Leach married another lady, who died some lima since. Mrs. Smith, having ascertained that Mr. Leach had become a widower, addressed a letter to him, in which she staled that her husband had recently died, and invited him (a renew the intimacy which formerly ex isted between them. After several letters had passed, Mr,-Leach ngteed to meet ihe lady al Bristol on Sunday, 31st of January. They met al the Brislol siation and look tickets for Yale, where they alighted, and Mrs. Smith proposed to cross the common to her residence, instead of taking the high road. The station-master advised ogninsl-lhis. on account of the dark ness of the night; but finding her strenuous, took a lantern and accompanied them to the point from which they would have lo cross the common. In a short lime the lady pro fessed to have lost the way, and in a few minutes after Mr. Leach was assaulted by a man. B eing a sirong man, he, however, got the belter of his assailant, and his cries for aid were heard by Iwo of the railroad men, who came up. The assailant was (bund lobe the Rev. Mr. j Smith, the husband of the lady, hut he tnan-| aged to make his escape. The detective i force proceeded to the house of Mr, Smith and arrested the parties. On their track were found a widow’s cap and a six barrel revolver pistol, loaded and capped, near the spot where the struggle took place. In searching the house, a parcel containing a shirt, collar, satin scarf and pocket-hand, kerchief, all marked with Mr. Lcach’a name, wete found. THE AGITATOR. If. Cobb, Editor & Publisher, WELLSBOROUGH, FA. Thursday morning;, march 4,1855, %• All Business,and otherCommunicaliontmust be addressed to the Editor to Insure attention. IVe cannot publish anonymous communications. Oar talk about Congress fails this week, for three reasons: Ist, we are not in humor; 2d want of spare; finally,that body has done nothing worth talking about since last issue. March made his advent with lion-like majesty. Monday and Tuesday were blustering days.- The «letghing is slain—bled to death by the sunbeams. The hills are barely frost white with March squalls. Glorious winter I Everybody says so. Beat Tms i —We learn (hat Col H. S. Johnston of Tioga Village, delivered one hundred and forty • three saw logs at the Bayer Mills, on the morning of the 27th uit., before daylight. Some of these logs measured 30 inches at the top end and were brought from the mountain west of the village—a distance of three miles. This is doing business up 6roton. Frfe-Masoss.— A Lodge of the Ancient Order of Free and Accepted Masons was organized in this borough on Wednesday last The following named persons were installed, officers: Elenezf.r Pratt, W. M. W, A. Roe, S. W. Wm. Roberts, J. W. Jas. Kimball, T. Trios. B. Rrydsn.S. Robert Rov,S. D. Angus Griffin, J. D. Hubburt Carpenter, T. The Lodge Room is in the 3d story of Roy’s new building nnd is neatly and,lustily filled up. A sad accident occurred in Richmond township on the 11 tli ult., the particulars of which have but ju*l now imperfectly reached us. Mr. Augustus Cass, the victim, discovering smoke issuing from an upper room of his dwelling, entered the room for the purpose of extinguishing the fire. After grop. ing several minutes in the dense smoke which filled lire room he was forced to retire in a half suffocated condition, and survived but a short time thereafter. He was a member of the I. O. O. F, and was buried with the usual ceremonies. Wc learn that Mrs. M. C. Ruceman, of this bor ough, has lately been tendered a Professorship in the Huntsville (Ala.) Female Seminary, as also that she has accepted the same and will soon depart for her new field of labor. The Faculty of that Institution are fortunate in securing the services ol a lady, by nature and education, so well fitted to undertake and to creditably discharge the duties of the ap pointment, and whose reputation as an instructor is so deservedly high in this community. The Select School at present in her charge, is, we presume, to be abandoned, much to the regret of its patrons, whose good wishes she will nevertheless bear with her to her new home. Wc have received, with a request to publish, a cir cular from a Committee in behalf of the New York Young Men’s Christian Association, to the effect that u A Business Men’s Union Prayer Meeting” is held daily, from 12 to I o’clock, in the Methodist Church, 44 John st., New York. It fur ther states that a!) persons having children or dear friends living in that modern Sodom whom they de sire to have interested in these matters, by sending the address, business or residence of such to “ E,” Box 3.841, New York, they will receive a personal invitation to attend these meetings and similar ones in different parts of the city. Those visiting the city are invited to attend. Wc thus stale the mate, rial portions of the circular because wc have not space for it entire. - The difference. The search for the man u who struck Billy Pat terson” has not been more thorough than that for the difference between “ Iwecdlednm and twecdle dcc;” and both investigations arc still In progress. A friend writes us of the matter in dispute between Douglas and Buchanan—affirming that the casus belli in that case seems not more important, in his judgment, than that in the case of Tweedledum vs. Twecdlcdce. As we do not agree with him, and as he winds up with the question—“ How would you define the difference?”—we feel constrained to re ply, jocularly first, soberly at last. We regard the species of Democracy of which Mr. Buchanan is the acknowledged head and cx. pounder, as a kind of political small pox of the con fluent type. On the other hand, Douglas Dcmocra- ; cy would seem to be a kind of political varioloid — . not so dangerous, and less difficult of treatment, i To illustrate further, Buchananiam is the milk of the pro slavery cocoanut; Douglasism is that milk highly diluted with water. As we should prefer the varioloid before the small-pox, so do we prefer Dou glasism before Buchananism ; and so with the acrid milk of the pro-slavery cocoanut—wc should prefer it in a. homoeopathic state of dilution. Thus we prefer Douglas democracy to Buchinan democracy. But the difference between these two factions of the modern democratic party is a difference in gree , nut in principle. The difference of opinion be tween Douglas and Buchanan, though distinct, is yet far from radical. In truth, Douglas has taken , his position just where he stood in 1854—upon the . Nebraska bill. He has neither advanced nor reced- J ed an inch, but Blinds ready to risk every foot ol | the common domain upon the popular sovereignty principle, even as he did then. He is ready to ad mit two, or twenty slave Slates, whenever they may ■ ask admission. Mr. Buchanan is willing to do the same and more. He is willing to admit any State with Slavery even though a majority of the people be I opposed to Slava y. Mr. Douglas insists that the | majority should rule. Buchanan insistalbat the mi I nortfy should rule when they desire to establish the : institution of Slavery anywhere. Both hold that Slavery exists in the territories by virtue of the con stitution of the United States; therefore both hold that Slavery exists everywhere it is not forbidden by positive enactment. Arc elllicr of these positions democratic? We eay that neither is democratic. Both proceed upon the assumption that men have a right to do wrong ; that which is crime in one man or three men, be comes laudable when practiced by twenty thousand men. Larceny is a crime, morally as well as by en. actment. It would be a moral crime though the Legislatures of all the States should declare it legal, and we contend that no body of men, whether in a majority or minority, possess the shadow of a right to do wrong, or to legislate for the purpose of legal, izing anything declared criminal by the moral law. Slavery is a moral crime. If it exist under the Con. j stituUunil is wrong and'shouldbe ripped np. Slavery i being a moral crime, then, no amount of human leg. > islation can make it right; and therefore the only true and tenable ground fur any parly to take upon this question is *• No more Slave States Less than this would be folly, would be treason to principle, The position of Mr. Douglas is simply consistent with that which he occupied in 1854, and that held i by the entire so-called democratic party from that • lime down to the framing aud adoption of the Le. »• complon Constitution. That instrument was seen » 1° he an imposition, ami Mr. Douglas is entitled to THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. the credit of repudiating it from the first. Mr. F. Fierce might here done the same, bad he been Pres ident, for with all bis truckling he Is totally eclipsed by Mr. J. Buchanan. The same objection applies to Douglas democracy to-day that applied to Pierce democracy in '53-4-5 and '6. They are precisely alike. The one made no objection to the absorption of the entire territorial domain by the Oligarchy; nor does the other, provided,only, that the Oligarchs acquire and bold under the will of the majority. But many eay that Douglas and Forney most at last take refuge with the Republicans. They may do so, but jt by no means follows that they must do so, from their present position. We have shown that they have not materially changed their position since 1853-4; it is, therefore, just as far from them to the Republican parly now as it was then. The same mountain of principle towers above them. How can any such u must" be predicated of their opposition to the Administration 7 We do not be lieve that either meditates a union with Republican ism. It is not for us to impeach the motives of ei ther. They may bo acting disinterestedly and in good faith. They may believe that the principle of the Nebraska infamy is right and that the majority have the right to legalize wrong without any refer ence to the moral question, but we hold to the right of doubting that. They were cognizant of the un paralleled outrages which have blotted its record for three years, and yet were dumb except in contradic tion, What is the just inference 7 In all this we intend no especial onslaught upon democracy of the Douglas-Forncy type, bol only to show that their democracy is identical with that which the entire party professed four years ago. To that type of democracy we stood opposed then and stand opposed now, shall ever stand opposed while our heart beats true la humanity. We hold that no community, whether in a Stale or Territory, has a right to so choose their institutions as that the con stant contravention of the moral law shall be inevit able. We deny that a people have any right to es tablish Slavery, money stealing, or manstealing and to enact laws Jbr the protection and perpetuation of such outrageous practices. Therefore do we de nounce the doctrine of Popular Sovereignly as pro mulgated by the Douglas-Forney democracy, and as exemplified in the annals of Kansas and Utah. If that doctrine be true then the course of the Admin istration toward Utah is shamefully tyrannical. Envy—Malice—Spite.—A disgraceful exhibition of the foregoing triplets is just now being made through the Mulatto-democracy of Bradford andSus quehana counties. The distinguished object of their wrath is David Wilmot. Hia offence, that he is ao honest man, an upright and impartial Judge. It is hardly necessary to state that either and ail these estimable virtues are, and doubtless will ever be un known, practically, to the Mulatto leaders of those counties. We had supposed that since valorous Eb enezer, whilom of Montrose, but now of the Luzerne gut—beg pardon—Bar, hud meekly swallowed his dirty and slanderous paragraphs touching Judge Wilmot, —we had concluded, we say, that thence forward Judge Wilmot would be quit of the gang' oi political curs that have snapped at his heels for half-a-dozen years. We were mistaken. Recent developments prove that a county may harbor things in human shape ineffably meaner than G. B. Chase. When that individual left Montrose, for the good of Montrose, we concluded that ho was kicked out. That was a mistake. The truth is, Chase had this ambition—to stand first of his class. He found himself second to none fur meanness in Susqoehana and had he kept out of Towanda might still have blest Montrose with his presence; but in an evil hour he came in conjunction with his fellow mulat tos of Towanda and suffered a total eclipse. Eben ezer never recovered his equanimity thereafter, and the last we heard of him he was reading the Mar. riage service at the wedding of Mulatto Democracy and Fillmore Koownothingism, down in S'cranton f Luzerne county. Requiescat % et cet . It appears that the worthies who made Chase fly his orbit and take up his abode in the space above noted, have set themselves about petitioning the leg islalure to break up Judge Wiimol’s Judicial dis trict and thus accomplish his removal beyond the suffrages of his constituents. Whether the Legis lature will lend itself to the aid of that contempti ble clique of men,‘or not, wc cannot say; that it is capable of doing so there is no question; but that Gov. Packer will permit it to be dune we do not for a moment believe. But suppose that they succeed; do these little* scaled aristocrats expect to root up the good seed al ready sown in that district? Do they expect to es cape the ban laid upon them and their like by the freemen of that district in *54-5-6-7 ? Do they hope to win forgetfulness of their past knavery in the success of this last and most contemptible of spile actions? Lillie ones sometimes hatch out lit tle meannesses like this at school. Men never wage such warfare. Show as a man and we will show to you a being who would part with his rtghl arm be fore he would be caught in such dirty business. Show us a mon and we will show you a being infin itely higher in the scale of being than the best am ong the creatures party to this spite action against David Wilmot. Brethren of the Argus and im porter, do those little plotters walk upright? We ask in all candor, have they arrived to the dignity of long-tailed coats and standing collars ? Judge Wtlmot might have avoided these malicious attacks had he elected to root in the mire of subser vlency with their authors. But ho was incapable of purchasing peace at so ruinous a price, fie made a nobler choice and became the object of the most bit ter and unrelenting persecution. He is experienc ing what every man must experience who builds his li ie upon honest convictions of duly. Fur such, says Mackay— “—the hemlock shall distil, Fpr him the axe be bared, For him the gallows shall be reared. For him the stake prepared; Him shall the scorn and wrath of some Pursue with deadly atm. And envy, malice, spite and lies Shall desecrate his name; But truth shall triumph at the last, For ’round and ’round we run, And ever the right comes uppermost And ever is justice done /” Religious Mania. —The Kingston News (Canada) states that revival meetings have lately been held in the country back of that place, attended with unfavorable results.— The unsophisticated yeomen of both sexes attended these meetings under the influence of that kind of excitement usually taken for spiritual regeneration or “change of henrt.” The furor of the participants in the religious exercises was of so extravagant a character at limes that some of them actually shrieked, others stamped, and one is reported to have fairly, jumped over a stove in the paroxysm of holy feeling. Among the enthusiasts was a farmer, past the middle age, who was' pre viously remarkable for his quiet demeanor, but who, by frequenting the meetings, became at last a confirmed maniac. Last week the poor map was submitted to an examination by physicians of Kingston; who pronounced his case hopeless. In consequence of the re sult the meetings were discontinued. — Rock• ester Union. > Melancholy Accident. By a Gazette-Extra, from Tamaqua, says 'he Piltston Gazette, we learn ihe particulars of a melancholy accident, which occurred there last week, through which two esteemed citizens, Mr, j, Edward Barnes, the general Superintendent of the Liule Schuyl. Nav. R. R. & Coal Co., and Mr. Duncan VVier, their Mining Agent, lost their lives. The account of this accident is thus given The fire originated by sortie of them kin dling a fire against the coal, whilst so en gaged, and leaving it to progress at its leisure. Efforts had been made to exiinguish the fire, and it was thought it had been accomplished, but the return of winter and strong winds, carried a draft through the large vacant pla ces where the coal had been mined and re moved thus partially igniting the fire again. The Company desiring to cut off the fire, and thus prevent its further spread, it became necessary for their Mining Agent to make some explorations in order to determine the proper point to commence operations. Mr. Barnes being willing, at all limes, to share the dangers of his subordinates, determined to accompany Mr. Wier in his examination. Having donned their mining dress, they. left the office in Tamaqua, on Monday, Feb ruary Isth, 1858, about 3 o’clock, p, m. They proceeded to Slope No. 4, descended the ladder about one hundred and sixty yards, and between. 4 and 5 o’clock, entered the fatal gangway, traveling westwardly. After passing along about 400 yards, they encoun tered, what the miners term, a braliis. . This is an air'ight partition, erected in this case, for the purpose of confining the gas injected info the mines, when the eftbrt was made to exiinguish the fire. They passed through the brain's—passed along about 200 yards further, and found a second one. They gassed through the second braliis, but how far they travelled will never be known, but probably .no great distance. About 15 yards East of the second braliis, a stream of gas from the vast fire above, descends through the biatti’, and moves westwardly, in the same direction they were going. Passing with Ihe current, and it being likely not very strong at the time, they could not notice their extreme danger. But soon observing the fatal symptoms, they turned to retrace their steps and escape. They were, no doubt, soon overpowered—lhe force of the current and their own exertions in the opposite direction, every moment filling their lungs with the fatal gas —they dropped, in the full glow o( life, into the arms of almost instant death. Mr. Barnes lay on his face, about 20 yards within the braliis. Mr. Wier had made an effort to escape—probably ran against the braltis, and .fell also on his lace, so near the braftis that one could reach through and grasp his feel. Mr. Barnes was 39 to 40 years of age, and leaves a widow and ihree fine little boys to mourn his loss. He began life young, in ihe office of the Lehigh Company at Munch Chunk serving them faithfully many years. He was engaged on the Delaware and Hud son Canal, under a contract for the transpor tation of coal. After a short residence in New York City, and we think in Amboy, he came in 1854, to Tamaqua, to assume the responsible position which he so worthily filled lo ihe hour of his dealh. He was ever ready to engage in anything for the benefit bf bis fellow-men ; and had he been spared, would have met his fellow-citizens, on ihe very evening of his disease, lo dtscu«s a plan pf his own suggestion, for the relief of the poor of our Borough. His loss will be deeply felt by many an aching heart. Mr. Wier was about ten years the senior "f Mr. Barnes, leaves a widow and six chil dren, one of whom is matried. He was a native of Scotland, but has been in this country many years. The whole of his useful life was spent in mining operations, and he was. esteemed a prudent competent man. Ho had held the position he filled at the lime of his dealh about five years. Freaks of a Plank. —We recently pub lished a ‘‘queer freak of a horse,” (and it is going round pretty extensively,) which there ts reason to believe should have been called “a queer freak of a night-mare.” But the following, from a sketch of a storm at Detroit, in (he Free Press, appears to have no hoax about it—in the eloquent words of the N. Y. Herald, “there’s no nigger in that wood pile “A two-inch plank, about twenty feet in length, was detached from the lop of a pile of lumber, carried across ihe street, and driven, butt-end first, through the panel of i the front door of a small house. Not satis fied wiih this, the eccentric plank continued its course, and penetrated a thin partition about five feel further on, entering a bed room. The occupants, a phlegmatic old Dutchman and his wife, were awakened by the crash and flying of splinters, and were highly astonished to see the ‘stub shot’ of the plank protruding through the wall nearly over their heads. Having accomplished this feat, the peregrinating lumber rested, as though taking a survey of the room and its occupants, while the la'l-end, sticking out of the door about fourteen feel, gently wagged to and fro in the wind, seemingly highly tickled at the consternation it had caused.” St. Louis, Saturday, Feb. 20, 1858, Burning op the Pacific Hotel—Twen ty-nine Persons Killed. —The Pacific Hotel in this place was burned at three o'clock this morning. About 100 persons were in the house when the fire broke out, 40 or 50 of them are missing. The fi re caught in the drug store under the hotel, and spread so rapidly that the stair ways were enveloped in flames before the in mates could be roused. All egress was thus cut off except through the windows. Many leaped from the third story and were horribly mangled or instantly killed, and many more were unable even to reach the windows, and were burned to death in their own rooms,— Several more bodies are supposed to be in the ruins, and hundreds of excited men are energetically engaged in removing the rub bish and searching for them. Tho wounded were promptly taken charge of by their friends or sent to the hospital, where there injuries were immediately attend ed to. Several of the wounded cannot pos sibly recover. The loss of property is esti mated at $50,000. from the Bradford Reporter. A Threatened Outrage Upon the Rights of tiie People ol this Ju dicial District. { It will astonish and alarm the people of this Judicial District to learn that a plan is on foot to bloc out the 13ih Judicial District, com posed of the counties of Bradford and Susque hanna, by Legislative action, so as to prevent 'the people from choosing this fall, who they will have as President Judge. The nefarious plan, as far os it has been developed is, to an nex Susquehanna loan adjoiningdistrict,and to attach Bradford to the sistricl South of us, presided over by Judge This scheme, if successfully consummated, would prevent an election for President Judge, in October. To eflect its accomplishment men are now secretly, at work, promulgating the most shameful misrepresentations and propa gating the most infamous falsehoods. This contemplated outrage updn the rights of the people of this Judicial nistrjct, we need hardly inform our readers, is planned to pre vent the election of Judge Wilnpot in October next. It is a blow aimed at him* personally, which it is expected to accomplish by depriv ing the people of their Constitutional rights, preventing them from saying wl|o they will have to pass in judgment upon jtheir most sa cred rights of property, of liberty! and be, of life. It is quile as unnecessary lor us to say, that ilie movement originates, and its consummation is urged on, the sama un principled men who have Tor years pursued Judge Wilmot with ihe most blood-thirsty fe rocity ; following his every step with unscru pulous falsehood and misreptesenfations, deal ing in open lies, or covert inuehdoes, as they thought best calculated to effect, jtheir despic able purposes, I i The election of a Democraljc Governor and Legislature, has enkindled anew the mal ice and hatred of these men, andigiven anoth er direction to their efforts. They now seek to inspire the Executive and! Legislative branches of the Government with the malig nant passions of their own hdarts. They hope to enlist in a miserable personal watfare a whole party —to make a partisan question of their private griefs, and trample upon the sacred rights of the people to gratify theitf spirit of personal hatred and revenge. It is not however the personal bearing of this threatened outrage which should claim the attention and excite the indignation of our people, any further than investigation into its conception shows that it has its origin in mean and malignant petty, personal hatred. It is not whether Judge Wilmot, or some other. Judge shall preside over the Courts of the District, which demands alteotibn. The so lution of that question, we ta|m it, whatever might be the result, if obtained in a proper manner, would leave no permanent feelings of dissatisfaction, but would be Cheerfully ac quiesced in by the people. But it is the fact that an attempt is being made jo deprive the people of their Constitutional! rights—to pre vent them from electing their jjudge—a right enjoyed by the people of otljetl parts of the Commonwealth—which shoujdjalarm every citizen residing in the boundjs of the threat ened District. More than this, it should awaken the interest of citizens |of other jurii cial districts, whose rights would be in equal danger should this gross outrage be perpetra ted, whenever the gratification of personal revenge or parlizan feeling jntght stimulate reckless and unprincipled men tip imitate such a dangerous precedent. | [ Fearful. —On Tuesday j afternoon last, three little boys, between eight add nine years of age, ran away from school, aud “caught a ride” to Horseheads. Thejvjthere begged something lo eat, and returned! to Elrhira on foot during-lheevening, arriving about len o’- clock. It was a hitler cold riight, by some called the coldesi of the seasop,jbut, conscious of guilt, and it being late at night they prob ably feared to encounter the jdispleasure of their parents, and two of them camped out for the night in Mr. Viall’s lumber shed ! The third boy, ihe son ofia widow, weni home and gave information in his mother of the whereabouts of the others. They were found about eleven o’clock Hy the father of one of them and taken home! Had the third boy remained with the two.jtHe whole three would have been stiffened corpses long ere morning. All of these boys (have comfort able and pleasant homes. Stirely the way of the transgressor is hard, andj we hope these boys have not only learned this Iruih thor oughly themselves by this adventure, but that other boys on learning their I fearful situation may be taught by it also.) j This incident demonstrates also that it is no kindness to al low truant boys in the street to “catch a ride.’’ The whip lash, well laid qnj would be the greater kindness, especially if given every time without favor to any.— -Elmira Adi. Burning op the Ashtabol'a Boor House —Six Persons Burned to Death—The In cendiary a Woman. —On Tuesday morning between 4 and 5 o'clock, a fire broke oul in the Ashtabula Poor House, about half a mile this side of Kingsville. A;' high wind pre vailed at the lime, and the entire building was speedily wrapped’ in flames:- Six paupers were burned lo death. Two are missing, and it is feared they also perished jin the flames. All efforts to save the building were of no avail, and it burned, with I hie most of its fur niture, quickly to the ground.) The fire was set by a woman named Morrison, an inmate of the poor house. Her litila boy slept near her room or cell. On the morning in ques tion she awoke him and told him to light a splinter at Ihe slove (she Haying threatened on several occasions lo burn the house) no fire or lights were allowed ih her cell,) and bring it to her, as she wanted to light her pipe. The boy obeyed" the mother's request, and she applied Ihe lighted splinjer to the straw in the cell. She escaped from the building unharmed by the fire, but Was shortly after captured and confined, it (is a matter of doubt whether the woman be insane or not. Mr. W. E. Preston of House, was at Kingsville yesterday,jand informs us that the excitement was intense. There had been considerable talk about lynching the woman. She is about forty years old and is a wid ow. Her husband used to! keep an eating house at Ashtabula Station, }The Poor House was a large and well furnished wooden build ing, and was valued at 84000. It wax in sured for SlOOO.. -C7cc?furi-i Plaimhahr. The Kansas Bill. Three Reports were submitted on Tinj„ day to the D. S, Senate by the Territorial Committee on the Kansas Question, y, Green, of Missouri, made the majority report' which reflects the views and intentions ofijj Administration. It asserts that the Lecomp. ton Convention fairly represented the semi, men! of the people of Kansas; that its action is binding bn them, and urges the adoption of the Constitution. It denounces the Frog State Men as an “Abolition mob,” charge them with “violence" and unwarramablj “threats.” It concludes with a Bftl reciting that the people of Kansas have framed for themselves a Constitution and State Govern, mem, Republican in form, and that the Le. compton Convention has, in their name and behalf, asked Congress tosdmit her. There, fore, it is declared, that Kansas be admitted into the Union with the Lecorapton Conslito-. lion, and gives Kansas, for the present, one representative in the House of Represents lives. Mr. Douglas brings fn a second report, pronoancing the Lecomption Convention a vi. olation of the principles of popular sovereign, ly and 'he Nebraska Bill, and an unjust and fraudulent attempt to force the majority to submit to the will of the minority. Messrs. Collamer and Wade bring in the third Report, which lakes the Republican ground, that the treatment Kansas has re ceived at the hands of the Government has consisted of fraud and oppression from its beginning, culminating in the final outrage of forcing a Pro-Slavery Constitution on hn people, in defiance of their expressed will.— It opposes the Bill. These Reports probably open the most im portant and exciting Debate of the Session.* The Administration it is rumored, think of trying to stifle debate by the “previous quea. tioo,” and to “rush the Bill through.” in hot haste, without permitting its opponents to ba heard. Whether they will dare to adopt this high-handed course, remains to be seen.— Albany Journal. Arrest of a Suspected Villain.—' The arrest of a man named D. H. Bfoscnkrana at -Elmira is announced. He is’suspected of having placed obstructions upon the track of the Central Railroad a year ago; when John Snell, an engineer of this city, was killed, All our citizens remember with sorrow the death of Snell, and the indignation which prevailed when the details of the diabolical act of placing rails across the track, were published. The citizens of Ontario County held an inquest and the jury were some days employed itythe inquisition. The result was never published, we believe, and the conclu sion here was that some information was oh tamed, but not enough to warrant an arrest at that time. We trust that the person ar rested is the guilty one, for it is essen’iallo public security that a wretch of such pro pensities as actuated the perpetrator of (his act, should be speedily placed were he can do no more harm. At the time of the accident the Railroad Company offered a reward of 85,000 for he arrest of the villains or villain, who placed the obstruction on the track. We hope the Company will not slop at any point short at the conviction of the guilty for reason of ex pense. It is a good investment for a raWioad company to follow this class of offenders until they gel their deserts. The course of J. W. Brooks, Superintendent of the Michi gan Central Railroad, when that road was beset by villains who had resolved to slaugh ter innocent passengers, was not only suc cessful in its results, but gave the manage ment character and confidence all over the country. The arrest of Rosenkrans was made by Deputy United Slates Marshal Palmer, says ihe Elmira Advertiser. What disposition was made of the prisoner is not staled, but we presume that he was taken to Canandai gua Cor examination. —Rochester Union: We need hardly to call attention to the in teresting dispatches from our special corres pondent with the Army in Utah, which fill so large a ponion of our pages this morning. The news they communicate is of great in terest, especially the Message of Brigham 'Young to the Territorial Legislature—a doc ument now first published in the States. The Army is in excellent condition, and, thanks to the wise arrangements of Col. Johnston, does not suffer from its confinement in Win ter quarters. The proceedings before the Court of Chief Justice Eckels are also unu sually important. An indictment for high treason has been found against Brigham Young and a number of the subordinate Mormon leaders and one of them—now a prisoner wiih the Army—has been put upon his)trial : the case was adjourned, howevet, in order to give him time to procure witnesses. To judge by the evidence which now reaches us, the Mormons are resolved to fight, add wifi do it with energy and earnestness. — Some striking indications as to their military resources are given by our correspondent. He also gives a copy of a letter by Dr. Hurt, which charges upon the authorities of tha Mormon Church a variety of outrages of almost inconceivable atrocity.—iVeic York Tribune, March Ist. Terrible Explosion of Gas,—A das paich to the N. Y. Daily Times, dated Felt -20, slates that, about 7 o’clock last evening, the Methodist Protestant Cburcb, on Six'-b street, near Race Cincinnati, was partly de stroyed by the- explosion of defective gaa pipes. At the hour mentioned some fifteen persons were assembled in the basement f° r meetings, when a strpngodor was perceived, and an effort made to discover the leakage A light was applied to the metre when* blaze bust forth, but was extinguished bj a bucket of water. Quiet was almost re stored when an explosion took place, lean “I up the floor, shattering the walls, and makmj! a wreck of the basement. More than hail of the pews in the church were torn up, a O3 portions of the floor blown to the ceiW; Doors were forced from their binges an blown into the street. The explosion »** heard at a distance of a half a mile. windows of many buildings in the vlmd l J were destroyed, eight or ten persons «*• severely wounded, end two or three of w ] are not expected to survive.
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