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For the Normal]: Gazelle.

Love.
Love is the noblest feeling
Hidden within the breast,
From_ God's own bosom stealing,
’Tis Heuven’s benign behest.

It moves the happy spirits,
Dwelling in concord there,
To leave their homes of glory,
In human woes to sliare~

’Tis like a ray of sunlight
Piercing‘ some dismal place,

Or like a smile of delight
Crossing an angel’: face.

It soothes the bitter passions,
Man’s rugged breast within,

And moulds in purer fashions,
His thoughts conceived in sin.

Oh, check not then the swellings,
Of love within thy breast-
But let its copious wellings,
Find some sweet place for rest.

Then rouse ye slnmbering minstrels,
Strike up love’s magic lyre,- - -
Kindliug the breasts of mortals,
With its pure holy fire. _
GERTRUDH.

Danbnry, July 9th, 1856.

From the National Era.

Fremont.

All hail to Fremont l Swell the lofty acclaim

Like winds from the mountains, like prairies aflnme !
Once more the Pathfinder is forth on his hunt,

Clear the way for Free Soil, for Free Men and Fremont.

We’ll spnrn every fetter, we’ll break every rod,

And Kansas shall bloom like the Garden of God,
When we plant the white banner of Freedom upon‘t,
And cry, “To the rescue, Free Men and Fremont !”

0h l the land that we love shall be sacred from slaves,
From the tyrant’s misrule and the plunder of known ;
-We’ll baptize the Union’ in Liberty’s font,

And the faith of our fathers shall live with Fremont l

Go, bravie mountain climber, lead on in the path

Where the people shall sweep in the storm of their
wrath. ' .

Who shall hinder their triumph, if God so appoint?

Who stay the bold march of Free Men and Fremont.

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For the JV'orwalIr Gazette.-

DEAR Sm—-Thinking that the following let-
ter which I have clipped from the Springfield
Republican, ought to have a wider circula-
tion, and knowing something of the fair au-
thor, and her heroic struggles in,the land of
conflict, I send it to you for insertion in “our
paper.”

Perhaps I should say something about her
Kansas life. Briefly then—-About eighteen
months ago, her father. then pastor of the
Congregational Church in Holyoke, dissolved
his relations with his affectionate people, and
at the call of duty, as all believed, headeda
company of. pioneers from the neighborhood
of Holyoke, and with his family, a wife and
three children—-the eldest of whom is the au-
thor of the appeal accompanying this-—they
formed It town in the new territory, about
seventy miles from Topeka, and named it af-
ter the county they had left. The usual for-
tune of pioneer life ‘attended them, and soon
after they got there, fever and ague and ty-
phus fever, laid the entire settlement pros-
trate, so that atone time, “not one well person
was left to take care of the sick.” Business
of the settlement requiring Mr. Knight to
travel to a distant part of the territory, he
left while an invalid, and arrived midway his
destination, when fatigue overcame him and
he suffered aorelapse. attended with delirium,
‘and without opportunity of communicating
with his family, he lay in this state for three
weeks. On his return, he found them all in
the lowest state of prostration from bilious
fever, none able to help the other. The situ-

fell inscnsible to_the floor, and for weeks he
continued in a very precarious condition.-
Uuderthe blessing of God, the daughter soon
rallied again, and her fostering care was
blessed to the‘ restoration of the rest. The
father was then elected a member of the To-
peka Convention, and at the call of a society
removed to Lawrence City, where he took
charge of the first church formed there. His
services in the Convention gained him the
universal confidence of the Free State set-
tlers. and when the invasion of the territory
by the “border ruflians,” made it necessary to
put themselves in an attitude of defence, Mr.
Knight was appointed aid-de—cainp to General
Robinson, and was on duty through all the
stirring scenes of‘ the Kansas campaign, until
about the middle of last April. Mrs. Knight,
noble woman as she was, with a constitution
broken with disease and incessant fatigue,
uniting with her daughters to comfort and
encourage the brave band of defenders by
night and by day, at length sunk under the
power of disease, though lingering on life’s_
threshold for some time after it was evident
that she had let go her hold on mortality.-—
A son, 0. promising young lad of fourteen,
who had inherited already the spirit of his
parents, and was learningto endure hardships
as a good soldier, was seized with brain fever,
induced doubtless by too great excitement on
a brain so young, and suddenly died. The
' father and sister had scarcely closed his eyes,
when they were summoned to do the same sad
office for the heroic christian mother. She
died, sweetly singing, “Come to ‘Jesus, come
to‘Jesus, just now.” Assuring her husband
that it was not hard to die, and breathing
blessings on his head, and blessings on her
‘ daughter, whose tender core had soothed so
gently her dying pillow, and further com-
mending her little Josephine, a child of 6
' years, to the same kind hand, she sweetly fell

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F. BOTTOM.

Norwalk, July 4th, 1856.

 

The Cause of Kansas.

"An Appeal to the Women of America
in behalf qf Kansas.

To the Editors of the Republican :
Easruamrrou, J one 25.
The great and stirring events, which
are now thrilling the hearts of all lovers
of liberty and justice, have been talked
about and coiuineiited upon so much by
almpst every one; earliest appeals have
frequently appeared in the public prints
to. the “men of the North,” with a view

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nothing has as yet been specially direct-
ed to the “women of the North.” At
all events, not by one belonging to their
own sex. But have the women of
America nothing to do with these great
questions of the day 2 Is it nothing to
you my sisters whether Kansas be devo-
ted to slavery, or become free’! Do you
feel no interest in these things, which
ought to be the all-absorbing theme of
the nation ? I know you must feel
some, but I wish you felt more. I ‘am
aware many entertain the idea that wo-
men ought not tothink of, or to meddle
with, politics, in any shape or way, and.
I am the last one in the world to advo-
cate anything like departure from the
true sphere of woman. But this is
something which affects every one, men
and women both. Had you been in
Kansas for the past year as I have been,
and there seen whatl have seen, I think
you would feel as I do, almost ready to
return with rides in your hands. But
this I do not ask of you ; there are men
enough to go and fight, if they only
would go! and you can do much to aid
Kansas by urging and persuading them
to do their duty in this matter.

My sisters, you have a great work to
perform ; see to it that it is not neglec-
ted. With you rests in no small degree
the future fate of Kansas, and, indeed,
of this whole country, Now is the time
to exercise all the influence you possess.
There are many men who would. ‘go to
Kansas in a moment, if only their
friends did not persuade them to remain
where they are- Oh! how can you look
on, and see the struggles of your breth-
ren ifnd sisters.iu that land where deeds
of fearful darkness and atrocity are be-
coming more and more frequent, with-
out feeling your blood curdle with l|0l‘-
ror and boil with indignation—without
feeling that you would make almost any
sacrifice, if you could alleviate their sul-
feriugs. Every day, accounts are brought
to us of some new and appalliugoutrages
having been committed against the ‘free
state settlers in Kansas. Every blow
that is there struck ought to vibrate
through the whole of the North, and
arouse every man and woman to duty.
I trust some are beginning to feel. upon
this subject; in several places men are
volunteering to go and help, and money .
is being raised in considerable amounts
for the support and aid of the sufferers
—-sufferers through the black-hearted
deeds of wicked men, who have fallen
upon them like wild beasts of prey and
ransacked their houses, , destroyed their
crops, and in many cases taken the lives
of those who attempted to resist. Shall
these things continue’! Shall the most
sacred rights of man be thus violated
and trodden under foot, by those misera-
ble rufiians who act under the com-
mand of the government of these Uni-
ted States—-the government of this land
of boasted freedom and liberty—and yet
all these and even worse enormities are
being carried on from day to day, while
you lie passive, and either from ignorance
or indifference you allow them to go on
without even exciting in your breasts a
passing sympathy. How can you read
the daily records which come to you of
horrible crimes committed in Kansas,
without trembling for your country ?
But perhaps you do not believe what
the newspapers say about these things,
but. think most of the accounts are con-
jured up merely for the sake of excite-
ment; but I can testify to the truth of
all, and even more than has appeared be-
fore the public. I can say wltnout ex-
aggeration that the half has not been
told. Oh! when I hear of brave and
noble men arrested, some cruelly tor-
tured, and others brutally murdered for
no crime, but because they entertain
free state principles-wheii I hear of
helpless women and children being in-
sulted and driven from their homes into
the wilderness, I feel almost tempted to
exclaim, surely the edict must have gone
forth, the Lord must have said—"Let
them alone, they are joined to their
idols, let them alone.” Can it be that
this enlightened country, this Rome of
modern days, over which the flag of the
Union has so proudly waved ever since
the days of '76--can it be that this land
will now be given up to slavery and op-
pression ? My sisters, let me earnestly
beseech of you to do all in your power
to arrest the torrent of injustice and des-
truction, which is now pouring over the
land. Do you ask what can be done by
you in this crisis? You can do much
in every community--if you will only
try your strength you will find you pos-
sess more power than you are aware of.
There are many ways in which you can
assist in building up the fast falling for-
tunes of your country, and it is your
duty to use all your energies in this
struggle. Encourage and persuade your
husbands and sons, your fathers and your
brothers to cast. their influence and their
votes on the side of right and truth.—
Solicit subscriptions for the support of
volunteers, and set them a clieeriug ex-
ample b-y your bravery and readiness to
give them up to their duty. How mu oh
you can do, for if some of you can do
little or nothing else, you can pray, and
this I hope many are doing. We know
earnest prayer availeth much, then let
us pray sincerely and from the hbart,
that God in his mercy will overrule all
for good, and make the wrath of man
to praise him.

But we must act, as well as pray, we
must use the means, and pray that they
be blessed. Then and not till then can
we expect the ‘darkness of the thick
cloud which is overshadowing us to pass
away, and reveal to us the too long cou-
cealed brightness of the day. I have
much-more that I could ‘say upon this
important question. ‘but I fear I have al-
ready said ‘more than will be read with
interest—but I have discharged in duty
which seemed laid upon my conscience
to perform, and I should feel amply re-
paid if through this humble appea|,'one
person should be led to look more car-
nestly into these things.

EMILY ANNE KNIGHT.

What is the difference between fil,
ling a pitcher with water and throwing
a woman over board ;

one is «water in the pitcher,’ and the
other, '

"Pitcher in the Water,’ ’

[13-r‘*An exchange says thiIt_-Preston S.
Brooks has had canes enough sent him

Letter from George Law on the
Political Crisis.
Nr.w’Yonk, July 3, 1856.
Dunn SIR: I beg to acknowledge the
repept of your letter of the 26th ult. I
have carefully reflected upon its contents
In reply, I beg tostate to you that I
deeply regret no more perfect union has
been effected by those whose duty it
was to have accomplished that object-
to unite the whole elements of opposition
to the present corrupt administration,
wielded as it is by the extreme slave ol-
igarchy of the South. For the last three
years this some oligarchy has used the
entire power and patronage of the gen-
eral Government to ‘crush out all inde-
pendent action and honest representa-
tion on the part of the North, to pur-
chase up Northern men who were wil-
ling to misrepresent their constituents
from personal motives and for promises
of favor from the present corrupt admin-
istration. .
All good men who have the love of
their country at heart, both in the North
and in the South, should unite cordially
in a common effort to destroy the viper
that has coiled around the freedom and
independence of the American people.-
Freedom of speech is prohibited in the
halls of Congress; bowie knives and re-
volvers are worn as daily appendages at
the Capital as a means of assault and de-
fence. The Ssnatc declares" itself not
only powerless for punishment, but even
palsied for protection. Its members-look
quietly -on and see a member stricken
down in open day in the Senate cham-
ber, without even thecommou effort of
humanity that would be exercised in a
common bar-room to save a man pros-
trated, without an opportunity of deten-
ding himself.‘ Thus you see that those
who represent their constituents honest-
ly, and by unanswersble arguments, and
who cannot be purchased by Executive
favor, must be awed into silence by
bowie knives, bludgeons and revolvers.
Such is the scheme of Gifvernmem inau-
gurated under the Pierce dynasty, and
fostered by the Southern sectional pow-
or that supports it. Upon this basis, and
into the arms of this power, the nomi-
nee-of the Cincinnati Convention sur-
renders himself before the country, with-
out the slightest reservation or individu-
al independence of his own. What has
the country to expect if Mr. Buchanan
succeeds? Nothing better than what it
has experienced under Mr. Pierce, and
perhaps worse. One is an old man with-
out independence of mind or energy of
character, which the country is forewar-
ned of by his declaration, that he is no
longer James Buchanan, and has no
views or opinions of his own, and is
therefore the pliant instrument of the
Slave power that nominated him at Cin-
cinnati, and must reflect their views only.
It will be well for the American people to
remember this when casting their votes
for chief magistrate in November next.
The other came into office, a man in
the prime of life, without any such sub-
mission or pledges, backed up by almost
the unanimous voice of the country to
his election, and yet he was not three
weeks in office before be surrendered
himself to the same oligarchy that has

"wielded his power during his administra-

tion, as absolutely as if he had no will or

mind of his own, and had no responsi-

bility to any section of the Union except

to the 350,000 slave holders of the south

who now control the Executive, the Ju-

diciary and the Senate. The only vote

the free states have in the Federal Gov-

ernment is in the House of Represents-

tives. _

Is it not fair to expect that if Mr. Bu-

chanan should be elected, the evils that

the country has experienced for the last

three years will go on increasing during

his Administration until the Northern

mind will submitno longer to be cheat-

ed, bullied. defied and deprived of its-just

rights and fair. representations in the

Federal Government.

As one of the leading features of the

coming administration, Slavery is to be

forced into Kansas. The rivers, the

great highway of the nation through

Missouri, a Slave State, are to be closed

as they are at present, to the fresmen of
the North who desire to emigrate to that

territory. Those great ‘thoroughfares

which have heretofore been lookedgipon

as the pride of the nation, and that steam

has rendered sovaluable for the trans-

portation of persons or property, must be

closed to the lreemen of the North, or
they must subjected to examination, in-
sult, loss of property, and turned back,

unless they proclaim themselvcsiu fa-
vor of the institution of Slavery in this

Territory. Such means as these are
made use of to force Slavery into Kau-
sas. When free emigrants arrive there,

after these difficulties and delays have
been surmounted, they must undergo an-
other examination, and swear allegiance

to the government of the slave power
organized’ in Kansas by the Missouri
mob, or be deprived of the right of fran-
chisoaud of holding office. This is the
operation of squatter sovereignty,-which
deprives '. man of hi‘: citizenship’, unless
he swears fidelity to Slavery; and all
this is to be carried out and put ' in exe-
cution byan armed force, furnished from
Missouri—the adjoining Slave State;-—
and the Federal Government, with Fed-
eral troops in the Territory, will look on
calmly without interfering. so long as
the Missouri mob succeeds to enforce
slavery upon Kansas; but if the men
from the Free States. who believe in free
speech, free territory, free labor, free
press, and free men, should be too nu-
merous for the slave labor, then the Fed-
eral troops organized for this special pur-
pose, under the commander of a South-
ern secessionist Secretary of War, are to
interfere and decide the contest in favor
of Slavery in Kansas. So~much for the
chances of Northern principles and
Northern men in Kansas, and all that
vast territory North of 36° 30- secured
to freedom by solemn compact, in which
the great minds of the country united to
build up and preserve to freedom, and

this corrupt administration, have at.-
iempted to pull down and destroy.-
Here is where Gen. Pierce srifnds, and
new is where James Buchanan stands,

' asking for the support of the freemen of

the North. ,
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to arouse them to action, but, I believe,

to be called the Knave of Clubs.

we, as American or Northern freemeu,

sent Mr. Smith back in the ship.

which the pigmies and traitors, aided by‘

can support him. What arelliis antece.
dents? When President of the United

"to the slave power? Did he resist ‘the
overtures of the Slave Oligarchy of the
South, or did he become willing instru-
ment in their hands ? I ask you to look
at his acts while President, and let them
be the answers to these questions. I
will refer you to_ the Fugitive Slave Law
that makes the freemen of the North
slave catchers—tliat refuses to them the
right of trial‘ by .Iury—that centres the
right of freedom of the man in one judge
and pays him a double fee if he declares
him a slave, and only half the fee if he
finds him a freeman. “ This is the pow-

er that the Slave Oligarchy of the South
exercise over the North, where we have
prohibited property in men to our own
citizens; and this act bears the _sigua-
ture of Millard Fillmore as President of
the United States. I ask you how can

he expect the vote of the free North.-

Can you give him your vote? Can _I
give him mine? Are these the views

you and I endorse in relation to the
rights and the duty of the people of the

North or mankind? Now, Sir, upon

this question " alone, without going into

all his other acts of subserviency to the

South and the slave power, let him

stand fo'r the suffrages of the freemeu of
the North. .

As to the Ainericauism of Mr. Fill-
more, you and I have some knowledge

of how much he has done to sustain that.

party. Has he ever been ideutifiedwith
it-either in principle or feeling’! If so-,
where are his acts-on what occasion
heretofore has he proclaimed it? What
assistance has he ever rendered us in all
our contests? What were his antece-
dents as to Americanism when Presi-
dent of the United States '3 Did he then
protect American interests or American
men '3 , I well‘ recollect that he did not,
and the country will recollect it too.

When the Captain Cenercl of Cuba
issued’ his decree prohibiting the steam-
ship Crescent City from touching at
Havana so long as Mr. Smith, an Ameri-
can citizen was aboard of her as Purser,
because as they alleged, the Herald and
other papers in New York had published
some information from Havana that was
distasteful to the Cuban Government,
and which they charged to have been fur-
nished by Purser Smith,and therefore’ nei-
ther the Crescent City not any other
American ship should be allowed‘ to
touch at Havana having Mr. Smith, on
board, or any other person whowould
dare to furnish to the American press in-
formation disagreeable to the Captain
General of Cuba—Mr. Fillmore was ap-
prised of this order by the owners of the
Crescent City, and _he was desired to
take some action in relation to it for the
protection of American property and
American citizens; he miserably sk_ulk-
ed the responsibility of his position, and
used his interest with the owners to
have Mr. Smith dismissed as purser, and
to be replaced by some one who was sat-
isfactory to the Captain General of Cu-
ba. This the owners refused to do, and
Mr.
Fillmore ordered the United States mail
to be taken from the vessel, and notified
the owners that if the ship was fired up-
on by the Cuban authorities, and dam-
aged or destroyed, that they would have
no‘:-.laim upon that government for re-
muneration. The commander of v the
Crescent City was removed by his order
he being an officer of the United States
Navy, and under the President's con-
trol. Another commander was appoin-
ted by the owners. He, too, was remo-
ved by Mr. Fillmore’s orders. The ship
was fined 34,000 for not carrying the
United States mails, when the United
States Government or Mr Fillmore
withheld them. The Insurance offices
in New York were either frightened by
the course of Mr. Fillmore, or influenced
by him to withhold their insurance from
property shipped by ‘ the steamer that
Purser Smith was on board of. The
owners of the Crescent City had to in-
sure the property of the shippers. The
passengers on board of her were not al-
lowed to be landed in Cuba. The own-
ers persevered in what they considered
fiieir proper rights of an American citi-
zen, and refused to dismiss Purser Smith
until the Captain General of Cuba was
obliged to rescind the mandate against
Purser Smith. This is the mode in
which the rights of American citizens
had to be vindicated while Mr. Fillmore
was President. This is the .same Mr.
Fillmore that you recommend me to
support him as an American. Now,
Sir, can you- support him as an Ameri.
can? Can the American Party support
him as an American’! Is he the proper
representative of the American people?
These are facts for the American people
to look at before they vote. For my
part, Mr. Fillmore would be the last
man 1 would support in the whole coun-
try as the standard bearer of the Great
American Party.-

What has Mr. Fillmore ever done for
this country or the American Party !—
Whereare his acts that are to be re-
membered or treasured up in the hearts
of the people '2 What great interests has
he ever advanced? Or has he been a
mere office holder, without merit, except
the merit of doing nothing’!

You are aware of the manner in which
he was forced upon the American Party
by the Slave Oligarchy at Philadelphia,
when he apparently received the nomi-
nation of the Convention.

In the letter to me you appear to lay
great stress upon the course that the Re-
publican party has seen fit to pursue,
and that it has not met the American
party half way in the great work of

uniting the whole North against the
corrupt policy of the present Adminis-
tration and the power that controls the
Cincinnati nominee. We will suppose
that all this is true in relation to the Re-
publican party. Imyself do not think
the Republican Convention acted as
wisely as it might have done, when the
object was harmony of action to accom-
plish a great good for the whole country
but is this any reason why I should be
diverted from the great purpose I have
at heart, which is to unite all parties
that think as I do in relation."to the cor-
rupt policy of the present Administra-
tion, and the continuation of that poli-
cy if Mr. Buchanan should be elected T
No man, or set of men, whatever their

conduct may be, shall divert me for one

States, was he not entirely subservient '

moment from the course I have marked
out in the coming Presidential campaign.
I intend to gofor the man who most
nearly represents the American senti-
ment, and the’ sentiment in relation to
Slavery of the freemen of the North.
which declares that Slaveryis sectional
and that freedom. isnational. At the
same time I desire to have the best rep-
resentative of the progress of the age in
which we live. I want a man who has
done something for the great" material
interests of the country. I want to see
his foot prints, not promised, but already
made in the direction of our country-—
who has enlarged the field upon which
the labor and intelligence of our country
is to be applied—one who has done some.
thing for the area of freedom'—sofnethiug
for material progress and benefit to his
fellow men. I want no old politician,
with his host of dependents as seedy as
himself. Let us have a man in the
prime of life, full of energy, and yet suf-
ficiently familiar with the vicissitudes of
life to judge of men‘ correctly—to ap-
preciate the wants of the whole country
—to avoid the intriguespand traps of pol-
iticians—to devote himself honestly and
fearlessly to the interests of the country
to apply the resources of ' the Govern-
ment to the accomplishment of such im-
provements as are national in their char-
acter and that will result in the greatest
benefit to the whole country. one who has
no old political friends to reward, and no
political enemies to puni'sh,'one who will
feel that he is elevated by the people and
not by intrigue. Now, sir, of the candi-
dates who are before the people for the
exalted position of Chief Msgistfate, I
prefer Jomv CI Fnnnroxr; ' I prefer him
because he is notau old hackneved politi-
oian,and all sold out. He is in the prime of
life—43 years old. He has been brought
into notice by the energy and ‘exertion

‘that he has evinced as a great explorer

of the route to the Pacific Ocean. He-
first opened up the pathway through the
wilderness that others followed ‘to the
golden fields of California, and gave the
most accurate and extended view to the
American people of all that vast region
of country between the borders of civili-
zation on the Atlantic slope‘ and the Pa-
cific Ocean. He took an active part and
was foremost’ in raising and sustaining
the American flag in California.‘ He
commenced first and went all through
the campaign with signal success, that
ended in the acquisition of ‘all that vast
territory and wealth—tliat opened up to
American enterprise and American_ en-

ergy such a field ‘as’ n" has no parallel in
history—-which has advanced the coun-
try at ‘least 25 years at a single bound.-
It gave us the facilities of increasing our
commerce. It enabled us to extend
largely our railways and other internal
improvements, and thus has greatly in-
creased our manufacturing and agricul-
tural interests by enlarging the field of
produce and consumption- It has added

hundreds of millions to the capital of the

nation. By. his explorations he has open-
ed up the most central and convenient

railroad route to California. He aided

in the organization of California as a

Suite, and devoted her institutions to

freedom, and she acknowledged her in-

debtedness to FREMONT by sending him

as her first Senator to Congress. He

protected American interests in Califor-

nia. He protected and advocated Amer-

ican interests in the‘ Senate of the Uni-
ted States. His antecedents are Ameri-

can. He rose by his own energy, his
own industry and his own merit. These

are antecedents that will.be appreciated

by the American people. They are not
the promises of to-day of American prin-

ciples under the expectation of the suffra-

ges of the American party, but they are

a history of his life from his youth up-

ward, wheu actuated by no other motives

thana true American heart, thoroughly

devoted to the interests of his country.

With this view of the subject, who are
we to support! I have fairly canvassed
the different candidates. So far as Amer-
icanism is concerned, we may as well
support Mr, Buchanan as Mr. Fillmore.‘
He has a fairer American record than
Mr. Fillmore; and, as for the promises
of old politicians, we all know what
they are worth on the eve of an election
I do not mean to be cheated by them,
nor do I wishto see the American peo-
ple bv pretensions that have no value,
but that are entirely worthless.

In relation to the subject of the ex-
tension of; Slavery, we may as well sup-
port Mr. Buchanan as Mr. Fillmore.-
Mr. Buchanan promises that he will be

vcrned by them.

As to advancing the interests of the
country, we may as well support Mr.
Buchanan as Mr Fillmore. Neither of
them has ever advanced, by any act of
his own, the great industrial interests of
the country. They have been drones,
living on office. The . only difference
that I see is, that Mr. Fillmore is about
five years younger than Mr. Buchanan,
and has that many chances less to die.

You would laugh and ridicule the idea
if I were to ask you to vote for Mr. Bu-
chansn as a proper representative of the
American party; it seems to me equally
ridiculous that you should ask me to vote
for Mr. Fillmore as the American candi-
date.

I shall give my support to JOHN C.
Fnsuour, as the best representative, in
my estimation, of the American people
and the American party.

I am, with much respect, yours truly,

GEORGE LAW..

'l‘o G. A. Scnoc-Gs, Esq., Buffalo, New

York. '

Vice’s Wind Mill.--The Rochester
Daily Advertiser of July 2, says : “ It
gives us much pleasure to announce the
success of the prairie Flouriug Mills,
propelled. by wind, under the patent of
our old townsmau, T. C. VICE MI‘-
MM. D. Snow having purchased half the
patent, has been industriously engaged
on the ‘Western prairies in organizing
companies for the erection of flour mills
of two run of stone. _
one at Bromfield, Illinois, has fully Les-
teu their utility, and visited by hundreds.
It is just what is required for that sec-
tion, and contracts for thirty one mills,
at $6,000 each, have been scaled, to be
pnislied at January next. Several are
also being erected in Canada. Several
of our Rochester mechanics are engaged
in their construction in Illinois Wiscon-
sin, Iowa, and Minnesota.

The erection of.

PUBLIC ACTS.
Passed May Session 1856.
cusrrsn XII.
An Act relating to the proposed amend-
ment to the Constitution of this State.

HEREAS, At a General Assembly of

the State of Connecticut, holden at

Hartford in this State, on the first

\Veduesday of May, in the year of our

Lord, one thousand eight hundred and

fifty five, the House of Representatives

did pass a resolution therein,-and

thereby proposing a certain Amend-

ment to the Constitqtion of. this State
which said Amendment. was by order
of said House continued lo the pres-
ent session of the General Assembly,
and published in the manner pres-
cribed by the eleventh article of said
Constitution; sun wusnms, at this
present session of said Assembly, two
thirds of each House thereof, have
approved of said proposed Amend-
ment in the manner prescribed and
specified in said article; which said
amendment is in the words following,
to wit : "At a General Assembly -of
' the State of Connecticut, holden at

Hartford in said State, on the first

Wednesday of May, 1855

RI-:soLv|:n air was House or Rerun-
SENTATIVES, That the .‘"ollo‘wiug._ Amend-
’ment to the Constitution of this State,
be proposed, and that the same when
adopted and confirmed according to the
provisions of the Constitution, shall be
in all respects a part thereof.

The Judges of the Supreme Court of
Errors, and of the Superior Court, ap-
pointed in the year 1855, and thereafter
shall hold their offices for the term of
eight years, but may be removed by im-
peachment, and the Governor shall also
remove them on the address of two-thirds
of each House ofthe General Assembly.
No Judge of the Supreme Court of Er-
rors, or of the Superior Court, shall be
capable of holding oflice after he shall
arrive at the age of seventy years.”

Now, therefore, to provide for the
consideration of said Amendment by the
inhabitants of this State, at town meet-
ings'to be warned and held for that pur-
pose, pursuant to the requirements of
the said eleventh article of the Consti-
tution of this State,—-

Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened .-

Ssc. 1. That the Constables of the
several towns in this State, shall warn
the electors in their respective towns, to
meet on the first Monday in October
next, at 9 o’elock in the morning of said
day, for the purpose of signifying in the
manner hereafter provided, their ap-
probation or disapprobation of said pro-
posed Amendment, which meeting-shall
be held at the usual places of holding
electors’ meetings in said towns respec-
tively.

Sec 2. The Town Clerk and Select-
men in the several towns are hereby au-
tlioiized if they deem it expedient, to
designate the person who shall preside
at such meetings of the electors; but
in case no presiiling officer is designated
by said Board, the electors shall choose
the presiding officer, in which choice
the Town Clerk, or in his absence, the
oldest Selectman present, shall preside.
SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the
Town Clerk, in the respective towns,
imliediately after the organization of
said meeting, to present to said meeting
said proposed Amendment to said Cons-
titution, according to the requirements
of said eleventh article thereof, and af-
tei due consideration thereof, the elec-
tors preseuvat said llleellllg, shall be
called upon by the presiding officer of
said meeting, to bring in to him their
respective votes or suffrages, which shall
be by ballot; those in favor of appro-
ving and adopting said‘ Amendment,
shall give in a ballot with the word ’
“Yes” written or printed ihereon—und
those who disapprove of said Amend-
ment, shall give in a ballot with the
word “No” written or printed thereon
--which said ballot shall be examined,
sorted and counted by the presiding offi-
cer, assisted by the Town Clerk arid Se-
lectmen, and the number of each de-
clared in open meeting, by said presi-
ding officer.

SEC. 4. The presiding officer in said
several town meetings shall under their
hands respectively, make duplicate cer-
tificates of the number of votes so given
in, and ascertained as aforesaid, in favor
of approving and adopting said amend-
ment, and also, of those disapproving of
the adoption of said amendment, in
words at full length, one of wliibh shall
be deposited in the office of the town
clerk of the town in which such meet-
ing shall be held, and the other within
ten days after the day of holding said
meeting, shall be delivered, scaled up, to
the Secretary of this. State, or to the
Sheriff of the County in which said
town shall belong; and the sheriff re-
ceiving caid votes shall deliver, or cause
them to be delivered to the Secretary of
this State, within fifteen days next after
the day of holding said meeting; which
certificates shal! be in the form fol low-
ing, to wit : ,3

At a meeting of the electors of the
town of legally warned
and held on the first Monday of Octo-
ber, l856, for the purpose of receiving
the votes of the electors of said town,
upon the subject. of the proposed amend-
ment of the Constitution of this State,
there were given in favor of adopting
said proposed amendment, votes,
and against the adoption of the same,

votes.
Certified by
A. B., Presiding Ofiicer.

Sec. 5. The supeiscripiion of each of
said certificates to he returned to the
Secretary of this State shall be as fol-
lows, to wit:

To the Secretary of this State,

Votes of the electors of the town
Of upon the proposed
amendment to the Constitution, taken
and scaled up by
» A. B., Presiding Officer.

And the Secretary of this State shall
on or before ghe first Monday in Sep-
tember, 1856, transmit blank forms for
the return of votes to be given, pursu-
ant to this act, to the Town Clerks of
the various towns in this’ State, for the
use of said ‘towns.

~ SEO. 6. The votes so returned to the

‘before the first Monday in November,
1856-—who, on or before the 15th day
said November, shall transmit a certifi-
care under their hands of the number of
votes so returned, in favor of approving
and adopting said amendment, and also of
the number of votes returned disapprov-
ing of the adoption oftlie same, to the per-
son administering the government of this
Slate, who, within twenty days after
the receipt of said certificate, shall issue
his proclamation reciting such certificate
and if it shall appear therefrom, that a
majority of said votes is in favor of ap-
proving and adopting said amendment,
he shall so declare in such proclamation,
and that a majority of the electors
present atisuch meeting aforesaid, has
approved said proposed amendment, and
that the same is valid to all intents and"
purposes, as a part of the Constitution
of this State; and if it shall appear from
said certificate that there is not l7lIlaj0l'-
ity of votes in favor of approving and
adopting said amendment, he shall so
declare in said proclamation, and that a

meetings have not approved said amend-
ment, and said proclamation shall be
published in all the newspapers printed
in this State, and be recorded in the
public records thereof.

Approved, July 2nd, 1856.

‘H

 

CHAPTIR. xni.
‘An Act in addition to and in alteration of
An Act, entitled An Act, to amend
the Charter of the City of Bridgeport.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened .-

SEC. 1. Any public highway, public
street, public avenue, public walk, or
public landing place in said city, may
be opened or laid out by any individual
with the consent of the common council
previouslythereto had and obtained, ex-
pressly authorizing the same to be done '
and the same shall become and be a pub-
lic highway-public street-—public ave-
nue—piiblic walk or public landing place
whenever the same shall be so opened
or laid out, and a survey, and particular
deseription tliereofshall be made by the
party so opening the same, and shall be
approved and accepted bv the common
council, and recorded in the records there
of.
SEC. 2. The common ‘council of said
city shall have power and authority ip
appoint a coroner in and for said city,
with the same power and authority that
justices of the peace now have, accor-
ding to the provisions of the l7_th sec-
tion of the Act entitled an Act concern-
ing Communities and Corporations, and
to make all such _ by-laws, ordinances
and orders as may be deemed necessary
and proper, to carry into full effect all
the powers and duties of such corner.
SEC. 3. All .monies collected by "the
clerk of the city court, in and for said
city, now by law payable into the treas-
ury of the State, shall hereafter be pay-
able into the treasury of_said city, any
law to the contrary notwithstanding, and
said clerk shall settle his accounts with
the treasurer of the city, in relation to
said monies, in the same manner, and
upon the same terms and conditions as is_
now provided for the settlement of his

accounts with the treasurer of the state.

Approved, June 25, 1856.

cnsrrnn xiv.

An Act in addition to "an Act regulating
the streets and buildings in the City’
of Hartford, and for preserving the
health of the inhabitants."

Be it enacted by the Senate and
House (If Representatives in General
Assembly convened .-

Ssc. 1. That hereafter there shall not
be laid out or opened in the city of Hart-
ford, by any individual or individuals,
any public ‘or private way, street or al-
ley, except by the permission and under
the direction of the court of common
council of said city.

of equity, may upon the proper applica-
tion of the city of Hartford, restrain the
laying out or opening of any private way,
street or alley, in said city, in violation
of the first section of this act.

Sac. 3. All acts and pans of acts in-
consistent herewith, are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect from
the day of its passage. '
Approved, June 28th, I556.

L‘-HAPTI-IR. xv.
An Act in addition to an “Act to pro-
,v'iile for a supply of pure and whole-
some Water in the city of Hartford.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of .Representu.ti'vcs in General
Assembly convened .-

SEC. I. That the Mayor, Aldermen,
Common Council, and Freemen of the
city of Hartford be, and are hereby au-
thorized and empowered to issue notes,
scrip, or certificates of debt, under the
corporate name and seal of the city,
bearing interest at no greater rate than
six per cent. per annnm. to any amount
1; exceeding in the whole, the sum of
hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars: the principal of which said
notes, scrip, or certificates, shall be de-
nominated the “additional Water Fund
of the city of Hartford,” and the avails
thereof shall be applied and expended, to
and for the purpose of -supplying said
city with pure and wholesome water,
according to the mode or plan adopted
in pursuance of the provisions of the Act
to which this is in addition, and for no
owe; purpose whatsoever ; and said
notes, scrip. or certificates, when issued
and delivered by said city or its agents
me.-eunio duly authorized, shall be ob-
ligatory upon ‘said city, and the inhab-
itants tliereof, according to the tenor
and purport of the same ; and said city
in a meeting legally warned and holden
for that purpose, may prescribe the
amount for which said notes, scrip, or
certificates, shall be issued, and direct
concerning the form thereof, the rate of
interest which shall accrue thereon.

Sec. 2. Said notes, scrip or certifi-
cates, and all the moneys accruing there-
from, shall be subject to all the pi‘ ovis-
ious and regulations prescribed by the
15th section of the act to which this is
an addition.

Sac. 3. This Act shall go into, effect
whenever it shall be accepted by said
city as a part of its charter, at a special
city meeting, legally warned and holden
for that purpose.

Secretary, shall be counted by the Treas-

urer, Socretary and Comptroller, on or

Approved, June 10, lb“o'6.

majority of the electors present at such '

SEC. 2. The superior court as a court ‘