Jqz - duitifeuitrUileTtiiitiorda b. -ateti- I one. of calmness and beauty:. •Inrose from
•
lug vi pity, .which he could not repress,l my couch, walked out at my tent door on
ke lrid his hand rently 'upop. her he . s.d,lthegreensward, folded my arms and stood
1,,Y4 44d,1.Tp0i. 4431" ' - -inazing around. upon the peaceful hills and
Ii g ; as a stniple plamse; but his kindly iyaleS aathey )ay stretched put -in quiet
tom" reduced a mighty eifedt on that kepose. W!uttt sound - distnybed the mac , :
Anfieriiin• lit* soul. 7 kfei..peni. up affee 7 .' is silence of ;the hour.. 1. was aroused
1 • ' '' • .
,suns nit 'e
f ii" likefl
yne l ,
..or,t a ood. when the i trom my -,tliqug , lttful.reverje byl!lo. 1. son
xtttgs ap opened. Site threw her- i ielfintolAineleiying, , Number.one,-..rl2.9'elock_and
'his arias, nestled her head upon.- his breast. i.alt is Well. The cry was taken up by'.
And sogi,•ed out, "Oh, I Tare nobody to: each sentinel in his tnru.and repeated all
for ^;u now I" . This outburst of fee:Jim"! areund the camp. 'The Weird. chant had
,IftfA - .b - iiiiexptititcd, that` the young itian - l-Nearcely l- .left the lips Of the -last sentinell
. ' {ell enildarsiiiiged. .aud knew tint what to 1 and went echoing up !the rocky ravine up- j
,dg.' His irrci?iori to disagreea.ble scenes lon which h was posted, when I heard the
,fiumuutail -iii.,, weakness . ; and be knew„lbrisk clattering of a horse's hoofs coming]
..moreorev, t
-b at if - 143 .bustess should be- } up .lii..stony
_hill froin.the river. - A -mo-
J-Iwiio.ll,Vi 4 r,C - ..1g)6 sympathy, her victim 1 inept more and the; rider - dreiv rein In
oi . ag fare all - Ale w Or 1.;
orse for it. Still iti front of Miljitiory's' 14.1 i It, whom he
l
pas rot 41 II nature. to repel the ethic; I called up, and then vide to Sergeant-Ma
-1!111 ';;Ut ,earnedtoward him glO3 so lkji' Chas. Green's, whom he also called up.,
ireivelielanng an : itnpuls6. lie pltieedll. now heard the 11liijer order him - (Ser-I
'lig hand tenderly on her. head,' and said I gcant Major Omen) to wake out a detail's
ii a :footling voice, 'Bet quiet stns, my lof six lINq from each mounted company.
i.
Ittle g irl. - 11 1 earsoinehodycomin g ; and' to go une.cr the command of Lieutenants
I'm' kilt* vonr mistress expects you fel Berry and ennuillolam, and two non
'E,loar the •ta - b p, m
le." - , l iiiiir,sioned officers.
,Lieut. lqaGrncler
. ,
[To / F e a•mt . in a 2 . (7.] • I had been murdered, at a settler's cabin
over the river, and this first detachment
'was sent to arrest the murderer.
"A few nights since a drunken royz.ot
eurred at a liquor shanty near by, in which
several teamsters were: horribly mutilated
--••iilluoit literally cut to pieces. None of
them, however, are quite dead, although
in a critical condition. The same night,
I am informed, a s4dier belonging to the
fifth column, which is also encamped over
1 the river, ‘i-s sheti dead. The ni ! dit af
ter, a wagon-iiioster of an ox-team shot
' r his
1 one Q ox i.,111, 1 ..rs through the head.•
I Last night two teamsters of a mule train
were badly wound i ed by pistol-shots fired
Iby ox-drivers.
" These deeds of horror are all attrilmt
-I^d to the irilluence of liquor. Tlitis you
! •;' e, E. im. that foal fiend and agent of the
Devil, is here, doing his full share in the
1 destrueiioa 4 f hill jir,i."
IERR1711,1; ACCII3E,NrI O.V THE
E. I?...I.ILIibOAD.
!cif !killed. and Ferty-Seven
Ircountle(l9.
}fumes of killed and Two
. Curd Smashed vp.
.. .
Zile ..Zight Ppress west met with a
pirible ari:4lent last eyeuing at ti o'clock,
past of Port . arOs., The two last cars in
'he train werethrown froth the, tract; by
a broken tai and precipitawd down an
'embankment some fuqy et fifty feet. Six
persons Werr Wiled, one gentleman so
1
badly hurt t ittt it is thought he cannot
suryiye, and twenty or thirty others ili
jj.i.scd; kinie of them seriously, but it is
ought, note: fatally. •
' hielese . a list of the killed and wound
tq; 4 far ~ 'T. 4aye been able to ascertain
tiiinu. !Hr. Arno was slightlY hurt. All
the wounded are well cared foti and attend
ed by the best physicians that could be
procured. id...IIIDDL, D. Sup.
NAMES Or KILLED AND 'WOUNDED
Nathanial 11. Barnes, Mute, Sparta
roma, slightly injured; -C.; F. Bedell,
Newark, N-.J , slightly injured; Mr. and
Slrs. Brown, Tibga Valley, badly injured ;
Brown, son of the above, fOttr years old,
killed ; Louis Lay, wife ancljohild, slight-
J itorpd ; Charles Barrett, Cleveland;
0., NO bone broke.u—doin- well; Adam I
hay, Binghampton, slightlyl jured ; Mrs,l
it
Bay, wife of Adam Ray, kil ed • William
Morton (lawyer, - office No. 62 William St.,
New-York), badly bruised—no bones
broken--in 'a fair way of recovery; John
W. Beals, Boston, Mass., slightly injured;
L, 1?. Howell, iticadltill, Pa., slightly in
jured; Mrs.. R. P. Turner, No. 209 Ninth
avenue, 'New' York, and two children,
slightly injured; Also, one child nine
'months old, killed; P. P. Swarts, Utica,
Licking County, Ohio, slightly injured ;1
A. Heguet, New-York City, slightly in.:
jured ; Mr. Haas, of the firm of Eusil,!
!Haas & Cu., No: 50 Broad,' street. New-
York City, slightly injured; Mrs. Clifford
A. Baker, Buffalo, N. Y.; slightly injured; I
S.S. Hill, Portland, Chautaque Cbutity, ,
N. Y., slightly injured; Michael Cenkling.
theksonyille;lll., slightly injured ; George
Sylven, WoodstOok, C, W., shghtly in-!
jured ; Ira. Brush, Prattsburg, :Reuben
County, N. Y , slightly injored ; Henry 1
Stnitb; Prattsbor. , , Stenben County, N.
Y., slightly injured ; A. S. Daggs, No. 451
. •Williain street, N. Y. City, badly injured ;1
S. Dunham, Waeello, Louisa County,l
lowa, slightly injured; Mrs. R. D. Crosby !
Ind child, Culotta, Steubc.m County, N.
Y., slightly injured; John E. White, No. i
127 Bleecker street, N. Y., seriously in-!
jttred ; Miss Weuman, Mrs. Searens or 1
:Leavens and four children, No. C) . . Pacific!
.
street,e, BrookI;; n, slightly injured; Philo'
R. Paddock, Miss Eastman and Voiotia:
Barry, mutes in charge of Prof. Isaac L.
Peets of the Leaf and Dumb Assylutn, N.
r., all of whom are slightly injured; John ;
Artot, Elmira, slightly injured.; C. C.
Murray, Narrowshorg, sli ; tlitly inj tired;
E. W. Gill, ,i‘lifferspast, Fairfield County,
Ohio, slightly injured; The Rev. Edmund]
B. Palmer, No. 18 Poplar street, Boston; ;
slightly injured; Win. Wallace Farnant, ,
Post Jervis, slightly; Harvey Wood, Ifills-1
boro', Pa., killed; •-•-• Rubinson, resi-!
deuce unknown, killed; Man, name and
residence unknown, killed; Win. Rose;
283 Third avenue, N. y., slightly i nj tired ;
John Weyland, Irish; friends in Toronto,
Canada, slightly injured; 1.4. W. Seeley,
Elmira; firm of Seeley, - Watkins 4 &ter
tian, Eitnira, slightly injured.
' i Mr.. Moran ; President, and S. F. Head
-Iy,' Assiitant President, on receiving in
telligence of. the accident, immediately
left for the scene of disaster, to render all
the assistance they could afford.
; The accident occurred about six miles
east of Port Jervis, and' is 'understood to
! be - the most serious. quo that had taken
place oq the road.
• A Corctner's Jury held ou r theabove
. , .
11
tersons ratqued a verdict of " nobody to
lame." ' ; _
IlintdeArs in the At:my—Rum the
Cause.
A coricspondetit of The St. Louis Don
perat, writing from the Camp on the Big
Blue, July 2, says ;
•
".Incidents of a tragical character have
occurred 'since our arrival here; ivhich
;will long cling, td many a stein soldier
with a painful rememlarance, and Cause
;his camp to' be regarded as tho Camp of
Horror.'
•
" On the night of the 28th ult.,' from
foam *cause or other, I was aroused from
iny sleep about midnight. The night was
6ljs
COEJ)EUSPORT, PA.,
TIP 22„ 1858.
T. S. CHASE, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER,
D&-Tlio Unimu State Convention met
at Harrisburg o tbe - I.4tb inst., and nom
inated Hon. John M. Aced, of Philadel
phia, for Judge lof 'the Supreme Court, on
10th ballot. Hon. Wm. E. Frazir, of
Fayette, was niminated for Canal
,Com
missioner, on 1 t ballot. We will pub
lish the Rest)]. tions, together with our
views, in our next.
£ Twelve Years ago, the Rev. Albert
Barnes, an emilnent Presbyterian Minis
ter of Philad9lphia, published to the
world the assrtion, that "there is no
power out of th l e church that could sus-'
tain Slavery a j i hour. if it was not sus
tained by it." We think . Mr. Barnes
overrated the power of the church; but
-we agree with him that it has a very great
influence upsi this, as upou all other
questions. What then shall we think of
those ministers who are dumb on this gi
gantic sin, and thereby do what they can
to keep the church in the position of
suppor c • of Slavery?
VB-JQsEpi. J. Cdomps, Esq., is now
associated witl Mr. 'WESTON in the edi
tOrsliip of e Republic, published at
Washington city. The Reptblic is an
able and truth u 1 exponent of Republican
ism, and shoud b 3 well sustained by the
friends of freedom throughout the Union.
Those who want a good paper from the
scat or goverument-cannot do better than
subscribe for it. Terins of the weekly :
I copy, one y-'3ar $2; 1 copy, six months
$1; 3 copies, oil° 'year l $5; 10 copies, six
mouths $8; 10 egpiq, qpe year $l5; 20
copies, six nOnths 612,5 g ; 20 copies, Quo
year 4.thlress !Westou Combs,
WashingtoadD. C. •i
.1123 We liad prepared an article for!
last week annp l uacing:the acquittal of Gen.
Lana, on thel charge of murdering Gaius
Jenkins, Elq., but mislaid, and thus
neglected to:Publish it, Tim decision of
the Court was to th 6 effect;
.1
'• In making out a case against the de
fendant, it v l ras neceSsary, - first, to prove
that a murder had been committed ; and,
secondly, k), General Lane. The prose
cution had failed to
. o,ptablish the first.
The Court here unantinously of the
opin
ion that no murder had been committed ;
and as the territory hewing failed to es-'
tablish this nriinary filet, the only charge
contained iuNlie affidavit, the deLendent,
Gen. Lane, 7a4 accordingly discharged." 1
After hisaelinittal,l.Laue requested the
Board of Magistrates lo enter bail . for his
to
appearance to answer any bidietraeut which
might be found against Min. They de
cided that they had no authority to do so.
This verdi4 of acquittal will not prevent
the Grand Jury frOm indicting-Lane, irso
disposed. The examination having been
so full, it is riot very probable that the
Grand Jur!will ever, wise wilier pro
cnedincr' tn
on ihe'sae charge to ho institut
ed.
.
The affair has no political bearings,
11
for both Lane and Jenkins-were free-state
men;
1
• £ The Tork Republican.eefermerly
a 'Whig paper, but now eirgetjie
. sei , p.
port,4 13.4nhlicanism prinmplese=taltes
ground in lam of Gen, Ststox eplEtt•
ON for the next ,Presidency. We regard
-all such committals as pretnatur4 it is
c l Atirely too soon to even indicate a choice.
girewnstances may point to Gen...Q4m
-1 cam; as the in
,but, then again; air
etunstauees ,may te,tully preclude his nom.
ination, l o nt i be patient and wait awhile
_:_ rju t, fergetting, in the meantime, the
,very strong elainis Of Hon, WA 41, Spy-
ART) and Jogif J. Claw - END:lli—both
first class Statr..SLUCII and r atriots - WAIL
' out guile. —4rie G azvite. '
We xlisseaat from the Gazette as well
as, the York Rept bli --ap. SeWard and
Crittenden are able men, a na l have served
their constituents hotiorably, and in the
main faithfully. But they have been i
liberally paid for all services rendered,
and have no claims on the Presidency as
additional compensation, We'should be
very sorry to see either of the above men
nomitgated fur that oP . ce. The Hor..
John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, would
be a cendidate worthy of the Republican
cause; but far better take the eallant Fre.:
wont than either of the above.
Jude leoug-,149 and therrest-
I '4enCY.
Tho Scud; (Ytichulond, Va,) has been
trying to reconcile, the feud betweeU Judge
.Douglas and the Slave Oligarchy, tut en.
krs a seasonable protest against the. sup
port of Judge D. for the Vresideticy, sat
tug:
" Already some of_our . friends are pres
sing 'the claims of judgc Douglas ler Ihe
Presidency. The people are not prepar
ed for this;„ let his 01m:cis wait. This
movement will hurt—At cannot aid him:
There is-a vast difference between a Sen
ator from Illinois and a President' of the •
United States. We may feel pleased that
an avowed Free-Seiler cannot fill the place
of Douglas in the Senate, .but it is very
different when wo are asked to prefer him
to the truest and noblest of our party "for
the highest office in their gift. On 'the
next - Presidential election, •we believe',
weighty eyents, probably the' future - ties- -
tiny of this-Confederacy, will.clepend. No
mistake should be made in selecting our
candidate. Not only should a Black Re
publican be beaten, but the purest and 1
Soundest Southern-man should be elected.
Our party should be in no liurry to name
its candidate. There is time enough for
all necessary preparation : there is no need]
to have a candidate put up as a mark to
be fired at from now till 1800. Whenever
we do select a candidate, we desire that
he shall have a clear record, and a posi
tion which requires no explanatory de
fense, but - one which shall command ad-,
miratiou and enforce support.”
• The above extract assures us more than
anything else we have yet seep: that it is
the intcntiontion of the South to run Mr-
Buchanan for President again. He is "the
purest and soundest Southern - man" we
know of—that is, if we compare his ac-1
'dons with the standard which the South
i usually depicts in its Columns. And, iu
order that 'the &Telt and especially its
1 Northern allies may know what our wish
is in regard to whom shall be the Repub
lican-candidate, we will say that we de-'.
sire a pure, sound and (taw:wean.. " Black
Republican," like Sumner or Hale, nowi
nated nod eteettil. 2 - Let the issue be as.
! the .St,',utit desires, Nro•th and South—
Slavery and no SliTify--and .well "-bet
high" en the election of our candidate.
Do not ask us to support one who runs for
the honor of the thing—give us a man of
Principle.
The Sectional Character of the
Buchanan Party.
In the campaign of 1856, the Buchan
an stump-speakers made considerable cap
ital by announcing that they were .Ar,i
tioiiot men, and that the supporters of
Fremont were Nectiuital. Must people
who kept their eyes open, saw that this
claim 'of Nationality. was a false preterise,
And that 'no oandidate for President had
ever been so intensely sectiona3 as James
Buchanan.
Every act of his administration has
been governed by Sectional motives.. In
the great political contest of 1800, Which
resulted in the election of Mr...Teffersoii,
the party issues were .between the Na
tionalists, who were defe,4ted, and the
State Rights men, who succeeded. The
advocates of a strong central Government
asSureed the name of Federalists; while
those who were fur limiting the action of
the Federal Government to the powers
expressly granted by - the Constitution
which created it, were known as Repub
licans.
Is it not apparent that the same issues
in part are now before the pep'ple for set
tlement? Mr, liuchanan who was a Fed
eralist in his youth, is still for a strong
central government, but worse than that,
he is now faa exerting all the influences
of this overshadowing Central Govern,-
meat in favor of the sectional interest of
Slavery, While the Republicans of to
day, like the Republicans of Jefferson's
day, are in favor of State Rights, the
rights of the people and of a Government
•
.iikAaport.lance - .with
. .
Independence.
, • -•
The following - *grads from an'adifii
rabic editorial-in the last Arativual Era
shows theesset posigeo of part tas_at the
• • •
viesent;
-
" ' Since the final adjustment of the financial
controversy,' by - the , istablistintent. of ,the In
elapendent Treasury systeM. and.the *levies- ,
sense of the whole country thereu, each of the
old party organization has ceased to - he an
exponent of any distinctive political ..prlaci
plasH. It has been,the aim of the last and
present Adaiinistration3 to appropriate to it-
self,the name of. ho ls`st snecessful party, but
without - claim or title to its principles. .The:
RepOlican, party
. firet, and the Democratic
party - suitsocitiently ; wer3 supporters of tie
rights of the StateS. and oppogel to the as
snesptitm au4 exernlse un.delevtad powers
by the National Government. But the poliey
of this Asituinistr.ttion is the reverse of this;',
and is their boast; not that - they sustain the
rights and sovereignty of , the estatesi but that
they ate National. To nationalize anil.exte n d
the, grest monopoly interest of Slavery, are the
great, Objects and purposes of the Administra
tionpaity. • •
• ..Sectionalism, the twin sister of centralism,
is fostered and siistained lay the Administra
tion, oral is cherished and patronized in re=
turn. Jr. ituchnnau, an original Federalist
was elected, as the friend and supporter of
"Southern rights." There are no Noithern
or Western- sights,. but the President
and his friends are the devoted champions of
Southern rights. It is hardly passible. to
name an Adwinistrati&l journal that does not
express, emphatically apd with zeal, its fidel
ity to life rights of the South. If the South
has rig,itts that do not belong to other por
tions of the Union—rights not possessed by
the States respectively—it woulehe well that
they should be defined. Our Constitution
and laws recognise the rights of States, the
rights of individeals, and certain enumer
ated National rights, but there is no legal
or constitutional recognition of distinctive '
Southern rights.
l•What are the prominent politico' issues
now before the country!? They aye not eorn
nicreia,l,.as in the earlier part of the present
century, when the Republican and Federal
parties existed. - Nor are they financial, as was
the ease when the Democrats and Whigs were i
arrayed in opposition ‘ to each other. When
the present Congress met, in Deeember last,
*the Administration hail a decided majority in
both branches. The Executive had therefore
an ;opportunity to - initiate its policy, and
strengthen its'position if correct, as it wcuid
weaken it if wrong. Of its measures and
principles, the whole - country was to judge;
and they were Finch as to make' not one con •
vert to the Administration,. but to alienate
thousands and tens of thousands of its friends.
1 Its whole strength was upended in an effort
to inflict upon an unwilling people in a dis
taut Territory a Constitution which they did
nut make or authorize to be made. which they
never approved, but which by their votes at
the ballot-hox they emphatically and decided
ly repudiated and rejected. Yet, with these
films in its possession, the Administration ex
erted. and perverted the whole power of the
Government to deprive that people of the in
herent and inalienable -right of self-govern
-1 meat. This was and is the great and leading
measure of the Administration—its distinc
tive policy. The Notional Government, by
an arbitrary and unwarranted exercise of Fed
eral power, would crush out popular and
&ate sovereignty, - it is not surprising that
the Administration was defeated, and its pol
igy disapproved, by many ofits ablest friends;
but it is strange that the discipline of party
and the inflitertec' of patronage were so potent
as to coerce many into an abandonment of
the principles which they. once professed, so
that they are no longer of the striet-eonstrue
tion and State-rights school of politics, but
centralists and sectienalists."
•Tcppular So - iereiguty” De.
fined. .
We commend the following editorial of
the N. Y. Tribune to the careful perusal
of out. readers. It takes a correct view
of the rinestiou
The doctrine of "Popular Sovereignty"
—that is, of the right of the People ofl
any State or Territory t establish or re
ject.Sl:tV.ry as they shall see tit—is plan
sibly :plC,,, , ated in Mr. .Dopgias's speech,
mod we see it affirmed also in the res o lves
of Comity Conventions wherein Etelmbli
cans would seem to have partcipated.—
Before Republie:ms are asked to as
sent to suet! a doctrine, we submit that
it should be clearly- set forth. so that
there can be no mistake as to what it re
ally is.
We, be it distinctly understood, do not
accept it. We recognize no right in one
man to enslave his feilow-man—no right
to do this filtering in ten men, nor yet in
lien
. thousand. To talk of Slavery as a
-legal, constitutional relation of one man
to another,- under a Republican Govern
went, is to utter the- most amazing ab•
surdity. Slavery is the reign of Force—
the rule of the strongest—the -dethrone
went of Law by' Violence. An uncor
rupted Court of Justice ought anywhere
to decide the pretended establishment of
Slavery by law a solecism—a moral lul
-1 possibility , . ,
But lek us concede, for the argument's
sake, that Slavery can be established by
law—that its legalization is . a matter of
sheer expedimmy, like Banking or Rail
roads—and let -ns sec what "Popular
Sovereignty" with regard to it really is,
or should be.
upposinz it abstractly right that ev
ery 'Territory or embryo State shall deter
mine for itself, whether by popular vote
or otherwise, to have Slavery or not have
It lb: one of its, "doinastio institutions,"
it is very oldr7t.titttthe vote or other de
termination t44(abliSh ought to precede
the act of establishing. Is not that clear?
Suppose we agree that the question of
Banks or No Banks ought to be decided
by the People; would.it not 103 monstrous
to begin by letting every one who pleases
set up a bank, and then °all on the Peo
ple to vote for or against the continuance
of those Bauks ?
Yet this is precisely what "Popular
Sovereignty" practically does with regard
to Slavery. It plants Slavery in every
Territory, fosters and protects it through
the whole period of said Territory's ex
istence, and tells the People that they
may vote it out or vote down, if they
.. .
-------.:, .
-sen :8; *lie? t.E . ey. Our to frame : a StAto
Cella ution. • ;.••lS:•thii htildina-•ad!eien •
balan •, between Freedom axid7SiaverY?
Be - it ;alectired .by : phinsihieollttegiarcs
e ii
of wd s. but ; look into the facts. ', _
--- Wh n the'; Kansas-Nebraska bill was.
befOrci i the Benate, acid had received ;its
fine - l - s i ape •flkrough the adoption, of
; the
fainotiS• aistuttip sneeze elatMe purpOrt
ing talCleave!the People thereofperfeartY •
"fieel. o form, and re:4lll:de their domestic
"institutions•ju their .Own , -..Way,l, ''Alr.
Chaso:of Ohio mOvett (Hareli 2 1854)
. _ : .
to add'; • . ' -
1
"Under which, the People of the TerritOry,
thronh their appropriate rePresentatives,
may, if th4see tit, prohibit the existence. or
Sh•trer therein : " .- ;
~; • . , .., ..
—ThIS was !cofrd doiaii : Yeas, 10=-L-all
now !Republicans: „Nays, 80, including
•.lesStls. Atchinson, T'oucey and Douglas:
—Gen. Cass!abseot or silent.? here. we I
see tiiiit the! Nebraska bill as passed .not`
only! did not. accord to the People of . al
Territory the right to prohibit Slavery,l
but that all' its friends voted expreSsl) -
ttot tet accord . it. *- .• :
"popular ! Sovereignty," then, as ex
pouni!ledby its inventors and champions,
does, ,iot authorize, nor enable, nor allow,
.the People of a Territory to exclude or
expel Slavery froth their soil. It gives
theta no potter over Slavery, save to i.e.'.
illatel and protect it, while they retain the
' Terrttorial condition. • - It subjects them
to the int-Odnction and maintenance of!
the "peculiar institution" at the pleasure I
lof any slaveholder,and.only promises that,
iwuen they ;come to form a State Consti-;
tutidn and 'be admitted into the Union, !
I
'they may rid themselves of its pre,e•tee;
if they choose. -Even this promise has I
'been practically repudiated and violated I
by Preside/it Buchanan, his Cabinet, in- : I
eluding the original discoverer of "Pupa- I
lar ',Sovereignty," Gen. Cass, and more
than three-fourths of the Democratic lead-
ars l 'i but 'Mit by Senator Douglas, Gov.;
Wise and C,l-'ov. Walker. The exception i
does credit to those in whose favor it is
made, but Where does it leave the.Demo
eratic - party ?
• Are the:People of this Union prepared
to sUrrendar all their Territories to Slave
ry
So long us they shall remain Territo
ries!? kr. Douglas, it seenis. is; his re
cettLi express approval of the Dred Scott
deeision removes all doubt on that point.
The Republican party is not; and, while
it i'S ready to cooperate with members of
other parties in furtherance of common
objects, it must not be asked by theta to
sink or depy its. cardinal principle—Hos
tility to the planting or legalizing of
Slrtvery is the Federal Territories. If
dui • Pennsylvania Union Convention
which meets to-day should forget or over
ride this fact, we apprehend that all con
cerned will have reason for regret. ,
tantintritiratialts,
A Proposition.
Fur the'-Potter Journal
EDITOR.—The speech of Dr. Cbce
ver at the anniversary of the American
AbOlition Society, is before us ; and it
truly is what it purports to be, " The fire
and hammer of Gud's Word, against the
sin of Slavery." In his exposition of the
system, be - brings to light many thing , .
iMportant to be known—and which, if
Were known, would remove apathy. and
r , MSe 'to a proper and just indignation.
I.lpropose that we meet in the borengi, as
soon as you think proper, and have the
licourse read, with ether appropriate ex
'.seises—and that meetings of the same
kind be held in other places throughout
the county—that the sentiment may
imdorsed. and subscribed to, by every
li,;•ent and enlightent , d person. With- I
scone such means but few will hear
id it seems to ma that such d-:velop , -
of truths and startling facts should ,
nierally known. If any think me!
ical, please read the 4th page of the
ih; wiiere the curie of Slavery as en
-1 upon rising generations.—ohildren 1
I hi a never-ending, statd' of de ,, rada- 1
is truly depicted—then, parent, say
this fanaticism ? . Some will say, you ;
are 1M " abolitionist". : Astounding word
What is its deTtnition ? and who a-c those
against whom such bitter invectives are I
hurled ? They are the men who bate I
Slavery, believing it a sin against God and
mar; and wishing to abolish that law by
virtue of whielt one man is made the pro-1
1,1
. I.m.r), .-f on' they. But you area politi
eial wire-puller." True—but my politics
r
liir. all found on the 2nd tahle of the Law
s,
j r, o ye f dry aiPiyhbw• us thyspl4" And ,
0 Lm..1! professed christians—whether minis-I
tier,l elder,. deacon or whatever office you;
I ma Alibi in the church militant, and to;
1 'iv li• tewer sect you may belong, . if you arc
not a politician of this sort, I denounce i
yon as a man, much-less a c h r i s tia n . B u t
SlaNMry, is far off—why
.need we trouble
ourselves about-it? Not so far'eff as Cal-!
-Outta, Burundi, and the Isles of the Sea;
and we have our penny collections on the
'Sabbath our monthly colloctions on the
itirst, Monday of every month, to raise means
!for/ sending to them the Pe • oas 1 All this
0
1.
Is right , and Should we not do something
,
'full our neighbors, who by our own laws,
OLIO
It; at
raent
be g.
Kura
spec i'.
elite,
ble.n'
iion,
=1
Jll t.
as Dr. Cheever plainly has shown, are the
;down-trodden of the earth r Ought we
;not, in our solemn convocations to wor-
Ship God, invoke his blessing in their be.
bill, and• pray that some Moses may be
raised , up for their deliverance? God
works by means—and unless means are
wad, will the heathen ever receive the
gespel, or will the slave ever receive his
freedom ? " But I dislike so touch agi
tation. If slavery could only be stopped
in our country without so much noise."
Agitation is the only process to effect a
cure. It is truth coming in contact with
error. The deliverance from Egyptian
bondage, was a long scene( of agitation..
When Monk eartstheidelat4 of the - VW
en-calf, tbera was g t agitation. So,
when 'the colonies_ wer
. - oppiessed - by the'
tyranny of Ate. -mother eountry in 1776.
.and again in . 1812 ''b, , -British. impres.;,
meats; againje '5B• by iniuirs to our flag
in the Cuban Alulf-- , but more especially
when the highest tribunal in the.U. S. say
"that colored men havetlarighatOreipect."
( Please read Dr. ChceVer's speech, page
9th). - As in. the physical and natural
world„pain preeeeds a Cure, by submitting
to the npottteedrie's bitter drugs,-and. the ,
surgeon's 16ife ; thin he mural and.reli
gious world,--when the inherent tights of
men are arrested - ,by tyranny, , -wilea the
flood-gates of iniquity are -opened by, the
rum-seller, and whet) opptes.sion,stalks at -
noon-day, virtue must raise her Standard,
ITheire must, be agitation. The inagistOite .
I must ' not beat tb'e •e , sword, 'in .vain."
" Think not," 'says our Saviour, " that. t.
am come to send peace on the-earth; I all
i not come to send. peace, but -li ' sivord." -
" The sword
. - of moral, justice - must ,be,
drawn, and never, meter be returned to`
its scabbard Until justice and eqUal 'rights,
are obtained. So long as vi\rtuo and.vice
exist, there mast &e . asjitutiotr. . . :11..
or the'Potter Journal
SCHOOL CELEBRATION.
We had a rare little beat out heie in the
woods on Friddy.of last week, which with a
little hope of-pleasing, and perhaps benefiting
yoUr reatlrs, I wish' to tell. you about. - The
school-teachers of lit,brE t in some week's ago
made an agreement among themselves to hold
a school celebration, and tlkets went to work
to enlist the co-operation' of: parents for the
purpose. Last Friday, lour schools met at
Mr. .J. M. Preennaan's, and accompanied-by pa
rents and friends marched in proces...4ion
grove at a little distance. After singing . by
the choir, and' prayer by Rev.. J. Hendrick,
school ;•10. Ist`frorri .Crandall Hill, taught by
Miss S. r Reynolds, took the stage and-opened
their exercises by *singing. I have seldom
heard singing sound sweeter than did those*
young misses voices. - Thenfollowed an eXam
- ination in Mental Arithinetic; one in die geog
raphy and history of Pennsylvania, and a-pa
per read by two - young ladies, containing a
brief history of the Academy, and the various
teachers who have presided ,there.: The exer
cises were enlivened by - several songs.
Schools' No. 2nd from the " Peet Schoof
House" then took the stage. Their exercises
consisted of declamation, ilialogues, reading . of
a paper and singing. One song commencing
"Oh, dear, what can the matter be?
Parents don't visit their schoids--"
contained a sharp rebuke lo parents who can:
find time to attend to everything else but the
education of their children.
N 0.3 taught by Miss Hawley'rfassed Mcredit-f
able examination in Mental Arithmetic, andf
Orthography, and some other exercises-with;
singing included, ail& No. 4 under care oNlis*
Louise Hydorn was examined in Geography,
closing with' a brief history of Hebron town
ship, including a atuthment of the number of
schools and Scholars at present attending them]
A colloquy sung and .acted by some little
boys and girls was very pretty -and well per-;
formed. Dinner was ithen 'served; and after all
had eaten and the fraginents were gathered
up, the schools wereladdressed by Prof
drick. It would take . too much space- to at;
tempt even an
,ontline of . his "talk," but I
Mink the children will not soon-forget the fa-I
millar home, questions he put to them. Judg
ing at least by their hearty response, they
ought not to. The folloiving resolutions were
then presented, and as it- was growing
were adopted together without discussion
R.-se/red, That the common -schobl eelebra
tions have a tendency to create aninterest in
the cause of education. in teachers, scholars,
and parent s, and ail who attend them. .
12e4nlved. That t4ftehers should use their in
fluence with parents to induce them.to attend
such celebrationsa
Resolivd, That tlie exercises of this afternoon
have fu!ly convinced !I? that singing should
be awgie a regular exercise in our coiner:tun
schools.
Resolved, Tliai in building •new .school
ho4ses, directors iliould have special regard
to the health of the-pupils.
lleso?t'cd, That a picnic in the woods is a
very pleasant affair—so those who enjoy it.
It was the first time anything of the .kind
had been'attempted in our town, and it may
be if a stranger had visited us be woad have
thought we slid ant accomplish mach, but I do
not believe it. „I 'former•studeut of the Acad..
emy said he had thought the best speakers in
schnokhe had ever heard, were among the vit.
(age buys, bus he now insists that one of our
little boys entirely outdid anything he ever
saw in Coudersport. But I have made too
many words already, and will further only
commend the third and fourth resolutions to
the especial attention of teachers and direct,
ors. DELL.
Ilamos, July 15,.1858.
A TERAIRL I E event occurred .on Saturn
day kst at the. church of. the Rev. Mr
Galbraith, (United Presbyterian ; ) of Free
port, ArMstrong county, Pa. The .116 s;.
gentleman was lin the posture and act ot
prayer, when the elnirelt, edifier: where do
congregation were worshipping was struck
by lightning. !A Mrs. Itamalev was
stantly killed. and her two brothers, Israel
and George Watson, -and her unmarriol
sister, Miss Jane Watson,. were severely'
but not dangerously injured.
,' -.Robert
Morris, whooe4Upied a seat in front of Mrs.
Ramaley, was severely injured, but it w
thought he would recover.
TANNING lAN ELEPIIANT'S IFIDE. - :
They-are tanning an elephant's hide at
Cincinnati. .... .t was purchased by a furrier
in Wisconsin, where the animal, which
belonged to a enagerie, died: The freight
to Cincinnati ost $l5l It is an immense
hide, .so bulkthat the tannershandle it
with great d i fficulty. ] It is nearly to
inches thick,/ and full a year and a half
will he required to tali it thoroughly. 14
will be a curi i hsity when thoroughly tan'
ned aid seasoned. i
gion of Messing, or 4 legion
e bound! up in every ludo
itar"A
of conies, a
child."