Who Refuse to Settle the Kansas Question? - It is beyond doubt that a number of sen sible men in Congress, from the South, strong ly inclined to accept the Criltenden-Mont gomery amendment to the Senate Lecomton bill, because it would have had the. certain effect of settling the question of Kansas. The spirit of that proposition was not only peace, but perpetual peaee. It was advocated and carried through the House under cumstances more than usually auspicious. Men surrendered old prejudices to support it, and prepare to nationalize themselves upon the broad end permanent platform which it offered to them. But it was not acceptable to those whoso cry is that they are tired of Kansas. It was not satisfoctory to those who wanted Kansas disposed of. It was abhorrent to those who protest that the agita lipn about Kansas was ruining the nation and retarding the public buisness. They fought this amendment, and they defeated it, and in this stead adopted a plan, the only efect of ichich is to keep alive the Kansas excitement and throw the Kansas element, like a firebrand, into the fall elections. This plan was the English iniquity. Presented'by the gentle advocates of compromise and of quiet, it is an unrevealed measure of strife—in a word, the very best weapon that could be placed in the hands of the enemies of the Democratic parly. Ii insults and goads the people of Kansas in every conceivable way. It tells them that they shall come in as a slave Stale with a population of 30,000 but must remain out, if they desire to have a free Slate or, in other words, if they desire to vote according to the spirit of the Kansas-Nebraska act 'without they can show a population of 93,- 000; and it also offers a bribe to induce them tQj, betray a principle. The afalhors of this plan knew it would be repudiated by the people of Kansas, but they persisted in forcing it till rough Cougress. When it is rejected, of course the whole case, which would have been inevitably settled by the Crittenden bill, comes up before Congress and the country. We revive this remembrance in order that ihose who are so “lired of Kansas,” and so sick of “bleeding Kansas,” and so anxious to “settle the Kansas question,” may not forge} who it is that refuse to remove this fatiguing subject from the national arena.—Phila delphia Press. Why is he Pursued. ffm. M. Connolly, a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, gave shelter in his humble room to a man and wdman who needed shelter, and 'who subsequently proved to be fugitives from slavery. They were hunted out by U. S. officers and their arrest attempted. The man defended himself, wounded the officer and was killed in return. The woman was carried back to slavery. If Mr. Connolly commited any offence whatever, it was a very slight one, and which, it would naturally be supposed, would be speedily forgotten for ever. Not so, however. On the contrary, Connolly was sought at once to be arrested, but he had fled the city. From that lime he has been steadily and persistently pursued until he was recently discovered in New York, seized and dragged to Cincinnati and com pelled to enter into bail for his future ap pearance for trial on a charge of given shelter to those fugitives. Why such a persistent watch should be kept and such an inde fatigable pursuit maintained for the arrest of a person in a case like this will no doubt excite question. Men are certainly not doing it out of an abstract veneration for the land and a patriotic devotion to the Constitution and Union nor would it be thought probable that the slaveholder would pursue his wrath perpetually at the perpetual expense of his purse. The explanation may be found in the fact that the fugitive law offers a per petual reward for persecution and arrest of all such persons. The Government has put a bounty on them sufficient in amount to in duce the inhuman scoundrels who infest every city to keep their noses on the scent for jk life time. The records of the case in Cin cinnati already shows a sum of 8820,88 ex pended for arresting this man nearly all of which has gone into the pockets of the Gov eminent officials, and probably they will packet as much more before the case is ended. It is glorious opportunity for whiskey-bloated ruffians to travel at the expense of the Gov. ernment and flourish a little “brief authority” In the face of the world, an opportunity which no consideration of self-respect de cency or humanity ever tempts them to forgo. If Government should require them to go into the hunt on all fours as an appropriate attitude, they would not hesitate a moment to do it, but would yelp the face of creation over for the consideration offered. It is the whole government of the United States, with its police and purse against one poor in dividual—the command being to hunt and persecute him to the death. Attempted to Drown Himself.—A gentleman residing on a farm some nine miles from this place, attempted to drown himself last evening, whilst laboring under tempo rary derangement of mind. He gave, with very sober countenance, and in good lan guage, the reasons which induced him to this act, and appeared to be much affected with what he considered the imperativeness of the mandate which impelled him. He said he “was standing near the water, looking id* tently upon the clouds, where he saw God creating a dog—he had often seen Him create them, out of the mists. So interested was he, that he did not think for a moment of the wrong he was committing in gazing upon the scene with uncovered head, until be heard a voice of thunder commanding him off his hat, and to atone his wrong by drbwrt ing himself. He th'pn knew he bad done wrong and asked for forgiveness ; but the doom had been pronounced, and could not be recalled. God told him he would trust him with the task, when he walked into the river as far as he could, and then stuck his head under,'fully intent upon executing the sentence.” He was fortunately arrested by a gentleman at this juncture, but appeared quite indignant that he should be interfered with in bis obedience to the mandate of God himself. The unfortunate man was, not long since, one of the most promising end brilliant young men in the county, and had as fair prospects of success in life as any man in our community. —Harrisburg Telegraph. THE AGITATOR. M. 11. Cobb, Editor Ac Proprietor. WELLSBORODGH. FA. TtanridaT Morning, July 1, 1858. * # * All Business,and otherCommunicallonsmusl be addressedto the Editor to insure attention. Ws cannot publish anonymous communications. A letter from an occasional correspondent at Bat* tie Creek, Mich., was mislaid and recovered too late for Ibis paper. We republish this week the revised list of Com mittees of Vigilance. Morris was inadvertently omitted in the list as first published. One name on the Committee for Liberty has been changed. M Aspirations for Fake.** Tour poem is much ton lung for publication, even were it faollleu. Bat it has some prominent faults, metrical and rhythm ical. Were it short we might remedy it in so much; ae it is the manuscript is held subject to your order. You can do belter, so try again. A heavy storm passed over Jersey Shore on the afternoon of the 22d ull., doing considerable dam age. The Vedette says that, during the height of the storm, tha lightning struck the telegraph wires and smashed up all the relay magnets in tho'office, melting the wires and exploding with a noise like a rifle-shot, Jones thinks wild lightning rather un ceremonious. The Mammoth Pictorial Brother Jonathan for the 4th of July may be found at (he Book Store of Smith & Richards. It is a first-rate thing and those wish ing a copy will do wisely in going early. We may as well mention in this connection that persons within range of this Foil-Office wishing to take any of the various Magazines will, be enabled to procure early numbers at the Book Store. We have received the annual Circular of the Uunlsville (Ala.) Female College, for 1858, by favor of Mrs. Ruckman, late of this village and now a Professor in that Institution. Number of pupils registered the current scholastic year is 184, with 101 in the Music department. Mrs. Ruckman lakes charge of lire Senior Class neat Term, commencing Sept 6. A very fine engraving of the College edi fice and grounds accompanies the Circular. We are requested to state that the proposed Cele bration at Osceola, announced last week, is indefin itely postponed, from prudential reasons. The small pox is moderately raging in the adjoining neighbor hoods and it is not deemed advisable to call a pro miscuous crowd together under the circumstances. We learn that Dr. Wm. B. Rich died at his resi dence in Deerfield, with the varioloid, on Thursday last. We have heard of no other fatal cases. The inhabitants in the infected district may possibly profit by keeping in mind the fact that terror not only impairs the power of the system to resist in. feclion, but greatly aggravates the type. Cool blood is a fiue repellent of fever. Plagiarism. —We call the attention of the editors of the Erie Constitution to a little instance of lit erary piracy in the columns of the last week’s No. of that paper, by one “ Madge.” It consists in her appropriation of a beautiful fugitive piece originally entitled “ Over The River,” and which she appro priates under the caption “ The River of Death.” The poem has been going the rounds of the papers for ayear, anonymously, and was first published in the Spiritual Age, if we mistake not. It may be a ” striking coincidence,” very striking indeed if _a coincidence. We know that editors are liable to be imposed npon in these little matters and presume our friends will not consider this an attack upon ed. itorial infallibility. July 4, 1776 vs. July 4,1858. Haring no superstitious regard for fast, feast, or anniversary days, local or national, we do not in. lend to glorify that aerial highway robber, the Amer. ican Eagle, to the extent of a single line, nor to ag onize over the ‘gellorious stars and stripes;’* nor to enlarge on “ British tyranny,” “ martyrs who fought, and bled, end died”—and much more of the stock in trade of modern patriots. Oar readers will get enough of that species of glory before next Sun day morning, even if they have not been surfeited heretofore. We shall look at this great anniversary day as it appears to us, stripped of its varnish. The plain truth is, the observance of this partic ular day in July has become one of the grossest ex amples of formalism ever set before any people,— From a day of thanksgiving and grateful remem brance it has degenerated into a day of riot, confus ion and excess. Your 4lhof July orators must stu diously conceal the awful gull which yawns between the Republic as it was half-a-cenlury ago and the Republic aa it has become under the rule of politic al hucksters. Your 4th of July orations are, there fore, a stereotyped form of self-glorification. They have neither bone, muscle, nerve, blood or brain- They are the zoophytes of the intellectual creation, having lungs in excess, but destitute of that supe rior vital organ—the heart Do not, primarily, blame the oiatora ; they are required to avoid speak, ing of those things which are supposed to give of. fence to squeamish politicians. They are forbidden speech touching flagrant national crimes. Like not a few modern pulpits, 4th of July rostrums are not deemed proper places from which denunciation may be hurled upon the head of living, patent wrong. Egotism is a national trait in ibis Republic. Our orators ore, apparently, fall of the glory of “the greatest and freest nation on which the sun shines.” This is “ the asylum for the oppressed ot all na tions,” “ the land of the free and the home of the brave,” “the hope and the guiding star of nations,” u Freedom’s Aararat,” « Freedom’s ark,” ” the vir gin soil upon which Liberty builded her sacred fane,’* and found a final resting-place after she withdrew from Greece, flew over the Adriatic, dipped her pin iona in the muddy Tiber and finally butted her life out against the Tarpeian Rock—emerging into the resurrection state when Christian men had dispos sessed the original owners of the New World* Let us breathe. Now all this sounds very well, but it lacks, some what ; Good friends, it's nothing but poetry and nothing la brag of at that. We are a negro catch ing, manatealing. woman-selling nation. That is veracious prose. We grind down millions ot help less creatures under the iron heel of bondage and justify the deed “ under the Constitution.” And these—the oppressed of this Model Republic—find rest and asylum under the sheltering wing of the nation whose tyranny gave us the 4th of July. While we have been glorifying the devotion of our ancestors, England has steadily advanced until she now stands with open arms, to receive and, protect the unhappy fugitives from our legalized injustice and oppression. How is it with us 7 Asa people we have not so much of freedom 10-dty as we had ten, twenty or filly years ago. Fifty years ago Slavery was de. plored as a very great evil by a largo proportion of the people, north and south. To-day, Slavery rules in the Senate, in the Cabinet, everywhere. Ten years ago the Courts everywhere and uniformly de cided that Slavery had no existence under the com THE TIOGA moa law* To-day it i» declared to eziat where it ia not interdicted by positive and local law, and even there, ia the. matter of sojourn and transit. Ills now held by the highest legal tribunal in the land that Slavery eziats everywhere by virtue'of the or* game law, and mast therefore be cast oat by posi tive enactment. Thus ia that Liberty of ,which so great boast ia made by 4th of July oratora, made an accidental rather than & natural right; made the puling creature of local legislation and not the boon of a just God to all men, aa was declared from the steps of Independence Hall eighty-lwo* years’ •go. It is not necessary to show that George Washing ton deemed Slavery and onrthen new-born Freedom incompatible; it U not necessary to show that Jeff erson declared the bondage of African Slavery to be more unbearable that that of the colonies under the rule of Britain; it ia not necessary to show that the voice of every great and good man of the old time waa lifted up agiinst lhe crime: All these facts are now notorious. It is only necessary to ask whether any country may boast of its freedom while one-sizih of its population are bought, sold and worked like brutea or its soil 1 If yea, then Free dom never had an existence except in the eztrava gaol mythology ol Greece and Rome. If nsy, then it best becomes reasonable men to cease this fulsome laudation of a government whose councilors put scourges into the hands of three hundred thousand petty tyrants and bid them lash the bare backs of twenty-four millions of their peers. The..clap-trap of modern Independence Day conceals tha truth just about as effectually as gaud and glitter couceal the courtesan. Friends, bis it come to Ibis, that the troth moat not be told daring one entire day in every year 7 and tbit day the 'ancient Sabbath-Day of the Nt. lion, too 7 Is this the way to recover the ground lost to that belter freedom whose root was planted two-and-eighty years ago 7 It is the way to de. slroy every vestige of it Already the dearest rights of the Stales are set at nought That clause of the Constitution which declares that u The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the several Stales,” is practically annulled by the Dred Scott Decision. The man with a drop of African blood in his veins is declared to have “no rights which a white man is bound to respect” The mistaken individual who may give a morsel to a fainting fugitive from bonds more cruel than violent death, dares the double pen alty of fine and imprisonment! Standing face to face with these truths, can it be the duly of honest men to seal their lips 7 It is no part of their ’ duly to remain silent; it is a crime to gloss these facts over. It men believe in free institutions let them try to recover those we had, but have no lunger. We are among those who look forward to a day when the Anniversary of American Independence shall Indeed be celebrated, not with empty ceremony bat with thanksgiving. It may be afar off; it may dawn upon devastated fields and sacked cities; but whenever it comes it will be acceptable. Our Tillage was considerably stirred up last week by the news that Judge Grier, U. S. District Judgo, had appointed J. Emert, Esq., of this place, U. S. Commissioner, alias u nigger.catcher,” for this re gion. The democrats declared that His Honor off. ered the appointment to some of the rabideat politi cians of their stripe resident in the Wilmot District, but that none felt it their duty to undergo that kind of martyrdom—Union, or no Union, Mr. Emery was then appointed, and, as our democratic frieuda declare, accepted the appointment. He, however, requests us to state that he left hla resignation 0 n file in the Clerk’s Office at Williamsport. So that, if the appointment was made, it was declined at an early momsnt. The joke of the thing is said to be, that, failing to find any Tioga democrat ambitious of the bad eminence of hunting fugitives, Judge G. was constrained to forage on the Black Republican party. It was not a bad “drive,” anyhow. W© ahonld be very loath to think any man in Ti. oga county, of any par ly, capable of accepting the office of slave-catcher; nor do we believe that any respectable man would either seek or accept so de grading an office. And we do not just now know of any neighborhood in this county where & slave catcher would be able to dwell with any considers, ble degree of comfort, or where the full discharge of bia duties would be either pleasant or profitable. For one, we should rather like to see the experiment tried than otherwise, since nothing less than the na. ked operation of that accursed law, la every North ern neighborhood, will open the eyes of some people to its utter hideousness. Ay, give as a nigger-hun. ter, Mr. Buchanan ! We want to see if men mean what they say. Give us the most contemptible and unscrupulous chick in your coop! Sines Ihe Vedette published the Sanderaon.Swopc- Flsnagsn Call fur a State Convention, we took it for granted that it fully endorsed that kind of union— at least we refused to publish it lest publication might seem, in some sort, an endorsement. If the Vedette thinks that the candidates of that Conven. tion will be placed on a strait-out Republican plat form, it must have struck a fog-bank long before our catechism reached it. It is not our intention to mis represent its course or its position ; but we do not conceive it to be necessary that any man should be praise either Douglas or Forney, personally, in order to endorse him politically. To accept an issue created by those men, and to make it the rallying cry of a campaign, is sufficient endorsement for all practical purposes. We have no fault to find with our friend's course on the Crittenden amendment. His'course was judicious. It may be well enough to reiterate what we have so often taken occasion to say, namely, that we can work heartily with any map who unequivocally puts himself upon the Philadelphia Platform. All who choose to come to that ground will be good enough Republicans for us; but as for compromi sing and backing down to accommodate Swope &. Co., that is one of the not tu-be-tbought-of move ments. As to the disagreement between our friend of the Vedette and ourself, this much may be said: He says that we desire to reach at a stride what he considers attainable only by a succession of strides. Wa have never advocated anything of that kind; we have said, and quite often, too, that the parly could not get ahead so long as it attempted to ac complish that feat by going backward. The fable of the hare and the tortoise concerns our fusion friends, not us. Our watchword is 11 Action 1” The alleged outrage! upon American vessels are, in the main, proving to bo no outrages at all. The troth seems to be that vessels engaged in the Slave Trade generally sail under the American flog. Is .it not a little singular that the flsg or a Democratic Government should be used to cloak this nefarious traffic ? Not very strange; more slavers sail away from the single port of New York every year than from the ports of all civilized countries beside. - It is not strange. The Government is known to be in the hands of the Black Power and is therefore sup posed not to be inimical to the traffic. And this ac counts lor this sadden revival of tire Slave Trade on our shores. Bear in mind the fact that nearly all captured slavers are American built vessels, and commanded by Americans. Bear in mind that onr war vessels seldom molest these same slavers; the COUNTY-AGITATOR. British cruisers do thatkind of business. It ia wall enough to keep theae facta in mind. , And now, do., anybody suppose the slave trade could have been revived independently of the conni vance of onr Government 7 Say that to the marinea. K won’t pats with raiding and reflecting men. We really hop* onr respected' friend* of the Lew isburg Chronicle and Bloomaburg Republican will try to laugh at each other’, jokes instead of getting out of humor.- What if a certain parsnn did say that hie daughter we. grievously tormented by a devil, during WordanVapprenticeship ? and what if Worden retorts' by saying' that a certain other par son preached from a text not over complimentary to Doctors on aetaled occasion when Dr. John 'was present 7 Jokes are jokes, the world" over, friends ; and next to perpetrating a good joke, we rate being the victim of a good, respectable joke, in which there is plenty ot fun and no damage to temporal things. Keep cool, friends. The July number of The Atlantic Monthly cornea (o us full-freighted - with literary substantial. We notice among its lighter articles, “ Three of Us,” “The Kinloch Estate" and Holmes’* racy “Table- Talk.” Whittier furnishes one of his inimitable Old Colony poems. The contents of this number ere rather more varied than usual. It may boob, tained at Smith & Richards’. Horrible Murder In Michigan— Religion* £xcltenxeul. A hoirible murder' was committed on Tuesday in (he town of Mill River Point, Macomb county, near the line of ibis county. It appears that two brothers and a sister were living in that town. They were French. The sister was the housekeeper of the broth ers. The two brothers appeared at the house of a neighbor, living- some three or four miles distant, at about twelve o’clock night before last, and awakened them. Upon arising, he found the two men in a strange condition. They were both naked, and had bands made of straw tied around their waists. With ibis exception, there was nothing upon their bodies. They said they wanted shelter and assistance, as the people were after them, and were about to take them. Being asked why, they said they had killed their sister. The story was not credited, and they were taken in and placed in an upper room which was well guarded, as their actions excited suspicions of insanity. Yesterday morning the farmers in the neighborhood gathered together, and went to the house of the biothers, and there met a most horrible sight. They found the man gled body of the young girl, stripped naked and lying in a wagon which stood in the road near the house, in the house waa found a man who had nearly lost bis life in defence of the girl. His name is Defair which is all that we have respecting his case. The house presented all the traces of a desperate strug gle, in which the young girl had been mur dered and then dragged out of doors. Her hair was cut off close to her head by these mad fiends, and she was thrown into a wagon' in the barn yard, which was then drawn round to where it waa found. Her breast was ihll of gunshot wounds, and her face was cut up in an undistinguishable mass of gashes. She was then left in her blood, while (he murderers sought the neighbors. The murderers are like insane men, but have not been previously known as such ; and how two persons could thus become in sane at a moment’s notice, and commit so horrible a deed, is a mystery. They said that they were prompted by God to kill her because she persisted in going to church every Sunday, and asserted that they had made three attempts before they had accom plished it. The opinion of the inhabitants of the vicinity is that the insanity is a re ligious one. If any insanity exists, this is probably the true cause, but it may be only a cloak to cover up a diabolical deed, ami es cape its consequences. —Detroit f ree Press, June 11. A Case op Docbtpui._ldentity. —Robert McAuley went from Lucasville, Scioln Co. Ohio, about six years ago to California, leav ing a family behind. During his absence they have been receiving letters from him, and only a short time ago they received a letter from him, in which ho slated that it was his intention to reiurn home. He also wrote that he was nick. During this week a gentleman presented himself at Piketon, and represented himself as Robert McAuley, and said he was out of money and was not able to walk home. Mr. Hallam Hempstead kindly volun'eered to take the sick man to his supposed family. He was taken to a near relative in the neighborhood, where his wife (as he claimed) lived. The wife was sent for. She came, but failed, and. utterly re fused lo recognize him. She said he was an impostor, there being no resemblance between him and her husband. The gentleman endeavored lo relate cir cumstances to convince his wife and friends that he was no impostor—and did seem to know almost everything lhat it would be sup posed Mr. McAuley ought to know. The family and brothers still refuse lo acknowl 'edge him, and we understand that he is now in this city, sick and out of money. What adds lo ihe mystery of the whole affair, is the seeming plausibility of his whole story. He knows all his old neighbors and everything about their -history, yet his family don’t know him. Some of the neighbors say it is him but others deny it. The whole mystery will be solved in time. He is now in this cily, and will perhaps go upon the legal charily of the township.— Portsmouth Rep. Twenty-six Years in Prison. —We yes terday received a call from Barnum, the pris oner pardoned out by the Legislature, after a confinement of 26 years in the prison at Wethersfield. He expresses a good deal of gratitude to the many friends who interested themselves to gel him released. The outer world appears to him very different from what it does to those accustomed to mingle in its every day changes. ' The wonderful changes and inventions of the Inst 25'years are all new to him, with about the same de gree of wonder as if he had just risen from the dead, after a sleep of a quarter of a qen lury. He never until yesterday saw a print ing press, a railroad, or a train of cars. He was taken to the depot at noon to see the ex press train come in and was of course much astonished at the sight.— Hartford Courant. The lArgat Gold Hogget la tbe World. The following account 'of this ‘waif,’ which we would, like to have,‘picked up,’ is from the London Times : Whoever wants to realize a digger’s wild est dreams must inspect this nugget —larger than ever yet miners hoped, to find, or geolo gists believed to exist. It is a solid mass of virgin gold, two feet four' inches long, ten inches broad, and from , one to two inches thick, weighing no less than 1,743 ounces. Hero end there are small holes about the size of a pea, in which some- ?arth yet remains, and the total quantity of this impurity is es timated at only six ounces; the rest is a sol id mass of metal, as bright as if made at a jeweller’s shop, and as soft and malleable as lead-. It was found at the Kingower diggings, by four men—Robert and James Ambrose, from Gravesend, and Samuel and Charles Napier, from New Brunswick. The finders had been working at these diggings; which are about 120 miles from Melbourne, and considered by no means rich or even, profitable, for about four years, during which, in their quanz crushing operations (though the quartz yielded no leas than one pound weight of gold per ton,) they had contrived to lose a large sum of money. Shifting- their ground, at last they took to sinking a,hole about six feel’ square, and in this, at about fifteen feet below the surface, imbedded in pipe clay, one of the party struck a huge mass of ore with his pickaxe. Having cleared away about fifteen inches of it and found no end, he had an idea that he had struck upon areef of gold, .and overpowered by, his discovery and its conse quences, he became and subsequently bilious,” and could hardly proceed with his work. Ho managed, however, to clear away the soil from it, and with the help of bis mates, he got it lifted and placed in another part of the hole in an old sugar bag. The next con sideration was how they were to take care of it. They consulted, and the result of their deliberations showed a considerable amount, of what is known in Australia as “colonial experience.” After wailing till the time when the neighboring diggers were at dinner, one of the party was despatched to l|teir tent, dis tant about a quarter of ja unite, and brought a wheelbarrow. They then got the nugget to the surface, placed it on! the wheelbarrow, and, in order not to create suspicion, placed a tub on it and wheeled it to their tent, left it there, and returned to their “hole,” and on getting home at night, after weighing it with a pair of common steelyards, to find out its value, they sank a hole ‘six feel deep imme diately below their dining table, and buried it there until they had worked ther claim (about three months longer,) during which time they got a few pounds more gold, the largest piece, which they still have, weighing upwards of ten ounces. J Having disposed of thejir tent and other fixtures, the party set oul[ in their own con veyance for Melbourne., The journey occu pied four days and nighisj They were well armed, amLone of them always went ahead as a a double Barrelled gun heav ily loaded. At n.lghl, two! kept watch, while ihe others slept under cover of the carl. — Having got it to Melbourne, nnd into a place of securiiy, the news spread abroad, when a rush of several thousands made for Kingower, nnd first carried the news to the astonished neighboring diggers. In , comparison with this noble specimen (the actual value of which is £8,000,) all other.nuggets that have been discovered, sink into complete insignificance. In North Carolina, a piece} was found in Ca banas county, weighing J 37 lbs„ and in Para guay many pieces of from 1 lb. to 50 lbs were discovered in a masaiof rock which fell from some unknownjteak in one of the est mountains of the district. Several pieces of from 16 lbs to 30 IbsJ have been found in the Ural Mountains ; and in 1842 a piece was found in the valley of Taschku-Targanka in Siberia, which weighed 93 tbs. The size of the present specimen, however, exceeds by more than 50 lbs., all qlKer pieces yet dis covered, for scarcely any qf the masses found in California, we believe; have been of more than 50 lbs. weight, and even these had a considerable per centagejof dross. Arrest op a Roguish Woman.—A woman named Mary Toucy was arrested in Lowell, Mass., on Tuesday week, for larceny of clothing. It turns opt that she is notori ous in the way of crimej iShe escaped from Ihe New Hampshire SlateTrison in Novem ber 1856, having been sentenced for horse stealing. She effected herlescape by digging round and loosing the spikes in a plank in a cell with a pair of small ’sdissors. - This was the work of many weeks. Al last she ru mored the plank, passed out, and wenfto the attic, made a rope of clothing,**nd by it lowered herself into ihe yard, where she ob tained a ladder, by which she scaled the walls and escaped. In passing a farm house near town, she saw a man undress and pul his pants upon a chair.' (After ha was asleep she raised Ihe window, dqd with a bean polo drew his pants from thefehair, and found in his pocket one hundredjand fifty dollars in money. From the day of her escape till now they had been able to get no trace of her. She is now 25 years of age. Though the Republicans have found in Mr. Montgomery a powerful foeman, we hope they will be as generous in their sup port of him at the polls in. October, as he has been bold in his supportiof great constitu tional principles. —Phill Press. Only two years ago l|ie' Republicans were denounced as the “enemies of the constitu tion now they are appealed to to sustain a Democrat on the ground of his “support of great constitutional principles I" Then we are not “enemies of the; constitution j” eh 1 —Pittsburg Gazette. i : Cairo, at the junction jof the Mississippi and the Ohio, is almost entirely swept away by the great flood in the former river. On Saturday afternoon a crevasse opened on the Mississippi side, through 1 which the water poured at a fearful rate,; filling up the space between the levees, and flowing over the em bankment on the Ohio i side a distance of a thousand feet. Nearly |all the houses were tumbling down, drifting away or sinking, and the water still rising. , Hyiteriau Death at lowa. Miss Catharine Guthrie, an or| twenty-three years, a native of Bl ( has been for some months put an the family of Dr. Holmes, of Wjj married her sister. She is reprea have been a girl of handsome p« ISQt mind, of cheerful temperament, g ( and of an'affectionate and confiding L On Saturday last she went out into’t’ os . rie in company with a young l a( j. 1 Princeton, and a young gentleman of 5 net, to whom report says she was if spent a portion of the day in gathering', era, and in the after part, made one mg excursion. During this time the exhibited no , a depressed condition of mind, but >e gay as any of the parly. Returning,, village at nightfall, with her compand Princeton, they passed the evening i pany at the house of a neighbor. ,t> o’clock, the young gentleman, to who* said she was engaged, accompanied i* to the step of her sister’s residence, a;- invited him in, but he declined on the of being weary. Dr. Holmes came in about one o’cIoq ; lbs morning and observed no indiciif restlessness on (he part of the sleept was- so near that every breath cool been heard. In the morning early discovered that Mias Guthrie was in a condition, and 100 far gone to eibibi. least sign of consciousness, and in a st time life departed. In some portion of the bed was small bit of paper, appatently lorn ft-’ letter, and in pencil marks, recognized handwriting of Miss : Guthrie, was n few lipes, slating to her friends that .• happier than she had been, and re that no examination of her body shoa;. made to ascertain the cause of her detiii No signs of poison of any kind found, or of any other means wherein could have been produced, nor is it that she ever purchased any poison she could have used for the purpose, m means by which she accomplished bet for; remains a mystery, never likely to be £ vealed, as the friends have strictly coa;<l with her request in declining to makes J mortem examination. f A Young Devil. —The Baltimore i publican gives the following ae a lii. plqita of the son of a very reaped able ::; of that city. The young villain a a fifteen years old : I “Not long ago a young Newtons;- dog, the favorite of his father, wusstcn! lied by -this young Nero, who saturated; body with campheoe or eiherinl oil, am t fire lo tbe inflammable fluid, which hai; effect of roasting poor Towser until hi; came extinct, after the endurance of the c intense, agonizing sufferings which thj; man, mind can conceive. “The young demon, being well pleiad, the result of this grand experiment ms: elly, next endeavored also to roast aloe; little sister, a bright, intelligent child, ar six years olds Having playfully bound legs and arms with a clothes line, ispi her upon the cooking-stove in riip kw heated to an intense degree in order to pare dinner for the family. Theshrteki yells of the agonized little victim sere tunately heard by the mother, who r.c down and removed the poor child before was fatally injured. Toleration of the t:.: villain's crimes had now ceased to beir tue, and the father was engaged in preen lions to-effectj.his removal to the Ho'-r: Refuge, when hopeful youth sudd;: disappeared at night from his dwelling,!; no tidings have been heard of him since.’ A Perilous'Position “to a Mo n Tree.” —The Freeport (III.) Bulkin's the following story: Mrs. Barmingham, wife of the misters chanic of ihe Galena Chicago 1:2 Railroad at this point, made a very tut? escape from drowning last week. Itapf# that she was being conveyed by a hi red c* l to Pecalonica. When they were about a mile and a half of that point * were compelled to leave their carnage in take to a boat, into which they stepped ■? two gentleman, who were there watting carried over: - They had rowed some of. tance, when a dog, which was , alongside, put his paw upon the side cts boat, upsetting it and precipitating i' s -; cupanls into about ten feet water. T« ; the men swam ashore. The other succeeJ in reaching a tree near by, up which he tt pered. Mr* .Barmingham, after sinking!** was caught by the man in the tree, at until persons from shore came la their!?* which was in about three quarters of an l> :? The only injury Mrs. B sustained w« d* chafing of her arms, in holding to the e»j and severe cold. After the gentleman ': 1 ? secured his footing in the tree, he found s_ had a necklace in the shape of a rallies* He succeeded in releasing himself fro® !i E dangerous companion without injury f One of the gentlemen lost his wallet taining over 8100 in money, beside vak* 51 paper*. The Biter Bit.—An Albany geo ,leSll to prevent his creditors from getiins I"'/* peny, recently signed off some $3O, Oft' 1 real estate to his two step-sons. Steff 3 had deeds recorded, and in about th ree had the real estate converted into o without the step-father knowing about the matter. Having converted reMy late into money, step-sons started West, leaving step-father to "lake swearing.”! Step-father having put alls properly out of his hands, finds bimseh •* y out sufficient funds to go in pursuit of y sons. Verdict—served the Albany B*** . man exactly right. —Elmira | Pitt An Argument fob Swill Milk." , lice, of the Louisville' Journal, think* l^ stop should at once be put to the «*' - trade in New York, yet very coolly a , “But, were it quite certain that race of babies in New York would, 'I ’P^t to grow up, make no better men l * iaD *.^f proportion of their fathers are, th« 1 ! sion of distillery milk would not pot ■ important,”
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