The 1i?a,Pc,06.0..i1000,1i041i. _CY. F. RE4D it 11, H. FRAZIER, ::?ITO.R.S. , e MONTROSE, PA Thursday, May ath, c an didates''ind Platform! When th*e. Pierce land Douglas party re pealed the;Mis.souri Compromise, and: threw open the `door for the extension of .Slavery over a.large extent of fertile territoil which bad been consecrated to freedom fora third of a eentury, there' : were, nit one-ihondred men in Snlauebania 3 couity but looked upon the.act as:a breach of good faith betlveen the. different Sec - liens of Union, and a gross wrong to the people of the 'Free Slates:— 'Scarcely a min could then be . found' to justi. fy the act; or restrain his denuncia4n of the National Administration, 'as ono of the most corrupt' and time-serving that ever existed since the organization of the" Government.— And patriots were! 'then plenty !ho were going to reform ,the Democratic _party,' and fmake it more Free - Soil. We were Igravely told that thre was no real difference of opin. / ion npon the questiOn among the .people of the Free Stites, and that when the Democra cy °idle North hactia Chance to speak out on the subject, the party would be set right, and the Denzeratie partit—tiould be the real Free Soil p - arty. ; Well, 'after some two! or_ three years! dodging and shirking, the party at the North has spoken out, and defined .its"pasi tion, and is now ready to enteethe 'contest of 1856. - The Washington' Union, the leading organ of the old Hunker Party, boldly •publishes its programme to tie World, and first ',fuld fore. , most is presented Eke ,Yebraska bft . Says tho Union, ‘,‘ We want no alli6 wh do not 'col-client accept Our platforni on the great leading issues of the day, and we Will recog nizenone who expNt - al, the least,-; moilifica dm-of-the Democratic reed . , on all ques =tions which make' up Or platform, ln this -contest, we accept the issues involied in the 'Nebraska bill, so vauntingly tendered to us by the lately exultant ab4litionists; and that • issue we cheerfufty islate ,iii the fore ground of •our programme..: .., ' - The N4i6nal•Coniention is to be held 'at • Cincinnati within" fnur weeks; the 'Platform is -Already constructed by the wire-wcirkers, the main plank being the. Nebraska ; and the -Northern Democr*4 are just asked to walk •:up ° and set their hands and seals to the docu .nientrthat the Southern nigger-driVers have prepared for them.l There is now to be no dodging or diving, but whoever hesitates in measuring six feetLjir the dust,: at.the com mand of his Southern masters, is to be cut - - -offwkthout the bgt;efit of clergy. • One of the , mostt, disgusting spectacles ever witnessed by freemen, is now being *enacted by the several candidates for the Presidency,. Pierce,. Douglas, and BUchanan.' They are .`just now running a tilt to see who can, dive :the deepest, and come up the dirtiest, id the, 1 tarthest;South. , : All principle Os throri overboard. Character and qualifications are ' , entirely .loat sightl.oi; and the only open cities. ; flan is, , what can be done,the beat to secure :the siipport of the three hundred thousand -slave holders 'I 'As far' as principle is con- - 'denied, there is . ' not a farthing choose be. tween Pierce, Buchanan, and . Douglas, and it the country is to be cursed with au adn,ii istratlon directed by either, proVably the on-. Jy choice that fould with any proptiety be . made, would be founded on the Same reason as that uried by' the , hi, in the ;futile, when .; the swallow offered to drive. away the flies . that were sucking, his blo&:1—" It thele were driven away, another more huiwry swarth 1 - would come, and ;Suck the lastreMatning drop of blood in my vein." -Eigho of • public pl under , a year, have pretty well gorged Price and his , office holders, butishould " old Buele fs be let at :the public crib, if .*e may Lite • corpora ls in judge of h 5. w crew by hts ' this Cangressional district, 'twice -eighty - millions would hardly be a taste' for them, but . , lite the Writ; 'leach's .daUghters; _they woUldstill cry," Give, give." All the Presidential candidates will soon' be . in : the field,' • *nd passing e , Otits are fast Zen onstiating that before the Ch.letionin No; 'verober, there will be but twO, parlies, the - free masses of itbe North on ane side; and the nigger-drivers of the 'Smith and their •houghfaced depitties on the other side. And the question to he deeldiid, is, shall the govern 'anent benStninistered for the benefit of.thr l ee hundred thousand Slaveholders and their three • tared a half millions of slavea, °T whether the twenty milliona of free white meu :wall also be taken into-rtbe aeocTut. More - titan half of theorganized *ritorY of the country is now \••• Slave territory and with slavery i jn Kansas, the preponderance would be much greater The settlement of the Kansas question • will be an iinportant event; for freedtho . timmghoUt the world. If Kansas isfree, that & stop is put tito the ettiroachinents of the Black Power of the South--ettreiWlee ry._,lromes ittatio,u4 and Freedom sectional.: According to the last census, there were almost six white freemen to One slave; and' the Hunker Democracy. take the groUttd that it slave driver and his negro slave are of more account and entitled to more !territory than six white freemen • - .Whatever may be the result,* political' atmosphere has now cleared/hi, :and those _supple' hypocrites who have bPeti iso "x-alOtia to . "reform the party in the p l irtyr4,,ii ll iiow • have their 'mask stripped oil, andbr ll becom - pelted.to show th up.colo . "While bun dreds men! who truly hone t stlY desired'!.o see the DernOcratie party stand out boldly on the side 'of ,freedom, will now takNieir places in 'tile Republican milts, othera will fall back into line at the crack of the whip , and that wilt' be .the .last heard front them of *skating ivnieSoil sentimeßts ilk the party 1 1 \,• i Certatft ftee4paperiii - elaiming to be opp osed , to the est ension of slavery, carry floating at their triathesida the mare of Fillmore end Donelson.. To say nothing about Donelson, 1 who' ts the owoership . ofe hundred alayea. .13R and d 'sued, in accepting .the nomination, that he ried-itk the institution of Slavery, ft we earn see any consistency in the support 'of Fillure by an opponent of Slavery'exteit sioo.‘ Him was Fillmore nominated? When teimerican National. Council struck out of eir platform the odious twelfth section, and inserted' wishy - -washv' substitutes Meaning, .. i . tilaut tie same thing, a portion of the es tr eine southern Delegates 'bolted'--with drew iit disgust. Butdirectly after, when they ford' there was a prospect of the nomi nation (If Fillttiore they 'recovered I heir goitd nature isud .went into 'the convention and helped imalte . the nomination, and then the Free Soil men bolted. This show's that there was known to be something',to rely on in Fillmoie'ecase, moresitisfactory tothe South than any platfortn.. ; . But w were ho were these Southern Delegates 1 that were so sensitively 'alive to Southern in. tei r ts,land l et so willing to accepk_Fillmore as their candidate 1 Some of them - were me,mbers ott Congress who officiated at the itrnolat.ten . of Henry M. Fuller on the altar of Slavery—men who, after their victim ,had Stibiervied the intended purpose et distracting the Nocihern vote on thSpeakership as ranch as-pusstble, readily de4reed him, joined hands with the sham-Democracy, and attempted to 'elect a South Carolina nuliifieilfor Sieaker. Put Fillmore in the place of Fuller, and the tioMmee of the CincinnatiVenvention in the , . place o 1 Aiken, and here we ?Ave foreshad owed the course of the SoutherniCnow Noth ings in the Presidential conteat. , . 'Yet some Northern men seem .t. shut .their eyes to what is transpiring before them: They ap. pear desirous of being imposed upon. Their tnotiVes ,we do . not pretend to ,'understand, but we are convinced, and We 'believe they are convinced, that if Fillmoreis kept in the field together with a . Republican 'and .a Dem °erotic amdidate, theSouthern - ,Knciw Notli ing,s will `desert Fillmore as they deserted Fuller; F. and the only , question - 1 .4' interest con nected with hieronning will be,yhether, at the North, he will keep more voi l es (rem the Republican candidate or from. thettemocratic. KANAS . AFFAlltg. : lSfesrs...sherman,.. and noward,Uf the Kansas . Investigating Commit tee, have arrived at Lawrenee;and are busy • 1- • ;with their investigations. Mr. Oilier,- at .4tSt .laccounts, had not yet arrived . .oov. Robin. , • - and` ex-GOV. Reeder arrived frog .. Washing - • I. tort at the came time as the 1114* - ,mentbers of ithe‹-.Committee; :April' •-o..rh t SittUrday, April 11 . 4}1 1 the notorious She .To n es,• the ;:-Misouri Postmaster sho.,elitimS .to -be also [gieriff of Douglas CoOOty,.KanSaa, mado his appearance - in. Lawrence and attempted to ar 7 . rest S. N. iVoiod for the reseui of 'Branson in the FAII of 1855. Failing this, he re turned on Sunday, and - attempted to arrest two men, Tappan and .14unroe - ,44' r the rescue of Wood, - the day before 7" commanded, some fifteen citizens of Lawre - to assist him in executing the (bogus Legislature) laws, and on their refusing ; he took their names.— Apri \ l\23d, he again_appeared ttit Law;rence, with a detachment of twelve tinited States troops, detailed from the force at Fort Leav enworth, and under die'cotornand.of Lieut. Mclntosh.. The troops vt-gre•,`sent by' Col. Sumner, on a requisition from GOv.Shannon- Several arrests were made, no -the least re,- aistange being -offered to theli. S. forces, claugh the authority of sheriff Jones was de nied by all to the last. The p4sons arrested are all Free State men, and artimmee,John Hut.c.hinsorrr'd. F. Warren ; ki Hunt, A. iJ. Smith, J. G. Fuller, and E. D.,Lyman. The first, four were arrested for relising to assist Jones on Sti . ?ftiay, and the last . tulo . for assist ing in the rescue of Wor:id thezday before.— About 10 o'clock in, the even' following the arrests, Sheriff Jones cam of a houie where the prisoners-we co ned, and was proceeding to the sol iers' eamp4when a shot was fired at him by an unkni4tatand,ilie ball passing, through the legs of hie-pants without, injuring him. When he arritiO within the tent tie remarked that he had ,beenshbt at, and at that instant he was again ,fired at, and a ball lodged in the middle4Zhis spinal col umn. His lower extrentitiev ere immedi ately paralyzed, and lie probably cannot re cover. The pro-Slavery'rnen at Leavenworth swear { to revenge the blood of Jones - „upon the Tree 1 State men. The occurrence iS . much re.gret. ted by. the people of Lawrilee, who - have .. never countenancedunnecessi ~ gy violence, and who are ignorant of the 'inirdirer of Jones. It is believed to be the \ pniiiy of -the, Slave -State leaders; now that \ the Congressional ComMittee are on the ground; to incite Free State men to viplence-and to. tiolation of law, but the latter are dete ‘ rmineiF;tO avoid any resort to Violence, as log as gossible. The people of Lawrence hale held a great ' meeting , condemned this cowardly assassina: tion, and resolved -that the perpetrator should be brought to justice ; and y. Robinson is sued 'a proclamation, offering a reward of five hundred dollars for the 4etectionand ap prehension of, the culprit. 'This course is Cer tainly -in honorable contra - SC . to that of the 'proSlavery men, who, when a Free State man is murdered, act as thonhh they cOasid end the 'nyder' - --...rricii6tott. 1 ). , s sl Q ar' , Thc !* ose Der weret , publishes, i with tiona:exu tion, ari #ticle from ilie3; ntr Philadelphia N Anieri4n laudatory of Jame Buchanan. It is not many months sinee . the Dingle?. at - glraveiy `informed its readers that the North : Asterieun was Am old Federalist paper, and in , fitiOrof re.establish ing the tinitedStates flanli,, 4 h is well known that Bue.hartan was a Federalist while the Federal party existed , atidifiat fact may so mint for the North American's partiality to him. -. . i .. ,tar - We would di Republicans :of Montrose the , call of tha President - Association, wiuch &Pim= lq for o meeting tni Motu* NM Mon - and ;Prelila meritotiotra' t" fair Northern douglitactis professed to ad. vocate the Kansas-Nebraska bill, becaust they were in 'favor of popular sovereignty. Kant sas having beeziorganized under thitt , provis 7 ions of that bill, and the popular sovereigns of. Kansa s having sidopted.a constitution - and, asked to be admitted \ asa Free State, these; samedoughfams now.oPktse its admission! On *hat g rounds do they op we it's In cast .\ ing about for some excuse , for their inconsist 7 ency, they pretend to have dir -ed that Kansas has not inhabitantienoi it to admission as a Stat. 1 Slave States have been Omit population than Kansis Posse& best authorities, that Territory now 'contains from forty-five to fifty thousand , inhabitants. Tennessee was admitted to 1796, and had by the census ot 1790 a white population Of only 82,013; Indiana wak odr4itted in 1816, and had - by the census of 1819; a white popula tion of 23,890 ; Louisiana was admitted in 1812, and by the 'census Of 1810 had o white population of 34,311; Iliississippi was admit ted in 1817, and had by thepensus Of 1820; a white population of 43,176; . Florida was admitted in 1845; and laid by ,the - Census of 1840, a white population of 27,043 ; and Michigan was admitted in 1837, and had by the census of:1830, a pop i :lation of 1,340.. The enemies of freed l m must find otlier excuses for their opposition to the admission of Kansas,- than the, want Of Sufficient popula - .tton. i ,rgr*F. P. Blair, Gsn.4ackson'sl old con fidential friend,,and edito of his national or gan, the Globe, during h 4. administration, has written an interesting letier.addreased to the Republicans of. New . York, whigh•containst a review, historically and politically important, of the rise of the " nullifiers." A er expOs ing the dangerous enterprisei of the nullifiers, to whom both`Jackson and himsel were "Op posed,- 'the Writer then IproCeeds o identify the present Democratic party wit the I hoOn, Tyler, and Polk nullificati n party, showing that almost all its proMment men were engaged , in the warfare :Taint Jackson and the Union. party. He then enumerates tr 4. tests - of modern democracy, compare's them with these of the days of Jefferson and Jackson, and denonneell those who uphold them as the foes of - freedom and republican institutions. ear' Referring to the argumentwthet are begintunk to be frequent in the sOuihern pa ' pers in favor of - the re-o Slave trade, the Tribithe_ remarks that if' Pierce, Douglas, or any of that Stripe 'of pol iticians shall be elected the next President, we shall no doubt be informed by the pro= .gressive-Democracy that any restriction on , the introduction by Soathern gentlemen Of such 'property' as they may chooie to bring with :hem from Africa is pnconstitutional ; and truly if it is unconstitutional to forbid their carrying their property' into tha Territories and there enjoying it, it is equally: •une.onsti tutional to forbid their bringing their proper ty home with them from 'Africa. PRIVATEERING.—Dui i ing the sitting of the Peace Congress just closed at Paris, it is said that much attention was giien to a proposi tion to incorporate intO:the law of nations a provision against privateering in time of war. The proposition is mentioned as a new one, but Dr. Franklin, ,m en or: a m l ission to France, proposed to French Gov,ernme.nt; with the'concurrence oficongress, that a stip ulation to the same effect should be inserted in they, eaty then about to be formed \ between the tfry) Governments. -- • Mr Hon. J. R. Giddings writes hnme to the eishtsbula Sintinq that be haSsaid or done nothing against the nomination Of Col. Tremont fur the Presidency by the Republi-' cans; Ad helms exiiressed no hostility to, nor preference for, any candidate; but that he expects to support the nominee of the Philadelphia Convention, provided is known to be right- 7 -openly and fully unnmit - ted to the Republican policy.', Giddings has taken the right gr0u1..3, exactly. • fcgrT,he. Washington correspondent of , the New York Tribune, says 'that neither Pierce nor Buchanan can . be nomipated. He adds, " Mr. Buchanan his budded ,, bloomed, • and gone to seed quicker than any candidate ever did before him. If. neither Pierce nor Douglas: can ' } tot the . nomination, they will combine their forces4o have a southern man nominated, so that at the next turn of the wheel the nomination,lwill come North again, for the benefit of their erowtf." Itar The People's Couverition of the State bf Indi,Fia met at I , :idianapolis, May Ist, and nominated Judge No. ton for Governor, and Conrad Baker fur IJieutenant Govern Or.-- Speeches were made' by Col. Lane, ~.of *tn. sits, Gov. Ford,,,of Ohio, and Judge illorton, of Indiani. Strong, resolutions in favor of freedom in the .Territories and the admission of Kansas as a Free State, were ad4ted. far For a year or two past the .Montrose Democrat 'has had much to say about " I , Wel mot, Jessup_dc Co.'? l Since April court, we tiotice that the Democrat gives the firm as " Grow, Jessup'& 9:,L" Will that paper be so kind as to inform us when and how 'the old firm dissolved, and why Wilmot went out of it ? CoNciwr:—ProfeSsor Daum gave a con cert in Montrose last night. Of the perform ances, (said to have heen excellent) w can not speak• of our own knowledge, the usual custom of furnishing the Printers tickets has? 141,een forgotten. IA second concert WU b4given thin (Thuriday)-evening. CRUSE DIFEICCiT: TO CONCEAL—Good old Jeremy Taylor says : " There,are, in the - machinations of almigh ty mischief, so many motions to be coneen• trated, so many wheels. •to move regularly, and the hand that turns them does so tremble and there is so universal a confusion in the. conduct, that, unless it, passes suddenly into the act, it will be Prevented by' discOvery, :Mk if it be acted,' there enters in such a :nigh. : ty borror that the" face of man will tell what his heart . did think" end his hands have! done. And after all, too,it was seen and observed by Him who stood behind the cloud; who shall also bring every work of darkness unto light on the day a strange discoveries and fearful recompenses." • 'the attention of the I .Bridgewater to le Roma bl l ican lotherOolunil l dog nen. - , 1 , James: Raebenaz 4n Both un - r the Presidency of Washing n, reared in t - pOlitical faith of Jay and !fa 4: ilton, Jdhn Adams and John Marshall, it ; as' by the Fedaral' i peril that Mr . . Buchanan Ikea' l i cfierisheil itto tkOlitiCal importance and d s•I tinction.' .1i was Asa Federalist that he as; twice elect44l to; the' Legislature, and'at le Qt' twice to Digress. I Even 'so late as 1826, 1 his name fiptres in .Nes' Register (Oct. 284 as one of till five Federal Members [f in] Pennsylvamal of the XXth. Congress:, sten;; .yeara earlie4 - he delivered a Federal 4thlotll July Oration, in which he inveighed sgai i st, ' the weak Imd'sricked acts of Mr. Madiso "ii, Administration' most explicitly and unsilari ingly. . And never, so far as we can lezirn, has he recanted these' views or expresscl iin7 \ contrition for their utterance. .. I si \lt is fashionable juSt snow to bo 'National' aud \ to commend aspirants as .' National' hi theiriews and inclinations. The term ii rank enough to make the bones of 'Jefferson rattle in \ his coffin ; it: implies all• there is in ' Federal' and much more; but 'we have schooled oneuerves to bear it pretty well.- Jast now to beNational' implies a heart devotion to Slave -catching, and sois not Very fragrant; but Mr.43Uchmuin is (or was) ,' N - tionarin a tar higher. and nobler sense ' I 'I bus one of his earliest important votes. Congress (April 29, 1822) \ was cast in r of the bill ' for the preservatlon and reps the Cumberland Read,' whereby the .Fe{ al Government asserted its right notonls . . . . collect.tolls on roads , 'running .. through St lint authorized the 'President to • enhanct reduce those 'tells at :his Unchecked diScretioiL The. Virginia_School:Of strict eenstructioeis f fought this bill as utterly stibverSive of to r Rights and • flagrantly unconstitutional ; btu Mr. Buchanan went•for it, and it prevail d-- Yeas 87. j Nays 68. H (tiles, May .4; '2 .) • - Mr. Buchanan r we believe, has, voted for every Protective Tariff that•has been parsed since he first entered ' Congress,. His {vote helped ' , pas; 4 eas,'los ; . nays, 192,) the ITI4 r iff of 1824. which received but 'one vote' rem Virginia,:end none from the Carolinas or: 'veer.' i gia ; lie, voted also for the Tariff of 18, r- the Bleck Tariff'l--::' the bill of abominatioUs'• :, •!.being the higheSt:and most protective or discriminating ever passed • by ICongresst-- Pere, again ; he steed with his otrn 'State sed nearly all the heartOf the Unioii againA- the solid phalanx of the' CarolinaS, Georgia,l.kla barna, &c., with all, but three from VirOrtia, and these three belOnging to z evhat Mr. Jeffe rson used to term !the outside ro*a.' qn the i 315t..0f December ; preceding, Mr..Bucluman ! said r- •1 ' . , . . . "He profektd toibe friendly to domestic manufac tures ; more than that.; be believed thit - woolen goods required mote protection . Ile had no doubt "on khe subject ;' the question was cas to the amount of Iro teCtion." Vika, -tali: '5, 1828.] 7 I • ' —Mr. Rlichanan; we regret to say. as Ihe began to have iiSions of tbe:White HoUset reversion, and- th l :anderstand that . tie mart Could receive tbe ,nontination lot his party Without the . indorsement of the Virginia pol iticians, grew by( insensible degrees mYst'eri oils.and diplomatic: it: his utterances , on pte question 'of Protection ; .but he never faltered when brought to the test of •the Yeas and Nays. The Tariff Of 1842—our last decided, ly, aVowedly,-eniphatically, PrOteetive theas- Ure—passed the Senate by, his .vote. Yeas 24 ; Nays 2311 fr. Buchanan among the Yeas. • . ning of the African 1111 - But how comes it, some I willlask, that . BUchanan, who cOrnmeneed and so tong.4 l l,er, •sisted as a thorough-going Federalist, ri j ow appears as a leading and - orthodx Deriecilat 1 We answer, simply,' by virtue of his .lAckion ism. 'When Gen.%'ackson waSfirst brought forwardas-.-a gruididate for the Presidency, he was not*iiosed as the regular Deino crude candidate, - tut itted against that Can didate,-who was. Wikittn,-.11.1 Craw for rof Georgia:. Ger..JacktOn l brid recently W. riiten to President Monroe that ' now is the time to exterminate the-monster, Party;' had urged him to ignore all merely, partiSan - considera tions; and to call at least me - leading/ Vele'r. alist • ' into: his- Cabinet. ',The Federal i sts, i then a were ority in , the whole. c atn. ' i try, were gratified and won'. by .thiw den on- stration, and large numbers of I them 'ranged under the Jackson banner, especially In New; Jersey,-' Pennsylvania ' and Delaware: I , In Pennsylvania, most of the leaders of the tWol old partials ran a-mce to see which should get.] ahead in Jacksonism.• Federalists ne MOre surrendered,their-Kcullar vieWs in thisethan Democrats. Gov. NrNan Nesslef Vermont, in going over . from Adams to Jickson, appealed especially'-to FederaliSts as such to unite in :the support-of Jackson who had removed the -ostracism which they had long enAured. 11dr. Buchanan was one of the earliest and Most ' zealous•Jacksonians ; but it • was not! till he had been such for . years that he had reason to suspect that being for Jackson made him, even nominally, aliemocrat. ';Butt- he fikind it just as easy .to he called a 130eritccrat ,as_ anything else, and a good deal . Moro Iprofita. hie. than to be termed a Federrlliit ; so he can now counsel ' brother Democrats, and•evinca solicitude for the triumph Of Democracy, as, well as the' best of them. -' ' - I ! • •1 'Will nobody vote against 'Buchanan as an old Federalist !' some will ask. Weans. wee, Not one . ! Thongh the fools all not all dead, there are not so many of therm as is often • hastily assumed. We have . Often known candidates in thi‘ city assailed: a s old Federalists; but they' generally ran at the head of their respeetivOtickets. Thefacts in the case will not beat 14r. Buchanan . ; but . a stupid and futile attempt to conceal 'the !facts May do so. Set forth the- naked truth and all will be well. -- , -.Ar. Y. Tribune. . . 1 , , THE INDIiNRIN OREGON.—Extract Or aiet ter from a gentleman in. Oregon to ;Os , cor respondent in Washington,dated Oregon City February 28 :—" The Indians are in. alitate of - open war, with the exception of a few friendly tribes, fi:im the boundary of Califor nia to the British line and from the PaCificlo the Missouri river. Generally, I am sorry to say, that the Indians have had the best of it in their battles with the soldieri. 1 1 . % In one engagement in Southern Oregon some time ago (a month or so) less than . loo Indians fought one hundred and thiriy-Seven regulars - and two hundred and fifty Volunteers for three days, never yielding an inch, and on equal ground. For one hundred and i thirty l nfiles in Southern Oregon, where every{ clalfn almost of the inaiti route was taken up 'by , settlers,*not a hors is standing, - cropy des troyed, cattle driven off, families - in rdered or had to flee for their lives. Whe 1t - ..will all end it is hard to sky. We vei 1,800 i l regulars and 2,500 volunteers, yet little or no progress has yet been m einVielling these .disturbances."' 1 • • . ,-- 1 . *- Tint LIBEL LAW.—One ood, act ivied by t h e legislature at its lat session was th&bill relative torlihels. It / was amended ; in the, Senate so as to refer .nly to criminal! prose- Icutions, and was -,... ad' to by the notise in ,that shape. , J- 7- ,r , , , "That from ,d after the pa‘segelof dna act, on the tr*s of indictments for writing orl publishing. II a ibel, the -truth of the,4 matter I charged as i libeloustnay be given in,(4,idence; and if the jury In each-ease Shall find that the *rind was Written or pal:4186(1 from good inotiv ' and fob justifiable ends, acid that the mat so eharged was true, it shall .lopenttii to acquittal of the defendant or; 'defend: _ , : . • ',/ ' . 1 , 4 1 itt Awflil Minuate and anama Plunder of 'A:aerially' . !t P. . . . ,: . - • i , ; •71i Me Editor of 4? le N. Y. 21-Mune. , . : ' • , Stu: One of the most frightful :butcheries find robberies of Americans took Place at,Pan- Ama on the night. of the 15th of April. On the afternoon of that day tbe passengers per steamer. Illinolaarrived at the-Railroad Do-, pot at Panama on their''way to the; steamer J. L.- Stephens; but owing to the:' . tow tide they were detained on shore.: 4 . ,portion of the Passengers by the Cortex,frem Sari Fran cisco, were also, s topping at the Several hotels in the vicinity. Of the depot.' There could not , Idve been leaS than 1,000 or ,1,2* Amer- ' x i, leans •congiegAted about the railroad ter- h, .minus.° About - sunset a difficulty 'occur- i ii red one one of the Illinois pas:sirgers and K one of the negroes, which was, fly -joined t i by friends on both sides, and a general, row d now commenced. Pistols, tatiVie-knives, swords, muskets, clubs and rocks Were freely v s used; acid with deadly effect. The Americans ri were generally unarmed, having only a few .p 'small revolvers, and, consequently, after a short struggle,! had to yield - the, grOund. The N natives were yeenforeed by large numfiers. ; -- e/ They now made an 2ttuak upon the different p hotels_and drOve,all the inntatealeut, many a/ 'of Whom sought safety, - As they suPposed,. in ,the depot Wilding. About this time the Police (Geld save the ti term !) was called in requisition ; but instead q of attempting to restore order, it is positive- i, ly known that a portion of therili joined the t i negroes and Made the assault uPon the depot. t , The police and negroes fired upon the crowd, ii ; and,: drove every man woman .and thildfrom ' the building. Who, in their fright, an in - every i „ oirection—soine to the -boats, and others to „ ~..t . I and t , tiiteti [gust' wood:;,.whe're th 4 remained 1 .- during the night ; and with the expectation of i i being nitnidered 'when daylight appeared. A ' o , large number, were fortunate ~ .entingh to get on . board of the Small steam; r, and were con, al veyed to the J. L. Stephens. Afier the na- c: Oyes had eieconiplished their Woijk of death,. sand dispersed all / from ;the'.groulid, they coin- 0 , nieneed plundering the Ittage, lend destrop a ink; everything n be foiled in the betels.— The paSsengers,in theirAitdden flight, leftund. ai lost e%'(6 thing. .Afterplunderiii7 all 10 be ri found in the hotels/ th e bla c k . 1 - T 71 3 attacked a the Depot balding. which contained a large Amount of lu“:tere and treasure, Lall of which b ~,.- .r, .Y the rascals o'it-itieil.. They -- then commencea a to tear up tbe Railroad . triteli, and to pull down the Te' l egra ph pekt. : z, and elestrilyed both t 4 Railroad and,...relegra r li' otliee.. E' They were a aware that the Exp: ess goods, would be bro't ti over hien Al , pinwall that night, and had laid . , t) their male: ol seize. -hem Tlie • tore up the - v . l' ~- , •-. Y track in'the r:einit v -i-f t he depot,- in order !I , that. the ergi l nc might run off; but 'through t the exertion. of *Jr. William:, (A .conductor ! ' g on the road, 'the Express train was stopped 1 ., by his signals. before reaching the flital point, I] and -tlia lives of tiiiii onboard and the goods o were saved, and lite, train p . a. back to Aspitt-': 1 wail.'where•it remained at the time the Phil! i: • adelphia ztil,c:d. • . . . ,: ' There were twc•rity-five ' Americans fund l dead innuediateir . around 1116 depot in the , .. morning, Most of whom ,were tvsengers• c z front the Coretz, but this tuiriduFr is probably nut half that were murdered, _. Of the natives but few, coni paratieely, I . thiak were slain. -/ 1 Soon after the cotnineticeidetit of hostili- ties the G‘Hernor of Panama and the Amer- . 1 roan Consul I Were on the ground but their ex- , erti•ina to quiet the riot proved iineffeetuil.--- • It. is reporte4 by some of our passengers that • thi...-Governlr in the first iustanee tried to re-, store Order, but afterward ekourageti the murder andlplunder. - My slight. aciplaietanee With Gov. Dean forbids ale froM giving any credence to the latter report; 1 The Spanish portion of the inhabitants, of Panama.. we'ru touch friglito,ned. . Every house and place of bitsiness.was instantly closed and barred, and but few:.i•entured Out upon the balconies ' during the night. The 'hotels in - the city Itere' closed and guarded until mornipg. , -' . ',. . • \ Of the amount Of money:and other effects lost' by the 'passengers I can '" !rißitebut 'an • im perfect. idea. It is , supposed by Many 'that not less than $lO,OOO would cover the. a mount. True it is that a la* sum .is kist, l and rilueh more probably than: f ever will be. .ascertained!' : Many of'ihe steerage Passengers' declin,e. giving a statement, preferring,'! suppose,• to i defer t.until they see what action our. Gov eminent will tide in the matter: before mak log their claims known. . . ' • One cireninstinee, Must not pass unnoticed.' A few of the ladies and gentlemen who had effected their escape by. wading, some to their waists, in the Water to the small boati,- pro ceeded to 'the Cortes• for protection. After' some delay at the ship Capt 'Collins. admit ted them on board,. but they Were reafsed the userif booms or any. bedding or' refresh - - ments: -' ';, -..- •N 7 RAIN:SW.I. I, or rcf i c f . , to 3 tolit, 1 or Great Suffering in the West. 'U. $. S otdiers Eating !heir awn Companions. . 1 • • The .foll Owing is an 'extract fi.oli a private letter received by the editor Of the Military Argun, New : York : A ;,.. - ' .: ' Furl Pierie,E. T., Marche .5, 1850.. k most horrible affhir; happened?, ; between.ihere. and Sioux city in. December; laSt, wifich is alinest too bideous to re.liite. Three .-oldiers,' named'Rigert, Wicker and Cornell deserted . Three .• companies D and It §.e . Cond ; ragoons, about the first of December; and / " atted down the.rieer..; On their way theY yeftook four' persons from this place, who j. were proceed-. ing in the 'same direction, and .as self preser vation suggested the idea (istrength.in num- - bers, they ;Mutually ogre d to; travel in corn-. pany. Up to this time and 6r sonic ten ..orj twe,lve, days after t iit junction; the . weath- 1 er had. been - remark: tly Mild.and pleasant.— . A few days after,. owever, -luavy snows, ac companied -with / intense cold, set. in, which ' continued' wit /..but little intermission' for thirty or fort days, duritag.4ich'!time but little progre s was made. At length their scanty stos, , k of provisions gave out, and.star vation seined inevitable, for . they were •at least two hundred miles in-aArect line from the ne rest Settlement. 1; • 14" r six days, witheut; a particle of food th scOntintted their course dOwn the . river; b t made very little progress towards thei ,destination: Under these aecuinulated suf feringsthe soldier named Cornell died, an the others, to appease 'their I,hunger, cut - u his body and cat his. flesh. The followin night one of the civilians died; and his god was disposed of in like manner. On the sue ceeding nig4.,twO more of the civilians died but is the party was disco(*red shOrtlyafte . the living were spared y thettecessity of mak ing any further meals,uPon the dead bodie of eotnpanion?" - . They -were - feund. by a ; party of Majo Howe ssecietnand, and when first discoverer they„were redaling themselves upon the ;arni andlegsitheir unfortunate companions.— "The survivors were taken.tO Major I:lowe* car *and under proper ; attention have a' -- leovered.; '' ' ger In, Mr. Bitur's recent letter, to the R putllicana of 'New York, he states that M Buchanan recommended the deposit of $5O. 000 of Government moneys-in Simon CAM ron's bank for the purchase of the Washin : ton Globe ' of Mr. Blair, for Preaident. Poi and aowthe Union' which was the fruit that purchase, is &mug all it can to cut M Buchanan'a throat. This -iuolts like retrib tive justice. .; E tering akthe Taber 29tfi, of the citizens the presenillation- ExtensiOn of Slave •_,,i .brasieti ,within .:the ~a rico-in - promise • and. in favo ofißepairipg the Mi " 'efa arising &env %. •the lollatiotviot _Good Fait in its Repeal, and f restoring thh action an osition of the, Fed rail GOventment on the sub of Slave:, ry t the principle's of Washingto and JAI: erson, in response i• to a call publish din the lvrpapers yesterday naoruirig. more ar y response could; not lave been gin n to ty-cAtB.- When ', th e hour Tor - organiza!on td rrived, Hon. Edwin D. Morgan call le : o i l - I 0 - n ee :, tiAngvlitojahot,mclearn, interesting .t ricid .m ß ad en e j. a F n ..Btier w ir n President. an etised report of, the proceedingir of the to üblican NetiOnal . Conventioti, held at - 'it tiburg in February last. - • , moving the adoption of the report, Mr. ✓ ..M. Evarti spoke with troth:and • earn' st ess upon the principles of the Reptiblim 't ty and nn the Struggles between .Freedom end Shtvery. 1- • . . on. - Mr. Bingham, • of Ohio, was the next • pecker ititrOduCed. I , His appearance was he signal for whiirst of loud applause. - The ue non which .the country. was now to •an nt r was, ho said, whether the President of re United StateS should be permitted to. al: ti- ho• Constitution, so; us -to make it estab , i ish injustice. ,- . die. c e e n. a i J in, ..: d W io . 1 , tid Y tt e it'd :w p ag rot p r r a t e s t e e ti d i •! 4 ; c e l l e t e o r s t . h e , H an e - : proposed resolutions•against: the rep mal of the. Mi solid Compromise And , the outrage's on Ka sag, and approving: of the pioc.eadings if . lie ,Pittsburgh Convention.. I heir adoption! was seconded by Mr. Noyes, iii., on being put to. the meeting, they were tar led unanimously. • . • fr;lHorace Greeley urged the impletance X aktug the issue in• the corning ' is skeet, as sitnple, as practical as possible. Vin. C. Noyes; Esq., was loudly called for, mi; spoke briefly. He said theliew political •-a ks had a compound of all - parties—there at . Hard Shell and Stift-Shells, and some le • tlenien who are suspected of having in ;t rs past been on'intiniate terns with the A, hairy Regency, andlhere are some Whigs (41 those of the fussiliterous . stiata; (latigh - - te ) hilt Whigs of Progress,whose hopes'end 1 , • p• i sctions are not all buried in the graves of 11).ir leaders, tint who look to the interests of th 4r fellow-men, - and who do not desire to be vi •wed,at some] future da'y •as curious sped- - in ins in some new.Silorian museum. (Laugh-, to .) "Now, what has brought these men tai. gaher—what W the cause of this combination nt men who n4-er acted together before 1--' 1' e reason is because, the theory and practice ut this Goveirninent is perverted, and is!'at- . to nptedto be Perverted much.innre, by . the in erterence - tat thel Government,. in ,the per p•tuation of Slavery.. • " ,t , Letters were', received from the following g ntlhmen, heartily approving the cause, and • r lirettitig their.inability to attend:. :From S nators,,ward, Sumner and Wilson,j-lon. B adtora 'R. Wood, Hon. Martin Butts, Hon. O B Matteson, Hon.: IL W..Dehalay,•of Kati: s s - r -lett. Zenais Clark,' Hon. Lyman Trum-• b 11, Jarues-D! Fessenden, Hon, E: B. Mor n, Hon. S. Galloway, Hon. - E. P. Hurlbut, I on .I T. C. Day, Hon.- F. E. Spinner, Hon. k T.ll. Kelsey; Wm. C. Bryant, Hon, S: Col iv- ' Hon. H. W. Taylor, Hon.. R. &Acorn, • Wade. U. S. S.,'Hon. S. H. Titus. I • . -Tie meeting - adjourned at 11' p.- M. -With ree.hearty cheers. . . I . - I • I . ~ . . • • 1 , ' Nr-Arebster's ' bpuuon. The Pennsylvanian, in . :order to propitiate t le - •ilut.h toTavor of Arr. Buehaoan s pretett .l s ons to the,Presideney, takes the around !that "Slavery is a National, and not Lpezil 'Usti, 411 ? t Hiatt, and may"..exist anywhere with' ; our. I otitis, nziless proscribed by municiina iv.' . ' Now Daniel Webster in his-day ‘as stip .oseld to:kno* something of Coytitutional Jaw. f, If the Pennsylvanian will urn to page 309 Of the fifthyolunte Of his % orks ' - it I will find the folloWing opinion of A r. Webster on' this 'subject_•.% 1 .!-; • . . , •Ia • : . It will not Ile contende that this sort of perstmal.slave i ry exists general itiw: It exists_ only by local law Ido not mean to. ileny the validity of t at local law where it is e4sblished ', but 11y it it!,.. after all, local , law. :It is nothin ' more,. • And .wherever 1 thutllocal la* dos not . extend, property jn ;persons does Ino# exist.- Well, Sir, what: is . InOWI the demadd on the.part of our Southern friends? -T , y say, 'We will carry . our lo cal faves . wi us wherever we go. - ; Weinsist that!Cona ess does us injustice unless it es ;tablish go e• in the territories in which •we IwiAh / 7 !to ' our, dotal law.' This deinand i !l for I !!onellisist,:and shall. resist..i It Vies upon the I idea/that there is •an !inequality., unles;_ per- !so Sunder this local law . . aid hOldlng prop ! rtY by authority •of - that . aw, Can go. into l i ! tre* territories, and there e24ablish that !local. law to the e*clusisin of!thejederal law. Mr. .President, iti.was a maxim,of the civil law,. that, between slavery and. freedom,. freedom. .shoUld always bepresumedrland slavery must always he•proveci. Many qtie.;stion arose as the status' of an individual-- in" Rome—he vek(presumed to be free until he was proved to be it slave,-because slavery is an exception 4r : the general rule. Such, I suppose, is the general law Of mankind.• An individual is to• to be, presumed to be free, until a law can be prOduced 'which treater ownership in. his per`- 'son. Ido not dispute the force'and validity of the ! local law,' as I have already 's „but ! say, it is la matter to Ie proved 4, and, .herefore, if;. individual go into any .prt of, :he. earth, it is to- be. prOved that they are not ivernen, 'or else the presumption, is that they = MI eating in New: York e wt ..Y( EINI . . That iii - .our position precisely, and it is the poSition of the Republican party, as we 'mn. derstand it. It is the true doctrine t, the only doctrine .that can give peace on' this slavery question' If it be trut,:as the•Pcimsylvanica says, that "Islavery isi \• national.:not a loCal institution,' the nation ;:ints jurisdiction over it, and complete jurisdicti on. We knoW of no doctrine ithat would suit ;radical 'abolition : fists better. 1 ft ,is - madness for the• South to give it countenance, . • ...- A Hann BUT JUST RzatrKE.—The Pitts' bUrgh Gazette, in noticing the North Ameri can's article, and its fulsome 'praise of Mr: Buchanan .bespeaking extra honors for him, ott the plea thet, he *as the friend nul .. prothoter' of pennsylimnia's interests ; Well says :•-•" 'We Can; rdnenther the time we think, when the North American thought . James Buchan an 's free trade., principle's and advocacy of ".ten cents,a day'' as_ fit wagea for a. laboring man, were .anything hut promotive of Penn sylvania interests. Has James Buchanan changed, or the North American'," gair:A.lnow Judicial District has n fornred by . : the last Legislature, composed of the countiOr of Columbia&Wyonting, and Sul livatr, and we learn llia Gov. Pollock has ap pointed WARRIN J. WOODWARD, BRI., Of Wilkrisbaire, as Proident judge, until next faii's election. Esollllqtrii RAtutrom) 'llsoairre.—The neipte of the gain Railroad for the first eight working thveNZthe present month, it is re- Polled, 11E4 0 01 1 W to - 03 0 , 000, . equal aver* of MAW" per,.osy. • oen. Welke, war. . Thesieamship Orizaba, Cap!. E. L 'rink. lepaogli has arrived at New York,. from San Juan del Norte, having left the pOrt on the evening of the 21st inst. The defeat of Col. Schlesinger at Santa Rosa is confirmed.—:— Aboutlo of his men are reported as raiising. During his trial , by CouttAnartial, while on pare!, he deserted , . It is supposes] that he 'went over to the Costa Ricans, 'having si)l himself to4hem before the battle. On the i 7th instanesp_ e Costa RiCans took possession ' of Rivas wigs 2,000 Men. On the litliOeti. Walker with 600 men at eked them. At.' tsr a fight of I'7 1-2 hoop he was obliged ik," t it abandon . the city from . w tof ammunition, leaving 600 Costa Ricans ,dead on thi fiel and a' large tiutnber wo u nded. His loss in,- Mod, wounded slid ttsis sing is reported et al ut 100.7 . ' ~ : .e Costa l Ritani on taking possession of Virgi Bay fired indiscriminately onevery person Iv can citiv the Tpu GOen• died Cu aboie thi azola with th wounde in tided ~ie B. 7 . abc Altierita, his con) acted w who are party, Cost - a B against are said -to lie in favor of peace, and win not invade Nicaragua. They . received the ( Cotn: missioners of Nicaragua in a friendlyeanner, and have. discontinued 'the enlistment or trdops, and even disbanded some of the new levies. The intercepted correspondence be. 'tweet' the - British Government and Costa Rica, in which the former agrees tocontrib. ute 2,000 stand f , f arms to the latter, 13 13 caused great, excitement among the-Mimi . . cans in Nicaragua.' Quite a numbeiof nie rifles were taken from the Costa Ricans at Rivas. There were also several English and French men seen in their army. The English frigate.. Eurydice, Ctipt. Tarl. eton, was the. only 'vessel in the, harbor of San Juan, and her boats were constantly oo duty watching the movements of Ameran s . Passengers who came down' the river in the steamer were prohibited by them frOm going an shore. , . The most serious features of this stirring intelligence, howeyer,nre these which relate to the -alleged -sheeting dqwn, in cold not ofseventy American' citiiens, who do not ap- Pear to have taken any active part 'in the war. ',These _Atrocities are fully set forth ia the conirnunieation of Minister Wheeler tot the_Costa - Rica 'Agoverninent,—and are no I dout the burden of official 4espatches with' whieli,Ditajor Heiss (also a 114 - -sengei in the Orizaba) is charged. : - if the statements be tree, that the format Costa Rica are now in possession of the Tran. sit-Ronte, and that the efficers declare a de termination to exterminate every American now in the country ; s determination, more over,' to- be ; actively supported " by.the au thorities of 'England and France,'! (who ar e charge 3 With supplying Minnie. rifles, amnia nitionf&e.,) the exigency is one . which Would! seem to demand - , at once; some action on the part of the gpiernment at W4shington. h ..I is one thing-to shoot down or "exterminate . ] the. proiiissed " fillibu l ster,"-:•-he. goes . there with the understanding that . he may , be shot or exterMinated, , '--but quite another thing tO I be murdering in cold blood, peaceable Ainer ican claims ' • and even women and children; —who could have no interest in the war, one wav or another. . , Qom" The steamer Illinois, from Aspinwall, with Ci lifornia dates to the sth inst., . reached New York April 30th. She brought $2,000,: 000'in specie. The mining regions of Cali fornia/promise a larger yield-than during ny previous year.- A strong movement was in progres4 fora 'weekly Postal connection with Missouri. *brisk trade has sprung up be tween San Francisco and the Russian Posses! sions. The Indians continue hostilities in Oregon and Washington _Territories. They .captured thit steamboat-Mary on'the Colum ya. Various conflicts had occurred, and in , ne betivecn the volunteers acid the Indi ans, 40 of the hitter were.killed, ancl:the . re. mainderof the force routed. , The battle took 1 place at Cannell's krairie. ileptiblicguAssociation. The Republican '''Assoclation of Montrose aid Bridgewater will meet at the Old Coert smise, Oa Monday evening next, May 12th. - Business cif iuzpor• lance is theft to be transacted and the attendance,or all the niembers., and such others asedesire to join the Associyfon, is requester. retail! Wets, Prot. IWgewater,. May 5, 1856'. - Notice. • r l ' -The Secretaries-of the, different loards of School'• Directors in the county will:please sec that• there it no delay in forwarding to me the Annual Report of their respective Districts, which is decoct the first of June. Each Secretary has ipeeired, or will receive, soon, a blank form: B. F. Tcwltsicac Ilartord, May 6, 1856. • Teachers' Exasninationsi • -I-will be in the Towns . ruentioned below on die following named days, for'the purp'ose of 'accommo• dating thpse who were unable to attend my first es• atuinations: *;li May Franklin, May . 19th, .. . .. nefrick, Mgy 22d, (Nahalist Church) 10 A. Clifford, May 236,. (Clifford Corners,)-10 A. u. Lenhx, May 24th, (Glenwoml,) 10 A. Tlibinsin, May 26th, (Murnforffs) A. Y. B. F. Tswg.sway, Co. Supt. or Rev: A. 0. Warren will preach in Montrose, the fourth Sunday in May; at the usual hours, audio New Milford at SP. e day. - , 4 111A3RrED. At the, house of William 1C Ilateh,',lfontrose, Ref Ist, by Rev. A. 0. Warren, Mr. MARTIN TINTSBLRT to Miss DIANiTIA hurt, both of Lathrop. Ni On Wednesday the 16th instant, by the Rev. I. L.d.Staples of Brooklyn ' Mr. B. J. BliaNsta. of Am. rat, and Mis.s CkantssaMTFAlS of Springville. • Bridgewater,' on the .28th of April, M. TON ., atm., aged 3 year3,•4 months, and 13 days. REMOVED kro DRICK . BLOpt, front Akan; • ,Qulniky scrtoout ihrOisbed with Liberia o f t-7 different.sizes- at Now York retail prices. at the Post Office. • e: : c. 0011181 in inkEALER IN-SADDLES.. fiarneoh.Truido, Air ue; sti,, Montrose, "ea.'„ 171 1 Dirt Wihnoti ' I . LOCATE of thet , laiopithic and- Hototorlid! 1 ! Colleges of liedieble," is now, permwelTY. catod in Great Bend Pa. April 300858, • , - - JUT RIMMED Av 4 mITY or liii4anida w ire:ibmisbea Japanned Tin"illiet Crockery, Glasorare , P e t fkaxteh,tirocerles, ,Fancy, Goodavi`levelry , Spoons, - Gold Spectackm,:rerfometY, DruVi Pidatas Die4iUMV&C, " _.. 1 Xonttose, Mayl, ABEL ' TOBBBLib . "- - . the SEWING Birds;„,B4eoka4 ,rowilier4 BOO* rl 'Balm of a tlionmMd ,Boireirs, and nearly I ea ildn Ido at: 11714401 NM 11 10 A. V IRA