Five liiat those laws do not meet with the ap -1 rohation of a majority of the people. Under these circumstances, what is the du ty of Congress ? Is it their duty to sit quiet ly Iv and behold these altercations in the'ter ritory, without devising any meats to avoid them ? Is it the duty of Congress, which em bodies the sentimeuts of this whole Republic, to sit quietly by and allow the institution of slavery to extend itself into territory under its exclusive jurisdiction, and which was once consecrated by solemn act to freedom, fn 181W, Louis Mri-me, of Delaware, during the discussion in the Senate that preceded the pas sage of the Missouri compromise, though him self a slaveholder and from u slave State, de clared that— 'l Xotliing <*on nmn gladden the heart than the eon lcuciUUnu oi'a portion of tciiivwy consecrated to freo dmi, whose -oil -h a fanatical devotion to the supposed interests of the relatively few Africans in the l nited j-t.atc -. as t dally to abandon and disregard the interests of the tweiits-livc millions of Americans." The art of the lawyer and the politician is ever to associate names made odious in the public mind with what they wish to destroy, and upon them attempt to cxeitc the preju dice of men. Sir, the men of the North have not " sur rendered themselves to a fanatical devotion to the supposed interests of the relatively few Af ricans in the United States," but they desire to gladden the heart of the patriot forever with the " contemplation of a portion of terri tory consecrated to freedom, whose soil shall never be moistened by the tear of the slave, or degraded by the step of the oppressor or oppressed.'' The rights of the citizens of Kansas are the m rights of the twenty-five millions of Americans, and the wrongs of the one should lie adopted as the wrongs of the other. If the rights of one man in this country can he trampled upon by legislative enactment, the rights of all may. When men arc disfranchised by law, and de prived of their nearest and dearest rights, and that law rests upon the (Joveriimout of the country for its validity and its sanction, it comes home to the bosom of every person, no matter in what part of the Republic he lives ; and he who would set quietly down and per mit wrong and injustice to be done to a citi zen of the country when he conhl prevent it, is guilty of a gross dereliction of duty. The freemen of Kansas are entitled to your protection. They are entitled to yonr protec tion against invasion at the ballot-box, to your protection against unjust laws which violate all their rights, your protection in the freedom of speech and the press. The supervision of all their legislation being under the control of Congress, let it, then, do its duty, and remove from the people theseodiouft enactments which the President- hns declared must be enforced, and secure to them the free and undisturbed exercise oftheir civil rights and privileges. The men of the North are but resisting the attempt to subvert the spirit and genius of the institutions of the Republic ; and the ef fort now making to overturn its well-establish ed policy iu legislating for the Territories, the effort to reverse the decision of the courts mak ing slavery a local, sectional institution, rest ing upon local law for its support, an 1 to na tionalize it by throwing over it the shield and the protection of the Constitution arid the Un ion, wherever it goes beyond the jurisdiction of the local laws which gave it support,—it is against this doctrine that the men of the North war, atid not in behalf of " tiro relatively few Africans" in the country. Their condition, however deplorable in the States where they exist, is beyond our reach. We must there fore leave them to those who have tho control of the laws under which they live. Rut we insist that the flag of the Union shall float, as heretofore, the emblem of freedom, and under its folds, everywhere, the freedom of speech and of tho press, and the inalienable rights of men, shall lie protected. LOFT-TANA PoMriirs.—The following dispatch, from the Louisiana Democratic State Conven tion has been received at Washington, from a private source :—t Baton Rotor, Lv, March 13.- The State Convention has elected anti-Buchanan dele gates to the Cincinnati Convention. In the contest foe delegates for the State at large, Soule ted one ticket and Slide 11 the other. The ule ticket is elected t.y about 50 majority Sniiforb ilqiortn*. E. o. GOODRICH. EDITOR. CI —FT" V* T TOA\ r A:ND A_ : ••• ♦ |3atnrbrtp Rioruinn, Uttarcl) 23, lfc'oli. I TV.:ms— One Dollar per annum, invariably in advance.— Don/ week* previous to the crpirufion of a subscription, notice will he girrn bp a printed wrapper, and if not re i nctced, the paper wit! in all cans bi stopped. (T.I T.IUNU - Tin Reporter will be sent to Clubs at the fol- I lowing I'tremely lotr rates : i(l copies for ?"> (in | 1." copies for. . . ft? 00 10 copies for 8 0!) , 110 copies for 15 00 AnvKKTisvrfENTs— For a square of ten linn or lets, One Dollar for three or less insertions, and twenty-fire cent* for each subsequent insertion. i Jon-Wo r.se—E eeruted with urrurary and rfenateh, and a i re turn ihle prices —with every fii'- : 'it'i for doing Rooks, • \ Blanks. Hand-bUh, Ball tickets. Cotton : Burlington- Roswell I.uther, J. W. Spcnccr, D. M. Ale.v . I andcr. James Nichols ; I Burlington Wr.-t—Plynii I'helps jr., Perry 11. Pratt, S. H. Stiles. J. lb MeKean ; Burlington borough—Philander Txmg, Chester Kingsley, Charles Lewis, N. T. Diekerson : e Columbia—James Bullock, Hummer l.illev, Andrew Gcr e imt. Isaac Strait : Canton- S. Newman. M. H. Case. S. Owens. W.Ea wrenre: I DurtH—R. Bull. I). 1.. Staatos. E*. Moody, Edw'd Hornet; i Franklin -Nelson Gilbert, 'lliomas Sniiley, J. M. 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MeVarnion, t)rpbeus K. Bird, Clinton K. Wood. E. G. Hurley : •> S 'nth Creek —W. Y. (limes. Ira Crane, J. F. Gillet, Linus Williams : Standing Seone . William Gridls, Henry Noble, William 1 Kingsley,'Seorge A. Stephens ; e Sylv.mia Borough—Peter Monroe, N. H. MeCuilom, Is N. Tiiikliatn. James H. Nash ; 1 fii-eorora Edw'd C. Wells, A. J. Cogswell, Henrv Mont gomery, Davis Gray ; Towa.'oii borough Jerc Gulp, Frank Overton, Wall in Bull. Pereival Powell ; | j Towanda -Hir.tniC. Fox, Samuel ('.Means, J. 11. Decker, 1.. I>. Bov. man ; North rowanda George Mills, A. D. Kingsbory, Hzr.i Rutty. Samuel Strut ton ; ) Tf >v •> 'rough F. I!. Parsons, George P. Newberry, Dan'l Dobbins, B. S. Dart ; • Tr >y township - Monr.o Thom.is, Greeno. J. M. Smith ; i'Dter—S. C. Hovey, D. J. Chubhuck, J. 1.. Gor-eliue, S. N. Havens: , Wysox Moses Caufield M.J. Coolbaugh, I. P. Spalding. ' Sti'opc ; Wyalusirur C. K. Ingham, Fraueis liomct. Klisha Lewis, Harry ( lark ; Warren—Miles I'rinee, Jacob Rogers, James Cooper, Mi randa ( halloo ; 1 Well- L ee.izoj Grinnell, John Brownell, Newell I.eon ! aid, John Blasted ; e j Windlmm Piatt Vandyke. James M. Peek, James Olm : sted. William S. RabeneK ; I I Wilmot—Jonathan Buttles, J. 11. Turrell, J. L. Jones, j' | Hiram Stone. I | THE NEWS BY THE PERSIA. —The Persia, ■ i which left England at aliont (he time of the j departure ot the Pacific, lias reached our shores, but brings no tidings of that mis •: sing vessel. Hope now clings alone to the Azores. One word from Faynl and all sus | pense is over. European advices arc without point. The peace conference progresses we may iufer iu the order of time, bnt its transactions are manifest ly so shrouded in secrecy that rumor has to make the meat it feeds on. The movement of the Rritish fleet from Ki el for the purpose of re-establishing the block ade of the Russian ports of the Ilaltic indi cates the purpose of the allies to maintain the aspect of war until peace is satisfactorily se j cured. At present there does not appear to be any assurance that the conference will result in ' peace, though everybody seems to he liopc- I. ful of it, and consequently it is anticipated with confidence. But there are evidently ) some difficult passages to be encountered be- UgM|ucli a result is attained as a finality. continued depression of the Rritish mar ! ket, in both cotton add breadstnffs, may bo re i garded as an evidence that peace is expected. <>n the other hand, the stringency in the mo ney market cviuees some hesitation uutil a positive result is declared. *• f®Tbe Governorship of Wisconsin has been decided in favor of Mr. Bashford. THE LEGISLATURE. , ! Ameodmcnts to Senate amendments to House bill No. 333, further supplement to the act to ' establish a ferry across the Susquehanna Uiver at or near Ulster, Bradford county, were conj curved in by the Senate. y 1 The House Committee on Banks, after ma- turc deliberation, have cutue to the determina- j tion Ist. To report no bill, with a favorable rc-1 commendation, for the charter of any new bank , or new savings institution. j, 2d. To favor the extension of the charter of | no bank which has not kept its notes at par, ;, agreeably to the existing law of this Common- , ( wealth. The hill in regard to the public printing has : passed finally, and only needs the Governor's signature to become a law. It provides for ( the election in joint Convention of the two Houses of a State Printer, aud fixes the rate j of compensation. The election is to take place ten days after the bill becomes a law, to be for three years from the first day of Silly next. Thereafter the election is to take place on the first Mon day in February in every third year. The prices are forty cents per thousand ems composition, and "0 |>cr cent, additional for rule and figure work, and forty cents per token for press work. Bills sixty cents per page, to contain about 1100 ems—-200 copies. For blanks—foolscap and flatcap, forty ets. per quire: folio-post, fifty ; denii, sixty; medium, eighty ; royal, $1.25 ; super royal, $1.50, in cluding feint lining. Printer to find paper for blanks—State to find paper for laws, journals, , documents and bills. A Superintendent of Printing to be appoin ted, as now at a salary of SSOO per annum, who is to purchase paper and superintend work generally. The House has had under consideration the general appropriation bill, and passed it to j second reading. In the Committee the section j increasing the salaries of the law judges of the State was stricken out. The Judiciary Committee in the Senate has 1 reported adversely upon the bill changing the venue in Col. PIOLLET'S libel suit. The Senate has passed two Bank bills—the Union Bank of Philadelphia, and the Tioga I County Bank. Mr. BICKAI.KW, 011 leave, read a bill in place j ' to prevent the interference of Judges in parti san polities ; which, On motion of Mr. CRABB, was read aud ta- J ken up for consideration. Mr K ILI.IXGKR enquired what was the object iof the bill ? Was it not intended to apply to r judge of a particular district ?—(Alludingto j the Hon. DAVID WII.MOT.) Mr. BICKAI.EW disclaimed any intention to j apply it to any particular case. It was a gen- 1 oral bill, which applied to all the President : Judges—Common Picas, District and Supreme Judges. Mr. TAGGART expressed himself in opposition to the bill. It was an interference with the ; freeman's highest privilege—the right of speech. Mr. BI CKAI.KW then spoke in defence of the 1 bill. He argued that it was nothing more than right that a judge, in whose hands the most delicate and important interests of the people | are frequently placed, should abstain fro in par ticipating in the proceedings of political meet ings. There was nothing iu the bill to debar them from the full enjoyment of the right of suffrage, and all other rights, except taking part in political meetings and hnrangnciug the people on the stump. Under the present dec- 1 tive feature of the Constitution, this was a great evil, and it was proper to guard against it. Perhaps under the old constitution a pro vision of law of this kind was not necessary, but under the present system he believed it was not only necessary, but would prove highlv ' salutarv- Mr. STILUS inquired whether it would pre-j vent a jndgc from becoming a candidate for 1 office ? Mr. BCCKALEW. Certainly not. It stmplv i prohibited the public participation of judges in j political assemblies. > Mr. P i ATT had no idea that the bill was in t-tided to meet any special case. So far as the hill itself was concerned it was right and pro per. He referred to the fact that Judge Wn.-j MOT had frequently interfered in political meet ings. He had not (infrequently held court in the day time in the county of Susquehanna, and j at night eanic down front the bench and ad dressed the people on the exciting political ! questions of the day. The effect of this was evil. It was calculated to excite political pre judiees, and interfere with the courts of justice. He was not actuated from political feeling. He desired to remedy an evil, and would go ! for the bill. Mr. TAGGART objected to the bill, because it was aimed at an individual—with malice, afore thought—a single man two hundred miles ; ' away. j | He referred to the Constitution of Pennsyl- j' vartia, which guaranteed freedom of speech to ' every citizen. He asked the Senator from Wyoming, [Mr. PIATT,J if DAVID WII.MOT was ' so mighty—or his words so terrible to the foes t of right aud truth, that the legislative power of the Commonwealth must be invoked to shut I his mouth ? How loudly mast he speak, and to how many shall he speak to come within the j , operation of this bill ? To-day we enact that he shall not speak loudly to a multitude—to morrow that he shall not speak in a moderate tone to an individual—and next day, that he shall not whisper in a corner to his wife,—and i ; then we will deprive him of his vote. Itisthe j ' same in principle. Thousands of men—and the i i best men, wonld reject with scorn an office that I i would muzzle them tn the declaration of their 1 ] sentiments, whenever ami wherever and how ever they choose to utter. them. Tlvcre arc emergencies which require, the best talent of the land for their discussion, and that talent is frequently foqbd upoujthe bench. Spme mcn wotihl ruther surrender thfr right to vote, than theft- right to speak. Doubtless the Senator for Columbia, [Mr. BCCKALEW,] is among them. His-right to speak was worth ten times as much to himself and to his party, as his vote. Ihis was not flattery, but the truth. The Consti tution embraced all, even judges, within its protecting arms, and it would require more than a simple enactment to disfranchise them. The Senator had better include it among his eonstitutional amendments. Mr. PRICK said his sympathies were with the purjoses of the bill. He thought the in terference of judges with the partisan politics of the day a great indecorum. But he thought they should pause before enacting a measure of so much importance. The bill ought to go through the usual order of legislation. Though lie sympathized with the movement, he was opjiosed to too hasty action. He moved to refer the Dill to die committee on the Judciary. Mr. KILIIXGER opposed the bill. At a first guess lie thought it was aimed at the judge referred to—Hon. David Wilmot—but as the Senator who introduced it disclaimed this, lie was bound to accept the explanation. He could sec no necessity for the bill. It was throwing a stigma upon the judges, and lie was not prepared to vote for it. Mr. CRABB said when lie made the motion to proceed to the consideration of the bill, lie bad no idea that it was aimed at any particu lar judge. It appeared to him to be right in principle. The judges certainly ought not participate in political meetings, lie was in favor, and voted to increase the salaries of the judges, in order to make independent of the Legislature, and he thought it proper to com pel them to be independent also of political parties. ITe had no feeling agaiust any par ticular judge. Mr. BICKAI.KW was willing that the bill should lay over for examination, but he thought there was no necessity for referring it to a committee. It was a plain and simple propo sition, that the judges shall not mingle in po litical meetings and make stum]) speeches. After some further discussion by Messrs. BI CKAI.KW, PRICE and TAGGART, Mr. BI CKAI.KW called a division of the ques tion on the motion to postpone, and refer to the Judiciary Committee. The first division—to postpone, was agreed to. The second division—to refer to the com mittee, was then also ngroed to—ycaslG, nays 14, as follows : YKA.S —Messrs. Browne, Crabb, Ferguson, Finney, Flenuiken, Fra/.er, Gregg, Jordan, Knox Mellingcr, Pratt, Price, Tellers, Shu man, Souther, and Taggart—lfi. X AVB —Messrs. Buckalew, Cresswell, Ely, Evans, Hoge, Ingram, Killinger, Daubach, M'Clintoek, Straub, Walton, Welsh, Wilkitis and Piatt, Speaker— l 1 So the bill was referred. In the House, the section of the appropria tion Dill appropriating SIO,OOO to the Towan da Bridge being under consideration, an amend ment was offered and agreed to, making the aniouut $7,500. Soon after, Mr. MC.VL.MOXT informed the House that a proviso had been handed him by the Canal Commissioners,which he wished to add to the section. The vote was reconsidered, and he offered the following pro viso : That in case the Canal Commissioners deem the said bridge the best means of crossing the Town in la dam, then so much of the said sum only shall be drawn from the treasury as the Canal Commissioners may decide as the proper proportion which the State ought to pay to wards the re-building of said bridge ; but if they, on examination, should decide that the river could be crossed by other means afford ing equal facilities to transportation, with more safety and at less cost to tho Commonwealth, then the said stun of $7,500, or so much there of as ninv be required, is hereby appropriated to the construction of such crossing as may be decided upon by said Canal Commissioners." '1 his proviso was agreed to ; and the section is amended then agreed to. The Committee of Conference on the license bill, have agreed upon a bill, which will be re ported in a day or two. It fixes $25 as the minimum of hotel licenses in the country ; SSO in county towns and other boroughs with over 200 taxablcs ; $75 iu Philadelphia and Pitts burg. and one hotel to be licensed in the cities for every 100 taxablcs, ami one for every 150 taxables elsewhere. It also allows one restau rant or eating-house to be licensed for every four hotels everywhere ; the license not to be less than S2O, and to be granted by the courts. liiQt OR LAW St" STAINED IN* MICHIGAN-. —The Supreme Court of Michigan lias pronounced its opinion on the liquor law, deciding that the legislature has a perfect right to pass a prohibitory law. Judge Pratt alone dissent ed—the other seven judges affirming the de cision. The search and seizure clause was pro nounced unconstitutional on the ground of fa tal defects in its form of proceeding. The question of principle in it was not passed upon. KANSAS INVESTIGATING CojiMitTKE.—Speaker BANKS, on Monday, appointed Messrs. GAMP HELL, of Ohio, HOWARD, of Michigan, and OLI VER, of Missouri, as the Kansas Investigating Committee. Mr. CAMPBELL subsequently de clined, and Mr. SHERMAN, of Ohio, was appoint ed iu his place. MAT LACGHLIN, at the Tost Office, adverti ses in another column, a valuable book entitled " Lttrtluers One thousand Things worth know ing," containing much information beneficial to alt classes of community, in most all of the de partments Of life. SL'ICIDK OK A WOMAN BV HANFLLNU. TILC Honesdale JI fro hi says:—Coroner Putnw>r fu voretis with the particulars of the snicide of •Mrs.- CATHARINE CLKTIK, a widow, which oc curred in the,township of Cherry Kidge, B few 'miles west ofour borough, on the 14th inst.— She was living on a small farm, left her by her I husband, in comfortable circumstances. She tfaft the mother of three children, otic being married, and the others living with her at the time of her death. On the morning of the 14 th, when the children got up, tlioy found their mo ther bunging in the stairway to one of the up per floor sills. They gave the alarm to their neighbors who hastened to the house, and took her down, but she was past resnscitation-r-she was dead. She had tied a handkerchief around her neck, and. from all appearaccs, had tied it to a rope which was fustod above, while stand ing on the stairs, and then stepped off. Her feet were but a few inches from the floor. The children were not awakened by any noise, nor knew nothing of the sad affair until about 7 o'clock i the morning. No cause is assigned by her neighbors for this act, other than that of trouble about some of her property, which was in dispute between herself and her son-in-law. She had appeared strangely for several days, hut no one antici pated any such melancholy result. She was about 50 years of age. Tho editor of the 7J "//< Counh/ ITcr a hi. having given an endorsement to CHASE'S libels upou Judge WII.MOT, now voluntarily makes the omemlt honorable in the the follow ing manner : —" On the 22d of November last wc hastily copied in the columns of the Ilcrahl , an editorial article from the Montrose Demo crat, edited by K. 15. CHASE, Esq., and pub lished in the adjoining Judicial district over which Hon. H.vvm WII.MOT presides, in which _ lie was charged with divers official partialities and wrongs, and for so doing was threatened with impeachment ; but recently we havelieen credibly informed that they were not warrant ed from the facts of the case, and accordingly make tho amende, honorable in our columns with out delay, upon receiving the said information. However widely we may differ with the Judge politically, we have no desire to detract from his personal character or judicial reputation, and consequently we correct in this place any undue impression the former publication may have made upon the mind of our readers. — Having but a slight acquaintance with the Judge, and no personal knowledge of his offi cial administration, we cannot be considered moved by any designs upon his personal or of ficial character by the publication referred to, ] and regret the copying it into our paper—and more especially that we should have been so > incautious as to give its truthfulness our en dorsement.'' [ror the linullord Reporter.] Mn. EDITOH : The following, from a young man, formerly a school-boy in Towanda, now in Nottingham, England, may possibly be of sonic interest to your readers. It is dated March 7th, 1856. " Spring lias made her appearance here with all the freshness of the mouth of April in New York and Pennsylvania. The farmers arc in the midst of their spring work. You wonld be astouishe I to see them prepare the land to receive a crop. They take more pains to get their fields into good condition than many in the states do with their gardens. I pass n field daily that had wheat in last year, and which they are now preparing for a spring crop. I had often heard of good farming, and thought I had seen some before now, but since I have witnessed the manner of preparing land here, I renounce all ideas of good farming that I ever before entertained. Even the stubble of the wheat fields is raked off, and buried, before they plough the land. "The winter has been extremely mild here : but a very few days sufficiently cold to require an overcoat.." Speaking the peace conference in scssiou in Paris, he adds : " Now, as John Hull thinks lie is nearlv through with Russia, he begins to curb and shake his horns at us. An Englishman said to me a few days since, " that wc had better keep quiet, or they would send their bull-do: s across the Atlantic to silence I vcrv coolly remarked, "that before doing this it would be well for them to remember that we | had sent them yelling home, with their tails j between their legs, tirire already." " STREET Knurr IN ERIK. —An unfortunate and discreditable recounter took place in this city on Tuesday, the 11th inst., between Mr. J. 11. Thompson and A. 11. Caughvy, Esq.. one of the editors of the Constitution, in which the latter was very severely, arid some snv, fa tally injured. We trust, however, this last i> incorrect. As there arc a dozen conflicting accounts of this affair, the true one of which will most likely bo elicited in a legal wav, we stating cither of them authoritatively. It is said upon the one side, that Thompson met his antagonist, and felled him witn a club, and then jumped upon him with his feet, thus injur ing him internally. Jt, is claimed upon the other side that no chib was used, but. that it was a mere street fight, in which our cotcnipo rary came off second best. In either case, the affair is very discreditable, though we co i fess not unprovoked. We say this with no d ■ sign of extenuating the outrage, for there can be no possible circumstance where resort to personal violence is justifiable. Wc say it, because wc have read the article which is sup posed to have produced this sad result, and we hive the very best authority (obtained within the last week) that the insinuations it contains against Judge T. (the father of one of the pur ties) are basely false. And being so, t%t they should have aroused tho feelings of young Mr. T„ we can well understand; but that such fact is any palliation for an attack uj>on a person so physically his inferior as Mr. wc deny. Erie Observer, lat It. From Washington. k f " [Corttsj.oMk.nre of the X. Y. Trilmnr. ; WASHINGTON, March 1<) IBJS After all tie parade and pompon? assnn,.," of the alleged strength of Mr. BCCHAV.V ' the Cincinnati Convention, it turns out lu inquiry, tlmt there is not one Southern' QT" 1 pledged to his support.TheVVirginiaa a ate, te S-'MJ. 10 U ;.'i mi while the t cent State Convention was claimed to H, tail to the " favorite son of Penimh- I>AR " there was no better authority than "the I?',' which was father to thethowht The } 1 calculators are now confident, and best evidence too, that Gen. PIERCE will mand a much larger vote than MR [], , ~ COU> " and while they do not claim 198 thirds necessary —they insist, and with plausibility, that no other named CANDIDAL!?* approach Ins aggregate. The defection of I T tmtiim from Mr. BRRHANAX, which R DIMTO ed confidence, and impaired the SEEMLY .'L' tigo of success, whi C |, hitherto attracted HO , of nominal friends. The desperate ,fT„ RT Judge DOIOEAS to extinguish the ~|U i M S o fth Presidents Kansas Message HA- prov.-d ° tifo >o practical result has thus far fblU ed that demonstration, and the pouduxdi which he made in the Senate on Thursday W attended by no better success. The wrV ,V pcration with which the object is PURSUE,U the Senator from Illinois proves how HCR K W has become the chance, and, in CONSCITLCICT how irritated his passion. HE miv AS wellr tire from the contest, for an inrlcliilito a.ljoim,- J ment is inscribed opposite his name. , V ; ; he fall alone. Old and Young M ER I TA descend into U common political grave First, day of Action on Kansas Full In vestigation Ordered ! [Editorial Correspondent;-of the X. V. Tribune ] WASHINGTON, Wednesday, March IS, i->; The House took op the KANSAS Quest;,,,- very soon after meeting this morning, and M>-' BOWIE of Md. made the last SPEECH on I side of Slavery and Non-Investigation. V • I. WASHIURN then, in accordance with th* previons understanding, moved the PREVIOUS Question, and there was a second. MR ][. I MAN of I'a. then, before the vote on ordcriti" the Main Question, exercise, l |i< r ;.,} lt 1 ing the debate OH behalf of the Committee on Elections and in defense of the Ilejiort mam 'by IMM from that Committee Mr. HICKMAN reviewed tlie wlmle contro versy, tiie arguments of all the leading cham pions of Whitfield and Slavery, AND REPLIED TO them with crushing power, lie p garded the I course of the Slavery men as a virtual confes sion of fraud mid usurpation in the Kan-m Elections — fraud which IS HERE SOUGHT tu L covered up — usurpation wliich is sought to i., upheld and perpetuated. He CLOSED WITH :tn earnest appeal for investigation — full, T!,„ R . ougli and conclusive —and avowed HIS willing ness, to that end, to accept Mr. DLNN'- S -' R stitute for the Committee's proposition. 11 I apprehended that a single vote : J.T ■ this day's contest, and lie would a, •> J • UR.R J proposition wliich could be carried, provided 'it would secure a full investigation. HIS Al penl to the House for light and liberty WA? | most effective. He closed, and the Southern proposal TO ; recommit was strongly voted down, the V and Nays not being called. The question now recurred on the props • tion of Sir. DINS, asa snbstitnt, f. :!;■ S ern proposal, to appoint two lawyer- therein named to go to Kansas us Co:nm:.-;o:ior- ~ J take testimony. On motion of Mr. I. I>. CAMP:FT.T, the YU : and Nays wore ordered. Some time was now spent in .-biting and T j plaining the question, when th- II ,u- pr j eroded to vote on substituting Mr. I> NN'S *' r Mr. OTIN'S proposition, which WA- carrci the 104 Yeas to 91 Nays. Mr. HOTVEU. Conn now inqnir 1 as to tiie state of the question, and \va- infonncd by t l --- Chair that the vote now tak n !.:.! k :<> - proposition, and brought the II -use to a cho; c between DCXN'S and the Coinmittc Ther, upon Mr. 0., being opposed to b<>th, mow! that the whole subject rl> lie '• fc* - Yeas and Nays ordered, and iimriundefeat" 1 !: Ye is t)3 ; Navs 100. So t!,c subject *• not laid on the table. Messrs. II WINTER DAVIS of Ml. ? •- of N. C., and WHITNEY of N Y. WHO HI-, voted Yea before now voted to lay ,N '■ IO ta ble. Messrs. T.VVTON of 1,A., and CJ ,,NV of Ohio were accidentally absent wli>-N tb ' names were called, and both wish, ! to vote a: the close of the call, but objection was mad*, as no Member can vote under the rules who o not within the bar when lii name was raiK Their votes would hu T e jn-t balanced each other. The question now recurred on sub-I - Orw's proposition (just adopted' !" tlrat . the Committee (power to send for p'- " M 1 papers). Yeas and Nays ordered. YAS Nays S7. The House now proceeded to vote e: resolution as amended (by substituting H ' proposition) with the following result. 1 ,101; Navs 93. SO the House resolved to INVEfigat>- r i thoroughly the a 1 go 1 Election I c'd-if. ' sas and every thing pertaining tlirrcto for that purpose to send a Coinniitt i Members to Kansas and Mi-.-otiri to: , purpose, clothed with the amplest P° wer? .. Mr. I. WASHB:'KN now nit ve >d to reeor this vote, and to lay that motion on the t-, Carried. And then the HOUSE 1 0 MTN 4) adjourned, having done the best DAY - ' ofthe session except that of electing I'he Committee would have r, port ,1 - i position like Mr. DCNX'S, but dare not A--* much power. ~ The majority of all tlie votes taken com | risod all the Buiks members . j Washington, with Messrs. I hum A! ' '. I Indiana ; Moore and Scott Harrison. * . Barc'ay, Hickman, and Millwai',l. 1 ' y, vania, and Bayard Clarke, Ilaven, u:1 " ' 1 wards, of New York ; Messrs. a'k nev voted our side once each, Mr. Broom. John Wheeler, never. Messrs. Winter Davis. Morrison, Humphrey Marshall, Zollicoffer, KONIIF'". I perhaps one or two more, VOTED on ° ul ' j" one or two preliminaries, but NOT 011 1 eisive vote. >TF3 . The follow ing is Mr. Dunn s ll:,'iI I:, 'i" > " . itcsulral, That a Committee of tiuve <• members of this House, to be A !'I HH the Speaker, shall proceed to in piir< , ~ collect evidence in regard to the u AR I Kansas generally, and particnlur.y M to any fraud or force attempted or Lu reference to any of the elections u taken place in said Territory, either UA, law organizing slid 'lcrritory.