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S. B. ROW, Editor ajb Psopriitcb.
CLEARFIELD, PA., MARCH 19, 1S5G.
Koairees of ths Philadelphia Convention.
rOU PBrSlDEST,
MILLARD FILLMORE.
VICE PRESIDENT, -
ANDREW JACKSON DONNELSON. -
"Union for the Sake of the Union." The
call for the Union Convention, which is to as
semble at nsrrisburgh on the 2Gtb, has met
-with a pretty 'general and .hearty response
-. throughout the State. The American, Whig
m anj. Republican presses have favored it with
equal cordiality, and meetings have been call-
ed ia a majority of the counties to select dcl
. egates. . There is little doubt that the Conven
tionjwill be well attended, and it is to be hoped
will be composed of men of prudence and a
bility, who will , adopt such measures as will
- yet reconcile difficulties and effect the con
templated union. To accomplish this, a con
ciliatory spirit must bo exercised Lv every one
personal feelings and prejudices must be laid
aside old animosities must not bo permitted
- to sway the opinions of any ultraisra must
, be thrown away concessions must be made
by all. If dissention and distraction are al
. lowed to exist ia the anti-Administration
. ranks, nothing else than discomfiture and de
feat need be expected. On tho other hand, it
is morally certain that il the different opposi
tion elements can be combined and bo made
to work harmoniously, they will ride trium
phantly over their foes in the ensuing cam
paign. .
( Eaeihccakes is Japan iD California.
By the arrival of '.ha steamship Prometheus at
1 New Orleans on tho 12th,, intelligence has been
received by way of San Francisco of a terrible
earthquake in Japan on the 11th of November,
by which the city of Jeddo was destroyed. It
is estimated that one hundred tkousnid houses
were demolished, burying in their ruins thirty
game time in thirty different parts of the city,
and a3 the consnming. flames were encircling
' the buildings, the earth would oi.cd i
P.aA .io. Ter tbem an?t their uri.orir-nato
Inmates who knew not whither to flee.
' A severe shock of an earthquake was also
experienced in California, on the 15th, Febru
ary. In San Francisco and other towns many
buildings were more or less injured, soracliAVw
ing the walls shatter 'vi'3 ti:roiv off
Wtov.f3 rocked to and fro like a cradle.
'Tien, women and children were seen rushing
through the houses in their niht clothes, seek
ing safety from the supposed danger. The
shock was felt throughout the State, and by
vessels lying in the harbor.'and the waters of
, the bay at San Francisco were much agitated.
No lives, it Is thought, were lost, Many per
r sous, who lived ia large brick buildings, alter
f the Bhock took up temporary quarters ia wood
en tenements.
k ."Read It." We have received alsngthy
communication, with the above beading, from
. a respectable citizen oC Morris township, con
. taining the proceedings of a meeting of the
t School Directors of that township, at which a
motion was made by one of the Board to the
. effect that the school bouses should be open
.for the preaching of the gospel. Our corres
pondent says the motion "was met with great
vehemence and violently opposed" by three of
.the Directors Of the one, he remarks, "we
, should not thick it strange that be would op
pose the gospel, being a Roman Catholic." A
motion, made .by one of the Board, for tho e-
trection of a school house at .the- lower end of
, the, township, where the greater part of the
.children, according to tho writer, have been
-deprived, from want of a building, of the fa
cilities of education for nearly eight years,
met .with, a similar fate; and. ha inquires,
."where would we soon find ourselves if our
.common school system should be taken away
and., the. gospel removed from our midst?
. Would we not be likely to sink into ignorance
, and . superstition ?" We are, sorry to learn
. that any man, or eet of men, ia the county,
.should endeavor to prevent the preaching of
the Word of God, by refusing the use of build
ings, under their control, for that purpose.
ArDiTOa General. The following commu
nication wc received at too late an hour to ap
pear in last week's paper:
Brookyille, Pa., March 11,1856.
Sir. Editor: Permit me to present through
the columns of yoor valuable paper, the name
of, the. Hon. Jabkd B- Evans, of Jefferson
County, as a candidate for nomination ior A u
ditor General at the approaching State Con--rention.
Judge Evans is fresh from, the ranks
the people, and- is without question one of
; the. best and most practical business men in
, .West ere Pennsylvania, and if nominated would
carry this portion' of the State by a' large roa-'jorityC-
American.'
iz" r, :. '. Vi " 1 : ; - vi .
s Hon. II. SocTBsa, of the State Senate, will
..please accept pur thanks for -a copy of the Au
ditor General's Report on Basks, as well as for
numerous other favors
..- .iAwrTEa from Gpnzalej county,. Texas, da-
icd the last. weetttFebruary says they .were
-"tojcommence planting corn during .his w.ek
Thc &deo3 .rr beginning to-flourish, ami
k quite greenl Peas, cabbage, jfltjsUrd,
radishw, are up and doing
' JA3E$ BITCH A3TAX
. As this gentleman seems to bo tho bright
particular star of that faction which insults the
memory of Thomas Jetferson, by calling them
selves Democrats, it may not be amiss, to show
what Mr. Buchanan thought of them n lSlo.
The people must decide whether Mr. B. was
honest then, or dishonest now,- Foreign influ
ence, limited as it was then, alarmed him
much, and he trembled for the "wild aud vis
ionary theories" of those who courted it.
But that influence having now become power
ful, and a ponderous "make weight" in polit
ical contest, surely there is a greater necessi
ty for."baaishing this fiend from our society.".
The extract is from a speech delivered by Mr.
Buchanan in the city of Lancaster, ou the -ith
of July, 1815.
"We ought to use every honest exertion to
tnrn out of power those weak and wicked men
who have abandoned the political path marked
out for this country by Washington, and whoso
wild and visionarv theories have been at length
tested by experience and found wanting.
fibers all, ve ought to drive from onr shores for
eign, influence, and cherish, exclusively American
feeling. Foreign influence has been ' crery ag
the curse of Republics. Ilerj anndiccd eyes see
all things in false colors. The thick atmos
phere of prejudice,1 by which she is forever
surrounded, excludes from her sight the light
of Heaven. Whilst she worships tho nation
for this very crime, she curses the enemy of
that nation even for their virtues. In every
aire she has marched belorcthe enemies of her
country, proclaiming peace when there was 110
peace, and lulling its defenders into latal se
curity, while the iron hand of despotism was
aiming a death-blow at their liberties. Alrea
dy our Infant Republic has felt her withering
influence. Alreadv has she involved us in a
war, which had nearly cost us our existence.
Let v.s lhc:i learn u-isdom frcm experience, and
Jurcccr banistt this feud from cur society."
The Progressive Spirit. The Legislature
of New Mexico has passed an act to create and
Organize the Atlantic and Pacific Rail Road
Company, with a capital of ten millions of dol
lars. The sixteenth section provides that the
Eastern terminus of said road shall be as near
the city of Memphis, in the State of Tennesr
see, and the Western terminus as near the city
of San Francisco, in the State of California,
as practicable, and the main trunk thereof
shall pass through the Territory of New Mex
ico at the most practicable points, to be deter
mined by the fctockholJers, between the lati
tnde of the northern and southern boundaries
of the Territorv.
What Waste ! During the year ending
Jauuary, 1S55, there were distilled in the Uni
ted Kingdom of England, Ireland, and Scot
land, 5,231,003 quarters of nialt,"buing an in
crease over the preceding year of 12,907 quar
ters. The average wheat crop of the United
Kingdom is 13,500,000 quarters, showing that
tho quantity of barley made into malt and
MlCtWJ IUnkloi (iviu tli ' "C" " ' ''mil
market, is equal to one-third of Ihu whole
for the' brTwerles cf
ureT-iimataanaTr eland is' "about 1,200,000
acres, which would produce more, than twice
as much wheat a3 is annually imported.
War Expens-s. -Th war has al-
rea.W -rrirgan I $259,000,000, which is six
times as much as the whole of the expenditure
of the government for the same time for the
purposes of peace. Add to it the expendi
tures of France, and we obtain an enormous
aggregate, as much lost to the nations them
selves as if it were cast into the sea. Russia
too must have lavished other millions, besides
impoverishing the country, and decimating the
people ; and ia the whole we have a gigantic
example of the calamity which the ambition
of one man can inflict upon a suffering world.
A Magazine 07 Death. The grounds be
longing to the United Stales Arsenal, at Baton
Rouge, La., embrace an area of twenty-seven
miles. In the three magazines there are 30,
000 pounds of powder and 9.000 round of car
tridges for small arms and cannon. The store
houses contain C5,000 musket's, rifles, and car
bines and pistols ; 2,500 sabres, 100 cannon,
609,000 cannon balls and shells, S0,C00 pounds
canister, and accoutrements fur 100,000 men.
The total value of the land and buildings, with
contents, is over $G1,0G0,0C0.
Sad Efpects op Reversed Expectations.
We learn says the Rochester Democrat) that
a farmer near Gait, Canada West, who had S00
bushels of wheat; for which he had been offer
ed the high prices of last season, but chose to
keep it ia the hope of getting more, hung
himself last week. Another farmer near Lon
don, had three years crops on hand, which he
refused to sell at the extreme rates of last fall.
He is now insane, his reason giving way at the
prospect of hiving to sell at a greatly re
duced price.' '
. The Defaulter Schuyler The A". Y. Her
ald states that tho report that Mr. Schuyler js
liviDg in some obscure village in Germany, is
entirely without foundation. He died some
months since at a small place near Nice. His
family returned to this country in the steam
ship Arago, and now reside in New York City,
Upon the receipt of the intelligence of his
death, his son-in-law went to Italy for the pur
pose of bringing home the family, and they all
returned. -... .
A Mosquito Buzz ; ! The "Washington cor
respondent of the A'.Y. Commercial Advertiser
s.13-3 he has information' which renders it al
most certain , that as' soou as the. late Nicara
guan decree annexing the "Mosquito Territory
shall be atfcmpted'to be executed, the com
manders of the British vessels of war of the
West India station will interfere to prevent it.
And. then what then Mr. Marcy ? z n
'Mr. Browne's license bill, which pass'ed the
Senate recently, was materially "amended in
the nouse, reducing the rates of license, ' in
these amendments the Senate refused to con
cur, afld. the bill consequently goes to a joint
committee of conference, consisting of Messrs.
ro'svne, JTherry and Jordan, of the Senate,
and Messrs.' Wrizht, (Liz.,Gttz aod-IInn-
ecker, of the House. ?T.'-'J
ANOTHEE SN0ST FR0H THE "WAS H0SSE.
Rev. John Chambers, a Democrat, of Phila
delphia,-, not long since wrote a letter to his
Democratic brethren on the subject of the
"Jug Law," in which he gave them particular
"fits." Below will be found another, in which
he walks into the untcrriiicd in a manner that
is asamusing as it is refreshing. -
Philadelphia, Feb. 21, 1856.
Hon. Harlan Ingram My dear sir : I have
read your speech delivered in the Senate, on
the 12th inst., on the Restraining Liquor Law.
I also read the speech of the Hon. Judge Wil
kins, and other distinguished gentlemen of the
Senate. As I proceeded , line by line, through
the speeches, I 'earnestly 'sought to find, in one
or the other, or all togethera single argument
in favor either ol the manufacture, sale or use
of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, but from
necessity or choice, you have not said the first
word in favor of the business in one form or
another.
True, j-ou have denounced sometifth min
isters of religion stigmatized many of the tem
perance men as fanatics, and all of" you, as a
sort of salvo I presume, denounced drunken
ness in tho most measured terms. -JJut where,
fet me ask, is your consistency in Tailing at
drunkards, and yet defending the accursed
traflic by which drunkards are made? If you
condemn the ecci, does not consistency re
quire you to condemn the cause ? What is all
thi3 but battling on the side 'of drunkenness,
for it is folly to say that is not the side you are
on ; for surely a man of your intelligence will
not pretend to deny that just so long as intox
icating liquors Tire to bo had us a beverage,
dnmkenness and Its fearful catalogue of evils
will prevail. Facts on this subject arc a great
deal .better than fine spun theories or sham,
logic. ..:'.
Prove if you can, that liquor drinking is a
benefit to tho individual, the family, the com
munity, the Church or the State. Let the
members of tho Senate and the House, who
are in favor of the liquor business, holl a
meeting, make the venerable Judge Wilkius
chairman, then compare notes, and see from
the appalling facts connected with the liquor
business during the last one hund e l years, if
the protection and perpetuation ( f this trafiie
is worthy of the earnett efforts of grave Sena
tors and wise Legislators! Point out in how
many instances the use of intoxicating liquors
has reformed the abandoned ; how many worth
less husbands have been restored to their bro
ken hearted wives and worse than fatherless
children, by their use ! How many widowed
mothers ia Pensylvania have had cause, morn
ing and evening, to thank God for the practical
influence of the bar-room upon their prodigal
sons ! Set forth the beneficent e. 'facts of tip
pling hoHses and dram drinking, upon which
you and many of our Democratic friends are
ttlTOWmg e,i..w.,w 1,.. ,jxy:i.:-rm...
muu'i ourprison3 have teen depor-.jt-.j on-1
ter by our delectable dram shops!
Come, my. brother Democrats of the Kenala
and the House, give us some cheering statis
tic ia TCgard to the delicious fruits of ths rum
tranic. Has the sale cf intoxicating liquors
reduced taxation one mill, or decreased the
nunibtr of paupers, except by consigning to
an early and dishoaored grave the bloated car
cases of the miserable victims of rum ?
My Dear Sir, I deeply lament that you and
the great body of the Democratic members in
the Senate and House "should have espoused
the cause cf the Liquor League, a combination
as infamous as the object they seek to accom
plish is wicked. What aa opportunity you
have to prove that Democracy ia tho sum of
equal rights, the cause cf the widow and the
orphan, the cause of virtue and good morals,
and i3 not afliliatcd, as its enemies hava often
represented, with riot, rowdyism ami rum !
Attempt to palliate liquor selling and dram
drinking! It is the source of all villainies :
"the winding sheet of souls;" the frightful
vorfex where young men and old. racn where
husbands, fathers and sons arc eventually swal
lowed up. Look at your associatc'in the Sen
ate, N. B. Browne, Esq., what a noble example
lias, he furnished of intelligence, independence-
patriotism and moral courage ! He stands on
a pinnacle, so high above the whiskey advoca
ting Democrats, that they would have to look
sharp through Sir Isaac Newton's great teles
cope to see his fair proportions and manly stat
ure, ne has reared for himself an enduring
monument, upon which will be inscribed:
The friend of the people, the true patriot, the
enlightened Statesmen, the honest Senator.
You might have done the same; nay, yoij can
hold a place cf equal honor, influence an I res
pectability, if you will break loose the Iroa fet
ters of the Liquor League. Doit, my dear
sir, at any cost ; do ii if you have to pluck out
a right eye, or cut off a right hand ; do it for
the honor of Democracy ; above all, 'do it for
the sake of bleeding virtue and suffering hu
manity, and the thousands who are tempted
and destroyed by the worm of the still.
Yours truly, Jons Chambeub.
Central America General Walker has
seized all the boats belonging to the Transit
Company, and after annulling the charter, has
granted a new charter to another Company.-
It ia said that Costa Rica has not received
Col. Schlessinger, and there is sfrong opposi
tion there to the foreign party in Nicaragua.' :
Col. Kinney has published a letter in sub
stantiation of his claim ia Central America.
.FQM ; Mexico. The New Orleans papers
have pews from ' Vera Cruz to the 8th instant.
Affairs at Pnebla had changed but little. Ta
ruarez was still there, and 8,000 government
troops were soon expected to carry on the
seige.' The revolution' had been crushed ia
other parts. The Constituent Congress has
elected Comopfort President for" one year. '.
- The horses in New York have suffered be
yond parallel aBd beyond endurance, in conse
quence of tho impediments occasioned by
snow. . The "Spirit of the Times! says no less
than 900 have beenLkilled-or have died in-tfcis
city annng ine jat snow eeason; - ..
; GLEANIJiGS.
"A Rtsso-CHixEss hoo, weighing 1100 lbs.; is
on exhibition in Cincinnati, He greY ia Clin
ton county, Ohio. . .. . .,
Dr. Snow, of Providence, R. I., estimates
tho annual value of the products of the indus
try of that city at 11,513,152
The Hedrews late in session at Cleveland
have resolved to found a University at Cincin
nati, for the education of their people.
Over twelve thousand barrels of whiskey, it
is stated, has been shipped for Ihe South from
Cincinnati during the first Week of navigation.
In Nassau Hall, Princeton, there are 37
students of whom 67 are professors of religion,
50 candidates for tho ministry, and 23 sons ot
ministers.
Col. Garland,. Treasurer of New Orleans,
has become a defaulter and has been held to
bail ia the sum cf 500,000 in default of which
he was sent to prison.
Mosquitoes grow so large in Texas that they
hunt themi with rifles. After they are slain,
their suckers are cut off and used by housa
carpenters for augers.
An editor ia Iowa has become so hollow
from depending upon tho printing busiuess a
Ione for bread, that he proposes to sell him
self for a stove jipe.
A keeper of a saloon in Geelong, advertis
ing his establishment, thus concludes "those
of my patrons who may. require it, shall be
sent home en a wheelbarrow gratis."
For everything you buy, cr sell, let 01
hire, make an exact bargain at first, and be not
put off to a hereafter by one th?.t says to you,
'"wc shall not disagree about trifles."
The rise and explosion of gunpowder ot St.
Martinsville, La., a few days since, destroyed
property , to the amount of $200,000, aud kil
led twenty-three persons. Mcst cf them were
slaves.
On Saturday night, tho 15th, one of the
Camdeu and Philadelphia ferry boats took fire
and burned up. There were, upwards of 70
persons on board, of whom some 25 or CO are
missing and dead. - . - .
An editor down east gaid that he hoped to be
able to present a marriage and a death as origi
nal matter in his columns, but unfortunately a
thaw broke up the wedding, and the doctor
got sick, and the patient recovered.
The Crystal Palace, the only Republican
palace, has recently been purchased by the A
merican Institute for the "permanent exhibition
of art and industry, for the sum of 5125,000,
less than one-quarter what it cost.
Great activity in business transactions is
ncticcdat all the largo Western cities, conse
quent upon the .re-opening of the principal
livers. From Cincinuati South, the ice has en
: 'JJ.sn rP"iroiL TS'? rroM'ect a of the sea-'
TnE House of Representatives of Georgia,
on tho 20 1 of February, passed by a large ma
jority, a bill setting apart th9 proceeds of the
tax upon free negroes as a fund to be applied
to their removal to Liberia, or other places be
yond the limits of the United States.
The Nebraska Citv News savs that a land
fever is raging there. Claims of one hundred
anil sixty acres, within two and a half miles of
that city, are selling at from S500 to S800.
For one farm joining the city on the west the
owner has been offered 56,000 in gold, which'
was refused. '.
Pcxcn furnishes the last argument yet dis
covered against moustaches. He paints two
rough Crimean soldiers, with ' pipes in their
mouths, and a thicket of hair all tver their fa.
ces, meeting, and one complains to the other :
"I tell yer what, I don't half like these mous
taches. ' They do mop vp suck a lo! of grog."
An exciting and ludicrous chase after a
thieving pedlar, who got away from the Sher
iff at Thorudike, in the western part of Massa
chusetts, took place one night, recently. Tho
sheriiF pursued ia a sleigh, got overturned in
a snow bank, and finally found the pedlar in a
hog pea hid behind a largo specimen of live
pork.
The Hon. Roger Sherman died at New. Ha
ven on the 4th inst, in his 88th year. He was
a son of Hon . Roger Sherman, one of the
signers of the Declaration, of Independence,
one of the leading men in framing the Consti
tution of the United States,' and one of the
soundest statesmen that our country ever pos
sessed.' .
' Tee Massachusetts House of Representa
tives, on the 5th inst., by a vote of 103 to 140,
refused to repeal the aefwhich confers urion
jurors the right of judging 'or deciding the
question cf tho constitutionality of any law.
This is important to tho people of the State,
especially so far as it bears upon the enforce
ment or non-enforcement of the Maine Liquor
Law. .,..,".- u ' . : . !. '
The express train from Norfolk (Va.) to
Weldon (N. C.) on Monday, went through a
curve in the bridgo near Marriottsville, killing
Messrs. Adams & Go's express messenger, Mr.
Daugherty, mail agent", and" Charles Neal, a
boy. ' The engineer and soveral'of the passen
gers wefe severely injured. The train, after
thet accident, took fire and was entirely des
troyed.1 '-'-.'--' " ' ' . . .
A petition has. been presented to the New
York Legislature, asking that a law, be passed
making every alternate year a "leap year."
The petition sets forth that the past few weeks
of the new year, many more marriages have
taken place than in ordinarv seasons : and thev
helieve that leap year. Is a useful and benefi
cial institution, calculated to do much for
"woman's rights." - - , .( - , , ;- :
A vessel lately left San Francisco for Chi
na, having as a part of her cargo one hundred
and seven coffins containing the bodies of dead
Chinese.' This Is explained in this way ; Chi
nese speculators hire largo bodes of men in
China to work in the mines in California. Tho
bodies of those who die there are taken back
to prove to those from whom : they wore hired
that their serT'ee 'were at an end.' ' ,
THE FEESEST KANSAS-QTTESTI0IT.
- Hoiace Greely, writing frora Washington
under date cf March 6th, gives tho following
view of tho Kansas Question, which will per
haps give tho reader a pretty correct compre
hension of it.
Tho Kansas question is up, and, while Mem
bers are debating it in long and logical speech
es, full of .devotion to Liberty and dayotioa to
the Union, I propose to" state the caSL- not
one side of it, but the whole case as briefly
and clearly as I can. With this view, I will
throw the antagonist assertions and positions"
into the form of a dialogue between Whitfield,
Reeder and the House as follows :
Whitfield, (I present my credentials as a
Recdcr, t Delegate elect from Kansas.
The ITciise Stand back, gentlenienT " Which
of you has the certificate of tho legal return
ing cfllcer t . -
lYLUfiddl have. Hero it is!' - '
The House Very good.. Yon are thereby
entitled to take the oath and the seat uttil an
investigation can be had. Mr. Reeder! You
must contest and send ia your memorial. It
shall be du'y considered. Mr. Whitfield's cer
tificate is prima facie evidence of bia right,
but nothing more. Bring on your proof that
he was not fairly elected and that you were,
and you shail be admitted ia hu stead.
Reeder Well, gentlemen ! I am here as a
contestant, then, if yon will have it so. I
challenge the right of John W. Whitfield 03
Delegate fr Kansas, and claim to be myself
the true and fairly chosen representative cf
the actual settlers of that Territory.
The House Hew do you propose to prove
this?
Reeder By showing that the allsdged Legis
lature which passed the election laws under
which and prescribed the day on which Whit
field chdnis to have been elected, was no Le
gislature of Kansas that it w as chosen by tho
votes of residents cf Missouri mainly or whol
ly that those residents were enrolled, organ
ised, and oflicered in Missouri through secret
societies operating for weeks before the elec
tion that they caiae over inlarge armed bar.ds
on the day before and day of election that
steamboats black with them landed them ia
Kansas on the day of election, and took thera
away alter voting, before night that caval
cades ttf them went over on horseback and in
Wagons, took possession of nearly all the polls,
is had been preconcerted that, when the
judges ot elections hesitated or refused to al
low them to- vote, they expelled those ouictrs
by violence and terror and appointed their own
creatures ia their stead that by ibis astound
ing conspiracy and outrage the voice of Kan
sas was stifled and a Pro-slavery Legislature
imposed on her by residents of Missouri a
Legislature which in no uirnuer represented
Kansas, and could not bind her a Legislature
whose existence she ignored and whose acts
she has always repudiated.
U'hPf.e!dQ this won't do ! This same Ree
der, who now contests, was Territorial Gover
nor, through the first half of the last year and
himself commissioned the Members of this
same Legislature. He is thus estopped from
denying the validity of its acts.
Reelir-Xo. sir! I expressly rejected the
claims of about ne third of the Members, who
sat in that Legislature. Proofs were submit
ted to me thatthey were returned by conspir
acy, corruption, violence aud fraud, and-on the
.strength of those roof 4 I refused them certi
ficates and ordered new elections to fill their
places. In one case, a fresh irruption fro in
try a repetition, ol tucae outrages, i.t no -legal
evidence of such repetition of abuse was sea
sonably submitted to nie, and I coimuissioned
the members returned. In every ether case
of a second election, new members were cho
sen all Free St te men. Yet, when the pre
tended Legislature assembled, ail these Free
State Members the only members honestly e
lected by residents of Kansas ucre expelled
from their seats and the elect of the Border Ruf
fians at the regular eltdicn were pitched into
t.leir placet, an t helped make the laws under
w hich Whilfiel I claims a seat here.
Whitfield Well, suppose thi3 third of the
Members icere bogus the other two th:rds
were all right or at least you arc estopped
from questioning their right, lor you commis
sioned them.
Reeder Tim, Sir, I gave certificates to all
those returned to me as duly elected exeej't
those with regtrd to whom evidence was sub
mitted to ma that they had bean returned by
fraud. I had no discretion in the premises.
But does it follow that, because I was net le
gally informed ot specific frauds and usurpa
tions within a law days after a certain election,
that I should bo estopped from proving such
frauds and usurpations several months after
ward, when I hid been apprised of then ?
Shall my ignorance of most important facts in
April or May of last year deprive the People
of Kansas of the power and right now to urge
those facts in bar of a perpetuation and aggra
vation of the flagrant wrongs to which they
had been subjected ?
Whitfield This Legislature, after being or
ganized, was recognized and addressed by you
as a legal body.' and you must now abiuv by
that recognition. .......
Reeder No, Sir ! not the Legislature under
whose acts you claim a seat here. When the
alleged Legislature first mvt at Pawnee Cily,
I did recognize it ; but when it proceeded
forthwith to adjourn to Shawnee Mission, 1 im
mediately notili.d. the members that I would
not recognize tiiein as a Legislature after such
removal. Tho. organic Kansas-Nebraska act
gave to the Govi nor of Kansas the power to
iifix" the place of meeting of tho Territorial
Legislature ; I ji ted it accordingly at Pawnee ;
I vetoed the act bv which the Legislature
sought to. remove to the neighborhood of their
Missouri homes ; and, as thry persisted, I nev
er afterward recognized them as a Legislature.
All tho laws in question, including' that under
which you claim to be elected, were passed lif
ter that removal passed at a place where no
Legislature was ever legally convened. If 3-on
-mean to be technical,' therefore, and stand on
your legal advantage, I tell you that you have
none to stand on. .
Whitfield But if that -Legislature - is net a
legal body, there is no lawful authority in
Kansas, and chaos is come again- -
Reeder Oh no ! there are the Constitution
of the United States, the laws of the United
States, including the organic law of Kansas,
and the officers of the United States Gover
nor, Secretary, Marshall, Judges, and others.
All these are authoritative ia Kansas, and the
People cheerfully obey them. It is your fraud
ulent bogus Missourians Legislature that they
repudiate; ; ' ' : -. - "
Whitfield But thera was no day of election,
no election laws, except those prescribed by
the Legislature at Shawnee Mission.
Reeder Precisely so ami by whose fault ?
Your backers vitiated the election ordered by
me in pursuance of law they debauchad the
Legislature they substituted MissouriRuffiau
ism for tho rule of the People of Kansas which
th& act of Congress contemplated.'-' Tho Le
gislature being thus corrupted like a barrel
of cider into which a bogihead 04 filthy water
has been poured the People very properly re
pudiate its doings, Election Laws included.
They had then no alternative bnt to choose
their own day and thereon elect a Delegate or
go unrepresented here. They elected the for
c:er course so I am hero. " . "
' ' Committee cf Elections Bnt -why, Mr. Ree
der, did they not, to preclude all cavil, waive
the question of authority, and vote on the day
prescribed by this questionable Legislature I
We understand, you to say that the peoplo of
Kansas are strongly en your side ?
Reeder Simply because they wero morralJy
certain that the gigantic frauds of the Legis
lative Election in March would be lepeated and
probably aggravated at the Delegate Election
in October. They knew right well that they
stood no chance, few and unarmed as they
then were, in attempting to contest an lec
tion against the organized Ruffianism of tbo
entire Missouri Border. And beside, they
could not have voted at the Election prescrib
ed by that Legislature without acknow ledglng
its authority and agreeing to be bound by its
enactments. Yet these enactments allow eve
ry inhabitant tf the Tetritory no matter
whether he ha3 been such over a year or less
than a day to vole attach election, unless ho
is opposed to the Fugitive Slave Law or tha
Kansas-Nebraska act, ia which case, If chal
lenged, he cannot vote at all, no matter how
long he has been a resident. Of course, un
der such l iws, cxpressly calculated and inten
ded to let Missourians vote and shut out Froa.
Stats citizens cf Kansas, our side had no
chance. Our only hope lay in the repudiatioa
cf that bogu3 Legislature and all its works.
WhUfidd' Do you deny that the vote fcy
which I was chosen was a legal one ?
Reeder Yes, sir, I do. I am credibly in
formed that a large portion of it was polled by
Missourians who came over on purpose. ..
Whitfield But suppose I were not legally e.
lected, how does that help your case ?
Rcedtr Just thus : The Legislature having
beu corrupted aEd destroyed by Pro-Slavery
frauds, the People were thrown back on their
primary rights rights such as Michigan, Cal
ifornia and other States asserted when they
formed their first Constitutions respectively.
They held meetings resolved to have aa elec
tion for Delegate, appointed a day, gave pub
lic notice, chose judges, held an election and
mad. 5 me their Delegate by a nearly unani
mous vote. In other w ords, I stand here ex
actly as did tha first Delegate from Nebraska
chosen by a spontaneous movement of th
People. You, Sir, stand here the representa
tive of that Pro-Slavery faction which corrup
ted our ballot-boxes and vitiated our Legisla
ture, and which can net be permitted to plead
its own w iiii'ul and gigantic wrongs as a bar to
other men's assertion of their most sacrad
rights. Ia short, I claim the seat because 1
was voted for and fairly chosen at the only e
lection w hich the People of Kansas have been
permittad to hold; while you are here the rep
resent.ttive and attorney of their invaders, op
pressors, persecutors, despoilers, and murder
ers. Whitfield. That is all Enncorabe. It does
not make out even a prima facie case.
Though all you assert were proved, it would
not support your claim to the seat. I move u
non suit.
The Committee You are not entitled to a
non-suit, Mr. Whitlic-ld ! The case turns on
facts; and if Gor. Reeder can establish what
he asserts, it wjlflo hard with your seat. Wo
must advise the House to proller Gov. R. tha
fullest opportunity" to make good his allega
tions. 'We must not gredge expense and trou
ble when th3 rights and liberties ct a whoK
people ere involved.
The Minority We ol ject to sending for p:-.
sons and papers. We concur with Whitfield,
that all that is alleged by Reeder would not, if
established, entitle him to out the former.
The IIou.sc
The I'eople Let the whole truth come out,
Vi "';" v' -'-rk-J to whomsoever
shad be proved the true represcniatirc r th
citizens of Kansas. A c-a !
The Way Sam is Dying. As some poopla
would have it appear that "Sam" Is almost
defunct, we give the following results of mu
nicipal and township elections which have ca
ually fallen under our notice. That text lu
Job for his "funeral ssrinoa" will hare to bt
held over for a little w hile yet.
Troy, N. Y., Mayor and Council, by S10
majority. Last year, the same candidate wa
d.jfaated by 114. . Rath, Maine, Wiiliata Rice,
American, elected Mayor. Amherst, Mass.,
i the entire American ticket elected, wi;h tha
I exception cf tur-ao minor ctUrs, elected by
the Republicans. Enli.d.1 Mass., a clean sweep
for the Americans, with the exception cf on
School Trustee. TauiiJon, Mass., a clean
sweep very littlj opposition. New Castle,
N. II., the whole American ticket elected by
a decisive majority. Green Island, N. J.,
whole ticket 05 majority. Greenbush, N. Y.,
50 majority for the ticket. North Greenbush, .
N. Y., 53 majority for the ticket. Auburn,
N. Y., the home of Seward, a glorious victory
Little Falls, N. Y., 50 majority for the Amer
icans. Oswego, N. Y-, the Americans swept
the city by about SCO majority. Biackstone,
Mass., American ticket, lZd. All others five.
Oxbridge. Mass., "all's well" for the Ameri
cans. South Reading, Mass., a glorious victo
ry fjr tho American party. Saranac, N. Y.,
"we have met the enemy and they are ours,"
Danemora, X. Y., the Americans victorious.
Peru, N. Y., a clean sweep. .Chenango, N,
Y., the enemy were- routed and riddled most
fcCectually. Middloborougb, Mass., the whole
American ticket elected with the exception of
two Selectmen. Davidson county, Tenn.,the
Americans elected -all but Sheriff, by a largo
majority. .Gates, N. Y., entire American
ticket elected by over 50 majority. Mendon,
N. Y., American ticket elected by about thj
same majority. OgdenN.' Y., a clean sweep
for the American ticket, by a handsome major
ity. Palmyra, N..Y., American ticket elected
by an increased majority over that cf last year,
Arcadia, N. Y., the whole American ticket e-lact-ad
by a large majority over all combina
tions. . .
Late raoii California. Tha steamship
Prometheus arrived at New. Orleans, March -12.,
with San Francisco dates to tho 0thFeb.
She left San Juan on the 5th inst. The steam
ship NortIern Light left oa the same day for
New York, with $200,000 jn gold.
The Markets have slightly improved ; and
the mines aro yielding largely:, -. -
A shock of an earthquake occurred at San
Francisco on the 15th February, and caused
some slight damage,. It was felt throughout
the State. ; .
-Tho appointment of Mr. McDuffla, as U. S.
Marshal" or the 'Northern District, has caused
much indignation, llo is charged with being
a professional gambler, and strong petitions
have been- signed for his . removal.' It is sup
posed that President Pierco lias been imposed
tipin or made thu'appointnrenfby accident.
' The Indians are "still committing outrages in
Oregon and Washington Territories. Numer
ous volunteer companies are mastering to act
against the marauders. ' . ' -