Proceedings of the XXXIIId Coigns&
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Three private bills were passer,l,
Mews. Fessenden aka Foot inese3ied
memorials motion the Nebraska bill. •
Mr. Seward presented memorials from Williams.
bmgb, from likter _empty, Qatarioyourity o,leNts.
ice - Tory, and'frirm Newark, NJ ; against the tram,•
age ut the Nets a.ka, bill
tiers pcsum
- THE 511811.A.EA BILL
Mr. Badger's resolutions lot saspeinling the rules,
setting apart Friday fur pnvate bills, was adopted.
The Nebraska bill was then taken up.
Mr. Cass said, he was not present last night
When the vote_outhir-empossment took .place; He
desired-now to record fits na•ne on the Gatti fas
ters. He desiredalsani retou therilcoM Mr. BA.
ger for his amendment, . and to congratulate the
South upon that act of. reconciliation. He thought
the 'tissue of this bill would forever cloie. this
fountain of bitter waters,
The bill was read a third time.
Mr. Belleaill, he opposed the Nebraska bill of.
the last session, when it ecnitained no provision re
lative to the Missouri Compromise. The objec
tions to that bill, which he then expressed, were
more applicable, to a great extent, to this bill. He
was not on the committee when the first bill was
reported, and he never beard of any proposition to,
repeal the Missouri Compromise, until it was offer. ,
ed in direct terms by the Senator from Kentucky
His first ejection to the bill was, that there was
no necessity luithe measure. It was an anomaly
4o establish goyernments to extend over immense:
baritones in -which there was no white population
who required such government. After discuss
ing this ohjeciien, he said, that in itself" it was not
insupirrable one to him. He thought it was Mem.
lignite the:chairman of the committee to shovi,
Oak there was a demand for territorial government
flow, in anticipation of an increase of population be
emigration and otherwise. Some provision r ught
also to be made for the government of the tribes
beyond Wind Hills anal in the Rocky Mountains.
There ought ; to information as to the number of
necessary military posts, &c , and full detailsof this
paltry of extentlikg the government so far bgyord
the-present limit of ciyilizatidn There were three
bombed millions of acres in these territories. They
would rapport the population of an empire.
His next objection was one arising out of the pro.
visions of it regardingdie Indian trines. Those In-
Jima who had bean carried to this territory, from
east of the Mississippi, had been guaranteed a home
never to be runontided by any territorial govern
meat. He examined the bill, and held that, as it
now stood, it was a clear, explicit violation of the
Indiaft•treatiee' II hecould bring himself to believe
that the passage of the measure would accomplish
the happy results expected by its friends. ha would
abandon all his objections to the bill and vote for it
heerfully. But if he thought it sould have the
evil results of awakening agitation, violating the
faith with the !when' and leave nothing but the
" naked
_principle of non intervention, he would vote
ierinst the bill.
Mr. Dawson followed. in support of the bill, and
in reply toldr. Bell's objections to its details.
Mr. Norris then then addressed the for an
hour and a hall in support of the bill. He referred
to the speeches of abolition senators; and replied
to them. In the course of his remarks, he asked
the senator from Ohio, (Mr. Chase,) or from Mart.
*whose's. (Mr. Sumner ) if the territory were free,
and its legislature, should pass a fugitive slave act,
would either of them aid to execute that law!
Mr. Wade said, that as his colleague was not pre.
sent, he would reply to the question. He (Waee)
had never, and would never, aid in executing that
law, or in catching a slave. Would the senator
from New Hampshire aid in cwching shares!
Mr. Norris—l have answered that question many
times at home, and am not afraid to do so here. I
am, awa citizen, bound to obedience to all the laws
Of the United States. If present, and I am allied
upon by the officers of the law to aid them in the
discharge of their legal duties, I will as in duty
bound, give them my aid. The senator from Mato
sachurietta had denounced senators for'saying that
the Nor:h offered this measure. Which was that
senator, and where did he get him authority for sat.
in,g "that/the North did or did not approve of
any act voted by a majority of her representatiies?
Who was this senstor, who bad, styled as white
J staves all those northern men who Jared dor here
what they believed the constitution demanded of
them! It warribe same man who. in Paneuil Hall,
counselled the assembled multimde to waist by
lame, a law passed to execute a provision of, the
constitution of the United States.
Mr Summer, excitedly--Never! never! never!
(Cries, " Order." " Order.")
Mr:Sumner—l challenge the senator to prodnce.
in ant report of paper, a word or line, wherein I
ever, counselled violence The words used in
Fanned Hall were these: " I counsel no violence.'
Mr. Norris said, he might have used strong words
tun no stronger thanthe sentiments of the - senator
reignited'.
Mr. Sumner—lf the senator says that I ever corm.
selltral resistance by violence to any law; and it ho
cannot produce any report to sustain him, he is (■
pause) in the situation of one who says that which
be cannot maintain by Jails.
Mr. Norris said he thought he could substantially
maintain what he had imputed to the senator.
Mr. Wade followed, and .discussed the constitu
ality o! the Missouri Compromise; the truth of the
Dadarstion of Independence; the injustice•et sla
very, and the .inconsistency 'of Messrs. Douglas,
Cass and others, whO now support this bill. .
Mr. Tommy spoke Irom 7# till ten minutes before
10 Welt:mit ou.the constitutional argument in favor
of the principles of the bill. . -
Mr. Fessenden said : He understood by the news.
papers that the legidatnrWet his stave —a demeetic
legislature-shad passed, almost unanimously, ref°.
lutituis instructing the Ruston from that state to vote
agabue the'Nebraskebill. Ile was free to avow that
hewaeopposed to slavery m any and every shape
it was presented iti.r If he had been in Congress in
111 1 0-he thought he wood have voted against 'the
admission of Missouri to:the last,:nntess she prohib•
ited slavery by her cohstito ion. If in Congress, in
1550, he ivonl,l have voted against the territorial
government to New Mexico and Utah. tinkle the
Wilinoeproviso was put in the acts. He then ex
pressed 'he sentiment, of the people of Maine up
on the-question of labor. Honest labor was not con
sidereal disgraceful there, as is seemed, from Mr.
Brown's remarks, to be in Mississippi. He gave a
history of the Missouri act, maintaining that it was
a compact ; that the South had received her share
fully, and the North never refused to execute her.
part of,the agreement. Since the Missouri sot, five
slave states had beep admitted, without objection
In the compromise of 1850, the South-got the
privilege of taking slavery into New Mexico and
Utah.: The whole country had since acquiesced in
it,uwing to the awful threatening*, -that unless it
was agreed to, the Urion would be dissolved. He
wasin the Ba ltimore Whig Convention, and had
anumwesly opposed the resolution endorsing that
compromise. He never gave to it his support.—;
The eoutery wee at peace, and brotherly love pre
vailed since 1850,- until suddenly our peace was
disturbed by a pmpositinn to take away • from the
North Ibis little given to her by the compromise of
1520.. He continued his remarks until 11 o'clock,
upon the prigressive slimness of the slaveholding
interest Opon the North.
Mr.,Weller replied . for half an honr, when be
yi.id to.
Mr. BotigAs' snitrealy, that thf debate should be
closed. •
Mr. Weller sail, iLthis vote, vtas to be, taken he
would 00, but: if it iris a ,question as le_ whether
he Cr, the senator froth Illinois ikeold spe ak, be pre
(mord to speak blouse°. •
Mr. Douglescaid, he wooldabantlon bis.epsech,
if s.vote could be taken. . • .•
Hr. &avow said be desired lo,speak below -the
vote was hat :
Mr).Sumner said tic deeired &lusts be •beard.
Mr. Daisies then, at request, proceeded ter an
swer the obleezions t' the bill. Ile coreseuced by
replying to Mr. Bell'irobjeetionssui to the Indians.'
He had been.denouneedritien agitator by reviving
whalllllWontErinas in a&
tetpro•iiicedN•ffie.niNt'of - it850. - 4
mWon tiirriteriCkOted- febosteiket ; onael
iiit4gnitbf 101 :0 1
teirkot *ening for britka. refeffeto
khecomrelltee. as ))ii mane lf
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'w7rand 4 idelii
formity the.sentimentasif the Majority of the
Senate. WNW falthe meanie Was conformable to
heatetse , tifitteßniijoriirt. lerewersbirtismsee-of
comprising insjority of Whigs and a ma
rarity
•Democrats -tot would show
of the Sena 0, -.
He advocated sod supported the principle of this
bill in 1830,end it-was - adopted:
He met ismeiningkelOtiptirpgn„where.those,
acts were to be,tiltailifral,htklik.llnejspeech
ed to his coristitttente,that demo territorial acts were
framed nollie.prfileipteotriMbittterwention - Sub
Igeqnently he .piade espitootion at Spring.:
field, 111. Thelfria.lattire of that state, at its next
session, rerwineed the resolutions of instruction in
favor id Me -Wales lirosierkindtpaileed others, de
c:aring chat, in {raining territorial governments.
the people of the-territories onghtto-be allowed ;he
right of deter Mining, without restriction, their Own
domestic i nstitutions. , 'This shorted that his state,
at least' understood the. compromise rif 1850 as es. •
tablishinglhe plificiple of nonthoteivention in all
territorial tinestions.- - He denied that he had ever
assumed to speak forthe North. Rot be would like
to know how those senators who opposed this bill
wield threaten its friends with eondemna•irin vide
North. Who authorized them to dose I Only one
state in the northwest had been beard from, and
that was . Illinois, who, in strong resolutions, approv
ed the bill and its principles. He was charged, also,
by Senators Chase, Sumner and Seward with not
having been able to come up to the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise until lowed to do tro'hy
Dix•itt'a amendment. Yet, in the' famous circular
signed by the-abolition confederate., the original
bill was denounced because it repealed the Missou
ri Compromise. All the quibbling that bad taken
place upon the change* in the bill from time to
time, amountril to nothing, for .all. admitted die
legal effect of dm bill was the same' from the be.
ginning till now. It had been changed only-to make
the object of the bill clear and eaplicrt.
•He denied, in-a long argument, that the Mission
;Cam was &compact, and KT woes compact, the
Nor h had - uniformly disregarded it from 11 months
aher.its passage, when it refused to admit Missou.
ri, to its frequent rejoctione of it in 1848 and 50..-r
On this point he and Mr. Seward had frequent col
loquy, in which Mr. Seward-said the South-had al
ways insisted the Missooriact was a compact. ,He
(Douglas)• referred to the resolut.ons of the New.
York legislature of 1854, declaring it a compact,
and that its repeal would be distiononit-le, when
that state itself, in 1821, was the fiat one which
hail insnueted its senators to vote for disregarding
that compact, and vote against admitting Missouri
unle.'s she prohibited slavery.
In the addressee of the abolitionsts of Congress,
and in the speeches of Messrs' Seward, Chase and
Sumner, i' was gold that Clay would not have join.
ed in any act to aimed) the great act of his life—
the Missouri Compromise.. Now Clay, in the Sen
ate, had disavowed any pateriiity or ,part ,in the
compromise of 1820, and had said he did hot even
know whether he voted (orb or no•. •His Miesriti•
ri Compromise wrs the one of 1821, madeneces
sary by the refusal- of the North to carry out the
one of 1820.
- Mr Seward reminded the senator, tbat in 1815
avaluable medal of Mr Clay was struck, and pre:
sented to.him. On it. were inscribed eleven great
acts of his lite, aniViine of these was the Missouri
Compromise of 1820.
The debate was continued in the Senate until five
o'clock this morning, when• the Mud Vote *as talc..
en, andrihe bill was passed by yeas 37, nays 14;as
follows:
Yeart—blerars. Adams, Atchison, Badger, Bay
ard,"Benjamin, Brodhead, - Burin ' Boiler, Cass,
Clay, Dawson, Dixon, Dodger ! ' 'of lowa, Douglas,
Evansi Fitzpatrick, Grier, Garin, Hunter, Johnson,
Jones, of lows. Jones, of Tenn., Mason, Morton,
Norris, Pettit, Pratt, Rusk. Sebastian Shields, •Sh
dell, StuaryThompson 0114., Thompson of
Toncey, Weller, Williams.
Nave—Messrs. Bell, Chase. Dodger of Wis ,Pes
sendem, Fish, Foot, Hamlin, Houston, James, Se
ward, Smith, Stunner. Wade, Walker.
Messrs, Bright, Toombs and Mallory are piek,but
would have voted for the bill. Mr. Allen (abseil ,
hom.tickness in his family) would have voted
Nglr Pot*.
meson' Phelps, Pierce, Cooper, Everett, Clayton
and Wright not voting.
'he title of the bill was changed to A bill lb
the ,g.ivertiment of Nebraska iu.d Katmai."
Adjourned tiU Tuesday.
Mr,.Appleton presented: the resolutions of the
Massachusetts Legislature in tarot of Cheap Ocean
Postage. •
Mr Fuller presented the resolutions of the Le:
gielanue of Maine in opposition to the clause in
the Nebraska Bill repealing the Missouri Compro.
miss.
Both isle of resolutions were laid on the table
and onlered to be printed.
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole Oa the Homestead Bill.
Mr Dean Moved a modification of the fourth sec
tion so u ter include within the provisions of the
act, persons who may declare then intention to be
come citizens after the passage of the act He was
opposed to all special legislation, and said there
w s no itrason why a pinion who declared his in•
tendon the next week or , next year after the bill
hai-passed, should not be entitled to iui ' benefits
'Tully with those who had done so heretofore
He was-opposed to making any discrimination as
to givin4 its beneft•s I illy on ccludition 01 actual Del
,tlement and occupancy. '
Mr. Dawson opposed the amendment on the
ground that the bill should be confined to those who
had now declared their intention, or were now 6-
ban's, The amendment was rejected.
Mr. Chamberlain proposed the additional section
to the bill providing for the prosecuting of surveys
with a view to three roamed,' to the Pacific ocean.
The Chairman declared the amendment out of
outer.
Mr. Chamberlain appealed from the decision, but
the Chairman was sustained.
Mr. Florence proposed an additional section.
which was rejected
Messrs. Cobb and Grow severally offered substi
tutes, which were rejected.
The Committee then rose, and the bill as amend
ed teas reported to the House. ."
Mr. Goode moved to lay it on the table. Neg&
tired, by a vole of 60 yeas to ,124 nays..
The question was then taken on the first imend
merit, restricting the benefits of the bill to free
white persons and adopted Tries, 101 Nays, 78.
Mr. Perkins, of finionana, offered the following:
Revoked, That the Committee On Judiciary be
instructed to inquire inqoire min the propriety of
directing legal proceedingsto recover my sum of
money which may have been paid to any person
out of the Treasury, on.the claim , of .Dr. Gardiner
and Mr. Mears, under the commission which ad
indicated:the claims on Mexico, under the provis
ions of ,The treaty of Gandatoime Hidalgo.
Mt. Coning in:vested the propriety of an amend
ment, authorizing, the Committee to send for per.
eons and papers, in order that the Committee. may
ascertain. against whom the suits spar. be corn
rnenced.
Mr. Perkins accepted the amendment, and the
resolution was passed..
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,Adjourned.
Otr.The prohibitor', liquor law painted by the
Legislature of Mississippi, is mere!, designed tw
restrain the retailing of inio;icatjniLdriqkk 11
videii'that no lieiniap shill be granted (Of the retail ,
of epirliniiis'or liquins,'untesi the pin6tion
of the parties applying -is signed by majority "'of
the legal voters, .residing in..thd. district-or UMW
fregl 1 01 430 Pe the IPPlication
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04r The prodoction of silver in hfeeice the pre.
emit yell, iti elipecte.l to rib the born C11V25,000,-
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r- ,4 't P 2 cabin') (pot fix .
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a z a b or iii - iscortati.,
Towanda, Situidiy, iiarc:ll.Jl.:. 054.
Torino ot Tam ROP•IrSor•
SO 50 per annum-4fpita within the year SO rents will
.41 deducted—imitn e pai4autpelly inadyitneiselleo will be
ledneted. No paper sent oiertwo years, unless paid for.
• AITIRTIIIIMPM 'QUM Of ;test lines. 110 csaa .tor the
int and CS cents for each subsequent insertion.
- 'B7.offlee radio a Union fitoelr.” north able et the Public
&wire, next door to the Bradkird Hotel. Entrance boareen
ours. Adams and Elwell', law (Meas. '
Dillelittifitillff /late 'olnrieisfilina.
The, only account we have from the Democratic
State Donvention, is from the ,New• York paper.,
which contains despatch, that Gov. fitut.ca was re.
nominated for Governor on the first ballot. Jour
-111101 S Br,scir was re-nominated (or Judge of the
SoprerneCourt, by acclamation. On the . secoud
ballot Hetrav Moir was nominated for Canal
Comm isstoner.
Psimie of the Homestead Bill.
- 'Upon our outside will be found thespeech deliv
ered byllon. G. A. Gaow, upon - the Homestead bill .
We need hardly ask for it a perusal, aemost °font
readeirs:will gladly embrace the opportunity' s ' It iri
one of the most able and eloquent speeches of - the
present session, and will add much to Mr. Geow'S
reputation as- an orator. it abounds. in passages
glowing with feeling,-and truthfully portraying the
true cause : of a nation's preiperity and -eirengtb..---
Mr. Gaow has identified himself in -a marked de.
gree with this question—having advocated it open
previous occasions, and - introducing into the Demo.
eratte State Convention a resolution in favor of free
grapts of land to actual settlers—being the first thr
uml expression ever made' in this State. To hie
perseverance are the friends of the measure large
ly indebted.
The Homestead bill passed the House of Rim
'ententes on the 6th • inst., by a vote of yeas 107,
noes 72. • The bill provides thatany free white per
sons whale the head of a family, or who has ar.
ri*ed at the age of twenty-one yeani, and is u•citi.
zea of the United States, shall be entitled to enter,
Ireof ecist, o n one quarter section- of vacant and
una propriated public land, which -at the time of
his pplicatiou may be subject to private entry, at
51,25 per sere, or a quantity equal thereto, to be lo-
cared in a body in conformity With the legal sub.
divisions of the public' lands, and alter the same
shall have been surveyed. ' It also contains a pro
vision thet.all land acquired ender this act shilll in
no event become-liable to the satisfaction of any
debts -contracted prior tolhe lathing of the patent
therefor'. The fifth section declares that it any in
theidual. note ii resident of any one of the the'es - or
Territories, and not a citizen of the United States,
beset the tithe of making such application for the
benefit of this-act, shall have filed a a declaration
of intention, as required by the naturati7ation laws
of the United States, and shall become a citizen of
the same before the issuance of the patent, as made
and provided for in this act, shall be placed upon
au equal tooting with the native born citizens of
the United States.
During the dircoasion of the bill, Mr. Gaow of.
feted a substitute; liflering slightly from the Com
mittee's bill, which was not adopted.
It isthought that the Senate will pass the bill.
O A joint resolution has been introduced in
the House of Representatives by Dr. FOSTZR, chair.
man of the Committee on Banks, authorizing and
requiring the State Treasurer to commence suits
against certain persons connected with the Susque
hanna County Bank, and the Bank of Lewistown,
for the recovery of the amount of the notes of these
banks held by the department at the time of their
failure.
It appears that a short time tiefare the failure of
these instilotions, the department became auspicious
of their solvency, and for a time refused to take
their notes; but not wishing to injure their credit
if their suspicions should prove groundless, notice
was given to persons connected with them, accom
panied with a statenunit, that if respectable persons,
acquainted with the aliens of these Banks, would
state to the departnient in writing that they were
solvent, their notes would be received. Where
uponthe requisite statements and recommendations
were made by these individuals in writing, which
Were filed in the department as vouchers, and The
notes were again received ; and at the time oftheir
failure, a large amount of these notes were on
hand. -
The resolution requires that snits in behalf of the
Commonwealth should immediately be commenc
ed against those persons on whose recommenda
tion the money was taken, and the amount recov.
erect (rum their perm?l estates, if sufficient to pay
them.
We hope the resolution will pus, says the N. B.
Democrat, and such proceedings be instituted against
them as' will in tuture•eneetually prevent the per-
petition of so& hauls, not only upon the Com
monwealth, but if possible apart the,laboring poor,
who are generally the greatest . Sufferers by these
swindling operations.
Ott- Ron. Geo. E. Pugh; who has 'receive& the
cancns nomination for b. S. Senator of the Demo
cratic membenrof the Ohio Legislature, ls''a
tar yenng lawyer, a progressive Deinocrat, and a
favorite among the masses. Re will succeed Sen.
ator Chase, who Was elected by a coalition of De
mocrats and Premien votes, and whose term ex
pires nail March.
Nom Blanca Destoatrr.—A newspaper with
this tide has biren established at Tankhannoek,. by
D. A: Yaiuscrtta surd Dr. I. V. SMITH, editors and
proprietors. ft is a large and well printed sheet,
and eakibitorstidences of tict and talent on' the gait
c •
of the editor*'
8. DINITAICt ATTOMICT.—The Pleflant,
the istlitst.;ipirointertiatnes C. Vintlyke, Zig; et
Phttadelpia, U.`B.. District Attorney frietber
tern Distriet of Peonsylvsnia,,in place Of febn
Aehmeatt, - -
i ~,' e fewer" Is o m w it !! : - hat thst pro
a ttquopaVribilipir , u t. on Friday
• , a deillyiirati ''' - rt ! daysSlficus
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el*a_ las 2 ' DI: ply . atOilitting
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Mfg t - volsitk e pleAd di 'stiglreedlo
41m 4* - -ii - yi 49. l i fiiiti r luestionNuttitreirtaken
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upon the bill 4861 h -which was defeated by the fol.
191.01 2 14,91.9,45W4,1rA15ia5 2 -,.. -,„..„..,.-
The bill providing for the sale of the public
works, has pasredlbe sanate by a vole of ft to 14.
The price of the main line is fixed at $10,000,090,
the Delawaridiiisian at 93,090,000—and the Sus
‘,4l3°,llBl#* Wiiii.td *Oh - Pii!n,eh' i1j!i.409. at
$6,000900 . The House pane', the t ill to incor
'Coriorile tbildeitialitil Now ais — lle railinsicifiti:
pany f and agreed triWfionmover from the TM tothel
tathlilM9,'WeilidodoZiliiiki° l6 o 4, ` ''. ,
Tfii imuyo:coi!flmtio the Sjloilitiii dot* 'at
ilarrisburg, was ilelested in ihe Senate,-b7 a rote }
of 14 yeas, 17, uttyal
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FOREIGN . Niiiii.ivetal,6teameio hays arrived
since our last isitue,tbringing i latet intellmnce from ;
Europe. The warlike, aspect of afairs rerpains.un
clan*, anti thre appesre,to be.no Atope remain
ing of a peacable solution Of the Turkish question.
Meanwhi l e' France and England are making m ost
active and , extensive preparations for the , impertd4
firoggie:
Solemn debates in the English Parliament, im-,
posing.official communications in French Aforrifru - ,
mysterious consultationsin the Germanic Confeder
ation, fanatical Manifestoes in St. Petersborg,"and
warlike preps:aridity rid an immense scale in every
part of Ebrope,—these are theleading facts In the
resume of the foreign intelligence,—not to mention
the outbreak of a, long fotnentrittGreek revolt in the
Turkish Provinces, and.the simultaneous renewal
of excitement inlersia.
was reported that a manilesto lad been agreed
to by France and England, having eli thejarm of
formal declaratioare taw, and, that it was to appear
in a few days in the Itionikur.
_ was alto rumored that England bad sent a fi
nal announcement is the Czar, naming t a definite
time within.which he must imamate the Princi
polities,
A dispatch from Persia states that the Shah has
officially announced to the. foreign representatives
that be will remain neutral in•this
3 7: 4 . 4
Lord Palmerton, in answer to •
ion, replied
that Smith O'Brien, having acted ass gentleman in
referenceto escape at the the expensive( breaking
his parole, is to, be pardoned. 4
Government has replied, in the shape of a letter,
to the shipownenst inquiry, that forced ballot or im
prisonment will not be resorted to in manning the
Navy.
Ott , . i!Observer t " of the Ledger, writing from
Washington, in reference to the Nebraska Bill,says
that the amendment of the Semite, which excludes
aliens who have filed their declarations to become
citizens of the United States, from voting at local
election to be held in the Territorial , will be thrown
eat by the House,And the Senate- will have to re
cede from dor lose the bill. The excitement is
very intense, and will be more so before the bill
is a month or two older. It will, beyond a doubt,
.go to the Committee of the Whole, and we shall
ha*e some fifty or a hundred speeches on it t store
there is the least chance of its passage. The 'm
erle CA failure ol the measure will, in a great mea.
sore, depend on the state of public opinion in the
country. In the menwhile, I can inform you that
it is the intention of two members out of three from
New Hampshire, to speak against the bill.
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A nottlea TKRRIBIA ExProostox.—The Car Feag
tory of Mears. FILES St GRA; at Hanford, Conm,
was destroyed on the 2d instant, by the explosion
of a boiler, killing sixteen persons and fatally in•
juriog eleven others. The scene is represented as
having been one moat heart rending, wives and
children came rushing to the spot to inquire after
the fate of their husbands and parents. The cause
of the explosion is not known. At the time there
were engaged t in Me building over three hundred
persons.
SflertNOE OF VIC M IL. ROBBER.—Rowland A.
Smith, who was arrested on Friday last for taking
letters horn the mail bags while in his chr;rge, was
on the 6th placed at the bar of the Urn ited.States Cir
cult Court. He pleaded guilty to the several counts
of the indictment, and was sentenced by Judge In
gersoll to hard labor in the State Prison fur a term
of twenty seven years.
The ultra friends of the prohibitory liquor
law in'Philadelphia, having attacked Senator Nee,
as false to the pledge he gave before the election,
au extremely large and respectable meeting was
held on Friday night, at which a numixr of a•'.
&Wet were made by the Hon. Mr. Meredith, and
others, in vindication of Mr. Price.
TIIS Pint/181'A BILL iN Niw —There
was a large meeting in °l:position to the Nebraska
Bill, :at Newmarket N. H., on Monday evening,
which was addressed ty several Denioerats; among
others, Mr. French, of Exeter, a brother of B. B
French of
Tni Nutassza BILL IN MAI r.—The 'House of
Representatives, of Maine, on Saturday last passed
nearly unanimously I resolve instructing Senators
to oppose the Nebraska Bill; so long it it contem•
plates the abrogation of the Mimi:mil Compromise.
A Noatneint Su.vanoutea.—The southern sena
tors have bad a great deal to say shout the Niebras
ka bill being offered them by Atte,Nortb. "We hue
got disturbed the Missouri Compromise, say they
we cannot be eapeuted to refuse the s boon offered
Us by the North.'" • • •••
Now, it may be well'enough to mention, for the
benefit of such, it any there be, who are not shim.
dy aware of the fact, that although Senator Douglas
bails nominally from Illinois, yet his principal to
terests lie in the South, where he is a large slave
owner.
Perhaps Ibis explanation is quite unnecessary,
atter Mr. . Douglas' recent exhibition of himself in
the Ultima Stateilenais. Men, who are not slave
bottlers eery seldomenact so, t o the very life,' the
pan to the peaty tyrant. Senator Douglas seethe
frequently ,to lorget,, when, in the Senate chamber,
thm be is nok on one Pf Ale plantations, and that be
is intim:Ma& by" his equals, not his slaver! lt
•
ahtiokl,towever, be'steadily'borne in 'mind, that
M,.. Douglas is nut only • northern man 'with south!
em principles, but a northern man , with -sombern
lufla-rrt4 X-A'l l ol4r "Pik • -
' 047' Whittle eceidepi beebirect to New Mean!
oa Sdacity; ar , tbei 'French Open Rcitise:' Whittle
thearehenee Was limning td the perfordanee,.thtr
getter; epdtieply kit with
.• crub, cerrying,sway.
the lieeonritier,Aty whiFb three peropna. Wefe kilt.
ed and rif'y'Arix oittettcmcikoi lees wodifded
News Items.
0 1‘rairilif11;bde, met NlrafinlinflaNkiiid.
~. , in Olifi abet 14 commenced cpwhidilig liisit
souls* tetrt*ed *Oil he met a britklaritts stsi•tt
,elghlit eigltypernilds. He gathered ihis;.iamept
-,iberk, ly,POrtietUmaking a sham motkadit throb,
.siniribellfr , toludge. As he kedoveild Wits
I , - doctiCrMailisoi4it him above thasyek, Stith the
, iick,. and be fell senseless. This blow was follow'
• with the stone, and Monlson would have killed
,ealltespotiumknot- the 'sputniks" twerfered.
I 'Neil has since died of his wounds.
Cordelia Grant, the eal who complained of her
aramour Shackford, and Madame Restell. at New
' ork. disappeared upon the morning appointed for
.e trial, end }he gate . was, accordingly suspended.
' p inure's* was saidio have taken place between
•: hackford and the girl, and probably she was induc
. 40 tewirkin thirebleplainEtt intotred Advents - A
.articipant in the guilt ! , , . • •
i—J. 8., Gough gets $1 1 ,205 • month for lecturing
ti Great Hvitain ; and it is said the likoteh Assoc*.
on he libilti'l'or, Take a good thing out orb.
The Easton lug places a; its bead the name
`.. (Hon. Ablioiaawrelice, of • Vaiisaebnietts, as a
.didattfor the Pteeideney of the United States - ,
' ," -';' The iiholi itiotilit of dialite Dr. - Girdiner's
(aim ;_waa s'even• hundred' lhoosand -dollars; The
m•unt Itsrarcled,wasloar hundKdand twenty:eight
usan/ seven hundred and /orty
,411,re.„ _ ,
-- Dr. Gardiner was buried privately at •Washing
.n on Srinday. His brother } dolin Charles Gardia
et. Who 'was reiortedin'hive aliseonded, was pre.
- . The rumored rof 'the young lady to
born Dr, Gardiner. WWI ,engaged to.be married, is
ontradicted.
. David Jewell, the convicted murderer at Pitts
.. rg. who was respited by Gov. Bigler, is to be hung
o Friday, the 24th d March, the Governor having
Signed his death ',warrant;
Charles Fenno Hoffman, the poet, is now an
ornate of the Lunatic Asylum of this ;tate.
The 0 Union" of the 6tb Ind; says that the
' resident has expressed a determination to prose.
ate all the swindlers connected with the Gardiner
The old Hull's Heatra tavern,. at Allentown,
' a., kept by Henry A.eb,' sr., was destroyed by fire
n the morning 'of the Ilth Inst.
-I'. De.in Reilly, an filch patriot, and late editor
'f the Deinoemtie Review, died in Washington, on
zunday night, of apoplexy, aged SO years.•
The Temperance bill passed the New York
• nate on Thursday, by a vote of 2t yeas to 11 nays
The examination of Pyler, for the murder of
is wife, has been postponed, in order that the sub•
eet may go before the Grand Jury in May next.
DART/10 ATTCHET AT HIGHWAY HnBIICRY.—We
re informed that about isix weeks since a daring
tempt was made at highway robbery, on the
I rush Valley mountain, as follows:
; As Mr. Murray, a dry goods peJler, who drives
It wo horse waggon, and is well known along the
West &finch, was passing through the Narrows,
from Brusbito Nittaay valley, in the dusk of the
peening, when about three miles horn the village
of Madisotiburg, he observed three men following
him. Not having his suspicions thoroughly aroused
he paid hide attention to them, but on looking out
from under the cover of his wagon a few minutes
isfierwards, was violently struck on the head by a
Stone thrown by one of them, which cut through
his hat and inflicted a severe wound knocking him
Off . the wagon senseless. The robbers rushed up
immediately and commenced beating him over the
head with a club, when, fortunately, two travelers
came in sigh., and on observing the assailants in
stantlyfled without being able to ob'ain any Orin
,_
These•iwo gentlemen, who so timely came to
hand, toqk him• up and conveyed him and his wag.
on back to llbladisonburg, where he remained in a
'state of insensibility for thirty Muni after theoccur
irence. No clue could be bad as to the perpetrators
lof such an aggravated outrage.
The road between the former place, and the
Junction in Nittany valley, passes over the moon
'lain, or through the Narrows, the distance between
:the two villages being about seven miles, and a
dreary, lonesome way, a futile ',lace for highway
Robbers —Jersey Skore Republican.
As Awyol.TaaraDv.—At Randolph, ou Tuesday
morning, %lido Mrs Wilbur was seated with her
seven children at the bieak last table, her husband,
Agustus Wilbur, struck ner on the head with an
axe, and then nearly cot her head off with. the
same instrument.. This horrible deed. he followed
up by mining his own throat with a
.razor. so that
tie died almost' immediatly. The neighbors, sum
mimed by the dhildem, found the two cnrpeesside
by side on the floor, and the two younger childein
still at the table, tied in their chairs as usual, to
keep them from falling. The oldest is but filieen
And, what puts this double murder'almost beyond
belief, Mr. Wilbur and his wife are said to hate
lived happily together; they were in easy circum
stances; he was a temperate man, and a regular
attendant widi his family on public worship; and
no cause is know for the commission of a clime
which sends two souls suddently to their account,
and makes orphans ot a whole family. Mr. Wilbur
was about forty years old, and owned the cottage
in which he lived, and • farm in Marshfield, ad
joining the Wepeter farmr—Boston Post.
Fnet.car mit Somme. —We learn Isom the Ithaca
Ch , Tnticle that on Wednesday of last week, Garret
Clawson, a citizen of Hector, in Tompkins county
powered the discount of a note of 82,800, on
the Tompkins countrbank in' Ithaca, On Saturday
it being tound that the endorser's signatures were
barged, two agents of the bank started for his rest•
dance ; and reached the house about - daylight in the
morning. They knocked at the door, which was
opened by Clawson, aho admitted, them. After
Clawson had dressed himself, he stepped to the
kitchen,'and before the business on which they had
'come had been matte known, reached:a razor from
a shelf, elepped oat the back door and cut.his'hroat
—expiring almost instantly.. Some time since ;he
was charged with the forgery of er.dorsers to a note
in one of the Geneva banks, but the note being lin
ed •by Clawsne, at maturity, nothing sess done with
him. The Chronicle says the deceared,waa in pqr.
session ofone of the beat farms in Hector, contain.
ing about 300 acres, and before these forgeries was
was esteemed a worthy citizen. He leaves a fami
ly c.onsisting (Attie wife and she children to mourn
untimely end.
Otr• The Rev. Dr. Cox has applied for arelease
from his pastorial relations with the First Presby
terian Church in Renry•st., Brooklyn. Dr. Cox has
presided:over this congregation for the past seven•
teen years. Continued ill-health compels him to
desist from ministerial tabors, and he intends to re
tire to the country, having purchased a roman farm
near Owego. At a Church meeting, held oil
Wednesday evening last, resOlutions were adopted
by the members of his congregation expressive of
their.deep gratitude for his services as pastor •and
: I regret for his loss and tendering_ hint 86,500, the
tom .necessary for the purchase ot, the farm in
Owetr,ii Be tt membrtat of erection and regard
An sjoumedineeting of the congregation was held
n Friday evening, when the Committee reported
hat the entire sum * $6,500, had been 'raised, and
hat Dr. Cox had signified his - acceptance of the
iii.— [NI I%l%bn:ie.
... .. .
,k+l eincstr. CM.A.Ecx Drumm AND Riot.—On the
morit* of Saturday ; Match dth a fire broke nut 11,1
Ifinlilical Instiinte'frt Rome, in this - wale, said to
have beejtkindled.by en unknown female; but the
;fitacompaairia•wecasoon-on the spot and eating.
I nnd
iatieditke ONTIOL
,1,9 one of dm mppia 1101118. an.
, ((tiniest opecimatis - and fiigMenta o f dimecred •
ietii arriredisCorrenid,' Ind Ifni lietilfla became" .
cob excited hurling the ietnainsfrorallie‘windO*ll-
d thrimienina the minutest' of theinotittee. .The
ofiop Were caned toobusin order, and ilitrL•exoile.
len t we 0 pielial by 11001
The Gardiner cue.
tilt and proiraved cue h a , ~ ,
blitin in ~ and sadly Jenninated I
sued the highest sentence ellowe'd
The ja - pn the 3d of March retorned - a ~,,
"leafs Imprisonment in the P ea
"of iillilly,Oett twenty-two hoots' delibe nkm i' l
n r
I l b ool c, v o iz ur :
Le,
sect:llion has been stayed till two d a y, afe
e dit Irb ising ilte
of Circuit Coon,
.to which the cu e ~ ran
- - ' -
His cou„„el,,, exception to the bill containd
counts and the general ppinion is thin l b, c . I .
Court would have granted a new trial. Irc
Dr. Oardiner was bound dead in tio too nt t ,
day. He is supposed to have poisoned ~,,,,„ uti
his conviction. flatus
On entering the cell where Gardine r lau
fined tor warotaerved. to drink some wa let Z .
ing his head back, anti it as supp%ed Mathes * * ,
strychnine pia. 'He Wee'serred with eon avja l
almost immediately. . Alter giving a lener L oc h„ .
Gardiner, his brother, he remarked that t he
goinit'before a budge who would not pry
nifte
him guilty, and expired in great agony. g u m*
remains in the.jail. *
He was 38 years old, (one account mates 28
had the education and manners of a gentleman
and was engaged to be Married to a lad) in Geory
town,
It (I# known for whom the letter was intml i d
- There was a post mortem examination of th
body on the rooming of the fourth, by Dr.
Miter
Stone and Summer*, and testimony as to the I
moments of Dr. G. was given by Drs. Hall Seine
and Summers, each of whom testified to symptom
indicating the action of strychnine upon the sys
tem the peculiarity of the spasms, appearance, k e
Dr Steiner said that he suspected poison, b
was assured distinctly by Dr. G Gardiner that
had not taken any. The brother of Dr. G. told
Steiner that he had seen his brother in a aim,
slate in Mexico. Between his convulsions Dr
Gardiner was conscious, and said to Dr. Ste'
"It I die, I die innocent"
H e was seized with convulsions about an boa
and a half after leaving the Court room, and di
in abont the same time atter they began.
Dr. Miller, who made tha post mortem
nation, testified as to the health) appearance of Dr
G's brain, heart and other organs.
He noticed corKtecion of the membrane of
ih
brain, and infusion 01 blood into the spiral ca m
From what he heard of the symtoms, and judgin.
from the, post mortem examination. he had no ha,
union in giving it as his opinion that the Symptom
and appearance indicated that his death war er.
eusioned by st , yrhn ins.
Tee Pcsgosi Fawns—lt rumored that Geor2.
Ford anti Judge Vondersmlth, of Lancuter, who
were recently hound over to appear at the United
States COlfa‘ to answer the charge of heavy (rands
upon the penliinn bureau, have thgappeared.
Ford, it is said, went to Sew York, a week ago.
and took passage in the Peamer of the b h L
Ennio.. Judge Vonderamrh s mote is out knowr
but he is supposed to have gooe soak
Caosca or lainicewrios —Doctor Wirii;
lecturing at the Brooklyn Inetitute, lately,deren,
the manner in which pets( Ile ethOy thatntnoacl,
and produce indigent or. & dysrep,is. A ge ),
sits down to dinner, and partakes or a mul rode n
&thew, each 'seemingly !mewed !noel the wor n
acts to accept more than it can digest. Being er a
;sleety foaled it sets to wo k to agitive the heap
and put it through the process of dieecton Th.
gentleman then starts for he me, an t i se mi wine
ductive Making apples on a stand, which he that
he should like to eat. Ile purchases a few, at.
commences to gulp them down. " Hilton '' us
the stomach." looking op in alarm, " what are ria
about Mere! l have more work than I can met
to already." However, remonstrance is in rain.and
with a gripe or two, the stomach goes to work as
before. The gentlemen next meets wilt a (~em!
a 'glees of wine, a brandy smash, or some mkt,
li qu id compound, is gulped down, anted by tom.
tobacco fumes. Supplies are lowered into the corn
ach like bales of cotton into ihn hold of a Nliaste•ip
pi steamer, until the organ, wearied and orerboO.
eurd, gives up in disgust, and leaves the mass
indigestion, dyspepsia, and voltam 91 arcompinv
mg evils Thus the hnimon4ot die system a d
strayed, which might have en prevented by
tale prudence and self-denial !
THE GREATEST DISCOVERY OF Tlf. A6E!
Planters, Farmers, Families and other•, no po
chase no-Remedy equal to Ds. TOBIAS' Vssrni
LINIMENT, for Dysentery, Choke, Croup, Clow
Rheumatism, Sore Throat, Toothsehe,Sea Stein
Cuts, Burns, Swellings. Bruises, Old Sores,ll•e
ache, Mosquito Bites, Pains in tho Limbs, Ch t -'
Back, etc.
It it does not give relief, tbe money will be rev ,
ed—all that is asked, is a teal, and ose tt aceordm
to directions,
It is an English remedy, a nil was used by Willis
the IV., late King of Enui.ad, and certified to b
him, as a core for rheumatism, when every thin
else had failed.
Over 10,000,0 11 0 bottles have been sold in the to
led States, without a si igle failure, and many hat
stated they would not be without it it it was $lO pe
bottle, in case of Croup, as it is as certain as it
applied.
Dr. Tobias has pat up s Hansa Lratassr 10 pin
bottles, which is warranted cheaper and lieuer
t.
any other fur cholic, scratches, old sores, gall
swellings, cuts, braises, etc.
It cures Cholera, when first taken, in a few hoar •
Dysentery in half an boor—toothache in fire minute
It is perfectly innocent to take internally, and a r
commended by the most eminent physicians in th
United States. Price 25 and 50 cents.
Dr. Tobias could fills dozen newspapers sub sic
tificates and letters miming to the wonderful um
accomplished by his Liniment, but consultant
ranting it sufficient, as any person who don Dot 0.
fain relief need not pay for it.
Price 50 cents. Dr. Tobias' Office, 240 Gre
For sate at Dr. 11. C. Nome* Drag store
Inch street, New York.
, Too ,
ands, Pa.
Married,
to Asylum, on Saturday, Feb. 25, by Oro. W.
sou, Mr. U tutaas Massa, of Wyalustag, to gas
PCI.Li Aaa C• 1111.21, of As) lu m •
By the same, at the same place, Monday.)firchS•
Mr. la• L. flaosues to 111511 Hl3llllll'l CAZIO,
both of flaylam.
Died
In this place, Monday, k'eb , . 27, Gown SITIALLIT.
aged 12 years -
At theliew York,ei Hos
after an &Iwo( to dgi
ital, Saturday wool.
Feb. 20, of small
Jamas B " formerly of this place.
[lt may be gratifying to the friends of the
ed know, that ha received every attentioa long
pox,
to
his illness, and that his remains werr Atta d
the cemetery of an Order of wlikh hc.
ber.]
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Waled) , Station, N.Y., 14 . •
TIME TABLE.
r ° . I.
MOING ZA67. M. 11. ' 1101216 1/13 • . p
* Cis. Express:a xl2 34 Nighi Express. A II I : ii
Night Express,rx 10 09 Way Express , P1 4 s 7
I
Elmira Ace.. Ax 5_ 20IBuffalo Ex. r :70
Dunkirk Ace.. A x 1 25 Mail Pass. P -Of
Way Pass. Tx 515 Way Pass. 3 :153
Mail Pass. , Ax 7 18 Elmira Ace. r li lt
Butralo Ex. rxl2 41 Freight. No I r '
Does not stop at Waverly
THE STAGE FOR WAVER'- • I
WM; until flintier notlee, leave Toyota' it a l ;
o' c lock. noon . connecting with the Buffalo 6 1 :;,.
gousg_West, and all the evening trains b °lh
Returning, leave Waverly after the
night end morning trains, reaching Towendi io
for the Tunkhannock and Onshore
Wobie , fie . rrl. 22, 14351.
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