E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
TOWANDA:
Thursday Morning, March 15, 1860.
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MR. GROWS SPEECH.
We publish on our outside the great speech
of Mr. GROW, delivered in the House, on the
subject of " Free Homes for Free men." This
speech will add greatly to Mr. G's reputation
as a statesman and frieud of Free Labor.
We append the following flattering comment
from the Tribune: —
" We publish this morning the Speech of
the lion. G. A. GROW to the House on Wed
nesday last in exposition and advocacy of the
policy of devoting the Public Lands in limited
tracts to the free occupancy and use of Actual
Settlers thereon. Mr. GROW, though yet a
young man, has honorably commended him
self to the gratitude of his countrymen and the
blessings of posterity by his early, ardent, per
sistent, efficient championship of tho Free
Homestead policy, and this speech will add to
his well-earned popularity with the philanthro
•pic, the thoughtful, and the poor. We trust
it must be dussemiuated as widely as possible.
Fifty thousand copies of it were subscribed for
in the House, immediately on its delivery,
thongh many of the Members were then list
ening to Gov. Seward in the Senate, and we
presume a Quarter of a Million will in time be
sent out from Washington City. We shal'
print Two hundred and Eighty-odd Thousand
copies of it this week in THE TRIBUNE, and
have a pamphlet copj for sale forthwith. We
do not believe a more effective document can
be circulated by Republicans.
For the silly lie that ours is a" negroparty"
—that "it has no idea but' nigger ! nigger !'"
—that it cares nothing or thinks nothing of
the interests and welfare of White Men—and
all that poor, miserable trash—may thus be
refuted, when self-respect will not permit us to
plead to it directly. Men of sense know that
resistance to the Extension of Slavery is based
on a desire to preserve the Territories to be
settled and cultivated by Free Whites, instead
of having them monopolized, as Alabama and
Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas, Florida
and Texas origually were, by the owners of
human chattels. That the Republican policy
is preferable for Black Men as well as White
we rejoicingly believe ; but it was in the in
terest and for the benefit of Whites that
Thomas Jefferson first proposed, and Madison
sanctioned, and Washington officially approv
ed, the exclusion of Slavery from the Federal
Territories. As it was then, so it is now ;
and when Congress comes to act on the subject
of the Tariff, we shall again see which party
acts in the interest and for the benefit of the.
Free Laboring Masses. Meantime, let us ask
the People everywhere to read Mr. Grow's ar
gument for the Free Homes and watch the
action of Congress 011 that vitally important
subject."
THE SHOEMAKERS' STRIKE. —The Massachu
setts shoemakers' strike is gradually extending
over the State, and also into New Hampshire.
The riotous demonstrations at Lynn widened
the gnlf between the manufacturers and their
workmen to a degree that placed them in hos
tile attitudes. It is estimated that tbe num
ber at present, on the strike, including the
women, is about 15,000. Of the continuance
of tbe strike we have no means of determining
but it is supposed there will hardly be a gene
ral resumption of work until next fall.
BST It is now supposed that the steamer
Hungarian struck about midnight, when all
but the watch were in their berths, in which
case, probably, they were carried down with
the vessel. A corps of divers have reached
the wreck, and their investigations will deter
mine the suspense entertained as to the where
abouts of the lost.
The Grand Jury of Jefferson County,
Va., having found indictments against Owen
Brown, sou of John Brown, and Francis Mer
riam, two of the Harper's Ferry insurgents,
Gov. Letcher has made a requisition upon Gov.
Denison of Ohio for their arrest. Gov. Deni
son declines issuing warrants for their arrest,
and states that he has already given his rea
sons to Gov. Letcher.
£@P-Thc Committee of the Virginia Legis
lature have reported that it is inexpedient for
the Legislature to interfere with the sentence
of Hazlitt and Stevens, the Harper's Ferry
insnrgents.
The first of the Pike's Peak emigrants
have arrived at Leavenworth. A dispatch
from that place urges those contemplating emi
gration to wait until after the Ist of May, or
the same distress may be experienced which
was suffered last year. Subsistence for man
and beast will be very precarious prior to tbe
date named.
FUNERAL OF WM. B. FOSTER, JR. —The re
mains of thp late WM. B. FOSTER, Jr., were
taken to East Liberty Station, near Pitts
burgh, and arrived there on Wednesday it 11-2
P. M., in a special funeral car suitably arrang
ed for the purpose. The engine and cars were
draped in mourning, and the offices at the sta
tions along the road were hung with the same
sad emblems of death.
The remains left Philadelphia in charge of
a Committee consisting of EDMUND SMITH,
Secretary Pennsylvania R. R. Company ;
THOMAS A. SCOTT, General Superintendent;
Gen. A. L. ROCMFORT, CHAS. L. FRANCISCCS,
Assistant Superintendents ; 11. J. LOMBART,
Controller and Auditor ; W. F. LEECH, WM.
11. WILSON, Chief Engineer ; aud DANIEL G.
THOMAS, Member of Council.
At East Liberty the remains were met by a
large concourse of citizens of Pittsburgh and
vicinity, and were given in charge by the Com
mittee from Philadelphia to a Committee from
Pittsburgh, and were conveyed to the grave
in the Allegheny Cemetery by Gen. lIENRV D.
FOSTER, of Greensburg ; Governor BLACK, of
Nebraska ; R. BIDDLE ROBERTS, U. S District
Attorney, aud Dr. JONAS R. MCCLINTOCK.
A FLUTTERING AMONG THE CORRUPTIONISTS.
—JOHN COVODE'S resolutions to appoint a
Committee to investigate matters in which Mr.
Buchanan is said to be concerned, (says the
Harrisburg Telegraph,) causes a great deal of
tribulation among the corruptionists. Ash
more, of South Carolina, permitted his auger
to take on a white heat. When Mr. GROW
very politely reminded the irate Carolinian that
he was entirely out of order, the latter fairly
foamed with wrath, and declared in very lond
tones that Mr. Grow had done nothing during
the entire session but call him (Ashmore) to
order ; and further, that he (Grow) might call
him (Ashmore) to order one time tod many.
We are at a loss to know just what Mr. Ash
more intended to convey by this delicate hint,
uuless it was that Mr. Grow might take warn
ing by the fate of Messrs. Summer and Hick
man. Whatever he may have intended, we
hope Mr. Grow will continueto watch the slips
of Mr. Ashmore and to remind him of such
breaches of order as he may be guilty of. Mr.
G. will thus be able to reach that "one time
too many," if it be reachable, and then the
public will know what it costs to preserve
order in Congress.. Mr. Grow has only to
avoid stabs in the dark, and rencounters with
cavaliers who hunt in droves.
DREADITL STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.—A little
steamer built at Easton, I'a., to run between
that place and Port Jervis, left Easton on her
way up the Delaware, at 11 o'clock on Tues
day last. On arriving at the falls, a short dis
tance above, she was moored, and when all was
ready to start, her boiler exploded with a ter
rible crash, the pieces flying in every direction
and the boat becoming in an instant a com
plete wreck. Some of the passengers onboard
were thrown fifty feet into the air ; others were
thrown into the water and slightly injured.and
others dreadfully mangled.
Thirteen persons are reported to have been
killed, and as many more injured—all of whom
were residents of either Easton or Belvidere.
ROYALTY VISITING CANADA. — It is now de
finitely understood that Ilis Royal Highness
Albert Edward Saxe Coburg-Goths, the Prince
of Wales and heir to the throne of Great
Britinn, will visit the loyal subjects in the Pro
vinces in the first week in June. Great pre
parations are making for his reception. The
precedents for this visit are found in the
advent of Prince William Henry—afterwards
King William the Fourth—some seventy five
years ago in company with Captain, afterwards
Lord Nelson ; and of the Duke of Kent, father
of Queen Victoria. The ostensible object of
the visit of England's future ruler is to officiate
in placing the last stone of the Victoria Bridge
over the St. Lawrence at Montreal. He will
probably visit some portions of our teritorv,
and be lionized extensively.
THE TARIFF. —At the conference of opposi
tion members from Pennsylvania Thursday, in
regard to the tariff, they agreed to recommend
to the Committee on Ways and Means to fix
specific duties on iron at the following rates :
On pig iron, $7 per tun ; railroad iron, $l2
common bar iron, $l5 per tun ; fine bar iron,
1 cent per pound ; boiler iron, 1 1-4 cents per
pound ; Russia sheet iron, 2 1-2 cents per
pound. These are the principal descriptions,
though scrap and other minor classes of iron
are provided for. This proposition has not
yet been submitted to the Ways and Means
Committee, and may be modified before being
presented in the new bill to the House. It is
probable the tariff will be reported about the
middle of next week, before all the appropria
tions are submitted, to give it a proper posi
tion in the order of business.
Baff- The Missouri Republican State Con
vention met at St. Louis on Saturday. F. P.
Blair, B. Gratz Brown, Fred. Muench and
James Sutton were elected delegates at large
to the Chicago Convention. It was under
stood that the delegation will stand 12 for Mr.
Bates and 6 against him, as the nominee for
the Presidency.
i®* The bill to reduce Congressional Mile
age was brought up in the House, March 6th,
on motion of Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, and pass
ed by a vote of 154 to 21. Seventy-Seven
members had voted to send the bill to Com
mittee of the whole, that is, to stifle it, but
only 21 of these ventured to vote directly
against it. It is thought that the measure will
be killed in the Senate.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
teg- The seventeenth term of the Susque
hanna Cellegiatc Institute closed this week, and an ex
amination of the pupils took place on Monday and Tues
day last. We are pleased to know that under charge of
the Messrs DEANS the Institute has, during the last year,
been In a flourishing condition, as regards the number of
pupils, while for superior advantages to those attending
school, it has lever been equalled. The examination
proved that the pupils have been thoroughly trained in the
respective studies they pursue. There may be schools
of higher pretensions, but we do not believe there js one,
in this vicinity, where greater advantages are to be had.
The closing exercises took place in the Court House'
Tuesday evening, and attracted an immense crowd—
Prof. W. H. DEAN delivered an address on the duties of
Teachers, in which the subject was well and ably consid.
ered, and several essays and addresses were spoken.
BIN'GHAMTO.V COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. —We
find the following in the Vinghamton Republican of Feb
13—from " A Business Man To all in search of an in
stitution where a thorough business education can be se
cured, we know of none where the facilities for acquiring
the theory and practice of business life are greater than
at this College. Being acquainted with many of similar
character, we can cheerfully recommend it as a first class
institution.
In a recent visit to the College Rooms, over the Sus
quehanna Valley Bank, we were greatly pleased with
everything we saw. The rooms are commodious, and fit
ted up with reference to commercial studies ; the Pro
fessors are gentlemen, and thoroughly experienced in the
various departments they are engaged in ; the students
are numerous, and intelligent, and seem anxious to profit
by their teachings. We were exceedingly gratified to
see the perfect order in which everything is kept, and to
witness the rapid progress of the students, since our last
visit.
To the young man about entering into business—to the
young teacher, who intends making teaching a profession
and to parents, who desire to have their sons well trained
for the business battle of life, we recommend the Bing
hamton Commercial College.
DEPUTY U. S. MARSHALS. —Messrs. JOHV
BLANDING of Harford, C. L. BROWN and A. J. GERRITRON
of Montrose, and I. B. LATHROPof Springville, have been
appointed Deputy U. S. Marshals to take the census of
Susquehanna county.
BaT" The Bradford County Musical Associa
tion held its sixth annual convention in Long's Hall. Troy
on the 6th, 7th and sth instant, under the charge of Prof.
PERKINS, of Tunkhannock, as leader. This not being the
regular time for the convention, the attendance was not
as numerous as it otherwise would have been ; still there
were about ninety present, most of the time. Mr. PER
KINS acquitted himself to the entire satisfaction of those
in attendance, and by his kind, concilatory and gentle
manly deportment, as well as his thorongh drilling in the
science of music, he gained the respect and confidence of
all with whom he became acquainted. He is quite a
young man, but has evidently been a close student in the
science which he now attempts to teach.
The exercises closed with a concert on the evening of
eighth, which was well attended. The officers of last
year were all re-elected, and the convention adjourned to
meet at Towanda, on the Tuesday of the first week oi
January,lB6l.
The following resolutions reported by the Committee
were adopted by the Association :
Resolved, Tliat, we at the close of this Sixth Annual
Convention, do hereby re-affirm our confidence in the
utility of sbch organi/.ation, and we will still exert our
selves to extend the sphere o; influence and render still
more permanent and useful the Musical Association of
Bradford County. 0
And WHEREAS, This organization having been institu
ted for the purpose of promoting " knowledge in the
science of Vocal Music," and this Convention for the pro
motion of that object, having been conducted by Prof. T.
E. PERKINS to our entire satisfaction, therefore,
Resolved, That our sincere thanks are due to Prof.
PERKINS for the efficient manner in which this conven
tion has been conducted, and that he is hereby reccom
mended to the singing public, as a competent and efficient
conductor.
Resolved, That our thanks are tendered to the citizens
of Troy for our entertainment during the term. Also,
that tlie thanks of the Association be tendered to S. W.
POMUOY for he use of his instrument, and to Mr. IXKNG,
for the use of his Hall, and that these resolutions be pub
lished in the County papers.
N. BROWN,
HENRIETTA POMEROY,
C. E. WOOD,
LUCY BLISS,
C. S. HAGER,
Committee.
6sa?*The Klinira Press states that consider
able excitement is existing at Athens, Pa., growing out
of an assessment of forty thousand dollars upon the
stockholders of the fate Farmers' Union Insurance Com
pany, of that place. It seems this Company retired from
business? and sold out, in some shape, to the Great West
ern Company, of Philadelphia. The latter Company now
comes down upon the stockholders in the Athens Com
pany for the amount above stated, and as it is divided
among a few of the prominent business men of the place,
't comes very hard for tbem to cash up, just at once- One
of the heaviest stockholders has to pay the snug little
sum of seventeen thousand dollars.
Jtea-rThc London Quarterly for January is
on our table. Its'contents are the Three colonics of Aus
tralia, Cotton Spinning Machines and their inventors ;
China and the War , The Roman Wall ; Religious Revi
vals ; Life and Works of Cowper ; Reform Schemes
Published by leonard Scott k Co., 54 Gold St. X. York.
Price $3 a year; 1 Review and Blackwood $5 ; Black
wood and the four British Reviews, $lO a year.
LIXTA HOSE Co. No. 3, paraded the streets
of our borough on Friday evening last, accompanied by
the Towanda Brass Band. They made a fine appearance,
as usual. Several of the honorary members were visited
and complimented by "three cheers and a tiger," and
the Company in return received substantial evidence of
appreciation.
figrTbe spring term of Miss CHUBBUCK'S
school will commence on Monday, March 26th.
B&F BENDER has a personal notice in our
advertising columns, to which he invites the particular
attention of the public.
U©"- At a meeting of the Cliosophic Socic-
Lty of Princeton College, the following resolutions were
reported and adopted:
WHEREAS, It has pleased God in his mysterionsand all
wise Providence to remove from earth our friend and fel
low Cliosophian, ROBERT ROSS HEKKICK, of Athens, Pa.,
therefore be it
solved, That the Cliosophic Society has sustained in
his death a loss which will be felt by every true member
of our body—his honest heart, joyous temperament, high
intellectual endowments and moral worth having endear
ed him to all w th whom he was associated.
That while we bow with submission to the afflicting
hand of an omniscient God, we lament that a life so rich
in promise and dear to his family end friends should be
thus early ended : while our sorrow is softened by the
knowledge of that blessed hope of immortality, which
cheered his parting hours.
That we tender to the friends and family of the de
ceased our sincerest sympathy in their bereavement,
while we unite with them in our prayers for the fruition
of his hopes in death.
That in token of respect for his memory we wear
the usual badge of mourning for thirty days ; and that a
copy of these Resolutions be sent to the family of the de
ceased, and be published in the Princeton Standard, the
papers of his native county and in the Albany Journal. ]
JAMES A. BRYAN, N. C.
J. DFNDAS LIPPINCOTT, Pa.
HKNRY WARD, Pa.
Princeton, Feb. 24th, 1860. Committee.
jgy A Scholarship in the Binghamton
Commercial College advertised in another column, can j
be purchased on application at this office.
Our acknowledgments are due and ten
dered to Messrs. LANDON, KINNEY and SHE AD for legisla
tive documents of great value. j
FROM HARRISBURG.
HAKHISBI KG, March. 5, 1860.
Mr. EDITOR : —Facts and items associated
with public business and men are generally in
teresting to newspaper readers. I propose to
dot down a few things which are at your dis
posal. From this time forward legislation
will proceed with a quickened pace. The
Senate has resolved to hold two sessions daily;
this has become necessary from the large num
ber of bills reported by Committees and now
on file. Most of the legislation thus far has
been purely local ; more general and impor
tant matters will soon be up. A General
Bankiug bill has been presented, one iu each
branch, the bills differing somewhat. The
tonage question, and the Sunbury and Erie It.
It. interests, will probably be on hand soon,
when the ball will open iu earnest and part
ners be iu demand.
On Tuesday of last week both branches of
the Legislature adjourned over for three days
as a courtesy to the Democrats who wished to
attend their Convention at Reading for the
nomination of Governor. There will be no
more of these long adjournments —at least
there are some that will steadily vote against
them.
During this vacation,a number of Senators
and Representatives made a flying tour to
Washington, it being understood that SEWARD
was to speak upon the admission of Kansas.
Being of that number, I give you the follow
ing fragmentary matters gathered by the way.
It is eighty-four miles from Harrisburg to
Baltimore by the Pennsylvania Central Rail
Road, and forty miles from th<*latter city to
Washington. The road traverses in the lower
part of this State a splendid section of coun
try. The farms are beautiful, the buildings,
especially barns, arc magnificent, and every
thing wears the aspect of wealth and happi
ness.
BALTIMORE.
This is emphatically a brick city, contain
ing, according to my recollection, about two
hundred thousand inhabitants, and having
many splendid private residences, and not a
few costly churches and cathedrals. George
Peabody, a native of Baltimore, but now a
private banker in London, presented to the
city authorities, some time since, five hundred
thousand dollars for the erection of a scien
tific and literary Institution. The building is
now in progress, the material is marble. The
most attractive object, however, to a mere
guest for the hour, is Washington's Monu
ment. This memorial to the illustrious dead,
stands upon elevated ground, is 180 feet high,
surmounted by a marble statue, of the Great
Man, 16 feet in height, and weighing, as I
learned, over three tons. This huge image
was raised by hand with the aid of pulleys.
The city contracted with an individual to
raise this statue to the top of the monnment
for eight thousaud dollars. The work was
accomplished with such skill that they gave
him a premium of an extra thousand.
On the different sides of the base are the
following inscriptions, the bojs can copy and
remember the facts:—To the memory of
Washington, erected by the State of Mary
land —Born Feb. 23d, 1132 ; died 14th Dec.
1199 —Commander in Chief of the American
Army, Jan. 15th, 1165. Resigned commis
sion at Annapolis, Dec. 23d, IGB3—York
Town' Oct. 19th, ITSl—Trenton Dec. 11th,
1116, —Inaugurated President, March 4th,
1189, retired to Mount Vernon March 4th,
1191.
You may say to youa readers that Repub
licanism is discussed freely in this city, and by
many openly and fully avowed, but American
ism is the popular political currency. You
know 11. WINTER DAVIS voted for PENNING
TON, for which the Legislature of Maryland
have censured him by vote, and the Medical
Students of Alexandria, (D. C.) have burned
him in effigy—But the leaven of better princi
ples is working among the people.
WORN OL'T I.ANDS.
From Baltimore to Washington there are
few attractive features. The whole face of
the country wears an aspect of sterlity and
desolation,as if in years past some terrible curse
had swept over the land leaving barrenness
and poverty in its train ; whole broad fields
ure covered with a stinted growth of shrub
oaks and dwarfed piues, which have sprung
up since the plow was withdrawn and the cul
tivated interstices present the promise of a
lean living to the laborer. These barren and
forsaken fields read to the nation this solemn
lesson: the tears and footprints of slavery ac
curse the very earth ; and violated by so foul
an outrage upon humanity, nature herself re
bukes the system by withdrawing her products.
To reclaim these lands would seem to me a
hopeless task. I should much sooner carve
out a farm from the woody Lill-sides of Brad
ford, and if any man should exchange a hun
dred acres of new land in your county, for the
same number of acres in this wasted region,
I should think the exchange a long stride to
wards the poor-house. The fact is, the very
Gber of the soil is worn away, and to reclaim
it, requires a new creation ; it can be reclaimed,
and so can a good plate of soup be made from
a stone by addiug a sufficiency of other in
gredents. What this region needs is an abun
dant admixture of vegetable material, but so
long as the land itself will not produce the
vegetation, but the material must be drawn
on from foreign quarters, the process of re
clamation must be tedious and expensive.
WASHINGTON APPEARS IN VIEW.
Ah, there appears the city of " magnificent
distances," resting quietly upon the banks of
Potomac. The matters of interest here are
numerous, but are so generally understood
that a mere allusion to tbcm is sufficient.
The Capitol buildiDgs are stupendous, con
structed of stone and brick, faced with mar
ble. The reader will have an idea of this
structure when he is told that it will cover,
when completed, four and a half acres of
ground. The Smithsonian Institute, Patent
office, Treasury buildings and Presidents hoose,
are located elsewhere —and are splendid struc
tures. Enlargements and improvements are
being made in and arouud the most of these
at the present time.
The Washington Monument has been raised
184 feet, and there pauses. The plau is to
carry it upward five or six hundred feet.
The hotels are famous for their dimensions,
number of servants, and extortionary charges.
In the Patent Office, among the innumer
able objects of curiosity, the following relics
attracted my particular attention, viz, Wash
ington's uuiforin worn at the time of his res
ignation at Aunapolis 1183, blue coat, buff
pants and vest, with plain metal buttons.
Frankliu's cane, a knotted stick, varnished,
with gold head j J. Q Adams' ivory eaue
made from a single tooth, and the war sword
of Washington that hnng by his side during
the struggle and blood of a seven years cam
paign. On the lower floor is a marble sar
cophagus originally the repository of the re
mains of the Romau Emperor, Alexander
Severus, procured at Beyroot, in Syria, brought
to this country by Commodore Elliott in 1839,
and presented to the National Institute, as a
resting place for the remains of Geu. Jackson.
The proposition was made to the old hero to
which this is a part of his reply, " I cannot
consent that my mortal remains shall be plafied
in a repository prepared for au Emperor or a
King. My republican feelings will not allow
It. I have prepared an humble depository be
side that where lies my beloved wife, where,
without any pomp or parade, I have reques
ted, when my God calls me to sleep with my
fathers, to be laid —both of us there resting
in hepe of a blessed immortality." Such sen
timents and feelings are sublimer in their sim
plicity, than all the pomp and pageantry of
fuueral trappings.
It matters but little where or how a man is
buried, for if truly great and deserving, pos
terity will herald his virtues, though he have
no monument ; and if mean and debased, the
sober judgment of the future will consign him
to infamy, despite the costliest memorials.
The great man's greatest monument is kimsflf
—his own true great life.
SENATE OK UNITED STATES.
Now for a treat, Seward is to speak, the
Vice President is in the chair ; the galleries
reaching entirely around the vast area are
thronged, crowded, jammed with the wisdom
and beauty of the city. The Representatives
from the other chamber, have gathered in
upou the Senate floor, all together forming a
vast compact mass of human beings. The
Speaker rises and all is hushed—he is entirely
self possessed, his voice is not the best, his
face thin, nose prominent, hair flaxen, in statue
of medium size and his whole appearance not
exactly typifying a colossal man. lie speaks
distinctly and slowly, has the speech entirely
written, but is not confined to the manuscript.
Now let us look around. Over to the left
sit Hale and Sumner, leaning forward and
listening intently to what is-said ; directly in
front of the Speaker is Crittenden, aged and
dignified,—in the next scat is Mason, of Vir
ginia, who to spite the Abolitionist has put
on a suit of s/ierp's gray of domestic manu
facture, thus practically declaring for noniu
tereourse with the Northern barbarians. Now
to the left is Douglass, small in more senses
than one. He has faced about so as to look
syuarely at Seward, watches- him closely, oc
casionally takes notes or receives a whisper
from some sympathizer.
We have now listened an honr, the Speaker
has warmed up, his sentences are round and
full, falling npon the opposition with the force
of a sledge hammer blows. Ilark ! take
dowu those words. " You say the Republi
can party is sectional. Come North, come
to New York, come to the Owasco valley
where I live—hold your meetings, utter your
thoughts freely, fully, loudly ; you shall have
a hospitable reception, an appreciating audi
ence, and open ballot boxes to receive all the
votes you can make. Arc you less sectional
than this ? Allow us to come into your
Southern States in like manner and utter our
sentiments, and soon we will have as many
Republicans with you, as you will have Dem
ocrats with ns." Galleries applaud—Douglas
fidgets—Southerners wince. When this great
speech shall be read by millions of free men, I
am confident that to hundreds of thousands of
lips will spring the inquiry, why cannot onr
Government be administered upon snch broad
and noble sentiments—sentiments so entirely
harmonizing with the genius of free institu
tions, so perfectly agreeing with the known
views of our patriotic fathers, and so full of
yroraise to the whole country in her onward
march of greatness and glory. Why caunot
a statesman entertaining such views, be eleva
ted to the Presidency ? Is there not with
the intelligent masses an appeciatiou of such
noble teachings ? O come that better age
when these ptinciples shall be enthroned in
the high places of power !
There is just this difference between Seward
and Douglas. The one is a great Senator, j
the other a great stumper—the one a states
man with feeliugs and principles broad as the
rights of humanity—the other a political bull
terrier, possessing a large amount of snap
dragon talent qualifying' him admirably for
the rencounters among pot-bouse partisans.
Seward is a noble, manly embodiment of pat
-1 iotism, a fully developed and true man ; the
little giant a cold, churlish exhibition of will
and selfishness—an over swollen pimple that
needs -pricking. Our nationnl obligations are
many, but the infliction of such a man upon
us as President, would seem an excessive pun
ishment.
A number of us, by invitation, called on
Seward in the evening, and found him a most
social and congenial man, entirely free from
that hauteur assumed often by the would be
but never by the really great mind. We spent
an hour with Sumner, and as we took him by
the hand felt constraiued to say, thauk God
sir, that you are again restored to health and
to your wonted Senatorial duties. He is a
noble fellow, a compound of brains aud bead
overflowing with pure aod philanthropic sym
pathies. He said his sufferings had been be
yond description, but now fblt himself almost
entirely recovered. He looks older, aud bis
face much more haggard than when we last
saw him in 1848.
We had the honor of an introduction to
Judge McLean. He has been thirty years
> upon the bench, and fills my idea, more fully
than any man I ever saw, of an old dignified
Roman Senator. ' : {
The Senate of the United States is a dig
uitied body, but the House is a baear garden,
a perfect bedlam broke loose. Think of half
a score of members on the floor at once,
screaming, yelling, gesticulating, and another
i half score bawling " Mr. Speaker," " Order,"
" What's the Question," and the Speaker
( meanwhile hammering in dead earnest and
commanding a pea6e, but hammering in vain ;
and you have an idea of the popular branch
of Congress. Pennington fails to preserve
order ; no man ever surpassed Banks in this
! particular.
The Presidential feeling in Washington is
this, Seward is the best man, he may not be
j most available. 1 give it as my judgment that
Republican calculations in qpd about tlie Cap
itol, are looking towards Bates. Pity, that
in this country a man can be so good, and
j great, aud true, as to be unavailable.
G. L.
A PERSONAL RENCONTRE occurred on Wed
nesday in a Washington bar-room, between
Messrs. Landers and McGraw, two army offi
| eers, noted for their rival labors in surveying
wagon roads to the Pacific. Landers charged
McGraw with having slaudered him in remarks
recently uttered by the latter at St. Ix>uis,arid
inflicted a blower blows upon the alleged cal
umniator. The interference of friends preven
ted anything more serious.
NON-INTERCOURSE PLEDGES—WHAT TIIRT
AMOUNT TO. —The New York Comnurcid saji
One ot the leading jobbing firms in a southern
I city, which gave its name prominently to an
appeal to Southern buyers, dissuading them
from operating in New York City, and to an
agreement on the part of various dealers of the
same class to import direct as much as possi
ble, has been a heavy buyer in this market this
season, as usual. The Southern retail mer
chants are buying very freely of New York
I jobbers this week, and political talk has chief
ly died away in business circles.
ANOTHER INCENDIARY FlRE. —About half
past nine o'clock 011 Tuesday evening last an
alarm of lire was sounded. When we reached
the street we observed the flames bursting from
Mr. Storrs's barn, which was situated near his
residence, right opposite the Ahwnga House
but on the opposite side of the Susquehanna
river. The barn was built on the hill side
front three stories high and on the back two.
The fire must have been set on tire back pats
and from the inside of the bam, because when
first seen the flames were bursting out on all
sides of the main buildicg. From the first it
was quite evideut that the barn and all in it
must be destroyed ; but the fire companies turn
ed to with a will, and soon had a steady stream
on the fire. Engine Co. No. 3 pluced their
machine at the Susquehanna, over 150 rods,
we believe, distaut, and played into Engine No. *
1, placed on the road. It was the largest
stretch of hose we have yet seen, yet both ma
chines worked beatifully. No. 6 placed their
engine at a reservoir near the lower corner of
the barn, aud as long as the water lasted did
good work. No. 5 was on hand, and when it
became evident that the barn could not bo
saved it was pulled down ou short notice.
The barn, grain, hay, oats, and carriages
and horses were, we are glad to hear insured
for $BOO, which makes Mr Storrs' loss perhaps
not over $2OO, the whole being valued at ahont
$lOOO. There were two horses, a large quan
tity of hay, straw, and grain, destroyed,besides
wagons, carriages, sleighs, etc.
Mr. Storrs and his family generously provid
ed refreshments for the Firemen, but "as usual
the mass of folks who rush to fires to see plunder
and devour, got in and almost totally exclud
ed the firemen. We would not speak of this
were we not unwilling that Mr. Storrs and his
family should mistake those who behaved so
rudely ronnd his table for the Firemen of tbo
village. We looked in twice, and can safely
say that nine tenths of those who then sur
rounded the table were not Firemen. The
Fire Department must take means to prevent
the generosity of our citizens for being outrag
ed as it has been for some time past..— Oicego
Times.
agf On the 19th ult., Dr. W. J. Keitt,
brother of Hon. L. M. Keitt, was murdered by
his slaves near Ocalo, Florida. The Chief
murderer, a negro named Lewis, was tried ou
the 29th, found guilty, sentenced, and immedi
ately hung. He confessed his guilt, but re
fused to make any statement implicating
others, though it was evident that he had not
performed the diabolical act alone. He ex
pressed no sorrow for having committed the
awful crime, and viewed the preparations for
his execution with stolid indifference. He was
tried by a Committee, consisting of twelve
freeholders, appointed for that purpose by ft
large meeting of the citizens of the county,held
on that day. The trial was conducted with
great care, at the place where the murder
was committed. Two accomplices are yet to
be tried.