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GETTTSBUJ3•O, PA
igoaday iforaing, Xay 81, 1858,
Ri4OCR4TIC ST,STE' TICKET,
aniAll 4:PRI111111 COL'S?,
W1L4411 4. PORTER. of Philadelphia
usu., aottattuuosits,
WIIERLZY PROST, of Payette county.
.1211 Attire Tancy.—There is a ru
fiagfpfaid WO hope only a rumor, that the
maisissele Chief Justice Taney is about
40 resign his seat on the bench of thb
‘truhed States Supreme Coart. He
Soda - to 'retirement and repose.
lirThe Meadville Democrat of a late
Aide admonishes the public to be on
Moir guard against the notes of the
- Lhawford Connty Bank, as it appears
Ott almost the entire stock in the bank
.",is bold by persons out of the State, and
slot subject to our la - Ws relating to indi
vidual liability.
`The counterfeit wn dollar notes
Ark the York Bank are on the old plate.
llirjohn Krider and his wife, resid
jag in Cumberland county, about six
;stiles from Carlisle, have been arrested
itpoa the susp:eion of having murder
ad their child, seven or eight weeks old.
Ow wife bee been admitted to bail,
4(f14.00,) but the husband is still in
prison.
• 14w of Horse Thieves.—The Harris
*erg Telegraph says that from informs
- **received, we aro induced to believe
Is 4 Were is a regular gang of hone
Warm sad counterfeiters organized in
Sbo (*unties of Lancaster, York and
"Ciunberiand, and that there are some
Pionbers of the gang within a'short
l 'ilioteooo of that place, on the opposite
side of the river, from the Let that
several horses have been stolon in the
ekeighborhood oft the Cumberland side,
1114 taken to Maryland and Virginia
. Tlbt sale.
Important Report. '
Xo. X4oON, from the Committee on
Foreign Relations in the United States
iikostatia, submitted a report, on Friday
„last, Wring the strongest ground in op
position to the pretended right of Great
ibitain to visit or search or detain our
iliwfuwis
on any pretext, and concluding
with resolutions calling for such. final
of the question as shall for
aver hereafter preclude the recurrence
of like aggressions, and also fully ap-
Prqring of the action of the President
In aerubeg a naval force to the gulf to
protect our vessels. The report was
Xlnebtlesa adopted on Saturday.
Waiski;uflon, 28.—The instruc
tions issued to our naval farces are, in
iiffitet, to warn British cruisers against
Oa visitation of 'American vessels, and
is inane Of persistance to prevent it by
pip-The St. Louis Democrat, one of
the most vehement Black Republican
papers in the Union, advises the people
pf Kansas to reject the Lecompton
Unit Ordinance, as amended by Con-
Fewi, for the reason that if they wait,
%bey will get twenty millions more
AMIN of land than is proposed by the
WA /Was adjustment from the next
Congress, which it predicts will be
Meek Republican. In other words,
Ow& -peculiarly honest party, through
iss Drone, offers Kansas four times as
Nage Ised is is usually given to new
Mates, if vibe will reject the Loeomp-
Ica Constitution. This ought to shut
=
mouths of the Blaok Republicans
"bribery."
/31ack. Bepubliesn and Know
24otiong *embers of the New Jersey
Legislature have united in a call for a
movement in opposition to the Domoc
so7. "Birds of a feather flock to
gether"—not only in New Jersey, but
in in other States. Democrats, stand
Only, abouhier to shoulder, and tlfe
Assionte oormnrants who are again
sniping for tbo reins of power, wil! be
Ail,flPoiP ted--zdiAta need !
"Ark itaiirogd War.—The railroad
!roe at. srie, bee ber renewed, spd
&be am* agidu torn up. At last ad
/via* bowers", the 44;tage bad been
repaired.
AIWA onions riot occurred on Sat
orday week ip the Schuylkill Ocia. l
TAIL O 4O9 40, 1 40 enleUll W4UI
inAmmi ba the. pt ,of .be cwhiloyceB to
ompOilia jooros•e of wagm domwd,
*a 004 Orcntivos. Tits aid of
i imstary wsnilifoirsd, spd after tje
awl at ri4gifs#4. l " 04' WO Pe
4 10 11 *,
, ' 4103 Illinois Oirstado one mall
a I ; i = actually slld fn. pule
Ames tbe smooth
# 1110 0 Ankle, Ind Innliy
myrnAt Auid mkt
t** Usemv4iFarnet
... e e Wanly (Pa.-) jail, 'en
7, b 7 1t.1. 1 94ju1t 0911 M -*?,
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pritisii °straps isA Now p u lp
The outrages ocannsittef by alPitiisar Therjhaladelphilityress eoeseetlne,
of war upon Atneldrut sl4ping ; with Some Greiekr, John J. °rine*.
in the Gulf of M.exico, aie ormiting asn,lod one or two other bigoted and
great sensation everywhere. Upwards disappointed individuals, are end eavor
of twenty vessels boesdodsuxt eserchodling to form a new political party, oat
have already been reported, -and the of the scattered remnants of the Whig,
list will probably be largely increased ; Republican and Know Nothingorgani
when all is told. In nearly every in- I rations, together with a few renegades
stance the offence has been highly ag- from the Democracy. The Chambers
gravated by the overbearing insolence burg Valley Spirit truly observes that
of the ofticrra and men conducting the the attempt will be fruitless. The pco
search. pie have had enough of new parties.
But our national honor is in safe
hands. The prompt and of action
of President BUCHANAN in the premises
entitles him to the admiration of every
man who has an American heart beat
ing in his bosom, or who possesses a
spark of genuine patriotism.
Those flagrant and atrocious outra
rages, committed in our own waters,
almost at our very doors, are not mere
accidents, to bo passed over by a dun-
sy apology, without any point, empha
sis, or moaning. And hence our Gov
ernment has sent an earnmst protest to
the British Minister at Washington,
and also demanded from the British
government, through Mr. Dalias, our
Minister at London, an explanation
and an immediate abandonment of these
high-handed proceedings on the part of
British cruisers, with full indemnity
for damage done. Our Home Squadron
has also been increased, and ordered
to forcibly interfere, if necessary,
to prevent a repetition of such out
rages.
What the upshot will be no one can
tell. Perhaps one good result may in
the end-come oat of these glaring insults
to oar flag. England, although she
has for a time abandoned the practice,
never yielded her preteeeons to the
right to search the vessels of other na
tions. The whole question has now
been re-opened, and it is the hope of
nearly every Aerican that oar govern
ment, in settling these wrongs, will
bring about a clear understanding that
no American vessel shall hereafter be
so interfered with nndelr any pretext.
The Dishoaorable Exception.
It L, said that there are exceptions to
every general rule, and perhaps it is
true. We stated in-our last paper that
every press in the United States was
speaking out in one tone, one language
of patriotic indignation against the
unwarrantable aggressions of the min
ions of British insolence upon .our com
merce, our flag, and our national honor.
Before the ink was fairly dry with
which this statement had been made,
the New York Tribaute came to hand,
containing protif that there existed at
least one editor in .Amerirs without an
Anterican heart, without a spark of
genuine patriotism or a sense of public
honor. True to the interests of his
treasonable principles and designs, the
editor of that notorious free love, tree
speech, and free nigger journal, has the
dishonorable credit of being the first
and (so far as we have yet seen) the
only editor in the United States that
unblushingly and unequivocally sympa
thises with old England in her recent
piratical foray upon American rights
and American interests. He stAnds
isolated and alone in his irredeeinable
infamy:—Pki/a. Argas.
Know Nothingiss Rebuked in limy-
land 1 f t
"Sam" Knocked !—Tho last Legisla
ture of Maryland, largely- Know No
thing, passed an Act submitting to the
people of the State the question of an
alteration of the Constitution—the
main object being to deprive Foreign
ers of their righw. On Wednesday 14151,
an election was hold For or Against a
Convention to amend the Constitution,
and the result is probably 8,000 major
ity Agoinat The Democratic papers
fought the issue bravely, and the peo
ple, waking up to a sense of the true
character of Dark Lanternism, have
spoken out in tones not to be miscon
strued.
Baltimore city gives only 1,446 maj.
for a Convention; Frederit4L county
700 against; Washington 1,100 against;
Carroll 520 against. Nearly every
county gives a majority against a.Con
vention.
Hard Up!
The Black Republicans and Know
Nothings are becoming harder and still
harder pushed for capital. Their "oc
cupation " (except to slander and mis
represent) is nearly gone. .So desper
ate is their hand, and so venomous their
opposition to Mr. Buchanan, that they
are even attacking some of the appro
priations made by Congress for the
support of certain branches of the
hite dionse establish men t—appropri
ations made in aecordanee with stand
ing custom, of years back—alleging
Oat the President should pay all these
things himself, out of his yearly salary
Not only so, but they add insult to in
jury, by endeuvoring to create the im
pression that Congress has than " in
crowd the lirpsident's salary I"
We should el wonder if they next accuse
him of ilowurigliii roblxiry for stoosept
ka ay pert of his aiticial pay.
lir A- corr . egrapiPan LAMP B/4-140Pd
gkuiP) l 9er gen. 11 )4 4ob
ar the ma tiomgm
Irmns63ll4-#lol.4Xba 41V00, aiDt.
Op ic y 1 0 3 ,00 Pr4ereli;,9
ithe 7iPV. .Alr. l l &Noe
.1.0 *sa t milers Are* Fertttpanow'vka
sows; -warratipinpaip!) Jrane k ipAte
P e *.A"tiftr
1/1/1"4 carps!, sweeping znanbao him
boon incnt k ind in Gaon.
The Know Nothing party did the busi
ness for them. That party was started
to purify the political atmosphere. It
pm lied politics much as a dead sheep
in dog day. purifies the atmosphere
around it. Everything that it touched
became bloated with corruption, and it
soon fell apart from sheer rotteness.
After it, came the Republican party—
rather more respectable but quite
as dangerous. Two years have car-
ried it from its ;Indio to its coffin,
and now those who rejoiced at its birth
and mourned at its death are trying
their hand at a " new party " again.
Unfortunately fur them, their now par
ties are always made up of old meter
lals--the debris of defunct political or
ganizations; hence. they are not lasting.
The Whig party lasted many years,
'homes. it wag a respectable party, a
national party, and was led by men of
distinguished ability and unquestioned
patriotism. At its dissolution, the good
men who belonged to it betook them-
I selves to the ranks of the Democracy,
'while the political gamblers who had
been the death of it sot about the for-
Imatian of * new party. The reptile of
1854 got his head crushed in 1855.
Then the opposition managers got a
new revelation, and in 1856 we had
another new party. Strange to say,
the political atmosphere purified so of
ten, needs purifying again. The "dis
in feeling agents," CRITTENDEN, GIIZELY
and FOlNEr—rag, tag and bobtail—all
at work. Out of the rotten carcass of
Know Nothingism, and the dead body
of Black Republicanism, and the cor
ruption that has sloughed off from the
Democratic party, leaving it in perfect
health, these immaculate politicians
are moulding a new party, for the pur
ification of the politics of the country.'
But the people have no faith in them,
and their project will fail. It is to ay=
ident that they aim' at their own ad
vancement and not at tho public good.
Traitors to all parties, no party will
trust them; and plot as they will, they
can do but little beyond breaking up
the Republican organization and driv
ing its best members—those in whom
a love of the Union still lingers• in
spite of their evil associations—over
to the Democratic party. The forma
tion of a new opposition party will
strengthen the indomitable and uncon
querable Democracy, and we shall tri
umph in 1860 even more signally than
we triumphed in 1856.
The Land Bribe.
The Indiana State Journal says: Tho
more the charge made by the Republi
cans, that the Knauss ordinance is a
"bribe" to the people of Kansas to ac
cept the Locompton Constitution, is ex
amined, the more ridiculous it appears.
It gives no more than the Catrrxansx-
MONTOONIIIT bill, and one hundred and
seventy sections of land less than the
celebrated Duns bill of ISSB, which re
ceived the approval of the Black Re
publican Congress of that year. Ac
cording to Republican logic, the Norm
nomsa.r bill is no "bribe"—the Dtrxx
bill was no "bribe"—but the ENGLISH
bill is a "bribe" to the people of Kansas
to come into the Union, when ihe Kna
uss ordinance is precisely similar in
its provisions to the MONITIOXERY grant,
and less liberal than the Dusx bill, a
Republican measure, which granted
more land than either." When will the
Anti•Lecompton journals of this city
publish the different land ordinances, so
that their readers may test their asser
tions by the facts? Come, gentlemen,
we wait for this proof of your honesty.
—Pennsylvanian.
Trouble in the Enemy's Clap.
Hon. Lamm, TODD, Chairman of
the "Union" (Know Nothing and
Black Republican) State Committee,
has issued a call for a State Convention,
to assemble at .Harrisburg, on the Bth
of July, to nominate candidates for Su
preme Judge and Canal Commissioner,
to be supported by ail the opponents of
the Democratic party.
The Philadelphia .News—the organ,
par excellence, of the defunct Know
Nothing party in this State—files excep
tions to this call, on the ground that it
has no idea of permitting the "Ameri
can party" to be swallowed up by the
great Aaaoonda of Black Republican
ism. It closes its objections by saying:
It is one thing to talk about a union
of political elements, and another_ to
accomplish it.
.Mr. Todd, we think, is
on the wrong track."
A Man tut in Tiro.—Kr. hteNnity,
rn t,be employ of the Pennsylvania
Railroad (buipany, met with s fatal
accident on Tucittay week. He was
ws,lking *long on the railroad oa his
wayhow, and when about three miles
west of ilk, be was run a g*i nst
by the night tine down, which threw
kiim sem* the track, sod the wheels of
*be traKkrums4 over bis body, cutting
iL emnpilp lir in two, the upper part of
whhtv qs PV 2 1 40 .4 a 44r4ber of yards
on e cow-oateher pausing Instant
desith. The dinsiwci loaves a wife and
twelaNkleas.
0 0.1 / 0 &to WW$ frog) U.
Lotter hen Wasbiartea.
Wmiligyromeltay
Dee43 l
CbaiSO:: The Sec the
Nary somas fully up.to his deity is re
gard to &Mars in the Gulf, mein every
other ease. He has ordered Captain
Hartetene to the command of the
steamer Arctic, and Commander John
Rodgers to that of the Water Witch—
both now fitting out at the Brooklyn
Navy Yard—to proceed to the Gulf in
search of the British steamer Styx, and
to interpose American guns between
the British cruisers and our merchant
men. Other vessels will follow as rap
idly as they can be got ready for the
service. The President is determined
to put a stop to these outrages at once;
and if a collision should result, the re
sponsibility must rest upon the British
government, which gave the offensive
orders.
Senator Mallory, the other day, re
ported a bill authorizing the construc
tion of six screw sloops-of-war, of
draught not to exceed fourteen feet, one
to be a side-wheel steamer for the
China seas, with draught of eight feet
only. The bill will most probably pass,
as will another for the construction of
ton or twenty gun boats.
A bill was introduoed by Mr. Doug.
las, in the Senate, on Monday, " to re
strain and redress outrages upon the
flag and citizens of the United States,"
as collows:
Be it enacted, dx., That, in ease of
flagrant violation of the laws of nations
by outrage upon the flag, soil, or citi
zens of the United States, or upon their
property, under circumstanoes requir
ing prompt redress, and when, in the
opinion of tho President, delay would
be incompatible with the honor and
dignity of the Republic, the President
is hereby authonzed to employ such
force. as ho may deem necessary to
prevent the perpetration of such out
rages, and to obtain just redress and
satisfaction for the same, when perpe
trated; and it shall be his duty to lay
the facts of each
.ease, together with
the reasons for his action in the prem
ises, before Congress, at the earliest
practicable moment, for such further
action thereon as Congress may direct.
The measure proposed is one of the
highest importance, and demanded by
many good and sufficient reasons.
The Minnesota Members of Congress
have been admitted, in spite of the the
tious opposition of the Know Nothings
and Black Republicans. Tallauding
ham, Democrat, has ousted Campbell,
K. N. and B. R, in the Ohio contested
seat, but ho has had a pritractcd strug
gle for it. X. Y. Z.
Kansas Brigands and Desperadoes.
Late intelligence from Kama* rep
resents that highwaymen and despera
does are roaming through the Territo
ry in organized bands, indulging in dep
redations upon the property of the citi
zens, and wherever resistance is made
to their proceedings murdering the in
nocent victims of their plunder. That
this lamentable condition of affairs
should exist is not to he wondered at,
however much it may be deplored, and
wo apprehend again and again will we
be compelled to chronicle fresh outrages
upon tbo lives and property of the res
idents of that distracted Territory, ere
the reformation and security ensured
by the new enactment can be carried
out by the officers of the law. The
settlement of the Kansas queatien
Congress (remarks the Reading Ga
zette) loaves no other moans of liveli
hood to the miserable fanatical tools
of the Abolition loaders who were for
warded to that section by the " Emi
grant Aid Society " during .the contin
uance of tho existing political discus
sion; and throwing cif their disguise,
they now sally forth in their true char
acter of robbers and murderers, levying
tribute upon their neighbors and shoot
ing down those who refuse to replenish
their empty purses. That these spirits
are but the type of those nho sent.
them to the field of their exploits can
not be denied, and upon such mon as
Parson Beecher and his satellites, who
c:othed in an hypocritical garb of piety
and purity preach peace and quietude
with their lips, while with their bands
and hearts they are committing das
tardly and heinous cnmos, may be vis
ited the censure and condemnation of
all honorable and proper thinking cit
izeDB.
The purchasers of the weapons with
which these roving brigands are sup
plied are equally culpable with those
by whom the fatal shot is fired, and
doubtless each new outrage committed
by these strolling vagabonds is hailed
with plaudits of approval by the Sancti
monious members of the "Aid Society."
Sfir - Jim Lane recently called a relig
ions meeting at Lawrence, K. T., for
the purpose of appointing a day of
Thanksgiving. Tho meeting was hold
in the
_Unitarian Church, and presided
over by the .Rev. Mr. Nuto. Lane
made a speech and offered a series of
resolutions, which were adopted.—
Gratitude to the Ruler of Nations for
the Peace and Freedom vouchsafal to
Kansas, and to the 24 Senators and 120
Representatives who voted against Le
compton, was embodied in the resolu
tions. When the meeting was over
and Lane bad taken his usual horn, he
remarked that be thought a final stop
would be put to those d—d border
ruelan slanderers against his moral and
religions character, when It beams
known , that, be was. the first map to
move font Thanksgiving i■ Kansas.
So esparibe correspondent of tbs Cin
cinnati Grsaetts.
Mir Th e shad-fishing musoe has closed
Plat tad Issay.
..TZZ WORLD line? ItLL." *..:
1 . .
' ..VeGee, the sonnlerlw of tlse deptan&ar.
d.I of the Xasssehosetts State prison,. will
prilhably be hung on She 15th of June.
~....There is • moliftur graiwrine a$ No
tento, California, that yielded last summer
700 . bushels of grapes, weighing 18,000 pounds.
A(boat attaskod to a sperm whale, in
the . Peale, was drawn 32 miles an hour, and
the probability is that a whale will go at the
rate of 50 miles an hour.
- A firm in Havana have obtained per
iod's/Dion to lay dawn a aabmariai talegnepkt
from Cuba to Key West, Florida. The work
will be speedily proceeded with.
kugusta, Ga. , "Lay 22.—The Augusta
mulls commenced grinding new wheat yesterday
for the New York market.
The fly is said to be destroying the wheat
crop In Delaware.
Ole Ball is giving concerts in Vie Ens.
and Pesth.
Vandenholf was to appear at the
Theatre Royal on the 1 lth, in celebration of
the fiftifth anniversary of his appearance on
the Liverpool stage.
There are sixty seaports in Cuba, and
last year there were 3,680 coastwise arrivals
and 3,6:6 clearances. This will give an idea
of the trade of this beautiful Island, which is
floe more than half cultivated under the pres
ent excise.
The ..eremonlem of laying the corner
rime of the monument to Ethan Aliso, by the
State authorities of Vermont, were postponed
for'the Teas* that the remains are missing.
No trace of Ethan Allen can be found on the
spot where be was supposed to be, and the sup
position is that his bones have been stolen or
mislaid.
~....An exchange paper tells the story of a
min who was found on a Sunday morning with
out a hat, sitting on a block of granite, with
his bare feet in a brook, trying to catch a
bad cold, so as to be able to sing bass at
church.
..
......Tbe estimated damage by the disastrous
crevasse at Bell's plantation, two miles abovt
Nay Orleans, is from four to fivt millions of
dollars. .
On the list inst., the county treasury of
Henry county, Ind., was entered and robbed of
$11,090..
intelligence from Mexico announces that
Zuloago bas issued as edict, declaring 41 the
parts of that country closed to the commerce
oftither 'nations.
~....The wheat harvest has fully commenced
in Tem, cad the yield is said to be large.
......The statue of Dr. Jeoaer, the discoverer
of ;vaccination, has been placed in Trafalgar
square, London, and in a few days will be un
covered.
......God schooleth and nurtureth his people,
thSt through many tribulations they may enter
Into their rest.
• .—...Cottoyf soaked in alum and salt, it is
said, will cure the torments of a hollow and
aching tooth.
What three authors would yon name in
commenting on a large conflagration? Dickens,
Burns.
"No man is born nobler clan another,"
says Seneca, "unless be is born with better
abllities and a more amiable disposition."
On the lith of May the empress of France
entered bar thirty-second year.
Mrs. Sarah Marsh died in Heath, Mass.,
Pay 9, .aged 100 Years 8 mouths and 2 days.
She war never sick more than three months
dying her life.
The harvest of wheat will commence in
Virginia, about the 12th of June.
.&t Boston, On the fourth of July, there
will be a regatta, a balloon ascension, and
a display of lire-works at the city's expense.
. Jacob Amick, Esq., an old citizen of
Wheeling, undertook to bleed himself on Mon
day week, bat cat an artery and bled to death.
for the Saadwich Islaads.—The ship
Iftlartain Waver from AA port, has taken a
cargo of lee for Honolain, Sandwich Islands.
WS believe this is the lest shipment of ice to
this remote region.—Boston paper.
- men sever affect anythlne. It is
itinr three cent folks that pot on sin, swell,
sad put on pomp.
It is stated that the fishermen oa our
lakes rdeelve $640,000 per imam for their
fish.
Another Great Flood in the Western
Rivers.
Dispatches from St. Louis announce
another nse in that quarter, and the Il
linois again at flood height—even high
er than ever—and over its banks in ev
ery' direction. The Pittsburg Chron
icle, of Tuesday, says:
The Wabash river is higher than ev
er was known, and spreading all over
the country in the vicinity of Vineen
nes, where the river was ten miles wide.
This isa world of waters, indeed, which,
when added to the Hood in the
Missis
siVpi, will be very apt to deluge the
lower country in earnest. White, now
is. equally as high, and over its banks
in all directions, and the Ohio and Mis
sissippi railroad is much damaged and
obstructed, as well as the Illinois road,
thus interrupting travel to Cairo.
For miles the water is on a level with
the track of the E. & C. railroad.—
'flie grain crops of the best farmers in
the country aro ruined past redemption.
Vie learn that the river at Terre Haute
has overflowed the whole country, and
has risen four feet since the rains of Fri
day evening, and was still coming np at
the rate of an inch per hour. Three
spans of the tall bridge had given way,
and hundreds of the citizens had assein
bled' on the banks, momentarily expect
ing to witness the destruction of the
whole superstructure. The foundation
of ore of the piers of the T. H. and Al
ton railroad bridge three quarters of a
mile west of the river, was also giving
Ivey; the danger had become so immi
nent treat the trains had been forbidden
to pass.
Rain and Great FresAet at aseinitati.
—Cracsanarz, Nay 25.—The heaviest
rain over known feel within the last
terelVe bourn. The creeks and rivers
an rising with frightful rapidity. The
railway bridges were carried off in all
directions. No train has arrive! or
departed this morning. Hill creek is
higher than ever known before. The
Ohio Ws rianwnino foot during the last
i i ik\had
tan boars, and is w rising ray.—
The rain bad ly ceased ost 10
Ireknit, but there now a light *bi
aaiii. It is sod aultsy. • The
*bd. of last night wo one oontian
nd ibunder4iteein.
The Power of Medicine over Disease.—
wo know of no boner illastnition of
init,4kan in the wnonierfainikein
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iostoring finpairOd digestion ~
Thi Negroes ht lanai Taking their
•
4ve learn, She Kansas Western
of mace, that on Tuesday,
Nib inst., meeting of the free blacks;
cor Leavenaarth city was held to ex- I
pass their approbation of the action of
the tats - Constitutional Convention, in
granting them the "right of suffrage ,
and the freedom of schools, on aperfeet
equality with the white man." Itesolu
tions wore adopted congratulating their ,
colored friends throughout the country,
and inviting them to emigrate at once
to the -free soil of Kansas, as a place
where the black man has his proper po-
sition. The _resolutions approving of
the doings of the Convention were ob
jected to on one ground only, and that
was, allowing fbreigners to vote simply
on taking out their first papers. One
of the orators is thus reported :
Mr. President, I is opposed to dem
'are resolutions—lease I is as natib Amer
ican myself, I is : and dat Constitution
gives to de foreigners do same right as
do natib born. Dat, sah, I nebber will
swallah. lis willin' for the rest to vote
same as de balance—but do foreigners
nebbcr, sah, nebber! I say again, sah,
lis a natib American, lis I's in favor
of Crittenden's bill, salt."
The remarks of the native sable orator
wore received with uproarious applause,
but the reasoning of the speaker was
swallowed up by that other great con
sideration, that. the Convention had pot.
negroes on an equality, as to the right
of suffrage and freedom of the common ,
schools, with the white People; so the .
rosolntions were adopted with great
enthusiaqin. It would seem from the
proceedings of that meeting, that the
free nogroes of Kansas intend to avail
themselves of the acts and the doctrines
of the Black Republicans tn their favor.
—Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Beautiful Trio.—lt will be extreme
ly gratifying to the honest peoplo of
this country to ktiow, as they probably
will in the course of a few weeks, that
the Kansas imbroglio and the Utnh
complication are both at an end, togetli
er with the' Florida war, and that the
heroes of these disturbances--Brighum
Young, Jim Lane and Billy Bowlegs—
•have emigrated from the late theatres
of their exploits. If Burn.= could add
those fellows to one of his exhibitions,
it would not take him long to recover
his lost fortune.
John Bull andsa Yankee Captain.—
Nzw YORK, May 28.—The barque John
Howe reports that an attempt was
made in the harbor of Sagna to corn - pen
Capt. Bartlett, of the ship Clarendon,
,lxiuno to New York, with sugar, to
show his papers and hoist his ensign to
the officers of the British steamer Buz
zard. Captain Bartlett refused and the
steamer tired several blank cartridges to
intimidate him, and then the command
er, with 100 men, proceeded to the
Clarendon. Capt. Bartlett refused to
lot any one come on board but tho offi
cers, who, after an exciting scene, left
without accomplishing their purpose.—
During the, affair Capt. Bartlett was
struck, but the officer denied that it was
intentional.
The United States Vessels Ordered to
the Gulf --The Wabash, Arctic, James
town, Dispatch, Fulton, Water-Witch
and Dolphin, it is stated, have all been
ordered to the Gulf of Mexico, with or
ders to pmtoct our merchantmen from
search by British cruisers. The now
revenue Cutter Harriet Lane, it is also
stated, willr.
.receive similar o
ders. Tho ab ash waspnt in °commis
sion on Monday, at the Brookfin navy
yard.
Shocking Mwder by Boys in St. Louis.
—Three boys employed in a barber
shop at St. Louis, ' have boon arrested
for the murder of Hugh.lkwnie. Ono
of the boys, named Theod6re Debold,
aged 17, has confessed that Downie
went into the barber shop and was
shaved. He had visited the shop on
two other occasions, and had conversed
about mules, horses, &c., so as to give
an idea tbat ho was a man of consider
able wealth. Upon the evening in ques
tion, (Sunday week,) after shaving, he
invited Nicholas and Antonio, the two
other boys, to go out and take a drink;
when they came back, Antunie persuad
ed him to be shampooned, and Downie
took a chair for that purpose; Antonio
then drenched his hair ir, the fluid used
for cleaning the head, and purposely let
some drops fall into his eyes, thereby
blinding him effectually. While this
was going on Nicholas took a halter,
which had previou s ly been prvared fur
the purpose, put the noose around the
neck of the victim, and drew it so tight
that the very life was choked out of him
in a few seconds. They then threw
the body in the cellar, after robbing it
of $5O, a silver watch, silk guard and
gold shirt buttons. ,
Murder and Suicide.—Taos, N. Y.,
May 23.--George Reed, a saloon keep
er, murdered his wife on Green Island,
opposite this eity, on Saturday night,
by stabbing her with a dirk-knife, and
then stabbed himself several times and
died immediately. Mrs. R. lingered for
only three hours. Jealousy was the
cause. Reed was 25 and his wife 18
years of ago.
The Atlantic' Telegraph.—lt is statod
that the paying out apparatus construc
ted by Mr. Everett, of our navy, is pro
nounced by the English engineers to bo
just the machinery required, and that
Mr. Hughes, our ingenious inventor and
electrician, has succeeded in transmit
ting currents of electricity through
twenty-six hundred milesof the cable
without difficulty, thereby solving satis
factorily a problem that bad baffled the
science of the company's electricians.
Horses Look* Up.—Mr. Simko, of
Syracuse, N. Y., has; it is stated been
offered $l,BOO for his horse Black Hawk.
The owner of Warlock, now at Goshen,
Orange county, N. Y., waif ollbred $B,-
000 forlifin by wino - gentlemen - from
Tennessee. The offer was relined.
This indicates a high appreciation of
horse flesh.
Anossieg Remort.—A. Ckaibraia ex
change receirddper last steak* 'litotes
that a Verner Wee cartent fp
Oa, end tame et the .cikeinabilliiited It,
that a steamer had. 'Am! Ikon New
York with iiktoU4ohoh sir john
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Littler from' the Eitendery gl the fnissirs•
TICASCFIT Dapartrawr, Mai tM;31110 , ---
To view of the early * - I
desire to call the attention of
to the gitc.aent condition of the Gioens
_
ment.
In my anNial report r estimated that
there would bb a balance in the treasury,
at the end of the present Steil year, of
$426,875 67, which would have required .
a deficiency in our resources of five mile,
lions of dollars to be provided for—stit's
that amount Is necessary, at all times,
to be in the treasury, for its prompt
and successful operation. This estimate
was based upon an expenditure limited
to the appropriations then authorised
by law. Since that time, the demands
upon the treasury, for the present fiscal
year, have been increased by legislation
to an amount, not far below ten millions
of dollars. Another important element
of that estimate was the probable re
ceipts from customs and other sources
during the then three remaining quar
ters of the fiscal year.
The actual receipts for that period, it
is now believed will fall ten millions be
low that estimate—attributable to the
fact that tho trade and business of tho
country have not recovered as rapidly
from the effects of the Into revulsion as
was then anticipated.
Owing to these causes the twenty mil
lions loan of treasury notes, authorized
by the act, of December 23, 1857, will be
exhausted in supplying the deficiencies
in the treasury for the present fiscal
year.
Wo shall commence the next fiscal
year dependent entirely upon the cur
rent receipts into the treasury to meet
all demands from it. _
In reply to a call upon the heads of
the diffeten; departments, I have r -
vivedatfleini in formation that the an ni : OT
837,000,000 will be probably called fur
during the first two quarters of the
next fiscal year. This sum does not in
clude such timcunts as may IXT appro
priated by Congress over and above
the estimates submitted to them by the
departments, and I have no data upon
which to estimate Mr such expendi
tures. Upon this point Congress is
better able to form a correct opinion
than I am.
To meet these expenditures it is not
prudent to rel3 i ! upon receipts into the
treasury, estim ated upon the too rapid
revival of trade and business. I be
lieve that we may safely calculate upon_
receipts, during that period from all
sources, of $25,000,000. Looking to
this state of things, I recommend that
authority be given to this department
to supply any deficiencies that may
arise in meeting till demands upon the
treasury by an additional loan not ex
ceeding $15,000,000.
In view of the amount of treasury
notes already issued, I recommend a
loan for that amount to be negotiated
for a period of tiet more than tenyears,
at. a rate of interest not exceeding six
per eentum. . •
I have confined this inquiry to the
two first quarters of the next fiscal year
as Congress will re-assemble before the
close of the second quarter„ and it will
be time enough then, should it become
necessary, to provide for fntigre contin
gencies that cannot now be foreseen.
I do not recommend any measure for
increased taxation. It nould be unwise
at this time to attempt a modification
of trio-tariff act of March 3, 1857, for
The reasons given in my annual report
to Congress. Sufficient time has not
elapsed to test the effcets of that act
upon the revenue, considering the con
dition of the country during the period
of its operations. In addition to this
consideration, neither the receipts nor
the expenditures of the Government.
'should be estimated for in the future
upon the basis of its present receipts
and expenditures. The former have
been, and still are, too seriously a ff ected
by ie lute revulsion to justify a policy
of legislation based upon a probable
continuance of this state of things for
uny considerable peiiod of time.
The latter have been so greatly in
creased by causes of the like temporary
character as to preclude with equal
propriety, the penicy of considering
them as a basis for egtimating future
expenditures. The most prominent of
these temporary causes is the Utah ex
pedition,
which, it is hoped, will not
reach beyond the end of the next fiscal
year. During the period of an over
flowing treasury a system of expol'idi
ture was inaugurated in the building of
custom houses, post otlices,court houses,
and other pnblic works, which, fortu
nately for the country,.has been check
ed by the exhausted condition of the
treasury. The time thus given for a
more thorough and rigid inquiry into
the necessity and propriety of these ex
penditures, it is confidentialy• believed,
will load to wise and salutary reforms.
But retrenchments in other branches of
the public service can, and I have no
doubt will be effected. Attention should
be directed more to the redaction of
expenditures than to an increase of tax
ation, to remedy the evils of an excess
of expenditures over the means of the
Government. A full treasury is an un
propitious element in the work of re
trenchment and reform. If measures
should be now adopted to provide the
treasury permanently with a sum equal
to the present demands upon it, it
might relieve the Government from
some of its embarrassments, but would
greatly weaken the effort to restrain
the Government to an economical ex
penditure of the public money.
The revival of business, which can
not be much longer delayed,. will, I am
confident, insure from the present tariff
a sufficient revenue for the support of
the Government in ordinary times. -
Extraordinary expenses, render*
necessary by causes equally extraordi
nary, al ways being of a tempc rary char
acter, , should be provided for in a hate
temporary
temporary manner.
This principle is too plain to require
argument or illustration; it 1$ only
necessary to call attention to it to i?om
mand the approval of every intelfigent
mind. ROWILL (MIS,
Secretary of the Pessary::
'Dr. Robert Hare, to
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years
Progbeaorof Cbesaistry he the. Omer
calkteof Pewee_ yhysois, died-at hisseel-
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