• a u'd and proper tol the execution , or specific purposes l', or, in otli . words, to retain as mach as possible, oonsistently with those rim , poses, ofdhe Independent powers of the indi vidual States. For Objects of common de fence and security, they intrusted to.the gen - cral goYernment certain carefully sle.finect functions; leaving all iuthers as the undelega T ted rights of the seplirate independent *ova. reignties : the consti uti i ; .., . Such ii onal theory, of our governinent, the pract cat observance of which • ".. has carrilid us, and us! alone , among modern republial, through n ' rly twee generations of time 'Without the st of one drop blood shed in civil war. N ith fregdom and eon i art" of a ction, it has !enabled us to contend. sudetssfu ly on the Ws-field against for eign foes; has elevated the feeble colonies into powerfalrStates, and raised our Industrial - prodactians, and our commerce whiCh trans porta th .„, , to the level of the riphest andoihe :greatest ations of Europe. And theletlinir: T .able ads talion ot our political institutions to th4t. eihjets, comrin ng local self govern ment witts aggregate strength, has establish ed the practicability f a .goiernment like our, to• ver. a con nent with confederate States. ' ' • . e ta . . • The :tigress of th United Stites is in ' effect, that congress Of 'sovereignties, which good men in the Old World have sought for, but aiuld - never attain and which imparts to - • America; an exemption from the mutable \ leagues fcir common a ties , (min the wars, the mutualinvasions, nd vague aspirations atter the halve° of p wer, which convulse from time to time the governments of Eu• . rope: Oar co- operat i .e action rests in the conditions of perman nt confederation pit. seethed hi? the constitution. Our balance Of power is ;in the separate reserved rights of the Stated, and their equal repreentatioa in the Senate. That independent sovereignty - in every one of the States, . with its. reserved rights of local self-government assured to each by - their 10-egual power in the Senate, was ._'the fundamental condition of the constitution. Witheitt It the Union Would never have ex-' isted. lewever-desiraus the larger State's; might.be to .raorganize the government so as to give] theirpopulation its proportionate weight in the common x - ninsels they knew it :vas impoasttde, unlaut they cm:ceded to the smaller ones authority o exercise at least s negative influence on al the measures of the government, whether legislative or executive ; through their equal' representation in the Senate. •Indeed, the larger States themielves could not have failed to perceive.,:that the same power was egually"nece-ssary to them, for the security of their I own domestic inter ests against the agerse r sto fare.o ef the gener. al •- government. In aI, word, the, original States went into this perManent league' on the agreedpremises, of !exerting " their corn ' men strength for the defence of the whole, and of all its parts; butiof utterly excluding all capability of reciproM.l aggression. Each solemnly bound itself tol i all the others, nelth ;er to undertake, nor permit, any. encroach. .meet upont or intermeddling with, ant/theis t .reserved,rklits. ~ ! - Where" it was sieerr.ed expedient, !particu lar rights 4f the States Were expressly- guar : antied by- the constitution ; but, in all things . , :beside, these' rights were guarded by -the limitation of the poWersigranted, and by -ex-1 ; press reservation of - all powers not granted, , ! in'the comPaCt of union. ' Thus, the .great ,power of texation was ignited to purposes of . common defence and general welfare, excfud ing objects, appertaining! to the local legisla. • tion of the! several States; rand *lose porpos -es of general .welfare and -Common defence I - were afterWarids•defiuedlhy specific enumer , ation, as being matters duly of cocelation he ti-ten the [States theinselves,l or .between , them and : ( foreign governments, which, be- - ; cause of their common and general nature, eo.ild not be deft to , t el separate control 'al . each State.l; . 1 • • .0f the drcumsta s local condition, in-' terest rad 'tightN in ' a portion of the I ' Statea, constituting e great section of the 1 • i•Union differed from the I rest, and from .ans 4 •i. ersectien, the most! important ' was the 1 ...p Rarity, of a larger relative colored pope- 1 iatio in the southern than in the northern 1 k , .., • States. , 1 ' 1 , A population of this class,:helil in subjec tion, existed• in nearly ail the States, bid was more numerous and of more serious concern ment' , the South than !in the NcTth, on ac-1 • count or patural differences cif :climate and production.; and it was ifereseen that, for the same reasons, 'while ties +palliation would -direiniih,'and,.sooner cash:tar, cease to exist, " in Some States, it . might ,incesaae in others. The familiar diameter and magnitude af this "guardian of local rights, "riot in &aerial rele tions only', butstill more is social oneiscaus -ed it to enter into the special stirantionn of :the Constitution. . Hence, while the gal: cal governmeht, as .well by the enurossAted! Pc:Tern granted to i t, a! t i rs to ,.... not enutnerated, and there- I fore rerssied to it, wee ferbidden to touch this matter in the sense Of attack or offence, it was plaaed, under the general safeguard of 1 . the Union; in . the sense of ' defence against either invasion or domeitie violence, like all ' ,other 'Weal, interests of the several Stater..— Earl Sude exPressly stipulated, 'as well (or' itself as for each and all ;of its citizenic and 1 every eittien of each State became solerryily 1 bound by his allegiance, to the constitution, 1 • that, anypereon, held to ;service or labor in one State,, escaping into another, should not,' in (sense uente of any le,W pr, rPCl•':""'‘' n 1 finer di s a a „,,,,s_e. —... -sill.h service or . totior, -- nut; shoal - Ile delivered Op on claim of 1 the party to _whom suah service or labor might be dire "by. the Levis of his State. ' Thus, and thus onlyi, by the reciprocal '.guaranty :of all the rights of every State vainst interference on the part of another, -was the 'present form of government estab- I riefied.by our fathers and transmitted to us ; i and by no'other means 16 it possible for .it 1 .to exist. If one State cease; to :respect the rights of another, and obirusively isitermed- tiles with its local interests,if a portion. of 1 , .tlie States sisisume to impose their institutions .1 .on the others-, or 'refuse t fulfil their oblige- 1 ,timis to theta,- -we are iv° longer united 1 friendly States, but distracted, hostile ones, 1 . with capacityieft once:anion:advantage, but ,abundant Means of reciprocal injury and mis. -chief. ; • " 1 ‘ Practically; it is immaterial whether att. I gressive ioterferetice between the States, or deliberate refusal on then; tof any one of. `them 0 comply with . astitutional oblige: tiotis, arise tromernrs cull vietiie Or blind prejudien, whether It be perpetrated by. direction or indirection. , ;' In !either ease„ it is fall of thresit and of danger to the durability of the Union CoRST/TVELOSA:.. etLAYfONS. Oi SLAVERY. NM Placed in the . office of ICbief Magistrate - as the executive agent of the whole country. bound to take care that the laws be faithful ly executed, and specie' Ity enjoined by the constitution, to give infunaaation to Congress on the state of the Unior!, itAquid be -pall*. ble neglect of duty on iny part to pass . over a subjea like this, which beyond alt-tifings at .the present titpci, ritally l coneecas istdividnal and .public!accuritv. bag been twits. of painful regret to see :Eltates i oataTicnous for it services in found ing' this Itipuldieould sOuallysharing its ad. itantages,-disregard constittitional obli gations to j it - Although coneekes of their ,inahllit, to heal atlinittiul and palpablesa t--• • - • . cial evils Of their ..Oevole,apd„lr-hieh they engage - illgethPe°ro4 22l o? 4,6 l , the S ta t e 9 13fisi " li ; pletely within their jurisdiction , 'they engage - But, the:‘, good sense of the people, and the in the opm:ire and: hopelesi e eindertaktrig• of vital force of the conatitutioneeritempheirover reforming- ihe ilutoestie institutions otother , sectional Prejudice, and the piditiCaterreis of Suites whrelly e beYfend,,their cantrollendauth- i),,he,Oey, tied the S'tiete*of Dieus returned to ority... eirt l'eo, ,ain a o e,''oit o f . iend 4, ee by,.:4hein f eelfe e 'n re e e * ' J o e ' e itiiieweak, eu:ithsoCial, ~_. itest e ltntions entiOly.aiihttaltiablee.land which -.4heye /rely .: :which h people ratilAoeen e Ar : thetrieelves, twe-Jet:illy 'atteeipt . eel come:sue Oeyelper He Ondivith ' .theierylXistie'nee oflthe constitution, find all.:. an ec ii e e t e e* ,ehitild. leO, susceptible of i / theleintitleatVtiefitaWhicliiihas,etinfeiree.eviltAiisien - 'int il P*litY'4States. .1) I puss agl*Pent.-;hy there-atinex. While the people of the Southern State-con- I :Whatecyeridvantage 'the interests of "the I fine. their 'a tt ention to'' their omit affairs,'" not i Southern ;Start's, as such, gainedbytiiiiievere. presuming oflicipusly, to intermeddle with the ! far itifirier . in • reeeite, e as they.imfoltled jo, social . institutions :.if the . Noithern States, 1 the progressof tiritielo those which sprang ' too manyl of the inhabliants' of the latter are i from preelous concessions made by the South. I permanently organizedlin associations u in: / ,:To evety thoughtful friend of the Union,— filet injurf on the foriner,ley wronefOl ects, ] tothe tree lovers of their coontry,-to all ; which would-be enve-Of war-as betWeett fore' who longed and labored for the full secce, eign powers,and only fail to be such, ere our ofthis great experiment .of republican instoe eystene,'because perpetrated. under cover of i tutions,-4 was cause of gratulation that such the Union.. - . : • ,• l o -.- - ' e , . ,i .: i an' opportunity had oceurred•to illustrate ouri It is, cepOssible to present this subject as ,' advancing power on.th,s continent, and to , truth and the - occasion require,Twithout nptie furnish to the iverld •additional assurance of I ing the reiterated e but groundless, allegetion, the strength and stability 'of the constitution. 1 1 , that the SOiith has persistently aseertedelittme i 'Who woOld - wish to. see Florida still a Euro. I ' and obtaihed advsntageS in the practieal ad- I peen ,epleny ! Who' would .e.ejoice to hail ministratiOn. of the &tient! government , to lTexaseee the lone star, instead of one in the I the "prejudice OeisT f thoeth, and . in -which the i. galaxy Of States? , Who does - not appreciate latter halal acquieseedj ;That is, the Stitel, I the incalculable benefits of the acquisition of 1 which either promote pr. tolerate ettacka _on / : Louisiana? And yet narrow_ views and see the. rights eit person* and of properly in nth- t tional purposes would inevitably have exclu er States, 116 dieguiSetheir own injustiee e pre- I ded them.all from the Unroll. - - • tend or iMagine, and* instantly aver, that ' But another etruggle on the same point en. i' they;* n-hciSe constitution al rights are thief , sued, when our victoricut tirmiee returned systematieilly • assailed, are'themselye.s i the I from _Mexico; aid it 'deVolved on Congressto aggressorstl At the'pr:asent . tinice this iiiipu--! provide (lir. the territories acquired, the, ted aggreZeione reeting t ,fis it dyes, only hilthel treaty ofOuadelie, e Hidalgo, The great vela- ! vague, deilatnatery 'charges of political Magi- 1 thine of the subject lad now become distinct I tators, resi-tivei itself iinto misapprehension, !• rind •clear to the perception of the public mind, or misirititepretatioli, ;of the principles hind -; which app'reeiated the evils of sectional eon. acts of the-political ,organizatiote of the tied - I troversy upon the question of the admission, Territoriea of the Uriithd States. ' l of new States, ' In that -crisis intense solici -What is the voice ot history ?I When , i tlie tilde pervaded the natioie But the patriette ordinance) ! Which proiided for the govern- impulses Of the popular heart, guided by the • tent of the te4.ritor,yedorthwcse Of _the river admonitory advice - of the Father of hie Coun. Ohio, midi for its . eventual . subdivision Into etree,' roee eruperior to all the difficulties of the new Stet ,Was:adopo in the - ICemgreeS of! incorporation of' . a new" empire in the Union. el • the cenfed ration, it i!;4 net to . ho , suppd , ael 1 In the `ifounsels of congress there was inani tteatlhe q eetion.of future relative poweri tea! fested extreme nntagonisin of opinion and ac betweien the States which retained ; and those I tionbetwe§n some representatives, who sought Which did ootretain,n Numerous colored pop- i by theabeeive and unconstitutional employ ulatien, es4na i ed noticieor failed to he epneid- '•nient of the.legislative powers of the govern. eeed-e And yet the possession of that vast i menet() inerfere in the condition of the in. territory. tO the interests tied opinions of the !, chorite. States', mid to impose their own social norther n States., a terriiewee now the, seat, of 1 theories mien the :Tio,tere and :other represen five among. the largeet members of the Un'ion' tative,e, who repelled the interposition of the was, in gr4timeeeeore4.lr ant of the State of 1 general eoVernment in this respect, and ma'n- Virginte ail of the Son,. - • '. •e. • .1 - ' - ';'"LI ille! self ! constituting rights •of alio • When Liottisiana waincepiireil by the 'gni- Stales. in trinn;ii oe. .7'lse ese , d was— ted States it Was an acquisition not less to the I , in form eilOne, action pt . the • gener 1 govern- North than. to the. South; fur while it was) ment e while in remit) , it. vas- the endeavor, impor• , .1. slat tant to 'the countny at the mouth of the I by abase di 'teeve power, to force the river MlSSi4iilipi tO , liecpme the emporiuni of I ideas.Ofineernal policy, entertained in par- , the countyo above it, eto also it was - even I ticularlStates,- upon allied and independent more impottant to the Willile Union tie have ! States. l . Once more the • constitution and the that . einporiuM ; "and ealthough the new prey- I Union triittophed - signally. The new Terri ince, by reason of its imperfect settlement, ' tories Were organized witjtout restrictions ou was-111141Y' regarded ii. 4 - on the .Gulf of Mex.. ' the disputed. point, and were thins ‘eit,..l6 judge • l e - . ico, yet, in-Itaet, it extended to -the. opposite -1 in that particular fur themeelyes e and .the boundaries i' if thetnitedStates,with far great- 1 sense of constitutional faith proved vigorous,' er breadth iihoec than . helpw, and nal in ter- 1 enough in Oiegress not only eo.iiecomplish, rltor%, as i eveeythingeise, equally at least +, this prieuity oFdect, but aleo the incidental etuaecession• Ito the inorthern States. It.::, is ! and hardly': Jess important one, of so amende ! .. mere deluitien and prHudiee, therefore, to - I ing the pro - yisams of the statute for the extra lef ~ ~ speak of uisinna as tin_ acquisition in the 1 dieion of fugitives from service, as to 'place special intiest of the: SOuth. . ' - i that publiekluty under the eufe-guard .of the The patriotic and just; men, who pertieipa. : - general go4ernment. and thus relieve it from 1 •ted in that-}net, were;influenced -by motives i obstacles raised up by the legislation of some ! far above alliseetional jaleiiisies. 'lt was in : of-the States.. - . 1 1 , . • truth the great event,! which, by completing ' - .Vain deu)aniation re;;: vrding the pro _toes . for us The possession Of lthe valley of the lefis. : of law for ,the extradition of fieeitives from I eiasippi i _eti9 conitherchil access to the Off! service, with occasional episo,les of frantic et: i of Mexico, I imparted; unity and streegthao ; fort to obstruct their execution by iiot and ' the -whole eleidioleratirin and attached oigeth- murder - , continued for. a brief time, to agitate er ley indistoluble ties! the East and ehe West, certain doCantles. But. the true principle, 'of as•well as the North Anil the South; , • leaving each State and Territory to regftlate As to Florida, thatwas but the transfer Jieseewnelaws id lebor aecording to its oviii he-:Spain oi the-Unit 4d State,siV territory on sense of right: and expediency, had acquired .the ; east sidektf the rik-er MiSsiesippi, in ex fitSt hold or, the puttlie judgment, to ...tch •a; change for large terribncy, which the :United ! degree, that, by coninion - eon , ent, it was oh. States tratnlttirred to 1 5titliti on the west side 4 served in the organizatian_of the Territory of i of that rivciel as the enii're diplomaticW hietery ! eeloe s iee - , , of the translaqion serves to the 'demonstrate. ; 'When, more recently, it became requisite ; Moreover, 'lt,!,. is •nni iirquisitibn demanded I to orgaelze the Territories of Nebraska and : Iby the conitrieric.4ll intertests- and the severity Krineas, it Was Ate natural and legitimate, if of the who . 0 Union: I; ' - ~ ' - . not the : inevitable consequence of _previous : 1. .. . In the•m4rititee, the people ief the. United 1 . events and `legislation; that the same great, l , !States had k, Own up toy a limper Conscious -I and sound Principle, which had already been I, ness of theirestrength, and in a brief contest , applied to 1...ta1i and New Mexico, should be I with Frene4 .and • in( as eecond• serions war applied to theta; that , they should stand ex with Great/Britain- thee had . shaken off all' empt. front i the restrictions proposed .in the; -which rem . lined elf undee reverene for Rt - : act relative . to -the. State of Missouri. I rope, mid Merged trhni the atmeerliere •of i The: ! e restrictions -were-in . the estimation 1 those transatlautio influinees •eoch surround- -of many theughtfill men, null fromthe begin, ed - the i n f, vr il t Repoipej- e and had begun: to ' ping, by - the -- constitution, eon. . . - i turn thei attention to ttle fall mid isyStemat- ; tmtey to-the treaty stipulations for the tesSion .! I i e m a eee e e pe'6 n e of the , internal reelource?.s of of Lonisiant, and it'iconsistent With the. equal-' the Uniond 1 1 • e 1 i ity of the States. - - - i i Atneetthe'evaneseentiControversi e e Of that i They had been stripped of all moral Imo r _ . 1 yericid, the !most conapienpus was the; .. pies- : tliority, belpersistent efforts to procure their Lion ofregnietion by Congress of the .social ',. indirect repeal .through contradictory enact condition ()tithe future. States to lei founded i Merits.. They had .been - practically ebrogat- • lin the territ4y of Louisana. .1, . !ed by eheiCgislation attending- the organiza. I 1 . The ordinance for thel g,tvernmetet of the ; Lion of Utah, New Mexico, and Washinguire I territory northwest bf litre riser Ohio had i If any vitality remained in them, it would.) i contained it IprOvisionl -Which prohibited the have been taken away, in effeet, by the new ‘ 1 .-, ,i. ~ I use of SerNitlei labor *rein, subject to the cent-'i territ.orialticts, in the form originally propto 1 dition- of 'the- extradition of fligittrei "from ked to : the S.enate at the firstesession of the service due {eta any part 4 the Uniud States. last Congr4s; It whs manly-and ingenueus,ii Subsequently to the adoption of thitconstlto- as well, as fiatrituie'and just; to do this 'i lion; this rtirpiision ceased to remit:lll4s a laW ; ly and ''plainly„and thus relieve the . statue for its opeTlitpon as such was absolutely sit- bOoli'of air act, which might he of "possible 1 perseled 4 - the constit4ion. Buttliie. ri.te- future injury, but of no possible future bete- ollection ol:the fact excited the . zeal or prop=;'fit; and thilineaeure of its repeal was the ' • ; ageindism if tome sections of the Confedern- teal . eonsimi!mation arid coe''oo..,, recognition i .tion ; :and, Ifehene ,: a eCond State, that Of Mis- , of the icieie e-ei -' - un - n° portion of the United j. e 0" uri,'earnel, ta be forihee in the eteie - jfi' - "e'l ,- °tntes 'ftalklll.licitake, through esstimpti e n e extend 1 of the powera of the general government. to Louieiana, timcw;t7.4.--1- - IY'a - de - t 9 .4re-tatter errito6l-Ith restriction," original- i dictate the social "institutions - of any other 1 i /y applied tcothe country situated!, between 1 , portion... . - . • .the • rivers Oitio . and Mississippi. -• e ' ! •The wive and effeet of the Lingua e , of re- ! - fost. questionable its was oto s peepUsition i l peal were not left in doubt. It was d ' el I in all' its coo4itutiona relations, netertheless !in terms. tel be " the true intent and m'ed ng 1 1,1 it received` the. sane ion of C,nigtese', with I of this act riot to legislate slavery into any I, 1 some slight,,rhodificat ens of line, bi - :sere the •', Territory Or State; nor to exelude it there-1 t • 1 existing rights of the Intended- new t Stete.— 1 from, but te _leave the people thereof perfect.., rrt was - relaeitiritly npqnieseed in by ,southern iIV free to filrm 'anal reg ulate their domestic ! 0 States as it '..Sa4if -e toi ~,... , _. the cause of Peaceetne -iustituti I ' 3 ' 4 '' ' *ons an, their own way..'subject only to ! of the iJnion,inot On!) of. the right stifenla-e the constitution of the United . States." 1 ted by the treaty of Louisiana, but oft the ' The.nie.a4ure could not. be w ithstoodupon 1 I . • - - prineiple"olle qoality a 'Tong the States guar- ' its merits alone. _lt was, at'acked with vie- ! antied by the colistitu ion. ft was f reeetved 1 knee, on the false and delusive pretext, thati by the nerthrn State withangry arid reseet- it-constituted a breach of criith. Never was I fill condemnation and Complaint, because it i objeetioh mire utterly destitute Of substato ! i did not cici4eile all Which-they, had l exacting- 1 tial justification. When, before, was it 'irn- ly dernandeil Having passed thrOugh ithel agined by stusible men, that a regulative - or 1 ' forms of lerotlation.,•ii took its pla6e iteithe ; dclarative 'statue. .whehier enacted ten or ; statute boot, standing oPert • to rePeal, like I forty - yearingo, is trrepealable,—that an act! any other act of doubtful conelitutiona ily, "!. of Congressßsahove the constitution ? If— subject 1 , to liC pronounced null and vOid by i ir.deed, there were in the facts any cause to ! the eourtslof law, and !possessing nsi passible.; impute bad 'faith, it would attach to these on: I efficacy tol iontrol' theeightt of the' Statei,e! ly, Who hare never ceased. from the time ofi . wideh7tnight. thereafter be organized out. of ; the emictihent of the restrictive provicien to .', any part ofithe - origitail-tereitoly of Lxilsia- 1 the present daV e to den Ounce and to condemn ' t a ny 1 : ,i - . '" r - lit ;- who have constantly refused to coMpletel in all t h is,if any aggression there ' -were, it by "needful supplementary legislation ; who any innovation upon epre-existing ' tights; to I have speredeno exertion to deprive it of mor ewhich . portlone.f the 'i Union are tlty justly I al' foreets who have - themselves - again and I I, chargetible? : This edntroverai-I again attempted its:repeal.by the enactment 1. : occasion, ni)thing sureiyine mantletteri of the statute. . . ' Pissed, away ?et ( ' itla "the l'Ofiniximpattlele provisions; c, and who, by the it save f,,the dor- ! inevitable' reactions v effect of their Owl! via, ', ',fence on . the Sul.tject; 'awakened the country I I .• _ , - Betel:A afterwarcls i erheo,by tile propos: , Ito pereeptiqn of the true constitutional rin. I I edate.-essi of . the itti ,i. pti , hirc . of Texas, the 1 ciple Of laving the ariatter involVed to P el.e..e I I United St . , were to take - their n4t step in i discretion of die peoPleet the respective ix- I territorial igreatness, 'zi similar oohtlogency 1 isting 'or ineiPient States.. - . - - ' 1 occurred, d became; theoecasien Fir - iyste- 1. It is not pretended that this principle, or i triatizediattetri, pts to intervene in the domes- 1 any other, precludes the poss ibility of evils' Ale' aftitir- tr ,i,,.. neetin of' the Uri itt de- lin practice, disturbed as . political action is li ftande of eir,righbf ' States, and - 4fthestip , 1 able Co be by human 'passion.. - No forni of t i ulations °lithe colti der 'on; • Theieattempte I goFernruent is exempt from ineo . nrVenience-;- ; ! 4%4140 a kracti - ifir%tuin, in the nhape of but in tins case they are the result' of the a- ' persesre.rine'erideastricl - by some of ha - repre Buse, and nbt of the leg - itimate exercise, of sentativeici :both kitties of CongrOsn ? " to de- i the poweraieserved or conferred in :the :or-' ! prive the khern State* :. -of . the f,sepposed l i - ganizatiem of a Terribary. ' The are not T. Le : l ,benefit o f 1 . e l revisions of the seeittn.thoris- ,tie ' charged to the greati-principla'of popfilie I r , 1 : i . - 1 ; ' li • - - - : . I 'l .: ;-" : . '- • - • li '. • P. - 40 pa i vereipty ;:=2:43 ot , : '. . ,- first ir Oh.sy-Aistiyipeow .befOre the intelli J/ ce and patriotism of the , peoplt, exetting irotigh the ballnt 7 brax their • petiecAil and silent but irresistiblevivver. 1 1 If.4 . 4%. , frikint. t of i atie celastitittinti'arc to briSe anothar struggleilts'eftertiym criOdAut :PO sent ' ; :niore.Occeptable - -.llollie, than ;hat 4.4 I State . ose kitinsftption iskarkt"einlitileesa, 1 ..isia repo : trjt4triif govtliii ineitt,:bitiric. cludgtrfroirilhe Union .tiecause ifidomestic institutions may not in all respects. comport 1 - with the ideas of what, is wise and expedient _entertain'.Cd luso' t her state. 'l..ln:sit...tom groundless imputations of breaCb of with. against others, men will commenee the *ita# tinn'of thii new eestion with inan oitahl -vi da;, ation of at express. compact Wtween the independen sovereign piAvers of tlie Ut iteii States of t e republic of Texas, tii - wella of fll the Older d equally Solemn cotoptictiov let .assure th 'equality of all the States., 1 _ BLit, . plorable as :would .bo . ,finc A 1401n tioti of rupact-iii itself; and in a its direct ie consequences, that is :the ver • hi,tst ofi the &Hi; involved. - When sec ' and agit tors shall have saceetled . - „it Loving oil: . this issue, can their - pretensions fail . to be met by enun ,... ter pretensions?. rs . Will not different -States be compelled respectively te r rnect extrmes With extremes? And, if either eXtreMe car. ty its . point, what is that so far forth but its-. _ - solution of the Union ? ;Ira new State, form ed froth the territory of the United States— be .absolutely excluded (rein telmiss iiin tl l ere- in, that . fret' - of itself constitutes the dis. ruption of Union'between it and other St. tes. But the process if dissolution cOold• not top there. Would not a sectional. - decision, ro truding stich a result by a majority of •votes either northern Or southern, of necessity drive o f t the the oppressed and place in - presence of each - other two rre ..o. ...s 4elleably hostile confederations ? . • - .4 - is necessary to speak thus plainly of pro jects, the offspring of that sectional agitation now pre.Vailing in some of the States, which are as impracticable as they arenncoustitu tional, and which, if persevered ink niu land will end calamitously. It is either di union ft and civil war, or it is mere angry - ; id I , -nun • less disturbance of public pence and tranquil lity. Disunion for what ? If the passionate .rage of fanaticism and partisan spirit did not -force the, fact upon our attention, it would be difficult to believe, that any considerable imr tion of_the_ - people of this etilighteiii:d country could havesurrendered themselve4 to afinat ical devotion to the supposed hitereitS of the_ relatively. few Africans in.the United States, as tC IUi ".7 •-- -: 1 ••• napn tlj id disrenaid the-ititer ests of the twenty-nve miii ..... ..r.... r..„ . __, 4„ n . =to trample • under font the injiinctions or moral constitutional obligation,--tand taj . en gage in plans of vindictive hostility tigattist -those who are associated - with them in the en joy meat of the conimon licrittike of our:na tional. institutions. Nor is it hostility against theWfellowLc.it. izens of one section of the Union alUne: . Thu interests, the honor, the duty, the peace, and the prosperity of the people of all sections arc 'equally involved and imperilled in this vitiation; • And are patriotic men in any part of the Union prepared, on such an ',issue, thus madly to invite all the conseptenees of the forfeiture of their constitutional entagentents ? It is impossible. " The storm of phreusy ant:f raction - must ineviutbly dash itself in vain against theuushaken rock of the cOitsituqon: I shall never doubt it. I know that the 'Un ion is stronger a thousand times than . 811 khe wild and chimerical schemes of social change.; which are generated, one after at:of-her, inl the unstable minds •of visionary sophiws and in. terested agitators. I rely.confidently on the . i patriotism ()lthe pexple,,op the dignity and self.tespeet of the States, on , the , ii-isdon of Congress, and above all,. on the leontinued gracious favoi of Almighty God, tip maintain against all enemies, whether at; home! or normal, me sanctity of the constitution land the Integrity Of the Union. . .(' FRANIi:LIN PIERCE. ".. Witsmx .iTON, . Demaer 31, 13113. 2 V Foreign News. The . steamer-Arag,o..arrived here yesterday. from Havre rind Southampton, bringing four da3s later news from Europe... Iluttiora of peace are abUndani. Quaint Valentitie Eztre azy ha; gone froM Vienna.to St..Pleterstu as the:bearer ;.)f new propositions !of pa, invented by eiustria and assented it) by E France and England. The terms !,thus . tnitted to the ; Czar are: 1. The Wick Se be,elosed amainst war- vcssrls of all .batiC, Russian, Turkish And other. 2. A geni protection of the great poirers over4he Ch liens of Turkey. a , The free naVigatiol the Danube to be secured. 4. The filrtr, es of Bomarsund and Sevastopol; noLto rebuilt: .The Czar is to have a fortnight consider these proposals; it he rejects th there will be an end of tiegotiatiowtill the next campaign. iu which there iSa vare, but we dare say a most falicious, notion hat. Austria will take some part. .If accepts, a new conference will take. place at Dresden or Munich. There is not much. reason to 4up pose that Contd. Ezstrehnzy will hak e t o for his Arlan yr; or Om, it. win no other th:M a flat Russia.is not yet suflicieittly e i himdliated to,ttLvept such terms, From.liar..we have at last pos4ive' is ligence of the capitulation of the garrism the Russitoc*all their herbisin being un to contend against starvation. The Niue coin rnand ing the Turkish army of i Anatt together with some ten other general °tile including thellritish" general; Williams, s% taken prisoncra ; but the. Hutigaridns, K etty, .Kolimn and • Tashler, sucCeeded . . making their . escape -from Erzertin, . laher _than run the risk of being surrendered to t i the Austrians, which thq,BuSsikuts would possibly have done. Cif Omer. Pasha , we. bear .nth ing; it, i s -said, however, that Bebuto , is t i) about to rani:it s : from Kutais toattack him. anc.). the British journals are' clamorous 1 for sending reinforcements to him from• Sevas topol. . . . . . . ltis reported that . a treaty has - ibeen* in cluded between_Sweden and tile Western Powers, 'which is however, from an. entry of the former into ti - i - .. league against Bussia.'— The stipulations seem to he on the,one hand that Sweden• shall not alienate any part of her territory tollussia, 'While on the other hand the Western Powers,guarante;e her 1i n tegrity. Moreover the parties agree to cOtn iiiiimeate any propositions of peace :that may be made. . r. . The' Credit Whiner, of France ii'about to establish a branch banking and speculatin g concern at Madrid, and - .a French ')cotnpany are also negotiating tim, the Spanish,railway .- , .. In cotrimerdiarand financial affiLitie ther'e is, no change of anyaccount.—Triloqie Of M. mr. A great excitement was ;'" recently produced in liingston, Ireland, by 4 most. re volting and atrocious sceue enacted by ;the " Redemptorist Fathers , " a body of five or six Roman .Catholic cergymeo,i'., whe, , it seems, after celebrating mass and preaching* in, the chapel of that place, brought their mission to a *inclusion by presiding at ;the *within a fps* feet of the public time .oughfare, of a latv, piloof Bibles ,, which they bad ordered theil -audienee col. feet for the purpose. ThipilecOnslsted prig- 4 cipally of Bible*, but not 'exclusively—the or. dery `of the. Rederr ptorists having Voen for4he I - collection of had books generally, 1 , _ . . - Iqdepeoeo- iieptbijc,4q. C. P. REA - 4 (t If. If. PRA IP?, 'EDITORS • •MONTROSE. PA. -1 Thundsii,"Jannary 10111, ;Tr We are requested to Lion of the nietnhata to, the Bond Tetnplare nutiee, whirl wi:l be found -ott Our third page. ""r - • .. rya"' We take Occasion, this week; .to the rnernorie of subs eribcis and mtniiidthetn that .our terns are e 1,50 per annum; in nd vane", isibetter . .fur both publiNtiera and subscribers* , have the terms tired lip For arreatag,es due on the - "SusgOehanna Register." thLi publishers cannot,. in jii'stice to themsely,•*ait longer. . i ';:r• Can tttil; body. tA•11 when ThciMas H. _Benton died - -tor became inzapacitatediby age or infirmity for the Presidency.? Inc whs the choice pit 4c Mentrnse Deniorrnt: for . that ofliec about it 1' e r ngo, but now the saute paper informs us Chat he is - r apable, of holding that office.. 'When and\ bow did ho beeom:! so ?-I STICK TO . . 13ANKs.—Gr . eeley ..writing from Washington,l reque.its the, constitonts Of thine • Beprelientativc.s who are i.oilng for Banks, to tioiify them at once whethCr they counsel adheience io BAnks or an aitt mpt . to unite on some, one else. As flu.we can !elm, the unaidrnous sentiment among Zrve-Oil men herc is ex pressed in .. thl•ce.iMrds : ";stick to Banks." i , ! FRAZItIi:AkIY READ.-7' Please pi/b1 Lh the i' foll4)wirg, from, the report of the eon:ention for e,.._ k CVuintY Su pe riti ten d ciii t ;.'.for hifbrmation 'F. , f thitse whb a eit t: ~.. . " Willard I : lZieliardsnq presented himself, otTeriti , v to aepept . the afice for s3so,*atiiig that the Cane, he could I.'.i!vote to it -would be the months ofJ lily and Augtit and the month of Deeember besides a! day 'or two; in each week, when not employcid in his sehoOl." Onlv lour 'dollars - of this salary. is „paid by • .• SlF(riehmma ionnity. RicunaUSois. nAppointments by the Oonnty Com Missio- Covssat.--MiUiatil J Turrell:- • • CLEIIE--Virillialla A.. jCSrus,mnn, • 1 The re-ippuirarnent 4f Mr: • Cros4inon aq 1 . Cier k, inederes, what we have on !several occa;;ioas board mention,A by the COmmis. siOners,. t hat..be perform.s - the duties? pt; his office faithfully and satisketorily. .: • . 1 ,i Western Corresporiden4 of the Republican. Etierotts :. 7 ...-Smee last,..W inter, stark and witb come shrieking attO howi , tog-tern fits Arc, iu ti.d Nut tit, trb mall terror tf evey,tbing human that is coin relied to air him the haild of "reengitikton.— Winter, not such as t:.-;ect to greet us,attiong . the hill -uf ;but- .Winter 2 ,, where. t - the,Nur - th wintl come- to us over a thousand miles of chill6v , snow With searee or ! • - tree to breaklits force, freezing to the-- mar row. 1 Inal ljlanud to gb through the Kick apoo country,lio the . North of the Wi'sconin river; cross the Mississippi at La-CrOys: into Minnesota, dJwn throughifou-a and hOnte but • upon reaching the Wistrisin river ;the ice was rtnittin ,, at such a Fate as to make - cross tug itupossiW / e, so I tamp.' d to the ykest to make the eirT;t it from left . to right-intead of right to left:l I may asi well say here that be,,ide a desii,e to see . thel country fur 'myself have t.hought.l might,g,other some irifortna tiun whieli will . be useful "m - tt, some WhOiare in- ma oth 1)- to )ns, I‘ral 2EI El I to ern ter . . .. , tendhig to find a home hi; this thr,off-land.— i, I sale!, therefok.e . gi‘the . tocalities where gov- 1 ernment land can 'be : folind, 41111 the price - ! of f se c ond. Linl i l- . lands, th!iquality of the seil. l ' price of tabori produce, 4., &c. - There were, -.Au last Spring, large bodies of government land in Grantico., but trr.der the - gratluation 1 1 m 'act the. price cae down • , to fifty cents an acre s ! %viten it waS' natched in a trice jr specula-.; tors.., The - most . ( - f it' was -sandy, broken ; land-with'onel tree to eve y forty ftereis, and worth- but little , for farmi g purposes, f, yet 'it is all held- a-i i five flolla s per acre -now.- There aresoMe splendid sites for dairy o arms on Black praitie, which in in 'fact tnest watered .prairie I have. yrt seen. BOtter IS seldom lower than eighte' ca cents and'eheese• fifteen cents per pound,;- (rf the - latter there . is tel• to ble I'S., erg in't Gang at& aglee. And as I found, to say disappointt4en t, I was no exception to the rule. - = The ite was renning at a strong rate,* I had the 'conso lation of a tramp. tirDubtique. Yet I dO not wish you to think it a bootless tramp, for the beinery on both sidefi of the river is beautifully. Oand. Rut 'for crossing:: The Steain ferry-boat k aground on thti. west shore and surrounded by, ice a foot thick .; and, al thougl4 the . lee ,vac pinning_ at 4 fear ful rate, themi was fit) alternative but 1.4 or* is a sew or tfrcross et all, - ' Rut the Land Sales were to 614 J-fence at, DeZ! , :frikk on thO 24th,, and be ioati 'N ttie day - O T4e ice was thick , and_swong for . several rodej !row the skin,. while *be *id ;i 7- M=M2 eis for itia - strelinTiiallraWi l ili`titn7ll ice, 'fast beeorn; • ed the' door , 'and presented ' hi s 1 • ' • Is g e t ' i n d , ,:xd , .., es) ' • ing soli and all _hurrying down , thy ' v,. He, hen went ' into - the -woods,,b at Iwlr, , ,.2ticmit . pursued by several neighborai'whe Gulf. ti the ' Captain,' nothing do ' ted, • - - : as I ..ttiretsl in arresting him. after a 'blood *a alle*ld , dollars, -enik i n ... •:: .. -4,001 _*Ai!.;4.l • . ilf A pot,., i . Tlirbiai, Mr. Lucius 'Doolittle eam e I ) * a , .T . ,i soon music .1 wdoz• i n o* b - ' killed - - on of lkorshipers of St. l'itrickl4in ‘-n 1 1 Ihilf, ries Sanford is a fanatic win r h as 4 of the .Wake.' ,we wek homy d, and the,4oo ~ ,b* ' '41,, R.„.. ' • 3, earl 'Oi attended the meetings He - was- stibieet to litifo the hard Water; (all Wafer in,,tiiik i west r ws in Hampden . so, the . vi t i s f of insantty,. and was. ptobably i nsane '. I is • hard , `ntul-this emphatically wind was down stream,. the .ice was doWn en he committed. these dreadful murders He said he had a cramp, and, if he had . no stream, and pretty soon it w as pl a i n a s the I :"murdered Mr. -Sperry and :Mr,: Umber4eid, nose on a ; "man's thee that : we - were : down the cramp would have killed him. ' Mr..kl, Th . eld was a man seventy-one years - ola ge „ , . stream, and that , too, in spite of the oiders . " ern i of the ' Captain' to ' head her up stream,' and and Mr. Sperry wa.s, sixty-nine years old—. -- lleas the lather of the Hon. N. D.: Sper: the yells and pulls and splurges" of these ry Secretary of State. - : Emerald Seifert' .. .13ut • ti;tintke: it kfng sten', -' ' . •' • ' ' short, ky. -41 0ging.--betweethewvalrev-rtmi 1 ning over the mush, and freexing. antil :eight ~o 'clock, at, night, we.thtew aline to.the.p9o ple who bad gathered on and; 'what with drawing it in and lay*: planks • On 'the ~. , . .ice, WC got ' e sliore,..satisfied 'that we get our Money's' worth . n the . ride.. : The ~country from Ditbnque.tow • ard Millville isvery' • rough 'for •twenty l -eiWken' suddenly it beerintes beautiful in - the extreme 'AA . .. eight .ili-','liitte miles, I'when .',it , i4iin, becomes hroce4 and rocky 'and terms the ,basin, of ,the „big , , an/ little 'turkey. : (rightly earned -f. think .by the Turkey's tracks I saw in .the snow.); ;The country is generally' beavilY' tiMbered, , n9 land.sells from five to_thirtY.dollars an iti:re., Gme'iS plenty, , " At one man's :door l- s aw ~ . a, fine. Bear. hanging,. killed the. day before .-- The soi I is 'better .thita, that . of -the 'timbered lands of Wisconsin; s and . nianYnre 'rnakini.,* farms here in preferenee . to• going -. into l the .praitivs, yet in my , opinion they .are not.do nig : the - wise thing, for_ five farms can be made on the prairie as easily as one iirthe timber,- and prairie produces • better. This:_niorning thel thernmmeter ito'Sd - at 'led deg. below zeal, snow. four. inches deep, lowa, Dee: Zit Iss; Common Sehoxih in• Susquehanna. We - find in the'Penn-sYlvanitt:S.'eltoo/Jour na/ 'for :December, some notes, by' the Dep uty Superintendent com Mon .Schools, of; a recent visit to 4veild.colintie of the Com monwealth. On his remarkS eonCerning•this county, which. we ti w, Prof.* Richard, son Wm sotne cothmen" hereafter, unless the- same snail. 'nave u.„.. done by “ne,one else: . Sitsquchanna county,. it is said by cempa, tent authority; can turn out 'a . botfy 4 . 800 teachers of respectable. qualifications-; _and Teachers' Associations are no new thinglkire. Wages are generally - low; howerer,and many, teachers enter inti) other and more:profitable pursuits, or seek prtifessional..engageinents in theJower Counties. Sonic 80 or 40 - wefe in attendance at a week's ses,lota of' the Conn: ty institute;. atid . the instructions , as . far as witnesSed, were pt.:tette - al and to the purpose: Subsequent casual intercourse With the cit izens of the county,. at di&rant 'plaCes and. tinteG,.compelled the con v ietiOn thatneither the School Law . nor the County Soperintemi 'ency are . acceptable to the: people, for: tfie reason, us alleged, that no tangible r resulta . Etaveenfiued, and: nothing is shown of ithe-cx peeted benefit of the new nviciyinery. • Thera seems to he a prevailing anxiety fur abetter. condition of things, and Weary complaints are made 'against directors, also, fortheir unwise purvirti.•or in em • L614.”-;;,.... WII.I would work:for, ihe least wages, and: in placing thly , e ,who Arc Young . and ineXperi:- enced - in chnr,re of pupils older and more, ea- . vaticed thaii theinsclvcS, - and situilar acts of injurious police and nialadininistratien. The: prieate'subscriptiOn selibols of thirty years ago are referred to as better than :the .n-ion 1=01(101,4 . 4 , the: piesent day. Too many directors, instead of aiming to fulfill the re quirements of the law, and'keeping'pace With . the spirit of Ole times and Wholesome pro 7. greys, seem content with the smallest cum. of imperteet reading - iiriting, and - arith . . met ic; that can be squeezed out of a eorre.' spending pittance. An election :fif new rectors in some distrusts, a ref irmationin the. official policy of Others, and larger minaint of laborious, earnest -hcarted . and - efficient se.' pervision of the s.chools are evidently neties• sarrin this eOutity, to bring it up to par.:, . ... : The -3fessage. of. Goy. Gardner, "of Mass., recommends 21 years' residence of fortip - .. born citizens, and : ability to read and write, - befors • they aro allowed to rote ; :deprecates- the passs,,* ~ of - the : Personal Liberty . act by the last Legishr two, and urgek.its speedy repeal t suggests a iednc• tioit' - of the number of Members of the popular branch , • •of the-Legislature; and denottneeS lobtrini; legish. , •-- the,Li Om'. i' , rf`• A Ifarrisburg e - orrespondc nt .of ! ' . .'' • .- - - ' . • . , -,. 1- , I Mr • Todd, who ; s4er 11. M. Fuller had; Philadelphia .paily -ff - ite s giy ei u.• i , cime idea' ••• •• ' on the.troer Orthe ligtse declared in &Tor 'elf Slave of what is going - on k funong the political 'trick.. 1 ry, Said if he had•hiewn such' Trere ift. Pidler's sea= sten; of this State, in ,the f,111....4ing iemark I . .timente, its right band stionld have withered..befoke 'On the election as Spenker,;by the Democrat • 1 ; cast•a.vctefor him; is the Chairman of thelniericia is Sttlto Senators; of %V. .Nt . Piaui , who las j State Central Committee of Pmsylvania, and his winter : rl;ted for: the KnoW - Noiliinr , ; . t'anter-iri acednathe-2140sue k io. c "a s ihe"urcular ofthe fusion., i , -. .. - f'• , -, l-1 Isis Who ntireinateilli: 14ichOlion . last fall. - - .- on : .--). ' • ":, ..' '''l -:... ::-. It is stated'that the Whole subject of /4 'the' election of Putt,. - Citin—ef. o o:i'litv!, \ sravOry will be braughilhefoie the Supreme achieved a triumph'over:the'ramparti.Detnot- r t i lc. .r i die4 2 .... ~.itii this Winter, lithe case of Bet ah, Conti of racy on • the- very threshold. of. the se:s9i4o.!--. 1 the abolition editor WhO 'was-Convictedin the United : • llis candidate fur Speaker, elected last win= ! States District -Court,-of aidAng r in the escapeof a fugi ter by- -the aid of the • Cameron littow-Moth= tne Blare and was subsequently liberated by a Stan tugs, is eudorsed ; by the Democracy: I • ."This, co' 2 iirt on I.ltaia - corpus .. 'Tiera • Ira one•o t•f 11 e most may be intended ,to prepare for the If (ill interesting and iMPor - antcasea ever brought i before CallierOli to the. Democratic, fold: • iis a the Supittne Court. (. • • • : - : -.- • that a .4 - rung:effort will. be made on the. part of i , . Englishman and .a' Y' were ankee Buchaium's. friends to reconcile-Cameron, and j -• • •,-fin . Launtan, Sitnfon's ' right bower,' hailitlreadv r ecentlY 4 1 siNtingt Yrhei! tilefirmer- sheeri"Sr7 "re - . - gi vet', in his adhesion to the • FaVorito s on. z. marked,.that " fortunately the l Ainericans couldint go, .Anot her- fact that' 'Makes the:election or Pi.. farther titan the .PaCittc-shord." Yankee scratched . att more galling: to "the ;Democracy, i s t h at; his pregnint.brain for tin instant,' and trilmtplutntly b 4 i.2l,rebraska. Man. - It will be; .replied, " Why, , good gracious, they're alread'y • ley- Ay, of these facts, what - a Bac. eling the Rocky.Moututins, and , cartinithe dirt out made by the! Dentocratit• in West, Phati-a letter las - t)week from my cousin, -who )taittees and the; petty. o fr ices , training 200 miles wok of the:Pacifie shore, 7 on . mac4 • MARDERI3.-:—The 'tiettlitg I Murders committed at Wood:r] 011 11011101 . tnorsiingi:are, re -11 Enoch Sperry ? one of •the vie.'] left his home a few mintuesi , l ling - through the woods withl, eigh t . when he -was • attacked' Char itti Sanford, who struck: itead With'an axe r and -felled 1 indotixt• then detilieratetv at. r.hia.head from his :lxidi.:--- •:'7Sperry was allowed to go: after proeeeditig tothe house I stopped.-in a shed. Et: 41 1 was not - right,, , went search of Mr. Sperry' and ,fouud, him lying. dead' on- the • road, ,with his'• head connected: with his body .by &little akin at.the haek-of the neck. Sir:Perkins alarmed -Inerhomi, and in the evening the Murderer -was-lodged in jail. He confessed that he had: not , only killede Sperry, - hut. jah. tit!:(ki Uriibertie ~ who: bred Admit% from Mi.•Sperirs„ seems that after tiurderinglirApeiry 4 l he wept to the,lnie Q t Mr: IJ.utlietr elf; d} whila he waesitting by The stover itihis kitch, eq„, Sanford struck-Min....With-the saineitute' he' hati.weviouttly.tts,ed-• and - ,afterlbreaking. skull, nearly Out. off hie bead The Ilm4-_ 1 ly setup the cry of " Murder !" quit be told: t.tit. to stop, their:Poise, :or he. would 'chop theif 604. 0ff:1160,,..y.ite wenCout, of %ha hops > t9,wipti azw.upon the snOwl And .1440 Ate mit. thelimay "Olsten", tfs t ~701 G. C. L BIE BSWB' SID Aynole. people ..who letters - must heir in mind that from ? a nd after - the beginning - of th e . year 1850, letter postage must be s prePaid L. atamps.:_ ‘, • • • . - :....'A Wfitsbington-letter wiiter say* that' 1. , eta: Jcolin C. F'reinoist is_ talked'Of as the Repuhlicao esndidato - for_the Presidency 'He is's' nativecN ut b, Carolina.' ' ' ' , - '. • ' . - .''... : According - to the report of the Kel l , Orleans Chief of Police, during the last six 'lnOaths, - one tenth of the entire poptdatioi&of that city h a 1 i been placed under arrest. ' l2 ''''' ' • ••=, . During the late.;difficUlties in Kansas, ; - a large number of Shawnee end Delaware Indians es, ;i . pressed their willingness to join in the fight under ti ll , banner of the Frie State, men.. - . - - if you wish to ascertain whether'ynur• eggs are gcnit and fresh, put them in water—if the butts turn up,they are not fresh. Au infillible rule to*tella gr.)ogg from a bad one. • • ; . Dr.RobinT.zon was asked hy„Gor.Sha n , non, what the Free State men woulddo if comumnd.. ed to deliver up' their arms! . " Well," said the doe-. tor. "L would propose a compromisei—keep the ri fles and give theme the contents. ' . ; A Western Publisher lately_ gave flee that he intended to spend fitty dollars'for the pose of k;etting up a "new head for hirpiperi— IThe next day one °this Subscribers dropped him the I. following note :. "Don't do it. Better kiep the. inoney and boy ''a new head for.the editor.'" ....The Newbury port Herald notiOs-the greatly incrW . qed attention which is given to die cub tiration of the apple, Ohroughout 'New England. • Or chards ' are being everywhere l planted, as this fruit now forrns - one of the largest and most profitabiecrops. , • .. This year the yield' is very abundant: The first Annual meeting of the " Ty pograplaical Associatien of Nertliern Pennsylvania," will be held at Gikhriit's - Hotel in Vs likes Barre, •oa the Pith day, of the present titonth,. at 1 o'clock P. a. Editors, Publishers and Printers, who desire to be- Association, are cordially invi ted to attend. - _ _ ._ . . Pennsvlvalil4,egislature oriran ized on Tueddif . last. Richailbon L. Wright; Dem:, 'of Philadelphia was elected- Speaker 'of the limn; suld , 'Wra. SL - Platt, voted for Cameron last whiter) ,Speaker of the Senate. BOth Houses haie 'fixed upon the 14th Of jantiary, for the eleetiOn of a U.S. SenatOr. Chaupeey and *inn, Or; American aiilora lately, tried at. IfaVana for being engaged hi the Slave trade, save been condemned to the_, chain ging. - .Five thonsand,ASricaus have been la4ded on . the eberes of Cuba, within three months) and 4 slaver having put about four4undied of the unfortunates into', boats, was immed4tely'Set on fire and burned 'within-sight olllßritish war ateamer. , . . . John A. Bingham, rapresea tat ive from the iCadiz District; in 'writing to the Republican of aim: place upon the subject of electing Speaker, :";When this thing will,end I know not—but I will stand for an organization of the House, on . 'ride of Freideins and Juiti., 13E161 the expiration of my,tprm. Thid 1 consider a part of the Oust confided to ine by , . my ctinstitnenta • , ' - :..The Peoria Transcript Is :informed that then Rochester (N. Y.) kill Erecting Company intend to place in oi.eration fifty 'Mils on the -West; ern Prairies, during the 'ter 1856, the moan poier of siltch' Is to be wind alone. The Transcript adds: -We hear a companris to be "organized-inTeoria for the immediate establishinent . -:01one of these wind - We understand titat the cost of a mill in ope ration, with two run of four feet stones; only $5090: • , •:z. • . ! . 1, 1' '' .. :'....'We''ltre!infOrmetl ;'that the lr.omen et, t 1 Lkiriete . T ireiveiftireinseleis heroines,' trlte's; steel. . . ,_ IV hile iiieir:hentands !tvere: . 'throaing or. earth -w odi • 4-!felces litllgniiiith4 :drill Of, 'amid's) exereisesoheY - were ',engaged durini,eireryinoment they could spare !kiiin Their domestic neetip' atiohs, In tanking up .tall • ~:1-• -1 ett itiidges,'• :with ivhi4 to make the ru ffi ans bitele . 1 Ouse.. - Slitaininn'ii talk nr.inb)ngating such 11 rmple ii..aii'abs4rdikiite, speak ofL digging trOan the !Ital . Dicazitalria with• - n - '.oCaiiiiliitonn. - - : : ' - • - 1 - ..••••:•.1! . +1 . ... 1 1_ . ltPr4s:4*t Troy Ttrues, a day or w!),..l i !etoro 4:riStrpaa,.verytt*itlefliy . 4iuted told§ 0 4 tr9 1 14L'ilitT!"0 1 4 1 Ps;• ! •09y 441.414 have noticed , . .. • ii,. e° 41 )!P 6 .1*!4- 0 •-iik!.t'iqhortal r ,.table *without the ar i i irt -' 44 :1 6f • 101% 4 *.ffnPer.to.,t4eatoreraid editor or ny nl'-his Uttlafolks, rit - 110 . happened - that on the siteiteAL:a f 141 . '!; : : it , pat;up9a, JAI _threshold's .fine , 1 !? 1 ,C1)PC# 1 .0)14. 4 -taPPO in ilin!keisii/4 frinuglY stowed ! ittztY ! ..44:4bleilrs,,:liee4ileedag i 'the I gentle hint' in t i;L 'A'itaok., Ora patio proceeded. to the'rditor's-sane -1 t • f anitiet), thfik baS -: and-conterna upon the is. ~ :1' ' i , :: , . i iii - ; virriti in ne of the • English 'pa -1 1 - ~ i pfusteeetitly 4,144 the *lon shadow..of a 'chum , tftirerirchis.ireiglibo I bad so aitelitd since his, 1 jititinbraqiia.that it waa r . vi . in t*iii . s. two ,beari- . - '4t i atienillio gentleman - has 'replied; and sari the state; toontle i'dtdusion;ae such an alteration 'would,indi- ' --pate 4 ehatigeer 'about fifteen degreeilit the:situation girth t h 'earifi't sits ne'rintes'lablete . iitfulditecessarily, hivol .o a second deluge.'anit'thecridn - of •everything. on fite*.of:filtetilober....: ! . 'Re ! ittysthitt' the relrint, earth cannot s _tioriii:va 'teri'lletn:troni:iii 'tot* nor the great glithef;of o,ity! **Urgretur its 'path by one de, . 4.r.lr'"!' -- - . • MEMO
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