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CLEARFIELD, PA., MAY 58, 1850.
37minees of the Philadelphia Convention.
. , FOR PRESIDENT,
. MILLARD FILLMORE.
VICE PRESIDENT,
ANDKEW JACKSON DOUNELSON.
- Union State Nominations.
, - ;?' CA"?AL COMMISSIONER, ,
THOMAS E. COCHRAN, of York Co.
ACDITOB GENERAL,
PARWIN THELPS, of Armstrong Co.
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
BARTHOLOMEW LAPORTE, of Bradford Co.
CAMPAIGN JOURNAL.
As wo have of lato been frequently urged to
take campaign subscribers, we propose to send
the Journal, from and after the 1st of July till
the election in November, to clubs of not less
than four at Fifty Cents a copy the cash
invariably to accompany the order.
We make this proposition to meet the wants
of such as are desirous of taking the paper
during the Presidential contest.
We wish it to be understood that the paper
sent to campaign subscribers will bo the same
as our regular issue.
ROWDYISM IN C0NGRE3S.
Immediately after the adjournment of Con
gress, on the 22d iBst., whilst Mr. Sumner was
yet sitting in his arm chair in the Senate cham
ber, Mr. Brooks, a member, we believe, of the
lower Ilouse, from South Carolina, entered
and approached Mr. Sumner, accusing him of
libelling South Carolina' and his grey-haired
relative, Mr, Butler, in some remarks which
Mr. S. had made tho day before, iu reply to
Mr. Butler, in the Senate. Mr. Brooks then
struck Mr. Sumner such a hcavy.blow with his
cane as knocked him down, aud repeated the
blows until Mr. Sumner was deprived of the
power of speech, Mr. S. calling in the mean
time for help, but no one interfered," although
several members were ' in the chamber at the
time. -When Brooks desisted, Mr. Sumner was
picked up and carried to his room. Tho phy
sicians say ho has the most severe flesh wounds
they ever "saw on a man's head, and deny his
friends admission to him. Brooks has been
arrested, and held to bail for his appearance.
This is another beautiful display of "southern
chivalry." To denounce the conduct of Mr.
Brooks as brutal and outrageous, is to call it
by the mildest term it deserves, and we arc
glad to see it almost universally condemned
by the press. The Philadelphia Lodger says
that, in all the experience of ruffianism in
Congress, In has never heard of a more wan
ton, brutal and unmanly act. This assault on
Mr. Sumner, if it is not, should be regarded as
a breach of privilege. Congress has but in a
tew cases undertaken to punish such a breach,
preferring to hand over the offender to the law
courts. But this is such an aggravated case,
that, if the House has any regard for its dig
nity and for the protection due a mr.ib r of
the highest l.k'Ltlvo body, it will at once
expel Brooks, which will serve as an example
for all others who may feel disposed fo indulge
in like ruffianly attacks upon peaceable and
decent men.
Reported Warlike Operations ag..nst
Nicaragua and Mexico. Intelligence from
Havana reports tho Spanish government as fit
ting out an expedition against Walker aud
Nicaragua, aud that a Spanish force is to
blockade and bomlwrd Vera Cm a, to enforce
certain claims due from Mexico. Too much
credenco should not be given to these rumors
in tho form in which they are presented.
Without first Laving made a declaration of
war, Spain would not commence hostilities
against Nicaragua ; and the payment of any
just claim due by Mexico would only be re
tarded by the blockade of one of her princi
pal ports, the destruction of which, instead of
improving the bankrupt treasury of Mexico,
would only increase the embarrassment of the
government. There is an unusual activity, it
is true, among Spanish vessels of war ; but, it
is thought, Sf any expeditions against Walker
are being fitted out by Spaniards, they are in
dividual affairs, not authorized by the govern
ment, though it may make no special efforts
to suppress them. Should Walker be success
ful, the invasion of Cuba will doubtlessly soon
' follow ; and, therefore, Spain cannot be much
blamed if she docs permit, though she may
not givo official sanction to the fitting out of
expeditions which may prevent Walker from
succeeding f n Nicaragua.
Tue French Minister at Paris has offered
what is-deemed an insult to our government.
Maj. Delafield, Maj. Mordecai and Col. M'Clcl
: Ian were sent to Europe to acquire information
of value to the military service of the TJ. S.
Tliey were everywhere cordially received.
Go thslr return by way of Paris, they called
ppon Marshall Vaillant, who in a very flen
siro maascr said, "We have nothing to give !
There are misunderstandings between our gov
crnments, and our relations are such as not to
Justify any such civilities?" Major Mordecai,
who. was spokesman of the party wisely fore
bore to retort the insolence ; and, as they bid
the Marshall farewell, be expressed the hope
tat they might meet again soon where their
!ute would be the hostile cannn sb-t.
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. NORIHESN DEMORALIZATION. .
. The special correspondent of the New York
Tribune, writing from Washington under date
of May 11, says : .Thc shameless tergiversa
tion of Northern men on the subject of Slave
ry is a spectacle to make angels weep. It is
needless to enumerate instances in detail.
They malignantly dot the surface of the Free
States like pustules on a small-pox patient.
Southern Slavery has become the great god
before which the army of place-seckcrs bow
down with abject submission. It occupies the
seats ol power, and robes and unrobes official
dignitaries in all the plentilude of imperial
majesty. It issues its bulls of excommunica
tion with the lordly authority of the Vatican.
It saves aud it damns with more than papal
promptness and zeal. Its mandates issue, and
tho trembling herd of its obedient followers
rushes in skurried alacrity to obey. This is
no figure of speech ; it is sober and exact truth.
Behold what Slavery has demanded of North
ern men in tho way of eating their words and
swallowing their opinions, and behold what it
has got. Let the record be examined. There
was a time, and no distant time either, when
all parties in the North expressed their con
demnation of Slavery. It was condemned
without'qualification, and a manly stand taken
against its spread. Every eminent and every
unomincnt man iu the. Free States declared a
gainst its being carried into Free Territory.
There is not a man in tho north, who has a po
litical record, which is not clear and emphatic
on this point. All men and all parties, and all
tho Free Stales, upheld the Wilmot Proviso a
few years ago while most of them declared
against agitation and against molesting the in
stitution in the States, even by discussion, the
expression of determination to resist its spread
into Free territory was universal. Search th
record, and it will bo found that every promi
nent man's position w as identical on this point.
The gathering up and exposing the attitude of
this man and that on tho question in times
past, which the Ilouse lias been occupied about
of late, is labor lost. The record of all is a
like. Ten years ago not one Northern man
was as debauched as the entire body of leaders
of the Democratic party is now. Ten years
ago the North unanimously occupied the
ground now maintained by the Anti-Nebraska
men. Whoever does hot hold it now has fal
len from his former position, and apostatized
from his former faith. It is idle to enumerate
individual examples. Every Northern man
who docs not occupy tho anti-Nebraska ground
to-d:iy, is a deserter from the side of Freedom
to that of Slavery, and goes to swell the reek
ing mass of political apostacy that now ollends
the moral sense of every upright man. Look
back and around and see the individual monu
ments of this most lamentable defection. Be
hold Mr. Webster; himself at one time alight
shining in the path of the Wllmot-Provisoists.
Behold Mr. Cass, ponderously rolling into the
Senate with a Wilmot-Proviso speech in his
hat, which he was only saved by an accident
from delivering. Look at Mr. Buchanan, hold
ing to the Missouri restriction, and declaring
it holy and sacred as the Constitution. See
New Hampshire, headed by Franklin Pierce,
outright and rank in declaring agaiust the
spread of slavery. Kead the resolutions of ev
ery Northern State to tho same purport, pas
sed with tho consent of all sides and emcna
ting from all sides. Even in the South, the
voice for the same general doctrine was potent
with its nobler spirits. Hearken to that of
Henry Clay,as lato as 18-30,uttered in the Sen
ate of the United States. There, with flushed
countenance and an eye of fire, rising in his
place he proclaimed with dellant gesticulation
and impassioned tones, to a breathless and si
lenced Senate, that he nuver would consent
to admit Slavery into territory now free .nev
er. Contrast all this and volumes more of the
same kind, which the history of the past few
years can furnish, with tho state of opinion
now upon the subject, and weep over the hu
miliating record. It exhibits the North in a
position which her sons might well pray to the
Almighty to bury in oblivion. It exhibits a
recreancy that blotches the history of the Frec
States with unsightly sores, aud surrounds it
with an atmosphere smoking with corruption.
It blears and bedims a history onco clear, no
ble and glorious. It befouls by contact our
colonial and revolutionary reputation, that
once challenged tho admiration of the world
for its purity. Who could have believed that
a son of New LDgland would be found to head
a movement that thus trails her honors in the
dust, brings reproach upon her good namc,and
causes her children to blush over the coerced
degradation of the land of their affections T
And this is done all for what 1 For place ;
for official honors; for a temporary lease of
high station; for a day of authority. Here
they go and there they go. From every Free
State, and from every county of every Free
State, the examples of this deep humiliation
crowd forward with a disgraceful alacrity
They come from hill and valley. High and
low throng in supple subserviency around the
throne of Slavery. They, are called upon to
disavow and repent of every sentiment iirfa
vor of Freedom they ever expressed, and they
do it. They apostatize from tho faith of their
fathers. They repudiate their principles.
They renounce their opinions. They learn,
embrace, and repeat the catechism of the pow
er at whose feet they cower. They begin, "I
" believe in one political god, and that god is
" Slavery. I will not resist or obstruct his
" sway. I will perform his service according
" as I shall be ordered. I will set up the syni-
bols of his worship in every oflice I shall hold
" under him." They are thus compelled to
cleanse themselves of every taint and suspi
cion of hostility to Slavery before being ad
mitted to tho service of a country whose prou
dest boast is the declaration of human free
dom and tho equality of human rights.
Titus general has the demoralization become
under the haughty exactions of an oligarchy
striving to trample ' all opposition to it under
'! r1 an tno Democratic masses tolerate
it i. Can they endorse by their votes an apos-
w-cy I'V8' 80 nUBi!iatiDg, so alarm tug ?
VT e shall see. e
lot of Hams and fuWwsfcl J& Sjnita-OI-CSy
W.F.-IIiWIS'e. ( Clearfield, January 23r
THE CRAMP TON DIFFICULTY.
The English government, having refused to
recall Mr. Crampton in accordance with an of
ficial request from our government, it was de
termined ; at Washington to dismiss him. A
reply to Mr. Marcys demand having, however
reached Washington on the morning of the day
on which Mr. Crampton was to be dismissed,
the subject was laid over for the time being.
On the 21st, the President communicated to"
tho Senate, additional documents relative to
the British recruitments, and wholly involving
the question of veracity iwtwccn Mr. Buchan
an and Lord- PtilmerstOn. Mr. Buchanan
charges that Lord Palmcrston, while refusing
to lay on the tabic of the House of Commons
the correspondence on that subject, stated
such facts only as favored his own side, and
entirely suppressed the reasons on which onr
demand for the recall of Mr. Crampton aud
the British Consuls were founded.
Mr. Buchanan also says that Lord PalRierston
was not justified in stating on that occasion,
that he (Buchanan) had exprcssod himself sat
isfied with Lord Clarendon's explanation, con
tained in his note of the 19th of July last, and
that Mr. Buchanan said he felt confident that
our Government would entertain similar feel
ings with regard to it. Mr. Buchanan denies
that he ever so intimated. He had merely ob
served to Lord Taliuerston that he would have
much satisfaction in transmitting that note to
the Secretary of State.' Lord ralmerston,
replying through Lord Clarendon, fails to be
convinced, saying it seemed to him there was
an essential difference between tho substjnoe
and the effect of what was said in the House
of Commons and Mr. Buchanan's statement.
Finally Mr. Buchanan, under date of March
7th, says to Mr. Marcy "You must believe
with me that the last effort of Lord Palmcr
ston to extricate himself from the dilemma,
has served to make the awkwardness of his
position still more conspicuous.
The reply of Lord Clarendon, dated April
30th to Mr. Marcy, thus concludes "The uu
dcrsignedhas now had the satisfaction ofcom
muuicating to the Government of the United
States, the statements and declarations of her
Mtyesty's Minister at Washington, and of her
Majesty's Consuls at Cincinnati, Philadelphia
and New York, as to tho conduct imputed to
them. . .
The Government of the United States had
been led to suppose that the law and sover
eign rights of the people of the United States
had not been respected by Her Majesty's
Government, and relying upon the evidence
deemed to be trustworthy, they believed that
the law and those rights had been infringed
by British agents. If Mich, had been the case,
the Government of the United States w ould
have been eutitled to demand, ami Her Majes
ty's Government would not have hesitated to
afford the most ample satisfaction, for no dis
credit can attach to the frank admission and
complete reparation of an unquestionable
wrong.
Her Majesty's Government, however, une
quivocally disclaim any intention either to in
fringe the law or to disregard the policy, or not
to respect the sovereign rights of the United
States, and the Government ol the United
States will soon, for the first time) learn that
Her Majesty ,s Minister at Washington, and
Her Majesty's Consuls at Cincinnati, Philadel
phia, and New York, solemnly aflirm that they
have not'eommitted any of the acts that have
been imputed to them. The Government of
the United States will now also for the first
time have an opportunity of weighing the
declarations of four gentlemen of unimpeached
honor and integrity, agaiust evidence upon
which no reliance ought to be placed. The
undersigned cannot but express the earnest
hope of Her Majesty's Government that these
explanations and assurauccs may prove satis
factory to the Government of the United
States, and effectually remove any misappre
hension which may have hitherto existed, and
ho cannot doubt that such a result will afford
as much pleasure to the Government of the
United States, as to that of her Majesty, by
putting an end to the difTercnco which has
been deeply regretted by her Majesty's Gov
ernment, for there are no two countries which
are bound by stronger tics, or by higher con
sideratious, than the United States and Great
Britain, to maintain unbroken, the relations of
perfect cordiality and friendship.
"Tho undersigned, etc.,
"Clarendon."
"A Si-gcestiox. To our brethren of the
Press and to all those opposed to the present
National Administration, we would offer a
suggestion which we believe will be Produc
tive of good and lasting results, n o propose
that, in the Congressional, Senatorial and Le
gislative districts, union tickets be formed,
and to effect that desirable object, a call be
prepared similar to the Harrisburg call ; and
let conferees be appointed iu different districts
to meet in convention at such time and such
place as may bo hereafter fixed upon, but bv
all means, let tho action be speedy. By an
union of all parties opposed to the rotten dy
nasty of Pierce, the three districts named can
be easily carried, and wo appeal earnestly to
our friends to act at once upon our suggestion.
Clarion Banner.
Being in tho eamc Congressional district
with Clarion, wc concur in the suggestion
made by the Banner. What we want is union,
and if it is effected in proper season,' which
can be done if tho proper exertions are made,
there can be little doubt of success provided
we get out a good and true man. But, as the
Warren Mail, which heartily favors the move
ment suggested, says, "we want no more slip
shod, half-and-half candidates. Mr. Barclay
pretended to be Anti-Nebraska and Anti-Pope,
whereby many honest voters were cheated."
The suffer ixgs of the inhabitants of the
Cape do Verd Island, from famine, are depict
ed as most terrible. Five or six thousand, of
a population of one hundred and twenty thou
sand, hare already died. . . -
O.vx or the IrUh newspapers contains an ad
vertisement announcing as lost.a cloth cloak .
belonging to a gentleman lined with blue." J
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. THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY.
""It appears that a portion of the New York
Democracy refuse to. endorso the apostacy of
their present pretended ! party leaders from
Freedom to Slavery. We find published an
able manifesto numerously signed by many
who are among the most influential and wor
thy in their party in the State of New York.
The address takes ground against the exten
sion of slavery. We make the following ex
tracts :
"It is not our purpose to analyze the various
and contradictory reasons by which Northern
men have sought to palliate, if not to justify,
this act of aggression upon the rights of the
Free States. There is but. one. trite reason
that can be given, and that reason is in direct
hostility to the settled convictions of a vast
majority of the Democrats of New York, as
reiterated through their conventions during
the last ten years. It tale, ilt self-erident pur
pose, was the Extension of Slavery. That insti
tution had been excluded from Kansas and Ne
braska by a law. enacted under circumstances
which gave it the character of a solemn com
pact. By it Kansas was free, and: must ever
remain so. No further legislation was neces
sary. It required no "interference" on the
pait of Congress to accomplish this result.
Free by the action of a previous generation
free, by the acquiescence of all parties during
a quarter of a century free by the same pow
er which .secured that blessing to Ohio, Illi
nois, Indiana, Michigan," Wisconsin and Iowa.
Under a similar law these States had all been
organized without excitement, without vio
lence, without any alledged broach of consti
tutional rights, and with the entire concur
rence of Southern representatives.
-Nor is it necessary that wc should trace
through successive years the declarations plac
ed upon record by the Democracy of N. York,
as to the place occupied by them in the con
troversy between Slavery and Freedom. The
sentiment of opposition to the extension of
Slavery is too wide-spread and universal to be
controverted. In this respect there has been
little, if any, want of coincidence between the
sections into which the Democratic party lias
been divided. If they bare differed, it has
been as to the time when the restrictive poli
cy should be applied, not as to the propriety of
the principle itself. On the tide of the radi
cal democracy, the whole current of party de
clarations is in one direction. -Even the last
nomiuating State Convention, held in Septem
ber last, adopted this authoritative exposition
of the sentiment of its constituents :
" JlesolceJ, That while the Democracy of
"this State will laithfuUv adhere to all the
" compromises of the Constitution, and main
" tian all the reserved rights of the States,
" tliey ueem this an appropriate occasion to
" declare their fixed hostility to the extension
" of slavery into r rec territory."
"No man can with truth assert that this res
olution fails to accord with the feeling enter
tained by the Democratic masses ; nor will any
person at all conversant with the popular sen
timent, or the causes operating thereon, ven
ture the allegation that, in tho lapse of three
short mouths from the adoption of tho above
resolution, an entire change has come over the
mind of the Democracy of this State, turning
them from ardent opponents of Slavery exten
sion into quiescent abettors of its diffusion:
and, above all, approving in their name of the
monstrous fraud and wronr which repealed
the restriction against tho entry of Slavery in
to all that territory lyiug north of the Missou
ri Compromise line.
"It is an erroneous imputation, propagated
Ironi unworthy motives, that the course t the
Democracy of New York, in resisting the ex
tension of Slavery, is actuated by a morbid
philanthropy toward the African race. True,
they regard it as a social, moral and political
evil, at war with the fundamental principles of
civil liberty, and deleterious to tho true inter
ests of the country. But it is because they
know that wherever Slavery is introduced,
there labor is degraded to a servile employ
ment that it divides society into two classes,
and fixes tho badge of servitude on all whose
lot it is to toil that free and forced labor will
not amalgamate on the same soil, and that
hence Slavery operates to the virtual exclu
sion of a white laboring population it is for
luesc and many other cogent reasons which
might be adduced, that we desire to keep the
"peculiar institution" within the present lim
its, and preserve the boundless and fertile
prairies of the West as a field for frco labor
and a home for free men ; whether our own
immediate descendants or those of the emi
grant fleeing from the oppression of the old
world.
"It is a satisfaction to know that the efforts
of Democrats in this behalf arc in perfect ac
cordance with the principles and practice of
the illustrious exemplars of their faith. They
are content to rest a justification of their course
on the happy results which have flowed to the
country from tho benificent operations of the
Ordinance of 1787, and the similar provisions
which have since teen incorporated and ap
plied in territorial bills ; while the names of
Jetlerson, Madison, and a host of honored fol
lowers, assure us that the platform on which
wo stand is. sufficiently broad, comprehensive
and democratic, without adding to it the nar
row, selfish and sectional plank of Nebraska
Kansasisni.. , .
"Agsinst the legitimate and constitutional
rights of the South wc wage no warfare. To
ward its citizens wc entertain no hostility.
We concede to them, within their appropriate
jurisdictions, the right to regulate their own
internal affairs in their own way, and accord
ing to their own convictions of propriety.
But they must ceaso the attempt to force upon
us an agreement in principles, in regard to
which there can be no community of fcelin"
and no accordance of action. We warn them
against placing confidence in the representa
tions of men who have not the power, even if
they possess the disposition, to control the
votes of the Democratic electors of the Em
pire State. These will demand a due respect
for their own rights and a proper appreciation
of the rights of others. They will require a
return to those principles ol" public policy
which shall give to the Democracy of the
States their true weight and position in the di
rection of affairs, and secure them against the
abuse of the Federal power. They will ask
that the aggressive policy which has marked
the onward march of Slavery, shall cease.
They will demand for their brethren in Kansas
the just protection to which they are entitled
against border ruffianism, and a cessation of
that anomaly which, under the appellation of
"popular sovereignty," imposes upon them a
government upheld by the baronet of a Fed
eral soldiery. .
"Speaking for ourselves, in view of the cir
cumstances we have detailed, wo unhesitating
ly, but firmly, declare, that in no nrtciMA a:
gency of party relations, by no act of omission
or commission on our part, will we consent
uiat uiujairana icrtiio prairies of the West
shall be made to echo to the lash rf
seer's whip or to the clank of tho bondman's
jeiier. . ine experience of tho past and the
hopes of the future all
adherence to the doctrine so often promulga
ted by the Democracy of this State, f in-
compromising hostility to the extension of
Slavery into Free Terri
tjn f wfch can alone secure the support of
uuiit masses, ana ensure the stjbil.
Jty of our republicin institutions,"
LATEE FROM KANSAS.
REIGN OF TERROR IX THE TERRITORY.
Dates from Leavenworth, Kansas, to Satur
day the 17th, are received. Wednesday, the
21st, had been fixed 'upon for the attack on
Lawrence. There is n general reign of terror
in, the Territory. Two cannon had crossed the
river at Chisou, destined for Lawrence. Bu
ford's regiment were enrolled in the militia,
and furnished w ith United States arms by Gov.
Shannon. The Free-State men want arms and
ammunition. Donaldson (United States Mar
shall) has proclaimed his intention to make
clean work of what lie has to do this time.
Gov. Kobinson is still imprisoned at Lexing
ton. The correspondent of Tin Jefferson (Missou
ri) Enquirer states -that -a 'petition -is bein
circulated in the border counties" praying for
the immediate removal of Col. Sumner. r
"- Mr. Brown, Editor of The HaraLt of Freedom
writes that a mob entered the hotel at Kansas
City 'where he was staying, and dragged offa
man whom they supposed to be himself. " On
discovering their mistake, they returned and
demanded bira of the proprietor, who refused
to deliver him np to them. A company of
Michigan emigrants then entered the hotel to
protect the occupants. The mob were still
surrounding the hotel and gathering reenforce
ments at the close of his letter. No authen
tic intelligence ha? been received concerning
his (Brown's) fate since his capture. - - -.
The Kansas correspondent of The Si. I.ouit
Democrat writes under date of the 19th inst.
that eight to twelve hundred men were encamp
ed near Lecompt on.
The people of Lawrence had sent a note to
Col. Sumner, asking him to- station a body of
troops in tho vicinity to prevent the mob from
proceeding to sanguinary extremities. He
declined, saying ho had no power to move
without order.
Mr. Cox of Lawrence waited on Marshal
Donaldson to ascertain if anything, could be
done peaceably to preveut his monster posse
entering the town. Mr. Donaldson said their
demands must Lo complied with that every
man against whom a process was issued should
be surrendered that all munitions of war in
Lawrence shouid be delivered up, aud that
the citizens of Lawrence should pledge them
selves under oath to implicitly obey the enact
ments under which the Territory is governed.
Upon receipt of this, the citizens held a
mectiug and drew up a letter to the Marshal,
stating that any person acting under htm
would be allowed to execute legal process
against any inhabitants of Lawrence,' and that
if called upon, they would serve as a posse in
aiding the arrest ; that ttere would not now
or at any future time be any resistance lo the
law, and that they only awaited an opportunity
to testify their fidelity to the Union and the
Constitution. They claimed to be law-abiding
order-loving citizens, and asked the protec
tion of the constituted authorities.
The purport of the Marshal's answer was,
that he did not believe the promises of the
people of Law rencc that ho regarded them
as rebels and traitors and that they should
know what his demands were when he came.
Washington, May 23 In reply to a resolu
tion offered by Mr. Barbour, iu the House of
Representatives, requesting the President to
communicate whether United States soldiers
had been employed in Kausas to arrest persons
charged with the violations of certain suppo
sed laws enacted by a supposed Legislature,
assembled at the Shawne Mission, etc., the
Secretary of War responds, that by instruc
tions from his Department, dated the loth of
February, Colonel Sumner aud Lieutenant
Colonel Cooke were directed to aid by milita
ry force, the constitutionalauthorities in Kan
sas in suppressing insurrection or invasive
aggression against the organized Territory,
or armed resistance to the execution of the
laws, in case of the Government finding the
ordinary course of judicial proceedings and
powers vested in the United States Marshal,
inadequate for the purpose, should make a re
quisition upon them for military fores to aid
him in the performance of that official duty.
Under these instructions, and upon the re
quisition of Governor Shannon, a detachment
ot troops, under a Lieutenant was. ordered to
report to the Governor to sustain the constitu
ted authorities in the enforcement of the lawr.
The Secretary says the instructions from
theDepartment being directed exclusively to
the support of the organized Government
and constituted authorities of the Territory,
convey no authority to employ soldiers to aid
by making arrests or otherwise, iu the enforce
ment of the supposed laws enacted bv a sun-
posed Legislature. The Department, there
fore, presumed and believes that the United
States soldiers have not been employed to
make arrests under the circumstances stated
in the resolution.
Hulloxay't ointment and pills have effected
another wonderful cure of sore lesrs Antho
ny Harrison Scard, of Martinsburg, Ya., was a
sunerer for 28 years from sore legs, so bad at
times, that human nature could scarely bear
it ; covered with wounds and proud flesh! nis
friends had given up all hopes of recoverv from
his pitiable state, as the doctor told him it
was constitutional. Several persons told him
the good effects nolloways pills bad produced
in cases or this nature, he made nn his mind
to give them atrial; after using them a few
weeks he felt better, and continuing thera for
two and a half months, he was perfectlv enr-
ed, after being a cripple 28 years, and consid
ered ueyond human aid.
The great Durham mixed cow. for Kemr,!
years owned by Wm. Shepherd, of Manches
ter, N. H. was sold a few days since, to Fran
cis F. noyt, of Concord, for $500. She was
raised in Pembroke, is 7 vcars old. ffirts 9 feet.
weighs 2,700 pounds, being tho largest cow in
me united States.
Among tho late arrivals at one of the St.
Louis hotels, is one that reads : ' E. Smith and
four wives, Salt Lake,"
THE LATEST.
Important News from Kansas.
The St. Louis Democrat of the 23d says it
was reported that a battle had been fought at
Lawrence and that a number had been killed
on both sides. It was reported that the inhab
itants were preparing to evacnate the place.
It had been determined to make uo resistance.
The St. Louis Republican has later intelli
gence, from which it appears that hostilities
have commenced in earnest. A despatch from
Brownsville, of the 24th inst., says that Law
rence was destroyed on ' Wednesday. The
same day the hotel at Kansas City, and the
Printing Oflice, were destroyed. N. particu
lars aro given. "
A hill passed Congress, which gives Iowa
about two millions of acres of landfor the
purpose of building four parallel lines of rail
roads through the State, with one branch road.
One line from Washington to the mouth .of
Platte river ; one from Davenport to Conncil
Blufis; one from Lyons to the Missouri river ;
and one from Dubuque to' Sioux, city. It is
supposed that this bill will close all the land
offices in the State, and throw all the unsold
lands into the bauds of tho railroad. ..".The
President has given it his signature. 4 -
The' committee on Public Lands reported &
bill granting a million of acres of land f o Flor
ida, to aid in the construction of railroads. 1 1
is also rumored that the committee intend re
porting similar bills for railroads in Michigan,
Alabama and Wisconsin. .'
Don't Mix vp the Bakies. The Albany
Knickerbocker gives the following account of -a
curious affair which occurred in a family of
that city, a few "days since : A mother and
her daughter were both confined on the same
day, each having a little son. In the bustle of
the moment, both were placed in the cradle,
and to the confusion of the mothers, when the
youngsters were taken from the cradle, they
were enable to tell w hich was the mother's and
which the daughter's son a matter which, of
course, must ever remain a. mystery. The
family is in the greatest distress over the affair.
A rxs.Tr or womkx in nanover, I!I.,"a few
days ago, demolished a drinking shop, in that
town. The leader of the assailants was a grand
daughter of the celebrated General Boone of
Kentuckv.
Gold. The Richmond Va.i l)i
that a lump of pure gold, worth $113, was
round on the farm of E. Matthews, nine miles
from Lynchburg.
Old Ma. Singlestick mystified a tea-party
by remarking that women Vera facts. When
pressed to explain his meaning, he said
"Facts are stubborn things."
JVOTICE. In the iWm of Eli Bloom. Trea
A 1 surer of Clearfield county, the Books and Pa
pers wilt be in the po3es-ion of John Mcl'hersou
who will attend to the business at all times '
Clearfield, .May 23. 1856. ;
T ?-J7A1!T?wiCK' M-D-. id
tF in Clearfield, ofbjrs Lis professional service
to the public. He eaa for the present be found at
Hemphill's hotel.
rMEFE".cri: Dr? UTT I-orain and'R. V.
iv. tn;.C frCe,J? 1r" I'otteraod
.Mitchell. Centre county. may2-j
PLASTERING. Cooper i MitcbeL, wb
- ''ve had much experience in the cities of
New York and Philadelphia ia the above busi
ness, are prepared to do work from plain to tho
best ornamental of any description, on reasonable
terms. Addrexa, COOPER & MITCHEL.
May 2i, 13o6. Ulenhope. Clearfield Co. Pa.
PROPOSALS will be received bv tbe Commi
woncrs at their office in CleatfiJld, on the Sth
or June, for rendering more secure the wall around
the jail-yard. Bidders are requested to furnish
plnns therefor, and bid upon the plan submitted
- . By order of the Board.
May 23-2t It. J. WALLACE, Clerk.
TTO ! FOR IOWA ! ! The undersigned, de
, iroua of going We, offers toaelt at private
sale three lots in the village of Marysvilte, one
half mile east of Clearfield Bridge, in Bojts town
ship having thereon erected a two-Jtorv weather
boarded dwelling bouse, good atable. and a hlack
Muith shop. The terms, which will he reasonable
can be ascertained by iuquiring of tho undersign
ed, residing on the premises.
may2j-tf SAMUEL B. BILLE It.
A D.MI.MSTKATURS NOTICE.-Whcre-
ri i .j fL 1IL0I,ES, late of Chest township.
Clearfield County, P... dee d, have been granted
to the undersigned, all persons indebted to aid
estate are requested to make immediate ravnicnt,
and those having claims against tbe same will
present them, properly authenticated for settle
ment, to Pftnrut m-.Mr
JOHN MAHAFFKV
y2jUg36-gt. Administrators.
TVOTICE.-The stockholders of the Glen Ho7.
.k 'nd .ljt-tle d-eagle Turnpike, are notified
that an e ectjon will be held at the house of Wm
r. Oilbcrt,C Jen Hope. on Friday the 13th June, and
for the purpose of taking a vote for or against a
division of said road T. B. DAVIS, Pres t. .
Attest A. Moore. See. May 19. l!t3r.2t
CuU your Brta l upon th Water,, far after way
days y shall find it.
A Certain Cure for all Eheamatls Pains.
ikn't roiE urr thy it, it caxsot fail '
E. C. ALLEN'S
CONCENTRATED ELECTRIC PASTE.
AND ARABIAN TAIX EXTRACTOR, FOR MAX & HORSE,
Copyright secured according to Law.
SMALL JAR 50 CENTS, LARGE JAR SI.
HP1!1" EIectric Paste c, upon the Muscles Ten
A dens, and upon the whole nervous aysteia re
?rA orP,Jl& nd,produciDS beajfuy action
of the blood. Thera being no. volatile matter in
i!l?l??i"UOIVt rrain i ction until it accoa
F u W Wuk- ItenotloSe iu strength, and
is altogether harmless, iu constituent paru being
entirely vegetable. . &
. WHAT WILL IT CURE? '
o answer Rheumttia Pains, when everything
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l.urns Scalds, Sprains, Headaehe,TooUiache.Swel
liBga, Cruises, Sores. Ringworm, Tetter, Stiff Joints
Contracted Chordi, Fresh Cat Ulcerated Soresjind
all Scrofulous Diseases where external remedies
can bo used. Sore Tb mat, ftiff Necks, Ac
WHAT IT WILL CURE for Horse nd Cattle
Sweeny, Spavin. Fistulas. Poll Evil, Windfalls'
L leers, Cbohc, Sprains. Collar and Saddle Galla!
Stono Bruises, Stiff Joints, Vertigo, Splints and
Lunning Sores.
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