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'WE ASS FOB NOTHINO BUT WHAT IS RIOIIT, AND WILL SUBMIT TO NOTHING THAT IS WRONO." 0. Jackson. VOL IXill.-NO 10. BROOKVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1655. WHOLE NUMBER 1151.

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FiMlUH. rrprlttor. 0t 17 43 14 Wnttaa for tht In4lank AratrUaa, Modern Prophecy, or JXS8IK clink. A Ute number of tho Sirilutt Til trraph contain! n commutiicatioa with the BtArtlinj caption " Atoundinj rrcJictions"RvcUtion from tho Spirit WorU!" It ia from a man who profeisfs to hare been possessed bjr the spirit of Napoleon Uonaparte, under whose Influence he was "impressed" to utter the folio irlng predictions: "Ere three months hare passed, dating from this hour, ( Wcdnccdny evenlog, Nov. 29,) the assassination of a crowned head will astonish and bewilder tho magnates of Eui opo, and oyer turn an empire. In another quarter a traitor to his king, but a loyal man to bis God and to his fellows, will turn his iword against his master, and raise the banner of tho peoplo. This will occur somctimo after the first event 1 spoken of." . . . At another limo the I spirit of Napoleon said, "There is trouble brewing between Nicholas and ! JJenschikoft Nicholas will soon see that there is more thanono mind in Russia." Another spirit, through an other caedium, confirmed those predictions, saying that tho Russian general will certainly turn his army gabst the Emperor, and raiso tho banner of liberty, "between the first of February and thjO last of March." This last prophesying spirit claims to bo a Mo ravian minister, who died thirty years ago. What are these pretended communi cations worth? the medium himself, though exhorted, as he says, by the spirit of his father, to Yield himself i passively to the spirit of Napoleon, ' ays: "As for the predictions, I neither adopt them, nor can I say I have much faith in their fulfillment. I spoke as I was impressed to speak. After falling from my lips, they are no longer my property. If, bowercr, theso declarations are untruthful, one of three things will be proved: either that I am an unrcliablo medium; or, that a dishonest spirit moved me; or, my own mind is under tho influence, at times, of somo mysterious power, of which I have no conscious knowledge. In either case, I shall hold to the opinion, that tho eaitb will still revolvo on its axis, as usual." It it not amazing that rational beings will run after theso abominable delusions? The very best that can be said of them, is tha the revelations from the spirit-world ac perfectly uncertain. T ho pretended medium, himself, has no confidence in his revelations. He confessedly does not know whether he is a rcliablo medium; whether a truthful or a lying spirit possessed him; whether it was a spirit at all, or "some mysterious power;" and, ho might have added, whether, if he was impressed by a truthful spirit, its predictions may cot be uncertain opinions. What are such revelations worth? Would any tensiblo man act unon them aa matters of importance? Vet men and women will throw awaytheir Bible, and risk their eternal interests upon such trash. riUtftlJ, Mast. DisTnustso Scicxdi. Tho Kaston (ra.) Argus says : Mrs. Samuel Grotx. of this Bo rough, wa found dead in the attic of her late residence on Tuesday last, with evidence of clf-destruction. Wuich xs Right ? : Most people that wo meet with, call The scat of war SebattoDol : But that's not right, say some pe-cple, You should pronounce it Scbastoplc,

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THE WATERS OP II AR AH. BT B. IVAN IDWARD. " Want I W4Ttu I " want forth tht waltlof arj Wt 4tt wtdlt. Parcbtil U Ut daaart, tarraa U Iba plain, W'alok la rala Pot moralof daw, or tbt awaal mnar rain; KbltMt4 cloud lotU t'tr Ibt torrid aky, Aad 'aaalh tu braiaa arch In luUary wt dtt.' Thoa aaarniarad laraal't boat, but toon A iboat tat forth; btoaalh ibt Oory boob OU loud cool tad beautiful, k cbriital iprlng Olaaaad Ilka an angal'a log That limpid wava; Tht murmarlnf boat fall down and bomaj va Unto tht powar omnlpolant to aart, Than raahad with aagar baiu, Aad burning- ll,t,to Uitt That brimming cup of Joy, amid lhadoaert watlt. Anolhcr lorrowlng wall waut npon high, Tht boat fell to tha aarth "O, Matter why Haft wt gont forth from Kfyit'e land to dfo? Tht bltur watf ri mock our rglng thirat; Tbt founula of tha daaart 1 1 aff urod, And atlll wa 4la." Tbt Lord wac itroog to tart. Ilia prophet cast a palm lalo tha war, And lot tht biliar alera at bla faal Wert rippling pu rt and meet. Than laraol roae to Mete Tbt power that eaved tbam In the wlldornaae. An angol guarded band Wall nay youraonga aacand, Unto that Father, frland, Who de re J IIb you o'er tho demrt land, And kept yoa la the hollow of Ilia hand. Art vB not wtnc'ereri through a wIMerncaaT I not that came power over Ui to bleu? Boo be not lad ua with a gnntle hand, Toward tha confliie of a better land, llavt wa not full a burning drouth Borne by bolbrreiee from Uiejoylaii eouthT Have we not ofuimaa pauied npon the brink Of MaretTa bitter fount, and ilooped to drink; Kaa while Uie healing palm wa banding litgh? Wt fblnt with Iblrtt, and lot before onr eight. Cleam, at through treei and bowon of detlglil, Wave clear and bright Ah,blttarly we tarn away Ah, wot betide tht day, WbtB to the barren wlldernoae wt came Tt ahrtnk and wither 'aeath that orb of flame, To look with longing eyee unto tht braien iky, To muriner and to die. But lot a tret of llfoti growing nigh It ladolc verdu re droop abort tht wart. That healing palm Can make each bitter drop a airing balro. There mercy walle to lave. Tbt bitter Witten rippling at her feel Crow pure and meet! Fall down, Immortal pralao and bleu TbeUod that guide llioi through the wildern!; To lilnt thy heartfelt mng of triumph girt, And drlLk,and lire. l.uUir$' Ttmptrant H'rtith. CONFLICT OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN THEORIES OF MAN AND SOCIETY DT llCSUr WARD IlEEClIFlt. ll I. Closely connected with this, and springing from tho bitmo caucm, is a contrast between the North and tho South, in respect to frco epeech and open discussion by lip und by tyre. Tho theory of tho North ii. that cv ery man has the right, on every subjeet, to t opinions, tho frcct cxp.rasiot of his oninions. ana t'io lu est ri?nt to ure them unon tho convictions of others. It is not n permission of law; itis the inhere U right of tho individual. Law ia only to protect the citizen in the use of that right. It is the history of tho North that society is as much a gainer by the freedom of discission as is tho individual. It is a perpetual education of the people, and a safeguard to tho State. There is'.tbo utmost latitude of speech and discussion among our citizen. Tho attempt to abridge it would bo so infatuated that tho most dignified Court that ever sat in Boston would become nn obiect of univsrsa! racrrimcnt and ridicule, that should presume to arrest and cause to bo indicu d any man for free speaking in old Fancuil Hall. Merriment, I say, for who wo'ld not laugh at a philosopher who should set snares for tho stars, and fix his net to catch tho sun, and regulato their indiscrcto shining. Darkness and iUence aro excellent for knaves and tyrants; but the attempt to command tho one or tho other in tho North, changes tho knave to an imbecile and tho tyrant to a fool. But, should cny power, against the precedents of the pnst, tho spirit of our people, the theory of our civil polity and the rights of individual man succeed, and make headway against free speech, and put it in jeopardy, it would convulse tho very framo work of society. There would bo no time for a revolution there would bo an eruption, and fragmentary Judges, wouris anu tneir minions wouia uy upward athwart tho sky, liko stones and balls of flume driven from tho vomit ing crater of a furious volcano! No. This is a right liko tho right of breathing. This i it liberty tht broods upon us like tho atmosphere. Tho great American doctrine- that men may speak what they think, and may print what they speakthat all public rucnsuics shall hare free publio di-cussion--cannot bo shaken; and any party must bo intensly American that can afford to destroy the very foundation American principle that public questions shall be publicly discussed, and public procedure bo publicly agreed upon. Right always gains in the light, and Wrong in tho dark. An owl can easily whip nn eagle in the night! The South, holding a heathen theory 1 man an aristocratic theory of society is bound to hold, and docs hold, a radically opposito practice in respect to rights of speech and frcodorn of tho press. lhcreisnot freedom of opinion in the South, and there cannot be. Men my talk of a thousand tbings.

of all religious doctrines, of literature, of art, of publio political measu.es but no man has liberty to talk

as he pleases about the structure of southern society, and apply to the call facts of southern life and southern internal questions that searching investigation rrd public exposure which, in tho North, brings ery possible question lo the bar of publio opinion, and makes society boil like a pot. Yes, you may speak of Slavery, if you will de lend it; you may preach about it, if you shingle its roof with Scripture texts; but you may not talk nor preach, nor print abolition doctrine, though you believe then with the intensity of in'piittioni Tho reason given is, that it will stir up insurrection. And so it will. Itis said that free speech is intlamatory bo it is. 1 hat it would bring every man's life in the South into jeopardy; thrt, In self-defense, thy must limit a id regulate the exprcation of opinion. But what is that theory of Government, and what ia that state of society under it, in which free speech and frco discussion are dangerous? It is the boast of the North, not alono that speech and d'ueussion aro fice, but that we have a society constructed in every part so raicly, wisely, and iustly that they can endure free speech; no file can part, but only polish. We turn ou. any law, and say, discuss it! that it way bo the stronger! Wo challenge scrutiny for our industry, for our commerce, for our social customs, foi our municipal affairs, for our State qveslions. fo nil that wo believe, and all tha. wo do, and everything that we Luild. We arc not in haste to bo born in respect to any fcaturo of life. We say-probe it, question it, put fire to it. Wo ask the experience of the past to sit and try it. Vc ask the ripest wi-dora of the present to test and aralrzM it. We ask enemies to plead al! the know against it. We challenge the whole world of ideas, and tho great deep of human interests to come up upon anything that belongs, oris to belong, to public affairs. And then, when a truth, a pol'ey, or a procedure comes to birth, irom out tho womb of such discussion, wo know that it will stard. Ard when our wholo publio interests ao rounded out and built up, wo are glad to seo men going around rnd about, marking well our towers, and counting our bulwarks. May it do them good to seo such architecture and engineering! And it is just this difference that distinguishes the North and the South. We have institutions that will stand Eublio and private discussioa they itvo not. Wo will not havo n law, or custom, or economy, which cannot bo defended against the frccnt inquiry. Such a rule would cut them luvet as a trowed meadowl They livo in a crater, forcvv dreading the signs of activity. They liro in a powder magazine. No wonder they Fear light and fire. It is tho plea of Wrong sinco the world bcLan. Discussion would unseat the Czar; a free press would dcthro.io tho ignobto Napoleon; frco specc'i would roolutioruzo Rome. I'rocdom of thought and ftvedoni of cxp.'esb'o.il ther are mighty champions, that go with unshielded swords the wOiid over, to redress tho wcat, to right the wronged, to pull down evil and build up good. And a Stato that will bo damaged by freo speech ought to bo damaged. A King that cannot keep his scatbeforo frco speech ought to bo urseated. An order or an institution that dreads freedom of the press has reason to dread it. If the South would bo revolutionized by ftco discussion, how intensly does that fact show her dying need of revolution! Shn ii a dungeon, full of damps and death-air. Sue needs light and ven tilation. And the only objection js, that if there Jwcre light and air let in, it would no longer be a dungeon." IV . There is a noticeable contrast between Northern and Southern ideas of Religion. We believe (lod s revealed word to contain tho inflaonco appointed for the regeneration and full ucvelopcmcnt or every human being, and that it is to bo employed as Ood's universal stim ulant to tho human soul, as air nna light are the universal stimulants of vegetation. Wo preach it to arouse the whole soul; wo preach it to fire the intellect, and givo it wings b? which to compass knowledge; wo preach it to touch every feeling with refinement, to soften rudeness and enrich, affections ; we build the family .with it; wc sanctify love, and purgo out lust; wo polish every relation of life; we inspire a cheerful industry and whet the edge of enterprise, and then limit them by the bonus of justice and by the moderation of a htiih which looks into the future and tho eternal. We teach each man that ho is a child of God, that ho is personally one for whom tho Savior died; wo teach him that ho is known and spoken of in Heaven, his name called; thatnngels are sent out upon his path to guard and to educate him; wo swell within him tho uttermost every aspiration, catching thctirst flame of youth and feeding it, until the wholo heart glows like an altar, und tho soul is a temple bright within, and sweet, by tho incensu-sinoko and aspiring flume of perpetual offerings and divino sacrifices. Wo havo never dono with him. We lead him from the cra dle- to boyhood; we take him then into manhood, and guido hiru through all its passes; we console- him in age, and then stand, as ho dies, to prophesy tho coming heaven, until tho fading eye flashes again, and tho unhearing car is full again; for from the other sido ministers or grace arc coming, and he be holds them, and sounds on earth and sights are uot so much lost as swallowed up in the glory and the meledy of the heavenly joy 1 Now tell mo whether there is any

preaching of the gospel to the slave, or whether there can bo, nnd ho yet remain a slave? We preach the gospel to arouse men, they to subdue them; we to awaken, they to soothe; we to inspire self-reliance, they submission; we to drive them forward ,in growth, they to repress and pruno down growth; vie to convert them into men, they to make them content to the beasts of burden! Is this all that tho gospel has? When credulous ministers assure us that slaves have tho means of grace, do they mean that they havo such teaching as ve have? Or that there is any such ideal in preaching? The power of religion with us is employed to set men on their feet; to make them fertile, self-sustaining, noble virtuous, strong, und to build up society of i-en, each one of whom is large, strong capacious of room, and filled with versatile powers. Religion with them docs no such thing. It doth tho reverse. V ith thent it is Herod casting men into prison. With us it is the angtl, appearing lo lend them out of prison and set thcra free! In short, religion with us is emancipation and liberty; with them it is bondage and contentment. It is vcrjr plain that while nominally republican institutions exist in both the North and the South, they arc estimated by a very different spirit, and used for a diff-rent purpose. In the North, they aim nt the welfare of the wholo people; in the South they aro tho instruments bv which a few control tho many. In tho North, they tend toward Democracy; in tho South, toward Oligarchy. It is equally plain that while there may be a union between Northern and Southern States, it is external, or commercial, nnd not internal and vitr.1, springing from common ideas, common ends, and common sympathies. It is a union of merchants and politicians, And not of the people Had theso opposite and discordant systems been left sepcrato to work out each its own results, there would have been but little- danger of collision or contest. But they aro politically united. They come together into one Congress. Thcro these antagonistic principles which creep with subtle influence thro' the very veins of their respective States, break out Into open collision upon eycry question of national police. And, since tho world began, a republican spirit is unfit to necuro power. It generates it in tho many. But an aristocratic spirit nlways has aplitudo and impulse- toward power. It seeks and grasps it a naturally as a hungry lion prowls and grusps its prey, Foi' fifty years tho imperious npirit of tho South has sought und gained power. It would 3i..vo been of but little consequence were that power still republican. Tho sent of empire may be indifferently on the Massachusetts Bay or on tho Ohio, on tho lakes

or on tho Gulf, if it bo the samo empire, acting in good fr.'th for tho same democratic end. But in the South tho growth of pow er has been accompanied by a marked rcvoiuvion in pouuciu limn, until DOW the theory of Mr. Calhoun, once scout ed, is becoming tho popular belief. And that theory di tiers in nothing from outright European Aristocracy, save in the forms nnd instrumenta by Iii. which it works. 'Yts ifriiifirln Irion boftvrn Yia North and the South is not ono of sec tions, and of parties, but of principles of principles lying at tho foundations of governments of principles mat cannot coaicncc, nor corupromiso; that must hato each other, und contend, until the one shall drive out the other. ' Oh! how little do men dream of the things Unit nie transpiring above them! In Lulhar's days, how little they knew tho magnitude of the results pending , that controversy I of fractions monk and haughty Tope! How littlo didi the frivolous couaicr know tho vastnes' of that sirugglo in which Hampden, i Milton and Cromwell acted! We are1 in just buch another en. Dates will! begin from tho period in which we live i I Do not think that all the danger lies in that bolted cloud which flashes in1 tho SoulLern horizon. There is decay and change hero in tho Noith. Old New England, that suckled Amejican liberty, is now suckling wolves to devour it. What shall we think when u Rrcsi- i dent of Dartmouth College goes over to Slavery, nnd publishes to the world ' his religious conviction of the right- j fulness of it, as a p irt of God's disci-. plin.iry government of the world wholesome lo man, as a punishment) of sins which he never committed, und : to liquidate tho long arrearages of Ham's everlasting debt! and avowing that, under favorablo circumstances he would buy and own slaves! A South ern volcano in New Hampshire, pour- . a . I. a a ea . . . ing ioriu me lava ot despotism m that incorrupt and noblo old fortress of liberty. What a College to educate our futuro legislators! What are we to think, when old Massachusetts, the mother of tho Revolution, every league of whose soil swells with tho tomb of somo heroic patriot, shall make pilgrimages thro the South, and after surveying the lot of slaves under a system that turns them out of manhood, pronounces thcra chattels, denies them marriage, makes their education a penal and penitentiary offense, makes no provision for their religious culture leaving it to the stealth of good men, or the interest of those who regard religion as a currycomb, useful in making sleek and nimble beasts u system which strikes through the fundamental instincts of humnnit, and wounds nature in the J core of the human heart, by taking

from parents all right in their children and leaving the family, liko a bale of goods, to be unpacked aad parcelled out and sold in pieces, without any other protection than the gensral good nature of easy citizens; what shall bo thought of tho condition of the public mind in Boston, when one of her roost revered, and personally, deservedly beloved pastors, has come up so profoundly ignoreut of what ve tho't every child knew, that he comes home from this pilgrimage, to teach old New England to check her repugnance to

slavery.ttodry up her tears of sympamy, and to take comrort in me ssiuranco that Slavery, on the whole, is as good or better forthreo millions of laboring men as liberty, He has instituted a formal comparison between tho state of society and the condition of a laboring population in a slave system and those in a free State, and left the impression on every page that Liberty works no better results than servitude, and that it has mischiefs and inconvcniencei which Slavery altogether avoids. Read that book in Faneuil Hall, and a thousand aroused and indignant ghosts would come flocking there, as if they heard the old roll-call of Bunker Hill. Yes, read those doctrines on Bur'ter Hill and would it flame or quake? No. It would stand in silent majesty, pointing its granite finger up to Heaven and to God an everlasting witness against all slavery, and all its abettors or defenders! At this moment, the former parties that have stood in counterpoise havo fallen to pieces. And we are on the eve, and in tho very act, of reconstructing our parties. Ono movement there is that calls itself American. Oh, that it were or thonld be! Never was an opening so auspicious for a truo American party that, embracing the principles of American insti tutions, should enter our Temple of Liberty and drive out thenco not merely tho interloping Gentiles, but the money-changers, and those, also, who sell oxen, and cattle and slaves thciin. , It is not the question whether a Northern party should bo a party of pnuaninropy, or oi prnpaganuism, or of abolition. It is simply a question whether, for fear of those things, they will ignore and rub out of their creed every principlo of human rights! I am not afraid of foreigners among us. Nevertheless, our politicians have so abrtscd us through them, that I am glad that a movement is on foot to regulato tho conduct of new-comers among us, and obligo them to pass through a longer probation before they become citizens. In so far as I understand tho practical measures proposed and set forth in tho Mcssago of tho Governor of Massachusetts,! approvo them. But I ank you, fellow-citizens, whether the kimplo accident of birth is abasis broad enough for n permanent National party? Is it a principle, even? It is a mere fact. Ought we not to look a little ut what a man is after ho is bom, nn well as at tho pluee where? Khpecially.when wo remember that Arnold waa born in Conneticut and Ln Fayctto in France. If then, a party is Amcrican.cught it not to bo because- it represents those principles which aie fundamental to American Institutions and to American policy? principles which stand in contrast with European Institutions and policy? Which of theso two theories is the American? Tho North has ono theory, the South unothcr, which of them in to be called the American idea? Which is American Northern ideas or Southern ideas? that which declares all men free, See, orthat which declares the superior races free, and tho inferior Slaves? That which declares the right of every man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness or that which declares tho right of strength and intelligence to subordinate weakness) and ignorance?' . That which ordains popular education, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, public discussion or that which makes theso a pierogative, yielded to a class but denied to masses? That which organizes Society as a Democracy and Government and Republicor that which organizes Society as an Aristocracy, and Government 9 an Oligarchy? Wl.ich'shall it be that of organized New-England townships, schools, and churches that resisted taxation without representation that covered Boston harbor with ten, ns if all China had shook down her leaves there which spake from Fancuil Hall, i nd echoed from Bunker Hill, or that f policy which landed slaves on tho Chesapeake that has changed Old Viginin from a land of heroes into & breedingground of slaves? If you rear up an empty name; if you take that revered name American all the world over radiant and revered, ns the symbol of human rights and human happiness ifyou sequester and stuff that namo with tho effete doctrinea of despotism, do you believe you supplicate from any gods tho boon of immortality for such nn unbaptized monster? No. It may live to lavage our heritage, for n few days, but there is a spirit of liberty that lives among us, and that shall live. And aroused by that "pint, there shall spring up the yet unaroused hosts of man that havo not bowed tho knee to Baal and we will war it to the knife, and knife to tho hilt. For, it shall be, America shall bo free. We will tuke that for our life's enterprise. Dying we will leave it a legacy to our children.nnd they shall will it to theirs, until tho work is done, our

fathers' prayers are answered, and this whole land stands clothed and in ill right mind a symbol of what the earthly fruits of the Gospel are. ( If a National party is now to be for med, what shall it be, and what shall its office be? It shall be a peacemaker, say sly politicians. Yes, peace by war. But an American party, kecking peace with imperious Aristocracy by yielding everything doTrn to tho rootone would think no partynecd be formed to do that. Judas did as much without company. Arnold did that without rrifr. rtnrtinna.

An American National party must either be a piebald and patched-up parly, carrjingin its entrails the mortal poison of two belligerent schemes, former legendary disputes, and agitation, and furious conflict; or, to be a real national party, it must first be a Northern party and become national. Ve must walk again over the course of history. Hero in tho North Liberty began. Its roots are with us yet. All its associatioas and all its potent institutions are with us. Having once given forth thli spirit of liberty, now fading out of our Southeru States, the North should again come forth and refill the poisoned vcinsthatharo been drinking hemlock of Despotism with the new blood of Liberal Lctusgive sap to the tree of Liberty, that it may uot wither and diel When Hercileswas born, but yet a child, the jealous Jano sent two errents to his cradle to dertroy him. Icrculcsortheicrpcnti must die. Both cold noi lie in the same bed. Ho seized thcra anu suffocated them by his grin. Whilo hii poor brother, Iphiclus, filled the house with his shrieks. An infernal Juno, envious of the destined grcaincss of this country, hath sent this sei jcnt upon it! What hall wedo? Shall wo imitate lle.-cu'eb orlpMclus? Shall we choke it; or shall we form a timid National party, and shriek. Gcntlciacn, you will never have rest from this subject until there is a victory of principles. Northern ideas m ist become American, or oouvucm ideas must becomo American, before there will be peace. If the North gives to tho Nationher radical principles of human rights and dcraoc.atio Governments, there will be the peace of an immeasurable prosperity. If tho South shall give to the country a policy derived from her heathen notions of men, there will bo buch a pcaco as men have ovcrdrugged with opium, that deep lethargy just beforo the mortal convulsions and death! All attempts at evasion, at adjourning, at concealing are in vain. The icason of our long agitation is, not that restless Abolitionists aro abroad, that ministers will meddle wih improper themes, that nartics are disregardful of the country's interest. Theso are symptons only, not mo uiscasc, mo eirecta, not tho ecus is. Twn rrr-at nut. or s that will not live . . 1 V m mtl. I n m. Mlil.l ATll IlliVfrmt at each other's throats. They will search each other out, though you separate them a hundred times. And if by an insane blindness you. shall contrive to put off the issue; and send this unsettled dispute uown to your, children, it will tro down Catherine volumo and strength at every strp, to waste anu acsoiaie tneir iicrnnge. Let it bo settled now. Clear tho place. Itrinif in tli a chamnions. Let them put their lances in rest for the charge. Sound tho trumpet, and Goi save tho JUgÜU isctlhiif ons. From tho Liberty Herald. KANSAS. No. 3. As you go westward from the Iowa Mission, tho lands ore somo richer, more level and better timbered. Trav eling southward, we passed over a region of rolling prairie, some of it of n lino quality, till six miles from the Mission we camo to the timbers of Wolf River. This stream is small nnd narrow, with high banks full of stone. It has wide bottoms of rich, alluvial soil, and, for that country, is well timbered. Hero began tho claims with all the peculiar ensignia of that "squatter land" a blaze on a tree, a stake, a stack of prairie hay, a tent, a pile of logs, or a small cabin, not higher than your head, 10 or 12 feet square, and a pieco of carpet or a spread flapping in tho wind to show tho place of entrance. From tome of these door-hangings there were unmistakablo evidences that tho littlo man was cheered with the presence of tho softer sex. Many of these huts wcro unfinished, some vacated for tho winter; but where inhabited, the citisens seemed always in fino spirits, and looking forward to better times. Often wcro wo amused with their wit nnd merry glee. On one occasion, seeing so no littlo urchins climbing up the Togs and creeping in through nn orifice somo three feet square, we were led by cariosity to take a peep into the premises. It proved to bo a tea party! There sat, smilingly ensconced, on a rick of prairie hay, th reo ladies, Uomcn and some half-dozen children. "Mam" had. come, and they had invited a neighbor in to sec -her. They laughed heartily when the told us to 'corao in." Ascending a long slope wo came again to the high lands, and wended! our way to the mouth of Independence Creek, 22 miles f.om tho Mission. We passed numc.ous spots of 5ood land, small groves and bold lite streams. Twice wo encountered the pralrio fires, but without injuay. At the mouth of this creek wo found a trading station, with a crowd of Kickapoos trading, and a large farm. The bottom lands hero Are evidently too wet and epongy, though very rich

and the creek is studded with heavy barr oak and walnut timber. We found this creek deep, covering onr boggy, and the banks very steep; but the bottom was good ad we got over with merely a little wetting. We then followed a trail about seven miles over another high ridge of laud, and suddenly came down some lime after dark upon Atchison City. While on the bight wo had the pleasure of witnessing a nrnirio in tho distance, on fire at night, And well would we have found ourselves repaid for the toil and lonely tedium of a night trip in that strange and unsettled land, had we not been somewhat apprehensive of peering into its jralitics ere wo reached our destination. On tlx distant background, almost appallingly dark, were penciled out in the broad

and boundless lines, the lurid gl uro of the fire, while through tho murky smoke the rising halo loomed to the very heavens. The intervening ridges were nil lighted up, and every grove stood out in full tiew. Even tho rocks were quite visible. Atchison City is ono in embryo, laid out by a company, in a heavilytimbered bottom, and on the most western point of tho Missouri River, and atone of its most important crossings. Itis backed by nn amphitheater of bold projecting points, and has the advantage of a great abundance of stone of an excellent quality. A clear littlo rivulet, emptying just below intottho Missouri, almost surrounds it.' There was n sale of lots a few days beforo we arrived, the Iota selling for from 00$ to 3003 each. It has one log storc-houso completed, and two frame dwellings building. The surrounding country though mostly piaii-ie, is good. There we had the luxury of spending a cool fros ty night in a shanty, amid a host of laborers. I he proprietor and family seemed very civil and kind; but the store was crowded all night with gamblers and ruffians from tho other side of the river. This is ono of tho hotbeds of pro-Slavcryism. Leaving Atchison, wo passed over much of the samo kind of country as beforo, with the exception that froauentlv wo found oursplvna audilcnlv on u high bluff bank, rising almost perpendicularly from the water' edge to llio hight of two hundred feet or more, and commanding a fine view of the river many miles up and down. We passed some rich alluvial bottoms, somo pieces of land will timbered, and some portions of upland praire exceedingly rich and beautiful. This was particularly tho case where wo struck the California road, 12 miles from Ft. Leavenworth, and continuing on to the Santa Fe road. This is tho great highway between Ft. Leavenworth and Santa Fe, by way of Ft. Riley, and is wide, deeply worn and good. Wo took this road seven miles from tho fort, nnd directed our courso westward, up Kansas River, and wcro corstantly pnssing heavy government trains wiln largo mulo teams; also movers and traders in abundance. The sides of the road tho whole distance we traveled, were often lined with the bones nnd skeletons of oxen that had perished in their travels. This being Saturday, wo halted about 3 o'clock at the bouso of a trader on Strange river. Ho had rn Indian store, a largo farm, 250 yoke of oxen and a largo number of wagons, which he kept for conveying government stores to Ft. Riley, New Mexico, dee., and had a large number of men in his employ. He had had the good fortuno of gaining a residence among the Indians by marrying a Kickapoo wife. When we reached there he was absent, drawing his wife's annuity 70S. Tho land along this stream is really good and p.etty well timbered. Thcro is a coal mine near. On Sabbath morning, hearing that a Methodist brother was to preach somo five or six miles off, we started out in quest of the appointment, but after several hours of vain search, we returned to head quartern, and at the request of tho family and several of the young men, prcacueu in mo evening to a good nudienco of settlers, traders and Indians. Many of the traders had not heard n sermon for ten oi twelve yars. At night a largo train of gov ruuj'.nt wagons arrived, and you uiiL'ht have imagined yourself in the miast of a military encampment. Indians by the score, with their tents, fires, squaws, and pappooses, gathered for trading, tho government teamsters, with their host of mules, nnd abovo all. swarms nf hungry, yclpinz dogs. Thcro by the aid of the red man's yell, and the howling response of wolves on tho neighboring hills, kept up a concert with the lowing of . , . oxen and tho vociierous urayingoi me donkey, through tho whole night. On Monday morning, after a pressing invitation from our host to make that part of tho country our residence, wo set out westword, over the same kind of beautiful rolling prairie, with tho exception of some high points that were not so rich and even more full of gravel than what wo had passed before. Wo passed only ono rcsidenco until we camo upon tho plot of Ofwekcc, 44 miles from Ft. LeavenWorth. This is a very handsome sito for a town, on tho Grasshopper river, all laid out in lots. It was formerly a govrnmcnt station, furnished with supplies for tho trains. It hns two stores and three dwellings, nnd n steam saw mill near, and a mill scat hard by. Tho Grasshopper is certainly the finest small river that we saw in the Territory. It is well timbered nnd tho prairie beautiful. We found the house all in a bustle of preparation for the Governor nnd

suite who were expected there that evening. But more anon. Jouir Gilchatst.

A Chapter from the Autobiography of an Old Bachelor. As we hope to entertain our readers with frequent prose and poetic contributions from Devereux, wo givo tho following chspter cf his history, written by himself. No doubt he will givo us a further account of his adventures, particularly if he ever gets married. He is writing to his nephew: Dear Nxvr: My heart is sad My face is long cerulean Beelzebubs hover about me. '1 Am a used up man,' as the poet hath it, and I ask for sympathy. As you were always a sympathetic child, I come to you. Believe me, De Witt, your uncle is roud of you. You are the hope of lis declining years, and you must excuse him if he girrs you a little adviceho has nothing else to give. His pockets aro empty, even of tobaccohis once beautiful farm is swallowed up in a railioad company his stook is all in the air-line. Wife, he never had, and there is no one to consolo him in his losses. Now his locks aro frosted by tho touch of mtny winters, and do you wonder that I am snd? But for tho advice: Dont It a wag. Dear Nevy, I owo many of my misfortunes in -life, to a disregard of this very Injunction. I fancied being laughed at. I tens laughed at. I was no wit, to be sure, for wags nre seldom wits; I was merely funny, and consequently every thing I said provoked a smile. Alas for your uncle! I fell in love upon a time yes, fell in love and my adored Kathleen was beautiful. H?r soul-lit ryes aro looking on me now, 'burning, yet tender.' In my enthusiasm I likened her to a swan, a dove, a deer, a pigeon, a duck, on angel nnd she smiled upon me. Sweet Kathleen! tho memory of that smile lingers liko a stray sunburn in my cold and unoccupied heart! I was ever at her side; and people said it would be a match. I was something of a poet. Nevy that dream Is over now. I wrote soonets to her eyebrows, and described her smile as similar to the Northern Lights, and the blush that suffused her cheek as something liko a summer sunset. She was flattered, and pleased, and smiled and blushed again. Could I hope? Yes, I did hopo. In my dreams! saw my pretty Kathleen sitting by a cottago door, with tho old Aurora-like, smile upoa her face, and a rival sunset glowing there. Northern Lights and summer sunset unhappy simile! The one grew cold and misty, and the other faded into darkncssl I was in love. One beautiful moonlight night I asked Kathleen To meet me alone. In the grort al ilia end of tbt vale.' She complied. How beautiful she looked! Women always look beautiful by moonlight and starlight. There is a mellow radiance about their facet at such times which a Peri might envy. I tried to look serious. I told Kathleen the story of my love, and appealed to tho moon and stars And vowad that t wculd Ioto her W hile the blrUa aang on the lra While the brook lougtit tut river, And the rlrer lOMgUt tht seal She only laughed! and replied, "ivcar Air. xuuiicnix, you aro to funny 1" And so this serious declaaation was turned into a jok e! Kathleen was lost to me, and a ycr afterwards married a stolid-headed personage who never had a funny thought in all his life. Ahl ievy, 'It inch a very irrloui thing To be a funny man! Don't bti funny, or you will be miserable. Cupia never points his darts with u joke. Wags may be laughed at, but not loved. I havo been in love binco half a dozen times; but every look of love was answered by a laugh, till, in sheer hopelessness, laughed; and I am considered a joke in spite of myself 1 iNcverluelcss, 1 am a sadder and a wiser man; but my lengthy faco is voted a joko by my friends, if friends they bo. Secondly: Don't tale any ttock in air-lint railroad $ don't rjrculate. Remember the fate of your uncle, whose riches havo taken unto themselves tho wings of the morning. I urn a Mullenix, and I Ltieve to state that I am plunged in. the most abject poverty. My boots, like my creditors, are loMess my breeches are Irctchtt of trust my coat is xnseamy- once 'I could a tad unfold;' notnow. My vest hie jacket has not a vcrfige of its former beauty. My hat is like n dark night, 'a fllcss black spot round my head.' My cravat is Inot; I am a warning; I am a wreck but the world reckt not. Notwithstanding my reverses, dear Nevy, I feel that I have abilities of a high order. I ought to be in tho Senac. I'm not there that's plain anu thereforo I'm unappreciated; but 1 am consoled by reading Gray's eloThere's man) a flower born lo tluih uskso! I am still a wag I may add, a aad wag and if, in somo moment of sadness, I should 'shuffle off this mortal coil, 'the world would call it 'Mullenix'e last! 'Mino is a lifo fit only to 'point a moral or adorn a talc.' I have the honor of being Your distinguished And unfortunato Uncle, DzvxrtKTX Mmixix. jtirFor particulars, eco next page.