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LOOK AT THIS.
In the year 1855 theslave power of Mis
souri and border ruffians in general, when
advised that the men of Kansas would hold
their first election, in a mob of lawless cut
throats, and robbers, made up of these
slave breeders and their allies led by a mis
creant named Jones, (si fellow Who had
been appointed a Postmaster at Weston in
Missouri by that Jesuit Campbell, P. M.
General,) crossed the Missouri River in
droves, and on the night proceeding the
day of election encamped on the soil of
Kansas, and the next day made their ap
pearance at every election poll in the Ter
ritory, and with guns, pistols, bowie knives
and other weapons, mercilessly attacked,
and brutally assailed the free settlers who
came to vo,e at the election polls. Nor
was this all ; but they were shot down and
butchered for daring to exercise the free
man's perogative, the right of suffrage
This accomplished, these murderers and
assassins seized upon the ballot boxes, and
giving the legal judges but five minutes to
leave, presenting loaded pistols at their
heads, with imprecations, and threats of in•
scant death ; and, after thus obtaining for
cible l.ossesston of the polls, these monster
barbarians, this mob of southern slavehold
ers, opened what they called an election.
They appointed their Judges and Inspec
tors ell from Missouri, and then without
qualification or any legal restraint elected
their ' , Pawnee" Legislature, which is now
fastened upon the freemen of Kansas by
President Pierce and the Locofoco party.
This lawless act was perpetrated upon free
territory north of 36° SV, and done by a
band of armed villains front Missouri, and
bef ire the evening shades began to fall
they had all returned to Missouri from
whence they came. This is the law and
order party of which President Pierce and
the oligarchy of slave drivers speak of.
The Locofoce President calls this Missou
ri mob the 'constitutional body of Kansas!'
Men are shot down, d wellings burned, wo
men and children made houseless, civil
and religious liberty trampled in the dust.
This is the Legislature which met at the
Pawnee Mission in Kansas ; it was com
posed of slave drivers from Missouri. and
passed among others the following laws for
Kansas. This bloody and cruel code is
fully endorsed by the Locofoco Convention
at Cincinnati and upon this platforms James
Buchanan stands. Fillmore is nominated
by the very southern slave breeders who
endorse these laws :
Be it enacted by (he Governor and Legis•
!alive -assembly of the Territory of
Kansas, asf alms
Section 1. That every person, bond or
free, who shall be convicted of actually
raising a rebellion or insurrection of slaves
free negroes or mulatoes, in this territory,
shall suffer death.
Section 2. Every free person who shall
aid or assist in any rebellion or insurr.•c•
tion of slaves, free negroes or mulaioes, or
shall furnish arms. or do any overt act in
furtherance of such rebellion or inqurrec
tion. shall suffer death.
Section 3. If any free person shell, by
speaking, writing or printing, advise, per.
suede or induce any slaves to rebel or con.
spire against or murder arty citizen of this
Territory, or shall bring into, print, write,
publish or circulate, or muse to he brought
into, printed, written, published or circu
lated, or shall knowingly aid or assist in
the bringing into, printing, writing, pub
lishing or circulating, in this Territory• any
book, paper, magazine pamphlet or circu
lar, for the purpose of exciting Insurrec
tion, rebellion, revolt or conspiracy on the
part of the slaves, free negroes or mula
toes, against the citizens of the Territory
or any part of them, such person shall be
guilty of felony and suffer death.
Section 4. If any person shall entice, de.
cey or carry away out of this Territory
any slave belonging to another, with intent
to deprive the owner thereof of the servi.
pes of such slave, or with intent to effect
.or procure the freedom of such slave, he
shall be adjudged guilty of grand larceny,
rind, on conviction thereof, he shall suffer
.death, or be imprisoned at hard labor nut
peas than ten years.
Section 5. If any person shall afo or na•
pint in enticing, decoying, or persuading,
or carrying away or sending out of this
Territory any slave belonging to another,
with intent to procure or effect the freedom
of such slave, or with intent to deprive
the owner thereof of the services of such
slave, he shall be adjudged guilty of grand
larceny, and, on conviction thereof, shall
suffer death, or be imprisoned at hard la
bor for not less than ten years,
Section IL If any person shall entice,
persuade or decoy, or carry away out of
any State or other Territory of the United
States any slaves belonging to another,
with intent to procure or effect the freedom
of such slave, or to deprive the owner of
the services of such slave, and shall bring
such slave into this Territory. he shall be
adjudged guilty of grand larceny, in the
same manner as if such slave had been
ant eed, decoyed or carried away out of the
Terris7y, and in suet nacre the larceny
may be charged to havo been committed
in any county of this Territory into or
through suoh slave shall have ben hro't
.by such person, and, on conviction there
of, the person offending shall suffer diAth.
or be imprisoned at bard labor for not lees
than ten years.
tection 7. If • sh,
_Action . _ any person shall entice,
persuade or induce any slave to escape
from the services of his master or owner,
in this Territory, or shall aid or assist any
slave in escaping trona the services of
his master, or owner, or shall aid, assist,
harbor or coqceal any slave .vho may have
escaped from the services of his toaster or
owner, he shall be deemed guilty of tele iy
and punished by imprisonment at hard la
bur fora term of not less than five years.
Section 8. if any person in this Terri•
tory shall aid or assist, harbor or conceal
any slave who has escaped from the ser
vice of his master, or owner, in another
State or Territory, such person shall be
punished in like manner as if such slave
had escaped from the service of his master
or ownr in this Territory.
Section 9. If any person shall resist any
officer while attempting to arrest any slave
that may have escaped from the service of
his master, or owner, or shall rescue such
slave while in custody of any officer or
other person, or shall entice, persuade aid
or assi-t such slave to escape from the cus•
tody of any officer or other person who
may have such slave in custody, whether
such slave has escaped from the service of
his master or owner in this Territory, or
in any other state or Territory, the per
son so offending shall be guilty of felony,
and punished by iinprisonment at hard la
bor for a term of not less than two years.
Section 10. If any marshal, sheriff or
constable, or the deputy of any such offi
cer, shall, when required by any person,
refuse to aid or assist in the arrest and cap
ture of any s lave that may have escaped
from the service of his master or owner.
whether such slave shall have escaped
from his master or owner in this Territory
or any State or other 'Territory. such odi•
car shall be fined in a sum of not less thus
one hundred nor more than five hundred
dollars.
Section 11. If an) person print, write,
introduce into, publish or circulate, or
cause to be brought into. printed. written,
published or circulated, or shall knowing
ly aid or assist in- bringing into, printing,
publishing or circulating within this terri
tory. any book. paper. pamphlet. magazine
handbill or oircular nonwi'sing any state
menu, arguments, opinions, sentiments
doctrine, advice or inuendo, calculated to
produce a disorderly, dangerous or rebel
lious disaffection among the slaves, in this
Territory, or to induce such slaves to es•
cape from the service of their 'nesters, or
to resist their authority, he shall be guilty
of felony, and he punished by imprison
ment and hard labor for a term of not less
than five years.
Section 12. Harty free person, by spea
king or by writing, assert or maintain that
persons have not the right to hold slaves in
this Territory, or shall introdueo into this
Territory, print, publish, write, circulate,
or cause to be introduced into this 'l'errito•
ry. written, printed, published or circuits.
ed in this Territory any book, paper, mag
azine, pamphlet or circular containing soy
,denial of the right of persons to hold slaves
in this Territory, such person shell be dee
m.ll guilty of felony, and punishes by im
prisonment at hard labor for a term of not
less than too years.
Section 13. No person who is conscien•
tiously opposed to holding slaves, or who
does not adntit the right to hold slaves in
this Territory. shell sit as a juror on the
trial of any prosecution for any violation
of any of the sections of this act.
This act to take effect and bu in force
from and after the fifteenth day of Soptem
ber, A. D. 1855.
'Phe above bloody code fastened upon a
free people is now fully endorsed by the
Locofoco party, and the honest settlers un
less they submit are branded traitors, shot
down, tarred and feathered. by Shannon,
the Governor appointed by Pierce. But
not only does this Drnco code inflict the
punishment of death for asserting our
rights, but takos away the right of trial by
Jury the only palladium of liberty. The
army of the United States is turned upon
unoffendiug American citizens, and arms
are put into the hands of the slave-holders
by the executive arm of our government,
to murder the settlers of Kansas, and bap•
tine the virgin soil of Kansas, in the gore
of slaughtered Northern American free
men. God Almighty help us do our duty,
This is the platform upon which the Lo
cofoco party now stands, and pleads for the
northern vote.
Penn tp. PLAINDEALER.
[FOR THE "JOERNAL:I
Democracy vs. Consistency.
Ma. EDITORS :--Naturalists inform us
that the Cattle Fish when pursued by an
enemy, can assume any color to escape.
If black when first seen by its foe, it is
immediately transformed and assumes a
transparent white. But is this unsuocess
ful, it becomes green. If all this metamor
phosis is at fault, and all deception fail, 11P
a last resort he has the faculty of pointing
and befouling the stream, and becomes in
visible in the turbid waters. The nature
of this fish is a tit illustration of the crafty
frauds of the Locofoco party. In the first
Place it meets the Roman Priest-ridden
dupe, with its whitest smiles of @Tomb,
" LIBERTY AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE' .A.IND INSEPARABLE. "
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEIMSDA.Y, JUNE - 18, 1856.
tion and fawning sycophancy, and assur
ances of protection and safety. But no
sooner, does a slave democrat shoot h;m
down than the whole body of Irish laving
Demoorats, to the number of seventy-nine
Congressmen, all dear friends to poor Pa
pists, turn a little blue, and unanimously
vote that to kill an Irishman. is no offence.
In 184' , the whole Locofoco party was
anti-slavery, and elected in Pennsylvania
anti slavery State officers. Cass. Pierce,
Buchanan and all the oligerchy were Wil
mot Proviso men then. But no sooner did
the Harlot Slavery make overtures, than
every principle of honor and humanity
was forsaken for southern interegt.
To continue the illustration. They
have so polluted and defiled human rights
ever changing and ever bent on mischief,
trampling down alike free speech and lib•
erty of conscience, that the stream is tur
bid and their course so mysterious that on
ly for the sable mark of slavery in their
foreheads, they would be strangers to their
intimate friends. Indeed Biohop Hughes
himself is at fault to find them; because,
a demoornt can shoot down an Irisn Papist
with as little ceremony as he would n dog.
and seventy-nine democrats in Congress
approve the bloody deed. Verily they
have forgotten all their vows to the Catho
,lic Hierarchy.
In the Senate, they have stricken down
free speech by brutally attacking Mr.
Sumner. They have kindled the torch of
civil war in Kansas, and robbed and mur
dered the settlers. All these crimes of
more than savage enormity are committed
that slavery may be fastened on free Ter
rity. These things cry to Heaven for ven
geance. They have demolished and bro
ken down the free press. Thirty times
did the slave ruffians fire their cannon a
gainst the town of Lawrence ; against de
fenceless women and children.
To cap the climax. the sham democracy
confident of the Catholic vote, have insult
ing, and in defiance of law and humanity,
inoorporated into their platform all these
wrongs done to Kan,as. Thus endorsing
murder, iapine, and blood as the principle
upon wliich 13uchanan is nominated ; and,
upon this hideous and revolting plan.. he
stands bidding for the Presidency. The
Pierce Administration is setting in blood,
and should Buchanan be elected, he stands
pledged to follow i's course
GENIIS HOMO.
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Summer Resorts and Trips.
We clip ihe following from a [ate num
ber of the Petersburg (Va.) Intelliyenar :
The season of the year is now at hand
when those who have money and time to
spare, begin to chalk out their summer
campaign, and it is to such that we wish
to address a fe v words of, what we are
vain enough to think. plain common sense.
To all such in the South then, we earnest
ly say, turn not your eyes North of Mason
and Dixon's line, unless it be to see the
atrocious transamions daily going on in that
region of villainy and fanaticism, and re.
solve that such a country is no place for
you. Let not Saratoga or Newport, Cape
May or Long Branch, open their portals
for you. Forget that there are such estab•
lishinents as the "St. Nicholas," and the
"Metropolitan," and remember the hourly
vilification, in speech and print, which is
poured out on your home and institutions
—remember the savage and diabo'ical ant
unremitting effirts, making to deprive you
of your property, and drench your now
smiling plains in blood, Take all this to
heart and go not North for pleasure. You
should not do it. You should not furntah
your money to strengthen the hands of
your direst enemies and furnish them with
munitions wherewith to make merciless
war on all which you hold dearest, and
who, when they have receipted your enor
mous Mlle, woald not hesitate to plange a
dagger into your heart were they not re
waked by the hope pf plucking you when
your feathers again grow out The South
ern moms who now goes to the North for
mere pleasure, in our opinion, commits a
moral, if not a legal treason to the South,
and if he is kicked and spat upon, by Free
Negroes and Fugitive Slaves, will deserve
not the alightest sympathy from his friends
and countrymen at home. Why slimed
Southern people go to the North in quest
of either pleasure or health 1 Have we
not in our own country Tomas sq numerous
and accessible that the only difficulty is to
make up our minds which to Choose ? Is
sea bathing desirable ? We have oqr
Inoue coast, with its Old Point. its Nag's
Head and its Fort Moultrie, while on the
Culf Cost, we have the Bay of Biloxi,
Pass Christian, Pascagoula, and divers oth•
er pleasant and healthful marine reeaste
Do you need mountain air and mineral
water ? Where on 'the broad earth are
congregeted in a similar space so many
spots, presenting to the eye the sublimest
and most ennobling scenery, to the body a
climate sure to brace up and strengthen
the most feeble and emaciated, and lastly
fountains innumerable welling forth heal
ing waters of qualities adapted to every dis
ease that fleet is heir to, than in this State
of ours, Virginia T North Carolina, Geor
gia, Kentucky, Alabama have all accessible
pleasant and healthful resorts, although
they have not been bestowed so lavishingly
as on this State. Ntlftv, when we add the
contrast between the company, the society,
the comforts to be met with at these Sou•
thern Resorts and those which are found
at the Northern, the , question recurs with
renewed force Why go to the North , —
the fanatic, the shoulder hitting, shot sling
ing, runaway•harboling, bullying, South
hating, South cheating—North ? At the
Southern Resorts your wants are supplied
at reasonable charges—at the Northern
you are mulct into enormous bills ; at the
Southern you are waited on by well-beha
ved and decent negro servants—at the
Northern you are liable at any moment to
he kicked from the dining room by insolent
free negroes or fugitive slaves, or black
guard white waiters ; at the Southern you
are pleasawly and healthfully lodged —at
the Northern you are packed away like
herrings in a barrel in the fourth and fifth
stories of overgrown hotels ; at the Svuth
' , ern you are sure of society ; you know
with whom you associate, that they are
virtuous and respectable, for but few of the
opposite character visit places in which
they would be so much out of place—it
the North, pi you may be introduced to,
and dance with as your partner, in the co
tillion or waltz, a New York prostitute, or
cut into a game of whist with a Now York
pickpocket, to whom you .have been intro
duce 3 by one of 'the "gang" wh3 introdu
ced himself to you. This is true, n strik
ingly true contrast, between Southern and
A'orthe,n watering places and resorts, amid
we say, again, and to Southern pro
, ple, why will you visit the latter?
Report of the Roue Committee•
Hou;z.—Mr. Campbull, of Ohio, from
the Seleot Committee appointed to invest'.
gate the circumstances attending the attack
upon \lr. Sumner, made report otmeluding
as follows :
WHEREAS, The Senate of the United
States has transmitted to this House a mes
sage complaining that Preston S. Brooks,
a Representative from the State of South
Carolina, committed upon the person of
Charles Sumner, a Senator from the State
of Massachusetts while armed at his desk
in the Senate - Member, after the adjourn.
tnent of that body on the 22d of May last,
a violent assault, which disabled hum from
attending to his duties in the Senate. and
declaring that said assault was a breach Of
the privileges of said body ; and whereas,
from the respect of the privileges of the
House, the Senate has declared that 'MlS
much us the said Preston S. Nooks is a
member of the I louse, it cannot arrest and
a rorfioti, cannot try to punish him for a
breach of their privileges ; that it cannot
proceed further in the case than to make
its complaint to this House, and that the
power to arrest try and punish devolves
solely on this body ; and whereas, upon a
full investigation it appears to this House
that the said Preston S. Brooks has been
guilty of the assault complained of by the
Senate, with most aggravated circumstan
ces of violence and that the same was a
breach of the privileges not only of the
Senate, but of the Senator assailed. and of
this house, as a co ordinate branch of the
legislative department er the government.
in direct violation to the Constittain of the'
United States, which declares that Sena
tors and Iteresentwires for any speech
or debate in either House shall not be ques
tioned in any other place; and whereas,
this House is of opinion that it has the
power and ought to punish the said Pres
to S. Brooks for the said assault, not only
as a breach of the privilege of the Senator
assailed, and of the Senate and House,
declared by the Constitn ion, bqt as an act
of disorderly behavior.
And whereas, it further appears from
'such investigation that Henry A. Edmund-
son, Representative from the State of Vir
ginia, and Lawrence M, Knits, Repreaen
Wive frpm Smolt Carolina, some time pre-
vious to said assault were informed that it
was the purpose of said Brooks to commit
violence upon the person of said Charles
Sumner f , r words used by hint its debate
as a Senator in the Senate, and took no
measures to discourage or prevent the
same, but on the contrary, anticipated the
commission of such violence. were present
on one nr more occasion to witness the sante
as fsiends of the assailant, Therefm,
Resolved, That P. S. Brooks be and is
forthwith expelled from this Blame as n
Representative from the State of South
Carolina.
Res,l, el, That the House hereby de.
care, its disapprobation of the .aid act of
Henry A Edmondson and Lawrence M,
Keitt in regard to said assault.
Signed by Messrs. Campbell, of Ohio,
Skinner and Pennington.
111.. Howell Cubb submitted a minority
report. . . .
.13utit reports were laid on the table and
ordered to be printed.
Mr. Everett on the Sumner Outrage.
BOSTON, June 2.—Mr. Everett, in his I
introductory remarks to the delivery of his
Oration on Washington. in Taunton, on
Friday last, made a most eloquent allusion
to the assault upon Senator bumner.
After alludingto the pleasure with which
he always dwelt on the theme of Washing
ton, he continued as follows : 13111, with
the satisfaction which I feel in addressing
you this evening, are mingled the most
profound anxiety and grief—a sadness
which I strive in vain to suppress, over
whelms me at the occurrences of the past
week, and a serious apprehension forces
itself upon my mind that events are even
now in train, with an impulse too mighty
to be resisted, which will cause our belov
ed country to sited tears of blood, through
all her borders for generations to come.—
Civil war, with allies horrid trains of pillage
and slaughter, carried on without the sligh
test provocatioll against the infant settle
men's of our brethren on the frontier of
the Union, the worse than civil war raging
for months unrebuked at the Capitol, has
at length, with lawless violence, of which
there is no parallel in the annals of our
constitutional government, stained the
Senate Chamber with the blood of a de
fenceless man, the Senator from Massa
chusetts.
Oh I my good friends, these are events
which for the good name, the peace and
safety of our country, it were worth all the
gold of California to ballot from the re
cord. They sicken the heart of the p lin
o!, of the Christian. They awaken the
gloarny doubt whether the toils, the
sacrifices, and the suffering. , of our fathers
for the sake of founding a higher purer
arid freer civilization on this Wtrern
Continent titan the world had yet seen,
have riot been in vain, For myself they
fill me with sorrow too deep for tears. I
soar= trot for myself. My few remain
ing years are running too rapidly to a close
to allow me to attach much importance to
anything this side of the grave, which
concerns me individually. But I sorrow
far beyond the power of words to express
for the oblects of my affection which I
leave behind.
For my children and my country I
grieve ; and my God is my witness, that
if, by laying down my poor life this hour,
I could undo what has been done within
the last two year. beginning with the dis
astrous repeal of the Missouri Compro•
miss. I would willingly, cheerfully 'sake
the sacrifice. Did I not think there is a
Intalitwr charm in the name of \Vaehington
and that attachment and veneration for
his character, which is almost the only
remaining kindly sentiment that prevades
the whole country, and that is tho contem
plation of that ciittracter there is a spirit
of wildoin to guide love to soothe and to
unite, I would even now throw myseV up
on your indulgence to excuse me from the
duty of the evening.
Some Nose.
The following incident we had from a
friend who knew the party: Deacon
Comstock of Hartford, Conn . is well
known as being provided an enormous
handle to his countenance, in the shape of
a huge nose, in fact it is remarkable for its
great length. On a late occasion, when
taking up a collection in the church to
which the Deacon belongs, as he passed ' 1
through the congregation every person to
whom he presented the beg seemed to be
possessed by a sudden and uncontrollable.
desire to laugh. The Deacon did not
know what to make of it. He had often
passed round before, but no such effects ns
th• se hod he ever before witnessed. The
aecret however leaked out. He had been
afflicted for a day or two sCith a sore on
has nasal appendage, and had placed a
small piece of sticking plaster over it---
During the morning of the day in ques
tion the plaster had dropped oft, and the
deacon seeing it, as he supposed on the
floor, picked it up and 'stuck it on again.
But alas for men who sometimes make
givat mistakes, he picked up instead one
of these pieces of paper which the menu
lecturers of spool cotton paste on the end
of every spool. and which read :.--War.
ranted to hold aut 200 yards' Such a
nose was enough, to upset the gravity of
even a puritan congregation.
What our Neighbors Think—Very Aniu
sing, but not Complimentary.
The Montreal Commercial is discussing
American affairs with a spiciness which
will be found more amusing than compli
mentary. It says:
“While the American Government is
doing its beat to provoke a quarrel with
England, it lain such a state of anarchy to
engage nll its own domini. - ns. Congress•
men kill in her legislative Chambers, and
bands of armed ruffians desolate the Ter
ritory assassinate the citizens, and fire the
buildings in Kansas. The North send
men, money and arms to the invaded terri
tory, and the South accepts the challenge
by similar demonstrations. One thing on
ly prevents a war with England. one only
stays a civil war in Kansas, The Ameri
can Eagle is a half-breed between a car
rion vulture and a dunghill rooster and he
crows the loudest when furthest from the
enemy. The men of the Revolution are
dead, their inferior children of 1812 are in
their dotage; the present generation, rale.
ed on hot cakes and sweet hxins, and stim
ulated with tobacco juice, is all talk and
en cider, as destitute of the stamina on
which courage is founded as its mothers
are of flesh. Look at the women; char
ming at stxteen , faded at twenty, toothless
at twenty-five, hideous at thirty, dividing
their time between their rocking-chairs
and their beds, incapable of exertion, in•
competent to exercise, ever-ailing, listless
lazy, straight np and down, like an old
fashioned clothes pin, making up the de.
ficiency of their developements with whale.
bone, cotton and bran—are these the things
that suckle heroes ? The race has dete•
riorated and is dwindling away ; and but
for the constant introduction of new and
healthy blood from immigration, would
disappear in a century.
"The moral deficiencies of the people are
equal to the physical; the boys slang each
other, but never fight; the men assassin
ate, but never come to blows ; they talk
terrible things in public meetings, and con
fine their terrible doings to a concealed shot
or a sudden stab at an unprepared enemy.
1 Minwers of the Gospel advise bloodshed
• and take up subscriptions for rifles; every
thing necessary for a combat is sent to the
scene of contention but pluck , the men
are white-livered, and afraid of each oth-1
er , and if one party advances the other
runs away ; houses are plundered and
burned, and unarmed people are butcher.
ed. If the assaulted pick up courage and
advance again, the assailants run in their
turn, and like scenes follow their footsteps
Indignation meetings are held in all the
cities of all the States, money is subscribed
for arms and ammunition, food and cloth
ing—patriotic orations thunder front the
rostrum, and incendiary declamations from
the talpit—the North is about to vindicate
its liberties, the East to fly to the assistance
of its children—outraged liberty is to be
appeased with the blood of the marauders
the freedom of the soil in Kansas to he re
lieved from the 'opprobrious despotism of
its invaders. Now surely there will be
fighting, No .gentlemen, not a bit of it—
it is still all talk, very tall and superla.
live talk, but still vex et prelereo at ihii.
After descanting on Kansas and the
inglorious capture by a Sheriffs posse of
the oily of Lawrence, armed with 500
rifles, the commercial concludes in the fol
lowing true "John Bull” strain : "We
do not think there is much occasion to be
afraid of them, whether there be war or
peace . A contest in which there is mom i
hard knocks to be got then plunder, is ex
actly the one in which our degenerate
cousins have the least desire to engage
Let thetn hold Kansas . Meetings and Sum
per Meetings, and Crampton indignation
Meetings, if they please ; talk is their pa ,
culler vocation a national institution, sod
one of the most innocent. With a point.
lotion, which eager and ready to ipvadp
the rights and property of ethers, is with-1
out the courage to protect its own ; with
an army made up of the congregated scours.
drelsof all nations, and a fleet maned feebly
ae it is, with such a set of riffraff; that
while the one half of the crews are in
irons, guard boats, while in harbor, have
to watch day and night to prevent the des
ertion of the others, and the service so
unpopular that a single steamer has taken
months after it was commissioned to obtain
a crew—there is no more to be dreaded
from war vaporing of the reality of it from 1 1
the United States, than from similar gas
conade, or actual acception, on the part of I
His Serene Majesty the Emperor of Tim
buctoo."
11 1 10' - Why is a virtuous and beautiful la•
dy like a door latch t Because title's
thing to adore (a door).
v474_ Let ExceNior be your mo!t,
VOL, XXI. NO, 25.
A Field Fight in Hansa&
LAWRENCE, Thursday Jtine 5.
An open field battle took place at Pal
myra, on the afternoon of Monday, the
2d inst. It lasted nearly three hours,—
The parties were nearly equal. The Pro-
Slavery men were a roving band under
Capt. 11, C. Patte, correspondent of the
Missouri Republican. Five Pro slavery
men were wounded-..three mortally. The
Pro-Slavery men surrendered; with twen
ty-five horses, mules, arms, ammunition,
two drums, a large•quantity of articles Et).
len at the sacking of Lawrence.
The United States troops knew of the
battle, but did not interfere. The Free
State Settlers blustered to Palmyra, and
one hundred got there after the battle was
over. The troops went down next day to
disperse the Free State men and release
the prisoners
Another attack was made on Franklin,
where the Missourians had assembled in
force, with a canners and ammunition. On
ly one of their companies got there, and
they were short about fifteen men. After
twenty minutes the small party retreated.
No particulars.
Civil war exists here. The troops are
here in force, but have done nothing yet
but help Gov. Shannon to Sharp's ri
fles.
Judge Lecompte has (ailed to go to Le.
compton to examine the prisoners on their
plea for bail.
Cutcaoo, Monday, Juue 9.
The latest Kansas dates confirm the in
telligence of a fresh outbreak of hostilities.
Capt. Pate's company having been over
powered by a force of Free-State men
Gen. Whitefield left Westport on tho
night of the 2d, at the head of one hun•
dred men, in pursuit. They were sup
posed to be about forty miles from West
port on the Santa Fe Road. Col. Sumner
also left for the scene of disturbance with
eight companies of dragoons. The Chi
cago Tribune has a letter dated Lawrence,
May 37, which states that the Free State
settlers are in imminent peril ; that forces
from Missouri are again invading the Ter
ritory, and the farmers have been obliged
to organize companies to guard their prop
erty against bands of marauders.
Sr. Louts, Monday, June 9.
The account taken from an extra of the
Kansas City Enterprise (Pro-Slavery) and
telegraphed from here that tune Abolition
ists and thirteen Pro• Slavery men were
killed in an encounter between a band of
150 Abolitionists and captain Pate's Com
pany, proved to be an exaggeration. Cap
tain Pute and McGee, reported. dead are
al and but two qr three persons were
killed in all. Captain Pate's company
was captured, the Free-State party being
greatly superior in numbers. Gen. Whit
field, with 100 men, has gone to ther Me.
cue.
SLAVES ENDORSING BROOKS•
Farce follows tragedy in stage business,
and in this it is true to the usual order of
human action. The genius of South Car
olina relieves the serious cast of the Sum
ner and Brooks drama, by playirig off light
pieces against the ""heavy acting" of the
indignant North. The editor of the Co-
lumbia Carolinian says,
We heard one of Carolina's truest and
most honored matrons from Mr. Brooks ,
district send a message to' him by Major
Simpson, saying "that the ladies of the
South would send him hickOry sticks with
which to chastise Abolitionists and Red Re-
publican s, whenever he wante I them.
Respect for the , colored' patriots, whose
'crowning glory' is mentioned further on,
no doubt induced the editor to substitute
the epithet "Red Republicans,"for the ep•
ithet tEllack Republican,' used by the Car.
'Aaiun's coworkers at the North.
To add (says the Carolinian) the crown
ing glory to the good work, the slaves of
Columbia have already a handsome sub
scription, and will present an appropriate
token of their regard to him who has made
the first practical issue for their preserva
tion and protection of their rights and en•
joyments as the happiest laborers on the
face of the globe.
This is certainly the "crowning glory,"
when even Sillebo approves of Massa
Brooks "volloping" a United States Sena
tor •tfor their preservation and protection
in their rights." Of course, they have
read all about it.
Bully Brooks Challenged by a Gentle.
man of his own Eithwy.—Copy of a
challenge sent by J. M. lioluies of the
city of New York, to Preston S. Brooks
of South Carolina.
I challenge Preston S. brooks to meet
me on any spot on "Meson and Dixon's"
line, named by himself—weapons to be
gutta percha canes—l having the privi•
lege to take him sitting with his legs un
der a desk, with hie cant, half a mile from
tr M.