rile Lticoinpton Fight Finished.-
PASSAGE OF THE ENGLISH SWINDLE.
From The'* X, Y. Tribune.
M f . English's Lecompton contrivance
passed both Bouses of Copgrlss yesterday ;
the Senate by 39 to 23 ; the House by 112
to 103*. Ol the original force of twenty-two
Democrats who stood up against the original
Lecompton bill in the House, only twelve
stood out to ihe. end against this juggle. One
(Mr. Gilmer) of the six South American op
ponents of Lecbmplon caved; the others
stood firm.
Well: Lecompton Junior has passed
What then?
Nothing,, but a very brief dismissal of the
Kansas question from the floor of the two
Houses. This hill settles nothing, establishes
nothing, but leaves all at as loose ends as
ever.-
The original Lecompton bill had at least
this merit—it assumed lo'oe a finality. Kan
sas might upset or transform the Constitution
thereby impnsed on her, but Congress was
piecludcd.from again meddling with the sub
ject. True ; the question would come back
again, in the shape of contested elections to
the House or Senate, or both ; but the bill
contemplated nothing of the sort. It- pro
fessed to remit all that remained of the con
troversy to the People of Kansas. And what
Mr. Green’s bit) fully professed to do, the
Critlendi-n-Monlgomery bill actually did.—
Thai bill said to the People of Kansas, “Rati
fy the Lecompton Constitution if you like it,
and you are in the Union ; if you don't like
it, frame another and fairly ratify it, and you
" ill then be in the Union, without further
ac'ion by Congress.” Here was an end of
contention, a balm for agitation, a practical
end of controversy. The People of Kansas
might quarrel further, should they see fit;
but Congress resolved and pledged itself to
do nothing but secure them fair play. But
this English bill does'not even aspire to be
final. It says, “Accept the Land-Grant as
«e have fixed it, and we shall consider you
in the Union under the Lecompton instru
ment ; reject it, and you may not form an
other Consiiiuiion until a census shall have
shown that you possess a population equal to
the Federal ratio for a Member of the
House.” In the one case, Kansas comes in
at once as a Slave State, receiving a large
bonus from the Land Sales about to lake
place ; in the other, she wails for a much
larger population, an official census, a formal
proclamation of the fact, a Convention and
new Constitution, and an acceptance of the
I viler by Congress. The strong probability
is that this »ii( keep her out at least two years
longer. For what?
Five thousand sophists, each gifted with
miraculous and well-oiled tongues, could not
office the fact that there are heavy bribes
offered, and menaces held out,to a harassed,
struggling, impoverished community, design
ed to impel ihym to accept a Slave Con-sliiu
tion on the plea that they can change it at
pleasure. Here are solid, palpable, imme
diate advantages proffered to tempt them to
this course, «*iih corresponding penalties to
be incurred by standing out. If they reject
Lecnrnpton by rejecting the modified Land-
Grant, thev gei no Lands nt present, no pro
vision for Railroads, no five per cent, on the
Proceeds of the Lands about to be sold ; and
they are thrust back into Territorial vassal
nge for an indefinite period, with Denver for
their Governor, Lecomple and Cato for their
Judges, and Buchanan for their Grand
SenioT.
The Federal Administration has most un
wisely decreed that Kansas shall still be a
watchword in our National struggles. The
Crittenden.Montgomery bill would have ob
viated this; Congress would gladly passed
that bill ; but the Executive was implacable.
By Cabinet influence and Presidential patron
age, the Kansas feud has been kept ;
there will be no more cessation till Kansas'
is fully in the Union the acknowledged Free
Stale that all know her rightfully to be. We
give her oppressors fair notice that the unjust
disabilities imposed on her by the English
bill are utterly scouted by earnest Free-State
men ; that the population which is confess
edly largo enough for a Slave Stale will be
held sufficient for a Free State; that if the
foolish, useless, culpable constitution o( an
Election Board consisting of three Federal
officers to two elected by her People, shall
be made a clonk for foul voting or false re
turns, those voles, those returns, will be ren
dered of no avail ; and that, by a large ma
jority of the People, all other issues will bo
postponed or subordinated until Kansas shall
have been fully delivered from her op
prrßsors and added to the galaxy of Fiee
Stales.
_So, Messrs. Lecomptonites, move on !
A Heroic Maiden. —A few days pgo a
slide occurred on the at the ConnellWtlle
Railroad, at a point on the Yooghogheny,
above and opposite to M’Keesport, where
■ there is a sharp curve in the river, and the
track is laid wholly on the cutting. A large
jock fell and remained directly on the track.
This was observed by a daughter of Mr. Jno.
Drave, who resides on the opposite side of
the river. The male portion of the family
were absent at the lime; and she, knowing
thal il was about the hour when the cars
would pass that point, and that there was no
time to be lost, ran to the river’s side, un
loosed her father’s skiff, rowed across with
all possible haMe, and ran along the track in
the direction of the approaching train, wav
ing a red bandkercheif, and succeeded in at
tracting the attention of the engineer in the
very nick of time. The brakes were applied,
the train slopped, and the danger pqinled out.
1 1 was the opinion of the officers aboard, that
nothing but the lively warning of Miss Drave
saved the lives of all on board the cars,—
The curve in the road was so sharp that a
collision would have thrown the cars off the
track down the embankment into the river.
The company have shown a proper apprecia
tion of the heroic conduct of the young lady,
and the invaluable service rendered, by pre
senting her with a pass over the road for
many years to come, and ordered the train
to stop at that point where she can most read
ily reach bar residence, whenever she hap
pened to ha on board the cars—a compliment
and convenience at tha same lime, as it is a
Considerable distance from her father’s house
to the nearest siation. —Pitttburg Ditpatch.
THE AGITATOR.
M. H. Cobb, Editor A
WELLSBOROTOHPA.
Ttinrsday TOTnmg, May 6,-t«58;
A! 1 Basln£sfe,a{id dthferCommanicaUdnsmast
be addressed to the Editor to insure attention. '
We cannot publish anonymous communications.
Mr. R. S, Bailey has returned from. .New York
and Philadelphia with a fine assortment of Spring
Goods which he offers at reduced prices.
jses rare bargains. Go and see.
A Club for The Atlantic Monthly, is now forming
at this office. We afford this best of Magannes for
$2. • Seven Nos. of 144 pages each make a volume,
and two volume*-conclude the year. . .
We ore under obligations to Hon. G. A. Grow
for Vols. 5 and 6 of Pacific H. R. Survey, WeslonV
Progress of Slavery and Goodloe’s Southern Flat,
form—a very valuable and neatly printed pamphlet
of 80 pages.
Our friend, L. P. Williston, Esq., has returned
from Harrisburg appaieutiy in good health and
spirits. We congratulate him on Ids happy release
Irom that dullest of alt bodies, the Pennsylvania
Legislature. The county has never been more ably
and satisfactorily represented than by Mr. Williston.
A letter from our western correspondent C. V. E.,
and a pretty sketch by “Agnes,” havo come to
hand and will be published at the earliest opporluni
ly. The last number of Harper's Weekly contains
a fine portrait and biographical sketch of Hon. G.
A, Grow, the latter of which we will try to publish
next week.
Mr. P. P. Cleaver, well and favorably known in
this village as ‘mine host 1 of the Graves 1 Hotel, has
taken a hotel stand in Fainted Post. Such of our
citizens as have business in that village will not
need to be reminded that Cleaver’s latch-string is
always out and that few men can render life at a
Hotel more attractive than ho.
Sale op the Public Works- —The Legislature
which has just closed its labors disposed of the re
maining Stale Improvements to the Sunbnry and
Erie Railroad Co-, for the sum of three and a half
millions of dollars. We regard this as on© of Ihe
wisest enactments of the session. The Canal Board
—the waste-wier through which the income of the
Slate Public Improvements lias escaped hereto,
(ore—is thus aho/ished, and (he politics of (he Com
monwealth rescued from the hands of rascally con
tractors and pliant mud-bosses. The riddance
would have been dog cheap at any price. Leave
the management of canals and railroads to the en
ergies of private corporations, say we.
u 2 'he Way of Life." We have received the first
No. of. a finely printed religious paper with the (ore.
going beautiful and suggestive title, from the editors
and publishers, Messrs. Edgar & Berries, New-
York. It is to be the organ of the Young Men’s
Christian Association and is devoted to the world
wide promulgation of evangelical Christianity. Its
appeal “To the Young Men of America, 11 is one of
of the most compact and vigorous literary kiforts
we have met with in a long time; it is catholic in
spirit and application, direct and sensible in argu
ment. But we could suggest a less hackneyed and
less equivocal adjective than “ evangelical 11 to set
before the word “ Christianity. 11 The term used
is special and distinctive ; the belter word, “Prac
tical,” is general and, as yet, unsectarian. Better
than all that, it is unequivocal. Terms,' $1,50 per
annum, in advance.
mischiefs come by the Pound.
And go away by the ounce, saith the<old proverb.
One would think the terms of the old saw bad been
transposed after reading the remarks of some of our
colcmpornrics concerniug the contemplated fusion
on an anti basis. The Poller Journal
a good deal surprises us in the ground it has taken,
though the number containing ils remarks has not
yet reached us. From a brief extract picked up in'
another paper wc learn that our Poller neighbor is
fully committed to the Fusion heresy; and, with a
Jesuitical calmness truly refreshing, concludes that
ftuj “end sanctifies the means.” Wc beg our Pot.
lef-friend to send us his remarks in full at the car*
liest time practicable. We are curious (o know all
the reasons which determine the Republican press
once more in favor of Fusion. .
We find it somewhat difficult to render our post.
tion obvious to some people. They seem determined
to misapprehend it and to consider it captious. It
is neither captious, factious nor impracticable; on
the contrary, it is the identical position taken by
the parly in the Convention which put Fremont in
nomination. If the State Convention adopt the
Philadelphia Platform, without compromise, that is
ail we oc-sirc ; but a fusion upon a side issue like
anli.Lecomplon, ignoring the cardinal question of
Slavery Restriction and merely for temporary suc
cess—such a fusion must seal and ought to seal the
dastructlon of the Republican party as a party.
Lccoinpton is the natural fruit ot the Douglas
doctrine—“ Slavery goes wherever the flag goes I”
To oppose Lecomplon is not opposition to that infa
mous doctrine, nor is it to oppose any other enor
mity of which the two immediate Administrations
have been guilty ; but it is an invitation to descend
from the high ground taken in 1856 and quarrel
with the legitimate fruits of the union of the Dem
ocratic parly with Slavery, consummated in 1854.
Folly i As reasonably might one undertake to dry
up a mountain stream by dipping out the river into
which it flows! Shall we abandon the war
against Causes to splinter our weapons and lose the
great day in u puerile skirmish with the legitimate
Effect of those causes ? Wc protest against it. It
is not that a union with former enemies necessarily
involves a sacrifice ol principles, for it docs not; it
is that the anion hinted at is to take place upon an
issue of secondary Importance, while the (he main
question is to be temporarily abandoned for the sake
of union. It is against this that we protest and
shall keep on until the scheme becoosum.
mated or defeated.
What is the pilh of this Fusion proposition? Is
it not opposition to Executive usurpation in a given
case ? The Republican party began to oppose Ex
ecutive usurpation in 1854—not in special, but in
general, in all cases. They have been protesting
ever since. Is Lecompton worse than Nebraska?
—the guilty parent of the great wrongs of these
troubled time* 7 Is it greater wrong in Buchanan
to force Lccomplon upon our brethren in Kansas
limn it was in Pierce to force the infamous laws of
a bogus Legislature upon them, or to permit his
ruffians to shoot, hang, burn and torture the free
men of that Territory ? or to reward the murderer*
of men and the ravisbers of Free-Stale wives and
daughters with place and perquisites? We ask if
the Lecompton wrong does not dwindle into com
paralive insignificance beside the outrages which
have gone before it? But where were Messrs. For
ney and Douglas and their adherents when the Ex
ecutive abandoned the freemen of Kansas to the
knives and rifles of brutal placemen hired vil.
Tag TIOOA CGUSTY AGITATOR.
lain*? Like Saulpt Tarsus kt ttye-sloning of Sle~
pheii, ktanding by : and\conBenling;.unto the wrongs I
They knew that and ravislpogs,
and burnings were being done, and (hat 100. with
UicTlacU’ approvaT'of the TresidenC "Did Ihey^^cry
jfy, aud resolvQ?, ..Oh, noj
mod legalised brutality were not a stench in the nos.
triUof leaders 1 - The delib
erate killing of inpdcent men and the wanton de.
Btrudion of'property could not reach the sensitive
moral "sense of" these'netfcoTi verts to iherelrgiotr of
decency.' And"werate asked to forget/aU A these pri-.
'maly wrongs and to go down to battle with'a priej.‘
ile side issue,raised by men.
who have a reputation for honor and honesty ye£ to
gain! J
Here the Republican party stands, and has stood
lor three year*, protesting against the policy otA of
which'Lccorhplon 'grew; protestiog only to be abiis.
ed and lied about by these unti-Lecompton leaders;
protesting oguinst forcing bogus Taws and bogus rb*
lers upon Kansas while these penitent gentlemen
were damning us in speeches ■ and misrepresenting
oe before the reading public; and now they ask us
i to abandon our organization and go lo them ! Gen*
; tlemen, if you are in earnest, if you desire to put
down Executive usurpation, come to us. The law is
that the greater body shall overcome the less, not
the leas the greater. If Messrs. Forney and Dou
glas are in earnest lei them come on the PhtladeU
phia Platform and fight the buttle .like men; else,
let them organize oo the Cincinnati affair and per-*
ish. They can come lo us and live, or go by them
selves and die.'
VVe lake great pleasure in correcting oar state,
mcnl touching the position of our friend of the Ve
detle on this point. Wo certainly undejstood him.
to advpcate union on the anli-Lecomptou basis.
He disclaims such advocacy and says :
41 We now wish to inform our neighbor that Hie
Vedetie will not go in for any union by which it
and the party it represents will have to sacrifice the
smallest iota of principle. Further, we wish it di*.
tinclly understood lhal.lt is the determination of the
Vedette and the parly it represents in Lycoming,
never to support any man for any office whatever
who is not a member of the party in full common,
100. The experience' of the past has convinced us
that defeat under our own banner and with our own
leaders is not so disastrous as success under others,"
The italics are oursbut- the sentiment is so
pregnant with truth that we cannot forbear giving
it prominence. We are glad to meet the Vedette
tm the, only true and honorable ground.; nor do we
differ as to the banner under which the battle is to
/ought. Wc have no fear of side-door Americanism
fur that is absorbed into the Administration. patty
Nor do we desire to control the Stale Convention, or
to influence its nominations, even were either possi
ble to us ; but d thorough discussion of the proposed
union must be hod, and that discussion will have its
proper influence.
Übtdblicans ! After two or three defeats in its
original form the Lccompton bill has passed both
Flo uses of Congress and the Administration tri.
umphs. Two weeks since the mailer was submitted
to a Committee of Conference composed of three
members from each House. Of Mr, English. Chair.
man of the House Committee, we expressed an opin
ion at that time which proves just in the event now
chronicled ; in other words, Mr. English no sooner
took his seat in Ibe cominitle.room than he set about
betraying the anli-Lecomptun cause. It is enough
to say that he succeeded.
The English Bill for the admission of Kansas with
the Lecompton Constitution attempts to induce the
people of Kansas to accept that fraudulent instru
ment by a bribe and a threat. It makes their «c
-ccplance or rejection optional under these conditions,
namely : If they will accept the Lccompton Con
stitulion. Shivery and all, Congress gives them- 6,-
000,000 acres of public lands. But i£ on the con
trary, they shall decide to reject both Lecompton
and the land, then -Kansas shall-remain a Territory
until it shall reach a population of 93,000—the
which may happen in three or five years—thus vir
tually condemning that harassed people to along pe
riod of dependency to a Government which has been
plotting their subjugation for four years. Thai the
Free Men of Kansas will reject the insulting bribe
offered by Congress, with honest scorn, there can
be no doubt. In the name ot a common humanity,
we ask, will twenty million acres—would a co/ili
ncnl, even—compensate any people for the legitimi
zing of the awful curse of Slavery in their midst?
In the name of a common humanity I
The Free Men of Kansas can neither be bullied nor,
bribed into accepting the Lecompton Constitution.
And as for the Administration which has thus ren
dered 44 Kausas” the watchword of the Republican
parly for a few years longer, we pul on record this
prediction, that its triumph in the passage of Le
compton as disguised by English, will prove more
to the so-called democratic party than did
the Nebraska swindle . The bought and the sold, the
hirelings and the pimps of that parly ore doomed
from this day, and the scorn and contempt of an in
sulted people will visit them and scourge them until
the race of hypocrites shall be scattered as sheep
having no shepherd. This new outrage will quick
en men in the discharge of duty, and (he thousands
who have been wailing this blow as a signal to dis
solve at once and forever (heir connection with the
parly whose deliberate act it is, will now flock to
the Republican standard and labor for the spread of
Freedom over the entire domain of the Republic.
So may Tyranny in America, as ‘m all time in the
Old World, prove its own executioner.
To the plain questions put by the Vedette touch
ing the death penally, and to which he desirps ap.
swers, we reply : We do not propose to let the mur
derer loose upon community, cither on the strength
of a Icar-of-death conversion or of anything else.
The murderer forfeits his liberty, not his life. The
security of society and his personal freedom become
incompatible; society gave him personal liberty on
condition ; he tramples on the contract and forfeits,
not life, but liberty. Immure him in a dungeon for
life and you do all that can be done for the protec
tion of society . Proof: In those Stales where the
death penalty has been abolished murders have not
increased.
We do not pretend to say whether the Lancaster
victims were truly converted or not, but lake it for
granted that the minister whir knell on the scaifold
did not ask God to take two impenitent, unforgiving
and unforgiven murderers into his holy presence.
If truly forgiven by the Great Judge, we still ask
what right poor, feeble roan lias to wreak /n's ven.
geanceupon whom God bas pardoned 1 la human
law holier than' the divine 7 Is human justice more
inexorable in its requirements than Divine 7 . Or
what does oor friend mean by saying that “ exemp
tion from the punishment due to the infraction of
His law, could not and ought not to release , them
from the penalty of human laws" 7 Shall, mortal
man be more Just than God 7
■You assume that the murderer tbrfcits bis life;
good sir, that is Just what we deny and just what
we ask you to prove. Our sympathy for the friends
of the murdered is active; Gut it is broad enough to
include the sinner as well. Society'has quite ns
much te atone for as the children of blood. How
ever, a communication on the VtdtUe't side of the
question bas just reached us by mail end wiM be
given to our readers next week.
■ApsiL,' if we remember rightly, came lo ui all '
smiles and departed in\ tears. It was a pleasanT
April, altogether, scarcely sustaining its reputation
for caprice ordinarily well. So pleasant was April
that it stole half of May’s floral beauty and adorn-
-gd-itself- therewith-during declining day and
went cmfrom opr midst like a May-Queen.. She —
of coarse capricious April !s “shfe"—left a-great*
host oi moorniog admirers behind. berJUuL not -a.
few hearts grown sadder in (he lapse of time. It
'Was but a* little monthibnly thirty T tarns of'this
"great globe,-but ibe-goldctr hoary are gone-beyond
recal h; Tlrat May-canje in, habited in dead April’s
ckprtclbus* not remove thy sting. Bach
.moathhsa iu_placein the circle, of .our affections;
as they depart into.the past of time : their place is
Vacant and we leel it. But May is with us—May,,
last, Jaut not. least of the sweet, trinity of Spring.
At most H is but to welcome her, and, turning, (9
bid her farewell. So, moments in days, days in
years and in years our lives are swallowed op, and
•—but why mbltlply vain regrets 7. Dear reader, be
you aad or glad as yonr eye glances over lhis,.be.
lieve with'us that alt will be welldone in the grand,
average of time. We all ,think life full of bitter,
ness and sighing, ay, and would still, (Hough it were
one unbroken May.doy. Who is content? Thb
little children whose gleeful voices melt into our
window from the street below.
When in Philadelphia we called at the .splendidly
stocked Book Store of Mr. 6. G. .Evans, whose ad.
verlisemcnt will be found in another place. Qis
shelves present the finest array of standard works
and choice current literature it has ever been our
privilege to examirrb. Although Mr. Evatis is en
dorsed by the most reputable publishers in that city
we still consider the excellence of his boohs, as well
as their cheapness, as they should be, greater in.
ducements to buyers than his gifts.
The Atlantic Monthly.— The May No. of this
best of Magazines concludes the first volume, of
seven numbers, making, without doubt, the choicest
volume of Mjigezine literature eyer .publishcd jn this
country. The May number contains 16 general ar
ticles, foremost in merit of which are—American
Antiquity—lntellectual Character—Loo Loo—Cat
acombs of Rome—Pure Pearl of Divers 1 Bay—The
Hundred Days—Beethoven, and a fine paper upon
Ward, Beecher, said to be from TheOdure Parker’s
pen. Tbo Autocrat of the Breakfast Table closes
the list of contributions for May.
*• World in A Pocket-Book” By Wm. 11. Carx*. J. W. Buu>-
U.T, Publisher, 48 >*. 4th at., Philadelphia, pp. 400. Seut
by tbail on receipt of $1,25.
'We regard this-as being One of the most valuable of the
many excellent works published by Mr. Bradley. It is liter
ally what its title signifies—The World in a Pocket-Book—
and w ill become an indispensable work to every reading man
when fairly introduced. The world’s commerce, agriculture,
governments, Missionary and other benevolent societies, the
great events of all post time, history, geography, geology,
list of eminent men of all times and climes, statistics of the
currency of the world, cities, temples, bridges, rivers and
mountains, elections and Census of 1850-r-in abort, something
about everything and a book that no man would part with.
Remarkable Oisclosnres—lTlnrder
will Out.
On the 18th of September, 1850, the citi
zens of Orange were thrown into great ex
crement by the news that a farmer named
Ira Clark had been found dead in a field not
far from his house, with a terrible gash in
his throat, and a razor in his hand. After a
day of intense interest, and after a careful
examination of the trails of blood near by,
the Coroner’s jury decided that the man had
not committed suicide, but was murdered by
some person unknown. Physicians testified
lhat no man could walk far enough to leave
so long a trail of blood, with so fatal a cut in
his throat. • ■
Suspicion fell at once upon a worthless
fellow named Bowen, who had maintained a
disreputable inlimaoy with the wife of the
murdered man, but no proof of bis guilt
could' be found. He was released from jail,
and for more than 7 years there has seemed
no chance that the murderer would ever be
exposed or convicted.
Bui “murder will out.” On Friday last
W. C. Pruden, whose farm lies next to that
formerly owned by Clark, while repairing a
s'one wall chanced to pull away some siones
lhat lay agaiqsl a ledge of rocks. To his
surprise he found .behind "them a coal that
had evidently Inin there for years, but in
spite of its partially decayed condition we
are informed that it has been positively iden
tified as the missing' coat worn by Bowen
until the morning of the'murder, hut never
since seen. It has been brought to this city
to be examined by competent chemists, and
if ,chemical analysis should establish the
belief how entertained, that ihe coat is
stained with blood, the evidence would seem
complete.
Bowen has been living for some years in
Derby, where he aitempled to commit suicide
some time ago, but was interfered with in lime
to save his life. The Selectmen of Orange,
have laken counsel with Ihe Slate’s Attorney
on this mailer, and Bowen will be arrested
itmnedialely,
The wife of Clark, who was somewhat
suspected at the lime of complicity in the
murder is still living in Orange. After a
disgraceful intimacy with a man of half-
Indian half-negro blood, she was finally mar
ried to him at the unjust request of Ihe au
thorities.—New Haven Palladium , Apr. 26.
A Scene in Church in Kentucky. —At
u meeting in one of “fashionable orthodox
churches” in Anderson Coumy Ky„ last
week, a clergyman asked for apd obiained a
Idler of dismission for - himself and some
members of his family. He then sard lhal
if any of the brethren had anything to say
about him, lo “now declare if, or ever after
hold (heir peace.” ' Whereupon another
preacher said something lhal was nol henrd
by all Ihe congregation, but ihe lie passed
Between them. The preacher who called for
the letter drew back his fist and struck the
other preacher a heavy blow and then com
menced kicking him. He kicked him so
hard that he demolished his boot. The de
fendant being a “notiresistant,” made no de
fense, but went before a' magistrate and made
complaint. The assailant was fined 810 arid
costs, and submitted,'besides, to a |ong lec
ture from the Court. A correspondent of
the Louisville Democrat, in giving an ac
count of the affair, saysi “The pugnacious
divine is a good looking man, of fine talents,
great pulpit orator, with prepossessing man
ners. The fight has raised his standing
among his brethren. Some of the members
of a neighboring church have sent him word
if he will go to their next church meeting
and whip their preacher, they will pay the
fine thqt is. now agamsThim, and any other
one that may be imposed on him.”—Cincin
nati Commercial.
Bev; Tyng-
The 'deathof Rev. CDudley A. Tyng of
Philadelphia, has sent a shock of grief through
jhe whale .Christian community.; Although
eminent in that Church Which he served wilh
reverent aflectionj'he’was widely known and"
loved -also- in .other denominations of Chris
tians, true’representative or the catholic
unity ’ of" believers.' The example of his
honored father bad laugh! him 'to combine
loyalty to his own communion, \yith
ity toward 'the universal communion of the
saints] and a remarkably genial and.atniahle
temperament united with these principles of
hTs'eaHy traihirig,TS"’c!ispds7hg him 16 Tra-,
ternize with all the friend* of Christ. On!
the platforms of- lho great associations of
Christian benevolence, where the eloquent
testimony of the father to the unity of Israel
of God has so often thrilled ’the hearts of
Christians of every name, the nodess prompt
and fervid response of the son has confirmed
that testimony to another generation. The
fine qualities of person, voice, and man
ner which be inherited, were consecrated by
ihiaf youthful orator to the 1 service of Christ
upon oil occasions; whether in the pulpit,
upon the anuiversary platform, In the social
or litera'ry reunion, or in the union meeting
for prayer “end praise. His graceful, feeling,
manly tribute to.the Puritans, will never be
forgotten by those who heard! him at the j
Collation o’f lhe American Congregational
Union in 1857 ; and his stirring defense of
the standard bearers of truth and freedom in
the pulpit, made with such entire forgetful
ness of name and sect, at the imore recent
festival of the Young Wen’s Christian Asso
ciation, was one of the finest Efforts of ex
temporaneous Therfe was a )[nag
netic influence in his sincerity,!his earnest
ness, his charity, his Ch’rist-likej devotion to
love, and truth, and duty, which instantly
pervaded the hearts of an audience, and
quickened them info sympathy with the
'ker ! 1
speaker. j j
In the private intercourse qf life he mani
fested the meek and loving spirit of a disci
ple ; so that in whatever circle you might
meet him, could you forget the| associations
of name, you would-known him not as an
Episcopalian but as a Christian. And yet,
he never concealed his preference for the
worship and order of the Episcopal Church,
when then occasion called foriahy expression
upon that point. i |
Willi a womanly genlleness|of spirit,. Mr.
Tyng combined a degree pyirmness and 1
conscientiousness in the discharge of duty.
Nothing could swerve him from the right ;
neither intimidation from enemies nor re
monstrance of friends, nor personal iriconve
nience and loss, could dissuade him from his
own conscience dictated. Id a city pre-etni-'
nenl for its commercial subserviency to the
slave-power, and in a Church; which boasts
its superiority to all extraneous agitations, he
proclaimed the wrongs of the oppressor; and
when for this he was called upon by the
vestry to vacate the pulpit, he Tell back upon
the. Congregational principle|of the majority ;
and when, as in the case df]John Pierpont
and the distillers, it proved that the majority
of the pews was against himj while the ma
jority of souls was with him, leaving the
pews behind, he went forth with a band of
tried and faithful souls, to preach the; Gospel
in “an unconsecrated hall,” where “ the
common people heard him-gladly.’f That
exodus was a spectacle of high moral cour
age and self sacrifice for truth. The Church
of the Epiphany, from Which Mr. Tyng
withdrew, was the home tifjhis childhood,
built up by his father’s prayers and labors ;
its communipn embraced many of (befriends
of his youth; its position was inviting and
commanding; but he was willing to sacrifice
every personal consideration, for a point ol
principle and duty; ' The moral effect of this
movement upon'the formalism and
conservatism of Philadelphia was weighty
and startling. This will be'-even enhanced
hy the wide-spread interest jand sympathy
awakened by thesudden and distressing death
of the leader of the mpvernent.—iV. Y, In
dependent. !
Repeal of the IJshry Latvi.
An Act Regulating the ij?afe of Interest.
Section 1. Be it enacted; by the Senate
and House of Representatives of tke Com
monwealth of Pennst lvania,!in General As
sembly met and it is hereby 1 enacted by ihe
authority of the same. That from and after
the fourth day of July next,; the lawful rale
of interest foi Ihe loan orl use’of money, in
all cases where no expresq contract shall
have been made for a less fate, shall be six
per cent, per annum ; and! life first and sec.
ond sections of the Act passed second March,
one thousand seven hundred and twenty
three, entitled “An Act to reduce'the interest
of money from eight lo jsijx per cent per
annbm,” be, and the samp jare hereby re
pealed. i
Section 2. That when a rate of interest
for the loan or use of money exceeding that
established by law shall have been received
or contracted for, the borrower or debtor
shall not be required to pay to the creditor
the excess over Ihe legal; fate;,and it shall
be lawful for such borrower or at his
option, lo retain and deduct Such excess from
the amount of any such debt ; and in all
cases where any borrower! or debtor shall
heretofore or hereafter have voluntarily paid
the whole debt or sum loaded, together with
interest exceeding the lawful rate, no action
lo recover back any such excess shbll-be
sustained in arty Court jof this Common
wealth, unless the same shall have been com
menced within six monthstfrom and after the
lime of such payment. I Provided always.
Ihat nothing in this Act; shall affect the
holders of negotiable paper,’taken bona fide,
in the usual course of business.
Hartford,. Coijn.-, May 1, 1858,
■ TKe'Democrafs fired |hjrty .guns to-night
in this city in consequence* of the pass's"6 of
Mr. English’s Kansas bill.: 1 *
Detroit, Saturday, May 1, 1859.
A salute of thirly-two £uns was fired here
to-day in .honor of the j passage of the Le
compton bill. The IJerald office was bril
liantly illuminated to-night, bonfires are
burning, and there is great rejoicing among
the Administration men.' i
eommimi cations,
r i£^ to7
' , A part of the. republican press of Pens,,
is proposing a fusion in opposition to dernoc.
racy, in the coming- election. No plan | (
matured and presented that I have seen, ya
it .behooves every republican to be posted and
ready to give an opinion on the subject at
any lime; There is one unipo, and but one,
to which the lover of freedom cannot object;
viz;, come one, come all, though Forney and
Douglass it be, and Join the republican ranks;
all who are opposed to modern democracy,
i. Buchananism. The Republican plat,
form is broad,.its principles are the immutable
principles' 1 of rightand -justice. No other
union can he effected without compromising
justice ; without dishonor and disastrous re
sults lo lhe party. Are these lovers of free,
dom and equal rights, haters .of slavery and
its nefarious workings, willing td compromise
their honor and fidelity, and the high princi
ples of their party, simply for an increased
certainty of gaining the coming election?
It is the extremes! folly! As well might
Christianity sanction idolatry for an increase
of her numbers, or temperance countenance
drunkenness for a triumph of its principle!.
What though fusion were the only means of
success this fall? will the parly gain any
lasting benefit, any vantage ground ? linpos.
sible 1 Rather suffer defeat for a season,the
final triumph will be the more gtorioos!—
The principles of the republican parly, ate
the unchanging principles of right. They
embrace the true sentiments of the declare
tion of independence, and contain all that
can make a nation happy, intelligent and no
ble. For rto higher rights and privileges
than the Philadelphia platform of ’56 advo
cates, the immortal fathers of the revolution
nobly fought and gloriously died. A richer
and brighter inheritance never was left to
children, than those noble patriots bequeathed
to us. And shall we show ourselves base
and degenerate enough to abandon and com.
promise those principles that carried our fors
fathers through an eight years nf doubtful
war, and brought them out triumphantly vie
torious, merely for “the Increased assurance
of gaining one election? Vain, foolish, re
veiling ! The day of compromise is passed.
It has had its run, and now behold the result.
It's SVst offspring is found in the constitution
of the United States, in yielding to slavery
under the most trying and difficult circum
stances, such as the nation has not seen since,
or ever will see again, and the wisdom of
which is extremely doubtful. The second
child is the line, known as the Missouri Com
promise line, wickedly, yet reluctantly enter
ed into by the north, as a sacred compact,
and by -which a large territory, by nature
freedom’s dominion, was yielded up to slat
ery, with all its blasting, debasing influences.
This compact, however sacred it was lo have
been held at its formation, has been rudely
broken, and in other territory, where liberty
of right and compact should rule supreme,
shameful and hell-born scenes too vile lo be
repeated have been transacted, as is knova
to every republican, in the history of Kan
sas. Another legitimate offspring of compro
mise, is that most detestable of all laws, the
Fugitive Slave law. Where is the lover of
freedom who would spend his life, bis all,
pro bono publico, who does not detest the
henious and satanic act, on our national sis'-
ules, which gives lo the kidnapper,and his
more noble blood-hound, ample power to
range the tree north and bear away lo bod- ;
age and lifelong misery, all, who perchance
have curling hair or brunette complexion.-
Republicans of Pennsylvania! Do you lore
compromise measures with all these heaped
upon them ? Are you willing to yield ra
iota of the principles of your parly, andjoa
yourselyes lo factions of your most bitter op
ponents, that cars nothing for you, only at
you may be made instruments of promoting
themselves 1 God of heaven forbid it! rath
er suffer defeat after defeat; for there is most
surely a triumph awaiting our efforts, glori
ous beyond measure, full to overflowing, and
all our most sanguine expectations can hope
The happy shouts of freemen, “onward a
the good cause, ’’ echo from New England
bills to lowa’s fertile plains. Even Missouri
sends up a cheering response of no small mo
ment. Then resist every attempt at fe l
arid abandonment of the principles of t”
party, as you would a foreign foe, Irarnpl'HJ
on your most sacred rights. H. N. W,
A man who sold pop corn in the hall of & -;
Chicago Post Office, not agreeing with 5k 4
Buchanan on the great National Democrat jj
questions of the day, has received notice a I
quit.— Ex. 4
This is as it should be. We like to** n
promp'ness on the paH of a great Gmera Jl
nient like ours. The officer of the Adm;» 1
(ration who nosed out the defection of li l 1
pop-corn man and reported him to the s» 1g
of dignity and power, did a clean and co- ®
mendable thing. What sort of business,
want to know, has a man who does noil* ".I
lievp in the righteousness of the Lecomp" l <!
swindle, to be carrying on the pop corning J
right plum within the walls of the publicc- ■-S
ces of the General Government 1 Andlr ;, . &
long does anybody suppose an Admini>" ! '- y
lion could maintain its dignity and high chi' 1
acter, and continue wjsecure Jhe unming* 1 *
respect and profound A«e of the people,-,' a
allowed this pusillanimous pop-corn renegs 3 aj
to go unbooled and undisturbed!—^ r ' r»
American.
Methodists in Kansas and Nebr* sE ‘
—The third annual conference of the Jfc 1 ;
ndist Episcopal Church in Kansas ° n ??'
braska was held at Topeka from ihe 15 1 ’"
the 19th of April, Bishop Janes •
The Churches returned 1,823
Kansas and 787 in Nebraska—an incril ..
of mors than half in 1857. There j
Ideal preachers in the two Territories,
one itinerant preachers were station* 1
Kansas, and • twenty in Nebraska, l° r j
year, ensuing. !
A mob in Peoria, Illinois, has made*,;,
scent upon the houses"of ill-fame in that
expelled the inmates, set the costly
in the stfeet, burned it to ashes, and
the bouses. "Some tep preleven h° usC5 | il ,)'
visited id turn, and property to d lB va jj^ l
$7,000 waa destroyed. Most pf the elt
parties have fled to Chicago.
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