Ely oinmna Vatter. LETTER FROM GEN. WEBB. WASHINGTON, Saturday, May 24,'36. Those who witnessed the assault, any that neon receiving the blows given in quick sue tension and with terrible force, Mr. Sumner at tempted to rise from his seat, to which he was in a measure pinioned by his legs being under the desk—the legs of which, like all the desks of the Senate Chamber, have plates of iron fast to them; and these plates are firmly secured to the floor. His first attempt to rise teas a Mi. lure, and he fell back into his chair. and the blows of his assailant continued to full morel leanly upon his head. His second attempt rip ped up the iron fastenings of his desk, and he precipitated himself forward ; but beingstunned and blinded, wide of the direction in which Mr. Brooke steed. Prostrated on the floor, and covered with blood as I never saw a man covered before, the assault continued until Mr. Murray and Mr. Morgan, both members of the House of Representatives from New York, had time, to come from the extreme southeast angle of the Senate Chamber; and who, forcing their way through the crowd of Senators! and oth. ers, ;n the midst of whom Mr. Sumner was ly ing senseless and being beaten, they seized the assailant and rescued the body of Sumner. Of course, I do not speak from personal knowledge but Mr. Murray informs me that not only did the blows continue until he had reached the scene of action and forced his way through the crowd; but when he first threw hie arms, ar ound Mr. Brooke he failed to secure his right artn, and at least one blow was inflicted upon the prostrate form of the insensible Senator, al tar he, Mr. Murray, bad laid hands upon his assailant. It is not the assault upon Mr. Sumner per se which I feel called upon to deplore and to hold up to the calm and indignant condemnation of the people of the United States ; but bemuse by this assault upon a Senator of the United States, in his seat in the Senate Chamber, and when in the discharge of his legitimate duties, the Constitution has been trampled under foot, the sanctity of the Senate has been violated. freedom of debate has beets attempted to be suppressed by brute force, and Liberty itself— constitutiennl liberty and freedom of thought and notion—has been ruthlessly assailed, .d the assault been justified and applauded by grave Senators and by every Representative of the people save two (Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky and Henry IV. Hoffman, of Mary land) living in the Slave States, and by every Representative of the people who speak. the sentiments or sustains the measure of the exis ting Administration of the country. After nearly thirty years of editorial labor, always speaking tny sentiment. frankly and ful ly, it is unnecessary to remind the daily reader of The Conti, and Enquirer that no nian the United States has over been willing further in sustaining the constitutional rights of the South in regard to the reculiar local in .stitution, than I have. I have repeatedly pub- fished and proclaimed that I do nut look upon Slavery as a curse to the slave but on the con• Wary, in the aggregate, a great blessing. and so, I think, designed to be by God ; but I have ever held and published, end every day of my life I am more confirmed in the conviction that Slavery is a curse to the country where it exists and utterly demoralizing to the people who to lerate it. That it is nn Aristocratic and Anti-Republi can Institution, is proclaimed by the very terms of "Master" and "Slave," by which alone it can be described ; and like all other aristocratic institutions, it produces specimens of the high est refinement, the gentlest habits and the grea test culture, only to render more conspicuous the general brutality and debasing recklessness which it imposes upon the great mats of the people. In what section of our country—whe• Aber in the Slave or Free Stat.—occur the most street fights, homicides, brawls and nets of violence? I ant safe in saying that (hiring the past five years the deaths or injuries in the Slave States, from these ...OA, would average at least two a week ; while in the Free States, during the same period, they would not average i two per annum; and even n those cases, the probability is, that the actors in them would prove to be inhabitants of the Slave States. Let me instance the occurrences of the kind alluded to, within the last five months, which, have happ ened here in the capital of the Na tion, and in which members of the House of Representatives have been the principal actors.; I confine the record to them alone. First, then,William Smith, ex-Governor of the State of irginia, and Member of the !rouse ; of Representatives, assailed and bent the editor of The &ening Star, in December last, in the lobby of the House. Second, Albert Rusk, a rnemberof the House of Representatives from Arkansas, assailed and beat the editor of The New York Tribune, in the grounds of the Capitol, immediately after leaving the House of Representatives. Third, Philip T. Herbert, of Alabama, a memberof Congress from California, shot duwii and killed an Irish waiter at Willard'. and is now under bonds to appear before the Grand Jury and await his trial for ouch crime as they may adjudge him to have committed. Fourth, Preston S.Brooks, a Member of the House of Representatives Pram South Carolina assails and beats unmercifully a Senator from Massachusetts, when occupying his neat in the Senate of the United States, and engaged in the transaction of business legitimately apper• tasting to his station. Here, then, you have in five months four (la. grant breachesof the peace au the part of tnem bees of Congress who were born and bred in the Slave States, and who are necessarily de moralized by that institution; while during the same period not a solitary instance has occur red of Members from the Free States forgetting what is due by public Legislators to law and order, to civilization and to the decencies and courtesies of the society in which they live. You must next look to the manner in which these flagrant breaches of the peace by those whose duty it was above all others, to respect the laws, bane been treated by the House of which the offenders are members. The first and second outrages—whipping editors who failed to protect their persons froin pollution, by promptly resisting three by greater and more decisive force—were considered such tri vial ()Tenses, that the subject was not even referred to in the House which Was outraged by such conduct ou the part of°nn of as mem bers. The third offence—the shooting down and killing an Irish waiter at Willard's lintel —was gravely considered by the House of Re preseutstives and voted to be an occurrence not meriting investigation even; .d every suppor ter of this administration ' save one, united in suppressing inquiry ; and the offender daily takes his seat in migres., and legislates and aids in the passage of laws for the government of the country, while lie himself is about to lie tried fur the gravest crime which can perpetrate againet his fellow-man. . The Last offender, Mr. Brooks of South Caro• Linn, will, at least, have his conduct inquired into; but it must not be lost sight of that such inquiry by the House, of which he is a member, was 'strenuously resisted by every member of that body save two, who represent the Slave States, and by all who sustain the present Pro• Slavery Administration. To attempt to describe the actual state of af fairs hero in the Capital of the Nation, would be a hopless tank. It would not be believed were one frorn Heaven to proclaim it trumpet. tempted through the laud i and rat no ass oan live here, as I have for the last six months, without feeling his blood buil at witnessing the fears end apprehensions of fatal consequences, on the part of our Northern men, if any one ventures openly and manfully to speak the truth in the bar rooms, on the corners of the streets, and ot. the fluor of Congress. And there is realuilligthese fours. This is a city in a Slave District; its tone is the tone and sentinteut of Slavery; its visitors are mostly from the Slave States, and a large majority of them (nut the better portico of them), carry pistols and be• wie•knives ; and what is more, they have, both here and elsewhere, proved that they will not hesitate, on occasion, freely to use them. They are overbearing, threateeing and defiant in their manners; and our people have been over awed and cowed. It is the right of Freemen boldly to express their sentiments here, ns well as elsewhere;.l tell them in all sincerity, that the time has ar• rived when they must do no, courteously but tearlessly, on all proper Occasions lied in all proper places, or we shall all, and speedily too, become as completely the slaves of the Slave Power as are their plantation chunks : or what is far more degrading, we shall become the same pliant, cringing, and sycophantic instru ments of the Slaveocracy as are the Northern douglifisces who are made by the present Ad ministration to discourse just ouch music as their Southern masters may be pleased to dic tate for the time being. Aside frets the favored few in the Slave States, nineteendwentieths of their population carry arms—bowie knives, pistols and sword• canes! and against whom are they thus armed? Against a (nniston enemy er against their slaves? By nu means, but against each other. And this solitary fact trod the comequences vhich naturally flow from it are cunclusiee as regards the demoralizing tendeweies of an in• stitution which the present Administration, an ' ting under the dictation of the Slave Puwer, and aided by unscrupulous politicians of the North, are endeavoring to force apes the free people awl free soil of Kansas. To this end the entire influence and patronage of the Go, ernment, its civil, military 'laid moral power, are all directed; and alongside of these. protn• inert and threatening, stands the But'll.sti Slaveocracy, boastingly pointing to the bowie knife, the pistol and the bludgeon, and imps. demi) , taunting the entire North with cowar- dice! I cannot blame them lin• their love of power and their desire to extend it ; I do not quarrel with their ruder civilization, the natu ral offspring of their peculiar institution ; nod I do not wonder et their believing that the dnughfuces of the North, who so meekly do their behests, are but a typo dour whole pets. ple, and that we can be bullied whipped and ''kicked' into any course of policy which they tnny please to dictate to us. Will the North—the free, and educated, and civilized, and peace-loving North—tensely sule mit to the impudence and bullying et the Shire Power? INS is lie question which I desire to put directly to eetry law-abiding mut Union. lovingfreeman of the North. 1 wuuld have the entire North awaken to the attempt of the Slave Power, to extend the Institution into ' Five Territory, and the means resorted to, to accomplish that nefarious purpose. I would have them feel that the time for action has ar• rived ; and that only must that action be prompt and efficient, if we would protect ourselves from the encroachments of Slavery, but that if we tamely submit to the blustering and bullying habitually resorted to here, in the Capital of the Natien, we shall very soon be taught that Liberty of Speech is afiboon which we hold sub jest to the caprices of • the Slave Power, mid to indulge in it equally with themselves may at any time be visited by the discretionary ap plication of the pistol and the bludgeon. Of the purposes of the Slave power and its North. ern allies in the coming Pi esitlential E'ection, there is no longer any doubt. It is openly pro claimed by the Democratic press from Maine to Texas; and only this clay, the Goierionent organ published in this city, boldly declares that " whatever other quectton may enter into "the coming contest, Tile SLAVKILY lance as in " eluded ;tithe Kansas measure, muse owl will "take precedence. In comparison iota IT, all " other questions are qf minor importance— Aud in allusion to Mr. Buchanan's past Feder alists' and the suspicion only, that it may canoe hits to prefer his country and the rights of Freedom to mere party, it adds, "they scuttle no " man :chose record is not Vuoronyhey De is e. erotic." These declurations are significant; and richly -will the people of the free North have merited the outrages and contumely which are daily heaped upon them by men itnmeasm rably their inferiors as regards munhood end civilization, if they hesitate to vindicate 'their right to freedoms of speech, or falter in 'heir d, termination to drive back into the fens and starches where it properly belongs, the institu tion which 'Washington, and Jefferson, mid Madison alike conleinited, but of which Pierce and Douglass and the douglifitoes of toe North, acting and the lash of the Slave Puwer have become the willing propagandists. It is doe to Mr. Sumner to say, as a fact fa• miller to all who are accustomed to read the (blades in the Senate, that in each and every of the last five sessions of Congress, Messrs. Seward, Hale and Sumner, have received at the hands of Sonatina from the Slave States and the pliant tools of the North, ten times -I.lv, a hundred times the abuse, which in his late incomparable speech he so scathingly hurled bank upon his assailants. All this has hereto , fore been submitted to in silence : and in my judgment too loug submitted to; and tow when forbearance ceases to be a virtue, and the mem ber fur Massachusetts its vindication of his manhood and in the exercise of his privilege retorts linen his assailants a tythe only, of the abuse they have . long and So unsparingly heaped upon him and his friends, he is told that his - audacity" is absolutely imeomprehensible and his purpose inconceivitble I Alike astound ed that the anal' of peace and the meek, modest and retiring scholar, Should dare to repel any • I attack whatever, and crushed by its scathing 1 severity, Mr. Douglass exclaill. Under the gm lin of the wounds inflicted, "What 'um the Sena " tor mew' by this attack upon the nsajority of 1 "this body? What, I ask, does the Senator I " mean? What dues he want us to do/ We "alrelitly refuse to know him socially. Dues "• he want us to KICK him ? I ask agate—Dots " he want us to ewe him?" Mr. Mason of Virginia follows in a similar vein ; and Mr. Brooks at South Carolina, a ineinher of the House of Representatives, resorts to the bled genii, and assails him its his seat in the Senate Chamber of the United States. The wrong lies at the dour of those who com• memed the use oh' these personalities, and the miserable plea that because the portent thus vi , elating the decorum of parliamentary rules, was willing to back his language by the duel, 1 he was justified iii his assaults; while his ad. versary it' not thus willing to follow up his re. 1 tort, is bound to submit in silence. Such, I say. is the plea of the slave power in defence of their attacks, stud in condemnation of Stunner's ',simile; to the same weapon of defence. They , proclaim everywhere, that their attacks Nem the uuneombatants of the North, are justifiable ' bemuse those masking them are willing to fight; and that unless the assailed Senator will adopt the law of the slave power thus manufactured fur him. he must submit in silence or be beaten to death with bludgeons, men its the Senate Chamber of the Nation. Have we ate remedy for this? Are there not among us—can there not be found in the great North, met' of qualifications for both the Sen ate and the House of Representatives, who pos. BM also the necessary moral daring and phys ical courage to meet and put down this disgust- ing bullying, either with pistol or bludgeon, as circumstances may require? If there be such, let them be sent here as your Representatives, moil the South are taught after their own et that there not only is a North, but that it is unalterably determined to assert alt its rights and to maintain all its privileges, at the same time that it will in good faith, at all times and in all places, promptly discharge nil its duties to the Union, and hold sacred the rights of any section of country (whether sectional, local, or national,) under that Constitution to which the allegiance of all is eqeally due. licto Yytins. Southern Opinion. We commend the following article from the Richmond Enquirer, to those northern editors who think there has been an necessary display of feeling in this section in regard to the out rage committed on M. Sumner. No doubt they will And in it such a manifestation of o. pinion as they can conscientiously approve: 'A few Southern journals, affecting an en• elusive refinement of feeling or regard for the proprieties of official intercourse, unite with the Abolition papers in condemning the c•has• tisement inflicted upon Sumner by the lion. P. S. Brooks. We have no patience with these mealy mouthed phrases of the Press.— Why not speak out and declare at once that you are shoeke , l by the 'brutality of a slave holding ruffian I' It is much more manly to adept the violent voc•ubularly of the Tribune, than to insinuate disapprobation in the meek accents of a conscience-smitten saint. "In the main, the press of the South applan. del the comlect of Mr..l3tooks, without con d,tion of lie itati to. Our approbation at least is invite and unreserved. We consider the act good in conception, better in execution, tied brat of all In consequence. These 'vul• gar Abolitionists is the Senate are getting above them-elves. They have been humored until they forget their position. They have erown sneer, tied dare to he impudent to gen ;emelt Now„they are low, mean, scurvy set, with some little book learning, but ns utterly devoid of spirit or honor as a pack of curs.— I itretiched behind "privilege," they fancy they can slander the South and insult its plimsoll• twines with impunity. The troth is. they have 'teen suffered to rue too long without collars. They must be lashed into inbrnission. Sum ner, part icular, ought to have ninemnd•thir• tv early every morning. lie is a greet straps p'eg fellow, and could stand beautifully.— Brooks frightened bite, and at the first blow of the cane he bellowed like a bull calf. There is the blackguard Wilson, an ignorant Nantuck cobbler, swaggering in excess of muscle, and i absolutely dying fur a beating. Will not some body take him bi hand? Hale is another huge, red feted, sweating, scoundrel, whom some gentleman should kick and cuff until he abates , something of bin impudent talk. These fan , are perpetually abusing the people and repre sentatives of the South for tyrants, robbers, ruffians, adulterers, and what not. Shall we I stand it ? Can gentleman sit still in the Sen. I ate and House of Representatives, under an incessant stream of denunciation from wretch es who avail themselves of the privilegeof place to indulge their devilish passions with impuni• ty? In the absence of nn adequate law, South ' ern gentlemen must protect their own honor and feelings. It is au idle mockery to dial• lenge one of these millions. It is equally use less to attempt to disgrace them. l'hey are I insensible to shame, and can be brought, to reneon only by an application of cowhide or gotta pertha. Let them once understand that for every vile word spoken against the South, they will stiffer so many stripes, and they will soon learn to behave themselves, like docent dogs—they can never be gentlemen. Mr. Breaks has initiated this salutary disci pline, and he deserves applause for the b o ld, Judicious manner in which he chastised the , scamp Sumner. It was a proper act. done at the proper time, and in the proper place. Of all places on earth the Senate chumber, the theatre of his vituperative exploits, was the very spot where Stunner should have been I made to suffer for his violation of the dec.- ; cies of decorous debate, .d for his brutal de• timiciations of' a venerable statesman. It was ' literally end entirely proper that lie should be stricken dews and beaten just beside the desk against which lie leaned when lie fulminated his filthy utterances through the Capital. It in idle.to talk of the sand, ty of the Semite chain b,r, since it is polluted by the presence of such I , llm. as Wilson, and Sumner and Wade.— They have desecrated it, end cannot now fly to it an to a sanctuary from the lash of rouge ante. "We (rest other gentlemen will follow the example of Mr. Brooki, that so a curb may be imposed upon the truculence and audacity of abolition ,pealiers. If need be, let us have a ratting or cowhitling, every day. If the worst c ones to the worst, so much the sooner, so mach the Inter." The Death of Keating. The American Celt, an Irish pa p er; devotes much spare to the killing of Keating by Mr. Herbert now nhielded from investigation ; the Celt says: Now in relation to that division on Her bert's case, we have a duty to perform. and we shall not shrink from discharging it. That duty is to RaIIOIMCP, in umnistakeable terms, to adopted citizens of Irish birth through• out the country, that the democratic party in Congress have shamefully deserted their duty, deserted their own professions of impartiali• tv between different classes of citizens, and that they have, as plainly as deeds can speak declared the murder of a man of Irish birth by one of their colleagues to be a trifle wholly unworthy even of inquiry. Is the Democratic forty mud, or is it only rotten, that it should so belie itself? With half a dozen exceptions eve) , tuna of the majority for Kentitw's mur der's professed "Democrat." Hat, then does it mean 7 Or can it mean anything but one thing—that an Irishman born however peaceable, or loyal, in only fit to be used by the Democratic party and when used set up fur a target, and shot with impunity. This is what it tneuns, and to this meaning we shall hold the entire party. We hold Mr, Pierce, Mr. Douglas, and Mr. Buchanan responsible for this conduct of their confidants and supporters. They were all in Washington; it was for days the topic of the town ; if their friends have taken sides against the victim and against common justice, they ore not wholly above suspicion. A few days ago the blood of Thomas Keatin g wits on the hands of but one Democrat ; is has spread I since then, and it is now upon the souls of the 79, who refused all inquiry. It is on the [fern. ocratic party, and accursed be he who help!, such a party into power, until that blood is lawfully purged away. _ _ , • his is pretty strong language, hut the Celt concludes with the tolluwing unmistakeable hint : I Let them not suppose this matter is going to stop here. One who seldom drops anything has it now in hand, and he distinctly warns the Democratic Representatives at Washing. ton, that if justice is not done on the murderer Herbc•t they will he held accountable, as the party who interposed to nerece and protect him from the penalty of his guilt. Who is this "one?" The Celt is is Catholic paper. Its editor is n mouth piece for Bishop Hughes, and the above may he regarded as a threat of Arch bishop against the Democratic party. He will brld them accountable "for !Keating murder. and in order te show his pow. or, sell out the distinctive Irish vote to Re publicanism, or some other party f'. The lam gunge is incapable of nay other construction. The Democratic Representatives are to he jud g ed by the Irish ritizras and voters . of the sited States, for the theme of guilt m the matter of the 'Slaying of Keating. The old ally turns upon its own party. Fn. Ore .lourual. COMMUNICATION, The tone of the leading Democratic papers I South, in regard to the outrage upon Senator Sumner, is a clear evidence of what the slave power is. and what it would do. Its iron tread of oppression, bransen face ietoleranee mid pride of degredation, is abundantly manifested. It would seem thnt slave democracy crushes out nil deeency.end humnnity, and sentiments ofhener and justice are !Awned and ontni,eti. Accustomed to the Lash of the tyrant overseer, and the brutality of the stove driver, they with more than demoniac pride exult and applaud this shameful outrage. When the slave de. miscraey run shamelessly applaud a a ruffian assassin, who attempts to mut der in the Senate of the United States, and only desires to know who shall be the next northern victim; and ner• mils a murderer to retain his seat and pollee the Hall with his presence, it is shameful in deed. The bogus democracy is in the rinse fraternal embrace of Slavery, and it must un blushingly prostitute the name of Democracy to Southern Supremacy and Slave Propa can. dism, and under this name every enormity is sanctioned. But the other day, an isimeieet, tmoffending Irishman, a waiter at a hotel in Washington, at the breakfast table was man tiered by a desnoesat from the South, a member of Congress, and as this murderer is a sound dempoett, tho whole body of democrats, num• baring seventy eight, influenced no doubt by Democratic Slavery, voted against the investi• gallon of this find amid brutal murder. The mud, reit retains his seat in Congress, protected and screened by democratic votes. mid is yet unwhipt of justice. His presence is to be en dured in the temple of Liberty, because dem. ()emu protects a seethes,' democrat against the murder of an Irishmen. 'the tears of the frantic widow, the bereaved and fatherless chil dren, meet no sympathy, no tear of pity, from the slave democracy. frilly, porn Patriek has a hard time (Alt between the hope the Prelate and the Democratic party. This bogus Slave Democracy which rejoices at freemen being assassinated in the Seattle Chamber. has filled the cup of its iniquity. It has slow kindled the torch of civil war in Kansas. and blood of freemen has been shed by Pierce and his de, mot:racy. It is impossible to enumerate the atrocious enormities committed by the slave power in Kansas. American citizens have been butchered. The rain of a thousand sum mers cannot wash out the fearful primes; and upon Pierce and his slat.° democracy rests the fearful responsibility. Il• tvery they truckle and cringe, and will any enormity fur alaveholders' votes. k • ieNt is lAD NM dive deepest and Hwy under longest in subserviency to slavery. They rejoice in the echo of the ovemer's whip and the bloodhound's yell. HUMANITY. Magnanimous Brooks. The telegraph states the highly important fact that Brooks has given notice to General Webb, through• Gee. A i lien his letter is Tues. day's Courieris satisfactory l This is maga.. ilTolls, indeed, and shows that the South Caro. lion "nephew of his uncle" is not quite such a fool ns the French •'nephew of his uncle," in at tempting to muzzle the press. But still it is rather galling that the newspapers should be put under cenahrserd of a man who stands o ver the editors, whip or bludgeon in hand. as he would over his negro slaves, to batter their skulls in if the articles do not suit him. We shall soon have need for something, morn fonsive thnn printers"lshooting sticks." CLOSE CALCULATION-A Singular Case.— A man seventy.three years &Wage recently died in the Indiana penitentiary of an affection of the heart. He was a miser, was incarcerated for a forgery of $25, and has left a fortune of $lOO,OOO. He denied himself the smellest luxury beyond the prison fare, and at the time of his arrest was tendered counsel who pledged themselves to clear hint of the Otero for the sum of $5OO To this, the old man replied that, 'if convicted, the sentence would 1:), 'or hro years and he nidn't think he could make his expenses and two hundred and fifty dollars a year out of the peditentiary. and it didn't cost him nothin to live there; and he would save sotnething by it I'—Es. CAN Goo DE CHEATED?. It is mentioned as singular fact. that during the religious, anni versaries in New York, list week, over one thousand dollar* in counterfeit money was drop. ped into the contribution boo. Such wretetes may not let the left hoed know what the right doeth, hot do they reflect the, is on all-seeing eye or God above, which can look into the closed hand and is a perfect counterfeit detec tor itt both hypocriiy earl bank BARNUM'tt WIT.-During his late examina• lion in New York, BARN.' states that hit on• ly occupation was tending bar, and that he had been occupied in this business ever since the lawyers has been pulling him up to the bars of the different courts. The counsel for his creditOr remarked in the course of the in quisition that "we are after event the crumbs dint fall from the rich 111U11 . 3 table to which ILtuxum quickly responded "are you the dogs of Lazarus?" A GAS LO•rneato.—Omar Pasha, notwith• standing his threescore years, has just married a young lady fifteen years. of age, the (laugh ter of the unlucky General Nafiz Pasha. The bride and her family were strongly opposed to the match, and only yielded a reluctant as 84311 i in consideration of certain influences that were brought to hear upon them in high quar ters. This is the tenth or twelfth marriage that Omer Pasha has contracted since ho ab jured Christianity. A SCENE AT CUL/KM—The Ellsworth (Me) American reports that on a recent occasion the pastor of the Methodist Church in that town was officiating fur the Congregational minister and alluded to the repeal of the Maine law.— Quite a commotion resulted, and one gentle. man remarked that, “If this is a political meeting it had better ho properly organized." JENNY LIND CaLnscnattr.—Private letters received here from London, speak of Jenny' Goldschmidt's success there as fully equal to former triumphs. Her charities have been. as usual, most noble; matrimony has chastened her caprices q English air and diet have re es- tablished her health, and her boy is the image of his mother. CRAZY AS A BEDBUG I—ln New York Comp• troller Flagg has refused to receive 82000 ad• ditiun to bin eatery which had been voted by the Counci e. Such stern integrity argues that Mr. Flagg is rich enough or honest beyond all ,provions Democrats we over read of. ,3fiuntingbon outwit. ,',•; • r • • owes ; -4.1.frz;z:14,-A NI!‘iv'sYV:R.tIVZS-tk,‘ Wednesday Morning, June 11, 1858. 'AAA s! len ii:WsTEll{, EDITORS. SAM. G. 11111"1"EAKIL:11. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER. THOMAS Z. COCHRAN, oF YORK COVNTY. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, DARWIN PHELPS, • OF ARMSTRONG I,I7NTY. FOR Blrl 1-Eron GENERAL. BARTHOLOMEW LAPORTII, /liar A young man had an nrm very bad ly injured on the Broad Top Railroad lust week. grlir Peterson's Magazine for July has been received. It is beautifully einh,llish ed, and contains interesting reading. It is only Bt•_' per year, and would be cheap at thrice that price. pr r We have received the June num ber ci the Inventor. a very excellent sci entific work, published by Low, Flas'.ill & Co., 804 Du me street, N York. at only $1 per year. We commend it to all scientific men. Car James Buchanan is the Dentocra ic nominee fur President of the United •tates. If he be. elected, ten cents a clay sto be the Inhering inan's hire. Killing Irishmen Democratic sport. Assassiea. .ions Democratic law. Mir Our "American" neighbors are a queer set of animals When a subscriber discontinues their pamper, they pounce at once upon humble we, and attempt to al lay their angry ..pheelinks" by false accu sations. Dear neighbors we cannot help it if subscribers are leaving you to take that standard sheet, the Journal. Mr The American Council of the State of Pennsylvania has appointed Etc• Governor Win. F. Johnston of Pittsburg, and inlet Williamson. E-q.,. of Hunting don county, Senatorial Delegates nt large to the American Convention which will assemble in New York, on the 12th of the present month. Ed. Scull, editor of the American Whig, of Somerset county, is the Congressional Delegate. Ear We expect a rich treat of orthodox Christianity from Mr. Benedict this week We expect it from the fact that he has been making public proclamation on all the cor ners of the streets, and front the steps of the . 6 Ameriertn" printing office, that he in tended to tell the world that we voted ille gaily, &,&c , &c., &c. 6 Don't let your angry passions rise, to tear 'out each oth• er's eyes out. " rerWe have received from T. B. Pe terson 102, Chesnut street, Philadelphia, a sample sheet of the first sixteen pages of Pickwicic Paper, now in press, and will soon be issued. The Pickwick Papers comprised in two large duodecimo volumes of near one thousand pages, is beautifully illustrated with forty.ieven magnificent new illustrations, engraved on steel Oth er volumes of Dickens , Works will foll,w in rapid succession, until the whole series are completed. No library is complete without a set of Dickens' Works. Ire' We take the following front the Philadelphia North American: The American party in the interior and western part of Pennsylvania wears all the appearance of the party in 'New England. ‘Ve notice that the county meetings are called and held as "American Ilspublican." They were so to the lust canvass, and are so now. We have now before us the pro• oeedings of a delegate Convention of that kind held lately :n Indiana County, at which strong resolutions were passed np. posed '•to the demands of the slave power." expressing the warmest sylnyathy for the citizens of Kansas "who are now braving the terrors of violence and the armed slaps. sition of the Administration, in behalf of freedom," and denouncing the assault on Mr. Sumner; "for his eloquent vindication of Northern rights," "us another canto ple of the brutalizing influence of Slavery." 'Phis is pretty much the tone of the v hole American party of Western and Northern Pennsylvania. LITHOGRAPHIC COLORING, The art of lithographic coloring is rea• chilli/ a degree of beauty rivalling the pro ductions of the painter's brush. The fine specimens exhibited at the EX , hange Ho tel, by Mr. Bingham, who proposer teach ing the art to as many of our citizens as may desire to learn, attract mob intention, Landscapes, animals, domertio scenes, are all produced in this way with a touch of coloring and a gradation and combination of tints that is really surprising. The cheapness of these elegant pictures makes the decoration of parlor walls us my mat. ter. The Cincinnati Convention. Hon. James Buchanan has been nomi nated by this Convention as the Deninent• tic candidate for the Presidency, There was a very stormy time of it, much "noise and confusion, &c. We condense the pro ceedings : The five closing resolutions of the plat form were considered separately and all were adopted by large majorities. The supplementary resolution, relative to the Pacific Railroad was tablud 7 -ayes 139, nays 120. An exciting discussion then arose upon motions to reconsider, and to construe the resolutions relative to foreign policy. A Committee to select the Na tional. Democratic Executive Cominiaee was then chosen. A motion to commence balloting for candidates was debated up ta the hour of adjournment. Yesterday mor ning the Convention reassembled at 10 o'clock. Col, Stevenson of I<y., presented the report of the majority of the Commit tee on Credentials, to the effect that the :Sofia of New York he allowed delegates and the Hards 26. Senator 13ayard of Delaware, made a minority report in favor of placing the rival delegations on an equal footing. After a long discussion. the re port of the majority was rijected, and that of the rninor.ty accepted. The Conven• tion then adjourned until 2P. M. On the Convention reassembling in the afternoon, the first ballot was taken, resulting: Hu• chanan, 185; Pierce, 124 ; Douglass, 31 ; Cass. 5. the balloting continued as tar as the 14th bultot—the vote for Buchanan and Douglass steadily increasing, and that for iirce as steadily falling oft. On tit, • 14th ballot, the vote stood : Buchamit•, 1521; Pierce, 79; Dougl.s, ; 51. The Convention then, ut SP. M., adjourned. On the 15th ballot, Buchanan and Dou• glass distanced all competitors, and the name of President Pierce was withdrawn. On the 17th ballot, Buchanan received 196 V rtes, and the noiniation was then declared unanirnouoJohn C. 13reckenridge, of Kentucky, was chosen as a candidate for the Vice Presidency, on the second ballot. 'l•he Democratic National ticket for the next campaign, therefore stands— For President, James Buchanan, of Penn. sylvania ; for Vice President, MI Breckenridge, of Kentucky. The following is a detailed etait is the vote by States: States. Buchanan. Pierce Douglas. Cars Niiiine, 7 1 N. Hampshire, 5 Vermont. 5 51assaellusetts, 10 3 Rliuds Island, 4 Connecticut, 6 New York, 17 18 Now Jersey, 7 Pennsylvania, 27 Delaware, 3 Maryland, 8 Virginia, 15 Nth Carolina. 10 Stli Carolina, 8 Georgia, 3 7 Alabama, 9 Mississippi, ' 7 LOtll3l,lUll f 6 Ohio, 13 2 5 1 Kentucky, 4 . Tennessee, 12 Indiana, 12 Illinois, 9 Arkansas, 4 Michigan 6 Florida, 3 Texas, 4 ' lowa, 2 2 Wisemisin, 6 Calitbriiia, 3 The boll- votes were rejected by OA. Chair. "I CAN'T GO NIGGERISDIr The Washington Cominonweadh :Aye This is a sentiment occasionally uttered, by persons speo.ing deprecatingly of the great Republican movement. Now, the Republicans are working alike for th, wrest of all, but more for the whites Orin the blacks. They do not propose ring, at this time .vith slavery in the (title rent States, although they believe it a mo ral and political evil ; they only ask that it alio!' not be extended to the Tertiloriea ; that the tree white laborers and mechanics of the North may not be degraded and compellad so labor side by side and in cots petition with the unpaid slave, or be shut out from the New States. This is the ob. jerk they are aiming at. But suppose fur u moment, that they did propose freeing all the slaves in America. is there anything so revoking in the establishment of freedom in opposition to slavery The men who make use of this expression are generally those of low instincts and debased habits, without education or generous impulses. and but little superior to the slaves them selves; they are, however, encouraged, by a more elevated class of thin-skinned gen try among us, mostly pensioners on some rich slave-holding relative ; and who are fearful and suspicious of everything that savors of anti slavery—they are thorough ly pro.slavery. There are but few such, however, in our midst, we are glad to say. HAULING DOWN THE FLAG ! The Washington Commonwealth says that the Uniontown Standard, the only pa per in Western Pennsylvania that .upports Fillmore and Donelson, will haul down the flag and raise the names of the Republican nominees for the Presidency and Vice Pre sidency. Wo are glad to hear it ; and hope the editor will never run astray after strange God*. . DISSOLVING THE UNION. By way of iEustrating the supreme fol, ly of the cry about the dissolution of the Union, Gov, Ford of Ohio, relates the f 4. lowing capital story in his own inimitable manner : "Dissolve the Union I" said Ford; sti should like to ace them attempt to dissolve the Union. "Why, the silly cry reminds me of en Irishman who went down into a well to clean it out. When he was t h ro' he made the signal to be hauled up. Ills comrades who were determined to have a joke at his expense, hauled him up aboat half way end then stopp,d. There he hung—no way to get up—no safe way to get down, if thnt were desirable. Ile en treated and begged, but it was of no use. He stormed and raved, but it did no good. At last he sung out "Haul me out, ye opal peens, or, by the piper that played before Moses, I'll be either cutting the rope," "Let them cut the rope if they like the plunge," was Ford's application. BUCHANAN AN ORIGINAL N. N. The following choice passage has been discovered among the earlier writings of lion. James Buchanan. It occurs in an oration delivered by him in Lancaster, Po. It seems to show him to have been a K. N. of more than forty years standing: "Above all we ought to drive from out shores foreign influence, and cherish Am. erican feeling. Foreign influence has been in every age the curse of Republics—its jaundiced eye sees everything in false co lors—the thick atmosphere of rejudice by which it i: err r surrounded, excluding fr nn its sight the light , f reason, Let us n lenrn wisdom from experience, end forever BANISH 'PHIS FIEND from our society " Can the editor of the ~G lobe" reconcile this unmistaknble k n. doctrine, .vi , b Me opposite"pbeelinks 'U We pause for a reply. MEETING OF CONFEREES. At a meeting ut the Conferees of this Congressional District, held in Altoona, on Friday, the 13th inst., Dr. D. S. Hutchison of Blair county, woo elected President, and Wm. Brea,ter Vice President. On motion, Hon. Jonathan McWilliams .1 Huntingdon county, and S. S. Blair and i•lnj Geo. Raymond of Blair, were oppoin• tcd Delegates to the Notional Republican Convention to meet in Ohiladelphia on the 17th of June. On motion, Martin of Blair county, and R. L. Johnston, of Cambria county, were appointed Senatorial Delegatesto the Republican State Convention, to meet in the some place en the 16th inst. NEW SUBSCRIBERS FOR MAX. 11 e neglected to give the names of the new subscribers to the fluntingJon Journ al for the month of May, last week. We giro them to-day. We will not forget it hereafter. JAS. I3RYAN, Petersburg. AND AKE, Cullensburg. J. D. LEE I', Hollidaysburg. JAAI ES STEWART, East Barree. LOU,S GREER. Ashton, 111. BOW %lAN & SNYDER, Altoona. THOS. MILLER, Ennisville. HEN. DAVIS. Auronsburg. O. W. SMITH, Canton City, 111. COL EVERHEART, Huntingdon. We tender our grateful acknowledi menu to our friends who we giving us such loving old and comfort. Let us have such a list of new patrons for June, us shell re• juice this hearts of all alvocutes of free ac. tiro, free speech and free territory. "Young men and oh! men, come join true tem dote's cause, And shout for just principles, true Mon and ban (.3l. laws ; • Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah. trap Lioes not Filimoro Come Homo t ,bove is a que,tion which we have often heard asked, without any satisfactory answer to it. We era now able to solve it on high authority. There are at this time at least one hundred American Counciis in the Free States, atvaiung to to propound the following queries to him : Are you for or against tho destruction of the Missouri Compromise Are you for or against the establishment of Slavery in Kansas ? Are you for or against the admission of Slavery north of 30° 30' Aro you for or against the murders, rapes, robberies and house•burnings, com mitted by the border ruffians of Missouri, in Kansas ? Mr. Fillmore, having pledged himself to the slave power, wishes to avoid these interrogatories on the part of the Free la borers—therefore he comes not home. AT THE CONPESSIONJA.—AtChiBOII, with an eminently ruffian openness, confess, in a letter published in the Orangeburg, (S. C.) Southron that, extermination of the Free Sellers, and not the maintaitiance of "law and order" by executing the writes of the Territorial justi. ces, was the object of the enterprise against Lawrence. Thus writes this man, On the 25th of April: Three companies or the United States troops hove been called for by the Governor and marched to the scene of action. We have not yet heard the result, but I fear nothing has been done by the U. S. troups ; the "Bor. der Heinen." alone can settle the matter sat• iefactorily. "Border Justice" is what the Abo litionists must have. *Z7 No material change in the Mk. ainea our last.
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