-• INTELLIGENCER & LANCA&TERIAN. GKO. SANDERSON, EDITOR. A. SANDERSON, Associate. LANCASTER, PA., DECEMBER 8, 1857. CIRCULATION, aiOO COPIES! Subscription Prior, $2,00 per annum. From Wathlngton—NoKßlnationg by the Democratic Caucus of the House. Washington, Dec, s. —At a caucus of the Democratic members of the House of Repre sentatives, which was held this evening; the following nominations were made: For Speaker—Hon. James L. Orr, of South Carolina. For Clerk—Mr. Allen, of Illinois. For Postmaster—Mr. Cluskey, of Georgia. For Doorkeeper—Mr. Hackney, of Virginia. For Sergeant-at Arms —Mr. Glossbrenner, of Pennsylvania. The nomination for Printer was postponed till Monday night, when another caucus will be held. Congress met on'yesterday. The Pres ident's Message will be sent in to-day. A Rather Broad Hint, It should be understood by every subscri ber to this paper, who is in arrears for his subscription, that it is no excuse for him to wiwihofd payment because a Collector has not called upon him, and that he is willing to pay him. - He should, as a matter of justice to us, in these pressing times, see that his little bill is paid. We are, candidly speaking, urgently in want of every dollar owing to us ; and we shall heartily thank every one who will think of us and be considerate enough to oblige us in this way and at this time. There is always a means—personally, by the hands of friends, or by mail —to get the money to us. Some people—we are sorry to say, a great many people—seem to think that the small amount of their indebtedness can be of but little use to us ; but they forget that our whole relianee is upon the aggregate of these small amounts ! Our business is entirely made up from them. Thoße who may object to this public mode of asking for the payment of bills, should remember that, from the scattered nature of these accounts, and the distant residences of some of our customers, it is the cheapest, the least laborious, and the most direct way to bring the matter before them. And we hope it wiLl be successful. A Correction. In speaking of “ Popular Sovereignty ” last week, we made a slight mistake, which it may be well enough to correct. The mistake was in saying that the Convention of Kansas assembled in pursuance of an act of Congress. We should have said the. Convention was-con vened in pursuance of an act of the Territorial Legislature, which latter body was organized under the Kansas-Nebraska bill of Congress. The mistake, however, does not affect the argument by which we attempted to jus tify the action of the Convention. In point of fact it strengthens it, as will readily be per ceived by the intelligent ” reader upon a moment's reflection—inasmuch as the consti tution is, therefore, more direotly an emanation .'from the people of the Territory, The entire Constitution has been published in the Washington Union , New York Herald , and several other papers, and we do think that, taken as a whole, it is a work of rare merit, and is creditable alike to the framers thereof, and to the people of Kansas. It is republican (not black republican) in all its features, and might be imitated with profit by some of the older States of the Confederacy.— We may publish some extracts from it here after, to show how little cause there has been for the hubbub which has been raised against it incertain quarters. Congressional Globe and Appendix. We are indebted to the kindness of the Hon # Lemuel Todd, late member of Congress from the Cumberland district, for bound volumes of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, con taining the proceedings complete in both branches, including the speeches of members, of the 34th Congress. It.is an authentic and reliable work for reference, and the Hon. gen tleman has our sinoere thanks for the valuable gift. Albert L. Closson. We are indebted to this young, active and zealous Democrat, residing at Point Pleasant, Bucks county, for a lot of new subscribers to the “Intelligencer.” Mr. Closson has our warmest thanks for his kindness, and we shall reciprocate the favor when in our power.— With such men aB Mr. C. in their midst, no wonder that the Democracy of Bucks county are invincible. He sets an example which might very well be imitated by some of our Democratic friends nearer home. Superintendent of Printing;. It is rumored that the President has appoint ed Gen. George W. Bowman, late of the Bed ford Gazette, Superintendent of Public Print ing, at Washington. Gen. B. is a good man and for many years did excellent eervioe in the Democratic cause in this State. Tlie New York Election. The New York Charter Election, which took place on Tuesday last, resulted in the defeat of Mayor Wood, and the election of his competitor, Mr. Tieman, a renegade Democrat, by a majority of 2,330. The poll was the heaviest ever made in that city, there being in all over 84,000 votes cast. The vote on the Mayoralty stood: Wood, 40,952; Tieman, 43,282. Of the Aldermen elected, 10 are Democrats and 7 Opposition; and in the Board of Coun oilmen 18 are Democrats, and 6 Opposition. The opposition to the re-election of Mayor Wood was made' up of Black Republicans, Know Nothings and treacherous Democrats, the latter led by such men as Sickles, McKeon, .Butterworth, Dillon and John Yan Buren. We apprehend the Fusionists will find it to be a short-lived triumph. Appointments. —The Board of Canal Com missioners met in their room yesterday, and made the following appointments: Collectors —D. H. Nieman, Easton; S. C. Palmer, New J. Swineford, Northum berland ; J. Platt, Williamsport; J. B. Deiß, Dunnsburg ; L. H. Litts, Pittston. Weigh Masters —J. S. Taylor, Northum berland ; Geo. Monhardt, Beach Haven; Hiram H. Brown, Pittston. Assistant Weigh Master—R. S. Bacon, Beaoh Haven. As We Predicted, The Governor has appointed David Wilmot, late Black Republican candidate for Governor, President Judge of the 13th Judicial District* which position Mr. Wilmot resigned in August last, and to which Gov. Pollock appointed the Hon. Darius Bullock. Mr.WiLHOT's com mission will bear date the 7th of December, and extends for one year. In the meantime an election will be held. *©-Tbe statement that Brigham Young has formally deolared the independence of Utah, in a striking commentary upon his designs. The statement is that Brigham Young had deolared in the temple that henceforth Utah was a separate and independentterritory, and owed no obedienoe or allegiance to any form or laws but those of their own enactment, and oalls upon the people to stand together and support him in maintaining the cause of God ana the Ohurch. Sadsagis Made or Horse Flesh.— Two men, named Hoffman and Dunn, were arrested in Philadelphia last week, and bound over to appear at Court, for the manufacture aud sale of Bologna" sausages made of horse flesh !— Prom the testimony it appears that the meat was out from the sides or shoulders of animals whioh had died of disease. (( Don’t Vote i»* ;i This is the advice which the black repubti-j can papers and leaders are now giving th& free state' men in Kansas. The people ofj Kansas are oalled upon to decide, on the 21sfcj of December, whether Kansas shall he a freej State or a slave State. If the free state menjl vote, thev will hereby make it a free State j| if they do not vote, thev will probably therebyjj cause it to became a slave State; yet, whepj such is well fenjiwn to be the fact, the blackj organs and leaders are urging the free state; men not to vote)! What is the motive whicfcjj prompts this advice? If they vote, they will cause the Slavery clause to be stricken; out of the constitution, and if that is done, thqi constitution declares that “ NO SLAVERY)! SHALL EXIST IN THE STATE OF KAN-J *SAS;” and then Kansas will “bleed” nqj more, and black republicanism will die a Pat ural death. To avoid this—to make Kansas' “bleed” further, for political effect, these demagogues desire to have her made a slave State. This is the plain truth of the matter and no amount of cant and sophistry can pul? a different face upon it. The issue is plainly! made in Kansas, and to be decided at thd; polls on the 21st of December. Slavery or n(s slavery—a slave l State or a free State, is th 6; question to be decided, and every white male inhabitant on that .day is called upon to vote) upon it, and that vote is to be decisive of that! question ; yet these “black rascals” who have) “howled” and 11 shrieked” for three years in behalf of “freedom in Kansas,” are now urgj ing the free Stane men not to vote upon this question ! The jbare statement of the case is, sufficient to prove the utter knavery and wretched perfidy of these black republican leaders and papers. The more honest of the black republican] papers revolt atjthe infamy of this course.—jj The N. Y. Times, N. Y. Commercial Advert tiser, and other!well known papers condemn it; and the National Era, the great central organ of their party, advises the free statd men to accept th|e constitution in the following terms: — ' - } “ If the constitution on the whole is a good one, and by their vote they can make it a free one, and so organize Kansas as a free State,' that vote ought\ not to be withheld, merely because the convention was illegitimate, or the offspring of ! a minority vote; or because the free state party had already agreed upudi a constitution; or because it was resolved to| stamp with perpetual reprobation the party which had achieved ascendency by fraud, and continued it byj oppression. A vote making the constitution; free, and organizing Kansas]* as a free State under it, would prove the sub-! version of that party —something better and!- more importantjthan simple reprobation. No! such motives asl these, we say, should control the free state mfen, independently of other con* j sideralions.” \ '■> The N. Y. Times remarks as follows: “It seems to be generally conceded that, in the main, and with the exception of the slavery clause, the new constitution of Kansas is not obnoxious to any very serious objection. Its provisions are substantially such as are embodl ied in all the more recent constitutions of the other States . Alt all events, whatever defects it may oontain, can be so readily remedied by the aotion of the people, after they once obtain the sovereigty over their own affairs which the admission of the State would give thenfy that it seems I unwise to throw away the opportunity of yoting.” s}. Every man in Kansas who is honestly id favor of making Kansas a free State, will follow this advice and vote against the slavery article; and eVery man who neglects to »o vote on the 21st of December, will thereby show that he is 1 at heart desirous of making Kansas a slave 1 State. —New Hampshire Pat riot. ij The Kansas Constitution. The provision of the Kansas Constitution in relation to future amendment is as follows :-j- Sbc. 10. “ After the year one thousand eigHt hundred and sixty four, whenever the Legisla ture shall think it necesary to amend, alter and change this Constitution, they shall re commend to the electors at the next general election, two-thirds of the members- of each house concurring, to vote for or against the calling of a Convention; and, If it ap pear that a majority of all the citizens of the State have voted for a Convention, thle Legislature shall at its next regular session), call a Convention.” • The N. Y. Times, a well-know Fremont organ, remarks [that “ this provision is expres sly confined to amendments that may be desired after the year 18G4. Previous to that time thje Constitution, even by its own terms, will be entirely in the hands of the people. Indeed, this must be soin any case. There is no power which can bind the people of a sovereign State not to ohange,.alter or amend their Consti tution whenever they see fit. This point has been tested over and over again,—by the State of New York as well as other States. The oid Constitution ofi that State prescribed a mode for its own amendment, —similar in form |o this clause in the Constitution of Kansas. Bat the Legislature, disregarding utterly this pro vision, submitted to the popular vote in 1845 the question whether they would have a Con vention to make a new Constitution—and it was voted by ai large majority. The Conven tion was called and the Constitution of 1846 wasframed. Precisely the Bame coursomay b'e pursued in Kansas. .The very next week aftt? admission the Legislature may summon the people to declare whether they will have a nejv Constitutional Convention or not. The entire control over their domestic affairs then passes into their own hands.” i! Peumylrania Coal Trade. Notwithstanding the embarrassments of the season, the paralyzation of business for threle months, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, the difficulties of transportation companies, and the multiplied obstacles that the coal trade had to contend with, there is little doubt that the whole amount of coal sent to market du ring the year | 1857, from the Pennsylvania regions east of I the Allegheny Mountains, will reach about seVen millions of tons. Estimating this at the minimum valuation of two dollars per ton, at the [mines, this State has received fourteen millions of dollars during the year for coal dug out of the soil east of the Allegheny. From the bituminous region west of the moun tains, it is probable that there will have been dug out about a million and a half tons, worth three millions jof dollars, So Pennsylvania gets for her coal, during the panio year 1857 at least seventeen millions of dollars. If \ye were to take the price paid for it when it reaches market, we should have an aggregate of thirty-four millions of dollars. The CalifoT. nia gold mines do not do better than this, and are really not so valuable as agents for fur nishing the industry of the State with lucra tive erajfloyment, and promoting the general welfare and the development of the Statejs resources. I Gold Coming. —Within n few days the Fulton has arrived from England, bringing $200,000; the Daniel Webster has arrived at New Orleans, from Havana, with $500,000 ; and the North ern Light, from Aspinwall, has arrived it Havana with $2,000,000, independent of whit was in the hands of passengers. At this ra|e we shall soon have a golden currency. ,j Topeka Constitution. It seems the; Topeka Constitution is in some respects worse! than anything which can tj'e found in that of Lecompton* The latter can be amended at any time sr©vioua to 1864, ac cording to the schedule, that of Topeka has the following clause positively forbidding any change before the year 1865 : !| “No convention for the formation of a new constitution shall be called, and no amend ment to the constitution shall be by the Gen eral Assembly made, before the year 1865 i, nor more t%an once in Jive years thereafter” ] From the Pittaburg .Post. Tlie Dinner to Judge Lewis. In our issue of Thursday morning we spoke of the magnificent entertainment given at the Monnngahela House members of the Pittsburg Bar, to Chief Justice Levyis, who is about to retire froni-ithe high judicial position which he has held with so much honor, to himself and-so much service to the people of the State. We alluded to the highly inter esting character of the entertainment, and the eloquence, wit and feeling evinced by the large number of talented gentlemen who were present. It was an occasion when personal reminiscences, characteristic anecdotes, elo quent tributes of respect and esteem, and the high pleasures of intellectual, gentlemanly, social intercourse were made most thoroughly available for the pleasure and gratification of all. and all, without ex .-option, were gratified and pleased. The gentleman in whose honor the entertainment was especially given, lays down the judicial ermine for the quiet enjoy ments of private life, with the pure satisfaction of knowing that in his public life he has won the well merited approbation of all good men. Below we give the correspondence which passed between the Chief Justice and the members, of the Bar previous to the supper: PiTTSBURG, November 17, 1857. Dkar Sir: The undersJfjaed, members of tbe„Bar of Pittsburg and Allegheny county, desiring in some appro priate manner to express tbeiyr high estimate of your per sonal and official character, therefore request you to par take of a public dinner at the Monongahela House, in this city, on such day as may suit your convenience. Having declined a re-election, the expiration of your present term will sever the relation that for several yearß hag existed between yourself and the members of the bar— a relation that enables them to bear witness to the great learning, long experience, unwearied industry and eminent ability with which your duties os a Judge and Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Courtof this Commonwealth have been discharged. And while your long and successful career in public service entitles you now to retire with the highest honors, and to seek thb ease of private life, we beg you to accept the assurance that you bear with you the sincere regard and professional respect of Your friends and obedient servants, CHARLES SHALBR, A. W. LOOMIS, WILSON ITCANDLESB, and 72 others. To the Hon. Chief Justice Lewis. Pittsburg, November 18,1857. Okntlbhen : I acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday, inviting me to partake of a public dinner. You communicate yonr approbation of my judicial conduct in terms so cordial, explicit and kind, that I know not how to express my gratitude: I trust to yonr own hearts to feel and appreciate the emotions which move mine, as the moment approaches for dissolving our official relations. — Your uniform courtesy and respect have been a cheering substitute for the domestic comforts which public duty required me to forego. Your great learning and eminent ability iu the discussions of the important questions con stantly arising out of the vast business connexions of this great manufacturing and commercial city,have constantly aided me in the performance of my judicial duties. It is just that I should make these acknowledgments. Although I look forward with pleasing anticipations to the termination of my judicial labors and responsibilities', I confess tbat a feeling of sadness comes over me as I am about to part with valued friends at the Bar and cherished brethren on the Bench. I have good reason to know that the feeling is reciprocal. The measure yon propose may have its uses, I therefore accept the invitation for any day which may suit your convenience, so that it Is before Thursday next, on which day I shall be obliged to leave Pittsbnrg for my residence in Philadelphia. Yours, with great respect, ELLIS LEWIS. To Charles Shaler, Esq., A. W. Loomis, Esq., Wilsou M’Candless, Esq., and other members of the bar of Pitts burg and Allegheny county. Northern White Shvery The white slavery existing in the Northern States —although the term is unknown to the statutes of the respective commonwealths there —the slavery of poverty, labor and want— does not compare favorably with Southern negro slavery. The late revulsions have been the meansof making astounding developments, besides proving incontestibly that those States —the people of which abuse, curse and perse cute the South,, loudest, longest and fiercest — are the very ones that profit most, and are most dependent upon, the productions of Southern slave labor. In proof of this, from among the many evidences at hand, we quote the following paragraph from a letter written by the Newburyport correspondent of the Boston Traveler, in which the subject of cessa tion of manufacturing industry is elaborately and ably discussed: We are gratified to learn that every effort will be made to keep our cotton manufactories in operation, and that, if accommodations are extended by the baaks, they will nqfc stop during the winter. This will save us'h vast amount of suffering, and afford sustenance to many families directly dependent upon the mills. It is really sad to contemplate the extent of the destitution accasionod by the suspension of the manufacturing interests throughout the country. According to the census of 1850, there were in the New England States 300,000 operatives engaged in manu facturing cotton and woollen goods ; in New York 200,000; in Pennsylvania 150,000 ; and in all the other States 300,000. The cessation of this immense interest, throwing out of employment so many hands, a portion of whom have families to support, mu9t be dreadful in its consequences. We cannot feel too grateful if means are afforded to keep our factories in operation, that our eleven hundred laborers, and those dependent upon them, may be kept from suffering during the winter.— Quite a number of our Irish population are returning to Ireland. By industry and econ omy many of them have acquired means, and in view of the favorable condition of the old country, start off with the determination of spending the remainder of their days at their early homes.” So, taking the foregoing figures, which are -under rather than over the minimum, as a criterion, it appears that nearly one million operatives are directly dependent upon manu factories. With entire probability it may be calculated that three million more persons— women, children, infants, aged and infirm persons —aro also depondant for a support upon the labor of eaoh operative. This would make the total of operatives and dependents almost four millions! Now, suppose a not impossible case, that the slave grown cotton crop of the South should utterly fail for a single year ! what, would become of these helpless, starving millions ? This is one view of the case—a practical view—but we doubt much whether any Northern philanthropist ever looked at it in its true light.— N. Orleans Crescent. Sound View, upon our Unsound Credit System. The Albany Atlas and Argus, in alluding to our fiotitious, soap bubble currency, makes the following sensible observations: The dangerous facility of debt has tempted us into speculations beyond our depth, and, still worse for us, the credit system has stood in the way of our realizing a prosperity such as the world has never beheld. We raisesixty millions a year of gold—we raise the gold crop oi the world, aB we supply it with cotton and tobacco —and yet we invent and set in motion a system of paper money which drives every dollar of it away, and leaves us a handful of rags ! Our possessions are like those charmed gifts of fairy land, which are gold and jewels to the eyes, until we utter some ill-omened word, when it all turns to dust and dry leaves. We do not speak of this-in a spirit of parti zanahip. The experience of this eventful era will impress its lessons irrespective of all party teachings and the array of men in partisan hostility upon questions of this kind only serves to delay the convictions of sound judgment. But it will b# a happy day for this land when the artificial credit system of modern civilization falls to pieoes, and when that gold and silver currency of which this continent, and these States, and its probable acquisitions are the repositories, become the sole currency of the world. The revolution which, starting here in 1776, made the tour of the world, and prostrated dynasties would be less potent in consequences and less influential for good and evil than this monetary revolution, which, starting here, threatlns to take the same world wide course. No man can look without dismay at the destructive consequences of such a revolution. It is not the less probable because it may be attended with such consequences. As in the French revolution of ’B9, the artificers of min are at the head of society, and the moneyed aristocracy, like the old order of nobility, conspire to produce their own downfall. In referring to such a revolution as prostra ting the credit system, we refer only to that false system of credit, based upon fictions and dealing in emblems and shams, which borrows for this generation to Bpend, and imposes on the next obligations to pay—who cheats labor out of its reward by tariffs, and corporate privileges, and paper currency, and national debts —and which ‘‘lives on the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.” There will be a system of credit that will survive all this—founded upon natural trust and confidence, in which personal character will have its weight, and of which a solvent currency will be the medium, and solid prop erty foundation and support. Such a system, so based and regulated by the interest of humanity, can never be overthrown. Sound Views on the Currency Question. We copy with great satisfaction the follow ing ttound sentiments upon paper money as a currency, from the Boston Morning Post. We need not,- we are quite sure, beg that the extract may receive the most careful It is too important to be hastily passed over:] From our best consideration of the many financial essays and theories so liberally put forward from time to time, we are constrained to say that, generally, they are either tinker ing or destructive. But existing arrangements cannot be entirely overthrown, and to tinker them merely, in details, is of scarcely more real service, than that which would be done by a physician, who, standing by the side of the Beacon Hill Reservoir, should try to stop its leakages with plasters of Burgundy pitch. But one thing is certain. The practical money of the people (bank bills) is not the monev of law, of-the Constitution, of inter-: national trade. The fluctuations of bank paper, not recognized by the Constitution, play witch-work with the whole country, and if we may use the expression, the Union is governed by a God whom its laws disown and despise. With California, pouring her three millions per; month into our cities, it is full time "that the money of the law became the money of the people. Every dollar of small bills should be abolished by Congress by a gradual law, and the sooner the people insist upon it, that such a law shall be enacted, the : better it will be for them. The banks should bo regarded as they truly are—as nothing but men banded to gether to lend their surplus funds —and the law should step in, if possible to make it of no more consequence to the people whether the banks suspended or did not suspend, than if so many commission or brokerage houses went or did not go, to the wall. The law and common sense prescribe a currency of gold and silver, and gold and silver should be the only currency of the country, bank notes be ing restricted to issues of large denominations, ior the convenience of daily business and the transmission of funds from one place to another. As much as possible, and BY LAW, should these bills be placed on a level with the notes of rich individuals, received; and transferred from confidence, but not constitu ting CURRENCY, in any practical sense of the word. Of course, we do not suppose tbat by our plan, commercial and financial crises would be avoided. We suppose they will occur more or leas, wherever commerce and credit abound, in whatever garb they may array themselves. But we should purge the currency of its fluctuating character. We should save much tedious, annoying and unsatisfactory legisla tion—we should save much queer discussion concerning finance, about which, as about theology, two people seldom manage to agree, and we should save any quantity of banks, that now draw their profits from an overgrown, irredeemable and unsafe circulation. \Ye should know where we were ; and with specie for the common currency, the banks could always get specie from the people at a fair premium for business purposes, and thus the danger of suspension, as well as the impor tance of it to the people, would be greatly diminished. But a volume might be written upon the advantages of a specie circulation and the suppression of small bank bills. One thing is clear, it is neither republican nor sensible to allow the commerce and monetary affairs of our great country to be so much, as it now is, at the mercy of a power, (the banks) outside of the law, and composed of irrespon sible knots of individual managers or mis managers. The Kansas Question. The following pointed article appears in the Albany Argus : * “ The constitutional convention of Kansas, it must be admitted on all hands, has fairly submitted the slavery question to a popular vote. All citizens of the Territory of full age are at liberty to vote upon it. Such a vote is the next act in the drama, and since learning what the convention had done we have pre ferred to press home upon the republican leaders, and upon the free State men of Kan sas, the responsibility of deciding the question, and of being answerable for the result, instead of anticipating and discussing in advance the next question of how Congress shall act after their decision. It will be in time to meet that question when it arises, and it is quite obvi ous that the action in the Territory on the 21st of December may materially affect the course which Congress will pursue. We have not been disposed to release the republican politicians and coadjutors in Kansas from the just responsibility uf meeting or refusing to meet this subject at the polls on the 21st inst., by guarantying to them beforehand indemnity from a democratic administration and a dem ocratic Congress. “We have preferred that they should take the hazard and the responsibility of making Kansas a free or ft slave State, _as they evi dently can at iheir election. When they shall have discharged their duty at the polls, then, and not till then, will that of Congress begin. “ The Evening Journal of this city, one ol . the loading shriekers for ‘bleeding Kansas,’ is constrained to advise its friends in Kansas to rote on the 21st inst., and to vote down the slavery clause of the new constitution. It dares not meet the responsibility, pressed home upon it, and its partizans, of allowing a slavery constitution to be adopted when they confessedly have the power to reject it. The Journal says: “ We know not how the free men of Kansas may act upon the abstract proposition to be submitted in December. We hope, however, that they will deem it proper and fitting to give it a strong and emphatic negative. “ This is fair and manly on the part of the Journal, and if its friends in Kansas adopt its sensible advice, it and they will accomplish a greater service for ‘freedom’ than they have yet rendered, and will strip the Kansas question of moat ol -its embarrassments.” Western Land Speculation. —The Grant county (Wisconsin) Serald seems to have but little sympathy for land speculators. Living in glose proximity to the scene of opera tions, it may be presumed to speak “by the card.” The Herald’s article is as follows : “ The holders of large bodies of Western lands on speculation are a sickly set of fellows. The chances are that large portions of the late lowa, Minnesota, Northwestern Wisconsin entries will bo in second market far below Government prices. Their air castles, built on land monopoly, are having their foundations washed away by a crushing crisis of their own begetting, for it is conceded that the present hank eriaiß is caused by letting so much money out to land speculators. We havo always held upon a basis of calculation that must stand, that the losses far overbalance the profits on Western land speculations that are attempted by non-residents. That there are some acci dental profits to a few non-resident land hold ers we admit, bat in a large majority of cases there are heavy losses. All that is good and great, and wise join in perpetual conspiracy against non-resident land monopolies. This is the grqpt seoret never taken into account by the poor deluded victim who offers his money in sacrifioo and himself to disannoint ment.” Another New Territory. —Among the passengers by the Northern Light, was James M. Crane, Esq., of California, who is on his way to Washington as the representative of the people of the Great Basin, or Carson Val ley, who are desirous of having the portion of Utah lying near the boundary of California, erected into a new Territory, separate from the Mormon dominion. The proposed Territory embraces all the region lying "between Sierra Nevada on the west, the Goose Creek range of Mountains on the east, Oregon and Utah on the north, and the Colorado on the south. The white inhabitants of this immense and fertile tract number about eight thousand, while the Indians of the various tribes which inhabit it exceed a hundred thousand. The Indians are represented as not unfriendly to the whites, of “ Americans” as they are absurdly called, nor unfavorable to a new Territory. The Great Basin possesses immense mineral resources, abounding in gold, silver, and copper,-while the valleys are extremely fertile. A Deserved Compliment.— The members of the bar of the city of Reading,-have tendered to Hon. William Strong, recently chosen one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of this State, a public dinner as a testimonial of their regard for him as a lawyer and a man. Mr. Strong deserves all the honor that can be em braced in a delicate compliment like this, as no man stands higher either socially or profes sionally than he in the community whose con fidence he has so frequently received.—On the bench, also, no man will be looked up to with more unqualified reliance. Weiearn that Judge Strong will probably take up his residence in Philadelphia, and Germantown may even be the selected place of his future abode. Ger mantown Telegraph. ; Correspondence of tbe Evening Argos. s from Washington. Washington, December 3, 1857 A'« the- Vice President* Mr. Breckinridge, will'bot be in Washington for some time after the commencement of Congress, iu assume hie pi'hifeioo of President ofjtbe Senate; and as the Preeideut pro tern, is dead, the lamented Rusk, it will be, requisite for.Uhe Seuate to elect a Senator in the place ojTjMr. Rusk to fill that position. {.predict that the mantle of the gifted Ru*k for that position, will fall upon Governor Fitzpatrick of Alabama, whom the Boston Post terms “ the noblest Roman of them all.” If a reputation, like Ceasar’s wife, beyond suspicion, sound practical sense, and lofty patriotism, have their influence, then Gov. Fitzpatrick is the man. Senator Douglas arrived here last night and was immediately called upon by a large num ber of his private and political friends. Great anxiety is felt to know his views upon the Kansas question, but I apprehend he will take good care to keep them to himself unijl brought before the Senate iD a tangible shape. To take strong grounds now in advance of the session would tend to embarrass his friends in the House, retard its speedy organization, and prove both impolitic and injudicious, which I cannot believe he has any intention of doing The new Hall of the House of Representa tives was lighted up for the first time last night, to view which a large concourse of ladies and gentlemen assembled. The man ner of lighting the Ilal! is adopted fr-.m the mode used to light the Houses of Parliament. The light is entirely from the ceiling, and the innumerable burners are concealed by ground glass, through which it. is thrown to every part of the Hall, giving a brilliancy similar to that made by the sun, but without the slightest glare or pain to the eyes. It gives to the Hall a very grand appearance. The Secretary,of War will recommend to Congress the organization of several additional regiments to the regular army, which, in con sequence of the Mormon rebellion, will no doubt be granted. Such of the “ Young America ” as are fond of the fife and drum, and are desirious of becoming a “ bold soger boy,” can now have an opportunity of pitch ing in. It is said that the post of honor is the private station, but I apprehend that Governor Floyd will find more applicants, who desire to serve their country, for the position of the officers than the private place. Lobby Member. The Banking House of Peabody A Co., of London. Halifax, Dec. 3. —We cannot gather more information than that contained in the de spatch already transmitted, which embraces everything contained in the London Times.— The name of Peabody is not mentioned in the newspapers, but the eminent American firm referred to is that of George Peabody & Co.— It is understood that the Bank of Bngland has promptly responded to their call, and afforded them assistance to the extent of one million sterling. The London Globe, of Friday, Nov. 20th, says: “There is now a much quieter feeling in city circles, and the absence of further com mercial failures seems to have created in creased confidence. Mostpersons are inclined to believe that the worst is over, and that although an occasional disaster may occur, those mercantile firms who found themselves embarrassed will be enabled, through the as sistance of friends, to extricate themselves. — The fact that a large establishment connected with the United States has been assisted by the Bank, which has prevented a serious fail ure, appears to hare produced much satisfac tion.” Nicaragua]! Affairs. The Baltimore Republican expresses its views in relation to Gen. William Walker, as follows: Nicaragua and General Walker. —Late news from Nicaragua shows that quasi repub lic to be already engaged in another war with her sister State, Costa Rica, which, with the aid of British gold and British muskets, helped to drive Gen. Walker from his position in that region. It would seem like a just retribution of a providential interference if Gen. Walker should arrive at Nicaragua just in time to drive these rascally Costa Ricans back to their own domain, and free the Isth mus from their greedy grasp. We hope this may be the case ; and how ever sickly sentimentalists may pretend to whine over this spirit of fillibusterism, we shall be glad to see Gen. Walker received as he was before by the people of Nicaragua with open arms, and more than pleased to see him once more victorious over the Costa Ricans and their British supporters. We look at this question, not as a contest between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, but in reality between Enlgand and this country. England was the sole cause of the war made upon Nicaragua and Walker by the other States of that region. Her intrigues fomented the strife, her gold and her arms deoided it, and drove Walker from his position ; and we at least shall rejoice to find him uniting with the Nicaraguans and successful in driving out the British allies once more. The news from this region will be looked for with more than ordinary interest. The whole country will be aroused to the matter, and we should not be surprised to find Nicaragua and Gen. Walker superseding, at least for a time, Kansas and Gov. Walker in the public mind. An Infernal Machine Among the Mor mons.—The Washington States contains a curious.story about a formidable infernal ma chine, which was used by the Russians in the late war, and which has passed into the hands of the Mormons: It is said that agents of the Russian govern ment were permitted freely to explore the record of our Patent Office, and to avail them selves of all the improvements in military arts there recorded—and that the Russian Consul General in New York thus became acquainted with an explosive material, discharged by electricity, invented by a Mr. Storm, and that it was used to some extent in demolishing the fortifications at Sebastopol, when'll was found that they could no longer be held. Upon the close of the war the invention was laid before Congress—drawings were submitted to the Secretary of War—Gen. Quitman and other officers gave.it their attention, and the whole matter was afterwards placed in the hands of several persons for the purpose of making ex periments. It is now alleged that these men were Mormons, and that, after becoming fa miliar with the invention, they abandoned the inventor and carried their knowledge to Utah. They had satisfied themselves that old kegs, hollow trees, common boxes, anything in short which could be made to contain a bottle of the burning fluid, a little powder and aoonsidera amount of missiles, whether of balls, iron scraps or pebbles , and fragmeuts of rocks could be converted into cheap and formidable batteries, whose discharge could be governed, at almost any distance, to a second of time— —and the Mormons may be prepared to try the powers of the new system in the defiles of Utah. Fawns in the Capitol Grounds. —Two beautiful young fawns were placed in the Capitol grounds, yesterday, and are to remain in the State House Yard hereafter. They were made a present to the State by Col. Geo. Nelson Smith, of Cambria county, editor of the Johnstown Mountain Echo , and were raised by a gentleman of the same county.— They consist of a buck and doe, and are both very tame and pretty. There beautiful ani mals are an appropriate addition to the other improvements being made to the Capitol build ings and grounds, and we have often wondered that the Superintendent has not placed a number of them in the yard before. The present is an appropriate and highly commen dable one from Col. Smith, and is another proof of the warm and generous qualities of head and heart he is unanimously admitted to pos sess.—Harrisburg Herald . A Grandmother at Twenty-nine Years of Aqe.—A woman who was recently brought before the magistrates of Wigan, for an as sault committed upon a neighbor, affords a striking instance of recklessly early marriages. She is the wife of Patrick Casey, a tailor. They reside in Douglas Terrace, Wigan. He is forty years of age, and Bhe is twenty-nine. They were married before she had attained the age of fourteen years, and she was a mother at the age of fourteen years and seven months. Since that time she has had eleven other children. Strange to say, tbe eldest girl, who was fifteen years old a few days since, is the mother of two children, tbe elder of whom is nearly two years of age, she having married earlier in life than her mother. Mrs. Casey is, therefore, at the age of twenty-nine years, the mother of twelve, and the grandmother of two children.— Liverpool Paper. CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS The Contested Election.- —The contested election hetween Messrs. Martin asd Carpenter, for Pro thonotarj. commenced on Monday of last week, in tbe Court of Common Pleas, all the Judges being on the hooch. Messrs. Stereos, Dickey and Reilly appeared tor Mr. Mar. tin, sod Messrs. Fnrdney and James L. Reynolds for Mr. Carpenter. When this matter will rinse cannot be foretold, as every step is contested, and alt the ballot-boxes in the City 'and County of Lancaster have been brought Into Co art. end are being re-coonted. The rase wss still in progress when oar paper want to press nn yeaterday. and bids fair to last a week or twn longer. Hundreds of wit nesses are in attendance, at an immense cost to the county. We Rhould not be surprised if. in footing the bill, tbe Couoty Treasury will be minus several thousand dollars ! 8o much for attempting to set aside the election of Mr. Carpenter, the Democratic candidate. 4s* The Court adjourned on Saturday, at the instance of Messrs. Stevens and Dickey, to enable them to take depo sitions at Columbia In reference to the contested election case now pending. Depositions were accordingly taken, and five illegal votes, In all, were discovered, two of which only were cast for Mr. Carpenter, whilst the other three were given to Mr. Martini This is the district in which one hundred illegal votes, or more, were east for Mr. Car penter, according to the solemn oath of Messrs. Reilly and Kinzer l Miss Dean's Concert. —Miss Kate Dean made a very successful debut, In this city, to a very large and fashionable audience, at Fulton Hall, on Saturday evening lust. She was ably assisted by Messrs. Feder, Dressier and Keffer, and was greeted with much applause on her appearance, which at once excited admiration and interest. She was dressed with great taste, and exceed ingly graceful in her movements, yet modest and self possessed. The expression of her countenance in repose Is pleasant, and when singing it becomes radiant. Her voice is very powerful, clear and sweet, having ao extensive compass, and gliding with ease, harmony and rapidity from tbe lowest to the highest notes of the octave, and vice versa. Her singing was repeatedly and rapturonsly encored. Miss Dean bids fair, in a short time, to rival Parodl. With youth, beauty and genius in her favor, a brilliant future is antici pated for her. Mr. Kifteb’s performances were quite artistic. He is a young gentleman of much promise; the strains which were drawn by him from hie violin were melodious aud really master touches. His efforts received tbe applause due native talent. Mr. D&esslxr’s ■ xecution on the piano, and Mr. Fedbr on the guitar were splendid, and highly appre. elated by the assembly present. The latter gentleman also assisted Miss Dean in several duetts. Miss Dean will give another Concert this evening, at Fulten Hall, for the benefit ot the poor of our city. Michael's Hotel.—Our friend Getz, of the Reading Gazette, has an article in Saturday’s papor in reference to Lola Montez'f “flare up” at Michael’s Hotel, In this city, and thus concludes: .‘‘Michael’s is not by any means a fashionable house, but for good and substantial fare, comfortable rooms, aud kind attendance, it is not surpassed by any Hotel in the State, We speak from personal experience.” True, every word of it. And we add further that a more perfect gentleman or accomplished lady than the host and hostess of the * Grapes” do not live. A stranger always “feels at home" at Michael’s. The County Officers. —All the County Officers, recently elected, with the exception of Couoty Treasurer and Prothouotary, entered upon their duties on Tuesday last. The County Treasurer’s term commences the beginning of thenew year,and Mr. Bowman the popular and efficient Prothontary, for three years, holds over until a decision is had in the contested election case. No change has yet been made in the clerkships. St. Mary’s Church Fair. —The Fair for the benefit of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Vine Btreet, will commence on Wednesday evening, (instead ofTuesday, as before announced, the hall being engaged for this evening,) at Fulton Hall, and continue throughout the week. On Thursday evening a grand supper will be given, and we advise all epicureans to be present, as their tastes can then •be gratified to their utmost extent. We understand that many ladies, not members of St. Mary’s Church, hare vol unteered to act as saleswomen at this Fair, and we also learn that it is likely tho Fencibles’ Band will discourse tome of their sweetest music on oue or two evenings. A “jolly time” is in store for those who attond, and we advise the bachelor visitors to be sure to keep their “hearts In the right pieces.” Since writing the above we have received the following notice of the Fair; St. Mary’s Fair will open, at Fulton nail, on Wednesday, the 9th, and continue during the day and evening of the 10th, 11th and 12th. The ladies engaged in it will be able to present to the public a large variety of useful aDd fancy articles, as also every description of embroideries, for which they bespeak the patronage of a kind and charitable public. They also intend having a Bupper on the evening of Thursday, the 10th, at 9 o’clock, p. m. The Fencibles' Band havo kindly volunteered their ser vices during the Fair. Doors open at 10 a. m., and 2 and 7p. m. Admittance 10 cents; children, half price. Boxes for Charity.— The Union Doroas Society have placed boxes in different parts of the city, to receive contributions from persons for the benefit of the poor. This Society is doing much to alleviate tho suffering In oar midst. We trust that their Treasury may be kept full, as it is tho only way for the ladies to keep on in the “good work.” , The Fencibles.—This fine military corps had a moonlight parade cn Wednesday evening last. Tboir appearance was flue, and they marched exceedingly well to the splendid music of the Baud. The company was under command of tbe veteran Duchman, aud the only fault we have to find Is that more of the members ware not in lice. A New Enterprize.— Dostman’s building, ou Chesnut street, which was lately used as a Car Manu factory, has beeu thoroughly refitted and repaired for the purposes of a Match Factory. Mr. Willard Manuel has purchased the building, and for some time past has been making the micessary preparations prior to commencing operations. It will be ready for use iu a short time. The first story will be used for packlug and storage, tbe second for finishing, and the third for dipping the matches. This establishment will be capable of making 1200 gross of matches every week. Mr. D. Manuel will be Superinten dent. We wish the enterprizs every success. The Teachers' Institute. —The Lancaster County Ttachers’ Institute will asßomble at Fulton Hall on HoDd&y next, at 10 o’clock, a. m., and continue In keision throughout the week. A pretty full attendance of Teaehers may be expected, and liberal arrangemente have been made for their comfort during their stay In the city. The Howard Association. —An adjourned meeting of onr citizens, for the relief of the poor, was held at the City Hall on Thursday evening last. Mayor Zim merman presided. Thecommlttee appointed at the former meeting reported a plan for the formation of a Howard Asiociation. The plan was adopted. A committee, con siitlDg of Messrs. Geo. M. Steinraan, Edw. C. Darlington and G. M. Zahm, were appointed to report permanent offi cers. The following is the list of officers, as reported by the committeeaod adopted by the meeting, of the "Howard Association of the City of Lancaster President —THOMAS H. BURROWES. Vice Presidents— Petbr M’Coromt, F. J. KniMPK. Recording Secretary — F. W. Bbatis. Corresponding Secretary —JOHif Wibb. Treasurer — Horace Rathvox. Executive Committee— Jonx W. Hoblet, N. W. Hxkrt Baumqardn'ir, N. E. W.; Jacob L. Hoffmeir, 8. W. W.; James Black, S. E. W. The of the above movement will be gratified to learn that C. Hager, Esq., has generously furnished, free of charge, a suitable room for a depository in Market at., tbe location being central and convenient for business par poses, the reception of donations of provisions, fuel, cloth ng, etc., and that Mr. Jacob L. Hoffmeier has been appointed Steward. We learn, however, that Mr. HofTmier has declined to accept tbe post, and that Mr. Carpenter McCleery has been selected to fill the vacancy. This is a most excellent selection, and will give general satisfaction. The Poor Bale.—the ball on Thursday night last, at Fulton Hall, under the auspices of Frank Stoueb, and a host of our prominent young men, was attended by a vast crowd of ladies and gentlemen. We were not present, but understand thero was a lively time, and the "mazy dance” kept all in a good humor with themselves and the “rest of mankind.” Keffer’a superb Cotillion Band furnished the music. We learn that about $l5O has been realized to the fund for the benefit of the poor. The managers were to meet last night for the pur pose of making a proper distribution of the amount. Admitted to Practice.— Oq motion of N. Llgbtner, Esq., Mr. Frederick S. Pyfer has been admitted to practice law In the several courts of this county. Mr. P. was a student in the office of Hon. Isaac E. niester, and, we learn, passed a very creditable examination. Dedication. —The Evangelical Lutheran Church at Elizabethtown, this county, (lately refitted,) will be re-dsdicated to the service of God on Sunday next, tbe 13th lost. Services to commence at 10 o’clook, a. m.— Rev. G. F. Krotel, of this city, will preach the Dedication Sermon. A rich Intellectual treat Is in store for the con gregation, as Mr. K. Is one of the ablest pulpit orators in the State. Services will commence on Saturday afternoon qpd continue until Sabbath evening. TheCbristian public is respectfully InTited to attend. Homicide in Martic Tup. —We learn that on Saturday evening last, a man named Thomas Griffin, came to bis death in Martic twp., a mile and a half east of McCall’s Ferry, at house of a man named Conaway, under tbe following circumstances: Griffin and Jerry or John Conaway, (a son of the occupant of the house,) had been drinking, and a dispute arose between them about a half dollar, which Conaway charged Griffin with taking or keeping improperly. The latter called him a liar, when Conaway ordered him from the house, and Immediately selEed him and pushed him out of the door; he feet heavily on tbe ground, and was found there in tbe morning, dead. The above are the facts as related by a person from the neighborhood; but from tbo further feet stated that— although a Coroner’s inquest was held by Esquire Henry Andrews on Sunday, and the body exhumed by a phyeL. clan, yet Conaway has not been arrested—it would appear that the officers and the jury, who are to be supposed best acquainted with all the circumstances, do not believe him so much to blame as would be interred from the above statement. Since writing the above we learn that the Jury of Inquest lound that "deceased came to his death by intemperance and exposure,” which accounts for the non-arrest of Cona. way. Coronor Sammy, however, at the instance of the District Attorney, started for the place this morning for tbe purpose of holding another Inquest.— Saturday's Ex press, Fatal Disease among Hogs.— We learn from a correspondent that Mr. B. F. Myllp, Distiller, of No* Provi lance, this county, h—'- lost about fifty head of hozs by the di«tB3e called tho Hog Cholera. Our corres pmdent says, “the Hogs were doing well until a few days back, when they commenced showing signs of sickness by net eating. The disease works differently ; some it physics, others vomit violently, and others suffer Intense pains in their joints. It appears that nothing will cure this disease.” Strasburg Items. — We olip the following Str&sburg “items” from the Herald, of Saturday: Accident. —On Monday evening last as Mrs. Ralston, an elderly lady of our Borough, was hastening home through tbe rain, she caught her foot in the miserable plank walk just below the church, which occasioned her to fail and dislocate her arm at the shoulder, and otherwise Injure herself. Dr. Keneagy was sect for aud the Injury soon repaired. She is now doing well. It is miraculous indeed that no other serious accident has occurred from the perilous coudltion of our plank walks. Full of holes for persons to tramp lu and break a leg or dislocate a thigh. Turned up, broken aud half de cayed planks are everywhere to be seen, and no one to repair them. The Borough Council has assumed the right to make side walks aud it must, too, hold itself responsible for tbe condition they are in, and for damages arising form injuries caused by them to pedestrians.. The Hog Disease. —This disease still prevails in the pens of the Messrs. Rohrar. These enterprising young men had just fitted up their distillery aud commenced business.— They delayed buying hogn until they could got good ones. And now out of 295 hogs, within two weeks, they have lost 75 by disease, and they have scarcely a sound hog. The belief Is prevailing to some extent that the hogs have been poisoned by the Sbinnerhannesea who prowl through the country, thin supposition Is based on the fact that the hoes were doing well until Shinnerhannes came Into tbe neigh borhood gathering bones, and the day of his departure they took the disease and six died. It also-appears that Mr. John Mussulman has his hogs in two pens, aud the disease is cenfined to but oue. For this reason the Messrs. Rohrer h*ve refused giving any more carcases to Shinoerhanuee. They have buried over 45. The stomachs of two hogs have been examined, aud the disease pronouuced inflammation of the stomach. No poison was tound. Columbia Affairs.— We learn from the Spy that the Washington Institute Is now open for the reception of pupils. This Institute Is under the direction of Prof. J. D. Nichols, an able and accomplished scholar aud gentleman The Editor of tho Spy having visited tbe Columbia Gas Works, speaks In flattering terms of the improvements whi-h have been made. We also glean the following items frem tbs Spy A Hard Case.—On tbe afternoon of Thursday last a woman was arrested on the charge of larceuy and. after au examination before Justice Bruner, was committed to the lock-up to await transmission to Lancaster. She threatened before being put iuto the cellar to burn the Ilall, and In a few minutes after being locked up smoke was seen lssulug from the door and window. The cell was opened and the woman was discovered nearly suffocated, yet piliug the bed clothee upon the smouldering straw which she had set fire to wih a determination to burn everything combustible within her roach. She was again taken to the office of the ’Squire and committed on the additional charge of arson. She Is just from tbe county jail, where she was recently sent by Justice Welsh, for thirty days, for some misde meanor. Improvement. —Tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company is constructing, on the property lately the estate of Rboda Barber, a reservoir tor the supply of water to their engines and depot. The Company has purchased a froQt on the river frpni John Cooper. Esq., and a right of way through the intervening property. They will erect, on or near ths shore, an eugine house and engiuo for forcing water Into their reservoir, and. we presume, a water station at which locomotive eDgine tanks will be filled. This reservoir was rendered necessary by tho uncertainty of the supply of water received from tbe Columbia Water Company. A Bold Thief. —On Thursday evening .» patioof glass was broken In the window of J. D. Griffith’s Hat Store, and a cap stolen. The thoft whs committed early in the evening while the proprietor was at supper. He [the thiol] suc ceeded in getting away without leaving a trace for his dotection. Neglected Coughs and Colds. — These in sidious and troublesome complaints aro almost sure to pave the way for more formidable lung dlseasos, which, if treated In time, could be easily cured by a few spoonsful of that now p ipular and useful medicine, called “Pectoral Syrup,” prepared by Dr. Geo. li. Keysar, Wholesale Druggist, of 140 Wood street, Pittsburg, Pa. You can buy It at Melultah’s Drug Store, 13 East King etreot. Tbe Editor*’ Book Table, “ DE BOW’S REVIEW,” FOR DECEMBER. This number completes tbe ‘23d semi-annual Volume, and it will bo a favorable time for new subscribers to record their names The offices are at Washington City and New Orleans. Back numbers or volumes can be sup plied. The first thirteeu volumes are coudoused into a work in three volumes, entitled “ Industrial Kesourcos of the South and Westprice, sfi. Subscription price of tbe Review, $5. The editor urgeutly calls upon subscribers for arrears. The Deeembemumber contains Interesting paper* upon tbe South and tho Ualon, Central America. Texas, A Southern University, Slave Laws of the South, the Present Financial Crisis, Cotton grown In Foreign Countries, Call, fornia, Mississippi, etc., etc. A Fugitive Case in Indiana, Indianapolis, Dec. 4.— About eight days since, the agents of Dr. VaJlandiglmra, of Frank fort, Ky., captured a fugitive slave at Naples, Ind., when en route to Kentucky. The negyo was taken under a writ of habeas corpus be fore Judge Wallace, who liberated him. Ho was immediately re-arrested and taken before United States Commissioner Rea, who, after hearing the case decided that the negro should go back to slavery. He was again re-arrested on a writ issued by Judge Wallace, before whom some questions of State sovereignty are now being discussed. It is claimed by the negro’s counsel that he is free under the Fugi tive Slave law and Dred Scott decision, as well aB the State Constitution. Meanwhile, Dr. Yallandigham has been arrested on. the affi davit of the negro for kidnapping, and his case is now in progress before Judge Wallace. An Honest Admission. —The New York Times, a candid, opposition paper, frankly admits that in all its leading features, the Kansas constitution is a transcript of the con stitution of the other States, and of course contains nothing objectionablo. We copy what that paper says : “ The Kansas Constitution. —We havereceiv ed a copy of the document, but find in it noth ing sufficiently new or interesting to render its publieation at all worth while. Indeed, in all its leading features it is merely a transcript of the constitutions of other States, and espec ially of New York. We have already publish ed a full synopsis of its provisions. It forbids the legal exclusion of free negroes from the Territory, and authorizes the creation of one bank of discount and issue, with two branches, but requires the act incorporating it to be submitted to the popular vote.” Heavy Robbery —sssoo Worth or Jewel ry Stolen. —One of the heaviest robberies that has been committed in this city for some time past, occurred on Sunday night, at the watch and jewely store of Strueve & Brothers, No. 205 Main street, a few doors above Fifth. It is the custom of one of the firm to sleep in the store, and on the night in question, he return ed shortly after ten o’dock, when he found the back window open, and further investiga tion led to the discovery that a case had been rifled of from forty to fifty gold watches, be aides other articles of jewelry, valued in all at $5500. — Cincinnati Commercial. A friend who has an eye to the prac tical, has made the following practieal exhibit of the benefits which the cause of Religion has acquired from the agitation of the slavery question. Another Presbyterian Split. —Splits are becoming common in the Presbyterian body. Last week tbe Synod of Missouri, consisting of four Presbyteries and fifty-seven churches, held its annual session in St. Louis, and after a long discussion on slavery, resolved to form itself into an independent body. It refuses fellowship with the New School body, on ac count of its action at Cleveland last summer, and declares that it cannot go with the Rich mond Convention. It determines to remain an independent Synod “until tbe providence of God shall seem to make clear the way of duty.” By this action the' Presbyterian Church in the United States is therefore di vided into- four separate organizations—the Old School, the New School ,the Southern School, and the Missouri School* There ap pears to have been some conflict of opinion in the meeting, but the final decision was arrived at harmoniously. Among the distinguished gentlemen present was Rev. Thomas A. Mills, who has taken a prominent partin the slavery discassionß of this Chureh. From Washington. Washington, December 3. —Judge Douglas arrived here last evening. His friends here indignantly deny .that he will take ground against the Admini&trtion on tbe Kausas ques tion. His enemies secretly rejoice in the prospect at tbe injury it will do him. The President will send into the Senato the name of Nathaniel Clifford, of Maine, formerly United States Attorney General, for the vacan cy on the Supreme Court bench. Samuel Ingham, of Connecticut, has been appointed Commissioner of Customs in the Treasury Department, vice Governor Ander son, resigned. The Kansas question has dwindled down a very small point; for it is acknowledged that slavery is out of the question. The question is merely of a formal or technical nature. The people may throw out slavery from the con stitution if they choose to vote. What then will remain for objection, except subordinate points, which the people can themselves any day, settle by a change of the constitution ? It is remarked here, upon the best possible authority, that the Administration do not con strue any provision of the schedule as prevent ing tbe people of Kansas from changing the constitution as soon and as often as they please. They have adopted, the construction heretofore and often given—that the restric tion will not take effect till after 1864. But if any contrary intent governed the Conven tion, the prohibition would be utterljnugatory.
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