XXXIVTH (CONGRESS.!
SECOND SESSION.
tVisnisGTOii, December 10,1
In the Sunatu yesterday Mr. Pitch, of Ohio,
mtide an elaborate speech, taking up seriatim
and replying to arguments and accusations
made by the Opposition Senators relative to
to the President's Message, citing judicial au
thorities to prove the President correct, and
eulogising him for his official course in regard
to the rights of the south. Mr. Cass is to
speak to-day.
In the Hocse, Mr. Washburn, of Me., cha
racterized the Message as containing calumni
ous misrepresentations of the Republicans, soon
to be the dominant party of the Republic. S<>
far from the Republicans contemplating revo
lution, they had in their platform distinctly de
rieeiared that the Constitution and the Union
of the States shall be preserved. They advo
cated nothing that had not been contended
for by Jefferson and others of equal authority;
and were determined to prevent the extension
of slavery into Free territory. IQ the eyes of
the President, the love of Liberty and the ha
tred of Slavery was an unpardonable sin.
Mr. K KITT [S. C.] charged the Republicans
this session with re-opening slavery agitation
by objecting to allow Mr. Whitfield to be
sworn in. The President properly arraigned
the Republicans with seeking to interfere with
the domestic institutions of the Souther States.
He asked Mr. Washburn if he and the Repub
licans had the power, whether they would not
so change the Constitution as to emancipate
siaves.
Mr. WASHBCRN replied that he would not
certainly object to a change to give the power
to the Federal Government to do what Jeffer
son, Madison and Gen. Scott desired, viz : to j
ameliorate slavery even to emancipation.
Mr. KEITT further inquired whether he would
not do that by progressive gradation.
Mr. WASHBURN was willing that the princi
ples of the Declaration of Independence, the
Constitution and the Christian religion should !
have full course to run and be glorified.
Mr. STANTON [Oliioj said he and his con
stituents will abide bv the Constitution as it j
is. They ask no change, but will insist on its j
original construction as put in practice by its '
framers.
Mr. KEITT contended that the President was j
correct in charging on the Republicans revolu
tionary desigus.
Mr. GIPDINGS [Ohio] advocated the doctrine
laid down in the Declaration of Independence,
that every man has a right to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. The men of the
South deny this doctrine. Men from the North
dare not say aye or no. They are between
heaven and hell. He hated oppression in all
its forms. God and all good men and the Re
publican party hate Slavery. In reply to the
question of Mr. Bennett, cf Mississippi, he de
nied ever making a speech touehiug emancipa
tion in the South.
Mr. MORRISON* [lll.] said he was ence an
Anti-Nebraska man. but had left that party
when he saw it was leading him into Abolition
ism. He essayed to prove the Republican
party sectional in its organization and princi
ples, but made a sad failure.
WEDSESHAT, Pec. 11. 1556.
In the SENATE yesterday Mr. CASS reitera
ted his opinions on popular sovereignty, discus
sing the genera! questions involved iu the de
bate on the President's Message.
Mr. HALE proclaimed the future intentions
of the Republican party, believing they would
attain the power in 1860 to apply the princi
ple of the exclusion of slavery from the Terri
tories, calling forth replies from Mr. Bigler and
others.
Mr. BIGLER denied that he was a speaker at
a Democratic mass meeting in favor of Buch
anan and Breekenridge and Free Kansas, as
expressed in a handbill which Mr. Hale exhi
bited to the Senate amid genera! laughter.
In the HOUSE, Mr. H UMJ'HREY M AKSIIAI.I., |
of Kv., made a speech to show the difference i
of opinion among the Democrats of the North i
and South, regarding the interpretation of th • (
Nebraska bill, saying their positions were so '
different there was no Gilding out where they i
were.
During his speech, Messrs. QUITHAV, KEITT, j
and McMfu.ES', the latter speaking for the J
Virginia Delegation, repudiated squatter sov- j
ereigntv as explained by Mr. Cass.
Mr. OKR [S. S ] repudiated that doctrine,
and admitted there were differences of opinion
regarding it among the Democracy, saying
Mr. Marshall might make the most of it.
Mr. LRRCNER essayed to prove that Mi. Gid
dings and the Republican party had expressed
sentiments advocating Northern interference in
the institutions of the South, tendiug to insur
rection.
FRIDAY, Dec. 12, 18G6.
In the HOUSE, after some time speut on pri
vate bills.
Mr. CAM mux [Ohio] reported bills to pay j
Diplomatic, Executive and .Judicial expenses, j
and making appropriations for such service for |
the next fiscal year.
Mr. BROOME [IV; reported a bill to con
tract with Col. Vaiidtrbiit for Mail service be
tween New-York and Southampton at £16,608
for the trip and return, with certain deductions
for long time.
Mr. TAIU'AN iX. ll.] tried to introduce a,
bill to repeal the laws of the bogus Legislature j
of Kansas. He did not succeed.
DREAMTL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.— The follow
lowing are the particulars in regard to a dread
ful accident on the Cleveland and Pittsburg
railroad. The Pittsburg Post savs :
The train which left this place at 3 P. M.
on Monday, under the charge of Conductor
Leavitt, arrived at Alliance behind time ; the
passengers had just got through their suppers,
aud the train had again barely started and got
across the track of the Cleveland and Pitts
burg road, wheu the Cleveland train, conduc
tor W. C. Cleland, came dashing along, and
before its headway could lie stopped made a
complete w reck of two of the passenger cars in
in the Pittsburg train. Eight persons were
killed and fully as many or more were wound
ed—several very dangerously.
One passenger car ran clean through the
rotunda of the station house, kept by Daniel
Sour beck. Another, the Despatch says, is now
lying in the reception room. The rotunda is
completely torn to pieces, and presents the ap
jiearance of a total wreck.
The Coroner's Jury, in the case of those
killed by the railroad accident at Alliance, have
found a verdict attributing the cause of the ac
cident to the Cleveland traiu, aud finding that
John Cherry, engineer, was concerned in the
lKTpetration of the outrage. Cherry is still at
large at the headquarters of the Cleveland aud
Pittsburg Road, but professes his willingness
to give himself up, if protected from the vio
of t! n-.vj,. Allhnee.
[Correspondence of the Public Ledger.]
Letter from Washington.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.
The Congressional absentees are generally
fro n the South. This occasions remark, as
the South is supposed to be interested in the
settlement of Gen. Whitfield's title to his seat
The Northern members are at their post. If
the South had been as prompt, Whitfield would
have been sworn in on the first day. The iti
difl'erence to the result herein manifested by
the Southern delegation, by their absence at
this pinching moment, is significant of some
future movement, yet undivulged.
lion. G A. Grow, the member who repre
sents Wilmot'a district in Pennsylvania, a
young and enterprising leader of the Ri-puhli
can party iu Congress, as likewise several De
mocratic Congressional leaders, happen, at this
time, to have apartments in the same hotel, to
whose doors throngs of busy politicians are
constantly attracted ; one side, like tempest
tossed mariners, when a calm has succeeded,
anxiously employed in devising measures to re
pair the damages sustained in their defeat ; the
other, impatient and eager, devouring with
greedy ear the latest and most authoritative
rumor referring to the materials out of which
the new Cabinet is to be constructed, and the
policy which is to be observed in the distribu
tion of place under the new administration.
The Republican members of Congress, in
stead of being disconcerted, avow a resolute
determination to maintain their party intact,
and to gather up their broken weapons and
prepare for another struggle for the spoils of
office, which, although they have eluded their
grasp, still glitter temptingly iu their eyes.—
The portion of the message dwelling upon the
issues presented in the late election, re-opens
the wearisome quarrel. During this short
lived meeting of Congress, the whole ear of
the country will be tormented with the stale
repetition of the dull arguments exhausted on
the slavery question, aud so the session will
limp tediously away.
Ex-Senator Toucev, of Connecticut, pre
sents the most satisfactory qualifications to
to represent New England in the Cabinet
He has filled the office of Governor of that
State, United States Senator, and was asso
ciated with Mr. Buchanan as Attorney Gene
ral in the Cabinet of Mr. Polk. He is a law
yer of extensive reputation, possessing the ac
complishments required for the station. Not
withstanding the weak minority of the party
in New-York, yet that State will offer candi
dates Daniel S. Dickinson, ex-Senator and
ex-Lieut. Governor, will be vigorously pressed
by the hards, led by D. L. Seymour, who head
ed the electoral ticket, and Judge Parker, late
candidate fer Governor. The commercial in
terests of the State and city of New-York,
satisfied with the sagacity and conservative iu
clinings of Governor Marev, will desire to see
h'.m retained, which would likewise prove ac
ceptable so that wing represented by ex Gov.
Seymour, Erastus Corning and Dean Rich
mond. The party which adheres to John Van
Buren and his fortunes would prefer to see
New-York without a Cabinet officer. New
Jersey has advanced her claims to a Cabinet
appointment. John It. Thompson has been
named in that State ; but like asensible-think
ing man, he prefers to retain his present ho
norable and influential station iu the United
States Senate.
At present there is division in the councils
of Pennsylvania. Considering the interests of
your great State, her position in the Union,
her undisputed claims upon the party in power
to be represented in the Cabinet, as well as
her future political importance, well advised
men in Washington friendly to the incoming
administration desire to see her thus emphati
cally noticed, and not to lose a voice iu the
councils of the President.
In the West, General Cass has been frequent
ly named. Notwithstanding the troops of
friends who desire it, and the high character
and exalted abilities conceded to him by the
general voice of the country, yet his advanced
age seventy-five, will, it is believed, prove an
insurmountable obstacle. In Indiana then
w 1! be a struggle between the friends of Gov
Wright and Senator Bright, who hive each
been named. Indiana will certainly have s.
Cabinet appointment. The Senatorial term oi
Senator Bright expires in March, and it is not
ut this time known that the Republican Senati
of that State wili consent to an election this
session.
There is no room to doubt that Senator
Douglass will desire to have a friend from his
own State promoted to a Cabinet appointment
either in the person of W. A. Richardson or
Thomas L. Harris. Mr. Richardson lias
achieved much political reputation. He was
the eandidate of his party for Speaker of this
Congress, and re> eived the nomination of Go
vernor of Illinois, although he failed at the elec
tion. But the great embarrassment is to be
encountered in the South. Virginia will cer
tainly furnish a Cabinet Minister, and that
man will not he objectionable to Gov. Wise
Proceeding further South, you will find an em
bittered contest raging between the Southern
Rights and Union Men. The former consti
tute nine tenths of the eutiro party, and will
not be friendly to the selection of such states
men as Howell Cobb of Georgia, and Geo. A.
Houston of Alabama. This is to be deplor
ed, but it is nevertheless true. PKN.V.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT SI-FNTER'S MINES. —An
accident occurred at the Spencer mines in Dm -
more, on the 4th inst., caused by the falling i f
the trestle work on the branch track leading
from the Lackawanna road to the mines, by
which Joseph D. Rutterfield, from Susquehan
na county, was killed, and S. Stevenson, Ja
eob Krotzer, and Jackson Widner seriously
and several others slightly wounded. It seems
that oue side of the work was improperly key
ed or secured, and when the workmen com
menced operations upon this, their combined
weight caused the whole structure to fall.—
Si rant on Sopitblican.
The Louisville Journal remarks that
the effect of the election, thus far, is :
"The Frcesoil party is decidedly stronger
at this moment thuii it was 011 the 4th of No
vember, and, if Mr. Ruchuuan, as President,
shall meet in any degree the wishes and ex
pectations of his Southern friends and suppor
ters, that party will iu less than one year be
powerful enough to sweep the Democracy from
the face of the land in every uou-slaveholding
State of the Union.
CHINESE SEOAR CANE. —We learn from the
Orayville (southern Illinois) Hrrald that the
Cbiuese Sugar Cane has been cultivated with
great success in that region during the past
year, and a writer in that paper expresses great
confidence that farmers may make it a valua
ble agricultural product iu that latitude.
srairforb Beporttr.
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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DEBATE IN THE SENATE.
Our outside, this week, is occupied bv a ve
ry interesting debate in the Senate, on the 3d
inst., the subject being the late very extraor
dinary message of the President. Our readers
will perceive that the debate covers all the
grounds occupied iu the late canvass, and the
measures advocated are those that may now
be said to be the division between the two
great parties of the country. Mr. MASON ad
vocates the right ol the slaveholder for the un
limited " expansion' —that is now the term—
of the peculiar institution, while Messrs. WIL
SON and TRUMBULL sustain the power and duty
of Congress lo preserve free territory for free
labor. The disclosures made by the latter
gentleman, in regard to the means adopted by
the supporters of Mr. BUCHANAN North, seem
to surprise the southern men. Will Mr. PACK
ER and others in this region, who made " Free
Kansas," a part of their grounds for support
ing Mr. BUCHANAN, plead guilty of an attempt
to " disgrace the Democratic family ?" We
don't envy their feelings as they read the re
buke administed to them by their pro-slaverv
masters.
FIRE AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT EI.MTRA. —On
Friday morning, sth inst., a fire broke out in
a building occupied by Mr. WHITMORE as a la
ger beer saloon on Water street, Elraira,which
was totally destroyed, with the marble factory
of NATHAN BAKER, and the provisiou store of
CLARK A HOWES.
A serious accident occurred during the pro
gress of the fift. Capt. WM. DUNN, and a
young man named JOSEPH TROW, were assist
ing removing goods from the building, when,
as they were coming out of the door, the cor
nice gave way, knocking them both senseless
to the ground. They were picked up, put 011
cots, and curried to their homes, where medical
aid was immediately summoned.
Mr. T ROW was not badly injured, but Capt.
DCNN died on Monday, Bth inst. At the time
of the catastrophe, and up to Sunday after
noon, his situation was not deemed critical.—
Toward evening, it became evident that he was
failing, and a consultation of physicians was
had, and it was ascertained that a rupture of
the lungs was occasioned by the accident. His
lungs had bled profusely ever since the occur
rence, and he did not possess sufficient strength
to disgorge the mass of coagulated blood which
had accumulated.
On a post mortem examination of the body
if Mr. DISK, it was found that the injuries he
lie sustained were far greater than they were
-apposed to be. Ten of his ribs were broken—
three of them twice, and his lungs were badly
rent. It is remarkable that lie survived so
long.
FORTCNATE ESCAPE. —We learn from the
Oictgo Gazette, that on Sunday morning, 7th
inst., a few rods east of Campville Station,
whilst the Cincinnati Express train was run
ning at the rate of 30 miles an hour, the bag
gage car and three of the passenger cars were
thrown from the track, and drawn along thir
ty rods, or thereabouts, before the engine was
brought to a stand, tearing up the track iu its
course ; but uot a soul was injured, even to
the amount of the most trifling bruise ! The
switch, we understand, was properly adjusted,
but gave way from some cause unknown.
TTIT GOOEY for January, has been on our
table for some days. It is a really beautiful
number, but not better, GOOEY says, than the
succeeding numbers will be, and what GODEY
promises he always fulfils. Several of the en
gravings are tine specimens of the art, and the
whole book is made up of matter useful and
entertaiuing not only to ladies, but to all who
may peruse it.
FREMONT IN VIRGINIA. —The entire vote cast
for Fremont in the State of Virginia was 291,
viz : Alexandria, 1 ; Brooke, 40 ; Hancock,
100 ; Marshall, 20 ; Monongalia, 2 ; Ohio,
108 ; Shenandoah, 5 ; Scott, 5 ; Upshur, 10;
Fremont's vote in Virginia is 10 more than in
Maryland.
FIRE. —The house of PETER ROCKWELL, in
the northeastern part of the town of Candor,
Tioga co., N. Y., was destroyed by fire on
Friday or Saturday of last week. Lossslooo
to |I2OO. No insurance.
IQr The Minnesota Legislature contaius a
working majority of Republicans and free soil
Democrats in each House. In the Council
the parties stand, 8 Republicans to 7 Demo
crats, and in the House 20 Republicans to 18
Democrats.
•Sr Lancaster Bank notes are bought by
the Brokers in that city at 80 cents for the
dollar. In trade btghce nrte? are given.
II AWKINS BERZEE and Co!. W*. SHU
ART were tried at the late term of the Chemung
County court, convicted of receiviug stelen
property, they forming a part of the celebrat
ed " horse thief gang." Ruttcr was the prin
cipal witness on the part of the prosecution.
Ou sentencing them Judge NORTH addressed
the prisoners in a few appropriate remarks, af
ter wiiich he sentenced them to four years and
six months imprisonment, each, at hard labor
in the States Prison. BERZF.E said that he
was innocent of the crime imputed to him, and
seemed to lie much affected. Col SHUART re
ceived his sentence with a seeming stoical in
difference. BERZEE is 50 years of age, SHUART
06. Verily, the " way of the trausgressor is
hard."
Col. SHUART was at one time a respectable
and influential citizen of this county.
KANSAS.— Up to Decemlier Ist, the land
sales were progressing orderly, and to the uni
versal satisfaction of the squatters. There is
plenty of money in Leavenworth, and squatters
without it can easily obtain it.
Col. Titus and his two companies have left
Lecompton en route for Nicaragua.
Gov. Geary had refused to allow Donaldson
to put the ball and chain upon the State pri
soners, declaring that no man with a spark of
humanity would desire to inflict the disgrace.
The Governor has demanded of the President
the removal of Judge Lecompte. and gives no
tice that he will resign if it is not done.
The Free-State militia, under Capt. Wal
ker, have been disbanded at theirown request.
Sixteen of the Free-State prisoners, tried for
murder in the first degree, have been acquitted,
and nine are still on trial. A large quantity
of clothing, received by the last boats, has
been distributed to the destitute. Navigation
was entirely closed.
LITTLE DORRIT.— We are indebted to T. 11.
PETERSON, 102 Chestnut street, Philadelphia,
for an early copy of this charming work bv
DICKENS.
There is a fascination in Dickens' writiugs,
that is found in no other works of fiction.—
The simplicity of his style, his strict adherence
to nature, his always advocating the cause of
the lowly, and his ever being on the side of
virtue, is what gives his works their world
wide circulation, and which they so richly de
serve ; for he has not written a line that die
need wish blotted, or that any one cau regret
having read.
Peterson is publishing the works of this
popular author in a variety of styles to suit
the million. He is now engaged in getting up
a beautiful duodecimo edition, which for beau
ty of workmanship cannot be surpassed.
REPORTED DEFEAT OF WALKER. —The steam
ship Isabel, from Havana, arrived at Charles
ton on Saturday last.
The passengers state that the accounts from
Nicaragua were that General Walker had been
driven from every place w here 110 had obtained
a footing, with the exception of the Transit
route.
The last accounts reported that 400 of his
force, after fighting for nine days at Granada,
were surrounded by the Costa Rica, San Sal
vador and Guatemala forces. Gen Walker
was on board a steamer on the lake, without
communication with his army, and his men
were suffering for the want of provisions and
clothing, aud were dying off by disease.
A CHILD DYING IN A RAILROAD CAR.—
The Utica Observer [savs that a melancholy
incident occurred on board an early train for
the west on Monday last, and cast a gloom of
sadness over the passengers. A very respec
table appearing lady, with a child three months
old in her arms, took the train at Rome for
Canastota. When the cars had reached Onei
da, the passengers were startled by a woful
shriek from the mother. She was pressing her
little infant closely to her breast, but it was
dead ! Its spirit had passed silently away,
and the mother refused to yield up its body un
til the train had reached Canastota.
PENNSYLVANIA U. S. SENATOR.—A corre
spondent of the Tribune, writes from Wash
ington that the Democrats in the Pennsylva
nia Legislature will endeavor, under instruc
tions from Wheatland, to concentrate their di
vided preferences finally upon Mr. IUCKAI.F.W
for Senator. Several competitors have already
retired, with a prospect of other provision.—
The Opposition will likely united upon SIMON
CAMERON, as the most available chance. Un
der other circumstances he might easily over
come three majority on joint ballot.
SLAVE INSURRECTION IN TENNESSEE. —The
telegraph hus given some rumors of a project
ed slave insurrection in Tennessee, causing the
utmost alarm in those quarters. Later accounts
show that the affair was greatly exaggerated,
and the alarm has begun to subside. Precau
tionary measures, however, were being taken,
a large number of negroes having been arres
ted—some uineteeu have already been hung.
THE OLD SOLDIERS. —The surviving defenders
of the country in the war of 1812, will meet,
we see by an announcement of the President,
Hon. Joel B. Sontherlaud, in the city of Wash
ington, on the Bth of January next, the anni
versary of the battle of New-Orleans, pursuant
to adjournment. It is hoped all who can will
attend, as business of importance will be laid
before the Convention.
9&T An action was brought at Carlisle by
Joseph Wombaugh, agaiust Rev. W. Gwinn,
for solemnizing the marriage of plaintiff's
daughter, who was a minor. Defendant con
fc-sed judgment in th*- usual penalty of A'so
focal Intelligence.
LECTURES. —A course of ten or twelve even
ing Lectures on Natural Philosophy and Chem
istry, with Explanatory Illustrations, will be
delivered at the Institute, during the present
term, by the Principal, Rev. S. F. COLT. The
first lecture was delivered Wednesday evening,
17 th inst.
Professor COLT possesses all the qualifica
tions necessary tor making these lectures both
profitable and agreeable to those who may at
tend, and we hojie to see the proposition well
seconded by our citizens. Tickets for the
course, sl, may be obtained at the Book stores
and other places.
MASONIC. —At a regular communication of
Union Royal Arch Chapter, No. 161, held on
Thursday 18th inst., the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year :
H. P.— E. 0. GOODRICH.
K.—H. J. MADILL.
S.-— D'A. OVERTON.
Treasurer— J AS. 11. WEBB.
Secretary—E. H. MASON.
COURT PROCEEDINGS. — But one cause was
tried in the Common Pleas—the second week
until Wednesday having been occupied by
Commonwealth business. The trial list was
read over, and the cases disposed of by post
ponements, by non-appearance, &e.
Geo. Goveti et. al. vs. Isaac Palmer.—Ac
tion in ejectment for a lot of land in Ridgberv
township. Jury find a verdict for Plaintiff.
Joseph Ingham vs. liar day It. K. Coal
Company. —The Court, after hearing, set aside
the report of the viewers, upon exceptions
filed.
Geo. Tracy vs. liarday R. R. fp Coal Co.
—On petition being filed, the Court appoint
Luman Putnam, B. L iporte, Stephen Powell,
Uriah Terry, I. A. Park, Ilenry Gaylord and
Geo. W. Elliott, appraisers.
In the matter of the application of citizens
of the township of Granville, Canton and Ar
menia, for the erection of a new township to
be called 14 Alba," the Court set aside the re
port of tiie Commissioners upon exceptions
filed, it appearing that sufficient notice of the
meeting was not given. A new petition was
filed, and the Court appoint Ira C. Bullock,
Stephen 11. Stiles, and Hiram W. Root, as
Commissioners to view and report upou said
application at February term.
In the matter of the application of citizens
of Wysox to be incorporated under the style
and title of the 44 Wysox Brick Church Socie
ty," the Court grant a charter of incorporation,
after hearing.
In the matter of the application of certain
legal voters of Franklin township, praying for
a change of the place of holding the general,
township and special elections of said township,
from the house of Nelson Gilbert, where it is
now held, to the public house owned by J. W.
Martin, and occupied by Randolph Lyon, the
Court order and direct that an election be
held on Tuesday, the 30th day of December
inst., at the usual place of holding said elec
tions, and that the polls be opened between
the hours of eight and ten in the forenoon,ai d
continue open until six o'clock in the afternoon;
and the Court further order that the tickets to
be voted shall have on the outside thereof the
word " change," and on the inside " for the
change, or " against the change."
In the matter of the application of certain
legal voters of Sheshequin township, for a
change of the place of holding elections in said
township, from the place where it is now held
to the " Valley House," the Court order that
an election be held in similar manner, on the
day of the township election, being Friday.
January 16, 1857.
In the matter of the division of Ridgbery
election district, C. A. Lyman, Virgil Vincent
and A. P. Allen, appointed as viewers, make
report as follows : That they have proceeded
to divide said election district by a line running
east and west from the south line of the land
of James Mitchell iu said township, and ex
tending to the east and westlinesof said town
ship, according to plot filed. The Court con
firm said report finally, and in the north or
new election district thus established, appoint
Smith 11. Hildretli, Judge, and John 15. P r
eel and A. S. Smith Inspectors of elections I r
the said district, and order that the eleetio
be held at tlie house of Joseph C. Prince.
In the South, or old district, the Court <p
point Joseph Hinchman, judge, and Ward
Mandeville and James 11. Vanness inspectors
of election tor said district, and order that t! e
place of election be at the house of C. 0.
French.
The application of certain citizens of Can
ton to be incorporated as a borough was post
poned until next term.
In the matter of certain citizens of Wilmot
and Asylum townships, praying for a division
of said townships, B. Laporfe and U. Mocdy
viewers, having reported favorably, their re
port was confirmed ni. si.
FIUXKMX, NO. I.—At a regular meeting of
Franklin Fire Co., No. 1, held ou Saturday
evening last, the following officers were elected
for the ensuing term :
Foreman —E 0. GOODRICH.
Ist Asst —CHESTER WELLS.
2d Ass't —ADAM ESENWIXK.
I'ipema n —G EORGE BRITTON.
Secretary —J. DF.LA MOXTANYK.
Treasurer —ALLEN M'KEAX.
P. 0. MATTERS.— The Department has great
trouble in filling the j>ost offices in this County.
At EAST Smitbfield, LYSIAM DIRFEY has been
appointed post master. B. B. TITTLE declin
ing the unsought honor. We hear of several
other offices where the persons appointed de
cline to accept
FROM CALIFORNIA.— I The Steamer Oeorw
Law arrived at New-York, on Saturday |J f
brining California dates to Nov. 20 '
The vote for President, as far as received
is Buchanan 42.460 ; Fillmore 28,237 • Fre'
mout 16,721. The Legislature is
on joint ballot. The accouuts from the mines
are generally of an encouraging nature, H !tho'
in some localities great inconvenience has beta
experienced from the want of water. I n (J Vi,
er districts copious rains had fallen, and the
miners were pursuing their operation* with
abundant success.
A gentleman just from Missouri states
that Hon. THOMAS 11. BENTON and Hon. I, M
KENNETT will be returned to the United State
Senate from Missouri. Mr. Kennett is a mnl
her of the K. N. party, and at present repre
sents the St. Louis district in Congress H
was defeated by F. P. Blair, jr., Free Soil De!
inocrat. Mr. Benton, as is well known, rep
resents a division of the Democratic party i„
his State, and the election of both gentlenieu
will be secured by a union of the K N atj j
Benton Democratic parties in the Legislature
against the regular Democratic nominees.
The Democratic members of Congress
from Virginia, strongly condemn the action of
the members of the Electoral College of that
State in recommending Ex-Gov. Floyd for a
position in Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet.
It is a fact, derived from undoubted authori
ty, that Mr. Buchanan has expressed u desire
to have the benefit of Mr. Wise's counsel, and
offered him any station within his gift, but tie
Governor has declined the tender thus made
tSr The Philadelphia Sun states that the
illness of REAII FRAZIEK, Esq., the well-known
lawyer of Lancaster, Pa., by over excitement
in financial and political affairs, has resulted
in derangement, so that he is now an inmate
of the Asylum in Philadelphia.
TERJ. 0. HARRISON, of Keutucky, has been
telegraphed an offer of appointment as Judge
in place of Lecotnpte. There are some doubts
of his acceptance. He is said to be a man of
high tone. He was formerly a law partner of
Mr. Breckeuridge, and executor of HENRY
CLAY.
Bfcjr- Wra. W arreu, a young son of Frrz
HENRY WARREN, of Burlington, lowa, was
drowned on Wednesday night, while skating
on the Charles River, near Boston.
THE SMALL POX IN DANVILLE.— We under
stand that the small pox nnd varioloid is now
in Danville, but no deaths have occurred from
it as yet.
t&T Western papers state that the price cf
bacon, ham and laid, will be low this season,
as the old stock is not exhausted. Hurry them
alouir.
Who is in Fault?
A letter from Tennessee, published in a
Bridgeport paper, represents the negroes who
were engaged in the meditated rising a gainst
the whites to have been influenced by the ex
pectation that Fremont was about to be Pre
sident, and that they would then receive their
freedom. If they believed all this, the con
spiracy to cut their masters' throats was unne
cessary, and without a motive.
But it is very likely t hut the "poor ma
tures," as the writer of the letter calls them,
were pe-suaded that the powerful party bv
which Colonel Fremont was supported at the
North had some project of emancipation in
view. Their masters certainly did their best
to propagate this idea. They denounced Col.
Fremont as an abolitionist— which in-ins a
partisan of the political sect that demand.- the
immediate abrogation of slavery in all the
states. They denounced all who supported
him as abolitionists. There was no public
meeting held in the southern states at which it
was not proclaimed, with a positiveness and
violence which could not but make a deep im
pression on the blacks, that the people of the
North were plotting to deprive them ot their
property, and tiiat the very existence of -l ive
ly in the southern states depended on the elec
tion of Buchanan. If our readers wish to see
a recent sample of this sort of denunciation,
they will hud it in Mr. Pierce's last nic-saire—
in the passage where he charges the Iv-j*ubh
can party xvitli aiming at the emancipation o.
the negroes, under the pretence of resisting the
extension of slavery, lie borrowed the topic
aud most of the language from the declatmers
of the pro slavery party at the South.
It was impossible for any negro who con-i
read—it was impossible f< r any negro whole-,
the sense of hearing in its ordinary pt rfeet on -
not to become fully possessed of two fact-•
first, that their masters were alarmed lest r
mont should be elected ; and secondly. !! ■
they were in the practice of attributing to
and* to the party that supported liim a d"-
to abolish slavery in the states. It wouM- l
most extraordinary—it would he inexplicit
if some of the negroes did not become fiM.
convinced that such a design was on
What the most intelligent of them
from what they read and heard, would
muiiicated, as a matter of course, to the ■
and the imagined possibility of ohtainin. IP '
liberty would make the whole race ulie , e J . r
naturally suggest projects for shaking on ul,
bondage.
If, therefore, such causes had any
fomenting the conspiracy, the slaveholder? '
only themselves to blame. Thev ma e
charges, and the slaves believed them ,
flung a rocket toward the enemy s
the sparks from it lighted a mine un e ~
own feet. We cannot allow them 0
their own falsehoods the ground of a "
tack upon the pe >ple of the North. tjieir
spiracy which has been just discover _ s
own work ; partly the natural fruit o
lamitous institution which thev c lC -
seek to extend, and partly the conseqi
ideas and impressions which they <■
diligent in propagating. Here,-L-etioa-~-
learn at least to calumniate with i -
Evening Post.
*gr- The Total vote polled at the
dential election, is nearlv four mil |rtP