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ill k. F. nicr.s.. V f ! JTiT A meeting of the Stockholders CMUlUlwU. iof the Cincinnati & Ft. Wayne It. K. -r : , Company wai held in thi Oar Kann forrr pondrnrr. FlOKt.lV Corstv, K. T., ) Februarr f. ISW. i free from tho polluting influence of Slavery. Lnt one o!t man of seventy FIMTOR. ! the 23. 1 day of February 1 IaVlVI4l v 9 . J I 11 1 t , Kansas TrvuU-M miles more of car$ of bJ a hM slrokc in lcfi- IttO.andj rrreTerr;forH-Ln4reanil,,reniXn( lllC in the night, " UMvrM.r,, .x, ' ithc fü"0WK c1 ncie ! r OA llmn-Prtijet of Quid- ! shoul J drivc Slavery oet of her trong- " IM Hr.rr.I, IM. '. lovtc.l Directors for tlic enming year. eu. etc., tic. hoM' ! to wit: .t ' i. ' ! The Administration at Washington HirdnT. . unrrh a ...... . riiTon: bttice my last com-' . , r. . T' wnrci. a. ,!;llnc, n. Mcndcnhal), .l.ttnes M.i . . , . ., t . ! has onered 32.0, for Drown and Mont- r- . - i munieation a few incidents luve tran- , . . IVWMITH nut T1IF. JOFIIVIL. 1 ami N Ultam J . l'ciini, 01 iticii The tVHoir. U m li.t of names aifl the mond ; Afcaliel Stone, Nathan f iarrett, a.'.ur.t jtaid en uWrij.tiun to thr Kv ai,d Thomas Ward, of Winchester; tr-t.rn Cunu ;aihm.. luri,.; the It I Donininia Hunt, of Lynn; Arthur L . I ... ... Hoard was then organize! , by ..$1 .VI ... I Johl Tarier YVfxlrT I),,.!!- r;. W. Clrrniirrr .. .. . T r.Ini F. n!Ii.hT I 7I Franci A. Wilkin,. . s .1 00 Jhn ff. Anderson, I ."0 P. J. JL J. W. Cot lorn I iO ilrnrT Van Tre-, . 1 00 Uo. W. IIUI 1 i0 Sfl hn Mtxtrman,. . . .1 SO John IWkJ 1 50 Jckon Ilowrll, 1 M Mrtin I. Pnckttt, .V) Kcnrr D. Iluffmin 1 00 Dr. C.ro. O. Jobc, 1 o" William Jone 1 50 Pmiet IVoj-prr 1 (Hi Elijah Wright I IK) . . ... ... , , leoinerv. uia irown nas ouerea iwo pireil which will ttcthaps afloril fsoinci, ,, . . . - ,A1 , , , the election of .T. I. Mcn lcnhall, Pics-j iitterrt to the readers of the Jouhxal; I therefore will brielly refer to thetn. Soon after tho Fort Scott difficulty Capt. Montgomery paid a v i i t to Law rence. He received a letter, purport ing to come from Judge Wright, in- "Education' true design, it not to make our True, education has rendered our labor lesH burdensome in many instances; yet this adonis us no excuse for being less vigilant or active in labor. If to accomplish tho same result, less labor is mini red, vc shall have the more time in rchich tcr cultivate our mental faculty; and thus by cultivating the mind, we will diminish labor, and have more time to reap instruction; and finally we will learn the true na- diatc arrest. They arc safely lodged in CJrecnvillc jail. One of them lied for Union Cit v. He was a stranger in these parts. Hin nose is burnt with powder, and a part of Lis right eye lid missing, probably shot away, anJ is about five feci sCTtn inches in bight, inclined to corpulency. The boy tells the whole afla?.. P. II. V 1 1 1 1 1 lilm tr tiip liitn nt Off rut-1 ; ident, and Aahcl Stone, hecrctarv and ! . t fXll . , . . ,. . ... i Creek, at Ottawa Joiic'a.fan Indian.) treasurer. . .... . . . , . . The li evident was appointed Gcnc ; ral Financial Agent, and J. M. Foe, rinanctai vg?ni lor me cny oi uicn mond and Wayne County. A. Stono was appointed General Agent. There U some prospect that the ; work will be prosecuted on the road the present season. We greatly hope it mr v bo ma le from Richmond to Winchester. Two Vetoes. Gov. Willard baa vetoed the Tem perance Hill and the Treasury Dill. Both Houses immediately passed the Treasury Bill over the veto. The 0 License Iaw failed for want of a con stitutional majority. Tarnpikcs Shall we Hate Them! No. II. In a former article upon this subject, we have frhown that when the natural rcsoureei of our County ahall be de veloped, wc shall be in point of com mercial wealth inferior to but few Counties in the State ; and that Turn pikes were needed and would be the prim agency iu thin development of mr natural resources-. That we nwd tliem the worst of any other improve-j -Tlw President has vetoed merit, vr ill not be denied. If any per-; Morrill's Agricultural College Bill. son ha doubts as lTgaTds the truth of! Of course ha would. Did not the this statcnrei.t, ptoof overwhelming South tell him to? and then wKat use can bv found in a horseback ride of ten have sugar and cotton planters for mile in any direction from our Coun ty town. The roads arc at this time almost im !;:nsnlil Stifli i tliln- , . . lift. ! beer, postponed, which is regarded by market now, i out of tho question.! And the condition of the roads this j w?SÄ,on' Spiing is not an exception; they are -rThe Legislature, in oWdiencc its bad or worse every Spring, and not to a provision of the Constitution, has unfreciuentiy at other .seasons of the to adjourn on next Monday. year. Whenever an open Winter mic reeds a wet Fall, as has been the case the Winter just passed, it is needless for us to tell hew almost impassable are our public highways. There is no comfort or satisfaction in traveling from on? portion of the County to the other. When a trip of that kind has to be made, it is undertaken and per fotmcd as a matter of necessity; as n thing that can not well be avoided. Agricultural Colleges? Xtf-Tha Thirty Million Bill has er. postponed, w 'its friends as the end of it for this aC5TThe following is from the Editor of the National Era on tho President's recent message: Is it not hard that our Democratic autocrat should be hemmed in bv mustv constitutional records, and denied the exercise of kingly preroga tivo? Who will not sympathize with him? dust think of it! There are the despots of France, Austria, Bus.sia, and even the constitutional .sovereign of England, invested with the right to This desncrate condition of the roads "akc war and peace, and interpose in . i t . i s-tanter for the protection of their "ivp in ntir who!. mnntrv n vorv tin. . ... ? . . Tii subjects who have business in foreign favorable appearance, and greatly .le- ,an'(l while onr g0O(lf patriotic, preci.ite ma only tue value, i-ut me hbertv-loving President can do noth- therwise beautiful scenery that lie along our highways. Every person who has traveled oer roads before and after turnpiking, has observed the ing until specially authorized by act of Concrrcss! What a stupid set of theorists were the framcrs of the Con stitution! It might have been all well thus to restrain the hands of Wash great difference in appearance that nil . ington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, t!u .surrounding country assumes. AfCtc, but more dull in theni not to lorcsec tiioc naicvon days in wnicn turnpike, however ineligible the route and however indifferent the country through which it passes, is a real J Kr.iuTinr.R. It not only gives an air of pleasantness and comfort, but it greatly enhances the value of all the property along the line of the road oi contiguous thereto. Let any person travel from here to HuntsviSlc as the roads arc now, and see the desolate appearance of almost every thing, and enjoy the mud as best he can; and then let the same trip be made when there shall have been a good turnpike constructed between the two places, and the country would hardly bo recognized as the same. The fine farms and comfortable resi dences Wtween here and there would present a commanding appearance hitherto unnoticed and not spoken of ; und their absolute worth would be in reasel at the very lowest estimate twenty-live per cent. And what is true of this route for a turnpike, is also true of every other route iu the County. our country is honored and blessed by the rule of the sage of Wheatland! From the National Era. The Slave Trade. Public opinion in at the Gulf States is gradually coming up to the support of tho African slave trade. If the people of the older States arc not wide awake, they will lose a great market for negroes; for the advocates of the foreign traffic in human flesh arc not so silly as to hope for a repeal of the Federal laws against slave piracy. They intend to make dead letters of them. The Southern Citizen says: "The Viokfcbnrg True Southron, hitherto we believe, adverse to us pirates, prints a part of Mr. Spratt's speech iu the Legislature of South Carolina, in favor of repealing all penal laws against the slave trade, with this warmly-commendatory pre face: We think the attentive reader will agree with us in asserting that the concluding portion of the late speech of Mr. L. V. Spratt, on the foreign slave trade, before the Legislature of ! South Carolina, is unsurpassed iu Fo- the accommodation of country refined common sense and searching and town, and for the prosperity of j eloquence, by anything in the records both. e need at the very K-a.t calou-K, oratory. Will not all. at least, . . . ., . , . I whose lot is cast among us listen to lation four turnpikes, one fron., theea-t. hU anl fricndlv Funsel?' " west, noith. and south. These roads) .. .. ,m.,i, P would give a large majority of the . of nr0QS, Tho editor people of thtf County an easy access j yj,. to and from tlu County seat; and what h far more important, it will secure to every producer a good and accessi ble market for Iiis produce at all times of the year. And this will n t only be an advantage to the producer, but to the ctMisumer. Hence all can atford to tak stork in these roads, and con tribute to the means of their construc tion. There can Le no possible injury done to any body, but on the contrary nil nim&bc mutually lcnefitted. mm m üncott rnin;. Our agent, Joiix Snwnr Way, has met with much letter success than wc anticipated. Old accounts, in most rases, luve been promptly paid, and in many instances subscriptions have Wen i vijsucd. We would gladly fur nish our patrons with the Jouns.it, en time, if wj were alle, but we are not; and that iuu-t be our apology for stop ping tho paper when the time is out. Wc arc glad to know that our course ib approved by our numerous eotem porarie. From tho various notices of approval from onr exchanges, wc select the following from the True JJepnblican: Til 2 K.lNoOLri! CotNTV JoCJlXAL declares its purpose to adopt and en force tho cadi system. That ytm i unquestionably th l-est for news paper patron, a- well as publishers, ami thi nearer it is lived up to the more pleasant will be the relations of those patties. It is bound sooner or liter to b-ome the invariable system, j Government, whoe laws fetter her uu the oilier the better, v:c say, de- 'prosperity. Are the eople of Louis tKedlv." " ! iana ready to go this extent?" We know a way to remedy that state of things. Advertise for a con tract to land some forty thousand Africans at some point between Sa vannah and the Sabine river within twelve months. There will, of course, Ik? a risk of capture by the philanthro pic pirates; and some of the cargoes will be lost; but that is the whole risk; as for felony piracy, and hanging, thatV all over." The Port Gibson Heveille (Mis.) savs: Tha presu of South Carolina may be agaitist 'thi infringement of the law, but it is not iu our judgment against tho slave trade as a tiatlic. Wc have, however, scon of late n change on the subject of some very able journals, but tho change is, doubtless, io change at all, except of policy. Some men think it hopebss and vain to urge the revival of tlm slave trade; it may be so. but auch a fold-your-hind "conclusion, without an ctTort, never discovered America or made her free, or accomplished any other great . The Baton Kongo Advocate, speak ing of a measure before the Legislature of Louisiana, says: "It is generally understood that thr famous 'African Apprentice Bill of the last session is to Le again brought lx"fo-e the Legislature. Wc arc not advised as to the sdiape in which it is next to appear; but if it approach to a similarity of that defeated last year, in form or interest, it shall meet our most active opposition. "If inexorable necesMtv demands tho revival of the slave trad", let the Heath cut loe from the General a iu- icuer was a uae launcaiion; a decoy to entrap Montgomery into the hands of his enemies. Montgomery did not meet at Jones's at the time appointed, in consequence of sickness. It is the opinion of Capt. Montgomery and his friends that it was an attempt to assassinate him. The matter is undergoing an investigation. Mont- omcry proceeded to Lawrence ami gave himself up to the officials : he is out on bail to the amount of 84000. During his absence from the border the Marshall's posse proceeded to make arreits. They were met by a small party of Free State men and repulsed. Several Pro-Slavery men of the Mar shall's posse were wounded, and three Free State men one very seriously, but is now recovering fr om his wounds. I see it stated in the Missouri Demo crat that one Develyn, a Free State man, was killed in this fight. This is a mistake ; I saw and conversed with him last week. A young boy, of the name of Snyder, was shot and left for dead by the Buf fians; but he crept into camp a few hours after night. His conduct was the most brave and heroic I have ever heard of. Surrounded by the enemy on all sides, he still continued firing, Jjut his revolver at last missed fire; he put his hand in his pocket, took out his pocket-book, procured a pin and opened the tube hole, and then fired. At last a ball struck him in the side, and he fell senseless to the ground. There the posse found him; pronounced him dead by kicking and turning him over, and took his coat. Late in the evening ho somcwlrat revived, and made his way to his companions. He is now well, and says he is ready for service when called on. The posse under the Marshall has only been able to arrest a few of the Free State "rebels." Last week they escorted one of the prisoners to Law rence to be tried for some offence al leged to bo committed. To give your readers a statement to show how pop ular these proceedings are, I will here state that this posse started from Par is, in Lynn county, with 35 armed men, all mounted and well supplied with muskets and revolvers, at nine o'clock at night; traveled about 30 miles, then fed their horses and took breakfast, and returned immediately to Paris, sending the prisoner to Law rence with an escort of five men. One of their horses gave out and was left behind; it is said to be one that was stolen fr om a Free State man. These "law-and-order" men receive 83,00 per day for their services. There is a large force in the field at this time, and Uncle Sam will have to foot a snug little bill. This posse arc mostly Mis sourians. Soon after Capt. Montgomery's re turn from Lawrence, he made a prop osition, that as many had families who had been more or less engaged in the border difficulties, that it might be better, under tho cncumstanec.s, for all such to give themselves up to the authorities at Lawrence. lu conse quence of this new movement, hostili ties have been suspended for a time the boys have scattered," and are now in the quiet sections of the Terri tory awaiting the result of things. Last evening a friend informed me that Gov. Medary and Montgomery were on their way to the border, and it was hoped that peace would soon prevail. It is also reported that Me dary promised to disband the Mar shall's posse, on condition that arms arc suspended on all sides. This is what the Free State men desire, and have alt along desired peace on hon orable terms. This is the only way to produce a state of quietness. The Free State men have suffered too much to be run over and be dragooned by a set of national and conservative tool of the Administration. Th; forcible rescue by old John Brown of the eleven negroes from Mis- "dcad or alive," delivered at the Tra ding Post on the Missouri line. And McGee at Westport, it is said, has offered to give any one of his slaves turc of life and the great object of V- their freedom if thv will only kill tin ' inn. We will not merely stav here, Alolitionist. j looking upon this world as a dark. News has jut arrived that old cold, dreary abode, uncomfortcd by John Brown was surrounded by a j the noblest endearments; but we will Pro-Slavery posse north of Lawrence. view it as being every tiling it should The bovs from Lawreuce went to his j be, to give us happiness, for which wc live, and in which to prepare for a blissful immortality. Wc hope the day is not far distant when all shall, enjoy the blessings of education; when the hard handed yeo manry of our land shall live in the possession of cultivated minds; and when education shall not bo regarded as disqualifying icoman for domestic labor, but rather qualifying her for the high and responsible duties which she is called to fulfill. Let her be edu cated, and then our homes shall be rendered more comfortable and happy. ScimosA. morning, when wc went up town and jbiith place of that river, ia the moun ec tired boarding in a very quiet, nice j buns. place. We remained there until the ! crc ar? !t 1.-J00 men in tU r . , . , .tallcy, and 000 of them have built following Monday even.ng. when wc ( hon in thi, , w , OVfr Jt good log cabins completed, arl bv the first of dune will have accoino dat ions for 10,000 souls. Wc look got aboard the steamer Nebraska and came hcie, where we arrived Tuesday morninrr. Wc stormed here an hour t ...... i i im i i At j fur an emigration equal to that of 4(J a we went i hm n 111,1 iilo.l it hottor ' 1 and '.r0 to California. The mail and expicss company will rescue, and he is now safe again. The particulars I am unable to give. A man of the name of Doy, and his son, it is reported, were captured by some Missonrians and taken down the river into Missouri in company with some fourteen colored persons. A portion of the colored persons were slaves, and Doy and son were found with them. They will most likely meet with severe punishment. In Lawrence they have held an indigna t'on meeting, and demand that Doy and son be tried in Kansas if they have committed any offence against the laws of the Territory. The Pike's Peak excitement is all tho go; a great many talk of going in the Spring. That gold is to be found there is no longer a doubt, but a fixed fact; to what amount is yet to be solved. Tho Winter has been, in Kansas, more than unusually severe, the Ther mometer standing as low as 10 de grees below Zero but not often. The wheat crop docs not look as favorable as last year, but an early spring may yet change the appearance of the wheat fields. Corn is selling at 30 to 40 cents per bushel; more south of us it is worth from 75 cents to 81,00. Wheat is bringing 81-5. Work oxen per yoke from CO to 100 dollars. Good ! anv young men and women who at cattle will sell high in the Spring on j tended my schools in Bandolph six account ol the emigration to the gold 1 aU(i sevctl years ago, have made but 1 j w . little improvement during the lapse of In conclusion let me say, that let this time. The most important part For the Journal. Hilm.rovk, Feb., 1S5D. Mr. KoiTon: Since my life is de voted principally to teaching school, I desire through the medium of your paper to offer a few thoughts on this subject to the minds of your readers. During the past two years, I have be come familiar with the school system of Ohio as well as that of Indiana, and am surprised to see the vast dif ference between these sister States in educational matters. This winter, I have visited numbers of common schools in Bandolph as well as Darke county, and have compared the youth Southern Sketche. Dato Roter, La., F!. 9. Bi:o. Du.;: You have concluded, no doubt, that I have forgotten my promise to write to yo'i. 1 have no excuse, except that when I did write I wanted to give you my views of the "peculiar institution" as I see it around u and have tried to divest myself of prejudices as to be able to look upon it iu all its bearings. That the most horrid descriptions I 1 nave ever reao 01 me curse 01 Slavery had failed to give a true picture of the rcalitv, and with all the enormity heaped upon the poor slave, 1 am a convcit. To the belief that they are happier than their masters, after eight weeks mingling vitl master and slave, (for although there may have been some danger in it, still I have conversed with the slave,) I am pre pared to say, in truth, I would rather be the oppressed than the oppressors. We left Cincinnati Dec. 18th; had a pleasant trip to New Orleans. The passengers being nearly all Northern ers, wc had it pretty much our own way. Two ladies, with their servants, were on the Covington side of the river, which our boat crossed for. We learned through the waiters, (which were all free colored persons,) that they had told their slaves if they took them across the river, the aboli tionists would catch them! They will yet learn that their slaves are not so ignorant as they flatter themselves they are. The name of "abolitionist" is used to frighten the slave, like the threat of "disunion" to frighten the North, and both are losing their force. than any place wc had seen below the mouth of the Ohio. It is the old capital J run direct from vour town to this pUcc, of the State, and contains a population ' aud I hop to be able to furninh yon of about seven thousand, nearly one iwmi lur carnal news. .Mr. ilex kaday half of which are slaves. The iov- is on the road now, making arrange- tii'nH for hit m.iil linv crnment Barracks, State House, As- I will write to you whenever I can ylums and Penitentiary are located get time, and hope to be able to do fo ulai l Yours trulv. iiere, ani an lino ouiMings. The winter here has been a wet one. We have seen ice but three or four times, and not over half an inch thick. When not raining, the climate is de lightful. New Year's dav mv wife and self went lit the barracks. Wc saw flowers of various kinds in bloom, and the ladies carrying parasols. It Joitx Scrnprr:. - From WAhincton. From the Cincinnati Garrttr. Washington, Feb. -7. Hie city has been much excited with a painful event to-day. Philip Baiton Key, the District Attorney for the District of Columbia, and Daniel!. Sickles. of N. Yoik, met was very much like May at home. ' ppoite Lafacttc Square, near the The farmers arc nearly done planting; I'i-lenfs house, between one and .1 ..1 1. ...1 "1. - two o'clock. uiu piuiuo iiii'i pcacu 1 ico aiu 111 bloom; many vegetables, such as cab bage, turnips, etc., grow all winter. ot each m point ot intellectual pro- ircrc jn Louisiana we overheard a ! gress. Tho contrast was very great. I hlaVe Sickles had received an anonymous letter yesterday, informing him of im proper intimacy letwecn his wife Mid and yet they import their sour krout, Key. He charged her with it this as they do almost every thing c!,c ."uing, and obtained a written state . . , r .1 x- 1 : incut ol the facts signed by her. Not they eat and wear, from the North. , f, 0 . - c long after, Key appeared in the Square In my next I will give you an ac- j an(j waveil j,;' handkerchief which wa-r count of our visit to a sugar planta- j the accustomed signal of meeting witfl tion; to the sale of a sugar farm, ne- J Sickles' wife. groes and all; a second visit to New i Si;.klos l"vin; it. went over and ,4 . ..it-, 1 . 1 ! met Kev at the corner of the square. Orleans; to the Leg,l,,turc, which is , Apirüa"clljn5 him, he said "von are now in session; to a negro meeting, j the dl rascal who has dishonored their class-meeting, etc. P. me, an I I have to kill you." He then ' drew a pistol and shot Key, the latter The Issue lias Come, and .Must be ' advanced, and Sickles retreated a few .Iet. j steps and fired again, when Key fell The Indianapolis Daily Journal of j shouting murder." When he was February 'Jth, contains an able and j down. Sickles attempted to fire his . .. r 1 . , ...... , r.i 'pistol a third time, but the cap cx- truthful article, "1 ho Moulding of the . 4 , , , ... . , r t idoded without being followed bv T .. .111. 11. I - issue, wnicn wc snonia oe giau iojtlUcll.uge jIü tllcu rc.Capped the give to our readers in full; but as we' pistol and put the muzzle near Key have not room, wc shall have to be satisfied by giving the following clos ing paragraph : "The debate in the United States J heart, shooting him dead. Sickles afterward walked to thtf Attorney (Jcneial'a resilience and surrendered hinisflf, after stating the s- W - ' . 1 I ft close, and the necessity ot meeting the lViU fn.r was na(i l,0fo,c a magistrate, issue, a Slave or Free government,' , an,' j10 js now j ja;it attended by a unavoidable. Davis, Mason, Hunter. ; ,11!1i-.r .f iY;,m..U u-L. InvtltV ihn 'Art. region. vouri, has caused a tremendous excite ment throughout the Western and Northern Missouri. It has made in one night no loss than thirty miles of Free Territory; along the border not an able-bodied nigger is to be found; they have very prudently ent them further in the State for safe keeping. And this is not all, the negro popula tion is being shipped down the river; most every boat has sonic human freight on board; and should the shipment continue for any length of time, tho slave population will le frightfully lessened. How will Old Buck, like the movement? Just think for one moment, that only three years since tho slave propagandists ptedictcd that by the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, Kansas would soon be filled up by a Slavcholding, Union loving. National, Democratic popula tion; that our fair and fertile soil would bo worked by slave-labor alas! how thaag:d! Kansas is not only no person be deterred from coming to Kansas by the disturbances on the border. Out of Lynn and Bourbon counties all is peace and quietness; and although Ave live within a few miles of the scat of war, we feel as safe as in Bandolph county. Claims may be purchased cheap in the Spring, there are so many moving to Pike's Peak. Yours, fcc, Fkaxkus. P. S. Gov. Medarv and some m friends have just gone down in the troubled region; they have just pass ed; hope peace will be secured. For the Journal. Progress and IMucation. Villa, February 19, l6f9. This is truly an age of progression. When wc view our present facility of doing every kind of business that is connected with any of tho great busi ness transactions of the day, compared with the manner in which it was per formed a half century ago, wc are ready to say, without hesitation, sure ly man has wonderfully progressed! And wc can justly attribute this rapid progress in our improvements to tho education and development of tho mind. But has education achieved its highest and noblest victory? We hope not. While it has gone before and painted the way to mechanical inventions and agricultural improve ments, it has not failel to have its meliorating influence upon the morals of our societies and communities. And we may say, with propriety, that education has progressed. We can look back to the time, during the short period of life, when it was a rare thing to find an individual who would prove himself eligible to the task of solving all tho problems and examples contained iuTalbott's Arith metic; and when the use of English Grammar was known by precious few, and if one chanced to use either of the verbs "saw," 'came," or "did," in its proper tense, ho was ridiculed as being a "College gent;" and should he attempt the use of appropriate words to express his ideas, his lan guage was frequently converted into vulgarity, und used by his inferiors as by-words, and not unfrequently he was insipidly charged with having "swallowed a dictionary." But we arc glad to say such days are swiftly passing away, and a better time is coming, when all begin to feci the responsible duty of educating and en lightening the mind. May the time speedily come when all our sons and daughters shall make their way to tho goddess of education, and be crowned with her choicest laurels! One object yet remains to be ac complished to make us what wc should be, a thoroughly educated people. This object is to regard education and labor as no longer incompatible. Ed ucation has hitherto been too much restricted to tho D. D.'s, M. D.'s, LL. D.'s, and A. M.'s, and too much de preciated by the comanry of our land. Young persons too frequently se?k an education for tho purpose of procur ing a sustenance without labor. But, alas! they too often prove unsuccess ful in their undertakings, and resort to folly and crime, in which they spend their unluppy Ifvcs. We can say in language anahigous to that of tho poet, that of their lives Hank-. And why? It is not inferiority in point of intel lect. It is not an unwillingness on the part of the youth to exert their mental powers, nor is it a want of a proper estimate of tho benefits derived from a good education, which occa sions such tardiness in literary pur suits; but it is occasioned by being leprivcd of an opportunity of improv-Lvi I was there!" I asked him if he had to work hard? "O yes,-mas- 1 rrnt l.nf littl.t the year? What mental discipline j to eat or WCar." Poor fellow! facts and provocation. He was Senate on last Wednesday night j f0H0Ved bv an immense crowd, but proves that the struggle is coming ! nu ;;,M1S 0f rebutment. A Tct trill tlio UA'iWwif i rv fiirwitintr f lot - I 4 i i , ti i.JVJ j. ii uiv ij c'ii vy a iiiv.'.iiii iii Ii trii oov and mn taiKimr aoout what . ot i w . . "v they would do when the got to Canada. One evening on our way down, about, Clay, Brown, Green, Gwin, and Ben- qv t'iiminal Court meets immediate- dark, a heavy fog set in and wc ran !.ia,n laid down distinctly that tho jVf an imjcr the present state of ashore at a plantation and vood-vardj ,lCI,1,f,cratic ''''th must j ,;.t.Hngf llu eviction is probable. . " , bo the itrult ctton ami enrvuroacment f 1 he overseer came down to sell wood, cv rr ., - . ..,IM . . i ' slavery in the Jtrrttoncs by Congress. I ZThc President has issued a the negroes to sell pecans and chickens F,om the .le.Tersonian doctrine, that 1 proclamation calling an extra session to geftheir Christmas money. There i Congress and the nation should give of the Senate on the -1th of March, w.ns nnother boat inst below ns. and men wnoie sueugui u nie encourage ..whereof the ncwlv elected Senators are j in passing to it, we came upon holdimr a horse. He asked me for to baeco, which I did not have. He then asked where our boat was from? I told him from Cincinnati. He said, "That is a Free State Oh! how I i iitii wnif !. ....v. ivui .-..- fjin ui iiiu .CliaiU Uli iiv: Tin vt .ini us, and -heir whole strength to the encourage -'.whereof the newly elected Senators a neTo mcnt I'dom through the half lo.piired to take notice. Appearan way doctrine of Douglas, that 4 Con-; now indicate that an extra session ing their minds. What good can be derived from two month's school iu can bo acquired iu two months? Be fore the mind has become inured to study the school is gone. Who would not laugh at tho folly of any parent, after deciding to have his son become master of some trade, should allow him two months in the vcar. How long would it take to learn black smithing, saddlery, or any mechanical art, by two month's ajqdication out of twelve? Yet the same diligence is necessary to progress in literary pur suits, and like physical laws govern the mind as do tho muscular powers. In the State of Ohio the term of six month's school is required by law to be taught in every school district each year, and ample funds arc provided to defray. the expense of teaching, while citizens pay less tax, in proportion to value of capital, than those of Indiana, and arc exempt from poll tax. How this wide difference has wine, I can not exactly comprehend. Indiana has as many facilities for obtaining wealth as Ohio. Her soil is equally produc tive, and her convenienco to markets and manufactures is .equally great in most respects. Then why neei When I went back to tho boat, the servant boys were singing and play ing, which all seemed to enjoy, until they sung a song the sentiment of the chorus was "The poor M slave h is jrone to rc.-t; There let him he, for now he i.s free!" This coole.l their ardor for singing, ami they called for a speech. This was the fifth night on the boat, and we had been having speeches before. We had a young man aboard from Northern Ohio, who had declaimed for us, whom they had named "Lord Byron." They called him out, but got more than some of them bargained for. He gave us an original speech upon gambling and intemperance. He said it was a shame that the cap tains of the fino steamers would allow liquor sold or gambling upon them; that these gamblers were a miserable set of cowards and scoundrels; that one of the miserable scamps had the impudence to ask him to gamble with him, but he thanked God li3 had been raised by a pious mother, who had ed In li-' ,auo-,t ",mi better; and wound up by caranecM of gress should not encourage either r ice- j the whole Congress will lc held, as a dorn or Slavery,' we have at last reach- very large majority have twice voted cd the other extreme, and are asked to j that they will not consent to add to the say that -Congress and the nation j national debt, and will not appropri shall encourage Slavery.' This doc-1 ao any more money till they know trine once recognized, as the whole j where it is to come from, a wise Democratic party of the South insist j resolution that we heartily commend, itshall be, and the nation ceases to befas a sign of returning wisdom in our a free nation. Now, at least, a pf,- ; legislation. Without the appropria tion of it is free. Half of the States tioits a called session is inevitable. Daily Journal. can claim that no responsibility for the shame of Slavery rests upon them. hatever control thy have had of it j Tie Turitr. they have used to exterminate it. Bui ' The House, on Saturday, refused to I when this Southern Democratic doe- suspend the rules, to admit the intro I trine is established, not a State iu the 1 ductimi of a bill for the modification Union can call itself free, for cverv of the Tariff. A majority voted on'1, to the extent of its connection , affirmatively, but not the required two- with the rederal Government, must j support, cherish, and protect Slavery. This is the question now to be met. The South say it shall be, and we can not avoid the decision if wc would. They have proclaimed that the next candidate for tho Presidency whom they suppott shall advocate their doc trine. It is pressing us as closely as tho Presidential contest. Dowha: we may we can not avert it. It has ben coming nearer for thirty veais. It is thirds, hrerv Bepublicaii member procnt voted in the affirmative, except Spinner, of New York., and Mott and Nichols of this State, the latter of whom has recently made a sjcech iu favor of free-trade and direct taxation. Nearly every Southern Democrat votel in the negative, and the following Democrats from the North voted with them: M ssrs. John Cochran, N. Y.; Cockeiill, O., Davis. Ind.; English, now upon us. We may scuffle, and Ind.; Grocsbcck, O.; Hall, O.; Haskin. ana bo found so far in tho rear in re gard to that which lies at the founda tion of her prosperity ami her happi ness? To cope with any western State, Indiana has only to apply the means already within her possession. Sho can boast of some good institu tions of learning. Sho has educated many school teachers, but she could not give them employment after she had educated them, and they have left for the "far west" or engaged in some other pursuit. It is high time the public mind was roused to this im portant matter. Thero is some de ficiency somewhere to be attended to, and the sooner it is done the better. Yours truly. 1. II. ANOTItf.n OtTUAon. Fkb. ü-jth. On Tuesday night last the house of one Mr. Furdick, residing near Hill groAC, was forcibly entered by a band of robbers, four in number, three men andaboy.thelatteraboutfouiteenyearsislitvc huts arc small, and built of of age. Thcv were armed with clubs, round poles, the whole plantation pre appealing to the ladies to shun these worthless creatures. This was a bomb-shell. The gamblers, bar-keeper, and few others, were very wroth, and appealed to the officers to put him ashore. The ladies sent for the clerk and told him if the young man was put ashore, they were going along. Tho officers soon found which was tlu popular side, and tho fuss was soon "dried up." We pascd Baton Bongo Dee. tilth. Here we saw the first oranges upon the trees; and here, too, we came to the sugar plantations. They were much nicer than the cotton farms above. The cotton planter takes a land claim, deadens a large tract of land, clears off the underhiush, scrach cs too ground, and plants the cotton seed. Ho builds himself a large double cabin, putting a chimney out of doors at each end, with a large open space between, looking very much like our old fashioned barns. The do lge, and shut our eves, but tho is sue is there whether wc see it or not. Not to meet it, to turn sedulously to patching up the defective ami rotten machinery of the Government, is to give up. There is but one way left, and that is to meet the new but fiunl question of the subjection of the nation to Slavery, fairly and full-. Therein no use in trying to do Ige it behind re trenchments, or taiiffs, or any ques tion of mere policy. We may settle them too, but wc mast settle this." and attacked Mr. F., who sprang out of bed as soon as the door was burst open. As luck would have it, Mr. Furdick grasped a chair, as ho sprang out of bed, and, raising it to defend himself, his head was protected from severe blows, but his hand and arm were severely bruised. He however kept tho chair over his head so as to prevent being knocked down. During the while, tho boys sleeping in an ad- senting a gloomy appearance; some are more pleaant, but they arc the exceptions. The sugar farms arc a permanent institution. The planter's house is a splendid affair, nearly hid in the rich growth of evergreens; fur ther back the slave huts are laid off like a village, with the overseer' house in the midst of them. They arc all built alike, arc framed and whitewashed, and from the river look joining room rushed-in, when tho bur- neat and clean. glars took the alarm and lied from the house We arrived at New Orleans at 2 o'clock Christmas day, in the midst Iwoof the men had formerly ueeu oi a rain-storm, mich as mis cumaxc;tje moutj, 0f Cherry Creek, on the working for Mr. rurdick, who knew Inter From the Knuns .Mines, Daten to January '2)th; Plenty ff Cold. From the Atchison Ch:inijion, Fib. 19. We have received the following very interesting letter from Mr. John Scuuder, formerly a clerk on the steamer A. B. Chambers, and well known in this vicinity as a man whose statements can bo relied upon in every articular. He gives cheering accounts of the richness of the mines, and the fineness of the gold, and advises every one who can get away, to come out. AfRAniA, Arapahoe Co., K.T..) January -öth. Editoi: Cit.VMTiov Dear Sir: I promised when I left to write to you on my arrival, but I have been so busy that I have not had time. I have been engaged in prospecting, to satisfy myself as to tho truth of the reports of gold in abundance, and am convinced. The gold is here, and no mistake. You can find it any and everywhere; on the plains, in the river bottoms; on the mountains and in the "gulches and "spurs" of the mountains the sand of the river glistens with the shining dust; the dark earth of the ii h valleys is teeming with untold wraith. Each day brings to light some new discovery, which goes to prove that the wealth of tho country will, when developed, cause a great excitement iu tho monetary and commercial world. Miners make from three to eight and ten dollars per day, when thv work; and there have been instances of finding nuggets worth tweuty-five and fifty dollars. The weather is cold and the ground frozen so hard, at this date, that but very little mining is going on, but men are out prosjecting and hunting up the richest "diggings" every day. We, that is to say the St. Louis bovs, have laid out a place wo call Auraria. It is l-cautifullv situated at X. Y.: II od ires. III.: Hmrhcs. Ind.: Marshall, III.; Morris. 111.; Nibl.vk. Ind.; Pendleton, ().; Shaw, III.; Smith, III.; and Yallandigham, (). Tlic total vote was yeas 1H nays S. This icsult is unfavorable for a modification of tho Tai iff at this session, as those who voted to suspend th? rules are not at all agreed as to the particular measure to bo adopted. A compromise, however, may yet lo effected. Gazette. Avns and Nona Yi:a ano Navs. These terms are used indiscriminately by legislators an I reporters generally; and frequently they have it, "Ayes and Navs" "Yeas and Noes," cc. Tli? distinction Letween tho terms is this: When there is a riva voce vote, the "ayes and noes" aie called for. When the vote is to be lccorded by the names of those voting, a "yea and nay" vote is the proper one. their oiccs which led to their imnic- is noted for s'ic.sceiidiiig in torrents, j NOll,h l ank of the South Platte, and Wc ttayed on the boat until tho next j lying about twehc mik from thj Administrator' Male. "lYt)TI('K i lirrt-l.y gitm that I ill rll at j-ulilic iitu tion.on Saturday theCtah in-taiit, (Hire!.,) ut the riVnltticc f Jol Pi n r, !.itc ut 1'arid'J'ih County, hidiatia. i!-r-aM-d, all Iii prponal rojfiy, (not t.iktn by the ihiw,) ctiUtinj' of horr, i Mttlr ntxl h'. com, oti, wheat and haj, firming utui.-iU, l.'.u.-thoM and kitthcu furniture, and otlu r articlt a too trdiou to i numerate. A credit of nine month mill r p'urn m all min otrr thrre dollar, the jurchaf tiiin; Iii iiot- it)i j-j r -vl ur-tv ait- inr lahittiou and ai jiraiM mint Iawx. Uriah rn:itci:. mir. 3, 1-Administrator silEUHT'S SALE. BY ilrtueof a decree and execution to me dirrtfl fnnu ttic Randolph Cotnmn riet ourt, 1 will ctjto-e t pair at thr court liou- iliior, in in-lirt-r, Ktlolli county, I:ilin.i,u the 'JCth day of March, I ".', l.tuou the hour of ten lock, A. M. uh1 four o'clock 1. M., ofaahl lay, the lolloniii L'tate. Mtuutriiu KanUuljl county, Indiana, to wit: The ij'-rth half of in-lot uurabrr fire (i). in the cast front, in the Vawn f Vinchrtr. Execute! as thr property of Thnma 1. Scott, lminitraijr if the rate of Hartcy Patty, deceased, and Nathan (Jarritt, at the cuit of WillukUt Um'UVipiI. IVM.M. C. MmKLLi Shiriff K. C. nur. 3, IfO dV fr r $1. N'OTiri: ; i lurehy pheu that the un der.IjnKsl haa Wen aputed admin istrntor of the e-tate r 2 Fierce, Ute f Randolph County, Indiana. deeeaed. Sai4 fsUte ii up!ird l lr aoWrnt. U I'KI.MI rIF.RCE. mr- 3- Administrator. Oil hhdn. N. O. Sutrar; J 30 U.U. Prime N. . Molares; JiM received and forvale lv uh-Zl AVF.HY L ri'TMAN-