For my own part, 1 have deliberately de termined that 1 shall approve uo bill which 3 had not examined, and it will be a case of extreme and urgent necessity whioh shall ever induce me to depart from this rule. 1 therefore respectfully, hut earnestly, recom mend that the two Houhes would allow the President at least 2 days previonsto the ad journment of each session within which no new bill shall he presented to him for ap proval. Under the existing joint rule one day is allowed; but this rule has been hith erto so constantly suspended in practice, that important bills oontiuue to be present ed to him up till tlie very last moments of the session. In a large majority of cases no great pub lic inconvenience can arise from the waul of tirno to examine their provisions, because the Constitution lias declared that if a bill be preseuted to the President within the last ten days of the session be is not requir ed to return it, either with an approval or with a ve'o, "in which case it shall not be a law." It may then lie over, and bo taken up and passed at tho next session. Great inconvenience would only be experienced in regard to appropriation bills; but fortun ately, under the late excellent law allowing a salary, instead of a per diem, to members of Congress, the expense and inconveni ence of a called session will be greatly re dnced. I cannot conclude without commending to your favorable consideration tlio interests ofthe people of this District. Without a re presentative ou tho floor of Congress, they have for this very reason peculiar claims ' upon our, just regard. To this I know, from my long experience with them, they are eminently entitled. JAMES BUCHANAN. Washington, Pec. 8, 1857. The Result or Ilnscnllty It is announced in the papers that the famed Rev. Ktdloch, of Boston, one of the "three thousand New England Clergymen" who proclaimed themselves commissioned by Almighty God to tell the United Slates Senate not to pass the Nebraska bill, and who afterwards escaped conviction lot adul tery only because a few 'friends' on tho jury would not agreo to a verdict, has abandoned the pulpit and is now devoting himself to the study of law. It will bo remembered that his trial, his church declared him an innocent and persecuted man, and it was announced with a great flourish of trumpets that the attendaneo at his church after thati event was much larger than ever before.— j The Republicans seem to be peculiarly de- ! lighted with tliis fact, though it was shrewd ly observed at the time that Brighum Voting t 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 scoundrelism in the pulpit was a thing that could never prosper, in any community, and wo see now that though - Kalloch had the sympathy of a political | party that carries every thing before it in j his locality, he is compelled to abandon the j pulpit! Verily, "the wages of sin is death." j —Loth Haven Democrat Air. noughts' liatisii* Kill. The bill introduced by Air. Douglas in the Senate to day, (Dec. 18th ) provides for a j Board ot five persons, appointed by the j President and confirmed by the Senate, to make an enumeration of the inhabitants of [ Kansas, and a fair apportionment of the j 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 ttine'y nor more than one liun- ! drcd and twenty days after rite passage of , the act. The Board is to be entrusted with : the appointment of judges and tho selection of places of voting, the elective franchise i to be confined to every free male citizen of ; the United States, over twenty-one years of I age, who may be a banit fide inhabitant of the Territory on the 21st of December, and who shall have resided three months prior , to said election in the county in which he ! offers to vote. The Convention to assemble | in not less than thirty nor more titan sixty J days af er the election of delegates. The | constitution to be submitted to tho legal vo ! ters for their free acceptance or rejection, j and unless adopted by a. majority ol all the legal votes cast shall bo null and void. The j bill also secures the personal and political j rights of the people, including those oi j speech and the pre*.*. tW An exchange appropriately remarks that tho United States have twenty-five mil- i lions of white citizens, and about three mil lions of colored inhabitants, and yet notwith standing this disproportion, for the last four years the time of Congress lias 1 eon princi pally taken up in legislating for the negroes, i Is it not time to do something forthc whites! There is the currency question, urged by President Buchanan, and other measure.*, in which the white population are much inter ested. We hope that Sambo will not mo nopolize the whole of tho present session, and as even tho AbolUiooUts admit thnt a white man is *s good as a nigger, if ho be haves himself. Congress may be expected to do something for litis larger, but appa rently less important part of the people. SEND IT OVER —A correspondent ol the Sprinsfield lit publican has been writing from Stockholm, Sweden, telling about a kind of Swedish stove which he thinks of sending home. The same form has been used one hundred and fifty years without any mater ial change. Says the writer:—"Only one fire a day is made in litem, and then only a small quantity of birch wood is used.— Oae of common size is capable ol beating a room about 30 icet square, as warm as VOU would desire it even in this cold climate. The amount of wood burned in each s-ove during their eight months of winter, is only one cord Swedish, which is little less than our cord, or as 120 cubic feet is to 128." We recommend this Swedish stove to tbe attention of some of our stove manufac turers. Nathan JL Stun son, proprietor and editor of the New* York Day book, died in that cttjr, oa Mondsy week, of disease of the heart. Ha was 4t years old !otar of tlje Nortl). Illoonishiirc, VVKlne-Ilny, I)cc. 23, INiil. I'll KM DENT'S VI I t-s At.E. The President's Message, given to our J readers this week and last, is eminently clear. There is no 'shirking' of responei- | bilities. Every one "who runs may read;" j its language as woll as its sentiments being ; adapted to the comprehension of the mass- j es. No trausendentalism—no far-reaching < after words Good plain democracy, und I good plain Savon. As to what he says on the subject of Kan- | sas, some people profess to have formed a j proper ceuso for cavil, but every unpreju diced reader will discover thai these cavilers , have found only a mare's nest. The mes sage advocates popular sovereignty, using ; the term in its best sense; and with respect j to the application of this principle to the i cttse of Kansas and slavery, there is no tni*- I taking the sentiments of the President.— He goes for submitting the question uncon ditionally to the people. J!c goer for sub- \ milling every question rclnling lo the constitu tional organisation of Kansas to the people of Kansas in n constitutional way. Trite, he is no "red republican" no more than lie is a | "black republican." That revolutionary i spirit wlfich tan manifest itself or.ly in out- 1 ragcous popular riot lie docs not counte- j nance. The will of the people legitimately { expressed—cither en mas'e or through their I representatives—is what slonld and does J command tho respect of a democratic Pres- j ident. LAW BOCKS FOII SALE. —It will be seen by ; reference to otir advertising columns, that I the Law Library, together with a variety of j miscellaneous books, of the Itito Reuben \V. j Weaver, Esq., dee'd, are offered for sale.— | The books are in good condition, ami will j be disposed of reasonably. Any person do- [ sirous of obtaining such books had better improve tho opportunity by stepping this ! way and making a purchase. Also, the Star of the Not lit printing estab- j lisbment, Press, Type, fixtures and furniture are offered at private sale; if not sold before j lite 7ilt day of January next, the same will 1 bo offered at public sale. To any person ' wishing to embark in the publication of n ' newspaper a good opportunity is offered.— j Terms liberal and accommodating. GRAND DINNERS AND SUPPERS —We are an- | tlioiizod lo give notice through tho columns j of the Shir, that the LAMBS of the Methodist j Episcopal Church of this place design giv- j ing public dinners and suppers (with ice- i cream, cakes and other good tilings on hand I lor disposal during the day) at the dwelling of tho widow LEACOIK, where till tny feci confident that the eatables will be done up j in the best style. The dinners and suppers j will be given on Friday (Christmas) tho 25th j iti.-t: the proceeds of which are to go toward j defraying the debt iueiirrcd by tho erection ' of a new Church. Price per meal only 25 I cents. Give them a call, gentlemen, and 1 take your wives along with you—if so tin- 1 fortunate as not to have one, trv and procure : the company of a "sweet heart" "somehow or other." ft?" We learn that an old German named . Matltias, well known as the owner of the j "Seven Mile House," near Wilkes-Barre, ' on the E.tslon Turnpike, was murdered, and afterward* thrown into a well attached to hi* | property, with a large stortt chained to bis bo-'y. It seems he had been missing about two weeks, and i; was reported he had "gone West," but his disappearing so mysteriously, i aroused the suspicions of the neighbors, and j li-ey made diligent seaich for him, and final- j ly succeeded in finding hiin in the above : mentioned place nearly covered tip with . large stones that had been thrown down up- ■ on him. There were marks of violence up-1 on his head and other part.-- of the body. The supposed murderer, who Itatl been living ' with the deceased a short time past, is now • in jail at Wilkes-Bane. 11 BAD WORK.— Literary labor is underval ued, chiefly because the tools wherewith it i is dona ate invisible. If the brain made u* \ much noise as a mill, or if thought-sowing I lollowed hard after a br<?akiiig-up plough, j the produce of the mind would nl once as- ( sen a place in die price current. It a writ- j ter could be so equipped with wheels and , pinions as entirely to conceal the tnan with- 1 in, like the aulomaiotn chess player, ami : sentences were recorded by a wooden, in- j stead of a living hand, the expression ot thought would bo at a premium, because the 1 clock-work would seem to show that it cost something to tnuke it. CAGED AT LAST.— Frank McPevitt, who figured extensively in Washington city some ; months past before the police magistrates as the hero of riotous acts, but always for t lunate enough to procure bail, has been ! safely lodged in jail at Baltimore for pv.rtici ' paling in the election riots last fall in that | city. Upon being arrested he played hi* usual game of drawing a pistol on the otii | curs. DRAMATIC EXHIBITIONS.— The Dramatic In stitute of this place will gic a seres of en- I tertainments in tho Court lloitso on Thurs day, Friday and Saturday evenings. The j services of the "Bioomsburg Band 'are pro cured to enliven the occasion. We bespeak I for them crowde.t houses. Price of admis i sion I2j c(., or 25 cts. for tho series. Tick- I ets to be had at the door. t7 We observe that notices are ported up about the streets declaring that tbe Stores, Offices, and places of general business, will bo closed on Friday, Christmas. This is done in order to give clerks and all hands an opportunity to regard tbe day And so says Vox Populi. The Mews Aro in Europe- The late news from Eorope is highly im portant. The Oank of England has suspen ded specie payment, and has been author ized tu issue small notes, "one pound, we presume, five dollars," until further notice. This is the first time a suspension has laker, 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 m financial effairs is very severe. The following item of news by tho Eng j lish papers lelhs its own history, and is too j monstrous almost lor human belief. Look , ' at it: "The massacre at Delhi was hor rible. AII the people loottd in the city were 1 put to the sword." Cn"" The New York Ledger, tho great Fam ily Paper, 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 TUB WEATHER. —Dame Nature was in one of her most Xantippean moods last night, but came out smiling and pleasant this (Tuesday) morning. Sleighs certainly are nl a discount, skates arc sold cheap, and ice is in demand—so is money. LACKAWANNA & BLOOM-RCUO RAILROAD.— This interesting road is completed. Cars are running daily over the road—carrying mails and passengers. It is an excellent roatl, and bids fair to do a good business, and be a paying road to the stockholders. tcT President Buchanan, in his Message, estimates the number of Indians in our lerri- I Kirial limits of Ihe United States, at 325,000. i Tits Aborigines arc rapidly diminishing in i numbers, as the "pale faces" in'rude further into their native forests and prairies. Colonel F. M. Wynkoojt, of Tamaqtia, was killed, on the 13th instant, whilst limit- j ing pheasants, by the accidental discharge ! r I his comrade's gun. lie commanded one of the Pennsylvania regiments in the Mexi- ; can war, ami was afterward appointed U. S ! Marshalol Pennsylvania by President Pierce. I frf Times are so hard in Minnesota that j the people who can net away nro emigrating to other States for tho winter. One citizen of Hastings, who has 532.000 invested in nu- j incumbered real estate, was unable to bor- I row fitly dollars oil a mortgage of the whole j property, and bad to pawn his watch in Mil wuukie to pay his lintel fare. No CHAPLAIN OF CONGRESS.—Both Homes ' ol Congress have done away with Chaplan- 1 cies as official position* ; and have invited j the clergymen ol Washington city to offici ate alternately, art invitation which lias been accepted. This puts an end to the secular j strife for the e posts, which certainly did riot ! look well, and tended rather to bring discred- ' it on the profession. The Official Returns of the Stale election in Wisconsin, are a", last all in, except La Point* county, which is reported to have giv eu a Democratic majority. The question of the choice of Governor is therefore settled. J. B Cross, Democrat, is elecled by 2G2 ma jority over Randall. Noarly 100,0U0 votes oa*l. Of course, lite telegraph reporters have not heard of litis result, as it is a Democratic victory. NEW SECRET.— \ Political Society has been established in Boston, called the Heart in-hand Club. There is a strange tendency i t the popular mind lo 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 nut. If any permanent good is to be accomplished, the safest and surest means is to be open and above board in the action necessary to secure it. BAD FOR THE LOBBV BUMNKSS, —In the new hall of the Hatt-o ol Representatives at Washington, there is no place on the floor for tl.e lobby members, and they w.il have to cot fine their operations lo the outside ol the building. There is a special gallery ap preprinted to the regular newpaper reporters. What is bad for ths lobby members may be good for the people. riT Mrs. Cunningham and daughters aro not in Paris, as published last week, but aro 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 lor the first week in January. The President litis nominated the Hon. Nnlhun Clifford, of Maine, as Associate Jus tire ot the Supreme Court of the United Suites, to till ttie vacancy occasioned by the twsignsuon of Judge Curtis. The Senate flit? not yet acted on the nomination. 17 The nomination of Col. William A. liioliardaon as Governor of Nebraska, in place ot Mark W. Izard, resigned, was on Tues day confirmed by the Senate. Trie VALOR OF A VOTE.—A single vote can in New York city, fi!ty->ix years ago, made the illustrious Jefferson President ol the U. Stales. The large store of Hie Montour Iron Com pany, in North Danville, was closed last Fri ll -y morning.— Danville Intelligencer. HICK PLANTATIONS.—In the Sooth there are 50,051 rice plantations, which yield an an nual revenue of 54,000,000. The carriage of Kx President Pierce has been sold at Concord, and the proceeds giv en to the poor of his town. By late despatches from Utah it .is staled that the Mormons had stolen 600 head of cattle in sight of Major Alexander's camp. (7* Danville will soon be illuminated by gas. The works are finished. : RESVMPTIO* or SPECIE PAYMENTS —The I successful resumption of specie payments iby the New York Banks naturally awakens the inquiry, why our banks do not follow suil? Why we should be tile first to eus pend and the last to resume? Of course vre shall be told that it is much -easier for the banks to go on as they are as long as they can. The legislature lias au thorised l(iera to suspend until April, end tkrhy should they hurry to resume ? life, moreover, as the New York Herald gravely asserts, "but an experiment," after ull, this resumption, the result of which cannot be known lor ninety days yet, i. e. whether the New York banks can maintain the resump tion. Wait, say the bankers ol our oily, un. til New York and Boston have tried tLe ex periment ond 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 mote immcdiately and directly under the control of the mercan tile and manufacturing interests of the city. The merchants waul accommodations ond the manufactures must hove discounts or stop business, and we have few lurge, indepen dent moneyed men, who live by the em ployment of their cupittil in banking ulone. In New York there are lltoso connected with all the principal banks of that city, whose entire prospects depend immediately upon the. soundness of the currency. That we have not this class amongst us, is owing to the law which binds us to one percent lees of interest than our next neighboiing Slate. Hence, the men of independent wealth seek to invest in New York, and nur riches make to themselves wings and fly away. Hence, what banking capital and currency we have left, is depreciated into accommodation pa per which the New Yotk bioker would even have us believe is fully tlireo per cent, worse than theirs. The unfortunate action ofthut 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'a'e in payment of debts till April, the move ment would be impossinle with uny, unless they all act together and in concorl. No one bank con hi stand a week, nor could all the city banks, however well provided with gold, withstand the pressure which might be bioughi 10 bear upon litem at any time, and which doub'lesa would be brought now. The measure was utterly unconstiiutional in its spirit and tendency, and might, we 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 Stales which forbids anything but gold and silver to be made a legal tender. The agreement which the banks had to sign to do this, while morally binding on them, ought to be regarded by all ttie courts as a mere shuffle and expedi eat of Sia'e legislation to cover a real viola tion of the spirit of the ennstitntion. Fuss ABOUT NOTHING.—AII the present talk in Congress ami in the newspapers about the Leeompton 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 Congress prove thai it is to be a political hobby on which sotno politicians expect to ride into power. Waft till the Leeompton Constitu tion entiles along. Wait till it is seen who are the people of Kansas an I what they real ly want a"d how their wishes are legally ex pressed.—Ledger. THE SOVEREIGNS OF KUKOPK.—Of the forty seven rulers of Europe, tho l'rinee of S chaum burg-Lip| e, a petty German principality*, has reigned 11'0 longest—his administration da ting Irotn Feb. 13, 1787. Hut the oldest of European sovereigns is the Grand Duke of Mecklrttiburg-Sirolilz, born August 12, 1779: the next in point of seniority is the King of Wurtembnrg, born September 27, 1784 ; the King ol Belgium, born December 16, 1790, is the sixth ; the King of Prussia is the ele venth; the F.-nperorof the French, born April 20,1808; is ttie twe"'y mtU iho King of Bavaria the twenty fifth. The youngest sovereigns of Europe are the Emperor of Austria, the Queen ol Spain, aged 26; the King ol Portugal, aged 20; and the Duke of Parma, sged 9 years. A TRUMP.—The Reading Gazette tells a story about G. Nelson Smith, editor of the Johnstown Alleghany Mountain Echo, {Pyoe bus!) winch deserves credit. Mr. Smith was once on a time a jour printer at Louisville, and being about to siart for New Orleans, he met on the wharf a poor widow with tw-o children. They were completely destitute, and he relieved their necessities by giving them all the mqr.ey he bail, which necessita ted his working his way to New Orleans, more than a thousand miles, on a coal boat ! Mr Smith has been elected three times to the Pennsylvania Legislature, and if his head j is as clear as his heart i 9 warm, lie certainly i deserves it. MISSIONARIES KILLED IN INDIA.—Among the missionaries known lo have been killed since (lie commencement of the mntiniiy were Rev. J. E. Kreeinan and wife; Rev. D. E. Campbell, wi'e and two children; Rev A. O. Johnson and wife; Rev. U. McMntlen and wile—all ol Ihe American Presbyterian Mission. The mission ptoperly destroyed is estimated at ihe value of £7O 800'—Of this heavy loss by far Ihe greater portion falls op oil ihe English Church Missionary Society and the American Presbyterian Mission. The former loses £32,000 and ihe latter £26,000. A COOL HIT.—Mr. Buchanan is said to be fond of a quiet thrust at the weakness of humanity. An illustration of (his may ba found near the close of his message lo Con gress, where he congratulates that patriotic body upon "the late excellent law showing a salary instead ol a perdium to members I of Congress, whereby the expense snd incon j venience of a called seaston wtll be greatly j reduced." The innocent simplicity with which he assures himself of their active sym pathy in a measure which will make them work out tlio worth of their wages is refresh- I ing to bohold.~ Richmond Dirpatck, Secretary Cobb's Report. The Way* and Means of Ihe Treasury for the current fiscal year are brought to a very close balance in the-Secretttty's statement, the disbursements using up the balance fiom the previous year and all the revenues which may, in'the present condition of the Import trade, be reasonably calculated on. Theie at the outside, are staled at $75,388,933, while the essential expenditure is set down at $74,963,058. And in view of the contin gencies attending the Custom revenue lor the next seven months, (to the close of the fiscal year, June 30, 1858,) and the probabil- I ily that the Government expenditure may exceed the estimates, the* Secretary very propetly asks for the immediate authority to J employ Treasury Notes, not exceeding the sum total of twenty million dollars. This authority, wo 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 lair to anticipate that this first report of Secretary Cobb will mnke 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 atraiaht forwanl and practical, and Ihu document al together is less encumbered by new schemes ol finance, and novel modes of reform in tho i currency, that might have been anticipated j in the present condition of the country. On j this last named subject there is not the slight est attempt at interference with the rights of the Stales, 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 ol the abuses ol Credit, thro' 'he 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 table of llie viper, whfc being warmed lo life, turned nd bit its benefactor, has actually been enacted in Connecticut. Matthew Grisworld, of Old Lyme, saw a man named Wm. Austin, in the Sound, on the bottom of a boat, in a perilous condition, a few days since, und rescued him from drowning; took him to his house, 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 tenulaeior, stole about S?;,300 worth of property, but was caught at the Essex fer ry, wi'h the property upon him, 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.' 1 Asxtous ABOUT IT l'he English press takes considerable interest in the expedition to Utah, and the English government is not without suino 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 the Mormons go to that country, they will have sotne trouble to get the sqiiAiters out. The hope is expressed that United States government will be able lo settle the business of the Mormons so effectually that English territories will not be trouble;! with them. IT" The St. Louis Democrat says : —Ten | months ago a youth, of but 17 autuins, I came to St. Louis from Muscatine, lowa, and became enamorod ol a nico young lady, tho cherished daughter of highly re spected parents, living on 15th street.— Briefly, he won her, and they were married and lived happily till the other day, when the father of the youdiful husband arrived rn... Mommine, ana took Ills son home to team trade! What a smart age we live in! CV 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, ho hoard of the hopeless illness ol 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 BAHNUM.— Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 18.— Irauiftaii, the splendid country seat of Mr. Barnnm, was destroyed by lire last night about midnight. It is supposed to have been set on fire. Mr. Barnuin had commenc ed refurnishing it, proposing to reside there. C7*A couple of New Zealand tribes lately | gave a festival in honor of a chief. The raw materials consisted of 13 bullocks, ?0,000 dried sharks. 20 baskets of fresh eels, 50 bas kets nf pataki and manlaita, 50 bags of su- 1 gar, 8,000 kits ol potatoes and kumera, and 1,500 pounds of tobacco. THK MINNESOTA ELECTION.— Prairie du chi en, IFts., Dec. 19.—The St. Paul (Miu ) dates to the 15>h inst, have been received. The election canvass had not been completed. It was thought the democratic candidate for Governor, H. H. Sibley, would be declared elected. There was no election of United Stales Senator. SLAVE QUESTION IN VERMONT.—A bill w as recently introduced into the Legislature of Vermont which wss intended to disfranchise anvperson who should assist in the capture of a fugitive slave. On the7ih instant it was thrown out of the House by a vote of 121 to 76. TH ALABAMA LEGISLATURE. — Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 19.—The Legislature of this Slate has legalized the suspension of specie pay ment by the banks, until fle Istb of Novem ber next. The l,Hie*t from Ulah. from the Kansas City Journal <4 Commerce. Dec. 5. j Mr. Joseph Majou, a French trader on ' Greer, river, arrived In Kansas City on Tues day night, being the last arrival from Utlih and the Mountains. His accounts confirm our previous advicos concerning the hosiiliiyAUd the outrages of the Mormons. No "Gentile" is any longer safe in tfce Valley. He reports that nearly all emigrant trains ure suffering from Mormon depredations— tfteir wagons being burned and cattle stolen. Brigham Young is exhotling his followers to resist to tho last extremity, and if over powered by the Government troops, to flee to the mountains and defend themselves. He reports that the army is buying up all the stores ii can procure. He says tho army has plenty of provisions for tho winter if they can only concentrate a sufficient force to pro tect them from the Mormons; but, scattered as iltey are on the route, ho fears many will bo cut off. Mr. Majou had made large contracts for flour at Salt Lake City for his winter traJe, but on sending his train after it they refused to let him have it, lest the army might be supplied by bint, attd sent him back with 400 pounds for his own use. Large quantities of grain oud forage were stored at Fort Bridger, which were burned by the Mormons to prevent its purchase by the Government. Thcv had also burned all the grass on the j route beyond Fort Bidger. Snow wa< about three feet deep ir. the mountains, and the country was coveted as far east as the Blue River. Buflulo were very abundant, nml as far down as the Little Blue Iliver, quite near tho | settlements. THE MORMONS AT SALT LAKE. —By late ar rivals from Utah, we have files of the Deserot News to tne 7th of October. The papers are filled with the say ings and doings of the Saints j in reference to the visit of tho U. S. troops. They appear to regard the act of President Buchanan in sending a force there sufficient to see the laws faithfully executed, as a great violation of their ConMiimional rights, and fiercely contend that, according to the princi ples of the American revolution, they have the right to govern themselves in their own way, to say who shall be -appointed to fill their own offices, and that there is no power under the Constitution to interfere with their religion. Tl.ey talk like a poor, persecuted and abused people in their memorials to the Government, but in their speeches nnd ad dresses at home, they assume the bearing ! and arrogance ol a defiant priesthood, who I were determined to make their religion pre dominate over all laws, and were resolved to exclude from territories common to all the people ol tho United States any persons or institutions differing from their own. This is 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 trom 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, ami this is exactly what the United States Gov ernment is now doing. The Mormons, in their arrogance and fancied security, have committed aggressions against the Govern ment and the people, and lltey must abide the consequences. Constitutional law will ba supreme in all part 3 of the territories of the United States, and those who cannot sub mit to its authority must take the other alter native and leave the country. This result the Moimons fear must happen, and therefore their exasperation is great, niuiher nitghatti voung swears mat, when "the time comes, he will lay waste all the improvements at Salt Lake." "The bosom | of the Almighty burns with anger," he says, "aaainst those scoundrels"—meaning Cols, i Alexander Johnson. &c. "He will regard them i as mobs and treat them accordingly. Broth er Kimball expresses his opinion of Senator ( Douglas, that "lie is as big a damn'd rascal j as ever walked " He calls Gen. Harney an j "old squaw killer." Elder Woodruff says | the Mormon community "hold the keys of I thL. constituent and stand in the strong chur ches of the mountains, where the Lord can give tin victory." They are determined to "live in quiet and have peace if they have to fight for it." The Deseret News throws back the charge of treason upon the priests j of the "mgher law" party, who, it says, openly advocated resistance to a decision ol the U. S. Supreme Court. Civil war, it says, is raging in Kansas, and in California a Vigi lance comuititeu nas set aside ail law, and ' taken the lives of ten persons. In the city I of New York influential papers are striving to array a populous city against the authori ties of the State. Throughout the whole of their public ex pressions of opinion there is the 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. THE UTAH EXPEDITION.— St Louis Dec. 18. —The Leavenworth (K. T.) Herald of the lOihinst, announcing the arrival of an ex press messenger from Utah, slates that he passed Colonel Johnson's command near Bridger. The baggage and provision trains were all safe, and the troops wete in good spirits. This is the only news that transpired relative lo the Utah Expedition. Governor Walker landed at Punta Areo nas, in Central America, on the 25th ol No | vember, with 160 men. This overwhelm i ing force lanced without opposition. The i party being so small, the expense of hang- I ing them, when they are captured, will be I light. THE NEW TORK LEDGER ftr 1858. THE BEST FAMILY P A PER IN THE WORLD! 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Any person obtaining eight subscribers at 81 50 each ' (which is out lowest club rates) and sending us 812 will be entitled to one copy free.— Terms invariably in advance. Address all letters to no UK NT BONNER, Publisher of the NEW YORK LEDGER, 44 Ann St.. New York. N. B.—Now is t) good lime to subscribe, as Mrs. South ivorth's new story, The Bride of an Evening, will oe com menced in THE f.EDGER on the first of J inuaty. N. B.—No. 2—We have no Agents authorized to 'eceuo subscriptions for the Ledger. Subscribers uiust always re mit direct to ns, and not send or pay any money to any and Agents. A high mnial tone characterizes every ar ticle in the LEDGER In fact, the names of its leading conltibitlors are a sufficient guaG aiilee that it stands in marked contrast to a class a ol weekly publications that have for j so long a time flooded tl e country, but which J fotiunaiely lor the murals of our people, are 1 almost extinct. December 23, 1857. VAI.LUTLI; LAW LIBRARY OP-JDLS2. 3 rrutE Law Library ol the late Reuben W. -* Weaver, Esq., will bo sold by the un dersigned Administrator, of tho decedent at private sale. Any person desirous of obtain ing a good LAW JAURARY -.tit Jo .cit i,. oil mnt examine tne books. There are also a variety of miscellaneous books for sale. 13*" Liberal terms of pay- I nrent will be given. GEORGE WEAVER, Administrator. Bloomsburg, Dec. 23, 1857. "STAR OF TIIK NORTH" Valuable Priuting Establishment FOR SALE. f|MIE Press, Type, fixtures and furniture of * the printing establishment belonging to | the estate of the la'e lieu ban V. Weaver will be disposed of at private sale. If not sold lefore the seventh day of January next the satne will be exposed to public sale txi thai day. 1 Terms of sale liberal and acommodaling. 1 Will be sold oil the 7th .Unitary next u Sul t ky, one buggy wagon, Harness, &c. , uGORGE WEAVER, Administrator. | Bloomsburg, Deo. 23, 1857. ; 1 On tho 17th insi., by the Rev. William J. ' F.yer, Mr. EDWIN F. PARTBIGE, of the c.ty of Philadelphia, to Miss HENHIKTTA H. HART MAN, of Catawiasa, Columbia county, Pa. In Cataxvissa Valley, on Sunday Dec. 13th, by Rev. I. Bahl, Mr. JOSHUA KEHLE, to CATH ARINE-DKRK, both of that place. On the 15th inst. by the same, in Berwick, Mr. HIRAM KEEN, to Miss ELIZABETH MINER- B VA KECK, both of Nescopeck, Luz. Co., Pa. 8 Or. the 17th, at the eamtf place, by the s same, Mr. GEO. THOMAS, of Salem township, to Miss MARGARET ANN BOWER, of Hollen back township, both of Luzerne co., Pa. j On the evening of the 13th inst., by Rev. W.Goodrich, Mr. EVAN THOMAS, and MISS E HENRIETTA ERASMUS, both of this place. In this place, by the same, on the evening e of the 12th ion., Mr. JACKSON KARHS. and ir Miss LYDIA ANN CRAMER, both of this place. J " """AMHFTITTA" _ Oe the 12th of November last, in Knox vilte, lowa, Mrs. JANE, relict ol Alexander Thompson, formerly of Espytown, Columbia county, Pa., aged about 75 years. 5 Ir. White Hall, of inflammation of the brain, ' a child of Andrew and Araminda Crawford, 16 aged about 8 months. ' In Danville, on Monday last, after a pro )e imeted illness, Mrs. WM HANCOCK, aged about 34 jeare.
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