BY S. B. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., VEMESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 18-57.
VOL. 4.-NO. 7.
For tAe "Rafstsma?i''s Journal."
LINES:
Inscribed to my Sister and her JTushand on the
Death of their "Dear-Youngest."
BT MYRRH A. MAT.
(lone, gono. thou beautiful baby;
Gone to the holy land ;
Fled to join thy brother in heaven
Soul to soul, hand in hand.
Hand in hand, in that bright glory;
t-oul to soul, forever there ;
Grand harps of g4d are given to thee ;
Shining crowns your bright brows wear.
Fo unl:3t in your complexions:
Ilia eyes the dark deep blue;
Ilia soul was in them thine the melting ;
Thice the skies owu sunny blue.
Lovely buds of promise were ye ;
Brothers four that we might love;
Two leu to gladden this earth for us;
Two aii with Christ above ;
Lambs of his flouk, cucrish'd children,
Uatker'd iu his great fold,
Dwelling there in lods glorious heav'n,
ycrer, never to bo old.
Flowers of erth, dolicate blossoms,
From thid 'il quickly riven.
Taken to bloom iu that better land,
'.;one to the garden of heaven.
I 3a tfceo last at the- gravo-yard,
Thy coffin was tpen there;
Tbesun's last beams ki.s'd thy pale features :
O (Jod, what is there more fair.
Dori in the Jc'.h of uiy heart he answers :
lae seraphs that flash before my throno ;
The cherubs that ever shall see my face,
0 hear '. the face of the Holy 0b.
Zk Tiller C:':v, -Irgiut Sijf, 1857.
FRED LINCOLN;
OS, THE REFORMED DRUNKARD.
Fred Was sick. Poor fellow, he had dissi
pated by far too much for the last year ; had
snpnt nearly all his money, and now lay pros
tr;ed od his sick bed at the house of his grand
mother. He bad been sick and confined to
Ms bed some three weeks, and the frequenters
of the Uvern of the town were lar from satis
fled with this, and many the one, both landlord
and visitor, expressed the wish that he might
soon recover, for what, reader 1 but that they
might complete the work they had nearly done,
viz: dnw from him the last cent. Not for the
enjoyment of bis society altogether, did they
wish him well, but for the few remaining dol
lars in his pocket. The "setters" got many a
dime from the same fallen Fred Lincoln.
Some two years previous to the present state
of things, Fred Lincoln's mother lived, and
feltrond of her noble and honored Frederick.
All loved and honored him. He used to com
fort his widowed mother by all tho many at
tentions and deeds of kindness which a son
eocldthink of. But at last the cloud of misery
began to appear in the east, and rose high in
the bright blue sky of his happiness, and final
ly drove the golden sun from view in the west,
and night came close on following, leaving
Frederick Lincoln, first an orphan. None but
his grandmother left now to care for him, but
she could do well tho part his mother had
done. .
One day there was to be a pic-nic, got up by
the young people, and as they were anticipa
ting and making such excellent preparations
for it, Fred took a notion to go, though he
vowed within himself before he started, that
he would take no girl in his charge, but be free
to go where he chose. The place designated
for the pic-nic, was near a small village. Ar
rived there, Fred managed to get away from
the many ladies and gentlemen who sought his
company and walked towards the village. A
little from the skirts of the wood, and a short
distance from a large mansion, which be gnes
scd must be that of the wealthy Stephen Stet
n, Esq., be sat down beneath the shade of a
(ail tree, and on the bank of a stream, be fell
asleep. .
He had slept some -time, when he was a
ronsed by something laying heavily upon bis
arm. lie leaped up, and found a dog had been
laying by bis side, with his head resting on
his arm. He spoke to the dog but the dog on
ly whined and jumping np, ran towards the
brook. Curiosity prompted him to follow,
and be found the dog continued to whine and
rnn on ahead, down the stream. The dog was
heavy Nc -foundLui 1, and looked strong e
r cgh to hold down a very atrong man.
Suddenly the dog gave a leap into the
stream, and started to wade across. On fol
lowed Fred, and wheu they reached the oppo
site shore, the dog led the way a little below,
where Fred observed the water began to grow
deeper as they proceeded on. On turning a
corner of the stream, he espied, laying upon
the of the bank tho form of a woman.
te dog crouched at his feet and whined. He
went to her side, and found she breathed light
ly. Having a small bottle of wine in his
pocket, he bathed her face and in a jew srinotes
uio came loo, so thai she oped her eyes, and
looked strangely around. Her clothes were
LVmg wet, and Fred judged that she had fal
len in the stream, and tho Newfoundland had
saved ber-
"Where, where ami? Ob ! I bad a dread-f-sl
i-am. thought I was drowning, and
butwho'are you?" she cried, starting back
aid looking in astonishment at Fred.
Tz; l '"'.I ber the circumstances whioh led
Lim there and she thanked him for his kind
ness, and invited him to go to the bonse. :
. Fred consented, of course, andoS thoy start
ed conversing on various subjects on the way.
Fred was 3ure he had never in bis life before
seen such a beautiful girl, and one so near per
fection, and ere he reached the entrance of the
fcdj's bouse, h was tre, quite sure he wis in
love with her. But when he looked up and
saw her about to enter the beautiful mansion
of Stephen Stetson, Esq., Le started back, and
not without emotion, said,
"Do you live here "
"I do, most certainly. Come in. My father
will wish much to see you and know you that
he may pay you for your services to me since
my absence, love," she rattled on, laying her
jewelled hand on his arm. But Fred stirred
not, but stood, looking abstractedly upon the
ground.
"Pay ! yes pay ! me. I thank you. I
will return 1 guess, lady," he murmured.
"Oh, my genorous deliverer, forgive mo, I
meant it not, indeed, I did not think what I
was saying. Come do please oblige me by
coming with me," she cried, catching at the
way he had taken her speech.
"Lady, your father would not be pleased to
sec me hero, more than to thank me and most
likely to offer me pay as you said, for the lit
tle service I have rendered you. So I now bid
you good bye, and if ever we shall moot aga:n,
or if not, remember I do not by my favors, or
acts of kindness, ask for p.13- in money," and
Fred was about to go on when she again caught
hiin by the arm, and gazing fixedly into his
eyes, earnestly said
"You will not forgive me for that word, I
see. But if you will not stay now, come and
see me at some future time. Will you not,
my dear friend.
"I will, sweet lady, if ever I can. Fare
well!" And after raising the hand of Miss
Stetson to his lips and pressing one kiss there
on, he turned from the spot, while she watched
Iiis form until it was lost from her view, when
she entered the house to change her habit for
a better and dryer one.
Fred arrived on the grounds when the pic
nic was just breaking up and getting ready for
returning home.
That night lie dreamed of nothing but the
lady he had parted with a few hours since.
Time and time agaia he had been to the
house of tho lady Stetson, until the aristocrat
ic and wealthy Mr. Stephen Stetson, began to
suspect that an intimacy was springing up
between them, that would ripen into love, and
that he would be asked to bestow upon the poor
man tho hand of his daughter Julia. And
now, be had openly told him to visit his house
no more, and even ordered the plebean, as he
called Fred, from his house. Poor Julia fell
on her father's breast and besought him to for
bear, but no ! be was still stronger in his deter
mination, for that proved conclusively to him
that he had adopted the only course under the
circumstances which would answer his pur
poses. Fred Lincoln then rushed madly from
the honse, and stopped not till he reached the
house of his grandmother.
Day after day Fred grew more and more
gloomy, and finally, as the "boys of the town"
said he wanted nothing but a couple of "bev
erages" per day, he drank, and continued to
driiik for a whole year, at the expiration of
which time, we find him as we stated at the
commencement of this sketch, sick, on the
bed at his grandmother's house.
One evening, about nine o'clock, a carriage
drew up at the door, and the next minute a
light knock came upon the ears of Fred, who
was getting better,. and his grandmother went
immediately to the door, when -a voice asked
"Does Frederick Lincoln live here. Is he
sick, Uiat is, within this house ?"
"He is, poor Fred. Won't you come in and
see him 1 He don't look much as he use to."
"It was a young lady who entered, followed
by a young man of much personal beauty.
She advanced to the side of the bed, but when
she saw that face, so haggard and pale, she
started back and exclaimed
"Is this Fred ?"
But look at Fred. See ! he half rises his
head, and cried
"Misa Stetson yoa here V
"Yes, Fred. Do yoa not know me J Do
you not remember me " she asked, taking his
hand.
"Oh, God, do 1 7 Do I ? Yes j as one lost
to me forever," he cried.
".No! say not so, dear Fred," said she, pil
lowing her head upon his bosom. Then rais
ing her head, she said
"This is my brother, whom we long since
thought dead, but who has returned to witness
tho joy and happiness of his sister Julia and
her reclaimed Fred. My poor father is dead,
and when be died he told me if I could find
you I might fulfill the vows we made one year
ago. You will soon recover, and I trust will
never visit the hells of the town again, will
you?"
"No. Bless thee, Julia. So help mc, God,
never ......
In the mansion of tho late lamentable
Stephen Stetson, live the reclaimed Fred Lin
coln, and his beautiful bride, Julia Stetson,
and with them is her brother, who is soon to
be tho husband of tbe lady at his side, as the
four stand an, the piazza n front, thinking of
the sudden death of the grandmother of Fred.
r7-Tbe use af s,teel axles and tires is com
mon on the German railroads. We understand
that they are also being introduced, into this
country in & limited measure.. .
ririn some fields in Franklin county, Mass.,
the potatoes have rotted so badly that it is
Ycry offensive in passing them.
AIR AND ITS USE.
The pressure of atmosphere on the body of
a medium-sized man is equal to a weight of
30,000 lbs., which were it not resisted by an
equal atmosphere from within, would instantly
crush the strongest frame into atoms. One
pound of air measures about 13 cubic feet.
A room 8 feet high, 12 wide, and 13 long,
contains about 100 lbs. of air ? and a room
40 feet square and 18 feet high contains about
a tun. But the pressure of air on the body is
not the same at all times. Every alteration
of an inch in the mercury of the barometer
adds or removes a weight of 1,080 Irom the
average weight which a man of common stature
sustains. The effects of sudden change in
the attmospheric pressure are often shown in
the shape of headache and apoplexy. Tho
impurities of the atmosphere are the secret
cause of a great variety of diseases. The
decay of organic matter, vegetable and animal,
generates numerous substances which are pre
judicial to health. The air is tho grand rescr-
voir into which all volatile matters escape,
inany of them bearing the principles ol con
tagion and pestilence. But we are not without
the means of avoiding this danger. The
salubrity of the air is promoted by elevation.
The open hill-top insures atmospheric punty
in ordinary cases. A rise of sixteen feet
within three hundred yards has been known to
produce an entire change from a relaxing to
a bracing air. The common belief is correct
that night-air is less healthful than that of
day. Tropical fevers are most fatal in the
night. Yet the miasma which produces them
is generated with the greatest rapidity during
the intense heat of the sun. The reason of
this is easily explained. In the daytime,
the air, heated by contact with the burn
ing ground, expands and rises in an upward
current, thus diluting and carrying away
the poisonons malaria as fast as it is de
veloped. But at night, in the absence of so
lar heat, no such force is at work, and the
miasms arc, accumulated and condensed in
the lower strata of the atmosphere. Hence,
tho upper stories of a house are less exposed
than the ground-floor, and are more eligible
for sleeping chambers. During tho preva
lence of tho yellow fever in Philadelphia,
those who occupied apartments in tho third
story were far less liable to attack than those
who resided lower. Sleeping in low rooms
is probably woiso in the city than in the coun
try. The atmosphere contains the means of pu
rification within itself. When noxious exhal
ations are set free, they are diffused through
the vast volume of the air, and by the law of
gaseous expansion, aided by the winds and
storms, are lost in the universal intermixture.
Oxygen finally acts upon them, and burns
them up as completely as if they had been
consumed in a furnace. There the causes of
impurity are confined. The air loses a large
proportion of its oxygen by being breathed,
and receives an equal quantity of poisonous
carbonic acid by the same process. The bur
ning of fuel and combustion for light produce
the same effect. Air-tight stoves and hot-air
furnaces are especially objectionable on this
account. Gaseous exhalations of pernicious
quality escape from the kitchen. The discol
orations of white walls shows that the air has
been contaminated by poisonous sulphuretted
hydrogen. In this cje, the sulphur combines
the white lead, and forms black sulphuret of
lead. White zinc paint is not liable to this
change, and hence otfords no indication of the
state of the atmosphere. Nor is it true, ac
cording to the popular belief, that cold air is
necessarily pure, and that apartments need
less ventilation in Winter than in Summer.
Green paper hangings are also dangerous, and
when colored with certain pigments exhale
deadly, poisonous vapors. Cellers are often
sources of disease, and, when filled with de
caying vegetables, generate noxious air of
the most fatal character, although sIqw in its
operation, by reasons of the small quantities
in which it reaches the occupants of the upper
apartments.
Water and Morals. Avery slight decliv
ity suffices to give the running motive to wat
er. Three inches per mile, in a smooth, straight
channel, give a velocity of about three miles
per hour. Now, what is true of water is e
qually true of morals. The best of men only
need a slight push from adversity to obtain a
downhill momentum. Be careful, therefore,
how you lose your equilibrium.
tT7"The Pennsylvania State Agricultural
Society has made arrangeme'nts to have the
operation of making sugar and molasses gone
through with upon the several days of the
exhibition, by a gentleman wbo has got up the
machinery for the crushing, pressing, boiling,
&c, and who has a large quantity of the Chi
nese sugar cane growing in the vicinity of
Philadelphia.
C?-Qn the 11th of September last, the first
locomotive ever run in the State of Arkansas
travailed over the track cf the Memphis and
Little Kock Railroad, for a distance of three
milesrras s the road is completed from
Memphis.
GThe ant is said by naturalists to produce
86,000 eggs each day, which continuing for a
lunar month, gives the astonishing sum of
2,419,200. This being about one egg in two
seconds, very little time is consumed in cackling.
The Worthlesssess or Gold. It is stated
by many of the survivors of the Central Amer
ica's passergers, that there was seldom so
large an amount of money owned by passen
gers as was the case of those who came by the
Central America. Many were persons of large
means, and there were very few whose imme
diate wealth did not amount to hundreds,whilo
numbers reckoned their gold by the thousands
of dollars. The greater portion of tho pas
sengers were returning miners ; some coming
hither to invest the capital they had realized
iu hopes to live a life of greater ease as the
result of their industry, and others to get their
families and once more go to the land of gold.
But as the storm continued to rage, less and
less of gold was thought of, and when, on Sat
urday, it became evident that they were like
ly at any moment to be buried beneath the
waves, the wealthy men divested themselves
of their treasure belts and scattered the gold
upon the cabin floors, telling those to take who
would dare to test its weight as a few ounces
or pounds might carry them to death. Full
purses, containing in some instances 2,000,
were lying untouched on sofas. Carpet-bags
were opened by men, and the shining metal
was poured out on the floor with the prodigal
ity of death's despair. One of the passenger's,
who was fortunately rescued, opened a bag and
dashed about the cabin 20,000 in gold dust,
and told him who wanted to gratify his greed
for gold to take it. But it was passed by un
touched as the veriest dross. A few hours be
fore he would have struck down the man who
would have attempted to touch a grain of that
which he now spurned from him.
A Queer Idea. The Buffalo Reptiblic says
that tho principal cause of the recent failures
of the banks, brokers and other speculators of
that city is attributed in the main to the fact
that the men engaged in these different kinds
of business have been constantly in the habit
of visiting mediums, and table-turning and
spirit rapping circles, and instead of attending
to their legitimate calling, have been consult
ing spirits and consorting with hairy faced men
and strong-minded women. The Republic says
it has heard of instances where spirits have
been consulted prior to engaging in large spec
ulative operations, which since have proved
disastrous.
Loans to large amounts have been mado by
batiks and brokers at the suggestion and on
the recommodation of spirits ; railroad stocks
have been purchased and produce in large
quantities bought on the advico of table-tipping
mediums. If this bo true, Buffalo has
more than its share of fools. The idea of con
sulting the spirit of a defunct broker to ascer
tain what you should pay for "Michigan South
ern," is so supremely ridiculous, that one
could scarcely credit the nonesence if not
properly vouched for by respectable witnesses.
Buffalo can go up head. The idea that a dead
financier should know more than a livo one, is
to say that a horse can jump further with one
leg than with four.
Dr. Livingston, the African traveller, in a
lecture at Manchester on the productive power
of Central Africa, mentioned a circumstance
going to show how remarkably in this age of
the world information dilluses itself. It will
probably be within the recollection of some ol
our.readers, that some time since The London
Times newspaper offered a reward of XI, 000
lor the discovery of a fiber able to supply the
place of rags in the matter of paper-making.
In descending the Zambcze, the great river of
South-Eastcrn Africa, and of which the Doc
tor has been the first to give any satisfactory
account, he found the natives on the bank of
the river aware of this oiler and quite inter
ested in it. In fact, the Doctor brought homo
with him a native fiber, said to grow abun
dantly on the north bank of tho Zanibeze, and
probably unknown to botanists, which was
pronounced by a manufacturing house at'Leeds
stronger and better than flax, ' and worth be
tween oQ and -G0 a tun. Cotton is also an
abundant product of the same district, a varie
ty being produced there very easily sepcrated
from the seed. Nothing, he thinks, is needed
but the stimulus of a market to lead to a large
production by tho natives. Sugar-cane grows
abundantly, but the natives do not understand
the process of sugar making.
The Cotton Crop. The cotton crop of tho
United States for the present year, is estima
ted at 3,000.000 bales. Allowing 000,000 bales
for domestic consumption, and there will re
main 2.400,000 bales for export. The present
prices warrant an average of" sixty dollars per
bale, which would give an aggregate value of
exports, from this source alone, of nearly one
hundred and fifty millions of dollars.
KMr, Payne, one of the survivors of the
ill fated steamer Central Amcrica,and to whom
the lamented Captain Ilerndon gave his watch
to give to his (the Captain's) wife and to say
to her he was gone. Mr. P. gave the heart
stricken lady the watch on Thursday last, in
New York, where she lives. The hope that
the Captain is saved is now almost entirely
abandoned.
H7Chicago, a day or two since, a young
man, named John M. Butler, a foreman in the
lumber yard of Messrs. Holden, Bishop & Co.,
died from the effects of merely shaving off
his beard. He caught cold, which settled in
bis throat, and terminated fatally.
Address of the Free State men of Kansas.
The people of Kansas, at their recent con
vention held at Grasshopper "Falls, adopted a
resolution to participate in the election for
members of a territorial Legislature and dele
gate to Congress in October next, and appoin
ted the undersigned a committee to address
the peoplo at large with respect to this impor
tant action.
Two years and a half ago a portion of the
people of Missouri invaded our territory, took
possession of our ballot boxes, and establish
ed tho oligarchy which has since claimed to
exercise tho functions of a government a
rnongst us. A short time after that event our
people met in convention at Big Springs to de
termine the course they should pursue.
Two plans were suggested one to resist the
execution of their laws by force ; tho other t
avoid this extreme measure by tho adoption of
a State government. This latter alternative
was preferred.
It is well known that tho resolutions passed
at Big Springs, September, 18-3-3, have consti
tuted the basis of all subsequent political ac
tion of the people of Kansas. They there un
equivocally disavowed tho authority of the
territorial Legislature, and have maintained
that pjsition ever since. Upon these two mea
sures they have rested their hopes from the
commencement of their struggle ; and upon
their ultimate success they still continue to re
ly. In adopting this course of action the peo
ple of Kansas were not impelled by either a
fanatical zeal or wanton incousiderateucfs of
purpose. They proceeded gravely and with
deliberation to decide upon the ground they
should occupy.
Tho opposition made by the administration
at Washington and its party throughout the
country to this course of tho people of Kan
sas, has not, in the slightest degree, w eakened
their confidence in it, or lessened their deter
mination to adhere to it to the end. They arc
satisfied that its propriety would never have
been called into question as a matter, of seri
ous moment, had not tho federal administra
tion, sought by so doi ng, to serve a special
purpose in behalf of slavery. So confident
are our people in the stand they have thus ta
ken, that they would be perfectly willing to
permit their State government to proceed to
the regular performance of its functions, with
out any regard to the territorial government,
were it not for a settled wish on their part, to
do nothing which may subject tbcm to tho
charge of ultra views, or a desire to incur vio
lence, even in the asscition of their rights.
They have preferred to turn aside for the time
being from their State organization, and to
make an effort to secure through the territori
al ballot-boxes, peaceful possession of the ter
ritorial government ; and to this end they have
determined to try their chances in the Octo
ber election.
We acknowledge that our chief incentive to
the adoption of this measure, was the urgent
appeals made in favor of it by many of those
who stood by us in the free States in all our
past struggles. But tee frankly avow ourselves
not sanguine of success. It is true that Mr.
Walker, our federal governor, has declared
that he will afford to us, to the best of his a
bility, a full and fair election before impartial
judges ; but, with our past experience, we find
it difficult to indulge inany hope of justice
from the agents of the federal administration.
By the law of the election all but those who
have resided six months or more in the terri
tory are excluded from the polls. The system
of districting or apportionment for members
of the Legislature 6hows au unquestionable
determination to introduce voters from abroad.
Sixteen counties, strongly free State, contain
ing nearly one half the entire population of
the territory are not allowed a single represen
tative in either branch. -Of the thirteen mem
bers of the Council all but three, and of the
thirty-nine members of the House of Repre
sentatives all but ten are to be selected in the
districts bordering on the Missouri line. To
peka is connected with Fort Scott, and Law
rence is attached to the Shawnee Mission ad
joining Westport. The Lawrence district is
also made to embrace an indefinite extent of
country, having no geographical connection
whatever with it, away off in the region of the
Rocky Mountains, occupied by an Indian trad
ing post, here and there, at which ficticious
precincts may be mado, and from which ficti
tious returns may be sent in at any time after
the.clection to overcome the free State vote.
Besides thesa things, our enemies have com
plete possession of all the machinery of the
election. Establishing the places for voting,
appointing the judges, canvassing the returns,
declaring the result of the election, and all
other matters of detail arc in the hands of the
county commissioners, who were themselves
elected by fraud and violence from Missouri.
Mr. Able, partner of Stringfellow, says that
"Kansas must not be given up," and Gen. At
chison sounds the note of renewed preparation
to South Carolina, and declares that "with one
more effort the work is done." With the ad
ministration against us, with one-half the six
months voters virtually disfranchised, with an
election, law framed expressly to keep the newly-arrived
emigrants from tho polls, with the
hellish system of districting and apportioning
staring at us in the face, with most of the of
ficers of the election, border ruffians of the
deepest dye, with the slave party in Missouri
boldly avowing through Gen. Atchison their
determination to invade us, with, only i al
ready half violated promise of Grn. Walker to
rely on; we do not feel at liberty fo-cherish any
very lively expectations of a' favorable result.
But we yield to the solicitation of our friends.
We wish justice and- freedom, but we will do
our best to secure them without imperiling tbu
public peace. We have fearful odds against
us-; wo must try to- overcome them. But
should we bo overwhelmed will the federal
government still regard with disfavor our ap
plication for admission as a State into the U
nion 1 In that event, will not all good men
sustain us in giving effect to our State govern
ment at all hazards 1 At any rate, this may
be regarded as the only attempt which will ev
er be made to adjust our great difficulty under
the territorial government. What may bo
Aon after that, however, is not ur provinc
to declare.
Beforo closing this address tho eonimiUeo
desire to submit a few remarks lor the sjecial
conskleratron ot the people of Missouri.
We desire it to be understood that the peo
ple ot Kansas do not charge the outrages to
which they have leen subjected upon the peo
ple of Missouri as a body. On the contrary
they know that the- masses of thai peoplo have
not joined in tltese outrages, but have remain
ed at home and denounced the invaders. To
wards them we entertain no other feelings than
those ol respect awl kindness. This has beeu
abundantly made manifest by our actions.
Many a town is note standing and thriving in
Missouri monument of cur consideration for
them, and esteem of their conduct. R.cspoct tor
this class of people of Missouri has induced
us sedulously to refrain from retaliatory mea
sures. Those who have joined in tho foray a
gainst ns, wnder tho sincere impression that
Massachusetts and other free States wore im
porting votes into Kansas, have been grossly
deceived. That we are friendly towards tho
people of Massachusetts and other free States
is not surprising. By their munidcence we
were furnished arms to defend our homes from
plunder and destruction.' When the Missouri
river and marKets upon our border were clos
ed against us, the poor of Kansas were clothed
and fed by their liberality. Notwithstanding
this, however, we wouKI resist them in any at
tempt to despoil us of our franchises, as wo
would resist the people of Missouri. But w
deny that the people of Massachusetts, or of
any other free State, ever attempted any such
thing. It is, doubtless, true that immediately
after the election of March, 185., nany of tho
peacefully disposed citizens of Kansas left the
territory, and good reason tbey had for so do
ing. Kansas was invaded by hostile forces or
ganized for war, and ber people ruthlessly
trampled into the dust. Was not this a suffi
cient reason 7 Wo implore yon not tt attempt
to again violate our rights. We arc mon as
you are, and our common manhood requires
that we should resist you if you do. Wo aro
organized for defense. We hav the pledge
of Gov. Walker that he will use the troops of
the United States in our behalf. If you per
sist against your best interests against all
manly and christian duty in Che mad course
some would mark out for yon, a tear must en
sue, protracted and bloody, between Kansas and
Missouri.
It may be extended all along tho lino to tho
Atlantic coast. A dissolved Union and a bro
ken government may bo the result. For the
highest welfare of Kansas and Missouri, in the
name of our common country and the li.'ing
God, we appeal t i you to refrairr. Bemain at
home. The Kansas question will then bo
peacefully settled ; the agitation of slavery
will cease; and Kansas and Missouri will go
on prospering and to prosper.
Having thus discharged tbe d?.ty assigned
them, the committee would conclude by ex
horting all tho people of Kansas to go to the
polls on tho day of election, in pursuance of
the action of the convention, and deposit their
ballots for candidates of their choice. What
ever may be the result of tho election, we bo
lieve our cause will be strengthened by such a
course. Very respectfully !
J. II. Lame, and Committee.
CA ludicrous incident took iplace at the
Junction Hotel, Lafayetto, la., upon tho arri
val of a train from Indiannapolis. Agentlo-',
man and lady, inspired with sudden recogni
tion, were observed to rush frantically into
each other's arms, ami the fun of it was, that
after a hearty embrace, they discovered that
both "had the advantage." They were stran
gers, but the lady mistaken him for her "dear
cousin Charlie," had embraced him, whilo
he with half defined recollection of having "
seen her before, went in lemons and "got
squeezed." Their mutual cmbarrasmont 00
the discovery can well be imagined.
C7A large and interesting meetin; ol th
soldiers who served in the war of 1812. w
held in the court house at Greensburg, Psu
on Thursday, the ; 10th instant.- After th
usual officers were selected, Capt. Samuel B.
Cooper, stated the object of tbe meeting. II
said it vsas- for the purpose of memoriallciBr
Congress to make soch provision, for tie sol
diers of 1812 as they were justly entitled tow
After speeches a series of teaolutiens ombody-;
mg tbe demands of the veterans, were adopfc
cd, and a committee appointed to procure sig?
natures to tbe memorial which win be sent t
Congress- ; .