From Washington.
WASHINGTON, February 15, 1559.
The telegraph has furnished you with the
details of the proceedings last crening of the
Special Kansas Investigating Committee. I
will not repeat them. As I previously inform
ed you, the committee were at a " dead look,"
Mr. Letcher l>eing absent on account of ill-
Bess. The announcement of Mr. Stevens, of
Georgia, the chairman, that he should consid
er their duties closed at the next meeting, one
week hence, and woald be prepared to pre
sent to the consideration of the committee a
majority report, produced feelings of indigna
tion among the anti-Lecomptonites. It is in
keeping with the whole Lecompton transac
tion. It is a declaration to the country that
the Administration party fear to investigate j
the outrages which its own members have per
petrated in one of the territories of the United
Btatcs. It is said that the President has indi
cated to the Lecomptonites of the House that
Investigation must be strangled ! Calhoun must
not be exposed, because he has done nothing
that has not been dictated by the President,
and investigation would expose the fact. The
northern democrats in the House are thus no
tified that they must swallow the Lecompton
Constitution, notwithstanding it is presented
to them surrounded (it is alleged, and can be
proved) by the grossest outrages ever perpe
trated. Inres'igation is cUnkii them.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, Pub. 27.
HORACE GREELEY, Esq., was examined this
morning before the tariff Investigation Com
mittee. All the members were present. The
examination was concluded within forty min
utes, when Mr. GREKLET was informed that
Committee would not requ're his futare atten
dance. He expressed his high appreciation of
the candor and courtesy of the Committee,
and thanked them for calling him before them.
He says that they asked him no questions
which were not pertinent, aud of which he
was uot very glad of the opportunity to an
swer. The purport of his testimony is under
stood to be that no man ever proposed to put
any money into his hands, to influence in any
way the action of Congress on the tariff or
any other question, and no one suggested any
thing of the sort, with his consent or knowl
edge. He never knew until the late expose in
Boston, nor ever heard or believed that money
was paid or promised by Messrs. LAWRENCE,
STONE & Co., or by any one else, whether to
members or others, to influence the action of
the last Congress on the tariff.
A gentleman of position among the Free-
State Democrats of Kansas, and who is now
In this city on matters connected with the po
litical fortunes of that Territory, states posi
tively that Gov. WALKER has not receded a
single point from his recent position in refer
ence to Kansas affairs.
[Washington Correspondent of the Philadelphia Press.]
The Democratic delegation to the House
from Pennsylvania had a meeting last evening.
There was a large attendance. After much
consultation on both sides,thev adjourned with
out concluding definitely on any point. A
number of the Lecompton men admitted that
they demand something more than a mere Con
gressional declaration that the people of Kan
sas, under the Lecompton Constitution, should
have the right to change that instrument of
State government any time they pleased be
fore the year 1861. It remains to be seen
whether, with all their doubts on this point,
they will vote for Lecompton without dotting
an or crossing a t, in which way it is intend
ed to force it to its passage.
Mr. HARRIS, of Illinois, chairman of the In
vestigating Committee, is instructed only to in
quire whether any documents are obtainable
at the Departments which have a bearing on
the matter before that Committee, but lie is not
to get whatever documents there may lie for a
prosecution of the investigation immediately ;
he is only to make inquiry, to report what he
may learn to the Committee at :ts next session,
a week heucc.
(Correspondence of the Evening Post.)
WASHINGTON, February 21.
The action of the Republicans assembled in
State Convention yesterday at Ilarrisburg,Pa.,
is deemed judicious. I learn from a gentle
man who was present that the leading Repub
licans of the state consulted with some of the
principal auti Lecompton democrats before the
convention assembled, aud it was agreed upon,
iu convention, that they would not proceed to
take action against the Lecompton constitution
as Republicans, but adjourn sine die, with in
structions to their State Central Committee to
call a convention, at an early day, of all those
opposed to the Lecompton fraud. This will
be done, and the convention will, probably, be
held sometime in June. This action of the Re
publicans meets the wishes of the anti-Lecomp
ton democrats of Pennsylvania, and is viewed
by the anti-Lecompton democrats of the Ilonse
of Representatives from Pennsylvania as a
wise movoment in the right direction.
SURGICAL OPERATION.— An extraordinary sur
gical operatiou was performed by Drs. Field
and 1 lines, about ten days ago, on the person
of Miss Amelia Miller, daughter of David Mil
ler, of South .Whitehall township, Lehigh coun
ty. The young lady is about 18 years of age
and had an enormous tumor over her right
eye, or rather behind her eye ball, which had
liecu growing for ten years. It had so disfig
ured her face that although she was otherwise
a very fair looking girl, it was sickening to
look at her, and she says she led a life of mis
ery and often wished herself in another world.
The tumor had forced her eye down over her
cheek until it was almost on a level with her
nose With the assistance of Dr. Innes, the
whole tumor was skillfully removed byDr.Field,
the patient being under the influeuce of chloro
form. Portions of the bone above the eye
were found to be diseased, and had to be re
moved also. The patient is doing very well
and says she feeh like a new being.— Laslon
Argus.
Ax IMPORTANT DECISION. —Judge Wood
ward, of the Supreme Court, lias recently
made a decision at Philadelphia, upon the
question whether railroads are liable for dam
ages done by trains to persons or vehicles cros
sing the road. 1 lie suit was brought to reco
ver from the Philadelphia, Wilmington, Balti
more and Delaware Railroad C'ompauv for in
juries done to the plaintiff while crossing the
track of the road in a two horse wagon. ° The
points decided by the Judge were: "Ist.
That a persou about to crass a railroad track,
is in duty bound to stop and look in both di
rections, aud listen before crossing. 2d. That
if the plaintiff contributed iu the slightest de
gree to the accident in question, he could not
recover, although the railroad companv were
negligent." * 3
§rab to oporto.
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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AN INSULT TO THE PEOPLE I
The attempt to deprive the people of this
Judicial District of the right to elect a Judge,
guaranteed to them by the Constitution, pro
ceeding from aud urged on by personal malice,
is based npon the assumption that the 17,000
voters of this District, in October next, will
re-elect Judge WILMOT. The scheme is, not
to deprive him of his present commission, but
to prevent the people from electing a Judge
at the coining election. It is assumed that if
an election takes place Judge WILMOT will
receive a majority of the votes. Hence while
the ostensible argument is to increase the size
of the Districts, and save the State the sala
ry of one President Judge, the real weapons
used are wholesale misrepresentation and per
sonal abuse of Judge WILMOT. lie 13 repre
sented, privately, by those who think they are
cunning and stealthy euough to evade detec
tion and responsibility, as being a drunkard and
a gambler—as being tyrauuical upon the Bench
—as being grossly partial and biased in his de
cisions by political prejudices—and in short as
being bv habits aud by the improper discharge
of the duties of his office—unfit to fill the high
position he occupies. It is to prevent the peo
ple from choosing sach a man to preside over
the Courts of this District, that it is proposed
to deprive them of the right of voting for a
Judge !
We ask the voters of this County, if they
will quietly submit to such an insult upon their
intelligence and honesty { Shall a few men,
to gratify their personal malice, libel the peo
ple of a whole District, by asserting or insinu
ating that they are not fit to choose their own
Judge ? Will they submit to be told that,
they must be annexed to another Judicial
District, because they are so ignorant or de
based that they cannot be allowed to elect a
President Judge, for fear they will place
upon the Bench a man covered with moral
pollution aud reeking with the manifestations
of the grossest political prejudices, and iu his
decisions and manners a very JEFFREYS ? Out
upon such a base assumption ! Are the peo
ple of this District less intelligent than those
of the 26th ? are they less capable of intelli
gently employing the elective franchise ? urn
they less jealous of the purity of the judicial
ermine, or less ready to rebuke official malfea
sance than their neighbors ? We hurl back
the base insinuation iu the face of those who
arc now seeking to consummate au act, which
would prove these tilings true
We would respectfully inquire of Messrs.
PIOI.ETT, WARD, ELWELL, & Co., if the people
of this District, are not competent to guard
their own rights ? Are they not intelligent
enough to enjoy the privilege of electing their
own Judges, as prescribed by the Constitution ?
In October a President Judge for the 13th
District is to be elected. What grosser insult
could be offered to the people of that Dis
trict, than the declaration or presumption that
they will then choose an unfit person ? Will
the people submit iu patience to such an impu
tation ? It is sheer assumption to say that
Mr. WILMOT is certain to be chosen. The
people, if they see proper, will elect him, and
who shall deuy their right to do so ? But if
his persecutors will make good their charges
against his reputation as a mau and his im
partiality as a Judge, that people will reject
him with scorn. But they arc the proper tri
bunal to pass upon his merits. For six years
he has presided over our Courts, every action
watched by a thousand jealous eyes, and if he
has gone astray from the path of rectitude and
duty, let the people condemn him.
But we protest in the name of an outraged
people, against this imputation upon their hon
esty and intelligence. We believe they are the
safe repositories of all the rights guaranteed
them by the Constitution, and any attempt to
impeach their honesty or deprive them of those
rights, should excite their iudignation. We de
nounce this scheme as impugning the character
and reputation of the people of Bradford and
Susquehanna. What have they done that the
Legislature should attempt to cast such a stig
ma upon them ? Shall a few men, to gratify
a spirit of personal revenge, be allowed to de
preciate and malign the character of the people
of a Judicial District ? We do not believe that
the Legislature of Pennsylvania will lend it
self to such mi outrageous scheme, but will per
mit the people of the 13th Judicial District to
regulate their domestic matters in their own
way, subject only to the Constitution of Penn
sylvania. They are abundantly competent to
preserve the impartiality and efficiency of the
Bench, and also to visit their just indignation
upon those who would impeach their character
for integrity and intelligence.
4®°" Will some one inform us where can be
found the office and place of business of '' The
Susquehanna and Elmira Coal Company "
its chie,* "operations are to be carried on in
Bradford County." We know of those who
seine business with it.
THE CONSPIRACY AND THE CONSPIRATORS.
The facts connected with the inception and
prosecution of the great outrage upon the Con
stitutional rights of the People of this Judicial
District, are fast being developed. |The secret
plans, the stealth) movements, of those who
seek to rob the people of their privileges,
and to degrade Judge WILMOT as a man and a
JuJge, are coming to light. Every new de
velopment but adds to the dishonesty, the un
fairness, the duplicity, of the movement, and
convicts the actors of being engaged in a
cowardly and dishonorable persecution, to
gratify their malevolent feelings of personal
malignity and revenge.
We stated,in first arousing the people tojthis
threatened invasion of their rights, that it had
itsforigin in personal hostility to Judge WIL
MOT, and its birth with those jealous, uneasy
foes who have beset his path in years past,
with falsehood and misrepresentation. We
have now the evidence of this fact, in so tan
gible a form as to challenge controversy or
contradiction. We shall therefore unvail the
modus operandi by which this shameful conspi
racy was to he carried on, and deal with the
conspirators, as far as it is legitimate and prop
er for us to do so, carefully avoiding ull harsh
epithets and personal vituperation.
It is not at any time, nor under anycircnm
stances, a pleasant task to hold men up to pub
lic reprobation, particularly when they are our
neighbors, and in some instances, personal
friends, but if they will forget what is due to
themselves and the public, they must not com
plain if they are severely dealt with ; for they
cannot expect to perpetrate acts which insult
and outrage the public, without provoking its
indignation ; nor must they expect to strike
at private and official character, by base and
false means, while the press stands dumbly by,
and allows the infamy to be consummated.
This scheme to annihilate the 13th Judicial
district, is not a new one ; it has been threat
ened for a long time, and held in terrorem over
the heads of the people. It is a favorite plan
with the clique who have now for the first
time, attempted to put it into practical execu
tion. The lale activity which has been given
to it is owing to Col. PIOLETT, who has been
spending a portion of the winter at Harris
burg, preparing the way, by poisoning the
minds of the members, with violent denuncia
tions of Judge WILMOT, wholesale abuse
and misrepresentation, and unmitigated and
unblushing falsehood, slandering his personal
character, and traducing his official reputation
by charges which if true would blast the char
acter of the most upright Judge in Christendom.
PIOLETT is the head and tail of this movement
—the brains and venom of the whole concern.
His particular speciality is in originating and
conducting an unjust warfare against men
whose upright characters make them hateful to
his sight. His fruitful imagination teems with
the most unmitigated misrepresentations ; like
the hvdra-headed monster, crush one falsehood
another springs into being. Conscious, how
ever, how obnoxious he is to the public, he
has the shrewdness to keep in the baek-gronnd
and puts forward better men to accomplish his
purposes, while he directs their movements.
Despised and hated by his political associates,
they nevertheless are not proof against the un
scrupulous impetuosity of the man, and docile
ly follow his lead. It is hardly necessary to
say, that he is satisfied that the party in Brad
ford should be 41 conveniently small," and the
gratification of his personal animosity is al
ways considered, rather than its success and
welfare. Towards Judge WILMOT he has the
most implacable and violent hatred. He would
shiver the Democratic party in a thousand
fragments if thereby he could gratify his re
vengeful and malevolent feeling.
This man, actuated by these unworthy mo
tives, visited Ilarrisburg to lay the plans for
the outrage which has been threatened upon
the people of this District. Thinking that the
propitious moment had arrived, he returned to
Bradford, and infused some of his own venom
and activity into his satellites. He assured
them that the time had come when they could
wreak their personal vengeance upon WII.MOT
—that if they went at the work in earnest they
could not fail of success. Knowing that if
the movement was an open one, it would arouse
the public—they sought in a private manner
to obtain the necessary documents to carry
out the plan. A petition was secretly circu
lated amongst such members of the Bar, as it
was thought would either inconsiderately or wil
lingly sign it, asking to be annexed to the 26th
District. A copy of this memorial, with the
signatures is here presented :
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representa
tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General
Assembly met :
The undersigned, members of the harnf Bradford coun
ty, respectfully, yet earnestly, pray that a law may he
passed, by which said county shall t>e annexed to the
twenty-sixth Judicial District of this State, and assign as
a reason, that in our opinion the due administration of
justice demands the passage of such a law—and will ever
pray, Ac.
WILLIAM WATKIXS, W. ELWELL,
KDW. OVERTON, I). A. OVERTON,
FRANCIS SMITH, WILLIAM SCOTT.
E. W. BAIUD, U. W. PATRICK.
JAMES MACFARLAXE, J. E. CAXFIELD,
11. . M'KEAX, H. C. IIAI HI),
H. J MADILL, J. B. REEVE.
WM. 11. PECK. D. F. BARSTOW,
STEPHEN PIERCE, C. L. WARD.
[lt is but justice to Messrs. BARSTOW,
PATRICK and 11. C. BAIRD, to say, that in sign
ing this memorial they did not intend to call
in question the character of Judge WILMOT, as
a man, nor his impartiality as a Judge.]
The names of the signers of this petition
were obtained in the most private manner.
The whole plot was enveloped in the deepest
secresy. A\ bile Judge WILMOT was engaged
in holding the February term of his Court, a
portion of the members of the bar, were pri
vately eoneoctiug a nefarious scheme to pub
lish him as unfit to sit upon the Beoch and to
disgrace liiui in public estimation. It was also
arranged that the persons having this scheme
in charge, should quietly slip off to Harrisburg,
denying their place of destination, and while
Judge WILMOT was unsuspectingly at home,
convict him before the Committees of the Le
gislature for grossly and outrageously prosti
tuting his official station to the most base and
disreputable purposes. Is this denied ? Will
a Bingle assertion we have made, be called in
question ? If so, we have the proof, from one
of those engaged in the movement. If any
doubts that a scheme has been secretly con
cocted, aud was to be stealthily carried on
aga nst Judge WILMOT, let him read the fol
lowing letter, written to W. H. PUCK, of Troy,
a copy of which has been placed in oar hands
with authority to make it public :
Confidential.] To wan da, February 15th, 1858.
DICAR SIR The petition of members of the Bar of
this County, asking to be set ofT to Judye WOODWARD'S
district, is likely to be nnmerously signed. From piesent
appearances, we shall have tbe names of twenty members
orthe Bar npon it. Mr. BAIRD will go with it to Athens
on Tuesday, and will be at your place on Tuesday night.
His chief object in coming there is to get the name of
PARSONS. SMITH'S is already on. Pierce, I understand,
is not at home. If Parsons should not be at home on
Tuesday, would not a line to that effect reach me at
East Smithficld, on Tuesday, about noon or a little after?
1 have a suit at Smithficld, on Tuesday ; BAIRD corues that
way, and we intend to get the names of HCLLOCK and
LYMAN. If PARSONS should not be at home, BAIRD
could come home from Smithfieid, and save a good deal
of travel.
Now comes the most important part of my communica
tion. BAIRD, D'A. OVERTON, PIOLLBT, and myself will
start fr m here on Thursday, the 18th, at noon,"and stay
that night at Owego. On the next morning, Friday, we
take the cars to the Oreat Bend ; there we will take the
cars for Wilkes-Bar re : stop there and fix up matters
so that Judge CONYSGHAM will consent to take
hanna County, and go on to Harrisburg byway of North
umberland, arriving there on Friday night, or sometime
on Saturday, and stop at Buehlcr's. Now you and Judge
WILBUR must come down either come byway of Waverly,
and stay with us Thursday uight, or else go down so as
to be at Harrisburg on Saturday. We would like your
company this way. and think Judge WILBEK could "talk
smooth things to his old friend CONY.VGHAM.
I write at once, a* soon as we have settled npon a
course of action. So that you can be ready. There is to
be no back out in this war—and if we act we will not fail.
Will you and the Judge go? And which way? I'ou
must go. Such a necessity for action will never arise
again. I have neither time nor money to spare, but still
I will attend to this business. By the wav. I dou't think
we will need to stay there over three or four days.—
Come on ! the prospect is fair.
Yours, Truly,
WM. ELWELL.
It is not necessary to let it be known where we are go
ing, or what our business.
Mr. ELWELL has some reputation as a fair
and upright man, aud it is more in sorrow
than anger, that we use this evidence to unra
vel the secret conspiracy to which he has lent
himself. What PIOLLET lacks in character, he
endeavors to make up by using Mr. ELWELL.
He uses the latter on all opportunities to sup
ply the want of public confidence and respect
towards himself. Mr. ELWKLL, though an
44 amiable " man, is not a decided one ; and it
must have been the baleful influence of PIOLLET
which extorted from him such a precious doc
ument as that we have given above. Men
should never write letters they would not care
to see in print. Accideut may throw them in
to the hands of political enemies, where they
are considered, of course, fair weapons of war
fare This letter unfolds the programme of
the conspiracy, and proves everything which
has been asserted of the conspirators. The
secret manner in which signatures to the peti
tion was to be obtained ; the trip to Harris
burg, via Wilkes-Barre, when Judge CONYSO
IIAM'S ear was to be poisoned, until he would
consent to be privy to the arrangement to in
jure a brother Judge ; and particularly the
44 smooth words " which our old aud esteemed
friend Judge WILBER knows so well how to
employ. Above all comes the climax of diseu
geuuousness— 44 it is not necessary to let it be
known where we are going, or what our busi
ness." No, Mr. ELWELL 1 it was necessary for
the success of the 44 war" in which you were
engaged, that it should not be known where
you were going or what your business. We
submit if such a journey, for such a purpose,
was in accordance with the reputation you en
joy, and we have no doubt, are proud of, for
fairness and integrity. The highest reputa
tion could not stand many such developements.
If you have just grounds of complaint against
Judge WII.MOT, the impulse of a fair and man
ly heart would be, to make open, manly aud
fair accusations. What is this 44 war," which is
urged on, and from which there is to be no
44 back out ?" Is it a war upon the private
and official character of Judge WILMOT ? If
so, let it be openly made, and honorably prose
cuted. Or is it a 44 war" upon the 17,000
voters of this Judicial District, to deprive
them of their rights under the Constitution ?
Or has Mr. EI.WEI.L not forgiven the voters of
this District, that they passed over his merits
and qualifications, to elevate Judge WII.MOT to
the bench ? A fair and manly nature makes
no guerilla war—but revengeful passions tempt
to stealthy attacks and secret assassination.
The public will be astonished to learn that Mr.
EI.WEI.L has lent his name and influence to
such an unjust war ; and in charity to him
we believe that he has allowed PIOLLET to lead
him into it, against the dictates of his better
judgment, and the natural impulses of his
heart.
At Harrisburg, it became necessary to urge
some good and substantial reasons why the
proposed change should be made. The 11th
and the 26th Judicial Districts are already
large enough, and unless there could be shown
some very cogent reason why Bradford and
Susquehanna should be annexed, the proposi
tion would meet with no attention. We will
now quote from the " Press" an extract from
its Harrisburg Correspondence, which is evi
dently official, to show the reasons given for
annihilating the District :
" It i* asserted by gentlemen who are here urging its
passage that Judge WILXOT frequently makes speeches
at political meetings during court week ; that he is unfair
to his political opponents in his official intercourse, and
partial to his friends ; that no active Democrat can ob
tain a tavern license in Bradford or Susquehanna, and
that in various ways 44 the due administration of justice''
is interfered with t>y the President Judge's partizan pro
clivities, although he is sufficiently careful to avoid im
peachment."
These are the public accusations made ;
privately, no assertion that malice can invent
is spared to poison the minds of members to
wards Jndge WII.MOT. The hundreds of peo
ple flbo have attended the Courts of this Coun
ty for tbe last six years, will be astouished to
learn that he is a drunkard and a gambler ;
that no political opponent can obtain a fair
hearing in Court ; that he is tyrannical and
over-bearing in his disposition. Yet these
things are charged upon hiin at Harriabnrg,
and falsehood and perversion of facta are em
ployed to sustain the allegation.
The aim and object of the Conspirators, was,
and is, to make a " party question" of the
matter. By so doing, they hoped tbat a blind
partizan zeal, would hurry it through the Leg
islature, without regard to its merits, its injus
tice, or its entire impotencv to effect any use
ful party purpose. The abolition of this Judicial
District, would not strengthen the Democrat
ic party. Let this outrage be consummated,tad
Judge WILMOT is stronger with the people of
this District, than ever. This the men who
are pursuing him understand perfectly well.—
They have no expectation of accomplishing
anything political by effecting their plans; their
sole object is to gratify their personal malice.
But it is necessary, in order to succeed, to
make the members of the Legislature believe
that a great political revolution is to be effect
ed in Bradford aud Susquehanna by wiping
out the 13th Judicial District. The idea is too
ridicuioust to be seriously entertained ; but it
is nevertheless asserted at Harrisburg with
great vehemence.
This conspiracy receives, as it deserves, the
reprobation of the candid aud honest men of
all parties. Outside of a small circle, where
jealousy and malice towards Judge WILMOT
have festered for years, it has no support or
sanction. We hear of neighborhoods which
remonstrate unanimously, Democrats as well
as Republicans, against such an outrage upon
their own rights, and such gross injustice to
an officer who they respect for his ability and
integrity. If the voice of the people coutrols
the action of the Legislature, the 13tb Judi
cial District will be allowed to stand iDtact,
and the people allowed to elect who they please
to preside over its Courts.
FOREIGN* NEWS. —By the arrival of the
Arago&t New York, and the Avglo-Saxon
at Portland, we have received four days'
later news from Europe. The advices from
India aud China are important. The bom
bardment of Canton commenced on the 28th
of December ; 4,600 British and 900 French
troops being landed on the morning of that
day. The bombardment was continued through
out the day and night, and on the morning of
the *29 th the assault was made, and by 9 o'clock
the heights within the town were in possession
of the assailants—but little resistance being
made to this progress. From India the news
is generally of a cheering character. Sir COL
IX CAMPBELL had taken possession of Feruka
bad, which was abandoned by the enemy, aud
Goruehpore had been taken on the 6th of Jan
uary, with but trifling loss. The European
news is also interesting. The appearance in
the Moniteur of the bellicose addresses from
the French Army continued to excite the
British public. The subject had been noticed
iu the Ilonse of Lords by Lord LYNDHCRST,
in reply to which Earl GRANVILLE said that a
note had been received from the French Go
vernment expressing the regret of the Empe
ror for the appearance of anything offensive
to the English nation. In the House of Com
mons Lord PAI.MF.RSTON* had succeeded in intro
ducing his bill to make conspiracy to commit
murder a felouy, by a vote of 299 to 90.
Nevertheless, a great doubt existed whether
Parliament would accept the bill, and this
doubt, combined with unfavorable rumors
from France, had a depressing influence on
the funds. Symptoms of revolutionary move
ments have been discovered in Spain, and out
breaks are apprehended. The news from oth
er portions of Europe is unimportaut.
THE LOST DAUGHTER ; AND OTHER STORIES
OF THE HEART. By Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz
author of "Linda," "Love after Marriage,"
etc., etc. The lamented author of the charm
ing story that gives its title to this attractive
volume has left behind her many lasting and
beautiful souvenirs of her literary triumphs.—
But, among them all, there is not one, perhaps,
more worthy of her reputation than the effect
ing story of " The Lost Daughter." We are
not called upou, we are aware, to repeat here
all that able critics have so often and truth
fully said in praise of the dramatic powers dis
played in the writings of the late Mrs. Ilentz
—of the ease, correctness, and gracefulness of
her style—of the purity or the strength of her
moral principles—or of the applicability of her
lessons and examples to the prudent regulation
of the affairs of every-day life. Exclusive of
"The Lost Daughter," this volume contains
no less than nine of the authoress' most delight
ful stories. Price, in cloth, I 25, or, in two
volumes, paper cover, One Dollar. Address,
T. B. PETERSOX & BROTHERS, 306 Chestnut
street Philadelphia, who will forward the work
free of postage, on receipt of price.
WHERE'S SNORBI.F. ?—The following para
graph is taken from the fiuancial article of the
Evening Post:
"A young man of genteel appearance, named Ei.Lts B.
SCHNABKI., from Wiluamsport, Penn., has been obtaining
money from different parties in this city, upon the repre
sentation that he is a brother-in-law oi" Governor PACK
ER. and giving drafts upon that gentleman, but which, of
course returned protested. He hiis carried on his mal
practices in Washington and Philadelphia with much suc
cess. He is kuowu in his native State as being the son of
a highly estimable man."
The eloqueut, the indomitable Snobble has
been victimising his friends very freely. We
bear that friend BEEBE of the Owego Gazette
is stuck to the tune of sls0 —Served him
right ! what business had an editor with so
much money.
*£-It is said that Lecompton and Minne
sota will be coupled together in the Senate.
THE CONSPIRACY lit THE LEGlxi.^
We have from private sources, an a , v
of the performances of the Committee *;
went to Harrisburg, to effect the anDlbiU 4
of this Judicial District, and their appe 8
and auccesa before the Judiciary Committ* „
the two Houses. As these will not * I
in the proceedings of the Legislature, e
give a brief account, as we have it fro m
authority :
In the House, 00 Tuesday, 23d o!t
SMITH of Wyoming, read in place the foli 0 , I
bill which was referred to the Judiciary cj
mittee: j
AM ACT Relative to ttie Courts In BnJTorg *nt • I
hanna Counties. -xJ
SecnoM Ist- Be it enacted by tbe Brate and t, 1
Representatives of the Commonwealth of iv n **l
in General Assembly met, and it is herein- „
authority of the same. That from the first 1K22.S
December next tbe Cbtnrty of Bradford shall U •1
to and constitute part of the twenty-suti, Dhtrt"*®!
the County of Susquehanna shall he annerM , 4
constitute w part of the eleventh judicial , fc l
Commonweath. '"J
SEC. 2d. The terms of fhe several conrts „r P I
County shall he held by tire prtsidirrg juSes of
ty-sixffir Judicial district on the third Monlav JtT' ;, 4
May, September aud December for 'such term
provided bylaw. " "fell
SEC. 3d. That the terns of the several rnnm , I
qnehanna County shall be held by the presidiLr 4
said eleventh district, on the second Monuavs
first Mondays of June, third Mondays of Set,,** -I
second Mondays of December, and continue as
quired by (aw. ' I
SEC. 4. The terms of the several conrts of o,r-1
County shall comnasnca two weeks later than ,M
now fixed by law. '-*1
This Committee met on Wednesday, to-J
aider the bill. Messrs. PIOLI.IT, Ki.wsn., }u|
D'A. OVERTON, and PICK, APPEARED be'forsj
Committee, to unbosom tifeeoudves of tj
- grievances. They severally made lwigtpj
\ es, bitterly complaining of Judge
! hinting in vague terms as tohu tyrannies!tfl
I partial conduct upon the Bench. Whet J
ed to point out the cases where Judge W J
had shown partiality or political bias up*l
Bench, they failed to do so. We letrj 1
the North American, that Mr. M'Cixitr .J
them if they could say, as lawyers and 'M
that Judge WILMOT had ever shown parul
or political bias, in the discharge of his do ]
They all failed to answer directly except W
OVEBTO.V, who said "he believed so." iifl
a hearing, the Committee postponed the M
ther consideration of the subject for M
weeks. I
The next attempt was made in the.yj
On Thursday, Mr. BREWER read in placet J
similar iu its provisions to the one we ®
quoted above, which was referred to the ;■
diciary Committee. On Friday, the Coa®
tee met, and the conspirators appeared V J
it, now reinforced by Mr. WARD. I
The same violent and denunciatory sptt®
I were made as before, while Mr. WARD,
a hypocritical guise, and under a pr>: ®
friendship for Judge Wiutor, endearorti ■
stab his reputation. |
Here they were also asked to spwb®
writing, the particular instances of Jud!®|
MOL'R misconduct upon the Bench, but the®
i declined doing so,except PioLi.ET,who decii®
, his readiness to reduce his grievances to i®
ing, but did not, however, do so. 1
The misstatements made by these tree'.?:®
were promptly met by Senator MVEHSDC. I
IG. F. MASON, who were present. A ns 9
was made to report the bill with an affi-n*: I
recommendation, which lost by 2 yeasti I
, nays ; a motion was then made and lost I
postpone the further consideration of ibr 9
and that tbe Chairman inform Judge W:J I
of tbe allegations made ; the bill was tbeti I
gatived, by 3 yeas to 2 nays.
On Saturday morning, however, the 0 I
mittee was again assembled, and at thews I
of Judge WILMOT'S frieuds, tbe second AS 4
was reconsidered, and adopted.
The whole matter now stands thus: '
House Committee has postpoued the is.®
consideration of the matter until tbe !<®
March. The Senate Committee has also®
poned it and instructed their chairmanto®
Judge WILMOT. We also understand*
Messrs. WM. WATKINS and EDWARD Ovfl®
headiug the memorial to the Legislature®
been written to, to make charges spo ,,? ®
and in writing. Judge WILMOT will the:®
an opportunity of meeting his accusers,®
showing how unjust and frivolous are ®
charges, provided they dare make ant it®
Tbe Conspirators, who thought ti®
would only be necessary to stay at
3 or 4 days to effect the annihilation o I
District, have learned that is not so f*®
inoculate the Legislature with their p*® :
malignity and that the majority of that *
require some good cause for the out!*?®
deed it is asked to perpetrate. The l* 8
of the members of tbe bar, not avails®?
conspirators have had petitions printed a- ® J
risburg, and arc now circulating them:' I '®!
out the County, asking the Legislate I
franchise the people of this District, wh ;f -®
expect the public to sign. | -
In the meantime, the remonstrances a?®!
this outrage arc beiug generally fly
out regard to party. As great cxerti 00 *®!
be made to obtain names enough
ishing petition, to give something h'ke.*®i
lar sanction to the movement, it teh^ r "®§
friends of " popular sovereignty" to i |,Tt ® y
remonstrances in every district, that
islature may see how universally tbis s-Wy
is condemned. I
MUSICAL CONVENTION". —Our musical '"Hjl
in the Western part of the County
arrangments for holding a Musical to D
commencing on Tuesdaj next, to he r®S
over by Professor G. F. ROOT, whose
reputation is too well established to
at our hands. We trust there will
attendance, and we have no doubt tb o
do attend will find the occasion both P ®B
and profitable. 1 £