UNITED STATES SENATOR.
[From the Union County Press, Nov. 14.}
JS®r- Upon the next Legislature, which is
largely Republican, will devolve the duty of
electing a successor 13 Gov. Bigler in the
United States Senate. In this the people have
a voice though the election ultimately de
pends on their representatives in the Legisla
ture. In these times of threatened dis-uniou
it is important to have an able aud resolute
man to represent Pennsylvania in our National
Councils. No better man could be selected
for this post than the Hon. DAVID WILMOT of
Bradford. Three years ago he took upon him
self almost alone, the labors of a Guberna
torial contest, when we had no prospect of suc
cess, and cauvasscd the whole State, and
although defeated he succeeded in consolidat
ing the Republican party, so that it present
ed an undivided frout in our late glorions cou
lost. His electiou to the United States Senate
would be a fitting close to the canvass which
has already established the principles of the
Republican party in the hearts of the Ameri
can people.
[From th# Columbia County Republican Nov. 15.]
THIS NEXT UNITED STATES SENATOR. —We
see a number of our brethren of the Republi
can press given expression to their preferences
for the successor to WILLIAM BIGI.ER iu the
United States Senate. The time has come
when it is right and proper that these prefer
ences should be made public. Iu looking over
the Held we see the names of a number of
" good meu and true " spoken of and recom
meuded for this high and honorable position.
But we confess that our preference is decidedly
in favor of Hon. DAVID WILMOT.
It cannot be denied that Judge WILMOT is
to day the representative mau of the Republi
can party in this great State. No man is so
tally identified with its principles, its purposes
und its efforts, as lie. No man lias contribut
ed so much in bringing about its achievements
ai d triumphs. Nor is this all. The people
always know where to find him. He never
falters. The country is never in doubt as to
his opinions or purposes. In all the contests
of his time, his positiou on great public ques
tions, has been as clear as the sun in a cloud
less sky.
As a leader in a deliberative body, Judge
WILMOT has had few equals iu this country. —
Intellectual, eloquent, and courageous, his
is a character defined to command. No reverse
can crush his spirit nor defeat reduce liini to
despair. Equally erect and dauntless in pros
perity and adversity—when successful he moves
on to the accomplishment of his purposes with
more resolution ; when defeated l.e rallies hi?
broken band around him, and froui his eagle
eye, darts along their rauks the contagion of
his own courage. We repeat, he is destined
for a leader, and such he has proved himself to
be.
Let Judge WILMOT be selected to succeed
the recreant BICLER. Let us have a man of
nerve and back bone —a man of intellect and
character to represent the interests of our
great State. That man is Judge WILMOT.
TIIE TRIUMPH IN ILLINOIS. — The Republican
triumph in this State was thorough aud com
plete. Besides giving a le.rge majority for
Lincoln, it has elected a Republican Governor
and State Legislature. When it is remember
ed that this is the home of Mr. Douglas,whose
popularity with the masses was represented'by
his parly to be very great, the result is indeed
gratifying beyond expression. The contest iu
Illinois was very bitter on the part of the Dem
acrats. The Douglasites put forth herculean
exertions and hesitated at no expenditure of
money to carry it against Mr. Lincoln. They
contested every foot and inch of ground ana
made the fight a pitched battle in every part
of the field. But they were unable to cope
with the hosts of Frredom led by our noble
standard bearer, who carried the State by
about twenty thousand majority. The Legis
lature being Republican,secures the re-election
of Judge Trumbull to the United States Senate
making the victory doubiv giorious !
THE POSTMASTERS' PARTY. —-The column of
Breckenridge votes in the Massachusetts re
turns disclose an unusual number of men who,
in their respective towns, stood "solitary and
alone." In fact there are twenty-seven towns
in the State which return each but one Breck
enridge vote. That is the Postmaster undoubt
edly. Thirteen towns have two Breckenridgers
each. There the Postmaster has an assistant,
probably. The presence of three in several
other towns,indicates the accession of a son,or
an unusually obliging son-in-law, or possibly
the man who does " chores" about the office,
and goes out after the mail bags. This would
lorm, altogether, a very promising nucleus for
a select party in Massachusetts, to be called
the Postmaster's party. But there are defec
tions even there. Forty townshave not asingle
vote in the Brecenridge column. Such is the
blighting effect of Doaglasisra— Boston Jour
SHABBY TREATMENT OF SENATOR DOUGLAS IN
ALABAMA. —The Southern Confederacy vouches
for the truth of the following story:
" A gentleman, and a member of the Breck
inridge party, informs us that lie was present
when Judge Douglas arrived in Montgomery
from Columbus, on the night of the first of
November. This gentleman says, (whose
statement has been corroborated by a half
a dozen eyewitnesses,) that when Judge
Douglas alighted from the carriage to ascend
the steps of the Exchange Hotel, Montgomery,
that there were three rotten eggs thrown.—
The first egg struck Col Seibles, editor of the"
Confederation, the second struck Colonel El
more, and the third egg struck the hat of
Judge Douglas, bursted aDd discharged its
contents in the face of his wife, who stood
immediately on his left.
" These are the facts as detailed to ns by
several gentlemea vvuo witnessed the disgust
ing affair.
"So much for Breckinridge intolerance."
tgT There is much speculation in the jour
nals concerning Mr. Keitt's remark that the
President, in case of secession, is pledged to
the cause of the seceders, but we believe Mr.
K. justified in his averments. In 1856, soon
after the Cincinnati nominations, we under
stood that Mr. Buchanan hadjust said to some
Southern friends that, in case of a dissolution
of the F nioD, Pennsylvania would go tcilh the
South. We certainly consider this remark, if
made, as justifying Col. Keitt's inference.
A stone was thrown into an open win
dow of one.of the cars jast belpjv William
sport. It struck one of the passengers upon
the shoulder. The rascal who propelled the
missile ahould be severely reprimanded, if not
chastised.
£>ctos from all tfiatlotts.
The claims of Mr. Ralph Farnham to be
considered the oldest Revolutionary veteran now living,
are contested. Mr. Nathan Dean, of Georgia, who was
a soldier in 1776, and fought through the war, is now in
his oue hundred and tenth year.
Temperance lecturing mast be profitable.
It is said that J. B. Gough received 1350 for each lecture
he has given since his return from Europe He has al
ready acquired a property valued at upwards of 1300,000,
which he is likely to double in a few years.
The census of Danville shows a popu
lation of 6417. In ISSO it was 3302, an increase of more
than 3000 iu ten years. The population of Montour Co.,
is 13,070 against 0255 in 1650.
On Saturday week, J. B. Trevor, former
Cashier of the Philadelphia Bank, while reading in the
Philadelphia Library, fell dead in his chair, aged 67
years. Trevorton in Northumberland county was named
from bim.
Fifty-five young ladies took the white
veil on the Ist nit., at the Convent of the Sisters of Norte
Dame, Milwaukie, Wis., and eighteen the black veil on
the Sth, in the same establishment.
--The-London Commercial Record states
that the Great Eastern is so shaken up and weakened,
that she is no longer seaworthy.
The Electoral College of each State, un
der the law is required to meet at the Capitol thereof, on
the first Wednesday of December, to cast their vote for
President; and there choose a messenger to carry the re
turns to Washington City.
—On Tuesday evening, Mr. M. O. Wil-;
liams, of Detroit, fell from the second story window of j
his warehouse upon the wharf. Having his bands in his
pocket at the time, he fell directly upon his face, so ob- j
1 iterating every feature that his nearest friends could not j
have recognized him.
Mrs. Mark L Blunt, from Boston, and !
Miss AdJie M. Smith, from Derby, X. 11., recently made !
the ascent of Pike's Peak—the first ladies who ever ac
couipli-hed that feat. The summit is 14,400 feet above j
the sea, and the ascent was the labor of four days.
Mr. Montgomery Blair recently brought j
an action in the Circuit Court of Washington D. C.J
against Wm. Carey Jones, (Mr. Beaton's son in-law) to I
test the right of the latter to possess the furniture,books, I
&c., of the late Thomas H. Benton. The case wasde-1
cideu ou Saturday in favor of Blair.
The election of a Republican Legisla- j
tore in Illinois secures the return of the noble Trumbull :
to the United States Senate. Six years ago, Lincoln was
pressed for the same office ; but gave way to secure har
mony and concord among the friends of Freedom. He ;
now has his reward.
The Rev. Mr. Willet, supposed to have j
been hung in Texas on the same tree with his father in |
law. the Rev. Mr. Cowley, has arrived safeiy in Southern
Kansas. He escaped with difficulty from his persecu
tors, and lived eight days in the woods, with no food but
nuts. Other fugitives from Texas are arriving in Kan
— A large quantity of arms, was, on the
6th int., shipped from the Arsenal at Washington, to
the South. The place of destination remains a secret.
j
Lincoln has been hung in effigy in Pen- j
sacola, Florida. This is danger discovered—afar off. ;
According to the report of the Land i
commissioner, the receipts from the sale of public lands •
for the year ending with June last, are less than SSOO,- j
000. The falling off is accounted for by the scarcity of
money and other causes. No bids were received.
A late letter from the United States j
< ommissioner of pensions says that there are now but 1
eiglity-nine survivors of the army of tbe revolution i
whose names were placed upon tbe rolls for pen-ions. J
Gerrit Smith has settled his libel suits J
against the Fifth Avenue Committee, for s3,ooo—suf- !
ficient to cover the expense incurred.
Ralph Farnham, the Revolutionary vet- ;
eran is, and long has been nn inveterate smokor. We '
fear that this bad habit will be the death of him yet. |
Kitiallan Cornwall!*, a special corres ]
pondent of the New York Herald, is about to publish a
history of the progress of the Prince of Wales on this !
continent.
Burntim has been in Philadelphia mnk- :
ing preparations to open a Museum there. It is to be :
located in Chestnut street.
Edwin Forest is said to have expended >
over twelve hundred dollars in purchases at the sale of j
the Burton library.
A young sea-serpent, three feet three!
inches long, head like a mackerel, tail like a rat, and a j
mane an inch and a half long, was caught in Miles River,
Md., on Saturday.
M'lle Zoyara, the eqnestriene, whose sex
was a matter of so much dispute, has answered the ques
by giving her hand in marriage to Frank Drew , of Dan
Rice's circus. Bride and husband will travel with ye
great Dan.
Wm. R. May, of Pomfret, Ct.. picked
40 bushels of apples from one tree. He had the curiosity
to count the number of apples in one peck, and found
190, making 760 iu a bushel, and 30,400 apples grew up
on the tree.
A considerable amount of a very dan
i gerous counterfeit is afloat. It purports to be on the
International Bank, of Portland, Maine, but is in reality
the altered, worthless issue of a Washington (D. C.)
wild cat.
The Auburn Advertiser says " The beef
contract at the State Prison,for 120,000 pounds, wao let
oa Friday. A gentleman from Syracuse obtains the
principal contract at $3,02£."
Mr. J. T. Tieman, of New Ycrk, attend
ed a Coroner's inquest upon an unknown person, and
! identified the body as that of his father. He ordered a
; coffin for it. returned home, and futind his father eating
his dinner.
The Abolitionists had a love feast in
Kenneth Square, Philadelphia, a few days since, and
their be>t speaker was Anna E. Dickinson, a handsome
Quakeress only seventeen. Think of sweet seventeen
swinging logical sledge hammers !
A very respectable old lady of wealth
has committed suicide at Paris, in order that her nephew
might the ealier realize the handsome property that
would thus fall to him. She left a note behind her ad
dressed to him, in which she says : " You see lam a
good hearted creature."'
The oyster trade of Fair Haven, Conn.,
is something to talk about. In order to hold the opened
bivalves there is required annually 251,450 tin cans and
446,632 wooden kegs. They sill 1.000,000 bushels in the
shell, and 1,000,00f1l gallons are opened annually.
The corner stone of a new church in
Providence, R. 1., was displaced on Sunday night last,
and tbe box of records, &c , deposited in the cavity sto
len. This is a strange and despicable offense, for the
box contained nothing of an intrinsic value to reward
the robber.
The Marshal in Chicago, arrested a Ne
gro woman as an alleged runaway slave, and on his way
with her to jail, was stopped in the street by an excited
crowd of negroes, who compelled him to deliver her to
the city police, who lodged her in the Armory for safe
keeping.
A negro in Yicksbnrg recently won
(2,000 for his master in a race with a white man. The
a&air created much excitement, and it was said tba
SIO,OQO "banged hands on tbe result.
E. 0. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
TOW AND A.:
Thursday Morning, November 22, 1860.
UNITED STATES SENATOR.
In another column, we publish extracts from
two sterling Republican papers, upon the sub
ject of United States Senator. It will be seen
they favor Mr. WILMOT'S election in the most
emphatic manner. These spontaneous tributes
to the high reputation and prominence of
Judge Wn.MOT,are an indication of the manner
in which the question is looked upon in other
parts of the State. There is a propriety in
his election to the United States Senate at
this time, which at once suggests itself to
every earnest Republican in the Common
wealth. Other good men have been named,
but their election would be a personal trumph
alone, while the election of Mr. WII.MOT would
be the triumph of principle—the advancement
and consummation of the doctrines which huve
been endorsed so triumphantly iu the election
of ABRAHRAM LINCOLN*.
The tried men of the Republican party —
those who htffte upheld the banner of Freedom
through the sunshine and the storm, cannot
forget how Dobly Judge WII.MOT has battled
for the success of correct principles in the
darkest hour and under the most adverse
circumstances, against such an array of power
and influence as would have daunted less brave
and earnest men. In 1857, when the occasion
demanded the sacrifice, at great personal in
convenience and loss and with DO prospect or
hope of success, be canvassed the State as a
candidate for Governor, for reasons which
should commend him to every man whose
advocacy of Republican principles is sincere.
That canvass,though not of personal advantage
to him, has been of incalculable benefit to the
Republican cause, and made the triumph of
LINCOLN in Pennsylvania much easier than it
would otherwise have been. For these reasons
and because Judge WII.MOT stands out with a
national reputation as a Representative man,
he is at once looked to by those who would
sec the State take a high and distinctive posi
tion, as the man for the times.
The only disunion indication of any
special importance we have in a dispatch from
Mobiie, Ala., which ?tates that a meeting of
all parties was held there last week, which
unanimously favored secession—resolutions to
await the action of other States being voted
down and withdrawn. A dispatch from Au
gusta, Ga , slates that there was nothing of
interest to telegraph . from important South
ern centers. iu fact, judging from our dis
patches and newspaper extracts, the secession
feeling is rapidly narrowing with a very cir
cumscribed portion of the Southern States,
and will most probably soon be confined en
tirely to two or three of them at most. The
extra session of the Virginia Legislature, for
which Gov. LETCHER has issued his proclama
tion, is simply called one week earlier than it
would have been in the ordinary course of
events—the business of the State requiring
special legislation. The Republicans of Mary
land have issued a manifesto, through the
gentlemen who were their candidates for elec
tors in the late election, in which they strong
ly advise firmness and adhesion to the Repob
lican principles. Tiicy entertain no fears for
the ultimate safety of the Union.
Senator DOUGLAS, on his arrival at
New Orleans from Mobile, on the 10th inst.,
was received at the depot by an immense
crowd, and Hon. PIERRE SOUI.E delivered an
address of welcome, in which he assured him
that he was received as a vanquished man,
with the same enthusiasm as would have
greeted him had he been victorious. Mr.
DOUGLAS made a short speech in response, and
was subsequently escorted by a procession
through the streets, to the St. Charles Hotel,
where he made another speech. He depre
cated disunion on acconnt of the success of
Mr. LINCOLN —more especially as both houses
of Congress wonld be in opposition to him,and
his hands would be tied, even if he had a dis
position to injure the South. He thought, in
fact, that Mr. LINCOLN was rather to be pitied
thau otherwise.
8>&- The death of SAMUEL H. BARNES,
Canal Commissioner elect of the State of New
York, is announced. His demise took place
at his residence in Norwich, on Wednesday
night. His disease was erysipelas. Although
not yet declared elected, he will be, by the
State Canvassers, when it will be the duty of
Governor Morgan to appoint his successor.
THE OFFICIAL VOTE of this State has been
puhlished. We have only room this week for
the majority, which are as follows :
Lincoln's present minority over Reading ticket 92.G22
Lincoln over Douglas ticket. 251.1tM
" Bell " 254,764
" " all opposition 62,518
Forest, the only county not heard from, of-
Ccially, gave Gov. Curtin a* majority of 60.
Adding this to Lincoln's majority above it
will be 92,682.
IST The fire-eaters at Charleston say that
if Breckenridge attempts to speak against se
cession in that State he will be tarred and
feathered.
There are quite a large number vessels
itrport,-but the stars and stripes are nowhere
td be seen among the shipping,or in Charleston.
All Charleston Banks are paying specie yet.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
AN ACT OF KINDNESS NOBLY REWARDED—
In the Spring of 1847, there came to the northern part of
New Jersey, a young man by the name of ISAAC JONES,
seeking for employment ns a farm hand, and after labor
ing for a few weeks was taken with a fever and confined
to his bed fonr weeks, at the end of which time he found
himself unable to work, among strangers, and destitute
of means to pay his way. Iu this situation he became
acquainted with PETEH V. BENNETT, a young man then
residing in that neighborhood, who, concluded that
Jones was a young man worthy of assistance, offered to
advance him means to go to school with and qualify
himself for a district school teacher. Jones accepted the
proposition, and by close application was soon compe
tent to take charge of a school. After successfully teach
ing in that vicinity for two years, he removed to the
State of Texas, where, from teaching and land specula
tions, he soon acquired a splendid fortune. At his dealh
in April last, he left by will, three thousand dollars to be
expended in the education of Bennett's children, who
now reside in the village of Rome, in Bradford Co., Pa.
[We find the above paragraph traveling the rounds of
the newspapers. Whether true or not we are unable to
say, though we trust it is correct in every particular.]
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRADFORD COUNTY
TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. —The Association met pursuant
to adjourumen tat the Public School House, Nov. 9th,
and was called to order by the President, E. GUYER,
The meeting was opened with prayer by Mr. DEAN.—
In absence of the Secretary, Mr. G. D. SCOTT was elected
so fill tho office pro tern . Minutes of last session were
then raad and approved.
Mr. DEAN, as Chairman of the Business Committee,
reported a series of resolutions as topics for debate.—
The report having been accepted, by motion carried to
that effect the Association proceeded to consider the first
resolution, reading as foliows :
Resulted. That no directors of any township or coun
ty have a right to pass an ordinance establishing a uni
form rate ot wages for male or lemale teachers.
Discussion on the same was participated in by Mr.
DEAN for the affirmative and Mr. COBCUN the negative.
The debate was arrested by the passage of a motion to
postpone for the present the resolution. It was then
moved that the fourth resolution be adopted, which reads
as follows :
Resolved, That the labor of instructing some of the
younger classes in country districts should lie divided
among the more advanced members of the school.
An amendment to strike out the word not was offered
and passed by the Association.
In acting ou the question as amended, an interesting
discussion arose, in which the affirmative was sustained
by Messrs. I)AVIES, COBCUN, MORKOW, BLISS and TAY
LOR, and the negative by Messrs. COFFIN, DEAN and
SCOTT.
Among the many arguments advanced in support of
each side, it was said by those favoring the affirmative,
the fact that au individual has been employed to teach,
is a guarantee that he or she is better qualified to per
form the duties the position, assumed imposes tfran any
pupil,—that the more advanced scholars, not having the
same interest in the improvement of those of less at
tainments over whom their jurisdiction extends as the
instructor engaged by the directors or parents, would
exert themselves less to secure their progress ; and fur
ther, that the ahtredariuns —the class that mo>t of ail
needs to be taught by a master hand—would be the neg
lected ones in a school wherein the system of educating
contemplated in the resolution should prevail, Tho-e
speaking on the opposite side replied that in ungraded
• :hnols pupils cau IK- found eqnally us well qualified AS
the teacher to give information in the rudiments—that
those thus imparting, would learn themselves in so do
ing more respecting the branches taught than would be
the case were the time thus occupied spent at study
that the same, proud of their office as instructor, instead
of being unconcerned, would faithfully endeavor to per
form its duties—and also that the primary juveniles, in
stead of failing to learn because of not having the direct
attention of the teacher, on the contrary would apply
themselves with greater diligence to their books, because
of that feature in the management of the scho.rl they at
tended, that yrould allow them ere long, if studious, to
in turn become teachers of their fellows.
Association then adjourned to meet at 7 o'clock.
FRIDAY EVENlNG. —Association met according to ad
journment. Debate on the question under consideration
at the cloje of tlie afternoon session being the order of
business, Mr. COBUKN spoke on the affirmative. After
which another amendment to the effect that the words
" country districts" be stricken out and the phrase
rommnn schools inserted as a substitute, was offered The
resolution as amended was then adopted.
The Chairman of the Business Committee presented
the following :
Resolved, That it is an essential part of the office of
teacher to communicate instruction,
Mr. COFFIN moved to amend by inserting the word
not lie fore the word communicate. Ity separate motions
carried to that effect, both the amendment and the reso
lution were defeated. It was motioned and carried that
resolution No.fi be taken up, which reads as follows :
Resolved, That young ladies should be taught decla
mation as well as gentlemen.
After n few remorka had been made on the same, tne
Association listened to a very ably read and interesting
essay from Miss ANNA DEAN, in reference to indepen
dence of character as a requisite in on instructor. One
position advanced was, that inasmuch as pleasing all
patrons is an impossibility, the teacher proceeds cor
rectly who consults primarily self judgment, and only so
far as this standard and public opinion harmonize, al
lows the latter arbiter to be influencing. In the absence
of any previously appointed declaimer, by request Mas
ters GEORGE NEWCOMBUIHI FRANK SMALLEY, of Towan
da Common School, spoke a dialogue entitled " The Ri
val Orators," acquitting themselves in a high y credita
ble manner.
Mr. GCYER, the retiring President, then delivered in
an eloquent manner a very interesting address upon the
Common School Law. A vote of thanks was given
Miss DEAN for her essay, Mr. GUYER for his lecture, and
Masters SMALLEY and NEWCOMB for their declamafion,
Two committees were then appointed, one for the pur
pose of procuring a copy of Mr. OUTER'S address for
publication, the otherto nominate members to fill during
the coming year the several offices at the disposal of the
Association. Session adjourned,
SATURDAY MORNlNO. —Meeting convened at 9 o'clock.
President GUYER in the chair. Mr. COBURN offered the
following :
Ilcsolt ed, That there be added to the bye-law requiring
the appointment by the President of oue person to de
claim at each meeting the following ; also one male and
female member who shall at each meeting read a select
ed extract.
Same was adopted. The Committee on Nominations
then reported the following :
For President— NATHAN YOCNO, JB., ot Warren; Ist
Vice President— NEWELL LEONARD, of Wells; 2d do—
ALBERT TRACY, of Smithfield ; 3d do— ABEL ROCKWELL
of Canton ; Recording Secrectary and Treasurer—G. D.
SCOTT, of Towanda; Corresponding Secretary— S. J.
COFFIN, of Towanda.
It was then moved and carried that the President be
authorized to cast the ballot of the Association in favor
of the individuals nominated. That officer then elected
to their respective stations the nominees before named.
A report was accepted from Mr. DA VIES, who had been
appointed an auditor to examine the state of the finances.
An earnest discussion both pro and con then arose upon
the question relating to instructors teaching young la
dies declamation. The passage of the resolution wasad
vocated by Messrs. DAVIES, DEAN and SCOTT, and op
posed by Messrs. MONTANYE, COBCRN, MORROW, GI VER
and NATHAN YOUNO. The negative speakers, among
other positions, took the ground that woman, acting in
the capacity of a public speaker, is out of her sphere ;
consequently that her early education should not be of
the kind calculated to cultivate the oratorical powers—
that the tendency of "Young America" at present,
whether male or female, is to forwardness, which incli
nation is only augmented by the frequent appearance of
the possessor before audiences. The affirmative replied
that there was nothing unrefined or unlady-like in the
appearance in public of our prominent female preachers,
singers or 'ecturers—that we. have no more business to
pefine woman's sphere than she has to prescribe our*—
that the sex has g right to engage in callings requiring
public speaking. and therefore it can be juatly demanded
that teachers show girls in order to prepare them for
staticms that may be occupied, the same attention in the
branch of declamation that is given the hoys, tfy a
motion passed to that effect the decision of the question
was submitted to the ladies, The resolution was then
unanimously carried.
The association presented Mr. Grvra a vote of thanks
for the faithful discbarge of the duties of his office.
A resolution offered by Mr. MOKROW was laid on the
table to be taken np as a subject for debate at the asso
ciations next meeting.
The following appointments for the next session were
tnen announced—Lecturers, O.J. CurßnrcK and ltev.
Mr. TODD. Essayists, M.T. PITCHER and LYDIA CARSEB.
Readers, P. D. HARDING and HELEN ADAMS- Business
Committee, Jon* COKBIN, O. H. P. KINNEY, MARY MC
KINNNEV, DAIIII'S BRAIN ARC. Association then adjourn
ed to meet in Athens, the Ist Friday in February.
GEO. D. SCOTT, It. Scc'y.
£££"■ The examinations at the Susquehanna
Collegiate lustitute will take place on Friday of this
week and Monday and Tuesday of next week. Atten
tion is particularly directed to the exercises of Tuesday
afternoon, which wi.l be of a literary character.
tee™ South Carolina, if we are to place re
liance upon a telegram which arrived on Sun
day from Washington, produces at least one
prominent man who has not heen carried away
by the mad wave of disuniouism which is at
present sweeping over the State. Gov. AIKEN
is declared to be opposed to it; and lhis,takeu
in connection with the fact that he is one of
the largest, il not the largest, slaveholder in
the South, may be considered significant
from Georgia,we learn that the bill appropria
ing a million of dollars to arm and equip the
State has been passed by both branches of the
Legislature nnd become a law. and on Satur
day the Convention bill passed the Senate un
animously. It provides that the election of
delegates shall take place on the 2d of January
and that the Convention shall meet on the
Oth. Meantime, however, conservatism it at
work among the people of the State. Hon.
ALEXANDER 11. STEPHENS, on Wednesday night
last, made a speech ut Millcdgevilie, In which
he took strong conservative ground. The
effect of his remarks is represented to have
been very beneficial in calming the agitation
It is now believed by many tXat the Union
element the South will soon show so strong
as to induce a proposition for a compromise,
which will result in a Convention of all the
States, at which an arrangement similar to the
old Missouri Compromise will be effected AN
effort it is thought w ill soon be made to obtain
au amendment to the Constiiution, in refer
euee to the rendition of fugitive slaves
There appears to be no dispos tion, no
matter w hat course events may take, to nullify
any of the acts of the federal government.
FITST" Dispatches front Mr. HARRIS, onr Mit
ister in Japan, have been received at the
State Department, lie gives an account of
the arrival home cf the Japanese steamer
Candinavtarrah, which accompanied the Jap
anese Embassy to San Francisco. The com
mander of the steamer, accompanied by two
Governors of Foreign Affairs, had called on
.Mr. HARRIS, by order of the Tycoon, to ex
press the thanks of his Majesty for the
friendly and cordial welcome with which the
officers and men had been received in San
Francisco, and particularly for the repairs of
the steamer at Mare Island Navy yard. The
repiorts of the officers of the Candinamarrah,
together with the lefers received from the
Embassy, containing full accounts of the re
ception at San Francisco, bad produced a
lively sensation, especially among the nobles,
and it was believed that the most gratifying
results would follow, more especially when the
Embassy should reach home and give full ac
counts of all their experience in the United
States.
{te£p* The World's Washington dispatch
savs that Amos Kendall has published an ar
ticle opposing secession, and demonstrating
that South Carolina must remain in the Un
ion, according to the faith given and pledged
in her adoption of the Federal Constitution
He states that the editor of The Constitution
refused to publish his article, and giving as a
reason therefore that he (the editor) was a
secessionist.
The World further states that at Wash
ington it is " pretty reliably ascertained that
a Union manifesto will soon be issued, signed
by eminent Southern statesmen, such as Ste
phens, Rives, Bell, Guthrie, Johnson, and
Hunter even, calling on the seceding States
to remain iu the Union, and demonstrating
the utter impossibility of the commission of
any act destructive to Southern rights during
Lincoln's term."
POPULATION OF KANSAS TERRITORY. —The
population of the Territory of Kansas, as as
certained by the United States census just
taken, is 109,401. This does not include the
Pike's Peak region which has a population of
75,000 more. Kansas proper has, therefore,
12,000 more people than would entitle her to
elect a member ol Congress at the present
time. Kansas will be admitted into the Union
as a State the comiDg winter. No reason can
now exist for refusal.
HEAVY ORDNANCE—A rifled cannon, said
to be the largest in the world, was recently
tried at Shoburyness, England. It weighs six
tons and carries 174 lb. shot. It is made of
paddled steel, and contains the greatest mass
of that material ever put together. With a
charge of 28 lbs of powder.it is stated a shot
was thrown 6 1-2 miles.
SENATOR TOOMBS NOT RESIGNED.— The
Savannah Republican of the 12th inst. says
that, although it has been positively asserted
that Mr. Toombs has resigned his seat in the
United States Senate, that paper, after the
most diligeut inquiry, has beeu unable to fiud
the slightest foundation for the statement.
rhe Drift of the Cnrreit.
The genera! drift of Southern sentiment, so
far as we can judge from the latest advices, j s
towards a convention of all the Slave holding
States. Sooth Carolina seems obstinately op
posed to snch a course, but every other South -
eru State apparantly favor# it. in Virginia
and other Border States,particularly, the feel
ing is very strong, that if anything is to be
done in this matter, it must be done by the
united aetion of all the aggrieved parties. The
most ardent Disunionists in Virginia,—even
the Richmond Examiner —denouuee the scheme
of allowing the Cotton States, or nny one of
them, to decide this issue for themselves
They claim a right to participate in all sack
counsels, and will not readily couseut to be
excluded.
Indeed there is a strong feeling of jealousy
growing up among the Slaveholding States
themselves. Their interests as among them
selves are by no means identical, —although,
they have a common interest as against the
North. This last leads them to unite in favor
of secession,—but the former will render it
impossible for them to agree upon the wr,ys
and mcuns of effecting it. A Southern GW
vention will be indispensable to any action •
Virginia and Kentucky will resist thesepara e
secession of South Carolina as a direct blow
aimed at them ; and South Carolina will be
compelled to go into a general Convention,
whether she desires it or not. Indeed, as the
question is one of common interest to all the
Southern Stales, it is not easy to assign any
reason why they should not thus take counsel
together as to the proper course to be pursu
ed.
Now we regard a Southern Convention as
certain to increase the stability of the Union.
In such a body the whole subject will be di
cussed on its merits • and sneb a discussion
can have only one result. We are perfectly
willing to intrust the fate of the Union to a
Convention of intelligent delegates from ail
fclaveholding Stales.
One poiut cannot have escaped attention in
the action ot the seceding States. Not a sin
file instance of resistcnce to the laws of Ike
United. States his yet been committed. Amidst
all the excitement # aud turmoil which are said
to pervade the South, the Federal law has
been closely and fastidiously obeyed. Sp uial
pams are taken to d s -laitu all thought oi viola
tng ibe laws of the Union. What does this i
mean 1 Lit prudence,—or deference to the
distinction which .Mr. Bicu NAN is u wle •
s ood to draw between secession and nuidefla
tion ?
It will he noted, too, that nothing whatever
lias been done even by Son tlt Carolina to pre
lare for that eventual nullification which alone
can make secession a reality The Legist*'
tare adjourned sine die without having taken
a single step in this direction. No money was
raised, no tax ordered, no loan authorized, no
army provided Nothing whatever was done
hut to call a Convention. This commits the
State to iiothing-t'e.-idi s nothing,and prepare*
for nothing Toe saine thing is true of the
other S.ut s. Governors' Messages, LegnU
tie resolut.onand public speeches, make up
the whole of the S cession movement thus far.
These are all negative indications; but they
are not without their value in forming an
estimate of the tendency of events ut tlw
South.
A WOMAN THROWS IIEK CHILD FROM A KIT- Y
WAY CAR AT HIGH SPEED AND JUMPS OCT HNL
SELF. — We learn from Conductor Boyd, 1
the Dedham Branch raiiroal, that a worniig
attempted, unsnccessfidy to destroy the lir-H
of an infant child and herself, by throwing tii
former out of the window and jumping OIL a:-a
ter it. The woman's name we did not lc.ir e H
lint she was evidently Ire-h; was abont 250r3®
years of age, and hailed Irom Ivoxbury. S
liad beni in the house of correction for s--|
months ai d was discharged this morning. II <9
child was about six mouths of age.
She took the train for Roxbnry which lean I
Dedham at 10 minutes before 10 o'clock-6;
When about two miles and a half this side I
Dedham she suddenly threw her child out 1
an open window, ami sprang out after it be [I
self, before she could be seized by the pass: [I
gcrs. } y
Tlie train was going at that time a* '3t B
rate of about 20 miles an hour, and err • I
e\|ected that both the child and its wtfittß
had been instantly killed.
Mr. Boyd pot buck his train, when tots'l
great surprise of all, it was found that neitHFl
the woman nor child was seriously ini'irciM
though both were somewhat bruised. r>HB
were taken on lioaril again and couvejediyH
Boxbory.— Boston Journal Ith.
HORRIBLE SUICIDE. —One of the most I:*
rihle cases of suicide ever heard of in theaH
ender of self-destructiou, was enacted in
Flamboro', on Saturday last, when Ji
Black, inn keeper, of New Berwick, bar• 9
himself to death by sitting on a pile of f' v 1
lie caine here on Saturday week, and at tj
appeared very unsettled, and told someoM
acquaintances that this would be the Its: 1
they would meet—they had better
hands. The week passed on till Sata'Sß
morning, when he was noticed going I
field where some hoys were burning bru> tH
sat down on the burning ])ile, till bis e 1
were all burned off him The boys
alarm, when two of Mr. Robert Mat' |
sons came and dragged him off, but si 'flH
peisisted in going on. They tried to
liiin off a second time, but he threatened I
when one ran for assistance to .Mr. M- 1
wlio, with some others, gut him off,but or
wanted to remain on, saying that **( a
doom. He was then entirely roasteJ .
a particle of clothing remained on liiu
bore it all without any signs of torture. I
taken to Mr Marshall's wliere he wasi I
ed by Dr. Ghent, but medical aid a- j
avail ; he fingered on for about eight
when death came to his relief.— 9
W.) Advertiser. JH
At Frankforfi on the 14th Inst., by the t>v.
Mr. AI.I.KX Hll.T.oi Back- county, * 1
BY D. STATES of FraUklord,
DIED, J
Iu Troy Boro. November 3th, iseo. HKN'IO ''
I>. aiid Helen E. Long, aged <5 years, 1 "> J i
days. M
Suddenly with heart disease on Monday
sth. at the residence of hor sun Miner, in '"JB i
LY BRADSH.WV. relict ot the late m ■ j
aged 74 years and 29 days.
To Whom it may Concern M .
ALfi persons having unsettled accounts, ,lflß .
meats, with the late firm of J. AV<'>•'
that i- now in the hands of the subscriber- ,B
immediately, iu order to save cost.
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Borne, Vov. t. IS'tO.