El IriaepeOeqf 0.-F. READ & fl. IZ FRAZIER. EDITORS Z B. LOME, CORRESPONDING EDITOR ZONTROSZ. PA. Itlinvellisy; November 27, 1957. lair We are under Obligations to Hon. ti - A. Grow for a copiof the Border Ruffian Kansas, and -for other public docu ments. EfirThe attention of our readers is re gulated to the Prospectus of the Ifarrisburg D~silrTeforepft, in our advertising columns. Nv,i, _are indebted to Dr. John H. TbontaS,ofGreat Bend, now in the " Ilomce• . .opathie Medical College of Pennsylvania," for a copy . or an able address delivered be fi?re the College by Charles J. Hempel M. D., Professor of. Materia Meflica and Thera parties, on the 12th of October, 1857. as The weather' has been very e,old here most of the time lor several days, but little snow has fallen.- ! A large quantity of rain "fell, Monday afternoon. '?' There been a Jarge fall of snow in Western New York and in Canada. The ladies of the M. E. Church in Mot . itrOte got $129, clear' 'of expenses, - by their re: cont. Ft stivel. They have made great improx:,-toentq in their Meeting House. .It s nolrolie of the neatest,: in its interior ap pearance., of any in the place, • tgr: The cause (if the financial crisis has been discovered at lasi. In the bogus Kansas Constitutional Convention, a " National Dent-- oemtie" orator , nsserted that the Free State atin were hired to remain in Knnsas, and that the amount of money used for that pur pose'yas so great - as io hav,e broken all the Noratern Banks! • A young man named William Archer was shot and killed by his younger lumber, Int,Ararat, this county,. on Saturday last.— It is said that a-Emily qutrrel, in presence of the father and mother of the deceased, had tar!a place, and, according to the dying dee bastions of the one who was shot, he had started to ran sway frem the house, and had. sate several rods, when his brother came out mid ithotlirti -with trifle. ' He died the next day, On Monday the accused,George,a boy of only some 15 or 16 years of age, was brought to Montrose by the constable, and lodged in jail. He, and we believe the other members of the family allege that the shooting was accidental. IteliifOmemsents are to be despatched to the s force now in Utah, from the Pacific side, via. California and Oregon. • The de tatitinents'of troops will be suffictently strong to put an end to the present hostile intentions ig-tbe Mormons. Court Proceedings.—Pirst Week On motion of S.. B. Chase Esq., C. A. Ly: elan was sworn `and admitted as an 'attorney tic., in the several courts of Stisquebanna *minty. - • ComtnOnwealth vs. Thomas Hoy. Surety of the Peace. Court sentence defendant that he enter his own recognizance with one good socuritY, in the : sum. - of .200, to keep the pence towards all good dawn of the cont. znordwealth and especi t ally towards Thomas Coi - , and pay the costa, and stand committed sentence be complied with. * * *. Commonwealth vs.tkichael Shaffer. In. dictAi2ent, Perjury. 'Grand Jury find ,bill " Ajnortenne," and ' the. Court sentence G. Snyder, the prosecute, to pay the costs of prfaecution, or give socurity within ten day* stsi stand committed _till sentence be corn. . Fried with, . Commonwealth v& Edward Clark . .ment, Assault and 13attery and Disturbing Election.' True Bi Verdict, tot guilty on the first count, and guilty on second count in the indictment. Commonwealth vs. William Vanhorn. In ,dicted fir keeping Tippling House., Bill flared, and County tepay thei r .0411. • Oiminonwealth Rufus D: Clark. In , dietnient, Adultery. Verdict, Guilty. Rule ti) Alow cause why judgment should. nut be atvY-.rrd, • 'Commonwealth *vs. Edward A. Kinney.-- ndietexi for Assault and Battery and disturb. flog Election, on return made by constable of Chogx inut. Bill tnoro, and County to pay 'the:costa. CORlEliOnWeSith TS. Willi's= Meeker. In. Cictenent, Nuisance. Verdict, Guilty. Sen. tense deferred till April Session, 1858. Commenw•ealth va.,Edmund Halstead.--; &Yet: , of the Peace. Delilah Halstead,Pros. acutriz. , Defendant sentenced to give bail in the sum of ...W3O, to 'keep the peace towards all good citizens of this commonwealth. and especially towards Delilah Halstead—the County to pay the eovt. - - Commonwealth vs:' Edmund lialstew:l. it D. Clark, prosecutor. Prosecution dis missed, and prosecutor to pay the costs. "D L. Meeker vs. Mark SuttOn. Appe.al. Verdict for plaintiff, for $43,03, and costs. . swum) WILSZIG , Court or venire fur Grand and Petit J ,in yer and Terminer, Quarter Sew , and Common Pima, to issue , returns. to January '4 , rm,.1858. Venire issued r, ,Noir. `Z3, 1i857.- t h lan, Jones, Co., vs. N. Y. 67, E. Rail void Company. Attachment. Verdict tor . defendant: . Plaintiffmici3pt to Judge's charge. fithiap., Jones, &Vo., vs. N. Y.& E. Rail. .rciad Campaoy. Attachment Verdict for Defoliant. Pisintiff4ezeepta to chive of 'Cant Jones do Co;, ta. N. Y. ic E. Rail. niad l Company. Attachment. Verdict Sof; Dideadalats. itioept to Judge's lar It is noticeable that many . of the Sham Donee-retie papers aro beginning 'to talk about new issues between 'political par ties,- The reason of this is evident enough. On the issues now existing between the Re publicans and the Sham Democracy, we are so-clearly and entirely in the Tight and they in the wrong, that the more intelligent of their' partisans perceive the superiority of our position, and know 'that nuthing but- a temporary blindness or infatuation on the cart of a portion of the people, has hitherto prevented the triumph - aver principles. By' the most desperate exertions or unscrupulous politicians, they have succeeded in sustaining a pro-Slavery party in the Free States ; but since pro-Slavery , doctrines are really unpop ular at the North, such a party can only pre vail here through falsehood and deceit, and as the people comelo understand the nature of the controversy,that party may expect to lose strength till it shall be everywhere over thrown. It is from a perception of this fact; that the Shamoctetic leaders are now casting about for sonic new issues whereby they may sustain the party at.. the North, and et the. same time enable it to pursue its pro-Slavery course, by which: alone it can-maintain its as cendency in the Slave States. The present financial difficulties are thought to, furnish a favorable occasion for reviving the old Bauk eontroversy. „ Accordingly, many -of-the Shaneicracy_ are indulging in wholesale denunciation of.all Banks, and pro pose to fight s(iine terrific battles with some body on the curi...ney, -question.. But the,dif ficulty is, they can find nobody to . fight. If their party propose any, improvements in our currency, they haVe a majority in Con gress and in the', Legislatures of most olthe Sates, and the Republicans would be glad to see those iniprovenients made. We like the jingle of gold and silver as well as anybody, and, Whatever the tonvenienceof the com mercial interests may require,should be glad to see those metals in . general circulation as currency among the people. If, therefore, our 'Hunker friends are not.shamming again, we expect before long to see gold dollars and eagles as plenty as blackberries; and if we don't, we shall hold the party in power re sponsible. For the independent Republican Letter :roil Lases. 'forms, Kansas T. Nov. 1, 1857. • BILOTIMR IL left Pennsylvania the 16th of October; and journeyed westward.- 1 have o no cornplaints':to make about our pro gress as long as we Ifullowed the railroads; but when we got on . board the Missouri steamer at Jefferson pity, we found we had altogether a different Isort of conveyance, for speed. Imagine a person of my tempos,- metit being obliged to wait the Motion of a miserable old :steamboat, that made a prac tice of sticking fait every now 'and" then on the numerous sand-bars that abound in the . Missouri river. You may not understand the process it is necessary to go through with, when the boat runs aground. in the first place it is required that the hands be under tie eiarge df a mate who can swear tremen douslY,and kick and cuir_thent about severe- . 47i1 They also ha se a. seetttlary_ineans— great levers and tackles attached to the front part of the boat, which they brace out in the sand,.and then windlass up the front of the boat, when, putting on ail 'the steam they dare to, they go , ahead perhaps a filat.• or two. Then they must re-tackle, and try it again. It is nothing 'uncommon to remain on a sand-bar several hours at a time. We were nearly four days in going to Leavenworth-- T ought to have gone in half that time. 11;d 'it not been for the good company we found on the boat, we should certainly have got' quite discouraged, I think. As it was we got! the worst kind of colds, but all say that is unavoidable on the Ilia• sou ri. We had the good fortune to fall in coin• piny on the boat liith Gov. Robinson and lady, who were very kind and entertaining'. The Governor, or Doctor, as Mrs. R. calls him, is rather tall and " spare, about forty years old--aloes nut shave—has a.fine spark ling eye—and looks like a very intelligent man, as he is. He walks about ataong men quietly. and unassumingly--speaks when spoken to. Mrs. R. is a nice little woman, about 25--always looking on the bright side of. everything—even when her husband was in prison, and when the law-and-o . rder men burned their house over their heads. We also had with - us a Northern Dough. face, from New. York city, who mixed in with some Kentuckians, and joined with all their views—which served to make it interesting to us. I wish you could have seen the Gov ernor sitting by, and listening to theireon versation. He, be ing , too much of a gentle man to break in tipon them, was obliged to sit and listen to their conversation for a long time, till our friend . Doughfaceiddressed me, and that turned the conversation in our di. section ; and after the Governor got hold of him, he wound him up in a very sbort time, • so. that be had to back off. He undertook to tell about Kansas affairs ; but he learned that he had found Somebody who knew more i • about the matter than be did. himselE He stated several things, and the Governor asked for some proofs;' but as that is an article they do not preteUd to keep on hand, he was obliged to give ii, up. Some little time after the ' , conversation,' one of the Kentuckians came and asked me if I knew that mon. I told him certainly 'I did. He asked if it was es• Governor Robinson. I told him it was not, but it was the Governor himself, without the Prefix.' - - We% we did ; at last get up to Leaved. Worth, Sunday noon. Got off the boat into the mud, end waded through it to the "Amer. lean House," where . 4fertound very good tie, comniodations for, weary travelers. - The city is very well laid' out, but very badly paved (with mud,) The etage leaves early in the morning, and generally seta to; Topeka soon after - dark ; but, Moody being rainy, it did not get, thretiet=root mitight, when we arrived at the end of oar; journey, nearly . tired'out. We did not have a my good . theace tottea the country threcgh• which we• rode, but)as far 45 WO did see it, looktd like an old, l in settled country—with a few exception of course, such as no fruit trees , not very - m y fences, nor very many good houses; . Topeka hassome good buildings, and v. oral very fine ones going np. it lies the of anx town that I have seen in the Territ4 If we succeed in getting the Capital es , fished here, it will soon - go ahead of an; its sister towns. , • We are all well, and very busy. . - C.' 1.1. For the independent Reptbteam 00132 g Home. MR. FRILZIRR :—Home again, and sit in one corner of the little east parlor, " th I to myself," I'll write the editor a lette Home is rather a. pleasant place, when getithere, especially where it is situati,, the conclusion of two hundred miles of roading. How I reached this conclusio am about to tell. After that ever•to.be•remembercd fares w•e thumped along over the irreguistion the plank-rnad, with feelings .which I ea describe. We were very much. agita We tried to sing, but the accents were ken. One of the . party, endeavoring to q from Tennyson - something appropriate: t occasion, made the following blunder : Stage wheels to right of theta, Stage wheels to left of them, , Turnpike roads undgr these, Rumbled and thundered, Hoofs dashed, the mud pell-mall, Boldly they rode,•and well; And, while they held their breath, Sang words, I couldn't spell, To the tone of Old Ilondied. •„ The jerks in the metre were occasion holes in the road. A young lady remit. ed; that the wheels were throwing mud et. TAch other. Very likely ; and when I put thy cad t i obit the window, th e bind wheel thou ,t I was the fore one, an d . the fore Wheel the gist I was the hind one, and the consequence fell upon the fi rstpersonsingular. We sto ped a few minutes at New Milford, and-after '•ard crossed asmall stream, the opposite ba k of Which, inclined at an angle of forty-fiv de grees or more, was dashed up in gallant tyle by our spunky cattle. I'll ne'er again de jpise Pennsylvania horses. , • .. -, • . We were quite jolly. One, young gebtle- - man, being asked if he had not left his I eart behind .him, replied that he - always carried it along in his carpet. bag. On reachiuli Gt. Bend, he found his carpetbag bad been left at Montrose. Query : where was his heb.rt ? The depot was reached, with-half an hou, to spare; as the train was somewhat bilind time. On the Montrose side of thecit . was a small grocery, whereat our eom and were brought forth several dishes of oys ra, li r' accompanied by the usual crackers, a d a cracked plate supporting what one of the)ys tc Called extract of cow. Its ingredients era combined on the masonic principle of imirtar for . ceilings,- with hair enottgh to make it stick. Shades of departed kine ! how many of you must have been chinked bp, homsl l and all, to produce it l Cover tip' the butter,and t bolt the oysters. , . In the cars away we'rolled, a merry lotn pony, our tongues keepingtlme to /foe , / khee Junk with variations,abl,4oThlaSed n - a duett by the two it on raili,of e lock and Erie six-foot gauge:744o N w chat' d chestnuts we eherrily chased the ienn rse through the changing scenery of the 8 til an haztna. Shooting along the tops of tall via ducts,looking down into the village chinitleys and guessing what they , had for dinner, we imagined whatever would bring eonsol4ion to the memory of the personal appearancle of that butter. Through the mountains about Deposit, and down the valley of the Mla ware, we rushed with the speed of an expF train making up loit time. Looking out Window, the young. lady who. thought' wheels throw mud at _each other, said The er ran the same way the railroad did. Delaware is a beautiful river, with its rocks and pines, its own clear waters, the horsed drawing the 'canal .boats on other side, giving life. and animation to whole. They are odd craft, those canal One of them with a lunge in the mid tae a lenion-squeeter,. and loaded with was yelept "the Lovely Girls," in probably of the twin daughters of "ye halt captaine." But I was describing the Delaware— did I get on a canal boat! Here and t amid all these romantic surrounding; will see the residence of a retired eitinni.— Its architectural design, is generally, bOirds enough to make a hen-coop, covering a h t ole in the ground. There, far from the ci t y's weary whirl, contentment dwells; enjoying the society of his pig, his children, and a lim ited number of cabbageis, which I supposelare very select. Bo we rode along the Delaware. It liras a pleasant ride, sive when now and then we bade good bye, as' one and anothei arri yell at the station where their destiny followed no longer behind the locomotive. After stop ping fifteen minutes for iirailroad supper at Port Jervis, vire crossed the vale of theev ersink, and, riding backward, to watch the -11 sunset, passed through the defiles, ot t . be Sliawangunk mountains into the grey wi light on the. other side. Here was the syni -1 ping place of my last companiOn. A sort of " lasvroseof-summer" feeling came over ' e. The last Normal studentleit :Whig alone, gorHis merry eompaniooa all tubbed and . It is not necessary' to loneliness thati no one be near you.: You often feel more of it in the crowded street, than in the so-called lonely woods. Why 1 Because you areiiie quainted with Nature; but strange fimies,hats, and overecata, aro strangers indeed. Riding backward, my thoughts - Dann:illy went in the direction of Montrose. In Ithe last ten weeks were formed many plesseint acquaintances. We said good bye that even ing with merry laugh and merrjerjoke„(so would I ever !ay good bye,) but how many shook hands for the last time! Bow plias ant it will be - when, in the future crcelng -and recrossing of our paths through life, iwe chance to meet ! I have finished , those rbytres which ion saw partially developed, and here they are, fondly dedicated to my Aglow 4 tn dents, wherever - fortune may have in them bisatukiii4: - Tes. there are memories of the pink Width ever.and forever Ms Ail* bobbies in Mk% psong; tide: Which break not in the ripple's glide. The !West 51c4 dower, Me flesh erlthtdorms in Memory's bower, When, swayed by fancy's gentle reign, We lire the moments o'er again. 'The had ranamktsnce of Will oft -a wear/ good beguile, With thoughtless. sweet as trained rhyme-- Blight atoeisfn the sand of Time. Such eiskseio poem:tire knows, Net' hesetit ea Mit distance grows, But ever, as wybekward gale, Lights up the gloom of darker days: The car lamps were lighted, and I amused myself with the imagination that the reflect; ed light on the stallhpipe, as seen in the win dow, *as a fiery spectre doing unheard of pe. destrian feats hilho adjoining fields. B - moving my eye sons to use different pat, of the glass, I collie make him undergo more transformations than are described in t Arasi4rn Nights Eniettaiftments. His legs were genet ally in the shape of a pair of tongs; occasionally he-tkihatrie a tripod, and in one corner of the winitow would do a double shuffle to perfection. But he was very troub lesome. It was .impossible to make him keep his feet on the ground, and he would walk straight throve apple trees, instead of going. around them. So I got tired of him, and, leaving him astride of Goshen church steeple, nade myself comfortable in an or. dinary manner until the last station , was reaehed,and atandipg on the platfoim I watch ed the red lanterns and illuminated (smoke. wreath of the departing train. So passed a day in the cars. —"Yvue friend, Wm. ing 3 ks ell, ' of not =1 1 ar The steamer - Atlantic arrived last 'night from Liverpool, with four 'days later intelligence. Theie. as it has been called, is prevailing . wi destructive severity, not only in Englatil t all over the Continent. The Bank . of Fran.w.lhas raised its rate of dis count, though out •4Liverpool•correspondent does not state to what figure. The Bank of Prussia has done the same, its new rate being 7-i• per cent, At Vienna the premium on gold has risen still again, and in 'Tolland and 13el gium, as will as Sweden and Norway,lhe distress is begint e llng to be most fainflilly felt. But it is ira i ngland)hat its intensity is the most fatal. , The great house of Den nistoun' Cross & Co. has gone by the board, and so has the Western Bank of Scotland at Glasgow, with many other establishments of less note, most oithem engaged in the Amer lam trade. The rnin promises to be quite as wide-spread aid thorough as that through which we have just passed in -this country.— The Bank of England has 'raised its rate of discount to 10 percent. Ceiton has fallen, with a stagnant market. .Our greatstaple is evidently on tbi - driwnward course, and we may be sure that it will now sink to a lower figure than it has been for years. The Brit ish manufactureffi being ruined, and there being no foreign demand for yarns or cali coes, there will he nobody to buy it, and the great crop of 1857 - stands-in danger of gping beg, , ing. From India:Urtnight's later news has been: received. .=e - capture of Delhi was consummated on pt. 24, and Lucknow has been relieved: 'Got Nicholson has died of hil wounds.—N, k ,- . 7. Tribune Nor. 28. ihigr lirigha*Aiiiting has declared war ainst.the Goverlment of the United States. e war aeparem c nt receives, among other iMpOrtant officier dispatches from Utah, a proclamation ' f him, declaring martial lair in the 'te . He claims the right so to act . by yirthe of his authorityras Gov ernor, . and Superlitlendent of Indian affairs, knd underLiEiet- 'tcirial organic law. to sitprogi :' = .e.,.. Unttod States troopl are kritT. • 7- . •,,, UAriitifity without hi permission, en. -" - whole tenor of the doe went is ih dec t d hostility to the Unit States Govern .. 1 .t." - ''; uo-f--- . Brigham Young knows; what all Who have studied the dotty of: Mormonism know, that be and his hare 'absolutely no choice, but either to acquiesce in the movement of the Union, and so beeome an insignificant sect among Peas, crto resist the Government of ; the l!mon , and as i re to the chance of*a'fiir • midable independ nee, lie has selected the latter alternative.- What will die fruits of tt:to himself. and his followers bet - ess the the At the first blab one would say, "Utter annihilation!" . IN_ for'. do we doubt that such most be the Anal 410'10mm:ion of a Positive Mormon war. it there are many things to be done and buena before this consumma tion can be rsachat . The Mormons are very strongly entrenebild in their continental Pal estine. Thairtillitnen won a reputation in the Meskiin War‘hicb deserves considera tion when upon their numbers.— Audishin we iion‘der in addition to - these Wings the faetlhalfrom the beginning Mor mantel hes imtailieed itSelrio the Indian to be of liuragna Origin, and has glorified the aboriginal raters of the Continent, .we may be sure that'the letter of Brigham YoUng to Col. Alexander, is 'but the beginning of , the end! 110 4 Stall land 1 1 the the `ats. di*, . • r;rl t air Flrrtbet &dries i from Mexico show the report of the assumption of despotic authority by President -Comonfort is true. Congress granted the extraordinary powers demanded, in secret session, held on the night of the 3d, in consequence of 'the critical condition , •of affairs. All the free institutions provided for by the new constitution are thus suspend ed. Greater ravages than ever are being committed Ail!ker the republic by the Indi ans. Rumors'of another Satanists demon stration on the coast were again in circulation, and it waa believed that. the war of Yucatan was mused by. Seaga Anna. The revolution or civil war in Yucatan still raged fiereelyfand terrible butcheries were perpetrated by the troops. At an attack on the suburbs' f anapest:by, the streets were raked with tHinidinoss fire of artillery, and men, women and children, without regard to age or sex, were sacrificed either from the mums or tbe brutality of the soldiery,'who were allowed ;to perpetrate the most abomi nable deeds. ' ARRIVAL al STSATOA SOMA AT ' BOSTON. .L-Ikerros,linesday, Nov. 19,:1857.--Sena tor Sumner, sar arriving herein the steamer Niagara thli alteirneon, was received by the Hon-Hestm.Wilsop, the Hon. N. P. Banks and Mr.Pbelps c and escorted to his residence, where a laws crowd bad assembled to greet him. After, seoeivsng congratulations from his may frieirds, Mr. Sumner made a few remarks to thee assemblage and retired amid loud arrdm4lrsiastia cheering. Mr. Sumner 'way kikiiredby thi Hon.. Henry Wilson in a short gee* wheal the crowd dispersed. Mr. Samna has been sick.duringthe en tire voyage r. _ but Ss health generally has been soinuell in:preyed that it is thought he will be ablitO resume his — seat in Congress at its °Peals& - GA.IIIII- ur Murmur Couvrr.--Tbe . Lewis town Mutat hae a, notice of the doings of Mr. John Treaster --of Armagh township, Mifflin ;minty, who aught in a common wolf trap six deer,- two bears and a pantter, in about The Gozeibt says : "By the signsotets:lnore *there are about! The one csught.asu be seen at the slaughter house of 4 t. Swatted; in Milroy. The trap used by Treaster is it opasmot wolf trap, weighing 14 pounds, sail it at about foqr miles *nib. Oat Of LOctlell MOO , • gar The Montrose Democrat falsely states that the Constitution farmed. by the . bogus. Constitutional Convention in Kansas, is to be submitted to the people. Forney's Philadel phia Press is more honest, and acknawledges the rascality of the usurping Contention. It says : . • " We publish this morning • the schedule adopted by the Kansan Constitutional Con vention. Contrary to what we conceive - to be the true intent and meaning of the Kansas- Nebraska Act, the resolutions of the Cincin- nati Platform, the inaugural Address of Mi. achanan, the recommendations of Governor ;Aker ' the pledges of many of the members that Convention, the general expectation .•! the country, and in defiance of the true rinciples of-liberal Democratic Government, th e at body has refused to submit its work fairly to the citizens of Kansas. There is no honest submission of the new Constitution to the action of the people. It is provided that they may vote for " the Constitution with Slavery, or for the Constitution Ai: i t hou Slavery," but, they cannot vote against the Constitution, no_matter how Much they may be opposed to its provisrief. They are not allowed an opportunity of saying whether they do or do not desire the document framed by this Convention to be their .fundamental law, slid 'by the abrogation of this privilege they are deprived ef the full exercise of that right of forming their • own - institutions, to which they are entitled by every consideration of justice and, right. • The proprised election is in a less complete and more offensive form than that by whiehLouisNapoleon obtained the. et:lnfra:a lion of his assumption of the position of Emperor from the French people. While he refused.. to give them •an opportunity to vote for such ,candidiites is they preferred, tie still submitted the proposition whether he shoUld or shOuld not be placed upon the throne. lie at legit gave them a chance to vote him down if they desired to do This right the Kansas Constitutional Conven tion has refused to the . p eople of that Terri tory. The pervading idea of demoeiatie government is, that all public representatives and officials are mere servants, whose highest l i duty is to guard the interests and carry out the will of a higher powerL 7 that of the people the only true sovereigns. The ConVention'. has. acted as though it was the master inkead, of the servant—as thou - 0 it was determined to fasten and make binding its action upon its constituency. This tatange, and unjust proceeding necessitates the conviction—that it St - Ili afraid of popular cinideninatior, afraid to trust its work - to the. free action of the people—afraid to do its duty, and to place the power of final judgnient upon 'its pr. ceedings where'it belonged—in the hands ) those most, deeply interested in them. It the Constitution suits a majority of the people of , Kansas. they would vote for it in any event, and it would become their fundamental law. If it does not confiirni to the views and requirements of a majority of the citizens of Kansas. they should have 'an opportunity of voting against it." In another article the Press sayi: "The drift of all the news from Kansas, by mail. and telegraph, shows conclusively that the so-called pro-Slavery.Constitetional Conventiu4 like, other 'bodies of which we have read, is another formidable instance of the adage that " whom the gods wish to de stroy they' first make mad.": Some of the propositions presented to that' Convention— which, be it remembered, represents a mere fragment of the roters of the Territory—would disgrace a despotism, others are merely ri diculous, while the whole aflliir looks to us, at this distance, as if the parties engaged in it had entered into a contract to. mortgage the new Stile to their own individual inter ests for a century to come. "There is a consistent disregard oft he peo ple manifested, a cool resort to trick, and an utter shamelessness, which - altogether make ups satire upon repro imitative bodies, suck as we have never before had the luxury to enjoy. The leading spirit in this Constitu tional Convention seems to be a person called "General Calhoun,•' who, we regret to say, was appointed frorn i the free State of Illinois, .by General Pierce, Surveyor-General of Kansas and Nebraska, and who in all his actions indicates a desire to imitate rather the character of a member of the French Senate employed to carry out the designs of Louis Napoleon, than the representative of *an honest American constituency. We give in another column some of the doings of this Convention ; and have only to say that if the Constitution 4 fabricated _by this body is sent to Congress, we trust , that short work will be made of it. It deserves nothing but contempt. If &has a single merit, it is its `consistency withtile fraud and *crony which it is intended to Arpetuate, and from. which in great part it hat grown. ' - The idea of a set of men chosen as delegates to this Convention attempting to bind posteritl to their work, and daring to nullify in advance the will of the ma foray, is to monstrous that we wonder the out rage did not excite the whole people to civil war: The usurpation becomes the more amaz ing when we reflect that these very men - who are trying to fix upon the Territory the rule of a minority, were vociferous in denouncing the Topeka Constitution, which set out with asserting a similar principle, and was repudi ated by Congress and the country. "In speaking of doing,s like these, we feel that it is idle to mince phrases, and ‘ie sin cerely hope that if the Constitution of Kansas is anything like the instrument it promises to be, from the- intelligence we lay before our readers this morning, it will, when pre sented to the Congress of the United States, be thrown out of both branches by a unani mous vote. At any rate, we trust that . the Senators and Representatives tromPennsylva-_ nia will boldly and at once put theirfeel upon 14 and spurn it as it deserves to be spurned" On this same point, the St. Louis - Demo- - crat says: The Constitution, framed , as we have stated, recognized and perpetuated Slavery in Kansas, but a separate clause was framed, providing that "slaves might hereafter be imported and held in Kansas ;" and it was further provided that it should be submitted to the . - people to vote for it in this form "For the Constitution with Slavery"—that is, theiclause for introducing slaves hereafter; or, " For the Constitution without Slaiery" —that is, for a Constitution which recognix, and perpetuates Slavery, without the clause admitting slaves to be hereafter introduced. But is no event are the peopl e permitted to rots against .the Constitution framed in Le compton by the vilest set of vagakonds and miscreants on the earth, under the protection and authority of the United States army, and which recognizes and 'perpetuates Slavery.—. Thus masked, the Constitution .produced 'at . Lecompton is worthy to. rank with the other acts of the National-Democratic.-party, the offspring.of Southern arrogance and despot ism,and Northern perfidy and fraud. South ern arrogance, platitft Slavery in the fair. Territories of the Union in order that, the slaveholding oligarchy may wield universal power; and perfidy and fraud, to _conceal the subserviency of those Northern dough faces from the free white laboring men, whom they have betrayed by the surrender of their rarer:: Slavery. Will Douglaiand his, d*Dougbfitcea be. able still kinger: to deceive the. working . men Of' the Nonit. , and make them believe that the :people of Pow hove bgett "left perfectl! hsce. their own domestic institutions," when the Federal army in Kansas, through' tion of the roost abandoned Miscreants, have thus forced Opon them a Constitution recog nizing and perpetuating Slavery, leaving them free only to accept or reject a clause for slave importation / Can the juggle, of words in- serted by such demagogues as Walker - and Douglas, " For the Constitution with Slavery, or for the ,Constitution without Slavery," deceive anybody into,,the belief that the question of Slavery hakibeen submitted to the people, when theesizwitution, which they are not permitted to Vote against, not only admits, but makes Slavery perpetual and irrepealabler - - Tut' GREAT DEMOCRATIC Lts.—No lie, within the memory of men now engaged in the held of polities, has been so obstinately! adhered to as that which said.that thejaemu cratic party was in favor of Freedom hi Kan sas. Although often refuted and exposed, if been as often revamped, and many hon est men have come to believe it true. It carried Pennsylvahia, Illinois, Indiana 'and New Jersey in 1856, and it has given the nigger Democracy its show of triumph in the fall elections of 1857. But at last, the Democracy themselves have furnished a doc ument that putts the question _at test forever. We refer to the Report of the Committee on Slavery in the Kansas Constitutional Con vention, every member of which is a NatiOn al Democrat. That report we published the other day, accompanied with the fact that it passed that intensely Democratic body al most unaniu.ously. It is a fair and untram. melled expression of Democratic opinion—of a body of Democrats without the taint of a single member suspected of Black,'-Republi canism, sitting under the protection of the bayonets and cannon of the ,Federal power, and carrying out, doubtless, the wishes and embodying the principles of those in the North and South, for whom they act, and by Whom finally they must be sustained. By-and-by perhaps the people-will wake up to a knowl edge of how much they have been deceived by the lying • promises and pretences of the falsest party that ever existed.—Pittsburg Gazette. THE GREATEST SWINDLE YET !--51,000 ACRES Ol PUBLIC LAND SOLD AT 'FOUR CENTS AN Acaxl—We have intelligence, from the West of another swindle just consummated by the land agents-of the Goiernment, the audacity of which surpasses even that of the famous Fort _Snelling fraud. The Fort Ripley Reservation, inMinnespta, 'consist ing of fifty-seven tholisand• acr6i of land, was on Tuesday, Oct: ,'27, kndcked off at_ auction to some Democratic speculators, at -the rate -of four cents per acre!--fifty-Seven thousand acres of as good laud as Minnesota. holds, worth at the lowest estimate of culti vators of the soil, five dollars per acre ; and for which - the governmetit could have re ceived one dollar and twenty five cents per acre on the day of sale. • In'short,' fifty seven thousand acres of land have,been donated to knaves for $2,280, instead of beir sold to farmers and actual occupants fur $61,1450 orinstead of being made to bring 'irtVo the treasury its . full worth, $285,0004,71 We think it is not speaking utireasonablYYsMar acterize this transaction as equaling in lazily anything ever perpetrated- by any set men or government in any age. By it thepeo, the tax-payers of the country" are swindled out of an immense amount, for the 'Jett of, a few politicians of the dominant .pa• There .is • not even the excuse that thrl land was sold to actual settlers. HOW; THE PEOPLE OF, KANSAS REGARD THE NEW CoNsTrruttosr.—.A gentleman who left Atchison, K. T., on the 13tb, - called on us yesterday evening and gave us the lat e st in telligence...from Kansas. There was not muelt . feeling in the Territory on the subject of the Constitution framed by the bub•ttail Denniet'atic Convention lately adjourned.--. The total vote that elected the members of ,that Convention Aid not much exceed 1500, the - voting population of the Territory now is between 15.000 and 20,000, so that the free State Republican party are quite confident in their own strength, and quite in dependent as.to how soon the' slavery Consti. Tinton is elected in the Territory, and as to how quickly',Congress may admit. Kansas under the Constitution. After the admission, then they intend to d 6 some- " tall work," and take things entirely into their own hands; as they have the power and the votes todo • . . The clause in the Constitution providing that it shall not be amended within the next • six years, and that other-clause which fastens slavery upon the Territory, whether or not; are quite jocularly receiveirly the free State people.—St. Louis .Detn.- ANOTHER KANSAS COMINO.—The ortniza tion of the Indian territory south of ansas, of which the Cherokees are now the princi pal inhabitants, will probably come. before Congress this winter. It will be recollected that Gov. Walker, of Kunsas, in one of his many messages, suggested to the slaveold ers as a consolation for the: probableloss of Kansas, that the . Indian country on the south would soon be open - to them and . that .they could without doubt make a Slave State of that. John Ross, the head chief of theCher okeesi in his late annual message to thecoun eil of his tribc alludes to this suggestion of Gov. Walker; and recommends that a -dele gate be sent to Washington to make: final and definite arrangements with the _Govern ment. Neoiho is the name proposed fur the new Territory. One scheme is to cut it,up into two or three Territories, to be =de in to Slave States thereatter,iand ' thus secure Southern preponderance mithe United States Senate. As soon as it is opened fur settle. ment there will naturally occur the same uggle between Freedom and Slavery in its. settlement that has taken place in. Kansas. - • A Nix Movraisirr.—A correspondent of the Providence Journal, writing from Dix on, Illinois, says: - " A good :nova has been made by the la , dies of Dixon, Illinois. Some twenty of the daughters of Rhode Island,now residing her 6, have resolved that until every factory and'eal ico ' establishment of their native- State is again in successful operation they will neither purchase nor ,consume 'any fabric, unless of American manufacture; and will give the preference to the labor of their native State. The sons of Rhode Island, alio residing here, have adopted a similar resolution, and tea of them will appear next week in new suits of broadcloth,, the materials of which were fur nished by Rhode Island factories." Qom" Taking the vote for Governor hat year as the measure of the strength of , the respective parties in our State, and that for-Seetwtary. of State as tha test this year, and the comparison is as follows : 1856. Rep. 264,400 Am. "130,870 Dem. 198,618 isn. Rep. 117,449 Am. 66,895 Dail. 195,685 Falling off, .88,96 i , 63,05 2,041 The bold gain of . the Detnuerats, Lot. withstandin the aid and conkfort eatended to theta byt6 Pro-Slavery Know• Nothings, Is just no gain .at all. They have simply brought out their vote; while, that savers* to them ,staid at honae.--Ir. I". Tribune. f ar We never yet knew e , man disposed to ;corn the, hurnble;_itho was not himself -11 !sir object cireoup to the 44tchltiti A OOWPIIND/Mll OP /MVO. A man in Oakland while In a fit of nightmare, dreamed that he was a horse and that hli wife was a hostler going to curry him dowil. At this point in his dream he kicked his spouse out of bed. .... The Memphis Eigk says that city is the best point in the Union for medical stu. dents ,to learn anatomy: Frfth-killed sub jecti:are to be had. every morning at, the dead•house. ....A new mode of stealing hogs-is now in fashion in the neighborhood of Taunton, Mass. Chloroform is administered and then they "are removed from- their pekivithout s squeal. . ....Dull times are perlutPs the Very (lest for advertisers. What , little trade is ;going, on they get, and whilst others aregrrimblieg they pay their way, and with the newspaper A 4 a life preserver, swim on the top of the wafer, whilst others are sinking "II around. ... Caere, who WU lately loontitted of manslaughter at Hoboken., •N.• for the. murder of 1)e firanval, hit been senkTeed simply to pay afiqe,of $1000: The.appear; to be the price of& human lifh, in do %clay, ' ....A Washington earrespoodant ofthe Baltimore Sun, • writes :`", The, Otatiliiiillts of - issue-are clearly 'unconstitutivn# l .llPd so the {,resent Justices 'of the Supremevoid.of thel . „ United States will decide. when die : guelitkoi shall be distinctly Made before ibent",. , ... Last weelt, "Joel Sehoonhotety 100 years of age, was diecharged frorn - Sing Mug. State Prison, having been pardoned by 'the: Governor. He was committed for life fie arson. He is a nativie4 Orange.county; and reached the age of a century, in prison, on. the 4th of July last. He saw Washington at Newburgh during the war. .. A now Comet, a faint teleseopi . ,.. cap parition, was disci:nerd at Cambridge (V ) Observatory on the evening of the Its place was near 'Theta Dramas. " - .The discoverer was Mr. Horace P. Tuttle,Assis tent at the Observatory. Tito is th e sixth Comet found this year, and the thirteetithCi)b served first at Cambridge. .. The good people of Marblehead, Hasa., are puzzling themselves over a mete oric stone, weighing six or eight hundred pounds, which they "have fotind,lately on Ric. • er- Head Beach. It is supposed to have Eillen" in May. It is a solid mass, ten feet in diem cter, nonelectric, but sulphurcous. The un der surface is porous; - . ~. The Democratic editor at Little Rock says that it puzzles him to tell when the , banks do most harm, !when - tliey pay specie Qt when they don't. - 7 6 ,,p presume he would be still more Puzilet cto..tell .whether the O i State :of Arkansas wo .d 4 most harm by paying her debts or nh k ~ xing them, as she .has never made an experiment of the former operation.—Lou indite Joarnat. .... The Easton .Argus mentions an. dent of an old gentleman recently 'deceased in Lehigh county, who bad been suspected of having oonsiderable money ip bis house,:al though no one-knew the athount... On exam. ining the premises after his death, no lea than eleven thousand ,dollare. were found in. specie, which` he had _doubtless. been saving and conecaling fu: many years. • .. The large dailies of Chicago have re. duced the size of, their sheets, in.consequerce of the dullnesi Of advertising. At Daven port, lowa, the dailies have diminished the size uf. their pas by' mutual affreement. In Milwaukee; the .America'& trii been' united with the News; (Democratic) ,At ‘ lluffalo the iwages of compositori have been lowered by the newspaper publishertt. N ewb ury rt era , a rab id httiiht paper during ,the- late earopaign,,in Massachusetts, is fast coming to its , senses. Speakiiig of the'Republicans, it says; , " There appears to be no doubt that in a fair contest to-day, they . would" earry every- - State they did last year, and by quite as hirge majorities: • If the parties can be re• duced to two, With the additional States That will be admitted before 1460, they will be in a position to stoutly cont the:next Presi. dericy." - • They hive a "Fleur 44esgue" at Hollidaysburg, and on_Seturday last. it sent au order 'to Pittsburgh Kor .twenty-four bar rels-of extra &mily, which i• to cost $564 delivered to the subscribers. This, of course, ineludea the freight,* which iiabout 37 cents. The Same quality. of err- retails here at $7 per 'barrel, and the freight thereon trim Pitts- ' burgh, alive leirn from the agent, is 75 cents so that" the entire' coat of a barrel of flour purchased it Pittsburgh and deliiered at the doors of the, substribera in .this city .would be $l3:--a saving of just $1 to the consumers. —Harris6grg Telegraph. . .... The ladies' via single church in MO line, Mass., hoe raised $790 for the relief of the poor in that town. The Oswego nears .of Nov. 21st, publishes a list of fifty vessels now on their 1 'way from the upperlakes for , that port, with 700,000 bushetls of wheat, principally, from Chicago. his estimated that- half a million - bushels will be here on the close of theemal, All the milli are in operation. ... The Patent has ,r(4;teit" from William liakewell, of ittebnrg; Ph.;iiheet Of paper made from the Chinesp,iittgO' r .clMN. The color of the paper is tairsEimtfts telettnre firm, compact; tough and weltad waled wail requirements_of bank note r. ' • . Ritearnow cir Neu, Dow kr Boaros.--- Boarow,Nov. 20.—A public toee iea of Neat Dow took place last night at Abe - Tremont Temple, The - building was Crowded with Sons a Temperance and others: `'Ad were made by Senator' WSsoc, airr.•l bow, and others. - .•3 - . • • G 0 W _OO Ett _ hog is the very quitstemisisiof sere feta and carbonic-Imnd glut, 4be wboestli it mos not epect thereby - physics' organism. AVON iteoLatributea beat, not the twentieth part of it-us mtrcige.ti—tite base of muscle." An exchange give* tatbis paragraph, which we cordially endorse as being sound practical ruth. It is materild fur breath and nothing mere--see Liebeg, and Other orpitie chemists - and, pbisiologists; itmakes• no' red meat or muscle.. The primfightwiti ni slicreed to eat it kali that ta not assastumetthy the lung!'" remains to elogithelsodpirtth ist.—&iestaf• ic icon. : ' • " . „ Accoamonarnto Bans,--..bir. A - Moodie ter; of Western Nil* NOrk i ; tiall'PraVattlY the MO" aMOMMOdliging - of ,liew* round.", place over,&bole ititbeicpor hii hives large. glass - tumblers;rarerear— !The bees , coins up 'bre:ugh:Abe, lud fasten their comb and ,boaefits, ;be inside of the tunibiere in the - most momioint-rostmer fiowsible, beautifullyelviat and whittct -When each glass is filled,tbe.beectOslovr, the tumbler is taken otr, awl then ,hvit:nicst jar 13( honey alresty- put .up for'ffsositi- see PY the bile* - ISetiteelvAno.. • (Wolider-it44101) - an , ram .Anr _.. "Sambi if'2 it •=r rgantn ft 1.7 L'istitp° -$Ol4 ci "ONO ~ ; Ficre° kay- , „ • • de 54.aetth , 4 II U
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