The Elwood Free Press from Elwood, Kansas • 2

A Roclleier Democrat impel Ocean i'dstagd It affords us much pleasure to learn A ELECTED I REPUBLICANS TRIUMPHANT! ELWOOD, KANSAS: Tlie Ileputilienti National, 'f iri Cortvtilibii. I A National Republican Convention will meet at Chicago-, on Wednesday, the 13th day of June next, at 12 o'clock (noon,) for the nomination of candidates to be supported for Presi dent and Vice President at the next election. The Republican electors of the several States, the members of the People's party of Pennsylvania, and of the Opposition party of New Jersey, and all others who are williug to co-operate Where the water in the brooks rXns rapidly over a gravelly bottom and is pure and clear as crystal, the land also sufficiently rolling to drain the wholo surface, Ettch a country cannot naturally be unhealthy. We should rather believe that inattention to the laws of health was the cause of much disease. Nature is ever true and just, and her laws cannot be violated without a corresponding degree of punishment being inflicted.

Let us not blame the country When sickness attacks Us, the result of the outraged laws of health nor yet when we see fading away the lovely beauty that once dwelt on the noble countenances of our sons and daughters; but let us look to our mode of living let us ask ourselves the question if the proper kind of food has been eaten, our garments regularly changed, and our daily ablutions duly performed. When these little items and a number more have been attended to, if disease does not greatly diminish, I shall be much mistaken. A Stranger. Political Personal-. The Opposition State Excuti re Committee of New Jersey met on the 19th at Trenton, and appointed Thursday, the 8th of March, as the day foj holding their State Convention to chose delegates to the Chicago Convention.

The Indiana Republican State Central Committee met at Indianapolis on the 11th and issued a call for a mass State Contention of all opposed to the present Administration, to nominate a State ticket' on the 22d of February. Cameron Clubs are organizing in different parts of Pennsylvania, with a view to procure for Senator Cameron the'Presidential nomination at Chicago. It was expected that the delegates to tho Chicago Convention wonld be appointed at the Republican State Convention held on the 22d inst. at Ilarris-bttrg; but te learn that they are now to be elected in Congressional districts. The Mobile Mercury learns that the health of Mr.

Stall worthy the representative in Congress from the Mobile district, has not only not improved, but his disease has become Hiawatha, Jan. 27th. Metsrt. Editors; After having traveled from New York State, for the purpose of obtaining a home in the Territory of Kansas, we found ourselves on a dark November night in the city of St. Joseph, contending with thick volumes of blinding dust, which was carried by strong gUsU of wind from tho Band bars on the Missouri River.

During our stay in St. Joseph (to surmount the fatigue consequent on a long and uninterrupted journey) we heard reports not very fiattring to the much abused Territory. We placed just sufficient reliance on these circulating statements to cause doubts as to the propriety of the step we had taken in coming here, and whether it would not be more prudent to remain where we were and follow our business until we could get correct information about the. country in question. Being disappointed in finding employment we determined to pay Kansas a visit, at any rate we accordingly started out on the 30th of December and crossed the river at Elwood.

This place is situated the banks of the Missouri, opposite St. Joseph, on a rich and heavily timbered plain. We observed a large and commodious hotel, several well filled stores, and a large number of neatly finished and elegant looking dwellings. (We presume there is les3 of the gambling propensity here than in the sister city.) There also appears to us a brilliant future looming in the distance for Elwood, providing the commercial energy is properly directed; being the terminus of a railroad now in course of construction, and running through a section of country which, in point of fertility, is unsurpassed. Who can estimate the immense amount of produce which will teem into the rattling streets of this city when the boundless wealth of the West is developed and assisted by a railroad? (We called upon Mr.

Russell, by whom we WCre kindly treated and furnished with clear information for which we acknowledge a debt of deep gratitude.) From here we went to Troy, the county-seat of Doniphan. The land along this road is somewhat broken, owing, I presume, to its proximity to the River. The farmers on this line are making great improvements good fences are erected, gardens laid off, fruit trees planted and many good comfortable houses are built add being built. led. Mr.

C. V. N. Mills, a traveling agent of Messrs. Ji O.

Bloss proprietors of the', American Nurseries in Rochesters thus relates his experience ia Virginia, where, although a firm Deraocfa't, he was accused of Abolitionism, and pot ttj great inconveniences in various Ways. The letter appears in the Rochester Express of the 21st: Hancock Cocstt, cstt, Yny i. i3th, 1SC0. Ye Jan "Friend Toil have probably read or heard, or my exit from KatiaWha Valley, as 1 1 find an account of it in pretty general circulation in newspapers both North i and Sdilthj With many others from the North) toy business at Kanawha was to deliver fruit arid ornamental trees, for which I had taken orders last Summer nothing else. As you are aware, I have always advocated Democratic principles! and to suffer such treatment as I have from members of my own party, is a little more than a conscientious Democrat like myself can easily bear.

At one place, I was allowed two and one-half days to commence and finish my business. At an other place, I was permitted only to stay over night, and then compelled to leave. "A man from Ohio, who was engaged in tlie same business, was escorted to the Ohio River by a Committee of three V. for saying John Brown was a great, good, and Cour-ageou man 4 My letters were opened, and those I mailed to O. Bloss and my wife were not allowed to leave the State.

But from aecounts of the treatment of other Northern men, I hane nO feHsdn to complain of my own. Over itt the border county of Hancock, the papers not advocating Southern principles are not allowed to be distributed in the Post Office. But the majority of th people here are of the Republican stripe. There are but two slaves in this cotftityj and but 17 in the adjoining county Rfook. Respectfully yours, C.

V. N. Mills." VIRGINIA MILITANT. Tho Virginia Legislature has just passed a bill authorizing a loan of half a million dollars, for the purchase 'of arms and munitions of war. Ihe buildings of the Public Armory at Richmond are to be put in complete order, and a master armorer engaged at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars.

The Governor is authorized to purchasd all and munitions, and patent rights in newly invented arms, that may be necessary for tlie operation of the armory. Tho Salut Public of Lyons, petition addressed to tho Senate is now being signed by the female operatives of this city, in which the petitions pray that all men who attain the age of forty with out marrying may be compelled to pay a tax as Unproductive members of society." Macaulay's death was so sudden that none of his relations were present. Lady Ti'evelyan had left him at 4 on Wednesday, very much in his usual state Health, toho was summoned at 8, to find him a corpse in his chair. Tlie immedi ate cause of death was a Collapse, consequent on a most violent and prolonged fit of coughing. The Greenfield Gazette states that Peter Harvey of Boston is wri ting out and will next summer nub lish his recollections of Daniel Web ster.

Some enterprising young man has a small fortune before him if he writ( flew stories and conundrums for Ethiopian minstrels. Tlio pertinacity with which they clung to the jokes that were popular j'ears ago is surprising in view of thoir anxiety to introduce new features in other branches of their entertainments. Tho entire olive crop in tlie department of Var, France, is said to have been destroyed by the cold weather. The loss is estimated at seteral millions of francs. A legal friend informs the Chicago Tunes' that he had just drawn up an assignment for the proprietor of an extensive millinery establishment in that city, whose failure was occasioned chiefly by tho prevailing fashion among the.

ladies, of wearing upon their heads the woolen articles called "clouds" and hoods, instead of bonnets. The assignor declared that he had sold scarcely a bonnet this winter, and the case was similar with the millinery besides generally. The 6tagfS between the City of Mexico and Vera Cvtft are robbed every day. Twice in one week the passengers arrived in such a state of nudity that they were not able to alight from the stage-coach before getting cloths to hide their naked Onco Carrajal carried off toe stage'-coaches with all their passengers Ope'fatlvcs In tlie Fafl Rir. er Mills have thus far contributed $1518 for the Lavvrenco sufferers.

Soiuoof the mills hare not yet complete the canvass for contributions. --An Irish man, on enlisting, was asked by the recruiting officer, "When you get into battle, Paddy, will yon fight or run if" Ah, faith," replied Pat, with a confrical twist of his countenance, "111 bo after doin' yer honor, as tho majority of ye does." From nature man derives everything. The spider taught him wearing; the fish furnished the idea of a boat the swan the pleasing mow del of the sail the palm led to the erection of a pillar; tho skin of the brutes us the idea of dresS; and tho cocoa-nut led to the bcer jug The tax on wood alone appears to be purely a human invention. i that the Hon. Charles Sunmer has offered a resolution in the United States Senate, instructing the Post Office Committee to enquire whether a reduction can not safely made in the rates of Ocean Postage.

At present they are exceedingly oppressive, and demonstrate clearly the danger of conferring monopolies) no matter of what kind, upon Government. Will it be believed that for the transportation of letters across the Atlantic alone, people are now paying at the rate of $6 98 per pound, or $12,160 per ton? This sum is independent of the charges by the Post Offices on both sides, and, in fact, is considerably below the mark, as few letters come up to the full weight for which postage is charged. In a community like that of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Boston, having such intimate commercial relations with foreign countries, this tax is very burthensome upon business but it falls with more crushing weight upon the poor, who wish to maintain communications with their friends in the Old World. Like other bad measures, indeed, this hiprh tariff defeats itself, for the volume of correspondence With foreign countries is thereby reduced to the lowest possible amount, when it might be doubled in a single year, and keep increasing at a corresponding ratio It is understood that the British Government, several years ago evinced, a willingness to co-operate with our own in reducing the rates of Ocean Postage but that this was declined on account of the enormous subsidies then being paid to maintain our magnificent but unprofitable lines of steamers. The excuse no longer exists.

If Government would, therefore, undertake any measure calculated to promote the public good and to acquire respect on the part of the people, here is one. Some years since Elihu Burritt, advocated a system of penny postage between this country and Europe. The project being so ultra fell dead, and latterly nothing has been said on the subject. But it is certainly prac ticable, and we believe in the end would prove profitable, for the two principal Governments to effect an arrangement by which rates would be cut down at least one half, requiring payment invariably in advance. Ihe The result, we trust, would demon strate the propriety of making still farther reductions but, in the mean time, let us get what we safely can.

We ask this on behalf of all, from the millionaire to the laboring man who is obliged to struggle for a mere subsistence. Century mm Another Banishment. our years ago Reuben Salisbury, a Baptist deacon of Oswego, N. went down into Virginia and bought a farm near Petersburg, which he cultivated with free labor, lie was received Into fel lowship by a church of his faith, and lived in peace and harmony with his Virginia fellowcitizens. He did not meddle with slavery, was efficient and faithful in his church relations, and economical, industrious and thrifty.

Thus calmly and happily passed away four years, till the invasion of John Brown. Then the trettson-scenting Virginians full of alarm, subjected the good Deacon to a close surveillance and espionage, to discover if he was in league with the enemy, Nothing against him was discovered, but suspicion was sufBclerif, and a warrant was issued, and twenty men took upon themselves the duty of executing it. They went to the old man's farm he is now sixty years old and after seizing him, to which he made no resistance, proceeded to ransack his house for incendiary documents. They were about to give up the search as fruitless, when one of them discovered some copies of the Albany Evening Journal. This was enough, afld Mi, galisbtify was arraigned before a magistrate" belonging to the same church as himself, to answer to the terrible charge of having such a vile paper in his possession.

He was committed to jail, but after several days confinement was let out on bail, when he thought it most prudent to act upon the advice given him to quit the State, and he is once more on free soil. The Deacon, who was a good Democrat, expected to pass the remainder of his days on his homestead in Virginia bat ttonf he offers it for sale and despairs of getting its value by two or three thousand dollars. New Yokk, Jan. 30. The Tribune's Washington correspondent says a number of leading Democratic politicions are there with reference to the question of the ad mission of Kansas.

Southern Senators propose alter-tering the Waster Boundary, which is on the 25th meridian of longitude west from Washington nnder the Wyandot Ccnetittttion, extending it to the Rocky Mountains, and tho northern to the Platte River. This alteration is designed to make the State Democratic by including ten thousand eettlera at Pike's Peak. If passed, it tvould require new elections for CongfegS, Legislature and the like. The pfo grramme is forthe Senate to amoud the House bill as stated, and on its refusal to accept the modification to exclude Kansas the present season. Married, In Cass county, Nebraska, by A.

L. Child, the two sons and three daughters of the late Rolin T. Tozier, viz Charles T. Tozier and Zerilda I Mayfleld; Henry H. Tozier and Abby F.

Say-les Miss Hariett Tozier and Imle CoulsonjMiss Caroline A. Tozier and John W. Roberson, and Miss Marry Jane Tozier and Reuben W. Gillelhnd. AH good Republicans and united to Kepublicans partners.

As an evidence of theflattering position which the St. Joseph and Topeka Rail Road project occupies, we learn that very favorable propositions hare been receired. a few weeks sinco, from extensive Houses in the East, for" fn'rnishsng the road with iron for the track. At the rate the work is now progressing, it will not be long before it will be needed. Stat Itecord.

Cot. Pennington of New Jersey the Successful Candidate 1 Wednesday February 1st, was a very exciting and evtatfu.1 day in the House. The proceedittgs opened with prayer by Rabbi Raphael. It abounded in fervently expressed patriotic and religious sentiments. He implored the Divine Blessing to direct this House itt the election of a Speaker, who may preside without favor or fear, and that members might speak and act for the glory and happiness of their common country.

The prayer was listened to with marked attention. The Clerk having stated the question pending, was the motion of Mr. Sherman, that the House proceed to vote for Speaker. On motion of Mr. Phelps, there wa3 a call of the House.

Before the proceedings under the call were completed, Mr. Bocock moved that Mr. Clark, of New York, be excused for non attendance, He stated that a number of gentlemen were absent, and that his motive in making the motion was to give them time to arrive. Several short explanations of their votes were made by Messrs. Clark, of Cobb, Keitt, Smith, of and Barksdale.

The last main taining that if the South Americans concentrate with the Democrats on McClernand, they could defeat Mr. Pennington. Messrs. Hill, Gilmer and Malory did not agree in opinion with Mr. Barks-dale.

The last said if another vote was taken Briggs would vote for Mr. Pennington, thus effecting his election. Mr. Moore, of said it would not be of avail, he would sit here till 1861 before he would consent to the election of a Republican. He denied that his vote, with all the scattering ones, could elect Mr.

McClernand, and voted for Mr. Boyce. Mr. Davis, of voted not for McClernand but for the country. Mr.

Briggs, after an explanation, voted for Mr." Pennington, and thus decided the contest. Applause and hisses. The vote resulted as follows Whole number, 230. Pennington, 117; McClernand, 85 rest scattering. The Clerk decided that Mr.

Pennington was elected. (Applause and hisses in the gallery.) Mr. Hindnian wished to make some remarks about the election of a Republican, but was loudly called to order by the Republican side. Messrs. Bocock and Sherman were appointed by the Clerk to conduct the rSpeaker to the Chair.

The Speaker delivered a speech, in which he said he should preside with justice and impartiality. He felt that he had a naional heart, which em braces all partsof our Union. Afterthank-king his friends again for their kindness, he entered upon the discharge of the arduous duties of his station. (Slight applause.) The oath was administered to him by Mr. Phelps.

The members were then sworn in by States. A committee was appointed to notify the Senate that the House was organized. Legislative. Since the last ad journment to Lawrence, everything has gone on smoothly. The law creating District Land Recorders, has been abolished.

The records will be placed in the hands of the Auditor. A bill to simplify the government of Towns and Counties will probably become a Law. But three Commissioners elected at large, will take the place of the present County Board. The Elwood Democrat. a Thursday evening a petition was pre sented the City Council asking for aid in the establishment of the Democrat ic sheet, we have for some time been promised.

The Council voted a sub scription of one hundred copies for three months. We have been reserving a warm welcome for the Democrat, and hope this boost of the City fathers may set it fairly afloat. To be Published. The recent address bv Hon. S.

A. Kingman, of Hiawatha, before the Kansas Histori cal Society, is very highly spoken of, and we understand that it is to be put in a permanent form. Judge Kingman is one of the most able as well as honest of the citizens of Kansas, and we are glad to learn that this address is to be published. Hon. F.

P. Stanton writes to Lawrence, that the present temper of the Senate is adverse to the admission of Kansas, but he believes that calmer counsels will prevail. The Senate propose to dodge the real question, by making a stand on our boundaries It is thought that they will insist upon the Platte River for our Northern boundary, and the Rocky Mountains tor the western, thus introducing a new element, strong enough to make Kansas Democratic. Lord Macaulay's Funeral is de scribed by the English Press as a very imposing; spectacle. It is a curious fact, that among all the distinguished who followed the remains of the Historian, to Westminster Abbey, there was not one Tory.

1 The New York Herald has aban doned Winfield Scott and is now ad vocating one ames Buchanan as a fit man for our next President. Good boy. Charles ohnson and Windsor Jackson, colored men, have been held for trial at Charlemont, on the charge of having murdered Ezra Jr arsons, who was found dead by the side of the road in that town on the 8th inst. fatarday Morning, FeVy 4, 1860. "living East.

To a period comparatively recent, i we have indulged prejudice, which 'favored tlie Eastern, and with a dis-' claimer of sectionalism, wo will aay the norfA-eaatern portion of this continent, as a place of residence This prejudice 'waa probably dished up with oar early codfish and imbibed with juvenile rum, and to growing with growth attained reasonable pro-portions afctl coeaMerabk basis. It wa a pleasure, we thought, to take ia the world's news of the preceding day with our morning's rolls and coffee. It wasn't an unpleasant, If a startling, sensation to feel the earth jar when any chance Pemberton fell, and a fresh rail road massacre was a deal better than to have crushed mortality served with the taint of ten day's corruption. This lapse of time shuts off sympathy and feeling, and you read a York of last week just as you'd read Plutarch or Hume. But progress is a great battering-ram, and our prejudice has fallen.

Tlio strings that run Eastward are snapped, and we are now ready to swear allegiance to the West to take last papers of Every thing that the seaboard can boast we ave at our doors. Our Telegraph gives news as fresh as theirs, and their newspapers with editorial essays on facts we have already digested follow at a three day's lapse, not obtruding themselves with impertinent celerity shape opinions we ought to be and are able to form. Western life, then, with its social freedom from caste and the arbitrary dicta of any "sets," with its wide platform untrammelled with huddles of fold men's shoes, with its free courses to success unblocked by fogies whose legs impede their own and hinder youth and energy, with its great prizes and few blanks 'equal in facilities for advancement and progress to the East, and fast draining that region of its best blood and brightest talent. Western life to-day, -snita us, and we can regard our old home with fondness, to bo sure, but "without regrets. Harvard.

C. C. Felton has been elected President of this Ancient Seat 'of Learning. We always looked up-ron "Corney" as a nice man, but have have sometimes questioned his ability to keep a hotel." When we last saw him (to get permission to "make his utterance was getting a little shaky. Indeed he has devoted himself so entirely, of late years, to mortuary remarks that his voice has taken on a most touching pathos, and he can hardly say "good morning," without being overcome with an emotion which 'finds its only relief tn tears.

The 'death of an Old Line Whig, goes lhard with Corney but the little eulogy which he always has on hand, ready to be wept away before the Board" and the "Historical Society," does! rery much towards his restoration to the ordinary tone of thought and feeling Chas. Congdon once said, -'Blessed are the dead that die in Boston," alluding, no doubt, to the graceful speeches of Everett, Winthrop and Felton, which are sure as coffins to follow all Bostonian demises. But Corney is elected President. Henceforth his fat features will sweat tinder the Oxford hat, and "Expecta-tur Oratio a Jones" will issue in oily accents from the lips of Prex Felton. River Improvement.

Ithas been rumored for several days that the work on the River Improvement was about to cease. This has grown out of the failure of our merchants and others to fulfill their agreements with the 'contractor relative to the redemption of city warrants. A systematic effort seems to have been established, by certain parties, who prize the chance make a few pennies more than they -do the welfare of a whole community, 'to decry the warrants and convince laborers that they are of little value. within three weeks they have ranged from ninety to ninety-five -rents." Almost a thousand dollars of rthe last year's assessment is still un paid, and on this River Improvement not more than a thousand dollars of scrip will be paid out. The balance will be funded in bonds and cannot "depreciate the market value of war rants.

We would suggest to croakers they rest awhile from their labors. lW are informed that the contractor shas made arrangements by which the work will be pressed to completion, and this month will give us a finished pier. EliWOOl ajed Marysville Rail- The work still goes on, and I hot a day has been lost on account of eold weather. One of the deepest cuts on the line is nearly completed, and the grading on the first twelve will be finished by the first of Directory for the efficient manner in which tbey have pushed forward, against all obstacles, the first Railroad fret beeun in Kansas. We ehall pub iuh next week fall statistics in regard with them in support ot the candidates who shall there be nominated, and who are opposed to the policy of the BfCsent Aministration: to Federal corruption and usurpation1 to the ex tension of slavery into the lerritorics; to tho new and darige'rou's political doctrine that tho Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery ihio all the Territories of the UriiUii States to the re-opening of the African slave trade; to any inequality of tights anioiig citizens; and whd tri favor of the immediate admission of Kansas into tho Union under the COhsUlli-tion recently adopted by its piioplS of restoring the Federal Administration to a system of rigid economy, and to the principles of Washington and Jefferson of maintaining inviolate the rights of the State and Territory from' lawless invasion and of preserving the integrity Of this Union, and of the supremacy of the Constitution and laws passed in pursuance thCreeTj against tile conspiracy of the leaders Of a sectional party to resist the ma jority principle as established in this Oovtirnment at the expense of its existence, are invited tti send from each State two delegate's from every Congressional District and four delegate's at large to the Cohvcnlioiii Edwin D.

Morgan, New York: Jdsferii IlARTLL'Tf, Maine. Georg Q. fodi, New Vermont. John T. Goodrich, Massachusetts; Wm.

M. Chace, Rhode Island. Gideon Wells, Connecticut. Thomas Williams, Pennsylvania; OfioaaE Harris, Maryland, Alfred Caldwell, Virginia: Thomas Spooner, Ohio. Cassias' 51.

CLay. Kentucky; James RiTfcilliE, Ihdiana. Norman B. JulW, Illinois'. Zachariaii Chandlf.r,; John II.

Tweedy, Wisconsin. Alexander II. Ramsey, Minn, ASdrew' J. EtUVeSS, lowi. As'A S.

Jones, Missouri. Martin F.Conway, Kansas. Lewis Clephane, D. C. Where the Cold Weather Comes From.

During the past year tho Smithsonian Institution, through its extended system of meteorological observations, lias been enabled to make some very Ctfrious invest! gations respecting the three memo, rable cold days of January, 1850, which have also found a parallel in tho weather experienced last week It was found that tho cold of the three days above mentioned, swept progressively over tho country like a wave, coming down from tho Arctic regions, and first entering tho Territory of tho Uuited States at tho extromd Northwest, among tho Itocky Mountains. It was experienced at Utah some three days before it reached the banks of tfio Northern Mississippi, and was heralded by telegraph at Minnesota, some days before it reached Wash' Ington. At Buffallo it was some hodrs in advanco of Boston, and was felt last on the Atlantic Oceari where it appears to have disappear" ed. This cold wave also swept South iti a Most remarkable man' ner, afld progressively appeared in Florid and other Southern States, and Mexico) and the last pulsations, as it died away, in this direction, being experienced in Central Americaand amongthe West India-Islands, "taken all in all, it was one of the most remarkable meteor ological phenomena ever noticed, and the facts collected seem fa prove that tho originating impulse came from tho extreme Northwest tern portions of tho American Cod tinent. Century.

The Goow Wife vvrto Fosd "Good in Everything. 'A farmer was once blessed with a good-natured, contented wife but it not being in tho nature of man to be satisfied, ho one" day said to a neighbor, he really wish-fed he could bear his wife scold once, for the novelty of the Where" upotf his sympathizing neighbor ad' vised him to go to the wWds and get a load of crooked sticks, which would certainly make her as cross as he could desire. Accordingly the farmer' e4-lected a load of the most ill-shaped, crooked, crotchety materials that were ever known under tho name of fuel. This he deposited in its place, taking care that his spouse should have access to no other wood. Day after day pas- scd without a complaint.

At length the pile was consumed. "Well, wife," said the farmer, 'I am going after more wood I'll get another load just such as I got the last time." 'Oh yes, Jacob, she "it will be bo nice if you will for such crooked, crotchety wood as you brought bofoTS, doei lie around the pot so nicely." SerThcre will be foW Eclipses tins year two of the Sfttt and two of tho Moon. The an anftular eclipso of the sri, January 22d; invisible in all North America. The second, partial eclipse of the moon, February1 6th, in the evening; visible third, a total eclipse of the sun July 18th, in the morning; this eclipso visible here, bt only toUl in JKi-ropc', Asia, etc. The fourth, a partial eclipse of the moon, August 1st, ia the afternoon; visible on the cpwSrto side of the earth.

A rar yhewor-non, visible throughout tho United States without a tdesesp "Is it not curious' said afl old gentleman, a few days since, to his friend, "a watch should fco perfectly dry, when ithas ft fan bus spring inside, Mr. C. Kean has a work of selections from the plays of Shakcspcaro (with note) for echooln, ia the Chaste We pub lished a few days since the attack of Pryor in Congress on Bennett of the Herald, in which that venerable gentlemen was mildly characterized as a "beast" of extremely unpleasant attributes and antecedents. The editor of the Herald retaliates by interpolating his reports of Congressional debates with sentences like the following; Roger A. Prayor, the brutal liar and libeller of the generous land of chivalry, did not speak.

Roger A. Pryor, the filthy liar and calumniator, of Virgina, made no remark. Roger A. Pryor, the beastly liar and slanderer of the benign Mother of Presidents didn't say a word. Brass Against Gold, The Golden Rule as generally stated requires men to "do as they would be done by." Mr.

Douglas in his reply to Mr. Fes-senden in the Senate, gives it another embodiment. He says it "teaches all men to mind their own business, and to let their neighbors alone." He is not, however, entitled to the merit of originality in this statement; for he has simply put into words, the deeds of two men who once walked from Jericho to Jerusalem. But, bad as is the morality of this rule, Douglas has not lived up to it. If he had only been as good as the Priest and the Levitc when he was concocting the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, there would have been no Kansas murder or Harper's Ferry tragedy.

He, of all living men, "singly and and alone set the ball in motion" which has been gathering trouble ever since, and which now balks the wheels of Government and keeps up a condition of revolution in the country. But if justice gets its due, his career, both as pedagogue and demagogue, will soon terminate under the law that punishes the utterance of false coin. The people are not such fools yet, as to take his brass for current gold. (Jentury. BThe Atlantic Monthly for February is one of the very best numbers of that periodical yet issued.

It has sufficient variety to suit all tastes, and its pages embrace articles marked by an unusual degree of ability. We may designate especially the quaint blit fine poem, The Tower of the authorship of which is unmistakeable A Shetland Shawl," a poem full of feeling, and the couple of suggestive stanzas styled The Poet's Friends," as being of rare excellence. The story called "Some Account of a Visionary" is certainly very far superior to the majority of tales published even in this magazine, and "My Last, Love" is a well and carefully written sketch. We have the conclusion of The Amber Gods(" and a continuation of Robadi Roma." The reader of "solid" tastes will be interested iil the papers upon Counting and Measuring, and the Maroons of Jamaica. The second installment of The Professor's Story" has many touches of natural humor, though as yet the purpose of the story is not developed.

The Historical Society and the Women. -The proceedings of the Historical Society will be found to be Very interesting. We regret, however. to see a disposition upon the part of any of the members to exclude the women of Kansas from the Soeiety. We think it was most appropriately termed a question of brains vs.

prej udice." When we reflect that one of the best histories of Kansas is the work of a Kansas woman, Mrs. Gov. Robibson, and that the women of Kansas have sustained as noble a part as the men, in the deeds that go to make up that history, we must confess to our wonder that any man should wish to exclude them from the Historical Society and especially on the paltry ground that their admission might prove "injurious to the Society." We think that women who know enough to write good histories will not be apt to materially injure a historical society by becoming members of it. Lawrence Hep. St.

Joseph and Topeka -Rail Road. The grading for this road is progressing satisfactorily. The surveys for the entire route will be completed by the first of March next, and the route definitely located, at which time it is contemplated to commence the work of grading at Topeka. The work will then be vigorously pushed from three different points Troy, Doniphan and Topeka State Record. Tho most amusing man in the world is a Frenchman in a passion.

"By gar, yon call my fife a woman two three sevral times once more, an' I vill call yon the the vatch house, and blow out your1 brains like a candle." quite alarming to his many friends. The Mercury says "No hope is now entertained by him or his friends that he can take his seat in Congress for a long time to come, and it was believed that he had determined opon tendering his resignation." The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Judge Davison to the Supreme Court of New Mexico; of Alexander Dimitry aa Minister to Central America, and of 'Mr. Gushing as Minister to the Argen tine Confederation. Mr. Dimitry is a native of Greece.

Thaddeus Hyatt of New York has been summoned to appear on Wednesday, Feb. 22, before the Harper's Ferry Investigating Committee at Washington. Barney Willims has recived "notice to quit" Georgia, through the Southern Confederacy. Mr. Austin, Collector at Boston, has been removed, on account of his sympathies with Douglasism.

He will be succcoded by John Ap- pleton. A paragraph in a Southern ex change says that, with the excep tion of Bishop karly, not one of the Southern Methodist Bishops is capable at this time ot'doing effective work. Bishops Soule and Andrew are feeble through age Bishop Paine, from the fracture of several ribs; Bishop Pierce, from sickness contracted by California exposure and labor and Bishop Kavanagh, from long protracted illness. The Anti-Slavery Standard says that Dr. John Doy of Kanaa3, wlio was kidnapped by a baud of Missouri ruffians, and, after an imprisonment of -six months, delivered from the jail at St.

Joseph by a band of resolute men, full of the spirit of John Brown, is now in this city, preparing to publish a mandative of his experiences while in the hands of his captors, and during the struggle to prevent the estab li8hraent of slavery in Kansns. Mr. Thomas Marcy, one of the early settlers of the Western Re serve," died at Freedom, Portage county, Ohio, on the 12th January, aged ninety years lacking one month. He removed to Ohio from Otis, Berkshire couuty, and traveled that ground from Massa chusetts to Ohio thirtyfonr times with his own team. The Rev.

Mr. Spnrgeon is shortly to visit Paris, and to preach several sermons in the American Chaple, Rue de Berri. Dr. G. B.

Winrlehip, the strong man, hns raade quite an impression ill Baltimore, where his feats of strength astonished the people. He has been engaged to lectnro five times in that vicinity in February. -t)r. Cnrnming has postponed the millenium 1 In the book called "The End," he fixed tho begining of the millennial period in 1892, but in his last book, "The Great he puts it off until 1897. Moses, the famous English clothing dealer, who pays about two hundred thousand dollars per annum for advertising, has recently purchased an estate for which he paid the sung sum of nine hundred thousand dollars.

Some of the Texas newspapers are very severe on Gov. Houston of that State, on account of his lenient treatment of the brigand Cortinas, whose outrages on the Rio Grande have occasioned so much disturbance. -Rosa Bonhenr is coming to this country to paint from life a herd of wild buffaloes, to accomplish which she will hare to visit the Western prairies. She is commissioned by an opulent Frenchman, and will come over in the spring. On the 13th an encoun ter took place in the rotunda of the St.

Charles hotel, in New Orleans, between Charles N. Milliken'a Bend and Dr. W. H. Peck, of Madison parish, a Representative in the State Legislature, in whichMr.

Harris receired wounds from pistols shots stabs with a bowie knife, that proved fatal in half an bomv 'Harper's Magazine has been proscribed at Raleigh, N. because, pays the Fayetteville North Carolinian, it has been ascertained that G. W. Curtis, one of the editors, is an infamous Abolitionist, and that one of the Harpers has given a largo sum of money to the BrowB sympathizers. Highland is a pretty little town, containing some brick buildings.

among which is a fine educational Institute. We observed here a great number of peach trees, which appeared in an excellent state of tealth. This pleasing place will long be remembered for the amusement it afforded on our return. Having en joyed a refreshing night's rest we left early in the morning for Hiawatha, which is 16 miles west of Highland; here we closed the old year with Mr. Sellig, who keeps the Hiawatha House.

We found him one of those kind old gentlemen who take a delight in making their guests comfortable. Hiawatha is the county-seat of Brown it stands on an elevated prairie, and can be seen at a great distance. We were told it had made great progress for a place of recent date there are three stores, a hirness-maker, several carpenters, and other mechanics they hate a new court house and good brick tavern. We were shown some very fair coal that had been dug out of Wolf River. It is said to abound all through the country, which we believe to be the case from our own observations.

There is also plenty of excellent stone, two articles of great importance at any time, but more especially in a country where timber is scarce. What gratified us most of all was tho well cultivated intellects of the settlers of this town. We were agreeably surprised on New Year's Day to hear questions discussed which affected the political, religious and social condition of this country, with good nature and moderation although there existed great difference in opinion. We attended divine service in the morning, and, be it said to the credit of that little town, we have seldom seen greater sincerity of purpose than was manifested here. The audience was large, clean and respectably dressed.

We have certainly heard more eloquent sermons but never with better meaning and more honesty than the one addressed to this congregation. The land in this neighborhood assumes a more regular aspect, and as you advance still further from the River the prairie is truly delightful the easy roling surface, the gentle swells and quiet slopes, with here and there a grove of timber and a crystal stream to relieve the regular scene all strike the beholder as charming. Sabetha was our next place, which is situated somewhere about the line of Brown and Nemaha counties. We left the main road here, in order to strike the Nemaha ten or twelve miles below Seneca, the county -seat of Ne maha. The vicinity of this town is better timbered than either of the above places.

There was a steam saw-mill in operation hre, and beau tiful stone close at hand. The great distance that this place is from the River ws shenM eoRfiier in its favor. -pi the work done, cost and present 1 "portion of the road. 'V..