Wilmot's Endorsement in the Pennsyl
vania Legislature.
"We have shown that when Mr. Wilmot in
troduced his famous Proviso into Congress iu
1846, his democratic colleagues iu the House
stood by him, and that wheu he renewed, in
1847, the motion to attach the Proviso to the
three million bill, it had not become undemo
cratic to vote in favor of the prohibition of
Slavery. It was onfr after Mr. Buchanan, in [
his struggle alter the Presidential nomination
then approaching, had led the way against the
Wilmot Proviso that Mr. Wihnot began to
stand alone among the Democratic represen
tatives from Pennsylvania, upon the old Jcf-,
fersoaian platform of Slavery restriction.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania, which was 1
chosen at the general election in 846, aud
which met in January, 1847, took early no-.
tion upon this question, and it is gratifying to j
turn back to the records of that body, and see ;
how emphatically it sustained Mr. Wilmot.—
There were Whigs and Democrats in those
days, and their party lights were as bitter us
any that have happened since ; but upon this
question they were united. Nearly every dem
ocratic member of both Houses recorded his
vote in favor of the \\ ilmot Proviso.
Mr. Victor Piollet, a democratic member of
the House from Bradford county, introduced
into that body the following preamble aud
resolutions :
" Whereas, The existing war with Mexico
may result iu the acquiremeut of new Territo
ry ; and
Whereas, Measures are now pending in Con
gress having in view the appropriation of mo
ney and the conferring of authority upon the
treaty making power to this end, therefore
Resolved, dr., That our Senators in Con
gress be instructed and our Representatives
be requested to vote against any measure
whatever by which territory will accrue to the
Union, unless, as a part of the fundamental
law upon which any compact or treaty for this
purpose is based, Sin re/it or involuntary servi
tude shall be turner prohibited, except for
crime."
On the 26th of January this preamble and
resolution were called up, and they passed
unanimous! it, by the following vote :
Vt AS— Messrs. Allison, Anderson, Bass'.er,
Bentz, Bingham, Biaek, Blair, Jioughner,Bow
man, Breidentimll, Bull, Burns, Bush, Bush
mil, Clark, Colvin, C'onuor, Daly, Dickinson,
Dickson, D/unltls n, fidie,Evans, Passat, Fau
-56/7/, lemon, Feiistermacher, Forsyth, Fox,
Gehley, Could, Gracjf. Gratz, Ilaly, Harris,
Hassan, Haymaker, llilatids, Hunter, Ives, Ja
cvbv, Jackson, Kanffuian, 1\ tat ley, Kerr, Kin
near, Kline, Klingensmith, Knox, Krick, Lad
ley, Loughlin, Lawrence, Levan, Ley-burn,
Lockhurt, 1A C, Mackay, Mather, Matthias,
Montelius, Morrison, Myers, McAbee, Mc-
Cullister. McCurdy, M'Curley, McK night,
McMinu, Noble, Patterson, Fault >ig, Pear re,
Perry, Phillips, I'icllet, Pomeroy of Mercer,
Pomeroy of Franklin, Reynolds, Bobbins, Ross,
Rupert, Sanborn, Sharp, Shelly, Si pes, Son
tier, Thtmae, Thompson, Trego, 17 iet, War
ner, Wcllcr, Wertsuer aud Cooper, Speaker—
t>s.
N'AYS — one. Democrats in italic.
Every democrat present voted aye, and eve
ry democratic member of the House was pre
sent but one..
The resolutions were sent to the Senate and
were called up in that body on the 27th. At
the late Jlarrisburg Convention Mr. Gibbons
stated that lie was Speaker of the Senate at
that session ; that Mr. BIGLER, then Senator
from Clearfield, afterwards Governor and now
U. S. Senator, came to him on the morning j
of the 27th and asked as a particular favor
that the Speaker would award the floor to
him that morning to enable him to call up the >
House resolution. The Speaker did so ; Mr.
Bigler accordingly called tip the resolution,
made a strong speech in its favor, urging its
immediate pa-sage, and moved to suspend tLo I
rules to put it on its final passage; and the |
yeas and nays having been called, the resolu
tion passed by the following vote :
YEA." —Messrs. Bigler, Boas, Carson, Corn
man, Crabb, Darragh, Darsie, GUlis, Harris,
llill, Hoover, Johnson, Jordan, Levis, Mason, I
Morrison, Rich, Richards, Ross, Sanderson,
Smith, Smyscr, Williamson, and Gibbons,
Speaker — 24.
NAYS —Messrs. Anderson, Black and Put
teiger—3.
Tims it will be seen that Mr. Wilmot re
ceived the strongest possible endorsement of
his course from the democrats of Pennsylvan
ia, every democratic member in both Houses
of the legislature, excepting three, having vot
ed to sustain him.
It is worthy of note, also, that the legisla
ture that winter was IT 'his tn both branches;
yet this resolution was introduced in one
branch by a democrat and urged through in
the other by another.
David Wilmot, true to his democracy, has
occupied the same ground ever since ; but the
party which then endorsed liira has falsely de
serted the noble stand U had tt4s, apostatized
from the faith of its founders, and shamelessly
renounced all the good which it did iu its bet
ter days.— Pittsburg Gazette.
B*s?*- At a municipal election held at St.
Louis, Mo., early in the present mouth, the
vote for mayor resulted as follows : Winner
(Emancipationist,) 5,487 jJPratte,(Democrat,) i
3,756; Line, (American,) 1,831. The Em- 1
ancipationists aiso carried, by a large major
ity, both branches of the councils, and all the
city officers. A movement, of such strength,
in a Slave State, must make the slave breed
ers tremble. That free labor should attempt
to assert its rights at the South is what tliev
have long feared. The Slave States are pro
per field for Abolitionism or emancipation to
exert itself, although it is right and proper for ,
citizens of the free States to labor to enlight- 1
eu and awaken the Southern people to the
fact that both their duty and their interest re
quire the abolition of Slavery.
WHAT IT COSTS TO ENSLAVE KANSAS ! '
The effort to force slavery into Kansas has j
proved expensive to the party that the people i
hold responsible for the outrage. .It cost the
democracy its ascendency in Maine, New j
Hampshire, and Michigan, Wisconsin and 10-j
wa. It lias cost them a dozen scats in the I".
S. Senate. It lias victimized three territorial
Governors. And finally, it litis sectionalized
the Supreme Court of the United States. If
the design of swindling freedom out of Kan
sas is jiersisted in, we shall see at what fur-!
ther cost that desigu is prosecuted !— Alb. i
Five. Journal. J
Attorney General Black has appointed Jas. \
F Shunk, of llarrisbnrgh, to a clerkship in
the Attorney General's office, i r.-S. ia 9ou !
of-late Gov. Shnak j
Tiie state of Things in Utah.
The Territory of Utali seems to have been
strangely neglected by the Federal Executive.
Judge Drummond, appointed by the President
three years since, as one of the members of
the Supreme Court of the territory, has been
fairly driven out by the proceedings of Brig j
ham Young, the Mormon Governor. ITis let- j
tor addressed to the Attorney General of the !
i United States, gives his reasons for leaving j
the territory and laying down his office, and if 1
!no abatement is made front his statement of
fact, we are only astonished thut he should ;
i not have taken his resolution earlier —that he '
'should not have returned to the states, hud |
I an interview with the President, urged upon f
ihim the necessity of maintaining the authority i
•and executing the laws of the United States ,
! within the territory by a prompt and effectual j
| interposition, and, if unsuccessful, appealed
: boldly from the President to the public. lie
• seem.s according to his own account, to have i
wasted his three years in an unavailing strug- i
ule for the authority of the federal govern j
ment against Brigham Young ; a struggle I
which a ven brief experience must have taught j
him was hopeless without support from Wash-;
■ ington.
Young, according to Judge Drummond's j
j statement, interferes on all occasions with the ;
proceedings of the federal courts in the terri-1
torv, slanders and bullies the Judges, causes j
! their records and papers to be destroyed, dir-!
cets the juries iu those courts whom to indict |
and whom not, absolves from punishment the j
I persons on whom the federal courts pass sen- 1
tctice, and imprisons citizens of the United j
States who arc guilty of no offence. Darker
charges are made —charges of murder by vio
lence and poisoning. The assassination of Gov.
Gunnison aud eight others by the Indians is
laid at the door of the Mormons, as that of
Judge Shaver, Drumuiond's predecessor, who
it is averred, died of a poison draught admin
istered by their order. The murder of A. W.
Babbitt, Secretary of the territory, on the
plains, is directly attributed to Young and two
of his associates. ther enormities arc hinted
at which the t. l iter says are too horrid for pub
lic disclosure.
i It has been long known that Young rules
Utah in a tnost arbitrary manner, and that he
has treated the federal courts and the other
authorities with a contemptuous disregard.—
Nothing, however, was done by Mr. Pierce
during his administration to make the suprem
acy of our government respected and tu exe
cute its laws among the Mormons. Judge
Drummond says, justly enough, that the party
in power "should now be held responsible for
i tlie disgraceful state of things which exists in
the territory.'* It is not only responsible fur
what happens now, but should bear the rcs
. ponsibility of all that lias happened for the
last four years. The character of Young is
is well known ; he is bold, imperious, brutal,
npparantly unrestrained by any sort of scru- ■
pie ; aud Mr. Pierce has always behaved as if j
afraid of him. At one time the late President j
roused to the necessity of doing something to '
redeem the federal authority iu the territory !
from the absolute authority into which it had
fallen, appointed Colonel Step toe Governor.—
! The Col. refused the appoint ment, and Young
I holds over. The federal executive could not
ibe ignorant of the enormities this man was j
perpetually committing ; it was of course iu j
frequent communication with its officers iu the j
territory ; yet not even the feeblest attempt j
was made to support them in the proper (lis-1
charge of their duties. We sec whether Mr. j
Buchanan can muster any more firmness.— j
Young has declared himself a partisan of Bu- j
! chatutn, and, doubtless, expects to be allowed
his own way.
Of the destruction of the records and pa- ;
j pcrs of the federal courts, spoken of by Judge
Drummond, a narrative has been published in
the San Francisco papers. The act was COIII
, mitted iu March 1856. The records were ta
ken from tße office of the Clerk of the Su
prerac Court, and burned in Salt Lake City. '
j Judge Kinney instructed the Grand Jury to
I inquire into the offence, and indict the trans- i
gressors. Young told the Grand Jury that !
i the court was a Gentile court, with which the J
Saints had nothing to do, and that if the Gen
'ls wished anything to be do io in 'h matter,
: tlmy must do it out of Utah. Accordingly
nothing was done.
This single ci cumstance should have led to
measures for t fie complete establishment of l
! the federal authority iu the territory.
If tin- President does his duty, be will lose
:no time in taking such steps as will bring this J
j bully and his followers to reason. The first
thing done by our executive should be to send
, a determined and fearless man to govern the
; territory, in the place of Brigham Young,
and with him such a detachment of the United
States troops as would effectually enforce the
: laws, protect the judiciary and ensure the pun
-1 ishment of crimes. For judges, instead of
| men of a feeble character, who can stand three
: years of bullying and insult, ami every mani
i fetation of disregard for their judicial autho
rity, he should scud out persons equally con
; scientious and resolute, who would not suffer
i the least,infraction of their authority. A firm
| course with these men, supported by a force
large enough to show that the general govern
ment is in earnest, would soon convince thcra
of their weaknesss and the folly of attempting
resistance \\ iiat is most wanted i.> the means
| of breaking up the prestige of Young's influ
ence. lie must lie secretly hated by numbers
j of his subjects—for subjects they are in fact—
and as soon as the weakness of his goveri -
merit is made lo appear, and the means of es
cape from tyranny are offered, it will be most
extraordinary if thousands do not full away
; from the allegiance to hitn which they now ,
profess.— liveniug Post.
ANOTHER DEATH FROM "THE NATIONAL".—
Some weeks since an article was published sta
■ ting that n lady and daughter, the family of
our most respectable citizens, was seriously ill
from disease contracted while stopping at the
National Hotel at Washington, previous to
| the Presidential Inauguration. A letter from :
the proprietors of the hotel was subsequently !
published which stated that the sickness was '
caused by miasma from the sewers. We re- I
gret to announce that Mrs Robert Johnston, '
' the lady referred to, died yesterday from the
mysterious poison. She was just five weeks
confined to Iter bed, during which the constant
efforts of medical skill were baffled. They
were only three days at the National,and while
there were sick for some hoiu-s, and also had j
a sick night at Baltimore. Nothing serious '
appeared afterwards in Mrs Johnston's case, ■
! until after nursing her daughter, who was sick
i some two weeks, when she was herself taken
i down. Miss J ffinston is now in a fair wav
iof recovery. Mr. Johnston himself was sick,
! bnt is now as well as possible under the cir
i Hmlstsieef s— 2V work Adrertitfr,' April Ifi.
§rabtollc)}orter.j
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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FOH GOVERNOR,
DAVID WIIMOT, of Bradford Co.
JOB CANAL COMMISSIONER.
WXfcX. MILIiWARD, of Philadelphia.
FOR JCIKIKS OF TIIE SUPREME OOLTT,
JOSEPH J. LEWIS, of Chester Co
JAMES VEECH, of Payette County.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The President of the lute Republican Con
vention has appointed the following State
Central Committee, viz :
LEMUEL TODD, Chairman.
Simon Cameron, Joseph Casey,
John J. Clyde, Ceo. Brrjrner,
John M. Sullivan, Wm. I). Kelly,
! Joseph 11. Myers, J. M. Sellers,
• Heory Wb'te. ! James Edwards,
! Lindk-y Smith, j J. 11. Lancaster,
I'. C. Kllmaker, Jacob L. Gossler,
I 11. L. IJenner, ! Edward ('. Knisrht,
j l>avid Newport, Edward Darlington,
: Win. 11. Keiin, Wilson Cowell,
I'eter Martin. T. J. Worth,
l'eter S. Mh hler, Saml. K. Dimmock,
Thos. E. Cochran, David E. Small,
E. C. M'Pherson, B. Rush Petrikeu,
John Penn Jones, IV. P. Miner,
John Laporte, j L. P. Williston,
I. Gillespie, | C. 15. Curt-ia,
John X. Purviance. i D. I. Eaton,
j Robert P. M'Duwcll, 11. E. I-innev,
Jolui 11. Wells, J. R. Edie,
| T. J. Cotley, A. J. Fuller,
■ John ('ovule, Robert M. Palmer.
| JosephShuutz,
fifegc* The Illoomsburg " Star of the North,"
is a fair specimen of the BFCKALEW school of
politicians. They assume an attitude of great
fairness and candor only to cover the grossest
duplicity, and whilst they support the most ul- i
tra pro-slavery doctrines, endeavor to render j
1 an equivalent in the suavity with which it is 1
: done. Such persons would be Republicans, ii (
j Republicanism was doininaut—Just as they j
I would be honest if honesty paid best.
I
The Star of the Bth irist., contains a char-1
aeteristie article, from which we extract the '
I !'■ I
; following paragraph, as a specimen of the |
I whole :
" If it were possible to elect Wilmot for Governor there
I would et once grow up a hostile spirit between our State !
j and th )-e neighbors on our South. Every lazy negro of
I Maryland and Virginia would be tempted to escape into
j Pennsylvania, and the whole power of the Executive
would be used to shield the fugitive. The Wilmot ad
■ mini-trillion would let the tariff and the white laborer's
| interest sleep, and trouble itself only to protect the black
I man. Year- ago we beard these Wilmot men talk about
j " protection " to the white laborer, but now it is only
" protection " for the man with a tawny .-kin.''
The editor of this paper, who talks thus j
flippantly about " protecting " negroes, is one
i of the loudest in approving the late decision
' o. the Supreme Court of the U. S. in the I)red
; Scott case, lie also pretends to be a lawyer,
| and will not deny that that decision, if sustain
; ed by our Courts, will permit any slaveholder
I to bring his slaves into Pennsylvania and hire
them by the year to labor in our factories,
i mines and workshops. What kind of protec
tion does that afford to white labor? Do s
the Star dare to deny that such may be the
j case ? If the policy advocated by the Demo
! cratic party is fully carried out, what is to
j prevent any ironmaster from hiring slaves from
Tennessee or Virginia, accustomed to that
kind of labor, at half the expense he is oblig
ed to pay for free labor? Or the coal opera
tors from working gangs of slaves, at less an
nual cost, than thai of white men ? That poli
cy would bring the free white labor of the
North in direct, and ruinous competition with
slave labor. The advocates of the doctrine
that Slave holders may bring their property
into Pennsylvania, and hold it so long as the
animus reverlendi is preserved, may say, that
it is not likely that slaves will lie hired to ser
vice in this State, and while we grant that
fear of the U. R. 11. will limit the probability, |
yet that does not alter the fact that the great ,
j barrier has been broken down. Let slaves de
! crease in value, for the Southern market, and
: Maryland and Virginia have an over supply
of their chief productions, and the slave bree
i ders will turn their attention to supplying the j
j mines and furnaces, and in some measure, the
farms of Pennsylvania with slave labor, hired ,
I for limited periods, which, as the intention is
| to return it to a Slave State, under deuiocrat
i ic decisions, can lie lawfully done.
The great and the only political qnestion j
j now before the public, is this very protection 1
|of Five White Labor. Shall slave labor oc-'
! cupy this Republic, shape our institutions and ,
I control our destinies, or shall Free White La- j
! bor be predominant ? The Democratic party |
i asserts that it is the policy of the country to j
i foster, extend and perpetuate the institution j
lof negro slavery. Indeed, many of its promi- {
- ! nent leaders hardly stop at color, but assert
i that slavery is the normal condition of society,
; and not confined to particular shades of com
plexion. The Democracy hold the doetriue j
that it is better for capital to own its labor
than hire it. Acting npon these doctrines, it
is claimed that Slavery "keeps step and marches
to the music of the Union," that wherever the
Constitution cxteuds, and the stars aud stripes
wave, they carry the institution of Slavery, and i
sanction and protect-it That following upon i
the heels of our progress as a nation is always
to lie found the dark shadow of the acoursed <
| institution, aud that neither the light of rove- i
' lation, of reason, of justice or of progress shall i
i suffice to dissipate it. Such is the tendency of i
modern Democracy. We are sorry to add
that it is strengthened and upheld in its mou
i strous assumptions by the highest judicial tri-;
1 bunnl of the land.
The Republican party asserts, on the con
trary, that the interests of Free Labor should
predominate. That the institutions of the
j country were formed for thf white man, not
the negro. That Slavery should not extend
| beyond its present limits, where it has unques
tionably a Constitutional existence, and that
the Territories of the Nation should be devot
ed to Free Labor. That party seeks to ad
! vance the interests and elevate the condition
l of the free while man. To do this, it holds as ;
' an essential and primary object, that lie should
j not be brought in contact with the debasing
! influence of slave labor.
! Those who like the Star, and kindred sheets,
talk about Republican regard for the negroes,
know that they are uttering a coutcmptible
falsehood, yet as it avails to excite the preju
dices of those who arc ignorant of the true i
j aims of the Republican party, it is persistently
; reiterated. Your true nigger-worshipper is
; your modern Democrat, lie bows down in
adoration of the institution of slavery, lie j
i considers it the most beneficent of institutions. |
1 He regards public men, in proportion as tliev j
I count their human chattels, lie has such a •
i !
! peculiar regard for its effect upon society, and 1
■ particularly upon poor white men, that he de
-1 sires it to be extended over all the Republic,
; and knows no reason why "our Southern
: brethren " may not bring their property into
I Pennsylvania, and hold it, whether that prop- j
erty consist of horses or niggers. Such men j
■ would not be shocked if their slave masters j
I should enact that poor white men should be ;
j sold into slavery, particularly if it was iucor-,
| porated in the platform.
I These efforts to misrepresent may answer
1 for the present. But the contest still goes on,
j aud the issues become every day more plain
! to the most unconcerned and uuobsi rvant.—
i Free White Labor is finally to predominate.
' though the day may be far distant. It is yet !
to arise in its majesty and assert its rights and
i its true destiny, it is ultimately to wrest this
Government from the hand of the Slaveholders,
and bring it back to the original design of its
1 founders. To effect this, it only needs that
the plans of the Slaveholders .-hall become
( known, and the influence and effects of Slavery
ibe generally understood. The seed is now be
-1 ing daily sown, which shall in time bring forth
j an abundant harvest.
AST" The Waync County Herald which has
an irresistable propensity to meddle with the
political affairs of this District, repeats the
: stale slander upon Mr. GROW, of favoring the
Collins line, and in consideration thereof ae
eepting a free passage to Europe. The story
originated with a reckless and unscn:pulou>
know nothing sheet in Philadelphia, and has
; lieen reiterated by several papers such as the
j lhrald, who take their cue from it—probably
j from the fact of former dark lantern proclivi
■ ties. If there was was the least de.-ire for truth
and justice, a few minutes search would satis
: fv even the Herald editor that the charge was
i utterly groundless, because Mr. G ROW'S vote
is recorded on all occasions against all propo
sitions to favor the Collins line at the expense
of the Treasuiy.
We trust the Herald will not suffer on ac
; count of its intense anxiety about the state of
' political matters in this District, but will con
fine its labors at home, where they seem to be
needed.
THE CASE OF PASSMOKE WILLIAMSON*. —The
action for damages brought- against Judge
Kane in the Court of Common Pleas of Del
aware county, was some time since argued up
on demurrer. To the declaration claiming
| damages Judge Kane put in five special pleas,
i setting forth his olfiee, the proceeding which
; occnrred, and justifying his entire conduct.—
l lie plaint.ff replied de injuria to these pleas,
; the defendant had committed the acts of his
own will, aud without cause. The Judge's
counsel demurred specially to the replication
on three pleas, and joined issue in two of them,
j The agument in demurrer was held in Dccem
■ ber. On Saturday Judge ILiynes gave notice
that lie decided against judge Kane, so that
the replication stands, and the case will go to
trial on the general issue, and will be tried
sonic time during the present summer.
ftsg- The Ilarrisburg Union and Patriot is
responsible for the following :
i ear Mflj. II Kiss' new paper, "Tlie State?," was issued
in Washington city on Thursday lust, it is Democratic
with Southern proclivities.
Will you be good enough to name for us a
Democratic paper that has not "Southern pro
! clivities ?"
Senator Sumner's health has been grcat
jly improved by his sea voyage. His nervous
j system is recovering its natural vigor, and he
j expects to come home in a few mouths, as well
j as ever.
tatf Erastus Evans, of Owego, has been
appointed special agent of the Post Office
j Department for Southern New York, Northern
Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Mr. North
j has been re-appointed special agent for the
Northern portion of New York aud Vermont.
NEW COUNTERFEIT. —Anew counterfeit of
the denomination of ss's on the Anthracite
I Bauk, at Tamaqua, Pa., is in circulation.—
I Counterfeit ss's on the South wark Bank of
' PhifftdcTpfcfa, t'ri 1 nDc* in circulation
FOREIGN NEWS. —The steamer Arabia arriv- 1
ed on Friday from Liverpool, bringing three
days' later news. The triumph of Palmerston ;
in the election is quite as positive as it appear- j
ed by the previous mail. His gain may be
set down in round numbers at about fifty votes
in the House of Commons. This gain is found
in the return to the House of some twenty-five
so-called Liberals instead of Conservatives,
and of as many members who will support the j
present Premier through thick and thin, instead
of independent men, who, while following him
in soma tilings, are pretty sure to oppose liiin
wherever, as in the Chinese question, the idea j
;of moral right and wrong is involved. Such ■
| is the result with the four hundred and seven
! ty members already elected ; and we see no
reason to suppose that the hundred and thirty
' five yet to be returned will materially change
; the aspect of the House. We regard Lord
Palmerston, therefore, as sure of such a steady
majority as will render him, for a time at least,
virtually the dictator of England. : -
A battle in Persia, between the British and
; the forces of the Shah, had been previously re
-1 ported ; the details we are now enabled to
present. The British gained a complete vic
! torv, though without much credit to Gen. Out
! ram, who commanded.
The Neufchatel Conference has not yet ar
! rived at a final settlement ; and there is no
| positive confirmation of the reported conelu
j sion of peace between Spain ant? Mexico. The
j breach between Austria and Sardinia also re
i mains unhealed.
The Bank of England has raised its rate of
| discount oue half j>er cent.
Sunday last commenced one of the
| most severe and unusual snow storms within
! our recollection. Snow fell almost incessantly
I for thirty-six hours, and now remains six or
eight inches in depth, although much of it
: melted as it touched the earth. Should it go
off with a rain, we may expect very high wa
-1 ter ; and at any rate it will furnish the lum
bermen with the anxiously expected opportu
nity of reaching a market with their lumber.
fltay-We call the attention of our Republi
can friends to the prospectus in another col
j umn of a new weekly paper at Philadelphia,
i the first number of which will be issued on the
2d day of May. We hare every reason to
believe that the Times will be ably and efli
ciently conducted, and will prove a valuable
aid to the promulgation of correct sentiments.
Specimen copies may be obtained, on writing,
by any person desirous of aiding its circula
t on.
Wm. B Reed, Esq., of Philadelphia, for
merly a Whig, but in the late contest a Buch
anan man, bus been tendered the mission to
China
Hon Richard W. Thompson, late
M: C from Indiana, was recently (or claims
to have been) the hired attorney of the Meno
minee Indians at Washington, where he ren
dered them service which he values .it $40,000.
When they were to receive a liberal stun from
the Federal Treasury in payment for lands,
Mr. Thompson sent in his .illl e bill, but the
Indians disputed or repudiated it and took the
full sum due them, distributing it among them
selves and giving none to their yellowish pale
counselor. Mr. T. then preferred his claim at
the Treasury, on what grounds we do not re
member and cannot imagine. His claim was
rt jeeted. He trie 1 Congress, with equal ill
success at first, but finally obtained the JTUSS
age of an act which authorized the accounting
officers to pay him anv sum that they should
j find justly due him. Those officers promptly
reported that no sum was due him—Mr. Mon
cvpenny, President Pierce's Commissioner of
Indian affairs, stigmatizing his claim as utterly
groundless and fraudulent. Thus the matter
seemed to rest until the accession of Mr. Bu
chanan.
Meantime, however. Richard from being a
leading and active Whig, and voting as snch
for all manner of Wilraot provisos and No-Ex
| tension-of-Slaverv resolves, became a Fillmore
Know-Nothing ami a bitter Pro-Slavery Hunk
er. As such, ho managed the Fillmore State
Convention last year, headedjihe Fillmore Elec
toral Ticket. As such, he did all he could to
give Indiana and the Presidency to Mr. Bu
chanan.
A current scandal affirms that this was in
pursuance of a bargain with certain leaders of
the Pro-Slavery Democracy stipulating that, in
case of his success in his- undertaking, his claim
should lie ailowed and paid at the Treasury.—
We know no facts that sustain this charge—
indeed, wc should be very unlikely to know
tliern if they existed. It is what the senior
Mr. WcMer would call a remarkable coincidence,
however, that one of the vorv first acts of the
new lords of the Treasury was the allowance
and paymemt of Mr. Thompson's claim.—A r .
Y. Tribune.
PRESENT OK A LIBRARY. —Some weeks since,
Mrs. Martha II Wurts, wife of John Wurts,
Esq., President of the Delaware and Ilud-oa
Canal Company, made a present to the Pres
byterian Church and Congregation of Carb
ondale city, Pa., of a library of some 800 vol
umes. The design is that this shall form the
basis of a permanent library for the use of
the Presbyterian Congregation, and she desir
ed that it sliould be regulated and conducted
after the maimer of a circulating library.
ICEBERGS IN THE SUSQUEHANNA. —There are
still remaining lodged on the rocks and islands
in the Susquehanna river, iu the vicinity of
York Furnace, lying between New Bridgeville
and the "Narrows," above McCall's Ferry,
immense piles of ice, which will probably re
main there until the first of next June, unless
carried away by a freshet iu the river. Our
informant states that there are millions of
tons of it, iu huge stacks, some of which are
twenty-five and thirty feet high, and covering
several acres iu extent. — IVrig/Usvillc Star.
The Southern Standard says that " South
| Carolina is the very seat of moral and poli
| tical chivalry." We can imagine, that, if moral
and political chivalry were personified South
Carolina would be it- ftf.~ L">tis Jmir
The Great Copper Nugget.
Front the Ontonagon Miner, March '2l
Since our last publication, we have be
twice into the Minnesota mine to look at
wonderful piece of copper. A few tons ha''*
already bceu taken from it, and there are ti
ty men at work cutting it up ; Inore " r "
will be put ou soon. The lower end of rl
copper was raised by the powder from
rock in which it was enclosed-the npper
being very little distorted. This leave, j "?
I dining but very little from the horizontal and
; m uu excellent position for cuttin- to adva t
j a be. They are cutting i„ some ten ~|a , .e ' '
which are already in to where the en.,/
j five feet thick. Another is four feet !" 1
! quarter. Eighteen inches further will
! one of the cuts to where the copper i s Jl,?
' a,,d ft &et thick. Its greatest thick*
I ness is between eight and nine feet but th
j cuts driven in from the edges very soon reach
the thickness of three, four or five feet ami ,r
average thickness will be from three' and
half to four feet. Its greatest length b f oru
! ; iX / eet w Greatest width eighteen ami a half
I feet. \\ e cannot think its average thicks*
to be less than three and a half feet T ,
1 dimensions give it a cubic content of not T!
than two thousand f et, and this amount of „
copper would weigh no less than five hundred
, and forty-nine tons. There issearcelra „ o s,;
bdity of its being nnvthingelse than a.Wr , 0 li!l
metal. If it is 91V cent, and this is- m>
a high estimate for such a mass, it contain
about 500 tons ot pure copper, and will he
worth, when prepared for the market about
' ; $300,000 This, we respectfully subnet p
■ the largest mass of metal of any kind ever'vet
, exhibited in a single piece npon this planet"—
But the great mass is a small part 0 f thec tj
per now iu sight in its immediate vicimtv -
! About a hundred feet to the east, a scrk", 0 f
I monster masses, of enormous size, are ue v !,,,.
j ing stripped and followed into the eormiom
j crate. The disclosures of the last few "(hivs
, 1 arc immensely important, it is perfectly safe
( | to say that there are at least two thousand
tons of copper in sight within a few feet of the
: points which we have described.
A MOTHER Sni:ITL-AU3T I WSAN'E. —In tie Al
h'gauy fl'O Court of Quarter session*, ou
Monday, .1 11 nnujUHi made an application
for a j irv de lan 'tico inquire nh in the case of
frank McCvack"U, a \ ouug man, who haJ re
cently been employed at the freight depot of
t ie Pi'iutsylvania Railroad Company, but who
; had become insane from reading new^i; l ], ! -r,
d-voted to sjiirituali-m, and giving his atten
ton to the spirituil rappings. Mr. McCrack
en was head receiving clerk at the depot at
tie Point Depot, and was considered one of
the best clerks in the city lie had pnv ou.v
ly been in the Western Pennsylvania 110-pa
tal, and was discharged, supposed to he cur
ed. 11" labored under the impression that
the persons about him carried magnets, l>v
which I tot 11 his mind and body were influenc
ed. lie appeared sane enough, except on ;,s
subject of spiritualism and miiriiet.hro. The
jury, without goiug out, found that tLo i
i er was insane.
THE CAMEI. EXPERIMENT. —Th" I]'tishir?>n
Sleir savs : Tiie Camels in Texas have lieea
heanl from up to the 17th of March. Th-v
are doing well, and those first brought over
are in use for the transportation of supplies be
tween San Antonio ami Camp Vcrdo. Three
little ones were born in March and are 11; T
win tr, ami five or six more birth* are cxpcrt-il
Front the reports of the condition of the ani
mals, at present, and through the ehwei)
months tlmt the first importation have he :i
on the eontinent, wv may regard ail eiouftfs
as to their ae 1 mat on dissipated, and that
so much of the experiment is a Jt'd fid
Tiie only remaining determi i t ■ j iut h • ■
character of the stock that may IM* prodn<-1
For this, time will lie required. The offers
in charge, are, however sanguine that i*
fully equal those of As a M nor nd Afri'-o. an 1
may, by proper atten on, be more li_hly de
veloped.
MR. AND MRS. JOHN DE.AX —If is tra- as
we learn from most excellent authority t' at
Mr. John D -ati has gone to a school in a !
! taut part of the State, for the purpose of hav- I
: ing his wits and his manner- polish"! "!' a
The school is a private one, and is in the ! ■>- j
it of taking in grown pupils, whose early i :• 1
cation has been neglected. Mrs Dean nun i - j
for the present at the house of Mr. II Berth- j
i olf, the officer of the Supremo Court who r<- I
: moved her from her father's house when yh-' I
writ of habeas corpus was allowed. A r ' j
mors'and stories to the contrary, Mrs. Dean I
has not left Mr. Bertholfs house since she en- I
tered it, nor has she ever seen her Imsbar 1 1
cept in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. biu • I
; olf — JS~. I". Mirror.
FROM NEW MEXICO. — S f . leuis, i" 'I
April IT, 18>7—We are in receipt of BufJ|
Fee dates to the 18th nit The Democratirl
Convention had nominated for Governor
James L. Collins. Mr. Oterio, late P egat
jto Congress, ha 1 been re-elected, to -a 1
life excitein'Hit liad been o'easioned m ®
Fe on aeeonnt of the circumstances gr
i out of a collision between a M vicaa in
j Grnber and a soldier, Gruber shot me ■
and then gave himself up, and wa*tak n..' 1
I A party of troops thereupon entere 1 1 .
I and fired about forty shots, killing t*'
another prisoner and wounding two tub ■
\ Some of the soldiers engaged iu tnejU'RlO
bad been identified, and were to be tri
i the offence.
A TEXT —The time any neighboring P l '®
; ocratic Eoniilist feels like p caching i • IW U .
liticul integrity, will he please take"' J
the recent repudiation by the : |
! Supreme Court of California of the Shy '
. of California, contracted by Democrat .
I MAJOR MI RPHY, of Leavenworth. K
recently appointed Indian agent '> I N
anan, made a speech a few days since
city, in which he lauded the niurdet
M ikcr and recommended the hanging O>
I other abolitionist in Leavenworth.
ISAIAH ON* Hoops — The following is •' 1
tract from Isaiah iii., 1 : , ...
"In that day the Lord will take t■<
very of their tinkling ornament about' a r
and their combs, and their round (ire '
moon." _
FIRF. AT QUEBEC. — Qurbtc, April J 0 '
night the whole of tho offices of the '■
Trunk Railroad Company at Point Levi. Q.
site tho city was destroyed by fire,
amount of 'lie Joss has not trnnspir"