1 II 1 = II oppe,qoerit iiie ", 4.D A, H. H. FRAZIER, Eorrolis _ _ NEIL MO . NTROSE, PA. Thursday * necruiber 13, 1856. , ; The Breaett Widening• Many men who at heart cherish Free-Soil principles, have hitheito - adhered, to the or ganizalion that claims, the , name_ of N ntion,al Democr l acy, in the ;hope that that party would at last retrieve!, its _character and yin- dicate its'ititle to tiO #lorious" name it bears. We would ask such,deliberately to stiriey the preSentstate of plublic affairs; and then judge whether thkre are any grounds on which toy base suclia hope. The law opening Kansas e nd .Nebraska to slavery receive d . the emphatic condemnation of tho people of the North, without much distinction of party. Subsciquant events have only. increased the OppositiOn to that.measure and the 'false and deceptive doctrine it is based upon. . The violationHf the .most sacred private right!' and of the limdamental, principles of ail free government Which have followed each other in such lipid succession in Kansas, only \ the ~ more foi l eibly demonstrate in the.eyes of the peOple.tbe iniquitous and dangerous character 1 'of the Causas-Nehraska bill. ,But the so called D,emocralic leaders stand diametrical- i . i iy oppo 4 ed to the mass of Northern then with regard to that measure. Not only was. the . whole party machinery set at Work, in; the hands of the Adtninistration with neck atnpled Zeal, to for* the bill. through [- Con gress, but ever sinee,l l the State Conventions, public speeches, and newspapers of the -party show a ..ettled &termination to adhere to and sustain it at all hazards. Nothine• else could have led to the selection of Riehardson, 4 a denighface of the DOuglas' breed, who was the leadina b champion of the Nebraska bill in . thellouse ' as the candidate "for the Speaker - i l• ship. • . The Policy of the National Democracy 'is before tote country sol plainly that it Cannot be min . derstood. TheSolith is to be se- Cured by a zealous - Advocacy of "Southern tneasure6., the North "Advocacy the -empty'eharm of a name. The ultra prolSlaverylism of the par- i ty leaders has alreinV i driven froM.the ranks a host oilmen whose attachment to true Dem- ocratie Principles. is lunquestionable—men ,rho are are too - good Deit)crats ever .willingly i to becoro the.prometfts of a system of tyr- 1 Army and'oppression. - I . . Whatlstit his pair4l . e' xperie"nce of the en- I t . - . tire subjugation 'OL P the. party to the Slave i .Power, Could have brought out the conserv- i ative. Reeder against i? What but the t con viction that it is in ire d.eetnahle thraldom to 1 theSputl h, could have forced upon our• Rep- . resentative, Mr. Croix, the : conclusion that i the onli..place for. a real friend of Free- i ,Edom was in the ranks! of the opposition ?--. •.The saine'conViction forcing -itself upon the . 1 :mind a l - every honest Free-Soiler; and the .consequences must Id that" when a National ' •ConVention. shallpresent to the people a pro- 1 , . . ..Slaveryi; man On /1. pro-Slavery platform as I the DeMocratic candidate for President, he. -will.find hilt few supporters here in Susque ,haund-cOunty,.or among the Free-Soil Dem ocrats of . ani - seetion. . . thistand, then, of the Democratic leaders re gaininitheir ascendency over :the minds of the people of the North, their course is' con .tinuallY widening the breach between them, - end the; prospect now is that the Democratic party is to be a Southern sec tional party, with ne,strength at the North but such as 'a few-oflice-hiitiug doughfaces and unthinking or detuded.parti 'sin' s can -give it. . I= - 107 Francis P. Blair, who ,edited the Washington G/ob?'when it was the organ of GeneralJacksen's Administration, has recent , - ly *written a letter in which he - gives his hearty. and decided adherence .to the policy and principles of the great Republican party. In his letter he shows that Cortgresia has the the poier to legislate far the Territories, a power" that was -never doubted till the new dcietrine grew out of Presidential aspirations ; that the decision of the people by electing a Preildent opposeate these innovations would put amend to . them; that every triumph of the Slave - Power increases the danger—ev-. try surrenderrre of the Freo Stites "invites int vaeioni Imd that '-differences of opinion on questions of policy, on constitutional con straction, on modeii of administration, - may welli*merged to unite ,tnen' who belieVe that nothing but concert of action on the part of thoSe "who would arrest the spread of Slavery, can resist thiz , rawer of the combi nationcnow: embodied to make it embrace continent the front ocean to ocean." Retnernber the „mart who expresses these sentiments is an Old Jackson Det(Mcrat, .. native of Kentucky, and now a resident of a_ Slave l §tate! As the Tribune says, he is en titled to the thanks and • respect .of every friend of Freedomt'. 111. E. AT SING-SING J STATZXRISON.---On Thu r,sdav" evenin , * dast afire was discovered • in the State Shop Connected with the \Prison at Sing-Sing, and although great exertions iwerofused by the 'officers of the' Prison, the eitizOs and Fire Companies of Sing-Sing (all but one eOmpany!that refused to work with. out Pay) and a - pcirtion of the convicts, who wereliberated for the purpose, the flames . 'were:net ex*lguished,-till the State Shop, a • two - story stOtte 'building three hundred feet long by thirty feet wide, and an atjoiniug one-story building of stone, eighty by thir ty-four feet' ocCupied• by Mr. Watson as a hat shop, were iq ruins, everything Combusti ble therein beingdestroyed. The walls were left standing, and it is unceanin whether they will:fr've to be' rebuilt. The whole loss is astistutted st, $75,000. Had the fire coot . untniested,with the Prison the consequences _ musi:lutve been extremely disastrous as there were' in no less than nine hundred and iorty-four conricts;of both sexes. 'e-prison authorities :assort that tilt fire , -.was 'accidental, but some of the outsiders say it4 , arthe work of -the convicts, .in revenge- forihe death' of one of :their` number who 4ot by the keeper thecaller`.day while p I em4tisi in - a revolt. _ .. . . , I ' No fit4iiker Yet, • - • , 0- last ballots; on -Tuesday, the - rote Banks 108, Richailditon 74, Fuller a .,, lialatee.ieatterit'O'. The Penn i Free•Seilers .411444 all - vote for IT h wo . thirds of .} . "ullir'sk vote.i's fr . O m. but it is; thoughtlitbut nearly. the 1 the Southern Yoke will unite-on • On if it is neeessaryto defeat Banks. 1 t----i--...... 1 .._. i.:__ t 4 i ciFl TOSy4N IF:. TA good' many_ ,a Controversy a ose about the name i y id i re given to the County seats of 1 Cennty. i ; Some of the inhabitants . Satisfied with the old name, 'rowan. several :new 01103 were proposed. cans; ii.man of some consequence isms, wanted it named . , Meansyille, :rward his plans had : guide . boards On th, =IC 27, *imli VivOin Rap tho• - SOnt. whole o Richards EMI years lig that sho Bradfor were dis da,.and A Mr. D i in thosi and to fug 'carious points telling the disfanee 'silk. On the other _hand, Mr. 0- perhaps quite as great a man as d a fond desire that the place shoutd . i 1..0wn name. Others proposed the 'Raymond.. But for some time the mined Without any established cox ithough most People continued: to wands. At length , at a term of the °nit a lawyeF eMployed for that lby. Means, pioposod to the court Writs be made xeturnablo at .11 Cans.- put. up a to Mean. verton,' Means,- bear kis name of place re nomen, a call it. T County purpose that the yille ; b I - . . itt . Overton had somehow - got an if what watguing on, and a lawyer einployed ( rose and suggested that euld be .made returnable at Overton: inkling he had they sh A watinl which 4 dispute pallowed, in the midst Of 61d felloNt who had wandered into . I House, iiuite tipsy, • staggered fol.- said.," Yer Honor, I thank its best is,d I ispute by aCompromise, and call limn-Overton." A shout that , T Court Houselellowed this Proposi ich. threw -so vanch ridicule- over the Intro 7 versy that; was never serious red ; and the pace was permitted to is beautiful and . appropriate Ind!an name-of Towanda. ; the Cou ward an settle di the Shook tb ESE whole ly rent retain i 11Z:10 1. 0 . 131 AND Tl 4 BONE.-0110 01 t h e high id and intelligent dogs tharprnament ugh ; teas guilty of a blight intpro- Le other day". .Our great granntoth nf wearing hoops has been lately ttmong the gontrose ladies, and they lead with wpndereal rapiclity, - so that 111 school girls present the appear icing always " niaking che'Fses."'— ladY furni4k'ed with thes:e whalebone •nts,•was sailing down street in all when the dim referred to made a • eqand, catching one (:,f thii)iones in THE l ly rain/ oui• Bor k prietyt. eys' . ta - shi revived . have spr, even sml ance of A yOun , : nttii4m, hdi Our' .dash at held on with a tenacity which uri de'r oilier 'circumstances would have been highly commendable. The frightened seiz... dog was- Czesar, the lady was seizcc-called fur help,and the animal's young -Master Was presently dis'covered approaching the sccn6 of action, with long strides. Ile succectle l d in choking him off, and consoled the sufferer iby assuring her that although ,aP es Were against hiS favorite, he mcant {arm, but Was only searching for his ionsidcred hones legitimate plus- teeor f‘lund: REPOUTER. OEM MEE Tier no 1 dinner, der who: . _ 'tag. AND WAI; :—The Ref. Dr. Cahill, nn Catholic priest of IZathfurnhaiii, attribute§ the disasters that have lc to time betlillen the British army. , . irimea to rather a singular Cause-- the Bibitrreading and praying of its generals. Accordipg.to• a tradition we have in America of an old Quaker finding Washington alone "tin the woods, the remarks . ef the rev- I• . 1 n f 1:I , ' ul suf. : tflt , el rls.elli : E rleo;u : a i rt g r4csi'l l )( 1' forefatherspa 'l t i4 ld orl. tit e equallyehu s s e r ri gp v 7. ) *h e S r:'eacwqrsslset f e t :‘4l: o lif.v. : ti ltl i lleel seriti'r: heard' a tle b e :- - I merely the freight of her ships in deporting ;the munitions of war. Her oflice has been . that of .arrier to tile French army.. - She was I late at the Alma—she was asleep at Inker 'mati—Pind she oires her life. beyond doubt, on thu' occasion, to the French—she was mad at 43alaklava, and she I: beaten at the . Redan. I . • * . . .- And pooh] it be other wise ;,? All her gen ; •• erals a . all sn-addiers to a man-they are old - Bi re .rleaders, tract dfstribittors, - street if `pn preaches, d psolm-iingets. Bet;ceen the - gout im / the Bible they were late-erywhere, and be . ten leverywhere. . Old Raglan was in i bed at tilierniann-- T o/d Simpson' pro ying in cr./ Ire+ '11.4 the storming of the Redan—and old Buguoyne laid up in the gout, while the men sr ilkel up to the m 1 iddle in mud, in mid winter, as they sniggered; lay doe n, and died on. ther Way Aro the: shore to the camp. Yet, Pot.a word of . praise from. the English 'and Se bitch geneTals 7 -the old gouty. cliiefs- - -- the faciary,seuile, armed swaddlers in•i the Lord. 1. • 1 . WI". Pit AY ROM Ireland, trotp tit in.the pray m erend c •Fathei the rep• rienccd eral. Some of the sham Democ't•Ats h&c- are 'finding fault with Mr: . Grow's course lin voting for Banks a good Reptila lican, f'pr speaker', matead of going ." with the party.f • What would they have ? 'When they thought. they could , make capital shamming riee.Soil, they pointed us to Mr. Growls corse. In Opnkrei-s, tohis opposition. to the INebra.ska bill; as an eri'dence 'that...the • • 1 Demo racy were as good - Free Sodas as any *vk • - _body ;rand now do they Niish him to stultify himself,by voting for Richardson, one of the most active pninioters of the Nebraska fraud, and *to was n!ominateddisiinctly as a briskateandidatle? abouts - Thci .31ontrose Democrat has ra-commenc ed its l uitacks on the Know-Nothings, to tickle itt Irizlr readeri. J. We have no objection; but we should think prudence would klietate i to the 'editor silence on that subject till the peoplp have had time to forget his riding the Colin;ky to electioneer fur Elhanan Sith, the. CamOonian Know-Nothing candidatei or Rep resentative, thereby defeating the Democrat it-noi.ninec,--Oliver 'Lathrop. / 1 1 Nttasaa DELEGAM—Bennett, ar4i•Ne.: braskis Ep :bits 13 majority for Delegate to; Con gress If+ TO Nebieska Territory,- but the Ter. riteri#, officials, being all Nebraska men, have Iflr alleged:informality thrown out the voted pc enough precints, to , give Bird i . I Chapfop, - .' -- the Slaveoeratie Candidate, 88 ma . litir-Az .. .ind there will therefore probably I l' 1 -' 'l. 4;alappaatnts for admission as Delvg,tite ;:fro iNebra4a.iii well as Kansas. ' _ bei =CZ *RWI3 AFD NOTIONS. • ....A :!iespatch from Jefferson itates, that there will be no electionof U. S. Senatot in Xissouri n Clitbs are forming: in Nevi -York fur the • support! of Senator Neuter of, Virginia, for Pres ident, and i jAuguittis 4101, (Hard Shell) of New Yorkeforl • ,ice President. - • young lady, from Burlington had her pocket Picked while -Crossing the river at ;Jersey City, recently, losing a puive and t 1 .7. She refused, to eve her game, as she said the folks at home would, laugh at la 4 for not being wide awake -"hen so nem; York. ....Tlie Bradford:Argus says: "It, gives ue pleasure lio contradict the reported death ofMis Conover,thii lady who tool: the first prize it the N. Y. State Fair.. A letter from a gentleman in Syracuse, Mates that lie has keen her lately, and that she was in her usuathealth. , . - ....it is not perhaps genera!: known that the sending; bribe' mail of letters in one , enrelope to two perisonS, is a penal offence, subjecting the- trans greagor to d fine of ten dollarv, ; one.half of which goes to the infor•iner. _Letters sent to foreign countries are not incltnied in the prohibition. ... .1111 . Now-York 'City a roue takes a boquet to ybur front door, tells your servant that pit is for the lady of the :louse. waits for her to dictate' a reply, slips into the parlor and pocketi the little treasures that lie around loose, and .is off. This 'is the latest style of the house thieves. me of' McCrea, charged with the murder !of a fellow who attempted to kill him, Mr..Parrot,i his counsel, has succeeded idgetting the Klutzes C. S: District Court to grant a change of venue frot4 Leavenwotth to Tecumseh, where the trial will bd beyond the range of the "border ruff- EM3 - finnual consumption of eggs in New-York thy may be set down in round numbers, at full one /ittnrir.l:l niilliong. The suppli is seldom equal to the demand, and the price durihg the laiic year has avinuged as high as seventeen eitits admen. Feed up the `biddies.' ' A:!thslpateh fro to Washingten asserts positively that the British govcroutent ticlines such atiologiu or explanations as have been de mantled by;SecretarY Marry, in regard to the breach of the.neutiality laws by certain British agents in en listing soldieis for the Eastern war. Difficulties be tween the '!wo gorernumnts may grow Out of this matter; after all. • • ...When you meet a man who chains to be a Jefferioniart Democrat, but yet insists that Con gress has ni) right to prohibit Slavery in the Territo ries, ask Writ how it happened that Jefferson so strong ly advocated the ordinance of 'Si, forever excluding Slavery froth the North Western Territory compris:. ing all the states North and West of the' Ohio. . ! Stnt° citizens of the town of Triangle, Broome connty, N. Y., have written a letter to John , Minor Boa r s, of Virginia, asking him tit accept the American nomination for President. 'Mr. Botts. con sents, but teclarealtis opinion that his nOminfttion by a - National convention is highly iMprobrible, an . opit.- ion in -whithlinost. people.rt ill concur, notwithstanding this,call, from his Iriangttlar adtairem. °L i m Populargovereignty,Shant De rn ocratic Administration's officers in Kanss are oppo sing the principle of popular sovereignty as apidied to the people Of that Territory, with their might. It is. even bought that the Federal troops will be called ont th sure the Kansas men of thOir foolish de sire.to male their own laws Instead of Itavlng them made' by tlfeih kind neiglthrs the 3llsAourians. So much fur thG - Practical application of this delusive doctrine, whiner Sham Democratic sway.! of 11'611111M- been re. cently hehi it Netr-York, to take into tonsideration . plans for the )iberation of Ireland from lts subjection to . thc British Govermpent. While the citizens of Ireland arts ofr fighting the battles of Britain in the East, the citizens of America are talkitig - of getting up a fillibnOtdring expedition againSt the powers that be in " thei Om of the ocean." It is all:talk; howev er, and Engliind need not be a bit afraid ei any dan ger from than source, ,i • , husitng match against tiine. caine otTon Satddav last, on, the Wea (Ind) Mr Buck, on a wagei of ofte hund44 dollars that he could husk and crib one hundrel buiihels of corn lu tell hours, did the work and more too. He husked and cribbed \ one huridrisl an d twenty and nine,tenths 'bushels in nine hottrs;and•tifty-five Seconds. The corn was tak en from thh hill as it grew in the field.. Many spec ; •-..st(Ws - werkt present, and considerable excitement pre wailed It t , ias Itnng . , Lee,n kliown that a secret League i! in existence in 3lissouti, the sworn pur l)e of wliich Is to plant Slavery in I:;:ansas. It was ti f ruled lorig before any one ever herd of the Free- S to League, which , a'as lately expo eti in tbe Nest, and result6d in the death of Laughliii, one of the Freg Statd leaders Both of these Leaguesae were wrong in i/pirit, but the Missouri Ledgue the less de - - - . tensible, liecause it was formed to oPierateln.Ti-arito ry foreign; to our min soil.—St. /,otiisinfritigeuesr: While a palmratna c f thb. Russian war, WM on exhibition at Dintkirk, Friday ere, a quarrel iron: between a Russian present, named Polerski, ,land an Irishman. _named Patrick Rome in regard to the war. Patrick truck the Russian in the face, and thereupon a fight it.Onnuericed. between Item, and Patrick Was getting the Worst of it when some-bmil,ei Irishmen interfered on his. parr. The Yankee .sPeetators attempted to prevent this and give 'the Russian fair Play, when a general fight ensued, . during which the Russian was, struck on the back of the neck hy a large stone tin own by an Irishman, and killed. by of the Irishmen are not expected to. 1 lire, and five others are in priscn. • . ' ' GElni i . 4lC IMMIGIiATION TO TF.. xAs.—German immigration which has been one of the. main sources ! I of the fOrei ,, n influx into the free States Of the Nortii,,rias, of late, years, been itiverted somewhat tO•Seuthern ports.' Large nuinherS have. arrt‘'ed at New Orleans, and I from thence proe'e:eded up the MiSsissippi I river . varieus points in Missouri. But ; the mostsysteinatie eilbrt ,of the kind has been - the intreldnetion of ten thOusand grants into Texas by a -single, corForation, called - the German Emigrant .Company.— This COmpany we's to be reimbursed fur its undertaking out of. One-half the ,lands lands grant- I ed to the colonisti, and the altern a te sections reserved from settlement by, immiltrants.--= Prjrnpted by thii inducement, it, kbartercd i some thirty vessels, !whieh, in the years 154 r and 1555, have conveyed the immigrants from Germany to Texas. -It has expended more than $600,000 in providing for the :int ,migrants - , $120,000 being the cost of survey • itig and dividing the . lands. But while lito Company was thus "ite,stipulations, the Legislature has withdrawn the land grants. What lias caused this we do not know, bill it appcarS pretty:evident that the slaveliold era-of Texas do not like the Free Soil 'pred ilections of the Germans,- Much has . been said-concerning this by partisan orators and newspapers, and the fear is entertained that when Texas shall be divided these:Free SOU ' l Germani will - outnumber the; slavebolders, and thOs form a free State. • • •- Fie IN, ./10NESDAI.E.—Tho large bukling, known ! „as Corne;i's Halt, ,and:,oce - upled •by John 9rady, Judy Levy ~`and D. W. Stock houaeand owned by lir,' Jvrneji & Co., -was efitirely destroyed by fire . on the: 4th inst., / ,_*ith the adjoining storehouse, contain ing a liirge quantity of hides. The loSs is over t 40,000, on which.there is -Only a. par tint inSurance. • - ' • . - . : . Thetangas Rebellion. 1 - Ti nth, like justice, is . aeztistotned to: limp a little,.andespecially since the :invention of the telegraPh-,-is. often Outstripped by. ralsehOod. However in the long rune is .. apt to win the race, and i tirtt\she - now seems:. likely, to do even in the casekof the fatnotta Kansaarebellion, of which we give to day a fall account in the letters of our special lien,. sea correspondent: and in extracts frorr - the Lawrence papers. •1 The disturbatiee, it now appears, , wasi - be 'gun by the shooting in celd blood of ttly Lung man named DOw by one Coleman, at lick ory Pcint, a place twelve miles south of ' * Am,- rence. The young man having got into ittlite altercation with a party-of border ruffians at a blacksmith's-shop, telt them, when the op portunity was _taken - by Coleman to Shoot him in the back. !The murderer fled . b,C Le compton rind put himself under the pi-otec don of Gov. Shannon, probably with die lie in hiS mouth—which his been telegraphed through the whold country—that an_attempt bad been.made to drive him from his tilaitn, which, by the wag, he had stolen from.anoth er man ; • that, he ihot.,low in self defense, and that subsequOttly his' house. had !been burned and his family dispersed. l. , re 7 - Listening, we may se ' ppose to these; rep sentations, Gov. Shannon ordersJonds„the sham Sheriff for Douglas\ Coituty—whO is xl - it seems, Postmaster of Westport,} Mis -1 souri,'where doubtless he lives, to art c.st a Ntr. Branson and :o oblige hint to giVe se f curries tst keep.-the peace=-the only Otlen , e committed by Branson being , that DOW had been a lod , ge.r.in his house, and that Coleman f seems to baye.tood in fear of his testis env. As this sham pi:era was carrying:off 13rah- I son, ho-and his posse of fifteen armed men were intercepted by a party of fifteen of Branson's neighbers, who rcleased hint from arrest ;of which cireumstance_advantage ap pears te- lee been taken by Shannon ;to is sue)l warn its egaink.- Mr. Putheroy 'and a number. of other leading Free- State Men" of Lawrence, who were accused of having been . concerned in this rescue. N As.Jones, the. sham Sheriff, gave out that Shannon was ready to back hini with ' - ten thousand", men,' and as .the people of Lawrence did not i!ltitose to allow their town to he entered by tleit or any other-number of -border ruffian-1' who, under pretense of putting down resistance to the law, might roh, burn and - murderlat dis cretion, they mustered- with their Slutitp's..ri lies, which faCt - beibg communicated t 4 'Gov. Shannon, "he forth With calls upon the Missott- - , Hans for - aid :MI tlegraphs to the l'r,lident that Lawrenee is in rebellion. All s , Ht-3 of extravagant and ridiculous stories are p kin'ead through Missouri,L and thence thrungh the I Union, and the bot 4 der ref ians- muster in force 1 [under Shatn standard. • Their. i4ioling _ r march t however, iS speedily 'arrested iy the apparation--4-:more 'terrible "to their, guilty „dreams thani that of Macbeth 's diel:!erito hint —of 1,000 4f Sharp's rifles and . five picces'of cannon, presenting to tic. - -e intending mur derers not their breeches, but thcir Muzzles —warned by which dream tliese t aliant Vol .unteers think it bet to wait rcir regulars from Fort Leavenworth.: Such is the whol story as it is stated by our special correspondent in the Territory, for whose accuracy in- this and.in every other matter we can fully vouch, .an I who, in this instance, :is confirmed by - every other -respectable authority. Jut of, this state of facts The Jonrnatof ,Cop merge is, at liberty to txtract all the vituperation , that it can of the Free-State settlers and the Emigrant Aid Societies it was in sucli a hur ry to malign and villifY on the strength -of the previons false reports,. though by this tints Thc,Journat ought to have knCwit its proteges, welt enongh not to put such;itriplic it confidence in the At: Louis and In Ojentl