PETER C. HUBER d; JOHN 11. OLIVER EDITORS AND PIIOPDIETODS SO ADVERTISERS Tin itLEIIGH REGISTER" HAS A LARGER mosLATION BY SEVERAL HtINDRED TwiN ANY OTHER ENGLISH PAPER IN pIIE COUNTY. PEOPLE'S STATE CONVENTION. The Citizens of Pennsylvania, who aro opposed to the principles and measures of the present Na tional Administration, and to the election of men to office who sustain those principles and measures, nre requested to moot in their respective Counties, and to Bled Delegates equal in number to their Repre sentatives in the General Assembly, to a PEOPLE'S STATE CONVENTION, to be hold at HARRIS BURG, on Wednesday, February 22d, 1860, at LE M., to indicate their choice for tho next Prost dem., nominate a candidate for Governor, form an Itleetoral Ticket, appoint Senatorial, and to designate the time and mode of electing. District Delegates to the National Convention, and to transact such other business as may be deemed necessary to ensure suc cess at the General Election. LEVI KLINE, Chairman People's Executive Corn. MR. ZACHARIAS LONG, The Democratic Assemblyman from Lehigh and Carbon, has no confidence ia the tariff pro fessions of James Buchanan, and is of the opinion, that no proper protective tariff can be expected from a Democratic Administra tion. In the Senate and House of Representative of Pennsylvania, certain resolutions on the subject of the tariff were considered and flossed for the especial benefit of our Legislators at Washington. The following resolutions were offered WHEREAS, The operation of the present rev nue laws of the General Goverment is rapidly increasing the National Debt, crippling the energies of the nation, retarding public im provements, destroying industrial onterprize, diminishing the value of property, depriving the people of profitable employnient,by en. eouraging excessive inportation of foreign labor, which ought to be produced by our own people, and prolonging a financial crisis caus ed by an excessive foreign trade. AND WunneAs, An immediate alteration of the laivs relative to the duties upon imposts is imperatively demanded to inspire confidence. replenish the national treasury, restore public prosperity, and prevent the constant export of American gold, now annually amounting to the enormous stun of seventy millions of dol lars. Therefore, RESOLVED, by the Senate aud House of Re presentatiVes of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania in Gerneal Assembly met, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to earnestly en deavor, by their votes and influence, to pro cure such a revision of the revenue laws us will restore•the national credit, prevent ex cessive importation of foreign products, and -secure to Anprican labor and. enterprise an am ple reward. \ RESOLVED, That the views of the Governor of this Commonwealth, as expressed in his late Annual Message, in favor of placing the reve nue laws upon such a basis as to aflbrd to our great misting and manufacturing interests the largest incidental protection, and to suhstitnte specific for ad valorem duties on articles which from their nature are of equal or nearly equal value or to change the foreign to a home valu ation, are eminently sound and practical and meet the approval of the Legislature. RESOLVED, That the Governor be requested to forward to each of our Senators and Mem bers of Congress a copy of the foregoing reso lutions. After a pretty thorough discussion, Mr. Bayard, of Allegheny, offered the following amendment, which was unanimously agreed to:— That, while we approve of that part of the President's Annual Message to the last Con gress, expressing a preference for specific over ad valorem duties, we cannot believe those sincere while he retains in office n Secretary of the Treasury who recommended and urged upon Congress an entirely 'different policy ; one destructive to all Pennsylvania interests. Experience proves that no protection can be expected from tae National Democracy who have modified or repealed the only measure which afforded relict since 1842. The Resolutions with the amendment were then adopted by a vote (i 4 against 31, Mr. Long, (Dem.), of Carbon, voting against his party and with the Republicans. We see, that Mr. Long has since ante) ed upon the records, tie reasons for his affirath e vote: that coming f•om a tariff district he supported t the resolution 1 although he disapprovel or the i amendment, vhich states that no proi.er tariff ( measures ea .i be expected from the National. Democracy. , If this were so, why did not Mr. Long vote /against the amendment,, v. - hen he had a chance to vote op its mekts by itsclf. We think the record shoWs, either that Mr. Long did not know what he was voting for. nr that having' voted for measure's, he appr..red, lie wished to escape the consequences of a course: which he knew his party must disrelirh. Mr. Long was said to have been a low tariff man, before he went to Harrisburg, and he has now gOne so far in the opposite directidn, fig to be the only Democrat, who votes in favor of reso lutions, adopted by the oppositon. We should not he surprised, if spend ing the remainder Mille winter at Harrisburg under the instructions ol the Republicans, ho should return home, a convert to the political faith of our party. Connecticut State Convention. The Connecticutßepuhlican Convention met •at Hartford on Tuesday and Wednesday last. Tho Convention was largely attended and was composed of the ablest men, who have met in Convention in the State for years. The pres ent state officers were re-nominated by accla mation. 'A series of decided, yet conservative resolutions, among Others onei'favoring a pro tective tariff, were passed. Delegates were ap pointed to the rational Republican Convention to assemble at Chicago. The best of feeling - prevailed, and the proceedings give assurnriee, that Connecticut will be all right next fall.— The Republican panty is now the bent organ ized and most powerful party in the country, and all its actions betaken a , proud conscious ness of strength and right, and a bold assur ance of expected Victory. SPECIAL ELECTION IN DAUPHIN COUNTY.- In consequence of the death of Mr. Whit- man, elected to the Legislature last fall, from Dauphin County, a special election was hold on Saturday a week since, to fill the vacancy. Mr. William Clarke was the' candidate of the Opposition, and Mr. Shoemaker the candidate of the Democracy. Great efforts were made by the Democracy, and any amount of money spent to regain the ground they had lost. The result, however, has shown, that their efforts were frilitless. The opposition majority was 990. This is but a fore-taste of what all parts of Pennsylvania will, do next fall. r • ARY 2, 1860. JANUARY 23.—1 n the Senate, Mr. Douglas, (Dem.) of Illinois delivered a lengthy speech on resolutions presented by himself, requiring the appropriate Committee to draw up a c bill prbtecting each Territory and State from inva sions by the citizens of every other State and Territory. Mr. Douglas advocated the eonsti tutionalty and expediency of such a bill, charg ed John Brown's invasion of Virginia as be ing the legitimate result of Republican doe- trines, and attempted to refute the " irrepres sible conflict" doctrine of Senator Seward.— Mr. Fessenden, (Rep.) of Maine replied, tra cing the invasion of Virginia by John Brown, and his confederates, and the difficulties, which haire distracted the country. for. the past few years, to the repeal of the Missouri Compro mise, in which Senator Douglas took the lead. In the House, Mr. Barksdale, (Dem.) of Mis sissippi, ip the course of a speech, made the remark,Aat rather than see Sherman elected Speakoe, " let discord reign forever." Mr. Corwin, (Rep.) of Ohio relied, defending the position of the Republican party, and main taining that its doctrines were the same RR those held by the fathers of the revolution. JANUARY 24.—1 n the Senate, Mr. Toombs, (Dew.) of Georgia, in discussing the resolu- tions of Senator Douglas, made a fiery disunion speech, asserting that the success of the Re ptiblicans. would he the cause for a dissolution of the Union, and that the South would never permit a Republican President to take the reins of power. The South Would not wait for acts. Her citizens would meet the Repub licans at the threshhold,nnd drive them back, or tearing down the pillars of the temple of liberty, will whelm all in universal ruin. In the House after a discussion of the views of Judge Douglas as expressed in his late speech in the Senate, Mr. Corwin, (Rep.) of Ohio finished his speech commenced the day before. JANUARY 25.—Mr. Wilson (Rep.) of Massa chnaetts defended the Republican party, treat ing the threat of disunion on the part of Southern men in the event of the election of,a Republican President, as a farce, gotten up for political purposes. In referring to remarks made by Mr. Clay, (Dem.) of Alabama, that he hoped, that the first fruits of the conflict wight be reaped in the Senate Chamber, Mr. IVilson stated, that whilst Northern Senators came to Washington to legislate, and not to tight t any personal assaults, with deadly in tont, would be repelled, by sons, who would not dishonor fathers, who tbught at Bunker's 11111, and who conquered at Saratoga. Though reluctant to enter upon such a struggle, they Would nut abandon it in dishonor. In the House after,,some discussion a ballot was had, resulting as follows : Whole number of votes, I'ls Necessary to n choice, 11)8 Sherman, • 105 Bocock, 51 Smith of North Carolina. , 26 Scattering, 33 JANUARY 26.—1 n the Senate, Mr. Davis, (Dem.) of Mississippi replied to portions of the speech of Senator Douglas. Mr. 'Wilson ( Rep.) of gassachusetts defended himself from criti cisms of Democratic Senators on his speech of ' the day preceding. In the House after a short discussion the thirty-fifth ballot for Speaker resulted as fol lows : Whole number of votes, Necessary to a choice, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Bocock, Mr. Smith of North Carolina, Mr. Davis of Indiana, MeClernand, Two more ballots were had with the follow ing results : Thirty-Sixth Ballot. Whole number of votes, •226 Necessary to a choice, • 114 Mr. Sharman, 110 Mr. Bocock, 55 Mr. Smith, .of North Carolina, 36 Mr. Davis, of Indiana, 7 Scattering to eleven others, 18 Thirty-Serenth Ballot. Whole number of votes, 226 Necessary to a choice,, 114 ,Mr. Sherman, [01) Mr. Bocock, 51 Mr. Smith, of North Carolina, 113 Mr. Gilmer, 4 Mr. Davis, of Indiana, i , Mr. Florence, 4 Scattering to thirteen others, 18 JANUARY 27.—The Senate not in session. In the house, one of the most exciting days of the seAsion wits witnesed. Several Republi cans from Pen . nsylvania had been induced to vote for Mr. Smith, (Southern American) of North Carolina. After this nearly all the Democrats wheeled into line and changed their votes in his favor. The ballot continued three . hours. Many DemOcratic Senators wore on the floor, endeavoring kr-induce men to change their votes in favor of Smith. Finally Messrs. Morris, Junkin, Scranton, and McPherson, of -Pennsylvania, and Nixon of New •Jersey, (Reps.) changed their votes to Sherman, and the following result was announced Whole number of votes, Necessary to' a choice, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Smith, Mr. Corwin. Scattering, Adjourned 'until MOnday A suppleMent to the charter of the Lehigh tntl Delaware Water (fail) Railroad Company has been rend in the lower branch of the Leg islature and is now in the hands of the Coin- • mittee on Railroads. The supplement author, ices the company to construct lateral brunches, nut exceeding ten miles in length, from Shl— mersville Northampton county. Shimersville is three miles distant from Freemanshurg, the terminus of the North Pennsylvania Railroad. The object of the lateral branches is to effect a junction with Easton by a lateral branch in one direction, and by another with Catasatt qua. ,So far as 'we understand publiu . senti ment on the subject in our vicinity, the. prore sed change is highly approYed of. We under stand the report has been circulated in Harris: burg. that not fixe respectable potions in this section of the State are in favor of the propos ed vaendment. Far from this being the case, wo have yet to learn of . a single person in this neighborhood, who has expressed an opinion against the newly proposed railroad route.— We trust, that we may hear at an early date of the passage of She bill, and that arrange ments may be speedily made for the construc tion of the proposed branches. VOTE FOR SPEAKER ON MONDAY. By 7'ele graph.—Wo learn by telegraph from Washing ton, that four Veneta for Speaker were had on Monday, the first resulting as follows Whole number of votes, .XXXVIth CONGRESS Supplement to Charter.' Necessary to a choice, Pennington (Rep.,) Smith (Know Nothing,) Scattering,. .3 The remaining three ballots showed the same results. An , election may be expected this week. Principles of the Republican Party Remarks of Hon. Thomas Corwin of Ohio Delivered in the House of Representatives, at Washington, on Monday, January 25th. Mr. CORWIN, of Ohio, inquired what was the subject under discussion at this time. The CLERK said the question before the House was on the point of order raised by the gentleman from lowa. Mr. CORWIN supposed the speech of 'the gentleman from Mississippi was made upon that point of order, but according to his under standing no speech could he made in reply to it, in order. If he thought it would avail any thing ho would move to vote for a Speaker, for, if they ever did organize, it would be by vo ting. They had been amusing themselves here seven weeks, but the people of this country had begun to look upon their farce as rather serious business, and they ought to begin to think seriously of what they wore doing. Ha had heard plausible arguments against the plurality rule, and had' been told that in a certain event the man they'should elect Speak er would become President of the United States. It was hardly probable, however, that both the Prerident and Tice President would be amia ble• enough to die for the benefit of the Speak er of this House, and though they could not foretell the Providenees of time Almighty, they were hardly justified in taking that coniingeu- Cy into serious consideration. He referred to the excitement growing out of the Helper book, and thought gentlemen ought to be content to take the liberty of the press, which was inseparable from all free tiovernments, with all its uses and abuses, tot- orating its licentiousness for the sake of its blessings. He was sure the excited fancy of gentlemen had greatly overrated the conse quences likely to result from that book ; and, at all events, North Carolina was just as res ponsible for that book on account of her alleg ed act of driving Helper out °rids native State, as Mr. Seward was responsible for the raid of John Brown because ho made a, speech at Ro chester in 1852. Was it really possible that any institution which a correct and enlighten ed community maintains could be overturned by a pamphlet? But all these matters had no more to do with the business for which they had met here than it would have if they were members of fi joint-stock bank company tun could not draw their dividends until they ha( elected a chairman They all had certificates of the fact that they were respectable men, and he hoped they were also sensible men, and they had met here to take care of the estate bequeathed to them by their ancestors, and which it had so often been said was purchased by the blood of our fathers, and the interests of that estate wore not to be weighed with the election of this or that man to preside over them. Mr. Seward, who was looked upon as the great devil of the Republi can party, had never uttered sentiments more offens,tve to the South than the language which had been employed by some of the Fathers of the Republic, who, like Washington, wished if it were possible to see slavery abolished in the United States. There had been n contro vers asto the Bible, but he warned gentle men-both of the 'North and the South that ar guments were to he found in tho'Bible in sup port of both sides of the question. But that good old book he feitired had very little to do with the organization of this House. This tui tion covered only about one-tenth of this poor little dog-kennel of a world, as astronomers would regard it, antiyet they seemed to think that all creation delYended upon the election of John Sherman to stand up in that chair, like " the woodpecker tapping a hollow beach tree." (Laughterl lie hoped - rot God's sake gentle men were nut going to dissolve the Union about the Bible. There was no doubt that sonic of the patriarchs held slaves as property. lligar and her boy were unquestionably sent into the desert by their master, in order to avoid trou ble in the family, with a loaf of bread and a bottle of water, which were rather pour provi sion fur a journey to Canada. The angel of the Lord, who came to Hagar in her distress, told her she was in very bad circumstances, but bade her not to be discouraged, but pick up her boy again and hold him in her hands, for he was destined to bo a great tillibuster.— [Laughter.) The angel told her further that she had better go back to 'her master, and he supposed if, Lloyd Garrison or Wendell Phil lips had been that angel she would have been advised to take her boy 'arid make tracks for Canada. [Laughter.] That very Abraham who was the father of that boy had another family, which was afterwards sold into slave ry and staid . there. 470 years, at the end or which the Almighty repealed the fugitive slave hill, and they left the land ofEgypt. [ Laugh ter.] The Endo taught plainly that the institu tions of government are to be obeyed by all good citizens. In a country like ours espeeial iy, where every man has a voice in making the laws, they ought to yield a i.eally• obedience to the laws, and that he asserted was the doctrine of the Republican party. Ile referred to the theory of the races springing from the children of. Noah. Ile thought it singular that the grand-children or the same progenitor should differ so widely in appearance, but if the theo ry were correct we must admit that the negro is our cousin, and we ought to treat him like a gentleman. lie agreed with the distinguished statesman from Georgia, a member of the last Congress, (Mr. Stephens.) that if slavery was not better for the white man it's well as the black man they hail better not have it, and ATM certain that it' was not good to have ne groes in Ohio. It was better that there.should be no black men where the white melt can do the work. • Ile wished there were a himdred millions of white men at the South instead of only eight milliens,•for ours was the happiest people in all the tide of time, or at least we should be, but that, having no foreign enemies, we.see fit to quarrel with dhe another. The Republican party claimed, as did the Democratic party down to 1852, that Congress had power under the Constitutit in of the United States to pro hibit slavery in the Territorie, and that it is the duty of Congress to exert that power wher ever slavery does not already exist. Such Was the doctrine or the founders of this Govern ment, and he believed Vh.ginia herself propos ed to make it a itondititni that all the Territo ries ceded by her should be threver free from slavery. ,s5 l Mr. COMA X.. of Indiana. said he had look ed up the history of lb.' whole matter.' In 1784 the State of Virg ma, through commis sioners, ceded the Nerthwestern Territory to the United States. mid immediately after that cession Thomas Jeffer., , ou, the Virginia dele gate who hail signed the deed of cession, ro portitd to Congress au ordinance for the goy eminent of -all the Territories of the United States down to the 3•2i1 parallel, which was then the southern boundary of the whole Uni on. And that ordinance provided' that after the year 1800 slavery should not exist in any of those Territhries. This Ordinance only fail ed by not receiving the vote of a majority of the states. as required by the Articles of Con federation. Mr. MILLSON, of Virginia, remarked, in regard to the opposition of the early fathers of the Republic to slavery, that it was anterior to the,abolition of the Al`rican slave trade, and as it were while standing in the living presence of the victims of that horrible traffic that their opinions were formed. They would naturally and almost inevitably regard slavery as the motive at least of that criminal system of rit pine and felony, hut slavery was not then what rt is now—a social system established between two classes of our own. native population, and intended to promote the welfare and happiness of both; an institution of society , establishing ajust and wise subordination and dependence between two races living together in harmony, who socially never could be equal, and whom, therefore, political equality would convert into fierce and implacable enemies. Mr. CORWIN said that was precisely what he was about to say,_ [Laughter,] only much bettor expressed. - Those who passed the ordi nance of - 1787 did believe that the best thing they could do for the people of the now States to bo 'formed from those Territories was to pro hibit slavery there.. • He knew that Virginia had othei reasonsas, for instance, she desired to keep her own peo ple at home, and was afraid the rich lands of 226 114 tO9 •)os 115 1011 112 BEI he Northwest would entice her eminent men away. • But ho could not suppose this to be the controlling motive with those eminent men.-- We might as ,welt consider them anti-slavery men. They called themselves Republicans, and the Republicans of the present day, who claimed to be only following their example, ought not to he blamed for that. They thought the best condition for the support of free insti tution was that whore the labor of the country may be performed by freemen. He was not considering whether they were mistaken or not; lie only proposed to show that this much abused Republican party was acting now pre cisely like those mon who in 1787 forbade slavery in all that region. This was not a question of a few paltry dollars' worth of prop erty, but a question of what shall be the fate of the generations after generatibns who shall live in those Territories thrang:ll- all the erns and periods of man's history in the world. The fathers might have been wrong, but the Repub licans ought not to be blamed for !nixing an affectionate regard for the memory of those old gentlemen. The North and the South had unfortunately lost confidence in each other, and he supposfid there were not ton men in the South who would believe even what he said.— It was a mistake to think they had diverse and opposing interests. Whatever is for thecnter est of Alabama is also lin• the interest of the Empire State of Ohio. His collengueWfr. COX ) had spoken or a meeting of RepabhMns ,in Ohio, and with the mime, power charac teristic of that rising young man ho imitated the nasal twang of those Yankees On the Re serve whe joined in singing the Markeillnise. No doubt it sounded ridiculous to him. So the same nasal tivtig sounded ridiculous to the army of Prince -(`'pertwhen the ancestors of those very men at Marston Morn• marched into battle with the mailed chivalry of Erig land. When Cromwell wheeled the iron regi ment of Puritans into battle, the same nasal - _ twang rang out at that time, " The s-w-a-r-d of the L-a-r-d and of Gideon," (laughter ;I .and Prince Rupert and his chivalry were over thrown. These were the men who estahlished civil liberty in England, brought it to this 1111141, and defended it at Bunker Hill, as they would do again it . necessary. It was a hard matter to deal avith men who believed that God Almighty encamps round about them with his angels. The man who helieves that he meets thee t lime with Jehovah' had better not be troubled much in peace or in war. Ile next referred to the constitutional Power CongreSs 'dyer the Territorie's, denying that the Supreme Court had ever decided against the existence of such a power. Ile had till doubt they would so decide if they hail chance, but he hoped Refire they did so they would hear an argument—trout 3lr. Burlin game and himself'. Congress dill right in not exelnilim , slavery from the Louisiana pur- loTaase there the inNtitetinn wav gear antied he treaty. He reviewed the history the Lutiisiona . .purehnse •Uhl the treaty will Franee at wane length. \Vherever slavery ex Wed. he said, the l'atlierA of the Republic al lowed it to remain, but wherever it did not ex ist they prohibited it. Mr. LAMAR, or Mi4siasippi. asked if it ex isted in Arkancas at that time. Jlt•. CORW IN. It did. NA d inch of i but still it was there, and ;tt•nund that mullet wits founded and•extended. But the. were antiquarian researches. Ile held that the mon of 18D) understood these matters. and heettuse they would nut destroy the right of property in slaves they excluded slavery Only hoot the northern part of the purchase. where slavery had no foothold. It was not to be en believed those old fathers of the Repubhe believed they were violating the Constitution iu passing this anti-slavery ordinance, or that those statesmen who conceded the constitu tionality of the Missouri compromise in 1820 were doing it willful wrong. lie discussed the constitutional power of Government over the Territories at length. maintaining that Congress is the law-making - power of the Ter ritory until it becomes a Stab). and that slave ry is entirely the creature of local law. He had not concluded his remarks,; when, At rive minutes past 4 o'clock, the ntse adjourned. Mr. CORWIN, al/160, addressed the Ilmise in continuation of his romarks of yesterday.— lle was yesterday saying that the Reptihlieans should be excused for standing upon the same ground as that nerupied by Jelferson, Madison. and Monroe. If those gehtlemen were 'right the Republican party of to-day was right; if they were wrong then the Democratic party of to-day Was wrong. Jefferson's Notes on Vir ginia, the writings allonym) Washington, and even the debates in the Virginia Convention on the Constitution were just as likely as Mr. Seward's Rochester speech to have incited John Brown to the commission of his crimes in Vir ginia. They had been told that clergymen in Illinois had preached anti-slavery sermons. and it was said Senator Douglas proposed to put a stop to that by law. God help the Gov ernment of the Ynited States when to protect itselt it has to walk. into the pitipit!4. down the ministers of the Gospel, and tell them be- Ibre they can perform their divine mission they must go and consult a lawyer and pay him live dollars. lie contended that his colleague (Mr. Sub:lL- if ) hail Oil &gently explained his endorse ment of the Helper book, and declared that no freeman could he frightened out of legitimate ' exercise of his right of suffrage by threats of disunion or any thing else. The moment their votes should be controlled by their fears they would become serfs. I r the Republicans wore traitors 11ni entertaining their anti-slavery opin ions, then let the South dig up and gibbet the remains of Jefferson, and.spit upon and throw into the Potomite'the unrotted bones of Wash ington. lie reviewed the doctrines of the Re- . publican party, which he claimed were identi cal with those of the fathers or the Republic, and maintained that the Censtitutioti of the United States authorized Congress to legislate on the subject of slavery in the Territories. either to prohibit or exclude the institution. He quoted from the records to show that Mis souri compromise of 1820 was approved by all the members of the Cabinet, including Mr. Calhoun. If the Republican party, therefore, were traitors and enemies'of the South, then were Mr. Monroe and all the distinguislusl tacit Nvho formed his Cabinet also traitors and . of the South. He referred to the legislation of Congress on the subject of laying in the Territories to show that the very men who framed the Constitution believed that it gave them control of that subject, and cited frian early decisions or the Supreme Court maintaining this view. Thus the three great branches of the llovernment had agreed upon the subject, and the Republican party were 'guilty of nothing but concurring in the views they hail allirmecb It was shown, then, that the men who for Med the Constitution acted upon that power of Congress if it were in the Constitution, that the legislative branch of liovernment legislated upon it down to 1850, and that the Federal Judiciary so decided it as concerning the legal relations of persons down to 1853. And it was net till 1854 that that power was first renounced by the Democratic party. In 1854 the I /mummy departed from the eempromises of 1850, with which he Ibr ono war , very well satisfied. Mr. WINSLOW. of North Carolina, naked if the gentleman from Ohio would give way for a vote for Speaker ? • Mr. CORWIN would give way at any time for a vote. Mr. HICKMAN, of Pennsylvania. I ob ject. Mr. CORWIN proceeded to show that the Democratic party had changed. front on this' slavery question. They had wandered away into the worship of all sorts of disabolical di vinities, in which he had no sort of confidence. He quoted from anti-slavery resolutions of the Democratic party of Ohio a few yehrs ago, in which it was declared that slavery is an evil and ought to ho,eradicated. That meant that slavery where it is grubbed up by the roots, and he presumed that John Brown had read these resolutions of the great Democratic par ty of Ohio. , Mr., VALLANDIGHAM, of Ohio, desired to read some resolittions of a previous Democratic Convention in Ohio. , Several gentlemen on the Republican side objected. Mr. CORWIN himself read the resolutions and proceeded to comment upon them, Hav ing been carriedentives to Babylon in 1848, the Democracy had now suddenly waked up to the beauty and F lory of slavery, and had de fended that institution with all the zeal of new converts. The history of the Democratic par, ty showed that iL had changed it's opinions once in eight yearol , If this House should ever be organized the Republicans would try conclu sions with men of the South, and if they declar ed that the Union shall be dissolved in the event of the election of a Republican Presi dent they should see where. the treason really •lies. Ile hold that every member here was re ally the representative of every man, woman, and child in the whole Confederacy. In that view, with paternal regard for the interests of the whole country, they could no ail in the discharge of their duty to exert their Ivistitn- Goma power by consecrating the Territories of the Union to freedom and free labor. If slavery existed in a Southern Territory in which the white man cannot work, he would not favor its expulsion from such Territory. He gave his own views on the subject of sla very. He believed the finger of God was in it, as in' all the institutions of men, and that it was designed to work out the elevation of the African race. As soon as the race became fit for liberty, they would achieve it in some way or other. He believed the slavery agita tion would not exist ten hours if Congress would resolve not to acquire any more territo ry 14 the next ten years. He had been through two or throe of these periodic disso lutions of the Union, and yet the -Union was stronger .than ever. He warned the . South not to trust the Northern people to legislate for the Territories upon the idea of popular sovereignty, for the Yankees, when they found the status of n Territory was to be decided by its first inhabitants, would be sure to be thwe first inhabitants. This popular sove:e Anty had been tried in Kansas and found waiting. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. JANUARY 23.—1 n the Senate a bill was read to prohibit more effectually the circulation of Bank. bills' of a less denomination that five Dollars. Among a number of local bills, supplement to the charter of the Eastern Iron Company after considerable discussion was stsseil. In the House a Humber of local bills were stlisiderotl. 'JANUARY 24.--111 the Senate petitions for personal liberty bill !presented. Mr. Welsh (Dem.) of York presented the memorial ofJohn IL W heeler of North Carolina, praying the Corn mtmwealth to condemnify him Ihr slaves lost several years ago in Philadelphia. It will he recollected, that whilst passing through Philadelphia-as Allister In one of the South A merle:in 'Republicans with several negro slaves a nutnbor escaped through the aid of some white and colored persons, who rescued them. A bill was reported, authorizing the electors of Low hill township, Lehigh County, to hold their general and special elections at the public Muse of Jonas Seibert. In the House a number of hwo hiii•J consid ered. JA sr Any :23.—1n the Senate Mr. Schindel read a Nupplement to the charter orthe Ironton Railroad Company, authorizing an extension to Sieg,ersvillo. . . In the llouse a number of local bills consid ered and pregentod. JANUA Ily the Senate a ainnher local bills \Fere presented. :NIT. Miller pre seined a bill to prevent recovery for Pales ndnit(+rnted liquors. In the llou4e a number of local hint.; c airier* l. A bill relating to mechanic's and authorizing a lien for work and labor done and materials furnisltsd in an addition or im- prm ement n building was reported favorably he the committee. Vas - dnim Sherman. the Ilepublican cant late 1;a. Speaker, is thus hastily sketched by etter-writer : '• Ito is a tall. thin, brown-haired and sharp featured mutt of the lymphatic billions temper ament, has the most admirable temper too, per haps, control of temper would come nearer the mark. His sharp, billions face, and deep-set, subtle gray eyes give indications that there must be both physical and nervous irritability at work within ; but the lymph in his veins is like cold water poured on every fire, and though the embers of natural 'wrath may be smoulder ing within, there is no combustible red globules in his blood to furnish aliment for any external flame. Correct, courageous, impulsive and im perturbablealways courteous, always digni fied, and laborious to a miracle." A !)Av All' STATE CONVENTIONS.—TIie rehruary, tho atiniversary of thj birth Washington, will be a great day this year fi the holding of State Conn entions. The Oppo sition Convention of Tennessee will meet it Nashville ; the Democratic Convention of lowa will meet in Des Moines: the Demotaatic Con tention of Michigan will meet at Detroit; the Whig Convention of North Carolina will meet in Raleigh ; the Republican Convention of Pennsylvania will meet in Harrisburg; the Opposition Convention of Virginia will meet in Richmond, and the Republican Convention of Indiana will meet in Indianapolis. DELEE:ATES TO THE CONVENTIoN.— We learn froth the. Bucks County Intelligeneer that a county meeting will he hell by the op position of Bucks County at Doylestowa, on Tuesday February 7th next at 12 o'clock noon the purpose of selecting in conjunction wi . ) Lehigh County two delegates to the National Convention to assemble at Chicago, Wednesday the 18th of June next. The opposition ot• Le high have already selected live conferees to meet an equal number from Bucks County for setpetion of the delegates designated. THE PRES] DENT RESPUNI/I ISLE. FOR Mow N'S RA I D.—it is stated, that the leading Republicans at Washington have conclusive proof, that President Buchanan knew for months beforehand of John Brown's intended invasion of Virginia. If so, why did not the President jalose his knowledge and prevent the blood-shed? lOWA STATE IIErITOLICAN CONVENTION.—The Republican State Convention of lowa met last week and selecrod delegates to the National Republican Convention to assemble at Chica go. A majority of the delegates are said to be favorable, to the tnomination of the Hon . Simon CanMron, at present our United Stutee Sena- Vim, fur the Presidency. THE UNioN.—The Union cannot ha dissolv ed and nobody but demagogues ever dare to hint at such catastrophe. Let Locofocos re main in power and the Union is safe—turn them out and it is sArEa—keep them out • aud it is SAFEST.—Baltintore Patriot. • PRICES or PRODUCE is NE w YORK.—On Wednesday common to extra State flour sold at $5 to $5.30 per barrel : cemmom to extra Western, $5 to $0.35 ; extra a enesee, $5.50 to $7.50 ; extra St. Louis, 85 to $7.50.; rye flour, $3.75 to. $4.45 ; corn meal, $3.80 to $3.20. Wheat—The range of Prices was from $1.12 up to $1.40, and $l.OO tin• some choice white Ken tucky; rye, 90 to 91 cents; corn, 78 to 81 cents. Ilops—GrOwth of 1859, 10 cents per pound ; growth of 1858. about 8 'cents. Mess pork, $10.02 Qer barrel ; prime, $11.75 ; prime mess, $l5 to Sl7. Country Mess beef, $5 to $5.25 : country prime, $4 to $4.25; repacked We'stern, $9 to $9.75 ; extra mess, $10.50 to $ll. Live beef cattle sold at sto 10 cents aver 'age 7} cents. Our Washington Correspondence. WASHINGTON, January 28, 1860. The community here was considerably star tled, one flay last week, by the announcement that Extra Billy Smith had appeared in the House of Representatives—in a full rig of Vivi ginia honie-spun I I said, startled—and what for? 'Why people here thought that all trade between the North and South had'now, hence forth and forever ceased, utterly ceased ; in short, that Northern manufacturers had all been knocked " sky-high" by this event. The democrats of course said it was all because these obstreperous - Northerners would'nt vote the democratic pro-slavery ticket. And the know ing ones they winked, and said nothing. But the fin a le set matters all right again. It was nacertained, to a certainty, a few days there after, that Extra Billy's suit of Virginia home spun had betin actually manufactured in Con necticut! The dealer who sold him the suit acknowledged, without reserve, that the ma terial had been manufactured in that State.— I should'nt wonder if this unsuspecting dealer in Virginia (?) homespun was suspected of en tertaining abolition sentiments, and arrested and imprisoned for daring to entertain thoughts conflicting with the " peculiar institution. On Monday, in the Senate, Stephen A. Dou glas delivered himself of a long speech—a real " dirt-eating" speech. Ile mounted the Har per's Ferry "hose" and attempted to ride him "right into the jaws of the Presidency." lle bids high for the presidential chair, but there's no use, the nullifiers have resolved not to have him. In the House, (saute day,) Mr. Corwin, ct Ohio, made a speech of tut hour, in the course of which he indulged in considerable humor, and expressed his surprise that the nation should be convulsed about the mere question of the election of a - Speaker. In other mat ters of joint interest he could not conceive that any body of men would sit together six Weeks and not determine who should be their chairman—who should have the honor to sit like "a woodpecker tapping the hollow beech tree." He then went into a grave argument, introducing many historical incidents to show that the fathers of the Republic, who directed the early legislation of the country, had some knowledge of what they were doing, and .Im derstood the bearing of the Constitution fram ed by their own hands. It was only in 1854 that Congress omitted, in the government of the Territories, to reserve the right to revise, approve, or reject the legislation of the Terri torial Segislatures. On. Friday of last week, Mr. Sherman was called out' by a remark of Mr. Clark, of Mis s,nwi, and made a few well-timed and dignified remarks. Mr. Sherman is nn eloquent ,Speak er and ready debater, and every ,word he utters seems hi have a telling effect. lle demonstrates conclusively that the violent opposition meld rested towards him was for no other reason than ,hat lie was a Republican. The following 'barge, against Mr. Sherman by Mr. Hindman I Dem.) is his whole find sole olh'nse Mr. Hindumn.—l charge the gentleman with hav ing advocated on this floor a proposition to delude =lovely from the Territories by congressional Ivgis -I:itiun. 1 charge him with having stigmatized south ern slavery HA injurious and a crime. Nit. SIIERMAN.—In other words, I am charged uith being a Republican. This is my offense—none other. I never sought to invade the rights of ,:oxilliern States. 1 hove my opinions oil the subject er Slavery in the Territories. and. at a proper time lam willing to define them. 1 never made 'but one speech on the suhjeot Slavery, and that, was upon what I regarded as an improper remark in the Mei age or President Pierce in ISA.' 1 then spread up ou the records my opinions upon the subject, and 1 Mid no man to call those opiaions in question. Th'ey are the opinions or the body of the Republican party to-day, and they aro ike opinions I now entertain. Now, if a man is not tit to hold office, lie ause he is opposed to the extension or that stupendous and arrogant despotism, (slavery) which has put down freedom of speech and free ,bon or the press in nearly every Southern State, :Intl which has tined, imprisoned, maltreated awl murdered those, who dared to assert that prerogative, (liberty of conscience,) which at one time in the history of our country, at least, was thought the bulwark of American liberty—ir, I say, it is the aim and ol6eet of the slave-democraey tu crush out all these, even the right to think.) then the sooner they carry into elicit their threats or disunion, the Lotter for future generations. Let them with draw at 0114 . 0 and emigrate to the Feejee islands, where they will meet with savages ;titer tlieir own hearts. The " reign or terror" still eontiottes thrOugh out the South. Scareely a day passes lint what some poor wanderer enters our city, un hic Way toward the north star, fleeing from Ow despotism or the modern Robespwrres and buttes and their ignerant and besotted ca walk, the chiealry or the South. It is not enough ' -for them that they rob these men of their lib erty, in the name of Democracy, but they also lespoil them of their property—all, all must be left behind; they are told by these despots that they ought to be thankful that they es ,atie with their lines. And these exiles tell us t hat not one-fourth of the murders that are daily wrpetrated in the South ever mine to light ; that eternity alone eon reveal The whole truth. And, yet, in ti n t face or all these facts, we are asked hy the Democraey to extend this " glo rious," this "beneficent institution" over the virgin Territories of the West. Mr. Roger A. Pryor, of Virginia, pitched into Bennett of the New York Heigh!, one day last week, at a tremendous rate, bemuse Ben net took him to task for trying to get John Hick man to light a duel with him (Pryor). Thieve is no danger that any Republican will be caught in any of the snares or these democratie duel ists Not at all. They know the aim and object of these duellists too well-4hey rentember the dying words of Senator Broderick : " They killed me because I was opposed to the extension of slavery, and a corrupt admin istration." LEHIGH.. A NOI HER HAll.lalnu AICIDENT.—TIIO BRIDE of AN IlijUlt KII.LED. - 011. Wednesday after roon'of last week the express train from Alba ny was approaching this city with an engine so lefective that it required frequent stoppages to make repairs. When two tittles ninth of Tar rytown, tt became disabled, and the traiu was brought to a full stop. after turning a sharp curve which entirely shut it out from the sight or ally train that might follOw it. A man was ent back with a signal of danger to intercept an expected train front Sing Sing, but he was so slow in his movements, stopping to skip stones upon the ice, that the Sing Sing train came tliundering around the curve at full speed, without having had any warning t and llefore the engitteer could stop the speed of the engine it ran nito the roar of the express train. entirely demolishing the two rear ears, wound ing some dozen or fifteen persons, ono or whom, a lady. Mrs. 'l'. W. Field, died a few hours af ter. 'Bishop Mcelosky, of the Catholic church. was also badly injured, and was careo for by the Catholic priest of that !dace. Mrs. Thomp son, the hank note reporter: or Wall street, had one of her legs broken, and was Iltherwiso se riously injured. The maiden liame of Mrs. - Field, who was killed, was Miss Anna Tuthill: She was the principal of one of the Brooklyn public Sch o ols, a beautiful and accomplished lady of about 26 years or age, and the 'daugh ter of Mr. James Tuthill,. of Bloomingrove. Orange county.- She was married to Mr. T. W: Field at the residence of her sister in Kings ton, that morning, and nt the time she met her sad fate was cif her wedding tour to Wash itorton. FORNEY AND DOUOLAS.--eld. John \V. For ney, in n late review of Senator Douglas' course for the Inst fe(v years, says : "Much that STEPUEN A. DOrOLAS has done in all theSe things has ,not. met our approba tion. Some of his movements during the be compton .battle we have resisted and opposed. We do not agree Oh hint in an nneonditional submission to the decree of the Charleston Con vention. It may be that circumstances will find us hereafter radically opposed, mfe to the other, but, in comparing him With other pub lic men, we nre.compellecl topy that we ad mire the aggregate of his character. We do not beliere the Charleston - Convention will nom inate hint. 'MEETING OF EXECUTIVE Coultirril.—A meeting of the County Executive ComMittec will be held at the public House of Simon Shoemaker in the Borough of Moans, on Sat urday thellth inst., at 10 o'clock A. M. A punctual attendance is desired. LOCAL AFFAIRS. Mann Poon .11ouss of Berke county is said to be fall of inmates, as well as the luna tic department. *e...The " ReAmno DAILY TIMES', came out ad Monday a week in a new suit of type, giv ng to it a much improved appearance. M.We were requested to tante that the Roy. Mr. Heim, will deliver a sermon to Young Men, on Sunday evening next, in the German Evangelical Church. 12ex,..Lectures on the Pilgriva's Progreso in the Presbyterian Church. The next lecture will he delivered on Sabbath evening next, February ith, by the Pastor. Subject—Van ity Fair. la VI DEND.—Tho Morris Canal and Bank ing Company have declared, from the earnings of the canal, a :semi-annual dividend of five per cent, upon the preferred stock, and two per cent, on the consolidated stock. GOT THEIR ARMS.—Ay or der of the Ad jutant General of the Commonwealth, the arms and accoutrements of the Cleaver Artiller ists of Mauch Chunk, recently disbanded, wero handed over to the National Greys of Easton. DEATH FROM EATING MATCHES.—A little girl, aged about two years, daughter of Owen Reich of 'Easton, died lately after an ill ness of a few days caused by dating several lu cifer matches. .. LECTURE.—The next lecture in the course before the Young Men's Christian Association of the Borough of Allentown will be delivered by our fellow townsman, Robert E. Wright. Esq. Our citizens may expect a rare treat.— The time for the lecture bail not yet been an nounced. TILE BEERS COUNTY AGRICTLTURAL SOCIETY.—It has been decided by The Betio; County Agricultural Society to hold the annu al exhibition on the last Tuesday of Septem ber of each and every year. The Exhibition next fall will be held on Tuesday, Wednes day, Thursday and Friday, the 25th, 20th, 27th and 28th of September. LECTURE IN MAUCII CHUNK.—CoI. Andrew G. Curtin, one of the 'prominent can didates of the People's Party for Governor next fall, will deliver a public lecture in Mauch Chunk Borough on Tuesday evening, the 7th inst. We understand that the Lectur er will be in Allentown during the afternoon of the same day and will leave for Mauch Chunk by the evening train. ALLENTOWN AND AUBURN RAIL ROAD.—We tern from the Reading daily Times that the citizens of Schuylkill county held, a meeting last week and subscribed $20,000 to the stock of the Allentown and Auburn Railroad. Auburn and vicinity and Port Clinton and vi cinity will in all probability subscribe $8 or 510,600. in Pottsville, $23,000 are already subscribed, by nut over forty persons. 'fill', /NTINENTALS.—This Band, now o well and favorably known ' throughout the otintry, last Monday evening favored a crowded louse at the Odd Fellows' Hall with one of heir delightful entertainments. The Conti lentals visited Allentown before, and every lew appearance, they make in our midst. seems mt to add to the size of the nudience, who :taller to listen to their 'songs and music. . THE LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.— The 1.41.11101 Valley Railroad Company brought (lawn Ibr the week sliding, Saturday. the 21st. 111,000 tons of coal, against 9,83-1 tons 14 the corresponding week last year, making for the season, commencing December Ist, 05,- 242 tons, against 67,3:31 tons to corresponding period last year. being an increase thus far flr the season d' 27,8117 tons of coal. 8:15 tons of pig iron were also carried over the road for the week ending same date. MUCII TO BE DESlRED.—Petitions froni a large number of persons of Catasauqua and vicinity have sent to the Legislature praying lie an Act of Assembly requiring the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company to station a flagman at the crossing over their road near Biery's Bridge at Catasauqua. The crossing is one of the most dangerous crossings on the road, and sir readers may recollect that Mr. Charles Noll' of Catasauqua was injured -at this point several years since, for which he received dam, ages of the Company. The case is now pend ing in the Supreme Court. AWFM PT AT LA 'ICES V.—On Saturday evening, last, Messrs. Roth and Miekly of the tine of Roth, Miekly ,f• Co. in returning to close their grain Willl4lollse at the corner of Linden and Ninth Ms., in the Borough of Allentown, discovered that several drawers had been open ed by sows person for the purpose Of robbery. It would appear, that some person secretly fintnd his way into the storehouse, and secret ed himself among..some grain bags, and during their absence endeavored to commit a robbery. Fortunately their was no money in the draw , ens at the DEATH FROM . Fl It E.—A child of !Nigh nuut porney, luring near Wesem‘sville, South Whitehall township Le.high County, met with an ae.cident on Tuesday of last week, which resulted in death. The following are the mel ancholy circumstances. The' mother left the child, a girl bet %Veen one and two years °lnge, in the cradle and went to the barn, in order to attend to some matters there, requiring her care. Until* the absence' of the mother the child got out of the.cradle, procured a piece of paper and lit it at the stove and accidentally set tire to her clothing. Upon the return- of the mother the child was found badly burned, one arm was burned "to a crisp and parts of the body were.also badly injured by the fire. The child lived but three hours after the acci dent. The cud. affitir teaches the necessity of taking proper carp of children, when tire ie within their reach. NEW COINAG E.—The dime will' appear in a new and improved dress in the early part of the present year. The present wreath on the reverse will give place to a more appropri ate and national one, being _a festoon compos ed of the chief productitins of our country, In terspersed with oak leaves, as emblematic of strength and durability. The legend, "United States of America," will, be transferred from the reverse of the coin to the principal side. The device on the .reverse is not otherwise changed, but the execution of the dies is some what improved. The device upon the half diMe will conform in, all particulars, except the denomination ofthe coin, to the The cent, also, With anew reverse on the new year. A much improved wreath. etimposed of oak leaves, takes the place of toe present one, and is surmounted by • the national shield, or "artnhrial achievement," as it_is termed in the resolution of Congress, of Juno 20, 1782. gi-D - BILL SIGN ED.L.-Governer Pucker has signed the Supplement to the Charter of tho Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Sinking Spring. Berke county, which passed the Legis lature last \reek, and it is therefore now a law. This bill corrects a clerical error that occurred in the supplement to the charter of the Com pany, passed at the last session. It passed the House in the form desired by the memberti, end was sent to the Senate, where it was also passed with a proviso flint hereafter the said Company shall not insure any property outside of the Ihnits of Redo+ cOunty." The supple ments was irithis shape returned toThe House, but the House refused to concur in the amend ment. By some mistake, it went to the Gov ernor with the odjectionable clause not strick en, out, and was returned a law. • Prior to this, insurance had been effeetekin this Company, outside of Berks to nearly 'throe millions of dol lars. The supplement. as now passed, repeal. thin objectionable (.111114, and restores to the Company their original right to insure proper ty outside of forks county,—Reading Mizell.
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