Iqaepegaeqfileimbiie4l). C. F. READ if 11. H. FRAZIER. EDITORS. F. S. LOOA IS, CORATSPONTISG EDITOR. listittlitosz. I.i; Thursday,,,Doceauber 10, 1867. tir3V4) ant' again - Under obligations to nott:' ' 4 1." A. - Grow ,fin.- public documents. . • arGoiternor Pollock has appointed;tht. • rid WiltOt to be President Judge r of the 131 i J:pliciALTkistract. The term of office 06E110400 on tie . Ist day of the present .r month end Wntinttes one year: At the next • getter:al election, the office :will be .filled by an'. chicane. lar A Morse was seized with blind stag gets'? in this borough on Saturday last, and sniggered int . ico's grOcery. If he had called forieei., it Might hate been thought that he wiiliketothe two egged animals, too drbnk to know,* had had enough—but he didn't. vTfie Williamsport Independent Press does not weak well of the consistency of citizens ibh call upon it to notice all sorts of eiltlbititeijaira; concerti and celebrations, gratuitously-, ird withhold their job 'work from it. 'lt certainly is poor economy in busitiess.rno to go to the city for ;job work and blanks when they ,can be , procured at home; ta r Senator Douglus,'Governor Walker, and Col. Forney, have becom4 " Kansas Sttriekeren What -say our reoy.to4wal lair-anything hunkers, in this regi.,. to that? Er The Tributzs's Washington corres pondent says, "The President has appointed Mt Anderson, the late Commissioner, and Mr. Streeter, the late Solicitor, to tempura ry places elsewhere, and . did not supersede them till their, resignsticmt- were freely ten " dered,, Previous committals alone induced the.cininges:" ' Vet: reporter, who is an enthusiastic .ad • • miter 4)f hoise-desh, and excitable on the sub je6tef left, is responsible for the follow- SihiCiate assures us is substantially cor rect.] GILICAT RACE: ON YES MONTROSE AND &IGOR ' LYN. COVESIITRZIEENDOVII EXCITYMINT— Dui. "PUMA RUNNING AGAIN—A nes chiESTIGIII--.4.RDITRATORS AND ()MIMS. On Wednesday, December 2, 1857, there tixic, : ptice one of the most extraordinary races ever knoWit in Susquehanna County.— Dr. R. Thayer, jr., had bet with Wm. M. Post, Esq., a gold watch against Post's horse, that he (Thayer) could go from Montrose to Brooklyn and back on foot,quicker than Post . could drive his horse he same distance,.with another man in his liggy with him. \ The trial of speed accorditgly was commenced Wedne ; s,day morning, -the very muddy state. of the , roads' fiivoring, the Doctor. , They. started out by the Methodist Church, and Thker t throwing off his !alas!, coat, and vest; slapped his hands together and started down the hill, full speed, with W. M. Peat and D. D. Winds after him in the buggy. Thayer kept ahead up the hill by the "Dunn Place," ami.ishen the buggy reached the top of the hill, be was out of sight. Here Hinds put on the-whip, and they overtook the Doctor and passed Aim at Cul. Watrous's, three miles from: Metitrose. They described the Dr. . as puffing and blowing almost as hard as their sorrel, which by the way had the heaves. In passing they bade the Dr. good Morning, and Hinds told him they would go on to Brooklyn and have dinner ready by the time he.iould get there. But in going up " New ton. Hill," which is both long and steep, the Dr. get ahead again, and then (as his com petitors state) called to his brother,--who in company with Tarbell, of the Franklin ho tel, Was following , in another buggy ,—to bring up his horse. Here Tarbell alighted, and the other put whip to his horse, passed Pot and Hinds, and &me up with the Dr., by taking liuld Of the hind end of the Loge, fled' up the hill in fine style. Post al leged that this wai violation of the terms of the Ince, and referred to Tarbell, but Tar bell-declined to give' an opinion, and here turned-back to Montrose. On reaching the top of the hill , Post and Hinds saw the Dr. Ar-nigm*, still as , they thought in suspicious prntimity to his brother's buggy. , They ' gin .... 1 — put on the whip, Aid reached the hotel t, Brodlyn shortly after the Dr., they hat :Ore the distance, a little over seven rniles,:throngh the deep mud, in one hour and five minutes, and the Doctor in two minutes ...rt. less time; On their arrival, the Dr came out of the hotel's nd started back, and they fullnived.— Thiy 'alMost overtook him again near Col. • Watmei, but he kept the lead in splendid style, although - they received occasional re ir ports froiidenta.along the route, that he was riding with ; bis — brcither. Some or them inquired if the Dr. was crazy. • The Dr. and his *other: dewy that htk rode, and the fentiee-alleges that there was no violation of '.tbeterms in his holding on to the bug,y.— Viiils.i!ost and Hinds were coming down /UAW by the "Dunn place," the Dr. was Aseencrpg the Oppnitite bill, and they reached . town about :ominutes after he did. The case was referred to arbitrators, viz., W.X.Ha 'tell, F. Fraser, and J. F. Dunmore, whotnet, the next evening, but from the ab sence of material witnesses, or other causes, stymied fOr the oysters, and contimsed the egotill the ftilloWing evening. ,After sever 411401te.sdfwnmoutz,..and much difficulty eirgoi- wituesseslvho could not find convetliept . te attend the Conic - but were itieitrititAmittri fop discuss the comers, iriZterpacryes • , :4 * WithgteAntlykOami wig -- alio :ti,Acor `-relliiiiris feu& tovia !Ali' fetisate r t . rapt in amen 'of erimpry One objection tarbrought ' think without cause—amtinst tbritepUblirr party, is, that it is sectional. ThTe doughhte rP er 9rF: l 9o 0 /ia3t4* , And noldinibtiii* of ithe . lessoptelltteitCef their treaders bet the ttare is some `-truth in the aiwathm. But tl are,toer told that, howettei\aectittonl - thelionople'esf the North may be in their feelings, those of the South are much more to. Indeed, in the South sectionalism - of the bitterest kind teems to be the habitual and general tone2of - public feeling, and the man echo is not intensely Sotithein, or sectional, conitidered.unpa triotic..., WOde in); draw thislnferene4 from the tone of Southern party politicians, each:- slvefd dui freiniinany ,Oahe soirees al Well; For instance; we North Carolina paper, the Weldon Patriot,. ofFor. 19, 1857, a prospectus 4>r a new literary magnzine.- 7 - Now, one would say that sectionalism should be excluded [put' such an ,enterprise,. if from anywhere, and yet this prospectus is , full of of it. In fitet the editor seems to base Its hopes of success chiefly on the 'sectional feel ings of Southern readers. Read :bit prospeCtus below, and see how the literary men talk,.at the South, and then say low.. sensible. those Northern men are who act - with the pro-Sla very or Southern _party, beatuse they, cannot countenance sectionalism: Stedman's ,Salent Magazine. Is to be the ,titk of a Literary Periodical, to be published Monthly, in the town of Salem, North Carolina, by ANDREW J. ETEDMAN, a member of the North Carolina bar. In °feting to the public my Magazine, I claim for the Editorial Chair no superiority over the department of other like Periodicals ; but I claim for the talent of North Carolina, and the South generally, that will be btnught to its suPport, Southern patronage. And I also, as a Southern man, and the &Moroi's South ern Magazine, claim at the hands of .the Southern country, and especially of North Carolina, that aid and support that will here, at home, establish, upon a firm basis, a fountain of Literature, and exclusively a Home Literary Magazine. • Many are the Magazines now published in the Northern States that are flooding the whole Southern country. There is not, (it is probable,) a county in any Southern State that is not visited by " Harper." '" Graham," "Peterson," or " Godey ;" while here in North Carolina and the South, where genius unsur passed and unequalled reigns, the literary talent that is brenight into exercise is dedicated to the sup port of Northern Magazines, while Southern enter prise, taste and talent bow in bumble submission to such suicidal policy of Southern contributors. Why, I ask, cannot-we—North Carolina, the South —send greeting to our Anaheim clime a Magazine, acceptable for the many qualities that adorn the pages Of the most chaste, elegant and' polite Periodicals? It is true that the South has her Magazines, Wine in number are they, and unknown, compared .to the publications at the Niorth, which every mail brings to our homes, filled" with the result of hind labor, and teeming with unpardonable sedition. Then Varpeal to North Carolina and other South ern States to aid me in my enterprise , and in promo ting' a Millar,' taste amongst those upon whom as a Southern. man, I have claims. - • My Migazine will be of the usual size ; and nettl ing will be admitted to its pages but such articles as will meet the approval of the most fastidious. It shall be Illustrated with _Engraving! and Plates of. the most elegant texture, eqrialling in beauty and style any executed at the North. My price of subscription is THREE DOLLARS per year, which is required to be. paid in advance, as the expense to be incurred in establishing such a publi cation will not admit of a credit system. or The first Number will be issued Ist January, 1858. A. J. STEDMAN. OctobTr Bth, 18n, ! Editor and Prop, W .- A - telegraphic dispatch apper.red in:a part of our last week's issue, giving the glad news that Fernando Wood, was defe:►ted for Mayor bf New York.. Tictnaan is elected by about 200 majority, but we hare not yet the official returns. " gar The New York Times says that since the introduction of iron screw steamers' we hare begun to lose the supremacy we had acquired even over Great Britain in the ocean carrying trade; and that the introduc tion of monster ships such a• are now build ing in England, may cause the selection of some other point, having, a ;deeper harbor than New York, for our commercial empori um. The Leviathan, the monster ship now in process of construction in England, is to be sent to 'Portland instead of New York, for the avowed reason that there is not sulfa• cient depth of water in the harbor of the lat ter city to float her. g A Jackson correspondent (one 'True') writes to inform us that not long ago a big hawk, measuring four feet and tour lathes from the tip of one wing to that of the other, met with what in hawkdom will be consider ed an untimely end, by the hand of Mrs. Harriet Larrabee, of that township. The winged marauder had been in the habit of carrying. yeir Mrs. Larrabee's fowls, till at length, growing bold, be chased a chicken "five or "ix times around the house, and final ly caught him under a- rose bush, ahem the heroine aforesaid, attracted by the outcry Of her feathered filvorite, in articulo mortis, ran to his rescue, caught the balk, dragged him to a log; (getting her clothes badly torn in the Operation,) and cut his head off! Vir The Atlantic 3fonthly, for December, is - accounted by many as a better number than the first. The Atlantic is certainly very attractive, and its list Of able and brill. iant contributors cannot fail to place it high in the roll of popular periodicals: The De cember number contains "Florentine Mosa ics ;" (continued ;) " The Battle of Lepanto," a splendid and grephic sketch of a sea-fight; "The Wind and. Stream," a beautiful poem, which will be found copied on our fourth page; "Turkey Tracks," a humorous New England story, which we also copy ; " Robin Hood," a curious inquiry as to , the existence of the bold outlaw of the green-woods, famous in old English ballads and romance; "The Ghost Red ivivus," a ghost story with a morn'!; The Golden Mile-Stone." a poem ; " The 'Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," another brilliant tissue of wit and fancy woven by Oliver 'Wendell Holmes; "Thomas Carlyle, an appreciative sketch of that great but ec centric genius ; " The Button Rose," a truly beautiful story ; " Our Birds, and Their Ways," a chapter in Massachusetts ornithol ogy ; "The Indian Revolt ;" " Skipper Ire son's Ride," a poem ; "Solitude and Socie ty," an essay, said to be by Ralph -Waldo Emerson ; "Akin by - Marriage, (contin ued ;) "Where Will.lt End 1" an able and eloquently written article 'on the 'slavery question, said to be frOin the pen of Parke Godwin, and of course ant' i-Blavery ; Literary Notices, &c. put,14 4 6 :4 1, by. Phillips, Si . !upon,: & Co., 13 Winier St. iluston, at $3 a year, or 25 cents a number.-- .. • oriak• qativ.ator, puldizud mon this .at in:,..y., 1• 44i, L Tuquir**•l**, - st ,1 :gotta *year,* ireltkixml as szi-skiisAg 4 etotilturiii periodlal.- A vat igoo' COW- Oenoes,itt January. • • • ofThe changed front 'of be F istration on the question of stibtni the cdkititutlitn tbrrople is atttweatisg 9i4hatteatitaftind Tog* 'deep feleli*.throughciiit tbeliaintrr. - -; Th ,i 12014 sOlienkit pledghs that 041 be. fi w , were Atran , hy, ::1110014paq . ogsd 'llsta***e Part, that IA MPrmlif thermistitutianl should be subm4ted to the peolile„ Thie pledge was repeittbd in every form-;•Lamf, it is now / violated in the most deliberate and shamiftss manner. It is of interest at this moment .- to lookat 'the. record. Us cello* ing„estructs_will sOpyr what these itledges are: [Frontjk f A g iiitss" Iftentska Bits' ki:o. :- It being the intent end 'Meaning of '61:111 nctitiolegialaterilarery into any Territory .or,,State, nor exclude, it therefrom; butte leave' the pcople • thereof perfectly 'free :to form and, regulate their domestic institudons in ,their Awn way,SulOect to the Constitution Of the United States: ' Resolution ofitte-Cineinnatireanetratkalenttoll. • Rooked,' That we recognise the right-of ths reopk of all the Territtiries,; including Kansas-and Nebraska, Ammo viaorop ?HZ LEGALLY AND ranti.v EXPANDIIIID mil OF A MAJORITY OF ACTUAL, DZSIDIENT; and wh never the number of their inhabitants justifiei it, ea ftrat-a Constitution, With or without domes• tic slavery. and be admitted, into the.pnien upsts terms of perfect equality with other States. • ' [Non President Buthanan's Znastsnirn " What a conception then, was it h}l grew to apply this simple rule—that 1) of the majority shall govers—to the rnent of the question of domestic slay) the Territories :" 'But be this as it may. it is tl.e imperative and indispensibk duty o/ the Government o/ Me United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free and rndependent eepression of his opinion by his vote. Tors RIGHT OP RAM( INDIVIDUAL MUST /1 SERVED (From' Goo. Walker's Letter MIAs PiTaident, ins his Appointinext.] " ° I understand that Yost and your e. hind cordially corcur in the opinion express . by me, that the actual bonafide residents' of the Territory of Kansas by a lair and reinder vote, unofected by fraud or viokner,- ust be permitted, its adopting their State C themselvesin stitution to decide for themselves what i shall be their social institutions. This is the great fundamental principle of theactrof Cones organizing that Territory, affirmed b the . Supreme .Ct.' nirt of the United States, and is in accordance with the' views unifOrrnb , ex pressed by me throughout my public career. I contemplate a peaceful solution of thisiques- Lion by an appeal to the intelligence and pa triotism of the people of Kansas, who simuld, all participate freely and fully in this decis-' ion, and by a majority of whose voted the decision must be made, as the , only. an con- stitutional mode of adjustment. "'I will go and endeavor to adjnithese difficulties, in the full M confidence, as A ugly tr i expressed by you, at. 1 will be sustain d by' your _own highwutbority with the cord' I co. operation of your cabinet." - lIIISTRUCTIONIII-TO 00VIRNOR WALK= " There are two great • objects comieleted with the present excitement, growing elt of ine the affairs of Kansas, and the attain t of which will bring it to a speedy termination. These were clearly and' succinctly stated in the President's recent Inaugural Address,!and I embody the paragraphs io this communica ts Lion asking your 'special attention to dem. It is-declared in that instrument to be the imperative and indispensible duty of_theFor ernment of - the United Stoles to new! to every resident inhabitant the tree and trade pendent mord:ion-of his-opinion by his vote. This sacred right of each individual muSt"be preserved; and that being accomplished, rloth ing can be fairer than to leave the people of a Territory, free from all foreign mterference, to decide their own destiny for themselves, subject only to the Constitution of the United States. " Upon these great rights of indiridva lion and of pu&lic decision rests the found& of Americon institutions; and if they care faithfully secured to the people of Ka' nisas, the political condition of the country will soon beclme-quiet and satisfactory, rhe institutions ofKansas should be established by the rotes of the people of Kansas, unawed nd uninterrupted by force or fraud. And for eign voters must be excluded, come wherce they may,-and every attempt to overawe or interrupt the free exeaeise of the right of lot ing must be properly repelled and punished. Freedom and safety for the legal voter, iind exclusion and punishmezt for the illegal pne —these should be the great principles of ybur administration." front Walker's iaaapsrat Address, approlvd bj t the whole Cabinet. " Unless the Convention submit the *Nation to the rote of all the actual resi settlers of Kansas, and the election be fit and justly conducted, the Constitution be, and ought to be rejected by Congress." j Frost Got.. Walker's Topeka Speech.] " I will say to you, gentlemen, that if t ey do not - appoint a fair and - impartial model by. which the majority of the actual bonaPde resident settlers of Kansas shall cote , throtigh the instrumentality of impartial judimit, I will join you in all laWful opposition to their doings, and the President and Congress *ill reject the Constitution. I say to you that unless a full and fairlop portunity is given to the people of Kansai to decide for themselve.s what shall be the form of government, including the great seetkinal question which his so long divided yi.4— unless, I repeat, they grant you . such an lop. portunity, I have one power of which no pne man or set of 'men can deprive me, and to which I shall unhesitatingly resort, and Oat is to join you in latsfed opposition to thei acts.' [Cries of " Good, good." and loudiap plause,during which the Governor withdr9w.) A Washington correspondent of the re, bune, speaking of the misunderstanding 1 be. tween President Buchanan ' and Sen ator Douglas, says of the latter : It is currently reporied that his Ohio friiend Steadman, who came here stronglyreob,,m mended for an important post, was tne by Mr. Buchanan with the blunt remark : " ir, you did all you - could against me at the in cinnati Convention." Steadman, as soot as he had recovered from the surprise w ,ich this observation occasioned, replied : "Tilt., Sir; I did support Judge Douglas in that Convention, because I believed him the ablest and fittest man presented. lam of the same opinion, still. I wish 'you good morning 4— This systematic rejection of Douglas's MOAB by th; Executive , may not have provolgod the pending schism, but is likely to aggravate it. Richardson IS known' to be rehcnent against the dodge.submission. Rirrunto A OiNtrintrriost.:— . 4l3. - Lecoinp. ton Convention, when -it adjourned, appolint ed $ cornmittre to revise the COnstiteti sod until it - intarrs - froth the - hands of ComtAtkeiliatiody - -'ese telt.:wtutt As - tate solitoleember It, tient*risgreo letters of that date from Lawrence, the 14 '-tie had pottoili"444 !10110_,`4111/1 mous instrument, •'_ r: . I .lr_r_f o rriti s ,Vd e li v e s . --- 7410a e 1l • Thef.Thvortititillaraa Of lifr.' !Cis will known that the addres 2 s u j= Walker a n assuming the Goveenniship of K I ~ ..iiiritten before be hift by city, link, relo to and 4prove4 the' bg Presides .-". . It is w knnt% th at the'. treated ailtur-= anon co(, *, v;Alfi, Ike* to peoplio , Ham ass, that - they should lave the opportunity to vote- upon any constitution which might be : framed for them, were given in pursuance of a policy agreed upon before l* left this city, between lain and. the President. -• Aletter. frointhe Pritiklent to Gov. Welk eclat been published, in which the:President directs _precautions",to secure A 6,ir election to -1 . 6 i pcniile ' ," Imes due Consiihition skovid be submitted to am ;" thar'etyaisnining - tlii fact of submisstort to be.anqnestkmable. This - was the policy with which the Presi dent start4l. , It was an honest policy, and the only one onnsietent with the peace of the country, but he has Jacked the courage to adhere. to it.. Those who kuow of what. mal leable material he is cOmposed, are not dis appointed wit): the sequel . of events. The President bas treacheronsly aband oned Gov. Welker.' • His 'Southern masters re quire& the sacrifice, and he has made it. He has made the *edam:with reluctance and hesitation,,ikut still he his made IL For months past, his. organs have ceased to insist- upon any sort of submission to the people of the Kansas csmstitution. , Instantly, upon the announcement bore of the trick resorted to at Lecompton, a partial submission of the Slavery question, and no submission of the body of the Constitution, it was announced . dial the President '• accepted" what was done. ;. _ The ignominious retreat of the President, his ttcacliery.to•Gov. Walker, his abandon. ment or his own positions, and the means by which these things have beeit brought about, are all matters of public tultoriety. The flagellatiOns admini'tered to Mr. Be- Chanan have not been administered in secret. He bas not been taken to the privacy of a hipping-house, an' indulgence accorded to negroes, even in Charleston, South Caroline. He has been whipped jut+) submission, iu full , view of the whole a?lintrY• At - every stroke. the..flagel ators .have de clared that-the blows were intended for Gov. Walker, but the President knows too well whose back. the lash actually reached. As a speeiwarlgtone of these flagellations, exhibiting not merely the actual blows, but the Cricking and flourishing of the whip, we cut the following_from the Richmond Sough of November 24th : Con will •ttie -ry in GEED PKk- ErA "For ourselves,-we-prefer to stand with the Southern Democracy. The attitude we asosumed.itt,the begitining, we will sustain to the Oast.- We will continue to denounce Robert. J. Walker, for '-having betrayed the South, and usurped power that he might de feat the Slavery eimie in Kansas.' But we utterty..refuse, as now adviSed, to hold the President accountable for Walker's delin quencies. 'We deny that Walker's policy is the policy of the Administration; we do not believe Mr. Buchanan wiltattempt to defend the doctrines and sets of the Governor of of Kansas, and we are not so 'fictions' as to mike war-u;xni him :in-advance of an Official declaratien of his policy. We have yet too much etinfidence' in his integrity. and patriot, ism, to impute to Win the blame of th o se outrages which havesoyoesed the indignation and resentrnaniof .be Setttiern Democracy. The issue, however . will soon be decided.— In a short time, Co4ess will meet, and the sentiments of am Prstsident be made known. If he bearkens;to tbe4st. complaints of the Soutleirti - Demoe.riel;and repudiates Walk er's objectionable.loll--as we are confident he will—there will Vie in end of the contro versy, as far as , the Administration is con cerned. But if, as the Enquirer alleges, the President alien turn'i deaf ear to these stern remonstrances of the:Southern Democrity, and interpose his shield between them and Walker, in that event we will not hesitate to eet.stire him as we hive censured Robert J. Walker. No setae of personal interest should.deter us from our purpose. If it were the last. blow , we shall ever give in the cause of the South, it would be aimed full at the shining crest of her - betrOyer, be his station even the highest in the land." . Nfir Wastmoncli, Friday, Dec. 4, 1857. —lt is the general itiipression that no action will be taken on the ~ , lianaas question in the CAUCUS. Members ate disposed to wait the Communication of thi Message and the facts it, may diseliise. . • Soon afterward, however, there will be, I learn, some discussion on the subject. The . lion. Mr. Jewett of Kentucky,..ami other prominent members of the Democratic par. ty, will speak out their decided opposition to the Calhoun schedule. The Northern men, then, are not singular in' the opinions they have expressed. • Judge Douglas still stands firm upon the ground he originally assumed. Ills inter view with the President has not had the ef fect to change the viels he entertains on . this question in common with Gov. Walker and The Press.—Correspondeneeof - the Philadel phia Press. - on- ent• rly , FROM WASRINGTOIL-_-NOMINATION BY Tin DiIIOCRATIC CAUCUS OF vas ',Himsa.—At a COMM of the Democratic members of the House of Representatives; which was held this evening, Dec. sth, the -following norni natibus were,made : ,FurSpeaker—Hoe. James L. Orr, of South Carolina. ' . For Clerk—Mr. Allen, of Illinois. For Postmaster—Mr. Cluskey, of Georgia. For Doorkeeper—Mr.' Hackney, of Vir. ginia. For Sergeant-at-Arms—Mr. Glosabrenner, of Penn:pi vania. • . The rtuninatior. for printer was postponed ti, • onday night, when another caucus "will -1 . - held. - A GOViRIimENT- LOAN or Fon- ?thiamin'. —The Washington correspondent of Forney's Press states that the amount in the Treasury subject to draft is seven millions of dollars with a weekly excess ,ot expenditures of the Government over the receipts from customs of half a million. It would seem the Treasu ry has given up the bops to which they clung before the financial distress and depression of trade•had spread from America to Europe, and that now the fact is not denied, that in order to carry on the' Government and to successfully prosecute a war with the Mor mons, which is inevitable, a recominindation must be made to Congress to authorize the negotiation of a loan of fifty millions. • Amour:es or Rums)! Brarnow.---lt is now kninrn that the Emperor is firmly re solved on the abolition of serfdom, and it is thought that the 18th December, the fete day of the Emperor Nichols", hat been fixed on for the publication of the ukase, because his -late 'Majesty, when on his death bed, recom mended it to his sort.. Aniabgapor. _lrak recently- killed nor the lielizelmalgis pg . Oe which neerli enter up. kof ihriulPs• It* ll * o2 s lbsi maw Otte fgAMAKR I 4O0 1 ! wouaded 'An i eramkingbah thP 00411 84 0 once 40 140 hOine 4 e.birbodhlina4.. - VICLZ 4nerseliNtimetilAtlitilemormatly dey99o alligater'slive, ' • . —The veteran Benton yet retains that . old leaven of honesty iti.him which was alati..in the statesman of the 'generation to which he IkelciPgs. „lie has recently Written liletter to, fe,i-ChiefjeiitiCe 'icfeitege• Itittiiwtsok.of , . Hero tucks, mkt. mkt. has littelypublished 11441 Intelkieneei b it viewssgaini* the -Supreme toutthiO . the Dred ScOlicaao...„'Mr..Benten agrees . with the exsludge entirelyi and in the course of his letter he says: . " I mean -what. I say, when I say the Su preme Court bad --as- well been looking into :Robinson Crusoe as:looking into. the Consti ,tution'of.the.United States to firul. the power .of Congress to legislate for Territories; for it is not there, but in the :Ordinance of 'B7, adopted by the Constitution and by the first Congress under . Washington, .and in their right: as sovereign proprietors, haying the right to govern what. they have a right to acquire, and become their duty under the State cession acts and under the treaties of cession. The " needful rules-and regulation clause," as the Court said, gave no power to govern the Territories; if only- applied to property, and that the property of the United States—its territory, ideal, land, and its oth er property, id eat, personal estate. 'lt con ferred no powers of government, and that for the reason known to everybody at the time and to nobody (hardly) now , __ videlicir: be. cause the government of the Territories. Was' proyided- fog in another place—namely, in the ordinance of 1787, and protected by clause in the o:institution, and adopted by Congress August 7th, 1789. and: in the right of sovereign proprietors. The Court looked in the. wrong place to find the power of Con gress to legislate for Territories. 1 was breaking down under the appalling attack which fell upon me when I was writ ing the " Examination,". and had to leave some heads unfinished, and also to 'add some part after 1 had given up this world. My physician, Dr. May, saw with astonishment that I rose from 'what he knew '1 considered the bed. of death, (and which he feared to be so,) and went to my table anilwrote. I was - adding something, to the "Examination," and - could hardly refrain from a postscript: `This is my political testament, written with a dying . hand.' Well ; I did not die, bet I have to ; and will die upon the truth and justice of what I.wrote. * • * s,* It is a long time since we saw each other ; and what is called politics have sadly run down since that time, and especially in the last Presidential term, presenting but little for. the attraction of any man,Who has noth- . ing but the public giiod in view ; but here is a question of a new kind, national and eleva: ted, upon which all who are. - Cir the Consti tution as our fathers made it, and as they ad ministered it in. their day and generation,and as the next generation administered. it, (and that without distinction . of party or default . Ede man,) may come together and stand.— Fol. one, I can give no political aid or.„,coni fort to any man. or party, in any future elec tion, who shall uphold the opinion of the Su preme Court in declaring the nullity of the Missouri Compromise ;.and in decreeing the self-extension of the Constitution tOTerrito. ries, carrying Slavery with it, and prevent ing Congress and the-people of the Territory from saying yea or nay to its introduction or reptilsion. I am now well recovered,ind working . as usual, and expectlo finish, the - Abridgment next,SumMer, and then to-add another vol ume to the two of the Thirty Years' .View, bringing it d.,wn to . 1800, it I live•that !ling; - at all events, to - the time of the Pierce Ad ministration, if we must call by his name an Administration .in which he was inoperative, and in. which nullifiers,*disuniunists and ren egades used his name and his power fur their own audacious and criminal purposes. • Respectfully, THOMRS IL BESNTON. " Washington, Nov. 1, 1857. , Thompson's Bank Note Reporter of the Ist instant, stars • the Honesdale Bank, which indicates to the public that Thompson, .Morse 43; Co., do not buy -its bilk at any rate of discount. The tendency is to discredit the Bank. Hence we.deem an explanation suita ble. John Thompson,at the t ime of his failure, and fur some years previous, was buying the LABS of thl Honesdale Bank at half of one per cent. diScount,, under an arrangement, which was that he should deliver the bills in packages to the Merchants' Exchange Bank, receiving one-eighth of one . per cent. for his services. When Thompson, Morse & Co. took up the business of John Thompson, after his fail ure, they wrote to the Honesdale Bank, so liciting a continuance with them of the ar rangement which had existed with him. This request was granted, and they proceeded to set under it. Shortly afterwards the Philadelphia banks suspended, and most Pennsylvania bills fell to five or six per cent. discount. Thompson, Morse d: Co. in violation of arrangement, took the same discount'on - Honesdale bills as any other bills of this State, and instead of presentinfr- them at the. Merchants' Ex- Change Bank7sold - them at one per cent. to one of the two other brokers who did nut fly front their engagement. -The president and Vice President of the Ilonesdale Bank called on Thompson. Morse dc Co. and remonstrated With them. All the sati.fluition they got was an Intimation that if the Bank world furnish them $lOOO, without interest, to use in their business, they would go back to the arrange ment. This offer was declined. In a little time it hecaine so well known that-the Honesdale Bank was maintaining its regular redemption that . the. holders of its bills in the city would not submit to the high rate of discount which ThompSon, Morse 6c Co. had been demanding. Then that firm wrote. to the bank; askingn renewal of the old arrangement,which was decidedly refused. Vpiin receiving this tefusal,l, they sent up by express a package of bills, Ipitunding specie for them,. which they did nog et. As a last efTort co _force the Bank into . measures they. have starred it, going as far as they dare to cast suspicion upon its circulation. - From this statement of fsets the public will be able to draw the proper inferenceit.— ffonadak Democrat. - SIX NZOKOES CONVICTSD. OY MCRIAL— The Natches Courier, of the 21st ult., gives lengthy and graphic accounts. of the trial there of six' negroes, twe separate trials— three on each trial—in conviction for murder in the first degree. The first three belonged to Mrs. Clarissa Sharp, and their victim was D. K. Skinner, their overseer. The murder was deliberately and adroitly planned, and the plot was only unraveled and the_ dark deed fixed on its perpetrators after the most careful and patient investigation. Able coun sel were assigned them by the Court, and every right extended to them that would have been granted to white men under the same circumstances. The other three belonged to Mr. W. B...Fules. The overseer murdered was Y. W. Mcßride. This also was a de liberately planned and- executed • murder, similar to the first one. Both of 'the deeds were .committed !,4 the seine part , of the State, one May and the other , in June, and created at-the time a g n od deal of - feeling community. Ju ie The negroes finally -con, foisedtbeiroiltohough this was cot nom: suyetb IXll9r4klP. ;Five'of:theip_ ter bis. lowa, on the 11th lust:" ' Our has teen granted . • Twenty thousand, Indians ready to take,the field asOinSt , the United States Troolii4- Womeli . tibriutehered. Yisterdiyiiiiiad an interview evi,th Semen ftein:Atison Valley,'itgi: frill ; • W' m , aeii witill , Morthon families, hatiiomilia4l. ,etlgtg of theli:kttsce designs and? lafiofF4t. erstion. It MS conclusions be: cOriliWime onlyihe settlers east of the nieuniainicliut even the people Of this State Will havit reason to deprecate the exasperation of thOse'Amer ican Bedouins. He says that the Mormons of Carson Valley and San Bernardino have •sold their cattle iind property for nearly noth ing; arid, at-the bidding of their chie,f,,havere,.. paired to Salt Lake, with the secret design of reorganizing, arming, equipping, returning and plundering their Gentile eneinie& They declare that, for every Saint "lain by the United .States Troops, ten Gentile woMe'n shall make atonement; that they will - firs: exterminate the troops from the East, then come West, and in predatory 'bands, allied with Indians, the y ywill ravage the borer,rob, plunder end niurder, until they shalt have re , plenished the Lord's Treasury • and evenged r insults put on his chosen people. Of their ability to execute this threat we have but little doubt. At the orderj of their leader and prophet, they can muster 15,000 men, armed with the most effective instru ments of destruction. They have many thou sands of the finest horses, trained to ; camp service ; they have a foundry -where eannen and shells are cast ; apoWder mill, and a fac tory where revolving rifles and pistols are manufactured, equal to those made at Hart ford. They have every munition of, war and necessary provisions and means of transport atinn within themselvei,"and even the women and children are instructed in the use ofarms. Add to this their geographical position. -To reach Salt Lake, from the ,East, it is necessary to pass through a cano n iS twenty. five mileg, under hills sosteep and 'rocky that a dozen men could hurl down an avalakhe of stones on an approaching caravan, and even in the event of several thousand troops reach ing the valley, the besieged, with their herds, would take to the mountains, and, reinforced by their savage.allies, would in turn, besiege their besiegers, and cut off supplies until the invaders had been starved out. They have, it, is said, 20,000 Indian allies, whom they are ready to furnish with arms and-horses in an emergency. 'These Indians are partially instructed in the Mormon relig- ion—enough to make them superstitious in regard -to the God of a superior race, yet modify:ng none of their ferocity.. With al. lie; like these, and fighting for their. homes; and, according to'-the belief of the ignorant, under direct supervision.of the God let • Bat tles, and from the ramparts witti whichns tore has surrounded them, it is easy to coo: eeive what would be thifate cif a few thou sand troops,. who traveled a thousand miles to fight their own country men,brave as them selves, as well armed, better used 'to field. life, and stimulated by their kits tofhome and family, and assured of vientry by the revelations of their prophets.---VoNornia Paper. -Tll7. MONARCH OF rilt ORCHARD.—The largest apple tree in the United States is standing within the limits of the city of Read ing, on the farm late 9f Wm.B.Schcener, fath er of the present owner. The stock or trunk of the tree measures five feet and ahalf in di ameter; at a point a few feet above the ground, there is a protuberance or excrescence of bark, of great thickness, nut included, how ever, in the measurement. Its annual yield of apples was never .less than sixty buehels. 'The' apples in size were as large as thaFal lenwalcier. The tree is estimated to be over one hundred years old, and attained its pres ent size fifty years ago. The upper branches are large massive colemns, which would make ten ordinary apple trees, supporting, when in .bloom, an arch foliage of sixty-five feet in diameter, forming a circumference of over two hundred feet. Apple—yellowish green.round, faint red cheek, white flesh, sub acid, juicy, short thick stem, shape symmet rical, and all of regular size. Season from November Jill April. ' We have frequently enjoyed the apple,' and found it or superior quality. The-tree is evidently in its dotage, but ten years ago it was in prime bearing condition. The same kind of apple is not known to exist in the country, or elsewhere., A large number of fine gratings from this tree are now growing in various parti of the city.—Reading Press.• = • AN EXTENSIVE FARMER.-.-COL Jacob Car. roll, of . Texas, is said to he the largest farmer in the United States. He owns two hundred and fifty thousand acres of land (nearly four hundred square miles.) . His home plantation contains 8000 acres, nearly all valuable bot. tom lands, along the 'Guadalupe river. On this farm be has over 6000 acres in cultivation, on which he raises annually 300 bales of cot. ton, worth at the plantation from $75 to $lOO per bale, and 20,000 bushels of corn, worth about 50 cents per buSliel. He ha.Ta force of about fifty , field hands, and 15. yoke l of oxen. Carroll has, on-his immense range of pasture lands about one thousand horses and mules, worth $50,000; one., thou.:and head of Cattle, worth $2OOO, three hundred Spanish mares worth $15,000 ; fiticen jacks, worth $9OOO ; and five stallions,wort WNW. . Col. Carroll's property, in stock and &woes, is worth at least $150,000, and the value of his landed estate will swell the amount to over half a million of donate. His annual income from the sale of stock amounts to from $5OOO to $1 1 ),000 ; and from the sale of cotton, to from $15,000 to $20,000. rgr" From disclosures that have just cone to light in Philadelphia, suspicion has given place to the positive fact that a very large portion of the incendiary fires in that city have been caused by firemen or the hangers on of the engine companies. One of these fellows, was arrested a day or two since, caught in a hose house, announcing the fact of his having just set fire to a building,' and his motives for ate act—which ' was not merely to have a "run" but to provoke a collision with another company, with a view to demolish its machine. AN ACCOMPLISHED Mcxsrss.—•Neva sa• bib, the man who hss recently distinguished himself in India, by nailing live- children in wooden boxes and throwing them into the flames, according to a French -writer. cannot read a tender line in Byron or Shakespeare without being moved to tears! He speaks Freech, , ltalbm and English, is acquainted with their several literatures, talks the latter as fluently and surely as any "gentleman de Hyde Park," and translated Hamlet into Hiildoo, to the great admiration of compe. tent critics. WILD WILL. RIAT TB:67—D. G. Edwitila, of Charleston township, Tioga Co. Pa., sewed three pecks of Buckwheat upon :It acres of sward ground, i the 4th day of last July, and bervest4o from' that: field ninetylutir of tut fine huckiViseit as ever wait - metutitred, The soil was tint Ordinal) , red sbale4liiiighed - deep with *double team and heavily maniikid, AO bustfoll is Ooneideko Yiitif - 44r icre-of buckwheat ;; ,liqt in, ibis' csie 2 :Mi:l4l:i r wards gets a little - more tF an, 12 fad secret - or tbls piny - 'plratiedtiittliCsiild, we o Ili a Has 'ln deep kiWvittman - 04.- -gin g Ii ii 11,3 pa - 011 It 3 0,96 . **tier. • r-ry. 'VA/mi. ;bar., loth Houses tally Ontsaliged. CAPITOL, WASIIINOTON, Dec. 7. lihnLa*—On the roll being 'called- fift Beo toms y ilutwered to their names. The Sen. ate was eated to order by. the Secretary res 44 I,*r from Mr. Breekinriike,rVi ee rtelthlept i liitating that he would notch° able Weesolt:Nashington at the commencement ortlikiTileasion. • nom OF RSPRESZIFFATIVAS:-.-TWO hwa. dred and.twenty.one members antiremi the call - of the Houle. - _ . A quorum of the members being thus as. certained to he present, the House proceeded to the electiOn of the Speaker. - - Mr. ninrifnated" Vy Mr.Jbnes , of Tennessee, utd - -Mr.-'Grostr by Mr.ihmhs,, t e Maseichtmetti." , On theAellot: dm , eclielo4----as-telleist: Mr. Orr - 10,11,14._grosr;' , S4 ;Scattering, 7s, The ainkivicemitie 456 heli eiiisiViris greet. e ,•5 with apfilause.. -, , TO Clerk alipoirited_ldi'inirs% Stephens lied pii i k i gh; a comraitteertereenducelitiVrr so the chair.;- ' The oath -orOrKft . illie-adinrige• tered by Mr. Gilding. ' - ~.. ding. %.- - ~ -- -1 - :-. , - On assuming the , e.hairilifi. titr expressed his thanks fur the: kii i' oll . ____,,reelt . ,do 4ol .d-m-• The members were iburt ,k im, ,zu , stsr wont& ing in delegations for. that porixust The rules tif the last Rouse %Tr", /0 1 / 1 4.4 with a proviso offered by,MtAiiognom,o*l 1 , . any committee vingoccipied-.thenscraing hour for ten days in stkiesilori, - Such eummit. tee shall not have tbe right to-'report Amber until the other - noiiitteee- shill:- kaso :T beett called in - tom '- • ' ... ', , ..' Mr. Allen of I fiffOli, - liras . .ellictitii,Gerit ;: Mr. GlcKsbreneer, Sergesot.it•Artiii, sat. Mr., Hackney, Doorkeeper .. - Me.chasky war; declared Pckstmanter by te tesolution: - Thos. B. Floreuer gave notice of hig,inteti. tion to introduce* bill Aor:- the suPPi r *kek uf bank.notes tinder $lOO in !be Distrito& of Columbia.' Adjcairned: ' _ = - Mortar hisexur.--=The leading. &items el the, money nuirkeit are. great stiperainitidanee in the hands of clipitalists aid` great distrait in use. -It -is‘ consequently lying 'idle is large masses, much of it iti,-gold.speciaffy posited. Call loans frinn'.l" to 5 pet cent. The banks .have erMinectikloyet $400,000, showia# the small amount titlii* ness they are doing with Arem,oveivelialMing Mead& • The desiisnd for .discounts it-bank is less then. usual.., The deposits lave ran down a liule.this week, the depositor* making investments. th6nria* with '* mom freedom. The . beery payments are now over for the seescinibut the 4, ll 4l ll, Prolik* that has been postponed beavi'lleirry on all classes. The receipts'; of - 614(0' dudes — hi November were. Only 51,206,e33 04. Wing a deenisse of $1,845,31440 as eorntieirlid whir tbe reeeipts'of ,November , • *ben' they were 42,852,207 87.. - ,llaire.is. a Ming of of Go per cent. The receipts fnme- the isle. riot , continue tcrienprove, bat prOrlueecomies forward very slowly, and this backsiimilitsiii retards much our recovery: The railroad receipts &rollneck' less - than :at this-titnelsait year. The - circle is the wint, of" money in the West. Produce is offered at 'very lciw prices in liVi.seonein and other f4r western points, but there is no. money to big it, sad until this is remedied the eireelation of money will he slow in every direction, and the coon. try will Suffer from poverty of meets.--N. Y. Independent. Dee. 3 A.. correspondent. nf New - York Evening Post says that he has offered sever al workmen, carpenters, masons, dtc., 'stork at $1 per day; 'and- they have in every - in stance replied that they would rathei starve than work fiirless than their um! pay--Illr per day. This disposition to .n 6 se a sub mission to loser wages - .is a general 61Ser among - all mechanics and is. ,a very natural' one; for it is* an etraly nnderstnod thing with them why ten horira . hart? labor is not worth m - mnch today as- it was yesterday,: and especially nhiti the'rates of living hire not been sensibly dcierensea. - And as their labor is 'their Capital. like other capitalists; they propose toltold on to it. imtrt it will command a remunerative price, or Whit they; • deem one. Supply and - dem andin 11 aI ways regulate these things; and the 'lab - twit, like the manufaciurer,:the merchant; ot -the farm er, may w,ithhold.-lis wares, froth market so long as lie is able ; but when necessitriw any otherreason compels him' to 4. realise, i ' he must take" the nuaicet.price." • _ AN.ACCOMM6ATING editor of the . HollidayabureStonefird, in ill appeal to his subscribers to pay up, says ha intends taking a-tour througlLthe'coutitry to. ski his patrons and Will be prepared to takeln ttaflit, wheat, oats,-iioin, pork, beef, Imelisrliaat, ap pie.; potatoes, chicken; tiirkies„ iiumkolchts„ butter, eggs, Sour-crout, horses, - mules, - vat one, calves, wheelharroirs,liarnessitiouppolea, lath, lime, stocking - 'yarn, hard srisp,T eider, dried aßples,beans turnips, •wool, tenth geese, ducks,i-dry gods, groceries, hart, Isrttre, queens-wiire and - ready-nude Clothing, at tht current market value,. Tibia of Broken in Below Ivo give a Lift Banks, compiled from the Addison Bk, AddiacM,N.Y Agricultural Bank; p . Y. American Bank, N.: J. Badger State Bank, Wis ! Bank, Aurora, " " • Belleville, Belleville, . ." Canandaigua, N. " Cape May co., N. J. " the Capital, Ind. - " Central 'N. Y.,llti - - ea, N. Y. "' Cheater, Chestorall. " Crmmeree, Wash. ington, D. C. , " Elgin, 111 " Fox Lake, Wis. • " Galena, lIL. "; Hallowell, Me, " Hartford CO.. Conn. " .Kannwatm, Fa. " Metiopolia, D. C. m . " Naperville; In. " Nashville, Tenn. " Newlersey,, N. J. " NOrth Amer Conn. " Old Saratoga,N. Y.; " Orlearis;Alblim,NrY " Faris. Tenti. " •Pennsylvinia, Pa. Pike County; • " the South to.,Walte. • field, B. I. W the BUM' of - Booth Tecumseh, With. " Trenton. Tenn. Bergen County Renk,N. Bowen , Bk. -N. Ltity. Bridgeportatillk. Conn. • Charter 0146. Hatiford, Cont. Cbenmng oo do.. N. Y._ • City dn:..Citsttiniti. Q. Colchester do.. Conn. - Commemfal do, Colgo.l - C.. - -Com Ezobangil do.; -110rimett's 4 0, r- Denby do,, Denby, Vt. thiyfori do., Qhfo. Fault River do., N. T.Clty. &change do., Reirttord, Mire 004 ti• T' . 1 ./C•itimfta dog 1; 414.: Farther do. , 'Parntitie t variAwde.wkireraill, /jam ,Farmilectimikte • Toildypda r ATeen Rey, Wio• Diiiiiedftedilki' illrokgn and-Diiireditet latest reports: Grarrincdo.; Graders' No. N: Ys at/- Hamilton Eseirage; Hancock • HoNAM. ack, Bufato,N.T. Hopkhinmdo.,"..Wmierly. oonenin do., New Faits, bland City d0.,14 Lkweencebiire 416,44 Tem Mechanics' Nanking Asia `-ekition..ll, Y. icily. Iffedtns Ban k , Y. Iltetean' dci. Conti::- _ • ' • erclualte-k,lianutietus,' ere Rank, Pe. Muni Vedic). do., Dayton t ' - Ohio; Minerarßanit; Yd. - Ilontiedo doi t Kennon River de.,, Ye. Yount. Vernon do.IL r, •Ocitee Rink; Tenn. - Old Brratogi do, N. T. Onver.Lee lien.% Beek • Ratio. N. Y. . Ontarici Re.nic,llties, N.Y. On . tarte.ionnty N.Y. Piweatnek do., Conn. Perkinanhu- do g , Della. People's- da, - bran*, Pratt MAW N. Y. • eeptochy Hank NN Sacktitteßarbor,) N.T. Rhode blend COW 48., Rock 144nd Bank 111. - - Rock River de.;Bekort;Wis Sackettellarbor Stindford dq.. (1.101°4* • sum River.) Me! Seneca County Be.; 0. - Stielbytllle do., Tea": Stark Rink, Vt. ; _ TIPP* I 4 IO O • ITiyertoo do., ' Fall .111!ey• al'. It , : ITriiere Bi.mkpplpllloo7 H 4 . Wargo trallitiiiithi' Warwickz ,NT!imick. _ I, 119:, M e t Wok; t" 'de; griogkrt IFIKSIO4 Conk - T!!eigptipty- t
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