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'ter 113. what ii ealled• s tensible,
limn She had managed for bertieff
:; , 1* hrr young fierily afterward,
wa . minaging - for her daughtrra
is excellent train The inatri
he,n artfulty set at alttiturts ..1
I. Doti t length her finest frali--
.Ithieli .hr had witched with long
moth.*, hl.l teen allowed to bite
Jangling at the end of her Hoe;
rich Mr had at length pm .
dett laughter
pa at thtv very moment—the
.mph—mn.tt a most exa.p6rating
'rntu a mQ•tt unexpeetel quarter
0.• ntu4t n0..41, het seizeditth a tit
r tv.rvrr-ity, and &el el that
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r rrarurai heart hmg,sl ter
t. rpm: , In r daughter .rtiumlly ftr
-1.• I • tJ ruenri. yirldett 1.1 this
n„ 'lt, rary, , she lOoptitl the
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II , N 1 . , let talk this twitter
•_ r as,,rrildc ont let us itt
''r,rt•inve be trwayed by prejutliaeo,
tell me candidly, dear, hare
i,”rtnut, objeetirms to urge , spirit
nssu nf strict tumor auri
dr.agrr per.,mally in any 'cry
1 , 1, .4 properly, and what inure ym
I can't imagine Surely, net
iti , eti.us are not pre-engaged "
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Iben. my Tier'
•iit•nt She knew from cape
11,. lip bat mg the mat ter with her
;hi- 2rniol had been gone ort4inften
H‘to• t :damp' found herself oui
wy ilesr," contiuw•d Mrs
h ab air of (stenos, "I should be
your view+, unirloy rpwstmable
tio-ir weight with me la' .um
Charlotte
.leae Dill I understand you to ) F l y
3ft am b• m..re than thirty-tive and
rut ) 11, my seems old-to ynti be
try yitnif That d,ifieulty will de
ev..ry do , you live You would not
',mho "I thirty ill mated with a man
•r ull gnu.' That, my 'dear, I
• :It ~t tibjet lion '
'uni, if I were you, sister," peril
'it this point Miss Mums, the
who inherited het' mother's pe
411.0 t, and bad been listening to
with keen interest
Em, if you felt to I dor
istly "You do Litt know bow
led iympatby —sod to give op all
I have mid- um sure,
nth tut love is something wiek.
lnulfnl I esonot--eannot eon
" 1 .1' 4 •..ailment and ease back, if
wetien. o ...cis*, and real objeetinee
-tt then• are any," Cried Mrs
ofiarply .eTtie only oblation I
that Mr -----is eze4sitively
51e Anything else, toylearr
Omit *.meth lug new to urge.
t•'irtrl gt l llll.l veer .1.1 ground
' itke hto otw•,' 146 remarked, otter
iteration
i*tet. etelhitlied pert MISS Ran, ‘‘ l
delightful .00,4."
r n;I awn, warry htw nod bin •tmae
if j.O ot, thew— I don't like either of
nu d-LOOO., ipitefully, for Ale w*
Iht •1•:, r lots forces with her
itiat,ly br d.)11.t. Willi we, or I would
repithl that Norited and watt•rnf
"Ju,t think, modor! you will
Int hoils,, awl plenty of money to
lad la f..w ve:trs I
dare. Fray
or eirriaer
fnr holits•ab R O4
' , 1 , .1.11 I,atte, coldly
t...uid Hoke the girls &tad me
•uggoAte I Emma,
Al , .. lit
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th ' 4 lol I It hn,e to inlerfere.
clolif there IA no talk, or 11°11bl
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'l4l fith.o io i uk at things a•hey
16 ( "k'ng a contract of tdarriage
, t 1 ", 'II a t . ..tnt"riallile petilement fur
1, r 4"? and way tarely be con •
-tt.ittetant s of mercenary
4r. !'"'r , a- ) 1 .4 well know; and
1111) 1.1 pr • ~, fir, and t lirt-i•
" I ' 1 " I sta awn-ally dis.p.
thu
uuuerems.r,
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*3 ) "fa marriage in evrry way
I hoptA for, for you ---•
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4. Yes, wawa/ta t " chispe4 in tbst.nyew "ea*
young person.
" Ana ~with ths yor . girls coining ou—a,
certainly would be,fp! 7kaityai . atago that yea
shoall be tettled.out .
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" dear laminas! are you . aita . iiiey so sav
our to p 4 rid of Mg " :00 43 4 . / 4 0414 ter 0 341,
filling_ with lean.
" Not at slippy destv,".,returne 4 tkic moth r.
do not call it getting r ill
settled comfcgtahly right close by . us.
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bas,paid Ilfififflt, it * Pe.a.ffaarY to
look It t i bia *gag ) 11 a ( 0131 4ukop# frio%
tical potnt of view. YOlf know your father's
Wag 10 0 1 ; 1 40. only by Veit R*ffigaiiierit.
are we able to stake boil) , gods 1111614. With
great difficulty we have brought you up—given
you . a good eduction, and a4owild you , see
somethiug of the wor ld, expecting , of course,.
that when okporpuity o ffered !gala marry,
sod so provide for yourself Thus, my, child,
we have dime our duty by d you and can do no
more. Your sisters have equal rights, aud now
come in for their daises, 'Therefore, if you
choose wilfully and fooliiiblyi to reject this ad
centavos. offer, for ac .. *tier . reason than that
you * shape of the man's noes, I
t.ll . 3ll.npiVnie it uty,4lo V! seek . some situation
for you as.governi•pasir epLupp,itioa, and ,expect
you henceforth to support yourself."
This coup cretat,' .. whielf petrified Emma, was
wucti less effective Jo Loftus tbsu Mrs Clever
hop, Still it was not
,tirithout its weight.—
'rho ide of going aloue,ainong strangers as a
ilepontlaut,was anything but alluring ; mho be •
100 to consider whether it wigtit nut be even
wore disagreeable tbwP to be mistress 1 4 a sPleo
did establishineut, even if .he were not in love
with the wastor of it.
In abort the affair ended, as the realer might
h ave gur , seil from the find
Lottie, young, pretty, full of eentiineut, as
well r, feeling, consented to make a "marriage
of youveuiruce
During the courtship, which Mrs. Clever took
care should IK short, her mind aiiiignve her of
t.‘n, but the wary mother watched her carefully t
and was always at hand to say just the right
thing, at the right moment; au4aushe was kept,
up to the work till the wedding day came, and
she was aotually married
-Then Mn.. Clever took a lung breath. The
first she had enjoyed for two months
tier troubles were ores, those of ;sex Lottie
;lust begun.
I doubt if a more unhappy creature °elated on
the *bole face of the creation, than Lottie during
tht!-lirst year of her marriage. •••
She was, a.. I have remarked, a girl of feeling
awl—not sentimentality—but seutimeut. She
t. deeply, cruelly disappointed in the realir.a
tem 01 all those tender, youthful loegtas, which
It. in a woman's heart, like the perfume in the
cup of a flower. She felt alone utterly
She rould not complain of her husband—he
was kind to her—loved her. But he was fifteen
years her senior, anti had been married before—
th.it is to say, the bloom was gone from his son,
ttee et—the fresbuess from Lis heart. "Love's
young dream," which surely eowes once to all,
LuJ lifted but caw:, he hail already dressed
our, and she had not been itsAect.
• l'w•ide that Mr was deeply immersed
iu business, and Lottie found herself in her 'plea
d, I hou-e more lonely than Robinson Crusoe on
his islitel Tie exeitetut et which was afforded
th. tatter 1U the ft ar the easinil al, was sup
her in the shape. of the nervous Arend
she felt of her hush aid. She tretubltsl and
true d pule at bin 14.)latepa and in.tny a time
..nd r yieilded to the tetupta.
tiou to fly aud hide hi rrelf from Lim.
M,:aUlltuu, sue augmented the distress of her
sitii.iitou by to a userbul way of dwel
ling upon it FAr from trying to look on the
brightest sideof things and make the best of
ie, she fouti•l a metal/.:holy pleasure iu mak
tug the most of her trouhies
It e a ...uot till after the birth of her first ebibi
that shin began to regard things differently It
was impossible bid that this event should L fleet
a r. volution in Ler state of mind
The heart which ball lain like a cold and avail
thing in her brtutst, was now alive and active
It was besting and throbbing with such a force
of warcrnal love, obit its :muse vitality fevivis
fled Ler whole being Hitherto she bad coldly
'laid to herself, "Mr is the pan to •hoto I
owe alle;.liatice—but not love—which I Isaac
new r !warn:se 1," but it. was impossible to regard
!t i er of her child in that light. Ou one
peat AL 11'34 they now sympathized deeply and
strongly together . It touched her -to see the
father'a tendertees sad kedge. fl* Met little
ose Sbe soiled with pleasure. as she watched
with what °tunny gentleness Leadapted his rude
forces to the fragile claimant for bir care. She
declared that to sew him earryiag the baby, made
her this'll of a loootnotire tayiug to adapt itself
to the task of drawing a betterly—it was im-'
resibte to pat ori little etiongh power
In short, for the first time, her heart pulsated
health's - 11y sad stormily toward him. It was but
a thimble fall of leaven—=is' the first
_phsee, but,
leaven is s wonderful thing, and is this, as in
many othtr eases, it sufficed to leaven the whole
'map. She was saved.
The germ of eineera affection then pleated
grew aed throve, for it had a rieb soil in Louie's
really warm sad loving begirt, sad the bed the
itimense advantage of a well.fosnlded esteem for
her [toehold to start from. Alrolled on,
sped her diesppolotswout in regardhe r the nen-fal
fitment of a eertaie youtbfor misgivings grew
)144/1 keen, phi same at last from little to little to
tbiok her husband the first and best of men, sod
w,* sot have exebsoged him for Geo. Wash.
i,.eou himself But thatis 'always tip way with
women, they never know modenttion.
I em afraid from the way my moral seems to
point, that the reader may think I am an Wyo•
cite for marriages of eotertiliiklCO. Not at all
I give my vole° deeidely against them. I think
my heroine ran a terrible ride--nee I should by
nu means advise you to run, fair readerl—that
at hum, if yogi know yourself to bon woman of
Cooling. If eonstituted like Miss Kama and
th.meallis of other'', dos% distress with say sox
i.ties ibotat yourself. They are snealled for.—
,I will warrant you not to die el • broken heart
tinier soy eiremmatasees whatever . ; I assure you
that you inty safely riek even the trials of a
marriage of coo venienco, without fear of tragical
•oonsequeoces.
How TO Serra AN ACCOVNT.—To settle
coffee with an egg is in tiara y matter; but it is
not exactly so easy to settle Ito old seeount, as a
racy writer is Otsego coon% New YbrY, shows
in this letter:
" Seldom have I been more amused than
when, some two years ago,. spots the North Fork
ike Salmon river, in Calgornia, I overheard
a conversation between an bones' miser, named
Riley, asd ork&lihe Donsuilo.trader. to whom
it seemed
_Rile was indebte d some $4O for peo,
'Woos. Said Donnelly to Riley—
" You °Nilo a pay bill, for you
know I trusted yon "heti ooothq trader on the
r ver posh!.. Cowl, rarf,i'lrow off half,
if yoU'll pti t h e
" 4 Wei k, 144. e," ssld4ilex t L • aril he kiwi
if ['lt gime you to be Els liberal Outs I am
It you Lbrdw . oil one hsC4ll throw off the
of her!'_
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" ' But that Joa ' t settle ell secoirt•
" ' Theo break so egg into it l" said flash
and (molly walked off.
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c lad ittitory of a Tome Female.
We bevy some painful facts to narrate about
mamas who was lately found. in this city, in a
Most ,wretehed awl dersdedeondition A simple
aketobsof her antecedents will show how rapid is
soe'e Ong downwird, after the first step is
taken, and bow mercilessly retribution follows
after wrong tioips and crime,
The woman in question was, a few years since,
a Itstrug 'lady in the Seminary of Prr,fet.mor
Crittitt4es, in Broaklio, N. Y. She was then a
profit:le of Henry Ward Beecher, lived with his
family,' and was being educated by hits. Of
bourse, she Mas placed under the moat favorable
Circumstances, and had her every want, that was
reasonable,
gratified She was surrounded by
the very beat associations, apd had been adopted
by Mr Beecher, because of ber natural bright
nest or 'disposition and intellect to the school,
though she was regarded as an eccentric and
wayward being, yet she was admired by all of
her companious for her superior quality of
mind. •
No young lady in Prof Crittenden's .ehool,
(one of; the best iii the Est,) could write so
brilliant and beautiful a composition as she, and
all Wad to yield tolei in intellectual superiority.
We bave thk from one who was a schoolmate of
hers, tat all her compositions were gems of
thought . and language, and she promised to be
conie prominent as a female writer Now comes
the first circumstanee that poisoned her happy
heirt It is the old story of love She became
a passionate admirer of one who reciprocated her
affections, but who was forbidden to tender his
hand in marriage Ile was already married to
another. This first disappointment occasioned a
violent braiefever, which completely prostrated
her,. and iu the course of her recovery she was
advised to resort to stimulants, by which she ac
quired a taste for what has since plunged her in
to the depths of degradation
Afterwards, she went to Boston, and became
a teacher in the [louse of Refuge. It was an
advantageous station for a lady of education and
diameter, and she is said to have filled it, at
first, with great promise of usefulness. Soon,
however, she yielded to thy appetite which she
platted within herself, when recovering from
her previous illness, and she was picked up in
the streets of Boston ouc night in a state of in
toxieation. Facilii deseettrus Arerni Efforts
were made to effectually redeem her, but it is
almost impossible 14 reclaim a woman once dis
graced She sor.a married, and, as we have been
informed, married against the wishes of those
who bad been her foymer friends and protector•
Front this time she - sinks rapidly, and whether
by means of au avenging Deity, or from the
natural laws of cause and effect, others way de.
cido for themselves.
Three or four years elapsed, and she came with
her hursband to Chicago last year lle found
employment there, but in the great fire of last
Fall his situation was lost to him Pretty much
all Winter long he remained destitute of work,
pawning away his household goods and clothing
meanwhile, and, when Spring came, they deter.
mined to come to Milwaukee. They bad one
child, and on their way here that was taken away
from them, at Kenosha. Their proverty 11 , *1
now become lamentable, indeed; but, undoubted
ly, their situation might have been much better,
but for the accursed article of runt, to which
they bad both now become addicated Having
buried their chid at Konosha, they came on here,
and hired a miserable room iu the Third Ward
of Oki. cit .' , A few lay passed, and the wet
w roan who. e.0...r we have been sketele
ing, was foroo.l to g o out and beg fr..in door to
door In 111• emus, '.f her atnan seeking •11.•
chanced upon ..iwoivlP , had been h. r sehoo:tu it..
iu Brook!) n, upon *other who had k 111... I/
her in liw.toti FeariW IL. worst, but ill
ignorant of khan a veretelied creature she had I, •
e.. '0 1114„-r11•411 a 1.. r.• •Ite awl 1.. t
I,ll•l.and were freezing and starving
:Sh.• e..tif. • .d (kit sln. Ihtti r.,
4• 4 5 f..r ilitee lug •.n] n tii.•ir riek. ty iil,l
there NI..S bat a -ing'e A. et t•, protect them
fr.,n, the odd Th. re was a single chair, with
but three leg., to it, in the room, atpl scarpely
any other' article. of furniture cumbered the
These 164.4*(14 at once began to exert t
in her behalf, R e t others intereted to aid her
anti hi r husband, gave them clothes and food,
eol.ed them both plenty of work, and it s..,etti
ed now destiny was taking a favorable turn.
The vromati wept over her poverty, manifested
touching take us of a reauituation, but hero too
the fire was only being snantbered a few days, to
break out again the first favorable opportunity
The money that was given her to buy food and
clothing w;tb, wis spent in the rum hobi, and
when she was next visited she was found all but
demented by intoxication From that tine she
turned her back Upon all friendly offers of assis•
tance, abandoned her first quarters, was after.
wards found by the authorities in low houses of
prostitution, and has now stain left the city, in
conatany with her husbandli She has almost
reached the lowSst round of misery, and this
once gifted young lady, an adopted child of
ifeury Ward Belcher, will soon find that peace
in death, which she has been unable to find itt
t h e cu p, sm a s h, the corruption of licentionsne.n
Mil trato6e, ( ) Daily
jos„, The follorting good ooe is told of a "mu
no,' who was in the habit of coming home bun
gry, after his evening potation :
One night besides the usual dish of cabbage
and pork, his wife left a wash bowl filled with
caps and starch. The lamp had long been ex.
tinguished wheal the staggering sot returned
home apd by mi'take, when proceeding to sat.
isfy his 'hunger,e stuck his fork into the wrong
dish.' He work edaway at his mouthful of caps
for some time, liut being unable to masticate
them, he sang °aft to his wife :
'Old woman, There did you get your cab•
bagis.i? They are so stringy that I can't chew
them."
6 1ify gracious r replied i tbe gaud old lady, "if
the,attiptd felloof hasn't been and eat up my
eapitOlat I put starch over night !"
PERSONAL INDstsitinon.—A western editor
lately offered his: bat as a prise for the best essay
on indepedenee The •• following obtained We
"National Independence is easisr imagined
than described PerMnal independenoe consists
emphatically in being suited to a clean shirt,
drawers, socks, and a nicely blackened pilt of
boots with at least a dollar and a clean cambric
is your pocket, and 'on Sunday mining with
your wife on one aria, and your baby on the
other, taking your : ctiOn course towards your own
meeker, in the blissful ezpeotatiti of doing your
awn snoozing, in your own pew. wherein no one
dare to venture to nudge you with his elbow, or
tiekle your nose with a straw "
A INCISPULATZ CHAILACTiI Bturr.—Captain
CHARLIpi LINHAILT, a notorious Free State des
perado itt Kansas. and one artist ugliest eusto.a,
era in Ow Territury,4aas shot, and, it is supposed,
mortally wounded, in a fight at Geary City on
the 18th inst. Ile interfered at a gambling rabbi,
where sumo other reams were playing, whet/
owe nl th4la k allot him It is out generally known,
it is wring, MIA LICRBART is the maa who
shot Sherif Joats to Lawrenee, irt the lonising
of the Kansas trouble Ile was a printer:,
VAO A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL . 170858.
An Adventure in a Railway Carriage
After I had taken au) seat one morning at
Paddington in au empty carriage, I was joined,
just us the train was moving et?, by a s t range ,
looking youtig man, with remarkably long flow.
lug hair Ile was, of course, a little hurried,
but he seemed beside to he disturbed and
so that I was quite-alarmed fur fear o f k id not
being right in his mind, user did his subsequent
conduct at all to assure me... Our train was au
express, and he acquired eagerly, at once, which
was the first station whereat we were advertisi
ed to atop. I consulted my Ilfadshaw, and
furnished him with the required information.—
It was lteadiug The young 111311 looked at
his watch "Madam," said he, "I have but
half art hour between Ore and, it may be anus
EXellie, therefore, my abruptnes, You have ;
I pereeive, a pair, 01' in your workba g .
Oblige we, if you please, by tttin g ! illy +flair "
"Sir," raid 1, "it it Impossible
"Madam," he urged, and a look severe tie
termination dressed his features, "I am a despe
rate man 'Sewers how you refuse what I ask.
Cut my hair off—short, ()Ipso to the roots—itn
tuediutely ; and here is a Itelet;Aap•r to hold the
ambrosial cure. ' I' thought he was mad, of
course, and, believing that it would be dangerous
to thw Lim, I cut off ail his hair to the : 3 , 4 1
lock "Now, madam," said he, unit eking a
small portutanteaU, ")OLI will :urilier oblige me
by looking out of the window, as I am about to
chauge my clothes " Of course 1 looked out of
the window for a very considerable time, and
when he ohserv.d, ",Madam, I need 110 longer
put you to any Inconvenience." I eta not re.
cognize the young man in the leas*. lustead of
his former ,guy costume, he was attired in black,
and wore a grey wig and silver spectacles ; be
looked like a respeetable divine of the Church of
England, of about 1;1 years of age ; to complete
that character, he had a v‘,lutue 'orations in
Iris hand, which--they hive app. are.l 71., to ab.
sorb 11111J—IllIght have been his own "1 do not
wish to threaten you, young lady," he resumed,
"and I think, besides, that [ can trust your kind
face. Will you promise me not to reveal this
memmorpetesin until your journey's end ?" "I
will," said I, "must certainly." At heading
the guard and a person in ptniu clothes looked
into our carriage "Y 'la have the ticketa, my
love," said the young man, blandly, and looking
at we as though he were my father.
"Never mind, sir ; we don't want tihem,•" taut
the official, as M withdpiroy Lis companion "I
shall now leave you, niaticm," nMerved my fel
low-traveller, as soon as the meat was clear; by
your kind and courageous conduct you have
saved my life, and perhaps even your own."—
In anotlier minute be was gone and the train
we., in motion. Nut till the next morning did I
learn from the 7'intrai newspaper that the gentle
uwu whom 1 had operated as hair cutter had
committed a forgery to an enormous amount in
lAmidon a few hours before I met him, anti that
he had been tracked into an express train from
Paddington, but that--although the telegraph
had b:i•ti loot 1.1 111.)11013 and ,lesert by I him SOeU•
rarely—at Ih'aiiug, when the train was search
cd, ho . was !nowhere 10 I e fo to l — /L.e..b•.1.l
"on',
if we W..n• ar H. tl for an oiwtAion as to what por
tiro th. teiritory of the ilratt /1 States will
make the great. ,t r. I,live in population,
arta th. .leveloionent in:lit...trial re.
the next ten ye tr , , we ..Could not
Ir sit c•• • reph ityiut
The r • i•
with awl V:111111.1 , I, r Time ell.
/11:1.1.• ;1111.4r, n.. 1 healthy, hearing a
Brea: - I .4
r ir. torn woe., ..1 e .11; gol.l 1, fouiol
111 mail, t ....• reali;•• , hale country
;trent r I I • 1., It I)
t hoo.tr. I aryl
abound+ with excellent deep enough for
the largr,t aliaat T;11-1 bay, named Ail
miralty Inlet at it. month, awl l'ugat Saun.l u.
it, heti, t cony. to. f.r ut
ternal (rad.. proletbly by any oil, r
bay worl.l 'Nero In re) t. IT at the mouth,
and v....el- van 10.1— way in all ktu.l. of
w. artier, while un idr the depth of water in the
el,Alittel t. ut n.. place les-1 than fifty fort
S 5..1111.1 th, re 1,•%,•1 tract of
ill, Lind, ~r tr %filch a r.ttli,Lti I Wright. eA.-11)
tua.l,; rib or, a ot-t.ttn.e,,,.t.tx.t.)
au , i the ositr,Llll,4l.iut.Ln, wipe th,it if tit
ti,rool rho) w:11 ;!, ,Sail it. .1 trgi•
mliar.• „f th, .I , y; ~f the (` durtilm
-fra,l•• wittei now pa... 0., through
, fifftenit and . dariger, , u4 , -ntratte , • of the Col
the mteauter It public Watt not long
ago detttu,,l for ,•i,:1,1 thy , hifore ,he iould get
oar
The l'il;zet Souuil .untry 114 d just made a
start in the development f t n•,.ntrees
when the Indian war broke out, drove away the
familiee, ruined many of tho ,ettiers. tn.l phi! a
Stop to most ..1 their improvement, The 11,1111-
age from the Indians is now effectually and final
ly removed, and Washington Territi*y will thiA
year take a new start
I'h.• !inland aln uiy h t. a considerable truly f..r
its small population There are on its banks
sixteen sawmills, eapalii- ,if turning nut ltt•t,
000,000 feet of sawn lumber annually It,
straight and tall timber is valuable fur ,Or,, and
cargoes of them arc sent to Y•ew York, Engtionl
and Australia. The farw:•rs ..n the sound Lave
sent 600 barrels of flour of List year's crop to
San Francisco, and this year they will send tar
more There arc several flourishing towns in
the Territory, of which the principal are Ulym
pia rind Steilacoom. —Alta Calt:linlaia.
IT IS EAST TO SPOIL A Swv —There are hut
very few that can bear the hand of indulgence
without injury In our country, in most instan•
ces, those who arc to he great and ugrful, tnuct
make themselves sn, by their own exertions and
often by vigorous effort Nine cases out of ten,
the young fellow who is provided for—that his
"father ii rich"—will relax his exertions, and
become a poor fool, whatever may be his oceupa
tion
There is nothing so destructive to the morals
and, we may add, to the peace of the cominnni
ty, as the neglect of parents, rich or poor, to
teach their sons the importance of being early
engaged in some active employment. Too many
of the citizens of every place, under the influence
of false pride, suffer their sons, after quitting
their schools, to lounge about the public offices
and taverna of their places of residence, rather
than engage in grime important branch of -the
mechanical arts; or force them by dint of their
own industry and energies, to seek their fortune
in other pursuits. Nothing is more detestable,
in our eye, than to see a healthy good looking
youth breaking loose frim the restraints of hon
arable industry, returning to his fkther's
rile for support, and loafin..; it about, rather than
pursuing some necitpation which will not only
support himself, but give gratification to his
worthy parents
We would say to every father who has ouch
a son, hi' he rich or poor—rather drive him to
"cut his curd of wood a day," than suffer him
to spend Itistime in idleness. "Au idle head is
th e de v it' A workallop,"—auil we may add, that
idle hands are the implirments he employs to rx•
°cute his dark designs
-- --- -
The Puget Sound Country
KANSAS-U.OOM PTON CONSTITUTION
SPEECH OF HON. WM. BIGLER,
Of Pennsylvania,
In upi...tt inn t" tI Itt.mtrunery-Crtttenden Amendment
?were., in the Smoak. of Me raked Sidle., April 3, 1 9 541
Ma. MILER—Mr. President, I sm not pre:
pared to vote on this question without first sub
mitting a row remarks explanatory of the views
which 1 entertain Ido wit intend to delay the
Sent. I.y an attempt at an argument, at length,
ag.tai, this House amcuduttut; I shall be coo ,
1.111 Lu state, very briefly, some of the points
which I think involve concluAive objections to
he measure.
la the first place`, this amendment involves an
atter and violent abandonment of the doctrine of
nou-interventiou It presents. the broad ques •
lion, whether a dockrine•whicri the party to which
I beloug have cherished, a doctrine which is
found in the organic law of Kansas, and which
was enunciated in the Democratic platform at
Cincinnati, is to be abandoned' and we are to
look for some other system of legislation with
regard to the Territories
had hoped, sir, that when the wise men of
rip , country, with Clay and Webster and Cass in
the lead, presented and adopted this new mode
of settling the slavery question—the enlarged
and liberal doctrite that when thet people of the
Territories were prepared for admission as States
they should come in, with or without slavery, as
the Constitution presented by them might provide
at the time—it would have praven_a finality on
this question In the liberal doctrines main.
Leine(' by the Democratic party, that the peopl e
of the several States may geinto the Territories
with whatsoever property they possess, including
slaves, and when there, and when about to or
ganize a government,, preparatory to admission
as a State, 1r terms of perfect equality with the
other States, and that they shall be left perfectly
free, not only as to the kind of Government they
will have, but as to the mode and mann e r of
making it, I had hoped wo were to find a simple
and satisfactory solution of this unhappy dila+
culty whieh seems to arise on the application of
each cl'erritory fur admission.
When this doctrine was proclaimed iLwae at
variance with and saperceedod the former prac
tice of the Government; but it Was one *blob
commended itself to the judgement and patriot
ism of the people. It was a proposition to settle
the c.iutrovcrsy about slavery ou high principle
—sacred principle ; a principle that was co-ex
tensive in its operation with the entire country,
with all the territories we possessed then, or ever
can possess, and as imperishable as the Govern
ment itself,- equal to every emergency that may.-
arise. Au essential element in that doctrine is,
that Congress will not interfere with the domestic
afTnirs of the Territories; that as to the mode
and manner of making a government, the people
ut the Territories should be unrestrained; that
Congress would decide only upon th e question of
adtaimion under the obligations of the Constitn•
tion, and that would he on the single _point
whether the government presented was Republi
can in its form, and not as to the mode of mak
ing Constitution—leaving that work with
the pt - .plc.
I hal hoped that we were about to eriuTess a
ii' uttfut illus•rati , u of the wiitd nu ..1 this d , •-
..
tit, , the admission of two States; the ouc.
S!aVi . , the other free, under its principles
Thui its lt...iuties would he illustrated and illumi•
e tt( d; 1 teli )ou, l'ret•ideut, that In my
!tumid.. judgment, uo act of C 'tigress would go
further toward restoring those relations of frater
nal feelings which in the younger and purer days
of the R publie existed between the p , ople of
it- extremities, than the consummation of such a
work Nothing, in my humble judgment, would
lend more to give peace to this c.kuutry; to pro
it.4 future progress and prosperity; to give
r.q.pority and peas.• to ibis ['MOOe of the Torino.'
rrit inc.' Sir, that is the-doctrine ofthe
mneratie party, held by them because it is
e.itNkten t with the Constitution—cOnsistent '
With time true interests of this great country, and"'
with the rights of all elas.e- of the-people, and
all seetiohs id the Union
Now, sir s I regard the House proposition as
direct and violent inn rvention; because it pro.
p.ises to discard %hat the people have dotee awl to
iustitute r ucw mode of proceeding It preposcs
to -et aside what tlii• people of Kansas have dune
rn lII.' WI) of thanging their Government from
a Terfeill.li to a State form, end to prescribe to
th..m tw they shall procord hereafter in mak•
t liweruevoit . I wish to mark the distine,
ti In ween a ease where the people of a T,
tore hays. not :toted at all, and especially where ,
a I'. rritory oily not posses the usu II population
for a State; where their powers have rested iti
abeyance, :mil where Congress volunteers to offer
to these -twit an invitation to COMe into the
Union That we did ill 1556 to the people of
under the Toombs hill They could
hardly presume, with the population which they
the possessed, that they would be admitted as
a State. Congress extended an invitation to
them, they It icing taken no proper legal actien
ou the subject It in different nowt. They have
letedi they have presented themselves here with
a republican form of government, which has
c itue up to us through legal channels and regu.
lar steps. They have exercised the power which
yen gave them in the organic law, when you
sail their legislative power should extend, over.
all the rightful subjects of legislation, And that
the people should be left perfectly free to farm
and regulate their domestic institutions in their
own way
But, Mr President, if itArere allowable on
principle for Congress to remand to the people
this government which they have sent here, and
insist upon a revision of what they have done,
I could not agree Co the mode and manner pres'
eribed in the House bill. The objections I make
ought to be more specially unpleasant to those
who have opposed the admission of Kansas under
the Leeompton Constitution than to those who
have favored it; and why so? Because the peo
yle of Kansas are required to vote on thiti Con
stitntion in a form which does not give them an
opportunity of making a free State. Li the
early part of this discussion, much was made
out of the form of voting presented by the Le-
Compton Convention. It was said to be unfair.
It was said that the elector, in order to vote for
or against slavery, was bound to vote for or
against the Constitutionrthat those, therefore,
who were not for that Constitution, had no op
portunity of voting on the slavery question. I
do not care now to inquire whether thst4 view
was a correct and an allowable one or not; but I
do say that the presentation of the question, as
proposed in this amendment, would be liable to
quite as conclusive objections as the mode of
voting prescribed by the Lecompton Convention.,
What is the form? It reads thus :
" At the said election the vote sball be by ballot, spa by
endorsing on Ms ballot, as eaeli voter may please, 'for tho
Constitution,' or 'against the Ooastitatios.'"
That form you pereive, sir, would not present
to the people of Kansas the great question at iv
sue there; the question which has agitated the
country from ono extremity to the other, to wits'
whethet K 51214111 shall be i free or shire State.—
Slavery is in the Constitution as it stands, and
the question thus presented would be, whether
they would have slave State or no Slate at AL
Those who desire it to be a free State would have
no fair opportunity of carrying out their will.—
They . are be disTrincbiattit on ail a vets.. They
can have no voiee. Now, sir, if this .nature: ie
to ho adopted, the form of voting *tight Jo be
raell o ali.winild give &hetet People the o*ortanit,j
of dehiding, unem the gwestion of sta.
very whitch has harassed the* from the first hoar
of their organisation,. Look at thei practical
workings , of proposition. A. sleets, pre.
soots himself at the polls who is la favor of slit.
very. lie sees that , bin ballot must be for or
against the Constitution. He desires to vote for
slavery, but be dislikes many-featuret of tbe Con
stitution; and he is driven from the polls. If
Froe State man, on the other band, makes his
sppetiranee, he eneounterssimilar dilieulties.—
II o_ likes the Constitution and all its festores,"ett•
eept that of slavery. He desires to adopt the
Constitution, bat he cannot do that without
agreeing that Kansas shall be a slave state; sad
be i*distranchised. Now, sir, if this proposition
is to prevail, why pit it in this shape? le it that
there will be no alternative left to the Free-State
party but to rote the Coastitatioo down and to
secure au indorsement of the opinions of those
who have held that a majority were against this
Constitution? Is it to assure a rejection of the
President's policy. If I were for this measure,
I should not agree to present it in this shape.—
I certainly could not, if had stood so peculiarly
and tenaciously up to the rights' of the Free State
party in Kansas. The ballot should be "for the
Constitution and No-Slavery, or "for the Con
stitution with Slavery," or against the Constitu
tion Is this form all classes would have a bar
opportunity to carry out their will.
But, sir, there are other features 'to which I
wish to call attention. The first clause roads as
follows:
" That the State of Kansas be and Is hereby admitted
into the ratan on an squad footing with the original &stop,
in all respects whatever; but inaansueb as it, I. greatly dis
puted whether the Constitution framed at Leoompton. oa
the ith da ' y of November last, and now pending before
Congrera, was fairly made,"&e. -
It is a question whether the Constiution was
fairly mode. What is the deduction? It must
be that in some way or other the obligation rests
upon-Congress to know that the Constitution is
fairly, wide—that fraud and violence shall not
prevail. Now, sir, I do not care to raise or debate
chat question of fact at present. Wbatver might
have been held heretoforaunder the former policy
of the Government, I cannot see bow those who
subscribe to the doctrine that the people should
be left perfectly free to form and regulate their
instituttons in their own way, can investigitu this
question of fairness and form. It is maintained
that wo sanction the Constitution by voting for
the admission? That is not my understanding.
The government which the people send here we
must take or reject. Ido not speak now of mere
matters of form, bat the vital features of the goy
ernnient. These we cannot touch. Is it other
wise held anywhere? I have not heard a Senator
allege that by voting for the admission of Kansas
he oeeetstarily sanctioned the Constitution, or
vi
ce reran.
Now, sir, the itoint which I wish to make is
thi s: if Congress has no right to- touch the work
of the people of Kansas—the government which
they have sent bein—what does it conoern us
that weinquire bow that , work was done? Here
is a prope:•it ion simply to inquire how it was done;
conceding that we have no power over the pro
duction Itself N.o - ottly that; but while this
Constitution IS to be sent batik on the sesump.
tion that it was not fairly made, what is proposed
in addition? Why, sir, in case this Constitution
tic voted down, the people of Kansas are anther
ized to (lett delegates to constitute a now Con
vention; 01.1 are to vote on that Constitution,
and then, if it be adopted, they become a State
by the proclamation of the President. •
Where is the guarantee that the new governs
meet will be made fairly? Where is the protec
tion atctiost fraud in that process? Who supers
vises that action? If it is the duty of Congress
iu tho ease of the Leeomption Constitution, to see
that it is fairly made, it is the duty of Congress
in every other ease. If it is the duty of Con
gress to inquire whether this Constitution hes
been fairly made, it is an equal obligation not to
give the opportunity of making any constitution
unfairly. Here is a proposition to allow the peo:
pie to wake a government, put it 1/11 operation,
and admit it into the Uuioo, without its over
making its appearance before Congress at all.-
1 do not endermand how alleged frauds can be
clatuted an reas..us for returning this Constituti
on, if we at the same time authorise the making
of a `tats with..ut any guarantee whatever as to
how that
,power may be abused, without any pro.
tvet ioo against fraud, violence and usurpation.—
Then, sir, there is another point, and that is
the extraordinary proposition which makes the
Presidout. of the United States perform functions
which the Couetitution, in express words, vests
iu Ceugress. Ido not speak.now as to the gott
en:meet of Kansas that is before us; that we have
seen; that constitution we have read; that COQ•
grow knows to .be republican; that we may, on
certain conditions, allow the President to an
nounce admitted, and hold that the State Is in
the Union; but it is to the other alternarive—
the right to mile a constitution and State gov
ernment, and put it in operation, and put-it into
the Union by a prailamation of the President,
without ever having it before Chngresa at all.—
to that I object Who knows that it will be a Re
publican government? Who can guaranty that
it will be admissable in form? And if Republi
can, may it not contain other features, making it
entirely unacceptable? Sir,l have not the mea
sure of confidence in the men who would be like
ly to get. hold of this government in Kansas just
now. Who is satisfied that Gen. Lane would
exercise power with moderation? Who believes
that if he controlled a Convention, he would not
indulge the excesses of his feelings of prejudice
against the southern States? Sir, I should not
be surprised if a Constitution made in that way
would emancipate the slaves that are in the Ter
ritory and confiscate the property value in them.
I should not be surprised if a Constitution made
in that wry, without consulting Congress, should
attempt to interdict or embarass the execution of
the fugitive slave law, or would set up other la
sues with the Federal authority; and, yet whilst
Congress might not seriously entertain the ides
of admitibg such a State, the President would be
obliged to twilit It by proolinuition: You will
discover that it gives the President no discretion.
The duty is imperative on him. When the fasts
are properly certified, be must announce that the
State is in the Union, no matter bow objection
able the Constitution May be. Here is State
making with . a vengeance. Any measure of
fraud' may be- practised; any extent of tioitmodi
and usurpation in making the Constitution; sad
no matter how badly made; sad yet the State
must come in. Theproposkties is mosetrona.
Now, air, the ambient matter of the bill is etw.
geitive ; at presents a wide field for dissuade*.
I do not intend, to pursue it this morning, bat. I
could not persuade myself to estaquistlywa this
question.. I know that there ere certain vary
insiduocat features about Akin- seassmes....4satarse
whieh eau, be used with groat - sleet berme the
pepolsec hussy be 'dieted that we have voted
airiest a bill which-war to give the people the
right to vote On their Coustitutiou. That would
be true tki some extent.; but I answer, that I
hold still moreliberal j deetrier to th e 1•005
of Kansas ; hold thakihoy can *eke a
tution lei any away they please; vatalitg .it *G
eordies tolaw and in regular' fovea. .1 would
give to the • people of Kumasi t h at ammo of
right whieh those wham I represent here exec:
oised ; they made a Constitutioa twin through
their delegates ; they have revised aad aateemled
111:1
F. SLOAN EOM)Li/
NUMBER 49.
that Constitution through the agency of a
whir ratification. It was ootopeteet.ftw dela
pie of &ages tado the salbefthiatir if -
in Kansas, who claim to be adverse to this she
very article, who object most to this etraitiMi-
Sion, had ozonize' ed their high pieveisairo ps
freemen, probably we should have 40 le
'items' on this- omelets. Bak sir, 04
not perforgt that duty. pe 'woe, when
.041,.
might have decided the question of, Own bj.
electing delegates, they would sot; voted, 4h
"bogus laws" were in their way. 0001 1 11,
whoa the question of slavery nu not isvaked,
bat when offices were *Leta., they did vote.,
Is December following, when they a dime.
vote oa the gentian of makia flee or
a slave State, they would not goes—it would woe
do to recognise the "bogus bare," and the mho.
gee Oeuvention." Bat, a few days aftweemda, •
when it was a question of gaining the teed aims,
they rushed to the polls sad elected the Akin
under what they termed the "Leooetpten swia•
die." There is the source of the trouble;' sad
as this issue stands, the most that those net tkd'
other side can make out of it would be (tabs'
their own ground) an issue between these Ike,
through the forms of law, bad abused, to some
extent, the right of suffrage, sod those who lad
set themselves up , against the are of that right;
who had preferred other means; who bad not
exercised the high functions of freemen under
our laws, and under our policy of government.
They avowed that determination, and they ad
hered to it. There may have been fraud, and
there may have been usurpation, to some extent,
on' the one hand. The best that cast be said for
the other was that it presented maittred, waist
ent, and stupendous insubordination to the taws,
if not rebellion to the Qovensment. Which of
these alternatives shall we take ? I shall not,
for my part, cast a vote that will give success' to
those who have stood out persistantly against.,
the laws.
It may be said, and it is said, that, this Con..
stitution is not agreeable to the 'majority of the
people. Well, sir, [ have searched in leis is
the oomplicated history of logislation on this
subjeet for the instance in which that question
was distinctly raised and discussed, where it was
.elaitned as a duty on the part of Cosgrove, to
know that a majority of the people were for the
form of goveretnent which they sent up to Con
grass. No such question could have arisen in
the ease of the State of my venerable friend from
Kentucky,. for that was declared in thellnion
State before the form ofwent was made,
not by a proclamation, FT:l l ileve, but by sot
of Congress. That could not have been an se
pertained fact in regard to Florida. No member
of Congress, as I understand the history of that
ease, could have known whether the people pre.
(erred the Constitution of Florida or not. Why
not? I shall show. In 1838, the peopl e of
Florida held a Convention and made a •
tution. They submitted it, it is trze, to the ridi
illeetion of the people, and as I learn the hiMory
of it, t majority was only found by throwing out
pertain districts on the ground of infortnality. 7 —
That Constitution-was sent up here. It was filed
away in' the archives of the LeOlative . 'depirt•
meat. There it lay, cobwebbed and dusted over,
for six longyears. When it 'became necessary
to bring in lowa as a State, these musty papers
were drawn from their solitude, and on Mei'
Florida was made a State. Who would say that
the people who held that Convention, and voted
on that Constitution, still remained in Florida
Who would say, that in the six years which In
tervened, there was not a large accession of
relation to the Territory of Florida ? There eogld
have been no satisfactory evidence that the rea
ple of Florida approved that Constitution ; no
man could have known that it embodied their
will. I only present these historical facts for
the purpose of showing that the doctrine that
Congress must know that a Constitution embed.
des the will of a majority of the leople belbW
we have the right to admit the State, is a new'
doctrine.
But, Mr. President, I have spoken already
much longer than I intended to do. I rose for
the purpose of confining myself to a very few
points. I trust we are near the close of this
angry debate. For one, lam free to say to the
Senate acid to the country that Ism tired of Alb
topic of Kansas. lam tired of it is every sense.
Eipecially am I weary of it, because I can see in
it an element of growing mischief to this grftt,
peaceful, and happy country of oars. Why it
is, I know not • but it would seem to be a din.
pensation P rovidence that we are to have
very plague among us in the shape of this ,slav,
cry question, living and growing es the wiles
advances spreading out yearly, , overshadowing
the whole country like some fatal ups", whom
poisonous branches shade the very estremitko
and deal poison and death as the seesaw roll by.,
I say, sir, that we are near" theclose of this tie.
bate, and with it, I trust this fend will be pet at
rest forever—this strife which is so certainly and
so constantly poisoning the very channels of in
tercourse between great divisions of this Union.
severing the relations of the people. who Nit
to be fraternal and affectionate, and. abiding is
a common faith. Sir, J have my owe
notions of this measure, Ido not cherish them
with the tenacity that some do. I desires how
ever, to make the admission of Kunio sad Min
nations an exemplification of the truthfithiess df
the equity and wisdom of the Democratic polley
that Congress shall no longer Ideal with tits
vexed question ; , but that it shall be left to the
people of the Territories to settle for themselves;
and they shall quietly become Stales, with or
without slavery, u their rvernasest may pro.
vide at the time of admission.
VIZ can or &Mfg BY YOUNG WOMMIX.—..
Timothy Titecenb . has the following sensible ra.
marks on that subject:
Young women are very apt to imbibe /metier
bad habit, nanteyl, the use of slang. I sae in
the stree4_the other da when I met an elegantly
drafted lady and gent leman, oaths sidewalk
My attention was the more attnieted to them be
acne they were evidently stranger.. Abs.
rate, they inuine- sod me as being very therm u .
ly refined people. As I eame within hearing et
their voices—they were chatting along theArey
—I heard these words from the weasial
" You may bet your life on that." I wsurdb-
I could almost have boxed her
I remember ease being in the oompas_yrelba heft
—one who bad a winter's reign in %ANN*:
Some kind of erne was in
. rms, 01106, is
moment of inwpnee, she 'DO gyararmar
—Now you may regard MI as it lisanbiat no
tion' but I tell you that woman fell as flatly in
my esteem as if she had uttered au oath.
A Fus-arAn Hums Partuar..--Ln.. Gaa.
Urn, the Indelible Republican Stale flesatect
from Mania% node anduerity report seams§
last' week, is *Mob hogeoted the etumwbutilue
G. W. /Deilaier, Speaker of the Klinsienclueul
Repreinetathes, made subs wilownewant egad
body.. The Doctor ealled the arreag eeilasseme
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