aScAN VOIMTEER. JO® B. BEATTON, Editor S Proprietor, "“CARLISLE, 'pa.. MARCH 30, 1864. Democratic State Ticket: GOVERNOR: WILLIAM BIGLER, OF CLEAUFIED COUNTY. JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT. JEREMIAH S.BLACK, OF 80MRB9ET COUNTY. C'VN-U. COMMISSIONER: HENRY S, MOTT, OF PIKE COUNTY. [UT'TVe return thanks to His Excellency JonK Bigler. Governor of the State of California, for a neat pamphlet copy of his eloquent Inaugural Address, delivered 7lh of January, 1854. The Nebraska Bill. —This important meas ure has boon referred to the Committee of the Whole in the V. S. House of Representatives. This is regarded by its enemies f 1.9 an Indication that it will be lost in that bodv. The better opinion, however, is that the discussion will be prolonged, and that in the course of time it will become a law. llicn Winds.—Wo hour, ns usual, of some damage from the high winds that have prevailed during the past two weeks. In some places fences were blown down, in others bams, while not a few ancient houses and stables were more or less dilapidated. TlMHijuTioN to Nebraska. —According to S(. Louis papers, emigration from the northern and western Slates, has sot in strong for the Nebraska territory. The fight in Congress about slavery, does not seem to deter the liardy pioneer from seeking a home there, while the prospect of gov eminent protection gnes impulse to enterprise. w v- - TitK 1 loin- or .bin \ Caliioi n. —The Keo tree C.) ('himm states (hat Fort Hill has bivn pnreba-.<l hv Col A I*. Calhoun, from Ins mother. Mu Flonde Calhoun, relict of the laic Ilmj. .1. C. Calhoun, and will be mimed ia- Hy on-upied b\ him. lie returns to Ins native Slate with an ample fortune, accumulated on the fruitful -oil of Alabama, and hereafter the visitin' to the saemi precincts of Fort Hill will bo entertained hy the son in a manner worthy ol >o distinguished a father. trT-Tbo I'mhibitun State Committee, at a meeting in Harrisburg on Monday, adopted a resolution in t.w ~r m lidding a Prohibitory State Convention in Harrisburg, on Wednesday, the Tlhol June next .to nominate a Pmbibiiorv State Ticket. -U is said that no TitK < I IU iMlTli I ITY apprehension an eno named at Washington of a rupture with .Npain m coii'-equonce of the B'aek Warrior nlluir It is thought that the dillicultv will W settled honorably to Ijolh par ties. The Ci i.iurAi. Protest.— The debate which occurred in the Tinted States Senate. on the prescti'afton of the great petition of 3050 cler gv-nicn and college professors, is to be published in full eiiibiacing the speeches of Messrs. Hous ton. Kvcreii. S’wnrd. Mason, Petit, Butler, Douglas. Ac It make® an interesting episode in Coiici iv-munl annals. Til I ■ iui * rM'.s in Mu. -Soi i ? \< i k ''Mi s * M i‘ 11 ''n ii. j.riMile v mrccs th.it - i.t\ M.ir-'y • Ims iii-trm t. il Mr Smile, our Mmi'tcr at Madrid, to make tin 1 demand lor in. dmiiiity ami iqi<il<>g\ m Uic imisl fterentjilot y manner; .u.'l should lilt* Spanish government liciiUitt*, i>r i-iii <>ll il•» n-ph . under pretence nl wait-mg l<>r iM.-rii nii'-n (>oin ll.nunn.Mi Soule i-t.i !..«>• ii-i iam in coiiiiiiumt-aiinjr the fuel to Winhiugti.ii, u li-'ii om government will proceed iiiKl.inU'i lo Mockade m n Cuban port. Hi. uiiof M \ i--K lli-nmi: -Maj. S R. llou utk, First \ -i'iaul Tost-Ma-'ler General, died at his nsidetice m Washington city, on Thurs duv of lasi work, after a protracted illness. — His disease win consumption. V e sincerely regret the death of thi« estimable man ami el 111-lent pullin' otliei-r It was our pleasure to l>e p<Tonally acquainted with him. and no one will accuse us of exaggeration when we say that as a pullin' olllcer in the PoKt-olllee Department, the < im ermm nt never had his superior if ever his equal. He wus honest, prompt, energetic ami obliging, and a gentleman in demeanor.— In his death the tiovermnent has lost a most valuable otli-er. and the community in which he lived a worthy and highly esteemed .citizen. Peace to his ashes. Disasters on’ oi u M kstek.v Rivers. The St. Ixmis Evening News says that during the two months, January and February, twenty three steamers were sunk, burnt or blown up on the Mississippi river ami its tributaries, and two destroyed by lire on the Savannah—invol ving the Ins'S of near two hundred lives, and mure than a million dollars worth of property. The records of the present month will greatly swell this fearful list of mortality. Within the last few days we have received accounts of the loss of the steamer Caroline and J. L. Avery upon the Mississippi, and the Reindeer upon the Ohio river—hurrying, in all, one hundred and lift ecu souls, without warning or preparation Into eternity. {•nr Portraits of eminent Americans now liv ing t Including President Pierce and Ida cabinet: with Biographical and Historical Memoirs ol their Lives and Actions. By John Livingston, oftheNew York Bar. Complete in one volume. Thia volume contains 650 pages, octavo, with , 00 lino steel portraits mode from daguerreotypes, expressly for tlio work. The engravings alone have cost over five thousand dollars. The portraits arc all engraved from dapier-- ecotypes. In the floest style of the art, and are undoubtedly correct. We can vouch lor the remarkable (IdcUly of tho likenesses of those persons will, whoso faces wo are larall ar. This truly national work 1. creditable to the ahll y and enterprise of Mr. Llvlagslon. and should edorn every public and private library in Uio country. Ills plan Is to -‘no creed or class con fined,” but embraces clergymen, lawyers, doe tors, soldiers, statesmen, Ammeters manufacturers, and fannera-ln short, dl, “£ gl.Uhocl diving representatives of J do P a^ . ■ meat of American society. To espatlsto on the K Wao'fflfmcU a work would he superfluous, ns K ||jl«|m.nd itself to Universal favor. . THE NEBRASKA BILL AND THE HABBISBUBB TELEGRAPH. The week J)r«utotta to the fcsscmloling of the late Federal State Conventtart, to nominate Can didates for Qovembr, Canal Commissioner, and Judge of the Supreme Court, the Harrisburg Telegraph , the organ of that party at the scat of Government, volunteered a few words of ad vice to the Delegates.!© whom had been entrust ed the delicate duty of nominating the ticket.— On the subject of Senator Dougins’ Nebraska Bill, the Telegraph advised that the Whigs should r ‘ keep hands off,” and remain os neutral as possible. But we shall quote the Telegraph's own language. In that paper of March 15, (the day of the assembling of the Federal Conven tion, ) we find the following: “ The Nebraska Bill, which has recently passed the Senate, and is now awaiting the action of | the House, is creating an unusual excitement throughout the country, and bids fair to uproot all party lines. The late Locofoco convention was aware of the difficulty this question was liable to create, and therefore refused to take any action upon it. Now as every thing is “ fair in war,” wo think we should not hastily commit ourselves upon a question which the masses of the people do not yet understand. We may nomi nate a candidate for Governor whoso views upon this question may be obnoxious to the masses) and we cannot a convention at this time, p able to tell what the views of Ike people are upon this question. Time has not been allowed them to examine it. There is one thing we hope, that the '.onveniion will not take hasty action upon this question , but will be governed by policy and the wish of thepcople Such were the Telegraph's views, such its advice to its party friends, before the meeting of the Federal Convention. Well, the Conven tion met, and. os a large majority of the dele- gates composing it were free sorters and abol itionists, of course the Nebraska bill had to he denounced in unmeasured terms—the advice of the Telegraph was disregarded by the Conven tion, and the following resolution was adopted as part of the “ "Whig platform “ Resolved, That the provision In the Kansas and Nebraska Bill, now before Congress, which effects and repeals the Missouri Compromise, is a deliberate breach of plighted faith and public compact, a high-handed attempt to force slavery into a vast territory nTtw free from it by law, a reckless renewing of a quieted agitation, and therefore meets the stern, indignant ami unani mous condemnation of the Whig party of the Commonwealth ol Pennsylvania.” We expected, as a matter of course, that the Telegraph, aflcr having used the language wc havequoled from its columns, would havcindo peudendence enough to maintain its position— wc exported to see it administer a mild hut pointed rebuke to the Convention for having failed to adopt the plan and take the advice it had volunteered. But. the Telegraph, apamel hkc, “ backed water,” and instead of defending its own position, actually applauds the Conven tion for pursuing the very opposite course of that it suggested. If this is not sycophancy double-distilled, we know not what is. Just see how that dignified sheet speaks of the rebuke it received at the hands of its own parly friends. We now quote from that paper of March 18. fits first issue after the adjournment of the Federal Convention.) Speaking of the “Whig Plat form,” adopted by the Convention, it remarks : “ Uponthe Nebraskaand Kansas Bill of Scnntoi Douglas, the platform is clear and plain, and meets the hearty approval of the citizens of Penn sylvania, now so indignantly aroused at this base attempt to renew the agitation of o quieted ques tion in violation of sacred compacts. Nut like the cowardly Locofoco Convention which shirk ed this Important measure, it denounces it in proper and unmeasured terms. But this dodge of'the Locofoco Convention came too late to save the Party from disgrace. That Convention passed n resolution approving of (he course of Senator Brodlitmd, who voted for this Bill In the Senate on the ever memorable Saturday morn- ing. By tins act tin l I.ocofoco Parly of Penn sylvania stands committed in favor of this mea sure. and every attempt to U bv Coventor Bigler or his satellites will only expose their weakness, their bipocrisy and their villainy.” -The New Now, as the Trlfirraph is so fond of applying vulgar epithets lo the Democratic party, for having as il says. 11 shirked” this ipieslion, will that immaculate sheet inform its renders what side of the question it occupies 1 One week the editor says •* the people do not understand the question,” and therefore appeals to his parly friends not to commit themselves for or against the measure. The week following he thinks the people do understand it, and the editor hear tily approve* of the resolution of the Conven tion in which the measure is condemned * This is, to say the least, a humiliating position for the Whig organ to occupy. And yet. notwithstanding Iris own equivocal and awkward position, the editor of the Tele prnph thunders forth indignant anathamns at the late Democratic State Convention for hav ing pursued the very course he recommended the Whig Convention to pursue! What the editor thought to be the right course for his own party, he considers “ dishonest and cow ardly” in the Democrats. How characteristic of Federalism —a want of fairness, honesty and manliness, is now and always has been the principal features of that miserable pie-bald par ty. They adhere to no policy, and have trim med their sails so often, for the purpose of satis fy ing abolitionism, frecsoilistn, native-American ism, and a dozen other isnu, that they have now no platform they can call their own. Every plank of the old whig platform, ns recognized by Clay, Webster and Fillmore, have been aban doned, one by one, and the once great whig party is almostif not entirely extinct. Hcqtucs cal m pace. A word in conclusion in regard to the taunts of the Federal press because of the course of the late Democratic State Convention in “ dodg ing” the Nebraska question. Wc say boldly | and emphatically tliat the Democracy of Penn- ; sylvnnia are in favor of the Nebraska Bill, and we feel authorized in saying also, that a very largo majority of the Delegates to the Democrat ic State Convention wore ready, had an oppor tunity been allbrdcd them, to have endorsed the measure by their votes. It was the President of the Convention, and not the Convention itself, that refused to entertain the motion to endorse •the Nebraska bill. Wc condemned the course of Judge Shannon (the President of the Convcn i tion,) because of his arbitrary course, and in doing so wo feci that wc spoke the sentiments of nineteen-twentieths of the Democrats of Pennsylvania. Wo desire no “ dodging” in a Democratic Convention—wo prefer boldness and decision on all great national subjects. W o aro ready and willing to join Issue with the Whigs and their allies, the abolitionists, on this ques tion, without the least fear as to the result.— Xher? area few " National Whigs” who despise tbo trading course of their party, and who aro ready to Join the democracy to •• crush out” abolitionism wherever it may exhibit its hydra head.'; . • • Tan New To* Central Railroad Company, have prohibited the sale of spiritons Uquofs at the victualling stations. CLERICAL PRESUMPTION, * It ia a matter of history, that whenever tho clergy have dabbled in politics, it has been, (with a few honorable exceptions,) in bad taste, With little knowledge, arrogant pretensions, dogmat ical manners, and against the rights of tho pco-' pic and republican government. They have always been tho stoutest defendersof despotism, and tho last to yield to enlightened reform.— Such has been especially true wherever they hod political power, by a meretricious union between Church and State. The most, zealous opponents of all liberal movements in England at the present day, whereby the people of that country might bo elevated to the standard of freedom, are the lords spiritual and the clerical influence of that country. In every advance to , reform in tho British Parliament, the clergy have been the most stubborn in opposition, and the last to yield to the necessities of the times and the rights of the people. They have always been clogs upon the wheels in all the advances towards free government. When Franco was struggling against feudal despotism and kihgly ' tyranny, the priests of that country defended the powers of the Crown and justified .the cruel despotism which ground to the dust on honest 1 an confiding peasantry, until by repeated in dignities that peasantry rose in their might, and the bitter waters thus pent up swept away the mounds of priestly and kingly arrogance, and landed the nation in the broad plains of avowed j and open infidelity. Thc framers of our own admirable Coftstilu tion feared this danger and wisely prohibited all connection between Church and State, provid ing that “ Congress shall make no law respect ing an establishment of religion,” well knowing from the history of the past, that the purity of religious doctrine could only be preserved by its defenders being set apart and excluded from all contamination with the turbid waters of politi cal affairs. It was thus done, in the spirit of our Divine Master, who enjoined upon his fol lowers “ to render unto Ctcsar the tilings that are Ciusar’s.” The wisdom of the framers of our Constitu tion in thus separating spiritual and temporal affairs in the administration of the government, has been abundantly verified in our own politi cal history. Certain ambitious divines, at dif ferent critical periods in our own government, have endeavored to mould public sentiment in favor of arbitrary laws, quid to breed discord, turbulence and disunion, and to speak in a tone of arrogance, ill suited to the precepts of our holy religion. They have shown a greedy grasp ing after political power and influence, detri mental alike to the principles of enlightened freedom and our republican institutions—anti patriotic. and endangering the stability of the Government itself. In the reign of the elder Adams, the pulpit fulminated in fiery indignation at those wno were displeased at the alien and sedition laws, or expressed any disapprobation of the manifest monarchical tendencies which characterized his administration. As indicative of the clerical sentiment of that day, we ne<*d only refer to the remarks of Dr. Parrish m 1708, as being a type of the whole class of clerical agitators : “ Your public characters, said he, are your own choice. Watch those ungrateful souls U murmur about taxation and oppression, the bu dons of government and religion. They hav fellowship with our enemies—they are traitors U (rod and Christianity. Be jealous of those who declaim against alien and sedition laws. They probably have a hankering after lying and rebel lion themselves.” Vet this political and clerical doctor and man of peace, cried aloud for war with France.— ••Cursed be he that keepeth hack the sword from blood.” was his fanatical cry in 1799. Such clerical medlars have an instinctive ten dency to sustain Federalism when in power, and to aid the same element to obtain power, m opposition to Democratic men and Democratic measures. Hence the cry for submission to the black cocdodc Federal tyranny of 1798. Hence the cry for war with revolutionized & republican France in 1799—and the cry for peace and low ing our necks to the yoke of haughty Britain m the war of 1812. The same Reverend Doctor j Parrish who cried for “blood” in 1 1 99, declaim-} ed against blood in 1814. and then denounced j the Democratic Administration of Mr. Madison I and those who sustained the war with Great Britain; in the moat unmeasured terms. I “ Let every man,” said he, “ who sanctioned this war by his suffrage or his influence, re member he was tailoring to cover himself and his country with blood;” and in denouncing the Democratic party of that day. lie said; “A new language must he invented before we at- , tempt to express the baseness of their conduct, or describe the rottenness of their hearts.” The Rev. Dr. Osgood said of the war of 1812: 1 “If at the command of weak or wicked rulers, i they undertake an unjust war, each man who 1 volunteers his service in such a cause, or loans j his money for Its support, or by his conversation, , his writings, or any other mode of influence, en courages its prosecution, that ham is an accom plice IN THE WICKEDNESS, LOADS 1118 CONSCIENCE WITH THE BLACKEST CHIMES. 11RINOS THE GUILT OF BLOOD UPON lILS SOUL. AND IN THE SIGHT OF GOD AND HIS LAW IS A MUK ! DEREK.” We might fill our columns for weeks with such theological stuff, in denunciation of the war of 1812. The pulpit groaned with treason to the country. Those who arc curious in such matters can consult the pages of the “Olive | Branch,” by Matthew Curoy, where they will ■ bo surprised to find the many and damning ' evidences of the want of patriotism among the 1 clergy of that period, and their sympathy with j Great Britain. Again they fulminated against the admission 1 of Texas, the war with Mexico, the Compromise I of 1850 —and now they arc waging a holy wnr | fare, “in the name of Almighty God, against | the “Nebraska bill !” I Some three thousand clergymen of New Eng land have forwarded a manorial to the Senate : of the United States on this subject, of a most remarkable choraotcr. It is as follows; « The undersigned, clergymen ol different re ligious denominations in Now L nglftnd, horoby, i„ the name of Almighty God and In his pres ence, do solemnly protest against the paowgo of what Is known as the Nebraska bill, or any re peal or modification of existing legal proh bi llons of slavery in that part of national do main which It Is proposed to organize Into tho territories of Nebraska and Kansas. Wo protest against It as a groat moral' wnmg. as a broach of faith eminently litfurlou# to «ho moral principles of tho community, and e«b™r aWo of all confidence In national engagements ? as a measure full of danger to tho peace ana oven existence of our beloved Union? and ex i posing us to tho righteous Judgments of thq Al-1 mighty. 1 And your proteatantß, ns In duly bound, will 1 over pray; Dated at Boston, Massachusetts, the j first dky of March, A. D. 1864.” I Thus tho clergymen speak of a bill embody-, linfe thfl.great principles of popular sovereignty, and the right of the people to regulate their own domestic affairs, and which has received the sanction of two-lhirds.pf the. Senate of the TJ. States. The bill Introduces slavery nowhere, but throws the subjeotout of Congress for the people to settle for themselves... The clause re-, lating to slavery,-as it passed the Senate, is m these words: ■ - ' «It being the true Intcrcst-and moantag of ; this act not to legislate slavery into nnylemtory or State,nor to exclude it therefrom , but to leave tho pcbplo thereof perfectly free to-form end regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution- of the United States.” Yet this true DemhCratih principle, thisesscnco of the Democratic creed, is denounced by these New England clergymen, under their sign man ual at Boston, Massachusetts, “in the name of Almighty God,” and os “ exposing us to the righteous judgments of the Almighty. By what warrant do they thus speak ? Do -they find it in Ilia Holy AVord ?—or hare they had a special revelation on this subject? Priestly tyranny has in all ages committed the moat heinous crimes “in the name of Almighty God." It is easy to huddle together and cry, “We arc the people of the I-ord—we arc tho people of the Lord.” But whence comes this infallibility on the Nebraska question, and the right to speak in His name and to denounce His judgments 1 la it secret, or traditional, or to be found in the open pages of His Holy Book ? Whence conies their warrant T The intelligent people of America will not now he satisfied with mere assumptions. They are either speaking truly in His name or uttering the most horrid blasphemy. Whence, then, their authority ? How comes their knowledge on this question so much above the range of the h nowledge of other men, when in the common affairs of life, and especially in political mailers, they are gener ally notoriously ignorant ? Ho they even agree upon the fundamentals of religious doctrines? On this subject an able contemporary, the Bos ton Post, remarks: “ Have not eclefdastical councils been as note, rious for their dogmatism as their turbulence ? It was this feature as to them that prompted Dr. Ely, a distinguished Prcshjlerum dome to re mark, in deploring this dissension, ‘there was a jubilee in bell every time (he Presbyterian As sembly came together.’ Tins was said as to the members of a single sect. Suppose an assembly of all the sects represented b\ these three thou sand protestants • in the name <>t A (mighty Ciod’ should be held: uh.it serf <>l a jubilee would there be in Satan's kingdom Mien ( Would nut the devils have a carvinul f And are such to be allowed the claim of infallibility I" We were gratified to see the spirit with which this presumptions momunal was received by Senators clothed with the authority of the peo ple. It is a good omen, that weare many years removed from the bondage of priestcraft, which is equally ns detestable as the bondage of king*, craft. They have tried Imth m the old world ; may it be a long time before they shall obtain a foothold in the new. On the presentation and reading of the memorial, Mr. Douglas said : “I hold it in our duty to impose the conduct ! of men who, either from ignorance, or wilful false knowledge will aviil llicmsi-lvcs of their sacred calling to arraign the conduct of Senators here in the discharge of tin ir duties. 1 hold that this Senate Is as capable of lodging whether our action involves moral turpitude; whether it involves the subversion of morals; whether it subjects us to the judgment of the Almighty, ns are these political preathors, who do not under stand the question. It la evident that those men know not what thoy are talking about. It is evident that they ought to ho rebuked, and re quired to confine themselves to their vocation, instead of neglecting Uidr holy religion and vio lating Its sacred princlnfcis* and truth and honor. and getting upo document hero which fs offen sive, and which no gentleman enh endorse with out violating all the rules of courtesy, propriety, and of honor.” Mr. Mason said: <> In their character OB ministers they have the temerity to threaten tho. Senate with the venge ancc ami judgments of the Almighty, whom they profess to servo. Such language was not res pectful coming from any petitioners. But min isters of the gospel as such, were unknown to the constitution or to our forms of government, ami find forbid they ever should be known to it. It was tho wise policy of our fathers, imd it has been the universal desire of the people to keep ministers of tho gospel, as such, and the govern ment os wide apart as possible, and the wisdom of that policy was made manifest to-day by the paper now lying on tho table. Thu History of the world lias shown the evils of recognizing i ministers of the gospel as tunning any part of I our government. In all countries, and in all i times, when vested with power they proved the | most arrogant of all others. On this occasion i they come here, and in the name of the Almighty (jod, they invoke his vengeance upon us for onr action on a political measure. Let three thou sand citizens of Now England, nr three hundred thousand, or all New England come here, and as citizens of the United States, and protest, as is their right, against any legislative action, and their protest will he treated respectfully. But these men do not come here as citizens. They come here as ministers of (Jod." Mr. Butler said: “ He had always entertained the highest respect for ministers of the gospel. Mis respect was so high that ho would almost submit to their rebuke (or an act performed in hi* official capacity.— But that respect was for them in their appropriate and sacred calling, ami when they abandoned their duty, descended from their high position— when thoy forgot the religion o< the Lamb, and mingled with the waters ol the turbid pool of political strife, his respect no lunger continued, i Those memorialists have quitted the pulpit, and | have taken their place in the political arena, and ■ they speak as viceregenls of God on earth, am: ) presume, In his name, solemnly to pronounce I upon the Senate, the judgments of the Al ; mighty.” Mr. Pettit said : “The Senator from Sorith Carolina said In had grunt respect for clergymen, so long as the! robes were unspotted, and they did not dahhl in the polluted waters of the pool of politics.- He would Agree with tho Senator if he thong) the pool of politics was any more polluted thu tho stagnant waters of the pool of contradictory theology, in which these clergymen lived. He believed the pool of politics far more pellucid, clean, healthy and beneficial than the stagnant waters which surround tho contradictory creed and dogmas of those men no two of whom could ogreo upon any particular point of theology— The Senate had an officer chosen for his ability and Information, who was a brother clergyman, whoso duty It was to expound divine law to tho Senate, and ho would, therefore, If the motion be In order, move to refer this memorial to tho Reverend Henry Sheer, chaplain of tho Senate, w[th instructions to inquire and report to tho Senate whether tho Nebraska bill was In viola, tion of tho law of God, and whether tho Senate wan In donger of having Invoked tho Judgment and condemnation of Heaven by passing it.— rLoud laughter.] If Mr. Sheer decided in the affirmative, ho would bo willing to revoke his action and would use his best endeavors to in duce tiio House to send tho bill back to tho Sen ate.” Mr. Douglas again said: „ What was this assumption of the name and power of the Almighty, hut an attempt to oßtob. lish in this country the doctrine that the clergy have the supremo right to determine and pro nminco the will of God on all subject*, and par ticularly In relation to the political action of rnmrroflß 1 It was'an attempt to sot up theo cracy. It was an attempt to put the of the country in the hands and under the con. trol of the church. No bolder attempt than this was over made by the church Iri tlflßwostdoapo. " ho rT^ they must receive, as tha Divine Will, wha they receives from the church. If thla preten sion of. thd clergy bo now aAnctioned, rff, Ques tions muat be referred, to th,o clergy for approval before Congress shall' .act. The memorial pur ports to speak, in tho name of the Almighty, and in that hatno protests against thp bill. It tells Congress plainly that the gates of Heaven are closed, unless wo obey tho behests of the Abo litionists. We had supposed that all such clerical dicta tion would be confined to New England, which in so many respects has followed the ideas of , Old England. But in this, we are sorry to say, we have been mistaken. A remonstrance has | lately been forwarded to the House of Represon- I tativ.es of the United States, by " ministers of the Gospel residing in the cities of Pittsburgh land Allegheny, and vicinity, in the State of Pennsylvania,” against the “Nebraska bill,” now before Congress, headed “Remonstrance |of the Clergy of Pittsburgh against the Ne braska hill," and couched in nearly the same ' language as the New England memorial: pro fessing to speak “in the name of God and re ligion, in the name of humanity and liberty ,'for the honor of our country and its influence over the world.” This looks badly for Pennsylva nia. But such agitation in this Democratic State must ever bb local and harmless. Such sentiments find no favor with the mass of our people, and it is a pretty bold venture on the part of the clergy on popular forbearance. In the mean time, the agitation of the aboli tionists proper proceeds os usual, in the pulpit and out of it. Henry Ward Beecher, of New York, Theodore Parker, of Boston, Dr. Elam Smalley, of Worcester, and others, in the pul pit, and Mr. Giddings and others in Congress, and Mr. Grccly and others in the public press of the day, pray for the dissolution of thcUnion, and denounce the Constitution of our common country. King George the Third once called Tx>rd Chatham “ a trumpet of sedition.” a term ex ceedingly applicable, but for far different rea sons, to the political clergy of the day. New Hampshire Election. —The State elec tion in New Hampshire, took place on the 21st inst. Owing to local causes, the usual Demo cratic majority has hecn considerably but as the Whigs have been confidently pre dicting a total defeat for us, we si ill have aright to claim the result as a Democalir victory. Col. Raker, (Democrat) is elected Governor by a clear majority of about 1,400. The Senate is Democratic by 8 majority, and the Concord Patriot claims the election of 100 Democrats to 145 of the Opposition to the House. It con cedes. however, that several members, claimed os Democrats, were elected in opposition to regu lar nominations. We may lose theU. S. Sena tor who is to be elected next year, but this is by no means as certain ns the Whigs are trying to persuade themselves to believe. SriT for Damages.— The Rochester Dcm rrnt says that a daughter of Mr. William R. Smith. ofMacedon, married clandestinely a man named Bennett, and she was forcibly taken n- way from her husband, on the public highway, by her father and grandfather. The husband instituted proceedings against the girl’s rela tions, some time since, when the jury failed to agree. He again commenced a few days since, a suit against the Smiths on an action for dam- ages in the detention of his wife, for loss of services: and, after a protracted trial, recovered a verdict of £1,260 damages. Extraordinary Divorce Case. — A very mge divorce case is now before the Legisla ;of this Stale. S* rah Elizabeth Ross peti- is to be divorced from Benjamin C. Ross. The lady, at the time of her marriage, was insane. Mr. Ross was aware of her condition, but married Iter because her father was very wealthy, and she not likely to live long ; or, in plain words, because he expected to make mo ney by the transaction ! The lady has since recovered her reason and her health, and declares upon her oath that she was not conscious of ever having been married. The evidence fully makes out that Ross inveigled her into mar riage, by taking advantage of her imbecility, and without the knowledge of her friends. .—We learn that Colonel T. B .nwrcnce, son of the Hon. Ahbot Lawrence, of Boston, and attache to the American legation in London, has U-en united in wedlock to Miss Matrimonial izabeih Chapman, the accomplished daughter the lion, Henry Chapman, of Doylestown, Rucks county, Pennsylvania. Col. Lawrence, it will he recollected, a few yearn ago. married Salhe Ward, the belle of Louisville, hut wan af terwards divorced, and she married Dr. Hunt. What seems remarkable, Miss Chapman and her father went to Kurope in the same ship on Ixmrd of which was Ur. Hunt and his wife on their wedding tour. IluoAi) Tor Coal Rkoioh. —We loam from reliable authority, that the Railroad from Hun tingdon. where it connects with the Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Canal, will be fln mshed ibis year to the town of Hopewell, the present termination of the mad. This town is located in the heart of the Rrond Top cool and mm mountains, and will contain the machine shops of the railroad company ; and, from all that we can learn, is destined to become a brisk ml thriving business place. It must be the focus of a very large trade, the main road being supplied with coal, mm, produce, &c., iR point, by numerous internal railroads and pub lic highways. During the present summer there will be several furnaces erected in the Immediate neighlxirhood : two hotels are now going up, and three stores and a number of dwellings will be completed. ItT* Ward and Gibson, accused of the murder of Mrs. Sccrist, in Westmoreland county, Pa., were acquitted on Tuesday week. On a for mer trial they were convicted, but Judge Bur rel, with a firmness that did him honor, granted a new trial, which ended as wo have stated. — The people of Westmoreland county seem con vinced of their guilt, but the evidence seemed to leave plenty of room for the reasonable doubts of which the jury appear to have given the ac cused the benefit. Effects of tub Galb.— The high wind on the 18th was felt over a wide extent of country. At Albany. Immense damage was done; fifty buildings were unroofed, and unnumbered chim nics blown down. A complete panic prevailed; workmen (led from their shops, and many per sona injured, yet none killed. All the trams and boats were delayed. At Boston, the galo blew down the Court House chimney, killing 'one and wounding others. At Norfolk, several small Boats were upset in the harbor, and three lives Ipßtf James Pollock’s Tote, James'Pollock, the whig candidate for Gov ernor of Pennsylvania, whilst in Congress, in 1840, voted against a proposition to pay the infantry ten dollars a month; and tho dragoons twenty dollars, under the hill to employ ayol untcer force of fifty thousand men during tho continuance of the Mexican war. We have looked at that act of James Pollock with more than usual anxiety, to learn tho motive by which ho could have been governed, in first vo ting for the war, and afterwards voting not to pay tho volunteers a reasonable and just com pensation for their patriotic services, upon the blood-stained plains of Mexico. Throughout our commonwealth, that perfidious act will justly and properly call down upon his name the condemnation of a generous and enlightened yeomanry. Here wc might rest satisfied that no effort of political party, how powerful soever the same may be, can purge the stain of James Pollock’s vote to do injustice to the families of Pennsylvania volunteers, who left home, parted with families and friends, to defend the honor of our common country, upon a foreign soil.— ! So says the Harrisburg Unton. The Empire of Mexico. It is currently rumored, the Ledger says, that , if the Gadsen Treaty passes the Senate, and is ratified by the President, Santa Anna will dis pose of the first million of dollars he receives under It, in procuring officers from Spain to drill Ills troops and assist him in placing his Empiic on a solid basis. His plan of government Is that of old Imperial Rome. He seeks to establish a Prtutorian guard, composed of officers and men attached to his person by motives of self-inter est, and through this body of picked troops to bold the people in political slavery. Whether he will succeed or not permanently, will depend on the degradation or virtue of the Mexican people. A military dictator, raising himself to power by a successful coup d'etat, may, for a time, defy a nation. But, sooner or later, the people will unite against him, if they have a heroic spirit; will fly to tho •" sacred right of Insurrection 5” and will either drive out the usurper or die In the glorufus struggle. If, however, either through wantof courage, or from long habits of subjection, or from a mad devo tion to a popular name, they submit to their sell elected tyrant, then they do mil deserve to bo free, and arc unworthy of sympathy or regret In their chains. It cannot be disguised that the Homaic na tions, as they called, are more apt to succumb to tyrants than the races of the hardier North. In part, this arises from a want o( intelligence, but in a greater part from a want of nerve.— There are but two paths to liberty, one through Industrial pursuits, the other thorngh war and privation; and in both Southern people are comparatively defective. If the Mexicans were as hard-working and as economical as the Yan kees, they would soon acqnrie a wealth which would make them respected and feared by their rulers; and if they could light like the old Northmen, and especially hear the fatigues of a campaign, they would assert their rights at the point of the sword. Perhaps they are not with- out something of this latter quality. Their war ol independence exhibited very considerable traces ul It, and it may not lie all gone yet.— Time will show. A resolute band of patriots could even yet save Mexico from a tyrant. UTERI' FROM EUROPE. The steamship Pacific arrived at New York on Thursday afternoon, bringing four days’ later intelligence from Europe. Two columns of Russians had met and fought each other in the dark in mistake, some hundreds being killed before the blunder was discovered. Small skir mishes with the Turks were taking place. The Greek insurrection is no longer formidable. — England and France are engrossed with their warlike preparations. The Spanish insurrec tion is suppressed. Mr. Soule is said to be in high favor with the Queen of Spam Russia has prohibited the export of grain from Odessa ami the sea of Azoff. and tins has strengthened the grain markets in England. A report was m print that the RusMuns had captured Kalafut and massacred the garrison, hut it was not be lieved. There are rumors of a misunderstand ing between England ami Spain, and the recall of the English Minister from Madrid. The Alfghnns are attacking Candahar, and the Khan of Khiva has taken refuge in Bokhara, and sum moned the neighltoring nations to take part in the struggle against Russia. The Morning Chronicles Vienna correspon dent telegraphs that new proposals have been received from Nicholas. Russia offers to vacate the Principalities the moment her the preliminaries of pence is signed. The terms of the olfer are not more favorable than the lost overture which the Conference rejected. The British courier, be* ring the summons for the evacution of the provinces, is already on the route to St. Petersburg. Dii. Oahdineh. —This man who has created so much excitement in the public mind within the past few days, was engaged to a young lady 0 Miss Locke —who has manifested the deep est attachment for him. The shock produced by the news of his conviction and death was very great, and she is suffering severely from it, —so much so, Hint fears arc entertained of the consequences. It was rumored that she had followed his example, and committed suicide by taking poison ; but she is still living, and is free from the suspicion of having taken anything to produce the convulsions she has suffered. Rodiikuy.— ■One of the most nttraciouH rob beries says the Washington Union . that wo have over heard of, was committed in our city, on Thursday. Miss McNeil, daughter of Gen. John McNeil, deceased, and a niece of President Pierce, was met in one of the public streets by a ruflin, knocked down, and robbed of her purse, containing about s3o,certill cates of stock, amounting to about $2OOO, and a valuable dia. mond pin. The blow was so severe that she was rendered insensible, and while in this con dition was robbed. Wo understand that she was much injured, but arc glad that her injury is not dangerous. This bold robbery took place about 3 o’clock, P. M., in ono of the public streets, and the robber succeeded in making his escape. Cannon Ordered. —Santa Anna, it is said, has sent an order to Messrs. Ames, the great cannon manufacturers of Springlleld. Massachu setts, for two hundred guns of from ten to Ilf teen pounds calibre each, and that tho payment of the order, which of course, includes tho sup ply of a vast amount of amunition, musketry, revolvery, &c., is to bo mode contingent on tho passage of tho Gadsden treaty. Rev. Mr. Lloyd fell dead in tho pulpit of a church, near Montgomery, Ala., on Sunday. nnb Itiasors. Nebraska Expedition. — A Nebraska expo, dition Is being organized in' Chicago. Over one hundred persons have signed tho roll, and it is expected that many others will join. Tho expedition is to be under tho leadership of Capt. Gipbs, and is to start about the' Ist of April. What Next?—Among tho patents issued from tho patent office during last weok, is ono to 0. V. Aradnt, of Dansville, N. Y., “for im provement in devices for preserving hens’ eeca in tho nest.” Revenue Board.—This body, after a session of several weeks, adjourned stne die on the 23d inst., having transacted much business of in terest. (£7* Means of escape from houses on fire Imre recently been adopted by the police of London. They have stout canvass sheets prepared, which are stretched beneath the house on fire, and in to which tho persons in the building throw themselves end are caught. The canvass es cape has been tried, and has given the greatest satisfaction ns to its utility and safety. Per sons who could not be persuaded to descend a fire ladder have leaped into the canvass without hesitation. {£7** The jury in tho case of Shaw, tried on tho charge of murdering Murplvy, in Baltimore, have rendered a verdict of murder in the second degree. (£7” The tusk of a Mastodon, or some other enormous aniftal of an extinct species, was ex humed near Cincinnati a few days since. It was discovered in n sand-bed, thirty feet below the surface. It measured six feet two inch) h in length, and was in a state of good preserva tion. • (£7* Mr. Boot]i, tb? editor and proprietor of the Milwaukic Free Democrat, has been arrest ed on a charge of obstructing the enforcement of the fugitive slave law in the ease of Joshua Olovcr, in Wisconsin. X7=- Smithy O’Brien, who has been pardomd by Queen Victoria, will return in autumn to his native land. Children* of Drunkards. —A petition was introduced into the liOgislaturc a few days sin?o, by Mr. Hills, of Erie, asking the passage of a bill making provision for the children of drunk en fathers ! What next ? [tT* Judge M’Clurc, of Pittsburg, has declar ed the Pennsylvania Sunday liquor law uncon stitutional. QT* Judge Vomlcrsmith, of Lancaster, who was supposed to be implicated in the late pen sion frauds, and who left the neighborhood very unceremoniously, lias been apprehended at Key West, Florida. XT* The Western Texan, of the 2d instant, says Col. Stem, late Indian agent for (Ins Stale, was killed by a party of Indians a few din-, since, about four miles from Fort Belknap, while riding out in a buggy with another gen tleman, who also shared the fate of the colonel. The particulars of the uufortunale affair we are not informed of. XT' The legislature of Georgia has passed a law to punish the keeper of a faro bank, or oili e,s gaming table or house, with imprisonment m penitentiary from one to five years. Such a law should exist in every Slate in the Union. Thk Fisheries. —The Denton (Md.) Journal says the fisheries on the nver in that neighbor hood have been doing a fair business, for the season, during last week. Considerable quan tities of both herring and shad, which sold m the early part of the week freely at SI per hnndml for the former and 37i cents per pair for the latter. Knuusti akd French Soldiers. —lt is said that the British and French soldiers, except for a short time in 1794. have not fought under the same banner since the wars the Crusades. — The rivalry that will exist in the allied army to exceed each other in deeds of daring, will make them terrible to their Russian fo\s. [C7* The recent freshet in the sonthem conn try extends over ft great portion of North and South Carolina find Georgia, many towns in each being flooded, and the railroads living bnd ly damaged. It will require at least a month to repair the damage. (Ty* A negro, who had killed another while wrestling, was convicted of murder in tin mc. ond degree, at Spollsylvania Court House. Vu . on the Gth instant, and was sentenced to trans portation. X 7- The Captain General of Cuba has made an appropriation of 522,089 to be deioltd to the erection of a suitable monument in honor of those soldiers who fell in defence of Cuba against the attacks of Gen. I-opez. XT* The three dollar gold coin, authorized hy the last Congress, will be issued as soon as the dies now in progress are completed. A Man named Doolinshot a Mrs. Elmore, rI Owl Prairie, la., the ball taking effect m htr shoulder, producing a serious hut not fatal wound. Ills excuse was that ho mistook her for his wife. W. IT. Macfarland, says the v andrin Gazette, him purchased Montpelier, ike former residence of James Madison, the •Hh President of the United States. (£7* Not only the peasantry in some parts of France arc sufiering for want of food, hut star vation prevails in the large cities. The Parisian papers arc silent on this subject. I£7* Ex-President Fillmore left Cincinnati on Wednesday, en route for Dayton. Madison. Louisville, Ashland, New Orleans and Cuba. (£7» The total amount of salaries paid annu ally for services in the several departments u Washington, is $1,331,000. town elections in Maine, it is snub have resulted generally in the choice of men fa vorable to the enforcement of the liquor law. [|-y* Largo flocks of wild geeso passed ovet this place last week. I£y* A negro was hung by Lynch law, last week, in Virginia, near the North Carolina line, for having in his master’s absence, outraged and murdered his mistress. ICy* Qcn. Thomas D. a brother of the late Vice President King, died at Tuscaloosa. Ala., on the 24th ult. A Present. —President Pierce has been pre sented with a barrel of sugar cured Palmetto hams, by a citizen of Cincinnati. Lieutenant P. Bodisoo, tho nephew of the late M. liodisco, who for some time past ha* been an attache of the Russian legation in tins country, has been ordered to return to St. Pe tersburg by his government, and will leave the United States by tho Ist proximo. A Quick Transit. —The Panama that the agent of tho Vanderbilt independent line, passed from Aspimvall to Panama in f' m | hours and five minutes. This is tho quickest trip ever made across tho isthmus. In Phnnsylvania, according to the census of 1850, there was ono clergyman to every 8- inhabitants, one lawyer to every 024, and oia physician to every 528. Heaven protect us • The Texas Legislature, at its late sc^ 10 ',' passed a law submitting It to tho voters °f f ■ county tho question of license or no license tho sale of intoxicating drinks. A Mail Carrier between Western annon, Va., has been arrested on it h robbing tho mail. Tho road was strey ™V. r fragments of letters he had torn up. H'S and other parties implicated have also w rested. , -«A4 000 OCT* Tho Black Warrior had on board * • o( in specie, nine hundred and flfty-four cotton, flfly-oight packages of 27 passengers. All obrntocatod at HR" oopt tho pMflongora.
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