tTNITED STATES SENATOR.
[From the Montrose Republican Dec, 12.]
The question of the selection of a United
gtates Senator from Pennsylvania, to succeed
William Bigler, is receiving much attention.—
The large Republican majority in our State
Legislature not only ensures the election of a
Republican Senator, but has also had a ten
dency to bring many candidates into the field
The men whose names have been presented for
the office are generally good men, well fitted
to adorn that high position. But of all the
candidates, there is one, who by his abilities as
a statesman, by his powers as an orator, by his
great services to the Republican cause, stands
pre-eminent. That man is DAVID WILMOT.—
Many are aware, while perhaps some are not
aware of the vast debt which the victorious
party that has just carried Pennsylvania by
ninety thousand majority, owes to Judge WIL
MOT. When the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise,against the prayers and remonstrances
of the nnited North, demoralized aud destroy
ed the Democratic party,leaving the opponents
cf slavery extension without, a party name or
organization, it was through the wise oonsels
and under the calm guidance of Judge WILMOT
that order was brought out of chaos, and the
friends of freedom in this Congressional Dis
trict—once the Gibralter of Democracy, as it
is now of Republicanism—were organized and
united into one harmonious party. Susquehanna
county was the first in the St ite to organize a
Republican party and in the first orgairzation
Whigs aud Democrats, i:i about equal num
bers, united, forgetting o'.d differences and ani
mosities and agreeing with their conjoined
strength to resist the dangerous aggressions of
the Slave Power. What led the free-soil Dem
ocrats of this region,so far iu advance of tiiose
in other parts of the State, to sunder old
party tics, aud join in the formation of the
Republican party ? Their principles would
naturally have ultimately led thera to it, but
by the sagacious and far-seeing counsels of
DAVID WILMOT, they were prompted to take
the lead aud frofn a nucleus from which lias
grown the powerful and triumphant Republi
can party of Pennsylvania. Yv'e believe that
without the aid of Judge WILMOT we should
still have a strong Republican party in North
ern Pennsylvania; but we are firmly convinced
that Lia indie ce Irougbt to cur < rganization
thousands of voters that would otherwise have
been to this day arrayed against us, either as
part of the Democratic partv, or of a third
party. Let, then, our friends in other parts
of the State bear in mind, while they point
with pride to the great Republican majorities
in Northern Pennsylvania, that these are due
in no small degree to the personal influence
end exertions cf DAVID WILMOT.
But we would not urge any man's claims to
high office merely on account of services ren
dered to the party, however eminent. Judge
WILMOT has other and still stronger claims to
consideration. His inteiicct is of the highest
order, clear, sagacious, and practical. We
Lave heard this slavery question discussed by
many distinguished speakers,but wc never heard
any who brought to the discussion of the subji c
so many original ideas, so many evidences of
profound thought, and a statesman-like con
sideration of the whole question as the author
of the Wilmot Proviso. His knowledge of
national questions, his eloquence as a speaker,
his boldness in advocacy of right.and his cmin
eat services, alike point to him as the man for
the hour. Pennsylvania has made some woful
mistakes,in days past,in the selection cf men to
represent her in the State of the United States
tat by the election of DAVID WILMOT to that
position she would do herself honor and the
whole country a service.
Those who advocate the claims of other can
didates generally seem disposed to treat Judge
WILMOT faiiiy, acknowledging his great ser
vices and eminent abilities; but a few are in
clined to make old party connections the test
of merit and the bash of advancement under
the Republican organization. Such a course i
would be both unwise and unfair. The Repub- 1
lican party derives its strength from a union of,
men from all the oid parties. It is composed
of men having a commou political faith on the
great questions cf the day; and what these j
men formerly thought, on other, or even the
same questions,i3 wholly foreign to the inquiry '
conceraing their fitness for office. What are ;
they now? Are they Republicans—represent
ing fairly and with the ability to represent foici
b!y the principle, of the party ? In Ju 'ge Win
MOT'S case, the answer mast bo most emphati- J
ealiy in the affirmative. lie is recognized !
throughout the Union as one of the most I
eminent exponents of Republicanism.
Those old fogies and eleventh hour Repub- i
lieans, who have been at last borne by the irre-;
sistible tide of public sentiment iuto our ranks,
ought not now to set themselves up as the only
genuine representatives of Republican princi
ples,and undertake to control the organization
which tusy had so little to do in forming.
The leaders of the Republican movement—
the men who showed the ability and courage
of DAVID WILMOT in the hour of doubtful con
flict—are not to be displaced by the fossil leu
ders of a defunct organization, so soon as the
victory has been won by us.—The men whose I
leadership kept the Whig party ol Pennsyl- i
vania in the minority for a quarter of a cen- j
tury, are not such men to step in at this time
and uudertake to guide the course of the Re-1
publican party. The vital p-iuciples that uu ■
derlie the Republican organization must lie 1
maintained, and any attempt to change our j
platform to that of the old Whig party—as
some of these old fogy politicians seem desir
ous of doing—would if carried out most cer
tainly break up the R.-publican party and re
dace it to a hopeless minority. To abandon
or subordinate the great and vital ideas that
have entered into our late triumph, would en
tirely break us up, and restore the domination
of the Slave Power upon a stronger basis than
ever before. The fate which has successively,
and from mainly the same causes, befallen ihe
Whig,the American.and the Democratic party
would assuredly and quickly befall the Repub
lican. It is the coincidence of onr platform
with the sentiment of the Northern people
against slavery extension,that has given ns our
strength and elected a Republican President;
and when we abandon that platform, the days
of the Republican party will be speedily num
bered.
The election of Judge WILMOT to the Senate
would have a political significance that could
not bo mistaken or misunderstood. It would
be an assurance and guarantee to the country
that Pennsylvania had taken her position on
the great questions at issne in the late elec
tion, deliberately, and that it would be firmly
maintained.
With regard to the Tariff question, we are
enre that no true friend of the Republican
party will make the differences of the past a
ground of objection to any member of the
party. We all agree that the revenue Decee-
sary to meet the wants of the Government
.shall be raised by duties upon foreign imports.
We agree in support of n Homestead bill,thus
cutting off that source of revenue We agree
that protection to our maiiufactuting interests
and home labor, is a proper basis of discrim
ination in tlie adjustment of a tariff. We
agree that certain articles of universal consump
tion. not produced iu this country, (tea and |
coffee, for example,) shall be admitted free j
Agreeing upon these points,and having seventy ;
or eighty millions of revenue to raire.noserious j
differences can arise in adjusting the detail? of!
a tariff bill. Judge WILMOT'S letter to Mr J
Brown in the Fall of 1557 was entirely satis-1
I factory to the party. It was approved and
endorsed by the entire Republican and Ameri 1
| can press of the State It is now too late to
j call in question his soundness upon ihe Tariff
It is ungenerous, and betrays a spirit of selfish
ness, and disloyalty to llie party of which we
are ail members, and equally deserving of con- 1
fidence and entitled to a fair field for honora
ble advancement. Those who, in their eager
ness to grasp honors, thus ungenerously and
unfairly assail a rival, by attributing to him
opinions on the tariff which lie does not hold,are
j whether they intend it or not, striking at the
integrity of ihe Republican party.
The effort to impeach the soundness cf ,
Judge W II.MOT on the tariff, is illiberal and nn- |
! just, not only to him but lo bis friends in this
| Gibralter of the State, who deserve kinder
treatment at the hands of their political breth
ren, who but for our constancy and fidelity
, would have been been today in a hopeless
! minority in the State and the Union.
"
New Guarantees.
The South clamors for new guarantees ;and
even proposes a Convention to prepare some
j amendment to the Constitution to that effect, j
Let the Coveniion be held, by all means
We of the North want some new guarantees,
likewise: and, not to be behind our Southern !
ueighbois, we will recount them.
imprimis, then, wo want some new guaran
tee for the personal safety of northern men at
! the South. For some time past it has been
I impossible for a northern man to travel at the ,
I south or attempt to do business there As
j soon as he makes his appearance there lie is 1
incontinently hustled off, or tarred and feath
ered, or rode on a rail, if happly lie gets off
witiioui being hung. This uiu.-t be remedied.
Second we want some new guarantee for
free speech in the South. It is now impossible j
for any man to express ii< opinions, there.— j
Even ministers of the Gospel, like Rev. Mr.
I liewley, are hung, simply because suspected of j
j thinking differently from the unanointed can- i
: aile, whilst others are treated with the utmost |
! indignity and driven off. Wc must have a '
! strong guarantee against a repltilionof these
j outrages.
Third, wo want free maiis as well asperson
iul safety and free speech. We demand the I
mails shall be permitted to pass through the i
South without being subject toll*; inquisitor- j
1 iai inspection of southern inen hunting lor SIJS- 1
pected matter. As it is, southern laws give
! an immunity to almost any villain to open tin* ;
| mail bags upon the pretence of searching for
j suspected matter.
Fourth, we demand a repeal of all State
! laws inimical to northern rights and northern
• interests. Why not ? The south is making
! such demands upon us, and why not we upon
; them ?
Perfonal safety, free speech, and free press, j
: and unobstructed maiis—these ure all sacred j
; rights. Every one of them has been trampled ,
i -ou by the outh, for years,persistently and con- i
sistently. The Constitution guarantees them
! to u-, but she spurns the Constitution and
laughs at all our efforts to enforce it. And yet
j sue, the constant violator of our rights,has the i
| impudence to demand new guarantees from us
• for hers ! It will be time enough ior her to ask
1 such tilings when siie shows herself willing to
to accord to others what she asks for herself.
To this we might add the demand for a guar
antee against the further extension of Slavery.
If it had not been for the effort of the South !
to extend Slavery into Kansas, by breaking
over compromises and barriers previously erect
ed, the present trouble would never have exist
ed; and the best way to guard against all
future trouble of a similar class is to exact a
constitutional guarantee against tliern.— l ills
burg Gazette.
THE LAST OF A GREAT RAILWAY BRIDCE
The Railroad Engineer says that the Cascade
bridge of the New York and Erie Railroad, i
one of the wonders of American engineering is j
about going the way of all wooden brige?.— I
Crossing a chasm one hundred and eighty five i
feet dep, its destruction by fire would have I
interrupted the business of the road for a long I
time. much anxiety lias been felt 011 tiiis '
account, that Mr. McCallum, while Super- j
intendant of the road, always kept materials j
reaily for throwing a suspension brige across the j
chasm, in the event of fire. About two years j
ago, it was determined to supersede the great
bridge altogether.and an embankment cf bro- j
ken stone was commenced on the under side.
This is now completed, and trains have been i
ruiiing over it for the last fortnight. Tiie j
water coming over the cascade percolates readi 1
ly through tiie broken stone embankment,
which is, therefore,safe from floods. The great i
brige is now taken down. It. is generly in good j
condition, although some of the Binders have <
rutted. The Cascade bridge was erected in!
1843, at a cost of $45,000. It had a sin 1
gle timber arch of two hundred and seventy
five feet clear span, and wag altogather the
most remarkable structure of the kind in exis
tence.
"The Richmond Enquirer of 1814 held A
very d.fferant style of language from the rich
moud Enquirer of ihe present day in discussing
the right of secession as will be seen by the follo
ing paragraph contained in that journal iu the
year 1814:
" ' No man, no association of one state or
set of states,lias a right to withdraw itself from
the Union of its own account. The same pow
er which knit us together, can unknit us.
The same formality which formed the links of
the Union is necessary to dissolve it. The ma
jority of states which formed the Union must
consent to the withdraw! of any one branch of
it. I util that consent has been obtained,any
attemped to dissolve the Union or distract the
efficiency of its constitutional law,is treason —
treason to all inlen's and purposes' "
Is 185G Mr. FREMOXT, the Republican can
didate for President, received one hundred and
eight votes in all the Stale of Delaware. In
1800 Abraham Lincoln receives nearly 4,000,
and the Republicans carry the county of New
Castle clean and clear over the Bell party,
and elect several members of the State Legis
lature, aud the only member of Congress the
State i entitled to,
iletos (torn all Rations.
Probably the oldest jneraber of the Ma
sonic Order of the United States, at bast ia New Eng
land, is Ehcnezer Mower, a member of the Morning Star
Lodge f f Worcester. He is now over a hundred years of
age. was initiated in Febuary 18, 1794, and has thus been
a Mason nearly siity-seven years. *
The briefest and most awful story we
have received this Fall comes from Fort Wayne Ind. A
woman about to churn butter, threw some boiling water
in the churn, into which one of the children had, unno
ticed by the mother, placed an infant, and it was instant
ly scalded to death. In her frenzy the mother seized a
chair and inflicted a death blow upon the little girl. —
Alter realizing what she had done she threw herself into
j the well and was drowned.
Bloomfield precinct,Seott county, Illinois,
is a strong Democratic place. There are about 70 Dem
ocrats and 3 Republicans. The Judges in that precinct,
at the late election were all Democrats. Two Democratic
j Clerks were appointed, aud they, too, were unable to
i write. At this junction of affairs, Jim Brown, a leading
I Demo .-rat, known as ''Timber Jim," went shouting
! through the crowd, "is there a'ry Republican here ? Is
there a'ry Republican here?"' His Democratic friends
desired to know what he wanted of a Republican.—
" Why," said Jim, " d n it all, I want to find some
body that can t orile, so that we can go on with the elec
tion !"
—" On Saturday the 24th ult., at 1 1-2
o'clock, there was a tremendous fall of rock a little
South of the old stair case, completely filling up the
j pathway leading to the new staircase. But a few min
utes belore the fail, a party was being conducted from
the museum to the sheet of w ster. Had it happened at
! the time they were passing, all must have got crushed to
pieces. I suppose some thousands of tons fell."—Toron
to Leader.
The bark Cora with 705 Africans on
| board, has recently been captured off the Congo River by
the United States Shi]) Constellation. The Africans
! were landed at Monrovia, and the vessel sent to Norfolk
) in charge of a prize crew.
The Burch divorce case has resulted,
j alter nineteen days trial, in a virdict in favor of Mrs.
Burch. Mrs. Burch is a niece of Erastns Corning, of
Albany. The parties lived in great affluence in Chicago-
Mr. Burch, who is a banker, charges his wife with adul
| tery.
' —About twenty voting gentlemen of New
j Orleans, wishing to display their So theru Spirit, deter
mined to wear uo cloth but what was manufactured in a
Southern State, so they bought some Kentucky jeans,and
j had it made up into suits, but too late they discovered
j that the Kentucky jeans had been made in Massachu
j setts.
; Seme of the Cotton Manufacturers of
I Philadelphia, and also of Pittsburg, in public meetings,
have recommended running their nulla on half time, in
1 consequence of the overplus of their manufactured goods
I on band. '
The Tyrone & Lock Haven Railroad
was sold in Philadelphia on Wednesday last, for $51,-
000.
The census returns of ISGO give the
population of Philadelphia as 508,(134. increase over 1850
of 159,272. Deaths in the city last year 1,070.
i —The "bark Achilles which left Rhilndel
| phia for London, last week .took out 4000 barrels of flour.
I The other portion of her cargo consisted of rosin, clover
j and timothy seed.
j Counterfeit $2O bills on the Bank of
■ North America are out. The vignettes upon the bill are.
| in the centre the head r t Washington ; on the right a
| woman with a sheaf of wheat, and on the leit a sailor.
During an exhibition of Dan Rice's
• Circus, at Memphis, Tenn., on the night of the 19th inst.,
! it was proposed to show that the hiue of the rhinoceros
! was ball proof. Cant. Travis, the celebrated pistol shot,
' then fired a bullet at the animal, which fell flattened to
! the floor, not breaking the skin, nor even causing the
! animal to wince, when struck.
The five cotton States produced SI4S,-
003, 000 worth of cotton, rice and naval stores last year.
This year they produce less than halt that amount, and
actual want is pinching and paralyzing their inhabitants.
Postmaster General licit lias adopted a
short and sensible policy toward the few disunion post
masters who propose to resign their offices. He informs
them that if they will name successors who will give the
u-aa! securities to the Department, they will be accepted
| and business permitted to go on as before. Otherwise,
the offices will be discontinued.
John Write, a partially insane old man,
in Bailey Hollow, Luzerne county, recently wandered
away in the night, and was found frozen to death.
<— We see it stated that the oil wells in
Venango couuty are used to tan leather in, aud found to
be superior to fish oil.
Wigfall, who misrepresents Texas in the
United States Senate boa-ts tliat before lie left home he
armed all his neeroes, nnd told them to shoot all strange
i white men who might intrude on his plantation. If, in <
sober interval, he teld the truth, we advise him . says
Prentice, not to return home incautiously, for he is the
strangest white man his negroes will be likely to encoun
ter.
I —The British Government complains, and
j we apprehend not without reason, that the United States
' Government does not carry out in good taitli its treaty
• with European powers to suppress the slave trade.
The newspapers in Maine are reviving
i the project of removing the seat of government from
j Augusta to Portland.
Great suffering prevails at Nova Scotia,
in consequence of the failure of the fishing crop. The j
Legislature hxs taken the subject in hand.
The Prince of Wales lias resumed his j
: collegiate studies at Oxford, after spending only about a '
week at home after his return from his American tour.
A {renins out West conceiving that a lit
tle powder thrown n ion some green wood would faciliate
its burning, directed a small stream from the keg upon |
the smoking pile ; but not posse-sing a hand sufficiently
quick to cut this off at a desirable moment, was blown
into a million pieces. The Coroner for the occasion
reasoned out this verdict : '■ It can't be called suicide,
because he didn't mean to kill himself ; it wasn't 'visita
tion of God,' because he wasn't struck by lightening;
lie didn't die for want cf breath, for he hadn't anything
left to breathe with ; its plain he didd't know what he
was about ; so I shall bring in— Di d for want of com
mon tense."
A fierce secessionist of the Palmetto
State says, that lie would rather be hung in South Car
olina, than die a natural death in any other State. We
hope he will get his wish.
The total vote of the States of Soqth
Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama, aud Mississippi, at
the late election was not over 300,000. They are the
States that desire to ''secede." Pennsylvania alono
polled 476.710 votes.
—Mr J. Roebling, the distinguished engineer
and builder of the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls, is
now engaged upon a work almost equally great, on the
Danville and I.pxtngton Railroad, Kentucky. That road
is building a bridge on the suspension priciple, which
will he 1.324 feet long, aud which will connect the sides
of a gorge 300 feet deep.
—The business men of Detroit are moving
to get rid of depreciated Western money, which abounds
in that place. The Bnff.iloninns are talking on the same
subject. There is no better way to compel the Western
States to Improve the quality of their currency, by adopt
ing a better basis of banking, than to compel them to
nse the ot at home by refusing them abroad-
rairforlr Reporter.
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R. W. STUkRUCKA EDITORS
TOWANIJA :
Thursday Morning, December 20, 1860
OUR DUTYL
We are in the midst of an excitement of
no ordinary character, —days are now passing
that will be regarded as ar, era by the future
historian. The Union which we have been
taught to cherish, and which we. have been
accustomed to regard as tiie noblest work of
wise men is threatened with destruction.—
Perhaps era this the Convention of South
Carolina has s f ruek the first blow and declar
ed itself an independent confederacy. In this
extremity the question comes home to every
man, what is my duty '{ To every Republican
who has loved the cause he has labored for,
there can be but one answer. Had we com
mitted any act of injustice, or outraged the
rights of any Southern State, duty would de
mand reparation. But the ground of com
plaint is simply that we have elected—consti
tutionally, and by a larger vote than ever be
fore given—a Republican President. Issues
were presented that have always been the
creed of the party, and their success ore being
made the occasidn of a secession that has been
the day dream of Southern demagogues for
years. We have a right to presume that the
administration of Mr. Lixeoi.vwill lie consti
tutional The principles of the party, his an
tecedents, and his oath of office will all pre
clude his interfering with the rights of Slavery
in the States. No reasoning man doubts but
that his administration will be just and con
servative. Our duty is as plain as it is evi
dent iliut the whole outcry is an attempt at
intimidation. For years, at tiie cry of seces
sion, lias Northern knees trembled, and out
stretched hands given up ul! that has been de
manded. Our love for the Union is strong,
but it is too great a price to purchase it at tiie
expense of principle, and humiliation. South
Carolina will try to shuffle off her connection
with the Union—will try, and perhaps will
wisely be permitted to succeed. Wisely, be
cause a decent respect for one's own manhood
would not permit a member of a firm to use
force to compel a partner to continue a con
nexion he denounced as hateful. Therefore
if South Carolina wants to go out of the
Union—let Iter go. A few men—fossils—
men v. ho stand with their faces turned to the
past and who go back an ago or two to wor-
ship something that was very good in its time
a few such men look upon tlte secession of
a State with honest horror. They worship
an idea, the idea that what was done, and
well done a century ago must obtain to-day,
else society will resoive itself into chaos. It
may be humiliating, it may be hard to-stand
up before the nations and confess that our
falhefs were not infallible as statesmen ; but
it is one of those truths that will come out
nevertheless, in time. They began by com
promising with Southern insolence, arid the
end of it will compare favorably with the end
of all spoiled children, —that is, the child
must rule in the father's house— or go out of
it.
The Republican party is now required to
show the country whether it believes in the
doctrines it lias been promulgating for six
years. Those who assisted at its birtb and
nursed it into iosty life, are waiting to learn
if their Work is to go for noth'iig, and with it
their hopes, born of days and nights of trou
bled thought and vigilant action. The party
is now of age. It has won its first great bat
tle, upon a well defined issue. If it now elecis
to compromise with wrong, U) its shame and
humiliation, its nurses will beget another child ,
lustier and more noble ; one that will never
forget its benefactors ; and one which shall
never fear to overwhelm right in destroying
wrong. If Mr. LINCOLN goes one step from
the platform to conciliate any State, and if a
single State repeals its personal liberty laws
for a like purpose, and if we go down on our
knees to supplicate for peace, it will not only
be the death blow to our partv, but it will be
the signal for the inauguration of a despot
ism, whose encroachments will never cease tiil
it has placed its accursed mark upon every foot
of free territory we possess. Nothing can be
gained by truckling—but every thing depends
upon our taking a firm stand upon the princi
ple? of justice and freedom which are the ha
sis of our organization. If the South cannot
abide our Union as it is, upon their own heads
and upon the cravens at the North who have
encouraged them, be the crime and responsi
bility of destroying it.
NEWS OF THE DAY. —The news from Wash
ington is in the highest degree important.—
Gen. CASS, in despair at the condition of the
country, has resigned his position as Secretary
of State. Mr TKESCOTT, the Assistant Secre
tary, as has already been announced, resigned
on Thursday,—consequently,the State Depart
ment is at the present time without any re
sponsible head. A successor to Gen. CASS has
not yet been decided upon by the President
but rumor points to Hon DAMEE S DICKINSON
of New-York, as likely to lie called upon to
assume the responsibilities It is also poslively
stated that Secretary THOMPSON will resign,
probably on Monday ; and it is believed that
other members of the Cabinet will follow. It
is even very strongly suggested that President
BucnANAN himself may retire and leave the
management of affairs between uow and the 4th
of March in the hands of Mr. BRECKINRIDGE.
The House Special Committee had another met
ing, but it does not appear that- 'anything of
Special inrportartce was effected. Mr. COKWIN
the Chairman, submitted a proposition giving
the people of a Territory the exclusive right
to elect their officers and to irnke their own
laws, subject, of course, to the Constitution of
the United States. This, however was op
posed by several of the Republican members,
as carrying Slavery into all the Territories
under ihe decision in the Dred Scott case,and,
without voting on the proposition, the Com
mittee adjourned until Monday. It is believ
ed that a report will be m ide early in the
coming week, probably on Tuesday. Mean
time it is asserted, on what is considered relia
ble anthoriry, that Senator DOUGLAS intends,
on Tuesday, to deliver his expected speech, in
which lie will take strong ground in favor of
coercing seceding States. Mr. WADE, of Oaio.
it is known,will take that ground in the speech
which he is to deliver rn Monday. The effect
to be produced by these speeches is a matter
of grave speculation. Tne Secessionists, of
course, contend that they will precipitate an
immediate collision in South Casoiina, and
strengthen the disunion feeling throughout the
South; but this view of the case is susceptible
of some doubt A/1 vices received in Wash
ington from the Cotton States are somewhat
contradictory. Louisiana is represented to be
ripe for secession; while in Alabama, which
iias been strongly counted on to follow South
Carolina immediately, the conservatives think
they will be able to carry the State MILES, of
South Carolina lett for home last night, and
the rest of the delegation from the State, it is
understood, are to withdraw formally iu a
body.
AII important manifesto has just been
issued by Senator TOOMBS, I n shape of a letter
in reference to the fifth article of the Constitu
tion, from which there is reason to hope that
even this distinguished battier for Southern
rights is not wholly given over to disunion. He
says that if the Constitution should be amend
ed so that its provisions could not lie evaded
or resisted by Abolition States, and if the Re
publicans, or a majority of them in Congress,
will vote for such amendment, he thinks it
would he only reasonable and fair to postpone
final action i the Southern States until the
Legislatures of Northern States could he
ealied together for action upon the Personal
Liberty bills Should this action he adverse
'o the South, then he would think proper for
Georgia to secede, t the latest by the 4th of
March.
Cssf The Legislature of South Carolina lias
succeeded, after seven ballots, in electing a
Governor, Col. PICKENS being successful can
didate. This election may be regarded as
somewhat signifieeut, inasmuch us CeL PICK*
ENS is looked upon by tne extremists in the
States much too moderate in his principles
It is well known that he strenuously opposed
secession movement until after the election ol
Mr. LINCOLN, when by the sheer force of the
current lie was pressed into tiie movement. His
election rixvy be regarded as an anti-revolvtion
victory, as it is generally believed in the State
that he will not proceed to extruueties until
all negotiation and argument w.th the Geueral
Government have failed.
lIOWELL COBB.— This gentleman nus .-IL last
, resigned the Treasure rship-. man ever
made a mote disgraceful failure as a finance
minister. Entering oGlce with a treasury con
taining some twenty millions,he leaves it empty
—the government unable to pay its current
expenses and saddled with a d-btof over $BO,-
000,000. Unwilling to acknowledge liisblun
| ders or to attempt to retrace thera, he has
1 '
j spent the last few months in plotting treason
against the government, which having made
, bankrupt, he umv seeks to destroy. He has
gone home to become a violent disunion can
didate for the approaching Georgia eouven
; tion.
THE SENATORIAL QUESTION. — TO the cidst
of the exciting topics of the day the import
ance of the coming Senatorial election is not
lost sinht of. In another column will be found'
an able article from the .l lnitrose Republican
in advocacy of DAVID WILMOT, to which we
invite alttention. Papers from all parts of
the State, which though in some cases from lo
cal causes are advocates of other men, yet all
bear testimony to the ability of Mr. WILMOT
and of his fitness for the important station ;
and the prospects for his election, if the issue
is fairly presented, are eminently cheering.
A NEW SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.—ON
Tuesday, Hon. James 13. Guthrie, of Ken
tucky, was tendered nnd accepted' the post
of Serretary of tiic Treasury in place of Mr.
Cobb. It is understood that the place was
first offered to Hon. L. 0. B. Branth, of North
Carolina, but that he declined it.
EST A successor of Gen. CASS has been
fonnd in the person of Attorney Genera! BLACK,
who entered upon his new duties on Saturday.
It is rumored that EDWIN- STANTON, of Wash
ington, will succeed to the Attorney-General
ship.
THE LONDON* Timrs, theuhelest. and the su
rest refb-x of opinion in Great Britain—a.-ks
pointedly whether any man in his senses can
believe that England and France will consent
"to stultify the policy of half a century for the
sake of an extended Cotton trade," and now
give a practical indorsement to African Sla
very? No one, either here or on the other side
of the atlantic, who has taken the trouble to
think about the matter, can have any doubt
whatever, if a seperation takes place between
the Northern and Sol hern section of the union,
that the sympathy of both the French and
English people, as well as their interests, will
lie with the Northern State®
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A CAES. .
IX mncrqitenoe OF !;ITP decisions in t
United States Conrt. ail Sewing Machines of <r:
: ever diwription. manufactured or designed, aie dei
• to ire infringements on the Patents of Grover A BJ
■ Wheeler A Wilson, and Kliws Howe. jr.. consequent!/
are now obliged to pay them a tariff of $ ou each
! chhie we manufacture. notwithstanding; the genera!/
ciples of our machine are serecured t> ns by gossl
Patents in the Patent Wfßeeof the United States. Ik
fore all persons who sral! attempt to mauiifactuß.i
jor any machine without paying such a lioen-f'
be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Anjm
oomes our duty under our license to inform again*!
' parties Wherever found uing or selling any mats
without first obtaining such a license, and such partr
will be pmrsecnted totlie full extent of tlie law. IJM
sequence of the high Tariff, we have been con:;? tin
advance the price of our machines, which willlrwd
iu auother column.
B. F .
®w_Your attention is rrrpecUully requesttovibahl
- biwnig Cards of Elian Howe, Jr.,au*d the bruit; !llb
I ker S. M. Co.
A Cairn rnow GROVKR A RAKER'S SSWISO
: COMPANY.—The public iu their eagerness to PP :
themselves with Sewing Machines •n.iking tlieGro""|
Baker stitch, must not forget to purchase tbem- tuc
parties who alone are authorized to sell tbem. A' " a
I chasers and users of fraurfnleot Machines of this ca*
will be visited with certam prosecution. This* *
> have aireidy been induced to buy these fraudu'.erii
I chines can purchase a license for tneir use liefoß p"
cution, on proper application. All machines
Irotn two spools, and in which one needle only penf' 1
; the cloth, and having a feed which allows the mate
to be turned at will, are infringements.
GROVER & BAKER'S, 8. . Co., N.I
A CARI> PKOM Ki.las HOWE, Jit.—All personsarfi
tinned not to make, deal in, or use any sewing nut*
which sew from two spools "and m-ke the stitch to*
■ as the Groter and Baker stitch, unless the same arrf
, chased from the Grover A Baker Sewi g Mailiiut •
, puny.or tl eir Agents or Licensees, ami stamped u*
; my patent of September 10, IMS.
SaithCimipany, and their Licensees, alone, are i'>
authorized under their own patents, and my said p''-
during the extended term thereof, to make and so '
kind of Sew ing Machine and wN-other* are piratic- "
said patent, and-will be dealt with accordingly, wtox 4
louud.
ELI 1S lIOWI>
TOBACCO,
IN BARRELS,
X In KEGS.
Iu BOXES.
In CAN'S.
In ri.VFOTL.
In LtRGF. PAPERS.
Iu SMALL I'Ai'FRS.
In BLAPDKKS,
I-INK Ct'T.
1.0.Nb cn,
PI.U
TOR ACCC Bo* s
TOBACCO PIPES.
SNUFF'. Black and Yellow,
Choice SEG AUS,
Ac.. Ac., at Wholesale and Retail, by _. ff
bee. 20. C. B.
GROUND PEPPER,
\ LLSPICE, Cinnnmon, Cloves. C'T''®
Pepper. Mustard Ginger, Coflbe, Beardsand 1
ings' poreast of each, for sale cheap by
Dec. 20.
SG2&ÐING NEW I
T II AVE an article of TEA. just from J*
X an. a splendid article, call and look at it. __.c|
N. B.—Tlie best stock of Black aud Green T&
Bradford County.
XVCINCE PIE;;
ALL the Slock fop nanniifactnrinir
(except the Meat) to lie bad Cheap and '
quality, also good CHOPPING KNIVES, and
CHOPPING HOWLS you ever saw.
SOAPS AND CANDLES. |
THE best stock of Soaps in tlii*
YANKEE. MILITARY. CASTILE. TR v ;. riS f ;|
EXT. WINDSOR. VARIEGATED. WH!TB.j
CAL, PALE A BROWN. Come and look at them-
CANDLES by the B>* er Pound, t| „ 1