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S. B. BOW, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
CLEARFIELD, PA., MARCII 10, 1858.
' Democratic State Convestiox. The State
Convention of tho Democracy of Pennsylva
nia assembled at Harrisbnrg on last Thursday
the 4th inst., and continued in session until
Friday night. Thero was a good deal of blus
tering and storming. The Bucliananites had,
however, managed matters so as to have a de
cisive majority of the "members of the Con
vention, by the hydropathic process of "pack
ing," and thus threw a damper over the pros
' pects of the Douglas or Anti-Lecomption fac
tion. A committee on resolutions was ap
pointed on the first day and reported a series
endorsing Buchanan, Lccompton & Co., inclu
ding "our own Bigler," as well as "soft-sod-dering"
Gov. Packer. At the same time, W.
A.Stokes, Esq., an able representative of the
"Westmoreland Democracy, presented another
set of resolutions, which were strongly A nti
Lecompton, and which disapproved of the
course of the President in regard to Kansas
It was soon apparent, however, that the Anti-
Lecomptonites stood no chance whatever, and
accordingly, on Friday, after voting down Mr.
Stokes' resolutions, which were submitted as
an amendment to the report, the latter was
adopted by a vote of 111 to 1 those opposed
to the resolutions not voting at all, except one
who voted according to instructions. The
Convention then proceeded to nominate a can
didate for Supreme Judge, and on the first
ballot Wm. A. Porter, a son of Ex-Gov. Por
ter, was chosen. Mr. Porter is the candidate
of the Anti-Lecomptonites, and his nomina
tion was doubtless designed as a master-stroke
of policy a sort of "yon scratch my back,
and I'll tickle your belly" arrangement. The
Administration faction having succeeded in
-forcing their resolutions through, they, very
magnanimously, indeed, gave the Douglasites
the candidate, as an alleviative, or, perhaps,
it might be more properly termed a drawing
plaster. In this way, each faction being able
to claim tho victory, the Lecomptonites ex
pect to "gull" the honest masses and hold the
party together. The Convention, on the third
ballot, selected Mr. Wesley Frost, of Fayette
county, as their candidate for Canal Commis
sioner. Judging by his name, we should think
he would make rather a chilly candidate.
HEXICO.
The accounts hitherto given of the state of
affairs in Mexico since the fight ot Comonfort
have been by no means favorable to the Liber
al party. The leaders of that party have been
represented as divided among themselves, and
rather engaged each in strengthening, or at
tempting to strengthen, his own position than
in combining to resist the reactionary Gov
ernment established in Mexico. They have
also been represented as numerically inferior
in military forces to tho reactionary Govern
ment, and as likely to submit so soon as they
could secure terms. We .publish elsewhere
a letter from Vera Cruz, , received by the last
arrival, and in the correctness of the state
ments contained in which wo have every rea
son to place confidence. That letter puts
quite a different aspect upon the state of Mexi
can affairs. According to it, the united for
ces of the Liberals.under Panwtt were far su
perior in numbers to those which Zuloaga had
been able to send against them, and the vrl-.
ter believed that a battle must already, before
the date of his letter, have established their
ascendency. In tho State of Vera Cruz itself
there was, beside garrisons, a disposable Lib
eral force of three thousand men with eigh
teen pieces of artillery. If this writer's an
ticipations can be relied upon, the next mail
may be expected to bring important informa
tion. From the fact that all the sea ports and
almost the entire interior were held by the
Liberals Zuloaga seems to have been under
the necessity of assuming the offensive, since
by success in that alone could be obtain the
means of supporting his army and carrying on
his Government. From the great unanimity
with which all the Mexican States denounced
the attempted coup d' elat of Comonfort and
the zeal exhibited by them" in favor of the
Constitution, we have still great hope that tho
'Liberal party may come triumphantly out of
the present strnggle. Should they do so, they
will ocenpy stronger ground than ever before,
and the project of secularizing the church es
tates will receive a new impulse. X. Y. Trib.
IIigh Thick foe Indians. William Bow
legs, Esq., head man of the two hundred In
dians, negroes, half-breeds, mulattoes, etc.,
in Florida, yclept Scminoles, has, for a term
of years, been one of the leading heroes in the
war-like annals of the United States. Snugly
ensconced in the fastnesses of the everglades,
William has been vainly sought by martial
bands of dragoons, mounted riflemen, and the
like, at the rate of we know not how man
nunareas oi tnousanas ot dollars per annum
to the ationalTreasury. All sorts of schemes
have been tried to catch him, and as none
have succeeded, an attempt is now in opcra-
tion to bribe him and his followers to go to the
West. It will scarcely be credited, yet
Floridr paper soberly tells us the fact, that
the Government now has agents in Florida,
authorized to offer Bowlegs and crew ten
thousand dollars in cash, at once, if they will
only go to the Seminole tract, west of Arkan
The Great Revival. Religious revivals
seem to be going on to an unprecedented ex
tent all over the country. Scarcely a paper
comes to us that docs not contain accounts of
revivals. They are limited to no particular
locality, but extend through our large cities
and towns as well as over the rural districts.
In New York city that modern Sodom the
churches of all denominations, except the Ca
tholic, are crowded daily with worshippers.
The Episcopalean, Presbyterian and Methodist
churches are gaining large accessions. It is
said that hundreds of business men, with their
wonted punctuality, drop into the sanctuaries
at a particular hour each day to pray and re
ceive religious instruction. These manifesta
tions of improvement in the moral sentiments
of the people cannot fail to be gratifying to
the christian and philanthropist. Whether
the change will be productive of permanent
good to all, is a pioblem that time will solve.
Let this be as it may, there is no doubt of it
tending to repress more or less the sordid and
grasping selfishness which has so peculiarly
characterized the present age. What the im
mediate cause of this wide-spread revival is,
has been a question with many. Tho ways of
Providence being inscrutable, no satisfactory
answer can be given. Still, doubtless, the re
cent financial revulsion, whioh has swept away
immense fortunes and reduced largo numbers
of the most affluent men to the verge of beg
gary, has impressed all with the uncertain and
mutable nature of riches, and their entire de
pendence upon asuperintendingOninipotence.
Indeed, it seems as if it were almost necessa
ry that mankind should be visited with rever
ses of fortune, famine, pestilence or dreadful
calamity, to Induce them to seek righteons
ness ; and there is little do .bt that the preva
lence ot a contagious disease, the occurrence
of & frightful shipwreck or. railroad disaster,
the appearance of a comet, or some other ex
traordinary phenomenon of nature, has sent
many a poor fellow to seek repentance. -
sas, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
immediately on their arrival there, twenty
five thousand dollars per annum forever after,
and land to be given for cultivation with farm
ers, blacksmiths, eto, to do their work, under
pretext of teaching them civilization. Under
such circumstances, there are a great many
white folks who would like to be Seminoles,
as the offer secures a handsome- future to ev
ery man, woman and child of the whole two
hundred. If Billy scorns that bribe, it will
be a question which predominates in his com
position, the patriot or the fool.
Lrvrso Beyoxd its Iscome. Our Govern
ment has fallen into the hands of spendthrifts
and is living far beyond its income. It ap
pears by the report of the Register of the Trea
sury, made Feb. 12th, that the receipts of the
United States for the quarter ending 31st of
December,1857,were57,092,665,and the expen
ditures $17,035,654 07 ; excess of expendi
tures for three months, nearly ten million of
dollar: The probability is that tho receipts
of the Government during the current year
will fall from thirty to forty millions of dollars
behind its expenditures.
"What is to Become or Mexico 'The Lon
don Timet says, "there is not a statesman who
would wish to see Great Britain hamper herself
with an inch of Mexican ground. Let the U
nited States, when they are finally prepared
for it, enjoy all the advantages and responsi
bility of ownership, and our merchants at Liv
erpool and elsewhere will be qcite content
with the trade that may spring out cf it. Ths
capacity of the Mexican population for appro
dating a constitutional rule is not so remarka
ilfi that we should volunteer to administer it.'
Mass Coxvextiox "or the National De
moc r act.- The Philadelphia Press says :
"We cordially second the movement started
at Indianapolis in favor of a Mass Conventipn
of the Democracy, North and South, who are
opposed to the Lecompton swindle With
the present aroused state of .public sentiment,
which is growing every hour more and more
intense, we can confidently reckon upon one
ol the largest and most enthusiastic demon
strations which the country has ever seen.
The North and East will find the South and
West ready to meet in common brotherhood
in defence of the platform of popular sover
eignty, which is now so violontly assailed. It
is absurd to pretend that the great ground
swell of indignation which has stirred the
free States to such intense excitement has
left the South unmoved. The spirit of justice
which insists upon respect to time-honored
principles knows no section, bnt appeals alike
to all honorable and patriotic hearts from ev
ery portion of the Confederacy."
The Press suggests Chicago as tho place
and May as the time for holding the Conven
tion. May it not then be too late 1
That Walled Lake is Iowa. Judge Crook
ham, of Oskaloosa, who owns land on the bor
der's of the famous "walled lake"" in Iowa,
says he has often walked round it, has bathed
in its waters, and carefully examined its walls,
and that no man who understands philosophy,
geology, or common reason would ever think
of pronouncing them a work of art. In a
small portion of the lake the water is from ten
to fifteen feet deep, and along about fifty
yards of the shore the wind has blown the
sand from the boulders, so that a very res
pectable stairway is formed for geesa to des
cend to the water. And this is all of that
wonderous piece of mechanism which has so
excited the curiosity of antiquarians. '
Wonder whether the Judge, when he bathes,
goes down the stairway, which he mentions ?
Col. Johnston, of the Utah army, in a letter
dated December 12th, says : "The day before
the rednction took place that is, all put on
short allowance we gave a dinner to the Gov
ernor, Chief Justice, &c, on oar surplus in
the larder. Since then Ida not think ice could
feed an extra rat at our mess .'" Must be scint
living in those diggins,' we should say.
On the rival routes between Concord, N. H.,
and Chicago, Illinois, a distance of ten hun
dred and fifty-two miles, one boasts over the
ether of being ten minutes the shortest !
PEirarsYLVAjriA items.
PREPARED FOR THE "RAFTSMAx's JOCRSAL."
Westmoreland Cocstt. The Greensburg
Democrat says: "tho trap we noticed last week
as having been found attached to the claw of
an owl which Mr. homebody, of Hempueld
township, shot from a tree a abort time ago,
turns out to be the property of Mr. John
Cushon, living three-fourths of a mile above
Johnston, in Conemaugh twp., Cambria Co.
It appears that Mr. Cushon last winter, set the
trap for owls, but ons morning the trap came
out missing and no trace was left of the course
it took except a quantity of leaves and dead
branches which bad . been scattered from the
trees aronnd the bpot. .... On Wednesday a-
weck, Isaac XL. liobmson of Jacksonville,
fractured his leg by falling a distance of four
feet in the barn Jesse Rumbaugh, of
Ilempfield tp., was thrown from a horse at Ad
amsburg, and had his skull fractured, lie is
in a fair way of recovering The new
Masonic and Odd Fellow IJaM, in Greensburg,
are almost completed A temperance
convention was held at New Alexandria last
week A religious revival has been pro-
gressingin the U. B. Church, in Greensburg,
forthe last three weeks, and quite a number
of persons profess to have experienced tho
forgiveness of their sins A man named
Van Reeves, died suddenly of apoplexy, Jin
Rostraver township. . '
Washington County. Mr. Joseph Alexan
der, of Monongaliela city, when returning
from Washington last week in his sleigh, was
passing another sleigh, when his horse became
frightened, and ran off at a fearful rate, lie
ran about a mile and one half, and, when at
full speed, ran over Geo. Fleming and his
wife, and Mr. Roberts, who were . walking a
long the road. Tfiey were all knocked down
in the twinkling of an eye, the horse not slack
ening his furious career in the least, but jump
ed clear of them, draggirg the sleigh over
their persons. They were severely, but not
dangerously hurt Dr. R. F. Biddle, of
Monongahela city, was driving out of town in
a sleigh on Thursday of last week, when he
met a bevy of boys coasting down the pike
leading into town. Several of them had pass
ed him, when one, more careless than the
rest, ran against the fore legs of the horse,
and tripped him upon his knees, and frighten
ed him so that he became uornanagable, and
ran down a steep bank, dashing the doctor
with great violence against a post of the fence,
cutting one of his ears nearly in two, and
knocking him-senseless for sometime. lie
was picked up and taken home, and it is hoped
his injuries will not prove fatal.
Centre County. The Messrs Askey's kill
ed another large panther on Thursday the 2oth
ult., near the Belief onte and Phillipsburg turn
pike, not far from the old forge of Dr. Plumb.
These gentlemen with their dogs, followed
his I rail all day on Wednesday, and on Thurs
day overtook the panther when he ascended a
tree, and was shot without difficulty. It is
very large, about the same size of the one
killed by them, of which report was made in
the Bellefonte Watchman some time ago. The
old female and several young ones of this
family are still at large. The Askey brothers
have started in pursuit of others said to be
prowling about the "green woods" in Clearfield
bounty, Pa Mr. John Smith, Jr. of
Howard township, met with a painful accident
which occasioned his death on the 25th nit.
lie hud gone four or five days previous, to
visit his sister, who was lying ill at the resi
dence of Mr. Watkins in Curtin township, and
upon arriving at the place proceeded to put
np his horse, when a colt which he' was pass
ing KicKea his horse ; the horse ran against
Mr. Smith, knocked him down and trampled
upon his stomach. lie was conveyed, in an
insensible state, buck to Howard, where he
died on the 2oth ult.
Indiana County. Eli Kuhns was- arrested
at Homer on Saturday last, and lodged in jail
on a charge of bigamy. He recently married
a woman in this county, and it is alleged that
he has a wire and children living in Westmore
land It is estimated that some six hun
dred sleds passed through the different streets
of Indiana on Tuesday of last week. No less
than three hundred laden with lumber, passed
one point on Philadelphia street, on the day
above mentioned. .... A stranger entered A
Graff's cellar, in Blairsville, last week, and
carried off seven cans of fruit. Ho tried to
sell the same to Mr. Alter in Bairdstown, for
oysters, who suspected that all was not right,
and upon opening a can it turned out black
berries instead of oysters. The fellow sloped,
ana air. urati has recovered his fruit. . . ,
Rev. John J. Shuman, pastor of the Lutheran
Church in Blairsville, has moved to Frederick
city, Md. .
HcntingdonCounty. Last week some grace
less scamp or scamps, who had not the fear of
the law before their eyes, entered the wash-
house of Col. A. Johnston, proprietor of tl.e
exchange Hotel, in Huntingdon, and carried
off a hind quarter of choice beef, together
with all tho bread, cakes and pies about the
establishment A new Church edifice of
tho German Reformed Congregation at Hunt
ingdon, was dedicated on babbath aweek. . .
A series of meetings commenced in the Tres
Dytenan Church in Huntingdon about two
weeks ago. .... Thero has been several cases
of small-pox in the county. The only case on
Broad-Top was a woman, and she died some
two weeks since. There has been several cx
ses at the mouth of Spruce Creek.
Lycoming County. The Jersey Shore Ve
dette says that a German named Daniel Hugh-
ley, in the employ ot M. y. Crane, was found
dead in the barn on Tuesday night, the 23 ult,
An inquest was held byRobert McGowan,Eso.,
and evidence was furnished to the' effect that
he had indicated an intention of taking his
own life. A post mortem examination was
held by Drs. Babb, Lyman, Davidson and
Pfouts, and a quantity of arsenic was found
in his stomach. The jury returned a verdict
of death by his own hand. He was about
fifty years of age.
Armstrong County. A fire occurred lately
in Kittanning, which destroyed five buildings,
ana two otners were torn down. Loss heavv
.... The Great Western iron works, at Brady's
xtcna, nave temporairly suspended operations
"Rail Roads in the United States. Ac
cording to the Railroad Journal for January,
there are now 20,210 miles of railroad in the
United States, of which 20,945 have been
built since 1843. The aggregate cost of these
roads Is between nine hundred millions and a
billion of dollars. The average cost per mile
is about $35,000. Virginia has 1,233 miles of
railroad, the cost of which per mile is some
thing upwards of $28,900. New York has
2,500 miles, at an aggregate cost of $143,316,-
87, being about $5o,000 per mile, or nearly
aoubie the cost of the Virginia roads. Massa
chusetts has 1,388 miles, at a cost of more
than $51,000 per mile. 'Pennsylvania has 2,-
645 miles, at a cost of about $38,000. North
Carolina has 943 miles, at a cost of upwards
of $17,000. Ohio has 2,945 miles, at a cost
of more than $30,000. Indiana has 1,799, at
a cost of about $22,000. Georgia has 989
miles, at a cost ofnot quite $25,000. Illinois
has 2677 miles, at a cost of upwards of $33,
000. :,
THE KANSAS QUESTION IX CONGRESS .
The Kansas bill is now properly before the
Senate for discussion. On Wednesday ,March
3d, Mr. Seward, of New York, delivered a
lengthy speech, discussing the following pro
positions:-
first That whereas m tho beginning the
ascendency of the slave States was absolute, it
is now being reverred.
Second That whereas, heretofore the Na
tional Government favored this change of bal
ance from the slave States to the free States,
it has now reversed this policy and opposes
the change. . .
Ihtrd That national intervention m the
Territories in favor of Slave Labor and Slave
States, is opposed to the natural, social and
moral developments of the Republic.
In arguing these propositions, Mr. Seward
said that Nebraska was resigned to free labor
without a struggle, aud Kansas became a thea
tre of the first actual national conflict between
slave-holding and free labor immigration, met
face to face, to' organize, through the machi
nery of republican action, a civil community.
In this first hour of trial, the new system of
popular sovereignty signally failed, because it
is impossible tp organize by one 6ingle act, in
one day, a community perfectly free, perfect
ly sovereign, and perfectly constituted, out of
elements unnssimilated, unarranged and un
composcd. Free labor rightfully won the day.
Slave labor wrested the victory to itself by
fraud and violence.
In speaking of tho opinion pronounced by
the Suprcmxj Court of the United States, in
the Dred Scott case, he said : "In this ill
omened act, it forgot its own dignity, which
had always been maintained with just judicial
jealousy. They forgot that the province of a
Court is simply "jus dicere," and not at all
"jus dare." They forgot, also, that one "foul"
sentence does more harm than many foul ex
amples ; for the last do but corrupt the stream,
while the former corrupt the fountain." And
they and the President alike forgot that judi
cial usurpation is more o'dious and intolerable
than any other among the manifold practices
of tyranny. After further argument he add
ed : "No wonder that the question before us
excites apprehensiou and alarm. There is at
last a North side of this Chamber, a North
side of the Chamber of Representatives, a
North side of the Union, as well as a South
side of all three. Each of them is watchful
and resolute. If it be true, as has so often
been asserted, the Union cannot survive the
decision by Congress of a direct question in
volving the adoption of a Free State into the
Union, which will establish the ascendancy of
the Free States, under the Constitutionand
draw after it the restoration of tho influence
of Freedom in the domestic and foreign con
dnct of the Government, then the day of dis
solution is at hand."
! Fuither on ho said : "let tho Supremo
Court recede, Whether it recede or not, wo'
shall reorganize the Gourt, and thus reform
its political sentiments' and practices, and
bring them into harmony with the constitution
and the laws of nature. In doing so we shall
not only re-assume our own just authority,
but we shall restore that high tribunal itself,
to the position it ought to maintain, since so
many inalienable rights of citizens and even
States themselves, depend upon its impartial
ity and wisdom. . . "if an attempt is made
fo coerce Kansas into the Union, under the
Lecompton Constitution, the peoplo of that
Territory will resort to civil war, if necessary.
You are pledged to put down that revolution
by the sword. Will the people listen to your
voice amid the thunders of your cannon?
Let but one drop of the blood of a free citizen
be shed there by the federal army, and the
countenance of every representative of a free
State, in either House of Congress, will blanch,
and his tongue will refuse to utter the vote
necessary to sustain the Army, in the butchery
of his fellow-citizens.
Mr. Seward argued that the expansion of
territory, to make slave States, will onty fail
to be a great crime, because it is impractica
ble, and, therefore, will turn out to be a stu
pendous imbecility. A free republican gov
ernment, like this, notwithstatding all its
constitutional checks, cannot long resist and
counteract the progress of society. Slavery,
wherever and whenever, and in whatsoever
form it exists, is exceptional, local, and short
lived, Freedom is the common right, interest,
and ultimate destiny, of all mankind. All
other nations have already abolished, or are
about abolishing, slavery. Does thisfactmean
nothing? All parties in this country, that
have tolerated the extension of slavery, ex
cept one, have perished for that error already.
That last one tho Democratic party is hur
rying on, irretrievably, toward the same fate.
All administrations that have avowed this pol
icy have gone down dishonored for that cause,
except the present one.
A pit, deeper and darker still, is opening fo
receive this administration, because it sins
more deeply than its predecessors. There is
a meaning in all these facts, which it becomes
us to study well. The nation has advanced
another stage ; it has reached the point where
intervention, by the government, for slavery
and slave States, will no longer be tolerated.
Fre labor ha3, at last, apprehended its rights,
its interests, its power and its destiny, and is
organizing itself to assume the government of
the republic. It will, henceforth, meet you
boldly and resolutely here : it will meet you
everywhere, in the territories or out of them,
wherever you may go to extend slavery. It
has driven you, back in California and in Kan
sas ; it will invade you soon in Delaware, Mar
yland, Virginia, Missouri and Texas. It will
meet you in Arizona, in Central America, and
even in Cuba. The invasion will be not mere
ly harmless, but beneficent, if you yield rea
sonably to its just and moderate demands.
It proved so in New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, and the "other slave States, which
have already yielded in that way to its
advances. You may, indeed, get a start un
der or near the tropics, and seem safe for a
time, but it will be only a short time. Even
there you will found States only for free labor
to maintain and occupy; Th "interest of the
white races demands the ultimate emancipa
tion of all men. Whether that consummation
shall be allowed to take affect, with needful
and wise precautions against sudden change
and disaster, or to be hurried on by violence,
is all that remains for you to decide. For
the failure of the system of slave labor through
out the republic, the responsibility will rest
not on the agitators you condemn, or political
parties you arraign, or even altogether on
yourselves, but it will be due to the inherent
error of the system itself, and to the error
which thrust it forward to oppose and resist
the destiny, not more of the African than of
the white races. The while man needs this
continent to labor upon. His head is clear
his arm is strong, and his necessities are fixed!
He must and will have it. To secure it, he
will oblige the government of the United
States to abandon intervention in favor of
slave labor and slave States, and go backward
forty years, and resume the origipal policy of
intervention in favor of free labor and free
State.
Mr. President, this expansion of the empire
of free white men is to be conducted through
the process of admitting new States, and not
otherwise. .The white man, whether you con
sent or not, will make the States to be admit
ted, and he will make them all free States.
We must admit them, and admit them all free;
otherwise, they will become independent and
foreign States, constituting a new empire to
contend with ns for the continent. . To admit
them is a siufple, easy, and natural policy.
It is not new. to ns or to our times. It began
with the voluntary union of the first thirteen.
It has continued to go on, overriding all re
sistance, ever since. It will, go on until the
ends of the continent are the borders of our
Union. Thus we become co-laborers with
our falhcrs, and even with our posterity
throughout many ages.
After times, comtemplating the whole vast
structure, completed and perfected, will for
get the dates, and the individualities, of the
builders in their successive generations. It
will be one great Republic, founded by one
body of benefactors. I wonder that the Pres
ident of the United States undervalues the
Kansas question, when it is a part of a tran
saction so immense and sublime. Far from
sympathizing with him in his desire to depre
ciate it, and to be rid of it, I felicitate myself
on my humble relation to it, for I know that
Heaven cannot grant nor man desire a more
favorable occasion to tcquire fame, than he
enjoys who is engaged in laying the founda
tion of a groat empire ; and I know also, that
while mankind have often defied their bene
factors, no nation has ever yet bestowed hon
ors on the memories of the founders of sla
very. I have always believed, Mr. President, that
this glorious federal constitution of ours is
adapted to the inevitable expansion of the
empire which I have so feebly presented. It
has been pervertfd often by misconstruction,
and it has yet to be perverted many times, and
widely, hereafter ; bnt it has inherent strength
and vigor that will cast off all the webs which
the cverchanping interests" of classes may
wcavc aronnd it. If it fail ns now, it will,
however, not be our fault, but because an in
evitable crisis, like thnt of youth or of man
hood, is to be encountered by a constitution
proved in that case to 1mj inanequate to the
trial. Iam sure that no patriot who views
the subject as I do, could wish to evade or de
lay the trial. By delay we could only extend
slavery, at the most, throughout theAtlantic
region of the continent. The Pacific slope is
free, and it always must and will be free. Tin?
mountain barriers that separate us from that
portion of our empire are quite enough to di
vide ns too widely, possibly to alienate us
too soon. Let ns only become all slavehold
ing States on this side of those barriers, while
only free States are organized and perpetua
ted on the other side, and then indeed there
will come a division of the great American
family into two nations, equally ambitious for
complete control over the continent, and a con
flict between them, over which the world will
mourn, as the greatest and last to be retrieved
of all tho calamities that have ever befallen
tho human race. 1
The Free Trade System. The important
consequences to the peoplo of this country, in
volved in, the question of restriction, or free
trade, in the management of the revenue, are
at present engaging more than ordinary atten
tion. The Philadelphia Xortk Jjmcrican has
been publishing, for some tihie past, a series
of carefully compiled articles, tending to show
the capacity of our home resources and manu
factures, to supply the wants of the American
people ; and also, proving that through the op
eration of a ruinous free trade policy alone,
this desirable end is prevented, and as a con
sequence, the. nation drained annually of its
wealth. These statements are not prompted
by any partisan feeling, but by a desire to ex
hibit the real facts as they exist, and they may.
therefore, be relied upon as well authenticated
and correct. In a recent article devoted to the
consideration of the production of iron in the
U. States, it is shown that during four years
from 1853 to 1856 inclusive, the consurrrtrtro'n'
of rail road iron in this country amounted to
1,379,287 tons, 507,507 tons of which were of
home manufacture, and the remaining 871,171
imported from abroad, thus making in tho one
item of rail road iron, an overplus of 303,501
tons in favor of importations. For the year
1856, the consumption of railroad iron, receiv
ed from abroad, exceeded by 8,448 tons tho
product of our domestic manufacture.
When we consider that our own State is far
beyond any other in the Union, in the produc
tion of iron, and that thousands of her citizens
depend upon this branch of manufactures for
support, it is obvious that the fatal consequen
ces to borne industry from the present free
trade tariff falls with particularly disastrous ef
fect upon the people of this Commonwealth.
In the recent financial difficulties which have
surrounded ns, this fact has been fully demon
strated by the stopping of business operations,
and the throwing out of employment of poor
dependent mechanics and laborers. " So long
as the laws which regulate the revenue of the
country are so framed as to allow unrestricted
ingress for the products of European unrcmu
nerated drudgery to compete with the products
ef free white industry, so long will our manu
factures of all kinds be sul ject to these revul
sions in trade, and our natural resources be
almost worthless upon our hands. This is a
question that affects us all, and, especially,
those who reap the means of subsistancc from
any of the useful branches of industry.
The Cami.ls. In looking over our Califor
nia files, we find that Lieut. Beale, with four
teen camels, arrived at Los Angelos on the
8th of January. The appearance of these un-.
couth animals created great excitement among
the people. The animals under Lieut. Beale
have all grown serviceable, and most of them
are well broken to the saddle and arc very
gentle. The San Francisco Bulletin says that
all the camels belong to the one hump species,
except one, which is a cross between the one
and two hump kinds. This fellow is much
larger and more powerful than cither sire or
dam. He is a grizzly looking hybrid, a camel
mule of colossal proportions, and weighs 2,200
pounds. Their drivers say they would get fat
where a donkey would starve to death. The
camels are now on their return to tho Colorado
River, for the purpose of carrying provisions
for Lieut. Beale. and the military escort, who,
it is conjectured, will penetrate from thence
to as far as possible into the Mormon country.
Afterwards, Lieut. Beale will return by the
new wagon route that ho has surveyed, to ver
ify it ; and so on to Washington. He is ex
pected to reach the capital before the 1st of
March, in order to lay his report before Congress.
The Legislature of Texas is a remarkable
body, and its labors without a parallel. They
have a large amount of business on hand, and
for some time have been holding three ses
sions a day forenoon, afternoon, and at night.
To those they have recenaly added a fourth,
a session before breakfast. The Austin Ga
sette says the House now meets at 4 o'clock,
A. M., and goes to work.
Suspicions have been excited in regard to
extensive pilferings in the dead letter office at
Washington, and a thorough investigation is
in progress.
Tho artesian well of the Southerlands, at
Paris, Illinois, has been bored to a depth of
over seven hundred feet, and . Vp. nn.
,. i , . '
A Remarkable Old Mas. Grant Thorbnm
is a sensible old man. On the 18th ult., hw
wrote as follows, from New Haven : "I have
lived another year, in this falsely o-called
miserable world. I verily believe it is the
best world,' terrestrial, that ever God Almigh
ty made. I have never felt head, heart nor
toothache, during the year just gone by ; and
this day I enter my eighty-fifth year. I walk
without a staff; I sleep without rocking, and
cat my food without brandy or bitters. I nver
was drunk in my life, and never had a rheu
matic pain. I voted three years when Wash
ington was President. I lived twenty-two
years under George III ; wwe- whole rsign
of George IV, William VI, and Victoria thus
far. I was intimate with Hamilton, Jay, Mor
ris, old Governor Clinton, and other promi
nent actors in the Revolution-"
Heads Falling ! Mr. Ward, mail agent for
tho State of Illinois, has been taken down a
head for supporting Douglas. Dr. Leib, of
Chicago, Lecomptonite, succeeds Ward.
Gen. Hiram Nye, Lecompton. has been ap
pointed U. S. Marshall of the Northern Dis
trict of Illinois, in place of J. Davidson, do
capitated for favoring Douglas.
It is stated that excellent salt is manufac
tured at the salt springs in Lancaster county,
Nebraska, equal to the best qualities manufac
tured in any part of the world.
Fourteen members of tho Iowa House of
Representatives are natives of New York, it
are from Pennsylvania, and 17 from Ohio.
The new Hall of tho Red Men In Columbia,
is regarded as one of the handsomest in th
country.
On Monday a-week, three hundred and twenty-two
fannies were to leave Bangor, Elaine,
lor Kansas.
Commodore Perry, died on the 4th inst.
TA,
and the public, that Oro-M A Kunkcl, whole
sale Grocers, Canal Street Wharf, liarriiburg,
have on hand a large lot of Liquors at reduced
prices, by the barrel or otherwise, to suit pur
chasers, consisting of tho following :
-New Lowland Bam.
Lisbon Wine,
Pure HolUnd Gin.
Reciifiel Pitts. WhUkey
Port Wioe.
Maderis Wins.
Pure llollanl Gin,
Ioracstie Gin.
And other Liqnors.
so.. o.
lure Brandies.
Old Rye Whiskey,
iJoinestio Brandies.
Monongahela Whisker
Blackberry Brandy,
Peach Brandy,
Lavender Brandy,
Cherry Brandy,
Scotch Whiskey,
Gesler's Pure Champagne, Ac,
lSr Jrders promptly attend o J to.
GROSS A KUNKEL.
Wholesale Grocer.
Canal Street Wharf, betwoen Walnut and State
Street. II arriaburg. Pa. Marl0-"S-ly.
IJUBLIC SALEC-0 Friday the 19A day .f
Mirch, 1853. A. T. Schryver will tffer foe
sale at hi residence on Clearfield Creek, the fol
lowing property, to wit : One Cow, one II on,
Hogs, Bees, two Waggons (one light, and the other
a heavy one for two horses,) Ploughs, Harrow, Loj--chains.
Carpenter Tool. Stove, llorss-gear.
Chairs. Tables, and many other articles. Terms
made known on day of sale.
March 5. A. T. SCIIRYVER.
BANK NOTE LIST.
The following are the rates of discount at whioh
tho notes of the banks given were purchased last
week by tbe brokers of .Philadelphia:
MAINE. dic.
Mousom HiverBsnk.
SJ Hockland Bk, K kfd 1
lanlon liana, mina,
Kllsworth Bank, . 75
Exchange Bk. Bangor SO
Grocors" Bank. . i
Maratime Bk, Bangor
Sanford Bk, Rockland
Hancock Bk, ElUw'th
Bank oCHallowell,
NEW UAM1-SI11UE.
Exeter Bk, Exeter,
VERMONT.
Ianby Bank. Danby,
Bank of Royaltou, " 25
Bk of South Royal ton, 40
Stark Bk. Bcnningron 20
St.AlbansBK,St.Alb i
MissUquoi l!K,Sheldn i
Woodstock Bank, i
MASSACHUSETTS
Western BK.Springf d 10
RUODE ISLAI.
Farmers'BK.Wickford
Bank of South Coun
ty, Wakefield, 45
Tiverton Bk, Tiverton
Warwick BK.Warw"k 10
Rhode Island Central
Bk. E.Greenwich,
Mt. Vernon Bank, i
HopkintonBank, - 60
All solvent backs, 4
Connecticut.
Mcreh.Ex.Bk, Bridgp
Bridgeport City B, i
Colchester Bankv
Bk of Hartford Co. J
Hatters' Bk. Bethel, i
Exch. Bk, Hartford, I
Charter Oak Bk, I
Mercantile Bank " i
L'ncas Bk, Xorwich, 2
Quicebaug Uk, t
Woo?ter Bk, Danbury i
Woodbury Bank, 1
l'awcatuck Bank, 10
Bk of X.Am. Seymour
PabqutoquoBK.Dnnb J
Granite Bk. Volunt'n
Pequonnock Bank. I
Wiudham County Bk, i
SEW YORK.
Agricultural Bic.IIerk 10
Addison Bk, Addison i
Bk of Orleans, Albion, 60
Central Bank of New
York, L'tica.
Chemung County Bk 25
Dairymen's Bank, 5
Elmira Bank, Elinira i
HolhstorBK. Buffalo, 5!
Hamilton Ex. Bank. 30
HuguenotBK.Jf.Palt i
Medina Bk, Medina,
Niagara River Back, i
Ontario Bk. L'tica, 60
OntarioCo.BK, Phelps 10
Pratt Bank, Buffalo 25
Oliver LeeACo's Bk J
Reciprocity Bk, "50
Sackett's Harbor " 45
Western Bk, Lock port 45
Yatos Co. Bk, PenYan
MARTLAXD.
Mineral Bk. Cumb.
CumbTd Savings Bk.
Solvent banks, ' 1
kbstcckt.
Bk of Ashland, li
Solvent Banks, 11
OHIO.
City Bank, Cincinnati 50
O. LifcATrnstCd.,Cin
Senaca Co. Bk, Tiffin, 20
SandnskyCityBk.Cl 20
Bk of Macomb County
Dayton Bank, Dayton 20
Miami Yal.Bk, 15
State Bank, 1
wiscoxsi.
Rock River Bk. Bcloit 4 J
Farmers'BK, Hudson,
Fox River Bi,Gr.Bay4
Badger State Bk, 4
Solvent Banks, 4
VICBIOA!.
PeninsularBK,Detroit
Farmers' 4 Mech. Bk,
Ik ot Montgomery,
v t-nirai Sank,
Northern Bank,
VIRGINIA. 0 10.
Bank of Kanawha, Ka
nawha Saline
Solvent backs, 3
r-ENNSTLVAMA.
Bk of Penn'a, Phil'a 5
Phil 'a banks, par
Allentown Bank, par
Anthracite back, X
Bk of Chester eo.. par
Bk of Delaware o, par
Bk of Germactown, par
Bk of Montg'y co.t par
Bk of Pottstuwo, par
Bk of Catasauqua, par
Columbia Back, par
loylcstown Bk, par
Ea.tou Bauk, par
Kr.AMech.bK Easton par
Kar.BKof Buekseo. par
Far.BK. Lancaster, par
Far.BK. Reading, par
Lancaster Co. Bank, par
Lebanon Back. par
Mauch Chunk Bk. par
Miner' Bk Pottsv'e, par
Stroudaburg back, . par
Wyoming Bank. 1
llarrisburg Back. 1
Bk of Chambersburg, 1
Bk of Middletown, 1
York Back, I
Bk of Gettysburg, 1
Bk of Pittsburg. j
Citizens' BK.Pittsb.
Exchange Bk. PiUsb.
Iron City Bk. Pittsb.
Mechanic1 BK,PitUb J
Mononga'la b, Browns 1
Frank!. bK.Washingt. 1
FarAOro.bK.Waynesb 1
Bk of Nortbumberl. 1
Bk of Danville. par
West Branch Rack, 1
Lock Haven Bank, 1
Lewisburg Bank, I
Far.BK Schuylkill co. 1
Allegheny BK.AlIgh'y c
Bk of Lawrence co.,
Honesdale Bank 1
McrAMan Bk.Pittsb. J
kbwjersbv.
Bk ofXJ.N.Brunsw J
Bergn County Bank
at Hackensack, 35
Morris County Bank Q
NORTH CAROI.IMA.
Fanners' Bank, Elisa
beth City. 25
Solvent banks. S
TENNESSEE.
Agrio l Bk. Brownsv.
W'estetn Bk, Memphis
Bank of Xahvillei
Exc. Bk,M urfrecsboro'l 0
Shclbyville Batk,
Lawrcnceburg bauk, 50
Bank of Trenton,
Bank of Claiborne, 50
Bank ef Jefferson. 50
Bank of Knoxvillc, 60
Bank of Paris. Paris, 10
Bank of Tazewell, 50
Bank of the Union, 10
Buck's Bk.MMinnv'e 10
Citv Bauk. Nashville 10
Northern Bk.Clarksv. 10
Traders' Bk, Nash v. 10
Bk of Commerce, 10
Ocoeee Bit, Cleveland, 30
Bank of Middle Tenn. 10
Dandridge bank, 5)
Bank of Tennessee. 8
Planters' A Union Bk, S
iSDIANA.
Bank of the Capitol, 50
Traders' bank, 60
Tippeeanoe bank, 60
Central bank " 54
Bank of the State, 1 k
Free banks, 5
ILLINOIS.
Bank of Elgin, 4
Rock Island bank, 4i
Peoples' bank, Carroi 20
Hainittea County Bk 4t
Bk of the Common w'h 4 i
Huntsrille Bank, 41
Rushville Bank, 2l)
Ptoek Security Bk, 50
Corn Exchange, 4
Bk of Chester, 4i
Be of Belleville, V0
Solvent Bank, 44
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