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<