--- TIDE COMPILER.
I PLIBERTY, THE UNION, AND TILE CONt-TITCTIi)N,"
0 P,TTYS II 171 0, I'E:CA" ,1
Monday Norniiig, April F,1857,
Democratic Stair Nominations.
FOR IiOVERNOR,
WILLIAM F. PACKER; of Lyro i
JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT.
ELLIS LE WAS, of l'lcilodelphia.
cANAL commlssiorat,
26.111201) STRICKLIA\7I, ry' Ch ester,
Legislative.
A vast deal of talk is going on in the Logis
--laturai-blit-we-eannot-sce4ll4lt-11-111C11-/S- being_
done. Two or three know Nothing Black
Republican Senators and a half dozen mem
bers of the same stripe in the House, are keep
ing up a constant fireson some political ques
tion or other; thus unnecessarily consuming
the time of the two Houses.
• —The opposition members, as well as their
presses throughout the State, are making
another bold move to wrest the Public Works
front the Conimonwealth tbr a mere song---
.and are not scrupulous to assert anything, no
matter hew unfounded, that may assist them
in the project. The sole cause fur this action
on their part is the fact, that the State Works
are in the management of the Democrats.—
Were the ease sotherwise, they would ,oppose
the sale at any price as an ' 4 ontrage," a "cry
'
lug shame," and all that sort of thing. We
hope they may be foiled in this matter now,
as they have.beretofore been.
In the minority report of the Senate
committee on the Apportionment of the State
into Senatorial and Representative districts,
submitted by Mr. Browne, Adams, Franklin
and Fulton Etre , .assigned one Senator, and
Adams one Representative.
—ln the House of Representatives, On
Saturday Week, Mr. Musselman read in place
a bill to authorize the School Directors of
• Gettysburgrto borrow money r and, o'n Mon
day, a bill to authorize the Canal Commis
goners to assess. land damages on the Get
tysburg Railroad..
On Monday evening, in the Senate, Mr,
Brewer called up Senate bill No; 401, to . in
corperate the Caledonia Cold Spring Associa
tion. . .
Mr. Gregg offered an amendmbnt requiring
the company to pay a bonus ofone-half of one
per cent., and making,the stockholders indi•
vidually liable-to a certain extent for the debts
of the corporation.
-Mr. Brewer briefly opposedtre - i — unerlment,-
and Mr. Gregg supported it ; when it was
negatived,; and the bill pa?ed
The Senate has passedthe bill for an ap
propriation to the Farmer's High School,_ in
r ' Centre county.
The bill to incorporate the Farmers' &
Mechanics' Savings Institution of Adams
county Was defeated in the Senate on Friday
'last, by a vote'of yeas 2,' nays 22, as follows.:
YEAS—Messrs. Jordan and, Sollers-2.
NAvs—lllessrs, Brewer, Browne, Coffee,
Crabb, Cressw - ell, Ely, Fetter, Flenniken,
Frazer, (lamina, Minis, Ingram, Kil
Latibaeli, Lowis, Scofield, Shuman, Steele,
Wilkius, Wright and Taggart,
Sneaker-2:2.
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Mr. LaaeB Foneral.—The funeral of the
late Elliott E. Lane took place tut Sunday af
ternoon, from the retddenve of his brother,
James B. Lane, in lihike street, Lancaster
city. itis sister . , Miss Horriett T. Lane, ac
companied by dames 13. Ilenry, the President's
Private Secretary, arrived in that city,un Fri
day afternoon, fur the purls )so of attending tho
fuiwral.
. We learn that on the morning, of Mr. Lane's
death, his cous;n, Taylor Lane, received a let
ter announcing the death his sister, at Lex
ington, Kentucky, on the 18th ult. She had
been in ill health fir some time.
West Choler Pcnweralic.—Wo learn that at
the Spring eleotion in West Chester the Dem
ocrats elected their Judge and InspeTter of
elections, by an ;iverage majority of 40 votes.
This, we believe, is the first time'within the
Brewery of the oldest inhabitant, that the
Quaker town of West Chester has gone Dem
ocratic, and is a very significant political
omen.
&: 4 Y - We see it stated in the Washington
Cajon that the Board of Health, investigating
the causes of mysterious epidemic. which
has of late affected so many who have been
guests at the National Hotel, incline to the
opinion that it is the foul air generated by the
sewers. The outlets of ihese sewers (it is
said) are in the walls of the canal, having a
south front, and above the water mark. fitt
ing the month of February. and at times
since, south winds have prevailed, and the
poisonous effluvia, finding no other mule ,
has been driven back, penetrating evert• on •
flee, and spreading sickness and rientli (!,....,..)--
Avhere within the seopo of its NJ:tic-nee.
J;' , , , Loip i l Taylor's l'retrds.—Tilett:,ologne Ga
zette states that Bayard Tayl4l,- returned to
Stockholm front his winter t‘wl• in Lapland
About the middle, of rebrinii y. most
northern point reaclnid by low urhi his com
panions was linanilZrino, in walk, (39 11
grees uurt.l, latitude. Tiwy I, a p.
land tuttuuze, 911 sleds dra n and
were ol);(..;ts t.l great ilitere-t, with the Lativeq,
.s Taylor WaS tiff A int:riatii tho:e
parts.
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-1 Talley 1,:1-;
the oath of 0tt.5%;.... to eight llre,i,l , 2rit-. 1 :Lo
Suren, Ifarrion, Tyler, y>,)l k Tayl.,!., Fill
'Oat!.
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Kansas to Bleed Again !
The Black Republican anti Northern Know
Nothing leaders are sorely 'tile to" for "cap : .
itur with which to keep up their sinking
fmrty. After much counselling among them
at Washington, before and at, the special ses
sion of tho Senate, nothing could be discovered
holding out so moll promise of favorable re
sults as bleeding Kansas again. Iknee it
was resolved that she should bleed, The
mandate wont forth, and she was ordered to
bleed, and bleed she most. The intention of
Governor Geary to resign induced the belief
that this could bo accomplished to an extent
sufficient to arouse the whole North and West - ,
and bring hack to their ranks• those formerly
drawn there by the cry of blood in Kansas.
As soon as Governor Geary left the Territory
the evil work began. The Topeka faction put
themselves in motion. Itc)bim , on, who resign
al his mock governorship nearly a year since,
has been induced to withdraw his letter of re
signation, and to assume the mockery Once
more. The sham legislature and unauthoriz
ed State Government are being again put in
motion, with the hope of producing a collision,
iterdond - to tuism er t
purposes of tho distant leaders, whose power
and control must totally fail, unless some such
rosourco can save thorn. This now demon
stration was doubtless contrived in Boston,
and is to be pushed forward with zeal and en
orgy until the drooping cause of the agitators
shall bo thoroughly revived.
The inestion is
_now submitted to the peo
ple, whether they will be again deceived by
the hypocritical (try of those who bled Kansas
to order, to promote their political aspirations.
That Kansas would goon smoothly, and all
would remain in pence, quiet and prosperity,
as Gov.. Geary left it, if not disturbed by out
siders, all must fully understand. Men who
love their country and desire its peace, pros
perity and happiness, should set,their faces
against this wicked attenipt at new agitation.
If they do so promptly and thoroughly,
Kansas will cease. to bleed, and become a
populous, prosperous, and happy sovereign
State.
Black Republican Platform.
The Black Republican State Convention,
bell at Ilarrislairg c on the 25th ult . ., adopt
ed n . series of resolutions, from which the
Attriot extracts the following:
"Rowlreil, That the Constitntion confers
upon Oongross SOVEREIGN POWER ove r
the Territories of the United States for their
government."
Bowl red, * * 'l'hnt we DENY THE
AUIIIOIZ ITY OF CONU HESS * *to give
legal existence to slavery - in any Territory of
the United Stamm, what) the Constitution shall
be maintained."
First, they concede tho SOVEREIGN TOWER
OF et:mums to govern the Territories and
then unsV ono of the very attributes of that
soVereiguty.. This shows the strait to which
the Black Repulllican distutionists arc reduc
ed to Maintain their house, and is enough to
drive from their ranks every honest, sensible
man, who aims only :lithe good government,
peace and prosperity of the country.
A Prediction Verified.
Prominent Buchanan returned from his mis
sion to England last April, told his friendm in
Philadelphia applied to tho Khow Nothing
councils of that city for the use of Independ
ence Ilan for his reception----lint were refus
ed. The Journal of Commerce thus noticed
and prophomied in relation to the matter
o"rtin Know Nothin g Councils of Philadel
phia have refused thO use of bidependenee
Ilan for the reception. of the Hon. James Bu•
chanan, Never mind; the people will furnish
him with a Hall after the 4th of Mdrch next,
which will be 'sufficient fur all practical lair-
ruses. , "
The prophecy, says the 'Bridgeport Farmer,
has been fulfilled ; and in addition to this, the
Know Nothing councils hare been turned out
of power. "neck and heels," by an - unprece
dented majority.—This indicates a ''very bad
state of things" for "freedom and free speech,,
in bleeding Kansas,"
Look at Home!
One of the objections made to the decision
of the Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott case,
is that. it declares negroes not to be citizens.
—There is nothing either novel or monstrous
in this. Our own State Constitution, under
which our own Black Republicans "live and
move and._ have their being," virtually de
clares the same doctrine. Negroes are not
citizens in the State of Pennsylvania--none
but
,/rev. while unit. are ; and yet our virtuous
Republicans pass over this fact, and indig
nantly assail Judge TANEY, a man whose
character stands above reproach, and whose
ermine has never been soiled by a. single cor
rupt act, tOr expressing an opinion in 1837,
which "the Constitutional Convention of Penn
sylvania declared as early as 1•338. Ye gen
eration of vipers! look at home. "Pluck the
beam frolt your own eyes," before you put on
spectacles to discover "the mote in others."
Now they hurl their thunder bolts against the
Court for pronouncing the Missouri Compro
mise itirconii/ t /mull • when their old Federal
fathers opposed its enactment on the same
ground in IS'2O, and burnt in effigy D.trin Fut,-
!.%ItroN and others who helped to pass it. To
monstrous wrongs and gross absurdities
'A *ll not blind fanati c i s m lead?-- lour. Patriot
, - ,f -The trial of Rev. Mr. Callourh, for adul
tery, now in progress at Boston. Witnesses
testily to the facts as they appeared in this
papor some time ago—of his calling for a
priv:ele room, awl introducing the lady with
him as his wife—of their improper conduit
w11.1:4 in said private room—the drinking of
tho' whiskey punch, &e. This Callouch is
ont.•" le tree aousato ew ...lig ant
ciorryinen who protested, "in tilts nanie of
'Ac i d," against the passa7e of the Kansas-Ne
hrw-ka bill, and iitnniped the North in favor
or the. principles of proscr:ptive and fanatical
Nothingisin and Black _Republicanism.
What a teacher of religi• ua ?
,$n ill, Esq., 1i(x1 re-applint
fA I) , Pitujat , .y at Yuri.
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The Black Republican and know Nothing
State Convention.
When a huge serpent undertakes to swallow
an ox, he always find.; the preeess somewhat
difficult. The animal must first be closely
.entwined in its denth•like embrace fur a pro
tracted period, until every vestige of vitality
is destroyed, the bones of the, victim Are
crushed, and its once fair and goodly [propor
tions lost in a shapeless mass of flesh. The
next task of the serpent is to beslavet the re
mains with its slime, and it is npt until these
preliminary arrangements have been Oncltul
ed, that the prey of can he gorge?", by its de
stroyer. gradually, for the last: two years,
has an operation of the above kharacter been
progressing in this State, in the effort bf
Black Republicanism to swallow Know Noth-,
ingism. At last the task has been accomp
lished, and DAviD Mrtotor is presented as the
opposition candidate for Ckovernor. He owes
his present position altogether to his.persistent
efforts as a sectional agitator,
• His only ambition has been to march under
the black flag of Abolitionism, and his only
care to bring to that standard as Tllttny recruits
m:; c,anti—to-1/ecome t h ei-r-th.wctr-litax4e .
For this he has betrayed his ancient party,
soiled the judicial ermine, turned brawling
demagogue while occupying a seat upon, the
Bench, and bent all his energies to engender
bitter sectional feeling, and to arouse the
fierce furies of sectional strife. • IVitli Tt`ti.Ntor
as the opposition candidate for 'G6verner,
there can be no disguise or concealment as to
the nature of the Gubernatorial contest. No
man with a vestige of national feeling can
support such a candidate. Be is no Wi
ldlife and half-black, no half-sectional and
half-national nominee,—he can be'supported
only its air Abolition agitator. Against his
distinctive views, and against him as their
representative, we believe that an immense
inajority of the people of Pennsylvania will
be found arrayed in Outoher next as they
have always been on former occasions. No
Democrat, no national 1)0 TatTiotie,
Union-loving man can support him,':and with
all these classes against I►im..thereg.ll.l7, lie no
earthly prospect of his election, , . s•
So far as State affairs are eencoraii.d;')Vti.-
„cm ;
MOT potsesses little or no knowlelig b our,tii-
Wrests. He •bas confined his attentirUt ex
clusively to National polities ; noel isdeiittitute
of experience and practical inforiti l itiiiiin iii
regard to the legitimate duties of ii 11.,yrtior.
jte . Nvould aim solely to A bol i Liu Ike the state,
'unmindful and regafdless- of all othit e'onsi4l
-
'The candidate for Canal CommisSioner,
'Eon. IV M. :NI . AR I), WaS die active operator
in Ph iladelphia, last Fall, in earryillg `the
Know Nothings over to the suppirt •_ef the
. ,
"fusion" electoral ticket. Ile was a menther
of the last Congress, but uncle to) figure
there, and was defeated last Fall. Itt;carnteity
and fitness for the pet he is in nil respects
infinitely inferior to the Democratic nominee.
- The candidates fire Judges of the Sukome
Court ttreJosumt J. of Chester county,
a renegade Democrat, Who lots become a vio
lent Black' Republican within the last few
years, and JAMES VEEcu, of Payette colluty,
whit gained seine notoriety by the
publicatioUpf an unsound opinion as to the
legality of a certain proposed Jtetion - - 111 the
then voiding Senatorial olek!tion. •
The platform as reported by Judge
seems largely mode up of the Blaelt ltepuhli
can platform of the late Presidehtial campaign,
with one or two now leaturos,—a denunciation
of the late de,:isi•in of the Supreme Court of
the United State--ana a spice of .1:119w
Nothingism,
The battle (remarks the Pennsylvalian,)
is plainly between Democrney,
the Union and the 4. l onstitution on the one
hand, and Abolitinism, Know Nothirgism,
Sectionalism, liisunion and crazy re %) fa
naticism on the other
Look at their Actions !
Tlio telegraph reports a meeting Of Frei)
State men at Topelin, Kansds, un tlie . 10th
or I 1 th ult., and that they resolvetb-3M, to
participate in the, election for Delegates - to the
Constitutional Convention.
This shows, more conclusively than ever ;
.that these canting hypocrites really desire
the establishment Of Slavery in Kansas.—
They Folioed last fall that the election of
Buchanan would tintke'Ransa: na slave state.
They obtained . bits of Northern __votes upon
the strength of that assertion, outlandish as
it—was. Honest men were mistaken lint
those 111011 hold the Know Nothing, and Black
R.eptililiean party responsible for what its
speakers and presses proclaimed., If Kansas
comes in as a Free State, Republicanism - is
forever dewl. The members- of that party
know that their only hope of qllice in the
North depends up.in Kansas becoming a
slave State—their "bread and butter" depend
upon the result.
fi;:ets the ble Di.,zense
WAsniNGTox, April 1.„—..1 post mortem ex
amination of the remainv of a gentleman who
died in Pennsylvania from disease contracted
at the Notional Hotel in this city, shows a de
posit of arsenic in the stomach. A patient
now here suffers enlargement of theivhdomen
from some cause, and with marked symytoms
of }wing poisoned.
1m l icy rtetini.—lfon. Samuel lrenton,
menthol. of Congresq front Indiana, died at his
residence in Fort Wayne, on Sunday evening
last, from the disease, it is alleged, he had
contracted at the :National Hotel in Washing
ton.
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Great Equestrian Match.
ALB %NY. March 30.—Two sporting men of
this city, Taylor and Dalton, started on looses
from the Exchan ,, e this morning at 3 o'clock,
fora one hundred mile race, without rest or
s aro a sit kites
town, Oneida county, was the termination of
the race. The horses passed Fonda, forty
three miles of the distance, at 9.15 A. M.
time 4 hours 15 minutes—Dalton's horse
slightly ahead. They arrived at Little Falls
at 17 minutes past 1'2 . .. the Dalton horse a lit
tle ahead. lint in had euinlition, Taylor's
horse arrived at IV hitestown tit 5.30
making tho hundred miles in twel‘ e hours and
a halt, and winning therak.e. Ualtuu'a purse
was a iiitartu of a wile Lehiutl,
The Governor of Kansas.—Mr. Walker's
Letter of Acceptance.
The lion. Robert J. Walker hati written the
following letter to the President, accepting
the office of .Governor of the Territory of
KatIBLUI. It aught to hav - e a good effect.
WAsfuNGT" Maid; 26, 1557.
• My Dear Sir: I have, at your request, re
considered6my determination, as announced
to you, declining your tender of the office of
Governor Of the Territory of Kansas. In
view of the opinion now presented by you,
that the safety of the Union may depend upon
the selection of the individual to whom shall
be asNigned the task of settling the difficulties
which again surround-the Kansas question, I
have concluded that a solemn sense of duty to
my country requires me to accept this position.
I am brought to this conclusion with tri Un
afrootPti diffidence in my own ability, hut with
a fervent hope that the sante ovrruling Provi-
I knee which has carried my beloved ,cpuntry
through so many perils will now attend and
direct my humble effirts for her welfare, and
that my course will not he prejudged by any
portion of my fellow-citizens ; in or out of
Kansas.
I understand that you, and all your cabinet,
cordially concur in dm opinion expressed by
in that the actual, bona lide residents of the ,
Territory of Kansas, by a fair, and regular
vote unaffected ums_t_b_a_
permittoi, in adopting their State constitu
tom, to decide for themselves what sh a ll be
their social inAitutions. This is the great
fundamental principle of the act of Ccngress
organizing that Territory, affirmed by the Su
prelim Court of the United States, and is in
acomlance with the views uniformly exlmess
ed by mc throughout my public canter. I
contemplate a peaceful settlement of this
question by an appeal to the intelligence and
patriotism of .. .the whole people of Kansas, who
should all participate, freely and fully in this
decision, and by a majority of whose votes a
datormination must be made, as the only
propel? and Constitutional mode of adjustment.
I contemplate no appeal to military power,
in the hope that my countrymen of Kansas,
front evc”y section, will sulunit to a decision
of this matter by it full and fair vote of a ma
jority of the :ieople of that territory. If this
decision cannot thus be mile, I see nothing
in the future for ICansas but civil war, ex
tending its baleful influences throughout the
country, and subjecting the Union itself to
imminent hazard.
will t o, then, and endeavor thus to adjust
these difficulties, in the full confidence so ,
strongly expressed by you, that I will be I
sustained by all plur own high authority,
with , the cordial co-operation of all your
cabinet. •
As it will be impossible for me to leave for
K l urv,,. 7 —b-ufu re du :•ocon(1 Monday of - May
next, I wonhl my appointment to take
effect from that (late.
Very rempeutfully, pair friorid,
It: .1. WALKER.
Jantr 9 Tioebanitn, T'res'olent of the S.
* 31r. Staunton, the Secretary of State, has
!dready stared for Kansas, awl will act *as
Governor until 31r. 'Walker's arrival.
The Policy of the Administration in Kan-
sas Affairs.
,WAsu 'soros:April I.—The administration
has initiated none of the proceedings in Kan
sas having ill view the election of delegates
preliminary to the fina»ation of a State Con
stitutien hut, with the intention and desire
to terminate the distracting question of sla
very, will assist in carrying forward the
measure which has been commenced in the
territory for that .purpose, -leaving the people
at large, without any reference whatever to
their political divisions, to settle it by a free
and untrammelled vote fur themselves. - It
hating been' repeatedly asked how an inde
p,ndeot sulfra;re can be exercised if- the laws
of the territory are to be re: , arded as valid,
the reply front the host sources of information
is that - the law providing for the election is a
fair ene, it ex.plieitly declaring that "all free
white male citizens of the United States over
twenty-one years of age, reshlent of the terri
tory on the first of April, shall be entitled' to
vote for delegates to the constitutional conven
tion."—This is .to Le administered without
re,rard whatever to -any test oaths. Gov.
\V a lkor oml the Secretary of State recently
appointed f'or Kansas h a ve re p ea tedly sa id
.that their efforts, in accordance with the views
of the administration, will lie to secure a. f'air
expression of opioion to all tint people of Kan
-sa,, while they will carefully abstain front
:my act whielt -eould lie construed into a par
tialitv for one solo or the nt:ter.—Whichsoever
way the citizens decide, the, administration
will he content. (lox (Tina. Walker repeats
his (minim' that Kansas will be a free State.
Prosithmt has . made the following
Kansas appeintments : Jolla W. Whitfield,
ex .d e : egate f rom Kansas, register, and Dail
iel Woodson, ex-Socrotary of State of' Kan
sas, r e eeiv e r for the Delaware land dis
trict : Frederick Emery, register, and James
P. Danner, receiver for the Western land dis
trict Wm. 11. Doak, register, and Ephroditas
Ransom, of Mich., receker of the 05a.,, , c land
district. •
The Grave of Washington.
By a eorre,pontlenee in the Richmond En
quirer, we learn that Mr..lulin A. Wa,llin7r
ton liar con , ented again to plaee,the Muuut
Vernon Estnte in the hands of the Common
wealt:i of VirL:inia. This will he gratifying
news, from the fort that. a former ttprange
ylent of this kind had failed, and that in con
sequence Mr. Washington had withdrawn his
consent.
The correspondence opens with a letter
from the accomplished "Southern 'Matron"
who presides over the Ladies Mount 'Vernon
..Vssociation of the Union to Gov. Wise, en
closing the letter of Mr. Washington, and so
liciting- the t:overnor to recall the sul t iect to
the attention of the Legislature at its next
session.
The letter is followed in the rer by a
stirring. address from the President of the As
sociation to the Sons and Daughters of Wash
ington throug,hout the Union, calling for a
urated exertion to consummate the purchase
at the cot* session of the Virginia Legisla
ture, so that the next anniversary ofthe birth
of Washington may be also the anniversary
of "Republican gratitude," and Ivitness the
final transfer of the estate to the Common
wealth.
Fatal Railroad Accidents.
Om-Aco, 28.—.1 gravel train with a
load 4)f lal 4orers for Lasselle, going , Imithxyard.
on Thursda, after crossing the bridge, was
precipitated - twenty-five feet below, in conce
quonve 44f the embankment giving way, which
hail !wen undermined by the late heavy rains.
Four of the laborers were
_killed and eight
serious y woum .
o.lNoioN, N. Y., March 2S.—Yesterday af
ternoon Joseph Anderson, candiolate for the
Assenthly last November, and James Helms:
were run over and horribly mutilated lov the
passenger train of the Delaware aml Lacka
wanna Ilailrowl. at the jnnetion of that road
with the Central road. They were standing.
on the track counting; the coal cars attached
to the train pa- in; :.n the .ether road, and
did nut hear the at hr tip‘ passely,er
Neither is espected ty recover.
Another Falsehood
The following, which we take from the
Washington 'Union, nails to the counter the
falsehood of the Black Republicans that the
last Legislature of Kansas had refused to re
peal any of the obnoxious and unconstitution—
al actS of the preceding Legislature. Thus,
one by one, the props on which the opposition
hoped to stand are knocked from under them.
,They will find after a while, we hope, that
ci'honesty is the best policy," and that truth,
though a slow traveller, is sure to overtake
and crush falsehood.
WAsILINc.TON. March 23, 1857.
To the Eflitora r,/'the Union:
There scorns to be a settled. purpose, on the
part of many, if not all the opposition jour
nals of the country, to misrepresent and mis-.
state the facts in reference to everything 00-
' eurring in Kansas. A short time since it
was stated in a Democratic paper in Western
New York that "the Territorial Legislature
had repealed section twelve of the law to pun
ish offences ngainst c sjave property, and also
that portion of the eleventh section of the law
regulating elections, which, requires a voter,
when challenged, to take an oath to support
the fugitive slave laws of 1793 and 18.30, and
the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and that
-the— perm , m-offering to-vote,--and—ref using—to
take ;well oath if required, shall not be allow
ed to vote." The Republicans could not tol
erate this reduction of their political capital ;
so at once appeared in their papers telegraph
ic despatches from St. Louis stating that the
"test-oath law" was not repealed, and I am
informed such a statement has appeared in
one of the journals of this city. Permit Me,
then, through the medium of your paper, to
give the facts to the people. 1 was present
when the votes were taken on the repeal of
both these sections, and know that the repeal
ing acts passed. But, in order that tl.ere may
be no possible chance of disputing the point,
I herewith send you the two repealing Acts
as pasted, and attested by the President of
the Council, the Speaker of the Rouse, and
the Chief Clerk of the House, in their own
hand - writing. I trust those papers which
have been so
,eager to circulate the false state
ments twill new have the honesty to give
equal circulation to the truth.
Yours, &c.
lle it marled hr/ the Covernor and Legisla
tive .I.yseniliN the .9errittay 01 Ea /MIN,
SEC. 1. That so niuch of the eleventh section
of an act entitled an act to regulate elections,
as provides that any person challenged as a
voter may ho required to take an oath or affir
mation that he will sustain'the provisions
the several acts of Congress in that section
specified, be, andthesame is hereby, repealed.
SEc. 2. All otlicershereafter elected or ap
pinted to any office Of honor, trust or profit,
under the laws Of this Territory, shall take
and subscribe an oath to support the Consti
tution of United States and the provisions
'of an act to organize the Territories of Ne
braska and Kansas, and faithfully to demean
himself in and no other.
• Sloe. 3. All Attorneys-at-law, obtaining a
license in this Terrinay, shall take and sub
scribe an oath to support the Constitution of
the United States and the provisions of an act
to organize the Territories apt Nebraska and
- Kansas, and faithfully and honestly to,demoan
himself in his practice. •
SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsist
ent with the provisions of this act are hereby
repealed.
This act to take effect and be in force from
and after its passa s.
THOMAS JOHNSON,
•
President of the Council:.
• WM. G. MATHIAS,
Speaker of the House.
I hereby certify that the within is a true
and correct copy of the enrolled
THOMAS C. 11170111F,5,
Chief Clerk Council.
Lecostrrox, K. T., Feb. 14. 1857. •
Be it ellildeel kg the tiorerntw am? Lewisla
fire ..I.s.w:mhly of the rp•reitory nJ Kirtwas.
That the twelftl\ . section of an net, entitatd
''An Act to puniA offences against ,nave
property," be, and the same is hereby repeoled.
T lIOM AS ...KM NSON,
President of the Council.
WM, G. 'MATHIAS,
Speaker of the House-
I hereby certify that the within is a. true
and correct copy of the enrolled bill.
THOMAS C. HUGIIES,
Chief Clerk Council,
Lr.o»trrox. K. T.. Feb. 14, 1857.
The 3r,,,,ter WaAinyton.-41c
(!f L'e.—The ease of DodridgeS..
fur the murder of David Hume, a respeemble
citizen of Alexandria, Va., by shouting Lim
a short time since in the Patent office , at
Washington, which had been on trial duribg
four days in the criminal eourt'at 11'ashing,t,
was give,.. to the jury late on Saturday,after
noon, who, after being out all night awl until
11 o'clock Sunday morning, rendered a Artr
diet of not guilty.
sniNGTox, April I.—Samson IV. 'Harris,
an ex-member of Congress hem Alabama,
who has been sick ever since the adjournment
of Congress, died here to-day of pneuuMnia.
Lar t p Yield fron.—The Danville (Pa.)
Democrat states that one day last week there
was manufactured at the, Montour rolling
mill,, in that borough, the enormous quantity
of upwards of 116 toes of railroad iron—the
largest amount ever manufactured in one day
at any establishment of the kind in the United
States.
r-i7=-The lihode Island election has gone
for the opposition, of course. The Black Et
nublicans and Know Nothings have become
thoroughly incorporated into one party in
that State, a' in all of the Northern States.
H ar d Struggle fin. Life.-:--The Livings
ton (N. Y.) Republican announces the death
of .John McDonald, who resided in that town,
ti who was found on one of the coldest
nights last winter lying in the highway nearly
frozen to death. At that time both hands
and feet were amputated. Since then his
legs have been twice amputated. This was
certainly a remarkable struggle for life.
Drag/ ita EnybouL—The Eng
li:•11 papers received by the Europa hare beau
tiful .-' t tes to the memory of Pr. Kane. The
IMO 11l le 40111 ieneum C oses wit 1 tIC
following words t “Itis death will be severely
felt by his countrymen, by whom he was
greatly loved. England. too, will mourn the
1 , 15.: 1.1 so gallant and enterpri , :ing a man, who,
although young in years, had gained a high
reputation."
c-zF.The Jewish Pas , over commences on
Thur,lav next.
g.v.y-.SEE Foci:fit I).l.tii:
=I
important from Nicaragua.
RiraB Eracuated by Walker—The City Set on
Fire—Large NirnAbers of the .4//iee Periga
e,T—Es.rape of Wit'ker.
The Wilinington (N. C.).Journal has what
purports to be late and important news from
Nicaragua. It certainly is "important if
true;"--It says the schooner E. Brooks, Capt.
Roberts, which sailed from Greytown on the
19th ult., for New York, put into the mouth
of the Cape Fear on Tuesday evening in
_a
leaking condition.—Among her passengers
are Edward Carter, David Williams and Mi
chuel Riley, three of Walker's men. The
news they bring is somewhat later than
that received by the Illinois, at New York,
a few days ago, and is to the following effect:
On the 14th ult., the Cesta Ricans having
been reinforced by the addition of a thousand
troops from Leon, and a considerable forcer r
Salvadorians under Gen. Cabanas, ea-press
dent of Honduras, determined upon attempt
ing to force Walker's position at Rivas. At
tack after attack was made and repulsed with
great loss on the part of the assailants, who
seemed' to have struggled with unusual ener
(re- rendered confident, no doubt, by their
overwhelming superiority in numbers, and :in-
imated by the hope of being able to put an end
to the war.
Although successful in repelling the attacks
made upon them, the already feeble ranks of
-Walker's-army-were-rapidly becoming— -
and the physical energies of the men sinking
under fatigues and privations unrelieved by
rest or refreshment, and it was felt that this
state of things could not ranch longer contin
ue. To add to the difficulties of their posi
tion. their ammunition began to fail. It was
finally determined to retreat from aposition
no longer tenable, and endeavor to reach the
port of San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific, by
way of Rosario. During the night of 'the
16th, Walker, with the main hotly, now re
' deeed to sonic three hundred etleetiye..nien„
boldly pressed forward in that direction.
Either by accident or design our informant ,
does not know, but somehow, sisanhaueous•
with the evacuation of Rivas by Walker, and
the entrance of the allies, that city was found.
to be on fire in a great many places; Thee
thief point, however, from which the confla
gration spread, was a narrow reale or street, ,
leading into the main plats or public square_
The houses, composed of a sort offrame work
of reeds, thinly daubed over with a specie's of
mud, and covered with thatched wets, dried£
to tin,ier by a climate in. which mita is almest
unknown, burned with great rapidity, and
large hodies of the aseailenes e bteotniag inyolv-
led in the. narrow and tortuous. - streets, Stifled
wittesmoke and enveloped in fames,..lest their
way, anal numbers perishede--It is:prole:lWe
that this circumstance favored Walker's bold.
movement. At any rate his march to. Rosario
was unmolested. Ile had before tieken the
preen ntion to send' his sick earl wounded to
that place in'relvance.
It would seem that the pd' icy of the :lilies
has lately been to interpose-el° , elistnetes to
such of Walker's men as desired! to leavelhe
country_ At least the party* who .eente down e
to San Juan cen account in no eeher way for
the ease with which they effected th eir. retreat
from Rime to that point. •
)lei"J'here are Teter mailers: n 1 at battle
between General Walker and the Cbsta, Mir an
forces—rumored defeat of the Allioe, with
great
,slaughter—reported assaeeimition off
ex,Preeident Rivas—remored ilefixtien, of •
general Comte. All, this looks highl . 7 ficeue
able fur Welker.
Wholesale, Frauds.
Fitilitirefrom Justice.--An extensive and!
most audacious scheme for counterfeiting two ,
popular met:Nein:a preparations has recently .
been brought to light in this erty-... A few of
the leading facts have appeare(lin reports of
the legtO pro e-kedings growing out of the affair,.
but its coroprehensiye chatracter, has been but
imperfectly dove-lopel in these brief state
ments. It wouldseetn that, the principal per
son implicated in this transaction is a drug
broker named- William , Leith. lately doing--
hi:witless at 8 Gold street and 5 - William street,
in this city, and residing at 4 Union street ;
Brooklyn.. He gad corlteived ther idea of es
tablishing- a factory for the purpose of Ciotti.:
terffeiting,on at wholesale scale, the most p p
ular and widely advertised medicines in the
civilized world,. viz: Idollowafs. Pills and
Holloway's Ointment- This audacious' pro
ject he intended to carry out in the city of
New York, almost within hail, as it were, of
the great enrntral offiee flir the sale of Hollo
way's medicines in this .4ountrY lie had, it
app.ears, ordered no less that 500,01Arcopies
of the pamphlet or Look of directions, aroum
each box, and the printer to , whom the order
was given, supposing it to, en - innate. frorn Pro
fessor Holloway, had r no , heSitatioa in execu
ting the work. An acciiiient led to the detec
tion of the fraud. Leith failed to meet an ob
ligation he had given fur 3 portion of the job,
and tle printer went to Pt.ofessor Holloway's
establishment, 80 Maiden. Lane, to re the.
cause.: Then, of course, the fraud was dis
closed, and it was found, on comparing the•
counterfeit wrappers Nvith• the original, that
the former were perfect Ace >iauilex of the lat
ter,. with the exception of the mdeinniath.—
This water mark consists oFthe- Words "-Hol
loway, I\ en' York and London 7 an d
upon every leaf of the. authentic pamphlet
when held against the light.. In another re
spectq, there was 3 perfect identity between.
the false document and the true:.
William Leith, the author of this atrocious
forgery, was SU I If;equelitly arrested,. and fully
charged, on examination before- the commit
ting magistrate, with procuring the printing.
and uttering of the above counterfeits, but
through an indiscretion on the part of the
magistrate, he managed' to escape from the.
custody of the officers, and is now a fugitive
from justice. Professor Holloway's agents
are on the re ti rire to discover his wherea
bouts, but so far he has eluded their vigilance..
He is a •Scotehman by birth, and still pre
serves a little of the accent; his voice is deep,.
his articulation emphatic, and in speaking he•
gesticulates a good deal, and interlards his
sentences with frequent oaths.. His height is
about 5 feet 8A inches, his person rather stout,.
complexion florid, light hair and thin whis
kers, and his age about 35 years. His address
is good and business-like. As it is nut known
t, what extent he may have counterfeited the
medicines, it would be well for druggists in
the interior to beware of purchasing articles
purporting to be Holloway's remedies from
irresponsible parties. There is one test of
genuineness, which may however, be relied
upon, viz: the ,cuter-inurk on the leaves of the
book of directions accompanying and envelqp
ing each box of the Pills and pot of the Oint
ment. If, when the leaf is held between the
eve and the light, the words "Ilollowa.y, New
irk and Lndon," aro discernible in semi
transparent letters, in the substance of the
. .
t ten to pimp te s (
they envelope are ;zeauine; if ' not they are
l'Otlidell;'itY. Let this test he uni
versally adupted. --- 2Cational Police Gazette,
-Vete York.
David Hunt, of Rodney, Misci4sippi,
has gIN n 2+''S,UIIU to the American Culuniza
tion Society.
wind° Ruill')er of people killed
the late ra.ilfuat.l accideat in Canada, was
0