For my own part, I have deliberately d termined that 1 shall approve no bill whic I had not examined, and it wilt be a case < extreme and urgent necessity Which ah: ever induce me to depart from this rule therefore respectfully, but earnestly, JtOfnd that the two Houses wool' President at feast 2 days P"**, ■ " t0 journmeot of eaoli 'thin which nt new hfll shall be jr* n ' to him for ap provaj. PetMC"® *tstHig joint rule out day is s How "t but this rule has been hith erto '9 constantly suspended in practice Ij/ important bills continue to be present /i to session. In a large majority of cases no great pub lic inconvenience can arise from the want of time to examine tlieir provisions, because the Constitution has declared that if a bill be presented to lha President within the last ten. days of the session he is not requir ed to return it, either with an approval or with a veto, "in Which case it shall hot bo a law." It may then lie over, and be taken up and passed at the next session. , Great inconvenience would only be experienced in regard to appropriation bills; but fortun ately, under the late excellent law avowing a salary, instead of a per diem, to members of Congress, the expense and incdnveni ence of a called session will be greatly re dnced. 1 cannot conclude without commending to yottr favorable consideration the interests of the people of this District. Without a re presentative on the flodr of Congress, they have for this very reason peculiar claims upon our just regard. To this t know, from my long experience with them, they are eminently entitled. JAMES BUCHANAN. Washington, Dec. 8, 1857. The Result of Rnscalliy.' It is announced in the papers that the Tamed Rev. Kallocli, of Boston, one of the "three thousand Nejy England Clergymen" who proclaimed themselves commissioned by Almighty God to tell the Untied Stales Senate not to pass the Nebraska bill, and who afterwards escaped conviction for adul lery only because a few 'friends' on tho jury would not agree to a verdict, has abandoned the pulpit and is now devoting himself to the study of law. It will be remembered that after his trial, his church declared him an innocent and persecuted man, and it was announced with a.great flourish of trumpets that the attendance at his church after that event was much larger than ever before'.— The Republicans seem to be peculiarly de lighted with this fact, though it was shrewd ly observed at the time that Brigham Young would probably draw a larger crowd any where to hear him than the purest preacher of the gospel in the world. We always be lieved that 6coundrelism in the pulpit was a thing that could never prosper, in any community, and we see now that though Kallocli had tho sympathy of a political party that carries every thing before it in his locality, he is compelled to abandon the pulpit! Verily, "the wages of sin is death." —Lock Haven Democrat, Mr. L>ougln> Kansas Hill. The bill introduced by Mr. Douglas in the Senate to day, (Dec. 18th,) provides for a Board of five persons, appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, to make an enumeration of the inhabitants of Kansas, and a fair apportionment of tho members of the Convention to form the new Constitution. The election to be held on a day to be designated by the Board, to be not less than ninety nor more than one hun dred and twenty days after the passage of the act. The Board is to be entrusted with the appointment of judges and the selection of places of voting, the elective franchise to be confined to every free male citizen of the United States, over twenty-one years of age, who may be a bana fide inhabitant of the Territory on the 21st of December, and xvho shall liavp resided three months prior to said election in the county in which he offere to voto. The Convention to assemble yj not less than thirty nor more than sixty days after the election of delegates. The constitution to bo submitted to tho legal vo ters for their free acceptance or rejection, and unless adopted by a majority of all the legal votes cast shallbe null and void. Tho bill also secures the personal and political rights of the people, including those of ppoech and the press. BP An exchange appropriately remarks that tho United Slates have tweuty-five mil lions of while citizens, and about three mil lions of colored inhabitants, aud yet notwith standing this disproportion, for the last four years the time of Congress has been princi pally taken up in legislating for the negroes. Is it not time to do something fortlio whitest There is the currency question, urged by President Buchanan, and other measures, in which the while population are much inter ested. We hopo that Sambo Will not mo nopolize tho whole of the present session, and as even the Abolitionists admit that l white man is as good as a nigger, il he be haves himself, Congress may bo expected to do something for this larger, but appa rently leas important part of the people. Sbkd it Ovf.r—A correspondent of the Springfield Republican has been writing from Stockholm, Sweden, tolling about a kind of Swedish stove which he thinks of sending home. The same form has been used one hufidred hml fifty years without any mater ial change. Bays the writer-"Only one fire a day is made in them, and thon only a small quantity of birch wood is nsed.—- One of common size is capable of heating a room about 80 foet squtire, as warm as you would desire it even in this cold climate. The amount of wood burned in each stove during their eight months of winter, is only ono cord Swedish, which is Utile less than our cord, or as 120 cubie fleet is to 138." We recommend this Swedish . stove to the attention of some of our stove manufac turers. # Nathan R. Btunsou, proprietor and editor f tho lSew York Day Souk, died in that ( in-, mi Monday week, of dlsoa'so "1 the licnn. He was 42 year* old. I Btm Qf Kortl) • Hloomshurg, Wednesday, Pec. I'RKsl DENT'S MESSAGE. The President's Message Qiven to oui readers this week and eminentlj • clear. There is no 'shirking' Of response bilities. Every one "who runs may read;" its language as wellies its sentiments being adapted to the comprehension of the mass es. No transendontalism—no far-reaching after words Good plain democracy, and good plain Saxon. As to what he says on the subject of Kan sas, some people profess to have formed a proper cause for cavil, but every unpreju diced reader will discover that these cavilers have found only a mare's nest. The mes sage advocates popular sovereignty, using the term in its best sonse; and with respect to tho application of this principle to the case of Kansas and slavery, there is no mis taking the sentiments of tho President.— Ho goes for submitting the question uncon ditionally to the people. He goes for sub mitting every question relating to the constitu tional organization of Kansas to the people oj Kansas in n constitutional wny. True, he is no "red republican" no more than he is a "black republican." That revolutionary spirit which can manifest itself only in out rageous popular riot he docs not counte nance. The will'of tho penple legitimately expressed—either en masse or through their representatives—is what should and does command the respect of a democratic Pres ident. LAW BOOKS FOB SALE —It will be seen by reference to our advertising columns, that I the Law Library, together with a variety of | miscellaneous books, of the late Reuben W. Weaver, Esq., dee'd, are offered 10." sale.— The books are in good condition, and will be disposed of reasonably. Any person de sirous of obtaining such books had bettor improve the opportunity by stepping this way and making a purchase. Also, the Star of the North printing estab lishment, Press, Type, lixlurcs and furniture are ofTered at-private side; if not sold before the 7th day of January next, the same will be ofTered at public sale. To any person wishing to embark in the publication of a newspaper a good opportunity is offered.— Terms liberal and accommodating. GRAND DINNERS AND SRFPENS —Wc are au thorized to give notice through the columns of the Star, that the LAMES of the Methodist Episcopal Church of this place design giv ing public dinners and suppers (with ice cream, cakes and other good things on hand for disposal during the day) at the dwelling of the widow LEACOCK, where nil may feel confident that the eatables will be done up in tho best style. The dinners and suppers will be given on Friday (Christmas) the 25th lust; the proceeds of which are to go toward defraying the debt incurred by the erection of a new Church, l'rice per meal only 25 cents. Give them a call, gentlemen, and take your wives along with you—if so un fortunate as not to have one, try and procure the company of a "sweet heart" "some how or oilier." t7We learn thai an old German named Mmhias, well known as the owner of the "Seven Milo House," near Wilkes-Barre, on the Easton Turnpike, was murdered, and afterwards thrown into a well attached to his properly, with a large stone chained to hie body. It seems he had been missing about two weeks, and it was reported he had "gone West," but his disappearing so mysteriously, aroused the suspicions of the neighbors, and they made diligent search for him, and final ly succeeded in finding him in the above mentioned place nearly covered up with large stones that had been thrown down up on him. There were marks of violence up on his head and Other parts of the body. The supposed murderer, who had been living with the deceased a short lime past, is now in jail al Wilkes-Barre. HEAD WORK. —Literary labor is underval ued, chiefly because the tool* wherewith it is done ate invisible. If the brain made as much noise as a mill, or if thought-sowing followed hard after a breakittg-up plough, the produce of the mind would at once as sert a place in the price current. If a writ ter could be so equipped with wheels and pinions as entirely to conceal the man with in, like the automatons chess-player, and sentences were recorded by a wooden, in stead of a living hand; lire expression ol thought would be al a premium, because tho clock-work would seem to show that it cost something to make it. CAGED AT LAST.— Frank McDevitt, who figured extensively iu Washington city some months past before tho police magistrates as the hero of riotous acts, but always for tunate enough to procure bnil, has been s.ofely lodged in jail at Baltimore for partici pating in the election riots last fall in that city. Upo'.u being arrested he played his usual game ol" drawing a pistol on the ofib c<*B. —MW*- DRAMATIC EXHIBITIONS.— The Dramatic In stitute of this place win give a series of en tertainments in the Court House on Thurs day, Friday and Saturday evenings. The services of the "Bloomsburg Band" are pro cured to enlivon the occasion. We bespeak for fhem crowded houses. Price of admis sion 12 j cts., or 25 ets. for the series. Tick ets to be had at the door. ty Wo observe that notices are posted up about the streets declaring that the Stores, Oifices,'and places of general business, will be'closed on Friday,-Christmas. Thiß is done iii order to give -clerks and all hands an Opportunity to regard the day Andeo says Vox Populi. The News Irom Europe- The lale news from Burope is highly im portant. The Bank of Eagland'bas suspen ded specie payment, aad has been autbor ited to issue smell notes, "ons pound, we presume, five dollars," snlil further notice. This is the first lime a suspension has laser, place with that mammoth moneyed institu tion since 1797—a period of sixty years. There have been several very heavy fail, ures in England, and the crisis in financial etTsirs is very severe. The following item of news by tho Egg lish papers tells its own history, and is 100 monstrous almost for human belief. Look at it: "The massacre at Delhi was hor rible. All the people foood in the city were put to the sword." EF" The New York Ledger, the great Fam iiy Taper, has now attained the extraordi nary circulation of Three Hundred and Thir ty Thousand Copies. The prospectus of the Ledger, which contains all necessary infor mation in regard to it, will be found in our advertising columns. I THE WEATHER.— Dame Nature was in one of her mosl Xantippoan moods lust night, but came out smiling and pleasant this (1 uesday) morning. Sleighs certainly are at a discount, skates are sold cheap, and ice is in demand—so is money. LACKAWANNA & KI.OOMSBURG RAILROAD.— j This interesting road is completed. Cars ! ure running daily over the road—caltying mails and passengers. It is an excellent | road, and bids fair to do a good business, i and be a paying road to the stockholders. TV President Buchanan, in his Message, estimates the number of Indians in our terri torial limits of the United States, at 325,000. The Aborigines are rapidly diminishing in numbers, as the "pale faces" intrude further into their native forests and prairies. Colonel F. M. Wynkoop, of Tamaqua, was killed, on the 13th instant, whilst hunt ing pheasanls, by the accidental discharge ef hid comrade's gun. He commanded one of the Pennsylvania regiments in the Mexi can war, and was afterward appointed U. S. Marshal of Pennsylvania by President Pierce. If Times are so hard in Minnesota that the people who can got away are emigrating to other Slates for the winter. One citizen of Hastings, wh() has $32,000 invested in un incumbered real estate, was unable to bor row fifty dollars on a mortgage of the whole property, and had to pawn his watch in Mil waukie to pay his hotel fare. No CHAPLAIN OF CONGRESS. —Both Houses of Congress have done away with Cbaplan cies as official positions ; and have invited the clergymen o( Washington city to offici ate alternately, an invitation which has been accepted. This puts an end to the secular strife for these posts, which certainly did not look well, and tended rather to bring discred it on the, profession. The Official Returns of the Slate election in Wisconsin, are at last all in, except La Pointe county, which is reported to have giv en a Democratic majority. The question of the choice of Governor is therefore settled. J. B Cross, Democrat, is elected by 262 ma jority over Randall. Nearly 100,000 votes cast. Of course,,lhe telegraph reporters have not heard of this result, as it is a Democratic victory. NEW SECRET.—A Political Society has been established in Boston, called the Hearl in-hand Club. There is a strange tendency in the popular mind to accomplish objects proper in themselves by improper means. Mystery, secrecy and silly ceremony usurp the place ol plain, open and direct action. Such humbug ought by this time to be near ly run out. If any permanent good is to be accomplished, the safest and surest means is to be open and above board in the action to secure it. BAD FOR TIIE LOSSY BUSINESS. —In the new hall of the of Representatives at Washington, there is no place &n th? floor for the lobby members, and they wiii haV? to confino their operations to the outside of the building. There is a special gallery ap propriate! to the regular newpaper reporters. What is bad for the lobby members may be good for the people. tIT Mrs. Cunningham and daughters are not in Paris, as published last week, but are living in New York city, in a very retired manner, and in quite reduced circumstan ces. Mrs. C : s. trial has again been postpon ed. It is now set down for the first week in January. The President has 'nominated the Hon. Nathan Clifford, of Maine,aa Associate Jus tice of the Supreme Court of the United Slates, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge Curtis. The Senate has not yet acted on the nomination. tyThe nomination of Col. William A. Richardson as Governor of Nebraska, in place of Mark W. Izard, resigned, was on Tues day confirmed by the Senate. THR VAI.UR OF A VOTE.—A single vote cast in New York city, fifty-six years ago, made the illnstrioue Jefferson President of the U. Slates. The Isrie store of the Montour Iron Com pany, in North Danville, was closed last Fri day morning.— Danville lnlelligencer. Rica PLANTATIONS.— In the Sooth there are fiO/?Sl rice plantations, which yield an an nual reyenue of #4,000,000. The carriage of Ex-President Pierce has ] been sold at Concord, and the proceeds giv en to° the poor of his town. By late despatches froth Utah it is slated that the Mormon* had stolen 600 head of caflle in sight of Major Alexander's camp. OT Danville will soon be illuminated by gee- the work" te finished. f , RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS.—The successful resumption of specie payments by the New York Banks naturally awakens the inquity, why our banks do not follow suit I Why we should be lb* first to sus pend and the last to resume? Of course we shall be told that it is muoh easier for the banks to go on as they are as long as they can. The legislature has au thorized them to suspend until April, and why should they horry to resume ? It :s, moreover, as York Herald gravely asserts, "but an experiment," after all, this resumption, the result of which connol be known for ninety days yet, i. e. whether the New York banks can maintain the resump tion. Wait, say the bankers ol our city, un til New York and Boston have tried the ex- j perimeul and succeeded. The real reasons, however, why our banks do not resume, while the New York banks do, lie far back of all these. It it because our banking capital is more immediately and directly under the control of the mercan tile and manufacturing interests of the city. The merchants want accommodations and (be manufactures must have discounts or stop business, and we have few large, indepen dent moneyed men, who live by the em ployment of tbeir capital in banking alone. In Isew York there are connected with all the principal banks of that city, whose entire prospects depend immediately upon tho soundness of the currency. That we have Dot this class amongst us, is owing to the law which binds us to one percentless of interest thaß whteil 'neighboring Stale. Hence, the men of independent wealth seek to invest in New York, and our riches make to themselves wings and fiy away. Hence, what banking capital and currency we have left, is depreciated into accommodation pa per which the New York broker would even hßvo us believe is fully three per cent, worse than theirs. The unfortunate action of that extra session is one thing, no doubt, that makes it difficult; for our banks now to resume. Being ob liged to take the bills of all the banks of the S'aie in payment of debts till April, the move ment could be impossible with any, unless they all act together and in concert. No one bank could stand a tvSek, nor oould all the city banks, however well provided with gold, withstand the pressure which might be brought to bear upon them at any time, and which doubtless would be brought now. The measure -.vuautterly unconstitutional in its spirit and t3nder.cy, and might, wo be lieve, be abrogated in any court on the ground that the whole thing was really in utter opposition to that clause of the consti tution of the United Slates which forbids anything but gold and silver to be made a legal lender. The agreement which the banks had to sign to do this, while morally binding on them, ought to be regarded by all the courts as a mere shuffle and expedi. ent of State legislation to cover a real viola tion of the spirit of the constitution. Fuss ABOUT NOTHING.—-All the present talk in Congress and in the newspapets about the Lecompton Constitution, is a fuss about nothing. Congress yet has not been asked to admit Kansas under that Constitution,and it is not certain that it will be. This eager desire to precipitate the subject upon Congresa prove thai it is to ba i political hobby on which some politicians expect to ride into power. Wait till the Lecompton Constitu tion comes along. Wait till it is seen who are the people of Kansas and what they real ly want ad bow their wishes are legally ex pressed .— Ledger. THR SOVEREIGNS OF KUUOPB.—Of the forty - re ven rulers of Europe, the Prince of S chaum burg-Lip|e. a petlv German principality-. has reigned the longest—his administration da ting from Feb. 13, 1787. But the oldest of European sovereigns is the Grand Duke of Mecklenbnrg-Strelilz, born August 12, 1779: the next in point of seniority is the King of Wurtemburg, born September 27, 1784 ; the King of Belgium, born December 16, 1790, is the sixth ; the King of Prussia islbe ele venth; the Emperor of the French, born April 20,1808, is the twenty-second, and the King of Bavaria the twenty fifth. The youngest sovereigns of Europe are the Emperor of Austria, the Queen oi Spain, aged 26; the King of Portugal, aged 20; and the Duke of Pafma, eged 9 years. A TRUMP.—'The Reading Gazette tells a slory about G. Nelson Smith, editor of the Johnstown Alleghany Mountain Echo, (Pyoe bust) which deserves credit. Mr. Smith was onco on a time a jour prinfer nt Louisville, and being about to start for New Orleans, he met on the wharf a poor widow with Iwo children. Thoy were completely dealilute, and he relieved their necessities by giving ihsm all the money he had, which necessila ted his working his way to New Orleans, more than a thousand jmiles, on a coal boat I Mr Smith has been elected three times to the Pennsylvania Legislature, and if bis head I is as clear as his heart is warm, he certainly l deserves it. MISSIONARIES KILLED IN INDIA.—Among the missionaries known to hare been killed since the commencement of the mulinity were Rev. J. E. Freeman and wife; Rev. D. E. Campbell, wi'e and two children; Rev A. 0. Johnson and wife; Rev. R. McMullen and wife—all of the American Presbyterian Mission. The mission properly destroyed is estimated at the value of £70,800' —Of this heavy loss by far the greater portion falls up on the English Church Missionary Society and the American Presbyterian Mission. The former loses £32,000 and the latter £26,000. A COOL HIT.— Mr. Buchanan ia said to be fond of a quiet thrust at the weakness of humanity. An illustration of this may ba found near the close of his message to Con gress, where he congratulates that patriotic body upon "the late excellent law allowing a salary instead pi a per dium to members of Congress, whereby the'expense and incon venience of a called session will be greatly reduced." The innocent simplicity with which he assures himself of their active sym pathy in a measure which will make them work out the worth of their wages is refresh ing to behold.— Richmond Dirpatch I Secretary Cobb's Report, i The Ways asd Means of the Treasury for i (he current fiscal year are brought to a very 1 close balance in the Secretary's statement, the disbursements using up the balance from the previous year and all the revenues which may, in the present condition of the Import trade, be reasonably calculated on. Those at the outside, are staled at $75,388,933, while the essential expenditure is set down at $74,983,058. And in view of the contin gencies attending the Custom revenue for the next seven months, (to the close of the fiscal year, June 80, 1868,) and the probabil ity that the Government expenditure may exceed the estimates, the Secretary very pittpeily asks for the immediate authority to employ Treasury Notes, not exceeding the sum total of twenty million dollars. This authority, we have no question, will be freely voted, and the probability is that at leat one-half, if not the whole issue suggest ed, will find circulation at a nominal inter est, thus relieving the Government ol the necessity of creating a loan, and the ex pense of paying for the temporary exercise of its high credit, in anticipation of revenue- It is only fair to anticipate that this first report of Secretary Cobb will moke a favorable im pression on the country. His recommenda tions in regard to the Ways and Means of the Department, and the policy of leaving the new Tariff undisturbed, until its operation on the revenue can be fairly tested, are straiaht forward and practical, and the document al together is less encumbered by new schemes of finance, and novel modes of reform in the currency, that might have been anticipated in the present condition of the country. On this last named subject there is not the slight est attempt at interference with the rights of the Slates, while there is no shrinking from the Constitutional obligation imposed on the Federal Government to provide a general bankrupt law, for dealing with the abuses of moneyed corporations. The Secretary seeks all other reform in the Currency and Exchange in the restraint of the abuses of Credit, thro' the example of the Independent Treasury, the probability is that the public sentiment is now prepared to see thil example enforced to the full measure of the authority of the Gen eral Government. The old lable of the viper, who being warmed to life, turned and bit its benefactor, has actually been enacted in Connecticut. Alallhew Grisworld, of Old Lyme, saw a man named VVm. Austin, in the Sound, on the bottom of a boat, in a perilous condition, a few days since, and rescued him from drowning; took him to his honse, warmed fed and cared for him ; took him to the cars, and gave him three dollars to reach Norwalk, where he said he lived. The next Saturday night the ungrateful scamp entered the house of his benelaetor, stole about $i.300 worth of property, but was caught at the F.ssex fer ry, wi'h the properly upon bim, and has been bound over for trial. The New Haven Register moves that the fellow be put back in the Sound, where be was picked up, and "anchored.'' ANXIOUS ABOUT IT.—The English prese takes considerable interest in the expedition to Utah, and the English government is not without some anxiety respecting the course the Mormons will take. The British Govern ment contemplates establishing a colony and naval depot at Vancouver's Island, and it fears that, if ihe Mormons go to that country, they will have some trouble to get the squatters out. The hope is expressed that United States government will be able to selile the business of the Mormons so effectually that English territories will not be troubled with them. W The St. Louis Democrat says Ton months ago a youth, of but 17 autums, came to St. Louis from Muscatine, lowa, and became enamorod of a nice young lady, the cherished daughter of highly re spected parents, living on loth street.— Briefly, he won her, and they were married and lived happily till the other day, when the father of the youthful husband arrived from Muscatine, and look his son home to learn a trade I What a smart ago we live in! U" George Randolph, of Roanoke, who died in Charlotte county, Va., on the 4th inst., was the last in the line of the Ran dolph family. He was born deaf and dumb, but was highly educated in France. On returning home to Virginia in 1814, he heard of the hopeless illness of his brother at Har vard College, and immediately became de ranged. From that time to the day of his death he is said never to have known a lu cid interval. BURNING OF IRANISTAN, THE COUNTRY SEAT OF BARNUM.— Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 18.— Iranistan, Ihe splendid country seat of Mr. Barnnm, was destroyed by fire last night about midnight. It is supposed to have been set on fire. Mr. Barnum had commenc ed refurnishing it, proposing to reside there. fy A couple of New Zealand Iribes lately gave a festival in honor of a chief. The raw materials consisted of 13 bullocks, 20,000 dried sharks, 20 baskots of fresh eels, 50 bas kets of pataki and manlaita, 50 bags of ea ger, 8,000 kits of potatoes and knmera, and 1,500 pounds of tobacco. TH MINNESOTA ELECTlON.— Prairiedu chi en, Wis., Dec. 19.—The St. Paul (Min ) dales to the l&ib inst, have been received. The election oanvass bad not been completed. It was thought the democratic candidate for Governor, H. H. Sibley, would be declared elected. There was no election of United States Senator. SLAVE QUESTION rN VERMONT.—A bill w as recently introduced ir.lo the Legislature of Vermont which was intended to disfranchise any person who should assist in the capture of a fugitive slave. On lße7th instant it waß thrown out of the House by a vote of 191 lo 78, Tit* ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.— Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 19.—The Legislature of this Slate has legalized the suspension of specie pay ment by the banks, nntil the l&th of Novem ber next. 1 The Latest from Utah. From the Kansas City Journal of Commerce, Dec. 5. My. Joseph Majou, a French trader on Greer, river, arrived In Kansas City oa Tues day night, being the lastarrival from Utah and the Mountains. His BCoounts confirm our previous advices concerning the hostility and the outrages of thß Mormons. No '-Gentile" is any longer safe in the Valley. He reports that nearly ail emigrant trains nre suffering from Mormon depredations— their wagrinS being burUed und cattle stolen. Brigham Young is exhorting his followers to resist to the last extremity, and if over-' powered by the Government troops, lo flee to the mountains and defend themselves. He reports that Ibe army is buying up all the stores it can procure. He says the army has plenty of provisions for the winter if they can only concentrate a sufficient force to pro tect them from the Mormons; but, scattered as they are on the route, he fears many will be cut off. : Mr. Majou had made large contracts for flour at Salt Lake City for his winter trade, but on sending his train after it they refused to let him bave it, lest the army might be supplied by biai, and sent him back with 400 pounds for his own use. Large quantities of grain and forage were stored at Fort Bridgcr, which were burned by the Mormons to prevent its purobate by the Government. They had also burned all the grass on the route beyond Fort Bulger. Snow was about three leet deep in the mountains, and the country was covered as far east as the Blue River. Buffalo were very abundant, and s far down as the Little Blue lUvor, quite near the settlements. THE MORMONS AT SALT LAKE.—By late ar rivals from Utah, we have hies of (he Deserel 1 News (o (he 7ih of Ociober. The papers are filled wilh the sayings and doings of (he Saints in reference to ihe visit nf the U. S. troops. They appear to regard the act of President Buchanan in sending a force there sufficient fo see the laws faithfully executed, as a great violation of their Constitutional rights, and fiercely contend that, according to the princi ples of the American revolution, they have Ihe right to govern themselves in their own way, to say who shall be appointed to fill (heir own offices, and that there is no power under the Constitution to interfere with their religion. They talk like a poor, persecuted and abused people in their memorials to the Government, but in their speeches and ad dresses at home, they assume the bearing and arrogance ot a defiant priesthood, who were determined to make their religion pre dominate over all laws, and were resolved to exclude Irom territories common to all the people of the United States any persons or institutions differing from their own. This i 3 the mistake that these fanatics have fallen into, and here is there vulnerable point. The term the "people," as usually understood, dues not mean any particular community banded together by common interests and common objects, and jealously guarding themselves from any innovation or interfer ence, by so acting towards others that a home among them is made intolerable. It is intended to comprehend all persons, of all pursuits, and all sects and parties, having common privileges and equal rights. Any interference with the free exercise of these rights demands that the government of the people shall step in for their protection, and this is exactly what the United Staies.Gov ernment is now doing. The Mormons, in their arrogance and fancied security, have committed aggressiofls against the Govern ment and the people, and they must abide the consequences. Constitutional law will be supreme in all parts of the territories of the United Stales, and those who cannot sub mit to its authority must lake the othor alter native and leave the country. This result the Motmons fear must happen, and therefore their exasperation is great. Brother Brigham that, when "Ihe lime comes, he will lay waste all iSe improvements at Salt Lake." "The bosom of the Almighty burns with anger," he says, "against those scoundrels"—meaning Cols. Alexander Johnson. &c. "He will regard tham as mobs and treat them accordingly. Broth er Kimball expresses his opinion of Senator Douglas, that "he. is as big a damn'd rascal as ever walked " He calls Gen. Harney an "old squaw-killer." Elder Woodruff says the Mormon community "hold the keys of this constituent and stand in the strong chur ohes of the mountains, where the Lord can give the victory." They are determined to "live in quiet and have peace if they have to fight for it." The Deseret News throws back Ihe charge of treason upon the priests of the "higher law" parly, who, it says, openly advocated resistance to a decision of the U. S. Supreme Court. Civil war, it says, is raging in Kansas, and in California a Vigi lance committee basset aside all law, and taken the lives of ten persons, fn the city of New York influential papers are striving to array a populous city against the authori ties of the State. Tbroughoot the whole of ibeir public ex pressions of opinion (here is ibe same singu lar mixture of truth and error, the same per versions of correct principle, and the same apparent blindness to the gross violations on their own part of the political doctrines they preach.— Ledger. THB UTAH EXPEDITION.— St Louis Dec. 18. —The Leavenworth (K. T.) Herald of the 10th inst., announcing the arrival of an ex press messenge: from Utah, states that he passed Colonel Johnson's command near Bridger. The baggage and provision trains were all safe, and the troops were in good spirits. This is the only news that transpired relative lo the Utah Expedition. Governor Walker landed at Ponta Areo- nas, in Central America, on the 25th ol No vember, with 150 men. This overwhelm ing force lanced without opposition. The party being so small, the expense of hang ing them, when they are captured, will be light. THE NEW YORK lfificiik for 18&* * THE BEST PAPER IN THE "WORLD! 1 , All the favorite writpr* retained, and Hew - one* added. Still girater aiirnutions for the New tepr. The circulation of the Ntv York Ledger i* now Three Hundred and Thirty Thousand Copies, which is greater than that of any ten other literary papers In Ametioa. The profit* on this unparal leled circulation enable the Proprietor of the LEDGER to expend Bums upon ft wlnert would soon swamp any ordi nary publication. A paper with a circulation of only a hundred thousand or so would sink under the ex penses of the THE LEDGER in less than six months. All of lire old aad favorite Contributors will contiupa to writ* for THE LEDGER as heretofore. No expenses will be spsped to secure others whose pen* shall be considered oompelent to add to THE LEDGER'S at tractions and usefulness. ■ i Mrs. EMMA D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH writos only for THE NEW YORK LED GER. FANNY FERN writes only for THE NEW YORK LED GER. SYLVANUS COBB, Ja, writes only for THE NEW YORK LEDGER. EMMERSON BENNETT writes only for the New York LEDGER. ALICE CARY, Mrs. SI GOURNEY, and Dr. NEL SON write for THE NEW YORK LEDGER. GEORGE D. PRENTICE, JOHN G. SAKE, and ail the other best writers, contribute to the New York Ledger. The LEDGER- is devoted to Polite Literature, Original Illustrated Tales, Essays, tti etrv, Skelcbes, Biography, News, &c. &c. The Ledger is everywhere acknowledged lo be the best family paper in the world— hence its extraordinary and unheard of popularity. The Proprietor of the LED GER employs the best talent, and Dy so doing makes the best paper in ibe country. THE NEW YORK LED GER is printed on beautiful white paper, and is composed of eight pages, making the handsomest weekly ptper in the Union. It is published every Saturday, and sold at all the news offices in every eity and town throughout the country, and is mailed for subscribers at 82 per annum ; two copies are soot for 83. Any person obtaining subscribers at 81 50 each (which is our lowest club rates) and sending us 812 will be entitled to one copy free.— Terms invariably in advance, Address all letters to ROBERT BONNER, Publisher of the NEW YORK LEDGER, 44 Ann Si.. New York. N. B.—Now is n good time to subscribe, as Mrs. South* worth's new story, The Btlda of an Evening, will oe com menced in THE LEDGER on the first of January. N. B.—No. 2—We have no Agents authorized to reeeixe subscriptions for the Ledger. Subscribers must always re mit direct to us, and not send or pay any money to any and Agents. A high moial tone characterizes every as ticle in the LEDGER. In fact, the names of its leading contributors are a sufficient guar antee that it stands in marked contrast to a class a of weekly publications that bave for so long a lime flooded the country, but which fortunately for the morals of our people, are almost extinct. December 23, 1857. VALUABLE LAW LIBRARY rjIHK Law Library of the late Reuben W. ■* Weaver, Esq., will bo sold by the un dersigned Administrator of the decedent at private sale. Any person desirous of outsitt ing a good - - . . LAW LIBRARY will do well to call and examine the books. There are also a variety of miscelhtneon* books for sale. HP" Liberal terms of pay ment will be given. GEORGE WEAVER, Administrator. Btoomsbnrg, Dec. 23, 1857. "STAB OF THE NORTH" Valuable Priutiog Establishment FOR SALE. epHE Press, Type, fixtures and furniture 8f the printing establishment belonging to the estate of the lata Reuben W. Weaver will be disposed of at private sale. If not sold before the seventh day o( January next the same will be exposed lo publio sale on that day. Terms of sale liberal and accommodating. Will be sold on lite 7th January next a Sal- Administrator. Bloomsburg, Dec. 23, 1857. On the 17th insl., bv the Rev. William J. ICyer, Mr. EDWIN F. PARTBIOB, of the city of Philadelphia, to Miss HENRIETTA H. HAST NAN, of Calawissa, Columbia county, Pa. In Catawisoa Valley, on Sunday Deo. ISth, by Rev. I. Bahl, Mr. JOSHUA KEIILE, lo CATH ARINE DKRK, both of that plaoe. On the 15th Inst, by the same, in Berwick,. Mr. HIRAM KEEN, to Miss ELIZABETH MINER VA KECK, both of Neecopeck, Luz. eo., Pa. Or. the 17th, at the same place, by ttw same, Mr. GEO. THOMAS, of Salem township, lo Miss MAIIUARET ANN BOVVER, of Hollen back towuship, both of Luzerna 00., Pa. On the evening f ihe 13th inet., b He*. W. Goodrich, Mr. EVAN THOMAS, and Misa HENRIETTA ERASMUS, both of this place. In this place, by the same, on the evening of the 13th inet., Mr. JACKSON KARRS, aad Miss LTDIA ANN CRAMKR, both of this place. " gMgag* Oc the 12th of November last, in Kn°*- ville, lowa, Mrs. JANE, relict of Alexander Thompson, formerly of Espytown, Columbia eonnty, Pa., aged about 75 years. Ir. White Hall, of inflammation of Ihe brain, a child of Andrew sod Araminda Crawford, aged about 8 months. In Danville, on Monday last, after a pro tracted illness, Mrs. WM HANCOCK, agd about 34 jeers.
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