uot uow d" what we propo-ed to do in the last Congress ? We then voted through the Senate an en a tiling act, called the iuotubs bill," believed to be just and fair in all its pro visions, pronounced to be almost perfect by the Senator from New Hampshire* f Mr. HAI.KJ only lie d d not like tlie man, tlien President of the United States, who would have to make the appointments. Why can we not take that bill, and out of compliment to the President, add to it a clause taken from the Minnesota act, which he thinks should be a general rule, requiring the constitution to be submitted to thhc people and pass that ? That unites the party. You all voted, with me, for that bill at the last Congress. Why not stand by the same bill now ? Ignore Leeompton, ignore Tojieka, treat both those party movements as irregular and void • pass a fair bill—the one that we framed ourselves when we were acting as a unit ; have a fair election, and yon will have peace in the Democratic party, and peace throughout the country, in ninety days. The people want a fair vote. They will never be satisfied without it. They never should be satisfied without a fair vote on their constitu tion. If the Toombs bill does not suit my friends, take the Minnesota bill of the last Congress— the one so much commended by the President in his message as a model. I,et us pass that as an enabling act, and allow the people of all parties to come together and have a fair vote, and I will go for it. Frame any other bill that secures a fair, honest vote to men of all parties, and carries out the pledge that the people shall be left free to decide on their do mestic institutions for themselves, and I will go with you with pleasure, and with all the energy I mav possess. Hut if this constitu tion is to be forced down our throats, in viola tion of the fundamental principle of free go vernment, under a mode of suhtnisMon thut is a mockery and insult, painful as it. will be to me, I must break all associations or connec tions rather than forfeit my principles. I have no fear of party associations being severed.— I should regret to see social and political ties severed ; but if it must be, if 1 cannot act with you and preserve my faith and uiy honor. I will stand on the great principle of popular sovereignty, which declares the right of all proule to be left perfectly free to fonu and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way. I will follow that principle where cver its legal ami logical consequences may may take me, and 1 will endeavor to defend it against assault from any and all quarters.— Xo mortal man shall be responsible for my ac tion but myself. By my actiou I will co.u proruit uo man. XXXVTH CONGRESS. •VJFIRST SESSION. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Dec. IFI. .SENATE. —A resolution was the Senate will, to morrow, proceed to the election of a printer. On motion of Mr. Gwix, a resolution was adopted calling oi the President for all cor respondence between the Departments and the present Governor of Kansas, together with all orders and instructions which hove been issued to said officer. Mr. GREEN proceeded to speak on Kansas affairs. Mr. DOUGLAS' speech, he said, took him by surprise, not only as to its matter, but an to its manner, and it was well calculated to prejudice the question pending before Un people of Kansas. He wished to count ru t, so far as might be in iiis power, the impression which had been made by that speech. The real issue now was. Ought Kansas, when her Constitution shall be presented, to be admit ted into the Union, or ought the consideration of what the Senator from Illinois calls the '• fundamental error of tin; President," to be regarded as sufficient cau-e for keeping Kan sas out of the I too i and keeping up the- agi tation of this ino.-t unfortunatequc.-i.ion. The question was not whether we approve or do not approve of all the individual parts of the Leconipton Constitution, as to the provision in reference to the bank*, taxations, etc. These are matters with which we have nothing to do, but which are to bo left to the people themselves to regulate. The only question for Congress to consider is, does the Constitu tion emlnidy a republican form of government? Has anybody disputed that proposition and contended to the contrary ? Certainly the Senator from Illinois has not done so. There seemed to bo a want of clear understanding as to the relation which the Federal Government sustains towards a Territory. The inhabitants of Kansas are a people, and what enabling act is required to impart to them power to propose a change in their form of government ? Is an enabling act to give them more political rights or more inalienable rights ? That would be a solecism aud a contradiction. From those considerations it must be argued that Con gress would have no right to refuse to admit Kansas under the Lccompton Constitution.— The people of Kansas never proposed to form A State Government without the consent of Congress. The Convention was held in sub ordination to the Territorial Government. If admitted into the Union a State Government will take the place of the Territorial Govern ment, aud not without. If any attempt were made to subvert the present Government mid •et up another in opposition to the Federal authority, we could subjugate it, but they do not propose !o interfere with the Territorial Government until the assent of Congress is re ceived. There were eight Stat"* in the Union which formed Constitutions without enabling nets for admission, two of which the Senator from Illinois, himself, voted for. Florida and California had noenabling act. If Mr. DOUG MS could vote for these, there could lie no reason why he could not vote for the admission of Kansas. The assent of Congress may be given any time. The organic act declares rind the people of Kansas shall be jK-rfectly frr-e to form and regulate their domestic institutions In their own way. That way was to leave it to the action of the Convention, which was nndor no obligation to submit the Constitution, or any part of it,,to the popular vote. They chose to submit the Slavery question, which was the great bone of contention, as a matter of policy and prudence, and not from any legal companion whatever. It was his (GREEN'S) opinion that the submission of thai question alone was better calculated to get at the real will and judgment of the people than if the whole Constitution had been submitted. It has been also said that the people of Kansas wefe deceived, and that positive pledges and premises to submit the Constitution had been mtuie and violated. That was a matter about which there his been a great deal of contro versy, bat as there was no positive evidence of this he did not think it proper to dwell up ©u it. In conclusion, be urged the importance o 'toidujg the question -speedily, so as u put an end to the constant agitation which has so long embittered the feelings of the people in the different sections of the Union. lie tho't the Constitution met the approbation of a ma jority of the people of Kansas, and if any of its provisions were obnoxious to them, they would have the power of modifying or chang ing thorn at any tune. Mr. Doici.vs replied that he was gratified at the tone and spirit in which the Senator from Missouri had discussed the question, but a that Senator seemed to have misapprehend ed his (Dot OCAS') position as laid down in his >pe'eh delivered the other day, lie (I)oroi..\s) would make a brief statement on joue or two points, in order that the Senate and the coun try might see what his position reailv was.— First, he did not regard it a* a fatal objection that there was no enabling act in advance.— Second, he did not take the position that it was a fata! objection that the Constitution was not submitted before it was sent to Con gress for acceptance. The position lie did as sume was, that the regular mode of proceed ing i< bv an enabling act, and that if the Ter ritorial Legislature proceeds to call a Conven tion, without the consent of Congress to do so, that is irregular, but not so irregular that it necessarily follows that all the proceedings arc vitiated. The Convention of any other body of men may send a petition to Congress for a change in the form of their Government, and Congress is at liberty to accept or reject the petition as it pleases. The Leeompton Convention was not an unlawful body and might send a petition, but it was not a Con vention authorized to establish or institute a Government for Kansas. Many of the new States had heen admitted without an enabling act being fi r st passed by Congress. The sche dule said that the Constitution should be sub mitted to all the people of Kansas for appro v;il or disapproval. No Constitution could be considered as Republican which did not embody the will of the people who are to be governed by it and was not formed by their actio". The next question, what is the best mode of ascertaining that will ? lie argued with the President that the best mode was to refer it 1 iii> people for acceptance or rejection by a fair vote. He (DOUGLAS) could not ad mit that a Constitution forced upon the peo ple against their will was a Republican Con stitution. It was no use to say it was a good Constitution. Congress had no right to cram a good thing down their throats against their will. The question was whether the people shall be permitted to form their own Coristitu ; tion ? The Senator from Missouri urged the j importance of terminating this controversy.— Now he (PorGi.A?) would do anything that was right, and anything just, in order to ter minate it. lie would sacrifice everything but principle and honor and country, in order to close this unhappy agitation, but how are we to do it ? It must be done upon principles of eternal justice and truth, or it will not stay closed. Congress must terminate it upon the principles of self-government, or they will not have a republican system of government. No system of pntching-np and trickery will settle this question. Instead of having peace, it will only be the beginning of a new controversy It would be necessary to increase the army and use the military power of the Government, if the majority were to be subjected to the op pression of the minority. He trusted that tiiere would lie no outbreak, no violence—but he feared such a result if a majority of the people of Kansas were to be coerced into sub mis-ion to the wili of the minority. Tim Sena tor from Missouri had said that tliev could change the Constitution immediately after they became a State, but he (DOUGLAS) argued on the other hand that it could not be changed until lbr4, and then onlv by a Convention to be called by two-thirds of the Legislature It was a principle of law, when a constitution provides for i's being changed at a particular time and in a particular mode, it excludes all other modes. Any Court in Christendom would tlitis construe it, and the only other mode of changing their constitution would be by revolution. Tlds scheme, therefore, is a scheme of civil war, and leads directly to war. If he should vote to admit Kansas under the Lcrompton Con-ritntion, he should feci oblig ed, in consequence, to increase the army ami enforce it at the point of the bayonet. He besought Senators to pause before they com mitted themselves to such a fatal error. This was not to tie regarded as an Administration measure. Every man on the floor of the Son ate was at liberty to vote for or against it without surrendering his party tics. The adoption of the measure would not only rend asunder the Democratic Party, but endanger the peace and perpetuity of the Cnion. The President was a frank man, and he did not be lieve that the President would ask his partv to do that to which lie was unwilling to com mit himself on paper. He did not believe the President would ask Senators to run their im ks into the halter of disunion or civil war before lie was ready to take the lead and point out the way. Then let us restore peace to the country by ignoring these irregular Conven tions at liccompton and Topeka, and authorize the people to go forward and form a Consti tution and State Government for themselves That, lie (DOUGLAS) believed, would restore quiet in ninety days. Mr. GREEN responded, denying that the people of Kansas would be compelled to re tain their present Constitution unchanged tin til iNfi-i. and argued that a Convention could be called at any time, to make such a change as a majority of the people might de a ire. The further consideration of the subject was then postponed until Monday. Adjourned. HOUSE.— The House met in the new hall. A communication was received from the clergymen of Washington, tendering their ser vices to open the daily sessions with prayer. Amid much confusion, the members proceed ed to select their seats by lottery. Mr. JONES, of Pennsylvania, from the Com mittee of Ways and Means, reported a bill for the payment of the invalid and other pensions. Memorials were presented from Messrs. BROOKS and Wmrr, of Baltimore, contesting the seats of Messrs. DAVIS and HARRIS, and were referred to the Committee on Elections. The Printing Committee reported in fuvor of printing 20,000 extra copies of the Presi dent's Message and accompanying documents. The resolution of the Printing Committee was adopted ; also a resolution to print J6, 000 copies of the financial report of the Sec retarv of the Treasury. t Mr. TAYLOR, of New-York, made an incf fctual effort to introduce a joint resolution for the payment of arrearages of salaries of mem bers at the commencement of the besiou, in stead of at the end. * A resolution was adopted instructing a Se lect Committee to inquire and report what ad ditional number of messengers aud pages are rendered necessary by the removal to the new half, aud vrJuit arrangements are necessary to accommodate reporters, and promote the com fort of members. Adjourned. THCBSDAY, Dec. 17. In the Senate, a bill was reported from the Senate Committee on Finance by Mr. II INTER, who asked its immediate consideration, and caused to be read a communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, giving a resume of tlte condition of his Department. After the reading of the bill, nn abstract of which will be found elsewhere, objection was made to its consideration then, and Mr. lli NTEK gave no tice that he would call it up to-day. Senator G WIN presented a memorial, praying for the establishment of the Territory of Arizona, and on motion of the same gentleman, a Commit tee of nine was ordered to consider that part of the President's Message relating to a Pa cific Railroad. The Senate ventured at last upon a ballot for Printer, and Mr. HARRIS, ot the Union, was elected, receiving twenty-eight out or forty-nine votes east. HOUSE. —In the House the death of Mr. MONTGOMERY, of Pennsylvania, was announced. FRIDAY, Dec. IS. In the Senate, Mr. DOUUI.AS introduced his hill to authorize the people of Kansas to form a Constitution and State Goverument prepara tory to admission into the Union. The reso lutions submitted on Thursday, calling on the President for further information relative to Kansas affairs, were agreed to. The remain der of the day was devoted to tiie considera tion of the Treasury Xote bill, but no conclu sion was arrived at. HOUSE. — In the House, Mr. CI.INCM.YN of fered a resolution providing for the examina tion of the House stationary, and for ascertain ing its true value, stating that lie had found it so inferior as to be obliged to buy other at the bookstores. In this connection he alluded to the statements published recently in the (J lobe, implicating the 1-ste Clerk of the House, Mr CUI.I.OM, in an embezzlement of the public money, and called for an investigation. Af ter some debate, it was resolved to refer Mr. CUIXOM'S accounts to a Select Committee of live, with power to report at any time, and to send for persons ami papers. A bill was reported from the Committee on Finance, similar to that report*d in the Senate, authorizing the i-sue of Treasury notes. The House imme diately proceeded to its consideration in Com mittee of the Whole, but after some discussion this action being thought premature, further consideration was postponed until Monday next, anel the Committee rose. Mr. BANKS introduced a bill authorizing the people of Kansas to form a Constitution and Slate Go vernment preparatory to admission into the Union It was referred to the Committee on Territories. §rairforlj Reporter. E. U. GOODRICH, EDITOR. TOWANDA: rjtra'Jjn ftlormnn, □;cember 21, 1837 TERMS — One Dollar per annum, invariably in advance.— Four weeks preview lu the expiration of a subscription, notice will be given by u printed wrapper, and if not re newed, the paper will in all cases be slopped. Ci.UßßiNt. The Reporter evil! be sent to Clubs at the fol- Iwring extremely low rales : ('. copies for f.i "it j IS copies for. . . . ?I'J 00 10 copies for SOO j '2O copies fur... . 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In pursuance of this purpose lie advises the passage of a law "directing an election to be held, either under existing regu lations, or in pursuance of other suitable pro visions to be expressed in the act, in which the people shall lie authorized to rote for the Constitution, in either of the forms presented by the Convention, and also against that Con stitution in Loth forms." This single act, he thinks, will be sufficient to meet the whole emergency and to dispel the excitement which pervades the Territory. The correspondent of the St. Louis Repub lican states that the members of the Kansas Legislature now in session, have decided not to go beyond the recommendations of Mr. STANTON'S Message, but to provide for a full, fair and honest vote of the people upon the vhe.lt Constitution and then adjourn FOREIGN' NEWS. —The North Star arrived at New York, on Saturday last, bringing four days later intelligence. The detailed news from India and China by this arrival is inter esting and important. The pointf may be thus summed up. Generals OCTRAM and H \v BLOCK maintain themselves at Lucknow, and Col. GREATHED is ou his march towards them with ample reinforcements. Around Delhi the districts are settling down into or der. The I'unjaub is tranquil; the Madras Presidency is undisturbed; while that of Bom bay is troubled only by the movements of original tril>es. British supremacy in India may be regarded as again asserted. From China we receive the important intelligence that the British preparations are complete for another bombardment of Canton. It is assert ed that the attack would be made towards the end of November. The Russian Ambas sador has been refused admission to Pekin ; and the action of his celestial Majesty in this case seems to have convinced the British Pleni potentiary that all his attempts to negotiate a peaceful treaty would be futile. COURT PROCEEDINGS. December 7, 1857, The Court of Oyer and Terminer, Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas wan called at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, Judges Wn.Mor, President, and LONG Associate, pre. sent. Tlie commission of Judge WIEMOT, who was recently commissioned as President Judge of this Judicial District for the ensuing year, from the first Monday in December, and the commission of AI.I.EN M'KEAV, Prothonotary of the Common Picas & Clerk of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, to take effect from Decem ber 1, 1857, were read in open Court after which court adjourned to meet ugaiu at three o'clock in the afternoon. In the afternoon court was again called, pursuant to adjournment. The constables of the several townships made their usual returns. The following Grand Jurors appeared, and af ter being sworn, were sent out under the charge of the Court: 11. S. DARTT, Foreman ; J. C. Beardsley, Jacob Bowman, J. S. Clark, Darwin Cook, John Carman, C. G. Gridley, G. W. Brown, Chester Goodell, Stephen Harlow, William Howell, J. F. Seeley, Bascom Taylor, John M'Kee, William M'Cabc, John Nesbit, M. B. Porter, Miles Prince, George Parcel, William Peck, Scth Stevens : who were in'session until Thursday afternoon, at which time they were discharged. During the time they was in session, the following business came before them and was disposed of : Com. vs. HOT. Unison —Larceny —Grand Jury return a true bill. Com. vs. lu. G. Chapman —Assault and battery. True bill. Com, vs. G.D. Mace —Fornication and bas tardy. True bill. Com. vs. R. M. Johnson —Selling liquor ou Sunday. True bill. Com, vs. some —Selling liquor without li cense. True bill. Com. vs. John Thorn —Larceny—True bill. ( 'ninth vs. Israel Cornell —Larceny. True bill. Cent. vs. J. Anthony, ami O. Iliney—Lar ceny. No bill, and county for cast. Com. vs. J. If. I^nt —Larceny. No bill. Com. vs. Levi Adams —Perjnry—No bill, and prosecutor for cost. Com. vs. Unci Smith — Selling liquor with out license. No bill, county for costs. Com. vs. Hiram Dewey —Assault and bat tery. True bill. Com, vs. Henry M'Tjcan —Assault and bat tery with intent to kill. True bill. Com. rs R Morley —Selling liquor without license. True bill. Com. vs S. Yonderpool —Selling liquor 011 Sunday. True bill. Com. vs. set me —Selling liquor without li cense. True bill. Com. rs. C. VetndrrpcMjl —Selling liquor with out license. True bill. Com. vs. same —Selling liquor on Sunday. True bill. Com. vs. Same —Selling liquor to drunkards and minors. True bill. Com. rs. S. C. Mycr —Furnishing liquor to drunkards, &e. True bill. Com. vs Ann Whulon —Selling liquor with out license. True bill. Com. vs. S. Felt on —Selling liquor without license. True bill. Com. vs. 11. Porter —Larceny. True bill. The following presentment was unanimous ly made by the Grand Jury : The Grand Jury are convinced that the public good demands t hat the sale and use of intoxicating liquors ought to be suppressed as much as possible under the laws having refer ence thereto, and therefore earnestly recom mend that the officers whose duty it is to see that these laws are faithfully executed, he prompt and efficient in the discharge of their duties. The following business came up, before the Court and Traverse Jury, and was disposed of in order as follows to wit: Com. vs. Edward Mills —lndictment found at last Sept. sessions, on a charge of Fornica tion and Bastardy, with one Sarah Lucrecia Adams, daughter of Caleb Adams, of Ulster township, December Bth, 1851, deft. Pleads not guilty; whereupon a Jury was called and sworn, Morrow, district Att'y., Mercur and Baird for Commonwealth, and Messrs. El well, Adams and D'A. Overton, for the deft. De cember 1 Oth, after a full hearing Jury return a verdict of "not gnilty." Defendant for costs.—Dec. 11th, Defendant sentenced to pay costs Ac. Com. vs. Henry McLean —Defendant in dicted at the present sessions for an Assault and Battery, committed upon Milton Rnss, in Springfield township on the lltli day of Nov. last. December 11th, Jury called and sworn. Morrow, District Att'y, and Montanye for Com'th., and Elhanan Smith for the defen dant. After hearing Jury return a verdict of guilty. Same day the said llenry McLean is sentenced to undergo an imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary for one year and nine months. Com. vs. John Thorn —lndictment brought at the present session for Larceny, for steal ing of one Lewis Wallace, an overcoat in Uls ter township, in this county. December 11th, Defendant arraigned and pleads not guilty; whereupon a Jury called and sworn. Morrow, District Att'y., and Lyman tor Com'th., and D'A. Overton for defendant. After a hear ing the Jury return a verdict of Guilty, and value the stolen property at $2,00. The said John Thorn is sentenced to pay a fine of $2,00 to Com'th., and costs of prosecution, and un dergo an imprisonment in the County Jail for sixty days. Ccm. vs. Israel Cornell. —lndictment for Larceny—Bill found at the present session charging the defendant with stealing irom one David Kahin forty eels, in the towusbip of Standing Stone, on the 22d day of September last. Defendant arraigned and pleads not guilty ; wbefeopon a jury called and sworn, Morrow, District Attorney, and Mereor for commonwealth, and Baird for Defendant. After a hearing, the Jury return a verdict of of not guilty. Defendant is thereupon dis charged. Com. rs Reuben Aloeley —lndictment for sel ling liquor without license. Bill found at Sep tember sessions la.>t. Defendant appears and pleads guilty, and is sentenced to pay a fine of ten dollars to com'th., costs, &c. Com. vs. Riefuird M. Johnson —lndictment for selling liquor without liceuse, brought up at the present sessions. Defendant appears and pleads guilty ; whereupon lie is sentenced to pay a fine of ten dollars and costs of prose cution, and some day also sentenced to pay a fine of twenty dollars to Commonwealth, and undergo an imprisonment in the County Jail for ten days aud costs. Also an indictment brought at the present sessions on a charge for selling liquor on Sunday upon which the said Richard appeared and plead guilty. Com. vs. Frederick Schroder —Assault and Buttery—lndictment at Sept. sessions lust Defendant appears and pleads not guilty. Ju ry called and sworn, Morrow, District Attor ney, and Lyman for Commonwealth and Wat kins for Defendant. Same day, Jury returns a verdict of not guilty and the prosecutor, Ab ner Hall, for costs. On Saturday in the afternoon, Court ad journed over to meet again on Monday, the 14th inst., at 10 o'clock, A. M. Monday morning, Dec. 14. 13")7, Court again assembled, Judges present, WII.MOT and LONG—JOHN PASSMORE having been recently appointed to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. Aaron Chubbuck, al so appeared, his commission being read in open Court. After which a hearing was had in the case of Joseph Ingham against The Barclay Railroad and Coal Co., and the report of the appraiser finally confirmed At the coming in of Court in the afternoon, the dockets were read over and judgments ta ken in the usual form in open Court. On Tuesday morning the lollowing case was taken up in the Common Pleas : C. N. Shipman vs. Lewis Bortree. —This being an issue to try the right of monies arising from sheriffs sale of the property of I. L. Qnim bv, Jury called and sworn and same day after a full hearing, return a verdict in favor of the Defendant. Sarah Ogdcn rs. IV. 11. H. Brown, and others. —Action in ejectment for the recovery of certain portions of land situate in Franklin township, Plaintiff claiming a right in land by heirship EKvell and Watkiusfor Plaintiff, and Mereur and Adams for the Defendant. De cember lGth, Jury called and sworn, and a hearing of the evidence was continued from day to day, until Saturday December 19t'n, at which time the cause was submitted to the Court and Jury with argument to the Court only on a question of law. The Jury thereup- on by direction of the Court render a verdict in favor of the Defendant. During the week, the petition of William Woolhizer was presented setting forth that Hamilton Woolhizer, a brother and resident of Litchfield, is a lunatic, and has become in capable of managing his estate and upon which an inquest was ordered, and same held before the Court and six Jurors and the said Hamil ton Woolhizer is found by the inquest so held to be a " lunatic." Also the petition of Mary Ilorans being pre sented setting forth that her son Carr Horans had become a Tuna tic, Ac., npon which an in quest was ordered and held before the Judges of the Court and six Jurors, and the said Cary is found to lie lunatic, and order made for his removal to the State Lunatic Hospital. Srisan Allport vs. Iceland AUport.—Appli cation for divorce, December 18th, on reading depositions, and on motion of Mr. Wotkins the Court decree a divorce to the said Susan Allport from the bonds of matrimony. In the matter of the Pleasant Valley Meth odist Episcopal Church of Sprinfield, Decem ber 19th, the Conrt make the final decree and grant the incorporation, as prayed lor by the petition. The Court makes the following; order in rcf ere nc to the Stay Law on execution : " That in all applications hereafter made to the Court, to obtain a stay of execution under act of October 13, 1857, on the ground that the party claiming the benefit of the act, is possessed of a freehold estate of a value above all encumbrances and exemptions sufficient to pay the judgment, tic., three days written no tice of such intended application shall be giv en to the plaintiff, if lie resides within the County, and if the plaintiff be not a resident within the County, then that like notice be given to the attorney'of the plaintiff, if such attorney be marked of record," which order the Court direct to be filed, &c. Com. rs. Wm. Ifeiison —lndictment at the present sessions for Larceny. Defendant be ing charged therein with stealing one bnsliel of corn in the ear, in Albany twp., be appears and pleads guilty and is sentenced to pay a fine of one dollar and costs, and undergo an imprisonment in the Conntv Jail for 30 days. Solon W. Stnrdevant is brought before the Court on a writ of habeas corpus from the jail of the County where he had been detained since September Term last by a decree of Court, for refusing to comply with the order of Court by not supporting his wife and fami ly, or paying for their support the amount by said decree, &c. After a hearing it is adjudg ed by the Court that the said Solon be dis charged from confinement, in conscqnencc of t|ie inefficiency of the return of the constable MR. DOCGLAS' KANSAS BILL.— The bill In. trodueed by Mr. DOUGLAS, in the Senate, p ru . vides for a Board ot five persons, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to make an enumeration of the inhabitants of Kansas, and a fair apportionment of the mem. l>ers of the Convention to form the new Coo stitution. The election to be held on a hay to be designated by the Board, to be not than ninety nor more than one Hundred and twenty days after the passage of the act. TU Board is to be entrusted with the appointment of Judges and the selection of places of voting the elective franchise to be confined to ever? free white male citizen of tbe\United States over twenty-one years of age, who may be a bona fide inhabitant of the Territory on the 21st of December, and who shall have resided three months prior to said election in the coun ty in which he offers to vote. The Conven tion to assemble in not less than thirty ** more than sixty days after the election of delegates. The Constitution to be submitted to the legal voters for their free acceptance or rejection and unless adopted by all a ma jority of all the legal votes cast shall le noli and void. The bill also secures the personal and political rights of the people, iuclndiug those of the Speech and Press. The circumstances of the arrest of an Irishman named PATRICK NICEST, last winter, charged with the murder of a lad named Cms. E. SAGE, of Cromwell, near Middletown, Conn., will be recollected; also, the acknowledged complicity of a sailor named BENSON, wbo, some months subsequently, went voluntarily to Cromwell, arid confessed that he saw the deed done, and assisted XIGENT in disposing of the corpse. The people of the neighborhood have within the past day or two, been thrown into a state of the most intense excitement by the discovery that the supposed murdered boy U alive, and residing somewhere in the interior of Pennsylvania. The case is a very mysteri ous one, and is still further complicated by the fact that a headless body, soon after the al leged murder, was found in the Connecticut River, an 1 buried, uuder the supposition that it was SAGE'S —it having several marks on it leading to that belief. I®* " Iranistan," the residence of P. T. BARNCM, near Bridgeport Conn., was totally by fire on Thursday night. The cost of the building was over SIOO,OOO. It was erected eight years ago. The furniture originally cost : $'20,000, but only about half of it had been | returned to the house from New York, whither it was all removed some to years since The insurance on the house was lietweeo $30,- ! 000 and $40,000, and on the furniture SI,OOO all held by mortgages. Mr. BARNCM was pre paring to recoeupy the premises, and the lire is | supposed to have been occasioned bv the care lessness of woi kmen engaged in refitting and repairing. A CARD. —The undersigned takes great pleasure in testifying to the fact that th p lead ing Banks in our Country have realiv "resum ed Specie paymeuts." as was evidenced by a very pleasing scene, which took place on Wed nesday evening last. A large representation of our citizen®, both young and old—there being a lady among the multitude, upwards of 80years of age—includ ing some well-tried friends from the surround ing Country—combined to besiege his Cottace on that evening, and poured in such ammufii tiens as are calculated to warm and fortify the place for some time to come—and while the tables were made to groan under a rich and well served repast, in which all seemed to take an interest, there was also "the feast of rcasou i and the flow of sonl." For this very liberal expression of kind feci ing'toward himself, his family, and the church which it is honor to serve as Pastor, he would tender, in their name, his warm and most grateful thanks—while his prayer and hum ble efforts will be continued for their present and eternal welfare. WM. SYM. Towauda, 10, 1857. JfcaT Uer. S.vMvn. F. Colt delivered the Fourth Lecture of the Course, on Mouthy evening last. The attendance was uot so large as formerly, owing to the inclemency of the evening, but those present enjoyed a rare intellectual treat. The next Lectnre will be delivered by P r - W UXIAM KKDER, on Tuesday evening, Jan. >• Dr. E. is one of the most eloquent and plea* ing lecturers in the country, and gives general satisfaction wherever he goes. Gov Walker's letter of Resignation. The following extracts arc from Gov. WAL KER'S letter resigning the office of Governor of Kansas : WASHIMGTOS <"ITY. Tuesday, NEE. 15, JLm. Jjcrcis Cass, Secretary of Slate : Sin : I resign the office of Governor of the Territory of Kansas. 1 have been most reluc tantly forced tcf this conclusion, after anxious and careful consideration of my duty to B? country, and to the people of Kansas, to the President of the United States, and to my self. The grounds assumed by the President i" bis late message to Congress, and in recent in structions in connection with the events no* transpiring here and in Kansas, admonish n> e that, as Governor of that Terri:orv, it will i* longer be in my power to preserve the peace or promote the public welfare. At the earnest solicitation of the President, after repeated refusals, the last being in wrl " ting, 1 finally accepted the office, upon his let ter showing the dangers and difficulties of the Kansas question, and the necessity of my o n ' dtrtuking the task of adjustment. Under the# circumstances, notwithstanding tho greai sac rifice to me, personal, political and pecuui# r 7j I felt that I could no more refese rnch * rS
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