THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
THE GLOBE.
Circulation—the largest in the county
1110EVELTADIOZ 12.
Wednesday, December 9, 1857.
Now Advertiseme.uts.
,Attention is directed to the advertisement of the
Cassville Seminary. This Institution has passed into new
hands: Its prospects are quite good.
ila..Executor's Notice, by James Gifford.
'GS-Change of Time, by J. J. Lawrence, Acting Super
intendent.
Ife.,Orphans' Court Sale of Real Estate, by David licks.
The Latest News
The latest Foreign news is Liverpool dates
to the 25th ult. The Banks of England and
France are both gaining bullion rapidly.—
The pressure on the Bank of England was
gradually diminishing, and there were signs
of a relaxation in the discount market.—
Money was about 6@7 per cent. on the Stock
Exchange. The financial crisis was begin
ning sensibly to effect Russia. At Hamburg
and Stockholm large money institutions had
been formed to assist commercial men and
sustain public credit. At Liverpool flour had
an advancing tendency—wheat, 2@3d. high
er, the improvement being chiefly on fair
and middling qualities.•
There was a great loss of property by fire,
in Philadelphia, on Monday morning. The
forwarding house of Davis & Steel, late Brig
ham & Co., Market street, with a large
amount of goods, was almost completely de
stroyed. The Allegheny House adjoining
was also injured, and the furniture had all
been hurriedly removed, destroying much of
it. The four story building adjoining the
forwarding house on the east was also partly
destroyed. Loss from $30,000 to $40,000.
Business is gradually reviving in the cit
ies, and money is more abundant in the
streets.
Many of the manufactories in the East as
well as in the West are again in operation.
The truth is, there is an abundance of hard
money in the country, and it will not lie idle
long.
The Sugar Cane growers of Illinois have
called a State Convention. It is announced
that the growing of the plant in that State,
and its manufacture into syrup has been
quite successful.
Dr. Jacob Forney, Superintendent of In
dian Affairs for the .Territory of Utah, has
written a letter to the Indian bureau, dated
Fort Laramie, October 26, 1857, in which he
states that the troops would leave there on
the evening Of that day, and that he and his
party would follow on the morrow. He says
that they net no hostile Indians between
Fort Laramie and Fort Kearney. A report
had reached him that a portion of the Utah
Indians are Mormons, and that Brigham
Young boasts that he has several Indian
tribes in his service, and ready to take up
arms against the United States. The doctor
says that, in the course of a few weeks, he
will know the truth of this report.
TE-ACITERS' INSTITUTE.—An Institute will
Le held in Alexandria, commencing on Thurs
day evening December I7tb, and it will con
tinue during the remaining part' of the week.
The Teachers of Porter, Walker, West, Mor
ris Franklin and. Warriors Mark districts are
respectfully invited to attend. School direc
tors and citizens generally are always wel
come visitors.
_Competent men are engaged to lecture, and
a good meeting is anticipated.
PENNMA:sISIIIP, BOOK—KEEPING, &C.— Mr.
C. M. Ligget, will open a School in this bcr
ough for the purpose of giving lessons in
Double Entry Book-Keeping, Penmanship,
and Stylographic Card making. His speci
mens are equal to any we have ever seen.—
His circulars will announce the location of
his room and the time of commencing.
VD—An Act passed the last Legislature,
providing, that whenever legislation is de
sired, by which the "title, sale, rents, issues
or profits" of real estate may be affected, no
tice thereof shall be given by advertisement
for six weeks in a newspaper of the proper
county, the last publication to be at least ten
days before the application is presented.
TILE CREDIT SYSTE3l.—Hunt's Merchant's
Magazine, which has earned a fame for prac
tical common sense, says that the only meth
od of making money scarce is that which we
adopt of making debt plenty, by which mon
ey is made relatively scarce. Two thirds of
our currency is debt. It is a mad system of
kitting between the banks and their custom
ers, and an enormous superstructure of debt
is built thereon, keeping almost every trader
in danger of bankruptcy. There is nothing
else the matter with the business of the
country. Trading on borrowed capital is the
base of our commerce.
Of all the wholesale merchants of New
York city, it was reported last week that on
ly fifteen had been able to keep above water,
and beyond the necessity of suspension or
the humiliating position of asking for an ex
tension. For a term, at least, the lesson will
be salutary. People begin to see the beau
ties of the 'pay as you go" plan. The cred
itors especially are making a bold resolve to
shorten the credits of customers. The pri-.
ces have fallen and will fall still lower, till
they accord with the true representative of
SINGULAR r BUT TRUE.—It is said that a
wealthy merchant of Camden, N. J. having
lately put in his window a notice declaring
that the proprietor of the establishment wish
ed to enter the marriage state with a young
woman or a -widow, his store has since been
thronged with fair customers, whalinger long
and trade liberally.
The Baltimore Congressmen
The palpable denial of the right of, suf
frage to large numbers of the citizens Of '8a1.,.
timore, at the recent election, has called at
tention to the admission of the Congressmen
selected from the districts, composed' of the
wards of that city. That the people of those
districts did not have the opportunity of de
claring their will, in the selection of their
representatives, is beyond question. A num
ber of the Southern papers, in view of these
facts, contend that the elected members are
either not entitled to certificates, or should be
rejected by Congress. The-Louisville Demo
crat uses the following emphatic language on
the subject:
"Two members of Congress from Balti
more, will present themselves to the next
House of Representatives. 'We shall see if
that body will recognize members elected by
fraud and violence; where there was no such
thing as free suffrage. The rest of the Union
will hardly consent with patience to have their
interests voted upon by a Baltimore mob.—
There is no provision in our institutions that
allows Plug Uglies and "Babies," to send
members to Congress. The country will ex
pect that this matter shall be looked into. It
is time, high time, that this point was set
tled. If a Congressional District surrenders
the laws and Constitution under which they
live, to the control of irresponsible mobs of
lawless ruffians, let them keep their repre
sentativeS at home, and make a Congress of
their own, to legislate for Baltimore, We
protest against their taking a hand in the lea.-
islation or the country. Congress need not
go behind the poll-books to see that there was
no election in Baltimore. The transactions
of the day set apart for the free expressions
of the voters at the polls, was a horrid mock
ery; a satire upon our professions of free
dom. The account will be gloated over by
the enemies of free government, as the infal
lible symptom of the decline of free-institu
tions."
Congress will not be at a loss for a prece
dent, in refusing seats to Messrs. Davis and
Harris, the. gentlemen returned from Balti
more. The late Congress declared the seat
of Mr. Whitfield, Of Kansas, vacant, be
cause it was alleged, and perhaps correctly,
that he had received illegal votes although
there was no candidate in opposition to him.
Where the Money come from.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Argus, in his letter of the 24th
inst., says: "It is rumored here, and with
the appearance of truth, that certain prom
inent Republican leaders in Ohio, New York,
and Massachusetts, have placed themselves
in a very unpleasant and criminal position.—
The story is, and for the truth of which I
understand an investigation will be deman
ded by the Democratic members of the Ohio
Legislature—and they now have a majority
—that these Republican leaders applied to
the officers of the Ohio Life and Trust Com
pany fora loan of a half million of dollars,
to be used in carrying the October election in
Pennsylvania—feeling confident, could they
Succeed in that, then the election of Colonel
Freemont to the Presidency was a certain
and sure thing; and they offered to guarantee
the Company the repayment of the loan with
the bonus in the way of interest. The ofil
cers of the Company declined to loan the
money on those terms, but consented to do so
if the gentlemen from Ohio (they holding
the highest offices in the State) would hypoth
ecate Ohio State bonds to the amount of six
hundred thousand dollars. It is now alleged
that the bonds of the State to that amount
were so hypothecated, and that this money—
five hundred thousand dollars—was spent
to carry Pennsylvania at the October elec
tion.
The Democrats of your State mu St, all re
member how flush the opposition were with
funds about that time, so much so that iu
your city they even offered a judge of elec
tions of one of your wards thousands of dol
lars to betray his trust, and how hundreds of
speakers were paid all expenses to canvass
the State; and these facts seem to confirm, the
truth of the current rumor.
OLD AND BLOODY ENGLISH LAWS.-" Under
the shop lifting act," says Sir William Mere
dith, addressing the Rouse of Commons, in
1777, " One Mary Jones was executed, whose
case I shall just mention. It was about the
time when press-warrants were issued on the
alarm about Frankland Islands. The wo
man's husband was pressed, their goods seiz
ed for some debt of his, and she with two
small children, turned into the streets a beg
ging. 'Tis a circumstance not to be forgot
ten, that she was very young, (under nine
teen,) and remarkably handsome. She went
to a linen draper's shop, took some coarse
linen off the counter, and slipped it under
her cloak. The shopman saw her, and she
laid it down. For this she was hanged. Her
defence was, 'that she had lived in credit,
and wanted for nothing, till the press-gang
came and stole her husband from her; but
since then she had no bed to lie on—nothing
to give her children to eat, and they were al
most naked! and perhaps she might have
done something wrong, for she scarcely knew
what she did.' The parish officers testified to
the truth of this story. But it seems there
had been a good deal of shop-lifting about
Ludgote ; an example was thought necessary
(by the judges,) and this woman was hanged
for the comfort and satisfaction of some shop
keepers in Ludgate street. When brought to
receive sentence, she behaved in such a fran
tic manner, as proved her mind to be in a
desponding and distracted state, and the child
was sucking at her breast when she set out for
Tyburn (gallows.")
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.—Drinkers of whiskey
now-a-days may be benefitted by the follow
ing:
A 'whole family in Bradford; Mass., have
been committed to the jail in Lawrence, ev
ery member being addicted to the grossest
habits of intemperance. The family consis
ted of a mother, aged 55: eldest son, 28
another, 21; the youngest 10 years of age,
and a sister of the mother. The eldest son
died on Sunday, in prison, of delirium tre
mens, and the youngest is in a very critical
state- The father died some months since
in the same manner.
The Marengo (Iowa) Visitor says a young
child, but six years of age,died with delirium
tremens at "Brush Run." The father a short
time since, was put . to jail for selling whis
key, and during Is incarceration his wife
made whiskey "meat and drink" for herself
and child. The wife finally felt down stairs
and killed herself, and the child was shortly
after attacked with all the symptoms of deli
rium tremens,. with which it dice.
THE KANSAS CONSTITUTION.
The following is said to be a carefully pre
pared synopsis of all its provisionS. We also,
give the schedule accompanying the constitu
tion :
ORDINANCE.
The ordinance with which the constitution 'begins, pro
poses the relinquishment of the right of the State to tax
Government lands within the State on the grant by gov
ernment of four sections of land in each township to the
State for school purposes, the grant of all salt springs, &c.,
the payment to
,the State of five per cent, of the proceeds
of all public lands sold in the State, the grant of 72 sec
tions of land for the use of a seminary, and alternate sec
tions of land on two lines of railroad through the State,
ono North and South, and the other from the Missouri
river westward, to aid in the construction of such roads.
PREAMBLE.
The preamble recites the circumstances of the formation
of the Constitution, and the style of the State. Art. 1.
Fixes the State boundaries. Art. 2. Provides that no
county on the Missouri or Kansas rivers shall be reduced
to less than 20 Miles square, and no other to less than 500
square miles. The powers of the government aro to be
Legislative, Executive and Judicial.
EXECIPITVE DEPARTMENT.
Six.l. The Governor shall hold office two years. 2. Gov
ernor to be elected; returns to be sent to House of Repre
sentatives; contested elections to be determined by Legis
lature. 3. Governor shall be 30 years of age, a citizen of
the United States 20 years, and the State 5 years, and shall
not hold the office more than 4in 6 years. 4. His salary
to be fixed by law. 5. He shall have command of the Mil
itary of tree State. 0. He may require information from
the Department. 7. May convene the Legislature in emer
gencies. S. Shall inform the Legislature as to the state of
the Government, and recommend measures for their ac
tion. 9. Shall see that the laws aro executed. 10. May
grant reprieves or pardons. 11. All commissions shall he
in the name of the State, and sealed. 12. The seal of the
State to be kept by the Governor. It shall be the present
territorial seal until otherwise ordered. 13. Vacancies not
provided for to be filled by the Legislature. 14. The Sec
retary of the State to be elected fbr two years. 15. All
bills passing the Legislature to be presented to the Gover
nor, to be signed or returned with his objections. 16. Res
olutions, except in certain cases, to be signed by the Gov
ernor. 17. A Lieutenant Governor to be elected, and (18)
in case 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
years. 21. A Sheriff, Coroner, Treasurer, &c., to be elect
ed in each county.
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
Sne. 1. The Legislature to consist of a Senate and House
of Representatives. 2. No U. S. officers, except postmas
ters, or persons holding a lucrative office under the State
to be eligible; or (3,) any person convicted of a peniten
tiary offence, or guilty of embezzling the funds of the
State. 4. The members of the House to be elected for two
years, and (5,) of the Senate for four years. 6. Senators at
the first session to draw lots, one half to serve two years
and the other four. 7. The number of Senators not to be
less than 13 nor more than 33; and (8,)• the members of
the House not less than 39 nor more than 100. 9. Fixes
the style of the laws. 10. Each house may determine its
own rules. 11. May punish disorderly behaviour by fine
or imprisonment. 12. Each House shall keep a journal.-
13. Neither shall adjourn for more than three days with
out the consent of the other. 14. The two Houses shall
elect officers. 15. A majority of either House shall con
stitute a quorum.• 16. Compensation of members to be
fixed by law. 17. Bills may originate in either house. 18.
Legislature to provide for filling vacancies in either House.
19. To sit with open doors. 20. Every law to embrace
only one subject. 21. Every act to be plainly worded. 22.
Legislature to meet every two years. 23. Shall provide for
enumeration of inhabitants and apportionment of Repre
sentatives. 24. The Legislature shall not grant divorces,
&c., but shall confer such powers on the Cum is by general
law. 25. Due diligence shall be exercised by all civil offi
cers in the rendition of fugitives from service or labor in
other States. Then fidlows an apportionment for members
of the first Legislature-44 Representatives and 19 Sena
tors.
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SEC. 1. The judicial powers to be vested in a Supreme
Court, Circuit Courts, Chancery Courts, Courts of Probate,
6:e. 2, 3 and 4. Supreme Court, to consist of a Chief Jus
tice and lnc Associates; the Court to have appellate juris
diction only, and to hold two sessions annually at the seat
of Government. 5. Stay elect a Clerk and iteporter. 6.
State to be divided into circuits. 7. Defines extent of ju
risdiction of Circuit Courts. S. A. Circuit Court to he held
in each county twice each year. 9. The Legislature may
establish Courts of Chancery, and (10,) in each county a
Court of Probate. 11. A competent number of Justices of
the Peace shall be elected in each county. 12. Compensa
tion of Judges to be fixed by law: 13. The Chif‘f . sties
and Associat7s to be elected by the electors of the State,
Circuit Judges by their respective Circuits, and Chancery
Judges by the Chancery Divisions. 14. Vacancies to be
filled by 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; Circuit and other Judges to be
elected for four years. 16. Clerics of Circuit and Prbbate
to be elected in each county. 17. Judges to be conserva
tors of the peace in their rosrective jurisdictions._ 18.
Fixes the style of legal process. 19. There shall be an At
torney-General of the State elected, and a sufficient num
ber of District Attornies, to held office four years. :20. :Va
cancies in these offices or clerks of Courts to be provided
for. The "louse of Ite,mesentritives to have the sole power
of impeachment. 22. Impeachment to be tried by 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:
DEMI
SEC. 1. The right of property is before and higher than
any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of
a shoe to such a slave and its increase, is the saute and as
inviolable us the right of the owner of any property what
ever.
SEC. 2. The Legislature shall have no power to pass laws
for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the
owners, or without paying the owners, previous to their
emancipation, a full equivalent in money, for the slaves so
emancipated. They shall have no power to prevent emi
grants to the State from bringing with them such persons
as are deemed slaves by the laws of any of the United
States or Territories, so long as any person of the same
age or description shall be continued in slavery by the
laws of the State : Providcd, That such person or slave be
the bona fide, property of such emigrants : and, prodded
also,. That laws may be passed to prohibit the introduction
into this State of slaves who haVei committed high crimes
in other States or Territories. They shall have power to
pass laws to- permit the owners of slaves to emancipate
them, saving the rights of creditors, and preventing them
from becoming a public °barge. They shall have power
to oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity,
to provide for them necessary food and clothing, to abstain
from all injuries to them, extending to life or limb; and in
ca,e of their neglect or refusal to comply with the direc
tion of such laws, to have such slave or slaves sold for the
benefit of the owner or owners.
Sac. 3. In the prosecution of slaves for crimes of higher
grade than petit larceny, the Legislature shall have no
power to deprive them of an impartial trial by petit jury.
Sac. 4. Any person who shall maliciously dismember or
deprive a slave of life, shall suffer such punishment as
would be inflicted in case the like offence had been com
mitted on a free white person, and on the like proof, except
n case of insurrection of such slave.
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Sac. 1. Every male citizen of the United States, resident
of the State ono year and of the county three months,
shall be entitled to vote. 2. Voting to be by ballot. 3.
Electors privileged from arrest during attendance at elec
tions. 4. No elector to be required to do militia duty on
the day of election. 5. No elector shall loso his residence
by reason of absence, from the State on business. G. No
person in the military or other service of the United States
shall by reason of such service bo denied a resident of the
State. 7. No person not qualified as an elector shall be
elected or appointed to office. S. The Legislature may ex
clude convicts from voting. 0. General elections to be
held on the day and year• fixed by the Legislature.
Sec. 1. Taxation shall be uniform. 2. Sufficient to be
levied annually to meet the expenses of Government. 3.
Extraordinary expenses may be met by laws, but these
shall never exceed $500,000, and such loans shall provide
for an annual tax to meet the interest, to be continued un
til the debt is paid. 4. The Legislature may borrow mo
ney for the purpose of repelling invasion, &c. 5. No scrip
or evidence of debt shall be issued for any other purpose
than the foregoing. 6. State, school, religious and char
itable property shall be exempt from taxation. 7. Money
shall be paid out of the Treasury only in pursuance of ap
propriation by law. S. Statements of the receipts and ex
penditures to be published with the laws, at each session.
Src. 1. lievenue bills must originate in the House of Rep
resentatives. 2. Taxable property shall pay tax in pro
portion to its value. 8. The Legislature may levy an la
conic tax, and tax trades, professions, &c. 4. Lands to be
classified in three classes, and an ad valorem. tax assessed.
5. A capitation tax shall be paid by every able bodied male
citizen-over 21 and under 60 years. G. Railroad incomes
from gifts of public land may be taxed 10 cents on the
$l.OO. 7. No lotteries shall be authorized as a source of
revenue. S. Donations of lands or money from the Gen
eral Government shall be regarded as a source of revenue.
LIC DOMAIN AND INTERNAL LIIPROVE3LENTS
SEC. 1. The Legislature shall provide against the waste
or damage of the public lands, and for the security of the
proceeds. 2. A liberal system of internal improvements
shall be encouraged, and the Legislature shall ascertain
and make appropriations for proper objects.
COP.PORATIONS
Sse. 1. Corporations may be formed under a general law.
2. No corporation shall take private property without the
consent of the owner. O. The Legislatvre shall provide
for the organization of cities and incorporated villages,
and restrict their power of taxation, borrowing money,
&e. 4. flanks of deposit and exchange may be incorpora
ted but they shall not issue paper money. 5. One flank of
discount and issuo with not more than two branches may
be established. but the act of incorporation shall not take
effect until submitted to and apprayed by a vote of the
pcopl.. el. The hank and branches to be mutually liable
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REVENUE
for all the debts of each other, the stockholders liable to
an amount equal to their stock, and no law shall be passed
in any way sanctioning a suspension of specie payments.
7. The State shall not be a stockaolder insany bank or
other corporation, nor shall the--credit= of the: State be
loaned to any person or corporation. , •
SEc. 1. The militia shall embrace all able-bodied Male
citizens between 18 and 45 years; except such, as may . be
exempt. 2. Citizens opposed to bearing arms may pay
such equivalent as may be prescribed. 3. All militia offi
cers to be elected by their several companies,- battalions,
regiments, &c.
EDUCATION
Sm. 1. Schools and• the means of knowledge shall be
forever encouraged. 2. The Legislature shall preserve the
lands donated to the State for school purposes, and faith
fully apply the funds derivable therefrom. 3. Free com
mon—schools shall be established in every township in the
State. 4. The Legislature shall make appropriations from
the State Treasury for the support of schools, whenever
the other funds are insufficient, and (60 shall pass laws
for their government.
MISCELLANEOUS
SEC. 1. Lecompton shall be the seat of Government un
til otherwise ordered. 2. Persons chosen or appointed to
office under the State, shall take oath faithfully to perform
their duties. 3. The laws, records, judicial proceedings,
&c., shall be kept and conducted in the English language.
4. Aliens who may become bona Jide residents, shall enjoy
the same rights as native-born citizens. 5. County seats
only to be removed on a vote of the citizens: 6. All prop
erty owned by the wife at her marriage, or acquired after
ward by gift or devise, shall be her separate property, and
laws be passed for its registration and protection. 7. The
privilege of free suffrage shall be supported by laws regu
lating elections and punishing bribery and improper prac
tices. 8. Treason against the State shall consist only in
levying war against it and adhering to its enemies.
The Declaration of Rights is similar to the
Declarations of all our other State Constitu
tions.
The following is said to be the schedule
adopted by the Kansas Constitutional Conven
tion
Schedule.
SECA.. That no inconvenience may arise by reason of a
change from a territorial to a, permanent State Govern
ment, it is declared that all rights, actions, prosecutions,
Judgments, claims, and contracts, as well of individuals as
of bodies corporate, except the bill incorporating banks,
by the last territorial Legislature, shall continue as if no
such change had token place, and all processes which may
have issued under the authority of the Territory of Kansas
shall be as valid as if issued in the name of the State of
Kansas.
Sic. 2. All laws now of force in the Territory of Kansas,
which are not repugnant to this Constitution, shall con
tinue and be of force until altered, amended, or repealed
by a Legislature assembled by the provisions of this Con
stitution.
SEC. 3. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures accruing to
the Territory of Kansas shall inure to the use of the State
of Kansas.
Sac. 4. All recognizances heretofore taken shall pass to,
and be prosecuted in the name of the State of Kansas; and
all bonds executed to the Governor of the Territory, or to
any other officer or court, in his or their official capacity,
shall pass to the Governor and corresponding officers of
the State authority, and their successors in office, and for
the use therein expressed, and may be sued fur and recov
ered accordingly; and all the estates or property, real, per
sonal, or mixed, and all judgments, bonds, specialties,
causes in action, and claims or debts of whatsoever de
scription, of the Territory of Kansas, shall inure to and
vest in the State of Kansas, and be sued for and recovered
in the same manner and to the same extent that the same
could have been by the Territory of Kansas.
SEC. 5. All criminal prosecutions and penal actions which
may have arisen before the change from a territorial to a
State Government, and which shall then be pending, shall
be prosecuted to judgment in the name of the State of
Kansas; all actions= law and suits in equity which may
be peuding in the courts of the Territory of Kansas at the
_time of the change from a territorial to a State Govern
ment may be continued and transferred to any court of
the State which shall have jurisdiction of the subject mat
ter thereof.
SEc. 6. All officers, civil and military, holding their offi
ces under the authority of the Territory of Kansas, shall
continue to hold and exercise their respective offices until
they shall be superseded by the authority of the State.
SEc. 7. This Constitution shall be submitted to the Con
gress of the United States at its next ensuing session;
and as soon as official information has been received that
it has been approved by the same, by the admission of the
State of Kansas as one of the sovereign States of the Uni
ted States, the president of this convention shall issue his
proclamation to convene the State Legislature at the scat
of Government within thirty-one days after publication.
Should any vacancy occur by death,
resignation, or other
wise, in the Legislature, or other office, he shall order an
election to fill such vacancy: Provided however, in case of
refusal, absence, or disability of the president of this con
vention to discharge the duties herein imposed on him,
the president pro tempere of this convention shall perform
said duties; and in case of absence, refusal, or disability of
the president tempore, a committee consisting of seven,
or a majority of them, shall discharge the duties required
of the president of this convention.
Sec. 8. The Governor and all other officers shall enter
upon the discharge of their respective duties as soon after
the admission of the State of Kansas as one of the indepen
dent and sovereign States of the Union as may be conveni
ent.
Sac. 9. Oaths of office may he administered by any
judge, justice of the peace, or any judge of any court of
record of the Territory or tate of liansas,until the Legis
lature of the State may otherwise direct.
Sac. 10. After the year one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four, whenever the Legislature shall think is neces
sary to amend, alter, and change this Constitution, they
shall recommend to the electors at the next general elec
tion, two-thirds of the members of each house concurring,
to vote for or against the calling of a convention; and, if it
appear that a majority of all the citizens of the State have
voted for a convention, the Legislature shall, at its next
regular session, call a convention, to consist of as many
members as there may be in the house of representatives
at the time, to be chosen in the same manner, at the same
places, and the same electors, that choose the represen
tatives; said delegates so chosen shall meet within three
months after said election, for the purpose of amending,
revising, or changing the Constitution.
Sec. 11. Before this Constitution shall be sent to Con
gress fur admission into the Union as a State, it shall be
sunnuitted to all the white male inhabitants of this Ter
ritory for approval or disapproval, as follows: The presi
dent of this convention shall, by proclamation, declare
that on the 21st day of December, 1857, at the different
election precints now established by law, or which may ho
established as herein provided in the Territory of Kansas,
an election shall be held, over which shall preside three
judges, or a majority of three, to be appointed as follows:
The president of this convention shall appoint three com
missioners in each county in the Territory, whose duty it
shall bo to appoint three judges of election in the several
precints of their respective counties, at which election the
Constitution framed by this convention shall be submitted
to all the white male inhabitants of the Territory of Kan
sas in the said Territory upon that day, and over the age
of twenty-one years, for ratification or rejection, in the
following manner and form : The voting shall be by bal
lot. The judges of said election shall cause to be kept two
Poll-books by two clerks, by them appointed. The ballots
cast at said election :shall be endorsed "Constitution with
slavery," and "Constitution with no slavery." One of the
said poll-books shall be returned within eight days to the
president of this convention, and the other shall be retain
ed by the judges of election, and kept open for inspection.
The president, with two or more members of this conven
tion, shall examine said poll-books; and if it shall appear
upon said examination that a majority of the legal voters
cast at said election be in favor of the Constitution with
slavery, he shall immediately have the same transmitted
to the Congress of the United States, as herein before pro
vided. But if, upon such examination of said poll-books,
it shall appear that a majority of the legal votes cast at
said election be in favor of the "Constitution with no sla
very," then the article providing for slavery shall be
stricken from the Constitution by the president of this
convention, and no slavery shall exist in the State of
Kansas, except that the right of property in slaves now in
this Territory shall in no manner be interfered with, and
shall have transmitted the Constitution so ratified to the
Congress of the United States, as herein before provided.
In case of the failure of the president of this convention
to perform the duties, by reason of death, resignation, or
otherwise, the same duties shall devolve upon the presi
dent pro test.
SEc. 12. All officers appointed to carry into execution
the provisions of the foregoing sections shall, beforo enter
ing upon their duties, be sworn to faithfully perform the
duties of their offices; and, on failure thereof, be subject
to the same charges and penalties as are provided in like
case under the territorial laws.
Snc.l3. The officers provided for in the preceding sec
tions shall receive for their services the same compensa
tion as is given to officers for performing similar duties
under the territorial laws ,
Sec. IL Every person offering to vote at the aforesaid
election upon said Constitution shall, if challenged, take
rin oath to support tho Constitution of the United States,
and to support this Constitution, if adopted, under the
penalties of perjury under the territorial laws.
Sec. 15. There shall be a general election upon the first
Monday in January, 1.855, at which election shall be cho
sen a Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State,
Auditor of State, State Treasurer; and Members of the
Legislature, and also a member of Congress.
Sec. 16. Until the Legislature elected in accordance wills
- the provisions of this Constitution shall otherwise direct,
the salary of the Governor shall be three thousand dollars
per annum; and the salary of the Lieutenant Governor
shall be double the pay of the State Senator, and the pay
of Members -of the Legislature shall be five dollars per
diem until otherwise provided by the first Legislature,
which shall fix the salaries of all ofhcors other than those
elected by the people at the' first election.
Sec. 17. This Constitution shall take effect and be in
force from and after its ratification by the people, as here
in before provided. •r
11455 P-It appears that a large proportion of
the whole capital of theßank of Pennsylvania
was held by females and religious societies,
being regarded as one of the very safest in
estmcnts that could be made.
OEM!
PROM WASHINGTON
Opening of the Session.—Both Houses fully
organized.
U. S. CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.
The weather to-day is charming, and the
.opening of Congress has attracted dense
crowds in the galleries of both houses and
other parts of the Capitol. The greeting
between the members and their friends
served to render the scene pleasantly excit
ing.
Senate.
On the rolLbeing called fifty senators an
swered to their names. The Senate was
called to order by the Secretary, who read a
letter from Mr. Breckbaridge, Vice President,
stating that he would not be able to reach
Washington at the commencement of the ses
sion.
On motion of Mr. Benjamin, a resolution
taus adopted that the oath required by , the
Constitution be administered by Mr. Bright,
the oldest member present.
Messrs. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee,
and Mr. Clark, of New Hamshire, new
members, were sworn in and took their
seats.
The Senate proceeded to ballot for Presi
dent pro tempare of the Senate, when Hon.
Benjamin Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, was cho
sen and being conducted to his seat returned
his acknowledgements for the honor confer
red.
The usual resolutions were adopted for the
appointment of committees to inform the
House and the President of the United States
that the Senate was organized and ready for
the transaction of business.
The Senate then went into Executive ses
sion and confirmed the nomination by the
President of George W. Bowman, oditor of
the Bedford Gazette, as Superintendent of
Public Printing.
After the Executive session the Senate
adjourned without transacting any further
business.
Rouse of Representatives.
Two hundred and twenty-ono members an
swered to the call of the House. •
A quorum of members being thus ascer
tained to be present, the House proceeded to
the election of the Speaker.
Mr. Orr, was nominated by Mr. Jones, of
Tennessee, and Mr. Grow by Mr. Banks, of
Massachusetts.
On the ballot the vote stood as follows:
Mr. Orr, - - 128
Mr. Grow - 84
Scattering - 13
The announcement of the result was greet
ed with applause.
The Clerk appointed Messrs. Stephens and
Banks as a committee to conduct Mr. Orr to
the chair. The oath of office was adminis
tered by Mr. Giddings
On assuming the chair Mr. Orr expressed
his thanks for the honor conferred upon him.
The delicate and responsible duties of the
chair, he said, would be comparatively light
if he should be so fortunate as to secure the
co-operation of the members in despatching
business, and in upholding the dignity of the
House. He promised to administr the rules
which may be adopted with firmness and
impartiality. The great business confided to
them by the people admonished them to cul
tivate a patriotism as expansive as the Con
federacy itself. He cherished the hope that
the public business would be transacted so as
to promote the interests and happiness of the
entire people, and the constitution would be
maintained in its integrity and that their leg
islation would quicken the greatness and glo
ry of our common country.
The members were then sworn in, advanc
ing in delegations for that purpose.
Murder of a Child:
We often hear of examples, says the Bos
ton Post, of the barbarous treatment of ne
groes at the South, but the details of an al
leged child murder, by Mrs. Decker, of Stat
en Island, are the most revolting we ever
heard of. It seems the child was taken from
Mr. Pease's house of industry, in New York
city. and the following is his evidence in a
libel suit which Mrs. D. has instituted against
one of the city papers :
"I first heard of her death when I was on
the way , to her residence, to take the child
away; I was two miles from her residence
when I was told of the child's death; on ar
riving at this island, I went directly to Long
Neck, where Mrs. Decker resides ; I inquired
for the child, and was informed that it was
dead; I went into a little room off and found
her laid out; the clothes she had on were
principally those she had brought from the
house of industry; she was so wasted as to
be scarcely recognizable; the justice of the
peace caused the child's clothes to be taken
off; we found her feet blistered, and Mr.
Decker said they were made so by his wife's
putting the child's feet in the oven, after she
had been out of doors ; we found the child's
arms all blackened, as though they had been
severely beaten; not only the arms, but the
back and the legs ; she was marked all over,
the lower part of the back the skin was off,
likewise on both elbows, and one of the
knees ; her appearance shocked me as I had
never been shocked by any exhibition of a
body, dead or alive ; she had been dead
three hours ; the:bruises wore black,- and in
some, the blood had apparently settled un
der them ; as to the skin on the back of the
child, a piece was off nearly as large as the
palm of my hand, as if flayed off; that on
the back seemed as if it had been knocked
off by a blow ; I believed the wounds were
inflicted recently, because a person - in the
plaintiff's house, in Mr. Docker's presence,
said that they saw^ Mrs. Decker, when the
child was creeping on its hands and knees to
the privy in the yard, come up and kick her
over ; there was also a bruise on the back of
the neck, which.a young lady in the house
said was from a blow ; the body was laid out
on a board; its only grave clothes was a little
white sack, which it wore from the Five
Points house of industry ; there was very
great excitement in the neighborhood, and
the people had talked of her cruelty to the
child for several months ; the weather was
freezing nights and thawing days."
The above case has been decided by a
jury, and Mrs. Decker was awarded the sum
of six cents damages. So much for her libel.
She is yet to be tried for the murder of the
child.
WesnixoToN, Dec. 7.—The Southern mail,
which arrived this evening, brings the Mobile
Register of the 30th ult. That paper learns
that a rumor was received at New Orleans by
the Daniel Webster, that the steamer Fashion
had landed Gen. Walker and his band of fili
busters in Nicaragua, and was on her way
back to New Orleans.
XerFlour sold- at Cincinnati, December 7,
at S 4, receipts large. Hogs ss®s.s 15 for
200 lbs. to 250 lbs. average.
Line upon Line--Bare anfThere a Little
Par Flour at Pittsburg, Dec. 7, waS dull
and declining at $4,05 superfine on wharf,
and $4 from store—extra.s4,ss®s4,7s.
STILL THEY COME.—Mrs. Eclaris Thomas
has our thanks for a handsome mess of pad
ding and sausage.
NOT A CANDIDATE.—We have been inform
ed that Wm. P. SCHELL, Esq., will not be,
candidate for Speaker of the. Senate.
gA. young widow, who edits a paper in
a neighboring State, says: "We do not look
as well to day as usual, on account of the .
non-arrival of the mails."
LllMBER.—Students will be tak-en at the .
Cassville Seminary and payments can be
made in lumber. Address Joni D. WALsny
Cassville, Huntingdon county, Pa. *
)36°. We learn, with pleasure, that the
Scott Infantry of Huntingdon Furnace, have
signified their intention to attend the Inaugu
ration of Governor PACKER.
To GROCERS.—Students will be taken at
the Cassville Seminary and payments can be'
made in all kinds of Groceries. Address
Joni D. WALsn, Cassville, Huntingdon, coun
ty, Pa.
LEFT FOR PARTS lINKNOWN—four of our
patrons—into us about $4O. Our black book
is almost full. As soon as we can find room,
the list with comments by our Devil, will be
published.
XtErDr. Wm. A. SMITH", of Ebensburg, has
been appointed by President Buchanan, to
the office of Inspector of Drugs in the Phila
delphia Custom House, at a salary of from
$l2OO to $l4OO a year.
,g The Mayor of Pittsburg, on Friday
last, received notice that sixty emancipated
slaves would be sent to Pittsburg from New
Orleans, with one year's provisions. They
were liberated by will of Baker Woodruff,
and to be sent to Pennsylvania.
DWe have never heard the farmers of
Buffaloe Valley express more satisfaction
with the prospect of the Wheat crop, than
they do this season.—Lewisburg Chronicle.
Perhaps that iron man is somewhere in
the neighborhood.
To FARMERS.—Students will be taken at
the Cassville Seminary and payments can be
made in Meat, Apples, Potatoes, Butter,
Eggs, Flour, Buckwheat, &c. Addres JOHN
D. WALsrr, Cassville, Huntingdon county,
Pa.
A VALUABLE CROP.—The Ohio wool clip is
estimated to exceed that of 1856 by at least
3,000,000 pounds. The counties in the cen
tre of that State are now as famous for their
fine wool as they formerly were for their
great crops of wheat. The estimated value'
is $6,000,000.
k ne-Wm. P. SCHELL, Esq., the gentleman
the opposition were going to shell-out at the
late election, was in town last week. Though
but a small man, his election in this district
has satisfied the people that he can run some
when he gets...his blood up.
MISSOURI WINE.—In Missouri there is a
German colony occupying nearly a whole
county, where the vine is the principal ob
ject of culture. The vintage this year is re
ported to have been remarkably successful,
and the yield will be about 100,000 barrels of
wine.
NEW YORK ELECTION.—Wood, the regular
ly nominated candidate for Mayor, was de
feated at the election on Monday of last
week, and Tierman, independent Democrat,
elected by over 2000 majority. It is alleged
that the influence of the Government office
holders in the city, was against Wood.
Our friend and patron, J. B. BUTTS,
late of Franklin township, this county, we
see by the Bellefonte papers, has taken the
" Conrad House" in that place, and refitted
and otherwise improved it in handsome style.
Our friends should not fail to stop with Jerry
when they have occasion to visit Bellefonte
--his accommodations are said to be " tip
top."
DEPARTURE OF U. S. TROOPS.—On Monday
last, a detachment of United States troops,
numbering 219 men, left Carlisle Barracks,•
under the command of Lieut. Lee. Their
present destination, we believe, is Cglifornia,
but eventually they will join the army un
der Gen. Harney, and aid in subduing the
Mormons.
rThe New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger, says : "The precise
destination and mission of Gen. Walker, the
filibuster, are still a profound mystery, not
withstanding the general impression that he
has gone back to Nicaragua. Do not be sur
prised if it should turn out that the Nicara
gua story is only a 'blind,' to conceal an en
terprise of a different sort, and, instead of
turning up at San Juan, look out for an ex
pedition to Mexico, in the interest of Santa
Anna, to help capsize the Government of
General Comonfort."
INDIAN OUTRAGES IN Txxes.—The Belton
(Texas) Independent records further Indian,
depredations in that vicinity. On the 11th
ult., they stole and drove away over 100
horses. One cavallado of about 80 in num
ber, was taken from within 3 miles, of Gates
vile, the county seat. A party started in
pursuit. Mr. Lewis, son-in-law of Moses
Jackson, Esq., was killed on Pecan Bayou,
near Camp Colorado, by Indians, or men dis
guised as such. Others had been attacked
by them, and there was a general disposition
among the settlers to leave, unless immediate
assistance was sent them.
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