The Potter journal. (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, February 25, 1858, Image 2
r - .Iglitugiratigits t MEE Affatys” —7— Far tkte Jouptal. Ma. ED,lnift ; : Permit me to offer some thing more hy way of . dcfelicling the po igtion which we assumed ip our remarks ppon '!B's" article en f•Social Affairs.",. pur position scamp to be called. -in ques tion by a writer in your issue of the 4th net, Viwpigna himselfif* *." In order ~.the ; we ke,ip clear of 'fog, we will endeg , or to keep the-things at issue, clearly be us. First then, "B" asserted that M , ing, .c., at evening parties was the; al-lospitality" Illicit was the "bond of union." - This is the sense in which we RDAs-pin:lod him. "Evening Parties" was tie thing under 'discussion. He thenl adds "Hospitality forms the strongest bond of 'union among bssth civilized and uncivilized." This position, is stated in these words )3y the last reviewer ; "Ilos - p4ality among the most relined, as 'well as the most, benighted, is observed for the .express purpose of renewing social inter course aed brightening the chain of frien -- ship?: It is said to he "cause and elites. ' We sonfoss that these statements, altho' -positive, do not convince us; and our rea ton is that, Hospitalfty means, Love to Istrgngers, is compounded of two wore; one meaning Love, the other Stranger or foreigner. The word is used four times in the :Veto Te.tament and in each, is enjoined love to strangers, expres • tad in supplying their wants aud enter . Tim. kindly : See Boni. vii 13; Tim. in, 2; i, 8; Peter iv, 9. Iles - • pitaliy is a duty enjoined in scripture, but It nowhere says that it "cements the bond pf union," nqr do lye. gather any sash idea that it is-practised "Foe the expPess Tailoose of renewingsocial intercOurse;'Y or how can -this be, when it is done to atraogers -in need ? done - too w7t l out any reference as to whit the rest 1. - „s produced may be? Just as many cth..r puties are enjoined 'upon us, and which we must practice, no matter what the re ',nits are. Still farther ' we have never heard it said that these Evening Yanks were given in compliance with anything . commanded in Scripture. They are nor Op "Hospitality" enforced there, because 'joy are not given to strangers, and that, too, in need. No person by neelecting tr give them, could be charged with rsiniss - item in . duty. We look upon evening parties as got up for the purpose of sccial ,110ercqiirse .and ,et joyment ; and the eat ing part to be simply a necessary inei • dental, growing out of the fact that since the guests have been busy for several -. ;hours in conversation, or some other ex ,- _preiso,. that nature will demand some peurishment, *We have never thought they were got up. expressly to eat. Our motto still is, "eat to live, and not live to fat" , We are asked for our authority for saying that Judas had not this bond of ninon 'arising front having eaten with the. Saviour. The writer seems to thin's he had, only it was neutralized by his 'love for thirty pieces of silver.. Here then -• is our authority : First, there was no such thing designed, because the Saviour and Ids Apostles were - eating the "Passover,' a feast observed by all the Jews, in coin ' - tnernoration of the destroying Angel pass tag ever the lickasda of the Jews in Egypt, and sparing them, while he destroyed the .:Feat-born of all the Egyptians. Second, It was' after this supper that, he instituted .the Lord's Supper. It was -t-after he had supped" &c. This mapper was deaigned to do just what the Saviour natively, to omitmemorate the Lord's death,—"My body broken for you"— forhis do in remembrance of rue'—'for as , eft as ye eat Esc. ye do show the - Lord's death till he enute.." And, Thirdly ' -u -.titpriditl.jpst; exactly what he would have done, tf he had had no friendly feeling Ps 040 Saviour. Or in usher words;',Ju das' actions in betraying Christ, were in ceping with a character of hatred to & hiM, eT tip t fiiendship. Now in th' ab- Fence of any positive proof that he had friendly feelings,- we deem this conclnsive. The.mauner in .which the Saviaar viewed the subject under consideration may be pnderstno4 front his remarks made to cer -tlan'perscins Whont he had miravulously fed; ip John vi, 29,27; '"verily, verily I - say unto yon, ye seek me; not because ye - ,sw,the miracles, but because ye did eat .gf the loaves, and were tilled. Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that whichendursth unto evar'es Lig life." We i sanderstand this to be a rebuke of the mo- 1 tdverivliich has led them to follow Christ. - .110 hat} fed, them - because they were from lime. and in need. of something to eat. It,was an act of hospitality It was done to strangers in need; and was -in keeping isitlitchlt. his apsstles afterwards taught. t this is entirely different from "So- 1 pi4 l. i'4l4le-i" now given, at which "B" leads for the "chicken Azins" to "co fpeat the bond of union I"' Should we pipress oar - Views upon what constitutes I. .113,ncl of union, among civilized men to-day; we would say` that it is puttvg tieirname on paper, I. c. signing the ar ' r4gs 91 agreement, and we venture to say float this,ss counted better cement, than Ell the feasts which could be got up. Nor 1# we acquainted with any race of civil wad people on. - -earth, either of the- past or resent, who ratify their treaties of peace .p fens t l - done at-present, every - "'bora signft e glitsa articles drawn up itTlah Vice/Y/he ft rnzs ; vitpv defeaseonrseives upon anoth foint the .- writer says "The -supper originally had a twofold qbject, thenoe snentionedAy. "0" the, Other Fas firmly ed al vopated - I).T tc que.commends Itlontit ecinSicleretion." 'As there is no tafilettOe to scripture' for making' this tlo exeept Matt xvi, 27, 28; we . sapPo.se if this.: fails, 4 . na4st_ go by : ilia' nrirife, or:in/vie/ sentitnentai 404 liadthe ,totiard." 'ICiS there Stated that " Ther e 3e ilnetrines:he inculcated been carried _ out;'. 'Some standing here, wlnchlshall not taste our present Religious aspects would lave' of death,. till they see the son of man been improved--we would have thinking; coming - in , his kingdom.". This is es- men, `.,and thinking :women, and: cone;) 'plairted by gark . i., - 1.; and Liike i;; :27; quentlY a Religion of some . vitilitY7----en-II Ifftifitil they: hare, seen the kingdom of I tering. into the hearts; and lives, as well IGO come with ,pOwer"---nTill - they see las theories of men. " The 'Religio . n of ' the; kingderif of God," The Saviour lied t Greece at that time was one of PolythOsta; been telling "his disciples what he must. in which the priests, and politicians had shortly suffer; and if so . the disciples .gained.quite a lucrative basinees. They I ; must have felt thet: the kingdom which I saw 'clearly, that should the doctrines of .h: Was te set np -wee-feeble and thing's' Soc r ates be publicly taught to the peoplif ' 1./Jited dark and tinultful i ; an d they theme; their profeision its teachers of the people Isel+e4 Were as yet," na in a eoliclition toininet soon come to an end, - Hence, to ,be o,ft alone, audit their leader, (when:(eave their most holy institutions, and to ! they; had taken; to be their Messiah andlsecure to themselves a continuance, of theirl I li'int;) iv:is to he killed, what .could they!elierished profession, they summoned the; ' •-- . : t . I expect ? ' 1 o prevent. despondency, no ; innovator- to appear before the public trii-1 thihlit, the I S'aviotir added, that some ofl banal, and there fermaily tried, convicted; them would -not _see : . clea.th till they had and sentenced him to die, by the draught seen 'his 'kingdom (now obscure) come; of Hemlock." And for what ? Merel y ! with power: - The meaning evidently is,lbecanse he stood in .the way of their sell-1 that although leis church was small, fee-lith ambition—and even et this day, in the; , hie and despised, -yet the time was not far I nineteenth century, this satue.prosoriptive , (di. tint when it would be otherwise. This ; Spirit prevails among a 'numerous ,elass • I . - :, so* of the: Apostles li ve d to see. They I aed were it the custom, as in the olden avrAte aoipel established in Asia, Greece; time, the cry would be " away with lim, i and . Rome. In scripture, the phrase (crucify hint. Be is a dissenter from ; 'Kingdom 'of Heaven7—“of God" —"of l' the powers' that be.' What right Lee! Orist," frequently refers to the Church 'he to question long established customs t)ibe est.eblished by the Redeemer: See land opinions, even though humanity is' . M at. iii , 9 3 iv ) 17.. It has oter signifi- I crushed, and crucified, till the image - ofl .'-' ' c loons, but the one which we have given God in whieft lie was created, - is nearly, we deem the correct 'one ; and was cer- or quite obliterated ?" But a few are' tinily 11x:1i:cable to the case. But some-I droing, to think for themselves; are throw- t'ting inure: "The object so firmly advo- I rug off the tramuiels of bigotry and super s tted by. "B . ' which lalone commends it.la ition. We are granted the privilege of' t, r our consideration !';* To -refute this I using our reason. the highest faculty God we must refer to 1 Ctn . . .i, It is record- has given to man—on all subjects, eseept ei there- that the Corinthians were cele- Religion. There, all is :changed. The brating the Lord's Supper iu just such a reign elcommonsense,ofordinary thought, manner as stated abere.; making a social ;is over I It is sacrilegious to -question ! fe..tet, of it, in which, the very object of ; infidel to think !! To have sufficient re : the,ihstitution itself was loot sight of.— I seed, for what -is called God's authority Pauli censures tlieni, and then gees on to I —to be consistent Christians—we must be lay the whole thing before them ; telling entirely passive, we must "shut our eyes, hoio lie had received the account of it; gate and swallow." The present eondi what it was ealid for what it was designed. Lien, and manifestations of most: of the TaislaTes about 27 years afer the Saviour Religious world, proves that there is no had been put to death, :and still the in-!, active reason ; no examination of evidence; stitution •we ; the -;serue,and - ler the' so no-true belief. To my Mind, this smite Perim C,L,as ; when Je.3,:s in;', l is all wrong--; e a great mistake. "The stituted it th' evening before he etfifered. l cause of truth, is best promoted by free 4-1 We knew not a single statement in scrip- enquiry." " Error aloae fearsirivestilea taro which f: vors the construction pet tiou" and God has given us faculties for npcin it by 4e writer under review.— use—nt tto lie dormant, and to allow others But: wherever the Lord's Supper is spok-. to do our thinking. We dishonor our ma en of, it is difeetly opposed to it. If the' ker, defraud ourselves, and do great inju,s writer is rigl, So were the Corinthians tine to the world. _ for they were doing what he recommends, TiefeTuv,. (In Potter.) and Paul wa . .ui•uny in ensuring them, which the w fla have not yet found out. I In' clefendine• ohr r e iositiob we have en . - deavored to oitin a kind spirit. The subject. dem. ndi: this.. The interests of it Also. Yours, men dtmau For the Potter Jou:I:It! ter orgecrates, &c. i Ohara NII. EDITOR: Having hired many years in the "back-woods" of Potter, it cmald hardly be expected that I should have m veil k Mawledge of the "wide, wide world" or be very , 'profound in .History—yet haV,e heard of Socrates, and I think read something of his character; and now call to Mind, somoof the trines with which he was Charged, though I have not exam ined " Barnes Notes" upon the subject, or the " chapter in Roinans." I have gath ered my ideas of the man, mostly from the " Worlds Reforiners," and " Cooper's Life Of Socrates ;" oantiot, vouch for the truth, athese Histories; but nobody doubts Culcuith, or Paris, though they mi . ,' never have seen either. We believe' upon what seems good evidence—though often so warped by prejudice, that . we re ject the true , and accept the false—be; cause, better, agrees; with our precon c :ived opinions., .1. do not know that, there h any particular merit in accepting what is probable, and well attested; nor crime in rejecting or holding in suspense what semi: • improbable ; W requiring better proof ; but I have very little deference for what is called authority, when an asser tion is made in opposition to known facts, to reason, or even common sense. I will qacite a few of the crimes of Socrates for wtich he was ,cOmpelled to drink the pipi t; in' -that he Might no- longer corrupt the men of his time. "He made moral Phi lo:c'ophy and the welfitre of mankind, his rde study and *concern. He was the first who — Called philosophy down from the Heavens, and placed her in cities—intro duced her into 'Private families, and com pelled her to enquire concerning human life, Morals, and thegood and evi/ofever,y anion.He taught that God wad - one; eternal, untreated, immutable, immate rial Being; that He was grniaipoteulf, Qm:- niscieni, infinitely wise and. good; that. He created, and conthaued to govern by His unerring wisdom, all things in univer sal harniony; that h regarded mankind with.a particular affection and endowed them with. Reason; . that ray of -Divine ?t,ght; toguide their:steps in this proha tionary state, to temporal and afterward eternal hapiOess, ihrongh, the paths of virtue;'.* tha He was exempt from all hu man passions and thkmgh the wicked Were afflicted botl bete; ailtl hereafter that their. punish tient did - Pcit .proceed froin his anger ; b tfrom!those inevitable laws, Ordained at t e creation of the world. He was original 1 , all things, acknowledging no guide but Reason; and the "still small voice v i ii,thia. ' Ile . taught mankind, to study 'wail kno c Armed:me. To Icarn Whet pursuit in lilt they , were best fitted fur by nature, and o carry out that: pursuit in prdctico Icor a." ' ,This seemed to be the sum total of aerates heresies and Wicked ness-r—ltßepe /dent 'thought l I 'Now i n 411 Oki 4 seci nothing objectionable; do. Lremembered' that Socrates fuer hundred- years before *lt should" lived" moo th Chrlet's time. Ell Faust) CuAsE: In all oar associa tions for muttial instrction, for mental improvement, and concentrated efforts for doing good, there seems to lbe a will ing propensity in some, to make the in nocent suffer with the guilty. I allude now, to your delinquent subscribers. Too often do we see "no paper next week or, as in your last, "a half sheet next week, no paper on hand, no money to buy with." This rather grates upon the ears of your pre payers, and is emphatically making the innocent suffer with the suilty. will say to those delinquents, that we are actually ashamed of them ! What! a county paper of only ten shillings, and one too, which carries the Republican ~flag triumphantly (her th6e hills,. and which greets every family with the bless lugsof temperance, must be suppressed for want of funds! This seems. more strange front tho fact, that it is v. county Paper. foreign paper, can supply its place. T can hardly call any one, a Man. who has not his county paper' upon his shelf—and much less him, who defrauds me of it, by his deliuqueney-, The prest ent is an iinportant crisis in the. history of our country, mid never was there a time, when intelligence was so tmucli needed, Qur papers must come out, and Speak out, and we must act out, or all is lost, Intelligence razed the Spanish in qiiisition to the ground, qpenehed• the fires of Smithfield, and may, throng!' Ilti Divine blessing restore to this. nation the purity of the Ballot-Box. B. COUDERSPORT. d:))1jt p,otter Duna'. COUDERSPeRT, PA., Dttiva49 Feb. 25, 1857. CAUTION.-.% learn from a reliable source that no such firm as E. C. Tom? & Co., exist at 302 13roome St. New York; and have, in consdquence, taken theiradiertisemeut from our columns; and adopted.thiW means of pre; venting any further injury to our citizens by their fraud, The article coi the !' Character of Socrates" was intended for' the erOV . RI4At;, of week before last ; but as only a balf sheet, was. printed it was crowded out. 'WHETHER Queen Victoria".s red-petti coats will become a fashion in America, is yet to be kilawn. It is certain, however; that - the attempiS of sonic of her male predecessors to introduce their red-coats into the country did not tmeoced.—Ex change. That's a mistake, neighbor, for" George 111 succeeded ach*iirably in introducing a large number of red-coat carcasses into American soil. We hope. Vie. will be equally successful in introducinglier red petticoats under the surface of American ladies' gowns. - Bar., We give up nearly all our paPer this week to gducational 'natters and Cern- Inunications. We hope . our readers will find the latter interesting in proportion to the space they occupy. We refer our readers, With pleasure, to the proeeedings. For the Potter Journal T. S. CHASE; EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 0f4114- County- Teacher 4! Assortistie4 - ... on our - Ise:tad 4th pages, and Would pa:dig ularly,call their attention to the . ' Es.sap . l ofkiss B i r d and Miss Liman. There IS ; , a:great_roform progess educe , tional matters of this county, wider 'the superintendence 0f,,,Mr.-Ilendrick,- and a deaided'evidenee'that they, are receiving sonic of the attention they - deserve frinit the people, is manifested in Vie attendance of Directors and others interested at these Teachers' Conventions. The Committee , on Text liooks, also make a report in the 'columns of our paper, to which ive solicit ithe earnest attention - of Directors and pa rents Liberal.-- Oltr citizens are very liberal in their donations at the 'semi-weekly. " Socia-1 bles." At .the Sociable at the residence .of Mr. Collins Smith, orM Tuesd4 evening of last week, under the auspices of the Presbyterian . Church, the donation amonntzd in the aggre , gate to-$36; and on last Tuesday evening the Is'Azne society_rceeived $30., at the residence Cr Mr. P. A. Stebbins, OA Friday evening last, ithe Methodist. Society received $41.50, at the residence of Sheriff Taggart. Oa' Wednesday evening.of last week, the Couderspiirt Philhar : 'Beale Societruceived a benefit of over $3O. These donations arc very liberal for oilr pop. illation.. The next " Sociable" fur the benefit of the AL-E. Church comas off at S. M. Mills, Col6sburg, to-morrow (Friday) evening, Meteorological. lIHQOKLAND, Pa., Feb. 13, 1333 CHAS:: I hare watched the thormonte ter through this "cold: shap," -sod it has stood as wallows teb. 10, at 2 P. M., 20' above zero I, 3 IL lb° If i{ IT IV. /I 4 ! 140 tc _ it ti cr 51 (g Do It It I i Si it 8 it 6o It lt " 11, ".14 A. 4r.below " " Nuov " " " 9 10°- below 1 ' 12, "6 A. It., 2a " " " " NOON, 3Q° above 11 11 13, " 5 A, IL, .1 ° below 11 MIS shows' a f. - 41 of 211 0 in the first 15 hours, end on the whale, shows soli:iciest va riety "for all practicable purposes," You can publish the above statement if you consider it worth while. Yours truly,, • 1., BIRD. THE KANSAS COMITTEIE. Speaker ORR has announoed the Cora- mittee appointed under Mr. HARRIS' res olution, adopted On Monday morning, to which was .to he referred the President's Message, and the Lecompton Constitution, and who are 'authorized to make an inves tigation Into Kansas affairs generally. Contrary to the usual parliamentary cus tom, and to honorable and fair dealing, hat - committee t i s composed with a major ity opposed to the object of the resolution. The following is the Committee ; Harris . of 111., Anti-Leeoropton—Derr Stephens of Ga., Lecompton—Derr. Morrill of Vt., Anti-Lecornptou—Rep, ',etcher of Va., . Lecorapton—Dcm. Wade of Ohio. Anti-Lecompton—Rep. Quitman of Miss„ Lecotnpton--Dam. Winslow of N. C., Lecorrapton—Dcm. Bennmt of N. Y., Anti-Lecompton--Rep. WHITE of Pa. l I.scourros—Dem. Walbridge of 3Lionlif — Anti-Leconspton—Deta. Anderson of Mo., Lecompton--S. Am. Stevenson of Ky., Lecompton---Dem. Adrian of N. J., Anti-Lecompton— Dem. Buffinton of Mass., Anti-Leconapton—Dem. Russell of N. Y. ' Lceompton—Dem. The Committee stands as follows: L i ccornptonitcs (7 - Democrats and 1 South American) Anti-Lccomptonites (5 P,epublicans and 2 Democrats) This unusual course on the part of the Speaker has excited much indignation at Washington, We cannot say that we aro disappointed in the formation of the Com mittee. What are precedents, parliatben tary usage; or legal requirements, when put in the.scale against the demands of Slavery ? That exactieg, inexorable pow er, stops at im moral j obligation, when fraud and villainy me necessary to accom-, plish its porposes, 13ot we confess to disj, appointment; as to tbe 'elmaeter, of Nr, Speaker Orr, who was so highly spoken of for his fairness by thd. Northern press, at the time he was elected. Helms, how ever, gone.the way of all political flesh— his greatest precedent being his, idol, .the President. WI - The Agaieultural Meeting, on Tuesday evening of Court Week, was One of intarest, and at which measures of no little importance were adopted. The Secretary Was directed to' furnish the JOURNAL with a report of ,the prooeed. ings, but as he has not yet done so, wo will 'state a few of the wog important features, having'partieipated in the meet ing. It was late in the evening when' the meeting orgMaipd With' Efon. Timorta IVES, Vice President of the Society -for. Coudersport, and Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the , Chair—ilon. JoSEpu MAii*N, the President of the Society, being absent.'The' minutes were ,read 84'4 ap proved, *hen the Special Committee,;ap pointed by the Board of Direetori, to re- port . on the propriety of holding a Coun ty AgricUltnralfair the coming Autumn, mide - a report - irCfavor *of doing so. Af ter some, remarks from J. S: Mann Esq., and Col. J.M. Kilbourne ; in favor of report,anaDavid Conway Esq,.,againskit, the- report of theCiin - ana ittee was anent- - ado s ail`Li3ioarii " of:Diirea ors initrnetAd to take the neeesSarY444 - i to old Falr;ln.tbls PlaCe;at'auchtime hey should deem expedient, This • ;.; This ia the , Most important measure ey cr adopted - - Society, and 'may j'ast. li.be t eTarded as the dawning of anew ,lera . \ in the welfare of county. The Agricultural interests:of this county are now - Pregminently deserVing of something fl ore than the Mere routine of farm life, to ire them zest and importance—they " • • want - to be brought into more direct and varied competition--a Want which can only be in .any measure adequately sup plied through tb medium ofia public exhibition ,of farming and mechanical Products.. The ._only competition our fanners have heretofore had, was , such as. [Was 'afforded through the press and by I hear -say. They have never had an op portunity to exhibit, their crops side by] side, and compare them in a manner l I • • which would be just to both competitors, ibeeause the parties concerned were their limn judges—a matter which is obviated' by the Fair system. Every farmer who desires , the development and advancement his own interests, cannot procure it by any easier or better process than that of County and State - Valli, • One objection to holding'a Fair, which • we have heard advanced by some of the members of our Agricultural Society, is the expense attendant upon such an ex hibition. They arc doubtless sincere in their Objection, and it would be a reason able. one, if such persons did not forget that every oent of it will eventually re turn to them doubled in vain; and with a largo per center of gratifioation and moral 'influence. - • Indeed, each. success ful farmer will at once receive a certain ` proportion of his money. back by way of 1)1-0111hp:is). according to his deserving. It is not to be expected ,that the Society will realize any profit from the first Fair— but-it is reasonable to suppose that a sys temwhich has met with so much success the past five years, in other sections of the State—,and which led thinking, .-tac tive•farmers to ice's a larger and wider .Eeld of competition in the State Fair, a Success of itself—would in a few years, at farthest, meet with a corresponding suc cess among the farmers of Potter. An other fact 'we would remind those of who object to the expense. It is that so soon as' our Society have acquired a fund of $lOO, by subscriptions, memberships and otherwise, the Society receives' another $lOO. from the .State.--a fact which of itself should at once sat at rest all ohjee tjoas to the cyst 71 of Agricultural Fairs, inasmuch .as the State thus directly en. courages the syitem, by paying a bonus to County Societies. But we have not nom this week to extend our remarks upon this subjeCt. , We hope every farm. cr will at once see the advantage of corn petiog for the premiums this Fall, and prepare their orops this Spring with a view to the Fair, There was an addition of 14 new mem bers to the Society at this meeting,' and we' hope to have the pleasure of stating, after the next quarterly meeting, that the' Vice Presidents in the different townships have'eaCh added 10 names to the roll of the Society. There axe; we' - believe, -- 26 Vice - PreSidentS,• whilch would add a strength of 260 members to the Society. Gentlemen, if yen do not get 10 new members each; get all Yon can. We hope ,the I Wives and daughters of farmers and •meichanics- will also take , meinherships,, and, thus give their infit enceand countenance,, (which is ncver• given to an -unworthy purpose,) in behalf of so noble and necessary an object. 12' above " Tlae liansas correspondent of The Dem ocrat says - that the Topel;a Legislature relissenibled on the 10th inst.. The Cudi 7 fying Committee reported a complete code of lasirs, and concurrent resolutions were introduced setting forth that as the Pres ident 'of the United States advocates the passage of . the Lecompton Constitution through Congress, Governor Robinson be requested to correspond with thc Govern ors of the severfil States friendly to the People's Goverfinteilt pf Kansai end no lickaid, in 'ease it slionld be necessary to resist such enchroaehment upon the prin ciples of Republicanism. The election in Atchison County, on the Sth inst., for. Member of the Council, to till the vacancy occasioned by the resigna tion of Mc. Carr, the Democratie-Congress man elect, resulted iii t the choifte of .Mr. 'Challis, Democrat, over: Mr.' Wheeler, Free-State, by 250 majority. On the 4th of January the same county gave .over 100 Free-State majority. ._• se-Bishop ' Waugh of the M. 'E. Church, died . at ,Baltimore ott Tqesday :morning, thel6th , itirThas. Burrowes, Esq., editor of"the At, Sdi.ool Journal was . elected Mayor .of Lancaster last week , as an in dependent candidate:. , • - LATEST FROM KAINs.c. sx : Louis, Friday, Feb. 19, 1848. Opesiv cifa. Nyder' tO uss — B62;---::l7A q ' A. • ferrmi ;ContOits, Star:ling.-hereto - ii. , - wields of Squatter 'Soileriegnt,y ...Corraspandene° of thn Ilissouri:Derreeiet.' - o ... LAMOTE, Kansas, Feb. 3, 1858. -The-boar . d of comitissionirs, eonAitn • ted by ,P. special !let of the legislature fO r the; purpose of investigating the 6aud i • committed( at the elections- held on the 21st of December and 4th of JannarY last,' have :demanded thelreturns, but up .t o this,date, , iwere, unab e. to 'procure then'. Calhoun _refused., to ..iroroduce, but • Part,l keeping back ._the • D I -la - Ware •Ferry • 1 , 0 11, books, while Henderson was in. custody charged- with - adding I boirt,'3oo names to the'• list, whiell .returns substantiate the oharge: -The board of commissioners ao 7 sitting in this •platre issued a.complanot to the probate m judge of this county, ask': inc*, him-to place - in th 6 hands of the Sher i , • ' iff of Douglas, a warrant for the,purpos,j of 'searching. the -surveyor-general's office land adjacent buildings in - quest of said election returns. Yestp;daY, Sheriff Wallr: er, bY . some " scull-diro - gery," unknown to yours truly, learned Litt they were un I der' a pile- of wood near tht? surveyor-geu eral's office, and this day proceeded, With a pOsse of ten or twelve, to that citadel of corruption—Lecompton. The.chief clerk protestedagainst their search, • but by or. dert3 from the sheriff,ithe wood was soon scattered, the earth renurved; - and a box disclosed, bearing the, following iusenp tloir en the cover . ; "Gen:L.A. McLean, Leeompton, K. T." ' On. one -etod •-was marked " Star eandles.,' , "E. G. Wilson." The triumphant party .soon brought 'the ben: to Ldwrence, where it was pladti in the hands of the - probate• judge,' who or.' acted it opened in h 6 honor's presence, and in the presence f Gov. Detiver,.tbe I boitrd of co.r.,thission ri,o.the president of the council, and the s eager of the House of Iftepresentatives. The legislative hall was used as a court roomy nod was literally jammed by the rneinors; of the legislature and, eager speet... - e ol -b rs.. - The box contained 1 five large rolls of '7 1;.6, from the V \ fermi - , precincts of the • lcctions held on the 21st of Deeemhe and the 4th of Jan. curry list: ' Among tle rest-were the Del- . aware Ferry returns, which the judge of election swore, whik in custody, before Calhoun;- the president .of the council, and, the speaket $t t e House of Poore sentativcs, while dr y were counting the vote, contained but ` 9 votes: ! The poll-books fro 1 that precinct show 390 votes. , Hendee, on must - have added all Over 39.. Gov. D nVer, and the speak er of the House a d president of the council, were sworn - and examined the returns, and 'certifie- to their being the returns of elections 'n the 21st - of December and' the • th -of January last. They will undoubte - y show the free ex ercise of-the elective franchise of Kansas. demperats, upon 'being -.examined by the commissioners. The whole returns will Undergo a thorough irivestigatien by the cOmmissioners. Thel " niggerin a wo,AI - which the democracy secreted so carefully at midnight has certainly been found this time. r -I.‘ e commissioners' in vestigation at Oxfor , shows 35 legal ro tors in the precinct, ud half of the nntu ber free state. • " - National demos,' cline in Kansas CUTTING POTAT' Of cutupg potatoes, as a matter of. eco however, seems to hl the practice has a upon, the crop, espec' ing is early, and the Last season, in orde l tried several mcperi whieli were in ever cut seed. The me iod adopted was as folloWs :—Twd rows of cut potatoes were planted in the centre of a piece—the tu bers being airided as nearly in the cen tre as practicable—and two pieces allow ed to' each hill. This was tried on four different pieces of th iegetable, and each piece in a different fi ld. On digging the roots,l it was found t lat the . yield of the • cut rows was less by no-tenth, by weight, than that of the unc t ones, and in point of size, a still more Marked difference. I never plant the smallest or the largest po tatoes, but select. those of medium size, and allow Oro potatoes fo - tb — e - hill.—Cor, of Germantown lelegraplz. - NEirER Cr 0 - THE WHOLE HOGI. -gi A fat hog is the very quintessence of scrof ula and , carbonie acid gas, and he wile eats it must not expect thereby to build a 6(41,4 physical or7anisua. , While . it con tributes heat, 11'0 tNicntieth part of it 'is ,nitrogen--the basal of muscle s ' iAn exchange gives us this paragraph, which we cordially endorse as being sound practiaal truth. It Itt material foi breath and nothing more-see, Liebeg, and other organic chemists and phpiolegists it makes no red Meat or muscle. The prize, aer,is noVallowed to eatit all that is I not consumed by the lungs, remains to dig the body wit,h fat:-- - -Setenygc; Amer; icipt. 1 , 1 ' . „ THE _ VAEAT bTATES.-Th o cencus of the ijnited .States .sbowa that we have twb millions land a'.balf of far-. mers, One hundred 'thousand merchants, sitty-four thousand .masons, land .nearly two hundred thousand carpenters. M have fourteen thoustind bakers to make our breml; twenty-font; thousand - lawyers., to set Us by the cars ;:forty thousand-doc tors to " hill or cure , ' and, fifteen hundred' editors, to keep this motley.. Mass in order by the 'power of public opinion controlled. and, manufactured thieur , h the press• - Griines,`Repnblioan, has 5 . been elected to . the S. Sento from lowa. II E - gri i cy" is , on the de . S, C. R. !+ . s."—The practice s adopted by many otny. Experience, ye established, that injurious influence ally. when the plant ,oil and weather cold. to test the thing, I ents, the result of case in favor of U - , I ,•