FROM KANSAS.
Correspondence of tho N. Y. Tribane.
TUe lute Murders iu Linn County.
Moneka, Linn Co. K. T., May 24, '5B.
Day before yesterday Capt. Hamilton, ac
companied by Brocketl and thirty-six others,
came into the Trading Post, bringing with
them several men, mostly prisoners, whom
they bad met along the way, and drew up
before the public house kept in that place.—
They look the landlord, Geo. W. Andrews,
prisoner, also Mr. Bassett, his partner, and
Mr. Campbell, clerk of the store there.
They also' took Elder Reed, a Baptist
preacher, prisoner, and a Mr. Stilwell, form
erly from Montgomery Co., Ind., who was
on his way to Kansas City for goods, and
several others, with whom I am not acquaint
ed.
Elder Reed had been preaching in Moneka
for some time previous, and Mr. Slilwell was
a distant neighbor.
These, with a number of others, they slatt
ed with out of the place, and toward the
Missouri line.
Messrs. Andrews and Bassett, with several
others, were released; hut with the remain
der, eleven in number, they proceeded about
three miles, when they entered a deep ravine
and called a hall. Without further deliber
ation, the prisoners were ordered to form
themselves into a line, which they did. Capt.
Hamilton then, at a few paces distance, or
dered his men to fire on them—motionless,
unarmed and unoffending men ! Five of them
fell dead, five badly wounded, and one un
harmed. But they all fell, and seemed to be
dead, thinking this the only way to escape
mure savage treatment.
As soon as ibe ruffians had fired, and had
seen them Fall, they mounted their horses and
left. But in a few moments some of them
returned and rifled their pockets, and kicked
them over to see if they were dead. The
man who was uninjured was. thus kicked
over and his pockets rtfled. He lay by the
*ide of his brother, who showed some signs
of life, when one-of them pul n pi.-iol to his
head and fired, the ball passing through his
head. They were then left, and the maraud*
ers made their wav back to Missouri.
Mr. Hall, the one unwounded, now arose
and afforded what relief he could to the liv
ing, and then went to obtain assistance, and
had them taken back to the Post.
Elder Reed was out all night, and suffered
intensely from his wounds, but u is thought
he will recover.
Several of the party took what horses they
could meet with. Among them were those
of Mr.SiitwHl and Elder Reed. Mrs. Reed
followed them, she thinks seven or eight miles,
and made them give up his horse, and with
il she joined her husband, and assisted him to
n place of safety. Mr. Stillwell had about
$2OO with him, which he left In his wagon,
and which they did not obtain.
So sudden and unexpected was (his move
ment that no assistance could be obtained,
although there was a militajy company or
ganized within the township. But in three
or four hours, there were upwards of 250
men on the spot, \
A company 0f75-mounled men were dep
utized to give chase, and to take them, if they
had to follow them to Georgia,
To the credit of'lhe Missourians, the per
manent citizens along the border, be it recor
ded, have held public meetings, disclaimed
oil knowledge of or participation in the affair,
and will aid, to the extent of iheir abilities,
in capturing this lawless band.
Frlgbtfot Tornado.
The hurricane that passed over our city
with such alarming violence on Sunday night
appears to have been more furious in its
course through the interior of the Slate, We
hear of great damages to railroads, farms
and villages. The St. Louis, Ahon and Chi
cago Railroad had several of its culverts and
the Rock Creek bridge swept away, near Pe
oria Junction, rendering the road impassable
for a distance of some fifty rods, and consid
erable damage has been done by storm and
flood along (he line of the road between that
point and this city. It will be some days be
fore the damages will be repaired, but the
railroad connection will in the main time be
kept up by means of connecting trains.—•
That section of the Slate was completely in
undated ; water was two feel deep in many
dwelling-houses. Two bridges of the Illinois
Central Railroad—one two miles below Kan
kakee and another near Chebnnse—are swept
away. A telegraphic dispatch from Mon
mouth, Warren County, advises us of the
terrible effects of the lornado of Sunday
night in the village of Ellison, about twelve
miles south-west of that place. Every build
ing in the place except three small shanties
were thrown to the ground. Fifteen persons
were killed and several others were fatally
injured, Ellison contains 500 inhabi
tants, and it is reported here, that no one es
caped injury. We hear of great floods in
every direction. The low lands in every
part of the Slate are submerged, the rivers
and smaller streams overflowing their banks.
Cairo is said to be nearly under water, the
people being obliged to live in the upper sto
ries of their houses, ond we hear of a simi
tar state of things in some other localities.
Desperate. —A *rnmge story is told by
the New Haven Journal , which paper says
that a young man of Bethany, of highly re
spectable connections and un only son, being
about to leave home for South America,
made a few calls upon hia acquaintances,
when a young l»idy who was desperately at
tached to him, as Iter last means of gaining
him, had the meanness to plan with some of
her associates to drug him ■ and have him
taken to a low Justice of (he Peace, who is a
disgiace to the office, where the marriage
ceremony was performed.
Accident. —On Saturday afternoon last a
Mrs. Potter, of Wellsboro* Pa. accompanied
by her son and daughter, was descending the
hill from the Water Cure, in a buggy, when
the horse becoming fractious she was thrown
from (he buggy and injured severely, dislo
cating a knee joint, and bruising her other
wise, Drs.Chuhbuck. Smnchfield and Henry
Purdy were called, who succeeded in adjust
ing the joint, and it is hoped that she will get
along without a permanent injury of the limb,
—Elmira Advertiser, *
THE AGITATOR.
M. H. Cobb, Editor & Publisher.
Thursday Morning, June 10,1855.
AH Business, and other ComraunicatioDMziual
be addressed to the Editor to insure attention.
We are rcqnested to state that the first annual
meeting of the Pennsylvania Editorial Union is
postponed from the 16th mat, to the 20th of Octo.
ber next.
Hon. G. A. Grow will accept thanks for VoL 1
of the Mexican Boundary Report.
We are also under obligations to Messrs. Seward
of the Senate and Cotode of thfe House for favors.
Mr. Roy advertises a new Soap which he Is man.
ufacturlngln liberal quantities for the home market.
It is pronounced a fine thing by such as have given
it a trial. ‘‘"r
Mr. A. D. Cole advertises a new Marble Yard at
Tioga Village.
Mr. Daniel Benjamin is stopping in town for a
few days with his Traveling Daguerrian Gallery.
He sxhibits some good pictures.
Rhode Inland has elected Ex-Governor Anthony
United States Senator for six years from the fourth
of March next, Mr. Anthony is a staunch Repub
lican and his election gives the entire Senatorial del
egation of New England to the cause of Freedom.
The Republicans have now twenty-two Senators.
The Academy. —Our citizens are awaking to the
importance of re-establishing the Wellsboro Acad
emy. It is proposed to thoroughly renovate the old
frame so as to render it sufficiently commodious and
comfortable. The estimated expense of doing this
is about $l4OO or $l5OO. A subscription paper has
been circulated and now fools up at about $lOOO.
It is not our purpose to speak at length about the
“necessity” of an Academy, or the “ laudableness”
of tlic enterprise; all that has been said so often
that the doubts of the most skeptical must have got
their quietus ere this. Wc can only urge the friends
of education to pul their shoulders to (tie wheel and
aid this enterprise on to a successful issue. We do
not see any good reason why the present effort must
end in smoke, nor will it it' half of us do our duty
The proceedings in Court do not .extend beyond
the Argument List and some trivial mailers in the
Quarter Sessions. The attendance is not, therefore,
large. We have to thank our Republican friends
(or handsome additions to our list of subscribers us
well os for copious renewals. Better than all we
arc rejoiced to say that the watchfires of Freedom
are burning more brightly than ever in every elec
tion district, and that the Republican party was
never so strong in Tioga as it is to-day. As we
predicted two months since, the Kansas policy of
Mr. Buchanan lias determined the wavering in our
favor and anchored the faithful more certainly, if
that were possible. All praise to the staunch Re
publican yeomanry of Tioga ! The often renewed
proofs of their devotion to principles is of more
value than gold and silver.
A Curious Waif. —Mr. Thomas Coon called at
this office on Monday and exhibited some interest
ing specimens of animat remain*?, taken from the
heart of a boulder of conglomerate, or pudding-stone
found on his land in Liberty township. These re
mains consist of three molar teeth in a state of per
fect preservation. One of them, evidently from the
posterior of the lower jaw of a herbivorous animal,
is about the size of a hickory.nut, bcaatifully serra
ted, and In so perfect a slate of preservation that a
portion of the gum still remains and retains its mus
cular consistency. Mr. C. informed us that this
portion of the gum. when first discovered, had the
hue of u live flesh,” os if but recently lorn from the
jaw of a living animal. The other teeth were badly
fractured in the process ot detaching them from the
boulder, yet enough was left to show that they were
once the properly of a ruminating animal. These
last were well worn and exhibited signs of having
been diseased. Mr. Coon had carried the boulder
home lo convert it into sand for kitchen use. These
remains were discovered during the process of pul
verization. We were shown a very beautiful snail
shell taken from the same rock.
From the Chicago Journal.
We were not aware that the organic remains
mammals were found in the conglomerates of this
region. Will some of our scientific readers lake
tliis case into consideration ?
When tying becomes one of the essentials to a
daily supply of bread and butter, perhaps there may
be some little excuse for selling it up as so much
stock in trade. We do not, however, presume to
say that dny right-minded and honorable man can
consent to cat bread thus earned, while there re
mains a spade in the market and a foot of unbroken
earth to be subdued. On the contrary, it is very
probable that those who find themselves compelled
to choose between bread so procured and a change
of vocation, choose that alternative which seems
most congenial to their natures ; that is to say, wc
do not believe that any man ever yet gained hia
subsistence dishonorably who did not, at some peri,
od of his life, have the oilier and belter alternative
freely offered for his acceptance or rejection.
Now, during the Kansas troubles of 1855-6-7,
we are obliged to say that, of our ten or twelve Ad.
ministration exchanges not one pretended to give
its readers the well ascertained facts touching the
true stale of affairs in that Territory. Their miss,
ion was to conceal the truth from those so unforlu.
nale as to read no newspaper, but an organ , only .
and this mission they most industriously fulfilled.
And it finally got to that extreme pass that the Gov.
ernors of that Territory who presumed to tell the
truth in their official despatches to the President,
were commanded to do so no more on penally of los
ing their commissions. Of the five Governors ap.
pointed by the President to administer the affairs of
that Territory, all politically and personally attach
ed to him at the date of their appointment, four have
been removed, or forced to resign, three ■, because
they would speak the truth, and one —not because
he was unwilling to do the rascally work of the Ad
ministration, but that he kept 100 drunk to do U
i celt. Each of the three honorable men—Reeder,
Geary and Walker—were considered orthodox until
they discovered the true state of affairs in Kansas
and, like honorable men, denounced the outrageous
fraud and violence which had drenched its soil with
the blood of its best citizen*. When these men
were degraded from their places, no Administration
paper remonstrated. It was right—the President
had decreed it and it was right. These journalists
never paused to investigate the matter; the Presi
dent said it must be done and that was all (hey
knew, or cared to know. And such is the character
of the Administration Press, everywhere, this very
day. Its conductors are not men of either integri
ty or independence. But the greater part of them
know belter than to follow their leader blindly, and
aredoubly reprehensible because they sin against
the light. Were one to attempt to chase up every
misrepresentation in the Mulatto papers un his ex
change list, verily he would perish from loss 'f
WELLSBOROUGH, FA.
We cannot publish anonymous communications.
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR.
sleep and want of lime to cat. Besides, what you
find In one, you will find in all. There is a fount
ain of misrepresentation in Washington, and from
that fountain every Administration editor fills his
pitcher.
No sooner did the English swindle pass the Honse
than these journalists straitway fell to glorifying the
Administration in general and Buchanan's Kansas
policy in particular. Buchanan was a prodigy of
wisdom and a very saint in purity. We saw no
mulatto sheet that did not take this course and re
peat with p&rrot-like precision the laudations born
ol the Washington Union . There was nothing re
markable in this. Every studied system of wrong
has its Pope, and every Pope has his minions whose
duly it is to chant his praises the more vociferously
as ho grows more iniquitous and cruel.
It so happens that certain pro-slavery men, resi
dent in Missouri, as it is said, a few weeks since
made an excursion into the Territory of Kansas.
They commenced operations by taking prisoners
men engaged lathe peaceful avocations of farm life,
.inoffensive travelers along the highway, among
them a missionary, named Read. Having succeed
ed in capturing eleven unarmed men without the
loss of a man on their side, the excursionists led
their captives intp a ravine and proceeded to shoot
them down in cold blood. Five were killed outright
and five of the remaining six were severely wound
ed, while one escaped unhurt. Tlie offence
men was that of preferring free, to slave institutions*
Now, while arc willing to'admit that men in favor
of Republican institutions must necessarily be hos
tile to the Administration of James Buchanan, we
utterly deny that hostility to modern democracy is
a capital crime.
But the Administration papers differ greatly in
opinion with us upon this head. Such of them as
have come to hand proceed at once to justify these
Missouri murderers in shooting down those unarm
ed men, and exult over the bloody deed as if it were
a praiseworthy act. Gentlemen, cowards arc neces
sarily cruel. There have been no persecutions for
opinion’s sake since the world began that were not
begun, sustained, earned through and justified by
cowards. Of all dastards the moral dastard is the
worst; for he who has not righteousness enough to
condemn the wrong and defend the right is of all
contemptible things the must contemptible. He will
pass through the world with crooked knees and out
stretched chin, smiling when his master smiles and
frowning when he frowns; ready to drench his era.
ven soul with blood for a nod from 1 the powers that
be 1 and never so complacent as when he has apolo
gized for some monstrous but llls
fit that such men should advocate the wholesale mur
der of unarmed men and it is fit that they should
sustain the Kansas policy of James Buchanan.
But there is another Use (o which they might be
put with great propriety, nnd that is as life-members
of the American Tract Society, That Association
has room for the entire race of moral cowards even
though it has commenced breeding them on its own
account. The quicker it gels o&l a treatise on the
beneficent influence of cold-blooded murders in de
fence of its protege, Slavery, the more popular will
it become with Us Plantation patrons.
To suppose (hot the northerri masses can be duped
into believing such monstrous doctrines as the Ad
ministration journals, big and little, are preaching,
is to give the pqople scant credit for common vense
und ordinary intelligence. The masses, as a body,
do know that thefl, swindling and morder are not
in the list of cardinal virtues; nor is it probable that
a thousand advocates of those modern democratic
virtues could convince any honest man that theft,
swindling and murder arc any belter than they were
before James Buchanan and his supporters became
their advocates and abettors. We have a living
faith in the integrity of the masses. The great
heart ot the race beats in true time.
Almost a Hurricane.—A high wind attended
with lightning, hail and rain, visited this region and
many other neighborhoods in this county, during
tho early hours of the evening of Friday last. The
main track of the storm lies to the northwest of this
borough, its direction being from southwest to north
east, This wing ot the storm made considerable
havoc in the timber immediately north of us, twist
ing off large trees and carrying them some rods.
Accounts, of serious damage to fences, buildings,
orchards, &c„ reach os from all parts of the county.
Several hundred rods of fence on the farm of Mr.
C, F. Bailer, a mile below the village, were proslra.
ted. In Dartl Settlement, a barn belonging to Mr.
John Bailey was unroofed and a portion of his or.
chard was torn up by the roots. The orchard and
fences of Mr. Cyrus Dartl sustained some damage;
One freak of the storm in the same neighborhood,
shows the force of the wind, perhaps, belter than
any of its doings beside: Mr. Gillts Duilt had just
completed a fine piece of stone fence which the gale
completely razed to the ground, scattering the ma
terial for some rods on its track.
Two young men, sons of Wilcox of
Dclraar, were on the mad in the t*ivc Mile Woods,
above Babbs*, with a team and during the height of
the blow, when a tree came crashing down upon the
backs of the horses killing them instantly.
A barn belongingto Mr. Philip Kohler, in Liberty
township, was destroyed, together with two cows
and several sheep.
On Troup's Creek, Deerfield township, two barns
wore unroofed and several orchards seriously dam
aged.
We have a rumor from Chatham to the effect that
large logs were taken up and carried to some dis
tance. Also, a rumor from Covington, slating that
the Steam Sawmill owned by Judge Dyer was un
roofed and otherwise damaged, the piled lumber
freely scattered. We learn from the same source
that an orchard, beloog.cg to the same gentleman,
was blown down.
From all we can learn Ihc storm had four princi
pal tracks through the county where it approached
the tornado in violence. The regions interve
ning experienced high winds and copious rain.
The play of the lightning was incessant and sub
lime. For an hour previeus to the bursting of the
storm the heavens presented a curious and interest
ing spectacle. A heavy, but broken mass of cirro
stratus clouds, ulon elevation of half-a-mile, perhaps,
pressed grandly to the southwest. Beneath these,
a sett of fog clouds hurried away to (he north-east;
• still lower and almost touching the hills, a detached
white drift sped away northwestward with the speed
of a race.horse- Everything betokened some uuu
sudl manifestation of the hidden powers of nature.
New Orleans is in the hands of a “ Vigilance
Committee. 1 * Owing to the fearful prevalence of
high crime in that city as also the inefficiency of,
the municipal Government, certain of the citizens
constituted themselves a Committee of Vigilance
and took possession of the Arsenal on Tuesday, 3d
inst. This post they proaeeded to fortify and hold
in defiance of the Mayor and Council. Meantime,
a body of men said to be notorious for their crimes
and whom tho Committee desired to punish, an.
trenched themselves in one of tho streets and pre
pared for a desperate defence. The Committee de
manded the resignation of the Mayor* . That func
tionary held out until Friday afternoon when he re
signed. With bis resignation quiet was restored.
The charter election came off on Tuesday, but no
tidings of the result has yet reached us.
; Mr. Lemuel Todd has withdrawn his Call for a
milk-and-water Convention to which we alluded lest
week. Mr. Todd only went down on his knees to
indite and promulgate that remarkable pronuncU
mentu; whereas Mr. Side Door Sanderson hod over
and over threatened to overwhelm him with the
“ American sentiment” if he did not get down upon
hit belly. So Mr. Todd, after a few days of reflec
tion, went down prone upon his belly, and now we
are invited to meet and smoke the pipe of peace
with the direst foes of Freedom. O, ye political
shufflers who most do congregate about the City of
Cotton! Do you ask honest men to trust a cliche
which has thrice betnyed them 7 It you wish to
disgust the sturdy yeomanry of the North, go on
creep, crawl, bespatter yourselves with the mire of
subserviency and spit on your principlesl But do
not expect the support of honest men, We shall
speak still more plainly next week.
Another Word About Fusion.
The Republican platform we believe to be
the true platform, and upon it we are re
solved to stand. And we believe it to be
broad enough for every sincere opponent of
Democratic misrule to take his place along
side with us. They can do so without the
sacrifice of any living principle, while for us
to step off to meet ultra Americans or those
adhering To ihe Cincinnati platform, would
be the abandonment of our very fundamental
principles, and ihe ignoring of ideas en
grafted deep down in our free -institutions.
Ymi must not ask this of us for vve cannot
do if.
But we have a word further with our
“fusion’ 1 advisers, —we mean those counsel
ling a union with Douglas and Forney
on the Anti-Lecomplon issue. Upon what
reasonable grounds do you ask us to go over
to them? Who originated the opposition
movement to the Pro-Slavery Kansas policy?
Was it Douglas ? Was it Forney ? No,
but on ihe other h;ind they both battled for
it in ’56, The frauds, the tyranny, and the
outrages concocted nnd perpetrated there
were protested against and determinedly op
posed by the Republicans. We sounded the
tocsin of alurm—we warned the country
what might be expected of BuciiaNan, and
we industriously labored for his defeat.—
Where stood Forney and Douglas then?
They fought us bitterly and to the end'.
They stood side by side with the men that
were wronging and trampling upon the rights
of ihe people of unhappy Kansas, They de
nounced us as alarmists and disuntonists. It
was through their energy and engineering
that Buchanan was elected President. Our
predictions have been verified, our prophecies
have been fulfilled. And at last we find
Douglas and Forney rebuking the Presi
dent and strongly denouncing his Kansas
policy. This is all very well', and we give
them credit for it, but is this any reason that
we should accede to their derhands and go
over to them? Certainly not. But on the
other hand it is a positive acknowledgment
nn their part that they were mistaken in *56
—that we were right. Then to undo the
mischief they wrought two years ago, and to
defeat the men and measures bentTjpon sub
verting our Republican institutions let them
come over to us. If they are honest and
sincere they will do it.— JSloomsburg Re
publican,
A Woman can Keep a Secret.— lt has
been demonstrated (hat in Schuyler county
111., where an elderly couple in the vicinity
of Rushvilld had a beautiful daughter—an
only "child—upon whom they lavished all
(heir affections. Two years ago a young
man applied to them for work, and they em
ployed him. His amiable qualities and in
dustry soon won their confidence. He had
been in their employ six months, when the
father having business at Beardstown, sent
the young man there to attend to it, and as
the daughter had some purchases to make
she was allowed to go with him. At night
they returned. Affairs went on for eighteen
months, the only change being made the
pleasure with which the old people discovered
; that the folks were daily becoming more
attached to each other, and they loojsed for
ward lo iheir marriage as a result most
gratifying. Being considerd as “lovers”
they were allowed lo “sit up'* together after
the old folks had retired ; but one night, two
weeks ago, the old gentleman feeling unwell,
rose up, and not finding his daughter in her
own bed, where she ought lo have been,
looked elsewhere, and found her where he
thought she ought not lo have been. Much
noise and confusion ensued. Next day the
farmer posted full speed to Beardstown, had
an interview wiih the keeper of county rec
ords, and discovered that the aforesaid young
man and woman had been legally joined in
marriage for eighteen months, and she had
never, told any person of the fact. —Elmira
Advertiser .
Our accounts from New-Orleans are to
Saturday at 12 o’clock, when a collision was
regarded as imminent. Inflammatory pla
cards had been posted calling upon the
Americans to resist the Vigilance Committee, i
Incendiary, speeches had been made by Col.
Christy, one of the candidates for Mayor,
and also by Col. Henry of Nicaraguan no
lorieiy, calling the Americans lo arms, and
offering to lead them against ihe Vigilance
Committee. Mr. T. P. Whi e, u broker, who
is said lo have furnished the Committee with
cotton bags used for barricades, had been
shot at and dangerously wounded, in front of
the City Hotel. One man had been acci
dentally killed and another wounded, in the
camp of the Vigilnnis. The Committee are
reported lo have a force of 1,500 men en
rolled, — N. F, Tribune , Jane 7,
Sad Death. —The Susquehanna county
(Republican stales that Joseph Barlow, an
Englishman, aged about 61, who had long
been a beloved Congregational clergyman, ai
Franklin, in that county, lost hia life in a
shocking manner, on Saturday night in May.
The family were aroused about midnight, and
found Ihe house was on fire. Approaching
the kitchen where the fire appeared to have
originated, Mr, Barlow opened the door, when
the flames burst out upon him, and he probably
inhaled a portion of Ihe flame as he immedi
ately sank down, and showed no sign of life
afterwards, Hts wife tried in vain to pull
him out, narrowly escaping herself and the
house and its contents was consumed. His
charred remains were found where he fell.
eommtmCcatCong,
For the Agitator.
“Teacher’s Wages.” j
Mr. Cobb; I presuraeAhe article in your
paper, headed “Teacher’s Wages,” ;will be
answered by abler pens than mine before this
communication can reach you, yel,jbeing a
party interested in this question, I cannot re
frain from saying a'few words. |
In the first place, I failed to understand the
“good a,nd equitable reasons for this, peeming
disparity in teachers* wage?,” My sister
teacher, in her letter, did not ask why there
was a difference in wages when there was a
difference in qualifications ; but why there
was such a disparity, when sex alone was
considered. I think our brother. lieacher’a
perceptions must be very obtuse, oHie would
have understood this. 1
If his assertions are dll true, If think he
throws some blame on our Superintendents,
who give certificates to those who jean only
teach “ornamental branches, which render
pupils inert and effeminate”—thus; in one
sense, placing them on an equality Vfjth those
who impart that knowledge to their pupils,
which “awakens them, to the sleep realities
of life, and makes them powerful lo|do battle
wiih a heartless and unfeeling world !”
Really, I think our brother has drawn a
comparison between his iosiructionsjand ours,
quite flattering to himself —quite hiiimbling to
us, I presume he imagines. *1
When he asserts lhat-womnn seldom, or
never is required to understand mathematics,
philosophy or metaphysics, I cap 1 but con
clude that his havejnot been
very extensive, or he has remained wilfully
ignorant, Ido not hesitate to say, that in
ah my experience as a pupil, the best mathe
matician, whose instruction { havCiever been
under was a lady; (and I havejhad some
gentlemen teachers who called themselves
scholars,) and she understood not'one or two
branches, but all. And hers is nql an isola
ted case. . j
He says, “we have a Newton; but where* 1
is tho Newtona 1 We would refer him for a
few moments to the writings of t(ie late Dr.
Dick, on this subject. After point ngto Mrs.
Barbauld, Mrs. Edgeworth, Mrs. ty!oore, Mrs.
Somerville, Mrs. Phelps and many others as
examples of what woman has been, he says,
“we have examples of individuals who, with
out ihe advantages of an acuderi tea I educa
tion, have explored the system of the uni
verse, composed commentaries pni the Newto
nian philosophy, and prosecuted the most ab
struse mathematical investigations; and 1
have no hesitation in asserting thjal academi
cal honors should be conferred ojn such ac
complished female*, nn less than pn ihe other
sex, who have enjoyed more npporiunities of
improvement.” VVe are thankful that (he
world still has some souls to en
tertain like sentiments, and whq desire by
granting equal compensation, fotjjequal labor,
to place within the reach of female teachers,
the means of further irnprpvemept. We ful
ly understand and appreciate that spirit of
monopoly-which leads sojme of our brother
teachers, (not all,) to decry our| abors.
Again, in regard (o school government.—
We have no fears of that spiri. of “young
America.” If the discipline of ! 6ur schools
is to be maintained by ph) sicnl strength alone,
it does not speak very well (oif our school
officers or home education. ;Children who
are properly trained at home, nj*e susceptible
of the influence of kindness. : We speak not
only from observation, buL experience, We
have, more than once or twice undertaken
the task of managing a winiejj school, and
were ever treated with (he greatest respect hy
all the adults, as well as the smaller pupils.
Another difficulty our friend suggests, appears
lo us very trifling. We do-noil know ihat a
teacher is compelled lo hoard two
miles from the school house. Why no» a
few steps as well? It is very kind in our
brother not to require such hardships of u* ;
but it reminds us strongly of Ihe little bov,
who, after earing his own dinner, appropria
ted his sister’s to himself, alleging as his rea
son, that he “feared it might make her sick !‘ s
Sisters, keep the subject in agitation!--'
“There’s u better timej.coming; * L.
Wo' Not “all Tr*ic.”
Fkiend IffiKATOR ; This | negative re
sponse lime since, as I read vour
remarks upon the liquor law, wjhich it seems,
is to be down upon us with all its prospective
blessings to the trade. No ! not all true ;ns
a moralist, and especially a temperance ad
vocate, 1 dissent from your submission that
moral relapse “is a law of the moral uni
verse.” From thorough conviction 1 hold,
that the many revulsions occurring in moral
progress, is more justly attributable to the un
warrantable haste of reformers themselves,
than to any existing law of relapse in moral
ethics. If reformers should jtll be of your
opinion, would they have heart to do contin
ued battle with error? VViihl what zeal, or j
reason, or truthfulness, or assurance, or hope,
could you or I, raise at one? the standard
and the cry of moral reform and freedom 1
from the thrall of existing eviji; in face of the
fact that he “who doelh ail things well” had j
interposed a law of failure betwixt our effirrls
and the Consummation of ri^hl—that right'
for which we labor ? Sir, if Ijconceived such
to be an existing state of fact, 1 should cast
about to see if my own line) of action was
not based upon wrong premises. Now, as
there is (nor can be) no doiibi in the mind of
a true relormer, as to the genuineness of his
commission; so then be shpbld see, that the
relapses into moral defection on the part of
those in whose behalf he jjlabors; and (at
whose present defection you! seem so rhuch
discouraged) are not the result of any over
sight in the head of the department, but are
justly attributable to the irripatienl haste of
reformers. VV.e are in too much haste to
mend rents in the old garments ; so we pul
on too strong patches. We feel ourselves
able to bear the workings!of this wine; but
are hasty in filling weakerl vessels, so that
I Ihey either burst outfight,; dr are strained.—
We become convinced that a principle is cor
tect. Well, does it fojlowithal all our fellows,
or even a majority of theinj are equalltcon
vinced at the same time ? | Ten men in a’city
or township, may be fully a|ware of an exist
ing truth; can those ten| pnact a law and
make its observance obligatory upon the rest
of that community —although the law may
be in accordance with the truth 1 Would it
not be rather the pan of wisdom to labor
longer, and convince at least a majority of
the community to be governed, before attempt,
ing to bind them by legal enactment 1 if t Wo
attempt to bind,.lead or direct an hundred,
and those hundred ar,e coerced, will they sub.
mil with grace? No! It is human nature
and human privilege to resist any innovation
upon human action, upon the part of equals;
unless those innovating equals (in point of
privilege) first convince those most concerned,
of the justice or reasonableness of the mea
sure. This is common sentiment, in every
republic, 1 think. What though a law may
be passed which is not suited to the percep.
lions, minds, or present condition of a free
people; they will either treat it with disre.
gard and silent contempt, or they will bid
open defiance to it. As witness of the first,
look at the “Sunday laws,” the “small bill
restriction,” and for a thundering demonstra-.
lion of the latter, we may cite that monstrous
national outrage upon human rights and hu
man reason—the fugitive slave law. (I crave
your pardon for mentioning the last in com
pany with the former.) A series of oppress,
ive acts like the latter, when attempted to be
foisted upon a people, without their consent,
lead£ to revolution. But ibis is so far from
being a hindrance (o'reform, that it becomes
an actual assistant. It shows that the mass
es have a will to resist oppression and wrong;
and the proper office of the reformer is to
convince the reason, so as to enlist lhat wifi
against the encroachment of moral wrong.
You must assent to my opinion, lhat the grand
error of moral doctors, is, that they apply
the remedy before the patient is prepared to
receive it. Witness the attempt of mission
aries to evaagaiize the heathen be r ore he is
civilized. The reason is manifest to “oulsi
ders.” There is 100 much partisan rivalry
among reformers. As the sectarian misshq.
ary wants to’commit his convert to his sect;
so the moral reformer is sometimes anxious
to sectionalize, or parfisanize his convert.-
Now, such is not only bad policy in itself,
but we look in va>n for precedent in theprac
lied and precepts of our great examplar.-
He did not impose greater burdens tjpon his
followers that they were enabled to carry;
nor faster ?han lhay were convinced of error
and remedy. Then again, there were itnoy
who desired to see the “days of the Son of
Man,” and we.re not permitted to do so.—
Shall we, then, expect to see a world regene
rated and brought into new life, in the f.ica
of nil present hindrance, which has bcc-nags?
in deterioration 1 To be sure, we expect ihj;
in the main, the world of mankind is now 03
the moral advance; hut a “nation cannot be
born at once" —much less an entire world."
It is an axiom, that quick growth is epheme
ral; and lhat is conclusive evidence, in the ,
reasonable observer, of the stability of ba
man progress in the aggregate, it is also a
truism, that “vows made in storms are forgot,
ten in calms.” I would not by these ctla.
linns, discourage the efforts of my innresin
-1 guine brethren, in try ing to reclaim ;li"ine-
briaie ; for ii may he a present benefit to him
or his ; but such efforts lemind one of cra
ping buds from a sturdy tree in order so i-e
-stray its vitality ; w hen nothing shuri r '»
l*?nce to its root will accomplish tin-*. I i-z*
gest lo all, —Let our efforts be direr;, d n
the youth—especially the female portion,at
being most likely to produce permanent coed
to Ihq cause of temperance. Yes! k, li :s
ours to labor and war.'* No! Tt»©l.iwscf
and ’56 were not enforced bv tempering
men. Why ? Because of their tmpracuoiS
fy. O'Connel observed, tins, ‘‘no iegil en
actment could be framed, through which an
acute lawyer could not drive a ho.se and
wagon.” So tins brings us again to iha con
clusion, lhaf when we enact htws in advance
ol the standard of morals in commonly—
i. e. y a majority of community ; f
“driven through}” Was il not so in your
borough? Chatham.
©tttr <£otmponocitcf.
Horrible Tragedy in Linn County. —
Pro-Slavery Murders. — five Free-StM
men killed in cold blood! and Jice others
mounded !
Tor the Agitator.
Friend Cobb: I hasten al my earliest |
opportunity, to give you 1 ! briefly, the partial- i
iurs of the most horrible and coid-bluoasa |
murder ever perpetrated-in Kansan. |
The news reached here last night, in an |
“Evtra”'of the Lawrence Republican t ssuea |
Sunday morning al 10 o’clock, with a com- |
mumcalion bearin'; d.irp, “Moneka, LinnTa- |
K. T., May 20, 1855.” It- appears that 3
parly of Missourians, numbering in all so'-’- :
twenty-five, came into the “Trading Par, j
situaied on the Military road leading ircm £
Fort Leavjrnworih to Fort Scott, where.:®
crosses thb Osage river, about three mils |
from the Stile line. They were not sesa I
umil they emerged from the limber and tv-.: e
up to the store. Here they took Mr. G. w
Andrew and John F. Campbell pn= mers. |g
They then s’arled off in another dircciteo. j|
and overtook a Mr. Stillwell from So; 3 'l*
Mound, who was going up to the River fot* \
load of provisions. He was taken prisoner, s
and the others were ordered to geiinW' 11 ’ -
wagon and ride. In a short time afer ,ne ; v;
overtook a missionary by the name of io’ 3 '-
He was ordered into the wagon and AdJ^ 1 3
dismissed. They continued on fur two ca-* s
and a half when they had taken twelve
These were conservative men, and " e '
taken when al work, without resistance a-'
unarmed. Some of them bad recently ccl! |g
to Kansas and had never been irnpbw'”' ||
the troubles here.
On arriving at n deep ravine in a s.-itn”|gj
limber, the commander ordered a halt. |i|
prisoners were formed into a line a
fifteen feet in advance of the horsemen, ,|s
the command was given to “presen 1 la
fire!” Every man dropped. Font Ba
killed outright and all but one ol I ' ie0 ‘ l
were badly wounded. The
wheeled their horses and galloped n* l, I
few minutes elapsed when three ot lhe j£ I
turned and commenced searching m eir ja j |
lims for money. They were kicitn |
rolled over very roughly to see if [
dead. Ono was found to be slightly **
when a ruffian put a revolver to b |3 ®
fired ; at the same time remarking a
QuiNDiP.o, K. T., Miy 25,1553,