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THTJBSDAYr JULY 6, 1854.
WHIG STATF. TICKET.
FOR GOYIRMtR.
5as. Pollock, of Northumberland
l oll CANAL COMMISSIONER.
of Allegheny.
FOR jCDfiE OF THE SUPREME COURT.
I niel 11. Smvssr, of Montgomery
. in. 1iByrrrf.-Tronr'r.--y
Washburn's Indian-Exhibition.
Tin i xhibition came oil in this place,
?i Monday Lift, and attracted thither
..lout three thousand persons to witness
t!.- cu-toms, ceremonies and dances of the
rt 1 man of the forest in his wild and uu
cjlmatcd tat. It was decidedly novel,
an J at the fame time interesting aud in
s.r. . tive, as wo were shown at once the
1 1 1 and terrors of savage life. Ma-
p rona who witcessedthe. exhibition
i, i M.t have been disappointed. Doubtless
: fiairy the performances appeared rude
. 5 -tuple, but thy should recollect that
t was intended to be rej)rescuted
i j 'ic customs and rites by the uniu
c'.lld of the forest, and these were
. - i.tcJjtn our opinion, fully aud faith
The "Wheat crop of this county
i be worth the trouble and expense
citing. Two weeks ago our fnr
. ere rejoicing in the prospect of an
. lit harvest, for better straw, the
'l td in this county, bnt now they
pointed, the little red worm ha-1
u-d the entire crop. Wc have cou
. rtith in any from different parts of
unty, and they all agreo that it
..tLtt failure they remember.
A. H. Reeber, Esq , the newly
t-d Governor of Kansas, is aow at
Sed Asoident.
Sunday last Michael Kawai-ssu,
u of this place, was drowned in the
Liel Creek, near this Borough.
Death of Pather PdtcMo.
-hiugton, July 3d. Father Ritchie,
rumble editor of the Richmond In
i, died at noon lo-day.
T.ie Proposals for the Jilain Line.
I) .rrisburg, July 3. The time for re-
proposals for the sale of the main
i Public Works, expired to-day at
; jck. Governor Bigler was present
.ire the bids, but none were made,
, nscquently no sale can take place
. at lurthcr legislation.
Y Gen. Vf m. 0. BuTEliB, it is said
i y-i lively declined the appointment
' -mor of Ncbrkn.
More than two thousand Lairvls
' j t itoes are regularly sent by ench
i m or from Xorfolk, Ya. to New York.
1 ..e , ;erage quantity sent per day to Bal
r , Philadelphia and New York, is
n one thousand six hundred barrels.
" . t irmer had sent SI 1 40 worth of cu
rs to Philadelphia and Baltimore.
We see it announced in the Xorth-
t
j Fanner that the Easion Argu
J2 estsblitihment has been sold to
1 D. Patterson, of Schuylkill coun
1 that Mr. nailer purposes ae
' jing Governor Rceder to Kansas.
P:
Line. There are thirteen fami-
j f..m Wayne county, within seven miles
' tach other, who have one hundred
1 ninety-five children. One of the
i ba-s been married three times, and
twtiity-nine children; while the other
o, uoae of whom have boeu married
,rt than once, have from ten to twenty
Lilurca each.
-CiT The deaths in Kew York last week
- j ab., red 517, of which 2S3 were chil--icn
under 10 years of age. The in
e over the previous week was SO.
j c leading diseases were Cholera 76
, j increase of 38 on the previous week ;
Lra iufamtum 29 increase 24; chol
a morbus 13, increase 5 diarrhaja 23
-i-crcase 12; dysentery 10, increase 5.
Lrc were 00 deaths of consumption; 14.
J ingestion of the brain; 21 of dropsy
:u the head
marasmus ;
, 40 of convulsions; 2S of
10 of inflammation of the
.s.r.g; 5 of bronchitis and 4 of small-pox.
Of deaths from external causes there were
" drowned; 2 fatal frabturc; 8 causuali
Lcs, and 1 suicide. 32 cases of still
t -rn and 8 premature births are reported.
)f the whole number, 31 G were nutives
f the United States. 119 of Ireland.
13 of Germany, and 20 of England.
I&m The ' sum of $700 was paid at
Louisville, last week, for a set of harnoss,
4 r ,JJis Imperial Highness1' Santa An-
Successful Surgical Operation.
On Thursday Junc22d.a delicate sur
gical operation was performed by Dr. A.
Rccvc3 Jackson, of this place, assisted by
Dr. F. llollinshcad, for the removal of an
excessive deformity resulting from a large
cleft-palate and a double, complicated
hare-lip. The patient was Miss Marga-
j ret Houscr, of Kcllersvillc, in this county,
n young lady aged nearly IS ycirs. She
was placed under the effects of chloroform
and when she awoke to consciousness, the
operation was finished without her having
suffered the slightest degree of pain, or
indeed of being aware of anything that
had been done.
The operation has been eminently suc
cessful, coubidering the age of the patient;
such operations beiug usually performed
during early infancy. The young lady is
much pleased at the prospect of having
a good, well shaped mouth in place of an
unsightly deformity. Com.
Fiendish Act An Infernal Machine.
Uu Alouday evening last a box was
sent to the Marine Hospital, corner of
Longworth st. and Western Row, Cincin
nati, and depos'tcd in the room of the
steward, J. H. Allison. About 10 o'
clock the steward and his wife being a
lone in the room, he opened the box,
when it exploded with terrible force,
maudlin? the bodic3 of both in a terrible
manner. Mrs. A. had both her arms
blown completely off, and her skull frac
tured, while Mr. A. was dreadfully mang
led. The furniture, windows, ceiling ol
the rooms, &c., were shattered to atoms.
The indications are that the box contain
ed a bomb shell of about six inches in
diameter.
Both the Allisons died after a few
hours of intense suffering. Mr. A. made
a statement before his death, which, with
other information obtained will probably
lead to the detection of the guilty paraes.
Ft i. said that a fellow named Conwell
committed a murder sometime since, and
that Allison was acquainted with the
facts: consequently it is supposed that
Couwtll desired to take Allison's life.
The description civen bv the latter of
Oonwtli answers that given by the boy
who delivered the box of the person from
whom he received it.
A wetebman uamed Simmons shot one
Kooney, in Utica, last December. For
this be was arretted and tried, when the
Jury brought in a verdict of not guilty,
and blamed him for not firing sooner.
Jf Tie Delaware, Lackawanna &
Wcbtern Railroad Company, as will be
observed by reference to our advertising
columuf, has called for a further iustall
ment of 3 3 per cent., payable on the 1st
of July ft the Phoenix Bank in New
Tork. The managers have resolved to
pay the stockholders on the 10th of July
next, interest at the rate of fi per cent, per
annum, to be computed to June 30, 1854.
on all ttocks issued or intalment receiv
ed during the present year, from the dates
of the rep"eetive payments, where no in
stalments which have been called for, re
main unpaid. The transportation carn
nigo of the section of the road now in op
eration from St-ranton to Great Bend,
for the iirct fire months of 1 ai3 and 165 4?-
couipare as follow.':
1 Of
SIS 24 00
ii reasr.
S 6,5,9 "f
5.W 6
12,113 (i
3,874 91
1t,"C 49
i5,;-ii an
$49,9iG CI
k'einuauy.
Afril,
May.
Total,
2 4S-!
These statistics, wLile they will gratify
oi-pecially the iiiimcdiato friends of our
Railroad, aie also of peculiar interest to
our community at large. When the road
was constructed to Great Bend from thb
place, and put in operation, not a pcrsoiJ
had the least idea that it would become
a paying road, as we presume it is to
day. It was generally conceded, as read
ily by its projectors as any others, that it
could not possibly, with the amount ol
business then in prospect, become other
than a burden, until the connection now
in progress, was completed. The bui-
netis ot tfiisbcction of country has receiv
ed its main impulse from the Railroad,
and in its turn its projectors are reaping
the fruit of their enterprise aud public
pirit. If there could be any evidence
wanting of the business-creating effect ol
railroads in our country, we could poiut
with the utmost assurance to the history
of our own region. There is one siniru
lar fact connected with the growth in pop
ulation and business of Scrauton, and the
valley, which stands out strongly in con
trast with other places which could be
named, and hath, that it has far excee
ded the most sanguine expectations of our
most ardent citizens. We suppose if the
exact situation of affairs here had been
fonetold fivo years since, it would have
excited the ridicule of every hearer, and
been denounced as a stretch of the imag
ination. Even now, with the past in full
view, and the most accurate calculations,
bassed upon past successes, it it is impos
sible to estimate the increase of business
which will accompany the advent of com
pleted operations. Surely, if the Lacka
wanna Valley is in its infancy, may we
not expect great things when it shall have
grown to the full stature of the man.
'But while the success of Railroad opJ
eratious anions
us, is
owmir in
rrfn fi fl
measure to natural and evident causes,
there is yet something to be passed to the
account of good management. In our
limited knowledge of the policy which is
predominant in the conduct of its affairs,
we can f-peak iu the general, only ns an
ordinary observer, but so far as partioular
acts have come tapur knotflcdfre. or aD
acquaintance with the system of businot !
pursued, we have been favorable imnrcss-
ed with its peculiar adaptcdness to the
end proposed. The President and Secre
tary in the arrangement ot all the details
connected with the road have been pecu
liar)' happy and successful, and in carry
ing out in mmute practice, with systemat
ic regularity, the complicated affairs of
the Company, Superintendent Dotterer
has acquitted himself with abundant cred
it. The absence of the least accident to
the life 5r limb of a passenger during his
entire administration, should be a co-equal
cause of congratulation, with the
largly increased pecuniary compensation
which has in a measure attended his dif
ficult but successful encasement. Lack
alcanna Herald
A Storm, in India.
From The Calcutta Englishman.
The following report from a correspon
dent, on whom we can rely, of an awful
phenomenon, happily unknown in temper
ate climates, will be read with astonish
ment: At 3 P. M. of the lCth of April, while,
we were measuring the circumference of
large hail-stones that fell lightly around
us, a terrific storm passed to the south
west of the station, about, seven miles oft.
The accounts brought by natives next
morning were so strange that I did, not
believe Uicm, bnt, after some gentlemen
had visited the spot and confirmed all.
I, too, went to see the wreck left by the
hurricane. As some days had elapsed
since the occurrence, I found it impossible
to approach the chaos from the putrefac
tion of numbers of dead bodies. An eye
witness told me that, while it was blowing
pretty stiff from the south west, a jet black
mass of cloud, towerins high aloft, and
almost touching thp ground, was seen to
approach; another similar mass advancing
rapidly from the opposite direction. They
whirled round each other, the heat be
came inknse, and, enveloped in the great
est darkness, hou'-cs, bamboos, trees, men
women and cattle were buried in the
whirlwind, dashed in all directions a-
gainct trees, impaled on bamloos, or hur
ried in the ruins, On the sides of the track
of the storm huge hail-stones fell of the size
of bricks. The track was about S00 yards
broad; its length is not .known, nor the
extent of the devastation ascertained; 69
dead bodi es were counted by gentlemen
who went there; 15 persons with limbs
torn and mangled, with broken arms aud
legs, aro in hospital. Report says that
300 have been killed, besides no end of
cattle. I think it very probable. As the
natives build their houses, each family in
little separate farms hid in clumps o:
bamboos with intermediate fields, the
scene presented is that of numbers of un
distinguiahablo masses of bamboos and
trees torn up, crossing each other in eve
ry direction and blocked up with earth
and materials that had formed houses, so
entirely broken up that nothing could be
recognized as having formed roof or sides,
in fact, boxes, beds and things made of
planks were so broken into pieces of a
foot or two and thrown about, that it was
not always easy to imagine what they had
belonged to. From under the masses of
rubbish jackalls and vultures were pulling
out the remains of human beings and cat
tie; in small puddles dogs, goats, &c.,
were drowned an8 rotting. The fields
were covered with the skeletons of hu
man beings, while the short, thick branch
es of trees that stood leafless and barkless
supported numbers of vultures covered
the plain, too gorged to 3y at our approach,
and hundreds were soaring in circles high
overhead in the clear sky, marking in the
heavens the course of the storm. One
poor, famished, distracted beiug, with head
bandaged and body scratched all over,
bruised and oaf, limped up to me; he had
lost all his relations father, wife and
children all had been destroyed", and he
could not find where they had been car
ried away. It would require hundreds of
men to remove the piles of uprooted bam
boos, ore, that mark the homestead? of
the missing; under them will probably,
be found those that were killed, while
some, probably, had a living grave, hop
ing alas! in vain that the rescue would
come at last, or imagining, possibly, that
the whole world had been destroyed. A
bungalow of a zemindar, atDumdunia, on
the River Ghoghut, was blown in smith
ers across the river 300 yards; iu the
roof two men found a flying passage, and,
strange to say, survived.
&.
The Cholera.
We have good authority for stating that
the cholera has not been raging among
the bands at the Gleudon Iron Works as
reported by several papers of our Bor
ough. Some days since it made its ap
pearance among the Irish residing near
Glendon, aud out of twelve or fifteen ca
ses ten or twelve have died, but it has
not appeared on the side of the Canal on
which the Glendon works aro located, or
among the hands employed at tkose
works. A case or two has terminated
fatality in South Easton among the intem
perate and uncleanly classes, but it is to
be hoped that its progress is now checked,
no case having been reported for a few
days pat. FastoniSn.
Applications for Banks.
We find in the Harrisburg papers no
tices of the following applications to the
next Legislature for Bank charters : 1
Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, of York,
capital, 3300,000. 2. Anthracite Bank
of Tarn aqua, capital 5200,000. 3. Far
mers' Bank, of Pittsburg, capital 8500,-
000. 4. Commonwealth Saviugs aud
Deposit Bank, of Harrisbursr, capital
511,000. 5. Commercial Bank of Har
risburg, capital 300,000. (5, Montour
Bank, of Danville, capital $200,000. 7.
Bank of New Castle, Lawrence county,
capital 300,000. Application will be
made for an increase of the capital stock
of the West Bi anch Bank.
D"In Chester county, the prospect of
a good wheat crop is still cheering. A
few days mora, and the crop will be be
yond jujnry from ordinary causes.
Meeting of tho Opponents of the zebras-
Washington. Juno 21.
At a meeting of the Members of Con
gress who opposed the passage of the bill
to organize the lerritoncs ot jNeorasKa
and Kansas, held pursuant to previous
notice in the city of Washington on the
20th day of June, ist4, the lion. Solo
mon Foot, of Vermont, was called to the
Chair, and Daniel Mace, of Indiana,
and Reuben E. Fenton, of New York,
were appointed Secretaries.
A committee, appointed for tho pur
pose, reported an Address to the People
of the United btates, whieli, having Deen
discussed and amended, was unanimous
ly adopted and ordered to be published.
It is as follows :
To fne ?30iIc of (he United Stales.
The eighth section of the act for the
admission of Missouri into the Union,
known as the Missouri compromise law,
by which the introduction of slavery into
nown as Kansas and
Nebraska was forever prohibited, has been
That law, which in 1820
nuieted a controversy whieli menaced the
Union, and upon which you have so long
rrposed, is obliterated from the 'status
book. Wc had no reason to expect any-
such proposition when we assembled here
six mouths ago, nor did you expect it,
No State, no citizen of any State had de
manded the repeal. It seems a duty-
owe to the country to state the grounds
upon which wc have steadfastly, though
ineffectually, opposed this alarming aud
dangerous act. You need not bo told
that the slavery question lies at the bot
torn of it. As it was the slave holding
power that demanded the enactment of
the Missouri compromise, so it is the same
power that has now demanded its abro
gation. African slavery was regarded
and renounced as a great evil by the A
merican Colonics, even before the Revo
lution ; and those Colonies which are now
slaveholding States were equally earnest
m such remonstrances with those which
are now free States. Colonial laws,
framed to prevent the iuci'ease of slavery,
were vetoed by the King of Great Britain.
This exercise of arbitrary power, to en
large and perpetuate a system universal
ly regarded as equally wrongful in itself
and injurious to the Colonics, was one of
the causes of the Revolution.
When tho war wa3 ended there was an
imperious necessity for the institution of
Government in the then unoccupied Ter
ritories of the United States. In 1764
Jefferson proposed, and in 17 S7 the Con
tinental Congress adopted, the ordinaace
for the government of the Territory lying
northwest of the Ohio, by which it was
declared that "there shall be neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude except
for punishment of crime.'' The great
and flourishing States since organized
within that Territory, on the basis of that
ordinance, arc enduring monuments of
tho wisdom of the statesmen of the Revo
lution. The foreign slave-trade was re
garded as the source of American slave
ry, which, it was believed, would be dried
up when that fountain should be closed.
In adopting tho Constitution, it was so u
niversally anticipated that the foreign
slave trade would be promptly prohibited
that all parties acquiesced in a stipula
tion postponing that measure until 1803.
In 1808 the foreign slave trade was pro
hibited. Thus the source of slavery was
understood to be dried up, while the in
troduction of slavery into the Territories
was prohibited. The slavery question, so
far as it was a national one, was under
stood to be finally settled: and at the same
time the States had already taken up, and
were carrying forward, a system of grad
ual emancipation.
In 1S03 Louisiana was acquired by
purchase from France, and included what
is now known as the States of Louisiaua;
Missouri, Arkansas, and Iowa, and the
Territories known as Kansas and Ne
braska. Slavery existed at the time in
New Orleans and at St. Louis, and so
this purchase resulted in bringing the
slavery question again before Congress.
In 1812 the region immediately sur
rounding New Orleans applied for ad
mission into the Union under the name
of the State of Louisiana, with a consti
tution tolerating slavery. The new State
.was admitted, and the free States ac
quiesced. Eight years afterward the re
gion connected with St. Louis demanded
admission, under the name of the Statu
of Missouri, with a constitution tolerating
slavery. The free States reverted to the
principle of 1787, aud opposed the ad
mission of Misssuri, unless she would in
corporate into her constitution an inhibi
tion of the further introduction of slave
ry into the State. The slaveholding
States insisted upon her unqualified ad
mission. A controversy arose, which was
sectional and embittered, and which, we
are assured by contemporaneous history,
seriously imperilled tho Union. The
statesmen of that day in Congress settled
this controversy by compromise. By the
terms of this compromise the free States
assented to the admission of Missouri
with her slaveholdtng constitution, while
the slaveholding States; on their part,
yielded the exclusion of slavery in all the
residue of the territory which lay north
of 30 deg. 30 sec., constituting the pres
ent Territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
Tho Elaveholding States accepted this
compromise as a triumph, and the free
States, after a little time, aoquiesced, and
have ever since left jn undisturbed and
unquestioned.
Arkansas, a part of tho Territory of
Louisiana which lay south of 30 deg. 30
sec., in compliance with an implication
which was contained in this compromise,
was afterward admitted as a slaveholding
Stale; and the free States acquiesced.
In 1810 Florida, a slaveholdidg prov
ince of Spain, was acquired. This prov
ince was afterwards admitted as a slave
holding State. The free States acain ac
quiesced. Iu 1845 Texas, an indepen
dent slaveholding State, was annexed,
with c provision in the article of annexa
tion for tho subdivision of her territory
into five States. The free States, altho'
thuy rogardod the annexation, with tho I
probable increase of the number of slave
States, with very great disfavor, never
theless acquiesced again.
Now Territories were acquired by the
treaty of peace which closed the war with
constitution inhibiting slavery, and ap
plied for admission into the Union. Yio-
lent opposition was made uy the smve
States in and out of Congress, threaten
in the dissolution of the Union if Cali
fornia should be admitted. Proceeding
on the ground of these alarms, Congress
adonted another compromise, the terms
of which were, that ten million of dollars
of the peop!e,s money shouiu ue given u
Texas to induce her to relinquish a very
' , ill i
doubtful claim upon an mconsiuerame
part or iNew Mexico; luai, new wba-u
and Utah should be organized without an
inhibition of slavery, and that -they
chonld be afterwards admitted as slave or
free States, as the people, when forming
constitutions, should doterminc; that the
public slavo trade in the District of Co
lumbia should be aboli.sh.ed, without af
fecting the existence of slavery in the Dis
trict; and that new aud rigorous provis
ions for the recaption of fugitive slaves,
of dhputcd constitutionality, should be
adopted, and that ou these conditions
California should be admitted as a free
State. " Repugnant as this compromise
was to the people of tho free States, ac
quiescence was nevertheless practically
obtained by means of solemn assurances
made on behalf of the slaveholding States
that the compromises was and should be
forever regarded as a final adjustment
of the slavery question and of all the is
sues which could possibly arise out of it.
A new Congress convened in Decem
ber, 151. Representatives from the
slave States demanded a renewed pledge
of fidelity to this adjustment, and it was
granted by the Ilouse of Representatives
in the following terms-:
" Ecsoh'cd, That we recognize tho bind
ing efficacy of the compromises of the
Constitution, and believe it to be the in
tention of the people generally, as we
hereby declare it to be ours individually,
to abide such compromises, and to sus
tain the laws necessary to carry them
out the provisions for the delivery of
fugitive slaves and the act of the last Con
gress for that purpose included;- and that
we deprecate all further agitation o!
quetionstembraced in the acts of the la-t
Congress known as the compromise, and
of questions generally connected with tho
institution of slavery, as unnecessary,
USELESS, AND DANGEROUS."
A few months subsequently the Demo
cratic National Convention met at Balti
more, and, assuming to speak the senti
ments of the Democratic party, set forth
in its platform
" That the Democratic party will resist
all attempts at renewing, in Congress or
out of it, the agitation of tho slavery
question; under whatever shape or color
the attempt may be made."
Soon afterwards another National Con
vention assembled in the same city, and,
assuming the right to declare the senti
ment.? of the Whig party, said :
" Wo deprecate all further agitation of
the questions thus settled as dangerous to
our peace, aud will discountenance all ef
forts to continue or renew such agitation,
whenver, wherever, or however made."
The present Administration was elec
ted on the principle of adherence to this
compromise, and the President, referring
to it in his inaugural speech, declared
that the harmony which- had been se
cured by it should not be disturbed dur
ing his term of Gffice. The President,
recurring to the same subject, renewed
his pledge in his message to Congress at
the beginning of the present session in
the following lan"uao :
"Notwithstanding differences of opin
ion and sentiment which then existed in
relation to details and specfic provisions,
the acquiescence of distinguished citizens,
whose devotion to the Union can never
be doubted, has given renewed vigor to
our institutions, and restored a sense of
repose and security to the public mind
throughout the Confederacy. That this
repose is to suffer no shock -during my
official term, if 1 have the power to avert
it, those who placed me here may bo as
sured." Under these circumstances, tho propo
sition to repeal the Missouri compromise
was suddenly and unexpectedly made by
the same Committee on Territories which,
only ten days before, had affirmed- the
sanctity of the Missouri compromise, and
declared the end of agitation in the fol
lowing explicit aud unmistakeablc lang
uage :
" Your committee do not feel them
selves called upon to enter into a discus
sion of those controverted questions. They
involve tho same grave issues which pro
duced the agitation, the sectional strife,
and the fearful struggle of 1850. As
Congress deemed it wise and prudent to
refrain from deciding the matters in con
troversy then, either by affirming or re
pealing the Mexican laws, or by an act
declaratory'of the true intent of the Con
stitution, and the extent of the protection
afforded by it to slave property in the
Territories, so your committee are not
prepared now to recommend a departure
from the course pursued upon that memo
rable occasion, either by affirming or re-
pealing the eighth section of the Missouri
act, or by any act declaratory of the
meaning of the Constitution in respect to
the legal points in dispute."
Tho abrogation has been effected in
pursuance of tho demands of the Admin
istration, and by means of its influence
on Congress.
In the House of Representatives, that
body which is more immediately respon
sible to the people, the contest was more
equal than in the Senate, though it is due
to justice and candor that it should be
stated that it could not have been car
ried in cither Ilouse without the votes of
Representatives from the free States.
The Minority resisted tho attempt to
arrest discussion upon this grave ques
tion, through a strujjsle of longer dura
tiou than any other kuown to Congres
sional history. An attempt was made to
stigmatize that minority as "factionists;"
yet we fearlessly deolaro that throughout
the contest they resorted solely to the
nnwors secured to them by the lata and the
rules of the Hoise; and tho passage of the
measure through the Ilouse was enectea
only through a subversion of its rules by
the majority, and the exercise of a power
unprecedented in the annals of Congres
sional legislation.
The deed is done. It is dono with a
clear proclamation by the Administration .
and by Congress that the principle which
it contains extends not only to Kansas
and Nebraska, but to all the other Ter
ritories now belonging to the U. States,
and to all which 7nay hereafter be ac
quired. It has been done unnecessarily
and want only, because there was no pres
sure for the organization of Governments
in Kansas and Nebraska, neither of which
Territories contained one lawful inhabi
tant who was a citizen of tho U. States :.
and because there was not only no dang
er of disunion apprehended, but even no
popular agitation of the question of slave
ry. By this reckless measure the free
States have lost all the guarantees for.
freedom in the Territories contained in.
former compromises, while all the States,
both slave aud free, have lost the guar
antees of harmony and union which those,
compromises afforded.
It seems plain to U3 that, fatal as the
measure is in these aspects, it is only a
cover for broader propagandism of slave
ry iu the future. The object of the Ad
ministration, as we believe, and of many
who represent the slave States, is to pre
pare the way for annexing Cuba, at what
ever cost, and a like annexation of half a
dozen of the States of Mexico, to be ad
mitted also as slave States. These ac
quisitions are to bo made peaceably, if
they can be purchased at the coat of hun
dreds of millions; if they tani.ot be made
peacefully, then at th.- cost of war with
Mexico and war with Spain, with Eng
land and with France, and at the cost of
an alliance with Russia scarcely less re
pugnant. Enmistakeable indications ap
pear, also, of a purpose to annex the eas
tern part of San Domingo, and so to sub
jugate the whole island, restoring it to
the dominion of slavery. And this is to
be followed up by an alliance with Brazil,
and the extension of slavery in the valley
of the Amazon. It is for you to judge
whether, when slavery shall have made
these additions to tho Ut.ited States, it
will not demand unconditional submis
sion on the part of the free States, and,
failing in that demand, attempt a with
drawal of the slave States, sad the or
ganization of a separate Empire is. the
central region of the continent. From an
act so unjust and wrongful in itself, and
friught wit'i consequences so fearful, we
appeal equally to the North and to the
South, to the free States and to the slave
holdinir States themselves.
It is no time for exaggeration or for
pi3?ion, and we therefore speak calmly
of the pait, and warn you, in sober ser
iousness, of the future. It would not be
come u, nor it necessary, to. suggest the
measures which ought to be adopted in
this great exigency. For ourselves,, we
are ready to do all that shall be in ou?
power to restore tho Missouri compro
mise, and to- cseeuto such further meas
ures as you in your wisdom shall com
mand, aud as may be necessary for the
recovery of the ground lost to freedom
and to prevent the further aggressions of
slaverv.
SOLOMON FOOT y Chairman.
Daniel Mace,
Reuben E. Fentox,
Secretaries
Foreign
Neivs.
ASIRSVAIi OF T53E IHJEcOP,.
Three Days Later from Europe.
Nevv- York. Juno 3D, 3 p. M. The
steamship Europa, from Liverpool, with
dates to Saturday, tho 17th in-'t., roach-
ed her wharf at Jersey City this evening;
at 7 o'clock.
Her advices are three days later, but
possess no feature of decided importance .
The accounts from the seat of war ara
conflicting and vague, partaking more of.
rumors than authentic information. The
advices from Silistria are to the 13th.
Tho siege continued to be prosecuted with
vigor; but the beleagued were making a
defence, having rejected all overtures for
capitulation. The allied forces despatch
ed to the succor of the city were almost
hourly expected to arrive.
There has been a :uiecebion of skir
mishes on the line of the Danube, with
little advantage to either side.
Tho Russian force has retired from
Jassey with considerable loss.
Tho English troops are mostly en
camped at Devna.
Many towns in Lower Wallachia havo
been pillaged by the Russians, aud in
some quarters whole sections of country
laid waste.
A fprce of from seven to ten thou-sand'
English and French troops was moving
towards Varna, and 40,000 were to be
despatched to Sebastopol.
The greatest anxiety was felt at Con
stantinople for the fate of Silistria.
The English fleet in tho Baltic wa?, at
last accounts, lying off Swcdborg.
No demonstration has been made on
the part of the English and French flees
in the Black Sea.
It is announced by telegraph from
Vienna, that Sebastopol is to be attack
ed by sea and land.
The conference between the Kin of
Prussia and tho Austrian Emperorha3
resulted favorably.
Russia has definitely roiccted thonrrm.
ositiona of Austria.
There is no news of special intcrest
from England and the West of Europe.
Commercial Intelligence.
Liverpool, June 10. Tho cotton
market is quiet and inactive, and prices
for the lower gradea have suffered a de
cline of about 1-1 Gd. ner lb. Thr gnl.
j w wt(uw
of the week reach 45,000 bales, including
a nan r t 1 '
tuu lur export.
Grain is active, and prices havo some
what improved. Flour is firm, and !. tfr
advanced Is. per brl. Wheat is in de
mand at ol. advance. Gor.n
tive and dullv
-ft.