Williams vs. Ash, 1 Howard, I; Rhodes vs. Bell, 2 Howard, 397. It is intended to es tablish, by these authorities, that the same tribunal which decreed the Dred Scott case against the citizenship of The negro, admit ted the point in permitting him to be a plain -tiffin the cases cited. This conclusion is not warranted by the premises, and is found ed on an erroneous impression of the powers and jurisdiction of the Court in which the errors, complained of, originated. These cases were not taken from any United Slates court existing within the limits of any of the sovereign Slates of this cocfederacy, but arorS in a United States court, holtfen in and lor the District of Columbia, in the county of Washington. The conns of the United Slates, within the limits of the several States, are .ccurta of limited jurisdiction. With some exceptions, not material to the ques tion,- in order to sustain an action in these tribunals, it is necessary that the plaintiff should be u citizen of a different Slate from lhe*oue in which the action is brought. 11 hfbe not a citizen of u different Slate, the Slate courts have jurisdiction; for the respec tive Stales have itio general potvurs of sov ereignly within their otvtt limits. But the United States courts, when sitting within the Disttict of Columbia, or within any of the Territories, ro courts of unlimited jurisdic tion. No Stale sovereignty exists there to interfere with their jurisdiction. Such Uni ted States courts have, therefore, nit the pow rrs of the Stale courts and the United Stales courts combined, subject only to the inherent ; powers granted to them by the act of Con gress which created them. It follows, that it is not necessary, in any United States court, either within the District ol Columbia, or within any Territory, for the plaintiff either to aver, or prove, thai lie is a citizen of any Stale, or of the United Slates. He may main- ! tain his action in such courts without being ' a citizen. A nego may, thereinto, maintain a suit in the United Stales conit for lite Dis trict of Columbia. No quesiion of citizen ship can arise to defeat the jurisdiction. The cases cited in the majority report, where ne groes have been permitted to maintain ac lions nt law, are all from the District ol Co lumbia. They have, therefore, no applica tion, whatever, to the question. They utter ly fail to prove the doctrine for which they aro cited. No one, having a proper acquaint- ! uttce with the constitution of our National | and Slate governments, would present litem for the purpose of proving 'hat a negro is a citizen of the United States, competent to maintain an action in a court w here such citizenship was necessary to give jurisdic tion. After a careful examination of the whole subject, we aro forced to conclude, that a j negro, free or slave, is not a citizen of the / United Slates within the intent and meaning | ol the 2d section of the 4ih article ol the constitution. Guided by the "past history"*! , of our government and enlightened by the ! , "judicial prccedints' cnum. in'ed, the minor- ] , itv of onr committee clearly recognize the j i wisdom and sound policy of the recent do- j vision of the Uniied Stales Supremo Court in ! reference to the lirst point raised in this is- | sue. 2. The second question decided by the 1 Court, is susceptible ol just ns clear and , logical demonstration. It i< necessary lor us 1 tit this time, to enter into any examination j •it the rise and progress ol negro slavery in tha United Suites. How it camo here, or I w hat is us moral or political influence upon society, ato matters with which we have I nothing to do. Thai it exists ir. fifteen States in this Union, is an indisputable fact, and thai the right of property in a slave is recog nized by the Constitution and guaranteed to every Stale, is just as positively settled and established. "This," says Chief Jusiico Ta- j ney. "is in language too plant to be tnisun- t dcrnooit." i In taking a historical view of (ids question, wo find that in England, this patticular point engaged the attention of tho courts as far back as the y ear 1749. At that period Lord Chancellor Hardwicke.sitting tn a high court of chancery, held, that "a slave coming from tha West Indies, either will or tiuhout hts master, to Great Britain, dotii not become ftce, and that his master's property or right in him, is not thereby determined or varied." The next case adjudged in the English courts, was the celebrated Somerset case, in which Lord Maastie'J delivered the famous opinion thai has connected his name inseparably with that important trial. Tne tacts in this causes , which may be found at length in 20 Howell", ; State Trial*, 1-80. a-e by no means the same which occur in ths Dred Scott issue.— Somerset, negro s'ave, raiseJ in A irginia. was taken by his master to Eugland. and while in London, n here black slavery did rot exist on a writ of Aahaae corpus, was set at liberty by Lord Mansfield. "His Lord ahip," asya <u> intelligent writer upon this subject, "discharged htm in England under thaiocal law of that country. As to whether Somerset would have been entitled to his discharge if he had uot been taken from England in o slave territory, was not before tho court. Ha did r.ot pretend to dec.de whatber slavery, under such circumstances, wonid have re-attached, because that ques tion could not be raised upon the facts. Again, we find this point reviewed in the case of ihe slave Grace, before the H.gh Ad- ( mirality Court of England, and with Lord Ftowei on the bench, reported iu 2 Hazzard's British AdmirJty Reps. The facts wete substantially as teliows. ' Grace was held as a save iu the island of Aotigua. und was taker to London by ber misucss, Mrs A',en. as her servant Mre. AJieo. on her return fron London to Antigua, took Grace wuh her. tx .er ihis s ale of facts, proceed:, gs were in- :.used against Mr. A lso ia the Vice Court of Ad mieany of Aangaa, charg.ng him with hav ing Ofuuwriuiy imported us a slave, irorc Great B.IJOIO, tcno tbe island, a free sttyec' of hi* majesty, ag&ias: ike a:a;a. The \ ice Coast •< Ac mi ruby decided, as; Grace was aot fcuu by reason of ber visit ro Ertgiart J, j und gave judgment for the defendant, where upom *c appeal wss taken to tbe High Coort of AffmauhtFa of Kng.and Tt s: cocrt sns umoff AoAecimss, o&d gave judgmec: for deteniaw: wish eons la ja aiamtaing fha docmoa of the conn Lord Saowc! mid: "The objection, therefore, which consti tutes the foundation of this suit, and the ground of unlawful treatment, is, that she was a free subject of his majesty, und under that character urtfawftilly imported as a slave, and was eo Created. Now, this averment must be pToved. * * # # If she cannot plead with truth that she is a free subject, there is no ground for complaint.— In Iter being treated as a Gave, her rights were not violated, and she has no injured ' rights to represent. It may be a misfortune that she is slave; being so, she, ill the pres ent constitution of society, had no right to bo treated otherwise. "The solo ground upon which it appears to have been asserted (that she is free) is, that she had been resident in England some limp, as a servant waiting upon her mistress; but without tin) enjoyment of any manumis sion that could aloue deliver her from the | character of a sluve she carried with her i when she left Antigua; for I think it demon ; slrable that she could derive no character of ! freedom that could eritillo her to maintain a | suit like this, founded upon a claim of pet mnner.t Ireedom merely by having been in I England, without manumission. * * j This suit, therefore, tails in its foundation.— j She was not a free person. * * * I It she depends upon such a freedom, con j voyetl by a mere residence in England, she ! cum plums of a violation of right she posses | sod no lunger than whilst she resided in j England, but which totally expired when that residence ceased, and she tvus imported I into Antigua." It cannot bo denied that this opinion fore shadowed the important decision in the Died Scott ca.-e. Grace was a slave in Antigua— Scott was a bondsman in Missouri. Return ing (torn England, the moment she set her I fool upon the soil of her native island, her 1 former servile condition re-attached to her parson—taken buck to the stale in which he had lived a slave, it was held lliut he could ; not claim the privileges ami immunities of a freeman under the lex loci of Missouri. In the interesting ' Life ami Letters" of the late Judge Story, (vol. j. p. 552 ) may be! discovered an entire approval of Lord Stow- j el's decision, which coming from so eminent ; a Jurist, must carty with it overwhelming 1 force and conviction. In answer to several j letters addressed tor him by Lord Slowel, in 1828 (immediately alter the decision was rendered and courting his opinion of the ; case,) Judge Story replied as follows: SALKM, near Boston, Sept. 22, 1828. ! My Lord —l have llio honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your letters of January , and Muy last, the former of which reached | me in the latter part cf the spring, ami the | latter quite recently. * # * * , I have read with great attention your jtldg- i mem in the slave case from the Vice Ad- i mirally Court of Antigua. Upon the fullest consideration which I have been able to give the subject, I entirely concur in your i views. If I had been rolled upon to pro nounce a judgment in a like rase, I should certainly have arrived ul the same result, though 1 might not have been able to pres ent the reasons which lead to it in such a striking ami convincing manner. It appears to .no that the decision is impregnable. In my native state, (Mass.) the state of slavery is not recognized as legal: nml yet il a slave should rente hither tr.d afterwards return to his own home, we should think that tlie lo cal law would rea'taeh upon htm, ami that his servile character would be reintegrated. "I have had occasion to know that your judgment has been extensively read in Amor- . tea (where questions ol this nature ire not of unficqnent discussion) and I never have hoard auy other opinion but that of approba tion of it expressed among the profession ot the law. 1 cannot but tbink that upon ques tions of this sort,as well as general maritime law, it wore well if the common lawyers had studied a little more extensively the principles of public a civil law, and had looked beyond their own municipal jurispru dence * * * "I remain, with the highest respect, your most obedient servant, JOSF.ru STORY." To Right Hon. IVin. Lord Slowel. In examining "judicial precedent" in the United States, upon this question, numerous authorities may be found to sustain the mi nority of your committee. Chancellor Kept, in the notes to his commentaries, vol. 2, p. 277, informs ns "the law of Illinois enforces the comity due to travelers in passing over tha slate ly protecting his property, and es pecially his slave, whom he brings with him for temporary vse, and the slave does not thereby eonsl.'.u tonally become free." [ Tf'i/- lard vs. 7he People. -1 Scummon, -Itil ] He also informs us that "in soma of the slave holding States, if a slave from such a state goes lawfully into a non-slsveholdit g State and acquires a domicil there with bis master, or is emancipated tltpre by hts master, he becomes emancipated and ceases to be a slave on bis return. Bat if he be crtieJ (heri tor a temporary purpose and returns, hiss ate of slavery is resumed.—( Lunsftrd r. C.xpnl :ou. 14 Martin f Louisiana Rejir. 405. 2 Mar shad's Ken. Rep 467. Blackmott it. FkHl. 7 ' Verger's Rrp 452 ) iu the Kentucky case of S.rader et. at. vs. Graham, (lp Howard, 83) where it was claimed that slaves sent from Kentucky into Ohio for a temporary residence beraxe free it was held by the Supreme Court of the Uni ted States. that "under the 2i>th section of the judiciary acq this court has ro jurisdiction 1 over the following question, vix: ' Whether slates tvbo hd beer perm..ted by their ntiss ers to pa-s occasionally ' ro - T * Kentucky ir.to ' 0.10 acquired thereby a right to freedom af trr tneir return to Kentucky ? The laws of Kentucky alone co-Id dec'.ee upon the Jo mpst.c and tot.a. condition of the persons domiciled w..tic its territory, except so far as be powers ol the S a es in th s respect are ret raioed ot duties and obligations imposed upon the® by the eonsti-atioa cf the United States." And the Chief Jcstice stays "there is tolling m the Constitution of the United Sues that ear-, ir. ar.y degree, cof'roi the law of Kenedy cpoc this subject. Tbecondiuot of the negroes, tteretwe. as io freedom or ' slavery, after their ret ore, depended ahogetb- • er cpoo the laws of tbut Stale, asd cot id not - be srfleetjced by of Oaie." Ir, oleavoevrg laMjSw-b their poaitioo • I the majority of the committee rely upon "the B leading case" of Rachel vs. Martin, (-1 A/if -8 sovri Rep. 350, June term, 1836.) In refer r ence to it they slate that it ia "substantially , the same in every particular as the Dred Scott l case." Every one who examines the case f cited, will find that the majority err in apply- B ing its principles to the Dred Scolt decision. - The facts arc not the same, and the principles s involved are by no means identical. In Ra -1 chsl vs. Martin, it appears that J. B. W. Siock ; lon, an officer in the army of the United - j Slates, residing at Fort Snelfing, in the Mis } j souri Territory, wherein slavery was not pro ; hibited by the Missouri compromise tent into * \ it slave State, and purchased (he slave Rachel. , ; From the State of Missouri she was taken to ) t the military post, aforementioned, and held ; j thore by her muster as his "servant." Stock - j ton lived in a free (eirilory when he bought ' j Iter, and never held her under the local laws of it r j slave State. "In this case," says Judge Mc - j Girk, in delivering the opinion of the Court, I | "the officer lived in the Missouri territory at > . tho time be bought the slave, he sent to a ' slave hold it) g territory and procured Iter; this i ! was his voluntary act, and done without any 1 j other reason than that of convenience, and he - and those claiming under him must be hold en to abide the consequence ot intioducing ' | slavery both in Missouri territory and Michi i | gan, contrary to law." No one will dispute | tho soundness of these conclusions: but in > l the Dred Scott case a different state of facts i | oppears on rite record. Scott was held by his I j muster in Missouri, under the local laws of | that Stale, which recognized the institution of ! slavery, was removed to a free territory where j his master temporarily resided, and was afler | wards taken back to the slave State of Mis ; souri. Stockton, or those who hold under ; him, could not rest their claim on tho lex loci 1 of Missouri, for he was a resident of a freo ; territory when Rachel became his property • | The principle decided in the Dred Scott case ; did not arise in Rachel vs. Martin, and like the | point in the Somerset case, has no bearing I upon the question. The Judge, in deciding j the case, after reviewing the application of j the ordinance of 1787 to the question before I him, remaiked—"lit the case of Lagrangvs. j Menard the couri will raise other exceptions | than thoso expressed in the ordinance; the j case of Lagrang was on - where the owner J lived in Illinois and hud his slave employed 1 in Missouri, and the slave made occasional I visits to his master's house in Illinois ; the ! court declared that this did not work an i emancipation." We, therefore, dismiss this ! branch of the subject, and after a cnrelul and ' elaborate investigation ol the decision of the | Supreme Court, wo beg leave to record otir I unqualified assent to the vital principles it i contains and the great doctrines il enunci | ales. Having thus disposed of tho two leading points in tho Dred Soon decision, we might leave the question without further comment, were it not for tho tin warrantable |iosition as sumed by the majority of the committee in the conclusion of their report. Tbejr com plain upon the questions of the unconstitu tionality of the Mistonri compromise and the j effect of the removal of Died Scott into a tree j State whore bis master bad u temporary resi dence, the court traveled beyond the cassj before thorn, and hud no jurisdiction : and therefore they argue, that upon these points. • the decision was "extra judicial, conrm nen 1 j i.lke, inoperative and void." All of the I judges, however, (McLean and Curtis ex copied I seem to have regarded these points ' as essentially involved in the ca-e, and even 1 Judge McLean, in bis dissenting opinion | takes the ground that the plea to jurisdiction, ! that is the one involving ci izenship, vvas not before the court; because the demurrer to the 1 plea of jurisdiction had been sustained in the i court below : and the defendant, that is the i master, lut.l pleaded over and justified the ' tiespass on the ground that the plaintiff tras his slave. On this plea tho case was decided against the Wavfe in the court below, and up- 1 on i' the writ of error in behalf of Dred Scott was then prosecuted. Upon this riftr of the 1 cose Judge McLean proceeds to argue, as does ' . Judge Curtis, the very points which the ma jority of the committee complain of as having been extra judicially decided. The (act is apparent that upon the plead ings in this case, as taken np to the Supreme : Court of the United States, the naked ques- 1 tion of citizenship was not as necessarily in volved as wrre the other parts in regard to the slavery of the plaintiff. A appears by | the record, the defendant, who was master, j denied In plea ill abatement, this jurisdiction I ot the Circuit Court of the Untied States, on the ground that the plaintiff "is s negro of Airican blood, and were brought into this! country and sold as slaves," and. therefore. ' the plaintiff "is not a citizen of the State of Missouri." To this plea the plamtiffdemor red and the court sustained the demurrer.— Thereupon, the defendant pleaded over end justified the trespass, solely oh the assump tion that the plaintiff, Dred Scott, end his (Amity, wis iw ft* ka gro starts. Upon these pleading the coort went to jury, an I the or.ly question be'ore them was the ties very or freedom of the plaiatiff. The jury decided that he and his family trcre tiaras, and the writ of error then prosecuted was not based upon the quesiion of rHixenship. or jurisdic-1 ttcn of the court, for that had been decided in bts favor, but upon the instruction to the jury, tha: bis temporary removal with his master, first into a free State and next into a l'rce Territory, did not work his emancipation against the taws of Missouri, to which Slate be and his family had returned. This fatter point, involving as it did the questions of the constitutionality of the Mis souri compromise and the right of the master cvrr the slave under our social compact, was more immediately and necessarily involved than the issue as tocr.trenship or jtmsdictioa. sad therefore, if any per; of the decision ia te be regarded as "obiter dictum;' it is rxther the ixt.er than the former. Indeed the whole court seerr. to bare feR the necessity and im pertacee of disposing of the very peine oom p.ainedrf, sod by neoo em they argued mure cerefoiiy and eamestif than oy the dieaeot isg judges. Ta closing sentence in the pub lished opiaioa of tbe Chief Jumice ia ibut • "the plaintiff was hot u eiiimt of Missouri and ions tttil a tint, mmd these fare, bud out a right to ewe u ■ emm of the United Suame." ' Tbe Cucn entedarned, at* they were obliged | by ihe pleading and every rule of .practice, i the question of slavery as well as that of cit izenship, and their decision upen that point, so vital in its character and so controlling in its effects upon the future destiny of our peo ple, will stand and he reoogniaed as of as ! much, nnd even more authority than its opin ! ion upon the other. I The majority of the committee have insul ted the memory of Tliomns Jefferson by in voking his great name and quoting his com ! manding authority, in favor of the treasonable ; sentiments contuiiied in the resolutions as j reported. In th is they have only imitated the ! gross wa nt of candor which has so recently j permitted the opposition to justify their feeblo attacks upon the Constitution and the Union j under lite sanction of the great men of the I Revolution who labored so successfully to I establish both. The majority have quoted | the language, hut not the meaning of Jeffer | son. For upon reference to the letters from j which garbled extracts have been token, it j appears that the illustrious founder of Do | mocracy was inveighing m eloquent and for | cible, terms against that growing spirit of cert- I nalizilion of federal assumption of power, j which from tho days of the Virginia and Ken [ lucky resolutions ol 1798, to ihe present lime, the democratic party has strenuously resisted; and never so successful as in the recent I'res | ideminl contest, when the disregard of State Itights and sltict constitutional construction was carried by the Republican parly to the most dangerous attd treasonable extremes. — The opinions of the Supreme Court of the j United Stales, which Thomas Jefferson then i deprecated, seemed to lend the sanction of ■ that high tribunal to federal interference in j purely Slate affairs. But happily for the perpetually of this Un- j ion, his gloomy forebodings have not been | justified by the result. For not only has the j Supreme Court itself been controlled by wi- ; ser and more mature counsels, but lite federal j government with all its power and influence, has recognized and sustained lo Ihe fullest extent, the sacred justice of State Rights, and placed upon safe and unassailable ground the vital ptmciplo of ropui.Aß SOVEREIGNTY itz the Territories —in itself, only an extension and necessary application of the former. And if Ihe sage of Mmtticello were now alive and in our midst—if he could dwell upon the proud triumphs of the Democratic party, so true, so constant, and so faithful to tho Con- Mitmion as it came from its f-atners—his dark presages as to federal encroachments upon lite sovereign rights of the separate States, I would give place to bright and prophetic vis-1 ions of the permanency ami grandeur of this j confederate Republic. In conclusion, the minority of your com-! mittee have no tears that the Dred Scott de- ! ctsion will not be sustained and upheld by ltiecalm good sense of the American people. j In the frenzied outburst of defeated sectional- ism, tones of unmeasured denunciation may bo hurled against it by the party whose hopes it destroys and whoso principles it over- ! whelms. Hut in the future, as in the past, ] the groat mass ol our people will be true to ( that high tribunal, as they have ever been to t j llis Constitution and the Union. And il ever I , the broken fragments oi constitutional liberty | strew our pathway—if itio exultant tread of iiuornal fees should ever echo through our deserted halls and linger among the brilliant trophies of our national greatness —it will be 1 in that fatal hour, when the strength and bind- ' tng force of the judiciary shall bs forever lost in the treasonable resistance of degenerate ' factions. WILLIAM H WRLSH, J A >IU.S H. WALTON. Mav 11, 1857. I MAR OK IUK NORTH. R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. Illooinsltiirg, Wednesday, May ST. 1857. j Democratic it'omiiiations. j ~ FOR itov EUXOH, WILLIAM F. PACKER* ot' Lycoming County. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, N I 31110 1) STRICKLAND* of Chester County. — - - - ~ THE LEGISLATORS at jonrned sine die on last, Friday, and Mr. Eut came home on Friday 1 evening. The proposition to have the state ' guarantee the payment of 53.000,000 to the , Sun bury & Erie Railroad Company was lost. The bill to tepsal the act erecting a State t 1 Road from this place to Laport was defeated in the Senate by a strict party vote, after hav- j ' ing passed the House. The bill to extend . Tlnrd Street in Bloomsbnrg was also lost in i the Senate afte' having passed the House. ! The sesrron was otto of 16 weeks, and : nearly 900 bills passed, among which is tbo greatest number of bank charters ever passed at one session of the Legislature, at least since the famous bank explosion of 1837-38. Nearly at the close of the session, a com munication was received Irora Mr. Matlit saying that the recent Roods on lbs Upper North Branch Canal bad taken away 315 feet in length of the Horse Race Dam. allowing the whole water of the river to past through it. Some 530,000 would probably be requir ed to repair tba injury. That sum waa ap propriated for the repair. THE DAKVTLLI TRAGEDY. —Dr. Simington last week returned from Philadelphia with the necessary chemicals, retorts and other ap paratus to test poison. The contents of the stomach of tho late Mrs. Clark were thee an alyzed, and, in the judgment of five of the I physicians present, arsenic was discovered ! .Vymd far Juuime Qf a doubt. The contents of the stomach of the late Mr. Twiggt will be snbmittod toa simitar analysis. ur The Report of AD. Welsh oc the Died | ScoU ease pswells a forcible riew of tba tea . sorting oo tba points involved, in such style and manner as to be adapted for popular cir culation. The subject has been much per verted and abased, attd it is important that . every mac who has a vols should get correct . and intelligent views about it. He can do | this by reading tho report we publish to-day, sad its importance and clearness will justify , tho large apace we give 10 it. 17 The gas at Danville gsve out lust week about 9 o doc* each evening Tbo makers j comptain of bad coal. 1 be Apportionment Bill- The bill as passed was arranged or com promised by Henry D. Foster on ihe part of the Democrats and Mr. Jordan on the part of tho Opposition. The only excuse for agreeing to it lays in the fact that the Gov ernor and Senate were with the Opposition, and the House in rather doubtful condition, i Under these circumstances tho bill is pcr i haps as good as could have been procured, j If tho fates are not against usthero will be ' a Democratic majority in both branches of | the next Legislature. Aflor that PliHftdet- I phia will bo re-districted, and tho chances I are about cvon in tho State; which is a ! shatno, because there is n large Democratic j majority on tlte popular vote. Our district, as usual fares about the worst | of all; and we have a surplus of tnxables in the district over both the Senatorial and Rep [ resentative ratio. For a Senator the ratio is i 17.011. while ourdistrict of Columbia, Men- j 1 tour, Northumberland nnd Snyder contains ! 18,824. The first three counties 14,679 which ought to have entitled them to a Sen ator much rather than the 28,168 tnxables of Lancaster should entitle it to two Senators. Where several counties are joined in a dis trict the discrimination ought always to be in their favor, and where one county is en titled to several Senators the discrimination should be against it. Lancaster and Leban on were formerly a district with two Sena tors, and have now together 35,160 taxa ble?, which would havo given 17,580 locnch Senator, a number less than is in tho district fixed for us. But because Lancaster and Lebanon were Opposition counties they were allowed to spend, and a Democratic district was crowded. This seems to have been the general rule in forming the bill. The Oppose ion district of Butler ami Heaver has only 14,601 (ara bles, ami the other one of Indiana and Arm strong only 13,103: in both instances less than our three counties of Columbia, Mon tour and Northumberland contain. The Democratic counties of Northampton and Lehigh are crowded together for a district, though thoy contain 21,827 Uxables. Hut in the Representative district we are still more wronged. Our four counties of Montour, Columbia, Sullivan and Wyoming contain 12,264 taxable.*, while the ratio for a member is 5,976. The three counties of Montour, Columbia and Sullivan contain 9,757 taxables; which is a larger number than is found in the double district of Dau phin with 9,024, of Heller with 8,500, ol Hotter and Tioga with 8,763, or of Bradford with 9,714. But tlre.se are Opposition coun ties. and therefore the favor to them and the injustice to us. If three counties are united in a district there is certainly more reason to let them be below the ratio than whore one county has two members, or where oulv two counties are united. Hut the Opposition evidently wont upon the principle of "divide and conquer." If they could not here form an anti-Democrat ic district, they could at least tuako one clumsy and cumbrous; in which, from the largo number of counties, there would nat urally bo a greater chance for mischief on account of discord, disunion, and joalousy between rival counties and rival candidates of the party in the majority. We have no objection to Snyder or Wy- J online counties as a part of our district, bo-1 wo know excellent men in both of them.— ! Wo promise ourselves pleasure and profit ] from the new political associations which j our county thus forms from the centre of the state almost to the Northern line. But we do object to having districts made cumbrous and clumsy with four comities, when each district ought only to have embraced three to be lair and just with the others of the State. Republicanism is Abolitionism. When Republicans grow ashamed of the i infamous sentiments which soma of their party utter they try to evade responsibility by : taying that the Anti-Slavery party is a differ- I ent thing from the Kepnblicau party. We say it is the same, and the wicked men who lately abusd their country and reviled their ( God at New York were Republicans. We i gave extracts last week from their doings in which ''Rev. Mr. Frothingham thought civil war or a dissolution ol the Union was (he only hope of emancipating the slave.'' 1 To show that this man was ol the Repub lican party we go a kittle further in the pro ceedings and find the following: '•Rev. Mr. Frothingham from New Jersey, deplored the defeat of the Republican party : '■lt bad a candidate (he said) brave gener ous, cbivalric, of spotless character, with a foreign reputation. The canae of freedom never had aach combination of favorable cir cumstances." Put that in your Black Republican pipe and smoke it, before yon attempt to deny that you are of the Abolition party. And hide your face in shame before the honest, patriotic men whom you last fall attempted to drag into a treasonable vote for your clan. Corn! in Montour County* Coon was hekl in Montour county on last week, and was so fortunate at not to find a single case oo the civil list for trial. The no* lotions Henry Warner was tried on two in dictments for grand larceny. On one he was convicted and on the other acquitted for want of necessary evidence. In the first case a motion for a new trial ia pending nntil Sep tember term. Several persons were tried for selling liqnor to minors and on Sunday, and all of them, were sent to the county jail and fined from S2O to 875, according to the aggravation or mitigation of the case. In the whole county 16 tavern licenses were granted, and 3 fot restaurants. Three appli cants for tavern licensee, 6 for eating house license and 5 for license to sell liqoor in a •tore were unsuccessful. No license was granted to sell liquor in any store, and many of the most respectable citizens of Danville ! kad signed remonstrances against granting aj sncb licenses. Court adjourned on Wed ; neaday morning. JPT Governor FoUoek baa appointed Silas E. "Walton, of Berwick, an Aid to bis Ereel lency . with ibo rank of Lieut Colonel. Where is ibe Pope? The CniieriattConferetice at Afron,tMinou, lately passed It resolution declaring that the Constitution of the United Slates was a fail ure, and that the decision of ibe Sopreme Court in the Dred Scott case has no binding power. It is said that in old limes the Pope ol Rome used to claim authority for his church in temporal affairs, but as his ashes have been enough scoldej for euch impudence it was hardly lo be expected that in Know- Nothing America there would be Protestants to follow his example. It was said too that the Pope pretended to absolve people from their obligations ted [obedience to the temporal authorities. But let these Know-Nothtngs look to Illinois, and they will find there a bold a'tempt to set up an impcrium in imperio; und a most infamous attempt to instigate lawless anarchy. If the citizen can be thus absolved from observance of one legal decision, ho may be taught to disregard the whole municipal code, and to follow only bis passions and lusts. This ia Sewardtsm or that "higher law" doctrine which forms the whole basis of political Re publicanism. This Spirit of Evil knows noth ing of the struoture of the human mind or of human government—ignotes the infirmily of human nature, and arrogates to every de generate child of frail humanity the perfec tion of human reason. It claims that every McKim ami Warner may interpret Ihe law lo suit his own mind; and that a conference of priests may whenever they please abro gate ihe Constitution of the Republic or an nihilate the Supreme Court with n bull of excommunication. Surely it is no wonder that the people rebuked the fell und foul spirit last lall. These Republican priests in Illinois evidently acted more with the bitter and malicious hate of Douglass bafore their eyes than in the spirit of Him who said "ren der unto Cmsar the things which are Cutset's." 1 be New Apportionment Hill. Oil last Wednesday die two Houses at H*r risburg passed the following apportionment bill which will hold for seven years : SENATORIAL DISTRICTS. Ciiy of Philadelphia, 4 Chester and Delaware, I Montgomery, Bucks, ' Lehigh and Northampton, 1 Berks, 1 Schuylkill, 1 Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne, _ 1 Bradford, Susquehanna,Sullivand and Wy oming, I Luzerne, I Tioga, Potter, McKenn and Warron, I Clinton, Lycoming, Centre and Union, 1 Montour, Northumberland, Columbia and Snyder, ' Cumberland, Snyder, Perry, Juniatta and MiiHiu, > Dauphin and Lebanon, Lancaster. - York, I Adams, Franklin and Fulton, ' Somerset, Bedford and Huntingdon, I Blair, Cambria and Clearfield, 1 Indiana and Armstrong, Westmoreland and Fayette. 1 Washington and Greene, I Allegheny, 2 Heaver and Duller, 1 Lawrence, Mercer and Venango, 1 Krie and Ciawford, 1 Clarion, Jeflersott, Forest and Elk, I REPRESENTATIVE PMTRICTS. Phila. Citydisiiictcd 17 Cumberland A Per- I Delaware county, 1 ry, 2 Chaster, 3 Adam*. 1 Montgomery, 3 Frankli.i & Fulton, 2 Bucks, 2 Bedford & Somerset, 2 Notthampton, 2 Huntingdon, 1 Lehigh and Carbon, 2 Blair, I Monroe and Pike, 1 Cambria, 1 Wayne, 1 Indiana, 1 Luzerne, 3 Westmoreland and Susquehanna, 1 Armstrong, 3 Riadiord, 2 Fayette, 1 Wyoming, Sullivan, Green, t Columbia & Men- Washington, 2 tour, 2 Allegheny, 5 Lycoming and Clin- Beaver & Lawrence, 2 ton, 2 Butler, 2 Centre, I Mercer & Venango, 2 Mifflin, 1 Clarion and Forest, 1 Union, Snyder and Jeflerson, Clearfield, Juniata, ? Elk and M'Kean, 2 Northumberland, 1 Crawford and War- Schuylkill, 3 ren, 2 Dauphin, 2 Erie, 2 Lebanon, 1 Potter and Tioga, 2 Beiks, 3 Lancaster, 4 100 York, 2 The following is the vote by which the bill passed the House : YEAS —Messrs. Abrams, Anderson, Augns tiue, Babcock, Backhouse, Backus, Beck, Calhonn, Campbell, Chase, Cleaver, Craw ford, Dickey, Ent, Fausold, Foster, Hamel, Harper, Hill, lidlegas, Hoffman, of Berks; Hoffman, of f.ebanon: Imbrie, Jacobs, Jen kins, Johns, Johnson, Herr, Leho, Longaker, Menear, Maugle, MeCalmont, Moorhead, Momma, Mustelman, Nichols, Nicholson, Nunnemacher. Penrose, Peters, Ramsey, of York : Sloan, Smith, of Cambria; Smith of Centre; Smith, of Luzerne; Stevenson, To* lan, Vail, Viekers, Voegbley, Wagonseller, Wintrode, VVitberow, W light— s6. NATS— Messrs. Arthur, Ball, Benson, Bish op, Bower, Brown, Carty. Eyster, Gibbonev, Gildea, Hancock, Heins, Heistand, Hine, fa nes, Kauffman, Knight, Lersenriog, Mcllvain, Pearson, Pownall. Porcell. Ramsey, of Phil adelphia; Reamer, Reed, Roberts, Struthers, Ropp, Thorn, Via Voorbees, Walter, Wtrner, Wharton, Williston, Yearsley, Zimmerman, Getz, Speaker—37. Tbe Hals Line will not be Hold. We learn that feme of the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will ap ply to the Supreme Court for ao injunction to restrain that corporation from directly or indi rectly purchasuig tbe Main Line. Cbas. R. Buckalew. Esq., of this place, and Hamy D. I Foster r £sq.. of Westmoreland, are engaged for the injunction; and from the former gen tleman see have learned the grounds upon which tbe application will rely. They are soch as, we are confident, will prove impreg nable ; and are very different from that one raggered by the correspondent of tbe Penn- I tylvcuuan, bat macb stronger io a legal point of view. Messrs. Buckalew and Foster bave the ability to present their case in all its power to tbe Supreme Court, and ihe public will await tbe decinon of tbe matter with anxiety aad interest vr it is eaid thet the McKitn case bas cost Blair cotrnty *!s<w A Gleam or Dayllgbt- In the darkness, are ate glsd lo find any ray of It6pe which may indicate a cheok upon the aale of the Main Lino. The Hat risburg correspondent of the /Vaaiyfwiawa gives ihe following, which we only feat ia (oo good to be (rue : "The Main f.ine bill haa been signeJ by (he Governor, and Ihe worka are already ad vertised for sale. The annou-icemenl of this ha6ty action on the part ol the Executive m .caused some excitement in town on Satur day evening, and it ia generally belie veil l hat. a aale, to bo of any etfecl, car.noi be made, t am informed thai an application for an in junction against the transfer of the line will be made lo the Supreme Court, and some of the Judges have oppressed the opinion pri vate that any propeity holder, on the portions of tho line proposed to be abandoned, has the right to inake such application, and the application once made will be granted, and will effectually bar a transfer for the preaent. If this is correct, the public will observe that thete are yet great difficulties in Ihe way of the consummation of the objects of thisbilL' If the court iasues an injunction against the transfer of these works, the whole sub jeot will naturally come before the next Leg islature, and therefore the sale of the Main Line bids fair to become an impoitant ques tion in the approaching political campaign." To Tax Collectors. The Bosrd of Commissioners of Sullivan County have passed the following resolutions: 1. Resolvod, That we require that Col lectors of County, State and Militia taxes, in Ihe County, to pay in tho taxes charged on their duplicates s follows: On the I2'h day | ol June ami the I Ith day of September, what I monies they shall then have collected, and i make final settlement December lllh. I 2. Unsolved, That on failure of any of said Collectors lo make payment at tho limes herein designated, we will proceed in accord ance with the act of Assembly to collect the same ut the earliest possible period. <<# Cy The post office at Pealor's, in thisco , hat been discontinued, as no person aeemed anxious to attend to it properly for the amall profits, and the neighborhood can bo pretty well accommodated at other office. We era told that an application is made for a new of fice on tlie Stato Road at Mr. Howell s store, where the Asbury people and the neighbor hood generally could bo accommodated. try The Diwvilli Democrat says Geo. Tea - ! bod), the London millionaire has bought the I Liberty Furnace property in Montour county, ! and it will probably be soon again put in op eration. j ty The Executor of the McHenry cslatH \ alverlise's some valuable real estate fot sale. IT" Several articles are crowded out to-day. O.i on Utah and the Mormons will appear next week. llollotray's Ointment and Pills The idea that cancer is incurable cannot he anfartainad bv person* who have witnessed the effect of these remedies on this terrible disease. The ointment penetrates the substance ol the can cer, and reaches its minutest ramifications in the flesh, checking us progress and gradually restoring the parts affected to a sound condi tion, while the pills, acting tipon the blood as a poweitnl detergent, destroy the seeds of the ma'ady in the circulation. The testimony on this head is abundant and conclusive. WIIITK TKKTH, PItRFIMED ISRKATH AND HkaUTIVI'L COMPLEXION— can be ao \ quired by using the "ifnim of n Thousand , ! Flowers." What lady or gentleman would i remain under the curse of a ! breath, when by using the ''/inhn of a Thou- I sand Flows'' a a dentrifice, would not only ' render it sweet, but leave the teeth as white as alabaster f Many persons do not know ! their breath is bad,and the subject is so deli cate their friends will never mention it. Be ware ol counterfeits. Be sure esch bottle ia signed FKTRIDUE & CO., N. Y. I For sale by all Druggists. Feb. 18, 1867-6 m. SG&AMX&I&O _ On the 14 inst. by the Rev. J. A DeMoyer, j Mr. GEO. W. SANDKRS, ol Pine Iwp. Col. Co., and Miss ELIZABETH G. DOUGLASS, of Sulli , van Countv. i — JMSAS&O | In Berwick, on the 18th inst., Mrs. HAR RIET DIETERICK, wife of Capt. Jacob W. j Dieterick, aged about 35 years. in Derry township, Montour county, Penn | sylvania, March 17ih, 1857, of typhoid pneu-' raonia, Mr. SAMUEL W. LOWRIE, in the filly* I sventh year of his age. BLOOMS BIT FLXHE undersigned would in this way call i the attention of the public to the Hook \ Store at the old stand, next door to the "Kx i change Hotel," where at all limes can be ; found a good assonmenl of book#,- iucVadity ! Bibles, Hymn Books, Prayer BooksV | Histories, Books of Poetry, Novels, an d j School Books ; also all kinds of stationary o i i the best quality. 1 A considerable deduction made upon lha I price of School Books and Stationary to those ( who by to sell again. Just received, a good assortment of WALL 1 PAPER, whicb I would ask all to call and 1 examine before pucbasing elsewhere. CAROLINE CLARK, Successor to Jesse G. Clark. j Bloorasburg, May 25, 1857,-lyr. TRIMMINGS AND NOTIONS, fancy ani cles, a good assortment of Hosiery of the best quality; also gloves, mitts, baskets, Ca bas, Combs, dress trimmings and lininge • sewing silk, thread, eic., etc., to be bad nex ! door to the "Exchange ." AMELIA D. WEBB. *. | j Bloorasburg, May 25, 1857. I 4 N ASSORTMENT of confectionary, jew -1 eliy, Perfumery soaps, bair oils, iic., I Pomades, to be bad at > I C. CLARK'S Book Store. * 1 Aft AAA JOINT AND LAP SHINGLES | for tale at the Arcade by ' j May 27, '57. A. C. MENSCH. j fIOTTON and Wool Carpet for sale cheap I at the Arcade by ' i May 27, '57. A. C. MENSCH. II! I A|ORriCED POSPS on haod aod lor tale at the Arcade by May 27, '57. A. C MENS CH. M t WW" k COAL lor sale at the Arcade by > A C. MENSCH.
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