LEWIS BURG ROM I CLE BY 0. N. WORDEN & J. R. CORNELIUS. ESTABLISHED IS 184 3.... WHOLE NO, 68S. At $l,5d Per Year, always ix Advance. LEWISBURG, UNION. CO., PAM FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1857. An Independent Family News Jocrnal. CI Parody-oxlral Tournament. I-Some miserable, dried up, attenua ted, Heaven-forsaken, good-fur nothing, ugly, rejected old bachelor, found some body easy enough to print for. him the annexed wicked Parody on Charles Maoket's celebrated "Tell me, ye icinjed Winds." Just read it, to gee bow the dis appointed chap feels after bis "proposals" Were " respectfully decliaedj" Tell me, ye winged winds Til. I round my r.rret roar. Do t. not know bv pot Whin woman fret do more t orne lone and pleasant dell. Soma " holler" in the gruund. Where babiea never yell. And cradle, are not funm! The Ian. wind blew the mow into hla face. And snickered as it aua.cri-d "Nary plnoe. Tell Be, thou miety deep. Whoa, billow, 'round me play, Know'at I boa aome favored spot. Some f.land far away. Where weary man may And A place to amok, la peace. Where crinoline U not. And hoope are out of place t The loud win wounding; a perpetual shout, Slapt for n whila, and sputtered ' Yeou git aout.1 Tell me. my eT"t aoul Ob 1 tell me, Hope and Faith, la Ulefw DO reating place From women, girle, and death? Iathar.no happy spot. Where bachelors are blest. Where female, never ico, And Ban may sleep and reel ? Faith, Hope and lve W.t Ifnn to mortala Riven rtavea weir ongnt wings, and wtmperrd Ilea van!" Vcs, in Well that raised some "commotion, 'motion, tbe country through." Oue mai den lady responded, that there were many placet on earth not exactly the most re spectable or desirable where tromra were not. Not a few thousand men fell at that shot .' Another lady in the Geneva Ga sttte turn the table upon the bachelor "po ick," by parodizing his parody, with good effect Witness : Tell ma. y winced wind Tbat 'rvund my parlor roar. Do ye not know eotne pH-t Where bach 'lor. eorae no m re 8oma lone and pleaaaut dell, VI here no mou.tarhe 1. aeon, Where long-eared dandle, never coma Oureelvea and fun between 1 There came a murmur from a diHant If a A low, aad tone, which whiapered, 4 So sir-ee. Tell me, thou ml.tr deep ft how billowa 'rortnd me play, Know'at thou eme favored ag-ut, Some Isiend far away, Where weary girls may find A rest rrotn aott dougli-fa-res. And bear tbemaelvea rail d wumen, Sot likened to tbe (trace. Fwo did the miaty deep it. answer rive. vy murmuring, ot while brandy smash?, live." And thon, acrenest moon, What lauguage doet thon ntter, While eziuirun the gentlenu-n Whoae bed ia in the gutter 1 Car, halt tbuu in thy round Gated on some favored .pot, W here hate knew notlho weight of bricks, And where ri..r are wot t H-hind a cloud the ntoon withdraw In woe, but in itaJica answered, "No, no, no .'" Tell me. my eerret soul Oh, tell me, Hoiie aud Faith, 1 there no reatinK--lere from fopa, and beaux, and death ? I. there no happy spot Where womankind are Meaaed, Where mau m.y never eome. And where the girls m.y reatP F.ith. Truth and Hope best boons to mortal, given Waved their bright wingsand whimpered, "Unly Heaven:" The two classes of combatants, seem to leave Heaven rather sparse of population! Riot In Clearfield County. On Friday last, a desperate affray took t,W Iwtwepn thR raftmen and loir floaters , enured in tbeir different vocations on Clearfield Creek. It occurred at a point ; a point called Driftwood Island, and resulted in tho severe wounding of five logmen and the destruction of a quantity of provisions, tools, &o. The fallowing persons were in jured : Geo. Chandler, shot in tbe back. J. F. Parsons, shot io both legs. David Cam eron, shot in both legs. Geo. Miller, shot in forehead and bands. A Fienchman, name unknown, was also shot. The logmen were completely routed,the j raftmen being well supplied with firearms, and served to desperation by long suffer ing, having resolved to win the field or die. Immediate routing after of tbeir ad- j vcrsaries, tbe victors betook themselves to 1 the destruction of their property, tearing down their cabin, destroying their boats, three in number, and throwing their pro- 1 visions into the Creek. Tbey then burnt the tools of the logmen, throwing the iron . portions into the water. None of the raft- men were injured so far as we bave beard, This outbreak was not unexpected, but has long been feared by the peace-loving citizens of Clearfield. Tbe two parties , have long maintained a threatening posi tion towards each other, and the affair we bave recorded is but the natural conse quence of long standing animosity. The raftmen bave suffered great inconvenience from the running of loose logs, and have made repeated efforts to prevent it ; while the log-floaters, doeming their pursuit per fectly legal and honest, have persisted in tbeir course. But the matter bas now come to a crisis, and the time has arrived when tbe strong arm of the law must in terfere to prevent tbe reeurrence of such scenes hereafter. Tbe contest of physical i .... sireogtu uas now commenced, and until the difficulty is finally settled, Clearfield will be a miniature Kansas, and the fights between the opposing partita will be as frequent and sanguinsry as tbe feuds with which that Territory was recently dis tracted. A bill to prohibit log-floating has been fat some time before the Legislature, and hope some definite action will soon be ien on tj,9 gnDje.u , the case now "tands, neither party understands their rl position, each deeming the other wr0Dg) sod looking upon themselves as nuch aggrieved and injured. This state o' affairs should no longer be permitted to list, and the only way to end it is to dis use of tbe bill now pending at Hatrieburg 'jrsne r,ff,y K, A SWEDISH TALU. In Falun, a mining town in Sweden, , hundred years or more ago, a young miner . T- J- Bowen, has met with general favor, kissed his fair bride, and said to her, ''On an the first edition was speedily czhaus ! St. Lucia's day, our love will be blessed j ted. Mr. Bowcn'a visit to this country by the priest's Land. Then we shall be husband and wife, and we will build us a neat little nest of our own." "And peace and love shall dwell in it," : said the beautiful bride, with a sweet States and Africa. Mr. liowen was sn smile, "for thou art my all in all, and with- officer in the Texan war, but has f pent , out thee I wuuld choose to be in my grave." : uiany years in tbe interior of Africa as a j lint when the priest, in proelaiming their 1 Missionary. He speaks of African com- bauns in the church fur the second time ttcrce as destined to become a powerful I before St. Lucia's day, said, "if, now, any j instrument in the civilization aud conver ; can show reason why these persons should sion of the cootiutnt. "The single arti- i not be united iu the bonds of matrimony," c'e f palm oil, has no assignable limit, as i death was ut hand. The young man, ! regards either the production or consump ! as be passed her houso next morning in ! tu " But tbe internal wealth of Africa bis black mining garb, already wore his j 's vait'7 superior to that of the eoaat. In j shroud. He rapped upon her wiuduw and j eTcry 'bing, except rice and palm oil, Su- said "good morning" but he never re- ! aD uas tue "dvaniage of Guinea. The 'turned to bid her "good oveniog." He j air " salubrious ; the people are nevef came back from the mine, and al! iu : ulure civilized, and are superior as a race. : vaiu she embroidered for him a black era- j " Here r9 millions of people, every vat, with a red border for the wedding day. j 0De whom may have something to sell, This she laid carefully a war. and never ; an( desires something to buy. The cara- ceasod to mourn or weep for him. Meauwhile, time passed on : tbe Seven Years' War was fought ; tbe partition of pounds sterling." Polanl took place ; America became free; ! Mr. liowen assures us tbat in Central the French Revolution and the Long War I Afriot, " the industry of the people is one began ; Napoleon subdued Prussia, and j f the most remarkable facts which have tbe Knglish bomdarded Copenhagen. Tbe ' Deeo brought to light" by his acquaintance husbandman sowed and reaped, tbe miller ! w'ln the country. " It is a land without ground aud the smith hammered, and the vagrauts," The blacksmith, the weav miners dug after the veins of metal in their er ,Be farmer, in short, every body, male subterranean workships. "nJ female, has something to do, aud their j As the miners of Falun, in the year ' """rkets are always abundantly supplied j eighteen hundred and nine, a little before witn every noue production." ! or after St. John's day, were excavating i Tne Majestic Niger, " the Mississippi ! an opening between two shafts, full three of Africa," flows through tbe heart of Su I hundred ells below the ground, they dug djn- T1,e D'ilt' " sickly, but may be ! from the rubbish and vitriol water, the ' P& short time by a steamer. I body of a young man, entirely saturated I Mr- B"en says : " We bavo lived in j with iron vitriol, but otherwise nndecayed ; "flocked houses and have traveled far and j and unaltered so that ono could distin- guish his features and age as well as if he ; had died only an hour or two before, or bad fallen asleep fur a little while at his work. But when they had brought him out to the light of day, father and ! mother, friends and acquaintances, had long been dead ; no one could identify the slccpioe youth, or tell anything of bis mis- fortune, till the came who was once the be throttled of that miner who bad one day I gone to the mine and never returned ! Gray and shriveled, she came to the place, hobbling upon a crutch, and recognized ber bridexreom.wheu more in joyful estacy than pain, she sank down upon the belov-1 ed form. As soon as she recovered her composure, sne exclaimed, "it is my be' trothrd, whom I bive mourned for fifty years, and whom God now permits me to see once more before I die. A week be- fore the wedding time, he went under the earth, and never returned." All the bystanders were moved to tears, a3 they beheld the former bride, a wasted and feeble old woman, and the bridegroom still in the beauty of youth ; and how, after the lapse of fifty years, her youthful love awoke again ! But be never opened his mouth to smile, nor bis eyes to recog- nite ; aud she, finally, as the only one be longing to him, and having a right to him, had him carried to her own little room till a grave could be prepared in tbe church yard. The next day, when all was ready, is astonishing to Lear some ot tbeir re and the miuers came to take him away, I marks while speaking on this subjeot. she opened a little drawer, and taking out Their own language would stamp tbem as the black silk cravat, tied it around his neck, and then accompanied him in ber Sunday garb, as if it were tbeit wedding day, and not the day of his burial. As they laid him iu the grave in tbe church- I yard. 6he said, "sleep well. now. for few I days, in tby cold bridal bed, and let not the time seem long to the. I bave now but little more to do, and will eome soon, and then it will be day again." As she was going away, she looked back ones more and said, "What tbe earth has once 1 restored, it will not a second time withhold. Endorsed by bis Enemies. A bet- tcr ticket than that nominated at Harris burg on tbe 26th nit., has never been pre sented for the suffrages of the People. The candidates are men of tbe highest character in private walks of life. The Uniontown, Fayette county Genius, (Dem ocratic,) thus endorses one of oar candi dates : " James Veeeb, Esq., one of the oppo- : sition candidates for the Supremo Bench, our readers all know. Against nim, per sonally, we have no word to ntter. He is an able lawyer, and bas the qualifications to make a good Supreme Judge in every respeot exeept his politics. If be were the Democratic instead of tbe black Republican nominee, be would be elect ed, and would bo no discredit to tbe Su preme Bench. The Lilies or thi Field. Not far from the probable site where the Sermon on the Meunt was delivered, our guide plucked two flowers, supposed to be of that species to whiob nor Lord alluded,wben he said, "Consider the lilies of ths field." Tbe calyx of this joint lily resembled crim son velvet, and tbe gorgeous flower was of wbito and lilac, and truly no earthly mon aroh could have been "arrayed" more glo riously than "one of these." Snob is the testimony of nature to the words spoken i by cur Lord. Truth in rahsHne. Central Africa. a I The work on Central Afriea, by Rer. j as resulted in great good, and is calcula- j DOt on' to promoto missionary opera- tions in Africa, but also to enlarge the 1 commercial relations between the United vao trade across a thousand miles of des- : er, ' computed at several millions of i De" through the country, and have ever felt as secure in our persons and property as if in America." The missionary operations in Centra! ! Africa, in connection with tbe " Board of j Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist j Convention," are full of promise. Rev. j i w- H- Clarke writes : " Yoruba, in its mml aspect, present a field truly inter- esting. We have heathenism here in ma- ny forms, but it seems to be a peculiar heathenism. Idols, sacrifices and charms, 1 re the consoling hope and support of ev-1 erJ c'ass- Tue peculiarity of their heath- ! enism is, that it places every idol in a su- bordinato position to tbe Deity, who uses j them as meditators, to reconcile a sin-aven-! eing God. Tbe account given by them of their idols is, tbat God made tbem in I the beginning, with their mediatorial po- j 1 "'i g suitable to tue black man, I ! wbile nothcr dispensation has been con- j ferred on the white man. In tbtir con- j J fessions, whatever may be their practice, j j they acknowledge the impotency of tbeir j j false deities, that tbey have no saving ; i power, and ascribe to God the creation of j H things, and all perfection. Numerous ; ' re ths idols worshiped. Urisha seems . to be both a general and specific name for idol, so tbat nearly all their worship may be denominated Orisha worship. The Supreme Being occupies an impor tant position io tbeir religious creed. It peculiar heathen. Altars of stone are to be seen in places where parts of sacrifices are deposited. They seem to think these sacrifices have an atoning merit. Hence it will be per- coived bow similar their creed to the Jew ish ceremonials. An acknowledgment of sin is common. Here are idolatry and the corrupted truths of religion, both op erating on the same minds. No wonder, then, that from one stand-point, we feel cheered and elated, while we see the emis sion of some true light like fire struck from the flinty rock, while at another view, the soul sinks as it beholds the corrup tion of depraved nature. Such comming led results may be seen in social, domes tie and civil life. Mr. Bowen says he has " met with sev eral in Yoruba, who declared that they bad never worshiped an idol. Every body in that country believes in one true and living God, of whose character they entertain surprisingly correct notions." Liberia. Advices from the west coast of Africa, report the arrival of tbe new ship Mary Caroline Stevens, of Baltimore, at Monrovia. The Cape Palinas colonists bad fought another battle with tbe natives, when over twenty of the colonists were killed. One hundred and sixty men had sailed from Monrovia in tbe Stevens to Palinas to aid tbe settlers. A union of the Cape Palmas colony now independent with Liberia was proposed, sad Ez-Cree-ident Roberts bad sailed for the former place, in order to advocate the measure be- fere tbe people. iLtmoiS. The Icariaa community at Nauvoo, having proved a disastrous exper iment, bave petitioned the Illinois Legis lature to repeal the act of incorporation, in order tbat tbe stock, now amounting ! to $15,000, may be divide! ' j "Tne World owes me a Living." I The Queen and the Quakeress. That's false, sir 1 It Joesu't owe you a j In tbe summer of 1818, her late majes fartbing. You cue tlte world for the light , ty, Queen Charlotte, visited Batb, accom of it days, tbe warmth of its sunshine, ; panied by Princess Elizabeth. Tbe wa- tbe beauty of its earth and sky, and fur its love, affections, and friendships, cluster - ed arouad and clung to your worthless trunk. For all these, and other blessings of countless numbers, yon are a debtor. You have never even thanked God for health and life. You have never made tbe world better for vour living. You have nothing to your credit ou the day book or ledger of life not a cent. You bave never taken a dollar stock in Heaven. You are miserable, aimless, indolent bankrupt. You float down tbe stream of your lazy existence like flood wood on water. ' Were you to siuk to-day to obli vion, you would not leave a bubble. Tbe world owes you a living ! Where is there a manly thought uttered, or a no ble deed performed ? Where are there erideuces of your labor ? Nowhere. You are lounging through life with your hands in your pockets, an indolent loafer, swear ing and slavering nonsense. A pile of lumber would be of more account, fur that j could be worked into forms ef usefulness and beauty ; but yon will not make any thing of yourself, or allow society to do it A world of such as you would be tbe place to live in, indeed ! You have degraded our common manbood,iostead of ennobling and elevating it, and in nothing but form and vulgar speech are you above the brutes that perish. . And because you are too lazy to work, you claim that the world owes you living t Don't tell tbat lie again, you sluggard ! Were you treated as drones are treated in the hives, you would have been kicked out of creation long ago. You are a sponge, swelled with what you bave ab sorbed from society. You dwarfed the intellect given you ,and neglected the en dowment it would bave brought you. So effectually have you wasted the boon of life, tbat, unless your bones fchall get to the dissecting room, and your picked car cass as a fertilizer upon some God forsa ken spot, you have passed through life to no purpose. The tobacco you have chew e I, has only defiled everything around i joo aad the liquor yon havo drank, has only been adulterated by your miserable and vile nature turned into rowdyism and ! profanity. You contaminate everything you touch, and even those like you will keep tbeir children from the leprosy of your teaching and example. No, sir, you owe the world a letter life. You never can pay all tba debt, but you oan do better, and oommute for twenty five cent on tbe dollar. Do and say something noble and manly ! and for some honorable purpose, and not inhale God's pure sir for nothing, sod grunt through existence like a hog, having only two aims in life to reach the bar, and dinner table ; and only two attributes to cat to gluttony, and dritik to diunken- ness. The world owes no such a man living. Extraordinary Case. A murder re cently committed at Newburg, in the State of New York, has developed some extraor dinary circumstances tending to discredit the reliability of circumttantiul evidence. The body of a young woman, stripped of all but tbe under clothing, evidently mur dered, was found in an open field. It was recognized as that of Sarah C. Bloom, by several persons, among whom was her own sister, who identified it by several marks and physical peculiarities. On tbe strength of this identification, a young man named Jenkins, who had last been seen in the company of Miss Bloom, was arrested, and suspicion was already building up against him a charge of murder, founded upon what appeared to be pretty conclusive evi dence. But, at this crisis, Miu Bloom ap peared hertelf, and of course put an end to the supposition that she bad been murder ed. The most curious part of tbe case was the remarkable resemblance between Miss Sarah Bloom and the body supposed to be hers. The points of resemblance are described as follows : " The body had a scar on tbe left eye brow precisely where Sarah has one; tbe body had a cut on the main finger of the left hand precisely where Sarah has one of the same character ; the body has a small black mole about half way between the ankle and the knee, on the shin bone, ex actly where Sarah has one; but, strangest of all, tbe body baa two toes of tbe left foot grown together, precisely like Sarah's, except that Sarah's are not grown togeth er so far down on tbe joint ; the toes of both feet of the body, like Sarah's were pressed together from wearing tight ahoes, and Sarah wears a coral ring on just the finger from which on the corpse a ring bad been stripped. These facts, connected with Sarah's absence, the curious story of Jenkins as to where he had left her, the incident of her going in a direction where she did not hear ef tbe discovery of the body, and was aot herself beard from for four days, combined to make probably one of the strongest cases of ciroamataneial evidence against Jenkins tbat could well be conceived." The Bible. More than ten times as many Bibles have been issued since the year 1800, as had ever been issued in tbe whole world preriros to tbat time- ' j ters soon effected such a respite from pain ; in the royal patient, that she proposed an : excursion to a park of some celebrity in . the neighborhood, then tbe estate of a rich widow lady belonging to the society j of Friends. Notice was given of the 1 Queen's intention, and a message return- ; ed that she would be welcome. Our illus- trious traveler bad, perhaps, never before any personal intercourse with a member of the persuasion whose votaries never voluntarily paid taxes to "the man George, called King by the vain ones." Tbe lady arid gentleman who were to attend the royal visitants bad but feeble ideas of tbe reception to be expected. It was suppos ed tbat tbe Quaker would at least say "Thy Majesty," "Thy Highness," or " Madame." Tbe Royal carriage arrived at the lodge of the park, punctually at the appointed hour. No preperation appeared to have been made ; no hostess or domestic stood ready to greet the guests. The porter's bell was rung; be etopped forth deliber ately, with his broad brimmed beaver on, and unbendingly accosted the lord in wai ting with, What's thy will, friend V This was almost unreasonable. " Sure ly," said the nobleman, " yonr lady is aware tbat Her Majesty go to your mis tress, and say tbat tbe Queen is here. ' " No, truly," answered the man, " it necdeth not I bave no mistress or lady, but my friend Rachel Mills expects thee. Walk in." The Queen sod tbe Prineess were ban ded out and walked np the avenue. At the door of the bouse stood tbe plainly at tired Rachel, who, without a courtesy, but with a cheerful nod, said, " How's thee do, friend ? I am glad to see thee and thy daughter. I wash thee well. Rest and refresh thee and tby people, before I show thee my grounds." What could be said of snch a person J Some condecension was attempted, imply ing tbat her majesty came not only to view the park, but to testify ber esteem for tbe Society to which Mistress Mills belonged. Cool aw, we mi ed, "Yes, tbon ait right there. The Friends are well thought ef by most folks; but they need not tbe praise of the world; for the reat. manr Btraneera eratifv their curioaitv. bv coin over this place, and it ! i, mv custom to conduct them mvself: therefore I will da the like bv thee, friend 1 Charlotte. Moreover, I think well of j tbee, as a dutiful wife and mother. Thou bast bad tby trials, and so bss tby good partner, I wish tby grand child well through hers." She alluded to the Prin cess Charlotte. It was so evident that the Friends meant kindly, nay respectfully, that no of fence could be taken. She escorted her guests through her estate. JThe Princess Elizabeth noticed in tbe hen-bouse a breed oi poultry hitherto unknown to ber, and expressed a wish to possess some of these rare fowls, imagining that Mrs. Mills would regard her wish as law ; but tbe Quakeress merely remarked with her char acteristic evasion, ' Tbey are rare, as thon sayest ; but if tbey are to be purchased in this lrnd or other countries, I knew of few women likelier than thyself to procure them with ease." Her Royal Highness more plainly ex pressed ber desire to purchase some of those which she beheld. " I do not buy and sell," answered Ra chel. " Perhaps yon will give me a pair ?" persevered the Princess. " Nay, verily," replied Rachel Mills, " I have refused many friends and that which I denied to my own kinswoman, Martha Ash, it bscometh me not to grant to any. We have long had it to say tbat these birds belong only to our house ; and I ean make no exception in thy favor." This is a fact. Sharpe'$ London Mag azine. Modern Spiritualism. A professor of the dead languages, at Cambridge, a few days ago, received some Greek lines professing to have been communicated through a spiritual medium for Tbeognis, a Greek poet, who has been dead at least two thousand years. The poetry was ver itable Greek, with the exception of a sin gle word, which the professor supposed was a misprint While wondering at this remarkable fact, he picked np a reprint of the Edinburg Review, and there he fonnd published, as an extract from Theogois, the very words ia his spiritual communi cation, with the typographical error and all. Comment, as the newspapers say, is unnecessary. Rev. C- H. 8pueoeoii. We rejoice to know that Mr. Spurgeon's health has been restored, and that he often preaches to ten thousand persons. His church ia London numbers nearly nine hundred communi cants. About $20,000 has been subscrib ed towards his Ubernaole. On a recent Sabbath, Lord John Russell, Sir James Graham, Lord Stanley, and other mem bers of Parliament were amoag his hear- j ts Kansas Affairs. The Lawrence Herald of Freedom of the IStb, has eome to band. In an edi torial, it admits that pro-slavery coniti i - j t 1.- i. anj in which buy bona Ji-le settlers do not reside, some three thousand names are registered. These names are the members of a secret lodge in Miasuuri who have banded together for fraudulent tutiuu win w aoopieu iur xvausaa , uui . , . , i , , , ... ' . ea upon as lost for some years, la the declares tbat slavery will never exist i r, there. That adopting a pro-slavery con- j J"r 1837, Mr. Freeman endorsed notes stitntion will be the death keel I to South- j for Mr. Andrew Oberly, whe at tbst time ern politicians. Io regard to tbe Cnnveo-' was largely engaged in the distilling bus! tion to form a constitution, it says : I ness near Freemansburg, to tbe aeaount " To sbow bow much voice tbe people af f 0,000. Mr. Oberly failed and " cut are to have in the convention, we will ,ick," for other parts, leaving bis endor state a fact, tbat in Johnson couuty, cm-' Mn to pay bis notes to do which Mr. braciog the Shawnee reservation, which J Freeman was obliged to sell the Freemsns is not open to settlement by the whites, b,g bridge, of which he was at that time purposes, and who have pretended to take j tut finally emigrated to Iowa, where he claims on the Shawnee reservation, con-1 became quite wealthy, and thinking the tinuing their actual residence all tbe time j old judgment had been forgotteo, be pur in Missouri,, and are carrying on buainess , chased and held property in bis own name, there as if they never bad been in Kansas, i On ascertaining these facts, Mr. Freeman, as nine-tenths of them never have, save j four or five weeks ago, went to Ohio, got a when here on their plundering or voting j transcript of his old Judgment, and then expeditions. These non-residents form p.jj a Tj8jt to Iowa, where he secured the the basis of representation io tbe Consti- services of the Sheriff and together they tutional convention, and are entitled to rode from the County town to the regi ons delegate in that body for each sixty rfence 0f Mr. Oberly and made a levy on registered voters. Tbe 3,000 names will ! fine farm of 200 acres, worth $50 an entitle them to fifty representatives. With tbe view of silencing the Lawrence die- triet, it is said we were detached from Douglas County on the eve of the session of the begus Legislature, and attached to Johnson County, of which the reserve is composed, with the design of neutralizing our votes by non-residents from Missouri." The Lecompton correspondent of tbe at irouis Democrat, writing nuder dute ot April 15th, says : "Great efforts are being made, to buy up a few seifiah Free State men to vote and legalise the bogus election. Several of these have been promised offico in this and one or two other counties, if they will thus join. Tbe pro-slavery party bouts that there are three parties in Kan sas, and trying to corrupt all the offiee seekers amongst the Free State men, to form this so-called third party, and thus ruin the Free State cause. The third party is so small that it is just no - - The census lists are not published yet, and it is not supposed that they will be. Tbe county court was to bave been in session, so tbat fraudulent lists could be eontested, but it is not There is no in- tention to make, or allow to be made, any chn89 in the list- -WTbere are only ! ei8ht nundred . TotM rpted fjr this county, aecoraing to me. statements oi pro-slavery men. There cao not be less than three times that many Free State vo ters. The new Governor will not be here un til it is too late to see the census list cor rected. Unless he eomes here on some other mission than to get tbe people ot Kansas to vote under tbe bogus officers, he need not come at all. I do not think he will deem it safe to attempt it, and be need not unless he intends to provoke civil wsr. It will be the same with the collection of the bogus taxes. It will cost ten times more than all that will be collected to coerce payment of tbem, and will cause serious difficulty should Walker attempt to back up these bogus unsurpations with active force ; it will result in civil war, and he and the territorial government will be driven out of Kansas by the outraged people." ComplimesT. It is something to be a citizen of this republic, after all. Lord John Russell the other day, in pleading with bis constituents for a re-election, among other fine things which he profess ed, with a pelitician'a readiness to prom ise, declared that he would take the "best and ablest men in the United States for bis example," Or, if be did not put tbe pledge in precisely these words, " be look ed at tbe diffusion of education as tbe se curity for the national institutions, as the best and ablest man in the United States look to the diffusion ef education as tbe best security for tbe peace and order of the community." Bible Bones. An old man once said : "For a long period I puzzled myself about the difficulties of the Scripture, till at last I camo to the resolution that reading the Bible was like eating Juh. When I fiud a difficulty, I lay it aside and, eall it a hunt. Why should I choke on the bone, when there is so mach nutritious meat for me? Some day, perhaps, I may find tbat even the bone may afford me nourishment" Would tbat there were less picking of bones, and more of feasting on the sub stantial food with which infinite love has spread tbe spiritual board 1 Salvation or Imidel Infants. The Montreal Minerte (Roman Catholic organ) has an article entreating subscrip tions to tbe funds of a society for the sal vation of infidel infants. It states that tbe agents of the society have baptised 329,338 infants, of whom 217,101 are al ready dead and gone to heaven. For 20 sous, according to the report of tbe mis sionaries, four children can be saved ; for 1,000 fnn-s 4,C" children. fclKEAHor Good Lick. Wc learn that our old friend Jacob Freeman, of the Borough of Freemaosborg, bas recently secured about 111,000 which be bad look- the proprietor. Discovering that Oberly bad settled in Ohio, Freeman followed him and obtained a judgement and there tbe matter ended. He acquired property ti,erc which he held in bis son's same. ,cre, and other property. At first, Oberly j denied to the Sheriff that he had ever known such a man as Jacob Freeman; tbe Esquire told him he " knew him well enough when he endorsed his notes, and j bad come there to renew his acquaintance." j With the interest for 20 years added to j the original sum, the elaim new amounts ' to over $11,500, wbieh is fully secured. j$to Argus. State Rights Vindicated. The Su preme Court of Iowa have given a deci sion which is diametrically opposed to the ruling of Chief Justice Taney iu the Dred Scott ease. The Iowa decision was on the besring of a habeat corpus, and laid down that a alave, who by the permission, eon sent, and knowledge of bis owner,left Mis souri, and settled in Iowa, became free under tbe effect of the transit. In this case a man sold his slave his freedom (a strange article of traffie in a republic like ours !) for the sum of $550, and gave him permission to go into Iewa, and m the money. After many years' residence there, the negro was arrested as a fugitive slave, but the habeas corpus was interposed to his rendition, and upon its bearing the Supreme Court of Iowa released him. If this case should ever gel before tbe Federal court, it will bring up the whole question of State rights. If Iowa has not the pow er to regulate the question of slavery on ber own soil, but must submit to tbe Mis souri code enforced by Federal authority, what a farce is the boasted equality of State sovereignty 1 Retaliation ! Our telegraphic dis patch of tbe Europa's news, at Halifax, was headed "Massacre of English by Chi nese, and 2000 Chinese killed in retalia tion ;" but the particulars were umitu-J. It seems that the Chinese in Saranak, Bor neo, bad risen on tbe 17th of February, and massacred several Europeans. Sir James Brooke saved his life by swimming across a creek. One of tbe Borneo Com pany's steamers subsequently arrived at Saranak, and with tbe aid of Sir James, at the head of a body of Malaya and Dy akes, avenged the destruction ef she set tlement by killing 2000 Chinese. A war steamer was sent over by tbe Dutch au thorities but her services were not required. Oranob Peel. The habit of throwing orange peel epjn the pavement, is one tbat calls for the loudest condemnation. Serious accident have often originated through the carelessness of individuals in this respect But lately an instance csme to hand in which a person bad hia arm broken by being thrown to the ground, from slipping on a piece of orange peel lying on tbe sidewalk. Now tbat this fruit is in season, we caution individuals to avoid throwing orange peel on tbe pave ment, the violation of which rule may en tail the most serious consequences. Glanderbd Horses. It is said tbat there is in England, a law inflicting a hea vy penalty on persons bringing glandered horses into tbe market, or bitching at a public hitching post, or turning them out on unenclosed land. In Europe this ter rible disease appears to be coming not un freqoently among men. Tbe use of strychnine io the manufac ture of Whiskey is henceforth to be pun ished as a felony in Ohio. By means of this drug, used in connection with tobacco, sharp distillers were making five gallons of whisky from a bushel of grain, whereas the quantity obtained by the old process -was but half so much. Florida. John B. Stanley, of Flori da, is the greatest hunter of tbe age. Be sides bis almost daily presence on his plan tation during .the last twenty-four yesrs he bas killed at tbe least one thouaatd deer, one hundred wolves, sixty panthers and twelve bears. A Comparison. The miud is like trunk if well peeked, it holds almost rerything ; if ill t-eM-ked, next to nothing
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