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New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-29
DR,yATE SCHOOL for BOYS, No. 81 VI

L 2istst-Tbe 22d year begios on MONDAY, Sept 10
The nun schol mised D. 10 whom the Principal
drvotes bis pc isona attention. Primary Department ansnt
y sdy Is connected with the School Circulars may be Oh
tanned the School Messrs Appletops ockwoods OF
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New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-29
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New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-29
financial.

A DRIAN II. MULLER will SELL at auction
IA THIS DAY l2i O'Clock nj the Merchants ESehinge.
for account OF whom il nsy corcetr:
Ieo shares Mechsnics' Bsr <. New York $2h
$4,000 Evansville and Illinois Railroad lst Mortgage psr
cent Bonds 81 eco each. N,UD
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
Consumption of Gold ana silver.

1t has been ascertained that in Bir-
mingham, England, not less than one
thousand ounces of fine gold are used
weekly, equivalent to $3.50, 600 or $780,
900 annually and that the consumption
of gold d-leaf in eight manufacturing towns
is equal to 584 ounces weekly. For gil
ding metals by electrotype and the water
gliding processes. not less than 10000
ounces Of gold are required annually
The consumption of gold in the potteries
of Stafordshire for gliding porcelain,
&c., is from 5000 to 10, 600 ounces an
nually. A recent English writer states
the consumption of gold and silver in
Paris at over $4,000, 900 of ffanes.--
Twenty five years ago an English writer
of celebrity estimated the value of the
precious metals annually applied to orna-
mental and luxurious purposes of f5,-
6i9, 900, or about $28, 900, 900. Attic
present time, the consumption Of 6ne
gold and silver must be doubled, both in
Europe and the United States, and may
be fairly estimated. at $40. .000, 600 to
$50. .o00, 600 annually. The quantities
used in the manufacture of watch cases,
pencil cases, plate, &c... are enormous.
We may fairly assume that if there be
500, ,OO0, 600, Of coin in the United
States, the eamount consumed and nov ex-
isting in manufactured shape is so per
cent larger, namely, $500, ,O00,oo0 70
/ S400, ,O00, 600,
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
Domestic Servants.

What does it mean, all this pathetic
and indignant complaint on the part OF
ladies against those who serve them p
1t means, madam, a great deal more than
perhaps you have ever thought of.
1t means that the notion of human
equality has found entrance into every
mortal heart; and that to the end of time,
no faithful menial service will ever more
be done on this earth Hold your head
as high as you will, dear lady, your serv-
ants know that the social difference be-
tween you and them is mere accident.
If they are better than you-as is very
frequently the case-they will hate you
for pluning yourself upon that acci-
dent. If they are not, they viii copy
your foibles, and wear imitation lace till
they can afford Brussels.
1t means that human beings cannot be
Joined together, to mutual advantage, by
the tie of wages alone. Human nature
is too good for that. There must be
love, or there must be discord. Love an
ignorant servant girl? Yes, madam
you can love her, if you are really her
superior not otherwise. And if you
love her, you can do her good, and
bridge over the great gulf which circum-
stances have placed between you.
1t means that a wrong done to one
member of the family of nations is a
wrong done to the family of man. For,
observe, the servants complained of are
mostly from Ireland, wronged by politi.
clans, darkened by priests. SO the
world swarms with the .benighted vic.
tins and we, in civilizing them, par
necessarily with degree of our owf
civilization. ireland, prosperous. In
structed, and free, had blessed the world
Ireland, in bonds and in ignorance, i'm
poses on the world the task of blessing it
So are we linked together, in veal ant
in woe, on this planet.
| It means, that ladies do not conside
the profound unhappiness of solitar,
servants lot. That dreariest of solitude
is hers-a solitude in the midst of many
She sees happy, cordial life going OF
around her; she is very close to It
hers its laughter and It's song but sl
has no part nor lot in the matter. Sh
prepares the festival, but it is not for her
She is being apart from the rest. He
work is never done. Her life is apt t
be all burden, all toll, all care. Her Wis
, itors are few, and they are not welcome
} except to her. Her holiday hours ar
Ear between, and they are granted q
: privileges, not conceded as rights. Ho'
wonderful is it that, in circumstances 5
5 disheartening, servants should be as faitl
: fui as they are!
Ladies should think of these thing
! before they complan.-Lye Mastrats.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
Hints on House Building.

The error into which the public has
fallen is not that of paying too much re-
speet to the rules of taste in architecture,
but that of overlooking every considera-
ton save the beauty of the house, not
seeming to understand that an object in
trinsically beautiful may be offensive
when out of its properplace. The sweet
est notes that ever issued from a flute
would CRATE harshly upon the ear if it
were not in tune with the other instru-
ments of the band. In the construction
of dwelling house. and indeed of ey-
cry other edifice, there are three impor-
tant requisites to be consided. The first
is utility and convenience; the second,
is expression; the third, architectural
beauty and proportion. No one of these
requisites should be abandoned for the
sake OF another. But connoisseurs are
too apt to sacrifice the two former for the
sake of the latter; to overlook ''the end
of the art for the display of the art It
SELF"
The majority of those who build hous-
es are affected by this error. Every man
seems to be vieing with his neighbors in
endeavoring to build the most snowy
house. Hence we are witnesses to all
sorts of extravagances. But among the
thousand different styles of building ex-
hibited in our land, people viii gradually
learn to appreciate those which afford the
most permanent satisfaction. The true
models for our common dwelling houses
may at last be found among those which
were built without reference to anything
except utility and convenience by some
plain and honest citizen. The public
will soon discover that it is not the most
showy house, nor always the mostbeaut-
iful house, which is in all situations most
pleasing; but that many very plain hous-
es affect the minds of intelligent observ-
ers with the greatest pleasure, on account
of the expression that pervades them in
connection with the grounds and the gen
eral scenes and objects around them
Rortieuiturat Magazine.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
Family Newspaper :--Indspeadsnt oa An subjects.
NUMBER 22---VOLUME /.

To every right-thinking man consti-
tutional, legal, or a moral right, was
equally sacred, whether claimed by the
North or the South, the East or the. West,
by Territory or State, by an enemy or
a friend. That the same feeling which
had induced him TO stand up, oft and
again, for the constitutional rights of the
South, impelled him now to claim with
equal pertinacity, the right of suffrage
for the people of Kansas He could not
hold the South responsible for the inva-
sion which had been referred to; nor
could he, with propriety. visit the resPon-
sibility on the State of Missouri. Its
authors were the frantic leaders and cor
rupt aud reckless presses of some half
dozen border counties, who had infiamed,
excited, and deceived their own people,
and had then urged this misguided and
deluded people to the commission OF the
wrong. 1t was due from Missouri, how
ever, to disavow and repudiate it, and
to take measures TO prevent Its recur-
renee. Failing in this, she might fairly
be held to sanction it. If she should
thus sanction it, we must appeal to the
honor, the justice, and the magnanimity
of the southern States to stay the outrage
thus committed by one of themselves, in
the mistaken expectation of advancing
their common cause. That rebuke and
disapprobation from them would be all
powerful cannot be doubted, and if this
reliance should fail, it win be for the rest
of the Union to say whether the plighted
faith of the nation to us shall be kept or
broken-whether the right of suffrage
shall be reality or a moekery-whether
we, their fellow citizens, shall be freemen
or slaves.
The governor closed by again referring
to the old and cherished relations he had
sustained with those around him, and
with the expression of his qualification
and his thanks for the honor conferred and
the regard manifested by this enthusias-
tic popular demonstration.
The above report of Governor Reeder's
speech, which we copy from the Argus,
is Introduced with the following editorial
remarks -
ga number of errors having crept in
to the report of Judge Porter's speech
on the occasion of Governor Reeder's
reception here, as published in the Argus,
and the inaccuracies in the telegraphic
report of the governors reply. made up
from the memory of some one in the
crowd, induced US to call upon the Gov
ernor for more correct report. with a
view to republishing the remarks of botf
gentlemen correctly. Governor Reedel
declined writing out his remarks, but re-
peated them to US, and we made at tit
moment the following notes, which We
are satisfied is sufficiently close and
faithful report of the substance of his
original speech"
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
Governor Reeder as Landholder

Among other faults found with the
conduct of Gov. Reeder in administering
the affairs of Kansas, he is charged with
being land speculator. This, OF course.
cannot be regarded as a very grave Of
fense, and is one which every one of his
assailants would probably be glad to COM
NIT, if he had the chance. On thispolnt
the n. Y. Evening Post well says:
To claim of Gov. Reeder that he should
be an exception to the whole class of ac-
tual residents, that he should be the only
man in the Territory who does not own
land, in order that he may have differ
ent interest from theirs, appears to us
very unreasonable. No man, we think,
would willingly go out to Kansas, not
even to be its Governor, except with the
expectation of bettering his condition.
Those who are first on the ground get
the choice of the lands and the chance Of
rise of prices. They are fairly entitled
to both these advantages as the reward
of the enterprise and spirit which led
them to encounter the hardships OF the
wilderness, and to become the pioneers
of settlement. If the Governor has any
loose cash to invest, it strikes us that he
is Just as much entitled to buy land with
it as his neighbors.
There are some, no doubt, who would
be glad if Governor Reeder could bt
prevented from having any interest ii
giving the Territory institutions under
which it is likely to prosper. Ii he were
not a landholder, they naturally infel
that he might be more easily detached
from the cause of the inhabitants an6
employed as an instrument of the party
who seek to extend the area of slavery
For our part, we think it is fortunate tina
he should have cast his lot with the othe
settlers. In these times of strong politi
cal temptations and uncertain politica
virtue, it is well for any man that hi
personal interest should coincide witt
the good of the community, and thatcon
science and the hope of profit should Inn
I y1ol biir,, n, ft,a cor,.o, J,.a.t,o.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
RaQsas Daf1efs.
FfoDe the Louisville .JuurRal.
The Late Doings in Kansas and Missouri.

FioDs the Louisville .Juurnal.
The Late Doings in Kansas and Missouri.
1t is painful to speakof the occurrences
in Kansas and upon its borders within the
last few weeks, but they are too impor-
tant in their nature, and are likely to be
by far too important in their consequent
ces to be passed by in silence. We have
waited to see statements from all sides In
order that we might be able to speak up
on the subject without danger of being
mistaken. We have no feeling that could
prompt us to speak as partizan. We
wanted the Missouri Compromise to be
let alone, but, as it has been repealed, we
wish to see Kansas admitted at the proper
time into the Union asa State either with
or without slavery, as her own qualified
voters shall decide.
We have only slight means of Judging
whether a majority of the present popula-
tion of Kansas Territory are for or oragainst
making it a slave State, but it certainly
cannot be denied with semblance of
truth that the recent election, so called,
Of delegates to the Territorial Legislature
was the most open and scandalous mock
cry of an election ever heard of in the
United States, the old Plaquemine elec-
tlon of 1874 scarcely excepted. An of
tcial census of the inhabitants of the
Territory was carefully taken only four
weeks before the election, and from this
1t appears that, in some precincts alone,
someof them very small ones, on and
near the Missouri border, the votes polled
atthe election considerably surpassed the
achote aansber Of voters tn the entire Terri
tory. The truth is, an army of Missou-
rians, yariously estimated at from three
thousand to Ave thousand, armed with
bowie knives and pistols and rifles, and
even cannon, marched into Kansas on
the day before the election, distributed
themselves wherever they were wanted,
awed all opposition to silence, deposed
and put up election judges to suit them
selves, allowed the privilege of voting TO
whom they pleased and refused it to
whom they pleased, compelled by threats
and the display of weapons the receiving
OF their own votes, offered personal vio-
Ience to all who were obnoxious to them,
carried everything before them, and, the
next day, returned to Missouri under
streaming banners, and to the music oi
tfe and drum and trumpet.
In several precincts of Kansas the
Judges refused to receive votes unless the
persons offering them would swear thai
they were inhabitants of the Territory
but IN every such case the Missourian.
compelled the refractory judges either tc
yield the point or to resign their Office.
or to fly for life. We have details at thu.
moment before US almost enough to make
a volume; we have no room for them here
Even the Louisville Democrats Kansas
correspondent, who evidently exulted in
the incidents of the occasion, admitted
the TACT of the irruption and voting o.
the Missouri rufiians. Writing from
Lawrence, in Kansas Territory, and
speaking ofthe Missouri detachment sha
regulated thatprecinct, he said:s.On the
soth OF March, large train of wagon,
and horses entered this place from Mis-
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
Emigration.

James 7. Davis, the principal manager
of the Hannibal ferry, reports that, since
the opening of navigation, about 1900
persons have crossed the Mississippi at
that point, on their way to Kansas, hav-
ing with them 235 wagons and teams,
household furniture and some farming
implements. To Nebraska, forty per-
sons and eight wagons and teams, and to
California about the same number OF
each.
The emigration to California has been
light, not more than fifty persons, ten or
fifteen. wagons and teams. and having
with them about $50 head of cattle
Haan;bai Messenger Sd.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
Kansas and Saw-milIs,

To save Kansas, twenty sawmills are
needed. They will save it, if they are
sent there this spring Without them
there is long struggle before the friends
of fFeedom-before northern men, who
have gone there with full faith that the
North cared enough for Kansas to sup
port in Kansas free institutions.
We speak advisedly, after the exami-
nation of wide correspondence, and after
comforting with men who understand the
whole position of affairs, when we say
that the position of the emigration isnow
such that twenty saw-mills sent forward
by New England capital, viii settle the
great question of Kansas in the right
way. We wish it were in our power, in
a few words, to impress this fact upon
men of small or large means. All those
persons who understand the circumstan-
ces of Kansas, know that it can be proved
to demonstration. We believe con-
versation with, any director of the Emil
grant Aid Company will satisfy any man
open to conviction, that if that Company
had the means to forward such facilities
for settlement, the Kansas question would
be solved.
There is no want of northern men ca
ger to go to Kansas. The drift of emf
grafton thither is very rapid. The Emil
grant Aid Company has more men offer.
ing togo than it dares send at the present
moment. 1t delays men rather than hur-
ries them on, for It's officers know thai
with emigrants it is most desirable to for.
ward mills, which viii give emigrants a
once comfortable homes.
If we, here, viii give them the means t.
send twenty mills they will have clus
tered around them, this autumn, twenty
such towns as Lawrence-towns whose
'sfree State vote is fve-sixth of their
population. No border foray. howeYeI
lied, can oYerwhelm those town, and the
| population around them.-Boston Dali,
advertiser.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02

the Emigrant Aid Company has wholly
| failed, that the settlers it sends find that
they had been prejudiced, and become
quite willing TO introduce slavery into
Kansas. This is the ground of the St.
Louis Intelligencer.
Either of these positions IS intelli-
gible. But we do not understand how
an intelligent journal one day proves that
the mad Abolitionism of the people of
Lawrence brought ON them the invasion
of Gen. StringfelloW's army-a1d the
next day, that the. cowardice of the peo-
pie of Lawrence shows that they are an
ti-slasery men no longer.
We acknowledge that we feel some in
dignation when we find in Northern
journals the cool suggestion that Massa-
chusetts men have not right to emigrate
into territories into which Missouri men
may move. Even the Journal of Com
merce would scarcely have ventured to
say that New York men ought not to go
to Kansas. It's regrets are confined to
the fact that men of Massachusetts, chose
to go there. There has not been an IL
legal act charged on Massachusetts
man. The Massachusetts men, officers
of the Emigrant Aid Company, passed
to and fro among Gen. Stringfellow's ar
my, which dared not touch them. The
men of Massachusetts, were the body
guard of the Governor when the men of
Missouri sent to take his life. And yet
we are told that but for this unfortunate
movement all from Massachusetts, would
have been well.
We only hope Massachusetts, men will
accept this issue. If the country chooses
to put tit may, In this State we shall
never admit our inferiority TO any set of
men, who in any way, have got them
selves admitted into the American I'm
ion. We came into it in the best way
and we retain our privileges in it,
Among these privileges is that of going
where we choose within its borders, and
of tanning its wildernesses by our insti-
tutions. If the country leaves the free
dom of Kansas to be settled by fair
contest between Massachusetts, and Mis-
souri,, we are ready. We doubt not but
Massachusetts, can be reused to her duty
in such a position
| We look anXiously, we confess, to the
news of the election of the 22d instant,
which is held to ELL the vacancies in the
Kansas Legislature, arising from the ille-
gality of the vote of last month. 1t is
almost impossible that if Gen. Stringfel-
low leads his army again into Kansas, to
regulate that election, there should not
be collision and bloodshed. Such blood
shed would be civil war. That is not
mob, which marches with arms forty
miles-encamps at the direction of Off
GERS and at their bidding drives away
judges, and electors. 1t is an army
And the collision of such an army with
the people it insults, is not riot, but War,
offensive on their side; defensive on the
part of the town invaded. If, which God
avert, the next election in Kansas see
this first civil war in our history, we
trust we may not hear it charged on the
presumption of Massachusetts, men who
have chosen to 60 to Kansas to establish
their homes. The good sense of the
country and the verdict of history will
declare that the guilt is not theirs but
that Of the unprincipled leaders who at
tack them.-Boston Messenger.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02

eg We were not aware until recently
Of the existence of sect in the Southern
States called the Limited Brethren IN.
Christ . who nuke non-slavehoiding a
test of conimunior They number 10,
600 COMMITMENTS, and have churches
in Maryland, Virginia. Kentucky and
other slave states. L ought to be msn-
toned that they also exclude the makers,
velders, and drix.kess Of ardent spirits and
finally they run their principles Of exclu-
sionto the heextrsme of shutting out mem
bers of secret societies. %
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
Select Poeffg.
Stand Firm.
BY FRANCIS D. GAGE.

There are moments when life's shadows
Fall all dHrkly on the soul.
Hiding stars Of hope behind them
In black, imperyious scroll;
When we walk with trembling footsteps,
Scarcely knowing how or where
The dim path we tread are leading,
In our midnight of despair.
Not ray to cheer us onward
Not gieam from out the past
While the roar of clashing waters
Comes TO us upon each blast;
Ay. another step may plunge US
In the dread abyss below;
And-another step may saveus
From the very depths OF wo.
Stand we firm in that dread moment
Stand we firm. nor shrink away,
Looking boldly through the darkness,
Wait the coming of the day:
Gathering strength, while we're waiting
For the conflict yet to come;
Fear not, fail not, light will lead us,
Yet in safety to the home.
Firmly stand-though sirens lure thee:
Firmly stand-though falseheod reign;
Holding Justice, Truth, and Mercy,
Die We may, but cannot fail
Fail! it is the word of towards;
Fail! the language of the slave;
Firmly stand. till duty beckons:
Onward, cen then to the gravel
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-06-02
The ParkvilIe mob victim.

Mr. G. S. Park, the editor of the
ParkviIls Luminary whose Office was
destroyed by a mob, was from Grafton,
Vermont. He left for the College Al
Springfield, ILL.,, and, while there pursu-
ing his studies. the war broke out be-
tween Mexico and Texas. in which he
enlisted and served under General Hous-
ton. He was at the battle of San Jacinto,
and barley escaped with his life. A,
the close of the war he returned TO Hi.
nois, and received q lieutenant's commits
sion; but left again to take part in The
border war with the Camanches. Mr.
Park built warehouse at the place which
bears his name, and his resided them
| for many years.