The, PhiladelPhis kleetiotr It seems a little . pibblemittical who have the greatest:eau.le to reFoic4 over the xestils l of the recent m nici pal efe4tion Philadel phia. tome of the DeMoctatic.Paperi have -been exowirig o' ex the rine thoegh they bad something to rej&ce 'Their-lUrtnerl arrogance seems to have been effectually . whipped'out oftheiti, end they are now thank- Position of Parties: fill fin. very small favors. is these 'a pro-slavery party at the North ? The election for City Trmsurer was close, There is'a party that, instead of ' ignoring the • from the fact that the Democrats supported slavery question,' has long been and still con-1 f m - r - Ilag gert, the Whig' candidate - for that tinues the active auxiliary of the Slave Pow er ; that approved of the'Nebraska bill ; that, office, thus for the oc casion asion uniting both the partic4 l against the Know. Nothings, Apd since that act has made Slavery the great is yet, notwithstaialingithis fusion,:llorton, the sue before the 'people has generally nominat- . ed and supported Nebraska men ftir office • I Ainericanaindidate,fwas elected by -322 ma and that has been mete and defeated by the , jority. ' At the Oct4er election, the •Dern°, cats of Philadelphia,gave Judge Black 25, -people on that issue, throughout the Free 4149 votes, and. Thomas H. Baird, the Amer- States. Facts, then, point out this party, the loan candidateJuid 22,104. NoW, the united sham Democracy, as, at least in practice, the Whig and Democrsitio" vote for Treasur4r; Pro-slavery Tarty of the North.. :Nor do is only 22,688, while the Atherican vote" they generally deny that this is their position 'tint openly advocate pro-slavery measures,' figu res, 458; Which ' i party , 11ecrdistingr.toisht:: Sher except in few localities where policy die-. r - y g , u th' . e e N D -P d Pe moc a— rarieran d dr i da y te ing f2 City GoM tates a different course, to conciliate thC . Free missioner, is defeated by Hill the 'American Soiler&t. candidate, - by 197 majority , one hundred ard To call off attention from their own posi- seventy-seven votesicaat . in the Seventh Ward tlon, so emphatically opposed to the ?rind. for . G. Hill having been rejected by the plea of true Democracy, the organs Of the - Return Judges. 1 sham democracy - are raising the cry of 'anti- The. Afnerican candidates for Assistant + slavery against their opponents. For those Surveyors were. elepted in most of the die who vote pro-slavery to make this charge trios. The Demoerats are also in the nil; -against those 'who vote antislavery, scans nority in iioth the . City Councils, but the re remarkable enough; but a portion of the op- cent extravagance }of the old Councils ha d position are United in a secret organization ' aroased - the eitinis against them, and the and this fact affords an opportunity to assert Anleriean!enna i sas were i n se i era l ewes that that organisation -is pro-slavery-=that defcateitfor tliat effuse. - • pro-slaveryism is one of its. secrets.- If such , 4 is the fact, if the Know Nothings have placed In this election lee have another exemplifi cation of the present weakness - of party: ties, theznselies on the same grounds with the and -the d e termination of the people to reform, sham Democracy on the slavery question, abu'ses 'by whotnever committed. The they deserve to fail - and will fail; and they . 11 - orth American l ays that the true Cause of and ,. the Free Soilers nuist part company,' the ,defeitiof so mrly of the Anierican candi their proper place 'being with the party ; they dates fur Cotineilriten, was the determination have heretofore belied to defeat. The- P rem. - of many independent, right-ininded men, not Des from ia-hich this conclusion concerning the attached to either i the Whig or Democratic position of the Know NOthing,s, is drawn . , are standat4,- to vote for none but good and coin: `'.rather slight. They have not as an organi zation openly declared their hostility to slay- potent candidateand tliaLthe result should I be a - warning to the Americans to exercise a ,ery, , etlierzase t'lian by voting fdr . Free Soil little more care the selection 'of their nom men—with one-or two exceptions in the earli er - stages of their existence,—in every - election ;that has been held .in the Free States. Is such evidence to be taken as conclusive ?--- Let those pipers that make the accusation, rand yet have the impudence to assert that the Democratic party is Free Soil, try their own party by the same test.Whey' did a Dein -tieratic State ConvOion,. „ in any State, ever pass Free Soil Resolutions? If they' do not .take open anti-slavery grounds, .are they not. -pro-slavery ? • But this pointis more effectu „alli settled by the` vote of the people, than •by other meads. The voting at the recent ,elections, shows that the,North is divided pri marily into two parties, those who adhere to - the national administration and disgrace the name of Demoeraey, and those who, placing ;principle above party, and believing-the Slav ery issue paramount to all others, have bro ken loose from the old organizations and en listed for the war under the banner of free dom. It' is only necessary fur the Know Nothings to show to the Amisfaction of.all ,that they stand on the Free Soil platform, I , like thoae.with whom they. have voted, and the national Democracy' be. left alone un their” glory } —undisputedly the Sole -pro gavery party. of : -the North. lu Massachu setts and - No:villain, pshire, according 'to the / telegraphic reports, the State Councils . or.' -Conventions - hive within the present month taken a - strong antislavery' position: • In New Hampshire the State Council adopted resolutions protesting against the ierkia, of the Missouri Compromise, ,and against the Nebraska bill 'and Fugitive Slave law, aad pledging the party to resist the further ex tension el . Slavery.- In Massaelmietts, the State Con tention •met, May -2nd,. and was largely attended, and its action decidedly snti-slavery. Governor Gardner and Sena . nor Henry Wilson are among the delegates appointed to attend the Know Nothing Con ventian in Philadelphia in June. "Strong an- I ti-slavery resolutions were passed, and it was generally admitted that the order most take-, position on the atiti-slavery plat. Corm. Let the'order throughout the' 'Nerth take the same position, and act in concert with the Republican party, and the effectual over throw ale Slave DemoCraey at the next Presidential election, may be confidently an INDEPENDENT REPUINCAN. CHARLES F. READ AND 11. IL FRAZIER, EDITOFIS. MQNTROSE,.PA, Thursday, May 10, 1955. ticipateL IZg7—.Ciununhvs, of the Philadelphia Bul letin, is as fine a fit:madmen : or a Northern Doughface as can be found outside the lines of the sham Democracy. .To read his corn .ments, one might doutt'vrhether hevonsiders :the slavery party, or the free State party, the most to blame for the acts of the wretch es who:lately so grossly: violated the laws, that they 'might force upon Kansas a Missou ri Legielatgre. Notwithstanding the settler's from the free States have comported them- _swivel' as peaceful, law-abiding citizens, guilty of no woesecrim ethan a desire to give Freedom to Kansas by their votes, the Bulletin is base enough to place them in the same category With their outlaw 4:oniquerors, as the following extract shows: _ ' "It is unfortunate Far the peace of the martin. that the slavery disputes should hare made:KanSas the at -Snare region for ultra men of all kinds—the despe rate aboiltionista; The men who can..recognize no medium and moderate course, but wha will be satin - fled with nothing lees than the establishment of their own extreme views. The representatives area& par ty, that 'hate assembled in Kansas, are fanatical, and they will cling to their peculistr views as if it" were a sort ofholy duty. To secure them they are quite willing to violate written laws, to upset an election, trAtuport voters,, to lynch their opponents, and to threaten those of opposite views." -I:463FRUTION OF TBE Wora.D.—The end of Tithe, it appears; has at last been definitely flied at`the 19th of May inst., and not the jolt of April as seme of the newspapers er -1 'roneously stated. The prophet Daniel we bete ve I s daily relied of as authority ;lir this statoPAß4it, and, as the 'Second Adventists' :say thdy_ ilavie figured up carefully and can. not be mistaken this time, the public may t ramp sly &,ri - ye them this chance to redeem • their credit, with the understanding that an other postponement will be &tart° their rep - • utatiou as j'rophets iutii-preters of mph, ; Brow Nothing iois• Acc9rding to the; icrigo, Democrat; the Know liothing State( Council recently held - ,•• t - • • - in that C,ity, after a stormy session, finally 4 .• split on the Slavery question. . They are di vided into tlie 3"onathans:' and 'Sams' of whom the fomet . are said 'to. be anti-Slavery and 'and, the - latter anti-Catholic And anti-Foreign.. Tice Sams are' said to sympathize Niithiludge Douglas; and to be chieflyciz• ropOsed Of old Hunker Whigs and old iHniiker Deiiii.?crzts, men of pro-Slavery • 1. • tendenetes. Diniglas attended . ai . .a lobby • • • •- member; and eibreised all his skill in pulling, t I the wires furithopro-Siavery division, but the result vas the ir iroHnpletti.discomfiture... The Free Soil ditisiOri were - cornpletely victori ous, and their orponeuts--those who did - not conie-.OVerand 4oin the successful partylett - in disgust. • .! 7, • , :This is anilthb . r illustratitin :of the conse , quenecs thatininst follow an} attemptto give ,a pro§lavery eendeney to the order at the North. 'No party that Suecumbs to the .Slave Power, apd either renders it active sup ,porti like the 'sluini Democracy, or consents to yield a submission to its aggressions; like one branch of theNortlierp KnOw Noth ings; can e'er !obtain the syin patbies OT votes of true Republican Freetnn. • • - L tier ~tisA Coi:rry.-4As fitr as we can learn, the proicet, for erecting the new - county . of Litekawaanh out of a part ofLuzerne--the County Seat of which Would probably 'be at Scranton—h 4 been defeated in the Legisla ture! The ;qtiestion was fairly decided by the people of the county last Fall, in &vir of the .division, whiCh is , desirable both frOm the great extent' Luzerne ccninty, (being the • largest county in the Statc!, by two hundred square miles) and from the rapid increase of population and wealth within the limits . of the Proposedeounty. If divided _ as propos .l ihe new county would coutain about 30,- - 000 1 inhabitafts and the old one about 40,-. 'OOO with a prespeet that eventually the new would suipa.o the old in Ovulation, wealth, and importtMee. Tux CmcrOrrt Rters--Twe'Vzsmcv.—The Coro- ners' jury em*ncled to enquire into the cireurnstime es attentrmg the death of Patrick Drury, one of the victims of thel.eleetion riots, closed their labors on Thiirsdayeveiting The Verdict, says the Buffa lo Commercial, place; the responsibi li ty of the com mencement of the riots upon the foreigners, who seiz ed Ithe polls and prevented the Americans from vot ing: The exiitnituition lasted two days, and over one hupdred witnesses were examined before the Coro !: ners'jury, The, verdict of the Corooer'4 jury, as above . recorded, fp in accordance with the statement that appesiin ed the Cincinnati papers, imme diately after the riots occurred ; but, though thus verified by the solemn finding Of a jury, ; • on the spo - toye presume'the truth of these istatementa will still be denied by . the anti ; American Tress, whose policy it is to bepraiss , the fi.l i reil,r# Catholics at the expense of our own dountrymen and•the truth. 1 '; I • galcolm Clark, a pro-slavery leader in Katisasi was shotdead at Leavenworth City, May 1, by Mcßea, a leader of the Free Boil ers: A lisPute arising as to which party had the majotity at a public meeting then holding, Mcßea j re the lie to Clark, who thereupon' , struck him With a club, and Meßea drew his revoi verian4 shot hie, assailant dead. Meßea was tile' sco ure d and confined hi Fort Leav- I cnwortki The l~te~t paperi froin!Westerii Missouri say that Cit.S. Park, of the Luminary, has been selrei4ly Lynched in Kansas, and his house hi Park rale burned to the ground. Thi Tribune inquires, in view of the recent i - outrageoutragen anus, vr au is to be done?' and eplies,'as Should the whole North, Re peal Nebraska The Tribune also states the great question which is henceforth to divide the people of this 'country, as fol. No Freedom ,outside the Free Stag,) °tin° Slavery outside the Slave States.! That is tile issue.i—Let every man chooselb i seolors, itnd be prepared to Supprt "them,fror the struggle is at hand.- Tenobers' In pursuance of notice,' the :Susquehanna County / Teache: rs' Ai4,teciation .met at the latite Comniodionalnipiling known its the Methodiet'Meeting llcfhin in Herrick Centre, an Thais' iday i May 3dii1855. The i'resident hOt-beifig‘P"lfitti ihetlueetiall was called to order . by Thntiias and on motion H. IL Ellie, EN.,:wali elected. Chairman pro tem: The exercises Were opened with prayer by Prot Richardson.P t Miss Charlotte Ellis, a distinguishediesch4 now engaged in teeth ing in *aria county, being present, was called upon . to give a description of the course pursued in `trashing iu ttmt couaty, which site did. in a very' clear. and interesting manna, and it proved- conchisively that the 'true friend's of' ethication were thoroughly waked up in , our sister county. Prof. lijchardson made a few appropriate remarks bn the deplorable Condition of many of the schoolhouses in this county—thiit in many instances he found that appropriate . SCllty were not provided for small scholars, and in some eases a fotal neglect of ventila tion.• The best. Ma . nner nf interesting small chit , dren was the taken up and discussed at length by Julius Tyler, Prof. Richardson, Z. L R. Cast, and others: and it was the de- Cided opinion of the . : teachers present that a slate and pencil, "simple as it may appear to, soma, was the best means yet tried.. - It was, alsn decided that copy-plates were indirpeusably to rnakegood pen men. The Prcsetft sChorfl law was next introduc ed., and- was very .Ably discussed by Prof. Riclu►cdsoni,L H. #.llis; Benj. Wurtrous and others. OnJmotion', the . Convention adjourn. ed "to meet at 7 o'elbek e. EVEViNG . . . The Assiielation! were - entertained with li li speeches frcip Proc:Richardson and J.,Tyler; upon education in general. They showed in a :very cleat and logical manner that every child of the ;Old Keystone, rieh or poor, had a claim upcin the State fiur a liberal educa tion. - 1 I" The rt,%idne of tl. session was spent In ~ cussing the: 'new fai wally , and the members gen ally parttk ° of the discussion. The'prin cipal objection' rai4d against it was, that too much was.4.quirv.4 of the Directors without giving ther4 any compensation for their serv ices, but believed that the principle was cor rect. It *Ss :remarkell that in some ,places in the county the law was not enforced, and in those pinees it *as mostly objected •to.— They‘wisli4d to sec it rigidly enforced, and whenever S better one was presented they would willingly consent to have this repeal- . ed. On Motion, fhe Association adjourned to meet atithe 'Methodist Church on Gibson Hill on Irriday,' ; ltiay 2 s th, 1855, at 10 , , . o'clock A.'S. h i large number of teaehei s . in attendince; nj &the generous and hospita ble mannei. in ,thiCh those from abroad were received;:, 'ens another proof of the deep interest thi., good iteople of Herrick entertain for the cause of: education, , fur which they have hitherto been so long-distinguished. •TitcstAs D. RIME, gee. - We find by the .resords of the Commis sioners of,Emigtation that there is a startling decrease in the number of end ,grints that have arrived in! New York. sinte, .the first of March up .to the )resenOate, as compared with the corresponding period of last year:\Althotigh the returns for tbis month are not yet coin plete, the additional increwe,- if any, will be very trifling. 'The numbers that arriv from foreign countries at this port in March and aprillBs4, Were 34,906 ; in March and April 1855 (up to this date) 5,358, which give the ienormosis decrease ' in two months,' of !,,V,548. In the period of last year to which we allude, 13,506 emigrants came from Ire land, but, from the first of March up to the present, the arritals from that country only numbered 1,6814_ which exhibits a falling off to the amount of 11,825. Varibus minor reasons may have combin ed. to produce this result; but the principal causes May be ,fairly tra ced to the crusade that had been waged in some States against our imioarteil pepulation; and in a Still great er degree, to the late season of unparalleled distress l i vrttlett ,ivas experienced with more or less IntensitY; throughout every portion of the Union. Thbusands returned to the old sxsuntries Anring the past Winter, taking with them aeetsanta Of the sad instances of destitu tion which they, have witnessed. Their tales were stifficieriCto dispel the golden dreams of perSOW intending to emigrate and induce them to retbain at home, and bear a little 'longer the,wrongs and oppressions from which the had made hp their minds to eicape.' 7 — N. Y. Times. There seemi:, a deisrmination to find' fault, whet)* With :er without reason. The cry set up :above that the American movement, which is evidently meant by 'Abe crusade' itgeirnit our iMported, population, has result ed in C.heeking;emigration is utterly foolish: But ifit had thus resulted, wecan see noth ing very. alarming in it. We cheerfully wel come 'foreigners Of every clime to our shores • but, While so)nany native born citizens and such jlsst nubiners of foreignersidready here, are stt want and suffering, in consequence of the great stagnation of business, there can be no gbod reason for complaining of a present decredise in emigration. But we go further, -and assert that this de ereasie is an ietual benefit to the country.—' Wekitinot' want all Europe at once. Ye are Willing titi i take it in instalments. But 'we want, it no titter than we can assimilate it with the habits and language I of our people. , l • • When the ;butch settled in Pennsylvania, they came in such numbers that they' formed ; a nation of *twelves, and to this day use thelinguageof their forefathers. Whereas; in this State the emigration was of that mod erate chara , c4r which permitted the emigrants,: to aisimilate with others, and thus form -a hoinogeneoni race. • There (la be no doubt that foreign govi ernMents it - re-clxvking this emigration, in inisi;sure, for the . men are wanted at- home. Btit4this country s ill not materially suffer, if there iiheidd be no more emigration for seine tithe* cotne.--;-.Asi6ers American. fA Lint* . TOO FAsr.—The Democracy of the Second Ward brought out their big gun oti Wedneiday afternoon, and commenced 44 a saliite of one hundred rounds in hoer or: of the glOrious election ;of the fuSion tick ' Theyihad fired some four rounds, when Aidtlrmani Flood rushed to the ground, and antioiuneed that Messrs. Rill and Morto ere cleeted. They soon pulled up their stakes, dragged away their cannon, and t* sOved Save their powder till anotker Oc casion. We will not attempt_ to explain their feeling s .—:-.2Cortlt American. - t • Cori s erenckmee of the National .Pa. =UMW BECOMING POLITICIANS Rart,lorin, N, II.; April ,25. In pasCtiin*Jray" fweutv-iire,yeArs •agti, and mOret,f the, Methedist, B"aptist, Free.W ill Baptist,: Christiitn; and Universalist Ministers of thiaState;,cmhracmg not far from ,two thirds ufthel*hotennmber in the State, were •moitlY INneeetlats in politieS. The Congre 'gationalists,!PreSbyterians, and Unitarians, were mostly Whigs. In those trine, many ministers:4f the Democratic party Were act ive politleitins;'lThey discussed politks in the circles th€,7, Met, ! voted at the p011s„ were often ehnSen IcteshiterS, made fervent prarers for the perrietnit,r, and spread of our glorious liberties at military reyiews, FOurth of July celebratiOns; and', at political conVeintions.— When J4ckii,p l ,: San .Buren, and others; were eatnltdittes A:4.i the Presidency,: some . Minis.. tees attended Meeting's at which' political ad.! dresses Were given, and Offered. prayer. •So late as IMO; at:tt political meeting addressed! by stimip oratois of the Democratic party, et' minister I:gerea a prayer, which was consider-i ed so valnablel•that it was published in a po4 Riad paper. • Anyone who read. it could, but see that,. it,Was quite. pblitical. - Demo cratic miniatersiW i ithin half dozen . years' have attended i m s embers, ['ethical conven4 flogs; for the notnination Of State, county, and other - officers.-Even in the present year; in one county : , iaiinister, who was the only one that voted with the Democrats, in that pare of the State, attended the caucus just before the election, anti was an active member. I In alf these and other eases that might be named,there. was no complaint that ministers were nieddlitmi with politicS. No, no ; that I • P! was. all f atery Well. They were patriotic, and "for 'their :`country!" • But since 1,835. a change has been taking place. The I)ernoeratic party prcoing'reere .ant: to the tree principles of Detnocracy as they wire tnahltained in the days of Jetrer son,- ministers have left it. : The party be , coming'. prostituted to the upholding of Slave ry and!to,lbe extension of itj ministers haVe been leaving Lit,..so that xi• present but very few support !tt„ Perhaps out of 650 minis ters now 111 . '14 State, there are not fifty that are'ofAheDeMocratie party . . - hundreds of the ministers, ere opposed slavery. They are for;temperiinee, peace and liberty. They do not:Makethese the subjects of .their dl courses; they pray for those in bond; and occisienally some of them Make God's. vlo• - • lated law•spealc . out ,in tones of thunder,- 71sis is more particularly the case• on the tin nual fist :and.*.lianksgiving days.' Formerly those ibis. laid become seaionsi for aitutie ment and feitSting, so that churches contain cd'bUt feiv hearers: Now more attend, 1 Buti While ministers have been taking this course, some of the people !mite been in ago ny. Ministers could be active in politics While Oetneerats, but, to be active for . the cause . of ..I.iieedbm, Oh,n i l " that alters the case !"such adO, perhaps, was never heard tet such .a subject :before.- ," 'Clittitch and ,State. !tinited !" "Ministers preaching polities!" ':Ministers: cleetioneeringl" and the been vociferated loud and long. Editors of tlelitical papers; haste called upon the people tt; leave the ministrations of such political 'prict..s, and some ktf the people liave' declared::they would not hear, nor help tip port,', such ministers. ' But; the heavens, have not fullest, seS yet. • I jlumber of ministers in the State heve gone into the Know NOthing moventent.l • ; I Of this I have nothing to say, as to defentling! theni.,.-..`A. little time will (show - whether the coarse wa-i! wise 'ornot. • , .1 • . That t‘lasi who have tiqnotinced Mini‘ters for meddlitiwith pOliticsfas described above,. andMio hate left meetings, now feign them. sel<<es as hatigry for the Nyorcl.'nf Life. I.leY . want ministers who do not. meddle with 04*, No, they must not be politicians. • .they may say tee' the public that Slavery must be let alone; j that the Ftigi l tive 'Slave Act, is haw ,anti nittst,be obeved , they may attend political conventions, if ttjes are of the Xern- ocratic , p4.ty ; but farther ithane these',:' they must tint:O. If any,itnuw of some such out of ernploy.will they not send them this way, that these 'few bleating sheep, ''scattere4 here find there, ; 4ithout a shepherd, may get rome thing-to stiStain their pour tarnishing souls 1 : I; • JOSEPH FULLOStON. . ;I(krom • Lon4oA',2line4) 4lf the Americans can shiny us the way to • take Sebastopol,sre should be qttite!ready to learn, and to et-0 them' every credit_ for the lesson." 'Here, now, is a capital epportunity for the exercise of-whatever surpliis chivalry" and " tuilittFy glory" our Yankee fillibuiters may n still, haven hand, utiappropriated. Instead going-to lie down and die under the hot suns. of Central Americai journey to the Crimea,--according cOntract,—it :trikes 124 would ;be the much more sqnsible proceed • ing,—especially at this season of the year. Then again as everybOdy knows the Rus sians ategoverned quite as dpotidally as Cuba Would-it not be qUite as patriotic to set " the 'people" there free, as to be fillibus tering about " the ever faithful isles,"i whose people (by the way) usually. manifest their gratitude to us, in helping to shoot u§ when ,eyer 'ohanee. to fall into their hands, pris- Oters 'I :Besides, would it not be tbe great: est of glories to hate it said that Brotherl Jontithati did what neither John Bull nor! Johnny 'Crapeau could do, after trying eery4 tiard,.--that is, be took Sebastopoi'l Only! think, of the Star-Spangled Banner waving in : fritunidi over Ports Constantine and; Alexanj4 !---*ith the British Lion, and thO in. nowhere. Annexation of the Crimea. would follow, of course,—and the next .Con: areas Might as-. well prepare to receive , the member from Balaklava., and the gentle.man from Perekop. If *e "contract"iwith the for the Sebastopol job, what if we 4 *getiinte a war with Russial The result 'will bei..after flogging her; the re-anuexatton Of her 'North lAmeriam provinces to our 'thus bringing in territOriciut of which! we einje half a dozen new free soil States. Thereforet we . say again,—gentlempifillibustersH the .Crimea There youl will have foemen (worthy of your steel,—and, (if the Thunderer is ,not joking,) you 'rill be well paid for, the job, insight drafts +?n the Bankof England, and that will be something better than Cuba aerip, l 'or 'President Walker's prornise Ito payeLLN. Y. Express. I ,4 I • .There has been for many;mopth project,on foot for( the ;introduction of 'six thousand Coolies fiora China into Cuba,l as plantation laborers to supply the place of 'lle./ groek the,importation of whom from Africa, is to:be prohibitedrif possible. The English impit;alists having the matter In cltarge W,ere delayed in their arrangements by the Urgent dernlind 'of vessels for the Criniea, which rindered it diflica4 to - effect suitable charters in I4don. They;have finally trabsferred the spend, of their labors to New•Yorli, whett vessel is now fittiqg out for Chit4a, und4r a co,niract for '1,250i emigrants.. They' will be brottght via Tanama. - Mr" In the, Pennsylvania Senate, May 4th; the bill for the sale of the 11fain Line was passed finallY., It fixes the 'price at $B, 006,900. ' The 'House - atnendmenti to the bill relative t,i) the I:ights acid duties of husbands and wiles concurred in. The bill to erect the new 'county oftackliwanna; was rejeeted, and thecharter of the ,Ohio River Iniprovernent Cotnpanv pa .sea 00nnelani-/Alooao4ri - r: 1 • TT ;.I.4II.TFORD, Ice'T); • ;'• The Legislature of lii S tA Iticte.d Win. T. -Minlr, -ilintl . .Terpor fut ,the ensuing year, ' follOws-:' Min0r,,177: t• Inghtu ..Ttje other State Pffieurs were ms Geivernor delivers his •:37 . , , 1.-. ternoon. • i , -• ` '1- 5 The Message Of the GovetnOr was ache cred this afterndOn. :,. lie 40;unmends that the proposed lititendieent, to the Constitution Hextending the right of suffrage to colored persons, and requiring persens to be' -able to, read and write before being ii c hnltted as elec• tors• -•=he allowed to l'go to the - people. He recominendsnn apprenriatic ' h in aid of the State . Agricultural Stkiety ;,'says the income ()tithe School Ri nd the iivis year. bast been • 8128,108,_ \making a divide .t 1 •of 81 25 for each scholar, and thinks it i the duty of the LNiSlature to encourage ed cation id eery possible way, and istri favo of e. of meri torious School Districts a'o py of We c bster's U,iiabridgee Dictionary. 1 e says he should._ regard the repeal= or. modifi *ion Of the'fro-: 'hibitory Liguori: LaW as detrimental to • the .best interests of the. State,'' serving-that the effect of the law', has, been-s eh as to recom niend it to . general favo . 'and that by it t crime has been lessened; pticerty and misery alleviated, and the •happinc:is of many a fire side restored. ale', bakineg in: the -Treasury of the year is st ated at 8;6;000, A ppropriations :for the Dq; Dumb-, Blind; 'ldiotic, and for the State 1 furor. School are recommended.'; Ho favors , such a 'remodeo iie4 of JudiCiary 'systen as will fiteilitat. the settlement of causes. j he says that the banking institutions of. th • State are in la sound and healthy CoeditiO2 ; : that , the mill, , tart' W m Will compare favorabl • vith t hat of sis ter States. . Ile considers that in' the recent election the people rcfl rated their' . em emphatic condemnation O t •the act organizing the Territories of Nebraska and Kan.s4s. lie ' enters larrel v into the ceOsideration of this Pernicious infinence arisink from' the extent and eharacter.Of the foreiPn inunigration.4- After alluding' to the liirge. and inereasing number now 4nnuAlly cciii4ing -among iii, the Governor ~:ty, : - This large mass of aliens— ' .1-. some of them tinctpred ()lith the social infi delity of continental liltni}pc, very. many of lieiri blind 'followers of An t•ftlesiastical des- polism,. a Jarge majority t'ff , them without cor pertaining Oct ' , ideas ,of the duties- at to 0 . 1- i .enskf republican . Geyer ment, and by ,ear:l Iy' prejudices .tourtly Unfit to learn them- --. 'differing in language, national customs and 'feelings, and scattered min. ' -all the country, I Istilliwit tenaeitV.holdinii \ on to-and °laser- . i ivin4 thou) enstonts l and d - Tfrom among them. 1 ! r? • as appears - tiorn 'Ole staozities, of crime and 1 !patirisin in the differeni States in this Un- I ien, conies a rmajority . :or .he inmates of pris- !ons!and alms hom4es: wilimi these things are.' I !cons i dered 7 • and, in add 'ion, the. f ts.t lt 'I !our, taxes are largely. Ink`•reased fin• the sup ; pori-of our treign.popit ation ; that in mane i instances, the abitsheinSes of the Old World hate been emptied, their . prison doors thrown open, open, •and the inmate* transported by the eov ernmentto our stioi-csa wise regard for r., ~•• .our safety as a'natiori requires'additional leg -it,:latiori.with reference tolforeign immig ration ~After considering the rights and pr , i t jl e gp zi o f foreigners the . GOvernuitadd,s : But as a !net : ter of policy, •eonnected;with the privilege:Of citizenship to be Conferred-upon the alien, we ha l ve the right to ingniAi how - thr-fbe allegi t.ance due from the inCn hers of the - Poinish . ~ • i , th , ~,, . , , Church is compatible w tue,Legianee due , i to thew adoPted,eouintT ; and if we findlnat combinations fur piditreid action exist, corn ' p',s&l o f members of 't is Clinrch, throwing their entire) vote one! •av ' or the other, -as the wishes and.feeling ( i 21.1 interests of those ei j r aitrolling May:diet:it, mid further, it' we find that these combinli loes.are but instru ments in the hands - of diemagogues, either on. i --- tveborn or- thiewn ups our shores by the . I , t'onlry • i howl irr- of r• ' revoai . u ) . i,,s Europe—then a •• strong reason is.fourid shiny a longer residOnec, should he required bef"re. the - alien .ran be mituraliZed. The :144 - age closes with a re capitulation of the pt4 - ers, constitutionally, of the' Legislature over _ this subject. ~ Wc have had . to day one of the fi nest par t des. ever 'witnessed of this • city; - • r i•,, 1 '. ' • ...,' • i i A White , woman. The New Orleaps; :itint of a suit which!: in that city on behalf 6 lle(res that she is Wr claimed av a slave fiy Prleans, and Joseph 0 'der an alleged purelupi I • rasa letheof late Ji ipetition she declares il inarr,ett's house, she hit mealber:;ofh's w e Ito the world, and actol daughter.' She ham; li white persons, •WELS colored , pup . - are . rig ten_sat in the.dresS tres, where none but, ed to be seated. Sl and' passed for. a fr.4. - e 4 ,, than ten years., - whi4 freedom.' • Several years prek' she . ceased to resin jiinhis house, bOught am sold property in herb 11 p . name, and Was sued.i' .the various courts of the State, and did man other nets'inconsiSte't With a state,of slaver . ,! all of which were de e with the,Wnowledge I said Barrett,: She, :: ys that Levy, her pr -. T. tended master, kit}' all these (* . acts at 'tile! time of his pretends; purchase, and that Ch-', hen, who claiins a :rt interest in her, wiisi, also conVersant wit ' them. By their per.+..- cutions they -have it'4jured her feelings, amidj I t reputatiOn, and ha.V , i4 subjected her to mu 4, , trouble 'and expenSik,and she-prays the Cot t not only to decree.ber to. be a free persrit;.' but to. render a verdict against Levy and Clici, ..lien for . damages in the sum 0f524100. I d The plaintiff in this suit . is, now in Cana(' .5. and brings the suitiin order to obtain perri sion to, return to ht home in New °deaf • . . , • FAWNS •IN 1.:- 7 P*Elt • GEORGIA.—We h sad accounts from{ he north part of Georg The Daltott-TintO i siys that many people without corn, or O,zi i y means to. procure a And besides' therelis none for sale. In so ; 4. 1 neighborlx4s, a ushel could not be obt ed for.:love'Or mo ey. Poor. men Ore 4 . 31 ing to `woilo , -foil t a peek Of 'corn . a day. they plead f` our ' ildren will starve," t arc answered, " st*will mine, if I' part . 1 the little I have-' Horses- and mules t turned out into `th z woods, to wait, fur g . or starve. Thel niequence is, that t Ose who have land ca only plant what theycim with the hoe—th cannot plow. . It is Se riously ' .argued i iithat, *unless assisted ini!m, manyi ot the poOr• class of that sectionktll perish. . i ! faiLAND.---Th Irish are buying, up lre land,;and-a aipi I. ' the'Cumbered . tates Bill,' 'which praides for the sale in sli t all lots of !urge lande3 ,i.... tates burdened, ' ith debts, land to the va`lue of one hundred illions of dollars- haslpa3s. ed into, the hay i of the common p ogle. The effectof tli measure in stimulatin ' i en. terprise and thr4, is said to be won rful,' and its fruits ari. seen in the rapid .d r4se of paupers hi ilfe public, alms-house. Here is a futuri. for I).ehuid, cure. ection of Coy 3, 1855. ; e this morning il kienn, fur iGoN.- e vpte was as Dem., 70, also eipeted.-- ess:age this sif g for Freedom Delta publishes an ne.: as heel): commenced 'Josephine Smith, who ngfullv and illegally 1 ionel C. Levv, of New 1 hen, ofCharfestOn, unil • Made at the sueeesl dah Barrett . • to her at when she lived in , , sided .there as ,a. free ? unify, and was know l )wled by Barrett as hid r ' ways associated with, eated at schools where" 'admitted, and haS of cles of the public then •hite l / 4 'persons arc allow has enjoyed liberty) - , white person ..for mor gives a ' . legiil right t ous to Barrett's deal ey ith ass a r fi, A r r Porlage,Coanty (Ohio) Democrat, a Snow itroihing paper. • • ./4 ow t _ . * . - • Nevertheless, we;will crave. the libert 1 !to ash that, in our judgmept, he A n . ti-Nel ~,aska issue cannot be mord' elearly,de. fined, north peat rights of :man -better chant toned, to the present conjnneture, than with t.'e fearless," incorruptible:,- and able ex- Sena it Chase, as our Gubernatorial nominee and s ,, ''ndarea:bearer. And this ideft,'"we no tice, i :ivery prevalent with men of all former politi , al parties, "who now purpose to act to gethe iin the great Democratic Republiam Peop 's movement, , His: Congressional ac tions re A known., Prompt, active, indefatiga ble, lc, on occasions powerful, ;true to every inter lt, conicerated to the rights ,of humani ty, o 'posed -to all: oppression, and to the'cor rupti i and assumptions of doughfaces and slave Molders ,' no lures Senatorial 'career can pros tit a .brighter record. His election io th F" hief Nalpstraey of the State w ould place -011in ... , ..,—.. In the protideit possible Anti:Slivery n before the voild. Shall we -not have ioral influence ()f.sueh a pOsition Ohio, posit the i -,--- :n°, who more worthy to; bear the bon tial represent the interests of a free pea" han the brave chivalric, and talented Ben c. F. Wade? . He has the ring of the• !Iletali;htid a more powerful, effective, fearless champion of freedom the Senate et: boast. ' Upon •of .next Legislature devolve the ditty of electing his flumes .[ Here, then, is an . important..alement, Senatorial question, to mingle in our next tie& . campaign. Who 'so worthy. in. the ent attitude of things, to succeed B. F. de, as 13.F.:Vade himself? .He should C-elected. Let the people; then, .secure a, lidature which 'will. re-elect - this eloquent faithful Senator 'to the . poSt in the United . 4 Senate which he adorns'. ° •.• - c Slave.lletnoeracy - proscribed Senator re, and disgraced 'the:State by placing in stead the miserable bar-room politician, , h! Let•the people, now ,put it beyond rpower thus to proseribesenator. Wade, the election.of any such ,'doughface and -,ile. ' , - • -,. . . . .° . A ors pie, jam' true and' MEI . . . Vhat, then ; shall we dd.? • We should re member ; . . . .- The infamons Nebraska swindle. 4i,That- th 4 great issue is, Freedom or Slpery-Clr this Governinent-one or the 0th .,., .i • O. That the Democratic Republican Party o the People is the instrumentality by, eans o which to vanquish the '.despoilers of Men, at 4 to_ secure the blessings of liberty for our -51 te s t the, po o cp ur le b ehilf Port a ge children. .. . : ..; as a,coraponent p r't.of the great. army of Freedom in- Ohio, c . fltivate; politieally, the spirit of union, !tar n, oily, conciliation; and cordial'endeavor, that they' . may effectually. bear_ a hand in accom plishing the . great results ,due to the genius of bur free institutions,, to the rights-or Our rao, and our (nit: individual and colleefiVe % elfare. - . . . . . • Arraigned for Slave Piracy'. • .James D. Darnan. the Captain of the brig. GOV Engle, who was arrested in August last, ii 4 the charge of taking on board his vessel,. 4t§,ome,port on the coast of Africa, 500 tic-. itrbes, With a view to make them slaves, .is ..,, O , w on trial at Philadelphia. . .'' • I. :,The allegations are that.; the Grey Eagle iviis an Americart:vessel, and owned by Geo. . .n 4,1 w larsdcn, Sarnuet S. Gre2.-,:_.Zahn Jan A.. Macha. i, or by some owner or Hers unknown ; 1% kid that the negroes were taken on . board itfie•verei on tile 14 of April. 1554. ', i! The defemknt has been in prison ever since : I his commitment by the U. $. Commissioner Ica! take .his trial:. The negt:iieS Were...landed 'on the coast of Cuba, and txpon the arrival Of! one of the creiv at Havana, he gave infirm :i4l, at td the American Consul; who :sent, the i WitnesS. to New ). - ork*with Such Other infor i_ matiunras lie was able to :procure,. in order te secure the arrest of the defendant, who. `had escaped frein Havana; .and was Mier ! ed to.he in New `York. , The defendant came to Philadelphia, and Was shortly afterwards arrested hy . the U. S., Marshall Wynkoop and his deputies at: a sail.l Or boarding house m Pend street. At his hearing before the Commissioner, some five Or six witnesses were. examined, Who testis lied 'that the defendant was one of the cap. tainS of the brig Grey Eagle,. and had charge' . iif the vessel Mt her return voyage from the ..I Coast of Africa pcia port in the isCand of Cuba. ii That he landed 'the negtoeSl on the island bf Cuba, near Cabanos, by - bribitia-the officer 0 stationed at that point, and received 'for his eargo seVeralhundred thousand dollars, - whiCh' Was shared_ anion the .owners,. officers and :crew of the vessel. Se veral :of, the counts of :the indietment l eharge - the vessel with 'being f a foreign one, but allege , the defendant to be is citizen of-the United States. • ... I,i The trial is! for life or death- ,' • . KNOW NOTHINGS u CCitIRT-PreviCSlS to. impanneling n jury . on Wednesday last to try certain parties charged withriot at the township election, inNockamixon, in March last, alleged to have originated from an feeling existing between,Know Nothings and German Catholies,•Hon; THOMAS Ross, coun sel for the defence, challenged tho array of jurors owing the fitet of their , having been selected and summoned by a Know Nothing Sheriff; that 'as . Know Nothings, men might not enter : the; jury box unbiased, where those• put upon their defence were Chatholics or belonged to a different political part l y. The challenge was argued at some letigth,,hy Mr. Ross, in faver..of setting aside .the array, and , by Georgel.w,Esq.iri . opposition. Witness, es, supposed to 'be. Know _ Nothings, were ' , called and eitamined, some of them uudergo ing a thorough Cross-examination from Mr. Ross relative, to - the secret order of Know Nothings. Some of the question a-were over ruled by the Court, an'd it wasleftdiscretion; ary with the witnesses to answer them. The Witnesses called to the stand were—Sheriff Fel !man, '. Jroshua Stack house, Dr. Samuel Bradshaw and William Balm. During the examination of , these witnesses, the Court room was densely crowded, and,mneh curia osity wai-ivanifested to find out the miste ries of Know Nothingism. Some of the !wit nesses- admitted - they' belonged to a secret order commonly known as Know Nothings that they were bound by an oath not to sup port any Catholics or foreigners for office. The Quirt over-ruled the challge of Mr. Ross, and I tsar consuming the greater part of the afternoon,in a. fruitless effort to bring to light the see,rets of "Sam," the Court pro ceeded to impannel a jury to try the .Nocka mixon riO.ers.—Byek,v County Intelligeneer. !' Riot as Woniebsdorf—The Militia Ordered Oat. READING, May- 4. A riot has 'occurred among the Irish - at Womelsdorf, sixteen miles tioithwest of this place.' The rioters burned several houses and barns, and ten 'to fifteen horses and mules per ished in the flames.'. The Reading Battalion are on their March to the Scenes of the riot. Qom" In Spain the Roman Catholic Priests yet continue to refuse .Proteitants both the right and the rites of burial—that is to say, the use of cemeteries, and the legal perform ance of religious ceremonies over the dead. By late 'advices ie appears that a Protestant Minister in Madrid, assembling with some of his British'countrymen for the purpose of di vine wotithip, had been brutally outiageAl.. The gOnititlitiOn. ANOTBIR NATIONAL CELEBRATION. We:give place,in another part of our p a . , per, to the.very. able report of our tea ts , man,llon. 4. It. Tyson,. "made to the I. toriad-Soclety, on the subject of fixing, a day for the celebration of the a doption , of the. -constitution of the United States. ,Thiele such's' Manifest propriety in this nievement, that the, wonder only is, that so many y ears . of happiness and prosperity have been perat_ mitted - to pass under this admirable instru .tent without a movement of this kind. Thd great bulwark of our liberties—the . .sheetanl chor of all our hopes—it is by it only that we can live and exist as a nation of freemen ; and in these days of recklessness of powerclihe# the spirit of unscrupulous' etrort for gain and territorial acquisition stalks abroad from one end of the lan4tothe other, arid 'alien inemi -sistent elements re to , be seen on all sides, we may well join; in the effort to quicken_the minds of the people in reference to it,:and to reinsurrate it-i 0 the memory of the gencr, tion with which We live. - `The constitution' of the United States, in the language of Mr. Curtis; was the means by, which _republiein liberty was saved. from .the consequences of impending anarch y; it secured that liberty to posterity *, and left. it to dependion-their fidelity to the Un ion: Without this fidelity, it would prore a phhi , tom, and it is therlfore that the under standing of the entire people should be fainil-- iarized with it, - ithat it should come to be 'looked upon as the Bible of Liberty, the text book of freedom, ever present to our children ; as the cloud by day - and the pillar of fire by night, which should guide us away front the , rocks and qUicksands, on which the hopes' ofireedom have always been wrecked else, where. - If the Historical Society of our city will inaugurate the Seventeenth day of 'September in such a manner as that it will' bet added to the National holidays of the country, which the people will observe, they will have per. formed a most; valuable service .to their let: low citizens. -We are a money!making, ;bu siness-loving people, it'is true; but the !inn. tional heart istill in the right place, -and -there are thousands upon thousinds in , our own; as well aa other communities, whi hail with pleitanre and delight the .establiXh ment 'among las of Censrrrenos Ph ila.- Daily Nem. - causes of Crime. In &late nuMbei of the North Americit' we find an iiniitiruetive article on * the •sources • •• of crime in - this country.... The writer says •i6' will not do to Charge all the crime, vagrney, ' and 'paufieristri of the countr y to one ttrOdu • e- • ing cause, as some of. the - Temperari , !e pers seem disposed to'clo ; but that they are 4:: attributable chiefly to . the following aises: 14 ••i" 1.---Intemperance. 2. 7 --The• Importat i on of swarms of fOreign conVicts . and pauperi. Orphanage, at : anearly age. 4.--Want - 0fa . .,f0. ••; trade. .5.--4lgnerance of..the Conimbwrudi r. - meuts of education. • 0. --The eon• dithin of the',negre races, _especially' e4caped j! . or liberated slaves. , . - From iimong Vie statistics adduced. fivtlie • writer to sustain his position; we extr et , the folloivinn— •• • In. the 'Western Penitentiary. o•f vania the majority of the convicts are fine;rr perate.. - . of•sixty-three convicts reeelOd to that institution during the year 1854,• the; "=!.. intemnerat t elnumber 44, and of 105 di ielra?~ eel, there were 90 intemperate. Of jibe 1.5:11 - ; 1-emaining in the institution at the dos e of year, 114 Were intemperate. But, • ante is. by'fie means the otrlyrcailse . to till our prisons and alinshouSes, as] static.; tics abundantly show. • Ft r instance,: of: the' 273 convicts sent to' the Philadelphia pounty. Priori during theyear 1853, there were without a trade, 50 could neither•-rad not r . "..1 write, and 114 were if foreign birth.l. •-• In the WiSconSin•state. Prison, at-illedate. of the latest official report, there Were IP convicts, Of wham only' 33, or less than 011:% • third, are' 'of American birth. Duiiafr,,, 60 year ending . November. 1 1854; there wer!i: 4734' perSons . sent to the-House of Cerreetion in Massachusetts f of Whom 3213 - were of- for? eign birth: . Of the 2358 paupers affinitted to the Baltimore -AlmshouSe •during . they* 1854, those of • native birth numbered whilithcise of foreign birth were 1097; • the inmates .of the. Philadelphia two-thirds are , of foreign 'birth, and ads is the _< ., usual'rule. alseof those ti:p• whim door, relief is extended in this 'city.; 01-tfje:, 26,415 paupers supported by durirtg the year 1863, no less than9.4 l ' . are '6O. down in the reports as foreigners. the four' cities of Albany, Buffalo,. Brooklic and New York, the whole number i)feenvc-i] Lions during - the year '1852 wa513733.4p , -whom *2 were foreigners, and Only Psi 1,1 riatives.'. About one-fifth of all the conviOqi Were unable to read or write. 0f282 10-1,1 sons committed to the Schuylkill co'unty plis4J bn in the yearlBs3, no less than 200 w foreigners: Of 320 persons committed! , Sing Sing prison in_the year 1853;1 the ber of foreigners was 157, and 43 ;could .= read; and 183 were orphans. 4HB! rSESIDZNTI AprEo THE KANEAs Eirt TION.--,We are willing to believeFhat serted by the Washington correspendeit the Coitrier and Engtti - rer, iliat the,steri the rejoicings at the 'White House 0 . 0, 1 Kansas election r is, false. We 411 )&0 .W Mil of, the calumny from tho paper: 1 "'Arnong' other outrages perpetrated; the ttitehism division,of the, Nebraska is :%that of originating , and eireulati infainous Wander that the• ,resrat''et the riots 'in Kansas, ,called -an eiection eel orated ' by a drunken debnuch White. House, in whicti the President ipated. • - 1' * * i. " To 11N:stride the - faisity of Ouch tions I may repeat thatl have Veen JE. by ardent supporters of the. Ne4ras4 and consistent adherents of the administi -that the:President wa4 indignant)nn ht ,of the 4.4olenee and 'fraud which btf, praetise'll in Kansas,and soixprWed h to Judge Jobnaon, si inemb6r of the Tr rial Cotirt, now hero. , • ' " Tinit a portion• of the Cabinet please, with the result, and nit at 41 eertied at the means by which i 4 was 6t is not unlikely: But they had au ca ,tha ?White, House' to give expkision OP' satifiw:tion. The' time for that le49; 1 ( not' arrived, thdugh, n.P. el3 ' charge that any inember of the ;preset eminent is capable of , so outraging P' pr9ptiety.r titc.-L:Froml report I+, l by the Almshouse.Coninaittee - of th B : County (N. Y.)- ,Board of Supervigar 3, gather the ibllowing facts : Whole namberia Almshouse, Nativea, ' Foreigners, -.Femperate, :Whole number in . Hospital , ativ,es, 'Foreigners, . ' Children foreign born or parent- 1 V Nati4es, • , I , O II II j
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