BY DAVID OVER, AGRICULTURAL CHINESE SUGAR OANE. A commute* of the United States Agricul tural i'ociety, who recently met at Washing ton, made a report upon the subject of Chinese sugar canc, of which the following ia a synop sis : 1. The soil and geographical range of the A hinesc sug :r cane, correspond nearly with those of Indian corn. It produces the befet crop on dry lands, but the most luxiiantly in rich bottoms or moist loams. 2. It endures cold Letter fban corn, and experiences no autumnal frosts*. It will also withst md excessive drought. R penes its seed ia September iri dry and warm soils, in tinny parts of the New England Slates, at the ex treme south it may be {Tinted as late the 20th of June. J. Its cost and culture is about the same as Indian corn. 4 ii> igljt of plant when fully grown varies horn six to eighteen feet, and stalks very from La if an inch to two inches in diameter. The weight of the entire crop when fully grown, taken before drying, is from tor. to fort} tons. ' Of seel the atu >u:it report" 1 from fifteen to - xty bushels. 5. I'uring the early stages of "us growth it i makes but little progress, so slow, indeed, as tj have discouraged lu-.ny cultivators ; but the rp ' i vouch of warm weather imparts to it a wcader iul rap'uiity. The p'.riod of growth varies from tiinety to one buudred and twenty days. tj. r'ke yield of juice was about 50 per cent. The number of gallons of syrup varies j from Gto 10 ; in New Brunswick 10 to 1; in Indiana and Illinois, 7 to 1. 7. A palatable bread wi.s made from fl >ur : ground from the seed. 8. By accounts from ull parts of the eoun- | try tins plant :s universally to be a wholesome food for animals ,part* of it being greedily devoured in a gre .!■ or dtr'ed state, by horses, i lee, wtttrutl tojuu-ois vtrcvi.-. • the latter, especially, fattening upon it as well ' *s upon corn. i). Paper of various qualities has been manufactured from the fibrous pirtsoi stalk, 1 of which appears to be fitted for a special Use. ' U ALLS ON HORSES.— Ax .mace of prevention is worth a pound of cure. It is bad economy to use a poor harness. The collar, especially, bhould always be in good condition. It should te frequently washed and dried; au-I occasion al pounding will keep it soft and in good shape. Whenever it becomes thin or broken pads should fce wont underneath it. Galls aie occasioned often by putting horses to bard work all at or.ee, after a period of rest, as in the spring, after the rest of the winter. As a means of prepaiiug the horse for such work, 't is well to bathe his breast and baok with a solution of alum and whiskey for several days before the labor begins. It is well to use this preparation also at any other time when the skin seems tender. We have known small sores to heal up entirely under ihe use of this remedy, even though the horse \'as kept at work. It is anothe. excellent preventive of galls to bathe the shoulders and breast of a working horse once or twice a week, at night, with salt and water, washing r fif the same with pure wa ter in the morning. When the skin Irtcotnes badly broken a horse should be allowed a few days rest,or if work is very pressing the harness should be so padded as uot to irritate the sores ; otherwise it will be vain to expect a euro. Sums of our neighbors use white lead, mixed with Huaeed oil, (common paiut,) to cure galls, aod they often succeed with it ;. at least they get a hard incrustation over the broken-skin. But we hardly fancy this tanning a horse's hide while he is yet wearing it.— /Imcrican Agriculturist. POTATOES ; THE ONE-EVE SYSTEM. MESSRS. EDITORS —I find I omitted stating in my article on "Potato Culture," (p. 202 ) one "particular which I did not think of until to-day in planting tuy early ones, when it immediately struck me: as J am aware that a great many of your readers intend trying the one-eye system J wish them to have all the prattculars, so that they may have success. In dropping the set in , our drill, turn the eye of the set on bottom of drill-—that i, the skin next the earth. By doin so, yosr bud orait&ik takes root immedia tely at the base (by set.) If planted cut side down, they will not root at the 6et, but one joint above. IN dropping, it is as easy to da it right as wrong. This also gives you a longer stem. In all cases where manure is applied in the drills or hills, (drills arc preferable,) let it be applied under the set ;in no case over it. If applied over the set, the rains wash the liquid of the in mure to the young shoot or shoots and injures them. I have had orders for potato-eyes, to be cut out size of peas, and forwaided by mail. Such is not the way to raise tbem. Those that fail in producing potatoes from those pea eyes, must not say tbe the one-eye system won't do. To any one who is desirous of making the most of a good potato, I will mil theui how to do it : Take a potato of any size, put it in a Cower jiot, and cover it two inches over with gojd rich earth, half loam and half well rotted stable manure. JJury this pot in hot-bed to its brim ; when the sprouts appear half an ineh above the groiyid, run your knife down close by the stem until you reach the bulb, then - ■■ A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Polities, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c„ &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. slant your kulfe a little and it is cut, as you will foci by keeping ItoM of the stem aud keep j j n £ 't {Hilled. \\ hen up, have a three or five 1 inch pot filled with the same soil, and insert i those cuttings all round the pot, passing them i well in ; put ihrni iu the same depth they | wore before cutting ; give a light watering, and | plunge your pots in yonr hot-bed. O. e of yo sr potato thus treated, will give you a 1 irgc- I amount of plants, as the potato will continue 1 ; turowing shoots until it decays When your i j cuttings are rooted, transplant into drills same , as planting, and from your first cutting you can get another crop without injury to them off half an inch above the ground • they will soon throw out fresh shoots, The above plan I have sue- ; cessfully proved to be goad in increasing a good variety ot potatos, and a profitable one, as it re quires but little work, and soon gets you into j a good stock of tubers, and such as we prac- i tiec when we meet a valuable potato. Gerald Ho watt, .Yew Jersey. \ THEV "S FO')P TO (TtiNqiJEli OK, TH3 ENGLISH SWINDLE SPEECH OP sector WIDE, i OF OHIO, ! ! IN" TIIP. SENATE OF TFIH ITXITED STATES, ! April 27, 1858. .Mr. President: It is not uiy purpose at this time after the general qnestiou has been so : elaborately discussed, to detain the S mate at ! any length by anything that I may have to say lat this period of the debate. Hut,sir, we hive now before us, as wo are told, a new propo-i- ; :ti .ii altogether. We are told that it is in the f , nature ola new lilt, h ving but, very little con- I ! nection with anything that his preceded it I ! must confess that 1 am astonished at the nature ! of the proposition which the gentlemen compo- i sing the committee of conference Inve brought | in f<>r our consideration. Uutraiumclled as the ! cimnuiitec seem to have been by anything that ' has hoen done—so they say—an 1 being "about \ to initiate a new proposition altogether, the fac j tiiat their minds should hive fastens i upon' tuch a thing as this, is well Calculated, I think, ' to sjirpiiJe_,anvjbihly. .It' Jusijije. equal regard to tnc 'ilstffutio is m Cue Soltn ■ and of the North, were to be considered by :h it committee, it appears to m J that au uu-. sophisticated man might, in five minutes, hive ' brought iu a proposition against which there would have been no dissemiug voice iu either branch of your Legislature. We had becu divided here upon questions With regard to the will and wishes of the people of Kansas as to (he Constitution under which ihey should live. It was contended on the one side that the people, aeriug through the forms of law, had ftained a Constitution which ought to be obligatory. On the other hand, that Constitution was assailed here the Opposi • upun tho ground that it was an uttpr pcr i version of tlie wiil of the imjoritj ot the people ! of Kansas ; that it was got up by trickery and ty fraud, and tiiat the majority of the people ought not to be governed by it. Thus we were j at issue upon this thing called the Lecompton j Constitution. A portion of the people had eul- ! I lei a Convention, which framed this instrument, • | and called it a Constitution. The people had j ' previously met and framed another Constitution, I which they called their Constitution, and which j • ilrev said embodied the wiil of the great mass !of the people of Ktusas. I allude to the To j peka Constitution. ] Now, sir, when this committee were about j to pass by all the piopositions that had gone j before, and to substitute a uew bill, how easy j it would have been for theui to say, in perfect i justice and fairness to all, "we will uot take j the first Constitution made at Topeki, because j it is denied on the other side to be tho will of i ihe people, we will not take the Lecompton I Constitution, because it is alleged to be fraud i uleut, and not to embody the will of the people 1 but we will throw both aside, and we will pro -1 vide, under every safeguard that can secure an i honest and lair election, fir submitting this complicated and vex iti<us question again to ! the people, and they shall be at liberty to frame their Constitution/' For that purpose the ! committee might have selected any precedent j they wished—they might have taken the ena ! bling act for Minnesota,or any similar an l 1 they would have found no objection to it. We ! should all have voted for a proposition of that kind, just to all parties, we shouli have per mitted tho people to come up now t'.irly to the | work of framing a Constitution; we should have said to them, "make it republican in form; sub ' mit it to our consideration; and it we find it to he such, we wiil admit you with it." Why d'd it not occur to this committee that that w'us the way to settle the controversy, if a 3 !ttlenient of it was indeed desired? Tho pro : position which tbey have made, while it seems to tuc in a certain aspect to be humiliating to the South, is unjust, if uot au open insult, to the North. It is humiliating to the South be cause it is a total aud entire abandonment of the principle on which many of them staked their determination not to exist in the Uuion at : all; for they said, "let us have the Locouiptoo Coustitutiou, or we will go out oi the Uutott 1 ourselves." That pioposition th-y have sut reudercd; they have given it up, they do not pretend that they can stand by it, uuless it is in some sort submitted and thrown hack to tho i people to pass up>on. So far it is right; so far it is just; RUtl 1 was glad io see the committee yield thus far to the reasons aud arguments which had been addressed to them, aiiowing that their Leco.upton concern was fraudulent ; that it did not embody the will of the people ; that it wa9 a fraud; aud that their iegal posi tion was fraught with tyranny and danger iu all aubsequect time, Tlut position has been repudiated and abandoned by them. U'<> bear BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY, MAY 28. 1858. ( do more of the omnipotence of Convent ions as i scmblcd to frame Constitu'h us. '.Ve h<-.r n ( more of their Wing armed with s jprruuc pow: | to put b|>on the neeks of <> p- oj.lc ya,; such a J Constitution as they , i- •>♦ the p >pl having power to gut rid i f it. That w.- the 1 position we hear t rung in our cars from South ern gentlemen da}' aft- r day; but a little while ago. Now they have thrown chi* absurd potsi i t:on to the winds, and I thank God for it.— They seem to admit tint the people, after ali, must have the right-, in son 1 su tpe, to pass up on the institutions under which they are to live. So far, it is a great improvement ou the L.-e.imp ton concern. 1! it it >he pro pie are to pass up |ou the Lecompton Constitution, why not let j them do it dire.-iiy ? Will any in in bo deceived by tlio verbiage in which thi- proposition couch* , cJ?' Flive you not letf t he people to pas- upon i it? I: so, wiiy not submit it in sueii api tin i atid fair manner that the people c m ail under stand it ? S:r, this propositi,nt reads ttpot: its face as though it was a premium for votes. Are til® people to vote directly upon the Constitution ; under which they live? Not by any means; ; but they are to vote upon a grant of land; they ; are to vote whether they will accept a gift from j Government of five or six millions acres of j laud; and if they decide to take the land, that ; decision is :o drag after it the Lecomp'on Con- I S'Uu'ioo, that they have repudiated over and over again, Was ever any such thing as this i eoueoeteu by a statesman, for the action of the people? Is a land grant the principle thing in : mining x State Constitution? Sir, it scorn- to Lea bid of laid for liberty, a bribe held oat.— "Will you, people of Kansas, suireuder your liber lies for laud ( * That is the question ;it cannot bo disguised. I impugn directly the jiotives of no man, but I state whet the effect of this action will be. How will it appear to the world, say whit you will about it? If the people will vote themselves so much land, then t.ijy surrend r themselves to a >1 ?ve Constitu tion, which you and I know they have repudi ated over and over again. i f is not competent tor nic to state the motives which had protn t od to such aeti >u as ihis; but y• i v : for :V> moidunt, and the priueipai is to foil >w. How absurd and iucoaseqir.utiai! Why, Mr. Pres ident, it 1 siiouiu make just sueu *a pro; osiii m as I liat, to ob'uin your v-to upou a private biii and it should come out to toe world tin: 1 h t,i fi-ife would vote pionptiy io expel'me !ram the' 1 ho ly, as unworthy of a .-eat iu it. The off r i>: "tio much laud if v<>u vote for this Consti tution; if you vote against it, you shall have tseitlier land nor anything else." Mr. President, I recollect well that iu the course of seme obs-i rations which I nude'not long ago, you, sir, [Mr. Uiggs iu the chair ] put the que- ion to me : Suppose a -law Con stitution weie presumed to Cm.re--, would I vote for it? 1 recoil et well the aw-wer liu Me to you, and y ur apparent s irp-is • t tie .h -surdity of th ; i wr. Yc I find ill President of Uti9 cod; tj -lay L.-n u ig tuy position, and voting for ♦! , •. ill, y rev I'sing iis appliea'i I , vto lot the ad mission of ; < , will you vote for at ,- . i ..in of you because lor ;;y - .j: and that ! you will do an I u ...... v;i..u he vote is I taken, exeej tint pi ct cully -ur p -i-ious are [ reversed in the a p i • ;ik iu. V-u come ! from a slave State, 'in i n— n a ft en State.— r P< , ; Ine country M . - ;i me positions wc | all occupy on >sa-j •t, .. 1 . ■ not care how soou tiiey are u-i.m.s .* i • y a; . Mr. Pros ■ ■■ ti to hr-vt': the force <>t the oi-j-e .ms t tai.- -eii.mc y saying that there was urn-,, i. .i.,;y about t,.0 peo ple of Kansas accepting tii-* grant pro . ,sc>i in your original biii. This is a strange .apotogy, and it comes at a blunge aud an uutortuuaro | time. Sir, do you not know that ibe suhj-ct i was mooted in the Coinmittee on Territories, j aud it was said that no kind of o* jev-ion could j arise from any such thing; that wo I ad a right I to modify the qruiauice, and m.ke wb.V grant j of land wc | leased io the Tert i <>ry; aud id they ! r-jected the Constitutisn on account of our not ; giving them is much as they thought they were eutitied to, they would not bo. •> State; but if they accepted the Constitution by orgauiz.ng under it, subject to the piovßion we had made that was an cud of at? How happens it now that you in ike tGi-> whole controversy turn, as it were, on the uncertainty whether the people trill accept a donation such as yon have made to eteiy oilsci Btatc? Why in the name of lleaVcn is it now paraded here as the main rea son why you have reversed your action? Mr. Green. The Commit tee on Territories uever did say tint it was the right of the coiu lnitteo or of C ingress to dictate the terms up on which the .State should be admitted. They have a'r.vays ciaimrd tint; but on the question of contract on the subject of lands, it wes matter of agreement. The formation and adoption of a Cou-tituiiion, the committee held was a question with which tire Senate and House of Representatives had nothing to do; jud that has been the point alt the time, i think, therefore, the Senator does injustice to the comiuitteo when he says tint they thought the subject of the grant of lands was a proper matter for the consideration of the Convention of the Territory. Not goj it is a matter ot agreement, proposition, acceptance; but the Constitution is a different thing; that is a li nalty already. Mr. Wade. Ido not deny that. That i just exactly what we did agree. Wo agreed that it was a proposed compact, aud that if tie proposition on our part siiuu.d be accepted by the organization of a '"bate Government undo it, it would be very Well, ami their action un der it would show. their agreement to our pro posed contract. That is what, we agreed to it committee, arid it is a sound pi inciple of law and the idea of repudiating it is not twenty four hours old. That is how we agreed; aut yet the Senator from Virginia rises here, and to apologize foi this misshapen production o the committee of conference, makes it all to 'Hi! on the uncertainty of whether tho people "• Kansas would accept this proposition. I utfght ask that b nator, or any ether who has •; anything to do with this subject, if that matter labored in your mind, how in the name "t Heaven did you suffer your Lccompton bill to bo debated here day after day, week after wesk, and I do not know, but I might say month alter mouth, without suggestion ike great difficulty which must interrupt the whole proceedings, and lead you to surrender ail you u cl done, and set up a scheme entirely new?— did not apprehend any such thing, as you went on with your Lccomptou bill. The Sen ator from Virginia never suggested then that i there was any trouble about the land grants j 'hat.wero provided for in that bill. You vo j tea it through this body. It ran as smooth as i oii. No man said there was any difficulty | a mint that, nor could it he sai I: because so far jas tin) ordinance was concerned, and the land ; gt".ut was involved, the hill stood on exactly ! ••hit same principles as every other territorial I kdi, and granted no more, uo less. Why then, I seek to cover up this enormity under so plain a ' p-ifi osition as that? Sir, the people will ut>- •t'H. tX'ud it, whether gentlemen here will uu i der?tiwid it or tio*. It ;.i in the nature of a ' r ' s not expected that the unsophiscu •ll people, through the whole wilderness of .ixkjjwni ho able, like l.wyers, to scan cius-U, and understand critically. the import rtghis grant. 1 will not say that the fact that it was known they would not understand ir, constituted the reason why a question so simple as the adoption or the rejeciiou of the i.erumpton Oonatt£af:on is made to tarn on the i '<vl whet Iter the people will accept a donation Inlands; but it looks very much like it. It woui 1 be out of order for me to say it was so intended, hut that will be its effect. eii, sit, that is the nature of the proposi tion. I have said it is humiliating to the htgit •"■itiocd South, because it is a total surrender ot the position upoo which they planted them s ives, and swore in their couueils they would s- ko their institutions. You have given it up, y hive suiren sercd Lecooiptun, in this mis erable w.y to be sure, into the hands of the p ople of Kansas, to reject it if they please, a.ad ;.s 1 trust in God they will. Therein, sir, y m lie in he dust. Southern chivalry is here i'/Hhcs.; li ills, begging men La vote. Id r a >d. tii '?t" .$Vv7 lam Worry tor i*. 1 hive rc .-pec'ed tlieir highuiindedness. 1 have always hoped heretofore that they were above consent ing to airangeuieriis that could not stand out in open day. !do not say that anything sinis ter is intended in this proposition, but 1 know it is well calculated in itself to deceive the j ••_■ ml", and therefore 1 pronounce it humiha iinrr t 0 the South. I say, further, it is unjust, if not an open insult, to the North. Why? I can ted yoa nothing new, after the proposi tion ti is beer, so ably h milled by the houorable Senator from Kentucky and the honorable Sen ator from Vermont, who have preceded me.— They have made it too palpably plain for me to stand here long in elaborating this poidt. — Here stands out before the whole world the most glaring injustice, the most palpable wrong, and no man dare face me down h.re, and say that you place Si ivory and Liberty upon equal foundations by this measure. You talk of the equality of tlie States. Why, sir, you are trampling tho free States into the dust, and of fering bribes to Slavery. It will not do.— Whether we understand it or not, God know* the people of the United States, the honest people, will understand it. I have stid,and 1 still say, that tbL propo rtion * fl.igra .: iy unjust t" die North, and, 1 : . ; ,k, au open insult. Well might the S-ma i tor tVoui Kentucky a k, what would the South , tftink of a proposition iike this ou the other ' side? I have too good an opinion of you to j believe that you would bear it as meekly as iwe shall. I believe that you would Conduct | yuurevives, in reference to such, a nefarious t proposition, in a manner more fraught with ' honor to your section than 1 fear vro ehall. 1 | wish to God wc had men as feat loss to stand up 1 fur the right* as you hive to stand up for the wrong. I honor you for the manner in which you stand up to what you say you regard as your rights. Well might the Senator from Kentucky ask, what would you think of Such a proposition if the case were reversed.' There is not a Southern man who will not die in Lis tracks before he would surrender to a proposi tion so insulting to the South as this manifestly is to the North. 1 kuow yoc would not, and 1 _ ivc you all honor for it, because in that, it in no'liing else. God knows I sympathize with you; you are right iu it. The proposition now offered to the people of Kausa.s is this: 'You shall have six millions a ores of land, and immediate admission iuto the Union, it v'ou will take Slavery; but it you prefer a treo State you shall be excluded; you shall he treated as outside barbarians, un worthy to be members of this Union for an in definite length of time to come." It is unde niable; it stands out gross, palpable, upon the face of your record, and cannot be disguised. It required a good deal of assurance, a good deal of effrontery, to bring in a piopositioq like this; but you knew the material to which you were addressiug it too well to fear the con sequences. You say by this proposition, if Congress adopts it, "Oouio in, yo people of Kansas, here are millions of acres of land; i hero is immediate admission if you prefer ; slavery; hut, if, on the other hand, you prefer : Liberty, you are unworthy of admission, yju . ' are not numerous enough to bo admitted."— One slaveholder, for the purpose of the aduiis - siou of a Territory as a State is worth more - than twenty free tueu. That is the naked prop i imition which you have brought here for the ; consideration of Northern men, and 1 p?i ccive that you will have Northern men who 1 will go with you even for this. You will have , them, ami you knew you would, because ;ou f knew you could not make a proposition, how- ever fatal to the honor of the North, without finding here rneu who would stoop 10 it.— When I contrast the high chivahio honor of the South in this particular with the North, I sometimes wish to change places with thcuo.-- Hero is a proposition offering a premium to Slavery, and immediate admission without in quiry as to the numbers, if the people of Kan sas will eomo here as a Slave State; but if they decide on the side of Freedom, they are to be indefinitely postponed until a census shall be taken at the will of a craven and besotted Executive That is the proposition offered to the high minded people of that section from which I eomo. 1 bey will spurn it, though 1 perceive that some ot their Representatives are about to take it. Now, what are So be the consequences of the passage of this proposition? 1 mast judge from what has preceded it. Ido not know hut that I may bo uncharitable in toy supposition, but when F look at your candle box frauds, at your Oueinnati Diieotory frauds, ail adopt ed by your Executive,and the agents who com mit the frauds applauded and foisted into high offices of pnwo.r and respectability, how caif I repose confidence in you? When I see the just arrangement which had been made by that just man, (he lover of equality and justice to ait parties and to ail sections, the Senator from Kentucky, stricken out, and another man added to the board tc supervise the election—a man who was no more wanted there than a fifth wheel to a coach, for you had a full board le fdre—l ask this committee, and I wish them to answer n,o now, why did you place the district at torney of the Territory on that board ol com missioners? I repeat the question, why did you do ii? Was it not right before? A corrupt Executive was al.owed to appiut two. Was it wrong that the people should appoint two more? Why give your Executive the appoint ment of a majority of the board, and full puw er over the people to trample them in the dnst? Answer ma that, if you can! I pause, but I pause in wain, for a reply. What shall [ say, then? b'ir, it savors too much of the cundle box un lof the Cincinnati Directory. Is it in tended, at all hazards, against the vote of the people, and in defiance of their wishes, to forge a majority, to make a faise return to the Pres ident that you have outvoted the Free State men, and that Decompton is adopted? Was thaii. riua_auaUi-- had thrown to thi> ttiml. own party m that ' . | L ® wma peopie ou equal terms w! fa' Hit- '■ ••• Sir, I have no fears of the people of Kan sas if you give them any chance, fveu if you will be honest in counting their votes; but here the matter is left to the President of the Uni ted States, wiiO censured bis Governor be cause he had refused to yield to an outrageous, notorious, palpable, and undisputed fraud, aud ultimately compelled him to resign. 1 say, when such things arc don.?, what may we U"t suspect? I cau hardly realize that lam ;n the Senate of the Unicd States, when propositions calculated to blind the people, propositions cal culated to hold out false colors, are presented in this way. In this scheme,you have evident ly followed, as far as you could, the bill pre sented by the Senator from Kentucky; but you have amended that most just clause of his, up on which the honesty of the whole transaction tut tied, in order that y m might still keep in the hands of those who have proved themselves to he unworthy of such a trust, the power to de cide agaiuat the people, as they have done here tofore, the fate of the now State. Now, sir, I am not so much of an enemy to the people of the South as they suppose. I think they wiil never gaiu anything by such a proposition as this, it is net because 1 sup pose they will, that 1 manifest this zeal against, it; but because, like the Senator from Ken tucky, 1 know that the safety, the permanency, ; the true gl >ry of our institutions, must be built I upon the solid foundations of eternal right and ! justice, and this trickery, these frauds, alt ho' I they may serve the purpose of a party for a : uay, are fraught with dauger to the whole ebm j muuity, aud will finally result in disastrous consequences even to those for whose benefit ; thev seeiu to be perpetrated. Mr. Piesideut, I have now said all that liu • tended to say, and much mere, because when 1 ! see a proposition that appears to be unfair,and ; I will say, that appears to be dishonest, I can not retain exactly that equanimity that per | haps I ought; It may be all fair and all right i —but 1 must auuounce the impressions that I j deliberately have on that subject. I think it ! is palpably wrong—wroug to the high-miuded people of the South, who, 1 am sure, when they understand it, will trample it beneath their feet as an unclean thing—unjust, palpa- Ltv unjust, to the North, whom it places ou a footing of inequality. Sir, if I did seek the destruction ot the institutions of the South, I could devise no way more facile than that you have yourselves marked out; for, being in the miuoritv, whenever you shall have divested yourselves of that character which we have conceded to you—that you are high-iuiuded, honorable mcu—you will have lost the great 1 stake in the Government that would ever ena ble you, as long as you practised on these prin ciples, to enjoy your full share in the councils of this nation, and even more. As I said, I do not know but that this proposition may be right; but i's'appcaranee is absolutely and de liberately wrong. Now, Mr. President, I regret that such a proposition should have been brought in here. Why would you not let Lecouiptou die, if you had not the force to put it through? I would infinitely prefer, for the honor of the nation, both North aud South, tin t you had the force in both branches to put your Lecompton Con stitution through here, rather than have been compelled to resort to this indirection, IU order to accomplish the same result; because its effect iu demoralizing the nation, perverse aud iniquitous as I think it. was, would have beeu iuiiuitoly loss than by this monster of a proposition. VOL. 31, NO. 22. 1 But 1 have sai i that it was n. nart of n7 purpose to detain the Senate. I have very feeb ly expressed the feelings that i entertain in re gard to this proposition. Ido not believe yon ! can seduce the noblc-ininded people of Rama®, who have withstood all your persecutions so ! long, to succumb to suc'u a scheme as this. it*oo have exercised the whole powers of your Government ; you have invoked your armies, and let them loose upon the defenceless people there; you have inflicted upon them hardships: arid pursued them with a relentless persecution that I have never known before and hardly ever read of in history; and yet they stand uacou rjuered and unconquerable. It only remains to determine whether appliances to their cupid ity, arts of dec -ptions can wprk out a fall for a people who hive so nobly withstood oil your force. I know well you cannot force them to it. Their intelligence is great, and I think they will he capable of seeing through this ne farious net, which is calculated to lower thc-rut to degrade them, to a condition of servitude. I do not believe you wiil effect it. I have a bet ter opinion of those noble spirits. 1 thiuk the controversy wiii result in your most ignomini ous defeat before the people of Kansas. The* enly danger I apprehend is from the arrange ment of this scheme by which you put the whole power of controlling the election iutotke hands of a corrupt Executive. The people are" against you iu overwhelming numbers. Tb e umy doubt i®, whether the executive officers will count their votes arigiif. lam willing to v c.itute that people, with all the skill in weav ing nets for their destruction that you can de vise, provided at last you leave them to be counted according to their number®, and make iair, and not John Calhoun, returns. Mr. Presideint, I have no fears for the result' of this measure. The noble-hearted, brave,and liberty-loving people of Kansas will spurn tho infamous proposition, as the Saviour of the world did one in all respects similar in princi ple, and emanating from a like source. BEAUTIFUL ANSWERS. — A pupil of the Abbe Sieord, gives the following extraordina ry answers: 'What is gratitude?' 'Gratitude is the memory cf the heart.' 'What is Lope?* 'H >pe i® the blossom of happiness.' 'What is the difference between hope and flower, auu wj"j UJ' ... _ 'What is eternity?' 'A day without yesterday or to-morrow—a line that has no CDd,' , :\Vhat is time?' 'A lino that has two ends— a path which be gins in the cradle aud ends in the tomb.' 'What i® God?' 'The necessary being, the son of eternity, the machine of nature, the eye of justice, the match-maker of the universe, the soul of tho world.* 'Does God reason?' 'Man reasons because ho doubts; he de liberates —decides. God is omniscient: he never doubts —lie therefore never reasons. A STRANGE DISEASE.—A singular disease has made its appearance at Jefferson City, Mo. The Inquvtr of tiro city gives the fol lowing account of its symptom® "Tho unfortunate p:.:i ct, a sc-oo aS the word abolitionist is uieL'.kniei iu Lis hearing, begins to swear, jump, kick, 1 -p. .-kip, reu oharge, tear, canrorf, snort, rip, tumble, suoejse, cough, spit, whoop, stutter, meal, howl, moan, groan, bellow, bewail, i-itutat, des pond, turn pale, look savage, Loin at the uiouth, roil his eve.®,* stamp bis feet upon tho ground, wheel round and round, fall down, get up again; and then does all that over again. O, horrible!" The same disease prevails to some extent iu this State, wLere it is known by tho name of National Democracy. It is believed that a certain cure has recently been discovered,* which fact cannot fail to send a thrill of pleas ure tbrcugh every philanthropic heart. There is now in the vaults of the Merchants' Bank of Boston over four millions ot dollars in gold—the property of the associated banks ot Boston. This large amount is kept tb-re from ' motives of convenience and safety. The gold is in bags containing §5,000 each Thomas Clingham, a member of the House, of Representatives from North Carolina, has been appointed a Senator from tint State, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the appointment' of the Hon. Asa Bigg 3 to be Judge of the Dis trict Court of the Uuited States. A colony of seven hundred persons, about five hundred from Pennsylvania and the bal ance from Maryland, has procured a large of land on the Piatt river in Nebraska Terri tory, and they ate about to establish them selves lipon it and build a city of their own. Freetnansburg, Lehigh county, out of a pop ulation of 700, lost but two persous by death, from April 12th, 1557 to April Pith, 1855. Guess ibey have no doctors there. Two schooners have cleared at Detroit for Liverpool, with cargoes of staves and lumber, and a third will sail this week, to be followed by six others in a month. A Sicilian bark has lately arrived at Phila delphia, bringing a cargo of oranges and lemons, • intermingled with cockroaches from two and a half to three inches in length. On tho 17th of April, one gentleman in Sa vannah, Georgia, soi'd §l5O worth of .Strawbcr ties 10 go North. The United States Congress pay a about -?-0„- 000 a session for the folding of their docn^ lUCIlt®
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