4 „ n u n „,,,,,,,4 it PIT Mr. Marsh informs , us that the-pre- 1— Eisco. 4.-I d isa o t_tt7 • LV It t ., . - i el', tol l s,o t h e r reve v re. " *V i the . 15 C r so of n ' L a Common- ' : , gres,inLr fi nely, that .he expects to have the I I wealth : al p d.alsO c co . untitre.Surers, are hereb y . l authorized to receive, for State purposes, the I -, a . s prom beets," in a few weeks, and that ' 1 notes of the solvent hanks of this Common- l probably we 'will be furnished withour snaps' ' reealtli, though not specie-paying banks, in. about Nei- Years; of which, further notice I payment of the said taxes, toll, and revenues,' j will be given hereafter.. The publi,h er a- h ave , and - the State Treasurer is- hereby authorized ~ Spared neither time .nor money, endeavoring I to-rec eive - and receipt for the same in the same I Manner as though said banks were specie pay- I toTrepare a map that shall be bOth- useful c i n g. and ornamental, and they have every reason i * Scc. 6. That - the deposits by the State i . - to4telier:e that .i-siiii -- -bejust the map welnive , Treasurer, or to - the 'credit of the Common lung wished, for. There will be an engraving wealth; in the several.-banks and cotheuteorpo , - - ' rations , and all bank notes which are now or on the border'of the maps, oflio'ntrose Borg, ' ; may hereafter' he in the -- .Treasury during, the from a daguerreotype taken by Mr. Deans on .iperio of suspension aforesaid shall from time the 21st of last ,April, just after the heavy 1 , -.to time, on demand of the said Treasurer; be s no w storm, Which - we'all remember, also thei paid by the said banks'or other corporations . . Academy . (6a . Court house B u imi n „ i n 1 respectively, i n specie,. in such amounts as a 'Moutrose, I to ether with the Cascade and , may be required by said Treasurer, to enable h ' . • . to pay \B.. the interest accruing on the pub aoYf the Commonwealth. Starrucca . bri es on ik, the NeW York Erie lie lal loans H. 8., and other engravings of general inter- i Ssc. 6. That upon all judgements hereto , I fore entered in suits commenced by writ. or Jrg" The appointment:, for teachers exam4' t • . _______,...... ____ - I otherwise, or which may be entered during inations will be found - in anotl.er column — ! . - I the !retried hereinbefore mentioned; in actions Direetors'and others should p r omptly a rt en d, , . The. Heller Bill.' institirted by writ or otherwise, in any court - i -The fullowing is the bill as it passed both and judge whether the examina'ions are sat. i ' in thi s' Commonwealth, or before any alder-' r.; isfsetort. Don't stay away and . th say •• - -. ...'.- Houses and receivod the signature of the 1 man of justice of the peace, on judgments oh en , . -,: ' you thin-k tbeKwere not ptoperly conducted, Governor: 1: Joined before said officers, if th e defendant - shall be possessed- of anv'estate in fee sin - ,pie, A n Act proridlngf o. the resumption cf specie • - 'oat ry a and- see'-for yourselves. Thus& who , w i t h in - the r ispectivo county, stlir.r.n , in the 25 payments: b_ y th e janks, and for II . 1 . f f - ...i , re se o wish to select teachers will fi nd it to their opinion . of the court, alderman, or justice, the . , interest to hepre , ent: ' ' debtors. amount of the said . i;.4l.rtnetit over and above all incumbran. - es, and 10 amount exempted from levy and sale on execution ; he shall be entitled to a stay of execution t thereon, on judgement new obtained on suits now bret for the term : Of one year from the date of the passage of this - act, and on all others for one year, to be computed from the first day of the term to which the act commenced ;'and every, defendant in such judgment may have the same stay- of execution . thereon, if within thir ty days from the passage of this act, or with in thirty days from the rendition of any future judgement, he shall give-security to be ap proved of by the court or by 'a judge thereof, or by such alderman or justice of the 'peace before eLnm such- judgment was obtained, for the sum recovered, togethe r with the in .. 'I4 IT 01111115 C J .Li. IicCOLLUM, k .j. GF,IIRITSON nrctla T, ovrynber 5, 1857. , t tgr •IGen. Valentine Best; for twenty-five rears :editor of the Danville IntelliOneer, 1 .!ied on Thtmtlay last. Ile was a member of - the Sate Senate in '4,S '49and, '5O and was 1 Speaker of that body in 'ZiO. Ile was. 56 i ears of age. to" A telegraphic de,paith ftotti Wasit 7 m Friday last Says_ .that tilt course of 1 nor. Walker in ti,tnsns is emphatically con,.!- dernned by • the Administration. The next 1 at; it ass reported that the de -patch was un founded. • • Henry I Ward Beecher 'lectures to- ...SEC. 1. Be it enacted .by the Senate and ' I 1 House of Representatives of die Conr:non• night in the Baptist church in this p lace. 7— t• wealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly We inserted .his letter, stating that ba would I met , and it is here l 2s enacte...d by the aiithori ha here, in a pro t[of our edition of fast week 1 ty of th.• tame, That the provision's of every and. it may be found among the is to leci notices 1,0- i act of Assembly: or of incorporation iiorre-in- corporat . iod. heretofore • paased; declaring or understoo 'd•iv - A-linittance, 25 cts. ,Although it is I • •authotiztng any compulsory assignment, f or _or by reason of the non-payment of any of d that Its ilre lecture" before the its Susquehanna eph 111 V N O rill'i I I SA/ OA" . 0 !41,i 1 liabilities, or the issuing or paying out the students ate to pay the same as others. They I.notes of other-banks incorporated under the number upwards -or °N " . We think they Ila of this Commonwealth, though not spe should have been, admitted just as they are I ele paying,..o . r . i its loaning or discounting with to all the other lecturcidelivered 'before :he, outtherequisite amount of specie or specie f un d s; s ince the first - day of September, Anno Normal School"—free. The' total expenses I Domini one thousand ,eight' hundred and tit of the lecture is put down at $150.. tg , Wiltnot has not been heard of since election: Whete he is, or what he is doing, no one know:. It has been reMarkPd, that perhaps, despairing of doing anything with the Oligarchy" by caying at the• North, he has gOne South to "stir up the animals;' the show-men sac. He would do butter to go North, and take the ",tumr.for Gc.vernor of Greenland or Batas Bay. We think morel probably he is hunting up his party, ortrying to find a new •one that • will take hint in.— He hao-n't gone, up Sal t-itiier, forTtli -- botton fell out of his boat, rendering, it inyOssible fur him to sail. - • The Elections . . • Slate elections were held riarkfoPeyes'or daviti New Yoik, Mas ,, aohusettS, Wisconsin,. and New Jersey. In New York City, Tuck, er (Detn)..hai , 23,637 majority over Clapp: (" Rep.''). the " vote not footed up. 10f eleven State Senat ors heard from, 10 are-lbernoeyats. and 1 `,•Anietierin." The lietnOurat.: %cry lar , e . " - rains in all pasts of the :7_ , :ate, whili2 there is a large falling off ,Of the Opposition. The 50,000 "majority for j • the " Icepublicansr of '13 , 4 -3-cads „cut down . tO-al!nk:t no:hitT,-if, they are not routed en• The Democrats are •rejoicing -over their tticolph. A strange incident occurred in . the third - Ward. ! The boxeP were of files.. and the first, , vote (Ist was 'fur Clapp, " ,when the box instantly flew into a thou.-and pieces ! From Massue*.t.tls we have rettirns suffi cient to watt ant \the election of ,Banks fo'r Governor. In P;.-iiton the Vote stOod: Gard-, tier 5,073, Beach (lem.) 4,243, 8ank5.4,217. From Wiscom:in we have few returns: Cro , s (DeTll) has 3,627 najotity in Milwau 7 kee City and three towns. Incomplete re= tuns from : ten, other counties give Randall " Rep." SO,O intjmity. lqadi. , ou City and three town; give Cross 32 majotity fur Gov erne r. Vce z t but few returhs frorri . New Jersey, but what tve rlo g .a is all riolig. The 111unicipn1 election in Detroit,te,ults in . . the clectiun tf Patton' (Dm.) by about 800 ninjoritv, curl 9 out of 12 AlJe'imen, togeth et a.iih Ilia whole I)ernocratie city ticket. i t-TSince the utter tout of the Proviso man and the demonstration of - the impossibil ity of ever electitre any of his kith or lin to e• any oflit4rin the State, or indeed in the tniott. some Of his friends ate boas. ingl that he can come - home and mominantOiany office chow-es. Perhaps he eau if Itee rmitit his ambition to go :no :Wagner a r iban iownship or borough honors, but ti.'4=lti either the Judge ship or COngress, something besides the order froniAimpelf and a few -immediate friends! will •be found necessary to place . tiro in 1 eithera those positions. There` is a verytstrong feeling among citi zens of \all classes, irleTective of party pre udicUs, t.hit we need a Jatlge, one who will hold his C• c outts aloof from partisan- affairs. I Such ii-Man David Wilmot emphatically is • , not, and consequently our people have deter-_ mined teat some other man must- occupy that -station fur the next judicial, term. No, Wilmot cannot be otir judge (dictator) again. This we believe is as ~c eld. as settled. As to Coug*aiwide from the fact that there'are °the,aigi • in the oprandtion better fitted for the•positioe than Wilmot, and who IVe claims uPon • - -thitir party Which he will . tiitd, it perhaps impossible to ignore, it would, be sheer folly,s any utter ruin to them at once, to . notninate Wilmot next Fall for that positiim,as the settlerne4t -ttf his negro bobby, and the probability that questiOrA Cr tariff, citif,rencv, &c., may be,* would, iss:•t, render his defeat certain. ile,•has burnt‘.l3g getl our people long enough, and. they are beginning to become aware of i!. Let those who imagine that " Wilmot has a strong bold upon the affections of the people of his district," look at the otletion returns of this year, and compare them with 28st year, an 4. "they will be convinced that- there is a yore strong "disaffection" among colt- people, in regard to this arrant hypocrite. The poai tion which be is attempting to take upon the tariff qtiestion,. would alone ensure his defeat by a large majority. The most sensible course for would be to settle down to praCtice as a lawyer, and endeavor by . honest industry, to . r ei egai something of whit he hasrlost by his ref leas pwlitit al debauchery 4 ,9 th e e past ;: and afflict to. secure the pity, if not the respect andsoni• • f_littnee ef his f*tliew-eitiNes, • EDITORS.! tv seven, be and the carne are hereby EU- pended until the second Monday 'of April, Anno Domini *one thousand eight hundred and fiftv-eifzlit, arid all rot feitures and penal. ties, or liability thereto, heretofore incurred, or that may hereafter-be incurred, before the second Monday of April, under such acts of Assembly. or of - aneorputation or re-incorpora tion, for or by re: s - en of the causes aforesaid, or any of them, are hereby remitted, and so much thereof as prohibits any bank from making , loans and dkounts, issuing itsown notes, or the notes of other banks incorporat ed under the laws of this Commonwealth, though not Specie paying or declaring LIM:- dends during the suspension of specie pay ments, or from loaning or dkonnting with out the requisit'e amonat of specte- or ;specie funds as aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby suspended until the day and year aforesaid, and any such banks,- during such suspension of specie payments, may declare diyidends .to an ainount,pot exceeding six pet' cot. per annum on its capital ; and this act shall ex tend also to all bank; saving, trust, and in •wance companies, and corporations with banking chat:toted or re-chartered Lyider any lay,7foi• the periods hereafter to corniriebee, and - to the payznent of stock to all hanks incorporate , ' by the Legislature at •its last session, Scc. 2. That, in addition to all statements and returns riiire required by la*, each and every .bank in the.cities of Philadelphia,l'itti ; burg acid Allegleney shall, on thi.: first dis count day in Jannary next, and weekly thre _ after, and everyiother bank in the Common wealth, on the same day, and monthly there after, make - up a statement - to be verified by the oath or affirmation of the president or csoltier thereof, showing—first, the ~- i ntount of its loans and -discounts; second the amount of specie in_ the possession of and owned by sucli•hank,' ancl'i\ the balance due from oilier banks, in distinci, items ;'third, the amount of its notes outstanding; fourth, the amount of deposits, including, individual deposits and balances due to other banks, - which statement shall be Ipblished in. the _next simeeeding issue of anewspaper of the county ; and any siolatiou:of this law, or failure to comply_ with its pro Visions by any pre:hien or any cashier of any a misdemeanor, .and each of the said officers upi,n conviction there 4 be punished by a fine of -not'less than five' hundred dol lars; nor more than one thousand dollars, at the. discretion of the Court; one-half to be given to the pro-ccotor, and ono half to the county in which the bank is ha cased. • • Sse. 3‘ That qm said banks are hereby re quired, u\tii. the isecond,Sfornday of April aforesaid, o receive rt par in payment of all • debts-due, - or to become due to them, re.spee- 1 lively, the notei of all the solvent banks in the Commonwealth which paid silecie fur all their liabilities on anti immediately prior to the first day of September last, and whfch shall continue solvent, and the said banes are' I also hereby authorized' to pay out, in all their business transactions and- discounts, the said notes so long as the banks issuing the sane shall remain solvent ; but in case any presi dent, and a majority of the board ofdirectors of any of the said hanks shall certify to the aver nor, under oath or affirmaiion of the pri•sident, his apprehension antr belief that any bank in said certificate unshed 19 In an unsafe condition,.the Governor shall thereup on appoin three judicious Nations; not inter ested in said bank, as commissioners toinves tigate the condition of such bank. And the "said commissioners . .shall, after taking an oath or -a ffi rmation to perform the duties of their appointment with fidelity, forthwith proceed to make the said investigation and report the result thereof within ten daysto the Govern or; and if the officers of the said bank shall refuae to' permit the .said commissioners to make such investigation, .or to produce - any , books or documents necessary for that pur pose, or if the said commirvioners i or a me= jority of them, shall report that the said bank is in an unsafe condition, the Governor shall thereupon issue his proclamation declaring the charter of the said bank to be forfeited, and the stod bank shall be deprived of ill the benefits of this ao. and the director's thereof shall forthwith make and execute an assign ment in the manner provided by the act, en titled " An act riegulating banks," approved :he sixteenth day 'of- April ; Auno I/43min' eight "eta hundred and °fifty, - and the expenses o f suc h „aumaission, 'Mehlding-the compensa missioners at. eght dollars tion of thi'Vnixi per day each e:." 1 • 11 be paid "by the bank against which it is isse."'dt unless the rep* shalt be favorable Ito itato.7 4 itinn. in which case they shall be paid by the ai.,;%ii i : .. n ro te r _ e ; but the any bank or banks which shall, period heroidbeforo limited, resume and Cna tinue the payment ofspecie on all their lia bilities, shall nor acter each - resumption, and during such continuance, be abject to any -of the provisions of this.seetion-: • Provided That Dolma shall be required to receive the -notes of any•bank against which a..certificate May be made as aforesaid ; any time after .the delivery of the same to the Governor, un til the Commissioners shall report in -favor of such after .wlA:is. the - notes tit such beak shall agnin,be received as required by the provisions - of this Reim terest and costs : Provided, 'lllat this see-. tion shall not apply to the wages of labor. I nor to debts upon 'which - stay of execution is i expressly waived by the debtors, nor to judg- I ments upon which a stay of execution has al ready been taken under existing laws: And i provided, That the provisions cf this section shall extend to judgments- entered or to b.. , zutcred, as well upon bond and warrant of 1 attorney as upon mortgages to secure the same, and to any subsequent grantee or own• ers of the premises so bound, as well AS to .the original obligor or mortgagor: Provid ed,j'arther; That said stay ofexecution.shall . not apply to judgments or mortgages, 0: on bonds •ecured by mortgage, 'unless theinter est.thereon shall be paid within sixty days after the accruing of the same, in funds as the banks are authorized by th's act to use. Szc. 7. This act shall take effect immedi ately, except the 3d section, which &LAU not go into operation until the provisions of this act are accepted- as herein provided; but nn Bank or otter corporation shall -be embraced within its provisions More than thirty days after the passage hereof, or .after . any Bank shall have suspendel specie payments upon • its notes or obligations, unless the stockhold ers of such Bank or other corporation shall, befors the expiration of the said thirty days, i or witltiOhirty days - after any Bank shall t have suspended .specie payments upon its 1 notes or obligations, at a meeting to be cal led by the Directors .thereof for that purpose, on ten days' public notice, in one or. more i newspapers, accept the provisions of-this act by a majority of the voice of said stockhold ers, to be toted and Counted according to the p ro vi s io ns to= .the charter of such accepting Bank, or other corporation regulating the election of Directors, but to make such ac ceptance valid, there shall be filed in the of fice of the Auditor General of this Common wealth, a certificate that this act-has been du ty accepted, under the common seal of such Bank or other corporation, attested by the signattire cf its President or Cashier. And each of the said Banks accepting the provis- I ions' of this „stet shall also pay. into the Treas- I ury cf the Commonwealth, on or before the first day of January, Anno Domini One thous snd eight hundred and fifty-eight, or withiw_ thirty days after any Bank shall accept the provisions ,of this act, a sum equal to one fourth of-one per centum upon the capital stock- of said Bank, in addition to any amourt tl ov are required by law to pay. SEC. 8. That the forty-seventh secti9n of. the act approved Aril 16,1833, entitlei `,An act regulating Ban be and the same is hereby repealed : Provided, That I suits brouglitCr now pending, for forfeitures or pen alties under the section hereby repealed,-shat; not be affected thereby. .That the Legislature hereby reserv es the right and poker to alter revoke, or an nul the charters of any Bank or Banks, cor poration or. corporations, accepting the pro visions of this act, whenever in their opinion the same may prove injurious to the citizens of the Commonwealth, in such al - antler, how. ever, as to do no injustice to the corporators • Suc..lo. That no Bank, Savings Fund, In surance, or Trust Company shall directly or indirectly,. purchase or be concerned-in the purchase, of the notes o' any of the incorpor tted Banks of this St.ate at less than their par value; and• any and every of the officers of said InstitutiOns violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a mis demeanor, pinishable, upon convictisn, z y a fine of not less than. five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, one half to I be paid to the informer, and the other half to I the use of the Commonwealth. Sac: 11. That no stocks, bonds, promisso ry notes, personal property, or other valuable securities, hypothecated or held in pledge, either with power of attorn?y attached or otherwise, for credit or money loaned, shell be sold for the period of six months from the passage of this act, without the cousent.of the debtor, debtors, or party hypothecating or pledging the same being first had and obtain ed in writing. Scc. 12. That the notice required for pay ment,' provided in 41te charters of Savings Fund and Trust Coepanies, in all sums ex ceeding one hundred dollars, be, and the same is hereby extended for the period of two mouths during the period of suspension of specie payment authorized by Ibis Act. Gannors l—Greedy in the Tribune. makes a proposition to Coionel Forney, of Philadel phia, (under the idea, we presume, that they are the most influential men in the Union,) that they unite theirjnfluence, acd settle the Kansas difficulties at once. That will be ve ry kind of th4up, indeed ! We are anxious to see the result. If they succeed (which they will of course,) we intend to propose to ..the e diL , r of the Volkablatt, of Cincinnati, that b e en d . ip,itrself immediately settle the. mutiny trou i,L e i t.---147hite Cloud (Kansa) tarn,' nisei ei:.tes of Dyspeiria and kin dred diseases performed by the Oxygenated. Bitters, after all itbar reino!ies. hare failed, slienld be *efficient to iodise* etik;r7 Dyspeptic to giro the medicine a trial, Its t 4iccess is arooderfoli, PROCL A lIATION. Laeourroar, Oct. 10. To the People-of Kansas :- 2 13y the 32d section of the. organic :set establishing this Territorial Government, it i s ' provided in ref erence to the election of a deleZate to ,Con gress, that " the pervons having the greatest number of vote* shall be dec lared by the Governor to be duly elected, and a certificate thereof slial be given accordingly." By the 16th section of the act of the Ter ritorial Legislature of Kansas, entitled "an act.to regulate elections," it ismade the duty of the Secretary to examine the returns in the presence of the Governor, and to "give the person having the highest untnber of rotes in their respective district's, certificates of their election to the Legislative_ Assent -11v." Under these two provisions of the law pre vailing in this Territory, the recent general election has presented for the joint considers-- tion of the Governor and Secretary, a ques tion of the gravest importance, not only our own people. but also to those of the whole Union. This etnntien :wises upon the extra ordinary Warns made from the precinct of Oxford in the county of Johnson. What pitman to be the returns of the election held t:i. that precinct on the sth and 6 th instant, have been received by the Secretary,ccntain- ' ing sixteen hundred and twenty-sight names 1 of pretended voters,. or nearly one half the number given in the whole Representative District. The disposition to be made of this supposed vote is rendered all important by the fact, that the political character of the Legislative Assembly will be ecintrollesl by the addition of three Councilmen and eight Representatives, to the strength of one party or the other ' according to the adoption or ro jection of the returns in question: In point of fact, it. is. well known that-even the whole county of Johnson, compriring, as 'W l it does, par of an lndian Res erve, which, up on examination of the law, we find is not yet subject to settlement or pre-emption, can give 1 no. such vote as that which is represented, to I have been polled at this inconsiderable pre -1 cinct of Oxford. But while this unofficial Iknowledge, well established and universal as it may be, could not become the ground of I decision and action upon eleution teturns, in themselves regular and authentic, thelegiti -1 mate effect of an apparent enormity, such as that in question, would necssarily.be to in duce a close examination of the paper pre' settled, and to require for its acceptance a prfect compliance with all the essential pro visions of the law. Such an examination of this document, conscientiously and impar tially made has brought us to the conclusion that' the returns from Oxford precinct in John son:County, must be - wholly rejected for , the follfiwing reasons: . , /Ist. It does not appear on the face of the dtlAninent presented to u• - , or in 'any other =toper, that the judges of election took the oath imperatively required by the statute, to senate the'' impartial dipAarge of their du ties.aecording to law." . 2.1. It does not appear that the paper pre sented to us was one of the two original polls books, kept at the election, as 'required by law ; but, on the ccntrary. it does api ear from unmistakable internal evidence, that the paper is either a copy of- some other.docu ment, or has be4n made up fr the occasion, and is not the genuine reco ?d of the votes 'taken at the election. The law requires' one of the ppll-bouks :o be returned to the Secre tarv, the other, to be depoSited with tha'Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the proper county. 31. As the vote cf each elector was to be: recorded for each one of twenty-two candi•-• dates, and in more than a hundred cases, for twenty-five, and that by a viva voce vote, it was a. physical impossibility that the number lof voters pretended to have been taketvon the second day, being more than fifteen hun dred, with the name bf the votes written; and each of twenty two candidates properly des -I;ignated, could have been taken and recorded 'within - the time prescribed by law. 4th. It is an extraordinary fact, tending to throw distrust upon the whole proceedings. ' p that of the sixteen hundred and twenty-eight rotes, only one is given to the delegate elect to Congress, and. only one hundred and twenty-four are recorded as having been 'cast fur the local candidates of the town- ship Influenced by the considerations, and im pressed with the grave responsibility resting upon us , in regard to the fairness of the elec tion, and its freedom from all fraud suscepti ble of detection and prevention, within the scope of 4tit7 dutie', we deemed it essential to truth and justice that we should ascertain every fact calculated to refute or confirm the conclusions derived from' the face of the pa per. Accordingly, we went"to the precinct o! Oxford, (which is a village of six houses— ir.cluding stores. and without a tavern,) and ascertained trout the„citizens of that vicinity, and especially those of the handsome adja cent village of New Santa Fe in Missouri; (separated only by a street, and containing about twenty houses,) that altogether not more than one tenth the number of persons represented to bare voted were present on the two days of the election, much the smaller number, not exceeding thirty-nine or. forty, being present on the last day, when more than fifteen hundred votes are represented to have been given. .The people of Orford, as well as those of the . neighboring village of Santa Fe, were Astounded at the magnitude of the returns ; and all persons of all parties, in both places, treated o'4: *Lola affair with detis:on or indignatiori, not bitting heard the alleged result until several days after it bad , occurred. . In the course of our journey to and from Oxford we passed over much, the larger part of the county of Johnson, and we became thoroughly satisfied that there is no popula tion in the whole country from which more than -one-third the vote of-that single precinct could have been given. We . learned that some few persons, baring cabins on the re serve in Johnson county, and claiming resi dence therein, though generally absent, had voted at some of the precincts in that coun ty; but we are convinced that a very incon siderable number, not reaching, we believe, one hundred, of Missourians or other persOns, having no admitted right to vote, did claim or exercise that right, anywhere within that county. The seople of blimuri. cannot be justly charged with any interference in the late election, nor are they in any degree com plicated, with she evidently fraudulent returns made from the precinct, of Oxford. Those re turns, beyond all doubt, are simulated and fictitious. Under the.. circumstances, we do not feel embarrassed by any teehnical difficulty AR to our right to go behind the returns. We bold the returns themselves to be defectivem. form and in substance;,, and therefore inad missible. We go for ;the purpoee of ascer taining whether by theie valid objeetioas to the mere returns, our Ojection of them will have the effect of defeating the will of the people, sought to be fitly expressed at the polls. -In the swept of inch consequence', we might hesitate to reject • vote upon any de fect of form, however "essential in law. But in the present ease we (eel ourselves bound to adhere to the very of the law, in order to defeat a gross and palpable fraud. The coosidenttiou that our Own party, by the de- claim, will lose the majority in the Legisla tive Assembly, does not make our duties ih the premises less solemn and imperative.— The elective franchise would be utterly value less, and free government itself would receive a deadly blow, if so great an outrage as this could be shielded under the cover of more forms and technicalitim We cannot Oonsent 'itt - any manner,• to give the sanction. of our reSpective official positions to such a intone yen. Nor can we feel justified to 'relieve ourselves of the proper responsibility of our officers, in a eve where there is no valid re turn, by stibroittivg the question to the Leg islative Assembly ' and in that very act, giv ing the parties that might cia:m to be chosen by this spurious vote, the power to decide upon their own election. In view of the condition of affairs in Kan ass for several years past, of the efforts so long made to put in operation here a revolu tionary government, and of the,„fact that this effort was suspended under the belief_that the. political difficulties of this Territory might at length be fairly adjusted at the polls, if that adjustment now be defeated,and the people deprived of their rightful power under the laws of Congress, by ficticious , re turns of votes never given, it is our solemn conviction that the pacification of Katis.ss, through the exercise of the elective franchise. would become impracticable, , and that chit war would immediately be recommenced in this Territpry, extending, we fear, to adjacent States, and sulji:cting the Government of the Union to immediate peril. Because, therefore, the paper now under examination, if not one of the original poll books, by law required' to be returned, and from the absedee of the oath prescribed by the territorial statutes for the judges of elec tion, the returns being thus clearly invalid, and s we believe, fictitious and simulated, we have, under the circutnstancrs, no alterna tive but to reject the whole return from the Oxford precinct, and to give the certificates to those who appear to have been elected by virtue of • he other regular returns. 11..1. WALKER, Gov. of Kansas Ter. FRED. P. STANTON, Secretary. ------ 40------ The Now York Coustitation. We select that portion of the New York State Constitution which has reference to Banks. It ,is a great pitry that ovary State Constitution . does- not contain similar provis ions.—Er. • ARTICLE VIII. couroxsrfoNs—now CREATXD. Sac. 1. Corporations may be formed un•. der generil. laws; but shall not be created by special act, except fur muncipal purposes, and in cases where, lo- the judgment of the Legislature, the :objects of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws. All genera l laws and sp e cial acts passed pursuant to this section, may bo altered.front time t) time or repealed. DEBTS 07 CORPOR&TIONR. Si'.. 2 Dues from corporations shall' be se cured by such individual liability of the tor porators and other means as shall be pre. scribed by Jaw. 64 CORPORATIONS " DEPINICD. SEn. 3. The term "Corporations," as used in this article, shall be construed to include all associations and joint . stock companies having any of the powers'or-privileges, of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships. And all corporationkshall have the right to sue and shall be subject to .be sued in all courts in like cases; - as natural persons. • Cll MITERS FOR BANKING ;TIM SS: Sc.F: 4. The Legislature shall bare no pow. er to pass any act granting any special char ter for banking purpose•, but corporationa t or associations may be formed for sucbpurposer ,under general laws. - 'SPECIE PAYMEiTS. SEC. 5. The Legislature shall hare no power to pass any law sanctioning in,any manner, directly or indirectly, the suspensida of specie payments by any person, association or corporation issuing bank notes of any.de scription: - REG ISTRA OF DILLS OR NOTES SEQ. 6. The Legislature shall provide by law fur the registry of all bills or notes issuod or put in circulation as money, and shall're quire ample security for the redemption of the same in specie. n3=MWTM"3=M=j7=MMrM3 Sec-. 7. Stockholders in every corporation and joint stock association for banking pur poses, issuing bank notes of any kind or paisa credit to circulate as money, after the first day of JaCuary, boa thouvinti eight hundred and fifty, shall be individually responsible to the amount Of their respective shares of stock in any such corporation or association, for all its debts and liabilities of :very kind, con tracted after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. INSOLVENCY OF BANES-PREINIRZNYE. SEC. 8. In caw' of the insolvency of any bank, or banking association, the billhoiders thereof shall be entitled to preference in plq ment, over eeditors of such bank or associa tion.. , SEC. 9. It shell be the duty of the Legisla ture to provide for the organization of chic* and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, esseesment, borrow ing money, contracting debts and loaning their credit so as to prevent abuses in assess• ments and in contracting debt, by such mun cinal qv` A WORD.—The following item, in relation to the recent election, is from the Herald of Freedom of the 10th : " As the contest is now over, we caution out Republican friends against claiming the result here, as a Republican victory. It is a Free State triumph and nothing else. It is a verdict of the people in favor of self govern ment, and in favor of freedom for Kansas without any relation whatever to the .old par ties as organized in the States." True, every word , of iE ; and yet we just picked up an eastern paper, and there saw the modest announcement that the Republicaus had carried Kansas by a large majority ! The impudence of the notice is unpersltelled. Why, if none but Republicans and pro-slavery men had voted at the recent election, and none but legal voters participated, Republi canism would biro bun whipped so badly that its own mother would not have recog nized it. In this city, for instance, syrr have not a pro slavery voter; and, leaving the American-and Democratic votes out, we think there Would be barely a dozen left. Justice, gentlemen, its all we want.—Geary - City [X. T.] Era. CorArrxtvertir.—lt may interest our brethren of the presa to know that Dr. J. C. AYsv., of Lowell,(Cherry Pectoral and Ca thartic Pills,) ha s summated with him, Lis brother Frederick Ayer. &q., long and favor ably known as a. leadin merchant Of the West. Mr. Ayer will condoet the widely es, tended business of the brie,: which now mul es to the Commercial isations'of both hernia pberes, while the Doctor will degais bienSelf to his scientific investigations sled Mervin tile Arrerstol, Gov. W A MEM-. AMIIN GTO X, Friday, Oct. 30, 1857.—Previous to the election in Kamm, Governor Welker received specific- • instructions from the Administration relative to his dutront that subject, and *Lich prn 7 chided him from purging the po'.l, ai he rif cently did in rejecting the Ostord- Acting without. authority, from Washington, and clearly violating the instruetions,sent hint, his conduct is'. emphatically contensnede- 7 . There is reason to believe that both Governor , Walker and Sectetary Stanton will be remov ed Intim they shall choose to resign. • WASIII EGTO*, Oct. 81, 1857-1 r. 31t The Government has , no official informs , tiun from Governor. Walk e r relative to his purging the poll of Oxford Precinct, and'un. ;!! this can be received, there can be no defi nite actioa by die Administration. It was fmirtaillir a-violation of his initruc eons which will not be permitted to go unno• tined ; ancl:the Executive disapprobation will be expiessed, there is reason to believe, in -a manner which' may .at least lead to the resig nation of-both- Gov. Wall:er and Secretary Stanton. 10 r. st.--It is now ascertained, on &speci fic inquiry, that thoreport of last night, which was prevalent in usualy reliable and well-in formed circles, of the intention on the put of the Administration to remove Goveinor Wal ker and Secretary Stanton ; is without. the least f o undation ; nor is there any reason to believe that either intends to resign. The last dates from either have only come down to the 10th of October. Merchants and Illatvrafactimers' Dank. " 1 STRANGE DISCLOSURES 1 . 1 A bench warrant was beard in Pittsburg on the 22d of Oct., issued at the instance of, Mr. Scott, President of the Merchants and Manufacturers' Bank, again-t James and Her cules O'Connor, bankers, of the firm i 1 O'Conner, Brother, ch Co„ charging them with obtainging fraudulently, and by the complicity of the book-keeper of the bank, 4183,000. O'Conner in his defence made_ graie allegations against the bank,, denying the indebtedness of the firm-, and claiming to be the agent of the bank for the purpose of drawing specie from the other banks on their _notes of distant banks of a lea denomination than five dollars, and also counterfeit money, were drawn from the hank on, their . .checks; that their dealings•with the bank since Feb ruary last have amounted to Over three mil lions, a taiga portion Of which was not on the private account of the firm;. that the re spondent in vain attempted to effect a settle ment with the bank, and Lad placed securi ties in the hands of a disinterested party to cover any indebtedness. -. Further investigation was waived fOr the pres'ent. -Messrs. O'Connor ba%ing made an assignment for the . benefit of their creditors: Notwithstanding these tzlevelopmeints, the notes of the bank. are stilt taken W the other banks in payment of notes due them, and also by.the public. - it is said that its stock will not be depreciated. Daniel-Webster On the Evils ot a . - Paper Currency. At this time, says' the Clinton Democrat when the question of the currency is attracting boACIUCIi attention,the views of Daniel Web ster on the subject will be read with interest. I It will, doubtless, surprise the advocates of I the so-called paper currency, 'that the great statesman left upon record as decided a protest against that kind of money as did Thomas , Jeffers or Andrew Jackson. Ms clear intel lect could not fail to see the 'disastrous effect which it was certain to produce upon the business interests Auld laboring classes, even if it- had not been enlightened by a clime and, familiar 'acquaintance with the teachings of history. To those,who can not yet make up their minds to favdi a return to the currency of the CCnstitation, and who Consider the policy which favors it." Democratic .radical ism," we commend the following from their favorite,stattainian, Daniel Webster. The following extract of a speech made by Daniel Webster in the united States Sea med io 1832, may be found in Bento,o Thirty Years View, page 244. vol. 1 : " A disordered,. currency is i one of: ;the greatest of political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary fur the support of the so cial system, and encourages propensities de structive to its lisippins. It wars against industry, frugality and economy, and it fos ters the evil spirit of extravagance and specu lation. Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has' been more effectual than that which deludes them with prper money. This is the most. effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat. of the pour min's brow. Ordinary, tyranny, oppression, exces sive taxation—these bear lightly on the hap piness of the mass of the community, coin , pared with the fntuatilent currencies and the robberies committed by depreciated paper. Our own history has recorded for our in struction enough, and more than enough, of the . demoralizing tendency, the injustice and the intolerable oppression on the virtuous and well-disposed, of a degraded paper currency authorized by law or any way countenance.' by government." Again be says: "The paper circulation of the count , is, at this time, probably seventy-five or eighty millions of dollars. Of specie, we may have twenty or thirty millions, and this principally in masses in the vaults of the banks. Now; sir, this is a state of thir t 7 which !cads con stantly to overtradinc, and to the conse qutnt excesses and revulsiuns which so-ofteu disturb the regular course of commorcialof-1 faits. Why have we so small an amount of specie in circulation ! Certainly the only reason is because we do; not reciai.e motet We have but to ask its presence and it would, return. But we voluntarily banish it. by the great amount of small bank notes. In most . of the States the banks issue notes to all low denominations, even to a single dollar. low is it. possible under such .circumstances, to retain specie in circulation ! All experience shows it to be 'impossible., -The paper will take the place of the gold and silver. When Mr. Pitt, in the 1707, proposed, in Par liament, to authorise the Bank of England to issue one pound notes,, Mr. Burke lay sick at Bath, of an illness xof which he newer recov ed, and be is said to have written to the late Mr. Canning: 'Tell Mr. Pitt that, it he con sents to the issuing of one pound notes, be Map never expect. to see a guinea again." Arm.) following anti espondeoce between the Lebanon Bank and 'the State Treasurer, will be interesting to the Banks and the coin mianity, at indicating the actions of the-State Treasurer, under the fifth section of the sus• pensicin law, passed at the recent session of the Legishitgre. The section is is follows " That the deposits by :he Suite Treasurer or to the credit of the Commonwealth, in the several Banks and other corporations, and all Bank notes which are now or may hereafter be in the Treasury, during the beriod of sus pension afonsaid, shall from time to time* demand of said Treasurer, be paid by tht• Said Banks, or other corporations respectfully, in specie, or such atnoants; as may be requir- ed by said Treasurer, to enable him to pay the interests scornica on lbw pablic loins of the Camweesecaitb:r • . LEUATipx.BArtir, Oct. 26, 1857' U.S. E•q , .State Ttea.•urer, Dear Sir=lt has been enjoined upon me by she Board o f Directors of this Bank to in quite " Whether. you will receive onr tax on thSMay dividend, in adraft on one of the Ilartisburgßanks,'and-whether it is the pur pose of your DePartnsent to exact, under the late lair, our dips to the commonwealth in. specie r This colormatieri is adjudged nee- • , essary for the tneettng -of our Stockholders, when they purpose to decide upon the accep tance, tkc, of the said law. Au early reply will be duly appreciated. tome reApectfully, • : &Wien A. trtiLER. . . . . TRZJISGar- DEPARTMICNT, 1 limptiseunw Pct. 27. 1857. Eow. A. Vitten, Esq., Clohier of Lebanott Bank : , Dear Sir—Your letter of thia 2fith instant has just been received.. .:Under ilie power given to me by the attipseCiion of the suspension ect, it is my intention to ask the Banks to furnish the State with an amount of coin sufficient to pay the interest on hip pub. lie losns,each Bank to pay in proportioir to its capital stock, and to receive frOm . the State therefor its own notes or the notes. of other solvent I3anks. The sum required for interest purposes in Jan ~ will amount to about $1,000,000. ITI. . c' .ital stock of our Banks amounts in the a • r ,• to to about ales= of *25.00.0 { 000. If it bathe pleas i ()flour Board to aid the State in her - effort o pay the inmsrewt is I ; t l is. k c, 'pewe e a draft ots o . dor 11, s laws Banks will be 'revived theta : On your May dividend ; Into cie will be exacted for it, as well as a, of the Dotes of your Bank winch may ereafter be received at thi Treasury. 'Very r peetfully, . . U. S. aleonsw,. Slate. Treasurer. What the Election has Decided:' Upon reflecting on the result of the late ti; lection, says the Bellefonte Water:ratan, the' query, what has been decided by it ! presented . itself to oumindi as worthy of an answer at this time. We will give tbatioswer_aceord ing to the best of our judgement' Audi belief, in as few words as possible. - • Ist. It has been decided ',hat Gen. Peck. er is the choice of a mpjority of the people of Pennsylvania for Governor, and that the ma joriiv were utiwilling that David Wilmot i.hould Jule over them. The grounile':of this decision we take to be, that Gen. Packer is the best qua:i6ed of the two, that his politic; al principles better accord with those of the majority, and that he is in every, respect, a more suitable man for the office. 2nd. It has been decided that Republican i.m and Know Nothingisrn shall ,net, longer rule in Pennsylvania, that a party based up- o n th e principl e s of proscription and perttecu• - tion, moretyraniCal and iltberal than those_ which be got the corporation and test acts or England, and on spar with those which'up held the Spanish, inquisition, cannot be teller-. ated in Pennsylvania. ' 3rd. It has! been decided that the doe trines of Abolitionism are detestable, that they . 1 ate dangerous to the Union of these States, a violation of our duties to our-Southern broth'. ren t and calculated better to retard, than ad vance the abolitiOn of Slavery. 4th. It has been decided that the admin istration of James', Buchanan is thus far satis factory. 15th. It has been decided that the sale of the Main Line of the Public Improvements at. - ore half their value, was an imposition on the part of the present Executive, and ibid. the charge that &e Democratic party was kept in power through the influence of the public works is decided to be false. sth. It has been decided once more and again, that " honesty is the best poliqy,"atd that no party can live long in this Stat , l that attempts to mislead, impwe upon, dictate to, and proscribe the people, that' consistency in some degree, is expected of rulers, and that when altogether wanting, the l eople are sags dons enough to know that something is wrong. - . • , = These are some of the decisions -which we thinkhaie been decided it the_ late election. We infer them from the course of the canvass and .the result.; Gur opponents cannot ' tea.- sonably deny that a,decision has been clear. -ly made upon the above issues. - Yet' they will do it, but who will confide in the *I. A PRINTER-IN Luott.,k. young •English printer, named Llegyy Floyd, lately - engaged un the SaYannah Ge,orgian, sailed from- that port for Liverpool, last Monday, in the ship Georgia, having received intelligence that he was heir to an estate of 60,000 t. Trial I.l9l—.llloreiisber Terieh., Ward vs. Gris Wold. , Mead cs. Cook. . ~ Meeker vs. 'Sutton. '' - 1 Brownell vs! A t ioCollunt. Reardon vs. R4ardon. ' . Lathrop Dis't Vs. Lenox Dis't. Burrows is. Chamberlin: ' • Green' vs. Wartrons. 1. Southweil vs. Maryatt. Bend vs. Neville. • Pratt' VA. Harding. ,:,, Taylor vs. Commonwealth. • Green .vs. 'Wright.' . . Burritt. vs. Curtis. - - Tewksbury is. Adams. Reynolds vs. Siihbury. Buck vs. Taylor., • , Skinner vs,. Pope. Aiverson vs. Gelatt. Sobemerhorn vsLEltilils , - Young vs. Warden. - - Drinker vs. Whitney. Sayre vs. Lyons. _, Weeks vs. lifsbnes. , liewey vs. Graham. , ••, Wapner' vs. - Dona.. ", Jon List.....Nabrember Coyid, MIST. GRAND JURY. ' Ararat—Samuel Avery. Brooklyn—James Peekliam. Choc:omit—B. W. Batty. Ftanklin—S. R. Crane, Its M. Simmowt. Forest Lake—A. Tilden. Gibson—Chester Bill, J. W. darpeater",-,- Grgat Bend—Geo. Buck, It. U: Haywood._ Ilarford—Dexter Sibley. Jessup—O. S. Bebee. Liberty—Jonathan Ross. Lathrop—Ansel Sterling. Lenox—H. N. Smith, N.121E1 Tingley, D. Whitney. ' • Muhl letown Baldwin. • • Montrose—l. L Post. - New Milford—Waiter Watson. Oakland —Benjamin Gardner. - Susquehanna Depot—D. W. Norton, S. B. West. Thompson—Abram Coon. TRAVERSE JURORS. FIRST MACK. - Apolacon't—Avery Beebe. Auburn---Harvey Carter Milton Harris. - Bridgewater—John F. Ileatis, J. T.-Laur don, Albert Woodcock.' Brooklyn-4. Tewksbury. Choconut-Leiiis Chamberlin, Jr. . Clifford—Eiri; Jenkins. Dimock—William Miles. _ - Franklin—Fred. Lines. Cabsott--James C. Powers, H. M. Darla Smii
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