(iOmXOB’S MESSAGE. i Executive Chamber, • i Harrisburg, October 6,1857, $ To the Senate and Haute of Representa tives of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania, in General Assembly met: . Gentlemen :—By virtue of the power conferred on me by the Constitution, I have deemed it my imperative duly to convene the General Assembly at this time. An “extra ordinary occasion" for so doing, as contem plated by the Constitution has arisen, and accordingly you have been called together to take into consideration, and adopt such measures of relief, as the present exigency may seem in your wisdom to demand. A sudden and severe financial revulsion has occurred, inducing a suspension of specie payments by the banks of this wealih, and' ft l some of our sister States. This result.i however much to be regretted and was unavoidable, having be come from the operation of causes, unneces sary now to be enumerated, a stern necessity. Thus circumstanced, the community are suf fering from the jwant of a currency, the de struction of confidence, and the numerous evils consequent on financial embarrassment. Every department of industry has felt and been disastrously affected by the shock. Trade and commerce have been paralyzed. The merchant, Ihe manufacturer and the me chanic have seen their bright prospects sud denly blasted, and many have been involved in a ruin which no ordinary sagacity or fore sight could avert. Many of our furnaces, rolling mills and factories have been closed. Exiensive and valuable coal operations have been suspended or abandoned, and thousands of workmen ate out of employment, oppress ed wiih doubt and anxiety, and alarmed with the gloomy apprehensions of the future. it is not my indention to discuss in ibis communication, the causes of the present finnncial difficulties and commercial embar rassment. The evil Js upon us. Troubles surround us ; and to relieve the community, restore confidence, and bring back the pros perity lately enjoyed, and which it is hoped is hut temporarily interrupted, prompt and harmonious action, wise and generous legis lation will be required. The present exigency requires and every consideration of present and future interest to the Commonwealth and people would seem to demand that the banks should be released liom the penalties nnd forfeitures incurred by a suspension of .specie payments; and that such suspension should be authorized for such reasonable period as will enable them safely to resume the payment of their liabili ties in specie. To force the .banks into a too early liqui dation would them lo require imme diate payment from the debtors, and would entail upon the community the miseries of widespread bankruptcy and ruin ; while on the other hand, nn unreasonable extension of the unnatural s*aie of suspension would greatly increasejhe evils of an irredeemable paper currency. The resumption of specie pavments should not be postponed longer than is clearly necessary, and the best inter ests of the community may require. The general embarrassment and depression of trade and commerce, and tho consequent depreciation of the value of real and personal properly, if permitted to coatmuo , will seri ously affect the revenues of the Common wealth. The credit of the * Stale, now so well sustained, and,so honorable lo her char acter, may be endangered, not by any ina bility to pay, but from the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of procuring a medium in which payment can be made. The faith of the S»ate must be preserved intact. I therefore recommend that the Banks which may be relieved from the penalties im posed upon suspension by existing laws, 'hall be required to make a satisfactory ar rangement with (he Stale Treasurer, by which he will be enabled to convert the cur rent funds in jhe Treasury, and balances landing to his in any of the solvent ranks of the Commonwealth, into specie, as -non as the same shall become necessary for the payment of the interest on the funded debt. And as a further relief to the community, and as a condition of the release of the pen alties and forfeitures incurred, it is respect fully recommended that the solvent banks of the Commonwealth, which paid specie for all their liabilities immediately prior to their late general suspension, be required, under such limitations and restrictions as may be deemed expedient, to receive the notes of each other,, continuing solvent, at par in payment of all debts due or to become due to them respect ively, during their suspension ; the bank or banks resuming specie payments to be reliev ed |- rom this condition. For the relief of debtors, provision should be made forjan extension of the time in which execution on judgments (may issue; and of the period now provided by law for the slay of execution. / r The issue of Relief or Bunk Notes of a less denomination than five dollars should not now be authorized, nor should the Banks curing suspension be permitted to declare dividends exceeding six per cent, per annum. The monied institutions of the Common wealth are, it is believed, generally in a sound and solvent condition ; and if the measures suggested, he adopted, the banks .will be ena bled to meet all their liabilities—supply a currency adequate to the demands of legiti mate trade and the ordinary business of file —regain public confidence—aid and revive every branch of industry— and save their creditors and the community from the bank ruptcy and ruin, inevitably conseouent on the intense pressure of the present financial crisis. ' j The questions submitted for your determ ination are important and momentous; They rise far above all partizan or political con siderations or calculations. A suffering com munity, in this, the hour of their anxiety and peril, except at your hands prompt and pat riotic action for their relief. Influenced by no olher consideration than the public good, prompted by no other than honest and honorable convictions of public and private duty, may the result of your deliberations meet the expectations, relieve the wants and harmonize with the true inter ests of the people. JAMES POLLOCK. THE AGITATOR. Hl* H. C0bb,.... Editor. WELLSBOROU6H, FA. Thnrsdaf morning, Oct. 15, 1957. AHBusinesKyiDd olhcrCoramanicationsmust be addressed to the Editor to insure attention. We cannot publish anonymous communications. Mrs. Grierson offers-a fresh stock of Millinery Goods in another column. WOOD of our patrons as have promis ed to bring us wood, are requested to deliver it im mediately. We are is pressing need of aiear cords of 2 ft. wood, or 20 inch, but tlie former is preferred Although our paper is delayed one day for returns, we are obliged to go'to presa with next to nothing. Our friends could have aided us in this matter, but for unaccountable negligence. Therame tiling was neglected last year. Mr. H. P, Erwin, Merchant Tailor, has returned from the City with a fine assorted slock of Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestings and Ready-made Clothing, all of excellent quality and at.reasonable prices. Mr. Erwin seldom Cmls to .suit the most fastidious, in cut, materialjwjworkmansbip,and-deserves a gener ous patronage. Large Game,— Mr.G. W. Sears, of this boroogh, has presented to us one of the claws and two of the quills of a bald eagle, hilled by him a day or two since. The quills were accompanied by a request (hat we shall indite with them sundry “ pizen things against the -Border Ruffians”—which we shall cn deavor to do with a will. The bird measured seven feet from lip to lip of its wings. We ore enabled to present the following meager returns from the county which are reliable. Not a word from the other townships has reached us, and nothing Ijoin the State: . Wilmot. Packer, Del mar, - 277 - 33 Charleston, ' - 250 34 Wcllsboco, - - 118 26 Shippen, - 29 ! - 3 Morris,* - 48 14 Covington, borough and township give Wilmot 33 majority. u The vote is light throughout the county. *The vole for Packer in this district is the com bined vote of Buchanan and Fillmore last year. Tjie Election. —We have delayed the publica tion of our paper one day in order to get returns from as many dL-lricts as might be. The returns come in provokingly slow, as usnal, but enough is known to warrant the election of the entire Repub lican county ticket by very large majorities. It Will likewise - be seen that the vote is Tight In some dis trtela-where it was heavy last fait. Two principal reasons may be given for this diminution, the- lesser of which is, that hundreds of farmers would not leave their buckwheat, corn and potatoes, even for ; a few hours, to exercise the most important right conferred upon freemen ; but the principal cause of this diminution lies in the non-performance of that labor, jibe importance of which we have so contin ually lurged. Delinquents must settle with their own consciences. 1 A glance at the vole in Dclmar, Charleston and Welfsboro, as compared with the vote for Fremont, will show that the dimuniliou cannot be charged to any change of sentiment among, the people. In fact the proslavcry loss in the three districts is &v -cral times greater, proporlionably, than the Repub lican fulling off. Wilmot gets 164 voles less Ilian Fremont, while Packer gets 13 votes less than Bu chanan. Fremont {evolved nearly 8 votes to Buch anan's i. •tv j I root gets 7 votes lo Packers 2. Pack er gets 13 voles teas than Buchanan; and this .is about 1-8 of Buchanan's entire vote in the three dis tricts. The opposition gain 3 in the borough by new comers and I by change. The Republicans have lost about 15 by temporary absence, sickness, death and removal, and have gained by new comers about 8. These latter calculations are but approx imate. From present indications the vote will be compar atively light throughout the county; not from any decrease of Republican sentiment, but from the non" exercise of proper VIGILANCE by every one of us. The Times. The tunes are hard, pinching and, disastrous. Banka are crashing in every direction and scores of business firms in the Urge cities, believed to be bc yond the pressure of ordinary tight times, such as have distressed the business world for eight months or more, are driven Into temporary suspension daily, and some( doubtless, into ruin beyond recovery. We lake up no city paper that does not present a scene of ghastly wrecks upon the sea of trade; and all charge the shipwrecks upon the mania of over trading, railroad bubble speculations, long credits, and so on, to the end of the chapter. That all these are in some sort indirect causes of the crash, is in disputable ; but beyond these, underlying them all, we catch a glimpse of a cause, powerful enough in itself to have precipitated the financial world into its present chaotic state. Labor is the true capital—the only capital. Mon ey, stocks and bonds, are the things which Labor creates for its convenience, and while they oqge their vitality and intrinsic value to the industry of the country—while the creature remains at the service of the creator—so long trade and commerce track unruffled seas. But when, as now, these creatures —these representatives of Labor—are inflated many times beyond their true value, and made the basis of extended financial operations without reference to the advance of the Industrial Interests of the country, soon or late, the result must bo what we now witness—a crash. We have been watching the Stock Board quota tions for some months, and h&ve gained a little in formation therefrom which may be of use in oar-in vestigations. It will hardly be credited that not one-third of the railroads in the United States sus tain themselves and pay aught to their owners, by their labor. Yet such would seem to he the fact from such information as we can glean- The true reason of this is. we think, that these non-paying roads were called into existence by nu actual de mand of Industry, but by speculators, to whom an extensive field of operation is necessary. They build roads as men build houses—to sell. They put a supposed value upon the stock of a projected roadt dispose of it, cither by sale or exchange and contin ue creating, buying, selling and exchanging until not a dollar's worth of that stock remains in the hands ol the original holders. Blocks and bonds are made to represent thrice their actual value in a variety of ways known to stock-gamblers, and os suddenly are depreciated. Thus, railroad stock, like bank notes, represent so much cash somewhere, and" like bank notes, they are valueless when there is no specie in the vaults. To this mania for creating new bases of trade out ol financial moonshine, and beyond the demands of Labor, the country is most of all indebted for its present pitiable condition. Banks are. created, like railroads, and for like purposes, in the main. Whenever the Industrial in- THE TIOGA COX; STY AGITATOR. iterate of a community cal! 4 bank into existence, that bank is to be tripled so long as it confines Us operations within the demands of the power which created it. When it overreaches,those demands, it soon finds itself where hondredS uf banks arCto-day —swamped - • But enough of.the causes of this crash ; the ef fects of the Tevulsion are what we now have to pro vide for. Society is so beneficently framed that a blow struck at the interests of tho humblest indi vidual fulls with stunning force open the heads of merchant princes, bank direcloranndTailroad kings' And thns we see that Labor is thetrue basis of pros, pertly, and that its intercsts may not be disregarded with impunity* But the chief distiess most be wtUi the laboring poor. They arc to feci the sharp fangs of hanger and cold through the approaching winter. They are to undergo the,pains and penalties of bad management, vicariously. Their moan will go up to the All-Father the winter long, and hundreds of the widowed and orphaned mast perish unless the hearts *bf the affluent be melted in good time. It will not do to put off preparation for the evil day another hour. Up, philanthropists I - For the dear sake of suffering humanity bestir yourselves. Lead 1 the poor away from the great cities into the pros perous agricultural districts, where labor has provi. ded against hunger and cold. Bring them here and givetfaem work to do that they may not starve. There is room lor hundreds here in our own county, if men would but think so; for the matter of full wages is not essential to men and women threaten, rd by Want. Save them from want and you enrich (hem though the hire be email. Now is the time to work if ever. Up ! for the aid of ibe perishing ! At a meeting of the citizens who attended the discussion between Dr. John Boyle Dods and Dr. A. Monitor,-, upon mixl ‘ern Spiritualism, called at the close of the debate on Thurs day evening, Oct. 1,1857, the following among other proceed ings were hod, viz: James I. Jackson was called to tho cliair. John Mathers, Win. Harrison, P. C. Holg and U. B. Elis worth were chosen Vice Presidents. I. D. Richards and A. J. Sofleld, Secretaries. A. N. Donaldson then stated the object of the meeting, and read the editorlal'referred to in tile following Resolutions, Ac; He then presented the following Preamble and, Iteeolutioud which were adopted nearly unanimous, viz: Whereat, the “Agitator" of this date has an editorial pro fessing to be a truthful account of tho discussion now. in pro gress Jn this place, between Dr. John Boree Dods and Dr. A. Morron on the subject of Spiritualism, aud xchrreas, said arti cle is erroneous and untruthful in several of its statements, and calculated to convoy a wrtmg impression to the prejudice of one if not both the disputants, therefore, 1. Resvtcffl, That tho article referred to is utterly unworthy of credit;-that if either of the disputants was guilty of “gross persohallties,*’ os charged, it was the duty of the mod erators, (of whom the editor of the Aoitatob was one) to call him to order, which was not done. 2. Jiesolval, That with tho exception of Jfomlay evening, when ‘*the burden of private conversation was dragged into the discussion,” it has been conducted with lees personalities than are usually indulged In by earnest disputants when dis cussing exciting questions. a. Jte solved, That justice to Dr. Morrnn compels us to say ’that "tho burden of private conversation” was not introduced by him. 4. Resolved, Tlmt the first speech of Dr. Morron. In which he is charged with having "launched into a three quarter hour tirade” of most offensive personalities,'* was- devoted to a statement and explanation of the mles of evidence to he ob served in the prosecution of all philosophical investigations, and was complained of by Dr. Pods, only os waiting /ime vu irrelevant matter. 5. linolerd, That Dr. Morron has used no offensive person alities in thix debate. 6. Jfwtt/tvtf, That a copy Of these Resolutions ho furnishc'* tho Agitator and the Weekly Tiubcsk, N. Y, for publication - . I. D. Richards, > - - James I, Jvckson. I’res't. A. J. Sovibld, J 8 * Jxo. Mathers, WH. lIARRISO.V, f , H S.E.Bxsmorth, f 'iccirc3is p.c.noiu, J Welbhoro, Pm, Oct. Ist, 1857. Remarks. We publish the foregoing ex parte proceedings for whatever they may be worth after their mendacity shall have been properly shown up and the source from which they ecnonatc shall be proved beyond a peradventure. They afford fresh evidence of the fact that— /• The fiesh will quivci when the pincers tear. The blood will follow where the knifo is driven I’ 1 In our former article there was a single misstate, men! and but one, namely—as to the length of time consumed by Dr. Morron in personalities in his first speech. This does not affect the truth of thatatli. cle in any of its essenti ah. It is true, os we stated, that Dr. Morron used roost offensive personalities in his first speech—offe usive to good taste, we meant bat acceptable to the swell-mob represented in the abovtf proceedings. In proof oi this we cite alien* tion to the indisputable fad that Dr. M. fairly opol ogized to Dr. Dods for such personalities, in private next day, and publicly and to the audience on the second evening of the debate, pledging himself sol* emnly, to refrain from such incoorlcous conduct in future. This fact * settles the' has h” for the Ist 4lli and and leaves the actors in the «indignation meeting 1 * in this delectable dilemma: Either Du Matron's apdUgy toas a studied lie,or these resolutions are recklessly merUlacious. Take either born, gentlemen. Neither of the disputants were called to order by the Moderators, and for this reason: It was agreed between the Moderators and the disputants that no points of order should be raised by the Moderators , but by the disputants only . And either Mr. Will, iams or Dr. Morron might have stated as much; but with a magnanimity characteristic of both, they did not choose to do ao. It is true, as wc slated, Ibal Dr. M. broke iiis pledge in his closing speech on Saturday evening, in a personal allusion unmenllondble to ears polite, but very savory to the swell-mob; and it Is true, as we staled, ibat Dr. Dods, under this new prov'oea. lion, on Monday evening, put off his dignity and met his opponent on the swell-mob level,’ for which ungentlemanly proceeding .Dr- D. has tbnnd and will find no apologist in ns, however' the above rcsolu tionists have seen fit to excuse his conduct, the bet ter to whitewash I)r. Morron. It is true, os we sta ted, that Dr. M. did then and there drag in a private conversation had between himself and Dr. D., in our presence, at the house of Mr.' L. Bache, and then and there called on ns to substantiate bis rcla. lion. It is true, as we stated, that Dr. Dods retort ed by repeating another private conversation had at the same place and in our presence. And all this was disgraceful and insulting to good taste and de cency ; nor can a thousand resolutions make it oth erwise than indecent and disgraceful. Nor, in the many discussions to which we have listened, did we ever listen to such gross personalities. We now turn to the source of these resolutions; and observe, (hat while we do nut make any gentle man responsible for the outrages mentioned below, we do make the anti .Spiritualists of Wellsboru, as a clast, fully responsible for each and every act. If any think our language severe, they wilt remember that poor Tray was not cudgeled for overt acts, but for keeping bad company. From the beginning, the anti-Spiritualists manifested a spirit of intolerance and rowdyism. They interrupted Dr. Dods with insulting words, and derisive sneers, and by various swell-mob demonstrations endeavored to' render his remarks inaudible. Nor was this the work of com mon rowdies, alone. Certain distinguished laymen and church officers aided and abetted these peace breakers. To the passions and prejudices of these Dr. Morron often appealed. Yet we would not too hardly censure hint; ibr we have before observed that every mind manifests itself upon the plane of its organization. To the intolerant spirit manifested by these respectable men, Dr. Dods wag indebted for gross, unprovoked insults in the street, as well as for the wanton assault by a creature in petticoats when leaving the Court House on the fourth .evening of the debate. All these facts are in the bauds of un impeachable witnesses. And (o this intolerant spir it we are indebted for the resolutions under con- Bideration. Gentlemen, wc thank you for your hate. To the spirit which moves you we are the natural enemy. It is Christ-like spirit, but devilish, and brazenly wicked." W® intend to ply It with ex* oreisma and IjMlely it; *lo bruise it with constant rebuke, and to sow dragon’s teeth in its path which shall spring np legions-of earoeal men. - -It shall put no fetters upon these wrists while their pulses beat. It babbles inanely- of ertwAtwg'-lhc Agitator* Gen llemen, we bid you to the struggle.. You may find that the principles it advocates are indestructible; that IheywiU survive to fright and defy you, though every free paper should perish; ami yott-roay also •find that there is of territory,. ohlsi'dfe the limits* of tins borough, and frhkh'ydu have not yet subjugated. But if you desire war, you shall have it * to the knife, knife to the hiluhiU to the end.*. , . - The'Discussion. —We were not present the last three eventhgsW the Discussion, btff have it from both parties that there-occurred do unpleasant alter cations, like • that to whicli wo alluded in jiiejfc terms of censure two weeks since. These .last evenings passed off harmoniously. The!result of the Dis cussion, taking* a superficial view-ra street view— is the usual result, tliat is to say, both parties claim lhe*viclory, : i In compliance with the terms .of the question, Dr» Dods opened with the proposition that God’s moral government, during the antediluvian, patriarchal, prophetic and apostolic ages, was . made known on earth through the ministry of angels; that His mor al government, is changed neither in form nor ad ministration, God'dealing only in the Unchangable. Dr. Morron at first denied the major proposition,but at last, in view of unmislakablcScripturc proofs,ad mitted its truth, deeming it unessential. Dr. Dods then look ground that angels are disembodied spir its, and proceeded to show that many of the most distinguished angelic beings who appeared to men in ancient days, were once dwellers in the ficsb. The angel that appeared to John in Patmbs was shown to have been of this character; and many other proofs of the identity of men and angels were produced by the Doctor from the Bible. This posi lion Dr. M. attacked as being unsound, and he took an affirmative position upon this point, to wit, that angels were created in an immortal stale. When called Upon to sustain his affirmation he- admitted bis inability to do so, but rested upon Us reasona bleness and its harmony with_£fipidaf belief. Dr. D. then proceeded to show that the ministration of departed spirits was believed.in by the inspired apos tles, and that the signs and wonders which illumed the apostolic age, were to continue daring the medi atorial reign of Christ, or to the end of time. He proceeded to perfect his chain of evidence, link by link, from the Adamic age down to the present time, showing conclusively, if the record be true, that the Christian Fathers believed in the ministration of de parted spirits, ftS &Uo the continuance of the signs and wonders; so characteristic of the apostolic age. during the later age in which they lived. Dr. MV arguments against these latter positions and eviden ces must have been familiar to all who had read Mr. Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason and Mr. Hume on Miracles. Not Umt. he repeated the identical lan guage of those distinguished men, but he repealed the burden of their arguments, and the arguments of all disbelievers in the wonders recorded in the Bible. Yet Dr. M., professes implicit belief in the Scriptures; but bis arguments on very many points, to us, were anything but confirmatory of the credi bility of Holy Writ. As to the result of the Scripture argument, so far as we heard it, there can be, it seems to us, but one opinion in candid, unprejudiced minds; and that is that Dr. Dods established every essential' point in his argument.*' The disposition evinced by Dr. M*s. friends at an early stage of this debate, to force Dr. Dods from bis Scripture position showed plainly that they deemed themselves worsted on Bible ground*. And if their conduct be not a sufficiently plain admission of this fact, the challenge by Dr. Morron to another discussion at Syracuse on the 21st inst, and which was promptly accepted by Dr. Dods, is conclusive Evidence that he did not consid er hU opponent vanquished. •> For the Agitator. Notwithstanding'fhe bad humor in which the dls cnssion seems to havefdeft some of the more preju-. diced, We are glad to know that it promises to re sult in profit lo the listeners generally. .' ■ Pennsylvania legislature, Haßßisnuno, Pa., Oct. 9,' 1857, HOUSE. This morning the Special Committee of Thirleen reported an act for the relief of banks and debtors. It removes the penalties for suspension until next March ; permits the banks to discount and pay out for their own notes at 60 days after March ; provides that they must also pay their deposits, and not declare dividends above six per cent; pro vides that the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Banks must publish weekly statements like New-York; provides that all the Banks must receive the notes of other Banks solvent prior to the suspension ; provides that the Presi dent of any Bank making oath (hat another Bpnk is unworthy of credit, Commissioners shjill be appointed to examine the affairs of such Bank, and if it refuses an examination it will then forfeit its Charter, unless 1 it, re sumes before the Ist of March ; provide* that the Stale revenues be made payable in the notes of solvent banks during the suspen sion, and that he banks must redeem the notes thus received for lolls and taxes; pro vides that all judgments shall have a s'ay of execution for six months longer than is now allowed, where the parly has a freehold es tate : provides that a stay of exect/fion shall not be’granied for wages and labor ; requires the Banks to certify their acceptance qf this bill within thirty days, and pay one half of one half of one percent for the privilege. The bill was ordered to be printed, and fhe House adjourned. The members evince a disposition to com plete .the session to-diy, in order to return home for the election morning. The House agreed to take up the Relief Bill passed by the Ssnate yesterday. It dis pensed with the going ipto Committee of the Whole, and placed the bill on the second reading. After a long debate, the proposition to lengthen the time for resumption from April to the the third Monday in January was lost by a vote of 75 to 69, A motion to shorten the lime to January, 1858, was made, when a substitute was offered fixing the time for July next. The amendment was lost by 33 to 59. In the Senate a political discussion arose from a resolution declaring that the whole financial difficulties resulted from the Tariff of 1844 and its modifications by (he Inst Congress. Harrisburg, Oct. 10—a. m, Kansas Election, j St. Lo vis, Oct. 10,11857. , From i gentleman just arrived from Kan sas, it.Jias beea.learned.lßat Jefferson County is largely Free-Stale, and Calhoun County doubtful. „ The following' precinct's’of Leav enworth County give, Free-State majorities: Easton,'4s;' Wyandot, 50 ; Leavenworth, 200. Delaware and Kickapoo give Demo cratic majorities of SO-and 450. In (he latter precinct the troops voted, at the instance of Gov. Walker. Johnson County is conceded to the! Democrats, but it is, thought that Douglas County will give a sufficiently large Free-State majority to carry the District, report. 1 St. Lons, Oct. 10, 1857. Advices frotn Leavenworth jo the Blh inst. stale that,.Leavenworth County is the only one thus.far .heard from giving.a Democratic majority. Doniphan County gives a Free- State majptity.of 23 ; Atchison, a Free-State majotily of 44 and Douglas a Free-State, majority of 1,600. ' . j These returns ate given as authentic. Te cumseh Township gives 160 Free-Stale ma jority,Topeka 190.an4,Calhoun X 59. .Later advices stale that the majority for Parrott, the Free-Stale candidate j for Con gress, over Ransom the Democratic candi date, is from 5,000 to 8,000. According to the estimate of Free-State men, the Council will stand i 9 Free-State men to 3 Democrats, and the House, 24 Free-State men to 15 Democrats. | Johnson County gives a Democratic- ma jority 250. j , Special Despatch to the Boston Journal. | Qcindaro, Oct. §, 1857. The returns of the election are mostly in. The Free-State parly will have a majority in the Legislature of fourteen. It ;is nearly certain that Parrott’s majority will be over five thousand. Leavenworth County has been .carried by the Pro-Slavery party, through frauds at Kickapoo. ‘ :■ The Financial Crisis lo have reached the point of its intensity in all the large cities if not in country and rural dis tricts. The Banks in the three -great com mercial cities, New-Ybtk, Bostonjand Chica go, have nobly stojd out against [suspension of specie payments, and instead pf contract ing have increased their loans to| accommo date their local.customers. The 1 probability is that there will be no farther suspensions in New England and that Rhode [lsland. vyill stand “alone in her glory’ 1 wuhj. the excep tion of a few rotten institutions j whose sus pension is equivalent lo a failure. Various and multifarious are the causes assigned for the present monetary collapse, j It matters little which are the more prominent causes, the crisis which has long been expected has comeat last and as unexpectedly to ihe people as does ihe closing scene to tpe victim of protracted consumption. But the people, with no exceptions if they are tjie fortunate possessor of a three cent piece! or even an old red, have a duly lo perform to roll back the tide of suspension and suspicion, and lo restore confidence and a healthyj circulation of the financial blood of Ihe {community. The old squirrel skins and mittens must be made to jingle out, and every! dollar and dime put in- circulation end in such manner as will insure the payment ofjlhe greatest number of deb’s. Let no money be hoarded, and lei each do by others as they would be, done by in a change of circumstances, and money will soon be plenty enough again for all legitimate*- purposes. it is the small streams that prevent the drying up of the river, and the’prompt payment of small •deb's will enable the sons of traffic lo meet their larger liabilities which will flow inlo banks and out again through the business channels of industry securing prosperity to the whole community. But if each backs inlo his own circumscribed shell and thinks and cares only for self the monetary revul sion will be as disastrous in Ihp country as in the cities. Retrenchments may be neces sary as well as beneficial, but not in the necessaries and conveniences of life nor in the improvements of society, alllproper occu-1 pations should be sustained and J encouraged. I But the millions which are expended for in toxicating drinks and tobacco might be saved I and turned to useful purposes, without injury | lo any class of people or any branch of: business that should be tolerated, while the body politic, and its individual!components, 1 would collectively and severalyjbe benefitted. j Let us keep up courage ; hope; for .the best,; remember the poor and don’t foirget the poor 1 devils.— N, H. Sentinel. I i California.—The election jreturns bro’t by the Star of the West indicates as we ex pected, the success of the Democrats. But they also show that the Republicans have made a gallant stand, and polletl an unexpec tedly large vole for Edward Stanley. Par tial returns from twenty counties fool up for Governor as follows : J Stanley, Republican, j 10,344. Weller, Democrat, i 18,490. Bowie, American, j 6,480. We rejoice in the assurance!, these returns give of the permanent endurance and ulti mate triumph of Republicanism in Califor nia. . ; Two constitutional amendments were also voted upon. The returns as far as received indicate that the proposition toj pay the Stale debt has been carried, and thatthe movement for calling a Convention to revise the Stale Constitution had been lost. r’ - An Unpleasant Tenant.— -Fourteen years ago, a French officer, whilst fighting against the Arab's, was struck'- by a ball in the eye. A few weeks ago he had a slight attack of apoplexy, which shook him greatly, and a few nights ufterwards he was awaken, ed from his sleep by a sense iof suffocation. Jumping up, he found that the ball had, by degrees, worked its way down, and had at. last fallen from the upper part of his mouth into his throat. By violent efforts he sue ceeded in dislodging it, and, he is now doing well. The ball, though diminished by co° rosion, was found to weigh about Tout-fifths of an ounce. , , Health cotnes of itself; but we are at great pains to gel our diseases. Health comes from a simple life of nature ; diseases from the artificial life of nature. ©ommmUcationff, Mb. Editor We are happy to see that Philo’s alarm has subsided.for when we read her first communication we truly felt a deep sympathy for her, especially when she ex claims “We boast of the pure, fresh air of out hills, and ’lis a pity that the looks of our people do.not make -good our' boast,’’ and hers was not a “jaundiced eye” you know. But now when she learns that the commu nity are not prepared to receive a humbug apology foe this afflicting state of things, not believing that such general debility as she speaks of is-brought about by “slavery to the needle”, or.by spending, so much time in embroidering for our “darlings”—that the cause may more reasonably be attributed to real evils which do exist among us, at once she breaks forth into a lamentation which if not affecting may perhaps bo called poetical. Hear her! “Should it be known that ws had an epidemic among os' Which finds no healing in the frosts of winter, nor yet in the sweet breezes, nor the suns of summer—our husbands and fathers would take their house hold treasures to some more favored land, &c.” ' A few days ago she wa [ s “saddened” that there was “but woman among us,” and, now'-sshe feels deeply the word “hundreds,” In all candor we ask **What mighty difference can there bo Twbct tweedledum and tweedledoe.” She says “Thin shoes and uncovered heads are imprudcncies which the modesty of the daughters and watchfulness of the mothers should suffice to correct.” We Jcnow it should, wby-does it noil She supposes all danogr’from compressing the lungs long since gone by—“a lady’s am bition now being to occupy as much space as possible.” Then. follows an allusion to “hoops,” their beneficial effects upon the female system, Kilby declared that thresnegroes had come to the house, forced their way in, and had committed the dreadful deed ; but ,lhe suspi cions of the. neighbors were aroused, and, upon questioning him further, he prevaricated and contradicted himself,,and finally he ad mitted that he himself had slain his wife, in order to prevent the negroes from doing it. There can be no doubt that tbe story about tbe negroes is all a fiction, and that Kilby alone committed the crime. A Coroner’s inquest was held,, and after a full examina tion, Kilby was arrested and lodged in the prison at Norristown. It is stated that the murderer was laboring under mania-a-potu when he committed the deed. The murdered woman had an infant , child sleeping in her arms when she wax' slain. When the bqdy was discoysredTihe infant was still clingin]flo Us mother’s breast, its hair and clothing clotted with blood. The hair had to be cut off to release it. Tbe other two- children were crying (or their mother. Beside the fatal wound described above, there were two,, others, one of which extended from the temple down the side of . the face. The body of the murdered woman was interred in the Episcopal burying ground at Norristown. Al LagoSj (he great slave market id Africa, the price paid for two slaves is a roll of to bacco, worth from $25 to $3O. The cost of transporting them to Bavaria is about $75 each, and they bring in that city about $lOOO apiece! A MOTHER