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IHE AMERICAN Tract SocrErY IN MrcH.
iGAS'-The General Congregational Asso.
citation OF Michigan, is session At Adrian.
Mich, on the 24th nit, passed resolutions
protesting against the recent action Of the
American Tract Society at New York
Only two negatile votes were cast
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The AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY AND THE
SLAVERY QUEsrIoN.-The American Tract
Society met III Boston, on Monday last,
.9hen resolutions were offered by &. G.
Hubbard for a dissoluti"n of its connection
with the New York Society on account OF
The recent action of that body on the ques-
ton Of slavery. The resolution was to be
discussed on Tuesday.
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For the Lancaster Ledger.
HAnGlHG Rock, May

HAnGING Rock, May 81, 1858.
Mr.. Editor-Please announce the name
Of DIR. Robert Crawford as Il suitable person
to represent this District in the next Le.is-
ture and you will oblige some
STRONG VOTERS.
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Observation-Disclosures Mitchell who
was convicted at the last term Of our
Court. OF negro stealing and sentenced to
be hung on the first Friday in Jane, has
been pardoned by Gov. AiDston, and ois
charged from prison. He is to leave the
State within month from his discharge,
never 10 relurp.--- Chester .Standard.
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FIGHT IN kANsAs.-.D Dispatches from Kan.
sas say that fight Ins occurred between
Montgomery and his gang of robbers and
the settlers &" no were expelled from Lynn
county by the former. The settlers were
hred upon by the gang near Fort Scott -
Ten Of the ROBBERS killed.
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MONUMENT To LIEUT.. STEEs.-Messrs.
J. N. Shedd and w. B. McCreight have is
sued an appeal TO the people of Fairfield,
asking MD to erect monument over n o
remains Of Lieut. ]. N. Steen. They pro.
pose to raise $500, limiting subscriptions
TO two dollars. Should they receive over
the $500, the surplus will also be expended
on the testimonial.
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DEATH OF Mr.. .ALExAYDER.-The York
VILE Enquirer announces the death Of VIM
X. Alexander, Esq, Postmaster ut YorkyiIIe
The office. it is said, will dcvolve upon H..
present ASST tant, Mr.. I'm X. Alexander.
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NEW York, Nay 27.-TLe steam shin
-4trted, Captain Shannon, has arrived n,
tins port, with Liverpool dates to The 18th
INST.
General News.
The Darby Ministry had been sustain.
ed in the English House of lords bv q
majority OF 0, against a resolution o
cehsure. The debate on the resolution
was progressing in the House Of Com
mons.
The British Government had granted
steamer ~ tender to Niagara, in place
OF the Susquehanndh. il laying the At
Iant'c Telegraph cable. Successful expe
rlments had been made on the cable will
the Hughes machine.
Commercial News.
LIVERPOOL Corroy MARKsr.-Tb,
Cotton marke, opened for the week -
an advance Of l l6j, per ID. but the sd
vance was subsequently lost. The sale,
OF the week were $1,000 bales, Of which
speculators took l2.200 anil exporter.
1000 bales, leaving 40 500 bales Of al
descriptions TO the trade. The ssles o,
Friday were 5000 bales, the marke, clos
ing quiet and steady. with slow sales.--
fnces were unchanged, and the following
are the authorized quotations Orlean,
Far, 3d.; Orleans Middlng, z l Al; Mo
bile Fair. Z 8 4d.; Mobile Middling.
3-l6d: Upland Fair. 7 5 al: aud Up
land Middliag, 81. per. 10.
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NAPoLEos's DEArH CHAMBER.
Heary Wood, champiajn in the United
States Navy, writing from 81. HsIens,
says that in the room where Napoleon
died there is now threshing machine in
operation, and stalls for the horses that
move il, 10 his bed-chs,pber.
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SLAVERY IN KgxruoKY. The Louis
Vile Courier says there is now nm extra
ordinary stampede OF the slaves in that
Stale. Negroes are daily escaping from
their owners in startling plumbers. They
go OF, one, two. three, or g. dozen al a
time. That paper attributes this unusual
movemen, 10 the presence of numerous
Aboli.ionists- IL says, "Black Republi.
cans are as thick in these parts as woIve.
on psrsrie. Il Is almost ss respectable
70 be niggsr.stssier."
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Dry ENOUGH 1T is stated that Konsos
has 'IreHdy cost the Government, at the
very lnwest estimate, fifty millions of mon.
ey.
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Grlr9rapblr.
Later From Europe,

New YoRK, Nay 27.-TLe steam ship
-1tr'ed. Captain Shannon, has arrived at
tins port, with Liverpool dates to The 18th
INST
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CALHOUN AT srRmarIxLD.

John Calhoun formerly was immensely popu-
lar At Spingfeld-his old home, He is yet a
Democratic Office holder in Illinois, being TO
this day one of the three trestses for winding DIP
the affairs or theoId State Banka When, in TIE
Spring Of 1857, Gov. Bissen attempted to re-
move him aDdih associates. and appoint better
men, he vas resisted BY the unanimous Democ,
raey, and bis right violently dispused. A case
is now in the sspreme Court growing out or tiis
matter, in which Calhoun Is one party and the
Governor the other. The fact that Calhoun had
leftth State and was in the pay Of the Federal
Government, did not affect the zeal of his party
friends in his behalf He was Democrat of
the patent stamp, and the Governor a Republi
can; and that was enough. They went in for
John, and John went In for his salary.
Daring his late visit to Illinois, his reception
was not the most cordial. No one--not even
his Oldest and most intimate party friends-eall
ed on him, to do him honor. His stay was brief
and unsatisfactory, both to him and the credit
ors, who would have been glad, had he remain
ed few hours more, to have detained him in
definitely. John locked shabby and rufian-like.
His inseparable companion revolver, not the
"pocket pistol" from which he draws his politi-
cal inspiration-was in his brooches pocket, rea
dy at a seconds warning. The end Of the bar
rel had worn hole in the cloth, and as he walk
ed around, the emblem of his principles was seen.
plainly sticking out. His attention was called
to what, with his Kansas experiences, seemed
to him q trivial matter; and one man, q former
friend, piously hoped that the shooting iron
might go eff soma day, and put an end to a life
that had become too miserable TO be longer pre-
served; butJohn justified his display of weapons
by diatribes against the bloody AboGtionists of
Kansas, who arc bungerins and thirsting for his
blood. Johns going was more sudden than his
coming. He disappointed few creditors, and
rid the city of an intolerable burden. EEerybo-
dy, Democrats, Republicans and Americans,
breathed purer air after his exit. He will
probably return to Illinois no rore.-ChieegO
Tribune.
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rHE IArR mas. PRRRY.

The venerable widow Of the late Commodore
Oliver H. Perry died in Newport, R. l., on
Thursday night, and was buried from Trinity
Church on Sunday. In MackenEies Life Of
Commodore Perry, IL is stated that, in January
1907, at an assembly, he first met the lady who
subsequently became his wife, Miss Elizabeth
Champlain Mason. She had not yet completed
her sixteenth year; was just entering life in the
first bloom of lOveIiness, sparkling with feeling,
intelligence, and talent, and gifted with thou
sand rare qualities Of truth simplicity, fortituds
and warm hearted affection, which have stead
lastly attended her through many a scene ofjoy
and some Of sorrow. -Four years Afterwards, On
the 5th day of May. 1871, they were married,
and enjoyed as fair a share Of welded happiness
as ever falls TO the lot of mortals, until death
interposed to separate the devoted pair. On the
sd Of August, 1879, Commodore Perry died Of
the yellow fever, on board the U. s. schooner
Nonesuch, at the moment of her arrival at Port
Spain, In the Island of Trinidad, while on con-
fdential service for the United States Govern
ment. He was only thirty-four years and two
days old. When the news Of his death was
received, his widow, writing to his mother, said:
"The ways of God are dark and intricate, but
they are doubtless just; my beloved husband
has gone from me, but he has left name to his
country and childl en- that is without stain; he
was my guardian angel on earth, and viii, I
trust, continue one in heaven. Time may SOFT
en- the anguish new feel, but can never efface
from my heart his virtues, his kindness, and bis
affection towards me. Ny love and respect for
his memory will always lead me to act as If he
we're present with me. To his children ! shall
devote my future days; the world has now lost
its greatest charm, and I look forward TO a re-
union that will be eternal and imperishable. On
me has dsvolvad a great and important charge,
and my first prayer to Heaven was for strength
and discretion so to manage them as to make
his children useful and virtuous members Of so.
ciety."
The promise, says the biographer, self-msde
BY Perry's youthful widow, in the first moment
Of affection, to devote her future days to his
children, and to act as if he were ever present.,
has been most amply redeemed.
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rHR WORK DONE.

The language Of Mr.. Seward in reply to Mr.
Hale, the other day, in the Senate, is supposed
by some to indicate that the distinguished Sen.
atOr abandons the Republican party. An editor
and Of an American paper, says:
Mr.. Seward has kicked himself clear Of Re-
pubIieanism proper, and has signi6ed his inten-
ton of hereafter standing alone; so independ,
ent Of party that futsre generations shah be
puzzled to tell to which political organization
the New York Senator was during his lifetime
attached. ..u| t-
The reason for this new resolve appears to be
that Mr.. Seward regards the slavery issue as
about played cut TO use vulgar phrase
and foresees that hereafter, If the aim Of hslife
Is to be attained, il must be upon other issues
than those in which he has heretofore taken an
active part, and thrAgh other friends than those
with whom be has thus far travelled along the
thony pathway of psical life.
We say this proposed independence Of party
is new resolve I" Of Mr.. Seward, because we
recall the time, but few years before he struck
fatal blow at the heart of the Wing party,
when be declared that he would cling to that
organization to his latest hour, and would be the
"last man to desert the Wing camp.
But what is the language which indicates this :
asks the reader. We give it as follows:
al have but one word more to say, and shall
not detain the Senate. am very sorry that the
faith Of the honorable Senator from New Hamp-
shire is less than my own. He apprehends con-
tinual disasters. He wants this battle continued
and fought BY skirmishes, and to deprive the
enemy Of every kind Of supplies. Sir, regard
this battle as already fOught-it is over. All
the mistake is, that the honorable Senator and
others do net know it. We are fighting for a
majority Of Free States. There are already six-
teen to fifteen, and whatever the Administration
may do-before one year from this time We shall
be nineteen to fifteen. II that is so, what dan
ger are we exposed tot tits that the Free States
will, nevertheless, 60 for Slavery. If they will,
that is a matter that we are not to help in this
way. do not believe that either / think it is
simply question whether the Administration
shall surrender, and grant freedom to Kansas,
under the Constitution Of her choice, or whether
The result is precisely the same il, either way;
and come to my conclusion, notwithstanding
am so unfortunate as 10 differ from my honora-
BILE friend, that ii is the safest side to vote the
men and the money to save the lives and prop
erty of the American people" -..
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seItt Gak.
A THRILLING INCIDENT.

We question whether, in the history Of chair
breadth" escapes, a parallel to the following can
easily be found. The story was told US by an
old and valued friend, now residing in the coun-
try, near the city, whose early days were spent
near the tragic event here recorded.
We give the story as related to us, in the
words of the hero.
1t was about the year 1905 that settled in
Virginia, near the fall of the Kanawha. The
country, at that time, was an unbroken wilder
ness. But few settlements had been made then
by the whites, and they were so far apart as to
render vain all hopes of assistance in case of an
attack from hostile Indians-numbers of whom
still infested the neighborhoOd.
lived there alone with my wife for several
months unmOlested, and by dint of perseverance,
being then young and hardy, bad succeeded in
making quitea large clearing in the forest, which
had planted with corn, and which promised ar
abundant yield. - .r,-- IN
One morning. after We had dispatched ON
humble meal, and had just prepared to venture
forth upon my regular routine of labor. my at
tention was arrested by the tinkling of COW
bell in the cern-feld.
There" said my wife, "the COW is in the
cOn-feld." - 49,.
But the ear Of the back-woodsman becomes
oy education, very acute. especially 80 from thu
sact that his safety often depends upon the nic'
cultivation Of that sense. O Ilistened-the sounC
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TEE SOUTHERN PRESS on WHITE Ia
BORRRa. --~.

The Richmond South thus villi6es all white
people outside Of the charmed circle " of the
peculiar institution. The opinions, which the
South has the impotence TO utter, are entertain
ed BY many Of the supporters Of the Admins.
tration and the Leeompton swindle in the North,
but policy, just at this time, prevents its public
expression:
~To the greasy psalm singer Of the North,
the trucking Yankee, the stupid, uncoutb, IN
polished ohiOsn; to the mOngrel population Of
New York; TO the Heterogeneous mass Of the
Northwest; to the German, the Dutchman, the
Irishman; to whatever persons, from whatever
cline; to all save the great, the gifted, the only
pure representative Of the great Anglo-SaIon
family of the South, the whole territory OF the
Union is free, is open; but to us and our institu-
tons forever it is to be and remain " terra in
eognits "a paradise where We dare not tread
a paradise denied to the great Southern family,
but to be filed up and polluted with the human
vermiR, the leads, the uneIe0n beasts, from all
parts Of the habitable globe, but that where
man approaches nearest the form Of his maker.
at is the determined purpose Of the North
ern kireIins population to defraud the people of
the slave States out of every foot Of the COM
mon Territory, without the slightest regard to
the Constitution Of the United States, which
they have not the capacity, either moral or men,
tai, to comprehend, and with utter indifference
to truth or to justice. The representatives of
the kireIinSs Of The North, collected from all pOr
tons of the globe, driven on by the same blind
passions as those thas agitate the unthinking,
untutored mind of the multitude that spins them
the bastard issue of its froth and fretted fume
will, if not checked by the firm wisdom of the
South, drag the South with themselves down to
a ruin that must and will infaIlibly end in pop
ular government without Censtitution-the
most horTid form of despotism known to human
society. We trust the sIa1e States will have the
nerve, in time for the safety Of human liberty
in North America, TO steer away from the Nor
them whirlpool, and anchor constitutional liberty
in calmer sea-"
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THE WEST,

Horace Greeley, in letter TO the Tribune,
from Chicago, under date Of January 4, says
"There was never a better time for men Of
moderate means and expectations to emigrate
from the old States to the West, than the next
season will present. Those who come out with
few hundred dollars, Of they be thousands, so
much the better.) will find improved lands with
in reach of civilization far cheaper than they
have been, with teams, stock, grain, and nearly
everything else TO match. thousand dollars
win go quite as far toward settling family COM
fortably next April, as two thousand did last
Spring. I say emphatically to all who aspire to
live by work rather than by speculation, if you
can get comfortably into the West next April,
with few hundred dollars in cash, on reaching
this point, you can hardly fail TO do we'll. Sin
Gle men or women who can reach this point with
even ten dollars each, need have no fear; though
I would advise none of these to stop one hour
longer in city than may be required to deter
mine on which route to leaveit. In spite Of the
hard times and general prostration, there is still
work for all the able and willing in this bounte-
Gus reglOls vi COuISCg 1@oot hiu's "
" lower next season than it has been; but
years labor will buy more food and clothing,
land and outfits, than It ever did. To all who
are willing, and know how to work, and who find
EMPLOYMENT with difficulty, or not at all, in the
East, say again, set your faces Westward 80
soon as you possibly can Avoid the cities, IN
less YOU are skilled in some handicraff which is
there in request, and seek homes on the soil
the homes of those who will hire you at first, but
only to exchange those in due season for homes
of YOUR own. Combine fertile soil with healthy
location, at all events, and you can hardly 90
amiss. A single man may step of into the I'M
trodden prairie and make abeginning whenever
he sees fit; but he who has wife and children,
NAV better have forty acres of good land within
reach of school house, than ten times forty
where no school house either is or soon will be.
For him who is able to pay for it, Land is cheap
in New Jersey or Ireland; but for the hard-han-
ded pillow logger, who is poor in coin but rich in
children, there is no country to-day PRINTING
as the broad, free West" sidi n tod isIf
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ARRESTED BY DoG.-There is nothing Inn
possible; some things may be, and others may
not be; but as renowned philosopher once
said, what has been done once may be done
again." and what has not been done, may be
done till We know to the contrary" Now Il
may appear singular that a man should be aires
ted by dog, but such is the fact, and We give
it according: Night before last, man was ar
rested on Green street, by officers for breaking
the peace. He broke away and ran; one Of the
officers owns dog, fine fellow, by name
"CarIo;' the dog saw the struggle and the man
escape, bolted after him, and with his fore-raWs
brought him down leugthwise and held him till
the officers came up. The individual was yes
terday fined, but Carlo " did not give his evil
dence.-St. Louis Leader.
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Six devils, one of them she, in Providence,
Pa, recently induced an idiOtic girl named
Hetty Ann Hummel, to uncover her person, and
placing q lighted candle upon her breast, pro-
ceeded to play cards upon her abdomen While
thus engaged. the candle was upset, instantly
setting FIRE to her clothing, and burning her in
the most shocking manner. The fends have
been arrested. Hetty'S father was killed in the
Mexican War. r.s.f I.....ss..
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An INTERESTING SALE.-A sale is soon to take
place in Paris, of the furniture belonging to Mr.
Parke Gusts, of Virginia. This gentleman
who lived twenty years in modest apartment
of the Faubourg st. Honore, had but one mania
that of collecting portraits of Washington and
Lafayette. He has collected, it is said, ll7e
portraits, engraved. Autographed, in bronze in
plaster or in bust on feet, on horse, in all forms
and shapes Being the heir Of G. W. P. Gusts
he comes home in consequence of that gentle
mans death. FL II
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A PERrINExT QUEsTIoS.-The Trenton New
Jersey Gazette states, that the question which
the Sheriff put, as he launched the condemned
into eternity" James P. Donnelly, do you
Iivef'' was in accordance with the Law OF the
State. The law requires that the question shall
be asked, and the culprit shall respond Yes"
to show that he is alive when the preparations
for his execution are complete The New
York Journal desires to know what would be
the effect, If the condemned man should answer
6NoD' . -arE ~
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SESEroa WnsoS, or MAssAcHuEErrs--The
Boston Post urges Southern members not to
kick Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts. He Is
eager to be kicked, euffed or caned into re-
election to the United States Senate. The Post
is of opinion that, unless some indiscreet South
erner grati6es him by boosting him up in this
manner on the road to glory, he will not again
be chosen to disgrace Massachusetts, in the SEN
ate. Therefore, it is hoped that the Southern
members viii have selfdenial enough TO resist
the tempting prOGers which the Massachusetts
Thersites may make of his proSOscis, and the
persever:ng presentatiou Of his ignOble carcase
for a touch Of the calfskin. Let him return to
his native slime, unvhipt, q unhonOred, and IN
sung" ,.rs q .e#a4 ssa -i- A-lH
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A HoUsE FousD EIeHrrEs FER BELOW TEE
EArrHs sUnSAcE-Duing the excavation Of a
street in Evansville. Indiana, recently, the
workmen came across the renaina Of cabin
eighteen feet below the surface Of the earth
This wonderful subterranean house was about
tveh e feet IN length, formed By upright posts
set in ths eroupd. and boarded up With split oak
puncheons, secured BY wooden pihs-s The posts,
puncheons and pins were partially deeAyed, but
s.;n stuck together. Within the walls we're
found portions Of an oId-fashioaed spinning
vheel. q wooden maui, several pains Of boots
and shoes, and the identiesi chaued stick which
the former occupants Of the house bad used 70
uuneh the fire with
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The Democracy North have been assuring the
people in general, with bowling vehemence,
that Kansas never could, would er should be a
Slave State. What do they think of Mr.. Buc-
hAnan's emphatic declarationl-
alt has been solemnly adjudged BY the high
est judicial tribunal, that slavery exists in Kan
sas BY virtue Of the Constitution of the United
States. Kansas is. therefore, at this moment
as much Slave State as Georgia or South Car
DINA"