THE tfEBFOM! GAZETTE. Bedford. I>ec. 1^37. B. F. Meyers &G. W. Eeni'ord. Editors. Reduction oi Tea'ins! THF "GAZETTE" FURNISHED TO SI B SCRIBERSFOR 8,.™. IF PAID IN ADVANCE! In accordance with the general wish of our | subscribers we have concluded to reduce the price of our paper to § I 50 per annum, cash in advance. If payment is not made in auvance, $2,00 will be charged if paid within the year : j whenever a subscriber sutlers Ins account to ; remain unsettled at the end otlhe \> ar, will be charged. TfThese Terms will he strictly and in vtriubly adhere t /"•_=£lj A!! of our present subscribers- who will make j payment before the first day of January next, ! shall receive the Gazette, at the ahove named | rate of $1,50 per annum, in advance, and those who have already paid us $2,00 for the present volume, shall have a credit ot 50 cents on the next. RESIGNATION OF GOV. WALKER. ROBERT J. WALKER has resigned the Governorship of Kansas and has written a long, able and courteous letter to the Secretary of '■Stale, setting forth his reasons for tendering his resignation. This movement of Gov. Walker's I * is, doubtless, a source of great disappointment to ; the Abolitionists, as they confidently expected ' that he would be removed by Mr. Buchanan, in 1 which event they intended to raise their hypo- ; critical howl of pity and condolence, (which always forms a pait ottheir tactics on such oc casions) thinking thereby to wheedle the friends of Gov. YY. into their own ranks. But, "alas ! alack ! and a-well-a-day !" Gov. Walker has removed himself and by doing so has likewise removed the material of which the Abolition ists had so fondly hoped to manufacture any quantity of "thunder." YVe pity the poor fel lows—indeed, we do! "Gov. Ford's fund" has long since been exhausted and it is hard, therefore, to raise popular excitement on the subject of "Bleeding Kansas," to the pitch re quired by the Abolitionists for the attainment of their objects. For this reason if was ciuel j in Gov. YValker to resign. But if he chooses to break tbe hearts of the Abolitionists, we can't help it. That is his affair, not ours, however much we may deprecate it. YVe have not the space to give the whole of Gov. YValker's letter, nor do we believe that it would be of much interest to many of our readers. According to the result of the late e lection, a large majority of the people of Bed ford county, are in favor of minding their own business, and letting the people of Kansas man age theirs. YY'p have, therefore, come to the conclusion that there will be enough on the sub- ! ject of Kansas, in this issue, for thj* enjoyment ! of our readers, without copying Gov. YValker's letter which would occupv about one entire ! page of our paper. In order, however, to give i no cause of complaint to the Abolitionists, we subjoin the following extract, in which Gov. YValker proves conclusively that Slavery cannot be made to exist in Kansas. I have said that the slavery question as a prac- ; fical issue, bad disappeared from Kansas long be- i fore my arrival there, and the question of self-I government had been substituted, in its place, j On some future occasion I shall dissipate the i delusion which has prevailed upon this subject and show, that after three years' experiment, when I arrived in Kansas, there were less than | three hundred slaves there, and the number con- ! stantly diminishing; that, as proved bv the! official records of Congress, published anil an-j thenticated by those distinguished Southern statesmen JohnC. Calhoun and Jefferson Davis, the winter climate, even of Eastern Kansas, i colder than that of New England,arid that the pro-slavery Territorial Convention of Kansas, consolidated with the pro-slavery Territorial Legislature, on the 4th of January, 1857, nearly five months before my arrival there, did distinct ly abandon tlie* slavery issue, because, as set forth by one of their number, "the pro-slaverv partv was in a small and admitted minority," "and the co-operation of the free-State Demo crats was invited, as the only hope of success, not to make Kansas a slave Slate, which was conceded to be impossible, but to make it a con servative Democratic free State." Even as late i as the 3d ot July, 185/, when the Democratic Territorial ( onveution assemble,! a; Lecompton, in consequence of the laws of climate and the ! well-known will ol the people, none contended ; that slavery could be established there. The Problem Solutl. Under the administration ol the present Know-Nothing-Abolition Governor,speculation j in banks, has had the mo.>; unbounded license. ' In 1855, ten new banks were incorporated, i nine re-chartered, and the capital ofother banks increased to the sum of $200,000. The entire increase ot banking capital m the Shite, duriiur that year was $2,525,000 ! 1 hi, was the w,, r k - of a Know-Notbing-Abolition Governor and Legislature. I n 1856, the Democrats having; a majority in the Legislature, there were no \ new banks incorporated and but four re-char tereo, while the increase of banking capital was but $1,100,000. In 1857 urn .k v ' ' in tou/ when the Know - ot ings and Abolitionists again had the con trol of the Legislature, there were sixteen new honks incorporated with a capital of $4,500,- ™X""T h """ l0f "' h ' r b ' nl " r 'on Ui ' '* Wl " bp * epn > Ibat during ov. o nek s administration, the banking capital the St*,, has been mcreased nearly Ofdollars ' And this, we hold, matt 1,11 * ' C4Uie °*late crash m money ra. Thus do we solve the problem of the revulsion in Pennsylvania, from which we now trymg to recover. ° f,h^B!ootr ' sb,jr * st " r °i K B. YV. Weaver £^ on,JDUP<I by the widow of j REMOVAL OF SECRETARY STANTON. The President has very justly removed F. P. Stanton from the office of Secretary of Kansas Territory, he (Stanton) having violated his in structions by calling together the Territorial Legislature for the purpose ol interfering in the arrangements made by the late Constitutional Convention for taking the vote on the "slavery ] question." GEN. DENVER, a man of great force lof character, has been a-ppoinled to succeed Air. Stanton. Fanaticism, pro-slavery and j anti-slavery, will meet with no milk-and-water ! treatment at the hands of Denver. Alav there i he enough of the "Old Hickory" leaven in him ; —and from what we are told of him, v e believe : there is—to silence soon and forever the .li I contented, hypocritical and agitating d-ma j gogues in Kansas, who have shown themselves j to be ever ready to commit perjury, murder and treason, aye, who are willing to see the ver\ | Freedom they prate so much about, trampled 1 in the dust, il thereby the election of an \ bo !it ion President in 18G0, could be secured. Air. Secretary Stanton in his message to the Territorial Legislature, holds the following lan guage : r 7 The law passed at the last session of the Leg islative Assembly, providing for the organiza tion of a Convention to frame a Constitution for tiie government of Kansas as one of the States ofthe Union, was adopted at a period when, unfortunately, the people ofthe Territory were divided by a bitter hostility, resulting from the , previous state of commotion and civil war. 1n : ! consequence of this embittered fueling, and the | mutual distrust naturally thereby engendered, j one of the parties, cornposjng a large majority : iof the peopje, refrained almost entirely from j any participation m the proceedings instituted ; under the law aforesaid. The census therein provided for was imperfectly obtained from an unwilling people, in nineteen counties of the Territory; while in the remaining counties, be- ' ing also nineteen in number, from various cau ses, no attempt was made to comply with the law. In some instances, people and officers were alike averse to the proceeding; in others, the officers neglected or refused to act; and in some, there was hot a small population, and no efficient organization, enabling the people to secure a representation in the Convention.— i Under the operation of all these causes com-! hined, a census list was obtained of only nine 1 thousand two hundred and fij/y-one legal re fers, confined to precisely one-half the coun ties of the Territory, though these undoubtedly ! ( contained much the larger part of the popula i //on. At the election which followed in the pursu- ■ ance of the law, only two thousand two hundred \ persons being less than one fourth of the regis- ; lered voters, participated, in uny manner, in the [ choice of delegates, either by voting for those elected, or for other persons. The average ag gregate vote in favor of the successful candi- ! dates was about eighteen hundred. It thus appears that in the election of the loth ; June last, for the delegates to the Convention, ' the great mass of the people refrained from vo-, ting, and left the whole proceeding, with all * its important consequences, to the active mi-i j nority, under whose auspices the law had been j enacted, and also executed, so far as that could j be done by the executive officers, without the ! ! concurrence of a majority ofthe people. THAT THE REFUSAL OFTHE MAJOR ITY TOGO INTO THE ELECTION FOR ! DELEGATES YVAS UNFORTUNATE, IS NOW TOO APPARENT TO BE DENIED. • IT HAS PRODUCED ALL THE EVILS AND DANGERS OF THE PRESENT CRIT CAL HOUR. Now, here is the positive and emphatic state j ment of a high public officer in Kansas, THAT | THE REFUSAL OFTHE MAJORITY TO IGO INTO THE ELECTION FOR DELE GATES TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CON VENTION, "HAS PRODUCED ALL THE j EVILS AN!) DANGERS OF THE PRESENT | CRITICAL HOI K." The question arises,! I what party constitutes that majority I It is ; ! answered by the result of the bite election in Kansas for Delegates to Congress and Members lot the Legislature, the so-called ••/•'/•*>/• State men' 1 under the control of the. . tholilion 'tend crs, Lane and Robinson, 'ore toe party that ; constitute that majority Therefore, bv refus ing to vote at the election held t > choose dele gates to th*< Constitutional Convention, accord ing to the testimony of Secretary Stanton, the Abolitionists in Kansas have caused "the evils and dangers of the present critical hour." Let them be held responsible for it at the bar I of public opinion. \ Foe on this bid:* of Kansas. The Democratic press ot" this State, seem to ! have almost entirely Just sight of the great | ; question which but a few weeks ago command- j eel their earnest and undivided attention, and which at present r. quires, and will, for some i time to come, require their anxious and careful ' ' consideration. YVe allude to the problem of the late financial revulsion. That subject stand j nig out so prominently on our political horizon i j has been suddenly eclipsed by the foggy orb of ••Bleeding Kansas," and almost every Demo- j cratic editor ofthe State since looking upon j that eclipse, has seen nothing but little globes ofj i Kansas moonshine dancing iu his vision.— T i ! Jesting aside, we consider this reprehensible in i ; the highest degree. In the name of Common Sense, let us attend to our own business first, and, then, after we shall have provided for our own welfare, we may speculate on the follies , of the people of Kansas. "Charity begins at home," says the old adage, and we think, as Democrats of Pennsylvania, we can profit by conforming to the doctrine which it teaches.— YVe need not'mount our Rosinant.s and goon a mad-cap expedition for tbe purpose of shiver ing our lances against imaginary wind-mills in Kansas. YVe have a foe at our own dour.-, which the people call upon us to fight; a foe who has "millions" for his own defence, but "not one cent for tribute" to the interests of the public. Whilst we are making a great "ado about nothing" in the discussion of Kansas af fairs, this enemy of ours is fortifying las posi tion and preparing to make an attack up m us which, if we are not ready to meet it, vv- shall remember in sorrow for years to come. He s' will fight us in our Legislative Halls, armed . with the weapons ot bribery , he will intrigue with our weak representatives and hire the , I treacherous to stair tis when we least expect it. [ It is not difficult to recognize this enemv.— Hi'cannot disguise himself in these days nf fi .; nancial ruin. Every Democrat (at least every one who believes in the doctrines of VVashing- I , ton, Jackson and Buchanan) beholds him in that speculating monster, the Bunk of Issue. , II there are Democrats who cannot see this ene my, let them look in their pocket-books. s:MN;ITL TKICKKRY. David VVilinof, the late .Abolition candidate fur Governor (the man who "stumped Packer," von know,) it will lie remembered, resigned hi- Judgeship so that he could canvass the State tortile office to which he aspired. Gov. Pollock appointed a gentleman by the name of Bullock to j succeed David. Judge Bullock sat on "the j bench" while David was running for Governor and until a fe vv weeks after the election, when ! Gov. Pollock re-instated the said David in the Judgeship. It is supposed that YViimot would j have been re-appointed to his former position on the very next day after the election, but that a rumor had reached the Governor that owing to a very loud clap of thunder bis hear-' j ing was badlv affected, and, therefore, it is I presumed, His Excellency postponed the matter ; fur a few weeks, hoping that bv that time ! David's tympanum would once more be able to withstand the sledge-hammer eloquence of Brad lord lawyers. But be that as it may, Wilmot a gain wears the ermine, bv appointment from j Gov. Pollock. Sohis resignation was but a trick, alter all, to delude the people into the belief : that he was too honorable a man to draggle : his judicial robes in the mite of politics. Such ; trickery is shameful, indeed, and IMr. Bullock must have been a great calf to allow himself to be made the instrument by which it was played off. But Gov. Pollock has lately made someothpr I appointments which cast the Wilinot dodge, ; dishonorable as it was, far into the shade. 1 he following from the Harrisburg correspon- I dence of the Pittsburg Union, will show our j | readers what this Honorable. Governor is engag j ed in doing : HARRISBDRG, Dec. 14-, 1807. J EDITORS OF THE UNION Vou have already J , commented with proper severity, on the appoint- > ment of H'ilrnot as Judge, after the dodge ofhis ' resignation had failed to accomplish its purpose , ;of making him Governor. A similar dodge has • ! taken place in your own county. One of vour : notaries, whose commission would have expired ; a few weeks after the inauguration of Governor Packer, resigned a few days since, and received i I from Governor Pollock, a new commission, hav i ing three years to run : thus, by a mean trick, i taking the patronage out of the hands of (he next Governor. How many more of Gov. Phi lock's notaries will avail themselves of this new wrinkie, J am not advised. But there is u rumor t now circulating in our borough, said to be be lieved by those well informed, that your Sealer of Weights and Measures, and your Flour In ' spector, are to resign a day or two before the expiration oi Gov. Pollock's term, and receive re-appointments, either for themselves or (heir political friends—to last three years longer. If this dodge should be carried out, it will spoil the calculations of some good Democrats of vour ; county, who are looking for these places. And Gov. Packer will have no chance of paving it hack at the end ofhis term, for it so happens, that his term commences on the lltii (second j Tuesday) of January, 185S, and will expire on the Bth of January, 18G1, the second Tuesday in that year corning three davs earlier than in 18:>S, so I hat those appointed on the 10th of next month, will hold clear through Governor! Packer's term. True, a Governor of Pennsyl vania should be above this sort of thins, but if ' he is not, how are you going to help it ? and what 1 will our friends, who expect these places, do about it ? Yours, TAXPON TIIC Difleresicis j fhe opposition to the Democratic party had a majority in the List Congress and they spent I about $300,000 ol the people's money in elec ting a Speaker. In the present Congress, the Democrats have a majority, and the Speaker was chosen on the first ballot. It is easy to he seen ' which party tries to subserve the interests of the people and which aims hut at the plunder of the ' • public treasury. STATU TJIEASI RER. We learn with pleasure, that HON. H. S. MA GRAW, the present efficient and trustworthy . State Treasurer, will be a candidate lor re-elec tion to that otiice. i\lr. Magratv deserves the office and the Legislature will do itself credit by continuing him in the position. - •- Tilt Kansas Question. Alluding to the action of the Kansas Con stitutional Convention, the Indiana State Sen tinel says— '• We believe that the admission of Kansas with the constitution framed by the Lecompton convention with the prohibition of slavery by the vote of the people, would be an act which would give peace to that territory, settle all the political difficulties which have so long dis turbed her, and would be hailed with satisfac tion by the country generally. Yet we would not, as we have before said, desire it at the sacrifice of any of the political rightsol her peo ple. But the difficulties which have so violent ly agitated the country upon Kansas affairs did not break down the democratic party, as was confidently predicted by our political opponents nor will those now existing have that effect. The democratic party, acting as it always fas fur the best interests and with a just respect for the rights of the whole country, will move on in the same successful career which has char acterized her past history." BETTING ON ELECTIONS.— The Supreme Court of Tennessee, in session at Knoxville, has de cided that betting on an election held out of the Slate is not indictable in Tennessee. Betting nr the result of an election in Kentucky, for in stance, is not an offence against the laws of Ten nessee. 13 r £i t i 13. There has been a row at the {rate of Jer usalem, between the villagers of Bethlehem and those ol Thamar, in which one man was killed. . Pilgrims were numerous and every where con spicuous. It was the crew of the American frigate Congress who were all allowed to go j ashore, and make their way to the Holy City, ! instead of getting drunk at Joppa. ; —Few- insects live more than a year in their perfect state. Their first state is the egg, then the caterpillar, then the chrysalis or pupa, and ; finally the procrmtive form. But in thesr changes there are infinite degrees and varieties of transition, ali of which constitute the pleas ing and very instructive study of entomology. —The good people at Janesville, Wis, were recently furnished with a bit of excitement, growing out of the cow-hiding of Mr. John P. Hoyt, a well known banker of that citv, by , Mrs. Clarinda Andrews, the proprietress of a millinery store in the same place. Cause— i alleged unfair treatment. —The Egyptians manufactured perfumes so I perfectly thalsoine of their ancient ointment, ■ preserved in an alabaster vase, in a museum in England, sfiil retains a powerful odor, though i it must he between two thousand years I old. —An.action for debt bv a wife against her j husband, to recover money loaned by her to her j Husband, being property acquired after mar i j'iage, was tried in the Common Pleas of Perry j county, Pa., a lew davs ago, Judge Graham : presiding. The question was whether a wife tjcould maintain a suit against her husband. The | Court decided that she could, and delivered a I verdict for the plaintiff fur $2,1>08. Brigham Young is said to be one of the | proprietors of the town of Florence in Nebraska i Territory, and has also certain special rights in | tiie ferrv privilege at that place, by which his followers are to be ferried across the Missouri at half their usual rates. The fact of his owner ship has but recently been ascertained, and has ■ caused no little excitement among the Nebraska "Gentiles." Mr. Isaac Buchanan, candidate for the new provincial Parliament for the county of Huron, conceiving that the British firm of government is unsuited to the wants of Canada, in an address to the electors declares himself in | favor of the American system. Printer's ink served a pretty turn at Low ell, in catching the Davenport boy medium at j playing on the musical instruments, instead of 1 'he spirits, as was pretended. The ink was ; rubbed over the keys of the instrument ; the I music was produced,and lo! the boy's fingers were ■ besmeared with the sticky stuff! —ft is contradicted by a Russian authority ! that the project of the emancipation of the serfs jin that country is near its realization. A vari , efy of conflicting opinions and interests may retard the measure for some years longer. —ln Columbus,(Ga.) on Monday night, James Garrard killed a woman by the name of Susan j Brown, and then slabbed' himself in several | places. He is yet living, but it is said he can not recover. Fennon, a tailor, about 38 years of ag*< ad a> native of Massachusetts, was found dead in the woods bet ween North Wavne and Readfield, Maine, on the 4th instant, lie has ! been missing since September last. —A draft ol thirl}- men arrived at Norfolk on Wednesday, in the steamer Louisiana, from Baltimore, and proceed-d to the navy yard. They are to be put on board the sloop-of-war i Marion, which is to proceed .shortly to the coast of Africa. —The wife of Senator Benit fSan Anto nio, i'exas, has recently given biith to her nine teenth child. She is but 38 years old. —Tt is reported that the official canvass o the vote in Minnesota for territorial delegates to Congress exhibits the following result; Kings bury. Democrat, ! ">, 188 ; McClure, Republican 12,999 : majority lor Kingsbury, 2,189. —I be United States Agricultural Society will hold their annual session at the Smithsoni an Institute, in Washington, on the 13th day of January. —A man attempted to seize a favorable opportunity, a few days since, but his hold .-lip ped, and he (eji to the ground considerably injured. —ln the House of Representatives, on Wed nesday, Hon. J. Glancv Jones, Chairman of Committee on Ways and Means,* reported a bill lor t:ie payment of Invalid and other Pen sions. —The Detroit Tribune says extra brands of flour are selling in that city at $1- a barrel. —lf a cigar makes a man ill, will a cheroot make a Man-ilia ! —A hypocrite with his mouth destroyed) his neighbor, Cut through knowledge shall the just be delivered. —lranistan, the memorial of humbug and folly, at Bridgeport, Ct., has lately been burned It was insured for more than it was worth, and it is said was set on tire. —Theodore Sedgwick has been appointed United States District Attorney for .New York in place of John M'Keon, removed. AII of the wives of the cabinet officers at Washington intend lo be 'at home' on Thursdays during the winter. A monument to the memory of General Nathaniel Greene is to be erected in North Caro lina. The Morinon war will close, for years, perhaps, the overland route to California by way of the south pass. —The new Secretary of Legation to Paris Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, has arrived, and entered upon the discharge of his duties. —The grasshoppers are still troublesome in various parts of Texas, especially in the neigh borhood of Gonzales. —The number ot State paupers in Massachu setts is 3,173. Governor W. F. Packer is now at Wash ington. —The Legislature of Minnesota met at St. Paul on the 2d of December, and both Houses organized. All the officers elected were Demo crats. —Matthew Kerr, Esq., an old and respected citizen of Wrigbtsvifle, Pa., die,l ori Saturday last. rile v* i'e of Vice-President Br l , tklidg• is at Baton R ■ >g , La., in ill IK altii The r n , .. The following . , v - . . ~ - P'• ot the Kansas constitution to which we inv . , 5 the attention )t our readers * ORDINANCE. ■ Theordieence -i.hwbicliih.| 0 „, lilo , !M legms, proposes the relinquishment}-, i. the State to tax Government laridL i)hin j bt . states on the grant by Government \ )()r sc ions of lannd in racii township to the^ 3t( .' j;, r iehool|purposes, the errant n f all sa |t spr\„ y c he payment to Hip Mate nf five per cer£j- " fh( ! ail public lands sold in the St\ (| IP ;rant of r2 sections of land for the usevf a •eminary, and alternate sections of land lines of railroad through the State, one N\|, md South, and the other from the iver westward, to aid in the construction f such roads. pn GAMBLE. The preamble recites the circumstances of the formation of the Constitution, and (fie style of fie Stale. Art. I. fixes liie State boundaries. Art. 2. Provides that no county on the .Missouri >r Kansas rivers shall be reduced to less than 20 miles square, and no other to less than *SOO sfjiiai e miles. Ihe powers of the government are to be Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. I:\GCITIVE department. Sec. 1. The Governor shall | lo | f j (vvn v ears. 2. Governor to be elected ■ returns to :e sent to House of Representatives ; contested •■lections to be determined by Legislature. .'J. Governor shall be 3 ) years of age, a citizen of Hie United States 20 years, and the State 5 wars, and shall not hold the office more than 4infi \ ears. 4. His salary to he fixed hv law. b. He shall have command of the Military of [he Stale. (I. |fe itiav require information Iroro the Department. 7 May convene tfi,- L'gislature in emerg-nci.-s. 8. Sfial! inf nn Hie Legislature as to the state <.) t( lf . G"v-rti ment, and recommend m-asuies for their action. 9. Shall see that the laws are executed. JO. May grant reprieves or pardons, ii. All com missions shall he in the name of (lie State and sealed. 12. The sea of the Slate to he kepi by ttie Governor. It shall he the present terri torial seal until otherwise ordered. 13. Vacan cies not provided lor to he tiiied by Legislature. 11. The Secretary of the Stale to he elected for two yealß. 15. All bills passing Hie Legislature to !>e presented to the Governor, to he signed or returned with (lis objections. 16. Resolutions, except in certain cases, to he signed hv the Governor. 17. A Lieutenant Governnor "to he elected, and (18) incase of the death of the Governor, to act in his stead. 19. Lieutenant Governor to be President of the Senate. 20. A State Treasurer and Auditor to be elected to serve two yeais—2l. A Sheriff, Tnasurer, to be elected ui each county. LEGISLATIVE DEPART.ME.MT. Sec. 1. The Legislature to consist of a Senate anil House of Representatives. 2. No L*. S. officer, except post masters, or persons holding a lucrative office under the State to be eligible ; or (3,) any peison convicted of a penitentiary jffence, or guilty of embezzling the funds of Ihe State. 4. The members ol the House to be elected lor two years, and (5,) ofthe Senate for four years. 6. Senators at the first session to draw lots, one-half to serve two years and the it her lour. 7. The number of Senates not to be U.ss Ihan I3tmr more members of the House not more thah 3 100. 9. Fixes liie style of the laws 11). EsJh house may determine its own rules, 11. May pun ish disorderly behavior by line or imprisonment. 12. Each House shall keep a journal.—l 3. Neither shall adjourn for more than three duvs without lhe consent ol the other. 14. ihe two Houses siiail elect officer-. 15. A majority ot -ither House shall constitute u quorum, lb. 1 ompensation ol members to be fixed by law. 17. Bills may originate in either house. 18. Legislature to provide for filling vacancies in -ither House.—l 9. To sit with open doors. 20. I.very law to embrace onlv one subject. 21. Every act to be plainly worded. 22. L<*_- isiature to meet every two years. 23. Shall provide fir enumeration of inhabitants and ap portionment ol Repiesenlatives. 24. Tbe Leg islature shall not grant divorces, occ., but shall roofer such power on the Courts by genera, law. Due diHigence shall heexeicised ill civil officers in the rendition ol fugitives Iron service or labor in other Slates. Then follow: inapporiibnmenf for members of the fiist Leg islature—44 Representatives, 19 Seuators. judiciary. Sec. The judicial powers to be vested in i Supreme Court, Circuit Courts ,Chancery Court' ' -ourts ot Probate, cN.c. 2, 3 and 4 Supreme Coui to consist of a Ciliei Justice and two Associates iie Court to have appellate jurisdiction only and to hold two sessions annually at the seat o Governrnei t. 5. May elect a lerk and Repor ter. t>. Slate to be divided into circuits. 7 Defines extent of jurisdiction of Circuit Court [o be held in each year. 9. The Legislature may establish Courts ot Chancery, and (10) in rach county a Court of Probate." jl. A compe tent number of Justices of the Peace shall be elected in each county. J3. Compensation ol Judges to he fixed by law. 13. The Chief Jus tice and Associates to be elected bv the electors of the State, Circuit Judges by their respective Circuits, and Chancery Judges by the Chancery Divisions. 14. Vacancies to be" filled bv the Governor. 15. The Supreme Court Judges to hold office six years, and to be classified so as to make one election every two years. Other Judges to be elected for lour veare. ]6. Clerks if Circuit and Probate to be ejected in each coun ly. 17. Judges to be conservators of the peace in their lespective jurisdictions. 18. Fixes the style of legal process. ,9. T|)f>| . e sha j| b |, af) Attorney General of the State elected, and a sufficient number of District Attornies, to hold offices four years. 20. \ aranc.es in these offir * or clerks of Courts to he provided|ti,r. 21. The Representatives to have the sole power of im peachment. 22. Impeachment to be tried bv the Senate. 23. The Governor and all civil officers to be liable to impeachment. The Slavery clause of the Constitution, which is to be stricken out or retained as the people may determine at the election on the 21st inst. we copy entire, as follows : SLAVERY. Sec. 1. The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of a slave to such a slave and its increase, is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whal- Sec. 2. The Legislature shall have no pow er to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the nrvfo„, to their "mancipa tion, a full -<}•; va so • n.ancipated. the vf ail oo^We^ prevent emigrants to the Slat. f fom brin .~r with Ocm such persons as are dee met Wa* ; the laws of any of the United States oyler ri< s, so Jong as any person of the sa< T 4 y_ description shall he continued in sbiierv the laws of tlie State: Provided Tbit s c: ( person or slave he the bona fide P rr> '*' r ' : such emigrants : and, provided also, 1 htt 'a ■* may to prohibit lotrodocti 'n i* this State ol slaves who have committed hig • crimes in other States or [Vrritories. shall have power to pass laws to permit i' owners ol slaves to emancipate them, s (t ■ the rights of creditors, and preventing them >' 1 becoming a public charge. They shah ha v power to oblige tl.e owners of sla\ e,s '• them with humanity, to provid. i the"' necessary f.od and clothing, to a!>- IrOin a" injuries to them, extending to life rHimb : a'" in case (jf their neglect or r<7uvl/ to comp) with the direction of such laws, !u have dave or slaves sold lor the benefit of the ov r ir owners. ' Si c. 3. !ri the prosecution of slaves for crin> 'f higher giade tlian petit larceny, the L"- 1 ; t'Xe shio! have no power to deprive them imjfartia! trial hy petit jnrv. ~.i„ >v. 4. AI v person who *■ ma , f i t f H ytiai* . , >r 1 ,)Mw a sUv- o! ' fer su-Ji puislioient as would bt " iT ', nl ueif on a case tlike otP-nce had except free \ iiite person, and slave, in case t f insurrection " * rBAG e. p.iciits of ..piien of the U. See. 1 - Every State one year and of States, resident ol t ~ be pitied to 3. Eliom vote. 2. doting attendance at privileged frorii ai , he requiied to uo ■ \o eISRT" % ~ tini iti a chity- ori theday ofelecu nulstary >-i vicenf .-haji to •as ol of sueh s-n ice he denied a resident i : ihe Sta'e.—7. p. rs , )n not quali tied 1,, a; elector shall elected or appointed tootfice. n. Ihe Legistatnre rrriy exclude con vi''" ''"on v 'ting. 9. Gen-rat elections to he bel i on tiie day and year fixed by the Legis lature. " FINANCE. dice. 1. I axafinn shall he uniform. 2. Suffi cient to be levied annually to meet the expenses of Government. 3. Extraordinary expenses may be met by laws, but these shall never ex ceed §300,000, and such loans shall provide (or an annual tax to meet the interest, to he continued until tiiedebt is paid. 4. The Legis lature may borrow money for the of repelling in vasion, Stc. 5. No scrip or evidence of debt shall be issued fur any other purpose tran the foregoing, (i. State, school, religious arid charitable property shall be exempt f * taxation. /. Money shall be paid out of i reasury only in pursuance of aprons # law. 8. Statements of the receiptsah. ditures to be published with Unlaws,/ session. /. REVENUE. k jS Sec. 1. Revenue bills inust origins ; j. House of Representatives. 2. Taxable p tv shall pay tax in proportion to its valufc The Legislature may levy an income ta.xj tax trades, professions, \c. 4. Lands t classified in three classes, and an ad valor' * . assessed. 5. A capitation tax shall be p£ . every able bodied male citizen over 21 - -*■ under 60 years. 6. Railroad incomes fr gifts of public land may he taxed 10 cents the §IOO. 7. No lotteries shall he authorize as a source ol revenue. 8. Donations of lantt or money from the General Government sha', be ivgaideo as a source of revenue. PI ELIC DOMAIN and internal improvements. Sec. 1. RHE Legislature shall provide against the waste or damage of the public la no's, arid lur t he security of'the proceeds. 2. A libera! system of interna! improvements shall be en couraged, and the Legislature shall ascertain am! make appropriations for proper objects. CORPORATIONS. Sec. 1. Corporations uav be formed under a general law. 2. No coronations shall take private property without the consent of the owner. 3. fhe Legslature shall provide for 1 the organization of cities and incorporated vila luges, and restrict their power of taxation, bor- 1 rowing money, &.c. 4. Ranks of deposit and exchange may he incorporated hut they shall ] not issue paper money. 5. One Rank of dis count and issue with riot mote than two branch- | esmav be established, but the act of inmporation I shall not take effect until submitted to and ap- I proved by a vote of the people. 6. The bank I and branches to be mutually lia!>le tor all the 1 debts ol each other, the stockholder liable to 1 an amount equal to their stock, and no law I sha" be-parscd in anv way sanctioning a sus pension of specie payments. 7. The State m shall not he a stockholder in any bank or other | corporation, nor shall the credit of the State be loaned to any person or corporation. A militia. M M.c. 1. Ihe militia shall embrace all able- H bodied male citizens between 18 and 43 years, M e\iept Mich as may be exempt. 2. Citizens ( opposed to Rearing arms may pay such equiva- M ! ient as ,na - v b,J prescribed. 3. All militia offi- B cers to be elected by their several companies, bat tall ions, regiments, <Nc. education. Si-.c. I. Schools and the means ofknowledge-^B , shall be forever encouraged. 2. The | tore shall preserve the lands donated ; Mate for school purposes, and faithfully the funds derivable therefrom. 3. F-l-e j rtion schools shall he established in every f shtp.n the Slate. 4. The Leg.sbture i make appropriations from the State : tor the supjiort of schools, whenever the j unds are .nsnffici.-„t,and (5,> shall pass tor their government. ISCFLLA Sec. I. L-compton shall BE the seat of GO^H ernmenf, until 'otherwise ordered. 2 ; chmen or apjoir.ted to othce under the j shall take oath faithfully to perform the,,- dutie^H ; ' bws, records, judical proceedings, &c^B shall be kept and conducted in the ; language. 4. Aliens who may become fide residents, shall enjoy the same r„hts : "at.ve-born citizens. .3. County seats only |BK Ihe removed on a vote of the citizens. 6 ; property owned by the wife at her marriage, acquired afterward by gift or devise, shall her separate property, and laws he passed ff^^B registration and protection. 7. The of ftee suffrage shall be supjwrted by laws fating elections and punishing bribery and proper practices. 8. Treason against the ' shall consist only in levying war against i i adhering to its enemies. 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