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:BY; S. B. EOV".
CLEARFIELD, "WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1856.
WHY COMEST THOU NOT !
BT JIYRSHA EGERTOS.
Why comest thou not ? The flowers are springing
In the mossy dells, where the Fairies sleep ;
The low soft zephyr sweet music is bringing.
The bright birds are roaming the "upper deep."
It is joyous morn, all nature is blushing
'Neath the ardent gaze of a warm spring sun;
The sombre clad earth, with beauty is flushing.
As she feels his warm kiss ; my sad heart alone
Pineth for joy : my lone offering, a tear,
, Palls 'mid spring roses, for thou art not here.
Why eon) est thou not? The light dew is falling
On the wavy grass 'neath the old elm trees ;
Up 'mid the scant leaves, the sad bird is calling
Her absent loved one the musical breeze,
Like a lute1 of the silver-lined clouds, is breathing,
That floats round the throne of their shadowy king
Of a southern sky, where beauty is wreathing
Summer's rich brow, with the roses of spring. .
'Tis the hour of eve, the bright sun is sleeping
On his gorgeous couch of snowflakes and gold ;
Up mid the light clouds the pale stars are peeping,
And softly the moonlight the forests enfold.
All nature is blooming Hope's leaflets are sere,
Life is still lifeless for thou art not here.
VThy comest thou not? The midnight is bringing
The storm-clouds of life, to ccrshadow my home ;
The sunlight of joy from my fond heart is winging
Its sad mournful exit, for thou hast not come;
Thou hast not come! O, why this delaying?
Am I not wholly and fondly thine own ?
Do I not weep for thee am I not praying
For thee.my cherished one.yctthou hast not come!
Thou hast not coine ; alas for my calling.
It brings not thy light step, or love's low tone ;
My sun is all rayless, life's shadows are falling
AroUnd my low pathway for thou hast not come.
JOHN TAYLOR,
The Timon of the Backwoods Ear and Pulpit.
BT CHARLES 3U1IMERFIELD.
I can never forget roy first vision of John
Taylor. It was in the Court House at Lewis
burg, Canway county, Arkansas, in the suni-mer;-of
1833.
The occasion itself possessed terrible inter
est. A vast concourse of spectators had as
sembled to witness the trial of a young and
beautiful girl, on an indictment for mnrder.
The Judge waitedat the moment for the Sher
iff to bring in his prisoner, and the eyes of the
impatient multitude all centered on the door;
when suddenly a stranger entered, whose ap
pearance riveted universal attention.
Here is his portrait a figure tall, lean, sin
ewy and straight as an arrow ; a face sallow ;
trillions, and twitching incessantly with ner
vous irritability ; a brow broad, soaring, mas
sive, seamed with wrinkles, but not from age
for he was scarcely forty, eyes reddish yel
low, like the wrathful eagle as bright and pier
ang ; and finally, a month with lips of cast
Iron, thin, curled, cold and sneering, the in
tense, expression of which looked the living
embodiment of an unbreathed curse. He was
Labited in a suit of new buck-skin, ornamen
ted after the fashion of Indian costume, with
hues of every color of the rainbow.
Elbowing his way slowly through the crowd,
and apparently unconscious that he was regar
ded as a phenomenon, needing explanation,
this singular being advanced, and, with the
haughty air of a king ascending the throne,
Bcated himself within the bar, thronged as it
was with the disciples of Coke and Elackstone,
several of whom, it was known, esteemed
themselves as far superior to those old and fa
in ous masters.
The contrast between the outlandish garb
nnd disdainful countenance of the stranger,ex-
cited, especially, the risibillity of the lawyers ;
and the junior members began a suppressed
tjttcr, which grew louder, and soon swept a
found the circle.
They doubtless supposed the intruder to be
some wjld hunter of the mountains, who had
never before seen the interior of a hall of jus
tice. Instantly the cause and object of the
laughter perceived jt, turned his head gradu
ally, so as to give each laugher a look, his lips
curled with a killing smile of infinite scorn ;
his tongue protruding through his teeth, lite
rally writhed like a serpent, and ejaculated its
sap-like poison in a single word.
"Savages !"
No pen can describe the defiant force which
be threw into that term ; no pencil can paint
the infernal furore of his utterance, although
it hardly exceeded a whisper. But he accent
ed every letter as if it were a seperate emis
sion oT fire that scorched his quivering lips;
laying horrible emphasis on S both at the be
ginning and end of the word. a
"SavageS !"
It was the growl of a red Tiger in the hiss
of a Rattle-snake. .
"Savages !"
The general gaze, however, was immediate
ly diverted by the advent of the fair prisoner
who then came in surrounded by her gnara.
Tho apparition was enough to drive a saint
piad. For hers was a style of beauty to be
wilder the tamest imagination, and melt the
coldest heart, leaving in both imagination and
heart a gleaming picture, enamelled in fire
-tw fixed in a frame of goia irom iuo au
It was the spell of an enchantment to be felt
. wll a. neen. You might feel it in me nasu
of her countenance, clear as a sunbeem, bril--r:-.
;. rnntour of her fea-
uaui as m t " . . , .
mrical as if cut by the chisel of
n 4i,t ? in her hair of rich auburn ringlets
flowing without a braid, softer than silk, finer
than eossamer : in the eyes, blue as tho lieav
en of southern summer, large, liquid, beamy ;
t .r.,i swimming, like the
eentle waftures of a bird's wing in the sunny
air; in the figure, slight, etherial, sylph's or a
seraph's; and more than all, in tho everiasi
". c;ia r.f hi nutr i?n. so arched, so se
lilr atai-llotit and vet DOSSeSSing mt
rsrwer of magic or of magnetism to thrill the
As the unfortunate girl, so tasteful dressed,
so incomparable as to personal charms, calm
and smiling, took her place before the bar of
her J udge, a murmur of admiration arose from
the multitude, which, the prompt interposi
tion of the court, by a stern order of ''silence"
could scarcely repress from swelling to a dea
fening roar.
The Judge turned to the prisoner: "Emma
Miner, the court has been informed that your
counsel,. Col. Linton, is sick. Have you em
ployed any other V
She answered in a voice as sweet as the war
ble of the nightingale, and clear as the song
of the skylark :
"My enemies have bribed all the lawyers
even my own to be sick ; but God will defend
the innocent !"
At this response, so touching in its simple
pathos, a portion of the auditors buzzed ap
plause, and the rest wept.
On tho instant, however, the stranger, whose
appearance had previously excited such mer
riment, started to his feet, approached the pri
soner, and whispered something in her ear.
She bounded six inches from the floor, uttered
a piercing shriek ; and then stood trembling
as if in the presence of a ghost from eternity ;
while the singular being, who had caused her
unaccountable emotion, addressed the court,
in his sharp ringing voice, sonorious as the
sound of bell-metal.
"May it please your honor, I will assume
the task of defending the lady."
"What!" exclaimed the astonished Judge,
"are you a licensed attorney ?"
."Thc question is irrelevant and immateri
al," replied the stranger with a venomous
sneer, "as the recent statute entitles any per
son to act is counsel at the request of a party."
"But does the prisoner request it ?" inquir
ed the Judge.
"Let her speak for herself," said the stran
ger. "I do," was the answer, as a long drawn
sigh escaped, that seemed to rend her very
heart strings.
The case immediately progressed ; and as it
had a tinge of romantic mystery, we will epi
tomize the substance of the evidence.
About twelve months before the defendant
had arrived in the village, and opened an es
tablishment of millinery. Residing in a room
connected with her shop, and all alone, she
prepared tho articles of her trade with unwea
ried labor and consumate taste. Her habits
were secluded, modest and retiring, and hence
she might have hoped to avoid notoriety, but
the perilous gift of that extraordinary beauty,
which too often, and to tho poor and friendless
always proves a curse. She was soon sought
after by all those fire flies of fashion, the pro
fession of whose life, everywhere, is seduction
and ruin. But the beautiful stranger rejected
them all with unutterable scorn and loathing.
Among these rejected admirers was one of a
character from which the fair milliner had ev-
ervthin-r to fear. Hiram Shore belonged to a
famiiy, at once opulent, influential nnd dissi
patcd. ne was himself licentious, brave and
lerociously revengeful the most lamous duel
ist of the southwest. It was generally known
that he had made advances to win the favor of
the lovely Emma, and had shared the fate of
all other wooers a disdainful repulse.
At 9 o'clock on Christmas night, r37, the
people of Lewisburg were startled with a loud
scream, as of one in mortal terror ; while fol
lowing that, with scarcely an interval, came
successive reports of fire arms., one, two, three
a dozen deafening roars. They flew to the
shop of the milliner, whence the sound pro
ceeded, pushed back the unfastened door, and
a scene of horror was prcscnt3d. There she
stood in the centre of the room, with a revol
ver in each hand, every barrel discharged, her
features pale, her eyes flashing wildly, but her
lips parted with a fearful smile. And there at
her feet, weltering in his warm blood, his bo
som literally riddled with bullets, lay the all
dreaded dualist, Hiram Shore, gasping in the
last agony. Ho articulated but a single sen-
. - - i j
tence : "Tell my mother that 1 am aeaa anu
gone to hell !" and instantly expired.
"In the name of God, who did this 7" ex
claimed the appalled spectators.
"I did it," said tho beautiful milliner, "I
did it to save my honor !"
As may readily be imagined, the deed cau
sed an intense sensation, ruunc opinion,
however, was divided. The poorer classes,
crediting the girl's version of the facts, lauded
her heroism in terms of measureless eulogy
But the' friends of the deceased, and of this
.nii,v fnmilv. eave a different and darker
color to the affiair, and denounced the lovely
homicide as an atrocious criminal. Unfortu
nately for her, the officers of the law, especi
ally the judge and sheriff, were devoted com
rades of the slain, and displayed their feelings
in a revolting partiality. The judge commit
ted her without the privilege of bail, and the
sherifl chained her in tho felon's dungeon !
Such is a brief abstract of the circumstan
ces developed in the examination of witnes
ses. The testimony closed and the pleading
began.
First of all, three advocates spoke in sue
im prosecution ; but neither their
cession ivi f
.,mMn(ir their arguments aro worth preser-
Tln-. Orators of the blood and thunder genius
..miallr partitioned tneir nownng
eloquence
betwixt tne prisons u uvi
robed counsel, as if in doubt who of the twain
was then on trial.
As for the stranger, he seemed to pay not
tho slightest attention to the opponents, but
remained motionless, with his forehead bowed
on his hands, like one buried in deep thought
or slumber.
When the'proper time came, however, he
suddenly sprang to his feet, crossed the bar, j
and took his place almost touching the jury.
ne then commenced in a whisper, but it was
a whisper so mild, so clear, so unutterably
ringing and distinct, as to fill the hall from
door to galleries. At the outset he dealt in
pure logic, separating and combining the pro
ven facts, till the whole mass of confused ev
idence looked transparent as a globe of glass,
through which the innocence of the client
shone, brilliant as a sunbeam ; and the jurors
nodded to each other signs of thorough con
viction; that thrilling whisper, and fixed con
centration, and the - language, simple as a
child's, had convinced all.
He then changed his posture, so as to sweep
the bar with his glance, and began to tear and
rend his legal adversaries. His sallew face
glowed as a heated furnace ; his eyes resem
bled living coals, and his voice became the
clangor of a trumpet. I have never, before
or since, listened to such murderous denun
ciations. It was like Jove's eagle charging
a flock of crows ; it was like Jove himself hurl
ing red-hot thunder-bolts among the quaking
ranks of a conspiracy of inferior gods ! And
yet in the highest temper of his fury, he
seemed calm ; he employed no gesture save
one the flash of a long, bony forefinger direct
in the eyes of his foes. He painted their ve
nality and unmanly meanness, in coalescing
for money to hunt down a poor friendless wo
man, till a shout of stifled rage arose from the
multitude, and even some of the jury cried
Shame !'
ne changed his theme once more. His
voice grew mournful as a funeral song, and
his eyes filled with tears, as he traced a vivid
picture of man's cruelties and woman's wrongs
with particular illustrations in the case of his
client, till one half of the audience wept like
children. But it was in the peroration that
he reached his zenith, at once, of terror and
sublimity. His features were livid as those
of a corpse ; his very hair seemed to stand
on end; his nerves shook as with a palsy
he tossed his hands wildly toward heaven,
each finger stretched apart and quivering like
the flame of a candle, as he closed with the
last words of the deceased Hiram Shore
'Tell my mother that I am dead and gone to
hell !' His emphasis on the word hell embod
ied the acme and ideal of all horror ; it was
that wail of immeasurable despair. No lan
guage can depict tho effect on us who heard it.
Men groaned, females screamed, and one poor
mother fainted and was born away in convul
sions.
The whole speech occupied but an hour.
The jury rendered a verdict of 'Not Guilty,'
without leaving the box, and three cheers, like
successive roars of an earthquake, shook the
old coart house from dome to corner-stcne,
testifying the joy of the people.
After the adjournment, which occurred near
sunset, the triumphant advocate arose and
gave out an appointment : I will preach in
this hall to-iight, at 8 o'clock.' ne then gli
ded off through the crowd, speaking to no one,
though many attempted to draw him into a
conversation.
At eight o'clock the court house was again
thronged, and the stranger according to prom
ise, delivered his sermon. It evinced the
same attributes as his previous eloquence of
the bar ; the same burning vehemence, and in
creased bitterness of denunciation. Indeed,
misanthropy revealed itself as the prominent
emotion. The discourse was a tirade against
infidels, in which class the preacher seemed
to include everybody but himself; it was
picture of hell, such as Lucifer might havo
drawn, with a world in flames for his pencil.
But one paragraph pointed to heaven, and that
only demonstrated the utter impossibility that
any human being should ever get there.
"Birds of a Feather Flock Together.".
The truth of the above adage has been singu
lar'.y proven by the report from New Hamp
shire that ex-Gov. Hubbard, the only surviving
member of the famous Hartford Convention
is stumping that State for James Platform Bu
chanan. The Hartford Convention was a I ed
cral Assembly, Gov. Hubbard a blue light
Federalist, and James Buchanan an old Fed
eralist also ; and of course they will support
each other, if for no other reason than early
associations and the glory of the days of auld
lang syne." The old Federalists who opposed
the war of 1812, now go for Slavery, Cuba.
war, and the spoils of office. "Old Buck
should surely win now, with the moral and ac
tivc influence of the notorious Hartford lon
j ,:, frr. TTnrra for "old blue
veuiiuu i u uia v. -
light Federalism '"Telegraph.
Ttis related of Thomas F. Marshall, that a
Judee having once fined him thirty dollars for
. t r Honrt. he rose and asked the
tUUlvuii '
t..j ion him the money as he hadn't it
wa no friend present to whom he
could so well apply as to his Honor.
This was
The Judge looked
at Tom and
a stumper.
then at the clerk, and finally said, "Clerk, re
s Mr. Marshall's fine; the State is better
.via n lla fhirtv dollars than I am.-'
aisiv v 9
TTIE BLOODY LAWS OF KANSAS.
Freedom of speech and freedom of the Press
are guaranteed by the Constitution. The Lo
cofoco leaders claim that they wish to sustain
the Constitution. Below we give one of the
acts of "the bloody code of Kansas." It in
fringes upon both the above constitutional
rights. And yet Mr. Buchanan and the De
mocracy are bound to uphold these laws, which
the National Intelligencer says "are a disgrace
to the country and its free institutions, and a
greater invasion of public liberty than were
tho acts which brought the head of Charles I.
to the block." The Administration have or
dered the entire disposable force of the Army
there, to aid the Border Ruffians and Slavery
propagandists to enforce these laws at the
point of the bayonet, and never to cease until
tho Free State Settlers are exterminated by
the employment at once of all the power and
vigor of the military and the Southern marau
ders in that region.
The following law was passed by the Border
Ruffian Legislature, and is now being enforced
upon the doomed people of Kansas at the
point of flic bayonet by the United States
troops. Read it thoroughly.
Jin Act to punish Offences against Slate Property.
bee. 1. lie it enacted by the Oovernor and
Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kan
sas, That every person, bond or free, who shall
be convicted of actually raising a rebellion or
insurrection of slaves, free negroes ormulat
toes in this Territory Shall Suffer DEATH.
Sec. 2. Every free person who shall aid and
assist in any rebellion or insurrection of slaves,
free negroes or ruulattoes, or shall furnish
arms, or do any overt, act in furtherance of
such rebellion or insurrection, Shall Suffer
DEATH.
Sec. 3. If any free person shall, by speak-
ixg, writing or prixtixg, advise, persuade or
induce any slaves to rebel or conspire against
any citizen of this Territory, or shall bring in
to, print, write, publish or circulate, or cause
to be brought into, printed, written, published
or circulated, or shall knowingly aid or assist
in the bringing into, printing, writing, pub
lishing or circulating in this territory, any
book, paper, Magazine, pamphlet or circular,
for the purpose ol exciting insurrection on
the part of the slaves, free negroes or mulat-
toes, against the citizens of the lerritory, or
any part of them, such person shall be gcilti
OF FELOXT AND SUFFER DEATH.
Sec. 4. If any person shall entice, decoy or
carry away out of this Territory, any slaves
belonging to another, with the intent to de
prive the owner thereof of the services ot such
slave, oi with intent to effect or procure the
freedom of such slave, he shall be adjudged
guilty of grand larceny, and on conviction
thereof shall suffer DtAlLI, or be impris
oned at hard lauor lor not less than ten years
Sec. 5. If any person aids or assists in enti
cing, decoying, or persuading, or carrying a
way or sending out of this Territory any slave
belonging to another, with intent to procure or
effect the freedom of such slave, or with intent
to deprive the owner thereof of the services
of such slave, he shall bo adjudged guilty ol
grand larceny, and on conviction thereof shall
suffer DEA11I, or be imprisoned at hard la
bor for not less than ten years.
Sec. 6. If any person shall entice, decoy, or
carry away out of any State or Territory of
the L nitcd Stotcs, any slave belonging to an
other, with intent to procure or effect the freedom
of such slate, or to deprive the owner tlicreol
of the services of such slave, in this Territo
ry, he shall be adjudged guilty of grand lar
ceny, in the same manner as if such slave had
been enticed, decoyed or carried away out of
the Territory, and m such case the larceny
may be charged to have been committed in
any county of this Territory, into or through
which such slave shall havo been brought by
such person, and on conviction thereof, the
person offending shall suffer DEATH, or be
imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten
years.
Sec. 7. If anv person shall entice, persuade
or Induce any slave to escape from the ser
vice of his master or owner in this Territory,
or shall aid or assist any slave escaping from
the service of his master or owner, or shall as
sist, harbor or conceal any slave who may have
escaped lrom the service of his master or own
er. he shall be deemed guilty of felony, and
punished by imprisonment at hard labor for not
less than fite yeats.
Sec. 8. If any person in this Territory shall
aid or assist, harbor or conceal any slave who
has escaped from the service of his master or
owner in another State or Territory, such per
son shall be punished in like manner as if such
slave had escaped from the service oi ms mas
ter or owner in this Territory.
Sec. 9. If any person shall resist any officer
whilst attempting to arrest any slave that may
have escaped from the service of his master
or owner, or shall rescue such slave when in
custody of such officer or other person who
may have such Slave in custody, whether such
Slave has escaped from the service of his mas
ter or owner in this territory or in any other
State or Territory, the person so offending
shall be guilty of felony and punished by impris
onment at hard labor for a term not less than two
vears.
Sec. 10. If anv marshal, sheriff, or consta
ble, or the deputy of any such officer, shall,
when required by any person, refuse to aW or
assist in the arrest and capture of any stare that
may have escaped from the service of his mas
ter or owner, whether such Slave shall have
escaped from his master or owner in this Ter
ritory or any other State or Territory, such of
ficer shall bo fined in a sum of not less than
one hundred nor more than five hundred dol
lars.
Sec. 11. If any person print, write, introduce
into, publish or circulate, or cause to bt brought
into, printed, written, published or circulated, or
snail Knowingly aid or assist tn cringing into
printing, publishing or circulating within this
Territory, any book, paper, pamphlet, maga
zinc, handbill or circular, containing any
statement, argument, opinion, sentiment
doctrine, advice or inuendo, calculated to
produce a dissatisfaction among the slates
in this Territory, or to induce such Slaves to
escape from the service of their masters, or
resist their authority, he shall be guilty of iev
osr, and be punished by imprisonment at bard
labor for a term not less than pre years, -
See. 12. If ant frex person, bt spkakino
OR WRJTIJjO, AiJIKT OK MAIKTA1S THAT PMSONS
HAVE NOT THE RIGnT TO HOLD
territory, ot shall intioduce into this Terri
tory, PRINT, PUBLISH, WRITE, CIRCULATE, OR
CAUSE TO BE WRITTEN, TRIATtu, riw.-.
cracuLATBu in tdis territort, any book, pa
per, magazine, pamphlet, or circular, contain-
so ANT DENIAL OF THE RIGHT OF PERSONS 1U
HOLD SLAVES IN THIS TERRITORY, oin.it i'0""0
shall be deemed guilty of felony, andpunished
by imprisonment at hard labor for a term not
less than two years.
Sec. 13. o person who is conscientious.)
opposed to holding of Slave, or vho does not
admit-the right to hold Slants in litis territory,
shall sit as a Juror on the trial of any prosecu
tion for the violation of any of the sections of
this act.
This act to take effect and be in force from
and after the 18th day of Sept. A. D. 18.
Signed J. U. Stringfellow, Speaker of the
House. Attest, J. M. Lyle, Clerk. Thomas
Johnson. President of the Council. Attest,
J. A. Halderman, Clerk.
IIOURIRLE AFFAIR.
McRrERixa and Scalping. Dr. Root, who
went out to Kansas with the New Haven com
pany, has just returned, via Iowa, having
reached New York on the 7th Sept. in com
pany with Mrs. Hops, widow of Mr. Hops, who
was recently murdered and scalped near Leav
enworth Cily. The facts in regard to . that
savage murder, as related by Dr. Root, are as
follows : Mr. Hops had been in the Territory
but a few days. He had hired a Louse in
Leavenworth City, with the intention of mak
ing that place his home, and was on his return
from Lawrence, whither he had taken his wife
(who was out of health,) to remain a few days
with her brother, the Rev. Mr. Nutc, the Uni
tarian clergyman. When he had returued to
within about two miles of -Leavenworth City,
aud within sight of the residence of Mr. Wal
lace, a Free State man, he was met by a Ru
ffian on horseback, who inquired where he
was from ; and being informed that he was
last from Lawrence, the stranger drew a revol
ver and shot him through the head. Mr. Hops
was in a buggy, and the horse starting along,
the murdered man fell to the ground. The
Ruffian tprang from his horse, took out bis
knife and scalped his victim, when he remoun
ted, and putting spurs to his horse, rode rap
idly off in the direction of Leavenworth City.
This fiendish outrage was witnessed by Mrs.
Wallace and her daughter. A teamster in
the service of tho United States, drove up and
saw the bodv before the pulse had ceased to
beat. The name of the savage who perpetra
ted this horrid deed, is Fugert, and he is well
known in Leavenworth, and belongs to the
Ruffian party encamped at that city, under
command of Atchison. He had made a bet of
?6 against a pair of boot?, that he would go
out and return with an Abolitionist's scalp
within two hours. On his return to camp, he
obtained his boots, and, then placing the scalp
of his victim on the end of a pole, paraded the
streets with it, boasting of his prowess; and
all this almost within hail of Fort Leavenworth
where the United States forces are stationed,
under command of Gen. Persifer F. Smith.
A German named Eimber, who expressed him
self rather freely in regard to this horrible
barbarity, was shot dead on the spot, and a
nother man, who also reprobated the act,
saved his life only by precipitate flight, with
pistol-balls whistling freely about his head.
On hearing the fate of her husband, Mrs.
Hops, in company with her brother, Mr. Nute
and about a dozen other citizens of Lawrence,
started for Leavenworth to obtain the body of
Mr. H., and give it Christian burial. When j
near Lawrence the party were captured, and
held as prisoners, by a band of ruffians under
Capt. Emory, the man of whom nopshad hir
ed the horse and buggy. The body of the
murdered man had been buried, and the ruffi
ans refused the widow the consolation of look
ing upon her husband's grave. Seventy dol
lars were found in the pockets of the murder
ed man, all of which went as funeral expen
ses, leaving the disconsolate widow in the
hands of the ruffians, without a dollar. She
desired to leave the scene of her terrible sor
rows. The ruffians at first refused to let her
depart, knowing that she would be a swift
witness against their savagery ; but she finally
succeeded in getting on board a boat bound
down the Missouri, the captain of which, out
of compassion, protected her, and gave her
a free passage to St. Louis. On the boat she
related her story, and was tauntingly told by
the heartless and ruffianly passengers that she
was uttering another "Abolition lie."
Among the party who accompanied Mrs.
nops from Lawrence to Leavenworth, and who
were taken prisoners, was Dr. Avery, an esti
mable Quaker gentleman from Richmond, In
diana, who went out to Kansas to obtain facts
in regard to the actual state of things there,
intending to return in a short time.
Soliloquy. While walking in the Mall tho
other evening we overheard the following so
liloquy by an individual who was reclining at
his ease on one of the granite ottomans "I
wish I was a ghost, blam'd if I don't. They
goes wherever they please toll free they don't
owe nobody nothing and that's a comfort.
Who ever heard tell of a man who had a bill
against a ghost T Nobody. They never Tuy
hats and wittles, nor licker, nor has to saw
wood, and run arrents as 1 do. Their shirts
never have to bo washed, nor their trowsers
don't get out at the knees as I ever hearn tell
on. . Ghosts is the only independent people I
knows on I really wish I wai one. Hast If I
don't!" -
PATBIOTIC.
Gen. Houston, in a very eloquent speech,
made in the Senate, just before the close of
the last session, gave utterance to this truly
patriotic sentiment :
"They tell me if Fremont Is elected, forty
thousand bayonets will bristle about the Capi
tol that tli" Soath, in fact, will secede. Mr.
President, I scorn the suggestion ! There will
be neither bristling bavonets nor secession.
If Col. Fremont shall be elected by a majority
of the people, though I am not his supporter,
I shall respect the majority of the people; and
to Col. Fremont, as the Chief Magistrate of
their choice, 1 shall pay my respectful homage.
It is downright treason for any class of men,
North or South, to intimate that in the event
of the election of a candidate tcHwhom they
are politically opposed,' they'" will take the
groundof hostile resistance.- TheA'oice of tho.
people deliberately expressed through the bal--lot
box, must and will be respected by good,,
law-abiding citizens, whatever part of the
country they inhabit. If Mr. Buchanan shall
be called to the Presidential chair, it will be by
the voice of the people. That voice, by tha
citizens of the freo States, will be respected;
If Col. Fremont is called to this high office,
it will also be by the voice of the people, and
that voice will be respected by the citizens of
the slave States, with the exception of a small,
insignificant band of conspirators and diau
nionists. PhiVa Sun.
AMZHICAN POLITICS.
An English paper speaks thus facetiously of
Presidential affairs in the United States:
"There aro three political parties in the U-
nited States the Wooly Heads, and Hard
shell Abolitionists, and the Silver Gray Soft
Shells. The candidates of these respective
parties for the Presidency are Fillmont, Fre
chanan, and Buckmore. The Yice-Presiden-cial
nominations are Doncnridge, Daytelson,
and Breckton. The Fillmont and Doncnridge
party arc opposed to the extension of slavery
South of Dason & Mixon's line, and are like
wise ardent champions of the Tariff principles
ofjllarry Webster and Daniel Clay, statesmen
still held in grateful remembrance in tbcStates. "
The Frcchanan and Daytelson men wish to
have the seat of government removed to Kan
sas where Horace Greely resides, while tho
Buckmore and Breckton party advocate the
election of foreigners to office. (This is sup
posed to be because offices have been lately so
much disgraced by the conduct of those occu
pying them, that they wish to keep natives
out.) There is a fourth party whote nominee
appears to be one Mr. Jessie, but our advices
from America do not give us a clear idea of
the principles which he represents. To jndgo
from the little that we have gleaned we should
judge he was a Southern Rights Barnburner.
However, no matter what turn affairs may take,
the Americans will be sure to have a Presi
dent!" London Paper. ,
An Astonishino Man, Famed throughout
the World. New York and London are now
the great manufuctuting depots 1 or Holloway'a
Pills and Ointment. From number 80 Maiden
Lane, this city, and number 244 Strand, Lon
don, are sent forth, daily, millions of boxes
and pots of these inestimable medicines. The
heavy duty imposed by our government upon
patent medicines, and the large and constantly
increasing sale of Holloway's Pills and Oint
ment in this country, determined their propri
etor to make this city his residence. Our re
publican system of government is also in har
mony with the predilections of Professor Hol
loway ; and though Kings and Emporcrs have
conferred upon him honors and especial favors,
these will never be so gratifying to him as the
grateful hearts of millions of free citizens,
who without any endorsement of sovereign au
thority, freely patronize his celebrated rerno
dics for the prevention and removal of disease.
As a member of the medical faculty, having
long witnessed the inefficiency of the profes
sion in curing disease, and being familiar with
the errors and follies of the profession, we leel
it an imperative duty to acquaint the Ameri
can public with the arrival of this distinguish
ed physician in our city. His fame, in a mea
sure, preceded him to our shores, but the ex
tent of the good he has done in the world has
never yet been proclaimed to an American,
public-- Great as his reputation is, it is des
tined to increase far beyond that which ever
adorned the character of any roan whose pro
fession was that of healing the sick. We shall
embrace other occasions to explain to the A
mcrican people the system, the theory and mode
of cure adopted by Professor Holloway. . His
Pills and Ointment, the one taken internally,
and tho other applied externally, act in har
monious conjunction, and if his directions are
followed, will eradicate every disease incident
to man in all climes. They purify and cleans
the body, and restore healthy action to every
organ. Our space will not permit ns to eav
more at this time respecting this distinguished
man and bis celebrated remedies. He has one
ambition, and it is an honorable one. He wish
es to have the world for a patient ; and he will
succeed in his desire. It is our object to ad
dress the American public in a series of arti
cles, showing conclusively that, in the whole
history of medical science, no medicines hava
ever been offered for their use which are so ef
ficacious in restoring health and preventing
disease as those of Professor Holloway. In
this series of articles we shall necessarily ex
plain much ot the. human system, and thos
physiological laws of life controlling our bo
dies, both in health and disease.-' The Ameri
can public are sufficiently intelligent to judge
of their own interests, and it Is no longer in.
the power of those styling themselves regular
physicians to conceal from them Important
trutba concerning thslr health. N.Y.Citi'
behOJder's Heart. -