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,caccful exhibition of soldering.

The Saco Guards, Capt. I'm Foss, were ala
out and contributed their share to the in
tercst of trimming day.
~ While the ladies of Princeton wer'
demolishing the whiskey barrels, deca tiers
&c. the other day, the paper of that place say,
n walking illustration of whiskey barre
was with dolcful countenance looking on al
the destruction of his favoite beverage, and
could not resist the involuntary exclamation
of I" Shame-its a shame !" One OF the
ladies who heard it, stepped up to him, and
holding out her Ratchet, remarked that they
had come there to tap ereryfhing that had
uLisLey in IL, and that If he had any regard
for himself, he had better BIO leaving.-Vin-
eennes' Gazette.
rrAta recent election in Frankfort, an
ardent vote distributor stepping up to q
staunch Republican, urged him strongly TO
take vote - for tho best men," Z" don't
want that ticket; know them well now"
said the Republican. "But you hain't
looked ut it, replied the politician, show
do YOU know then?" "By the smell Of
vour breath" retorted his opponent. Ar
dent " stepped out" with very highly COL
ored phiz.-Progressire Aye.
ArrucTioy. On the morning Of tho 9TH
ult., the youngest son of Mr.. Robert Boyd,
highly respected citizen Of Taylor County,
Virginia, was taken sick. On the night Of
the same day, another son was taken in the
same way. The next day, n daughter, eleven
years Of age, was taken rs the Others, and
the youngest son died on that day. Two
days afterwards, the other son and the
daughter were laid in one grave. On the
day they were buried, two other children
were taken i'll, and, on the 18th, ono died,
making loss of four children in one week.
But this was only portion Of the cup Of
bitterness. On the Saturday before the
death of his last son, the fires which had
been raging so extensively, lately, in vir-
GINA, broke out about two miles from Mr..
Boyd's residence, and, IN ono hour, he was
stripped OF all he possessed, house. barn,
wheat, hay, oats, and com-cribs. Tho dy-
ing boy was hastily removed to save MIN
from the flames, and when brought back,
there was not bed to lay him on.
How affecting, sometimes, arc the dispen-
ntions OF Providence.
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Highly Important from Kansas,

Cor. Robinson arrested by a mob Of Mis-
sourians and defdined-diiemptt 10 arrest Cor
Reeder at MISREPRESENTATION Of destroy
ing The testimony already taken "a rifnes'
slot.-Thc following intelligence received by
telegraph from St. Louis is of tho highes,
importance. 1t requires no comment. Tn,
reader will see in II fixed determination on
the part of the Missourians to take tho law
into their own hands, to break down II pos.
siblc the investigation ordered by the House
of Representatives, and to prevent the &c
tual truth of past transactions from being
given to the country and to Congress:
ST. LOUIS, May l2.-Tbc steamer Star oil
the West arrived to-day from Kansas, and
the following information Is derived from
passengers The steamer left Kansas on
Saturday, the 10th. Governor Robinson,
with his family, were among the passengers.
At Lexington, Mo-, Robinson was waited
upon by committee appointed by tho citi.
zens, and notified that they should detain
him on the ground that he was fleeing from
the Territory to avoid arrests on nm indict-
ment for treason, which had been found
against him by the Grand Jury of the U.
S. District Court. Robinson replied that
he had been informed by one of the GRIND
Jury that an attempt had been made TO find
a bill, but had failed. This did not satisfy
the committee, they insisting that Mr..
Robinson should remain, and he finally con.
sented to do 40, on persuasion of Mr.. Park.
inson, Captain OF the boat, and Mr.. Bar
nard, of baltimore. He was invited TO the
house Of Mr.. Sawyer, one of tho committee.
his family proceeding to st. Louis.
The committee consisted of Gen. Shields.
Mr.. Sawyer, and number of the most no.
spectacle citizens. The committee agreed
10 send messenger to Kansas TO ascertain
II an indictment had been found, and ifnot.
all the expenses Of Mr.. RS. detention would
be paid: No violence or indignity was Offer
ed Mr.. X. during the proceedings The In.
formation upon which they acted was do
rived from Capt Adams. II Is reported that
q despatch from Lcayenworth has been re-
ceived, stating that an armed body of men
were en- route for Lawrence, for the purpose
Of destroying the evidence taken by tho
Commission.
While Gov. Rccicr was in attendance at
the session OF the Commission of lnvcstiga-
ton ut Lccompton, on the evening Of the
9Th, the Deputy Marshal served on him q
writ to appear before tho Grand Jury at
Lecompton, to answer 10 charge. Of con-
tempt, for having refused to comply with q
summons from the Grand Jury previously
served upon him. Mr.. Recdsr refused TO
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A.. ;.tv.,dv. t;nr AZ SIsvorx, mt a.,
PoS ,, .a,;.o.v wh;sS No, nov, =, hsrs. a.
anu ~ ,s 80 tSs ;ur;si;ct;on of the Iyr;tsi
% Wilma Wv 'N
SUES n'5 IT,, 40. w;,, .,,nn,rt nv ev.,v ,,v
6, 1-n ,nn.n. ",r brctb,en IN Kansas IN tho,
~, i 'v and manly res;stan,o 70 ~.
consus d .',ao,;sw &c .ho;s iawIoss ;nroda. '
usI H.. ,us iii IL. ,ho full WEIGHT os "n,
a''u ; y" ~ cvo. or Tho 5sd;o ~
mission Of Kansas to the Union us a fire.,
sovereign independent State.
Sru, pele.nnS Una. ue r 5e. t,a.lona
L.u,u a';,tioNa .hn. -. oon,;nranoe =, ",.S,
i identified with the progress of the Slay,
power to national supremacy with exclusion
OF Freedom from the ierri!orles, anu VIII
nose Of our organization to resist and over r
throw it.
John II. Goodenow, Esq. of Alfred move,
the following resolution:
Re,Olred, That we cordially approve tn,
mfinehing course Of our Representative. tn
Hon. John NJ. Wood, in recording his vote
from the first to last, and on erery ballot, In
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City Council.
Both branches held o meeting ON Monday
evening 18th inst.

Both branches held meeting on Monds,
evening 18th inst.
In BOARD or ALDERMEN.
Petitions Of Samuel Moore ct ais for tn,
location Of q street from Chestnut st. t.
Hollis road, and petition Of Daniel Holman
and Others for the laying out ola street OF
Fletcher's Neck, 80 called, were referred Il
committee on streets in concurrence.
Ordered-That the Joint Standing Com
mittce on ordinances DO instructed to 70
port an ordinance regulating the usc o
night carts-passed.
The following appropriations were mad
in concurrence.
For schools, 100000
For repair ofhighways, 100000
For Triumph Engine, Co.. $4,000
For Hook and Ladder, 5000
For part payment of city debt, 100000
FRANCIS YORK was licensed to sell intox
icating liquors under the provisions Of tn
9th Sect. Of tho liquor law.
Aldermen Hill and Belts were adpointet
committee to apprirc the stock and fix
lures of the City Liquor Agency and efIsc
sale Of the same.
Iy CONVENTIONAL committee appointe'
to apprize the funeral cars and fixtures be
longing to Hans Nelson with view to pur
chase the same, reported the sum Of SlO'
as the value of the same. Report accepted
and laid upon the table.
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- We have not space for heightened
comment on the renewed troubles in Kansas
IS given in the important news we give in
mother column. Tho Missouri rufEans are
n motion to set at nouSht the authority OF
Congress, vile attempt toassaSsinate per-
on wlo had given testimony before the Con-
;rcss Investigating committee has been made,
md the Shareholders Of Missouri have seized
citizen of Kansas, Gov. Robinson, without
Iegal steps and detained him until a com
nittce can inquire in another territory
whether an indictment for high treason in
another territory has been obtained, = and
ederal troops are employed in aiding the ar
Nst OF men for alicdged violations OF the
avs Of the Border RuHian" legislature.
Where viii this audaeity end9
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Nrw Yonr Renubllcan ,....

NKw YoRx. At Republican meeting in
Ellicottvillc, N. Y, a few days since. Hon.
VIM. p. Angelo, prominent and influential
Soft Shell. made q powerful speech In which
he defined his position to be hereafter with
the Republican party.
A largo portion OF tho "Softs" in this
State have rcpudiated the Soft platform,
and openly declared themselves as co-work.
ers In thu Republican cause. Hosts of 9TH
ers will follow when tho Cincinnati nat
form, which will 30 pro-slavery to the core,
shall have been promulgated. No State In
the Union Is moro certain than the great
State Of New York, to 60 for the Repuhli-
can candidate for President and vics-Prssi-
dent.
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~ OuN B. GOuGu, the eloquent advo-
cate of Temperance, is engaged to lecture in
The city Of Portland, on Thursday evening,
2sd inst. We should think, from the indi-
cations about our streets, and the lengthen-
cd record Of Police operations, that little
temperance effort here, done by him, or 9TH
ers, would be beneficial. Who will engage
Mr.. G. to lecture here.
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CUMBERLAND COUNTY.


Baldrin-N. Sawyer, Isaac Dyer.
Cape Ei:Gbeth-A. b. Rand, ii. S. Jack
son, f. l.. Pilllsbury, j. w. Harmon.
Gorhdm-Gco. Hight, G. A. stackpole,
W. Fogg, Edward Seaman.
Poriiand-w. V. Bowen, +. c. Moody,
]. b. Cummings, VIM. Willis, II. P. Deane,
Geo. Ross, j. G. Hayes, F A. Gcrrish.
SoarbOrough-J. Larabee, A. Hight, S.
Milliken.
Sdndish-E. Thompson, F. o. Thoms,
A. Boulter.
Naples-L. F. Perlcy, A. W. Chute.
W,abrook-W. G. Kimball, c. f. Boo.
dy, Geo. Libbcy, Joseph Estes, Geo. John
son.
The Committee on Permanent Organiza-
ton reported
For President.
Hon. WILLIAM WILLS, of Portland.
For Toe Presidents.
Hon. ALEXANDER BENNETT, of York, Col.
TuoMAs GAwN, of Shapleigh, WILLIAM
BERRY, Esq. of Biddeford.
For Secretaries.
&C. MoopY, Esq. of Portland, Z. T..
YIELDS ESQ. of Buxton.
And the report was unanimously adopted.
On motion of ii. p. Dcane, Mcssrs. l.. o..
Cowan of Biddeford, ii. p. Deane OF Port
land, Seth Scanman of Saco, George Lib
hey of wcstbrook and John n. Goodwin OF
South Berwick were appointed a committee
to prepare resolves for the consideration OF
the convention.
On motion of James Morton, Esq. of Bux-
ton, the following gentlemen were selected a
Committee to nominate three Delegates and
three substitutes to attend the nominating
Convention IN he held in Philadelphia on
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For the Campaign.


We propose to send the Union and Jour
nal during the State and National Cam
paigns, commencing June 90, and ending
about the middle of November, period Of
Eve months, at the following ratS:
Single copies, 50 cents.
Ten copies, & 500
Twenty copies, 1000
Forty copies, 1000
and to the getter up Of clubs one additional
copy for club OF ten, two for club OF
twenty, and three for clubs Of forty.
The interest which we feel, in common
with many OF our fellow citizens, in the
maintenance Of republican liberty, now per-
illed by the assertion Of principles which
would lead to despotism more intolerable
than that which was oyerthrown by our
fathers, prompts us to make this offer.
Now is the time for action. VIII our
friends in all sections aid US in this work oil
placing the truth before the people.
The above cut out and pasted on sheet
of paper may be used as subscription
paper.
Where clubs are obtained we should pre-
fer sending to one address.
Send forward the names.
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GroRGr LlBBy, Esq. of westbrook, n. G..
MARSHALL, Esq. of York, JOHS n. GOODWIN
Of South Berwick.
And the report was unanimously adopted,
and tho foregoing named gentlemen declared
elected Delegates.
Mr.. Cowan from the Committee on Rcso-
lutions reported the following, and they
were unanimously adopted.
Resolred, That the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise by the 33d Congress was an in.
excus,ble violation of the plishted faith OF
the nation, wrong and outrage upon HUI
mainly and justice, which no lapse Of time
can palliaie, and no plea for its continuance
can justify.
Rssolred, LIST, That II is our unaltcrable
purpose to resist in every practicable and
constitutional way, and TO the utmost Of our
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And having attended 70 the duty reporter
For Delegates.
Hos WILLIAM Willis of Portland, JAMES
NJ. DrrRrxo of Saco, Hoy. SAMUEL {. ADAMS
Of Newfeld.
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A TALL SPECIMEN OF DunN1Na

Parson Brownlow. of the Knoxville
W1ig. in q recent issue of his paper,
thus cnergetically duns his delinquent
subscribers: m R
. As many of you as will enclose to us
what yeu owe us justly, We will credit
you on our books, write opposite to your
name that you are gentlemen and chris
tiars! Those of you who cant pay and
will write TO Us, aud acknowledge your
Indebtedness, We will record as clever
fellows. and those of you who will not
do either, We will publish this S. ring in
an extra sheet, as set of graeeless ras-
Gals, wiring 60 -haSo-a poor man fatbur
for years for nothing, and pay for paper,
ink, and the hire of hands to serve you,
without Pay-1ss
Come to Knoxville, you lousy rascals,
on pilgrimage, and see our little ones,
"ehips of the old block" looking dag
gers at us and crying for bread. Come
and see uswith our elbows out and the
officers of the law leading US about for
debts created to furnish you a paper,
and yoa will fork over at once!
Aud you hypocrites, who are members
of different churches, owing US for our
paper, how dare you, around your fami-
ly altars, night aud morning pray TO
God, paw, US this dayr our de BITS. as we
pay to othersl' He knows you owe US,
and wont pay, and until you do pay, you
may pray yourselves out of breath, and
you will never bo heard! Yes, yon
sanity villains, you have been owing us
long enough to make US ''poor, halt,
miserable, blind and naked" and your
selves rich at our expense. You get to
Heaven withou. paying US up-nererl
t2-a W. G. BRowNLow,
Editoro the TYhio.
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2 ASHLAND. ASHLAND COUNTY, OHIO WEDNESDAY, morn

aud tfied to stop the horse, but it was
no usd. Away went the infuriated Bali
taking the road he was used to travel
in-ahother moment brought him to the
house The ga.es were open, and in
dashed the horse, with almost naked
Nippers hanging to his neck, .hallooing
"stop hind hornetsl hornetsl' as loud as
he cohid scream
Out come the dogs, and after the
horse. They went round and rouad the
house, scattering the ducks and chick.
ems, and verifying the little niggers out
of their senses. Tho noise brought the
womento the door.
pora look, Miss Nancyi hornets!
vol kstch himI;' shouted the unclad Nip.
refs, az with spent breath he went DASH
ing out Of the gatesagain, with the dogs
still after him, and his horses tail SWITCH
ing in every direction, like young hur-
ricane. Miss Nancy got but glimpse
Other forlorp lover, and before che could
get her apron to hei eyes, she tainted
at the awful sight--while his fast rece-
ding voice crying, "hornetsl stop himi
hornets.a still rung in her ears.
She mover seen her devoted Nippers
again. The settlement was too full of
hornetsaftcr that. What became of him
nobod knows; but it is generally be.
lieved that he turned into Centaur,
and is going TO this day, hallooing ''hor.
netsl hornetsp' p
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BEAUTIFUL sENTIM ENT.

H
Shortly before the departure of the
lamented Heber for India. he preached
a sermon, which contained this beautiful
illustration: a
Life bears us on like a stream of a
mighty river. Our boat at first glides
dowa the narrow channel through tie
playful murmuring of the little brook
and the winding cf lis grassy border.
Tie trees shed their blossoms over our
heads, the flowers on the brink seem TO
offer themselves to our young hands. we
are happy in hope, and we grasp eager-
ly at the beautIes around us-but the
stream hurrios on and still our hands
are empty. Our course in youth and
manhood is along a wider and deeper
food, amid objects more striking ard
magnificent. We are animated at the
moving pictures of enjoyment and indus
try passing us, we are excited at some
short lived disappointment. The stream
bears US on. and our joys AID grief are
alike left behind us. We may be ship
wrecked, we canno, be delayed; whether
rough or smooth, the river hasteus to
his home, till the roar of the ocean is in
our ears, and the tossing of the waves is
beneath our feet, and the land lessons
in our eyes, and the foods are lifted up
around us, and We take our leave of
earth and its inhabitants, until our fur
ther voyage there is no witness save the
infinite eternal"
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ADvENTURE With a WOLF.
Tie Kansas correspondent of tho st.
Louis Republican tells the following

The Kansas correspondent of The st.
Louis Republican tells the following
story:
A few days siRce, while riding in the
rear oF our town. in email .avine,
through which streamlet takes its quiet
way beneath It's crystal covering, and
whose irrigation has produced tall grass
es and shrubs that makes hiding place
for game. came suddenly upon .
large black WOLF he vas scratching at
a thin place in the ice and seemed al
most famished for water When he saw
me he started on full run for tho forest
in the river bottom. ! KEEP. upon his
heels and tried to ride upon him. he
was alIno st exhausted, and just as sup.
posed he would give out, he slipped into
the hollow of large cotton wood tree.
I stopped the hole through which he
entered, and came back TO town and got
an axe and the dogs and the assistance
of Frank Mahan and William Palmer,
and together We returned TO cut him
ont. The dogs were nnxious and We
wero prepared with our guns to receive
him. When We made large hole about
four feet from the grouEd, the dogs
jumped at i; on the outside and the wolf
on the inside, and suoh barking, growl-
ing snapping and bowling I never heard
hof = L. H. :. =
great distance, and trouglt several
neighbors to the spot. Things contin-
ued so for while, and we consulted
what had best be DONE We could net
shoot the wolf through this opening
without too great risk of killing the
dogs; for he only appeared a. the inside
We finally concluded to stop the hole
that we had made and fell the tree by
cutting narrow cash around it. z
The tree came down little sooner
than we expected. Frank Mahan had
the axe lifted for another stroke as it
went over with crash. The wolf, with
bristlcd back and glaring eyes. and gilt
rering teeth, leaped at his throat will
terrible ferocity. The descending axe
met half way, cleaying its skull and lay
ing it dead at his feet. We had no time
to express our wonder and congratula-
tion of his narrow and singular escape,
before our attention was called to that
which filed US with amazement if rot
dread. It was human skeleton of
medium size, and one of female, hid
den in the cavity of the tree. Its pos
ture was erect and the bones were he'd
together by skin of clear integument
that seemed TO cover, like transparent
skin, the whole frame. The jar of the
felled tree severed several of the joints,
and we drew them all out and placed
them again in form. The proportions
were perfect and the limbs s;raight-in-
dicating contour when in flesh Of per-
feet symmetry. Who could it have been
that thus pcrisbed years ago, in this
wild forest, and how came her death in
this strange place, were queries that
Immediately suggested. Could it have
been some maiden, who, like the bride
in the Misietoe Bough, had concealed
herself from her lover in the heart of
the old tree aud became fastened there
and died?
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IExtrlet rom snuekcr,s History Of Nicholas.
CORONATIoN
= Of .....---
THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS

-aFof Fsrionsreasons the important GER
emony ef shs coronation was pos, poned
Tor some montas At length this impo-
sipg ceremony took place at Moscow, on
che Sd of September, s26, amid such
psnp and splendor as to have exceeded
everything recorded IN the previous his
tory Of she nstisn- Eicholss. together
viii the Empress. the Esnpress mother,
and their suites. had arrived at Moscow,
some three weeks before They had
taken up tkeir residence at the ancient
castle and palace of the Kre.niin; and
The Interval between their arrival in
Moscox and tho ceremony OF coronation
had been occupied BY raiious festivals,
both religious aud social, which gave
ths occasion the appearance ofa general
esrDivsI.
This august occasion had drawn to-
eether to Moscow, as to = common cen
tfe, representatives of all the various
races which we're subject TO the power
fnlseepter ofthe Cars, as we'll asfrom
many other countries of Europe, and Of
Asia. The streets of the city we're
crowded with vast and Heterogeneous
multiiuds, amounting to $50 900 per-
sons, nlthodgh the usual number of its
inhabitants vas only half as great. Va
rious regiments of soldiers, amounting
20 80, ,0e0 men, were stationed in and
around the city. and mixed together with
Its numerous visitors. -
First, st. Petersburg had sent a large
and splendid delegation all the great
est families Of that city being then rep
resented at Moscow. The whole corps
dipzonsafigue At the Russian Court had
transferred themselves from the modern
TO the ancient capital. Even the Pope
himself had skonofed the Sovereign aud
ahs occasion with the presence ofsa run.
sio Of high rank. There were to be
seen great ambassadors from the sover-
eieus Of the remotest countries Of Asia,
from the King of Siam, from the Empe-
sor Of China, from the Grand Lama of
Thibet, from che Great Khan of Tarts-
III. together With their suites, sent to
ronrratulate the new csar on this hap
.py occasion; bat speaking in unknown
tongues, snd wearing the strange jet
m.gnifcent costumes of,oriental climes.
The bold warriors Of che Caucasas Were
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EE a rather amusing scene was
Witnessed at Columbus, Ohio, Post OF.
fee. the other morning.
A rough, uncouth looking customer
inquired for letter At the general de-
livery. Re received one and not being
sure it vas for him. he asked the clerk
oread few lines to him.
The postmaster With his usual urbani-
Is and natural desire TO accommodate.
reed as follows:
Dear s.. This letter comes hop
pin ! take my pen in hand TO inform you
that We are awl we'll, and hope you are
enjo. ing the same blessin. I am sorry
to hear that you have been on drunk-
en- Spree
eStopp shouted the attentive listues,
stop I sayi that ERE letters for me. %
here's Jour 6yo cents, and fork that ere
document orerp
And amid general laugh Of the BY
ISLANDERS, he vanished.