II II El Ii C 7 .1,11:1 - REA-14;40 2 lER EDITORS • HMONTROSE PA. I ,lWednett i any, 'December 31,'1556. - !CAN TICKET FOR 1860. REPUBL • FOR TRESIpENT, :JOIIN CHARLES YREMONT. tltl VICE PRESIDENT, IV I LL1A311,..1) AYT.ON - , • n E iNDEpEDENT . .REpuBLI - FOR 1857. ; The Thii Crol nine of the IYIDLPF.NDENT RITII3I,,TCaIt eOIIIITIeIM3 in January, 1857. The paper,- w hich has already tiquired a large circulation and become . ...stablislied on aiperinanent _basis, - Will receive the in, scabettied attenfion of the Editors . during the ensiling year,_ :. and their tudearor will be to improve it in ev: eqdepartment,so that, if it has heretofore deserved the Commendlitions of the press and of its itibseti: bers,iit will hereafter still betterdeserve them.' . The circus stances under which the INDF.FF:DiIiS 11.00aries.t: tray est a blished were these: The rapid. :and 'daring eneroachnients.4. the Slave Dower had .ezidmintice Ertl ttt•jc passnre of the ,Nelmasl9.lonsas fnereby men - intense indignation. Aieng freedom-tortng citizens of all parties; and all in whom pltriotiSni predominated over partisanship felt that The time for a union of freemen to resist the -aggressions of Slavery had arrived.: . In the Autumn Lof 1.54., the freemen of Susquehanna County, with. out distinction of party, met and- organized the Re •:publican party, I(being the first organization of. the hind in this Stat.i,) for the purpose of maintaining those prinelpißni liberty transmitted to us by the fathers of th'e Republic, in the Declaration of Inde pendence and the: Constitution of the. United States, lloty the party his increasedin magnitude and pow er smee that 'thee, the history . ofthe country can tall. On it§ first tiFl, of strength on the national-arena, it . . hiis almost orrithrown the once invincible and fully. ofgattzed collo:its of the Slave Democracy, exhibiting • such a vi , 4:or 'and expansiveness, 10'10 fill our Oppoz ne.nts. with disttiay at their future prospect;, and to awaken in the hearts of. the friends of freedoM .wt:11 •groundeclltopegrif the speedy, triuniph of the prinei,- .1 :pleA of frcedOim, justice, and humanity. TO January -...,.,-. ceding the organization of- the Republican party . -; in this COuntV,lthe publication of our paper was corn-, - venced, o alvocate the principles of that party:. lt, -met- with i s generous welcome, and we trust was not. Without its i n fluence in aiding tolmild np the.noble . ti.rganiza 'on Which curie . the Wilmot District for Fremonti )y morethan7nitie thousand majotity,and t Ir.etinved. lallisita A. Grow to that seat in the House --•• which lielfillS -with such high honor to • hitnself and his Constituent S- Totlie suppoit of that _Organiza tion, while itJ.remains true to the cause bf freedom,- , we Shall continue to devote our beet energies; and Nrc , 4ro convineCd that it is only required.to have the . . RepUblicf n principles filly understood by ill, to give • the party greatly increased strength among the. m a s. ses!of the people; for the voter who casts hisballot . for noitoselof selfish a g7tandizement, but for his country's !go needs only to be .con&ced, to tiote righ i ; . and with such a cause as ours, - with.rea. son and j ghee, and all the better instincts of the hu : ....man heart on our side, we must be derelict of. duty if we do not 'rein increased support to the cause of freedom.l - , it • - i• .• ;t is indisintiabl that the Press exerts a great in fluence, Om-good or evil, over the opinions of the , ipeonle... Iliad the - old - organ of the Democratic patty • in this County taken the same stand for freedom that The organ ofltliat party, the Bradford Riporter, did , • in Bradford Colintv,as, to retain its consistency ns `.%. Paper P i rofi.issing free soil principles, it should-have , done—the m li i Publitan party would have carried- al . most the!entre vote of Suscpiehanna County, except .'shat class of IviAers whom no argamentS or Consider ' • ations ofitight,kild reach. To counteract ,the mis ., chlevousi influence of papers teaching wrong. princi . . pies and 'sustaining the cause of ' Slavery aggression, :becomes necessvy for those who have. the cause ;freedom at heart, to secure. an . extensive circulation ofßepublicarr papers. We have to ackr.owletigo the % , generou, exertions - of ntar.y. \friends in. the dill'prent . loirnshiPs, increasing the list of subscri§ers to .. the IN DE 'I•'.'Ntivr , BErUBLICA.,F. .But Ms an iindioubt eid ‘faet tl it here iStill reinain.huntireds in tlie*mt ty, that pie interests of the - Republican pakr —as 4, .1 well as o fiers ' and who tniOt he procuriiiiy a little systematic: ef llr wii—require should become'subseti . i i fort. A., an additional inducement to: such of bur friends ati nilayi choose to iaterest themselves in this ,matter, 7 4 t )i.ft. 1 eat, e six 7,-,.-Nubs„ibitz, paying for ,vine .year pradCance, re will.acnd an cxt, a number for , lark year llo4,h_S•getfer up of the club, as!sonie compen ;talionforkis•irciuble. • •. , . • _ .j Pnr-readrsrwill bear. us Witness that we. give a ?lunch greater amOuitt of reading matter in our col . I miens than eOuntry, papers in general ; and while our • Erst object s.to sustain the principles of the Repub - i licatepartywe aim to givesuch a variety,-conitisting of poetry„ tales, sketchea, agricultural ariecles, var. - oestponaerree, news . Items„fcc., as will make the Rs-. i •runmeaST an interesting and useful - family paper. . If our Republican friends agree with us on the im portance: of giting an . extensive circulation to the lo cal Republican press, we trust there willl i be found '. :men in every Totinship in, the County who will act • , . ` „accordingly: - i • .. . ~. .',Tsums.—tth ' 50 + in advance. • • - Wel issue our :paper one day. earlier in the weiik i lthan usual, that the printers may hive a Ne4j i Year's hOliday. , - .1.0 41XNEAS:—We hope that in accord ,the suggestions of Professor Dau- Aetter on bur first'rage,.the ladies. 'se and throughout - the County will li;. form `:Sewing Societies" to pro '_''; for the Suffering Free State ,se r f: tnsas. • The 'rase is One that appeals = AID. To .Tince wit4i; • •ofliontro iintnedint ." 'Ode el 4 (r. tkrs in' .not only tO their benevolence, but to their inissionar , Thspirit. , if we could• send ship .... toads bf i c l orn.to famislimg Irelandif we t • -could i..ir, tiibute •to succor these . Southern • cities that were smitten With a fatal 'pestilence . . ...---shall %%lel not contribute to aid 'those, - our • ' 'nearer; brethren, who are suffering for the -1 ~ • ; 11; * ' • ' holy causn. lot Liberty ht Kansas? ' If we hes.... . ...itate not to send ' ;money and clothing to the ; .. .: 'heathen n distant lands, in our efforts to ex . tend theblessingsof, Christianity; should wo hesitate ts 3 contribUte the satne means. for the " , purposecfsbuttirt but from KanSas ,att initi ' -tutionWh'elt fortiidS the reading of the Bible . ~, ' 'pi a larg elass of people; and, being itself a . f , ,bit:, is.tht), frnittfol pcirentof many sins, where. • ; ever. it e*ist..4?, Patriotisth, Philaiithrophy, —• \ lelnistiatrq, alike , ' call *upon us to labor to r make Ka ii.as free. • . ',I • • , ' - . Hit be true that :' : •• - . ; . ' "Tivben-Woinan *ill she 7611, you may depend on't," s ore hOPe ii,' tinii be willed that Susquehanna •j 'county stiall furnish her - full Quota , 3 - 4 Ma . . ,tenial 11411' ;*:for Klttums. . Should - the ladies of ". :..;'Sttsipteharna County enter i nto" This work, _ lend shoo d; Kaisas be . free, They will, altivays ,1 , . .be-pnrua to remember the fact that they so _ , • ,!fat "1 Meddled in politics' es to help make 'it so.; ~: ; • ' . , i . .. . , : C.. , a3= ,' !al) S,OUNSEL.-111 the Supreme 1 Co at :A.lhariv -on Satutday, Judge huff. uir . , man led ed that a client had a right to change !hi e eopusf t k t. his pleasure, no scatter what 1 , ;his mOtiV , might be, as the relation ofeoun sil Bad lent reqtii;ed the most .111 //iP)itCd . 03144•1ei1e and pecieethattnony. Ile further f deckl+d t ' t.-an' attorney had no claim upon . the Pape entrusted to him, fuither than to . , , isecurecosts and fees ; and even then he may ;ire ceinpelled to produce theta Under certain oiatirigetielea.—Elmiro Deily Gagette. , i , ~ I, • - VrThe bitilicalConventionfheMiti Mont rose l la• - •t iveek,. under the auspices of Profess - - or : W. B. Bradbury ol' New York, Was quite successful; as notwithstanding the unfavora ble:state IA A° traveling, al large number of eititenl;_of the were_ in attetidanec.— : .The Concert on Christinas Eve _woa,well got pp,• the, -OratOria of "'Esther" especially re ceiving the general phiudit4 of thuse'lpresent. Prof. Bradbury was knOwit here by reputa tion as a scientific - alud practical - teacher of music, anti hi l S recent visit has raised his.namc . • . stilt higher fur _Musical attaintnegs.. . - Ealll For the Independent .p.publican.i Freedom Meeting. - The friends of freedom for all, (agreeably to iqrevious appo;utment,) met in Auburn; SusquehantiaCouttty, Dec.lBth in the even \N. it li q ivrt - s; the President, took the chair, and in it few brief remarks, stated the ohjeet . of the meeting.' By request,:fN: J. Cogs‘Vell reviewed brief ly the position of the pelttieal parties of the day,:-and 'gave_ reasons why l every ticeend i ant of those men who °'pledged their fires, for , tnnes, and sacred . honor,", to the eanse Pf hutnan liberty, ,should leettstder' himself henna,- not. only to .oppos-e the cxtension 01 slai'ery, but to . demand . itS enttre . uliolition. Thefollowing resolutioni vt•ere theniPresent. "ed, whielt after a brief diseeiion. were -Mm • '1 impusly adopted : • • . Believing in. the inalienable right,i,of man, the equal rights of States, and the equal rights .of nations—Then fore, Ist Resoli.ecl, That we as.Qoeiate tinder the '_~ name . The League oft Freeduni,7 l Olijeet Aa.ll be to t-ecure tor all the people of the United States their'" right.; to liberty, - ntid the pursuit. of happitiesg." mud Resolved, TltiSlavery;(..l evo- . 3 form, is..siabversive c.f ,titati's natural rights; that Ateeholdin,g- is siattl,iliegal,'and tmeonstitu:. tional—bving conde'inned by - the .Ifible and I . ilit! eimstitution,. it !-I,ollldl i tal. escluded- from • the-Ann - It as a sin, and prohibited by the 1,, ~, • f 'Nate as a -crime.. _ 1 '3 I Resoled, That. the 'difficulties in Kan -1 sa. , , the . assault upon` Senator Sumner, and ! kindred acts, are the natural — efforts pf slave rv • 404 'that 'Shell K.lB a rc I WIIC to. be reheat; ..y. • _„•,, . , ,' i ed Ilti!eSi the eat Ise itse lf — Kvp rem —..:•• v.: .011,7ec utdily- and 'forever remove 4 , 4;11 Resoled, That the knly tenable 'posi tiro' touching the_slaverynestion is'•the alt. - . T i e I t olition of the entire systetii •ilirpngtiOnt the ,! leng:h and breadth °four land ; and that we hold all .organizations that du not recognize i this,principle, unWoriby the 'support:and in .i quence•of Christian nod American citizens. ; sth • Rcs /ved,Q'hat; the tithe is now fully I come when the friends of •Irreedotp for 011, Should unite their cfforts to secure theiiiown 1 . c liberty, and.,extend the blessing, to their suf . - I tering fellow countrymen. 1 -'• , • I 6th Re4.olved, That while we are cippktsed 1 to the exteus;on Of slaveryl into new Territo i ries in common- with all anti-sraeery men— i we do not admit its li , ••llity in the _ States I where it now'exists. :1 . 7th Rcsolced, , That we ;invite men Of all political parties to unite and aid to eirculate i the principles of.Uniivrsal 11..iherty. ~: 1 B , h Resoived , That; 'believing itt the truth . , , of • the forcgoin;;• pritteiples . we cause' nur , t ' ;.iinn)eS to biranneXt4l: . thereto as a pledge to aid their advancement: li , .f:POILTER Tuscarora, Dt-c. 9,.•2r.d 1:35G. For thi /if:put/iron. Obituary!, Jos. D. Butterfield, of New Milford, was . killed by:accident, froM tli fill. ~ t - works . of.; the Lackawanna Rail -Road near : i : the ivillage , l of Dunmore, Luzerne Co. 'n the thirst. . The.subjeet of The tiboVl: notice was sud- II ib tily takenfrom a !lot; ily , 4.tinsist i. ingot a wife.. and nine ehildrun, mostlyAsinall.. The sytn pally of oi , r comfilunity tiOeen unusually'. awakened !by this - startli4,event. 'Less than . . • three weeks before this .lie had left. home and his numerous friends,' in health, and. with a confident expectation of retuining at an early period to cheer and bless hy hi . presence and care that Saud circle in hiS •hOuse, which, in ~.- turn, delighted :to ren d er liisklers theire wel _ ho ar s udden . . einne and happy, -But how sudden and se- - vere Wasthe.shoek, to thern,.4-hen, instead of receiving the glad and benevolent smile'of an aifeetii!nate husband and 4ther,:the cold and lifeless form only was brought to tbeit now desolate home !- The tears ''at mournin,„ must fall there. . The tender memory of conjugal and parental kindness mnst 6 - e alloweitfree lito weep., But, thanks he •to God, the . Viends of the departed, in this instanee, May ' well, rt joice in their sorrow! i Nearly' a veer f.in'ee he becameawakened ttl his need- of sal . : cation from sin, and with :many others, be_.! was ledto trust in Christ-for ; the reception of . .. that ";power of an endless ' life." . Ile united • 1 4ariAi 23, 1856, with the lI . J. E. Church, and --eontintted 'till his death ar, acceptable mem ber of-the saute: The change in his feelings;and deparunent . was remarkable, and aPparentlytitorinigh and complete. ; new inter* in "untie and friends, acid his : frequent expressions "of deL light upon the imiliect, am a ell remembered by all his familiar acquaintnces. - - In a letter to hisftmily , five days_ before his- death, he gave mostt - cheering evidence, of his :demi in terest in the cause 'and strong con, 44ence cn theSaving.pOwerbeli . eking pray ' The spirit of that last Message was, as if, he had prayed "Trusting - in thy word alone, • , Ito thee my children lea,ve: • Call my little ones thy oWn; Give them all thy blessing, give: Keep - them while on earth they breathe; . Save their'souls from endlels death. ' • rn Whom Ito thy grace eo mend, ' ' , Into thy embraces *take • 1 . 43e her sure, immortal Friend, • _ . Save her,•for, my Saviour's sake : 1 Free front sin, from sorrow free, "Let my widow trust in thee, . . . . . Father of the fatherless, Husband of the widowve ; . • Me and mine persist to bless; 7 . Tell me we shall meet a ore: , Seal the promise on my heart : , ' `Mid me then in peace - depart." New Milford, Dec..dt, 1856' [ . . 1 [ . , 149 - , - The New Ilampabire Telegraph is 41 opini4in that an cbtlitur who Cannot stop one of the finest trains of "thought, 0 that beds puttin.? on paper, to minute the dimensions a lame pumpkin, write tat advertisement for a hug lost, enter the name of a paw l subscriber, or remive pay for an' old one, or to take a cow. hiding for something he has 'said, and after all resume. he thread of his dicfoonrse, and tarry ourthe idea iu ifs - original 1106 and beauty,. is next to no - editor at "AL "The South Carolll4 Legislature Ims altered the law of that State' ielative to ne gra sailors - on board vissela, dtriying at4hat port. They are . not to be knits:limed kere *fter, but ruust not lese th eir lap% The very parties.' ' week dui procectlingsor!t `.` Freeddm iNftleting7 'reetnily- . held in Ati. burn Township; Some 't)f the;doetrines con tained in the resolutions adopted by the , are entirely at varianee with those of the Republican party, and Oeli us we ,eannot. endorse, . Our views, as R publicans, and al so the difference . between,the I:adieal tw i hnse principle:4 the Anlnirn meet ing sums to have adoptedi) and the Rc. publican party, arc, clearly I:tt forth in.the ext tact frpm a speech delii.ered by Senator WilS . Ot;.of Ma,:sachusetts r. in the U. n A S. Senate, - Deez2l., 1850 : • •• • 1 call the attention' of the 4.oators who. make hitt' practise here and .before the people to classluis with the .Garrison .kholitioniEts, and with the Stipporters of Gerrit Sintth, to the procise . ,.and. ,exact difference between us. The Garrison Abolitionists do not vote at all. They Will neither vote nor - hold oifiee... They j. take no political part or lot in the Govern. / nient of the Cc/Wary. Theyare not only Com mittedigainst the extension of. slavery, but they' are ,committed agamit slavery itt ; the slave States. it Believing with . Brissot, . that ` slavery ia.affits fOrms,' in all its degrees, is a violation of divine law, and a degradation of human nature'," and believing the Ckinsti: tution to be wttat some honOraide Senators on this flon`r repreient it io be, nil ins'trunient that, re' sg,ni zes: what IttadisOn /said he would not entkols inijt, " the ideiti that there can he property in Man," , th 4 are in favor of dis solving thepreSent Union-and overthrowing the Federal! Co,nstitntioty .1 dissent, the 1e: publican party dissents', train their construe 'tion of the Oatstitution of the United States. We dissent altogether from 'their disunion . sentiment4we dO not cuneur with them lit abAaining I Tun - the . exercise of the elective' franchisc. have ever - avoWed that disagree= merit :It hoineri avow it here. But while I . ;listigree'whh•them altogethin., I will dothem, the . just ice.'to t say here, that they • have for yea' s devi4d !their lives 'mid their property, and incurred contumely and reproaelies;.lOr • t he. eanse (A the - bond mett cif . Ameried; and here,.ror els4vhere, while I expres4' my total. disagreement With them, I will say thatthey are Men of 41f,.-aerificiug • devotion, and men, 1,4 great abiiitv, who have studied the slavery - ,, 1 -question m all its aspects, Collected' volumes,: 1 . 0 statisties Gearing upon it in. all its rzlatious , —men at whose feet the Senator Irian Penn- . . _ . SVlVallia, 114 - 131GLE41.1 and other Senators echo so mlibly pronoun v. them fniaties, might e, ;•it mallearn'iomething bi,slavery in America. There is sti class of nun calling theme-lees Radical A IMlit ii mist s. They . believe the Con stitution of the : United States is an anti-stave. cy Constitutra They. believe that the Su preme Cours vlikh sits under . us l has the con stitutional pclwer to . proclaim the etnatteipa lion of everyislave in Amehea, as Lord Mans tivld in Enghnul and the Supreme Court in I Massachitsetts.deelared slavery illegal in Eng. land-and' Isfas;:iebusetts :They believe the I)eehtratioti to(:•lndepetidene . to be, in the , . wives ot l John Hancock, " the ground and foundatiOu of future government" in Ameri ca.. Tiwy bilieve- that. the• declaration that all men are created equal, Underlies the-fonn dation. of ouri politica! institutions. They be lieve that:* 70pstituOon of the United States waA 40aineil and established to secnre not only - in iho Territories, not only under the . exelusiveletintrlol of Cort:.' , ,resi, but. in'all the States, the inalienable rights of ever} hu man being. ..T,liat is their ppsition. • The lleput;fican party, 'sl - r. President, dif , fors with tliikpartyras it differs with the Gar rison Abolitilinists. in regard to the Constitu tion of the Illited Stltes. When the-mem ber...A of the 0 ; 14 congress as:lembled, in 1774, at PhiladelVilia . ; when they formed that first union o( lAithe ncrim Colonies,' , when they proscribed the slave trade, when they made t he 'articles . i.if the :. AssoeiatiOn that bound to n nether_ as one people the • inhabitants of these thirteen colonies, -they asslimed no power over slavery in the States. When the .arti- Cies of the C6ntederation were, made in -1775. , eir no power -Was then specially, gr:mted to Con gress over the local affairs 'lir the. States.— When the OinStit titian waa ter:lined, the men :. A he framedfit did not intend,to.give Congress the power t:p abolish slavery in the slavehold. I big States: f, Opening the Constitution of our country, wets find no power specifically:grant-, ed to Collins ti abolisb:slaveiy •io these ,States. Sti;',.the llepubliCani, like the Garri-'' son AbolittOtists and the Radical Abolition. ists, are opposed - to slavery. -We belieVe With Burke that "slavery lis a state so ae: grading to pie' feelings and? capacities of hu mano 0 not to uature that it ought not to be Suffered to exist." Wt. believe with Tien ry Clay, that. "slavery if a.curse—a curse to the master— a wrong, ajgrievous wrong to. the slave;.that it. is all wrung, and no p9ssibk contingency. can inakei,t right." We believe 'with' Pres ident Pieree, that everything connected With'. slavery is ["Odions;" and, in the expressive. lancr ln e ,uant Of, the framer of your . Cincinnati platform v r` we are in favor h of . freedom 'arid . tite-soil erever man liveS, througbout,God's heritabe." f Since I took my seat in'tlieSenateearlyht rebruaryl.lBss, I have traveled more than thirty thoilsand • miles in tburteen of. the free Stats; I.jha4. seen' hundeds of thousands of 1 Aiaricair citizens hi cialOil •, I have listened to many 4 thh-ablest 'of the country:, I , have cuua seleil M ith their) ; and I never yet, heard on 'e w?rd utte'rt . •,d,'• elaiming power in CorigreSs,l l or Troposing to usurp power in ongress,to abolish sla`very,ia the slavehold ing States. ' • s't" •: The pe4lc u# the wholctountry were aura. 'Mined ttOneet, in June in' Philadelphia to-or ganize a Movement on the basis of the inhibi. OM of slavery in the TerriEorie-s by congres s Tonal aOion. The llepublicaii party was' -then organized; and it announced to be its sentiments, principles, and purposes : The maintenance Of the principles promul ,T gated-in the Decliwation of Independence, and embodied 'in the' Federal :Constitution ; • The Federal CiaistitutiiM, the rights of th e States, arid the Union of 'the States, shall be preserved ; . • It is a6elf evident truth, that ail. men are endoWed,[with the inalienable right to liberty ,• and the firimary object and ulterior design of our Fedirai . Government was to secure this right to All persons within' its exclusi juris diction; ; pOrson should be, deprived of life, !ib erty or property, without'due process of law ; That it is our 'duty to 4naintain this pro. vision'offthe Constitution against all attempts to violatO it fOr the puriMse of tstabliAing slavery n any ,Territaties of the United States, b poSitive legislaiion prohibiting its existen , . • . RI" letter front qteneral P9merny, in the Spri' gfield Reputiliean, states that he has, formed 4 .nov .s e ttlemen ; , in Kansas, at-the mouth 47the river Saline“ar beyond the 4et tleinetatinf any white mita.- The valley is heautiful, andflie . grass .10. green all through the,. winter ,kifteeti 'tort - .have: taken up olaiins hit the new 'town, •;The Saline is. very salt, frOnitlie titirerouss'.salt springs which run thr - • - • 1 -0 a the. first ult. the funded debt of Petinsy vania amounted .to 8.49,866,975, and the 'unr9nded 'to V-50,80. . There - remains in the '. ate treasury and . thesinkingfued the sum' of : : 795,247, which is applicable to lho further I;aneellation: of State stoclie . Sze: .•''' - • Ctibr4 Its Iteto s ur . and Mathieu. Prior to a diseußsion tion, to, which we shall slimily 'be obliged to ' refer, it Would be very well .to knua .sunk think! about what Cuba rattly ts. • For' . that purpose we shall give Our mu l lets the stance of what is known on the present con- . (Rion and resources of Cuba. Cuba is About 650 miles in' tength„and va ries \in breadth from .a narrow iF . ithinus to 120 rtijes. - Its area is :11 . ,500 is just. zatout Abe size of-South Carolina, and about the safk with Ireland. - SouthiCarolina has :11)0a live hundred thvitsand inhabitants, and Irelatid•abour iiix..millions—quite a difference. The capacities of Cuba are gar: greater - than those of Carolina, but on till!: other •hand,, much inferior ta tilt - i::c of Ireland. Witli a s l a y e population, mostly suppOrted on . plan: , tations, it is not probable the .population can ever . exeeed . three millions. ; actual pop. Illation and progress of the Island' will_ be seen by the following comparative census ses k • In 1775 • 1170,;370 .4 In 1817 • 1 rl-'l)9 • , k In 1841 1,007,624 . • In 1850 - 1,247,230 . • This certainly shows , pretty rapid progress for a Spanish-A tneriean colony.. 'lt slrtws another thing also, that the government of the wand - of Cuba, despotic :IS it may be, is far better- than that of the mis-named Repub lics of Mexico -or_ of South 4meriea. The fact is the despotism of the Spanish Govern- ON preserve order and . peace, )two things ess:-nt ial to the. development- (if industry. The distribution of !Aviation is thus : . bites i 605.570 Free Colored `205,575. Slaves, Colored, .1.436;100.- One curious fact will. be noted—the great linniber of the free colored. These . are. - not ..etnaircipated slaves hv any Means. • There are . descendants of the original settlers, and were neversta-ves. They were always free. • and many of them-own considerable estates.. The actual Slaves, it will be- observed, -aree only about two-thirds in nu miter of the whites, The. large proportion of 'les is the deeming feature of the !slat Ilut if the present attempt to bring in 'African- slaves Shall succeed to ant - extent, 9m Island will he overrun with then), and ,converted into another aavti or Jamaica. .• I '— The fOl lowing is the distribittion of indus- I try and cultivation : • • . Sugar Estates, Coffee Estates • .1,692 • l'obacco Estates.'' I 912 • ;Grazing Farms .9,930 The largest amount in value of crops pro duce'dbr Cuba for'enortation, arc of sugar andXruits : Value a sug ar ar - - *IS OS ir4 „ _ r rills i4.839,05- - -1 - - Sfulasße4 1,462,1'28 • I . , • . . , $35,201,02 Whole value of Cr0p5,00,801,402 AV e thus see that three-Ohs the entire valtn; of (Tips its in sugar and ; fruits. This shows a very fair product fora slave State, and proves, we think,-.two thing, that the soil and climate are goo(I,- and that the social condition orate people: cannot be Very bail -; for such conditions are i's Titialto such a result. , The imports into - Cuba at he present time amount to nearly $30,000,00. in value. of which more titan a fotirth is !from. the Uni ted States. -- The large . share, is from, the mother country, Spain- Cuta has no .bank, and only a specie currency, '-et it is said, in leo other country is there moire of paper mon iy.' Here is a problem for m ,anti-bank men.; `whieh it would be well for them to_ solve. Partaking in the commercial spirit of the titn&;, Cuba has about threel hundred miles of railroad, a future of progrcss'Which proves either tioveninvent or people'to be decided ly advancing in their ideas of civilization.— The revenue of Cuba is upwards of 12,000,- 900, which is equivalent to at!least $230,000z -000 tbr the United StateSl . , It is quite re markable how the oolonv can .prosper With such a burden upon it_ 1 i • Tile rtAiginii of Cuba i•l'lentirely , Roman . COtolie, and this will present an element .of ' I ' ..great difficulty in any attemPt to annex it to ii, the United States.. Louisiana and Florida were . insignificant in . population when an nesed, and excited no religi4tts prejudices.rl - it is quite obvious an attempt to annex' Mexico or Cuba will meet objecti l onl , not heretofbre made to any newstate., The free negro question; the slave, .qhestion, and the, Roman question; Will be quite . enough for" One administration to handle, and the. Presi dent or, party which volunt4rs to meet them at once, will certainly neVet be accused of any extraordinary share of . rracity, or timid ! ity. It is said,that." fools r 174 h in where,an , i 1 els fear to tread."—Ciacin,ndli Gazette, 1g Kansas Affairs. ~ . • - I • . We have some further news from KanSas. The -news •of WhitfieWs rejection by the Ifouse.having beep received at Lawrence, and no intelligence of his stlsequent admis sion, the people fired a salute of thirty-two gums in honor of the event. 1 Apan who had just •arrived at Lawrence frOin Ossawaturnie reports all quiet in the sentlictn part of the territory. ''f he great land sale at Leaven worth continued to pass {4l" quietly. The rivers Missouri and. Kansasl,vere'frozen over, and navigation .dosed. Aispeial• inessen crer had arrived at,LecotrOm frOm Wash- i n ington, with despatches from the President. I They containtd, among othd-r things, ~the of : licial inftirtnatiott - ,to Georg 4, W. Clark, the - votorions Indian agent fur th P.ottawatatnies, that he had been removed, 4d ISaaeyinster, of Culpepper county, Va., ; appoititBll in his stead. Thi4„l blow was qM.e unexpected to Clark, who - has: got muchxcited were it„ and swears revenge on all -who were irstru mental in his removal. ,' 1. Titus, while at Kansas:city on his way Ist, was served • by the Sheriff with a capias issued in 'a suit '. against him for un unpaid b • and bill at West-. port. The Colonel cursed the whole town as composed of abolitionists, I refused to obey _the writ, and the Sheriff il not arrest him., 1 ' He 'and lAinen were out lot' monev: This . road from Kansas city to -I *llerson, Mo., is I n o w SO much • travelled hv. persons going I East and . South,,that, it is liliexi with broken Idown stages and otfier•vcitiel, es. At the land sale tip to the..3d inst., 125 lelaims had been purchased by - stitiattet* eo‘icring 24,320 acres, and 124 claims by 'ispeco)ators, cm ! bracing la;i9-1 acres, Go‘i,e - ritor Geary has irefused to allow the free Slate prisoners to lbe.disgraced by the ball. A formal demand on him by Sheriff Jones w.is declined in wri ting. Through all the. trials suffered - by the people of Ossawatomie, the two. faithful .cler. Igyrden of their only:church have remained ;with them, laboring .amid' perils and: bard -1 ships, and Though their - - chu'rch• and 'school I buildings and library were destroyed by. the Missourians at the time theitown - was burned religious services Are, still held 'there rcgu ' lady 'every Sunday, : .Of the six free State prisoners captured - in that neighborhood late 1}' -4y the U. S. officials, - thice have escaped. Nine tenth's.. of all the •se tiers Within ten mileS'Of that place - are said l to be free Stat. . I people, numbering in alkalmut five hundred' , souls. Therelms been nitiil'auffering there. + One, heitevolent• Quaker li Ong near s ' gave to Ithe'snifet* liberally .as 'long: 'as his. own stores litsted, but 0., last helo sick himself, I and was then destitute,' and: was Obliged to -depeud - upOtt relief from I.4hers. .. An 'old , . mint, 70 years of age, whO Wisconsin .with $4,000, has in the course of the war,lad in the attack on Ps:twat=ie . ,' liN F ut to return, (responding, t Ther new railway project Iron, to KansaS - City, Mo., has giv Tuts , : to the latter Ancl the to near it. A project of allot COIMPet With this has been st , to proceed from Kansas City river to 'Lawrence. -$:30,000 scribed to it. Ciloc e rnori sent a letter to tlovernori Kiu in Which he is. underst‘md to isiltetory, to the North. Th tridge, one ort,he free State ; OssaWatomic, had been Post sell, owing to the absencC of Witneses. They all reensed ing it merely a trap 'to larrl i fridge had. found means t() ac'ebtinis of the inhumanity ‘, treated:, V'ery no.r rematumg in the territ, salt' hasl.pridueed att t..Neeller tin=; rit: or e1itc1 , ..1,1•66 the t‘i•o parties Jud!re Elmore ;Ind some all pro-siav'pry - wen matle. Oierttires for peace :eta', hasis t , i Into talked iltirt.lio‘.o.llol;l: , ili . in.' ceded that the.l,6l4tis law:3 :pealed, and that the 'lisp'. t%vo par!t,le,q - slioultl electiois "rnoptlisi . resideneo •shrnlill I i rino) protectitm int-1)y \flair!), Loth p : 1; ti t .s ; uotts quite apt to I,)a.S:;:ia l",ill . draNvit up 4 salts rei',..t.ntly. tlit.,--te pro-idavt.rv.is.‘i . orii :ILL' and that ; tile. free sc,ilers' pre ratioh;‘tr ten tirono. A gratioldto the. tk.rtitory Iti.j, The' 1 - atisns 70 1111! . rorth a stat . omi.iftcky . tl4 to the tiYi.rit.r . is no ‘r el j • t Some. eighteen I yea Anierir an in aprealvt; origin - hint of unlike. eir h iu having SOmetiiiitLe . .e.V , cidedly:2-hort —a tylio coniniu tIIC Twees , ity sayhlg, wit vans in'EnrOpe.- No. -2 lo hundred dollars,"wherewith abled lit ulaain n eleamanec..l he . was coon afrer arrt'sted s t ea r in .; a wa t c h fr,en a woi ill f ain s,, c o a vioed, , ,ao s e; By the tutempoiirit o tlNo. karts iii , influent ial ipiamters, commuted into Iran-p.ll:a' next liar saw oar youVeol in a felOn'sgarb remainhd there, we Inive. n in zz, froM his ciislike of womi good s4 , eitly, we , infer that lung ; hut Seventecti'yell \ f's hi s traf?.portation aforesaid 2: in N. streets of this Ntl that trifle of a loan .which promise., to Pad —a promis, i N 0.3 ouninued to 0.?..0ur sonic 'Mien 11"; atlerward, lion folpol.ities (he was a - can;) 61t devoting himself t sex, otiwhom_it is oornont two—gaining an interview vertising for a will-, a govt keeper; rin;l0;! , vioiont. 1111 andgetivraily rolthin , ea(' virtue she had to in t two days' Lcluruntrinee. the cud of the week, 'Fro man lie obtained 51,100, r of his •i;-ictims whatever had—from $5 op to $1,0( have'ealeuhated—we calm , —that! any woman who w vertisepent.for a wife mig. ed on as ready to be porsi Bier in l discretion ; and tier ttnent Of wealth and pleas, ed to ts enterprise and in But 141 things have an eni . . , reruns vunany is seldom Kl'ankee. Whose sis'er.he secluccA came dow.l here t pistol, intent on `4l4aping hunter . i's . headAo detrrnun as deVoid of brains - as of I' of hisiadventirastened the ventuMciussubject,'-and the the - faiit that Dr. Samuel (for such was his inure u, his eamliu appellatiou)-11 ,1 erpool? giving out that 11;1 Australia. : Should he car I far, presume he will t; up tiffs residence within . a I his forimer abode un that —There is a moral in we pAler that confiding y innintip iliTosition and ca pair flowing black iglusi attached to a perfect st ma for thOnsvlves.—l. Sprci(4 CorrcsFondOre y. I From Wash' W.is;jiNGToN, «'L3I.-9 . A fprmid:ib!e . comtina interests of Pennsylvai-Lia here, : directed, lark!' now stationed on sisted, l 'b, inauenees lia:•tt.4ll States. Thelac its basis, the united suppo - will be attempted .n• wt forces arc etuopaet I v - 4etign.. Raw or five aetiveltu aut - nians, are regalarlv this . Fcheme, and they ha secured the co-9erat kat who has establihhcd qua principal hotels, and tality at the expense of ai l ly -siuterested. The names of all thes. Persons haVe . been placed at my disposal, 'a d they will have the advantage nfpubhcity irl mow the facts just ify:that resort, and with ut any regard to the political relations they t 1(1,111 occupy now, or haVe done,heretofore. I . le i kvhole . scheme -is a venal bpeculation, con ,rived ! for n`o other purpose, and' headed by lied who profess thb must decided antagonism to clach other in par- ty •It is necessary that stiks should he taken to lign inilnences, or .the . t expectedly. • TliE GREAT PELICAN . ; talus.) ---Early in,the pr Pelican, attracted by thi . 'teres - ting 'sheet of water, ffer and fatig ue a rest. landiandfcalt upon the: sO: - abundantly supplied, naut Lake; near Meadvi Too conspicuous an obj( 1 tion,.this:rare and beaut stiow,lneasaring nine and niche: than six feet pouel of two gallons' ca to his wants and the ski 1 - 43 A wan in hilinni tinkt..nunther 21,900. ' . 1 A CAUSTIC' R EDUKIL--- - ii 0 . n.. IT;CIEN 11 -71 Case migrated from . . • • The of Dred Scott- -, , 0 . ,.:t everythinfr , • Ate. our readers aware of the-character of i CuAer.. of Tennessee, writes_ a letter. _in the one son Lille& this' case? .-. . • .. . . • I New York. Mirror in reference 'to the recent . , aill: is aoW. a- Died SCOUAias Olissouri slave, the p ro p - - Attempt e d !martcc:tht atnong the Aaves of hi. .old hoie. crty of Surgeon - Edinondson . of the . United. thiit State. Ile indignana s stoats ; the idea ( Ici Auk, lowa, i States Army. Ht was taken by F.dittondlon, broached by the Albany Adds tied,, other 11 ; great, -fm- to Ilea- hhind in Minn's, and there remained .d-Oughfliec prgans, that the; disturbanee.wai 'us M ji,aosas ior three. years. Thence he_ was taken by his caused by the thachinatiotts of the "black re. rail wav to master to Fort Snelling, Minneshta, and there publicans." On the contrary, he alleges that "l in liiin . sas, rent:tined awhile. 1 .... . ] : it was ibiely (mitt to speeches of the In tigOe Kam:. .• A M a jo r h, th e O g i me t a in Winch Edmurd- more and Buchanan o.rttori,who'represent e d . (teen 'sub= sun wa s , Surgeon, ; ook :.11i0 to r ort Snelling that,if / FUENIONT Was elected, he would seek liaS„it is•said 1 a female slave. Stn.,. married Dred Scott in the ilbotition of 'slavery. 'These deeraration s by him one Child bent and sentiments . found their 'way tothe benight. Nt:AY,Yorle, the Fort, and had Hround , sat-• north of 3 1 3 degrees, 30 minutes of latitude, ed understandings Of large _numbers of . the TheV,•itn.imnations ‘il•ete_ excited'i il;i1 -a Par- mul'another'ehild 1 born subsequentlyi in,Mis- slaves.. • they learned to regard the,institution'of slave: i ! . .. . i l oneN from i t:owl. 1 1 a rr c i 3O in tly the laws of the United States, and of iry as-something that might ..boikverturtuid ; ~., free' State Illinois, and of Minnesota, p ro d: Scott ':end and cane to regard the name Of•FRENtorAi as i AI a t e n.Lbeliev- his w if e .‘ ‘ sr e • - •and , are . free: :The chilaren, I indissolubly •associated.with tffed,dea of came , st tiheel. Par-: tidlimilig the•cmidition of -the, mother, were •cipation. These •erude - imaginings . - finally , . onvhy: to taqa ,and are likewise fret'.; .hoped themselves:- into the belief that • h e , . . itblwhich he is' Dred S'eott.sned for . h:s freedom in 1 4issou- would rise out of the "Cumberland river nn F re idiqits, are('ll. • By the ruling. of the judge who tried the t Christmas night" and remoYe them ;front ,.re. The land rase, his chthit was disallowed, and he gild i bondage. . . • -_ .-- _ ~ ~ • it '4 J: -', tin exei• his wife and their two ebilderOWere,dcliyered It is thus that the free men of the South ne. .1 qietally feel over to hopeless bondage. . . , • • -bake the 'calumnies of thedoughfaces of tho' )01,F 0 iniknown. :n e t the deeisiOn against Dred was appealed North. • _ • • er 4:onservative •from. I row '? !Med was of course destitiite Lakrence, : and i of means to Carry on litigation in the distinst I Wiril Illi , gl the -E't(lera . l . Coi;rts of Washington.. Slices do •t:i , l . l,llt. V. Thoy 1 : -tint do etleh thiii g-. 'Twas tbus,• as is said.-- . It. w n.] las 0 in- iThe nia , ter, as own lie er Pred a : of n th d ere etglit to I.e re- ',fore owner or bred's right of.• natio:), tral)s - the i rerred the' chtial of :he slave, pronounced a .l 1, 1 0 - a gvnalats oa in.t by the t ourt of Mis,ouri, to. J.olut F. I 01 - e4s 'of thiw A. Sanford of Nev.- -York: lie is now the otel_ mid- .dvory 'phthitilr ill the Ippt*:o, ' Which iS 1.),:71ng 14%1N -eta rani s lllOlll bc IA .'o tiie. elalcih, Mel he . skive . ry deyoted Sll - a. , t - pyd Op- i p r eme Court, fi.r a (loci-lon that shall oppre,s if triiiiii , .! re: ; :i- li,r , ,ver, it' penile the rigl,ts of ad me n like e e l to C , •::::,r, , , , s : poi.r rtred. -[ - . . . . . hisi plan: l'er- , It is a mats an c'as'e--a p(ditivallv e.'ffitriy % i, I „ '., ; A :r.o.tre. say that (..(1 plan, sot. acitphring 'the inouencelof the 'Su he ion : , , i:onic,t,. j prmoe Court of the . United Stat , ..s - to -those ~Ifilu r i . , , ,, in -the l.ncw Denmera l tie cla tier .r th..: ;benefitof S:11- : ttri i .:orli runs- •xory— '' • . . ,0„;e llr ;11 tilf... 1,1. Tl.;:i the owl:, rof litinirat beings can , • itti , at Cliica:'o la•.,.foilv sojoin-ii .vlOl thoin to .a Free State. s et;o:t. Avet's al;d•inali.taiii his tlaint to them as 'his "Alai.- .IN unimpeded:, t•ls". the la , .v r i.i of 111,:t "Sta t e or the l i ,aNv, of • NatheiS to . 14 'contrary n,,twnik-.t tc,4l;ng„. - • 01. That 11)`•11 4 t..1.,r, titio , gh gified . as Fred.: Doio - dii ,. .• Ward, : I ‘l,:Ci.iik! B..nith, -or Wino, or ;; : i ~ ., i fted as an hi %Lai tie and iiitclrigcnce art , re C." eitizen,..4 . ' of ti-.e United rtv alo gi of ak, . tr., )140 ti‘c ming hur (,r Ilii l: C• •c,,. W:oi cfc- W,c. ~1:Itti • 3,1. '1 hilt ',Li:litv. re, 1-4•iiiiertylid iiQ n!, toile. ' ,Li, Mates of ilk'• • • • h •Si • • oin ; in niz.‘d told iire.tuctO in ail the l7i!litt.s tl7i! oto tg A nwri .l Iwo at I , vn- V I~ 10 It I 01, 411:1'•*l• him ic,ol 10 1 ri);, dv;tlh. 4th. the: Con:tittlt s.s cf • lila: Free State: S'.:lvcry itre -"pettiti.Stat otCs,." which ?Neither Courts or Ow Slarc s,:oes, or the 13,,ti1id,14,-en force or botaid to regitni.--:-.1/Lany :Tourita/. E DI tolit•r : Amel Jr tlit! mat; fit,Nt;6l-1: . 1,114. w limg lit. , oriied ; fur" w , as In the. (hitt. of . l liai!tql.Ko. 1 , 1 ttl{nrl~•il to voltintvervtl:i m I itlr Judge. WI1Inot• ' . This gentleman' has on fir himself a proud . ,.„ . positm . um the ii,epu iii lean pat ty Of this State. In. firmer years, when 112 acted" with , the Democratic organization • that ' pr,rty reposed 'l's:pct. - d 'tottlidenee in him...." Tlit'y felt that there was 3 latent power—it p9wri. to dare - lunch and to aceorn 'dish: much—lit that st mug. Imanly- Luria, and chisel lit:d-set lira}—lfen.t•,.. the old, corrupt spollsnl.2ll f eilr A him; and -. t h..) y onugcr and pn re r portion of t IN! Domoc- MO V 1'0:4 vriliZed lii!n as a lit emb:_rilinmait tif 1- I the ir fresher ;Ind 'better. impulses, - ' 1. '‘'lleti in IS-,17, Le ,:tiered filS celebrated proviso to the "Titre( Milbon . "-Bill,liewaS in r vidurwtrilv imik d ft.„,:, ‘.ll stiles'as a unint/f i takot- 111 " 10 will, w!;°--&": 1 !{ 1 ri•e- ilhuvo' par. ,t\ tramtit‘ils,.rnt I t'Spol.. 4 e 3 , .1 Mail!! :CM bold ly a great Privetple. - -Ile :it once attraetcd ithe attention of the peoi.de of tins State and r or the. Nation. Saxe that time, although i . . _______,__________.___,_ persecuted _and - calumniated -by -the So l ici t I , , OtTrION - OF A SOUTRERN PRESS ABORT I :old thtS,dol.ll.lglit:ici.• , ; of his own . ,,p•irt \ lis, h zt ; 1 Pianc::E.--The Whir:hire - Clipper of the'Oth Inot only' mail ta.". l 4 ed hi-....prevuitti reputation, t inst.,%risals'e. thefollowing' renrarly; ahyut thil bult. • he Ir t s risen rii• be. and isnoW ‘i - ecoanized i message of PRANICLIN PIER lf:E• : - • • : • : , 1 I , uti a-. o - ne Of ' i lelnom. , Men of the country. , ;- I\lle, l'iQrec 11:15 enlisted tinder the Sot - Altera t, ..• . , .. , T 4, 11;,., 1 ..,61,14., 11: , [ ,, li i v. of 1 ) ( nu l . , ;Ovania, owe !. , t,:tntterj ant iii Ilk. Lae thessare acts tieneall to hirn .a most utilr6unded debt Of gr:rtatizle I in Ids .power to aggravateectiOnal hozullity: —a debt Wlileil- it will nit only gladly I lleliasaone injusti c e - to tie 3 North. by charg recognize, lint, disobarge fUlly . ..at :some future ring . the people of that scetiou in a lardy, si , ritli day, , xlien it "-hail haye risen to that strength ! . des'irirg to -interfere wititthe institution 44* which will one day cover it with Victory.—': Slavers- at the South, -whereas the dumber of , The most eminent po , itionswit I'M its g.ft. Northern men, who enteat.ain - . that feeling i 3 will astaredly be conferred upon : him.. Th e i comparatively small, and confined exclusively man who,by his verr,onal intlnent , S ; eould bring -1.1,0 the' Abc.:litionist* i pl the 'OarriSon sehoill. - • uch powerful aid, to the Support of, freedon'i ! -I ' In tliC N.orth as he has done, must needs he proclaitnedu chivalrous and gallant spirit. =- Ile deserves the name wilich theißepublieans. of Philadelphia have conferred oh_ him; °T he Lion of the - North b' !It s 11111 ,‘ I I. !a this CO Soto,‘ Amrri iv to ;11r.• • hat he i! , •eeiv- I , irmaired fll 11! eaeirliv or a lam,: e. hl ;he in,ta.Dt, her - . - >tirise - of one or irl wont; I>v iti:ti ed sto e married Wt n- cif the reittite 'telt tnav have Ile seems tit v''ll(iw - ju - •-41,y lan•-;-wer:Ln ad tflAy lle einffit- I hon ntfy ftir mtmdlesi con- I va s In: open !ating manners. Icareer -of pros. in finding one, untnist a kat.] v nnrnir , with Ic • in the wire !hctlier he wttS 'l.l !Id 1111 s I rtdo, , m; had , me MI 130 H The tiding igfira of our ad t day hertaded esker and 'ire beli e v e .parted for Liy i I • : • on his wuv iii le his travel so lire not to taia . isand miles of 'inept. Mil lii;tory L,rlic of dro.• fascinated- by 's (especially if ,)-Miciuld draw une: • • Otti: I 14e. 1 can d: U. S. Ca; not, 2i on. .'iAoa, A.lll. • against the i'Utl In 4. been organized I , ;(tUe'.ys froto - New 176 . 1groUnd, and a•t• Nuth.\\'estetn and rcuuent aststuncs as. the South, and the aggregate upon a plan: of ver ed TS . . wit 6,abund liged In pursuing it is understood, leinale advocate, 'ter i 4 at one of the eases profuse liospi parties most !fuze- ' l nqg ltug . . fro it and decisive •ouUteraet•theSc !pay prevail up- (.0/irimus Onorro serit month a large 1 beauties of that in or i i mpelled . by Min yid e among its ig lidlt with which it is Wa4, killed in 'Cott le; pen nsy l %Juni ti.--- et q., est;ape• attrae rut writer, - wititit As st ttoross ,the ‘ wings in! -length, with .ii riae4y, fell' a vietint. I of - tile. qlortsilitut. 6'. a' iita of seep The day is even 'now ,-tit hand, when. the -ife as thorimighly. indoctrinated with the greu ideas of the non-extension of slivery and eo. white. labor, as the NOrtj lint! West haVe already• been. When coma, Judge \Vilinot will deserve, as he Wiil receive the thanks of . ..pilot-oils, women - and brave men, as:the sueeessfill :pioneer in this . :!reat cause. .And if tie should lie elcvated to high p - ower, a , : he , . will be,.theyi fief the satisfaction! growing out of the fact, that.liis intellectual abilitie; fit him to.fill with honor . any post to which . ho may be . •. • • • Nnuitoi... s N,orlerrizExs.—AtOong the Oth er doctrines taught Modern' Democracy, we are told that ne , :rocs, though free- and - - born in the United States, are not citizens— This is inr direct kontradietion to the teach- f • if irs that: dist inguiShed Omntentator on f ltfl S.Ppfx..xOy ,... ..roMAttni Ma. BCC.IIthAN. i ittoih'lle , .-tittion, doubtless by - author-, American law, _llaiteellur firm. Ile Irv, contirmS - our-contradiction of. tbe report "Blacks, whether born : free or in bondage, dat eX.-PreSidkut Polk Wiri about enter , : if born under the jurisdiction and allegiintt'e• liug into- wedl%ek with the',President of the United Stags, ; . ir(l ritive. and not.al- . ; ..Otir knowl(tid -the lady Warrants us ins: They art; what th e . comMon law p.rois-in Saving that, though Mr; Buchanan , were lon natirc.born sujeets. Subject lin'd'eiti 7. -en i t 'inies President, tUcrc Would be no truth in in a degree cort - crtible terms, as : al plied_to i the reprirt. The editoewas in want of a par. natives, and though the term semis I agraph who started it." to be appropriate to republican freemen, yet • we are, equallyd with the inhabitants of other countries, subjects. : For we' are egnally hound by - .allegiance and subjection to ' A ttie Government alltd laws of the land. Who privilege' olvoting and,.the legal capaeity4or office are not essential to the - ehtulteter or a citizen, for ,woMen are citizens' without "eitli ? . er ; and free p4oPle -of color may enjoy • the one, and ,May acquire, anti. hold,tqui. devise, and transmit, hereifitgry deSeetit,yeal and .personal; estates.. Thus better opinibm . :-.1 should thitilt,-W, that negro .orl other "slaves torn - within orlundiTr the , :.allegitutee of the United States, are naturaldwnlsubjects, but not citizens. • Celizens, under 9tir Constitii lion andliuos, tivan free itthabilattts, both within Me United &Wes, or - nO'tgrOired der The laws. of Congress.' ; 'lr a;slave born m the_ United States . be inamimitted, or other- Wise lawfully 'discharged froni bondage, or if a black man! be. burn Within the United StateS; and born : free, he becomes 'tihen4.olw ward a bitiZen,l l but.'untkr . suehdisabilitieS as the lawSof dui States reSpeOis',ely may 'deem it expedient hi pa's - cri.be 411 We persons : of color."' r!' - •I: 7 , 7—J udge Drum ottd l s. chatieia 'the first U. S. Dlst Heti Court a Vtaft v agalast pol vga. my, is noW atlittoWletlged. to'lbe fad, Tho law quobalby:,bini4' "r 4rli i-4-• to be flood' in . the Iliisect:Sttitiihts.orthe !tiFY? owl t he • p6ntor mada of the Itevitied.Stittute. - of -die . United States,. Wear cui•seo sxtueezekl • mat/rat love • 'POLITICAL REVELATION.s..--Kenneth lt h y : .nor,. of North Carolina, a disting4ished mein. ber of - the l'inny Nothing , party; has been ma king a, Speech, at Raleigh, in explanation of his visit to ,Philndelphiac ju,t before the. Fall election. Afier explaining . hi.; own eonisc of action ; he paid special :Mention to the bone: cerats and straight. Fillmore'inen of 'Philadei- Lphia, and said that a ;saliii..rnitri,of his actinaint ance was appronehed by an emi,;sary f ront I Forney. who told him if he woald exert.him not for the Democratic Party-, but fir th e strai::littillmore ti y ket,"sl.oo-,090 'would b e I placed : o his et 41 in Mty - bank he might se feet. This Fiilmore ..tiCket, he -added - , the _one . .supported by 11,r; Sanderson, who; said Mr. R., it was well knoWn,- had not ha rd ,tlie jingle of a dollar for many a month', and.vet, since the ‘ clectii!n, he has been ablis toPnronase a house worth itt2o,ooo: • . _ - REAVINO Al 9 WRITING-A HUSIRI:d.'-74110 111(:111I'!fin4 En4 . lilrer in attempting to reply to the Edinburgh Review .tya the subject-of. the large pritportion. Of wh(i.can, nett read and -- write, most • sapiently asserts that "reading and writing are the worst Means of acquiring knowledge," and that " time ein , pl(,yed in . their aecinisition is time - 10SL" h. This doctrine comes with great consistency froin.a quill-driver ; from a,m.an who gets bis bread and butter from knowing how to, j read and write, and who, Of course, depot& upon a rettding: pnblic for all his patronage. flu:vex:or, as tile Engnirer. is the - organ Of Gov. V,rtse, who .made his boast'in Congress not Malty years .agit, that- there .Was hot -a rnewspaiitcr published isi hiS ‘vltole district, 'IN are nrit.sure the - he has:-not kept _a cleaner record in this lespeetthan he has politically. HOW To .DETECT A COLTSTRItrEIT BANK I Nor.E . .-The,..kni4ledge• of an infallible test lof altered . turd forge,d' bank.notc.:4, maybe considered, those . d'aysof fraud, word' tht obtaining,.and .we thiril: those gentlemen ; in , Albany, who. pail -a shrewd- spec*tor fOr the "folltiwing .direetions, received their fall money's worth:: - The rule is.n guoil , one., tnoiTli lik& most goad rule=, nerivithout its exceptions ; if , strictly tollOwed• in practice; it will generally save the-loss of the I amount at take. The recipe tNirieb the_eun• operator siThi and with which he sold-hi: t cu , tomers is as folloWs: • -4 ." NV heti. you. take .a bill 'about...whieh yptt .41t.ortain the-slightest doubt : at once proceed to the . bunker in whom you phtee the most ofror the hill-with _a request th.at•he•will .chattge it,..and if he deelines-gt!, to do, make up-y=our the- notiiiS Lad." Jrnr.; . n . noticed during the late campaign a paragraph,going the iotindi of the Detnocratic pr.es., to the. effect Ord Judge MCLEAN had deqared himself favnrs• liftlt 'to the election of Brcifix.e. , i. the saran declaration is now reproduced in the reeent letter of .3ons VAN,. BUSES to the Boston committee of inv-itation. We are authorized to give this: assertion an c4olicit denial r and to say, that the -iTudge - votetl an . ope.t(ticliet for FitEmoNT & 114.1-Ton-;—.Nemirk:ffercit* DINIEL . WAI:00; iiras iint Monday re-elected Chaplain 9f the . h Ouse of Representatives is in his.-05th year. Ito is :t graduate of Yak. arid Was the room-mate of - I Ion. : Elt A SON, :was a' Chaplain cf the IlevolutiOnary Artily, suffered imprison ment in the Sugar . lkuse, olfaceount of which he' draws a pension from the Gtivenunent.— fle. is now the c+ltlestliving.grituateofTalc. Before his election as .Chaplain, he was the pa-46r of ' the Congregatiiurilist . • Church 'at Manlius N. Y., over whieh he presided fiir seventy years. _ r A servant girl fell .againSt a hot stove in such -a manner as _to brand upon her arm the date".whielt happened tq 'be. on the' stovei--1 : 809'. A stirgeen Was who, however, happened to, be absent,. dud in his r'ent:P .nn assistant &me; ',but `when 'he•salsr the date he .shook his he4d.and Said. to Win.' self, "There is no-TOn7er any help fur this; it is too old-an injury."---Bosc.,.Transcript.. t;:frThe Boston. 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