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yfEW SERIES-VOL. IX, HO. 46.

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."Nottio is ft strange coquette!" All the ]ftdie« cry. -'0* *Bo long Ndttio jilts not mo,

Pray, what c«ro 1

If Celtic hath a mind to Inugh And hath no mind to cry, "Who shall rebuko her morry mood

In troth, not ..

But if Ilovo, dcon os dccpo6t aca. As lasting as tne sVy, Bo Nettie's wish—who'll gv?eit her!

I answer, I.

Corroapondonco of thoSt. Louifl Republican1. MURDERS AND ROBBERIES IN KANSAS—BY WHOM COMMITTED—THE

FREE-STATE MEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATROCITIES. Paoli, K. T., Thursday, May 20,1858

The late disturbances in the southern part of this Territory having attracted some attention, it may be as well to give you a correct version of them, in order that they may be understood. Just before Mr. Stanton retired from office there was some trouble in the vicinity of Fort Scott, and be sent down troops to restore peace. General Lane went down also to command his forces, but finding the troops in the itown, concluded to return. He made a flaming report to the Legislative Assembly, stating that he' had driven the Miseourians back to their dons, after having 'killed several—all of which great fear was imaginary, for the Missourians were not there at all. He stated further, that he had left two companies in the field. These were understood to be the companies of Montgomery and Baync.

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The United States troops were withdrawn from the town of Fort Scottfihortly afterward and another demonstration was made on the place by these men, and again a call was made for troops to protect the United States Land Office, which was threatened with destruction, and two companies of cavalry were sent down. Shortly afterward two .men quarreled about a land claim. Denton forcibly expelled

Hardwick from a quarter section of land, and a few nights afterward Denton was -lulled in the door of his own house by some assassin. Two other men were »l\ot.ami and one killed the same night. ITardwick nnd some others were charged with being the perpetrators of these crimes, and the people in Fort Scott requested the parties who took the matter in charge to come in, 'get out writs and have them arested.—

This they refused to do. It affordedf too •rood a pretext for themselves to act.— Accordingly, Montgomery got in motion •with from twenty to thirty men.

Thoy plundered and robbed quite a number of rettlers in the vicinity of bort Scott'-vJ^'Rceablc citizens, whom no one had'^&Sp1 "*d with any crimc, whose only offense 1 that they had property to plunder. Atvifs were taken out, placed into the hands of the Deputy Marshall, and the troops went out to act as posse coimtatus. The marauders were discovered on the jtfniric. Thoy attempted to fly, but were too much incumbered with stolon horses niul plunder to escape. Finding that they were likely to he overtaken, they ran into a point of thick timber, which could not he entered only by a ravine, wheeled and fired. Some of the soldiers then fired their revolvers for the first time, then drew off and sent, back for long arms, with which thoy had not, unfortunately, provided themselves. One soldier and two of the robbers wore killed* Before long, arms arrived for the troops the marauders fled, leaving behind them ten or twelve horses and mules, a buggy, a set of surveying instruments, and a good deal of other plundcj, all of which had been stolen from the people in tho neighborhood. They then dispersed and re-assembled near the southern line of Linn County, where they plundered and robbed quite a number of families, taking even their wearing apparel. In one ease they went to a house, but the farmer was absent. After plundering the house, they took the farmer's wife aud daughter, stripped them of all their clothing, formed their party in line and compolled the two women in that condition to walk up and down before them. This, I suppose, is to be regarded as an evidence of the high Btatc of" civilization at which the Fr«o-Stata men of Kansas have arrived.

From Linn County thoy drove away about scventy-fivo families, having first robbed them of everything, many of them boing among the best citizens of the Territory.

Another detachment of troops having been sent after them they dispersed, and again assembled on the Waukarusa. Tlicy there robbed the store of Mr. Wells, and also the post office at "Willow Springs.— Thoy then robbed McKinney, and from thence thoy went to Johnson County, where they robbed five or six families.— Not one of the persons last robbed had ever been engaged in former troubles in this Territory, nor, indeed, had many of the others. Many of them were Free State men, but they fared no better than the Pro-slavery mon._

A WORD TOTJEMOCRATS. "When a whining Republican tells you that oertain Democrats wished to force the Lecompton Constitution and slavery on the peoplo of Kansas, with a vote of only 5,500 in its favor, just ask him if his Republican friends did not endeavor to force the Topcka Constitution on the same people, with only 2,200 votes in favor of that

manifestly illegal swindle? Look him in the eye

while

you thus interrogate the chap,

and then ask him, further, if Dunn's bill, for which every Black Republican in Con gross but one voted, did not establish slavery there, and make all the unborn negroes of slave mothers slaves for life? If the fellow don't take water then, give him up as a reprobate at heart, and go aud vote the Democratic ticket. It would be useless to argue with such an abandoned sinner.—Torre Haute Journal.

JMFAn oldprove'rT saysT" "A coW May and windy,!' Makes a fat barn and findy." -Another proverb Bays: "A hot May m«V«« chnrch~yard.''

According to these rules the coming summer should bo both healthy and fruitful—Cleveland Herald.

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THE GREAT REVIVAL IN AMERICA.

A SERMON,

RECENTLY DELIVERED IN I/JNUON

BT THE 1 E

REV. C. n. SPURGEON.

When the heroes of old prepared fight, they put on their armor but when God prepares for battle, he makes "bear his arm." Man has to look two ways—to his own defense, as well as to the offense of his enemy God hath but one direction in which to cast his eye—the overthrow of his foeman and he disregards all measures of defense, and scorns all armor. He makes bare his arm in the sight of all the people. When men would do their work in earnest, too, they sometimes strip themselves, like that warrior of old, who, when he went to battle with the Turks, would never fight cxcept with the bare arm.— "Such things as they," said he, "I need not fear they have more reason to fear my bare arm than I, their cimiter." Men feel that they arc prepared for a work when thoy have cast away their cumbrous garments. And so the prophet represents the Lord as laying aside for awhile the garments of his dignity, and making bare his arm, that he may do his work in earnest, and accomplish his purpose for tho establishment of his church.

Now, leaving the figure, which is a very great one, I would remind you that its meaning is fully carried out, whenever G^ is pleased to stfnd a great revival of religion. My heart is glad within me this day, for I am the bearer of good tidings. My soul has been made exceedingly full of happiness by the tidings of a great revival of religion throughout the United States. Some hundred years, or more ago, it pleased the Lord to send one of the most marvelous religious awakenings that was ever known the whole of the United States seemed shaken from end to end with enthusiasm for learning the Word of God and now, after the lapse of a century, the like has occurred again. The monetary pressure has at length departed but it has left behind it the wreck of many mighty fortunes. Many men, who were once princes, have become beggars, and in America, more tlian in England, men have learned the instability of alfTHmmn tilings. The minds of men, thus weaned from the earth by terrible and unexpected panic, seem prepared to receive tidings from abetter land, and to turn their exertions in a heavenly direction. You will be told by any one who is conversant with the present state of America, that wherever you go, there arc the most remarkable signs that religion is progressing with majestic stride.

The great revival, as it is now called, has become the common market talk of merchants it is the theme of every newspaper! even the secular press remark it, tor it lias become so astonishing that all ranks and classes of man seem to have been affcctcd by it. Apparently without any case whatever, fear has taken hold of the hearts of men a thrill seems to be shot through every breast at once and it is affirmed by men of good repute, that there arc at this time, towns in New England where you could not, even if you searched, find one solitary unconverted person. So marvelous—£ had almost said so miracu

lous—has

been the sudden and instanta

neous spread of religion throughout the great empire, that it is scarcely possible for us to believe the half of it, even though it should be told us. Now, as you are aware, I have at all times been peculiarly jealous and suspicious of revivals. Whenever I see a man who is called a revivalist, I always set him down for a cipher. I would scorn the taking of such a title as that to myself. If God pleases to make use of a man for the promoting of a revival, well and good but for any man to assume the title and office ot a revivalist, and go about the country, believing that wherever he goes he is the vessel ot mercy appointed to convey a revival of religion, is, I think, au assumption far too arrogant for any mau who has the slightest degree of modesty. And again, there is a large number of revivals, which occur every now and then in our towns, and sometimes in our city, Jwhich I believe to be spurious and worthless. I have heard ot the people crowding in the morning, the afternoon, and the evening, to hear some noted revivalist, and under his preaching some have screamed, and shrieked, have fallen down on tho floor, have rolled themselves in convulsions, and have afterward, when he has set a form for penitents, employing one or two decoy ducks to run out from the rest and make a confession of sin, hundreds have come forward, impressed by that one sermon, and declared that they were, there and then, turned from the error of their ways and it was only last week I saw a record of a certain place, in our own country, giving an account, that on such a day, uudcr the preaching of the Rev. Mr. So-and-sc, seventeen persons were thoroughly sanctified, twenty-eight were convinced of sin, and twenty-nine received the blessing oi jirsti^.cation.— Then comes the next day, so many more the following day, so many moie .md afterward they arc all cast up together, making a grand total of some hundreds, who have been blessed during three services, under the ministry of Mr. So-and-so.— All that I call farce! There may be something very good in-it, but the outside looks to'me to be so rotten, that I should scarcely trust myself to think that the good within comes to any very great amount.' When people go to work to calculate so exactly arithmetic, it always strikes me they have mistaken what they are at. We may easily say that so many were added to the church on a certain occasion but, to take a separate census of the convinced, the justified, and tho santified, is absurd.-— You will, therefore, be surprised at finding me speaking of revival, but you will, perhaps, not be quite so surprised when 1 endeavored to explain what I mean by an earnest and. in tense desire, which I feoV in my heart, that God would be pleased to send throughout this country a revival like that which nas just commenced in America, and which, we trust, will long continue there.

First, then. xnE cause of a true rsvi" VA£. The mere worldly man does not understand a revival he can not make it out.

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Why is it that a sudden fit of godliness, as ho would call it, a kind of sacred epidemic, should sieze upon a mass of people all at once? What can be the causc of it? It frequently occurs in the absence of all great evangelists it can not be traced to any particular means. There have been no special agencies in order to bring it about—no machinery supplied, no societies established and yet it has come, just like a heavenly hurricane, sweeping everything before it. It has rushed across the land, and of it men have said, "The wind blowel where it listeth we hear the sound therof, but we can not tell whence it Cometh or whither it goeth." What is, then, the cause? Our answer is, If a revival be true and real, it is caused by the Holy Spirit, and him alone.

But •yhile this is the only actual cause, yet there are instrumental causes and the main instrumental cause of a great revival must be the bold, faithful, fearless, preaching of the truth as it is in_Jesus. But added to this, there must be the earnest prayers of the church. All in vain, the most indefatigable ministry, unless the church waters the seed sown with her tears. Every revival has been commenced and attended by a large amount of prayer. In the city of New York at the present moment there is not, I believe, one single hour of the day, wherein Christians are not gathered together for prayer. One church opens its doors from five o'clock till six, for prayer another church opens from six to seven, and summons its praying men to offer the sacrifice of supplication. Six o'clock is past, and men are gone to their labor. Another class "find it then convenient—such as those, perhaps, who go to business at eight or nine—and from seven to eight there is another prayer meeting. From eight to nine there is another in another part of the city and what is most marvelous, at high noon, from twelve till to one, in the midst of the city of New York there is held a prayer meeting in a large room, which is crammed to the doors every day, with hundreds standing outside.— This prayer meeting is made up of merchants oi" the city, who can spare a quarter of an hour to go in and say a word of prayer, aud leave again and then afresh company come in to fill up the ranks, so that it is supposed that many hundreds assemble in that one place for prayer during the appointed hour. This is the explanation of the revival. If this were done in London—if we for once would outvie old Rome, who kept her monks in her sanctuaries always at prayer, both by night and by day—if we together could keep up one golden chain of prayer, link after link of holy brotherhood being joined together in supplication, then might we except an abundant outpouring of the Divine Spirit from the Lord our God, The Holy Spirit, as the actual agent—the Word preached, and the prayers of the people, as the instruments—and we have thus explained the cause of a true revival of religion.

But now, WIIAT AT.K THE CONSEQUENCES OF A REVIVAL OF RELIGION? "W ll}r, the consequences are everything that our hearts could desire for the church's good. "When the revival of religion comes into a nation, the minister begins to be warmed. It is said that in America the most sleepy preachers have begun to wake up: they1 have warmed themselves at the general fire, and men who could not preach without notes, and who could not preach with them to any purpose at all, have found it in their I hearts to speak right out, and speak with all their might to the people. AN hen there comes a revival, the minister, all of a sudden, finds that the usual forms and conventionalitics of the pulpit are not exactly suitable to the times. He breaks through one hedge then lie finds himself in an I awkward position, and ho has to break through another. Ho finds himself, per*" haps, on a Sunday morning, though a Doctor of Divinity, actually telling an enccdotc —lowering the dignity of the pulpit hj actually using a smile or metaphor—some times perhaps accidentally making his people smile, and, what is a great sin in these solid theologians, now and then dropping a tear, lie does not exactly know how it is, bnt the people catch up his «words. "I must have something good for them."' ho says. He just burns that old lot of sernions or he puts them under the bed, and gets some new ones, or gets none at all, but just gets his texts, and begins to cry, "Men and brethren, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved."— The old deacons say, "What is the matter ritli our minister?" The old ladies who ..avc heard him for many years, and slept in front of the gallery so regularly, begin to rouse, and say, "I wonder what, has happened to him how can it be? Why, he preaches like a man on fire. The tears ruus over at his eye his soul is full of love for souls."

They

cannot make it out they

have often said ho was dull and dreary and drowsy. How is it all this is changed?— Why, it is the revival. The revival has touched the minister the sun shining so brightly, has melted some of the snow on the mountain-top, and it is running down, iu fertilizing streams, to bless the valleys and the peoplo dowu below are refreshed by the ministrations of the man of God, who has awakened himself up from his sleep, and finds himself, like another Elijah, made strong for forty days of labor. Well, then directly, after that revival begins to touch the people at large. The congregation was once numbered by the empty seats, rather than by the full ones. But on a sudden—the minister does not understand it—he finds the people coming to hear him. He never was popular, never hoped to be. All at onrc he wakes up and finds himself famous, so far as a large congregation can make him so. There are tho people, and how they listen! They are all awake, all in earnest they lean their heads forward, they put their hands to their ears. His voice is feeble they try to help him they are doing anything so that they may hear the Word of Life.— And then the members of the church open their eyes and see the chapel full, aud •they say, "How has this come about?— We ought to pray." A prayer meeting is summoned. There had been five or six in the vestry now there arc five or six hundred, and they turn into the chapel. And oh! how they pray! That old stager, who used to pray for twenty minutes, finds it

now convenient to confine himself to five and ihut good old man, who always used to repeat the same form of prayer when he stood up, and talked about the horses that rushed into battle, and the oil from vessel to vessel, and all that, leaves all these things at home, and just prays, "Oh! Lord,

up making

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save" sinners, for Jesus Christ's sake."—! world. Not even has famous Cannibis InAnd there are sobs and groans heard in the dica, or East India Hemp, which had savpraver meetings. It is evident that not cd bis only daughter from the grave, was one, but all, are praying: the whole mass seems moved to supplication. How is this again? Why, it is just the effect of the revival for when the revival truly comes, the minister, and the congregation, and the church, will receive good by it.

But it does not end here. The members of the church grow more solemn, more serious. Family duties are better attended to the home circle is brought under better culture. Those who could not spare time for family prayer, find that they can do so now those who had'no opportunity for teaching their children, now dare not go a day without doing it for they hear that there are children converted in the Sunday school. There are twice as many in the Sunday school now as there used to be and, what is wonderful, the little children meet together to pray their little hearts arc touched, and many of them show signs of a work of grace begun and fathers and mothers think they must try what they can do for their families if God is blessing little children, why should he not bless theirs

And then, when you see the members of the church going up to tho House of God, you mark with what a steady and sober air they go. Perhaps they talk on the way, but they talk of Jesus and if they whisper together at the gates of the sanctuary, it is no longer idle gossip it is no remark about, "How do you like tho preacher?— What do you think of him? l)id you notice So-and-so?" Oh, no! "I pray the Lord that he might bless the word of his servant, that he might send an unction from on high, that the dying flame may be kindled, and that where there is life, it may be promoted and strcnglitened, and receive fresh vigor." This is their whole conversation.

And then comcs the great result.— There is an inquirer's meeting held the good brother who presides over it is astonished he never saw so many coming in his life before. "Why," says he, "there arc a hundred, iifc listtet, to confess what the Lord has done for thoir souls!— Here are fifty come all at once, to say that under such a sermon they wore brought to a knowledge of the truth. Who hath begotten me these? Tlowhath it come about? How can it be? Is not the Lord a great God that hath wrought such a work as this?" And then the converts who arc thus brought into the church, if the revival continues, are very earnest ones.— You never saw such a people. The outsiders call them fanatics. It. is blessed fanaticism. Others sas they arc are nothing but enthusiasts. It is heavenly enthusiasm. Everything that is done is done with such spirit! If they sing, it is like the crashing thunder if they pray, it is like the swift, sharp flash of lightning, lighting the darkness of the cold-hearted, and them for a moment feel that there

er of God. Oh, that we might see such a revival as this! But., blessed be God, it does not end here. The revival of the church then touches the rest of society. Men who do nof come forward and profess religion, are c- more punctual in attending the means of man living near there, lost his wii'., so grace. Men that used to swear, give it years ago in Homer, N. T. that the\ 1 »y !up: thev find it is not suitable for the times, a little girl which ho gave to a friend

brought to hear the Word, Iler ladyship from that paper in her carriage, who never would have] Abut six weeks ihought of going to so me convcntiolo, does not now she goes so long as she is bicsse 1. 8he nearly two years, at a time when wants to hear the truth and a drayman about to retire, and the door being open, pulls his horse up by the side of her lady- he saw her foot, lie merely glanced at it, ship's pair of grays, and they both go in and happened to notice that the little tor and bend together before the throne of] of the right foot-was/Hissing. Tfe thought sovereign grace. All classes arc affected, nothing of it at the time, but after retiring, Even the Senate feels it the statesman the idea struck him that it might he the himself is surprised at it, and wonders daughter he had searched for so long. At what all these things mean. Even the first he dismissed the thought as improbamonarch on the throne feels she has become ble, but it still forced itself upon him, unthc monarch of a people better than she til finally he requested his wife ^to go to knew before, and that God is doing somc- the room aud ascertain whether there was thing in her realms past all her thought or not, marks of a scald upon her right thata great King is swaying abetter seep- arm. She went, and to his immense deter and exortine a better influence than light reported that the mark was there, even her excellent example. Nor does it] The poor man was so positive of her ideneven end there. Heaven is filled. One tity, that the girl was awakened, and iu

by one the converts die, and heaven gets fuller the harps of heaven arc louder, the songs of angels are inspired with uew melody, for they rejoice to see the f,ons of men prostrate before the throne, The universe is made glad it is God's own summer it is the universal spring. "The time of the singing of birds is come the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. "Oh, that God might send us such a revival of religion as this!

Sacrilege.—The bones of Ethan Allen have been stolen! Perhaps his skeleton even now graces the dissecting room of some surgical vandal. At all events, it is not in the grave. A thorough search to the depth of six of eight feet has been made in all parts of the family lot at Rurlington, Yt., where his tombstone stood and not the sign of human remains can be found.— In consequence of this remarkable discoverv.—or rather, failure to discover the laying of the contemplated monument to his memory has been indefinitely postponed, and there is great excitement in Burlington.

I®"About six thousand ounces of gold dust arc sent to San Francisco weekly from the town of Shasta, Cal

ORAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY," INMAxVA, JUNE 5, 1858. WHOLE NUMBER 826.

HOW WE ARE PHYSICKED, and WHAT WITH. It appears that Dr. James, the "retired physician, whose gauds of life have nearly run out," has retired and run out from the scencs of his labors, leaving behind him a a disconsolate police and an unhealed

able to arrest the mysterious prowess by which.bis shadow grew less and less, until it entirely disappeared. His "sands of life" he has, however, converted into sands of gold, and the..posscssion of $100,000 consoles him for his compulsory flight from the gaycties of New York. The "retired physician" is not the only masquerade in which the departed Brown—his real name —has figured. He was also H. Monsett, who taught people to changc mercury into gold he was Professor James T. Hornc, who advertised that he will show anybody the way to make $1,000 a year, if not more, upon the rcccipt of a certain sum in postage stamps, which, coming duly to hand, the applicants are sent a receipe for the manufacture of artificial honey, and the right to sell it any county which the dupe may select, the two costing $5.— The enterprising Brown is also Madame Julia Melville, who has lately received from France some splendid cosmctics.— These facts have just been brought to light by the New York Police, who are now in eager pursuit of the retired and retiring physician. It appears that there was no Cannibis Indica iu the medicine of Mr. Brown, but merely a compound of licorice, slippery-elm decoction and honey, costing sixteen cents, bottle and all, and for which he charged $2. His "Regulating and Purifying Pill" and "Excelsior Oiutment of India" wore made on the same principle, and sold for as many dollars as they cost him cents. The most magnificent of his cosmetics, "The Milk of Roses and Extract of Elder Blossoms," turns out to have been a mixture of magnesia and alcohol, costing him about eight cents—pricc $2 per bottle. It remains to be seen under what new disguise the "retired physician" will make his next appearance before the public.

TO PHEVKNT CONVULSION1The following curious mode for preventing a convulsions, commonly called "a fit,"

if- given

in the last number of the Charles-

town Medical Journal and Review, in a long article on the Treatment of Epilepsy by Win. M. Cornell, M. D., of Boston: "I have employed various means to ward off an epileptic attack for tho time being. Stretching the muscles powerfully will generally prevent an attack for example, when the aura commences in the great to2, or in the leg, strong traction, or elongating the toe, or stretching the muscles of tho leg, will carry the patient over the threatened attack for the time or, when the patient has premonitory symptoms of an attack, opening the jaws as widely as can be done, and placing some hard substance between the teeth, to keep the mouth open, will have the desired effect. I have had

one patient, who, by my advicc, carried a

piece of iron with him for a year, fitted for

i« somothme- in prayer. When the minis-!tllG Purpose of expanding tno jaws ier m-eaches, lie preaches like a Boanerges, utmost capacity, and keeping them tnus and'when the chureh is gathered together, expanded. AY hen he ha^clt what he calls it is with a hearty good will. When they the "htt.lo spasms," winch have usually give thev crive "with enlarged liberality: iboen the prccurors of the great, ones, or when thev° visit the sick, they do ^c "fitshe has immediately drawn trom it with gentleness, meekness and love.— his pocket the iron wedge, opened his

Everything is done with a single eye to mouth to its utmost width, and placed the

of men, but by the pow-

Men that profaned the Sabbath and despi- left the country. sed God, find that it will not do they give and returned but could find no trace of his

gives himself no further trouble about t.hc convulsions, aud ha,s none."

rioii^Ncr, IN real LII-T. lucyrtss (Ohio) Journal says ibat

it all up. Times get changed morality child. She had two marks by which he:,,,.,^. jf surrounds the main hatchway, prevails the lower ranks are affected.— might know her, one toe was gone, and she jt|t f],c combings of which its floor will

They buy a sermon where they used to buy had a scar on her arm. The man gave her

some penny tract of nonsense. The higher up as lost to him and finally settled nearjj.y Monday. The Agamemno orders are also touched they, too, are Uucyrus and married. The rest wo give

Her ladyship from that paper: (ham, and, li er would have Abut six weeks ago, lie happened to pas?

can a place as a by the room in his house occupied by a -,Tpr,( deck care whether servant girl who had resided with him tor

the middle of the night was questioned as to her origin. She could only tell them that she did not know her parents, that her earliest recollections were that she had lived somewhere in the east with a family named—-— (naming the family she had bceu left with by the woman originally entrusted with her,) and at their death she was taken

ted herself by doing houscwotk since.

This tallied so nearl}- with the already ascertained facts in the case that the next day the father started cast with her, and visiting the different points she had named, ascertained to his great joy, that she was in truth his daughter.

She is extremely beautiful girl, of great natural intelligence, and though totally uneducated, is still interesting.

She is now at Granville, Ohio, receiving an education to fit her for the new station

she

has assumed in life.

I say,

sweeping out Bwcrcd Pat, and leaving the room

that

I am

SOUND DEMOCRATIC VIEWS. The Richmond Enquirer which has agreed with Governor Wise upon the Lc-'Progress

compton measure, takes significant and timely position against the new and coming issue of the revival of the slave trade. Upon that issue the Etvjuirer will be with the Democracy of Illinois. The Enquirer say.?: -f

ham, and, like the

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to pas?

soi

mnin ho

charge of by the overseers of the poor, a about 600 miles, so as to reach the great- of the art of

place provided for her and she had come est depth that will have to be encountered,

to Bucyrus with a family, and had suppor-' and to test the general completeness of

"In Montgomery, "direct trade"' was forgotten "foreign capital" ignored "commercial education and soutliorn literature" never thought of. The "slave trade'' absorbed the entire tune of the Convention, to the distraction of the councils of the South, and the divisions of her unity crimination and recrimination were indulged in by the Southern State, until, as Mr. Scott said, "the Convention had been turned into a political debating club."

What good could possibly result from the discussion of the African slave trade? Suppose the South united to a man, is it possible, without disunion, ever to accomplish the "repeal of those lairs that forbid the slave trade?— and do the advocates of the slave trade imagine that the South would be guilty of the folly of dissolution, to accomplish a measure that would destroy the value of her now largest interests? Then why continue the discussion of a question which can never be accomplished in the Union, .and for the accomplishment of which the South would bo unwilling to dissolve the Union? Why continue to agitate a subject that didvides the South, and distracts the attention of her people from subjects of more importance. "We can see no good, whatever to be accomplished by the continued discussion of this question. Tf the cotton States are determined to revive the slave trade, and thus to destroy the value of slavery in every cotton growing Stale, it- trill demonstrate a selfishness of which wc have believed Southern States incapable. If a dissolution of the Union is to be followed by the revival of the slave trade, Virginia had better consider whether the South or the Northern confederacy would not be far more preferable for her than the North of a Southern confederacy. In the Northern confederacy Virginia, would derive a largo amount from the sale of her slaves to the South, and gain the increased value of her lands from Northern emigration— while in the Southern confederacy, with ihe African slave trade revived, she would lose two-thirds of the value of her slave property, and derive no additional increase tc the value of her lands."

These arc bold and significant words to be uttered by Gov. Wise's organ.

K-i rrc?i'iiiKli ncc of the Loii'loii 'i'imoa. TIIK ATLANTIC TKT, KG A PI f.

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Plymouth, May 1.

All t!i' A ha.s liccn removed from the tanks at Keyham excepting about. 200 miles which are in the course of removal at the rate of about two miles an hour, to the Niagara. Up to nine o'clock this morninir she had received 1,070 miles, vis ward-room coil, 812 hold, 888 lower

(1„pl. no (],!ckj

name(l

thpr(, is on

wi,ecl,

250 miles—the

receive 80 or 40 more the

their j,,ftor jnn]c on deck, 200 miles, and a second deck forward lf»0 miles. The balance of the wire is daily expected from the manufactory by tho Adonis and another steamship. The total length shiped last year was 1,255 miles. This year the Niagara

™ge between his teeth. Tie tnen b«-i0vcrtlic one"in the centre, a horizontal arrangements. The far-sightedness ot this comes quiet, goes about- his business,

lower deck and hold, and finally tho wardand [room. The after deck tank, which is over

lie was gone ten years. 11},0 wardroom, is nearly finished. The

onu

1-"!1*)(,

forward is between the fore and main-

ovo

c,j a

Who has her

,iq from the Adouit coil 288 miles orlop, !)5 hold, 08*2—here there is space

1!1

he was f,ri. o]y additional miles, which will complete her lading to 1,170 miles, about the same quantity as that on the frigate, and, like her, 200 miles more than last year.—

The measurement is by statute miles.— The rigicinrr of the Agamemnon is complete she remains in the tidal basin until the machinerv is on boar'

villc, with the Uuc d'Aumale and several

11 1 1

the 15th of June. At that period there

l^afOolonel Sites is

INTERRESTIISG FROM RUSSIA.

of the Great Reform

Movement.

E1LINC1PATION ADVANCING

EMPEROK RESOLVED IN HIS POLICY. fCorrcsponilenco of the Wanderer of Viennn-l RUSSIAN FRONTIER, April 13, 1858.

Something has been affected, if not much, by the reform agitation in Russia. We hear from St. Petersburg that the minister of justice, in conncction with some of the imperial chancellors, has prepared a project for the alteration of certain branches of the judicial proceedurc, in which the organization and other imperfections of the Russian courts will be abolished and among others, the following provisions will be made: 1. Legal rccords shall be registered iu a book kept for that purpose, so that tho parties interested can satisfy themselves when and whether their documents have received proper attention. 2. in sessions, the judges shall hand in the reports instead of the secrctarios, as has heretoforo been customary. The Minister considered the introduction of law schools as dangerons, however. He says: must not forget that it might bccomc injurious and hurtful to the State to spread a deep knowledge of the law among persons who do not hold officcs under the Government. [From tho OstdoaUchu Post, Vienna. April 2t.]

The social condition of the country will form the gratest obstacle to the Emperors magnanimous efforts for reform. While the immense mass of the people still lack,^ for the most part, tho very elements ot cultivation, the relatively small number ot educated persons are possessed of ideas, the realization of which is only possible on condition, of an organic and general national education. This contrast is melancholy and injurious. In the broad and deep abyss that separates the ignorance ot the mass from the ovcrculture of the better class, many of tho most splendid plans of the Emperor will doubtless bo lost. This condition of affairs is a wretched heirloom of the ancicnt system, which cultivated foreign manners, like hothouse plants, in the higher circles, but ontircly neglected the education of the people. The greatmatter of the emancipation of the serfs progresses but slowly.

It is necessary that the Emperar should have a philosophical paticnco in order to endure the passive resistance which the work of philanthropy and political wisdom every where encounters. 'The noble docs not indeed dare openly and directly to oppose the Emperor, but he manages with very little dissimulation to protract the affair, aud endeavors with a mass of the most opposite plans and propositions to draw it to its own destruction, and unfor-i tunatoly he is powerfully aided in this by tho preps, whioh in ovorywliore busy ill bringing Utopian theories to li^ht. The nobility of the Government of Kiev have lately declared very decidedly in favor of the emancipation. Rut with that declaration has appeared a proposition which, if it gain favor with the other committees of the noble*, will open the way for anew difficulty. The nobles of Kiev start with the verry correct theory that the emancipation of the serfs pro-suppose a judicious organization of the rural police.

They desire accordingly, that this reform be completed before' the emancipation, and propose that the nobles, and not-'

the after tank the Government, as heretofore, shall choose-'

iis fitted, right jnnd consolidate the police and judiciary.

with spindle fore and aft remarkable proposition is evident.

flanged wheel, with spindle fore and aft rcmarKame propusn..un The from this wheel the wire runs once round noble wishes to rcccompense himsclt lor. a vortical revolving barrel, and is then what he will lose by the emancipation, by? guided by a horizontal roller to the paying-1 getting the real jurisdiction and police ing-out machinery over the stern. This coil will he discharged first and will be some followed by tiie main deck coil then the

••xpeeted to be ready imemnon has rcceiv-

this tank is expeetci

]i her portion of tho wir

into his own hands. The Emperor has not disapproved of this proposition, but lie has certainly not accepted it. I('orrcMoiuli :.cc of the Aug^hisr^ AliK"ii"mio 7.-\

A lirf •jr-1

POI.ISII FRONTIER,

April

It appears more clearly every day, thafft the Russian Emperor is in earnest with his reforms, and that the difficulties that were iu his way, and the obstacles created .. by the adherents of the undent regime, trom only increase his zeal and his energy. Not Niagara, is expecting

Qnly officia]s of

other members of the cx-royal family of ,..pacjty

from London, received by the Niagara,

progress

J|MJ 1 itllvl 4.4V Uivil V4V»t»Ml •744V "ill ».1V VV»».v V. I

certjfic.,fef,

the machinery. The final starting of tho j,

expedition it is hoped, will take: place

about the 10th of June, in order that thc

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the high-st rank, hut also

those in inferior spheres, are dismissed iru masses, or pensioned, if they arc not favorable to the innovations the latter, especially, is the fate of the aged public servants, who, it is true, always receive tokens of the Imperial grace and respectable pen-

.-iioni-. •••''.• To the younger officials this peaceful^ revolution is highly agreeable, tor not a

uu ....... „SC3 bat long lists of them are prowhen she

Jno

tod to high offices and higher grades of

be tugged intu ifamoaze (o receive At th^ same time, tho former usag«? fuel. of selecting military men aud members of: His Royal Highness the Princc de Join-,

ar5f4t0crac

fur preferment is wholly

j_mn(|onc,j_ Whoever is remarkable f"r

France, visited Keyham on .Thursday, lor: oxcedingly remarkable is that the the purpose of inspecting the embarkation

RuH

activity is rapidly advanced.

,ian

ncw

^)apcr9

of the Atlantic telcgiapli. without restraint of the ailininistrati ve sys""a r-" .. tcm pursued under the late Emperor, and. A a E A A

arc

allowed to speak

says of. the progress of the Ocean Tele- coine weary in his efforts, and will carry through the great work in

graph: -r "It appears that, in the course of about a fortnight or three weeks, an experiment will be made by running the cable out from the coast of Ireland, a distance ofinounoeri

lo Cf

will, in those Latitudes, be only about four \K-A-York Mav 8 185s. hours of night and as a full moon will *i lend her aid! there will absolutely be ^. Prectyman In, full ht,-rt} interval of darkness throughout the entir^ operations."

now

prosecuting his

work on the wagon road through the Tcr-! j^riuT

Pat, what are you about—jritory, and expects to complete this sea-, Simi-kins. Newark, X. rru„ /r'„l^^,.-,l firm." n. rrood ivorlf .' ,m JBSfWhy is a cigar like a patent me ne1 Bccau^e it is no go un'il puff ....

room?" "No" an-1 son. The Colonel is doing a good work, sweeping out the dirt and deserves the commendation of his fclti." j^ov--citizen« of Nebraska

y)C jIOped that the monarch will not bc-

of all hindrances.

that h' 'pit.

Wife Tamkr.—The "Boston Gazette an Mr. I'aul I'rettvman as a teacher

11"

wite-tammg.

ai the low pric:

$f,o per lesson. Here arc mjuio of his

.r.|fv that Paul I'rettvman

ha 8

.subduing my wife.' He

hor when in

mid-point of the Atlantic, between-lew- in one hour she was cooking a found land and Ireland, may be reached on

jlf.r most restless rondi-

ffith the

iacijitv

of an ange

_. j. ilc,i:\hr.

refer

to me. flisari I consider the great desidieratmn of married life. He quieted Mrs.

Siinpkins, who was always ugly in double harness, and accomplished wonders. Not a shirt button has bceu missing sincc the