THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
T. GLOBE.
Circulation—the largest in the county,
MEIRIVLUMDCIE, PA.
Wednesday, January 27, 1858.
Now Advertisementsa
'Stray Steer, by Cl. Ovulelt.
For Divorce, by Sheriff Millen
va..Jcurneyman Blacksmith wanted, by A. Lewis.
45y-Orpbans' Court Salo 6; Real Estate, by Joseph Mc-
Coy and David li. Campbell, Administrators.
G - ov. PACKER..—Gov. Packer's inaugural
address will be found on our first page. It
is an able address, and sustains the Douglas
view of the Kansas question.
LOCALS.--Jas. Bricker has purchased the
Gotta stand, and is now fixing it up to move
into, with an extensive stock of goods, early
in the spring. The new German Reformed.
Church will be dedicated early in March.—
Business men predict a revival of business
as soon as confidence can be restored. A
man with money in his pocket who will not
pay his debts, is considered as having sus
pended—broke. There is quite a number of
such in the "ancient borough." With a con
tinuance of the weather we have been bless
ed. with for some days past, we may expect
early gardening. Our ice cream manufactu
rers are looking anxiously for - a cold spell—
their ice-houses are and may continue empty.
This is a poor man's winter.
XErWe have received from C. E. Todd &
Co., 392 Broome street, New York, a gold.
pencil and a desk pen, in payment for adver
tisement in another column headed "Agents,
Attention!" The articles are fifty per cent.
better than any trade of the kind we have
ever received at their selling prices. We
have paid eight dollars for pencils not as val
uable as those manufacturing by Todd & Co.
for five. See their advertisement.
We regret to learn, that Mr. FREDER
ICK LIST, formerly of this place, died in Ger
many about the first of this month. Mr.
LIST was one of our most active business
men, and a gentleman respected by all who
had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
Prof. M. McN.IVALsu, the new Prin
cipal of the Cassville Seminary, has accepted
an invitation to address the Educational Mass
Meeting to be held at Spruce Creek on Fri--
day and Saturday next (January 29th and
30th.)
STATE CONVENTION.-At a meeting of the
Democratic State Committee held at Harris
burg-on the 19th inst., it was resolved that
the next Democratic State ConventiOn be held
at Harrisburg, on the 4th of March next., to
nominate candidates for Judge of the Su
preme Court and Canal Commissioner.
raa.,The two negroes, Anderson and Rich
ardson, who so brutally murdered two aged
women, Mrs. Garber and Mrs. Ream, near
Manheiru, in Lancaster county, have both
been found guilty, and have been sentenced
to be hanged.
SWINDLING.—We notice that several of our
brethren are guilty of swindling their sub
scribers by publishing New York Ledger
advertisements as reading matter on their
first pages, at half •the usual advertising rates.
Such a system of advertising must have the
effect of destroying the confidence of the peo
ple in their country press, especially in those
guilty of so gross a deception. As bad as we
sze in want of money we cannot think of
humbugging our subscribers to the extent
some of our neighboring press are guilty of.
Such advertisements, to the amount of at
least thirty dollars, - we have deposited in the
stove during the past week.
Thomas Washington Smith, lately on
trial in Philadelphia for the murder of Rich
ard Carter, of Tamaqua, was acquitted on
the ground of insanity, and delivered into the
charge of his sister.
ttEk.The Ohio Legislature has passed re
solutions expressing confidence in the Ad
ministration ; reaffirming the Cincinnati plat
form ; declaring the refusal of the Lecomp
ton convention to submit the constitution to
the people as unwise and unfortunate for the
peace of Kansas ; and instructing the Sena
tors of the State, and requesting Representa
tivesi-to vote against the Lecompton constitu
tion, or any other constitution not a clear ex
pression of the will of the people.
CHANGES.—COI. H. J. Lombaert has been
superseded as General Superintendent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and Thos. A. Scott,
Esq., appointed in his place, the former hav
ing been transferred to the post of Auditor
on the Road, and the location, Philadelphia.
Thos. T. Wierman, Esq., late Superintendent
of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad,
has been, appointed Engineer on Pa. Canal.
Most excellent men for the posts—they have
been tried and not found wanting.
ne6—Adolphus Patterson, esq., of Williams
burg; is recommended in a communication in
the Hollidaysburg "Standard", for nomina
tion as the next Democratic candidate for
Canal Commissioner.
BUSINESS IN NEiv .YORE.—A New York
letter writer under date of Jan. 23, says :
"We are about to enter on the last week
in January with increased and increasing ac
tivity in money, capitalists only too anxious
to lend, some branches of business showing
signs of returnin* health and strength, up
wards of thirty millions in gold in oar bank
vaults, and a California steamer to arrive
with a couple of millions more."
THE Two GREAT FACTS PROVED BY THE
BALLOT-BOX IN KANSAS.—We are at last
(says the Press,) receiving the truth from
Kansas. The first fact, and the most impor
tant one as proved by the return of elec
tion held on the 4th, is the enormous major
ity of 10,226 against the Lecompton Consti
tution, the frauds in Oxford, Shawnee, and
Kickapoo in its favor being counted. The
next not less important fact is that which is
certified to by the llon. P. P. Stanton, late
Secretary of the Territory, who has despatch
ed from Boonville, Mo., under date of the
19th, that the vote of the 21st of December
for the Constitution, was 6,500, "two-thirds
of which are fraudulent." So, then, it ap
pears that the people have not only secured
an immense majority against the Calhoun
contrivance, but that the attempt to count up
a strong vote in its favor has only resulted in
another exposure of rascality at the ballot
box. What course will be pursued at Wash
ington, in view of these extraordinary devel
opments, remains to be seen. We trust that
when the Lecompton Constitution is sent to
Congress, it will be so communicated that
the full facts will be forwarded in connection
with it, so that the representatives of the peo
ple may vote understandingly. *
* in the event of the Lecompton Con
stitution going through, we shall have a prac
tical idea of the settlement of the Kansas dilli
culty. The humane and philanthropic gen
tlemen who have been asking that the people
should be compelled to arrange their own
affairs under the Lecompton Constitution,
may find that while they have succeeded in
excluding the majority from the rights which
belong to them, they have at the same time
introduced into every free State a number of
elements which will lead to some most unfor
tunate consequences; for it is as certain as
that the night follows the day, that any such
attempt to settle the Kansas question would
unsettle the political relations of many dis
tinguished men, and would throw into our
future elections the most inextinguishable
discord and dissension.
THE OnJo STATESMAN AND KANSAS.—The
Statesman of the 17th thus closes an appeal
to Congress not to admit Kansas into the
Union under the Calhoun Constitution:
"After what we have seen in Ohio, Indi
ana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa,
Minnesota, and Nebraska, not to go east into
Pennsylvania and New York ; and after
Kansas herself, at a legal and regular elec
tion, has pronounced against the Lecompton
imposture, we cannot believe the solemn and
sacred rights of the people will be trampled
down by Congress. But if this thing is to
be done, thank God, a free and honest peo
ple, scrupulous of the rights of others, but
resolute to maintain their own, will have the
redress in their own hands, and they will ap
ply it. That man is insane who expects
them to submit supinely to unnecessary and
superfluous treachery and. insult!'
BEAUTIES OF TELE LATV.-At the recent term
of the Circuit Court of Tazewell, Tenn., a fel
low was arraigned for stealing a raw hide.,
Ile alleged that he had purchased it from a
negro. The attorney for the Commonwealth
admitted his statement and he was acquitted,
but he was immediately indicted for trading
with -4, ne - -,ro. Thereupon the accused intro
duced two witnesses to prove that he had sto
len the hide, when of course he was discharg
ed ; and having already been tried for steal
ing he could not he tried the second time for
the same offence, and was turned loose un
punished.—Such is the perfection of human
wisdom.
DOUBLE 3 / LUBBER BY A &AVE.—The Ports
mouth (Va.) Transcript has the following ac
count of a shocking affair, which occurred
in Gates county, worth Carolina:
On Monday afternoon a negro man belong
ing to Mr. Seth Benton, of North Carolina,
who had been hired out to work on a rail
road, was to have left Holy Neck, in Nase
mond county, on that day, with a number of
others, for the place of his labor, but on the
departure of the gang lie managed to be left
beind. Shortly after he proceeded to the
house of Mrs. Holland, a widow lady, whom
he murdered. He then went towards the
residence of Mr. Whitewell Jones, but meet
ing him a short distance from his house, kill
ed bim also, and with a large club mangled
his head. in a shocking manner. lie after
wards made for the• house of Mr. Uriah
Rawls, where he would doubtless have de
stroyed a whole family had they not been
apprised of his coming. Mr. Rawls went out
with a double-barrelled kun, as the negro ap
proached he fired, but the charge being of
small shot, it did not stop him, and Mr. R
discharged the other barrel with no"better ef
fect. The savage pursued him, and was just
upon his heels, when Mr. Rawls suddenly
turned and struck him a severe blow with
the breech of the gun, which felled him to
the ground apparently lifeless. He, however,
revived in a short time, arose and ran across
an adjoining field, when he discovered an
other woman, Mrs. Rowel, but she succeeded
in making her escape from him. By this
time the alarm had spread through the
neighborhood, and the negro was pursued
by several persons well armed. He made
for the swamp and attempted to hide him
self, but was finally overtaken and shot.—
The excitement created in all that region
was intense. The news spread rapidly from
house to house, and it was supposed that a
general insurrection had commenced. Mes
sengers were sent in various directions. The
people turned out in large numbers and re
paired in haste to the several points where it
was supposed their services might be needed.
REPORT CONTRADICTED.—An Eastern cor
respondent remarks: A story is going the
rounds of the papers stating that the grass
hoppers consumed a whole crop of tobacco
out West during the past summer, and after
wards sat upon the fences by the road-side
begging a chew of every passing traveller.—
But a friend of mine, who has just returned
from St. Louis tells me the report is untrue.
Pennsylvania Legislature.
TutsnAY, Jan. 19th. This being the day
fixed by the Constitution for the inauguration
of the Governor elect, the city at an early
hour was the scene of a great throng of peo
ple attracted hero by a desire to witness the
ceremony of the installation of a new' ruler.
Several thousand strangers were present.—
The military presented an imposing and
highly creditable appearance. There were
fifteen companies on parade; thirteen infantry
and two cavalry, accompanied by fourteen
bands of music. At 11 o'clock the national
salute was fired from a brass field piece cap
tured by the American army in Mexico. A
procession, composed of the military and cit
izens was formed, and after proceeding thro'
several of the principal streets approached
the Capitol, where the members and officers
of the Senate and House of Representatives
were arranged on a platform erected in front
of the building. A prayer was uttered by
Rev. De Witt, after which, the oath of office
was administered to Governor Packer by the
Speaker of the Senate. This being done, the
Governor delivered his Inaugural address,
and, when concluded, the military re-formed
and after parade and review were formally
dismissed. I doubt whether Harrisburg was
ever before visited by as great a crowd of peo
ple as was present this day, and the whole
affair was conducted as harmoniously, peace
ably and satisfactorily as could be expected.
In the House, Mr. Arthur introduced a bill
for the better regulation of the Militia system.
WEDNESDAY.—The Governor informed the
two Houses that he had appointed Win. M.
Heister, Secretary of the Commonwealth, and
Mr. Heister communicated his appointment
of Henry L. Dieffenbach, as Deputy Secre
tary.
In the Senate, Mr. Miller presented a joint
resolution relative to financial affairs, in which
it is recommended to form a convention of
delegates from each State to agree upon the
lowest denomination of paper money to be
issued by the banks.
Mr. Fetter read in place, a bill to incorpo
rate the Muffin County Bank.
In the House, Mr. Dunlap read in place a
bill regulating the license of places of amuse
ment.
THURSDAY. Senate.—Mr. Buckalew read in
place a supplement to the act incorporating
the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society.
Mr. Gregg moved that the bill to incorporate
the Mifflin Co. Bank be printed, and it was
so ordered. The Governor nominated 0. Bar
rett, Superintendent of the Public Printing,
which was confirmed unanimously. House.
—Mr. Hcutz presented the petition of Lavinia
S. Drenning for a divorce. A petition from
citizens of Butler county was read for an act
to confer on Justices of the Peace authority
to try certain criminal offences, and finally
determine the same. A petition was read
from Thomas Washington Smith praying to
be divorced from. his wife.
FRIDAY. Senate.—A petition was present
ed for the erection of a Poor House in Centre
county; and one for the increase of the pay
of County Commissioners. The bill intro
duced on Thursday, entitled "A supplement
to an act to incorporate the Penn'a State Ag
ricultural Society," passed and was sent to
the House for concurrence.
MONDAY. Senate. The Committee on Ju
diciary reported as committed "An act to
authorize the publication of minority opin
ions of Judges of the Supreme Court in Con
stitutional cases." The Committee on Fi
nance to which was committed a bill entitled
" An Act to repeal the Act separating the
State and School Departments" reported the
same with a negative recommendation. Mr.
Bell read in his place "An Act to alter the
Districts of the Supreme Court." Mr. Shaef
fer read in place, a bill entitled "An Act to
provide for an investigation into the manage
ment of the Lancaster Bank."
The weather to-day has been delightful;
equalling spring in the mildness of the air
and heat of the sun.
Monday Evening.
COURTESY BETWEEN POLITY" OPPONENTS.
-It is a long, long time since we have parti
cipated in so agreeable a reunion as' that
which took place at Harrisburg, our State
capital, during the inauguration of the new
PACKER, and the retirement of the old POL
LOCK Administration. There was none of
the bitterness which has marked the com
mencement of some former Administrations.
The two Executives, so to speak, met and
parted like old friends, while their respective
cabinets associated together on the most in
timate terms. The Governor elect dined with
Governor Pollock on the day before the inau
guration, and. after that ceremony the ex-Go
vernor dined with Governor Packer. These
creditable examples were happily followed
by the members of the Legislature, who ac
companied ex-Governor Pollock to the cars
in a body as a mark of their personal respect.
We make a note of these agreeable demon
strations, and trust the auspicious precedent
will always be imitated hereafter. It is na
tural and right in a free country for men to
hold independent sentiments; but nothing is
more discreditable in itself, and more calcu
lated to produce disagreeable consequences,
than the exhibition of personal hostilities as
the result of political disagreement.--Press.
MAKING MAPLE SUGAR IN JANUARY.—Some
of the farmers in Michigan, deeming the
present extraordinary weather for the season
favorable to the running of sap, have recently
tapped their maple trees to try the experi
ment, arid succeeded in making quite a quan
tity of maple sugar 1 The fruit trees. bud
ding in New England—the rivers and lakes
navigable in the West—and making .maple
sugar in Michigan—in the midle of January!
Does "the oldest inhabitant" remember the
like occurring before?
From Washington.
Correspondence of the Press.]
Lately there has been a palpable falling
off from the ranks of the Lecomptonites.—
Even the administration, I learn, hesitate to
give any sanction to the present posture-of
affairs in Kansas, so far as it has been pro:-
duced by the glaring frauds for a third time
repeated at Oxford and McGhee. Secretary
Toucey begins to evince a wholesome regard
for public opinion in the North, and in the
stand which he is now understood to take, of
at least some show of accord of legislative
action here with the will of the majority in
the Territory, he is not, I am led to believe,
unsupported by General Cass and the Presi
dent himself.
When I state this, I only express what this
morning is the general impression in town on
Kansas affairs. It cannot be disguised that
Southern politicians are tired of bolstering
up the contrivance of Calhoun and his asso
ciates, and that--for they look North for help
to elevate them upon the ladder of preferment
—.they are not altogether satisfied with the
damaging effect to their hopes of the impo
litic conduct of a few rash, thoughtless, and
careless men in Kansas. In this view, when
defection is, if not winked at, not assaulted
with the usual Southern fire, it is not to be
wondered at if Northern Democrats, who
have permitted themselves unwarily to go too
far, should at once hurry to get upon safe
ground, where they can give signs of recog
nition of the wishes of their constituents.
For Governor Walker, Douglas, and the
men who took the side of popular sovereignty
from the beginning, and for the peace and
prosperity of Kansas, there is a line prospect
ahead.
It is stated, I know, that the Houses of
Congress have been canvassed, and that the
Senate certainly, and the Rouse of Repre
sentatives probably, will sustain the Lecomp
ton Constitution ; but the statement must be
unfounded, for it is a matter of which those
who are brought into contact with members
cannot be ignorant that they are cautious of
what they say in the way of committing them
selves on this question. •
Those who favor the animating principle of
the Nebraska bill, however, are open in the
expression of that position ; but the remain
ing members, with the exception, of course,
of ultra pro-slavery men, do not say they
favor Lecompton or anything else, but that
" nobody can tell how I shall vote." If no
body can tell, and the fact is apparent that
they consult their. constituents, who resolu
tion them to advocate the views of Walker
and Douglas, the guess is not a wild one to
conclude that the chances are rather against
Lecompton.
The President denied himself to everybody
yesterday. The supposition is that he was
engaged in deep reflection upon the intelli
gence which has arrived from acting Gover
nor Denver,
There is a great change going on in respect
to affairs in Kansas, and just now one can
form no opinion approaching accuracy, other
than that Calhoun and Lecompton are fast
sinking into oblivion and nothingness, with
the contempt of every section of the Union,
which both so richly merit. Even politicians
afford an unusual exhibition in giving their
hearty amen to this denouement.
Plans for the adjustment of the existing
difficulty are being framed by members of the
Democratic party, who tire of this Kansas
question, and would relieve Congress of its
further consideration in any way that would
fairly consult the will of the people to be
affected by their action. It is alleged, too, by
gentlemen who ought to know what the Ad
ministration designs doing, that Mr. Buchan
an favors the rubbing out of the blotch of
blunders already committed, and beginning
again so that the record may, by act of the
Legislature calling another Convention, read
unequivocally and straight-forward what are
the domestic institutions which the people
of Kansas want, and how, upon a republican
foundation, their State organization shall be
erected.
Governor Walker is in town.
The Committee on Territories of the Senate
have decided to report on Monday next: a bill
for the admission of Minnesota into the Union
as a State. The irregularities which have
-been referred to in the daily papers have not
been of so serious a character as have been
imagined. Whatever they have been, they
have been obviated , by common consent and
the bill as reported will pass with little de
bate or objection.
The estimates to supply deficiencies in the
appropriations of the present fiscal year for
the army, and which will be included in the
General Deficiency 33111, to be reported in a
day or two from the Committee of Ways and
Means, amount to $6,700,000. The estimates
for the Post Office deficiencies amount to $l,-
469,173. Other deficiencies sum up the total
amount to about $9,000,000,
These estimates for the army provide not
only for the service of the present fiscal year,
but also for service in the fiscal year ending
36th of June, 1859. Subsistence and means
of transportation, reinforcements, &c., for
the army of Utah, must be provided for early
operations in that Territory next spring. The
deficiency in the post-office service shows that
that branch of the Government is anything
but self-supporting.
JUNIATA.
WASHINGTON, January 24, 1858.
Most noteworthy of the latest news from
Europe and the Pacific is the hostile attitude
assumed toward each other of the imbecile
Goverments of Spain and Mexico. Both heav
ily in debt, neither with harmony in its inter
nal administration, with civil war and decay
sinking both into a semi -barbarism, and with
nothing but a deep-rooted faith in a Christain
religion saving them from an abject condi
tion too horrible to think of, they rush into a
fight where each will lose all and can possi
bly gain nothing.
I learn that it is beyond conjecture, that so
soon as open hostilities lave commenced
crowds of organized volunteers will pour in
to Mexico from Texas and California, not so
much to assist in the defence of our helpless
neighbor, as to seize the opportunities which
will be presented for the gratification of fil
ibuster propensities.
It is stated that to-morrow the President
will give in a special message on Kansas af
fairs. I am not able to say what will be its
recommendations, but only that the impres
sion is it will not go to the extent of giving
the Lecompton regency more than a luke
warm approval—"damning it," indeed," with
faint praise."
Those who hold the same views with Judge
Douglas and Covernor walker are anxious for
a speedy settlement of the Kansas controver
sy, and as the debate on the subject will go
on in both houses from to-morrow, it is prob
able that they will agree upon some com
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 1858.
WISIIINGTOY, Jan. 22, 1858
mon plan of adjustment which while secur
the expression of the will of those to be affec
ted by it, will also secure a fair admission of
this long disputed Territory as a State into
the Union.
From the Omaha Nebraskian, (Extra) of January the Bth
' , Border Ruffianism" in Nebraska.
Kansas Outdone—Bold Attempt at Revolu
tion—Speaker Decker Heading the Revolu
tionists—Revolutionists to organize another
Government at Florence, under the Protec-
•
tion, of Brigham Young !! ! ! 1
It is with no little regret that we have to
record one of the most disgraceful transac
tions it has ever been our hap to witness in
the Territory, and to herald to the world the
infamy of a majority of the members of the
present Legislature. The facts, from which
we leave the public to judge, are as follows :
The House went into committee of the
whole, yesterday morning ; on a joint resolu
tion for the election of public printer. A
bill had been previously introduced, for the
re-location of the capitol ; and a motion to
suspend rules and put it through without de
lay, had been announced on the part of its
friends. To consume time, when the House
went into committee of the whole on the
printing resolution, several gentlemen, who
are opposed to the removal of the capitol,
spoke against time; thus preventin& l' a mo
tion for the rising of the committee. At this,
the Speaker and his friends—a majority of
the House, and the same men who voted for
the " Delegate Resoloutions"—became much
exasperated, and withdrew from the House;
the minority—thirteen in number—remain
ing in committee.
Speaker Decker and his friends came down
to the Douglas House, and in caucus decided
to break up the committee and get the Chair
at all hazards ; the Speaker declaring that
he would have it, or die. It is.even rumored
that the Speaker and several of his friends
armed themselves with revolvers. The chief
clerk of the Council was found and persuaded
to take a message to the House. On a mes
sage from the Council being announced-4he
House being still in committee of the whole,
Mr. Thrall in the Chair, and Mr. Clayes hav
ing the floor—an enquiry was made as to
whether the Council was in session, and the
clerk replying that that body was not in ses4
sion, a rule in Jefferson's manual was cited,
showing that no message should be received
unless both the Houses were in session; on
which the chairman informed the clerk that
his message couldn't l j)e received, and Mr.
Clayes proceeded with his remarks. At this
juncture, Mr. Decker, who, with his friends,
had returned to the House, started for the
Speaker's Chair, and snatching the gavil
from the hand of the chairman, raised it in
a threatening manner, at the same time or
dering Thrall to leave, remarking that he
would take, possession of the Chair, or die.--
Mr. Murphy, on ,seeing the Speaker in the
act of assaulting Dr. Thrall, interfered and
endeavored to wrest the gavil from his hand,
when a pretty general melee ensued, crea
ting a nice scene of confusion, which, in the
expressive language of an eye-witness, would
"almost make one think that h-1 bad given
a holiday and turned all the devils loose in
the Nebraska Legislature." Several mem
bers "pitched in," and it is said that the
Speaker would have been pretty roughly
handled had it not been for the timely assist
ance of Mr. Hanscom—who happened to be
within the bar—in rolling him under the ta
ble, without even waiting to 'suspend rules.'
Dr. Thrall still kept the chair, and suc
ceeded in restoring order. Mr. Clayes went
on with his speech Speaker Decker and his
friends left the House without getting posses
sion of the Chair by force ; and at length the
committee rose, the members present elected
a Speaker pro tern., and adjourned till the
usual hour this morning.
It should be remarked that the lobby was
crowded during the melee, and that no dis
position to interfere was manifested ;_ and as
soop as partial order was restored, every
man in the lobby, at the request of Mr. Mor
ton of Otoe left the room.
The House met this morning at the usual
hour ; the reading of the journal was dis
pensed pith, and a motion to adjourn to
Florence was made and carried, on which
_the majority withdrew, leaving the minority,
who elected Mr. Popploton Speaker pro tern.,
and adjourned until to-morrow morning.—
The Clerk of the House, understanding his
business fully, refused to move the journals,
minutes, and other papers, but kept the
same here at the capitol.
About half-past ten o'clock this morning,
Mr. Reeves, in the Council, moved dial, that
body also adjourn to Florence. 'lnc; Presi
dent, Dr. Miller, very properly refused to en
tertain the motion.; thereupon Mr. Reeves
put the motion himself, for which act it is to
be regretted that he was not promptly arrest
ed by the Sergeant-at-arms.
The reason of Dr. Miller's refusal to enter
tain the - motion, was, that the Legislature
could not adjourn under the organic law,
without the joint action of the two Houses,
and the official action of the Governor. An
appeal was taken froni the decision, and sus
tained by the majority. The President still
firmly refusing the question, Mr. Reeves of
Otoe, arose in his place and put the question,
which was declared by the President to be
informal,.and out of order; but regardless of
that the majority withdrew from the Council
Chamber.
Gov. Cumming has issued an order for
keeping the journals, minutes, &c., of the
Council also at the capitol.
The greatest excitement prevails, and nu
merous are the conjectures as to what will
be done. If the withdrawing members-21
in the House, and 8 in the Council--assemble
at Florence, the Governor will not, and can
not, recognize their acts. In the meantime,
those members of each House remaining
here, will assemble at their respective rooms,
and, not having a quorum present, will ad
journ from day to day.
It should be remarked, that Florence is a
very appropriate place for these revolutionists
to meet. They sustain the election frauds
perpetrated at that delectable town in Au
gust last, and are in most respects fit sub
„pets to be under the protection and control
of Brigham Young and his satelites. If
Brigham Young should condescend to deliv
er to them a message, we shall endeavor to
lay the same before our readers.
But after all, we are not much surprised
that men who can fritter away 'nearly a
whole session of the Legislature in foolish
agitation of subjects over which they have
no control, on finding one of their mercenary
schemes likely to be foiled, are ripe for any
movement of a disoiganizing nature.
Several gentlemen from various sections of
the Territory, are now in the city, and from
these, as well as from persons in our own
community, there is but one universal ex
prest;ion—condemnation of the high-handed
outrage and illegal proceedings of the major
ity of the Legislature. All concede that the
position of the minority is legal, parliament.
ary and correct.
From the St. Louis Republican, Jan. 19th
Interesting News from the Plains.
A letter from the agent of the United
States Express Company at Jefferson City,
dated yesterday, communicates some interest
ing items of news from the Plains. •
It is stated that Mr. A. A.cloner, an Indian
trader, had arrived in that city from Fort
Laramie. lie left that fort
. on the 3d inst.—
On his way, on the 23d December, he met
between six hundred and seven hundred
Cheyenne and Camanche Indians, returning
from Great Salt Lake Citg to their villages,
on the Black Walnut Hills, about eighty
miles southeast of Fort Laramie, accompanied
by about twenty of the Mormon leaders. He
understood that it was the intention, of these
Indians, of course under the influence of the
Mormons, to remain in camp until the spring,
and then to employ themselves in harrassing
and cutting off the trains of provisions, &c.,
intended for the relief of Colonel Johnston.
The Indians had been persuaded to believe
that there were eighty thousand men among
the Mormons, capable of bearing arms, and,
well equipped, and they describe them as
having numerous fortifications. They also
speak of a large number of Indian allies ;
and declare that the Mormons have no idea
of running away.
Mr. Achner reports that he saw a white
girl, about nine years of age, in the cap of
the Cheyennes. She was dressed as an In
dian. She represented to him that her pa
rents were from Green county, Illinois, and
that she was stolen from them by the Indians
when the train of emigrants was crossing
the plains, but that she did not know wheth
er her parents were living or dead. Mr. Ach
ner was unable to rescue her by force, or to
purchase her, her captor being absent on a
hunt; but he was quite confident of being
able to do so on his next expedition among
the Indians.
This gentleman is represented as having
been a trader for many years among the In
dians, and his statements are entitled to erect-
IVlCorroon Rebellion—Official Despatches
from Col. Johnston.
WASHINGTOV, Jan. 23.---Despatches have
been received at the War Department from
Col. Johnston, dated Nov. 30th, which con
firm the previous reports of excessive suffert
ing and great loss of the draught animals,
by snow storms, cold and starvation. A suf
ficient number of oxen, though poor, have
been saved to supply the proportions of the
rations for six days in the week, and there is
on hand bacon sufficient for one day in each
week for seven months. There are also flour
and small rations for the same period.
The storms dealt roughly with Col. Cook's
command. lie lost half of his horses, besides
a number of mules. A further advance to
wards Salt Lake City cannot be made with
out a new supply of such animals, to procure
which Capt. Marcy has been despatched to
New Mexico, for use in the early spring,
when the army, with a volunteer force of 2,- ,
000 men, will resume the march as soon as
supplied with horses and mules ; and the
grass on the mountains is sufficient to supply
them
Two volunteer companies have been.nius
tered into service for nine months, and it is
expected that in a few days two more compa
nies will be mustered in.
The troops have borne the dangers and
privations of the march with patience and
cheerfulness, and are in fine health, though
some of the regiments are still suffering from
frosted feet.
Another letter from an officer of the army
says that the Mormons are afraid of the
mounted men. They are a set of cowards,
like all assassins and robbers, and he fears
that their leaders and those who have no
claim in the valley *ill run away, requiring
their deluded followers to destroy their prop
erty, lest it may benefit the army.
Traffic in Circassian Women.
The following very interesting account is
copied from a late London Morning Post
"'There has been lately an unusually large
number of Circassians going about the streets
of Constantinople. Many of them, no doubt,
belonged• to the deputation which came to pe
tition the Port that their country might be
taken under the sovereignty of the Sultan.—
A considerable portion, however, of the Cir
cassians now in the capital have quite an - -
other mission than a political one to fulfil.—
They are here as slave-dealers, charged with
the disposal of the numerous parcels of Cir
cassian girls that have been for some time
pouring into this market. Perceiving that
when the Russians shall have re-ciecupied the
coast of Caucasus this traffic in white slaves
will be over, the Circassian dealers have re
doubled their efforts, ever since the commence
ment of the peace conferences, to introduce
into Turkey the greatest possible number of
women while the opportunity of doing so.
lasted.
" They have been so successful, notwith
standing the prohibition of the trade by the
Port, and the presence of so many, of her
111ajesty'S - ships in the Black Sea, 'that never,
at any former period was white flesh so cheap
as at this moment. There is an absolute glut
in the market, and dealers are obliged to
throw away their goods owing
. to the extent
of the supply, which in many instances has
been brought by steam under the British flag.
In former times a " good middling" Circas
sian girl was thought very cheap at one hun
dred pounds, but at the present time the same
description of goods may be had 'for Are
pounds In fact the creatures are eating
their hands off, and must be disposed-of at
any sacrifice, however alarming. Independ
ent of all humane and Christian objections to
this abominable state of things, there are sev
eral practical ones which have even forced
themselves on the attention of the Turks.—
With low prices, a low class of purchasers
come into market.
"Formerly a Circassian slave girl was
pretty sure of being brought into a good fern
where not only good treatment, butoften
rank and fortune, awaited her - but
,at the
present low rates she.may be taken by any
huckster who never thought of keeping, a
slave before. Another is that the - temptation
to possess a Circassian girl at such low prices
is so great in the minds of the Turks, that
many who cannot afford to keep several slaves
have been sending their slaves to market, in
order to make room for a newly purchased
white girl. The consequence is, that numbers
of black women, after being as many as eight
or ten years in the same hands, have lately
been consigned to the broker for disposal.—
Not a few of these wretched creabires are in
a state quite unfit for being sold.