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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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34 jeers.