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ONEIDA TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1852. llll present TTifM Artillery. About 1824, an expedition of the U. JJ. troops, composed of a detachment of the Sixth Foot, left Fort Leavenworth, then a mere cantonment, for the far west. On the route tbev were completely infested by a larue body of wild Indians, who charged up to the very lines, shaking their long copper lances in the very faces of the Foot, and menacing them, in case one should break the line, with certain destruction. Charge after charge was made, til the veteran officer in command—the Gen. Riley—gave the command— Fire' The fighting Sixth throw in its leaden hail and the chivalry of the prairie swept from before them like a summer cloud. The command of Maj Riley had with them a MX lb. gun, which they had been on the point of abandoning half a dozen times, but which non came mto play. Elevating it to an angle of 45 degrees, and filling it almost to the tom- yion with langrage, the Major waited his op portunity. The Indians, after the fire, had re treated to the top of a buld prairie teton, or mound, and made all imaginable derisive ges ture* at the Americans. A group of several huudred had gathered on the very pinnacle of the hill, wheu Maj. R. gave the order to fire the solitary guu. The shot aud langrage fell on the limestone of the lull, each fragment of the rock proving fatal as a shot, and more than twenty of the red skins falling dead and wouDded . Aw.iv went the party of Indians, and after a rapid retreat, went into the departimienlo of Texas, which did not belong to Uncle Sam, exhibiting the greatest alarm Maj Kiley returned home, and after a lapse of some tfnie, visited St Louis, where he met a gentleman named Coffee, a son of the fa mous defender of Mobile, m 1815. | \ Hallo, Riley '\ j \Hallo yourself ' \ | '•What did you do to the Camauches ? \ \ Whipped them \ \ You did more than that.\ • Whit'\ ''! \ill tell you They c;iino to my post last fall, and said - 'We have been beaten.— The Maiutou is angry. We do not care for rifles,.for we have lU^m We care not for the horn pint (musket anu^cWonet*,) but the man in the prairie shot a wagon at us n \ This was the first time the Camauches had ever seen artillery, and poor Ben Moore used to say, when the Indians came it was only ne cessary to wheel your wagons into a battery, and they would never wait for you to fire at them Jemmy liiad. The Springfold \Republican waxeth face tious over the marriage of Miss Lind :— \Will the lip of the husband seal the voice of the virgin song«ta|lje ? How was it brought about i Why were we not spoken to about the matter ? Where are they going to live ? What did she wear? Was she reconciled ?— A-a-a-a 1 what's the condition of the country ? Well!—we'll begin again, for in the excitement of the occasion, we have fuirly run off the track. Nobody thought Jenny Lind was go ing to marry Mr. Goldschmidt, yet it was very natural that she should be smit rait Mr. Gold schrait, and that Goldschmidt should be gold smit mit Jenny Lind. Natural as it was, how ever, who thought that while young Otto, the blest, was drumming the piauo strings, in an accompaniment to her voice, she was fingering his heart strings, in accompaniment to his life- song of love ? So Otto Goldschmidt has plucked the Rose, and, in wishing tho wedded pair all earthly happiness, as we most siucere- ly do, we beg leave to suggest that the first incarnate fragrance yielded by the flower, be named, \ Otto of Roses.\ Cltt (Dnrilta Critgn SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1852. | through the blunder of the Postmaster, whore a letter has been mailed, it has been mis-sent, additional postage has been charged on re- Pestafe. There are propositions to amend the pres ent postage law in various ways. It is gener ally admitted to bo very defective. Let us submit a few suggestions. In regard to letter postage, we thmk it un likely that any immediate and material alter ation will be made. The principal complaint is in regard to newspaper rates. The charge on transient newspapers is especially absurd and impolitic, virtually driving out of the mails a vast amount of matter, which might be made to pay better than regular papers, and depriving friends of tho privilege of send ing and receiving each other's papers. The present rate is one cent an ounce prepaid.— As many papers weigh more than an ounce, (though ours does not)>. they are charged with THE \MAINE LAW\ INTRODUCED .-A bill j tw0 or three ccnt8 in ^vance, and double embodying the essential features of the \Maine j tnosG charges if not prepaid, whieh amounts Law\ was introduced into the Senate on Sat- ; to a prohibitory tariff on that species of mail THE ONEIDA COMMUNITY.—The article on our fourth page from the iV. Y. Observer, wo present as a matter of news to our readers, mailing it, and in one or two instances we ] who will be interested to see what is said by have heard of, letters have been thus ro-for j our neighbors o f what is going oinn our vic.n- warded four or five times till under our reduc- ] ity ed rates even, the postage has accumulated to socuitiou to which this article refers, we do not quite a formidable/item. All this is entirely wrong, and arises from a merely techntcal construction which never fails to work mischief wherever it is employed. Where additional postago is charged on account of the blunders of the Postmasters every one sees the absur dity and injustice of it, though many have submitted to it. Vet the rule is plain and lm POSTAGE REFORM .—Tho following is a sy- wopsi»_of a bill amending the Postage Law, whicArthc Post Office Committee in the House are ejpected to report: \iSueh newspaper, pamphlet, periodical, What are the actual practices of the As- 1 magazine, book, hound or unbound, circular, catalogue, and every other description of print ed matter, unconnected with any manuscript —one cent for two and a half ounces, and one cent for each additional ounce under two thousand miles; double these rates over that distance. \Newspapers not weighing over an ounce, one-half of the foregoing rates. \ Postage on printed matter to bo prepaid . i ii> . - £ — .. - 1 - .. —.1.1.. ri» know. So far as their exterior conduct is con cerned, we have always heard the \ Commu nity\ folks well spoken of, as an mdustrious, well-behaved people, and unexceptionable in their dealings with others. Of their interior arrangements, probably there is less thought and said here in their vicinity than farther ; a t the office of mailing or delivery;\ if not, away though all sorts of rumors are afloat— double these rates are. charged „ trans- 1 some'apparently borne out by the language of I \ A1 ' triinMCUt l\ r \ nU ', d 10 \ A <*™«} ' 11 J .i ° I unpaid, unless paid at the office where it m thers loo re- ' , .' 1 mulled. \Books bound or unbound, deemed niaifit pcrative, that even where the error in L.«H3- ( uussion is tho result of tlx. sender's mistake, • their authorized publications—o .t is the Postmaster's duty to forward it to its \ veiling to be credited without good testimony Kidnapping Protected in Penmsyl- BlOLF.K of ble matter, not wdighiug over 4 lbs., to bo weighed when dry. Publishers of newspapers and periodical* mav send a copy of their respective publications to each other, arfd rtehial •subscribers bills arto* urday, by Mr. MLNROE , from tho select com mittee having the subject in charge. It pro vides that no sales of intoxicating drinks shall be made, except in certain cases provided, where it may be sold for medical purposes— under very strict provisions to prevent any abuse thereof—and also providing, in case o f an abuse, for the punishment of the offender by fine and imprisonment; by fine for the first two offences, and fine and imprisonment on the matter. Peoplo would often transmit their papers regularly to some friend, rf they could send without prepayment, but when they are compelled not only to furnish tho paper free, but to pay the postage they will not send.'— When this law is applied, as some pastmasters apply it, to papers sent from the office of pub lication, not to regular subscribers, it becomes seriously detrimental to the interests of pub- third , and providing that the prosecutor shall \ bo admitted as a witness on the trial. It also I hshcrs as well as to those of the P. 0. Departr provides that no man who sells intoxicating ment j t p re vents publishers getting their Kun i s OF INTEMPKRAM E .—A man nam ed Vanderhp, who is noted tor his quiet and mdustrious habits when sober, but is changed mto a perfect brute, when under the influence of ardent spirits, committed a series of outrag es on Saturday night and Sunday morning last, upon' au unoffending wife and family, which should put humanity to the blush.— Coming home under the nifluenco of the de mon Alcohol, he made a brutal attack upon his wife, and was prevented from murdering her through the interference of a young man, lu&relativo, who lodged in the same house.— Hffwife. and tho young man made their es cape to a house adjoining, where they were followed by tho drunken uusband, who made a furious attack upon the doors and windows of tho house, completely demolishing several windows, and doing considerable damage to the house. Ho was finally induced to desist, and his unfortunate wife made her escape to the dwelling of another neighbor Her hus band then entered his own house, in which two of Ins children were sleeping, and set it on fire, but the fire was discovered and extinguish ed with difficulty by tho young man, who had watched the proceedings throughout the whole affair lie was urrasted next morning, and conveyed to the watch house, which ho also nearly succeeded in setting on fire, by means of the stove pipe. W'Jicn the officers returned they found the inmates almost smothered by the smoke, wlm.li must have destroyed them tn a short lime, it' undiscovered. The man is now in the Penitentiary, awaiting his exami nation.— St/racuxe Standard BI.OOMKR Co^it ME —Mrs. Miller, daugh ter of lion Ciernt Smith, and Mrs. Elizabeth C. Stanton, wife of Senator Stanton, have been spending a few days in this city, (New ark) and introducing to their aristocratic up town friends a beautiful Bloomer costume for winter, i oiisisiniLj of blaik fur hats, broad cloth ilnaks .n 1. 1 dresses tiiinmed with fur, broadcloth tro\w .rs made like men's and handsome Hater -proof boots. The whole suit was eleifiiiit and becoming, and struck a heavy blow at coiisi rv.itne prejudices. Mr. Genin, the ciKhi.iti-d hatter, at the request of Mrs. tiovc Nichols, hits got up a beautiful stylo of winter hat t >r the new costume—a modifica tion of tin Kossuth hat,—•which, olegautly trimmed i^ ;L - becoming an article of dress as was CUT Morn — Water Cure Journal liquors shall be allowed to sit on a jury ; and also that cases of trial of these suits shall take preference of all other business before the Courts. And all liquors found iu possession of salesmen not authorized, shall be seized and held at the pleasure of the law. The act to take effect on the 1st of July next.— State Register. THE NEANDER LIBRARY .—The N. Y. Re corder in speaking of the purchase of NEAN- DER'S Library by the University of Rochester, says, that tho number of Volumes is 4,600, and tho price paid was the very moderate one of $2,300. About three hundred and fifty of the Volumes are large folios, and many of tho works in tho collection are of tho choicest and rarest editions. It is to bo forwarded in the spring, and will form one of the most valuable accessions to the means of theological study that has ever beon made at one time in our country. It will give a new impulse to the student of ecclesiastical history, to know that he can verify with his own hand- the references made by the great historian in tho very edi tions nud very volumes which he was accus tomed to study If these books were to be sold at auction, the book collectors would seize upon them with avidity at almost any price. proper dcsimatiau free of expense. And if he happens to know that destination, he is to | send it at once without suggestion from any- ' The I»npe« report that Gov. one. So if a letter should bo prepaid, that Pennsylvania has, as one of his first official r--r-v - „ fc . , receipts flVi\ destination ; if not paid oulv the single rate | be haa ^eu sem lor two years, gcoeru, me • PubIlshorsof wcok] u free wUh . is to be charged If through the mistake of | ™ tori0U8 kidnapper, who has been engaged ,„ the C ou..U a P. M. who forwards the letter additional i for nmn - v )' ears m lhe > n ™™''* business of j - postage u charged, it is the unquest.onable ! »\ d »»PF»g free negroes into bondage, and of. 1' ATVL RU.ROAI. ACCIDENT—A man l>« ... I hunting up escaped slaves to return them to a , the name of Robert Triiinun, living at Utka, duty of the one who delivers it to correct the error by subtraction, not from the poeket of the receiver of the letter, but from tho postago , charged. i We have not the rule at hand, to refer to, but we know whereof wo affirm, and if any postmaster doubts it we are ready to apply to > have bun re instructed by the P 0 Depart ment. living death. What claims this base creature was run over by the cars near Onskany last Saturday nigl^t, H o had taken passage to Rome, and was standing on the platform of one of the cars, when by some sudden jerk he was thrown off' and the cars passed over tho middle of his body killing him instantly.— Standing on Items fr*aa the Xrib A bill to prohibit colored mechanics or ma sons from making- contracts for the erection of buildings, &c, has been introduced into the lower House of tho Alabama Legislature, and will probably pass both branches. Notwith standing the passage of such arbitrary and ty- rannicallaws as the above, some people won der why the colored people in this country do not attain to eminence and position. Mr. papers into circulation, as they might do if allowed to send as formerly. One cent, paid whero tho paper is taken [out, is amply sufficient postage on any tran sient paper, and if Congress choose to offer a premium on pre-payment by carry ing for less wien paid in advance, very well. But there can be no object in preserving the present rates, but to drive that species of mat ter out of the mails. Again, in regard to newspapers circulating free in the county where published. That provision is very well—we have no fault to find with it. But it is a very arbitrary rule to confine the privilege to county limits merely. It does not operate equally on all country newspapers. In fact there is little reason in it, as it stands. Why, for instance, should our subscribers at Oneida Castle aud Durhamville pay jxistago on our paper, while those beyond them many miles, get theirs free ! True, the chnrgo is light, now, only 5 cents per quarter, but there is no equality in the present system If all newspapers were located at or near the centre of their respective counties, the provis ion w ould be equal and just, but as a great many are located near coimfflHtailiiPt I>e- comes unequal in its operaflH^pLct there be an additional provision, so ths^npers shall be carried free in the county where published, and to any place within say twenty or twen ty-five miles of the office of publication, and had on the clemency of the executive, we are not informed. Perhaps it is to carny out that pacific measure, the \compromise that this 1 ruffian is set at liberty, while others, for aiding | in the c.-cape of men to freedom, are tried for their lives. We published last week the | The deceased was. a foreigner. . details and facts which go to show that a free, J the platform of the cars is a dangerous practice. , peaceable and respectable citizen of Pennsyl- X ^rThe Roman Citizen, this week, iu re^jvama, for endeavoring to pre\ent the kidnap- torting upoli u.s, says • \ It is a singulur trait' ping of a girl whom he knew to be free, was of human nature, that a very small hole will j deliberately murdered. Where now is the sometimes be considered a safe retreat when i indignation that filled tho pnpers when Gor- hard pushed\ It is not exactly iu our style | such was killed. They are as calm as a sum mer morning. Miller was trying to prevent a free person from being carried into slavery e trial of Deputy Marshall Allen, •ing the fugitive \Jerry comes on and we thiuk there will be no just cause for McWilliani|, a Railroad Conductor,! complaint in any quarter. who ejected a colored man named Thompson from the cars at Elmira, N. Y., in August last, has been tried for the offense and fined $75. We have not heard whether tho Union Safety Committee contemplate calling an extra session of that body of self-sacrificing patriots, in view of the imminent peril to the Umon involved in the result of this trial. A gentleman in Charleston, is said to have mado a valuable discovery in the art of Da- guerreotyping. Tho advantage claimed for a picture taken by the new process is, that it re quires no glass to protect it, inasmuch as it is covered with a transparent enameled surface, which renders the picture impervious to the ef fects of tho atmosphere, and less liable to be rubbed off; in fact the more friction there is used on the surface, the brighter and clearer the picture becomes, and so durable it is that it can be sent in a letter any distance, without the possibility of its being scratched or de faced. Cl Al IM correspond! ii I.v 1 \U:TTE —The Washington A trial about the right of property in a calf, lately took placo at Burlington, Iowa. The difficulty lay iu the color of the calf's tail; the I witnesses of the plaintiff swore the tail was | white, those of the defendant, that it was | black. The Court was occupied two days ] with the case, tho jury staid out till midnight ] and could not agree, and a new trial is to be j had ; the costs already amount to $300. of Jhebavunak Geor^wnl- i. TKMrERAXCE LEGISLATION .\-We see by .nginiefer.nce to the reception of Kossuth'^ ljCgislatlve proceedlng8 Aat the prospect by rti, Hons,, of Representatives,, says ^ | )s ver ^ fair for roor 6 e Temperance leg- The temperance community de- By t !i« win I heard an interesting anecdote of Clay and La Payette, which, perhaps, has got out long 6ince. ' I got it from good author ity It appears that Mr Clay wrote the ans wer himself, that La Fayette gave to Mr Clay's beauuful speech on the occasion of his recept ion in the Houso. Mr Clay being asked if it was really so, laughingly replied in the affir mative, and that La Fayette's speech was high ly complemented, but his own (Mr. Clay's)*was not noticed. THE TOOTHACHE .—\ L'Union Medicale,\ a medical review at New Orleans, mentions the success of a new remedy against tho toothache. It consists in application of a pteco of cotton dipped in collodiuin to the cavity of tho tooth, to the shape of which it adapts itself, .while soft, and when it becomes haWeneoTadberes very strongly to the tooth, and is not liable to be affected by any liquid taken into the mouth. ery islation.\ raand what is called the \ Maine Liquor^aw,\ which is said to work like a charm that State. There are strong hearted and active men in both branches of the legislature who will do their whole duty, and we trust and hope they will be able to carry through tha \Maine Law,\ or some other law, that will dry up at once the fruitful springs of grief scat tered broadcast through the State. Th« peo ple demand protection from tho effects of this evil. Upwards of three hundred thousand jie titioners have appealed to their law makers this winter for \ Temperance Legislation,'' and it is but reasonable tA suppose that their pray ers must be answered; or they win* take jweas- ures hereafter to send petitions with \hawand boots on.\ We hope the legislature will do something that will not only to effectual but satisfactory.— Hamdton Reflector. IT'S A BORROWED HORSE.—A friend o f ours, Many of the farmers in this countv, j who was a few miles in thecountrv yesterday who raised extensive crops of Tobacco last relates the following:— A mite or so from the' summer, with the expectation of selling at the j eitv he fast a boy on horseback, <;ryina with profitable rates of 1 «50, are obliged to part 1 the cold. \ Wh v don't you get down and lead with it at a heavy reduction from the figure of tbe horse ?\ said* our friend^ \tint 's the way Those who a year ago, got 15; to keep warm.\ \ It's aVb-borryed horse OUt season o , o sod 17 cents per lb., are now compelled to sell at 6 and 1 cents, aud some we believe, as low 5 At 1 cents, tobacco can be made a profitable crop, if too many do hot go into the specula tion. The amount of the article cultivated in \yUdford county the past season is almost iff- cifjAble.— Hartfvnl Timr*. a'nd 111 ride him if, I friz ?\ A9 Horace Greeley, in a speech lately de livered, compared a stubborn \ conservative \ to aliorso on, board a ferry-boat; (he hone may back, but the boat moves on, and the mvi- mal with it, noticithstaiid,,\/ the privilege much beyond the limits we ha\i indicated would give too great a preponder ance to tbe city papers, who now almost choke 18 aimP of argumentation, but we cannot forbear say ing in this instance, that tho Citizen furnishes the most notable instance at present of the truth of Us own statement. Now what was the drift of Gov. HUNT'S Message, which was tho occasion of this controversy, if uot this? that the future of tho African race, on this continent, was to be moulded by Colonization — therein lay its chief if not only hope of ulti- ultimate elevation. Here they could never rise to an equality with the dominant race ; by emigration to Africa they were to be elevated and enlightened We undertook to show by figures which ha\e not been contradicted, that this scheme was impracticable, ridteulously anil manifestly impracticable, so far as the Af rican race in this country is concerned. That it is practicable to carry a few hundreds of that race annually to Africa, we have not doubted. That they may there ultimately establish a colony winch shall exert a favorable influence on the de-stinies of their brethren in bondage, j we arc inclined to hope. Though our hopes have recened no \ery effluent encouragement as yet, in tho fact that the most earnest advo cates of colonization are found among those who have no faith m the clewition of that race, \until pride and a sense of superiority i„ . . f shall have been extirpated from the human An extension of ^ i heart.\ But that any general movement towards tho improvement of the servile race at or hkelv to result from tho mens- the life out of their country brethren An adherence to the present rate, gives an undue preponderance to papers centrally located, and possessing in no respect superior value, but of ten inferior in that particular. Such pajiers have besides already an advantage, in several respects, such as the wider range for legal ad vertising, and a better opportunity to pick up the crumbs that fall from the Supervisors' table. All we ask for ourselves is fair play Give us an equal chance with our neighbors and we will answer for the rest. Post Office Decision*. ures of the Co'om/ation Societv, we have vet to l»e convinced When Gov Hunt spoke of the \position and ultimate destiny of the Af rican race on this continent,\ we did not sup pose he referred only to tho 428,000 of free colored persons, while he left out of account tho 3,198,000 of enslaved blacks. Neither the language or tin; spirit of his message led us to think so. Had we thought so, we might have easily shown that even the removal of these 428,()(»0, with their annual increase of some 10,000 a year, was a job that would re quire them to enlarge considerably tho com prehensiveness of their schemes, even with We have elsewhere had something to say ' the aid of the oppressive laws they are mstru- of what we think the Postage law sltould be, \ meji^al in enacting in Indiana and elsewhere in one or two particulars; let us now state j We still think it is more the part of a States- one or two others as to what they are, where- I man to consider the continuance of the great in we think they need no amendment. The ; mass of colored Americans in the Southern points we allude to, seem to be generally mis- j States of this Union, as a fix<>d fact, than to Gorsuch was seeking to re-enslave his escaped bondsmen. That's the differonce. We shall see whether the executive of Pennsylvania will do anything in regard to this murder of Mil ler. We hope, for the honor of the old Com monwealth that he will. Peiinsy Kama cannot well afford to get tho reputation of treating kiduapping with impunity, while freeing men is punished as a-crime. The following extract from the message of Gov. Wood, of Ohio, will show what ho thought proper to do in a similar emergency. Are not the lives of free white Pcnnsylvanians as precious as the free dom of colored Ohioans ? \ At the last session, the General Assembly passed a resolution instructing the Executive to enquire into the circumstances of the abduc tion of the family of Peyton Polly, and, if satisfied of their freedom, to tako such meas ures as ho deemed expedient for their release, and to pay the expeiues from his contingent fund. This was a colored family, consisting of eight persons. On investigation it was satis factorily ascertained that a high handed out rage had been committed on the soil, and against the. dignity and sovereignty of the State of Ohio, on the night of the 6th of June, 1850, in tho county of Lawrence, and that tho entire family, residing remotely from as sistance, was basely kidnapped, carried into the State of Kentucky and Virginia, and sold in slavery, where they were not slaves, but m fact free persons. This family consisted most ly of children. Immediately after the passage of the resol ution, information was received that four of this family were sold in the mountains of Vir-*' ginia, iu the county of Wayne, and that four others were on their way down tho river to the lower country, iu the hands of purchasers and for sale Without loss of time, counsel was despatched to Louisville, to intercept those in that directum, employ assistance, if necessary, and to institute legal proceedings to establish their freedom and to secure their return. They were speedily overtaken and placed in tho custody of the law, but in different counties m Kentucky The question its to one, Peyton Polly, has been tried, his freedom es | tabhshed, and he has been returned. \ The other cases are still pending Though prepared, on our part, and trials urged at the last terms of the Kentucky Courts, as I am advised, the defenco caused them to be stopped S-tT '1' for kiduaj at Syracuse, to day (Friday.) Dist. Attorney i Gardner, Gerrit Smith and Chas. B. Sedg wick Esqs., will appear for the people; J. R. Lawreitceaitd Geo. b\ Comsfcock Ee»q»., for the defense The case involves the Constitutionality of the fuiritive slave law. JCt*' Why 10 (7/ the Vernon folks have a rainy time of it e\.ery time they have a lec ture there, that we want to hear ? We would have liked to listen to Prof. North's \ Georgic about tret's\ last Wednesday evening, but a second edition of the Hole storm wo had some vveiks ago prevented the gratification of <nir wish A SCRKVV LOOSE SOMEWHERE .—Our Wes tern exchanges continue to come to us by the Western mails. Our indignation however, has cooled (low n so that we have almost concluded to sulmiit toit. Our eastern exchanges still con tinue to come occasionally from the West. j£-if~ Messrs. Hid beock and Stone, wlio-u departure for Virginia, m obedience to ine- sages from spirit-land we chronicled in tl first t\'o. of our jianojfcreturned to town this vv cek I am informed there is no reasonable appre hension entertained of an unfavorable result. „ i i . i i • r ii • .i Counsel was likewise sent to Virginia to se- undenstood, and even Postmasters themselves, be dreaming of some miraculous lu?gira in the , . . . s. , v • c a y * ii i , cure the lour there, and to institute the proper with few exceptions, seem ignorant of them, j tar-ofi hereafter, which shall transport the ] proceedings for their recov ery. After difficul- This, indeed, is not strange, as many of the then scores of millions to a distant continent, i ties which proved nearly insurmountable, they decisions of tho Postmaster General are those which is no more their home or native land, which are drawn out on particular cases as than is England our own. That individuals they arise, and reach postmasters only through ! in the free States from among them may find the columns of the newspapers, if at all. | it advantageous to go thero is quite probable, One of the points to which we allude is just as multitudes of white Americans find it this : that papers go free to all subscribers re reading in the county where the gaper is pub lished, though the office at which they receive advantageous to emigrate to Iowa or Oregon We have not opposed, but recommended their emigrating, if they shall come to the conclti- them may be out of the county. We publish- sion that they can advance their true interests ed this two or three weeks sinoj, but, as it was in an obscure corner of the paper, it may have been overlooked. Our t^wcribers living in this county who receive their papers in this manner, will please Lake note of it. Till we can get the law to be as it tbffM be, and not to limit its privileges by count^fine*, we must make the best of it, as it is. Tho other point is this, that when a letter ll misdineot*t, and the Postmaster where it is sent lcnwr»4$he P. O. address of the person to whom it is directed, it is his duty to forward it to that Post-office without any additional ch&ye for pot tap*. We have so often seen ; by doing so. The Citizen asks us what we think of Mr. Birney's address to^fhc free colored people.— We should prefer deferring our answer till we see it. There are many*contradictory accounts in regard to it. Taking the extract from it which the Tribune gives us as a guide we set;, nothing objectionable in it, unless it bo too much clouded by despondency in regard to their future elevation, arising, perhaps, from the low state of the writer's health. Howev er, Mr. B. is responsible for bis opinions—we for ours. What does tho Citizen think of Henry Clay's opinion that \ no practicable this rule disregarded that we are inclined to' scheme has yet been devised or proposed for think it not generally known. It rests for its justification enr-the obvious fact that the Post- office is -designed as a public convenience— that its bustneas is t* get mailable matter from persons \by wham* it is saot to those for wtfbm it is intended, and that no mistakes on tfe# part either of the sender or the P. 0. agents should prevent that transmission So poorly, however, in this rule underwood thai when. their aemoval or separation from us 1\ —u * Mr. J. H. TRY ON has a lot of steel en- gaivings of Kossutk, which will enable*the admirers of the great Magyar to supply them selves cheaply with a likeness of the distin guished leader. Vs. j»~Tlie Article of J Mn our next * B. J. will ap|>ear were hunted out in the mountains of Sandy, remote from cmhzation, and bints commenced, which are yet undecided. Assurances have j been given by counsel, hkevvise, of their favor- ; able termination. Copies *bf portions of all the correspondence on this subject, as well as the reports of those sent to both Virginia and Kentucky, will be transmitted to you, if de sired. Six individuals who were the authors of this outrage, stand indicted for it in Lawrence Co. They were supposed to be lurking m •Kentucky, as fugitives from justice. A requi sition, therefore, was mado on the Governor of that Commonwealth, and an agent dispatched to procure their arrest and return to Lawrence county for trial. The Governor of Kentucky promptly issued his warrant, but on search being made it was ascertained the fugitives had fled to parts un known, but, probably west of the Missouri, and beyond the reach of process at the present time An eye will bo kept on their apprehen sion, at some future period, by the present Ex ecutive, and he will leave it as an inheritance to his successor, if not before taken, to spare no exertions to vindicate our sovereignty by the punishment of this lawleas banditti of pirates. I take great pleasure in saying that, from tho information recerved, an honorable prompt ness and zeal were manifest, not only by the authorities, bui^by the respectable classes of atfEens in bothv irginia and Kentucky,Tor the surrender of tho fugitives, and for a fair and impartial trial of the question of freedom or slavery of this family. /^~Tbo Uticanian* are holding a Mpcluin ii\. Fair, this w o<*k Tut; BOOK vt' Eioy l 1MB — J Ills Is 11 1 o title of a new work published by Mills, Cr.in- il.dl A' Moselv, Cucnovia, and edited bv Charles I) Warner. Its object is to furnish a new collection of extnicta for declamation. - Its selei lions arc from the writings and speeih os of some of the best names in English and Vmerican literature, yet there are a fow ab sent who might havo appeared with manifest advantage to tho work, and there are a few extracts which might have been spared with out detriment. Yot on the ivhole we should think it a good selection. The Utica Daily Gazette savs of if \The choicest gums of the eloquence of former years—those which have lii.voine st widard— aro preserved, but the mass of tho volume is made up from reci nt speeches In the \inerican department, the Mexican war, the Compromise and other late events are the topics, and specimens of ncarlv all our prominent Congressional talkers aro given The length of the passages is such as is d< in,aided bv the III* leasing size of our public -idmols requiring onlv from thr^e to five minutes for delivon. We have the word of the Professor of Kloiutioii of Hamilton, college that '\this selection is a good one, and the editor a young man of tnste It cer- tainlv offers'abundant \nriot\ \ Tin /'ritimt/fctjiiHi F'tcanrtn is one of tin; ablest and best looking of our exohnnge*. It is edited by Oliver Johnson, formerly connec ted with thf .V. V Tribune The freeman is published at Philadelphia It wages an earnest wart',.re with the evil winch it especial ly assaiUrs-Aujcjic^ii. -Shu my. \ Tin- Ei-rmnn Telesrr>ui>li\ is the name of a new daily paper commenced this week in I'tica. Tho Telegraph is neutral m politics, and is cdifrd by Stephen A Richards It is a penny paper. APPOINTMENTS uv Gov KRNOR AND SKN ATE, —Commissioner oCEmigration—Khas Hicks, Now York ; James Kelly, do Notary Public—Theodore V. Hand, Lenox. MAH KILLED .—Wo learn bv n gentleman from Westmoreland that a man by the name of Bell, living near the old Porter place about half n mile from Hampton, Was killed on Tuesday morning It seoms that ho went out early m the morning for tho purpose of cut ting down a tree, directing his son to bring him some water about 9 o'clock, as he felt unwell and thirsty On arriving at the place the son found his father dead, beneath a largo limb of the tree, w hieh had fallen upon him, crushing his hend and upper part of his body, and breaking his leg. He must from aU ap pearances, have died instantly. The Kmb of the tree contained about a quarter of a cord of wood Thus has a worthy family been de prived of theii father and protector. —VW*H Journal
