SI Site ttompiter. K 1 U. J. Stahl., Paiute Nod Proprietor GETTYS'BURCi, PA Monday *aiming, April 5, 1859 4941roendTIO STATE TICKET. iLTDOIC or IStriRMI. COnt7, WILLIAM A. rt/FITER., of I'llilEtdelphis CANAL CONItIaSION/ R, WYSTLEY FRo: 4 T. ct P,lptte Lcointy Or We Will pithikil in mr next flit. Speech of 11,,n, I;Elt.i,v Houses f livprFtenta iv in favor (, achnitcion of Kan. asts unuer ttio Let•orapton Constitution. 4 Warlike PrediJion.—'l:ho London cOrresPOOent of Om New York Com mercial predicts that .England awl Franco will he at w•ar before the lapse pf *ix months. Eprly Vegetable4.—The editor of the Columbus (Ga.) Sun boasts of feasting pn now Irma potatoes. The editor of 1130 Macon iiessonger says lie had them for the last three weeks, land for the Feet clay or two, has been regaling hiwself a 4 ripe tomatoes. Potomac, Filizeriee.—At Alexandria, nn Tuesday, shad were bringing $l2 50 01116 per hundred, and herring $l4 per thousand, with small arrivals. Destructire Fire at ifarridnirg.—On Tuesday night a tlre broke out at liar fisbupg, in - a stable belonging to Me- Crowon's Hatch corner of Second and • Chesnut streets, which, before it could be subdued, consumed three frame buildings on Chesnut street, belonging 1.43 Messrs. Jouse and Myers. Prom t}iesma num berof back buildings caught, end soon the Presbyterian church was Wrapped in flames and entirely consum ed. The Herald says that for a while the destruction of the entire square seemed certain. Tho fire is the largest that has occurred in liarrisburg for ten years. Fire at Detbuquc gerphauts' 310t41, in Dubuque, lowa, was destroy by Oro on Tuesday night. The loss is Ustimated at 818,0th0, on which there A an insurance of $lO,OOO. Ca. ,Benton.—Lottcrs from Itiashing ton massert that Cot. Benton's health is fairing, find that he is confined to his room. lie is said to be suffering from internal cancer, which ma,y prove fatal at any moment. Kansas Einiitiotiun.—Tlie Leaven worth Ledger, of the 23d ult., says that the prospects for an immense emigra tion to Kansas this spring and summer are highly gratifying. writ is said that delegates from the Tow England, New York, and Chicago iilllA l 4l9 sid societies intend to hold a ooancil of %tar or peace at Lawrence, or some other convenient free State stronghold in Kansas Territory, within month from this date. The reasons for calling such a - meeting are manifold, bat prominent among all is the fact that t free-State forces there are sadly disorganized. Unpopuldilty of Bleeding K2/tsar : --Oue of the most curious circumstances connected with the Kansas agitation in this city is the utter impossibility of getting up a meeting to protest against ',he admission of that Territory under the Leeompton constitution. When the Republican leaders went around to the merchants of their own party and requested them to sign a call for an anti-Lecorepton meeting, they almost Ullauiractil*ly declined, saying that all they wanted was that Kansas should be admitted under some Constitution or other, so that Congress might be reliev od from this detestable incubus of bleed ing, and have some time to attend to the legitimate business of the country. „Ar. .ffergld. "fru gentleman atlfarrisburg who beats the seven sleepers, intended to hype a jollification on his birth night.. In the Afterrictori he concluded to take pi snow, to be more invigorated for bis birthday enjoymetits : .Evening Demo, *cid with, it the invited frionds ; bat the songht-for host was riot est int:en list:, aqd the good things not fortheorn, tug. Disappointed, and rtttiMr aggril) the wodki-he gueeta took their depar- Wel 544 not until ne;t morning did they kora the cause of this rather shab by treatatent. Our friend became so ae (=ray heted 14 the anus of lforpheue, tbst be did nut wake up until the k'wee Poe' bean" iippmaohjitg morning-- baring taken a fourteen hours' snooze, C pad Wiped all the anticipated fun. 11/teaser liar/at-7 u.'entc LiVat .4.00.- ffee. Louis, April 2.—. Thu steamer Su!- Billowas flamed Ulla morning, near Cape , try which disaster from Of t* $ ty lives were lost, laded w; ' _bit two ' and two gentlente,los -410 ;*+..,:::,,, IPS!, win biped to Nen , I - - • # : fidi ore, AU Qt ififerh pmUU.l4d," The Legislature. In the House, Lit irldoy week, Mr. Gritnian siibmitted the following pie.' amble and resolution : . . The Legislature at the session of um. ...on e other things, incorporated the fol lowing hanks, to wit Octurara Bank, Chester County Bank. Tioga eorn:y. Bank, ('raw-ford County Dant, Plizenizville Bank, 'Shamokin Bank: Aso wasitimt, Said banks hare since organ ized and commented the issue of notes, in witizh - t organization and Issue it is alleged the raid banks hese violated nr ISt/idea the laws of till.; Commonwealth re;nlatinp: banks, and the ape dal requirements of their charters'. F,om tl e general alfrgation against them, the fe".., wing specifications bare been selecitsd, to wit : 1. Said banks had not at their orgeniz ti ,, n, the amount of capital required by the act of Lt.- corporation lama tide paid in. IVltatever amount of capital was paid in the same. or nearly all, w as Immediately drawn i out., and it reprencuted, Witt All, by worthless assets. • 3. The issue based upon such capital "paid t in " has been used inntead of specie in °wink- • iug their banks, 4, These banks are used as a Mang of specu lation by financiers in New York and Buffalo, without regard to safet; in our circulating me dium : therefore, Ilasocesn, That a committee of . Ve he ap.' I ,4Bo ll .fripi'exiitTrine and ins estigate the state a strong poifitss." ^ " - 7:7 • anii condition of said banks, with power to o.tily Of wit: At 111111- send for persons and papers, coil h a view to as-, ~, 1 ant though the Crittenden (ertain ifsaid banks hate not ciolated or a :oid irovi.ions of their charters , and the substitutti (w ith the jion tgomer3-amend le‘tiwttheoflthis Corn - moon cal th reguLitiUg bunks : omits) Was finally adopted, there I ts said t ommittee to report to the Leginlature, or sufficient reason to believe that the within ninety days atter Adjournment of the, same, to the Governor of this Commonwealth. Senate bill, or something 'very near it, After several ineffectual efforts to will yet be pealed by both Houses. amend, the resolution•passed by The people are heartily sick of this r the following vote : Kansas business, and will hold to a s Messrs. Abrams, Arthur, Askin, Me terrible accountability all members of, rer, Bower, Brandt, Castner, Chase, Dolmen, Congress who may aid in peventing' ronehoo 6 Donnelly James, Ent,xrars, an immediate and rmanent settle- inter arettcritm,n Hay es , Jeukie., kirk ment of it. The' stales have turned. pettr h ick, L o nututtn i,o Lovt i • l tt. P N:egle i t t -, Nill, N lt 'une- The responsibility rests not so much , re ac h er, Owen. (W) a a ra n g li f i l l - g . ,) now with the Administration of Mr.! phens, Stuart, Turner, Weiler, Wells, West-' Buchanan, as it does with those who brook %Wharton Witmer and Yearsley— ! 48. " Will may keep this dangerous agitation ! Nora—Messrs. Babcock, Benson. Bruce, Cal hGoiantzn,, C a b o ri e s p t i y ; n H e a ct y as, ti m i h in fi ro r Cal longer open. The country wants Lew peace—and even Kansas is beginning Pence, M'Clure, M'Don.ll,l, Mangle, Miller, to boo' for any measure that will bring Reath. Roland, Shaw, Smith, (Cambria.) Spy, i key, Struthers, Ynegtly, Warner, Weaver, Wil it within her long•troubled borders. cos, Williston, Wolf, Woodeing mid Lougaker, The following letter from Washing- Speaker-33. ton contains a satisfactory account of 1 Hr. Smith, of Cambria, offered the Thursday's doings in the House : following Puma la 09 Heise. Tho Senate bin fur the admission of Kaman; as a State into the Union, under the riceomptnn Constitution, was called up ili the House of Representatives, by' Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, on Thursday last. From the voting it is obv:Gas that a largo majority of that body cos- .. . our with the President in his desire for the prompt settlement of the question. The proposal to reject the Senate bill, made by Mr. Giddings, the leader of the 13lack Republicans, was defeated by a majority of marr-rwu, thus lug the precise line of division between those who (Nair() agitation- to cease, and those who wish to continue tire turmoil and " bleeding" of which the' country has heard so much. All the Republicans voted for the rejection. to gether with Messrs. Harris, of Illinois, and Chapman and Hickman, of Peim..! Sylvania. There can be no mistaking the sig nificance of this vote, as it sustains in istrati `1 WASHINGTON, April 1, ISSB. Dear Compiler :—A largo audieneo was attracted to the galleries of the House to-day. Every seat was tilled— even the doorways wore crowded—at an early hour.; The scene was iivpres sive, and the proceedings of the body unusually decorous and orderly. There were t i ro hundred and thirty-three members in their seats, including the Speaker—only ono being absent, Mr. Caruthers, of Missouri, on account of illness in his family. A more full vote was never called out. At one o'clock, Itr. Stephens moved to take np the Kansas bill. The bill was once read, when Mr. Giddings ob jected to a second reading under the rule. The question then came up, Shall the bill be rejected? Tho yeas and nays were demanded, and it was not reject ed --Seas 95, nays 137 ! The bill was then resni st second time, when Mr. Montgomery, of Pa., offered the Crit tenden substitute, with some amend ments of his own, proposing to admit Kansas under the Lecompton Consti tution, but referring that Constitution to anotncr vote of the people, and in the event of its rejection, a convention to be called to frame a new constitution ; —being tantamount to a re-opening of the isAnsas troubles, and inducing another " bleeding " operation. Mr. Quitman offered p substitute for the substitute, the same as the Senate bill, with tho omission of the declaratory clause that the people have a right at all times to alter or amend their consti tution in such a manner as they think proper. This was defeated by a vote of 72 yeas to MO nays. Thu question then recurred on Mr. Montgomery's substitute"hich was adopted by the following vote : Yris—llessrs. Abbott, Adrian, Andrews, Bennett, Billinghurst, Bingham, Blair, Bliss, Brayton, Buffington, Burlingame, Burroughs, Campbell, Case, Chaffee, Chapman, Clark of Connecticut, Clark of New York, Clawson, Clark B. Cochrane of New York, Cockerill, Col fax, Cbroins, Covode, Cox, Crag* Curtis, Darn rell, Da% is of Md., Davis of Ind., Davis of Man., Davis of lown, Dawes, Dean. Dick. Dodd, Durfee, Ellie, English, Farnsa orth,Fenton,Foley,Foster, (lidding:, Gilman , Gilmer, Gooch, Goodwin, flyanger, Groe:bcck, Groh, Hall of Ohio, of Massachusetts, Harlan. Harris of Mar . :land, 11 irris of Illinois, Haskin, Hickman, Hoard. Horton, Iluwarkl. Owen Jones of Petinslvititin, Kellogg, Kelsey, Kilgore, Knapp, Kunkel of Pennsylvania, Lawrence, Leath, Leiter, Love joy, McKibbin, Mar:hall of Kentucky, M trehall of Illinois, 'Matteson. Montgomery, Morgan, Morrill, Morris of Pen n'a.. Morris of 111., Morse of Me., Morse of N. York. Mott, Murr.iy. Nichols, Olin, Pa)mer, Parker, Pendleton, Peait, Pike, Potter, 'Pottle, Purviance, Ricand, Ritchie, Robbins. Roberts, Boyce, Shaw of Illinois , Sher m to uf Ohio, Sherman of New York, Smith of Illinois, Spinner, Stanton. Stewart of Penusyl vania, Tappan, Thayer„Thumpsou, Tompkins, Underwood, Wade,Walbridge,Waldron,Walton, Washhnrua of Wiseonsin.Washhurne of Illinois, Wa.hburn of Maine, Wilson, and Wood—l2o. Nars—Messrs. Ahl, Anderson, Arnold,Atkins, Avery, Barksdale, Bishop. Boc!oek, Bowie, Boyce, Branch, Bryan, Burnett, Burns, Caskle, Clark of Missonri,Clay,Cletnen4, Cling man, Cobb. John Cochrane of New York, Coru- ing, Craig of Missouri, Craige of North Carolina, Crawford. Curry, Davidson. Davis of Mississip pi Dewart, Dimmirk, Dowell. Elmoodson, Elliott, Eustis, Faulkner, Florence. Giirnett, Gartrel, Gillis, Goode, Greenwood, 44regg llatch,Hnwkins,Hill,llopkins,Hou•too. Hayler, Jackson-, Jenkins, Jewett. Jones of Tenn., J. G. Jones of Penn., Kritt, Kelly, Kunkel of Maryland, Lamar, La udy, Leidy, Lctchcr, Maelny. McQueen, Mason, Mlynard, Miles, Mil- ler, Mill4on, Moore, Niblack, Peyton, I'belp4, Phillips, Powell, Quitman. Ready, Reagan. Reil ly. Ruffin, Russell, Sandidge, S ;sage, Scales, Scott, fiearing,Sewarcl„Sharr of North Caroling, Shorter, Sickles, Singleton. Smith of Tennessee. Smith of Virginia,Stallworth.Stepbenl. Steven- son, Stewart of Ild.„Ta.lbot, Taylor of N. Y., Tay lor of Louisiana, Trippe,lV.Ard, Warren.V.:atkins, White, 14'hiteley, IVinslow, Woodson, Wortea. dyke, Wright of Georgia, Wright of Tennessee, and Zollicoffer---,11 2, The House then voted on the Senate bill as amended by the Crittenden- Montgomery substitute, and it, passed by the same vote os alxwe--.yeas 120, nave 112, "The bill as amended now goos hack to tile Senate, and it 14 understood that that body will reject it to-morrow. A committee of conference will be next in order, and upon its action much may depend. But the friends of the Senate bill regard it as fur from being lost, and my own impression - is that it will pass the "louse after the rejection of the Montgomery substitute iii the Sen. ate. At all events, the real strength of parties will than be teatod. The Senate Ilse the ifinneeoto and Oregon bills nu4er oottnichointion. X. T. X. or Tim Hoes* Dill vras eejsetcd , tr OtriNso. 4 4 - " " 44 7! b 7 PM soP2k. Ilitsotrun, That hereafter it shall be the stand ing rule of the House, that no member shall be permitted to record his vote who refnses so to do when his name is first called by the Clerk, if he is within the bar of the House at the time ; and if he is without the bar of the House when his name is called, he shell not be permitted to record 'his vote, unless he assures the House that be did not leaf e fur the purpose of avoid ing a vote. Thil resolution passed to second rend ing, and the same being before the House on its final passage, it was mi t-matted by Messrs. Smith, (Cambria,) Jenkins and Bose, and opposed by Mr. Imtaio, and passed flintily, ns follows : Yaaa—Measra. Abram., At•itin, flower. Ilmudt, Bruce, Calhoun. Castiter,l'h t+e, I ltri+ty,Dotkl+, Dohntrt, Donchoo, Donnelly Jnnirr, Dunbtp. Rat, !traria, Gilliland. Gritmati, Ilamel, Hayes, llillegaa, Dirorod, Jenkina. Lloyd, Nill, Nuuemacher, Price, Ramsey, Routh, Roland, Bose. Rupp. Scott, Shields, Smith, (Berke,) Smith. (Caml.ria. ) Smith. ( Wyo ming.) Spykor, Steploms, Stuart, Ttirncr. Wea ver, Weiler, Well*, Wilcox. Will, Wulf. Years ley awl Longaker, Sec %v.: 131-51. NATl—liessm Arthur, Babcock, Benson, Bierer, Donovan, Tibor, Fuger, Garrett, George, that:, Omit's,- ILty, 'tipple, holirie, Jackman, Kirkpatrick, Littman, L,rnrence, Lovett, :tl"Donal I. Mangle. Miller, Negley, Owen, Po wnall. Shaw, strati,- era, Vocgtly, Warner, Wharton,Willi,tuu, Wit mer aot.lWuudring-36. A largo number of' remonstrances were presented agninst the repeal of the Tonnage Tax. on the ('entral 11:ilroad. On 11`cdnesday, in the :Semite, the nom bill to authorize the Commis sioners of Adams comity to borrow money, was reported as committed. The House passed a resolution giv ing the use of the hall of the House to the Presbyterian Congregation of Har risburg for Sunday worship until a more suitable plaeo can bo procided— the Church of said congregation having been destroyed by &co. The bill for the sale of the State Ca nals to the Su►nbnry and Erie Railroad Company passed the nous•: by a vote of 53 yeas to 37 nays. A strong out side pressure was made to procure this result, in which we suppose Philadel phia took a lending hand, that city hav ing invested several millions in the Sunbury and Erie road. Mr. Will was absent from Harrisburgat the time the bill passed, having obtained leave of absence for a few days on Monday.— Had he been present lie would doubtless have voted in the negative. It_ is said that the Ainl will have a rough road to travel in the Senate. The Main Line Swindle. A liarrisburg correspondent of the York Gazette says: Gov. Pucker has appointed Col. Joel B. Morehead, of Philadelphiii, Amos E. Kapp, Esq., of Northumberland and Col. George C. Babb, of Pittsburg, ap praisers to assess the damages sustain ed by the transporters on the Main Lino of Canals, by reason of said improve ments passing into the hands of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, who have closed the Portage Railroad. By the act, selling the Main Lino, the Com pany was to pay all damages, provided closed the \\ estern Division. This is still kept open—but the same thing has been brought about by closing the Portage Railroad, so the Commonteertith has 'to pay the piper This will be another little figure of 800,000 or 870,- 000 to pay. Bayne London Times' Vienna eor• respondent says that Sr. Petersburg &deices put it beyond doubt that the Chinese have oommenood hostilities against the Russians. The Russian Admiral is understood to have report o4l, in a dispatch, that the advance posts towards the mouth of the Amoor, had beau attacked by the Chinese so auddenly,"and with such force, that the Russians had to retreat thirty leagues up the river. The Chinese thereupon destroyed the Russian settlement. Sitir Pa tri o k Murray, of York, Pa., was run oror by the ears and killed on Tuesday, near York Haven. ~fiTGroen iiartin, a fanner in Geor gia, haa been convicted of whipping one of his slaves to death, and seawno a! , t4.be bang , on tbo 7th NV. Where are They? When the Philadelphia Convention, which nominated that remarkable youth for President, John Charles Fro rnont, declared in the platform laid dowo for the party to stand on, that Congress had sovereign power over the territories, and could and ought to regulate their domestic institutions in the face of the will of the people, almost everybody thought a principle was enunciated that the leaders would be willing to adhere to for a Presidential term, at least. But it appears, re marks the Erie Ctsercer, that almost everybody was mistaken ; fur now, in the Senate, in the House, in the col umns of their newspspers, there are no louder, moreenthasiastic, or vehement sticklers for the doctrine of popular sovereignty than these same Ropubli cans. They appear to have forgotten all about their ttlnir"--- -, rnra~•i~r::~ri 3 l`ln ft t. Philadelphia They have no recollection that they then and there declared that Congress had sovereign power over the territo ries, and having such lorivvr, ought to exercise it. The " will (lithe majority" possessed no musical sound to their pa triotic cars then ; bat now, forsooth, because the Democratic party,w•ith the President at its head, desires to bring Kansas into the Union with a republi can Constitution, ;egally framed, these patriotic agitators Aro very much afraid the principles of 'the Kansas Nebraska act will bo violated thereby, and the " will of the majority " set at naught. In view of this, whore, we ask, is the flopublicatVparty ? If it was right in 1856, when it milted under the flag of John Charles, it is wrong now. If it is right now, it was wrong then. But how is it with the Democracy t The answer-is .an easy ono. They stand now where they have always stood up on the doctrine of popular sovereignty. The people of Kansas having adopted a Constltation, and declared their, de- sire to enter the-Union, the Democratic party desire to bring in the State, and thus while they give the new Common wealth a national habitation and a name, refer! back to the people them selves any difference of opinion they may entertain in regard to their domestic, in stitutions. Important Law The Act of the 19th of April, 1848, which was in force in Philadelphia and Luzerne counties only, commonly call ed the Sheriff's Interpleuder Act, has recently been extended to the wbcle State, by an Act of the Legislature.— It is almost verbatim a copy of the British Statute 1 and 2 Will. IV., C. 58. § 6, and the Courts of Philadelphia have adopted the English. praetice un der it. This is one alb() most impor• taut and salutary laws that has yet Leon passed by the present Legislature. It applies in all eases w here execution is issued against, and levy is made upon property, as the property of A., but which is claimed by 8., in which case 11. gives notice to the Sheriff' that the property does not belong to A.,at that it belongs to him, B. Whereupon the Sheriff asks for a rule from the Court whence the execution was issued, to call before said Cuurt the party is suing the process and the party mak ing the claim, that said parties may try the title in the property and that the Court may decide to w•h•un it belongs. This is a much speedier and more sat- isfactory way., and less hazardous and expensive to both the Sheriff and the parties, than the old method of allow ing the Sheriff to sell, and then proseeti ting him for trespass. • An Albany correspondent of the New York Express furnishes some fueta re lative to new party arrangements now in contemplation. Speaking of the tatesmnn, a new political journal pub lished in that city, the correspondent Says : The general opinion seems to be that the Statesman is the organ of the 'opposition,' with a sound, conservative, American platform, shorn of Kansas shriokers And Kansas bleeders forever. It is understood that two-thirds of the Republicans are in favor, in the new construction of parties, of this proposi tion, which would make a winning and glorious band throughout the Union, with leaders like Crittenden, Bell, Ray nor, Marshall, Banks. Havens, Ifeadluy, Putnam, King, If nut, Stewart And last, but by no means least, Douglas of the Senate." Probably the last named is really the head Of the coalition. The simultane ous movements at Albany and at Wash ington aro evidently concerted, and their success rests upon the expectation that the Republican party is to bo merged into a now organization, having new leaders and a now platform. Tho present leaders of the Republican party here seem tdbo willirg to sell out tho whole party, if anything can be made by it.— Washington Union. A Hoax or Buriesque.—Tho Now Or leans True Delta of the 28d ultimo con tains n letter, dated in Hancock county, Mississippi, pnrporting to give the par ticulars of the landing of a cargo of slaves on Pearl river, the sale of a por tion of them, and tho drowning of two hundred, for whom no sale could he found. The account, is embellished by many atrocious particulars, and is evil dontly designed to be a sensation article. It is doubtless intended as a burlesque of serious articles on the slave trade re cently published by the Delta. The letter, it will bo observed, appears in the True Delta, a rival paper. larGroi. Walker, the defunct filibus ter, is at present in Mobile, whore his pyrieitess seems to excite no etuiesity 101111401Nr ii : _ • Another Sign. triiktipeiiiii on. Ztiter from Ca. JrAnzton.--A letter from Col. Johnston dated Camp Scott, , January 20, speaking of the Morm says: My information respecting their - dition is that their troops are organized to resist the establishment of a Territo rial government by the United States, And in furtherance of that object they have erected works of defense in the mountain pa&ses and near Salt Lake citk. Knowing haw repugnant it would be to the polity or interest of the government to do any act that would force these pa •)le into unpleas ant relations with the federal govern ment, I would, in conformity with the views also of the commanding general,' on all proper occasions have manifested in my intercourse with theni a spirit of, conciliation, but I do not believe that such consideration for them would be properly appre c iated now or rather' would he wroNlv in tecoreled i..Juid in i\f, - - view of the treasonable temper and keling now pervading the leaders and greater portion of the Mormons, I think that neither the honor nor dignity•of the government will allow of the slight est concession being made to them. They should be mad e to submit to the constitutional and legal demands of the government unconditionally—an adjust ment of existing difficulties on any oth er basis would be nugatory. Their threat to oppose the march of the troops in the spring will not have the slightest influonoein r' it, and if they de sire to join issue, Ibeheve it is for the interest of the government that they should have the opportunity. A Voice from Kansas. Change of Opinion.—Tho Lecompton National Democrat has heretofore been exceedingly severe upon those who framed the Lecompton constitution, and all who favored the admission .of Kansas _under it: It has been the ter ritorial organ of Gov. Walker. It seems, however, that the Democrat has given up its opposition. That paper, of the 11th alt., reviews the origin and subsequent history of the Lecompton constitution, with the questions now before Congress, and declares, under ell the efiremnstanees, its readiness to "cheerf ally acquiesce in the speedy ad nkixsion .1 the Territory into the Union as a .Mute.' It says inregard to the ori gin of the constitiltion ."We admit that tho Convention which framed the Locompton constitu tion Wass legal hotly, that all tcho might bile° voted for delegates, and refused to do so, wore bound by the ucts of those who did vote." I ii another article the same paper re marks : " We . understand that the majority of the committee on Territoriei in the Semite of the United States have re ported a bill for the admission of this Territory into the 'Colon as a State, which ignores a portion of the kehectute of the j.eeornytnn constitution, and admits the' right of the people of Kansas to /filet, oar/id, or construct a new constitu lien they please after the new State is organized. Now that there is no room to doubt the fact flint free State and legislative candidates are eleeted, and that the majority of the people have the power in their own hands, we care not how soon Congress may, admit as State." • This ought to satisfy every friend of Kansas in Congress, and induce him to press for the kpeetly admksion, sueli being the undoubted desire of every well-wisher of Kansas, in or out of the Territory. The People of Kansas Desire Admission. WASIIINOTtni CITY, Starch 2J, IssB. 2Z the Editor of the Union :----Dear Sir: —I have received within the past two days eight letters from Kansas, from some of tip most influential citizens of the Territory, (mostly free Statemen;) all setting forth their anxiety for tho speedy admission of Kansas as a State into •the Union, -and expressing their hearty willingness fur its admission under the Locurdpton constitution, with the construction put npon it by the President. The fiat impulse with the writers of all those letters was opposi tion to the constitution, as it was with the National Democrat, printed at Le complon, which was considered the Democratic free-State organ ; but. upon the sober second thought, and a fuller examination of the provisions of the constitution, they have united in sus taining it, regardless of what they may have said in opposition to it before, The people in Kan sas are becoming enthusiastic in favor of admission. One of my correspondents says that an epis tle tirom Washington, explaining the policy of the President, being read to h large meeting of citizens brought forth three hearty cheers for the Union, the President, and the Lecompton constitu tion,.without a dissenting voice. I would not advocate a measure had I the least fear of its creating strife, much less civil war, in the land of my adopted home. Having grown up in the peaceful shades of the old Keystone, nothing but the fertile plains of a Kan sas could have induced me to leave it.— Wo have in Kansas the elements of peace and prosperity. Only relieve us from , outside influence, and we shall soon grow to the stature of greatness, and claim the respect of our sister States. Yours, FI:IDLEY PAITEIIS0:11' Aid- The death of tho venerable Rev. Laban Ainsworth, ofJeffrey, N. 11.. is reported. The event took place on Wednesday, the 17th ult. The deceas ed had been pastor Of the Congregation al Church in Jeffrey assent if-four years. 11is ago was one Aundred years ascot months and twesay-eight days. A Woman Killed in Portsx,etA, 11.---Bonox, March 29.—•1n Ports mouth, N. ll.,the wife of. Daniel IL Spin ney was shot dead while entering her house in eompany with her husband. Mr. Spinney alto received a btu* shot in his arm from the same discharge. Nelson N. Downing has boon arrested for the murder, a difficulty having coa curred between him and Mr. Spinney a short time previously. arygausted Bitty*. —Ap eminent Op sician,prot►oouoos this medicine a spe cific for Dyspepsia in all its forms.— When taken -according to direction'', it gives 'immodiate relief, and, in most cases„effoots a - permanent care. oferbe ,Frededek: Examiner Nova the whist erOpar that- man cr present, a beautiful -appeer,ooo. TACIT AND FANCY. " tla irouo xi • :at usu." Delaware 'lurid made their appearance in Philadelph le for the first time on Monday last. They were caught with gill lets, below the city. Da Saturday night week, in Philadelphia, while the Fairmount engine was peace/el:ling to a fire, a young man named Wm. Fisher, aged about sixteen, was run orer and killed in Ches nut street. A letter from China estimates the loss of livei by the bombardment of Canton at from 5,000 to 10,000. The bombardment lasted about thirty hours. T. B. Cumming s Secretary and acting Governor of Nebraska, died on the 23d ult. The Bedford Gazetia' announces the suc cess of the Democratic candidates, in several localities in that county where the opposition usually have large majorities. --Between the lit of January and the mid die of February nineteen women were burnt to death in Great Britain, whose c lot fiz .e.- in -P 43 ef t ,". uce of : : " xpansion by hoops. Do not shun a man because you owl him. Firt owe no man, but if you do, look HIM steadily in the eye, tell him your circumstances and prospects ♦s TIIEY AIR, and leave him to his course. Pay at the earliest moment. A. little son of Mr. Win. Dodwell, of Portsmouth, Va., was so severely burned by his clothes taking fire hotn matches, on Muni day, that he died on Friday. Private letters from France represent commercial affairs as rapidly growing worse.— Fail ores were increasing, manufactories suffer ing severely, and prices of silks still declining. One failure had taken place at Lyons, with American coanections, fur between two and three millions of francs, and the liabilities largely exceed the assets. The total number of gallons of milk con sumed in the city of Philadelphia (exclusive of the districts of Germantown, Ilanayunk and Frankford,) la a year Is estimated at 3,046,000. Ina single building in Boston, on Thurs day evening• week, there was a prayer meeting on one floor, a boxing exhibition in the room aboie, and a calico ball in the upper hall. It Is said there are a hundred attorneys in Cincinnati who have never had a case, even before a city magistrate. Some person was once asked why B stood before C? Because, was the answer, a man mast B before he can C. ......To enjoy to-day, stop worrying &bolt to-morrow. Nest weekwill be just as capable of taking care of itself as this one is. A new counterfeit $lO Nate on the Dela ware County Dank was pat In circulation on Saturday week. A dcuble beaded child Is on exhibition Vannuchi's Museum, New Orleans. It sings ant converses with the organs of either bead The war spirit seems to be up to fever heat in Philadelphia. Ten companies, each of one hundred men, bare been raised by those having charge of the rendesrons, at the armory of the Cadwallader Grays, for service in Utah, as soon as volutit - eers are called for. The offi cers of the regiment have all been selected. At Chicago, one hundred and silty vol unteers for Utah have been enrolled. At Car rishurg, sixty-seven base been enrolled. ......The Susquehanna river at Uarrisburg, was crowded with rafts desceudiug•the stream, oo Saturday. km advertisement lately appeared, head ed, " Iron bedsteads and ituotso." We sup pose the linen must be snaky iron. White hair Ls the chalk with which Time keeps scores—two, three, or four score, as the case may be—on a man's head. What is that frog: which, when the whole is takea,somo will still remain. Answer.—The word wholesome. Rowe Jr 31arshall's Ameriwin Circus wits at Honolulu on the lit of February. ' tine rein of cannel coal, it is stated, h,ts been discovered in Monongahela county,Va. The body of a roan, greatly matilated by bogs and dogs, was found among some bushes in a Geld near Fort Hamilton, last week. ......if you would bare an idea of the ocean in a storm, just imagine ton thousand MIL; and four thousand mountains, all (Imre., chasing one another over new-plowed ground, with lots of caverns in It for them to step Into now and then. Tell me with whom thou goest, and I will tell thee what thou doest. 'one Demotion' of the ity of Troy, N. Y., carried their late Mayoralty election by five hundred 'majority, beating the combined forces of Black Republicans and Know Nothings, who nominated their candidates on the platform of opposition to the National Administration on the Lecompton issue. ~....Three men A, B r and C, go a fishing. A Catches a "bull-bead." B a bat over the head, and C • sexere cold. Wanted to know, how the whole " catch" is to be divided so that each man may have an equal share of each. Why is an ever loaded gnn like an office holder? Because it kicks mightily when it is discharged. France has addressed a demand, couched in menacing terms, to Switzerland, for the re moval from the borders of that republic, of all Italians and other questionable refugees. The Central Committee appointed at St. Petersburg, to examine all the projects for the emancipation of the Russian Serfs, consists of thirteen members, the Emperor being the Presi dent. it is rumored to Washington that Lord Napier will shortly resign his position as Bri tish Minister at Washington. The citizens' of Selinsgrove, Pa., have subscribed $22,000 towards the endowment of a college. ...—lt Is expected that the War Department will shortly order a change of the uniform of the Army generally, sad fix noon-one in accord sacs with the recommendation of a Board of Examiners recently appointed for that purpose. The Lancaster cotton mills hare resum ed operations. A correspondent In Rio Janeiro, writing on the 20th of January, says : "The receipts of coffee from the interior are largely on the in crease, with a decided downward tendency in prices." What key will finally open the door of civilization to all mai►kindt Answer,Tan-hee. Long words, like long drones, frequent ly hide something wrong about the understand ing. ....-" Is that a lightning beg In the street?" naked a purblind old lady. " Xo, graama," said pert Hule Xis', "It Is a blebs, with a cigar." sweetheart," said a wag the other day, "came near calling me honey last night." "indeed! bow was that 7" "Why, she called me old Beeswax I" Rouging Timr.—The Turkish Admiral and suite have made arrangement. for a grand summer buffalo hunt an the Red Bayer country. The Vice President, and'smia "grave and reverend &lig =of the United &seekleaste sad are going tojain the party. - 141114,6**1161 . 8priag weather thie.' taasig4itin j The foilowiair iiisteow t , attic) bit; for the adeihign &t he fr rltory of Kansas as a State into the trnkie, in the shape that it finally passed the U. S. Senate, on Tuesday week: -- ' . . ~_ A liti,L for the adiniasioa of hte State of- Kansas into the Union. Whereas, the people of the Territory 1 of Kansas, did, by a convention of dole , gates called and assembled at Lecomp. ton on the 4th day of December, VW, for that fmrpose, form to themselves a constitution and State government, t which said constitution is republican, and the said convention having asked the admission of said Territory into the !Union as a State on an equal footing 1 with the orig inal States— Be it ena cted by the Senate and Howe of Reprwatotires of the United States of , America in Congress assembled, That the 1 State of Kansas shall be and is hereby, deetarou tli e one oft o 14 . 1 . tatei CA:le — nc. a, and admitted into t o Union ! on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever. And the said State shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, to wit : 13egining at a point on the western boundary of tho State of Missouri, where the thirty :seventh parallel of latitude crosses the , same ; thence west on said parallel to ! the eastern boundary of New Mexico; thence north on said boundary to lati tude thirty-eight; thenc e followingsaid I boundary westward to the eastern ! boundary of the Territory of Utah, on the summit of the Rocky Mountains; thence northward on said sumait to the fortieth parellel of latitude ; thence east on said parulled to the western boundary of the State of Missouri; thence south with the western bounda- Iry of said State to the place of begin ! oink;—Providel, That nothing herein contained respecting the boundary of 1 I said State shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said Tenl tory, so king as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with such Indian tribe, is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial limits or jurisdic tion of any State or Tern tor,y ; but all (such territory shall be excepted out of , the bound:tries and constitute no part 1 of the State of Kansas, until said tribe shall signify their assent to the Presi dent of United States to be included within said State; or to effect the au thority of the goveniment of the United States to make any regulation respect ing such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights, by treaty, law or oth erwise, which it would have be en coin petent to make if this net bad never passed. SEC. 2. And lc it further enacted, That the State of Kansas is admitted into the Union upon the express condition that said State shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the public lands, or with any regulations which Congress may find necessarY for securing the title in said lands to the bona tide purelumirs and guarantees thereof, or impose or 'levy any tax. assessment, or imposition 1 of any description whatever, upon them or other property of the United States i within the lin?itsofsaid State; and that nothing in this act shall b,.i construed I to abridge or infringe any right of the I people asserted in the constitution of Kansas at all times to alter, reform or abolish their form of government in such manner as they may think proper —Congress hereby disclaiming., any au thority to intervene or declare the con struction of the eonstitiation of any State. except to mice that it lie ropablican in form, and not in cootliet with the eonstitntiou of the United States; and nothing in this net Anil he constrtied 88 an assent. by Congress to all or any of the propositions or claims contained in the ordinance annexed to the said constitution of the people of Kansas, nor to dvrive th 3 said State of liansai of the same grants, if hereafter made, which were contained in the act ore m gess, entitled "An act to authorize the peopte of the Territory of Minnesota to form a constitution and State govern ment preparatory to admission into the Union on an equal footing with the or iginal States," approvt.sd February twenty-six, eighteen hundred and fifty seven. SEC. 3. And be it farther enacted, That until the nest general census shall be taken and an apportionment of repro. sentatives made, the State of Kansas shall be entitled to one representative in the House of Representatives of the United States. Sze. 4. And he it further exacted, That from and after the admission of the State of Kansas, athereinbcfore provid ed, all the laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the'same force and effeet wittun that State us in any other State of - the Union; and the 14aid State is hereby constituted a judicial district of the United States, within which a district court, with the like powers and jurisdie, tion.as the district court of the United States for the district of lowa, shall be established. The judge, attorney, an marshal of the United States for the said district of Kansas shall reside wltb.. in the same and shall be entitled to the same compensation as the judge,_ at torney, and marshal of the district of lowa. John Van Buren—The Stray Douglaa, John Van Buren recently said In a convivial speech "Well, gentlemen, there is one fain!. ily has got back safo into the Demo. cratic party to stay for life. It is the Van Buren family; and if Senator Douglas 'only knew the long, dreary road be has to travel; the deep, roar. ing streams he has got to swim 14 horses over; the dark, stormy flied, where the winds will blow down ALI, teats, and he will be &rood to airy 0* the grounfl - - him in toi rugged moi the intermi, is no wood Dross; in th from his is in my oph chute back Tho ros; soriptioa of of the mac aims 1848, described. Fifal Zig CM=I
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