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A NEWS AND BUSINESS PAPBR-DBVOTBD TO FOREIGN AND DOMBSTSC NEWS, MORALS, TEMPERANCE, EDUCAT90N, AGRICULTURE, AND TUB BEST JNTBREST8 OP SOCIETY. VOL. XXIV-NO. 33. BROOKVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1856. WHOLE NUMBER 122.

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sumed n remark ably affectionate tone Pn,ed b7 twenty-five wyagwrt. ento wards the order. Indeed, they seem ! lw,od for ,be PaP08, l Sl- Louis, and to Woe taken it. nolens volent, under ! trained to ail the Itsrdships and daotheir own immediate care. It is also er" of prairies and the mountains.

stated that Jim Hughes, the Black Democratic candidate for Congress in th Third District, in ba speer-hes, deals tenderly with the Know Nothing;" We do not hardly know how to expleia this remarkable change of front; unless the union of the bogus Democrats with lhe 8outh Americans upon Um vote for Speaker will afford a key to this course. In that eleHion vus their love for the extension and pronacr tndism of slaverv towers! i

above and overshadowed everything I tep nod 'hen crossed ovjr to the Great else, these Old Liners, with the beat PlMe, and pursued that river to its of denunciation ot Know Nothingism BOUroe the mountains, where the blistering their lips, went over to that.weet wter (a bead branch of the porty and to a man voted for the csn-' P'w) iues from the neighborhood didate suggested by that party. Poss-of tbe South Pass. He reached the ibly they are endeavoring to do the 1 on lh 8th of August, and desame thing now tn the Presidential "ibes it as a wide and Tow depression canvass. Hthatis their inUntion, it , of lh mountains, where the ascent i 1 would certainly be fairer and more M7 that of the hill on which hooomble to dron Buchnnan. whose ' lh capitol stands, and where a plain-

Know Nothingism dates an far back as ' mmmm m . . 1814, and eome out openly and squarely i'4 favjr of the election of Fillmore. Th at ia the only honest and consistent w ay of carrying out their present proBut another resson more in accor daaee with the cos torn and sntece denU of that parly, sugMeate itself. Their present oouree is virtually an acknowledgment that desperate means are na aaary to iwliewn desperate i aaaa and that lh. h.a f.. 11. n t.An BaSBB aaa M . I wn i imiv 11 wuuu, the plan thwy are purawinz aa drown ing men catch at straws, and we pre diet it will be attended with about at much sueoeaa ia the ore ease aa the other. They fondly hope to produce an irreparable division ia lhe People's party of this State; and with a basenets and hvooeriev oreeminentlr their owe, they do not hesitate to assume the mein and countenance of friends I nnlv that mar rarfainlr l.i maliM a anru ! and fatal stab. This is undoubtedly ' the fans they are endeavoring to play out (n this State. It is a deep laid scheme, but it ean never win. If there ever was a Know-Nothing order in Indiana, and there is now a member of that order who has resolved, from listening lo the cajoleries of these Old Liners, lo vou for James liuchanan, then, be at least, deserves all lhe op probrtum heaped noon that order ov that order by ' his nw-fanglen friedns. Iftw Albany TrtoisiÄsf

BSV TON 0 FREMONT.

Kxtraota from the second volume of Benton' "Thirty Years in the Henate," relating to CM Frrmoiu: frnioBt i rint Ixpi ditioo. Connected with this emigration to Otegtm . and auiiliary toll, wu the first rajM-diiicn of Lieut. Fremont to be Kooky Mounlalna, and undertaki-n and oomplfted in the summer of I04t upon its outside view the conception of the Government, but in fct eooeeived without its knowledge, and u coated apon solicited ordera, of whietl the design was unknown. Lieut Fremont wee .1 youni officer, appointed la Ihe topograph io tl ourpe from the lass of "ilifens by Presiden. Jaokson, upon the reeommendation of Mr. Poinsett, Secretary of War. He did not enter the army through the gate of West Point, and was considered an intrusive officer by the graduates of that institution. Having, before his appointment, assialed for two years the learaed astronomer. Mr. Nicollet, ia hie great awrvey of the country between the Missouri and Mississippi, his mind wu trained lo such labor; and instead of hunting comfortable berths about the towns and villages, he solicited employment in the vast regions beyond the Mississippi. Col. Abert, the chief of theoorpa, irave In in an order to go to the frontier beyond the Mississippi. That order did not come up to his views. After reeeivieg it ho enrrted it back, and got it al tered, and the Rocky Mountains inserted aa an ohpet of hia exploration, and the South Pass in those mountains named as a particular point tobe examined, and ita position fixed by him. It was through this Päse that the Oregon emigration crossed the mountains, and the exploration of Lieutenant Fremont had the double effect of fixing an important point in the line of the emigrants trim I, and giving them encourHgement from the apparent interest which tl. . Govern ment took in their enterprise. At the same time the Government, that i, the Executive Administration, knew nothing about it. The deidgn was conceived by the young Lieutenant; the order lor its execution was obtained, upon solicitation, from his immedial chief importing, of course, to 09 done by his order, but an order which had ita conception elsewhere. Alter Lieutenant Fremont's return ntld th" frpamiion to print If. Mr L. i,n. Senator from Ui.-aouri, on a motion to print it, made the following remarks: "In support of this motion," Mr. L. said, "that in the course of the last Mummer a very interesting expedition had been undertaken to the Rocky Mountain, ordered by Col. Abert. chief of the Topographical Bureau, Zi notion of the SecreUry of r' "Tnd l" feL,5uL Fre""nl flh Topographical Login eers. The obJl f ie expedition wm to cx.m'nc Md rt "f0 !he rWtT ?d country between the frontiers of Mis'0Uri n(1,tbe n lhe RCkj T1 nd "Pc.ally to examm. tin-Biinrncit-r anu nstcertain me latnuue and longitude of the South Pass, t.he great crossing place to these moun tains on the way to the Oregon. All the objects of the expedition have been omPI'shrd- aod ln WT to UnriMl til niavtnai and intt rnrl ira Ia ih, eficial to science, and instructive to the general reader, as well as useiul to the Government. "Supplied with the best astronomical and barometrical instruments. w quthhed to use them, and accoraSir. rrtrnont lelt the mouth of the Kansas, on .'he frontiers of Missouri, on Ihe 10th 01 June; and. in the almost incredibly ehort tpsco of four months returned t'o the same point, wi'hout an accident to a man, and with a vast mats of useful observa tions, and many hundred specimens in botany and geology. "In executing hit instructions, Mr. Fremont proceeded up to Kansas Kiver fur enough to ascertain its charsclX bee-en wagon road leads to the Or . V. 1. . 1 II.. . f egon through the valley ot Lrewo s River, a fork of the Colt mbia. He went through the Pasa and saw the headwaters of the Colorado, of the Gulf of California; nnd, leaving the valleys to indulge in laudable curiosity end to make tome useful observeUonn. and attended by four of his rnt-n. climbed the loftiest peak of the Rocky Mou ntains. until then untrotldt n bJ nn7 hnqwn bee m being; nt on the 16lh of Augu-t looked down upon ice and snow sooih thousand f. et below, and traced in ihe distance the ralleyit of the riven which, taking their rise in the same elevate-! ru!'r, flow in opposite directions to the Paeile Ocean and to the Mississippi ! From that ultimate point he returner' the vallei of the Ureal l'Utte, im'ing the strenm in ita whole course, nd solving all questions in relation to its naviirabilifv and the character of th eoentry through Inch it flows. "0er the whole course of thit extended route, barometr ieal observe lions wre made by Mr. Fremont, to ascertain elevstiont, bot h of the plains nnd of iho mountains; astronomical obftcrvitUor.9 irero Ukcn., to ascrrtR.n

a aa aa a m At practicability of routes noled; the grand features of nature described, nod some presented in drawings; mili-

latitudes and longitudes; Ihe laee 01 maoe mem Dei ore mm. liiere was s the country was marked as arable or vast region beyond the Kooky Mounsterile; ihn Utility of traveling and the taint the whole wettern slope of out

tary positions indleated; and a large contribution to geology end botany wat made la the varieties of plants, flowars, shrubs, trees and grasses, and rockt and earlha, whloh were enumerated. Dra wings of eome grand and striking points, sad a map of the whole route, illustrate the report, and fseilMal the understanding of Its details. Eight carls, drawn by two mutet each accompanied the Spedition a fact wliioh eltoett the faolllty of traveling ia this vatt region. Hordt of buffaloea furnished subsistence to the men; a ahort, nutritious grass, sustained the hortet and mules. Two boys f one of It years of age. ih other of IB), betide the enlisted men, accompanied ihe expedition, aad took their there of lit hardships which provea thai boys, at well aa men, are sole to traverse the oountry to the Rocky Monotains. "The retail of all hit observations Mr. Fremont bad condensed into a brief report enough to make a document of 00 or 100 pages; and believing lhat this document would be of general interest to the whole country, and beneficial to science, at well as useful to the Government. I move the printing of lhe extra number which hes been named. "The printing wst ordered." Fremont's Seoond Expedition. "The Government deserves oredit for the sesl with "which it hss pursued geographical discovery " Such ittheremaik which a leading paper made upon the discoveries of Fremont, on his return from his seoond exjiedilion to the Great West; and such is the remark whieh writers will make upon all Iii discoveries who write history from public documents and outside views. With all euch writers the expeditions of Fremont will be credited

to the seal ot the Government for the promotion of science; ss if the Government under which he scted had conceived and planned these expeditions, ss Mr. Jefferson did that of Lewis and Clark, and ihen selected this young officer to csrry into effect the instructions delivered to him. How far such history would be true in relation to the first expedition, which terminated in the Rocky Mountain, has been given of the origin of that under taking, and which leaves the Government innocent of its conception; and, therefore, not entitled to the conceit of its authorship, but only to the merit of permitting its In the second, end greater expedition, from which great political at well as scientific results have flowed, their merit is still less; for, while equally innocent of its conception, they were not equally passive to its pei formanoe countermanding the expedition after it had begun; and lavishing censure upon the adventurous young explorer for hit manner of underiaking it. The fact wat, that his first expedition barely finished, Mr. Fremont sought and obtained orders for a second one, end was on the frontier of Missouri with his command when orders arrived at Sl. Louis lo stop him, on the ground thst be bad made a military equipment which the peaceful nature of hia geographical pursuit did not requi' es if Indians did not kill and rob scientific men as well aa others if not in n icOod':in 10 defend themselves. The pabular point of complaint waa that he ha.-' ta ken a small mountain howitzer, in sJ" I. tv an a a union to nisrines; and which, he was informed, was charged to him, although it had been furnished upon n regular requisition on the commandant of the Arsenal at St. Louis, approved by the commander of the military department (Colonel, afterward General Kearney) Mr. Fremont had left St. Louis, and was at the frontier, Mrs. Fremont being requested to examine the letters that came after him, and forward those which he ought to receive. She read the countermanding ordert, and detained them! and Fremont knew nothing after he bad returned from one of the mott marvelous and eventful expeditions of modern times one to which the United ?tates are indebted (among oiber things) for the present ownership of California, instead of seeing it a British possession. The writer of this View, who was then in St. Louis approved of the course his daughter had taken (for she had stopped the orders before he knew of it); and he wrote a letter to the department condemning the recall, repulsing the reprimand which had been lavished upon Fremont, and demanding a couri-msrtisl for him when he should return. The Secretary at war then Mr. James Madison Porter, of Pennsylvania; the chief of the Topographical corps the same as now (Colonel Aberts), himself an office man, surrounded by West Point officers, to whose pursuit of easy service Fremont's adventurous expeditions was a reproach; and in conformity to whose opinions the secretary seemed to have acted. On Fremont's return, upwards of a year afterwards, Mr. William Wilkins. of Pennsylvania, waa Secretary at War. and received the young explorer with all honor and friendalup. and obtained for him the brevet of captain from President Tvler. And suoh it the inside view f thia piece of hiatory very different from what documentary evidence would make it. To complete his survey across the continent, on the line of travel between ih 8iate of Missouri and the tide water region of ibe Columbia, wst Fremont's object in thit expedition; and it waa all that he had obtained orders for doing; but only a amsll part, end to his mind an insignificant part, of what he proposed doing. People had been to the mouth of the Columbia before, and his ambition was not lim ited to making tracks where others had I .I L St ma continent of which but hide was known; and of lhat little, nothing with the Accuracy of science. All thst vast

region, moie lhn seven hundred miles quare equal to a great kingdom in Europe was an unknown Und -a sealed book, which ho long id to open, and to read. Leaving the frontier cf Missouri in May. 1849, end often diverging from his rout for lhe sake of expanding his field of observation, he had arrived In lh lide.weUr rvgien of Columbia in the month of November; end had then completed the whole service whieh his orders embraeed. He might then have returned upon his tracks, or been brought home by sea, or hunted the most pleasant path for getting back; snd if he had been a routine officer, satisfied with fulfilling an order. h would hav done so. Nut so with the young i xploi er who held hit diploma from Nature, aod not from the United Hintes .Military Academy. He was at Fort Vancouver guest of the hospitab'e Dr. Mii,iuhhn, Gov

ernor of lhe British Hudson Bay Fur Company; and obtained from him all Easible information upon his intended e of return faithfully given, but which proved lo be disastrously erroneous in its leading and governing festurs. A southeatt route to crott the great unknown region diagonally through ill heart (making a line from the Lower Columbia to the Upper Colorado of the Gulf of California), wat hit line of return twenty-five men (the am who had come with him from the United Statea) an I s hundred hortet, were his equipment; and the commencement of Winter the lime of starting all without a gcide, relying upon their guus for support; and, in the last retort, upon their hortet tuch at should give outl for on lhat could carry a man, or a pack, could not be spared for food. All the mapa up to that time had shown this region traversed from east to west from the base of ihe Rocky Mountaiua to the Bay of San Francis no by a great river called the Butna Ventura: which may be translau-d. the Good1 CAo nee. Governor McLaughlin believed in the existence of this riv er, nnti made out a conjectural manuscript map to show in place snd course. Fremont believed in it, nnd his plan was to reach it before the dead of Winter, and then hybernate upon it. Aa a great river, he knew lhat il must hive some rich bottoms; covered with wood and gras, where the wild animals would collect and shelier. when the snows and freezing winds drove them from the plains: snd with these animals to live on, and grast for t!ie horses, and wood for tires, be expected to avoid suffering, if not to enjoy comfort, during his sol - itary lojourn in thst remote and profound wilderness. He proceeded soon encountered deep snows which impeded progress upon the high lands descended into a low country to the !. ft (afterward known to be the Great Basin, from which no water issues to any seal ) sKirteu an enormous cnain of mountain on the right, luminous with glittering a as while MiuHT saw strange Indians, who mostly fled found a desert no B tie in Ventura; and death from cold and f nnine staring him in the (nee. The failure to find the river, of tidings or it, and the possibility of its existence seeming to be forbid by the structure of the country, and hybernation in the inhospitable desert being impossible, and the question being that of life and death, some new plan of conduct became indioensable. Hit celestial observations told him that h'i was in the latitude 01" the Bay of Sr.n Francisco, and only seventy miles from it. But what miles! up an I down that snowy mountain which the Indians told him no men could cross in i.he Winter which would have snow upon it as oeep as the tr -es, end pUces where peopte would slip off, and fall halt a mile at a time a fate which actually befell a mule, packed with the precious burden of botanical specimens, collected along a travel of two thousand miles No reward could induce an Indian to become a guide in the perilous adventure of crossing this mountain. All recoiled and fled from the ndventure. It was attempted without a guide in the dead of Winter accomplished in forty days the men and surviving horses a woful procession, crawling along one by one; skeleton men leading skeleton horses and arriving at Suter's Settlement in the beautiful valley of the Sicramento. and where a genial warmth, and budding flowers, and flawing streams, an 1 comfortable food, made a fairy contrast with the famine and freezing they had encountered snd the lofty Sierra Nevada which they had climbed. Here he rested and recruited; and from this point, and by way of Monterey, the first tidings were heard of the party since leaving Foi l Vancouver. Another long progress lo the south, skirling the western base of the Sierra Nevada, made him acquainted wiih the nofjle valley of the Sin Joaquin, counterpart to that of the Sacramento; when crossing through a gnp, snd turning to th left, he t-kirt il lhe Oreat Basin; and, bv many deviations from the right line home, levied incessant contributions to science from expanded lends, not described belore. In thia eveatful exploration all the great features of thu wesu-ru slope of our continent were brought lo light the Ureal Salt Lake, the üi-h Lake, the Little Salt Luke; at all whish places, then desert, iho Mormons now are. Tbe Sierra Nevada, then solitary in the snow, now crowded with Americans digging gold from its flanks; the beautiful valleys of the Sacramento aad San Joaquin, then alive with wild horses, elk. deer, and wild fowls, now smiling with American cultivation; the Great Basin itself and its contents; the Three Parks; the approximation of ihegreAt riven which, rising together in the central region of the Rocky Mouulains. go off east and wett, toward the riing and the setting un: all these, and other Grange features of a new regbn, more Asiatic than

American, were brought to light and revealed to publie view ia the result of this exploration. Eleven months ha waa never out of sight of snow; and sometimes, fioesing with oold, would look down upon n tunny valley, warm with g-nial hal sometimes panting with the .Summer's Intal, would look up at the eternal tnowa which crowned the neighboring mountain. But It wat not then that Calilornla was se cured to the Union lo the greatett power of the New World to which 11 ol right belonged; but il was lhe Oral step toward lb aoquiaiiiun, and the one lhat led to it. 'i hat seoond expe dnion led to a third, just in lim to snatoh the golden Oalil'ornia from the hands of the British, ready to clutch it. Rut of this hereafter. Fremont's areond expedition waa nnw over. He had left the United Statea a fugitive from his Government, and riurnd with a nsme that went over Europe and America and with disooveiiea, betriug fruit which the civilised world il now enjoying. Freaitse IfaUnsl Antsrlaaa. A Bark Morning and a Light Even lag. At five o'clock upon Thanksgiving morning. Deacon Wilson arose aa he was wont: no holiday made any change in his hours. Yet now he no longer sprang from his bed with the alacrity which changed duty into pleasure; he rose because imperious ntoessity commanded it. Tbere were the cattle to be fed and watered, snd the poultry to receive Ibe same attention, and wat, moreover, a fire to be made in lhe huge old kitchen tire place; for the deacon had now no servant or helper, nnd in the grey winter of his life the a hole burden of managing his place had (alien on his shoulders. Fortu-

I natel' , they were broad and strong fortunately, his constitution was good, hit spirits elastic, and his piety sincere, for bis burdens and trials were indeed weighty. He had been comparatively rich, he was now in embarrassed circumstances. He had looked forward to tho time when a son should releive him of the most laborious of his toils, while a daughter performed the same kind office for bis wife. Both had been disappointed and now the old couple were the solitary occupants of thai lone farm-house. The desoon went mechanically about his morning labors; he drove the cattle to the watt-Mink; he supplied them with frea'j fodder, and after seeing lhat they were comfortable, returned to the old kitchen. By this time the good wife had prepared a breakfast, and a genial fire was diffusing its heat through the apartment. The old couple sat down to breakfast, aft'r a blessing by the old farmer, but the meal passed by in silence. Il wat followed bya fervent prayer and the reading of a portion of the Scnplures. Alter tins the sitting room. they adjourned to here a good fire , was burning, and where Ibe old dame r S -W - m - . . a äV ; assumed her knitting, one of those inI comprehensible pieces of female in dustry which seems to have neither I begining nor end. "Well," said she, with a tigh, "this is Thanksgiving day. It doesn't seem like old limes at all. We used lo have a bouse full of company, frolicksome young folks and cheerful old people; snd now ee sre alone." "Last Thanksgiving day," said the old 11. an, "there wis one with us who seemed to my eyes like an enget of light, with her fairy golden hair floating like a glory on her shoulders, and her little foot making musio as she moved about the old house. But even Iben there was a hectic flush upon her check, like tbe red upon the 1 I .naple leaf in autumn. When the 1 Januarv anowa lav deen on lhe hi lis and in tbe hollows, we carried her to her last home bur God's will be done." ' You forget that we have another child alive." "No, I do not forget it," said the old man bitterly. "There is on living somewhere, who his brought disgrace upon our name; who has forgotten his parents and his God; who has drunk deep of the cup of iniquity, and who has brought ruin and woe upon his name snd his family." "Do not speak harshly of poor William," pleaded the mother. "Why should I not? Was he not inaentible to kindness steeled against affection ? Did he not scatter my earnings to the win I? Is it not to him that I owe the prospect of beggarry and destitution ? Remember the first day of February. That is the last day of grace. If the money comes not then, and God knows whence it is to come, we are driven from beneath this roof a pair of hous hold beggars. Who will care for us then?" "God will care for us," said the aged woman, raising her eyea reverntly to heaven. The old man made no reply, for utterance was choked. At ihat nmrnent the old clock, ihut atood ticking in the corner, atruck the hour of nine. The deacon rose. "It is I'm to harnest old Dobbin," tnid he, "for we have a long way to ride to meeting, and the roads are in a ba 1 condition." Their preparations were toon made, and the old couple, poorly but decently attind, sallied forth to their public derotiont. The sei vices ended the deacon and his wife, as they issued from the perch, were kindly greet ed by many old friends and neighbors more than one of whom presssd themj to cone and partake of their Thanks-1 giving cheer. But the deacon shook! his head. "Many thanks, my friends," he I said, "but ever since I have been a householder. 1 have kept my Thanksgiving at home, and I shall continue j lo do so, as long as I have a house ru-1 maioing over my Lead." S. they rode home together. While the deacon drove up to the barn to put

up his horse, ths old lady opened the baok door, which wat always on the latch, and entered the kllonee, As she did to the started back. A stranger was sealed by the kitoken fire, who rose at hur entianee. He wat a lall, stalwart man, dressed la a rough tut, with a broad leafed, hat, hit eountensnoo ombrowned by exposure to the tun end wind, and his upper lip almost eoaevaled by a heavy sod luxurient moustache." "ihaxl morning, ma'am," he said, with some embsrratimeot. "Kinding no one enawering my knook. 1 took the liberty of walking in. I believe I owe you no appology, tor 1 have offioialed aa turnspit and saved your Thanksgiving turkey from burnlag." "I am very much obliged to yu, I era iure," sntwersd the old lady, pu'ling off her mittent. "But did you want to tee me, or the deacon?" "Moth of you," answered the strati ger. "You have a ton I believe f" "Vet," replied Mrs. Wilson, with hesitation, and casting down her eyes. "I have seen him lately." "Where?" inquired the mother, with increasing agitation. "Il California." "Was he doing welt ?" "Admirably. Mother I mother I"

he added impotuouslv, throwing back his hat, "don't you know me don't you know your William?" He rushed into hia mothei's arms, and was clasped lo her beating heart, while the lean streamed freely from the eyet of both. After the first greeting wst over, the young man asked "Where is sister Emma?" "Gone," answered the mother, ns her tears flowed forth anew. William h mk into a teat, and hi ding hit face in hit handa, wept bitterly. The mother did not attempt lo check him. She knew those teara were precious. "And my father ?" ssked the young man, when he regained his composure. "He it well. But you had better retire for a while. Go to your room, my ton il it just at you left it and wall till I tummon you." It was with a fluttering heart thei the overjoyed mother went about the preparations lor dinner, and when the table wat neatly set, every dish in its place and the turkey smoking hot, waiting to be carved, she summoned the old man. He m ule his appesiance at once, and took his seat. Gi llancing around the table, he said: "What is this, wife ? you have set plates for ihree." "I thought perhaps some one might drop in unexpectedly." "There is little danger hope, 1 mean of that," answered the deacon sadly. At thia juncture, Mrs. Wilson, with a mysterious sir. rang the bell, with which, in happier days, she was wont I to summon btr tardy children to their meals. It was answered by the appearance of lhe long lost William. The deacon, who recognized him after a moment, gazed upon him with astern eye, but wiib a quivering lip, that betrayed the force of hia ill-suppressed emotions. "So you have come back at last !" he taid. "Yes, father, but not as I left you. Father, last Thanksgiving day I went into my lonely room, and there kneeling down, sddretsed myself to Hesven, and solemnly abjured the fatal cup, which had brought ruin upon me, and woe upon this once happy family. From that day to this I have not touched a drop. Is my probation enough? Can you now welcome back your son, and bleas him ?" "Bless him ? Yes, yes, blessyoa, my dear boy !" said the old man, placing his trembling hand on the dark locks of the pleader. "You sre welcome, William, though you eome only to witness the downfall of our house." "Not so, father," answered tbe young man, joyously, "I have come back to save you to atone for my prodigality, lor all my errors. It was this hope that sustained me io the lone heart of the Sierra Nevada, when I was panting with thirst snd dying with hunger. Thoughts of home, and vou and mother, and of her who now is one of God's angels, enabled me to conquor lortune. I have come back wiih a store of gold you shall not be a beggar in your old age; father, we shall keep the farm." After this, it is unnecessary to add that joy entered the old homestead. It was a chastened joy, for the shadows of lhe past yet mingled with the sunshine of the present, but the felicity which attended the prodigal's return wat enough to compentsle for many sorrows. Bright Hours and Gloomy Ah, this beauiilul world! 1 know not what to think of it. Sometimes it is all gladness and sunshine, and heaven itself lies not far off. and it suddenly changes and is dsrk and sorrowful, and the clouds shut out the day. In the iives of the saddest of us there are bright diys like this, when we feel as if we could take thegreat world in our arms. Then comes gloomy hours when the fire will not burn on our Hearths and aM without and within is dismal, cold and dark. Believe me, every heart baa its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when he it only sad. LongftUox To Passaavx Meat Roll it up in Indian meal, and it will keep four or five days in the hottest weather. The meat should be laid down in pieces not to exceed three pounds, and each piece should be entirely covered with meal. Eighteen old line whig papers have already raised the flag of Huchanu&n in the South.

0 losing Paragraphs of the Report on Kansas Affairs. For (he present, we glvn only Ihe closing portion of this thrilling document. We shall publish it entire In about t weeks. In some oaaes, and aa to oni entire election district, the condition of the oountry, prevented the attendance of witnesses, who were cither arrested or detained whl'o obeying our proeetr, or deterred from ao doing. The ser geat-al arms who served the processes upon them, was himself arrested, and detained for a ahort time by an armed force, claiming lo be a pari of lhe pttt of the Marthel, but waa allowed to proceed upon an examination of hit papert, and was furniabed with a psat, signed by "Warren D. Wilkes, of South Carolina. John Upton, another officer of lbs Committee, wst subsequently ttopped by a lawless force on the bordert of tbe Territory, and after bring detained and treated with great indignity wat released. He, also, was furnished with a pass, signed by two ciiisvosof Missouri, snd addressed to "pro-slavery men." By reason of these distuibanees .:e were delayed in Westporl, so thst while in session there, our time wss but partially occupied.

But the obstruction whioh crested the most aeriout embarrassment to your oommittee wat the attempted arrest of Gov. Reeder, the contesting delegate, upon s writ of attachment issued against him by Judge Leeompte, to compel his attendance as a wilnes before the Grand Jury of Douglas county. William Fane recently trom ihe State of Georgia, and claiming to be the Depuly Marshal, came into the room of the committee while Oov. Reeder was examining a witness before us, and producing the writ, required Oov. Reeder to attend him. Subsequent events hsve only strengthened ihe conviction of your committee that this wat s wanton and unlawful interference by the Judge who issued lhe writ, tending greatly lo obstruct n full and fair investigation. Gov. Reeder, Gardenend Whitfield alone were fu'ly possessed of that local information whieh would enable us to elioit the whole truth, and it was obvious to every one lhat any event whieh would separate cither of them from the committee would necessarily hinder, delay and embarrass it. Gov. Reeder claimed that under the circumstances in which he was placed he was privileged from arrest except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace. At this was a question of privilege, proper far the courts, or for the privileged person alone to determine upon hit peril, we declined to'giveany protection or take any action in tbe matter. He refused to obey the writ, believing it to be n mere pretence to get the custody of Ins person, snd fearing, ss ho alleged, that he would be aatatsina d by law less bands of men then gathering in and near Lecompton. He then left the Territory. Subsequently H. Milct Moore, an attorney io Leavenworth City, but for several years a citizen of Weston, Mo., kindly furnished the Committee information as to tbe residence of persons voiing at the election!, and in some cases examined witnesses before ui. He was arretted on the streets of that town by an armed band of about thirty men, hesded by W. D. Wilkes, without any color of authority, confined, wiib oiber citizens, under a military guard for twenty-four hours, nod then notified to leave tbe Territory. His testimony was regarded at important, and upon his sworn statement thr.t it would endanger his person to give il openly, tbe majority of your Committee deemed il proper to examine him et parte and did so. By reason of these occurrences, the contestant, and the party with and for whom he acted, were unrepresented before us during a greater portion of the lime, snd your Committee were required to ascertain tbe truth in the best manner they could. Your Committee report tbe following factt and conclusions ss established by the testimony: First That each election in the Territory held under tbe organic or alleged Territorial law hat been carried by organized invasions from the State of Missouri, by which the people of the Territory have been prevented from exercising the rights secured to ihem by the organic law. Second That tbe alleged Territorial Legislature was an illegally constituted body, and had no power to pass valid laws, and their enactments are. therefore, null and void. Third That these alleged laws hsve not, as a general thing, been used to protect persons snd properly and to punish wrong, but for unlawful purposes. fourth That the election under which the sitting delegate, John W. Whitfield, holds his seat, was not held in pursuance of any valid law, and that it should be regatrded only as the expression of the choice of those resident eititens who voted for him. Fifth That tbe election under which the contesting delegate, Andrew H. Reeder, claims his asst. was not held in pursuance of law, and lhat it shonld be regarded only as the expression of the choice of resident citizens who voted for him. Sixth That Andrew II. Reeder received a greater number of votes of resident einten than John W. Whitfield, for delegate. Seventh That in the present condition of the Territory, a fair election cannot be held without a new census, a stringent and well guarded election law, the selection of impartial judges, and tbe presence of United States troops at every place of election. E'ghth That the varioua elections held by the people of the Territory, preliminary to tbe formation of the State government, have been as regular as the disturbed condition of the

Territory would allow; and that ths constitution passed by the Convention. held in pursuance of said rleettons, embodies the will ol a majority of tbe people. As it is not the province of your oommittee lo suggest remedies for the existing t-oubles in ths Territory of Kanaaa, the- 00a tent themselves with the foregoing statement of lasts. All of whieh it respectfully tubmitlrd. WM A HOWARD, JOHN M1KKMAN. Help from all Freeman, in all Hanks. In another part of thit paper, ws Gublish a chapter ia advsnoe from Irs. Uecchrr Blowe's forthooming A nil -Slavery novel, now in (be press of a Boston publishing house. Judging front this specimen. Mrs. Btowe'i new work will not be wanting in ths dramatic fores, spontaneous humor, and freth natursl description which characterise "Uncle Tom's Cabin," while in mellow ripeness of composition it will probably surpass even ibe felicitous suooets of that world -re nowned production. The spirit of Freedom hat kindled the author's pen with living fire. Her purest fame is

founded on her fidelity to that holy oaute. She has caught lbs intpirs tion of the momentous issues whieh srs now appealing to the heart of the country, and embodied its noblest im pultet in her glowing psge. Nor b she alone in the loyalty whieh consecrates the influence of literature to ibe interests of Liberty. Tbe magnetism of Freedom baa a natural affinity wi'h ibe materials of which genius it composed. The instincts of our most highiy-gified men urge them to make common cause against the champions of Slave, y. The present canvass hss called conspicuously into the field msny noble spirits who hold an exalted rank in the world of let ters. Fremont, the scholar, ths man of science, the thinker, who has been true to the dreams of bis youth and the culture of his early manhood, hai drawn around hit tide, bat brought upon the popular forum, has animated to the fervent utterance of political truth, not a few of our most accomplished men, whose tastes hsbiiually court retirement, snd whom nothing but a resistless sense of justice could have won from the lettered avocations that form tbe aim and glory of t'ieir life. The Northern clergy, in numerous instance, have presented an example or fearless patriotism which must for ever wipe away the charge of timidi ly end truckling lo the prejudices of the hour. With s high-t earted indifference to personal and privtte consequences, they have bravely withstood perverted public opinion which has infected the Church no less than the State. Thy have thrown off both the silken cords of professional ease and the green witbet of domestic necessity, sacrificing alike the enjoyment of popularity and the pi o pect of maintenance, to their convictions of duty and tbe cause of their country. Honor lo men like Tyng snd Conway, who havs dared lo ruffle the stmospbere of a placid conservatism by the trumpet tones of truth, pleading for tbe cause of American Freedom in the very places where her sacred form bad received tbe grossest intuit snd outrage from audacious official bands. ! he Pilgrim spirit still lives in tbe clergy ol the JNortn. I bey have shown themselves true to their venerable sncestry Io spite of the sleek; dough-faced divines that gently touch velvet cushions with their jeweled fingers, tbe gallant pluck of the Puritans is not exhausted in our Republican Zion. Happy the cause in which the appeals of the pulpit are sustained by the ballot-box, io which the orsclea of tbe Deity are echoed back from the hearts of tbe people. Nor is it the clergy alone from whose raoks our men of education and intellectual supremacy have been enlisted in tho present nstionsl conflict. Many of our prominent colleges have nobly shown the true colors in tbe seal and activity of their professors. Leaving the academic shades for the noise and dust of the popular meeting, they have been impelled to speak words of lofty cheer in behalf of Freedom, feeling with the youthful Milton, lhat it would be s bsse thing to remain bidden in studious luxurj, while their countt y men were struggling for tbe dear and holy hopes of humanity in perilous and rosolule conflict. On this battle-field of the nation they will win a guerdon of triumph before whirh all literary laurels sre but children's toys. Old Harvard and Yale have spoken out and spoken well. Emancipated from tbe subserviency to tbe South which has acted as the dry-rot on most of our NewEngland colleges, they bid fair to take the prominent rank among the defenders of liberty, whioh naturally belongs to the genuine conservators of ancient learning. With tuch examples as Silliman, bringing the mature wisdom of scientific experience to the canse of the people of Professor Parker, throwing off the timidity of legal precedent and the reatraints of official position in devotion lo a high principal of Pel ton, sacrificing even bis idolatry of Daniel Webs'er, sod returning to ancient friendship, under live influence of a stringent conscientiousness, we need not dtspair of the Northern colleges. The impulse which is sweeping over the land with the freshness and purity of a Western breeze, has not left our seats of learn ing wiihoul a reviving power, and they will enlarge the ranks of the sturdy and determined men who are preparing to win the victory at ti.e polls of November. Literature is also tending its representatives into the field Irons oiber quarters beside ils chosen haunts. Tbt y are found mustering with the people from the various walks of society. Their presence animates the

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mtagiei wiib ine threw . a W .4 at th veteran polilMsB. twJtr itersa ceipts is principle streagtheas tbe hopes wf the patriot. Bryant poetic retreat Head a a to stiaaalala thai hamea af Uta neighbors by patriarchal HfftiftMt. Emerson descends Has tbe dim MsJ of epirltnal vieion to ettee lbs t-dtt of the "Ovsraool" ia 1 meetinw. Loosfsdlow I" ia a Otrweord townelesraat f Saasa sals asV m. - - abode for the umMm of a Massachusetts Doli ileal Ourtlt forgets the d room Eke ewebs menu of the Oriental Iota shows the vigor af sinewy in hu valiant grapple with Laionitv h high placet. Rverott sad Beasts hsvs that far contiaasd de sob bot havs they not voices to tweil tbe auk. oat wnicn rooouod from two a..r s . rr r t and forsst tn behalf af ibe the Continent lb si bee ben glorified by their sloqoeoee? It Is not sorpris.dw that Iba slasm of tbe neooU poewle aotcssM a response io tbe rsswasssass of tbe scholar. With few exoeetsaws war Mt. erary men, neither by Iriasrmist aar S AT , by hsbit. are bravo, uscomofwetwinff, or ol r ad lent bops. Tbey would Barer have aroesed Ibe people 0 seats by tbetlrainaof Tyrtseas. Bat Wain their b resets sidl bests tbe waaV ing heart of humanitr, alive to Iba divine impulses which from Uas lo time send a more then eleetris tbrttl throughout tbe breathing isssi af the people. If their svsuits era osvw "finely touched and to fan "insst, it il because of tbe gr endear aad gb ry of the popular cease. Tbe batde wbiob we are now fighting is aoe sSabt moral import. Ardent! v at we net mire ths yoaihfaj hero who first pleated the banner of bit coos try cm tbe snowy peaks of the BcVy MoanUlns, our devotion in tnit warft re Is sot ta Fremont but to Fro id am. Tbe bosses of tbe North American Coatiaeat are at slake. Whether the magaifioent plaint of the mighty West are to be inhabited by men of tbe high Genoa siaa mos or to be made the theater af s system which debases sear fovea af 1 humanity, it a question which j est snd thinking men cannon t but ponder. Tbe "clerisy" of the nation sre vitally interctted in its solution, and beaoe tbe glowing tea) with which tbey bare aaTwolllaflj of Riebet. A little boy sat by hi! mother. Re looked long at the fire snd was silent a a a a - When the deep th ought passed hit eye grew bright ns ba "Mother, I wish I was rieb." "Why do yon with yoa ware rieb. mysoeT" Tbe child taid, '1 every one praises tbe neb. inquires for them. Tbe our table yesterday asked wba was Iba richest m .n 10 tbe jvtl lege. At school there ii a boy who does not learn; be tskec no psins to say bis lessons well. Sometimes be spesks evil words. Bat the children don't Masse bins, far they say be is a wealthy boy." Tbe mother thought tbe child ia danger of believing wealth might take the place of goodness, ss am exeats for indolence, or cones them ta ba bald ia honor who lad unworthy Irvos. 60 she asked him, "VShstis it tobe rich?" He answered, "I do not know. Yon tell me how to become Heb. that all may ask after ate aad preise bbo." "To beeosne rieh is It get misaaj x For this yoa mast wait until yoa become s man." The boy looked sorrowful aad taid. 'is tbere not tome other way of becoming rieb, that I msy begia now?" "She answered. 'The gmn of money is not tbe only nor tho true wealth. Fires may burn it, tbe floods drown it. the winds may sweep it away, moth mty eat it, rust watet it, the robber may snake it hie trsy. are wearied with tbe toil of gettisjät , but they leave it behind at last Tjkty die and carry nothing nwny. Tbe soul of the richest prince of the esatb goeth forth, like thst of the wayside begger, without a garment. Theee who possess it are alwaya praittal by men. bntdo they receive the praise of God?" "When," said tbe bor, "any I begin to gather this ktad of riebaa, or most I wait till I am n asaa?" The mother laid bsr bead apon bis little hesd, aad said, "To-day, if ya will hesr bis voice; for Re halb proasisea mat inose who seek early And." B . S . äV a a " at aaav And the child said, "Teeoh I may become rieb before God." Then ihe looked tenderly on bim and ssid, "Kneel down every night sod morning, nnd ssk that yaw sway love the dear Savioar, aad trat! to Him. Obey bis word aad strive all the days of your Ufo tobe good ta all. So, though yoa may be poor io tbe world, yon shall be rieb as faith, aad an heir to the kingdom of heaven." A OooofjoksK "At ihe celebration In Bnttla Crk on the Fourth, while Prof Hieedale was readiog the Pnli liuo f lesnependence with thrilling effect, 0 toot P .t a a a loco sat in ibe crowd under the impeeetion that he was listening to Ibe ora tion When (he reader came to tie postage whieh charge O targe 1H. tv mong other things, with hsviag seattioned 'acts of pretended legis latioa.' our Bocbaaaa friend, not donbtinw that allusion was being made to Frank Pierce and the border raflUa lew In Kansas, jumped ap with tbe tion. 'Just as 1 amaetaa a Abolition harranra ' mmA la ik. ground 1 wearingTike a trooper. Tbis us literal 1W atSaTA man very was sent to tail- "Why did bail Lim oat?" inquired a byof a friend. "Bull hlsaoerj" , ed tbe other; "why you couldn't Map htm oat!" r

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