JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, Way 2, 1S50.
!- III
ft We learn from the Miners? Journal of Sa
turday last, that there is quite a contest going on
in the Locofoco patty in Schuylkill county, be
tween the Cnmeroniics, and anli-Cameronftes; the
former boast that they intend to have it all their
own own way next fall. This is considered rath
er doubtful as there is a determined and strong
opposition to him.
Auditor General.
Among the names mentioned as candidates for
Auditor Gencr.il before the Whig State Conven
tion, there are those of Win. Williamson, Esq.
Chester county ; John Strohm, Esq. Lancaster
county ; Gideon J. Ball, Esq. of Erie ; Hon. John
Greedley, Montgomery; Thomas E. Cochran,
Esq. of York; George Darsie, Esq. Pittsburg.
New Potatoes. The editor of the Baltimore
Sun has been shown a basket of new potatoes,
many of them four inches in circumference, raised
on a farm near that city. It is most remarkable
that potatoes should have growu to such a size
thus early, especially so cold and backward as
the season is, and what is still more extraordina
ry, they grew in the open field .
Arrival Extraordinary.
The brig Urano, Capt. Suprado, arrived at New
Orleans, on the 20th ult. from Malta, after a voy
age of fifty-six days- The most important part of
her cargo, or rather passengers, was a lot of eigh
:ecn camels, from the coast of Africa, consigned
to one of the large Northern menageries. They
are, we learn, to form part of the caravansary that
is soon to attempt the establishment of a novel
line of transportatian across the great Western
prairies to California.
Hat and Oats. Hay, oats, and every descrip
tion of feed for horses and cattle, are very scarce
and high in this market, at present. Hay is sel
ling from $14 to $16 per ton, according to quali
ty, and oats retail at 40 cents. There will be an
immense quantity of feed required in this market,
during this summer, and farmers and dealers may
be assured of finding a ready sale for all they
bring in, at high prices. Pittsburg Gazette.
WsiKtiitg- an Office.
Mr. Bond, the very worthy and kind hearted (
Marshal of the Diftrict of Illinois, has published !
the following notice in the Springfield Journal : I
To Applicants Gentlemen : Please be patient
1 have before me nine hundred letters on the sub-
joct of the census. The law has not yet passed ! re-grade ? For backward or forward we must go
Congress. I cannot answer or appoint until the ; there is no such thing as standing still in the course
law passes, ami then 1 cannot appoint all the ap- !
sw passes, anc men i cxnnoi appoint an use ap- :
licants. lj gratify me to br aW
r it la my bene! that most, if not all, of the appli-
:.s are rompelent and honest, if the chirography
foj
ra.-,?s are competent and honest, if the chirography
and sentiments of each shall be viewed as a true !
index.
An inrombustihle paper for rootling houses ha3
been invented in Germany.
The Northern Texas papers repsent the wheat
crop, m that section, as very promising,
Upwards of 20,000 shad have been taken in one
day this week by the fishermen in Tsewark Bay.
Two lottery prizes have lately been drawn in
Troy one of S12,000 and the other of $20,00.
We suppose twice the amount of money has been
expended on blanks.
-- The new Mayor of Pittsburg having had a drunk
en man before him who had been picked up out of
the ditch, before a rum tavern, dismissed the pris
oner, but .fined the tavern keeper fiie dollars
An office of $2,500 a year, going a begging for
an occupant, and without finding one too. is a rari
ty indeed. Yet the office ofTreasurer of the Mint
at New Orleans is now vacant, and no one will
accept it because though the salary is $2,5000,
the bond required is $50,000. The Mint is closed
in consequence to the no little inconvenience of
the holders of the gold lately ieceived from Cali
fornia. To the Ladies. Kid gloves may be cleansed
with milk. Husbands may be subdued by the
broomstick. Paint of adhesive quality may be re
moved worn the cheeks by washing in strong ley,
and to prevent the skirrfrom becoming rough, a-
ntjmt it afterwards with lamp oil. monkey jack
els, it is eaid, will not be in fashion this summer
Msisissippi, has appropriated $200,000 for the
establishment or .bree Schools in the various
counties of the State. A census of the childran,
in view of this object is to be taken.
County Surveyor.
The following section U contained in the
law recently passed, providing for the election
of Auditor and Surveyor Generals. The new
office in this county at least will he one of
honor rather than profit.
Section 5 That the qualified voters of
each county of this Commonwealth shall, on
the second Tuesday of October next, and on
the same day every third year thereafter, elect
one competent person, being a practical eur
veyor, to act as coumy surveyor of the proper
county, for the term of three years, who shall
do and perform all the dutie. and have and re
ceive all the emoluments now pertaining to
respective deputies of the Surveyor General.
The shower of flesh, which fell in Hanover,
Va. has been disposed of by Dr. Gibson, of
Richmond, to tthom specimens of the deposit
were submitted. He says "that the substance
is animal in its nature, mos' probably some spe
cies offish, which, lying exposed and de
caying on tho shore, has been caught up by
some counter curreui of wind, meeting at an ir
regular angle, upon the principle of the cause
of the Water Spout,, and thus carried high into
the air, whence it has been dropped on places,
pw,bnp far dittani from fho pot whence it was
ptckod up "
For the ihjfersonian Republican.
Education ,
. "Is he handsomer' "Old!" "Young?" "Mar
ried!" ;' Single?" "Is lie a Collegianl" "A Uoc
tor 1" "A, Lawyer." " A Student of Divinity V
" Bom in New England!'' " What persuasion"
(Persuasion in New England means religious be
lief.) "Is he tall!" "Short!" " Stout built!"'
"Slender!" "Genteel!" "Is he " "Wonder
what his Rules 'll be?" So goes the world as to
Teachers, at Jirst. After a time: "He hasn't dig
nity enough." "He's partial." "lie's too cross."
"He's too easy." "He punishes too much." "He
lets "em do as they please." "He wants to 'get
round' parsnts and children." "He's selfish and
ambitious." "He's too independent." "No, he
isn't independent enough." "He's loo religious."
" He's too indifferent to religion altogether."
'He's too tall, or too short." "Too handsome, or
too ugly." "His manners aie too gross, or too re
fined." "His dress is too much neglected, or it
is the subject of too much care." Well, well, but
the "Rules of the School," the "Rules." I have
a book on School teaching, recently published in
New-York. So, Mr. Editor, (not to be unreason
able on this subject) I will quote not old fashioned
Rules, but those of modern date. This Book con
tains very many Rules, or Regulations of what it
calls the best conducted Schools in New England,
and they are published expressly for other Teach
ers in framing Rules for their own Schools.
novs ark required:
To present a pen by the feather end; a knife, by
its handle; a book, Tight side upward, &c. &c.
To write all requests on their slates, and wait
It 1 1 called.
"To show two fingers when a pen is wanted.
To be particularly vigilant, when no Teacher is
in the hall. (Hem ! No doubt.)
To rest the body on the left arm, while spelling,
&c. with about a hundred moro 'of the same sort,'
for each School.
But these "Regulations" are not enough, so in
addition there must be a string of as many "Pro
hibitions." BOYS ARE FOBIDDEN:
To use a knife, except on the conditions pre
scribed. To write without using a card and wiper.
To study home lessons in school.
To press their knees in sitting against a form;
(such as a bench, desk, &c. if I understand this
weighty 'Prohibition,'): besides many other tm
portant 'Prohibitions' too numerous to mention.
But J think these 'Rules' and 'Prohibitions' too
small potatoes, as New Englanders say, to take up
more space in quoting them. So these must "be
truly excellent Schools. But I wish to present
this subject in a different light.
It is true that we hear sometimes here and there
a solitary voice, coming up as if from the grave
i of buried years, urging that 'our Schools are well
I enough as they are; that they are as good as in
times gone by, and having answered then, they
need no improvement now.' We must not then
o forward ! Bin is the man to be found who
dares to demand that our movement shall be ret-
0f Education. Is Dead Immobility, then, uttered
0j Education. Is Dead Immobility, then, uttered
f h from beneath J,e iron ribs of
, , ,
dealn- t0 be our eternal watchword)
Is this the motto we would read as our State
banner floats upon the breeze1 Or if, as all would
desire, we are to go on advancing in regard to eve
ry other interest, should that of education, assum
ing that others could be advanced without it, be
left behind: If it could be separated from others,
is this the Jirst, the last arid only one that is to be
disregarded Let hirn who would advocate such
a policy at least stand out from the way of living
and moving man, if he will not hide himself from
their sight and companionship !
Next I shall endeavor to demonstrate clearly
three things :
First, that the moral and social evils existing in
society depend, to a great extent upon a wrong
system of education.
Second, our present system of Education is
wrong, because it is not in harmony, with Nature
it does not rightly derelop the physical, intellect
ual. and moral nature of man.
Third, a right system of education will do this
consequently, will reform and lenovate the
world. P. S. W.
To be continued )
Awful Steamboat Disaster.
The Steamboat. 'Belle of the West,' was
burnt on the Ohio, at 1 o'clock on Tueday
morning. She was bound from Cincinnati to St.
T .1 n i t f
ijOuib ; auu was tirst aiscoereu to ue on nre
in the hold; and was immediately run ashore,
near Warsaw, Kentucky, made fast, and the
stage plank run out. Up to this moment, the
flames had not burti forth.
The after hatch was then raised, for the pur
pose of letting water into the hold, but such was
the pressure of the flames that all efforts to quell
them were entirely fruitless, and in a few mo
ments the whole boat was wrapped in flames.
The total number of passengers on board ii
estimated at 400 among whom were two com
panies of California emigrants, and about twen- j
ty families removing West. From the register
it is ascertained that over sixty have perished,
and the probability is that many have been lost
whose names were not enrolled.
Such was the progress of the fire before tho
passengers could get out of their state rooms,
after the first alarm of fire, ail communication
between the after cabin and forward part of the
boat was cut off, and either all were compelled
to jump ovetboard, or perish in the flames.
The scene is described as heart-rending.
At the itme of the deck falling in, a lady and a
gentleman, with a child in his arm, who were
standing between the cbimuies, were precipi
tated into the flames.
A large number of horses on board were ei
ther burnt to death, or so badly injured, that
they .had to be killed to put them out of their
misery.
Tlie officers, it is said, saved their liveB by
jumping overboard.
We learn from the New Orleans Crescent.
of the 13th inat, that over 8000 bags of Rio
coffee have been sold in that city within a day
or two, at eight cents per pound. Early in
February the current price was 14 1-2 cents, so
thai tho fall in prices sinco that time is about
six and a half cents per pound, or more than 810
per Dag.
1 Pennsylvania legislature.
April 22. -In iho Senate, the following
bank bills were passed to extend the char
ter of ihe E)tchango Bank of Pittsburg ; to ex
lend iho charter of the Farmers' Bank of Lan
caster ; to extend the charter of the Lancaster
Coutiiy Bank ; to extend ihe charter of the
York Bank ; to extend the charter of the Mi
nors' Bank at Potuville ; to extend ihe char
tur of the Uarrisbure Bank : to extend the
! charter of the Bank of Pittsburg ; to incorpor
- r
ate tile Fanner's and Mechanic' Bank at Ea
ton ; to re-charter the Lebanon Bank ; of Leb
anon county ; to extend the charter of the
West Branch Bank, at Williarmport ; to in
corporate the Anthracite Bank, at Tamaqua ; to
incorporate the Mechanics' Bank of Pittsburg ;
bill supplementary to the act incorporating the
Carlisle Deposite Bank ; to extend the charier
of the Wyoming Bank, at Wilkaebarre, in the
j county of Luzerne.
But little elo wa9 done.
In the House, tho appropriation hill occu
pied the day, the appropriation of $100,000 for
avoiding the Inclined Plane on the Portage and
Allegheny Railroad, was agreed to, with a pro
vision that it shall not interfere with former
appropriations made in this bill. Yeas 45,
nays 41. A new section was adopted, taxing
coal going North to the New Yotk State line
on the North Branch Canal, ono cent per ton
per mile. Yeas 50, nays 33. Various other
provisions were discussed through the day.
April 23. In the Senate, an apportionment
bill introduced a few days ago by Mr. Muhlen
berg was passed through Committee of the
Whole.
A hill to extend the charter of the Kensing
ton Bank wa? passed 16 to 9.
Mr. King from the committee on Finance,
reported a bill to prevent the issue of relief
notes of a less denomination than five dollars,
with a negative recommendation. The same
aentleman reported a bill creating a sinking
fund, and providing for the gradual and certain
extinguishment of the State debt, with various
amendments.
In Committee of the Whole, on a plank road
hill, an amendment was proposed and adopted,
striking out all after tho enacting clause, and
substituting a bill to divorce Wm. Wethcrill
from his svife. Thene divorce bills are like the
Miapper":3'nn may cut their heads off, but
they won't die. A motion to proceed to sec
ond reading of the bill carried 16 to 13 ; and
ihrn an adjournment was carried, 16 to 15.
In the House, the appropriation bill wa la
ken up, the question being on two amendments
inserted in Committee of ihe Whole---one at
taching io it the Apportionment bill ; and the
other the bill to rrroct the new county of" Mon
our" to propriate Speaker Best of the Senate.
Of all outrageous logrolling that has ever dis
Hraced the Pennsylvania legislature, this last
Locofoco project takes the lead Tho thing
wa a little too strong even for that party, and
the amendments were struck off. The appro
priation bill was then passed.
The bill providing for the election of Pros
ecuting attorneys by the people, passed final
ly. The yeas were ninety ihe nays, Messrs.
n,.;.t !?..., r t i tt . ii.
ia..u unlike n . nan, anu Judge
Potter. ( The fame bill was passed in the
time of Gov Shunk, and by him vetoed
April 2i In the Senate, Mr. Malnne pre
sented, remonstrances of citizens of Bucks
county against the concurrence by the Leisla
ture in the Act of New Jersey, in relation to
the New Hope Delaware Biidge Company.
The hill extending the charter of the Schuyl
kill Bank, reducing the capital thereof, and re
newing the same, by subscripiion, was taken
up. on motion of Mr. Crabb, and passed final
ly-
In the House, an amendment attached to a
bill in the Senate, providing for the erection of
the county of Montour" was taken up and
discussed, an amendment submitting the ques
tion to the people of Columbia county was
adopted, and the bill passed.
A Senate amendment relative to the improve
ment of the Delaware Division was discussed
and disagreed to.
The Apportionment bill was then taken up
and discuss?ed till adjournment.
April 2d. In the Senate, the Welherill di
vorce bill passed a second reading by the fol
lowing vote :
Yeas- Messrs. Brawley, Crabb, Drum,
Frailey, Frick, Haslet', Hugus, Ives, King,
Kunigrnacher, Lawrencn, McCaslin, Muhlen
berg. Shimcr, Streeinr, Best, Speaker, 16.
Nays Messrs. Brook, Fernon, Forsyth,
Fulton, Guernsey, Jones, Malone, Matthias,
Packer. Saddler, Sankey, Savery, Sterett,
Stine, Walker 12.
The Senate concurred in certain Houo a
mendtnents relative to the Delaware Division.
In the House, ihe Apportionment bill was
discussed.
April 26. In the Senate, the bill to annul
the marriage contract of Dr. William Welher
ill and Uabclla, his wife, was taken up on
third reading, and passed finally yeas 14,
nays 13.
A bill to incorporate the Buck county Min
ing company was passed.
In the House, the Apportionment bill was
passed, by a vote of yeas 48. nays 37. For
ty-six Democrats and two Whigs (Messrs.
David and Little) voied for the bill ; and thirty-'
wo Whigs and fire Democrats (M essrs.
Church, Dower, Green, Griffin, and Hemphill)
voted againnsi it,
The bill to extend the charter of the York
Bank was passed ; aUo the bill to extend the
charter of ihe Farmers' Bank of Lancaster.
April 27. The Senate was not in ses
sion. In the House, the bill incorporating the Penn
sylvania Mining and Exploring Company was
passed.
Tho bill to re-charter the Easton Bank, Har
risburg bank and Keimiugion Bank, were acted
upon favorably, though riot disposed of.
A man will be choked to death in this town
next Tuesday, by authority of ihe community,
and we can see no fpecial objection against
announcing a fact like this before its actual
occuitGiice.Patersonlntelligencer.
This refets to John Johnatan, condemned to
be hung on the 30th ult -for the murder of
Judge Van Winkle and his wife.
The Hon. MorriB Lnngstreih has, in reply
to a letter- from some friends, announced his
ll nl a rm n?i I i no nm ,n t-. .11 J . r
v.w..., miiiuHuii nut iu uo a --iiuuju&ie lor vjover
nor at ihe next Gubernatorial election.
Free White Iabor in the South.
! The speech of Mr. Stevens in Congress has pro-
vokbu lrom the wnote pact ot jjqcoiuuu preses
in this State the most bitter denunciations and
hostile demonstrations against its author. There
has been no scruple about the instruments em
ployed in assailing him. Extracts segregated from
their context, and garbled in such a way as to
make them seem to mean the very opposite of
what they do mean in their proper connexion, have
been paraded with a view to produce the impres
sion on the minds of Northern laboring men that
Mr. Stevens spoke of them as a degraded and
debased class a misrepresentation and falsifica
tion equally base and vile. It is astonishing that
the Northern Locofoco preses, who are so patient
under the insulting bravado and assumed superi
ority of the South its assaults upon ihe most
cherished principles of the free States, and its
sneers even at the dough-faced subserviency of
their Representatives to the dictation of the slave
power its gross calumnies, especially of the free
white laborers of the North, whom it has not hesi
tated to declare to be less happy and comfortable
and even free than the Southern slaves should
burst out in full chorus of contumelious attack
upon the Northern Representative who has had
the moral courage to rise in the Capitol, and to
hurl back upon this proud, boasting and arrogant
slave aristocracy the javelins which it has dis
charged to hold up this vaunted chivalry by
force of the confession of one of its own organs, as
a breeder and groom of slaves for sale, and to ex
pose the inconsistency of their high professions of
honor, freedom, morality, and religion, with their
social 3ystem-which rules despotically over the col
ored race, and lives from the sweat and labor of
hereditary bondmen. Mr. Stevens' speech must
be viewed from the right stand point, and then it
will appear in its true light as a scathing, power
ful and overwhelmning retort upon the dictatorial
spirit of the South, of the affronts which it has
dared, and, in consequence of the abscence of op
position, has become bold in casting upon the free
States of the Union.
Far as they might have gone on other points,
we would hardly have supposed that the Locofoco
press would have conspired with the Southern
members of Congress, in endeavoring to vindicate
the Slave States from the charges driven home by
Mr. Stevens that there free white labor is looked
upon with contempt, and the white laborer held as
an inferior class of the community. These preses,
some of them, we notice, even copy, without dis
approbation, the declaration of a Southern mem
ber that he has seen the white man and negro
slave working side by side in the same field. Is
this the condition to which the Locofoco party
would reduce the free white laborer 1 What say
our laboring men to working side by side with the
negroes of the South ? Do they approve that con
dition of labor which brings about such a state of
things If there is any one thing truer than an
other, it is that free and slave labor cannot flour
ish together. The whole South, with few and
peculiar exceptions, is a proof of this. Where are
its Mechanics? Its hats, coats, boots, all its cloth
ing, are bought in the North. Its merchandize is
brought from abroad in Northern vessels. Where
are its flourishing towns, filled with busy mechan
ics and swelling in population and wealth, as in
the fiee States ? It requires but a glance at the
dilapidations and decay of Southern towns of old
fame, before the blight of slavery had time to
do its work upon the land, to see the difference be
tween the two sections. Where are the crowding
thousands of emigrants from the oppressions of
the Old World borne to Southern ports The
toiling German and hard-working Irishman have
too much self-respect and dignity of character, to
go there and be counted an inferior race, while
wey taoor in company witn tne slave, l ney are
found among the free on the hospitable soil of!
New England among the mou
mains and vallevs
of Pennsylvania, or on the vast Prairies of the
West, rather than on the ever verdant savannahs
of the South with its genial sun and Italian skies,
because in the one reside Freedom and Equality
in the other Bondage and Degredation. It is
for boldly uttering thi3 truth that Mr. Stevens is
assailed by Southern men, who find their echoes
in Northern Locofoco presses. Jjong may it be
ere the Northern Representative is afraid to vin
dicate the Nobility of Labor, and 'denounce the J
mischiefs of that system which makes work a dis
grace to the white man, and causes it to reduce
him to an associator with the slave !
York Republican
Post Office Robbery.
Some of our readers have occasion to know that
several sums of money mailed in this city, and in
other offices, for places beyond Philadelphia with
in a few months past, never reached their propel
destination. The Department at Washington hav
ing been informed of the fact, measures were a
dopted to ascertain the reason, and suspicion has
finally led to the arrest of Thos. J. Hough, late a
clerk in the Phila. office. He had a hearing yes
terday before the U. S. Commissioner in that city
on a charge of embezzling money from letters, and
was committed lor a further hearing before the
Disttict Court to day.Neioark Daily.
Important from Washington.
"Sigma," the intelligent correspondent of ihe
Philadelphia Inquirrer, wtitos from Washing
ton, under date of the 21st:
1 understand that Mr. Clay laid a proposi
tion for the settlement of the Slavery quosiion,
before ihe Compromise Committee yesterday,
and that after a good deal of diseussion it was
finely agreed to, and will substantially form the
report, it is as lollows:
First California is io be admitted as a Siato
with her present boundaries.
Second -New Mexico and Utah are to haro
territorial governments, without any reference
to slavery whatever
Third Tho right of Texas to be divided in
to four additional States, wiih or without slave
ry, a the people within them may desire,
whenever there ia a sufficient population, is to
be fully recognized.
Fourth.. The boundary between Texas and
New Mexico is to be adjusted agreeably io tho
line and plan laid down in Mr. Clays res
olutions. k
Fifth. The right of the South to hao their
fugitive slaves delivered up, is to be strongly and
emphatically declared.
Sixth.The slave trado in the District of
Columbia is io be abolished.
Some difficulty was experienced with regard
to Mr. Webster and Mr. Phelps, but it ia said
ihey finally agreed to support a report based
upon these principles.
Messrs. Cooper and Barrien are not here
it is believed, however, that they will offer no
opposition.
The friends of this "compromise" are san
guine of carrying it through ihe Senate by a
majority of fifteen and ihe House, by a pro
portionally large vote, as many northern mem
bers, it it said, have expressed their determin
ation to support ii, eren ai a sacrifice of their
popularity at home. We shall see. The re
port, of course, is not io go in for two weeks
yet.
Ice six inches thick was formed in a mill nond
at Morristown, N. J on the night of the 1 5 tilt.
To the Citizens of Pennsylvania.
At a Convention of the fiiends of Peace, held in
Philadelphia, on Thursday, the 4th of April, 1H50,
a Stale Central Committee was appointed to carry
out the objects of the Convention.
This Committee now address themselves to tho
people of Pennsylvania:
One of the objects of the Convention was to ap
point Delegates to the World's Peace Congress,
which will assemble in August next, at Frankfort,
on tho Maine, in Germany. This Congress as
sembled in the city of Paris, in August last ; it
numbered among its members Richard Cobden,
the bold and fearless leader of England's working
men; Lamartine, the glorious Statesman and true
patriot; Horace Say; Victor Hugo, one of the lea
ding minds of France; Emile Girardin. the ablest
editor in France ; Elihu Burritt, the American
Blacksmith and honest man; Durkee, Walker, and
others of America, and hundreds of the leading
Democrats of Europe,, where Democracy signifies
free and fearless men, men whose lives are devo
ted to the rights of man. Yes, by hundreds and
by thousands did the noble hearted and strong men
of Germany, of Belgium, of England, of France,
and of America, assemble in the Capital of France,
the assemblage of the age. And most nobly did
the people and the government at Paris receive
them. They were received as free men should
ever be, with open hands and hearts. The Gov
ernment recognized ihem as the "Congress of Na
tions," and welcomed ihem as suited their glorious
name. The people welcomed them with all the lion
honors that used to be lavished upon kings. Nay, far
more, these honors were fieely given, in love and
in gladness. The people recognized them as men,
and they could give them no higher title. They
called them biothers and took them to their affec
tions. They loved them for the hundred battles
that each had fought so bravely! not battles in
which men were victims, and a people fighting a
people ; not battles of the bloody and remorseless
sword, but in those conflicts of the mind and soul,
where they had stood up against the tyranny of
king-craft, the bigotry and the heartless sneers of
aristocracy, the strong hand of oppression, and the
prejudices of feudal power, braving contempt, im
prisonment and death. It was for these bloodless
but hard contested battles, for these most glorious
victories, for the rights of man, that they were
loved and well did they deserve it. It was to ap
point men to such a Congress that our Convention
met, but being unable to find a representative for
each Congressional district of the State as is de
sired, your Commitee, (for we will, by your per
mission, continue so to be, until a wider organi
zation is formed,) now call upon you to appoint
your representative in the Congress of the World.
The object of this Congress is to bring the va
rious people of the World into a belter fellowship,
and for this purpose they propose that disputes
which may arise between govennents shall be set
tled by arbitration as is done between individual
men, and as in our Union where the various
States have one common tribunal for the judgment
of their causes. The ideas that impel them are
that mankind are brethern, that the people of all
lands have too often been the instruments of ty
rants in their darkesigns, and tat they have loo
often been led into unholy and unjust wars by the
selfish wants of grasping rulers, thus being rnadu
through misdirected energy, the mere butchers of
men, who, like themselves, were poor men of tho
people, and not one of whom had ever the slight
est cause to hate him he went to destroy. This
congress proposes no other qualification for mem
bership than the simple advocacy of Peace, and
opposition to war, for among them are many who
believe it wrong, in any case, to lilt a hand a
gainst a brother, while there are others who be
lieve that defensive war, and that only, is justifia
ble : but on this common platform of the people.
who have of late taken the reins of rule into their
owo hands, they all can meet. Arbitration belore
fighting, and no afterwards. On this all of them.
of us and you can meet. The platform is wide
and strong, for it is founded on Christianity and
built up by Democracy.
Then we ask you, as practical common sense
men, to represent yourselves in this Congress of
States, and do away with those most potent in
struments of Kings, the bloody sword and ruthless
bayonet, to do away with the great curses, stand
ing armies, standing national debts, and standing
taxes, that grind the poor man especially the
poor man down to starvation, or to ignorance
worse than starvation.
Call your county or district meetings and ap
point your district delegates.
If any person in this, your county, fees these things
like a man and is willing to work for the cause,
to him the Committee will be heartly thankful if
he will write to its Correspondent Secretary, H. T.
Child, M. D., No 104 Arch street, Philadelphia,
stating his hame, residence and Post Orncei and
giving us information on the following:
1st. As to the state of feeling in the county up
on this subject.
2d. The names of all the newspapers, or peri
odicals, published in tho county, naming thoso
which have published this address, and the place
of publication.
3d. The probability as to the event electing
delegates to this Session of the Congress.
4th. The names of persons who are going to
Europe before the middle of July next, and wheth
er they will go as delegates to the world's Con
gress. 5th. Copies of the proceedings of meetings, if
any are had in the county, upon the subject.
The Committee would also ask any person, thus
inclined to aid our efforts, to collect what funds
they can, and to forward the same to our Treas
urer Thomas Mellor, No. 4 North Third street.
Philadelphia. If they can collect but one dollar it
will be thankfully received.
Funds ate needed, as our Committee have al
ready gone to a considerable expense, and they
propose to publish an Address to the People of
Pennsylvania, and would wish to place a copy in
the hands of every voter in the Commonwealth
GEORGE W. TAYLOR, Chairman.
A Disgraceful Scene.
In the U. S. Senate, on the 17th tilt, a scene
occurred of the most disgraceful character
Mr. Foote, of Mississippi, having taken occa
sion, in a speech before that body, to indulge
in gross personal reflections upon the course of
Mr. Benton on Slavery question, the latter gen
tleman rushed towards him in a menacing at
titude, when the former drew a pistol and
threatened to shoot him. It was only by tho
most strenuous efforts of other Senators that
ihe parlies were kept from comming in collision
with each oilier.
The occurrence will excite deep regtet and
mortification wherever it is known, and should
impel the Senate, while vindica'ing its charac
ter from this siigma, lo the adoption of measures
which will effectually prevent the repetition of
ilke scenes in future
In ihe vicinity of Syracuse, hay Is selling
for $13 to $14 per ton ; a higher price thsnMi
brought for many years.
Confession of Itltirdcr
A young man named Balcom was arrested,
last week, in Washington Co. N Y. on his con"
fession, while intoxicated, that he had assisted
in the murder of Mr. White of Colebrook,
Conn, published eome ilmo since.
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