coder which that government tore of Han-land, which has a majo rity ' no star obliterated,. no stripe erased, arm Whet Mkt-being,. How can a gov- !of that party usually called "Know untilots State after State shall be ad ornment exist Nthe tostrunaent is made ' Nothings, ' have passed an net to amend , mitted into oar Union, and star after , Told by virtustor Abich the government present constitution before the' star be added to that flag, all over the, "Urals, moves, and has its being ?" If time fixed in the constitution itself fur; land, from North to South, from East the Govevuor, and other State °Wert'. its ehaego . If the people of Marl - land, : to West, there may be borne on every Sad the members of the Legislature tinder this act, should change their con- breeze, " the cry is etill they come." Netted on the 4th of January are legal- stitut ion, is there any power or people Iq efeeted, then the constitution 'tarter outside of Marylund that can interfere , which they were elected is a legal in- and prevent its going, into operation'' strument. ! Certainly not. I do not speak with The next question for discussion is. certainty, but I am, under the impres; was the Lee . ompton convention bound sion that the States of New York and by law , precdent, or otherwise, to sub-, Indiana changed their respective con-' snit the constitution there framed to a ; stitittions in a different manner, or at a • vote of the people fur adoptiou or rejee- different time, from that prescribed for tion? ' so doing in the constitution changed I confetti that I would hare preferred Will any one here say that the constitn a submit ion of that constitution alto. tioas of these States arc not valid, and rather to a 'Vote of the qualified -etizena. can be violated with impunity ? I think I have every reason to believe that the not. Is there anything more sacred President desired that submission ; and and unchangeable in the Constittit ion of woull know that Governor Walker pro- , Kantius than in those of Maryland, New tarred it. But, let me ask, what has my ` York, and Indiana? preference to do with the questieu ?--- 1 If (he people of Kansas Ethan desire What bad the desire of the Pri.sident or to alter, amend, or abolish the Lecomp- . ofGove:nor Walker to do with it? Just ton constitution, if the State" shall be notha.g at all The convention was', admitted with that constitution ' all they; independent of all control, let it be its- have to do is to g , t an act of the Legis- I slimed blot' or low. Governor lature passed, calling a convention to' Walker says to the people of Kansas : latter or amend the same ; and if the "You should not console yourselve!;, my ire!-! people, by a vote, either adopt or sc.' low-citizens, %Ith the reflection that you may, quiesee in the constitution so altered or bye 111611CCIllellt SOU% defeat the ratification of . ;uucn d r d , no people in any other State. the constitution. Although most anxious to. of this Union can interfere. I will recurs to 'au the cxer i,e of that great com.ti totional tight and believing that the courten- venture to say that there is not a mem glee it the servant and rot the tmcster of the her on the other stele of the House who people, yet there uo power to dictate the pro- , will say that if the Legislature,. - at its evading. of tb.o. body." I first session, shall pass an act calling a governor Walker was right. He' colivention, and the act is approved by had not, nor had any other human the Govertior,and the convention should being outside of the convention, the strike out all the Lecompton constita• power to dietute'what its proceedings' tion, which recognizes slavery as one of Magill be. . the domestic institutions of Kansas. and - Wee there any law requiring the' if the people adopt the amended con convention to submit the constitution stitution, It would not be valid and to e vete of the people? It' there was, , binding on all people residing there.— I - have hided in my st•arelt for it. If this eau be done, why not abolish The territorial act, tinder the autlmri• the whole constitution and make an en ty of which the convention assembled, , tiro new one? If they do so, no power, is in the words following: ; under heaven can interfere with them ct The delegates thus elected [to the conven- . and their tights under that constitution tion] shall .isstemble in convention at the cspi- as lcuo; as it remains unaltered. This tal of said Territory on the first Monday of Sep- , may ca ll e d revo l ut i on. If it is, it is, tetnher next, and shall proceed to form its eon- . a peaceful revolution, under form of: stitution and tSt.ttr• goi eminent, which shall be ireentitican in it, tuna, for admission into the law, and destroys no titan's tights. Union, on an equal tooting withihe original I assume the position, also, that the States in all revect3 a hate. er, by the untie Or! people of Kansas have the right to alter, the Btate of Kansas.' i amend, or abolish their constitution at It will be observed that there is not any tone they may see proper, because one word, either in the organic law or- that right is reserved to them in the ganizing the Territory, or is the tern- bill of rights. There is a provision in tonal act calling the convention, requir- the bill of rights in these words: iug submiesimi of the eonstitution to "2 All political power is inherent in the It vote Of the people, before it should people. nod all free governments are foututed on their authority. and instituted for their ben become binding on theta as the rende z efit nod, therefore, they h ire at all Bross an Mental law of the State. By what I inalienable and indefensible right to alter, r-- therm, was its submission required? form, or abolish their form of government in /so law whntever. such manner as they may think proper." - Indeed, it is hut fair to argue that the' It is said that a bill of rights in n . people of Kansas were opposed to the constitution is the same as a preamble submission, fur the reason that the act to a law. What it a preamble to a law which was passed, calling th e eoneen.; but a statement of the necessity of a • tion, was vetoed by the Governor be- law to secure some right or redress! eanse it did not require the convention some wrodgf It simply shows that up to submit the constitution to a vote of, to that time some right was left inee the people, and it was afterwards pass-; cure, _or som'o wrong unredressed, by ed, over the veto of the Governor, by al reft.son. of the want of law. It doei not Tote Of two thirds of the members of reserve a right. 'lt shows the necessity , the Legislature. If the members of - the! of taking away &lin some the right to: Legislature represente i the views oft injure their neighbors. But what Alees ' their constituents, and it is generally this section of the declaration of rights! supposed that It‘gislators Jo so, the enJ provide? That the right of the peep!: to netmeut of a law under such cireum- ! alter, reform, or abolish their _form of goy stances would be strong evidence to ernmeid, In such manner as they may think prove that the people were averse to a proper, is inalietuble. • The definition.of submission of the constitution, for • time word inaMiable is "right which adoption or rejection, to a vote of the cannot he given op.' If this right is inn. (saloons. 1 lienable it cannot be taken away by any Did precedent require a submission i other provision of the same coestittitiou. of that constitution to a vote of the If it is reserved in the people—not givd people of Kansas? Not ono of the en up by them—it is a provision above, original States of this Union had sub-' all others, and must he observed before, mated to a vote of the people its con-I all others; because it is for the security! stitution before entering into the Union., of the rights of the people against op. I Rot one half of the remaining States pression and wrong. The rights atilt!' which have entered the Union since, I people cannot be taken away or cur-! had their constitutions submitted before tailed except by an express provision ; - they were admitted. Two thirde, at of law ; and when that provision comes; least, of-all our States Littered the Un- lin conflict with another provision in the I ion without a submission of their eon- I sante instrument, by which a certain ! stitutions. Are all these constitutions right is reserved to and declared to be Invalid because they were not submitted ; initEenable an-1 indefeasible in the pee. to a rote of time citizens? Who will • plc, the former must give way to the dare assert such an absurdity ? I wish latter. not to bo understood as opposing a sub. And now, Mr. Chairman, I hare dis mission of State constitutions to a vote chart=ed tho duty I undertook, in the I lam in furor of it. But I assert here )nest manner I could. I will record that a constitution is valid and binding vote for the admission of Kansas under without it; atop when the law calling a the Leeompton constitution, because I convention to frame or alter a constitu- . believe the laws of my country, width tin dues not require such submission, lam bound to support, demand it of: the couvontioa is not bound to submit me. The consequences to myself I it- I have nothing to do with. I stn in tie., The Inst subject to which I shall di- hands of those who honored mu with a Feet, the attention of the House, is the ' sent on this floor. They art , linnant. I question so much controverted here and intelligent, and generous, and I kiimt olsewbere; that is, whether or not the! they will' do me the justice to believe I people of Kansas can alter, amend, that, my opinions are honestly enter change, or abolish the Lecompton tained. If they think I have misrepre stiintion at nay' that: they may see pro- seeted them, and that there is another so to ? more worthy or capable tc. represent I hold the doctrine, Mr. Chairman,' them here, I believe in their right to that if Kansas is admitted into the Un-: send that persOn in my place. I will ' ion under the Lecomptoo constitution, I not, complein. When I have done my _the qualified ettizons of that State tsan ditty in obedience to the dictates of my ; alter, amend, or abolish that constite-: judgment, and, as I believe, in accord.; time whenever they see proper. lam aneo with the laws of my country, I; further of the opinion that the citizens shall be contented, whatever may be of a State may change their conetitu-m my fate in the future. I would now lion in any other way than that pre-' willingly sacrifice my position, and all ! scribed iii the constitution itself; and I my political prospects in the future, that if thoy do, it will be binding upon j whatever they may be, if, by so doing, the people oftne'State until it's chang-1 I could secure peace and quiet among ed again. In this oppinion I am at! our people. I love my native land; least sustained by preeedent, and I think am proud of the past history end pros• i by common sense. The people of the' cut greatness of my country: and I ; State of Maryland are at this hour gov.ieonfidently look forward to the day, 'wad by a constitution framed and' : when all nations shall acknowledge our, Adopt od by a different mode from that' superiority, and when , through the b e -. proscribed-in the constitution changed. „ nign influence of our frog institutions, The constitution) of that State provid- the kingdoms of the earth shall be re ed as follows: generated, and the whole human race / g nat this form of government, and the dee- I disenthralled. Let us cherish these in tareslo4 of rights, and no part there.f, shall be Stittainus. Let us environ our Union flawed, citaaged, or abolished, unless a but se! with an impenetrable wall of strong pa to alter, clomp, or abolish the same, shall arms and stout hearts. That Union pass the General A=sembly and be published at' least three months before • new election, and o Wh does not love it ? The grandest 041 be confirmed by the General Assembly at- edifice the world has ever beheld— tee • 'sew election of delegates hi the C:at set- erected by the wisdom of men of whom! The Coming Summer.—lt is said that go; pftee seta new election.” 1 the world was not worthy-0(.111.3mm' the Earl of Rosso, ono of the first sa lt will be observed that this provides! by the blood of the purest patriots who that two consecutive Legislatures shall ever lived in the tide of time, and he- tronomers in Europe, has told a gentle - approve tho law providing for the al-1 queatited by them to us a pr im e ", man i n England that he antieipatas one teration of the constitution. The Leg-1 heritage—it has rcivanted all the rude of the most intensely hot summers this isiksture at a single session pasaed Rai shocks and angry waves which have year that has ever been known, and he mot authorizing the people to decide by heretofore threatened destruction, and ; advises farmers to build shed* for their cotta whether a convention should be, shall stand firm upon its base in all tit e / by way of protection against the palled to amend the constitution. The time to come, if we, and those coming • people 4oeided that ft convention should; after tie, shall guard it with but half extreme heat. be Milled; the eonventian assembled;,the vigilanec exercised by those who Purchase °habitat Versiox.—lt is an &needed the constitution ; the amended spent their energies and lives to secure emnetitution was adopted by Oie people; its perpetuity. I earnestly beseech my 1 nounetd in the Richmond Enqpirer that god they are now living nader, and oh- I brethren of the North and of the South the transfer of Mount Vernon to the -sewing m valid and binding, its E , riw i-1 to act now, when Our country is per-, Ladies' Mount Vernon Association is sloes , Who dare say aught against. it, ; haps in its greatest Pe ri l , not as the ! now a fixed fact. This has been brought or who deny them the right. t..) tire na..! R e p r e sen tatives of a divided and die .4B". Ass AMlStitlitiOn, and to punish all-I treated people, but as the Represents-1 about by the defeat of the bill in .the Let us Virginia House of Delegates which pro . ttavitelatstit , l Cap any people 014441 ayes of the whole country. Nolititethalts 414)? its validity? and if the I abandon all sectional feeling, and rally postal its purchase ty,the State. -1110 14 , 4 0 . • State are satisfied with around the standard of our-common t rtgbt to (*whoa ? I coantry t Lot us beep our time-lionor.; . ' : .l,ir•Wortien are facts—and "facts 'That the present L eg i s i e . ed flosAravinggallMtly over our beads I are stubborn things." - • . etimpiter. H. J. Nta►le, CJltor aad Proprietor GETTYSBURG, PA Monday Morning, April 12, 1958. DEMOCRATIC' STATE. TICKET. .ICDC E OP SL PR ENE ("QUILT, WILLIAM A. CORTER, of I'Lllndelphia CANAL WESTLEY FROST, of F. 9 cite county sidy- Fp r the very latest news see the lug column of the third page. gar - The Speech of Hon. Wu.soN fI:ILLY, in the House of Represents tive4, on the 20th ult., in favor of the admission of Kansas under the Lecomp ton constitution, occupies some seven columns of this morning's Compiler. The space could not have been pat to bet ter use—containing, as it does,a mass-of facts and arguments unanswerable and not to be explained away. The speech will be generally read, at least through out this Congressional district, and we are quite confident that it will be the means of clearing up many doubts, if such longer exist, on this vexed ques tion. That its sentiments are in har mony• with those of the Democracy of the district need Ivirdly be asserted. ear A. J. Gf.4 'Sahli Esq., retires from the Yr,rl; (la:etre, and the paper will hereafter be under the solo control of his partner for twenty-three years, DAVID SMALL, Esq. !Ur. (;. is a grace ful and forcible writer, and we sincere ly regret that he has taken his leave of the editorial field. Our test wishes s i re always with him---as they nro with Mr. Small, in whose hands the old Ga zette remains, and will continao a stead fast advocate of Democratic principles. Siarlixtrarwilinary net ivity is report ed in the Trent aii;.! English dtaliyardi and naral Arsenali. The nusander standing between-the two powers meents to bo • widening, aud there are not wanting those who predict war in six month* as a convegaenca. Russia is reported as 811 Intel-v:41(ml spectator of the course things are taking, with an eye open to exigencies. Orconrse, "we shall see what we shall see." For oar part, we are not ready to believe that Nap. and Vie. intend to array their re spretive nations in Wooly coAict just yet. seirlt is a rrmarkaid.: filet that of all the morem-nts which have been made in opposition to the policy of the Demneratic party, no one of them has ever had its origin with the people, or been in any way demanded by the and neeest4ties of the country. On the contrary, they have all Leon set on foot by ainlAtioas politicians, and de signed to elevate their authors to place and power. I Another Kansas Constitutional Convention, in session for some weekik,- hag just adjourned. Negroes are allow• ed to vote on the constitution to be sub mitted to the people. terA Democratic Meeting will ho held at the Conrt-house in Chambers burg this evening, which lion. JAM .s B. CLAY, of Ky., has been invited to address, and should ho not be una voidably detained at Washingson, will attend, lion. Wcr.sox REILLY is also expected to address the mooting. The Democrats of Philadelphia have nominated tho following ex cellent City Ticket: Mayor, Richard Vaux; Solicitor, James IL Randall; Receiver of Taxes, Charles Worrell; Controller, Wm. Curtis; and Commis sioner, Thomzni Barn Burnt—The barn of Mr. Hoo ver, at Iliekorytown, about four miles eai.t of Carlisle, together with all its contents, was burnt to the ground on Saturday night week. In addition to grain, hay, wagons, &0., four or five i head of cattle were burnt. Supposed ineendiarism. Two Pvties—Which 810 Prevail! The Washington Union remarks with great truth that it is the glory of the Democratic party that it is a national party. Its creed is as broad Its the Union, and its policy knows no North, no South, no East, no West. There is no other party in existence of which this can be truthfully said, and there has been no other since the Whig party breathed its last. Nor is its nationality any now feature with the Democratic 'party. It has always been a national party. It has always maintained the broadest principles, and been instinct with the moat generous spirit. The ' peculiarity of its present position is, that it has no competitor in its nation ality. The Whig party claimed to bo equally patriotic, equally catholic in its creed, and equally free from sectional ' ism. By a portion of the Whigs, tind with reference to their own views and feelings, this claim was all i ed in all sin cerity and truth. No more patriotic men ever lived than some of those who constituted the old guard of the Whig party. But time has disclosed the nar row views and the selfish spirit of too many of their political associates, and while they have been obliged to take shelter in the ranks of the Democracy, the great body of their old party (in the free States at least) is now found advocating principles upon which it would be impossible to administer this government for a single year. Th'a is the condition of parties. There is a national party and. there is a sectional party. One or the other must shape the policy of this country upon all the prominent questions which now divide it. There is no middle ground. The Wee Made Up. The Washington 'Union of the 3d in stant says : ' It will be seen that the Senate has promptly joined issue with the House on the Kansas measure. It refused yesterday to concur with the House in its amendment by the de,:ided.inajor ity of ten. Thus is the issue between the two houses complete ; and there must be a conference and agreement on one bill or the other, or the whole measure must fall. It is imnossitilo for the Senate to agree with the House in its a:nendment. Besides other instiptwable objections which have already been exposed in regard to the Crittenden projet, *lmre is a new feature inserted by Mr. Mont gomery which is positively.unconstitu tional. The proposition that a Territo ry May form a constitution and ho ad mitted into the Union under it by pro clamation of the President without any supervision of the constitution by Con gress, is so palpably violative of the ex press letter of the constitution that we are confident the Senate can never agree to it. It is for " the Congress" to ail :nit new States and gnarantee ~to the Union that their governments shall be teptiblican. It is not for the . President or any other functionary or tribunal to exscutu this delicate and responsible trird. The issue therefore between the Senate's bill and no measure at all; which is none other than an issue be tween an immediate and effectual set tlement of this chronic, cotrudiug, and exasperating agitation, and an aggra vation and continuance ol'it indefinite ly. Such is the alternative presented to those membersof the Ilouse that hare it, in their power to decide this momen tous question. The Difference. The main point of differenoe on the Kansas issuc between the President and the raetionists is substantially stat ed by the Pennsylvanian; thus: The President is in faror of submitting! the Lecompton Constitution to the people of Kansas—the opposition pmfess to bo desert/be of doing the same thing. The President proposes to admit Kansas as a State under the Senato bill, which recognizes the technical regularity and legality of the Lecompton Constitution, but which at once by operation of law, without unconstitutional conditions preen. dent or subsequent, without arbitrary in-! terrtntion by Congress in the affairs of the people, and without the new ;node of ad, Inatting Slates by Prt4tidcittiql proclama tions, proposes to submit the Constitution to the people of Kansas, when with uncon ltrolled power orer the whole subject, and without any pretence for intervention from any quarter, they may accept, alter and I amend, or reject it in tote. 'co this most wise and equitable proposition, a pie bald coalition of odds and ends of all ! parties in the House of Representatives oppose what is called the "Montgome ry-Crittenden Substitute," which be sides containing principles utterly in admissible in a Constitutional sense, demands that Kansas shall b' retained in a Territorial condition, subject to all the disturbing causes of sectional inter vention and conflict, while the exciting process of voting down Constitutions, and making now ones, and voting over and over again, shall be carried on amidst the clamor and confusion of war ring parties in the 'Territory and throughout the Union." :kir The Constitution of the United States says, "now States shall be ad• mitted by Congres.9 into the Union." The Crittenden-Montgomery substitute for the Kansas bill says that "the Pres ident shall admit Kansas into the Union." The opposition must be chang ing their opinion of Mr. Buchanan, to place such unlimited confidence in him Lor have they, in their intense de sire to defeat him, caught themselves? iiiirConnecticut has again gone fur the opposition. Tho Know Nothings and Black Rept)limns were cordially united, and voted fur the same sot of candidates. The "Democrats of Brooklyn carried that city handsomely on Taerday. Cincinaiti lit. with the opposition, as usual; Portland, Me., ditto; St. Loais is " mitteettg",- in local txomplicationa ; and Dubuque's'Sects a 4,PeoplesTiekc4." The Legislature. In the Senate, on the 24 instant, Mr. Brewer presented a petition from citi ze:in of Adams county, fur the aboli tion'Pf the office of County Superinten dent of Common Schools, Mr. Brewer also called up the House bill to authorize the Commissioners of Adams county to borrow money, and it passed finally. On.the same day, the House passed a new Liquor bill, by yeas 46, nays 29. Numerous amendments were made to the bill as reported by the committee. Its fate in the Senate is said to be doubtful. The House, on Tuesday, passed filial ly the bill to incorporate the Mammas. burg Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Will asked and obtained leave to record his vote on tho final passage of the bill for tho sale of the State Canals, and, on his name being called, ho voted " no." The House passed an act authorizing and requiring the supervisors of Cllrroil township, in the county of York, to grad.; a certain hill on the State road, in said township, leading from Ilarria. burg to 6.ttysburg, Adams connty. The Lill was sent to the Senate for con currence. The Senate, on Wednesday, struck out of: the Appropriation bill the clause fixing the pay of members of the Legis lature at 8700, instead of $5OO. Thee who voted for the o r xtra 5200 were Messrs. Bell, Coffey, Creswell, Finney, \ - Francis, Gazzam, Gregg, Harris, In gram; Marselis, Myer, Randall, Rather ford,*chell, Straub,Wilkins-16. Those who voted against it were Messrs. Bald win, .Brewer, Buckalew, Craig, Ely, Evans, Fetter, Knox, Laubuch, Sco field, Shpeffer, Souther, Steele, Turney, Wright and Welsh, Speaker-16. • The House passed finally the bill relative to . J. L. Schick, late Treasurer of Adams county. The "Extra Psy" Swindle. The Pittsburg Erening Chronicle con demns, in no measure:l terms, the re cent unwarrantable action of the major ity- of the House of Representatives at ilarrisburg, in voting the members of the Legislature each $2OO extra pay fur the present session, and increasing the regular pay of members from $5OO to 700. Thu Chronicle sap, with truth : When a project of this nature and importance is inangnrated, there might just as well ho a consideration and a discussion '„of it outside as well as inside the House. We sulvoento giving full and liberal compenSation to all public servants, but we think any efforts to wardsan advanco.should be conducted in a seemly and"decorous manner, and only after the will of the people thereon has been consulted, and their wishes clearly. ascertained. .• •1 t" the thou hers of the Legislature-- merely because they Intro the power— aro to increase their sa larks nil lit wo would be glad to know where it is to stop." birA notorious rowdy, named Me. Meese; with several other*, attempted to elTegt an entrance. into a low grog gery kept by a main named Levy, in strcet, early on Tuesday morn ink. The latter shot MeMeese in the head with a horse pistol, from the of foets of which ho died soon after. Le vy surrendered himself. Thelneat &op.—Tho wheat• crop in the different parts of Tonnescee looks 'unusually fine and promising. The crop is as forward as it has ever been known in Mardi, and it is grow ing beautifully. SuspVeions of France.—lt is stated in the N. Y. Tribune that nll French com mercial houses having funds in this country to be forwarded to Europe, have ordered their correspondents here to mnko the transmission in bills of ex change on London, instead of Paris, as usual. , They have no confidence in the permanence of Louis Napoleon's gov ernment, and take this means of making their money sure. The Utah Troubles. --We see it stated that tho President will appoint a com mission to proceed to Utah for the pur pose of inducing the Mormons to yield obedience, by representing the deter mination of the government to reduce them to submission, and the uselessness of opposition. Governor Powell •nd Major McCulloch are spoken of as the conimiisioners. The Fillibueters Again.—lt is stated in the National Intelligeneer, that upon the repOeseutation of the Mexican Min ister that parties at tho South are en gaged in organizing unlawful expedi ditions. for the invasion of the northern portion of the republic of Moxico--tho movement being directed against the Sierra Xadre country—the President has promptly caused instructions to be issued to prevent such expeditions from being organized or fitted out within the limits of the United States. Drecidful Occurrence.—The dwelling of Daniel Comstoick, in Leroy county, N. Y. 4 waa burnt on Saturday night week, and himself and four children Perished in the flames. The Burning of the Steamer Sultan.-- Further Particulars.—Wo have already announced the burning of the steamer Sultan in the Mississippi, near St. Ge- , ncryieve, on Friday morning week. ' There were on board when the fire broke out 6S persons including 16 p. Singers, and it is supposed that 82 lives were test. Henry Zly, the pilot,, died after being rescued. Many jumped c4lto - escape the names. and wend wnod. . taitpt. Hannam: Wait burned, sad' 11. W.' Paitfort sid-Iti . illeadag, engineers, sliihsty: Letter Prom Washington. WASHINGTON, April'B, 1858 Dear Compiler:—The complaints of the tardiness of Congress to act favora bly upon tro appropriation bills, are beginning to be, if not loud, deep . "Kansas" has been monopolizing all attention, whilst the wheels of Govern - - meet have been allowed to come to a " lock " almost. 'fence the settlement of the question is most devoutly wish ed—not only that the country may have peace, but that the various pressing in terests of the government may be at tended to without delay. It is understood that Gov. Powell and Major McCullough are appointed ',ogee commissioners to Utah, with in structions to assure the Mormons that it is not the desire of the United States to make war upon them, but that the laws must be enforced at every hazard. NV hat result they may effect with these deluded people remains to be seen. They go out with the next reinforce ments. 1 The bill admitting Minnesota into the Union passed the Senate yesterday by the following vote : I - SAL—Messrs. Allen, Bates, Bell, Biggs, Bigler, Bright, Broderick, Brown, Cameron, Chandler. ('lark, Cdllamer, Crittenden, Dixon, Douglas, Doolittle, Durkee, Evans, Fitch, Fitz patrick, Foster, Green, Gwin, Hale, Hamlin, Hammond, Harlan, Houston, Hunter, Jones, Johnson. of Arkansas, Johnson, of Tennessee, King, 31allory, Mason, l'olk, Pugh, Sebastian, Seward, Simmons ' Slidell. Stuart, Sumner, Thompson, of New Jersey, Toombs, Trumbull, Wade, Wilson and Wright--49. NAYl4.—Mtssrs. Clay, Kennedy and litilec-3. Ansavrazs.-31essra. Bayard, Benjamin, Da vis, Fessenden, Foot, Henderson, Iverson, Pearce, Reid acd Thompson, of Kentucky-10. The louse on Thursday voted to ad here to the Crittenden-Montgomery amendment to the Senate Kansas bill, by a vote of 119 to 111-8 majority, same as before. Some suppose that the matter will rest here for the balance of the session, - but---I,,ara inclined to think other Wise. There "aro a ..few Democratic members of the House vot ing tv,itli the agitationists who would rat her that the responsibility of keeping this question longer open should rest on other shoulders than their own, and hence may do something to rid them selves of it. X. Y. Z. The Ohio Republicans and the Critten- den Amendment. The Washington Union says: We• published a tew days since an article from the Ohio State Journal protesting against the Crittenden amendment, and culling upon Black Republican members front that State to oppose its adoption. We also mentioned yesterday that a reinmistraneeA b t n he same effect, signed by Gov. Clisi d the Black Republi can members of the Ohio legislaturei had been received by their friends in Congress. We have now befOre us the Journal, Containing a letter from its ed itor, now in this city, in which the writer deprecates the idea of Black Re publicans supporting the Crittenden amendment, and says that in doing so they " plant themselves substantially on the broad squatter-sovreigiity doc trine, and, in fact, acknowledge the Le compton swindle to be a legal docu ment." The same paper, commenting editorially on the Crittenden amend ment, foreshadows the fate of its Black Republican supporters in the Mom ing paragraph : Wo have only to add that 'the ad mission of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution' in any contingency, or up on any ratification whatever, is not the entertainment to which Itcpubliean members of Congress invited their con stituents, or of which they will very cheerfully partake." OQPTho other day Mr. Grow, the man that represents David Wilmot, and the "independent.Stuto of Bradford" in the House, made a speech in which one of the letter writers says "he showed that the present was a govern ment of despotism, and gave notice that the first federal gun fired to enforce Le compton on the people of Kansas will light a flame that a sea of blood cannot (pencil." There is information for you. The American people arc living under a " overnmentofdespotism," and hav'nt found it out. What an ignorant sot of Know Nothings, to be sure 1 But seri ously—when will such republican ora tors as Mr. Grow learn to talk sense to thz' people instead of such flap:locale ? Magraw, State Treasurer, and Mr. Rice, of the Pennsylvanian, had a fight on the streets of philadclphia the other day, whereupon' the Gazette says, in noticing the important event, " the former is, we believe, an Anti-Le compton Democrat, and the latter Le compton—heace the - difficulty." Your "bolier' is not well founded ;—gallant Harry 3fagraw ie n straight-out Admin istration Democrat, as we happen to know.—Erie Observer. Another Opposition gun Spiked.—Tbe War Department has tranamitted to the Efouse fall particulars of the con tract for the supplies of tho Utah ex pedition. They do not sustain the published statements of exhorbitant prices! Marriage of a Venerable Couple.--Wo learn that Mr. Joseph Stratton and Kra. Kendall wore married on Thursday evening in Union Ball; Athol, by Rev. Mr. Burt. This was the sec ond marriage of the bridegroom, who is 78 years of ago—the third marriage of the bride, whose age is 74 years. Tho officiating clergyman has scathed the venerable ago of 92 years: It was generally known in the village that the interesting ceremony was to takeplaoe, and many eitizens were present, each paying ten cents for admission to the hall—Bodo* Journal. litirlt is rumored that Judge Loring has boon appointed sat-treasurer . Boston. Swimlielm's printing-dike, In Wanapts; wits lotely-a4saked is a mob . ssdher. pis se doistrarid:. PACT MID P 4r" •-ft uluzicoss.o 1.11 A awl,- w•Soof Col. Benton'a health has malikkgrittled within the past few days. Hs opelthitilintlit as drawing to a eiose• The bill providing fora raglogi at mounted votuntanv for Texas and tviAtisii. tional regiments for Utah has pawl batik Houses_ and becomes law. A now play is announced hi Bost** SSW der the title of "An Iditor with $4,0011." The Virginia eleaata has adapted a Prix, resolution appropriating =IAN to roman Ibis remains of President Mown)* tram New Torii id Richmond. - At Savannah, Ga., they are feaatlagaa green pees. Major V. Phelps, formerly Assistant St"- perintendent of the Portage Railroad, hits been appointed Team Master for the Alta.\ Expedition. A good appointment. Mr. Charles Hill, in Berta county, has a cow which gate birth last Sunday week to a calf which weighed, a few hours after it was born, 115 pounds. to editor at the East says: Our stock its trade consists of industry, economy and untir tiring perseverance. Our industry we consid er worth to us at least $15,000, economy Olt,. 000, perseverance $15,000, making In all an ac— tual capital of $45:000. In a morning prayer melting at Hallowell. Me., last week the large audience was suddenly. startled by the Ailing from his seat alter Bar tholomew, a highly respected merchant of that city. He died almost iustantly from affaitiott of the heart. "Gently the dues are o'er me stealing," as the man said when be had five Ms present ed to him at the same time. It is reported that Edwin Forrest has abandoned the stage and proposes to open is liquor store in Chicago. A. singular statement has been poblishe4l. in the Pittsburg Post, to the effect that a MAIL has recently been arrested in California who eonfeutes that he Murdered Dr. Samuel T. Norcross, for which crime he says "McKim, an Innocent Ginn, wus hang." Mad dogs are rcry numerous In Danphiu county. Last week oue of them bit fire men and a little girl. ...C. E. Todd k Co., the Bogus Gold swind ler of New York, has been arrested and Is nong in the Toombs. His real name appears to be Ball. The Leterne. Co?on was sold last. Mon— day week, by the Sheriff, to Col. 11. B. Wright. E. S. Gnodrich, Esq., it is reported, is to become ita Editor. Tie Liverpool Mercury guys the Levia than will not be St for sea in June. The Washington Union rays Gen. Pervi fer F. Smith has been ordered to Utah as well AS Gen. Harney, and that the chief comma:tit will devolve upon Gen. Smith. The bill to suppress hank notes tinder - $2O has been rejected by the Virginia Douse of Delegates. - - The following riddle is said to be the hest production of Sheridan's witty pen times with a head; sometimes with a tail;• sometimes without a tail; sometimes with head, eud tail; sometimes without neither; and yet equally perfect in all situations." Aeswer—rA. Wto. Reader, get your neighbor to subscribe for The Compiler. it. recent Ere in Constantinople de— stroyed three hundred houses. Spring is towing' Spring is cooing Listen to her gentle coice, Hail hell as she is returning, Causing nature to rajOiee. "Six feet in kis boots I" exclaimed Mrs. Partington. "What will the impertinenee or this world come to, I wonder? Wky they might se well tell me a man had six heads in. his hat." The Democracy :of Greene eounty,;in Convention, have adopted resolutions heartily endorsiuc_the Kansas policy of the rational Administration. The rote upon the resolutions Was almost unanimous. Japan has thrown off its exclusiveness and is about to open its ports to the Commerce of the world. So much for the expedition of the lamented Commodore Perry.. The amount of ground covered by the Susquehaana river, including Islands, is 211,000 MGM The bill authorizing the impartation of Africats, which pas,ed the Louisiana House, was defeated in the Senate. lin old lady in TeVIA, who sells eggs; his over her door "new laid eggs every morning by, Betty Briggv." There has never been a period in the his— tory of Democratic Administrations, in which suck harmony and unity of purpose and policy base been exhibited as at the Council Board ot James Buchanan's Cabinet. Punch says no womaek was ever knows to live as long as fifty years—roar" beings about a woman's ultimatum, and very few be ing spared to reach that extreme point of female longevity. At Ripley,Oh io, the proprietor of a gamb ling saloon was recently converted, and st his request a daily prayer meeting was organised, In his rooms A Remarkable Cue. Wu hare heretofore noticed the ease. of Ransford Daniel, of Roanoke eouy Va., who was convicted of an ou t iaga upon his own daughter, Old:1y on,her testimony, but was, afterwirds granted a new trial and acquitted, the girl an 4 her mother having acknowledged that they swore falsely. A correspondent of the Lynchburg Courier says: It is said that the joy of the innocent man was almost beyond bounds when ho was released.—lle mourned and shed tears for his persecutors, and jump ed and shouted, and clapped his hands for joy that he had escaped the thun ders of a punishment which would have fallen so heavily upon i ohe innocent. Verily, it is better that ninety-nine who we believe to be guilty should se. cape than one innocent man to be pas; ished. This plot originated with Ai mggier, and was agreed to-by the child, so That they might get the old man oat, of the way, when they proposed taking up with two animals, in the form, bulk lacking the morals oilmen. *4 Mil DI
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