From Wtiililuploii. C«rretpos<)«meB nf the 2 i. Y.Tribune. Washington, March 12, 1858. The House was very full at an early hour to-day, in anticipation of the contest upon Mr, Harris’s motion. The President said last evening that if the Opposition carried their point to-day, the de feat of Lecornptoo would bo certain. Before 2 o’clock Mr. Harris’s appeal was token up. The Speaker reaffirmed his de cision, which Mr, Harris spoke with much lorce against, on the ground that when the majority of the Committee failed to do t.ieir duty, the minority have the right to bring the matter before the House. Mr. Stevens replied, denying that there was any precedent for such a step on the pjirt of the minority ; denying, also, that the remissness of the Committee is a question of privilege, and denouncing the motion as rev. olutionary. Mr. Grow argued that the Committee was nisi reeled to inquire into (he facts about Kan sns, and had not done so ; had, in point of fact, refused to attend to.lbe matter referred to (hem. The Speaker interrupted him, saying that the matter referred to the Committee was the President's Message. Mr. Grow replied that there was a differ ence of opinion on that point. He considered tlmt the matter referred related to an investi gation into thu facts in Kaneas. The Com mittee was packed, and would not investigate. The majority of the Committee was appointed from those hostile to its objects. Mr. Grow was called lo order while ■peeking on this poini, and the Speaker de cided (hat reflections upon the appointment of the Committee were not in order. Mr. Cyrow replied that he thought the oflicml acts of officers of the House proper proper subjects of discussion. Mr. Grow was vehemently interrupted while speaking, and repeatedly called to order by Mr. Stevens and others on the Le tt otn pi on side, by whom much ill-feeling was manifested. Mr. English, of Indiana, disopproved of the way in which the Committee had been appointed. lie proposed, however, to post pone the question and allow the majority and minority reports to be made and primed. For this be asked the unanimous consent of the House, Mr. VVashburn, of Maine, objected. Messrs. Harris, of Maryland, and Under wood, of Kentucky, Americans proposed to postpone the matter till Tuesday or Wednes day. Objection was made on all sides. Mr. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, suggested tn his colleague to modify his motion, so far ns to call only for the printing of the official Journal of the Committee. Mr. Stevens said that there was no such journal. Mr. Harris contradicted him. He had himself, as Chairman, kept a most regular and careful journal which he had signed, and which is the official Journal. Mr. Stevens replied that the majority of the Committee knew nothing of it. Various propositions were then made lo nllow the Committee to report, but they were all objected to, there being an apprehension on the opposition side that advantage would he taken of the opportunily lo report a joint resolution for the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution. The House was in great uproar, while voting by Yeas and Nays, on the motion to lay Mr. Harris’s appeal on the table, the Speaker having decided such motion in order. The vote stood : Yeas 109; Nays IXI. Mr. Harris of Illinois rose and said that in compliance with the views of some of his friends who desired to hare the question pre. sented in a simpler and more direct form, he would vary his mode of action, and accord ingly withdrew his appeal. The House immediately adjourned. Washington, March 14,1858. Judge Douglas has been confined to his house for several days by severe sickness, hut will resume his place in the Senate some time this week. Ho pronounces the reports as to an intention to resign his seat totally without foundation, and assures his friends that he intends to fight the battle in which he is now engaged to the end ; that he will not be driven from his position by the threats or frowns of power, nor moved from the purpo ses to which his life has been devoted by in ducement proffered from any quarter. He says that with him it is a matter of principle which he will maintain at all hazards. There is no perceptible improvement in the physical condition of Senaior Davis, and the partial loss of his eyesight is feared by his friends. FROM HARRISBURG. Tuesday, March 9,1658, Senate.—Petitions &c., Pbesented. Mr. MYER, a remonstrance signed by seventeen attorneys of Susquehanna county, against the abolition of Judge VVilmoi’s ju dicial district. Also, seven from citizens of the district generally of Susquehanna county, of similar tenor. Also, nine of similar tenor from citizens of Bradford county, without distinction of party. Messrs. SCOFIELD, GREGG, GAZ ZAM, HARRIS, FRANCIS and SOUTH ER, each three of similar tenor. Mr. STEELE, three remonstrances signed by seventy-four citizens of Luzerne county, against attaching any part of said county to Carbon county. Mr, SOUTHER, a remonstrance from Warsaw and Warren townships, Jefferson county, against making a new township out of said townships. Also, two petitions from Clearfield county, ogainst loose logs in the Susquehan na and Us tributaries. An editor, writing from Frankfort, Ky., says that the Legislature of that Slate is com. posed of fine-looking, well-dressed and well dressed and well-behaved men; and lhal amonglhe whole number, there are but five drunkards, and only some eight or ten fools —a smaller number than was ever counted in any previous General Assembly. THE AGITATOR. JTI. H. Cobb, Editor A Publisher. WELLSBOROUGH, FA. Thursday Morning, Mar. IS, IS9B. *,* All Basioess,and otherComroanicalioneixiasl be addressed to (he Editorto insure attention. We cannot publish anonymous communications . A communication from our friend, J. B. N. will receive attention next week, probably. Another by favor of M< H. B. has reached us, but we have not yet examined it. Be patient. Wc publish quite a stirring chapter of proceed ings in Congress which are interesting only so far as they serve to show the determination of the Le* comptoniles to carry their points. The weather Is delightful. The snow is disap pearing under a sweating process, not very favora ble to tho interests of lumbermen, thongb not un pleasant to us-folk, cooped up in hot, close offices. Under foot it is not so delightful. mud, mud. J. A, H-—Your rhymes part with the satire in tended in their too near approach ip innuendo. Be tides this, you do not give your name. Try some other subject. Busy.—A general application of cold water will remove the difficulty. Try it. Mr. F. A. Allen has retired from the McKean Citizen and is succeeded by Mr. L. Rogers. Mr, Rogers promises to make the Citizen an outspoken Republican paper. That** right. Allen had too much business in the primary department lo attend properly to the paper. We wish him an abundant success. We have not learned of the projection of any im. provcmcnls by our citizens to be made during the coming season, but presume to say that, notwith standing the hard times, as much will be done in that direction as was done in 1857. In the borough, important improvements in the matter of dwellings were made. Beginning on Maln.sL, Mr. J. Gray has erected a comfortable dwelling on the west aide, while the Norris bouse, nearly opposite and owned by Mr. M. M. Converse, has been so thoroughly ren ovated that no one familiar with the premises one year ago would suspect (hut any portion of tile old house yet remained. At the foot of Main-sU, west side, Mr. S. R. Smith has erected one ot the most tasty dwellings of which the village can boast, be ing at once snug, convenient and pretty. But that part of Wetlsboro lying or- the State Road and known oa '• Gibsonvillc. 1 * haa fully kept pace with the rest of the village in the Marcti of Improvement Three snug cottageagrace the south side of the street, occupied, respectively, by Messrs. L. A. Sears, G. W. Navil and Samuel Coles. Mr. Coles commenced putting up his dwelling late last fall, but, owing to the unusually mild winter, has been enabled to make it quite snug and comfortable. These dwellings arc situated on the pleasantest street in the village. Outside the borough limits, on the Cuudersport road, our German population has mainly settled, and under its unflagging industry the ample lots are in a fair way ot becoming gardens. With character, islic forethought these people are building in strict accordance with their-means, to add to and beautify from time to time, as they become enriched. In a few years this portion of Wellsboro will become one of its finest suburbs. Mr. A. B. Root ha* purchased the house formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. Bacbe, removed it to a vacant lot on Pcarl-str, is filling it up in order to take possession abdqtHhe Ist of April. Tlic j“ Informal” Convention. Au inexperienced roan may once build upon sand, hut the wise man will not build upon a sandy found ation a second Lime. Men are supposed to possess souls-; corporation* are said to lack that immortal spark. As a ra(e 4 every individual has a heart to feel and hrains to think, reason and plan; but an aggregation of individuals, called a party, is not al ways endowed with these organs which are supposed lo markedly distinguish tho human individual from the mere animal. We infer that the miscalled dem ocratic party exhibited its lack of heart and brains in the passage of the Nebraska bill, in its Kansas policy, in endorsing the Dred Scott Decision and in endorsing j the infamous Lecomplon Constitution. That party had warning from the very first that it could not violate compacts and sign away the liber ties ol the people with impunity. It refused to hear reason, and so was struck with death in 1854. It rejected the warning of that eventful year; and, re lying upon its prestige, proceeded to new aggress ion?. That a shadow of its power will remain to it in 1860, seems unlikely. Some miracle must be wrought in its midst to save it from utter ruin. But we did not purpose lo devote this article to the sins of the enemy. Thera are sins nearer home —errors of judgment, rather—which deserve atten tion and call for rebuke. Judging by its past, the Republican party is to be as unmindful of the warn ings which its past policy affords as is its older op ponent. Thrice has it split on the rock of Indecis ion, nor did the consequences of the first talse step deter it from venturing the second. (We allude to the policy of the Republican party in this Slate.) It began by temporizing in 1855. It continued by faltering laic in the campaign of 1856. It opened the campaign of 1857, in a timid, hesitant spirit, and it promises to open (he campaign of 1858 with a sacrifice of principle to which all former sacrifices shall seem trifling. We protested against such tri fling with principle in *55, again in ’56, in ’57 and we join with The Erie Constitution in protesting against the meditated sacrifice in 1858. We not only protest against the damaging policy foreshad owed in the proceedings of the Harrisburg informal Convention, held on the 23d ult, and which proceed ings wc published last week, but repudiate, utterly and unreservedly all action that may be taken here afler in accordance with the timid, hesitant, half and-half policy which dictated those milk-and-wa ter ish resolutions. Not that we suppose that either our protest or repudiation, or both, will weigh one grain with the Slate Republican Committee; nor yet that we are assured ot countenance and support in this protest, except from our better judgment, for we have no such assurances; but because we know (bat the protest is rights and therefore expedient. Perhaps the timid gentlemen who controledjlhat Convention are grown wiser by this time. They have seen how Mr. Forney is so bitterly opposed to the National Adminiblration that he gives his sup port to candidates nominated in a Convention which beplaslered James Buchanan and his Kansas policy with the slime and slaver of fulsome laudation. If any Republican looked lo Mr, Forney for aid wc pity that over credulous man. We expect nothing but opposition lo Republicanism from Mr. Forney. He was just as near to the Republican party in *54 as he has been at any time since, or is now. What ever fils faults may be, (and they are many) incon sistency is not among them. He set out with the declaration that Freedom and Slavery are tenants in common, under the Constitution, and he persists in that monstrous moral He to this day. He ib a THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. man of consummate audacity and uneqoaled talent and tact as a leader, less to be feared as an open foe than as a pretended friend. Yet some bare thought this mao favorable to the cause of Freedom! But onr inform al Convention suggeals an appeal to all those opposed to the Kansas policy of the Ad ministration. Hoes it propose an appeal to the aide door party ? That party is deeper in the mire of subserviency, if possible, than dooghfaced democ racy. Does it urge an appeal to Donglas-Forney democracy 7 See Forney hasten to the support of the nominees for State offices, standing, as they do, 1 on a strait-out Lecomplon Platform! To what par ty, or portion of the people of this Commonwealth, then, apart from the Republican parly, do Messrs. John A. Fisher & Co., orge an appeal 7 Gentlemen, if you desire the triumph of Bachdnanism you are on the right road; but if you desire the triumph of Freedom you are cutting the lhroat ot honest and earnest Endeavor. We will have'-oejther lot nor part in the murder. We wash oar bands of inch proceedings now and forever; end if any Conven tion of Republicans put men in nomination upon so flimsy a platform as is hinljcd at in the proceedings of the Informal Convention” they shall enlist neither rote nor voice of ours. Never. Do men fear temporary defeat? Until they rise superior to such timid emotions there can bo no truly important victory of Right. Would they ac complish the otter defeat of the race of doughfaces? Then write on the Republican flag; “ A'o more Slave States /’* and nail that flag to tbe mast; and stand by it to the last day of life, il victory wait so long; and if life close before the victory is won, be. queath the bailie to your children as the richest leg. acy ever bequeathed. We have no tears to shed over defeat in a good cause. If it come, it is welL Wc can afford to sufler a hundred defeats if we make the battle on principle i but|if we made (be battle on expediency,defeat would be terrible indeed! But we do not make, nor shall any Committee make the bailie for us, upon expediency. If fellow Re publicans arc ready to work shoulder to shoulder with us, deeming nothing expedient that is not right, so much the pleasanter; but if they choose compro. mise, then our paths separate. The weapons of war fare in (he battle of life are various, but onr unhesi tating choice is, a sturdy blade to which there is no scabbard. We most respectfully deny that there was a drop of rage in our remarks upon the attempt to annihi. late of Judge Wilmot’s Judicial district, as our good natured /riend of the Wayne Co., Herald de. dares. We were as cool as a cucumber during the process, end smiled amiably as we chanced to think ol the probable rebuke we might receive from our affectionate friend, Beardslce. He says that David Wilmot is our “ abolition godfather and that the Agitator “ has teen t [?J off half-cocked/’ Now we aren't going to stand any such wholesale charges against our integrity. The Agitator never gels half-coded, or half anything else. It goes the en tire porker, or nothing. Therefore our friend will see that such a thing as “ wenting” of half-cocked is nut pnssiblc in our case. He must take that un kind charge back, or hustle up the rocks to repair damages. Perhaps be thinks we have no “ phee links,” any more than a Buchanan editor. In the affecting language of “Seth Pecksniff, Architect,” we have “ feelings as won’t be smothered like the “ young princes in the Tower, because they are “ grown up; and the more we press the bolster on “ ’em the more they looks around the corner of it,” If it will comfort Beardslee in the least to know that wtf were well aware whom and what we de. nounced, just as well then as at this present writing, we offer him that consolation. We likewise repeat that those “ men of learning and character,” are making very great asses of themselves; and are not likely to carry much character out of the scrape, however much they carried in. Some of them are good lawyers, doubtless, and then more are “ shys. ters.” All are in dirty business, and that's the long and short of it. Under the head of w Vain Confidence,” Neighbor Jones, of the Vedette, queries as to the grounds of our confidence in Gov. Packer, as follows : “Now we would like to know upon what ground friend Cobb bases his confidence in Gov. Packer. From all that we have ever learned of that gentle, man we believe that no effort will be wanting on his part to effect tire proposed removal, [of Wilmot] and if the occasion required it, he would got out ot bed at midnight to sign the bill. For onr part, we have no doubt that Judge Wilmot is doomed as far as the Locofoco party have the power to execute their mal ice upon him, but we are gratified to know that in abolishing his Judicial district they cannot abolish the schools and the general intelligence of the in habitants.” Our grounds of confidence in Gov. Packer are general rather than special. What he might stoop to do as a private citizen we do not pretend to say, since our knowledge of the man is not great; but as Governor of this Commonwealth we do not for a moment believe him capable of aiding or abetting the malice of Ward, Pioletle &, Co. He knows, moreover, that the proposed annihilation of that Ju dicial district is unconstitutional. Outspoken. —The following is the 9th resolution in the platform of the mulalto.deraocralic Conven tion held at Harrisburg on the 4th insl.: 44 Resolved , therefore , That we unhesitatingly DO APPROVE OF TOE MEASURES OF Mft. BuCHANAN IN his Kansas Policy, and are ready and willing to SUSTAIN HIM IN ALL OTHER MEASURES OF HIS Ad. ministration THUS far disclosed ; and we entertain the belief that hr will not abandon an article in the democratic creed." There’s no shuffling about that. Swinkie didn’t control that Committee on Resolutions, no, nor did Forney. That places Pennsylvania democracy fair ly and. squarely upon the Lecorapton side of the fence. Our democratic friends have but to walk up and vote for the nominees of that Convention and then they may become orthodox democrats. Doug laaites can creep through this bole right into the bo som of the great and powerful de-mo-orat.ic party. Who slfiruck Billy Patherson ? Who snubbed John Forney ? “I !" says Old Buck, “ I had the good luck. To snub John Forneyl!” Godty's Lady’s Book.— The embellishments in the April No., especially the very fine lineengrav. ing entitled “The Fishing Party,” arc worthy of the unequaled reputation of this Magazine. The editor complains that exchanges do not reciprocate favors. That does not hit us. We do not miss ai notice twice a year. Wanted. —The Washington States gives an account of the first reception of the sea son at the White House, from which we ex tract the following : ‘‘The sons of the .forest, ‘painted and plumed in battle array,’ were ranged along one side of the room, and gazed with stoical apathy at the novel sight. They were evi dently very vain of the attention shown them by many of the ladies; and one old fellow very finely painted, confidentially remarked to his interpreter, when one blooming lady was introduced : 'I give ’em three horses for squaw, very nice squaw /’ ” Monroe Stewart, who was convicted of murder, at Pittsburg, and pardoned by Gov, Packer, died, of small pox, on Tuesday. from the Erie Constitution. Principle n. Policy.—The Late “Union” Convention. We gave place last week in our columns to the resolutions adopted at the Republican, or Union, State Convention, held in Harris burg on the 22d ult. We now propose to consider briefly the plan of action indicated in these resolutions. While we ars willing to do all in our power to unite all honest men on the broad and liberal platform of Republi- j canism, we will not consent to abandon that platform either temporarily or permanently to meet half way, and conciliate and coalesce with, any faction or body of men that profess to be opposed to the extension of slavery.— We have had enough of such bargains and concessions, and the sooner the Republican Party of Pennsylvania declares emphatically that it will bide i>s time and stand firmly b» its glorious principles the better will it be for the cause of Human Freedom. Without pre suming to question the honesty or patriotism of the gentlemen who were most active in the recent Stale Convention, we take the liberty to disagree with them in toto, as to the plan of action for the campaign. The Republicans of this S'ate have, for the last three years, been willing to enter in to any honorable arrangement to unite all who professed to oppose the Slave Democra cy, and in every instance they have been be trayed. Their principles are right. Every honest opponent of the National Administra tion must admit this. The question to be set tled now is, shall the Republicans of Penn sylvania, for the sake of temporary success, abandon their organization during the present campaign, and form a component part of a heterogeneous and anomalous combination of factions to oppose Buchanan’s administration 1 This is a clear statement of the question, when the resolutions are stripped of their spe cious wording and ambiguous meaning. Ev ery man understands ibis who is conversant with the politics of the Slate. For one we are not in favor of a mere parly of “opposi tioni.” Our parly has principles which have been proclaimed to the world—it is not sim ply the negative pole of the battery—but pos itively affirms its; devotion to the doctrines of “Freedom, Justice and Right.” The “Dem ocratic” opponents of the Lecompton swindle know this, and if they are honest and sincere ly hostile "to 'political despotism and the extension of human slavery ,” they will act with us—if not sincere, they will betray us, no matter what their pledges or promises may be. The real contest is between Southern and official Despotism and Republican Free dom. Either the one must be successfully resisted and overthrown, or the other must be degraded and humiliated. The Republicans of Pennsylvania muct act independently, systematically and firmly, if they .would win the fight. They must listen no longer to the siren pleadings of time serv ers and professional politicians who are al ways willing to sacrifice principle to expedi ency. They should be warned in lime to have nothing mote to do wiih “Union Tick ets,” or “Upion Conventions.” No more compromises—no more bargains at the ex pense of principles— no more Slave Slates, should be their mono. Governor Reeder’s Escape from Kansas. The editor of the Herald of Freedom, in Kansas, is publishing, some remarkable inci dents in the history of the Territory—among which we find an account of Gov. Reeder’s flight during the excitement between the two hostile parlies. The Governor being unpro tected, and the United Stales Government, in its Executive and Judiciary departments, ar rayed against him, determined to leave the Territory. Finding it unsafe to remain lon ger with the Investigating Committee, he re tired to a friend’s house near Lawrence, where he remained but a short lime. His enemies not finding him as they expected, with the Committee immediately sent to Leavenworth and Kansas City, to watch the steamboats. Guards were stationed on the roads and also at the steamboat landing, as far down as Lexington, to search the boats and prevent his escape. He, however, suc ceeded in eluding his pursuers, and with the friendly assistance of Mr. Jenkins, succeeded in arriving safely at Kansas City. Here he was taken charge of by Col. Eldridge and secreted in the American Hotel. G. VV. Brown, (editor of the Herald of Freedom) who was at that lime quite as obnoxious to the Border Rtjffians as Gov. Reeder, happen ed to arrive from Alton just as this inoppor tune moment, and forthwith the hotel was surrounded by an infuriated mob, threalen'ng forcible search and seizure. This greatly added to the danger of Gov. Reeder. But the courage aud address of Col. Eldridge saved his hotel from search ; and the Gover nor from seizure and probable death. Steamboats were so vigorously guarded, and the search so strictly made, that it was considered unsafe to attempt to gel on one at Kansas City ; and as it was almost equally unsafe to longer remain in. his concealment, a new expedient was resorted to. The Gov ernor shaved of his fine whiskers and mous tache, froused his hair, dressed himself up in the clothes of an Irish laborer, and with his coarse shoes and stockings his pantaloons too short at top and bottom, his coarse shin and jacket, a pipe in his mouth, an axe on his shoulder, and a bundle in his hand, he was seen sauntering around during I he even ing, apparently unobserved and unobserving. As soon as it had become sufficiently dark, and the crowd had retired from the landing, Mr. Edward Eldridge, brother of the Colonel, and his wife, came in a skiff to the landing, and Gov. Reeder stepped in. They rowed during the night twenty-eight miles to Lib erty, where they loaded. Here they re mained till a steamboat came along bound down the river, when the Governor went on board, look a deck passage with the laborers and boat hands, and in due time landed safely at St. Charles, from which be made bis passage across the country to Illinois, A girl named Morris, thirteen years of age, was playing about a plasler-mill in Dexter, Jefferson county, last week, when her hair was caught by the shaft, her head drawn in and crushed, and her body whirled about the shaft, killing her instantly. The girl’s father was killed in a precisely similar manner, about a year since in the same village. —Corning Journal, FBOiS UTAH. The Mormon t will Fight.—They are Mak ing Cannon and Revolvers/', St. Louis, Friday, March; 12,1858. The Council Bluffs Bugle of the 3d says that Mr. Wingate has just arrived from Salt Lake, Jan. 25, and reports that jthere was no snow in Salt Lake Valley, and; yery little in the mountains. He came by a |tjoiile known only to the Mormons, through the mountains by which only horsemen in jingle file can pass. The army has not discovered any trace of it. The route passes j ihrbugh per pendicular rocks for 13 milesj is in many places only three feet wide, and is completely covered by a roof of rock. !j! Mr. Wingale says that thej Mormons are manufacturing small cannon atilh percussion locks and telescopic sights, which will carry a two pound ball with much more certainty than a'common rifle one hundred and twenty yards. They are also makipgtflve hundred revolvers a week and raanufac tiring a coarse kind of gunpowder for mining purpose. A skirmish had occurred between a party of Mormons and a picket guard of the Army, in which two of the former were killed, and and it was reported that foi rof the latter were slain. I j Mr. Wingate says that Brigham Young is willing ibaHthe civil officers shall come into the Territory, and enter updijj their duties, but that if the army attempts to enter the valley it will be resisted. jj j On the 24th of January Brigham Young preached to 9,000 people, all!of whom rose when Young said, “All in favor of giving the troops hell io rise.” [J j A letter from Captain Marcy at Taos, January 24, says that he ivps fifty-seven days in making the trip from! Fort Bridget. For two hundred miles/fhe. party encoun tered snow two loMigeJ feetj deep. They made out thirty miles in ten j days, and for eleven days lived on starved,' mules. One man perished on the way, ajnjd many were badly frozen. Forty-four p'qt of the sixty six mules with which he slafted-died. A Tear of Buctaananigm. The Philadelphia of the 4th of March has the following excellent remarks on the Administration of the 'unfaithful Bn -1 CBANAN : • - The promised panacea fpr all the ills of the Pierce Administrationjvvas the election of James Buchanan to the Presidency. The panacea has been working fprjexactly a sear to-day, and it is worth to ask what are the good results, and in respect we are heller off than we were under the reign of Franklin the First of blessed memory. A year ago we had an oyerflowing trea sury ; now the revenue has!been diminished, while the expenses of government have been so heavily increased, that money has to be raised on Treasury notes Jio keep things going. A year ago we hlajd a reasonable prospect of settling the Utah rebels in the course of a few mouths, j Now, through delay and mismanagement l( lhere is a pros pect of another year being [required to crush the rebellion of the Mormcns, while, to ac complish the result, a large increase of the army and a heavy additionjic the public debt are declared to be necessary. A year ago it was promised, in solemn yvords uttered by the President, just before faking the official oath, that he would, in reference to Kansas, execute the duty of Government, which was “to secure to every resident inhabitant the free and independent expression of his opin ion jjy his vole.” Now the^President repu diates this language of his Inaugural Address, and declares that the people shall not exer cise such right, and shall sjbmil to a consii luiion not referred to their votes. He is using all the power andj patronage of his office to force it upon tfierij and is ready to sacrifice, not only his own .'pledges, but the principles of republican || government, the rights of the people, andj j the peace of the country, to accomplish this purpose. The second year of President Buchanan’s administration opens morejgioomily than any year thatwe remember,! j I The people of Kansas, sensible of the wrong contemplated against them, are deiermined to resist it, and they have sympathies of |aj large portion of the people of the other Stales. If the Le complon Constitution is fastened upon Kan sas, we cannot see how j civil war is to be avoided, and civil in one] state or territory must spread into other slates. With civil war in Utah, a civil war in Kansas, a dimin ished commerce, and ah increased public debt, in what condition may! we expect to be, 'on the 4th of March, 1859; when James Bu chanan shall have completed the second year of his term of office ! i ' Judge .Wilmot. If any evidence were vyahling of the sterl ing integrity, ability and imoral worth of Judge Wilmol, it is abundantly furnished by the strenuous effort which [is made by cer tain individuals to pass a bijl entitled a:j act relative to the courts of Bradford and Sus quehanna counties. The ibill provides for the annexation of Bradford county to the 26th and Susquehanna to|lhe 11th judicial district of this commonwealth. Ft was fit tingly introduced by Dr. Sntiith, a gentleman somewhat famous aslhe tndol of party trick sters.” It was found, however, that his ad vocacy added to that of his employers was not sufficient, hence the aid of no less a per son than E. B. Chase, of[ VVilkesbarre, we are told, was invoked. The base and foul charges sneakingly brought forward now against Mr. Wilmot, are analagous to those which in an evil hour, this Mr. Chase on a! former occasion gave utterance to, and from| which he had to beat an ignominious retreat. The same fate awaits hini and his comrades now. It is not very probable that a Legisla lure, however corrupt, wijl pass a measure at once so absurd and impracticable, simplv to avenge the wrath of ihpse who hate Judge Wilmot for his honestjj, and envy him for his popularity. The fact is.no plausible reason can be brought forward in supoort of the measure. The coiirts of this county have more than they daii do with, as it is. and the terms of Judge Wiilmot’a Courts are found to too short a| duration to trans. act all the business brought before them. This attempt to Wilmot’s judicial district is simply ridiculbtls, and every right minded" person of whatever parly will treat n as such.— Pittsto' i Gazette. Tbe Reaction. Within the last few weeks there has bees a powerful reaction in the public mind in fa. - vor of the President’s Kansas policy. Han. dreds of Democrats who were led astray by i misrepresentations and the constantly reiter. ’ ated cry that the majority of the people of t Kansas were deprived of the right to deter. ; mine their own domestic institutions, bare discovered the utter falsity of these assertion*. They now see the destructive shoals ' which faction at the helm would steer ibe 1 good Democratic ship, and they have !o*t ' confidence in and abandoned the maddened and recklesa political pilots. The reaction ■ is already felt throughout the length and ' breadth of the Commonwealth. Public opin. , ion in favor of the immediate admission «f ' Kansas under the Lecomplon Constitution b ' daily gaining in volume and strength. Tbe ' special message of Mr. Buchanan, the report ' of Senator Green, and the powerful and elo quent report of Mr. Buckalew, have opposed solid, incontrovertible arguments tothefer. vent rhetorical flourishes about the will of t!» majority, which have been held out as false ; lights to allure Democrats from the straight . path of duty. And they tell upon the public | mind with powerful efiect; the fruits of which ] are visible onfall hands. The lead of the , few Democratic counties, which, under the | influence of femporary excitement, passed | resolutions inimical to the President, has not ( been followed up or endorsed by the sober is. ] telligence of the counties that make Penney- j vania what it is—Democratic. Philadelphia, j Montgomery, Chester. Delaware, Dauphin, t and Lancaster, the old Tenth Legion, aod | other coohlies, have nobly turned the lids ] which at one time threatened to set in against Mr. Buchanan and his wise and just Kansu policy. The position these counties have ta. I ken renders it no longer doubtful what the • position the fourth of March Convention will I take. The demand from the people is gene. 1 ral, that the Convention shall endorse the < President fully and unreservedly, so as to 1 strengthen his hands against malcontents, and * aid him in inducing the immediate admission j and consequent pacification of Kansas. The 1 cause of the President’s enemies is daily be- 1 coming more desperate and hopeless ; the fac. * tfous stimulants, lately so powerful, are losing 1 their efiect, allthough the doses are increased and the potations made stronger and stronger. * The prospect of the success oj" bis policy and I the conviction of its absolute legality and * justice, is day by day gaining ground, in pro. 1 portion as his enemies are obliged to recede. 1 The reaction is making rapid progress. The 1 fourth of March Convention will declare the * position of Pennsylvania, and she will stand J where she always has stood, on the side of ! the President of her choice, and supporting . the regular Democratic organization.— Ear- • risburg Patriot <Sf Union, 3 d. The Slave Trade. The Richmond Whig is out in an editoriaF J article in favor of re-establishing the African slave trade ; and as an excuse for it, urges t ] the “great complaints from various quarters of Virginia of the scarcity of labor," pro- ' duced by “the immense draft made upon the jj labor of the Stale during the last twelre g months, by the southern demand,” which in . carried off a number equal to the natural in- | crease of the blacks. On this subject the t Whig indulges in the subjoined speculation!: “And this result was effected in the face j of an immense domestic competition, which j was enabled to sustain itself by the high price of tobacco and wheat. What will be the | case at the end of another year, if wheal and tobacco should be depressed, and cotton high, r requires no great genius for calculation to di- vine. The continuance of that slate of things j for a few years, i. e., low priced tobacco and high priced cotton, will-strip the Stale of half - its adult slave population. From what wa * hear, there is not enough slave labor hereto * make, even with favorable seasons, an a vet- * age crop of tobacco. # * “The consequences, social and political, of ■ this process, continued without interruption, £ for a few decades, 1 are palpable and inevitable. , The character of the population will undergo an entire change. The few negroes remain- | ing will be found in the hands of a few rich men—and some hungry demagogue, like Wise, will not be wanting to raise the cry of ’ aristocrats, and the whole institution will be j swept from the statute book. In the meat!- time, the abstraction of labor will be followed ! by diminished products; and in the transi- - tion from negroes to Yankees, the whole real j. property of the commonwealth will expert ence a disastrous depreciation.” ' The TT/rrq- goes on to say that having just re-opened the slave trade, andti also just agreed to a steamship intercoms! with Virginia, the importation of slaves ftcofi Africa, under French auspices, will form so good basis of commerce. Thus we see how n this spirit is gradually overspreading the a South. A short time ago it was advocatedp only |by the most ultra fanatics. Nowitirtl carried forward by conservative papers lit* b the Richmond Whig. si A Curious Fact,— We are informed tbal P Miss T. Clafflin,a girlabout 12 yearsofagejg is astonishing the citizens of Williamsport j Pa., by her extraordinary clairvoyant po»’ . ers. She is visited daily by many who art anxious to convince themselves of her apps* A rent supernatural powers. She gives any '»• It formation requested, and answers all question 1 p with singular accuracy. * To lest her supernatural claim many bat*,,* ashed her the question, “how much montjjj have I in my pocket,’ 1 and received in s '( 9 cases correct answers to the astonishment 1 * S all present. She communicates with * ease. Gives intelligence of friends, both ah' ® ■sent and present. Gives the age of the que*' J* tioner, or of bis relations, with the number® “ brothers and sisters, with their residence! “ names, &c. Can tell the contents of pockett or carpet bags with astonishing accuracy."' In fact, she seems to have supernatural sigh* and power of knowledge. pi It is observed that always the first quests g put by the young ladies is, “when am f 1(1 || married, and to whom. — Elmira Aim il A jury in Chardon, Ohio, have fomi * 9 verdict of §lO.OOO damages against / 0 " S Sumner, who courted Susannah Garris S 14 years, bad the marriage day app ol! | three several times, and then came w State and carried home another wife.
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