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The results of the election in Kansas leave
no doubt Of the refusal OF the people to be
admitted into the Union on the terms pro-
posed in the conference bill OF the last ses-
sion. The people Of Kansas have had sad
experience, as tools in the hands of dema-
gogues, who have used them 10 effect poll
teal results outside of the territory. It is
not surprising, the excitement of the past
having subsided, that they should feel dis
inclined to put on the, ,habiliments ola state,
and incur, at Il moment of pecuniary pres
sure, the largely-increased expenses of an es-
tablishment of their own.
Kansas, by the force of circumstances, to
which we need not refer, has been purely
exceptional case. Being drawn into the vortex
Of the political whirlpool and made merely in
strumental in the work of advancing the for
tunes of a distant but reckless fanaticism, it
became necessary, ifpossible, to remove all
causes for continued excitement by the
prompt admission of the state into the Union,
even when it was known that there was not
a sufficient number of inhabitants to entitle
them to one member of Congress. All ef-
forts to pacify the people, however, having
been unavailing, and seeing how demagogues
were likely still to exercise supreme con-
troll in the territory, it was the dictate of
patriotism to overlook entirely the question
Of numbers and admit them into the family
| of states. The terms of admission finally ar
ranged by Congress were liberal, and the
question whether they desired to become
state was finally submitted to them. They
! have decided in the negative.
| This result we do not regret. There is no
longer any reason for treating Kansas as ex-
ceptional to the general rule prevailing in
reference to the admission Of new states into
the Union. Justice to people of other terri
tories requires that they shall have sufficient
population, before admission, to entitle them
at least TO one representative in Congress.
About one hundred thousand people is, and
ought to be, the lowest number entitled tC
such admission. There are noiwell- grounded
grievances in remaining under terrtoria
forms, and this seoms to be the Judgment o.
the Kansas people. They have decided
thus to remain, and, as they have at lengtl
come to realize that peace is better than re
bellion,we trust they will now wait till thei
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STRANGE AND NEARLY FATAL ACCIDENT
Two children-a son and daughter--of Wm.
Sabine. formerly of Albany, while crossing
the bridge over the Onondaga Creek, near
their residence, the boy, who is about four
years old, v injured too near the edge of the
bridge, when he fell into tho water. His
little sister witnessed the accident-saw him
rise and disappear again, whereupon she ran
home, a distance Of 80 or 40 rods, to inform
her father of the accident. Mr. Sabine i'm
mediately repaired to the spot where the girl
said she had seen her brother sink. The
body was recovered some fifteen minutes after
it sunk, and was taken home and laid out.
What is most strange and singular, an hour
afterwards the boy was observed to breathe I;
every effort was employed by his parents,
and at II o'clock the lad was conversing with
them He is doing well. This is the most
singular case of resusctaton after drowning
that We ever recollect hearing Of
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To be continued.

LONG SPEEcHEs.-A HoMILY TO WHOM IT
MAY CONCERN -Prolxity is the crying sin of
American oratory. No body knows when to
stop, so charmed is he with his own eloquence.
And so he keeps on and on until his audience
are wearied beyond endurance. If they are
legislators, they leave the hall if they are
kept to their seats by the courtesy of the
place or occasion, as at church or literary
festival, they inwardly curse the speakers
tediousness and cruelty, and resolve that he,
at least, shall never punish them again.
Especially at college commandments are long
speechesa bore and nuisance. Two or three
gentlemen have as many hours allotted to
to them for their discourses and one man,
the first who speaks, engrosses the greater
part of the time assigned equally to himself
and his associates. See the result. AS no
man can profit his auditors after he has ceas-
ed to interest them, he spoils the effect of his
speech, however excellent, by the heavy half
hour which he unscrupulously adds to his
appropriate sixty minutes; and leaves an
impression of pain, which might have been,
as he intended, an impression of pleasure
If only he were punished for his folly there
would be no ground Of complaint but his
successor, who may chance to be an honest
and sensible man, is cheated out of his oppor-
tunity, and compelled to impair symme-
trical forty minute discourse by crowding it
into half an hour, or else punish the audience
for the sin of his predecessor He is some-
times SO foolish as to choose the latter course,
and SO, between the two, or three, as the
case may be, the arrangements of the day are
knocked into disorder cold dinner succeeds
at last to the intolerable haranguos, and the
whole affair, designed for an occasion of EN-.
| joyment, terminates in general wearines,
and disgust. A college professor, recently q
sufferer from the evil of which we are speak,
ing, says the clergy are quite as guilty a,
laymen, and greatly need ooneio od clerun
from the text, Z" Thou shalt not steal," illus
trated by the example Of ministers of tn,
Gospel who commit theft of hne-grant
larceny of golden moments more precious t.
the owners than minted coins-with as littl,
remorse as if they were pickpockets by pro
fession. This vice of unreasonable prolixit,
is really growing more and more intolerable
and should be abated, like riots and othe
social disorders, by stringent police, if re
ligion and decency shall prove unequal to it
suppression And what folly it is, too
As If dulness could be made attractive b,
quantity As ifa good orator could not max
good speech-a discourse "totus, teres atqu
| r0findpS''-in fifty or even thirty minutes
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dbeGree Wxess
From the Rutland Courier August G.
BURLINGTON
FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST 20. 1858.

Oregon has not been admitted into the
| Union as State. She proposed, last winter,
to come in as n free State, and no objections
were made on the part of the slave States, but
Messrs Wilson, Hale and others objected on
the ground that free blacks were placed
on the same footing they were by the 'Tope-
ka constitution in Kansas Oregon has.
however, organized state government under
her new constitution, which the people have
adopted. and, as she is thoroughly democrat
ic, will, without doubt, be admitted men,
Der of the confederacy next winter.
The above statement of the Rutland Cou-
rier is sample of the reckless perversion of
the truth INDUCED in by the democratic
journals. On the question, in the . s. Senate,
May 18th, shall the bill for the admission of
Oregon pass there were 35 ayes and lS
nays. OF the nays, 8 were avowed demo-
Gratis from the slave states, were S. Ameri-
cans, also from the slave states, and 6 were
republicans. Neither Mr.. Hale nor any
other Senator objected to it on the ground
that free blacks were placed on the same
footing they were by the Topeka Constitution
in Kansas" for such was not the fact or any
thing like it, The Topeka Constitution Of
Kansas did not exclude any class of persons
from the state of Kansas the Oregon Con-
stitution did exclude Cinnamon and colored
men from the State of Oregon, and had
other harsh provisions respecting them which
in some mems minds justified its non.ad-
mission. Others condemned those provisions,
but did not think it best to keep the state
out of the Union on that account. The rea-
sons given for their votes by those who voted
in the negative were various, and the same
was true of the votes in the affirmative The
vote on neither side was party vote The
Courier is candid in its implied admission
that Oregon, if she were not "thoroughly
democratic, would still be kept out. The
time is coming, however, when "thorough"
(Which means slave-driving) Democracy"
will not be one of the essential requirements
for admission as State.
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MISC Ell L A n Y.

We commence, to-day, the publication OF
some Recollectons Of the military operations
an this place and vicinity during the last war
with England, which will have peculiar
interest to many Of our readers They are
from the pen of the late NATHAN B. HAswELL,
ESQ.,, of Burlington. We and our readers are
indebted for them to his grandson, W. II.
Roor, ESQ.,, who has kindly placed in our
hands the original manuscript for publica-
tion. These "reminiscences were drawn up
by Mr.. Haswell, shortly before his death,
from memoranda in his possession, aided by
his own distinct memory of the events, re-
freshed by recent consultations with Gen.
SYLVESTER CHURCHILL, of the Z. S. Army,
himself prominent actor in many of the
events related. The principal facts are still
fresh in the recollection of the survivors of
those times, but they are passing away-(our
readers will notice that of the officers and
privates of the corps of minute men whose
names are given, but four or five survive
and the young men Of this day arc not too
familiar with the history of those earlier
times. For them these "reminiscences will
have an interest and a value.
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FlRE'-At 5 o'clock AM on Frilay, flames
were discovered issuing from the roof Of the
wooden dwelling house on Bunk Street,
belonging to the estate of the late VIM F.
Griswold and occupied as a boarding house
| by his widow. The alarm was given and the
Boxer and Ethan Allen Engine companies
hastened to the spot the Ethans having
little the start and getting the first stream
upon the fire. The FIRE filled the garret, and
to dislodge it from its numerous lurking places
under the floors and roof was no easy task
The ladders Of the Hook & Ladder company
were brought into service and mounting
with their hose, the Ethans attacked the
flames from the front and the Boxers from
the rear, in style which very soon settled
the question of mastery. The building was
deluged with water, which did it's share of
the damage, with the flames. NJ furniture
was burned; but more or les oft was injured
in the removal, carpets torn, and crockery
broken, occasioning loss to Mrs Griswold
which she is i'll able tJ bear. The fire origina-
ted (either from spontaneous combustion or
from some cigar-end or match carel-ssly
thrown down) in wooden spit-box which
stood upon the piazza on the second floor,
whence the fire worked up behind the clap
boarding, to the attic. 1t was first discovered
bursting from the roof, by persons outside,
who reused the INN ties soma Of whom might
have been in serious danger had the FIRE
gained Roadway in the night hours, instead
of smoulderng, as it probably did, till morn
ing. The operations ut the fire were efficient
ly directed by Assistant engineers, etand
Rolfe, in the temporary indisposition Of
Chief engineer Huntington. The Fire Com
panies, including the Young America, who
had the honor Of putting the last water
upon the biilding, if not the frst-lid good
service and undoubtedly prevented DIS
tructive conaagration.
We understand that the Bunk Of Blr.
lingtJn has an interest in the Building which
was covered by insurance. Mrs. Griswold
was not insured. Wearo glad t. add thata
subscription paper was promptly started,
and that our citizens with their customary
generosity, have shared her loss, to the
amount of S155, with the worthy lady who
is the principal sufferer.
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Day is done brown and set away to cool;
And evening, like salad fresh and moist,
and and peppord with her musterd stars, comes on
The moon, like large cheese cut just in half,
Hangs Ger the landscape most invitingly;
The milky-way reveals her silver stream
Mid blanc-mange-like clouds that feck the sky;
The cattle dun, sleeping in pastures brown,
show like huge dough-nuts mid the deep'ning
gloom.
How like silver salver shines the lake,
While mimic clouds upon its surface move
Like floating islands in crystal bowl.
The dews come down to wash the flower cups clean
And night-winds follow them to wipe them dry.
On such an eve ms this It's sweet to sit
And thus commune with Nature, as she brings
Familiar symbols to thoughtful breast,
And spreads her feast Of meditative cheer.
Day with it's broils anu fiery feuds is DER,
Its jars discordant and its seething strifes,
And all its boiling passions hushed to peace.
Old Earth, hung on n spit before the Sun,
Turns her huge sides alternate to his rays,
Basted by -ains and dews and cooks away,
And SO will cook till she is done,-and burnt.
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A few mornings since, one of our LAWYERS

A few mornings since, one Of our lawyers
was startled from bis dreams of rich clients
and fat fees. by loud knocking a. L. "A; a..
door. lie opened the door, when gentle
man of Africa commonly known as Mari
posa Jack, stood before him. Look here,
Judge, said he, Il wants your 'pinion on
law pint well, go on 'S'pose man
brings some eggs to town, and hires anuduer
niger to sell, an dat Niger can't do it, and
he gibs 'em to me, an lose de money, kin
he do anytlng wild me?' The learned coun-
sci, putting on his wisest look, informed him
that he knew of no law to punish him. Yah !
yah chuckled Jack, Il knowed he couldn't
in the fust lace-kase-dc-kase de eggs
was rotten anyhow. Judge, when duz you
want your boots blacked?'
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SOUTHERN PoLI1IcAL OPINION AND SpEcu-
IATIoN.-The Richmond Wing, the old lead
ing whig journal of Virginia, and indeed of
the whole South and ever strongly pro-
slavery in its spirit, ,-dlscusses the questions
of the union of the entire opposition to the
democracy. and of probable pure republi-
can triumph in 1860. 1t is replying to the
Richmond " South" democratic journal :
:. d" The South is very nearly accurate when
IL says that 'llio Lvpee Of tho uWhip', are
based exclusively on the chance of rallying all
the elements of opposition in compact body
against the democratic nominees And that
is the very thing we expect to be able to eff
feet. AT least, we shall labor for it and pray
for it with a hearty good will We are tired
of democracy and democratic misrule. We
are disgusted with its vices, its corruptions,
its denominations. We want new and a
better order of things And almost any
change, in our judgment, would be for the
better.
" Besides, we are not of those who depre-
cate the election even of regular black
republican iu the year 1860, and for the rca-
son that such an event must happen, and
we prefer its happening now, when the south
is ADLER to withstand encroachments upon
her rights than she will be five, ten or twenty
years hence. The North already has the
power, and will have much greater power
every year. She is bound to elect pres-
dent of her own, sooner or later. That be-
ing so, we would prefer her electng him now,
as we are anxious to see developed the policy
of a northern, sectional president towards the
South. In a word, the North and the South
have wrangled long enough. We want the
issue brought on. We want to meet it nop
And we can only do this, by allowing the
northern sectionalists to take possession of
the government and see what they mean to
do as regards the South. Thy are necessar-
lily bound to obtain cor troll of the government
any way, within few years. Let them have
it now, and ifaggression ensue, let the South
meet it with united hearts and arms, and in
the spirit of freeman, who know their rights,
and who mean to maintain them at whatever
hazard ~
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VALUE OF SHADE TREEs.-Very few owners
ofreal estate in country towns seem to have
any idea even of the commercial value of
shade trees. One piece Of ground, perhaps
not very eligibly located, commands high
price, while another, in far better position,
is not wanted scarcely at any rate. especially
by those who have the means to make Il
considerable investment simply because there
are no attractive shade trccs-nothng to
make home pleasant outdoors. Suppose
every inland town in the United States should
appropriate the small sum of one hundred
dollars annually, to be inrested in this way
in bcautifyiug and enriching The place
what change ten or twenty years would
produce! Take away the magnificent elms
and other beautiful shade trees from New
Haven, Norwich, and other New England
towns, and you would reduce the value of
real estate at once, at least twenty-five per
cent. We call attention. noU to the subject,
because shade trees now are appreciated. -
Those therefore, who realize how much
pleasure they are denying themselves, will
please remember at the proper time, in tho
fall or spring, to give tlis matter their
prompt attention. Reader. man or woman
1--WE say woman, for we have recently seen
three of the finest elms we ever bcheld, which
were planted by a noble woman nearly one
hundred years ago), whoerer you are, '0e
mean you.-N. Y. Independent.
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HORSE TANNING IN OLD TMEs.-A horse
breaker in I" the good old times of Queen
Bess gives the following explicit directions,
and they are still in vogue among brutal
grooms and horsemen
'" II your horse does not stand still, or he's
itates. then al rate him with terrible voyce ;
and beat him yourself with good stick upon
the head between his ears and then stick him
in the spurring place iii or iii times, togeth-
er, with one legge after another, as fast as
your legges might walk; your legges must
90 like two bouching beetles"
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Fowl PRocEEDiNG.-Capt Elisha I. Par
sons of Ludlow, went out one morning and
found that his hen was brooding skunk and
one chicken; the skunk ,hqving eaten elev Of
the chickens, and liking the warm nest in
which he found them. curled down under the
he and went to sleep.
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The EXCURSION OF THE HOWARD GUARDS,
Capt 1. B. Bowdish, to Midelebury passed off
with entire success. Tho Guards turned
out 80 muskets, and made very handsome
display, as, with the Cornet Band at their
head and Commissary-general Armstead, in
Continental costume, bringing up the rear,
and with colors flying, they marched to the
Rutland depot. At Middlebury the Guards
vera received by the Middlebury Light
Guards, Capt. Hayward, and the officers of
the Greys OF Brandon, and escorted to
the Armory of the Light Guards, where
in due season all sat down to a
most bountiful and substantial dinner.
At four o'clock the Guards paraded, excit-
ing general admiration by the completeness Of
theirequipmenta and the precision Of their drill,
and were addressed, in front of the Addi-
son House, by Gov. Fletcher and Lieut..
Gov Slade. The Guards returned at 6 o.
clock, delighted with their trip and with
the hospitable treatment they received at
the hands of the Light Guards. On arriv-
ing, in the evening, the Guards paraded and
fired salutes in front of the Lake House and
the American, and also in front Of Capt
Church's residence. Capt. Church was able
to receive them at his door, and to address
few words to the Guards, appropriately
followed by departed days" by the Band.
On the whole, the excursion and parade was
particularly pleasant affair-the only dis
appointment being occasioned by the non
appearance of the Staff, consisting of Quar-
ter-Master D. w. c. Clarke, Pay-Master D..
Roberts, Chaplain Rev. B. W. Smith, Sur
geon Or. B. j. Heineberg, and Assistant-Sur
geon DR., Geo, W Ward who had been conf
IDENTIFY expected to accompany the Guards,
but who were not on hand.
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A VERY OLD FooT.-Sunday next (says
the Uniuerse of the 23d) being the fete of St.
Victor of Marseilles, a grand musical mass
will be celebrated in Paris at 10 o'clock, in
the church of St. Nicholas du Chardonnet,
in which the foot OF the saint is preserved.
The foot will be exposed during the day to
the yeneration of the faithful, and after ves-
pers in the afternoon 1t will be carried in
procession. The foot, though it has existed
fifteen hundred years, five hundred of which
it has been in the parish of St. Nicholas, is
still preserved in flesh and bone.
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The Detroit Board of Education, who
must be little waggishly inclined, have
adopted us device for the seal of that body,
handsome young schoolmistress, with
striving younker across her lap. The left
hand is uplifted, having a stout, leather
strap,in the act OF descending upon the youn-
ker aforesaid, whose mouth is wide upon,
from which issues the motto of the seal
"Strike, but hear me ~
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APPROPRIATE QUoTArIoN.-The most hap
py citation from the Bible We have yet seen,
in reference to the Telegraph, which is 80
soon to girdle the globe, appears in the
National Intsligencer of Monday;
f" Their line is gone out through all the
earth, and their cords 10 The end Of The
,oorM Psalms xix, 4.
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suIcIDE.-A correspondent Of the Bradford
Union says that Mr.. Benjamin Flanders of
Washington, Vt. hung himself in his cham
bsr, on Saturday evening, Aug. 9Th
No cause for the act is known He was
Is years of age, and leaves wife and seven
children,
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P 0 f T X Y
ETHE SAILORS sOLILoQUy.

with ISTERRUPT1oNs.)
Tho Land! the Land! that cheering cry
Brings rapture to my heart;
Thank Heaven! this trip is at an end
We're just upon " the Start
There's one on that dear Island now
In sadness think of me-
Would could know she does not weep
Then sound the pumps, and see,l
have her likeness here, but ah'
The lineaments are fainter
Than those portrayed upon this heart
Yes, jack cast of le painter
Those ruby lips! that mild blue eye,
The index Of the soul
That grace her every step displays
my timbers, don't she roll p
Secure from fashions fetters, she
To her no homage pays;
That form requires no aid from art
[She never misses stays]
When parting la.t-to calm her fears
"Cheer thee" I cried, "my joy.
"a cherub's keeping watch aloft'-
tCome down from there, you boy'l
And when to that loved home again
wearied shall arrive,
Methinks hear her greet me thus
Now d-n it, look alive'1
Oh Love! thou dost thy sceptre sway
With more than monarch's might;
Where's he who dare dispute thy povsr-
tWhy, Captain, there's "the Wight
Minstrels to thee attune the lay
That calls forth Beauty's tear
Bards quatf Pierian draughts to thee
tWhat water have we here?1
shun those who say the man that weds
Has but his cares increased;
Such men would 60 to any lengths
Five fathom, at the least!1
Oh, Cupid! present be, whom
With han and heart requite her,
Hymen! do thou our path ilume-
tSteer clear Of that there lighter,)
Night comes! I'll to my cabin HE,
And seek repose-nor doubt
Therein my dreams she'll visit me-
Now mind and keep her out.1
'Tis morn. and wheresoe'er we be
On shore I'll quickly hasten;
I'm really sick of this suspense
tWell here's the Mapping Basin!]
London Athenaeum.
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girl of fourteen years, named Emma
Evans, was frightened to death in New
York not long since. As she was entering
the hall OF her house, the servant girl sud-
denly uttered AN exclamation in such way
as to cause Miss Evans to fall 20 the ground
in swoon, in which she continued until she
died. 1t was found that a blood-vessel of the
brain had been ruptured