the lioePellaeo ilePttblie4l). OIRCI:MELTION, 2328. C. F. READ et H. H. FRAZIER, EDITO.RS. F. E.LOO.VIS. CORRESPONDING EDITOR. - . 7 Iflb-WT3lOel, ez„uig y , . . Priptice.=-The Republican County Committee of Susquehanna Couuty will meet at Searle's Hotel, hi Montrose, on Siturday, January 7th, ISt3O, at 1 o'clock, p. m., to tetinseet iniportant business. The following are the names of the Committee ; Tracy Hayden, New Milford; John Conklin, Great Bend; Abel Cassidy, Ditnock ; R. S. Davis, Auburn; Al bert Truesdell, Liberty ; S. F. Carmalt, Chcconut; C. F. Road, G. Z. Virriock; Montrose . ; J. H. Ball, Rush ; H. F. Hendrick, Middletown. A full attend ance is desirable. By order of the Committee. t gr A communication from out ralued correspeild eat, J. W. p., received too late for last,week's i34ue will be found ort our fourth' page. - ' up- The Republican Nation - al Committee have de cided to hold the' Republican National Convention on the 13th of Jane next, at Chicago.. • t i" An advertisement of that well known Mile and enterprising religious newspaper, the New Tork /a dependent, *ill tte found in another column. t irAt the close of the "Old Brown" Lecture, Elder Post threw dotin the gauntlet to any lawyer .who willed to tliscuss.the points of lavi-he attempted to establish. We would rdwctfullp suggest to Mr. Little that it would be. more- manly to meet Elder Post face to face than to skulk behind a pretendd editorial. • - - It is a remarkable fact, and - one which we think very significant, that many of the leading LO cofoco papers in the interior, do not publish even un abstract of the speeches made by their friends in .Cobgre'ss. -. They "haven't room," they say! The truth is; we suspect, that they are a.harned to let their readers see what Ws their representatives are making of theinselves, The Easton (Pa.) Argus, which. 'published . Rev. John Chambers's Union-saving Thanksgiving 'sermon, with strong commendations, draws a nice .distinction between pro-slavery and anti-slavery fasesehers.- It says: We are honestly and -conscientiously. of the opin ion that the sectional Ministers of New Rngland, , since the presidential campaign of 7556, have done more injury to the cause. of Christianity thin they will be able tb repair in the next quarter of a century. They hare turned , their pulpits into mere political stumps, and instead of leading their flocks to seek salvation through the tree principles of the Gospel, they teach them that thefirst great duty of man is to hate negro.skvery. Instead of inculcating love of country, and laboring to spread the. Gospel in its pu [-sky, they lead the listeners from the true path, and 1 'build up congregations of infidels and traitors!. Ttiur ouvand.ont abolition preacher is the worst thug on she face of God's earth." . . • ce our last issue ; Congress has *gone on about as before, doing-nothing but "agitate" the . Slavery question. The agitating is done by the De wirracy, as canal. In.the House . , - the Con r..4e' l autrk ed . out and closely : followed by the 'Republicans has been to refrain from talking and urge a vote for Speaker whenever, hey could. On the 22d inst., Mr. Win slow, Democrat, attempted to procure an adjourn ment over the holidays; /which brought out Mr. Grow in the first Republican speech that had been made for many *days. Mr. Grow reviewed the pnapt•sition - for an adjogrnmenfbrietly. and forcibly, shoWing how the Slavery question had been thrust into the House before attempting an organization, hy.the vets men who denounce agitation. If Helper's book contained incendiary matter, the South had advertised' nd elr culate4 it. His friends !tad sat silent, because they . scorned•to answer the flagrant charges the Other side .made. They deserved nothing but contempt. The Union must be weak2be said, if it could be dissolved by a pamphlet. Contractors, who had performed mail service, were begging for their pay, while holi 7 'days were proposedoby the supporters of the admin istration: The speech created mach sensation, and a number rose to respond, several claiming the floor, - but the dispute was terminated by an adjournment, for the day, amid - much confusion. We thought it-would be so., The edithr of the Montrose Dirancrat has a heavy burden ff new sins to answeillir. He has got the venerable! editor of the Ltizerne Unic;n into a bad serene. Gen. E. S. Goodrich, editor and proprietor of the said Union— . not the Enion'that is ationt to be dissolved ty the . Democratic party—is a man Who. prides himself on • editing i respectable Democratic organ. lie hastren been known tb go so far ark° intimate that.he would not wilfully assert a direct falsehood for . the benefit of the party. This statement looked-so undeniocrat• is on its face that many were disposed to think Mr! ,'Goodrich intended to be understood in a Pickwickian sense ; but we hare given him Credit for berme in• earnest, and have really thought we had discovered a slight improvement, in the metals' of the Union since it came under his.cOntroi r eseept occasionally when be has good-naturedly permitted Some con ' mienceless scamp to ascend the editorial tripod arid .scribble falsehoods in his mane. But now we are gompelled to give him over. Ills word is no more . to be depended upon than A.J.Gerritson's2 - His paper is sunk as low in the depth's, of moral turpitude as the Montrose Dentoenkt. We can `conceive'elf only one plea thatcan be put in in his behalf-!=that he was misled by the organ of his party here. But even thatplea is inadmissible, for he exchanges With the Independent Republican, and when was an honest searcher after truth ever. known to tun] to a pseudo Democratic paper for authority when he had a Re publican paper within reach ?.. The editor of the . Lucerne Union has 'read the 'Rev. A. L. Poses lecture ,on John Brown, and he tells ,his readers that it is a "Republican sermon!" . Now, is not that willng the falsehoods In thick ? two lies in two words! -It was not "sermon," but a lecture ; and it was not a " Republican" lecture, k at A. L. Post's lecture, If Gen. Goodrich had read the Independent, Republican as attentively as he ought, he would hare read therein the announcement of the /ertuye, and be would also hare read Elder Toes letter to the editors of both the Montrose pa pers, in which he distinctly states that he is 'noi a Reprablican,and that neither-party comes up to his ideas of 'mitt and duty. It is true that this letter was suppressed and the.ftets were miarepresented by the editor of the Damocreit,. and for that reason We are.afraid that he will be , held accountable for the falsehoods (Oho Union' but _whether the Union 'man can be considered guiltless,. when be had the, ftictkell before him In our paper,. let the candid read , er judge.. fr the lucerne editor is really an:cities to learn what are the doetrines of the ItepublicanParty on Slavery, we recommend him to read carefully the Repirblicsn Hauloal Platform adopted at rbiladel. Phis in-lifie.,instead of looking for ahem in a lectUre before • country' audience by a man who takes pains to publish with his lecture the fact that he is not a member irf the Republican party. —i• Thus much with regard to Vermxtratic.,bonesti. ' ast r while we state datiAtly. (as we did when we publiimmi tbs loose* ibit tbri wasionsts 1!1 I.•• ' • Post's lecture are not our sentiments , na . r•the lend !Dents of , the Republicans generally of this cbunty,' we have no apoldgies to offer for havingirbliahed it, nor has he for having - delitered it We, lip this way, believe in freedom of speech. - Elder II est - has as good a right to express his views as ani Union-sav ing, nigger-driver-worshiping doughlacertn' the hind': if Charles °Tenor may proclaim in Nett York city that alayeholding is right and slavery a blessing, Mr. Post may proclaim in Montrose thit elarleholding is a. sin and slavery a curse. And by so niu f+ h : the more reason, that truth has a better right to be heard than falsehood. .* - We should be glad if these lyttveyedi Democrati: editors, while lieepicg so sharp a lookou,rfora chance to-condemn the sentiments of Serthertitinen, would express their opinion with regard to lb+ traitorous Southern Congressmen who daily threatt!u in the na tional capitol the dissoluton of the Unidh, aluethose rebellious Southern Governors who bolditeacti st sou in their annual messages. otHJ,H. Giddings delivered the tided lecture- of I die course, last night. dt was mainly, 4 , stepid, vile, blunderingly dellvered abolition harangue. Instead of a " litentry feast," we got the insipid ' , ,,hattering ot a. dilapidated old fanatic, whose intelleet ; apparently, never grasped but one thing, (nigger) And has, be• come so decayed by its chronic disenke. and -self. abuse, that its emanations_ are 'too 'contnmptible for ridicule.—Montrose Democrat. i v ' The Hon. Josinia - R:Giddings, in a Iciure deliv -1 - ered before the Young Men's Literary A.ssoci4ion of Montrose, recited the history of the tw.O,,greattstrug gles which - occurred in Congresstluringihis Congres sional career,—one involving the right of petition: the other, the right of disciaiion. The securing of these tico great rights to American Freemen, are two great events in our history, and are the particular events which, give character and' imporlance to the period during"which M. Giddings held: his seat in Congress. From the magnitude and vas' importance of these two rights, it is expected that every true American will feel intensely interested' ih a descrip tion ofeny scenes which may' have occurred while they were discussed in Congress. Witt( this expec- - tation, - Mr. Giddings proceeded to describe, in mild, but forcible and graphic style, that renu(rkabie scene `which occurred when the Hon. John Qdiney Adams was charged with High TreaiOn to his country -for 'simply presenting to Congress a pelitiiM • entrusted' to him by.his constituents; and was arraigned and tried before the House on resolutions fcsF his censure and expulsion. It was on that occasion, more than any other, that Mr; Adams,. scornfully 'declining to defend himself against the charge of High Treason, which consists in "levying war",,and aiding ene mies," and turning upon his assailants it4indication of right of his constituentsto petition Congress for the 'redress of grievances, earned for himself that beauti ful and appropriate cognomen, "the pH Man Elo: gent." During that excited and pdssiOnate discus sion of thirteeti'days continuance, -which eventually secured to Congressmen the right to present the pc., 11110111 , of their constituents, of whatever character, without incurring the censure . of the', Honse, and and which 'also secured to American Freemen the right to petition Congress upon any 'am) every sub ject coming within the legitimate sPherd of Congres sional action, there occurred scenes of thrilling inter est. These were poitrayectby Mr. Giddings 3n the to!), gentle, and, truthful manner becoming tie his torian and patriot. There was nothing of the heat • and fervor of the l partisan, nothing of the sophistry and decsiamation of the demagogue, and nothing of die false reasonings and denimeidtions of th4anatic. It was a calm, dispassionate, and truthful recital of facts. He next presented scenes 'which ocet,trred . 'daring the discussion of the Amistad Slave case, and onere, iri which he appealed as one of the „principal charac ters. n the case of the b 'ig ... Crooke, Mr. Hidiings rted that when a slave was carried, beyOnd the jurisdiction of slave laws, upon domains where - slay ery was not known nor recogniztfd, the slaCe was restored to his natural rights, and that it was- not only his right, but his duty to, - declare himself free. For asserting and maintaining this doctrine, the House, passed mien him a role of censure. Mr. Giddingsnannediatresigned his sent id Congress, returned to his cMtituents, and appealed to them to know si•hether an Amerieen Freeman had not the right to express his opinions on the door of Congress . The scene which occurred when he resigned his seat with dignity, shoOk hMitis with his - friends and the Speaker, and took leave of the House; like s . man proud of the distinction shown him, 'a'hd the scene which occurred when he was restored 'to his seat bi . 'an overwhelming vote of his constituents, and re sumed the discussion of the same" doctrine with ten• 'fold more power, while men stood : round him• ,with drawn pistols, some to attack and others to defend him, were calmly arl.modestlY descried. 'With a modesty remarkable for a man of his iearn, (for as' nee creep's upon men they are apt to' grOw egotist ical,) he nresenteddhese scenes in his dwn becoming way, 'without discussing any of the ,tloctrines and principles inrplved. • During the whole evenini he contented himself with describing the Men who were engaged in the dis.cussions, their chrtrater, personal appearance, and manner of speaking, arid with relat ing the fails iu lust that fair and 'edndid fight "in ' , which history has already placed Meth. The 'audi ence listened with profound attention: Men Of all parties listened, seeming to appreciatethe old man's candid recital of 'facts, arid his kind forbearance to discuss doctrines upon which there might- be a di versity of opinion. is audience went home seem ingly pleased with the leeture, a few only regretting that he 'did not rise to the eloquence Of which he is capable, and-exhibit some of the fire ainf vigor mani fested in his congressional debates. put these are not called oat in a dispassionate treta4 of facts, but manifest themselies in the heat of thii discussion of the peculiar opinions which have go'keined• his ac tions during a - long and honorable public Career. Great was -the astonishment anti ludignation o this community, when, At few days late!. in the week they took up the ifontrose : ponoenii syud•read the head of the editorial column the eitract we have placed at the head of this, article. We have seen Slavery excited - and enraged. when private opinions, are expressed: We now-see Democracy excited and enraged when public histo i ry is recited Abolition speeches have Ipg been regarded as ; incendiary ut the Smith.' Historical addresses hat*, corrie to be regarded as incendiary at the North. 'll.aiertiry asso . tiations arc appealed to to establish a Censorship over ani the tiingtie, lest their lecturers recite "' ' bnoxious passage of American history:. John 4ui y Adams Was assailed with the charge of High reason, be cause be presented,a petition' to Cod e ess. Joshua 11. Giddings was censured by..a vote O Congress, be cause he expressed a private opinio . Now, an honored old man, just on the verge ;of the gnve, Is denounced by the Montrose. Democrat .as a "dilop idated old fanatic," because he mentiOned these facts to a few of the intelligent young ntem'.,of Montrose ; and the terms of unlicensed ribaldry are heaped upon him, because be -described. a fei scenes which-. he witnessed when two of the greatest rights of Aniri can freemen were secured to them and their 'poster... ity. Poor, shriyelod, decrepid old Democracy! :It has become as sensiiive and excitallle! in its decline as its old - mister, Slavery. ' TheNquaite and tremble at every leaf and shadow tluit stirs. • When one gets frightened, the other howls; and when one _ bowls, the other is frightened—a happy .elucidation of the oft asserted fact that there is a sort oi:Sympiithy ex isting between master and slave. ' .1 c , ' . We have not-always agreed with M. Giddings . in the principles he has advocated, nor have we been able to approve all his acts in Congress ; but we are forced to respect him for.his htithfdlims and fear. lessnesa in tuivociting unpopular doctrines. • We - honor him now more thau,eier for the candid and . impartial relation of the ,facts obserld by, bitriself ID his own _congressional life., ills lecture was in keeping with his life,,plaitq honest, straightforward, atid-truthfuL Now that the frosts ofi,ge are upon him, and the active labels of life are Sbout to - close, we forbear to denature him. We would rather In. yoke pogo' and *apt to ggr The following form of a petition bast been sent to WI by a citizelf of a neighboring town, for . publication. The m a tter is considered one of grhat , importineb, and Ms suggeited that petitions be xir culated In the several townships, and forwarded to our Senator and Representative : .71 the Honorable the Serate and Hone of Reply sentative& of the Conaktinwealth of Penaks:yfra-nia, fa Genera/ At:l'644, met - • • "'• - • ‘ -'The Petition of the subscribers, citizenstof Township; in the Coun t of Susquehanna, respectful ly showeth : Whereas, In the opinion of your peti 7 .tioneiN it is obligatory Upon the subjects of a gov emrnentould especially' . upon citizens vested with . their own legislative powers, that they should not be ignorant of the laws by which they are governed : And whereas your petitioners regard the prevalence of such ignorance in our Commonwealth, as necessa rily resulting from tits obscurity and complicated con- - dition of our laws: And whereas such entangled and disjointed intricacy is deemed tole much behind tae age, and totally inconsistent with, and a reproach .to the characteristic sillicity of republican institu. tions, ifOot a source of insecurity to the permanence Of such institutions And whereas it i 3 believed that the embodiment of our laws into a plairi,straight forward Code would tend to diminish The great amount and cost oflitigation, by rendering its results tens ehigrnatical, and would also tend to discourage the prosecution of frivolous suits depending on a lab yrinth of doubtful technicalities : Youe petitioners therefore pray that measures may be adopteii (as has already been done ivith respect to our criminal cede,) whereby the whole of our Laws may be revised, di gested, and codified, being collected from the vari ous sources whence they are derived, in the English Common Law, the 'English Statutes here in force, our own legislative Enactments, and the Decisions of our Courts, and arranged in explicit language, .by distinct subjects, under appropriate beads and so as to-constitute an entire and complete compila tion of the Laws of our State at large. And they further 'pray that provision be made for the extensive publication of all enactments (subsequent to smelt codification) which are to operate generally through out.the„State; and for the publication also of corres ponding Court Decisions. And your petitioners will ever pray, Ac. . , Editor's Table. - - TIIF MECHANICS' AND ENGINEERS' POCKET ALMANAC.. New York: Fowler & Wells. Price; six cents.—z. Twenty:tvo conies for one dollar. Tbe publishers bare sent us a copY of this neat lit. deloinnual,ishich contains a variety of 'useful tables pertaining to.the sulUects indicat&l bs its title: Tut Cuttu , s PLEASURE 800 n... Beautifully Illustrat ed.with Colored .Plits's. New York: Sheldon & / Co. 1860. This little volume would make a very aCceptable holiday present to those interesting, shortlfrocked. hieniles who can read words a little but pictures better. We expect that they will raise a great ,de . . mand for it, as soon as they ascertain its extraordin ary. literary and pictorial merits: Tim 61.1) Bsrrt.r.•Gaocsn: By J. T. Trowbridge, Author of "Father -Brighthopes," " Neighbor Jackwood," etc: New York : Shelden tz .186(4 Price, GO cents. This is one of a series of interesting stories - for boys and girls, by the above popular author, pub; lisped in handsome slie by Sheldon &Co. It is just the sort orstoty to please the children, as a Christ. mas or New-year's prent, or wouldbe acceptable at any time. •., FLORENCF:AND ats. By,..JacoVA bbott. New York:, Sheldon & Co. 18130. Price, SO cents. Another handsome little book, •by probably the best writer of cnildren's stories in the country.' If the youngsters from six to twelve could elect a pres ident, we•doubt not that their . choice would •light on Jacob Abbott; and we are notcsure but he 'would make a better President than we shall be likely to get. However that may be, hqs very..popular with a large, influential, and risingi dims—namely, the boys and girls—and the announcement of a new sto ry from his pen must produce quite nu excitement among them. . , . SERNIO.R. By,Richard Fuller, I 3 D., •of Baltimore. New York: ' Shelden k Co. 115 Nassau. Street. Boston: Gould S Lincoln.- 1860. These sermons, preached by pn able Baptist cler gymen, are:dedicated to the taro churches and can gregations in which the anther's pastorat,,life, has been spent—one in Beaufort, S, C., and the, other in Baltimore..., They will be found interesting by a large elaSs of l'atiers. THE Wlie.4 TntAct AND Tatrurtts. 13 . . y the Author of " Grace Elarniltou's Sehool-DayN" " Ease in the Rouse," "Kingsdocrn Lodge," etc.— :Nest York . : Shelden & Co. 1800. This beautifully bound - and attractive volume con tains a story of ilecithA merit. The fact that it is of a religions character and unquestionable moral tenctency, while it must make. the book welcome, where Ordinary works of fiction are not much Vidued, detiacts nothing from its absorbing ildrest , to the general-reader. GEOLOGY ; for Teachers,'classes,' and Private Stui. dents. By Sanborn Tenney, A. M., Lecturer on .P:iysical Geography and Natural - History, in the Massachusetts Teachers' Institutes. Illustrated . ' with Two !kindred Wood Engravings. Phiad.elphia: Published_by E. H. Butler and Go. • • `The author, says in his preface: This volume is delig,ned to present, in:a clear manner, the leading factsand principles of Geology. .As its title indicates, it is not only intended to prepare , the Teacher: to give.oral instruction upon this important subject, but.is especially adaptdd for a Teat-Book in our Com mon and High Schools, :Normal - Schools, Academies, And other Seminaries. tis believed that it will also ';he found useful to the geperal reader. It *ill be `found wider in its range than Most works on Geolo• gy, inasmuch as it describes all the common miner- Yale, anti puts the reade4., in possession of the most important facts about the Vegetable and Animal King dom,—yet a v li tributary to the general subject." ' In this work the author, who is well qualified for the task, basso. Systematized add condensed the leading facts cif 9edlogi as to bring the whole with in one compact tolurneof 320 pages, and consequent ly within the ienieh of all,wbo are willing, to incest a 'dollar in its purchase. THE RCRaL sNrAL arm DIREC -mu Yon IS:so:—Thellublisher of the GeneselFar mei' gets out each years handsome little volume of 120 pages, expressly. designed as ec hand-book for farmer and fruit-grower. We have received. the volume for 1860. It is illustrated with 107 beautiful pictures of fruit, evergreen and deciduous trees, in sects, pigeons, dm. Among its 'contents we may mentiou,treatiseyon the Pfanting and Management of Fruit Trees, on Insects Injurious and Beneficial to 'Fanners and Fruit-Growers; on Dwarf Trees-in. *din g Apples; Pears, PI unssil and Cherries; on the American Dlaek Raspberry ; ou the composition, of 'Friths, Trees,'Ac.; on the - Management and Varieties of Pigeons; on Planting Evergreens, on the Disels 'es of Hori.es, Cattle,Sbeep„and Swine ;'Remedies, bm.;:on'Ornaniental Deciduous Trees; Domestic Re ceipts; AL.c. Price only twenty-five cents. The publisher will send it, prepaid, by return mail ) on the receipt of 25 cents in three:cent postage stamps. Address Joseph ilarris,.Publisher Genesee Farmer,-Rochester,.N. Y. The Weekly friar, published at Philadelphia, by John W. Forney, conninencet a - neir volume-with the new year. 2"he - Prets has proved very stMeesSful.:— The publiSher announces that the literary , character of the paPer,which is now. igh, shall be enhanced by. the contributions of able writers, and that the general featu4S- of the-paper, in addition to its pont iestl-and news departments, will be poetry, sketches, biography, and original- and selected' tales,' adapted to all tastes. !.Terms-LOne copy one year, $2 ' • three c9pigatme yeAr t s6; copies one year, /8; ten copies one year, sl.2f twenty copies to one -address one year, 120; twenty-copies to address of each sub, scriber, one year, 122; Address John W. Forney, NO. 417 Chestnut Sire- t,:Phibuielphia. • • Arthur's Ladies' • tie Merparifte for Jiiiivary is a moat capital dumber. I beenglraving of " The Young Artists," is virjr fine; as is also the colored plate - of The - otber Hinatratitins conaisting eV' Her. tied and Happy," andyatterna of children's ckithing, ladies' Work. Ate, are- uperb, and the reading mutter iseatteitalnlog and ful. Arthur la not a whit be, hind Ids coteinporarles and-his Magazine la deserved lj a greit favwite with ) the ladles. Terms, $2 a year to advance--twotcopies for $B-foot copies for $5. Addrtai Y. Attitui Clo i an • Walnut sin*, • ' , For Ott Independent Republican. • Maar* the 'Truth. - - - . - Massa& EDITORS;--:-;in a late number of the Mont. rose Democrat is a communication trim a "Citizen," which must-be read bil every liblml.mindell man ind all the ladies with abitOrrince and contempt. •We all know that the Negi4s-breeders Lave ever prevent= ed their slaves prom acquiring any knowledge except what appertains to thOr, labor, and more .recently have kicked up a great fuss in 'Congress about -one Helper's book-, which will enlighten „the. poor don alaveholderi of the SOUL' The .7?ibuni- and other newspapers have . oe4n . Stopped. from circulating among their people. All must be.kept inignarance I Now; Id suppo s ed that l ‘ n the free North all might learn ; ta t all might Oformsthemselves on. all gees tions-th interest the AmeriCatt people. • But "Cit izen"e ha discovered that if such \ men •as •Giddings, Greeley, and BeeChetlthould lectire for,the Young Men's Li mrr Association, they would inform the *Ladies in regard to the true state of a s ffairs; thereby , gainingitheir sympsthees in the justness \ o s f the Re publican cause,-and -by their influence defeat the Black Deinocracy in ..Is6o. "Oh Shame; where is thy blush r Keep th f im in ign orance, says the"ilave - . . breeder. Keep themlin ignorance, says " a Citizen." -And why is all _this? ':Because they know .that th s e. Black Democracy havh become so corruptthat if the 'truth were but half told, and the people shoUld be come informed of ttelr misdeeds, they would sink-to rise no more. : S. Otondi - on Sl avery. • . At tho ITnion•Saverik Meeting, in New_ York, on the 19th inst., Charl4 O'Conor, Esq., a prominent Democratic politician ii,t,that city, riromulged the fol lowing views on Slavery: . . maintain that negro slavery is not-unjust; that it is benign in its influence on the white man and on the black; that it is ordained by nature; that itis a necessity created by nature itself; that it curries with it duties for the black man and duties for the white man, which duties catikmt be performed except by the, preservation and, F gentlemen, please, the per petuation of the system. [Cheers.] And,gentlemen, one.of my reasons fox thin is, tkat I have been taught it by the highest tribunal of our country, and the most venerable exponent of the principles of justici<,, and of thelmaring and effect-of the Constitutioh:— As a white nation we made our Constitution, And we made our laws, vesting political rights in that 'race, - the whole AmericamPeople. As to the negro, we have allowed him to live. under the protection of. our laws.. We give him, as itte:are hound to ,give him, protection-against outrage rind contumely ; but, we denied to him every pfuliticareight, or the power to govern; and .we left Lim—aslong`as the community in which'he lived shoUld please"so tirorder—we left him id the condition 'of a bondsman: 'Gentlemen, to that the negro is'assigned I?) , %\nature. [Bravo.] • Ile has strength; and has the power twin bor ; but the hand that created him `denied to‘liim either the intellect to•goiern, or willingness to . werk; And that nature which deprived him of the will to labor, gave !lima 'master to coerce that will, and made him a, useful and valuable servant to the -coon try in which he moil .capnble of living—,..useful for himself and teethe inttster who governs him. Now, gentlemen, I maintain that it is not injustice to leave the negro in the cond tion in which nature placed him; to leave him in, a state oflpupilage, and the. master to supply the government in which he is defi cient ; nor is it depriring him of 'any of his rights to compel him tolabor ip , return, and afford to. that .master just cotimensition for the labor and talent cm played in governing him, and rendering niin useful to himself and the I aiiciety around him. • These are the principles which :the extreme measures of the abolitionists compel tits to Meet. This is the ground 1 1 that we must take.. We are not to ;talk of Slavery as an evil." I . TniS . 11 . A . • - The New York TriMine,speak ing of the nomination of Sherman for Speaker, says: "The RepUblicansiin selecting John Sherman of Ohio as their candiati e for Speaker; were actuated solely-'by a desire ! • ,to coutiliate favor rind dis, aim opposition to the greatest extent consistent with fidelity to their principles. Their candidate in the last-louse, Galusha 4: Grow of Pennsylvania, was pissed over, mairily excuse it,was found more- diffi cult fo- concentrate on him than On Mr.- Sherman the votes of MeMbers in partial sympathy with their views,-but 'mann): identified with their organization. In proof that such is. :the fact ; we . need only point to the rtes for Mr. Sherman and againstldr. Grow. on the-111;04611ot, of S o les:lira:T.. Joy - Morris, Millward, and other nontirmeS! of "The The People's Party" . of Pennsylvanla—gentlomen who would naturally have . preferred to vote for one of their colleagues-had none other than personal oonsiderationa had weight with them. Mr. Grow has been longer in Congress -than Mr. Sherman, is more conspicuous as a Republican, has canvassed efftTqely for the Republican -anise, from Maine and Connecticut, to Minnesota, and is a more decidedly protiounced Republican than Mr. Shetnan; if 'clabusi . were •io be *considered, Mr. Gm 6'2. were decidedly, strongest ; but Mr. Sherman was more acceptable; other than strictly. Republi cans, as we have Stated, aitd therelori he was made the candidate for Spoaker. The•Honso that Wise Built. .This is the house that Wise . This is Old fircianicall bleeding and tom, as he lay in the house that Wife These are the tueitall forloi xi, • that, -worried Old Brown, all bleeding iind fora, as lie lay in the, house that Wise built. '! • • . . .... This is the cow with a ; crumpled horn, Mat fright ened the ment.ll . forioini that worried Old brown, all bleeding and torn: as he by in the Ilous.e‘ that Wise built. . il .5 Thege are the.runfors - every morn, that with the cow with a crumpled, horn, frightened the inen.:fill forlorn,- that worried' Old Brown, all 'bleeding itnd torn, as he lay in thti house that Wise. built. - This is the linio4, shaven and Shorn, dissolved by the rumors every / imorn, that with the cow with a crumbled horn, fril4litened the.men all forlorn, that worried Old Brown, ill bleeding and torn, as he lay in the House that Wise built—Chico JournaL , • • ; THE CIIMILZSTON f;ONTENTION.- he Columbia (S. C.) - C,..aroliniandisedases the action Elf South dirolins in reference to the; Charleston Calaventioti as fol. lows: . , • . "This Convention to nominate a candidate.for the Presidency and Vice',Presidency of the United. States meets the latter min of April. There shciuld be some early action preparatory to a represer.tation !)g those who do not feel themselves above meeting in Convention with thO representatives of the State- Rights Democracy df the other States of tic Union. We co-operate with the same party in both branches, of theYederal Congeess, and to long as we continue to do so we should Contribute our strength towards making the Adminiitiation one that will act in bar- Mony with our Representatives at: WashinOton, and aid thein in vindicating the rights of the, geuth. If a departure from thii Union be resolved upon, we are readlto sustain'Our part in -that: resolution; if continuation in tba: Union be resolved upon, we sho'uld make the beit fight can in the l:Tnion 'for 'our constitutional right/ and interests." . s THE SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE—ADOPTION Or Trrr. " STATE DEFllir*" AND li . DISUNION" RKSOLVTION. The Charleston coulier's special:Columbia despatch of the !Oil' instant, iiays that both Doused of the Leg islature had , adopteetheresolution that South Caro lina owes it 'to her eirrieitizens to protect them Jand their property fron4reey enemy; and that for the purpose of- mithary:Jreptuation in any emergency the sum of et or,i,oqi be appropriated for military par; poses, The Senate bad also adopted . a resolution, which reads, "Still - deferriiig to her Southern sisters, South Carolina respectfullk announces to them that in her judgment the safetyland r honor of the Slaveholding Stateli imperatively': demand a speedy separation from the Free Roil ',States of the Confederacy, and earnestly invites and urges .her sister States f -the South to originate:the movement of Southern Separ ation, to- which she , pledges herself promptly to unite." t Mr; Reputfieciti ' , Member 6f Con, gress said In Congruss a few days ago, tbakthey, (the Republicans,) were koffing , Winn the negro out, or in other wards they intended to attend to other .husi 7 nese and . not disease the slavery question. - To this . , Mr. Lainin) a .liSnioerat, in a .tantalizing Manner said, " let ui see you do ii r • . . -• We merely call nitentlon to these things now, to remind the . - , , Demociacy when they accuse the Re publicans of aginiting the shier' , question,to the-neg lect of the public hisinesswf the country, that - they are respoindbLe. L:et every. candid man -judge . for .4 - They hive euriiiity in Noniich, Conn., In sbe shape of a i i el4inii-Lortoirs a nen4nonster of the Surds species, w,1015 overcall thiassaiout* . piorillantino gm% The' Gland Jury of Wilson cotinty,N. C., be ing moved thereto by a chirge trial the Hohorahle, JUdgelt. M. Saunders, have presented admit. everY 'body.and everything 'fiord; as hostile to the "pecul iar institution," : ins of course to the peace and dig nity of the good State of North Carolina. Among other things they present that one Edwin D: Slorgan in recommending an incendiary work called the "Im pendim's , Crisis:cif the South,'-- written by,one' Hinton It Helper, this violated the laws of the State of N, C., subjecting him and his associates to indictment and punishment; and they therefOre invoke his Excel. lency, the Governor of North Carolina, in - case the work is circulated in - that State, to demand said Ed win D. -Horgan and his associates residing' in New - York,of the GovernOr or Mai Stale, that* and they 'may be brought to trial. Now it so happens. that the. Governor, of New York is one Edwin .D. • gan." •. Melchi, who is an enlightened an 4 practical' English agriculturalist, •sa - ys that he is convinced that beer must sell ;;.1) per cent:higher than mutton, to make them pay alike. " ~, • .... The Sea Cpast(Mislt) iieniorrai learns -front 'good authorty that a cargo of. African shires is ex'. petted in Ship Island, harbor the latter part of the present month. 'n 1554 the Richmond Enquirer said: "One hnndred.'E , outhern gentlemen; 'armed with tiding whips, cold chase an army of incading,Atwlition• ista into the 'Atlantic." .... The Postmaster General has decided that the S ; Mail may be'searched, and any matter which the Postmaster de.enis " incendiary" taken Out and destroyed. If the Queen of England shhuld dare to enforce such an opinion an her 'subjects she. 'Would lose her crown, and, very likely her -head with'jt, in, lees than a week. It is only the most despotic goy eniment-that tau thirs tamper With . the -liberties of the people. • • ....-Recent arrivals from abroad.report that the plan for the emancipation of -the serfti hi Russia is steadily progressineunder the auspices otthe Central Committee. This Committee has lately beentlivided into three: eachhaving•rt /istinct departmerit—one the fidancial, another thq administrative, and* the third the judicial—to 'thorn is committed the exam ination Of questions of the highest importance—such' as the territorial boundary and population •of each commune, the elections,interior government, tenito: rial Ofijudicial proceeding's, etc.— The work, is a vast one, and full Of difficulties at cc ; cry step, itrvalving in its progress the entire recon: struction of the social relations in a sac never- be. foie attempted on anything like a scale so grand and greaL • The accusation against Dr. 4:b. Ayer, art.°. Stabbing ft. S. Fry, jr., the Trersuacr of the dliddlex Mills, has been withdrawn because the proseenter found that no complaint against him could be sustained. The 'fact is'that Dr. Ayer. merely de defended himself as beat ; be might, with a, Penknife -he happened to have in his land, against a b owardly, assault made.on him from behind, with the premedi tated' intention to dishonor apd punish him for the exposure. he has made and is makingoe the wrongs practiced by the officers upon ourinanufaringeor porations. This community not only ; ctu upliolds the Doctor's successful defence of his person, but - li,,,ap- ProVes his mime in publicly 'denouncing the Tite- Daimacle Family management—the abuses of our public property far private ends. Dr. Ayre's medi cines, however valuable, are - not all for which, the masses of our-people hold him in regarth-,Bosion 'llt raid. A Democrat who o*ns a lead - mine at SlMlls burg, MI., was a candidate for the Legislature. On election day, he hired 53 Republicans to work his Mine ; after belied got them all 130 feet below the surface, the ladder was - drawn up to liiive s koone new routide mit in• it, and he neglected to, return it till the tuft were closed, which resulted.in his election by 52 majority.. . Senator Slidell had revived. his Cuba 'project of last 'session. Nte' , ,don't believe, saysTrentice, he will get:lilt:6 support from the North until the ques tion of dissolving the Union is settled. There is manifest impolicy in the old - firm contacting new ob ligations when coins of the partners tire proKsing to break up the establishment. .. 4. Philadelphia letter Writer States' that Helper's book; "the Impending Crisis of the South," has sold in that . eitY by the thou4d3 since Democratic Ccn gresaine* have' taken el . much 'pains. to adVertiseit, though it witenot meeting , with a ve l ry heavy sale be fore. Multitudes of the books. hatli been recently sent to Delaware and Narylaud. One individual ha bought 700 Copiet3 for gratuitous distribution. • . Mr. Henry C.- Carey,li'is recently published a fettercalling attention to the fact that no pitty. ever elected it-President without-the atd of, Pennsylvania. Southern medical students attending lee.. tures at Philadelphia, held a meeting, December 20, and resolved to go home.i Theyare.said.tO be three hundred strong. They intend to enter various South ern:colleges. All these young men bear .the• gener al cognomen of " Virginia doctors." Many of them figured as leaders in the late attempt to break up the lecture of George W. Curtis, witich he was engaged as long ago as August toideliver , in • National Hall, 'on "The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question:" Nothing but the determined stand and rigorous mea sures of Mayor Henry prevented a riotous outbreak 'ott that occasion. After the mob had assembled, all aorta of inflamtnitory language was indulged in, and at last' one fellow called for tar and' feathers for the Mityor t when Chief. of the Police Ruggles instantly feinted his whole force of '6OO policemen into two compact columns reaching entirely across. Market st., cne fixing up and the other down; ordered'•the mob todisPer3e, and then gave his men word to adv i ance and sweep the street. The colunins immediately ad vanced both ways at once, driving the crowd before then; and in five Minutes the street was' completely cleared. The wicked Protiensities . of sprite .of the mob who penetrated into the Hall 'were .shown, by throwthg vitriol ma the persons of seskral then and women. Some of the women were dreadfully burn ed, and several had their &caeca destroyed. - The wtete'ies - threw bottles of acid at raided among the audience, Of the rowdies arrested,/four Or tire Were Virginia doctors, two or three were 'ex-policethen . and others wereknowwas " killers." It issuppolled that the Virginia dociorsintemi to leay . o the city because they cannot be permitted to govern It, and prohibit the expression of anti-Slavery , sentiment by force. A correspondent of the Luzernc Union 240 'that the "last survivor of the- Wyoming Massacre' ' Li not' yet dead. ldr. Charles !Janis, a resident of Kingstontowaship ever since' the Massacre, still sur vives at the age of 96 years, hale, hearty, and active as one of his yeirs could be .expected.' On thei day of the Massacialtliough but alloy of 14 or 16 years . . Of age—such waihls spirit that he shouldered Ids gun and maxched,f4th With` thifated little band. c - - Riiposition was on - the fatal left, and pc) firmly aid i he Maintalan his 'ground, fighting on his own hoofi, thaVirhen he fooked„about to see how the battle'was going, he.Tound that. not only las 'friends had fled - from his sight but hisleuemies even had 'Passed by and werefar in tbereiit.: - Jones, whose name Arts Gallop, another resident of Kingston, so a survivor of the Magumie. - ilife was a little girl, about six years old, and was, .in :Forty . Fort at tie time the artily marched forth,fMd 'rhea a fewscatter fugitiveiretmned. Itfrsc ( Deborah Bedford, nl t. residing.in Abingtontowriablp, and" a Mrs. Ryan, Wayne county, are &UM survivors of the. Massacre. The new' volnme of the AU/mak AfMafity will contain a roman* by Mr„llolmes - called."- The Professor?. Sfory." The nnFal* will have, poeins by Mmerson and Whittier. Vowel] lithe author ofthe Hue poem styled " Itely n io tbeDecom• bee numegi,,which was-atuibuted malty to Mrs. Prownlug, - . We undeimend that the, publishets_Ore yeedflailarge accenknal to choir Wi of iubicribm. • .... The mon AT of schools'of the •coinmon.ilass in England, was, i i i 18 8 1, 44,886. Oftliis.outaber the returns of 'lOB vilere Hawed by. the master or mistress inks mark ; and the same strange Gictloecurred in -tbe returns of 86 public staboois i , etst Of them 'hav- Infendownicieti.. .. - .. 1 , .. ' .'.... The-Wallhingtou correapondint of the New York Eipress - Writes, under date oDecember 17th : " Atvimmense ruure is brought pon the House to secure organization by some 61' "the Executive _De partments. ThPostmaiter-Bene 'ul, I understand, sal, that if the rgunization doesn t take place with inl a week, or the next mail lettln , the contracts will cost the (lofveitinient a millimi of dollars more than they would if the bids had ben made previous to the organization. ' The mail conkaceors, and oth ers, in the mean time, are :great ufferers from the present.- delay hi meeting.the mini ill of past indebt edness.", 1 . . - . - • • .... Hon. Jacob Broom, of Phi delphia, the lead -1 en of the straighl-oarAincrimm dis rianizers.is again in market. - He lips issued a call fo a electing of the "National American Central Committee'," of which Jae claims to be Chairman, to Mke iptace in Philadel phia„ou the 21st inst. "O, Yes ' "Buy a Broom! -Buy a Broom !". Who bids ?—liecniiiii Journal. • . .... Au unsophistiCated individual at Cincinnati who-went into the Probate Court to obtain a licence to marry i was tutted from his purlpose by hearing two men at the office express thehlopinioit that met ritle, mony was a cunning device to ertain hoar much torture men were capable of,endu ng. . ' - 2...-. There is a min in'llartfor who has never beard of John Brown 1. Th'p 'Actuerliier of that city says: A friend informs tis that lu4 was in converse: tion with a gentlernatr . at his place fbusiness, on the alablorbing topic.ofthe . day, whet a man wearing "store clothes" . A ta udip g by interropild them with, "Did - you say there had been art_executiott lately?", "Yes, sir; yesterday." . "'Where,id it occur?" "In Charlestown." " Whit waeNt?" ["A man named John Brown—hung for an insurretionary attempt to free the negroes at-the Sonth.l "Indeed!" said t4e.well dressed gentleman,. "is itipossible ! I have not seen any account oliti" ' ' At the conclusion of John which gave the Sohtb assur,anceth protect her, a gentleman near by, with an' inconven anders .pf . John's claims' of Martin, UN at Cleveland; I i 34 : ' I tell these inen (the S eta memory, reminded the bps declaration. wbile,advoeating. the ,Van Buren against those of Gen. sts),,that we of tte . North will s with 'art atmosphere. of—freedom, breathe" 0 die.". ACtlntervals, for-thirty yea] uolon has heel] leant. Itot . .the ct frOm the South: \ The North has 4 never will/ There 'fa ahouvas mue ern community declring itself op tionof the Union, as s toAcelare th to sheep stealing.—.AM.Ty-Ei.rni: • The Senate of Alabaina adopt4resolutions auttlOri`ziig t a convention in the. event of tike publican President. The New' York Day Boot* received in formation from a private source that a-4:ew,days ago an Ohio Abolitionist, named Day, ras arccitted by a Vigilance Committee in a certain 4ounty. inlleniuckY He had incendiary papers on his ierson. lisbehad_ been caught in the attempt to cikm, late these