STAR lIP THE mm. \T. H. JACOBV, EDITOR. Hloomsbitrz, IVI. 17, 1858. STATE" At a mooting of the Democratic State Committee hold at Buehlcr's Hotel, Harrisburg, Jnnunry IV, 1858, it wua Kc.sohvd, That tho next Democratic btate t! (invention ho hold at llarrisluig, on the 4th day of March next. Pursuant to said resolution, delegates from tho aevcral Senatorial nnd Representative districts of the State will convene in tlio Hall of tho House of Representatives, nt tho Capitol, on THURSDAY, tho 4th of MARCH, 1858, at 10 o'clock, A M., to nomi nate candidates for Judge of the Supremo Court and Canal Commissioner, nnd for tho transaction of such other business as pertains to the authority ©f such Convention. C. R. BUCK A LEW k. J.' !£=:• i '•The J'rople." Not that we are in favor of interdicting the submission of a Constitution of any new Staftf to tho whole peoplo thereof—because we are in favor of permitting them to do as they please on this and other subjects—we men tion a fact which must be a curious one to those who so dolorously weop over the sac rificed liberties of the Topekai.es. It is this: The Constitution ol the United Sla'es was not ratified CII masse by the people of the several States, but by Conventions of Dclegutn thereof. And this at the recommendation of George Washington ! Another fact lor those who are so extreme ly tearful that every thing will not be done by the people. The Constitution ol the U. S. may at any time be amended or altered at the instance of a minority of the people, and that without the consent 0) the m jority. Again: Acts of Congress are frequently passed in opposition to the wishes of a ma jority of the people, every representative voting, and each voting in accordance with the wishes of his constituents. The same is true with respect to State Laws. Now, these are truths such as school-boys generally know; but if any of our young friends have been ignorant of them, and do not command proper sources of information, we shall be p'eased to illustrate. As for those over grown boobies who set up lor statesmen ! and either gull themselves or attempt to gull others, or both, with the idea that the 'dear people' must always do things after the fashion of the Jersey township elections, where they throw a rail across the road, and, the different parties of voters ranging themselves on different sides, count noses, we leave them to that bathos in which they delight to flounder. The Amer ican people have wisely formed a govern ment of checks and balances, the interests of the individual being considered with reference to the interests of sections, and that of sections with reference to the inter ests of the whole, and majorities do rule.— Hut not mere numerical majorities. The true Democrat is not a utopean. 110 does not claim that the people on one side of the rail are the whole people. He reflects that the people on the other side have not only wishes, but rights, and rights, moreover, which are, in a fair government to be re spected; and that in order that these rights be understood thesifcpeopie should he heard. Hence the sending of representatives by minorities. If the will of a numerical ma jority should rule, why allow the minority a voice ? We hare been leil to these remarks by ihe Jeep-mouthed and persistent brayings of these latter days about the "people," the "majority;" words which contain a mine of principle when rightly used, but which,-in the mouths of demagogues, mean profit and plunder. THS DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.— The Democracy of Bradford county, in conven tion on the 2d inst., appointed 11. J. MURILL, Esq., and Col. V. E. PIOI.I.KT, Representative Delegates to the 4lh of March Convention, •at Harrisburg, with instructions to support Hon. WM. F.I.WELL for Judge of the Supreme Court. II S. STEPHENS, Esq., of Susquehan na, has been chosen Senatorial Pe'egate from Bradford, Susquehanna and Wyoming counties. The Bedford County Convention, on the Slh inst., concurred in the election of ISAAC HUGOS, as Senatorial Delegate, and Col. JOHN C. EVEUHART, and A. J. COLRIRN, as Representative Delegates to the State Convention. THE FIRST ACCIDENT, we believe, happen, ed on the Lackawanna & Bloomsburg Hail Road a few days since, about a mile below Plymouth Station. The Engine rnn off the track, taking with it the tender and a part of the passenger car, and Col. Hilliran, of Wilkesbarre, and a ludy were slightly in jured. After the sills and rails have once become firmly settled it is expected this will be one of the safest and best roads in the country. WE LEARN from the Poltsville Register the following accident, which happened on last Monday. A man employed at the Colliery of Mr. BANCROFT, at Ashland, undertook to fill iiis bag willi powder from a keg, having ai the same time a lighted pipe in his mouth. The powder was ignited and iu the explo* sion which followed, seven men were badly injured. One has since died, and two more are expected to, from the injuries received. THE PRACTICES of some of our young men! and boys who attend the nightly meetings in Bloomsburg are shameful in the extreme. All senso of self-respect and of respect for the places they frequent seem to have left them. But it is now pretty well understood how the thing will end. SHERIFF MILLER may have some boarders in a day or two. Col. John Dean, jr., of-Danvilie, Montour county, has been appointed Whiskey Inspec tor, by Gov. Wm. F. Packer.— Berwulc Gax'l. GP The above is incorrect, as no appoint ment has been made; although the Colonel stands a good chance of receiving the office of Whiskey Inspector. That Meeting. Some disappointed and indignant gentle tmui, at whose head was Colonel Forney, brought about a sort of indigna ion meeting in Philadelphia a lew days since. The meeiing was doubtless a large one, as most meetings are in that city.\ We reeo'leet the time when the hatiessGeorge Mundy would count his auditors by thousands in Indepen dence Square. George was odd, and thought differently from most peoplo on most sub jects, but George could get up n meeting, and carry it on, too, until the police would carry him off. This last was' done frequent ly to the great apparent regret of the lookers on, but alas for human sincerity, we have seen many a laugh smothered in the sleeve as the vociferating and indignant Mundy was being marched oft between two hurley "stars." Now Mr. Forney and Mr. Mundy aro quite alike in some respects, though it must be confessed immeasurably different in others. Hie way in which the world manages its affairs suits neither of them, and the forte of both is to express their dis approbation before a crowd. Ah, what a wise provision of our Constitution that is which declares that the right of the people peaceably to assemble and make speeches shall not be abridged; otherwise how many Mundys and Forneys and other notorious etiaraeters might go down to the grave and to oblivion at one and the same time! But we are sorry that our whilom friend Forney has gone astray. The inimitable Forney! Ho who could write a philipic and pull a wire as no other man could! Forney, you're a sad loss. You're a trump, but why did you have yourself shuffled out of the pack because you could not be a bower t You're "some pumpkins," but why did you " dry up " because you could not co into the pie? You led the park and cave tongue well, but why did you "skulk" because you could not devour the game when caught? These questions contain their own answers. We had hoped belter things of Col. For ney—had some reliance on his patriotism But we remember that Arnold at one lime stood high in the estimation of Washington. Ihe staunch democracy of tho coun ry can easily spare Forney and his five-hundred or five thousand followers in the city, and have enough left "for all practical purposes." A few city office hunters, and their fewer ( imps in the country can produce but little effect on the mass of the people. Tho Democracy of the hills and valleys of Pennsylvania are not to be won from their love of James Buchanan and tho un changing principles which he represents by a meeting inlhe State House yard. Not Quite Winter Yet. With our distant readers, who have been longing and sighing for tho sweet music of sleigh bells, we must say to them that we aro in as bad a predicament as any other locality, with the exception of Sullivan Co. region. Last Saturday evening a desperate eflbrt was made to snow, hut didn't 'make out much'—and adjourned, to try it over, some time in the night. On Sunday morn ing following, the 'question was called up again, but the result was the same—not snow enough to measure mathematically three inches in depth. On Monday morning following a few more flakes of snow fell, but they soon ceased to fall. And, at pres ent writing (Monday noon) the sky is clear, sun shines, —all is calm. However, on last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, we had pretty cold weather—which we could cull nearly winter weather. All that was lacking was that good old white coat of snow, which we all delight to see, this season of the year.— Ice is fronted on Fisliingcreek five inches thick—didn't measure the length—and looks as clear as crystal. The citizens are busily engaged filling their ice houses; it being the first opportunity that has been afforded thetn of doing so this winter, they are bound to procure it at the first bid, for fear they might hear the Providential Aucdoneer say "going, gone." ST. VALENTINE'S DAV. The period of amatory epistles has passed off without be ing very generally observed. Hard times and the decline of the custom diminished greatly die features of the day. Missives, garnished with a superfluity of bright colors and gilt, were here and there dispatched by some lover to his adored, but they formed exceptions to the general rule. The usual offensive caricatures appeared in the shop windows, but we do not think that they met with many purchasers. I Oua UNION. —The census of the United Sta'es'shows that we have two millions and a half of farmers, one hundred thousand merchants, sixty (our thousand masons, and nearly two hundred thousand carpenters | We have fourteen thousand bakers to make our bread; twenty four thousand lawyers to I set us by the ears; forty thousand doctors to | "kill or cure," fifieen hundred editors to keep this motley mass in order by the pow er of public opinion controlled and manufac tured through the press. MCKEKSPORT MURDERS.— Two of the Mc- Keesport murders, Henry Fife and Charlotte Jones, were hung last Friday afternoon, at two o'clock, in Pittsburg. A great many people witnessed the execution inside of the jail yard; also quite a number witnessed it on the outside of the walls. They both de livered addresses acknowledging the justice of their sentence, luit declaring Monroe Stewart (who is sentenced to he hung in a fortnight) as entirely innocent of tho crime. WE LEARN from the Wilkesbarre "Times" that somebody deposited alittle female stran ger, about two days old, at the from door of a family without children, the other day, at Wilkesbarre. The little one made a noise, which was heard by the lady of the house, I and believed to be a pig. But it was found to be a fine baby, and at once adopted as their own. B 8 " The revival meeting at the Methodist Episcopal Cliuroh, in this place, is still in progress. GP" A bill for the divorce of THOMAS VV. SMITH from his wife has passed tho State Senate. Book Notices. HARPER'S MAGAZINE —We have just receiv ed three back numbers of Harper's Maga zine, (December, Januaryand February nos.) for which they (have our highest regards.— This Magazine is unquestionably the most agreeable and .instructive periodical which his yet come within our observation. Its contents always bear the stamp of the edi tor's peculiar genius, and interesting and useful information is nicely blended with rational philosophy and sound morals; and when wo say this we mean what we say. This Magazine is published at three dol lars per annum. Clubs, of two persons, can bo supplied at five dollars a year, or five persons at ten dollars. Numbers from the commencement can be supplied. The post ago in advance, at the office where the Mag azine is recoived, is THREE CENTS. Address Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York. T H r. SCIENTIFIC AM RRICAN, published week ly at No. 128 Fulton Street, New York, by MCNN & Co., Terms 82 per annum, is the most useful, entertaining and instructive publication of the kind we receive. A per son can peruse its pages with pleasure and profit for a moment or for hours. It con tains eight pages of reading matter well il lustrated with five to eight engravings, which were gotten lip expressly for this publica tion. It is 'devoted to the proprulgation of information relating various Mechan ical and Chemical Arts, Manufactures, Ag riculture, Patents, Inventions, Engineering, Mill Work, and all interests which the light of practical science is calculated to advance.' HODGE'S JOURNAL OF FINANCE AND BANK RE PORTER has been received for January with correct and reliable information of all bank failures and changes. It gives a full descrip tion of all genuine notes in circulation, and detecting bad money of every description. It contains more general information per taining to money than any Detector 011 our list. Read advertisement in another column of to-days STAR. GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE, —the prospectus of which can be found in another column of to-day's paper, oilers rare inducements to subscribers. This lltFee dollar"Magazitie can be had for 5i.67 a year, to clubs of six or more. It is beautifully illustrated with steel engravings. It commences the New Year with new writers, new storios, new engrav ings, and now attractions generally for the year. Address, Watson & Co., Graham's Magazine, Philadelphia, Pa. Neighborhood Affairs. The Benevolent Societies of Danville, got up expressly to aid the poor of that place, have been making reports of what they 1 have done. Though tho means of their ser vices have been apparently small, yet they have done considerable good in distributing | clodiing, medicine, fuel, and provisions to 1 tho needy. A number of young men of 1 Danville—mostly printers— met at the Dem ocrat otiice on Wednesday evening of last week, to organizo a Society to be called the Danville Debating and Declaiming Society, 'to be composed of none but young men.— ! As ibis society is composed chiefly of prin : ters we deem it not improper to say a few i words in relation to tho craft. Printers are | emphatically the Reformers of the age in which they live. No new measure is pro -1 posed, no new principle in Science, Art, rtilitics or Mechanics, is promulgated, but ; these busy Printers, these ready thinkers, ' seize upon it and proceed to enlighten the ! public upon its bearings and its applica tions, for a wonderfully practical set are they. "Little drops of wiitcr, Little grains of sand, Make tiic mighty ocean, And tho beauteous laud." The expenditures of Lycoming County last year, were STS 000 of which SI 1 001 were for old debts. For County printing, 1 5325. A child, belonging to Amos Nerhood, strayed from home, some weeks ! ago, in Beaver township, Snyder County Numerous persons went in search of the | child, but no clue of its whereabouts could Ibe ascertained that day. Oil the following j morning search Was again mads, when it was found sitting in a bush in the woods playing with some sticks. The Bunk ot Danville has resumed specie payments on all ils liabilities. Also, the Bank of North umberland has resumed specie payments on its liabilities. OUTRAGE. —We learn from the "Mauch Chunk Gazelle" that on Monday last, Mr. W. T, Simson returning from Summit Hill to I Ashton, his place of residence, was attacked : by four Irishmen, who knocked him down with a sling shot and demanded his money, i lie cried for help when some persons came !to his assistance. Whether the rascals suc i ceeded in robbing him we did not learn.— j He wa taken to the Summit severely injur ed. He received four violent blows on the head when he fell to the ground. SUICIDE. —We aro informed, that, a young man about 19 years of age, named John Irwin, who waa residing with his father, near centre turnpike, about 1 milo above Or wigsburg, Schuylkill co., committed suicide on last Sunday morning, at about 9 o'clock, by shooting himself with a double barrel shot gun. It appears that he desired to engage in some kind of business, in the city of Phila delphia, and to enable him to do so, request ed a certain amount of money. The father refused this, on the ground that he was too young and inexperienced; which operat ed so much upon his mind, that in a fit of excitement he took his own life. EXEMPTED —Printers with nine children are to be exempted from taxation in the state of New York. Very safe legislation that. We would like to see the Printer who had anything to tax after feeding nine children. CY WE see by the papers that hoops and flounces have gono into suspension at Wash ington city. Flowing bkirts, high necks, and red petticoats are the latest modes. Counterfeit fives on (he Globe Bank, at Boston. Mass., are in circulation. Teachers' Convention. In response to the call or the County Su perintendent, a number of Teachers of Co lumbia County assembled in Mr. Eaton's School Room, in Btoomsburg, at II o'clock, Saturday, the 13th infh., for the purpose of forming themselves into an Association. The Convention was temporarily organ ized, by appointing Mr. Burgess, Chairman, and I<. T. SluirpleStpSetH^iry. After some remarks by the Chairman, on the objects of the meeting, a Committee, consisting of Messrs. Sharpies*, Morris, and Kester, was appointed to draft a Constitution for the government of the Association. On motion a second Committee made np of Messrs. B. F. Eaton, J. 0. Stokes and A. I'. Young, was appointed to report a scheme of business for the afternoon session. AFTKRNOON SKSSION. Tho Convention met according to adjourn ment, and was called to order by the Chair man. The report ot the Committee on busi ness being called for, the following scheme was submitted and adopted : • Item 1. That we' eriteftain the report of the Committee on organization. Item 2d. That we request the County Su perintendent to give an account of the pro gress of education, as indicated by his offi cial visitations of the various districts. Item 3. That the teachers present be also requested to make brief statements 011 ihe present condition of the schools in llieir re spective districts and the results attending the Tcachert' fusjitujf lately held in this place. The Committee on organization reported a Constitution, which, after being amended in several points, was finally adopted under the following form: CONSTITUTION. Art. 1. This Association shall be called the "Teachers' Association of Columbia County." Art 2. The object of this Association shall be the mutual improvement of its mem bers in the theory and practice of leaching, and the advancement of the cause of edu cation generally, throughout the county Art. 3. Sec. I. The officers of this Asso ciation shall consisfof a ['resident, two vice Presidents, Treasurer, Recording and Cor responding Secretaries, and Executive Com mipce, and they shall each perform tile du ties usually assigned to such officers. Sec 2. The Executive Committee shall consist of five members, whose duty it shall be to prepare itoms of business for the con sideration and action of the Association. Sec. 3. Tho election of officers shall be held at the first slated meeting of the Asso ciation in each year. Art. 4. Auv Teacher or Friend of Edu cation m the County, may become a mem ber of this Association by subscribing to the Constitution and paying an initiation fee of twenty-five cents. Art. 5. This Association shall through its Corresponding Secretary, front time, invite any well qualiflod person to deliver a public j lecture beloro it on any subject connected with the cause of education. [ Art 6. Ten members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of ordinary busi ness. Art. 7. There shall be at least two statpd I meetings of this Association during the year, j one in the first week of February and in the first week of October, and as many special meetings as the President and Executive Committee may deem advisable to call. Art. 8. This Constitution may be altered or amended by a vole of two-iliirds of the members the said altera tion lias becSMPKitled to any previous meeting. Mr. Burgees next gave a very interesting ' statement on the condition of the County j Schools. lie thinks that the opposition to 1 tho School 14V is gradually giving way: | and that a new and vital impetus has been given to the system, such as will soon se cure for it the enure confidence of the com munity. The Teachers present followed with in teresting remarks on the schools in their neighborhoods. But one sentiment on the good effects attending the late 'leachers' In stitute, prevailed. There is one loud call for others to follow as soon as proper. A com mittee composed of Messrs. William Bur gess, B. F. Eaton, J. W. Swartz, L. Apple man, T. J. Morris, and A. P. Ydung, was appointed to report at the next meeting a list of officers. The following resolutions were then sub mitted and unanimously adopted: Resolved. Th it we hereby signify our hearty approval of the present Common School Law of this State and especially of the results attending the feature introduced by the last Legislature—the seperation of the office of State Superintendent of Com mon Schools from that of Secretary of State —and that we regert the attempt recently made to repeal said feature in the law, and that we recognize in Mr. Hickok, die pres. ent Slate Superintendent, an efficient, enter prizing and thoroughly competent person for the post he occupies. Resolved, That the Secretary present a synopsis of ottr proceedings to the papers of the county for publication. On motion the Association adjourned, to meet on Saturday the 27th inst., in the same place ul 9 o'clock, A. M., when it is hoped, there will be a full attendance of the Teach ers of the County, as business of importance is to be that meeting. • . \VM. BURGESS, Chairman. L. T. SHARPLKSS, Sec'ry, pro. tem. tf The statistical tables of mortality shows a reduction in this country of the proportions of deaths from pulmonary di seases. Doct. Ayor attributes ibis result to the affect of his Cherry Pelcoral. He also asserts that the cures from his Cathartic Pills give reason to believe they will, as they come into more general use, material reduce the mortallity from those particular diseases for which they a?<j designed. From what we know of his preparations, we think he has grounds for his claims, and if he has, it is an attaintment of which an Emperor might be proud. Rarely is it permitted any one man to know that his skill is bestowing health and life to the masses of his fellow men. Such a reflection is worth working for, even thought he had the reflection for his reward— Springfield Daily Courier. RAIL ROAD ACCIDKNT. —The morning up trian on the Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad, met with an accident on Thursday last, when about a mile below Plymouth statiou, by the breaking of one of the axles of tho baggage car, which threw the passen ger car otr the track and precipitated it down the embankment. We have not learned that any one sustained any injury'. The oc currense was purely accidental, and no blame can. be attached to the company.— Berwick Gjpctle. Now aud Silly Years Ago. I It is a frequent cry, 011 tho part of those who look gloomily upon the future, that political animosities have reached a pitch such as was never seen before. Hut men would not hold these opinions, it they knew the history of their country better. The great struggle of 1800, which terminated in the elevation of Jellerson to the Presidency, was distinguished by an acrimony to which the present limes afford no parallel. In fact for more than four years prior to that event, party spirit raged with a fury which neither respected the amenities of life, nor ac knowledged tho claims of friendship. Tho I newspapers were filled with libels. Family ties were rent assuttder. Personal assaults were frequent. Things went so far, that John Adams, whon Vice President, had to arm his servants, in expectation of att at tack from the mob. Thousands of persons filled the streets of Philadelphia, on anoth er occasion, threatening vengeance on the administration; and some of the more hot headed even went so far as to propose drag ging Washington from his house. | There have been many periods of polit ical excitement during the present genera tion ; but none like that. The election of Harrison plunged the whole nation into a fever of song-singing, speechifying and bar bacue-holding. That of Polk was said at first to threaten serious disasters. The cau cus of 1856 was regarded, by hundreds of thousands, as involving the Union itself.— But all these political hurricanes passed away, in succession, with no other perma nent result than the clearing up of the at mosphere. The truth is the American peo ple, though nominally excitable, have a solid foundation of common sense at the bottom of their character; and hence, when ever ihe violence of antagonistic parties threatens serious consequences, there comes a reaction ; a compromise ensues; substan tial justice is secured; and the country is at rest. The past has taught us confidence in the future. There have been worse limes I than these. A month of the terrible strug- i gle between the Federalists and their op- | ponents, shook the republic as much as a J year of party strife does now. We do not deny that a dissolution of the Union, like everything else political, is ! among Ihe possibilities. When the time ' comes; if ever it should, that the supposed interests of one section are regarded as more important than tho preservation of the federal compact, then a seperatiou begins to be probable. Hut the noisy talk of ab stractionists, either North or South, must not be taken for a proof that such senti ments exist. The mass of all communities are essentially conservative. They are more than this, they are indolent in political af- j fairs, and are never really roused except in j great emergencies. They abhor extreme j opinions, love justice, desire to see fair play. I The sound public morality, the pure patri- j otism of this immense majority, will not j permit either a wrong permanently to be perpetuated, or factious idealogists to des- J troy their country. As the republic gets J older, it strikes its roots deeper aud wider, I and becomes more tenaciously fixed than ever 111 the habits and hearts of the people. | The tempest that would have prostrated it sixty years ago, now only shakes its mighty branches; nor should the roar of the storm in those multitudinous loaves deceive us; for the great oak that braves out the hurri cane makes more noise than the little sap ling that is torn up.— Ledger. The Truth Coming Out. We have always been of the opinion that 1 there was more knavery than honesty in tho agitation of the slavery question and particularly that branch of it which relates to Kansas.. The question has been seized upon by designing politicians as a means by which they can get into and keep them selvs in power, and not through any love or respect for principle. All the recent devel opments on this subject have been calculated to strengthen our convictions in this respect; and we give below an extract from the Kan sas Daily Ledger, a free State paper, which it seems to us, ought to convince all who have ever doubted as to the real cause of the controversy. The Ledger says: "Niggers are not the great bone of con tention in Kansas, and those who cry out most lustly for 'nigger' or 'no nigger,' liav'nt money enough, as a general thing, to buy a 'plug of tobacco with.' The real bone of con tention is power and spoils : and the poor nig ger is made to bend and bow to suit the pur poses of those political demagogues, that they may ride into power and obtain some of the spoils— adlull's all. The free State parly nor the proslavery party of Kansas care anything about the moral condition of the niggers, but they must have a text to preach trom, and the 'poor nigger' has been preached in ail his aspects throughout our land." And upon the admission of Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton Constitu tion, the same paper says: "Let Congress attend to their own busi ness, and let us attend to ours. We have something more lo accomplish besides the admission of Kansas into the Union. We want railroads, telegraphs, churches, com mon schools and a host of other things of minor importance, but, paramount to all these, we want peace." And again: "They [the people of Kansas] are hearti ly sick and tired ol this infernal nigger agita tion ; they have had a surleit of it; it injures their business, blasts their prospects, and keeps up a continual strife. Let Kansas be admitted into the Union some how or other, and with some kind of a constitution, that we may have peace." These extracts show, what we have al ways believed and insisted was lite case, that it was for power and the spoils that the Re publicans of the North, who have got up and kept alive this controversy, are conten ding; and that the people of Kansas them selves, no matter what others may say and do, are sick and tired of agitation and anxious that it should be settled in the only way it can bo settled—by the prompt and uncondi tional admission of the Territory as a Stato under the Lecompton Constitution l " There are 42 farmers in the Pennsyl vania Legislature. IV THI Pittsburg Banks havo all resum ed specie payment. The Toliey and Principles of the Democracy. The question of the admission of Kansas i involves a principle and a policy which are vital to the welfare of the coynlry. The controversy which it is theteby proposed to foreclose has been the staple of all the re publican campaigns, in the States and throughout the Union, since the passage of the act repealing the Missouri Compromise and providing for territorial government in Kansas. At the first blush, it was resolved by our opponents to go to the people upon the single question of the restoration of the compromise. Hence the measure was bit terly assailed as a violation of faith, and the principle of popular sovereignty, which was substituted lor thef Missouri restriction, was equally denounced as subversive of the settled policy of the American Union. But it was soon found that thero was no vitality in the issue they had made. They turned to Kansas as]a field of profitable labor. They organized aid societies and filled the Terri tory with paid emissaries who obeyed in structions not to vote and to throw every obstacle in the way of organizing and oper ating a territorial government. They set up a revolutionary government at Topeka, for which they claimed the allegiance of the people. Through a period of nearly four years all efforts to pacify them have proven unavailing ; and now as a last resort, when Congress proposes to receive them into the Union, we are met by a declaration that to do so will defraud them of their rights and violate a fundamental principle of our dem ocratic system. AY e do not regard it as necessary to re count the events to which we have briefly refer>ed. If there are any persons in the democratic party who do not believe that the territorial legislature, on the 19th of February, 1857. had full power to provide for and direct the election of delegates to a convention in June following, wo do not know them. That Legislature was the off spring of the act of 1854—the famous Kan sas Nebraska act of Senator Douglas which called it into legal being. It existed by virtue of the authority of Congress and the people of Kansas who elected the mem bers thereof. If there were persons who did not vote at such election, greater or less in number, their omission to perform their duties must not be pleaded against the legal authority of those who did vote, and the au thority which the latter thereby conferred upon their representatives. But we go a step further. We charge those who refused to vote as acting with the carrying out instructions sent to them by a political party out of the Territory. Refusal to vote was the enactment of a party of the republican programme by which the great canvass of 1856 was conducted. Refusal to vote was intended to embarass and de feat all eflorts to settle and adjust the fretful question of slavery, which was the only question about which any interest was felt here or there. Refusal to vote was premed itated treason against the peace of the coun try, and gave birtli to all the frightful civil commotions in the Territory. Under these circumstances, an<L with these facts by every democratic press and orator throughout the country, it is little short ot insult to appeal to the demo cracy for either sympathy or consideration for the parties who thus not only neglected to perform the high duties imposed upon them, but accompanied that refusal with re peated and wholly unjustifiable efforts to overthrow our party in Kansas and through out the Union, Again : the Juno election called out an unusually small vote. It was conducted in the usual way, and its results announced by legal authority. The law of the 19th Feb ruary authorized the delegates thus elected to frame a constitution for the people of Kansas. The authority to do this was in legal form, plenary in scope, and wholly without limitation touching the question of the submission of their work to the people. Gov. Walker; Mr. Douglas, and Mr. Stanton, all concur that up to the assembling of the constitutional convention everything had been done in obedience to lawful authority. When did the convention overstep legal bounds ? Dili the refusal to submit invali date the election I Was the convention a legal body, and the constitution they framed by express authority illegal and void? If it was illegal, was it for the reason alone that it was not submitted? To tost this last in i quiry, we have only to answer that the act of the 19th of Feoruary was silent on the subject. Then, if we abandon the logical line, and run otr upon another track, and | claim that the constitution was void without submission, because the people had a right to sit in judgment upon their own organic law, we are equally at fault; for what else was the election of 19th February but a ver dict in the advance touching the matter?— There were ten precedents of non-submis sion amongst the Stales of the Union. But in the Kansas case the people had prejudged and condemned every democratic effort at conciliation and adjustment. The question must be kept open—it was again to feed the republicans in the presidential election of 1860. Kansas could defeat adjustment, and submit to perpetual alarms and to the sacrifice of all its high interests, in order to vitalize and stimulate into oxistenoe a party which derives all its sustenance from kin dred agitations. Under such circumstances and with an endless catalogue of vexatious devices in that agitated Territory yet untold, by which the democracy has been menaced and almost crushed, are we now to witness the men of our parly, in or out of office, yielding to the demand of such a people to be heard at the very polls they have so many times refused to recognize? If their government was important to them, they might at least have participated in making it Disguise it as we will, they undertook a system of rebellion. It was not tho excess of a momentary passion ; it was cool, de liberate, persistent, systematic, rebellion and revolution, not with a view of securing their own rights, but to aid the rebellious spirit of the party which placed Fremont in nomination in 1856, and which will again enter the field in the next campaign with similar aid if possible. Can democrats be found who have forgotten theso things, or who have ceased to feel that their greatest efforts were required then, as now, to put down and crush out forever that greatest of all weapons—unsettled Kansas concerns? It is our policy to do it, thus doing, we shall be able to maintain tho great uriuciples of our republican government.— fl'ojA. Union. On Thursday tho 11th Inst., at tho M. E. Parson age, Berwick, by Rev. 11. Q. Dill, Mr. HENRY C. IYKI.CUNF.II. to Miss LAVINA BITTENBEKDER, both • of Columbia county. Public Notice. T'HR public are hereby notified that the -* undersigned lias purchased the billow ing properly, of John Dulrnan, of Locust township, Columbia county, and rmends to leave said properly in the possession of John Dulman, during his absence: One yoke of Oxen, 3 Cows, 1 Heifer, I Bun, 2 small Heifers, 3 Hogs, 5 Shoals, 1 Oxen Wagon, 1 One Horse Wagon, 3 Blows, 2 Harrows, 1 Truck Sled, 2 sal of Harness, and all the farming tools on the premises. , L , , LEWIS RUSH. Ashland, Pa., February It, 1858. Notice in Partition. f"pO Margarel Alberlson, widow, Andrew A J. Aloerlson, Edward 11. Albertsnrt, Guardian of the persons and Estates of Hi ram R. Alberlson and Clirisiiarina Alberlson, Mary Ann Alberlson and Conrad Riitenbeu der, Guardian of Franklin Pierce Biileiihen der who resides in St. Joseph county, State nf Michigan, children and heirs at law of Elijah Alberlson, late of Greenwood town, ship, deceased. 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