~ar~ghe~sio~aj~ ME --: GROWS POSITION. Remarks of -.Mr. Grow in the House of Rep reseneettires,.rong.l, 1856. - Ur. Clerk, I hate refrained Irom partici pation in the debates of this lialLuntil nn or ganization of • the House should lie effected, trod I do nottiolt propose to say anything in -reference to the legitimate legiilations, of the .country unfit the - attainment br that result. -Rut as to the re.spensibility fur the organiza tion of this Rouse which has he - 64 raised here this morning, I rropose to say a ffiv words. Tho hispoirsihitity, str,•shetild rest on those who have produced thS state or things we - find. in this Hull and the - country. h. is not n lnestion of figures or votes, whether this or 4. 1 -44t,Van_coeld: have been elected by tran s ferringi'otes frOni this or the Other -candi date. • • . What, has prodiicod . .the present state of . ithings; 4 l Why cannot this .House organiie At Ihe opening - of the last Congresv,;pc4ce reigned in every quarter of the c ountry, and fitten-eatne litre from evert ion with fra telritt .:fealings. • Th em were no disturbing elentents'tojar the unlVerso. harmony of sen timent./ 'The deatt•patit ad buried its dead'. - The bitter controversies of previous years ,h a dw esa sal, and sectional fjuariels were for the l'cro-nete of disicord was j i 6iirti in Ihe-ociuunlis of the nation, and The `future was unclouded and bright ; yet, in vio atioit of goad faith . ,• .‘ miltu , ii.lexlged by the cepresentatives of the..4 \ t:) , ..treat political par ties of the country; to-resist - the farther agi lotion of the-glavetl ., (pest:ion-in exingress or -out Of::it, a 'titne-honored compromise be- Ittweenthe two sections of the Union was tram ..pled under foot, thus openbigori6er the sane lien of the Government. A. vast territory to the introduction of 81m-cry, from . which our fathers agreeil that it 'shealti be forever ex atded. .Upon the men,, and tiae influence thdt secured its-abrogation. rests the respon sibility fur.our...want 4af orranicatio' n at • this time. - qt . -was declared bere, as..s reason for the -repeal'Afthat compromise, that• it' was neees sarr to take the question out of Congress.— The effort to take it out has led to.a civil war in 4,l{anssi.S . , - and, a sectional strife unpanilleled the:history of the country. Such is the . reffult .of -the lattempt •to , take the q u - estion out .or Congress; and the restriction in Minneso: • to and. Oregon still remains...a hone of eon tentien for a futu.74ay. When the repeal, .of the Missouri compromise was ltrged on !the ground .ttuit_it..wouht quiet agitttion, and':, 'take this question out of.C.\mgress, I declared` , o fin this floor that— • "Those who make this cleclar~t•;os with so much apparent sincerity either do not understand the real sentiiment•of the North, or they fan to Comprehend aright, the springs of human action. Sir, you arc raking open and -fanning into a tlarne coals which were already smothered, and, if left alone, would hare buried themselves lbrcyer in their own cinders. ' " As an early and constant friend of this Admlnis tration, I desire the:defeat.of this bill; for its passag,e my judgment, insure, beyond &doubt, an anti- Administration majority in the next Congress. As an .ererncst and devoted friend of the Democratic party to which I have cheerfully given thy. best energies bona e-artiest political action, I dasire the defeat of, this bill; for its passage will blot s it out as a nation -al organization, and leating but a wreck in every northern. State, it will live only in history. As clov er of peace, harmony and fraternal concord among the citizens of the Confederacy, and as a devotee at • :the shrine of this Union, with all its precious hopes to man,.l desire the defeat of this bill; for its passage -will ticar open wounds not yet healed, lacerate spirits - already 'phrensied, and`the bond of confidence' which :unites the two sections of the Tnion Rill bC rent asunder, and years of alienation and unkindness may -.intervene before it can 'be restored, if ever, to its wonted tenacity. and -strength." 3ir, history.has made those remarks 'pro pbetie., thotigh itswas but the natural 'result 1 of that legislation': The responsibility. for . ~ vcarit of an ortatlizatiou. of this house is up on Cnose who reopened this agitation. You -trampled, doWn a fltir arrangement between The two Seetions of this 'Union ; you tramp- .led on - your own plighted faith, given in the conventionsrissembled at Baltimore in 1352. Yet scarcely n'year bad elapsed before_ the einestion etas reopened in. Congress. 4 - - WOunds were torn open that had just healed ; and to-1 fiud-,ourselves in the midst of this quasi revOintion. On the heads, 'then, of - those Who trampled down these compacts of geed faith be the responsibility. 1 Si r,by the records of votes here you can prove that almost anybody. is responsible for this 1 want of organization. Did -not the gentleman from Alabama,Plr. Walker,] the first iweek of the session, propose to. the Democracy that the two parties unite, and elect a (what is called) national •-• u Speaker; and are not the seventy-four ;en who' vote for Mr. Rich ' ordain responsi because they did not take . ! -that„proposi r 2 By the same line or ar gumentpursued by my friend from Alabama [Mr. Ilouston3 they certainly are. But:".-1 do not hold them to . any responsibility. on .such grounds. Gentlemen 'stand here by their prirreiples.. it is said that , . the gentle-:1 man from Ohio [Mr. Campbell] could -have I been elected, if all the anti-Nebraska 'vied/ 'ltad•:-voted for : him.- ' For three 'days -Banks was within three of an election: If 1 •three of those who voted for others. had To- 1 ted for .him, he 'would now have been the 'Speaker. -Yob can transk-r'the 'ty on *hold you please by taking the cotes' as they, are on the .retord. because cOrribina„ . „l lions could have been made at any time by ,which an election would have; been effected. That result could be figured out - of the Tote] ofzenti-Nebraska mewl - and the same' ,could • be dime in thi.inj.e of Democrats and Amer- leans. It cs, not 'expected that those, voting .for Mr. Richardson will change their position 'bemuse by 'doing so they may gain a few 1 votes. Nor should it be expected that .those ..voting for Mr, Banks will change their 1 '.ground, - because-by so doing they may se .eure.n tent more votes; Those of us who ! were here at the.time resisted the repeal of: rite` Missouri compromise, and were opposed 1 to ,reopening the. slavery agitation.. We Were borne down then,.but our views of the justice of that measure have not changed.— What was wrong *en enacted' never Ceases bt.l a wrong., On the following day, Jan 19, Mr.. Quit man, of Ifissinippi, baying spoten in reply tc;,Mr. Gs w.the latter responded as fellows.: Gapw. 1 propose tor occupy but' a -few momenta. The gentleman from Ilissis firpi [Mr. Quitman] complains of rernirks Aillieh hate liseen made upon thie floor, and refers the agitation Which exists in , the coun try. at the present time back to the year 183$. In 1819, geodetical y. Very well. • Sir, - whetherloar Itisiourt compromise was con stitutional or not—whether or not it was a violation of your constitutional rights utidu. this Govertunent,—your fathers agreed with our, fathers, on the Gth of March, 182A:I; that they •would-give up that constitutional right . —if they had it—and that slavery should be forever after excluded from the territory vorth of the line 36 deg. 30 min. Of the one - hundred and three gentlemen who then rep; resented thc South in this House and in the Senate, but forty-six voted 'against this line. Among the nutnber who sustained it was your owu-itnraortal Clay.. He declared in' 41 4 e Seriate'of2the United States, in 1850, that majority_ 'Of southern members Sustained thitt Wrogg=tituself swung the number..— . Whether-this Was - or - Was not a violation of a o t natiwtlonal right, it was A a fair bargain,' - - -iz,,,, and good fath requireld th4t it 4 . liould be ob served.: By it you otinsented.inlunhiflly -to relinquish all; right ' i 9 - earyy_ Slavery . north .of the line *0t.30 - deg .` 3o Ma. ; and aWr availing . yourselves of Id 1 the ial vantagee '; se eu red-by that arra ngeinnntito ir. y ..l ll, after con verting' every flint of*Tritork:- . nth - 'Of. that line.into slave,territor , yo ti.tne . In llere; and by - fOtee- or :num Ls .Strikb down;: that bargain - which yoon fa 4 ers 1W e;, iind. which wag:. religiOnsly ;observed .' , ',lfOr -river - a third of a century.::i • I . Mr...Qc rrmis., . Do'yon ass e rt- that Mr." Clay ic:pt.ed for the MisaiMri I eomproalge line ? .• I -,. .-- ' '.- . r i' • l' i . ' •\ ' Mr. Gnow. Ido - assert (11.. .Mr., aay . 'says he :Voted for the.line it. 36 deg. 30 min. Mr. A L LEN. Ile never did say so: . .. Mr. Gnow. . And that a majority of south ern Memberg - in 06 'Lipase andiothe Senate. . . , • .:. voted for it. , ~ L - . , .1 Mr.- ab!riE. Mr.- Clay his stated that he aid not ‘(1 - te for that line; lie was not. pro s .' ,. ent, but he thought that if iie hid been he would Very likely have doneso. -• • , - Mr. Gnow. 1 refer to a ' s peec h made ,by Mr. Clay in the Senateiof the United States. on the 6thof!tfarcloBso, in whlih he:says, ' among those -who agreed to tlualline were a majority, of southern • members,' and that I have no earthly doubt -that I voted. in com'' tnon.with tuy other southern Mends for the adoption of the line of 36 deg. 30 min." That is the language of Mr:Clay, in I 850, i i in- the Senate of the United' States. • An , al: though he cannot speak to-day with 1 ying voice, he does speak through the recur , s of his country; and 1 tinstrio man will tend up hero to contradict" his own dechtratio Mr. ALLEN.' Wi r ll the gentle Man t ! me to interrupt him l, 1 . , Mr. Guow.q No, cannot now.l Mr. ALLEN. i Theigenticman dares a tradiction of the statement, that M i t. Cla, ted for the line of 36 deg. 30 mi . I to furnish a contradiction. ~ I Mr. GROW.,. You'may do se Illien through:- , - . .., Mr. Aut.t.N. You Challenge . a. contradic tion, and I wish , to make it. • - ::! Mr. Gnow.. • No, 'sir, 1 'only refer to the' record. Oue''word in:reply to the charge, of northern aggressions! upoi the 'South, made by the . gentleman from Missisiippi, [Mr. Quitman.] for whom! r entertain •the kindest feelings • and the - rrMarks I may make I trust wi ll not be considered as in any way reflecting personallyjupon any southern man., We expect Men coming here—reared under tlie-intiuenNs -Which surmised thetn---inipres sed with the inilueneesi of the Society in whiCh they liveto hold views upon slavery differ ing from ours. With that we find no fault; but we claim the right to hold the sentiments inculcated by. the education of our childhood and infliienceir whichhave - surrounded our lives, and that . we Shall be allowed 'to 'ex ps them here with the same freedom. as a sotithern 'man expresses his, without being disfranchised therenir under this Government. Sir, what are the northern aggressions that the _gentleman speaks V et?. Let me say to the gentleman L----, Mr. QcrrtAX, l '(interrupting.) I desire to .ask the gentleman :from Penn Sylvania this question -; whether hehiMself was not elect ed as a member of this Il,Ouse on the princi ple of hostility to thd institutions of the south= em States ? , Mr. GnoW. If -any- one - thing .more than another s:ceitredlliy return to this House for the third time, by - the - unanitnotts vote of my district, it. was beenuse I had stood upon this floor, and resisted - the repeal of the - Missou- ri compromise. Sir; [bold - no ' hostility' . to the in,..tituttons of the southern- Stittes but. / shall resist the effort n w making to dange t h e .construction given o the Constitution by our. fitthers, and the ac ion of every branch of the Government for oi,e'.l._ sixty-"years.--, " ' But, let me say' , t,A the gentleman • from .Mississippi, that poliqal Abolitionism in the North—paradoxical at it 'may seem+-is the child of the South. - You nurtured it in infan cy, when too feeble to istand alone '-- and you have made it - Strong in manhood • by the in judicious and nnjttst legislation of this Hall. Sir, when thcNorth petitioned this Govern went to take 'terrs 'in .referenceito. the institu tion of slavery, *here it is . conefide . to be solely under the jurisdiction of Cotigres:-..; you passed the tvernty-first rule, denying a great. constitutional) - right. to freemen under this Government. That. inaugurated political Ab , olitionism in . h • e North ; . and from that day . .to - this the warfare, has been one of' constitu tional rights,i not for . 'the South alone, but for the North..: In resisting the reopening of . this agitation in the late Congress t took oc casion to say! that- - ,-: ' . . ' I -- 1 time . . , " Preiions tti that t e passage nrthe twea- Ok ty-firstrule] Abolitionism was but a sentiment, and a mere Sentimen(is not a sufficient basis 'for a fora& dable - pOUtical organization; but when !great princi ples of constitutional right are violated 4i the legisla tion of the country, legislative acts combining with a fe strong and nni4,ersal sentiment may f ' enduring organizations.'And the sentiment of t e North, in reference to slavery, being deep and ral, when you force up -legislative issues to combine; with . it, then it becomei a formidable element.' You then placed..ti Censorship over the mails of this country like that fplated by Louis Napoleon-to-day ever th a _pre Fr4rlQeli „and la. t14.001.01.try, - -Wbere we claim that intelligence shoUld .eirculate4as free . the airwe - breathecou,einWer your post masters to declare what is: inter diary, and .to withhold such . matter from the white free men of- the South. •••YOu". placed Stilton the records of your country, through yOur See; retstry . of State, John C. • CalhOun+--a mail whose I rev ere' for his -purity_ of . character and integrity f purpose- .one- of the brightest - and purest i intellects that, the •conutry ever produced—xpu put, I say, up on the records cf the coUntry, through him, justification of the armeiation of - .T.exas„ on the ground that; it w6uld ilphold and snpport the institution lof slayery ; and you . asked nor:ltern men to t indorse that issue, made in our State papers. .You 'then came here in the last'Congress„ mu] struck .down—as I vta- . ted in the opening Of' my reinarks----a fair -bargain made witlyOur fathers. by youncand Which' had been religiously observed by them for more than a third of a. century. . Mr. QurrmAx, Sent.) You robbed' -us of California.. Gaow. Tie 'gentleman says that we luivc. robbed.icuiof California. How is that'? California came 'to -Congress and asked to be admitted as a -State of this 15n 7 ion. Your. Gore meet had neglected to give her a government, and she, WM Awned to fall back upon the inherent righis of men to talte'ettre-of thethselves. Mr. 'QUITMAN. Whf - nof eitterid . To Cali fornia the coinproinise line ? - -. • Mr. GkONT. l'am' miming to that. The people of California--ny ‘ the eier'else dt wlnit men call popular sovereopity, and whibh was i in this ease really ' pa l) tar sorireigntY,' be. cause the people weref iced by'';the neglect Q f the-Government to!! ly entirely on . their *erent rights--formed a Government, and eicluded slavery. AO what did iyou - do? The application of California for rirlinissiol into. the - Union ,was resisted ;from khe first:; ' t t n end - on the Journal Of the 1 5,enate O the Uni t'ed Stativ ift; today, al.proteet of , south ern - Senators against i lie adrnisgon f Califor nia into the Vnion'after the act 4inission bad passed. -And what is the n these Senators gave for their' ppositioul I = Because her constitution exelud slavery. I u'ill read the language of their p test. lir. Hoirtrazir M . . gentleman from _ Pennsylvania. allow me; to matceatuggestion tenet - ';:: • :.* Mr. GROW declined to - ifeld the floor and continued j: The reason - iy > l.fris protest is, that tie bill gives the sfpetion of law, and thus impart.iyaliditstolho unauthorized. action: of 4:portion oftitt; inhabitants of Cali , fOrnia, by which tadv( 7lo Yß diserhrin!Ttion is friarkirga4o,l4 t r proptfly.of the fief staire boldi»g !. .*teti . of the Utiion:- That was th e protest of ten sciiithern : Senators, that the aclinisSion _Faliforuili, under:her consti• tution, was a violation of the right or shi've-holding States.. .mr; - Qu !T mAN. Let me tell the gentleman from Pennsylvania that no southern man has ever,tiihen Ale ground of opposition' to the atlinision. , of California on the ground of her having adopted a conktitution excluding slave. rv. • ' Mr GRpw idor the gentlemanto the langinige Of the protest --which I have just goo ted. i jqaepeOeqf OE C. I: READ cf., 11. IL FR Jam?, EDITORS con i• vo wi.,ll This day, Jar!unry 310, 1536. . . . Principle .vs. Party. • . ' , ,'llipl Sham Conven . ivn of the Shamaerno erats that met here're '2lst inst., after reso t lutioni in .favor of Buchanan, passed the' fol lowing, introduced. by A. J. Davis, of Sus quehanna Depot : 1 , I :6. Reoirra, That the rote of iloni G. A.-Grow, for Mr. Banks, a well knowti Know. Nothing and Repub. li6an, 'fir Speaker of the!Tlotsc of Reptw,entatives at Mishinston, meets our disapprobation, and we here by, reqttest him to 'rote for an - tutti-Knorr Nothing Dcmoriat tor - that positidu." Thal meeting that passed the above resolu tion, Was officered .as follows':President, I i• W. C.I Ward ; Vice Presidents, M. J. Mum ford and Edward Cliarke`; Secretary; E. B. - Chase.l We understand . that the officers con sttunicl about half Of the persons preSmit.— .And these lailf . a-dezan office-seekers - have the . audacity,, to attempt to sell out the Free Soil Democrats of SusqUeitanna. County to the Slave rower ! ; Our ;readers are aware that the men of this Coun'ty who have hitherto ad h4red to the Democratic organizat ion,-are di vided into two faetion's, the Free - Soil portion, who liaVe always itrdngly opposed Slavery extension, and the ll:tinker portion, some of Whom I advocate: Slairery-exteasion outrii,dit, while the others are always ready to , ” acqui esce " in any measur4 that the Sonth may'see fit to fi ! rce upon the Country.. Fronr the fact that the Democratic dounty CA'Jnveritions have been in the . habit, fort Years past,- of adopting Free Soil resolutions we may Lifer that 'the Free Soil faction is the strongest. And the opponents of the „parity in the:County, i who are stronger than both factions combined, are alSo Free Soil men. ! It is much the same in the Other counties co this district, Bradford and Tioga. Mr. Gritty hits elf has also'al wayS been . a'Free Solior. _While consisten cy to his own principles . and the will of a vast majority of his iconstituents forbid him to support a preSimicry candidate for Speak er, this little knot of cOnaty politicians 'Call 'upon him to vote for tome" anti-Know Notic ing Democrat,fior that position." Of coure, tbii is only another niayof asking him to vote fur ,Richardson, or 0rr,..0r .whoever may be theiiothinee of the ;National Democracy.— There is not a wan in the House, who adheres to the .- Denicwratie tiarty, who'is not tully committed as a pro-Slavery main _ As the' party platform is tliiry laid down; Icy, he a Democrat is to be iri favor of the Nebraska hill, and Mr: Grow htightas well vote for one ofitssupporters las! another; hut, as •his remarks published by 'us in this number dem onstrate, it would bei j utterly inconsistent. for him to support suds 4 inqii on such a platform --as inconsistent, ht fact, as it is for Chase, aftt -- .r the flaming anti-N4raskkediterials he has 'written, to take the - position he now dcica. Mr. divw,_ finding ill the liouseill , odt-i , 6Af• mon %Lill' .4--,. - -,bortyratte - iilrotter questirins , to the paramount one of Slavery-extension, and to unite fur, the :purpose .of opposing it, Very naturally acts w i ith them, instead of with these-who have just -e-affirmed, their adher ence to the Nebraska! bill as theear'dinal doc trine of their politilzal faith.- And 'who, among his constituents, find fault' with • hiS Course As 7 . That the ielr Hard-Liked doughtlie, es, who always oppioSed Free-SOilism," - should • , now do so, .4 not to be wondered at. For. • instance,' AyAiiini ICI Ward; title Chairman of this severi.by-niner, meeting ? is just where . we might have expected to fild him. He stands by the side of his brotheri - C. L. Ward, Of Towanda, and F A. Ward, •bf Susquehan na Depot, among the extrerriJ pro-Slavery doughfiices. of this diStriet. When C. L. ..Ward; last Fall, took it upon hirnto lecture . a. Democratic - Convention of Susquehanna County fur their Free Soil heresy,* William C. was one to approve his cotirse. Ile is a - consistent itunker. So is Davis, who ofier *3 the resolution., 'it is fresh in the recollec- . tion of some, how ;Ward and Davis stumped the Eastern part of:the County for Bigierl as a pro-Slavery .nian, thereby depriving hits of . I votes wherever they went, and . gettnig more curses than:compliments froin the partylead erain Montrose, for . the honesty of -their ' coarse. But now the stone that the builders rejected, has become the head of the corner : .. .. :-,. . 1 Davis Tirof in _the 'lslass Convention "of i seven, to censure Mr. Grow for voting in ac cordance with- his. long-professed . Free Soil ' prinelples,. and is sustained ! Undoubtedly Davis; - who if he bad been at Washington, : would haVe been 'the fi - Mt to hurrah for Rich ardson and the pro-Slavery platiorm,is quite ' consistent in condetnning Mn-Grow.. • . M. J. Mutt forkit will be reniembered; has been recommended to the voters of this County - hy:Mr. Chian as a remarkably earn. ._ • , may there foreand honest Free-Seiler , and we may there fore imagine that he voted against censuring Mr. ciroi: . unless the ingenious editor sue.- . . . , the MEE MONTROSE, PA, t iceeded in cotiVineing bim that the,best way to oppesii slavery pro-SlaverY men on a pro Slaveryplatform. . Mr. Chase, we believe, voted for4lii rest"- _ lotion. This we infer from theAtet that has sworn that be would rathesce.filavc4 extend•nver eiery foot of the Union,than - Vote fora Kno*Nothing. Mr. Bilks he ,asserts is a KnowNothini,.ind therefore, al though he has also assured us that Know INothingism was dead amid Varied lOng agii, 1 ho censures lir. Grow- in his paper for voting for Banks, and of course .voted for the resolu tion of censure. . • ; - . The question - that here- presents, itself is 1 -this : -What ctilict will this resolutiOn of this 1 meeting—a • meeting utierly.contemPtibte in - point of numbers, and a• resolution utterly false as an exisment of public sentiment—, produce on the: Free . Soil Democra'ts of the County ? We\ have seßn.institnees ofßepre sentatives elected . as Free Stiii metOty Free Sod constituencies, going over to the pro ; Slavery ranks; but shall ,we present the anomaly of a ttepresentative faithfully adher ing to his printiples,.and his.constithents de serting him, and becoming pro-Slavery ? We can'conceive of no motive for i{tich eon , 1 I duct on the part of . t. e tuaSses, even if they were base enough to think Of it. With the office-seekers - who parlsed, the resolUtion, the motive is, the anticipation of - 11 rt.iward for their services to thet Slave Power, in the shape of, a fist office, should a pro-Slavery President be elected next Fall. But for these half-a-dozen---most of..whoin were Pro-SlaVC ry men before—merely to censure 34r. Grow 'for opposing the • Slave Power, Will entitle them to no ref and ; for that, they must suc ceed in giving the votes of the Free Soil Mtn °eats of the 'County to a pro•Slarry candi date for President. This is the Somewhat more difficult and delicate operation ,next to be performed. We shall keep our eye ott . the manoeuverersto see how they sucteed. • It is now evident that the men.whoha-vt hitherto been classed' as the Free Soil De mocracy- of Susquehanna County, will .soon be called upon to choose to . . N . rhich they will adhere, Principle or' Party—wit h Whom they willact, G. A. Grow or E. 8. Chase'. • We chould think there: Could be no difficulty in 2, choosing.. . - ~ i .- - Court proceedings. , Corrimonwealth Pierson. dietnient for dispTAing of his property to fraud creditors. ....„Vc.-43:cf, not guilty; but that, defendant - pay.lie costs. CounOnwealth . Iv:4. Ira Belcher. Indict meta, for trisault, and battery." Nolte pro::e qui entered, oh payincnt of costs, by leave of • court. , Conimonwealth is . . Elias H. Wellman.— Surety _of the Peace, on complaint of Jacob Wellman. After hearing, the Court direct that' the defendant. Elias H. Wellman, and the prosecutor each enter into bonds with surety in the sum'of *2OO, to ; keep the peace &c., for one year., Each party to pay his own costs. Commonwealth William P. Thine-Atm. Indictment, for Malicious Mischief & . e.- Ver dict, guilty, and defendant sentenced to pay a line of fifty dollars, and undergo an impri::- onmentin the county jail for a period of four calendar mouths; • -John A. Smyth vs, hane Lyon. Appeal. Verdict for plaintiff for four Collari,' and costs. Jacob Wellman vs. Elias, H. Wellman.— Action of Trespass. Plaintiff titkes a non suit. Amos roletnan vs. 'Darius Ccilcman.— Action of Ejectment. - .Verd:ct '!for plaintiff for the lands.in controversy, to be set aside and judginent entered fine the defendant up, on his paying into Court $BO, one Yearfrom date. Same day; Jan. 29., COurt set a.sido the verdict. • AV. L. Galbraith vs. Peter Clark. Appeal. Verdict for defendant. Hawley' Tozer vs!. J. E. 'Richardson.— Action of Debt. Verdict for,defendant. Tux SCHOOL TatLow.-11fesirs. Dix & Edwards, the publishergof Putnatn's.Month ly and Dickens' Household WordS,'. have sent us the January number of their Other monthly publication, School 'This, as its name imports, is a magazine for children, and from an examination of the .rnr 'To lb ink 1k con Len ta well calculated to , interest and instruct boys and girls. The contents of this number are, Christitas'Ballad," "About New York," "Snow at ,• Chrisimas,"" Brothers. and Sis ters," "Story of the Great 'War," " Peter Parley back again," " A True Story," " Fire .side; Fancies," Charades`;" &e. • . 'Forty-two Page; With: hatulsomeillustra tions, good paper, and large clear type, i fhe volume tomm . ences' with January. Term; one dollar a year. • Address, Dix Ss Edwards, No. 10 Park Place, New York,- SHOCKING AND FATALACCII/SKT.-Mr. Or rin Lester, of Forest Lake township, this county, met his death in a fearful manner, on 'Frit"-ay last. lie, in company with his son, was making some repairs on a shed or lean to attached to his barn, when the whole frame of the fished suddenly gave' way and fell, and a portion of the timbers strikirq Mr. Lester; completely crushed the upper part of his body, killing him, instantly. He died with out uttering a word or even a groan. r4r• That stanch " Democratic "" sheet, the Luzerne Union, in commenting on the effects of !hat it calls pernicious literature, gravely asserts this: "'The!Abolition press has dot osomething towards•creating the fan aticism and disunionisrn ni the age: The Northern pulpit has done`, more. But the fictitious and mendacious tales of southern life and customs, emulating from pens called pious, and from publishing houses-.called re spect.sble, haVe-donoanore than alt. Rl Our Catholic fellow; citizens hare cer tainly nothing to complain Of in the way of official power The Chief Justice of the. Un ited States is a 'Roman Catholic—the Post. Master General is a Roman • Catholie--and the State Treasurer elect .of Pennsylvania, we arooltf, Is a 'Roman Catholic. At' the head of the Judiciary—of the Post Office— and of the State Trcasurp—they may snap their fingers at the F. N's. • • Kansas Affairs. Zeroed iron Corrreacti of a* Ner:York A large Miss Meeting . was held peLaw . . n I retie; oft,,Sattirday, Jany. 13th, to - consider die preieni stuff of =national polities in thek 6 . - F t h'-• t. of Ka , amp on ainteres h 11444,C0M *: mittee of five:, nt which Col.l. H. Lane, hith '. l etto a nationurpernoerat was Chairman, ilia' -.. , - rappointed.to drak ktsolutions ; and the:) , re ported the folloWing, which was adopted With ' loud applause : ._,. Resolved, That in view of the determination on the 1 part of the Slave Power to destroy and to-take away, the •rights which as American citizens belong to us, it is our duty to unfurl our. banner to the breeze and adopt as our motto A Free State Government in Kansas without delay,- emanating from the_ people Land responsible to them . non-interference with all-, I very in the States where it. now. exists, and opposi-• ' tion to its further e.rtension. • - • - Cul. Lane made . a speech in support of this resolution in which heicpudiatcd the doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty, andpiounted "Sr. fairl and squarely" 'on the llepnblican . ,platfurni. So aggressive. was the Slave Power, he said, that he Believed they would try to thrust it into Heaven, even if the Archangel Michael stood at the- gate—unless he. had a Sharp's rt'llt- in his kind! Several others,;mert for merly of all the different part the nieeting, all in opposition to Slavery. Dr.-Robinson, the TV didate for Governor, - declitied itlfunoOi breach of laith of I)atigi;is clairits the.auflionship, sa3 was opened to the. ineursio)l 7 , both -parties to the original e/mpact were put on the samelooting as exidbeforc the com pact Was Made, and th. '/ the North 'should and would insist, if th outrageS conthnied much longer, -that 13 it Kansas only but Mis souri should be a _ ree State. - -At deputation consisting of Messes. Lane, Em-cry, Good Dickey, liolliday;andSamp -. 66iutcd to yisit thettnited States, :titre the people the cause of Jim'. to lay before Congress the recently d Free. State constitution. They were noted to *visit the principal cities and vns of the Free States—Philadelphia, Pitts and Harrii,burg hi Pennsylvania. were toTlead , zIN, :11l atlui, it.st; REPUBLICAN COMNITTEE. The Republican Executive Committee of SuNtichanna Conutv met at Montrcse ann.. 28, 1856. In tbe-nb:sence of the Chairman of the Committee,. I. P. Bah'er was called to the Citair pro Jan., - and S. Fuller aprointed • SeeTehaV. . After,due eon sul tad' al—the following (Awn mittees Oi:Vigili.riee were appointed in the several - Towr.Ains for the en ning year : /lab:mt.—Thos. Adam.: Esq., John ttwks bury, Tewksburv. Apo?acort.— la rry Barney, - Ilenhen Be - e 1"..-a is W. Barton. • rarat.—J. - W.. W. ! Steal.;le-4 Edward Bloxharn. - . . Bridyezrater.—Perrin Wells A. C. Luce Harvey Tyler. . Brooklyn.— 0. ~Gr . , Hempstea4, .1-dm IT Chap mar.. Dani , 2l Ttiwksbnry. Chqcoraut.—Levi Chainberlin, jr., S. T. Lee. Cha-z. Neal. • 0i1 f 7;,,,r.-111,is. Ite&, John Halstead 0. Severance; Young, George Gates Ur bane Smith. fiundazi:—S. B. We!ls, J. B. Slocum, Ira Gfiudrieh. • l'or est Lnl7.e.—Warige Mott,. Clianney . Wright, J. S.•To‘6.. Frank!? North, John C. Web ster. •: Friembr;lle.—D. D. Brown,' Jos. rlyth. J. fl,)stl,rd. ibson.—W. P. . GariTher,.Geo. Sumner Geri. Walker. Great Bend.—Gr.:6. Buck ; Dr. J. Griffin, 13.8. Tuthill. . •. Harford.—Chas. Tingley, W. C'. - Tinny, Walter Graham. ifarmony.R. A. Webb, Wm. P. Coilklit: K. Newell. • • Iferrick.---lrit-Nichols,Tlfortimer Williams, Benj. Watrouq. • ,Tackson.—J. N. Bronson, H. M.' Wells, Bartleit. : jessup. , --- . lloberi Griffis, Simeon A. 13011 es; Benj. Shay: - Lathrop.—l. A. Newton, J. Gardner, P. Bronson. • 4eitn.r.---Luke Reed, H. ' , N. Smith, E. (7, Sev'erniico Liberty.--Paniel D. Brown, George. CrAptiali. Jos. Webster. .„-lliddletown.—B:. L. - Canfield, I]. F.116n -dt'iol;, I, , afte Giffin. Alimtrose.—J. T. Langdon, -Wm. Foster, C: F. •Read. • • . .;1 - ew .li. Bradford, Tracy Ilak.(ltu; S. IL Moise: • 13rush: - Cferc- 1 1:-Vrazter, Braultey nt7Clit . . . • Rtrsh:—llenry ,Granger, P. Ilind9. ' Shoemaker. SihPr Lake.—Benj. S. .Gage, Wm. Ii Gage, Michael Hill. Springrille.—e. M. 'Finiey, 0. llidicX Wak el ee. Surrprehauper.—L. Penibrloke White, Wm. Greeley. ' Thontson.—Collips - Gelid; Meaty -Jenk ins. Joe! Lninb. . •.A Border Ruffian Message. President Pierce, apparently fit the pur pose of cerryinglavor:with the South, to.iaid hint-in securing .a re-nomination, has sent to Congress a special message on the Kansas difficulties, in - which be takes strong ; grounds in furor of the,. Border. Ruffians and bowie knife . sovereignti. Thu editor, of the Tri bun.e.gives the purport and .substance -of the message—.-which is too long for- us to pub _ish—as follows: About _Kansas : 1. Eulogizes the Kansas-Nebraska law. 11. Assails Gov - . Reeder as guilty . of Mal eondeet. • • - •• . Abuses the people of ;the Frc4 Staters who favoied , Anti-Slavery emigration-, to. Kansas. IV. Adinits the "megularitica" Commit te.d by the Birder 'Ruffians in the elections , of Kansas, ba tries to cloak them by assert fng that they were approved by Governor Reeder. ' V. Insists that the transfer of the of government. by the Legislature. in defiance of Governor Reeder's veto,.doei not invalidate the acts of said Legislature, ! '• Recopizi.is the election of Whitfield, as delegate, and ignOres - that of Reeder. VII. Denounces• the Free-State movement in Kansas as rebellion ; and goesin :for deal ing with the:actors therein as traitors. %TM Promises to put doWn the Free; State organization ,by lima it neceisary. IX. Assails those who circulate through the States accounts of ,the Border-Ruffian .outrages ha Kma;as.. ' X. Prepcises an Act !Coking to an 'ear ly. orgini4i4tjop of a State Gev9rwuctit. iii . i Governorßeeder replytatlO,P_mideut, • •! • 7 . 1,' the Editor Of the 11: Y.llitrune. , I Stu t, TheSpeialltessage of the President . of the 'United-States; annmunicated yester::' dtty to (*tress, assails not only mysidfiier s*4'4,l,4,l4o My constituent *limn, le e Matiokiss*.athas duty i mperiOnslYEde. melds o 'me tiiijOtify and protect. ' :Xlitirely ,antis, fied as 1 - .',aiti wltll the courne ad o p*, up to Las time t ,,Wthe;people of lia tisle ...* !t ici ri e:: ed_ that....it has . been dictated be lit desire to Preserve the-peace, the reputation aind glory of our country—knowang that it has, itt eve: ry stage, been characterized by the most et m . servativolimderation and laudable regard for the ,rights of others—having -seen at -every step-the plainest:Manifestation of the anxious desire to avoid even the - semblance of encroach ment or iiggression,l should be false to,eve 7 - ry manly impulse.atid.every sense'of duty-, if I iallowett the aspersions of the Message . to . .. .. pass unnoticed.: - Unless the MeSsage shall incite and. stiinu late new invasions of our Territory and : fresh outrageS upon our citizens , it will . prodUce us no regret, !as it has caused no surprise. Al., ter having seen our people trampled on, op. pressed and 'robbed, on: the one hand by the invaders of their soil, and on the other by the in uenee, ' the authority, and-the officers of the' , resent Administration ; after having witnes r I sed the cold -blooded murder of-an unarmed rand -tmotTending eitiien by an officer t of the i Administration, who is not only numoltiSted by the laws and unrebuked by the President who appointed him, .but ho has, perhaps., strengthened his official tenure and enhanced his chant 4 Of, promotion by the act vit is not, at all surprising that we should, by the head of that Ad Ministration, be misrepresented and perverted. •After:having seen the Chief .1t1,.g -istrate- during five org anized invasions of our That:torv, unmoved bit a , single sympathy in favor 'ofan uncfrending people, - innocent of all wrong, and laboring'only to carry out faith "fully for themselves the doctrine of selfgov ernment;and to build up and extend the greatness of our country4;-after having seen our invaders coming upon us armed (without reproof if not with official pcetniSsiim,) from ' the contents of the. Arsenals of the United States, establishing a system of martial' law ovc.t life and property. regulated only by the uncontrolled will of vindietive and orespon-- slide inert—a system under which life was taken-and property 'destroyed; the highways obstructed -,- travelers seized, searched and d e . Willed ; all tho... pursuits.of,life.parjyzed, and the - destruction and extermination of whole: settlements threatened and *evidently intend- -ed- 1 --backed up by the sanction and authority of the Federal ofiicerS; who pleerke. publicly thc'co.cOratipn of the President, and all has- • ed upon.the fiset that a man encouraged, per haps aided, by his friends, had made his es cape 'from an arrest ,on a constable's ipacp warrant. After having thus 'seen Our natural and legal' protectors joining in the Most atro cious measures ol'oppressioit and wrong, it is no matter for surprise' to see .thisrepresenta- ' lion of our position.-and our objects emanting fr ont th e same source. . • .Thi-,.is not the ca.,ride inn. the time in:which ' to di-cu-s the thomes , [Aif . the Message. - Ex= peeling, as. I have a right to expect Irrni the - dearness of the exclusive title I dm prepared to show, that, I shall enjoy. a ain't fo l d a voice on th e floor of the House, I ant willing pa .. tiently " . to bide my time." At.the proper' time and place, hOwever, I pledge myself' to.l .meet and eXpOSC the misstatements a facts ajal the errors of taw and rtigic which' it con- thins. I will show that there is nothing but ci t Ail cruelty and. insult in the request of an approprikon to pay an army ott•mi posse to prevent the people Of Kanstrs from the cidr titis'si.in of:outroge mind 'treason. I will show .tliat the movement for a State Cr l overnment is • misstated as to the fact of its origin and progress, - and 'that all we have done in • this dire c tion has liven under the sanction of the precepts and examples of all the great men of the country. for the last fifty yeals— of the legiVation of Congress and' the :teflon of the * ExeCutive•in repeated and Well consid ered cases, and of a deliberate :opinion of a high and distinguished AttorneY.Oeneral of the United States, and • which as it is a part. of the arclii%;es of the Executive Department,- it is to ixfi!gretted tht President did not eon- 1 suit 'before the delivery of the .Message.- If. it is illegality and incipient trewoaliir a new State to be fiirmed without an enabling Act. ' of Ctingress, I will show that fourieen.Sena tors of the United States hold their seats, and seven States stand in this Union by..virtue of .it ' egal and treasonable proceedings - that. Con -gress has ,sanctioned revolution, itlegality— and treason, ,again ,and again; and that the rank and noxious weed hats even flourished in the White House and the Executive ' De pertinent ; and, having vindicated my people, I will also, with t hti utmost confidence of sue cuss - proceedtothe minor- and -secondary task vindicating myself in such •ti• manner ; I trust; a.s to show the attack., to kfave been illqulVised•and unfortunate. . As to the discussion in the. Message of the' points involved in the,contested seat, I shall meet them when' the - .ease is heard ; and as the House is the sole constitutional judge of -the tualificatious. alt.& oicon Members. I trust that. the minds of the Members may it , .lc,?pt open and unprejudiced uhtil they 'shall .hear the law and facts of the ease, and that wheth-' et- the discussion by the, Executive of some of .the points involved has 'been made. because 'they were incidental I to another s:tifiject, or, aimed and intemled tO -paepage my claim, I hope in either case that.both,oides . may be heard before a decisio . - ‘:- ' ' - - This hasty note ha. swelled 'to -an' unpre- Molitat&l length, • lts-object is only to So licit from the House and the,.pablicn suspen. - sion of judgment asi- ito - ithe position 'and ac tion ofour people, as tO rriy,right to a i,eat,and as to the liataes lig:ln:it ' me in the Message, until I cart be' hearth Very .respectfully, l yours i ' A. It, niaima. I..AV ' ' CI T Y , Jan. 0- I ant.. ASHINGTOS - . . Cons AND RC/C-7k is a curious fact and a , , , sad (tie, that the. 'prezien t 'high price of food is partly owing to the enormous demand fur in toxicating - drinks, Corn, ; instead of \ being converted into wriblesome• food, is changed into a poisonous drink.. This demand fok. in - tcbcie4tirig drinkS, however, is-not caused by. a greater consumption in this country,. ut 1 by the inimense reign demand cenietiueut - on the eastern w - -and. the failureof the vine in Southern' Eti e. Since the first of Sept. ember the..expo - •.of rum from Boston hate been 456,40 gallons,' and from: New York they have reached 400 1 00() gallons in three. weeks. The, price l ef New England. Rum, when the tar t..mmerico4,.,.was.,3o.eents .4: gallon, noirit- is A2.,..with. - an. activity of de thand that keeps.all'the distilleries in full blat. CouNsEt„—..But few of die reading public are aware hnw continually lirt editor is up on to.'adViSe patrons': on every, sithlect e from politics to the breed . of - cattle. I\liro' the: whole - rangc - Cfour duiies'n one , has per • plexed us more than to ted - our readeis What. to take for d cure When they are.siek. it ith`- erto this l&S beep a severe trial : lo all .our skill; but it. . beli4eidter. We'lirive -been . taking, and have seen the evidence from others that _have token Cherry Peetoral raid; Cathartic Pills. They need but - a blight trial - tO convince the 'Pest scepti, .cal' how far thei are Supeilior - to the oilier medicines we haye had 'They one' ingle property ofgre.atiniportance to the qiCk and,thatlii tJie cure.—Bofton .gerdld. AND t •_,-,2 ' ' NEWS END NO _ 1 . 4 ,' if. .... Wm. H. Jessup,Vsq., has been ap. pointed„by Gov.. Pollock, , a Nolary--Public 'for Suquehanna County.. :1 ' 1 • .., .1. e t • . -,..Buchanan is 'certainly,'- ing home sport; and' the En fish Tilit39loll h been ten: dcied to' ex-Vice President Dal ,'and will . donbtlesi be accepted. - E :.3.texican affairs are -, stilt did. General COtrionfort's effoi l all parties . prove futile.. Ins movements are quite prevalentl parts of the country. • . The Bo eltestr• emocrt publishes' the marriage of the Ilev.Antoine to-L. Brown . to Mr Samuel C:j3lackwell of ineinnati, Probably the . Res, , . bride avail herself of the privileges of lt.ap year, to 'ge a' husband. intelligenee reecive frqin ditrite seems tc , i_inilicata4lie speedy success of General -Walkerati party: The people gene, rally are reported;- to be willing to recogni4 his- sway. Golediscoveries in this region , eause eonsiderabl excitement. - ....A• CM ppeWa chief recently said • fr,' Boston, when asked- why:the:lndians da net, co l ey . the dress oftoltr people, "Me think. we' started y,our .fashions: your Men now wear blankets, 55: Ike OA, and your women paint their f a ces; - and- Wear feathers',' The New York' ETening Post is ad: - viSed that the Qimen Would - not see her maid' of honor; Miss Murray; upon her return_ froth,' the. Milted States; and signifi ed to her that. if she (published- a 'defence of slavery, she must resign -. her' place.. Miss Murray has.. dune 0, and is no longer a member, of the royal hoOehoid. . Washingtoi4 .anion ttrg , es the . 'Southern 'CLOW Nothings to unite with the National Democracy and elect Orr of South Caro Him. for wham the Democracy vote since the withdrawal of Richardson. Richardson's ail mission . that. the Wilmot proviso is consd, tutionnl, otTended -his Southerri supporters,. and iva..s no doubt the cause Of his withdraw. CB Mr. John .Lawrenee Bailer', id the Louisville Times, oirers 'to : het from $5OOO to $20;000, that he Can doas follows :--Jump five feet further on a dead level than any man in Kentucky-=three feet further than any man' in the United. States,ona fo4t further than any man in the world—or that he can stand iltt li)oted upon• the earth -and leap a brick. wall fifteen feet high and four. thick.. ..The track is now. laid 'on the eastern extension - or the,- Delaware,'Lackawanna and. Western Railroad to the croesing of the Del aware'River, below Water Cap. .Tini tunnel on the Warren Railroad is so far advanced that it is expected the,bioad. gunge trains of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Weste.fn Rail. road Will be able to pass throughjroni &ran , ton •to Elizabeth Port , on before. the first of March. • - i..We learn that a.young lady ofcum- . ,berhind . county, while.- sleighing one night week 'before last; was frozen to deatli." She coin Plaincd , her companion,, earlyi in the evening. of being very cold; but there being,: no house near,they did, - not 'stop.---- Soon lifter,' on corning to a tavern, shp refits cri to !get out, saying She felt ..very . cOmforta- , ble,.and they droVe on. Arriving at home, ;:he h 441 tO be assisted out of the sleigh, sin p 7 -iike state, and shortly afterwartts- ex pired.i - • • . Postage under the . New Law . By, the following it will he Seen that there are•exeeptions to the rule bat all letters must . , be pre-paid: it- PosT FFICE, Mamma:nu, To the Han. S i pe -er and ;Meni!ers of the House of Reiveseo atives of Pennsylvitnik: GENTLEMEN' 14trt directed by -tne Post master General tot say : "That the Stitte of Pennsylvania having_ provided by legislative ethtettnent fur thesPayment oflwerstage, upon ali Mail Matter sent to or from . the Legisla• tune. and these fact being knosvti tb-the De, pat-merit, all Letters, •addresSeCto said par- - ties, without, the ]-Postage being paid at the ofliee, shotild ipt be classed aS . unpaid must. Letters, but. ust., be- sated .with ti,'proper aniertnt of Postage. tobe paid at 11arrisbyrg,. whirs provision for ssneh payment hils been thadei7 . • : nOspeetitliy, Youi'oligMent servant, BRANT, Course of the Banks Men. Endorsed. At the . Aitierican and -Republican__Legis lative caueus, .Satt..rday eyening last; . the following resolutilMsf 'were unanimously adopted. • ''heir eaueus was nearly full s anal we doubt not that the resnlutions express the' sentiments ; Of the great mass of the oppost-" tion to' th'a :Nation.. Administration in Penn-I sylvania: - - -. • • "Resolved, That we apprOVe of and cheer- Ily endorse the - enume putiOed by that por tion of our delegation in Congress who have steadily adhered to .an continue to support Bmg - its for Speaker of the House of Rep resoutatives.. , . - "Resolved, That the abov6 'resolution be signed by' the otlieers and a - copy forwarded to our RePresentntiveat.Washington." gar rieburg Telegraph. regf"Texas hasi increased very rapidly . ini vopulationnf late:years.. In-:the year 185 Q the' eensua, gave .it.' ) .l2,s92.ithabitapts: - Ail thopresidential elietioninlB.s2 the-total vote: vote east as :18 ; 547: As the ppp u ;;;t.ion had. increased considerably in the period between 1850 ;ipd 1852, it must then have'beett near 800000. to every be'.ln the ratio of sibMit one vote to every - sixteen inhabitants. .If there had been no ,inerease in the, population the ratio would-bean about_ one voter te'eve ery eleven-inhabitants.' At the election held' iirecently- 1 ..Texas' no less than 45,547 votes were polleil.. .ApPlying the first - yaw) to this, We should ihave a population 0f128,752,- be ing three tlincs the. aggregate of the pepultv: tiou inJab°, . 'Taking the lower - ratio, tha . total woulo be 591,017, so-that,' in . any case, the pggreg*.at this time must :exved.half a million..'.ia is an astonishing increase, and evineis th t Texas has grown as rapidly tuk. lowa. it a likely , : also; to hasten _the , diviS: l'h ion. of 'Atte- territory into several States, pup. ‘suint.to,the. annexation.. - - - -,' - , . . GUEAT. most remarkable of alt.P . errormanees, in the way of rapid puhlictitioe has just-heen,etTected by a PhilacielplA L firnt—rMessrs. E. P. Butler tt: Co—in placing befrfe the public their*ditioti of the third and fourth volume cif itiacautay'a llistory Of England; The %Ogle process was. riecornplished with a degree of speed hitherto unrivalled. The London edition contains 600 octavo pages.! . (if this largo worki the types were pieked.itp,tinci set,tho pages stir. eoty pecl and printed, and ,eopios of the. first,' edition of ten thOusaud copies were in the& bands of the i bouncl,‘,within fifty,. working hourV. front. the tannmencement oc. Such speed shoUld astonish tile London, publishers; - When their editiOn Was already stereotyped, and 2,000 copies ready for de4 they announced the fact, tmd 3t),006 I suhserihers presented tberaselves„„ The-pub= fishers asked a delay of ome„mortitlo pre* ris . * the Additlettel 40 0 0 ett-iee verr.unset ts to Please nectinnary in ,different
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