M Die IllaeP'Oelif . E.READ a 11. 11. FRAZIER, EDITORS F. E. LOOMIS, CORRESPONDING EDITOR, MOiTROSE: PA. silliursda Ilthrelf 11, 185 S Advert' ers will please take notice I t • that the regular issue of thd INDEPNDEST RE. - runuia: c now credi fifteen hundred week ly, being over, fie hundred more than the circulation: of th only other paper published in the p Zciunty. , ( a • - ' kiecent. letter from GovernOr Walk erl-ra veryjniplpriant and -ihteresting doeu; ' melt—wilLtalound on the` fOurth pixie .of thisl 'paper. li} should .be read by every toe.rnoerat, , - . T . . The hill to,extind the terms ,of the 'Co a of- SuSquehanna ' County to three wee s, passed he Senate finally .. Meteh -4 2d. It ha previpu y passed the .llc.use. i ' . We .p blish-in another column an as= ticleTrom the St. Louis Democrat—ine of the few paperadye9ming the interests of free fa labor publish in the'Slave States—in vOr e i ' of the, nomest ad. bill. 'The'article puts the : issue - in the rig t shape - at the South—a con test between rive and Slave labor: We tin-, ~• derstand thaVour Southern friends are going to make-aitand in favolLof the Itemsteed policy, and appeal to the\ non-Slaveholders or • "poor whites". of the South to rally to the ' support of their own interest against the .„Slaye-holder"..., , . WThe dinntnittee voted hi the House 'of RepreilentOtives to investigate the l'anSas fntuds,, bn *sir ;leh Committee speaker Orr placed a ma tit.) , of menlbers opposed to the.objeets fo ivhich it was intended by the. House".—,ojot rued sine die, March 3d, with out ,h4ving ~OE‘ nny investigation. Mr. Stephens tea views of the fiivor olthe a -report expressive of. the tajority' of the -Committee, in •mptou Constitution. Thus ' has .the Will of the Hoube been defeated by the unjust action of the Spol - ker in (=sat* jug the Corti; ittee: It is proposed that .thi Haute add t • o members to the Committee, taus giving majority itaavor- of investiga tion. „- .„ _ - - Par On tie 25th ult., atr...t.nr;• member of-the Iron.' of Representatives, from this district, pi nted'fiveremonstrandes signed by two hun red and fifty eilizens'of this coun, . . 1 tyi against tie piss:lg( of Mr. Smith's 'Bill (I proposing t annex a portion of Sullivan to Wyoming Oonntv.—.Sullivan Co, be:metal. What a medaresorr:c rasWl - Ttiatzsrmrli -- rir _ ' Wycmf,g is. Ile is trying; to rob the people - / of Susq cha ra and Bradford iif the contitu ii , tional-right n elect their Judges, and .t.d de -1 price Bradf - rd and Sullivan of ii portion, of i t terri y. No •nnder little Sullis‘-an I feels indict Tit ,towards . sucl . a mitt-Represen : tative. , : • Or The pro-sldverz organ in this place —which SIXiMS to take special pains. alicays to get on the wr-ong,side,..-the, Side opposed io the interest. of the people to whom it looks for saffoorti-- contained an\lrticle last Week in favior oftthe annihilation of this . .rudicial ;.13istrict. The chief points inade by the spe - "cial pleader -who:wrote that article, and -.lr)to hopes to be President Judge himself, -:.:-- 'sortie day, If he can join this County to - Lci ....7 • . • - :erne, are, hat the discontinuance of this Dis trict will 1 en the burden of taxation on tVe - people, an that the people can elect their n4 -- Judges j t as well when incorporated_ ik 1 .. - ..'other d' "cts as while in this. . , - The 1 point was anticipated in our arti -2 de last' leek. Since the salaries of the . • Judges ate paid by the SMte, a diminution of/ .‘' the aggregate by $1.500 would not make any. -•, appreciable difference in the tax' paid by any —, man, while all the losses and ineonvenience _ arising I+ the change would fall 9n our i citizens alone. A three`weeks' Court in the ' ; month of linne, .pile of the busiest of theYear,' t ; el. must;pr nt,a fine prospect to our farmers, • all of Ash m are liable to be called to attend: Court if n t as parties, asjurers or witnesses., '.,.... As our .erms ;are at preSent arranged. one, - comes in August when ,the busiest season is, 'over, and the others hi November, January;' and the fi ' rst week in April, seasons of leisure. i as compared with dune or Septemher. "It it :pte u.,...... .it ,- no doubflin .part an appreciation otthese fa ' i that has - treated ibe great indignation in thi ctt County against the proposed dismemberineq)- . , of this di4rict and deringeinent of our Courts. - ; - If this district . doe* 'not furnish business ,. l . enount fir aJudge, as these men now pre-: is 4 lend, -, hour happened it, .that a Democratic , -:- Legisla ture Made it smaller not long since, 1 hir Outt . . off Sullivan County, and erected a tot 1 new d' ict for-Judge Woodward, in which ..--- there is iliot half the business done that there i -is inthis; • *il • l our patent Democratic re • / • - ...---, , formers x Odin"! .. . " . -.-- Withregard' to the other point, it is very true tha & ev entuallyta the people would be per • • .witted to Vdte tor. -their -President "Judi, .prosickd tk neiadistrietini teas to be perna . '-eat. But uke Woodward has been on the. \, „ vgßench clsdy l e year or- two,-and - was elected' ..cr • Dal y p • •, for ten Fears; and it does not comport with t'hat used Ito be:esiled Democracy that, 2 -V - -:while the COnstitutiongiVes the people the ' • "right toklect their own Judges, the people of radfu l d shouldhave a Judge over them for c - 4..iiht, years, for whom they never voted, hut S'` . • -who ices elected-by the people of another I 5. -- districti; or that the people of Susquehanna 1 .. . \ *;..should he' llept for four or-live years in the \ algae pkedicament,with reg , ard to Judge Co ayngtuim. Besides, whetilhatermapfJudg; • es ConYogham and Woodward-expire, these O 'Cunti'es nuir_on the same principle be' 'an. , . .1 nexed o some,other districts where the Judg. •., es have been 'recently 'elected, and thus be • : deprived of the right to elect their Judges ... ) throughout all time to ovine. pup ideas of -t' ' 1 • _ _ EMS usm . ocracy and 'popular sovereignty oampii to oppose such 'plans to cheat the: people out of the elective franchise. When 'the writer of the article referred• to, pet on such ati innotient air,. arid 'pretended that - there' was no purpose of tnalting,,,Pel-, metal war' against ~Tudge'''`Wil ha' in chess, movement, he bad no-idea that the letter from'' one of the BradforZl County conspimtois [ would - come to tight and so soon expose his 1 ' falsehood and hypocrisy.. The whole burden of the speeches made before the comMittee 1 by those who went to Harrisburg to , bore ,t is measure through the legislature , was e nu .ration of Judge fiirtirot ; it this was not a Perrnal war agty'_nst him, they would at tempt to give other reasons for the measure: - But it is quite unnecessary to argue the matterbefore the people of this County.•'--- They. know petfectly well that it is proposed by c74tain individuals, to subject them to great inconvenience and loss, merely to grat ify a•mean political spite by striking a, blow . at Judge Wilmot; and they have earnestly .remonstrated; and will , continum to remon strate Against the iniquitous scheme. ' Lzoistanvs.—The Act to repeal the Len 'Oa road law in the townships of Brooklyn and Gibson, in Susi:lndians, hasbeen signed by - the Governor. •1 Mr. Chasse read, in place, February 24th, a supplement to the act of 13thJube, 1835, re lating to the 'support:and employment of the poor. - -March Ist, Mr. Chase presented a petition from citizens of Susquehanna COurity, for a laW giving Justices of the Peace power, with a jury, to try certain criminal offences;: also, a remonstrance from .citizens of Ltizerne ,County, against the passage of an act4or_tha. relief of the Lack awan n ro ad Cvn pany, unless - its creditors in Luzerne Counts are fully prptccted ; also,•one from citizens, for a repeal of the County Superintendency, ttie 'election of three School Directors with 'corn.: pensatio4 also, ihrce remonstrances from citizens of Susqurbanna county, against 'any change or interference in the , thirteenth" Judicial District Same day, Mr. Chase, fromthe'Judiciary Committee, reported, as committed ; Senate bill .No. 57, an act to make better - provision for the punishment of frauds committed by bankers, trustees, and other,persons entrusted with property. Same day, Mr.-Chase read in plape a bill to protect fish in Susquehanna County. (Re. furred to Committee on Agriculture.) . g We have received the March numbers of the following periodicals, with the peculiar tharacteristics.oT each of which our readers are already acquainted : ATLANTIC Mos-rmx ; Phillips. Sampson, Co., publishers, Boston, Mass.; 3 a year. llousEtivin Woans; John .arisen S, Co., publishers, 126 Nassau St., New _York ; *3 a '3icar. • , thimes LOT'S Root ;L A Gudey, pub $3 a. year. C Ari hstr publiher, Philadelphia; *2 a jeor. A.2IIERIC AN FARMER'S MAI3AZINE ; J. A. Nasti:publisher, New York;' $2 a year. i • AmralcAz; AcatcriTrarstp; Orange Judd, publisher7New York ;- a year. AMERICAN PIIRENOLOOTAL JOURNAL; & Wel;s,publishers, New YOrk; $1 a year., WATER CURE JOURNAL ; -Fowler & publishers, NeW York si ye w% Ouzo JOVE:CAL .OF EDL'OATION j Columbus,. Ohici; $1 a sear, ' Goon TEMPLAR j St. LOUIS, Mo.; B. IL Mills, Editor ; $1 a year. A portion of the above we are permitted to furnish with the Is . DEPEsnEsr-REPCBLICA.V to sutiseribers at reduced rates, namely:— ; ~Republican and .Allanac . Monthly at $3,50 a y s ear, Republican and Ladle Rook at $3,50 a year, Republican and Phrenological,TouT -parat-t2 a year, and Republican'and Water Cure Journal at *2 a year. •71 THE NEW YORK EXCELSIOR, a new liters ry paper published in New York,, is adver tised in our columns this week. It is a ,j,arge and handsOme sheet, filled with a pleas: log variety of tales, ; sketches, poems, &c. A' - 14:4cii#n-_number may be seen at this °fru*. 'Correspondence of Wilabbigton Republic. LAV:RENCE, K. T 4 Feb.lB, 1858. ~.,%, To ti:et Editor:of the Repuilie • • •El • , — N, To-night there has been a gathering at - the . Johnson 1 1-Louse, of the sons of Pennsylvania, 'to offer tribute to the manly "spirit and true `heroism of their honored brother in Congress:, .11i-;:Grow, who defended, in 'his dwn person; a P..epresentative American, and proved that there ii a Northern." chivalry " hereafter, as well as - Sonthern. They intend to raise ii :,sinall sum of money and, prepare a' gold Medi!, with some applicable design, to be . : presented to him from his Kansas constitu ents; . Resolutions and speeches were " pass. red around." Pennsylvania is nobly repie- Lsented in Kansas, especially in Lawrence. ,' Among them_ alliit is a rare thing to find an V,apologist for the slave President. . The bill for unew, Constitutional Conien bon is regarded as a law, although,the Gov erno; has not steed it. We shall all treat it ai_a valid lair, and proceed to carry out the programm‘ in due time. All parties and factions will unite 'in the erection of dele gates, and in that measure the Free State party will be a unit.. _ -..-" , STARTA - kr. WHERE'S &oast 'f,--Tile kollOwinw para 4, l'graph is taken from the gancial article of the N. Y. Evening Post:: (.. r -- ~ .t . i 1 ) ,,, . 1 . i` A ',bung man o ge 4 t l epp'' arliiik named Ellis B. Schnabel, from Williamsport, Pa., has been obtaining money from different parties in this city, upon the representation that he is a brother-in-law of Governor Pack et, and 'giving , drafts 'RpOn that gentleman, but which, of course, returned "proteste d :-.-- He has carried on his tileprattices - in Wash. ingtOn - iand Philadelphia with much success." He is known in hid native ; State as being the son of a highily estimable man." The elogrient,, the indomitable :Bgobble has been ,vietimithig his friends very freely. 1 1 We understand that friend Beebe iffthe Owe go Gazette - in stuck to the , tune of $l5O-- Served him right t. what busineis : had an ed itor with 'so much poueyt—Bradlord .l&. porter. A New Haven dispatch to the, Boston traveller. says that General Pratt , . .who was nominated for 'Governor of • Connecticut ,by the Dentocratic:ccinventionof that State on Wednesday, is . 3 Douglas Democr at. • El ~ : , '4r A Democratic"tate Coni-ntion is- Sembled at 'Hacrisburg, Ittargh 4t 1 and nom inated William A. Porter, !siif Philadelphia,. f• 1 for Judge . pf the Supreme Cour4' - d , West -la 4 Frost - , of Fayette . 6unty ... ,... fi.ii ' Canal . Collenisaioner. Resobutions -at orsing th e , admiqlstratioti and in f avor' of the Admission of Kansas under the Laompton Mutton, were.ie ported by Hendrick B.'W ight, chair man of the Committee, and ,we adopted. The resolutions are long, and re ' to almost_ entirely.. to Kansas matters and Stavery—:. with 'which the Deincieracy here tend that Pennsylvania, as a'State, has_not ing tii do. We cannot afford room to publis them all, butgiva a "specimen brick" or t. ) -o, as fol lows : - i - i . • Resolved, That the 'Kansas Ne waska bill having asserted snd recognized t I right of the people of the territories to form their own institutions in thaw own wa ; and the duly organized Government in K" sas having by regular process prOvided fora nvention of,the delegates of thc ,people, ith insttue tions-and power to fur tion and enacted a nstitu a Consti ution ; and such delegates havin4assembled in Conven tion under such instruction and power ; such Co stitiition be ing republican in form, and theritory bay- ing the number of inhabitanta justify ,it,' tr Kansas should be promptly adm,tted into the' Union. ' s ' I • I Resolved, That if the Constitntion of Kan sas is not acceptable in some hi its provi sions to the majority of the Fr+ Stale men of that territory, their own obstinate_conduct hasproduced the i result ; they ave no cause to complain, and their mouths hould be for ever closed. Resolved, That wf unhesitangly do ap prove of the measutas of Mr. B chananin his Kansas policy; and are ready nd willing to I sustain him in all other measu„ s of his ad ministration thus far disclosed{ 'We enter. Lain the belief that he will .not abandon an article in le DemoCratie crest Mr. Sty es of Wesimorelan series of resolution 4 taking. th, popular sovereignty: 'side of the, a substitute for those of the Co his amendment was voted dow• to 109 nays. . - Amorig Mr. Stokes' resoha na were the following : . i ~ ' sth. Congress shOuld admit l no State into the Union, except with a Coast eution ratified and adopted in - -all its parts hy a majority of all its citizens, to be governs by such Con stitution, which majority slum d be real, not fictitious; fair, not fraudule t; direct, not . implied; and anything shot of this is a' mockery, a delusion„ and a . s ,are ; infamotis in act, and,disastrons in cons (pence. . Gib. To abandon the . peop eof &territory to political intrigue, unfaiiin usion, or law less violence, and thus defeathe true expres sion and absolute applicatien f the right of self-government, Would be a violation of I the honor, and an obandonm tlt'of' the max ims of the Democratic party4and must final ly result in a reptnre of the ponds-by ~which the party are held together, arida consequent sacrifice of _all that securtot the freedom, greatness and glory of the country. 7th. That thepolicy, of forcing 'Kansas into' the Union under a Conlution already rejected at the ballot-hex by a large majority lti of the people for Whose got rionept it was i framed, is ruinous; that it ravesof an net Congressional interventien and usurpation; ao.ompli.kvd If .e, ott, 44 op:lei-Til or L t,.=. plighted faith of the naticin Ind in defiance of the principles of iselfgove. ment; and' the' Democratic perty of Penn. • lvania, now lin - Convention, most solemn, protest against the radial treason of the me g sent to Congress from this State wfio shall approve of, or vote for, dragging Ka ,sas into t Union upOn the Lecompton Constitutlon. He supported the resolut ns by a speech of much -power and. eloper , of which the following abstract is given :, . . Mr.. Stokes opposed ther port of the Com mittee, and the adinissioN f Kansas under the Lecompton C t ontititutio , He said there was no use in trying to co teal facts. 'The Democratic party was in a ituntion of great difficulty and danger, ands ould'mOVe with caution. AlthoUgh the ma majority of the Con vention had the pow* to as they pleased, 4 . yet they were still bound to look beyond temporary triutiph by 'tillexereise ..of brute force, to the interests .of tie party and 'the L i country, and should do no ping to impair the integrity and strength b y the party. He charged the President of the Convention and _others of the majority, wifh having, in their speeches, deserted the great principle or the . Democratic party—that. the right octhe party—that. people to govern' thomsel es.. lle , made ar gument to shoW that .the people of Kansas could not alter their Coast ution before 1864; whereas in that (Constituti n the mode is spe cifically provided, by' whi h the Constitution could use - altered, it was i possible to alter it in any other way. The ..4.ourts would so de termine without hesitatinn The cry of alter- I ation was a delusion. 14 .. administered a se-' were castigation to those glen who ate seek ing favors of Mr. Iluchanin, claiming to be his particular friends, whm he denounced as despicable menk-worship rs, crawling at the foot-stool of poWer. ' , He . espised them, and so did Mr. Busher= hint elf. There was a radical principle involvein this (potion, Which should qverrule ill questions of' expe diency. The moment t e principle of the right of the people to gos. ,rn themselves was violated, the pe m ocratic, arty was gone.— His first four resOlutittns vere based on the 1 doctrines of Algernon Sy. eey, uttered in the I reign of Georgejli, of 'Kt gland. For utter ing them, Sydney last hi head. For utter _mg them here.; he '(Mr. $ okes) was told he would lose hid head.-' Sypry was decapitat ed 111 open dsx. Accord ng to the- opinions expressed .17 he Presid t and others here, his bead wool be taken fl' in a meaner way. 'His spZ-teh w s very bol and thrillingly II ,1 el oquent, and elmited ma, applause." Several others spoke a ,the same spirit, and predicted the down4ll of the party tithe Niitinupton fraud should be persevered in but the majority were strong the other way, and evinced the same pl bility of principle .s Wm. A. porter, thei nominee for ludge, who, as Mr. qaaidy of itadelphla informed F l a the Converiti .before th 'nominafionio.tomikl stand on any platform le Coimention might adopt." Sti kto the piny, rightor wrong, for the sake f the spoils, is still the doctrine of the doughface leadersi in Pennsylvania.— . They expect the rank amd file of the party will swalloweven Lecon 4 pton, if duly labelled ". Democracy." Perhaps so—perhaps not. &tarn o ma SUN. An annular eclipse of the Sun , ill take- phte on the 15th inst. In the Uni States thi will be partial, and visible east - f Wisconstp; Illinois, and Miss-, issippi. Th Sun will / Ise about 6 o'clock 1,2 m., par ' Hy ecli ...., on the southern limb. 'The lipse will end here about.ludf , past seven. II: total-nom ', • r of preachers • 'and t tho Meth. iat Episcopal Church, / * tall, is T, .68,550. . ' • gar. members of North and Ntatioiive There is littr bablybii britneh of farming, or rather nothing. which ,pertains to the occupa tion, of which fanners generally' know Tess than of thelelittive value of the different &rift 4 31.0 4tiebt foifeeding. Yet te. limn; and' feed • prOfitiiblY, it is highly important that the sub ject be well understood. • As seeding time is hOten ! ng on, it may be of practical value to some of the farmers of the County, to know what, amount of one crop must be raised to be equal In" value to a given amount of some other common and much-used crop. And here let me'remark that the value of any crop is just propor, tion to its nitrogenous principles, if intended for feeding. In all experitrients on nutritive equivalents; Timothy hay, or grass, has been the staudard. .Calling two.tuns of hay the crop of an acre, the farmer must raise on the acre of Red Clover 3,6001135. ; of Rye straw 15,680 lbs.; of Qat straw 10,52 . 0 lbs.; of Wheat straw 14,240 lbs.; of Pea . straw 800 lbs.; 'of Buckwheat straw 8,400 lbs.; of Cabbage.2o,s2o lbs.; of Beets 14,280 lbs.:' of Ruts-ban 13,800 lbs.; of Carrots 12,800 lbs.; of Platoes .8,060 lbs.; of boiled or ground beans 1,640 lbs.; lir)f eas 1,600 lbs.; of Indian Corn 2,490 lbs.; 'of Buckwheat 360 lbs.-, of Oats 2;320 lbs.;. of Rye 2,040 lbs.; of Wheat 1,400 lbs.; of Oil-Cake 1,600 lbs.;..Wheat bran4,Qoo These'are the proportions, as given by to qty-one chemists and practical fariners afte* careful*.experi ments, and are probably pretty correct. So the farmer WhectaiseT'tWo tuns ofgood Timothy hay on an acre, ilium, tai" have its equivalent tor feeding stoot, - taiso on acre, td Rye, 3 tuns otstraw and . 22 .:bushels of grain ; of Oats, 2 1-2 tons of' straw and 38 bushels bf grain ; of Wheat, 3 tints of straw and 13 1.2 bushels of grain ; of Peas, 2 tuns of straw and 8 1-2 bushel's of graiir, of Buck: wheat, 2 3-4 tuns of straw and 22 3.4 bushels of grain ; of Corn, 1 tun of stalks and -2 l bushels-of grain ;of Beets, 238 bushels ;. of Ruta-bagas, 230 bbshols ; of Carrots, 213 bushels • of - Potatoes ' 140. - bushels. Fifteen hundred ' bushels of Rutabagas have been raised on an eat —which is.equivalent to 13 tuns of hay. If the above be correct, it is evident. that the. interest of the flirmers of the County lies in the direction of greater attention ,to root crops.: But root' cropS require very rich land; and if we are to have very, rich land, all the manure mast be saved : not one-half (and that the best half) wasted. am happy to see there is beginning to be an improve ment in the manlier of building stables, an eye being out' fur the liquids as well as solids, and both kept under cover. ‘. submitted a Douglas or question, qs mittee ;.but by 21 yeas, The liarrigburg Convention. The darkest chapter in the history of the Democracy of Pennsylvania has just been , written, As a contrast to. the-general healthy action of that party in favor of sound prin ciples in past years, and as a pernicious pre cedent and pretext for future deviations from, the path of conscientious duty, it has been read, and always will be read, with emotions or pain by' every sincere lover . of truth and fair-dealing. Constituted and controlted as it was, the action - of the Convention on the Kontos question does not represent the views of -the Democracy of the State on that.ques tion ; and we perform a plain, if not a pleas ing ditty, in declaring our unalterable oppo sition to the position of the Convention in fa vor of forcing the Lecompton Constitutiop upon the protesting people of Kansas. We .aw it t oom.inetiosi.s of the Conventimfor Justice of the Supreme Court, and for Cannl Cuing' - - uasioner, Tliestvierosiiirily made; . the' eandidateraretoitsittent Deniberats. Hon. William A. Porter is an 'eminent and expe rienced jurist; and adorns the high positioh to which he has been called by the appoint. ment of Governor Packer, whose entire pol icy and opinions he cordially and publicly. endorseli. Mr. Frost, the candidate for Ca nal' Commissioner, is a worthy citizen of the county of Fayette, and we hope he may be elected. But while We acknowledge the right of the Convention to present candidates for the support of the -Democratic party, we ern phatienily reject the attempt of that body to interpolate the Democratic creed,6y.the intro duction of sentiments hostile' to that creed, and indistinct contravention of the pledges and the principles of the Democratic party. And if, by this interpolation and betrayal, the party, and its organization, and its candi dates, hall suffer, the responsibility will not be with those who hay-e bravely struggled against the innovation upon the usages and the doctrines_of the Democracy. The composition of the Convention was such that no fair expression of the opinions of the Democratic party on the 'Kansas com plication could be attained. Twenty-one fearless men, ably and eloqbently ;opposed the usurpations ofthe. majority ;,;and how ' was this majority, made upl By .votes from Montgomery county; where itis-not doubted that the great mass of the Democracy are resolutely opposed to the Lecompton fraud ;_ by votes from Lehigh, in . which county, as the Allentown Democrat diftinetly declares, the public sentiment is all in the same direc tion ;. by votes from Bucks,,. sc, ably repre sented in Congress by the lion. Henry Chap man, whotresists the inflictihn of this fraud, upon the people of Kansas; by votes from Delaware, where the people were'ideprived by a . packed committee of all .chance` to choose their own delegatesd; by votes from Wayne, Bradford,Sitsquehrria, Tioga,. War ren, in regard to which region even the dele gates affecting to repressent4he people in this Convention do not denyth4t the DernoCracy warmly sympathise with tite - opponents of Lecompton. From York we had delegate voting with the majority whe was committed on the other side. Add to these the action. of the delegates frOm Biller, in the face of . the resolutions of the. Heinocratic C,onven don of that county approving the course of .the Democratic organ in that county (the _Herald) in opposing Lecompton; the remark. able change of front of the delegate from Crawford, who, from a decided opponent of Lecompton, was converted iii a few hours in to its supporter; the vote of one of the del egates from Washington, on the same side,. after he had announced the sentiments of his country to be of an adverse character; the rejection of one of the fairly-chosen delegates ' from indiana-.-all these, exclusive of the ac 'lion of the deleiatei iron( such-anti-Lecomp ton districts as Centre,. Mifflin, Beaver, Law rence, Erie, Warren, Allegheny, Fayette, &c., not counting the course of all the dele gates from Philadelphia but one, thus run ning counter to Democratic opinion in this quarter, and to the voluntary expression of a - considerable portion of the delegation against the attempted fraud upon the people of Kan sati-Tall these facts show, beyond doubt, that if the Demi:terrific masms Pennsylvania hid been truly represented at Harrisburg on the 4th and sth of March, . there witiuld . not have been Pn' votesfaVer of the pro gramme of the- General- Administration. in hard to 'Kansas. The Convention was a 'Mockery ripen public opinion so for as its. Kansas action was,concetned, and its declar -ations on-this subject are entitled to no re " spect 'at' the hamlet. o 1 lie' people.• The indignation the people against all attempts fo manufacture and to pervert pub lic opinion in support of a great, wrong will huotier orlater visit the. guilty principals in tAe /,n(A,I-'etivit AGRICOLA. Front Forney'R Pres& . . ...- the piesoifi iostanc& They have assumed tearful iesponsibiltty. Not only is thei course repudiated by an overwhelming ru jority .of all parties, but it-is expressly a.l distinctly eondemoed by Governor Pack and his entire.Adninistration, But theDetnocracy will reverse. these me . and repudiate their pernicious precedent. far - greater - ' 11 that involve the CoMprt Kansas-Nel most formi guish and t 64 TILE WILL of [wild , : " in their ow war upon tl less. The tration are t ces of the SI —the mere ants of war But it will its advcrsai truth can al ly annihilat . The Co /splinters and The Consp ,r , • -- ;ICY. Fr rut article in the- last issue of ho .14•ror ford Reporter, under the above head ; w ektract the following: ,;(j If any cloubilhat a scheme has been sc Wetly concocted, and was to be stealt il; carried on against Judge Witmor„let is read the following letter, written to W. r. PECK, of Troy, a copy of which has been t lai ed in our hands with authority to ma e public': . . • Confidential.] To wand<Fely. 13, 18 ;:. • Demi SIR :—The petition of niembe a the Bar of this County, asking to be s,t, -I to JUdge WOODWARD'S district, is likel t . be- nsumereusly signed. From presen al peal-faces, we AO have the names of t%enf members of the Bar upon it. • Mr. 1 ta,,, will go with it to Athens on Tuesday, and will be at your place on Tuesday nig 1.--:- His chief object in comittg there is to g' ih name of PARSONS. SNIITICS is already n.- Pierce, I understand, is not at home. I Pi sons should notrbe at home on Tue.da would not a line to that effect retch n e - East Smithfield, on Tuesday ; BAIRD Cirri that way, and We intend to get the mint s I BULLOCK and LYMAN. •If .PARSONS S oil not be at home, BALM/ could come home roi Smithfield, mid save a good deal of tray; I. Now conies the 'Most important ,p, rt my communication. BAIRD, D. A. ovs TON,PIOLET, and 'myself Will start fro he on Thursday, the 18th, at noon, and star th night at Owego.' (hi the next mornin ~ F day, we take the cars to the' Great ew there we will take the cars fir Wilkes 'art stop there and fix up matters so that Jud CONYNGDAM will consent to take Sus tiehi na County, and go oh to Harrisburg y w • f Northumberland, arriving there on rid night, or sometime on Saturday, and top Buehler's. Now you- and Judge I ILE must come down, either eome by way if V . verty, and stay with us Thursday niiht, else go down *as to be at Harris rg Satyrday. W. would like your mpi this way. and think Judge WILIMIC co Id smoothAings to his old friend CONY Guam. I vitae lit - once, Ili -soon as we hay settled upon a course of action. - So that yo can ' ready. There is to be no back out in wlr—and if we act we will not NI V ' you and the Jtidge go I ,And .r hie wf .1 7 ,;?/ must go. - Such a necessity lo act will never arise again. I have lieit er ti nor Money to spare. but ~till I ..411 teem.] this businesci. By the way; 1 don't hiuk 'wilt nee d to . stay there over three or , . days. Come on ! the prospect is fa r Yours, Truly, . WM. ELWELL.e y, ~, protium oar, ..., or tftey um, ' I come citizens of the United States before:the It is not necessary to let it hi , known 1 issuing of the patent therefor. : - • where we are goieg, or what Our bu loess. Our desire in calling attention to the sub, Mr. Eitt9m, has some, reputation as a fair ject at thisl however,noment, is not so much and upright man, and itr''%- more i sorrow to evoke public. expression from the commit. 'than anger,' that we use'this eviden to on.. nity, for that was fully done; so far as St. ravel the secret conspiracy to whiei ho. has Lou§ is concerned, by the declaration of the lent himself. 'What PIOLLET hicks iri char- niass meeting at the rotunda on the Sth of aeter, he endeavors to make up by ing M. January last; but. rather to incite members ELWELL. Ile' uses the latter on all opportu. of the present Congress to suffer no failure r.itics to supply thg want of public confidence in bringing the matter to the test, of a direct and respect, towards himself. Mr. ELWELL, vote. ,It will set before the country , an inter. though an `amiable' man, is not o decided esting record, and show who are prepared to one ; and it must have been the b:leful in- sustain the cause of land reform, connected fluence of Piora.r.r which extorted corn. him with free labor extension, and also who are such a precious document as that we have fettered to the ig,noniimous traditions of gov given itbove. Men should never -rite let- ernment monopoly. If it fails in. this Con ters they ar could not care to see ii print.— gress, it can only be because it,is opposid Accident may throw them into the hands of as 'heretofore by the slavepropa,ganda of the political enemies, where they are considered, southern seaboard, and even should it fail, of course, fair weapons of warfare. This let. that defeat would only give .renewed vitali. ter unfolds the programme of the c onspiracy, ty tO the measure, and ensure its triumphant and proves-everything which-has b •en assert- passage when the present administration Jos % ed of the conspirators. The swot manner es its baneful ascendency:—St. Louis .Drns, ; in : which signatures to the petition -ere to be. obtained; the trip to Harrisburg, - v a Wilkes- . • Arsottrioti' or TUE PosT OFYICE.—A prop osition is before Congreilt to abolish the Post barre, when' Judge CONYNGILOI'S e: r was _to ke poisoned, until he would con-ent -to be Office as a department of the general goxern. privy to, the arrangement to injur• a brother ment. . Mr, Spinner, of New York, has sub- Judge; and particularly the " smo th words" milted a resolution, which was read, consid, which our old and esteemed fri•nd Judge ered, and agreed to, that a Committee on the Witaza knows so well how to. . m pl e y, Past-office and Poskroads be. instructed to Above. all comes the climax of ffis • ngenuous- inquire into the expediency of abolishing . the 1 ness—" it is,not necessary to let ibe known Post-office 'Department ; 'and if they deem it 1 where we are going, or what our business." expedient, then that they report on the_ pro priety, of repealing all laws which restrain in- No, Mr. ELWELL ! it was necessa y for the - success of the " war" in which yo ,were en- dividualti or corporations from carrying mail gage d, that it should not . be kn. wn where or mail matter.. -We hope the propositiOns. will succeed; you were going or what your bust ass. We • and the sooner the better. The business o submit if such a journey, for e such iipUrpose, was in accordance with the rep ation transporting, letters, papers, hooks, and smal enjoy, and we have am doubt are proea you , of, parcels, can be done better, quicker; cheape o for fairness and integrity. The h ghest rep- and P-11161‘ by individual enterprise. The c t press companies are already more prompt, r.' . utation could not stand many such develop°. liable and economical than the complicate ments. If'you have just cause '0 complaint arrangements of the Poskoffice institution, 'against Judge WILMOT, the,impuf ',. of a fair mid manly heart would be, to` eke open, our business men are .rapidly finding out. manly and_ fair, accusations. W at is . this Yet the greatest benefit of all to result fro ," war," which is urged on, and om which the proposed measure, is the Abolition of 'an 'there is to be no "back out?" l=. i t 0 ,- war _ immense engine of political Partisanshir 'upon the pri4ate and official c araeter of fraud, and. corraPtion.— . -Life illustrated. Judge Witstot ? . If -so, let it .be openly made, and honorably prosecuted; - Or is it a 'war" upon the 17,000 voters'of .is Judicial bistrict,,to deprive them of thei, rights un -1 der the Constitution? Or hp'. ~ r.- EL-wEtt -not forgiven the voters of this I) strict, that they passed over his merits and q althcations, to elevate Judge WiLmor to the o enet,i 'I A fair and manly nature `makei o guerrilla war—brit revengeful passions ternto stealthy attacks and *vet assassination.. The public will. be astonished to-learn that r. Et.wm has lent his name and ' influence tQ sue • unjust war ; and, in charity to hi •we b that he has allowed PIOLLET i 0 I - ad hi/ ilt it, against the dictates of his bett•r jud and the natural impulses of his eart: A CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR.— Etumi didnte for the trarralty of Gal • eston, as, announces himself in the • ppers a lows ; "BY INDUSTRY WE TER ' E.—T Oda rn is the workingman ' s , adidat Mayor/ at the election on the II st MI in March.. He is'not the tool any 'or party, 'He is a Democrat o the simian school, believes in a Sup erne I accepts of holy writ, submits to the In' his -country, and takes physic, w len he' Italanco from the stump when ', lied Only one newspaper in New Orlean... ports the Lecompton swindle. All the oth• ers, with the exception of the Piutyune, which is silent as yet, oppose it. .The t f Among the/ tribute to e this repu i , ef A l workin r" more i the` r grif i'6' /omestead Bill. /many measures which will con- /tend the cause of free labor in Aic, and better the condition of the , classes, there-are few . that have .a ,Jireet bearing than that proposed by e /Horriesterid bill" which is before Coro As; for it will contribute' largely to the Aevelopmeut of the public domain,now Unoe eupied•or else concentrated in the hands' of speculators. Asa question of national:poli cy affecting the. spread of free institutions, eneouraging•individual and domestic indus try, resting the faiindstions of our :govern ment upon a .strong, • manly, patriotic yeo manry, and spreading before us into the wil, dernesi the cjvilization•that is the. pride and boast of the age, it does not 'admit of argu: went. It is too the Climax to that ameliora= Lion of tie land system of the United states,• which haTbeen so long maturing under free densopratic guidance, and which has only been partially repressed by the exclusive and 'aristocratic tendencies of, southern extension:, ists. Cash sales of public 'lands, preemption to, actual settlers, graduation. of price accord ing to . quality, have been the successive steps .iii the advance from the old ideas of govern " 'Went monopoly that first obtained. ' All these reforms tended to-confirm' the soil to le the pioneer, and were designed for that pur r e . pose. The finishing strolie remains, and that is to exclude speculation from the - homes e- of the masses, and yield the magnificent do main 'of the west to the citizens who will re mdace it to cultivation,- In view of this progression, -we are glad to see that a subject of so mud importance is „ remixing the agention of Republican mem bers— of .Congress; for from•the nulifiers the can, with few exceptions, blip for nothing. Theirfpolicy is.to devote the territories to of the spread of :slavery and the cultivation of negroes, and of course they oppose any mod to ification that looks to filling' them up with kr) . free citizens. To show this fact, it •is only 4 •Y necessary to trace out the congressional his \a, tory o' lithe "Homestead bill" itself. In 1851 the fit* homestead bill was introduced is the House which was zealously . supported by le sonic of the most prominent:sof the present • members of the Republican -party. Among it the ablest speeches then made in 'its behalf Yi was that of Mr- Grow of l'ennsylvania,who,. at from that time to this, has labored incessant les iv for .the success of this tneasure. The bill of :passed the House the first session of the thir e° tv-first Congress, in 1851, and was lost in 'al the Senate by a refusal of that body to Mite it tip for consideratiob ; the slave extension of interest generally opposing it.. Mr. -Hale . ER. made ,an effort to get it considered,' and on ere ,the test vote but one southertirsenator voted. hat with him. Mr. Grow and -others made an eflbrt to have the,homestead policy: incorpo ; rated into the'detnocratic platform at Bafti re ; more, in 1852,. but the effort failed. In the dge sessiub of Congress in 1853, Mr. Grow intro 'an' duced a homestead Wll and again made a , r aY telling speech in-its favor, and was most ac- Jar iive and vigilant in securing its' passage in 'a t the House. It 'was again defeated in the 3RII Senate. On the test vote to lay on the ta- Va- ble, but Six northern men voted for the. no- • or tion, and but nine southern men voted against °° it. In the last Congress, Mr. Grow again in treduced his-homestead bill, which', 'owing to the press of business, failed to be reached during the. ongress ; yet, on the first days of this ses-ion he again introduced his bill, \be - and it has note been referred to the commit this te e on public lauds. Its principal - features VIII are,. to give to any person who is the head of ay ?a family,'or who has arrived at the age of Lion twenty-one years, and is a - citizen of the Uni inte ted States, or who shall have•filed his inten a t c" Lion to hooonto ouch, ai.• roxptired by - the ntd.- we uraliiation'laws of the United States, one four hundred said sixty 'acres of the public lands., on. condition of occupation and c ulture for • five years, ;provided he, she, or t►ey shall be- MI gar Col. Forney's Press says : " The long catalogue of undenied frauds in Ka - f, i sas ; the infamous manner in which a porti n of the Constitution was submitted ; the re - sal to regard a legal election against that i - striiment, &e. ; all these acts, lc: . to - spelik of the outrages of the Pro -Slave party : a fore the Convention began its sittings, h e excited a deep, resistless, and almost• uuiv r sal resentment in the free States." ' , . , Upon this; the Baltimore Clipper observi an "Cot. Poriny might have added, ,deep iieve 'gust in many of the sire tates. We 1 into Here that if the questio were put. fairly . . ' ment, the people of Maryland, to accept or re ' l the Lecompton . Constitution, it would be.. jected by an overwhelming majority.",; 1 ran- Tex- li u \.4 1 k. , 441Ew Courrxarsrr.—The Stroudsb' rg 41- Bank, loCated in Monroe County . ,:in his W. State, fora new institution'. have been sh wn lin 'an unu ual for share of counterfeits. We rnday a. twenty dollar note, well executed, and -w ich clique is well calculated to deceive. The gen ine Jeffer- note is tinted, while the. spurious is -n'o . 81 i t Being, This is su ffi cient to caution even the mol-in- t i iwe of attentive if remembered. . ' p is sick. ' By direction of the,President of the - lh States, orders hive beenissued from the s sup- Departritent; convening a general Court• dal at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania the 10thinstant, for the trial of Colonel' win V. Sumner, first regiment of cavalil A q) 'ENDItIM OF NEWS. 1 .... Vby Is Neitt, of South Carolina, like - : ly to rne 4 good Republican l An fr,— . -Because he is Grow's ninny TlAND.tniim.--OTel l a York Evening Post. J I .... Judg Chapman, Democratic mem ber of congr ss , for Bucks county, has an nounced his -intention of opposing the Le-- compton swintfle i to theilast. .. : Darttn otth College •is nearly des l erted in the * Winter, bheause the students are away engage-in sabot keaching. 1 1 * * re S s e ig y n e rd t f h le e r ir gY e s a n ges in , f O ur h i t o lip 4 pt v t:po ss r s c e: rating to Kansas. , .... It is stated , that thirty elaborate s speech have bgen prepared for deli Very. on the Ka sas question ~in the Senate, and that' the de ate viill emikame at least a month. • - ... General Shields has written a letter in whi h he exp!resies himself opposed to the k. LecoMpton ; Ceinstitution, atid says o the President's- eourseln urging the it4n t. oq of Kinsaa under ft, "He has perfnitte hisiil:"sten honer! juttgipent to be,biaseil by the sfigges ticms of seffishl .ki4n., of inferior parts and ' questiOaabMinkorfity.ll, -t ( 1 ~,„ .. '' .E. .'Sc - aitton, Esq., declines the ationfor Gt:i`vernor tendered him by i merican Party in Connecticut, on the I that the party is not ".national" , and expresses his intention to 'vote iemoeratie" ticket. , 1- • 1 .. , .... The Brownsville (Pa.) Thies has , thrown aside its neutrality, and anqounees it- s ! self iits last issue as cominitted tii,the ad vocady of; Democratic principle's: le.sup portsj the ; anti-Lecompton. policy of Mr. Douglas. ; q.< -- • .. L . Of th 4 625 paupers supported by the . Borough of Scranton, 455. .are Irish, 90. Ger man,' 40 Welsh, 27 American and - la Eng lish:i PrettysignifiCant as to who compose the Mass.of oar paupers. . , ,cently of enik noun the /1. group enoug the "! ..1 , A baibers in Lancaster city, fekund • on his steps / feW days since a segar which he - lit andlattempted to smoke, but being ea ' ceedingly ra k,•be laid it aside. An appren ticeappened to cut it in two', when a tube wasj ii found iniide containing powder and shot, so arranged as to fly knelt into the Maces moitt . Ll. barrow escape. ... The ,London Times _censures Queen Vic.oria for having, while in Scotland, gone to r,e" Presbyterian Conventiclo,'; and, after the sermon, ," complimented. the 'clergyman up n the'excellence of his discourse 1" This pie of heresy is said to have shocked the • file of Eiagland, qnd is cited as proof of He Majesty's " Lutheranism," in sympathy with Prince Albert. o 1 . Th 4 following objection ' among man* • • • oth l ers,-is utiged against the Lecoropton - Con stitißion,' by The Press : , ‘ The schedule of the Lecompon;Constita ti+ ,expres,sly forbids FOREVER ' any change in that instrument Mild shall, iti any winner affect the right of property in'Slaves in land Territory. And now; when die r e. pie Of Pennsy I vania learc that, according to the opiniOn of the ablest advocate, of the. Cal hdun contrivance 'who . has yet appeared ,a ong then), that Kansas can NEVER be a l fr e State 4s long as anybody' in at chooses c i t hold 4 slave, we doubt whether their ad. iniiation; of that instrument will be at; all in creased." ; _ - ... Lecompton is fast using up the 'frag. . ments , of the Democratic party ln New Hampshire. Three of the chief men of that, Party litilvd openly declared themselves Nxltith i i J j 1. le •Refikhi tn licans—Sauel Herbert of %un-', n y, thelate Democrdtic leader in the House, lin Sullivan, one of the most influential or t e party 'leaders, and J. Everptt Sargent, ommon Pleas Judge, andante Democratic peaker.., of the House. There is also a great sompede among the rank, and file. i • .. The Ohio DeMoeracy, or that part 'Of it opposed to the I,ecomptoq juggle, have sued al call for a grand mass -meeting of the People of;the whole State ; to be held at Col embirs, 'on the 10th of March inst.• The names appended.to the call compose a maj ority 'of the mai influential Ohio Democrats; imad'am99g them, the name of Mr. ,Payrie, .who came so near being elected. Governor of the State. last fall. • _ „ At a meeting of the Democracy held recentlyr in Hartford, Connecticeti to elect delegateslto the State Convention, 'Douglas Democrats were selected, by . a vote of two p o one,. i This is doing pretty well, when it s remembered that every Democratic news: paper in 'that State islorle.corriptoo, nearly every proprietor ofthese journals holding Government office. • ....IThe Gubernatorial nominee of the American State Convention, recently held in Connecticut, turns out to be.a Democrat, and he declines the nomination. This places the party in a bad predicament. We trust% that it will rosult in a heavy vote•for the' regular liepubhcan ticket. ...1 The Town Electiontiwhich lune tak-. en plate in this State show a most Over whelming verdict against the Federal Ad ministration. About one-half the counties elected on the first. Tuesday in February or the firiCTuesday in March, Jeavmdthe resi due tojehoose on the first Tuesday in April. In quiitea number of towns, three tickets, were run; while in others the Americans unitedtirith whichever of the leading parties - they liked best or hated least. Their gener- . al detestation of the Lecornpton fraud natit rally brought them; iu tt a,•,,great majority cif instances, 11.11LvittiHit e Itepubliettne.—New York (Tribune, March Mk. • I .1 The Mahomet of tbo,Great Salt Lake has atl fast thrown 'off all'- disguise, and' has boldly taken his stand upon a tenable round of resistance 'to the Executive of the Union. He ha's published a long and elaborSte mes. sage 6; the Legislature of Utah, in which ho maintains the doctrine of Popular Sove`reign. ty in its broadest acceptation, ansl'hurls most logietilidefiance at the President who refuses to acknowledge his own , principles of Gov. eminent when transferred,frotn Nebraska to 'Deset, and expanded into a , beauty more firliblUwn and absolute. The argumentation of Br , igham Young, High Priest and Gover nor, tS certainly not less accurate and precise than• l the argumentation of Mr. -Buchanan, candidate and President, and it feints the Morppon ruler oriby sequenees,of unimpeach• nble facility from the Articles or coofedorn, - tioi . of the United American Colonies to the asse tton that neither the President nor Con. grev ! sican•appoint officers to govern the in. habitants of an American Territory without. 'the - free consent.and election — of those inkibi: , tants, - 1. El TS4IOCRATIC ,DOCTRANE.--ThO COI/1701 of Al, x l atidris, - Virginia,S avo recently pasised a . law(~ to hire out frde Degrees . who may' be in arrears for taxes, rind have no available prop. ert) , ,,' at no less than ten cents a day.- until in hiplaim be satisfied. - T.iiii !milts like put. 16 . President Buchanaii's s suggestiona into it. dim " - 1 tript BEST IBT OF T.ll E SEASON.-,-001:1 10• _ yi Lane,, of Indiana, Made a speech to.thu 1' op banns; up at St. Joseph, the other day, which ho said"" that.the Buchanan men had tliandoned the Ci n c i nnati platform ; t tql • tem. t - plait the Cincinnati Diiectory.l' ." ar jar on Ed. 1Y~• li gerri i gory, jifonf i octO 1
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