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CLEARFIELD, PA., MARCH 19, 13.3G.
- Nominees of the Philadelphia Convention.
rOR PRESIDENT,
r MILLARD FILLMORE.
vice presides?!
Andrew jackson donnelson.
t "Umojc roa the Sake or the Un-ios." The
. call for the Union Convention, which is to as-
oerable at JJarrisburgb. on the 26th, has met
pretty general and hearty response
mrongnout the State. The American. Whi
. and Republican presses have favored it with
, equal cordiality, and meetings have been call
ed In a majority of the counties to select del
egates. There is little doubt that the Conven
tional 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
jet reconcile difficulties and effect the con
templated union. To accomplish this, a con
ciliatory spirit mnst be exercised ty every one
personal feelings and prejudices must be laid
aside old animosities must not be permitted
; to sway the opinions of any ultraism must
.be thrown away concessions must be made
by all. If dissention and distraction are al
lowed to exist in the anti-Administration
ranks, nothing else than discomfiture and de
feat need be expected. On the other hand, it
is morally certain that if the different opposi
tion elements can be combined and bo made
to work harmoniously, they will ride trium
phantly over their foes in tbo ensuing cam
. paign.
Earthquakes ix Japan asd Calijohxia
By the arrival of the steamship Prometheus at
New Orleans on tho I2th,'inteiI5gence has been
received by way of San Francisco of a terrible
earthquake in Japan on the 11th of November,
ty which the city of Jeddo was destroyed. It
is estimated that one hundred thousand houses
. were demolished, burying in their ruins thirty
thousand human beings. Fire broke out at th-j
" same time in thirty different parts of the city,
and as the consuming flames were encircling
the buildings, the earth would open and then
speedily close over them and their unfortunate !
inmates who knew not whither to flee. j
A severe shock of an earthquake was also !
experienced in California, on the loth Febru
ary. In Saa Francisco and other towns many
Mildings were more or less injured, some hav
ing the walls shattered and the tops thrown off,
whilst others rocked to and fro like a cradle, j
Hen, women and children were seen rushing
through the houses in their night clothes, seed
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
sons, who lived ia large brick buildings, alter
the shock took up temporary quarters in wood
en tenements.
'Read It." Wo have received a lengthy
communication, with the above heading, from
a respectable citizen of Morris township, con
taining the proceedings of a meeting of the
School Directors of that township, at which a
motion was made by one of the Board to the
effect that the school houses 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 think it strange that he would op
pose the gospel, being a Roman Catholic." A
motion, made by one of the Board, for tho e
rection of a school house at the lower end of
the township, where the greater part of, the
children, according to .the 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 he 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 V We are sorry to learn
that any man, or act of men, in 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.
Acditor Geseeal. The following commu
nication we received at too late an hour to ap
pear in last week's paper :
BeooKviLLE. Pa., March 11, 1858.
Mr. Editor: Permit me to present through
the columns of your valuable paper, the name
of tho Hon. Jared B. Evahs, of Jefferson
County, as a candidate for nomination for Au-
: ditor General at the approaching State Con
vention. Judge Evans is fresh from the ranks
ot the people, and is without question one of
k best and most practical business men in
Western Pennsylvania, and if nominated would
carry this portion of the State by a large ma
jority. Americas.
Hob, n. SorTUKB, of the State Senate, will
please accept our thanks for a copy of tbo Au
ditor General's Iteport on Banks, as well as for
numerous other favors.
A mcttxr from Gonzales county, Texas, da
tod the last week in February, says they were
--o commence planting corn during this week.
vl&H, n th i "f A-Oes A good
CmmmmX.Jt JwwW V.
4- ,lno Sraetis are beginning to flourish, and
i - -i.v K.tKeu. -rru. . rsnnnwA
'.v-' " rauisiiee, are up and dcirg well."
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JAMES EUCHAI7AW.
As this gentleman seems to be the bright
particular star of that faction which insults tho
memory of Thomas Jefferson, by calling them
selves Democrats, it may not be amiss, to show
wnat Mr. Ijuchanan thought of them in 181
The people must decide whether Mr. B. was
honest then, or dishonest now. Foreign influ
' " to men, aiarmed mm
much, and he trembled for tho "wild and vis
ionary theories" of those who courted it
But that influence haviDg now become power-
iui, ana a ponderous "make weight" iu polit
ical contests, surely there is a greater necessi
ty for "banishing this fiend from our society."
lho extract is from a speech delivered by Mr
Buchanan in the city of Lancaster, on the 4th
of July, 1815.
"We ought to use every honest exertion to
mrn out 01 power thoso weak and wicked men
who have abandoned the political path marked
out for this country by Washington, and whose
wild and visionary theories have been at length
lestea by experience and found wanting
jSboce all, we ought to drive from our shores for
eign influence, and cherish exclusively American
feeling. F oreign influence has been ' ercrv act
we iuijcu; nepuuues. xierjaunaiccu eyes seo
all things in false colors. The thick atinos-
pnere oi prejudice, by which sho is forever
surrounded, excludes from her sight the light
neaven. u mist she worshins th nntinn
iuriuis ery crime, sne curses the enemy of
uveu ior meir virtues. In every
ago she has marched before the enemies of her
country, proclaiming peace when there was no
peace, and lulling its defenders into fatal se
curity, while the iron hand of despotism was
aiming a death-blow at their lihnrtios a ?,-.
ay our infant Republic has felt her witherin
influence. Already has she involved us in a
war, wnicn had nearly cost us our existence.
Let us then learn irisdom frnm
jwncr with mis jtena j rom our society."
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The Peogeessive Spieit. The Lesislatnre
of New Mexico has passed an act to create and
organize tho 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 bo as near
tho city of Memphis, in the State of Tennes
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 ot Xew Mex
ico at the most practicable points, to be deter
mined by the stockholders, between the lati
tude of the northern and southern boundaries
of tho Territorv.
What Waste .'During the year endins
January, 1855, there were distilled in the Uni
ted Kingdom of England, Ireland, and Scot
land, 5,254,008 quarters of malt, being au in
crease over the preceding year of 12,907 quar
ters. The average wheat crop of the United
Kingdom is 13,500.000 quarter, showing that
the quantity of barley made into malt and
thereby withdrawn from the legitimate food
market, is equal to one-third of tho whole
wheat produce. Tba land occupied in tho
growtti of barter and liops ror ITie tn error re ST) r
Great Britain and Ireland is about 1,200,000
acres, which would produce more than twice
as much wheat as is annually imported.
War Expenses. Tho existing war has al
ready cost England $250,000,000, which is six
imes as much a3 the whole of tho expenditure
Of the government for the same time for the
purposes of peace. Add to it tho expendi
tures of France, and we obtain an enormous
gregato, as much lost to the nations them
selves as if it were cast into the sea. Russia
too must have lavished other millions, bes'ides
impoverishing tho country, and decimating the
people ; and in the whole we have a gigantic
example of the calamity which the ambition
of one man can inflict upon a suffering world.
A Magazine of Death. The grounds bc-
onging to the United States Arsenal, at Baton
Rouge, La., embrace an area of twenty-seven
miles. In the three magazines there are 39,
000 pounds of powder and 9,000 round of car-
ridges for small arms arid cannon. The store
houses contain 35,000 muskets, rifles-, and car
bines and pistols; 2,500 sabres, 100 cannon,
000,000 cannon balls and shells, 30,000 pounds
canister, and accoutrements for 100,000 men.
Tho total value of the land and buildings, with
contents, is over $01,000,000.
Sad ErFECTs of Reversed Expectations.
We learn says the Rochester Democrat) that
a farmer near Gait, Canada West, who had 800
bushels of wheat, for which he had been offer
ed tho high prices of last season, but chose to
keep it in 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 having to sell at a greatly re
duced price.
The Defaulter Schcyler. The N. Y. Her
ald states that the report that Mr. Schuyler is
living 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 Mosqcito Bezz ! The Washington cor
respondent of the iT. Y. Commercial Jldcertiser
says he has information which renders it al
most certain that as toon as the late Nicara
guan decree annexing the Mosquito Territory
shall be attempted 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 7
Mr. Browne's license bill, which passed the
Senate recently, was materially amended in
the House, reducing the rates of license. In
these amendments the Senate refused to con
cur, add the X consequently goes to a joint
commiU-e of conference, consisting of Messrs.
Browne, Wherry and Jordan, of the Senate,
and Messrs. Wright, tXuz.,) Getz and Huns
ecker, of the House."
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January
AK0THER SX0RT FE0H THE WAE HOUSE
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 untcrrified in a manner that
s as amnaing as it is refreshing
Philadelphia, Feb. 21, 185G
noN. Harlan Ingram My dear sir : I have
read your speech delivered in the Senate, on
the 12th inst., on tho Restraining Liquor Law
I also read the speech of tho 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, ia one
or the other, or all together, a 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 firs
word in favor of tho business in one form or
another.
True, you have denounced somcofthmin
isters of religion stigmatized many of the tern
pcraucc men as fanatics, and all of you, as a
sort of salvo I presume, denounced drunken
ncss iu the most measured terms. But where
let me ask, is your consistency in railing at
drunkards, and yet defending the accursed
iramc vy wuicn drunkards aro made? If vou
condemn the effect, does not consistency re
quire you to condemn the canst f What is all
this 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 aro to be had as a beverage,
drunkenness and its fearful catalogue of evils
will prevail. Facts on this subject are a great
deal better than fine spun theories or sham
logic.
Prove if you can, that liquor drinking ia a
benefit to tho individual, tho family, tho com
munity, tne Church or, the State. Let the
members of the Senate and the IltJLse, who
are in favor of tho liquor business, hold
meeting, make the venerable Judge Wilkins
chairman, then compare notes, and see from
the appalling facts connected, with the liquor
business during the last ono hundred years, if
the protection and perpetuation of this traffic
is worthy of tho earnest efforts of grave Sena
tors and wise Legislators ! Point out in how
many instances the use of intoxicating liauors
lms reformed the abandoned ; how many worth-
ess husbands have been restored to their bro
ken hearted wives and worse than fatherless
children, by their use .' How manv widowed
mothers inPensylvania have hadcauso, morn
ing and evening, to thank God for the practical
influence of the bar-room upon their prodigal
sons! Set forth the beneficent effects of tip
pling houses and dram drinking, upon which
you and many of our Democratic friends aro
throwing yotir legislative smiles ! Tell us how-
much our prisons have been depopulated and
hua man v iuluua hw. 1 - i " ' '
ter by our delectable dram shops!
Come, my brother Democrats of tho Senate
and the House, give us some cheering statis
tics in regard to the delicious fruits of the rum
traffic. Has tho sale of intoxicating liquors
reduced taxation ono mill, or decreased the
number of paupers, except by consigning to
an early and dishonored grave the bloated car
cases of tho miserable victims of rum 7
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 of the Liquor League, a combination
as infamous as the object they seek to accom
plish is wicked. What an opportunity you
have to prove that Democracy is tho sum of
equal rights, the cause of the widow and the
orphan, the cause ofvirtuo and good morals,
and is not affiliated, as its enemies have often
represented, with riot, rowdyism,and rum
Attempt to palliate liquor selling and dram
drinking! It is the source of all villainies :
"tho winding sheet of souls;" the frightful
vortex where young men and old men where
husbands, lathers and sons are eventually swal
lowed up. Look at your associate in the Sen
ate, N. B. Browne, Esq., what a noble example
has he furnished of intelligence, independence
patriotism and moral courage ! Ho stands on
a pinnacle, so high above the whiskey advoca
ting Democrats, that they would havo to look
sharp through Sir Isaac Newton's great teles
cope to see his fair proportions and manly stat
ure. He has reared for himself an enduring
monument, upon which will bo inscribed:
The lricnd of tbo people, the true patriot, the
enlightened Statesmen, the honest Senator.
You might havo done the same; nay, you can
hold a place of equal honor, influence and res
pectability, if you will break loose the iron fet
ters of the Liquor League. Do it, my dear
sir, at any cost ; do it 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,
John Chambers
Central America General Walker has
seized all the boats belonging to the Transit
Company, aud after annulling the charter, has
granted a new charter to another Company.
It is said that Costa Rica has not received
Col. Schlessinger, and there is strong opposi
tion there to the foreign party in Nicaragua.
Col. Kinney has published a letter in sub
stantiation of his claim in Central America.
From Mexico. Tho New Orleans papers
have news from Vera Cruz to the 8th instant.
Affairs at Puebla had changed but little. Ta
ruarez was still there, and 8,000 government
troops were soon expected to carry on tho
seige. The revolution had been crushed in
other parts. The Constituent Congress has
elected Comonfort President for one year.
The horses in New York have suffered be
yond parallel and beyond endurance, in conse
quence of tho Impediments occasioned by
snow. The "Spirit of the Times" says no less
than 900 have been killed or have died in this
city during the late snow season,
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i GLEANINGS. -
A Rcsso-Ciiisese hog, weighing 1400 lbs., is
on exhibition in Cincinnati, lie grew in Clin
ton county, Ohio. , ;
Dr. Snow, of Providence, R. I., estimates
the annual Value of tho products of the indus
try of that city at $14,513,152.
Tub Hebrews late in session at Cleveland
have resolved to found a University at Cincin
nati, for the education of their people.
Ovee twelve thousand barrels of whiskey, it
is stated, has been shipped for the South from
Cincinnati during the Erst week of navigation.
I.v Nassau Hall, Princeton, there are 337
students of whom 07 are professors of religion,
50 candidates for the ministry, and 28 sons of
ministers.
Col. Garland, Treasurer of New Orleans,
has become a defaulter and has been held to
bail in the sum of $500,000 in default of which
ho was sent to prison.
Mosquitoes grow so large In Texas that they
hunt them with rifles. After they are slain,
their suckers are cut off aud used by house
carpenters for augers.
An editor, in Iowa has become so hollow
from depending upon the printing business a
lone for bread, that he proposes to sell him
self for a stove pipe.
A keeper of a saloon in Gcelong, advertis
ing his establishment, thus concludes "those
of my patrons who may require it, shall bo
sent home on a wheelbarrow gratis."
For everything you buy, or sell, let or
hire, make an exact bargain at first, and be not
pnt off to a hereafter by one that says to you,
"we shall not disagree about trifles."
The fire and explosion of gunpowder at St.
Martinsville, La., a few days since, destroyed
property to tho amount of $200,000, and kil
led twenty-three persons. Most of them were
slaves.
On Saturday night, the 15th, ono of tho
Camden and Philadelphia ferry boats took flie-
and burned up. There were upwards of 70
persons on board, of whom some 25 or 20 are
missing and dead.
An editor down east said that he hoped to bo
able to present a marriage and a death as origi
nal matter in his columns, but unfortunately a
thaw broke tip the wedding, and the doctor
got sick, and the patient recovered.
The Crystal Palace, the only Repubiican
palace, has recently been purchased by the A-
merican Institute for the permanent exhibition
of art and industry, for the sum of $125,000,
ess than one-quarter what It cost.
Great activity in business transactions is
noticed at all the large Western cities, conse
quent upon the re-opening of the rriircir!!
ivers. From Cincinnati South, the ice lias en
tirely disappeared. The prospects ol tne W-
son.are regarded. as very hopeful.
The noii?o ot Hpaxuuivm of Georgia,
on the 23d of February, passed by a largo ma
jority, a bill setting opart tne proceeds oi tne
tax upon frco negroes as a fund to be applied
to their removal to Liberia, or other places te-
ond the limits of the United States.
The Nebraska City News says that a land
fever is raging there. Claims of one hundred
and sixty acrewithin two and a half miles of
that citv, are selling at from $500 to $S00.
For ono farm joining the city on the west the
owner has been offered $0,000 in gold, which
was refused.
Pcncii furnishes the last argument yet dis
covered against moustaches. lie paints two
rough Crimean soldiers, with pipes in their
mouths, and a thicket of hair all over their fa
ces, meeting, and one complains to the other :
"I tell ycr what, I don't half like these mous
taches. They do mop op such a lot of prog"
An exciting and ludicrous chasa after a
thieving pedlar, who got away from tho Sher
iff at Thorudike, in tho western part of Massa
chusetts, took place one night, recently. The
sheriff" pursued iu a sleigh, got overturned in
snow bank, and finally found tho pedlar in a
hog pen hid behind a largo specimen ol live
pork.
The Hon. Roger Sherman died at New Ha
ven ou the 4th inst, in his 88th year. He was
son of Hon. Roger Sherman, ono of tho
signers of tho Declaration of Independence,
one of the leading men in framing the Consti
tution of tho United States, and one of the
soundest statesmen that our country ever pos
sessed. The Massachusetts House of Representa
tives, on the 5th inst., by a vote of 103 to 140,
refused to repeal the act which confers upon
jurors tho right of judging or deciding the
question cf the constitutionality of any law.
This is important to the people of the State,
especially so far as it bears upon the enforce
ment or non-enforcement of the Maine Liquor
Law.
The express train from Norfolk (Va.) to
Weldon (N. C.) on Monday, went through a
curve in the bridge near Marriottsville, killing
Messrs. Adams & Co's express messenger, Mr.
Daugherty, mail agent, and Charles Neal, a
boy. The engineer and several of the passen
gers were severely injured. The train, after
the accident, took fire and was entirely des
troyed. 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 tho past few weeks
of the new year, many more marriages Jiavo
taken place than in ordinary seasons ; and they
believe 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 large bodes of men in
China to work In the mines in California. The
bodies of those who die there are taken back
to prove to those from whom they were hired
that their services were M an nd.
THE PRESENT KANSAS QTJESTIOJT.
Hot ace Grecly, writing from Washington
under date of March 6th, gives tho following
view or tne Kansas Question, which will per
haps give the reader a pretty correct compre-
The Kansas question is up, and, while Mem
bcrs are debating it in lone and loirical
es, full of devotion to Liberty and devotion to
iuu onion, a propose to state the case not
ono side ot it, but the whole case as briefly
uiiu cieany as I can. With this view, I will
throw tho antagonist assertions and positions
into the form of a dialoirun bet ween Whifflpl.!
Keeder and the House as follows :
Whitfield, t I present my credentials as a
liccaer, ) Uelegate elect from Kansas.
The House Stand back, gentlemen ! Which
of you has tho certificate of tho legal return
ing officer ?
Whitfield I have, nere it is t
lite House Very good. You are thereby
entitled to take the oath and the seat until an
investigation can be. had. Mr. Reeder ! You
must contest and send in your memorial. It
snail be duly considered. Mr. Whitfield's cer
tificate is prima facie evidence of his right,
UUI more, uring on your proof that
aa not iairiy elected and that you were,
..iu j u oiiiiu ue admitted m Ins stead.
n j t it .
aeeaer , en, gentlemen ! 1 am here as a
contestant, then, if you will have it so. I
challenge the right of John W. Whitfield as
Delegate for Kansas, and claim to be myself
the true and fairly chosen representative of
tno actual settlers or that Territory.
The House How do you propose to prove
11113 I
Reeder By showing thtt the alledged Legis
lature, which passed the election law s nnder
which and prescribed the day on which Whit
field claims to have been elected, was no Le
gislature of Kansas that it was chosen by the
votes of residents of Missouri mainly or whol
ly that those residents wera enrolled,-organized,
and officered in Missouri through secret
societies operating for weeks before the elec
tion that they came over in large armed bands
on the day before and day of election that
steamboats black with them landed them in
Kansas on the day of election, and took them
away alter 'voting, before night that caval
cades f them went over on horseback and in
wagons, took possession of nearly all tho polls,
as had been preconcerted that, when the
judges ot elections hesitated or refused to al
low them to vote, they expelled those officers
by violence and terror and appointed their own
creatures in their stead that by this astound
ing conspiracy and outrage the voice of Kan
sas was stmea and a Pro-slavery Legislature
imposed on her by residents of Missouri a
Legislature which in no mrnner represented
Kansas, and could not bind her a'Legislature
whose existence she ignored and whose acts
she has always repudiated.
WiiijieldO this won't do ! This same Ree
der, who now contests, was Territorial Gover
nor, through the firt half of the last year and
himself commissioned tho Members of this
samo Legislature. He is thus estopped from
uenying tue validity ot its acts
Reeder No, sir! I expressly rejected the
claims of about one third of the Members, who
oat in mai legislature. I'roots were submit.
ted to me that they were returned by conspir
acy, corruption, violence and frmrt ir? miLu
tlTcHies and "ordered how' elections to ffil their
places. In one case, a fresh irruption from
Missouri secured a return ol the samealemoers
by a repetition of these outrages, but no legal
evidence of such repetition of abuse was sea
sonably submitted to me, and I commissioned
the members returned. In every other case
of a second election, new members were cho
sen all Free Strte men. Yet, when the pre
tended Legislature assembled, all these Free
State Members the onlv members honestly e-
lected by residents of Kansas were trpelled
from their seats and the elect of the Border Ruf
fians at the regular eltciion tcere pitched into
th-ir placet, and helped make tlio lawa under
which Y hitMi'ld claims a seat k-sr-i.
Whitf.eliWrU. Biij.posj this third of 1.
Members were bogr.s the other two thirds
were all right or at least you are estopped
from questioning their right, for you commis
sioned them.
Reeder True, Sir, 1 gave ceriincaits to i.i
those returned to mo as duly elected except
thoso with regard to whom evidence was sub
mitted to mo that they had been rClurued by
fraud. I had no discretion in the premises.
But does it follow that, because I was not le
gally informed ot specific frauds and usurpa
tions within a few days after a certain election,
that I should be estopped from proving such
frauds and usurpations several month's after
ward, when I had been apprised of then: 7
Shall my ignorance ol most important facts in
April or May of last year deprive the People
of Kansas of tba 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 ?
Whiijleld This Legislature, after being or
ganized, was recognized and addressed by you
us a legal body, and ycu must cow abide by
that recogtiition. V
Reeder No, Sir ! not the Legislature under
whose acts you claim a seat here. When the
alleged Lcgislaturo first met at Pawnee City,
I did recognize it ; but when it proceeded
forthwith to adjonrn to Shawnee Mission, I im
mediately notified tho members that I would
not recognize th em as a Legislature after such
removal. The organic Kansas-Nebraska act
gave to the Governor of Kansas the power to
"fix" tho place of meeting of the Territorial
Legislature ; I fijeed it accordingly at Pawnee ;
I vetoed the act by which the Legislature
sought to remove to "the neighborhood of their
Missouri homes; and, as they persisted, I nev
er afterward recognized them as a Legislature,
All the laws in question, including that under
which you claim to be elected. M ere passed af
ter that removal passed at a place whero no
Legislature wasever legally convened. If you
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 not a
legal body, there is no lawful authority in
Kansas, and chaos is come again.
Reeder Oh no ! there aro 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 in Kansas, and the
People cheerfully obey them. It is your fraud
ulent bogus Missourians' Legislature that they
repudiate.
Whitfield But there was no day of election,
no election laws, except thoso prescribed by
the Legislature at Shawnee Mission.
Reeder Precisely so and by whose fault?
Your backers vitiated the election ordered by
me in pursuance of law they debauched the
Legislature they substituted Missouriliuffian-
ism for tho rule of tho People ot Kansas which
the act of Congress contemplated. The Le
gislature being thus corrupted like a barrel
of cider into which a hogshead of filthy water
nas Been poured tne People very pronerlv re
pndiato its doings, Election Laws included.
iney naa then no alternative but to chooso
their own day and thereon elect a Delegate or
go unrepresented here. They elected the for
mer course so I am here.
Commute of Elections But whv. Mr. Ree.
der, did they not. to preclude all cavil, waive
the question of authority, and rot on the day
prescribed by this questionable Legislators t
We understand you to ssy that the peopla ci
Kansas are 6trorgly to your iidc ?
Reeder Simply because they were xnorrally
certain that the gigantic frauds of the Legis.
lative Election in March would be lepea'ed and
probably aggravated at the Delegate Election
in October. They knew right well that tbej.
stood no chance, few and unarmed as tbt
then were, in attempting to contest an !e.
tion against the organised Ruffianism of y;a
entire Missouri Border. And beside, the?
could not have voted at the Election present,
ed by that Legislature without acknowledging
its authority and agreeing to be bound bv its
enactments, i et these enactments allow eve
ry inhabitant of the Territory no matter
vhctber he has been such over a year or lou
than a day-to vote at each election, unless U
is opposed to the Fugitive Slave Law or the
Kansas-Nebraska act, in which case, if chal.
lenged, he cannot vote at all. no matter km
long he has been a resident. Of course, nn
der such laws, exprcsslv calculated and inten
ded to let Missourians vote and shut out Freo
State citizens of Kansas, our side bad no
chance. Our only hope lay in the repudiation
of that bogus Legislature and all Its works.
H kiffield Do you deny that the Vote lr
which I was chosen was a legal one ? .
Reeder les, sir, I do. I am credibly tn
formed that a large portion of it was polled by
Missourians who came over on purpose.
Whitfield But suppose I were not leeUv
lected, how does that hlp your caso T
feeler Just thus: The Legislature havinr
been corrupted and destroyed bv Pro-Sl
frauds, the People were thrown "back on their
primary rights rights such as Michigan. Cal-
lorina and other States asserted when t h
formed their first Constitutions respective!.
iucT jjt-iu uuceuugs resoivea to nave an elec
tion for Delegate, appointed a day, gave pub
lic notice, chose judges, held an election and
mad me their Delegate by a nearly unani
mous vote. In other words. I stand beran.
actly as did the first Delegate from Nebraska
chosen by a spontaneous movement of h
People. You, Sir, stand here the representa-
ivo of that Pro-Slaverv faction which
ted our ba!3ot-boxe3 and vitiated our LezisU
urc, anu wuic.i cannoi ie permitted to plead
ts own willful and gigantic wronzs as a bar ta
other men's assertiou cf their most sacred
rights. In short, I claim the ?eat because I
wa3 voted for and f tirly chosen at the only e
lection which the People of Kansas have been
permitted to hold; while you are here the rep
resentative and attorney of their invaders, op
pressors, persecutors, despoilers, and murder
ers. Whitfield. That la all Buncombe. It doea
not make out even a prima facie case.
Though all yon assert were proved, it would
not support your claim to the seat. I move a
non suit.
The Committee Yon arc not entitled to a
non-suit, Mr. Whitfltld ! The case turns on
facts ; and if Gov. Reeder can establish what
he asserts, it will go hard with vour seat. We
must advise the House to proffer Gov. R. th
fullest opportunity to msku good Lis allega
tions. We must not grudee expense and trou
ble when the rights and libarties of a whcl
people are involved.
The Minority We object to sending for per
sons and papers. We concur with WMtflM
The People Let the whole truth come ont,
and let the scat be accorded to whomsoever
shall be proved the true representative of tia
c:t;2ens of Kansas. Amen :
Tee Way Sam isDviso. As some peop'
would have it appear that "Sam" is almost
defunct, we give the following results of mc-
iiicipal and township elections which hava cas
ually fallen under our notice. TLat text lii
Job for his "funeral eormos" will hsxe tc ha
believer for a little while ytt.
Troy, N. Y., Miycr aid Ccancii, iy CIO
tiisjc-rlty. Lust year, tho same candidate u
urfcatel ty Hi. Bath, U&ias, William Efce.
American, elected Hayor. Auiierai, Kas3.,
the entire American ticket tUcttd, witi the
exception of three minor ofaoers, elected by
the Republicans. E afield Mass., a clean swep
for the Americans, with the exception cf on
School Trustee. Taunton, ilass., a clean
sweep very little opposition. New Castle,
N. II., tho whole American ticket elected by
a decisive majority. Green Island, N. J.,
whole ticket 35 majority. Grcenbush, X. Y.,
50 majority for the ticket. 2Corth Greenbush,
N. Y., 58 majority for tho ticket. Auburn,
N. Y., tbo home of Seward, a glorious victory.
Liitla Falls, N. Y., 50 majority for tho Amer
icans. Oswego, N. Y., the Americans swept
tha city by about S00 majority. Blackstone,
Mass., American ticket, 169. All others fit.
Oxbridge, Mass., "all's well" for the Ameri
cans. South Reading, Mass., a glorions victo
ry for the American party. Saranac, N. Y.,
"we have met tho enemy and they, are ours."
Danemora, N. Y., the Americans victorious.
Peru, N. Y., a clean sweep. Chenanjo, N.
Y., the enemy were routed and riddled most
effectually. Middleborougb, Mass., the whola
American ticket elected with the exception of
two Selectmen. Davidson county, Tenn., th
Americans elected all but Sheriff, by a lorg
majority. Gates, N. Y., entire American
ticket elected by over 50 majority. Hendon,
N. Y., American ticket elected by about lh
same majority. Ogden, N. 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 of last year.
Arcadia, N. Y., the whole American ticket j
lected by a large majority over all combina
tions. '
Latz Faou California. The steamship
Prometheus arrived at New Orleans, Mareh
12., with San Francisco dates to the 20th Feb.
She left San Juan on the 5th inst. . The steam
ship Northern Light left on the same day for
New York, with 300,000 in gold.
The Markets have slightly improved j and
the mines are yielding largely.
A shqck of an earthquake occurred at San
Francisco on the l-5th February, and caused
some slight damage,. It was felt throughout
the State.
The appointment of Mr. McDuffio, as TJ. S.
Marshal of the Northern District, lias caused
much indignation. He is charged wita being
a professional gambler, and strong petitions
have been signed for his removal. It is sup
posed that President Pierce has been imposed
upon or made the appointment by accident.
The Indians are still committing outrages In,
Oregon and Washington Territories. Numer
ous volunteer companies are mustering to act
against the marauders.