GM I=s „-:!1ratlforo ?)il'(pot‘tft% Free Sell, Free SPrech, Free Men! J P. ;" 4 . ll ..rn i n' -, 4 WiTitgrie aOOORICH, EDITOR. Towanda, Saturday-, August 30, 1851. Democratic State Womiastione. TOIL common, WILLIAKInaLitk or' Ccsaltritualot6it TOR covausszosu, • SITIVaCiVEIL COCNir. Fos spooor OP WI St MUM COVOTjo JEREMIAH - S. 8LACK,....0r Sox tam Coy NTT, JAMES CAMPBELL, or PRITADILLIPIII Ai MGM LEM*, ' ' or IsCSCASTEIi, JOHN It. WBSUN or C Alin COVIVf V. WALTER H. LOWRIE,..or As.t.sanzo r Covlrr. Election, turscifty, October 11, 1851. Venom at Tie Reporter. CI 80 per annum—if pald withal the year 00 een:s will be deducted—far cash paid actually in advance 51 00 will Le deducted. No paper frotperr two years. unless paid for. Aweeensesterrs. per square of ten lines. 50 edits for the era. Kee ell'eenta kw.feaell snhaequent insertion. • p7s,lolficri in ilia " Vision Block.", uorili ride 6f the PeLhe Paean. next door to the , Bradfunl 'Hotel. Entrance be,ween idettsphAdants' and Elwell's law riffled'. • 1 COL. BIOLKR IN .PHILADELP/I/A A monster meet- Ilk; of Philadelphia Demomicy was held it the Chios's. 31oseutu on Thursday evening, 214, which was addressed by Col Ittof.ca. In the published sketch of hie rem`arks,,we finil,the following pant. graph s which will show the favorable impression male upon the Democratic candidate by his visit to the Nonh. "Within the last ten days he had passed through Northern Pennsylvania. a district of country which be had never bifore had the . plea3uro of see Those who bad'never passed through that region had but a very inadequate idea of the vast resources of this glorious Commonwealth. He would take this occasion of saying that, great as bad been his erpeetations as to whet he should behold in that . . portion of the State, elevated as had been his esti mate of the vast resources of that portion of the State, of the intelligence, and energy and enterprise of the citizens there, his highest espectations had been more than realized. And when there should he completed for the use of that section of the Cori.. monwealth an important improveinent now in pro gress, the wealth of Northern Pennsyvlania would increase as rapidly as that.of any other section of the Commenereatth." Tn . ?: NEXT Coneaess.—The twenty-second Con gress will be largely Democratic. Of the 62 mem bers of the Senate, 59 have been elected, and of tfiese 35 are Democrats, and 24 Whigs. 'Two of the Democrats and three of the Whigs are what are called Free soil. The:e are three vacancies, viz : ...one in Connecticut, one in Tennessee, and one in: California. The Legislature of Tennessee just elected is said to be Whig in both branches, which of coarse secures the election of Whig flenator.— The California Senator will probably be Democratic. Connecticut doubtful. Of the 233 members of the House, 191 have been elected, of which 110 are Democrats and 81 Whigs, a Democratic gain of 51. Eight States have yet to elect their representatives, and taking the last Congress as a test of their politi cal character, the return will be 10 Whigs and 32 Democrats, maki:ig the total strength of the two parties in the House stand as follows: Whigs 91, Democrats 142. if by any chance the election of j President should devolve upon the House, the Democratic candidate will of course be elected. ST►T[ AGRICOLTURALL Fun.—The Committee ap pointed to make arrangements for holding the first State Agriculti i nal Fair, on the 22d, 23d and 2lth of October next, have selected the field of DAvin Holmes, E`q•, one mile above Harrisburg, for the purpose, and now advertise tor ,proposals tq fence in fourteen acres. They have also engaged the tents used at the. New York Agricultural Fair, anti made all other necessary arrangements to give effect to the eihibition. The list of premiums to be award ed, and the rules and regulations to goveni the ex hibition, have been printed by the Executive Corn- Mittee, and are now being dielnliesed timingboni. the State. Wit shall endeavor - to publishthern in a, week or two. ft is to'be hoped ,that the farmers of gl'ennsylva• sia Will oxen thomselves to make this exhibition wonky a( our rich Ugricultural Slate. It is a new thing base, and a great ilea! of the emcees of future displays of the kio4, will depend upon a credita ble find effort. Ntw Yost SUPPLIED were Pescsnessits COAL: —All southern and western New Yost Neill be cup. plied with Peurrylvania coal by the Leggett's Gap Railroad. , The railroad takes it from the coal bed. to Greellieml, foiarteen milesaoutheaat Of Bingham, too, terminus of the Chenango canal, whence the Wel* ruaralies trill be supplied. The Gap mad will, connect with the Erie, upon which the coal w be taken.hoth to fringhawiton and Owego. The , € a y.og and Supqnehanna road will take coal to Ithaca', whence-it wilt be carried to all the western pans of the States Aar:meat wilt be constructed so that boats may be-leaded: directly ironft the oars qt hbaeti and the transhipment , at that point will bit greatly facilitated. The Cegge!'a•Gap road will bi completed, it is 'paid, in September; sad:opened for truisms, Waimea Cirt4es.—This fine company of File's. trians will pax us a 76 4 0 on the 23d of next month. Those who appreciate this species of amusement any expect a rare treat, asthienompany is conceded to be the most exteneive, and eninbines , the greatest amount of equestrian taleat i ef any travelling . Cot. Wtuat always presents an attractive bill of amuse ments, but with his present Company we are as awed he far outstrips alibis preflionseifolts. Perstnerics.—The Democrats of Mein, Ilfuir'sinplon, and Potontour counties, payed rescdo. tians.itallavor of Gen. Lewls , Cass,. or the Presiden. eY• The Dements or Allegheny;Warren, and Let.. -anon - conaties,lmumdeolired ror Mr. BVCIIMAN, rite New lark Wald says in .one nt its Washington Despaithes, wilt not return . Act Washitigt, on as Secretary of Stall: Wheo.Congress meets hi will tender his resignation.. -43vaasoa or goirtair. —Powell, Demchmati. sie t leg Gotwavr vl Kentucky, by a majori'y volk. Mood, Work to Cuba. A Bottfrat Bakia—Lopez Fled to the Itill3-4ifiy Americans Shot—Atefid Scenes at tlie Executien— t-.. - Gretvt]Slallhip4Spalli.a Trocsts--kiimengtEV' "-, citemeilt in Cuba. ' 4.. • '-- ''' I We alltionne erile 4 stOitay 14 the i 'iii eldgeott, ilte lanifitt# of the.- - - lietiOt ieditind at %Mallon 40, antlthis, mg:infirm the itiakeeoings 0'5 . .,1 rti- Tic)pprt Odle re sul t ;; : . : 'Clur one*ertilatfitinvhat Poi luried alid'ebnffiiiiing.lut - - Avis art!' able to - eittrabi from them at pretty clearand t•irttirrriterl n'artithrii pf theevens,;. - -- ..-- - -,:.:-...--..., ' --,-,, -: -•..- , Itlr. - W..% 4 1 :Ileyt?,:iiiijitiiiiii - 61 IhiftWafie, will accept,oni thanks (or the' last Havana papers, and for the notes of the doings in Havana. It was on the 13th that Lopez and his men dig embarked from the Panipern at Culymmi; to the number of about': five ifendrett.+ accorded' to The Americans necoettis; 'but a one Mollie:tad - in the Sp anieft. _ version. . _ ... _ • G - etter:ll PritgaY, - ihrt4iiitiiiimisheil flangarian, Ailintent General at KlapktiotOCUrnorni, who h as •beets , itt forty-two battles, And is imostrk4lllul offi. ger, seent.with.,Lopez ariarecitul.ip command, There . were also twentyfluntrarian engineer., in the party. The o)her (raker* were Cal. Crittenden. late o f the armyle nephew of the Attempt Geireraktshorh as immediate commando( an artiffery,company ; Cot. Doffmati, of Georgia, who served through the ?deli- Elm tear : M a jor J. A Kelly, who served in Flori da end Mexico ; Capta W:Scott Haynes. A. ) Dai ley: and others whose names we do not know. • " gvery man was armed," says the Faro. ~ with a brace of rialbarrelled pistols, a bowie knife, and a Musket, the latter not of the best quality. They only !wide I on ellars rations, some of which were Rims, and the rest tiro barrels of beef. The expe dition is compaerd iv/sante Air waives. of the Its. land, and the test Noi,tlVAteeficene, and of other nations. On disemlitatklng, Livez sent a threaten.' ing letter, lorbidtling' k pri pain eif death, the spread. ing of the news of his arr i val; and ordering that they should send him di - Wagon, With whieh he re. _Moved all his munitions and rations.' The Captain General sent out about 801 Y Men to meet Lopez, when he heard that he had landed, but after they hail avanced to ascertain his position, they would move no timber without reinforce ,- monis ; lie then sent 700 more. The next day. the .13th, the report was that Gen 'Lepez bad cut off all cotrammications between the government forces and Havana, and the fact of the Captain General having received no despatches from the General in command, seemetrairong plan( or it. Nor had his steamer's cruiziug on the coast, any better success. Ott that evening, at 8 o'clock, the Governor des patched the steam (tiny boat 100, down to Bahia- Honda, to gain intelligence and return the same night. She however, did not get back until next morning, 'about seven or eight o'clock, without news, as it was reported in the official Gacela, but as some of the passengers by the Cherokee say, with news that they were afraid to publish.' . One report in Havana was, that General Lopez's forces hail swelled to eleven hundred men, and that he had fought a battle with the Spanish forces at Bahia-Honda, in which eight hundred of the latter were killed and wounded ! Another report rept ces the number to from lour to six hundred Ser. enty-eight wounded had been brought in. This, and the fact that not a single prisoner of the invad ing forces had been taken, except some taken in the boats, would go to show that Lopez was victo. A Havana letter sap. that the encounter between the expedition and the Spanish trooplook place on the morning of the 13th, at Las Posas, a small vit. lege about three milts from the coast, where the Americans had entrenched themselves during the night, and received large reinforcements of Creoles and oilers of the native population The letter adds: " In this engagement, the Spaniards were com manded by General Enna in person, who hail his horse shot from under him ; Colonel nodal and seven o ffi cers, and about seventy-eight men were killed. So unerring and deadly was the fire of the brae' liberators, that Genet al Enna was three times repulsed with loss. At this moment the Lieuten ant Governor of 31ariel, Colonel Gurrea, came up, with about two hundred men more, when the Cold. net received a shot, theongh his leg, and his men such a check, that Gen. Enna. (as he states in his official communication to the Captain General, 'la ted half-past three o'clock on the 14th,) saw the uselessness of attempting anything further against • the pirates without more artillery, as it Would only be exposing his men to certain death, without any result ; consequently he demanded further rein. forcements. Accordingly two steamers, the Haba nero and the Almendaras left that day with more troops. to the number of fourteen hundred, 'so that according to their own account, with those who have been concentrating from the other districts, they have got upwards &BP° men, including ca valry, and up . till this moment they have only made three captives, who, as they say in the official belle tin, they instantly pot to death. Two of theta per sons were sailors belonging to the steamer Pampe r°, who, after landing Lopez, had gone into a taw. ern and got drunk ; the other poor fellow was found in a hut, tingle to move, Gum a fracture be re. mired when landing. 4..-443 e the. 15th;' it was known that the liberators, who•have been joined in large numbersby the pets. pie oftthe country, made a move in the direction of Diegiada Nunez and Cubanas, with the intention of pneseesing.themselvee of the fort at the latter place, when unfintunately, some fury or fifty of them, who had, im the most daring manner, en deavored to get there by sea-in four launches, with the intention of taking the Spanianls in the tort by surprise, were themselves, atter a most desperate resistance, captured by the Spanish Admiral, who with his steamer, and an immense number of men, succeeded in taking them ) , after a fight of four hours It is computed that there . were no less than 329 soldiers and sailors engaged in the capture el these Americans." These poor fellows, as we learn from Purser Boyle, were brought to Havana, by they Habanero on Saturday morning, the 16th instant, at I A. ix.. placed on board a spanish frigate lying in port, and executed at 1 t $5 A. at. on the same morning They were shot on the public road in' Havana, and, at the least calculationon the presence of twenty thousand ipectators After they were shot, they were dragged by the feet by neeroes, and then left to the mob, who corn. menced stripping them of their clothes, and carry ing then, on sticks through the streets—yelling Irks ea many demons just escaped from the bottomless pit, sad trying to seek revenge on they knew not what, Many of the passengers ,of the Cherokee who. were on the spot of execution, were pointed at with a sneer of contempt; and ethers were stopped in the 'street and insulted, the Spaniards telling them they were Americans, and that one of these days they 'vrould.be served the , satite - ivay, At night it was dangerous lot an American to be in the streets alone. The steamship Falcon, white on her way up the coast ofCuba from- Chagres, was fired at three times, by the war steamer Habanero, and was obliged to heave to, al boarded by the officers of the Habanero. After the Falcon stopped, the offi cers cheered as if they had gained a glorious ;Pieta s kSk t ry. This is the third time the Falcon has been ser th e same trick. The U.S. aloop.of-war Al -bany as al Havana. The Itarbarttlis at Havana. Titeeditors of La Yerdad . published in the New York papers the following extracts from letters lei prove tbet tikeietsonnt of the atrociiea commixed: on the; bodies etthe executed men were correct.— These letters eta all at the date of the evening of the 16th orath inst. J. It The eitO of Havana has witnenett te.day, , '..g i e mac ahoelisng spectacle whicheauld have been' presented to the eyes . ; of 3 'civilized world, and ;which even the Kaffits would have beheld with horror. The pen shrinks from describing it. The. Meow people, when it used to delight in its cruel itefenainment, remained far behind the Fparttanltt I hire yesiettlity. Aber the cowanlly murder of 52 1 us, . sa i n _ li f fi u mulik,ktici E ; they gave up a cer.itift , l 4. number of them to an unbridled'rabble, is who, like_ unlattrinale enthiniasts of liberty. who lell, we knew not how, into the power of !helmet ol the govern. men,. doTilerimow how it ogernirekbecptiie there amso meek different statetrus s ilot we do :not know what . believe. ; -4 -I.i 101teieratrage exeitewient„ . 4lhen they were releittingtffbm the e4ecutieri,,wi,tythe 'bere'of those unktrtunale ten, It most htifrible exchunstions.area' heterd i rtiM the ' ,add I myself heard one who Wei to:Alittif dint day on the brains ol a ranker: Ire nit Odd; continuing these ac. ,cmlllll;fiuT-tatoneWWfffillff voriAltullhevelin presented a faithful reminder of a bull-lighting are. na an a air of performam," z; .: • 2. " tile I rejoice in this success of our arms f.hl4, is from a Spaniard, and refers to the capture ut. lanpribes,)Acaano,lnkt , lamella ; apil b h lof !hit OxOetsea *Mb hare' Merl Cothr.l matted by the rabble upon the carp of those mt. fornmatermerrichrrpettMar' ' - our enemies to contethriie, lhave,seetcyiecef el the bodies of those( meW / Nasal' their clothes and their shoes, In ihTtands of sonic of my aim. try men, and havn *errata dowire front fifth, tug. ace of the -General, (here ih _situate:l the trairnarra estaWishrnera) they ,have ,beert showing and tri. umphina over a piece of a "I 3 send herewith the endla4ol . Jespiteli, giv ing,an %count of the late ocemweelf& here. twill' add, in conclusion, that the 00 priiinwps have been shot, and that their remains were, prefsirrd . by the mnb, who trampled on them, and afterwards divid ed among themselviit the aluretramf caps, and even some of the members at thosAnntertonete Men. 11l Lopez nothing certain is known,. except that "err Ole. 13th he routed, the troops of the Crovernmetut.l! lejaiteinittitiii Raw (*giant. More Particulars—Tremerulons Excitement at NM Orleant t—The Spank& Consul' obliged to seek rrfiige in (he City Prison 1 The. Charleston papers have published the fol. lowing ander the date of New Orleans, Ang.,2-Ist. A piny of Cnban Liberators, much, exasperated by the time of the Spanish LaPatria. this afternoon at-, tacked the office of that paper, broke in the *in. down and doors, and threw the Press, cases, types and reuniting into the streets, in fact they destroyed everj thirg belonging to the office. There was no interference on The pin of the Police. Alter demolishing the Union office, the rioters proceeded to the Cigar Store on the corner of St. Charles and Gni - vier streets, Oro,. ke in the Jeers and windows, and destroyed alfthe stock and fixtures, which were very valuable At seven o'clock the rioters went to the office at the Spatill.ll Consul. and destroyed thCilesks, furoitureauil ptdperty of all kinds. They also broke down the sign, Which they carried in triumph to a meeting held in P,afayette Square. New Orleani, 18151. A mob of two thousand men sufrodbiled the city prison this morning, where the Spanisli Consul had taken refuge, and threatened to demolish it unless lie was delivered up to them. There, ar about filly police on the ground. Nearly all dig' cigar shops kept by the Spaniards were destroyed. - Yes. terday, minute guns were fired from surniair till' night in honor of the murdered Liberators. The bodies, panicularly Col. Clendenen's, attracted many vi-hors and produced much feeling. Three or tour Spaniiib Coffee Houses were also destroyed. The militia were called out. It is said the Spanish Consul received several letters from murdered Americans, but refused to deliver them up to a committee whocalleil on him. Subsequently how. ever, he was forced to surrender them. CHARLESTON, Aug. 22. The Courier has telegraphic ilevalch from Now o►leana and Mobile, giving further Havana news, and confirming the reports brought by the Cherokee at New York. The steamship Empire City from Havana, arriv ed at New Orleans on Friday last. She left Ha vana at noon on the 18th, and consequently brings two days later intelligence than the Chemkee. The advices received by the Empire City state that Col. Crittenden, of Kentucky, was one of the party of fify-two patriots executed near Havana. The accounts state that Lopez had been victori ous in all his engagements, and proceeded on, thrcugh his intentit as are not rated- The U. S. steamer Vixen had arrived at Pensa cola, with dates from Havana to the evening of the 16th. It is reported that Gen Lopez had made a stand at Marie, and had two engagements with . the Government troops, in both of which he was suc cessful. The Spanish loss is said to have been eighty officers and three hundred men killed and wounded, who were carried to Havana and buried with great pomp. Gen Lopez is daily receiving accessions to his force of from twelve to fourteen hundred men. On the night olihe 14th, over one hundred men left Havana to join the invaders. The Spanish steamer Pizarro was ashore on the . Keystone. One Spanish General, one Spatlish Admiral, and one Spanish-General of Marines are reported among the killed. Tut Austraurrasrma AND Coss —The telegraph report condenses the following from yesterday's WashinEp:pers The this morning recapitulates the Cuban news, ant says that there was no reason to doubt that the Spanish Government wanted to take sum mary vengeance on those caught invading her soil ; btu theeditor intimates that such a wholesale slaugh ter, without a trial of the prisocers, will require a strict investigation by our Government. The laidligeicer mates, by authority, that the steamer Saranac will be dispatched forthwith for Havana, With Commodore Parker, who has been instructed to inquire into all the circumstances atten ding the capture and execution of American citi zen, and to ascertain under what prool they have heen s pin to death. A full investigation will also be had into the circumstances of firing at the steamer Falcon, by the Spanish cruisers. At the same time renewed and rigid instructions will be issued to the civil, military and naval offi cers of the government, to take all legal steps and employ the means at their command tocheck and break np any armed and illegal expeditions, and arrest all persons concerned therein; It is the fixed determination of the government to man;ain the treaty obligations, andlo enforce the laws of the land, the recent violation of which has led to such lamentable results. The U. S. steamer Saranac will leave Norfolk thi• afternoon or toanorrow. The larelfigenur says that a despatch has been received from Mr. Ones, our Consul at Havana, at the State Department, which states that all the ,prisoners were tried previous to thearitaecation. The Department will require a satisfactory ex planation from the Government officers at New Orleans for their apparent neglect in allowing the. steamer .Pampero to depart with General Lopez.- ft is believed here that the whole of the force of Gen. Lopez were in the lour launches that were all run down by.ffie steamer, and that the Wty Omen who were executed were all that were saved from drowning. Cu:terms Reston mom.--Some years ago, there lived in the interior of Connetnicut 'an old farmer, whose name has since been made familiar ta the nation by the disticntion atone of his sons, and who was famous far and wide, for bis bard drii;king and his wit. On one occasion, antler the premium of an unusually large brick ? which accidentally got into his ha , at the village ma r the old map strayed into the graveyard near his residence, where he found the .naysgation somewhat rougher than he was pre. pared:for. Theeonseqeenee weak that before begot tar, be stnmbled headlong between to well mended graves, which were lying in hisTath, where he found that it was easier for a man in his situation to lie down than it was to get up. After several inellemual efforts, and leaning now'rmon one ot , the graves, and now upon the other, for the support. he required, he fell back, and throwing his hands out over the sock which covered the remains of his nearest neighbors, he exclaimed, it Well ! never mind ; l supra we shall all rise kgrater l—Evening loaf., ~ T,II, 1 -0 1 1 1 ,01 0 ,14, 1 :490 11 ....1.Me.4 Bliffa,To PriMiseritribe famous in the history of the thiti:slaveria:mvement, letiliteelears ago, fbonatTilkth * Fps the attppoiltion leafavet`*ilt the let riert; tuid "Mai i t it fie datcpas4, thWth, lag mwn h ;been the' *ear of 4ter pfatte di which, .. fy (O ' ltfif" riAiM S OF 'belie OP, tnio PO4 ridY c(*.. - ... :tempo 4,lke E arkr cillic s r. 11 ds ' Ahem - ....... ......, tut:gear-ethernet, erthdricco . '-- To Mr Commissioner Ingraham' of Pialatlelithia, belongs the umpreationable infamy oltrldt-igA, litAirfiel(itiltrbentliltiPleProiriarnimer W X. Smith, of Buffalo, ,with defiant words now comes forward to tete Ms pleeetby the side of his compeer of Philadelphia. A colored person, by the name el.Danieli claimed'as a slave, bat nu the evidence, a freeman, bas , beery— remmlity ri , tted,by ' this' subordinate Ciller, thebireling ofk ii ferny lei, to be reminded to s life of servitude. , , ~, ~„ '.--I . firrittitreiffrifibleitiailtitiit'sviiitTitAtee - 4 -, an atrocity,elmtistivitbrelllntrillal, in the arrestor the alleged fugitive, who was retying at the time as steward on beanie steamboat at Buffalo. The son of the claimant ? Moore, flying at his qr.' tiro, drove him egainate heated servegtml OW him to the deck with a blow from a billet of wood, which laid epen the bark part of his' head and ten. dined bim'senseless. In this Cimtlitiutt; a freeman Of the land was'compelletl f 'tinder the leo:tattoos provisions of the logilive Sleet bill, to answer to the charge.or beinga slave. ' Mr. ConiMissioner 11. K. Smith was heartless, as became the office he had undertaken to perform.— lie did riot. oiler to postpone the proceedings mil Wlyelint maid gecover the poreessioo of all. his fiteulties neyded .for the defence of--that freedom 'othiih was as dear to him as to his judge, and as Vett . he, too, ender the laws of the land. The premie re , r se were forced oft at once . The report to a Iffia i paper, thus chronicles the beginning: "The ommissioner Mr. ft K. Smith. then cal ed epos the, negro by the name of s',Daniel" to rfitand tip, bet Mr. Man did not answer to the name. .31e was maser, IT Ida erirMifil'(beingthratghoot in It state of half empty, and eleaDy- enable to rem.' munidate with Iris et•rinsel horn the effect of the' wound.upoo his skull) am). roreireet his sea" The only . witneis siarnhied in ihe ease was the son of the eight:ant,' fresh from the tmeal asaanh 'l But even, from his testimony it. appeared; that the I alleged stave, with the mewl of his alleged Owner,' was originally acook and steward on hoard a steam. boat on the Ohio river; and that while the boat was at Cincinnati, in Ohio—a free state, be it observed —ha lett it, as undoubtedly, by law, he a right (ado: The report thus proceeds: " Mr. Wyatt here claimed that by dregelaimemy of the witness the alleged slave was proven free s as his escape had not been made from It entucky, but from Ohio, and that the act taking the elate to a free state enfranchised him "The Commissioner—f do not agree with yori, on that point. A man has a perfect right to bring his slave into a free state and it does not enfranchise him (s)—and even it was so, and I had to decide upon the mere question of fact, I should find against into RS the master did not himself carry the .lave 1 into bat hired him to another vrhocarried him there. Ohio,ut I do not think any how he would be free. I HOLD THAT A MASTER HAS A reitrecT RIGHT TO TAKE Ins SLAVE INTO OR THROUGH A FREE STATE, ARVS* AS CITIZENS OF THE FREE STATES ARE ROUND TO Aidtiecir vitt MITTS AIM PROPERTY OF PEOPLE or THE SOUTH. Is this all, or have yam any evi. dence to 'niter? " The defence,said that there were witnesses on the boat from which thenwro was taken who could prove Mat he had been Gee state far a period antecedent to the dote of the alleged' escape, and he proposed to produce those witnesses: . Efet he shook s now offer medical testimony to prove_ t h at the injuries iif set. ed upon the defendant were of so !serious a nature as to partially deprive him. of bit senses, and to prevent him from giving any' iNforrnation to his counsel as was necessary for his protection xndjust defence Upon this ground, and Win 'ft:kit:font the defendant an opportunity to procure the attendance of witnesses, he should more an adjournment of the examination. "The-poor fellow was all this time in a stare of halt stupor, unablo to talk will his counsel, and kat dozing, with the blood slowly oozing out of his mouth and nostrils. " Mr. Foster declared he ;hay) reasons to fear means would be taken to frustrate the proceedings, and he objected to the adjournment. " The Commissioner decided that at, the eland. nation had commenced he wintld go through with it, and called upon the defence to produce their testimony. '• A messenger was then despatched to the boat or the witnesses. " While the the court was Waiting, Mr. Hawley thought .it was necessary for the protection of the rights of the defendant that the eramination should be adjooruedt The man was even now in a half sleeping state and partially ! insensible from the blow on his head. " Mr. Talcon thought that die parties who so bru tally assaulted the alleged fugitive 'had better for 'their own sakes, not only to adjourn, but put the man under medical 'treatment immediately. It might turn out a little more serious than they aetici pated. " The Commissioner unoidd not adjourn. The only question submitted to him Was a question of fact. He had waited long enough for the witnesses of the 4 fence. It had been fully proven that the slave owed service to the man described in the record. The son of the owner indentified the slave as the prop erty,ol his father, from whom he is alleged to have escaped. • Nothing remained, therefore but to find, as he did find, that the man was a fugitive from service, and as such must be returned to his master in Kentucky." In reading this report, we are alternately shock ed by the inhumanity o/ the Commissioner, and ams;ed by his ignorance of the law which he on