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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1857. OOVERNAIENT OF ISRITISII INDIA. The British Ministry; It is said, have deter mined to assume the entire and exclusive Go iernment of Hindostan. It is full time for this to be done. The East India Company, almost wholly bent upon making money, as traders, have proved themselves unequal to the respon sible duty of governing. Nor has the system established by their charter worked well or smoothly. There is, in fact, a double Govern ment of British India. On one side is the Court of Directors, who are the nominal go vernors of that vast territory; on the other, there Is the Board of Control, appointed by the Crown, with its President (for the time being) invariably a member of the British Cabinet. This second is the real Executive, for it has the most completo control over every act and deed of the Court of Directors, so much so that the minutest memorandum must bo endorsed by the Board of Control before it be sent out by the East India Directors. But, on the''otherhand; there is no cheek what ever 'on the Board of Control, which can send what ordure it pleases to Calcutta, without the consent, or even without Hie kmkedge, of the Court ofblreetora;•and is certain of hatinglta commands implicitly obeyed. If ever there were a doubt of the existence .of a Circumlocution Office (so graphically de scribed by Dickens in tc Little Dorrtt,") it would be removed, at once and for over, by an examination of the two-fold system which, for such a long period, has been brought to bear upon British India. If the intention had been to do things in the most troublesome, most circuitous, and least satisfactory manner, then that purpose has been amply carried into effect. The tone of despatches from India Is grave, dignified, and grandiose. A certain magniloquence is affected, which puts the most commonplace intimations very ludi crously upon stilts. If au Indian civil officer has to communicate so simple a fact as that the rice crop has been prosperOus, ho will use as many words, worked up into solemn and spun-out sentences, as would cover two or three pages of congenial foolscap. Every line thus sent from India to the Board of Directors has to be copied for the perusal of the Board of Control. Sometimes duplicate copies are required, when Indian matters have to be considered by the British Government— even as many at seventeen separate copies extra (one for the Queen and one for each of her Cabinet Ministers) having sometimes to bo made. • Every line sent to India, by the board of Directors, has to be copied several times— triplicate copies for India, to provide agairiSt the loss of one or two mails, being inevitable, besides duplicates for the records in the India House at Leadenhall street, and the olSee of the Board of Control, in Cannon Row, West minster. The result of all this eternal writing is—the delay of all business to be transacted. Such.a thing as receiving a despatch from India on a Monday, and sending out a reply by the following Saturday, would he considered almost impossible by the retardation corps of the British India Circumlocution (Mee. It is not doubted, by those who have resided In the country, and have had amplest and most accurate means of ascertaining the true circum stances, that British India might not only be better governed, directly under the Crown, but with far less expense and much greater pecu niary advantages. The net - revenue of British India, which ir,ai £20,537,073 in the year 1851, was somewhat about £21,000,000 at the com mencement of the present year, before Disaf fection reared, its flag. The gross revenue is about 4 , 27,00000—but nearly a fourth of this amount comes tinder the head of cost of col lection, leaving twenty-one millions Sterling towards general expenditure. Not only is every shilling of this money spent, but the East India Company are largely in debt. They owe about £50,000,000, the annual interest on which (payable out of revenue) is nearly £2,500,000. The cost of governiug the coun try, and the heavy dividends paid to the pro prietors of India Stock, absorb all the rest of the public revenue. Under a good system, more revenue could be raised, at far less cost, and on a principle of taxation more just to the natives, who have to pay The mere ex pense of a double goveiltiOnt may well be spared, particularly as that government only unite in showing the world how not to do what • it ought. Under tho Company's Charter, Moro is a light reserved to the Crown of becoming de facto ruler or Ilindostan, on paying off all India Stock, at sir per cent., Which can easily be done as the dividends are an high as ten The system of double government, now about to be abandoned, was devised by no leas a person than 11" - mrAm P.ITT, first Earl of Chatham—the same who, a few years later, so eloquently and firmly protested, in Parlia. ment, against the manner in which the Ameri can colonies were misgoverned. When the East India Company received its charter from Queen ELIZADtTIi, in 1600, no one anticipated the extent ot territory, the vastness of wealth, and the immensity of power which it was to accumulate. The mere traders who arose to the rank of Sovereigns, says Lord .ILtitox, showed no aptness for the now and extraordi nary duties which devolved upon them ; they rose above tt trading company In their fortunes, but not in their conduct and opinions. Lord Crwrivar, as far back as MO, considered that the establishment of a good form of govern ment was (c the greatest of all objects," said he, ti according to my sentie of great." His idea, which ho never embodied, was that the Crown, and not the Company, should possess and rule the territorial conquests made by the Litter, and that the holders of the Charter wore merely entitled to certain commercial privi leges, and lair interest on their invested capi tal. Ho thought, too, that by governing fin dostan fairly, income could be derived there from sufficient to diminish home-taxation, and even gradually to pay off the whole National Debt. His system of double government, con tinued to this day, was but the precursor of A greater - and grander plan, which he never em bodied. The establishment of British, rule in India, under a direct delegation itom the British Go- nol7.lnvM Wolitt vornment, ought to commence a new era In that country. There really to no cause why the revenue might not be greatly Increased, even with the reduction or the repeal of many taxes which are complained of as oppressive. Such, In particular, is the impost upon salt, an article of neeessity, for health among the Hindoos. The sum of three farthings (one cent and a half) Is levied on every pound of salt consumed in British India, and this impost alone brings In 13,000,000. Many otbet taxes might ad vantageously be modified, and there is no doubt that a better system can readily be in. troducod. On many grounds, therefore, there is room for congratulation on the prospect of British India passing out of the grasping bands of the Coompany Sahib—as the llindoos call thu East India Company. There can no longer be that occasional playing at cross purposes, between the two Executivee, (at Leadenball stroet and Cannon Row,) which lies sometimes caused so much mischief. England has now the opportunity of doing justice .to India, which has so long been denied, and must turn over a new leaf, or look out, every half dozen years or so, for a repetition of the effects, from like causes, which have led to the present position of affairs in Illndostan. Continue in the beaten track of misrule, she cannot, and must prepare for a change as important as ever yet took place in English transactions. on ARLES WILLIAMS The Reading (Pa.) Gazelle states that on Batruday, Judge Jones decided ;against the Mil cation for a new trial In the case of Peter P. Lad trig, convicted on the 13th of August last, of setting Ore to the horn of William Hain, in Spring township, and sentenced him to an imprisonment of • five years in the Eastern Penitentiary— the term of imprisonment to date from the day of MI conviction—au 4 to find - security In $2,000 to keep the peace for tea years. : t e , - Pt . • -..- . , . .._ . . -.._-- ..L. - , ~ ~, tt - . , t 4 r . 4 -,,,, ‘‘‘ i,,l ), , A ...• I) ....i,r < • ~, T,..,:,..,v ~itlL... ... ..........,• ...„...„:„.„...,„,,.,,,,,N„,,,,,,,,,..„.,.,..„..,.......,•,,,... e ,----- . • '..,,, --- - i -,..:. 1 " • - rai: ,;•K,,--5------ •'=„... . --.---. li: . c- 't il • ' . - .1`:.,;.' ...• ~.,-. X. It .„,.....--,__,..." „,, -, 2,3kiff,i , ' .- ' 1.; ? -.' - ',.,;.;'-;?!-•,:i;a:41.0-• fki.,. , F*01.4„7, ' a'04.7,!:!, 14;,.14, tar ,.. :• 7 '. - _,. 4 .." - : 'I; - ..t; : i z -T , . , - 2 . ''---- '',.-',:';‘;*/-,- •-,Ao`77* '4 ' 4,7A'..' .11:11N140171:.;;;"'.'ir4.15'r.;'.EiL'': .111 L . 1. . , ::. 1 ...'•- 7 _,l,'--='''-,*.. , 6 rr,•,,,:,..ictielor, 1,..y::4,4,'...:.:-.:,‘.4-6.---e, 't;.:;:k''',.!is_4:,:-,,-,....-1;-,...x.---,:,,,..-. --....,,,,,....- ~,,,-... 1• • --7''' •-" " , !"''' !...:* - •t..! 8 g .....4. ~- • - ~ ~-.- ----.-- - -- : 4 .- -.. 4,...__:.-----',,, .„...,%-,,,,,..- ............--.42::: .., -7 ...ao' . 04, - ..... -:- ..,,, , - , * ". 4 1 ... , —.,,,, ""4...- ....:,....-- . ---,-.4........ . ' - ~.._, .. . . ....--_-.........,.....- ---....- 1 DEBATE IN THE U. S. SENATE. • WEDNESDAY, Doceunret 0, 1851. Mr. Elm en, of Penesylvania, said : It is not my Intention, Mr. President, to spook to the'ruere pro position to print the message and documents; nor , do I intend to-day to attempt to address the Senate at length on the grave and diffieult eubject which • has been unhappily precipitated upon this body. I never felt eo much responsibility in my lifo. I never felt A greater anxiety to do my duty. Nev er since I have bean connooted with public entre have I desired in my whole soul eo much to du what would be best for this great country. I feel tar weakness, and how much I regret the suggestion 1 made yesterday evening, that I concurred with the President of the United States in the views he lied taken, and ehould endeavor to defend those views, for I now feel how much I am unprepared. But, whilo I Anil not melee a speeolt to-day, I dos - ire very briefly to notice come of the propositions of my friend from Illinois, which have fallen on my ears as most extraordinary. It would be neoeesary. Mr. President, to a fair understanding of this question, to trace its history; and nothing have I regretted ao much as that the Senator from Illinois did not stop in the first in stance to look at this question in its true character. Still more am I painedevith the remembrance that 4is feelings were not much as I had hope! they would be on a question as delicate and so dan gerous, which he has labored so tong and so ardu ously to allay. Sir, I do not think it to entirely the part of a statesman to handle this question as though each particular view which he may hold eau be die tinotly carried out. The question should occur to his mind, What is beef for the country under oil tho circumstance? It will nut do to thew to me that the Constitutional Convention of Kanatie has been guilty of sins of omission .or commission on the one band, or that the Topeka movemout was without atithority of law, arid in derogation of the, authoeity.of the• United States Government on the other. I look at thte question as it is before us, in a spirit of Amnesia/on and tomprom Ise, and I trust that measure of patriotism which will embrace all the Shafted this Union and the interests and rights of all the people, and inquire, What shall wo do! Has my friend from Illinois persuaded himself that, with the presout elate of feeling in the Tor ritory of KatiNa3,lt is . poseible to have any measure carried out with preateion and order? Are there nu reasons to apprehend strife, and confusion, and violation of principle there? Has he any guarantee that whatever action Congress may take will se cure a peaceful exercise of the elective franchise there to the entire inhabitants of that Territory ? What is there in the history of Kaneas to bring him to the conclusion that either party in power there wilt wield that power with moderation? I have long since abandoned that idea, and I have per seeded myself that patriotism and duty would re quire that Kansas ehould be admitted Into the Union on the first allowable opportunity, for the sake of Kansan and the Union. From the day that Senator offered his bill in this hall, in 18e1, to this hour, he has never witnessed the same measure of complication - in the affairs of that Territory, or the same menacing Repeat to the country. The extraordinary things in the Semi:ores 're make that occurred to say mind are these : The impertance that he attached to FO much of the Kaunas-Nebraska bill as declares that the. people shall be left perfectlyefroe to select their own do mestie institutions. Will the Senator from DB• nets contend that the people of Kenees aro to look to that act for their right to form their ordinary in stitutions ? Will he toll me that the Missouri line interpoeed against any of those rights, or that the repeal of It enlarged them or affected them In any possible way? Certainly not, This Missouri line had reference to elavery alone. Ilie act of 1854 had eefirenee to the institutionsof elavery only. It is that, and that alone, which has agitated the country. It It that to which we have had re ference mainly when speaking of the rights of the people of that Territory. That dangerous and agitating question It was which constrained.the wisest men who hare over Resembled in this clim ber in 1850, to agree that this dangerous issue dumb] be taken from Congress and given to tho people. However that great fact may be obscured by logic, however it may be beclouded by a mass of-1 shall not say subterfuge or teehnieality, but I may ray special pleading—the great truth is be lore the people of the United Steles that that is the only question to which we hero not had refe rence in all this long struggle. What I hare de sired, and whet I hare thought would bo cousin sive, was that we should base from the people of Kansas each en embodied expression us would give ue their will on that subjeet. I certainly concur with the President of the United States in that part of his message in which he says he would have preferred that the whole Constitution should he, eahruitted to the people ; lint the Convention—exercising what he has eon ceded to he their right to make a Constitution and send it to Congress—submitted only the slavery quention. I do not say that tho whole of that Con etitution would have been adopted or rejected, but Icon any to the Senator from Illinois that I was in the Territory before) the delegates were elected and for nearly I . a month afterwards, and I think know some oretunstancee whieh influenced the notion of the , pooplo. I know what was said on the one side end on the other from the rostrum, for I heard it. I heard the advocates of the To peka movement say to the men who proposed to form a Constitution .under the laws of the TOY. 0:07 : " We will not ,judge of any Instrument you may submit; no will not consider its mer its at all." ' Why 1 '' Beta-dee we are, deter mined that, the laws, which the President of the United States has said shall ho carried out, theft be rendered null and void. Governer Walker bee told us that there laws are binding, and that the Convention has been legally convened; ire do not subscribe to that doctrine; we will therefore accept no form of government from a bogus Con vention." I heard more than one of them say that ova if the Convention ehould give to them the Topeka Constitution, word for word, and let ter for letter, they would trample it in the duet, because they denied the authority of the law which the President of the United States 1411.9 administer ing there. However unwisely members of the Convention may have noted--and I do not intend • to defend the details of their action by any means —lt' will not do to say that there were no cur- I rounding circumstances to impel them to mach ac tion. Probably if the Republicans heti the power at that hour, they would have wielded it. quite as unwarrantably, The deolarations to which I ' here referred naturally begot retalietleo. The' answer was, " If you will netjudgie or this instils- • mont, why ehould it be submitted to you 7 " Now, sir, I will tee , to the Senator from Illinois, in de fence of hie friend, the President of the Conven tion, whose idol ho has almost been, that in all my intercourse with him I never hoard from him an unreasonable or an unfair suggestion on the cub jeot. lie did say, And he did write, that he would agree to a submiesion of the Constitution to the people; but when he was told, -' we will not judge of this," his views were different. Ho told me to any to the President of the United States that if this spirit was persisted lii, if they were to 130 broken down 'Amply to give the Dowel- to their ono mine, and not because, the Constitution was a bad ' one, he would not ho bound to submit it. He held that under the organic act, and according to the common understanding of the country, they were under an obligation to submit the slavery clause. That they did not submit it in a proper form I agree. It ought to have been, one way or the other, distinctly. They might have withheld the Constitution entirely; and avoided the difficulty I which the Senator raised na to foreihg a lemming assent to the Constitution. That, however, Is some whet of a theoretical difficulty, for I never heard any Issue in Kausal, nor will the Senator hear any serious issue there, as to the main features of the Constitution. The virtueof the submission is that it withholds the Constitution, except that portion which relates to slavery. The Senator is perfectly aware that as late as 1818, when a Constitution was formed for lineage, the same monstrous outrage upon popular sover eignty was practised, fora portion of that Consti tution AT 'put Into operation without being sub mitted to the people. lie was the able advocate of Mr. Toombs 's bill, which did not etuanato from the people of Kansas. They did not delegate their sovereignty In the fret instance ; they were not coneulted at all ; they had not petitioned for it; and yet the Senator advocated and voted for that bill. It provided for an election of delegates, named the timer and planes, and milled together a Convention to 3.:110113 the people of Kansas woro to delegate their tersereignly. It did mere, sir. It put that Constitution into operation without ever i consulting the people of Kansas. If the Senator's feelings bad been awakened at that time na to the peculiar rights of the 'people of Kamm, ho never' could have voted for Mr. Toombs's bill. That was • non-intervention—very peculiar, however. I woe ' unwilling, as I remember, in the first instance ; to go for a measure of this kind, becalm() I thought it contravened the prineiplo of non-Intervention. New, if I understand rightly the position of the Semi at r from Illinois, ft:comedown to this: Although ' the Constitution of Rams. when presented here. may be republican ; though there may bo in it no ineurmountable objection ; though it may bo a roe amiable Instrument, made by competent authority, in accordance with law and in the proper form, Kansas shall not come into the Union because this right thing was not done through a particular pro cess. Is that consistent with the doctrine of non intervention ? I deny the right of Congress to go behind the organic act, and Inquire into all the de tails of how the people of Kansas have proceeded ; but when Kama presents herself for admission at the doors of Congress with a republican Consilin. tion, formed in order, According to law, the Senator from Illinois is about to say to those people, you shall not come into the Union because you did not do this right thing in the proper way. Sir, when the queetion Involves the peace of the whole coun try, and, as I know, the prosperity of Kansas, I will not bo pledged to any any each thing; but if the measure Is right in itself, and WI can see that It imposes no great future wrong on the people of Kansas, in view of the peculiar circumstances which surround the rose the difficulty of getting any law properly administered there, the danger of leaving the question open, 1 will, eo far as I have the power, assist to throw open the portals of the Union and welcome Kansas as a State, thus set tling this bitter family feud forever. Sir, I do not Intend to follow the subject further to-day. I thought, however, that some of the positions of the Senator from elllinols wore eo peculiarly forced, that, though entirely unprepared, I should not, after the intimation I had given, do justice) to myself if I allowed tutees remarks to pass un noticed. Mr. Memos, Mr. President, I 'do not moan to go into this debate, because it is now entirely upon questions purely abstract;' but I think it due to the honorable Somber from Illinois, to V 1130130 re marks I have listened with groat attention, to point out to him one, at least, of the intim:los con- Mined in hie argument. I use that term with en tiro respect; and I should bo unjust to memoir it' I did not use it with entire respect to him. beeauso all will. admit that his speech was ono of great strength and great lower, but, In my conception, with great diffidence I say it, tees of little moment --in Its legal positions, and in its political conclu sions, a senor of monstrous fallacies. I only desire to point Gni ono now. Tho honorable Senator said that the effoet produced of necessity from the mode of submitting the' subject to the people of Kansan was to diefranehise all who did not come to the polls prepared to vote for the Constitution; , and thus, he said, - all who did vote, whether for PHILADELPHIA, TUESDA.Y, DECEMBER 15, 1857. or against alaVory, were compelled to vote for the Constitution, and those of either class who were not prepared to vote for the Constitution, must ne. cessarlly refrain from voting at all; and yet the honorable Senator complained—and it wee thy great staple of that part of his argument—that, the Constitution was not submitted to be voted on. At ono time he declared that it was withheld from the people; and again ho declared that till who mane to vote were necessarily obliged to vote for it. Now, I submit to the honorable Senator, how could a man be compelled to vote for that which was nut submitted to him to be voted on at all ? Mr. Douor,ss. Did the Sonator'undetitand two to say that it was withhold? Mr. MASON. So I uudetylood. Mr. Docat43. I inlid s illet. the reverse. Mr. ML:ION. The Senator cortainly said they withheld everything from the people eseept the question of slivery; and yet the Senator declared that whoever voted on the question of slavery, whether fur or against it, was obliged to vote for the Constitution ; and the Senator drew the logi cal consequence that, of necessity, those who did not choose to vote for the Constitution were obliged to stay away and refuse to vote at all. That was bis argument. Now, the (annoy I meant to point out wee this: look at that Constitution and you will and that the Convection withheld the Consti tution ; It wee not submitted to the people at all. Whether that woe well done or ill done is another question ; but the Constitution was withheld from the people, and the only question submitted to them was, whether they would establish or Inter• diet slavery? Thoy might go there and vote upon that, and not vote or express any opinion what ever on anything else contained in the Constite• • Son. Doent..ts lam flurry I was misapprehended. by the Senator from' Virginia. I certainly took the ground, first, that the Convention lead 'no" power to frame a Government and,put it in opera., flan without aubinitting it fo the poopte ; secondly, that the Convention showed a nonsedonswessaf tbay Mot, by providing that it should be sobinittad the people, and should take effect from and after the date of ratifieation. House, from that aollen of tho Convention, whatever vitality the Ootiatittl. Oen wits ever to have, resulted, not from the Con vention, but from a vote of the people. I then showed that while they noknowledged it 'would bit void but for the ratiGention of the people, it pro vided that it should be submitted for free too coptiineo or rejection in Snell a form as to cut off all negative rotes, and only count the affirmative. That was my position—apo sition sustained by the Constitution itself. The Senator is entirely mistaken if ho supposes that by the remotest inference he .is authorixod by that Constitution and schedule in saying they withheld it from the people. The schedule soya, in on many words. This Constitution shall be submitted to•all the inhabitants In the Territory, on the day of election, for their acceptance or re jeotion, in the following form " This shows that, they provide, not that it shall go into operation without submiasion, but that It shrill bo submitted. and they profose to submit it. They then out off the negative votes, which, of °mines, makes a sure thing of it. That is my positioe. It' the Senator from Virginia had understood it. I apprehend ho• would not have discovered any fallacy. One word in reply to the gentleman from Penn sylvania— Mr. BIGLER. If the Senator will allow too at thie point, I wish to give tome authority I have on the subject. Mr. DOUGLAS. I yield the floor. Mr. Moran. I denim attuply to say that I MO exceedingly anxious to undoratnnd the precisepool thin of that question. It wee diftleult to tall. from the language of the question., Yesterday I asked Colonel Henderson, of Kansas—who wee an active member of the Convention—what it meant. nrhy," told he, ult meant this: that there aro two entire Constitutions, end the people vote separately for the Constitution without elarery—the °matt .tutton the Convention bee formed--or tlrb Conati tution with slavery." I understood him to may that there were two Certatitutious precisely shut tar, Mr. Dottot,AS. If there are two Constitutions, us wo have but4Jac, I should like to see the °their: and I went to know which ouo of thC two the Senator from Pennsylvania is fur, when he says he eittees with the President ingoing for this, Mr. BtuLan. I raid they were precisoly shut. tar. Mr. Dounnas. If those aro two copies of the sumo Constitution I can understand it, but that the Convention made two Constitutions procisolv similar. I do not understand. But, if they dill what difference dove it make ? Yon may veto rot ibis Constitution or the ether one ; but they am just alike, and you must take one or the other. Mr. BIGLER. One will make Ifensas• a free State, and_ the other will make it a slave Siete. That is the difference, Mr. 80u0r.43. You may vote for this or the other Constitution, and If you vote for either, you may vote on the slavery question; but on. lees you do vote for one or the other of Bram Constitutions, you cannot vote on that sub ject. It mites no diTeronoe bow many copies they Made ; the simple question It, do they allow the people to vote on the slavery question, without outing a vote on any other subject? By that Constitution, you cannot vote on the slavery question by itself. You ern ootupelled to write on the ballot, " For the co k tv.l.- tatlen," as preliminary to voting. Your right to veto is theft conditional, not free. flat I did tat rise for the purpose of controverting Maar quesn lions. I was solng . to say a word or two to the Senator from Ponnsyfvunitt. Be assumed on Mein the opening of this discussion that I thought wee entirely uncalled for, as if ho wished rather to in timate to the Senator frourlllinois that his beating was not erectly right—an intimation of speaking by authority not authorised and not respected. Mr. Bonen. Mr. President, I beg to say to the Senator front Illinois that in net ono word that I uttered did I intend the slightest disrespect of that tort, nor do I wish the Senator from Illinois to mark me as speaking hero exoopt for myself. I express on this subject the views which I have deliberately made up. They concur generally, if not entirely. with those expressed by the President of the United States. Mr. Donates. I have not another word to say on the point on whlob I was speaking. 'The ox. planation of the Senator from Pennsylvania is conclusive on that point. It may be that I mis understood the manner in which ho treated the subjoot ; but, whether I did or not, his statement is concluilivo with me. I was certain he did not speak fur the President of the United States. I knew that, for the President had Just spoken for himself, iu language which condemned that Con vention for not submitting the Constitution to the people, and be refuses to recommend that wo should receive this Constitution. 'The absence of a recommendation clearly shows that it was not an Administration measure. Certainly the President is not going to have, ae an Administration measure here, one to which he has not committed himsolf and Ida Cabinet. The President of the United States is a bold, frank man, and if he intends to give us en Administration measure, he will say so lu so many words. Ile boa not said so. It is not . . respectful to him to asillnio that he wants us to do that which ho woe not willing to recommend us to do in his annual mango, when acting under the authority of the Constitution, which makes it his duty to recommend the measures which the public good requires. Hence, of course, I knew the Senator did not speak by authority, and I was going to doily his right to do Po; but inasmuch so I misunderstood him. I have no counnontm to make. Mr. ilser.cit. Will the Senator permit me a 55105110111.7 Mr. DOUGLAS. Certainly. Mr. Inai.En. I think I ant very safe in say. In —and I believe that the Senator from Illinois will agree with me—that the President of the United States upholds the doctrine la his message that that Convention bad a right to form a Cou- ! siltation; it had n right to submit it to the people of tho Territory for their approval, or send it here for the approbation of Congress, and the admission of the State into the Union. I think it is very clearly deduelble from the message, in addition, that the President of the United States does not think that the eitettmetance of not submitting the entire Constitution to a vote of the people should keep 'Kansas out of tho Union If her Constitution is republican and right in nil other respects. On that pond wo will agree. With that I understand the Senator from Illinois to take Issue. Mr. Decease, I infer from the message that the President of the United States does hull that that Convention had a right to frame a Constitu• tion and send it up here ; but that was under the right to petition for redress of grievances under the Constitution of the United States, end not be calm the Legislature of the Territory had the power to constitute' that a legal Constitutional Convention, Mr. Biradm. Where do you find that? Mr. DOVGLAS. Yesterday a epeeeh was road to this hotly, showing that the President bud hold that doctrine twenty years ago, and bo has never disavowed it Once. In that epoeoli the President declared that a Territorial Logielaturo had no power to create a Convention to form a Constitu tion ; and that, if they attempted to excrete° such a power, it would be an net of nearpnilon—a high orlmo—a mime subjeot to impeachment. The President has held these doctrines for twenty years. Ile held them at the same time that Clone. ral Jackson's Administration hold them in regard to the Arkansas case. The Democratic party hoe held them over sines. I have proved to-day that the Democratic party, so far as it is bound by oar notion ono year and a half ago, assorted the same doctrine in the lianeas report which I made from the Committee on the Territories. I firmly be lieved then that that Committee was a faithful ex ponent of the views of the Krinsaa.Nobraska party. In that report we set forth that doctrine, and, as the Senator well knows, wepublielied and circu lated daring the campaign, in order to elect Mr. Buchanan, three hundred thousand copies of that report as a party document. I paid for one hundred thousand of thorn myself. I never board It intimated that the doctrine then expounded, and on which the President was olootod, wits ropudlated by any portion of tho pnrtv and tboreforo said that tho President of tho Vnitod Staten was with moon this question, so far an his rcoord shows. Mr. ineLtit. I must enter my protest and claim the benefit of the statute of limitations, which Is applicable to a shorter period than twenty years. I cannot consent that the Senator from II linelb shall hold the President to principles whioh ho may hate laid dorm twenty years ago, under entliTly different circumstances from those which now exist. It is not half so long since the Presi dent of the 'United States declared that the Mis. snarl line would be the best compromise of the slavery difficulty that could be made. In 1848 the Senator from Illinois advocated the extension of the Missouri lino to the l'acitio ocean; yet he was the man who proposed and insisted th.tt it ought tuba repealed. Ile Was at ono time In favor of extending it. and, therefore, made his principle acceptable to him under the circumstances then existing; he was willing, then, to take it. Now, would it not be very ungenerous in um to held to. day that the Senator's argument was n fallacy, because ho at one time advocated the extension of the Missouri lino? Mr. Doont.ts. I dopy the right or tho Ponator from Pornpylvanin to interpose tho el atnte or Ihni tortoni' upon this ocertolon, on the wall-known prin. olple that no ono but the authorized attorney of the party can Interpose that plea. (Laughter.] Al the Senator bee disavowed the authority to ant and speak for the President, he has no right to file the plea. If the President of the United States himself will Interpose the plea, I shall admit it. I, believe in a statute of limitations In regard to political opinions. I need one very much myself, oh many points. I am not one of those who bbaat that they have never changed an opinion Sir, it Is a matter of gratification to me that I feel each year that I sin a little wiser than 1 WOO the year before; and I do not know that a month has firer passed over my head in which I have not Modified some opinion In some degree ' • but I am always frank enough to avow it. 8011, it is fair fur any man to hold me to a former opinion until I have expreaved a contrary one. Una the Presi dent of the United States ever withdrawn the opinion of which I have spoken, expressed twenty years ago, in regard to the power of the Territo rial. Legislatures , I show that the Democratic partystood by it Midyear, Ic not that rather &short period for the application of the statute of limita flues? I hope you are not going to cut off the Cinain nail Convention by that statute. I deny yourright to plead the statute against the Cinoinnati Con vention, until offer the meeting of the Charleston iemvontlen. The Cincinnati platform is the fun emeriti), unalterable law of the Democratic nay until the meeting of the Charleston Com cation. Congressmen have no right to change It. ousters havo no right to change it. Cabinets eanabt alter it ; anti the President, I know, will li hot attempt, to do so. I deny the Senator's right to come In with this plea for the President, nu plying thereby that he has changed his opinion, when that same opinion woo lust year the doctrine Of the Democratic party, and cannot be changed tot four years to come by the party organization. -.T• am perfuotly at home when you come to the discussion of tho question whether it man i 3 inside fife party or not. I have been in the habit ff. dwelt:ming them platforms, and helping to Luke them. I stand now where I stood last ;tor; not because I am unwilling to change, but ociivitsii I believed I was right then, and I believe leom right now. The Senator from Pennsylvania Aan told rue that I actually voted for the Toombs bill lest year. That to true; and, as I ?laid to-dayl am ready to vote for it again. Ile ruteil for it ' last year, and m did the gentlemen around me. Let us vote for it again, and have 'tin quarrels among ourselves. It will not do to taunt inn with having voted fur a measure last year which I um for now, but which you me not for. Mr, Bictrrt. I certainly did not present the ease in that spirit at all ; nor did I look at it in that point of view. I gave it nu such aspect what ever. I presented it in this point of view: tho So mdur, in his speech to-day. had hell that it was a groat wrong upon the people of Kansas to put a GO• vernment in operation through the agency of their Territorial laws mod a Territorial Convention, the whole of which had not boon submitted r their approbation; and yot only a short yearn° ho voted fur no enabling no' which put a State Government into operation without submitting any part of it to the people That is what I said. Mr. Doter, en. My explanation of that is to be given in the precise language of the explanation of the President of the United st a te, i n hi s in which ho says that, in hie Instructions to 0 0 e, Walker, he took it for planted that the, Constitu tion was to be submitted to the pooplo under a low that was silent on the subject. The Toombs bill being silent, I took it fur granted too, and I sup• posed every other man did, that It was lo be sub mitted. I merely adopted the some process of reasoning that the President himself says he adopted, and which he aas Rum Lnd to find I was not carried out. If the President was right in taking that for grantci, I do not knew why I was not right, In tsking the Roma thing for granted. Again, I will ask Gm Senator to show was an Intimation front any one member of the Senate. in the whole debate on the Toombs bill, sad In the Union from any quarter, that the Constitu tion was not to be submitted to the people. I will venture to say, that en all sides of the absorber it Was so understood at the time It' the opponents of the bill had understood it, wan not, they would have made thepoint on It;and if they had mach it, Weehhnld certainly have yielded to it ant put in the clause. That is a diseovery made since the Pvesi i dent found out that it was not safe to take it for granted that that would be done which ought In fairness to have been dent. Mr. BIGTAR. I do not pretend to know any th}ng on this subject which may not appear in the Journal of Debates. I shall not hold the Senator to anything that does not appear there; bet this I will say, that I was present when that subject was discussed by 6enaters, before the bill wet introduced, and the question was raised and dis- Cussed trhether the Constitution, when formed, should be fittbmitted lo a vote of the people. It was held by . those must intelligent on the subject, that, In slow of all the difficulties surround lug that Territory, the danger of any.experituent at that time of a popular rote, it would be better that there should be no provision in the Toombs bill; and it was my understanding, in all the Inter eourse I had, that that Convention wetill make, a Constitution and pond it here without submitting It to the popular vote. 4 Mr. D0t01,19. The Senator says be will not 'undertake to state anything that did not occur hero In debate and appear in tho published dos bates, intitnating that be has no right, as au honor able man, to do it. I will not undertake to inti mate and Insinuate that whieh, as an honorable man, I Ma net at liberty to express in the body. If be ',mane to insinuate that I was present at such a debate find sauetloned that doctrine, let him say db. If he is not willing to say it, lot him not insinuate that! was present, privately sanctioning a measure that I now publicly ant not willing to avow. Mr. .131obtn. If I am constantly at fault in matters of courtesy, It Is painful to me I Dover have eo failed to observe propriety before Per haps I hem spoken wrongfully ou this subject. I have told the /isolator from Illinois before, that / should not in any way attempt to reflect upon him Mr. DOCOLA.S. I will bring ;this to a close. I will roloase the Senator from all secrecy, if there is any, and ask if he knows that, directly or incli• redly, publicly or privately, anywhere on the face of the earth, I was over present at such a consul tation. where it was milled to my attention, and I agreed to peas it without submission to the people? I now ask him that question with all aeorocy re moved. Mr. Thdcrn. I shall say distinctly what my re collection is clear about, regardless of any cense qtleneeS. I remondoer very well that that question was discussed in the house of the Senator. I am not oortain that he participated in that discussion, but I know that 1 dbl. It was urged—l think snore especially by the Senator trout Georgia, (Mr. Toombs,) not now in bi.; sea t —that, under all the circumstances, there ought not to be a isrovi• slots insortoi requiring that Constitution to bomb milted to the people. I do not say that the Sen• otor from Illinois participated in the discussion. My recollection is hot clear on that point, but it is clear that, in an intorvie* with souse three or four members, who were talking about the introduction of that bill, that subject was talked over I have said that it was always my understanding that that Convention would have a tight to make Constitution, and rend it bore without nAnaitting it to the people. Mr, DOPULAH. I never have insisted that there was a clause In that bill exprea,ly requiring the Constitution to be submitted to the people, The point I hate Made WAS, that being silent, it was u , derstood a 4 a matter of course that it 'MU to be submitted. Sash a olause was unnostssary. That was the President's construction of the act of the I Kansas Legislature. That was my construction of the Toombs bill. That I may have known there was no such clause is unquestionably true; but that I was a party, either by privet° conferences at my own house, or othenvise, to a plan to force a Constitution on the peoplo of Kansas without submission, is not true. That the bill was silent on the &Neat, is true, and my attention leas called to tha t about the time it Was passed; and I took the fair construction to ho, that powers not delis. gated wore reserved, nod that, of course, the Con stitution would be submitted to tho people. The point I made on the Senator was, that ho In mounted that I was a party to such an arrange ment privately, which he MRS not at liberty to tell; and yet he insinuated the very fact that he, as an honorable non, could not tell. If a point of honor has restrained hiss front telling it, a point of honor should restrain him from insinuat ing it. Btomin. In my anxiety to rclievo the feel logs of the Senator from Illinois, I fear I may have done injustice to myself. Now, sir, I wish to ac• count for the Impression which was on my mind, and to mho no imputation on hint. I had called his attention to the Toombs Wit because it woe in tie rogation of tho doctrine ho has laid down here to day. When ho says there was no sentiment of that kind declared in theSenato, I say I hold that Senator only to the record here—only to the Jour nal of Debates. What next, sir ? I justified my self in what I bad said by an allusion to a sheens. elanof that prootso question with members of this body. My purpose was to show the Senator that I should not have made this allegation without soma dear loaprestion on my mind. That impression, I tell the Senator from Illinois, was strength ened by other things. It was strengthened by the fact, that when be made the preparatory bill for the admission of Minnesota ho prom ded, in express words, that the Constitution should ho submitted. If it Is an inforenos irresistiblo, that a Constitution must ho submitted when the enabling not is silent, why insert it in the Minne sota bill? There It is Inserted, and I thought it reasonable—l Arrays bellevod It—l believed it was wise to put It In that shape, in view of tho sur roundings in the Territory of Rouses. Ido not impugn the Sonatoee integrity, or his patriotism, or his fight motive, or his courage, or anything that pertains to him personally. Ile bits bad no more constant admirer than rvyself—nono who has &Guided him oftener. I thought I was doing justice to myself. On account of what I heard, in regard to the Minnosottt bill, I got tho hepreselon that unless Congress required the sub• mission of the Constitution to a vote of the people, that course need not bo pursued. Mr. Mims. I rieo simply for the purpose of malting en inquiry. This matter has boon pretty tolerably well elucidated; but the honorable Sena tor front Pennsylvania if I did not misunderstand him, sold that, at a private meeting nt the house of the honorable Senator from Illinois, there was a talk that owing to some peculiar circumstances it was not prudent to Submit the Constitution to the poople of Ramos, I desiro him to state what soma of those peculiar circumstances wore which render ed it inexpedient and impatriotio. I hove not had the slightest controversy with the Senator from Illinois on that subject. Mr. BIOLER. 'lho Senator from Now Hemp ehlro ie much more familiar ii ith the eurroundings in Mums thou ho utreots to be today. Mr. HALE. I did not know whet you talked of cr there. Mr. lIBICILLn. I had reference (and I think I made that very dear) to the condition of tbo Ter ritory, the bitter feud that divided the people there, the strifes and violence that were likely to interfere with a fair election. I said distinctly that the circumstances rendered a fair exercise of the elective franchise extremely difficult. Wile has said more on that point than !bp senator from New Hampshire? Who has talked more about usurpation and violence there, Old keeping free- State people from the polls I I had the same im pre3sions then that I have now In all the votes I gave I wee controlled and impelled by nearly the same motive as now, and that 1719 to get Kansas Into the Union, whenever she conic up In an al lowable shape, in order to Settle the controversy. Mr. Docobts. I roust ask the Senator from Pennsylvania, whether he means to intimate that in my house, or In any other, them considerations teemurged why we should pass the bill without a Trovision to submit the Constitution to the people? oes ho mean to say that I nor was. privately or publicly, in my own house or any other, in favor of a Constitution without its being submitted to the people Mr. Emelt. I have made no Such allegation. Mr. DocutA9• You have allowed it to be in formal. Ido not want a false impression to be in• ferrod because the scene is located in my private parlor. Of what - importance is it whether In my houeo or yours, unless I was a party to an agree tuent of that kind r If I wll3, lot it ho said ; if I was not, acquit me of it. Mr. Blots.rt. I stated that I hod no recollec tion of the Senator participating in that conversa tion. Mr, Dour:Lis. Well, it I had nothing to do with it, and wad not there, I do not know nhat ray hones had to do with it Mr. Bit:ll,En. What I esid was the truth, and that to the only defence I have to make before the Sonata, and the country, and my God Mr. 011itItY. Mr. President, I regard the ques tions raised in this discussion as of the very high est importance, looking to the structure of our Federal Government, the extent of the agency of Congress, and the eatent of the agency of the peo ple In the formation of States, and the admission of States into the Confederaoy. As each I am not willing to Nee the subject pus off without a more elaborate in% estigation. I do not feel prepared this o% ening, but I deeiro to he heard on it myself. With the consent of the Senate, therefore, I will move to postpone the further consideration of the subject until to-morrow. &MEDAL ! , ENATOII9. S a y Monday. Mr. Guam If it be the wish of the Genate, I will move to postpone it until Monday. The motion was agreed to. VO WEEKS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA Arrival of the Star of the West OVER TWO MILLIONS IN GOLD The Landing of Gentral Walker The steamship Star of the West, with San Fran• thou dates to the 20th ult., arrived at New York yesterday morning. She brings the California walla and over two rullllond in gold. The news from California by this arrival =bra. °es no point of special Interest. The public were much excited with regard to the seaworthiness of the PaoVie mall steamers. The election in Oregon has reunited in the Eno co.'s of the Conetitution, the rejection of elovory, and the exclußion of free negroji i i. Lieutenant Beale, with hie eMels, has arrired iu California, all well. The resolution heeded by Dr. Lenares, in 8011. vie, bad proved successful. General Cerdora bud fled to Peru. From Callao we learn that Porn is in a kite of anarchy. The membere of the Nadel.] Convet. tion had beau driven from their seats at the KIM of the bayonet. Castillo and Vicaneo are at Arequipa, but had as yet managed to as - old a collision. Among the parsougere are Major Graham, Capt. Underwood, Lieutenants Woods. Douglnar, and \\lllinois, all of the United States array. In regard to Walker'd dotage, a despatch from Aspinwall says : "On the 2ltli of November a small steamer, the Fashion, appeared elf tho port of San Juan She did not attempt to enter, but rau down to the Colorado ricer, where Walker lauded fifty moo. On the following day oho came Into Greytown at full speed, with only ten men on deck. She ran alongside of a hulk, and before the boat of the United Stated stoop-of-war iSaratoga could board her, Walker and his party, amounting, to ono hun dred and fifty mon, had landed at Mr. Scott's wharf. " Capt. Chattttd, of the Saratoga, ordered them away from Szott's preinisen, and has taken Oreytown and the property belonging to the Trail• sit Company, under his protection. lle has also informed, Walker that ho will not allow any depro• dations to ho committed in either place. On the Fashion's papers being overhauled, it was found that she was regularly cleared from the custom 'house at Mobile. She 13 not , . here (Allinson ) Tho British steamer Dee is also here, with do. a iatehos for the senior officer of the British Heaton t tis elation, and also for Cern. Pauldingof the B. S steam frigite Wabash." Oen. 11 enter, who, it a 11l be recolteotod, tack hie departure front Mobile Bay on the 13th ult in the steamship Fashion, landed at Punta Arenas, In N'imtragna, on the 25th November, with three hundred teen. Nut the slightest attempt was made tee prevent the landing, and, to fact, the purpose of the expedition appeared not to have been guessed. The United States sloop•of•erar Saratoga ores lying in the harbor, and the Fashion passed under her stern at full speed, with only ten man en deok. The whole Forty were landed en Scott's wharf. On landing, Walker ordered the lieutenant of the eloep-'uf•wer Saratoga. who was ashore, to go on board his chip. The British and American ships will bloskado San Juan. and eta. Lion a force to prevent Walker frees pasito; up the river. Walker had, it seems, tent fifty men up the river by other entrances, before malting his appearance at Punta Arenas After landing the expedition, the Fashion took her departure for Aspinwall. whore, at the departure of the Star of the West, she was taking Icoallon board. Commodore Paul ding, of the United States frigate Wabash, attempt ed tosolre her at Aspinwall, but, on examining her papers, found them correct, and consequeutl;/ oculd take no further stepe against her. The Erittsh and American naval forces had sidled from Aspinwall for San Juan, and would very probably take part in the scenes in that vicinity, or at least prevent the landing of any more filibusters. It was sup posed that the difficulties beta eon Costa Rita end Nicaragua, alluded to In previous Accounts, would bo rattled without a resort to hostile Ineasuroa. SUMMARY OF THE FQRTNIGIIT'S NEWS (From the Alta California of the 20th all ) The ClTY.—Ex P eoronar J. Horace Kent was tried on the 6th inst., before Judge Freelun, on chargo of grand larceny, and acquitted. The Board of Supervi , ers have parsed MI or dinance for printing, 'teeming the game of rondo, and fixing lieente at two hundred dollars a month, fur each table, The guard at the State Prison fired a cannon. loaded irith grace and eannidter, at a boat-loud of coorioo, who were engaged unloading a wood scow at San Quentin, under the mistaken Idea that the prisoners were attempting to escape. Three wore instantly killed, and several wounded, tea of whom have since died It wet a piece td' criminal carelessue,s. . _ Valentina Ritchie, convicted of the murder of Michael Corbett, has been sentenced to fifteen yeass imprisonment at San Quentin. Win. B. Chapman, the favorite comedian, died in this city on the 9th inst., after a short illness. De ceased was a native of England, aged about seventy years. His retueitte were interred in Lone Moun tain Cemetery. An old sailor named John Haley, who had served several years at Fort Yuma, was found dead in a saloon on the 9th instant. Cause—apoplexy. On the 14th inst., the great trotting match be. tweon "Sew York," "Rhode island,' end "(Hen coo Chief," came off en the Pioneer course. The race was mile hoots, best throe in five, to harness. The first and second heats were won by "Rhode Island ;"third by "Glencoe Chief," and the fourth, after considerable consultation, was &aided in favor of "New York." Darkness coming on, the race was postponed until the 17th. Before leaving the stand, the judges announced that all bets were void. On Tuesday the outside race was resumed, when "New York" non two straight heat!, the race and purse. REC %NV:11 , 1710N. Eoft names e. g. Mod.. 1 3 3 3 3 J. Crook names g. g. Menem Chief.. 3 3 32 2 2 (I A Ecrolirm name, g. New York .2 2 1 1 Time-2 35 ; 237; 239; 241 ; 2.36, 2335 The body of a man named Thomas Johnson woo found (Dawned in the bay, corner of Drum and S.s• oratnento streets, Deceased was a cook on board a vessel called the Mary Martin. The weather for the Hoot fortnight, has boon lovely. Tue SrArn.—On tho day after the departure of the etoamor of tho 511 loot., was published in this journal much important news relative to the whal ing fleet in the Ochotsle Sea, which will be read with interest by our readers on the ether side of the continent. The necessity of Sou Francisco be coming ti whaling port was never made more vividly apparent; but until greater inducements are hold out to officers of vessels, this desirable re sult will not be attained. The banking house of Fiske, Sather, it Church, Caeramento, have paid all demands against that firm, and Mr. Fisko la about opening a bank on his own account. Tho (Mira of the firm of Sather Church, in this city, are not yet entirely settled. Quartz mining throughout California is being proaecuted with unwonted vigor, and much ma chinery to daily chipped from this city and keen. mento, to the various leads recently opened In No. vada, Amador, and other counties. River mining, oning to recent heavy rains throughout the interior, has been cunningly ended for the 80/1000.. Scarcely a vertigo of a flume was left standing, and the waters rem with such rapidity as to sweep off au immense amount of other mining materials. The leas. to this class of our population was incalculably great, ivad• much ns they had no time to 81tVo a moiety oven of their property, In oottacyteueo of the unpreoe donted and unexpected rise of the streams. The affairs of lambs Government are now being administered economically. There Is upwards of one hundred thousand &liars in the treasury, and all demands nsairot the State are paid in cash. The reports of the county treasurers halm been made promptly, end. aro gOnerally full and antis. factory. The indictments against Bates, alleged defaulting Treasurer of ktato, are still indisposed of, Negotiations have been for some time pending In rotation to the recovery from sureties of the moneys surreptitiously abstracted from her coffers. but thus for without etlOCos3. The ensuing Legislature assemblea in January. but already considerable activity prevails at the capital. A horrible murder was committed near Jackson, on the 7th. One Martin Griswold, a gobl•dust buyer, and owner of a ditch property. was killed bv a party of Chinamen ; one of whom, a cook of the tle,teoood, is supposed to bo the principal. The object of the fiends wee to get possession of the money in the safe. amounting to upwards of three thousand dollars. rho report of the superintendent of the Sacra mento Valley Railroad OM a very flattering ao count of the affairs of that company. Our dates from etalt Lake are to ktober 21 The sainta are more violent than ever, and to judge by their harrangues.in the pulpit, are determined to show fight. It la considered exceedingly unsafe for any person or companies, not Mormons, to travel through Utah territory. The troops, under Gen. Johnson, were shortly expected, and the Mormons TWO CENTS. bad their outposts guarded by faithful santinels who would in.tsutly convey intelligence of the ap pearance of the army, to head-quarters at dart Lake. There la no disturbance amongst the Indians in Honey Lake Volley, or, In fact, in any part of West ern tab Theist's diiisculties were greatly exagge rated. The Indians exhibit their desire to foster friendly Intercourse with the whites. The mail steamship Uolden Age arrived on the morning of the 17th, with li - isle:lota from New York, October 22. Many of these left immediately fur the up-country. Four Indians were murdered by whit e y I n T a h am , county, on the 7th. There was little or no provo cation for the deed, and no arrests. A telegraph line has bean completed between Benicia and Vallejo. CARSON VALLEY.—A whirlwind bete swept around the valley, uprooting trees, tearing down fencee, and committing end havoc. No liven loaf. Laden teatne arriving drilyfrom this elide of the menu table. No news facetted of the ,Iformea train bound to Salt Lake Valley. OREGON. Our date/ are to the 12th instant. The election held on the oth, resulted in the succc,,s of the Con stitution, the rejection of slavery and the min sion of free nogroe3. W. Ladd lam been elected Mayor of Portland The last Territorial Legicla• tote sill a i beemble the first Monday in December. Thera aro a number of Californians on the Amour river, and too steamers plying on that strentn. Some four or five thousand flu:lane are living oithiu two hundred miles of the month of the river From Lower California we learn of the arrival at Lol Angeles, on the 9th last , of Lieut with his camel train, from Sart Antonio, Texas The animala tiro in good condition, Tho overland mail reached San Diego on the sth November. Affairs in the Gadsden Purchase are unusually prosperous, and the country is settling up rapidly Isla' a permanent population. The Apaches ara troublesome, and have 2rl ran off considerable stock from the neighborhood of Fort Buchanan. SAN FRANCIBCO 31ARRETS (From the Commersial Bulletin of the'2othl Our remarks relatire to the course of trade dar ing the fortnight ending on the 3d instant might be repeated ad resmrds the business done during the two weeks ending to-day. The country has bought very sparingly of goods, and the jobbers has e taken nothing tram first hands that tbeyeoutd get along without. The market for breadstuffs has steadily tended upward since our last summer" was written, and our quotations of values for this it will be seen, show that a material advance boo been established. Adamantine Candles have, during the fortnight clueing, reached a lower point of depression than previously touched thisyear. The prices paid bare been the absolute quotations at Now York advised by the mail just at hand. Scone descriptions of provisions continue to rea lize moderately remunerative prices, owing to the fact that the unithet is bare of stocks, and is de pendant for supplies upon the current importations coining to hand. Very few kinds ofgloomies t how ever, urn covering, aol only in those instances where stocks are light. and consignees manliest ex treme caution that their offerings du not exceed the actual requirements of the trade. All elmses of Itaw ,Spirits are exceedingly de pressed, and the ruling rates leave a very heavy ass upon importation. The quotations for Ameri can Liquors, tis we write, range from 30 to 40 per cent. lower than the figures paid three months Once It is estimated that 50.000 gallons Brandy, and 500 000 gallons Wine will he wade from our grape crop of this season, and the principal dis tillery hero has been In active operation since har vest, turning out from 15,000 to 20,000 gallnsPure Spirits per month, which goes into consumption as coon as manufactured. The primary caws of the present low values of Raw Spirits is to be found in the accumulation of excessive stooks, and the only remedy which will bring about an improvement se dirohnolied shipments for a prolonged Ferhcl. The importations since our last summary was made up have been heavy, comprising the Old Colony, Aurora, Empress of the Sea, }Jerald of I the Morning, and Sancho-Pants, from New York; the Sierra Nevada and Goddess, from Boston, and the Elisabeth, from Bordeaux. with assorted car goes ; the Early Bird . , from Ifong-Bong. and the Spray, from Shanghai, with China products; the Aar from Calcutta, with rice, gunny bogs and hemp ; the Lucas, from Sydney, and the Atlantic, from Cardiff, with coal ; the Island Queou, from Vancouver Island, with salmon; the Leverett, (whaler of this port) from the Ochotsk, with oil ; the Conrad SekTia, from Amcor River (Russia in Asia) with a miscellaneous cargo; the Acadia from Guaymas, with bides and epochs; and the Gen. Morgan, frorn Elide Island tcoa.st of MerizeA with guano. Of the consigned goods reaching us by this numerous fleet, nutreely a tithe has pa,ed into second hands. Of butter, the receipts from New York end Boston were rising, of 7 000 firkins, being, about cue-half of the Indira quantity which Was previously manifested as being on the way; and although the market was ohnuet bare when new legion to arrive, yet the magnitude of the Imports caused the jobbers to concede with re luctance the figures pretty uniformly demanded by consignees, cud the sale have thus tar 4seu inconsiderable, although nt fair prices. The country has bought eo sparingly of goods for the past three mouths that it would seem most certainly have a more schlep trade during the coming fortnight, but to combat such expects tiCes are the roots tea: weary Is .0. country dealers, and that the continued fine weather port/tits uninterrupted communication with every port of the State, thus enabling the traders to got elcng trite very light purchase,/ The sudden setting in of the rainy season would doubtless eurk much Inconvenience and poadble sulfuring in remote parts of the State; wherehard ly a fortnight's supply of goods is held at present. La lo,altties thus eircumstaiseed the parties en gaged in trade fully approlate the position of affairs, and would lay in larger stocks, but they have not the ready moons. and, wills rare excep tions, cannot buy goods in the city on longer than thirty days' time. Litter News irOtt Utah and the Plains. Front the Western (3t) ) D.spstrle, estra, Dec. 2.] In conLectuence of the groat interest which 14 felt in relation to affairs in Utah, and urn the plaint, we hat.teu to 13y the following before our yea dora By the arrival cf an expreas from ham's Fork, sent in by Waddell, Russell, & Co., and also bear ing Governmeut despatches, we have much later news from the plains than that whloh hiss been published. The expressman, Mr Staphon T. Ran. nabarger. who was wagon-master of the train of Messrs. Wad lell. Russell. A Co., which was de stroyed by the Mormons, left Ham's fork about I o'clock on the morning of November lot, and or. rived In this city this evening Mr Rannaberger bad charge of the cattle of the destroyed train of Waddell, Russell, A Co , but having only nine men they were attacked by abut 501 c-ray-live Mormons within two miles of Colonel Alexander's commend, and the cattle taken from hint. Ile informs us that the Mormons had burnt tho grass in every direction, and that the Ouvern• meat stock was starving and freering to death at tho rate of fifteen er twenty per day. This is the more seriously felt as the horses attached to the battery are, from this cause, already inadequate to the service required of them. The news tress Salt Lake, received up to the time of the departure of the express, fully CO/AMA the news already received of tho determined resist anise of the .Mormons. All of the mountain passes are strongly fortified, at each of which is etationed forty or fifty men, who in their position are well able to stop . the further approach of our troops during the winter. Col. Alexander had taken three Mormon prison ers ; among them, a brother of the notorious mur derer, W. If. Rickman. It was the 'custom of the Mormons to keep a party of camp followers con stantly in the rear of the troops, for the purpose of getting all the atook left behind as strays. Am A. file of soldiers were concealed in a ravine to cap ture ono of these parties. and a single man sent out as a decoy. The Mormons readily took the bait and were led in pursiiitof the stogie soldier to the ambush, when the soldiers tired, killing one and taking the three prisoners before mentioned. Colonel Johnson was mot on the Big Slimly. sercnty miles from Ilans's fork, having under his charge and escert all of the Government provision trains, and also the trains of the different traders, and was averaging about ton miles per day, and expressed a determination to go Into Salt Lake city this winter. Met Colonel Cook with- his regiment of cavalry at Greece Wood creek, twelve miles this side of In dependence, to.7k—was destitute of corn for his horses; would reach the comp of Col. Alexander in ten or twelve dap. Forty of Magraw's men, belongiws b to the wagon j road nape titian, had been mustered into seri ice. Bonte of these complain loudly of Magraw's in humanity toward them, alleging that they had been abandoned on the plains seventy-eight or eighty miles from assistance, without pioVizitTA It was thought that alt tho tcantsters en the road would be mustered Into tore • . JOB9O Jones was a prisoner in S tit Lake cdtr, en. joying tho freedom of tho place, but restrietetlfroin going beyond its The Mormons any that they will tight to the death in defence of their city, if the troops attempt ate entrance this winter, and that in the spring they will burn the city and go to the mountains, where they hire provisions to last them for four or fine years. Mr. Rannabarger came through alone a distance o f 12M wiles; passed through about ono hundred lodges of Indians, but was not molested; encoun tered witch rain, sleet, and now on the other end of the roads; was lost two days in a en air storm et South pass, and laid by at Laramie time days, from there encountered much snow before ho reached Patterson ranch. Met two outgoing wail— , ne at Independence twk, and the other at O'Fallou'a bluff. on the South Platte. Mr. It will return with doratches, leaving Fort T. —earonworth un Saturday neat. The Meadville (Pa.) Journal learne of an attempted murder and 'suicide, the patties being former Pennsylvanians, remlents of Crawford comity, Michigan. The Journ,il nave: "Chutes Southwick, formerly employed an a carriage trim mar here, eonecived an attachment for a Miss Laura Evans, also a recent resident in this place. The lady did tot reciprocate the feeling, Ind re meted not long since with her father to Michigan. Thither, It would seem, Southwick followed her with some bad intent. le there renewed to her his tolicitations, and was refoe.tol. Br owe meant ho gained access to her bed-room at night, and with a razor cut her throat She ucaped trim the room to that of her father, gave the alarm, and on search being made Southwick was found lying in her room. having attempted to c-itotuit suicide by cutting his own throat At the latest accents both wore alive, hut lying iu a very critical urina tion." At Catskill, N. Y., ott Monday last, Mary Lynes, n young Indy residing in that village, was taken suddenly sick while et wheel, in the after. noon, and died at nine o'clock in the evenin4.. She had all the symptoms of poison, and It is supposed that she waa poisoned by eating colored candies. N o r ick ro conazsrompluirs. OarrliDowleatt for '. Tin Pans" Intl gleam Deis In wind tie halloirts% rale': Ivory eozezriedeatioa mast be heeerapaalot name of the Triter. la order to taw* cometeese of the typogrepky, tat one tide of a duet ahead be weittea apes. We shall be greatly obliged to teatimes to Peastrit taws owl other Stites tie eautrtbetiolut glide( the eer. tint RSV) of the di" in their peettenhe Walla, the rteattees of the earroctoillas country, the Lermiewe popolaUoo, oatand Infotztatiori tkat edit be Latersettng to the veers.' reader GENERAL NEWS. The Wheeling (Va.) Times, of Saturday, gives en eceount of the burning of Bethany Col lege, in Brooke county, Vs. The ere ocearried at one o'clock on Friday morning. dmorling to the Tuned, the ere is supposed to hare been the work of an incendiary. and there are palofal and con flicting remote afloat as to the perpetrators of the deed. One report is, that three young men were dismissed from the College on Tueeday, for sans breach of discipline, end that others similarly im plicated expected to receive similar treatment, and from the tenor of a tote told to hive been tonna, it was supposed that the fire wee attributable to these parties. Another report, and one which seems more probable, is to the erect that threats had been mode by certain Iriehmen, at whoee bower a =Leader recently occurred, and who were offend ed hectare the bishop had beatified that he did act think them worthy of belief oa oath. We give the rumors for what they are worth. Wheeree was the incendiary, the ere was eery destructive, and is to be regretted. The ton, Including the college buildings. libraries, apparetne, ke ,is es timated at from $123,090 to el Sri (e).3. Waleard. there wet an insurance on the property of /50,004. A family residing in Cincinnati, Tamed Foecke, seems to bare been marked by fats to Lef ler calamity upon calamity holing Wentz them. The mother, before her marriage, met with a &it :lone accident, which rendered it necessary to am putate one of her limbs. Some years after, the house in which the and her husband Bred e: ht fire, and their only c4ild, at thst time, perished in the flumes. Subreqaehtly, the htubani waathmrs from a horse, and received a wooed on his hoed, cf which he afterwards died. Oa the night of Wed nesiee last, a child. about three years old, ere:- turned upon its heed a Said lamp. with w h ic h it was playing, daring the absence of iM parents from the room, causing such severe bores that ft espirtei the following day. The Fayetteville Sofa; Cardirdas, of the lith, announces the sudden death of Mr. Witt- F; Wightman. the ealitos of that paper. The Daily Jultrizat, of Wilmington. (S. C.,) of the 12th, states that " a letter received here from Fayette ville, states that Mr. Wightman and a pang man named Elliott were found dead in one bed to the Shemwell "lowa. having left Lucite listing that they had taken nitrio aetd for the purpose of oem mining imielde. With the motives that urged them to this terrible ant, we are wholly =an' quainter". We can only fulfill the divine precept, which commands us to judge not, that we be nut judged." The Pairit atates that the American engi. neers who undertook, by means of a special appa ratus, to raise the Ittutslan ships-of-war sank in the harbor of Sebastopol, hare given it up and re turned to Constantinople, declaring that their eon tract cannot be performed, except at an enortrose ly disproportionate sod It sprats that the river Tchernays has brought down untnerae qnantitite of gilt tad gravel, which being accumulated in the harbor, the ship are now embedded in this depoait, and cannot, without much labor, be ex tricated. The Madrid Ga:ette contains a royal decree, by which the Queen authorizes " her belayed and august husband the King" to confer eso the end to whom her Majeste is about to glee birth " the insignia of the Golden Fleece, and of the Grand Oro-tees of the Orders of Charles LIZ., Isabella the Catholic. and Sul Juan of Jerusalem, if a priter ; and those of the Order of Noble Ladies of Maria Louisa, if a princesi" We tearn front the Tema (Fla.) PeeiPuslas " that the tick Indian • Tommy,' recently rapt - and by Captain Stickler and hie gallant eommaad. died on the sth irritant at Egmont key. This, to gether with the oue killed, and the eaa they are now after, when kilted, will make three of the sad :tint that hare been (Reposed of since the ecm• metreereent of the war. At thit rate we may took for the Close of the wet erect the 'crack of dam: be it sous or late." Mr. Robert B. Welsh, of Clearfield, Pa., the ether evening, immediately after dark, is mat. cake, drank a quantity of Cyanide of Potassium, from the t.ffeets of whieh he died in awry few mi nut , . 3. ilO was a eilrercmith by trade, and dna the artitile in kill businerr. Inndrertentty he lets a mall quantity of the aeid in a rambler. re the evening he went into the :hop to get a think, and happening tr p(ur the water into this tumbler, h• drank the fatal 6Cid before he - rite aware of it. Mr. Rota. Martin, of Columbus, Ky., ITIA fund Lack of Point Pleazant, agarladprj ricer, on Wolnelley week, frozen to death. Be het attempted, rith two t*ther men, on moo the bettern, Iv!: the way, vt. into the water and maul and became se r.mabti that be hal ceased all Ll ertions sad froze to death. Mt baroly ea:sped with their Lees Tho Clarion (Pa.) Denocre gates that one day laze week Mr. IT deco, cf ShipiinetilleFarnaoe, killed face deer in fire =rates, or In the time re qnlied to load and Ere I,la times. He stto killed e other ens, enay.ed three ce at the sixth, azi wonmicl the secentb, on the mine day, ate. rs tamed h...,tne at one o'clock, P. 31. Captain Windsor, of the British brig Marge• vet, arrived et New York from Grata Cey, Turks Island, reports a great wireity of pivritiara at that Vac*, and that a number of the fahabitaes ware to a state of narration. The grand total of Baptists in the Sonatsen States is ; in the Nor:herr., 32.3.1 . 4. 71- , a xetnontst can= T...7.1= nu a znaa9tdlSZirp CC 55D S 9 In 151 last tEn yOllll, the Baptists ha's, increAzel about .209.,C09 in the Sautheru B:ates. The wires e i the line of the Magnetic Tele. graph between lleadiug and Harrisburg lore been put up as far as LebAnon, and will be ex tended through to Harrisburg pith all possible deiretcb. • We learn that on the night of the 9th inst., the store of Mr. W. Handy, in dinnsmessix Neck, Somerset minty, Md., was entered and robbed cf $i 00 in ensh. Mr. H- was asleep in the me= tram which the money was atolen. Charles E. Brown, espress messenger of Adams t Co , was 1111e1 ea the CanL—..l Ohio Itsil• rota a few days sin:e He was about trea ty -sre years of age, and lea: es a ylx.l wife at Wheel ing, Va Tho boot and aloe rearafveturers is Iflssa chnsetta consider their hnsiness prospelta at hrinht ening. Their orders are •ery few, bat those fey are enuottraling, and, berilea, it i 3 easier to obwin money en good Mt?s titan for many m.anths pan. The Roman Catholics of Syria and of Jera sslom were about to sand a deputation to Paris, to thank the Emperor or the Fre.nab f , r the interest which ha has manifested towards them, and to claim his farter protection. The Gloucester (Mass.) Telegrapk sacs: From a eouteahat careful estimate, we iadzo th-ro is maw lyirsi; up....n oar wh - arces $22.,00.0 earth of mackerel and c0i5.5h." Tho official canvass of the votes cast for mayor in NOT York. .1%9W3 ti--t Ttemann rat:aired 43 19j, std IV - cod 40.903—Tientann's majority The Turkish Customs have signified an in tention 41f augmenting by ten I'2: cent. the Lnip)rt duties on merchandise. Tta conies prOzit against such a step. Of the 2151 ships-of-war in commission on the let of November. no le -, s than seventy-three were in China or in the East Indio. LETTER FROM POTTSTOWN fez,rre.pon:lnce of The Preen. j POTTSTOWS, Dec. 9, 1857 Mn. EDITOR : THE PRES 9 i 9 popular here with all its readers, and is acknowledged by those who have always been on the "other aide" in politics, to be tl best paper pab lished in Philadelphia. This reputation has been attained from the dignified editorial con trol, as well as from its able correspondence and attention to the business departments. Your defence of the principle of self-govern ment meets with a hearty response in the bo som of every Democrat in these parts. Many have watched the struggle in Kansas from the beginning with intense interest, and looked for ward to the time when its fundamental law bhonld be framed as a period when the prin ciple should be put to a lair test—acknow ledging that if a majority of its inhabitants should then will that slavery should exist they would acquiesce. But in thus yielding their assent to the progress of an Institution of which they disapprove, under the operation of a great and all-important principle, they had no Idea of being chested out of their rights by a reckless and daring minority, In defiance of the popular still. The moral courage and manliness with which you havo come into the defence of self. government, and of the right of the people to pass judgment ou a Constitution which is to govern them, is worthy of all praise, and will, I trust, eventuate In thevernleation of the sen timent ‘• That trnth is mighty and wtii pre vail." The outspoken and candid defence of a principle which lies at the very foundation of freedom and free institutions, is decidedly refreshing alongside of that trimming, catch. penny spirit which can influence a P51Z.57171. nia press to desert the principle and platform under which the late glorious political victory was !COD. I have nothing of local importance to In dite. The feeling seems to be general that the "hard times" hilt speedily depart with the opening of spring trade. There is a con siderable holding back of agricultural produce by the farming community, in hope that prices will 80011 iniprot e. The prorino crops of last season, throughout the whole country, in con nection with the decreased consumption from the inability of those out of employment to purchase I,berally, renders a realization cf ex pectation rather doubtful. The "Pottstown Bank," chartered by the last session of the Legislature, has been ac commodating this community, to a great ex tent, rt Mr capital, but has not the ability to dtscount all the first-class paper offered. It is doing a 'very careful business. Owing to the oversight in ,_the Legislature, in7not enabling specie-paying banks to pay out 'the currency of other banks, it has accepted the Relief Law, in order to be able to receive and pay out the notes of suspended bsnks. These notes com posing nineteen-twentieths of the funds in hands of business men, no bank would be able to do business uithout receiving snub money in payment of liabilities—and could not re ceive it without the privilege of paying it out again which is forbidden under the General Banking Law of 1630. Yours truly, S. D. Q.
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