Marshall County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 8, Plymouth, Marshall County, 3 January 1856 — Page 2

Editor. PLYMOUTH, IND. Thursday Morning, Jan., 3, 1856, A HAPPY NEW YEAR Tu our patrons and friends and "the rest of mankind. Old Time for 1855, went uit with a terrible struggle gathering around him snow and ice, covered with hoar-frost for a funeral pile, he seemed to pass into a state of collapse that left the surface devoid of all life for days before hour come, and passed away like a victim t.f malignant cholera, Well, be has see n j enough during the past year to make him shudder, and the blood freeze in his veins, and he has witnessed as Strang things aa the sun 'ver shone upon. He has seen an alliance of England and France, which the great Emperor Napoleon said could never take place except to keep Russia from Constantinople, and even that alliance would ultimately lead to the expulsion from India bytthosc same Russians. Napoleon was right, doubtless, aüd we shall see. He has seen carnage, suffering and death; grinding ambition about Sebastopol to make good men weep and hypocritical professions in Albion and Gallia that disgust all honesty. He has seen Turkey lauded for her generosity to Kossuth, and Russia making the Black Sea useful which it never was to England before, and western Europe bubbling with internal commotion from oppression banded to not to protect the independence of Turkey but open a safety valve for the escape of the gasses that would explode themselves, and with a hope to get the oyster and leave Turkey and Russia the sliellHe has seen the gä2?G begun that will divide Turkev in Europe beiden Russia and the western Powers, and make x U?eY in Asia the outposts for the struggle yet to come on the sands of Hiudoostan first and on the plains of Syria last, which wipes England from tho map of nations, and and beams on Russia the light of civilization. He has seen Japan opened to foreign trade and her curiosities and valuable productions sent to the marts of the west. He has seen Chini" to tering to a change of Dynasty, which will open the empire to the iudustry and completion of western genius. He has seen the icebound nerth penetrated to the open sea around the jole by Capt. Kane, and the fate of the noble and long lost Sir. John Franklin revealed. He hitseen the seed sown for a great and might' republic in Australia, and the wilds of Central America passed by free men of the north, who will make it a Garden of Eden from ""whence sweetness and beauty and delicious luxury will flow to the uttermost part of the Earth. He has seen blood stained Mexico pass through another fiery ordeal and stand erect once more under a new government, to view the devastation around her, and try once more to hold her place among the nations. He has seen our own beautiful land blighted and cursed by the temporary reign of fanaticism and blood Freedom wrested from the hands of brothers by brothers and he has seen that fanaticism crushed by the might of truth, and the inevitable result of natures laws. He has seen the strength of free government te ted to the utmost by all the element of discord, and beheld it rise superior to the giant strength, that aims to crush it and he lookedwith hope upon the passing cloud of strife, that it might never return. He has seen the steps taken to unite the Atlantic and c by iron bands, over which commerce will ride in triumph and shout rejoicing thro' the wild plains and amid the snow-clad mountains, so long lying in natures proudest silence. Fare well old '55. The world may never see another year so eventful and changing, and we hope we shall all live to see your suc cessor, now so gleeful and young, laid away at the end of I is race. KANSAS. The troubles in Kansas appear to be over for the present. It is rather difficult to ascertain the immediate cause of the late difficulty, owing to the contradictory re ports which have been sent by Telegraph and newspaper correspondents. We think the article in to-days paper, taken from the St. Louis Democrat, gives the most satisfactory version of the affair, of any account we have read. It seems that Gov. Shannon was slightly draxced (?) by the reports of the Pro-sla very men, or he would not have called for assistance to preserve the peace and pro tect those who had not been molested. 5T The first number of Putnam's Mon thly Magazine for 1856 is received. It is neatly executed, and is decidedly nonpareil m quality of reading matter. New Year has just usHered in, and those wishing to present their friends something of real worth iJSpulLdo well to call at this office r cIi number, and subscribe for a JT Postage must be pre-paid by stamps i irom cow onward. JST Sec communication on High Taxes, Tßd Blnk-verw by Q. K.,' in this paper-

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(Continued from Last Week) Assesmcnti of 1855. Assessed value of taxables in German Township. Value of lands 067, 181; value of improvements 921,919; value of lands and improvements 889,100; value of personal property 863,107; total value of taxables 8154,427; number of Polls 162. North Township. Value of lands $55.469; value of improvements 812,517; value of lands and improvements 867,979, value of personal property 830,895; total value of taxable? 898,874; number of polls 112. Polk Township. Value of lands 855,33; value of improvements 814,985: value of Lands and improvements 870,310;

value of personal property 829,465; total vaiue 0f taxablea 399,775; number of polls 116. West Township. Value of lands 857,127; value of improvements 822,885; value of lands and improvements 880,012; valuoof personal property 8615,885; total value of taxables 8125,897, number of polls 120. Recapitulation. Total assessed value of land in Marshall Counte 8609,600; value of improvements 8182,550; value of lands and improvements 8722,150; value of lots and improvements 882,707; value of Corporation Stock 889,000; value of per sonal property 8592,133 total value of tax-' ables 81556,000 total number of polls, 1429. 1 I M Wc have laying before us, Graham's Magazine for the prsent month. It appears now as it always has to be one of ahe most neatly executed Mjgazines in the Union. It's engravings can not be surpassed, and the reading matter is of the very best, interesting and most instructive kind. Persons wishing to take a literary work of this kind, can not do better than to forward 83. to Abraham II. See, 106 chestnut street Philadelphia. 23T Godey's Lady's Book. Wc have received the January numberof this interesting; pretty, pica and valuable auxiliary to American Literature and Art; antl from a perusal of its contents, and aii examination of its illnstratioas, we have no hesitation in saying that it U "A. No. 1." TERMS CASH IN ADVANCE. One copy one year, 83. Two copies one year 85. Three copies one year 86. Five copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club, making six copies, 810. Eight copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club, making nine copies, 815. Eleven copies one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club, making twelve copies, 820. Irodey s Lady's Book, and Harper s Magazine, both one year for 84,50. Godey s Lady s Book, and Arthur s Home Magazine, both one year for 83,50 Address L. A. GODEY, No. 113 Chesnut Street, Philadelphia. For the Democrat. HIGH TAXES. Mr. Editor: I notice considerable sparring" in our papers about "High Taxes;" and one of the writers on the sub ject gets decidedly eloquent in his compo sition, and shows an acquaintance with hard names quite commendable if he has been a scholar at that kind of study, and great intuitive knowledge if he has not. I have lived a good many years, and been a close observer of men and the results of social relations, and as the tax payers seem to take considerable interest, and are terribly burthened with high rates, I propose to submit a few ideas on the subject of "high taxes." Every government must have its revenue to support it, and though tariffs are the least felt, yet direct taxation is the most equal. It is also the most beneficial, for it enables the tax payer to see tchatha is paying, and if burthened, enables and nearly forces him to seek a remedy. In the articles that have appeared," attributing our high taxes to various causes, such as the poor farm, support of the pool, fcc, fcc; the views taken are but another effect of the one great cause, and another evidence that the positions I am about to take are correct: for in giving the reasons they only look at the consequences and not at tho causes. Men can only act so far as they can see, and hence the difference in their social and political stations. So long as our children are taught every thing but the principles of their political and social existence, and that is left untaught, so long they must see erroneously and act blindly. So long as the Constitution is not taught in our schools and the principles on which governments are founded are never lectured upon or brought before our youth, so long they must be unable to govern themselves successfully. So long as the rudiments of law are left untouched, while a mere instruc tion is given sufficient to enable a man to tell how many rails will lay a rod of fence, or how many pennies make a dollar, and how many dollars makes him better than his neighbor, just so long results will follow of proportionate benefit. So long as men who can neither read nor write are permit ted to choose rulers by means of mitten instruments, the effect of which they are unable to calculate, and are aroused to ac tion by the language of stump speaking demagogues, whose language they do not understand, so long they must be rode for hobbie horses, and good men must suffer for tho folly of others. Let us in stance: A Legislator in this State gets 83,00 a day and can sit only 60 days, no matter how urgent the business, or how mcc6sary time is, to consider. He gets

cur&v-i or his labor and gets poorer in purse. 'In sult ig that no quaiifiei mau will accept the office demagogues, seek-in-to gain distinction from tüc eeneral mass, ride in as. to a stepping stone to something hi.gher,and give us the fruits ol their xewt of sense, by crude, ill-digested enactments, hurried through without consideration, by putting a Governor's salary at 81000, per year a Judge's salary at 8600, 81000, a County Commissioner's at 83,00 per day and other offices at a per centage that a penny broker would laugh at. The Governor gets in and uses his place to get to Congress, or in some other station, and the interests of the State are uncared for. The third rate lawyer can alone be got to take tho bench in many cases, and courts are so conducted as to add double to legislation and twenty fold to expense. The laws arc so made as to get up endless disputes and disgust the people,and they neglect the ballot box, and say it is no use to go to elections. A Township Trustee gets 75 cents a day and he lets the educational interests of a thousand children pass uunoticcd and merely qualifies to save a penalty. Universal

ignorance of the true principles of government prevails, and the mass cannot see where tho evil is. Men in office must and wi.i have good play, and corruption follows "with many & some aro so nnq'lificd that their blunders make double work and expense, and confusion confounded follows as natural as night follows day. Millions are spent to repair what thousands would have made substantial at ßrsl if rightly applied. Is'. Let the Constitution, the decisions under it, and the principles of Common Law be taught in our schools, and teachers hired qualified to teach it, and paid for it; and thousands of young men will prepare themselves and come forth, in the place of leaving it to boys too lazy to work, and girls unqualified for anything. 2nd. Let a price be paid men who Legislate that will not compel a man to beggar himself to act as such: and let them sit as long as is necessary to weigh well and perfect the matter proposed. Tho money that v"'ild be paid then would come from the people, aud be paid in our own State, and go back to bo spct by them among the people again. Then men would fro found full of integrity and wisdom, and laws wo'd stand as a perpetual revision, unaltered and beneficial. j 3rd. Give a salary to a judge worth more than a mere pettifoggers practice in a justice' court. Give enough to call forth the services of age, experience and profound legal knowledge, clothed with dignity, and laws will not become a by-word and a synonym for contempt, and court sessions will be shorter, and petty litigations obselcte. Fix the salary of a justice of the Peace at a point that will make it an object for a qualified man to seek it, and compel him to procure a certificate of qualifications from an able judge to make him eligible. Do the same bv a Sheriff and Constable, Clerk and Auditor and Treasurer. Abolish costs in all honest and fair cases, and let the jury or judge assess them against the dishonest party in all unfair ca ses, and hold cveiy office to the strictest accountability. 4th. Fine and imprison every nu n who should be found in ihe streets intoxicated, and punish the officer who shonld refuse to act on the fact being brought to his knowledge. Whiskey shops would be dried up, and drunkards unknown. Pay Township officers a fair price for duties, and the coicardly la 10 would not have to provide a penalty of S5,or 810, for a refusal to accept office, and they would work for the interest of their p:e.;inct of authority. Let an asylum for the poor be established, with a good farm, and give a qualified man a good salary as a superintendent, and have him labor and carry it on and make good provisions; and the property would soon be a source of revenue instead of expense, as many couuty farms arc now in New York. Select three men for county Commissioners the best in the county give them a good salary and let them attend to the county business school lands, funds and all, and make it their exclusive business two months out of three. Let them view all the roads and lay them out let them enforce the duties of supervisors. Let them be a perpetual court subject to heavy penalties for failure or corruption.and roads would be permanent, well worked and useful; and not located to-day by men unqualified with too much business of their own on hand or in too big a hurry or inter ested, and then turn up in a month by an other set of the same kind, and so on ad in finitum, at the expense of the County. Let them look to the Clerk's, Auditor's and Treasurer's offices, act as Coroners, ap p raise lands, assess taxes and do all the businebS that belongs to tho county as a sovereignty, and as apart of the State.Ability cannot be obtained for nothing, andability and integrity being wortJyof good pay, can always be had for it. Ten years would see a now set of voters going to the polls, intelligent enough to act advisedly aud too wise for dema gogues to ride, Twenty years would see almost universal intelligenc among the masses, and virtue would bo in attendance as a natural consequ ence. Jails would be empty, common benevolence would make the poor rates nominal. The amount of taxables would be increased 500 per cent J x t 1- Ft I ana taxes De eunit in proportion. Jign Taxes would be assessed only in tho pages of past history, and the calling of hard names by writers on tho subject would be

found only of these (ays and would be thought of with pity. The people, the voters, the sovereigns of this great and free State are alone to be blamed for their burthens, and the remidy is in their own hands begging unheard to be applied. CROQUILLE. DEPARTURE Ol THB OLD YEAR. Far o'er Ue ice-bound lake, The distant chiming of te village bell Comes softly stealing; tfc iron tongue has struck The midnight hour: thesiagic number 'twelve! And as the last sweet cfemea yet lingered in The frosty air, filling iu noisy echoes With a strange yet thrilbg melody, a Long-drawn sigh, low, sal, but sweet, Seemed gushing from thi bosom of the dark Forest, as if each leailes&rce andb ush And rtump, instinct with life had breath 'd; while From the distant mountain top there came a moan, Plaintive and low, like the gentle sighing Of the evening breeiD, aa it softly lifts The fluttering leaves And bourne on unseen wings Myriads of airy tongies seemed floating by. Filling the frosty uiririth a strange whispering. Along the whitened ticeof the frost bound-earth A shudder ran with cackling sound, which shook Tho icy branches of te naked trees. TV unfastened casement rattled with a jar. That chilled the very life-blood, and the door Half shut, swungslowly to, with wild and Dismal creak. The watchful house-dog whining, Sought his kennels farthest nook. The sleepy Cat upon the hearth rug ope'd her glistening Fiery eyes, and watched with strange unquiet Glance the dim fantistic shadows, cast on The papered wall, by the fa;nt flame that rose

r lick'nng from the embers in the grate. The grotesque figures on the carved wall Seemed dancing wildly 'mong the woven trees As the pale light now stronger grew, then in Waiving flashes slowly 6unk in darkness. The Clock upon the mantel-piece grew still; Thrice three times three the tireless pend'lum Swung nor ticked nor gave a sound ;but with whirr That sounded thro' the bouse the hand upon The dial -plate went slowly back a space. The cattle in the stall rose up and looked Hither and thither but nothing saw, yet There they felt a presence. The timid sheep Huddled together closely, as if they felt A nameless fear; while o'er the eastward grove Rose mournfully the watch-dogs dismal howl. The slumbering child nestled uneasily 1 n its sleep, and all unconsciously The mother clasped her infant charge closer To her breast, as if in sleep Ehe felt A danger threatening. 'Twas only for A moment. Then all was still and the world Again was sleeping. But in that moment brief, A mighty change had taken place; a change That throughout all the vast extent of time And boundless space was felt and marked: with that Deep sigh the Old Year breathed its last. And as it passed away into that dim Eternity, the Past, all Nature, boh Animate and inanimate uttered Involuntarily a last farewell Responsive to itsdvinEreroan. 'Tis eonc And numbered with the things that were, the Year tiRhteen Hundred r ifty-five, behind ua Hides away. Aurora with a mantling blush And Sol with flaming brow, salute the Earth And hail with joy the birth of A NEW YEAR! Q. K. ERIN. BT ANN AMI W. SAWYER. O, Erin, how long shall the Sashnash Polutc with his presence thy shores. How long shall the Vandal and robber. Leave famine and death at the door? How long till the spirit of freedom. Makes hot the life-blood in thy vein?, And shouts from the pulpit and forum, No hope but rebellion remains. How long till the ruffian invader, Is woke from his peaceful repose? How long ere the lyon of Britain Weeps blood 'neaththy terrible blows? Once gem of the ocean and fairest, Of all the preen spots on its waves, Thy destiny is not forever To shelter a nation of slaves. The sun will yet rise in its splendor, Thy children yet to thee return From the clime of the generous stranger, Where tyranny's victkas sojourn. Yet, yet, ye may stand as a power Amon the proud empires of earth. If ye will but raise the war slogan, Arouse the stout sons ye gave birth.' Death, death to the scarlet usurpers! Revenge for the Emmet that died In the bloom of his life and his glory. For the Fitzgerald mercy denied. Revenge for dark years of fell bondage. For huge wrongs so patiently borne, One sweep from thy people united, And thou art no longer forloru. Portage County O., 1K5 Confusion in Uexico Prospects of the Future. This might be kept as a standing head from one year's end to another. One wonders, in view of the constant commotion in that unhappy country, how any sort of society or government is sustained. Our last intelligence from Veru Cruz, dated the 7th, stated that the Alveraz Ministry was broken up; and Alveraz himself was going south, and that Bomonfort was "going over to the enemy." From other accounts there is reason to suppose that the announcement is premature, though there is not much prospect of a long continuance of the present order of things. All accounts, however, agree in stating that the general condition of affairs in Mexico could not well be worse. Pronunciamentos, robberies, murders, and disorders of all kinds are so common as to seem the natural order of things. The difficulties with which Alveraz has had to contend will be seen from the following: "The Church, again, is up in arms against the government whenever it can find the slightest pretext for basing its opposi tion the plea of interference with religion. The mass of the jeoplc arc so enthralled by devotion, prejudice and superstitiou, that it will require the greatest tact to prevent them from rushing incontinently to the support of the priesthood. And then there is the army, with which there is scarcely less difficulty in dealing than with the clergy. Officers and men alike want the public support it affords; and among the former besides, aro not a few whose ambition excites them to more de signing opposition to the government. The most imjortant decree lately promulgated is one of the 30th ult., depriving ecclesiastical Judges of jurisdiction in civil cases, and requiring them to forego it, and to hand over to tho secular authorities all such cases at present pending. The consequence of this has boen to bringdown the direct opposition of tho clergy, with the Bishop of Mexico at their head. The latter had, previously to its promulgation.

protested against it, and subsequontly to its passage had declared that he could not comply with it, but would have to appeal to the Pope on the subject, as no other authority could release him from the oath he had taken to maintain these privileges, and tbis jurisdiction of the church. This was a subject of discussion, up to the date of the latest intelligence. On the one hand,

even by soi disant liberal papers, the Bish op and clergy are supported; and on the other, Senor Jeruz, the Minister signing the decree, is but moderately supported. A report had been circulated that the government had issued a decree against the Bishop, and had it in contemplation at once to tako in hand the question of mortmain, but was subsequently denied. Among tho peculiar institutions of the government of His Serene Highness was that of paying the Pupa's Nuii'.-io ut of , the public crib. A u ' !:?v.- .. " .' i n me nt stopped up that leak, it is supposed the Apostolic Legate, seeing he would hereafter have to lef it on the slender lesources of the Holy See, has had a hand in the transaction. Singular institution, all that for a republic: don't you think so? Santa Anna and General Blanco, his Minister of War, are both declared deserters from the army by a decree of the Government the first for having fled from the republic, and Blanco for not having presented himself and made knownn his existence Ina legal mannor." It is obvious that the cherub in Mexico, which should be the fountain of morals and intelligence, is a dread weight upon the people, using all of its power and influence to keep them down. It has monopolized four-fifths of all the available wealth of the country, shut up all the avenues to general intelligence, and allowed the people to sink into the most hopeless degradation. Their material and spiritual condition are alike lamentable. While the people are ignorant, stupid and visciuus, the country is destitute of the first elements of material prosperity. The soil i3 only sufficiently tilled to afford the b rest subsistence for the people; there is very little commerce; there are next to no manufacturers,of course no advance in the arts; and with every Dassinjx dav there is less ture. hope for the fu'F2?is general hopelessness and decadence socially ad politically, arc due in some measure to the race, who, being mainly of Indian origin, inherit W inertness of character and an inaptitudo for improvement which would, perhaps under the most favorable circumstances, preclude their advance to a very high state of civilization.But the church which holds them in bondacre could have done much f r their elevation; could have taught them decent morals, and given them at least the elements of an intellectual education. All this it should havo done, but has miserably failed to do; and we see no hope for Mexico while the little energy which they possess is thus crushed down. A law of mortmain, as above suirsrested, such as has already been carried into e fleet in Spain, would be the first stop towards the freedom and elevation of tho Mexican people. (From t!u St Louis Domoerat.) The Kansas Difficulties- Whc 3 to Blame? Quiet having been r.6tored in that part of Kansas Territory w hich has lately been the scene of an incipient civil war, altogether without a precedent in our history, it becomes us calmly to review the facts of the case, as they have transpired principally in journals devoted to the interest of Atchison, Stringfellow fc Co., and inquire in the light of these facts, who are to blame for the wroncjand outrage inflicted during theseunhappydisturbanc.es? This is the more incumbent on us as Missourians, as the reputation of the whole State would be seriously compromised, should it appear that any considerable portion of our citizens, representing at all fairly the public sentimentof the Commonwealth, had sanctioned, aided or abetted the preconcerted attempt to drive a moiety of the citizens of Kansas from the soil of which they are in legal and peaceable possession, merely cn the ground that they are opposed to the making of Kansas a Slave State. The proximate cause or pretext of the difficulty occurred on or about the first of the present month. A dispute growing out of trespass arose between two men named Coleman and Dow, in consequence of which the former killed the latter. We care not to touch the question whether Dow did or did not trivc Coleman sufficient provocation for perpetrating this deed of blood; let us waive that inquiry for the sake of the argument. Dow is shot down lies dead on the road. Coleman flees, without an effort to apprehend him, and bring him to justice. Buckly, who occupies an adjoining claim, afterwards swears out a warrant against certain parties, alleging the ridiculous charge that they had endeavored to intimidate him into the promise of swearing to hang Coleman, by threatning his life if he refused. On this warrant Sheriff Jones apprehends a man by the name of Branson, who was subsequently rescued, though there is 'no evidence to show that tho rcseue was effected by any of the people of Lawrence, or that they shielded and protected the parties who interfered between tho Sheriff and his prisoner. Granting that Dow was in tho fault, what had Branson done? Coleman with his hands yet reeking with a brother's blood, is still at larg nnd n.- r.fTUvr f the law is scut in pursuit of him; while

son, a man against whom no definite charge is preferred; so far as we can judge from the exparte statements of the defenders of the action of Shannon and his crew, is taken pi isoner and marched off to Lccompton, the county seat. Reports also of house-burn-ings and the driving out of defenceless women and children into the bleak prairie under a midnight sky, have reached us; but again, if these did occur, of which we have only a vague and most unsatisfactory rumor, there is no proof whatever that they were accomplished through the agency of the men of Lawrence or any of the Free State party. At this period of the troubles, the magnanimous and valiant Shannon appears upon the stage. He issues a proclamation, which would do honor to Bombastes Furioso or to the heroic knight of La Maueha.

His viion becomes troubled with images of heavens reddened with tue blaze of midnight conflagrations, and an earth drenched with fratricidal blood. He sees in the fact that the citizens of Lawrence, having good right to apprehend expulsion from their homes and firesides, had made formidable preparations for defence, and were determined to fall, if fall they must, beside the hearths and altars whose sancti ty ther were protecting. He calls the militia of the Territory 'to arms' in defence of 'law and order,' words which seem to have acquired in Kansas a luous a non lucendo meaning. The telegraphic wires thrill and throb with a message to the President, invoking the aid of the United States troopo stationed at Fort Leavenworth, to quell the fearful rising. The restless and dissipated of the adjoln-

ing border counties in our State cannot re- j anj sympathised with this foul wrong and sist so eligible an opportunity to indulge j disgiL-. Now that peace has Liken the in the luxury of a fight. 'They are ready j phce of turbulence and imminent bloodto die of peace; for since the latest demon- j sjicj fr tjie present, one might think that stratum at Parkville, not a single chance for j tiiC wuolo was wisely ordered to confound, the display of their characteristic ruffian- j put tu fo, liU& pulverize an influence ism has occurred. They break into the j w,i,.ü has'long been an incubus up-n the United States arsenal at Liberty; seize up-1 rjsinjf grMtne.ss of Missouri, and which, on the arms'and amunition there stored, and I lloulj"it ever i isc to a commanding posirush across the border. Atchison is among tion which God forbid would make her them and takes an active part in their pro- i troVor lfy7 face for very shame. cteJings. They invest Lawrence, and anx- j yQ jKlYe shown that tl ere was no cause com- for t.i0 proclamation of war issued by Gov. meuce the massacre of the damned Van-1 shannon. far from the Free JSoilers of

kees. With an aping of the pomp and circum stances of glorious war, which would be ridiculous, had it not resulted in wholesale wrong and rapine. Shannon, Stringfellow and Atchison beset the highways with

their liscensed footpads and banditti, un- j tW pro.slaVery men were determined to der the facetious names of patrols, who way- put tu ,.ath ftn0ther free State man, Branlay the wagons of peaceable farmers and LorK This was resisted, and this resistance tradesmen going to Lawrence, and at the j was llie pr,.tt.xt fr hnniu-n war Vlh lamouth of the pistol compel them to give up j m.r il.5;aIKi bet-aus d c j c; y l: ofL' W-en.v ihe contents of their vehicles, which the j pivp;irvd for lh war ..,va.;l!;.;i ;.:ü:;,t miscreants appropriate. j them, Atchison a-d i i- brn-Jki ;.vr.il0J In the meantime tie men of Lawrence j tli0niscives f. p:,t Xt t.. ,Wr. cu.rin;.. calmly await the attack, strong in the jus- j K:llISaS!( 1o massacre th damned Yankees, tice of their quarrel, and in the conscious- j T1;ev WJj 1 j. ,ubtl.s-s have put their inienness of a brave adherence to what with j tio!l'j!lto execution if they had found the them is a principle. They are seven hun- j e lo of jwrom.c unprepared. If thev

dred strong, while two hundred more will i be forthcoming w ith the first crack of firearms. Their weapons are the famous Sharpe's rifles, which carry a ba1.! with deadly force and precision farther than any I .ther rifle now in use. There are among I them savage shouts and veils, and mil n?ght orgies. They look forward to the result with no apprehensions of defeat, though regretting the possible necessity of shedding human blood. A battle has become imminent and is momently expected. Shannon finds he has no braggart cowards to deal with, and discovers how much easier it is to raise a storm than to quell it. He is in fear of his own men, whose turbulence and recklessness havo no bounds, now that their appetite for blood has been rendered keen by a delay they did not anticipate. He is forced to mediate between the parties whom, along with his choiee confreres Stringfellow and Atchison, he has been principally instru-. mental in bringing into hostility. The proposition to treat comes from him. The Lawrence people are asked to give up thier arms, and they refuse. Finally the state of warfare is terminated by the promise of the people of Lawrence that they will obey the laws, which they maintain thev never broke. The valiant borderers withdraw; without reaping a single oue out of the blood-stained laurels of the battle field. The air is filled with their curses of Shannon, for robbing them of an opportunity of showing their pluck. Shannon, Stringfellow and Atchison realize again the poet's graphic description of militarr clergy and prowess: , f Th Kig of France with fortj thouiml men. Marched up a hill, and then marttvu down again. We believe that this narrative of the events of this erneuteste far inside of the whole truth; and what a picture of personal degradation and violation of all law does it present! Now we wish to inquire, granting even that a portion of the people of Kansas, were in open insurrection against tho laws; what right had these hordes of border banditti to invade tho soil of that Territory, and enlist themselves in support of Gov. Shannon? What businoss had they there? What law or what precedent would justify their interference in the affairs of a free and sovereign Territory? What right had Shannon and Stringfellow to invite, encourage or countenance thoir presence in arms, in commonwealth of which they were not citizens? Is this tho application which tho Douglas men of Kansas make of the maiu principle j of the K Jijan-kUincy of Knnsas Bill 'he right and coipeevery tate and Territory to reg-

ulate thcit-jwn concerns unmolested by any foreign pot er whatever? "Was there ever a more glarng inconsistency, or a more glaring outrage, than that by which Shannon and his minions have sought to overawe and crush a portion of the people of Kansas, by introducing a gang of lawless desperadoes upon their soil, armed to the teeth with weapons obtained by breaking open a UniteU States Arsenal? Has ih; civi'ized world ever beheld a more disgraceful, barbarous and savage spectacle? Next to this indignity is that of defending these men on the ground that thy are Missourians; making the whole State, a large majoiky of whose citizens utterly repudiate such unheard of violation of all right and decency, respoijfc:.l)Io for the enormities of a handful of fiHibustcrs. Missouri is not to be held accountable for the action of a horde of unprincipled cut-throats wLo, having sport c 1 w ith human life and property in their own State, now follow their notorious ring-leader into Kansas, and pant to imbue their h?nds in the blood of its rightful and peaceful citizens. A retribution is coming for all this. It will come upon Gov. Shannon wi:h a v-.n-"eancc. The sober second thought of the

people of Kansas of all parties, and tho voice of an indignant public reprobation resounding throughout the countrv, w ill cover him with an infamy as deep and incflacablc as was the blood-spot upon the hand of Lady Macbeth. If there is in that lowest hell of desperate politicians a lower deep. an oh as Milton saw with the eye of imagination, that abyss which human plumbiino never sounded, is reserved for Davy Atchison and those of his faction who have sided j Jin ren making any armed insurrection. the whole affair arose from the murder of a Fi ee State man, Dow, by a pro-slavery man, Coleman. No attempt was made to pun ish Coleman bv the Free State men, but had f((U!1(1 Liwu-nce undefended thev would have left it a smoking ruin, or quenched its tire with t'ie hi- o l of men unresisting, and ierhars cf women and children. But thev f iUn l ,h., mon ofLa,7rencc jnarmSf ;md as a mHlWr of coursc Such braggadocois a Stringfellow, and such dough faces as Shannon hacked square out, and came back tMissouri with a lie to cover their coward -ic. that the people of Lawrer.ci had burrendered, just as the same men had covered their invasion and intention to commit murder, with the lie that the people of Lawrence were in a state of insurrection, when the only outrage committed was the killing i of a freesoiler by a pro-slavery man. In piof that we have exaggerated nothing, wo give extracts from the pajKrs in the interest of Atchison and his banditti; we give .. their own account of the difficulty. The different dispatches sent from one Missouri town to another, calling upon the people of Missouri to invade a neighboring Territory for the purpose of interfering with its concerns, with which our people had no business to interfere. It is -clear -that Shannon's force consisted entirely of Missourians; that he made a pretext when no cause of disturbance really existed; that the pretext was seized upon by Atchison and his banditti with an avidity which showed it tobe preconcerted; that the whole affair was intended to arouse a feeling in the Misouri Legislature which was to car-, ry Atchison into the Senate of the United States, and that as soon as Atchison Sound he had armed mcniantTnot unresisting xat and defenceless women to contend with, ho showed more alacrity to retire tliau ho had done to advance- upon the town of .Lawrence. The Legislature of Misssouri havo shown their appreciation of Atchison's attempt to enlist them in his favor. It passed himajid his Kansas-Nebraska bill by in silent contempt. Those who wore elected as. his friends became ashamed of him, and would not have voted for him again Cr Senator. itiT'Sevcral of our liquor li sre being put through o'.i xi last 1. i r Ji.-Jp. Jones of the Court t" tVmtu :i Fk;;s, uys in session. Tho d.-c;:ic;n or :.i her the want ofdecisi m, of tbo Supreme Court, leaves tho retailing clause of the Liquor Law in full force. JSeveral retailing es. abhshments are closed this morning, aud the presumptino is, they must all follow suite. ro case has been decided yet. Ixifayctte Courier, X?Tho tir&t church edifice erected in Kansas w ill he at Lawrence, for the use of UnitarLm society. Woman eoumands w ith a rmfd tone.

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