PITTI;BURGH. GAZETTE muperei vi :,.s:m.,,:"4-41 1 • 111111111111 1 PITTSBURGH: TUESDAY biORNIIIG, MAY 20, 1856 • ' •• DA I elt—llltz Delhni wcnnne. Melds In advance. vy Etat Ly-.. Two Where per annsun. In advance.- - (nib. v iu be earplent en the Mowing wattle= • y o be pewee per enuton---........—5a 00 T.. metes per 00 41 ,A d=ayments are aridly requltvd, d the when the Telie Ollt.llWall it le e r oamed , . y k apnblican Declaration of Principles. AIIOPTED BITER PITTSBURGH CONTENTION. i. Wedamand and =nil attempt to secure the repast of ell Uwe which allow the Introduction andry into ter titmice inn. any/crated to freedom. will redid by amstitutional mesas the existents of gyms in any of the territcoiee of the United Buten 2: We will suinert by MIT lawful means our brethren .lef Kansas I. their contlteitional and manly resistance o the entry= authority of their lawless invaders. and will dye the Tali weight atom' think= rower in fever of the Immediate ediniseinci of Kamm tote V01.,., Ore.. othandsmi independent State: Itallthinit the. the pressor aladminististion i•bi &awn yaw tote weak and fitiatiessnrid that Its corn Jimmies Ingmar Is identified with the =ogre= of the 'slave power to nation= arthretnier: with the =elution of freedom from the tereitery. and with thermion dell dle• cent, it Is winding !wpm of onroritanilatien todnizede - and orartlithrw it. • ' , . ser For Telegraphic News see 84 page• For .City and Coratercial News see 4th page. Tan Porno; or Jtrope MeLux, in regard to Slavery in the Tenitmies Is settled fussily, `beyond eanl,.by the correspondenoe between him and deniCaps; which we give to-day. There nothing more needed before tioetatisfy any fair and eao)d Mind, but there are come poll ',flaunt whom nothings will natty but such an diciiity- as they cannot pervert or twist Into serving their purposes •In-this,correspcmdence Judge McLean en 'donee to :tits fullest extent the doctrine of the :Wilniot Proolso, that Congress hai the power to prohibit Slavery in the Territories; plicing it on . the constitutional ground, that the territories have no&uthority but such as they derive from Congress under the constitution, which gives no power to Congress to establish slavery, but allows Its prohibition where It unlawfully gains entrance. The editor of the Pittsburgh Post will discover from - this correspondence that he -has done us ulna injustice in his assumptions and assertions in relation to this matter. We do not expect him, however, to make the amends honorable. A lenereus action to beyond his conception. Fair and honorable dealing is not contained in his code of political morale. He belongs to that almost extinct eelcool of Looofooo politicians who hold. that lie ewers to and stack to is as effective as the trath." Although he has grossly, and we believe, wilfully, misrepresented Judge MeLega; is well As ourself, yet we expect no retiwititin;`and no acknowledgment of error. CONGRESS AND THE TERRITORIES 'Houle Or RIEPILIMENTASITZS, May la, 1856 To the Bailors of the National Intelligences. Thanking yeti for repredneing the communi- Cation from Judge McLean of eet:mbar 22,1847, 1 have now to request that you will give place to the accompanying brief correspondence between the judge and Senator Cass, which has grown out of the allusions of the latter in hie speech on the 12th instant to that communica tion. The purpose of Gen. Cass was to fortify, by the opinion of eo able s jurist as Judge Mc- Lean, his argument against the power of the Federal Government to legislate on the subject of slavery in the Territories, and he very prop erly now, as he did in 1850, cites the authority of the Ju dge in denial of the power of Congress to Seststate- that relation in a Territory; and no far he and Judge McLean occupy the same ground. But here they part company, Gen. Cass denying and Judge McLean as emphatical ly affirming the power of Congress toprohibit.— Of this power, as Judge McLean says in his note, hs never cute ruined nor expressed any doubt, bat, on the contrary, has often asserted it. The object of Gen. Cass, as it appears by Me reply, was not to impute to Judge McLean n denial of the power to prohibit, but, by way of argument, to infer from the absence of the pow • er to institute, as asserted by Judge McLean, the absence of the power to prohibit. Of the force - of the argument I have nothing now to say, for it is not my purpose to raise any question with Gem • Case on the subject. The doctrine of Judge McLean, as clearly de ducible from his communication, is briefly this: That Congress has no power to institute slavery in the Territories, sad, a fortiors, cannot dele gate that power to a Territory, and that a Ter ritorial Government cannot exercise that power; and hence it results that slavery cannot lawfully exist in a Territory so long as it remains in a Territorial condition, except in the case of ter ritory in which that relation exists at the time of its acquisition, and.in such a case Judge Me Lean holds that Congress, in the exercise of a police Power, may regulate and prohibit that re lation in its discretion. WasinaaToN, May 18, 1866. Mx Dees Sox A friend etated to me yester day that he understhod you to say tlud. I did not consider that Congress had power under the Con stitution to prohibit slavery in a Territory. I never doubted that Congress bad this power, and I could never have expressed any doubt on the subject . You way recollect that I hare in conversation with you often said that uongrese, having the power to establish a Territorial Government, might, in the exercise of a police power, prohibit slavery, although they had no constitutional power toss:Wale it. I informed my friend that I was sure ha mis apprehended you. I drop this note that in the publication of your speech you may correct any mistake of the stenographer on this subject. Very truly yours, JOHN bioLFAN. EON. L. Case. W/4111110T0H. May 13, 1856. Alk Dept ths: I received your note just as I was preparing to resume my speech, and there fore could not answer you then. Your inform antis in error. AU I mid was to preneat pre chicly the view I took in 1850. I hare just looked it over, and find I have said nothing of your denial of the power. It refers to your opinion that Congress has no right to control the domestio relations, and in troduce a quotation from your article of 1847, in which 'you deny the power of Congress to In troduco elavery into . the Territories. If I can get &proof copy of that part of my remarks this afternoon I will send it to you; bat, I re peat, the views I have presented of the ques tion are litilo more than arepetition of my views in 1850. I am, doer elr, truly 'oars, Hon. Jonn bioLvis. LEWIS CABB. Bar. Wx. Dezen.—The numerous friends of •Ber. Wm. Speer, son of Dr. J. B. Speer of this city, will be'pletused to hear of hie whereabouts ' and welfare, in the foll Owing extract from the “atriental," a paper be edits in San • Francisco, publiehed in the Eaglleh and the Chinese lan guage!: - - "In the absence of the editor, Rev. Wm. Speer who has gone to the Sandwich Islands for the beriefit of his health, the Pub!lshii avails him !elf of contributions from his friends, to fill the columns of the paper. Most of our readers are name, that Mr. Speer has left the State tempo rarily for the benefit of till health, and for the purpose of accomplishing some objects connect ed with the general interests of his mission to the Chinese. There are on the Sandwich Is lands quite a number of Chinese, engaged in dif ferent avocations, and Mr. S. has confident hopes that his visit to the Islands, may glee him au opportunity of imparting to them, some knowl edge of the Chrletain faith; Re also hopes to be present at the general meeting of the Mis sionaries of the group, which will occur soon after the time he expects to arrive. Should it be so,'Mr. B. will doubtless derive great sans. faction, inbeing preseit at the Conferences of this body. Some albs members are pioneers in modern missionary enterprise, and their labors have not been In vain: We doubt not, but that what his eyes shall see, nuclide ears hear, will do pinch to encourage one who leborsnow, as these missionaries didonce, among heathen men. The 'power of the Gospel is no more limited by num bers, than is the light of the sun by localities; the millions of Chin* are as open to the infie enoe of the Gospel, as the hundreds of Raven. The rams truth which converted the Ethiopian Eunuch, converted three thoneind on the day of Pentecost, thonsinds shall come from the isles of the Sea., but myriads from the land of Bluim. We doubt not the interests and sympathiet of this Christian community will follow Mr. Speer on his voyage, sad their prayers go cip for the restoration _of his health and his speedy return —that he may come beck also invigorated in body and mind, aboie ell, Strengthened in faith, and more ardent in seal, to labor again for the 'spiritual welfare of the Chinese in California. NIL JIM= glides gently through the mane of Washington law, end whenever en opening sufficiently Doge presents itself, will slip out en tirely. Lord Egattsms, an Zoglish Earl; for ehooting his servant in a similar fit of passion, Wae hanged at Tyburn, like any other felon.— Bat then Lord Ferrer* was not an Administra tion Democrat nor a fllavettolder. lie was, only an English Peer. - .;4t ii Republican Convention held at Lawrence, Renew, on tho licuehinsou: .7.1 q , presided; several speeches were made, -and Messrs. Got. Robinson, P. G. Schuyler, M. F. Conway, G. W. Brown, J. S. Emery, G. W. Smith, G. W. Itatchinson, S. N. Wocri, and Jas. Blood were appoirdeci Delegates to Philadelphia Titow,t4•111••••• - . We find in the New York Mans a fall so . Count: of the attempt to arrest Gov. Run ic, while in attendance upon the Congressional Commission, for contempt in refusing to obey a eubpens of Judge Lecompte. A correspondent Of that paper ;says: "When Reeder referred the question to the Committee as to the course be should pursue, their position was an intricate and delicate one. They are not here to decide such points, and are too able and careful to go out of their rec ord; but when appealed to they gave their opin ions on the subject. There could be no doubt as to Reecler'S privilege exempting him from all each arrests, as a member of the COMMISSION notified to attend its sittings, and also as a con testant in Congress whose claims had been con sidered. He mad from the Constitution on the point. He said that he and Mr. Oliver had been at Lecompton that morning, and had seen Judge Lecompte, and there had been no notice given of any requisition on any member of the COM minion—le was not even spoken of—and cour tesy and doe respect to the Commission, as rep resenting Congress Itself, required Mitt notice should have been sent to it before such require ment be made, and that would not effect their privilege. Had each a notice been served on him he believed that he might attend such court, =duet urge his privilege, taking it in good faith that all proceedings were regular and nothing offensive meant. Mr. Oliver dissented. He thought Bader had not the privilege, and that this Commission have nothing to say between the Deputy Ha ag and Reeder. Mr. Howard, in his clear, emphatic tone, said. that, ea a legal question, there"could be but one opinion—Reader had his privilege. It wan also a well,known prineiple in law that all parties are legally, respensible for, knowing echo has such privilege, and for their istisCas on them. If this Commission was attacked through:any , of its members, it might arrest the party eto attacking its authority and dignity for contempt, and lend. Ahem to Washington under arrest. He did not 'conceive this was any case of premeditated at tack, and in any ease the Committee had nothing to decide; they were no tribunal before whom a question of the kind could come. They rested on their privileges. Mr. Reeder, before he made his reply to the officer, answered the position of Mr. Oliver. He then said that if this were a common case, or ff he thought he could go, appear before the Grand Jury and testify, and return in one, or even two days, he would go. He had reason to know that he could not do so; he had reason to believe that the object was to take him away from the Com mission. He had also reason to believe that ho could not go there, and remain in personal safety. He believed, end he had ration to &Irmo, that hie life was menaced, and for these reasons he rested on his privilege. He would therefore inform the officere, and all those present, that he would not obey that writ; and that any man who attempted to take him on it, or other like it, should make the attempt at his peril. If he lost hie life in the attempt, he would have no redress; if he sustained loss or Injury, he would have no action. The Deputy Marshal here' rose and left, and Mr. Oliver rose and went with him." A tiAluAvaa Peer.—ln a speech made be fore the Hamilton Co. (0.) Republican Conven tion, Judge Hoedly, lately a prominent democrat, said: "If General Washington was alive to-day and.were to utter the sentences contained in his will, with reference to his slaves, and resided in the Territory of Saws, he would be consigned to the penitentiary for two years, under the Pierce Administration." This is a moat humiliating fact! And yet this is the administration and policy which the people are expected to ratify and uphaid in the next Presidential election. Will they do it? NIGUT TRAIN ON TOE O. & P. RAILROAD.—The fast expresenight train has been again started on the Ohio It Pennsylvania Railroad; leaving Pittsburgh at 3 o'clock, A. bi., and leaving Crestline at 7 o'clock, P. hl. There are now three drat-class passenger trains daily, over the Pennsylvania, nod the Ohio & Penneylvanio Roads, affording all the facilities to travelers which can be desired. Eats —Tbe Erie Dirpatch, noticing the proba bility that. the COMtitation newspaper may be re. sired, notwithstanding the recent mobbing it received, says that its publioation In that place "will never be permitted." This is a plain threat of further mob law. We suggest to the "Border Ruffians" of Missouri whether Erie might not be o good spot for recruiting their Comes. Tim report that the Governor had signed the bill requiring Deposit and Trnit Companies to pay out none but the notes of specie paying . Pennsylvania banks, was premature. A . dis patch from Harrisburg, received yesterday, an nounced that it had not been signed. The bill to incorporate the Stroudsburg bank, and (be Claim bill, have bean signed. Tux Old School General Assembly has voted to hold its next session at Lexington, Ky. Lmt h2gton had 84 votes, and tho rest were ecaUen•d for a half dozen other places. Pittsburgh, among she rest, had 28 votes. TIM/MOMS COIITLLOBATION.—The ringing .4 the bells between four and five o'clook ibis morning, announced the commencement of one of ! the largest and moats destructive fires sith which our city has been visited for months, I in less than two hours afterwards that noble building, the City Hospital---one of the largest • and moat beautiful structures of the kind in the Union—was in ruins. The fire was first discov ered in the large lecture room in the South West corner of the new extention, and is snppoo poeed to have originated from the bursting of a gas pipe, although this cannot be ascertained : to a certainty. So soon as the alarm was given, Dr. Bannis ter, the realdent'physican, bent all his energies (which were equal to the occaaion) to saving the patients, many of whom were in a elate of to tal helplessness. Those who were able to shift for themselies were immediately discharged, and the remainder carried oat into the grass lawn, and afterwards sent to the Sisters' Hospi tal, except a few chronic cases, who were sent to the Quarantine Station. But one patient lost hie life, a crazy man, whoa° name we could not learn. Efforts were made to save him, bat heyesisted,and, in spite of all that could be done, rushed into the flames. The gentleman who endeavored to rave him was so severely burnt in the attempt, that he had to be sent to the Sisters' Hospital. • , • The extent of the damage done to the proper ty canoot be estimatedat present, but probably exceeds the amount of insurance several thous and dollars. Most of the furniture and appli ances were saved, but the building Is a total loss, unless the walls should be available for re building. We heard an engineer who was pres ent siy that they and the main partition were uninjured. The entire cost of the structure was about $lOO,OOO, $58,000 of which was for the new ex tension, which has beau completed only about six months, and has just been put into use.— There were ninetraix patients In the Hospital at the time: the fire broke out, but few of whom were able to take care of themselves.— Some of them were Ina very critical condition„ and the . removal and excitement will no doubt exert deleterious influence on them. St. Louis Intel., Saturday. Boaateo or TIM JAMBS Pear.—Full Pd?WU -I=l4—The steamboat South America, that ar rived yesterday, brought to this city the officers and crewel the James Park, that was burnt with all her cargo, in the Miseisslpm slyer, above Cairo, on Tuesday night last, which wo made mention of yesterday morning. The James Park, Captain Miller, was on her way from Pittsburgh to this port, loaded with about six hundred tons Iron, Nails, Glassware, Rail road Iron; . Lumber and Shingles, and had a barge in tow, which was loaded with Lumber.— The Railroad Iron was consigned to Hannibal, Mo., and tho Lumber In the barge, as well as the cargo of the steamboat, was for mernhants of this city, and points on the Upper We* eippl. On Tondo , night, between nine and ten o'clock, wnen near Thebes, the-cry of tiro was heard, and instantly flames were seen issuing from under the boilers, and also front a pile of shingles lying alongside of them. Scarcely • minute bad elapsed after the cry of ere was beard, before the entire boat was enveloped in flames, the fire havingeominuniceted to the him. ber, ehingles, and other combustible freight on deck, and on the barge alongside. The pilot at the wheel immediately headed the boat far the Illinois shore, tied his wheel fast, and made his escape by jumping - overboard from near the stern. So rapid did the flames spread, that the crew were compelled to jump into the river to nave their lives before the boat reached the shore. The S outh America luckily was just be bind in eight, and the crew of the Park were all picked** by the yawl of the America. No lives were lest; but the clerk of the boat had his hand badly burned in attempting to ewe the books. There were no passengers on board.— The James Park was valued at $27,000, owned In . Pitteburgh; and insured In that city for at:out one 'half of her value. The cargo was valuable, but to attempt to give anything like the exact amount of the loss would be out of the question; 'The . books, money, umd - papere,lrrere all entirely lost, and nothing on board war se: red, except the clothes the officers and orew bad on wbeu the fire broke out. L was lucky indeed that the James Park was not • passenger boat, or wo should - Lave been called upon to Telford a terrible:dtstruction of Ilio.o, te well as property. SPECIAL NOTICES. On such subjects the testimony of Wo- ILO SHOULD BE COMMUTE. Law You. August 2. an. serum area ottr.272B.KA.de-b< lie•lmg her WI& about II yaws old. to be trout led with worms, purchased ow bottle of Dr. Met emPaGelotratod Veradhite. Matured by Flemicur Bros. Pittsburgh. Pa-. and gate ft two tar. eimurol, whirl had the erhst ofeausirwalte child to die chugs a large xmlater of worms. Thechidis flow Ciikle beg scrod lngth. We small advise all ascents who may ,suspect their entren to be troubled with worms to Imo rm ttme,bnt lotatedistely Dunham sad admialster Ds. 11eIsne's ColebrittedVenalfain, It will cm, the mow) , id:a/yr:km:fed Is oB caw wheie it doh net 004 taiga' as.Purchtsai Will be manilla ask ftr Dr.' 3ieLANIgB 111 03 MR TID 11111131:111XlIA. tuetsks none else. All other Verger uses, in ixanporison, are worthlste. Dr DDlnne's Vennlttute, also his eeletested User Mk mt now be Mast all respeetshieLtrug Stores In the Calte.l States; and Dined& Slone Gent = without the Cetus , tars or • mil7olliwB • MUTH° BEM OHIO & PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. SPRING ARRANGEMENT. Three Trains Daily. Paseenger Treble will run daily, except 5W161714 game Learn Pittsburgh for Curtilas at 3.00 A. M. 7,30 and 3.00 P. M. lams Ciresigusfor Plttsburgb 46 00103,7.00 P M. arta 1340 P.M. Than trains all mats du. cannactlons at Crestlins vith trains ter Columbus. Dayton. Cincinnati. Badeeon• tabu. Indla:Lapilli& Chicago, giant& and all points on marls a:landing Wort and Bouth•put through Ohio. In. dims and Illinois. Thee* trans from Pittebnigh conned ac efanelleid with Trains on Bandnalg. Mcostleld and Newark rout, for Oblesio. Toledo and Bandrukv. reekhlk u quick and ewe ocraneetlons to Chleago..ae by any other roils: Curas time ire made at alllanes with Trains on Cletroland d Pittsburgh Road for Cleveland. Chlceso. Dawkirk and Bultalo. • Passertgars haring Pittsburgh at g P. M. for Bandushr. =.and Cbicaga, hare td. beadle 0.1 a niabt's rat at id or Cleveland, and arrive fn Chleaao earn acct . . IlaittlittiPtuatilua make close ameetiuna pith ttalni on Peansyirlittsketittre It. 11. for PigitidePhia Baltimore and New Irciiii?" . . Through 'Helots are soil to Oelunibtee, Doytor, °leen aaLL Loulartile. Et. Lenin. radial:ooNi is. Reeleitantaltof Cehinego. Rock blued lowa City, Paiii(eih.- Calm Springfield. LI, Sort WO7OO. Oleratarni and . the principal anise In the Wert. Through Tlekete . weer this Ilan may be had at all elate above please for" Pittetoorgh , , Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York. The NEW BRIGHTON Afr.ollllo DATION TRAIN Lama Newßeighten for Pitwitoregis at fA. a.. and P. N. Leaves Pittsburgh for New heighten at 9 / 1 ; A. ie. and 634 r. at • for Tiekets and farther (alternation, &DOT to A. T. JOHSON, At the corner a the d Pe dthes lii s a S h tao nM. ta% • GEONON PARILIN. 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