Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1859 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE.

RENSSELAER, IND. WBDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2a 1859

OC?"To nil of our readers, each an every one, W 2 wish a Happy New Year. fcirL et those who are feasting themselves these holiday times, remember the poor about the-in.'" oyster supper last Saturday night, given by the officers of the Rensselaer Rifles to the company, passed off very pleasantly to all. man was put in jail on yesterday afternoon, chaTged with bastardy, from Wheatfielt} township. Wc did not learn his name. (CjyAt last, through the politeness of Turner A. Knox,, we have, procured a copy of the Legislative Swamp Land Report, which we will publish in full next week. members of the Calliopean Literary Club, with their wives and sweethearts, partook ulf an oyster supper and other good “fixings,” at Alfred Thompson’s last night. They had a good time. (£ylt is said that a large number of mail contractors are suffering greatly for want of pay due them from government. Many of them haye informed the department that unless appropriations are made early in Januarv, they will throw up their contracts.

FATHERS OF RENŚELAER!

\Ve are requested to state that there will be a meeting of the citizens of Rensselaer, next Saturday night, at the Treasurer's office, to take, steps toward building a school house.

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

The Republican National Committee, after a 'loner and animated discussion of the merits of the different places suggested for J.lie holding of the ndxt National Republican Convention, have decided to hold at Chicago on the 13th day of June, 1860. The call invites :! the Republican electors ol the several States, the members of the People’s party of Pennsylvania, and of the Opposition party of New Jersey,” and all others who t.re willing, to co-Qperntc with the Republicans in the election of President in 1860.

CONGRESSIOAAL.

No Speaker of the House of Representative? has been elected. The vote last Saturday evening (the twenty-first ballot) stood .as follows: Shennsoi, Republican 100 .Boctick, Democrat 20 Gilmer, South American 17 Houston. Democrat. ....... . 17 Olay,, Democrat 9 Davis, Douglasitd 11 Scattering among 19'Candidates 32 Necessary to a choice. .104 Ever since the twelfth ballot Sherman has lacked but four votes of an election, except on one occasion, when he lacked but three, in consequence of the-pbsence of Reynolds' of New York, who is opposed to Sherman.

"THE IMPENDING CRISIS."

This book, written by Mr. Helper, of North Carolina, and which has received such an extraordinary advertisement at the hands of Southern Fire-eaters in the halls of Congress, will recoil on their heads with speedy and terrible effect. Whether the influence of the book be for good or evil, one thing is certain, namely, that, after the unheard of effort by the Representatives of the slaveholders to prevent this,book from falling into hands of the non-slaveholders of the South, the latter class, if they are made of such stuff as freemen should be made of, will procure it, and read it too, at all hazards and at every cost. It is not the nature of mankind, and especially of American citizens, to tamely submit to the gross insult and outrage of Having a self-constituted aristocracy of slaveholders say to them what books or papers they shall read, and what they shall not. The papers of the South say that all white men who are found with Helper’s book in their possession should be indicted for treason. Many Southern postmasters stop Nothern journals in the United States males, while on their way to Southern subscribers. But two or three week ago the postmaster at Parkersburg, Va., wrote to Horace Greeley that, thereafter, he would burn all copies of the New York Tribune

coming to his office. The Warrentovvn (Va .) Flag having learned that over twenty copied of the New York Tribune are taken at the postoffices of Prince William county, eugge'sted, a few days ago, that those receiving them should not only bo presented before the Grand Jury and fined heavily, but dealt with even more severely. ■ Now, does any sane man for one moment believe that the non-slaveholders of the South will submit, to such a degrading position as receive through the • siv-ycnolder.-, hands, by the slaveholders approbation, ail tile books and pipers '•••,! *!; ■• nr y d'-see road. ; Ii they will tun - sot-m t ■ n kuitiryj, odoim. tyranny of loss

than three hundred and fifty thousand slaveholders, they are more degraded than the slaves themselves, and deserve the scorn and contempt of their black brethren for their lack of manhood and want of nerve to maintain their personal liberty. But we are far from believing that such is the case. We believe that those of the South who desire to see the New York 7\ibune or Helper’s book, or any other paper or book, whether they be for slavery ur against it, whether slaveholders or non-slaveholders, will yet teach the Fire-eaters, in Congress and out, that slavery is not the only interest in the South. When non-slaveholders of theSouth get to reading Helper’s book, as they most assuredly will after what has transpired in Congress—it not being in the power of man to prevent them—they will discover that the South is behind the North in every particular, so far as wealth, prosperity, energy, enterprise, morality and intelligence are concerned; that in the item of land alone its/Value would be more than enhanced ten times. In free New Jersey land averages .“$28,90 per acre; in slave North Carolina it averages only *1,32. Helper proves that the hay crop of the North exceeds the cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar and hay crops of tin 1 South by three millions and a half of dollars yearly. In fact, he demonstrates by figures that every kind of property would be unprece-: dentedly increased in value. When these i facts are made known to the six millions of whites in the South, will they longer submit to the iron rule of a third of a million of slaveholders! We think not. We give below a couple of extracts from ' the book in question, which contain the pas- j ! sages that seem to give the Fire-eaters so ; much anxiety, although we suspect that the tables of statistics give them more uneasiness than anything else in the work. “So it seems that the total number of actual slave-owners, including their entire crew of cringing lickspittles against whom we have to contend, is but three hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty five. Against this army for the defense and propagation of slavery, we think it will be an easy matter —independent of the Degrees, who, in nine cases out of ten. would be delighted with an opportunity to cut their masters’ throats, and without accepting of a single recruit from either of the Free States, England, France or Germany—to muster 1 one at least three times as large, and far I more respectable for its utter extinction. | We hope, however,'and belicvej.hat the mat- j ter in dispute may be adjusted without ar- 1 raying these. “""inilt eacn oilier in 1 hostile attitude. We desire peace.not war —•. justice, not blood. Give us-fair-play, secure to us the right of discussion, the freedom of speech, and wo will .settle the difficulty at the ballot-box; not on thg battle-ground—by force of reason, not by force of arms. But j we arc are wedded to one purpose from which 1 no earthly power can ever divorce us. We j are determined to abolish slavery at all haz- ' ards—in defiance of all the opposition, oh whatever nature, which it is possible for the ! slavocrals to bring against us. Of this they | may take due notice, and govern themselves j accordingly.”— Page 1-19. Pretty strong language that, but not near j as strong and offensive as the language of many Southern Congressmen during almost j any session of Congress. Within the pres- j ent month Mr. Millson, of Virginia, said in the hall of our National Representatives, that those who endorsed such sentiments as were in Helper’s book were unfit to live and ought to die! No Democrat jumped up in his seat to rebuke such language, and hurl the insult back in the face of lie who was so mean as to utter it; but, what is still more disgraceful, on the twentieth ballot for Speaker, (the last we have seen at this writing,) this same Millson stood next to Sherman in number of votes. The following is Mr. Helper's plan for abolishing slavery: 1. Thorough organization and independent political action on the part of the nonslaveholding whites of the South. 2. Ineligibility of slaveholders—never another vote to the trafficker in human fleshy 3. No co-operation with slaveholders in politics—no fellowship with them in religion—no affiliation with them in society. 4. No patronage to slaveholding merchants—no guestship in slave-waiting hotels—no fees to slaveholding lawyers—no employment of slaveholding physicians—no audience to slaveholding parsons. 5. No recognition of pro-slavery men, except as ruffians, outlaws, and criminals. 6. Abrupt discontinuance of subscription to pro slavery newspapers. 7. The greatest possible encouragement to free white labor. 8. No more hiring of slaves by n jn-slave-holders.

9. Immediate death to slavery, or if not immediate, unqualified proscription of its advocates during the period of its existence. 10. A tax of sixty dollars on every slaveholder lor each and every negro in his possession at the present time, or at any intermediate time between now nnd the 4th of July, 1863—said money to be applied to the transportation of tho blacks to Liberia, to their colonization i« Central or South America, or to their comfortable settlement within the boundaries of the United States. 11. An additional tax of forty dollars per annum to be levied annually, on every slaveholder for each and every negro found in his possession ufter the 4th of July, 1863—said money to be paid into the hands of the negroes so held in slavery, or, in case of death,, to their next of kin, and to be iised by them at their own option.— Page 155'.

{£y' Bnynrd Taylor says that, when he first visited Humboldt, he sliow-ed him a chameh on.and idler pointing cut hi ; ngular eyes, said, “One peculiarity of tins eat urn is" his now. r o> looking two ways at, the s-j mo tine, lie ran li t me eyi to il uven, while he hi rr m :ins fixed to (lie earth. Pie rt .ire | many clergymen who have the same faculty.

MR. FILLMORE'S LETTER.

lie Pitches into the Douglas men, The letter of ex-President Fillmore came up with a manliness quite unexpected in the New York Union meeting. While almost all the other speeches and letters were entirely one-sided, the ex-President boldly put the responsibility of the present agitation where it belongs, by avowing that it arose from the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. We commend the epistle to the reflection of those Union savers who participated in that nefarious transaction: “Buffalo, Dec. 16, 1859. “ Gentlemen: Your letter of the 1 3th reached !me yesterday, enclosing a call for a public j meeting in New York city, headed: “The | North and the South—Justice and Fraternity,” inviting me to be present on the occasion. As no time is specified, I hasten to respond by saying that the object of the meeting have my most hearty approval, but | 1 have long since withdrawn from any pari ticipation in politics beyond that of giving ; my vote for those whom I deem the best and : safest men to govern the country; and I have | uniformly, since I was at the head of the [government, declined all invitations to at- ! tend political meetings; yet, in view of the | present stormy aspect and threatening teni dency of public events, did I feel that, my I presence at your meeting could, in the least, , tend to allay the growing jealousy between [ the North and the South, I should, at some j personal inconvenience, accept your invita- | lion, and cordially join you in admonishing the country, North and South, to mutual forbearance toward each other, and to cease crimination and recrimination on both sides, and endeavor to restore again that fraternal leeling and confidence which have made us a great and happy people. “But it seems to me that if my opinions are of any importance to my countrymen, they now have them in a much more responsible and satisfactory form than I could ! give them by participating in the proceedings of any meeting. My sentiments-on this unfortunate question of slavery, and the constitutional rights of the South in regard to it, have not changed since they were made manifest to the whole country by the performance of a painful duty in approving and enforcing the fugitive slave law. What the Constitution gives I would concede at every sacrifice. I would not seek to enjoy its benefits without sharing its burthens and responsibilities. I know of no other rule of political rights and expediency. These were my sentiments then—they are my sentiments now. I stand by the Constitution of my country at erery hazard, and I am prepared to maintain it at every sacrifice. “Here I might stop; butjsince I have yielded to the impulse to write, I would not hesitate to express Very ufleiiy, my views on one or two events which have occurred since j j. retired from office, and which, in all probability, have given rise to your meeting. This I cannot do intelligibly, without a brief reference to some events which occurred during my administration. “All must remember that in 1849 and 1850 the country was severely agitated on this disturbing question of slavery. The contest grew out of the acquisition of new territory from Mexico, and a contest between the North and the South as to whether slaves should be tolerated in any part of that territory. Mixed up with ? this was a claim on the part of the slaveholding States, that the provision of the Constitution for the rendition as fugitives from service should be made available, as the laws of 1793 on the subject, which depended chiefly on State officers for its execution, had become inoperative because State officers were not obliged to perform that duty. “After a severe struggle, which threatened the integrity of the Union, Congress finally passed laws settling these questions; and the government and the people for a time seemed to acquiesce in that compromise as a final settlement of this exciting question; and it is exceedingly to be regretted that mistaken ambition or the hope of promoting a party triumph should have tempted any one to raise this question again. But in an evil hour this Pandora’s box of slavery was again opened by what I conceive to be an Unjustifiable attempt to force slavery into Kansas by a repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the flood of evil now swelling and threatening to overthrow the Constitution, and sweep away the foundation of the government itself, and deluge this land with fraternal blood, may all be traced to tiiis unfortunate act. Whatever might have been the motive, few acts have ever been so barren of good and so fruitful of evil. The contest has exasperated the public mind, North and South, and engendered feelings of distrust, and I may say, hate, that I fear it will take years to wear away. The lamented tragedy at Harper's Ferry is clearly traceable to this unfortunate controversy about slavery in Kansas, and while the chief actor in this criminal invasion has exhibited some traits of character that challenge our admiration, yet hia fanatical zeal seems to have blinded his moral perceptions, and hurried him into an unlawful attack upon the lives of a peaceful and unoffending community in a sister State, with the evident intention of raising a servile insurrection, which no one can contemplate without horror; and few, I believe very few, can be found so indifferent to the consequences of his acts, or so blinded by fanatical zeal, as not to believe that lie justly suffered the penalty of the law which lie had violated. I cannot but hope that tho fate of John Brown and his associates will deter all others from any unlawful aUe-napt to interfere in the domestic affhirs of a sister Stato. But this tragedy lias now closed, and shown that she is quite competent to manage her own affairs and protect her own rights. And, thanks to an overruling Providence, this question of slavery in lyaiisas is now also settled, and settled in favor of freedom. The North has triumphed, and, having triumphed, let her, by her magnanimity and generosity to her Southern brethren, show that the contest on her part was one of principle and nut one of personal hatred or the low ambition of a sectional triumph. “Finally, if I had the power to speak, and there were any disposed to listen to my counsel. I would say to my brethren of the South: t lit not alarmed, for there are few, very few, at tii- N i r tv- V would just! :y in any m.-n nor an attack »i|V-u the institutions ot the . South, which are guaranteed by the Consti-

tution. We are all Anti-Slavery in sentiment, but we know we have nothing to do with it in the several States, and we do not intend to interfere with it. And I would say to my brethren of the North: Respect the rights of the South; assure them by your acts that you regard them as friends and brethren. And I would conjure all, in the name of all that is sacred, to let this agitation cease with the causes which have pro-, duced it. Let harmony be restored between the North and the South, and let every patriot rally around our National flag, and swear upon the altar of his country to sustain and defend it. lam with great respect, your: obedient servant.” Millard Fillmore.

FIRST RIFLE COMPANY.

Pursuant to a call, the members of the First Rensselaer Rifle Company, met at the Court House, in Rensselaer, on Saturday, December 24, 185 Q. » After preliminary exercises tho meeting was called to order by Capt. Albert Guthridge. The Committee on Constitution and Bylaws made their report, which, on motion of i Sergeant Dwiggins, was accepted and the Committee discharged. On motion of Sergeant Dwiggins the Constitution and By-laws were adopted as a whole; after which, said documents were signed by the members, and the oath duly administered by Lieut. Hopkins,; Esq. The company being again formed into line candidates for membership were presented and duly elected. The Committee on Uniform, D. F. Davies, C. W. Henkle, and A. Guthridge, made their reports, which, on motion of Lieut. Cole, were nccepted, and the Committee discharged. On motion of Lieut. Hopkins, the report of C. W. Henkle was adopted—yeas 14; nays, 10. Each section taking their respective seats, were then served, by the officers, with a satisfactory amount of oysters, gotten up In the most palatable manner. Appropriate toasts were then read by several officers and members of the company. The company was then dismissed by Capt. Guthridge, to meet again at the Court House, in Rensselaer, on Wednesday, February 22,1860. Capt. A. Guthridge, Chapman. I. N. S. Alter, O. S.

OFFICERS OF AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The stockholders of the Jasper County Agricultural Society met at the Auditor's office, on the 24th inst., and elected the following officers for the ensuing year, viz: Pres id on I . —Robert Parker. Vice President. —Job i Coen. Treasurer. —A. McCoy. Secretary. —S. Donaldson. H. C. Bruce, W. H. Martin, C. M. Watson, W. K. Parkison,l. N. Stackhouse, Henry Henkle, Thomas Robinson, Geo. McCoy, F. M. Grant, Alfred Hoover and Jas. T. Morris. R. G. Howe, Esq., was appointed agent to receive subscription for the Indiana Parmer, in this county. S. Donaldson, Sec’y. treasurer’s report. Capital stock subscribed s>sl3 00 Capital stock paid in 370 08 Balance due sll2 92 Gate receipts sl7l 00 Canital stock. . 370 08 Paid orders for improvement... $344 50 Paid orders for ground 05 00 Paid orders for premiums 127 00 Balance in Treasury $1 58 A. 3lcCoy, Treasurer.

Railroad News.

The Lafayette Journal makes the follow- ! ing statement respecting the affairs of the; Logansport, Peoria & Burlington Railroad: “We are informed that the opening of the railroad has been delayed by circumstances which have assumed, latterly, quite a bellig- 1 erent character. It seems that bat halt a mile or so of track in Cass county remains to be laid, but this is held by a party of laborers and contractors, who refuse to “make the connection,” or deliver possession until their arrearages arc paid. These amount to ■several thousand dollars; in addition to which the railroad is indebted to other contractors, not co-operating with the above in their forcible proceedings, to the extent of upwards of $25,000. The railroad claims that its cash crop has wholly failed tins season, but professes a willingness to turn out stock, notes, etc., which, however, the force und arms men refuse to receive—charging that the rhino is on hand, but the officers of the company are juggling with it for their personal profit. The non-combatants,on the contrary, would be glad to take stock notes, but the payment of these are conditional upon the full completion of the road by New Year, and they are apprehensive that their pugnacious brethren will retard this completion beyond that period. In the meanwhile the latter hold the “break,” hostile and well armed, and thus far the company has been unable to pacify them, or obtain possession of their road bed. As yet no actual collision has taken place—and the probability is, (reasoning from the ordinary history of such affairs) that the matter will be speedily compromised, and the road put into running order.” Scene at a Canadian Execution. —The Montreal Gazette, in giving an account ol the execution of a man named Beauregard, in that city, for the murder of a farmer, says the attendant minister requested the spectators to pray lor the condemned. The vast multitude, with a few exceptions, knelt down ami -engaged in prayer, anil iur u time nothing was hea d hut the hum of many voices praying tor Beauregard’s soul.

Painful but Proper.

The Democracy declare that it will be a shame to elect any man Speaker of the House who has endorsed Helper’s book, and not a few of them insist that the shame would be too much for their sensitive natures, and they could only sustain it by withdrawing bjdlly. Mr. Cobb begged the Republicans to say if they liad’nt somebody to run for Speaker who had not endorsed that book. In effect lie said: “Gentlemen, anybody else. We are not particular. You want to get to work. Give us any body else, and we will consent to let you. But if you insist in running this man, who has endorsed a book proving that slavery is very injurious to the country, and urging the non-slave-holders to got up conventions and parties to vote it down right where it lives, we must insist on letting work go to the bad forever more.” Now the Republicans propose to make a test on their side, and see what the Democracy will say to it. Tney say, “No man who has avowed disunion sentiments, in Congress or anywhere else, is fit to preside over the Legislature of the Union.” What will the Democracy say to it! Ilow will they relish the test turned the wrong way ! “Oh, gentlemen,” said a humbug doctor, whom a crowd of indignant dupes were soaking with his own drugs,‘“don't, for God’s sake, pour that down me! You don’t knew how nasty it is. If you only knew what it is as well as 1 do, you would not make a dog take it.” The Democracy will talk very much the same way when the Republicans come to pour their disunion sentiments down their throats. There is a degree of impudence in ibis resistance to the Republicans who have, without knowing more than its general purpose, and not intending any approval of the author’s own particular views, endorsed He] per's book, that passes the bounds of insult, and approaches those of mere fun. They say thut Helper's book widens the breacii between the North and the South, and its teachings, if adopted, would result in disunion. Therefore they denounce it, and all who have ignorantly recommended it. And the very same men who denounce its disunion teachings and tendencies, actually declare themselves disunionists, and, amid perfect thunders of Democratic applause, proclaim that the Union ought to be dissolved the moment any other than the Democratic party controls it. They denounce a disunion tendency, and in toe very same breath avow disunion itself. 11 this is not the liighth of impudence,then it is the depth of foil)', and either case it is out of the reach of indignation. We cun only laugh at it, and wonder, as the fellow did at the circus when he saw the clown swallow himself, “what the thunder will they do next.”— -liul. Stale Jour.

Going.

The Legislature of Sautli Carolina, has passed the foil uving resolutions: Waereas, The State of South Carolina, bv her ordinance of 1852, affirmed her right to secede from the Confederacy whenever an occasion should arise justifying her, in her own judgment, in taking that step, and in the resolution adopted by her Convention, do chared that she lorebore the immediate exercise of that right from consider.itions of expediency only; and Whereas, More than seven years have elapsed since that Convention adjourned, and in the intervening time the assaults upon the institution of Slavery and the rights of equality of the Southern States, have unceasingly continued vvi.h increasing violence, and in new and more alarming forms, be it Resolved, That South Carolina, still deferring to her Southern sisters, nevertheless respectfully anounces to them that in her judgment tho safety and honor of the slaveholding States imperatively demand a speedy separation from the other States of the Confederacy, and earnestly invites the slaveholding States of the South to inaugurate the movement of Southern separation, in which she pledges herself promptly to unite. Resolved, That for the purpose ot military preparation for any emergency, the sum of SIOO,OOO be appropriated and placed at the disposal of the Government. Resolved, That his excellency, the Governor be requested to transmit to each of the Governors of each cf the other slaveholding States a copy of the above resolutions, with the request that they be laid before their respective Legislatures. As South Garolina is rather small and weak, and the other States can easily over, take her, she’d better start now.

A Good Speculation.

The Legislature of Tennessee has either passed or will paFs a bill compelling free negroes to leave the State by a certain period or be sold into slavery. The Legislature of Mississippi has passed a similar bill. The St. Louis Democrat of Wednesday contains the following notice ol it: “A bill for excluding free negroes from the State of Mississippi passed the House on the 7th by a vote of seventy-five to five. It provides that they shall leave the State on or before the Ist day of July, 1860; or, if they prefer to remain, they shall be sold into slavery, with a right of choice of masters, at a price assessed by three disinterested slaveholders, the proceeds to go into the treasury of the county in which the provisions of the bill may require to be executed.” A similar bill has been proposed in the Senate of Missouri. It will pass, we presume. Thus three States have, or will soon have, required the return to slavery, or the banishment of about 15,000 human beings. There were 6,400 free negroes in Tennessee in 1850; 2,600 in Missouri; and 930 in Mississippi. There are now, probably, half as many more. Those 15,000 men, women, and children will bring at auction an average of SSOO each, or about $7,500,000 —a very pretty sum. Mississippi might use her negro fund to pay off' her repudiated debts, but wo believe her Democracy is so very pure that she can’t be brought to think of paying anything she owes. So her part of $7,500,000 will probably be turned into an endowment of a theological college. In Arkansas, where a similar law was passed two years ago, the money thus raised was constituted a part of the common school fund. We have no comments to make on tho righteousness of this highly scented Democratic I operation.— State JournalDouglas says that, he relies upon the Di mocracy. He has both lied and re-lied upon the Opposition.— Louisville Journal.

More About Coppic.

The Cincinnati Gazette had a reporter at Charlestown on the day of execution. We extract the following from his report; “After taking their seats in the wagon, (Cook and Coppic,) the countenance of Coppic changed; his face wore a settled expression of despair. He looked wildly around the crowd, and his large eyes iighted up with an unnatural luster. Many a heart sighed for him. Most of the community were anxious for a commutation of his. sentence, which would certainly have been granted by the Legislature had it not been for a letter which appeared in the New Yqrk Tribune, addressed to Mrs. Brown, signed by Edwin Coppic, and written alter the execution of Brown. The letter sealed his fate. Coppic denied having written the letter. It was written by Cook and signed by him for Coppic. It was not read to Coppic, and written without his solicitation, and it is believed was an act of policy on the part of Cook to bind Coppic’s destiny to his own. This morning his youthful appearance, frank, open countenance, and! the knowledge of the facts connected with the writing of the letter, which only transpired yesterday, all tended to enlist sympathy for the misguided boy. He,' howqfver, gave no evidence of dread. As the wagon, proceeded by the military, and guarded on all side's by the same, proceeded to the field, Cook: recognized many acquaintances. He bowed his head to some and spoke to others. As they entered the gate he remarked to Coppjc, ‘Ned, we are going together.’ Coppic replied by bowing his head. No other word was spoken.

A Northern Abolitionist Ejccted from a Passenger Cur.

A gentleman who came down from Grand Junction yesterday gives us the particulars of an exciting little episode which occurred on the Central Railroad, between Jackson and the former place, Friday. A person, whose name our informant was unable to learn, had taken passage at Jackson, in this State, on the train coining South, and during a conversation between himself and several other passengers, on the all absorbing topic of “John Brown,” the“:rrepressible conflict,” etc., remarked that he was from the North, and very volubly proceeded to denounce the Southern people and their institutions generally, and Gov. Wise and the Virginians particularly, winding up with a vehement eulogy on old John Brown, whom he declared to be a hero and martyr of the first water. The other gentlemen had patiently waited until the Brownite hud done, when one of them seized him by the collar and kicked him to the djjr of the car. He was then shoved on the platform, and another boot application sent him whirling off" the train. The lust seen of the follower of Brown, as the train whizzed rapidly past, was a head buried deep in a mud puddle and a p u’r of legs doing an inordinate amount of spasmodic kicking. Wc did not learn that the rascal broke his neck by the fall, but if such was the case, the country" hasn’t experienced any great loss.— Mem/ihis Argus 4.

The Ruling Passion.

A person haVKSrg occasion to visit an old! couple at Durham, of .extremely pen Cur ions habits, found them holding counsel together upon a matter which apparently weighed heavily upon the minds of both; and thinking it was respecting the probable dissolution of the wife, who was lying dangerously ill, proceeded to offer them all the consolation in his power; but was cut short by being informed that that was not exactly the subject they were discussing, but one which affected them still more deeply, the cost of her funeral; and, to his astonishment, they continued their ghastly calculations until! every item in the catalogue, from coffin to nightcap had been gone through, with much grumbling at the rapacity of “the undertakers,” when a thought suddenly struck the husband, and he exclaimed, “Wall, Janet, lass.yc may not die afer all, ye ken.” “Deed, and I hope not, Robert,” replied his helpmate, in a low feeble voice, “for I am quite sure we caima afford it.— Sunderland Herald.

Dangcrous Power.

The Postmaster General says any Postmaster has a right to t urn whatever matter he finds in the mail which he deems “ incendiary.” In speaking of this singularly threattening decision, the Albany Preening Journal says:—“This is imposing very onerous duties upon .these gentlemen, and rather dangerous powers. In the despotism of the world, the Censors of the Press are generally intelligent men; but a great many Postmasters at the South (and at the North, also for that matter) are profound blockheads. And yet they are to decide upon what should and what should not, go through the mails! Extracts from the writings of Washington, Lafayette, Jefferson, and Patrick Henry would be tabooed; and no man, who exercises his guaranteed right of speech, however mildly in protest of wrong, is sure that his utterances can not find conveyance south of the Potomac. The Censorship of despotism is mild compared withthatof our glorious Republic.”

Severe Cold.

For several days the railway trains havebeen detained by snow, but are again running on time. The pilots of the engines have been “weatherboarded” to keep the snow from caking on the underworks. The cold weather is very severe on the machinery and tracks. Some of the freight trains yesterday came into the city with their under works covered with ice——looking as i’s they had just arrived from Spitsbergen or some other locality In a high latitude. The cold of the night befure had been intense, and ice was even formed on the sides of some of the boilers. On the Madison &> iUdianapolis Road near Franklin, an engirie drawing a hog train was used up by the cold and could not proceed. Those having the train and hogs in charge suffered extremely. All the. railroad employees with whom w« have conversed complain of the bitter cold they have experience during the past thirtysix or forty-eight hours.— ttidianapolis Journal, 2414. A writer in the Valley Tan, the Gen. tile paper printed at Salt Lake City, says: “There are thousands of women in Utah Territory, between the ages of fourteen and twenty, who would gladly walk bare-footed all around the world to find some place to hide ironi these hoary-heoded bishops, elders, and priests,”